Beautiful...

Last Sunday, our choir has a job in a wedding mass. I knew the bride and her mother very well. The wedding was as beautiful as other wedding, but I'm amazed with the songs selection by the bride. I never heard this song before and the first time I heard it, I directly fall in love with this song called "When God Made You" by Natalie Grant. She choose this song for their opening ceremony. The lyric is beautiful...

WHEN GOD MADE YOU
by Natalie Grant

(Guys) It’s always been a mystery to me,
how two hearts can come together,
and love can last forever.
But now that I have found you I believe,
that a miracle has come when God sends the perfect one.
So gone are all my questions about why,
And I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life

Chorus:
Oh I wonder what God was thinking, when he created you.
I wonder if He knew everything I would need,
Because he made all my dreams come true.
When God made you, He must have been thinking about me.

(Girls) I promise that wherever you may go, wherever life may lead you,
With all my heart I'll be there too.
And from this moment on I want you to know,
I'll let nothing come between us, and I will love the ones you love.
(guy):So gone are all my questions about why (girl echoes):about why

Duet: Oh I wonder what God was thinking when he created you,
I wonder if He knew everything I would need,
Because He made all my dreams come true.
When God made you He must have been thinking about me.

Bridge:
He made the sun He made the moon,
to harmonize a perfect tune,
One can't do without the other they just have to be together.
And that is how I know its true,
you’re for me and I’m for you and my world
Just can’t be right without you in my life

Chorus:
(guy) He must have heard every prayer I've been praying (girl echo)
I've been praying (both)
He must have knew everything I would need
When God made you, He must have been thinking about me

The second song she choose called "Your Love" by Gita Gutawa and Delon. When I heard this song, I'm not impress at all. The combination of voice is not perfect, but when Sally and Anggie sang this song... Wow! I'm breathless. Here is the lyric:

YOUR LOVE
by Gita Gutawa and Delon

Every time I close my eyes
and say my prayer at night
I thank God each day for your love
that gives me wings to fly up high
to reach my dream aim for the sky
you always said

Your head up high
smile on your face and wish
that you will always be loved
the stars will lead you every step you take
don’t you ever be afraid, believe in you
and I’ll be there to guide you wherever you may go

Thank you for your love, forever

When I am down and the things go wrong
the world against me too
I close my eyes and think of you
and knew what you would say now

Your head up high
smile on your face and wish
that you will always be loved
the stars will lead you every step you take
don’t you ever be afraid, believe in you
and I’ll be there to guide you
Wherever you may go away

Thank you for your love, forever
Giving me my wings to fly

There... beautiful isn't it? This song was for the closing ceremony just after the prayer to Mother Mary. Just find the song at YouTube if you like to know more, hope that you will love the song as I do.

My Favorite Drinks

When a friend wrote in her blog about her favorite drink, she inspire me to write about my favorite drinks. My favorite drinks are regular water, Dilmah's pure peppermint tea, and Starbucks' caramel macchiato coffee.



First favorite drink, the regular water.
I like to drink many pure water, not hot... not cold... just regular water. Actually I never like regular water, I used to drink cold water. Until one day, I went to my best friend's house where she serve only regular water. First, I hate the taste... but later on I began to like it until now. Sometimes I drink cold water but mostly just a regular water.



Second, the Dilmah's Pure Peppermint Tea. Each time I have a chance to drink it, I definitely order this tea. The smell and flavor of peppermint always give a calm and peaceful feeling. I've tried many tea, since this is a common drink in my country. We usually order sweet ice tea for our drink, some prefer ice tea... and now many brands offer green tea. Green tea become very popular now days. I have tried many tea, I like green tea, camomile's tea, black tea... but my favorite is pure peppermint tea. I like it hot without sugar.



Third, the Starbucks' Caramel Macchiato. I used to love coffee until I got problem with my stomach. I knew Caramel Macchiato when our team has to interview the manager of Starbucks. He introduced and taught us how to make this drink. Hmm, yummy... The sweet of caramel always give a warm taste in my stomach. I can't drink this coffee often, always like to order this one... (laughing out lout)

My Secret Love

My secret love… I never thought of sharing this love in my blog since I’ve been holding it as a secret for the last 9 years. Some of you may be wondering, why I have such a secret love. Is it a forbidden love? …

I have a crush on this guy since my first year as freshmen. He has every criteria of my perfect man. He was my senior in different major. That day, I can only admire him from a far. Until one day, we were at the same team as an assistant lecture. His subject was financial management and I taught cost accounting. I finally know his name, yet we never involve in a conversation (grin). Silly isn’t it? Well, he graduated first and I thought I have lost him.

