Regatta

moo ping

2008-10-12T11:04:00.000-07:00

moo ping means "grilled pork" in thai.

2 things you can easily find in bangkok are grilled pork and street dogs. i just finished a thai movie "a bite of love". its about a friendship between a young girl and a puppy.

it was a street puppy who lost his mother (another street dog). and Kao Neow was a girl who raised up by her distance relatives. kao neow saw him when he's waiting for scrap of grilled pork under a street vendor's cart. thats why kao neow called him moo ping.

somehow the relatives did not allow her to bring a puppy home so she brought moo ping on her backpack anywhere she went. when moo ping get big enough to fit in her backpack, her "family" released moo ping to a far away temple. kao neow then find out that even her family rejected her.

she decided to leave home and seeking for moo ping, her true friend. she met a friend who gave her shelter and he taught her how to sell garland. in spare time will they visited temples for moo ping.

in the mean time moo ping got a new master, a rich and generous lady. moo ping were in a nice car with the lady when kao neow came over to offered garlands but moo ping had grown become a big and handsome dog that kao neow did not recognize him. the story did not happen to has happy ending :(

owl's bed time

2008-10-07T10:36:00.000-07:00

its not easy at all for me to go to bed early.

such a torture for me to force myself to go to bed early since i normally do it about 1am - 2am. yes, im a night person. i enjoy doing things and think better at night.

these last 2 days i tried to set my bed time to 11pm. yikes .. really cannot even close my eyes. so i listened to my chinese lesson, hope that the lesson would make me boring and made me felt asleep. yup it worked (the last thing i remember was when chapter 2 just started)!

its 1.56am now. time to go :)

why everybody is leaving?

2008-09-25T09:14:00.000-07:00

why everybody is leaving?

my colleague sharmila left the company last august 8
my previous house mate vrushali left for india this august 30
my good friend ruili left for france sept 9
my lunch mate yong qiang will leave for new jersey this oct 8

why everybody is leaving?
it just a matter of time and everybody will leave ..

ezekiel 39:28 says :
"then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind"

home to stay

2008-09-25T07:39:00.000-07:00

its been about 7 months i live here.

one of the things i need to find is a church to attend. by default im a baptist :p a very baptist one. thats my personal background. i love love love the hymns and the choir. also the teaching. but when a home does not give you impression of being at home .. then it becomes a mess. yet you become a stranger in your own "home".

i went to many churches here. when my brother was here, we went to "bethany english service" in orchard towers ( since the service is 14.00 as we woke up late, and since i attended bes in kuningan - jakarta for several months before i came here). then we attended sunset service of the "thomson road baptist church", 5 mins walk from novena mrt. then attended "international baptist church" in kings road for couple of times. after my brother went back to jakarta, i tried to attend some other churches that meet my "time" and yet easy to reach.

other churches i tried to attend were :
* city harvest church in jurong west. so full with young people. so energic and dynamic.
* community of praise baptist church in outram road but always missed the service :p (once i was late, the next time i was there but they had outdoor sunday service that time.
* faith community baptist church in max pavilion, s'pore expo, just like chc, fcbc is full of young people with thirst of knowing God, big, they make full of latest modern facilities. and you got many exhibition events to visit after church, just in the next expo pavilions!
* ang mo kio methodist church, just across my apartement.
* st. peter churh or something in outram road, a chatolic mass. i was late (again!) and hard to find a seat because so many people were there!
* st. andrews chatolic church, next to the city hall mrt. it was a great "new life" chatolic service. i will never forget the message sent by pastor spencer from haggai institute.

all of those "seeking experience" were not because i was seeking for my "christian identity" but i was just looking for a home to stay. i was looking for a place where i can feel comfortable and welcome.

for this last few weeks i just found my new home. tough i do not know anyone there, i just feel that im not a stranger in that new place. and the most important is that i can get what i need : powerful words to strengthen my tired spirit and annointed messages that give me courages to live my days.

cornerstone community church is not as big as fcbc or chc but it has the same spirit and passion to make the fullest of "modern" living. there's nothing wrong with any other churches i ever/never attended. the difference is that i feel home in cornerstone :)

psalm 27:4 says :
"one thing i ask of the LORD, this is what i seek: that i may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple"

(not) a real friend

2008-09-16T05:33:00.001-07:00

i thought he is a real friend.

though we only know each other online, we got our own life, we used to be freely talk about many things. yes, we argued. we used to share. he used to encouraged me in my hardest times in this foreign place and laugh at me when i shared silly things.

for years he laugh at me for being silly and stupid but sometimes i felt that he laugh because he looked down at me. the time has come that i cannot bear more laugh from him. he keep looking down at me. i was really upset and thats the end of our friendship.

nothing remain the same, i cannot pretend to be friendly and warm.

proverbs 12:9
"better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food"

time runs so fast

2008-08-31T05:54:00.000-07:00

i need to sum up all my journeys for this last six months.

yes, i took some of my times to go to some places and not even review it here in my blog. for short i went to mallaca with miss ruili for 2 days, went to bangkok for 4 days with myself, spent 4 days in ho chi minh with dunkdunk. and if johor bahru needs to be in the set, i went to jb with myself and the other time with my mom.

a lot of pictures i got from the trips. in average i took 500 pics a day in a trip. so its about 6000 pics. 6000 is excluding my exploration within singapore or even everyday events since i really love to capture things around me. normally i put my selection of pics in my gallery. but since now i dont have enough time to pick out some of them for my online gallery.

and guess what .. i did not even finish my picture selection for the year of 2007! its about the project in semarang and many things happened in 2007. time runs so fast as tomorrow we will start the month of september.

psalm 65:11 says :
"You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance"

the best way to eat durian ..

2008-08-29T09:21:00.000-07:00

today is friday.

i was really tired with the whole week office work, especially these last 2 days with francis, our kinaxis consultant from hongkong. so i asked a friend to join me dinner. we ate japanese food. i love the cold tofu salad they have.

after dinner i decided to buy some durian. i chose a package of $5 durian. my friend said that she did not want to get one package, but maybe will try a bit. then we find a good place to take a seat and continue our talk.

as we talk about dreams, life and its objectives, we started to eat the durian. for me it was the best $5 durian i ever eat. it was soft, smell very good, very sweet with little bit bitter taste because of the alcohol. she agreed with me (though its little too sweet for her) and took more of the durian. i have pity of people who do not like durian.

ppiglet : this durian is good. it is the best durian i ever had.
a friend : no, its not the best. its just taste better since you share it with a friend.
ppiglet : yea, maybe its taste better because i share it with a friend
a friend : for me its the best since i dont pay the durian :p

so the moral of the story is :
durian is good.
durian tastes better when you have a friend to share.
the best durian is when you share it with a friend and no need to pay for the durian.

wakakakakakkakakak

ecclesiastes 2:24-25 says :
"a man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. this too, i see, is from the hand of God, for without Him, who can eat or find enjoyment?"

how are you, if i may know?

2008-08-27T01:04:00.000-07:00

"how are you" might be a very simple question you can find anywhere anytime. sometimes we just throw the questions as we walk and never try to stop our steps to get the answer. or we just say it and then continue with our main topics.

we might not really care about the answer. we dont have time to hear the answer. we dont want to know the answer.

it is more like a greetings than a question.

but yesterday was different. someone asked me the question and add the next part which was surprised me and made the "how are you" question seems different.

"how are you?"
"mmm .."
"how are you, if i may know?"

the common everyday question became special that day since the person really wanted to know my answer.

whew .. how a simple person am i. im happy with very simple things happened around me.

psalm 55:22
"cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall"

national day .. MERDEKA :)

2008-08-17T09:10:00.000-07:00

genesis 10:5 says
from these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language

indonesian embassy

2008-07-28T10:04:00.000-07:00

indonesia has a very unique custom.

anytime any indonesian leaves indonesia, he/she need to pay fiscal fee. it is a kind of tax we need to pay beside the airport tax. anybody leaves indonesia would be considered as a "rich" people as they be able to buy airline ticket and will spend at least couple of days abroad. isnt that amazing?

last week, as i need to change my passport address (to avoid fiscal fee when i need to go back to singapore from indonesia), mom and i went to kedutaan besar republik indonesia (whoaaaa .. so proud to type this, hmmm am i that proud to be a part of indonesia? hehehe) -- aka indonesian embassy.

there's no bus line will take you to indonesian embassy. so you need to ride taxi to reach there, also when you leave the embassy. according to www.streetdirectory.com, the nearest bus stop is 700m away from the embassy. so take taxi is a good idea indeed :) unless you are a dedicated athelete. as my friend eka said, indonesian embassy is an elite embassy, for elite people, since you cannot reach it by bus. hehehe

the service was so quick.
on day 1, i need to queue for guest tag. then filled a changes form. next was go to the counter to handed my passport, copy of my employment pass and the changes form. they gave me a ticket for my passport collection for the next day.
on day 2, at 16.20pm, after got my guest tag, i just went to the collection counter to pick up my passport. now my passport got an extra sticker on the last blank page, with my singapore's address stated on the sticker.

my friend said that passport collection must be performed between 15-17pm, and never be late since the counter is very dedicated about the time to close. hehehe .. soooo indonesia :)

philippians 3:20 says :
but our citizenship is in heaven. and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ..

mom's visit

2008-07-28T08:52:00.000-07:00

my mom has been visiting me for about a month.

she has visited spore for many times but she has not really feel the way people in spore live. she never ride mrt or bus while she were here before this. also she never went to some interesting places (except orchard road) or visit wet market.

during weekdays i left her all day so i always tried to ask her out for dinner. either in food courts (warteg) both in malls or hawkers in many-many different places, went to fine dining (once a week hehehe), walk through the river side in clark quay and enjoyed the bad indonesian cuisine, eat indian crispy prata in thomson road, briyani rice and milo dinosaurus in mustafa center, etc. so almost every night we went home late.

we spent weekends for places like china town, mustafa center, singapore botanical garden, chinese garden, esplanade, merlions and the malls around it including the fountain of wealth, spent a day in sentosa island, crossing the causeway to johor bahru just to enjoy cheap-cheap meals and stuffs and or course .. orchard road. ah .. she likes the 1 dollar "es potong" :)

btw she said that she never imagine she can cope with walking all the way in singapore. we walked from the esplanade to the clark quay mrt station as we walked through the riverside that evening. she even reached the 6th storey of the pagoda in chinese garden and she's so proud about it. here she cannot ask an ojek (motorcycle taxi) to take her if she's tired. also taxi fares is so high that make us think twice :)

she looks so happy. she said many times that she never saw singapore as she see it now and she never walked this far before.

exodus 20:12 says
"honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.. "

pretty fly

2008-07-28T08:10:00.000-07:00

lalat ..

lalat ..
kecil ..
hitam ..
terbang cepat!
pergilah engkau lalat,
aku tetap sehat :)

tiny ..
black ..
flies so fast ..
mr fly, please go away,
(since) i want to keep myself healthy :)

its was a poem i ever performed in front of my kindergarten class sooooo many years back :) but as we look at fly even closer, actually most of flies are not that black.

this tiny guy found in singapore botanical garden about 2 weeks ago.

psalm 91:5 says :
you will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day ..

how much is your salary?

