Quotemeal

" the spirit of God first imparts love: he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and this is about the last thing we have in many of our churches."
-Dwight L. Moody-

feel exiciting

Yesterday i went to my church JPCC. i didn't know there will be present of worship from Hillsong Australia. hmmm.. awesome they have great performance and think they're really true worshiper. You know there are many people come to join this service. I like them all..I Like Hillsong..i wonder if i can see them again..soon

WEB DESIGNING

Last month, I had finishing my study web design in my University (this subject exclude from my main study = Linguistic). I learn for HTML, Web Hosting, Ms FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver (thou it wasn’t till ends-up for Macromedia). No doubt I like this subject. I can scripting the HTML in Notepad, scripting the JavaScript, insert files, pictures, make a theme/ background, etc. with Macromedia or Ms FrontPage I can simply make a generating view of webpage without scripting the HTML. I just added the pictures or colors as a background / themes make hyperlinks, frames, etc. Then at the end of Semester I have to make a design for my WebPages {actually I took “someone” web sites for my subject, sorry ;)} and it was published too at http//www……and I was succeeded (thou for the 1st uploading I need my Ex to help me when I got trouble upload the files, thanks Abank, I really appreciated it) and yes I proud of myself.

Now I can say am a web designer. I like it. Just now I still learn for macromedia flash and Adobe Photoshop and those things will teach by my Ex.

Well till then I will keep learning to be an expert Web Designer.

Got The Promotion

Recently, I was got the promotion as secretary to Deputy (my previous job is secretary to Director). I was being promoted by my Boss, Pa Lukita two weeks ago, and this week I start for my new job in Deputy of Development Funding. I should be contented to this offer but that was vice versa for me.

You or people around me might say I’m stupid or dumb if I’m not take it. You must be wondering why I don’t like this offer huh..! yeah it happens to me. It seems I’m not feel exciting. I like my previous job b’cuz I still have a time to work in Clinic also I like those people in the Balance of Payment and int’l Economic Cooperation directorate.
As you know to begin a new job you have to face all new people and make adaptation to the people and the environment also.

Actually I’m not scared of anything, especially to new challenge, but I have to prepare myself, my behavior, and my knowledge as well. Yeah I trust to God, He will provide me the strength to carry on.

Ok Ocha new job is waiting!

Jokes for tday

Only Heaven Knows

It was his 1st year of religious studies, and six-year-old Michael was debating his teacher.

Teacher : ( she taught ) "God made everything".
Michael : (Spontaneously he stood up quickly and said)
"God does not make everything" (he insisted) "most things are made in China"

Bhwahahaha funny isn't it? yep.. most things that I have are made in China.

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah's Ark.

ONE: Don't miss the boat.

TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat.

THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

FOUR: Stay fit. When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.

FIVE: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.

SIX: Build your future on high ground.

SEVEN: For safety's sake, travel in pairs.

EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.

NINE: When you're stressed, float a while.

TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.

ELEVEN: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.

Quote For Today

Hello..hello ocha is back..

I guess it’s been one n half months I am not posting some article in my blog, it is because I don’t have many times to write something except only for my Skripsi (thesis). Actually I feel bored and tired with this thing. Then I try to pray. I asked God to answer my pray but I feel he didn’t answer it and I become stress out. I don’t know what should I do now?!.

As usually in every morning after I woke up and before doing my activities I read a bible and my daily bread. While I read the daily bread I found a wise word and I guess God spoke to me with this article regarding to my pray.

“ Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be”. great very great.. I got a point from this word so quote it for my self. Thanks my dear lord Jesus I understand it now.

AbRaCADaBra

Maybe we often hear this word in magic shows but do you ever know the real meaning of this word?.

Abracadabra is a word used as an incantation, considered by some to be the phrase that is pronounced most universally in other languages without translation. One hypothesis about the source of the word is Aramaic: Avrah KaDabra which means "I will create as I speak". Due to its Universality, it has been speculated by Bible-believers that the word predates the confusion of languages granted at the tower of Babel in biblical times.

The word is now commonly used as an incantation by magicians. In ancient times, however, it was taken much more seriously as an incantation to be used as a cure against fevers and inflammations. The first known mention was in De Medicina Praecepta by Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that the sufferer from disease wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of an inverted cone;

ABRACADABRA
ABRACADABR
ABRACADAB
ABRACADA
ABRACAD
ABRACA
ABRAC
ABRA
ABR
AB
A

This, he explained, diminishes the Holy of the Spirit of the disease over the patient. Other roman emperors, including Geta and Alexander Severus, were followers of the medical teachings of Serenus Sammonicus an are likely to have an incantation as well.

