American Idol 8: Hollywood week Day 4

I know I know...
Very very late review :P
But here it is..

1. Adam Lambert sang Believe by Cher. Personally I hate the song, but Adam twisted the tone into some kind of stage performance and because I like him since the group week, so I choose him. Btw, Simon gave him a thumb up.

2. Matt Giraud the dueling piano player who reminds Simon of Elliot (I dont know why, I prefer Elliot more) is also impressive with his piano. Don't know why but I dont like it too much. Not my fave contestant. Kara loved it very much, she gave him standing ovation along with Randy and Paula. Simon smiled. Not bad.

3. Jamar Rogers. Ngg.. it's okay for me. I thought his voice is very unique and memorable. I grow to like him more and more to be honest. Paula said very nice, kara nodded and mr. cowell smiled.

4. Danny Gokey the Robert Dewey Jr. I like him from his first audition, but the feeling is going down don't know why. Maybe it is moved to Jamar. Wait I think I know why, maybe because I feel he's a bit typical (serak2 dan terengah2 itu loh) and ngg... i kinda feel he only really match with very specific songs like kiss of a rose to be example. Paula did the lasso throwing thingy (3 times, OMG) and grinning excitedly. Simon smiled.

5. Anoop Desai sang My Prerogative. I just love this dude!! Randy nodded, Kara smiled.

6. Jorge Nunez the Mark Anthony wannabe. It's okay for me. Not a fave. Paula danced.

7. Scoot Macintyre sang Home by Chris. Okay, this is another dude that I really love. Especially since I think his voice is the best in this season but hearing he sang the song to be honest I was a bit disappointed. I just dont think his voice is 'cucok' for this song and he is a bit outshined by chris. For me, chris left a very memorable performance on this song. Kara smiled, Randy nodded, Paula gave standing ovation.

8.Kendall Beard sang Carrie Underwood's Before He Cheats. She is a bit shaky. Not a fave.

9. Stevie Wright gave just okay performance. Too bad I like her audition, so now I'm confused.

10. Lil Rounds If I ain't got you by Alicia Keys, okay with her audition, hate the first day of hollywood, and like the final performance. Another confusing choice.

11. Kristin Mcnamara sand Because of You by Kelly Clarkson. Didn't know her voice until the group peformance and wowed by her last performance. I love her sexy but strong voice. Love her! One of my fave from now on. Randy looked approved and Paula nodded along.

12. Mishavonna Henson, I honestly dont know what to say. She is not sort of my type, but Randy bite his thumb.

13. Tatiana Del Toro, I am annoyed with this girl. Especially her laugh. She sounds like Janice from Friends. But her voice is okay though, I think maybe if she choose the right song, she can be really good. Paula smiled, Randy's jaw dropped, Simon smiled in a weird way.

14. Alexis Grace sang Before he cheats, I think just well ordinary. Nothing special but she is better than Kendall Beard for me.

15. Kenny Hoffpauer. Who is he?? I didn't event know he exist in this competition until the last performance. He is just okay. Not a fan.

16. Jasmine Murray. I love this girl. She made me fall in love with Fergie's song. Passed

17. Nathaniel Marshall looks more macho when holding and playing a guitar. His voice is also better. He passed.

18. Joanna Pacitti, that poor girl forgot the lyric. Her performance was a disaster. No need further comment. Passed.

19. Casey Carlson, I like this girl. I think she is just likeable, and I love her voice color. Too bad she forgot the lyric. Cross the finger folks! Passed. Woo hoo.

20. Stephen Fowler. I love his hollywood day 1 and day 2, but this man forgot the lyric after so very much convinced he is not going to and after he asked to restart all over again he forgot, again and slamed the piano. The judges looked annoyed (yes, even paula) Passed.

21. Nick Mitchell or Norman Gentle. Simon hated him for the first and me also. Randly laugh, Paula clapped. Passed.

22. Anne Marie Boskovich, I love her voice, country type. Passed.

23. Ju'not Joner. OMG, I love his voice. A bit smokey but I like his better than Danny Gokey. Passed.

24. Kaylan Loyd sang If I ain't got you. Ordinary, not memorable. Sorry. Next...(Simon stopped that poor girl performance)

25. Leneshe Young, personally I love this girl and her performance is also okay, but she didn't make the cut. Eventhough Randy and Simon looked enjoy her perfomance

26. Kai Kalama, something wrong with the dude's voice. Poor guy. He passed though.

27. Michael Sarver. Wow. Very powerfull voice. Kara sang a long, Mr. Cowell smiled. He passed.

28. India Morrison. Her group performance was way better than solo perfomance. It was a disaster.

Okay, I think all I mentioned above with exceptional of Leneshe and India, all made it through. Btw Michael Castro didn't make it.

Latters........

Food Reviews: Kenny Rogers @ Johor Baru

Demi memperpanjang svp, akhirnya kemaren kita bertiga (mommy, me and my fiance) berbondong2 ke Johor Baru and ate Kenny Rogers since from the last visit, I already craved for it.
Berhubung di Indo itu porsinya guede buanget, akhirnya kita sepakat cuma pesan 1/2 meal package (includes: 1/2 chicken, 3 side side dish: aromatic rice, fruit salad, potato salad and 1 muffin) and 1 side dish (mashed potato) ala carte.

Gak lama kemudian muffin kita dateng, pertama2 kirain complimentary while waiting for the main course dan bukan muffin dari paket karena biasanya muffinnya montok kok yang ini kuyus ya... Ternyata itu muffin paket tapi untungnya rasanya lumayan enak kok.
And eng ing eng... ga lama kemudian pesanan kita datang... cihuy... slurpps and kita cuma bisa melongo :o
Ayamnya lebih imut (ga sejumbo di Jkt yang bagaikan burung unta) tapi yang paling bikin our jaws drop ya porsi 3 side dishnya waduh mak seiprit :P
beda banget dah ama yang di jkt yang semua serba jumbo dumbo.

But the good news is the chicken taste the same (what i luv about the chicken from Kenny Rogers is its skin! tipis, tasty and crunchy) and to be honest I think the aromatic rice is better, lebih wangi ga cuma berasa butter doang, mirip kyk nasi uduk.
Trus mashed potatonya lebih halus, tapi gravy nya kurang asin. Kalau di Jkt, mashed potatonya ga sehalus ini (masih berasa bongkah2an kentang) tapi gravynya lebih asin and tasty.
Potato saladnya juga enak loh, kurang lebih sama kyk yang di Jkt.

To sum it up:
Tastylicious (I completely made this word up):
- roasted chicken (ennoe's food choice award!)

- potato salad
menurut gw potato saladnya itu enak banget, paling enak diantara side yang kita pesan

- aromatic rice


Grade B menu:
- mashed potato
aslinya tidak sebanyak ini dan halus bgt kyk makanan bayi

- muffin
Yang kemarin makan kok muffinnya kurus ya tenggelam didalam cetakan kertasnya :(
Btw, this is so out of topic but I love this photo so much! The color, the lightning, the composition so cool!


Save menu to order:
- fruit salad

PS: personally I choose black pepper sauce than the original one.

Pics are courtesy of http://www.krr.com.my

Got Reserved!

I got this space reserved specially for me...

http://ariyani.hengkyilawan.com/

I'm planning to fill it up with my portfolio. Hmm.......
Wait and see y'all..

Me, Gifted (2.3% of test takers) ..shy shy shy..

My fiance was asked to take an IQ test at http://www.iqtest.com by one of his interviewer, so I took it also, just for fun since I have nothing to do until 5th feb. Ihiks...

Here is the result that sent to my email:

Dear Ariyani Rahayu,

Thank you for your interest in the test at IQTest.com.

Your general IQ score is: 132

Regards,
The Team at IQTest.com

This is the chart:

Intelligence Interval	Cognitive Designation
40 - 54	Severely challenged (Less than 1% of test takers)
55 - 69	Challenged (2.3% of test takers)
70 - 84	Below average
85 - 114	Average (68% of test takers)
115 - 129	Above average
130 - 144	Gifted (2.3% of test takers)
145 - 159	Genius (Less than 1% of test takers)
160 - 175	Extraordinary genius

Okay, so if any of you want to take the test for fun, you can click here and let me know the result. If yours is above 160, than you must be Sharon Stone! Rumor has it that she got 160 IQ, well in case you didn't know.

