dancing in life...

...i dont wanna miss even one song, coz all too soon the clock will strike midnight
and the feast'll be over.

............darn

i really miss my aplyc friends. i literally dont come often again with my comrades filly (who lives near my house btw, but our work hours never match to each other so in the end its like decades ago that we dont bump to each other, tsk) and ranny whos miles away in papua now.

ive got tons of ideas for the lsyouth inside my head but i just cant seem to get it out cos i cant work on it alone and the youngs are just like...impossible to get on their own a$$!!!!! tsk

i'm not surprised, not everything lasts
have broken my heart so many times, i stopped keepin track
talk myself in, i talk myself out
i get all worked up then i let myself

i tried so very hard not to lose it
i came up with a million excuses
i thought i thought of every possibility

and i now someday that it'll all turn out
you'll make me work so we can work to work it out
and i promised you kid that i'll give so much more than i get
i just haven't met you yet

i might have to wait, i'll never give up
i guess it's half time, and the other half's luck
where ever you are, whenever it's right
you'll come out of nowhere and into my

and i know that we can be so amazing
and baby your love is gonna change me
and now i can see every possibility

they say all's fair in love and war
but i won't need to fight it we'll get it by to be

i said Love, i just haven't met you yet

so it's time to post something.....

...but dunno what so ima just post this.

hee

mah playlist.....music's never been so yumm....!

1. Mr. Hudson ft. Kanye West - Supernova
Let me be your supernova before you make the biggest mistake of your life, just give me the chance to get it right


2. The Virgins - Rich Girls
We'll walk around prentending we're all grown up....is that the way I see the world?

3. Backstreet Boys - Straight Through My Heart (Soldier Down)
I can't be hit, I just can't escape this love

4. Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas
Don't call your mother cause now we're partners in crime

5. Cobra Starship ft. Leighton Meester - Good Girls Gone Bad
You heard that I was trouble but you couldn't resist...


6. David Cook - Come Back To Me
You say you gotta go and find yourself
You say that you're becoming someone else
Don't recognize the face in the mirror looking back at you

You say you're leaving as you look away
I know there's really nothing left to say
Just know I'm here whenever you need me I'll wait for you

So I'll let you go, I'll set you free
And when you've seen what you need to see
When you find you, come back to me

Take your time, I won't go anywhere
Picture you with the wind in your hair
I'll keep your things right where you left them
I'll be here for you

And I hope you find everything that you need
I'll be right here waiting to see
You find you, come back to me

I can't get close if you're not there
I can't get inside if there's no soul there
I can't face you, I can't save you
It's something you'll have to do

So I hope you find everything that you need
I'll be right here waiting to see
When you find you, come back to me

7. Mika - We Are Golden
Waking up in the midday sun, what's to live for?

8. Parachute - She Is Love
(lyrics are kinda shabby but I like the song anyway)

9. Jack's Mannequin - La La Lie
Guess what? I'm done

10. Train - Hey, Soul Sister
Your sweet moonbeam, the smell of you in every single dream I dream
I knew when we collided, you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind

11. Hellogoodbye - When We First Met
As I kept track of every haircut that we ever had I could, I could see how long it had been

whatever that means...

...that it's might just an illusion of the heart.

so you gotta.....SWIM!

You've gotta swim
Swim for your life
Swim for the music
That saves you
When you're not so sure you'll survive
You gotta swim
And swim when it hurts
The whole world is watching
You haven't come this far
To fall off the earth
The currents will pull you
Away from your love
Just keep your head above

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
A crack in the armor
I swim to brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in
I swim

You gotta swim
Through nights that won't end
Swim for your families
Your lovers your sisters
And brothers and friends
Yeah you've gotta swim
Through wars without cause
Swim for the lost politicians
Who don't see their greed as a flaw

The currents will pull us
Away from our love
Just keep your head above

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
Cracking me open now
I swim for brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I'm not giving in
Well I'm not giving in
I swim

You gotta swim
Swim in the dark
There's no shame in drifting
Feel the tide shifting and wait for the spark
Yeah you've gotta swim
Don't let yourself sink
Just find the horizon
I promise you it's not as far as you think
The currents will drag us away from our love
Just keep your head above
Just keep your head above
Swim
Just keep your head above
Swim, swim
Just keep your head above
Swim


~Jack's Mannequin, Swim, from the album The Glass Passenger~

why the violence...?

so you can.....

