Figure of Speech

I was chatting with a friend, and i think we were using lots of 'Majas', a figurative terms of speech, which has many styles, commonly used formally in Indonesia.  

Throughout our chat that was filled with this nostalgic theory of Indonesian language, i was pretty strucked by the 'majas' my friend pointed out, "Perjalanan hidup manusia seperti sungai yang mengalir menyusuri tebing-tebing, yang kadang-kadang sulit ditebak kedalamannya, yang rela menerima segala sampah, dan yang pada akhirnya berhenti ketika bertemu dengan laut", which in short tell about one's life journey like a flowing river that are filled with so many troubles, uncertainties and difficulties, which at the end will finally end in the sea.  The 'sea' is kind of the destination that everyone is going to.  

I think if i have to sum up my journey, it has been a wild ride, with all the ups and downs. At times i think i've been trapped for too long in my comfort zone, which subsconciously i refuse to let go. A quote to describe this could be something like 'a bird that forgot how to fly'.
In retrospect with the reason i wrote this blog, i think i have lost further, and could not figure out how and where this journey is gonna lead me into.  

Rio

After the opening, I got the chance to watch the Olympic closing on TV.  It was very inspiring.  Many great songs with great performance.  The fireworks are also wonderful.  The coming Olympic will be held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.  I have seen in the Amazing Race TV show the view of Rio before.  Few days ago I searched the web for pictures of Rio. It was amazing.

Challenges

2012 is one of the hardest time that I have to go through.  All of my life experiences before this can't help me to cope with what is going through this time.  I have been angry for so many times with so many things. I think the biggest problem lies within me, and yet I felt that I can't get out from it.  I felt that life journey is getting tougher now. And more challenges appear.  

Olympic moments

I've watched the olympic opening last week in TV, and it was a really great opening.  I see how energetic and excited the people there.

The torch final moment before ignition and the fireworks were really great.  I think such event is like some of those 'oomph' moment in life for many people.

The big rocks

http://www.appleseeds.org/Big-Rocks_Covey.htm

I once read a story about the big rocks inside a jar.  It said the most important things in our life should be in first, and the rest could follow.  It was about priorities.  One of those most important things are family.  I lost my mother earlier this year, and this week my brother had to go to Taiwan (could be for good) to continue his study.  I notice that this "jar of my life" can never be the same again.

Apart from that, many things happened this year.  2012 is one of the most difficult times that I had ever gone through. It surprised me at times that I could go through all that happened this year.

Miracle of the Sun

The Miracle of the Sun (Portuguese: O Milagre do Sol) was an event on 13 October 1917 in which 30,000 to 100,000 people, who were gathered near Fátima, Portugal, claimed to have witnessed extraordinary solar activity.


The event was attributed by believers to Our Lady of Fátima, a reported apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the children who had made predictions of the event on 13 July 1917, 19 August, and 13 September. The children stated that the Lady had promised them that she would on 13 October reveal her identity to them and provide a miracle "so that all may believe."


According to these reports, the event lasted approximately ten minutes. The three children also reported seeing a panorama of visions, including those of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of Saint Joseph blessing the people.

In addition to the Miracle of the Sun, the seers at Fatima indicated that the lady prophesied a great sign in the night sky which would precede a second Great War. An aurora borealis which appeared in 1938 all over the northern hemisphere, including in places as far south as North Africa, Bermuda, and California and was the widest occurrence of the aurora since 1709 was interpreted as the great light the lady predicted. Lucia, the sole surviving seer at the time, indicated that it was the sign foretold and so apprised her superior and the bishop in letters the following day. Just over a month later, Adolf Hitler seized Austria, and eight months later Nazi Germanyinvaded Czechoslovakia. These have been interpreted as the start of the Great War as predicted by the lady.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun

This will pass..

If I can endure for this minute

Whatever is happening to me,

No matter how heavy my heart is

Or how dark the moment may be

If I can remain calm and quiet

With all the world crashing about me,

Secure in the knowledge God loves me

When everyone else seems to doubt me

If I can but keep on believing

What I know in my heart to be true,

That darkness will fade with the morning

And that this will pass away, too

Then nothing in life can defeat me

For as long as this knowledge remains

I can suffer whatever is happening

For I know God will break all of the chains

That are binding me tight in the darkness

And trying to fill me with fear

For there is no night without dawning

And I know that my morning is near.

-Helen Steiner Rice