Get wet, get fun.

Ready to launch.

Just Arrived.

More than anything.

Just want to share a lyric from one of the songs that we sang in the church anniversary celebration. The lyric is very simple, but very meaningful. Hope anybody who read it, will get the essence of the message too.

God loves people more than anything
God loves people more than anything
More than anything He wants to give
He'd rather die than let them go
God loves people more than anything

*connectedthinking.

Our team is trying to make a new poster, which reflected the whole team member for replacing current one. The theme for the poster is the same as our firm's motto i.e. "*connectedthinking". In order to do that, each of the members need to modify their pictures, so the pictures would really reflect the theme. I come out with the above picture. :)

Gado-gado.

is refer to a kind of Indonesian food, which consist of mixed vegetable and peanut sauce. Indonesian people usually use this phrase for refering something that heterogenous. I also use this phrase for my writing's title to refer to what I am going to write right now. There have been various things happenned the past few weeks.

• About two weeks ago once again Indonesia was hit by another catastrope. Several places in central java was shaken by a approx. 5.7 SR earth quake during 57 second. Based on the report from television news the death toll reached more than 5000 people. Just before the disaster, a lot of effort has been put to evacuate people from Merapi Mount eruption, but nature said different. What puzzle me was the timing of the disaster, it could be said just one or two days after the Ascensions day, the last two big catastrope i.e. Aceh Tsunami and Nias earthquake happened just one day after christmas and easter day respectively. Just trying to understand what message that God really want to put through for Indonesia or all of these just need to happen that's all.
• Last week was our church 61st anniversary. The committee planned to have a massive youth choralle which would be consist of 250 young people from several our church branches, but surprise there were almost 350 people turned up, including me. We only had twice combined practice including the one right before the anniversary celebration service. It was really amazing we really sang well during the service. The congregation was really astonished with the performance, all of us could feel the spirit of the theme this year "Shine for Jesus". I hope each of us could really understand the meaning of the theme, hence we can apply it to our every day life. For details of the event and pictures please refer to the folowing link http://youth-gky.blogspot.com/2006/06/kesan-dari-bawah-podium.html
• Finally, last saturday I attended the CISA exam. During the past six months I tried very hard to manage my time for study. It was really hard to study while working full time, especially if the job nature such auditing most of the time is very time consuming. Actually the preparation effort was not only come from me and other candidates, but also our Boss, Kees, who once a week conducted CISA review class during the past six months. Honestly, I did not want to let him down, because he has already sacrificed his out of office hour for only preparing us to pass the exam. I am very grateful that have a great boss like Him. Then about the exam result would come out about three weeks after the exam day, it would be confirmed by email. At the present I don't want to speculate about my exam outcome, I just only want to tell myself that I have put as many efforts that I could for passing the exam, let God do the rest.
• Time really goes so fast now we are in the mid of year 2006, I just felt that we just celebrate the new year yesterday. The first lesson that I learnt the past six months was that acceptance for something that we can't achieve. Sometimes we need to lay back a bit to think about the essence of our failure and disappoinment, there maybe a way for our future improvement. Another thing is commitment for ministry. The past one year I have struggled to commit for a ministry in church. I afraid that I can't fulfil my ministry responsibility because of my time consuming job. After a long contemplating, I think I should try, coz we don't know we can and can't do it if we do not try. Then since last week I registered myself as a sunday school teacher assistant. I hope this ministry would be useful for myself in the future.

Ok, that's all for now. Wanna to go home to watch football match hehe.. FIFA World Cup.

Cramming.

Gosh.. the time goes so fast. The exam day is coming closer and closer. Have taken one week annual leave to revisit the whole material again, but I start to forget some of the details, uh so frustated. Next week is the only chance for catch up and prepare, hopefully all of my effort will bring a good outcome.

An ordinary story in life.

Last saturday was a farewell bbq for my collegues Johan and Yenny. Both of them decided to move to PwC Singapore. It is maybe a usual event in our daily life, where there is a meeting, there will be a farewell. In this condition our office definitely lose two talented staff, but this may be a new journey, a new chapter for both Yenny and Johan.

Our farewell party begun with having bbq like last time and continue with watching a debut of "SPA movie", which created by Wisnu. The movie was very touching, it reminded us with the togetherness that we had since we joint the team, messages from staff for Both Yenny and Johan and vice versa. The party was ended by a speech from our leader, Kees. I was impressed by his speech, which basically means people's live is moving forward, maybe sometimes we are doubt to go or not go, indeed we never know if we don't try. Then lastly we took our last picture. Good Luck and Bon Voyage for Johan and Yenny, till we meet again, hehe Singapore just one and hour flight from Jakarta.. :)

Outing committee.