2008-07-18T04:17:00.001-07:00

i think i must be a VERY straight forward kind of person.

today i told a friend that he's too skinny. he really sad when he hear what i said. he's really sorry for being skinny. i never saw a guy so sad like that because i tell him that he's skinny and he thanked me since i told him the truth. (btw the first time i saw him my frist impression is : he's too skinny! but never tell him since he's a very quiet person and i rare talked to him).

pheew ... maybe i was just too straight forward? i know that sometimes i lost my "basa-basi" (indo guys, whats basa-basi in english? diplomatics manner?). sometimes i just made people shocked because of my comments or thoughts or silly questions or even too honest answers.

another friend was shocked since i asked her "how much is your salary?" without any introduction when we simply talk about things that has nothing to do with job/salary. hmmm yea i was say out what's inside my mind. silly ah?

psalm 139 : 13 & 14 says:
for you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
i praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, i know that full well.

sad story

2008-07-17T03:31:00.000-07:00

today i heard of a sad story.

my colleague told me about a story of a guy who lived in spore and went to the usa for a new job. he left his wife in singapore for a year to settle before she can go with him. but when he came back, left his job in usa to went back for his wife, he just found that the wife already gone with another guy. it was really hurted him so he went back to usa, to leave bad memories, everything about singapore.

maybe this is a common stories these days. someone of you maybe knows even worse stories ever happened.

but i just realise one thing, that our life might not be perfect. some see getting into usa job market is a wow thing to achieve, but some other see it as a really bad idea. some see A as a -A from a different angle.

genesis 40 : 7 says :
so he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, "why are your faces so sad today?"

life is boring?

2008-07-02T03:13:00.000-07:00

i never find my life as a boring one.

instead, i always need more more and more time to finish things. i always have things to do. always run out of time. always do more and more things.

vacation + shooting? absolutely!!
rr-kinaxis stuffs? always courious about it
sap-pp and its related things? always want to explore more
shopping? will love to do it if i have time .. and money ..wakakakakakakaka
work with my pictures? will love to do it all the time
spend relax time in *bucks? would be a lovely and luxury thing for me recently :)

life would be bored if i have nothing more to do :(

just realise that my life is too simple .. sigh ..
maybe thats why they said that im weird since i might be 'content' even when i were all alone.

ps. i think im not weird, i just try to make myself busy all the time :p

proverbs 19:23 says :
the fear of the LORD leads to life: then one rests content, untouched by trouble

happy

2008-06-26T06:57:00.000-07:00

my mom called it as "happy plant".

its been a long time i was looking for a suitable thing to put in my toilet. last time we (miss ruili and i) found buckets of foam roses in a "5MYR shop". i bought green roses and she bought the pink one. it was silly answer of the question of "what did you bring from Malacca?", since the answer is "buckets of foam roses". hehehehe..

so i put the green roses on the top of the flushing tank. but i was not satisfied. few days ago i found this live plant in a expensive supermarket :( but i really like it so i bought one. i put it on the top of the flushing tank. and it works! i really like how it looks and how it cheers up my bathroom.

maybe people still call the plant as happy plant, even though it might not that happy since i put it in my toilet. for me .. i hope i will live happily .. ever after ..

genesis 30:13 says :
then leah said, "how happy i am! the women will call me happy"

sleepy eyes

2008-06-24T14:49:00.000-07:00

"you're sleepy .."

i received that comment many times from my colleagues. yes, sometimes we all get sleepy during office hours. but many times i received that comment when i even did not feel sleepy at all.

yesterday i really had too many things to do. and when i left my desk for ladies room i met some colleagues. they shoot the same comment. i was think like "me? sleepy in this busy day? whats wrong with them? or whats wrong with me?"

how can they say that i was sleepy? maybe they just want to start a conversation? or is it my eyes shape look like sleepy eyes? but since many say the same thing, i think its my eyes shape saying that i always sleepy..

genesis 29:17 says :
leah had weak eyes, but rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful.

little time

2008-06-23T09:11:00.000-07:00

so many things i need to do. but sooo little time i have.

john 7:33 says:
Jesus said, "I am with you for only a short time, and then I go to the one who sent me.

carrot juice

2008-06-22T00:01:00.000-07:00

i dont like carrot juice.

but as today i visit *bucks (again!), i just chose carrot juice instead of the frappuchino i used to order :p the guy in the counter were friendly and he encourage me to try the juice. i just make sure if they dont put sugar in the juice. it looks not bad at all. or maybe he did it well ... so i take the juice.

btw its contains of water, carrot juice, apple juice and orange juice. maybe thats why its not taste too bad :)

2 chronicles 35:2 says :
He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the LORD's temple

i love P!

2008-06-17T20:12:00.000-07:00

i love this P!

actually i like many things started with P. for instance : pinky, piglet, pigs, pooh and some cute people i know. and now the list even get longer. i LOVE this new P.
PRATA!

yea, i love this indian food.
for my indonesian friends, you can imagine prata as soft or crispy of "kulit martabak telor". so it comes with tissue or wet paper shape and taste almost plain but its not exactly plain. maybe because they use mutton oil.

we can eat prata with chicken or mutton curry. some eat them with sugar (but i never try to eat my prata with sugar since i dont like sweety food). basically prata is plain, but you can choose egg prata or cheese prata or onion prata (i never try the onion prata) then dip it in spicy curry.

so for me, my favorite is cheese prata with potato curry, or crispy prata with mutton curry. hmmm... the melting cheese in that soft skin-thin bread with the warm and hot curry .. WOW.. its really taste good.

these few days back i always eat prata for my dinner. tonight maybe i will go to mustafa center. not for shopping but to eat another prata in a shop next to the shopping centre. yea, this is one of bad thing of me : if i like a dish, i might eat it everyday .. for many days or even few weeks. pak romlan, our office boy in indf also knows this. sometimes he shake his head if i order the same menu almost everyday for a few weeks.

too much prata? maybe i will be indian soon wakakakakakakaka ....
exodus 16:31 says :
the people of Israel called the bread manna. it was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

leyeh - leyeh day

2008-06-06T20:46:00.000-07:00

today is saturday.
its rainy day here.
i woke up at 9.12am. then enjoy the pictures i took about 2 weeks ago. i sort them so i can put the best one on my picture site. taking pictures is always enjoyable. but sorting part sometimes become hard since i have about 2000 pictures to choose.
so in this rainy-saturday-bluey day, i am accompanied with my laptop, external hardrives, wholewheat bread, skippy peanut-choco jam, salmon spread, butter and hot milo+nescafe :)

btw, "leyeh-leyeh" means relax, enjoying life
acts 2:47 says :
they broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

nature + art

2008-05-14T09:42:00.000-07:00

i always appreciate art.

even if i could not always create the art, i would always appreciate the art itself. sometimes i tried to shoot something nice, cute and beautiful but i did not shoot it properly so the result might not good. hehehe sometimes i just mess up the art or loose the moment :p

so i would really happy if the chance and me are matched (which is not always happened) :p one of my "model" is miss ruili. the other is miss amel (i took many many pictures of her while we spent some times in pandaan and i like some of them). will post some of her pictures later. thanks girls!

luke 12:7 says:
indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows

illegal stuffs

2008-05-09T08:52:00.000-07:00

here i show you some stuffs considered as illegal in this country.

btw it helps me a lot to keep me awake during the "dry" basis training this afternoon. yes, i dont like training and meetings. they just make me boring and fall asleep.

psalm 57:8 says :
awake, my soul! awake, harp and lyre! i will awaken the dawn

i go bishan

2008-05-07T15:55:00.000-07:00

singlish is funny

singlish or singaporean english is broken english you can find in s'pore. i dont say that it is bad but what im trying to say here is that being in a place / environment for a while, you can feel that it will influence you soon or later. im not good in english grammar but im trying to keep in the track, using "proper" english :p

yesterday we were in a bus stop. there were alex, yong qiang and me. we know each other where we live. that day i told alex that i had an appointment in bishan. for alex, he can take any bus going home.

after checking out the bus direction board, i said to alex : "88 will go directly to bishan"
yong qiang to alex : "you go bishan?"
alex : "no, i go ang mo kio"
me : "yea, he go ang mo kio. i go bishan"

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaksssss....... im killing my english. hahahahha ...

genesis 10:5 says :
"from these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language"

malacca : a short vacation

2008-05-05T00:53:00.000-07:00

we made a short trip to mallaca this may 3-4.

day 1
reached larkin station in johor bahru at 9.45am and buy malacca bus ticket for 10am. arrived malacca about 1.30pm. we tried to buy ticket back to singapore for tomorrow but it was sold out. need to try our luck tomorrow/sunday morning for ticket.

we enjoy our evening in malacca, started with take a breath in a "food court" in front of the big ship, visit the red christ church and the big clock, finding a hotel to stay, get fresh shower :D

after shower we walk to the tower where we can see the "whole" malacca (the straits, the church and its sites), and then try seafood in kampung portugis where we met a new friend and a local guy who cooked great seafood for us. the local guy even send us back to the china town (the place of our hotel) with his car since the bus we took to kampung portugis was the last bus operated that night! whew .. the driver drop us in china town and we continue our night with the "pasar malam" that was held along the way to our hotel.

day 2
sunday morning we went to the malaka sentral station for ticket after join sunday service in christ church (the famous red church in malacca) and got ones :p if not ... then we need to stay longer there :( next plan was tasted the famous steam chicken with rice balls behind the odbc bank. then visit the baba and nyonya museum. then continue with stadhuyst the museum where i can find the cheng ho admiral statue -just as same as the one i found in semarang sentral java, the church of st. paul which is only a four walls with no roof, and sultan of malacca palace.
the day was short, we need to reach sentral malaka station before 6.pm

i promise, later on i will be back to malacca again .. :)

deuteronomy 2:7
the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. these forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything

its was hot in orchard

2008-05-01T21:02:00.000-07:00

its was hot.

for these last 1-2 weeks singapore weather was very hot. no rain and the sun shines sooo bright. too bright perhaps. for me, no warm shower since its too hot. a/c also works all the time when i were at home.

i had an appointment with eka for a die die must try stuff, chicken rice in china town :). he said that he will be waiting in taka, near the old chang kee. as i left the coolness of the somerset station i can feel the hot air bite me.

many people enjoy their shopping day, including the hot air. a girl with some shopping bags were standing there, waiting for the traffice light to allow her to cross the narrow street. a boy with his hat walking with his earphone and ipod. an old lady walked very slowly with her old partner. everyone is under the sun and creates their own shadow with certain degree.

ecclesiastes 6:12 says :
for who knows what is good for a man in life, during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?

rose apple + sambel jempol

2008-04-29T09:21:00.000-07:00

as foreigner its common for us if we miss our own food.

many indo foods i've been missing:
bubur ayam karet => chicken porridge under the karet bridge
mpek-mpek => sorry ... but its too hard to describe it in english!
bakso bakwan malang => beef balls soup, originally came from malang - east java
rujak => fresh fruit salad with hot - belacan sauce
whew .. many many many more ..

i was really happy as i can found the "sambel jempol" (chili sauce with Thumb brand) in mustafa centre. hmmm... yummy chilli sauce ..
guess what, sambel jempol and rose apple are really match :) their combination reminds me to many things about indo :)

you can call it rose apple, or water apple or anything .. but still its called as "jambu aer" in my homeland :)

smile :):):)

psalm 17:8 says
keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

pasir ris

2008-04-27T00:18:00.000-07:00

one of my colleague live in pasir ris.

it took about an hour from pasir ris to ang mo kio by bus. i went there since i want to visit my colleague and see the place she stay.

the place is interesting. a lot of trees but also has a lot of open area. by the way, pasir ris is the end destination of green line mrt serving from paris ris to jurong. the place is near east coast, very big park near the beach, a big lake for fishing, kind of waterpark if im not mistaken. mrt station, bus interchange, shopping centre and library all is in one location.

genesis 41:49 says :
joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure

rules..rules..rules..

2008-04-20T05:11:00.000-07:00

live with nice owners is not without restrictions.

first day, i moved. they re-explain what's their rules. i thought they told me all they wanted. no cook, no friend staying without notice to grandma, no friends come and spend time in living room, no friend come and make noise, if parents come then i need to pay more for the bill (water, electricity), use the washing machine only twice a week, make sure the door and gate were locked, make sure all are clean (no problem at all for me :p ), pay the rent at last 7th day of the month.

second day, here come the other rules.

my friend came early in the morning, about 6.20am. he asked me to lend him money since he was on his way to work (its his first day of work) and he left his wallet + room key in the room, locked.