American Idol 8: SFA Audition

What can I say.... nothing much I guess.
After waiting a whole week to watch another episode of Amidol... I just felt disappointed.
All I can remember is the guy who sang smoke gets in your eyes and bohemian rhapsody. Both of them are pretty good, but I like the smoke guy more.
Guess the smoke guy gonna last long, since their already filming ehm i mean exploiting his family especially his sick mommy.

There were suppose to be another 3 contestants who got the golden ticket, but I can remember their name. Their audition clip were way too short...

Oh btw, I remember another contestant, the girl with scary laugh from Puerto Rico. Not liking her either... sorry...

Mensa Quiz

I got this email from a friend quite sometimes ago and yet I never open it until now.
This is the mensa quiz and you know me always interested in this kind of quiz, so I take it.
Well the result is somewhat intelligent since i only able to answer 9.

Here is the quiz and the complete answer. Try to answer by yourself and see the correct answer by highlighting it

Note: the red cryptics are the one I can answer correctly without cheating

No.	Cryptic	Answer
0	24 H in a D	24 hours in a day
1	26 L of the A	26 letters of the alphabet
2	7 D of the W	7 days of the week
3	7 W of the W	7 wonders of the world
4	12 S of the Z	12 signs of the zodiac
5	66 B of the B	66 books of the bible
6	52 C in a P (WJs)	52 cards in a pack (without jokers)
7	13 S in the USF	13 stripes in the united states flag
8	18 H on a G C	18 holes on a golf course
9	39 B of the O T	39 books of the old testament
10	5 T on a F	5 toes on a foot
11	90 D in a R A	90 degrees in a right angle
12	3 B M (S H T R)	3 blind mice (see how they run)
13	32 is the T in D F at which W F	32 is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit at which water freezes
14	15 P in a R T	15 players in a rugby team
15	3 W on a T	3 wheels on a tricycle
16	100 C in a R	100 cents in a rand
17	11 P in a F (S) T	11 players in a football (soccer) team
18	12 M in a Y	12 months in a year
19	13=UFS	13 is unlucky for some
20	8 T on a O	8 tentacles on a octopus
21	29 D in F in a L Y	29 days in february in a leap year
22	27 B in the N T	27 books in the new testament
23	365 D in a Y	365 days in a year
24	13 L in a B D	13 loaves in a bakers dozen
25	52 W in a Y	52 weeks in a year
26	9 L of a C	9 lives of a cat
27	60 M in a H	60 minutes in a hour
28	23 P of C in the H B	23 pairs of chromosomes in the human body
29	64 S on a C B	64 squares on a chess board
30	9 P in S A	9 provinces in south africa
31	6 B to an O in C	6 balls to an over in cricket
32	1000 Y in a M	1000 years in a millenium
33	15 M on a D M C	15 men on a dead mans chest

Science and Religion

Got this from Joke of The Day. The colored sentences are the reason why I upload this into my blog.

The red one is because I hear this sentence all the time from so many people until I feel I can't stand it anymore. The green one is because I wonder what they're gonna react when I give this as an answer ahaha. The blue one is because this is what all of us people should be. Smart and exploring science, accepting and not ignoring the fact, yet never lost a grip on faith. Then maybe world will become a better place for us.

Science and Religion...

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being...

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"

My fufu is crashed! Attention to all AVG user!

Well, Thanks to AVG my laptop is now crashing...
This is the sad story....

PS: I named my laptop fufu short from fujitsu

Saturday night, 2 days ago, I watched episode 11 of The Desperate Housewives. Yes I know, I'm 2 episodes left behind, that's why I was very excited to watch it. FYI, I don't like to be interrupted while I am watching movies. I usually ignore the interruption or snap at it.

There were two interruptions that night. One is my mother's questions (Dont ask me, forget the questions already), and the second one is from AVG. My anti virus kept popping the error message saying that my laptop got infected by some kind of virus. Since I can not and dare not to ignore or snap at the first interruption, I pay less attention to the second one. First I set the AVG to heal the infected object, but then it showed me another message saying the object can not be healed. Then I set the AVG to move the object to the vault, but then another message displayed.
Irritated, I ticked the option to remove the object using power user. That's my friend, my biggest mistake!! Because, after my laptop was restarted, I couldnot login into it. The laptop kept logging me off automatically.
Never ever ticked to remove the object using power user. Apparently, AVG made a mistake by recognising some windows file as viruses.
Read the news here:
http://tekno.kompas.com/read/xml/2008/11/13/09260929/antivirus.avg.bikin.crash.

The vendor even apoligize (http://tekno.kompas.com/read/xml/2008/11/17/10182272/Vendor.Sekuriti.AVG.Minta.Maaf.)

Until now I haven't solved this problem, but I already begged my sweet dearest fiance to come and fix it tonight. Well, cross my finger and hoping for the best.
I'll update with the solution later.

Manga Reviews: Kocchimuite Miiko! aka Hi Miiko!

Fiuuuuuuuh......
Finally.. after more than a month I am able to read Kocchimuite Miiko! 19
Before my departure, I begged my dear friend Susan to buy this manga for me. Thanks Susan!

Reviews:
This manga is one of my favourite manga ever. I was introduced to this manga by friend only about 2 years ago. I'm immedialy falling in love with this series and started to collect them. I am a very picky manga collector. I never collect manga that I don't really like. Every now and then I used to read the books over and over again (Yes you are correct, I brought these babies to Singapore!)

The reason why I like it so much is mainly because of the story. The ideas of the story are very simple, honest and yet touching. They're based on daily live experiences, which most of us experienced during our childhood time. Trust me, when you read this, you’ll often giggle and realize “oh, I’ve been there before”. It teaches and reminds us the pureness of children we once before.

Mrs. Ono Eriko, if you are reading this, I really like your book. I think you've done a fantastic job! Thank you for 'giving birth' to Miiko.

Score: A, Very highly recommended.

Mangaka: Ono Eriko

Plot
This is the sequel for series Miiko Desu! aka Namaku Miiko (Book 1 - 4). Both series tell about the daily live of 5th grade student named Miiko, including her friends, family and of course her love live!

Got his description from Anime News Network
I think this is a short but very accurate description for this manga.

This is a cute simple story about one cute little girl named miiko. The story was tell about her dad, her mom, her perfect and mature little brother named mamoru, her love hate relationship with a cute boy named tappei, her cat (this cat also belong to tappei, they found and decided to adopted together, so it was their cat actually) named miiko--yeah, same name with miiko the lead character, this name given by tappei mom's, indeed sweet.--her selfish but everlasting friend named mari-chan, her motherly friend named yuuko, her rival for competing tappei named miiho, her secret (now not secret anymore) admirer named yoshida, her classmates, her school day, her holiday, her cheer day, her gloomy day, her happiness, her sadness, her love, her pure and innocent life

Characters

Yamada Family

Yamada Miiko
She is the main character. She is the first child of the family. An honest, kind and cheerful little girl. She lets her feeling shows up in the open. Even though she is not top ranked at class or talented in anything peculiar, she is very loyal and care to her friend. She is a bit lazy especially when compared to her brother Mamoru. Almost forget, she eats a lot despite her small figure.
Miiko has 2 guys competing to win her heart. The first one is Eguchi Tapei and second one is Yoshida. Deep in her bottom heart, she likes Tapei, despite they are fighting most of the time.

Yamada Mamoru
Miiko's younger brother. He is one year younger than his sister. He has a very cute and popular girlfriend named Yukaa Chan. He is smart, diligent, sensible and responsible. Everything that Miiko is not. He also bullied by Miiko when relating to food. His love competitor is Shinji.

Yamada Momochan
Miiko's baby sister. Just born in book 19.

Miiko's Parent.
Both of Miiko's parents are working in journalism or something related to that. Her father is working for a sport tabloid (i think) and her mother is a manga editor (how cool is that?). Miiko's mother is pictured to be less patient than her husband.

School Friends

Shimura Mari
One of Miiko's best friend. She likes to draw manga and dreaming to become famous manga author, but up until now, she still facing a lot of criticism for her work.

