36th Post: Tribute To Women

Okay... Today is not a women's day or something but just suddenly reminded of this saying 'behind every great man there is a great woman' or something like that. Since I never consider myself THAT great, behind me there is more than just one woman, haha. Shall credit them here, wheee.... Oh and a little bit disclaimer here, I might not write about the guys version on this, simply because there are too many guys who have shaped me: my dad, my bro, 7 Deadly Sins, Hall 4 United, Engin Mugging Club, blah blah... (i always 'gang' up with guys what???). Anyways, here's my list (in no order of importance, other than my mum being the most important):

1. Tri Sinarwaningsih / Mum
The woman with 3 names. I used her self-given name out of respect for her decision. Well, she is a typical supermom. Nasty at times but very very very nice n loving lady. Can do anything, from cooking (her corn soup is awesome, drool drool!) to pharmacy (medicine pro, can cure any illness one) to business (her shop makes money already i think). The ALPHA female in my eyes. She has this prejudice about a certain group of people but hey, everyone does. But good thing is that she is very religious. Always obedient to God's law, including the love-thy-neighbour principle. I love her a lot.

2. Susmiyati / P6 Form Teacher
Fierce woman, iron hand, genious hater. She is the first hateable person I met in my life. Can forgive her already. She indirectly taught me many stuff. From how to lie low in hard environment to how to compromise with tough people. My mum said that she used my name to raise her popularity in my old school but yeah, who cares? As long as she does not do any harm to me, its okay.

3. Ninki Hermaduanti / Close Friend (SMP-SMA)
She was a smart girl. All of the time she is in top ten in school. Well, she is my first ever female close friend. From her I learn some stuff that differentiate a guy from a girl (not i the physical sense, mind you) such as how we think and behave. Called her Mbak Ninki which is how younger guy refers to slightly older woman.

4. Chiu Hwee Wan / Sec3-4 Form Teacher
The ultimate form teacher in my entire schooling life. Totally opposite of Susmiyati. Mrs Chiu cared for the well-being of her students, especially her international students. She made sure that we can cope well to Singapore education system, regularly calling informal meetings just to make sure we were doing well. And she is quite lame! Haha, could not forgot her 'come from China by sampan' and 'football club kids'.

5. Annisa Melissa Manurung / Close Friend (RELC-Sec4)
The second girl I address as Mbak. She is a very adventurous and daring girl. Knows many things. Has a crazy sense of spontaneity. She is a basketball lover. Taught her basketball at first, but she overtook me very fast.

6. Sifra Dian Asih / Close Friend
The name should be longer but I have forgotten wew... The aspired story writer / cartoonist / dancer / singer / linguist / whatever. Check her awesome blogs quite often. She always put her smile across her face even though she lives in a very very adverse living environment. I admired her faith in God. My bro and I always tag-team-ly play pranks on her due to her gullible nature. Hahaha...

7. Maria Yunita / Childhood Friend
Been friend since I-dont-know-when-is-it. We attended the same church, grew in the sunday school, and her recollection of me was 'the naughtiest guy around'. Someone (Vinz) speculated that she is my girlfriend. Well, up to this moment, it is entirely untrue. Normally it's "Maling teriak maling" (pot calling kettle black) right? A girl talented in artistic stuff (as far as I know: dancing, songwriting, singing), started to get close to her (after I moved to Singapore) due to her ex.

8. Grace Yunita Gumala / Ex-Crush
Just to clarify: she is happily in a relationship with another friend of mine. Occupied most of my mind during my JC2 year up to few months back. Emotionally pretty unstable but nice most of the time. A danceoholic at her own description, but also a pro singer. Love God pretty much, judging from her willingness to serve Him.

For now, this is the list. There are still many more who are still around me, supporting me in my life. But yeah, just cant write down everyone, coz they are still around! (dont you think it is very difficult to describe people around you)




*updated 220308 0625h*
Additional two names on the list other than changing the title.

9. Clara Yeo Siak Ying / Current Crush
The nicest girl around. She's the one whom I have always described as the nearest to perfection. Crazy insanely huge amount of faith and zeal for God despite her new-believer status. She taught me about priorities in life.

10. Gabriela Roxanne Kosasih / Junior
She's the one who pioneered the bible reading group. The typical female who is striving to be the best in all. Employing the asking favor method, she gets what she wants, in the exception of just one time. Given the effectiveness of her method, it teaches me to be always on guard.

Post Bible Camp

Whoa... Bible Camp is over. A few errata here, the theme song was not ALL DAY. They changed it to REDEEMER by Planetshakers. Cool song, catchy music, lots of screams, powerful lyric, praise God!!! And it goes like this:

I:
My Savior is living in me
Redeemer, Jesus, He set me free!
Whoa oh oh!

V1:
My Jesus is better
Than anything in this world
He loves me, I love Him
So I give Him everything

PC1:
He gave His life for me

C:
My Saviour, is living in me
Redeemer, Jesus, He set me free!

V2:
He's living in my heart
He gave me a brand new start
I asked Him, He came in
And washed away all my sin

PC2:
He gave His life for me
He died to set me free

Int:
If You can use anything, You can use me
Take me and break me and mould me and use me

Out:
Whoa oh oh!
Jesus, He set me free!

