...Mother...

I don't know how to write it... for more than one week i was at the end of the rope... I got sick that made me couldn't do many things... It happened at the beginning of this month... but, I could learn something through this manner.

--at Depok Beach, Parangtritis, Jogjakarta--

I could see how my mother very loved me and she took care of me everytime I needed a help... though she wasn't well, too... she tried her best to take care of me...

When I cried out because of the deep pain, I saw her couldn't do anything... she only looked at me and prayed for my health... but I could feel her love for me...

Through this experience, I could make a reconciliation with her, too... And something better started since then in our relationship.

There's a problem emotion between us.. I knew it exactly.. it's caused since I was in her womb. When she knew that she was pregnant, she tried to make abortion through many ways... But fortunately, God's hands were upon me, protected me from every kind of medicine or any food that she ate to abort me...

She had ever made a reconciliation with me, but not in emotion problem. And actually, I had forgiven her, too...

Praise God, something good happened between us, but so much the price I had to pay...

One day, when I felt very weak, suddenly a voice came in my heart... it said "When i am weak, You make me strong... Let your spirit be on fire and serve the Lord... For this reason we never become discouraged. Even though our physical being is gradually decaying, yet our spiritual being is renewed day after day."

After heard these statements I got up and sat and prayed... God spoke to me a few things.... He reminded me about His Sacrifice, that He had taken and healed all my disease through the cross. I could feel how was the Father's Heart when saw Jesus was crucified... it was my mother's heart when she saw me cried out because of that very deep pain, too.

I just could thanked God for every situation He has allowed in my life.

Thanked God for still having a good mother beside me...

I don't know what would be happened if I was alone at home feeling that deep pain... ^^

So... Love and Express our Love to whom we Love for along they are still with us... ^^

***

..Love in Life Practice..



How great were my days where I'd been allowed to face many things in my family. It happened in my home. It started since the end of last month, where my mom and I were surprised by a news about my uncle. It suddenly happened by the SMS that we received, that my uncle and his wife and one of his daughter wanted to come to my home. It's caused of the job interview that must be followed by my uncle in Jakarta. Since then, we knew that my uncle and family had been moved from Batam to Semarang.

The first week of December, my uncle started his new job and stayed at my home. Actually, I was struggling to accept him in my house, because he's smoking. Beside that, he and his family have made my big fam angry since the first time they got married. It's like a habit... if they were happy, they forgot us, the family in Jakarta... but if they were in trouble, they remembered and asked for help from us, especially from my mom and me.

I've ever angry about it, too... but I learned to forgive them... learned to bless them with everything I could give... I've ever thought about it, and I felt proud that I could give my hand to them. Though I couldn't give much money, I could bless them. When they were at my home, I tried to do the same... though my mom, bro and I couldn't accept some of their deeds and habits.

It's easy to say the word "LOVE"...

but it isn't easy to make it into "Reality"...

This is what God has taught me for along this month...

When Christmas came a few days ago, God reminded me about it... "LOVE"

Christmas talks about Love & Forgive...

Both of those words have the same meaning behind...

It's about GIVING...

God has teaches us to Give His Love and ForGive all of our sins...

So, we have to do the same that He has taught to us...

Difficult or Easy?

The answer is Just Do It !!!  Obey !!!

Let's make Love isn't just one beautiful word...

but...

Let's make it into Reality in Life Practice...

Have a joyful journeys with Him

***

...a prisoner...

Remember of this song :

I'm a prisoner... prisoner of Your Love...

I can't run away... I can't run away from You...

I'm a prisoner... prisoner of Your Love...

I can't run away... I can't run away from You...

Maybe we just know in the negative meaning of this word "Prisoner"

Prisoner is:

1. a person found guilty of a crime and sent to prison.

2. a person captured and kept confined.

3. a person trapped by a situation.

When I read Jeremiah 33:1-3... I found that Jeremiah was a prisoner... 

How come? He was a prophet of God, wasn't he? How did he become a prisoner?

