Orange Ladybug

Doa Seorang Ayah

2012-01-29T16:36:00.000+08:00

untuk ulang tahun anakku yang ke 22

Tuhan,
terimakasih Engkau menjadikanku Ayah dengan memberikan anak 22 tahun yang lalu

Di awal pertumbuhannya,
aku merasa, Engkau menitipkan anak yang penakut, pemalu,
dengan rupa dan kecerdasan yang biasa.

Semua aku syukuri.

Namun aku bertekad menjadikan dia seseorang yang bisa terbang.

Sekarang aku melihat,
anak penakut itu berubah pemberani memasuki hal- hal baru.
Bukan pemalu lagi, tetapi menjadi pribadi yang menyenangkan dengan banyak kawan
Juga, dia cantik dan cerdas.

Dan dia sudah mulai terbang,
Terbang dengan ambisinya..
Terbang dengan prestasinya..
Terbang dalam pergaulannya..

Semua aku syukuri

Hal yang menentramkanku adalah, dia tetap dengan Engkau.
Dan aku percaya, tutunan Mu cukup, dalam dia menatap dunia ini.

Amin.

When she wished a Happy Birthday

2012-01-21T09:39:00.000+08:00

Mikhal,
Hari ini genap 22 tahun usiamu.
Saat engkau beranjak menjadi gadis dewasa.

Hidup bagai roda yang berputar
Ada saat susah, ada saat senang
Ada saat kalah, ada saat menang
Smua itu bisa terjadi karena engkau pengendalinya

Di hadapanmu ada pilihan- pilihan yang harus kau tentukan
keputusan-keputusan yang harus kau ambil
Bersama Tuhan, jalanilah hidup dengan langkah pasti
Agar keputusan yang kau ambil seturut dengan kehendak-Nya

Selamat ulang tahun.
Tuhan besertamu
:*

22

2012-01-14T02:38:00.000+08:00

Tuhan Yesus,

terima kasih untuk 22 tahun yang sudah aku lewati. My whole life is a blessing. Terima kasih untuk family, untuk Mama Papa dan Yason yang selalu supportive, yang bijak, yang selalu menginspirasi hidupku. Terima kasih Tuhan, tanpa mereka, aku ga akan menjadi Mikhal yang sekarang. Terima kasih untuk setiap lesson yang mereka berikan, yang membuatku selalu bangga dan bersyukur memiliki mereka. Terima kasih untuk keluarga yang harmonis. They are irreplaceable.

Terima kasih Tuhan, untuk teman-teman. Mereka yang mewarnai hariku, membantu tanpa henti, mengajakku melihat dunia. Seratus, dua ratus, seribu, dua ribu, begitu banyak jejak langkah dari orang-orang yang berbeda. Those friends, they left footprints in my heart.

Bantu aku Tuhan, untuk menjadi teman yang baik. Untuk tidak hanya fokus pada diriku sendiri. Let me not be arrogant and proud of myself. Aku bukan siapa-siapa, tanpa orang-orang di sekitarku.

Terima kasih Tuhan untuk talents, untuk kemampuan beradaptasi dengan setiap situasi di depanku. Terima kasih untuk energy, motivation, intelligence, and strength yang membuat aku keep moving forward.

Tuhan Yesus,

Bantu aku untuk menjadi pribadi yang lebih baik

Bantu aku untuk lebih dekat dengan-Mu

Bantu aku untuk willingly help others.

Thank you God, for this smooth-sailing life I have. Though it may not be smooth all the time in the future, but I do believe GOD, that You have a wonderful plan for me.

Semua baik.

Sincerely,

Mikhal

The last day of the year

2011-12-31T00:50:00.000+08:00

31 December

2011 has been busy, exciting, great, full of experiences, joy, and full of blessing. I went through loads of things, most of them are good! :D I learn a lot. gain a lot. Here are some of the recap

being 21.

B'day with W15.

Bali with Ngkong & Fam.

Monash intercampus Exchange, Clayton.

TRAVEL to different CONTINENT!

Super huge campus in Melbourne.

OCF - IPC - Easter Camp

Evelyn Street, Clayton with Sovan, Hung, Nukke, etc.

Winter

Perth with Oom Chris & Fam

Greco's cake *awesomeness!*

Cooking for daily meal.

Back to Malaysia.

Single room in LV

Part time job, Sno

Fraser Hill

Pulau Tioman

Patriot Band

Monash Ball

Market Research Internship, TNS

CHC Christmas Production, Chromeheart

Awesome year. I am thankful of what have happened in my life.

Thank you God, thank you family, and thank you friends.

Looking for another year to come.

Last but not least,

Goodbye 2011 and Welcome 2012!

Internship

2011-11-20T22:01:00.001+08:00

After tons of resume being sent, dozens being rejected, and others being ignored, finally I was called for interview, and accepted for 3 months internship program. Praise GOD!

I just had my interview last friday morning and will start working as an intern this coming Tuesday.Quite fast, huh?! But that's a good thing in a way that I don't have to worry anymore about what will I do during this long summer holiday and can confidently reply "I'm doing internship in KL". And confirm, I will spend the whole holiday here :)

This internship is very different with my previous internship at Stem cell and Cancer Institute. Although my position is almost the same, both as a Research Assistant, but the companies do research in two very different things! For these coming 3 months, I will work in a market research company, TNS where the analysis more about people, consumers, and market. Working at a multinational company which deal with clients like Unilever and P&G makes me excited. It's time to learn something!

As I will start my internship very soon, I also decided to quit Sno, my part time work at Sunway Pyramid. So this week will also be the end of my Sno-ing job.

Jessika

2011-11-18T22:11:00.001+08:00

dalam menghadapi exam kali ini, walaupun hampir setiap waktu saya tetap memilih belajar sendiri, ada kalanya saya menimba ilmu dari teman sekelas yang juga tinggal se apartment. Jessika namanya. Sesama orang indo, sesama cewek, sesama anak biotek, ga susah buat kami untuk bersosialisasi satu sama lain. Jessika ini memang satu semester diatas saya, jadi ini adalah exam terakhir nya di biotek monash.

Bukan pertama kali saya belajar bareng sama Jess. Dulu, tahun lalu di desprate moment ga ngerti apa-apa tentang satu subject, saya begging ngajak belajar bareng. Saya yang prefer belajar sendiri daripada rame-rame, saking putus asanya mengajar temen belajar bareng-bareng, yang sebenernya adalah 'minta diajarin'. Satu hal, saya selalu merasa gain something kalo belajar bareng Jess. Waktu desprate, jelas, wong dia gurunya kok. Tapi bahkan disaat saya udah belajar duluan, curi start belajar seminggu lebih awal di kala dia masih ada exam lain yang lebih awal, tetep aja, saya merasa saya yang nambah ilmu dari dia. She seems know everything. Hari itu dia bilang,"Duh mik, belom belajar nih.." Tapi ketika kita saling tanya jawab, dia kok ya tau semuaa. *tepuk tangan* Dan ketika dia bilang belum belajar, kamu akan tau kalo dia bukannya sok-belum-belajar.. You know, ada orang-orang yang kiasu dan ga mau kalah yang bilang belum belajar karena ga mau kamu tau kalo mereka sudah hafal jungkir balik satu kamus biologi! Ini beda, mungkin karena polos-polos innocent nya dia. Pokoknya ga bikin kamu ilfil bilang "Yeah right! talk to the hand!!" Nah karena sudah beberapa kali belajar bareng, saya jadi lebih mengerti, kalau Jess bilang belom belajar, berarti dia belom mulai ngafalin kata per kata.. Lah, kalo mikhal, kalo belom belajar berarti belom tau yang mana bahannya, belajar apa aja, berapa banyak afalannya etc etc.

Jessika itu mau berbagi ilmu.. Saya juga sadar saya nggak se-ngoyo dia. Dan saya yakin dia juga sadar dia tau jauh lebih banyak dari saya. Tapi toh, dia ga kapok tuh.. masih oke-oke aja digangguin mikhal, padahal kalo tanya jawab, banyakan saya yang tanya dan dia yang jawab.. hehehe. Dia ga segan-segan kasih tips-tips apa aja yang penting dan harus dihafalin.

Lucu juga sih, pre-exam terakhir kita, Genomics, satu hari dia belajar sama Vony, teman biotek lain yang ga jauh beda lah nilai-nilainya sama Jess, besoknya gantian belajar sama saya. Ketika saya datang, dia dengan despratenya bilang "Duhh Mik aku stress banget belajar ga hafal-hafal!!" Itu H-1 exam, ga lama dia tanya-tanya apa aja yang saya pelajari. Aku yang memang masih meraba-raba ya cuma bisa senyam-senyum aja, "Duh belom sampe situ jess belajarnya..... Mmmm itu yang mana yaa?? Ha?emang ada detailnya doang?bukan point2 doang?" Sepulangnya saya dari tempat Jess, saya rasa dia malah jadi stress liat Mikhal belom tau apa-apa kok masih santai-santai ajaa.. hhehehe

Jessika & Mikhal at Monash Ball 2011

Inti dari semua cerita di atas, saya mau bilang, Jessika, saya mengagumi anda. your intelligent, your hardwork, your ambition. When you get straight HD, that's because you deserved :) Terimakasih jess sudah berbagi ilmu sama Mikhal. Apapun hasilnya nanti, HD, D, C, I still thank you a lot. I owe u those knowledge and time.

God bless u friend.

update

2011-10-29T03:05:00.002+08:00

Setelah cukup lama Orange Ladybug terabaikan, kali ini gue berniat mengupdate kegiatan2 yang terjadi recently. Sibuk! Banyak kegiatan-kegiatan yang sebelumnya memang ga eksis. Tapi saya senang.. Menikmati setiap kesibukan yang ada. Here we go, pictures speak thousand words.

Sasa, Keyang, Dicky, Sylvi, Kevin Birthday Dinner Oct 2011, Italiannies

Nukke's 21 - 12 Oct 2011

Patriot at Battle of The Band Monash

Erlangga Ramadian, Robertus Kevin, Rangga Irzad, Ericka Leigh, Mikhal Anindita

Patriot at Cultural Diversity Day 2011 Monash

Rangga, Angga, Etus, Mikhal

Pulau Tioman, Mid break September 2011

Monash Ball 2011, JW Mariott Putrajaya

City Harvest Church KL Soft and Grand Openning, at No. 3

Fraser Hill

People Quit People, Not Company

2011-09-09T16:23:00.000+08:00

Statement di atas diambil dari buku Leadership Gold by John C. Maxwell yang baru saja selesai gue baca. Sekilas tentang buku, banyak point-point yang applicable dan waktu dibaca bikin gue ber "Ooohh.. iya jugaa.." sendiri.

Singkat cerita, jadi sekarang gue kerja part time di Sno, Pyramid, sebuah local beverage company yang fokus pada shakes dan smoothies. Hampir sebulan bekerja disana, layaknya company-company pada umumnya, ternyata banyak lika-liku yang terjadi di dalamnya. Padahal, kalau mau dihitung, kayaknya total staff disana ga lebih dari kesebelasan sepak bola. Dalam sebulan gue di Sno, unfortunately ada 2 orang pentolan di Pyramid yang resign. Sayang sebenarnya, mengingat yang satu manager, dan yang satu lagi, sudah kayak full timer disana.

Kembali ke statement di atas, coba deh kita renungkan, sambil lihat kanan kiri, memang pada kenyataan nya seseorang lebih banyak resign dengan alasan "ga cocok sama si ini dan si itu.." daripada "ga cocok sama company nya" Kabar burung yang beredar, di tempat gue kerja sekarang juga sempat terjadi mogok kerja, resign masal gara-gara ulah seseorang. Bahkan orang-orang yang masih stay juga sependapat sama yang sudah pada resign. That's pity. Bisa kamu bayangkan kalau kamu, tanpa disadari adalah si pembuat ulah. Life will be miserable man, knowing that people arround you don't like you.

Inspite of those fact, gue pribadi ga ada, atau belum ada masalah sama yang bersangkutan, jadi yah gue ga mau terlalu nge-judge juga, toh orangnya juga baik2 aja sama gue. Dan saya senang, karena kemaren habis gajiann.. Hore hore!! Besides, kerjaan di sana juga cukup menyenangkan. Temen-temen yang kerja semua student part timers juga, dan kerjaannya simple dengan salary yang sama. Not bad at all.

Happy working, Happy studying, Happy playing.....

Maaf, kepotong...

2011-07-29T10:16:00.002+08:00

Maksud baik tidak selalu berhasil baik.

Seiring dengan kepulangan ke Malaysia, mau nggak mau saya harus beres-beres rumah dan kamar baru. Nah, kemarin, dengan penuh semangat dan tekad tinggi, saya bermaksud membereskan kabel-kabel internet yang karena kecanggihan Wi-Fi technology, tidak terpakai lagi. Sebenarnya sudah lama (bertahun-tahun -red) saya merasa kabel-kabel itu cuma menjadi pengganggu di rumah. FYI saya beruntung bisa kembali ke unit di mana saya tinggal dulu. Akhirnya kesempatan datang untuk saya membereskan kabel-kabel berserakan itu. Seingat saya, sudah saya pastikan tidak ada kabel-kabel yang terhubung dengan line internet dan telepon. Setengah jam berlalu, saya cukup puas dengan hasil pekerjaan saya.

Namun, malam harinya, seorang housemate komplain atas terputusnya line internet selama berjam-jam. Saya yang baru pindah malah bertanya, "Memangnya internet disini sering mati seperti ini?" Dia pun mengiyakan. Setelah mengkonfirmasi dengan housemate lain, saya pun tau koneksi internet dirumah mati sejak sore hari, yang berarti setelah saya 'bersih-bersih' rumah. Deg. Saya pun mulai was-was, apa mungkin saya secara tidak sengaja memotong kabel yang masih berfungsi?

Mulailah saya menelusuri kabel-kabel telepon. Oh no! Sepertinya memang demikian sodara-sodara. Gara-gara terlalu agresif memotong kabel-kabel, saya tidak sengaja memotong line telepon juga. Pantas saja internet ga nyambung sejak sore. Saya pun mengaku dosa pada housemate yang kebingungan mengurusi internet "Kayaknya pas gue beres-beres tadi, gue ga sengaja motong kabel nya dehhh...." Untung aja housemate saya baik. Dia bilang "Masa sih? Aku juga tau kok kabel-kabel itu udah ga kepake lagi..."

Setelah penyelidikan selesai, terbukti memang sayalah orangnya! Yang memutus koneksi telpon sekaligus internet. Untungnya kami cuma perlu memindahkan pesawat telepon dan langsung menghubungkan kabel tanpa menggunakan kabel yang putus. Internet pun jalan lagi dengan lancarnya.

Hal serupa terjadi saat papa berbaik hati mau membetulkan koper yang rusak. Setelah seminggu tanpa koper dan mendelay packing barang untuk ke Malaysia, aku mendapati koperku dengan gagang baru, yang sedihnya lebih tipis dan ringkih dari yang sebelumnya. Sempat kesal karena koper super besar berkapasitas 25kg+ itu pasti nggak kuat bertumpu pada si gagang tipis baru. Ya apaboleh buat, toh aku masih bisa pakai kopernya...

Maaf teman, kali ini maksud baik tidak menjamin hasil yang baik juga.

inspection

2011-06-15T12:23:00.003+08:00

Last week, i was caught by tram inspector with no valid ticket to travel on my way back home. I was alone that time, innocently get into a tram, didn't touch on my myki card just like what I always did. Unfortunately, I didn't realize there was an inspector entered the tram in the same stop. So after awhile, He asked everyone to show him the ticket! Dang!

Still act innocent, I gave him my myki which I know haven't been activated anytime that day. I thought, when He saw me that I had a ticket, He will just go away. Bad luck for me, instead of went away, He took out his Myki detector and checked my card. O,Oh..

He then pointed that the last time I touched on my Myki was a week before. Which means I got caught illegaly travel on the tram. Then he asked me whether I touched on by the time I got into the tram. Instead of replying, I asked (read: acting stupid), "Isn't that with Myki we only need to touched on one time on the tram? (I was saying that I thought we can touched on anytime we want, by the time we got in or get off). He said, "NO! You should touched on when you get into the tram, but Yea, u just need to touched one time."

I was proven guilty.

But luckyly, He didn't fine me. Huhuhu. He just said, "Be careful next time. Be alert."

Before the inspection happened, actually I was reading my lecture notes, but then I was shocked that I couldn't continue any longer.

This is not something to be proud of, or something to be celebrated that I can escape the officer. This is more about real teaching and a reminder.

7°C

2011-06-07T15:54:00.006+08:00

7°C!

no wonder it is so cold. even with my jacket and my socks on. i heard there was hails just now. unfortunately the heater sensor only show 16 degree and only ON for some time. i just raised up the temperature for it to be working properly. hopefully tomorrow will be okay, and the exam hall wouldn't be so cold. wish me all the best for my first paper. amen.

(rice + milk) together

2011-06-07T14:17:00.003+08:00

Di Indonesia, kita disarankan untuk mengkonsumsi 4 sehat 5 sempurna, dimana nasi dan susu adalah komponen utamanya. Jelas nutrisi kedua bahan tersebut terbukti nyata. Namun, baru-baru ini saya menemukan hal unik berkaitan dengan konsumsi nasi dan susu. Kalau makan nasi dan minum susu adalah hal biasa, bagaimana jika makan nasi didalam susu bersamaan?

Salah satu housemate saya, asal Bangladesh, bercerita kalau dia biasa makan nasi dan susu (together). Bisa bayangkan cereal? Nah, coba bayangkan tit-bits cereal nya diganti nasi. Dia bilang, itu makanan umum di negara asalnya. Umumnya makanan bayi dan anak-anak. Tapi beberapa orang, termasuk dia dan keluarga menikmati nasi dan susu hingga dewasa. He was saying that "But now I eat it as dessert, not for main course," So I replied, "Wow, you have a heavy dessert than, rice for main and another rice for dessert." Yah pokoknya dia bilang itu enak, and he encourage me to have a try sometime.....

