30 Days Blog Challenge

It is time to make up with my dear forgotten blog.

I randomly viewed some blogs on the internet and I was interested doing this 30 Days Blog Challege, posted by Vivie (find her blog here).

What is 30 Days Blog Challenge?
It is just a small project for amateur bloggers so that they (well, we) can post our writings on regular basis, if you follow this challenge. Basically, I need to share 30 different 'stories', based on the challenge.
And here we go!
Day 1: Self-introduction, with recent picture and 20 interesting facts.
Day 2: Your sibling(s).
Day 3: What makes you happy.
Day 4: Your first love and your story.
Day 5: Your role model.
Day 6: List down close friends in Malaysia and short words about them.
Day 7: Favorite movies and TV shows.
Day 8: Things you don't leave the house without.
Day 9: Place(s) you have ever been to and where else you want to travel.
Day 10: Your dream wedding and future children's names
Day 11: Your opinion about your body and how comfortable and uncomfortable you are with it.
Day 12: Your ideal husband (but don't get too dreamy!)
Day 13: Things you are afraid of.
Day 14: Post a photo of you at the moment (don't try to tidy yourself up!)
Day 15: A picture of you last year - how much have you changed?
Day 16: Unforgettable moments.
Day 17: Guilty pleasure.
Day 18: Favorite music.
Day 19: Five strengths and weaknesses each.
Day 20: Biggest disappointment.
Day 21: Hidden talents.
Day 22: Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs.
Day 23: Favorite food.
Day 24: What stresses you out?
Day 25: What are you thinking right now?
Day 26: Songs that have hidden stories behind.
Day 27: Nicknames.
Day 28: Something you wonder "What if...?" about.
Day 29: What do you see in yourself in the next 10 years?
Day 30: A picture of yourself this day and 5 good things that happened since you started the challenge.

Hosh hosh.
It took quite a long time to set this challenge up. I even needed to ask Christofel's help because I am stuck at this. =P

And here we go, Nadya's 30 Days Blog Challenge!

Bye Monash! :)

SO MUCH TO WRITE!

I cheated on this blog with my travel blog recently. Hahaha. Sorry, bro.
It feels like when I am about to write here, all the deep thoughts are just coming out from my head.
However, what I needed in the couple last days was happy thoughts.
So, sorry. I am now back to this blog.

Anyway, the biggest news is TODAY IS MY LAST DAY OF EXAMINATION IN BACHELOR DEGREE.
For God's sake. Akhirnya gue sampe juga di titik ini. Di titik dimana lu jadi semi-pengangguran. Kenapa pengangguran? Karena gue belom dapet official result gue. Masih ada kemungkinan ngulang next sem (choi-choi-choi *ketok kayu*), walaupun kemungkinannya kecil. Amen.

Temen-temen gue yang lain kaya Jetink, Lia, Ley, Ivan ma Richard udah kelar beberapa hari sebelom gue. Dan begitu gue tanya mereka gimana rasanya setelah ngerjain exam terakhir, katanya... rasanya beda.
It was a different freedom that they felt. I could not feel it till I experienced it myself.
Tapi, begitu keluar dari exam hall, all I felt was... disappointment. Subject terakhir gue adalah Food Microbiology. Dibilang susah, ya susah. Soalnya mesti ngapalin nama-nama microorganisms dan spoilage on food dan food borne illness. Muter-muter dan mejret. But I studied and memorized them, with all brain capacity that I had. But, it turned out, soalnya beda banget dari yang gue bayangin. Bisa sih, tapi nggak gitu yakin dan I'm pretty sure I won't score high in this subject. Padahal gue aim minimal D. Tapi pupus sudah harapan gue. :(

Dan, pas gue sampe rumah, David (remember my good friend), bbm gue dan ngabarin kalau nanti jam 12 ini dia bakal off to London buat ambil master dia. Rasanya, campur aduk. Gue berasa waktu jalan tu udah kaya  Speedy Gonzales (inget kan tokoh mini toons yang larinya kaya flash?). Rasanya gue belom sempet napas dan menikmati hari-hari gue sama temen-temen gue, tiba-tiba aja gue udah harus pisah.

To be honest, I am having a hard time now.

