I Hate These Few Days!!!

"X-Men 3: The Last Stand now playing in theatres near you!!" An ad I saw on TV a few days back.. I got so excited.. couldnt wait to watch it.. that's what my brother n bro-in-law felt too.. Its premiere was on Wednesday.. we were planning to go..

I was supposed to go to the mall n bought the tickets as soon as I got off from work.. but what happened?? I was ready to go.. I turned off my computer.. and when I was just about to go.. one of my senior called.. she said there was a customer complaining that his account hasnt been activated yet.. but we did activate it since morning.. and I tried logging in using his account.. it worked!! told him that twice.. but he kept saying the same thing.. hhhh.. weird!!! :( maybe he knew I was going to have fun watching my fave superheroes and so he decided to ruin it all!!! uuuuuurrrggghhh...

I really want to watch this movie this week huaaaaaaaaaaaa... cant watch it with my family though, since they r all outta town.. going on a trip to Bali!! leaving me all alone at home (with my cousin, actually).. leaving me!!! just because I cant take some days off from work!! (cos I havent work for more than a year here) :( they gonna have fun, parasailing, banana boat.. huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. that's why I wanna watch the movie this weekend.. so I can have fun too.. so I wont just stay home n pitying myself..!!

Well, I asked my cousin (the one that's staying at my house) to go with me.. but she dun like that kind of movies.. so she wont go..

I was thinking bout asking my aunt.. but she's now outta town too, dunno when she'd be back.. and I'm not sure she'd like superheroes movies too :(

Should I ask my highschool friends? uhm... to tell u the truth, I'm not really in the mood to go with them right now.. dunno why.. but I cant seem to chat (gossip) with them like I used to.. sometimes I dunno what or who they're talking bout (some of them work in d same place)..

Well, at least I have my "brothers" (guy friends who r older than me)... but do I??? I asked one of them (Edward).. he said he dun wanna go to theatres.. he said he'd rather watch the DVD.. hhhh.. then asked another one (Luxki).. he'd like to go.. but not this week.. cos he's still recovering from chicken pox now.. Chicken Pox!! great timing huh??!! he got it from his friend at the office (who came to the office while still in a bad condition!!! darn! and he passed it to my brother!!) :( ... but he promised to go with me next week, though... but then, if i go with him.. I cant go with my other bro (Erick) .. cos Luxki n Erick r not really good friends anymore now, i guess i can say it that way.. I'm not really getting along with Erick's girlf anyway.. she's the kind of girl who like to shop (esp. branded fashion things).. while me?? I dun really like to shop (except for books, cds, n dvds).. exactly the opposite.. :(

I asked my "sister" (girl friend who is older than me) too .. she said she already planned to watch the movies with her sister and they got the tickets already..!! :( huaaaaaaaaaaaaa... i was too lateeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

n I cant go with my friends here at the office.. the girls dun like it.. they like lovey dovey movies (i like them too.. but I like cartoons n xmen more).. the guys? they like it.. but they r all married..!!! :(

I hope my aunt will be back on Saturday n I hope she'd like to accompany me.. otherwise, I'm gonna be so bored to death at home.. feeling lonely.. lonely.. lonelyy.... hueeeeeeeee...

my cousin this morning asked me though "so who's going with u?" .. i said "noone" .. n she kinda think about something.. maybe she decided to go with me?? *wishing.. hoping.. pleaseee* .. I dun like people pity on me.. but hey?? for X-Men?? I dun mind!! \\(^o^)/

PS. yesterday was holiday.. some people takes the day off.. and they're having long weekend.. i so envy them.. but it also made the traffic so different this morning.. it only took me 10 minutes to get to work this morning (instead of 1 hour).. hehehe.. I cant help myself but kept stepping on gas!! :D oh every light I passed was green too!! .. I so love this morning's traffic!!! :D

My Dream is Coming True!!!

Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh.. my sis is coming tonite at 8.10 pm!! :D along with her hubby n her son too.. my lovely nephew.. my world's #1 baby!! finally.. after been waiting for more than 1 year (since he was born).. I finally get to see him :D Sean Andrew Coulter..!! it just couldnt get any better that this!! \(^o^)/

Now I can have pictures TAKEN WITH him.. not just have pictures OF him.. \(^o^)/ cant wait!!!

Just cant stop smiling today!! :D hehehehe... actually been smiling since yesterday.. though I had to clean my room (my sis's gonna sleep there), get rid of breakable things, cos he's such a naughty naughty naughty cute chubby kid!!! love him!! \(^o^)/

btw, I'm having trouble with blogger lately.. it took ages to load.. anyone having the same prob?

Finally!! After all this time!!!

I got 2 topics for this title :D hehehe..