20 minutes after he left, i got a call from my room agent, asked me not to let my friend come early in the morning to the house because it will scary the grandma. i can meet friends in meeting points (like mall or other places, but not in the house). also she mentioned about the thingy i put in my door, the owner dont want me to put a cross in the door. she thought it was a cross (since im christian and they are buddhist). then i said to her that my friend would not come again, and explained that it was not a cross since it is a wooden square thing with my name put on it.
after i hung on the phone, here came a message from the owner, asked me the same things as the agent asked me.

i came out of my room and met the lady tenant next door. she tried to tell me the same 2 things. i explained her the same things and she translate it to the grandma.
whew.... seems that the whole world knows that i did mistakes that morning.

the next day, as i arrived in my office, i checked out my mobile and found an sms from the owner saying : "i just want to check out, you sleep with the light on is it?". then i replied : "yes, i sleep with my light turned on". then here came the other agreement that if the electricity bill raise, i need to pay the rest. hehehe ..

hmmm ... after this.. what else?

and now about doing laundry. its very important for me to separate white clothes from dark ones and color ones. so before this i always 2-3 times using the washing machine. if theres bed sheets or towel to wash .. then it will be 4 times.

then i put my dark stuffs first. everything was smooth. then i put my color ones in the machine for the second round. hmmm... "you can put all together in one time wash (because water and electricity are expensive)" said grandma. wow wow wow... then it means that my whitey will be grey. and my color ones becomes dull.

then the lady tenant talked to me on behalf of grandma: "i always do laundry at night, using the "speedy" program so it will be 10 minutes faster then normal. hang off the water pipe, let the water flow to the bathroom before you start the machine or the water can not come out. put back the machine cover and dont forget to switch off the power after you finish. dont forget to hang up the water pipe when its done. do not do manual wash since the excess water will wet the floor. where to hung the clothes? you can put them in terrace next to the front door. but do not put underwear outside." (hahahaha of course i will not do it).

what an hdb life :)

lamentations 3:23 says:
they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.

why do i live with owners?

2008-04-19T00:48:00.000-07:00

i live with owner now.

many people say that live with owner is horrible... and here i am now :D maybe you ask "then why do you live with owner?" hahaha. its a nice question. i say yes to this place because i can see how hard to find a perfect place to live here. if you have 10 things to fulfill, then its almost impossible to make all things filled up. if you got 6 to 8 satisfied then you can called it as luck :p

for example, a perfect place is : near mrt/bus stop, direct bus to office, less then 10 minutes to office, near food court/shops or at least 7eleven (a mini supermarket), near office, cheap price, clean place, clean toilet, clean wall, big windows, comfortable bed, spacious place, quiet, no owner, nice owner, friendly owner, no kids under 6 years, owner with certain race, new hdb (last time i saw an hdb with 29 old of age!), etc.. etc.. etc.. you can add many other things to your list. but believe me .. its hard to fill out all those things in a place.

so my current place, i can give 7 point for it. the owner are kind, friendly (their way), fair, cooperate and always try to help (their way). i said "their way" since sometimes we can have our own way in doing something. at least .. i appreciate their effort and aims to make me comfortable in their place.

isaiah 1:3 says:
the ox knows his master, the donkey his owner's manger, but Israel does not know, My people do not understand."

downgrading .. but save more ..

2008-04-18T23:05:00.000-07:00

last week end i moved to master room in an hdb.

before this i stay in a common room in a landed property without owner. but since i share bathroom with other tenants, more and more i could not tolerate the messy they made.

when a chance came for me to change places then i tried to find a master room so i would not deal with other people. then i found a place 3 bus stop away from the previous place. its a master room in a main street, near hawkers or food court (including the sheng siong supermarket), and near a big public park, Bishan Park. the rental price also cheaper. i can save $150/month.

the place is clean, well maintaned and not too old. the other place i saw, they only have lift access to some floor. the environment itself is nice and neat.

in the new place the owner -a singaporean mid lady called as Helen- lives several blocks away, but her mother and her son are staying with us. so for daily life i will deal with the grandma and a grandson, but about things to do with the rental, i deal with Helen.

the grandma seems nice and friendly but she does not speak english. she speaks malay but for me its kind of hard to understand. her grandson speak english. also the other tenants (a malay couple) speak english so i can ask them to communicate with the grandma.

terms :
if you stay in a common room then you need to share bathroom with other people.
a master room means a larger room with a bathroom attached to the room, so you can have your own private bathroom.
landed property means a house, grounded house, where hdb means a standard flat or apartement.
owner i mentioned here means the owner of the property/house/apartment.

isaiah 24:15 says:
therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; exalt the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea.

body massage

2008-04-18T09:33:00.000-07:00

this monday i went for body massage.

i was tooooo tired. exhausted. i can feel my body heaths. also headache and "masuk angin". i tried to do back treatment (as far as my arm can reach my back) with coin and balsam or what they called as gua sha. i took some medicine but they did not ease my pain.

the massage lady is an aunty of an acquintance i met few days ago. she did massage with her hands, elbow, also with some tools i dont know. after the massage i felt much much better. i just realize that both of my shoulder were lighter and no more swell. my body heath become normal and the headache almost gone.

the one hour treatment was very successfull. and it took away $40 from my wallet :O when i was in jakarta i only need to pay 30.000 rupiah for about $5 for 1,5 hours treatment. hmmm... very expensive country indeed ..

genesis 12:1 says :
the LORD had said to Abram, leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.

bishan park

2008-04-18T09:31:00.000-07:00

near my place there's bishan park.

even i live in ang mo kio, only 200 meters walk away from my place i can find the bishan park. it is a big park with several "lake" where people can do fishing or just have a seat around them enjoying their time.

it is a very shadowy park in that afternoon. many people came with their bike or jog along the path. many big old trees (i said they are old since they are big .. so many years taken to be that big .. so they are old ..heheheh). there's a playground also for kids and big court for young guys playing soccer. many benches were occupied with people and their books.

eecclesiastes 2:5 says:
I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them

current colleagues

2008-04-18T03:31:00.000-07:00

my current colleagues in room #03-03 came from varies countries. 8 of us are singaporeans, 7 of us are indians, 1 of us is srilankan, 4 of us are malaysians, 2 of us came from mainland - china and 2 of us are indonesiaaaaaaaans!!!
hehehe no bule (western with blonde hair) yet :D

they are very nice people with their own characters, especially me .. im a nice person .. with my own character :) wakakakakakakakakaaaa...

james 4:13-14 says :
now listen, you who say, "today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. what is your life? you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes...

thanks for being there..

2008-04-08T07:43:00.000-07:00

i already spent about 2 months of my life here. and today is the first time i feel miss jakarta my city. my home. my doggies. my cute tiny room. my mom. my family. and my beloved friends ..

i sent some message to some friends and ex bosses. and i will write them down here since i really i appreciate their replies. sometimes a piece of message can warm your heart and feeling. a piece of message and cheer you up and make things brighter.

HRL: kayaknya gak ada niat bkn lupa kali. Kpn mo balik Jkt? Jgn lupa singanya dibawa
AND: Gimana keadaan l disana? Mksdny temen yg baik hati n tdk sombong? Kl kangen rmh, ya pulang. Kl kangen temen, ya telpon donk =]
DNL: He he boleh kok lepasin kangen, apalagi kalau kasih aku tiket :) kapan maen kemari?
EDW : Kangen ama a* kan?
EKH : Begitulah nasib jadi TKI .. Thn lalu aku bener2 jenuh bgt, bosan, gak tau mo ngapain
EV : He he ci bet, aku juga kangen ama ci bet. Ci bet sehat kan?
LSY : Hi apa kabar dirimu? kenapa koq tiba2 kengen :) Aq koq ga bisa lg buka blogmu?
EKR : pulang and ajak makan2 kite he..he..

thanks for being there when i need you ..

genesis 46:3 says:
"I am God, the God of your father," he said. "do not be afraid to go down to egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

character

2008-04-07T08:42:00.000-07:00

people are like tea bags,
you have to put them into hot water
before you can know how strong they are ..

just want to share you what i bought today.

sometimes the water were so hot
and sometimes the tea becomes too strong

romans 5:3b-4 says :
because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope..

the magic of "copy and paste"

2008-04-07T04:33:00.000-07:00

who never use the "cut and paste" activity? its kind of super simple task commonly used in our daily work with computer. so simple that we dont think it as magic.

every monday i need to do manual backup from a server to another, and i do it remotely. it means that i log in to RR server through my own computer instead of go to the server room (which is in building 5006 -fyi: im in building 5000). so i log in to RR server remotely, copy some files and put them in IT server as backup directory.

but during the process (take about 3-4 hours), i cannot do anything "big". i still can open office documents, but not another big application.
i also cannot shut down my computer during the process because the IT server is mapped as one directory in my computer.
i also cannot do it before 10.30am since the data update just finished about 10.30am.
i also cannot stay in office until late ..waiting for the backup end, since i dont want to be the last one who leave the office.
i also cannot do it half today and half tomorrow, since every 10am, the data will be update, so tomorrow data would not be the same as todays data.
also if copy process failed due to full disk or disconnection, then i need to start copy from the beginning.. it means .. another 3-4 hours.
whew..

i was upset since the first time i did the backup. i cannot even do "cut and paste" with office when i proceed the backup.

and today i really feel bad. i cannot even copy "RR User Summary Report" in my excel and paste it in another cell because the clipboard were occupied by the backup process. so what i did was type it manually. my report today was generated mannualy by me! fingers type it instead of just copy the data from other excell sheet. im so sick of that backup.

now i just realise that a "copy and paste" is a brilliant idea. from copying a word .. until copy a whole documents .. you can do it by a touch of "copy and paste".

blessed is the people who create the idea :) and poor me since i need to start the backup tonight from home (which is take longer time, about 4-6 hours).. because the backup process was failed :(

exodus 8:19 says:
the magicians said to Pharaoh, "this is the finger of God." but Pharaoh's heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the LORD had said.

spore version of bakwan

2008-03-28T20:42:00.000-07:00

indo called it as "bakwan"

they called it as fried veggy or something (i forgot the exact name). made of sprout, carrot, cabbage, flour and spices. i found this spore version of bakwan for $1.5 each (about rp 10.000) when in jakarta you can find street vendors sell it for about rp 500/piece. whoaaaahahahahaha ....

the taste were good and nice, just same taste to our "bakwan" :) they add a piece of crab cake or a prawn or anchovies. the prawn one just as sama as our "bakwan udang".

proverbs 15:17 says:
better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred

dunkdunk my cute friend

2008-03-27T08:26:00.001-07:00

i call her dunkdunk.

i always become speechless if i think of her. she's a chubby cute girl i met in indf. kind of smaaaaart, funny, friendly, super cuek girl. she also the most straight forward girl i ever met. good command in english (excellent!!). she said to me (about 6 months ago) that she never been in love before and she really wants to be in love. really amazing girl.

time changes everything. tonight she said that now she applied blush on(!) on her cheek. wow .. what a progresss i've been missed. i just wonder if now she wears skirt and high heels :)

hugs ..

luke 6:29 says :
if someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. if someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic.

lemon and i

2008-03-26T21:52:00.000-07:00

this picture was a slice of lemon on the bottom of my lemon tea and some pieces of ice blocks left.

i met my good friend last night. it was unexpected because we did not meant to meet. so she bought me a glass of iced lemon tea and we shared about the day. yea, many things happened unexpectedly. unpredictable. sometimes even unwanted.

yellow. so fresh. cold. nice. great. simple. deep .. deep in my squared glass.

job 37:10 says :
the breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.

bussss ...

