I don't find shopping relaxing at all
Shopping is like hunting for me..
Checking, comparing, scanning , deciding,
fitting, another deciding, paying, hauling, driving, organizing. TIRING.
But of course, I like to wear something new once in a while.
In Jakarta ( due to traffic jam and laziness ) I shopped at my mom's closet
" Apa yang kamu mau , ambil aja, " She asked me to take whatever I like.
Of course I did what my mama asked .
It's more relaxing than going out shopping at the mall
It was late at night. The kids were sleeping.
I ransacked my mom's closet, trying the clothes, grabbing the bags.
We were chatting and enjoying ourselves...
Back to US, in a gathering, I wore my mom's white cotton blouse
My friend said to me ( who saw my mom when she went back to Indonesia ) ,
" You look nice in that blouse.But it looked kinda familiar, "
I knew I was busted.
" From my mom's closet, " I answered.
" She wore this blouse when I met her, " my friend said.
Thinking about how full my mom's closet with good stuff
and her letting me taking what I like,
Heavenly Father's gift closet came into my mind.
Ephesus 1 : 18 , I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened
in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you,
the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
and His incomparably great power for us who believe.
Those forgiveness, faith, love, joy, faithfulness, power,
energy, healing, purity, balance, leadership, wisdom,
organization, boldness, grace, contentment,
modesty, honesty, the lists go on and on.
James 1 : 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father
of the heavenly lights,
who does not change like shifting shadows.
Someone I know, felt she was not interested to her husband anymore.
If she just followed her flesh, bitterness,
affair and divorce would be waiting around the corner.
Thank God, she prayed . She asked the gift of love for her husband.
Of course she was given that gift. She fell in love with her husband again.
This year I asked God to give me more energy.
By nature, I was a low energy person.
Well.. I also tried to improve my energy by doing more exercise.
Prayer and action, I thought.
Then I got a annual blood test result. I am pre-diabetic.
I should cut my refined carbohydrate.
After I did that, I felt that my energy levels were up.
So, my prayer was answered .
These days what I need is consistency to keep doing exercise and eating healthy...
And I will get that from my heavenly Father's gift storage.
I unlock that storage with prayer.
John 15 : 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you ,
ask whatever you wish , and it will be given to you. Amen.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Peak, Hongkong
Another tourist attraction in Hongkong, the Peak
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| inside the mall at the Peak |
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| Dusk |
Bird Aviary at the Hongkong Park
Still jetlag (especially the kids)
Colorful view to open our sleepy eyes
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Remembering Ria ( 2 )
Several days before I went to Jakarta for vacation, I got a text from my cousin, Ria.
She asked me if I could buy her melaleuca cajuputi oil
( Indonesians love this oil. A remedy for common cold ).
I texted her back, saying I could . I asked her what brand that she liked.
She liked Cap Lang .
Little that I know , that would be our last contact .
On the night I left Jakarta, heading back to US, my mom called me.
Ria died on August 31, 2012.
Rafting Incident.
( blog entry title .. Mama's Weekend Out )
She was my cousin from my dad's side. She was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia.
She was a happy person.
Her nickname, Ria, means " happy " in Indonesian, really matched her personality.
She was very caring and generous.
She loved shopping.. also loved shopping for others. She loved outdoors.
She was energetic . She enjoyed life. So it was very hard for me to imagine Ria died.
I went to her casket viewing in Sausalito. She wore a nice red dress that her husband picked for her.
I was touched to see how loved she had been by Chris, her husband and stepdaughters.
She had a good life with them..
I am thankful for the Lethems to have her as their family.They were her joy .
I was sorry I did not come to her funeral.. it was in Hawaii..
I heard that Amber and Cameo , her stepdaughters, performed a dance in her funeral.
Ria learned ballet since she was young until her twenties.
Later on when the ballet become difficult, she failed the exam ( if I am not mistaken, for several times )
That did not make her leave dancing.
She then quit the classic ballet, joined the jazz instead.
She choreographed ballet dance for the church performance several times.
Once, a friend of ours who was into performing arts,
asked her to choreographed a ballet dance for a Christmas performance.
I believed she got paid for that. Her mom mentioned that she was very brave to do this
while she did not pass her ballet exam...
She did not let limitation got in the way of completing something..
With Ria, everything that needed to be done, will be done.
That was one thing that I learned most from her.. Getting things done..
I believe she quit dancing when she continued her study in Swiss.
The melaleuca cajuputi oil that she asked, were packed and brought to US .
I gave those to a couple of friends instead.
Ria's memory, though, will always stay with me and those who love her
Life's is short.. Her life was too short for her and her family...
For several days I try to think or not thinking about her...
about how fragile we are as humans..
Sometimes I cried .. I imagined how hard it must be for Chris, Amber and Cameo..
Also to Alex and Priscilla, to all our relatives in Indonesia..
Her story ended... the chapters in Ria's book ended. The end...
Sometimes good story made you want for more..
But it is up to the writer decide how long or how short the story is...
I believe there will be Ria's sequel in another dimension...
A friend of mine who got his phd in mathematics from Berkeley,
once said.. that according to math calculation, there is a tenth dimension...
which Ria maybe in right now
Rest in peace Ria...
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