Typhoon

First, wanna say thanks for all of you that have been missing me so much, it wil take sometimes to do blogwalking again, please be patient with me :)

Seems that me and typhoon are destined to love each other. After last December, stroke by typhoon no 9 in the middle of the journey by ferry from Macau to Hongkong, whereby i saw the waves as high as 2 metres in the middles of the sea, and people started to panick and become merlion (read:vomitting), all the glass and plates started to stumbled down and creating a lots of noise, but i managed to stay composed and calmed the whole journey...

Last night I arrived in Hongkong with sign typhoon no.3 is striking *sigh* and according to the news that today the typhoon will be ranging from 8-10 *deep sigh*. But last night being hungry i was still straying out to look for food, the weather was very humid, until i suffered a bad anxiety attack, the air was really stagnant, i had to keep on looking around for those air conditioned shop that still open at 10.30 pm and tried to catch a breath properly there *sigh*

Now, after had my breakfast downstairs, i am staying still i the room seeing how hard the wind blowing downstairs, i see in the TV it is tphoon no.9 and the humidity is 78%, i haven't experience such a high humidity *nangis bombay*

That's mean, i have to stay still in hotel, no outside food, no shopping, no nothing.....waaa *histeris*

Happy Birthday Indonesia

Dear Indonesia, my country, and my Indonesian brothers and sisters,

I would like to say, "Dirgahayu Indonesia yang ke 63"

I am proud to be Indonesian, and always be....

I want to say to Indonesian team that won medals in the olympic,"Well Done". I am sure that one is the biggest gift that Indonesia had received for this year birthday.

I hope we as an Indonesian citizen will love our country more deeply, and try to build a better future for our country...

Once more I wanna say,"Sekali merdeka tetap merdeka"

Finally

After a very long nag towards my hair dresser (since victoria beckham cut her hair bob), finally last thursday my wish is granted *grinned*

I have a new hair do *happy*

Do you wanna know how do i look like?

See the picture attached, minus the purple back pack

RIP

Last Friday after I finished my shower I saw 4 misscalled in my handphone, normally I didn't bother to call back all the miss call, unless i recognized the number.

But this time, I called back, but when I asked what company is that, the other recipient asked me back who i was. I was confused, I had so many identity, me as a proffesional worker, me as a friend, me as a family, so finally the other party gave up, he said, may be he got the wromg number.

Not long after that the same number called again, and I recognized the voice as my dad's Singaporean cousin, she said, that her other cousin (which also my dad's cousin) had passed away on Thursdays night, I was in shocked, I only asked how did it happened, she said it was a heart attack.

Being shocked, I didn't ask further question, and just hung up the phone, and ran into my mom to break the news, my mom was in the state of shock also, she was worry for my dad's auntie, which is old and frail.

Finally we went to the wake on Saturday night, my grandauntie was calm as she had been counselled by her pastor, my auntie (the deceased sister) was calm), the 3 children was calm but the eyes were red. But his wife couldn't hold her tears as she saw me. As she has known me for ages, since I was still primary school. They were still dating at that time. As I hugged her she broke down and spoke in mandarin saying that there would be no more uncle to see when I come down to visit them. Well I just didn't know what to say, I just hugged her tightly.

My dad insisted me to go for the funeral on Sunday. Everybody couldn't hold back their tears, he is only 47 years old *sigh* And it was really sad, during the funeral for Chinese in here, they normally play some songs that the deceased like during his lifetime, and the band only play 1 song. And that song also was not played very well. It makes sense because they only have old song repertoire, so this showed that the deceased is quite young. I can't control my tears anymore during this song :(

Well...I am not that close to my uncle, he is a very shy and quiet man, but with a hot blood. His passion is cars, especially those fast cars, and he likes to speed. He is the reason why I come clean to my parents regarding my new toys, I just don't want to create trouble if this uncle see me driving my car, and talk to my parents, without my parents knowing that I own the car.

But too bad I haven't had a chance to show my car to him. Good bye uncle, Rest In Peace.

