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Year One – you are chosen November 20, 2009

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one member of a primitive tribe named Zed (Jack Black) was banished from his village and he used that chance to pursue his dream, to see the outside world that he has never seen before…he thought that he is the chosen one by God to make the journey…so his journey began, together with his friend Oh, he met some people from the Bible, got through a lot of trouble and adventures, trying to save his tribe from the slavery…

i don’t like this movie, it’s not a good movie i could say, i don’t recommend this movie…but there’s one thing that i got…in the end of the movie, when people finally call him as the chosen one, he said “Maybe we can all make our own destiny. Maybe we could all be chosen.”

i think he got a point there…yeah, our destiny are not decided by anyone else, not by our moms or dads, our boyfriends or girlfriends, or our leaders, but our destiny are decided by ourselves, every one of us…yes, God has chosen us from the beginning of the life…as the Bible says in Psalms 139:16 “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

I imagined this like a choose-your-own-story book that i used to read back when i was a kid (have you ever read something like that?) the book has one main story, about certain character(s), and how will it end is decided on how you choose the way…God already write all the story, He makes us the main character, and He’s giving us the freedom to choose how our story go…do you want a good destiny, a happy ending??then make a good choice on your story…

Surrogates – just be yourself November 12, 2009

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this is a movie starred by Bruce Willis, one of my favorite actor, about an era in the future when everyone use surrogate robots to take their place in whatever they do…they can choose any kind of surrogates and control them from their rooms, so they don’t need to go outside to do their jobs, and they don’t need to be afraid of any diseases or accidents that may occur out there…until one day a murder case is found where the operators (the actual person of a surrogate) also died as their surrogates were killed with a special weapon…as a FBI agent, Tom Greer (Willis), try to solve the case…

i think this movie is not that good…i agree with someone’s comment in imdb about this movie and about Mr.Willis: “As an actor, he has 70+ projects contained within his historical biography and the guy keeps making bad films mediocre and mediocre films watchable.”…yeah, maybe this movie is still ok because of him…

in my opinion, a surrogate is amazing, being seen from its technology, i don’t know when will something like that be actually realized, maybe still 50 years from now…but from the social aspects, it brings a very bad effects indeed…nowadays, with internet technology, people’s social life is quite bad already, where a lot of people prefers to just stay at home, do everything from home, because internet makes lots of things easier…in some ways its good, not so many time wasted for commutation to other places, but it makes people have a bad character i think…i’ve heard somewhere that physical contacts with others have good effects for the growth of someone, especially mentally…i don’t know whether it’s true or not, but i think it has a point…imagine if you have a surrogate, and you control it from your room with only signals from your brain, so you never use your real body at all, not speaking, not walking…that real body will just be like a “thing” that can only think, not a human body anymore…that’s why i was a little bit wondering watching this movie, when in the end everyone don’t use surrogate anymore, and they just seem normal, can walk normally, talk normally…

in this movie, there’s a scene where Greer asked his wife to go on a trip somewhere, with their actual body, but she refused because she feels safer with her surrogate body, she thinks that she’s beautiful in that body…as i already mentioned in a previous post, we think that we’re not good enough, so we’re trying to be someone else…that’s what i think those people are thinking, that’s one of the reason why they always use their surrogates…even the motto of the surrogate company says “do what you want, be what you want”…every people are not satisfied with themselves, so they choose very handsome or beautiful surrogates to take place of themselves, they’re wearing their mask so other people can accept them…we have to take off that mask…we need to be thankful for what we are, because we are perfect just as we were created…

faith June 20, 2008

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yesterday I was taught by God about faith, a simple faith, that could make me do many things…

when I was having my spiritual gifts tests, I found out that faith is in the top of my “Holy Spirit Manifestation Gifts”…my mentor told me that it’s basic for a Christian to have it…it came to my mind, if so, then why should it be in the gift’s list??but I didn’t really bother it then…

