Recall of Memories

Winter Break 2012 // Week 3

2012-02-12T23:44:00.001+08:00

Monday, February 6th, 2012:

Finally I met up with my crazy SBC friends (well, except Tjoe and Didi, we assumed that they have their own "business" (re: date)), we went to Bogor for a culinary trip! Honestly this is my first time doing this! Glen picked me up because I had no driver to send me to EX, and we waited at EX for a while, then Angel picked us up and we went to PP first to meet up with Om James. After that we just waited for Tampi and Susan to come. They came to pick us up finally. Our first stop was at a resting place (?) on the middle of highway. We ate tahu gejrot.

Then we continued our trip to Surya Kencana or Gang Aut where there are a lot of food stalls, from kaki lima to shops. We shared our foods anyway, but still, in my opinion, we ate quite a lot. We ordered Ngo Hiang, Pangsit Pengantin and Soto Mie Ciseeng. We also bought Ngo Hiang for our family. Before going to the next destination, we bought Kue Ape. Kue Ape is also called Kue Tete so we joked about it. My friend said the types of Kue Tete are just like bra's measurement. from cup C, B, A, miniset and inner-tee loooollll it was too funny! Our next stop was a place where we can buy asinan Bogor.

Next, we bought batagor and stopped at Tampi's grandma's house for a while. We ate the batagor there. While thinking of our next stop and waiting for the rain to stop, we chatted and had fun! Then we continued our journey to Venus Roti Unyil. We bought some breads for our family. After that we just went back directly to PP because Om James parked his car there. They told me to try Famous Amos (yeah, I know, I'm the most suck Indonesian ever, my friends always tell me what to try in Indonesia, for example nasi padang [I ate this once, only], famous amos and others) so I bought some of the cookies. I've tried it and it was really good, indeed, but I don't know why, I'm not that addicted like what they've told me.

Next, we had dinner at kaki lima. We ate Nasi Gila and it was good, but I'm just afraid to eat kaki lima foods because I heard my friend's friend was infected Hepatitis A because she often eats kaki lima foods and she was unlucky so she was infected. Sighs. Well, nothing happened though. Hahaha. After having our dinner, we went to EX and looked around for a while until everyone went home. It was really a great day, I laughed a lot!

Tahu Gejrot

Ngo Hiang

Soto Mie Ciseeng

Pangsit Pengantin

Kue Ape

Hungry people

Batagor

Nasi Gila

Ayam Kuluyuk (?)

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012:

Say bye-bye to my braces! YEAH. FINALLY. My dentist took off my braces and I'm freakin' happy I could die. It feels weird though, because it feels really like I don't have teeth. I will miss you braces. Thank you for accompanying my teeth for 2 years and 7 months, I really appreciate your work. The dentist said that she didn't find any cavities while cleaning my teeth, so I really took care of my teeth while I was wearing the braces! Yayness :D But, this is not the end. I gotta wear retainer and gotta scan my teeth, the dentist said that my back teeth are going to be taken off for sure. Another pain. After going to dentist, I went to MKG for a while, I thought I wanna shop with my mom but she said there was nothing good left because the sale is so crazy! We also went to iBox and Infinite, I wanna buy iPhone 4S White, but it was all sold out. Sucks. Anyway, I just stayed at home today, I have no enough money left T_T

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012:

HOME.

Thursday, February 9th, 2012:

This day was supposed to be my lazy day, but suddenly my friend Novina called me for a meeting with Violetti because Violetti is going back to Chongqing the day after tomorrow and they haven't met up yet. I picked them up and we went to Prince House Waffle in Kelapa Gading. We just ate desserts and snacks and we really did gossip a lot. lol.

Very pretty, right?

Friday, February 10th, 2012:

My SHS reunion day! Yayness. 20ish were invited and only 12 could attend, sighs. A lot of people could come actually, however they're super busy with their university things and they also had a sudden important thing that had to be attended. I was quite upset though but I understand. We met up at Marche, Plaza Senayan and only 7 people were there. The rest? Thanks to Jakarta traffic, they were stuck. I was picked up by Arnold, Raissa and Sonya, we arrived there at 5 pm, Randy and Raditya were there. But, Cindy, Novina, Richard, Thomas and Jonathan were stuck. First, Cindy couldn't reach Richard in Emporium, he was on the way to the mall after attending classes, I didn't know what's wrong with the phone service, but they finally met at 5.30 pm I guess? Then suddenly Richard got an urgent matter, so he probably couldn't attend our reunion. He came though. Thomas also had a problem. After having his late lunch (maybe) with Jonathan, he got stomachache. It was aching and he was sent home, almost. He still came though. Jonathan was really lazy to drive because of the traffic, so all of them who went with Jojo couldn't come at first. But finally, they came, thank God, at 9 pm. We met up at FX because we wanted to karaoke, but there was no karaoke place in PS. We found out that in FX, the rooms were fully booked. So we didn't. We just sat and ate again in a cafe. They arrived at 9 pm and we only met up for an hour but it was worth it. I laughed a lot that day because they were too funny! We arranged another meeting next week, before I go back to Shanghai. It was really a hectic day. After the small reunion, I don't feel like going back to Shanghai because I had thoughts about uncool things in Shanghai. I will miss my friends definitely, and I'm afraid that I won't be back on summer holiday, so if I do so, I'll see you guys next year? :")

Our friends made us do this, ooh well.

My alay hair

Did you notice? I showed my pepsodent smile on the pics because I was too excited that my braces was taken off HA! Sorry.

Saturday, February 11th, 2012:

Cousins meeting FINALLY! I didn't attend the meeting because I've been busy on last weekends so I didn't get a chance to meet them. Unfortunately, my cousins didn't attend the meeting! Well some did, but the rest did not. I am freakin' happy today! My auntie got me a Marc Jacobs Daisy perfume which I am really in love with, and the coolest thing happened today was that I finally found iPhone 4s! *dancing*

Sunday, February 12th, 2012:

Went to church and had yum cha for my lunch. Then we went to ITC Mangga Dua for a while. I bought some necessities such as Sebamed. I didn't find any good clothes, only bought 1. After that we went to saloon, we attended a wedding party just now, it's been a long time since I did up-do hair. My cousins didn't come and I was really quiet like it wasn't me. I always stood close to my mom and the other aunties and grandmas. Sighs. Unfortunately, my cousins arrived late while I was going home. GREAT!

6 days left, yay or nay?

Starting tomorrow I'll be very busy since it's the last week of my holiday in Jakarta, I'm fully booked! B) hahaha :D Good night guys!

S.A.D (Single Awareness Day) - Joseph Vincent

2012-02-11T22:53:00.000+08:00

Just wanna share something interesting with you guys..

Yeap, it's Joseph Vincent with his newest song, S.A.D a.k.a Single Awareness Day. The lyric is very interesting and cool, it relates to Valentine's Day. I really like this part "There's always next year, just wait and see". Yeah, I kinda think that I don't need to hurry. HAHA. Enjoy!

LYRICS

VERSE 1
I feel that I should tell ya
A warning to prepare you
About this song, it's when love goes wrong, but I'll carry on

I gotta keep it real
Of how I really feel
About this day, I don't want it to stay, so please go away

PRE-CHORUS
When cupid aimed his arrow at me
He missed by a 100,000 feet

CHORUS
This ain't a song about love, it's the actually opposite I'm thinkin' of
I don't care about the cards, or candy hearts, oh no no no I'll tell you right from the start
Oh, reminds of how I don't have a date, the 14th of February gets in the way cause for me, It's Single Awareness Day

With all the red and pink
It's just so hard to think
Oh why should I care, about what I should wear, for nobody who's there

I need love,
I need you
I need some one to hold me too

I need love
It's so true
I need ya to say I love you

CHORUS

S.A.D No valentine for me
And Imma be alright if you could only see
That today's just a day and if it's meant to be
There's always next year, just wait and see

Chorus

Youtube link & lyric: click here.

Winter Break 2012 // Week 2

2012-02-05T22:14:00.003+08:00

Monday, January 30th, 2012:

I got the chance to meet up with 3 of my best friends since JHS, Gideon, Natalia and Rendy. We decided to meet suddenly, because Gideon seemed very busy, so when he said he's able to meet us, we directly said yes. Too bad Rendy still had to attend classes, therefore we the 3 of us (Gideon, Nath and I) went to UPH to meet him! My first impression of UPH was "this campus is HUGE!" man, seriously, the buildings are very modern and I felt very comfortable staying there for hours (7 hours to be exact). I also saw the rule that it's a non-smoking area. I think it's really a good way to prevent smokes. I heard that one person was smoking and he was expelled by the school, cool right? They're not only threatening but they're really doing it. The canteen is like mall's food court. Basketball court, soccer court and swimming pool are all HUGE. The environment is very friendly and I felt like I was somewhere else, maybe like the States? Hahaha. It looks like a small town. How cool! I feel like moving to this school.

I had a thought about taking pictures of UPH and complaining *again* to my school, saying that this is what's called campus, but I discouraged my motive. I also thought that if my school really expel smoking students, then our school will be very quiet. Ha ha ha.

Yeah, we chose the wrong day to meet up with Rendy because his Monday schedule was very hectic. I met quite a lot of my JHS & SHS friends there. We sat in the canteen and just waited for Rendy to come. We saw the students passing by and Gideon was very crazy, he felt smart that he guessed what major the students are taking. He analyzed it like this: If they bring heavy books, they're taking Accounting. If they bring iPad, they're taking Design. If they bring a laptop, they're taking IT blablabla. We also spotted some pretty girls and handsome boys lol.

We decided to watch a movie in the mall opposite the campus. We watched The Thing and believe me, that movie is disgusting. The story is really abstract. The sound is really loud. I watched the first 20 minutes and finally listened to my iPod and closed my eyes for the rest of the movie. I mean, YUCKKK the creatures are very creepy! I really hate movies with disgusting creatures, eww, I felt sick. Rendy finished with his class around 7 pm and we had dinner together at Serba Food. We had a good time chatting, it was fun. Then we went back to UPH for a while, taking a tour inside, hahaha and we finally went home.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012:

On this last day of January, I spent it with Ci Gaby and Ci Jovita in GI. It's like farewell for Ci Gaby because she's going to Germany on February 2nd. We had lunch at Waraku and the udon I ordered was very delicious! We window-shopped, well actually, I did, the sisters shopped. Hahaha. Well, it was just like that, really. I wish Ci Gaby all the best for her study and internship there, I'll see you soon Ci! No worries, you're going to stay there only for 6 months, time flies fast so do not worry! :'D

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012:

Hello, February. Time does fly fast (I believe I've written this for several times in my blog, pardon me). I just stayed at home today. I watched Flower Boy Ramyun Shop and finished watching it just now. Ergh, I love the movie and the boys, however the ending disappointed me. It wasn't a sad ending, but I expected too much lol. What happened to Korean dramas these days?! I mean the ending should WOW me, right? Whatever, I still love K-dramas.

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012:

Had a meeting with last year SBC friends yay :D Everyone was there except Mike and Indra. It was a short meeting but it was fun. I really did talk a lot and I felt bad because the others couldn't share their new life to us because of me T_T sorry guys I didn't mean to, you know I talk a lot :p Shera had another meeting so it ended in 2 hours I guess?

Mie Sakaw makes you go crazy ;)

Friday, February 3rd, 2012:

Met up with the girls from my senior high school at QQ Kopitiam (MKG). What I really love about the place is the bulbs above us! Too bad it was raining which caused traffic jam and our friends, Novina and Phoebe, couldn't come in the end. My friend, Ribka, is going to New Zealand in 3 days, hoping for the best for her study :)

Saturday, February 4th, 2012:

I went to Gessi's place today WOOHOO! :D We went to Pluit Junction just to watch Journey 2! Journey 2 was as awesome as the first one! Josh Hutcherson is still there and he's still handsome but I like little Josh more ;) Movies starring Dewayne Jones are always good, and there's also Vanessa Hudgens! Then we went to her house, just played there. After that, she had an idea to go to her jogging track which is the sea side! The little boys caught fish and other stuffs, like we did last time.. Too bad she was going to a cap gome dinner with her big family therefore I had to go home. It was a fun meeting, Gess, as always. Maybe if I have another chance to meet up with you again within this holiday, I will! I will miss you!

A bucket full of small fishes!

Great view

Sunday, February 5th, 2012:

We had a plan to go to ITC Mangdu today, however we didn't go there. We went to my cousin's house instead. It was really boring because my cousin wasn't at home, and the other cousins didn't join us! The foods were delicious!

Yeap, 2 weeks has passed and I have only 2 weeks left before going back to Shanghai, I'm excited and sad as well. Shanghai is the only getaway of my problems so I'm glad I'll be back there soon! I'll miss my family, cousins, friends and foods here though. No more appointments with friends for the next weekend, gotta have quality times with my family and cousins! Gonna update this blog on weekends! Good night!

CNY and The Start of Winter Break 2012

2012-01-29T22:49:00.000+08:00

Hey guys! How have you been!? I just got the time to blog. I know it's really late but it's better than nothing, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2012! WOOHOO. I was so lucky to spend my CNY with family and cousins, well like usual! :D It was a great meeting with them, too bad there are some of my cousins who didn't come to my grandpa's house. I'm sure it will be more fun with Oviene, Ci Cha, Ko Leo, Ci Xian's family and Ci Elly's family there :(

I got shocking sad news.

1. My auntie bought a house which is located far far away from our houses, because her workplace is quite far from the city so she decided to but another house and gonna move in very soon!

2. Ci Gaby's going to German on Feb 2nd to do an internship for 6-7 months!

When I was told those news, my mouth couldn't be closed. It was too shocking for me, and sad of course.

As usual, my aunties were very 'hebring', so I'll show you the pics..

This is the Wheel of Fortune! My uncle made this *how dilligent* and your angpao's value is based on your fortune! I got only Rp. 15k, that was the first time I played it, and the 2nd time it was "NEXT YEAR BETTER". T_T

Err this is the feminine... me? he he he :p

My hebring fam!

See how hebring they are?

On Wednesday, I went to GI with my lost best friend, Violetti Valentin! She wasn't lost actually, but I had to wait for a long time to meet her, because last summer holiday she didn't go home. She stayed in Chongqing. We watched Sherlock Holmes 2 and it was really really good. I love the comedy, the mystery, everything! Then we had this heart-to-heart talk we haven't had so far and I really miss it. Vio shared a lot of stories and her feelings (with a lot of anger and passion which made it very funny), I did too, we imagined how fun it would be if we were in the same school, but this is what we have to face.

On Thursday, we made a sudden meeting at MOI. I actually wanted to watch MI4 but I had no one accompanying me. I was going to watch alone, but just imagining it, it would be too sad for me. So I asked Vio if she had any plan that day, fortunately she didn't have any plan and anything to do. Then I picked her up and we went to Blitz. We watched MI4 and Alvin & The Chipmunks 3. MI4 was really good too! There were only 3 people (including us) in the cinema and Vio was screaming because she was afraid that Tom Cruise will fall from the tall building, yeah she screamed a lot and hold my hand very tightly lol she was really funny and I just laughed at her.

I didn't go out on Friday and Saturday. But I had dinner at Jun Njan Restaurant with some (well a lot) of Taiwanese guests who are spending their CNY holiday in Jakarta and Bali. I heard from Om James that there are a lot of Chinese people in Bali! He said: "just arrived at Bali and I feel like I'm back to China" lol.

On Sunday, I went to Summarecon Mall Serpong. We had lunch at Eastern Kopitiam and the foods were delicious. I thought of buying heels but no, I don't use heels a lot in Jakarta as well as in Shanghai, and the heels that I want was not discounted yet, so I'll just wait for the discount. Hahaha. After that, we went to Alam Sutera residential complex. Then we headed to Central Park. I got a blazer which is discounted for more than 50%! WOOHOO. The original price was Rp. 1 million and I bought it for Rp. 400k, I was freaking out! HAHAHA. Tjoe was also at Central Park and we met for only 5 mins. Tjoe asked me to take a picture with him, he said it like this: "Eeh Michelle, ngalay yuk! *took the picture in public*" lol how embarrassing. Well we did take the picture *poker face*. Time flies by and it was 5.30 pm, my brothers have to go to school tomorrow so does my cousin. So we went home :)

The thing that really bugs me is that I. CAN'T. DRIVE! Yeah I really can't. I freakin' want to learn how to drive and everyone has told me already to learn how to drive, BUT, there's only one problem, MY MOM DOES NOT LET ME :'( Well she has a reason for that, it's because for holiday I just stay in Jakarta for 1 month and then go back to Shanghai. If I learn how to drive now, I can't practice it in Shanghai and soon I will forget how to. Well, sad but true. At least lend me a private driver! :'( I really feel BAD, yes I really100x do for my friends who are very kind to me, picking me up and sending me home if I'm meeting them. I really thank you guys and I PROMISE, if I can drive later, I'll pick you up and send you home, seriously, I PROMISE. If you have ever picked and sent me, please tell me and I'll do the same to you later, please just tell me! T_T Huaaaa!

These are my activities in 1 week. It's going to be hectic for the upcoming week since I'm meeting a lot of my friends! :D I can't wait to meet them! I will update my blog every Sunday I guess? :) Good night!

Exams Are Over!

2012-01-20T15:17:00.001+08:00

How are you guys? Finally I finished my exams today! Everything went well and I'm hoping to get an A or A* for the exams, no B, no C, just A or A* *finger-crossed*

"No pain, no gain.." Well it's true! I really studied hard for the exams (even though there were lots of obstacles like TV and LAPTOP). We'll see!

Tomorrow, I'm going back to Tanah Air, so, I'll see you guys soon?

I'm too excited already.

Chocolate World Wonderland | 世界巧克力梦公园

2012-01-02T20:57:00.001+08:00

The pictures said it all :) Everything's made from chocolate!

I still have moooooooore than this on my Facebook albums, do check it out if you're curious :p

I'm still enjoying my last day of playing, tomorrow I gotta get my head in the exam, I gotta be serious on studying, I know the exam will be hard, I wanna do better, I wanna achieve greater results, I don't wanna waste my parents' money, I wanna make them proud. FIGHTING! Wish me luck guys!

2012

2012-01-01T20:45:00.003+08:00

Alright, am going to tell you how I spent my New Year Eve.

First, I went to church. There was an Indonesian mass with a lot of Indonesians so we went there before dinner. Too bad I didn't make a lot of friends because I was with my friends. I think it's better for me to go by myself if I wanna make new friends hihihi :p After that we decided to go to Pankoo for dinner, but we waited for a really long time, Fedo was about to faint already, so finally we ate at a Japanese restaurant. Then we separated because I wanted to go shopping and my other friends were going back to dormitory, getting ready for the party! I didn't join them. I bought a cardigan from Zara, it was on sale AHA. Then we decided to go back to dorm and met up with Tjoe. I didn't expect that we would celebrate our New Year Eve like this. We decided to eat desserts @ HoF, I heard their chocolate things are extremely good and yeah it is really yummy mamamiah. It was 12 am when I arrived at HoF. Around 00:30 am we decided to go back, Tjoe and Fedo wanted to eat mie tek2 in front of school, however when they saw Cha's Restaurant, everything was changed. They decided to eat at Cha's, I didn't eat, I was full and I'm afraid I'll gain more weight. These 2 guys are really amazing. We went home at 2 am.

Some pics I took yesterday!

Fedora's choice of chocolate cake, forgot the name but it is deliciousooo

Irish Bailey's Chocolate Drink


I picked this! Death by Chocolate Cake, yeah I'm so dead

2 orang cacingan :p

Mabok karena kekenyangan

Ini juga mabok


Happy New Year 2012 WOOHOO!

Just now, I had a little conversation with Oviene, I had tears in my eyes, I can't avoid it, I was too sad :'( Oviene, take care, I will see you very soon and I will miss you! :'( :'( :'(

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!

2012-01-01T00:00:00.000+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012! Sorry for my mistakes, I didn't mean to, hope everything goes well in 2012! 2012 will be as great as 2011! TEEHEE :D

New Year Eve 2011

2011-12-31T09:36:00.001+08:00

How am I going to spend my New Year Eve? Well..

I'm going to sleep over again in my friend's dormitory, then we will go to church for Indonesian Christmas mass, after that we will go to Xintiandi for countdown! I hope everything will be fun!