Gue kelar ujian tanggal 19, dan bakal berangkat ke Tioman tanggal 22 malem. Jadi practically gue cuma dua setengah hari buat farewell sama temen-temen science gue (Sandra, Elvis, Willy, Novita, Nukke), Gibon, Richard, Evelyn, Kris, Velia dan entah siapa lagi. Karena tanggal 26, most of them udah ciao semua.

Shoot.

Perpisahan nggak pernah enak yah?

Dan gue dari kemaren udah ngebayangin gimana sedihnya pisah sama mereka. Mereka yang tiap hari nemenin gue, bikin gue ngakak, ngehibur gue kalo lagi sedih, ato simply be there for me, harus mau nggak mau melangkahkan kaki dari hidup gue.

Tau sih, kita harus keluar dari comfort zone supaya lebih mature lagi. Tapi berat cuy.

Ah, udah lah. nggak ada gunanya galau-galau juga kan? Just enjoy my time with them :)

Here is a short movie about my university, Monash University :)

Lazy Sunday :)

It is almost near study week of my last exams on my final semester.
These days, I feel like... everything is mixed up in my head.
I've been thinking about my plan after graduation. I have applied to some companies here, in Malaysia and Singapore, but so far, there was only one interview job.
I'm pretty sure life's gonna be tougher after graduation.

I know I have lots of things I need to do and think about, but I wanna reward myself for one day off.
And I choose today.

I've been spending my late noon by looking at Grey's Anatomy Season Finale 'Flight' in Youtube and Google, hoping that I could find new spoilers for this last episode of season 8. Waiting until Friday (well, this movie is aired on Thursday night in US, so I can just download it on Friday night) just simply kills me. Been told that all the main characters are in life-threatened due to plane crash. Shoot. I'm just hoping that one character that will die in this episode is not my McDreamy a.k.a Derek Shepherd. This show is no longer worth to be waited if Shonda just kills him, for McDreamy's sake.

And when I realized no new spoiler, I moved to watching Sonia Lee's wedding video with Andy. Sonia is known in Jayesslee, with her twin sister, Janice. I looked at their wedding photos and they were all sophisticated. I could feel the magic behind all smiles, all decorations and the wedding itself. Don't blame me if I was imagining my own wedding too =P.

I was curious who was behind these all magnificent photos. It was actually Australian young pretty photographer, Jenny Sun. You can find her blog here. I was completely amazed with her blog. With her layout, with her photography, and with her writing.

There was a special section for 'Travel'. This led me into thinking, "When am I going to travel to Europe?"

Traveling to Europe has been my dream since I was kid. I am always left speechless and jaw-dropped every time I see anything, culinary, old buildings, winding street, people, arts, attractions, simply anything, related to Europe. I've been dreaming of standing in front of Eiffel, riding a gondola in Venice, praying in the Basilisk of St. Peter, getting thrown chocolate and flowers in German, watching football match in Portugal, visiting Madame Tussauds in UK, taking pictures in front of Colloseums, and bla bla bla bla.

I was born to enjoy the beauty of the world. I really really want to travel there, someday.

But then, something popped up in my head when I was looking at Jenny's wedding photography.
When is the best time to travel?

I always imagine to travel to Europe with my good friends, not with my current family or my future family. I couldn't imagine going to backpack to Europe with my mom and dad or with my husband and children.
I just could not.
I want my first experience traveling to Europe with my good friends.
Of course, since now only Sylfester, Ley, David, Topel, Lia, Erick, Jetink, and Ivan that are in my mind, I imagine I will go to Europe someday with all of them. But who knows? I once imagined going to Redang and Perhentian with my old friends from CIMP, but it turned out, I was going with my new good friends. These people I love so much.

Who knows I'm going to meet other good friends out there who will accompany me traveling? ;)

My Life is a Blessing

Oke.
Sebenernya gue HARUSNYA mengerjakan lab report Food Preservation di library.
Tapi instead of doing that, gue malah ngobok-ngobok blog orang.
Dan salah satu blogger yang gw obok-obok blognya adalah Mikhal Anindita (found her blog here).
Mikhal ini temen satu batch di school of science. Bedanya gue ambil Food Science and Technology, dia ambil Biotechnology.
Dulu, gue masih sering bareng sama dia pas first year. Tapi setelah kita pisah major, jadi makin jarang bareng.

