Budi & Vinda

Happy wedding to a lovely couple, friends of many of us, Budi & Vinda. Long way to go eh? ^_^

Anyway.. We all went all the way to Pancur Batu (it's a town for those don't know of it), one and half hour from Binjai (it's variable against the traffic condition)

The Binjai group was kindda noisy of all.. ^_^ It wouldn't be us if not. Hehe..


Reach home before 19:30.. Still got time to relax.. ^_^

Soe Hok Gie

Not many that know the person Soe Hok Gie (蘇福義), an Indonesian-Chinese university student who gave a lot for his country even at his very young age. (I too just knew this myself)

I've never even actually heard of his name before; moreover that a Chinese in Indonesia really took part in making life better of his country. Too bad he died young (one day before his 27th birthday).

His story is mostly about his personal notes that he wrote since he was 14. The writings was very organised and nice written and reflect his honest conversation with himself. It's so transparent that he didn't think that people would read it at all. If he's still alive in this time, I'm quite sure he would blog and put out his mind to the world.


One of the famous notes he wrote was:
"Nasib terbaik adalah tidak dilahirkan
yang kedua dilahirkan tapi mati muda, dan
yang tersial adalah umur tua. Rasa-rasanya memang begitu.
Bahagialah mereka yang mati muda."
-- Soe Hok Gie: 22 Januari 1962

"The best fate is not being born
second is born but die young, and
the damned is long live. It feels like that.
Be glad for those who die young."
-- Soe Hok Gie: January 22, 1962

Some other articles:

• http://www.firdaus.or.id/2004/12/16/soe-hok-gie/
• http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soe_Hok_Gie

There has been a movie of his story released on 2005 that I haven't watched and plan to watch.
I bought the book online (in which also my first experience buying things online) and had it sent to my office.

Cubicals

Feel like trying to post up my workplace again from a better camera angle..
It's my workplace with the SAP Frontend on my screen. ^_^

Brastagi Trip 2 with Cousins

Weekend is here and what makes it different this time is another trip to Brastagi with cousins. Too bad that Anton can't join us; it would have been really nice if he had joined us.

Anyway.. we stayed at Yen's place, had some BBQ from Sin2's mom (that was great btw ^_^) and relaxing at Mikie Theme Park (not much though, but enjoyed the view).


Tomorrow's another Monday to come with all the hectic days coming along with it.

Weekend...

Weekend is here.. but what makes it special is that this Saturday is a Vesak day, which means holiday (I work half day on Saturdays).. ^_^

The kids of Sunday School were having an event today: Family's Day. I suppose it's becoz of mother's day tomorrow; so Hui was busy for the day and I'm left alone.. However, I've got my dad's computer to fix. He simply wanted to run his Chinese program so I had to get it work.

Tomorrow's mother's day and the youth fellowship is presenting a song "Bunda" where I'm playing before the piano.. Geezz.. I've never been good in front of the congregation in music. I've been embarrassed in front of everyone whenever I play (that was several years back though) and hopefully it won't happen tomorrow. I think I can use another session of practice. ^_^

The youth fellowship was voting for the new member of the youth council; in which the president (it does sound so cool eh? coz it doesn't sound that in Bahasa Indonesia. I just can't find the right word for it. Do suggest me ^_^) of the youth council automatically becomes the member of the church council (cool eh? ^_^). I've got the top score of all.. :-p in which from the past experience that I know, the top score is the best candidate for the head of the youth council. But I know that I can't handle the job with my current work (u know.. SAP project, staying up late, and uncertainty of my schedule) to cope with the church service. So I decided to take the secretary (where they also made me the vice president [another cool terms in which I'm not sure I'm putting it right or not] of the youth council).

Rainbow

Just want to share this view.. took it with my camera on my way back home from office.. ^_^
I've been seeing rainbows more often lately..

My office space

Snack time is coming and I'll take this chance to take a picture of my partition. It's not too big (1.75 m2) but comfortable enough to work compared to the previous job in Jakarta that gave me so little space.

Today's snack is kindda special. Pasta.. Haha..

the birthday

Thanks for all of the wishes for all of you; the first of all lovely Hui, Hendy, lovely brother Ric, dad, mom, aq Awi, Rosa, me2 Lie Tjing, Susi, cousin Sien, San "sking", Yulina "kwek", Vinda, little cousin Mei, aq Joni & family, JHH, aq Ata & family (including the little ones ^_^), Erwin, Muen, Eric2, Melina, and many more...

They all do make my day much better.. ^_^

Going for a small dinner celebration with mom, dad, and aq Awi tonite.. Scheduling for a date tomorrow.. ^_^ Weekend is coming... :-D

The Manager is here

The hero is here.. (and lets hope it goes that way)
It is time to do something in this IT department; and the perfect guy for the job is here.. IT Manager. I've been expecting a lot from him; in which I think I can still count on it.

Nice person, low profile, but yet has the extensive knowledge and experience in his field.
And as of this month, the entire team of IT people is bonded for 2 years without being able to quit this company. Lets hope that it goes quick.. ^_^

Me?? I've got 2 sessions of PP Training (one of the SAP module) and less of my IT job. It continues for the next 2 days I think.. Busy days.. ^_^

Rainbow..

A rainbow view in the morning does transform my nightmare sleep into a much better feeling to begin my day. I've been thinking maybe it was God's way to enlighten me for the day. And it works.. I'm looking forward for a beautiful day..

Good morning everyone.. ^_^



Yeah.. not much compared to the grand pictures that got the awards, but this is what I have for today. ^_^

The man is back with MY job..

The artist has returned to office with sime adjustment.. One of them is basically my job of system administration and SAP Basis being reassigned to him, and I'm back to SAP functional with some ABAP programming. In which I don't mind of it since I haven't been too concentrated.. Plus.. I've got more things to learn.

Now I'm back to the programming line of my IT career.. I thought it was gonna be administration since I've got the training, etc. It turned out to be quite fun but somehow exhausting (you know.. keep the system up and running all the time thingy.. ^_^)

Anyway.. I'm in one of the funtionals now of Production Planning, not a big one, but good enough to start. ^_^