February 2012
4 posts
“We can’t judge people based on their actions and ourselves based on our...”
How To Save a Life
Gem of a Christian movie. It’s not a simplistic Disney-like christian movie, where there are only protagonist and antagonist characters. It rings truer to our day-to-day life than others i’ve seen.
To Save a Life (2009): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270286/
January 2012
8 posts
“Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered.”
– Giorgio Armani (via musingsinfemininity)
A Little Honesty
Here’s Zach Hunter, a 20 years old lad i truly adore. He’s an author, the youngest slavery abolitionist at the age of 12, the founder of “Loose change to loosen chains”. I adore people who get it all figured out and strive for the good cause.
But here’s a heart-warming post written by him. Because it’s bare honest, because in our strive for perfection,...
No Freedom Without Law
Freedom cannot exist in the absence of law. People living in a state of anarchy are not free. They live under the random tyranny of any warlord, gang, or predator who can overpower them. They also live within the prison of their own distrust for their fellow men. A code of clear, fairly administered laws enhances our ability to trust, and cooperate with, people we don’t know personally.
Of...
Reality Bites
Have you ever been dumbfounded by the bias of our own view of self? The very traits you think you posses may to an extent be imaginary.
It’s those times when you may think you’re living life to the full, freely feeling and embracing the joys and pains life has to offer, but in fact you zoned out most of your life events, you walk without feeling anything, too consumed with your own...
Negative emotions
Could it be that anger is just a disguised sadness? It’s easier to be angry than to be sad. Sadness requires people to accept situations without blaming anyone, not even themselves, accept that things are just the way they are and sometimes it hurts. Sadness requires us to be vulnerable, at the receiving end of hurt, not actively repulsively angry.
Sometimes people don’t know what...
“Nothing more natural than that kids should care about celebrity. It’s not ‘growing up too fast’, it’s proof of immaturity.”
- Alain de Botton
He can be very snarky sometimes. Tsk tsk!
December 2011
8 posts
Stuffing the year to an envelope.
Year-end motto: Recuérdame and Be attentive!
Dear December, don’t end just yet, i’m not done feasting on your festivity. Passing of yet another year. Many things have evolved as twelve months swift by.
Let’s take a last glance to 2011 and decipher the shapes in the clouds of experiences, victories, and mistakes. Right now everything still seems rather fuzzy and arbitrary. But...
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via troubled)
Laughter sounds the same in every language...
a-ladys-findings:
As different as we all are, laughter is one element that we all have in common. We are all incredibly different and yet we are incredibly the same. Laughter has the ability to bridge the gap and connect us. It can cross any language and cultural barrier. We are all born with a sense of humor and the ability to laugh. It is a free gift to all. Enjoy it, let it sound, give it...
You can close your eyes
Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is slowly rising So this old world must still be spinning ‘round And I still love you So close your eyes You can close your eyes, it’s all right I don’t know no love songs And I can’t sing the blues anymore But I can sing this song And you can sing this song When I’m gone It won’t be long before another day We...
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be...”
– Marilyn Monroe
Cornerstone
Fleeting happiness is amazing. It decorates days like twinkling lights to a Christmas tree, icing to a cake. There’s beauty that brings happiness in everyone and everything, if we pause to enjoy it.
Although when it comes to matters of greater importance, fleeting happiness can’t suffice. True joy has to come from something of more worth and substance. Cornerstone of our joy has to...
Gasp!
The Great Gatsby is being made into a movie (again). The casts are perfect!! Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy, Tobey Maguire as Nick. I can’t name better suited actors than these.
I am bursting with excitement. Here’s the first few lines from the book, to escort the mounting expectation.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice...
November 2011
9 posts
My dad
Something my dad post on facebook. It’s just soooo mercilessly and incurably him. -_-‘
rasa SYUKUR … merubah … pil pahit menjadi coklat … batu kerikil menjadi permata … beban menjadi anugerah … tugas kewajiban menjadi pahala … kok bisa? … hehehe … coba saja dialami sendiri ;) …
GRATITUDE … changes … bitter pills into...
Collectibles
Sometimes, happiness comes with strings; strings of worry and unsettled feeling, string of faithlessness, the disbelief that happiness would last, that we can be truly happy, and that we are deserving of happiness.
Sometimes, question comes to mind if pure bliss exist. Though after wrestling with myself, i do believe it does. Pure bliss comes in the form of peace, that transcends all...
