1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE: I am sure! People have identified my name with a famous Dangdut singer.
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? When was yours?
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? err...sure
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? No preference. May be crocodile meat. May be. Depends on the smell, you see.
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? it depends on your definition of kids. I have a son but not a biological one.
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Probably No. We will definitely have lots of similarities, which is scary. I will say Hi though.
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM? No. Irony only.
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? That's like asking me to throw myself into the fire. Is life that bad?
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Super Nutritious Cereal with Spirulina.
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No. Any problem with that?
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Strawberry
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Their sincerity
15. RED OR PINK? Oh don't make me choose!
16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My incurable longing for human approval.
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? May be you... can you bear with the uncertainties?
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST? If (and only if) they lemme know their answers.
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? ugh it's sorta blue, grey, green, red-ish thing? imagine all these colors mixed together. And I'm barefooted.
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The birds and the seemingly near neighbor take turn chirping.
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Hmmph Red OR Pink
23. FAVORITE SMELL? Traditional Roses
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? My future employer.
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Yes! Don't mess with my sis!
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Tennis (Only Women Tournament, No offense boys!); Soccer (World Cup and Euro Only, League vs League is terribly boring); Badminton (Only when there is a high chance for the Indonesian to win); Golf (Only when Tiger Woods performs).
27. HAIR COLOR? Black (you havn't met me before, hav ya?)
28. EYE COLOR? Brown (even though I can't really tell)
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? BIG NO NO, Boo. Bad Question!
30. FAVORITE FOOD? Western and Eastern food
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? HAPPY ENDINGS
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (you should watch!)
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? white with heart dots all over :) I am so girly... except maybe my pants.
34. SUMMER OR WINTER? Autumn!!!
35. HUGS OR KISSES? the most important thing is Who? just Who is the person/thing that conceal the burning desire to hug or kiss me.
36. FAVORITE DESSERT? Chinese peanut soup, which almost strangely always obtained at the funerals. Lol. (I am serious)
37. IF YOU COULD MAKE A WISH? I only want to rid the least favorite thing about myself.
38. WHAT (in general) IRRITATES YOU? Perfections? Liar.
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? None at the mo.
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? I use touch pad. It has my finger prints on it. Gee.
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? I didn't recall I turned on the TV
42. FAVORITE SOUND(S)? good quality music...like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bob Marley, Kenny Rogers, their kinds... Mwahaha.
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Please refer to no. 42
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? New Zealand
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I don't think that highly of myself.
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? BDU (Baby Delivering Unit)
47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK? You. IF (and Only IF) you lemme know your answers.
48. WHERE DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER? in your dreams.
21 February 2009
18 February 2009
Jason Mraz "I'm yours"
This song is cool :D...I know... I'm a bit slow cos I didn't realize that it was Jason who sang "I'm yours". Duh. Shoot, He is good but Mr Toca's voice is better. Btw, Jason is no where handsome. Mwahaha.
16 February 2009
25 Random things about Lilis
1. I don't do random things ;p
2. I have 3 pairs of glasses and actually afraid to wear soft lenses. I tried once and cried like a baby.
3. I like the help-yourself drinks machine at Burger King, Palmy. I normally mix Mirinda strawberry, Lemon&Paeroa, Ice Tea and 7up. Btw, the drink is grey-ish in colour.
4. I don't really like wearing jewellery for a long time, like may be...wearing a necklace everyday. Beside giving me a little rash, I feel 'funny'.
5. I think Friendster is crap.
6. I want to try crocodile meat. Not the smelly ones, thanks.
7. I want to visit Italy one day....Bellisimo Italia. Rome, Romance, Ravioli.
8. I can only tolerate clutters for a couple of days.
9. I can't swim. In the case of sea emergency, Do ask someone else.
10. I used to be good at climbing cherry trees (not a proper cherry I supposed, but it looked like one).
11. My first crush was when I was twelve. It was love at first sight. haha.
12. I was once part of the school drum band and was even appointed as a person in charge to promote it. Fancy a drum being attached to you? I dunno why I get into that :S.
13. I became a christian after I had determined never to subscribe to Christianity.
14. I 'fly' Singapore airlines hihihi.
15. I like Carbs: rice, mash potatoes, bread, noodles... and dun forget I like meat and veggies too.
16. I reckon Food Technology is the coolest subject on earth.
17. I dare to kill cockroaches, lizzard and friends. Sometimes...
18. I was involved in a car accident on my graduation day.
19. I prefer good books, good music and good theology.
20. I watch neither horrors nor action movies...especially those blood shed movies. *Faint*.
21. I like dogs and cats...they are cute but will never have them as pets. Like my dad, we only pet fish.
22. I am sort of a strawberry freak...I like anything (food) with strawberry in it. Strawberry ice cream, strawberry cake, strawberry steak.
23. I used to think that I was going to be the second Celine Dion. Mwahaha.
24. I don't think I was born for celibacy.
25. For Coffee: I only order Latte (which is hot milk with a dash of coffee).
2. I have 3 pairs of glasses and actually afraid to wear soft lenses. I tried once and cried like a baby.
3. I like the help-yourself drinks machine at Burger King, Palmy. I normally mix Mirinda strawberry, Lemon&Paeroa, Ice Tea and 7up. Btw, the drink is grey-ish in colour.
4. I don't really like wearing jewellery for a long time, like may be...wearing a necklace everyday. Beside giving me a little rash, I feel 'funny'.