I found that he did what God said to him for the king, and the king couldn't receive what Jeremiah told.

When we think about prison, we think of the small and bad room. But what happened with Jeremiah? He was prisoned at the courtyard of the palace of the king.

From this verse I could learn something about prison and prisoner. We could be prisoned by what we do or think. We can be realized that we're prisoned if we feel something not good. Dangerously, we can't be realized that we've been prisoned, because we've felt comfort. Maybe it's about our comfort zone, our past thinking and paradigm...

So, what should we do?

I learn from Jeremiah, though he was in prison, he was still have a good relationship with God. God wanted he kept sensitive to hear what God wanted to say to him for the people.

Everyday, God wants us to have this relation with us... we should hear His voice everytime, everywhere. Seek and Know what He wants us to do. And shout to Him always if we haven't got something from Him.

We maynot stay for a long time in our comfort zone. We've to move on!!!

So.. Let's recognize where we are right now.. then Make a Change!!!

Let's make ourlives being prisoned only by God's Love!

let's enjoy our journeys of lives

and

find a new thing everyday

***

...thinker...

- - -

If you want to become a Great Thinker,

you first need to become a Good Thinker..

Before becoming a Good Thinker,

you need to become A Thinker..

In order to become A Thinker,

you need to be willing to first produce a bunch of mediocre and downright bad ideas..

Only by practicing and developing your thinking daily will your ideas get better.

Your thinking ability is determined not by your desire to think, but by your past thinking.

To become a good thinker, do more thinking.

Once the ideas start flowing, they get better.

Once they get better, they keep improving.


- John C. Maxwell -



***

mental upahan atau hamba excellent?

Statement ini tiba-tiba muncul beberapa waktu lalu, ketika ada 1 kejadian yang membuatku terlintas akan kata-kata tersebut. "Mental Upahan atau Hamba yang Excellent?"

Seringkali aku merasa jengkel ketika menemukan kejadian yang mirip dengan statement tersebut. Jengkel rasanya melihat orang yang dalam pekerjaannya hitung-hitungan... comparing pekerjaan dengan upah yang dia terima... bukan hanya terjadi di dunia sekuler, bahkan dalam dunia rohani pun juga terjadi hal seperti itu.

Sejak pertama aku melayani, aku belajar untuk melakukan semaksimal yang bisa aku lakukan. Ketika aku pertama kali bekerja di sebuah kantor dalam rangka job training, aku juga belajar untuk tidak hitung-hitungan dan mengerjakan apa saja yang bisa aku kerjakan. Karena aku memiliki pemikiran bahwa, lewat apa yang aku kerjakan, aku akan bisa belajar sesuatu yang baru.

Demikian halnya ketika aku lulus sekolah dan bekerja.... aku belajar untuk melakukan apa saja yang bisa aku lakukan, apa saja yang dipercayakan oleh pimpinan... meski pernah aku lembur dan menginap di kantor oleh karena pekerjaan yang tidak pernah diajarkan ke aku oleh orang yang sebelumnya, sehingga pekerjaan itu menumpuk. Masa-masa sulit di tahun pertama aku bekerja... tetapi aku lakukan semaksimal mungkin. Padahal pada saat itu salary yang aku terima termasuk kecil, dan tidak ada uang lembur untuk pekerjaan yang harus aku lakukan sampai overtime.

Tapi tahukah anda? Tuhan tidak pernah berhutang kepadaku... Tahun demi tahun aku melihat tangan Tuhan bekerja atasku. Semua apa yang aku butuhkan Tuhan cukupkan, bahkan pernah ada bonus dan kejutan.

Sungguh belajar untuk berespon yang benar ketika aku bertemu orang-orang yang terlihat hitung-hitungan. Aku pernah melihat orang yang tidak mau belajar sesuatu yang baru, karena takut ditambahi tanggung jawab baru. Ada di antara mereka berpikir, ketika ada tanggung jawab baru, belum tentu salary mereka selaras dengan job yang mereka kerjakan. Tanggung jawab baru membuat mereka bisa kerja overtime, atau mereka sudah terlalu sibuk dengan pekerjaan yang saat ini mereka lakukan, dsb.

