Outing continue on.

Has been one week since our team came back from outing. However, the spirit of the outing is still continue hehe.. Last night we have a sudden plan, out of the blue we organised to watch a movie together. It was ten of us. We watched Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The movie was great, I love it, quite funny and spectacular. For whom haven't watch the movie, this is a good movie to watch. Quite entertain. :)

Outing at Bunaken, Manado - North Sulawesi.

Just come back from outing. Really had a good time during the outing. We had a lot of fun and delicious food hehe. Food at Manado is really really good. I think I gain weight after the four outing days. :P

We departed from Jakarta to Manado on last thursday. I like Manado environment at the first time I arrived. I don't know why, I felt very peaceful. As soon as we arrived at Ritzy hotel, we went out directly to find a restaurant to fill our hungry stomach. The food is really very tasty. Can't forget how it feel haha. After late lunch we go swimming at the hotel's swimming pool. Although the pool is small, the view is really good, because the location of the pool is facing the seashore, so we could see sunset and couple of islands.

The next day we were having snorkling. It was my first time to experience snorkling. Initially it was a bit difficult because haven't really familiar with the snorkling gears. However, after sometimes I really enjoyed the view at the bottom of the seabed. Then at the afternoon, we went to Bukit Kasih (Love Hill). Surrounding this hill there are five different prayer houses for five different authorised religions that live in our country. The local government built these buildings for a purpose, to remind people about tolerance among different religious people.

On the third day we went to Bunaken island and had diving. It was also my first experience to dive. Even we didn't have diving license we were allowed to dive. The view at the seabed was really awesome. The view is better than snorkling, because we can see the sea objects clearly. This was reminded me with the greatness of God, really really perfect in everything. And the last and best thing is at the last night our team came together in one room played card. We had a lot of laugh and fun. That moment made me realised that the relationship within our team is very close. There is no boundary between us although the level of our positions are different, which is good. Then on Sunday we directly hit back to Jakarta. Hmmm and the holiday was ended. Can't forget every moment during the outing.

SPA team. 

Pijama Party. 

Bukit Kasih. (Love Hill) 

SPA - IA teams at bukit Kasih 

Manado from above 

Dolphins (read: can hardly see) 

The snorkling experts. :P 

Life under the water 

Caught in action - snorkling 

Boat tour.. 

Beautiful view.. 

Sightseeing... 

Exciting to depart for holiday 

The destination of our journey 

Can't wait for outing.

Once a year there is an outing for all of the employees. However, the outing is conducted per business unit. Thus, each of business units will arrange their own outing plan. This year the business unit where I am in (Systems and Process Assurance) along with Internal audit members will have an outing at Bunaken, Manado. I am so excited about it, because we are going to have scuba diving. Have been waiting for a long time for this chance, holiday, diving, snorkling, food and shopping uhuy. According to many people Bunaken is one of the best places for diving. I hope our team will have a very very good time during the outing. Hence, will strenghten the team relationship which lead to solid team work.

Behaviour infection.

Have been driving for one month. In this short period, I've observed couple of things. First, just realised Jakarta are full of impatient people. Along the road that I travel from home to office everyday I often hear people make a horrible sound from their car's horn. Don't know what do they after, seems like they are in hurry to reach a certain place. Probably people are stress with the bad traffic condition which have influence badly to their emotion. Sometimes I was infected to do the same way. I think I need to calm down and control my passion.

The next thing that I identified is the highway officer. In Jakarta we have to pay if we need to pass through highway. In order to pay, first we need to bypass a booth before go in the highway, there will be an officer that give you a ticket. Then when we are about reach the end of the highway we will encounter another booth where we have to pay. I often see that the face of the officers in the booths look cheerless. Don't know maybe they are bored or maybe they feel they are treated like a machine by the people who passing by. Then once upon a time, I made an experiment to smile and say thank you whenever I passed by the booth. I noticed that these officer smile back promptly. Just feel better when seeing other people smiling.

Life goes on.

Life goes pretty flat these few weeks. Nothing much to do until last week. I got assignment to audit a car manufacturer company (Toyota). The assignment is not too difficult, but it takes a lot of time. But due to training my assignment have transferred to my colleague. Don't know just feel empty these last few weeks. In everyday life, sometimes feel so busy with work, but when the holiday come suddenly don't know what to do. Hope this feeling will go away soon.

My best companion

Dog is well known as the man best friend and companion. However, for me radio is my best companion. I still remember when I was in the college I used to turn on my radio whenever I was in the room, regardless what my activity was. The main reason I turned on the radio was just want to keep my surrounding a bit crowded. Although sometimes I didn't pay much attention with it, I got a lot advantages from it. One of them is got the most up to date news. The habit continues until I graduated and working.

Further, when I was completing my study in Sydney, radio also which kept me awake while I was bored with studying. I forget the name or what channel I used to listen, but one thing I remember that it was a christian channel that set by Hanvy (My ex-flatmate). Although sometimes I didn't listen to it much, it sometimes gave me refreshment with the talks and songs.

And now, as I mentioned before I have to travel quite a long distance from home to office every weekdays i.e about 35 - 40 Kms (It takes 1.5 - 2 hours, depend on the traffic condition). I always go to office early in the morning and go home quite late to avoid the traffic. Therefore, I often get tired when arrive at home. Often I am in hurry in my prayer and quiet time. However, since I started drive to office, I can turn on radio again. There is a channel i.e 96.3 FM Radio Pelita Kasih (RPK). This channel have given me a lot refreshment by its programmes. I can't make any excuse to not having enough time for quiet time because the radio has a quiet time programme. The topics are the same as my daily quiet time guidance. Besides, it also has other sermons, talk show and christian songs programs that give me the best companion, while I am driving from home to office or vice versa. Thank's to RPK for their ministry.

Romans 10:17 "Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ."