Stewart "Rod"

GROW

2005-02-08T01:33:00.000+07:00

Finally, I am free now. Free from final exam. Some of my grades have been released on the website. And, I thank God, my marks and grades are good.
I wanna write about my experience of my first time of GROW. What is GROW? GROW stands for Generation for Revival Of Worship. I attended the GROW on Saturday, 5 February 2005. It was held in Istora Senayan, Jakarta. It was a special event where so many christiany youths came, praise, pray, and worship GOD, in faceless and nameless unity. It was really fun there. It was full of Holy Spirit there. I and all of the youths there sang and worshipped GOD freely and spiritful. The Istora Senayan was almost full with people at that time. It was about 9000 people came there. And I am so blessed after that. Let tha flame of the Holy Spirit will still be fired... All of the praises and glory for Jesus Christ!

Waaaaaaa........!!!!

2005-02-03T09:58:00.000+07:00

Waaaaaaaa..........!!!!
I'm on final exam of this semester now... Today is Introduction to Information & Technology exam. The material and source is really (really, really, really - with repetition) MUCH! I hate to memorize it all. It's about 350 pages, and I have to memorize it in one night! Gosh! I'm tired of it... It's about 3 hours before the exam, and I'm still trying to do it well. GOD HELP ME!!!

Come Around Again

2005-01-20T22:25:00.000+07:00

Gosh! It's been two weeks since my last post. I was too busy to be able to post here. Anyway, now I will pay my absent.

Here is a brief of what I did before:

* 16th Jan, I didn't go to church because I had to attend the software briefing of Liaison Officer of International Varsities of English Debate 2005. It was fun. I made some new friends. At that time, there were some debate simulation and judging simulation. And there is a girl from Tarakanita High School, who was a member of a debat group which was invited to be one of guest teams that matched up that day. She is truly beautiful.

* Monday 17th Jan, I collect the English magazine that I and my friends had been made for almost 2 months. The result is really good. Thanks to Inki for his help by making design and layout for the magazine. I really appreciate your work. Well done, friend! In this day, I also present a drama with friends of mine. The drama is a comedy one, and it's really funny. We made it success, anyway, and I got very good mark, because I was acting as the narrator of the story.

* Tuesday 18th Jan, I collect my Introduction to Information & Technolgy paper. I brought that up entitled "Wireless Technology". It was 40 pages thick. And, I booked it at 5 pm, while the deadline was also 5 pm. But, I made it collected successfully and although it was late for about 5 minutes from the deadline time, it's ok.

* Wednesday 19th Jan, I was not free that day, because there was two subtitution class. One thing that was interesting for me was, when Indonesia class which I and all of the class collect the book review that we made before, the substitute lecturer was teach us really good, and I was amazed with her. He made the class fun and attractful. Then, after going back to my booardroom, I was trying to do some homeworks. But I just made some, and then because of the boring, I watched two movies at the night. The "Along Come Polly" movie was really good and funny. "About A Boy" was also a good movie. I enjoyed watching them.

* Thursday 20th Jan, I made the first program of 2nd session Algortihm & Programming projects. The total program is 8 program. They all are really difficult. It's hard to be made fast. And the deadline is two days next. Oh, God! Please help do this! I lean on You. This day is also the last meeting with our lecturer of Algorithm & Programming, Mr. Thompson. Actually, I am both sad and happy for this last meeting. He is a great and smart lecturer!

I know, it's not even a complete story about what I had done in these few days, but I'v tried my best to remember and rewrite my experience these days. ^.^

Lot Of Books

2005-01-05T22:23:00.000+07:00

I've been working on English again today (not finished yet), while the deadline is nearer. But that is not what I want to talk now.

I wanna talk about books now. Yes..., books. They are my favorite things in this world. I always read books wherever and whenever I can. I have many good collections of books. I only collect good books. I always buy books if I have money.

What are my requirements of good books?

They have to be a smart writing. Good writings are writings that can add information for people who read them.
They must have quality. Both fictions and non-fictions are good to be read, as long as it can add a new experience of reading.
They have to make people think. It means that their words must be classy. Difficult words can also be used for making people think.
They have to be able to make the readers imagine. The readers must have a picture from the description that were given. Imagination holds a very important role for books in order that they can be understood and seen as exact as the writers draw.
They have to be interesting. The term interesting is varied from one person to another. But for me, interesting means including what I like.
They must be able to give anxiety and eagerness for people who read them, so they will not satisfy if they don't finish reading them yet, and finally make them read it for more on and on.

If the books satisfy all of my requirements above, the it means, I have to have and buy those books. I have special satisfaction of having them. But it doesn't mean that I don't read books which are not suitable of those requirements. I still read them, but I don't interested to have or buy them. Of course, if other people wanna give me those books, then it doesn't matter. Just count it to add my collections...

