Friday, July 16, 2004

Weleh...

Pagi ini gue bangun dengan kepala yang cenut2an dan hujan....tapi kok pas selesai sarapan tau2 matahari bersinar dengan ganasnya ya? *bingung*
Trusan ngantor, dengan pekerjaan seabreg2, tapi masih sempet chatting sama Janet dan Ipone, dan juga baca novel, sakti ngga sih gue ini? *ge er*
Tadi juga lunched in dengan the same food again from downstairs *sedih*
Aniwe gue lagi ngeprint2 kan, tau printer gue yang fuji xerox itu, ngambek, tau2 keluar print out kertas tulisannya begini:
Warning
 
You have installed a print cartridge that is not genuine Xerox brand or is exhausted. This may result in variations in print quality and performance, replace it with a genuine Xerox print cartridge.
 
Some of the printer's intelligent features will not be accessible. This will affect your ability to monitor the print life of cartridge
 
Xerox printers and supplies - Made for Each Other

Dogol nggak sih nih printer, dah jelas2 gue beli cartridge dari dealer, eh tau2 bisa keluar warning kayak gitu...seumur2 ini baru pertama kali gue ketemu printer yang sok pinter model gini, beneran dodol duren bener, malu nggak sih elo kalo jadi orangnya Fuji Xerox..kauakakkaka...jayus banget nggak sih??
Barusan tau2 hp gue bunyi, caller id anonymous, gue pikir nyokap gue telpon, soale lagi menghindar dari nyokap, gara2 beberapa hari yang lalu gue nanya nomor telpon sodara gue buat nanya bisnis, trus nyokap mau menginterogasi gue.....dan barang yang gue ma cari itu kaga available, dan nyokap gue bakalan panik....jadi yah menghindarr dehh *licik*
Ternyata telponnya bukan dari nyokap, kayak dari bule gitu dia bilang, " Hello, may I speak to Alex, please?"
Gue jawab, " mmm, sorry I think you've got he wrong number".
Bule ngomong lagi,"Is this Singapore?"
Gue jawab lagi,"Yeah, it is, but there is no Alex here".
Wadoh tuh bule kira Singapore isinya cuma Alex doank kali yah? *lugu* Padahal kan ada Singapore Zoo, ada Oom Lee, Oom Goh, ada oom2 yang laen, dan ada gue juga....weleh....

Thursday, July 15, 2004

Berenang

Wah akhirnya tadi sore gue pergi berenang juga *loncat2*, cuma udah lama nggak berenang, performancenya jadi rada menyedihkan (padahal biar tiap hari berennang juga sama ajah kuakakkauaka...).
Sekarang judulnya ngantuk berat...tapi masih mau cerita2....
Kemaren sore tuh, nggak jadi jalan2 shopping mall, tapi pas sorean gitu, udah mumet, tau2 ada panggilan dari client, dan abis itu kita ke kebon binatang, Singapore Zoo tentunya...
Dan poto2an juga donks...masa ke zoo kaga moto...kan rugi atuh...emang tujuannya ke zoo kan buat moto2...tapi sayangnya kaga bawa tele lens....pas sampe di sono, ternyata ada seorang potografer juga yang sibuk motret2 dengan tele lensnya jadi sirik abis euy ngeliat lensanya....
Aniwe kemaren jalan2 muterin zoo lumayan pegel juga euy, tadinya udah mau nyerah sebelom finish line, tapi gara2 inget ada white tiger di covernya majalah kebon binatang, jadinya nggak tega nyerah....
Salah satu atraksi yang lagi dibangga2in sama si zoo adalah "Elephant of Asia", tapi pas ke sono, jalannya berliku2 banget dari tanda panah masuk di depan, doh dah mau marah rasanya....udah mikir wadoh jangan2 advertising gimmick...tapi pas jalan ke depanan lagi, lumayan jauh, akhirnya kelihatan ada gajah tapi cuma 1 gajahnya...wadoh kayanya emang nggak jodoh ama binatang kali ya....tiap kali mau dipoto gajahnya pindah....saya juga ikutan pindah posisi, eh tau2 gajahnya jalan lagi, weleh...dasar gajah....jadinya saya nggak punya poto gajah deh *sedih*
Yah udah saya pikir2 lagi ntar juga masih ada white tiger...tapi beneran emang lagi apes...sampe ke tempat white tiger, tempatnya lagi diperbaiki, duh mau marah nggak sih dah jalan jauh2 berjuang sekuat tenaga demi motret macan putih..tau2 tempatnya under renovation, macannya sih keliatan, cuma jauh banget, saya coba moto, nggak gitu keliatan karena backgroundnya nggak gituh contrast, dan saya nggak pake tele lens....
Jangan nagih ke saya buat acara2 poto2an di zoo kemaren, karena potonya belom saya donlot dari kamera...bagi yang mau liat poto2...silahkan menunggu dengan sabar, sampe saya mengaplot poto2nya yah...

