The long Weekend of Easter

Though i’m not a very good christian (if not very bad) but hey let’s start this post with a big round of Happy Easter 2008 for everyone who celebrates it :). May the joy and the peace be with you.

Well, in my life I have never been a good christian at all. I go to the church very rarely (several times in a year), have never participated in the fasting month, have only several times made my sin confession ( The last time was 4 years ago perhaps, and I even deliberately skipped the chance in my last retreat), and many others very un-christian acts. It’s not like I’m proud of it, no, not in anyway I persuade you to jump into the same boat. And it’s not like I’m gonna talk about this right now. But in my very rare occasions of going to the church, I’ve always seen the same strange thing occuring over and over and missed by lots of people in the mass. The meaning of sign of peace session.

While we suppose to give the sign of peace by handshaking the fellow christian, it’s very strange to me that some people doing it only as a ritual. Have u ever eaten in Petojo, Binus? Perhaps u remember what kind of treatment you get everytime you pay, but sadly, you can enjoy the same treatment in the church nowadays :). Handshakes without smile, and some people even doing it like we have heaps of bacteria in our hands that they want to let go of them as soon as possible. Then why did they bother to offer their hands in the first place? Where is the peace? - No offense to anyone, it’s the reality -.

We’re in the home of God, the same God that promotes love and peace to all living being. If some people feel smiling is too hard, at least they should give the greeting in a more respectable way. Thus, we can really feel the hands of God dwelling in our surroundings, that we have the peace together. Isn’t it very beautiful and totally beneficial for our reasons to attend the holy mass?

Excluding the prior stuff, and also the fact that I’m totally haunted by this annoying cough, lots of outstandingly good things have happened lately that it has been a very very nice weekend for me. Like the face that Meke came back from Singapore eventhough for a while, thus we can share lots of time. Also I took my first time in field in my current job as a Business Intelligence Consultant on last Thursday which I supposed I managed to do it quite well (though I know it was a very very trivial task) though as a result I had my long weekend taken one day. I also had loads of fun last evening, dining in Ta-wan with my sis, Meke, Wil, Armando, and Ko Wandy was totally splendid, and as the curtain call had been a undoubtably the best movie I had watched this year till then, “Vantage Point”.

Vantage Point was a very good movie (I know this statement will come with lots of pros and contras). It’s interesting that they gave the view of 8 different people to show one incident - the shot of US President, and followed by a very devastating bomb; issue of international terrorism-. By showing the view of the 8 persons, it gave a very wide perspective about the short 15 minutes of the horrible incident and thus could show many more factors of the occasion, humanity, cruelty, intriques, betrayal, disbelieve, faith, and lots of other things. In the end those 8 views came up in the same end point as the conclusion of the story. Very good action I should say especially the astonishing car-chase, and a very humane way to end the movie. 8.8 out of 10 from me :). I really feel that the summer - the expected season of great movies - is nearing!

Thanks for reading my vantage point. Have a beautiful last day of weekend. Oh yes : Happy birthday, Armando :).