Ogawa Yuuko (Yuko)
One of Miiko's best friend. She is smart, top ranked girl in class, pretty, calm and responsible. She take cares her 4 siblings when their parents are at work. She has a boyfriend Satou Kenta.

Eguchi Tapei
He is the type of boy who cannot express his feeling. He likes Miiko since the beginning of the book, but finds it hard to express his feeling to her. Instead, he likes to tease her and makes her angry. He gets irritated and jealous every time Miiko is with Yoshida.
Apparently, he's quite popular in school especially among the girls, since his locker is usually full with chocolate given by anonymous girl fans every Valentine day. His biggest admirer is Miho Tanimura.
His parent open a little shop called Lazy Moon. At the beginning, his parents are splitting up, but eventually reunited thanks to Miiko and Tapei.
His best friend is Satou Kenta and he has a cute cat named Miiko.
Tapei is my favorite character.

Satou Kenta
His parents own a bakery name Satou Bakery. He’s often seen in the store helping his parent sell the bread especially at Christmas or another holiday. He is Yuko boyfriend and Tapei best friend. He knows that Tapei likes Miiko but cannot express his feeling, therefore he try to be their match maker. Until now, his efforts bear no fruit.

Yoshida
Yoshida is a mature, smart, top ranked boy at class. He likes Miiko because she is cheerful. Opposite to Tapei, Yoshida doesn’t have a problem expressing his feeling to Miiko. He even asked her on a date before. But unfortunately, Miiko is too ‘polos’ to realize his feeling.

Yoshiki
Yoshiki is the geek at class. He is very talented in art. He makes acrylic dinosaur dolls, setting up a diorama and then shoots them using his handy cam. He likes Miho, he even has her picture inside his wallet. But since he knows that Miho likes Tapei, he lets her go and help her pursue Tapei. He got really annoyed and angry when Tapei rejected Miho valentine’s chocolate.

Tanimura Miho
Miho is the pretty girl at school. She loves Tapei deeply, but unfortunately her feeling is not returned. She always considers Miiko as her love enemy. Although, she usually harsh to Yoshiki (her number one fans) sometimes she can be really kind to him.

Yuuka Chan
She is Mamoru girlfriend. She is kind, smart, pretty, and popular girl. She is very loyal to Mamoru. She makes him homemade chocolate pastries every valentine.
There are also lots of other minor characters that I can not mention one by one. Maybe some other time or you can ask me directly.

American Idol 8: Kansas Audition

Kansas... the home of last season winner David Cook!
Could be there is another winner here?

Here is the recap (incomplete as usual as based on my memory only)

Very straight-hair girl.. you know the one who sand leona lewis song co-wrote by mr. cowell himself.
Why: her voice is really, really, really good.

Angelina jolie lips look alike aka the one who sand a thousand miles by Vanessa C
Why: i think she has the complete package. She is beautiful, likeable and she has very good
control of her voice. Sounded like a pro.

The guy with the white hat
Why: the white hat. I not really amused with his voice though.

Michael Castro
Why: is hard not to remember him. He as a pink hair, he is the younger brother of Jason Castro last season contestant. I think he’s just okay. Jason is way better

India Morrison
Why: because of her sister. A sister who’s Simon Cowell never has. Haha. I think she has a nice voice, very typical Afro-American. Boy, do Afro-Americans born with gift of sound or what. Beyonce, Whitney, love their voice!

Crying Dude
Why: because he looks and moves like Elliot Yamin. Elliot is one of my fave contestant ever.

Crying Dude’s Friend
Why: Because I remember his friend the crying dude. His voice is just okay. Doubt him will survive in the Hollywood week. Sorry.

Anoop Dog aka The guy who studied BBQ
Why: never thought that kind of voice will be able to come from him. Waaaaaay better than Sanjaya.

Marching Band Guy
Why: obvious reason. See the nick name I gave him. Not really into his voice. I think he’s just okay.

Bar singer
Why: he’s bald and big. I picture him with a big Harley Davidson. Who knew his has good voice. Not great though.

Mom of 3.
Why: her controlled voice. She reminds me of Melinda D.

Summary:
I think Kansas is great, better than Phoenix on average. There are lots of great contestant with great voice and personality. To be honest it was hard for me to pick one to be my fave contestant for this audition. So I’ll choose 5: Straight hair girl, Angelina Jolie lips looks alike, Crying Dude, Indian Guy and Mom of 3.

My Top 3 contestant so far
1. Scott
2. Angelina jolie lips looks alike
3. Straight hair girl

The rest are just too hard for me to order them :P

American Idol 8: Phoenix Audition

I promised my self that I will write a blog about American Idol every time I see the show. But promise is just a promise until now.

Okay, this is the incomplete recap based on Phoenix Audition
Contestants that I remember because of their distinctive audition are:

'The Andrea Bocelli' guy aka Scott Mc something...
why: his voice! his tone is my favorite until now.

Baracuda girl
why: tatoos and high range vocal. somehow she reminded me of callie.. last season contestant, the irish girl, remember?.

A girl wearing something like a cow skin pattern shirt. I think her name is Stevie
why: her voice. nice and controlled

Giant guy
why: I was surprised... his voice and his body doesn't really match.

Bikini girl
why: isn't it obvious? the bikini part. I think she's smart for wearing the bikini. Simon' eyes almost popped out :P and she doesn't sound as bad as anyone would think, but her attitude is

Okay my fave contestant from this audition is Scott!
I will be heart broken if I don't see him in final 12.

Additional:
I read Rickey.org and just realize there are several great contestants that I forget. Duh my memory sucks.

Tiffany Amber looks alike
why: her voice and personality. she seems very nice.

Orphan contestant.. you know the one who went to audition alone without her family.
why: her voice

Bathroom singing dude
why: a bit geeky, went through even though Simon said no. I'm afraid I have to agree with Mr. Cowell this time

So, additional fave contestant for this episode is: Stevie, Tiffany Amber look alike, and Orphan contestant.

Body Shop Vitamin C Daily Moisturiser SPF 15

I've been using this product for almost 2 months now (before: Amway Moisturizer). The brand claims that this product can help you to revitalise the skin, leaving skin soft, smooth and radiant.

Well this is my review.
Positive:
- my skin get fairer
- not allergic to my skin
- unclog pores. My black pores are reduced significantly.

Negative:
- makes my skin very very oily :(

Size: 50.00ml; Price: S$32.90


Btw, before I bought the moisturizer, I got 2 free samples of this. I tried only one capsule, since I have no time recently, and I really love it.
It was not oily (not like the moisturizer) and penetrated my face skin very well. I could swear that right after I applied this serum, for few seconds I saw my face was brighter.
Definitely going to buy this baby.
I need to count my money before though.

28 Capsules; Price: S$42.90

Pics from The Body Shop

The luxury of my life

Okay, I admit, I steal that phrase from my friends' wedding website (http://www.mywedding.com/ayunkyayastory/index.html).
Yup, two of my friends are getting married.
I've known then since college, and they've been dating not so long after.
I'm really happy for both of them, as the groom, any fool can see how he loves her so much. this must be like a dream come true for him and as for the bride it must be fantastic to be loved that way.
So Yachu and Ayung,
here is a toast for you..
Wishing you a happily ever after.

cheers...

Why CR7 why??

Duuuuuuuhhhhhh mak... apa si yang dipikiran pemilihnya? kok bisa bisanya nih orang-tengil-yang-sibuk-ngerawat-alis-dan-tukang-ngadu menang jadi pemain terbaik tahun 2008?

why why why????

Here is the complete list from to 1991 to 2008
1991—Lothar Matthaeus, Jerman
1992—Marco Van Basten, Belanda
1993—Roberto Baggio, Italia
1994—Romario, Brasil
1995—George Weah, Liberia
1996—Ronaldo, Brasil
1997—Ronaldo, Brasil
1998—Zinedine Zidane, Perancis
1999—Rivaldo, Brasil
2000—Zinedine Zidane, Perancis
2001—Luis Figo, Portugal
2002—Ronaldo, Brasil
2003—Zinedine Zidane, Perancis 2004—Ronaldinho, Brasil
2005—Ronaldinho, Brasil
2006—Fabio Cannavaro, Italia
2007—Kaka, Brasil.
2008—Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal --> why why why????

Wall-E wins

Aha!