Teman, aku pernah melewati semua hal yang tidak enak dalam pekerjaan dan pelayanan... tetapi luar biasanya, aku bisa menyaksikan tangan Tuhan atasku dalam setiap hal yang aku lakukan. Berkat-Nya mengikuti aku sepanjang hidupku sampai saat ini. Meskipun dalam masa-masa sulit dalam hidupku... aku bisa melihat penyertaanNya.

Kunci dalam kita melakukan apapun..

1. Lakukan dengan tulus hati seperti untuk Tuhan dan bukan untuk manusia.

2. Miliki mental dan pemikiran bahwa kita akan belajar sesuatu yang baru yang memperkaya kita lewat apa yang kita kerjakan.

Aku bercerita seperti ini bukan berarti aku tidak pernah alami masa kepicikan dalam pikiran dan hidupku. Tapi ketika kepicikan itu datang, aku selalu diingatkan akan 2 kunci di atas.

So... apapun yang sedang anda alami hari-hari ini, mari kita terus belajar memiliki mental Hamba yang Excellent...bukan mental pegawai upahan, yang bekerja hanya untuk upah saja.

Upah (uang) bisa habis dalam sekejap... tetapi kekayaan ilmu dan pengalaman akan kita bawa terus-menerus yang membuat kita menjadi semakin expert, bahkan menambah nilai upah kerja kita nantinya. ^_^

Enjoy your journeys. He's with you. ^^

***

...new energy...

Finding out my name, my pics, my articles on the google's searching made me enthusiastic to keep writing... Actually it isn't easy for me to spend my time to write directly if I get a new idea... I always need a break time to think about what I would write... Many reasons why...

A few days ago, I realized that I've been writing on this blog for 1 year... I found that I was still a new one in blogging world... I found that I was nothing than many people who had been done it...

But, the other side of my thoughts... I was surprised to find new comment from my friend...though she isn't a close friend for me, and we've just known each other for several months... she said a statement on my birthday... she said thanks to me that my blog had been a blessing for her life...and she copied some statements that she found on my blog which had been a blessing for her.

You know, it's like a streaming water flowing on my body and energized my heart and my life to be enthusiastic again.

A few days ago, when I was at cell group meeting, some of my cell mates prayed and gave some confirmation for me which very very strengthened me...

I have to break all the things which have been obstacles in my life. Though I don't know what they are, I'll keep moving on His track.

I know it's not easy for me... many kind of thoughts sometimes come to my mind... critical thoughts and deep thoughts about something happened (people, circumstances, etc.)... they can distract me sometimes... ^^

But I always try to keep my mind healthy... think what is good, right, nice to hear, etc...

So, it's the same thing I do to keep my energy in writing... I always try to think and dream what my articles would become a great blessing for many peoples.

I pray that every story of my life, every thought of mine which I write would be annointed by God and bless many peoples not just my friends around me, but many peoples from many nations... ^^

It's my dream... ^^

Would it be???

I believe I can do it with Him through my journeys of life.

***

Maturity

***

-nv-

Detoxing Your Mind

If your mind is being polluted,

your whole life will become polluted...

so, what to do is:

"Detoxing Your Mind!!!"

***

-nv-

You Are All I Need

All I need is You...

All I need is You, Lord... is You, Lord...

All I need is You...

All I need is You, Lord... is You, Lord...



Suddenly this song came to my heart and my mind.... not just once or twice... many times my heart sang this song... just this verse only... felt like nothing that I wanted... nothing that I hoped... except HIM...

Felt tired... not strong enough... just needed to be silent...

Tired to see everything around me...

Tired to see many peoples whom I couldn't understand why they were like this or like that...

Tired to hear... hearing many things which could pollute my mind... my heart...