Back to the real world.

Exhausted Soldiers.

Ready to fight.

Arrived at Gunung Putri

Updates.

• First of all just want to say "happy easter", may Jesus resurrection raise up a new spirit for us to share love with others.

• Just had a retret with a group who call themselves as "Sant'Egidio" Community. This is one of a catholic church community, which started by a group of students in 1968, Roma. The mission of this group is to help those, who are poor and unfortunate. There have been a lot of actvities that initiated by this group, please refer to http://www.santegidio.org. In Indonesia this group was begun about 12 years ago. One of my friend joint this group and have been very inspired to make the world better. Overall I quite impressed with the mission and what have been done by this group of people. Maybe I will join them whenever I have a spare time.

• Yenny is back. I can understand with the struggle she go through, but thank's God she is getting better. However, I heard that she is going to resign from our office for several reason. I just can wish all the best for her decision.

BBQ together.

Pinky.

Girls group.

Novels by Frank.

Bro bought couple of novels, which is written by Frank E. Peretti, i.e This present of darkness and Piercing the darkness. At the beginning I was not too interested to read these books. I thought these novels would be quite similar with other ordinary thriller stories. But then, I felt bored nothing to do at that moment, I saw the books laid at the TV desk. I reached one of them and started to read... one page has passed... nothing special... until several pages, the real content of the book was introduced slowly but sure.. then I couldn't stop.. felt curious what happened next with the story... After finished with the first one, then I continued to read another one. Both of them are really great, and so real and easy to follow. Mainly these books telling about the spiritual warfare around our real life.. I was pulled into a spiritual world and was witnessing the warfare going on, which something that I never aware of. Regardless whether the story is true or not, these books gave a broad and clear picture about the spiritual realm, and how the angels do their works. I really recommend others to read these books, you'll never regret it. I bet.

Reference:

http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?AID=32499&PID=2477&isbn=1581342144

Think About His Love

Think about His love
Think about His goodness
Think about His grace
That's brought us through.

For as high as the heavens above
So great is the measure of our Father's love
Great is the measure of our Father's love.

How could I forget His love?
How could I forget His mercy?
He satisfies, He satisfies,
He satisfies my desires.
Great is the measure of our Father's love.

Comment:
This morning when I drove to my office, as ussual I turned on the radio, then this song came out from the radio speaker. This song has brought back my concentration to the road, as my mind worked hard thinking about many many things, struggles, human pathetic life. This song has reminded me, for whatever our condition, we still have His love. His love will comfort us whenever we are down. Always think about His love.

Chaos or Tragedy ?

The past few weeks has passed with a bit plain, until about two weeks ago one of my best friend (Mega) from campus sent me a sms at midnight said that an accident killed my friend (John) on the way he went home from his office. I just can't believed it that he has passed away, because just one hour before the accidence he just posted an email to our alumni miling list. I have known him since I was in the third semester of my bachelor degree. We worked together as teaching assistant for a software laboratory at our campus. I also know his fiancee (yenny) well, because we work at the same office. John was known as a such caring, nice and smart person. I can't imagine how shock and sad his family, friends and fiancee when they heard this bad news.

Just a few days ago before the accident, I was thinking that Yenny has a perfect life. I envied her. She is smart, has a good career, has a great fiancee, in short she has everything that a girl dream on. They have built relationship for five years, have bought a house mortgage, lease a car and plan to get married by June this year. All of these has gone when this accidence happened. When I received the news, I asked in my heart over and over why this happened especially when everything seems so perfect? Don't God has eyes or heart in ruling this world. I know God has his own purpose and objective when allowing something happened to us, this maybe go beyond our thought and mind.

Until now Yenny is still absence for work. I can understand how her feeling is, this accidence has given a big grief into her life history. I really eager to ease a litle of her pain but don't know how to do it. I don't have courage to call or even sms her, afraid if my call or sms can remind her to John. I just can pray that God can make her understand and strength after this tragedy.

Aside from the grief and sadness of this tragedy, this accident also reminded me that we, humans are so small and powerless. Our everything can disappear in just a second. I asked myself am I ready if that happen to me? Oh Lord, please give us Your Strength. Amin.