Procrastination is the thief of time

 Last Saturday, I was in a meeting in my workplace. To our surprise, one of my colleague announced her resign . None of us was predicting that since she has been working for more than six year here and in my view, it seemed that she enjoyed the environment of work. We were full of questions and curiosity but at the end she told us that she has to moved for there is a bigger issue that she needed to focus for now, family. Well, for that, I believe all of us would agree. But we still wonder why she has to moved until we finally found out that her big family was away. She wanted to be with them now, so she decided to move. 

So, the meeting now turned out to be a sad farewell party with her. Almost, or if I can say, all of us, was crying at that time, including the director. However, he still had a big heart to give a farewell speech. One thing that I like the most from his speech was when he told us that procrastination is the thief of time. I was not familiar with the word until he told us that it was the postpone of your plan again and again and it was a form of thief of time. He told  my colleague, that where ever she would be, later on, she had to find something to do, to keep her productive. 

I like my director's statement. And I think that would be a new life tagline for me. Besides, it is also a new word :)

Love your Life!

Dear,

It is always amazing for me to see how my life brought me to this point, this moment. Sitting in front of my laptop, thinking of all things that had, is and will happen in my life.

When I read news this morning, I was surprised to know that in some countries, the number of people committing suicide is high. I am wondering why these people did the thing, then I figured out that most of the suicide doers have problems that they could not handle anymore, then they decided to kill themselves.

It is just so sad to see this situation. Other people have to pay so much money so that they can live, others just give it up, for something that ALL normal people should face : Problem.

No one in this world that does not have problem. I'm sure everybody does. But, why are they survived? To view the problem from good sides is one of the reasons. They learn. Then when another problem comes, they know how to face it. Problems may be different for each person. Sometimes it is too hard, too difficult, even though you tried hard to find the way-out. At the same time, people around you do not give a positive feedback towards you. Worse, they blame you for it.

At this point, you might be so desperate, sick and tired of your life.

Let's look around us again. In hospitals, people pay a lot of money just to give them some more time to live. Outside, many people are still struggling for their life, no matter what condition they are, poor, ugly, blind, handicapped, underestimated. Why do they appreciate life so much that they want to struggle for it? I guess it is because they love the life. They can hate their life when they know they are not physically perfect, but they don't. They look upward. They see life. From there, they start to love it, and struggle for it.

So, it is all depending on us. When the problem comes, how do we see it? Good or bad, it is all on our hand. To decide good will result good. Remember that when God sends the problem, it is all in one package with the solution. People just forget to open the other box.

Smile
And love your life.

Lost

If that should happen, at the end of the day, no matter how much money you have spent, how much power you have given, how many times you have prayed, it MUST happen.

We must be feeling sad to loose something, especially something that we love, that we care, that we devote our life for.

I have been experiencing one very-difficult lost, just a month ago. So depressing that it made me hated myself so much. I could not accept this. I have been doing so much to keep it, but at the end, I have to let it go.

The pain is hurt, but the lost is more. But my loved one said, "Everything happens for good reason. When something happens, then it is the destiny for it to happen." I put this words deep down in my heart and in my mind. And... I feel better now.

Being A Teacher

Whoa, so long not updating my blog..

These days, I am working as a teacher, an English teacher. Well, first off, I never thought of being a teacher when I was little. I thought the job was tiring, not challenging, not fun.

But, here I am now, teaching. After being in this job, i kinda change my way of thinking about teacher. It is indeed is tiring, but tell me what job does not require energy? None. Not challenging? Not really. Anytime I want to start my class, I have to prepare something, a topic to discuss, a material to be shared. It's challenging too, to make people understand, the knowledge that we are trying to transfer to them. I sometimes find it difficult to explain, when the students are very new to English, then I have to find ways, easier way, to make them understand. It IS a challenge. Not fun? Haha.. This is the biggest thing I regret to say. Teaching is fun, so fun, in fact! I enjoy teaching very much right now because I meet new people, share the knowledge, share fun stories, and lots more things! The thing is that, in my point of view, any activities that require interaction with people, is always FUN! I experienced this many times, and this is the job I want.

