The Friends around me – 1

I have been thinking for a long time that I would like to write some things to describe my friends around me and let you all guess who I am referring to, it will be fun.

Tonight, I will start with him, it doesn’t matter I reveal the gender of the person or not, cause I think most of my friends who I know very well are boys. Since I will describe their features, characters, strengths or maybe weakness, it maybe quite easier for you to guess who the person is. Ok, let’s start.

Where should I start ? Um, I think this person is very, or I should say he is extremely talkative in the public setting, and scare alone, he will surely die if you stop him talking for a day or put him in a private island for a week! He likes to talk crap and nonsense, either verbally or thought email, he can shoot you an email to just disturb you, and he always praise to himself, in other word, he is very proud of himself. He always thinks that people around him love him so much, he always ask the kids in the church who is your favourite person, then he will point to himself, what a guy man?! Sometime he is grumpy also. Would you dislike or even hate this person? Probably you won’t make friend with this person as he is extremely annoying, right?

Wait a moment, please don’t draw your conclusion yet, I haven’t finished my description about him. The description above is just part of his truth side, he is annoying just because he is playful, his proud sometimes just a glimpse of his confident, actually he know his strength and weakness, he admits the things he cant do and he will definitely will help you if he can do it. Actually, he is a funny guy, a good entertainer to the people around him, you can joke with him or tease him with anything, even his height, oopps , he won’t mind, cause he will surely fight back or just forget about it and don’t keep it himself. You don’t feel stress when you are hanging around with him, but he is forgetful and impatient person, so he is not probably a person that I will pour out my inside feeling and expecting he will understand me deeply but definitely he is the kind of person that I want to know him better and be a friend with. You maybe cheered up by him if you were feeling sad, and he will spend time with you. I still remember in October last year, something happened in my life AGAIN and put me down, he drove us around and having dinner together, I really treasure our friendship. According to my experience with him in serving our Lord, he is a responsible person and you definitely can reply on, but only big & serious things, it is more than good enough. He walks his talk all the time, I really appreciate it. He said he will perform the duty, he will be there and do it well. I can remember what happened in the previous holiday break, I wanted to skip my duty of my ministry for a two day road trip, which I felt very bad to do that, then he told me he will cover my duty and encourage me to take a break among the busyness. I can’t express my thankfulness to him at that moment, but I definitely keep this in my heart for my rest of life not just because his willingness to help, but his heart to serve God, because he understand the importance of that ministry and willing to sacrifice his time to be part of it. Moreover, He treats his friends very well, he likes and enjoy to share his happiness with friends, he generously buy people coffee or lunch when he was following up on members since it is affordable for him; he asks friends out for dinner to celebrate getting a new job; he won’t mind provide transportation even it’s a detour. His willingness to serve God which motivate me as well, he has a heart to take care and concern the young members in OCF, he won’t discuss or even stop some difficult theological conversations for the sake of young members, which may confuse their faith, that’s really good.

Keep the good work! May God keep blessing to you!

saya saudara di christ (brother in Christ)

Politics in the management of Real Madrid

"Everything that we do, we do because they are the right decisions that do not take into account personal sentiment." (by Real Mardrid president, Florentino Perze Goal.com, Valdano departure)
This is a very general statement and frequently used by Chairman, or CEO to explain someone departure.
What is the Background? Madrid president Perze explained the departure of their general manager – Jorge Valdano. Reporters painted that it is the political battle between Jose Mourinho and Valdano, and oberviously, the departing GM is the loser.
It is interesting to learn their political correct language, for example;
"It has been a long time since I have spoken personally to Mourinho. We greet each other politely, but he sought to deal with people other than me. My responsibilities with the first team were reduced. I did not feel comfortable in that situation." By Valdano.

The main reason for his leaving is because his responsibilities were reduced, he didn’t say any bad words to his rival.

Let’s see what Mourinho said,
"I want to stress how painful the departure of Jorge Valdano is to me. We have travelled a long distance together," he told a press conference.

I am pretty sure he didn’t say it out of his heart, but I appreciate his wording, it seems they were good colleague before. I guess since he won the battle, it is not necessary to put salt on the wound.

According to what Valdano said, we can feel there is personal conflict between them, not totally without the element of personal sentiment.

Valdano, though, suggested otherwise and said: "If this was a battle, this decision clearly states who is the winner of the fight. I haven’t spoken to him [Mourinho] personally for a long time, but I haven't needed to.

Soccer news are not about soccer only.

Starting School

It is two months later that I restart this blog. Nothing special that I start to write again, but I fell I own myself, I own myself a chance to improve my writing.
I fell this two months gone very fast and I didn't do much that is benefit to me or other.
Anyway, I would like to talk something about committee. I felt there is a different from last year, I guess the reason maybe because I am in MM this year. This is the ministry that need to be serious this year. I hope that I can do something that is glorify God. Practically, what I can do is keeping good communication with people, follow up on practice section, pressing the right people. I don't know what I am writing.

By the way, I felt my mindset change. I was always being the passive person in the fellowship, I never thought I can do something that is basing on my strength. What does it really mean? maybe I talk about it later.

Parents

Parents and their children must have sometime common, especially the way they talk and communication. Parents play an important role in their children life, they learn from their parents through out their life, so you can easy pick something they are in common.

That's what I discover and confirm my thought tonight.

Yup, it's an empty article.