song

This song is one of the top song in K-love and it really inspires me:

Everlasting God
Chris Tomlin

Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord

Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord

Our God, You reign forever
Our hope, our Strong Deliverer

You are the everlasting God
The everlasting God
You do not faint
You won't grow weary
You're the defender of the weak
You comfort those in need
You lift us up on wings like eagles

Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord

Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord

Our God, You reign forever
Our hope, our Strong Deliverer

You are the everlasting God
The everlasting God
You do not faint
You won't grow weary
You're the defender of the weak
You comfort those in need
You lift us up on wings like eagles

Our God, You reign forever
Our hope, our Strong Deliverer

You are the everlasting God
The everlasting God
You do not faint
You won't grow weary
You're the defender of the weak
You comfort those in need
You lift us up on wings like eagles

dream

All of us must've been faced this question "What is you dream in life that you haven't fulfilled ?". When I think about the answer for this question, I keep thinking God already grant me almost all of my wish, well except gf and full time engineering jobs but anyway I believe now isn't the appropriate time and both of them won't happen in near future. So I'm thinking what do I really want ? Back to the other night when I played badminton, I talked with Merrell and both of us shared our dreams. We want to watch live professional badminton player performance, it has been my dream to watch Thomas cup live :D. To be honest I really want to watch Thomas cup 2008 since it will be held in Jakarta Indonesia, it also a big chance to watch Indonesia take the Thomas cup back from China and return it's dominance. I always want to feel what it's like to be in stadium wit all of those crazy Indonesia supporter, chants the INA players name, boo ing the opposite players of INA. Well watching it through the TV already makes me super excited :D. I can't imagine what it will be likes when I am in the stadium. I really hope God grants me this wish.

patience

old people said that God loves patience people. Hum, I never thought of that until today. So here's the story, yesterday I lost my binder which contains syllabus, class notes, GPA for classes that I have taken, study progress and many important stuff :D. So yesterday basically I was like crazy people, keep thinking where did I left it, so I break down into: Starbucks, SL 70Computer Lab and SL110 which was the classroom where the last time I saw my binder. Then I think that if I left it in SL110 then it means that the professor will take it and keep it because it was his habit.

Yesterday night I prayed to God saying to Him with 100% belief that today He'll help me to find my binder and I'll find it. So in the morning, I went to starbucks and talked with starbucks' employee. After I explain my condition, he try to look it and can't find it anywhere but he promised me that he'll ask the manager that was on duty yesterday. The next stop is SL 70 computer lab. The proctor of that computer lab isn't friendly and he just tell me to go to LD 124 which was lost and found place for stuff that was lost in SL 70. After I go to the LD 124, the secretary tell me that there's no binder that was lost in LD 70 yesterday. Wah, this time big doubt start to arise in my head. But I try to keep going and believe.

After I'm done asking people, I went to the class and after that I spent some time to go to wall mart since I need to buy grip for my badminton rackets. After I buy the grip I'm planning to eat in egg roll no 1 since the wall mart was next to the restaurant but the restaurant was closed. It makes me a little bit angry. The problems haven't stop yet, after I'm back in campus I try to find parking space and I want a parking space in SL & LD parking lot since it was the nearest one with my classroom. At first I realize that the parking space was full, I asked God for a parking space, then after I can't find it when I go up to the highest floor, I try to find it when I go down. There's only one car in front of me when I go down and all of sudden there's one guy walk and the car in front of me make a full stop to find out where is this guy parking. Believe it or not, this guy park on the right side in front of the car in front of me. It pissed me a little bit since now I start to think, what if I go first and the car in front of me late. Then this parking space will belong to me. Then I can't find any parking space in this building and I try to turn around and go up again. When I was on the top floor again, one car suddenly broke the stop sign and now I'm behind this one car again. When we go down, the same thing happen again. One guy suddenly walk in front of us and he get out from his car. After that the car in front of me take the parking space. One time is okay but 2nd time really irritates me. Still trying to be patient and get out from this parking lot. I went to ET parking space and really thanks God I can find parking space right after I went to the parking lot :D.

Then back to my binder, I go to the ME department and talk with my professor, he said that he didn't find any binder. It really makes me sad since now I need to print of all of the syllabus and class power point + borrow someone notes again (this happen at approximately in the noon). Then after I take 1 class, it was 2:45 PM, I went home since my next class is at 7:30 PM. Right after I back to my apt, someone called me and ask whether I can help her to pick up her car that she just bought 5 days ago. I said yes and she looks really satisfied and happy with her new car :D. After that I played badminton for a while and then I went to my last class.

Believe it or not, 15 minutes after I'm sitting in the classroom, I notices that there is a binder on the lecturer's table. Then I ask my classmates to pick it up for me. Believe it or not again, it is my binders. Thanks God so much.

Now I understand a little bit about patience. If I was more patience probably I won't spend extra money on printing syllabus (now we have to pay 4 cents/page if we want to print in IUPUI). Well but above all I still want to thanks God.

good article

sory this post will be in Indonesian :D. There's an interesting article about Christian Hadinata who was a legend in Indonesia badminton, well I really like this guys for it's honesty and he share tips to be sucesfull in teamwork, I quote this from tokohindonesia.com:

"Sekian lama malang melintang di sektor ganda, jelas memiliki resep tertentu yang dipraktikkan di lapangan. Christian menyebutkan, resep sukses bermain di ganda iatu adalah jangan sekali-kali merasa pintar sendiri, merasa lebih bagus dari pasangan. Diakuinya, bagaimana tidak gondok dan mangkel kalau pasangannya melakukan kesalahan melulu. Atau, ada semacam konflik kecil dengan pasangan karena sifat pribadi yang berbeda.

Ia juga senantiasa berusaha menyesuaikan diri dengan pasangannya. Ia pernah berpasangan dengan Liem Swie King dan juga dengan Icuk Sugiarto. King bertipe menyerang, sementara Icuk tipe bertahan. Dengan King, saya hanya memancing-mancing dengan bola-bola lemah sehingga lawan terpaksa mengangkat bola. King yang mengeksekusi. Ia selalu bertanya, pasangan mau main bagaimana? Jangan pasangan yang harus nurut pada saya. Kalau Icuk bertahan, ya, ia angkat-angkat saja bola biar dipukul lawan. Untuk itu, yang penting adalah bisa mengalah. Jangan sok pinter, karena nanti malah kalah. Jika kalah, maka dua-duanya kalah."

Sometimes we (including me) think that we're an expert in doing something but our inability to not listen to our teammates can cause big loos not just to them but to all of the team member.

got new job

Finally, after 1 semester of just doing school and research I get on campus job :D. Well I enjoy last semester research although I can't really finish it till the end but I learned something from it. This semester I'll work as a grader for math department :D. The good thing is that I'll grade for Dr Ng whom I have known before since I'm taking multivariable calculus class with him a year ago :D. To be honest I prefer to work with Asian professor than American professor, I mean if I can choose since it's easier to communicate with them especially if I have some problem in my work cause by family issue, the professor from Asian will understand that easier. Well I apply for another job in ME department as a grader and tutor for dynamics class. I really hope that I can get this job too since I really like the dynamic topic. Well, right now I don't want to think about that first since I'll have a quiz tommorow (quite fast :D) and I just want to surrender everything to God.