By the way, this conversation arose because that time, I was having my lunch at home and he suddenly came, put yogurt on top of the rice. And I commented, "Hey you eat yogurt with rice.." and so the conversation followed.

Interesting fact. Feel free to try on your own. ;)

Provider

2011-06-04T19:34:00.007+08:00

Have you ever heard the quote, "He makes all things beautiful, in His Time" ? I heard a lot, and more than that, i didn't only hear it a lot, i also experienced it a lot. This is one of my simple story..

Back in 2009, I was desperately looking for a room for myself as my contract at my previous apartment was almost end. With budget under average and no partner to share a room with, i started to contact some agents and did some inspection in Lagoonview Condominium. It was not an easy job considering a good place usually come with 'good' price, while not-so-nice place come with okay price. I was quite stress back then, wondering whether i could find some place in time. So what else did i do? Pray. I admit that i prayed harder that time because of this problem that i struggled in. To cut the story short, finally I got this really nice, huge, not expensive room in Lagoonview with nice housemates and roommate to share with. I can say out of nowhere, i just saw this ads posted at campus, and decided to contact it. Not from someone that I know, not from any of my friend. Somehow, there was a way that lead me to that room.

Last semester, I had to say goodbye to my lovely room as I was going for exchange to australia. No matter how nice and not expensive it is, it still a waste of money if I resist to pay the rental and keep the room for my coming back the semester after. Next challenge is again, to find another room in Australia. It was also challenging since I only contacted the landlords overseas through email. Most of them will ask people to pay the deposit to confirm the booking and almost all didn't allow us to share a room with someone else. I prayed. and believed if God could make it happen before, He surely will provide, as he always do.

Two weeks before my departure, I found an advertisement from a student website offering a twin-sharing room. I contacted the owner and was so glad that he is a very welcome person, and he was saying, "Don't trouble yourself to send the money overseas, just pay it once you reached," He even offered me a lift from the airport to the house. How nice that is. I emailed him to confirm the place, I thought, if something goes wrong and we really really couldn't stand it, at least we haven't pay anything. Nothing to lose. Thankfully, when i reached Melbourne, I saw the place and really satisfied with the room, it was much bigger than I expected! So now here I am, staying in a big room, sharing with my exchange friend, cut a lot of accommodation cost during my study here. Make friends with nice housemates, doesn't need to pay any extra money for electricity and all the bill (many of my friends do!).

As four months have passed, it almost the time for me to leave Melbourne, meaning, it also the time for me to find another room in Malaysia! A month ago I told my ex-housemate to let me know if there's anyone moving out from the house. I know it's quite impossible knowing that 3 of the tenants were just moved in last semester, and the other two will only finish their study next year. I started to ask from some friends, post it in fb, etc. Again with no partner to share, it's quite hard to find affordable room in LV. But this time, I really believe that He will be my provider.

One night I was checking my fb, and felt like checking Lagoonview fb account, and there was it.

A single room for RM650 (excluding utilities) is available from July 2011 onwards. The unit is only for GIRLS. Pls msg me if u r interested!
The UNIT...fully furnished, including air-con, stove for cooking, housekeeping, washing machine, dining room, sofa
The ROOM....
- a queen-sized bed, study table, big wardrobe(with mirror), 1 external mirror, air-con are, attached bathroom
-the room has good air ventilation as the room has 2 big windows and the room is repainted recently
(posted 1 hour ago)

I straight away contacted the person, read the post again and thinking "Hmm why is this place sounds familiar... 650 per month, middle room... Hmm i felt i have heard the person name as well" Then i msn my ex-housemate, asking what's the girl's name who's staying in the middle room. And it's really her!! Ohhh my! it definitely not an accident. That was the unit i stayed before. I quickly booked the room through my housemate. In this time when the rental price is increasing over and over, almost impossible to get room with this price. And I actually left some of my stuff in the house before, so i won't have to trouble myself to move house. I'm so lucky and thankful.

pisang

2011-05-03T19:39:00.002+08:00

tahukah anda, saya rasa saat ini pisang menduduki posisi buah paling mahal di australia.. bayangkan, 1 kg pisang, yang bisa dibilang buah ekonomis di indonesia dan malaysia kini mencapai harga $12 per kilogram! kalau diconvert ke rupiah, angka ini menjadi jauh lebih dasyat! sekilo pisang di australia sama dengan seratus ribu rupiah, benar saudara-saudara... seratus ribu rupiahh!! kemarin salah satu housemate saya menghabiskan $16 hanya untuk membeli pisang.

konon katanya, hal ini disebabkan oleh banjir yang terjadi di Queensland beberapa waktu lalu. Mengingat perkebunan pisang terpusat disana, melonjaklah harga pisang gara-gara gagal panen di musim ini.. Kalau dipikir-pikir, harga pisang jadi jauh lebih mahal daripada daging!

pesan moral : bersyukurlah kalau anda masih bisa makan pisang hari ini

cheers ;)

what so happening easter break

2011-05-02T18:29:00.008+08:00

Happy belated easter everyone!!

Lucky i had one week of easter break here so i could take a breath from my lots uni-works. Actually at first, i was quite disappoint that i couldn't join nukke, shinhui, joanne, and ola to go to sidney because it was quite expensive i would say. But now if i think back, i can be grateful because here in melbourne i had heaps of fun too. So here was my one week journey..

My holiday started on Good Friday, i woke up early that day and went for Easter Service at IPC church. Right after the service, me and many others went to Campaspe Down for Easter Camp!! The Camp was really fun. I made many great friends, listened to the word of God, exercised, played trampoline, ate good food, sang, laughed, etc etc. The most interesting part about the camp is the outbound session, we were divided into teams to complete some missions, and in order to do that, we need to defeat enemies, looks for money, talked to people, negotiated, bargained, etc. Just like what we did in RPG game. And the best part, the winner got bucket of chocolates as their throphy. My easter was indeed merry and happy.

Secondly, i went to Frankston beach on Tuesday. Staying home the whole day on Monday doing nothing makes me feel like going out (as always). SO i asked some people to go somewhere and ended up went to frankston with Chiquita and one of her friend. Frankston is a nice quite beach, it is much nicer than St Kilda where i have been previously. And they were having sand sculpture exhibition there.. It was beautiful. After, we had lunch in Sofia for pizza and pasta.. slllrrrpp.. It's not the end yet! In the afternoon, i went out some more with Tirza and her cellgroup to have a nice dinner, Simon's peking duck.. It wasssss reaaaallllyyy yummy...

Say Hello from Frankston!

The next day, me and clayton cellgroup members had arranged another trip to Mount Dandenong.. Actually there's nothing much there, we just ate and took pictures. We went for this small cafe called Miss Marple, which is famous for their scones ($8.5) and to get in we had to queue for 45 mins. ckckck.. Luckily, the food and the place was nice. Though we were full, we still had another dinner together. After spending money the whole day, it's time for home food. We all went to Gabby's place, cooked and ate korean black noodle.. My day was full and so was my stomach :P

With Miss Marple in the pic

Giant chair at Mount Dandenong

I spent my Thursday and Friday with Timmy, one cousin of mine who also studies here in Monash. I watched Thor on Thu night, fyi, it was my first cinema movie here, and it was 3D some more. I actually don't mind not to watch movie at all here (since it is very expensive $15), but maybe it's also not a bad idea to know how does it feel to watch it here. hahaha. Compare to malaysia, the cinema was big, with less people watching. The movie itself was good, but not spectacular for me.

My friday trip was actually a 'shocked-trip' since at the beginning i planned just to stay at home doing my assignment. However at the end, i went to Geelong (another small town near Melbourne, 1.5 hour drive) with Tim n Sam. It was just happened. Timmy texted me whether i was busy or not, and i said not really. I thought he will just asked to go for lunch or something, unfortunately, or fortunately, he asked me to join him going to geelong. I thought for a while, and decided i wouldn't miss this!! hahaha. The scenery was beautiful. we went for photo session in Geelong, followed by Dockland, and finished with heavenly taste sticky date pudding in malvern... Aaarrggghh it was just so delicious, words can't describe.. *lebay*

SO that's what my one week been. Full of experiences, Full of happiness, Full of Awesome Food.

;)

Group assignment : happy?

2011-04-16T21:49:00.003+08:00

It has been a while since the last time i wrote a post. Geez. i'm starting my week 8 (out of 12 weeks) in this semester this coming monday. As usual, time goes like a click once the assignments and works started. I had 3 mid tests last week and lots of assignments until next week.

I was struggling in my music group assignment these days. Not exactly about how difficult the assignment is, but it's more about finding myself a right group. Ridiculous? I didn't think so. It was my worry since the moment i decided to take this unit, beginning of week 1. Finding myself one of few non-music-faculty student makes me nervous. How can i make friends when this unit only take me 2 hours class a week (i know this is actually the nice part of the unit).. Moreover, i didn't play or read music for quite some time. I even did consultation with the unit coordinator, ask them whether a non-music-player will be able to cope with this unit. Whether this unit require us to play or write music. I remember so clear that Tavis, my lecturer said, "Yeah, you need to write piece of music, but don't worry, it won't be due earlier than week 8" He successfully convinced me. And i said to myself, "Okay, you'll be fine, finding some people to work on this assignment wouldn't be that hard"

I was trying to talk to someone else in every class that i attended. It didn't really work. Well, maybe i found some Hi-Bye-Friends. That's it. Make the story short, I met some people yesterday, composed a 40 sec piece of music for 4 hours and we will submit it this coming monday. Surprisingly, each person in the group didn't know each other before. They just simply put their name in the web, randomly. Woo, at least, im not the only stranger.

They are okay, i guess. BUT, i found it not easy to communicate with them, Aussies. :(

I don't mean to discriminate people or something, but it is just hard to click. Huhuhu. Sometimes i didn't get what they're saying. And even worse, because of those music vocabulary which i'm alien to. I don't know how to say, "How about if we put 4-ketuk note, rather than all 1-ketuk note.." Aaarrggg.. it was a looong afternoon. So glad that finally we finished it. at 6pm.

So this is my point, i don't have a problem in introducing myself, berbasa-basi, etc. Even i met this local people in the church today, and he said, wow your English is good. However, once i need to communicate something deeper and more complicated, it's not easy at all. I know i shouldn't say this as i don't wanna limit myself, but, It's much easier to communicate with Asian and (definitely) Indonesian.

No. i'm not frustrated. I'm just kind of disappoint that so much effort is needed even to express my thought. It's not easy to express who am i. OK. Practice makes perfect.

Semangat. Good night.

Kisah seorang survivor

2011-03-13T17:03:00.002+08:00

Di sebuah pulau tak berpenghuni, terdamparlah seorang pria dari kecelakaan kapal. Ternyata dia adalah satu-satunya orang yang beruntung, selamat dari kapal karam. Ketika sadar tak ada orang lain di pulau itu, mulailah ia mengumpulkan bahan makanan dan barang-barang dari kapal yang terdampar tak jauh dari tempatnya. Sehari, dua hari, dia tak kunjung berhenti memohon pertolongan Tuhan sambil terus mengamati kalau-kalau ada kapal atau pesawat terbang yang melintas.

Tiga hari berlalu, persediaan makanannya pun menipis. Tak habis akal, mulailah dia mencari buah-buahan dan bahan makanan dari pulau itu. "Sebaiknya aku mendirikan gubuk kecil tempatku menyimpan makanan dan berlindung dari dinginnya malam," pikirnya. Dikumpulkannya kayu-kayu sampai akhirnya berdirilah sebuah gubuk sederhana di pinggir pantai pulau itu. Hari demi hari berlalu, namun pertolongan belum juga terlihat.

Suatu hari, sepulangnya dari hutan, terkejutlah dia ketika mendapati gubuknya dilalap api. Api yang begitu besar membakar habis gubuk dan segala isinya tanpa sisa. Marah dan kecewa meliputinya. Dia pun berseru pada Tuhan,

"Tuhan, mengapa Kau begitu tidak adil? Setelah kau membiarkan aku disini sendirian tanpa pertolongan, kini Kau membakar semua persediaan makananku, melenyapkan semua kerja kerasku selama ini.. Apa mau-Mu Tuhaan..." Di keputusasaan dan kelelahannya, dia pun tertidur.

Ketika ia terbangun, dia melihat di kejauhan, sebuah kapal besar menuju ke arahnya dan mengirimkan sekoci kecil untuk menolongnya. Dia begitu senang dan tak percaya, akhirnya pertolongan datang. Dia pun bertanya pada awak kapal penolong, "Bagaimana kau bisa menemukanku?" Awak kapal menjawab, "Kami melihat smoke signalmu, tanda meminta pertolongan" Ternyata terbakarnya gubuk kecil di pulau itu memberi sinyal pada para penyelamat untuk datang. Pria itu pun hanya bisa berdiam diri dan bersyukur pada Tuhan atas apa yang terjadi.

Tuhan bertindak. Kadang persoalan hidup memang begitu berat dan seringkali kita bertanya-tanya, mengapa hidup begitu sulit. Tapi percayalah, di balik semua yang terjadi, Tuhan punya rencana buat setiap kita.

Because He makes all things beautiful, in HIS time.

Blood donation

2011-03-07T18:06:00.003+08:00

Hey ya!

I just had my first blood donation last Friday. Woohooo.. I feel cool. Everything happened smoothly. no faint. no vomitting. no dizzy. No difference at all.

Actually i have tried few times donating blood during my high school in Indo, and in Malaysia. But it always failed at the end. Once, they told me that my blood pressure was too low that i was not eligible to donate. Second, in Malaysia, they require us, foreigner, to be inside Malaysia at least a year while i just came back from Indo back then.

I actually quite nervous to donate, worry if i would faint, or at least throw up after. Suprisingly, it's all good. They informed us to have a meal and lots of water to drink before the donating time. And i obeyed (afraid something bad happened if i didn't).

No pain. I donate 450 ml of my blood which is less than 10% of the total blood we have. If i can do it, u can do it too :)

O' week

2011-02-25T20:17:00.004+08:00

This is the end of my O'week (Orientation week -red) in Monash University Clayton Campus. It was an awesome two-weeks i can say. The programs is not just about academic and campus stuff, but also about australian campus, melbourne, and making friends here.

During the first week of orientation, Monash Abroad introduced us to Australia in general, and Melbourne in specific. I met lots of exchanges student from around the world, Malaysia, US, Germany, Japan, and many more. The one i like the most during the orientation is,, free food are provided!! WOoohohoo.. don't be naive. It's Australia. and food are extremely expensive here. So anytime we have a chance to get the free one, why don't we take it?! ;)

Pancake and muffin for breakfast, BBQ and pizza for lunch. Ahh. i just can't resist it. Sllrrpp..
By the way, since the meal is so expensive here, i HAVE TO cook at home, besides, all the shop will be close at 6PM everyday, no more mamak, no tenda-an, so COOK is a MUST. I bought some groceries together with nukke. And we had our first cooked food, bake potato. It was okay, except in the beginning i actually grilled it, because i couldn't turn the oven on. It ended up burning on top. hahaha. but again, it was not bad, we just throw the burning part.. :P

We quite often went to the city in the first week, with the guidance of Monash Abroad team. Queen Victoria Night Market, Super Nice Durian and Ferrero Gelato Ice Cream which i forgot what's the placed called, Koko Black, Pacific, Shanghai Dumpling in China Town, Bimbo Place where we can get $4 home made pizza per pan :), Melbourne Central, Art Gallery.. Those are some places i went in our first week of orientation. Not bad huh!

Durian-Ferrero-Strawbery gelato

And today, as the closing of the Orientation Week, we went to Healesville Sanctuary to see koala, kangaroo, platypus, wombats, emu, and others local animals. It's FUN :)

Hello, Mr. Koala!

Hello, Uncle Emu!

Fun fact about emu :
In a season, female emu can lay 3 x a dozen eggs. Once it lays eggs, male emu incubates them for 3 weeks and raise their children for months.

Red Scooter Welcome Party

cold summer

2011-02-20T18:34:00.005+08:00

Is summer identical to hot sunny day??

Not really actually. At least that's what i experience here in melbourne, australia. I'm wearing jacket while blogging inside my room at the moment. It's the same as Puncak weather! Puncak can u imagine, not even bogor, but Puncak. You can see the weather forecast below, it's 13 degree during the summer! I hope it won't be too cold in June :S

Weird summer.

14 february

2011-02-14T20:14:00.005+08:00

It's not about Valentine's day.
It's more about my arrival in Clayton, Melbourne.

Saturday, 12 feb 2011
I flew from Jakarta to bali, with all my luggage for Melbourne. I thought i could go out, spending some of my waiting time around kuta and having dinner there. failed. because of 1 hour delay, i just sat in solaria, Ngurah Rai, enjoying my dinner all by myself while waiting for Nukke's arrival. Bali was hot and only solaria and starbucks have the proper indoor-aircon-system.

After around 40 minutes, Nukke came and we checked in for our flight to Melbourne. On that 5-hours night flight, i think i could only sleep for 1 to 2 hours. Different with most flight from indo, flight from bali have more foreigners than local. it makes us feel departing not from indo. However, a Balinese guy sat right beside me. We had quite lots of conversations about him being Australia-graduated-scientist and about me studying science. We ended it when the light turned off and both of us fell asleep.

Sunday, 13 feb 2011
Arrived at Tullamarine airport on 7.40 am (4 hours ahead Jakarta time), Dion fetch us. Arrived safe at 30 Evelyn St, finding that the room is far larger than i expected made me happy. Huhh. i kinda worried took the house without doing any inspection before. But fortunately, the house is okay, the landlord is kind, and hopefully the housemates too.. It's a multinational accomodation i can say. We're dealing with Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Chinese, and Vietnamese as our housemates. Guys and girls.

We continued our journey to do some urgent groceries. Our landlord drove us to the groceries centre and he explained how to walk back. The shopping was okay, except the 9100 rupiah per i dollar part =.= On the way back, we walk walk walk, but we didn't even know where we were. it was a long tiring walk in the hot sunny day. lucky, we met someone who roughly know where our house is. Finally we arrived home safe.

