Fwd: Saying I Love You

Saying 'I Love You' in your own special way

This guy, a Shanghai university student, wanted to express his unfathomable love to his sweetheart. So, what did he do?
He gave chocolates to all the girls living in the University student apartments and asked them to turn their lights on or off at 8pm that night. This is the embodiment of his love...

Fwd: Balance

Once upon a time in the kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days.
Eventually, Michael the Archangel found him, resting on the seventh day.

He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"

God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards
through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?".

"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it. I'm going to
call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."

"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.

God explained, pointing to different parts of earth. "For example,
northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, but
cold and harsh while southern Europe is going to be poor but sunny and
pleasant."

"I have made some lands abundant in water and other lands parched
deserts."

"This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and
covered in ice."

The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a group of
islands and said, "What are those?"

"Ah," said God. "That's the Indonesia, the most glorious place on
earth. There are beautiful beaches, rivers, mountains and forests. The
people from Indonesia are going to be handsome, modest,
intelligent and humorous and they are going to be found traveling the
world. They will be extremely sociable, hardworking and high achieving,
and they will be known throughout the world as carriers of peace and
love."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What about
balance, God? You said there would be balance."

God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the idiots I put in the
government."

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17 Agustus tahun 45

Indonesia is going to raise its flag on 17 August, the Independence Day. As with other heroic days, Indonesia always raises its flag. Every household should have a flag pole, strange it might be to foreigners, but it is our pride to raise our flag on a heroic day. After hundred years of colonialization by the Dutch and Japanese (and some other countries), 17 Agustus is always an important moment to raise our flag although the actual Independence Day can be argued. (I heard in Australia you have to pay tax to raise Australian flag, anyone who can confirm this?)

We even commemorate the raising of the flag by holding a flag ceremony. Every Monday elementary and junior high schools hold flag ceremony, although it is troublesome for some students cause on sunny days they have to stand on an open ground. For me, though, it was always fun. A nerd? Maybe. I had to be the choir conductor, or "pemimpin upacara"/ceremony leader, or protocol/MC, or "ketua barisan"/class leader, or adjutant who carried UUD ’45, Pancasila, and other documents for the "Inspektur"/inspector. There was another duty that I never tried; "pengibar bendera"/flag raiser, which consists a team of three.

This year I will serve in a mass as a choir member. I’ll sing a short solo part in one of the songs. That will add the smiles on my memory of “lomba makan krupuk” for every Independence Day celebration back home.