There is also the view that Abracadabra derives from the Hebrew, ha-brachah, meaning “the blessing” (used in the sense as a euphemism for “the curse”) and Dabra, an Aramaic from the Hebrew word dever, meaning “pestilence”. They point to a similarly diminished. Other scholars are skeptical of this origin and claim that the idea of diminishing the power of the demons was common throughout the ancient world, and that abracadabra was simply the name of one such demon.
Some point to the Hebrew words ab (father), ben(son), and ruach hacadosch(holy spirit.

Some have argued that the term may come from the Arabic Abra Kadabra, “let the things be destroyed” or from the Aramaic abhadda kedhabhra, meaning “disappear like this word”. Rather than being used as a curse, the Aramaic phrase is believed to have been used as a means of treating illness.

It has also been claimed that the word comes from abraxas, a Gnostis word from God (the source of 365 emanations, apparently the Greek letters for Abraxas add up to 365 when deciphered according to numerological methods). It has also claimed to come from Abracalan (or Aracalan), said to have been both a Syrian god and a Jewish magical symbol.

WHERE WERE WE AS A CHRISTIAN?

This post is a request from some of friend regarding the to his comment in my last post NPC. Through his blog, he asked me to write something about how can we are Christians struggling for our faith in a country which most the people are Moslems.

Actually before, I wrote this I have been thinking many consideration before I speak about this. Whether I keep writing or not. Why? b’cuz religion is a kind of sensitive issues in Indonesia regarding to SARA ( Suku = Origin, Agama = Religion, & Ras = Race ) and I have lack of knowledge and glossary in English but, I have decided to keep writing with a hope it would bring a good view about our experiences and struggle in a simple way.

First of all I would say thanks for Tim, thanks for commenting and your interesting to know the struggle of Christianity in Indonesia.

Since 1998 when Indonesia stroked by the Economy crisis. The poverty getting more and more. Employee lost their job and become jobless, many children have to give up school, as their parents could not afford to support the education cost. Criminal increased sharply.

About the social, what the Indonesia face nowadays is very complex. These situations have made mostly of Indonesian people become harden. Boom, Terrorism, corruption, poverty becomes the headline of media and news every day. Fear, hunger, like a plaque.

Furthered more, on 26 December 2004 as the world heard. Tsunami hit Aceh. More than a ten thousand people was killed by this disaster. Followed by the earthquake in Nias that also killed hundreds, one thing we knew from all of this things that God is in his business in Indonesia.

That’s way on 5th may 2005 at the celebration of ascension of Lord Jesus, we Christian in Indonesia seized that moment to held a National Prayer in more than 55 cities in Indonesia. At that day we as Christian gathered and pray. Pray for transformation, pray for forgiveness, pray for basic changing, pray for unity, and pray for Indonesia sake. We committed to pray until God transform Indonesia.

There are a lots more to tell about out struggle against in justice, hatred, and despise, which I believe all Christian ( I mean real Christian ) face all over the world since the apostle age, since the early church.

I pray that you may understand that God has chosen you for a mission and you are not a coincidence and all Christian will stand up and take action. We are the light and salt of the world for the glory of Jesus Christ our lord.

God bless U.

THE INTERPRETER – The Truth Needs no Translation.

“ Everyone who loses some one want revenge on
someone, if no person, GOD”

Last Saturday I did not go to clinic as usually. My doctor, she has to attend a seminar for orthodontic treatment so that we have one day off. Hip..hip..hurray… so that I have time to watch a new release film. I invited some friend to see the movie at my house then we together decided Interpreter film as the title, directed by Sidney Pollack and cast by Nicole Kidman (Silvia broome) and Sean Pean (Tobin Keller) . What the good film. I got a good message from this film.

Then the other day (Sunday) as usually I go to church and I got a monthly news for members. when I read it I found a movie reviewed of the Interpreter in Christian Perspective by Elisabeth Leitch, what so coincident ..Ha! so I consider I would like to post it in my blog although this is not my review but I hope it would bring something good for you when we have to face whether we have to forgive or take revenge in one day at the future to someone who hurt us. So here’s the review.

Imagine your parent, sibling, child, or spouse has been killed. It is a year later and the person responsible for his or her death has been bound and sent into middle of lake or drown. If nothing is done, he will die. If you chose to swim out and save him, he will live. What will you do?

For united nations interpreter silvia broome this situation is not something she has to imagine; rather, the practice is custom in the African country where she grew up. More than just a tradition from silvia’s past, however, this very dilemma becomes central to the movie The interpreter.