Talking about resolutions.. I want to be a better me in 2012. I wanna do my first internship (I think I'm not going back to Jakarta on Summer holiday), I want to achieve higher results - receive higher level of scholarships - shop crazily. Hihihi :p I wanna travel to KOREA, cities in China, etc. Thinking of making a list what we wanna do in 2012.

1. Desserts hunting in Shanghai WOOHOO!
2. CYCLING
3. Traveling around China
4. ...

Man I can't believe 2011 went so fast! This year has been very good. Memories and moments are cherished. Sighs. It's just sad..

Well, I'll end my post here, hope you guys have a fun new year eve! Goodbye!

Dear Oviene,

2011-12-31T09:23:00.001+08:00

You're going to Canada tomorrow night, yes? So, I would like to say some words for you..

Be a good girl once you arrive there. Control yourself and your spending. Always think of your parents who send you far away for higher education. They've spent quite a lot of money and they must have been very sad because you leave them.. Even your brother, Oniel, whom you find he's kind of annoying, I'm sure he will miss you, yes, WE will miss you, especially me.

It's been a long time since we had heart-to-heart talk, and when I arrive at Jakarta later, it will be so much different! We always do things together and you're gone now, I mean, I have to accompany Unyil alone! ;(

Sometimes I think why do we have to grow up and later we will be separated? But that's just how life works, that's the nature of life. We can't just avoid it.

It's hard out there, I know, 'cause I do feel like that too. Different friends, culture, homesick, etc.. But you just got to make things work. Make a lot of friends, learn the whole new world for you and you'll be okay.

Sorry if I haven't got time to Skype with you, school has been very busy.. I'm hoping to video-call with you, later sometime, and am hoping to see you very very soon.

Promise me you'll be a good girl and a good daughter.
Again, I will miss you definitely.

And this is the last day of the year, so happy new year viene, I'm really sorry for my mistakes, I didn't mean to.

Bye Oviene, have a safe flight, we will miss you ;(

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

2011-12-25T22:34:00.001+08:00

Hey! What is up? How did you guys celebrate your Christmas?! :D

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas! I thought this Christmas will be the worst since we still have to do frustrating-OB-assignment, but I was wrong, we still enjoy it! ;)

So on Dec 24th at night, we went to church for Christmas celebration. Before that, we looked for a place for dinner but everywhere was crowded so guess what? We ate at Lawson! (ps: Lawson is minimarket), whatever, at least we didn't eat there for Christmas dinner, it was just Christmas Eve dinner :p I met some new Indonesian friends in the church :)

After going to church, James, Angel and I decided to find a place where we can drink hot chocolate, we went to Xintiandi. It was really crowded and Go Diva was closed already, we had our hot chocolate at Starbucks finally. Then, they decided to go to club, just to see some of my friends there. When we arrived at the club, I saw 2 of my friends outside and decided to stay with them because I had to pay 100RMB for 5 drinks if I wanna go in, I don't wanna waste my 100RMB for nothing so yeap, I stayed outside. Then my friends started to get drunk, some of them were funny, some were annoying. I was kind of annoyed hahaha. But I know the reason why they went to club, because they were too frustrated thinking about OB and they needed some 'fresh air', I understand it anyway. It was really awkward, remember the first time I went clubbing with them? It happened again that night. It was like dejavu. We decided to go to McDonalds since everyone was hungry after clubbing, I was very sleepy, we arrived at dorm at 3 pm I guess? The thing that I hate the most when I slept very late is that I didn't get enough sleep and my head was dizzy.

I woke up at 9 am, I had only 5-hours-sleep. I took a shower and went to Starbucks to buy a Christmas gift to be exchanged with my friends. After that I went to a mall in Zhongshan Park and had lunch with Tampi, Tjoe, Susan and Wii in a Thai-Chinese restaurant.

For Christmas dinner, we went to Whisk. We really had fun and we exchanged gifts already. I chose the slipper from Tampi! Hahaha :D Well, actually, we already know what the gifts are! This is like my first time exchanging Christmas gifts and:

1. Everyone knows what the gifts are
2. Everyone wants their own gifts

lol. How weird. I want mine too but it's just not fair! Hahaha :D

Check out my Christmas outfit! Hahaha :D Next year I wanna go formal B)

This cake is... REALLY GOOD.

My name was drawn!

Slippers! That's from Tampi lol

Starbucks Tumblr from me! Chloe got it! She really got a lot of green things hihihi :p

Slippers from Tampi!

After having our dinner, we went back home. While walking to the metro station, we sang Christmas songs, we didn't even care about the people around, we just sang and enjoyed Christmas! I also listened to Christmas songs the whole day :D My plan for today a.k.a studying or anything related to school was all failed. Hahahaha whatever. I can do it tomorrow.

This is the best Christmas I've had so far, I thought this will be the worst, however it's the other way around ;)

So what's your story?

Man, we need more holiday, tomorrow we're having one-day-off but we still have works to do, I'm going to school in the afternoon, I need to practice for the presentation held on Tuesday, wish me luck. Final exam is coming and I must start doing revision and stuffs. In less than a month, I'll be home :) I haven't planned anything for my New Year celebration though, I think my friends are going to club again and I don't wanna join them. Hihi.

Good night guys! Merry Christmas once again! Have a good one!

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T07:00:00.000+08:00

I WISH YOU ALL HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!

God bless us everyone!

The Greatest Time of Year

2011-12-24T15:39:00.000+08:00

HELLO GUYS HOW ARE YOUUU?! Man I miss blogging so much, it's so hard to find a free time these days, school has been very hectic, like super! Gee.

December has been fun! I've been to Nanjing Xi Lu for 6-7 times this month, the place is very comfy so my friends and I always wanna go there hihihihi.

There are some funny incidents happened.

1. James saw a Chinese old man spitting and sneezing at the same time. James intimidated him and it was really funny, my stomach hurt so bad that time and I felt like my feet were very weak because I laughed too crazily.

2. We were in Tampi's room and we just talked about things, Max was dancing near Tampi's study table and saw the books that they borrowed 2 weeks ago haven't been returned to the library, so he was really shocked like "DAMN! We haven't returned the books! James! Go go go! Take the books!" They were like "Shiiitttt", they took all the books and returned it fast, fortunately they didn't have to pay the fine for returning the book lately. Hihihi. I lol-ed.

3. We were queuing in the canteen and somebody near James coughed without closing his mouth and James was annoyed. We planned to coughed in front of him or whatever to annoy him back :p

Okay, so let's start with my usual weekends. 3 weeks ago I went to Nanjing Xi Lu, 2 times, on Thursday and Saturday. The Christmas decoration there is really really beautiful! On Saturday, I went there with the boys. We actually wanted to try the Korean restaurant there, but it was really crowded so we ate Subway! Yeah I've been addicted to Subway. Subway actually is really delicious and healthy too!

On Thursday, we had an international student party held by SBC. It was . . . . . -__-"

On Friday, I had a dinner with my Chinese friends, Summer and Crystal at Pankoo nyam nyam :D

Wednesday, Dec 14th, my school had its annual food festival! YAYNESS! FOODS :9 Shera also visited Shanghai! But only for 2/3 days ;(

On Friday, Dec 16th, our friend, Max, celebrated his birthday! Congrats! Angel made a prank for him as a revenge. Because when Angel had her birthday, Max poured Coca Cola to her, it was really gross. Angel did something different. You know what? She printed 50 copies of Max's photos and there are words saying "Hello! My name is Kevin Maximillian! Do you know what today is? It's my birthday! So if you see me in the corridor, please congratulate me, DO NOT TAKE THIS PAPER OFF!" Something like that, and she put it in most of the corridors and even in front of the library and dormitory! How fun! We just laughed at Max and took pics :p Crazy much? Max invited us for dinner at Bali Bistro! We made a surprise for him! Yay! There was a funny incident. So we were talking about our childhood and Angel said something about 'Satria Baja Hitam' and James went blank. He doesn't know a lot of Indonesian words (bule Indo). His face was very priceless, very funny.

I went to the best hotpot restaurant with the best service ever in Shanghai!

On Sunday, we went to the Sichuan Restaurant again, well only Fedora, Tampi and I went there. Hehehe :) I found that their desserts are quite delicious!

Yesterday night, I went for another birthday dinner, it's my Korean friend's, Kim Yong Hwan! He invited us to a Korean town in Shanghai, yay I think I'll go there often! We ate the authentic Korean BBQ woohoo! Very nice and delicious! There is also a mall which sells Korean goods HA!

*CURCOL*: School has been hectic because of OB group assignment. You know, it's so hard to work with the Chinese (well not my group, my group's doing great!). My friends all have problems with the Chinese. This makes me really frustrated. It's just... hard. Our culture is too different. Here, in China, girls and boys really have a boundary between them. They sit separately and the boys mostly are too shy! I usually go home with James because he's going to the subway too. My Chinese friend asked us: "do you guys live together?" I was like WTH. When I walked with Max, his friend asked: "Your gf?" WTH?! Max said: "I think the Chinese think that you're a playgirl lol". A small movement can cause a big perception. The way they see things is just too different from us! Ergh. And about OB, it's really time-consuming. I've spent my time thinking and working on this, I feel really really tired and I need a break. The final exam is coming and I have to start doing revision. Moreover, there's an OB presentation in Tuesday. I wanna PLAY! ;( But whatever, I've tried my best and I always will! Good luck for me! I can't wait to go home!

I decided to spend my Christmas with my friends, I'm going to sleepover in their dormitory and go to church together. We're going to have a Christmas dinner tomorrow night. YAY!

Some extra photos:

Sunset

Morning view: 6 am

Never Grow Up

2011-12-05T20:46:00.000+08:00

Hey guys! How have you been? Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote something on this blog. It's December already, last month of the year! Gee time does fly fast. Alert: This post is going to be a VERY long post, VERY.

School has been hectic, you know.. I've finished my mid term exams, yay! I still got assignments though, I'm working on it.

A lot of things happened recently. Good and bad. There's a lot to tell but yet it's hard to. I just feel like an 'outsider' among my friends. I guess I have my own way to enjoy my life. My parents have sent me all the way here and spent a lot of money on my education. I don't want to disappoint them, I want to give back what they've given to me. This is the reason why I don't want to skip classes. Even though my friends influence me to skip classes very hardly, I keep being strong fortunately. I always think about my parents and my future first, before I do something bad (yeah I call skipping classes is bad habit). I need to stay strong, I know I can do this! Well, we're friends but it doesn't mean that I have to follow your perception. I'm young and I have to enjoy my life. Yes, I know that. But I wanna enjoy my life this way.

So let me just rewind what happened these days.

On November 24th, 2011, Our dearest friend, Victor Tampi, celebrated his 19th birthday. We made a little surprise in the morning, as in morning a.k.a 8 am! I woke up at 6 am and I was still very sleepy, but I had this thought when I was taking shower: "for the sake of Tampi's surprise, I'll wake up!" lol. Yes, I arrived very early, maybe like 7:30 am? Guess what? All of my friends were still asleep. Some of them were late. Blah~ nature of Indonesians lol. But we managed to surprise him, so I woke some people up, they haven't taken a shower, I said just go downstairs first, it'll only take a few minutes. We surprised him with our sleepy face lol. Our surprise was a little bit failed though, because we don't have the 'lighter' for the candles! lol.

The next day, James rode his bicycle to school, how fun! My Hongkong friends and I tried to ride his bike, it was really fun! I met a new friend called Yvonne, she's Taiwanese and she's in year 4 already. In the afternoon, my friends and I had lunch with Summer and Crystal at Sichuan Restaurant. The foods were very cheap and delicious. After that, we went back to school and rode James's bicycle, again! lol. We played around the school and it's time to go home.

My Hongkong friend, Milan!

Me - Chloe (Hongkong) - Yvonne (Taiwanese) - Milan - James

Me - Angel - Crystal - Summer

Special Sichuan food: Shui Zhu Yu. It's fish boiled in oil! Yes, it's not soup, it's oil! Yaiks.

Our baby sitter!

Last Friday, I had my MA exam, the exam was exactly the same as tutorial, so it was really worth it, it was easy and we all felt very happy! After the exam, we accompanied Tampi to Media Markt looking for cameras for his girlfriend. We also had dinner there and play games like billiard and others. We played Beer ping-pong game. It was really fun. Hahaha.

Last Saturday, I planned to go to a park where we can rent a bike. Back to nature haha! It's a healthy plan I guess. But too bad I canceled it. Because my friends went to club and got home at 5 am in the morning! I was afraid that they'll be very tired and I think it is better to cycle in the afternoon. They all woke up at 2-3 pm. Sighs. So yeah, I canceled the plan. I was very happy though, so I was kind of upset hearing the news. Hahaha. Whatever. I found something to do with Tjoe. Tjoe said he wanted to go shopping so I accompanied him. We went to Nanjing Xi Lu. I helped Tjoe choosing the clothes. Finally he got a sweater from GAP. I picked the sweater for him because it makes him look fatter! Tjoe really needs fat therefore he is very happy to stay in Shanghai. You know, Shanghai foods are all very oily. Yuck. Then, we went to Uniqlo, I found a good deal. Last week I want to buy a jacket with fur in it, so I can wear it to school, I don't need to wear something very thick. But last week, it was 249RMB, so I decided to think very carefully. Last Saturday, they got discount for only a few days, and the jacket was discounted to 169RMB! I bought it immediately. lol. I also bought a cute mittens. Hehehe I still like cute stuffs. More cute stuffs are coming up! We had desserts at Honeymoon Dessert. At night, we met up with Tampi and Claudia, we had Malatang as dinner. Then I went home.

Cute mittens!

On Sunday, I went to church as usual. Ooh I forgot to tell you, I met another new friend called Fedora. She's Indonesian and she's Tampi's friend. She's here because there's a course from her school (Monash College, Melbourne) that she can transfer to China to study Chinese for one month and a half. It must be really fun. You can travel to a lot of places to study languages, how interesting! She came to church with us. We had lunch near church and I accompanied Fedora to find some clothes for gym-ing. At first, Tjoe asked us to go to Nanjing Xi Lu again but I refused because we went there on Saturday right? But when Tjoe went home, we decided to go to Nanjing Xi Lu loooll because Nike and Uniqlo are there! Perfect place for Fedora to shop! I asked Tjoe if he wanna join but too bad he was washing his clothes, sorry Tjoe :p We went there only for a while, it is easy to find Fedora's things, then we went home.

Ooh, I just wanna show you what we do if we feel bored, these!

We did this in Microeconomics lessons, always! Hahahaa. And yeah, we've been calling James 'gay lord' lol! We never really grow up. I love being childish. I love being a kid. There's a time when you can be very childish, and there's a time when you have to be mature.

Ooh, my Thai friend, Wii, can speak Indonesian now! Crazy much? He chatted with me on Skype and he said: "gw tadi makan hotpot. hotpotnya enak" and "gw lagi makan es krim di tempat didi kerja, sini lu dateng, gw traktirin deh!" and today, I said to him if you eat in canteen from Monday to Thursday, then you can spend more on weekends. Guess what he answered? "Aaah, tinggal gesek kartu aja, apa susahnya. Kartu berbicara.." I was like "WTH?! Who taught you these words!?" He can even say "Anjing menggonggong, kafila berlalu" or "Brengsek! tadi gw ditipu di tempat es krim" blablabla he can really speak Indonesian now lol.

My 'angry' teacher said something disgusting to me earlier this day. I always look around at class for no reason, because I was bored! When he checked attendance, he called my name and said: "I know we like to look each other but if I give you new notes, you have to read it!" I was like: "He he he yeah sir.." YUCKKKKKKKKKKK my friends were all very happy, they laughed out loud, it was so disgusting!

Okay, it seems like I really talk a lot on this post, now I'm going to work on my Microeconomics assignment. Good night guys!

Jackpots

2011-11-17T20:59:00.001+08:00

Okay guys, this is a not-so-important post, but I just want to let you know, that I got a jackpot.

So I had my Mandarin tutor just now, and I went back to my apartment. I saw the elevator is being fixed as it is broken, so I needed to climb the stair. The bad news is, my apartment is on 10th floor. So there you go, I climbed the stairs. Tired? Of course. I was thankful though, I did a little exercise. Should I climb stairs starting tomorrow? To help me losing weights? Yes I think I should.

Gonna have my mid term test for Financial Accounting tomorrow, wish me luck.
Assignments are going to be collected soon. I even searched some libraries outside my school on the net. I'm becoming a geek now. Alright, I'm going to study FA now, night guys!

*UPDATES*

Friday, Nov 18th, 2011:
I got another jackpot. So I was having my Management Accounting class, you remember my 'always-angry' teacher? Yeap. I'm going to talk something about an incident between me and him. He asked us whether we have done the Production Budget example or not, I confidently said NO! whereas I didn't remember if we have done it, the class was very silent that time, and I said NO! He said: "WHO SAID NO?!" I was like "?! Max, we haven't done it, have we?" Max: "we have, Chelle.." Me: "Oooh sshhh.." lololol I was very brave, I will cherish this moment man, kapan lagi bisa ngebentak itu guru?! :D

I forgot to tell you, another incident. So he was checking our absence, when he called my name, I answered yes. He said to me: "Michelle, you didn't come to the last class, yes?" Me: "No sir, I haven't skipped any of your classes! *quite angry*" Him: "You sure? *smile pervertly*" Me: "Yes sir!" Him: "Oooh maybe it was *another student's name*, sorry I saw it wrong" Me: ergh. My body became very HOT that time, I was really shocked and angry, because I have never ever skipped any classes before! My absence is white! I always attend the classes. Sighs.

I had the FA test this afternoon. It went quite well, but I guess I won't get a 100, 'cause I was a little bit careless, I counted something wrong, well, I'm hoping for A* actually, even though I made some little mistakes *finger crossed*

Tomorrow I'm going to Shanghai Library, yay! Finally. My friends and I decided to go there so that we can finish our Organisational Behaviour assignment. Wish me luck! School is getting busier man.. Sighs.

Nightlife

2011-11-12T21:34:00.001+08:00

You should've known what I will be talking about in this post, yeap! It's about last night.

Okay, so after I had my Chinese tuition, I went to my friend's dormitory. We all met up there. Some of them went to a birthday party first (which was held at a club too), and some of us just stayed in the dormitory including me. I've tasted Vodka, Midori and Cointreau. My friend helped me mixing the drinks with Coca Cola and Sprite. I drank 1 glass of mixed Sprite and Vodka (if I'm not mistaken), I just sipped the rest. The taste was nice, I guess? I don't like it but I don't hate it. And guess what? My face was super duper red (like a crab being steamed) in half an hour. Alright. I'm not good at drinking. I was still conscious though. Unexpectedly my friends that were going to party went back to the dormitory. They thought there's no entry fee but there is actually. The fee was quite expensive maybe? So they decided to just spend the day with us.

They started to drink and my evil friend gave 2 of my friends (both 16 y.o) pure Vodka. How great. They said the taste was good though, and they got 'high'. They started laughing crazily and talking non-sense, I was really afraid but it was also fun seeing them like that haha. We looked for taxis outside for quite a long time because it was midnight. Finally, we arrived at the club. There are freakin' lots of people there omg. At first, I don't really like the place, it was so crowded, it was so loud in there and the lights were blinking so crazily! We went upstairs and had one shot of Tequila, yaiks, I don't like this one. I could taste the alcohol very well, it was too strong. Then we started dancing like crazy people, jumping, shouting etc omg I can't even imagine I did that. My friends were all very funny and some of them were 'high', it makes them even funnier lolol. The 2 young girls danced enthusiastically, I laughed so hard. There was a problem where we were separated, and therefore we couldn't find each other because the place, again, was too crowded and it was dark. I couldn't handle the lights anymore, so did Wii, he asked me to just go out of the place. Later, we found out that one of our friends knocked out. Then we decided to go back to dormitory.

I took care of the other young girl who was still conscious but still a bit 'high'. We were looking for a taxi and she laughed and pointed at the taxi driver, gee, I was afraid that something might happen to her. She asked us to go to Starbucks first because she was very thirsty and felt like drinking Green Tea Latte. We stopped at Starbucks near our dormitory but too bad it was closed already. It was 2.30 am. She was very upset lol. She said she was also hungry so we went to McDonald's. I helped her to order foods. She said she couldn't even realize that she danced with the DJ lololol. We arrived at dormitory at 4 am, finally.