2008-03-21T21:47:00.000-07:00

it takes 25 minutes by bus from my "home" to office for about 6 km distance. buses here runs rather slow. hmmm... ppd or metro mini in jakarta will takes less than 10 minutes to reach that place. hahahaha...

there's only a captain for each bus. no conductor or a guy who will offer you to get on or get off the bus. you can expect they come in the right time as scheduled. yesterday i accompany miss ruili for her bus, the schedule is 5.44am in the morning and we did not have to wait there so long because it came 5.45am. this country has very well manage systems for almost everything :)

psalm 27:14
wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD

building 5000

2008-03-21T10:21:00.000-07:00

it reminds me to my high school building, as known as sman 68 salemba, jakarta :p

my current company building really reminds me to my senior high school building. it has "L" shape, kind of old building. so dont try to compare it with the ariobimo central or even sudirman plaza :p they just like heaven and earth. the building consists of 5 floors and has 2 access : manual (stairs) and lifts (2 big lifts for barang (hmmm.. whats "barang" in english?) and 1 lift for passengers).

the building itself is very tough. last time i saw an unloading process of a huge machine from a container and they lift it to the 3rd floor. the first day i were there, i felt my floor and desk trembled. i said to my colleague: "can you feel that?". "feel what?". i said: "earthquake!". my colleague just smiled. later on i heard a strange sound came from our next room, or another time shredding sound or repairing machine from nowhere, or undefined machine crowds. building 5000 (and other buildings in this industrial park) not only for offices, it also for workshops, machines etc. thats why they made it very tough and ready for "super imposed load".

my favorite place of the building is a corner in 3rd floor, near the wash rooms, which is painted with orange and green. i like the colors, also when you can see the green grass and the tree, just across the street downthere, it reminds me to a peaceful heart of a good friend.

proverbs 18:10
the name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe

unclean magiclean

2008-03-19T07:18:00.000-07:00

2 rooms share 1 bathroom.

good. then who of us will clean the bathroom? for me, i dont like dirty ones. so even i never tell the others (tenants), i said to myself that i will clean it happily, no force, honesty. lucky me because the tenants from other room are neat enough. they went home late everyday. and sometimes they even do not went home at night. they are a busy couple seems to me. it means that i am the only one who use that bathroom :D what i dont like is the guy smokes during his time in the bathroom so sometimes you can find the ash on the toilet or the basin and you can smell the smoke :(. so far .. its still tolerable for me.

okie, cleaning time! i bought some cleaning stuffs last weekend including yellow gloves (with lemon smell to anticipate bad smell might comes from the cleaner liquid). i tried to find porcelain cleaner like porstex i used to use in indo but cannot find one. so i choose magiclean.

guess what .. magiclean smell nice, also does not irritate my skin or make it itchy :) so i enjoy spraying and brushing. i also like the smell of the gloves! hahaha .. i really like the fresh lemon came from my gloves. also the magiclean give the lemon sensation. the bad things is porstex works many many times better than magiclean works. hmmm... bad bad bad since i need to brush harder :p hehehehe

cold and hot, under the weather

2008-03-17T21:38:00.000-07:00

today i feel not too well.

maybe its because i could not sleep last night. why i could not sleep .. its because i felt not well all evening. hmmm.. what a circle. since i felt weak, headache and tired, i went to sleep early. i took 2 pieces of antangin (to get off the angin) and a paramex (to ease my headache). i was too tired for a "kerokan" or what they called as "kua sa", also last saturday i just "kua sa" my self and i still can see the marks. so i just went to sleep at 9pm, its too early for a ppiglet.

i woke up at 12.47am, felt much better but still got light headache. i saw uncle sam online so i asked him if he had time for some rr (kinaxis rapid response). the answer was YES! wow .. what a very kind guy. so we discuss of some rr issues and i got much from him. he get off at 1.40am.

hmm... what to do next because i still could not sleep. so i wrote something about my good friend. also prepare some rr data cleansing and sent out the emails to some users. also tried to do rr backup (but it failed because i forgot if i shut down my pc the process would be terminated - because the system make a copy to server by using mapping directory which is mapped as my computer's directory. waaaaksss... stupid me). then i tried to sleep. but i woke up every less than an hour.

today i had hot fish soup as my lunch. i wished that the soup will makes me feel better. after that ruili asked us to buy ice cream. i just dont know what to do with my not-well body .. so i bought a piece of red bean ice cream. if my body got a loudspeaker (instead my of mouth -which is in mute mode by me since this morning), i believe it will shout out loud with undefined words. only heaven knows ..

1 corinthians 12:27 says:
now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

miss ruili

2008-03-17T12:03:00.000-07:00

she came from shanghai, took her master in france, left her boy friend there and here she is ..

her employee number is 8935 when mine is 8936. she works next door, room #03-02 when mine is #03-03. we signed the company offer letter in the same day. "destiny" or "yuen"(hahaha who believe in destiny) allow us to meet :p

i asked her to teach me mandarin, she said ok but we never came to a real mandarin lesson. so bad.

miss ruili : please do me a favor?
ppiglet : sure
miss ruili : can i stay with you thursday night? i need to go to malaysia next day at 6am and pasir ris is too far from kranji.
ppiglet : okie. $100/night
miss ruili : ohh... so expensive. you know i am broke
ppiglet : well.. take it or leave it. nothing is free
miss ruili : ok
miss ruili : also we can start our first mandarin lesson on thursday night
ppiglet : great! (yihaaaaaaa .... finally!)
miss ruili : i will charge you $150/lesson
ppiglet : ??!@#?@$?@$*&^@!!!!! .. (this lady makes me owe her $50!)

anyway nice to know you miss ruili ..

proverbs 27:1 says :
do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth

not important

2008-03-14T07:32:00.000-07:00

how do you feel if someone feels that you're not important for him/her?

yea, everybody has their own urgency and need to decide how urgent and important a thing for them. the keyword is "important". i just feel sad if someone think that im not important. always there's something else that felt more important than me.

not my aim to point somebody here. just want to share that being an unimportant person is sad. being unrecognized and unimportant might be hurt, its makes us feel lost in a crowd. God, help me to treat them nicely and important in my life. because being treat as unimportant just give me a not nice feeling.

zechariah 2:8 says :
for this is what the LORD Almighty says: "after he has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye.."

library

2008-03-08T00:09:00.000-08:00

im sitting in a reading room in national library (bras basah).

the building is quite big. white. see through building with big pieces of glass as the wall. about 15 floors. cold and quiet. a LOT LOT of books categorized as they should. i cannot describe all because its my first time to this library. many people here, either young - college students or old ones. the library has free interenet connection but we have no idea why my bro's laptop could not connected to the wireless connection. so i need to activate my 3g connection (waaksss.. .. it should be freeeeee .. )

in front of me theres a 50es lady. she's been there for an hour, reading a book purple pocket book, the title is "..of mind". she received a call and she tells where she is "im in reading table". then came an old man, as old as she is. she shows him the book happily and they both went. another girls sitting beside me were art/design students. they discuss softly about the design they are making in their laptops. one of them do the design, and the other one holding an art reference book and sometimes writing.

things i'd like to do in a library were not to browse programming or it stuffs. its boring! hehehe. i prefer to crafts book or photography or things like that. last time i found books about making candles. and i will find later on .. about paper making, making ceramics/pots, editing in photoshop, etc, and many more about crafts :)

its free to enjoy all the books here. or explore the cyber world full of knowledge. or spend the whole day reading. or enjoy the quietness. of course membership will give you much more. but being in the world of knowledge is tempting :p

2 chronicles 1:11-12 says :
"God said to Solomon, "since this is your heart's desire and you have not asked for wealth, riches or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king, therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. and I will also give you wealth, riches and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have."

lanting

2008-03-06T20:12:00.000-08:00

i like this kind of snack very much.

its an old style and traditional snack. i knew it since i was a little kid. as far as i know lanting is originally came from central part of java island. its made of tapioka flour, cripsy with spicy flavour. later on i found lanting with cheese, sweet-hot, corn or even barbeque flavor, but my favorite one will always garlic flavor.

before i came here i was in semarang for about 3 weeks and i brought home a lot package of lanting. i also bring along with me a package of lanting here. hmmm.. alas the lanting last very soon even i eat it only a little everytime i wanted (the problem is .. i want it most of the time hahaha).

oh.. my lanting is almost finish. yesterday i meet mas totok online, he is my old college friend. i told him that i would miss my lanting because now its only a few pieces left. and guess what??

mas totok : hei, give your home address, i will send you some lanting soon. what else do you want? geplak (geplak is another traditional food from jogja city, made from young coconut, taste very sweet and comes in colors)?
me : are you sure?
mas totok : im serious. a big brother should be very kind to his little sister
me : waaa.. you're so niceeeeeee...

so .. im waiting here for my coming lanting :) i will let you know if i already got the package. hahaha

john 4:34 says :
"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work."

win win solution for us

2008-03-04T07:57:00.000-08:00

many friends asked me about what my assignment in the new company.

i came with development background, and the last one year i joined with logistic team as functional. i did development with vb, vba, abap/4 for both sap and apo, c/al certified developer (hahaha..) for ms. navision and used crystal report as reporting tools.

even i know about “many” things, seems that i should not stop here. here they assign me as kinaxis rapid response, sap-pp and sharepoint functional instead of a developer. hmmm.. want to know whats kinaxis rapid response and sharepoint? then kindly search them through google .. hehehe im too lazy to explain it here.

why? why not being a developer? why not keep my track in development area? ah.. you can ask my bosses since i have more than one boss, especially ask the Big Boss. but for me its not a problem at all :). my previous boss DaY knows that i get bored easily and fastly. in the other hand i always enjoy new things and have enough curiousity to find more and more. just wonder if Huan Leong knows (about my getting bored and my couriousity). btw my fake bro said that i have good appetite and digest everything well. hahahaha.. so it’s a win win solution for all of us :)

1 kings 4:28-30 says:
God gave solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.

friends i will never forget

2008-03-02T07:57:00.000-08:00

real friends are rare to find.

before i left some friends gave me a set of pictures of their own picture :) narsis yah dia org hahaha .. but it really ok. i really do appreciate the gift :) when someone give you something, it means that they want you to keep them in your heart. they want you to remember them anytime you look at the gift. so sweet ah?

proverbs 17:17 says :
a friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity

local rujak

2008-03-01T20:35:00.001-08:00

as a rujak's lover, i love this kind of rujak. its kind of hot, sweet, sour side dish, made from fresh fruit or vegetables. here i can find local rujak. taste good and frsh. its consists of baked tofu and baked "ca kwe", tauge, cucumber, pineapple, bangkuang with spicy peanut sauce. different from indonesian rujak' sauce, here they put sliced green tiny orange, and combrang (kind of sweet flower) beside chopped peanut, palm sugar and chilli which is common in indonesian's rujak :).

ps. rujak is fresh fruit/vegetable salad with sour-hot-sweet sauce.

psalm 92:14
they will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green

take it easy and let it go ..

2008-02-29T19:10:00.000-08:00

i know King for about 4 years. we're good friends. we talked and share our thoughts about many things but we did not talk about private or personal stuffs. last night i just decided that i better leave King without my couriousity and silly talk and questions anymore.

this morning my brother said that bitter people keep details in their mind. they keep add more and more details, more and more hatred .. until one day, he/she cannot bear more and everything will blast with no mercy. (ahh.. sorry about my bad english, i hope you know what i mean). the problem is, the explosion will affect innocent people around them.