Tired to filter it...

Felt like wanted to go to somewhere...

Somewhere which could refresh me...

Be able to meet peoples who could strengthen me... not break me...

Where there's no more politics...

Where there's no more intrigues...

but...

Where I could find it ???

Thinking... and thinking...

Seeking.... and seeking...

then...

I found it !!!!!

THERE'S NO PLACE !!!!

No place and No one in this world...

who could satisfy and fill the empty space in my life...

No one could refresh me for long time...

No one who always there for me 24 hours...

but...

There's Someone Left...

Someone Whom sometimes being forgotten...

Someone Who always watching out for us...

He is...

JESUS !!!

HE's all that I need...

The Place where...

I can run to...

I can cry out to...

I can rely on...

Someone Who can refresh me everytime I need... ^^

You are all I need, Lord...

You are all I need...

***

--All I Need--

When the day is done

And there's no one else around

While I'm lying here in bed

You're in my heart, You're in my head

You're all I need, You're all I need

There are a million voices

Calling out my name

But You're the One I want to hear

So make the others disappear

You are all I need when I'm surrounded

You are all I need if I'm by myself

You fill me when I'm empty

There is nothing else

You're all I need

When the morning comes

And Your mercy is renewed

There's a fire in my bones

I'm not afraid to go alone

You're all I need

You're all I need

The sun on my face

I hear You whisper loud

You're still the God that opens seas

Every flower, even me

You're all I need

You're all I need

I'm drawn to everything that You do

Nothing compares with You

-Bethany Dillon-

***

What do people seek???

Many times I met people who don't know what should they do in their lives... I felt slashed when heard it... very sad to know it...

I was a person who had the same problem. Fortunately it didn't take for long time till I met Jesus and received Him in my heart, my life...

Many peoples, though they are the followers of Christ don't know about their status. They just live their lives as the ordinary people. They even don't think why they are here...living in the world...!!!  Though they had been told before, they could forget it easily... because the understanding of the world has deceived them... make them couldn't see what the great things in front of them.... make them forgetting all the GREAT PURPOSES of GOD in their lives.


Reminded some of the verses in the Bible:
Ephesians 1:4 says,
" According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: "


Ephesians 2:10 says,
" For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. "

Friends, God has chosen us before the beginning of the earth... He has planned what He wants for us to do Good and Great things in Him. It's His Purpose for us. Sometimes we forget that we are His prince and princess...because He's the King of kings... wooowww!!! How precious we are, right???

Why did God create us?

Why were we born?

Why are we here?

All because of He loves us... He has BIG PLAN for us to do... and we have to fulfill it till the end of our lives in the world.

The great commandment for all the followers of Christ is:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you."

It's BIG DUTY, right ?

It's the REASON why we are here...

So...what do you seek? what do we seek? what do the people seek?

All the answers are in the Bible.

Read it...and Find it !

Maybe every person has the different way to fulfill it. It depends on their talents and gifts. But... the goal is ONE.

If you're in trouble... in confusion right now... just enter your room... kneeling and pray... seek Him and you'll find Him... and do not forget!!! read His Word...!!!

He's always there for you... be with you everytime you need Him.

He's with you in every journey you are in.

Just enjoy it...

God bless and be with you... ^^

 

But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness;

and all these things shall be added unto you
-Matthew 6:33-

 

***

-nv-

..just a note..

sitting here and thinking about the time...

can't imagine it... 

running fastly and no one can hold it...

regretting for the past things...

it's useless and no meaning...

just reminded for two things....

forgiving...

and re-planning...

forgiving...

forgiving myself for the irresponsibility of times...

forgiving others for their failures...

coz' no one could avoid any mistakes...

re-planning...

re-planning all things which neglected...

re-planning all things to do ahead...

preparing the best that i could...

today is the end of the month...

time for reflection...

time to arrange new actions...

time to give Him so much thanks...

tomorrow..is a new day in the new month...

but still in the same year... ^^

two months left for this year...

two months to run and reach the things which unreached before...

next month is the great month...

i'm coming !!!

