the challenge is up again!

it's been ages i didn't come to this habit of writing. since i'm super free today, i visited the one minute writer blog. and the title for today is wishing upon a star.

we (indonesians) do not have habit of wishing upon a star. chineses pray upon a moon, moslems look for constellation to date the eid mubarak, hinduists don't particularly fond of star ( i guess, as far as i know), and yes the stars led the christians to baby jesus. we don't really buy the concept of wishing upon a star. is a meteor considered a star? yes, a falling star, huh? ok, then we pray upon a star. it's a urban legend, i guess, more to the effect of watching korean's and taiwanese's movies.

anyway, i wish upon a star that someday i will run my own day care center. it won't be a formal school, just a small intimate day care center will be wonderful for me. when i ponder it now, it seems far away. hopefully, i can practice and have more faith in the power of dream.

Manner, where art thou?

we have been taught to behave well since we were young. as for I myself as a chinese, manner matters. it shows not only how good i am as a person but also how good my parents raise me. and in chinese culture, "saving the face" is crucial. so we better watch our manners, or our parents will do. and it's not gonna be nice.

i believe i behave well and i keep my manners good enough (yes, it's a self confession). and during my time working with children, teachers are forced to behave well every second, at least in front of children and parents. children can pick up any misbehaviour quickly. so, during my two and half year time, we (teachers) remind and support each other to behave well. we appreciate people who have good manner.

now, the point is that not all people practice good manner. "sorry, please, and thank you" are the basic words that you use to show manners. we remind every kids and ourselves basically every day to keep close with those words. and kids pick them up quite well. but how about adults? they seem to forget those words. the older you are doesn't mean you have better manner. nope! shockingly i found that even directors, with such high position and degree, do not necessarily pratice manner! it's upsetting for me. because when people with low socio-economic background do not practice manner, you can give yourself excuses. but when peope with high socio-economic background do not practice manner, what is your excuse?

moreover, when people are being nice to you, can you be nice too? i'm not a hypocrite, if people do nasty things to you, you can either slap that person or still being nice. but when people are being nice to you, please please please be nice! what privilege do you have to be nasty to other people? humans have same beginning (birth) and same ending (death)-Morris, in what sense you think you are higher than others so that you can be nasty to others? seriously it's ridiculous. stop acting childish and behave, adults!

have a wonderful day

there's a notice on upgrade thingy in my dashboard today. i'd normally ignore it, but my finger was kinda "itchy", so i clicked this blogger update (please be aware that i'm computer idiot), and i was amazed! my dashboard looked so cool now! and they have this stat, it's written that my blog has been viewed 1.516! seriously! there's always no comment in my posts so i thought nobody checked my blog. therefore, i wanna thank to everyone who checked my blog, accidentally or not :p

another shocking thing happened to me this week was when i read joel osteen's daily reading from your best life now. oh yes, it's been ages since i posted something spiritual. but i just wanna share a bit here:

the scipture says, "be confident of this. he that began a good work in you will continue to perform it until it's perfectly complete" (see philippians 1:6). god is never going to quit working on us. he's not going to get halfway through and say, "i am tired of dealing with you." "you keep making that same mistake." "you've got so many faults, i've had it with you." no, god is going to keep working on us until he shapes us into the people he wants us to be. 

pg. 67

i bought this book mid of last year. when i was reading it at first, i couldn't relate myself to any of the topics brought up. for me, it's too hypocrite. till recently i reopened the book, and this paragraph shocked me and opened my eyes. the verse is a popular verse, many have quoted it, but i only understand it yesterday. i guess i have to give myself a bit more respect and a lot of gratitude to god.

have a wonderful day.

Fiuh...

After all the dazzling merriness of Christmas, finally I got the mood to write. Looking back, again, time flew huh? A year has passed. When I checked my resolution, half of the list hasn't been done yet. Reflecting on it, I've come to conclusion that I actually a lazy person. Hmm... Not really shocked when I heard it. Why? Am I letting myself be too pampered? Guess so.

Don't you ever felt when you wanna go for 'sth', but you don't think the time for 'it' is NOW; and when you are looking for so called 'the best time', you are actually procrastinating it like to forever; and when you realize its existence 'again', you feel like it's 'too' late for doing it?

Fiuh...

Many times we've heard that 'time is precious', but do we really mean it? Sometimes, we watch the same movie twice or thrice, we create our own world in dreamy slumbery world too often, we procrastinate, or we blog... while we have so many 'nature' attractions around us. "Go for nature" we said, but we fond of blogging, 'build real relationship' she proclaim, yet we choose chatting online. "Love your family because they are the most precious people in the world" he preached, but we spend no second with them.

Fiuh...

So many regrets, happiness, laughter, despair, sorrow in this year, do you cherish them?
Wanna make a fabulous 2010? Let the past go and move forward with checking our flaws!