- write-----to people: your boss, your president, your religious leaders, to the media, your "wakil rakyat" (hah!), to Oprah (well...who knows?), to your children (or grand children), to your lover, to God, or even to yourself. A lot of times people might not pay attention, but the whole universe is watching you know....
BUT don't write on people's heart using grief.

- believe-----in your family, your country, your faith, your angels, your saints, your god, yourself....
BUT don't believe to the calling for sanctity that demands others' life.

- paint------on canvas, on sand,on paper, on glass, on wood, on the walls (wherever you're permitted to do it), on ice....
BUT don't paint on people's heart with blood.

- sing------about your life, your sadness, your happiness, about angels, your family, your faith, your country, your pet, your best friend, your job, your loneliness, about God, your mistake, your achievements, your love, about anything....
BUT don't sing it to my face with terror on your face.

- pray------about absolutely everything....
BUT why need to pray to a god who vouch for hatred?

- light up candles for the night, or fireworks to lit the sky, or firecrackers if you like it louder....
BUT NOT bombs!! because they make the night even darker, the sky even paler, and the world even more silent.

So I write, I believe,
I paint, I sing,
I pray,
I light up candles....
....for those life who'd been taken mercilessly
....for their families to still take heart
....for you, whoever you who did it,
I pray that God forgive your reason, whatever it is.

oh, wow...

...what a quote

" you just cannot claim a person, there's enough prisoners in the world already"

found randomly on the net

so after standing in line for appr. 30 minutes....

....this is what I got.....


ta-da!
















N row, well guess I have to live with that....:-<

grab your tickets now, boys and gals! but dont even bother queueing for today's show, not a chance for even a single seat!

best of luck tomorrow ;)

today...

...am so pissed of myself upon realising that i haven't changed at all, not even a bit.


oh you, the past, go away!


(or should i go away?)

Someday we'll.....

You can go, you can start all over again
You could try to find way to make another day go by
You can hide all of your feelings inside
You could try to carry on when all you wanna do is cry

And maybe someday we'll figure all this out
Try to put an end to all our doubt
And try to find a way to make things better now
And maybe someday
We'll live our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow
Someday

Now wait and try to find another mistake
If you throw it all away
Then maybe you could change your mind
You can run
And when everything is over and done
You could shine a little light on everything around you
Man, its good to be someone

And I don't wanna wait
I just wanna know
I just wanna hear you tell me so
Give it to me straight
Tell it to me slow

Well sometimes we don't really notice just how good it can get
So maybe we should start all over, start all over again
Well sometimes we don't really notice just how good it can get
So maybe we should start all over, start all over again

~Rob Thomas, Someday, from the album Cradlesong

from My Sassy Girl last night....

Old Man to Jordan: " I wish you a story with a happy ending... and the wisdom to look for it."


*sigh*...........

hehehehehe......

....so im going to see my 1st this summer blockbuster














*swoooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn*

^b^

....so they say...

..you can't hurry love

sippppp......

...(lumayan) semangat hari ini berkat tropical fruit bath kemarin...........mmmmmmm...................
d^_____________________________^b

i found it!

The chorus of this this one song has been playing on my mind since like 2 months, but have no idea of the title.

Only when I went to Sea Breeze last week and they played this song on their restaurant along with other Nickelback songs, that I realised that it's Nickelback, hehe

It's Far Away.


Far Away - Nickelback

want to write, but dunno what a write....

bye bye my w580i....

...i'm sure gonna miss you...



well....this is what salt water can do to a modern yet fragile cellphones....
apparently taking off the battery immediately, rinsed the phone with mineral water and then blew it with dry air doesnt really do any good =(

thanks very much anyway Pak Terry, for all the trouble...


sigh

cape..........

pengen quit aja dari kerjaan sekarang..................................
kalo orang lain yang screw-up, kok gw yang got the blame?

back at Manado....

...this city is not really amusing, isn't it..? =(

hehehehehe....Sea Breeze it is!!!!

sparkling blue sea, here i comeeee.................!!!!!










pic © NSWA, www.divenorthsulawesi.com

..really pissed off!!!