I admit it, that it was really fun there. But I get bored so easily and my friend said I drank not quite a lot so I didn't really enjoy it. Well, who wants to get drunk? I MUST control myself. It was fun but when I see my friends go wild, I was a bit concerned about them. I thank my guy friends who took care of the girls very well, yeah they really did. Ooh and also, thank you for providing me a bed until you have to sleep somewhere else, I'm really sorry I troubled you. So that's what's called nightlife. There's one positive thing about clubbing, is that you can actually burn fat. I sweated a lot that night, the place was too hot inside lol. Lesson learned. Ooh, one more, thank you for making me a new record of my sleeping time, 4 am dude.

Ooh, I stopped playing Tumblr and Looklet. Well, I got bored with Looklet, FINALLY, I miss Tumblr so much but I played Tumblr very crazily, it is wasting my time, so I tried to stop playing it, since the 2nd year is tougher. My assigments have been assigned, I'm going to have my mid term test starting next week, aaaahh I'm so not ready, wish me luck.

11/11/11

2011-11-11T18:12:00.001+08:00

Hello people! How are you doin'? :)

Today, 11/11/11 (cool date), in China, we celebrate Single Day, so Happy Single Day peeps! :( LOL. Okay.

And.. The new 7 wonders will be announced today if I'm not mistaken, I'm very curious! I've already voted, have you? ;) There's still less than an hour to vote, so hurry up!

Hmm, I watched videos of Gabriel Iglesias, he's a comedian, his jokes are awesome and epic! Gosh I laughed so hardly. But he's also very wise. There's one section where he talked about life.

He said: "Why do people measure life by years instead of how good the years were?"

"That's why I have a big amount of respect for the crocodile hunter, rest in peace, come on you guys, yeah, he died at 44 years old, BUT, he died doing what he loves to do"

Ooh, I'm gonna spend the rest of the day with my friends, we're going to have some "fun" lol you know what I mean, don't you? :p They're going to teach me about alcohol and stuffs, they said it like that. I'm a little afraid because they all have invisible evil horn, well, we'll see. They're so excited that I'm joining in, they wanna see me get drunk ha ha ha. They persuaded me very well. They even mentioned about enjoying your life while you can etc etc lol whatever. I'm going to have Mandarin tuition first, then I'll go to their dormitory. I'll sleep over there because it's impossible for me to go back to my apartment. Well, call this celebrating Single Day, alright? Okay I'm off now, bye! Have a good weekend! Wish me luck lol.

Birthdays

2011-11-06T19:33:00.002+08:00

Hello people! How are you?! Man, I miss you, my blog. I'm going to tell you what did I do last weekend and this weekend.

So let's start with last weekend. Claudia's birthday was on Oct 30th, happy birthday Claudia! She invited us to have dinner at a Greek restaurant and we made a little surprise for her.

My foreign friends: Adil (Kazakhstan), Tugrul (Turkish), Oui (Read: Wii, Thai)

Claudia, the birthday girl ;)

For this weekend, the other person who had birthday is Angel. Her birthday was on Nov 3th. We also made a surprise, but a bad one, lol, we had a great time pouring Angel with cream and Coca Cola, yuck. Well that's not me, I don't wanna get into trouble, I'm the one who always make a documentary, we gotta cherist every moment we spend together, right? ;) My friend, Max, even told the angry teacher to put some pressure on Angel because it was her birthday. So we did an agreement. He really asked Angel questions over and over again, too bad Angel could answer the questions so she didn't really feel angry about being asked. Angel's classmate, Victor, who is also our friend, recorded the event when Angel was being asked, it was very funny, especially the teacher.

"Angel, what did we do last week?"
*Angel answered something*
"No, it's wrong. Tell me more specific answer!"
"Overhead cost"
"Good! What is the other name for overhead cost?"
"Indirect cost"
"Excellent!"

LOL! It was not a success but whatever, the surprise was superb! It was really funny.

Max and Angel

Coca Cola! Cool shot!

Angel took a revenge lol this is extremely funny

SUCCESS!

On Friday, we went to Element Fresh, had dinner with Angel and friends.

On Saturday, my friends went to my house. Basrie came along, Basrie, the one who always bullied me last year, came to Shanghai. He's having a mid term holiday. I invited him to join us. He texted me.

"Michelle, do you know where's IKEA in Shanghai?"
"Is this Basrie? There are two IKEAs in Shanghai blablabla.. Hey, my friends and I are going to cook at my house, join us!"
"No, this is Edo. I'm having my 2 weeks holiday, so I came to Shanghai with my parents" (Edo is also a friend of mine who is studying in Melbourne!)
"OMG?! EDO?!!? WOOOWW You really came to Shanghai. Yeah join us!"
"But I bring 4 friends of mine, is it okay?"
"Yeah it's okay blablabla.."
"OMG Michelle, this is Basrie.."
WTH?!

Yeah I didn't realise that he mistyped 'parents' and 'friends', I read the message too fast. Duh! Basrie always lies to me. Shh. I was also stupid, I believe people so easily, but only Basrie can really cheat on me like that, I really have no idea. Anyway, we cooked unhealthy foods because it was really an emergency. I thought we were going to cook Thai foods because my Thai friend is craving for them, but the ingredients are hard to find so yeah, we just ate something unhealthy.

Then I went to a ticket office, I bought a plane ticket already, yes, I'm going back to Jakarta next year on late January. Hope to see you soon! The process was LAME. Well whatever I don't wanna remember it, it was too annoying. Anyway I got the ticket. Hmm, what else? Ooh, I've been very stressed about school, I got a scholarship, not a very big one, it's only a small amount of money, but it motivates me to study harder or even get another scholarship next year, a bigger one, hopefully! I need to study harder. I've been lazy these days sighs. The mid term exams are coming and assignments have been assigned. Man.. Life's hard. And... some Chinese people are bugging me, I just don't understand them. Whatever. I'll end my post here, bye guys! Wish me luck! I wish you luck :D Okay, here's a bonus (closing picture)!

I want Derien's T-shirt

Gambaru!

2011-10-27T19:36:00.003+08:00

October 13th 5:30 pm, a car accident occurred in Foshan, south of China. A Car hit a 2-year-old little girl and then fled. No passersby reached out to help and then another car ran over her. A total of 18 people passed by but no body extended a hand or called the police, up until the 19th person, a the trash collector came to rescue her, but 7 minutes had already passed since she was hit by the first van. The trash collector moved the girl to the side of the street and called for help, and the girl’s mother came to the rescue. immediately rushed over and rushed her to the hospital.

The girl, named online as Yueyue, is in a coma in hospital and she had been declared ‘brain dead’ and could die at any time. Yueyue’s father Wang said:”Yueyue is so lovely. If I quarrelled with her mother and if her mother cried, she would tell us not to cry, she always tried to amuse us” , “I just hope my child will wake up and call me Dad again.” Both drivers who ran her over have been arrested, but internet users have flooded microblogs over the apathy of the people who left her to die. On China’s microblog service Sina Weibo, one user called the incident ‘the shame of the Chinese people’.

The incident is the latest case that has prompted debate as to whether people in today’sChinaare too cold-blooded to help, or whether it is advisable to stay away from an accident to avoid being accused by the victim or incurring potential financial or other costs from getting involved.
The notorious Nanjing Peng Yu incident five years ago is still fresh in the minds of many. In 2006, Peng Yu, a young man who had just gotten off of a bus inNanjing, came to the aid a 65-year-old woman who had been knocked down by a fellow passenger. The woman eventually sued Peng, claiming he was the one who had knocked her down. (source)

October 21, the 2-year-old ran over Foshan girl Xiao Yue Yue died at 0:32 after ineffectual treatment in hospital.Perhaps angel should have lived in paradise, may be in that without-indifference world, she will be happier than right now. She has been to this world, let us remember her name, her name is Wang Yue. All the best. (source)

I'm out of words. RIP Yue Yue :'(

I talked about something serious earlier with my friends. I realize that talking about serious things is fun and challenging because we are forced to think maturely, cool! We talked about Indonesian politics and "Gambaru". I really received a lot of information, thanks to Tampi & Max ;) See? Knowing the current events is compulsory :)

Anyway, you can read about"Gambaru" here. Enjoy!

Saturday!

2011-10-22T22:08:00.001+08:00

Ooh, I forgot to tell you what did I do on last Saturday. Last Saturday well.. What did I do last Saturday? Ooh! Now I remember. Yeap. Last Saturday I went to Nanjing Lu, we actually wanted to have a taste of 'fried apple', yeaaahh BUT! The restaurant had no seats left. Poor us. So, we had our lunch at Ajisen Ramen sighs. After that we went back to school, we had some exercises such as basketball and soccer. Then we decided to have dinner at La Creperie, but again, it was Saturday and therefore the cafe was very crowded. All restaurants were crowded actually, but we found a not-so-crowded Japanese restaurant and decided to eat there since we were very hungry. I tried drinking Japanese soju, man I don't like the taste. I only drank like 1/8 of the small glass. Hahaha. I need to stay in the safe zone. Tsk. Even though I drank a little bit, but I did feel dizzy. I'm not the type of person that 'drinks' a lot :) I'm a good girl! Hahaha. My friends went to their dormitory and I went home.

On Sunday, like usual, we went to church and had lunch, just like that.

These foods were taken when we were having lunch after church. The designs are very cool

Cute right? I made this bread on last Thursday, Patty taught me to make this and I'm so addicted! Haha! You guys should try it too!

Yesterday (Friday), I had my lunch with Summer and Kyle. We had a good time and the restaurant's service was amazing! It was a hotpot restaurant by the way. The service was perfect. I have never been to a restaurant with service like that, uber cool!

I just arrived home a while ago. Again, it's Saturday, gotta spend the day with friends, right? ;) Hmm, my Thai friend craved for Thai foods, so we took him to Simply Thai at Xintiandi. After having our lunch, we went to dormitory fooling around there. I met a new foreign friend, Turkish to be exact. He brought us to a Turkish restaurant for a dinner. The foods were quite delicious. I went home after that.

I think I need to gain more foreign friends, gonna ask my friend to introduce me new friends! I need to socialize, it is important now to make connections, right? I want to play with other friends, not only the friends in the picture, but also the others. I want to blend with other friends, even the Indonesian one. I also think that I must pay attention to current events, like what's happening to our economy, politics, etc etc, I really need to because I'm not a kid anymore, I should know more information about these serious stuffs and play less. Everything is settled now and I'm happy. I'm getting used to this, coming home in the evening, having Chinese lessons on weekends morning, reviewing lessons every night, etc etc.

Ooh! You know what? That teacher I've told you before, he suddenly changed! I think it's because my friends and I wrote about him on a survey conducted by my school for international students, and we wrote that we don't like his teaching style blablabla~ and they really told him! Hihihihi :D But I feel sad about it though, my friends assumed that the school team warned the teacher rudely. It felt very weird when he did not shout and he was not angry! HAHAHAHA we were satisfied, hopefully this will last a long time!Okay guys, I'll update my blog if I have time! Good night! Have a great weekend!

Positive Changes

2011-10-20T20:49:00.002+08:00

Now I'm going to talk about myself. I've changed. It's hard to believe, but I STUDY almost every night, unconsciously. HOW COOL THIS IS! I'm afraid that I will do bad on Year 2. This is a positive change though. I also go to the library every day when I have free times between the classes. I read books, look for additional materials on the net, anything to help myself to understand the lessons (and use the wifi too to access Twitter and Foursquare :p). Throughout the history of my life, I've never been like this before. I feel like a nerd but this is daebak! :D I like the new habit of mine. SERIOUSLY UNBELIEVABLE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ooh I think I need to learn how to speak 'Ke' so that I can tease the Chinese students MWAHAHAHAHAHA! *evil*

Today is an exception. I didn't study instead I write something on my blog. I don't feel like studying. I need some rest.

Obstacles

2011-10-19T18:34:00.001+08:00

Yeap. Another thing that I have to share with you guys. This is about my Chinese classmates. I was very upset the other day.

The story starts when we were having Organisational Behaviour tutorial class. We were told to do a work on a team which contains people who sit on the same desk with you. My team has 4 people including me, 2 of them are my Chinese friends, so it was easy to talk with them, but there was this boy, who has not talked to me since the beginning, and I try to discuss things with him, I asked: "Do you have any other opinion?", you know what he did? He just passed his paper to me without saying any single word, and he took mine without asking for permission. WHAT THE HELL. Dude, I need you to talk, not to pass your paper and ask me just to look at it.

You guys, seriously, I must say that you guys are SMART, really SMART, but if you don't want to speak English with the other students, it is such a waste. Because you're effin' smart!? DUH?! You can't even communicate with me, well, you speak English with the teachers but not students, how annoying. You slows down OUR learning progress and I'm just sick of this.

Next, I'm still talking about Chinese students, this time, about the dormitory. There are some rich Chinese students who are living in the international dormitory. Well, our school's dormitory is not as good as others, they only have 2 washing machines and therefore it forces them to take a roll to wash their clothes. One of my Indonesian friends who just finished washing her clothes saw her clothes was put on the floor, AFTER BEING WASHED, it was the Chinese who put down her clothes. I'm not living in dormitory, but WHERE IS YOUR RESPECT DUDE?! Even though my friend has not taken her clothes yet, could you just WAIT? A lot of Chinese students who have no respect towards other people and it really bugs me. They had gone too far.

Sighs.. Okay, this is the end of my post.

The Beginning of The 2nd Year

2011-10-12T19:17:00.001+08:00

Guys, I've been very gloomy. I guess this is the right time to tell you what I've been through. This is the climax.

As you guys all know, it's getting harder and harder every academic year. Year 2 is no joke. I got hectic schedule, harder assignments, etc. My class starts at 8.30 am, my latest class is finished at 5.30 pm. There are free times though, but still.. Assignments are going to be harder than the first year, it's worth higher marks. My house and my school is quite far, half an hour by subway. In the morning, I can hardly breathe in the subway, there are too many people since it's the rush hour. Actually, the problems are distance and transportation. If only I can use my driver to send me and pick me up, it will be better. Well, this situation is not really bad though, I'm fine with it, but sometimes I just feel very tired.

And also, my Chinese classmates seem to be very diligent. I have to "fight" for the front seat, you know what I mean? I must arrive at least 20 minutes before the class starts unless you want them to sabotage the front rows and you have to sit at the back. They even tag seats for their friends, how unfair and annoying. Even though almost all of my Chinese friends live on campus, but they still come very early and it kinda annoys me hahaha. I am intimidated. Further, there are some teachers that I don't like. There's this teacher who is always angry in EVERY class, he makes me nervous and scared, he wants everything to be done fast. When he asks questions, he wants us to answer quickly without even thinking. I assume that my classmates don't like him either. We feel nervous and scared. Even when he asks me questions, I go blank. I can't think. I can't answer. That's why I look very very stupid. I feel pressured. How much longer do you think I will stand this? I'm not the kind of person who skip classes if I don't like the teacher, I MUST attend classes to get the lesson, want it or not. Moreover, I don't wanna make a single "dirt" on my absence. I have never skipped any classes since the first year and I'm kinda proud of that HAHAHA -_-"

Alright, that's all I'm gonna say. It's been really hard for me, I'm doing my best and hopefully I can get through all of this, bless me o:)

Anyway, as I promised, I'm going to show you what I bought on the holiday. Prepare..

new earphone woot woot, my old earphone is dead. I bought this because, of course, the color is so cute and pretty, it's slightly different from the real one, camera effect. duh~

Cute right? This is Pull and Bear T-shirt, I love the paws prints and there's a cat too! I'm definitely buying this!

Rilakkuma slippers! I've been crazy about Rilakkuma, at first I hate Rilakkuma, but now? I'm in love :p

Yeap, another Rilakkuma item. This time, it's travel pillow :3

I bought this huge bag so that I can bring a lot of things to school, ooohh I bought winter boots and flats too.

I end my post here. Bye!

Just Like That

2011-10-07T22:02:00.001+08:00

Wednesday, Oct 5th, 2011

Went to Bali Bistro, met up with Angel's friend, Celine and Livia. Went around Huaihai Lu. There was nothing special about the day.

Thursday, Oct 6th, 2011

Went to Qipulu and bought 1 boots and 1 flats, gee, forgive me Mom, I bought a bunch of things these days.. Sighs.. Gotta control my spending. We also went to Taikang Lu. Yay finally! Found the music box that Ci Alvi suggested, also found the Teddy Bear cafe! Teehee.

Friday, Oct 7th, 2011

Happy birthday Violetti Valentin! All the best and I miss you so bad. I gave her a call, just a small convo. Friends came over today YEAH. Tampi and Angel came first, then the rest 13 came. WOW. 16 people at my house, how cool. We cooked Spaghetti Oglio Olio, Tampi cooked way better than I do, sighs. We also had salad and fried sausage and ham. Yummy yum yum :9 We watched movies together. It really spent a long time, 12 people went home first at 7, the rest (Angel, Tampi and Bos) helped me cleaning the apartment. I really thank you guys, really appreciate it. I don't know what my apartment will be if you guys didn't help me, because honestly, I'm just too lazy to clean the apartment HAHAHA. But we did it, didn't we? ;)

Our two professional chefs hahaha :D

We cooked 3 times because there were too many people, we even bought additional stuffs

I have class replacement for the weekend, ooh how great. The holiday went just like that. Too sad.

Hello, October

2011-10-04T15:24:00.002+08:00

Hey October. You've been nice to me since I'm having 1 week holiday. Shera came on Saturday and she brought her friends: Dion, Chiro, Patty, Abraham, Sheila, Jessica, Rachel, etc etc. I met a lot of new friends recently, yayness :D On Saturday we went to Nanjing Road and The Bund.


at Nanjing Road: (left-right) Sheila, Chiro, Abraham, Shera, Patty, Jessica and Me

at The Bund: (left-right): Abraham, Chiro, Me, Dion, Sheila, Patty, Jessica

On Sunday, I went to church first, after church-ing, I met up with them at Yu Yuan, it was really crowded that day, since everyone's having holiday and it's weekend dude. Hmm, I bought a t-shirt from Pull and Bear, it's very cute, I will show you later. I bought a lot of things this holiday, I'll show you in another post, hahaha :) After that we went to IFC Mall, we had our dinner there at Simply Thai. The foods were nice, of course. Hmm, then we headed to La Creperie.

Top 10 Desserts in Shanghai

at La Creperie

On Monday, we met up with Thenarto, our classmate, and the other Indonesian friends, we really brought a group of 20 Indonesians, I guess? We had our lunch at Pankoo, after that we took a walk around Huaihai Road shopping. We also went to Xintiandi, just took a rest while drinking coffees or whatever. At night, Shera and her friends went to my house, we ate dinner together, Patty cooked, the foods were delicious nyehehe :D

at Pankoo

Today they had to go to Suzhou to continue their trip, I sent them just now. It was a sad farewell, I didn't cry like usual though, I gotta control my emotion in front of new people hihihi :p

I really had fun for these 4 days, I met a lot of new people and became friends with them. We just met 3 days ago but it felt like I've known them a long time ago, they are really nice and fun! I should visit Ningbo if I have time. Hmm, safe trip to Suzhou, have fun and keep in touch. Gonna miss them? Definitely. I will see you guys very soon!

Farewell

I read my friends' Facebook status (Olivia Aten's) saying: "each person that you meet comes for a reason, there is no coincidences. God plans everything that suites us well"

Simple Plan - Summer Paradise

2011-10-04T14:48:00.000+08:00

Goodbye September

2011-09-30T19:45:00.000+08:00

Hey there! I'm going to have another holiday, yeap, China National Holiday for one week woot woot! Shera will come to Shanghai yay!

Today I spent the day with SBC new friends. We had our lunch together at Coconut Paradise. They are very funny! We shared stories, well, Angel opened my 'card', about me being bullied and cheated last year, and I think this year is going to be the same, because just after we shared stories, they really cheated on me. Sighs. This reminds me of my friends, who are now in other parts of the world. I'll never forget those moments we had together, when they lied to me, cheated on me, etc etc. There are some stories I still remember, until now..

1. I don't know why but they liked to hang their umbrella on my bag, because I think I'm senseless, I didn't feel that there was an umbrella hanging on my bag. And yeap, the new friends did this to me this afternoon, right after we had our lunch. How sad. Hahaha.