:D
Oh, how quickly they grow up. Just eight years ago, Eragon was an orphaned farm boy, and his inventor was a home-schooled wunderkind. Today, the dragon rider possesses immortality, a light-up sword and enough magic to levitate Hogwarts.
- Yvonne Zipp Washington Post; November 8, 2011
Seven days in Sunny June - Jamiroquai
My happy...
Snippets of Joy
Birthday week was so much fun, it was almost a crime. My favorite part of turning twenty one was being surrounded by friends, surprise dinner, hangouts, and late night text messages.
It’s a privilege to be able to connect with someone above the tangible level. A good friend of mine gave me a decorated empty box as a gift. It wasn’t a prank, it’s a box to contain dreams,...
Life's little answer.
Interesting how i was pondering about it and stumbled into this. Godsent! Haha
Ich erinnerte mich, wie lächerlich sein Akzent klingt.
But today, alles ist gut.
October 2011
5 posts
dreams
Been joyful nowadays. A client asked me what is my ‘calling’, i answered ‘writing’ without a blink. It’s a long forgotten dream.
I’m a walking vessel, collecting experiences, being surrounded by events, exploring unexplored emotions and hard logic, collecting joys, tears, and perspectives, acquiring characters, expertise and virtues. I imagine all these will...
Of Simon in 'Lord of The Flies'
Simon is a character who represents peace and tranquillity and positivity. He is in tune with the island, and often experiences extraordinary sensations when listening to its sounds. He loves the nature of the island. He is positive about the future.
Simon’s death represents the loss of truth, innocence, and common sense. Simon is most commonly interpreted as a Christ figure because of his...
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Happiness through the lens. :) →
September 2011
7 posts
A doubt comes to lie at the back of my mind, that i’ll offer you me and you’ll politely decline. So i hasten to mute it, i shout and rebuke it, ”Away!”. - BFL
A cup of laughter in the morning
Chris: Hey
me: hi..
Chris: Why dot dot
me: why not ....................
Chris: So many dots!
me: ehh, i was hoping you'd count and be like dot dot dot dot dot dot according to the number of my dots
Chris: Dot X 20 dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot
me: attaboy!
A Sunday
Watched a monologue about The Life of Jesus, insightful though a little comical for my taste. Busy tending and talking with guests, i enjoyed the feeling of hosting an event surprisingly. Meddling in the hectic crowd.
Attended World’s Animal Day Event, saw the highest number of pets in one place in my life. Conversation led me to realize maybe i’m not a listener enough, not sensitive...
Deranging Complacency
Little blessings that blow the lukewarmness away. A piece i took from Leadership teaching series by Brian Houston.
As leaders, we are all about helping people, but there is a potential danger for our churches to become hospitals where we nurse people’s wounds instead of actively working towards people becoming healed and whole.
There are those people who walk into our churches broken, but...
Miley Cyrus: Rumor has it Daniel Radcliffe...
Live Big!
A little too proud of my childhood buddy!
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/natalia-rialucky-takes-a-stand-for-women/463265
Reminds me to deny my egotistical desire to live for a bigger cause, and be very much outward looking. :)
Detachment
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. But the hills that we climb were just seasons out of time.
All you hear is the music, beauty stands before you, love comes back around again, It’s a carousel, my friend!
Seasons come and go, sometimes so do people. Sad thing is we don’t have to be physically separated to be detached from one another.
Reminder to be grateful of...
August 2011
12 posts
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Love for Indie
Let’s get rich and buy our parents homes in the south of France, Let’s get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance, Let’s get rich and build a house on the mountain making everybody look like ants, from way up there, you and i, you and i.
Life is oh-so-light-and-beautiful illuminated under these cheery whimsical lights. I’m glad in the midst of...
If your hopes scatter like the dust across your track, I’ll be the moon that shines on your path.
The sun may blind our eyes, I’ll pray to the skies above for snow to fall on the Sahara.
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Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die We will look our waker in the eye Raise a flag and then drink to your health Who is he that can comfort himself? We are wondering where the wild wind blows We are happy here ‘cause the wild wind knows What we are Orphans, kingdoms
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Post from August 31, 2009
Much needed reminder to self about the big picture and not to be distracted by minute things.. Found it in my old blog.. :’)
Time of Your Life
It all started with me having a small talk with Amanda yesterday at church. It was about plans/dreams, the future. For now, from what i can see, my plans are to get a job in SG or maybe somewhere abroad. I’ve been wanting a getaway from Indonesia...