King, why not take it easy and let it go? all the past, all the bad memories, forgive the one who treat you badly. dont make your heart get bitter and bitter. release yourself and be free. i will miss our lunch time chat .. and more than that. faceless, thoughtless, brainless, souless, mindless King .. where could i find the king? i wish you all the best.

psalm 34:17-19 says :
the righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.
the LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
a righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;

settled down

2008-02-26T20:22:00.000-08:00

hunting a place to rent was not too easy to do. we need to deal with the high price also half price for the property agent. also a lot of parameters like facility, owner, location, environment, etc. i'd like to find a place near to my office in ang mo kio, so i think serangoon north or hougang would be perfect.

firstly we visit an hdb apartement in hougang. it took a long time to find the block. its a very quiet place. too quiet for me. the room itself is okie dokie. the price is ok too. clean, attached bathroom, spacious, tv and wardrobe included. not too far from ang mo kio, only about 7 minutes by bus. we would live with the owner, a chinese family with 2 kids and an aunty.

in the same night we cannot find the second place in serangoon after we walk around and around serangoon mrt station. the block should be 'near mrt station' as the agent told us but we were too tired. so we back home (read: guesthouse). hmmm.. emi's advice should be considered : "ci bet .. beli map dong, liat map!" (means : "sis bet .. buy a map please, read the map!"). hahahaha....

the next day emi told me about a place in lavender, the adv said :"near lavender mrt". since i still dont have map, that evening we tried to read local map provided in the exit way of mrt station. hahahha.. emi, its not too easy reading a map, you know :p but however we find the place. its a cooool place :D the owner would not live in the flat, clean, wood floor, partially black painted wall with 2 tiny clinging lamps, tv and wardrobe included, cooking is allowed, will live with other 4 tenants :) but we missed the room since 2 filipino girls came earlier than us and took the room. sad .. sad .. sad .. but its ok, its quite far from my office. it took 40-50 minutes away by bus.

for jakarta citizen, being 1 hour away from home to office is common. for me, i would be thankful if i can get home in only 1 hour. but here .. more than 20 minutes classified as far. my friend emi even wishes for a 5 minutes away location :D

the next place we came was a landed property in ang mo kio, not an hdb apartement or condominium. i never dream that i will rent a room in a house because a landed property here is very very expensive. but its not a dream at all. its a big spacious common room in second floor, 3x6 meters, tv, refrigerator, a/c, wardrobe, 2 desk + 1 chair, queen size bed included and everything i mentioned is brand new! they just repainting the wall, the bath room is clean. it has wooden floor and big window. the place is quiet, near to bus stop, about 25 minutes to my office. cooking allowed and the owner will not stay with us. it's also has a reasonable price.

saturday morning we confirmed the agent that we will take the room and will move there saturday evening :) .. yipppyyyy ...... finally we got a permanent place to stay. :)

genesis 24:7 says :
"The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father's household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land'-he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

from guesthouse to guesthouse

2008-02-26T07:07:00.000-08:00

we planned to stay in a guesthouse before we can find a permanent place to stay. so i booked online a guesthouse, 100 meters from aljunied mrt (great-wow location i can say) for the first 3 nights. sky orchid backpackers hostel is a nice place to stay :D comfortable, clean and modern toilets and furnished with new furnitures. if in 3 first day i cannot a place then i would extend.

we arrived in saturday evening feb 16. we spent sunday for relax, church then tried to locate my new office because the next day i need to go to the office to collect documents for my employment pass.

monday came, we planned to get my ep and then would look for places we about to rent. but as i reached office, they asked me to start working! my manager was waiting for me and kept asking to the hr person why did not i show up :D then the plan changed :p i would work day time and we would hunting places to rent after office hour.

monday night i talked to erick, the sky orchids hostel's staff to extend our room but he said that we should do it online. so i grab my brother's computer and get online. what a pity .. the hostel were fully booked until feb 23, no room at all for us for the next 4 days. waaaaaaaaaaaaakssssss..... then where would we stay ??

so that monday night we looked for best price, best location, best place we could find. we decided to stay in farrer park guesthouse. its couple of steps to the mustafa shopping centre, the 24 hour, best price shopping centre. so we booked farrer park guest house for the next 3 days.

the farrer park is another nice place to stay. we hunted indians and pakistans food everynight around the place. we also explore the mustafa until midnight. but sky orchids is much much better place, so we booked online for next 7 days in sky orchids start in feb 23.

hmmm.. and where to stay in feb 22? well .. then we booked online (again) the frankel guesthouse, 200meters away from kembangan mrt. we stayed in frankel hostel before so we knew how the place is.

you might questioning about our luggage :p we left our 2 big luggages in eric's place without any charges (it should be $3/night)! we 'travel' along the guesthouses with some necessary stuffs.

praise the Lord, we finally find a place to stay before feb 23 so all we need to do was cancelled the booking in sky orchids :) and we ended our journey from guesthouse to guesthouse :)

matthew 8:20 says:
foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head

get lost

2008-02-23T21:34:00.000-08:00

we loooooosssssttt...
hahahaha everynight we get lost (my youngest brother and i). we tried to find some places with a "new smart way" : try to read local map everytime we get off from mrt. we tried to do our best but everynight we get lost :D it was when we tried to locate my new office in sunday afternoon. it was when we walked down through the blocks to find a hdb flat in hougang and serangoon because we had appointments with properties agents to view rooms we are about to rent. it was when we tried to find our way back from lavender (where i saw a beautiful room (wood floor, black wall with 2 cute hanged tine lamps, clean toilet, no landlord, free cook) to our guesthouse in farrer park. we also ever missed a bus shelter we need to get off hahaha. it was on our way to frankel guesthouse. also we took half hour to get to suntec mall from mom(ministry of man power) when it shoud be reached in less than 15 minutes. wakakakakakakaka>

john 14:6 says :
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me

things to tell

2008-02-18T11:26:00.000-08:00

many things has happened today, i wish i have enough time to tell and i wish i have a pair of ears to hear me :(

ephesians 3:17 says :
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. and i pray that you, being rooted and established in love ..

my first day in venture

2008-02-18T09:38:00.000-08:00

this is my first day in venture.

actually i went to the office just to collect my documents to proceed my employee pass. but i just found that my manager has waiting for me to start my working day today.

waaakssssssssss ........ how come??

i planned to find a place to stay today after i finished with my e-pass. so all the plans was changed. we met mr han, the it dept manager then meet my new colleagues and find my seat in room 03-03, building 5000. i got a brand new hp laptop and all were set for me :) hoho ... what a happy day! :)

it team had a chinese new year lunch today so i joint them for lunch .. (costs 10 bucks ..hehehehe ). the interesting part of the lunch was the new year mountain :) its kind of jelly fish mountain in cool colors. with salmon slices and the tiny orange sauce, fried dumpling and many other things i dont know how to call. everytime the waiters add the stuffs to the mountain on the plate and saying something in chinese. its kind of a new year prayer and wishes. then everybody hold their chopsticks .. and mix and pour out all things on the plate happily. wishing for a good and prosperous new year to come.

btw i got a very kind of manager, mr Wong Huan Leong who is full of smile, humble and kindness :)

jeremiah 29:11 says :
for I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

happy valentine's day

2008-02-14T12:11:00.000-08:00

happy valentine's day everyone :)

genesis 2:18 says :
the LORD God said, "it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

shoes must buy

2008-02-13T09:20:00.000-08:00

i still have 3 free days left before my flight day. so i went with my mom to buy her shoes. its not too easy for my mom to find a comfortable and safe shoes, so i spare that day only for my mom to find her shoes in ta mall. then she got a red flat shoes, comfort, light, and safe enough for her. well .. mission accomplished :D

then as we still have some hours left, it was not all my fault if then i tried to find mine :p hehehe i bought a pair of nine west shoes :D:D:D its a pair of high heel shoes, black, shiny pump shoes :D i love them :D

psalm 37:4 says :
delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.

my last day

2008-02-12T08:58:00.000-08:00

monday, feb 11
tuesday feb 12 was my last day in indofood. but my boss told me in monday evening that we will go to pepsi factory in cikampek tomorrow (tuesday) at 09.00am.
geeezzz... my plan were have lunch with development friends, clean up my desk, and going home on time in my last day in indofood. so all were cancelled. i need to do clean up that monday evening, and cancel all plans for tuesday. i left office at 8.00pm after do all the clean up, went to harvest cake shop in menteng to order farewell chocolate cakes tomorrow then heading home.

tuesday, feb 12
we left office for pepsi cikampek at 09.15. and had lunch with my navision team in boboko -indonesian cuisine. then we left cikampek at 15.15. i reached office at 18.00 and most of my colleagues were left! so i could not say good bye to them :( even we missed our lunch, i hoped that i can say good bye to all of them .. but my hope were also gone. especially for my development team : wawan, lusi, eko, hendra, mang endang. i will miss you all guys!

its a surprised for me because my former boss who's living in saudi arabian called me and congratulated me. he said that he's happy because i have found a 'better' job. hahaha ... well mr. ano, indofood will always be a good place to grow but sometimes we need to expand our own horizon and find our dreams ..

2 thessalonians 3:10 says :
if a man will not work, he shall not eat

saturday, things to do today

2008-02-09T08:40:00.000-08:00

today's saturday. there's a lot of things i need today. either put pictures on my blog or find a removable harddisk for my data backup.

i wrote a lot when i was in semarang since things allowed me to do that :p hehehe .. so now i need to update the blog with pictures :) so it will be a cute - nice blog :) also need to proceed and refine the whole collection of pictures taken by me during 2007 (and 2008) and upload the best of the collection to my online gallery. ah... if i have time i also want to upload some of the best pics to www.fotografer.net :)

other things i need to do are start packing for my relocation next week. also need to do data back up from my current pc at home and my laptop (the laptop belongs to current company) to a removable hard disk. also need to book flight online for next weekend. also need to book a guesthouse online for 2-3 days before i can get a flat to stay. also need to cover my new books i bought last week with plastic cover. i love clean and neat books. i also need to confirm telkom, my internet provider because they still not activate my home internet connection yet.

whew .. a lot of things to do ..

proverbs 24:33 says :
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest

happy chinese new year

2008-02-06T12:27:00.000-08:00

unreal feeling

2008-02-05T01:25:00.000-08:00

why chatting is interesting?

i found many things in chatting online. learnt many things also. that world not always clean and honest. that nice nick names could not always be trusted. that there are some sincere people among those jurk and bad people in chat. learnt how to write unproper english and find new vocabs and terms. learnt how the people live in the other part of the world. learnt how to become more patient and tolerance toward others. learn from the stranger how they live, culture and how they face their life and how they fix the problems.

ever heard about girls who want money from their chat mates? or .. ever heard guys who always act crazy? or you might find a vice president of a security company in hongkong, a humble, honest, busy and smart guy who send you a postcard from his typical wet country of ireland? or you might find another guy, an agency leader who always enjoy working and analysis, and what's in his mind is always his business, sales, goals and quota, either day or night, nothing else, who always has wise solution for every problem. or you might find a scientist who work as english teacher and teach you many things about chinese people and culture, who feel that he is a chinese (who) trapped in a white man body.

but how do you believe your feeling on the net?

a wise lesson i got is : do not rely too much on the net friends. it is good to live in a fantasy world (read : net) in the security of anonymity, and long distance and convenience. feel how free you can express yourself and be yourself. share about everything you want to and exchange ideas with some strangers.

as two souls keep communicate with each other, feeling may grow, liking may grow. but the chance of success is too slim. it is a fantasy world. also ldr (long distance relationship) is dangerous and impractical. chances of success is rather slim and be down to earth. do show care and concern for every body but no feelings. if you find someone interesting and care for you, it is normal but some people may react differently. they may interpret it as feelings .. for him or her ..

one thing you must remember is not to believe your feeling on the net. because all those feeling were fake and unreal .. until you meet him/her and use your 5 senses to proof that your feeling is real :)

so in the mean time, just be friends and nothing feeling attached :)

my special thanks to niall, t-bone and leonard my dear fake brother

proverbs 22:1 says :
a good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

what grandpa tye said about me

2008-02-02T09:58:00.000-08:00

. have good memory . sincere . very generous . very straight forwards (means frank, direct, speak your mind, say what you feel) . have a very strong character (strong means aggressive, positive, determined, strong will power in your personality, independent) . really inquisitive . outspoken person . outgoing . friendly and very honest .