...nagging teenager, hih!!!




















X-(

a melody from my past.....

as the moon kindles the night
as the wind kindles the fire
as the rain fills every ocean
and the sun the earth
with your heart kindle my heart

take my heart
take my heart
kindle it with your heart
and my heart cannot be
kindled without you
with your heart kindle my heart


~ Kindle My Heart, OST A Little Princess

a perfect way to start your weekend day.....

...forgetting that your guests are waiting to be picked up for their tour

x_________________________________________x


























bugger!

my lunch today.....

......gado-gado and cappuccino float...yummmm ^______________^

while having lunch, the scenery was utterly beautiful. wavy white cloud sky and the sea looking so serene.....hhhhhh....would definitely like to trade my remaining hours at the office with afternoon snorkeling or siesta on a hammock down the beach......8->















>>despite the reclamation going on, heheh<<

pardon the poor pic---i took it from my W580i, from behind the restaurant's glass =p

this morning.....

.....i spent 3 minutes running around my room to get my butt fit in to my freshly-ironed L.Cooper jeans. phewwwww
















Bottom line is....








....i gained weight.



==''((

my mind is already set in the future.....

......for this.......














..............................................................this weekend.









swoonnnnnn..... ;;)

what i'm doing now (June 03, 7.25PM GMT+8)

putting together tangkoko, gangga, toraja and the oberoi


hmmmmm.....really am wondering how the moon looks like on the other side of the world....

on the moon....

...how would it look like on the other side of the world...?

from Leverage last night....

" I don't see why you need to chase the past."
~Sophie Devereaux to Eliot

on facebook....

am thinking to fasting from facebook this week.....hmmm....

oh Tiara.....

...tiket gw mana......>_<
hiks, harusnya bisa pulang cepat, do'h

today....

...pagi yang sendu....

cape......

,....MZ...GA....JT.....membingungkan duniaku :(

Bigger than the World!

I think my heart might explode
Cause now I feel the weight of your love on me now
From my head down to my toes
And I can't handle nothing else

I'm starring at the mirror at this clothes
And it's funny, they mean about as much as yesterday
Something is calling me home, me home
I can hear your voice and I'm not afraid

Now I know I'm just a girl
Trying to make my way through this life
Now I feel bigger than the world
With your hand in mine

Like a speeding bullet
Trying to make my way back through the night
And now I feel bigger than the world
With your hand in mine

Boy, I'll take care of your storm
Let's sneek right pass the cloud of where it sworn
I can handle the people
They're just pebble on the long, long road

I'm starring at the sky at those stars
And it's funny, they seem about as far as tomorrow
Something is calling me home, me home
And I'm not afraid

Cause I can see everything from higher above
The Earth is a little place next to my love
I can reach far here to where you are
Just look for me in the sky, not that far

And now I feel bigger than the trees
That hold the leaves
Bigger than the mountains
That touch the sea
Bigger than the night
That needs today
Bigger than the waves
That crash the bay
Bigger bigger
Bigger bigger

When all of the world seems to get you down
Just know that I'm always gonna be your around
I hold your hand and it's where it to stay
I know you too much just like I did today

Now I know I'm just a girl
Trying to make my way through this life
Now I feel bigger than the world
With your hand in mine

Like a speeding bullet
Trying to make my way back through the night
And now I feel bigger than the world
With your hand in mine

~ Esmee Denters, Bigger than the World, from the album "Outta Here"

so they say beer can make you smarter, he-he-he-

°°credit to JHB

Kak Lia...semangat nehhh...!!!!!!

......susah jo ini orang2 M**an +___________________________+

semangat+++ sore ini ke Tikala Shiatsu, he'he'he'he'he

359...what am i looking for..?

...........

362 on 364

May 18 on May 16:

cant really remember the details of my bday party, but it was rockin'''!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sad that some friends could not make it though :(

will upload pictures soon. hopefully, hhehe

very useful indeed!

click here,



to get this....