Maybe this writing will urge you to and make you wanna read books too. I'm really happy if you want to spend your some times to read books, rather than doing something else which is useless. Next time I will write and analyze some very good books that I have read. ^.^

Recently Update

2005-01-05T01:10:00.000+07:00

Let's see. I've been working for 3 hours just to find the tools for my blog. With good effort, i finally found the appropriate tools. Let's see what I've done to this blog!

First, I added some new features (again...). There is a new Headline News side. It contains 5 (five) top news that will be updated daily (even hourly!). And next is Today History. It tells what happened in the day you visit this blog in world history. It shows 4 facts. It really interesting facts that not everybody knows. You may also find more facts in today history by clicking View All. And finally, there is Site Search. By using this, you may search a topic or a keyword in my blog. If I wrote that topic or keyword in my blog, then there will be the result for you.

Second, I've done some changes here also. You may see that the position of Thanks To has moved to the other part (right bottom side) of this blog. I did it so that all of you can see the features that is featured in this blog more clearly and not disturbed by those links. I've changed the picture links to text links. It makes my blog not being so full of pictures and also make the upload of this blog faster for not uploading so many pictures. One link to another friend of mine also has been available.

Finally, I would like to ask you:
Please report me:
* If there are broken links
* If the pictures can't be shown
* If the features can't be used or shown well
* If the search function can't be reliable
* If the time is not correct

New: Tag Board

2005-01-04T03:50:00.000+07:00

I added a new feature again today: a Tag Board. Please leave any message or something else in this tag board. One request from me: please do not tag any useless words. Use it as good as possible. Every useless tag will be deleted by me. Please be patient. Everything good will be still in this tag board. Thanks again. ^~^

New Features

2005-01-04T01:53:00.000+07:00

I'm still here, working on this blog, after finishing and submitting Introduction to Information & Technology offclass assignment. Of course I try hard to make this blog as good as I can do. The prove is I still don't get to bed although I will having a class tomorrow morning in order to attach some new things here. Now I've added some new features. You can see some differences in this blog. Of course I got some troubles to apply some of these new features, but thanks to God that I can solve and overcome these problems.

The features are:
1. Time. There is time showing in the right bar. It is set to Jakarta time (GMT + 7). So you will not lost direction of time anymore while surfing this blog.
2. Poll. A poll is now available. You can find this in the right bar. This time the poll is about: "What book do you like to read the most?" There are 7 alternative answers, it depends on you to choose which is you like the most to read. The choice is based on my favorite books (^_^). Maybe I will update this poll every month or more. So, don't forget to poll here.
3. Counter. There is also visitor counter. It is located also in the right bar. Everytime people visit this blog, there will be added one to the counter (including me). The numbers in the counter show how many people have visited this blog.
4. Link. I have added another link to a friend of mine's blog. Check it out also.
5. Thanks to. I also added some links to website that I use their helps. You may visit it to use it also in your blog.

That's all I can do for now. And I will still try to develop this blog. I will really appreciate if you give suggestions and comments to help me make this blog better. Thank you.

My Family Tradition

2005-01-03T13:48:00.000+07:00

Since everybody talks about their tradition of doing new year in their family, I wanna do it so.

Attention:
If you are used to get bored easily, just CLOSE this window immediately because this may be not interesting for you...!!!

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Well, I see that you still wanna hear from me about my story, then let's go right of this! Have fun!

My family consists of 6 people: my father, my mother, my sister (Lulu), me (Rod), my two brothers (Al and Aka). We all liked to gather arround in our home in new year's eve. Now, you maybe wonder, why do I use past tense? Hahaha... Okay, I'll answer it now for your satisfaction: because we live separatedly now (don't have negative thinking!). It's all because of official and studying demands. My father has to work in Kotamubagu (North Sulawesi), my mother has to work in Tobelo (North Moluccas), my sister and my two brothers have to study in Manado (North Sulawesi), and I also have to study in Jakarta. Now after you see the cause of it, let's continue about our family (ex-)tradition.
Our family new year's eve tradition was similar with our christmas' eve tradition. Before the day, we must cleaned up all of our house which was full of dust. In the day, we had a big dinner at 7.00 or 8.00 pm (my mom cooked many foods which were very delicious; she can be great cook!). After that we all waited for 12.o0 pm. All we did was watching television, since in new year's eve there were lots of good movies in television. Exact at 12.00 pm, we all had a prayer together. My father led this: we prayed to God, thanked for His goodness and blessings for us in recent past year and ask for blessings and leading in the coming year. We also read a part of scripture and had a reflection from that Words of God. Of course we all disturbed by the sound of firecrackers oustide our home from the children of our neighbors, but we still commited to have a prayer first before we go outside. And after that we all went outside to fire the firworks and firecrackers (sometimes we bought them so many) and shaked hands to greet Happy New Year to all the neighbors who was still woke up.
Then in the morning until the night, we visit our another families or friends, sometimes we just stayed in our home to wait for other people visiting us.
Now I remember that we didn't do this tradition anymore since 4 years ago. Before that we always gather because we all lived together in Manado. But after that, my dad and my mom and my brother had to move to Tobelo, and after that my dad moved again to Kotamubagu and my brother moved back to Manado, but my is mom still in Tobelo until now. And now, I am in Jakarta. So we live separately. This year, my dad, my mom, my sister, and my brothers still have a christmas together in Kotamubagu (they all gather again there), but I, of course, can't go there for this holiday.