***

-nv-

" I will get up again !!! "

A few days ago, I saw a video clip which told about a lonely boy... so silent... desperate... felt like couldn't get up anymore... (and I thought that he's in prayer)... After a few seconds, he saw a little plant growing on the fissure of the rockwall and street... He saw closely and thinking, it's so unbelievable... How come?... you know what? Through that plant, he got something... a lesson for his life... an answer of his struggle... then he said "I will get up again!"... so, he left that place, did what he should do... and it's done successfully.

The plant is like the picture above. A flower that could grow at the uncommon place. But it still grows up though needs more efforts. Sometimes, we can feel ourlives like that flower... hard to continue ourlives, facing the problem by problem... pressed by the people and difficulties of life... etc.

Yess!!! Maybe it's the FACT of ourlives... but, don't you know? It's not the TRUTH.

The TRUTH is :

"We can do all things through Christ who Strengthens us!"

"God Will Make A Way where there seems to be no way"

"God is our Shepherd, we shall not want...through the darkness of ourlives,

He's always there"

etc.



Can you imagine that How Great is our God ?!!

So... what kind of troubles do you face these days ??

How deep have you fallen ??

Come and say, "I will get up again!!!"

"Hay Problem.... I have a Great God than you!!!"

Let's fill our hearts and minds with His Truth

When we're weak, He makes us strong.

So...Get up again, friends...

He's with us.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Psalms 27:6

 
 

***

...evening...

when i saw this pic this evening...

just felt something about my life...

like the tree on this pic...

want to say many things...

but...

hard to describe...

so...

here it is

an expression about me...

^_^

***

a lesson from my past

A few days ago, I read an article in my friend's blog (little sister). She wrote about "a leader is still a human, too". That article brought me back to my past. There were many experiences between my leader and me. Sweet and sad memories were mixed... so... It has made me become Novita nowadays.

I grew in cell group since July 1995... after I followed one camp, called Leadership Boot Camp module A (Arrow). I met a couple of brother and sister...the brother was the one who became my leader. It's so great to know them. I could know many people in cell group. I felt and found a new family there. I learned to ministry in it, shaped in my characters by them, too....especially by my leader. He's a Sanguin - Choleric person with a little Melancholic temperament. As we know, a choleric person is very Dominant and good in controlling, so was he.

It's different than him, I was a calm person, not too much in speaking, to the point if I said something. So, sometimes I got a trouble with him, but now I know, it's good for me and shaped me to be a better person.

I could learn many things from him, though I had some conflicts with Him. I had a  sympathetic with him... I thought, he was a good model for me. But in other sides, after I recognized him more, I knew some of his fallings and downs... his weaknesses...  I couldn't accept it at first... why? why? and why? it's the question I  asked many times, but I learned to forgive him in many times...(through him I learned about forgiveness, cause I have a sad background with my father). But suddenly the big case came, I was shock for a while, couldn't accept it... hard to forgive him... until I could hear God spoke to me about that case...

God taught me about a total forgiveness...

God taught me about life...

God taught me about : "how perfect a leader that we see, he/she is still a human...who could be fallen and down unpredictably... he/she still needs a caring from us..."

Through that case, I learned about Leadership, too... 

Whenever I become a leader, I couldn't stand alone at the top... as a leader I still need community... need to build good relationship with the people whom I lead... 

A Leadership talks about building a relationship, become a friend for the others.

Those are what I learned from my past leader.

Through that manner, I could be a ready person when entered the working journeys...

I felt, God has prepared me before... I knew something worst than before... Facing the peoples (leaders) whom I couldn't imagine...

But.... those are we could call LIFE...

Nothing's Perfect... No one's Perfect, too...

Always need to Learn...Learn... and Learn (these're 3 words he's taught me, too)...

Learn to accept others...

Learn to forgive...

Learn to love... etc.

