A Great Day!

There's so much to say about yesterday, but one thing I couldn't forget is that the day of laughing all the time. It's been a habit for me to be terribly tired every Sunday. But it's not for yesterday. Yesterday I have a full day with my band partners. There are five of us with me the only man. The others are women and also I'm the youngest there.
By the way, I left the church a bit earlier than usual yesterday because the preaching was finished earlier than the appointed time as usual in spite of the other used time until the service finished. Then I went home first to dress up my self and went to Warung Steak to have lunch there with my friends. At precisely 1.05 p.m we arrived at Sawunggaling to have a meeting there and a little practice for the event on the new years day in the church. I spent my whole time there with my four partners. There is a girl called Steffi who is the one making me laughing all the time. In the middle of the practice we got bored that we went out hanging around first to refresh our mind. There, since that time we went out, she started to "melawak" (I don't know the English word for that...). She did that until we went back to church at 6.45 p.m. It surely made us laughing at every movement she made with her face or her body. However, the most funny one is her voice which always changed according to her ideas. She never stopped!! That was the incredible thing from her!! I became speechless then, having nothing to say of what she did. That range of time truly refresh my mind despite my inability to study seriously because of that (I'd planned to study Pengling until I went back to church at 7, but all is turned). For what she did, it's still a secret between five of us inside the music room there. One thing for sure, we will never forget that day.. Although it's been hundreds of time she did such a thing in front of us, the thing she did that time seemed to be new and amazing to us.
Pokonya, it was the most attractive Sunday for this year while fortunately it was the last Sunday for this year too. Just ask her if you want to know the detail. I believe that you won't believe me until you watch her by your own eyes....

No Comment

That's why I said it strange. He seldom replied my messages. I'd written more than 15 messages while he only replied 4 of them! My goodness!!! By the way, it's quite a tiring day. I spent my day nearly for only the meeting time. I just went home. The only useful thing I did today was studying calculus. Then I went to BEC to buy a leather case for my father's cell phone and return my broken micro SD. Briefly I went home back to pick my sister up and went back to Sawunggaling. I waited for more than half an hour long until the meeting started. For the meeting situation, no comment!
About what I was thinking this day long, it's a bit secret today... So many times I tried hard not to lost my mind because of little things unimportant supposedly... Quite a struggle.

Another Quotation

It's deep in the meaning...
' "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.'
-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)-

This quotation was just like something blazing at my eyes when I read that. I've never found a friend who knows the meaning of such a word "stay" in the real meaning of friendship. In my opinion, the meaning of stay is not just simply being off from any activities and keep static in case of waiting for a friend while it's not predictable whether he/she is sincere in doing such thing or not. It does mean deeper than that, that a friend will lay aside all his thought and pride and try to understand his/her friend from another point of view and be ready to let him/herself to be involved in his/her friend's life despite all their rejection in such a situation. So, the meaning of the sentence "I will stay here for you," is not just simply I will wait for you until you finish. It requires an action of helping the person (the object of this talk) by going through his/her life for a while and solve the problem for him/her. It will be easy if you place this thing as a new paradigm in your mind that staying for someone means sacrificing for him/her. There's a story in the bible which stated the highest level of such a condition exacerbated above that was said by Jesus, saying (redirected) that a friend's love to his friend will be perfect through the sacrificing of life. So, friendship becomes perfect when the both of them are ready to sacrifice their life for their companion.
Overall, meditate on it and you will find another perspective of friendship in your life. Still it's difficult for me to reach that level of friendship too, but I'm trying hard to keep that in mind. Enjoy your life, Bhro!!!

Christmas Gift

The day before yesterday, the Christmas day, I was given a gift. As a matter of fact, it was just a letter containing special message for the next year, 2008, of my life. It said "Many a little makes a micle..." It's quite interesting since I don't know what's the meaning of micle. They said that it was just saying from those many little things you will find something bigger and great as time goes by. Still I couldn't find the connection with my life. But, I will meditate it....

Christmas Day!!!!

It was Christmas yesterday. Actually, I felt strange yesterday. I never say 'merry Christmas' in every Christmas celebration every year except if I was forced to do so. Last night everybody sent me 'merry Christmas' messages that I had to send them each a reply message saying the same things. I dislike that kind of situation since I had to waste my money only to send such messages to those I even nearly had forgotten. So, then I sent my previous accel mate the same messages about the thing I got from last Sunday service in the church and eventually I sent my closest friend a different message containing the same things inside, but with a different way of saying. I have no idea at all of how to say 'merry Christmas' to him 'cause I believe he never did so.
I did quite a lot of things today. First, I slept at 6.30 a.m because I didn't sleep all the night before. Then I woke up at 10.30 a.m and continued with the internet activity. Then I continued with studying calculus until I get bored and switched my activity into the business thing. Unfortunately, my parents went home at about 3 p.m that I had to prepared myself to have lunch. We went back home at 4.30. Everybody briefly slept while I kept watching TV until 5 p.m. I couldn't bear this kind of sleepiness that I fell asleep too until 5.45 p.m.
I woke up a bit shocked looking at the time. However, I was still sleepy, still lazy enough to get back to my sweet pillow. Nevertheless, time forced me to do the opposite thing of my mind. So, I went to Sawunggaling to have a meeting of the end of year 2007 activity in the church this week. It was so quick that I didn't realize that the time had gone so fast and we had to go to Ciwalk. I went there with my sister. We, all the invited, had the next meeting in Honeymoon Dessert from 9 to 11.30 p.m. (No comment for the meeting activity)
Just precisely at 00.00, we went home and watched TAXI film while typed this words....
Gd nite!!