. have a very romantic heart . rather a sensitive lady . easily fall into trap of emotion . easily get emotionally involved . your mood changes like the cloud in the sky . low EQ . so smart in retorting me ...

. a very keen photographer . know how to appreciate beauty and captured every moment of God’s work in nature on picture . really multi talented . good at photography, handicraft and computer . very artistic . very scenic . more art inclined .

. a super woman . smart lady . special . neither pretty nor ugly . an intelligent lady . a nice girl . definitely not a bad one .

. very philosophical too . lots of food for thought .

ps.
thanks grandpa tye, for being a great friend and being very honest to me

psalm 139:13 says :
for You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb.
i praise You because i am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, i know that full well.

cutie cutie cutie adorable hammies

2008-01-31T21:37:00.000-08:00

i was looking to my picture collection of my hammies. they're so cuuuuuuute and adorable. their tiny nose, round and clear eyes (black or red ones), funny twin teeth, soft fur and great smell of hammies .. they all make me keep starring on the pictures and say : how great THOU art!

i always adore fury creatures. either doggies, hammies, rabbits, tigers, etc..etc.. except cats hehehe..

feb 2005 i bought 2 hammies. i called the female as poko. and the male i called as piko. they are cute hammies. piko was a light browm campbels with red eyes. poko was a tiny grey white-winter with black big eyes. in july 2006 they become a tribe of hammies with 36 members. so fast ah? hahahahahaha ...

i got one futuristic plastic cage + 4 wire cages + 1 simple cage (for hammy travel) + 1 big green dough bowl (belongs to my mom) + 1 trash basket + 1 shopping basket (belongs to my mom) as their homes :)

i love my hammies but then i found that mixing a campbels and a white winter hammy was a crime, because their genetics do not match each other. so, many times the childrean will not be a healthy generation according to some online articles. so i stopped breeding them. i never let a male and female in the same place to stop breeding. i gave the hammies to my friends and told them not to breed them because they will only produce unhealthy kids.

then i saw them -the left hammies- died one by one. and it hurted me. one of them dies because its water bottle didnt work! God, i really regret the day i refilled the bottle :(

piko died in his very old age (btw hammy only reach 2 years of age). he still wanted to move and play even he was in his old age. but inside the body, his inner body part were started to fester.

i cried everytime i lost my hammy. seems like i lost part of my own body and soul :( my pets are my own life. i love them soooooooo much.

"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones (read: hammies) will cry out"

enough..stop.....

2008-01-30T08:03:00.000-08:00

enough..stop.....i dont think he deserves to be in our topic now ..

that what was my fake brother told me toninght when we chat about my ex bf. how many times i spent my time to think of undeserve things? how many times i let myself do talk and share about unimportant topics? how many times i spent my money for such kind of undeserve stuffs? i could do much much more if i can utilize myself well. i need to make most of my time, resources and money. learn to spend them more wisely.

my fake brother's words keep on my mind until now:
"enough .. stop .. "

ooooh... see the differences between my fake brother and i? so sad :(

whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him

little ppiglet with her diary

2008-01-28T19:33:00.000-08:00

i started my first diary when i was 12-13.

a golden diary book was given to me by mrs corwin. my sister got the silver one. she said that we can write down everything we want in the diary, either good things or bad feeling.

later, when i reread my diary, i could not understand what i wrote in the diary :p cos most of the times what i wrote in the diary were bad feeling or experiences. i wrote the diary as when i was crying. sometimes i let my tears felt into the pages of my diary then tried to swap the tears on the page but all i did were became a mess. also when i was in a hurry or upset my handwriting become very bad hehehe. the golden diary become dirty, full of messy, hard to read.

so this blog is a good idea of writing. whatever your mood is your writing were always be neat and clear. it would not be italic even if you write as you lying on your comfort bed or sofa, or getting asleep when you're writing :) if you mistype something then all you need is retype it. if you're crying then your tears will not affect your blog :p

proverbs 3:3 says :
let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart

a strange stranger i met this evening

2008-01-27T03:40:00.000-08:00

i always open to stranger i met. but a stranger is not always a friend.

i went to gramedia bookstore today for some good books my uncle told me about. i left the store with 3 novels by andrea hirata, "the relaxed home" by atlanta bartlett, 2 wooden photo frames, a green pen and a cutter. the last 4 item i bought are barunson's products with 75%discount. hehehe.

after that i sat in a green plastic chair for rujak -indonesian fruit salad in the pavement of the book store. a man who sat before me tried to start a chat. as i prayed for my rujak, he asked me where did i go this morning for church. that's how we started chat.

stranger : where did you go this morning for church?
ppiglet(with smile) : puspowarno baptist church
s : oh, where's puspowarno? im a new here so i dont know where is it
p : well.. somewhere, i cant describe it cos im also a stranger here
s : my church is X church, in salatiga. its not popular here but in papua (irian jaya island). the central church is in lawang (east java)
p : any X church here in semarang?
s : no. do you want to come to salatiga with me for church?
p : what??
s : where do you live?
p : i stay in a hotel here
s : where you come from
p : jakarta
s : so you go to baptist church also in jakarta?
p : no, i go to jcc (a.k.a bethany church) when im in jakarta
s : oh.. X church is very close to bethany church with pastor niko. we recognized the bethany church ...bla..bla..bla..bla..
s : have you get involve in church ministry?
p : yea, i do. indirect ministry
s : you need to join a ministry. you need to join a cellgroup. you need a counsellor.
s : if you need a counselor, i have a friend who can help you with your problem
p : what?? sorry, no thank you, but i dont have problem.
s : i can ask my friend to meet you in your hotel for counseling (he tried to find his pen and paper)
s : but you need a counsellor. i will ask my friend to meet you, my friend is a girl.

i left him.

he remind me to an aquintance who always think that she's the only one who is right. for her, everybody who is not with her are wrong. she thinks that everybody should follow her. she gave us a holy communion in pastamatrix the restaurant! does she have an authority to do that? she splashed "holy water" to a friend when she asked to pray for him in macdonald. and she said that she has a vision about me as a "lustful pig". :(

and the stranger i met today comes from the same church as this girl. it shocked me (*shudder*).

but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler

get closer to our world

2008-01-26T18:56:00.001-08:00

few years ago one of my friend pett always use his cellphone for internet connection. it was 2004 so the internet connection through cellphone is not as cheap as today. i just wondered why he was not careful with his cellphone bills. he said that it was not a wasting cos his point was effectivenes in his limited time. he could get into his business anywhere and anytime he wanted to. his "extravagant" way of life really surprised me.

but lately i just realise that sometimes all what we need was a reliable simple stuff with a lot of capabilities. people need to get connected with other people/the world. you may called the stuff as cellphones or pda or laptop or anything you name it. im not too interested with those kind of tehcnologies, however technologies bring us closer to our world even distance separated us. even the price might be higner than the normal price.

thanks for matrix and my old sony ericsson. thanks for indosat 3g and my huge vodafone modem. thank you for techy guys outthere to make all things possible :)

i thank my God every time i remember you

spirit, soul and body

2008-01-26T03:05:00.000-08:00

to get connected with the world, my laptop need its spirit.

we all believe that human being is consists of spirit, soul and body. do you believe that computer also got the same parts? i do. for me, the body of computer is the hardware itself. a turned on pc set could not do "anything" without the soul which called as : software, application, or the system. spirit of a computer would make a computer PERFECT!. only with the spirit, my computer can get related with other computers. here i can say that the spirit of a computer is network or internet connection :):):)

if you join a project for weeks or months and need to stay all alone in hotel room, you might feel what i've been feeling for months :) or maybe what all you need to do was waiting and waiting, then you might call a laptop with its spirit as your very best friends. hahahahahahahaaa...

may God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. may your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ

121107-012508

2008-01-25T23:35:00.000-08:00

hmmm... today, another miracle happened to me :) once again HE did a great thing in my life. and guees what .. days between dec 11 2007 and jan 25 2008 were a long long long waiting time for me. seemed that it would be forever waiting. praise the Lord, He gave me a break today. He answered my prayer today.

i was screamed this morning and punched one of my friend's shoulder. then gave a call to my brother's cellphone. shouted one the phone "approved!". "they approved me!!". hahahah what a happy day :)

i will save the rest of the story for later :)
for now, i want to build my stone of memorial for my God. i will never forget today, the day He lifts me. as i crossed the river of doubts and worries. thanks Lord.

praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
let all the people say, "Amen!". praise the LORD.

ud6/5

2008-01-24T08:07:00.000-08:00

i started this adventure in november 2005 :) it is an adventure to buy a tiny house for my own. and i want to say that its really cooooolll........

november 2005 - i just wonder what should i do with my money. not becos i got a lot of money but i just want to make most of my money. spend it wisely.

nov 2005 - we went to kota wisata site in cibubur, east part of jakarta. i decided to buy the smallest type they have. a minimalist style of a grey picture -yea! i bought picture- cos they did not even dig the soil yet! they swapped my credit card for 5mil dealing.

dec 2005 - pay the first installment for 5 times down payment, 10mil each.
jan 2006, feb 2006, march 2006, april 2006 - pay the rest of down payment installment.

april 2006 - signed a 15years(!!!) contract with permata bank. we dealed with 15.5% rate of interest, fixed for the first year, then floating rate for the next years according to the market/bank rate. it was 2.4mil/month for the first year.

may 2006 - may 2007 my first year of payment for my cute ottawa house.

nov 2006 - i saw a great-cool-strong-very ppiglet-grey- building in ottawa cluster. my own tiny house :)

jan/feb 2007 i got the keys but the developer left the doors without handles! how come i get inside the house? so i left the keys in customer service, had them to setup all the handles and re-plant some pine trees that already died in my small terrace "garden" :) i got a piece of green area in front of my house and they put 3 little pine trees. some kind of short bushes and yellow wild orchid plants.

dec 2008 - for the first time i entered my ottawa house and found that its really well made. well done guys! in the same day i registered the house to a rental agent for 15mil/year. prohome, the agent said that the market rate is 12.5mil/year but they will open the offering with 15mil/year.

jan 2008 - prohome called that the house is picked by a korean for one year contract and he wants it as soon as possible. until now im still in semarang city for project so i asked my youngest brother to make a contract sign for me. he was surprisesd with my debts! A LOT of debts to pay before he can sign the rent contract. wakakakakakakaaaa...

care to know the debts detail?
. pln/electricity bills for 3 months
. pam/water supply bills for 3 months
. ipl/iuran pembersihan lingkungan / environment cleaning bill for 12 months
. pbb/pajak bumi dan bangunan/earth and building tax for 1 year

other things i need to pay were :
. electricity reconnection (cos they cut the connection after i ignore the 3 months bills
. water supply reconnection (cos they cut the connection after i ignore the 3 months bills

wow wow wow wow what the best house owner on earth. i neglected all my responsibilities to my cute ottawa house :(

but now i payed full all the debts :)

one thing i regret about the prohome agent is that i need to pay 10% agent fee! it should be 5% only but cos of some dirty game among the sales/marketing then i need to pay 10% instead of 5%. grrrrr....

by the way the contract closed with 15mil/year plus 2mil deposit (to avoid unwanted situation like dirty walls, unpayed bills, etc ) but after paying all the bills, agent 10% provision, only 12.5mil left now :) hahaha ..

my special thanks to michael, my icecoldstock's boss for about 3 years. i had work for him since november 2004 until december 2007. he's a good boss. he appreciated and recognized my work. also barry the big boss who really care about me. my ottawa house was built with what i earned from them. when she started to bear her first fruit, the supports from the icecoldstocks was ended. everything is perfect on its time. and all were planned by HIM alone.

all the praise, glory and honour is for GOD, and GOD alone.

ps.
ud6/5 is my ottawa house block and number :)

unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.
unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.

why people write their blog?

