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Looking at Birthday Through Another Lenses

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The day someone was born will be most of the time considered as a special moment and worth the celebration. It makes sense because it’s the mark of a person’s existence in this world and for many families the presence of children is a blessing. When the children grow up, most of them are accustomed to the idea that birthday is a special celebration because it’s the day they “arrived” to the world. Also, having another year added is believed as a new opportunity and new phase in life. Later on, how birthday is perceived would be varied into two major point of views, which are the basic idea of giving thanks for another year or a new phase in life and the "advance" idea of a specific moment to have fun celebrating their life. People love birthdays, they like to make it as the moment for doing something different remarkable. Thus there are many routines and habits related to celebrating birthdays.   [...] the basic idea of giving thanks for another yea...

Do We Have To Insert a Poem Inside Our Prayers?

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Prayer has always been a messenger medium from us to God. Unlike million years ago in the time of the prophets, we live in an era where believer “see” with faith not eyes, thus the way we communicate with  God is through prayers not as lucky as Moses did back then with a more of face to face method which actually more convenient somehow. Prayer is so essential that in a Sunday service there's a specific prayer prosession called intercession (cmiiw) to pray for everything (asking guidance based on what the preach was about, family, people who are sick, church, student, worker, country, even single people, etc.). So yeah prayer is something very basic and important in a religion. It's so important that the phrase "the power of prayer" exists. It is powerful when it's done right, right? It makes people feel calm and secure for most of the time. Prayers are powerful because it has the possibility of being "converted" into a miracle (with the perm...

Fast Food "Meal Prep" College Student Style (while in Germany)

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College students are well known for being frugal and it makes sense. It's just common for them to attend college in a different city, or even country. Thus they have to manage living alone with only pocket money from their parents and in certain circumstances plus some extra money from part time work. But there are also some students who rely their life on part time work salary or scholarship fund. No matter what or how, college students are close with the routine of sparing money. One of the primary concerns in a college student's life is about food, right? It's a basic daily need. Some students choose to cook, some choose to eat instant food (long live instant noodle and microwaveable frozen food, right? hahaha...), some buy supermarket brand foods, some buy the "best before" or night discounted meals (you know, those supermarket or minimarket bento, bread or fried foods which sold with 50% discount at night), but the worst is of course when students have to ski...