Sunday School.

Although I have travelled a lot lately, I try to manage my time to bring my niece to sunday school. Hmm, I learnt some sunday school songs and found those songs are very interesting hehe.. Here is one of the lyrics:

KingKong badannya besar
tapi kakinya pendek
Lebih aneh binatang bebek
lehernya panjang kaki pendek

Alleluya.. Tuhan Maha Kuasa
Alleluya.. Tuhan Maha Kuasa

Tuhan membimbing langkah demi langkah.

(by Anonymous)

Jangan memandang kepada besarnya kebutuhan kita

Pandanglah kepada kebesaran-Nya

Keadaan kita seringkali menjadi penghalang

untuk melihat kemampuan Tuhan

Oleh karenanya jangan kita mengarahkan mata kita

kepada keadaan kita

Iblis senantiasa berusaha memanfaatkan keadaan kita

untuk mengalahkan kita dan menyalahkan firman Tuhan

Sesungguhnya kemenangan terletak pada kesetiaan kita

dalam memandang kebesaran Tuhan dan kemampuan-Nya

Ia telah berjanji untuk membimbing kita langkah demi langkah

Tidak sekaligus, namun ... langkah demi langkah ...

Dan setiap langkah, merupakan suatu mujizat!

"Prophet" by Frank again.

Lately felt really fed up with all of the routine, work and work and work... Then after the sunday school last week, I just passed the church library and got an idea to borrow a book, that can give my mind a relieve from thinking about my work stuff.. and flip around and ...ta..da.. I found another book from Frank, the title is "Prophet". I really enjoyed to read Frank's novels.. from the previous experience with "this present darkness" and "piercing the darkness". and I decided to borrow this book..

Last Sunday I've just finished the book. The story is a bit different with the first two it, this is more real, I think it's very common to happen in our life, politics, telling lie - covering truth, and ambition. This book is worth to be read. Please refer to this link for the story summary http://www.gnpcb.org/product/1581345267 Happy Readinggg !!!

A new look.

Felt a bit bored about the look of my blog. So I changed the template and now look like this. Ya just wanna refresh.. :) In fact I also want to restore the whole of my heart and energy, so I can left those awkward feeling behind and move on towards a better life..

Clara and Coala.

which one is cuter ?

My birthday gift.

The same as last year I didn't have chance to bother about my birthday, because I was on the way from my home town to Jakarta. Then yesterday I just received a bonus from office. Hmm, although my birthday was ten days ago, I felt like got a birthday gift hehe.. the office give away two millions rups voucher, which we can choose one of three options from panorama, carefour or sogo.

Apart from that I am very grateful to God for this year. I feel very blessed. One month before my birthday I've already got my present actually hehe.. the first one I was being double promoted, then got my performance bonus. The second one I passed the bloody CISA exam. During this time I think I can't ask for more, these two are already enough for me. Then yesterday got the third one hehe. And now somehow I began to worry, I remembered my first writing about "comfort vs growth". Wondering maybe I need to be aware of my life balance.. I've tried hard to maintain the work activities with my ministry in church. Hopefully I can maintain it well..

August 2006.

The same as last year, I spent most of my days in August at Chevron corporation, one of our firm audit client. I thought I have mentioned Chevron, which formerly named Caltex, is a oil mining company in Rumbai, Riau. The field work was enjoyable, all of my team member performed their work so efficient with a good quality of documentation. Two thumb up for all of you (Amel, Wisnu and Ferry). May be this year is the second year for all of us, we've already had the what in the firm we usually called "CAKE" about the client. This term is stand for cummulative auditing knowledge and experience. Moreover, from the client side, they also have improved a lot in term of how they control their business process, so most of their work have been documented properly. Hence, aside from work we still had time to having fun hehe.. hunting for durian, shopping in mals, watching movie and photo taking session. Please refer to pics below.. :)

I came back from Rumbai last week. What a shock when the first day I went to office at 5.40 am from home and arrive at Mampang at 6.20 am, but guess what I arrived at the office around 7.15 am. Had to spent around one hour to travel such 2-3 km distance.. The reason behind that is the government is building bus ways in all of the main streets in Jakarta. Mainly the purpose of the busway is to reduce traffic jam. Government is trying hard to improve the public transport, in order to persuade people to travel public transport, but I doubted it will succeed, let's hope.