According to golden globe website, WALL-E hand in hand with Eve kicks Po and Boltz' ass in golden globe award 2009.
I knew this!
Huh... take that people-who-didn't-listen-to-me-to-watch-WALL-E-because-I-said-WALL-E-is-so-much-different-with-(read:-so-much-better-than)-Kungfu-Panda!

Waaaallllll....eeee
Eee...vah?

Invitation to all the girls

Paling sering denger komentar "loh kok pake kaos sih, emangnya sekarang hari Jumat?" atau "loh rapi banget loe, mo kondangan yah?"
I hate, I repeat, hate those comments.

First, it's not always a shirt sometimes it's a knitwear or a blouse. It's different people!
Second, well, these are the asumptions
- I buy the clothes because I think the clothes look cute
- It is very hard to find a cute basic t-shirt. It's a t-shirt what d yaa expect? Yes, I admit, there tons of cute fashionable shirt, but the cost is a fortune. Since I'm not a director, the dress will waaay overdress for me.
- I spend most of my time in the office. I go there 5 days in a week.

So, when am I supposed to wear all of my clothes? On the weekend? Oh please, give me a break! Weekend has only 2 days and life's too short to have to wear something you don't really like just because you have to.

Women are the numero uno target for the fashion industry. If women only wear t-shirt to the office which is more than 70% of our time, the fashion industry will collaps within seconds and that would be the ultimate armageddon.

No, no, I'm not gonna stop here.
For guys who get jealous because women have the luxury to have wider choice of clothes, I suggest you to let it go!
Tanpa mengurangi rasa hormat dan tidak bermaksud untuk diskriminasi, but Double standard is still common here, so, unless you guys can pull David Beckham, please stick to your t-shirt :P.

The most important thing is what I wear doesn't affect my jobs in a negative way. In fact, they give me positive boost. I'm happy when I wear something I like and when I'm happy I tend to be more productive.
So, unless the girl wears 'kaos oblong bali' or 'kaos encek2 yang lagi cah/goreng kwetiaw' I don't really see a problem here.

Let's campaign for Office Fashion Freedom!

Bake Inc. Mushroom Cheese

Downstairs where I live in there is a bakery called Bake Inc.
Almost everyday I buy their bread for breakfast. And this morning I made a very wise choice when choosing Mushroom cheese bread.
It's DELICIOUS!! The best of mushroom cheese bread I ever have.
I looooveeeeee the juicy, not too salty and a bit sweet mozzarella cheese. It's make the perfect combination with sauteed champignon/button mushroom.

Slurppss glegghh...aaaaaam aaaaaaaaammmm....

Btw, the Bake Inc located just outside the Buangkok MRT.

Delicious Tom Yam @ Smith Street

Yesterday was the last day for me in Singapore before going on a short trip back to Jakarta.
I decided to go to chinatown to look for something (read: pashmina) and ate at smith street.
We ordered a S$ 6 Tom Yam Soup and S$ 8 Pineapple fried rice from one of Thai stall.

Apparently, you can order and seat anywhere you like there. Since we didn't know this, we sat near the stall in front of british (i think) couple who ordered the dried chilly chicken hotplate. Wuaah the smell of the chicken was very tempting and mouth watering.

Not so long after, our ordered came and it's not bad. Not bad at all.
The soup was clear (I don't like tom yam with coconut milk), salty, fragrant, sour, a bit sweet and very very HOT. Slurpsss...Yummy!
While the pineapple fried rice was only okay for me. Since it's not hot so it felt like they cooked it before so they can save sometime and served it right away when any order is placed.

Definitely going back for more, since the smell of the kungpao chicken haunted me 'til today :P

Joey's Bag all over Singapore

It could be a trend, but lately I encounter a lot of Joey's bag in the MRT and yes it was carried by MAN. It's so ironic, considering Joey was mocked by all of his friend especially Chandler and Ross. He also lost a part in a play because of the bag, and now several years later the bag has become a trend. The PIC who came up with this idea is must be a witch cause he/she can predict the future!

Wondering when will my fiance get one, I love to dump all my heavy things into his Joey's Bag.

Poor Dogs...

Well, since I (still) have nothing to do here, I live my day with browsing.
Just found this article at Kompas.com about wild dogs in Bandung and Bali being hunted and injected to die. The reason is because wild dogs can transmit rabies easily since the cops have found several dogs infected with rabies.
Uninfected dogs will also be killed. Duuuuuuuuhhhhh......

I am not a fan of dogs in general, but this is just sadness not to mention cruel.

Read the full article here http://www.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/01/05/1430117/Dibius.Lalu.Disuntik.Mati

The most delicious food I ate since....

...well, you know since I moved here.

Today, I was treated lunch by my colleague. We ate Thai Food at Lerk Thai Restaurant downstairs.
We ordered Tom Yam clear soup, Red Curry Beef, Pandan Chicken and Pineapple Fried Rice.
To be honest, I was a bit pessimistic about the tom yam soup. I just had terrible experience 2 days ago eating a tom yum fish soup. It's taste like crap! I think they put milk into the Tom Yam Soup, so you can imagine the taste by yourself. Milk + Tom Yam not equal to good combination people.

Back to Lerk Thai..
To my delight the soup was clear (woo hooo!) and when I tasted it hmmmmm............ heavenly!
It's a perfect combination of spicy, salty, sour and a bit of sweet. Definitely the most delicious thing I've ever eaten over here!

The pineapple rice was also a surprise for me. It's taste quite different with the one I used to eat back in Indonesia but it was also nice. They put raisin in the rice but very little pineapple hehehe...The rice also topped with a light sweet of (I'm not sure) chicken floss?

The pandan chicken was okay. But not as good as Thai & I's at Plaza Semanggi.

The red curry beef is a bit of disappointment. I'm not sure whether because I was too full but it's just not my taste.

I'm planning to go there again sometimes to order the dessert (singkong manis). I'll write again later.

Food and Me

I'm never consider my self as a food picky person, but I do have some of Blacklisted Foods, such as:
- Food with dominant scent: cilantro, fried onion, taugeh (bean sprout), celery, spring onion, bell pepper. Ughh...
- Smelly foods: goat, intenstines (except chicken and paru goreng oke la) and durian.
- Gross thingy: insects, reptiles (i dont eat snake), codot, bat. Yuuuckkss....
- Cute animals: rabbit, birds (exc chicken)
- Not supposed to be eaten animals: cat, horse, dog, deer, turtle, tiger

And yes, I do have somekind of 'rules' of my own about food. First one is I consider a food is different if and only if has different smell, material, cooking method and taste.
So, if you cook vegie cah with garlic, no matter even though you change the vegie (from kailan to caisim to broccoli) for me it's the same food. and the same food bikin gw BOSEN!

Second one is I really hate I repeat HATE it when people add food with dominant scent into my food, because it will make my food smell like the added food and lost its original smell.
Okay for example is if you fried noodle/kwetiaw/bee hoon/vermicelli/mee shua with bean sprout, for me the food doesn't smell like fried noodle anymore. But it smells like TAUGEH GORENG!!!! Yucks! That's why taugeh is one of my blacklisted food.

Not to mention what if all the strong scent food is the main dish, e.g: spring onion or celery cah.. alamaaaaakkkkkkkkkk......... pengsan dah gw....

Ehm... quite a long list eh? but in my defense I eat mostly anything else outside the black list. I eat chicken, seafood, beef, pork, unagi, most of the vegie, I even eat snails once!
I don't have to eat rice, I can live from bread, noodle and it friends
I eat many cuisines from Peranakan, Java, Chinese, Sunda, Betawi, Italian, Japanese, Western, Padang, Menado, Junk Food, and Thai. I eat all of them. I just need them to be rotated. Please? Pretty please with sugar on coat....???

Theory of Taste Evolution

A month in here, and I'm busy bitching about the food to my fiance almost everyday (If he's lucky, some of my best friends go online, and I can do this never-ending babbling to them instead of him).
I think, I've reached his limit cause he's starting to babbling back to me hahaha...
He said that I am 'susah makannya' because I bored easily. He also said that he can eat the food that we are eating over over and over again.
Since I don't like to loss an argument over him and I have nothing to do now, so I think I'm gonna make my day as productive as anyone else's by creating this theory.