5. I think Friendster is crap.
6. I want to try crocodile meat. Not the smelly ones, thanks.
7. I want to visit Italy one day....Bellisimo Italia. Rome, Romance, Ravioli.
8. I can only tolerate clutters for a couple of days.
9. I can't swim. In the case of sea emergency, Do ask someone else.
10. I used to be good at climbing cherry trees (not a proper cherry I supposed, but it looked like one).
11. My first crush was when I was twelve. It was love at first sight. haha.
12. I was once part of the school drum band and was even appointed as a person in charge to promote it. Fancy a drum being attached to you? I dunno why I get into that :S.
13. I became a christian after I had determined never to subscribe to Christianity.
14. I 'fly' Singapore airlines hihihi.
15. I like Carbs: rice, mash potatoes, bread, noodles... and dun forget I like meat and veggies too.
16. I reckon Food Technology is the coolest subject on earth.
17. I dare to kill cockroaches, lizzard and friends. Sometimes...
18. I was involved in a car accident on my graduation day.
19. I prefer good books, good music and good theology.
20. I watch neither horrors nor action movies...especially those blood shed movies. *Faint*.
21. I like dogs and cats...they are cute but will never have them as pets. Like my dad, we only pet fish.
22. I am sort of a strawberry freak...I like anything (food) with strawberry in it. Strawberry ice cream, strawberry cake, strawberry steak.
23. I used to think that I was going to be the second Celine Dion. Mwahaha.
24. I don't think I was born for celibacy.
25. For Coffee: I only order Latte (which is hot milk with a dash of coffee).
15 February 2009
Pengampunan
1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
Hari ini Khotbah yang disampaikan Ci Wen I benar-benar menyentuh. Memang chapter ini betul-betul memperlihatkan karakter Tuhan kita Yesus yang penuh belas kasihan dan pengampunan. Begitu besar kasihNya pada kita sehingga kita yang selayaknya dan seadil-adilnya menerima hukuman kekal boleh mempunyai harapan. Sungguh hanya karena karya Tuhan saja kita bisa hidup kekal, gak ada sama sekali setitik yang kita perbuat yang dapat membuat kita lebih layak untuk diselamatkan. Kita itu sama seperti perempuan penjinah itu. Sekalipun kita tidak berbuat hal yang sama, tapi kita semua berdosa dan tidak bisa menyelamatkan diri kita sendiri. Begitu giliran Yesus yang memang berhak untuk menghakimi, Dia memilih untuk mengampuni perempuan ini. Perempuan ini mempunyai iman, dia tidak melarikan diri tetapi pasrah di hadapan Yesus.
How vast beyond all measures,
that He should give His only Son
to make a wretch His treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss,
the Father turns His face away.
That wounds which marred the chosen one,
bring many sons to glory...
13 February 2009
The thing called Love
Tomorrow is Valentine's day. I bet tomorrow there will be lots more recitation of the four letter word "Love" than any other days. But, do we really mean what we say? this short devotional by Elisabeth Elliot will present you the real challenge of love:Tell us, fool, who knows more of love--the one who has joys from it or the one who has trials and griefs? He answered: There cannot be any knowledge of love without both of them. (Ramon Lull, The Book of the Lover and the Beloved)
When I imagine that I want to learn to love God--and to love my husband and others whom God has given me to love--let me test the desire of my willingness to accept trial and grief. If I can welcome them--Yes, Lord!--and believe God's purpose in them, I am learning the lesson of love. If I cannot, it's a fair indication that my desire to love is a delusion.
11 February 2009
So you think you are righteous?
I found another EXCELLENT article on Our ongoing need of redemption as Christians by John Hendryx. Wow, very very good! It reminds us the need of the grace of God everyday every moment even if we have been a christian for a long time. Nothing, Nothing that we can do or we have done (whether theological knowledge, fighting for other's rights, or serving) that will win the heart of God. Nothing is comparable to Christ's sacrifice and thus our constant need of Him. The process of ridding away idols in the heart. We might not realize it but we are so tempted to change the gospel in order to make us self-righteous.
Some quotes from the article:
"Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God, and fall into condemnation ... Fear, and that will make you little in your own eyes, keep you humble, put you upon crying to God for protection, and upon lying at his footstool for mercy; that will also make you have low thoughts of your own parts, your own doings and cause you to prefer your brother before yourself. And so you will walk in humiliation and be continually under the teachings of God, and under His conduct in your way, God will teach the humble. "The meek will He guide in judgment, and the meek will He teach His way." - Psalm 25:9 (John Bunyan - The Fear of God, page 96)
Ichabod S. Spencer once said, "To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.”
A.W. Pink got it right when he said: “Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace.”
“His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.” (2 Peter 1:3-8)
Some quotes from the article:
"Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God, and fall into condemnation ... Fear, and that will make you little in your own eyes, keep you humble, put you upon crying to God for protection, and upon lying at his footstool for mercy; that will also make you have low thoughts of your own parts, your own doings and cause you to prefer your brother before yourself. And so you will walk in humiliation and be continually under the teachings of God, and under His conduct in your way, God will teach the humble. "The meek will He guide in judgment, and the meek will He teach His way." - Psalm 25:9 (John Bunyan - The Fear of God, page 96)
Ichabod S. Spencer once said, "To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.”
A.W. Pink got it right when he said: “Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace.”
“His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.” (2 Peter 1:3-8)