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).

Humans and Cables are similar

Humans' relationships are viewed very complicated to understand. For example, there is a doctor is falling in love with his nurse, while one of his colleagues, a female doctor, has a crush on him. On the other hand the female doctor is still having a problem with her ex-husband who is actually the brother of the nurse. They are still arguing about who is responsible to pay the debt for the house after divorcing because they don't love each other anymore. The ex-couple bought the house some months ago (of course before they committed divorce) and have not completely paid. In order to cover the loss, the owner of the house is advertising the house to someone else, while keep asking the couple to pay the price plus the damage cost of the furniture that the couple broke during their fighting. And so on... the story is still continuing until all the problems are solved.

So the complexity of human's relationships are, so are those cables on my desk. I just moved my laptop from my little table to my desk. For having everything done, first thing that I should do is taking off all cables and adaptor from my laptop. Some information, my laptop is connected with a pair of speaker, a wireless mouse, an external drive, and some USBs such as my digital camera and the card reader. It did take time to take off those cables from the main devices and then I should carefully loose the knots one by one since they bound each other and create some complex knots. I did not create them in that way when the first time I attached those USB devices to my laptop. All I did is just connecting them one by one to my laptop and leaving them there until I want to move them to another place. Now everything is settled at their new places, I tried to arrange the cables won't make the same difficult knots again but it seems impossible I guess.

What I can see from these two phenomenon is that The Almighty Creator did not create us to have problems with each other as I hope my cables will not bind each other again after some times. His plan may force us to go through some difficulties but the goal is not for harming us.

All God has done was placing us in certain places and blessing us with free will. Then, we start knowing someone and that's how a relationship begins, then the someone knows someone else who is close related to us and so on until problems may come up coloring our relationship. That's how our life is. Then it is our own will to face or to run from the problem.

What important here is how to get the problem solved before we move to somewhere else or with other hand I can say "run away from the problem."

Perhaps some problems will be disappeared soon and swapped away as the time goes by as we have moved to a new place. Unfortunately most of them will not disappeared just like that. As long as the cable's knots have not been untied, it is impossible to place the devices properly in the new place. For sure, it is heavy and troublesome to carry my laptop at once together with all USB devices without taking them off from my laptop. Therefore, I think no one can go peacefully while carrying so many problems.
"Life is for fighting and overcoming the problems not for running from them."

The Realist Terrorist--PR nya Lea

This terrorist stuff suddenly reminds me of my assignment from my political economy class when I was in Sweden. We were obligated to summarize an article every week. So this is one of those.

Terrorism is a realist action that is really well-planned. A lot of people think that terrorism is an action that is done by some crazy people who are out their mind. But the fact it's really a realist action that needs plan just like business campaign.

According to Alan Dershowitz's article "Why Terrorism Works" Terrorism is an entirely rational choice to achieve a political objective.It is indeed a decision based on logical processes.

Palestina is one of the best example of country who has high chance of success in terrorism. Palestian terrorists take the distinction between outcome and process into account.

From that point of view, we can conclude that terrorists have some rational Characteristic as follows:
Purposiveness
Terrorists do their action as a purposeful activity

Logic
Calculate the sufficient harm that may happen against the power of target places in order to accomplish its objectives

Timing
When they are going to do the attack depands on changing strategic circumstances

Target selection
Terrorist groups choose their target based on the political objectives they aim to

Learning
Modern terrorist generation learn the procedure from their formers

Well I don't like politic things but it's not bad to know some interesting facts about it. :) :) After all it seems that we'll never make the world a better place to live because the world is getting worse from time to time. All we can do is waiting until the world time is up and before that happens let's concerning about the way we make our life worth to be judged in the next life.

Death Note

Before those Indonesian police indentified that the Bali bomb accidents were using suicide-bombing method, I was thinking if I were the doer, it would be easy to remove myself from the criminal list by exploding myself then the case is finish. Just a crazy thinking of mine when I heard that one of the victims was found only his head and leg. Anyway, now the police think the way I have ever thought too. Cool isn't it? I laughed loudly when a few moments after I finished my imagination, the "thing" became real.

This situation reminds me of a manga that I am recently reading right now on Net. Perhaps some of you also know this manga called DEATHNOTE. Perhaps, if the shinigami or the death god is really giving his death note to a human, this somehow could explain the cause of Bali bombing 2.