This theory uses me as a main and only sample. Narcissism, but so what. Old news. I'm gonna do a little survey latter though .

My profile (related with food)
- born in central java by Peranakan Mother and Chinese Father. That's mean Java, Peranakan, Chinese Food.
- went to high school in Bogor and spend more than 10 years in Jakarta. . That's mean Sunda Food, Japanese Food, Italian Food, Padang Food, Junk Food, Betawi Food, Western Food and Thai Food.

Okay, you never truly appreciate what you have until it's gone.
When I lived at bogor, for the first time I developed craving for Peranakan, Java and Chinese Food and when I got back I missed the Sunda, Italian, Japanese Food. Same thing happened after I moved to Jakarta.

See, my taste of food evolves without me realizing it! and now after 13 years it's like a swiss biological clock. I need and must to rotate the food!

So, the First theorem of my theory is
"A person (in this case is someone who enjoy food not just eat-to-live person like you know who) whose surrounded by more than one type of cuisine, tends to rotate the food/eat different type of food (tanpa sadar udah kebiasaan gituuuuuuuh!) alias BOSENAN".

Gimana ...gimanah anak kost lainnya... tul ga? tul ga??...hohohoho

Therefore dear fiance, yes maybe I blacklisted some foods (explain later in the next article) but the main reason why I'm being crankier and grumpier here it's because my body needs time to adjust to eat one type of cuisine everyday! (and sometimes even the same dish for almost two weeks in a row :(( ).
But I don't think I want to adjust my body. Since it's gonna be so sad living only eating one type of cuisine every single day...

Wedding Book Cover

Inspired by vintage photo, I design this for my wedding book cover since I have nothing to do today.
Hoping this design can be printed in our wedding book.
Cross my finger...

My life is meaningless

It's been almost a week and I have nothing to do in the office except for chatting, and chatting, and chatting and oh yeah chatting again. Most of the clients are on leave, most of my friends are going home for Christmas and New Year and My fiancee is busy applying (spamming to be exact) jobs. No new movie series.
No new chapter of Naruto. I think Kakashi is confirmed dead btw. Very sad.

No friends online means no new gossip. What's life without gossip? So empty and meaningless. No aim and purposes....

Hu..hu...hu....

Another Wedding Book Design

This design (our own design) will be printed on our wedding book. Yay!
Can't wait to see the result.

Going to Johor Bahru as first timer

Yesterday, marley and me.. no no my fiance and me went to Johor Bahru to renew his SVP. Thanks God (yes folks, I give thank now and then) that everything went smoothly.
The trip was also okay, not like what I imagined with all the horrible news about the new check point. No traffic jam at all and the bus queue was not long.

To sum it up:
1. Alight at kranji MRT station and go to the bus station OPPOSITE the mrt station.
2. Wait for bus no 170 or 160.
3. Alight at Woodland Checkpoint
4. Queue (short)
5. Go to the bus station inside the check point and wait for bus no 170 or 160 again
6. Alight at CIQ
7. Another queue. This one was very long aarrghh...Oops almost forget, grab the white paper and fill in the form. I will suggest to the traveler to bring your own pen, so you can fill in the form while queuing. Use another person back as 'alas nulis' if he/she doesn't mind. Just joking
8. Voila, arrive already. There is a mall, call City Square that's linked with the checkpoint building. Just follow the information, you'll get there. PS: the map directory for that mall is confusing.
9. Eat Portuguese Chicken and Egg Tart, Trying to find a cute, cheap, short heel sandal at Padini (not successful although they're having end year clearance I think, Ladies or shoe lovers you should go), Watch Australia (boring...but Mr. Jackman handsome as always), buy cigarettes, bath soap (arrghh so cheap) and Shi Lin (taiwan snack)
10. Back to CIQ and queue again (short one)
11. Took bus 170
12. Alight at Woodland check point and another queue (short one also)
13. Took SMRT bus 950
14. Alight at kranji station and headed home.

Free Fiskal for NPWP Holder

Finally! There is an advantage to be a NPWP holder.

Ngecess.........

Sekarang lagi ngeces ama:

- Indomie Goreng trus diatasnya ditaburin keju parut... wuaaaaaah slurrrrrrrrpsss glegggghh...
- Nasi padang: Ayam goreng + Nasi + daun ganja upss i mean singkong + kuah kari + suambel merah dan tomat .... tes tes tes air liur diatas meja....
- Bawal Salero: Bawal digoreng trus dibakar + nasi + cabe rawit dipotong2 dikasih air jeruk ditambahin bawang hmppppppph huah huah pedessssssssssssssss tapi zeledapsssss...

Huhuhuhu
Kapan ya bisa makan gitu lagi.....

Aku menangis meraung-raung........

Gossip Girl

FYI: Nope, I am not I repeat am not talking about me! Me != gossip girl okay.

I love watching movie, especially sitcom or television series. No I am not talking about sinetron or telenovela or soap opera. I'm talking about friends, desperate housewives, grey's anatomy, ally mcbeal, supernatural, smallville, heroes and of course 24!

Currently I'm only following 1 local series 'The Little Nyonya' aired from Mon -Fri at 9 PM on channel 8 and Gossip Girl. I know it's kinda late to follow a gossip girl just now, but since all the production are stopped during chrismast holiday, there is no movie I can watch :(
What will I do without my movies........huhuhuhu...

My fiance keeps asking the same question "Apa sih bagusnya?" "Yaela gossip girl lagi" hahaha
The answer is simple I have no other movie I can watch and Chace Crawford is hot.

The reason why I watch The Little Nyonya even though there is no hot guy in there, it's because of the peranakan story. You know peranakan = delicious food = 'masak-masakan' movie and I love anything related masak-masakan. So 'klop' deh

Well, for you all television series lovers, the television series I mentioned above will be back on January 2009 and Mr. Bauer will start kicking ass on January also.

See you soon Jack!

Korean Food in Singapore is delicious!

One of my friend told me once, that Korean food in Singapore is delicious...
She used to have it and she missed it when she back in Malaysia (yup, you know who she is now :P)
Encouraged with her advice and since she and I share similar taste in food (I guess Kwetiaw Pontianak is an exception) plus the picture looks so yummy, I bought Korean Ramen at Hougang Mall as my dinner last week

When the ramen came, I was a bit curious. Ngg... It didn't looks like the usual ramen I used to eat at Ajisen or Kinotaki.. but well both are Japanese, so, me, a Korean Food newbie didn't think it much.

After I got back to our table, I told my boyfriend about my curiosity. He looked at it at glance, took a sip from a hot-boiling-ramen soup and confirming me, "Yep, it is an instant korean noodle"

Glegar..... it's a 4 SGD food and I got an instant noodle? Geh!
Anyway, since I missed the Indonesian food soooo much and the noodle tasted like Indomie, so I ate it happily.

So, yeah.. in short, the 'Korean Food' in Singapore is delicious.
Still trying to eat the real one though....

Things that I never thought I would miss

Yes, I know it has been forever since I create a new post here.
Well, in my defense, my life has been very hectic in the last few days.
I jump from one client to another every two days, trying not to get lost. My boyfriend said i can not read map. I have to 'get in' the map like Joey in order to read the map correctly. And at night I still busy looking for cheap-nice-new-fully furnished-near mrt and food hall HDB to rent.
Until now, still haven't found it. So, if any of you got one, please please please pretty-please-with-sugar-on-coat let me know.

It's only been two weeks now, so I'm still at adjusting phase. Especially for the food. I knew that I would miss Indonesian food, but to be honest I never thought I would miss the rice too. OMG. I thought okay, singapore is an advanced country, the food material will be great. I dont know how they did it, but I ate a lot of I repeat a lot of weird smell rice. :( I love rice. For me, even an ordinary side dish will taste great if accompanied with a bowl of warm nice rice.

Number two is MILO.
MILO is my favourite milk brand. In here, the milo is tasteless.

Number three is skinless bread

And to complete the list, I miss all of my 'sarapan food'
- bubur lemot
- ropang boplo
- indomie abang cekatan
- mie yono
- mie ayam boplo

huhuhu......

that's me, the girl who now eats plain porridge and preserved lettuce as breakfast on daily basis, crying.....