364 on 365

- did not get enough sleep on the early hours of May 15. plenty of sms and phone calls already. did not really bother ;)
- and then woke up very late for work, hahahahahah.
- arrived at the ofx 10 AM, got plenty of cipika-cipiki, hihihihihi
- kind of a mad day at the ofx, last day of WOC and ppl started to ask for tours. bakuat Kak Jacquie!
- went out during lunch to buy kolintang and musik bambu CDs for US embassy farewell party for the evening. Kak Liany sms-d back and forth about some cute embassy guys who were having lunch at a RM minahasa in front of the ofx, hahahahahahahah
- after lunch, shifting minds between responding emails and tha farewell party.
- also, catching up with friends with all those happy bday greetings at FB. it appears to be a tough job, hahahha
- it's the farewell party indeed!!! Thanks much Kak Jacquie! got at the 11th floor of sintesa at 7pm. managed to take pic with Mr Hume (he-he). hang out. chill out. nice music (where's the kolintang and musik bambu i desperately went out looking for during lunch, d-oh?). nice people. more pics at Rina and Virgie, hopefully they share those soon. a glass of vin blanc really soothes out my day, should-ve asked for more to Wade, *sigh*....what a very good break!
- the party's just end, but the night was still young! went down at the hotel lounge, more talks. there was a bentenan fashion show (from the blocking models? i saw terry around...), kinda cute.....there was this one girl model who always smiled on seeing Wade. (Tracy: "I think she likes you..!") ha-ha
- 11th floor, then G floor, and then heading down to B floor....its time to loosen up those voices, boys and gals!!!!! almost all those chicky Rihanna songs (typical), but then everybody got really warmed up during Spice Up Your Life! what a very good break (and wonderful birthday!) indeed!!!!
- tiredness strike all of us sometimes before midnite......but everyone still managed to dance around the gleaming alleys of deluxe. more pics (oh please Kak Virgie....)
- took a blue cab. arrived home past midnite already.

what a day.....


for your eyes only....(me, Mr Costa, Mr Hume, Liany, Fenny)

365...Achtung, babe!

where can i find...

..:Theo Tham's singing Howie Day's collide...? anyone, please....?

oh how i long for you.....

.....sweet NWZ-W202.............

serenity....

......one thing I'm praying for during this one time of my life.

birthday wishlist.......

......well, materially i want this, and ONLY THIS.....



....siggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..................

so this is what everybody's talking about, but nobody really knows....

“Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it. This, as has already been said, is why Christ the Redeemer “fully reveals man to himself”. If we may use the expression, this is the human dimension of the mystery of the Redemption. In this dimension man finds again the greatness, dignity and value that belong to his humanity. In the mystery of the Redemption man becomes newly “expressed” and, in a way, is newly created. He is newly created! “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus”. The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly-and not just in accordance with immediate, partial, often superficial, and even illusory standards and measures of his being-he must with his unrest, uncertainty and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ. He must, so to speak, enter into him with all his own self, he must “appropriate” and assimilate the whole of the reality of the Incarnation and Redemption in order to find himself. If this profound process takes place within him, he then bears fruit not only of adoration of God but also of deep wonder at himself. How precious must man be in the eyes of the Creator, if he “gained so great a Redeemer”, and if God “gave his only Son “in order that man ’should not perish but have eternal life’.”

–From Pope John Paul II’s Encyclical Redemptio Hominis, #10.

don't look at me.....

...because I'm gonna be bigger. I'll measure up, I'll measure up.

just got this SMS

Gracia,
Ho un sacco di pressione sui vi invita a signum fidei formazione.
Mi piace molto, ma vi invitiamo a si prega di capire la mia condizione. Se si desidera incontrare il fratello, per favore venite a lunedi YLC dove sta andando a vedere.

Something like that. I crashed and burnt.

biGGER!!!!!

