Chicken Soup for blogging souls

Sudah lama tidak mengisi blog gara-gara tugas yang lumayan menumpuk akhir-akhir ini. Blog ini juga isinya suka-suka jarang ada yang baca kecuali orang-orang yang aku kasi tau :p hehe..tapi koq sampai sekarang juga belum bosen juga ya...beneran lohhh. Eh kadang bosen juga koq, kadang kalau sudah lama tidak pernah ngeblog bisa jadi karena berbagai alasan.
1. lupa (kalau punya blog)
2. banyak kerjaan
3. tidak punya ide
4. tidak punya internet
5. banyak hal lain yang lebih asyik daripada ngeblog
6. main ke rumah teman
7. tidak kurang kerjaan buat ngisi blog...(ups)
8. kesimpulannya aku memang males mengisi saja koq...hehehe (^-^)

Aku suka baca blog-blog orang terutama blog yang memakai bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa lain yang minimal aku bisa mengerti. Biar kadang aku tidak kenal orangnya tetapi asyik juga membaca blog mereka yang seringkali berisi kehidupan sehari-harinya. Jadi baca buku harian orang tuh ga selalu jelek koq apalagi kalau yang punya sudah menaruhnya di blog, that is what a blog for, right? Siapa tahu dari baca-baca blog orang trus dapet ide buat ngisi blog sendiri. Contohnya seperti sekarang, ini gara-gara habis baca blognya orang yang tanggal terakhir ngepostnya sudah bulan November 2005 (apa hubungannya coba?).



Bikin blog mempunyai beberapa manfaat yang langsung maupun tidak langsung.
Manfaat yang langsung misalnya:

1. ga kalah sama teman yang punya blog


2. punya website gratis tidak usah membayar walaupun isinya tulisan; yang penting punya


3. pelampiasan pelajaran microsoft front page yang cuma bisa dipreview dan dibuat ujian tetapi tidak bisa di upload ke internet (perhatian: ini tidak berlaku buat murid-murid IT dan anak-anak yang tahu bagaimana upload website dari server)


4. mengetahui apa itu yang disebut kode-kode html, bagaimana tulisan yang tidak bisa dibaca dengan berbagai aturannya bisa menghasilkan tulisan berbagai bentuk dan warna, menampilkan gambar, dan layout-layout yang lain (buat yang ambil skin dari blogskin kaya saya minimal jadi tahu bagaimana copy paste kode dari notepad ke template)
   

Manfaat tidak langsungnya seperti di bawah ini:

1. Mengetahui apa yang dinamakan dengan "blog", biar tidak dibilang gaptek


2. Ketika membuat resume bisa dicantumkan sebagai computer skill dan interest


3. Apalagi kalau kerja di JCC terus disuruh buat website minimal sudah ada pengalaman copy paste dan buat website


4. Buat tempat curhat, kalau tidak ada orang yang mau mendengarkan kamu lebih baik tulis di blog siapa tahu ada orang salah tulis alamat bisa buka blog kamu, membaca ceritamu dan memberi komentar.


5. menambah kenalan dengan mencantumkan alamat blog di blognya orang atau di mana saja bisa masukin link


6. meningkatkan kemampuan berbahasa Inggris dan Indonesia, walau hanya melalui tulisan. Well, practice makes perfect right
   


7. siapa tahu dengan meningkatnya kemampuan menulis bisa menemukan jati diri sebagai penulis atau profesi lain yang ada hubungannya dengan ketik-mengetik dan tulis-menulis seperti sekretaris.
   
8. olahraga jari
9. Dan tentu saja supaya bos di kantor tidak mengira kita hanya bermain-main di kantor ketika kerjaan tidak banyak :p
   

Demikian dulu karena sekarang sudah saatnya berberes pulang...

Finding A True Love

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
I Corinthians 13:4-8a (NIV)

This verse describes the characteristics of true love. These qualities can certainly be found in the person of Jesus Christ, and they can be found in all truly loving relationships. The problem with trying to "find" love in our dating lives, is that too often we don't look for these characteristics. Rather we look at physical appearance, popularity, or wealth. These are not the qualities that God looks at and neither should we.