After a while, Melissa, an indo friend came by and asked us to visit her place. She introduced us to all of her friends and we watched movie together in her cozy apartment. It's very nice to be surrounded by kind people. Melissa helped us a lot, she gave lots of info before we arrived melbourne, and lent us some stuff we didn't have like pillows, bolster, and hangers. She fetch us to her place which is around 40 mins drive and send us back to clayton at night. She treated us like old friends, even it was our first time meeting her.

14 feb 2011
Met Ola and Shin Hui (both are our friends in Malaysia) by accident, ended having lunch together. I haven't got any australian phone number yet, it takes time to activate the bb service :( We spent the afternoon by cleaning the house with its kitchen appliances. It's kinda an exercise too. :P

It's the end of the day and i'm sleepy..
Get ready for tomorrow orientation! Woohooo..
Good night world. :)

abu-abu

2011-02-02T00:03:00.002+08:00

seorang teman bertanya, "apakah A yang benar dan B salah? ataukah B yang benar dan A salah?" saya memilih mengambil jalan tengah. "A tidak salah, tapi B juga patut dipertimbangkan."

di dunia yang begitu rumit dan penuh dengan probabiliti saat ini, tampaknya semakin susah menentukan benar salah. kalau saja ariel tidak berada di kalangan selebriti, mungkin dia tidak dicap salah dan dijatuhi hukuman tiga tahun penjara 'cuma' gara-gara medokumentasikan kegiatan pribadi. toh kita yang orang awam juga tidak salah mau foto-foto kayak gimana. bukankah berekspresi itu bagian dari hak asasi?

satu hal yang saya simpulkan, banyak hal yang tidak terlalu hitam, tapi tidak juga putih. mereka abu-abu.. relatif. terserah bagaimana dan dari sudut mana kamu dan saya mau melihat. daripada ribut jadi hakim benar salah, apa salahnya mengikhlaskan apa yang terjadi, yang penting saya, kamu, dan dia senang kan..

thanks for the wishes

2011-01-24T15:15:00.004+08:00

this birthday, i received a special gift from my friend in malaysia. they made me this hand made cards and calendar. so here are some of their wishes..

Yason
Semoga mikhal jadi orang sukses ya, tetep berpegang sama Tuhan, makin sayang sama Tuhan dan selalu berserah sama rencana Tuhan. Semoga mikhal makin sayang dan disayang papa mama, sama aku juga. hehe. Makin cantik, makin banyak temen, lulus dengan nilai bagus!

Semoga mikhal dapet pacar yang oke, yang cocok, ga kalah dominan ama mikhal, seiman, dan ganteng..

Tetep jago main pianonya.. makin dewasa dan bisa dapet kerjaan yang cocok. Walaupun mikhal orangnya kuat banget, semoga jalan hidupnya tetep dipermudah.

Moga-moga mikhal bisa jadi GOOD MOTHER kelak!!

LOVE YOU, SIS.

Nukke

Dear Mikhal,
Gila ga kerasa udah ulang taun lagi khal.. Time really flies. But you know what? I'm so happy to know such a "Mikhal" in my life!! and all the time we've shared together with our friends is not a waste. You have a great personality.. Hope you can achieve your goal.

Triandi

Mikhaal, nih dari tulisan gue udah tau kan siapa yang nulis.. (err... not really actually tri.. hahaha) Nih gue yang tulis sendiri, beda sama punya orang lain yang biasanya gue suruh orang lain tulisin.. Ini buktinya kalo lu special loh mik bisa gue yang tulis sendiri. hehe.

Tulisannya jelek, yang penting maknanya kan.. Happy birthday, all the best.. tambah dewasa, cakep, baik, manis, dapet cowo baru, sukses belajar di aussie.. Moga-moga taun ini taun yang baik buat lu..

Stella

Mikhal itu sweet, responsible, pinter, care sama temen (semua ultah temen dirayain, malah baru sekarang bisa ngerayain ultahmu..), dewasa.. Wish : better in your study & school, better in handling all your problems, better in any relationships.. Hope your "haven't come true" dreams become reality.. Wish you all the best and just so you know, your friends always got your back no matter what happens.

Nadya

Hey khal! It's nice to know you as my friend! Okay, gue akui gue penggemar blog lo. haha. You're such a good writter (and designer too)!! Keep your positive values. Kadang gue mikir, gue pengen jadi elo, yang punya keinginan dan kemauan yang kuat..

So, those were some of their writtings for me. Thankyou friends. I'm not what i am today without all of you. All of you are a blessing :)

where does this feeling come from?

2011-01-21T01:23:00.002+08:00

Unexpectedly,

it hurts.
more than i could imagine

21

2011-01-19T14:16:00.003+08:00

Thank u for YOUR protection, guidance, and blessing for these 21 years.

Time is really ticking. As far as i remember, it was just a while ago when i was spending my time in Regina Pacis high school. Busy with marching, busy with Korem at church, taking photobox, having lots of fun with hometown friends. Then I left home, migrated to malaysia, checked each corner of sunway and KL. And now here i am, getting older, seeing lots of my younger friends graduated from high school, welcoming those newbie in sunway, being familiar with sunway and KL places.

I'm still excited for what will come ahead, and i hope i will always do. But, i also realize that i'm not as energetic as i used to be to explore things and places. Well, we know KL is no more a new place for me and because of that, there is an excitement degradation to go here and there. I'm kinda tired. I remember those MUFY days when we used to go KL everyweek, by bus, and look for new places and malls to spend our weekends. And after a while one of my friend said, "I lived here much longer than u but seems u went to more places than me!" I just giggled. and took it as a compliment.

Wow! I'm 21!
Is it old to be 21? I don't really care. What i know is, that i'm so happy, thankful, and proud for what had happened in my 21-years-life. It has been amazing life i spent with my family, friends, special friends :P, and everyone else. I'm glad that i have the opportunity to continue my study abroad, to malaysia, to shanghai, and i hope to australia too. Having the most supportive and cool family, having best friends, having this personality that makes me able to adapt and not too dependable to others.

I like challenges.
I love new things.
And i love all of u.

Papa, Mama, Yason, budimans, andimulias, ex-Korem & GKI, Sisiel, Dita, Erick, Nani, Helga, Andal, Nanad, Nathan, Kak Gembong, Adri; Paksina, Adel, Feb, Nad, Jessi, Via, Ben, Sam, Ita, Vaco, akang teteh dan adik2; school friends, Beni, Anto, Cindy, Erwin, Lipi, Shinta, Riris, Didi, Mike, KB; Malay friends, Nukke, Tri, Sasa, Alvin, Yos, Supi, Jean, Peter, Emily, Daniel, Fenny.. Everyone else. Sorry I cant mention it one by one. Hopefully i have become a good friend to all of u.

and most important, thank u GOD for this awesome life! :)

leave

2011-01-17T16:30:00.002+08:00

all my bags are packed
i'm ready to go
i'm standing here
outside your door
i hate to wake you up to say goodbye..

it's a semi-back for good for me, i supposed. leaving malaysia for the whole coming semester. this is it. this is what i aimed for in monash. going exchange to australia. indeed, i'm so excited. i'm still on progress in my exchange preparation, applying visa, looking for accomodation, etc, etc.

but on the other hand, i was a bit sad, having the fact that i need to say goodbye to malaysia, to sunway, to friends, and to my awesome life in malaysia. two and a half year journey there makes me really love the environment there. i'm glad that i could have fun each and every second i had there while some of my friends can't wait to go back home in every chance they had. it doesn't mean that i forget about my hometown. definitely not. but sunway had become my home too :)

I'll miss all my friends!
I'll miss W15!
I'll miss yosia and supi!
I'll miss yamcha, mamak, and malaysian food! :P
I'll miss sunway!

But don't worry, i'll be back in July, for sure.
Zaijian malaysia! :)

resolusi taun ini ?

2011-01-10T23:54:00.002+08:00

sejujurnya, saya masih blank soal resolusi tahun ini. haissshh..
perlu merenung dulu mungkin.

not good.
sepuluh hari sudah berlalu dan belum ada dream list yang perlu dipenuhi.
resolusi. oh resolusi.

there'll always be a first time for everything

2010-12-19T23:35:00.004+08:00

tak terasa 3 minggu sudah saya lewati di shanghai. it has been superb and exciting. lots of new experiences and moment to be cherished. as the title said, there will always be a first time for something to be happened.

Pertama, SHANGHAI.
Di kali pertama saya menjejakan kaki di shanghai, beruntung saya dapat sekaligus tinggal selama 6 minggu disini. Walaupun judulnya belajar, semester pendek, tapi kesempatan ini tentu tidak saya lewatkan untuk jalan2.. senang rasanya bisa belajar sekaligus jalan-jalan selama 6 minggu..
Saya dan teman-teman tidak melewatkan setiap kesempatan untuk explore shanghai. Sayang memang, kelas kami siang sampai sore, jam 6. Sepulang dari kelas, hari sudah gelap (disini jam 5 sudah mulai gelap). Makan malam sebentar, pulang, buat pe-er, tidur. Makanya, begitu akhir minggu datang, pasti ada acara jalan2.. Nanjing Lu, Huahai Road, The Bund, Yu Yuan Garden, Shanghai Tower, Shanghai Expo, Tian Zi Fang pun kami jajaki.

Kedua, SALJU.
Ya, Selasa lalu, 14 desember 2010, shanghai diliputi salju sepanjang hari. Boleh dibilang beruntung, sekalinya saya datang kemari, salju pun ikut berkunjung. Padahal jarang-jarang ada salju di shanghai. I was excited yet worried, melihat perkiraan cuaca sampai minus 1 derajat. Berlapis-lapis baju dan celana, plus sepatu boots menjadi alat tempur disini. Untungnya hari itu angin masih berbaik hati, tidak berhembus kencang.

Foto diambil dari depan kelas, siang hari. pohon dan mobil jadi putih!

Kenyataannya, salju tidak se-cool di tv2.. Memang sih masih COOL, terutama buat orang2 negara tropis seperti kita, tapi aduuhh dinginnya itu lho, ga tahan.. Karena pake baju berlapis-lapis, ngapa-ngapain juga jadi repot. Apalagi kalo mau ke wc, repot ihh.. Paling enak diem di dalam kamar berheater, hangaat. Jangan dikira dengan baju berlapis2 kamu jadi hangat, not really. Istilahnya baju memang bisa jadi tameng, tapi dingin sih tetep aja dingin. Minus 1 itu kan lebih dingin daripada suhu kulkas!

Kulit kering, bibir pecah-pecah, tangan dan kaki dingin terus. Kalau lagi dingin banget, tangan sampe perih, seperti kalo kelamaan pegang es. Kaki kesemutan padahal uda pake kaos kaki dobel dan sepatu boots.

Yang paling parah waktu exam jumat kemarin. Seperti biasa, ritual sehari2 saya disini adalah melihat weather forecast. Hari itu, seharusnya ga dingin-dingin banget. Berangkat lah saya menuju exam hall. Tapi ternyata, di luar perkiraan, dari awal ujian dimulai, tangan gemetar.. bukan cuma tangan malah, semua badan gemetar, bukan karena takut tapi karena kedinginan. Sepertinya otak jadi bekerja slow motion. Baru kali ini saya mengerjakan ujian dengan memakai sarung tangan sambil gemetar kedinginan selama dua jam. Semoga, hasilnya tidak mengecewakan.

Ketiga, kendala bahasa.
Baru kali ini rasanya, mau makan aja susah. Mau kemana-mana ga bisa sendiri, harus nempel sama temen yang udah agak jago mandarinnya biar paling engga bisa makan. :p Tapi ini sih ga menyurutkan niat saya untuk jalan-jalan! Jom! :)

Keempat, NATAL.
Natal tahun ini jelas berbeda dari biasanya. Ini natal pertama saya jauh dari keluarga. Biasanya kami di bogor ato kalaupun di luar kota merayakan natal bersama. Biasanya sih mama paling sibuk di gereja, yason juga sekarang eksis di remaja, papa juga ikut-ikut acara natal ini itu. Sabtu lalu saya kebaktian natal di gereja indonesia di shanghai. Boleh dibilang saya bukan tipe yang suka homesick, tapi kemarin jadi sedih juga rasanya tidak bisa natalan bersama keluarga... Well, tapi saya harus bersyukur masih diberi kesempatan untuk natalan disini, bisa bergereja, bisa merasakan natal dengan suasana yang berbeda.

Hari ini saya memulai minggu keempat saya disini, setelah exam level 1 saya jumat kemarin, saatnya belajar lagi untuk level 2. 3 more weeks to go!!

cheers :)

update

2010-12-07T23:31:00.002+08:00

Hi. It has been my second week in shanghai.

Everything goes well. Nice hotel-like-room. Nice place. New experiences. New stuff.
Shopping. study. do homework. chit chat. walking around.

Unfortunately, the temperature drop starting this week. 2-8 degree celcius today. freezing cold. become worse with the addition of wind blow. this is my first time experience winter. in fact its quite different with those u can see in the movie, where they happily welcoming the winter. winter = lazy. lazy to go out. lazy to do anything. doing nothing in the warm hotel room feels like heaven. :P

So far, i ve been to Qibu Lu, its like Shanghai's 'mangga dua'. Shopping place. CHEAP! Lots of people. and definitely bargain. u HAVE to bargain almost everything here. i bought a pair of boots on my second day in shanghai. they open the price at 285, and i got it for 110. Bought coat for 110 yuan. and some other things.

Most of the time, i go everywhere with the whole indonesian gang - around 15 people - both from sunway and ausie campus. Last sunday we went to China Pavilion, where Shanghai expo was held in past few month. Pretty! amusing n very creative. worth to go.

Food was okay. its always a hard time for us when it goes to ordering food. understand almost none of the menu (everything is written in chinese Hanzi) i just randomly pick any dish, or point the picture. its kinda sad :( have no idea which one is tempting... hehe.

So here is my daily routine now..
wake up - prepare for school - school from 12.30 - 5.30 - dinner - do homework - (online) - sleep.

So i guess now its my sleeping time already.
Goodnight world.

flying

2010-11-26T17:48:00.002+08:00

im flying to shanghai, china tonight.

be fit miks, dizzy, nausea please go away..
it's gonna be great!
it's gonna be great!

thank u for awesome people in my life!

2010-11-16T21:45:00.005+08:00

Just watched I NOT STUPID 2.
Yea i know im so outdated bout movies, (who cares! :P) actually this movie has already hibernated here inside my laptop for 1 year plus, though i didn't watch completely before. hehehe.

So, yeah its GREAT movie! seriously. it doesn't talk non-sense and is not exagerated. it happens for real. those people really exist and im actually thankful that im not one of them. support, warmth, praises; maybe some of my fellas are also longing for it. nah. im not saying that they are in trouble, and so on. but deep inside ur heart, there is envy inside, questioning, how is it feel to be in such situation, to have supportive environment. Well, culture does take parts, we being eastern, or being chinese, more to scold but hard to praise. It seems not fair.

"Why did u steal?? Didn't i buy u everything u want? Where is the card u bought? Where is the money?" Dad shouted.
No i didn't buy any cards. *weeping* I just want to buy your one hour time. I want u to attend my concert. And it will took me one year to spare $500 from my pocket money." cried Jerry.
And Dad has nothing alse to say.

Thank u Pap. and mom. for continuously asking me how my life is, what happened the whole day. it might be simple. and i didn't really bother. but once u stop it, i think it would become one i miss for sure. also Yason. somehow, talking to him can give me peace. calm. relax.

Apart from that, thank u friends for being there, especially when i'm in need of u guys. when i was down. troubled. and need someone to talk to. doesn't mean i only come to u when im in trouble though. Of course i would love to spend fun time together also. :))

Nukke adrianty
Yosia Kurniawan
Supianto
Febrina C Putri
Yessica Gunawan

Thanks for the support. Heart U!
i know there are bunches more i have, who aren't mentioned here right now.
no doubt in u guys also!!

btw, exam is FINALLY over, and HOLIDAY has just started!!! so this is how it feels to be FREE! :P

2010-11-13T13:42:00.003+08:00

Banyak hal yang tidak dapat dipaksakan, tapi layak diberi kesempatan..

-Filosofi Kopi, Dee

ending

2010-11-10T00:19:00.002+08:00

me + you ≠ us
me + you = me + you

I hope we can still be friends, like what we used to be.
I still admire you a lot. in the past, today, and i hope in the future too.
So, I just don't wanna lose an awesome friend like you, i hope u won't mind.
thank u :)

nukke sasa bday blast

2010-11-01T23:13:00.004+08:00

sorry for the late post.

so, i have 2 great friends had their birthday on october, it's a combo birthday since they have it not just in the same month but also in the same week. ofcourse it's a double happiness, yet its also double preparation. maaf sombong :p, being 'EO' (event organizer-red) indeed makes me did lots of thinking as so much thing to think, to arrange, and to be done. but as always. im happy to do it. to have the satisfaction after, and say "WELL DONE"

nukke adrianty 12 oct 90

she's one of the best i have here in malaysia. a classmate, a window-shopping partner, teman curhat, teman bertukar pikiran, teman wisata kuliner, teman dikala suka dan duka.. ceria, ekspresive, confident, cuek, ego, smart, independent.. on her birthday we made a scrapbook about her entire journey in malaysia (with us most of the time.. hehehe). at the point she open it, she turned into tears and said, "this is priceless"
WELL DONE. im so happy that she likes the present we gave :)

natasza kurniawan
15 oct 91

kalo ada yg bilang age cannot determine maturity, szasa is the real example. being younger than most of us doesnt make her look childish. instead, she's very independent, decisive, and powerful in her own way. serba bisa, tangkas, mantep. kreatif. it's hard to decide what to give her as a birthday present as she's a just-straight-away-buy-if-u-want-it type. so i had an idea to order cute special cake for her. it's a custom made.. and also a photo album with our wishes inside. glad that she loves it..

sasa's rainbow cake

tolonggg mata saia mau keluarrr =.=

another sasa's birthday celebration from cellgroup, W15 at cassian's kitchen.. huhu cant see the cake clearly..

susah.

