Give Thanks

Today i saw that advertisement in Cinema, really touching ^_^


Then tonight when I arrived at toa payoh using MRT, suddenly I felt how great it is to be able to return back using MRT (after Thursday night issue and this morning issue). Sometimes we ignored the good things that happen to us, but we always complain about the bad thing that happen to us. Human is not perfect thus everything created by human also not perfect, flaw always be there, but if we response with constructive feedback it will support public transport to give better service, and we take it for granted, "we pay then we should get the services". Imagine if there is no MRT, we have to take bus and what happen for people who is not good with bus direction, doesn't it worse than we have imperfect MRT?


Same thing happen with our relationship with GOD, we often neglect that what we have today is because of HIS blessing, and our misfortune will be our complain to HIM. But, let's start to give thanks to GOD for what HE has done in our life, let's see GOD as a friend that we should to appreciate for whatever HIS kindness in our life ^_^

God Bless ^_^

NS MRT down

Yeah Singapore got happening tonight, MRT Red Lane didn't work from Marina Bay all the way to Braddel MRT. Well at first when I alighted at Raffles MRT, i thought oh it's ok for MRT got delayed, then after few broadcasting, they announced that the MRT will not work due to issue happen in the lane.


Wow, ok, then I reroute myself, deciding how to go back to toa payoh, of course I'm not worry that much, i'm not rushing to go home earlier, not like my life will be gone because i cannot go back home. I saw people start panicking. Then my friend contacted me to meet up at dhobby, so I took the route to Outram -> Dhobby.


At Outram MRT, there was a lady asking me how to go to Serangoon (currently position in Outram MRT, in front of the door pointing to Punggol MRT), then I said, yah take this MRT, she still doubt me, reluctantly she aboard the train looking at the map, I double confirmed with her, then she seems relaxed. In my mind, wow, this little incident can cause too much panicking? Actually my friend also start to panic, what if cannot go back home, I said relax, don't panic.


Arrived at Dhobby Ghaut MRT, we had dinner with some old friends, chatting bla bla bla, then deciding which way to go back to Toa Payoh MRT, we decided to take bus 143 behind Somerset 313. Guess what? crowded with people, and I heard a guy slammed the bus because he cannot aboard it, what a non-sense? why so panic? Ok since we got some people here and too crowded, we got separated to take bus 143.


So now, everyone arrived home safely. Thanks God ^_^


Point to take note :

• Don't start panic if everything happen to you, you know that it's not urgent. Think calm, then decide.
• If you cannot decide, pray to God. I do believe God is always with you, HE never forsaken us.
• I got my calm because of HIM, because I have HIM with me, i don't worry that much.
• Holy Spirit will always be with you as your guidance and protection.

God Bless ^_^

Soul Surfer

Today I watched a movie with the whole Indo Hope church, Soul Surfer. It's a story a bout a girl who has promising future as a pro surfer, but in her training, a shark bitten her left arm. If you want to know more the details, please find it on the Internet. 


So before watched this movie, I know more less about the story from the trailer, and how she knows that her life is impacted other people life, so I got less excited when watching this movie. But when, she got bitten, suddenly there is a question came to my mind, "what future she will have with only one hand?" The only question i can come up with is God Kingdom. God always accept imperfect people to be in HIS kingdom. 


Jeremiah 29:11
¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.


Her life began to change when she decided to join the mission trip. 


Matthew 28:19-20
¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”


From this real life story, I can see Bethany's transformation, from being self-centered that thinking surfing is the only her life and to win the competition is all about she need to do, into God-centered where sharing LOVE to other people by teaching them how to surf and surfing is for surfing not to win. 


Transformation begin from our inner self to the outside, slow or not, it doesn't matter, as long as you are growing to be a better person, and transformation indeed take some time to see the progress ^_^


God Bless ^_^


         

Life Death Experience

Encountered Life and Death experience today. From this experience, thanks God for always with me ^_^ What I have experienced is that I have to across the river, but I cannot swim, so I have brothers who are willing to help to across the river.


Somehow I don't feel fear, because I have God with me and brothers who are always beside me :) Sometimes we also encounter this problem, we know the goal,but in order to reach the goal, will you believe in God? I did, though I almost drown, around 70% of the distance, I began to struggle, in panicking mode, I did tried my best to across, suddenly i saw the yellow light from underwater, I tried to reach it and it turned out to be a canoe. I didn't know, but I believe it was God who drove the canoe there.

Thanks also for the brothers:
Erwin Tjandra who helped me for my first drown
Handono Suryadi & Joni Cendrawijaya who keep holding the rope as my guidance
Ang U Fong who helped me across the river

I trust you guys will help me when I need your help :) and it gave me courage to across the challenging river ^_^

Thank you guys and praise God i can pass the challenge ^_^

BoB & SHE - 5 Days Fasting

Yup today was the last day of fasting for tomorrow gender activity :) BoB (Band of Boys) for all males and SHE (Simple Her Exclusively) for all females.


