Happy Birthday, Honey

March 23, 2012

Happy Birthday Joe Chen. 
Sorry I can't be there to celebrate your birthday but you are always in my heart.

Hope you have a very great time and wish all your dreams come true. . .

School just started

Chinese school finally started, and I am so exciting to go back to school and meeting new people from different country and learning the hardest language in the world: Chinese.

Chinese has been my favorite language, and I have learned in my childhood with wrong tone and wrong grammar, very fantastic

Main Course 201C, He Fen Fen Lao Shi
Room 408
M-F 8:10- 10:00
Africa - Man Ding, Panama - Chian Nai, Japan - Mei Shi Che, Canada - Kyle, Russia - Ai Yo Na, Mongolian - Oshin, Philipine - Marita, Thailand - Tong Fang, Korean - sister and little brother.

Listening and Speaking 203A, He Li Yu Lao Shi
Room 407
Tues and Thurs 10:10 - 12:00

Pronouncition 102, Zhao Qiong Qiong
Room 405A
Monday 10:10 - 12:00

Surabaya

I arrived Surabaya to visit my families, the longest one after fifteen year.  It's one month.
Many experiences and eye opening for me how the Indonesia has developed to be the center of South East Asia, especially Jakarta.

Surabaya is my hometown where I grown up and spent my teenage years with families and friends, unforgetable friends and friendship.

Seeing old friends with families and kids made my life so empty, for not having a child by choice.  I can see the pains but also the joys for having a child.  You can seem he/ she grown up: picking up from school, piano recital, soccer practice, ballet lesson, , , and more.  There are pains when they are not obidient, brutal and becoming a looser at the end.
Is it worth it . . . it's NOT even a question.  It's the biggest responsible for bring a child to the world, so no matter what happend parents need to be very rational not emotional.

Doing business in Indonesia is not easy, connection is no 1 resourse and bribery is no 2 action.
People are so wealthy and yet so poor, the gap is getting so obvious.  I don't feel very comfortable, and I am not sure either for moving back to Indonesia.

I have an idea but no execution yet, talked and exchanged ideas with friends and relatives, there is possibilities but not easy since I have left Indonesia for too long. 

However, I can't turn back so I will just dive it out and let the time passes by. . .

Leave everything behinds

Leave everything behinds

It’s just the beginning of dragon year which was Jan 25, 2012 and I will be flying out soon to Asia by myself to a foreign country.  I barely speak, write and read the language, Chinese.  I have chosen my path over my emotion, curiousness, and off course a dream to grow big.

My life in San Jose, CA was great: nice job, nice car, nice house, and off course the most understanding husband in the whole world.  But it’s not enough, I enjoyed my life and all the good things, but something is missing and . . .

been working as an accountant for more than a decade and I was still in the same level compare to my friends.  Yes I switched job often, not because I had an option, it’s a condition that forced me to.  Everything sounds so great and challenging in the beginning, but I got bored with the work in less than a year and nothing is good anymore.  I have tried many fields in accountant, but things are not always as you expected: bad company good boss not good pay, good company annoying boss small pay long commute, and . . . it’s not that I can’t handle the job, it’s the situation and all those small things that bothering me all the time, make me wonder. . . is this job suitable with my character?

Finally, a BIG decision and BIG changes happened for reason.  Leaving all the things I have behind including my husband to find my dreams and passions I was looking for. 

Things started with unexpected things, overweight luggage are acceptable, free upgrade to elite class and smooth security check in. 

It’s time to say good bye with a lot of emotion and uncertainty about the journey I have decided to follow. . . . I left the country I have live for more than 16 years

It’s January 26, 2012 at 12:05 am BR017 seat 27A.

beginning of adventure

finally, i arrived taiwan by myself and feel so awkward coming to this foreign country alone.
But it's the decision i had made. . . so I need to face and fight for a living.

what is your legacy

This was a topic last week at venture church, from Ready or Not series.
what will your obituary?

surprisingly, my husband came and listened to the sermon, it was a very nice for him to come and listen.
He enjoyed the bands and he even met the pastor at the restroom.

how do people will remember your legacy?
i am just an ordinary woman who graduated with accounting finance degree, with decent job and decent pay.  but I want something more, not about money or wealth, something that I will appreciate and be proud of.

sure, i will not have a legacy, but i have a dream, a real dream that almost every one has. 
it's good to have a dream, a reality dream, and i will fullfil my dream . . .

will those dreams come thru. . .
be determine, be persistence, and be endurance
and most important thing are patience and be respectful.

life is too short

believe me. . . life is too short.
Many things had happened lately in this world, and i realize life is too short.
There are a gun shooter near my neighboor and steve job passed away.
There are wall street riots all over the country.

we live in this world temporary, nothing is permanent.
Make the best of it.

I've been in states for more than 16 years and been working in American corporation for more than 10 years, and I realize this is not what i am looking for. I've been searching for something else, something more challenging and promising than working in big corporation from 8 to 5.

But what I am looking for? I do not know.