To be honest, gue diem-diem ngefans sama dia HAHAHAHA.
Satu hal yang gue suka (well, from what I read from her blog) dari dia adalah she always tries to be grateful for whatever happens in her life. Yaaa, memang sih gue bisa dikategorikan tidak terlalu deket ma dia, tapi gue suka cara pikir dia yang selalu berusaha buat ngeliat segala sesuatu dari sudut pandang positif. :)

Gue adalah orang yang typically melancholic. Kalo lagi kumat, melankolisnya bisa ngalahin grup band emo.
And that's why most of my posts here are gloomy.
Insecurity and Negative Thoughts are like my middle name.
Gue dulu paling susah sama yang namanya bersyukur.
Well, I am getting better. Gue bener-bener berusaha SEKUAT OTAK GUE buat bersyukur, buat melihat segala sesuatu dari sisi positif, walaupun susah, karena standard otak gue udah negatif. hahahaha.

Padahal, kalau mau dipikir, my life is completely a blessing.
Dibalik semua masalah gue, sebenernya gue adalah orang yang blessed.
Masalah gue juga kalo dipikir-pikir bisa dibilang nggak sebesar masalah temen-temen gue.
Kalopun ada masalah besar, SELALU ADA ORANG yang nemenin gue. keluarga gue. temen-temen baek gue. :)

Gue punya keluarga yang gue tau sayang sama gue BANGET.
Bokap yang galaknya kaya gatot kaca, tapi diem-diem hatinya lembut dan perhatian.
Gue masih inget gimana kelabakannya dia waktu gue patah hati. gimana dia telpon gue sehari tiga kali buat make sure gue nggak bunuh diri. Dan gimana dia pas meluk gue dan diem-diem netesin air mata pas gue nangis-nangis bombay.
Nyokap yang PALING PENGERTIAN sedunia. Nyokap yang selalu back up gue. yang selalu nasehatin gue dengan nasehat-nasehat yang nggak gue bisa temukan dari orang lain. yang selalu ikut seneng kalo gue ikut seneng. yang selalu berkorban buat gue.
Adek cowok gue yang bisa merangkap jadi adek, koko, sahabat, pacar, semuanya. Adek yang nggak pernah ngajak ribut. adek yang nggak pelit. adek yang selalu dengerin gue kalo gue lg stress. Adek yang sebentar lagi jadi laki-laki hebat. <3

Dan nggak terbatas soal keluarga, I have GREAT and SUPERB friends here.
Ika, my twin sister. Yang selalu nemenin gue setiap gue drop. yang mengerti gue disaat gue nggak ngerti diri gue sendiri. yang selalu bikin gue ngakak. yang bisa jaga rahasia, even my darkest secret.
Lia, Gibon, Jetink, Ley, Stella. My girl friends. Yang mau nerima semua kedodolan gue. yang masih sabar ngadepin gue yang sering nyebelin. yang selalu denger keluhan gue. yang mau nemenin gue kalo lagi takut sendirian. yang selalu bikin gue ketawa. yang selalu ngasi advices. yang bisa diajak gila-gilaan. yang bisa membuat gue merasa bahagia. :)
Sylfester, David, Ivan, Topel. Anak-anak markas yang selalu dengan tangan terbuka (yah, walaupun mungkin dengan terpaksa) menerima gue yang dengan seenak udelnya mengobrak-abrik rumah mereka. Yang baik banget. yang banyak banget ngebantuin gue. yang bisa ngebuat gue ketawa ngakak ampe nangis. yang bisa bikin my dreams come true.
Erick, si snowman berlesung pipit yang gila. yang udah baik banget ngajak jalan-jalan terus. yang nemenin disaat gue butek. yang bikin gue just simply smile :)
Marsel. Yah, walaupun si engkong satu ini udah ciao ke Jepang, dia nggak bakal pernah gue lupain. Semua ke'jahatan' dia, semua advices dia, semua bantuan dia. I miss you Sel. *by the way, if ANGELA NATHALIA happens to read this. trust me i miss your boyfriend so much, in friends term lho yaaaaaaaaaa! peace!*
Richard, si bawel yang secara tidak sadar membantu gue buat jadi lebih baik dan lebih dewasa :)
Dedek n Nukke. My classmate, my teammate, my gossipmate, my workmate yang lucu-lucu. kadang gue sering ngerasa jadi emak lu pada deh. secara badan lu berdua kaya kurcaci, dan gue kaya raksasa. hiks.
Nicky. my ex. Gue yakin banget nggak semua orang bisa ngerti status hubungan gue ma nicky. Kita masih sedeket dulu waktu masih pacaran, tapi bedanya sama sekali nggak ada feeling. Aneh? Gue juga ngerasa aneh kok bisa sampe ke stage ini. Stage sahabatan sama mantan. :)

