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Memang temen2 yang kaya gini yg asik,
yang bisa 1000% apa adanya...
mau cuek, marah, debat, ketawa, ngirit, komen, males, semuanya halal!
apa adanya aja..

dari debatin masalah2 hidup...
kerjaan... PH.. pernikahan.. kos, harga rumah...
sampe ngomongin harga es teh yg keterlaluan...
mpe nanya gaji.. haha..
mpe minta sumbangan BB... (ayo donk, tergeraklah hati kalian..)
rencanain liburan, bisnis... dan kado merid... haha..

terima kasih ya teman2!
utk kasih yg menerima dan membangun...

demi bisnis kita bersama! ganbei!

Is anything to wonderful for the LORD?

耶和华岂有难成的事吗？创18:14a

虽然我时间不多了，不过我要相信上帝的安排是美好的。
虽然看起来这个实验真不容易，但是耶和华没有难成的事。
虽然我失败了好几次，可是我要继续努力做；
因为至终必有善报，我的指望也不至断 绝。

Temenan 7 taon

Tujuh taon!

Gile, lebih dari 25% tahun2 di hidup gua ada dia di sekitar gua....

3.5 taon tiap hari dateng, duduk, dan bengong di kelas yang sama...

Pulang kuliah, masih aja chat....makan bareng...

Tiap liburan masih aja pengen ketemu n jalan bareng...

Ga cukup.... dia datang dan menguntit aku ke Changsha....

Dari yang tadinya ngambek klo dipanggil Jo,

sampe sekarang memperkenalkan dirinya sebagai Jo, G.Jo, Jojo...

Teman seperti apakah dia?

One quote that really fits her might be this:

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty"

Rapih,

organized, 

straightforward, 

tulus,

dan lurus....kaya penggaris besi...

dan cuma si BeJo yang rela jadi asisten fotokopi gua, 

gotong2 fotokopian sekelas ngangkot and ngangkut ke lt 5.

Ketika temen yang laen mungkin sungkan untuk kasitau apa yang bener,

atau mulai males ngadepin semua argumentasi dan fakta-fakta analisa 

yang gua putar-balikkan, yang pada intinya adalah pembelaan diri,
"iya sih, gua memang ada salahnya, tapi.....bla3..gua bener, ini normal.."

si BeJo bisa tetep keukeuh menyatakan kesalahan gua...

Walaupun kadang dongkol juga sih ga dibela... haha...

eh dicuekin lagi, "terserah lu deh, pokonya gua uda bilang..."

tapi emang, lebih baik teguran yang nyata-nyata dari pada kasih yang tersembunyi.

”Better is open rebuke than hidden love“

Kalo bukan karena dia wholeheartedly care me, she won't rebuke me.

Pokonya, gua ga bosen deh temenan ma dia, 

ga nyesel juga dikuntit dia... (padahal gua jg yg bujuk2 dia ke Changsha, haha!)

dan ga ragu juga utk bilang klo dia sahabat gua!

You’ll always be my best friend…You know too much.

Christmas caroling_10 Dec'11

To welcome Christmas we did a Christmas caroling last Saturday at Xiang Jiang. Every Saturday night, there is a 15 minutes fireworks show from the Orange Island. 2 weeks ago, they tried to break a Guinness World record for the biggest 3-D fireworks show. 

So, no matter how cold the day is, there are always people around the bank of river every Saturday 8 PM.

And here we are, foreign students, Indonesians, Japanese, Thai sang Christmas songs in the cold night.

Joy to the world! Joyful, joyful! 

 

 It was just so festive!

Some Chinese also came and sang with us.
They looked confused at first, but I bet they enjoyed it!

Rejoice!! Our savior came to the earth to save us!

  

 


Some of the Santa's elves also came and joined us

They lost their way to the Pole, I guess! 

We ended up watching the lunar eclipse that night.
 It was a beautiful night, indeed.

World Culture Day 2011

Hunan Normal University held a world culture day 世界文化日 a few weeks ago. A lot of countries participate at this event, Indonesia, Japan, Congo, Thailand, France, Russia, Vietnam, South Korea, etc. We prepared few Indonesian songs for the show and a night before we prepare a 'mading'. 