If Kira had been exist, he would have remembered the faces and written the names of those three criminals whose heads were found by police in three spots of the bombing accidents. Kira can control the last action of someone he wishes to kill. All he has to do is only writing the cause of deaths and time then the person will do exactly what is written and die at the mentioned time and date.
Thus those three bombers had ever met Kira somewhere and after their name have been written, they all together went to Bali with three packs of dynamites. In a certain place, those three finally said goodbye to each other and unconsciously walked to three different places to do their final farewell action and then they blew up themselves. No one will know who is the main actor behind those events, the police will keep searching and thinking those three are the criminals but they will never know the bombers were no one but ordinary people who met their bad luck, and soon the case will be closed without any solutions. In the end, Kira will be the one who laughs at those scenes and enjoys reading the news day by day while thinking of another terrorism plan.

AARRGGGHHHH....stop dreaming!!!! I do hate those terrorists, especially if the terrorist is a native who terrors his/her own country only for getting attention and sensation. Real terrorists are not that stupid, they have clear (mostly political) objectives and a spesific target, which may endanger their country.
Stupid terrorists only know how to imitate world terrorist by bombing their own country because they want to be famous and when they get caught and judged they use regional reason "god's will" as the only background and happy to die for their god. Then all I can say is just die and you'll find how's life after dead is when you'll meet the real judgement. "Peace man!!"

Apakah dia yang kamu cari?

Bagaimana meyakinkan diri kita kalau pasangan kita sungguh-sungguh atau sekedar merayu dengan kata-kata manisnya untuk sekedar menenangkan dan menyenangkan hati kita???
Simak penuturan Paul Joanndes, PhD , penulis Guide to Getting It On berikut:

• Pendengar yang baik. Saat Anda bicara, matanya akan fokus pada Anda. Setiap kata disimaknya dengan seksama hingga Anda tak perlu repot mengulang. Oh, ini pertanda bagus!
• Tepat waktu. Saat kencan atau janji menjemput, dia bersedia datang lebih awal atau minimal tepat waktu. Minimal kalau terlambat sekian menit, ada pemberitahuan sebelumnya
• Cinta itu tak memaksa. Tubuh Anda sedikit melar dan dia mulai protes? Idih, maaf ya. Sepanjang pertambahan bobot tubuh masih dalam batas kewajaran, jangan biarkan dia berkomentar panjang lebar. Atau tolak saja deh
• Bahasa tubuh. Ini pertanda natural yang hampir 'tak pernah salah'. Jika dia dapat menghargai Anda, sikap dan perilakunya membuat Anda nyaman, hmmm…mungkin si dia inilah sosok yang selama ini Anda cari. So, tunggu apa lagi?

Quoted from www.hanyawanita.com

Good Morning...

Hello, osashiburi desu....it's been almost two months since I started my placement. Briefly these are what I do during my working days.

07.00: My mobile alarm rings, it plays my favourite song, Waltz from Suneohair. I grab my mobile and turn it into snooze mode for another half an hour.

08.00-08.30: Finally, I wake up after having snoozed my alarm twice. Lazily I get up, wash my face and brush my teeth, then turn on my laptop to watch anime. While watching I prepare myself to get ready to go.

08.40: I'm in a rush, putting everything into my bag, finishing my breakfast, locking my doors and waiting for the lift coming. Sometimes I forget my cellphone and go & back to pick them for another 2 minutes.

08.52: If I'm on time, this is the first metro 51 that I could catch.

09.05: I'm 5 minutes late for many many times ^^; I greet my boss who has always been there when I come and already busy with her bunch of works and she greets me back "OHAYOU!!" I don't know why but sometimes she reminds me of my mother who is always busy every morning with her cash book and calculator when I just woke up from my dream.

10.00-11.00: I'm working in front of my computer, checking email, filing invoices, updating the seminar list, having fun with dreamweaver and not forgetting to answer the phone and also prepare myself a cup of tea and some snacks...yummy. I'm gaining some weights in the last 2 months. I hardly bring snacks to the office actually, but there is often someone has oishii snacks to be shared.

11.30: Sleeepyyyy...sleepy...and my head is a bit dizzy after staring at my monitor for the last 2.5 hours. I'm thinking about my project but haven't got anymore idea. I open some online games and news page or relax myself by reading some interesting books available in my office. I've found some interesting book about Rijkmuseum, Rembrandts collections, and of course Van Gogh. Lately, I'm still reading Van Gogh book, huhu how I love this painter since I knew him from my childhood tabloid 11 years ago and now I'm in his country HOLLAND and had got a chance to visit the museum.