God gave me an answer for it yesterday…when I was in angkot on my way home, there was some junior high school girls having some chats…they were talking about they final exam and about going to high school…I heard that they are really worried about those things, whether they’re gonna get good scores, or what high school they’ll get accepted, and so on…it was when I was also having a chat with a friend who’s also applying for Japanese scholarship, and she’s also worried about it…seeing me who isn’t worried, she said “how come you could be so calm??what if you don’t get accepted”…I just said calmly “why should I??I just believe that I will get it”…

when I was thinking about that, I remember many people I know or even I don’t know who seem to worried so much about things, while me, I rarely have those worries…when I was entering high school, I didn’t worry at all…when I was going to get to university, I was applying for scholarship and I didn’t get it, my mom got worried while I was still calm…having only one choice of university (the hardest one), my friend wondered how come I got so confident…

God reminded me, that this is the “faith” gift He has given to me…yeah, I have more faith than other people…I can still be calm in things that worry others…maybe it seems to be just something simple for me, but I just realized that it might become something big…

I bought a book authored by Jentezen Franklin titled “Right People, Right Place, Right Plan – Be Sensitive to God’s Voice”…I’ve been wanting to learn more about hearing God’s voice, it’s one of my wish, to be able to clearly hear His voice…so when I saw it in the bookstore, I decided to buy it…well, actually it’s not really as I expected, but it’s still a good book though…in a part of that book, it’s said that in hearing God’s voice, some people is in logicalization extreme where they don’t want to move until God reveals all the ways…they say “speak to me, and I will move” but God says “you move, and I will speak to you”…as the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight”…it says about faith…

then I saw a movie “Mr.Magorium’s Wonder Emporium”…it’s about a magical toy store that works only to those who believe in it…and again from this movie I was reminded about faith…how we can do things by believing…there’s also a part that says “you have to BELIEVE IT to SEE IT”…yups, it’s the same as what’s told in the book and in the Bible…we don’t have to see before believing something, but the “believe” itself comes first before we can see things, great things, happen in our life…

last week I was having something that quite bothered me, and it quite made me worried…but then God reminded me again to keep trusting Him, as Proverbs 3:5-6 says “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”…well, it took me some times, but finally I managed to do it…sometimes the worry came again, but God reminded me again and again…and yesterday was really really encouraging me to keep standing firm against anything that comes to me…yeah, I have this faith, I don’t have to worry anymore…my future is in His hands, and I will just believe in it…

summer movies May 10, 2008

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this summer gonna have a lot of anticipated movies…
I just watched the first one this afternoon, Iron Man…it was totally cool!!!makes me wanna watch it again, but i’d rather save my money for other next movies…hahaha…
Speed Racer has also come out since yesterday…at first I thought it’s gonna be cool, ‘cos it’s from old cartoon show and directed by Wachowsky brothers who created the Matrix…but after seeing the trailer I kinda doubted it…I feel that it has just too many CGs (computer graphics) and too many colours that might make it seems too unrealistic…but let’s just see how it’s gonna be…

and the next schedules are (some are still in USA release date, not sure about Indonesia):
May 15th The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
I want to watch this…another series of Narnia…epic and fantasy movie, the genre I like, and it’s Narnia…certainly gonna watch this…
May 22rd Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
the sequel of the legendary Indiana Jones…many people like the old series of Indiana Jones so maybe this one gonna be good also…kinda interested in watching it…
whew…four weeks in a row…actually the next week there’s Sex and the City the movie, but I’m not interested in it…
June 6th Kungfu Panda
an animation from Dreamworks (creator of Shrek) and it seems funny…gonna watch it, but maybe not in cinema…hehehe…
June 13th The Incredible Hulk
another movie version of Hulk…I saw the trailer, and this seems cooler than the previous one…
June 27th WALL-E
a Pixar animation!!I have no doubt of Pixar animations, they’re all cool!!I saw the trailer also, looks great!!
July 18th The Dark Knight
the sequel of Batman Begins…maybe this will be the last queue of this summer movies, and I expect this to be great, so this summer will be opened by a great movie and will be ended with another great movie…hahaha…I’m really looking forward to this…

