Another New Year

My first post on 2012 was written during my flight back to Singapore on the second of January. Yet, tomorrow (less than three weeks since my first flight) I'm about to fly back to Jakarta for another new year! hahahaha. It's Chinese New Year. Last year was year of rabbit (my year, so guess how old am I already :p) and this coming new year is the year of water dragon.

You know the say last year was not a good year for Rabbit but I don't want to really believe in such sayings. I only want to believe in good things haha. I think people's life will aways have ups and downs. I choose to believe that way. When God allows you to face difficulties, He wil give you the bigger joy than all your problems (but yeah of course sometimes as human, it's so hard for us to understand it). I believe that this year, dragon year, will be a better year for us.

Okay, enough said. In the end I would like to share the story of the word "福“， fu. The word we much see on the red envelope. You can read the whole story from here.
Below, I quote some of the main point:

The right half of "福" (fú) (meaning blessedness) may be reduced to "一口田" (yī kǒu tián), which means literally, 'one mouth [and] padi-field.' One who has a padi-field to provide for himself can be happy. But this happiness is temporary and partial. A buffalo can have the same level of happiness if it is given a field to graze in.

True blessedness goes beyond the emotional feeling of happiness.

The left half of "福" (fú), "礻" (shì), which means 'God', gives the answer to true blessedness. In addition to being materially satisfied, one needs God in order to be truly blessed.

True blessedness is an everlasting joy that comes about because our sins are forgiven and we have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Cool is it? Knowing how much a chinese character means. hehe.

Happy Chinese New Year guys!

My First Sunset of 2012

I was on a plane waiting to take off to Singapore. On my first flight in 2012, I felt like a child who's very excited to get on a plane for the first time. This time, I got to sit in a window seat. Yeah! *I know it's an unnecessary excitement* I took some pictures with my iPod. And this is the result, I took snapshots of my first sunset in 2012. Which is quite ironic because I haven't seen any sunrise in 2012 hahaha. Hopefully I get to see sunrise in the same month (or year :p) as I see this sunset.


So one of my goal this year is to be able to catch the sunrise haha. Sounds simple, but waking up before the sunrise IS a challenge for me. Let's see if I can make it. it's only more than 360 days remaining in 2012 anyway. - Abeth on BlogPress from her iPod