"But the LORD said to Samuel, '...The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.'"
I Samuel 16:7b (NIV)

Love is best seen as devotion and action, not an emotion. Love is not exclusively based on how we feel. Certainly our emotions are involved, but they cannot be our only criteria for love. True devotion will always lead to action - true love.

"Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with ACTIONS and in truth."
I John 3:18 (NIV)

Christ was devoted to us enough to give his own life for us (Romans 5:8), even when he didn't feel like it (Matthew 26:39).

Sex is not love! Our culture has taught us that sex and love are one in the same. This is a lie. Sex is a beautiful God-given activity that is wonderful when practiced within the boundaries of a Biblical marriage. Sex is the completion of the binding of two people within Biblical marriage; it is a God-given gift.

PRE-MARITAL SEX

Because premarital sex is not love, it only leads to pain and disappointment for those who are seeking that love. The Bible says that when two people are married, they become one flesh (Ephesians 5:31). Sex is consummation of that union. When two people break off their relationship after having sex, it is like ripping apart flesh. This is why two teenagers will struggle so much and become so dependent on those they give their bodies to. In light of I Corinthians 13:4-8 (above), it is easy to see that premarital sex is not patient, it is not kind, it does not protect, it is self-seeking. It is not love!

IDENTIFYING TRUE LOVE

We can only identify true love and know when we have found it, based on the Word of God. When we match our relationships up to what the Bible says that love is -- and we are honestly prepared to make a life-long commitment to that person -- then we can say that we are truly "in love." The three keys to that statement are:

We have to...

1. look at the Word of God
2. be completely honest with ourselves
3. understand the level of commitment that comes with true love

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Me v.s. myself

(my mobile alarm is ringing at 7.30 am)

"No, I can't make it"

"cannot wake up, too dizzy"

"I am so sick and weak"

(seeing the sky behind the curtains) "the weather is not good neither am I"
(putting hand on my forehead) "even worse now I've got fever" (actually it is the heater that creates the room temperature higher not me)

This is the recent event that mostly happens in my morning. Later on I finally realize it's all about "willingness" (and a little bit of support). I often feel so dizzy when I get up in the morning while mumbling why the night has ended. I feel like want to throw up and want to stay longer in my bed. But later in the afternoon after I start working, hey, the sickness is gone. Well, I guess I'm having morning sickness syndrome.

Why is it called morning sickness syndrome? Frankly, because I am not pregnant or even have a low tension blood or anemia or other deasease it is just kind of imaginative sickness that was created by those neurons in right brain because I'm too lazy to move my ass and go to work.

As what my dad and my friend said "laziness" is an illness. I am lazy yet pretty slow and sloppy.However as my friend said there is a way to overcome this--> by having a strong will and a goal to reach so that everyone can move on with their life and speed up the work to reach what they're dreaming on. The one who can give it is no one but themselves alone. Yes, it is so right that YOUR BIGGEST ENEMY is YOURSELF...wanna bet??

No wonder when people lost to themselves, they easilly give up on everything because the "self" always kept telling them that "there is no way-out" or "it is too far from possible" and they are FOLLOWING their thinkings.
In some rare cases or many movie stories the person ends up by having double personality (watch fighting club or me myself and Irene).
In normal case, people who start losing to themselves would likely have a similar syndrome as I do. And in my case when myself is over me, I decided to call my boss and skip the work that day. Not talking about my morning sickness syndrome. To put it simply, the symptoms can be anything that sounds negative andwhen you DECIDE to believe it is true and it happens just like that.

Dear...please be careful to what you decide to believe....
There are songs with lyrics "miracle happens when you believe" (OST Princess Diary), "There can be miracles when you believe..."(OST Prince of Egypt--Whitney & Mariah Carey). So in other way around, it is also not impossible that "tragedy and sh** do happen when you believe."

(Time to go home, I'll continue this next time :p :p LOL).