Every country needed to perform a 5-minute-show. We, Indonesian played Angklung, Indonesian traditional music instrument, and sang some songs. We played "Ibu Kita Kartini" and "Mama Hao" with angklung, after that we sang "Indonesia Pusaka", "Gebyar, Gebyar", and "Ampar-ampar pisang". It was so much fun! We really enjoyed the day!

We also prepared some food for the visitors, we cooked "Nasi Kuning" (Yellow rice, 黄饭） and "Bubur Kacang Ijo" (Mung bean soup, 绿豆粥). A lot of Chinese students like it, maybe because it's tasty. More tastier than their 绿豆粥，we put coconut milk and brown sugar when we boil the mung bean. Well, of course, higher fat content :p

We didn't really have much time to visit other countries booth. But all the show were great. The Koreans sang songs, the Thais danced their traditional dance, the French lady danced with her Changsha's husband ;) , and the Japanese sang and danced. I couldn't remember what other countries did that day.

 We are proud to be Indonesians.

In Changsha, the Indonesian and the Thai really hang out together! :)

Enjoy the pictures!

Different people, different country, different culture, but one world, one creator!

Blessings!

1 Nov'2011 Master Kong & Dynasty Wine factory visits

Today we visited Master Kong instant noodle factory. It's huge! They have really few workers, everything is done by machine.

 Too bad, we cannot get the picture for the line production. But for the basic the procedure is as following:

material handling -> continuous mixing -> dough sheet combining, continuous pressing -> steaming -> 

sauce spraying -> cutting -> frying -> cooling - accumulate -> packing with sauce -> metal detecting 

-> barcode printing -> automatic wrap-around packing ->robotic pallet.

They also have a museum, "instant noodle impression museum". What a name!

In the afternoon we visited Dynasty Wine company. 

 We didn't go to the production line due to sanitation issue. We only went to the storage room. They first store their wine in the oak barrel for 3 years in maximum and after that transfer it to bottles.

  Asta la vista!

Give thanks_24 Nov'11

Colossians 3:15-17

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Today is Thanksgiving day for Americans. When Europeans first arrived to the Americas, they celebrated thanksgiving to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World, while the Native Americans at that time also celebrated the end of harvest season. 

Me? I'm not an American, but I took a chance to think about my life and give thanks, because it's what God wants us to do.

...in good times and bad times, give thanks to God....

I can share some of things I'm giving thanks to:

I thank God that he sent me to China, instead of other country.

I thank God for encouraging parents.

I thank God for giving me supportive teachers, Li laoshi and Wang laoshi. I know that they are the best one for me.

I am so blessed with my classmates, I give thanks for them, Zhang Juan, Zhang Lili, Xiao Rong, Guo Jiajing, Fan Yubing, Wang Huiran, Li Lu and others, also other laboratories classmates, Mr. Xia's students, Mr. Wu's students, Mrs. Yi's students. Thank God for everyone of them.

I thank God to know Lv Yuan and having her as my best friend. You are a true friend!

I thank God for friends back in Indonesia who keep contact with me, updating me with news and praying for me. Thank you Nadya, Sheila, Jo, Gope, Erine, Tine, Herlina, Tere! Best friends are the family you find outside.

I also thank God for Caur....yang dalam ketengilannya selalu brings joy and laughter in my bad days.

I give thanks for the seasons in Changsha, though it gets so hot in summer and so cold in winter, I give thanks

I thank God for all the parts of research I've done and doing right now. Though the results were not satisfying, but give thanks that it's done. In all things, give thanks!

Thank God for a funny-helpful-understanding Sunisa! 

Thank God for all Indonesian liuxuesheng in Changsha, esp. Mogu2, Jojo, Stacy! Indeed, no matter what, the most comfortable language to chat is your mother language!

Thank God also for..... a warm dormitory (though sometimes I complain about the stairs, thank God I have a place to stay)....., fast internet access....., books..., Indonesian foods I have left here..., guitar.... laptop.... 

etc....

And above all, I thank God for your love and forgiveness. It's so true that without your grace, I'm nothing but broken and wretched.