2010-11-01T23:01:00.002+08:00

pacaran itu susah yaa..

diem salah
ngomong juga salah
ga sms salah
kebanyakan sms juga salah
main sama temen salah
diem dirumah terus juga salah
kangen salah
ga kangen, mm. sepertinya ada yg salah..
terlalu dipikir salah
terlalu dirasa juga salah
dikejar lari
ditunggu ga dateng-dateng
care dibilang overprotective
cuek dibilang ga peduli

jadi harus gimana?
ga usah pacaran aja?? :'(

lucu-lucuan. match ga?

2010-10-30T12:20:00.003+08:00

evaluasi. mana yang mikhal dan bukan mikhal?? hehe. :P

Sifat dan Karakter Cewek Zodiak Capricorn (21Desember - 19 Januari)

Wanita yang jangkung, langsing, dan tenang. Begitu marah, ia akan sangat
galak. Ia akan dapat bekerja dengan lebih baik daripada beberapa pria,
dan dia adalah wanita yang sangat percaya diri. Menurut pendapatnya,
wanita bukanlah sekedar bunga untuk penghias rumah atau kantor dan jelas
bukan gender yang lemah yang membutuhkan pertolongan saja.

Ia suka mengendalikan dan menyembunyikan emosinya yang lemah. Ia tidak
akan pernah mencoba untuk mengubah siapa pun, dan ia akan berusaha
menerima mereka apa adanya. Jika ia tidak menyukai seseorang, maka ia
tidak akan akan mengkritik atau memberi komentar, tapi langsung tidak
mempedulikan orang itu sama sekali.

Ia benci bunga plastik dan bunga buatan karena hal itu terkesan tidak
tulus. Ia menyukai bunga hidup dan baunya. Ia juga menyukai cowok yang
memakai pewangi after shave. Jika anda adalah tipe orang yang akan
memakai Jeans anda sampai sebulan, baru kemudian mencucinya, atau orang
yang memakai sepatu lama, lebih baik anda melupakannya.

Ia mencintai musik dan alam, walaupun terkadang muncul juga kasus
langka, (tidak menyukainya). Ia suka berpiknik di alam bebas, maka, jika
anda tidak punya banyak waktu untuknya, anda lebih baik mengajaknya
dalam perjalanan memancing. Dia tidak sepencemburu wanita Leo atau
Aquarius, tetapi jangan pernah melintasi batas.

Lebih baik anda tidak memarahinya, terutama di depan publik di mana dia
dapat merasa dipermalukan secara umum. Ia suka berdandan dan memakai
baju dengan sempurna dan sangat rapi, maka jangan pernah memaksa dia
cepat-cepat melakukan hal ini.

Ia memiliki tujuan sendiri dalam hidupnya, dan tidak peduli apakah anda
memiliki gelar doktor atau tidak, jika ia menanggap anda tidak cerdas,
maka dia tidak akan peduli tentang anda sama sekali.

Ia suka bertemu dengan karakter orang cerdas, bukan karena sertifikat
yang menyatakan bahwa ia cerdas.Jika memang anda tidak mampu menunjukkan
bahwa anda cerdas, lebih baik anda segera menyingkir pergi. Ia tidak
pernah menyukai pemimpi yang membicarakan mengenai mimpinya, tetapi
tidak pernah berusaha mewujudkan mimpinya.

Jangan pernah mengatakan kepadanya “semua orang melakukannya, maka kamu
sebaiknya juga”, atau “rasanya lebih baik kamu lakukan, karena itu baik
buat kamu”,karena ia hanya akan mau melakukan apa yang ia mau lakukan.
Ia adalah orang yang rapi, jadi jika kamar anda mirip kandang babi,
jangan pernah ajak dia masuk kedalam kamar anda.

Jika anda pergi kencan, cobalah tampil serapi dan sebersih mungkin, kuku
juga bersih, atau kalau tidak,kencan itu akan menjadi kencan terakhir
anda. Ia adalah tipe cewek yang ‘cool’ dan tidak akan merengek-rengek,
begitu menyenangkan di telinga anda.Ia adalah tipe yang pelan tapi
pasti. Ia akan selalu menghormati dan menghargai anda dan tidak akan
pernah membuat anda malu.

Jika ia mencintai anda, ia akan selalu membantu anda melakukan apa pun
yang anda lakukan. Ia suka membantu orang tanpa pamrih. Jika ia meminta
anda melakukan sesuatu, dan anda tidak membantu, maka ia akan merasa
sangat kecewa. Ia memiliki harapan yang tinggi dan percaya diri yang
tinggi, ia lebih mempercayai kemampuan diri dan kepercayaan dirinya
daripada“keberuntungan.”

http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=4782897

Jika istri atau pacar anda adalah capricornus, maka anda akan memiliki
rumah yang indah dan nyaman, dan makanan yang enak. Jika orang tua anda
mengunjungi rumah anda,mereka akan merasa puas. Ia adalah seorang 3 in
1, ibu rumah tangga, istri, dan wanita yang sempurna, dan anda pun dapat
mengatakan “bahagia selamanya”..

exam

2010-10-28T17:42:00.002+08:00

besok ujian teman.
lots of things bothering my mind right now.
glad that i have some friend who help me a lot as yesterday we share about the f*cking complicated cellular metabolism. it indeed brings a little relieves to me.

friday, 29 oct 2010. 1.30pm. cellular metabolism BTH2752.
i hope im doing well.
it's hard. like really hard.

doakan aku teman.

study life and future plan

2010-10-18T19:49:00.003+08:00

dear all.

before i start my post, let me introduce my friend, vassilisa, she's one of my high school friend. i just read her post, and her sensitivity, her empathy is reflected in her writings. one of her strength, showing her character in each post she wrote. thumbs up! drop by to her page.. hehe

anyway, this month has been a progress, u can say, about my future study plan.

First, i'm applying for Chinese Incountry Program, CIP under monash. it is a short semester program, learning mandarin in Shanghai for 6 weeks, plus get 2 subjects credit point! :D make the story short, i've been through all the application, as well as the interview, and finally got the confirmation. So, guys, i'm flying to Shanghai end of this november until mid january... I'M SO EXCITED!!! indeed! but VERY NERVOUS in the same time, as i understand nothing. (consider nothing if i only know how to say ni hao ma and wo ai ni ~ oO. this is not good!)

I felt extremely stupid during the interview. At the beginning they (interviewer from Monash australia) said "Ni Hao" even i understand ni hao, it's just awkward for me to replied. and i had no idea what to say back then, so i just smile, and laugh.. ahahaha. stupid. then they ask what language do i speak at home, do my parents know chinese, is there any chinese family background. so i just keep saying NO. and the interview went short, while some friends exceed the 10 minutes interview time as they have lots of things to share, "cing cung cong bla bla bla.." so, definitely, i go for chinese level 1 and 2 in shanghai.. no doubt. hehehe.

To relax my tension a bit, the next day, i straight away bought chinese dictionary. tourist pocket dictionary. at least i can eat there. wakakakakk.. fortunately, there are some of my friends going for CIP as well, im flying from KL 26 nov together with fenny, vony, and jessika. yes. i booked the air ticket already. a requirement to apply visa. it cost me (my father) a lot. some more, ringgit currency is increasing lately. what a perfect timing :(

it's OK. i still optimist that i can manage to catch up the lesson. and i really hope that it can increase my GPA. *crossing finger* 2 HD pleaseeee... and indeed i'm excited for this is a summer course + holiday program. for sure. yeayy.. going to a new place. will experience winter for the first time.. woohoooo.. perfect! Look at shanghai. it will be awesome!! :D

secondly, beside CIP, i also applied for Monash intercampus exchange. and two weeks ago i just had the confirmation that i can go Clayton campus, Melbourne next semester!!!! aaaaawww.. this is it. even before i enter monash, this is one of the goal being here :)) although it is only 1 semester and no more travel grant is given, it is still worth it. i will pay still paying the same malaysian tuition fee, but is able to study there. what an advantage! and im going together with nukke too. SO HAPPY! lots of preparation to be done, accomodation, visa, air ticket, living cost, etc etc. especially it's quite hectic for me to prepare CIP and aussie exchange at the same time. but i'll get this all done! ;)

third, to sum up, wanna say that i'm so thankful for the support from mama, papa, and my fam. i know we're not that rich, but they really work out for me taking these opportunities. i know i spent so much money and i'll drain more money for going overseas. it's more than financial support, thanks for the prayers, the motivation, and the love. once my pap said, "yet it's expensive, i'll try my best to work it out, cos i want u to have the experience" :')
I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!

bangkok!

2010-09-30T01:39:00.002+08:00

ANOTHER RESOLUTION SOLVED!

Finally, i went to Bangkok, Thailand. yippieeee.. it was definitely a SUPER DUPER FUN TRIP.
Sunday morning, Sasa, Nukke, Jacqueline, and me flew there. Arrived around 2pm, straight away went shopping after hotel check in. Chatucak Market is definitely a shopping heaven. No matter how hot it was, with full of spirit we walk through step by step, shop by shop, SHOPPED LIKE MAD!! Fully satisfied!! it was really fortunate that we went there on sunday, cos Chatucak only opens during weekends. All stuff were sold around 100-250 baht, which is aroun 30rb-70rb rupiah... Definitely much cheaper than Malaysia, and even can beat Jakarta's Mangga Dua.. Super!!

Other destination, the beautiful magnificent Grand Palace. Amazing.
Kaosan Road, backpackers area. Lots of Bule.. :p lots of cafe, pub, hostels, and market.
Chao Phraya River, not really different with indonesian river. *i bet u can imagine how it looks like :P
Suan Lum Night Bazaar. okay. nothing beats Chatuchak a.k.a CC
Calypso Show - Asia Hotel.. wanna see "pretty girls"? u better check this out.
Platinum Mall - Their ITC mall, wholesale n grocery shopping.

Their DURIAN and MANGO were sooooo nice!! until we have no hesitation to buy it in the airport, in the last minutes we have there. maybe its ten times more expensive than the normal price, but who cares. I want it so bad!!

*It's a great deal to travel in a group of 4, u can share taxi everywhere u go. and it's cheap. even cheaper than if u take MRT and pay per person. :)

HAPPY WEEK :D

2010-09-23T00:45:00.007+08:00

Inspite of the continuous overflowing monash assignment, i really HAPPY the entire week..

began with cultural diversity day held on tuesday, like what i mention in the previous post, continued with sandra's birthday last thursday, we had a surprise party in front of lagoonview.. lots of friends came and celebrated. song, cake, photos, and saboo :P (make fun of sandra -red).

the next day, it was a holiday.. relax time.. we really need some breath after those monash weeks. :'( watch step up 3 with nukke. COOL! and spend the whole nite having karaoke & dinner buffet. it's another blessing!! sandra treated us in Amp Square with dinner and karaoke (as she loves karaoke so much.. hehehe). most probably it was the biggest room they have. it's really HUGE. can afford 50+ people i guess. two storey some more! complete with mini pool table and 3 game machines.. fully satisfied! i love karaoke!! evenmore with the buffet!! even even much more when it's FREE :P wakakakak..

doesn't look as if we're having karaoke? :P

Friday combine Cellgroup w9 and w15.. nice teaching from andrew, nice testimonies, and nice to catch up and fellowship with them all.

Another moment was celebrating Hari Raya (Aidil Fitri) with all my malay friends. It's really a pleasure to be invited by them, knowing the i was the only one (or at least the only two) non-malay there.. :) How is that so?? actually i knew them because we are in the same group in crop science lab. and are in the same class for most of our subjects. But it doesnt really make us close yet. Last week, i asked asiah to take part in CDD and she accepted it. so from just a say-Hi-conversation, we talk to each other more.

It's the first time i celebrate Raya here, so i was excited to go although i didnt really know most of them. another chance to make friends also, right ;) THEY WERE AWESOME. So there were 5 of them staying in the apartment units, all girls, they prepared everything by themselves. cooked soto, lontong, spaghetti, etc etc. Remind me back home, what mama do if we're having some celebration at home. noted. What MAMA do, not what ME, MYSELF do . hahaha. i cant imagine cooking lots of food by myself. (nguuukk. really need to progress =.=) ate some kue Raya.. some friends also brought some food as it is a pot luck (i used to call it perjamuan kasih) as well.

Slowly i know some people there, some of my classmates actually. yea. although we're in the same class, we hardly talk to each other. It's quite funny actually, i can listen and understand what do they say, but never talk malay with them. I just feel weird. So, in the end, i think it's only me talking in english while other spoke malay.

Is it becoming a long blog post already?? one more one more, then ill stop :P

Today is the day. WHO'S ON THE SPOT Vol. 2.
It's a MUISS event, and me and renga in charge of this. im really glad that everything went really well. the performances, the crowds, even the sound system which most of the time sucks. im just sooo happy that everyone likes it. and all the performers, they really offered something worth-to-watch. what a big relief.

random fact : i realized i have lots of new picts these few days documented all the event. *actually before, i was thinking 'what a boring fb i have.. no update, less wall post, no chat, nothing' but now, even openning my fb also makes me happy*

last but not least, Happy Mid Autumn Festival!!

bought mooncake together with Jacqueline

THANKS ALL.
this is what LIFE supposed to BE..

karena "Hidup terlalu singkat untuk dilalui dengan biasa-biasa sajaa..."
xoxo.

CG outing to emily's place

2010-09-19T18:38:00.003+08:00

last week i had Aidil Fitri holiday - nah. it's a very short one actually. i only had one day holiday for Hari Raya, not like indonesian Raya holiday.. So it was kind of a long weekend for me. and i spent it with my cellgroup, W15. stayed over to Emily's house in Rawang for a night.

actually im the one who suggested this idea a week before. after being rejected and unsuccessfully went for sleepover in Supi's new house (hehehe.. no offense!), i feel like going to another friend's house. thinking what to do during Raya, i simply mentioned it during CG fellowship, "why dont we go to emily's house..." hehhehe. is it too direct? that i didn't wait for the owner to invite us personally? :P maybe it is. but i dont feel like spending my precious weekend in lagoonview, sunway, or pyramid doing nothing... i need an escape man!

glad that emily (and her family) responded
it joyfully. woohooo! :)
So there were 12 of us went to her house, and yeah, we really had LOTS OF FUN there.. the family was very welcome.. and the house is very comfy and hommy.. hmmm. first time visitting and staying over in a proper house in malaysia i guess.. they had a room called conservatory, this is where we gather, where the boys sleep at night, and where we spend most of our time. Graduated with interior designer degree, her house really shows artistic side of hers. everything was well decorated and well designed.

We played lots of games, eat lots of food, had a good sleep, had a great fellowship time. it's precious moment to spend together. :) and her father blessed us a lot, he did the BBQ and cooking for us. WOW! super! thanks uncle.

the comfortable conservatory.. it's play time ;)

us. preparing the bbQ. *sorry for the blur pict*

Thanks emily for a good holiday we spent together.
:)

eksis!

2010-09-15T18:33:00.004+08:00

yesterday, there was this event, Cultural Diversity Day, in Monash campus. So basically the event is about to show how your culture is. There were food stalls, henna hand painting, fashion show, and performances. And me,, together with angga and sandra, represented indonesia to do performance. We sang indonesian songs, Arti Hadirmu, Untukku, and Negeriku.

It was FUN as it's been quite long time for me to play some music and perform it. i enjoyed it! Athough, to be honest, we just did the rehearsal a day before, just chose the song, just had a keyboard to be borrowed, and just asked angga to join us. hehehe. yea. it was a last minute thing.
Though it's not spectacular, but the respond was good. :)

angga berusaha mendekati mic.. kok ga kedengeran sihh gitarnyaa?!*

indonesian food stalls.. keripik tempe RM 2.50 ckckck.
biar mahal tetep aja abis. mantap.

(hampir) pingsan di Guci

2010-09-10T12:02:00.001+08:00

Pernah dengar tempat wisata bernama Guci? Terus terang, pertama kali saya mendengar Guci, saya membayangkan pemandian air panas elite, dengan design European minimalis, mungkin juga karena namanya mirip dengan brand internasional terkemuka. Beberapa bulan yang lalu saya sekeluarga bekesempatan berlibur ke Guci, Tegal. Sebenarnya sih mama yang paling semangat dan penasaran tentang mata air Guci yang konon katanya ampuh menyembuhkan penyakit. Browsing lokasi, akomodasi, dan informasi pun dimulai lewat internet. Sayangnya, info yang kami dapat sangat minim, dan biasanya lebih banyak informasi perjalanan dari blog pribadi mereka yang sudah berkunjung sebelumya. Belum lagi masalah akomodasi, ujungnya saya cuma mendapat nomer telepon beberapa hotel, tanpa petunjuk bagaimana kondisi dan lokasinya.

Lima jam perjalanan dari Jakarta ke Kota Tegal, ternyata masih harus ditambah 1 jam lagi menuju Guci, yang jalannya menanjak plus berliku-liku. Sangat disayangkan, objek wisata Guci kurang didukung dengan petunjuk jalan yang memadai. Yah, mungkin namanya orang Indonesia, berpegang pada pepatah, malu bertanya sesat di jalan, jadi kami memang ‘dipaksa’ untuk tanya sana-sini supaya enggak nyasar.

Sampai di lokasi, untungnya, hotel yang sudah kami booking sebelumnya tanpa tau seberapa jauh dari sumber mata air terletak persis disebelah kolam air panas. Kenapa kami memutuskan menginap disana? Ini sih lebih ke tebak-tebak buah manggis, mau mengontak hotel saja susah banget, kadang salah sambung, kadang enggak diangkat, kadang hotel satu dengan hotel lain nomer teleponnya sama. Setelah beberapa kali mencoba menelepon dan kecewa, akhirnya kami dipertemukan dengan hotel melati ini. Hotelnya agak mirip kos-kosan, yang menurut saya agak pricey buat hotel sekelas itu. Mungkin juga karena waktu itu lagi musim liburan sekolah, jadi mereka ikut harga high season.