12.30: Lunch break!! Most of the time I'm too lazy to move my butt somewhere else when I want to save some euros:p so, I stay in the office and make myself a cup of soup and reading some manga online. Unless, I will go downstair and go to Burger King then enjoy myself to be alone with a crispy chicken menu.

13.30-16.00: Time to go back, so I go to the post office to pick up mails then go back to my office on the 9th floor. Sometimes, my boss asks me to go to the bank or to other company (in the same building of course) to pick up something or deliver some messages from her. At least I can move my body a little bit. It's not good sitting too long and waiting for jobs when you've got nothing to do or no phonecalls. So I go downstairs and go around the building from one tower to another tower or find a shortcut and finally meet people.

16.00-17.00: Horrayy!!! one hour to go...I become so exciting finishing my work. Then around 16.45 I wash my dishes and prepare myself to go home. Sometimes by the end of the day, I have a little chat with my boss, she likes telling stories about recent news, Japan, her hometown, her son, and some stuff she's doing recently, not seldom too she sometimes asks about me and my country and I love to listen to her since I'm missing my mom and I have no one to talk at home :) :) hehehe...

Ok I think that's all for now...I hope I can successfully manage to finish this placement well even now I'm still not good in answering phone and sometimes feel nervous to greeting strangers hihihihi...once there was a mind-illness guy came to the office and he kept talking to me for more than 45 minutes.

Believe it or not...

When I told them about the cause of Mandala Airline's accident, some said it's so stupid, other said they had known it already, but not few said that I told a lie....but it's true that the cause of the airplane crash was the overweight of "2 tons of duren fruits!!" that were being carried unconstantly inside the plane...nah, can you believe it?... (have no idea...no comment) (-__-#)

Kalau saatnya tiba

Ketika saat itu tiba tak seorangpun pernah menduganya, tak seorangpun bisa mencegahnya. Saat itu adalah saat yang telah ditetapkan-Nya.

Orang berkata akhir jaman ah itu sih masih jauh. Nyatanya kemarin malam tak terjadi apa-apa, hari ini pun matahari bersinar dengan cerahnya. Banyak orang takut akan datangnya akhir jaman, terlebih setelah mereka membayangkan apa yang akan terjadi seperti dinubuatkan dalam kitab suci dan apa yang mereka dengar dari para tetua tentang datangnya hari itu.

Tetapi ketika hari itu belum datang, pesta pora masih berlangsung, kejahatan masih di mana-mana, tempat-tempat prostitusipun semakin menjamur, karena mumpung masih bisa bersenang-senang sebelum hari itu datang dan mungkin datangnya masih bertahun-tahun lagi.

Benarkah demikian? Mengesampingkan hari kiamat itu sendiri, berapa banyak kah orang yang memikirkan berapa lama lagi dia dapat hidup? Orang kaya bisa membayar dokter paling ahli tetapi dia tidak dapat membeli kesehatannya. Demikian pula memiliki kesehatan yang baik pun tidak menjamin dirinya akan hidup lebih lama daripada orang yang sudah divonis hidupnya tinggal 1 bulan lagi. Mungkin orang-orang yang sudah divonis itu harus merasa lebih bersyukur karena minimal mereka bisa mengira-ngira kapan waktunya di bumi akan berakhir.

Kejadian Tsunami Natal lalu dan jatuhnya Pesawat Mandala baru-baru ini seharusnya sudah cukup memberi sebuah pelajaran beharga bahwa hidup ini bukan kita yang menentukan lamanya. Manusia boleh berusaha tetapi yang Di Ataslah yang menentukan.

Kalau pesawat itu tidak jatuh...

Sang pilot pesawat mungkin kemarin sudah merayakan ulang tahun anaknya yang ke-5

Novi sang pramugari akan kembali ke rumahnya dengan berseri-seri mempersiapkan pernikahannya di bulan November

Pak Hendramon tidak harus kehilangan toko dan kedua anak balitanya, dll.

Peristiwa-peristiwa di atas sekarang hanyalah sebuah andai-andai belaka.

Bagi yang masih diberi waktu untuk hidup janganlah memikirkan hari kiamat itu masih jauh karena kalau seseorang meninggal maka waktunya di bumi ini juga sudah berakhir. Lebih baik memikirkan bagaimana kita hidup hari ini, karena tak seorangpun tahu apa yang akan terjadi di hari esok sehingga ketika waktunya tiba kita tidak didapati sedang melakukan sesuatu yang mengakibatkan penyesalan selamanya.

human's time is limited, GOD's time is for eternity