My Precious

Duuuuuuh.....
After a long and seems never ending packing, last night me and my fiance 'gotongan' my as-heavy-as-killer-whale-baby boxes.
What the h*ll did I put in that boxes?
O oh....... I remember!
My preciousssssssss.................ssss....sssss...

• Harry Potter Book set
• Namaku Miiko Book set
• Tepi Air Book Set
• Mallory Towers Book set
• Time Limit Book set

xixixixi....

Sorry dear... good exercise for you and your tummy though kekekek...
I bet you slept like a baby last night...
I did!

Gehh..............

Just read an article at detik.com soal peraturan baru disebuah negara. Peraturan yang menyatakan bahwa yoga itu terlarang untuk dilakukan oleh penganut agama tertentu, dengan alasan bahwa dalam yoga itu terkait praktik-praktik agama tertentu yang bisa merusak iman penganut agama lain.

Sebagai pecinta yoga (yang walaupun bodoh tidak bisa-bisa melakukan gerakan dengan sempurna sampai membuat instruktur frustasi), saya tidak habis pikir kenapa ada orang yang bisa terpikirkan membuat peraturan semacam ini. Selama beryoga, tidak pernah terpikirkan sedikitpun bahwa gerakan-gerakan yang dilakukan itu merupakan ajaran dari agama tertentu. Yang dipikirkan cuma "Oh God, buset pegel banget. How long do I have to stay in this position? Ketarik nih arrrrgggh. Help!"

Yoga yang selama ini saya ketahui dan praktekan (once again ini pendapat amatiran) cuma gerakan olahraga biasa plus pernafasan. Tidak ada tuh meditasi yang mendalam dll dll. Cuma ada cooling down after, yang harusnya biasa dong, aerobik aja melakukan hal itu. Huaaaah.... exhale.

Padahal belum lama saya juga membaca bahwa negara ini melarang anak perempuan berperilaku tomboy. Alasannya simpel karena takut itu akan mengarah ke arah mencintai sesama jenis. Gubrak...
Give me a break... walaupun 1 jenis khan tetep aja ada yang perannya lebih feminim dan yang lebih tomboy. Jgn men-samarata-kan gitu dong. For example, Portia de Rossi khan cantik, feminim, hot blonde girl. Tapi toh tetep dia marry Ellen, not a guy. Kalau memang sudah panggilan hati mau gimana lagi?

Beberapa bulan sebelumnya juga dikeluarkan larangan agar perempuan tidak mengenakan lipstik merah menyala. I mean, what????! Apa salahnya pake lipstick merah kalau memang bagus dan cocok? Kayaknya tidak ada cewe sebagai pemakai yang berniat menggunakan lipstick yang membuat dia tampak lebih jelek or looks like a whore/slut/tramp/hooker. Namanya juga make up! Suppose to make us girls prettier. Up people up! Not make down.

Kenapa dijaman yang pendidikan dan teknologinya sudah semaju saat ini, masih saja terdapat orang-orang yang memilih untuk menggunakan peraturan yang ketat untuk mengontrol masyarakatnya. Bukankah seperti seorang anak kecil yang ingin mengambil pasir sebanyak mungkin untuk membangun kastil impiannya dipantai, yang belajar bahwa semakin kencang dia menggenggam, semakin banyak pasir yang berjatuhan disela-sela jari mungilnya? yang belajar bahwa dengan mengendurkan cengkraman justru dapat menampung pasir lebih banyak.

New habit

I love reading. I really do. My parents told me once that I started to open a magazine (even though it was upside down) when I was 2 years old only.
I read what ever, but as I grow older I tend to focus my reading in stories like novel, history, fiction, mythology etc etc. Hehehe...

But lately, thanks to the global crisis, I have to set my sauron-eyes to read daily currency rate at detik.com. So, in short, from couple days ago I was officially a detik.com and kompas.com reader on daily basis.

I don't know if this just a random coincidence, but there are so many interesting stories happen. Usually they just posted 'traffic jam news, flood news, and other not-eye-catching news.
But now... hmmm.....interesting
Well..well well....
Gonna post what I thought as interesting news later folks.

Backbreaker....

These last few days were very backbreaking for me..
Simultaneous meeting combined with packing all my sentimental-useless-crap of stuff really wore me out.
Huah....
Looking forward for the days where all I need to do are daily chores and watching movies...

Very Bad Service at Samara Sunda

Today I had lunch at Samara Sunda located in WTC Basement. It's drizzled all day, so all of the restaurants are fully booked, except for Samara Sunda. Yes, it was crowded but four of us were able to secure comfortable seat.

After taking forever to have our order taken, we finally ordered 2 rice (1 without 'bawang goreng'), 1 avocado juice, 1 ayam madu (paha) and ayam bakar bumbu rujak (dada)
Tunggu punya tunggu.....
10 minutes later

waiter-boy 1: "Mbak, avocado juicenya abis, mo diganti apa?"

Since I had my mineral water I said no to the waiter

next 25 minutes

waiter-boy 1:"Pak, ayam madunya abis yang paha, adanya dada gimana?

mico:"Oke deh gpp"

7 minutes later

waiter-boy 1 while bringing my rice with 'bawang goreng' :"Pak, ternyata ayam madunya abis, adanya ayam bumbu rujak, mau diganti tidak?"

mico: "ga ah ganti nasi bakar ajah"

me: "pak khan saya pesennya ga pake bawang goreng"

waiter-boy 1: "oh gak pake ya bu, sebentar yah"

3 minutes later the nasi bakar was arrived

another 5 minutes my rice(now without bawang goreng) plus ayam bumbu rujak (paha) were arrived

me: "loh mas khan saya pesannya dada"

waiter-boy 1:"oh pesennya dada ya bu. sebentar ya bu"

2 minutes later

waiter-boy 2:"bu, ayam bumbu rujaknya yang dada abis. adanya tinggal paha"

me: "loh gimana sih mas. saya barusan liat mas masih bawa-bawa ayam bumbu rujak yang dada pas anterin nasi, kok sekarang abis?!!"

waiter-boy 2:"baru dikasih tau bu abis, adanya tinggal ini".

me: "yang lain ada yang dada ga?"

waiter-boy 2:"yang ada ayam bakar madu dada"

me: "loh gimana sih katanya tadi ayam bakar madunya abis sekarang bilangnya ada"

waiter-boy 2:"oh gitu ya bu, jadi gimana bu?"

me, irritated and hungry: "ya udah deh gimana lagi"

we ate peacefully and then the bill came.... and the avocado juice was included in the bill!!. so I called the waiter boy 2 and said: "mas kok masih ditagih avocadonya?"

waiter-boy 2:"loh ga jadi pesan ya bu?"

upset me with high-pitch voice: "loh yang bilang avocadonya abis khan kalian gimana sih?!!!!!!"

waiter-boy 2:"oh sebentar ya bu"

gggggggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

very very upseting service. what made me upset the most was there was no one word apology came from their mouths. they just say it casually like "okay this is the only food left, you wanna take it or not". huh!
it's too bad i could find the contact number to complaint. ggggrrrrrr.....

this is the logo of the restaurant

My Wedding Book Design, page 3

Somehow he's able to...

Duuuuuh maaaak....
Within the short distance between my office and IDX building, the taxi driver somehow was able to make me dizzy.
Huekkkkssss....
Feel nauseous...

Miss You....Miss You Not...

Miss you:
- all my friends, especially kost friends, highschool friends, joki friends, nyarap friends, dept friends, and gajel (gak jelas) friends
- food: indomie goreng keju, cireng, mi ayam kampong, donat kampong, es krim kampong, bawal bakar, kampus food: aliong, petojo, padang . slurrrpsss... glegh...
- pirated dvd movie
- blue bird
- kerokan/lalaoke (karaoke)
- my small room

Miss you not:
- traffic jam
- debu
- bumpy road without sidewalk
- goverment and their-not-important-policy like ruu pornography...geh!
- angkot2, bus2 and motor2 terkutuk yang ga bisa tertib itu
- preman2 pemalas tukang nagih parkir
- blackouts

Is Kakashi dead?

Attention: Naruto's heavy spoiler.
If you haven't read til the at least chapter 423, you better not reading through this post.

Can anyone tells me Naruto's spoiler?
I just read the last episode (chapter 424) that Hayate Kakashi is taking his last breath.
Huhuhu......
He is my favorite :(
Please please let him live......