Singkat cerita, tibalah saatnya kami mencicipi mata air guci. J Disana kami bisa memilih, mau berendam gratis di sungai umum, atau di kolam renang hotel dengan membayar kontribusi. Salah besar kalau kamu pikir bisa bisa berleha-leha dengan privacy di kolam renang hotel. Ternyata banyak pengunjung yang rela menguras kocek buat berendam di kolam renang meskipun ada yang gratisan. Memang harganya tidak terlalu mahal dan terjangkau dompet. Alam memang hebat. Disana air bisa tumpah berlimpah-limpah dari sumbernya, dan ingat ini bukan sekedar air biasa, ini sumber air panas. Kalau biasanya kita harus pakai pemanas air buat mandi air panas, disini orang-orang tinggal nyemplung ke sungai. Dua puluh empat jam sehari, tujuh hari seminggu air panas jernih mengalir dengan derasnya dari mata air. Di pagi-pagi buta, bahkan sebelum matahari terbit, penduduk sekitar beramai-ramai datang ke sungai, melakukan ritual sehari-hari, mandi, cuci baju, dan sebagainya. Dari anak balita sampai kakek-nenek, laki-laki dan perempuan ikut berendam dan menikmati air panas Guci.

Ada pengalaman agak buruk yang saya alami di Guci. Entah karena sayanya yang ndeso, atau memang kejadian ini terjadi bukan pada saya seorang. Seperti sensasi berendam air panas pada umumnya, walaupun awalnya kepanasan, setelah beberapa lama saya malah keasyikan berendam air panas. Saya pun bukan sekedar berendam air panas, tapi juga berenang air panas. Berenang seperti di kolam renang biasa, bolak-balik dari ujung ke ujung sambil sesekali menyelam. Rasanya semua baik-baik saja, sampai sekitar 30 menit saya berenang dan memutuskan untuk menyudahi acara berendam a. k. a. berenang saya. Begitu naik dari kolam, pandangan saya mulai buram, kepala pusing, dan perut mual. Saya pun terduduk di pinggir kolam, lemas hampir pingsan! Hal yang sama terjadi pada mama, yang hampir terjatuh begitu naik dari kolam. Untungnya papa dan adik saya tidak ikut-ikutan ambruk karena sempat keluar kolam beberapa kali selagi berendam. Rasanya waktu itu saya cuma kepingin cepat-cepat kembali ke hotel. Tapi apa mau dikata, kaki saya pun tidak kuat menopang berat badan. Butuh waktu sekitar 15 menit untuk memulihkan kondisi dan kuat jalan menuju hotel. Jadilah acara berenang air panas disudahi dengan dua wanita terkapar di pinggir kolam.

Tidak ada petunjuk atau peringatan berapa lama pengunjung dianjurkan berendam. Saya pun bertanya-tanya apakah hal ini juga terjadi pada pengunjung lain. Penilitian menunjukkan, 15-20 menit berendam di air panas adalah batas toleransi tubuh kita terhadap suhu tinggi dalam kolam air panas. Berendam lebih dari waktu yang ditentukan bisa menyebabkan dehidrasi dalam tubuh dan overheating. Tak heran saya dan mama mengalami hal-hal di atas. Sepertinya tubuh kami kaget begitu keluar dari air panas ke suhu ruangan.

Padahal ini bukan kali pertama saya mengunjungi pemandian air panas, sebelumnya di Kuala Selangor, Malaysia saya berkunjung ke Taman Rekreasi Air Panas. Bedanya disana kolam-kolam lebih tertata rapi, lengkap dengan keterangan berapa suhu setiap kolam, dan tidak lupa peringatan waktu maksimum untuk berendam di kolam. Pengunjung pun lebih fleksibel dalam memilih, kolam 30°C, 40°C , sampai 80°C. Ada beberapa spot yang dikhususkan untuk merendam kaki saja, ada pula kolam bersuhu tinggi untuk merebus telur. Dengan informasi seperti ini, jelas pengunjung menjadi lebih waspada dan bertanggung jawab atas keselamatan diri sendiri.

Sepertinya sudah saatnya menambah informasi mendukung demi keselamatan pengunjung. Jangan sampai pengunjung jadi kapok datang lagi karena alih-alih kenangan manis, malah kenangan buruk yang didapat disana.

me being expanded!

2010-08-19T18:56:00.004+08:00

being publicity officer in MUISS, Monash University Student Services, indeed stretch me.

It's always good to learn something new. And here, im forced to do all my duty and responsibility. Forced in a positive way. And i really enjoy it so far. Being publicity officer require me to be creative, as im in charge for things like posters, flyer, banner, messages..

Before, i always thought photoshop stuff is just too complicated to be understood. i didnt know how to start, while some of my friends were those photoshop experts. but, now, since it's a MUST to do those publication, i HAVE TO do it!! No turn back. (and i dont wanna turn back anyway). There're quite some number of my works so far, it's not perfect, i know, and some are very simple, modest. But im happy with it, still. It's still my creation..

This is one thing u get by being involved in organization.
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!!
So please, i encourage u, spend some of your time in a society. i believe it will be good for u ;)

Some of my works

Made by Adel and me.
Special thanks to her. kapan2 berguru lagi ahh.. ;)

Who's on the Spot ?!

Cultural diversity day

Mari belajar. Mari berkreasi.

monash science student life

2010-08-01T18:01:00.003+08:00

i started with my 2nd year, 1st sem last week.
and have a feeling that this semester will kill me!

4 core subjects. tough one.
well yea, i actually also had 4 science subjects last sem, with 3 labs in a week, but at least i chose one by myself.

This is week 2.
and i had 2 reports + another assignment in progress.
and i need to told u, once the reporting duty starts, it wont end until the end of semester.
yea, it sucks, indeed. and now i have no idea how to do any of those reports.. i want past papers so baaadddd!!!! :(

In one of the tutorial class, the lecture ask, "Why do u study science?"
Hmm wondering. To be honest, i would like to answer, "It is COOL to have the degree..... Bachelor of Biotechnology...." Hhhh.. but it is so much work to be COOL then...

envy business students who only have 12 hours class per week, while we, science students have at least 22 hours.. Haissshh.. more classes = more expensive = more works to do. Life is so unfair =P

i dont mind having laboratory classes, however, the lab reporting part is always sucks.
Now, at least i know, i don't wanna work in the lab for the rest of my life..

but don't worry,
yes. i will conquer all of it.
wish me all the best fellas!

...

2010-07-23T01:33:00.006+08:00

holiday

2010-07-19T22:36:00.002+08:00

this holiday, was just nice. :)

ga berlebihan, sedikit kurang panjang mungkin.. ahh lagi asik2 liburan udah harus balik sunway lagi.. saia senaang. what a fruitful holiday..

potong rambut : check!
liburan keluarga : check!
berteman : check!
makan : check!
ke sekolah : check!
paksina : check!
gosiip : check!
nonton : check!
pacaran : check!
shopping : check!
bandung : check!
puncak : check!
dokter gigi : check!
pas foto : check!
bikin poster muiss : check!
main piano : check!
ke SCI : check!
ga belajar : check! hehehe

lumayan. lumayan. ada sih yang kurang.. ga ketemu anak2 korem.. ga nonton live music. ga nonton yason ngeband. ga cek mata. belom ketemu banyak teman2.. yaah liburan selanjutnya dehh. ( maaf posting kali ini agak ga penting).

result

2010-07-19T22:31:00.002+08:00

result saya tidak sebagus dulu.
tapi tidak ada salahnya disyukuri..

BIO 1022 - D - 76
BTH 1802 - C - 67
CHM 1022 - HD - 82
FST 1800 - D - 70

semester baru datang.
saatnya belajar lagiii....
jia you!!!

proud of u guys

2010-07-01T23:53:00.003+08:00

i just watched a video, about Komisi Remaja.. actually it is a dedication for Ruben's team, Komisi Remaja 2008-2010..

and its absolutely awesome. indeed.
i mean, not because its such a perfect, high quality video, but the content, the story, its just really touching.. :) and i believe you guys made it sincerely.

the time really flew by.
its four years ago when me with 06/08 crew started taking charge of Korem. its an honor to be trusted as head of this youth division. lots of story. lots of laugh. lots of anger and dissapointment. but lots of great friends indeed.

and its two years ago when we gave them, ruben n team, LDK (Latihan dasar kepemimpinan -red). To be honest, there was a bit doubt in me, let these juniors taking over our place... hehe. but now i know i shouldn't. watching this video, even this is not dedicated for me :P, makes me proud about u guys, about komisi remaja GKI bogor..

they also had a story.. a great great story..
Korem still has the spirit, laugh, and simplicity.
thank u for taking care of Korem this far.
u guys did awesome job!
and hope Korem will have greater journey to come :)

proud of u guys!

1 Tim 4:12
Jangan seorang pun menganggap engkau rendah karena engkau muda. Jadilah teladan bagi orang-orang percaya, dalam perkataanmu, dalam tingkah lakumu, dalam kasihmu, dalam kesetiaanmu, dan dalam kesucianmu.

watch your mouth

2010-06-12T15:22:00.003+08:00

Capricorn
Ungkapan lidah lebih tajam memang benar adanya! Hati-hati dengan perkataanmu, biar si dia nggak sakit hati.

Iseng-iseng browsing sana-sini, saya menemukan sepenggal kata-kata diatas. Jujur, saya ketawa waktu membacanya. Bisa dibilang, kata-kata nya 'gue banget'. Kalo kamu sudah lama kenal saya, pasti ga heran ada yang bilang "Mikhal ngomongnya sih pelan, tapi daleem." Temen saya disini juga suka komentar "Kok nusuk ngomongnyaa.."

Saya juga ga tau belajar dari mana, dan sejak kapan, celetukan-celetukan itu keluar dengan sendirinya, spontan, tanpa bermaksud jahat, tanpa bermaksud menyakiti siapa-siapa... Sayangnya, tanpa disadari bisa membekas jauh lebih lama dari waktu kata-kata itu terucap. Ya mungkin ada kalanya saya lagi pusing sana-sini, banyak pikiran, alhasil, orang-orang di sekitar saya pun kena dampaknya.

Ga disangka, ga lama setelah saya ngetawain ramalan bintang yang 'gue banget', saya mengalami sendiri sakitnya bermain dengan kata-kata. Mungkin memang saya duluan yang jawabnya nyolot, temen saya jadi ikut 'tajem' balesnya.. dan mungkin saya (dan dia) sama-sama lagi suntuk dan sensi, kata-katanya menusuk. dalem. saya jadi merasa bersalah, saya jadi ga tenang, menyesal atas perbuatan dan perkataan saya. I felt terrible for disappointing him that way..

ternyata sebegitu hebat yaa kekuatan kata-kata, cuma gara-gara 1 sms, 1 kalimat, bisa-bisanya jadi nangis-nangis ga tidur semaleman (hiperbola -red). dan untungnya hari ini, lagi-lagi dengan hanya sepotong kalimat, everything's solved, it made my day! :)

ini jelas bukan masalah ramalan bintang yang beneran terjadi, bahkan bible pun mengingatkan kita buat behati-hati dalam berkata-kata, tapi ini lebih ke self reflection, bagaimana biasanya kita berkata-kata? u can choose to ruin one's life with your word, or lighten someone's heart, bring peace and joy instead.

hope u brighten someone's life today.
cheers.

being sensitive

2010-06-11T00:24:00.005+08:00

sepertinya akhir2 ini saya gelisah, gundah, cepet marah, sedih, kesel sama orang, mellow, bete, kecewa, sensi...

once, i feel like crying while listening to a mellow sad song. and another time, i felt like scolding my friend for being late, today i kept quite and suddenly had a bad mood after my friend complain me about something (which actually happened all the time, never bother about it before, and just make fun of it). engga biasanya mikhal seperti ini.

im sorry for being too sensitive these days. for those who experience the side effect, im so sorry.. i dont wanna hurt anyone, and i dunno why i feel like being hurt. sorry for not being a fun nice friend lately.

stress?
jenuh?

GOD, please help me to get rid of these negative feeling..
mikhal semangat!

Proverb 3 : 5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
and He shall direct your path..

2010-06-10T02:15:00.000+08:00

2010-06-07T23:39:00.002+08:00

disappoint.

enough said.

u can do it!!!!

2010-06-06T16:23:00.002+08:00

mari belajaaaarrr!!!

u have 15 days to go.
15 days to cover all those subjects.
biology, chemistry, food science, biotech..
long time never memorize things, hope my brain can work properly, still. :P
be sharp.focus.

dont waste any more time!!!

bye bye

2010-05-31T13:59:00.002+08:00

i want to say goodbye to my phone.

i was sleeping in the bus this morning with my phone held in my hand. it was a deep sleep i guess, untill i couldnt remember where my phone was when i woke up. went down rushing from the bus, without checking my belongings anymore.

and i just realized it when i saw the bus passed by, leaving us behind. we tried to call my phone. no answer. until finally we could get the driver's phone, we called him, but unfortunately he said, he found nothing. the one who called said "he sounds defensive when i called" i got it. it's not easy to find a good guy who would return a lost phone these days.

so, i guess i could do nothing.
bye bye my beloved SE 660i.. :'(

tick tock tick tock

2010-05-26T20:06:00.002+08:00

the time is ticking.

it is already week12.
and i still understand almost nothing..
wake up wake up.
exam's coming!!!
and the hardest part is always about how to start ur revision when there are too much things to be studied.
i waaaanttt HDs so bad!!!!

force me to study please..
anyone?
:P

berorganisasi

2010-05-18T12:48:00.004+08:00

almost spent 2 years, here in malaysia, and finally, i'm involved in campus organization...

i'm so so so excited!!!

yaa, sudah beberapa kali terpikir, kok hidup hampa yaa, cuma gitu-gitu ajaa. kuliah-pulang-kerjain tugas.. so flat? indeed. it's sucks being nobody. saya merindukan masa-masa di bogor, dimana sekolah sibuk, gereja sibuk, paksina sibuk... yaahh. sometimes i feel it's so tiring, mind & energy consuming.. tapi saya sukaaa... berorganisasi membuat hidup lebih hidup. :)

now. im involved in MUISS, Monash Uni International Student Service.

not being the official officer does not make me sad at all.. 2 weeks being involve in the team, we campaigned , decorated booth, did performances, and finally, won the election. i met lots of great people here, and so happy could be one of them.. i'm looking forward for it, the events, the hard work, the teamwork.. LET'S DO IT!!

one of my poster design

me, sandra, and divya performed during the campaign
*spontaneous performance =.= *

YES. i do love PRAISES!

2010-05-09T00:15:00.005+08:00

mikhal u r absolutely incredibly talented and im SO SO HAPPY that ur in the team. thank u SO much for ur work!!! u did an awesome job!!

im SO SO SO FLATTERED to hear that..

yeah. i do love praises. i mean, who dont?? though sometimes people act as if they don't want to be praised, or as if those praises don't suit them. i feel happy. feel the acceptance. the appreciation. but then, is it just about receiving praises?? how about to make people happy, to accept and appreciate other people??

let's turn our prespective.

i found myself RARELY give praises.

doesn't mean that i scold people or gossiping and tell bad things about them. not really. i just don't really bother about it. even when i feel someone had done a well, i realize, i prefer praise them behind their back, talking about it with other friends.

is it regarding to east culture issue? typical east people, asian, indonesian, chinese are more focusing to negative things.. when they made mistakes, they can be scolded like crazy, while when they achieve somethin, people just say "ohh.." why cant we praise when we know it makes other happy? why cant i? i think we just need to get used to it.

now let's train ourselves to PRAISE.
simple thing can make a big difference :)

captured!

2010-05-03T19:44:00.004+08:00

this is not me

2010-04-27T14:26:00.004+08:00

shoooot! one of my friend just told me that yesterday was due date for chemistry online test and i haven't done in at all. not even one of three attempt i had. didn't even remember. too bad mik!!!!! anjriiiiittt. siaaalll. aarrggghh..

why didnt i try, at least one, from long time ago.. i had much time, well it is not a one day online test with 15 minutes time limit. it is THREE (NOT ONE!!) attempt test with NO time limit, which is opened for around 2 weeks. yaa. i know. i was wrong. 100% my own fault. i thought i would do it near the due date so all the topic had been taught already and i could finish it easier. but the problem is, u didnt note the DATE! no point by missing the due date...

actually it nearly happened few weeks ago, with my bio Quiz. i was too busy with my holiday plan until i didnt even bother about our weekly online test. Fortunately, that time, i survived. a friend of mine helped me with the test.

And here i am. fall in the same hole.
:((

NO.NO. mikhal should have all her works done well.
too busy??
nonsense. that's only a reason to escape urself. to defend u from this stupid irresponsible mistake.
me dissapoint myself
....................................

hormon cinta

2010-04-25T20:35:00.005+08:00

Mr. S bilang,

"Hormon cinta itu
cuma bertahan 3 taun aja..
Jadi kalo lu jadian cuman based on love,
dalam 3 taun yaa abis dehh baterenyaa"

Agree??
Disagree??

how do u see me?

2010-04-24T01:19:00.003+08:00

some see me as a serious, calm,
quite, wise, organized,
introvert girl

on the other hand,
some see me as a cheerful, independent,
happy, powerful, confident,
active girl

so how about u?
how do u see me?

LDR

2010-04-14T23:38:00.002+08:00

i have to admit, benar, saya kemakan omongan sendiri.

i used to against Long Distance Relationship a.k.a LDR. I felt there was no hope, no future prospect, no 'real' relationship in LDR. I mean, well, i want someone to hug, someone to be with, physically. i thought, how can u be in a relationship with someone without seeing him/her.. but reality speaks differently and now here i am, dealing with my own LDR issue..

i had this conversation with my friend one day,
K. A
"Emang lw tahan LDR mik??"

i replied
"Mmm.. yaa gue ga tau gimana ke depannya, i can't guarantee, dijalanin dulu aja, i'll do my best, and we'll see how is it going.."
gue juga ga bisa sok-sokan jadi jagoan LDR, i know it will not be that easy.

yah, i can say, this is a new chapter for me. but so far, it's working so well *yeay*.
and glad that im not alone. hahaha. banyak temen2 disini yang LDR dan fine2 saja.. so, i guess, i hope, this should be ok. bantuin yaahh.. ;)

so which side are u?? are u so PRO LDR or those who contra?? why??
feel free to give opinion..
thanks.

