Pay it Forward!

I and my class were given a project at school. It's for the leadership class. The project is "Pay it Forward!"
Some of you may have watched it. Well, I haven't watched it myself. But from the stories I heard, it was so touching. It's about a child who try to help 3 people, and then those people he helped help 3 others, and so on.

If you know the culture in my country, Indonesia, especially Jakarta, it's not easy -in fact, it's rather hard- to do pure kindness to people around. Most of the people will think "what's the motive behind what they are doing?" or maybe they will use the event for their own purpose.
So, even though we had so many ideas, at last we chose to give flowers and bookmarks.
Our targets are those who work in our neighborhood, who are in the hospital, who are in the mall and who work there too.
I wish I could come too and give flowers to them, but unfortunately I had a program so I couldn't be there. I was participating in designing the bookmarks.

So, this is the video! It's in Bahasa but I already asked my friend to put the translation in as well. As you can see, there are rejections as well in this video. But we're very happy because most of the people accept what we do, I personally am very happy too seeing those excited and delightful faces! And we hope they could pay it forward!

New Age, New Post

Yes! Today is my birthday.
My seventeenth birthday exactly.
And this is also my seventeenth post exactly!

I can't tell how happy I am today!!!
The birthday greetings
The surprise and gifts
The gathering in my house

The greetings came from eeeaarly in the morning
Even from yesterday!
I'm quite surprised some who usually don't sleep late greeted at the dawn
The surprise at school
Surprising and being surprised with my best friend who had her birthday yesterday XD
Given what I always wanted, a tablet!
The feast that was being held in my house
The gathering with my friends
The unexpected happened, it supposed to end at 5 but one of my best friend thought it started at 5!

It was really fun! I'm so grateful!
Thank You God! Thank you all!

Petals of Life

I always love seeing flowers.

These flowers that grow at my garden are my favorite!

They are so unique and beautiful
Just look at those petals
Different petals, combined in harmony
And one afternoon this flower was blooming

As I looked closer to this flower
The more beautiful it became
The harmony from the petals
Purple and soft mixture of purplish-white petals

Just like our life
The harmony of dynamics in our life
Happiness, sadness, confusion
Pleasure, pain, struggle


The purple between the whites
It happens in life too
Inside a community, there must be some people who walk in a different path
Conflicts, contradictions, rebellions

Harmony in life
Petals of life

Pinoko's Faith

Black Jack, a high-skilled surgeon but his license was revoked despite his patient's life. He then chose to operate from the shadows.

Pinoko is BJ's assistant. She came from a terratoid cystoma -she supposed to have twin, but she didn't grow up and she lived in her sister's body as a tumor- and was saved by BJ. You can watch the story in BJ episode 44.

For me, there is a most memorable scene from all of Black Jack animes -Black Jack or Black Jack 21-.

Taken from BJ21 episode 3.

BJ was told to be dead, but Pinoko didn't believe it. Then she was adopted by Saeki Hospital's director but she didn't like it. She still searched for BJ. At last she found him, while operating himself in his former teacher's house. She helped him finishing the operation, but then an assassin walked in. BJ managed to stop him and he was killed by another sniper because he failed to kill BJ.

The scene is a dialog between BJ and Pinoko after the assassin was killed.

See?

Now go back to Saeki Hospital

No!

I won't do it!

You can't stay with me.

Please understand.

I won't go back, even if you beg me to.

Pinoko!

Please!

And Pinoko did stay with BJ after this, traveled around the world to find the truth behind BJ's family. And even though it's hard, Pinoko still followed him 'til the end :)

Looking at Pinoko's faith and actions.
Isn't it somehow similar to Christianity?
Not only God has given me life, but He also gave His own life.
And as Pinoko stated to use all of her life for BJ, so am I for Christ.
The next step for me is to follow Christ 'til the end although it's tough;
Like Pinoko did!

Success

It was very hard, this big responsibility.
Most of them don't care about their own responsibilities anymore.
Nothing is on time.
In fact, nothing seems right...

"Are you lonely being in that position?"
Well, no, I'm not lonely.
This is true, because even it was very hard, there are still a few people who support me.
And I mean, really few -you could count it with one of your hands-.
But, that's more than enough for me.

Yesterday, I was strengthen in my QT (quiet time).
The passage was taken from Isaiah 6:8-13.
It was about Isaiah who was sent to tell His words to the people.
People that won't listen to him.
But Isaiah still did the mission;
Even though he would look fail in human's eyes.
And he succeed!
Not in human's eyes, but in God's eyes.
He was faithful to the end.

That reminded me about my own responsibility, my mission.
I might fail in my own eyes.
But I won't give up!
God has given me so much;
I will do my best to be faithful 'til the end!