CCTV Part 2

Remember the story that my office neighbour installed a CCTV just right in front of my door? Which my verdict is because the auntie, just wanted to learn how to be as trendy as me * pe de mode on*

Anyway yesterday, I arrived at the office during the office during lunch time. The Office was locked as my colleagues were downstairs buying foor for me, and unfortunately, I don't have office key

I tried to call one of my colleagues, with hope that they brought along their handphone with them. Just when I browsed around (read as: jelalatan), I saw that the camera light kept on blinking.

When the phone connected I spoke panickly to my colleagues," Eh can you faster a bit, because I don't know this camera can zoom how many time, and I was in a rush this morning and I didn't put on any make up. Gosh the auntie would be able to see my pimple if she zoomed in. But luckily I managed to put on the eye mask last night"

Still....my vanity is working well ya....

Morale of story: Don't be lazy to put on make up, just in case you were trapped in this type of situation just like me...

Hari Kebangkitan Nasional (National Awakening Day)

There are 2 things that I wanted to say in my posting regarding Hari Kebangkitan Nasional.

Let me start with the bad news first, my deep sympathy with regards the accident that cost Sophan Sophian lost his life during the convoy to commemorate the 100th National Awakening Day. He's one of my favourite actors and I believe the whole Indonesia also mourn over this incidents. Even though this accident happened partly because of his faults, but anyway I respect him for his love for Indonesia,

Secondly, which is a very good news from my friends Yohan Handoyo, who has made Indonesia proud to have him as he has won the best wine education book in the world. I hope there would be a lot more people who could make Indonesia proud again for some achievement in the world.

With this posting I would like to congratulate my friend, Yohan, and I am very proud of him, when he told me that his book made it to the last round. I had so much faith that he's gonna win the first prize...well he did it...Well done Cak Yo...So after all those moments of getting drunk ....finally you see the light at the end of the tunnel....Long live Drunken Master

Lastly would like to wish you all Happy National Awakening Day, I hope that with this 100 years celebration, all of us would love Indonesia deeper

Origami

Do you remember during our kindergarden time, there is Origami Subject? In Indonesia we called it "Pelajaran Melipat"

I always wonder, why we should learn it in our life, until last week. I was suddenly having a bad stomach ache, and needed to go to toilet very urgently. I ran to the toilet, and didn't bother to choose the cubicle properly. Then sat down, and did my business.

Finished, I pulled the tissue, it was only 1 short piece, I thought, normally there would be another continuation of another roll of tissue...I inserted my hand to the tissue dispenser, tried to find out some more tissue, and to my horror, that one was the last tissue that I had to use to clean up *sigh*

I tried to calm my self down, seeing that small piece of tissue on my hand, suddenly reminded me of the Korean Drama "My Lovely Samsoon". Did you remember, when the boss was stranded in the cubicle next to hers without tissue paper, and what her suggestion to the boss? *tepok jidat*

Nah....after a short meditation, I decided to implied the origami lesson that I've learned in the kindergarden to the tissue. So I tried to make the full use of that piece of small tissue, folded it as many as I could so I could use it as many as I could to clean my self also.

So moral of the story: whatever lesson that you ever learned in school, no matter how stupid you think that subject is, surely will come handy for you life survival one day...

Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night, 11.43 PM, Singapore time, I am still in the office in front of the PC, doing my work. That's how hard living in Singapore....

Even though my brai has been jammed since a few hours ago, felt tired, but yet don't have the urge to go home and sleep.

Being a coward in the earlier part when I came back to the office, I logged onto online Radio, and blasted as loud as possible....but now, being brain jammed, heck care what ever I am going to see, what ever I am going to find, I don't really care anymore....

Well...that's just a slice story of my hard life in other people's country in the name of money...

Long live money.....

Out of Tune

Yesterday, after I bought petrol and started my car, the radio was playing Michael Jackson songs, Black or White....

I was humming, until one part, I stopped humming and was confused....how come I heard "Kuaci" in the song? *gubraks*

I wanted to replay, but realised it was a radio station, til now, I was still curious about that part, and I don't have the cd *sigh*

Well, may be i need tuning....It must be you me that has been out of tune..

Abuse of Power

Being bored, I begin to play online game again, the same game that is always played by my colleague. But yet being not play it for such a long time, my record had been broken by my colleague.

Out of creativity, I told my colleagues,"Cik, selama ini gue gak pernah memerintah elo dengan posisi gue sebagai atasan lo kan ya? Jadi kali ini boleh gak gue menyalahgunakan jabatan gue sebagai atasan elo, dan gue minta elo jangan maen JT Blocks selama sebulan, biar record elo keapus, dan recod gue jadi paling tinggi?"