Made some new friends there, received God's word for my cell group, and best of all dislocated my shoulder, the RIGHT one! FYI, I am a right hander. But glad that I got the dislocation, coz now I know what happen with my shoulder. Before this (back to last year Engin Camp) I was unsure what really happened to my shoulder, haha. Maybe the sprain or whatever it was, just worsened when I played in Grace's n 7733's game of modified captain's ball. But yeah, at least the status is now clear!!! I'm down with dislocated shoulder for abt 2 weeks. After these torturing bandaged moment, gotta check at NUH and see how long does it take to my shoulder to fully injured. Oh, after 2 jabs of painkiller, a jab of anasthethic (dunno how to spell), and a painless nap, I'm better right now.

Oh well, fulfiling my own words are NOT easy. I've taken a promise to take care of myself and yeah, got serious injury at that moment. BAD BAD BAD... Bleh, really sorry. And talking about keeping my own words... Well, I have said that I am making NO contact during this holiday. And it is TOUGH. T-O-U-G-H!!! I am really now very very dependent on God. Kept interceding and the more I do that, the more I see the struggle. And it is not easy to watch someone you care about suffer but you cant do anything.

TLG Bible Camp

Will be away for Bible Camp yeah!!! Expecting something big from there. Dunno how God would work but yeah, He's going to do SOMETHING BIG again, I believe. Shall be Undignified for Him there and after. Oh, and the theme song of the TLG Bible Camp 2007: Undignified is All Day by Hillsong United:

I dont care what they say about me it's alright
It's alright
I dont care what they think about me it's alright
They'll get it one day

Coz I love You, I'll follow You
You are my, my life
And I will read my Bible and pray
I will follow You all day

All day
All day, now
All day
(I will follow you)

Sinful Indulgence

Having a pretty crazy gastronomic experience today (or rather, yesterday). After having ayam penyet (with a lot lot lot of the sambal), I went to Es Teler 77 (where I used to work everyday) to have the specialty drink (the Es Teler). And since I know the guys there, they gave me extra ice, extra milk, extra fruit, etc, at a discounted price (sure Bim n Bul did not regret accompanying me there wew). After that, I decided to hang out with the Engin guys and Ansley (Mr A&W) at Holland V. Got an Earthquake (see Swensen's website) treat from Ansley there. Nice nice. And after the chilli-ice-ice diet, my stomach went disoriented, even before i reached PGP.

This incident makes me think about sin. Im not talking about trigonometry of course... Im talking about Romans 6:23's sin. Anyways... Eating a LOT of chili is like committing sin in many ways:
1. It has a great feeling when you do it.
2. You know that something bad is going to happen to you.
3. It is difficult to resist the temptation.
4. When you realize that you are doing it, it is already too late.
5. The result may surface before you can say "OH NO!" but it may not surface at all.
6. The consequences would be a pain in the ass.
7. You will regret doing it, but you will do it again.

Oh, for the point number seven might not necessarily be true for sin case. Coz Somebody up there has sacrificed Himself so that all sins (yes, ALL) can be forgiven. Maybe some would disagree with me coz if you have read the Bible thoroughly, it has been said that denying the Holy Spirit is unforgiveable. But yeah, for this I am not sure. I mean, if someone has really denied the Holy Spirit, will he be able to realize that he need forgiveness from God? I dont think so. So yeah, by the grace of God, I do believe that it is possible that we are free from all sins.

In the mean time, I shall eat my sambal with joy and pride coz not many can take it as much as me (Thomas aka Asec is still THE champion) hahahaha. Oh, and after taking a painful dump, my stomach is fine. Hopefully.

And you HAVE TO be fine :)

ID_Crizis

Recently noticed that most of my posts are the what-i-do-today type. Maybe that's because I havent really think (contemplating, pondering, or whatevering) for a while. The last time I was deep in thought maybe when I was thinking about my family. Well, must blame myself for that. Having quite a lot of CCAs is quite bad for personal growth. Oh well, still cant blame CCA. Its my fault of not doing deep-in-thought mode.

Now I'm in a period of trials. One, someone out there is having REAL TOUGH problem in her life. Two, financial problem. Three, identity crisis. So yeah... Just want to write down abt my identity crisis. People know me currently as a lame guy with very very introvertic nature. But am I REALLY what people think I am? This is what I thought for the last few days. I can adjust my personality anytime I want. I can be very very high but I can also be very very quiet. Which one should I choose? Do I even have a real personality? Well, I think people like me to be quiet. My extended family and my FA members, for example, prefer the "quiet" Mike rather than the "normal" Mike. Oh and I did a few experiments to my NUS friends (not the close ones, that is) and the result is pretty much similar. But hey, still there are many more people out there, correct?

Shared this with Andreas. He said that that it doesnt really matter what people think about you but what God think of you. Yes indeed. I agree with him to large extent (sounds like Social Studies, eh?) but still in this society, I need to work my way too... While I believe God can open my ways, I still need to present myself in the other people's eyes right? I havent received any revelation on this matter. For now I shall be the Mike prople know of.

Oh and this paragraph is just a disclaimer: Someone told me today that blogging is stupid coz it's like letting outsiders know in depth about yourself. But not my case, k? I just want to record my thought and this blog should be personal coz I never publish it to masses (I just tell my close frens, considering telling my FA friends now)

Rage?!

Oi, come on la!
Pick someone of your own size!
Dont bully little girl okay?
You no power also still want to bully is it?
Fight me la!
I'm ready one!
Leave her alone ok!
I can take it one!
COME LA!

I AM FINE

Thank God I am SAFE and SOUND. Yeah... As it has been said... I AM FINE. Quite tired now so going to sleep after reading my mail. Will do updating as soon as possible. May create another blog to write about Nong Khai. For now, yeah... Thank God I'm fine.