My hairstyle has always been the same since highschool.. medium-long-straight shaggy hair.. I didnt even realized it till one of my high-school friend, which is a guy, pointed it out few months ago.. he said "ur hairstyle didnt change a bit!" .. I wasnt even close to him during those years.. gosh!! ok so I got bored with it (finally!) and on Saturday I went to my hairdresser (the lovely Ci Gun) and asked him/her (ok I dunno whether to address him/her as a man or a woman.. I'll go with 'her') if a curly hair would suit me.. and she said yes.. just the bottom part and big curly.. she wouldnt make it whirl (??), just wavy, so the shaggy part would still be visible.. :D went home looking different.. with wavy-curly shaggy hair.. hahaha.. and my cousin said I look better that way.. meaning: I look more mature and of course prettier!! :D (ok, so I added the "pretty" part myself :P) .. I need that right now.. looking mature.. :D why? cos my co-mates said I look like a college girl instead of a staff, though I already follow the dress code here.. or maybe it's the way I talk too.. :(

but what's bad about it? my hair is very very naughty!! now, the side part is wavy.. but the back part is not too wavy anymore.. huaaaaaaaaaa.. wanna cry.. hiks.. paid 250,000 rupiahs for it.. that's around USD25.. oh but she shaped my eyebrows :D for free!! hehehe.. I'm not good in putting on make-up.. cant do it myself :P

Now the other "finally" topic..

After more than 2 months trying to live without my mom.. finally, she's coming home today!!! :D I request a permission to leave work early to pick her up at the airport.. and got approved :D Woohooooo!! so happyyyyy... cant wait!!! hurry hurryyy...

buuuuuuut.. dunno why, I tend to get sick everytime I was about to meet my mom (after been away too long, of course).. like when I was still in Beijing and she came to see me.. I got a fever and she had to take care of me... and now.. I got sick again, headache, fever, threw up couple times.. etc.. my cousin said that's because me and my mom have the same chinese horoscope signs.. Dog :D .. just like when the puppies long for their mom's touch.. that's what happening to me right now.. hehehe..

Oh there's another demonstration downtown :( around 100.000 or more workers r gathering along the main street and then they gonna divide into 3 groups n went to 3 different locations, one of them is the president's place (Istana Negara).. just hope I dun bump into them later on my way home.. :(

I didnt realize that I've been missing 4 days of blogging here.. too caught up in playing new game hehehe.. well not new game.. registered since months ago.. but just figured out how to play it a few days ago hehe.. CyStage :P

Amadeus

Amadeus - Director's Cut.. a rather old movie.. 1984.. right when I was only around 2 years old hehe.. bought the dvd last December I think, but didnt watched it until last night :P Quite interesting to me.. but people do have different taste, dunno whether u will like it or not :D and it's a very long movie too.. 3 hours.. as I said, it's quite interesting for me that I didnt feel bored.. not like when I watched Aviator :P

Shown in the title, the movie tells us about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.. oh but he's not the main character here.. instead it's Antonio Salieri. Salieri managed to be a famous composer in Vienna.. and Mozart was his idol.. but then, when Mozart came to Vienna n they got the chance to meet, Salieri found out that Mozart's talent was the opposite to his behaviors.. he was a conceited, spoiled person, someone who liked to tease girls. He also had the heart of the girl that Salieri laid eyes on. Yet in Salieri's mind, God had sing thru Mozart and the music had always been miraculously amazing. Salieri started to hate him and he started to hate God too for using such a person instead of himself.

Mozart was a person who couldnt take criticism, he often said "It's perfect, I cant rewrite it if it's perfect" even if his music offended the Italians and he was a big spender too.. Salieri saw this as a way to get rid of Mozart.. he spread the news that Mozart was not to be trusted with a girl alone.. so no one wanted to let Mozart be their daughters' piano teacher. Soon, Mozart got broke. But that was not the end of Salieri's acts. He pushed Mozart to the edge, pretending to be nice guy, pretending to be his only friend, at the end he slowly killed Mozart.. or in his opinion, he tortured God..

But after that what happened? As we all know, Mozart became a legendary.. while Salieri? people started to forget him, his music was less and less played.. in fact, I never heard his name before :P I like classical music but I'm not a big fan of it hehehe.. like to play it, but dun like to listen to it.. made me sleepy n dizzy :P

\(^o^)/ wanna find movies about other composers.. :D

Nightmare YAIKS!!

Had another nightmare on Friday night.. not about murder or dragons.. dunno why I often dream about dragons, the chinese tales n history always refer dragons as the kind helping powerful animal n sign of good luck, but my cousin told me that the bible said dragons are the symbol of the demon king, that it shows the end of the world, weird thing is.. one of my dream was similar to the story in the bible, where there was an earthquake, the earth split and the heat, hot lava, and fire came up from the center of the earth, at the same time a dragon appear from under there.. people kept falling into the lava until there were only me n my family left.. but not for long, they fell too.. and I was left alone.. it was always the same.. the end of my nightmare about dragons.. in the end there was only me being chased by the dragon..

Anyway, my nightmare few nights ago was not about it for sure.. but it still had something to do with death and the end of the world..