Am I wrong? I am the boss

Rujak Party

There are a lots of advantages for having a few Indonesian Colleagues in the office.

One of them is we could have a party just like featured in the picture on the left.

Yes, we are having rujak party...May be it's only a small things for you who lives in Indonesia. But for us, who works "demi sebakul nasi dan sesendok berlian", this moment is a very damn precious moment, which rarely happened.

It's only could be happened if we voluntarily do some good deeds towards each other, in the name of satisfying our cravings while working very hard to earn some money in foreign land *caelah bahasanya bowwwww*

Flona melaporkan langsung dari tempat kejadian :)

NB: Apapun makanannya Tissuenya tetep "PASEO" bow....for the owner of PASEO, pleaskindly endorse me for quoting your product in my blog *matre mode on*

Enchanted

I always been enchanted by all the Australia Advertisement or Qantas Advertisement.

Only the most current one which has aquote "Where the hell are you?" I don't quite like it, but the picture, still amazing....

1 Corinthians 10:13

1 Corinthians 10:13 (New International Version)

New International Version (NIV)

Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

These bible verse has been always with me for quite long. Am I asking too much from God? Do I challenge God when I quote this verse?

The song "Pelangi Kasih" had been automatically sung hundreds times inside my mind, but until now I am still asking the same question. I still can't understand anything...

May be I am not humble in the eyes of God, may be I have never really surrender my whole life and thrust my life fully in God's Hand...

As I am writing this post, I am playing "Mujizat Itu Nyata" by Joy Tobing in repeat mode and my head is very painful as though it's going to explode.

Am I that strong? Am I that stubborn? Am I that proud?

I've never found any solution for my problems, but in fact I am a coward, I always run from all my problems, and I feel I can't run anymore...I am tired, I am exhausted, I am drain and yes I am human.....

God is Good

This is a Christian song that I learned quite sometimes back, we used to sing it in the Campus Christian Fellowship with full of Joy.

I always wonder, even though I always sing it with full of Joy whether it's in the church or in the fellowship, would I be able to sing it that way even though if I were to fall deep into darkness and sorrow and sing it real slow and reflect on every words written in the song?

The reality is I am still playing it over and over again, but i just couldn't bring my self to sing it. But sometimes this song just automatically play inside my mind.

If you wanna here the music please click here

Tired of Living

One of our client does outsourcing of a few things to our company. And one of the things is we have to provide staffs permanently in their place.

Well these incidents already been happened a few times, whereby we feel that our staffs that are assigned there, lack of good attitude towards our company. They feel that they belongs to our clients instead.

So far it were only a small incidents happened, so we just closed one eyes towards them, but today, it really made me boiled heavily, when I received one email from one of my staff there, written in a damn big font size and some are red in color, and cc to the managers there. And at the end of letter she also wrote "Please avoid this printing error in future."

I was so bloody pissed off with my staff behaviour, I called her up, and asked her," I am sorry that I made mistakes, but allow me to asked a question, who are you working for? My company or that company? How could you send me that kind of email and cc to the managers there? Why don't you just picked up a phone and informed me that I made mistakes instead?

When I called her, she didn't even say sorry to me, she only kept quiet and only said,"Oh".

I admit I made mistakes, but remembering she is working for me, do you think that it is ethical to do that? Is she my boss? Is she tired of living? *boiling*

Belom tau dia siapa gue...don't try to wake the tiger when the tiger is sleeping lah...

Mother

My mom *sigh*, my domestic helper, her name is thin thin (read as :tin tin), when my mom called, become sundanese name "Titin" *gubraks*

Since she came, I only had a chance to have my mum's cooking on week end, because I was so busy with business lunch and dinner, or farewell dinner for friends, meeting up with friends or birthday etc. And I was over eating. Can you imagine, me who is not a dessert person, had to gulp down the whole chocolate cake for the sake of business *wiping my sweat*

As the result I always ended up wanted to thrrow up every night after dinner...not that I am suffering from anorexia though...but in business it's just not nice to say no when everybody are having dessert *sigh*

