Pacific Rim

With all the hype in Facebook saying that Pacific Rim is a must watched movie, I “reluctantly” agree to watch it. Despite all the boring & cliche GodzillaXRobocopXTransformer-no-real-story-line, I have to admit that the movie has some good values for us to learn;

1. 2 is better than 1, and 3 will make it merrier. Those Jaegers aren’t designed to be piloted by a single person. You can push yourself to go solo but you’ll get burnt out.
2. A Jaeger’s pilots are connected, they can see and feel each other’s mind and that creates a great synergy that controls the Jaeger. This is of course a perfect recipe of team work. If you can understand my perspective and I can understand yours, we can create a powerful synergy. Also, we’ll avoid unnecessary arguments because I understand you.
3. Memory is the enemy of being in the present. A Jaeger pilot should control their memory and they can’t linger in a particular memory as it will misaligned the system. Just like this life, we can’t keep looking at the past if we want to enjoy the present. While memories can push you to do better, memories could also hold you back – especially if you linger on the good ones. I guess what we need to do is to create new memories.
4. Lastly of course, we need to take care of our world, ensuring that we leave a healthy and liveable world for the next generation.

Ookays, my last point was so absurd.. and even the other points. I can’t concentrate writing with 2 AC engineers here at the apartment :[

75 days after I do

So here we are today, 75 days into our marriage :) it’s such a short time of this lifetime journey and I’ve been enjoying every single day of it. As we haven’t recorded anything after the wedding, I’ll list down our memorable things:

– your first full body massage at Endota Fitzroy. Just perfect after a week full of family frenzy!
– Singapore minimoon with its Universal Studio trip. You got pretty bad cold sweat before riding roller coasters… Heheheh
– moving to Bandung! Thank you for preparing the apartment for me :)
– trip around Bandung/Lembang and culinary experience
– your first ‘big’ YesHeis.com presentation at Ignite conference
– Jogja trip and its Ramayana Ballet. Thank you for taking me there. It was magical.

Thank you for the new adventure and the love <3

What a week

WOAAW… What a week! It’s been a week since your and my family here… It’s been a really full week. We did really well. From touring melbourne, driving van, shopping, flowers, feeding people in church, rehearsal, changes in wedding, etc… It’s a full week.

I always enjoy our conversation while I’m driving at you are in front with me… Hmm… Though we don’t have “our-time” I think this is a first step for us as a couple. It is not only about us… It is more than “just-us” it’s our family, it is God, it is our friends, it is our church community, our leaders… so many things that surrounds us that we can be an impact for.

I am enjoying myself at home… reading all the notes in this blog make me realise that we have been through a lot… By God’s grace, we are here today… 1 more day we are an item.

Jessica, I love you… Looking forward to start another journey with you!

I’ve decided…

I’ve decided to love you no matter what… It is not about feeling or circumstance… Love is a decision. My life is better with you besides me… I want to wake up in the morning and learn to love you in a new way… every morning… by God’s grace.

I love you… no matter what.

Exactly

It’s 1 month to go … 30 days to go … Wow …

Thank God that we’ve come to this stage. I think we’ve done well despite all the challenges that we both facing.

I am excited!! I hope you do!

I can’t ask for a better partner in preparing this wedding day! You’ve done a lot!

I love you…

43 days to go

43 days to go to our wedding and tonight we’ll meet at Perth! So exciting   

I’m excited to try on my wedding dress as well!! Just a bit more to go now… hihihi

At this stage, we still need to work on;
visa papers,
cake,
florist,
order flowers for church,
church décor,
photo in canvas,
AV at Sumac,
souvenir,
follow up people to RSVP,
car allocation for the day,
bridesmaids’ dresses,
wedding ring,
your return tix to Melbourne,
packing for SC,
program & menu,
engagement video,
seating plan,
talk to Hadi & Val,
practice our dance!

Whoa.. so many things on the list and so little time now…

50 days to go!

WOW! It is 50 days to go to our wedding… I am so excited. I know there are lots of things to be done.

Actually planning the wedding is better, the hardest thing is to plan the family tour…

Jess, I love you always…

4 days in Melbourne

It was a short trip but it was sweet.

After 2,5 months moved from Melbourne, I went back to Melbourne to visit Jessica and took some engagement photos with Unikblue.

On Friday, I picked you up and was really exciting to see you after 1 month. When you showed up, it was a beautiful moment (it sounded cheesy but it’s true).

It was awkward at all… and conversation started to flow… Love it.

On Saturday, we did pretty good in the photo session… actually you did much better than me. You were so beautiful. Very nice poses. I actually impressed with your simplicity and easy going-ness when you did the photo. In the evening, though you were away, I was enjoying my time doing the wedding stuff ie: preparing invitation and cleaning the jars. I am satisfied that I can tick it off.

Sunday was the 1st time I presented about yesHEis.com (in English) to my own crowd in MPC. You were really supportive. I saw you when you sleep. You were very cute… I love it… I also enjoyed the dumpling dinner…

Monday … we squeezed 1 hour for lunch and it was really nice…

I love this trip… it was very productive. We both learn that though we are in LDR however we are blessed to be able to meet once a month. We also learn through R that our relationship compliments our life… Our relationship is the basic and support to do anything that God has prepared for both of us together and individually.

Thank you for the weekend.

Good to have a note

I miss you… Can’t wait to see you this weekend.

I remember that I wrote a blog for you, 100. I went there and read few posts… Interesting… Our early days weren’t a smooth ride but we went through it. It’s very interesting to see where we are now… 70 days before the wedding… (maybe less)

I can’t wait to spend my rest of life with you.

Love you

The proudest thing…

2 weeks in Bandung.. What a journey…

In the last 2 weeks, I have learn a lot about leadership. One key thing in leadership is humility. Humility (adjectival form: humble) is the quality of being modest and respectful.

With humility, we will able to listen, to be empathy, to care, to understand and to see deeper than what’s seen.

I know that God has brought me personally to this stage with a lot of preparation. I was trained in Kurioz, Swinburne and MPC as well as built as a better person. I believe that this role is a foundation for a greater work.

2 weeks in Bandung has also trained me to think about you more… To teach me what’s important in my life… is it my future? my work? my passion? my calling?

No it isn’t… more than anything… the most enjoyable time during the past 2 weeks in Bandung is the time we skype, we whatsapp, I got miss called from you…  The most exciting times are the times that I tried to contact you, looking for internet or signal just to talk to you…

I know now… The bigger purpose for my trip…

If you remember when I stated my intentions in Wabisabi 2 years ago… I mentioned that “I am letting go my dream… my vision… my calling… Let it be our dream… our vision… our calling…

The thing that I am proud of now is… having a God-loving future wife… named Jessica Neva Liauw.

I love you…

and THANK YOU for being a great support for me :)