We (my family n some unknown people) were having fun on the 2nd floor of a villa.. when I suddenly looked at the clouds n they were weird!! they were like paper clouds n someone stuck them up there.. and 2 of them were black (not dark clouds.. but BLACK!) .. feeling weird, I told my dad about it.. and when he was looking at the clouds, he said that there were some kind of smoke.. thick smoke.. but turned out it wasnt smoke, it was water.. sea water.. and suddenly BAM!! the water hit the buildings, the ground.. I saw people some tried to swim and some floated dead.. cars floated too... we, who were on the 2nd floor just stuck there and could only watch in fear..

Dunno how and how long.. the water dried up.. but the danger was not over yet.. I went to the grocery store with my cousin (I dun recognise the face but in my dream I called her with one of my cousins' name), her husband, n some other guy.. to buy something important, I guess.. it was in a box.. maybe medicine or something.. the most annoying thing was.. my cousin kept forgetting her stuff!! first she carried her bottle (seemed to be important for her).. and she said she forgot her jacket in the car.. so she went back to the parking lot n got her jacket..

After she got what we need to buy, she held her jacket with her right hand, and the box with her left hand.. the bottle?? she left it!! so she decided to get the bottle.. next, she got the bottle n the box.. we ran to the car.. just when we were about to leave.. she realized that she left her jacket again!! dunno why but the rest of us just stood there n didnt help while she ran back into the store..! Me, on the other hand, kept shouting histerically at her to move faster, cos I saw the water again from far far away.. we drove off.. panicked.. shouting "faster! faster! the water is gonna get us!! quiiiiiccckkk!!!", while another person shouted "Ke! wake up! let's go now!" .. hhh.. and that was the end of my nightmare.. it was Saturday morning already n my dad woke me up to go to the gym with him..

Since I'm not a member of that gym anymore.. I had to pay 100.000 rupiah entrance fee (around USD10 I think) oh but I used the very much of it.. hehe.. exercise around 1 hour in the fitness centre.. swam around for less than an hour.. met a scary kid and so I decided not to swim anymore.. dunno why, I was resting a bit, standing there in the water, facing the pool's wall, and that kid, maybe around 12 years old, just came n breathed on my face.. when I looked at him, he moved away.. ok so maybe it was nothing weird.. but not long, he moved closer again.. this time dunno what was wrong with his hand.. I felt something moving near my left arm.. and it was his hand.. he slipped it between me n the wall (lucky there was a big gap there) .. so I looked at him again and asked "What r u doing?" he said "Nothing" .. n moved away.. and I swam to the other side.. when I swam back he wasnt there.. then he started to move closer again, I swam again.. kinda scary.. what's wrong with him??!! Duh! after that, I stopped swimming n headed to take a shower.. before that, enjoy the sauna n whirlpool.. hehehe :D

There was a blood donation event there that day.. that was my main reason to go there.. :D my first time and finally I did it.. after longing with curiousity for it all of this time!! Yay Yay Yay!! :D

Under The Same Roof

This is soooooooooo nice!!! (my senior sent me the information.. I'll try to translate it :P)

In the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.. in the same property with Balai Budaya Puskat, just about 8km away from the heart of the city (heading to Kaliurang).. lies a square-shaped building, with a cone-shaped roof. What's so special from this building?

Its four walls each has the same length, that is 8m. On the west wall, there's a Arabic calligraphy like in a Mosques, saying "And God does not like destruction." On the south wall, a picture of doves is hanged, written on it "Look at the birds in the sky." which is usually can be seen in Churches... North wall, there's a picture of Swastika (Hindu symbol) with writings "I keep the trees alive.".. and last, on the east wall, there is a line of words saying "Let every creature cheers with joy", the words of Buddhism.

Those symbols and words are placed in the center of each wall, while the rest is covered with a painting of bamboos and the higher it is, the fader the color is. The place is designed to be used as a sacred place, where people of all religions (not just those four main religions) can pray and bring him/herself closer to our Creator. The Pastor/Priest (Romo) said "There is no partition up there, even though here we praise Him in different ways." And he also said that God has never see people differently, we are all just the same in His eyes, He opens Himself to us, everyone of us. I agree with that, there is no use in fighting over religions, for religions are just human made. God never talks about religions.

At first, the Catholics protested this place. They questioned why the picture that is used is doves picture, not the cross.. and why build such places for other religions too.. While the Moslems insisted that there should be no pictures at all.. But as time goes by, more people came there to pray, and the place got more accepted.

The article said that with more places like this, there would be no more fights on lands to build sacred places.. and please let me add to it, there would be no more sacred places being burnt down too..!!

Well, I think it's good! I think it's really good!! especially here in our country.. where religions have become the main reason to fight.. most people here are not racist for different cultures, but racist for different religions.. and still claiming to be pure as angels.. yuck!!

