Hope of Christmas

I have been lazy, demotivated for a long period of time. It seem nothing bring me excitement. I have no passion of doing anything. I am not sure what happen to me. But I am sure something goes wrong. haha.

I am having a new job, new task waiting for me to accomplish. I am getting marriage next year, tons of task pending for me to be done for the marriage. Nothing good for me to do for the kingdom of god at this moment. aha. I must do all this. What is my hobby? What is my interest? Hobby and interest is luxury for me.

This morning, pastor said, if you found yourself with the above mentioned symptom, chances are you feel hopeless of life. haha. There are so many task for me to do and I will found satisfaction of accomplishment of all these. How come I am hopeless? And the pastor said, all these satisfactions or happiness are temporary. All will come to past and you will feel emptiness again. Sound right but that is the concept of life, isn't it?

The pastor continue to speak, "Christmas give us a hope that after this life we will have eternal life together with Jesus Christ." Oh, that sound great. May be I should focus more on eternal life. In fact I receive all these message in a asleep condition. haha.

First Day in New Company

Today is the first day I report to a new company. My boss is friendly and give me some work to do. I am given the opportunity to estimate my time for a project. I am given a lot of freedom on how I can do my work. I wish I can do it right and fast. My boss' objective is fast and working no matter how you do it. It is the reality of the business world which is contradict to artistic programming. Work worth nothing if it is not selling at the right time with a right price. May Jesus guide me through this.

Farewell

I have leave my job that last 9 months. I get to know some wonderful friends in these 9 months. They made my life in 2006 colourful and memorable. Some of them just highly skillful in programming. Some of them are good leader. Some of them are good cheer leader. Some of them are sensational. All of them are friendly and helpful. I felt really good to be with them and felt 9 months are too short.

Some of them stay, some of them left, some of them leaving. What a variable world. Seem nothing is lasting.

At the last day of my job, I wrote a farewell letter to all of them to show my appreciation too. I did gain a lot of technical skill and working experience from the job but I value the friendship the most. However, I am really bad at maintaining human relationship.

Final Destination 3

I seldom have time for entertainment but I watched movie again. The movie named "Final destination 3". The story is simple, a girl have illusion before she is going to ride on a roller coaster that the roller coaster will crash and all the people die. She get off and warned, some people get off after her warning, other went on. The roller coaster crashed and the people die. All the survivors die within a short period of time too. The story depict death as the final destination no matter how your life is.

We know all people surely die one day. No one can escape. Bible says (Genesis 2:16) And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." This is because human commit sin or disobey God's command that we will surely die. What a stupid ancestor of ours but we repeat this generation by generation.

But here come the gospel (John 3:16) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Demolition Man

I watched this movie recently. It was starred by x and y. The background is year 2032. The community is straightly controlled. No flirt languages, no seasoning on food, no kiss, no sexual intercourse. Police have no experience to fight against crime because there are no crime for last 20 years. There is no choice on restaurant because it is controlled. People have no choice on food because of health control. Couples enjoy sexual pleasure using visual reality devices to avoid disease.

The movie remind me of my old question against Christianity. (Genesis 2:16-17) And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

I think God have the choice to create a perfect world without sin. He can create man such a way that man is not possible to sin. However, this is equivalent to create machine. God want to create living man with free will. He did give warning that certain action is no good but harmful. All is our choice. We should be grateful to have choice or else can you imagine how boring?

After Resignation

I felt very weird after resignation. To describe the feeling, I would say like a person knowing that he has cancer and going to die very soon.

I started to interact with the people around me, started to join lunch session, started to tell joke, started to have a short chat and concern other people condition and feeling. Before resignation, I had focus all my strength and time on my work. I regret because I wasted so much time to make wonderful friend around. I started to enjoy the companion of the people around, started to feel like a human being instead of a working machine.

Please appreciate the companion of the people around. You may miss their smiley face for a long period of time or forever.

Evangelic fund raising campaign

My church are organizing old newspaper collection campaign. I have plenty of old newspaper at home. Before going to church, I needs to bring all old newspaper from my 5th floor apartment to my car. The point is my apartment has no lift. It took my 5 trips to finish all the old newspaper. On the way, I was thinking to ask my neighbor for their old newspaper but I failed to do so because I do not really know all of them. The money gained from the campaign will be used for evangelic ministry at Pakistan.

The next Sunday, children below 10 years old are organizing a game to raise evangelic fund too. They make a big net and filled the net with a lot of plastic balls. People who give a dollar will have a chance to guess the number of ball in the net. The winner will bring back home a standing lamp. What a wonder effort make by them.