2. I also don't understand, if people joke around, they just laugh normally, but if I do, they laugh crazily and always spread my joke to other friends and they laugh very crazily. Hmm, why? I still remember some of my jokes: 'nasi haina' or 'empat' etc

3. This is the most embarassing one. When we went to Indonesian restaurant to have our lunch and also registered as Indonesian who is studying at Shanghai, they stick a sticker, a plane sticker, on my hoodie! and I was wearing that hoodie for a long time, maybe 1 hour? And I just realized it when I put my hands on my head and I was like 'what is this?' they all laughed. Adeline said "Sorry Michelle, this is just too funny.." So I guess the other Indonesian people who were in the restaurant also looked at this. Sighs.

4. This is also a funny one. They cheated on me. Shera said that she bought shirts on Taobao, I asked how many, and Edo said 4. I was like wow you bought 4 shirts, what for? Shera: "ya buat dipake lah.." I believed it and the next day, I asked Shera if the shirts were already sent, she said yes, and I asked "4 of them?", nope, just 1. Actually I bought just 1 and I wanted to say 1, but Edo had the evil plan, so I just shut my mouth up.

Man, really, there are too many of them. If I can collect all of them, I'll write a book. Really.

I think my new friends will do the same to me, so here we go again..

Anyway, goodbye September, again, the time flies fast, and hello October.

Morning Post

2011-09-29T07:41:00.003+08:00

Hey! My class starts at 9.30 am so I'm still here, in front of my laptop, in my apartment, haha.

Hmm, School started yesterday, the class was bigger than last year's, I mean there are 100 students in my class, gee. I'm a little nervous since the Chinese are very smart, sighs. But I think I saw some students who repeat the 2nd year. Hmm..

Anyway, I met Mr. Mackay 2 days ago! He said he was going to resign and therefore I was very shocked seeing him, and here comes the words.. "MR. MACKAY YOU'RE STILL HERE?!?!?!" Him: "Yeah, unfortunately.." His friends laughed and one of them said "Yeah, he's still here, we cannot let him go.." or something like that. Hahaha. Yesterday I met 2 of my year 1 teachers. Maaannn I miss my old teachers.

I try not to care anymore because I cared too much, and I shouldn't have expected that much.
I'm having hard times..

September 27th, 2011

2011-09-27T09:55:00.002+08:00

I am so bored. I really don't know what to do. I can open neither my Tumblr nor my Twitter. Sighs.

I met up with Gideon and SW on Sunday. There was nothing really special about it, just a small reunion I guess.

So let's just rewind what happened yesterday. Hmmm, I met the Indonesian students, yes there are a lot of them. It seems like I don't remember all of their names, maybe just 4-5 people, hahaha :D Almost all of them are my juniors (16 years old), so I'm a sunbae here hahaha. Hmmm, the registeration was hectic. I met all of my classmates too.

I miss my last year's friends though (re: Shera, Adeline, Edo, Basrie and Thenarto). I feel like this year's Indonesian students are "grouped", you know what I mean? It's probably because there are too many of them. It's so hard to gather all of them, right?

Anyway, Angel and I were walking down the street and we heard there was a grandpa farting in public loudly, gee that was gross. At noon, we went to Fuzhou Lu to buy stationery, then we also heard a woman farting loudly, crazy much?

September 26th: WE-WERE-FARTED DAY

Angel and I laughed very crazily. Tsk.

September 24th, 2011

2011-09-24T21:47:00.000+08:00

Hello :) Today my friends got back to Shanghai, yay! There are 22 people came along, wow, that's quite a large number, isn't it? Well I guess this year isn't going to be good, why? Because *beep* (only Angel, Mike and I know about the new guys) *evil laugh* NOOOO this is no good for me! :'(

Hmm, today, Angel and Mike came to my apartment to pick up their belongings they've put in my apartment, they were very tired and I asked them to have lunch first, then we went to the supermarket, they bought quite a lot of things, after that they went home.

Kung went back to Jakarta though, see? My endless loneliness. Sighs.

Anyway, Oviene is celebrating her sweet17 birthday right now while I'm writing this post, I asked her to bring her laptop so that I can use Skype to see my cousins. I was kinda upset because the battery was low so we cannot use the laptop, the good thing is, my mom used her Skype to video-chat with me :) I saw all my cousins and I feel very happy! Of course I cried, you know, I'm the kind of person that cries a lot, I really miss them. It's just weird how things change, how life goes on, I'm now far away from them.. Well, they say that it's not fun there without me, that gives me a happy feeling, since I'm very close to almost all of my cousins. I really envy them, they gather and have fun while I'm here alone watching VMA and I got excited all by myself. It's not fun at all. I pity myself. Ish. Too bad I didn't say goodbye to them, they were all busy at the party, hehe :) I was just going to sleep. By the way, I really miss you guys, I will see you on January, of course we'll meet on Chinese New Year, I'm really looking forward to it, I MISS YOU GUYS WOOH! :'(

I'm very grateful for these people that take care of me very well while Kung's away. A Yi Jiang Li, my driver, my maid, Jiu Jiu Alan, everyone, really, thank you for being there for me, thank you for helping me, thanks a lot, thank You God :')

PIXAR Exhibition

2011-09-21T13:25:00.002+08:00

Yesterday I met up with Summer, she finally got back to Shanghai hehehe :) It was her birthday, happy birthday Summer! ;) She brought a gift for me too, LOOK!

an over-sized eye + very small body frog prince

and a keychain! :D

VERY CUTE RIGHT?!

In the afternoon, we went to PANKOO having our lunch. Man I love Korean BBQ. We ate like there's no tomorrow. After that we went to Museum of Contemporary Arts, there's a PIXAR Exhibition there. I went here before but that time it was closed! I even brought my family&cousins but I didn't know it was closed so we were all disappointed. This time, it was opened! Hehehe :) Everything there was great. It has the history of PIXAR, the making of its movies (Toy Story, Cars, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, UP, Ratatouille, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., etc), the scluptures of characters, etc etc. BUT, the only thing that really annoyed me was: WE ARE PROHIBITED TAKE PICTURES EXCEPT WITH THE CHARACTERS' STATUE! Ugh. Such a waste! and I thought there are a lot of statues, but guess what? There are only 2 characters from Monsters, Inc. -______-

Then we went to People's Park to take a look, there were a lot of pigeons aaahh how nice. Summer had to go home earlier because she was going to her grandparents' house and it's far from the center of the city, so we went home earlier. Good times :) My friends are going back to Shanghai and I can't wait to shop with them and start the new academic year! Yay!

A Year

2011-09-18T10:01:00.001+08:00

Quick post! Sept 18th: A year has passed, I've spent a year living in Shanghai. Everything stays the same as before (re: my never-ending loneliness), yeaahh, grandpa's leaving for Beijing and I'm here all alone. All "lonely" songs have been playing in my head, even the 'dangdut' one, you know "masak masak sendiri.. blablabla" I don't remember the lyrics.

"Baby I'm so lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely~" - 2NE1
"All by myself~"

September 10th, 2011

2011-09-10T21:37:00.001+08:00

Hello peeps! I wanna tell you some incidents happened these days..

Kung2 shared his feelings to me. He keeps insisting me to live in school's dormitory but I don't want to. He said he's very happy to have me living in the apartment with him so that I can help him in many ways, but sometimes he just thinks of me, what will I do when he's going somewhere else, like going back to Jakarta or outside the country, etc? He's very worried about me. Aaaww I was really touched and I guess I don't actually help him a lot, all I have done is just small things. I always play the laptop since Kung2 always watches the news on TV. I guess I don't really help him a lot. What kind of grandchild am I? Kung2, I am very sorry to burden you, I will try my best to help you and don't worry about me, I can take care of myself really, if I can't cook I'll just buy the foods. I'm not afraid living alone, well a bit, but you just don't have to worry about me..

I'm in love with Something Borrowed. I downloaded it and watched only the ETHAN part. I'm in love with Ethan. I think he's the best man ever. I really like these Ethan's lines:

"Exactly, Rachel, he's not even married yet, which means he can change his situations anytime he wants, but he hasn't, has he?"

"Rachel, when did you become one of these women that just waits? And is still waiting"

"Maybe you're right. But at least I try. At least I take chances"

"Hey, you wanna give me a killer going-away present?" "What?" "Tell your boyfriend to make a decision"

"I hate the fact that you yield to her at every turn"

"Rachel, okay, look I get it. You're in a tough spot because you love him. But you gotta do something about it Rachel. Because he's being a total coward and if he breaks your heart, I'm gonna take a swing at him. And I'm partly gonna let him beat me up." "I gotta go, I'm late!" "I know Rachel, that's the point. Be late, better yet, quit. At least it would be a decision. Rachel! You're all going to hell anyway, so you might as well do something for yourself. For once. Rachel, you deserve to be happy."

"Rachel, do something because this is really pathetic. But you know what? At the end of the day, you guys deserve each other, cause he's never gonna do anything. You're never gonna ask him to and let's be honest, you and I both know that even if you did, she will never let you have him." "You're an asshole!" "Yeah, maybe I am. But I'm the only asshole here who gives a shit about you!"

"R: I wanna be someone's first choice." "E: Yeah, you are." "No, I know what you're saying, I'm not his first choice." "Maybe you're someone's first choice" .... "E: What? You never wondered about me? I don't know how to say this.. Um.. God, Rachel, I like you. I've always liked you. And when another guy came in the picture, I liked you even more. You are home for me. Wow.. that's sounded crazy, heh, wow and that's probably what all this is, I mean, it's just probably just crazy, it's not, it's not love. Even though it kinda feels like it is. Don't worry, I, my love's not really the overwhelming kind. Jesus, when I'm in love, I, uh, drink rose and watch Remains of the Day, so... I don't know Rachel maybe it's just that I, maybe it's just that I miss you. But I think you fell in love with someone else, and I think you still are."

and there's this 'galau' feeling, I've been thinking about this lately, yeah my love life, it sucks, doesn't it? I always like someone who has a girlfriend already, or even they don't have one, he always likes my other friends, or they just don't like me back. Why does my love life very suck? It really does. I wanna try to have a relationship, I'm looking for the right one, but he's just not there.

and.. today is a happy day yaaayy :D I met up with Gideon, finally, he's here, he said he has been very busy but no, he just shopped a lot. Duh~ He brought his new friends, Edwin and Albert, Yaaayy new friends! They just graduated from university, fortunately they took Accounting and Finance, therefore I asked quite a lot about it. They said the Math is not too difficult, glad to hear that. Sigh. Oooh we ate lunch at Element Fresh, I treated them since I turned 18 last week, but they didn't want me to. T_T I insisted on treating them, we argued lol but they finally accepted it yaaayyy :D they wanted to buy me a present but I really don't need anything at the moment, my wardrobe is going to explode very soon. We played at the arcade, we had fun. We went to ToysRUs, they played every single thing there, remote-controlled cars, small piano, balls, fake swords, anything, I was just laughing there, they were too funny. My question is, what is their age actually? Today was really fun and yet tiring. My legs hurt so bad, but it's worth it. I'm looking forward to see you guys soon, and other new friends, man I need a lot of new friends. I didn't take pics, why? BECAUSE I FORGOT TO BRING MY CAMERA, how great :D T_T

After All This Time...

2011-09-05T19:54:00.017+08:00

Sorry guys for abandoning my blog for more than a week! You know, my fam and cousins were all here so I didn't have time for myself, when there was a chance to go online, I also couldn't blog, it takes a long time to blog right? They all went home, I'm missing them already, sigh.

Okay so I'm gonna start with my Around Shanghai Trip. Hangzhou - Suzhou - Wuxi

Saturday, August 27th, 2011: Going to Hangzhou from Shanghai. The first destination was Xihu Lake, bai shen jian (?), I've been here 3 times. For the first time I ate duck with sticky rice and it was deliciousooo. Then we went to Song Dynasty Park and one place that I've been 3 times also, I don't know what it's called, it's about the cakwe history. My mom's business partner is zhong guo ren and he's staying in Suzhou. Chinese people usually like to treat people so does he. The problem is, he was alone and there were 18 PEOPLE OF US. HE IS BANKRUPT FOR SURE. He didn't eat that much. We're sorry sir B)

Sunday, August 28th, 2011: Ou Yuan - Zhujiajiao - Guanqianjie - Restaurant. I went to the same places like my last visit to Suzhou with my friends, I reminisced everything :') At night, my sisters, brother and I went to Times Square by ourselves (without the tour).

Funny convo:

Us asking Marcell: De, kamu sukanya cowo/cewe?
Marcell: Ga tau ahh nanti aja kalo uda gede br pilih :o

Gee. I gotta protect my bro.

Monday, August 29th, 2011: Going to Wuxi! 3 Kingdoms City (reminded me of "someone", even when you only hear "3 KINGDOMS" duh~) - Lingshan ***** (5 stars, I'm in love with this place, especially the pavilion), ooh I love the souvenirs too :D how lovely and cute - pedestrian street

#thatawkwardmoment when you throw something you're going to eat to the bin accidentally, yeah that was me. I was helping my bros to make an instant noodle near the bin, when I was going to open the plastic, I accidentally throw it to the bin and my bro said "I'm not going to eat that noodle even if the plastic is still outside" but he ate it in the end -.-

Twisted tongue: it was me again, I supposed to say "De, emang you tidur doa?" but what came from my mouth was "De emang you doa tidur?" -.-

#thatawkwardmoment when your tour guide wears exactly the same clothes for 4 days along the tour. Yaiks.

pretty yes? Check out these funny elf shoes hihihi :D We must use this in order to keep the pavilion clean!

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011: We supposed to go to Changzhou's amusement park, Kong Long (?), but it was raining heavily so we went to Shanghai instead and took a tour in Shanghai. We visited Shanghai Aquarium. The jellyfishes are lovely. There is 155m tunnel woot woot. Then we went to Shanghai World Financial Centre, it is higher than Shanghai TV Tower :O The elevator speed is 6m/s WOOT WOOT. There are 100 floors I guess and it's 474m if I'm not mistaken. There were floors made by mirrors, my legs were trembling, there was also a cool toilet, you'll see the pic, after that we went to Chenghuangmiao.

found my Koko Landak here *hug*

cool?

my awkward and afraid pose

just like miniatures

Wednesday, August 31th, 2011: This day was doomed. Our plans didn't go well. We went to Pixar Exhibition but it was closed only THAT DAY, I wonder why, was it because Idul Fitri? But it doesn't make sense. Kung2 asked us to go to an American Festival in Shanghai Expo, we were suggested by his friends to go there and guess what? The place wasn't like what his friends told us. BOO. We had fun though.

Thursday, Sept 1st, 2011: Welcoming September! :D I went to Huai Hai Lu with the kids and sisters and brother to watch Cars 2 hell yeah. Actually we also wanted to watch The Smurf but Ci Den said that it wasn't that good, she checked it at IMDb and the reviews are just so so. There was a funny, well not really, incident. After watching the movie, Marcell said: "Ce kayaknya aku kecipirit deh" and I was like "what's kecipirit? *thinking thinking* OOH DAMN! Ko Den please help him to go to male's bathroom" and he was like "?" Marcell said "Udah deh aku ke WC cewe aja!" Yeah he pooped on his underwear. He panicked and so did I, he started to cry but I scolded him so he canceled to. I told my cousins to buy 'celana dalam kertas' we waited for a quite long time and they didn't find it, they bought wet tissues instead. Luckily I had a bottle with me, so it can be used to help Marcell cleaning his ass, but he didn't want to clean it himself because he felt gross touching his poop, so I CLEANED HIS ASS. I told him they didn't find any underwear, you're just going to wear your jeans without underwear, then we're going to buy the underwear at H&M. He said "no I can't I'm using jeans it hurts!" Gee my bro. Me: "CUMA SEBENTAR AJAAAAAA *kebakaran*" Marcell: "Ya uda deh.. *pasrah*" Okay everything's settled down. We bought underwear, we went to public toilet, he used the new underwear, he felt great, I didn't. Thank you for your gift, tomorrow is my birthday.

Friday, Sept 2nd, 2011: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MUAH! LEGAL18 B) Thank you God for another year you have given me. Went to Yu Yuan, I was very happy I bought some items, people said that I looked different from my back, what's wrong with my back? Is it because my longer hair? :O At night I had dinner with my fam cousins and some zhong guo ren.

Saturday, Sept 3rd, 2011: My fam and some of my cousins went home. Ko Den Ci Den Ci Gab Ii Aban and I went to Coconut Paradise Restaurant, it's Thai, the foods were nice. Then we went to Raffles City mall. After that we headed to Super Brand Mall and guess what? We found Doraemon Pavilion! WOOHOOOOO. We had really fun there. I met my friend, Tsuneo, by the way. After that we had dinner at Lost Heaven Restaurant. Ko Den created his quote "just now at paradise, now we're lost in heaven, I wonder how do we get back to earth?" lol too funny. I admitted that the restaurants' names are very unique. We ended our journey here.

Sunday, Sept 4th, 2011: I sent my cousins to the airport, I felt sad. My eyes were teary. They all went home, silence is what left behind. I'm missing them already.

Arrival

2011-08-26T15:13:00.002+08:00

Just a quick post.

Arrived at Shanghai on Tuesday morning. I went to this place to extend my residence permit in the afternoon. I think I spent the whole day at the apartment.

On Wednesday went to Qipulu and bought some stuffs. At night there are people who invited us for a dinner.

On Thursday we went to Nanjing Lu and shopped like crazy. 3 people came today!

On Friday spent the day near the house, 4 people came! Hahaha so there are 16 people living in my apartment. WOW.

Going to Hangzhou Suzhou and other places tomorrow, excited but I'm truly tired. I don't have time to open my laptop. T_T Have a nice day!

It's Summer Baby!; Week 9

2011-08-22T11:43:00.000+08:00

Monday, August 15th, 2011: Stayed at home taking a rest after a tiring trip. At night I went to Oviene's house. She invited me to join her going to a person's house. So my friend's sister is a designer and my cousin wanted to make a dress for her sweet17 party, I suggested the sister to her. My cousin has talked to the sister and she asked her to go to her house to discuss things. I wanted to come because I just wanna take a look around. Hahaha :D I was bored at home though. Her design is vintage and very pretty, unique and stylish. She has opened an online shop at Facebook, you can check the collection here.

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011: Went to Jubilee meeting up with Chris. Then I went to Jubilee's canteen meeting up with my juniors ;) Kelly, Tiffany, Marlin, Jean, Janice and Cai2. They asked me to go up (7th floor) so I went there. I also met some of my teachers: Mr. Firman, Mr. Budi, Ms. Made, Mr. DDL and Mr. Tara. I was protested because I was wearing flip flops lol. I actually came to see the new students because Marlin said there are a lot of beautiful new students so I'm kinda curious about it. Too bad I didn't get to see them, just their name but I forgot it. Hahaha. After that I went home. At noon, I went to Central Park meeting up with my SBC friends, Shera, Angel, Edo and Leonardo. BUT, there was something really bugging me until now. You know, Jakarta's traffic is terrible. My driver picked me up at 5:30ish pm, I was sure that the traffic would be really bad and that was true. In Cideng there was traffic jam, the police told us to turn right, so we did it. The thing is, the police in Roxy stopped our car and took my driver's license and my driver was told to come to a place for "sidang". DANG. I really hate it. I don't know why but in Indonesia, the police are like that. They only want money, moreover, Idul Fitri is coming so they are spread everywhere. This is really annoying. I feel really bad for my driver. He seemed very angry and he was swearing where he's fasting. This is why I don't like living in Indonesia. I may be rude, but that's the truth. Well, the past is the past and we can't change anything. I have a friend whose job dream is a police, I just hope that he'll be a good police, not the one that only wants money. Fuuuhhh I still feel upset, very. ANYWAY, I met my friends then we went to Kiyadon Sushi. We shared a lot of stories and bang it's 8.30, time to go home! Even though the meeting lasted for a while, but I really enjoyed it, I miss them and I'm looking forward to see you guys soon! VISIT SHANGHAI. Hehehe :) Thanks for today.