It's great to remember past things which bring good impacts for my life.

There's always a quiet quay behind the big storm

Life is a journey that we should enjoy...

So.. whatever journey you're in... enjoy it!!!

It will bring good experience for your life...which could teach you to be a better person.

Have a wonderful Journeys with Him....

God's with you... ^^

***

Be ST!LL...

Last Friday, my leader at office offered me something... She offered me to buy a book... it's an old book which published in 1978. It's about Discipline in Spirit (Celebration of Discipline - by Richard J. Foster). I decided to buy it. And on Saturday afternoon, my friend put it on my desk. When I saw that book, it's rather thick... I tried to open it... as usual if I buy a book, I might see the font, if it's interesting to read or not... and you know? the font of that book's small and no pictures at all.

But.. I still don't know, there's something made me eager to read it. And on that day (Saturday), I started to read it. I was going to Central Park Mal to have dinner and watch cinema with some of my friends in cell group. As long as I waited for watching cinema, I read that book. Wooow... you know? It's like finding something which had been long long time I've ever learned.

And I felt something like booster pushed me to read it more and more...

Actually.. it's a simple thing about Christianity... Discipline in Spirit... it sounds like a classic thing... but it's an important thing to do... I could say that I still do it... but I could say, too.. that I don't do it like before (like the first time I did it)...

I've just read the second chapter... All that I remember is about Meditation. Maybe it's very rare to hear it for some Christians. But, Meditation is always being a main part of Christian Worship, an important thing of preparation of Prayer Ministry. Meditation in Christianity is very different than the others.

In common, meditation is to make empty our minds to get some refreshment in our souls. But in Christianity, Meditation is to release all kind of unimportant thinking, sadness, etc.. and come nearly to His Presence, filling our hearts and minds with His Word which can bring us to be strengthened.

Actually, Meditation is very simple thing, we don't need many hard techniques to do it. Meditation is about waiting upon the Lord (Isa 40:31)... To wait upon Him isn't time to be lazy...but it's the heaviest work than other works for the people who don't do it as a habit. So, must build it as a habit at first.

It's not just a common devotion, but it's deeper than it.

In Meditation, we have to spend the special time for God... we can't do it in hurry... we need time longer than just reading a bible or praying.

When I was thinking about it... I was thinking about the quality of meditation that I have. Honestly... I've lost it... so I decided to build my discipline in waiting upon Him... Obey what He wants from me to do.

Long time I've been disobey when He woke me up at night to pray...

I just could say..."wait a moment, Pa... i still want to sleep..."

When He asked me to pray in tounge in every situation... i've ever refused to do it... "i'm sleepy, Pa.. want to relax for a while..."

But last week, something has woken me up, I couldn't sleep when I needed to sleep for along my way home... I felt something strange in my heart... it just made me pray in tounge... I didn't understand what I felt... I just obeyed what the Spirit guided me to do... prayed in tounge... and suddenly, I saw in my spirit... I saw my friend and her mom... reminded how she couldn't sleep for a few nights... reminded about her mom which had been from a place to seek a fortune... I saw that her mom brought something from that place.. it's a kind of little amulet... So... i told my friend about what I saw, and it's true.. Then, I asked her to pray more for her family and home.

After I experienced it, God told me... "Vi... I want to make you know more and more things... but I need your time.. just give Me your time.. just a few hours.."

I said to Him that I wanted to do it...

It's my prayer I've ever said... "Don't make me feel comfort until I find You"

It sounds extreme, maybe... but it is what I experience these days... getting out of my comfort zone and all of my tired.

Thanks God for my experiences You've given me these days.

Be StiLL... it's what I've to do...

In spirit and mind.

***

Lovely Vacation

After waiting for long long weeks... it came the day to leave all of my office activities for a while... I've planned it since June 2010... when someone told me about the cheap tickets of a flight... I booked it directly on that day without too much thinking... planned to fly to Surabaya, the city of heroes, the city of memories... I planned to depart Jakarta on Aug 13th and come back on Aug 18th, 2010...