I fasted 3 things:

1. No FB during working hours
2. No reading manga during working hours
3. And skip breakfast/lunch.

Why I decided these 3 things? Skip breakfast/lunch is recommended, then why FB and reading manga? Because I realized that these habits are bringing negative influence into my workplace surrounding, especially for FB, not only it doesn't give me any good results (from stalking people), it also consume my time to finish my job. Second is manga, yeah I admitted that sometimes when I found good manga, i tend to neglect my work. In the end, not only I recovered the negative influence, it cures me from FB addiction and makes me to work efficiently than before. I hope and pray to God that I will cultivate this habit from now on.


During my fasting time, I encountered a lot of temptation. The first day was a bit horrible, like sudden change in my life, I skipped lunch, then around 3pm, i didn't feeling well, but I prayed to God to give me strength to continue with it, but afterwards, I cannot continue again, then I said sorry to God that for that day, I will break my fast earlier than before, since my health wasn't good enough. And I was planning to take leave for the next day because of my health (might because of that my return trip back to Surabaya on Friday - Sunday, I haven't recovered enough). So around 5pm, I saw my PM(s) and boss was joking in the pantry, these are the converstations


Boss : Got another urgent leave or not?
PM : Eh cannot take this Friday, we have company meeting.
Me : Then, I take tomorrrow loh (with smiling), since I'm not feeling well today.
I left for toilet, when come back, the conversation continue
Boss : Eh you know your habit taking urgent leave is not good, other colleague is also does the same thing. I know that you are clearing your leave, can it be non urgent?
PM : you submit your leave, write the date 1 week ago.
Another PM : don't worry, I will say that i'm the one who hold your leave.


So like that, my leave was approved on the last minute. Thanks God ^_^


The second day, not so much struggle for the fast, just having rest at my home for the prayer meet. During prayer meet, God gave me solution about a question. Hmm.. I'm planning to grant a wish for my brothers and sisters in my LG, then some of them asked me back what I want.. Simple question right? But it gave me very difficult to answer why? Because if you think from my benefits, of course if I give 1 gift for 5 people, i would be able to get 5 gifts from myself, correct? But it's not, my intention is not like that, i gift not because I want something to return, I give simply because I want to share God blessing for me through this year. So on that day, God gave me solution how to answer, the solution is secret, it will be revealed soon, I accept but not for my personal benefits ^_^


The third day. Not so much struggle because too focus on my work.


The fourth day. Here comes the challenge. I have to go to a building located at King George Ave during lunch, you know what happen? My body trembled on my way to MRT, then I thought, why like this, i know this will happen if people don't eat properly/so hungry, then your body will tremble. So on the way to Lavender MRT, I reviewed what I did yesterday (Wednesday), then I found out that I drank a lot of water, so i bought a bottle of water at Lavender MRT, true enough, after drank it, my body recovered. Then I was praised God how great HE is to use water as replacement of meal to satisfy human hunger. Water, yes, a lot of example for water, GOD remind me about a bottle filled with dirty water, if you keep pouring fresh water inside to the bottle, slowly the dirty water will be poured out from the bottle.


The fifth day, yes the magnificent day. My quite time, usually on the morning, is different than before. I never encountered like this before. Yesterday I read Genesis 40, seems there is nothing special about it (for myself). Today I read Genesis 41. Then suddenly these 2 chapters are connected, God might tell us HIS plan for us through our dreams. Sometimes we neglect our bad dream, then sleep again, but maybe God speak to us through that dream. Then I prayed, the moment I prayed, i felt something different, I can feel GOD presence right there beside me. This morning, I also cleared misunderstanding with my sister in Christ, turn out that I interpreted wrongly. I have apologized to her and build again the friendship, after all Christmas is for us to celebrate HIS birthday with joyful heart ^_^


So this is the story of my 5 days fasting, Matthew 6:33, "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well"


God Bless ^_^

Coming back

Yeah after so long i never touch this blog haha.. this blog was somewhere in the corner of my brain that i don't even bother to remember about it haha.


Today i have discovered huge difference between powerpoint 2007 and  2010, yes i know the fact but i keep believing that my work will run smoothly under older version, yet it turned out not working at all. So yeah thanks God also for the idea, i managed to fill in the transition gap with another animation. But got another problem, for some slides, it becomes slower, oh well old laptop, no choice. I hope it will run smoothly on the day ^_^


Anyway Christmas is coming YAY, i still left with some gifts for my brothers and sisters in my Life Group (BeAT), I pray that God will tell me what should i buy for the rest and i'm preparing the encouraging words also (hope it will make it before Christmas :) aside those gifts, actually i have another surprise for my fellow brothers and sisters) hehe


So end of year is approaching also, i still have time to have another achievement this year, yes it is also 1 of my gift for my friend.