The story begins when silvia overhears an assassination threat against a foreign president scheduled to speak at the UN. Instead of just a threat against a well – known dignitary,. However, the threat is against a dignitary-accused genocide. Even more than just a tragedy silvia has heard about on the news, the deaths that surround president zuwanie’s name are her countrymen, her neighbors, and her family.

As investigations into the threat begin, characters and audiences are asked the question of who would want zuwanie dead and why? Opposing political leaders and their primary motivation hunger for power. Just below them however, the list of those who might want zuwanie death becomes endless. For every person suspected to have died at zuwanie’s hand, one or more people would have reason to revenge that person’s death. For every news story run on violence in zuwanie’s country. One or more people might decide to take it upon themselves to personality bring justice to zuwanie.

With more connections to people affected by zuwanie’s regime that almost anyone else, Silvia soon becomes both a witness in need of protection and suspect. Tobin Keller, a secret services agent assigned to investigate the threat, wastes no time pretending that Silvia is just an innocent witness. Tobin asks her point blank if she would like to see him gone, not dead. He pressures her to tell him what she really thinks of zuwania and in response she tell him about the drowning man ritual in her country.

Silvia tells Keller, “ Everyone who loses some one wants revenge on some one, if no person, God.” Growing up with the drowning man ritual as part of life. However she states with even more certainty, “ the only way to end the grief is to save a life.” It is for this reason that she came to UN, that she left guns behind and she choose to exercise word and compassion instead of violence. As the movie unfolds,. However, tension and danger mount, more people die, and Silvia must ask herself if she truly believes that the end of grief is saving life instead of taking revenge.

Behind the Silvia’s statement that the only way to end grief is to save a life” rest the choice between revenge and forgiveness. The choice touches more that just response to international tragedy or murder. It reaches into the many ways both the lager world and our smaller lives can be filled with grief and anger .

For Keller, the death of his wife in a recent car accident is the root the grief and anger that burden his soul. For us it could be any wrong done against us. It could be any wrong done against humanity. It could be even be our own failing and mistakes weighing us down so much that a path to death seems to be the only possible answer.

In the world full of grief, where we all possess it and all cause it, we all have reason to be angry as well as reason to be punished. At the same time, however, we all have the choice to forgive and be forgiven.

God demonstrated the reality of that choice when gave the life of his son for our forgiveness long ago. He continues to demonstrate its power as he offers us forgiveness every day. The question is will we choose to accept that forgiveness and share it with others? Even if it is the harder choice, will we choose the path that grants freedom to both ourselves and other? Even if it is not always our instinct, will we choose to believe that even the smallest act of love and forgiveness can make a bigger difference than any possible act of revenge?

Elisabeth Litch

Plans For June

June is a midle of year. It means I have take a break for a while from my activities.so..here they are;

First Plan :

Want to take off my diamont from my teeth. well I want to bleach my teeth. I have tetracycline teeth, which not shine pearly colour but yellow to grey, which make my smile lessen my beauty ( ho..ho..:P )

My dentist suggest me to take a teeth bleaching treatment. she said if I do this it would boost my beauty ( :D ). this treatment will take several month to get intended colour. while doing this treatment I have to aware with my habits of eating and drinking (no soda, no coffee, no tea, no hot food, bla..bla :( ).

but as you know beauty have a price.

Second Plan:

Learning how to play Piano. well since a year ago I really desire to play a kind of music instrument. Music can make me confort and calm. I remember when my university colleague ( Ranto,yogi,kresna..where are you now guys?!..I miss you all )asked me out to attend a music rehearsal at Dutch Centeral Culture in Indonesia. What the very great music performance and I really enjoyed and that was made my desire to play music even bigger.

I like Piano and I want to buy one someday, but it so expensive so..think that keyboard would be the same thing. I would buy it which I can switch it into a grand piano ( ;P)

As i told you in my first post that I have two jobs and now I am writing my thesis. thought i won't have much time to go for course so.. I made appointment with a music teacher for private music course only for sunday.

I know am quite to old to start a music course but I don't intend to be a professional music player just at least I can play a good music for myself.

Third Plan :

Take a short traveling. I haven't got many expirience for travelling in my entire life time, especially to another country, 'cuz I actually don't like travelling verymuch. I prefer to save money for something urgent.

But two months ago my sister inlaw invited me to join her for travelling to singapure and kuala lumpur (KL).while travelling in sing and KL she will also do ing some business. at the time I didn't say anything to her , but when I got home I consider the invitation and think that this could be great. I can go abroad for the first time without have to worry because I have a reliable companion.

so I called her and asked her the date of travelling. not really sure about this but if everything is goin' well we probably will do the travelling in the middle of june for only one week.

well wish me luck.