let's get healthy!

Hmm... I'm currently in Beijing, China... and it's in the middle of winter now...
and if you have experienced winter before, you'll know that most of the time, our food intake will also increase around this time... it's so hard to resist chocolates, chips and all those fatty food!!
The point is, YES, I have gained weight.... :(

At first, I thought it's juz gonna be like what it used to be...
I'll gain a few kilos, then I'll lose them when I go back home to Jakarta, Indonesia...
but, I start to wonder now, if this is gonna be the case this time...
the thing is, what i heard from others, as we gets older, our body doesn't adapt as well as it used to be when we were younger...

Somehow, today, I thought, I'll put "getting fit and healthy" as one of my Christmas resolution.. (I know, most people have "New Year Resolution".... but i prefer Christmas instead... juz wanna be different :p)

So... there're 10 days til Christmas from now... will I be able to reach this goal??
From now on, I have to watch what i eat and my health....

Jiayou!! ^^

Graduation Day

Almost a year ago... on Dec 17th, 2008... I experienced what my friends experienced today...
My graduation ceremony...

I can still remember how I felt that day... though I already left uni for half a year and have already worked in the industry, the spirit that was firing in the ceremony really lifted my spirit up...

After been working for 9 months, things changed...
I have forgotten how I felt on that day... the day of my graduation...
When I was innocently thinking like a common fresh graduate, that I can change the world and make it as a better place... full of hope... with an almost prefect vision...
I can't believe that working for less than a year can actually kill all those dreams...
Losing the spirit...

But... that night.. on that very moment... on my graduation ceremony night...
It brought back the spirit... that very spirit of fresh graduates...
Full with innocent, hope and a little bit of arrogance...
I thought I knew everything, but then I realised that what i knew is only a very little part of the big picture...

Finally...
What I wanted to say is CONGRATULATIONS to all my friends who are graduating today, or this month... you are all deserve the walk on that podium... after all these years... all those hard works... countless sleepless nights... days when redbull or coffee are your best friends...

Congratulations... and don't forget to keep on dreaming and reach your own dream!! ^^

if tomorrow never comes

Ok, I know you've heard it sumwhere... probably from a song sang by Ronan Keating??
But have you ever really thought about the message hidden behind this phrase??

Tonite, I have just come back from my high school friend's house...
Her mum has just passed away this morning... (Turut berduka cita yg sedalam2nya, Nis) :(
She told me what happened at the end of her mum's life...
She has been very ill for a while... and her condition has been pretty steady lately...
But this morning, her dad called her to come to the hospital to see her mum, coz she got worse... time is running short...
but my friend didn't know that... she took her time...
until it's too late for her to see her mum before she closes her eyes for the last time....
*sigh*
What can i say to console her??
Nothing much, really...
I've never been in this situation before, so she'd think that I wouldn't know how it feels....
I can only let her know, that she shouldn't blame herself for something she doesn't know is going to happen...

Then...
I thought of my own situation....
How have I treat my mum this morning??
It's definitely far from respect.... :(
I should be ashamed of myself... and I am now...
I think, God want to remind me... that second chance rarely comes twice... so I should grab any chances which lie in front of me as much as I could...
I would be really2 sorry to myself if tomorrow never comes... and I wouldn't be able to ask my mum's forgiveness and show her respect she deserves...

In the last couple of weeks, my mood is getting unstable....
I got pretty sensitive and annoyed by little things...
And to make situation worse, my voice is getting to its highest pitch pretty quickly too...
I don't know where I got that anger from, but I'm like a ticking bomb, just waiting to be ignited...
Today might be a reminder God sent me, so that I'll learn from it...
I've gone back to the old me... the ME who I used to hate... or the ME who used to hate myself...
who likes to take things for granted.... who doesn't know how to give thanks... who never satisfied on everything which has been given by God...
It's another reminder,
that life is short....
that we live this life only once...
that whatever we try to collect from this world is not eternal...
that every morning, we have a second chance to things differently and make a difference in people's lives...
that true friends are much more precious than gold or the newest trend or the coolest car
that life... isn't as bad as I used to think...
that by living, I'll get to know Him more... and get to appreciate Him and His creations more...

Thank you Lord for all the second chances you've given me....
Your presence each day is more than enough for me... Amen.

rainbow

Hey, I've got a question... When is the last time you saw a rainbow??
I'd proudly answer that question by saying, "This afternoon!!"...