Dan dari semua yang gue alamin selama gue di Malaysia, gue merasa bahagia.
Gue bisa dapet kesempatan ini itu. Bisa sempet ngerasain:

• Kampanye buat student association (walaupun akhirnya kalah polling)
• Monash ball!!
• Liburan kesana kemari, terutama my last holiday to Redang Perhentian
• Internship
• Be a little wild ;)

Dan masih banyak lagi. Masih ada banyak hal baru yang gue alamin disini. Yang enrich and improve myself.

Ah udah ah, gue sentimentil banget kalo lagi berasa grateful gini. :P

OKAY NADYA. GO BACK TO YOUR WORK.

Coincidence

Coincidence is one of the strongest evidence that world is small.
Well, I believe that.

I've never undergone such awkward coincidences before I stepped into college life.
My friends and I are coming from many places, many countries. But still there is this red line that connects us.

It started two weeks after my arrival in Malaysia. I accompanied my friend staying in her house in Casa Subang. We had a long night conversation till she told me that she was in a such complicated relationship. She was once being cheated on by his boyfriend. His boyfriend had 8 girlfriends for Pete's sake. Panda (my friend's name) was one of them. At that moment, I tried to recall my memory. My junior high school friend once told me that she was also being cheated on. Who imagined that Panda and my junior high school friend were being cheated on by same guy? What a small world.

Then more coincidence happened when it came to my 'twin' sister, Ribka Julia. The first thing that brought us closer is the purchase of our cameras. We were on our second semester in CIMP and we took Computer Technology as one of our subjects. Since photography was included in the syllabus, we were advised to buy our own camera. My dad bought me a Kodak M73 camera digital with silver colour in Jonas Photography when he went to Bandung. I was truly surprised when Ika showed me her camera. It was exactly same with my camera. The difference was hers was black, whereas mine was silver. And couple days later, I found out that she even bought the camera in the same shop! =.="

Started from there, almost everything happened in my life happened in Ika's life too. It was like having someone  like yourself in slightly different situation. Too bad I could not recall one by one (because there are too many of them!). But if I remember any of them, I am gonna share it with you guys!

Not only with Ika, but also with other friends. I have a good friend and brother here, named Yohan Marselinus. I was getting closer with him lately, around one year ago. We never talked much before, since we only met after the mass in church. But who imagined we came from same elementary school? He was my senior and he went to same church with me and even worse, he once had a crush on one of my best friend's sister! Ck.

And I was more amazed when I met Katarina Siena. She was one of my good friends when we were in elementary school. We used to hang around together when we were in 5th grade.
One day I read her twitter. She said she missed indomie so much. That 'tickled' me a little bit. 'She must be somewhere outside Indonesia', I guessed. So, I direct-messaged her, asking where she was. And who thought she was having internship in Malaysia? And I was even more surprised when I found out she lived near my apartment!
Then we planned to meet in Sunway Pyramid. I missed her so much. We were close back then. It was good meeting your old friend. But it was even better knowing that she was Marsel's cousin. =.="
I was like... wth, man. In the middle of our conversation, I told Katarina that I had a friend in Malaysia, that came from same elementary school with us (Marsel, I mean). He lived in Witana Harja. She replied, "Well I have one relative living there too. And his name is Marsel. Maybe your friend is my relative! Who knows?" Then after collecting proofs from both sides, Marsel and Katarina, it was true that Marsel who was my friend was Katarina's cousin. =.="
Apparently, they are not cousins by blood, but by marriage and they barely know each other. But after I connected them, they eventually got closer. :)

Relating to Marsel, there's one more thing that shocked me much. During last holiday in Indonesia, I tidied up my room by sorting out old stuffs. I found a photo album and a newsletter of my outbound camp in Sentul, 8 years ago. When I was looking to the camping participants, I noticed one face that looked familiar to me! And suddenly I realized that might be Marsel! I bbm-ed him right away, asking whether he was in the camp or not. And guess what, he was! I still remember clearly that I once met a friend named Marsel from Canisius and I never imagined that Marsel was Marsel that I know now!