First off I cant keep a promise
I'm no one to count on at all
Add on that Im a coward
To scared to return your calls

But you dont care
You keep sticking around
While Im locked in a cloud
Youre bigger
Lalala
Cuz youre still here
Your feet stuck to the ground
Despite how silly it sounds
Youre bigger
Than me
Lalala

Its known that Im a liar
Often Im blacker than white
Add on my uncanny ego
No ones as humbled like I

All the messed up things I do
Yeah I swear I make them up to you
Before youre going heaven knows
Just let me make it better
Ill try to measure up to you

~ Backstreet Boys, Bigger, on their upcoming new album (dunno the title of the album yet)

Unstoppable

so you made a lot of mistakes
Walked down the road a little sideways
Cracked a rib when you hit the wall
You've had a pocket full of regrets
Pull you down faster than a sunset
Hey, it happens to us all

When the cold hard rain just won't quit
And you can't see your way out of it

You find your faith has been lost and shaken
You take back what's been taken
Get on your knees and dig down deep
You can do what you think is impossible
Keep on believing, don't give in
It'll come and make you whole again
It always will, it always does
Love is unstoppable

Love, it wear the ring of stone
Bring you back to being born again
It's a helping hand when you need it most
A lighthouse shining on the coast
That never goes dim

When your heart is full of doubt
And you think that there's no way out

Like a river keeps on rolling
Like the north wind blowing
Don't it feel good knowing
Love is unstoppable

So you made a lot of mistakes
Walked down the road a little sideways
Love, love is unstoppable


~Rascal Flatts, Unstoppable, from the album Unstoppable

t.i.r.e.d

so many things need to do, but uggghhhhhh.......not so little time, just too little energy :(

- adoration. tomorrow, April 14 (Aldo Kalangi's birthday btw)
- J. Blank, tomorrow
- invoices
- should start going on to the gym....hmmmm....
- talk to Filly...
- upload pics to FB. tons of them!
- more invoices
- Linus Air, sigh....
- addicted to True Blood, sigh
- paintings....................................................
- OMG, Easter cards!
- get better lunch without overwhelming my tummy (tsk)
- starting Lasallian youth ministry, heaps to do.
- start reading Edgar Sawtelle again, 100 something pages and I left it out, now I don't remember even a thing on that book. d'oh!
- swim, or sink (d.i.v.e.).....
- my dark circles are getting worse, need longer sleep....(how?)
- better sleep...
- more sleep, seriously.

perfect, strong, true and forever!

o Love, may you be perfect
as I am flawed;
may you be strong
as I am frail;
may you be true
cause I'm...
sometimes I'm a lie...
and may you be forever
cause I
I can pass on any minute now.

The Traveler God

"Mack, the world system is what it is. Institutions, systems, ideologies, and all the vain, futile efforts of humanity that go with them are everywhere, and interaction with all of it is unavoidable. But I can give you freedom to overcome any system of power in which you find yourself, be it religious, economic, social, or political. You will grow in the freedom to be inside or outside all kinds of systems and to move freely between and among them. Together, you and I can be in it and not of it."

"But so many of the people I care about seem to be both in it and of it!" Mack was thinking of his friends, church people who had expressed love to him and his family. He knew they loved had expressed love to him and hisfamily. He knew they loved Jesus, but were also sold out to religious activity and patriotism.

"Mack, I love them. And you wrongly judge many of them. For those who are both in it and of it, we must find ways to love and serve them, don't you think?" asked Jesus. "Remember, the people who know me are the ones who are free to live and love without any agenda."

"Is that what it means to be a Christian?" It sounded kind of stupid as Mack said it, but it was how he was trying to sum everything up in his mind.

"Who said anything about being a Christian? I'm not a Christian."

The idea struck Mack as odd and unexpected and he couldn't keep himself from grinning. "No, I suppose you aren't."

They arrived at the door of the workshop. Again Jesus stopped. "Those who love me come from every system that exists. They were Buddhists or Mormons, Baptists or Muslims, Democrats, Republicans and many who don't vote or are not part of any Sunday morning or religious institutions. I have followers who were murderers and many who were self-righteous. Some are bankers and bookies, Americans and Iraqis, Jews and Palestinians. I have no desire to make them Christian, but I do want to join them in their transformation into sons and daughters of my Papa, into my brothers and sisters, into my Beloved."

"Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?"

"Not at all," smiled Jesus as he reached for the door handle to the shop. "Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you."

~ William P. Young, The Shack, Chapter 12

The Ecologist God....

"Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide and direct her." As Jesus spoke, his voice intensified in subdued anguish. "Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders or blows her breath, they are offended and raise their fist at God."

"You're an ecologist?" Mack said, half as an accusation.

