joke of the day

me: "Do you still remember that song, 'I Was Born to Love You'?"

friend: (confidently) "Oh yeah, of course! That's Britney's song!"

me: "..... (wondering when did Freddie Mercury wear a long blonde hair)"

Work

What an inconsistent manager can do to you:
1. Unclear direction.
2. Low self esteem because you keep thinking what you do is never correct.
3. Wasting time.

And can you stop blaming me with that look on your eyes and your tone and your emails? Why the heck everything seems to be my mistake after taking over your category when you do not clearly give me all information and guidance on how to do things here? How am I supposed to know that it's a mistake and not an intended 'chim' term you inserted in the file you are supposed to assess previously? Do you even check attachment files?

Roar

randomness of the day

today, my sis somehow was opening the scanned old photos of our family and among them there was an old photo of my dad and mom, dating in a park. she clicked a few photo and... one photo made us laughed in sync. and we had the same thought, that in that photo my dad looked like a korean actor. but, we had different actors in our mind.

to me, my dad looked like Sung Dong Il (My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox)

(taken from http://wiki.d-addicts.com/File:SungDongIl.jpg)

to my sis, my dad looked like Kwon Sang Woo (Stairway to Heaven)

(taken from: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/File:KwonSangWoo.jpg)

It's just nice that Kwon Sang Woo's photo was taken at an almost same angle as my dad's, thus adding to the similarity hahah.. it looked like a before-after cosmetic surgery photo hahahaha

if my dad's face were longer and his nose were straighter, no doubt he would be an actor instead of a pastor :p

Merry Christmas!!

Toba trip!

yeah, on 8-11 Dec we went to lake toba for a short getaway. and an additional agenda: celebrating my birthday.

it was a great one, i received 3 cakes! by far, it's the most cakes i received on my birthday. hahaha

i love the view at samosir island, it's so greeennnn and soooooo tranquil. feels like in LOTR set. hahaha. it turns out i don't need to go to new zealand to get "almost the same" view in LOTR :p here are some of the snapshots

The lake is sooo huge, i think it's normal for ppl long ago to misunderstand it as a sea. it's pretty clean, considering the standard of cleanliness in indo haha.. at least at the samosir side. from the parapat side, it's not so clean after all.

because we passed by sunday during our trip, we went to HKBP church, per my friend's suggestion. the sermon was conducted all in Batak language, from the start to the end. i can guess some of it, luckily hahaa. and the church member made an effort to read Bible passage in English for us, thinking we can't speak Indo :p appreciate the effort though hehe.

oh! and because it's near christmas, they started to have some choir performances. Batak ppl are famous for their nice voice, and turns out it's true! too bad the video i recorded was not so good in quality, so i won't upload it haha.

 and here are more views on beautiful lake toba! and samosir island!

King Sidabutar was one of the famous three Kings in Samosir island. other than that, i don't really know the history of King Sidabutar, because there is no local tour guide to give us a bit of historic explanation about him :(

nah, this one is a picture of a "round table" where the past ruler (one of the three famous Kings, i forgot his name..) and his advisers judged a criminal. the house in the backgournd is the traditional Batak house. only the house of the Ruler has a bull's head hanging on the door frame. underneath the porch, there's a prison where the criminal was jailed for one week. on the left of the so called "round table" was a huge tree where they consulted with the spirits.

during that time, only 3 crimes were considered worthy of prison sentence.

1. sex offenders (rape, etc)
2. murders
3. false testimonies

the sentence for petty crimes such as thefts were not so severe, the criminal would only be subjected to slavery for a certain period of time. whereas those who committed the 3 above crimes would be jailed for one week and executed. usually, the criminals had supernatural abilities which would make them difficult to be killed, BUT on certain day they were weak. for that reason they were jailed for one week to let the rulers know which day was his weakness day. after consulting with the spirits and reached an agreement, they would execute the criminal on the day when he's weak.

throughout the prison sentence until the execution, the criminals were treated like animals. the location of the prison was on the same level as the shed for flocks, which was underneath the main house.

on the execution day, the criminal was laid on his back on a stone. then the executioner/priest will cut his skin to test whether his supernatural power was still there or not. after they're sure his power was no longer present, the executioner beheaded him. after beheading him, the criminal's heart and liver were taken and eaten, just like they ate animals'. according to the tour guide, they no longer viewed it as cannibalism, because they had treated the criminal just like animals because of his crime. the criminal's body would be thrown to the lake and his head would be thrown to the forest. for one week, the villagers were not allowed to fish on the lake to avoid contamination by the criminal's remaining black magic / supernatural abilities.

the execution MUST succeed. failure would lead to the execution of the executioner, by beheading him. that's why it's important to make sure the criminal's power was no longer there to protect him from death.

this was practiced until Nomensen came. when he came, no black magic worked on him. because of that, Batak ppl were saved and since then on they worshiped God. great is our God!

okay, that's a bit of history on the 2nd King we visit. i found it pretty interesting haha. i'm looking forward to our next getaway!!!! i'm bored of singapore  ㅠ.ㅠ

random..

yesterday, smt stupid happened hahaha

*wanna open blog site to update
me: (thinking in my head) "eh.. mm.. harr... what's the web address of my blog???"
*searching google to find my own blog.. and can't find it @.@

lucky chrome now can sign in to your google account, and on the top bar in the google search, you can click "blogger" to access your blog. lalalalala...

*stupidd... muahahhaha

...
and there's an anomaly i realized lately.

one morning, my sis woke up late and i gotta put in all the clothes i hung outside the previous night. i was thinking, for sure i'd be late. only to find that i finished showering way earlier than usual and still reached office early.

another morning, i woke up and finished showering as usual, thinking i'd be able to reach office on time. only to find i reached office late.

and i don't know the reason why.

Blessings

A video testimonial a friend of mine shared last month:

click here

When it seems all hope is failing

And alone you are standing

Keep persevering

For it might be

His mercies in disguise