Until now, I am still waiting more coincidences to come between me and Marsel because I believe there are more! :)

More story happened recently. Remember when I posted about David's farewell? After sending David out from Lagoon View, I helped Sylfester's friend, Sarah. She was about to move to LV but the room was not ready. So meanwhile, she put her stuffs in Syl's unit and I helped her since I had nothing to do. To be honest, I didn't have any feelings that she might come from my past (tsahhh...).
In the next day, when I went to Syl's unit, Syl told me that Sarah asked about me whether I ever took an English course in ILP or not. And I said yes. Sarah told Syl that my face looked familiar. And it turns out, Sarah was my old friend when I was taking an English course in ILP. Sarah and Dinda were my closest friends in ILP back then.

Surprised much? :)

Detached much?

For the start, pardon my galau-ness.

In a week, me, Jetink, Ley, Stella, Topel, David, Syl, and Erick will be going to Perhentian and Redang Islands! This is like a dream come true, traveling with your best buddies to a place that is almost impossible to go to. Well, I thought it was impossible at first, because it seemed many obstacles had stood in our way.

And while waiting for 22nd of February, I decided to go home, seeing my parents and brother.
Everything is different here. The longer I stay abroad, the less comfortable I am in my own home. How pathetic is it? I am trying my best to feel homey, but that seems to be the hardest thing to do. I keep counting down the days I'll be going back to Malaysia. I keep missing my room there. I keep texting my friends there, just to let my hunger of their existences be fulfilled. Am I that bad?

I'm not sure I ever wrote down about my "detachment disorder" here. But I think, from the posts I wrote, you all can conclude that I am a person who easily attach yet hard to detach. I was once in a hard situation of detachment, somewhere around 2009-2010. I used to be really close with my girls (RJ, AN, MS, SL, SKD, MC), NR, AW, TM, and SR. No need to know who they are, but they really meant a lot to me. They colored my life. But as the time went on, people have grown apart. Each one of us started to find another comfort zone and here we are, being almost strangers to each other. To be honest, even dinner was like an "important" eve, where we needed to make an appointment and think of a conversation.

I had a hard time understanding this situation. Understanding that people grow apart and friends do not stay forever. I don't like being a "grasshopper", jumping from one group to another. Once I am comfortable in one group, I have a tendency of being attached so much. But eventually, I made through this. After all efforts (I did not exaggerate, but I did put lots of efforts), I finally could accept this.

But once again, I am now trapped in the same situation. Again, I am trapped in one zone that comforts me much enough that I even started to miss them right after the plane has landed. Every day, in own home, I've been counting the days down till I get back to Malaysia. Am I that "rebel"? Lia told me, I need to enjoy in everywhere I am. But that is fuckin' hard, man.

I can't imagine, in the next 5 months, I'll be graduating from Monash. That means, I need to go back home, say goodbye to my friends, my sanctuary, my Sunway. I really can't imagine it. I wish time walked much slower. I don't want to leave Malaysia. :( I don't want to leave my friends :( :(

I am at the moment sitting in front of my workstation, in my small office, doing nothing, while waiting for jobs to be given. But it seems like nothing in a short moment is worth to do. So, I decide to just blog.

I am a mess.
I hate myself.
Not that I could recall, I never hate myself this much.
Pardon me, hey dear readers who do not like gloomy post, just press "close" at the top right hand side of your screen.

I am feeling emptiness.
It's like there is a big chunk drops to my head and at the same time, there is a big hole gnawed me from the inside.
The pain is just, indescribable.

You may run away from the things you hate.
You may hide from the things you don't want to see.
You may pretend from the things you don't want to feel.
But, how if it is yourself who you hate, who you don't want to see, who you don't want to feel?
How could you run away? How could you hide? How could you pretend?

Kenyang Bego in Chinese New Year!

