Gaudeamus Hodie!
Hallelujah! Gaudeamus Hodie!
Gaudete! Gaudeamus Hodie!
Gaudeamus Hodie! Hallelujah!
Let us rejoice today!
Hallelujah! Let us rejoice today!
Rejoice! Let us rejoice today!
Let us rejoice today! Hallelujah!
Traditional Latin lyric, music by Earlene Rentz. It was sung by the choir today during the offertory.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Criminal Minds
I love watching detective kind of tv-shows. Saw many of them such CSI, NCIS, Numbers and so on.. there are many of the kind. But the best to me is CRIMINAL MINDS. Unique cases, smart team, non-artificial story telling. I so want to be FBI agent if I were to get in the team!
Loves the quotes they always do at the of each episode also: Criminal Minds Quotes
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Welcome back
OK, after long time of absence, now finally I am back, again, to my blog. Many things happened since the last time I wrote here. I feel that sometime it's not easy to keep the intensity of writing (or maybe I am not a 'writing person'?...) But one thing, now and again, the urge to write is much, especially when the mind is in questions, yet there is no (right) person to share with, or I have shared it but still have some restlessness within me. Writing is indeed the best way to ease the mind... having conversation with myself.
One then might think that I write when I am troubled or restless. The answer is maybe yes, maybe no. Maybe I am restless now, although to be honest, my life now has never been as what I have ever imagined compare to say... last year...
A total opposite from last year my life is now. Miraculous if I may say how it worked. And it might be that feelings of gratitude that calls me to come back here and write again.
Anyway, I welcome back myself on my blog. Hopefully this time is for good :))
Let the writings begin....
One then might think that I write when I am troubled or restless. The answer is maybe yes, maybe no. Maybe I am restless now, although to be honest, my life now has never been as what I have ever imagined compare to say... last year...
A total opposite from last year my life is now. Miraculous if I may say how it worked. And it might be that feelings of gratitude that calls me to come back here and write again.
Anyway, I welcome back myself on my blog. Hopefully this time is for good :))
Let the writings begin....
Thursday, December 31, 2009
2009 Year End Note
Each year tells different stories... These are the stories of my 2009
I have seen how things improved at work. We started the year with very little, along the way we had to sacrifice many things in order to survive, struggling and there were moments when it was totally hopeless for the company. But what goes down only will comes up, to our surprise new projects (big ones) are coming in, that allow us to breathe fresher air and know that we are survived and moving forward.
In life, I have seen how the only thing that can kill me was my own thoughts. I have seen that being in “comfortable” zone can create an effortless whining personality that only complains, worrying things, ungrateful and forget to live the present moment. I have seen that it is important to stay positive in the mind, body and soul. I understand that it is not easy to do so especially when everything surrounds me giving zero help to my efforts, but again it is a choice I can make, living positively or in doom with negativity.
I have seen that no matter how good or bad a situation is, it surely will change. I have seen that in both ways. One day I was flying high up on heaven and in seconds my face was on the ground. I have seen that friends are blessings from heaven. They may not know whether I was sad or not, but having them around makes me realized that I am not alone.
I have learnt that everything needs process. No gold, diamonds created in seconds, all came from a long tedious process. There is just no shortcut to happiness. There may be, but it won't last long. I believe in hard work, things that you earned with tears and sweats, with efforts and passions are bound to be timeless. Hard work doesn't always mean physically, it is more mentally from within you keep pushing to pursue your dreams or whatever your wishes are.
I learn that in order to survive the process I need to be patience and persevere. Many times I have no patience. In patience I have learn that I need to slow down at times, take time to pause and to observe, to sharpen vision, to improve steps, to build up energy to move even further. It is no harm to take time to slow down as long as I never stop or quitting. In perseverance, I learn that no matter how many times I faced losses, I will try again one more time. It takes true winner to be able to get up and start again after got beaten up.
In life, everyone wants the best, EVERYONE DESERVES THE BEST. But BEST is a subjective matter. I remembered a scene in Avatar, where the warrior is being test to ride a Banshee (flying creature), in order to be acknowledged by the tribe. The warrior can choose the Banshee, but the Banshee must also choose him. He can be the best warrior in the whole tribe and chooses the best Banshee to ride, but in the end it's up to the creature if it sees the warrior as the BEST in its own eyes and allows him to ride him.