Sunday Afternoon

2010-04-08T23:30:00.004+08:00

nice song. by Alarice Thio

it's a sunday afternoon, with you
let's play pretend on the swings,
and fly over the moon
you could be my superman,
and I will be your lady in a big white castle
save me from the monsters beneath my bed

if it's love you're looking for
you don't have to look too far,
cos I... am yours
maybe the girl who's perfect
is somehow right in front of you
and you might find her
on this sunday afternoon

it's a sunday afternoon with just two
lazing on the grass,
i'd pick a flower just for
you could be the one for me you don't even know how to read the signs
if only you knew that my heart would be yours,
in time

i'd write your name across the sky
turn sad songs into lullabies
but i'd stop myself, if only you knew....

trust

2010-03-31T01:02:00.002+08:00

i remember, once, nukke said this to me
"... asiik mikhal turun tangan.. pokoknya kalo ada mikhal mah beres dehh"

thank u friend for ur trust.
my pleasure.
i'm honored.

success surprise

2010-03-26T02:39:00.004+08:00

It was 2.30 am in the morning when i started to write this post. i cant decide whether it was because of the thick coffee i had in the afternoon, the biotech essay i just finished, or the excitement i had lately.

i just had another wonderful night, another happy moment to share..

it was peter's birthday celebration with the cellgroup, W9 & W15.
knowing him as my cell leader from the beginning, it was a pleasure to know this guy. hehe. dont get me wrong.. he is trully a leader, a brother, and a friend indeed.
after we had our ordinary cellgroup, suddenly W9 appear with cake, food, present, and video. glad that we can all sing together also. im glad that he was really surprised, and i hope it was really a happy moment for him.. thank u for all of ur contribution guys. yea, maybe i arrange some of it, maybe i contributed some idea, but really, it will be nothing without all of ur help.

szasza's art. awesome.

as usual, i really enjoy organizing things.
giving some idea.. *i had a dream to be an event organizer back then, and maybe i still do* i love managing things to be done nicely. i love the joy n proud after the event. i love the feeling of success. the time when u see people were satisfy. that ur hardwork is not meaningless. even the moment where u need to decide this and that. the confusion. thinking to overcome all of the limitation. n yeah i love the busyness. (now after all finished, only i can say this way... :P)

late at night, i received a msg.
"Great job today. Love the planning and idea generation. You did well pulling people together also. :) Proud of u. Thanks for blessing peter so much"
sweet. nothing better than be accepted and appriciated.

thank u szasza for the cake creation. very2 special cake. nowhere can find that kind of cake.
thank u emily for the card. great. very extraordinary.
thank u eldy for the video editting.. very touchy.
thank u yosia for searching for the present. u made it just on time ;)
thank u mira for taking care bout the food.
thank u all for being there..
thank u W9, W15.

mau tapi malu

2010-03-13T16:22:00.002+08:00

i had lots of fun these last 2 days. friends night at church and retro party at monash..
lots of performance, food, and prizes.. lumayan, i got goody bag with shopping voucher, shampoo, fitness voucher, notes, and pyramid privilege card inside.. woohoo!!

there are some games there. u know, which ask volunteer to come in front. and i always have this kind of feeling.. "what if i come in front.. i feel like going. but i'm not sure." too hasitate to go. at the end i have never be one of those brave people. actually, nothing wrong if u go and stand in front.. but maybe, this is bawaan jeleknya orang indo.. yang suka sok sok malu malu.. yang sukanya cuma nonton sama komentar..

padahaaal ohhh.. the prize will not make u regret at all!!! RM50 haagen dasz voucher from church, and saloon voucher from monash. mauu siiihhh tapi maluuuuuu...... gimana atuh yaa??

the lucky draw also superb. and again, i was not lucky enough to get it. no problemo, sudah biasa kalo ga dapet lucky draw mahh.. church bagi2 i pod touch.. Huaaahhh.. monash bagi2 voucher adidias RM700.. hikshikshiks..

dewi fortuna mampir lah padaku sekali2... :S

exchange

2010-03-10T21:50:00.003+08:00

if u remember,one of my resolution this year is going exchange program to monash ausie..
a week ago, i had briefing from monash, and they explained that we can only go exchange if we got our 1 year result already, before applying.. and this middle of march, application has to be sent for next semester exchange.. cos i haven't finished my 1 year yet, means i cannot go for next sem.

but it's not really bad issue, cos after i consulted with the faculty, it's absolutely possible for me to go next year, my 4th semester in monash.. all the units match between biotech in malaysia and clayton. so, i should apply around oct.

im excited. hope all things gonna be smooth, my result, the application, time management and so on..

cant wait to explore the world more and more and more!!

Start of something new

2010-03-03T23:11:00.004+08:00

i closed february with a YES
something i had never done for quite long time
i hope it will be good for both you & me,
i wish the best for us.

"take my heart but please don't break it..."
February 28, 2010

ladies first..

2010-03-01T21:54:00.002+08:00

pernah dengar ungkapan di atas?? menurut kamu di dunia jaman sekarang apa masih berlaku ladies first itu??? sejauh yang saya alami, realita masih mendukung frase itu, realita ga ngomong doang..

as a girl, it's a pleasure to have that privilege, ladies first privilege..

minggu lalu saya sempat pulang malam naik bis umum jakarta bogor.. karena waktu itu malam long weekend, jadilah bis yang biasa lengang jadi super penuh. alhasil saya pun berdiri agak desek-desekan.. singkat cerita, di tengah perjalanan, tiba2 ada bapak2 manggil saya, "dek2, duduk nihh.." padahal bapak itu juga ga duduk. dia malah nyuruh mas2 disebelahnya yang duduk, buat tukeran sama saya.. saya juga ga tau apa saat itu saya kelihatan kecapean, kepayahan, ato kayak mau jatoh terus, jadi si bapak tergerak buat ngasih saya duduk.. padahal sih saya biasa2 aja, masih muda, masih kuat juga suruh berdiri 1 jam.. hehe.. yaa akhirnya saya duduk juga dehh..

di kali lain, saat di malaysia, saya mau menuju satu mall dimana mereka menyediakan shuttle bus. tapi sebenernya shuttle nya ini cuma buat orang2 yang punya member card.. (yang jelas2 saya ga punya) tapi,.. kata orang malu bertanya sesat di jalan,, nunggu kelamaan juga kepanasan.. akhirnya saya turun tangan.. bertanyalah saya ke pak supir.. "pak, ini ke mall situ harus punya card yaa??" si bapak yang melihat saya, akhirnya mbolehin saya sama temen2 saya naik.. hihihi.

satu kali lagi, di tempat makan apartmen, waktu itu temen saya makanannya ga dateng2.. padahal yang lain uda hampir beres makan, akhirnya setelah ditanya, emang orangnya lupa.. akhirnya temen saya complain.. tapi si mas nya diem2 aja.. nah iseng2 saya bilang aja, 'free green teaa lahh..." tanpa berharap apa2.. ehh tapi ga lama, beneran dibawain green teanya sama si mas.. hehe..

2 cerita ini sempet bikin temen saya emosi aka sirik sih.. dia bilang "lw kedipin kali mik mas nyaa.." hehhee. yaahh mau mikir apa sih itu terserah anda.. tapi somehow emang those are some adventages being a girl. hehe..

saya juga ga minta kamu menganut paham ladies first.. katanya kan udah ada emansipasi wanita. jadi saya juga menghargai orang-orang yang tetep duduk santai di bis saat cewek2 di sekitarnya berdiri.. siapa cepat dia dapat juga tetep berlaku kok ;)

internship

2010-02-27T11:00:00.008+08:00

tidak terasa saya sudah melalui 2 bulan internship a.k.a magang di SCI.. it has been a lot of fun, really.. :D

jadi disana itu tempat research kanker dan stem cell. meneliti yang tidak kelihatan..teringat betul di minggu pertama gue bener2 butaa.. ga ngerti apa2, secara belom belajar apa2 di kampus tentang mikrobiologi ituu.. sampe jadi kasian juga sama senior2 disana yang nerangin gue..

"Jadi PCR itu gini lho, strand DNA nya itu dibuka, bla bla bla.... Pernah denger kan PCR??"

MIKHAL
"Mmm.. belom... "

Begitulah.. kayaknya hal yang paling dasar disana aja gue ga ngerti.. Tapi akibatnya 2 bulan ini gue benar2 menambah ilmu, and definitely experience too.. :) Pak bos cancer memberi gue satu project yang membuat gue ga cuma terbengong2 aja disana.. hehehe.. Dari pake pipet aja salah, syukurlah di akhir magang gue berhasil menyelesaikan project yang diberikan.. :)

sempet ada kejadian lucu disana, jadi kan gue mulai magang dari januari, nah tanggal 15 feb kmaren itu ada staff baru, jadi kan harus belajar juga gimana cara2 di lab situ.. waktu itu gue lagi ketemu sama pak bos; gue, staff baru, senior gue, dan pak bos tepatnyaa. di akhir pertemuan, terjadi conversation yang agak janggal..

PAK BOS
"Yaudah mulai besok M (staff baru) ikut sama mikhal aja yaa.. biar diajarin cara2 ngelab disini"

MIKHAL
*jeng2.. kok ada yang aneh yaa kayaknya?!?!*
"Haa? Ga salah pak? Si M saya yang ngajarin??"

PAK BOS
"Iya, daily routine aja.. kayak biasaa.. Baru pernah nihh anak magang yang ngajarin staff... Hahaha"

MIKHAL
"iya pak, ga kebalik yaa??"

Senior gue juga cuma bisa ketawa2 aja.. yaa akhirnya beneran deh gue yang ngajarin si M (sedikit)

partner in crime
devi, sesama pemagang di SCI
kita dapet kenang2an couple tee dari orang2 SCI.. so cute!

bersama k'wenny, farid, dan mbak riris

kenal sama orang2 baru, mencoba hal2 baru, dan punya kegiatan baru selalu membuat saya excited.hihihi. Thank u SCI family.. it's been a pleasure to know u all.. see u next time :)

papa ituuuu

2010-02-11T15:09:00.002+08:00

kemarin papa saya ulang tahun. umur 48..
karena saya ga kasih kado apa2, saya kasih opini aja dehh.. somehow dipuji2 itu selalu bikin seneng kann.. ehehe.. and i know he will read this.. hehe.

jadi papaku itu orangnyaa..

baik hati dan suka menolong
pemimpi.. saya harus belajar juga nihh
religius
awet muda dan ganteng. hihihihi.
penyayang
berempati (positivenya) karena agak berlebih jadi ga tegaan ngeliat orang kesakitan
calm
pemimpin
suka membaca menyebabkan berwawasan luas
ga ingih2

segitu dulu ahh.. selamat ulang tahun..
i love u so much!!

truly indonesia

2010-02-10T10:06:00.002+08:00

kemarin saya benar- benar merasakan indonesia yang sesungguhnya..
bukan maksud sombong, tapi saya rasa masih banyak juga teman-teman yang belum mengalami suka duka disini..

senin malam saya ke depok, berkunjung ke rumah teman. naik bis umum, duhhh.. macetnyaa ga ketolongan. memang sih itu jam pulang kantor 5pm. rasanya kok jauh dan lamaaa banget menuju depok. saya sebenernya ga tau pasti daerah mana yang saya tuju. tapi enaknya di indonesia, tinggal tanya2 sedikit, pasti bisa sampe tujuan. orangnya ga individualistis dan tau macem2..

selasa pagi, saya menuju jakarta. berbekal pengalaman 2 jam baru sampe depok, saya memutuskan ga mau naik bis lagi.. naik kereta aja ahh.. jam 6 saya sampai di stasiun ui. kata orang2 sih, saya harus turun di stasiun cawang. dan untuk kesana, cuma ada 2 opsi, naik ekonomi biasa ato ekonomi ac.

kalo kamu tau gimana susah nafasnya naik ekonomi, kamu pasti mikir lagi deh buat naik kereta itu di jam mau masuk kerja. akhirnya saya beli tiket ekonomi ac, "gapapa deh agak siang dikit, biar ga sepenuh ekonomi" Tapi maaf, harapan tinggal harapan. ternyataa, ekonomi ac tuh sama ga bisa nafasnya dengan ekonomi biasa.. :((

bisa masuk aja udah syukur dehh. jadi saya rasanya bedanya cuma dikit, kalo ekonomi biasa ga pake pintu, penumpngnya bisa nongol2 ky kenek angkot, sama ada tempat duduk tambahan di atas kereta. kalo ekonomi ac pintu dan jendela tertutup. jangan harap AC nya bikin dingin, kalo uda kerasa ada semilir angin aja udah beruntung..

tapi emang, naik kereta ga macet, jadi saya bisa sampai kantor dalam 1 jam, setelah nyambung angkot 2x dari stasiun cawang..

sorenya, sudah capek karena kurang tidur semaleman dan perjuangan ga biasa menuju kantor, saya memutuskan pulang cepat, 16.30 udah masuk bis bogor. udah kebayang sampai rumah sebelum jam 6. Eits. tapi tunggu dulu, setelah tidur dan bangun lagi di dalam bus, ternyata itu masih di tol dalam kota jakarta.. padahal itu udah jam 6.. aduuuhh stress.. yang biasanya di tol jakarta cuma 20 menit. ini 1,5 jam jg belom lewat.. aaaarrrghh..

usut punya usut, ternyata ada tank mogok di taman mini.. pas saya lewat sih, tank nya udah jejer2 di bahu jalan..tapi yaa, kebiasaan orang indonesia, kalo ada yang aneh2 pasti diliatin dulu.. curiousity nya terlalu tinggi.. setelah itu perjalanan lancaaaaaaaarrr.. ckckck..
jakarta oh jakarta, yang mogok satu mobil, kok yang macet satu kotaa..

well, selamat datang di jakartaa... :S

feelings

2010-01-17T22:36:00.003+08:00

is there a place for u deep inside my heart, still ??
i dont have the courage to wish...
and i dont have the bravery to ask for more..
courious, but not ready to hear the truth...

but i need to confess
somehow you are still not just an ordinary friend.
u're just too good to be true.

i feel like being someone's no one..
maybe we have our own path, different path.

seperti kata perahu kertas,
'aku nggak mau sepuluh, atau dua puluh tahun lagi, masih memikirkan orang yang sama.. bingung antara penyesalan dan penerimaan.'

happy birthday

2010-01-16T11:40:00.006+08:00

getting older. again.
this year is a bit different than the preveous years.
i left my teenages time, should i say finally? or should i say, unfortunately?
happy? of course. birthday is supposed to be celebrated and thanked.
nervous? yep.

a big step to set up my mind and to grow up.
sometimes it's nice to be that little girl
to have the previlage, to be tolarated.
to ask for guidance and to be cared of

Hhhh. now it's time for me to tolarate
cos the little-girl-period won't last forever.
20. big step. lots of journey to come.

WAKE UP, girl!
:)

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

~Chili Davis~

RESOLUSI

2010-01-08T00:11:00.002+08:00

tahun baru, resolusi baru.
jujur, belum ada list pasti untuk resolusi tahun ini, but so far, maybe ini sebagian yang terlintas di dalam benak saya.

exchange ke monash melbourne
nilai bagus biar bisa apply scholarship
jalan-jalan ke thailand, dan tempat-tempat baru lainnya
join ministry at church
tidak menyianyiakan internship program di SCI
berorganisasi
menuntaskan yang belum tuntas di tahun lalu :P
menambah pengalamann apa saja dimana saja kapan saja

itu dulu sepertinyaa...

wish me all d best! i wish u all the best as well, for sure.

mari berjuang di tahun 2010!!!

tahun ini Beda

2010-01-02T23:03:00.002+08:00

berbeda dengan beberapa tahun baru belakangan, tahun ini saya melewatkan tahun baru di rumah. alasan utama sih karena kami sekeluarga baru pulang dari family trip, guci-solo-semarang.. mau bikin acara sendiri juga mepet, mau ikut temen ke bandung juga cape. akhirnya yah, di rumah saja..

ga ada makan-makan, ga ada tiup terompet, dan ga ada pesta kembang api.
tapi itu ga membuat saya menyesal menghabiskan tahun baru dirumah.
saya jadi punya waktu lebih untuk diri saya sendiri. untuk bersyukur betapa indahnya tahun yang sudah saya lewati dan betapa banyaknya blessing yang sudah saya terima.

tuhan itu baik.
sangat sangat baik ketika saya mengingat tahun 2009 yang sudah saya lewati.
terima kasih untuk keluarga, teman-teman, monash, church, kehidupan di malaysia, dan berbagai pengalaman yang tak terhitung banyaknya.

recap 2009

2010-01-01T15:59:00.002+08:00

2009 has ended and 2010 has just begun..
seperti kebiasaan infotainment2 indonesia di akhir taun, kali ini saya akan merecap perjalanan hidup saya selama 2009.

honestly, it's been an amazing colourful and wonderful year. i spent about 350 days out of 365 days along 2009 in malaysia. many good and bad things happen for sure.

STUDY

Once i joined a math competition and i was quite surprise that i could be TOP 25% world wide (it was held by Canada -red). done with Monash Foundation Year in June and successfully entered Monash Uni majoring Biotechnology, Science. Though there were some challanges for us, foreigners, to enter uni, finally we could make it punctual. Though monash life is not as easy and enjoyable as MUFY life, i really thank GOD, i could finished my 1st sem really well.

WORK

I had my 1st part time job in Sushi Zanmai pyramid for 2 months. It was exciting, fun, yet challanging and tiring.. Learn how to deal with customers and how to serve people. Receiving salary is always be the best part, hehehe. how can i say no if it doubled my monthly allowance! I also did another small part time in Lunch Box, indonesian canteen. Disini beda lagi belajarnya, lebih ke multitasking.. dari waitress, bikin drinks, sampe delivery semua dikerjain, sampe akhirnya sempet dapet job buat ngedesign menu jugaa. well. i've never imagine myself being 'tukang design' there.