One of my friends, Christofel, said that my blog was such a mixture of all feelings and it was like roller-coaster. It turns up and down. Well, yeah. That is why I blog because blog was created to be a place where I can share all my feelings, right?

ANYWAY.

Recently, my Facebook page is dominated with red color. Why? Because it is CHINESE NEW YEAR baby!
I didn't regret my decision of staying back here because my CNY was awesome!
Even though I didn't celebrate it with my family, I was having fun with my friends here. :)

It started on Saturday night. Erick, Jetink, Dedek, and me went to church and then had dinner in Jalan Alor. I ate a lot that night. A portion of pork burger and kwetiao were enough to satisfy me. Having dinner in Jalan Alor was kinda a temptation for me. The restaurants there offered lots of yummy food. How can it not be temptation for such a any-food-eater like me?

And the street itself was damn crowded, with lots of Chinese people, loud music, fire works, and Barongsai (or Lion Dance). I loveeee the fireworks. This time, I felt pretty close enough with the fireworks, even I could feel the fire hit my cheeks. But it was such a blast. I was like a little kid who excited much seeing fireworks.

And the celebration continued in the next day.
Sandra and Sylfester joined us after work for dinner. Since we didn't make any reservations in Chinese Restaurant, so we went to Rasta @ TTDI. This was just usual dinner (even though it was CNY night) with friends.

After dinner, we went home and had a sleep-over in Sylfester's house.
*well, I suddenly feel I need to share this in Indonesia :p*
Berhubung cowok-cowok (baca: Erick & Syl) pengen olah raga dulu sebelom kongkow, mereka main pingpong di LV. Gue, yang notabene buta soal olahraga, jadinya cuma mentok ngerumpi sama Jetink sambil ngambilin bola pingpong mereka.

Entah kenapa, unit Syl selalu jadi tempat ternyaman buat ngumpul-ngumpul. Apalagi di kamar Syl. And there you go, kita nonton The Green Mile di kamar Syl and I ended up being scolded by my friends. Menurut gue filmnya touchy dan bagus banget, tapi berhubung emang endingnya agak sedih dan menurut mereka tidak seharusnya di malam CNY mereka nangis, jadilah gw kena omel. Tapi gue puas, 3 jam nonton film yang berbobot, walaupun harus nangis dikit-dikit :p

Dan kebiasaan kalo sleepover di tempat Syl adalah, habis capek nonton, kita masak-masak. Secara Syl cuma punya kentang goreng (supply dari kantor gue) dan lotus leaf bun, jadilah kita makan makanan yang ada. Sambil makan, kita karaokean dan ngerumpi sampe nggak sadar waktu uda nunjukin jam setengah 7 pagi. Ck. Kamar Syl abis itu disulap jadi tempat penampungan anak-anak ilang. Gue & Sandra tidur dempet-dempetan di kasur Syl, sedangkan si Tuan Rumah & Erick harus rela tidur di lantai. :p Jetink mengungsi ke kamar Topel soalnya dia nggak tahan dingin dan Dedek balik ke kamar dia.

As expected, we all woke up at around 12 in the afternoon. Kelaparan (dan encok buat yang cowok-cowok). Setelah siap-siap, kita langsung cabs ke Pyramid, dimana ada harapan restoran masih buka. Sunway was damn quiet man. Hampir semua toko tutup. Akhirnya, setelah Erick maksa mau beli Prosperity Burger yang katanya adanya setaun sekali, kita memutuskan untuk makan McD. Pathetic ya. Chinese New Year mestinya dihabiskan dengan mengunyah makanan Chinese, bukan fast food. Tapi mau gimana dong. Nggak banyak pilihan sih.

Time seemed fly so fast (ya iyalah, lu pikir aja lu bangun jam berapa Nad =.="), tiba-tiba aja kita udah harus siap-siap pergi ke Seoul Garden di One Utama. Dan mendadak semua jadi warna merah. Hampir semua orang Chinese yang gw temui hari itu pake baju warna merah, including me.

Gue beneran kenyang bego hari itu. Kenyang bego disini means kenyang sampe napas aja susah. Tapi lumayan lah, walaupun menurut gw pilihan dagingnya nggak banyak banget (jadi nggak worth it sama harganya), tapi rasanya OK banget.

