Vietnam - Cambodia Part 1

As I told before on my last posting that September was my happiest month, especially for this year... It's because I did a long trip to two different countries... They were Vietnam and Cambodia... ^^

at Mekong River - Vietnam

It started from May, when my aunt asked me if I wanted to join in her trip with her friends (co-workers) at office... She said to me that she wanted to pay the tickets then I'd pay the rest.

I agreed with her and started to arrange my schedule, then informed my leader to ask his permit for my leaving... I was surprised by every little thing I could face...

My trip was started on Sept 10 - Sept 15...
I went to Ho Chi Minh and Phnom Penh City... It was a nice trip in Ho Chi Minh because I had a handsome Indonesian tour guide...hahahaha... but he is younger than me...his name is John :p even though he is younger, but his face didn't show that he's younger... wkwkwkwk... :p (you can see the pic below)

John and I @ Chu Chi Tunnel

Here's the Diary...

Monday, Sept 10

We went to airport at afternoon because the flight was about 5pm... it took for about three hours until we arrived at Tan So Nhat airport - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon City).

After our arrival for about 9pm, we changed our US Dollars into Dong first (Currency of Vietnam). Fortunately I had some Dong from Jakarta, so I just changed my US$ 40 = Dong 832.000.

After that, we went out then met with John, our tour guide who comes from Indonesia. It's a great opportunity to meet him, because we could speak Bahasa freely... hahahaha...

He took us to have dinner at an old Vietnamese resto. We ate a Vietnamese traditional food, pho (read: ve)... it's a rice noodle with vegetables and meat, where you can choose beef or chicken... at that night I chose chicken....

it's my chicken pho with cakwe (fried dough), chili, lemon, fish oil and Vietnamese tea

Next activity after finishing our dinner, we went to the Hotel... we stay at Tan Hai Long Hotel, near Ben Thanh Market... what a strategic place it was... ^^

Here is the story about my first night in Ho Chi Minh City....

~tbc~

nice fellowship in Sept 2012

This September was my happiest one for along my journeys...

One of moments I had in September was a fellowship with my mentee and a friend from another city...

It was right a day after I came back from Vietnam and Cambodia...it's on Sunday afternoon...

We ate at Pasta de Waraku resto... It was fun and nice fellowship moment which I could enjoy...
Even though I had to pay extra effort to get there (Grand Indonesia Mal), but it was valuable, I think...
After we had the food, I continued one on one discipleship with my mentee, Nerissa... We moved from Grand Indonesia to Taman Anggrek Mal.... ^_^

Full day it was...but i was excited... ^_^
Waiting for the next nice moments...

~novitz~

something good...

Sometimes we can't avoid some bad things or what we do not like happen in our lives....

We have to face it even though some unpredictable responses are appeared....

But actually, beyond our minds, there is something good for us through the things which are allowed to be happened in us.

I have one experience this year...

On my latest post, I wrote about Respecting Authorities which is very important for us to have as our habit...

It happened when I joint in a teamwork a few months ago.

It became a hardship when I faced it...but it changed into a joyful thing when I knew the goodness behind for my life.

I could learn many from that experience... I learned to trust my new authority even though it was just a temporary for along the training was held... I learned how to have and build a good teamwork where there were many weaknesses in every person. I learned how to have a humble heart despite of the fact couldn't support me...

More than those things above, I can have something which people can't buy and people can't steal it from my life... It's a new good character!

When I tried to share that experience to people after I won it, a few weeks later, there was a news for me... Even though it wasn't a happy thing or it related to my ministry that I had to do... I got something good which could bring me to enter my new and my bigger experience.

It was about a duty to serve people in a training camp in Medan. It will take for about one week for me to be in that city.

It was beyond my thoughts!!!

But it was real!!!

Beside that, last month, a present came for me.

It looks like a long long trip whereas it's usually hard thing for me to leave the office because of my busy job.

And two months ago, I just took a leave for my one week holiday in Vietnam and Cambodia.

I thought it would be impossible to have a permit from my leader.

But I was surprised when my leader said that I would be allowed to go. Woow!!!

It's something good, right?

Something good which happened after a process which I have won...

Maybe we often think that process is a hardship...

Maybe we often avoid it...or

Maybe we often fail to pass it...

But right now I can change my mind about "process"...

I can say that a process is an interesting and challenging thing....

It depends on our minds, i think...

So...what do you think about it?

If you think as how I think, you'll get that "something good" in your life...

Something good that you will not find easily... and can't be stolen from you...

Because it is about your Character...

~novitz~