Satu lagi bisnis-bisnisan yang aku lakukan di tahun ini adalah bantuin temen rental car.. jadi manager kecil2an. sekali lagi, lumayan buat pengalaman dan menambah uang jajan.. gara-gara bisnis mobil, tiba2 aku jadi bisa nyetir automatic car, yang belum pernah aku pegang sebelumnya di indonesia. dan tau dikit2 tentang mobil. not bad.

CHURCH

i feel really blessed becoming part of the church, city harvest church. i learnt so much and im excited to leard more! the optimism, the spirit, the motivation, the positive atmosphere. and also learn from the cell group, W15, to care for one another.. great pastor, great sermon, great praise and worship, great events, great friends.

VACATION

work hard, study hard, play hard.
selalu sempatkan waktu buat jalan-jalan, try new places, try new stuffs.
Setiap liburan selalu ada kisah jalan-jalan seru yang bikin tahun ini semakin bewarna. dimulai dengan awal tahun berkelana sendiri ke singapur naik bis, ke langkawi ngebis malem bareng temen2, genting sama temen dan keluarga, bukit tinggi, bangsar sama temen2 gereja, kuala selangor, kelip-kelip, Penang.. and many many time of food hopping around sunway and KL. seneng banget ngett..

tak lupa, di akhir tahun, ditutup dengan family trip ke jawa tengah, guci-tegal, solo, semarang..

FRIENDSHIP

sangat sangat banyak teman baru di tahun ini. multicultural.. ganti2 roommate sampai 3x, dari orang bogor, orang bangladesh, sampai orang palembang... ada grup jalan2, grup ulang tahunan, grup foto-foto, grup dinner bareng, grup ke gereja sampe grup main monolopi.. :)

kalau kita melihat kembali resolusi tahun 2009 di awal tahun lalu, sepertinya mostly, bisa dicapai dengan sukses! tapi katanya kita ga boleh cepat puas kan. cant wait for more!

xoxo.

sepenggal tulisan milik teman

2009-12-31T12:18:00.002+08:00

sepotong thread di message facebook yang barusan saya buka, cukup membuat saya terharu..

PAKSINA 2006 :D
kalian tidak akan pernah tahu betapa berharganya kalian buat aku ..
betapa kalian telah banyak merubah hidupku
tanpa kalian, aku nggak akan jadi seperti sekarang
Kalianlah orang-orang pertama yang betul-betul menjadi sahabatku di kala senang dan susah,
yang tahu baik buruk-ku luar dan dalam
yang selalu mendukungku dalam kondisi apapun
selalu jujur bila aku melakukan kesalahan
yang mengubahku menjadi dari orang yang tertutup menjadi orang yang terbuka dan optimis
sampai sekarang aku nggak bisa membayangkan seandainya saat itu aku nggak memutuskan untuk masuk PAKSINA

Kalianlah sahabat seumur hidupku,
orang-orang yang selalu bisa menerimaku apa adanya
terima kasih karena telah banyak memberikan pelajaran A+++++++

Happy New year!!!!
Wish u a great year!
miss u all guys :D

by vassilisa agata a.k.a ellen 2006

Lagoon View rocks!

2009-12-05T00:15:00.003+08:00

this is one of the advantages staying in lagoon view..

jarak yg sangat dekat dengan sunway lagoon, dan view yang tentunya menghadap kesana membuat resident sini bisa nonton, mm, at least dengerin konser gratis! cuma-cuma!

banyak artis internasional berdatangan ke malaysia dan konser di sunway lagoon.. sebut saja, david archuleta, akon, black eyed peas... smua uda gue dengerin live concertnyaa.. hahaha.. berapa bulan lalu juga sempet ada MTV stage di sunway lagoon, wah itu sih mantap dah! all american reject, hoobastank, etc. terus itu pake big screen yang gedeee bgt.. tambah enak lagi dehh buat kami2 yang tinggal di lagoon view.. tinggal duduk manis di balcony.. tinggal ikutin flow concertnya dehh.. sambil nyanyi2, sambil teriak2, sambil angkat tangan... hhehe

nah kemaren nih yaa.. gw lagi cape capenya abis pulang dari KL malem2.. ehh kok tiba2 ada live music dari lagoon.. semakin didenger kok semakin asik.. jenis musik yang ngangenin.yang jarang didenger di malaysia.. funk jazzy soul gt.. :) yahh. disini entah kenapa jarang tuhh musik2 sebangsa maliq, tompi, gt2... adanya hip hop, r n b. huhh..

curious. gue google jg akhirnya, siapa sih yang konser di lagoon, kamis malem gini?? dan ternyataaa.. excited! itu EARTH WIND AND FIRE sodara2... abis ngegoogle pun, mereka langsung mainin lagu andalan, SEPTEMBER medley LET'S GROOVE... aaaiiaa.. jadi inget duplicate dehh.. masa2 ngeband bareng.. *berhubung mereka pernah bawain september juga kmaren*

setelah cari2 tau, ternyata itu harga tiketnya 150-880rm.. and i can listen it for FREE! awesome! worth it!

what a good day :)

2009-12-04T14:12:00.003+08:00

while Daniel Powter has his BAD DAY, i indeed had my GOOD DAY yesterday...

i was planning to go KL with lidya.. we planned to meet around 12, so i set my self to be ready at11.. Then i text her, to confirm the meeting.. i was a bit disappoint when she said she just woke up and delay the time to 1pm. means, i have to wait for an hour.. But, at 11.50, a friend called aksing to rent the car that point of time! wow. my waiting definitely not a waste of time.. if i left sunway already, i will miss this customer and wont earn anything..hehehe..

i met lidya in KL sentral and we went to bukit bintang; lowyat-sungei wang-pavilion... it's such a great day,spending quality time with friend. just enjoy the holiday, enjoy KL, enjoy chit-chat with each other..

on the way back home, i was waiting for the bus for soooooo loooooonggggg!!!!!!! luckyly i had a nice seat when the bus came or else i have to stand along the way, which took 1,5 hour yesterday. HUff.. because it was jam and raining outside.. Moreover, the one sat in front of me opened his laptop and watched HEROES series along the way.. hahaha.. this become an interesting journey of course, where can u watch HEROES in any other bus?

One more reason which made my day a GOOD DAY..
when i was in the bus, tired, suddenly i receive sms.. i was SURPRISE!

my.monash portal SMS
Result:
BIO1011 - D 73
CHM1011 - HD 83
ENG 1091 - HD 88
SCI1020 - HD 86

Wow! that was my monash result... i almost forgot about that. really really glad for the GOOD result! fyi HD means High distinction (seperti dapet A di indo) and D means distinction.

Thank GOD for a good result.
Thank GOD for a good day....
what happened yesterday, nothing came by accident. :)

EMERGE RISING 09

2009-11-29T21:50:00.004+08:00

last week,friday to sunday, i attended emerge rising by chcKL.. there were 5 session and was held in sunway convention centre. it was great! it was awesome.. there were bunch of perfomance, some are malaysian, singaporean, and taiwanese..

final round for some competitions like spelling bee, drama competition, beauty peagent, fashion design, parade of school *kind of cheerleading*, even nitendo wii were held during the service. my salutation to the drama group,wow,they were like pro! love it.love it.love it..

pastor kong, from city harvest church singapore preached in all the 5 session, he taught us about caleb, the dreamer.. he had courage to dream high, and also had faith that god will fulfill his dream.... even when the world turns upside down, even when he had to wait for decades.. But we must also remember that he didn't just wait and remain quiet. NO. he worked. he did some actions. Dont u ever thought the success will just come in a click. God definitely wants us to be successful, yet HE doesn't want us to remain still without doing anything..

SUCCESS = talents + hardwork

have the courage to be not just an ordinary person. stand to make different. We must be in the world but not OF the world.

dreamdreamdream.....

jalan-jalan lagi

2009-11-28T22:28:00.002+08:00

huaaahhh,, senangnyaa...
setelah sekian lama gak jalan-jalan, akhirnya kemarin explore malaysia lagi bersama teman2 mufy.. yeah, JOM!! ('ayo' in bahasa melayu -red)

here we, (me, nukke, ola, tri, and leon) go again!
we rent car from me *hehehe*
and left sunway 8.00 pm..
1st destination, bukit bintang... lowyat, jalan alor, pavilion...
makan2, foto2..
continue to ampang lookout point, a.k.a little genting.. wew.. we reach there 1 am in the morning.. with almost run out petrol.. untungnya gausah dorong mobil disana.hahaha....
snack time, makan es krim, foto2 lagi.... seruuuu, melihat KL dari atas bukit. tapi yahh, namanya jg malaysia, mau di atas bukit jg tetep aja panas yahh..

it's 2a.m in the morning when we left little genting..
nope, we havent done yet. :)
lanjut ke jl. ipoh.. midnight dimsum.. something interesting here, this dimsum place will only open at night, around 10 pm. and close at dawn, maybe 5am in the morning... though, there are still lots of people come to eat.. geez, where can u find people hunt food at midnight..

all tired. we went back and reach sunway at 4am in the morning..
goodnite..goodnite..

OoOoOo.. i ate non stop the whole night :S

hello... can't u see me here?!?!

2009-11-13T20:48:00.007+08:00

bagaimana perasaan anda ketika acara yang kalian rencanakan bersama, mulai begitu saja, tanpa sepengetahuan anda.. berlangsung, tanpa sepengetahuan anda.. dan akhirnya berakhir tanpa sepengetahuan anda..

KEKI CUY..

demikian perasaan saya saat ini.
jadi begini ceritanya sodara2... berikut conversation sms saya dengan seorang teman

TEMAN

"mik. mau ikut rayain ultahnya si A ga besok?waktu dan tempat belom tauu tapi.."

MIKHAL

"Mauuu... kira2 siang/sore/malem?? besok kabar2in aja yahh kalo uda tau dimana n kapannya.. okok.. "

TEMAN

"Kira2 siang. ok.ok. hhehe"

Tadi pagi, kembali saya memfollow-up planningnyaa..

"TEMAN (yang namanya tidak disebutkan), ada plan apa buat si A? mau beli kue ato apa gitu? ada yg bisa dibantu??"

TEMAN

"ga tau.. belom dikasih kabar lagi sm si B.. Ehehe"

setelah siang dan sore tak ada kabar, malamnya, 6.43 pm si TEMAN sms

"Mikhal kayanya rayainnya malem gt di monash dehh.. Ntar g kabarin lagi yaa..."

MIKHAL

"Kasih taunya jangan mepet2 yaa ntar, TEMAN. soalnya gue lagi ga dirumah nihh.."

9 p.m mikhal sampai rumah, kembali mengirim sms

"TEMAN, aku sudah dirumah.. jam brp nih jadinya.. sudah tidak sabar lagi..hahaha. pd dimana skarang? ntar kalo uda mau ke monash kbrin dong jadi bareng2 gt..."

TEMAN

"Kami jadinya pergi pyra.. skarang lagi di pyra.. Ehehe."

MIKHAL

"haha. padahal aku baru dr pyra. Loh, emang si A nya dimana sih? jadi rencananya gimana sihh?"

TEMAN

"Kami lagi makan di ............. terus mo kasih kue sama kado :P "

MIKHAL

*agak2 shocked bacanyaa.*

"Yaaaahhhh.. kok ga bilang2.. Huhu.. yauda dehh ntar nitip salam yahh buat A.. hv fun :) "

*smiley penghiburan buat diri sendiri... padahal dalam hati gigit jari*

TEMAN

Ok. Aha3.. Sorry

*speechless baca sms terakhir dihiasi dengan Aha tiga kali*

aaaaarrrgggghhh.... saya tau mengumpat itu ga baik... tapi sumpah. baca 2 sms terakhir bikin geregetan.bikin kesel sendiri.. gimana sih. niat ga sih ngajak nya?? Sorry pun asal lewat gitu.. well. yaa mungkin gue emang ga ikut2 persiapan2 apa2.. bukannya gue ga mau. tapi ga dikasih info biar tau. huhh. KECEWA BERAT BRUR!!

Maaf, anda sungguh mengecewakan, TEMAN.

KEKI KUADRAT..

edit photo

2009-11-10T17:49:00.003+08:00

haii.. saya abis iseng2 edit2 foto.. edit di web gitu sihh..
huhh.. dari dulu kepingin rasanya, seru rasanya liat2 foto yang udah diedit jadi keren2..
ini nihh hasil editan mikhal si pemula. mohon bimbingan :)

foto pertama, foto narsis dulu.. hehehe..

I HEART MY FAMILY

FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS

horeee!! menaaang..

2009-11-08T00:35:00.002+08:00

horehore.. berita gembira..

tadi ke gereja, ada pengumuman lomba emerge.. ternyataa saya menang sodara2.... huahuahuaa.. kira2 tiga minggu yang lalu, aku join lomba HOW SMART ARE U? jadi kayak tes iQ gt... ada 2 part, suru cari gimana patternnya, terus tentuin gimana bentuk selanjutnya.

ternyata aku juara 2, kategori under 20 years old.. waaa.. senangnyaaaa.. :)) so unexpected.... abisnya temen yang lain yg ikut jg kayaknya pinter2..hehehe.. memang sih ga dapet hadiah, fyi yang juara 1 dapet voucher haagen dash rm50..... aaaaargghh. i also want!!!! tapi paling engga, sumbang poin buat SMU (Sunway Monash Uni cluster -red), sama buat pengalaman, dan seru-seruan.. yippie.. ternyata saya SMART jugaaa.huahaha..

jadilah tadi fotoku terpampang di depan.. di big screen during service.. hihii.. dan juara 1-3 smua dari cluster SMU..woohooo... yosia jg juara 3 kategori di atas 20 tahun.. ahh. udah kebanyakan juara ah dia mahh.. *lohh kok jadi sirik*

~emerge fever is in the air... ~

charger

2009-11-06T00:44:00.003+08:00

baru2 ini ada teman baru memeriahkan dunia per-blog-an mikhal..

adelia swastika is following my blog and so am i to hers..

ahh.. membaca blognya membuat hari-hari saya lebih segar. because she always tells everything. when i say everything it really means everything.. haha.. dari yang konyol2 yang kocak2 sampe yang romantis semua diceritain. yahh, but that's her. bukan adelia swastika namanya kalo engga begitu.. walau kadang rasanya pengen nyetop dia kalo dia uda ga bisa berenti cerita sampe hal-hal yang kayaknya tidak untuk diceritakan, tapi i admit, di satu sisi, saya juga perlu belajar dari dia buat lebih terbuka.. dan hari ini namaku masuk di postingan dia. hhehe..thank u besties. what a pleasure :)

tau ada orang di luar sana yang terus mengupdate blog ku bikin aku recharged. bikin excited. bikin feel there's always someone cares about me. apalagi kalo ada yang comment2, ini lebih seru lagi, berarti mereka ga sekedar mampir tapi juga menyimak, membaca, dan mengupdate.. so, jangan bosan menanggapi blog saya yahh ;P

by the way, akhirnya exam yang bikin degdegan sejak minggu lalu dimulai juga..

kemarin dan hari ini, sudah 2 exam yang terlewati... well, it's not bad at all.. apalagi kalo dibanding teman2 faculty lain yang sampe commentnya "kalo uda pass, uda untung banget.." yang lain lagi ada yang comment "wanna get HD for accounting? u better go sleep, maybe it will come true in your dream" mengerikan bukan?? yahh thank GOD, sejauh ini so far so good.. memang seems imposible to target full mark, but at least, aku mau DISTINCTION.. semoga. dan semoga 2 coming exams will be great as well. amin.

baris

2009-11-02T13:48:00.002+08:00

kemarin aku ikut baris-berbaris dalam rangka emerge gereja..
setelah 2 tahun ga pernah baris, tba2 ikut lomba dengan cuma latian 2x.
yahh.. rasanya ini lebih buat support cluster SMU lah.

yang mau aku share, gara-gara ikutan drill competition ini, jadi tau kalo tiap negara ternyata punya gaya baris sendiri2 dan command sendiri2.. berhubung sekarang tinggal di malaysia, kami pakai lahh komando bahasa melayu.. pertama kali denger lucu jg rasanya..
komando ala malaysia..
hadap kanan grak = ke kanan pusing
balik kanan grak = ke belakang pusing *pusing ga lw dengernya?!?!"
lencang kanan = ke kanan lurus
istirahat di tempat = senang diri *so cutee..*
tegak grak = tegakkan diri

kalo diperhatiin, disini ga pake 'grak-grak-an' komandonya.. jadi waktu 'kekanan pusing' yah itulah komandonya... hehehe. lumayan nambah vocab baris pake bahasa melayu dan menambah pengalaman..

ga cuma komando nya yang beda.. gerakannya juga beda.. yang biasanya di indo hadap kanan 3x gerak, disini jadi cm 2x. agak2 mirip hadap kanan jalan di tempat gt.. lucunya lagi, karena dr SMu majority orang indo, jadi aturannya pun di mix ga karuan.. pake komando bahasa melayu, tapi gerakan indo..

kemarin ngobrol2 sama temen orang sini, katanya mereka waktu high school gitu ada masanya wajib ikutan baris.. yahh kayak ekskul wajib lahh.. sangat jauh berbeda dengan keadaan di rp yang mau upacara aja harus mohon-mohon ke kepala sekolah.. ckckck.. miris.

mm. mau tau hasilnya?? cukup gw bilang, sekumpulan orang yang ga semuanya bisa baris, dengan latar belakang dari negara dan kota yang berbeda2, latihan 2x 2jam.. taraaa... mestinya kamu bisa bayangin hasilnya.. apalagi kalo kamu tau, dulu standart berani ikut lomba minimal latihan 1 bulan buat nyamain barisan. *sigh*

but it's ok. for fun. :)

friends +++

2009-10-31T20:02:00.007+08:00

hey. it's the last day of the month.
i can surely say that this month is really a blast!!

i always love to have new friends, i love bertemaan.. :) i remember, there was a time when i consistently counted how many new friends do i have and wrote the new-friend-name-list in my diary book, mm...maybe for around one year! n it's always excited when there's someone 'new' in the list...

i always wish to have more and more and more friends. i always hope that my capacity to communicate to one another to be enlarge.. wish that i can be more friendly.. wish i can be a good friend for others. and i feel really glad that this month i hv gained quite a number of friends.. woohooo... :))

how come this month is not just an ordinary month??

well, the new bussiness does matter. becoming the manager *cielee.. manager...* i met some new people who want to rent out the car.. most of them are friends of friends. so, they're actually not really strangers for me. mm, the boss also contributes. :P hehe. sometimes hang around with him, makes me more or less met some of his friends. some are church friends and some from office.

another thing that also plays role is the emerge thingy.. so, now the church is running lots of competitions and i also join some, or at least watch some. it's damn fun.. arts, sports, business, games, until the weirdo things also competited. from here i meet many NEW friends...

emerge is still going on and the car business is still expanding, give me a chance to be ur new friend, guys!! :))

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

~Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend

kekagumanku

2009-10-24T18:17:00.003+08:00

SAHABATKU
by Yason Pranata

Ohh.. indahnya dunia, saat kudapati suburnya tanah di negeriku

Ohh.. damainya hatiku menyaksika padi menguning di tanahku
Ohh.. kayanya negriku tak lepas dari anugerahMu
Syukuri berkatNya
dan kembangkan pertanian indonesia

Terima kasihku kuucapkan pada dirimu, Sahabatku
Tak'kan lah maju Indonesia tanpa jasamu,
keringatmu
Senyumku terpancar bagimu
Petani, sahabatku

Ohh Segarnya hidupku rasakan embun pagi di tiap hari-hariku
Ohh Hangatnya mentari bersinar cerah mengawali hari ini
Kayanya negriku tak lepas dari anugerahMu
Syukuri berkatnya
dan kembangkan pertanian indonesia

Apalah artinya lagi...
Lahan membentang tanpa pertanian
Terus berkarya,
Petani sahabatku

still speechless everytime i listen to his song.. It's hard to believe that it's my lil' brother's.. SUPER AWESOME... The intro, the verse, the chorus, the ending... And i LOVE LOVE LOVE the arrangement. the guitar solo, the piano, the beat, the vocal. what a great song.. all my salutation to u!!