Then I got another shocking news, my english instructor while I was preparing my EAP (english academic preparation) at IALF before departing to Australian commited a crime. He was arrested by Central Jakarta Police in the beginning of August. Actually this news has flown around in the alumni mailing list three weeks ago, but I never pay too much attention to this mailing list, and just known the new after a friend told me about this news. Just can't believed what I read in the news, I never thought this could happenned. He was such a respectable man, smart and I admited a bit sceptic, but unbelievable he could commit such crime - just don't want to mentioned what kind of crime. During my way home last night, I kept thinking life is always unpredictable, we can only see people's condition from the surface, but we never know what deep inside. People are correct, when they said the phrase, "don't judge the book by its cover".

Mess hall for lunch.

Chevron's main office.

Field work at Chevron.

I've Passed.

Finally the CISA exam result has come out. During the waiting period, it made me nuts. Because at the first time I thought it would come out only three weeks after the exam date, but I got it wrong. Then my friend told me that ISACA usually would announce the result aroung 6 weeks to 8 weeks. And yesterday, finally the result came out. I knew it because Amel (one of office collegues) called me, while I was at client's site in Surabaya. However, I could not checked my result due to I couldn't access to the Internet at client's site that made me more uneasy. Because I had been waiting for weeks, and when the result eventually come out I cannot check it. Until the lunch break I text my bro to check for me, I gave him my email id and password. During that period me, I was very nervous. Then after a few minutes, I got his reply and said I passed.. what a relieve.. Thank's God. This exam has turned me upside down, studied while working hmmm, I never think that I could do it. Once again, thank's God that He always strengthen me during the hard time, He always faithful to His children. And also thank you to Kees, my big boss, who is so dedicated to guide and teach us during the exam preparation. and big thank's too to family, friends and collegues who always encourage me to pass through this exam. No words can describe all of the support that pour at me.. Once again thank you all..

Systems & Process Assurance Team - New Poster

Just want to show off our team new poster. ^_^

Untitled.

Currently our office is entering a new financial year. Like every year by the end of each financial year management publish promotion list. Everybody at our department got promoted, though couple of them did not really satisfy with the rating result. Fyi, the rating would determine how much bonus you would get. Yeah, I believed management has considered deeply before they marked the rating. For my rating, I definitely don't have anything to complain. At the first place, I don't put too much expectation what could I get physically (read: salary), what I really care is what lessons I have learnt during the past one year. As I wrote one year ago, everything must have its time (Ecclesiates 3:11 "God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time,but he has also placed ignorance in the human heartso that people cannot discover what God has ordained,from the beginning to the end of their lives"). I think if we are ready, He will give us what we really need.

In this month, there is another person resign our office, Reggie. Reggie left for pursuing higher education at York University, Toronto. During her last moment at our office she felt somewhat in between exciting and sad. Exciting, because she is going to go abroad and definitely will get new great experiences, and on the other hand sad because leaving us. During the past year we grew in one quite solid team. I also can feel that our team is a bit different compare to others that I had before. The people here are low profile and almost no boundary between us, even with our boss. However, I said to Reggie, she definitely has made a right decision. It is not everybody can experience higher education outside our home country, she will find many new things that she never had before. I am kind of miss my time when I was in Sydney.. double finger cross Reggie.

The World Greatest – R.Kelly

The following song was sang when we had update training last month. This song was introduced by Melvin. He mentioned that may be this song will help to boost our spirit a little bit if we are in a down condition. At that time I listened the music and lyrics and found this song is not bad, and sound nice to my ear. Yeah, this song at least tell us that we are at least something and may be we should proud of our selves whoever we are. However, we need to remember we are here and exist is because of HIM, only by HIM and through HIM we are save...

Lyrics:

I am a mountain, I am a tall tree, oh
I am a swift wind sweepin' the country
I am a river down in the valley,
oh I am a vision and I can see clearly

Refrain:
If anybody asks you who I am
Just stand up tall
Look 'em in the face and say

I'm that star up in the sky
I'm that mountain peak up high
Hey, I made it I'm the world's greatest
And I'm that little bit of hope
When my back's against the ropes
I can feel it I'm the world's greatest

I am a giant, I am an eagle, oh
I am a lion, down in the jungle
I am a marchin' band, I am the people, oh
I am a helping hand, I am a hero

back to refrain

In the ring of life I'll reign love
And the world will notice a king/queen
When all is darkest, I'll shine a light
And use a success you'll find in me

back to refrain

Last shot.

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