Anyway I thought that week end I could detox by having my mom's cuisine, to my surprise, most of the dishes that my mom cooked (sorry) contained fatty pork *pucet*

OMG has my mom forgotten that I am not really a pork fans...especially the fatty one? *gubraks* so it was toxicated week end instead *sigh*

Anyway happy Chinese New Year for you who celebrate, don't forget to send "Hong Bao" to me ya....need my bank account? send me email, I'll give you my account ;P

Penampakan

This morning had an early appointment at 10. It's pretty unusual for me to leave around this time *grinned*

Anyway as I've made a confession to my parents about the car, my mum sent me to the carpark this morning. I saw 1 suspicious car parked in the lot behind the lifts.

To my surprise they were in action ladies and gentleman *gubraks* Luckily my mom didn't see it, or else she will have a heart attack and ask me to move out from that place *sigh*

Of course I did call a police to lodge in a complaint *sigh* OMG not even 10 am, they did it in the open *still shocked* where does the moral go to these days? I think I need to buy 7 types of flower and wash my self with it, going to CNY man *sigh*

If my eyes happened to be swollen again, I'd sue them *sigh*

Bapak Pembangunan

A bit late ya....but better late than never *nyari alesan*

I want to express my deep condolescence for the family of the late Bapak Soeharto...Bapak Pembangunan Indonesia.

May he rest in peace, and may the famile is strengthen by his departure.

I can't describe my feelings exactly towards him, but without him Indonesia, would not be what it is now...may be the best feeling to describe is "When love and hate collides"

Sudah Jatuh Tertimpa Tangga Pula

Last night when doing my manicure and pedicure, I felt down inside the shop. I think because it was very slippery and my mind was on something else, the fall effect was bad enough, even though I could managed the pain, but when IK tried to stand up, and I did, suddenly I felt like I was going to faint, so I ask the girl whether they have candies or sugar water or what so ever, meanwhile I came back to my chair to stabilise my self *sigh* Never been like this before....UI thought today i wouldn't be able to walk as my knee is swallen very badly, even i thought i might die during my sleep *parno*

Anyway I still managed to wake up this morning, with stiff neck and a sore arm right til now *sigh* But when i was making my breakfast this morning, i took up my favourite cup (a gift from 1 of my best friend last Christmas) from the cupboard, i put on the kitchen top then I reached the top cabinet to take my tea, suddenly the cup which ic quite heavy felt down and broke into pieces. I felt onto my foot first before hitting the floor, and my foot was bleeding...

OMG what's happening to me? *deep sigh*
Happy week end everyone

Panick

OMG, I was trying to get a ticket to Perth for Chinese New Year holiday with my parents, I checked early January, there were plenty timing available. Since my workloads is really incredibly hard to predict, it made me not really keen to book the ticket early *sigh*

2 days ago I started to check the ticket, as usual of course no more ticket available *sigh* But then I was dare enough to check for the Business class seat. It is still available, even up to a few minutes ago when I thought I'll redeem my milleage for my parents, meanwhile paying a full price for mine *deep sigh*

I also thought it would be saver to redeem for my parents first before buy my one, anyway at the end of the day money speaks louder than milleage, doesn't it?

When I booked my parents seats, I still saw a few seats available, but to my suprise when I go to purchase my ticket, the system said there is no more seats available *panick* I'm holding on to the phone right now trying to reach the customer service hotline, but they haven't picked up my line until now...

OMG what should I do...they don't even have any special dedicated line for the business class? I remember they did before *ngelap keringet*

It's The Final Count Down

It's the final count down *singing*

My parents are coming this Saturday, it's about 48 hours more *sigh* I've been trying to crack my head how to solve my storage problems *deep sigh*

Imagine my stuffs has occupied Thin Thin's (my domestic helper, not really new, has bee with me for a year) wardrobe, and also my parents's room wardrobe *blush* I've been wondering also how come within a year my wardrobe grow so rapidly *garuk2 kepala* Am I so stress? (you know the correlation between women in stress and shopping lah...). I didn't feel last year I spent so much in shopping though. Even my shopaholic best friend still can accomodate her belongings in her wardrobe that she shares with her husband *bingung*

How how dong? *panick* or just convert my parents room to my walk in wardrobe? Sounds good, doesn't it?