An Anti-cook Cooked

Our house maid went home yesterday afternoon and so we have to clean the house ourselves and cook our own food.. this morning I cooked SPINACH!!! :D stir-fry red spinach hehehe.. yay yay yay spinachhh.. tastiest vegie on earth!! but.. cos I cant cook, the spinach was a bit salty :P then I fried crabsticks and some shredded beef (gepuk) ..yummy yummy one.. but since I cant cook, the shredded beef was a bit burnt.. hehehehe :P just a bit, so it's still eatable :P

Then my bro made fried-rice just when I was about to leave for work.. urgh!! I didnt get to taste it!! he's a good cook.. he once said he wanted to be a famous chef someday.. everything that he cooks tastes yummy, while everything that I cook tastes plain or sometimes too salty.. oh 'cept sushi and noodle-rolled-sausages!! gotta learn how to cook soon..!! hiks ={

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easteeeeeeerrrrrrrr!!!

but I hadnt been good last weekend.. I was supposed to go to church on White Thursday, too caught up in playing games at the office and by the time I got home, the mass has started..
I was supposed to go to church on Good Friday too.. instead I went to the supermarket to buy our monthly needs..
I was supposed to go to church on Holy Saturday (Easter Eve).. I didnt.. I was going to the 21.30 mass.. but my friend (neighbor) already went to the 19.00 one.. and I was too lazy to go alone.. and the rain stopped me too (I know.. lame excuses..)
But I did go to Easter mass.. on Sunday.. along with my aunt n my uncle's family.. Easter mass on Sunday has always been a mass for the little children.. well, my uncle has a 5-year-old son n 2-year-old daughter.. so it dun matter, right? but me n my aunt were really bored.. the mass took more than 2 hours.. not for the sacrament, but for singing children songs n for some dramas too.. was bored and the weather was hot too!!
urgh.. bad bad nike..!!

anyway, I was listening to the radio the other day.. and the presenters were discussing about Easter.. they wondered what Easter eggs mean.. why eggs? and why colourful eggs? then.. they wondered why there is Easter bunny.. Bunnies are mammals, they dont have any eggs.. but what's the idea of a bunny and eggs? .. ok now I'm wondering too.. :P maybe I should browse the internet..

oh, I watched Casanova last nite.. it was greeeeeeeaaaatttt (to me) :P love those kind of movies, love seeing the dresses.. Victorian style dresses (but I dun like Victorian dolls, mind u.. they're freaky.. they might come alive at midnite, u know.. like Chucky.. yuck!! it even gave me cold shiver just typing down his name here!).. anyway Venice looks amazing n romantic.. I wanna go there on my honeymoon (ouch cmon, a girl must have a romantic dream!!).. ;p hehe.. I went there once, but didnt really enjoy it cos one of the old man in the tour was missing.. spent the day looking for him and by the time we found him, it was time to get back to the hotel already.. *sigh*..

ok.. time to work now.. already 10 mins past \(^o^)/

Hhhhh...

Found this in one of my emails... so niceeeeeeeeeeeee...

Don't ever give up if you still want to try, don't ever wipe your tears if you still want to cry.
Don't ever settle for an answer if you still want to know. Don't ever say you don't love him/her if you can't let him/her go.

"They say no matter how dark the night is, the sun always rises again ...
I say lost love makes one realize that no matter how bright the day is, the sun will always set again."

"You said you didn't want to see me get hurt, so does that mean you closed your eyes when I cried?"

A million words wouldn't bring you back. I know because I've tried.
Neither would a million tears. I know because I've cried.

hhhhhh....

Thanks Be To GOD

I take back the hatred I had for those trees and birds in the parking lot back.. I take it all back!!!

I'll tell u this first.. Next to this office is a police dormitory (I think that was what they told me)

Then the story begins..

It was raining hard outside.. oh no.. it IS raining hard outside.. so hard that the roof of that police dorm flew right onto our parking lot!! It hit 2 cars.. guess what? one of them was mine!! "Nooooooooooooo.." I panicked.. one of my seniors parked his car beside mine right behind the big tree, so the tree covered his car from the flying roof... he moved his car rite away and then said that the roof hit my car's front window.. I cant move it anywhere cos it was stuck..

The car beside me (the one that got hit too) was my other senior's car.. she rarely park there, today, dunno why she parked her car there.. see, her car is rather high and mine is small.. so her car was also kinda protecting my car.. turned out when the securities check on the cars, they said that the roof did hit my car's front window, but it didnt break it.. and if they lift it up, I'd be able to move my car somewhere else.. so they helped me.. oh turned out that the roof didnt ruin my senior's car too.. and so the securities helped her too with those roof parts.. we havent check if our cars got scratched though..

half part of he roof was iron.. but it didnt touch our cars.. not even a bit.. why? cos it was stuck on the branches.. the big tree's branches!! Thank YOU, GOD.. for creating that big tree.. for it protected our cars.. which means protected our hearts too (from beating too fast)..

End of story.. I feel so relieved now :D

edited: one of my bosses just now told me that my car's front window got scratched.. got around 3 or 4 scratches.. hiks..

The Urbz

Lately, I've been addicted to this game.. The Urbz: Sims in the City, another one of Maxis' developments.. Well, it is not a new game and my bro bought it a looongg time ago.. but I started to play it just about a month ago..