Well, that's all. Do your regret your action to still read this? Well, you can blame me for that, because I have warned you about it! Hahaha... ;p

Photo

2005-01-03T02:11:00.000+07:00

This is the photo of Agnes Monica that I took in 26 December 2004 in Taman Anggrek Mall. I've edited it. Isn't it a masterpiece from a maestro (photo taker)? Hahaha...

New Year

2005-01-02T22:35:00.000+07:00

Well, it's me again back to my boardroom... I arrived here at 3.00 pm. So, this is my first post in this new year 2005.
I would like to tell about my experience in new year's eve and first days of this new year 2005.

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31 Dec 2004
I was already in my Uncle's house to spend my time there. I prefer to have a new year party with them to have a new year party in elsewhere... I woke up in the morning (of course I can't wake up late, since I was woken up in the morning >.<). Nothing special to do until afternoon. And at 6.00 pm we all prepared ourselves to go to CHURCH (can you imagine that?? Going to Church in new year's eve??). Hahaha... Still I enjoy it and I like it! This was what I actually wanted. Maybe it's hard for many people to take it, but it's true. While many people likes to have a new year's eve in crowded place where fireworks makes eyes fun and firecrakcer makes ears deaf, I rather have a new year's eve in House of God. ^^
Okay then we left for the church and arrived there at 8.00 pm. Eat, eat, and eat was the first thing I do after I arrived there. It was tasted good enough for me. And then... eng ing eng... the praise and worship were began. There were some testimonies from some people between the praising. There was also a drama about Lost Child; it was a humorous drama and it was very interesting. In the middle of the drama, there came Minggus Tahitu and Diana Nasution with their 3 sons. The first child brought also his girlfriend, who is beautiful, I think. They all (except the girlfriend of first son) began to sing some songs. Their voices were really beutiful. They were really good. I was amazed of them. They all (whole family) serve God. How amazing! But the had to leave immediately after they testify... So sadly...
At 12.oo pm exact, we had a holy supper. I drank wine and ate bread to remember the sacrificing of Jesus on the cross. I begin the new year with blessing from God. I'm so happy. There is no other feeling that can replace that feeling. We have neihter fireworks nor firecrackers there, but we still can have a new year's eve party.
We came back to home at 3.00 pm. I was so sleepy at that time. Sleeping is the most effective cure for that... ^-^

1 Jan 2005
After sleeping in the dawn, we all woke up late in the noon. This day, we visited the grandfather of my Aunt. I didn't know him. I had no idea who he was. We were 5 matures with 4 kids in a small sedan car. We were piled and stucked one another in that car >.<.

2 Jan 2005
This day is Sunday. It means: time to go to the church again... Going in the morning, very early. We arrived in the church at 8 pm, while the fellowship would begin at 9.00 pm. How dilligent we are! Hahaha... I must say that the preaching was so boring, I was too sleepy too hear it. But thankfully I still could hold me eyes opened. After the fellowship, I was standing outside the hall. There were 3 girls infront of me. Still young, and one of them is beautiful. I was attracted to her, but I just stood still without doing anything. How sad! There were a beautiful girl standing infront of me and I did'nt do anything, I didn't shake her hands and greet Happy New Year at all... >.< After going home, in the car, I asked my Aunt who is she, and actually she is the girl that my Aunt want to introduce to me... Poor me...

Now I'm in my boardroom, writing these stuffs, trying to make my blog cooler ^^. It's already 2 January, I realize. A friend of mine just came back from Manado this midnight, so I had to eat the food he brought. Bye then... ^o^

What Is Love?