2008-01-23T18:30:00.000-08:00

why people write their blog?

1. to capture moments in their life
2. to develop their writing ability
3. to make money through the ad-sense hahaha
4. to share whats on their mind and let the world join them to make the world better place to live :)
5. to share whats on their mind, and their secret toughts they dont really care if anyone read the blog or not
6. internet, computer and blogs, thats how they spend most of their time cos they already got all they need (no need to think of their materials needed). i know an aquintance who has had all that she needs. all she did was shopping, dining, hang out and .. blogging. what did she do for living? hmm.. nothing, cos like i said, she already got what she needed for years to come :)

in the future, when your children ask you, 'what do these stones mean?' tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. these stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever."

late 2007 flashback

2008-01-14T18:22:00.000-08:00

today is the 14th of january 2008. this flashback should be written about 2 weeks ago but i was not sure what to write :p

okie.
first of all .. i'd like to say HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
hahahah so late, ah?

hmmm.. about the 2007 flashback

in early jan 2007. my pastor said that in 2007 we will experience extraordinary miracle(s). will it be fullfilled in my personal life?

i started 2007 with a new spirit indeed.
january => spent new years eve in pandaan - surabaya for navision implementation (hah!)
january => got a stranger as new friend, but if I can rewind one thing in 2007, it is not to reply his email. what a big mistake i ever done. He’s been a nightmare for me.
april => switched from a developer to be an system application team member
- traveling .. traveling .. traveling .. whew ..
june-november => started a serious relationship in early june and end it in the end of november.
august => bought my mom her dreaming clothing. She’s so exciting with what she got!
september => found ‘error 99’ on my cute camera. so sad :(
september => went to spore for the first time (finally!) and met fun guys and stuffs there. spent time with my beloved brother. fun days in spore with yummy indian food hahahaha..
april-december => found a LOT of silly dramas from a guy i called as boyfriend :((
november-december => spent days in semarang for project
december => just realise that i pending all pics i captured in 2007. lot of stuffs q-ing for my picture website. lot of things to do in 2008!
december => got a super surprise email at december 11th 2007 (hihihi .. was this the extraordinary miracle?) i think so. HE knows the best time to gave me surprises cos december 10th was a very hard day for me. it was one of the worst days for me in 2007.
december => register my new house to a rental agent. btw they stopped my electricity & water facility since i ignored my monthly responsibility hihihihi..

for short, until the end of 2007, God has been stuffed me with His kindness, mercy and goodness. God still loves me and HE shows me that HE loves me much more than i ever imagine :)

thanks God, i was stuffed with your goodness in 2007 :)

YOU crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance

about leo

2008-01-13T07:20:00.000-08:00

i have a good friend called as leo.

the funny things between us is that we draw a line between us the first time we know each other. as two souls keep communicate with each other, feeling may grow, liking may grow. we promised to keep ourself as mystery, never exchange personal data and keep chatting. he asked me to treat him as "brother" but in the same time he said that he doesnt believe in brother sister relationship between two non blooded related persons, only love relationship between two persons of opposite sex.. if they are very close...
hahahahahaha he's so funny!

many many times he only show himself up just to say hello then disapear for days. yea, he'a a busy leader and a good businessman who always busy. he always think of his business performance. thought it was his bad manner not to give prior notice before he ended our chat but then i know that he's REALLY a busy man. hahaha .. sorry brother :)

you might think that he is "crazy" and plin-plan (inconsistent). oops, he's not crazy at all. he's the most wise and honest chat friend i ever met. he's smart, cool and VERY honest. he tried to end our friendship twice cos we have different level of thinking. he's not match with me at all. emotionally, he's a well developed man, on the other hand im a very undiscipline, straight forward, no certain goals in life, childish etc..etc.. (so it must be pain for him to deal with a ppiglet)

wow. great leo, ah? yea. great him and poor ppiglet :(

a friend loves at all times,and a brother is born for adversity

feb 02 2008
geeeeezzzz... before this i never know that leo is your real name. i thought leo was only a nick :p

doggies loves me...

2008-01-07T08:49:00.000-08:00

yea. thats right.
about 3 years ago i stay in a house with a black english cocker spaniel dog. he was a very courious dog. he barks in every stranger came to the house. and will never stop until the guest leaves his teritory. hahaha
the problem was .. we need to stay there for about 3 days! for short, fredo - the dog then become very close with me in less than 2 hours ive been there.

he follow me wherever i go. he wanted me to pet and touch him. if not then he will put his head on my hand or tried to sit on my lap -we (the host and i) always sat on a red carpet-. he will stand in his 2 legs if i stand, putting the other front legs on me. he tried to enter and stay on my room. at night he stay in front of my room all night, crying. he wished he could come in.

the host were all wonder why fredo became very close to me cos he never even do those things to any of the owner. after 3 days we left the house and the next month was christmas. the house owner sent me christmas sms and told me that fredo died.
after my leaving, fredo was sick and got stressed. he did not want to eat at all. they took do to his vet but it didnt work. he passed away about 2-3 weeks after my leaving.

yesterday i went to salatiga city for relatives and i saw a big male german shepherd dog in his big cage. i came near him to say hello and the people said : don’t come too close, edo is very dangerous and fierce. pls don’t come near him. but for me he looks very cute. he has big brave eyes and soft palms. i came near him and he keep looked at me. then he tried to reach me with his front legs. i can see his blue registration number inside his right ear. ouch .. must be hurt when they put the tattoo when he was only a puppy. poor fellow  he has a black wet nose (a dog with a nose that is not predominantly black must be disqualified. crazy!). when i leave him he cried. he tried to hold my hands with his front legs and play them with his mouth. he didn’t want me to leave him. he enjoy when i pet him and play with ears, scratch his head and back. slrrrpp… he licks me and my glases!

we went to kalioso, to meet my moms old friends. and there they were.. 2 local dogs and we met as old friends! one of them stand on his 2 back legs and reach me for hugs. the other one keep starring at me and allow me to scratch his fury head. love them very much. muuuach..

ask ..

2007-12-02T03:08:00.000-08:00

since last month im seriously trying to get better job, better salary, better way of living (hahaha!). yea, then i ask as it written. i asked. i seek. i knocked.

i asked for a better income, then came one of my current boss. he said that he could not hire me any longer start in january. cryyyyyyyyyyyyyy................

then i keep i asked for a better job and salary, then came the happening that i really dont like. someone took my purse out of my backpack. cryyyyyyyyyyyyyy...........

it just remind me to an old friend Eka. he asked Him to give him patient. and the next days everybody at his work seems queuing, asking for his patiently. wonderful, right?

keep asking ppiglet, keep seeking, keep knocking ..

ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
for everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds;
and to him who knocks, the door will be opened...

Jan 25 2008 Thanks DAD, You answer my prayer and provide all that i need :)

black canyon the "cozy place"

2007-11-17T20:51:00.000-08:00

when i write this im in a "cozy place" in a highland of Candi, semarang, central Java. this is a "cozy place" i heard from an online friend. im travelling for about 12 days for business. im here not because i need to meet friends for hang out. im here cos i just bored at hotel and no place to go. i have one and half day for myself :) today we end at 12pm then we went for lunch in a seafood resto with local style. then spent 2 hours relaxing, chatted with my old crazy friend (mas totok) and my dear brother.

planned to left hotel at 4 but i broke my own plans as usual :p i left hotel at 6 for tahu gimbal and conglie home made ice cream in simpang lima. then jumped into taxi for a cafe called black canyon. i heard about this cozy place from a new unseen friend few days ago. what i was to tried to do was find a cool place for relaxing, killing time and surfing. yea, my best friends during travelling are my laptop and my 3g modem. alas, the modem does not work in this black canyon. the connection is connected but it does not give me a connection! waaaks .... what a bad news pals. but thats ok :)

i tried a cool cold coffee with caramel. and now a bowl of "good food for good health and good life" :) black canyon tom yum kung! yup! cos black canyon is a thai franchise cafe :) hmmm.. a very tasy and spicy bowl of shrimp soup. the mushroom slices were swimming in that dark yellow sour soup :) not bad at all ......

black canyon could said as a cozy place except the warm air and a little bit crowded. i think the ai-con is too warm. they have modern-minimalist interior but in some place (at least in front of me) there couples of big old style chairs and table. they remind us to "jaman belanda". hehehe confusing me :p the people are very friendly, maybe cos they're thai franchise + javanese culture of people. it take place in the front of a hotel (called Candi Baru hotel if im not mistaken). candi is the name of area with high surfaces of lands. my taxi went up and down, up, up, up , down, turn left and right many times before we get there. girls, if you drive smoothly through this area without any problem then i bet you can drive anywhere easily wakakakaka ..

btw this place is full of high class - chinese people with javanese deep dialects. ah.. i have no idea how to describe it. before this cafe i went to a church where i plan to attend tomorrow to check out theirsunday service. alas the indonesian service helds in 6pm in the morning :p and the next service is an english service at 10.30pm. geeez.. and you know what? i lost my indonesian bible since i went to singapore 3 weeks ago. so i like or not i need to use my big english version bible instead of my tiny light little indo bible. maybe thats why God sent me to a church with english service only available for me. hehehe

its 20.45PM now. can you imagine what i had taken this last 8 hours? yummy local style seafood, tahu gimbal, conglie ice cream, cold coffee with caramel, a big bowl of great shrimp tom yummy yum kung and last.. a bottle of aqua to neutralise my throat. wakakakakakakakaka. God, im stuffed with goodness :)

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;great is your faithfulness.

same direction?

2007-09-19T09:51:00.000-07:00

wow.. seems that everything tells me to go to the same direction!
the article, the discussion with brother, the sermons, big bear comments, the yearly bonus, early pay from michael, long next project in semarang .. and today's email in my mailbox!

ok you might guess it :)

GOD only give you step by step direction

Sept 23 2007 : Go! and sin no more ..
Jan 25 2008 : CONFIRMED! thanks DAD :)

rejected

2007-09-13T08:38:00.000-07:00

have you ever feel rejected by someone?

once i felt very upset, i lifted my right hand and i yelled and screamed to my dog, Miki. he felt very scared. he low his head, hide his tail, look at me and get away from me. he looked very sad and wonder. i was someone who he trust, someone who will play with him, someone who fed him and gave him bath. he felt like " .. now she yelled at me?". i never forget his white funny face .. getting away from me, from our house and gate. he went to our neighbour's open garage and hide under their car. he felt rejected. hurted. his hurted face keep come into my mind even until now .. even its 25 years ago.

my Big Bear rejected me.

he gave wrong impression to his best friend (who is a girl) and his other friends who are girls that currently he does not have a girl friend :( whatever the reason, i feel rejected. soooooooooooo hurted.

i low my head, look at him, questioning him, i dont understand him, crying and im getting away from him .. from the house and the gate ....

the name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe

unexpected things

2007-09-01T05:55:00.000-07:00

sometimes it takes an unexpected encounter to put your life in perspective.

mine are : being here all my life (when my first dream whem i was a kid was go abroad), scratched face during my second flying fox chance, being tired and alone this saturday night when my bf is hang out with his friend, being an employee in a super big company with super tiny salary, my blank passport for this last 10 years (it wil get expired this september!).

all of them were unexpected :( many will laugh because all those stupid thing i stated above.
but thats fatcs. i wrote this blog not to impress anybody who read this. i made this blog only for me, to teach myself for being honest, and not to miss any of my life. this blog sings my heart.

ok. now, so whats the purpose of my life? cos many things seems unexpected. and to say that "life is to glorify GOD" sounds funny now. how can i share God to others if i disapointed with my own life?