I like it better than any other The Sims versions.. why? cos time is not really a factor here, my main problem with The Sims :P I cant seem to keep organized everyday, where my sim has to work from 8 am to 3 pm, then keep the relationship level high, gain more and more physical, art, mechanical, or logical, etc skills, get enough entertainment, and more!! esp. when my sim starts to get whiny!! aaarrgghhh!! cant stand it!! by that time, I usually give up, bulldoze the house and build another one.. starting a new one with a new sim.. hehe.. :P

The Urbz is more fun to me :P completing goals in order to complete another goals.. secret missions.. be popular :D .. and the jobs.. u can do them whenever u like from 4 am to 11 pm, u'r not stuck with one job all the time, got paid everytime u complete a job session and u get bonus everytime another urb buy ur product :D .. and then u have to choose the right way to interact with other urbs, every district has its own gestures and style..

I've completed it once.. using a big-round-brown eyes Urb, brown hair, white skin, pretty pretty face :D hehehe.. named it Angel Vogue.. her face is now on everyone's shirt and on every poster n billboard.. and now I'm playing with a small-brown-eyes urb, black hair, asian skin, small nose.. hehehe.. chinese girl :P I think i named her Chichi Lee.. dunno why :P just like the sound of it.. Chichi's face is already on some districts posters and some urbs shirts.. but not on billboards.. Angel's still on them.. Oh, I think I'm gonna play a male-urb after I finish this one.. :P that is, after Chichi's pics replace all Angel's.. :D

well, bad thing happened yesterday.. I played the game from around 10 pm to something past midnite.. and I decided I would go to sleep after a while.. I reminded myself to save the game after i changed Chichi's clothes.. guess what? too caught up in choosing new clothes for her, I forgot to save the game after that.. and then when I was about to end the game.. !!!Hang!!! it just stop there!! dunno why.. but it did!!! waited for minutes.. nothing changed.. huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... 2 hours playing.. for nothing!!! and i've completed so many goals in that 2 hour time!! a lesson made though, regularly save the game when playing..!! stupid me :(

Ice Age 2

Yuuuuuuuuupppppppppppppppppp... I finally watched it last nite!!! and the road was pretty safe.. guess the demonstration was over by that time..

The movie was very funny, cant stop laughing thru out it, I'm even laughing now.. haha.. they r all so cuteeeee esp. scrat.. so hillarious.. then Diego so cool!! love him so muchie muchie!! :D No, i'm not gonna tell the story here, u have to watch it urself!!

It was worth watch it! Very Extremely Super Recommended!!! (note: great for stressed people)

Tick Tock Aaarghh

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??? Why does the time move so slowwwwwwwwwww?? it's still 4.44 PM.. please please please make it 5.30!! pleaassseeeeeeeeee...

and an annoying thing is happening.. i'm about to watch Ice Age 2 in less than an hour but there's a demonstration now near that mall!!! Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggghhh it so aint fair!! please please please make them go away!! pleaassseeeeeeeeee...

why do they have to do it today? why?? why do they have to demonstrate on my happy day?? Aaaaaaaarrrggghhh... *ok, done with the screaming.. better get back to work now..*

edited on 17.25 --> hhhhhhhhhh... 5 minutes to go.. but 5 minutes feels like agessss... cant work anymore.. my mind is not here... hehehe it's 2 minutes now.. gotta get ready.. bye byeeeeeeeeeee...

Between Dirty n Clean

I'm talking bout my car :P Everyday I park it under a tree.. I have to, cos it's hot outside and the parking lot is covered with trees.. :P what I hate about it is that I have to see bird poo everyday all over my car!!

I usually wash my car every Saturday (not personally ;P this lazy girl asks her dad's driver to wash it for her hehe).. sooooooooo... the car looks sooooooooooo clean when I come to the office every Monday.. and it looks soooooooooooooooooooooo dirty every Friday.. hehehe.. and now most of my workmates know what I'd be doing between after-office-hour and before-going-home.. that would be.. wiping my car with wet tissues!! :P

Birds o birds.. why do u have to do this to me???

P.S. It's Wednesday!! which means the car is half-dirty half-clean.. and today also means I'm gonna be watching Ice Age 2 tonite!! Uh cant wait!! Now I wish that time would move fasterrrrr!!!

J.Co Donuts

These r the donuts I bought last Friday, J.Co Donuts!! Turned out that it belongs to one of the famous hairdresser here, Johnny Andrean.. I thought it was American Donuts.. uhm.. I have never tried Krispy Kreme.. or I think I did (but I forgot how it tastes like).. but people been saying that J.Co Donuts taste like Krispy Kreme's.. :D

Here in Jakarta, there are only 3 in my city and the locations r far from me n my friends' place.. well, the mall I went to on Friday is far, but it's near my ex-college.. I rarely go there now.. then I was being naughty yesterday.. emailing my friends these donuts pictures.. and now.. they end up longing for (drooling) and asking me to buy them the donuts (esp. Cheese Me Up).. simply cos it's too far n they dun want to hang out there.. huaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... I'll go there again some other time..

It is said that J.Co's gonna open a branch at the mall near my friends' offices.. hehehe.. hope it'd open soon!!! then maybe we can sit there, drink some coffee, eat some donuts, n of course, chit some chat :P .. SOON!!!