Easter Camp 22-24 April 2011 @Aloha Changi Resort

This was the most exciting camp I ever had =) The motto is LIVING, DOING and SHARING LIVE TOGETHER. And the purpose of the camp is KTP (Kartu Tanda Penduduk), it's a terms in Indonesia to differ each person identity. Through this camp, I got a lot of non-exchangeable experiences, from the stressful to prepare the games and how to DO LIVE and SHARING with each other.


The Preparation Day


Committee has to arrived 1 day earlier, which is 21 April 2011. It was a rush for me, because there was a sudden undelivered notice in my room when I arrived home that night, so I rushed to TPY post office to retrieve the parcel. Then hurried back to home, packed everything including dinner. Then went to Tampines MRT.


Arrived at Tampines MRT, joined with other committee, and waited for cab for 1 hour or more. Arrived at Aloha Changi Resort around 10pm. We had meeting and prayed for the houses to give blessing to whoever stay in that house during this easter camp.



First day


The first day games was about strength, agility and intelligence. Of course, the games are for a team, so through these games, I know who is better in every area (since I was one of the game PIC ^^ ). At night, we watched a movie about a guy named Rick Penning who is a Rugby player and pride of his own self-worth. Through an accident, and because he still under-age, he was sent to a place where "Listen Right" is the only rule need to abide. To make long short, there is a person named Kurt, who really brave to speak with Rick, he said "then what you need is a friend". Then he found out what is a team all about. KIA KAHA, means Forever Strong, is what they said to encourage each other. At the end, Rick managed to stand firm by saying, "I don't do anything to embarrass myself, my team, and my family."


Thing(s) to ponder


What is/are thing(s) that influenced your characteristic/attitude?
For me, is my current community. I used to be a stubborn, but through my this community, slowly I have been transformed to be better person. I learned how to listen, indeed it's difficult, especially when the topic is about my personal life. And it might be hurtful sometimes. Second, I learned about openness. I used to be a reserved person. Yet, through my 1 year journey, I managed to open myself, I can express what I have in my mind and how to share it with my friends. And by doing so, my friends also can impact/speak to my life.


Second day


The second day games are tiring, exciting and fun. It's about team building. Each team has to complete 3 games by teamwork, not individual. The first game was about to go through the a "maze" by holding each other hand, the problem was the path of the maze interchange with each other, so we had to work as a team under the blessing of sunlight.


The second game was about creating a path from start into finish and everyone has to step on the so called "path", if one member fall down, have to repeat from the start again, the path are created by some of cartons. From this game, we had to help each other by stabilized unstable nearby member.


The third game was about helping each others by opening a way, become a stepping stone and pulling each other to climb the wall. This game is divided into 3 parts, the first part, we need to gather water from the sea back into the bucket by using a glass that tied into our wrist. The second part is, we had to find a way to allow team members cross the path without stepping into the sand. So, 4 of us, decided to use our upper foot as a bridge. The painful part here was the sand haha. There are some sands under members foot, thus the pain was doubled. The latest part was about climb the wall. Here we need to push and pull members to help them climb the wall. Then I realized the danger of barefoot, so by the time I climbed the wall, I examined the surrounding and found out there was a worm, so I warned nearby members.


Thing(s) to ponder


In daily life, what's your opinion about stepping into someone area consciously / unconsciously ?
Mostly what happen is, we are unconsciously stepped into someone area, it might not be a serious matter for ourself, but it might be very hurtful to others. So my view is, I can't prevent stepping into someone area, but when it happen, what I can do is say "Sorry" first and then, explain why I did like that, hopefully the other side will understand. Yes indeed, it's not our fault because we are not intentionally did it, yet if we never seek for reconcile, things will always like that. True friendship is builds under any circumstances, by having fight each other, my friendship with him will going stronger than before.


Third Day


Nothing much to do. We had prayed and worshiped God for what He had done during Easter camp. Then prepared to go Easter Service at Suntec City.



KIA KAHA in GOD,
Sugix

Starter Point

WORRY NOT.

New thing that I learned yesterday is not to worry. I realized that, might happen because I'm an IT person, so there are IF-ELSE (s) pattern embedded into my brain, yet how many IF-ELSE(s) you want to have? IF-ELSE means that we always prepare for the worst, it's not wrong yet too deep IF-ELSE(s) might break you.

How to apply not to worry? I will just resolve any problem that I face without thinking what will happen if I do this, what happen if i do that. And, keep look forward, don't regret what you have decided.