.messy. old. poor. ugly. tired. confuse. distrust.

Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

if i were a storekeeper

2007-09-01T04:15:00.000-07:00

I just came back from cikampek city, where the navision project for pepsi - the cola drink- take place. it should be a three weeks long project but luckily we can went home for late weekend. i wrote late weekend cos we leave the pepsi factory at noon. its late tough, but its better than no break at all.

last time i joined a project in a dairy factory. we spent 8am-10pm everyday at work, including weekends, and .. the new years eve :p there was a time that we left office at 1.30am. hahaha .. thats why i called lucky, we can have late weekend. yea, the data we need were not ready yet, also cos cikampek is only 1.5hour away from jakarta :)

but kind of sad cos -now im sitting in *bucks- seems that even a waiter looked down at me. maybe cos i looked very tired and poor so when i went to their counter they just looked at me questioning herself "is she going to order something?". when i smiled to her then she realised me as their customer and smile back at me.

it also happened last week, when i went to a shoe store called "crocs" just as i arrived from cikampek. i was in a hurry, cos its late already, i just go to a corner and took a pair of moccasin style crocs. i checked the price for last time i visited the store they give discounts according to our independence day. but the discount tag were gone. and i asked a storekeeper "no more discount?". he starred at me, looked confuse, he was like "are you sure you want to buy them?". whew :( and as quick as i get into the store, i went to cashier and pay. he still wonder at me and ask his friend to serve me. he shocked.

yea, i am an stupid faced-middle aged girl, look tired, messy hair, almost gone make up, oily face with a big backpack. God, if i were them i will look up to my every customer :) even if they come out the store without nothing they buy :)

james 2:16 says :
if one of you says to him, "go, i wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?

many things happened when i was away

2007-08-27T10:34:00.000-07:00

mother how are you today,
here is a note from your daughter.
many things happened when i was away,
mother how are you today.

Aug 24 is my mom b'day. she's 65 old of age now. i took her to wtc mangga dua for clothes shopping :D and i spent 1.6 million for her chlothes. wakakakakaka. well.. its really ok. God trust me abundant blessing to passing it to other, not to keep it for myself :) especially those ones that i love. yesterday i also spend some for my big bear. he loves that crocs, the mix green-brown moccassin crocs we saw last week in ex :) so i bought them, no other reason, but just to make him happy :)

there's a lot of things happened when i was away from my regatta. but too much to write. too busy to write. too much hathred. too painful to tell. and too messy to write. so i just write it in the sand of my heart so it will gone with the wind of love, compassion and time. Not to mention a name to you is much-much easier than to say it in a daily prayer. Bengs said that the best thing to fix hathred is to pray and say blessings for the person. (hei .. how are you brother Bengs?)

now im in my hotel room in bukit indah city in cikampek. about 2 km away from pepsi factory where we're implementing a new system to the company. at least for next 2 weeks we will stay here for duty. yea, i miss my mom, my doggies, my room and my big bear or course. all i can do in this hotel room is chatting -if someone's around, like yuli or my bro, or nav2- or browsing. luckily big bear allows me to bring his 3g modem for wireless connection.

im tired now :) see you :)

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in ME

Pepsi Trips

2007-08-15T08:32:00.000-07:00

Im in Pepsi now. We’re implementing a new system, Microsoft Navision 4.0. Normally its about 1and half hour to get there. But sometimes our driver make it 1 hour and 15min. Even my boss make it less then an hour. Cool!!! I like racing wakakakakakakakakakakakakakaka.

Im the only girl in this project team so normally I will take front seat. But if my boss do driving, then I better sat in middle seat. Its more scary wakakakak cos he loves zig zag driving. The problem is 70% of vehicles in Cikampek toll road were big trucks, super big trucks and containers trucks. Wakakakakakakakakaka

Today we went to a traditional resto serves Sundanese food about 5 min from the factory. Really traditional but very quick in serving :) good food anyway and I eat a lot :) I ate 3 pcs of Tahu Kipas or Fan Tofu. Yup .. one of my fave food is tofu :) I drank young coconut ice. You know what? I really wanted to drink young coconut ice

Big Bear

2007-08-08T11:32:00.000-07:00

My bf is a photographer. He won some prizes in photgraphy and decided to move to Jakarta to pursue photography. I knew him as he sent me a message in Myspace on Jan 31, 2007 while looking for Indonesians who had an interest in Photography. I like to do photography but only as a practical hobby. For my bf, he do photography as a career. He own a website as gallery of his best photos. He's a great photographer and has nice sense of art.

Bf and i met on April 6, 2007 and we made commitment on June 14. He is a Big Bear for me, and i mean it :)

PS.
Myspace is a web community just like Friendster, hi5, etc. My Myspace page was not created by me. It was created by my good-far away-funny friend, Brunny :) When a mail came to inform that i got a new message in Myspace .. i did not even know the password!! I need to ask Myspace about my own password and then they sent the 'forgotten' password through my email. Cos it was Brunny who signed up Myspace account for me and he forgot what password he setted up for me. wakakakakakakakakaka

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.."
Geez..... i love this verse! please allow me to use it many2 times in my Regatta :)

Sensitivity

2007-08-08T09:52:00.000-07:00

Today is a day off for Jakarta people. We have our first govenor's election.

Two days ago (monday) my bf told me that he has a plan to meet some friends (S, Yuli and a client) today(wednesday). Yuli is good about knowing shooting area/location. And S will help with transportation. It was an informal meeting about his photo project we (bf and i) planned to do this saturday. He told me that he has a day off on wed (But he forget about the day off of the vote day. All he knew was he got a day off. Btw he's not a Jakarta's citizen) but he thought i had to work so he did not invite me to the meeting. He said sorry and tried to convince me that it is ok for me to join. I was so sad cos he did not include me but it is not me who like to invite myself even it was happened because of a mistake. I will not mess up anybody's plan so i will never invite myself into anybody's plan. So i said no, i will not come.

But this morning i thought it is ok to join because it is an informal meeting. And it is my bf's business and project, so if he said ok then it means ok. Nothing to be doubt about. I told him that i changed my mind and he said that we all will meet at 1pm. I headed to 24 *bucks Sarinah when i got an sms from bf saying that S were there and were leaving soon cos she cannot see us (bf and i) together. She said that it hurt to see us. She also said that she cancelled saturday if i come. He was also surprised to know that thing.
I said : 'what??'

It was a long chat through sms on my way to *bucks. For short he was upset. I was upset. I know she was upset also.

For me, if she that sensitive girl -she cannot see bf and i together- then why did she visited and spent sooo many hours with my bf in his house? She never think that im sensitive too? (please check out my previous post about the visit). If she's that sensitive, why she did that to me? I thought she's a "modern and open" person. If she can open about the visit/spend time things i think she should accept and ready that we(bf and i) are together.

At last i said : "ok, tell her to stay. i will go alone, shopping. your career is more inportant than me"
And I told her : "S, i will not come and i will not go shooting on sat. i hope you're happy with this"

He needs her help for shooting, and i know that his career is urgent. We can meet anytime next time. But also wanted to meet Yuli :(

So i decided to buy Yuli a belated b'day present and then give her cos i dont know when i can see her again. I can called her to get out of for a while so S did not have to see me. Then i went to Sarinah for Yuli's present. I found a sexy black top but i wonder if she like sexy stuff. So i bought a grey stretch t-shirt for Yuli. She's a big girl :) When i handed her the present (in Pizza Hut terrace - cos they're having late lunch when i came) i just realise that she grow bigger than the last time i saw her! Wow, Yuli .. hope the shirt fits to you :) And if you like sexy stuff, i can get it for you tomorrow before it sold out :)

Yea, my bf was in Pizza Hut .. with S and his client. And i was there also .. with by a big clear glass wall between us. I know he tried not to hurt her but there's such pain inside me :( As i leave the resto he sent me sms saying that he missed me, why not come in if you're there?

I cried : If you're there.. why not come out?

Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead

Being unsecure :(

2007-08-06T10:33:00.000-07:00

I've been unsecure these last days.

The story starts here:
A girl S loves my bf very much even long time ago before i know him. Then he met me and they agree to be good friends. I know S, i talked, chatted and met her several times. She's sooo sad because of that, i know that. And my bf tried to cheer her up but i think she could not let her feeling go easily.

Most of the times i can off work about 6pm or more. Even today, i left my work at 8pm. He has an irregular schedule everyday due to his work. For her, she has tons of free time. So sometimes he and i had quick dinner and went home during weekdays, maybe 1-2 times a week. On weekend we spend time most together but sometimes he would go with her to watch movie on his laptop on Sunday.

He usually spend friday with her. And sometimes they also hang out few times in a week. Last month they spend a lot of time in Starbucks. He promised to heading home soon but then i know that they went home at 3AM in the morning :( I talked to him about this and he said that it will not happened again.

2 weeks ago my bf hurted ankle and could not walk but he already planned to watch another movie with her. So he invited her to spend Friday and Sunday for dvd movies (because Sat he and i had plan, then I spend Sat with him). I told him that i dont like the long time visit and he promised that he will not invite a girl to his house for more than a certain time. He offered to cancel his meeting/invitation but i said no, he should not cancel what he promised/planned to do.

Yesterday and today :
My bf planned a lot of activities with her this week. He told me yesterday that he will ask her to company him for some reason today. Then tonight he implisitely told me that he want to go with her to some place tomorrow and he told me another plan to spend Wednesday with her and another friend :O:O:O He has a day off on wednesday and i told him last week that I got a day off also since it is an election day of our govenor. But he did not invite me :(( He said that he forgot if i also had a day off either.
Wow ..

My problems :
I just think why do i feel so unsecure?
Am i normal to feel unsecure?
Or am i crazy to have too much thinking?
Why he'd like to spend a LOT of time with her?
Maybe he's bored of me :( Maybe he finds that she's better than me :(
I wish i could have more time with him. I wish i could available for him anytime. I wish i could ..

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.."

Good morning. Happy Friday :)

2007-08-03T22:05:00.000-07:00

Thats what my boyfriend said this morning in his sms. Yep, another happy day called as Friday :) Another happy day cos I still alive :p cos I still have a loving boy friend :) cos i still have a good job :p cos i still have a very kind boss, Michael ;)

Today i hope that i can finish everything on time at work and then head to Plaza Semanggi for dinner with my friends Evie and Echie. But alas i could not leave work soon. They're also sad of course :( but nothing i could do. So after work i treat myself with shopping. I went shopping not only being bored and tired, but also because there were traffic jam everywhere in Jakarta. Today is the last day of campaign days for Jakarta's govenor election. By the way, i got black pants and Sea Quill antioxidant wakakakakaka.... This ppiglet really scared of being old :p

GOD's love and compassions are new every morning; great is THY faithfulness.

Regatta

2007-08-02T11:02:00.000-07:00

A regatta is a term used to describe either a boat race, or series of boat races. Although regattas are typically amateur competitions, they are usually very highly organized, formally structured events, with complex rules precisely describing the schedule and procedures of the event.

Folks, tell me whats your hopes and dreams? Mine is simple : a peaceful and elegant life. Clear, transparant, cool and tasteful. If i can use colors, mine is white as clouds, bright orange as sunshines, and black as solid cold stone. My life might be simple but it should be well organized. A tasteful life that i can share it to others. My home should not be a big one but a place where i can a see-trough. A cool and warm place in the same time. Full of laugh and love. I might not have many but i treasure whatever i have. I try to keep my life simple, reduce unnecessary things and keep priorities.

But seek first HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.