Mass Day Off

It's Saturday, the third day of our loooonnggg weekend!!
Last Thursday was "Hari Nyepi" (The Day of Silence or Hindu Lunar New Year).. it was one of our national holidays here and it's coloured red on the calendar (which means holiday).. and since Friday was kinda in d middle, the government makes it a mass-day-off.. soooo.. no work from Thursday till Sunday.. lazy people :P still I'm happy for it.. Yay!!

"Hari Nyepi" is when there is no activities on the entire island of Bali, that includes the airport, and the people there stays home for the whole day long.. while in Jakarta? Long weekend means trip to the mountain.. stay in villas or camps.. but not for my family.. well, and many other families too.. me n my family went to visit my grandparents' (my mom's parents) graveyard on Thursday.. from morning till night.. tiring n hot day!!! we even smell like the sun.. yuck!!

Then I went to the hospital on Friday.. I was planning to give my blood.. been so curious about it, wanna know how it feels.. but then the hospital didnt have the event yesterday and I have to wait for their call until noone-knows-when.. they have to wait for the red cross to schedule it.. it's so weird that hospitals dont stock on blood anymore now.. what if a patient is in an emergency state and he/she needs blood immediately? I mean, I received an email weeks ago about this problem too.. the sender's wife died coz she kept losing blood after giving birth and the hospital had to call the central hospital first, asked for blood..???!! with the traffic jam rate here.. in Jakarta.. it's impossible for them to transfer blood from the central hospital to other hospitals A.S.A.P..!! seriously, it even takes me more than an hour here to drive to a less-than-3-kms-away-place!!!

I left the hospital (in disappointment) and went straight to the mall nearby, bought some cds ("Wow Hits 2006" Christian hits and Lee Hom's *cute guy :P* new cd).. and bought some books too (a comic book and a book explaining about our body :D).. oh and I bought donuts!! \(^o^)/ J.Co's!! it just opened there I guess.. cos I didnt see it 6 months ago hehe.. it was good.. I mean, I usually dun like donuts.. dunno why.. just dun like the taste of donuts.. but J.Co's donuts are different.. still, one thing I dun like.. the icing! it's way too sweet for me.. (I dun really like sweet food)

and Today.. I went to ULP (Universal Language Program), as I did two weeks ago.. listening to Chinese Language class.. then I was planning to go out with my friends.. but then I remembered that today's my cousin's (the one who lives in our house) bday.. and I had to be back before 5 pm.. while my friends were planning to go after 3 pm.. huaaaa.. cant meet them for just half an hour.. not enough time to catch up on their latest news hehehe... so I decided not to go and stayed home playing games till it was time.

Anyway, we (my family and of course the birthday girl) went to have dinner at The Jittlada, a Thai resto near my workplace.. yummyyyyyyyyyyyyy.. but salty.. but I dun really mind since I like salty food :D .. we ordered Sam Muang (I think that's the name.. it's the mango salad).. then green curry (love it!!!) ... Pad Thai (love it too!!) ... Baby Kailan with garlic (yummy!! *sluurpp*) ... Fried fish with Thai spicy sauce (very salty! :(..) .. and Tom Yam Kung (the sour spicy Thai soup.. dun really like it.. hehe..I dun really like shrimp and sour food..) Well, the dinner was a success, turned out that Thai food suits my cousin's tongue, she claimed.. and my dad ordered a birthday cake secretly but my cousin used her sixth sense.. see, when we were wondering where my dad was, she said "he's buying a birthday cake.. and it's chocolate!" .. and it was true huaaaa.. aint fair!! not a surprise anymore.. hiks :( .. but we still had fun!! too bad my mom isnt here.. cos we ate durian ice cream as well (her fave fruit)!!! :D

then we went home and watch Ice Age all over again for the 100th times.. my family is a cartoon fans ('cept my mom).. watching cartoons can never get us bored.. we're going to watch Ice Age 2 on Wednesday :D hehe.. my dad got a free ticket and booked another 3 (for himself, my bro, my cousin, n me) for that premiere night.. cant wait!!! hehehe...

Ok.. it's 1.36 AM and I should go to bed.. tomorrow gotta get up early and go to my greatgrandparents' grave.. uhm and if i'm not mistaken, we're going to my grandparents' (my dad's parents) grave too.. humm... nite nite!! Oh, Happy "Hari Nyepi" for those who celebrates it.. and Happy April Fools Day too!!! \(^o^)/ I got my bro fooled today!! Muhahahaha *evil laugh* ... gniteeeeee!!!