Feed your wedding photographer!

Wedding Photographer: "Okay, now open the veil."
The groom opened the veil as instructed
Wedding Photographer: "Okay good.. and then kiss the bride"
The groom kissed the bride on the forehead as instructed
Wedding Photographer: "Okay... now is the bride's turn. Put the croissant on the right side of the groom suit"
Bridesmaid: "Croissant??? Corsage!!!"

Overheard by the bridesmaid, Novotel Hotel, Bogor.

Dedicated for Anthony and Karlina. Congratulations you guys!

Making a Leap

Last Friday, I submitted my resignation letter, and after being postponed by my manager (collaborated with my division manager), my manager finally has given up and wished me for the best.
I haven't met my division manager yet, the truth is I'm avoiding her.. ppsstttt...
Worrying that I'll change my mind because of her persuasion (with deadly force of course kekekek).
I even haven't told my successor to be about it. I'm afraid that she would tell her boss (definitely) and then her boss would tell Ibu and mbak Tini. *bakal mati kutu*

Now I feel a bit relieve but not fully, thanks to my manager who assured me that my exit interview will be done by Babeh SEF. Duhh I'll be dead for sure.
Cross my finger and pray so he will be very-very super duper busy after he gets back from Amrik.

The truth is, it was filled with mixed emotion and a lot of consideration before I took a step to my manager desk and informed him that I want to resign from this company. But I thought that this is it. This is the time to make a leap. Now that everything is falling into its place, my outstanding projects are closing down, my projects are never been this few, and also my marriage preparation is almost finish. The only bad timing is the damn crisis.

Soon, I'll be very busy with packing (lousy at it) and another typical moving stuff. My poor fiance will have a bad time (I guarantee it) in helping me packing my what-he-called-useless-garbage stuff. I love that stuff. Let it go :D

So if you want to donate boxes or give me tips on how to move to another country effectively, just shoot. I'll hear ya...

Hamilton snatches glory

I just knew this afternoon, after my boyfriend, the 'crazy-f1-biggest-fans' told me that Hamilton won the world champion after a tense-dramatic-last lap, when he finally overtook Glock and crossed the line at fifth. And that making him the youngest world champion in history. My friend even said that Massa was crying.
Hamilton, still behind Glock when Massa finished his lap, but Glock didn't change his tyres even though the rain was falling, and that help open Hamilton's chance to win the title.

Sorry guys, can not understand this euphoria.
For me, it's just a wasting fuel, money, and dangerous non-sport.

Got Irritated

I got irritated this morning. It's been quite a long time since I got irritated this easily. The reason is very simple, because the client, the sales director, was asking questions repeatedly and yet he didn't give us enough chances to answer those.
I hate that kind of people!!
I mean, what the point of asking, if you don't want to listen the answer???
Before asking, I think the questioner should be prepare that he/she must spend enough time to hear the answer or else just hold the question for yourself
Huh!
Bawel, brisik, nanya mulu, bolot, ngeyel....

Prewedding Book Design After First Revision

After sending the designer a 9 pages document describing the revision, 2 days ago I received email attached with the revision. The design is better, even though there are several pages that we found it (still) well... dunno what to say... just not us.

below are the design that we luv...

Nikko Kas Manajemen - Pasar Uang

Yesterday I just signed an agreement to move my Nikko Kas Manajemen Pasar Uang into Nikko Dana Terproteksi. They (the bank and Nikko) said that Nikko Dana Terproteksi is safer and a better choice if I don't intend to use my money in a short term.

Basically, the biggest advantage by moving into Nikko Dana Terproteksi is that Nikko won't invest our money into new obligation. So, all we need to do is just wait until any obligation is due and then Nikko will redeem our investment proportionally and automattically. The biggest downside is we can not redeem our money anytime we want. So, if you need your money now, don't choose this option.

They also offered you to stay in your current investment. This means that they (Nikko) will buy new obligation with your money and God knows when the obligation will go up again. But in the bright side, you can redeem your investment at anytime you want as long as total today's redeemption is lower than 20% of Nikko's Asset. Just make sure if you want to redeem, do it first thing in the morning okay folks.

IT Jokes no 2

Yesterday I attended a PM Sharing meeting. It was an internal meeting held by our HR department so people like us (read: frustrated and desperate Project Managers) to share our 'fantastic' experience when implementing a project.

Anyway this story is belong to one attendee. He told us before implementing a project, he always, always checked all the client requests carefully point by point and reconfirmed them. Then, one upon a time, he won a project that one of the client request is 'moving data' (data bergerak). Well, since he is a BI (business intelligence) implementer the request is very common since BI always uses real time data not a static data. So he skipped it. It turned out 'data bergerak' means that the client really wants is to have a moving-animated data graphic. Glegaaarrrrrrr.....

All the audience were laughing at once, feeling poor for him while begging to God repeatedly "God, please never ever give me such client" at the same time ....

My Wedding Book Design, page 2

Here is another one

My Wedding Book Design

Well... I'm thinking...
I love color..
I have a free time...
I am spoiled with 1350 my pre-wedding photos
and I design once in a while
plus I am a narcissist..duuhh.. *blush..blush..blush..*
So why not?

Here it goes..my wedding book design by me (who else?)

will post another one later...

The Brief History of Our Time

0 - 6 months
OMG!!! He/She is soooooo... perfect! I must be very good on my previous live to deserve her/him

7 - 12 months
Wow he/she has the cutest little quirks on earth or what?!

1 - 1,5 year
Hmmm…now that I see those quirks clearer. It turned out to be ordinary quirks. Not so cute anymore.

1,5 - 2 years
Those quirks are really starting to annoy me. Let see if I could told her/him to change a bit

2 - 3 years
Why can't he/she understand??
Those quirks are really bugging me..
Please change it..
You said you love me ….
I'll be patient I promise…
I love you too...

3 - 5 years
Change it and change it nowwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arrrggggghhhh..

5 - 6 years
Giving up…
Do what ever you want dude…

6 years
Getting married

6 Years later...

Okay....
Sunday morning almost noon, lazy me just opened my laptop to watch the movie I downloaded the night before. It's Grey's Anatomy Season 5. Suddenly my fiance pop up in front of my door with flower bouquet, big grin and asked "Do you like it?"

Knowing that he is not a flowery person and this was my second flower bouquet in 6 years dating, so my first response was "Eh.. mm...Why.. What...Er... Yes I like It. Did you cheat on me yesterday? Did you make big mistake last night?"

Irritated, he responded "NOOO!!! Don't you remember what day is today?"
Errrrr...... it turned out that he bought the flower for our 6 years anniversary. He also brought me my favorite pastry, eclairs from Monami. Slurps....
Sorry dear for all the accusations. Hihihihi.. Loooveeeeeee the flowers and eclairs.

Anyway, here are some of the pics of the gorgeous flower and yummy eclairs..






They smell great!


Yum...Yum...

Nguping Kerjaan orang IT

I always always want to put my funny-hilarious experiences revolving around me. Well now. inspired by an email that is sent by my friend about random funny hilarious dialogue that happened in Jakarta (nguping jakarta) I finally can post this.

Kiri kanan?
Saat hendak mengcopy data dari USB ke server.
User bertanya, "Saya musti colok ke USB port sebelah kanan atau kiri? Ada bedanya ga?"
Jakarta, dialami oleh business analyst yang merasa bingung kenapa orang ini bisa punya 3 flash disk dan notebook.

Datang dong
Untuk mengecek suatu kondisi data, seorang developer mengirimkan query via untuk dijalankan pada database server MS-SQL.
IT Manager user menulis email yang isinya bersikeras agar developer tersebut datang dan menjalankan tugas itu sendiri dengan alasan mereka tidak memiliki expertise dibidang tersebut.
Jakarta, dibaca oleh anak buah manager tersebut yang buru-buru menulis email balasan bahwa hal itu sudah selesai dilakukan. (tinggal teken F5 gitu loh)

Duhh why me?
Code from existing program:
"If Left(stringvariable,3) = "ABCXXXXXX" then...."
Jakarta, dibaca oleh sekelompok programmer yang langsung merasa dirinya paling malang sedunia karena harus meneruskan kerjaan kyk gitu dan oleh seorang business analyst yang akhirnya merasa tak heran kalau projectnya sudah lewat 1 tahun tapi tidak kelar2.

