Love is WAR!

Yellow!

It's been a month. Never quite find a time (or mood) to blog :P

August is superduperquadruple busy, hectic, but also full of bottled-up-memories.

Early August, I went back to Jakarta. Yay!

It's been 6 months (more or less). The longest I ever been. Usually every 3 months I went back.

Well. I miss my mom, dad, and dud so bad.

Then I finally got a chance to meet them and my baby Muffin. Aww Muff.

As mentioned on previous post, she is a long-haired dachshund, just turned 3 months on 20th :)

She's super adorable.

I fell in love instantly. Like some kind of love at first sight.

More like love at first bark. Hahaha.

With her short legs and floppy ears, she looks like taking-off to fly every time she runs.

She's got no tail due to some kind of accident when her mom giving birth.

So the doctor amputate (ew) her legs.

So now when she sits, it looks like she's kinda sliding backwards to balance her tiny body.

Muffin is a tidy-eater.

She eats her food methodically and she eats more when we stays with her.

You know what. I can write 5000 words, at least, about her. LOL.

Yeah that's how much I love my baby Muff. Aww.

Okay so now I got it. Why mothers love to spam our timelines with baby pictures.

Baby crying. Baby laughing. Baby drooling. Baby eating. Baby sunbathing. Baby puking.

I might not into baby pics (yet), but I'm 100% into dogs and pups photography.

Just see those accounts I follow on Instagram. Nyahaha.

Okay.

Back to my holiday.

So sad to see my favorite street-cart-food are still on holiday as well.

Oh man. I miss martabak. As my favorite in Pecenongan were still close, I refused to downgrade myself to another kind. Yeah. That's how 'faithful' I am. LOL.

Luckily my favorite satay nearby my place was opened on my last day in Jakarta.

Not bad. Not bad at all :P

Met best friends whom I haven't see for quite a while. #funtime lol

Then reality crashed.

I need to go back to SG after a week of slacking and snacking and playing and napping.

First day of work.

It's like the burden of the world released together. LOL. RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

So many 'challenges' come in different forms in the same time.

Thanks to all the prayer and encouragement words and all the ear that hears me out and all the shoulder that bear my cry (hahaha exaggerating much), I got through it.

Well, GOD is faithful.

And once again I experienced walking through the fire with my head lifted high

because I know that I don't, in fact, NEVER, walk alone.

It is a reminder that it is really, not by my strength nor power, that makes my works favored.

That every kind of achievement was from God and the true appreciation comes from Him alone.

That it is indeed useless to boast about our accomplishment, as it is as fragile as the thinnest glass,

but His love and faithfulness lasts a lifetime.

Here's a song for you.

It reminds me that we are in a war. That we must go through all kind of battle.

And whether you like it or not, you would need to fight back, because if you're not, then you  need to ask yourself this question : do you really LIVE, or you just stay alive?

Like the song says, it is true that the toughest kind of battle happens inside.

In your mind, in your heart, in places invisible to others, but NOT to God.

And of course, my ultimate battle is to surrender myself to Him.

To let go of my ego. Let go of those things that makes me think too highly about myself.

Let go of my safe places. So I can go wherever He wants me to.

To let go of all the 'vain obsessions' till He's all that I desire.

It is scary and at the same time, exciting.

Scary, because the part of me that still holding on to the tangible things are screaming NOOO.

Exciting, because there is no boring journey with God :P

On your 'way' you might stumble, you  might fall, you might be tired, but He never let go of our hands, He carries us through the roughest patch, He gave us unexpected 'mood-booster' in time of need :P

My mood booster comes in the form of PW Night and an old friend :)

Honestly, I don't expect to play on PW Night myself.

I thought I could just 'sit back' and soak it in.

LOL.

But when I was asked to play, well, why not?

Yes, little bit of practice on holiday won't do me any harm, right?

Anyway. Like I said before. God is just too good to me.

I might be physically tired, but it's like my soul was refreshed and 'botox'ed LOL.

I was reminded on the moment when mom, my sister, and I were praying and worshiping at home.

Previously I was devastated, I don't wanna go back. Home is just too safe.

But during our worships, He gave me peace and assurance, that in Him, we're never be apart.

His love will always bound us together, my family and I.

And that every struggles and hardship will only bring us closer to understand His complete goodness.

So, instead of ministering to TLG, I was ministered myself.

Well, PW Night is 'boosting' me up already.

But still, He kept me in surprise.

My old FA mate-slash-friend came to Singapore.

YAYY!

We only met shortly on Friday's cellgroup and Saturday's PW Night.

But then on Monday, we went out for coffee and dinner afterwards.

He's still the same good and kind gentleman as I known him years ago.

Some things are just never changed, isn't it?

Well, I realize that no matter how long you've been apart, when it comes to good friends, you'd fell in the same comfortable silence easily.

To sum up, it was a great weekend, with the best kind of people, complimented with great foods and definitely great laugh :):)

GOD IS GOOD!

So that's my hectic August.

How about yours?

P.S. Moving house soon. Pray for me?

Or better.. come and help me pack? LOL