~Get Backers

Those who have seen my previous posts must have known that this is..

The very first anime I watched!

I still remembered I watched this at my cousin's house. Since that day, I became very interested in anime! Of course, it is because of the lightning Ginji has. Believe me, he was so cool! The main plot is about two people (Ginji and Ban, abbreviated as GB, Get Backers) who work together to get back things that was stolen. After a while, I knew the characters in the anime. And I really liked a character, Kazuki Fuuchoin.

Guess what, she he is a boy XD. In the story, he came from a clan and in that clan, every kid is treated like a girl, so... No wonder he became like that! His power is quite unique. He uses strings, very thin strings but in a very gentle way. Yet he's very strong. He is also very elegant and smart, and gentle -feminine?-!! And his hair is sooo long! I wanted to make my hair that long, but.. it will never ever happen I guess XD

My favorite episode of this anime is episode 39! The title is "Ginji Hospitalized". Well, for whoever knew the characters in this anime, I really recommend this episode if you never watched it. It was sooo funny and exciting, all of the characters gather here and.... You should watch this yourself. I always LOL even though I've watched it several times XD

Well, I just watch the anime for this. I don't read the manga. Okay maybe I have read a little but it's said that it is for 18+ and after I know it is true, I stop reading it lol!

Here's a picture of it, just chibis though!

Top (from left): Ginji, Ban, Kazuki
Bottom (from left): Shido, Akabane, Makubex, Jubei

Kuro Neko!

Well, this post is just about my life.

I don't make a lot of friends, it's actually quite hard for me to make friends.

But I do have friends in groups, real friends to me.

I have several peer groups -well, I think there are only 2 actually-.

The one I want to share in this post is Kuro Neko!? LOL

Well, it's not actually the exact name of the peer group but...

It has the story of course :)

The story began when we haven't met, years ago...

Animax -an anime channel on TV- was only a new channel at that time.

I was obsessed with it! XD

Once, I saw an advertisement of animax on one of the guard house near my house.

The anime in the advertisement was Black Cat.

I watched it even though I don't really understand the story.

Well, it was cool!!

Train Heartnet, the main character with the number XIII (13) on his chest, carrying his gun everywhere.

But I missed several episodes and I couldn't catch up anymore...

But at least I know the big picture of the anime hehe.

The story continued two years ago, I met my new classmates and became close, just close.

And last year, the five of us are not in the same class.

In fact, we are all separated except there are 2 boys who are in the same class.

I don't know how, but we ended up studying together for the final exams.

At my house, where then we watched animes too.

We became closer, and I mean real close.

That's when it began..

We made a group in our cell phones to communicate easier.

At first we were confused about the name.

And then, we all remembered...

The advertisement, which is still there on the guard house after about maybe 8 or 9 years XD

So we decided to call our group Kuro Neko.

Which is of course a Japanese word that means Black Cat.

It consists five of us, 2 girls and 3 boys.

And then another boy friend joined in the group.

After some time, our phones started to grumble.

So just a few days ago, we made a new group!

The name is Neko's Tail (cat's tail).

Well, the Tail is from Fairy Tail, an anime we all watched too.

-next time we make a new group, I will suggest the name Neko no Tsubasa (cat's wings)! LOL-

I am very grateful and happy with these friends I have.

Our passion about anime, Japanese, games, etc. could be seen bluntly.

Not just that, but all conversations were there too.

And there, I could just be who I am.

Elements

Fire, earth, air, water.
Four basic elements we all know.
It is always there in games, animes, imaginative stories, etc.

I like it too, elements and those kind of things.

Of course, I have my own favorite element I imagine to have XD
But it is not one of the basics I have mentioned.
It's something different, something that is soooo cool and very attractive for me.
And it has not changed since I was maybe about seven ?!
Yes, it is...

Lightning

The light, the sound, the trembling feeling it has made.
It just amaze me.

I do not really know, maybe one of the reason I like it is because the main character from the first anime I watched in animax -it is a anime channel on TV- has power the of lightning. But when I think about it again, it seems that I already love it long before I watched the anime.
I do love lightning, I mean the real ones.

Because of that, I became very interested when I saw anime characters with lightning power.
A couple of examples:

• Ginji Amano from Get Backers (the one I mention before, my first anime to watch)
• Laxus Dreyar from Fairy Tail
• Nue from Air Gear
• etc.

But the one that really gave influence is Ginji, the Lightning Emperor, leader of VOLTS. Oh, you have to see it for yourself! I remembered once he fought in the rain and because of his lightning power, the rain drops just stopped! Very imaginative, isn't it?

Well, I'd love to have these powers.
I do have it actually, in my dreams.
Back to Gilgamesh's quote, right?