Or make a walk in wardrobe in the office? No no...doesn't sound that good...

How how?

Fortune Cookies

Several days ago when I was browsing around in Supermarket, I was quite excited to find fortune cookies here, as it is my first time finding it in Singapore, where by me and my flatmate used to buy when I was still in Sydney.

I bought 1 box of it. Just now I suggested to my colleagues to open it up, and distributed to all of us in the office, inclusive those in the production floor. Being given 1 cookie by my colleague, I protested, I said,"Its not fair, that means you choose my fortune.."

She gave up, took back my cookie and put back in the box, so I picked the other one, but I have no fortune *sedih* no paper inside *dissapointed*

If only I took what she gave me *regret*

So there were a chaotic moments during the fortune cookies time, one of them even said,"Is it lucky draw? The prize is ma'am's car? *gubraks*

Spoilt Brat

Remember my spoilt brat cousin? She's 17 years old. Lucky Yesterday she celebrated her sweet 17 party, but I didn't bother to ask where did she celebrate it.

Lucky that she was born on my parents' anniversary date, which I used to remember, but too bad now I have a very bad memory, I can't even remember is my parents' anniversary is today or tomorrow? Oopss sorry mom, sorry Dad....

Anyway I also didn't know that she reached 17, until a few weeks ago my mom told me about that, and asked me what am i going to give *gubraks* Me? Giving her birthday present? Never thought of it in my history, but I do still bought a lots of things for my extended family when they know that I am coming back to Jakarta *nyengir* but most of the time I just keep it private, I just wanted to spend a time with all my precious friend and have fun....not obligation to meet this auntie or that uncle, etc... forgive me for this behaviour....

I've bought the gift, I've bought the card, now I stuck with what should I write inside the card *sigh* any idea?

Or may be should I just write:

"Dear Spoilt Brat, Happy Birthday 17 Birthday, I wish you all the best in your life, may all your wish come true, go to UK to study (please don't go to Trisakti), and graduated with magna cum laude, and got your PhD (I only got master degree though) , and achieve your life much much better than mine (appear in Tatler magazine)."

How does that sounds? Since she always wanted at least to be me or wanted to outperform me....remember the LIA incident? the junior high school exam result incident? and not forgetting about the UK univesity incident? *grinned*

Anyway happy anniverysary mom and dad...either today or tomorrow lah...what a different does 1 day make? *nyari kambing item*

Car Park

I used to wonder why a few months back, I always met police patrol car in my car park building...I though that the police just wanted to see me, so they always circle around in the car park around the time I normally left my house *narciss mode on*

But lately I began to realise that quite often people use the carpark for a quickie during lunch time *gubraks* as I always park in the upper deck whereby not many people park in that level, and practically my home is the nearest to the city and the car park is quite enough to be a place for a afternoon quickie get away with a fling...

So I am quite fed up with this things going around in my place, like just now I just called the police station and tell them that I am very uncomfortable with what's going on in the car park especially it is quite near my car....I asked them to frequently patrol the carpark, especially during lunch time...

Why can't people go to the hotel if they want to do something...why have to be in the carpark, especially my carp ark *sigh*

Basi

Last night the news kept on flashing about our former preseident Soeharto which is in critical condition. They also show the picture of him being carried around with a lot of machine attached to him. I feel sorry and sympathy for him

But I just can't understand with the lead doctor who became the spokesman to the TV, why he still kept on insisting saying that,"Pak Harto is attached to the breathe support machine and is on highly sedated conditon".

Why can't he just simple said,"He is in a very critical condition and depends on the life supporting machine?"

*sigh* my fellowcountrymen...why you have to choose words when you have already had no choice to hide something from the public? It won't hurt to admit something though...

but anyway Pak Harto...what ever would happened to you, I believe it is God will....for the family be strong ya...I also feel sad to see him in this condition....

Have a nice week end everybody...

Fearless

Not that I've changed my surname to Wong....so I'm related to Wong Fei Hung or other Wong heroes *grinned* My surname still the same and proud of it *narciss mode on*

Just wanna share the story about my office...especially in the toilet...everytime i go in I can feel something not right...especially at night after office hour...but sometime...when I am too tired because of my workload...I just don't care...walked into the toilet and stay there as long as I need too....