2004-12-30T13:13:00.000+07:00

What is love and how can we define love? Love is considered as one of most precious and greatest gifts of all from humanity. Love plays a major role in each one of our lives by the surrounding people such as family, friends, and significant of others. Love defined as an emotional expression in displaying our feeling of caring, sharing, giving, nurturing for others.
Love serves as a unique inspiration to every mankind with an essence meaning of peace and friendship. Love displays its own meaning in different showcase such as a relationship between a mother and her child, a man and a woman, a brother and sister, and friends, and mankind. Take a mother's love for her child, for instance. A mother's undying love for her children is countless and precious that no diamonds jewel can be replaced. She is like a guardian angel always protecting them from harm. She will always stand by their side from thick through thin and rescuing them from falling.
A mother's undying love for her children is showing through her heart with the thoughts of giving and sharing that no others can fill. She does anything to make her children happy and safe even making sacrifices and putting herself at last.
Another kind of love, for example, like friendship is defined by the quality of one's heart and kindness. Friendship is not about a matter of judging by one own appearance, but rather by the inner beauty. The descent heart and golden mind earn the love and the respect. Friendship is not measured by a person's status of poor or rich but by the content of their own character. Friendship is about reaching out, seeking help of others, and putting a smile on other’s face. In conclude, true love can only be earned and given and it can't be bought or sold. In the entire secret to receive love is to give back.

Busy Everywhere & Happy New Year 2005

2004-12-30T11:41:00.000+07:00

I'm so busy right now. I woke up late today (maybe I've slept for 14 hours, can u imagine that?) I'm still doing some of my tasks, while time is chasing me like crazy. I should have gone to my Uncle's house this morning for having a new year's eve party tomorrow, but I still stuck on here. Poor me. But I still have to go immediately, because it's already 30 December. If I don't go today, I will get dense traffic jam then.
I think I'm too selfish. While many people in pther parts of this country and some others in another countris are suffered and death because of the huge Tsunami, I'm still in good condition now. So I thank to God for this gift, even if I'm in this tight situation, but of course it's not as tight as theirs.
Okay then, maybe I will publish longer posts next time, when I come back to my boardroom...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005...!!! ^0^ GOD BLESS U ALL IN THE COMING YEAR...!!!

Together

2004-12-29T16:01:00.000+07:00

It's morning. I'm sitting back infront of my computer... I'was woken up by Vani at 10am. She got an appointment with some of our friends in her group to make English project. As I also have an appointment with friends of my group too, I wake up immediately.
I've waited for quiet a long time before my friends came. We made our assignmenst together, shared ideas and concept, had a brainstorming, and tried to complete this tasks immediately.
Of course it can't be finished now, so we made another appointment to meet again after new year.
I wanna sleep now, I'm very tired too.

Confused

2004-12-29T13:15:00.000+07:00

It's me again with confused mind... I'm totally confused right now, don't know what to do anymore... I have some troubles of uploading images to this blog site. I've been trying many ways, but it still doesn't work...
I had a long conversation with a friend of mine, named Ben, in Yahoo Messenger. I asked him how to upload those images, but we still didn't make a way and figure out how it works. It also interrupted by slow connection of my internet in my boardroom, juz feel hard to be patient with this. Somebody help me plizz....!!!

First Post

2004-12-28T23:20:00.000+07:00

Well, this is my first post in this new blog. I just made it. It's already night, even almost midnight, it's 11:12 pm. I'm alone right now, and I have nothing to do. I just surfing in he internet to free my boring. My favorite sites to do that is friendster and yahoo mail. I always check my email, because I received so many email everyday. And I also always check whether there is a new friends in my friendster or not.
Actually, while I writing this, my mind is full of thoughts. I am thinking of my projects and assignments. I just edited my English assignmnet (magazine project). I have many things to do: English, Algorithm, and Introdcution to IT projects. There are tons of those stuffs. I am quiet tired of those things. It looks like that they all are still coming arround of me, surrounding me, without mercy at all, and still I am sinking of them! But, that's ok. Be cool, calm, confidence...
Anyway, I am also thinking about my friends in Manado, what they are doing for holiday. It must be so fun there. But, it's alright I think, becoz if I went to Manado for holiday, I would have not do and make my projects at all.
And, the most important thing is, I thank God for this, because by this I can meet some new friends in Kelapa Gading, Jakarta, where my Uncle and Aunt took me to their church for celebrating Christmas there.
In that church, I feel so happy, especially I met a really pretty girl. Unfortunately, she is older than me. And it is my philloshopy that I will not make a date with a girl that is older than me. But there was also another girl, she is still in Senior High, and maybe next time I will get a chance to know her.
In the new year's eve, I will go to that church again to have an old and new party there. I hope I will meet some other new friends there, maybe my Aunt will introduce me to youths there...
And the most unbelievable and unforgetable moment is when I met Agnes Monica on 26th December, 2004 in Taman Anggrek Mall. She is damn beautfiul! Her skin is so white. When I was shaking hands with her, her skin was felt so soft in my hand. I really thank God for that special moment. Very unfortunately, I was not able to photo with her. But that's ok. Perhaps next time I can do that... Amen... ^o^
It's enough for today...Good night to all my family and my friends wherever you are, may God always bless you!