"This blue-green ball in black space, filled with beauty even now, battered and abused and lovely."

"I know that song. You must care deeply about the Creation," smiles Mack.

"Well, this blue-green ball in black space belongs to me," Jesus stated emphatically.

~ William P. Young, The Shack - chapter 10

gara-gara sakit....

....I spent my last weekend contemplating The Shack (http://theshackbook.com/read.html)

What a book.

on Savage Garden - Truly Mady Deeply

i dont wanna be your dream
dont wanna be your wish
dont wanna be your fantasy

i just wanna be your reality
your existence
your present

i want to matter
not being just some silly girl who meets your lousy wet dreams.

INDIVISA MANENT!!!!!!! Attention: Lasallians in Manado

Funny thing, and tragic at the same time.

For the past 3 days I've been putting this Indivisa Manent slogan as my YM status. Then just yesterday, I had this YM conversation with a very good friend of mine, V:

V: Indivisa manent? what's that mean?

Me: forever undivided

Me (being too helpful, sigh...): it's another motto of De La Salle

V: SHIT!!!! ....such attractive

V (typing really fast): what is un-devided

Me (in this point I didn't really get what he meant, my poor English....but took it what he meant was, "Too bad....I find the motto attractive, but apparently it's a La Salle's....it's just way too much...undivided?? You're not joking right?): don't mock me on this okay...

Me (also typing real fast): I'm not talking about DLS Manado, I'm talking about the whole De La Salle Family...

Me: this motto is St John Baptist De La Salle's family motto, dates back to the 1630s

V: ops, sorri, my only experience with La Salle is with DLSUM(anado)

Me: yeah, right....I take it that most people that's been to our campus and mockingly call them Lasallians will say the same thing also.

Me: poor thing..

-------------------end of conversation, he no longer replied in any sort of type-------------------------------------

I WAS FUMING MADDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's a really good friend of mine, I share with him everything that I can share about the Lasallian world and Lasallian friends and Lasallian families and Lasallian connections and whatchama call it Lasallian spirituality, all that sort of things...and he found the motto shitly attractive!!!! He didn't even ever heard of the motto! Well, at least I'm taking it so....because had he known it, he wouldn't ask me the meaning, correct...???

Okay, he pobably was talking about the current situation in our campus (o Saint Baptist De La Salle, pray for us!), but oh comeeeeee onnnnnnn mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn..............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How would us to know there'd be progress if people think alike like you, V????!!!!!?!??!?! Gosh, the sarcasm of that!

Now, referring to that....I couldn't stop but wonder how would anyone else --- who is joining the civitas academica DLSU now, or were (namely, alumnis), or will (namely, students-to-be) --- feel about the motto?

INDIVISA MANENT - Forever Undivided, it's just my way of translating that.... the history of it lies below:

The house of De La Salle was first established in Urgel, an area of Catalonia, Spain, where the form of the family name was "Salla." The head of the family, Johan Salla, Warrior in Chief of Atphonus the Chaste, King of Oviedo, expelled the Moors from Urgel and reestablished the Episcopal See in 818. The broken legs he sustained during combat as he fought side by side with his king are the origin of the broken chevrons on the De La Salle's coat of arms.

In the thirteenth century, the La Salle family migrated to the Basque province in the south of France, and though their name became French, they retained "Salla!" as their battle cry. The ancient motto of the family is "Que sien toustem ligato amasse," which in Gascon dialect means "Let us all be united!" or "Let us all stick together!" The Rheims branch of the family translated this motto into the Latin "Indivisa Manent," which is the present wording of the motto on the coat of arms (of the College).

Excerpted from the Christian Brothers College Saint Louis, Missouri superb website http://www.lasallianresources.org/

Now, I told V that it dates back to the 1630s..I was just guessing it then, taking in mind that St JBDLS was born on 1651. As you can read on the above, it might've even dates back to the 800's....gee.....!!!!! You're darn right, I'm sooooo proud to be part of this Lasallian family!

This is just a short (???) note to people who might feel unease being part of my almamater (namely, De La Salle University of Manado).....love thy home, folks! Like it or not, it's your home. You breathe its air, you study (and work) there, you liaise with the people, you get its name on your batch shirts and your almamater jackets, you sing its almamater song, you're prayed by its Patron...there's no way escaping it. Everything that is genuine will last, and as the worldwide Lasallian institution reaches over than 300 years in existence.... what makes you think that our University wouldn't make it also?

