Happy Eid Mubarak 1431 H

I am off from work today. :)
The day started at -+11AM when I left my house to go for visitations :)

1st Place was Renny's, my Junior High school bff..
There I had bakso, chicken satay, abit of sambal goreng kentang, and Nastar for sure :)
2nd Place was my GM's apartment at the hotel itself.
There I had a buras and chicken ala Makassar. :)

3rd Place was a colleague's house, mba Midhe.
There I had a cup of es campur, yummy! :)And while my friends and I were there, the rain was all of the sudden falling down heavily. Then it got quite down a little bit, so me and my friend decided to just go back to the hotel before we got really stuck there. Man oh Man, a few seconds after leaving the house, the rain got heavier. and that we were on a motorbike. So we ended up wet! It was something cool though. hehe. knowing that I don't get under the rain at most of the time.
Arriving at the hotel, I straight away went to the nearest department that was House Keeping and got myself a towel.


Before, I was planning to visit Lina's place as the next destination, but since it was raining heavily, I decided to go home. However, on the way back, the rain wasn't too heavy, so I changed my mind and decided to drop by to her house. and I made it!
So the 4th Place was my bff, Lina's house.
Had a couple of cookies and a glass of Sprite over there :)

Then I went back home at around 3PM. And at 4PM, I was off to Church to meet up some Legioners for our task, that was to visit the fire victims at Klandasan.
So there were me, Tomas, and Risna. Just the three of us instead of the five as planned earlier.. a little bit disappointed, but well, there were at least three not just me and Risna. God brought Tomas to us.

So there we went, saw the area where the fire had burnt down the houses.. there were more than 100 families who have lost their houses and belongings. (I have no photos of the area yet atm). There was a lady, Mrs. Yuni who showed us around and in the end of our visit, we prayed together. She joined us in prayer though she is a Muslim :) In the end I gave her a bit of food and snacks, which me and my friend received as a Lebaran present from a Loyal Client in the hotel where we work at.

We finished at 5PM and Tomas and I decided to go for daily mass at 6PM. To kill the time, we went to Le Grandeur hotel to have a look at the gym facilities, cos Tomas' looking for one..
Fast forward, I am so glad that I made it for mass today because we were given the wine as well during the communion.^^ I guess that was the first time ever I had it here in Balikpapan. :) So it was good..

After mass, heading back home, meeting the family and again, I went out with them for a dinner. A lot of restaurants were closed and we ended up having the dinner at Pacific Hotel***. It was not so great, but just enough :)

Thank You Lord for this special Beautiful and Blessed Day ^^, I Love You.

Afgan at Score

Afgan was here a month a go and here is some pictures taken from my Phone camera..
Went it for free, thanks to Mr. Aan from Sampoerna A Mild! The actual ticket costs Rp. 200,000. We saved Rp.400,000! ;p I just spent Rp. 70,000 for food. Not to bad compared to Rp.200,000.
Anyway, my brother and I went together. Without my bro, I wouldn't be able to go cos it was late at night ;)





The lighting was good, wasn't it? :)

Legioners Christmas Celebration

Hi friends!

Gosh.. I was supposed to post this 2 weeks ago! but due to the facility limitation etc. I now only manage to post it :)

I had a great time last Monday (read: January 4th), for we had a Christmas party with all Legioners in Balikpapan.

My church was being the host and I was appointed to be the host with another friend of mine.

The simple celebration went pretty well and everyone seemed to enjoy both of the sessions and the food. I didn’t count how many people were present though, but I was told that they were about 70 people came. Praise God!

The sessions that we had were:

- Welcoming words by the MC and also the Father

- Christmas’ message by the Father

- Singing ‘Malam Kudus’ song

- Poem by our 2 friends on Mother Mary

- Sharing by a friend on her experience serving in Legion of Mary in Bandung.

- Dinner

- Farewell

I was planning to play guitar and sing along together, but due to time constraint, I couldn’t make it.. but anyway, I am thankful to God for I know it is not my time yet to serve through music, I am not ready yet, although I’ve practised night before... hehe..

God bless!

Family reunion

My big family gathered last week for my cousin's wedding.
It was a joyful moment as since we are all grown up, we have never been gathered again. Everyone is busy with their own things and some even are not living in Balikpapan anymore. That's why we really appreciate the moments we had last week..

Thank God for the opportunity to have the family reunion, after some time...

Weak week which turned out Great in the end

Last week I was having fever and flu. Fever for like 3 days and flu till now - about a week already. I guess it is partly because I've been forcing myself so much during my vacation to Taiwan and Malaysia. I walked so much since morning til night, under the HOT sun in the afternoon. Man, that was really exhausting somehow.. So anyway, I basically didn't 'move around' so much last week, just stayed at home. But still Praise God, despite of that, I managed to go for French Exam, which was super late cos it was supposed to be done in the middle of September and now it's like mid of October. O well, anyways, I passed the exam! Praise God! Although I knew that I didn't do my best during the exam as I was sick and mostly because I forgot how to speak French! I sounded really weird when I spoke French that day. Guess the teacher already knows my capability, so at least she didn't mark me low.. :p

Besides, I helped out (though in a very low %) my brother doing the wedding Invitation of our cousin. Yes, we did it all manually, except the printing. We bought the papers on our own and stick it together etc, all on our own :) They're about 280 invitations to make ^^. Unfortunately, my cousins (who are supposed to help out as it's their sis' wedding) are kinda busy with their stuff, too), so most of the time my brother does it himself.