It's crazy and venture thing, I thought... because I didn't ask permit to my leader first... just planned what I wanted... arranged the steps to do before going to the vacation... ^^ (including how to ask the permit from my leader)... hahaha... ^^

Well... all steps were done... "It's time for vacation!!! to meet all of my beloved friends in Surabaya...", I said....

On Aug 13th, i asked permit to go home earlier to take my baggage at home before going to the airport. Arrived in Juanda Airport at 21.30, took the baggage and waited for Linda. She picked me up with Hendro...then we ate noodle of Makassar, dropped Hendro to his home, then went to Linda's house. Woow... I felt great to be there again. It's like a dream... hahaha...

Aug 14th... had breakfast at Bu Rudy Resto... Rice + Empal (spiced and fried chunk of beef) + Crispy Shrimp... then went to Pasar Genteng, Pasar Atum and ITC Surabaya... I tried eating Bubur Madura at Pasar Atum... it's too sweet for me...

At night, Linda took me to have dinner with her cell group at Food Festival - Pakuwon City... woowww... i liked it very much... I'd planned to eat Mie Kluntung Pak Mo... and it was done...plus Ote-ote Porong.

Glad to meet Kayla when I was still at Food-Fest... Longing to meet her... and surprise!!!

She came, too...^^

The Journey of Food was continued at that night...

Kue Pancong Pasar Atum & Sate Klopo

Aug 15th... going to Sunday Service at Mojoarum... woooww... met many peoples there... welcomed by them...  After that, Veve and Lanny took me to Galaxy Mal... met dr. Chris and Fam... treated by them at Food Court... ^^

The journey was continued at the evening with Linda, Joy, Yori... rather long way to West Surabaya... D'Loop and G-Walk...

Aug 16th... at 8pm Linda dropped me at Mc-D Basuki Rahmat before she went to office...  then 9.30pm, i went to Tunjungan Plaza... as I planned before, I wanted to work, online at Starbucks... hehehehe... ^^

I thought that I'd be alone all day long... but my friends... Lia & Merry came to TP and we had lunch together at food court on that day....

Linda picked me up to have dinner with Mei Hong and sis. Hanna (the elder of GBI Kristus Pencipta)... Unfortunately, I forgot to take the pic of Soto Cak Har... it's delicious Soto I've ever eaten... After that, we went to Pasar Atum to eat Es Kacang Ijo (small green bean ice) and Kue Pancong... hehehe... =p 

Aug 17th... The time to play with cute Kayla and Sheena... I bought a rabbit doll for Kayla, and a few days ago I heard from her mother and father that she loves to hug it when going to sleep... ^^ how lucky I am... hahaha... ^^  I had lunch with ko Sanyoe and Finley at Padang Resto, then went to Alwyn's house to see his new baby....

After that, Linda and I went to Galaxy Mal to meet sis.Lois... then had our last dinner

at Jade Imperial Palace...

That night, we went home earlier than before... because I had to wake up earlier, because my flight at 6pm on Aug 18th. Wooww... great vacation, though I felt not enough... sad to leave that city and friends... but I hope, I will come back again... ^^

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it's a new day...

Every day is a  New Day...

New day with new  Experience...

New experience with new  Challenge...

New challenge with...

New  Enthusiasm...

with

New  Faith... Hope...and  Love...

- nv -

the other side of LOVE

Love is Kind

Think about Love... Think about Giving...

Giving... it's a simple thing..

but... sometimes...

it's hard to do..

What is to give?

it doesn't just talk about money...

it's about everything...

times..

thoughts..

responsibilities..

even our lives..

God has proved it

He gave His life for us...

so we might have eternal life...

the beautiful exchange

His life for we might live

What could we do?

do something... everything...

as we can do our best for Him...

Start to give what we can give...

caring for others...

times to share...

ideas...

creativities...

money...

and everything that we can say in one word only

LOVE...

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