We have all the resources and the back-ups we need from our Lasallian Family (Sir Ngenget: Brother David wouldn't give up on us, right? :D ), ....all have the responsiblity...so let's all stick together!!!

INDIVISA MANENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS: Too bad Vdisables his YM archiving option, I could've sued him on this ;p

PS.PS: I know it's not correct, but I still like my freely translated "Forever undivided" version more, hehehe

fragment of an exist journal #2

Jan 29
23.50

God: Say a prayer.
Gracia: Love, may you dwell within all our hearts.
God, smiling: It is fulfilled.

Then he bows down
and gives up His Spirit.

i'm back...

..for sure!

on love for the world

I am in love with the world with its fires and its seas and its pain
I am in love with the world as it spins round my soul again
I fell in love with the world when it gave me a place to be
You cannot fall out of love with your world shining through
Let your world fall in love with you

You think you're lost to the world with your life lived in shadows of fear
Days lost without you too long, no-one close no-one kind no-one near
You try to hide when your world dies inside, never fade away
Dreams turn to stars so you don't lose the end of your day
Let your world fall in love with you

I felt your feelings before and the world tried to pull me through
Through all its time and its space it is speaking to you

- Chicken Shed Theatre, "I am in Love with the World"
Words and Music by Collins/Morrall

fragment from an exist journal

Jan 16
23something PM

O Lord,
this love is yours
it came from you
dan bila ia mau dan Kau berkenan
cinta ini bisa kembali padaMu.

Tapi untuk saat ini, detik ini
karena ia masih berada denganku
biarkanlah
I live with it
breathe it, run with it
tertawa dan tersenyum untuknya
dance with it
and

-pardon me-

terkadang menangis.

Karenanya.

Christ the Lord - The Road to Cana

Random quotes from the book.

Christ: "Manusia menghina apa yang tidak mampu mereka raih. Mereka menderita karena sangat menginginkannya."

Christ: "I AM for the world."
Gracie: "O Lord, I'm in love with the world. It gave me a place to be."

"Thus the Lord's voice presents not within the wind.
The Lord's voice presents not within sands, sun nor stars.
It is inside of me.
For long I have known who I really AM - I AM the LORD,
and I have chosen to not knowing it.
Now I know what it means to become a man
who also knows that he IS the LORD."

Christ to Simon Peter: "Nothing should be the same again. Don't expect the other way around."

on change....

...i should buy a blue pen.

I'm using black now, and just realised how dull it looks like.

*sigh*

all in a day's work...

1. I came in at 9.05 - my boss gave me a big applause *grinning*
2. I sms-ed my exboy for a "lunch date" - he didn't reply. There I broke a pact, set my heart free, and fullfilled my 1st 2009 resolution. YES!
3. I dl-ed 3 songs while drafting on 3 different emails...he-he.
4. AC guys came in, our office is MUCH COOLER now....thank God for them!
5. I finally closed up a Euro 1,622 booking, yay!
6. Fenny came in at 10.30, my boss certainly jumped on her, but she still managed to be calm and show her *innocent* look - gosh I need to learn a lot from her ;)
7. one Macchi guy is giving us a helloutta time - even until the time I'm typing this down. darn!
8. my boss is selling his 21" TV for Rp500.000 - oh, Fenny is soooooo gonna buy it!
9. my boss also selling his Windows98 Acer laptop for Rp500.000 - i was soooo gonna buy it with installment (he-he), but...we'll see! Figure: a new year present for my littlest sister....ooooooooo......*cooing*
10. I'm still here at 7.48 PM, typing whatever that's coming to my mind, d'oh!
11. HEY, haven't you heard????? I BROKE A PACT, I SET MY HEART FREE, and I'VE FULFILLED MY 1ST 2009 RESOLUTIONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, thank you everybody...! - oh wait, especially you, dude! Though I think you'll never gonna read this anyway. lol!

ooo lookie here....

the 1st post in 2009....!!!!!!






*not to mention today I've fulfilled my 1st 2009, yeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! *