Confused to Continue

He is going to Bali this holiday while I have to stay here in Bandung, struggling in finishing the project of end of year activities in my church. I feel a bit strange actually. What is a friend definitively??? For what reason does friendship began??? In what season it is supposed to emerge and sink/disappeared again?? Is it an obligation for a friendship to face a season of being broken?? Do they have to?? How to resolve such a problem in a friendship??? These are the questions emerging in my mind all these days...

Photos - December

Second Day of Holiday

Today, I went to Jakarta, only to Plaza Senayan and it was only for a while. We went at about 10.30 and arrived at Jakarta at about 11.50. It was raining all the way to Jakarta in Cipularang, but it was stopped when we were near the Pondok Gede toll gate. Then, briefly we went to Plaza Senayan.
Actually, we went there only to take my mother's bag in Louis Vuitton shop. But, as we arrived there, the plan was swayed. First, we went into NEXT shop and my father bought me two pieces of shirt with the one I like and the other I was forced to like. Actually, both shirts are discounted 20%, but still they were too expensive in my eyes. However, my parents like them. So, they bought me those shirts. (One of them got the most expensive shirt rank that I have in my wardrobe) Then we went to have lunch in Bakerzin. That was the first time I ate there and the food was surely delicious!! I ate Linguine Bratwurst. The sausage... It was unspeakably delicious!!!
After finishing all those eating, we went to the main hall to watch the accappela singers. They were incredibly gorgeous!!! I like their singing. But, time forced me to continue my previous plan. So, I continued going to Kinokuniya to read books there. I bought a book there, written by John C. Maxwell, entitled 'Talent is Never Enough'. You have to read that book!! It was great.
Yeah.. eventually, we had to go home then. So we bought some bread first then went to the parking area and went home to Bandung.
The rest of my activities in Bandung, I think, they are all ordinary things, just like what I'm doin' now... At least I have added my collection of book here in my room. Hehe...

"Perpisahan"

Last night Ardimas (Pak Dimas, Mr Andi, Samid, Dimas, or whatever he wants to be called..) invited me, Hendy, Matthew, and Afi to Chili Padi to play and waste the time until late night because last night was his last day this year in Bandung. In fact, only Matthew and I came there. So we were only three.
I enjoyed being there last night very much. First, we bought 'swamp things' and Dimas bought a plate of fried noodle while he said he had eaten twice before he came there. I didn't bought any food there since I just wanted to drink the monster drink.
Then Matthew came and join us. He opened his notebook and did some downloading. While he was downloading, Dimas gave me so many last words (cie...) but not about things I considered before. He told me to do things related to Unicore and Tian shi. After he finished talking about those things, I took some photographs to be put here while he kept singing Michael Jackson's song, You are not Alone. It was ridiculous I thought because he still had his love in spite of the actual distance between them with his love in Malang and he in Bandung. It was so funny there. But, he didn't listened to my words and kept singing.
After all, we played ( i don't know the game name) such a soccer game but we only have to swing the stick consisted of the players. It was fun! I like that game very much. The cost was only Rp 5.000,- per hour. I played in one team with Dimas (it was chosen randomly) while Matthew played alone. Surprisingly, ( we count a game one point) the score was 1-3 with 3 for Matthew and 1 for me and Dimas.
Then we played pool (biliar, but i don't know the exact name for it). We played nine ball game. The funny thing was that since it was late night, everybody started to be more sleepy and couldn't play in full of concentration. This made the game lasted for such a longer time than usual each. But, unfortunately, I had to go home at 1. So, all the game was stopped and luckily we had completed the one hour playing. So, the next thing to do was to bring Dimas back to his lodging house and say my last words to him and eventually went back home.























This is Dimas, being melancholic, singing a love song, remembering the love he has.














This is Matthew, seriously played the game and taught me how to play it.

Campus Center (east wing) - brief report

This is the view of Triangle court taken from east campus center. It is usually used for a meeting, quite a big one. It's a bit greeny there, comfortable enough to study there.
The place where I took this photograph is one of my favourite place here in ITB because it is so windy there that I can easily fall asleep there.






This one is the straight path, quite a balcony, in the east wing campus center. I like this place so much despite its dirtiness here with all ants and flies all around. Actually I enjoy killing those animals very much each minute.
If you want study and fully concentrate, just come here and study here with your face toward the triangle court. You will get addicted soon.












