Love is in the air

Valentine is coming in two weeks time. Another romantic celebration for couples, either still in love or try to keep the flame. Restaurants are fully booked with Valentine dinner. High school starts busy preparing prom nite. Supermarket, bakery , specialty stores show chocolates, flowers, teddy bears in their top shelves.

What about Valentine for the other clan called singles? Some are saying...

• it's time again to see the couples clan celebrating romantic Valentine with their spouses



• I will just enjoy it with my same-gene friends



• It's just the same Saturday night as the previous or coming Saturday

For me Valentine is just the same ordinary day. But I am still affected by its hype, 'cos it's always on the headline of every women and teen magazines. My church makes Valentine event for its youth members. TV infotainments shows Valentine moment for every celebrity couples they can think of.

So for the "couples" clan, Valentine is time to feel love is in the air..feeling love is everywhere, time to revive the forgotten spark, time to propose your dates.

For the "singles" clan, we still can feel love is in the air. I am loved by my parents, my brothers, my friends, my pastor, my church and most important, my God. Love can take many forms and for now, the love that I enjoy today is more than enough for me. If next year there's another form of love comes into my life, I will embrace it like I embrace other good things happening to me.

So, happy Valentine day... Hope you can feel love is in the air today.

The Seven Wonders of Jakarta Traffic

I am one of many users of Jakarta transportation, either public or private (cos I use both of them). Day after day I try to somewhat enjoy whatever condition it offers. Do you know that you can find so many wonders in the busy Jakarta traffic? I called it wonders, because it makes you wondering how in the earth it just could happen so naturally.

And after much research and observation, finally I manage to compile seven things that I call "The seven wonders of Great Jakarta traffic".

So..here they are :

1. Young, decent, polite professionals became bunch of barbarians over taking seat in busway.
2. Passengers get out of the bus in the midst of tollway
3. Public transportation just stopped in the middle of the road to let the passenger exit.
4. Minibus crews forced the passengers to move to other minibus sometimes 2 times in a row in one route, and that minibus just casually return back to its previous stop.
5. To cut someone's lane is the normal way to drive
6. The local government extended the road lane, only to narrow it again at the end of extended lane.
7. People lining at the exit of tollway expecting customers of "3 in one" rules.

Well ,I believe there are more wonders of Jakarta traffic. They are not the wonders that I can honestly admire. But, I would do whatever I can to remove them one by one.

What I can do now :

• Line up nicely in busway stop
• Do not cut someone else's lane when I drive
• Follow "3 in one" rules
• Pray very hard that the minibus I ride will not move me to their peers

Hope you can also do whatever you can, so we could have different kind of wonders in Jakarta traffic.

Cheers..

When He Speaks

The famous verse Jer 33:3 says "Call to Me, and I will answer you; I will tell you wonderful and marvelous things that you know nothing about.

It says I only need to call upon Him and He will surely answers me. Well, in my experience, sometimes He doesn't answer me right away. But He waits until my mind is calm, then I can hear the still voice of Him, my beloved Lord and saviour.

At other time, He reminds me that He loves me the way I am. It's the things that He keeps reminding me. He knows how often I looked down on myself, still tempted to compare myself with my peers and friends.

Sometimes I just feel a sense of warm love surrounding my soul...it's kind of hard to explain, but it feels reassuring and comforting.


When He speaks, I need to be in position to hear Him clearly
So, He doesn't have to speak twice to me
When He speaks, I know I am alive for a purpose
Designed and prophesied before my embryo was formed
When He speaks, I am fully persuaded that He is for me
Through every high and every low
When He speaks, I am assured that I'm always in His mind
That all His thinking for me is heavenly joy, prosperity and unending love

And I can not wait to hear when He speaks

Can We Get Anything We Want ?

Today's motivator will say yes! You can get everything you want in your life. You have to visualise it, focus all your attention on it and you will get whatever you want...new car, new house, your dream job, romantic vacation..



But sadly the reality is you do not always get what you really want. Yesterday I desperately wanted and needed a seat on crowded bus home. But I could only get it 5 minutes before my stop. I wanted and needed people to answer my phone call asking about their due payment, but I stopped after 10 unanswered rings.



Many things I have visualised and worked on it but still hasn't happened yet.But it doesn't make me stop to dream and keep trying.. And most important is to put them in God's hand..
Let my dreams is still His dreams for me.



I need to accept things that has not happened yet and try my best to do whatever I can today that can pave the way for my dreams become reality. And when it happens, I know I already have whatever I want in my life.