Over the Weekend

Nyukss!!

on Friday I went to the mall right after work to meet my "brothers" and "sister" :D hehe.. why I typed them in quotes? coz they'r not my real brothers n sister, they r all friends I used to spent time with while I was in Beijing and they r all older than me.. so I call them "koko" (older brothers) and "dajie" (big sister) or "cici" (older sisters).. it felt really good to spend time with them again.. share each other's life and laugh along with them again.. kinda miss those day when we got to spend every day together.. now everyone's so busy and even some of us live in different cities.. hhh.. barriers!! Oh, I bought a box of milk that nite, called Stefit (I think they got the name from 'Stay Fit'), contains vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C, D, E, Calium, Calcium, Zinc, Iron, and more.. and of course! No Aspartam!! It's kinda weird.. the one I bought was for age 19-40 years old, contains no Aspartam, while I was gonna buy one for my mom.. +40 years old one and it contains Aspartam.. what's the difference? maybe as people getting old, we need more sugar.. but not artificial sugar which ruins the brain..!!

Then Saturday.. I supposed to go to the Language Course center, but I overslept.. lazy me :P then in the evening I went to the gym with my Aunt.. was there for around 2 hours and then we left for the mall (the very same mall I went the day before).. had dinner there, bought some bread for tomorrow's breakfast, and then went home.. and as usual, I got sick for going out at nite.. allergic to night air? hehe..

Sunday! My Aunt got free tickets from her boss to watch The Disabled People's Arts Performance Troupe.. it was a fantastic, marvelous, amazing, totally cool show!!! especially the bodysattva by the hearing impaired.. My bro should be the one who watched it, not me.. so that he could see how people like him can also dance beautifully along with the music!! I should have brought camera with me.. stupid me.. I didnt know where we were going and I waited till we were in the car to ask my Aunt.. hhh.. I tried to take a picture using my cell.. but the resolution just not good enough and all it can catch just the glow of their clothes.. catchy yellowish gold.. :P I couldnt find the pictures from the internet too.. I guess I'd scan the brochure once I get home today.. the 7 visually impaired show was really cool too, one of them played piano, while the other 6 played different kinds of chinese traditional instruments.. soooooooooooo greeeaaaaaaatttt!!!! pictures comiiinngg...

Anyway.. this morning I got up late (again!).. it rained since nite and 6AM was still dark and dark made me sleepy.. then I got tummy ache just before I headed to my car hehe.. :P and as usual, the rain causes traffic jam.. it took me 1 1/2 hours this morning to get to the office and without a doubt, I was late for 1/2 hour.. *sigh* ... buuuuuuut.. my computer got a new memory now (512 MB).. the technical manager installed it while I was still stuck among cars.. hehehe :D it's faster again! :D

Healthy Chili

Do u know that eating chillies makes u healthy? I just read in a mag yesterday about this.. sure I heard about chillies smooth ur skin, but I found out lots more yesterday!

Here, in Indonesia, most of our food contains chillies. Yup, we looooooooovvveeee spicy food hahaha.. :D scientists lately confirmed that chillies can make evil (disease) away from our body. In fact, chillies have vitamins in them, take paprikas, they r rich of vitamin C, while red chillies contain betakaroten and bioflavonoid. Here goes chillies:

!They Do Not Cause Tummy Ache!
Paul Bosland, PhD from The Chili Pepper Institute in New Mexico State University, USA, said that the antimicrobial capsaicin in chillies controls the growth of bad bacteries in our intestines (Uhm.. I think paprikas doesnt count here, since it is not spicy, it doesnt contain capsaicin..). The capsaicin also stimulates tissues inside our stomach, widens the blood vessels, and fixes blood flow too, to prevent us from irritation.
Chillies cures metabolism problem too (I go yay for that!!!). Food that goes in will be processed soon to give us energy, and that's good news for those who want to lose some weight. \(^o^)/ (another yay!!!) See, they do not cause tummy ache, 'cept if u eat too much of them! :P too much of something just brings u troubles..

!They Prevent Cancer!
Scientists in Pittsburgh Univ found that capsaicin makes cancer cells destroy themselves without affecting any healthy cells. Capsaicin is even believed could help in the process of cancer medication in the future.

!Chili-Making Slaves!
Chillies is very important when talking about Indonesian dishes. It is important in my home too, as what my cousin often says, "eating without chillies just aint eating!". They r very important that a long time ago, when Indonesia was still under the Dutch, there are slaves whose task was to make chili sauce. They work in the Dutch Lords house, who married an Indonesian. The tastier it is, the more expensive the slave's price.

!Why We Crave for Chillies!
Even though our lips feels like burnt, tears coming out of our eyes, then running nose and smelly sweat, or even swollen lips (that's me!) when we eat chillies, we just keep wanting them!! why??? Chillies are addictive, when capsaicin do the job (burning our mouth), our tongue tissues would send a hurt-signal to the brain. The brain, in order to protect the body, would produce endorphin, giving a feel of pleasure and comfy. The spicier the food is, the more endorphin would be produced, the happier u would be.

!A Friend for Our Heart!
Capsaicin, the one who makes chillies taste like chillies :P, has the ability to reduce cholesterol and blood pressure, which means, the risk of stroke and heart attack is also reduced. Capsaicin is also anticoagulant: prevents coagulation, stops blood from clotting. A research was conducted in Thailand, where they check people's blood after eating a bowl of Spicy Thai Noodle. Their blood circulation way much better for 30 minutes and that's what the scientists believe that eating spicy food makes tromboembolism is very rare in Thailand.