One can only try to do his best and whatever he gained after was a reward for his hard work. It is give and take, but in the end we can only give, whatever we take depends on those who want to give. It may not come from those whom we had given many to. When we give in order to take back then, it is kind of selfish.
I have seen that no matter how thin we sliced there are always 2 sides of it. Generalizing matters, prejudice, assumptions, act like I know everything when I don't, destroys good things. I encountered many times people thought of me as a domestic helper, they don’t bother to ask; they just assumed and decided from the way I looked or dressed. They made prejudice that certain style was the ‘low class’ and other style was ‘high class’, judging from the exterior. It is sad to see how human minimize the capacity of their brain and heart to love, to feel, to work together and to live freely with respect, by having such narrow mindsets.
2010, no one knows what it will bring. As blur or uncertain as it may be, one thing for sure 2010 will never be a dead or alive situation in my world, as I am blessed with a life and everything that surrounds me,... and from there I will continue to move on.
I have seen how things improved at work. We started the year with very little, along the way we had to sacrifice many things in order to survive, struggling and there were moments when it was totally hopeless for the company. But what goes down only will comes up, to our surprise new projects (big ones) are coming in, that allow us to breathe fresher air and know that we are survived and moving forward.
In life, I have seen how the only thing that can kill me was my own thoughts. I have seen that being in “comfortable” zone can create an effortless whining personality that only complains, worrying things, ungrateful and forget to live the present moment. I have seen that it is important to stay positive in the mind, body and soul. I understand that it is not easy to do so especially when everything surrounds me giving zero help to my efforts, but again it is a choice I can make, living positively or in doom with negativity.
I have seen that no matter how good or bad a situation is, it surely will change. I have seen that in both ways. One day I was flying high up on heaven and in seconds my face was on the ground. I have seen that friends are blessings from heaven. They may not know whether I was sad or not, but having them around makes me realized that I am not alone.
I have learnt that everything needs process. No gold, diamonds created in seconds, all came from a long tedious process. There is just no shortcut to happiness. There may be, but it won't last long. I believe in hard work, things that you earned with tears and sweats, with efforts and passions are bound to be timeless. Hard work doesn't always mean physically, it is more mentally from within you keep pushing to pursue your dreams or whatever your wishes are.
I learn that in order to survive the process I need to be patience and persevere. Many times I have no patience. In patience I have learn that I need to slow down at times, take time to pause and to observe, to sharpen vision, to improve steps, to build up energy to move even further. It is no harm to take time to slow down as long as I never stop or quitting. In perseverance, I learn that no matter how many times I faced losses, I will try again one more time. It takes true winner to be able to get up and start again after got beaten up.
In life, everyone wants the best, EVERYONE DESERVES THE BEST. But BEST is a subjective matter. I remembered a scene in Avatar, where the warrior is being test to ride a Banshee (flying creature), in order to be acknowledged by the tribe. The warrior can choose the Banshee, but the Banshee must also choose him. He can be the best warrior in the whole tribe and chooses the best Banshee to ride, but in the end it's up to the creature if it sees the warrior as the BEST in its own eyes and allows him to ride him.
One can only try to do his best and whatever he gained after was a reward for his hard work. It is give and take, but in the end we can only give, whatever we take depends on those who want to give. It may not come from those whom we had given many to. When we give in order to take back then, it is kind of selfish.
I have seen that no matter how thin we sliced there are always 2 sides of it. Generalizing matters, prejudice, assumptions, act like I know everything when I don't, destroys good things. I encountered many times people thought of me as a domestic helper, they don’t bother to ask; they just assumed and decided from the way I looked or dressed. They made prejudice that certain style was the ‘low class’ and other style was ‘high class’, judging from the exterior. It is sad to see how human minimize the capacity of their brain and heart to love, to feel, to work together and to live freely with respect, by having such narrow mindsets.
2010, no one knows what it will bring. As blur or uncertain as it may be, one thing for sure 2010 will never be a dead or alive situation in my world, as I am blessed with a life and everything that surrounds me,... and from there I will continue to move on.