I heard from a friend, and I agree with this:

Every one is teacher
Every place is school

I love my job!

Writing again!

Huh, it's already 5 months since the last time I updated my blog. I miss writing so much. I have been thinking to write my whole journey when I was in the youth exchange program, put down some notes of what I am going to write in a piece of paper, but I haven't done anything yet. Alright Mona, go and collect all words! I will write again. Soon.

Is it a crime to be different?

Huh,

This question came out to my mind, as soon as some people told me that I am 'turning' to be someone they don't know. Of course, it is not easy to be different among the same-idea people. Some people will hate you, start thinking that you are a betrayer, and keep distance from you. Hey, man! That is not fair. Every individuals have right to choose what they want to be. That's the freedom of choice.

They say they care about me and are afraid of losing me. I really appriciate that attention. Still, it is my life and this is me. And this is what I want to be. I am not representing any people, not even influenced by any. This is MY opinion and surely I take the consequences of my decision. I demand people respecting me with what I am choosing to be.

Again, we should know the more important question to ask someone you care is,"Are you happy with your decision?", not doctrinize them and telling them to be what you want. Obviously, it will never make them feel happy.

Millions of people maybe have the same perspective on seeing things, but maybe millions of others don’t. There’s nothing wrong with either, so don’t judge one side from another. Honestly, is it a crime to be different?

Amherst - Sei Gohong : CWY 2009

Lyric for the group:

Amherst Sei Gohong....

Amherst Sei Gohong....

Amherst Sei Gohong....

Amherst Sei Gohong...

(easy, isn't it?)

New update!

It's been a month and 4 days, me being in Canada. Quite an impressive experience I had and I will have for another one month and a half a head. Lots of things happened, fun and sad, smile and cry, cheers and tears.

So, this program is called Canada World Youth, the exchange program for Canadia youth and other countries. Each group has 9 participants from respective countries. And for this year, there are 3 groups of Indonesian and Canadian involved for the Indonesia - Canada Youth Exchange Program.

My group, i would called as "AMIGO"or Amherst - Sei Gohong. It is the name of two places that we will be staying during the program, Amherst in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Sei Gohong, a village in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. We will have the community service in both place as well as participating in the educational activities and culture exchange.

There supposed to be 9 Canadians and 9 Indonesians in my group (4 females and 5 males). Each participant will have a counterpart. The counterpart pair will be staying together with the Host Family. However, there are only 8 of us Indonesians. Yanti, the participant from South Sumatra failed the Medical Check Up. As the result, one of the Canadian females has no counterpart. My counterpart and I then decided to be her counterpart too. So, now, I have two counterparts. Yeah!! This things never happened before!

So, this is the list of the participants from Indonesia with the counterpart,

1. Monalisa Pasaribu from North Sumatra with Elizabeth Durden from Alberta and Sally Reid from British Columbia
2. Rizky Sulistiyowati from East Java with Anouchka B. Salamin from Quebec
3. Valisneria Utami from Bengkulu with Sonia Charran from Winnipeg, Manitoba
4. Adi Suranta from North Sumatra with Zak Pinn from Calgary, Alberta
5. Andinatha Efendi from Central Kalimantan with Etieen from Montreal, Quebec
6. Rio Seprayen from Central Kalimantan with Steve Purificati from King City, Toronto
7. I Ketut Ary from Bali with Matt Sauro from Ontario
8. Roby Rimeldo from West Sumatra with Kevin Gautreau from Ontario

We have been doing lots of fun things in the group. Apart from the community and educational activities, we sometimes hang out in one house, watching movies (scarry movies in Ririz house are the best^_^), playing fun games, taking hundreds of pictures, and spending night over. How I love my group-)...

This week will be our Mid Camp project. Wow. Time goes by so fast. Damn. I want to have more time in Canada. Or is there any possibility to come back here again??

Let the time answers...