Setahun ga serumah sama dia, improve banyak banget.. great. berkembang.. apakah ini salah satu keuntungan masuk smansa juga?? hehehe.. narsis dikit. karena aku yang bujuk2in dia biar masuk smansa.. Jadi bisa ikut2 ekskul band, ketemu temen2 sesama jago ngeband, ikut lomba2, perform... Mungkin dulu memang skill aku di atas dia, setiap kali, selalu dia yang tanya2 aku.. Tapi kayaknya Ga menutup kemungkinan aku jadi a fan of yours. U have quality. Keep improving. jangan cepat puas yaa.. pake waktu selagi bisa...

I LOVE U YASON

Listen to your song makes me missing u so much.. makes me imagine how u create that song, how u play in the band... aaaa... MISS U.. :))

bisnis baru

2009-10-21T01:25:00.002+08:00

haiyaaa..
ditengah kesibukan assignment, assessment, labnya monash, saya membuka bisnis baru di daerah sunway... berpartner bersama yosia, teman se-lagoon view, kami membuka usaha rental mobil.. hhehe.. this is daily basis car rental.. sangat cocok buat anak2 sunway yang ga bermobil tapi mau jalan2, apalagi di kala weekend dan liburan..

bermobil jelas memudahkan perjalan anda, benar begitu bukan?
ga perlu nunggu bis yang entah kapan datangnya, ga perlu panas-panasan jalan ke halte, ga perlu nawar taxi yang tarifnya melambung dari hari-ke hari, ga harus jaim di tengah orang-orang ga dikenal.. hahaha. promosi nih jadinya..

masih excited sama bisnis baru. masih dalam masa promosi dan penjajakan. harus optimis tentunya.. maju terus..

so far, sejak dilauch 4 hari, sudah ada 2 customer.. not bad huh.. :)
semoga bisnis ku ini lancar2 aja, mulus2 aja, banyak customer, dan semakin berkembang.. amiiiin...

exam

2009-10-19T15:48:00.002+08:00

dagdigdugdagdigdug..
ohhh my...
the time is running out!!!!

2weeks to final exam.
now im having revision week and i feel like i still dont understand anything..
it really makes me nervous!!
never feel the tension of exam as high as this before..

MONASH is absolutely extraordinary..
baru kali ini ngerasain takutnya facing exam.
need to calm down.. huff huff.. so i can manage my time well. wish me all d best please.
hope everythin will be allright.

by the way, we had new look.. yeay. is it nice?? please give me some comments.
thx.

longing for new look

2009-10-16T01:32:00.002+08:00

I feel like changing the design n background of my blog.
too long already.
boring.
still in progress.
buat hasil yang maksimal.
berhubung ini minggu "sibuk"
jadi butuh waktu.. nantikanlahh.. :)

bday week

2009-10-16T01:17:00.002+08:00

sminggu ini penuh dengan birthday teman2. geng MUFY, nukke dkk. pada ulang taun smua.. bayangkan, seminggu ini aja ada 3 orang yang ulang taun. Ulang taunan disini berarti bikin2 acara ulang taun. so, dalam seminggu ini ada 3 acara tiup lilin, 3 acara potong kue, dan fortunately, acara makan2 pun terus2an.. hahaha.

dimulai dengan ulang taunan ke yang sabtu minggu lalu,
venue : lagoon view poolside
acara : bbQ. bakar2 ayam, sate, sosis, makan nugget, makan cheese cake, makan french fries, foto2, nyanyi2. makan2 sampe kekenyangan. buset itu makanan super banyak banget.. udah gitu pada ga semangat lagi makannya..

acara kedua, ulang taun nukke, senin,12 oct
venue : lagoonview, unit dicky
acara : makan malam bersama, steamboatan sambil ngabisin bahan2 bbQ an.hahaha.. masak2, goreng ayam. nukke diundang ke unit dicky buat acara makan malam bersama. lalu, tiba2, muncul jco dengan lilin2 nya..yup, kali ini pengen bikin agak beda. bosen makan tart melulu, jadi ganti jco aja dehh.. terus kasih dia dress n kalung.. yeaa yeaa..

acara ketiga, ulang taun sasa, kamis, 15 oct
venue : lagoonview unit szasza
acara : surprise party, *saya telat, ga ikutan acaranya dehh* terus makan kue, foto2, kasi kado

acara keempat, ulang taun sasa part2
venue : lagoonview unit yosia
acara : cell group, terus celebrate pake kue tart, nyanyi2, foto2, potong kue, terus sabooorrr... sasa dibanjur pake saos tomat hahaha,.. rambutnya jadi bersambal. celebrate sama orang gereja malah paling sadis. hehe. peter's idea! kami nurut aja.. hehhehe.. abis itu makan ke murni dehh..

wahh minggu yang seru.
minggu yang sibuk.
minggu horehore hurahura hepihepi syalala.
LUV u all guys n gals.

HAPPY BDAY ALL :)

PENANG, food hunting

2009-09-30T22:16:00.008+08:00

here comes my mid semester break.

senin kemarin, aku, nukke, novita roommate, andre, iwan, tri, steven ke pulau penang..
agak2 last minute decision sebenernya, gara2 susah banget dapet mobil rental buat 7 orang. minggu jam 5 triandi baru telp, "mik. ada nih mobilnya NAZA rm250, ok ga?" hmmph. sebenernya itu super mahal dan di atas ekspektasi kita buat budget mobil. tapi karena uda cari sana sini ga dapet2, akhirnya okelah diambil aja.

Janjian terima mobil hari senin jam 8, kita smua uda nunggu di lobby LV. tapi ternyata orangnya baru dateng jam 9 kurang 10 menit. ckkck. orang indo, orang indo.. kalo ngaret terus kapan majunya.. setelah beberapa menit administrasi, kita cauu ke penang langsung dengan disupirin andre. jam 1 siang sampai di georgetown penang.. makan siang pertama di resto kapitan, ini tempat makan india gt. aku pesen chicken milani *their special menu* hmmm. awesome. enaaak. ga mahal jg loh. rm6.50

tujuan kedua check in hotel. setelah mencoba 2 guest house yg ternyata not available, akhirnya kita nginep di hotel oriental, 1 family room buat ber7, super hemat, rm138. hihi.
sorenya kita ke batu ferringhi beach, masuk ke hard rock hotel, lalu main2 di pantainya. dari sana lanjut ke Toy Museum, lalu ke gurney drive, makan pasembur, rojak bakwan. hmm gimbal udangnya mantap! terus abang2 yg jual juga gaya gituu jualannya, sambil nyanyi2 sama goyang2 muter2 ngeramu rojaknya. malem puter2 georgetown, jajan2, foto2.

pagi jalan2 ke pasar, breakfast. makanan disana emang super murah. 1 porsi mie bisa cuma rm2.50, minum tea o hot cuma rm 0.80. Lalu kami ke penang hill, naik cable car ke hillnya, liat2.. terus ke Kek Lok si tample, n last but not least ke jetty. jetty ini ky perumahan kecil yg dibangun di atas laut, rumahnya semua dari kayu. very unique. akhirnya kita pulang dehh ke sunway. bye bye penang..

tengah malam, ke murni ss2 for supper. makan enak lagi. cheese naan, roti hawaian, roti beckham, nasi goreng maryland, nasi goreng napoleon, lo shi fun.

hasil food hunting kita kali ini:
chicken misala-kapitan, fried oyster, prawn mee, char kuey teow, rojak, jawa mee, ais kacang, asam laksa, buah pala ais, bacang enak, kue keladi, ba kut teh.

rojak pasembur - chicken milani - penang hill

weekend ironi

2009-09-22T16:41:00.003+08:00

everytime friday, the last day of the weekday comes, i always be full of joy.
even when i have no plan at all, having the weekday flew by and the weekend coming is just awesome!!
after hardworking days, a lot of assignments, classes, and assessment, i just feel to REST. to take a break for a moment, take time not to think about chemistry biology statistic and math. studylife in monash is definitely not the same as in MUFY sunway. i can say that monash 1st year is triple of MUFY.. but it means u really learn somethin right.. When u feel it's simple n easy *like i used to think about mufy*, actually u didnt learn much. u didnt expand urself. didnt gain some knowledge, or only gain Little knowledge..

um. ok. the point is, me n all of my monash friends are always very excited having weekend.. the most common things to do is go pyramid, eat somewhere there, go to supermarket, jajan somethin.. it seems so fun at that point, but then it gives bad effect. :((
no matter how less money i spend during weekday, i will always lack of money after weekend..
though i count every cent i spent, i still have no saving.
arghh.. compare to some of my friends, they seems spend without thinking.. watch movie 3 times a week, karaoke, buy new shoes also dont really matter.. huhuhu.. no, no i dont want to watch movie too often, i also dont want to buy new stuff everyweek. but i love love to try new things.

eat in pyramid costs me 10-20plus ringgit per visit. rm10 for McD *see, even ONLY McD also cost money!* 20plus if we want to go to resto. as a result, my 2 days weekend can cost me same or more than my 5 days weekdays.. grrr.. wat an expensive weekend!

i cannot stay at home in front of my lapotop for the whole day. i just cant stand for it.
u can ask my family, i ll be bored, gelisah, bingung when i have nothing to do at home. even at my hometown, where there is TV, piano, internet, telp, n everythin. still i cant stand :(( so, i hv to face the consequence. for me going out = happy, meanwhile, most of the time, going out = spend money..
so, is it really true that spend money = happy.
i dont think so...

does it mean i need some more money? im not sure either. people say, 'we will never have enough' it's not that easy to make us satisfy and be quiet. we, human will always ask for more. that's human nature.

dillema.

MY WEEKEND EUPHORIA LEAVES IRONI BEHIND

*mm. by the way, this blog is only splash of my expression. not a way for asking some more money pap. dont get me wrong.hehe

discovering malaysia

2009-09-09T21:59:00.003+08:00

last weekend was a blast!!
i went jalan-jalan with church friends, 14 of us with 3 cars went to sungai besar, kuala selangor, sekincan, and hotspring.. wohoo!!!

sunday afternoon, after having lunch in medan, we started our journey, 1.30 pm. 4.45 we reach at hotel, sungai besar, check in for a while, n took a walk near the beach.. our room was built above the sea! one thing i courious, at night the sea supposed to be 'pasang' right, and the water level should be increase.. but there, at night, no more water below our room u know.. i feel weird. 7 girls stayed in 1 room and 6 boys in another room.

6.30 p.m we went out for dinner in sekinchan.. it was shervinn's relative place.. awesome!! we ate lots of seafood. large fish, prawn, balitong, and sotong.. i love the sotong so much.. they told us it was sotong that doesn't produce ink. it was small n very soft. hmmmm.. and guess what, after those satisfaction moment, we only spent rm10 per person!! imagine that! if only we spent rm10 in kL, we can only get 1 McD set meal. :((

that night we continued our journey to kuala selangor, to see kelip-kelip (kunang-kunang red.) we rode a boat and went through the river.. btw, i just realize, the one that shine in kelip2 is their BUTT.. means all the visitors go there to look for kelipkelip's BUTT.. hahaha.. need to pay rm15 pula.. what a precious butt... :P

Though i coul still feel the food inside my stomach, we all went makan again!! try the satay and Es ABC.. hmmm.. delicious. Along the nite, we all play WOLF card together.

monday morning
eat char kuey teow, then went to kuala selangor for hotspring.. there are many ponds with different temperature, 30, 50 degree.. there's also an are for boiling egg.. all we need to do is just put the egg and wait for 8 min. hmm the egg taste much more tasty than usual *sugesti*
for dinner we had mi bebek.

nice trip man!
cant wait for the next jalanjalan!! :))

relationship

2009-09-05T00:19:00.003+08:00

what things will still matter when u die and continue to eternal life?

definitely not money and not wealth

in our next journey, only two things will be asked.

our relationship with god

and our relationship with people.

relationship

build sense of belonging

encourage people

build up our maturity

dear God. help me to enlarge my capacity in my social life. though im not that sanguine, spontanious, expressive person, though i feel im not the center of attention type, i dont wanna just sit alone in the corner. i love friends and im happy being someone's friend. help me to be a part of community. help me not to be lost. help me not to be egoist n dont care about others. help me to be more encouraging. help me to love people with compassion..

malaysia dingin!

2009-09-04T18:48:00.002+08:00

kalau kamu tau gimana udara malaysia pada umumnya, judul blog ini bisa dibilang sesuatu pencapaian yang luar biasa.. malaysia bisa dibilang sepanas jakarta dengan jenis panas terik yang bikin kamu ga mau keluar2 kalo siang hari..

nah minggu2 terakhir ini ada perubahan cuaca disini.. hujan yg hampir tiap hari dan angin yang super gede ga pernah absen setiap malam.. apalagi dari apartemen lantai 22, anginnya,, wuiiihhh ga nahan dehh.. denger suaranya woossshh wooshh bikin serem sendiri..

rabu kemarin aja, gw ke kampus pake jaket tebel. memang sih kalo di kampus, sehari2 aja dingin, ditambah uda ujan pagi2, haduuhhh jaket is a must attribute dehh.. seharian itu bener2 ga lepas deh jaketnya.

global warming does definitely exist!!
inget banget setaun lalu, di awal september kaya gini, mana ada yg namanya ujan gede.. ujan2 tiap hari tu baru ada waktu november.. pas uda liburan mufy..
kalo inget pelajaran sd, musim ujan itu adanya oktober - april.. lahh sekarang ini kan baru awal september. dan biasa malah november baru mulai ujan. ga bener lagi tuhh teori..
saya jadi bertanya2. apakah anak2 sd jaman sekarang masih belajar tentang musim ujan yg oktober-april n kemarau yang april-oktober.... kalo emang masih, bener2 kasian mereka, sekarang smuanya tinggal teori belaka..

setia sama perkara kecil

2009-08-29T23:01:00.002+08:00

suatu hari aku terima sms dari seorang teman.
waktu itu lagi di kampus, lagi asik bikin tugas sendirian di library..
pesannya pendek, cuma "Mik,dimana?"
Aku lupa kalo hari itu masa aktif pulsa habis. Jadi uda ga bisa kirim sms lagi. fyi hal ini sering sekali terjadi buat mikhal.. sebenernya ini temen yang lumayan deket.. tapi malas yaah jalan ke bawah buat isi pulsa. lagi serius pula..
Dan aku pun cuma berpikir "Ah paling dia keluar kelasnya cepet, terus cari temen yang sama2 nganggur.. Biar aja dehh.. toh setengah jam lagi ketemu dia, satu kelas.."
Lanjut deh aku tenggelam dengan tugasku, sms yang tak terbalas pun terlupakan sudah.

di pelajaran math, ketemu dehh temanku itu..
mukanya lesu. diam membisu.

MIKHAL

"Sori yahh.. belom isi pulsa.. hehehe *sambil cengar cengir*"
"Gimana tadi projectnya???"

TEMAN
"Gagal.."

MIKHAL
"Haaahh... Kenapa?? Bukannya uda ok banget kemaren??"

TEMAN
"Panjang dehh ceritanya.."
*kembali lesu. diam membisu.*

deg...
rasa bersalah pun merayap.
Dalam hati gw berkata, "Ya ampun.. tnyata dia sms gw ga sekedar 'cari temen nganggur', ga sekedar nunggu kelas.."
Gimana mau care sama temen kalo aku menyepelekan hal hal kecil...
Mestinya aku bisa sekedar ADA di saat dy cari..
Mestinya aku bisa sekedar denger keluh kesah dan ceritanya..

Dia ga nuntut apa2 sihh dari aku. Dia juga ga maksa aku bales smsnya.
Tapi tetep aja rasanya ga enak ati.. Dan perasaan kaya gini emang selalu datang terlambat... huhuhu.. Padahal, waktu gw minta tolong sama dia, dia ada. gw minta temenin, dia dengan senang hati datang...

Walaupun setelah itu, aku berusaha menebus kesalahan, dengan menghabiskan waktu, duduk duduk bareng dia sambil cerita-cerita, tetep aja yang berlalu, ya sudah berlalu..
Maaf yaa teman, mungkin mikhal kadang2 kurang peka sama perkara kecil.

help me to be a better friend.