Gue sampe berpikir nggak lagi deh makan sampe kenyang bego (at least sampe besok pagi), tapi ternyata, lagi-lagi gw gagal. Pulang dari Seoul Garden, kita kongkow lagi di rumah Syl dan nonton Johnny English: Reborn. Kali ini gue nggak dibolehin milih film karena menurut mereka film gw dark and twisty dan nggak cocok buat ditonton di malam CNY.

Gue pikir, begitu kelar nonton, kita tidur, secara udah capek juga. Tapi ternyata nggak. Instead of sleeping, we cooked 5 bungkus of Indomie dan ngemilin bacon yang dibawa Erick. Heran? Yeah me too. Gue hari itu beneran kenyang bego, sebego-begonya. Sampe tidur pun dengan perut agak melilit gara-gara kekenyangan. Ck.

And we woke up the next day at 2 pm. Worst than the previous day. Rencana awal kita mau ice-skating, tapi liat aja. Bangun aja jam 2, belom ngulet-ngulet, belom siap-siap mandi dkk, belom makan siang. Jadilah gagal rencana ice-skating kita. Sore hari kita dihabiskan dengan nonton film Indo yang bener-bener nggak mutu (selama nonton, entah berapa kali komen negatif keluar dari mulut gue) dan makan siang delivery dari Aldy.

Around 5 pm, we decided to go to Pyramid, shopping for our (late) dinner. Erick si koki rencananya mau masak masakan andalan dia Black Pepper Sauce. dan gw cuma iseng-iseng bikin sushi (just like last CNY :)).

~sushi~

~black pepper pork~

~entah apa namanya sayuran~

Dan lagi-lagi gue kenyang bego.
Apalagi ditambah Choco Banana buatan Syl yang penuh fattening. Bayangin aja, udah eskrim, dikasih lelehan coklat, ditambah whip cream. Apa nggak bikin tumpukan lemak di perut numbuh?!

Syl's Choco Banana officially ended my CNY holiday. Beraaat banget rasanya kalo inget holiday is over dan harus mikir besok paginya gue harus bangun pagi buat kerja. Tsh. Why does time go faster when it comes to holiday?

Setelah dipikir-pikir,gila juga gue, CNY dipenuhi massive food. Nggak heran celana gw sekarang pada sempit dan pipi gue membengkak. Salah siapa? Ck. Tapi puas kok. Gue sempet takut CNY kali ini bakal garing, karena cuma ada 6 orang disini. But it turns out I was totally wrong. My CNY this year was awesome! :)

~credit goes to Erick Sulistya~

NEW YEAR!

Wow, see how busy I have been these days!
Apparently too many things need to be told these days, but instead of writing them down, I chose to live them up.
Saying "see you again", meeting new people, going around and having fun, working, and meeting old pals have been fulfilling my days recently. As I told you in the previous post, David already went back to Indonesia, followed by Epi, Mei, Yoan, and finally Topel. Well, I was trying to convince myself that I would definitely meet them again in the next couple months. :)

~Epi and Mei's farewell with Lia and Gibon~

~Yoan and Topel's farewell with Syl and Ley~

And yeah, I'm kinda busy in the office now, working on the QC, Internal and External audit, and the development of cassava fries. Days in the office are full of filling up parameter checks, doing series of peeling-cutting-steaming-and-frying cassava fries, and checking up on company's documents. Tiring, but many new things I've learnt. :)

My new year's eve is a blast. I spent the night with Ley, Lia, Jetink, Novita, Syl, and Erick. I thank God for the night. We laughed, we drank, we played. Ah, such an unforgettable new year's eve :)

~Syl, Erick, Ley, me, Lia, Dedek, & Jetink~

Let me review this whole year.
2011.
Many things have changed.
Many things have been learnt.
Many things have gone.
Many things have come.

The first six months were the hardest. I am a person who gets easily broken when it comes to love. And to be honest, the first six months of 2011 were hard for me because yeah, I had problems with my (ex) bf.
The climax was on July. We broke up. But I believe (and prove it myself) that brought me to a better life.
After the break-up, I enjoyed myself more with my friends. As the proverb says "Sometimes you have to let good things fall apart, so better things can fall together". I prove that myself.
Being single is not as bad as I thought before. You have more time for enjoying time with friends and your own self.
Moreover, I've made more friends, I've traveled to good places, and I've enjoyed my time more.