The week ended nicely with me joining the Legion of Mary team to pray in 'Goa Maria' in KM45. Although not many youths there, but thank God I still have one friend around my age coming along, so at least I wasn't that lonely. :P
Here are some pictures on that...


The Front door of the Church..This is what's on the floor..Inside the church, it looks more like the church in Kuching.. It has the North, South, East and West..Gua Maria...
Moreover, I get to know Mother Mary better now after joining the Legion of Mary. Mary is indeed really special. and I get to know more people in the church, too. Praise be to God! ^^ I have some friends now. :P

Ohyea, it's been some time that I seldom post pictures.. hehe Anyway, here's my first and new real guitar! I finally got myself a new guitar on my bday. YAMAHA C40. It's not something special for a Professional Guitarist though, but it's really nice for people like me, Beginner ^^,

Additional.. I made Fish and Chips on last Sunday :)

Take care d'amis!

God bless!

This is what we've got

I am now back home, in Balikpapan, Indonesia. It's been 10 days since I left Taiwan..

Anyways, things have been going fine back here. Only a little bit boring since I am the only one here, no friends around.. -_-" But there are families and God, too! ^^

Yesterday my parents, their friends, and me went to a Retreat House in Bukit Rahmat, Putak - about 2 hours from Balikpapan. It's on the way to Tenggarong..
It was a celebration of the Closing Month of Mt. Mary..

It was started at 5PM by Stations of the Cross.

Then the occasion was continued with Mass and dinner together. It was really renao (as Chinese call it) or happening and crowded. Though I don't know any of them, (well) only some people who went there with us. I still enjoyed it. I am glad, too, that mes parents had the time to minggle around with the community.
Nonetheless, I hope to join the Youth community here, even I heard they seldom have meetings etc..

That's all for now.
Til the next post, take care all, and best wishes for everything that you're on! =D

Lately..

Recently, I've been always sleepy during class hours..
Two weeks left to go for classes and home is welcoming me.. =D
I decided to go back on May 22nd, since my Visa is expired on that day. Can't stay overnight in Jakarta as daddy doesn't allow me to.. :|

Other than that, my current updates..

Korean BBQ

Had this on last Sunday. I finally got to taste it! It was delicious. Though we didn't order that much, cos it was also expensive, but the meat really made us full! =D

Another type of SUSHI. Original! Made by my Japanese friend. =D

Left to right: Eriko (my current housemate), Axiang (Vietnamese), me and Ai (the cook of the day!)

Bread with Pâté
Had this during BK's Birthday Party.
Originally planned to have French cuisine, yet in the end turned into Japanese cuisine.. The curry was still good though! =D

Spaghetti with Tuna and Tomato sauce.
Had this just yesterday, when I had lunch with some friends from the LC.
The lunch was supposed to be a gathering with my fellow Drama members, but some couldn't make it. The food was good and TOO much. But since I was not really in the mood due to something, I still finished it, for the sake of finishing it, no waste. And it was expensive, too.
I think I wouldn't wanna eat Spaghetti anymore til I am home.

The final performance of the Choir!
It was an Easter celebration, held for the Fu Jen's staff - Teachers, officers, etc.
The singing was beautiful, love it.
and after that, we had a Chi Dao Bao lunch, meaning Free Buffet Lunch.
So full til now. Just like yesterday. I've been eating a lot lately!! -_-"

Other than that, there was a Football tournament today. And my tong xue were playing.
Updates will be coming soon..

Til the next post, take care peeps,
God bless! ^^,

Everlasting Love

Yeap, the skit that we did is called Everlasting Love. [We changed the title].

Everything went well. In fact, many people were touched by it. Praise God!
Some said they almost cried, even the Lao Shi said they wanted to cry but they we're still at work, so.. hehe..
I keep on asking the people whom I met after the event whether or not they get the message / understand the things that we were doing, and they said they do. Thanks to the Power Point, too! =) Because we put some pictures (just for additional effect purpose) and some wordings, too on it (both English and Chinese).

And we.. won! xoxo. We get the Best Costume Award - NT 2000 minus the tax.
And the prize will go for Charity. We're going to give it to the victims of Human Traffic.. HT means that those workers who initially came to work legally, but they are bullied by some irresponsible agents or even their own friends. So now, they're basically in prison. Can you imagine that? Ta men hen ke lian.. T_T Although this amount is not so much compared to the price of the airticket for them to go home, but at least, it does contribute something to help them..

Not to forget I wanna thank you, yes you, for your prayer =)

I managed to get the video of the skit, it's been uploaded in Youtube by one of the teachers.
Here it is..


God bless.

Variety Show

Tomorrow is D-Day!
My friends and I will be performing our skit ("My Everything"). There are 7 of us, plus another friend who helps us with the Power Point. Thanks Ester! =)

Practice went well today. In fact, it's been a wonderful time spent with them throughout all the practices. I am amazed how some of them who in the beginning were not showing so much interest in this, but now, they're so excited about it! Praise God!

ANd not only this skit that some of us are having tomorrow, but we're also joining the Choir team! We're going to sing Praise and Worship songs: Through it all, Above all, and My Redeemer lives. If you wonder how is it like, just click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDU8NyJaaPA&feature=channel

Please keep us in your prayer yah! All this we do to glorify Him, and as for the skit, we really hope to reach out others. We hope the message will easily be understood.

For me, I've learned so much throughout this all.. the planning, gathering people, practices, preparations, and so much more..

God bless,