God is really good to me. To my surprise, I met him again at the office. It is a nice surprise. I decided to make a move this time, try to get close to him in many ways. The more I know him in person, the more I love him. I admire him most in his musical talent where he can play the keyboard, drum, and guitar and figure a new song musical note just by listening for 5 minutes. Wow! What an amazing skill. I love people with their musical talent since I love music but cannot play any musical instrument. I tried to have a guitar lesson, but failed (grin).

Till this very day, my love still becomes a secret. He has this cold and close personality. It’s so hard to get close to him even when he works only 10 steps away from me. One day I asked my friend, how to get close to someone with his personality. He suggested me to forget about him. How can I forget him while he is here with me every single day?

Should I forget about him?
To my secret love, I just wish I could tell you...

The Result of Yasmin

Yasmin is the name of my birth control pills, the medicine prescribed by my gynecology. In order to reduce the pain I am having in each menstrual cycle, I took these pills daily… on the same time for the last 21 days. I took it every 12 am, just before I have my lunch, reminded by my cell phone’s alarm (grin). After 21 days, I should give a break for 7 days and I get my menstrual during this break time.

I took the first pill on the third day of my menstrual cycle last October. My menstrual became longer with less blood. Usually after the cycle, I always experience pain at my lower tummy for almost a week. When I took the pill, the pain disappears. Wow! This is a major breakthrough. I felt so excited. So, I continue the medication.

The last pill I took was at the end of October. The menstrual cycle came as schedule but… the pain came back. Actually the bleeding was less than before but I still felt the pain. Day 1, I took the pain killer 3 times a day. Day 2, I also took the pain killer 3 times a day. Day 3, I didn’t take the pain killer during the daylight, just before I slept at night the pain came back (smile)… so I took it again. Day 4, managed to survive without it. Day 5, the menstrual stopped.

Have to admit that I didn’t felt as much pain as I used to although still have to take several pain killer. I will continue this medicine at least for 3 months and see how it works. This is the first month result of Yasmin...

Entering November

Entering the month of November, remind me of my late brother. I wonder if he lives now, how he will look like. Will he look more like me or like my other brother? One thing for sure he look exactly like my father, they used to say that he was a copycat of him. My brother… I miss you so much.

He was a sweet and lovely boy. I remember his smile, his cheerfulness, his voice, his innocent. He was born as the last child in the family, on Nov 17, 1982. He grown up as an attractive boy, like another boy… he loves to play around, not naughty but very active. We loved to play together, sometimes we fought too. My parents always stand for him no matter whose fault (grin). Sometimes I fought him just to have my parents’ attention (smile).

He died when he was 9… well, almost 10 years old. He died when all of his friends have to take their exam for the next grade. We never know his real disease that took him away. One day he came home from school, he was running around the house and fell with his left arm tried to hold his entire body. After that his left arm hurt, we brought him to the doctor. The first doctor directly diagnosed it as a cancer without further inspection. We didn’t believe him, so we went to orthopedic. The orthopedic asked him to have x-ray and he decided to treat his arm like he was having a bone fracture. He put his arm in a cast and turn out to be a wrong move. His arm got swollen and my mom brought him back to the orthopedic. Again, the doctor cut the cast and put a new cast. My brother cried all the time since he fell, even with his arm in a cast… he cried harder. We didn’t know what to do.

When our father came home (he was move to another city by his company, we planned to move after the school holiday), he decided to put my brother in the hospital. The doctor at the hospital couldn’t find out his real disease and his health condition became worst. On the third day they operated on his adhering intestine. After the surgery, he has bleeding for several days. Only a week at the hospital he finally gave up, he died on Monday morning (May 11, 1992) – around 8 am. The doctor said he suffered pleurisy before he die. So, if you wonder what was his disease…? I don’t have the answer. I don’t know…

I love you and miss you so much, my brother… May you rest in peace...