La Vita e Bella

It’s always nice to bike to church, in a quiet and cozy Sunday morning.

Especially now that it is relatively warmer, it was 14 C degree this morning (compared to around December, when we were biking out there in 1 C degree!)

I really enjoy the ride, passing through Haringkade and enjoying the peaceful Rosarium garden with the ducks swimming around… go further down the road, with the trees that are starting to have the leaves again, flowers blossom at the side of the road… then passing Madurodam which is full with busses most of the time… passing the silent offices, not forgetting to say hi to Albert the statue… moving down passing another park in front of Central Station…

Oh, I know that this has become a routine that i will surely miss someday.

At the church, it always amazed me to see the kids when the priest calls them to gather around the altar. They are so cheerful, enthusiastic about everything, seem to have no fear… I wonder how I live in exactly the same world them, but yet I react so differently to it. I want to learn to feel like those kids again, to smile the same smile, and not to worry about my life and the days to come…

wishful thinking…

Just a week ago that we managed to escape from the hectic ISS atmosphere and gloomy Netherlands weather to the warm, sunny Paris. But it feels like it’s been such a long time, cuz by the time i arrive here i realize that i need to catch up a lot, having to think of the possibility of moving to an apartment in Waalstrat, and got a shocking e-mail from Dubravka that we are going to have an earlier RPD seminar. Aaaaaahh….

Nice thing to know that next month there’s a big chance that i will have another escaping-time.

hmmm…. means that i hv to work hard now to deserve that.

ok…

i hope i can do that…

hey, what am i doing then, just browsing around and writing a blog, hehehe…

gotta go now, TD is waiting with her Gender Mainstreaming session. I hope it will be interesting (yak?)

Absolutely Everything  -Lighthouse Family

You just waltzed in and made the sun shine
Admitted everything has started looking up now
Made me feel like I’m worth a fortune
You brought about a transformation in my life
It’s been a long time coming but we’ve landed on our feet tonight

Chorus:
You’re absolutely everything I’ll ever need, baby
Cos absolutely everything you do is so good
You’re absolutely every single thing I need, baby
It must be said I got the most amazin’ good love

So much hurry over nothing
You know someday we’ll do the things we really wanna do
Don’t you worry, over time, ’cause everybody’s got their own way of life
Slow down baby you’ll be landed on your feet sometime…

today i called home, thanks to Kristian’s card, hehe…

i called mainly because Engku Hok, Engkim Kien, Ik Djoen and Sharon my niece are in Manado now.

got me missing home, especially when i heard Sharon’s voice…

I remember when i was about to leave Jakarta, during the last hours she just kept quite and lose her cheery smile… Keep on asking me when I will be back, how long 15.5 months is… Ah, and now she’s in Manado, at my home!!! I imagine things that we can do if I’m there with her… one thing I know is I wont be able to escape her doing the make up session, hehehe… that’s the last thing that we did before I leave to the airport! We made this picture, when Koh Erwin and Ingrid visited me to say goodbye.

Mom did not helping me much in dealing with my missing-home feeling. Telling me ‘oh, we went to eat in Wisata Bahari yesterday’ or ‘we just got back from Bukit Kasih and went to Gembira coffeehouse’ huaaaaaaa………. I missed those places and all the food. They’re going to Bunaken tomorrow… makes me missing the beach… the sunset doesn’t look the same with here in Scheveningen beach.

Oh… though I enjoy staying here so much

Still there’s a place I called home,

a place that I can’t never replace…

Windy Netherlands, nothing new about that.

Makes it really hard for me to bike fast, and sometimes it blows so hard that i feel like i’m going to fall from my Cool Girl. Makes me having a bad-hair day. Makes me get hungry all the time (yeah, right… blame it on the wind, hehe…)

But

there’s something that i really like about the wind.

It gives me different sights of the clouds every time i look out of my window, trying to find an inspiration for my essay. Even just in a matter of minutes, i can get cumulus, stratus, cirrus, nimbus (^grin^)

So nice to see how they stretch across the sky like a blanket, always in a different patterns.

Gives me a reason to stop every once in a while, to enjoy the view which is much more interesting than this boring Arial fonts in the pdf file that i’ve been looking at…

Well, there’s always something good in everything, ryt?

Even in this strong, strong wind…

—Thomas O. Chisholm

Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To thy great faithfulness, mercy and love

"Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!"
Morning by morning new mercies I see:
All I have needed thy hand hath provided—
"Great is thy faithfulness," Lord unto me!

Tuesday evening, in my unexplainable mood swing. Suddenly surrounded by the negative thoughts and fear… i dont know why.

Just want to turn my eyes upon Him, see how great is His mercies to me, and remember His promises..

"I will not fail you, nor forsake you"

(Joshua 1:5)

Be still, my soul.

Sunny Sunday afternoon, 14:30 in my room.

Tried hard to put all concepts from Amrita in my head for 4205 exam tomorrow.

Waiting for Tom Welling to save me.

SAVE ME - Remy Zero (OST Smallville)

I feel my wings have broken
in your hands
i feel the words unspoken
inside
when they pull you under
and i would give you any thing you want
you were all i wanted
all my dreams are fallin’ down
crawlin round and round and round

Chorus:
Somebody save me
Let your warm hands break right through me
Somebody save me
I don’t care how you do it
Just save me, save
Come on
I’ve been waiting for you

i see the world has folded in your heart
i feel the waves crash down inside
and they pull me under
and i would give you anything you want
you were all i wanted
all my dreams have fallen down
crawlin round and round and round