I don't even care about feeling scared or who will i meet or what will i see anymore....I don't care.....

Have a good week end everyone...

Be Te

The day before yesterday (digest your self when yaaaa... :P), I was having a a quite bad mood, so i called my friend to have lunch together *ngelirik to somebody who's reading this blog* We had a good time, gossiping, updating with the current issues...you know...even though the time is quite limited, but I enjoyed his company a lot.. thanks for your lunch though *hugs* (those who didn't have lunch with me that day don't be GE ER yaaaa...)

Still feeling not right, didn't have any appetite to go back to the office, and knowing that I had another appointment around 4 pm in the city, so I decided to cool my head down in shopping center...

But it was a terrible decision though...I went to Raffles City, to check out the latest changes that they did to the mall, tried a few dresses, I knew I lost weight, and most of my clothings are loose, but to my dissapointment, even I tried the same number as what I used to wear before, it is still tight on me *sigh* Is the size chart getting smaller or what ya? *garuk2 kepala*

Even worse, I ended up in Robinsons Department Store...which I don't really like to be in it, frankly speaking, but the one in Raffles City is not that bad though...for women clothing, they are quite up to date. Anyway I was browsing around...and suddenly heard the sounds of that type of "trying to be cute voice" of Singaporean tai tai, saying,"Oh look..how this dress is really so sweeetttt you know..." *mau muntah*

Hearing their voice and seeing the sight of them, suddenly my desire to shop dissapeared...well...see from the bright side...I didn't splurge in shopping because of that...next time i think i'd better hanging out in orchard *sigh*

Metamorph

After my Sydney trip, I've been metamorphed from camera shy to camera shamelesss *blush*
Thanks to my partner in crime, my 2 Indonesian colleagues, my photographer friend and his sister in Sydney who always been encouraging me to be more confident in front of the camera.
But wait...I'm still not game enough to splash my photos everywhere, let it be in my blogs or somewhere....
May be someday.....

Weird

Today practically is the first official day of 2008 of works...remembering the 1st was fallen on middle of last week, so I believe that many people took the opportunity to take a long week end during that period.

It's quite frustating, starting with the crazy traffic to the office. I was not able to shift lane after I joined the highway, as all the bloody big trucks didn't want to give way to me, and this is the very first time in my life....

Continued with the normal short tempered Singaporean, I am used to drive quite slow in the car park, because anyway it's a carpark....no point to speed in the car park, anytime people might just walk out from somewhere and also cars...but you know...a lots of Singaporean like to speed off in the car park... and even for a short distance also they tried to over take me always for sure...and this bloody uncle over took me by taking the other one way lane...I was not pissed off..but I was pissed off when he took my normal parking space....*sigh* minta dikempesin bannye kali yak? ato dibaret mobilnya pake kawat berduri? Belom tau dia siapa guwe....mantan anak Trisakti boww...

And I circled around the car park in my office block, surprisingly it is very full...*sigh*

What happened nahhh? *thai accent*

A Letter to My Friend, Mike

Dear Mike,

I just came back from Sydney, but I feel that there is something missing, it was you. I've tried my best not to pass Surry Hills Area, regardless people said that I should go to Kylie Kwong Restaurant or Bill's Restaurant down there.

I couldn't bring my self to see the rubbish bin there. I tried as much as I could to erase that picture inside my minds about your body being found inside the rubbish bin at Surry Hills a few years back...

I'd tried my best not going to pub or bottle shop at all during my stays there, but I couldn't avoid seeing those midori bottles in the duty free shop *sigh*

The Planet Hollywood still there Mike, but they've changed the name to something else, and also the cinema across the road still there *sigh* Everything I saw there, reminded me of all the memories that we have with all of our friends there...but yet you were not there...

Mike...where ever you are, we all still miss you....Rest In Peace, Mike...

Have a great week end every one....

New Year Reflection

I thought I would definitely not going to make it up to year 2008. But here I am in front of my beloved laptop, updating my blog on the first day of 2008.

Last year had been really bad for me, and I really don't know what tomorrow will hold...I don't have any new year resolution at all.

I just wish it's all only a bad dream, and someday I would be woken up from this nightmare....someday..somehow...if miracle do happened...

Happy New Year everyone....wishing you a very bright and succesfull year ahead.