!Reliever!
Chillies have mucokinetic effect which clears slime (Indonesian: lendir) such as mucus. The spicy taste of chillies stimulate the tissues to produce liquid in mouth, throat, and lungs. This liquid helps to thined slime, so that it is easier to let it out. Sooooo... when u got flu, eat something spicy, even just temporary but ur nose would feel better.. hehe..

!Extinguish the Chili-Fire!
Now u dont have to worry about eating chillies for I got the recipe to handle the effect :D (of course from the mag!) U can drink either milk or yoghurt. This trick is said to be one of the most effective ways to cool ur tongue. In milk, or any dairy product, there is a substance called casein, which acts like a detergent that washes capsaicin from receptor nerve in our mouth, so that the spicy and hot taste would abate.

Translated from: Fit April 2006

Picky PC

Hellooooooooooo..!!

I'm posting using a new computer now.. hehe.. well, not exactly new, it was my senior's.. he got the brand new computer and I got his \(^o^)/ This is so much better than my previous one.. why??

My previous computer was under Pentium 3 processor, with 40G harddisk capacity and only 128 MB of RAM.. it was irritatingly slow!! especially since I'm using it for programming.. with those SQL Server, Visual Studio 2005, Java, etc. installed, I can only operate ONE application at a time, if it was VS.. especially when I was debugging the program.. ok ok so maybe not only one application.. I can run winamp too.. but then the song would go like this "I.. I.. kn.. kno..know..ow.." :P

So yesterday, my senior has cleaned this cpu (his ex) and reinstalled WinXP for me :D .. it had Pentium 4 processor, 60G harddisk capacity (changed it with 80G one) and 256 MB of RAM.. one of the managers said that the RAM still kinda slow for programming but I think I wont even feel it slow since I just moved from 128MB RAM hehe.. and so after that I moved the data from my previous one to this one.. And this morning I was set! At least that was what I thought.. Cos when I just connected the new cpu with my old monitor n keyboard n mouse.. suddenly it just didnt work!!

I was kinda panicked, thought I touched something inside and so it was broken.. huaaaaa... and then my other senior helped me.. and he found the problem!!! hahaha :D know what? turned out that this CPU was very picky!! it dun want my old keyboard, it demanded a new one, the pretty pretty one!! *sigh* when we plugged in the keyboard, it wont turn on.. and when we plugged it off, it would!! and so one of the managers gave me a new keyboard with matching mouse too \(^o^)/

Then another problem came up.. plugged but said unplugged LAN cable.. solved! .. creating new email identity in Outlook Express.. still not solved yet.. why? I forgot the mail server name \(^o^)/ .. it kept prompting me for username and password.. and I'm very sure that I typed them right.. so it must be the server name.. and the only senior who knows it didnt come to work today.. hehehe.. and it was the webmaster's mail!! huaaaa.. what if one the clients got probleeeeeemmm???!! OMG!!! I'm so messed up.. *sigh*

I cant start working today too on my project.. cos we dun have the SQL installation cd rite now in sight :P .. but I still gotta go.. havta install Visual Studio 2005 here.. it's 12.02 pm and I'm still not set! :( hungry...

American Idol

A few days back, my dad subscribed to Astro and we get 70+ channels from around the world for Rp.150.000,- a month.. that's around USD16.. kinda worth it, I'd say.. we didnt get HBO, CCTV4, etc. coz we have to pay extra fees for them.. it dun really matter since cartoon network, AXN, Star World, MTV, [V], E! are included in the package.. \(^o^)/ I can now watch Powerpuff Girls again!!!

2 days ago I just found out that Star World broadcasts American Idol over satellite.. so I dun have to wait till Saturday (on local TV --> RCTI) to watch it.. haha.. I dun usually watch American Idol, in fact, I wasnt interested at all in it.. but dunno why.. I've been watching this season's auditions and I just grew to like it.. I mean the contestants can really sing!! that goes for Indonesian Idol too.. but not for AFI (a singing competition too, but sappy one..)

So anyway.. as I watched thru it, when Kevin Covais sang, I figured out why I dun really like him hehe.. he kinda looks like Chicken Little.. and since I dun really like Chicken Little, there goes my conclusion :P Then I remembered that Simon once said that one of the ex-contestants, Gedeon McKinney, looks like Chip 'n Dale.. lol.. funny how people looks like cartoon characters.. I mean, funny in positive way :D .. then I remembered how my friend said I look like Snoopy's friend (edited: he just called me that again last night over the phone!).. *sigh* :P



urgh.. I'm having trouble putting picture here in Blogger.. I'll add some later..


edited on March 24, 2006
Last night this Kevin Covais left American Idol.. and I just found out that they've been calling him chicken little too.. hehe.. guess I was late :P a bit slow-minded maybe :D ..

Still talking about American Idol, I'm going for Chris, Katharine, and maybe Mandisa (she's getting better each day!).. Hope one of them wins.. or maybe the 3 of them hehe...



Okaaaaaaayyy.. I'm off to write a new post! :D