Actually, there are still many photographs I haven't put here which I will put in the next post.

Business

The day before my birthday last week I was presented a form of business, and I'm quite interested in it just as I heard about the concept of the networking and the business target. But, I thought I'm suited in it. Funnily, Matthew, my friend (in the campus), joined it. How come a person like him want to join it. That's why I decided to try to run this business too by first joining it. So, I joined the network yesterday after I finished all the requirements. At night, I came into the meeting (they called it so, such a presentation event). It was very interesting and eventually 2 persons joined this business too. The prospect was not for short period but rather for a lifetime. That's what made me join this. Besides, I think it's not difficult to run the business. So now I have a business (not just a work, finally). I do this business at my spare time in campus which makes it wouldn't bother my regular activities.

Sunday, Not a Weekend

It's a tough day, isn't it?? I've been through many days and years of struggling, and still I found that Sunday is the most tiring day, the hardest day, the most distressing day (probably), and the most (again) tiring day. It's really difficult to treat my day, Sunday, as a weekend day.
This morning (9/12/07) I woke up late, at 7 while I was supposed to wake up at 5. All of sudden I prepared myself to go to the church and played the keyboard for the second service this morning. Luckily, I didn't come late to the church with everybody had been there. The first service lasted for about 2,5 hours and it was continued by the next activity in the same hall. Because I was so hungry, I went home first to drink two glasses of milk (Dutch Lady) for my first level of breakfast. I went back to church then. At about 11.45 I went to PlaGo to watch the match of Futsal. It was an obligation that I (with "berat hati") went there with my sister and my friends from church. There I only studied chemistry until my parents came and asked both of us to go and had lunch. I had lunch at Nasi Timbel Dago. The food was not delicious at all. At about 2.30 I went home and just as I arrived at Jalan Sumatera, it was 2.55 that I couldn't go home and I went to church.
Surely, it's tiring!! After I arrived at the hall, I fell asleep at the front row of seats. It's a bit hurt at my back. But, I like sleeping there, full of AC. I didn't realize that I'd been sleeping for 45 minutes. It's refreshing.. Then I played the keyboard (the same one) until 7 and took a break for only a while to go to the restroom. Then I played the main keyboard for the next service (FOG meeting) from 7.10 until 9.30. My goodness!!!! I really wanted to cut off my arms for a while to keep it relaxed.
At 10 I, with my family, went to Cafe Halaman, having dinner. I ate a plate of 'bihun goreng' and a bowl of 'bihun kuah'. For the drink I bought Avocado KSP. It's quite sufficient for a while with now my stomach has been calling for the next level of supper.
Truly, it's a tough day!!! (Many activities I was supposed to join I didn't join or even tell the coordinator that I couldn't join because I only focused myself to chemistry UTS the next Friday)
Help me, please...

The song

Finally, I get it...

A Song "You Are"

It's such an amazing song actually when I heard. This song is the first song this month that could make my tears fall while listening to it cause I felt something different from this song. I listened this free-listened song at: http://flipgeorge.imeem.com/playlist/qshw9_wL/duet_songs_music_
playlist/
You have to open that and listen to the first listed song, this song, You are. It may seem the song is talking about your life mate while actually the song writer wrote this song as an expression of what he felt toward his God. So, it's a religious song as a matter of fact. I found then something strange in the other site containing this song. It doesn't talk about love toward your boy/girl friend. It's your choice to interpret this song as love song toward human or God. What I find here in this song is that you can approach your Maker as how He means to you.
So, enjoy the song (open it in that site!!), flow with the words...

YOU ARE
sang by Gary Valenciano (duet with Joni Villanueva)
--- album: Relevance ---

chorus

You are the love of my life
You are the hope that I cling to
You mean more than this world to me
I wouldn’t trade you for silver or gold
I wouldn’t trade you for riches untold
You are, you are my everything

1st vers

You are the love of my life
You are the hope that I cling to
You mean more than this world to me
I wouldn’t trade you for silver or gold
I wouldn’t trade you for riches untold
You are, you are my everything

I wouldn’t take one step without you
I could never go on
I couldn’t live one day without you
I don’t have the strength
To make it on my own

chorus

You are the love of my life
You are the hope that I cling to
You mean more than this world to me

I wouldn’t trade you for silver or gold
I wouldn’t trade you for riches untold
You are, you are my everything
(repeat 2nd stansa)

Until the world stops turning
Until the stars fade from the sky
Until the sun stops rising
I need you in my life
And here’s the reason why

You are the love of my life
You are the hope that I cling to
You mean more than this world to me
I wouldn’t trade you for silver or gold
I wouldn’t trade you for riches untold
You are, you are my everything

chorus

You are the love of my life
You are the hope that I cling to
You mean more than this world to me
I wouldn’t trade you for silver or gold
I wouldn’t trade you for riches untold
You are, you are my everything.........
(repeat 2x)

you are, you are my everything......