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011: Happy 66th Independence Day Indonesia! I thought my plans were all messed up because of yesterday's incident, luckily my mom was going to MOI with my brothers to watch Kungfu Panda 2! So I got the chance to meet up with my SHS friends too YAYNESS. WOOT WOOT. Actually they invited a lot of people BUT only 8 made it. Sighs. Cindy, Novina, Vanessa, Adit, Abun, Arnold, Nicolaus, Randy and I could come. We had so much fun today even though we just shared stories, reminiscing SHS stupid moments, etc.. Haaaa I really love nostalgia. Too bad my plan for Saturday has to be canceled T_T I'm very upset. Abun sent me home because his house is near mine. I forgot the way he drives. I remembered, when I was going to Kota Tua to take my yearbook's pictures, he drove us (my friends and I) and felt like puking after getting off the car, I still remember it very clearly. It was a crazy driving. He even watched Spongebob while driving! I was like "Bun, lu bisa gitu nyetir sambil nonton?" Him: "bisa dong.. *proud*". He sent Cindy first, then me. He asked me: "Mi, mau yg cepet atau lambat nih?" Me: "yg lambat laah yg penting kan selamat.." him: "yaaahh yg cepet juga selamat kok Mi.." So yeah, he drove fastly. We also discussed about our university life, he explained it with gestures, WITHOUT holding the steering wheel. I was like OMG what is he doing?! HE EVEN ATE ICE CREAM WITHOUT HOLDING THE STEERING WHEEL. I was like ABUUUUNNNNN! He also scared me "hayoloh mi hayoloh.." When he drives, you got 2 choices, it's either life or death. No joke. Luckily, I arrived home safely, thank God. I felt a lil' bit dizzy though. Hahahaha thanks for the ride by the way.

Thursday and Friday, I stayed at home.

Saturday, August 20th, 2011: I supposed to be meeting 3G, but my mom said to cancel it because I had no driver! SUCK. At night, I went out for dinner at Raja Kuring to celebrate Michael's birthday.

Sunday, August 21th, 2011: I went to Natalia's house to prepare things for Gideon's birthday surprise. We made a video for him, our advices and photos of us and others, aaah so sad :( Then we bought a cake at Dapur Cokelat. We waited at McCafe to meet the others and finally we went to Gideon's house. The surprise went well and Gideon had a never-ending shock. LOL it was funny.

Monday, August 22th, 2011: I can't believe I'm going back to Shanghai today. I do miss Shanghai, a lot, but it's hard to leave my friends here. I'm not sure if I'll miss this country, but I'll miss you guys, definitely. See you guys very soon!

Khuntien 2011

2011-08-15T10:51:00.015+08:00

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011: Pontianak! We didn't do anything special, just had culinary experiences: bakmi kepiting, mie pecel, ice cream, durian, cempedak and Pondok Kakap Restaurant. In the afternoon, there was a cat passing us by, then my mom: "miaooooww, chelle tuh temen lu" zzzzz -_-"

mie pecel

cutest cousin everrrrrrrrrr! meet Claudia Elnest

we're eating ice cream ;)

durian

cempedak

the "river" was a swimming pool for my mom and aunties. they said that they used to swim here and it wasn't this dirty, they were the trendsetter of swimsuits, because other kids were swimming naked but they wore swimsuits.

Thursday, August 11th, 2011: Woke up earlier because of this Chinese tradition. There was this morning call: "Good morning, this is your morning call, WAKE UPPPPPPP *high pitch*!!!!!!" Yeah it was my mom. I thought it was the hotel person zzzz. We ate kwecap in the morning. Then we went to the grave yard. Done doing the tradition, we went to the hotel taking a shower. After that we headed to Singkawang. It took more than 3 hours. I turned into pig and kebo. T_T We went sight-seeing. I actually went to the same places I've been a year ago. Haha. My aunties made some crazy videos. Ckck. Arrived at Pontianak, we went to a place to eat kokue.

rainbow! (@ the graveyard)

sight-seeing

awww kung2's hair was messy and look what popo did! hyahahaha

Friday, August 12th, 2011: Happy birthday Shera! Wish you all the best! :D In the morning, we ate kue kia teng. Then we went to a place where we can buy gifts and Pontianak special foods. Afterwards we visited our relatives' houses. We also ate sate ayam, sate sapi and coipan. There were a lot of funny incidents today. Our popos were sleeping then they started snoring, it was music concert hahaha. My auntie said "mainkan!" LOL. Then we thought popo was really falling asleep, my mom told me to finish the cherries, then suddenly popo said "Lu gila ya? Anak sudah kenyang suru makan terus.." LOL. My auntie asked her: "Besok yg blow-in kita anak buahnya si Ojie ya?" Popo: "Iya anaknya buah si Ojie" LOLLLL. Popoooo.. Cici Cha2 came today, Koko Leo too. We felt like eating Es Nona so we went to a place to eat it. After that we headed to a restaurant.

Saturday, August 13th, 2011: Stayed at the hotel for the whole day, well not really because we were having the party at noon. We prepared everything at the hotel, even our hair-do and make up. Haahaha. We ate breakfast at the hotel and my auntie also bought nasi goreng and a dessert, I don't know the name, for us. It's party time! A lot of people came. But I've learned that there's something different. They came, they ate, they went home. Yeah like that. I guess it's not polite, but Cici Cha2 said that it's their tradition. Well.. Anyway, I swear that IF my BIG family was there, there would be a riot and the stage would collapse. They were REALLY REALLY HEBRINGGGG! O_o Gosh I laughed all the time. It was great. Hehehehe.

happy 80th birthday Jie po (green)

Sunday, August 14th, 2011: This is it. Today I'm going home. We ate Nasi Campur in the morning, then we went to my auntie's house to take a rest. After that we decided to eat the ice cream again WOOT WOOT. I wanted to eat Strawberry and Ketan Item ice cream with red bean, BUT the person gave me strawberry and durian ice cream with red bean. Dang I hate durian. It's not that I hate it, I just don't like it but actually I can eat it, sooo?? Then we still felt hungry therefore we went eating Bakso Suster nyehehehe :) After that we headed to the airport. It's time. Say bye2 to delicious foods, I'll visit you definitely!

It's Summer Baby!; Week 8

2011-08-08T22:07:00.004+08:00

Monday, August 8th, 2011: Happy birthday Indra, all the best and good luck! ;)
Today I went to Gessi's house to meet Gian! Yeap he's home! Hehehe :) We just played at his house. We watched TV, DVDs, played Wii etc. Hahaha. We shared a lot of things. Gian's very skinny now! Even his thighs are skinnier than mine. I am so fat. T.T I really need to lose weights ~~in order to find a boyfriend~~. He taught me some moves to make thighs smaller HAHAHA he even knows how to do that. He said he takes Taiko lessons.

Taiko (太鼓^?) means "drum" in Japanese (etymologically "great" or "wide drum"). Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums (和太鼓, "wa-daiko", "Japanese drum", in Japanese) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming (sometimes called more specifically, "kumi-daiko" (組太鼓)). The performances can last between 5 and 25 minutes and typically follow a jo-ha-kyū (beginning, middle, end/rapid, sudden, urgent, and emergency) structure, which means the performance will speed up significantly towards the grand finale. -- Wikipedia.com

Today is a happy day! Yay :D

See?! He's very Japanese/Korean now LOL

Gessi's sweating! She was exercising. Why can't I be like them? T_T I'm very lazy

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011: Picked up Ima Akim at the airport. Cici Xian2 was very funny, I tweeted I was at the airport and she said: "Today you're going back to Shanghai? Okay have a safe flight etc" I was like: "orang gw jemput emak lu!" LOL! Ima Apo, Ima Akim and I were very hebring (heboh). There were lots of funny incidents. Anyway after picking her up, we directly went to ITC Mangga Dua. We ate like crazy: Mie Ayam Bangka, Es Shanghai, Empek2 and Siomay Bandung. Then I got stomachache LOL. After shopping, we went to Gunsa. Kung2 asked us to go to a restaurant for a dinner. Then we headed to Hawaii Restaurant. Kung2 said that I have to learn how to drive. See?! Everyone says that! But my mom doesn't allow me to T_T Tomorrow I'm going to Khuntien (Pontianak), YAY! My cousins are also going there, so it's gonna fun and crowded! Hahahaha :D Will post something after the trip. Good night!

It's Summer Baby!; Week 7

2011-08-07T22:15:00.000+08:00

Monday, August 1st, 2011: just stayed at home, watched dramas etc. -_-

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011: I had lunch with Novina Sendjaja at Manimga. It's a Korean restaurant. I went to her home for a while then my driver picked me up. That is all.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011: stayed at home

Thursday, August 4th, 2011: Met up Nath2 at Lime Cafe, again! ;) I looove this cafe too much. I tried their tteokbokki. It was okay. We took quite a lot of pictures. Then we picked Fenna up at Jubilee School. We decided to go to Oh La La Springhill. The meeting was SUPER fun, we laughed a lot! Looking forward to the next one! There were crazy events:

1. Tukang parkir Jubilee suruh bayar but we really had no idea about that, jadi kita lewatin dia aja dan tukangnya cuma bengong. We apologized sir. We really didn't know. HAHAHA. Kita ga bayar karena terbiasa pakai stiker sekolah, eeeh sekarang disuruh bayar ya engga tau jadi maaf ya mas :p

2. Kita nyasar dalam perjalanan pulang nganterin gw. Hahahaha! Untung ketemu jalan keluarnya.

3. Kita masuk dijalan yang salah, kita bener2 ga tau harus kemana, langsung nyosor aja, seharusnya itu jalan untuk mobil kanan yg mau ke kiri, kita dari kiri ke kanan, di tintin in orang, LOOOOLLL sorry sir. Fiuuuhh untung ga ada polisi.

4. I don't know why, but I ALWAYS mix up between 'cowok' and 'cewek'. EVERY TIME I want to say 'cowok', 'cewek' comes out and the other way around. This is some kind of habit, bad habit of course, my gosh we were talking about 'cowok brewok' and I said 'cewek brewok'. Nath was very confused and we laughed very hard.. LOL! Silly me x(

At night, I had a dinner with my father's side family.

Friday, August 5th, 2011: Today was supposed to be my meeting with Adel, Vivi and Henry. But everything was just messed up starting from Adel's stomachache, Hen2's inability to come, etc. We also wanted to watch Hello Ghost but Adel heard that it's stop playing at Blitz. So we gotta look for another time to meet up and therefore, I had a meeting with my high school friends, finally! We shared stories and took pics of course. That's just it. People who attended the meeting were Amira, Ribka, Phoebe, Juliana, Raissa, Cindy, Novina, Jason, Randy and myself. There was this funny incident where I showed my eye liner to Novina, and the others were very curious, like they found something precious, you can imagine their faces LOOOLLL I was like: "Why are you guys like this?!" Hahaha. We played at Timezone, Novina and I were on fire playing the games. Now my arms are hurting. Ooh Indra is going to New Zealand tonight. Good luck Indra for your study, hopefully we'll meet each other very soon and you gotta visit Shanghai! I'll miss you and don't forget me :')

Saturday, August 6th, 2011: Went to MOI around 3 pm. I watched Transformers 3, again, because I didn't wanna waste my precious Saturday at HOME! It's such a waste. There are 2 weeks left before going back to Shanghai. I fell asleep for a while in the beginning of the movie. The first time I watched the movie, I did too. I don't know why, I think the beginning is so boring. But I enjoyed the rest of the movie.

Sunday, August 7th, 2011: Went to Pastis. My cousin's going to celebrate her sweet17 birthday here, we just wanted to see the place and food-tasting. Nyehehehe :p Too bad I'm not going to attend the event. After that we went to Senayan City. We did window shopping. Then I had this family dinner, again, with my father's side family at Central Park. I really want to buy ZARA's T-shirt, the one with "My boyfriend is a teenage werewolf", I collect T-shirts with funny words on it, I do have them, but not many, I try to collect more, but they just don't have the size that I want! T_T I. really. want. it. so. badly. Anyway, my mom was angry because I spent too much money. Sorry mom T_T but this is holiday.. :p I'll pay your money back after I get my first salary! Kay?

I want to go to Taikang Lu. I heard from my senior that there's a music box shop. I'm also music boxes collector. I'm going to collect more.

It's Summer Baby!; Week 6

2011-08-01T16:22:00.003+08:00

Last Friday, I just stayed at home, I needed to take a good rest after an exhausting trip.

On Saturday, I went spa-ing with my mom. It felt really good B-) After that, we went to MOI because my cousins and brother were there watching HP7.

On Sunday, I spent the whole day with Kuku West. Yeap, she came to Jakarta, but without her kids, Stella & Koko Nico :( Aaahh it's been a long time since I saw them, I miss you guys! Especially Koko Nico who's afraid of getting on airplanes and therefore he haven't come yet! T_T After going to church, we went to Maystar at Central Park. We had yumha :9 Afterwards, Kuku West, mom and I just went around shopping, the others went home. Then, we went to Dapur Solo to have some snacks. After that we went to Ama's house. Finally I went home. Yeap I spent the day just like that. Nothing was special really, I didn't even take pics with Kuku.

It's August already anyway, there are 21 days left before going back to Shanghai. So guys, let's meet up!

新加坡 2011

2011-07-29T17:58:00.026+08:00

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011: Met up with Sisil and Fira. We went to PI first having our lunch at Kitchenette. After that we went to Blitz Megaplex taking photos at the photobooth. Too bad Fira had to go home very early, so there were just me and Sisil. We didn't know what to do so we just sat and had a chat. Then Angel came! I had 2nd meeting with Angel and Adeline. Sisil also met her friend therefore we finished our meeting :( I had the 2nd meeting because Adeline's going to Melbourne on July 28th. Today was my last chance of meeting her before she leaves. We had dinner at Mr. Curry. I had to leave first because tomorrow I'm going to Singapore, so I gotta get home earlier. Good luck Adeline, I'll see you very soon :')

Sunday, July 24th, 2011: Xin Jia Po! Arrived at Singapore at 11.15 Singapore time, then we headed to our hotel, there was a problem. They said that we canceled our reservation, but we did not. There was a mistake here, anyhow we paid 200SGD deposit. They tried to cheat on us! Groar. Then we wanted to look for SIM card but there was no SIM card left in any market we visited! Therefore we were suggested to go to Bugis Junction. We went there and hug around but didn't buy anything except some goods from Watson for my mom, grandma and auntie. Cindy had to go to church so I went to Orchard alone hihihi. I went to ION Orchard first, I didn't find anything good. I headed to Wisma Atria and jengjeng! I shopped like crazy. Well, actually I shopped for my mom, grandma and cousins first! They're lucky. I shopped a lot especially at Cotton On, even though almost all of the things that I bought were for my mom, grandma and auntie. Hahaha :D I also went to IORA. After that I decided to go to Takashimaya. I bought another gift for my auntie. I felt very tired so that I just sat down and waited for Cindy. She came finally, she had her dinner at MOS Burger. After that, we went to our hotel.

Monday, July 25th, 2011: Universal Studio Singapore! Woohoo! Woke up at 7 in the morning, then prepared everything. We kind of lost at Vivo City because they closed the shortcut door so that we had to find another way to the Sentosa Express. We lost for half an hour I think? But we found our way luckily and we arrived at USS at 11! Hehehe :) We had really fun there! We were satisfied because USS was not very crowded as we thought. We went to Battlestar Galactica Human 1x - Battlestar Galactica Cyclon 2x! *the queue was not crowded at all* - Shrek 4D - Donkey Live *very swt show* - Madagascar: A Crate Adventure - Revenge of The Mummy - Jurassic Park Rapids Adventure - Waterworld. Lemme share a story. I rode 3 roller coasters in a row, then I felt dizzy and puking. It was the most fun ride after all, even though I screamed very loud! We didn't meet any good characters, so when we saw one, we directly queued to take pictures with them. After that we bought some merchandises from USS stores. Afterwards, we watched Songs of The Sea. It was very berry beautiful. I was amazed. At the end of the show, there was this stranger (a guy) talking in front of the audience, saying that today is his 5 1/2 years anniversary with his girlfriend, guess what?! He proposed! Cindy and I even cried, but the girl didn't, not even a tear and her expression was just normal. She didn't seem excited. If I were her, I would have cried and said YES YES YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! It was romantic anyway. I really envy her! Then we went home. It was a fun day! Yayness.

my sick face! hahaha
Happy 5 years and 6 months anniversary to my baby ... *the girl's name*

will you marry me? aawwwww

Thank you for being there for me and accepting me to be with you, I love you
:') :') kyaaaaaaaa

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011: Went to City Hall and met up with Reza and his friend, Marcel. Hahaha he reminded me of my bro. Anyway we went to City Link Mall then we headed to Marina Bay Sands. We took a look around and took pictures. We also bought The Lion King Show tickets. After that we went to Orchard, bought tickets for Harry Potter 7 Part 2 and Transformers 3. Finally we're gonna watch it earlier than Jakarta! Even though I know that Harry Potter will be released on July 29th! Haha :p After buying tickets, we went to Takashimaya, we bought some gifts for our family. Afterwards we walked at Lucky Plaza and shopped for family too. Cindy and I decided to go to Bugis Street, therefore Reza and Marcel sent us off. See you guys very soon! At Bugis Street, we didn't buy anything except some Singapore T-shirts for my maids and driver. We finally went to the hotel for a while because we felt super duper tired and we killed our own feet so we wanted to have a rest and I took a shower before going to the lion king show. at 7, we went to MBS again and the show started at 8. We took a long walk and it was very tiring. The Lion King Show was uber awesome. I haven't watched the cartoon version yet, I suck, IKR. Too bad we were prohibited to take pictures or record videos. I wanted to though! I got goosebumps along the show. I bought some merchandises: The CD and a refrigerator magnet (?). After the show, we went to the hotel. :)

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011: we went to Cathay Cineplex watching Harry Potter 7 Part 2 and Transformers 3! Awesome. We had our lunch at Takashimaya. Then we made this sudden decision to go to Little India, Chinatown and Clarke Quay. At Little India we had prata and we had drinks at Chinatown. At Clarke Quay we just took pictures near Singapore river and went home. I can't believe that today is my last day at Singapore, sighs.

Thursday, July 28th, 2011: We went to Merlion only to take pictures. Then we went to Lau Pa Sat having our lunch. I met Cici Sasa there! Yay! It's actually our 1st formal meeting! Eehehhehe :D Afterwards we joined her going to National Library. Then it was time for us to separate :'( I'll see you very soon ci :') Next, we went to ION Orchard for a while, I was cheated while buying a ring, I thought it's cheaper because of the discount but it's not. Grah! I love the ring though -_- Then we went to the hotel to take our luggage, after that we headed to Changi airport. We were almost late for check-in and I thought I lost my departure card! But no, it was there. Sighs. Dang it's time to go home. I'll miss you Singapore. I'll see you soon! :')

It's Summer Baby!; Week 5

2011-07-23T08:51:00.000+08:00

Met up with some of my primary schools friends, Adel, Osbert & Garry. Well, Garry & I arrived earlier since I picked him up and we departed very early. Arrived at the mall, I went to Bakerzin, I wanted to eat some desserts. Then guess whom I met? Marsha & Nadya! My little friends from Japan Tour 2 years ago! :D Wuaaa they've grown up and Marsha was very shy. She just smiled. Hahaha :D I saw the mom first, then I asked her

Me: Tanteeee, inget ga?
Her: Eeeehh siapa yaaa?
Me: Michelle tante, yg waktu itu tour bareng ke Jepang
Her: ooohh iya ya..
Me: Hey Nadya, do you remember me?
Nadya: Ummm, did you cut your hair?
Me: Ummmm, yeah?
Mom: Itu adiknya yg gendut2 ya yg namanya siapa sih?
Me: Marcellus tante..
Mom: Oia ya..
Nadya: Oooohhh! Now I remember

Well, everyone remembers Marcellus. T_T After that Adel arrived, we went to Pizza Hut, Adel and Garry had their lunch there. Osbert came very lately, around 3:30 pm. We decided to go karaoke-ing, but dang my mom picked me up. So the plan was kind of messy! Actually Henry also had to come but I didn't know why he didn't show up ish. I went home then headed to Oviene's house! It's sleep over time!

I did nothing on Tuesday and Wednesday, just ordinary days..

On Thursday, I had this sudden JHS reunion because Thomas is going back soon to NZ, only 10 people attended the event I think? Me, Novina, Cindy, Thomas, Gideon, Osbert, Floren, Apang? Ooh 8. I went to this cafe in Kelapa Gading, it's called Lime Cafe. I heard the owner is Korean, so everything's so Korean. There are dolls, the songs are all K-pop, the place are very cozy and it's the perfect place to hang out with friends. They provide lots of games that we can play, such as monopoly, cards, etc..