Bee Movie – faithful with small things, do your part April 29, 2008

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In a bee nation, every bee work hard to produce honey. Barry Benson, a freshgraduate bee, don’t like the work in the honey factory, and when he decide to join the Pollen Jocks, bee forces that collects nectar from flowers, he met with a human girl and found out that human has been exploiting bees to get honey. Barry tried to sue human for this and ended up with messing up life balance and making all plants and flowers wilt. He must return all this back to normal.

First, this movie reminds us to concern small things. Barry said, “Let me tell you something about a small job. If you do it really well, it makes a big difference. More than we realize. To us, to everyone.” I agree with him. Every big thing starts from small things. Bible also says something about this. Luke 16:10 says “He who is faithful in a very little [thing] is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little [thing] is dishonest and unjust also in much.” (AMP) If we start to be faithful in small things, to do bigger things will be easier.

Second, each of us have our part. The bees have their own part in this life cycle and when they started to do what’s not their part, it all became messed up. The same with us, sometimes when we’re trying to do what’s not our part, especially God’s part, we will just mess up everything. So just do your best in your part!

Bridge to Terabithia – don’t waste your time April 8, 2008

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Bridge to Terabithia

Jess Aarons, a very shy boy, becomes good friends with Leslie Burke, a new very-imaginative girl in his school. Together they create their own fantasy world called Terabithia in the forest nearby their homes while they struggle against bullying in their school. One day, while Jess was going with her teacher to a museum, Leslie got an accident while swinging by the rope that leads to Terabithia and brought to her death. Jess keeps Leslie ‘alive’ by reliving Terabithia with her little sister, May Belle.

This movie tells us a lot about friendship. We can be friends with anyone if we want to open our life to them, accept them as they are. It also teach us to see our life from a new point of view. How we can enjoy this life depends on how positive we think it is. Jess who at first couldn’t enjoy his life because of problems he faces in school and home, finally can start to enjoy his life with their Terabithia. It doesn’t mean that we have to create our own world and become a freak, but we think of everything around us, even problems, as something fun. I think it can help us to enjoy life more.

One thing that really gets into me is when Jess cried for Leslie’s death and he’s afraid if she’s going to hell because she didn’t believe in the Bible. I don’t wanna talk about where she’s going after her death. Well, I believe that we can only be saved if we accept Jesus Christ as our God and Saviour, so I think she’s not saved yet. But one thing I was reminded is about don’t waste your time. We live with many people around us and we don’t know when any of us will die. So don’t be like Jess who regrets after his best friend died. Let’s use our time wisely (as the Bible says), let us be a blessing for people around us, spread the good news that Jesus died for them so that they are also saved.

Ghost Rider – the devil is a liar March 25, 2008

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Ghost Rider

A story about Johnny Blaze, a stunt driver like his father who traded his soul to the devil for his father to be cured from his cancer. His father indeed cured in the next morning, but died in his stunt performance that day. Many years later, after he has been a famous stunt driver, he meet again with the devil who asks him to be a Ghost Rider as mentioned in the contract he signed with his blood before. With the form of skeleton bursts in flame, the Ghost Rider asked to stop Blackheart from getting enormous power from the Contract of San Venganza.

From the beginning of the story, I had been reminded about the work of the devil. After the death of Johnny’s father, the devil said “I only said that I will cure his cancer, but I cannot let him be an obstacle between you and me”. As the Bible says, the devil only do tricks . He may offer us many good things, but in the end, he will just destroy us.(John 10:10 – The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly).

That’s what I remember most of this movie. I forgot the others. It has been a few days and I didn’t take a note. Heehee…