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Well, after a week full of surprise meetings, arguments with peer and boss, and a boatload of designing as well as framework shopping, the long weekend is finally here (woohoo holiday, it’s time for some vacation to Baturiti! We’ll be visiting Baturiti Outbound & Farmstay later today…)

I find it good that I left my Internet modem at Ida’s place, so I can actually concentrate on writing something on this blog, rather than surf the net and keep myself updated on unnecessary news (I use an offline writer called Zoundry Raven). I find that I haven’t spent enough time to reflect upon what’s been happening inside of me as of late.

I have been proclaimed as the committee lead for the upcoming GII (that’s my church) teens’ camp 2009, and that’s just 4 months away. I know I need to manage those 4 months really well, because time flies… really flies… especially at around this age, when you have to juggle time between work, friends (ha, like I really have any these days, I mean, not counting the ones on Facebook; no offense to any of my friends reading this on FB, but I still value friends who can be present in-person), loved one, hobby, “extra-work”, and sleep. (Time management is indeed a lifetime struggle, not solely an achievement).

The pink group and the wacky watcher of the pinks, YKIP-YKIDS outing event, Bali Safari Park, Gianyar, November 23, 2008

I know that parts of me would love to start investing in so-called passive investment (the “extra-work” I mentioned above). But it’s seriously tough to find a direction. I’d begin writing a piece of software, but I’m scared of being not able to finish it. I’d start a side business, either as a one-man band, a full jazz band, or an independent game designer, but I’m afraid it might interfere with my primary job as Mitrais software engineer. (After all, the Bible says we should give our best effort when working, not only for our human bosses but also for the Big Boss (God)).

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Some great ideas have been ping-ponged for the mega fundraising project, with the selling of custom-designed T-shirt as the most prominent. Others have included:

1. The good old lemonade selling
2. Creating interesting things out of trash and selling them
3. Cleaning the church storage and selling some of the unused items
4. Making cards for the upcoming Easter event

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I live in between the world of luxuries (that some people in the office have seemed to adorn, with little regard of whatever is happening around them) and the world of under-supported families who barely have anything to support themselves.

Lately I have been exposed to a lot of under-supported kids of YKIP and YKIDS. I tend to think that the world is not fair… these children lost one or both of their parents. To see that I’m actually able to support myself (and even get myself some lux items such as the big tenor) and I can probably ask my parents to buy me anything I want (though after everything they’ve given to see me complete my degree, I just don’t have the heart to ask for more), I fall into a deep thinking… how could I be so blind and careless with my life in the past? I got to work better. This is the primary driving force behind me to the office every morning, since 2007 (should’ve been uh… like, 2000? Or 1996 even? Hey, better late than never, I guess.)

But then, after some thinking and reflecting, it is probably the role and the responsibility of the able workforce (such as my Mitrais friends and myself) to support these people. If not us, then who else will care for them? That’s why I always make myself as available as I can to whoever calls for a social service…

The pink group feeding carrots to Jack (or whatever his name is), YKIP-YKIDS outing event, Bali Safari Park, Gianyar, November 23, 2008