Friday: HOME.

Gonna meet up with Sisil and Fira, my Direct English friends at GI/PI, also I'm gonna meet Adeline and Angel! Then I'm not sure if I can update my blog, I don't know if I'll be going home very late or not. Tomorrow I'm going to Singapore with Cindy! Aaaahh I can't wait no longer ;) I'll update my blog very very soon! Ciao~

It's Summer Baby!; Week 4

2011-07-17T20:33:00.003+08:00

I have some plans for this week, but most of them were canceled due to my friends' ability to come. Yeap, they're all busy so that I cannot interrupt them. Some of them are having university 'ospek' and some other are working. How cool. Yeap, therefore I stayed at home the whole day as usual. I have a plan, though, going to a mall with my cousin. I really wanna watch Something Borrowed, eat at Pancious and Excelso and do some other things. We decided to go on Thursday. Hope everything goes well :p Anyway I watched Live To Dance on Starworld channel, I like sooo much and it seems like Paula Abdul is a very nice person indeed! I saw how happy the people were when they were going to the semi-final stage, I cried. I mean, what's wrong with me? Hahaha :$ I have no idea why I cried. I think seeing them shouting, jumping and laughing happily, I also felt their excitement. Awww :') I didn't continue watching Autumn in My Heart because there was something wrong with episode 6 subtitle, it really was a mess and I couldn't watch episode 7 because I don't understand the story! Sighs. Anyway, I'm watching Personal Taste now. Lee Min Ho is more attractive without that curly hair! Hahaha :D Ooh 1 more, happy birthday Adeline and Crystal! Wish you guys all the best :D

Still, I just stayed in my room the whole day on Tuesday. Well, at night, I went to the dentist. Today was supposed to be my 'take-off-this-braces' day. The dentist said that I can already take this off. I asked her if my teeth are still having problems, she said no, if I want to, I can take that today. She also asked whether I will be staying in Shanghai for a very long time or not, I said that I will be back to Jakarta on January due to CNY. She instead told me to take the braces on January, to make my teeth stronger first, then take it off! I just listened to what she said, she knows the best, right? Well, I guess I have to wait for another half a year. Sighs.

On Wednesday morning, I opened my Facebook and stalked as usual, then... *jengjengjeng* I saw someone, just someone I don't know but recognize, I think he is now handsome! LOL! I must be drunk, yeah sorry it was still in the morning. But.. I opened my Tumblr and there's a post...

source: Tumblr

WOW. I think there's more coming up LOL. Anyway, last night was the last night that I slept with my very old bed, yeap my kindergarten bed. My mom decided to change it. Now my room looks very different. We moved things a lot. Sighs. I'm gonna miss you, my old bed.

before

after

I got my exam results today! It should be announced this Friday but I don't know why they put it up already on my school's website. Hell yeah I passed all the exam, even though I'm kind of disappointed because of my Economics result, it's C. The rest are A*, A or B. I'm quite satisfied though. It means that I don't need to take the recite exam and I'm able to skip EAP classes for Year 2. YEEHAAAAA. I feel very happy and grateful, thank you God. I've been haunted by the result, I got them now already, I don't feel guilty of wasting my parents' money, either for my study or for shopping, etc :p Thank you God, really :') Now I can do anything with feelings of relief and calm.

July, 14th, 2011: Happy birthday my little brother, Marcellus Soehartono. 姐姐 wishes you all the best! I hope you'll lose your weight and become skinnier, you'll be able to control your anger, you'll study more dilligently and get good results. Anyway.. 姐姐 loves you! ♥ I finally went out of my room today. I went to MKG, I felt like watching movies so I asked my cousin to accompany me. We had lunch first at Excelso, finally! Then we watched Something Borrowed. It's funny but sad too.. There's this character that catches my attention named Ethan. He's a friend of Rachel (the main character). When Rachel's having her bad times, he advises her and his advices are worth it, he told Rachel to confess everything, to tell her best friend that her best friend's fiancee is her love, blablabla long story, he even said that yes, he's an asshole who always cares about Rachel. But then he finally confesses that he actually likes her! My eyes were teary. Damn it I want that man. I mean, what the hell? He told her to marry her man, but he actually likes her! Does guys like Ethan still exist? I hope so. I feel like marrying Ethan, seriously. Haha. He's very funny and caring, and lovely! Where are you Ethan? I'll marry you! I'm gonna download the movie once it's available in a good quality. (Y)

I met a lot of people I know yesterday, but I didn't call them. I don't know why, either they were very far, or I wasn't sure if I saw the right person, or I was just lazy. I met Nho2 though, we also chatted for a while. Anyway, after that my mom picked us up, we went to PI having our dinner at Pizza e Birra. We celebrated Marcell's birthday. He was shocked when the restaurant crew gave him a little birthday surprise, it was funny.

shocked

Marcell's priceless face, funny.

I finished watching Personal Taste on Friday! Finally.. I really like the ending, it tells what happens to all of the characters ;) Kyaaaaaaaa~

I'm busy downloading You've Fallen for Me now! OMG Jung Yong Hwa and Park Shin Hye :3 Gonna watch this very very soon :D Excited. There are only 6 episodes though because the drama is still airing! Omoooo my holiday is full of Korean dramas.

There was another cousin meeting on Saturday! Ko Dennis is back to Jakarta for good! Aww he must be sad. T_T We went to Crowne Plaza first having our lunch at Poke Sushi :9 Then we headed to Plaza Senayan without our mothers. Ci Denita & Ci Gaby wanted to watch Catatan Harian si Boy, so yeah me and others just followed what they wanted to do hehehe :)

Catatan Harian si Boy was quite good, but there were a lot of bad words and dirty talks, we brought Devita (10 years old)! OMG. Ci Gaby said: OMG I forgot! we brought Devita. I was like 'Ooh iya ya!' Dang. Hopefully she didn't understand EVERY SINGLE THING :D

after watching CHSB

Hmmm after that, we had desserts at Seroeni, the desserts were yummy. I had to go earlier because Adeline was having her birthday dinner and she invited me. I went to Cheesecake Factory, Tomang. I seriously was awkward because I didn't know her friends! Mike came too but the rest were having their own business so they couldn't make it! Sighs. Adeline's going at the end of the month, too sad. I went home at 10ish.

Had to wake up early on Sunday morning, gotta go to church after a long hiatus :p After that went to MKG. my bros needed to buy new shoes. I bought one too hahaha :D what a nice holiday. Hm, then we had our lunch at Sushi Groove. Afterwards we went home. They needed to rest as their holiday is ovah! Poor you guys ;) There were awkward conversations between me, my brother and my mom.

Convo #1:
Me: Sekarang HP ga ada yang bagus banget yah..
Mom: Ya kan setiap barang ada positif dan negatifnya.. Sekarang kamu butuhnya apa?
Marcellus: Cece butuhnya pacar tau..
Me: What? Apaan si lu?
Marcellus: Iya, cece kan udah kuliah jadi pacaran tuh wajib!
Me: WTH?!

Convo #2:
Marcellus: Mi, ayam goreng itu apa namanya, Suharti? Aku maunya ayam goreng Soehartono

Convo #3: Marcellus and my mom were arguing something then Marcell kept answering my mom, my mom was pissed off then she said: Kamu mau dirobek ya mulutnya?!
Marcellus: *opened his mouth* aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ga bisa mi

crazy dude. Pasti dia lagi masa2 labil.

mom's homemade spaghetti. At last..

going to Singapore next Sunday with Cindy, just both of us! How sweet! I'm excited ;)

It's Summer Baby!; Week 3

2011-07-10T22:23:00.000+08:00

I didn't do anything on Monday except locking myself in my room and watching Korean dramas. Korean dramas are so addicting OMG OMG OMG. I'm currently watching Lie To Me. It's very nice. No no. Every Korean drama is worth to be watched! HAHA. Especially the romance comedy ones.

Stayed in my room all day long on Tuesday. I watched Lie To Me of course hahahaha. I went to PIK at night having dinner. That is all.

Locked myself in my room again, I guess this will be my activity for this week B-) I finished watching Lie To Me, all Korean dramas are worthy to watch. But Korean dramas that I've been watching are kind of disappointing, I want more for the ending. Like for Lie To Me, I want to see their wedding & their kids, they should've shown them. I like this quote at the end of the episode:

"Love like this has no lie. And... That a lie became love. And... We learned that within a lie there is something more passionate than the truth." - Lie To Me ep. 16

Aaaawww.. Too bad there's no such thing in life. Watching Korean dramas makes me imagine a lot, but really, it doesn't exist in real life.

Now what will I do without Korean dramas?! I have no Korean dramas left! I gotta download some but the internet connection sucks. I'm trying anyway, I'm downloading Personal Taste hehehe. Ei? I have one more Korean drama to watch, it's Autumn in My Heart, the sad one. This drama was released a long time ago, though. But I've downloaded it and I must watch it. Otherwise it will be such a waste.

On Thursday, I started watching an old Korean drama called Autumn in My Heart. It was released on 2000. The drama is very sad, I know that, but I don't know the story, so I decided to watch it. Guess what? From episode 1, it was already sad, I cried an ocean for episode 2 and 3. Sighs. It was really100x sad. I went to a furniture store, my mom bought me a new spring bed because the bed which I'm using it is a very old bed. I've had this bed since my kindergarten! OMG. I just realized it when she told me! But I felt kind of sad because this bed has accompanied me that it's almost broken already. Sighs~ Then we also went to Artha Gading to look for some furnitures, dang I love furnitures. There are lots of pretty desks, beds, closets, etc there. Aaahh I really want to design my room by myself! I will later B-) Seriously mom, renovate our house asap! I wanna buy pretty furnitures for my room, I choose which for mine. I also bought a new pair of sandals from Charles and Keith YAAYY :D

I made both breakfast by myself, of course with the help of my maid, but still maaan! but it were all easy-cooked foods

My aunties spoke to me earlier about an eye surgery. Yeap, they told me to do some kind of surgery to make an eyelid because I don't have one. I was told by my mom to remind her calling the doctor, but I said "Am I really going to have a surgery?". It's not that I'm afraid to have it, but I'm not really sure. God created me with no eyelid, that's what He wanted, and I'm grateful for that. Moreover, I think what's special about me is my eyes. My friends keep calling me miaow, kucing, or whatever it is, because my eyes look like cat's. But then if I have an eyelid, it'll be weird to be called like that HAHA. That's why, I guess my eyes are my specialty, I'm happy with that. Besides, I can use eyeliner to make my eyes look bigger, right? Hehehe :) My mom agreed with me, well she looked like she did. Further, she said what if the doctor made mistakes? That would be the most terrible part I guess.. The point is, I love my cat eyes and I don't want to make any changes for them, thanks God :)

Went to Senayan City today, cousin meeting, ooh how I love it ♥. Actually my plan was going to join my auntie to go to an orphanage, she wanted to celebrate her birthday there, but knowing that my cousins were all joining the meeting, I decided to join them! Hehehe :) Today is a very lovely day after all. We shared stories, especially our childhood memories, remembering that Garry, my cousin, was always bullied, even my grandpa told my another cousin to bully him LOL. We also had this crazy little chat about dating someone. My brother told us how to get women/men without hurting our hearts, something like that, it was very funny and crazy, definitely. I laughed so hardly I can tell. Time went by very fast. I shared the stories with my mom too and I asked this big question I've had in my mind: Does my mom let me date someone? She answered it today. Well, at first, I told other stories first, but I dragged the conversation, I asked her when was the first time she dated someone? She said when she was in college. Then, I asked about my auntie, my mom answered that my auntie started dating when she was in high school. Me: "Did the grandparents let her date?" Mom: "Yes. Actually, dating someone doesn't mean that you hug them or whatever, doing cheesy things, just go with the flow, if you wanna go with them, we have to tell our parents, don't do such cheesy things, we gotta date "healthily". Me: "So is it okay if I date like that?" Mom: "Of course. Don't let him forbid you to meet your other guy friends, even if you're engaged, you're not theirs yet, engagements and weddings can be canceled, right?" Okay, I get it. So the answer is YES. Man, I've been terribly curious, I got the guts to ask her, and I got the answer. OMG thank you God for guiding me. I love today too much.

Dang! I forgot to take pics with the others T_T naah but we'll meet again of course very very soon

On Sunday, I woke up lately therefore we didn't go to church again. Forgive us, Lord. Then we went to Baji Pamai having our breakfast-lunch. Afterwards we went to ITC Mangga Dua, it's shopping time! I got 5 pieces of clothes+shorts nyehehehe :p Then we went to MKG watching Wu Xia. It was a great movie. The science, they got it, the kungfu, it was awesome, it was a really good movie. Seriously..

Next, we headed to this new restaurant near MOI, we ate suki there :D My mom's friend also came. We complained a lot hahahaha I myself felt sorry for giving pressure to the waiters and managers hihihihi sorry :p My mom's friend asked me whether I have a BF or not, I said no way. Hahaha :D I don't want to be with Chinese guys. She said to find an Indonesian but I joked that all of my Indonesian friends there already have girlfriends. LOL. I also told them that this year there will be a lot of Indonesian students coming, so I'm gonna look for one! Hahahaha. But I said I'm afraid that my grandpa will find out my relationship. My mom said it is okay if you date "healthily" like she said before, he should not come to my house everyday, both my mom and I will be bored LOL. So she thinks my grandpa will also agree? No?

It's Summer Baby!; Week 2

2011-07-03T19:50:00.001+08:00

Went creambath-ing on Tuesday. I felt great after that.

It was public holiday on Wednesday. My cousins and I went to Puncak Pass Resort. We had our lunch there. We actually planned to go to 'Matahari', it's some kind of entertaining place where we can play, etc. But the weather and the traffic were not very cool. We were trapped in a traffic jam for 2 and a half hour I guess. I slept like a pig. We also really wanted to pee but there was no toilet. So we did yeah some crazy things to urinate. HAHA! OMG today is definitely a crazy day, I experienced some things that I hadn't had before. We arrived at Jakarta at 7 pm. Then we headed to Cahaya Baru having our dinner. I ate like a pig. T_T

look! he's 11 years old and he's taller than me

poor little deer. I believe he's suffering from his too big eyes

There was this funny incident when popo saw this pic taken from a polaroid then she said: "itu siapa sih yg anak kecil pake kacamata dibawah Oniel?" Us: "Errr, itu gambar di baju po.." LOL! My grandma is the best!

On Thursday, Marcellus and I went to Gessi's house. We just played in house and shared stories. We decided to go outside, Gessi said she wanted to show me a cool place, her jogging track. and yeah it was a really cool place. We took many pics there. The brothers were looking for small crabs, the sisters were doing photoshoot. Gessi was my model LOL. What a great day. I also saw a huge house or should we call it a mansion with more than 10 cars in front of the house! WOW. Even Gabriel said that the person owns more than 30 cars?! Insane.

I took both pics, I think those are the best :)

Friday, July 1st, 2011: HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY MY BLOG! HUGS AND KISSES MUACH :* canceled my meeting with Angel and Adeline because they are very busy and Adeline said we just meet at her birthday. Am not going to Bandung tomorrow anyway, we decided to go to Waterbom instead. Hopefully the weather is nice, not too hot but no rain please. People said my skin got whiter because I live in Shanghai. I also realize it and I wanna keep it like this! I really look like Chinese. Hahahaha. I think that I've finished reconstructing the blog, what do you think? Does it look good?

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011: Waterbom YAY! :D Guess what? No one's on time! Typical Indonesian peeps haha. We actually had to meet at 11 pm but one of the 1s disappeared! = 1 pm, we met at Mc'Donalds. I finally met Gid's girlfriend, Fenna! She's very friendly and I'm happy for Gideon HAHA. We arrived at Waterbom at 2 pm I think? The weather was nice today, there was neither rain nor hot sun. We really had fun and we were all bullied! We did crazy things and Toto was very funny, he didn't change at all. Hahaha. :D We finished swimming at 5 pm because we felt terribly tired and sleepy, and hungry. We went to Leko at 6 pm. Then we headed home at 7 pm. To conclude, thanks for today guys, you really made my day, one of the best days with friends I must say.. Thanks Nath, Rendy, Gideon, Fenna, Toto & Osbert, let's meet up next time! Thanks!

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011: My whole body was still aching. I was also having headache. I think it's because I had never worked out in Shanghai and suddenly I went swimming so my body was kind of shocked? I felt tired the whole day. Anyway went to Cici Denita's house. I ate a lot of yummy foods that my aunties and uncle brought. Why do they have such the best cooking skill ever? This makes me fatter fatter and fatter. I couldn't stand the sickness anymore, my mom and auntie told me to massage and I did it. After that I slept for 2/3 hours I think. Today, I already had a massage, slept like a buffalo and ate like a pig. Today is Mimi's piggy day! YAAAYY. Anyway there was another funny incident. I saw my auntie typing something on her phone then I asked her: "Itu Ping!Chat ya?" Then my popo said: "Haiooo Pyunce mana mungkin dateng kesini.." *Pyunce is her cousin* Us:?! HAHA

It's Summer Baby!

2011-06-26T18:26:00.000+08:00

Hey! Yes, I have arrived at Jakarta since last Monday. Well, I didn't do anything on Tuesday since my driver had something important to attend. I had a new haircut on Wednesday, no more bob hairstyle. I also fixed my laptop.

This is my current look! Different? No? I think this is the feminine side of me MWAHAHA *proud* Well, the haircut looks like bob style but it's not really like that

On Thursday, me and my cousins had dinner at Gading, we ate kwuotie, the best kwuotie ever! Then we went to MKG to buy some clothes :p I also stayed at home on Friday, I need to move documents from my HDD because they were all deleted. Yeap, I formatted my mac + windows. At night, I went to TA with my mom. There are sales in Jakarta. We didn'y buy anything special. Sighs.

I met Nath on Friday. It was supposed to be BFF Meeting with her + Gideon and Rendy but they both couldn't come! So I had a date with Nath haha :D We went to PP first having our lunch at Nanny's Pavillon. The foods were very nice :9 Yumm. Then we just went around the mall, we really had no idea what should we do so we just went around and took a seat. We decided to move to Senayan City because we felt bored in PP and my mom actually was at Senci with my aunties. At first we wanted to eat Tony Roma's but I forgot that I only brought a small amount of money so we canceled our plan. Hahaha. At Senci we also went around the mall, just like that, seriously, malls are boring :) At 7:30 pm Nath went home and I met my aunties and cousins. They joined the midnight sale and hell yeah they really bought lots of stuffs! I saw Janice (my junior) there but I didn't call her because she was too far. She said that she saw me too but she thought the person was just looked similar to me because she thought that I'm still in Shanghai hahaha. We arrived home at 10:30 pm.

Nath and me! I'm in love with this pic, it's blurred but makes us look pure like an angel HAHA!

On Sunday, I went to the church. I met Kelly and Jeje! Hehehe :) After that, we went to Gandaria City, having ramen as our lunch there. We also ate toast. We went to Senci again. My bro wanted to see the transformers robots. I took their pics. I shopped at GAP. There's a big sale and I bought like 4 things :p

umm, I'm sorry for being over-confident but I think I look pretty here, don't you think? :p HAHA sorry T_T

Yeap, a week has passed.. Plans have been made. I'm going to Puncak on Wednesday. On Friday I think I'll have a meeting with Adeline and Angelia since Adeline is leaving soon :( How fast. On Saturday I think I'll be going to Bandung with my friends, haven't decided yet whether we're going to stay for 1 night or not. and I'm going to Singapore on July baby with Cindy Kho! Aha aha aha *dancing*

Okay gotta sleep now. Ooh I'm fixing my blog, changing the background and whatever, yeap, this blog is under construction. :)

Unbelievable Holiday

2011-06-16T21:42:00.019+08:00

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011:

Went shopping today with Angel. We went to Yuyuan Garden. I bought a top from Pull and Bear, I love it super much! Then we headed to Qipulu. We bought a same top, it only costs 30 RMB! I bought a luggage too. After that we went to RBT Cafe, I ate pancake and after that I felt sick LOL.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011:

I had my lunch with Angel at Funky Chicken.