Habis...
User aplikasi menelpon: "Aplikasinya ga bisa jalan non..."
Business analyst: "Loh kok bisa?" (panik mode on)
User aplikasi: "Hard disknya abis non..."
Jakarta, dialami oleh seorang business analyst yang tiba-tiba merasa bagaikan enci2 glodok.

Terlalu harafiah 1
User complain: "Mbak saya kok tidak bisa konek yah?"
Helpdesk: "Oh ya? coba bapak ping deh, caranya ketik ping papa india november golf XXX.XXX.X.X"
User: "Ga bisa mbak syntax error"
Helpdesk: "Masak sih? emangnya bapak ketik apa?"
User: "Papa India November Golf..."
Jakarta, diceritakan ke teman yang langsung tertawa terbahak2 sampai mengeluarkan airmata.

Terlalu harafiah 2
User: "Mbak kok ga bisa di klik ya tombolnya"
IT Vendor: "Oh bapak kurang pas tuh posisi mousenya, coba deh dinaikkan keatas sedikit"
User: (benar-benar mengangkat mousenya sampai melayang diudara)
Jakarta, dialami oleh application manager dan sales person yang berjuang keras menahan tawa agar client tidak tersinggung

Terlalu harafiah 3
Untuk menuntun user menjalankan sebuah query pada server, seorang bisnis analyst mengirimkan email berisi step by step procedure disertai gambar untuk memperjelas.
User complain: "error tuh" (setelah menjalankan sesuai step by step)
BA: "masak sih, error messagenya apa?
User: "can not konek to server XXX" (XXX, nama yang tertulis pada gambar yang terdapat dalam manual sebagai contoh)
Jakarta, dialami oleh BA yang langsung merasa terpukul karena manual yang dikirimkan tidak membantu malah menyulitkan.

Konek dong
IT Manager: "Mbak ini saya coba bikin ODBC kok ga bisa konek2 ya ke MS-SQL nya?"
Application Consultant: "Udah diinstal belum MS-SQL nya?"
IT Manager: "Belum, loh memang harus ya?"
Bandung, dialami oleh application consultant yang saat itu juga nyaris membenturkan kepala ke meja.

Quote of the day
Seorang admin mengeluhkan berkas2 yang tidak lengkap: "Duh nih orang goblok kok permanent!!"
Jakarta, didengar oleh sesama admin yang tidak sabar untuk segera mempraktekkan dan menyebarkan ke orang-orang

Diskriminasi Gender
User mengeluhkan ke manager vendor tentang anak buahnya: "Pak saya mo ganti tidak mo diajar sama mbak X lagi"
Manager Vendor: "Loh kenapa?"
User: "Galak.. mo minta yang lebih sabar"
Manager: "Oh ya sudah besok saya kirim mbak Y saja sebagai pengganti"
User: "Gak mo ah pak"
Manager: "Loh kenapa? Mbak Y sabar kok pak"
User: "Ga mo cewe ah pak"
Manager: "Loh alasannya??!!"
User: "Abis yang kemaren marah-marah mulu karena lagi M"
Jakarta, dialami oleh manager yang langsung tertawa terbahak2 sampe menguncangkan lingkungan sekitarnya.

Dimanakah letaknya 1
MIS sebuah end user menerima telpon dari user.
MIS: "Ohh kalo mbak mau ambil file dari server, coba klik Start Menu, pilih Run kemudian ketik \\nama server"
MIS: "Iya, ketik \\nama server"
MIS (sambil melongok ke laptop yang ada didepannya): "Itu loh tombol yang disamping kiri shift"
Jakarta, didengar oleh IT vendor yang kebetulan sedang ada disitu dan langsung tertawa prihatin.

Dimanakah letaknya 2
Salah satu contoh dalam sebuah training sosialisasi aplikasi baru adalah dengan cara mengetikkan "S0003~E0013" pada sebuah cell di Microsoft Excel.
Trainer: "Sudah semua?"
Salah satu peserta: "Belum Bu"
beberapa menit kemudian..
Trainer: "Sudah semua?"
Peserta yang sama: "Belum Bu"
beberapa menit lagi...
Trainer: "Sudah semua?"
Peserta yang masih sama: "Belum Bu"
Trainer: (dalam hati) "Lama bener ketik gitu doang???"
.....
Setelah ditelusuri ternyata orang tersebut (Area manager) masih sibuk mencari dimanakah letak huruf "S" didalam keyboard.
Semarang, dialami oleh sekumpulan area manager lainnya yang berniat mengumpulkan dana untuk les mengetik dan seorang trainer yang memilih kabur keluar ruangan sebelum membanting keyboard dan mencungkil huruf didalamnya satu persatu.

Tanpa Jarak Orang Tidak Bisa Berhubungan

Yes.. for people who knows me, might be quite surprised that I love love love Anthony de Mello books. (Don't be so surprised. I am religious in my own unique way you know...)
I collect some of his books such as Doa Sang Katak I and II. I read all the mini stories in those books and decided to post some of them that gave me a kick in my heart. This is only one of them.

What makes this story is able to knock out my 'cruella de ville' heart is very simple. Because it is sooo dang true. I think that everybody who ever had a crush knew that sadly sometimes we interpreted it as true love.

While others might need only a month or a week, me, being a 'slow' person, it took me more than 5 years to finally admit to my self that I trully want him. and starting from that moment, nobody else will matter no matter how perfect they might be. (mr. reeves could be an exception though...hohohoho...just kidding dear...)

I hope this article able to encourage people (who might be in the verge of making any crucial decision right now) to test their 'love' not only through time and but more importantly, through space.

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Seorang putri berkeras hati mau kawin dengan salah seorang hambanya. Apa saja yang dikatakan dan dibuat oleh raja, tidak dapat mengubah ketetapan sang gadis. Dan tak seorang pun dari penasihat raja dapat menyarankan, apa yang harus dilakukan.

Akhirnya datang seorang hakim tua bijaksana di istana dan mendengar kesulitan raja, ia berkata: "Duli Tuanku mendapatkan nasihat yang salah, kalau sang putri dilarang untuk kawin, ia hanya akan mendendam kepada sang Baginda dan lebih tertarik lagi kepada sang hamba".

"Lalu apa yang harus kuperbuat?" teriak sang raja.

Hakim mengusulkan suatu rencana bersiasat.

Sang raja sangsi tetapi memutuskan mau mencoba. Putri muda dipanggil dan dia berkata, "Saya mau menguji cintamu kepada orang itu. Engkau akan dikurung dengan kekasihmu dalam ruang sempit terkunci selama tigapuluh hari siang malam. Jika setelah masa itu berakhir, engkau masih ingin kawin dengannya, engkau akan kuizinkan.

Sang putri, gembira luar biasa, merangkul ayahnya dan dengan senang hati menyetujui ujian itu. Semua berjalan baik beberapa hari, tetapi rasa bosan segera masuk. Dalam 1 minggu ia menginginkan teman lain dan jadi marah-marah atas setiap kata dan perbuatan kekasihnya. setelah dua minggu ia begitu bosan akan orang itu, hingga ia mulai menjerit-jerit dan memukuli pitu kamar itu. Ketika akhirnya ia dikeluarkan, ia merebahkan diri dan memeluk ayahnya penuh rasa syukur, karena ia diselamatkan dari orang, yang sekarang begitu ia benci.

Hidup terpisah membuat hidup bersama lebih mudah. Tanpa jarak orang tidak bisa berhubungan.

Doa sang Katak I, Anthony de Mello, Sj

Prewedding Album Design

Last week, Evy chan sent me emails about our wedding book design. But well, yeah...I think they're guessing our style wrongly, since we only love 2-3 from 20 designs. Therefore, yesterday I wrote a 5 pages revision letter and sent it to them. Poor designer..we're very-very sorry. Didn't mean to cause you so much troubles. I feel terrible, I should have given them clues or something before. Dang.....

But here is some of the designs that we love

at kedai tiga nyonya

Narcist at kedai tiga nyonya.
The ambiance of the place is fantastic plus I love the food. Hmm nyam..nyam..nyam..
Can't wait to eat there again..