DongHaeng Flash: Footprints

"Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you." ~ Deuteronomy 31:6

 

INDONESIA: Mission Trip 2011 Day VI

May 26, 2011

Jagalan, Surakarta

I gave a 2-part, 2-hour lecture today at STT AIMI (School of Theology). I had not fully finished my PowerPoint presentation, so last night I had to stay up later and woke up later to finish it. As an unfortunate consequence, I missed my daily morning devotions today. Anyway, I was fairly nervous to give my lecture, as I had never done anything alike in my life. My seminar series was entitled "Relationship With God Through Songs". And yes, the whole thing was successfully conducted in Indonesian (praise the Lord), even though there were a few glitches here and there with the vocabulary (I promise I'm still a native speaker!). But overall, the students very receptive and welcoming to what I had to say. Whenever I struggled with some of the Indonesian words in the middle of the lecture, the students would always help me figure out the right words – their English was surprisingly good! And they were hilarious!! Because of this, I had such fun and greatly enjoyed leading the seminar, and the whole 2 hours of lecture went by in a breeze! It was more of a casual lecture as opposed to a formal one, which was better for me because I had been worried that I would bore the students to sleep (typical me).

RQ: Random Quote #28

"Trust is buildable, respect is often earned, and love is always a choice."

- HTL 

10 beauty habits I need to improve on

1. Getting sufficient sleep every night. I NEVER do this. I don't even think I have ever slept at night....
2. Drinking 2 litres of water everyday. I only drink approximately half of the recommended amount at most.
3. Getting enough nutrients from fresh fruits and vegetables for beautiful skin. Well, that obviously explains why I currently do not have beautiful skin.
4. Exercising regularly. I am probably at the most unfit state of my life at the moment.
5. Having a controlled, healthy diet. My customary diet consists only of 2 meals: lunch and dinner. More often than not, they are not done at the appropriate times. On some days I would go for lunch at noon and on other days, I would eat at 3 in the afternoon, followed by random snacks and then dinner at 9:30PM (or 10, whenever I feel hungry). I might even skip dinner on the days I don't have an appetite. I know, totally guilty.
6. Minimizing junk food consumption. I am an all-about-junk food person (on the exception of McDonald's!). I love poutine and fries, chips, cakes, candies..... the list could go on endlessly.
7. Showering early. I never shower before midnight (or 1 in the morning, that is), which leads to the lack of beauty sleep.
8. Sticking to a particular brand of skin care products. I liked to switch things around because I had heard that it is a good thing, since your skin becomes acclimatized to the 'regular' products overtime – which renders them ineffective. So far as my experience goes, this has not been proven true. My skin still breaks out from foreign or excessive products I put on my face, notwithstanding how long I have been using them.
9. Removing makeup immediately after long hours of wear. I would put on my makeup every morning when I'm about to go out, maybe around 10AM - 12PM and wait to remove it until I shower, which would be around 1 or 2 in the morning on good days. At the closing of the day, it comes down to roughly over 13 hours of makeup-wearing. I don't know how long makeup could be allowed to stay on your face, but keeping your makeup that long everyday definitely does not contribute to having healthy skin.
10. Smiling more, frowning less. It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. This is something I need to keep working on every time!

There goes my list of the current beauty habits that I need to improve on. What are your beauty habits? Do share your thoughts!


Stay beautiful,

RQ: Random Quote #27

"If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen."  

– Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions (on abolitionism)

HE is the drive behind all

The following excerpt is taken from C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

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"'Niceness – wholesome, integrated personality – is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up 'nice'; just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world – and might even be more difficult to save."

God is the drive, OUR drive behind any moral goodness. Without Him, what are we supposed to be? What is human nature in its fundamental sense?

Experimenting with culinary arts

Hi everyone! In this blog post, I am featuring some of the dishes that I've tried [eating] and covered [cooking]. The homemade ones were done by me and my super talented teammate of a best friend/partner. Please note that these pictures are not specified in chronological order. Frankly, I can't even recall when or how long ago these pictures were taken, hence my credible excuse for not remembering the name of a particular dish.

Click on the link below for descriptions!

Oscar Wilde once said...

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." 

– Oscar Wilde

These are the books I'm going to start reading interchangeably:

• "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie

• "It's Not an All Night Fair" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

• "Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World" by Noam Chomsky

If any of you have ever read any of the above books, feel free to share with me, as this is my first time exploring the works of the aforementioned authors!


From my love of reading to yours,

Styles a la Polyvore

Here are some of the style sets I've put together on Polyvore. Enjoy!

Simply click here to visit my Polyvore page :-).

Happy styling,

RQ: Random Quote #26

"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true." 

– Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Intro to Beauty

Hello everybody,

The generic, apologetic opening paragraph: I'm sorry for being M.I.A. for almost 2 months! Has it been that long?? I was finishing up my exams at the end of April, and by mid-June, I was already starting summer school, which will go on until August. Yes, I am staying in school for another year – what did I tell you about my love of learning?! Actually, I was missing a few required credits to graduate, so here I am back in school for another semester. I have to admit, though, I do envy my friends who have received/are receiving their framed diplomas. And I sure am anxious to jump into that traditional scholarly ensemble of cap and cloak.
Saving that up for next year....

From the title of this post, perhaps you could already guess what this post is about. I am starting a new genre on this blog, that being Beauty. Because I am passionate about promoting the idea of internal and external beauty, I thought I'd share with my readers my beauty secrets that I live by. Beauty in this sense may include fashion, makeup, and even health. I hope this change could spice up my dull and boring blog a little bit. To all my readers, thank you for your support and sticking by me. It really means a lot.

Beauty posts coming up soon.


Love God, love people,

June 14, 2012

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Dear patient and loyal readers,

I'm sorry for the long and unnotified hiatus. I will be back very soon.


Love,