After that we went to Zhongshan Park, Angel needed to buy something at Carrefour and we also shopped! Haha. Then we went back to dormitory. Finally we went to New Heights, a restaurant in The Bund having our farewell dinner with my friends. Shera and Edo will be going home tomorrow so yeah we had this romantic dinner. The view in The Bund was really great. I enjoyed it very much. Shera's friend also joined us. We took pictures and we sat outside to see the view. It was really great. After that we headed to La Creperie, had one of the top 10 desserts in Shanghai. Yummah.

They're copying my movements, you know, I love to do stupid things and they remember every single thing, great huh?

My Hainanese Chicken Rice! It was expensive and it tasted just ordinary. T_T

Hmm.. Let me explain. This is my current look WHICH IS VERY MESSY. I didn't take a shower before going there, it was raining and I thought if I took a shower, I will be dirty, so it was a waste. I should've taken a shower, all of the photos with ME in it turn out to be very ugly because I look very messy! T_T I promise guys, as soon as I arrive at Jakarta, I will FIX my hair and EVERYTHING before meeting you guys HAHA don't worry

4 Serangkai hahaha :D See? I look so ugly and messy, and fat. Enough said. I feel like blurring all of the photos with ME inside sighs

I took this photo! Love the lighting effect B)

Yeap, this is one of the top 10 desserts in Shanghai. What do you think? It's too sweet though

I felt sad, Shera and Edo will be going home tomorrow, they won't be studying at SBC anymore. I will miss them, I will miss everyone who tease me, lie to me hahaha :') Well, actually we could meet in Jakarta if we want to.. hahahaha yeah I'm so sensitive..

Thursday, June 16th, 2011:

Went to Zhongshan Park again, bought a lot of gifts for family, cousins and friends. I didn't buy a thing for myself.

Packed my stuffs, I'm moving to grandpa's apartment tomorrow BOO YEAH!

I'll miss my dorm room no matter what.

Friday, June 17th, 2011:

Angel, Adeline and Michael went home. Hugged them and I cried. Hahahaha. I am emotional. Actually I had a super plan with Summer. I wanted to eat Peking Duck and I wanted to creambath but it was raining so heavily so yeah, we canceled our plan. Thanks to you, rain. Psh. Moved to apartment and unpacked everything, it was damn tiring. Gong2 was also shocked seeing my stuffs, too many. Then we headed to somewhere in Pudong having our late-lunch with his friends. I met a friend who is from Guangzhou, I think I've told you before about her, her name is Wendy, remember? She's now super different. Feminine, long hair, make-up and thin. Enough said. I didn't talk to her because I was confused, what should I talk about? Hahaha she didn't say anything either. After that we went to one of his friends' company, we had this little workshop? I don't know how to call it, we saw the process of making tissues, cool. Everyone was very fast packing the tissues, I was amazed LOL. Then, we headed to another restaurant having dinner.

Saturday, June 18th, 2011:

I had a cooking workshop today! YAY. Met up with Ci Eva and her friends, Magda, Jessica, Edwin and Vanessa. I cooked pork with sweet and sour sauce and spicy chinese chicken. I think I nailed it. I did really well. Cooking is not hard actually, you just need recipe and feeling. HAHA. I can cook noooww.

I present to you, pork with sweet and sour sauce! YAAAYY :D I looked sick

I forgot to take a picture of the spicy chicken, it was a bit salty :p

Ci Eva and I went to my apartment, we planned to have dinner with Gong2. I also invited Summer to have dinner with us. She came and brought a very big bouquet of flowers LOOLLL.

When Summer met Gong2, there was a funny incident.

Summer: "Gong2, you're Chinese pronounciation is very good"
Me: "Err.. 他会讲普通话"

Haha Summer is very funny. Ooh we also chatted a lot! (Re: gossip) We went to a shabu2 restaurant, aaah I love shabu2. I felt like my tummy is going to explode because I ate too much. I love shabu2. Hahahaha :D

Sunday, June 19th, 2011:

I bought gifts for my family and cousins. I packed my stuffs that I'm going to take to Jakarta. I'm going home tomorrow. You happy? I stayed at home in the afternoon, after writing this post I'm gonna watch You're Beautiful, yeah I've been watching it since the exam was over. I gotta finish watching it! 4 more episodes to go. Well, I guess I'll see you in Jakarta? Bye2 :D

Freedumb

2011-06-13T21:27:00.007+08:00

Exams are over TEEHEE. I'm free as birds TEEHEE. Gonna watch Korean dramas and shop TEEHEE.

Writing was kind of hard. Listening was crazy. The recording used super fast and unclear British accent so yeah my friends and I found difficulties of course.

Today is the last day of exam, the hardest exam, Business. My friends and I worked our asses off to study this subject because there are a lot of materials to be memorized, we were all going crazy and really nervous. We had the horror time of our lives and voila! The exam turned out to be not really hard as we thought.

It's fair enough though. The subjects that we did underestimate came out harder than we thought and the subject that we studied crazily came out easier than we thought. Lesson learned.

After finished the exam, we went to Pankoo again, having our dinner and we shopped! HAH. I bought 1 blouse already, well, what about tomorrow? ;)

I can't believe I will be moving from this cursed dormitory this FRIDAY. It's Friday Friday gotta get down on Friday! HAH adios noisy neighbors!

However, it's hard to believe that my friends are going to move universities soon and I will be separated with my Chinese friends for 3 months! I'll miss them definitely. Everything happens just fast.. Remembering this, I feel really sad to be honest.

Well, gotta go now! I'll update my blog soon! Have a great time folks!

My Bro

2011-06-09T19:34:00.006+08:00

Heylow people. Gw mau share 1 cerita tentang adik gw yg paling kecil, si Marcellus.

Jadi kemarin itu adik gw dan nyokap gw pergi ke sekolah buat ambil rapot Marcellus. Kata nyokap, si Marcellus di sekolah bilang sakit perut, padahal udah poop di rumah, jadilah dia ke toilet. Nyokap gw tunggu lama banget, sampai akhirnya nyokap gw panggil dia ke toilet, katanya nyokap gw disuruh masuk duluan ke kelas, tapi akhirnya dia keluar dengan 1 kepala keringetan dan deg2an. Tau apa yg terjadi? DIA TAKUT GA NAIK KELAS.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! TROLOLOLOLOL!

Kenapa dia takut ga naik kelas? Ya ga heran lah! Kata nyokap science nya si Marcellus dapet nilai jelek terus dan dia remed terus, yeh salah sendiri belajarnya males2an, rasain. Malah gw jahat gw bilang ke nyokap seharusnya bohongin aja bilangnya ga naik kelas biar si Marcellus kapok tuh, nyaho. Semoga kelas 5 dia jadi anak yg rajin ya soalnya nilai2 kelas 5 diperhitungkan juga buat lulus SD. HAHAHA bener2 ga bisa stop ketawa gw, kocak abis. Marcellus.. Marcellus.. makanya kalo ngeles jangan males! Ckck.

Anyway, ujian gw berjalan lumayan lancar. Tetapi sangat mengecewakan karena ujian Economics gw yg gw belajar mati2an kagak ada yg keluar, ku kecewa. Entah lah gw ga tau bakal dapet nilai berapa, seharusnya sih ga jelek2 banget, at least gw lulus lah! dan target gw buat semua pelajaran at least gw dapet B sih.. Please please please.. Ayo dong! Semoga aja yang meriksa baek, jadi walopun gw jawabannya melenceng dari apa yg ditanya, tetep dikasih nilai laaah! Hua jadi khawatir..

Kalo buat Math, gw positif lulus, tapi juga ga tau dapet nilai berapa.. Kalo yg ini, gw kecewa sama diri gw sendiri, karena gw memilih soal yg salah. Section B tuh jadi kita pilih 4 pertanyaan out of 6, gw udah kerjain 3 dan gw yakin itu bener or at least gw dapet nilai yg cukup tinggi buat part itu, tapi buat yg terakhir gw agak ragu2 karena antara 3 nomor lagi gw ada yg ga bisa, tapi gw pilihlah nomor terakhir gw KIRA gampang tapi pas gw kerjain susah jadinya udah terlanjur, ya udah.. padahal buat 2 nomor lainnya at least ada part yg gw bisa dan gw tidak memilih nomor tersebut. Bodohnya.. Ya sudah lah, penyesalan memang selalu datang belakangan. Eeh sore2 guru Maths gw email gw tanya gimana ulangannya tadi, ya gw bilang pertanyaannya hampir sama kayak ujian2 yg lalu tp ada jg yg susah, gw positif lulus tapi entah nilai dapet berapa.. Eeh dia bilang "What's wrong with you, just aim for a passing? I really hope you will get A*, I always hope for the best" Gw cuma "....................."

Tadi pagi gw ujian Reading, lumayan susah sih.. Tapi ya gw bisa mengerjakannya, cuma balik lagi, entah bakal dapet nilai berapa..

Besok gw bakal ada 2 ujian, Writing sama Listening. Writing gw takut essaynya, Listening gw takut 2 part yg kita bakal dengernya cuma 1x.

Yah sebenernya buat semua ujian gw positif lulus kok karena nilai 40 keatas aja udah lulus. Di sekolah gw susah sih buat dapet nilai full, makanya standardnya kurang tinggi. Tetapi kan nilai juga menentukan kelas lu yg selanjutnya. Menurut guru Maths gw, kalo Accounting and Finance tuh yg lulus EAP sama nilainya bagus2 ditaro di kelas AnF 1.

3 ujian udah berakhir dan gw bener2 lega rasanya, tinggal 3 ujian lagi. Yang paling bikin gw dan teman2 gw khawatir adalah ujian Business Studies. Kenapa? Dengan melihat kertas2 ujian tahun lalu, sepertinya ujian Business ini bakal menjadi ujian yg susah. Kata2nya dibikin ribet banget dan untuk setiap lesson gw kurang mantep. Ditambah lagi dengan hafalannya yg super banyak, gw semakin ga bersemangat buat belajar. Jadi kira2 gw harus gimana nih? Belajar telepati kah? Bagi gw ujian Business adalah ujian paling horror.

Temen2 gw bilang katanya dari kemarin sampe hari ini, anak2 CK pada nyontekin gw. Yah gw sih kagak apa2, tp klo nilai lu jadi jelek gara2 jawaban gw yah jangan salahin gw. Tapi gw ga nyangka loh, gw kira buat anak2 CK nyontek tuh kagak level.. Ternyata eeh ternyata..

Oia btw, gw cuma pengen share 1 lagi nih.

Kenalin. Ini namanya Gidnat, hadiah ulang tahun gw 2-3 tahun yg lalu yg dikasih sama temen baik gw Gideon dan Nath2, makanya gw kasih nama Gidnat, super kreatif. Dia adalah seekor kuda laut. Nah, temen2 gw yg disini, kalo mau ngeprint kan ke kamar gw, 1 temen gw kira Gidnat itu iguana, 1 lg temen gw kira Gidnat itu naga. Nah, gw bingung, sebenarnya Gidnat itu apa sih?

Sepertinya sudah sampai disini dulu post-an gw, sekarang gw mau coba untuk belajar Business. Semoga gw beruntung. Hua gila takut banget gw.

Dragon Boat Festival

2011-06-06T12:54:00.016+08:00

1:00 PM

Halo.. Gw disini, yg seharusnya belajar Econ, tp masih sempet2nya nge-update blog gw, mengucapkan..

Happy Dragon Boat Festival!

Yak. Dragon Boat Festival dikenal sama orang Indonesia sebagai Hari Makan Bacang. Ini pertama kali gw melewati festival ini dengan tidak makan bacang bikinan nenek gw. Tp barusan gw sama teman gw pergi ke tempat jualan makanan dekat sekolah, disana jual bacang. Pertama gw cuma beli 2 bacang, soalnya takut kagak habis. Tp teman gw bilang cobain aja semuanya, sekali2. Ya udah, jadi gw beli dah tuh 4 rasa bacang yg berbeda, yg disediain ama tokonya.

Gw udah makan 3 bacang, tadinya gw yg ke 4 mau gw sikat juga cuma keadaan gw sekarang sudah seperti orang lg hamil jadinya yg terakhir buat entar sore aja..

Bacang pertama yg gw makan isinya cuma seuprit daging babi doang, sisanya ketan semua.. Yaaah, maklum lah yaa bacang murmer.. Begini penampakannya..

Bacang kedua yg gw makan hampir mirip sama yg pertama, ada daging babi seuprit, tp ada telor kuningnya juga.. Kalo yg ini lumayan enak..

Bacang ketiga paling beda, warna ketannya putih trus banyak kacang merahnya.. Nah, ini yg paling kagak enak, rasanya tawar. Hoeekk!

4:45 PM

Bacang keempat sama2 kagak enak kayak bacang ketiga. Entah lah isinya apa, pokoknya bacang keempat berakhir di tong sampah, maaf, saya tidak bisa makan kamu..

Dari keempat bacang tersebut, semuanya kagak ada yg enak sih sebenernya. Bacang bikinan nenek gw sama bacang Pasar Sunter yg paling enak menurut gw! Tiada tanding tiada banding *seperti kata Mira* Gw jg maklumin kenapa bacang tersebut tidak enak karena harganya yang sangat murah kalau boleh dibilang, 4 bacang harganya 12.5 kuai saja, jadi gw juga ga bisa expect banyak dengan harga segitu.. #maklumbacangmurmer. Gw jadi kangen masakan popo :(

Maaf, post-an kali ini emang sepertinya agak beda dr post2an yg lainnya. Gw memakai bahasa yg lumayan formal.. Ini terjadi mungkin karena gw pengen aja gitu coba2 blogging pake bahasa formal2 gimana gitu. Alasan ke 2 adalah gw mungkin sudah stress belajar, agak ga nyambung sih.. tapi ya uda laa yaaa..

Tolong doakan saya, besok saya ujian, supaya saya bisa belajar dengan rajin dan maksimal, mengerjakan ulangan dengan teliti dan maksimal.. Good luck juga buat teman2 yg lain.. AMIN AMIN spirit spirit ayoo datang.. SEMENGEEETTT! Hyat!

8:00 PM

This is the climax. Tomorrow is the exam day and the neighbors are still very noisy. One of them sings very badly at night and the others are just noisy like that. TOMORROW IS THE EXAM, don't you guys study or do something rather than shouting and singing?! And even if you wanna sing, can you PLEASE PLEASE OOH PLEASE sing quietly? Do you think your voice is good? NO. It just disturbes me studying. Remembering how pathetic it is living in the dormitory and these people are pain in the ass, ooh believe me I cried, I really shed tears. I cried because I'm having my PMS so I'm very emotional these days. Sayangnya gw bukan orang yg bisa ngomelin orang, samperin terus marah2, gw ga bisa kayak gitu.. Itu bodohnya gw. I tweeted a lot about it and my friends started to reply my tweets. Maybe they think it's funny but actually it is not that funny. I don't blame you guys for laughing because if I were in your position, I'll laugh too, so don't worry, but I really thank you guys for taking care of me, I really appreciate it ;) Now, back to study..

Another Month..

2011-06-04T21:11:00.000+08:00

It's June already people! Too fast aye?

I have to admit the fact that I feel very 'galau' every single night! Why? I don't know either! I come up with questions..

1. When will I be satisfied with all of the things I have? I feel that I just receive, I never give.
2. When will I get rid the feeling of envy?
3. When will I make my own decision without being influenced by other people's opinions?
4. When will I enjoy my life?! This summarizes all of the questions I have.

Friday was my last class for the whole year. The weather was gloomy and rainy, illustrating what I felt that day. I felt sad to be honest, I feel this is just different. When I was in high school, I knew that I will meet my friends on the next academic year, so it wasn't that bad. But now? The situation is different. We won't be in the same class, even most of my Indonesian friends are going to move to another university. We take different major. We will be separated. I will meet new friends that I don't know before. I've never been this emotional before, I feel like I really sense feelings now. Well, for all of my Indonesian, Chinese, foreign friends, good luck for us! Fighting! 加油!

The exams start on Tuesday, WML. For Economics and Maths, I already have the illustrations of what the exams are going to be, but for Business?! It's like when you were in a room but there was no light in it. Well.. we'll see. My motivator is SHOPPING aha aha. Yeah, after spending my times studying and hopefully I'll get high scores, I WILL SHOP!!

exams schedule

Anyway.. I'm currently addicted to these songs..
1. Kina Grannis - Valentine
2. Glee - I Feel Pretty/Unpretty
3. Glee - Loser Like Me
4. Glee - Friday
5. Cody Simpson - Iyiyi

I just went to Element Fresh for dinner. We actually invited our 老师 to come. This meeting supposed to be last Friday, but she couldn't come because she's busy, then we rearranged it to yesterday but she still couldn't come, she promised us that she'll come today, so yeah.

Too bad we didn't take pictures even though I brought my camera. Dang!!! Stupid upid Mimi~ We said earlier that we wanted to treat her but she said no, it can't be. But in the end, we raced and we won! HAHAHAHAHA she gave her card but we were faster giving our cash B) She said she wants to treat us after we get back to China, but there's no way we call her later and say "ooh yeah lao shi I'm in Shanghai now, you said you wanna treat us?" BIG NO. We won't call you asking for the treat, but if you call us, what can we do.. HAHAHAHAHAH :D Before she went home, she hugged us LOL so sweet~

These 3 days I haven't been really studying man seriously the exam is in front of my eye but still I have no study spirit. Well, I hope tomorrow it will come, God please give me the spirit to study.. or I should motivate myself to study if I wanna shop.

Another Day with Chinese Friends

2011-05-28T19:26:00.011+08:00

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

It was the last day of my Chinese class with my lovely teacher. She quits her job as a Chinese teacher, she wants to take a long break and changes her job. We took pics of course. We also invited her to have a dinner on Friday, too bad she said she couldn't come because she had a meeting. She said next week she has leisure time. So next Friday we will have the dinner!

Keep in touch 老师！加油！

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

My Chinese friends invited me to have a dinner with them. I thought there were just us, girls, but no. It was the whole class whose students I know only the name! Gee. It's not my class by the way, it is a part of my big class. That one below, is my small class. My big class is Biz 2-1A (my small class) and Biz 2-1B (the other small class). I'm closer to the other class actually haha :D We had our dinner at Pankoo. I ate like I haven't eaten foods for 3 days, yeah like a beggar I think. Pankoo is a Korean BBQ Restaurant. The foods were really nice! My American friend was also there. He brought his roommate. We took pics.

After having our dinner, they told me to join them going to KTV. Alright. I went there. It was my first time going to Chinese KTV. I also sang with them. Archibald sang a lot that day LOL :D He said he likes to sing.

Sometimes I teased him literally :p If there was a song played but no one was singing, I told him to sing, I gave him the microphone hahahaha I'm so mean B) I just knew it that Chinese people love to sing. We were at the KTV for 4 hours, singing. That's the longest time I've ever been in KTV. Usually, in Indonesia, I go to KTV with my friends and we only spend like an hour. LOOOLLL. How cool.

At 11.30 pm, we went back to dormitory. It was a fun day :D I felt really tired.

Friday, May 27th, 2011

I didn't have classes today YAY :D It's because these 2 weeks are review weeks, therefore we just have 3 classes a day and they give us a 1 day free. The exams are near and I'm very nervous. I went to apartment as usual, met new people, it was a long story.. At night, I went to Blue Frog, a bar, well it's not really a bar, it also provides Western foods. I had my dinner there.

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

In the morning, at 10 am, I went to Starbucks to study Economics with a friend of mine. I spent 1 and a half hour there. Then we had our lunch at Citta cafe, another Western cafe. I've been spending a lot of money this month, gosh. Thereafter, we went to H&M, window-shopping. I found some clothes that I like but I have to wait after everything is finished (read: exams). I decided to buy some clothes and spend my money after the exams. Hahahaha :D I really hope the clothes that I like are still there ;) I also planned to go to saloon, creambath and cut my hair (I think) with Summer. But I haven't told my plan yet. It was unfair. I spent 1 1/2 hour to study and more than 3 hours for refreshing LOOOOLLL.

Angel's

Mine (N)

At night, my friends and I went to the cinema to watch Kungfu Panda 2. Kungfu Panda 2 really made my day! It was hilarious and I laughed very loudly HAHA :D love it!

Monday's my presentation day. WML.

Unfortunately...

