Yellow there!
Ehm.
It's been a while since I wrote a long posting in proper English, apparently.
hee hee..
Well, it might take longer than a while for the mood to hit my head *duh*

But before we proceed to the serious subject, I'm eager to say...
hari ini hasil UTS interna udah keluar! hihiihihi
senang sekali, yang saya kira nasi goreng asal-asalan
(baca di sini )

eh, ternyata sesuai selera dosennya
(bukannya saya ngatain selera dosennya cheapy ya.. hohoho)
pas dibilangin nilainya udah keluar, udah siap mental baca angka sekitar 60-70an gitu.. huhu

jreng, jreng, jreng.. 82! hohoho
Sukur alhamdullilah puji Tuhaaaannn~

ini berarti saya masih dapet straight A (yeaaapp, bloody straight A)
hee hee hee!!!
*senang, senang, senang !*

mencret? siapa takut??
(duhhh.. bukannya nantangin ujian sambil mencret lagi juga.. huhuhu tok tok tokkk)
ya, pokoknya begitulah!

EHM.
enough intermezzo.

Okay, I find myself kind of engaged in a certain matter in these couple of months.
It started in Syd when my cousin lent me her book titled "Conversations With God" by Neale Donald Walsch
(I forget which one of the 7 series... hmm)

Anw, and I can't find any of those books in Jakarta
sooo if you're considering buying me some early birthday gifts...

(HAA HAA HAAA...)

I only had the chance to read the first three chapters (which was enough to mesmerized me already..)

Then a couple of weeks ago, my Engish course teacher happened to have me summarize a similar (if not almost identical) matter... *hmmmmm*

Walsch (or God character, in his book) utters that the one thing human treasures so much that he's willing to sacrifice almost anything for is to be right.
It is as if to be right is the ultimate consolation.

In my english course lecture, Karen Armstrong states that, even the religious leaders prefer to be right to to be compassionate towards others.
Armstrong reveals that we live in a world where religion's been hijacked, where religious scripture is used to justify atrocity.

What moved me the most is what Armstrong pointed out in her speech, that the golden rule of all religion is "not to do to the others what you won't have the others do to you" -to be compassionate- and that the rest of the teaching is commentary.

It is when one is able to empathize with other, one detaches himself from the center of his life and puts another person in there.
Ergo, he may put a mysterious presence in that center, often referred as God.

Supposedly one has a heart big enough to consider may be he isn't always right, this world may have a slightly brighter future.

May be it can start with me (us?).

Karen Armstrong's video is accessible in TED talks' website.
(borrowing Adrian Monk's word: it's googleable!)

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