Yep... today, I saw a rainbow.. After dropping my boss off, I looked up, and it was there!
I was trapped in a traffic, but it was worth it... I even had a time to glance back and saw the person in the car behind me was looking up and smiling that he can see the rainbow... :)

Yea... I haven't been enjoying the sky for quite a long time... I used to like to look up and amazed by what I found... sometimes it'll be a dark grey colour with many different shades.... or it can be reddish colour during sunset... or it can be pitch dark decorated by sparkling of the stars... The sky almost never look the same each day... I've always amazed by the creativity of the Creator... What a great Artist... :)

Something Beautiful (by Natalie Grant)

I heard this song played on the radio and somehow it really touched my heart... So, I wanna share it with all of you who I believe will find this song to be a blessing... Listen to the lyric carefully and know that it's true... God really loves you and me...

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This is a song for anyone whose ever been
Knocked down and can't get up again
Stuck in the corner, can't move forward
All alone and you think you're going nowhere
This is a song for anyone whose ever stood underneath the sun
And felt so small, two feet tall and so out of place

'Cause He sees you - He knows you - He loves you
And He wants you to know that

The life that you've been living, the days that you've been given
Were made for something beautiful
Life - don't let it pass you by
Because you were created for something beautiful

Heaven holds a dream that's just for you
And there are things only you can do
So step by faith, put the past away
It'll take you to a better day
Second to minute to hour to life
Time it always seems to fly
It's on the go and before you know
Your days are through

But he sees you - He knows you - He loves you
And he wants you to know that

The life that you've been living, the days that you've been given
Were made for something beautiful
Life - don't let it pass you by
Because you were created for something beautiful

What are - you waiting for
What are you - waiting for
What - are you waiting for
Something Beautiful
What are - you waiting for
What are you - waiting for
What are you waiting for
Something Beautiful!

Something Beautiful - Natalie Grant

who's gonna come to after you?

I think I haven't been writing for a while.... I mean I wrote something here.... but not like I used to... somehow, since what's happened last year, I became a different person....

Anyway, there's one thing I wanna write about, after watching a movie called "Passenger"...
At first, I thought it was either an action or a horror movie, but it turned out to be something a bit mysterious and dramatic as well...
I'm not gonna tell you what it's about, but one thing that stuck in my mind after watching that movie is...
Ok, I'm gonna tell u juz a bit of the movie so you would understand what I'm talking about.... There was a plane crashed and none of the passengers survived.... Some of them didn't realise that they are dead and they try to live their life as normal... until they got "picked-up" by the souls of their love ones who have passed away before them... For example, there's a girl whom her parents who died when she was 6, came to get her "home".... and there's a guy, whom his grandpa and his dog, came to take him "home" as well....

It's just, after watching it, my mind started to wonder.... who's gonna come after me when I die? Especially when I die first... that's mean no one will come and I'll be lost???
Stupid thinking, I know... but I couldn't help it... till all of a sudden, I remember...
I know someone will come... at least, there will be one person... if you know me, you know who I'm talking about.... Yep... I was reminded, that Jesus will be there... He'll walk me home.... and suddenly I'm in peace... :)

Hahaha... I know it's such a silly thought... but won't you feel good when at last you can be certain of it?? When at the end, when the time comes, you'll know who you're expecting to see.... you know you don't have to be afraid and you know that you have a good reason to be peaceful??

Masak.. Masak...

Hmm... lama juga ya gw ga nulis di blog ini...
Maklum, dah mayan sibuk skrg.... Walo ga jelas sih sibuk ngapain... hehehe :p

Klo ada yg notice n ngikutin perkembangan blog gw...
Belakangan gw ada nambah beberapa link yg isinya resep2 masakan...
Ga tw kenapa, belakangan gw mulai punya motivasi buat masuk dapur lagi n masak...
Rasanya dah hampir setaon gw ga masak proper... (klo masak indomie sih sering... wakakak)
Dan mulai skrg, gw make a pledge buat masak at least 1 masakan in a week...
Ga mo telalu ambisius.... ntar telalu banyak pengen nyoba resep ini-itu, akhirnya ga masak ama skali.. hahaha...

Jadi, ya gitu deh...
Maybe in the future, gw bakal share fotonya en resepnya skalian... :p
Masi ga pede neh ama masakan gw...
Org yg ga tau, mgkn kirain gw pelit, tiap masak ga mau bagi2....
But gw simply takut org laen ga suka... so far sih edible.... huehehe :p

Ya sud, gw cabut dulu deh... Ciao! ^________^