2011-05-22T16:34:00.003+08:00

Indonesian mode: ON

oke.. jadi tadi gw lagi jalan balik ke dorm abis dari gereja.. eeh tiba2 ada nenek lagi jalan bawa payung, ga nyantai dia bawa payungnya dan JENGJENGJENG, payungnya nyolok bawah mata gw! *SENSOR* dasar nenek gila pisan euy.. Hampir aja kecolok mata gw, bagus mata gw engga keluar tuh! Besok ujian Speaking lagi, gimana kalo mata gw keluar?! *ga ada hubungannya sih sebenernya*

Ga pernah gw sekesel ini sama orang Chinese. At least minta maaf lah! Ga tau malu banget. Dodolnya pas kecolok, gw teriaknya ADUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHH bukan JIU MING AAAAAA. Ya kagak ngerti lah dia.

Super sial hari ini. Kesel banget!!! Fuuuhhh..

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Today is Monday. Here I am, updating my post again.. Another bad day.

So today is my speaking exam day. The last time I checked that my examination room is T212, I went there 30 minutes earlier and my examination time is 2:30. I waited there for half an hour but there's no teacher inside the room. My friend and I kept waiting but we decided to re-check the schedule. I called a friend of mine to check for me and he said my room is T501!! Ooh well the schedule was changed very suddenly and nobody gave me a notice that it was changed! Crap. I ran to T501 and guess what? I was marked absent. Masih sempet2nya gw dramatis, gw pura2 cape banget gitu sampe nafas gw hash hosh hash hosh biar gurunya tersentuh dan yak! "Maybe you can come at 5:30" Got a 2nd chance, won't miss it.

Finally it was time for me to take the exam. I was very nervous I must say. JENGJENGJENG We got a very hard topic. I don't know it's about national culture, manners, history and law, not interested. I didn't say a lot of things and I don't think I did well for my speaking exam. I just wish the teachers are very very very nice person that they'll give me a C so I can pass the EAP. I wish for a miracle. I don't want to fail the exam because if I fail, then there will be a re-test on July where I'm going to be in Jakarta that time.

Today I realized that.. Life's hard.
Today is a bad day for sure. Everything was messed up.

Friday Friday!!

2011-05-20T18:25:00.013+08:00

It's Friday and today is the last day of EAP classes! Woot woot~ I took pics with my classmates and Ms. Amber, the teacher in listening class. So here they are!!

Me - Raina - Ms. Amber - Lily - Maedeline - Dawn - Agatha - Kelly - Viola - Danni - Aileen - Sean - Aaron - Paul

Yeap, they're my classmates!! It was kind of sad maaaan.. T_T they were confused when I asked them to take pics LOL. Actually I took 3 pics, but nothing's changed. LOL.

Anyway, I'll share some pics I've recently taken but haven't been posted yet.

these two foods were taken last week. I went to Zhongshan Park and we ate at My Thai. It is a Thailand Restaurant. The foods are yummy and the price is affordable. Actually we also ordered other foods but forgot to take the pics because we were starving!! Unfortunately I forgot to take the most delicious food from this restaurant called dry 'mie' with seafood and curry sauce. yum yum yum!

These also were taken last week on Sunday. This Vietnamese restaurant is near our church. They make Vietnamese 'mie'. The place is very nice but the food is just so so.

I went to my grandpa's apartment. My grandma told me to buy something so I went to the mall near the apartment. When I want to bought to thing, I said that I want to buy 1 kg. The xiao jie said something I didn't really understand. But I said YES. LOL. I heard she said to the other customer "I think this girl is not Chinese, by her accent, she's definitely not Chinese.." I said: "对。。对。。" Then she 'attacked' me with questions: "对吗？你是韩国人还是日本人？" Me: "Err.. 我是印尼人。。" the customer said: "Ahh she must be Indonesian Chinese, blablabla, 漂亮。。 cannot be seen if they're Chinese or not.. 对吗？" Me: “对对。。" Chinese people are typically like that. I've been asked by people hundreds of times '你是哪国人？韩国？日本？" then if I answer "印尼人", they are shocked, "Why do you look like Chinese? You're Chinese is very good too!" Me："Hehehe.. 谢谢。我是印尼华人。。" I'm tired answering this kind of question -_-

Anyway, in 1 hour I'll be watching Pirates of The Caribbean 4!! Yes. This is the first time I feel that China's update of movie is fast! HA! Indonesia is not very cool now since they don't have the new and famous movies. Shhh.

Gonna update this post soon once I finished watching!!

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Hello! today is Sunday and actually I wanted to update my blog yesterday! But yesterday I had no internet connection, I forgot to buy the new card! So voila! I bought the new card just now!

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 was AWESOME! Although I found it difficult to listen to their accent (there was only Chinese subtitle), I understood the story and it was really good and intimidating!! There were very berry beautiful evil mermaids! Super beautiful!! T_T At night my friends and I decided to buy tickets to watch Fast Five on Saturday!!! BOO YEAH!

Fast Five was also cool. What made me jealous was they got a lot of money!! It made me think what would I do if I get a lot of money like that!

1. Buy a house, for myself, minimalist of course.
2. go around the world!
3. shop till I'm bored of shopping!
4. Save the money

HAHAHA. :D

Next week I'll be watching Kungfu Panda 2! Haaaaa I feel happy! This is the first time I feel that China is up to date about movies B) lovin' Chinese cinemas lalala~ I hope I can watch Harry Potter 7 Part 2 before I go back to Jakarta. Amen..

Lion Donut! RAAAWRR! Cute!! :3

Happy&Sad

2011-05-19T19:22:00.002+08:00

Tomorrow is the last day of EAP class, I'm both happy and sad. I guess I'm going to bring my camera to Listening class tomorrow, hahahaha :D cherish every moment!! I'll introduce you my classmates, it's never too late ;) Hopefully everyone will be in the class tomorrow.. Wuaaa can't believe this academic year will be over.

Got a bad news from my Mandarin teacher. She said this is a secret but somehow I just wanna share this. She said she's going to quit her job as a mandarin teacher and takes some time to rest, have times for herself, go on a vacation, then she's going to change her job. This is quite sudden she said because she has felt tired these days.. Sad.. :'( Gonna bring my camera too on the last day of Mandarin class. HAHAHAHA :D

Well, even though I don't like EAP classes *to be honest*, but still, it's a part of my life. The teachers are very nice, especially my listening teacher. I'm not ready for the 2nd year. Sighs. But I gotta face it! There will be no more small class which contains only 15 students.. Yeah sad isn't it? After I finish the exam, my friends will be going home first. I really hope we can arrange a meeting in Jakarta. So saaaaaddddd :'(

These Things..

2011-05-16T15:35:00.003+08:00

Ooh crap, the truth is I'm still unable to access blogger WITHOUT proxies. I have no idea why I could open blogger without proxy yesterday.. sighs..

Anyway, I've been very stressed. Final exams seem very hard. My teacher gave me a practice exam, yeah it was hard. T_T really need to work this ass off if I wanna pass with good marks. Unfortunately I forgot some of the lessons from Semester 1. GRAAAHH. This is the first thing.

Second, since my Windows XP was formatted and re-installed, I have problems with my Windows 7. It somehow makes me stressed out, until now.

Third, the dilemma I've had.. about moving to another apartment, not my grandpa's. This is the biggest one. Last Friday, my friends and my tutor went to an apartment, looking for off-campus accommodation for next academic year, because the accommodation on-campus will be restricted. Electricity and internet will be turned off at 11 pm. Chinese students will live on campus. Therefore our school is looking for off campus accommodation near the campus. My friend said the apartment was REALLY100x NICE. It is minimalist and very big. There are restaurants around, supermarket and it is near Taikang Lu, one of the best street in Shanghai I think. We rent per year. if you live with a roommate, the price is 20,000 RMB. If you want to have a room for only yourself, then the price is doubled. Internet, water, electricity are all free of charge. Well, who doesn't want this apartment? They made it sounds very nice you know.. Hahaha :D I really want to live there, but somehow there are negative points I'll get. Let me compare and contrast my grandpa's apartment and this apartment.

If I live in...

1. My Grandpa's Apartment:
- I'll save a lot of money since my grandfather will help with my living costs, foods, transportation, etc
- It is quite far from my campus so I have to wake up earlier
- If my cousins or my grandpa's guests visit, where should I sleep? In my grandpa's apartment, there are 3 bedrooms, my grandpa's, my uncle's (which will be mine!) and guest room. Yeah, where should I sleep if there are like 5-10 people?!
- and well, the internet is not as fast as my dormitory :p
- It is also hard for me to go to the center of the city
- If my cousins who visit are mostly children, I definitely cannot study, they're too noisy seriously.. (and I don't really like living with people whom I don't really recognize)

2. This very nice apartment:
- I will be very excited since the apartment is very nice
- I still don't know whether the internet is fast or not
- I'll live with another person/people even though I have a room for myself
- It is quite far from the center-of-the-city subway, 20 mins walk to campus

My friend said "yeah Michelle, you should live there! The apartment is very berry nice you know oh my Gooood.. blablabla" well, they didn't say it exactly like that, it's just me who is overreacted hahaha :D

Yeah I'm very confused now! :s
Which one will you choose?

I've been watching Secret Garden! HAHAHAHA :D Why do I always watch Korean dramas when the time is near to final exams! groar. never mind. I'll take care of this. Actually, at first, I just wanna download it and later I'll watch it, but you know, I have to wait for a quite long time to finish the download process, so I started to watch the 1st eps, then 2nd, now 18th B) I also downloaded the other dramas like You're Beautiful and My Princess. Why are Korean dramas so addicting.. O_o

*UPDATE* Monday, May 17th, 2011: Finished watching Secret Garden yaaay! The movie is so amazing, too bad the ending was disappointing sighs. I like Joo Won :D Haaaaa Korean dramas make me crazy, everytime I watch it, I always want a guy exactly like what's in the movie. I believe there's no such thing.. but argh I really want something like that happens in my life! It seems like I need to find a boyfriend zzzzzz..

Ooohh yeah, congrats for all of my friends who passed the national exam! You're not a high school student anymore! Yaaaay :D

Okay, gotta stop blogging now. Gotta review lessons, work on my assignments and bye-bye.

Woot Woot

2011-05-11T18:42:00.002+08:00

Oh. Em. Gee. I'm here writing a blogpost WITHOUT any proxies. AWESOMENESS. aduh please please please begini seterusnya yaaaaa China please please please.. :(

Anyway...

Final exams are in front of my eyes. Gotta work my ass off for this because I don't wanna have retests no no no! Do my best and God will do the rest! ;) I must get high scores! Hwaiting! Hyaaattt hyaaattt!

I'm downloading some Korean dramas now. This is an investment. After I'm finished with my exams and stuffs, I will be moving to my grandpa's apartment, at last! HAHAHA say BYE to this dorm and stupid crazy and smelly people around me! Sighs. I'm not gonna miss you! :D I'm going back to Jakarta on June 20th, I'm finished with my exams on June 13th, so there's a week for me to stay in apartment. Yeah what can I do there? Watch Korean dramas YEAAAAAYYYY :D

Wish me luck and I wish you luck! MUACH.

Anti Social

2011-05-07T17:50:00.014+08:00

Hello :)

Today I decided to have a short break, again, yeah, I'm bored with college life seriously. I am almost finished with assignments and stuffs like that, final test is in front of my eyes, gotta study harder for this hectic semester! Hwaiting!

I started this morning with unhealthy breakfast, chicken nuggets from Mc Donald's! Yay :D Well, actually, I wanted the french fries too, but too bad I didn't know that Mc Donald's also has breakfast foods, so I found no french fries. Crap. I've been craving for them for 3 weeks, or a month maybe?

Chicken nuggets YUM

Then, suddenly I also wanted to have my lunch in Secret Recipe. I asked Adeline to accompany me. We went to People's Square, Raffles City to be exact. At Secret Recipe, I ate Macaroni with prawn, mushroom and mozarella cheese, baked until it melted. Super yummy. Ooh, I ordered french fries too since I really wanted them.

Yeap, that's me with my longer hair and my lunch. Haha.

Macaroni with prawn, mushroom and mozarella cheese! and french fries!

take a closer look...

Jajang! the best food porn photo I've ever taken ;)

After Secret Recipe, we went around the mall. We were bored there and we just went out going nowhere. We found out that we were in Nanjing Road already. Hahahaha :D We walked around and we felt very berry tired because the weather was SUPER HOT! Then Adeline wanted some deserts and I was very thirsty, so we went to the nearest cafe in Huaihai Road (near our school), RBT cafe. I wanted to order only lemon tea, but Adeline asked me if I wanted to eat waffle and ice-cream. At first, I didn't want it because I was still very full (yeah that macaroni and french fries), but I saw Adeline really wanted to eat it, OK I helped her. LOL. I won't eat tonight dude. So here's our desert!

I-forgot-the-desert-name

Finally, we went home. Yeah I killed my own feet. -_-

Anyway, about the title, yeah. My friend asked me if I have a roommate or not, but I don't. He said that I'm anti-social. Actually he was just kidding.

Yesterday, my Angolian friend asked me did I go somewhere on Friday night. I said I stayed in my room working on my assignments. Then he said, you need a company? You seem always alone. I answered 'Haha, I don't know, sometimes it feels good being alone..'

I started to think 'am I anti-social?' Well I'm not sure about that because I still play with my friends. But yeah, I'm just bored seeing a lot of people around me. China is very overcrowded, too overcrowded. Too many people here. I need to see another creature, like monkey maybe? yes? no? I'm bored seeing people! I need something new, like handsome guys, yeaaaah, lacking of handsome guys here! Help!

No, I'm not anti-social, I'm not a loner. I just need some times to be alone, lock myself in my room, have a chat with friends/family/cousins, take a rest, work on my assignments. Sometimes I feel good being alone, especially these days.

This reminds me of another question from my Colombian friend, he asked me do I like to go partying? I said no. He said "Why, this is Shanghai!" Well, I'm in Shanghai but it doesn't mean that I have to go out every single night/every weekend, it doesn't mean that I have to party like crazy right? No offense :p Peace.

1 Month Left..

2011-05-04T22:02:00.003+08:00

Just got back from a dinner. My SBC friend, Michael, celebrated his 17th birthday yaaayy! Happy birthday Mike, all the best :D

His parents are visiting him, they also joined the dinner *yeah of course, who else will pay then :p*

His father said: There's only 1 month left, then you guys will be separated. But friendship doesn't end here right? We should keep it everlasting.

I'm the kind of person who feel sad very easily, oohh believe me. When I heard him saying things like that, I was startled and I really feel sad. Even though I'm not that close with my SBC friends, I mean I don't share my private things with them, but they've been my good friends. When they leave, who will tease me? Who will lie to me? Who will make silly jokes? Who will make me laugh?

This unyu post is dedicated for my SBC friends. Although you guys always lie to me and tease me, I still love you and I will miss you for sure! I love youuuuu :*

Suzhou 1 Day Trip

2011-05-02T19:30:00.006+08:00

Hey. It's May already! :D

I know I'm so late, but have you guys watched The Royal Wedding? Aww it's very nice and sweet. I actually didn't really follow the news, but it was very booming so I decided to watched it! Fairytale wedding must be perfect aye? ;) They seemed like Cinderella and her prince. Aaaah I wanna get married! :p Seeing cute babies, I want to have one. Seeing perfect wedding ceremony, I wanna get married. HAHA.

Anyway, last Saturday I went to Suzhou! My friends came with me and there were 2 people, 1 Malaysian and 1 Singaporean, Lee and Jessie. Lee is a friend of Sasa's. We met before when Sasa visited Shanghai a few months ago. She's in Shanghai because she has internship, cool! She helped me buying the train tickets.

I and my friends arrived at the metro station earlier. Lee and Jessie were a bit late. Our tickets were still with Lee. Actually Lee had arrived, but we didn't meet! It was almost the time to go. I was so panic as I looked for Lee and I just got into the train station WITHOUT the tickets. Before we entered the station, there was ticket-checking. I was in hurry so the person didn't check my ticket, but he did want to check my friends'. My friends were very funny, they pretended like they don't know so they also got into the station HAHAHA. It was a hard time though. We missed the train. Luckily there was a chance to change the ticket. We finally met Lee and Jessie. Lee said sorry and changed the tickets. Naaah, it was our fault too, sorry :( I felt cool anyway. We entered the station WITHOUT tickets. Cool. B)

We arrived at 12.30 pm. We met Sasa! :D We didn't really plan the trip, where to go, so it was just decided spontaneously. We went to Guanqian and Shantang. We used any kind of transportation. Motorbike, 'becak' Suzhou, buses and taxis. HAHA. Although it was very tiring, but it's worth experience and fun!

There was this incident where we had to cross the road, but Sasa suddenly shouted very loudly because there was a car which was driven fast towards us and Edo was shocked that he also shouted very loudly. LOL.

Too bad we had to go back to Shanghai at 9 pm. It was really a fun day!

On Sunday, bad things happened to me. There are some of my stuffs that are broken, like my HDD and USB. Yeah, my HDD has not been repaired. Yaiks. My USB is also broken! WTH. I formatted it in Mac and I wanted to see if my Windows can read it. In Windows, my USB was unreadable but I saw Removable Disk (F:) in My Computer. I double-clicked it and it said that it has not been formatted, do you want to format it? I directly clicked Yes. When the formatting process was still going, I saw that the memory was 200MB, I was confused because my USB is 8GB. So I didn't know what did I format. After the formatting process was done, I plugged in my camera cable and mouse USB, but they both cannot be detected. Ohh damn. It was because I formatted it. I tried to fix this by myself. I looked for ways to solve this problem and I got one. I tried to do it but I think I did it wrong, so my laptop restarted by itself then it cannot open my Windows! *shocking part* It kept restarting after it cannot open my Windows. Yeah, MY LAPTOP IS BROKEN. I was very panic if the datas were lost! FYI, I love my datas like I love my children even though I don't have children yet but it feels like that. GAAAHH. I was panic, shocked and almost cried. I was going CRAZYYY. Especially for the assignments, I still have some assignments that have not been finished. I really hate things like these. I'm going to fix my USB, laptop, HDD today. There's an electronic place near my school. Fiuhh lucky. I bought another 500GB HDD, 499 kuai. Sorry Mom and Dad, I keep wasting your money, forgive me. Sorry Grandpa, I keep taking the money from the bank. I'm so stressed out. I promise I won't buy any things that are not necessary for this and next month maybe? Really2 sorry.. :(

My computer is in good condition now, but I use windows 7. aaaaargh this is so stressing. I have to survive for 1 month. I don't put my music here, or videos, anything like that. Just some programs, internet and of course, school stuffs.

the sky was very blue, love it!

anyway, gotta go now! Bye2 :')

Chinese Culture

2011-04-26T19:10:00.001+08:00

Today I've learnt a lot about Chinese culture, the terrible one.

So when I was in the Economics class, the students were very noisy and the teacher of course got angry. He scolded one of the Chinese students and the Chinese student said something in Chinese. Then my teacher asked him what did he say because if he wanted to speak with my teacher, he should speak English. The person said that he didn't want to speak English, because this is China.

I was like WTH?! Are you crazy or whaattt? From it, I've learnt that some of Chinese people's behavior are very terrible. I mean, if you don't want to speak English, don't go to British University, hello? You waste your parents' money and time. I think you're old enough to make decision. If I were him, I must have felt VERY VERY stupid. Sorry if this is harsh, but if you think logically, it doesn't make sense.

I think there are a very small number of diligent Chinese students who really want to study and go to UK. The rest? They were just told by their parents to study here, really. Yeah, the parents are also wrong. Maybe because in China they can have ONLY 1 child, so they give EVERYTHING the child wants. So here it is. In my university, teachers take attendance, well, universities are not supposed to take attendance because it is the responsibility of the students to go to classes. I just knew it from my teacher that the parents are the one who want the attendance to be taken! So OMG. I was really shocked and I was just ooh-ing. That's terrible, isn't it?

and anyway, my Chinese teacher also told us that in China, people are considered mature when they graduate from university. WHAAATTTTTTT O_o it's very shocking! No wonder the teachers always treat them like children. I feel very bad for the teachers because most of the teachers in this university are OLD enough to retire. Next year, one of my teachers said that he will retire, he is tired of teaching. See? :( This is not fair I think.

Sorry to say this, but it is just pathetic unfortunately.

I really hope their behavior and culture will change very soon. Yeah you guys should really change.

Sorry once again, this is just what I've been thinking the whole day. I don't mean to make China look bad, but I just want changes, you know what I mean?