BYE BYE 2009.... WELCOME 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! I wish for a better life for all of us. Better year ahead for works, for family lives, relationships, goals, wishes, dreams. God bless us all!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Today is a beautiful day! ^^v
A short note I got from a friend years ago..
If you are to do something, do it 100%, that includes having the right attitude and mindset about what you are going to do.
If you are going to spend 60 minutes on something, make it the BEST 60 minutes of your life. If you don't, than expect poor results. Don't just wish or hope that things will come out alright... DO something!!
If you are to do something, do it 100%, that includes having the right attitude and mindset about what you are going to do.
If you are going to spend 60 minutes on something, make it the BEST 60 minutes of your life. If you don't, than expect poor results. Don't just wish or hope that things will come out alright... DO something!!
When you jump into the water, and you do not know how to swim. The advice?
You better start kicking and splashing, focus on swimming and nothing else.
Your life is at stake! No time to think about, "I can not swim..." or "I don't know how to swim..." Just have the right attitude, remove your mental block and learn to SWIM!
The good news! We are already in the water and 3 feet away! So, the worse won't happen, it's all in your mind anyway!
Strange that, what you forecast for yourself, seems to happen. Why not forecast for brighter days, beautiful horizons, amazing sunrises, dazzling stars and soothing breezes?
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Singapore is flooded
Yesterday, 19 November 2009, I have witnessed a very rare event that could ever happen in Singapore: flood! It was raining so heavily around noon time, and to everybody's surprise, some parts of the city was covered with water. The flood was not as what happened in other cities, for example my home town Jakarta. But to Singapore, what has happened was quite massive.
I had many times in my life experienced flood. I lived most of my life in Jakarta with its lousy drainage system, every year we expected to have flood (it's true).
I got so excited yesterday, mostly because of the fact that Singapore with its 'greatness' can have this kind of thing... I mean, well it means Jakarta wasn't that bad... :D
And then the rain stopped, and in just minutes the flood was gone!!... I really had to give my 2 thumbs up to Singapore's drainage system. I wonder when Jakarta can have proper drainage systems... so we don't have to wait for days for the water to run down...
Main road in front of my office
The big canal was over pouring to the road
The big canal was over pouring to the road
I got so excited yesterday, mostly because of the fact that Singapore with its 'greatness' can have this kind of thing... I mean, well it means Jakarta wasn't that bad... :D
And then the rain stopped, and in just minutes the flood was gone!!... I really had to give my 2 thumbs up to Singapore's drainage system. I wonder when Jakarta can have proper drainage systems... so we don't have to wait for days for the water to run down...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Remembering Papa
In the loving memories :
beloved father Nicodemus William Abineno
2nd November 2004 - 2nd November 2009
Again, we reach this time in our live, to stop for a while, remember how wonderful God has shown His ways to our family, to thank Him for the strength He had given us, that even in the most hardest time in our family’s life we can still see the beauty in His plan.
5 years..., seems so fast, yet it’s slow enough to give us time to build our life and carry on with what he had left for us. All the memories of you, Papa, happy and sad, became our most valuable treasures. Not to mention all your hard works which made us what we are now… those were unforgettable and never will we able paying you back.
We love you, Papa… always... see you, someday… :-)
habis hujan tampak p’langi….bagai janji yang teguh…
dibalik duka menanti… P’langi Kasih Tuhanku…
beloved father Nicodemus William Abineno
2nd November 2004 - 2nd November 2009
Again, we reach this time in our live, to stop for a while, remember how wonderful God has shown His ways to our family, to thank Him for the strength He had given us, that even in the most hardest time in our family’s life we can still see the beauty in His plan.
5 years..., seems so fast, yet it’s slow enough to give us time to build our life and carry on with what he had left for us. All the memories of you, Papa, happy and sad, became our most valuable treasures. Not to mention all your hard works which made us what we are now… those were unforgettable and never will we able paying you back.
We love you, Papa… always... see you, someday… :-)
habis hujan tampak p’langi….bagai janji yang teguh…
dibalik duka menanti… P’langi Kasih Tuhanku…
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