So yeah, I can proudly say, 2011 finally replaces 2009 as my favorite year!

So, what are next year's resolutions?
One, I really want to be able to control my emotions. any kind of emotions. anger, sadness, jealousy, and other negative thoughts.
Two, I want to try using contact lenses! Gosh, sometimes I hate my rapid reflection.
Three, I want to control my feelings. I don't want to fall for wrong person anymore. That fuckin' hurts and I don't want to get hurt anymore!
Forth, GRADUATE FROM MONASH!

Can I achieve all resolutions? Let's see then! :)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Credit goes to Sylfester Arian Gunawan

What's good in goodbye?

I hate farewell as much as I hate monkeys.

David, one of my good friends here, is gonna go back to Indonesia, since he has already finished his degree in Monash University. I am like, suffocated by something that I should not be thinking about.

I've undergone this kind of situation many times, since I started studying abroad. People come and go. New friends come and good friends go. I am sick of saying "see you again, buddy!", where the truth is, once people step out of your sight, they will eventually step out from your life as well. 

I have befriended with many people from many different places. We were good friends when we were together, but once they moved out from Malaysia, we did not contact each other, at all. Well, I don't think 'happy birthday' wish in Facebook could be counted in maintaining friendship, couldn't it?

I have problems in long-distance-relationship. Not only in love-relationship, but also in friendship-relationship. In matter of fact, LDR is damn hard to maintain.

Out of many-friends-I-have-had, to be honest, there are only few of them that are still in contact with me. In contact here means knowing-their-latest-news-from-themselves. Even, there are only fewer of them that are still close with me.

That is why I hate farewell.

David and I held dinner together with our friends in Bubba Gump. I was even being "fooled" because this was my birthday dinner. 

So there is this 'tradition' in Bubba Gump, when there is a birthday dinner, the birthday boy or girl should stand on the chair, give speech, and dance, while the waiters are singing and dancing. And yeah, that was me standing on my chair, giving speech.

~ I'm gonna miss you so much, Buddy :'( ~

~ dinner with my good friends ~

Anywayyy,

I forgot to share my birthday surprise here!

I had such an unforgettable birthday this year. I was loaded with happiness and laughs.

I was quite busy on the day before my birthday, which is November 25th. David, Christofel, Sylfester, Ley, Jessyca, and I went to Pyramid for shopping. Not really shopping anyway, because the guys were looking for internet cable and the girls were playing DDR. But then, the girls accompanied David shopping. :p

We then cooked for our dinner at the guys' house. That was such a fast cooking, since David and I needed to leave very soon for our choir practice.

David and I finished practicing at around 11 pm, when suddenly Jessyca whatsapp-ed me, telling that she wanted to meet me at the guys' house. So yeah, I dropped by and met her. She was like having something in mind that troubled her. She even began to cry after telling me what was on her mind. 

I was about to cheer her up when suddenly she grabbed my arms, Sylfester came and tied my hands at the back, and David closed my eyes with someone's tie. OMG. I didn't even have the chance to break away.

All I knew was my face was drawn by Ley and I was forced to walk without knowing the direction.

And after all 'singing-happy-birthday', 'blowing-the-candles', and 'cutting-the-cakes', I thought the persecution has been finally over, but I am wrong. Those who live in LV, again, closed my eyes with the plastic bag and brought me to from what I guessed, swimming pool. They were about to push me to the pool when a security guard blew his whistle. Failed attempting to wet me, they brought me to the shower! Haish.

And these were the pictures taken during my presecution:

~ yeah right, i'm so... *speechless* ~

~ THOSE precious people <3 ~

~ the master minds ~

~ me after being bathed under the shower ~

I know people make fool of me, just like what they did to me on my birthday. But I feel loved.
I feel I am something for them, not just random girl they know. And when I heard the story behind my birthday surprise, I was... flattered. What actually happened was, Jetink and Ley asked me to go to Pyramid so I could find my own present. Then the guys, they actually did not plan to buy internet cable, but they went to Raspberry to buy my cake. That was why Syl did not go shopping with us and just went home. :') Jetink and Ley even went into one cosmetic shop to another, just to find perfect make-up for me :')

Thank you guys.
This is really the best birthday surprise ever :')