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

It's cloudy again

Today is started with a beautiful weather, bright and sunny. But it's cloudy when I went out for lunch until now. It's kinda smoggy as well, but not to sure...can't remember anything from the geography class about the clouds though...
So today will be no swimming again *sigh*, can't go to the gym as well, coz CC went for reflexology yesterday then today he said the feet is painful (siapa suruh reflexology dehh..).
During this type of condition, how I wish they have an indoor swimming pool, like they have in Sydney (oh no..again..), I do know 1 indoor swimming pool, but it's for member only *sigh*
Probably, later on just going around Orchard again...exercise walking lah....

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Bingung

Judul hari ini bingung atau bingung ngasih judul gue juga bingung..nah lohhhh....
Dari pagi udah kaga beres sih guenya...nggak ngerti kenapa...sekarang lagi coba menenangkan diri dengan pasang musik klasik, mustinya tadi lagi dengerin jazz compilation yang baru beli kemaren *pamer* terus tiba2 CC masuk ke ruangan gue, dia kemaren beli cd classic compilation, dan dia bilang pasang yang classic ajah, dia mau denger...dan gue setuju2 aja lagi, padahal kan dia bisa pasang sendiri yah di komputernya dia...weleh gue dimanfaatkan dengan semena2...
Aniwe...gue juga suka sih klasik yang nggak berat2 amat, tapi semenjak gue struck sama "Canon in D"nya Pachelbel, so gue cuma suka ama itu aja, yang laen jadi nggak menarik lagi...nggak tau kenapa gue bisa tergila2 sama ini canon in D, gara2nya jaman gue lagi di sydney...kalo lagi pusing atau kesepian gue suka ke Pitt St Mall, dan di sono biasanya kalo autumn dan winter ada 4 string quartet, kayanya sih student busking di depan Grace Bro's, bayangin, autumn dan winter kan melankolis banget, dan dingin2 gitu, maenin lagu canon in D, wuahhh romantisnya, tapi sayang waktu itu masih sendirian dan masih heart broke...gue kalo dengerin lagu ini bisa hanyut banget...malahan bisa menitikkan air mata, amit2 nggak sih? biasanya kalo nyokap gue nonton terus dia ikutan nangis gue langsung ketawa sampe ngakak, tapi kayanya as you grow older, your feelings will be softer as well deh...
Wah autumn/winter itu adalah season fave gue...tuh kan gue jadi melankollis banget...jadi pengen balik ke sydney wuaaaa...wuaaaa.....wuaaaa *nangis* kayanya pas nih kalo sekrang ke sydney lagi winterrrr....hiksss....
Gue juga dah pasang aromatherapy oil burner, akhirnya tadi gue berhasil nyalain lilinnya dengan usaha gue sendiri *seneng* tapi ini printer nyangkut melulu lagi, bikin gue ngak bisa tenang.....kali musti ngerubah feng shui-nye ruangan gue nih...kaukakakaka......

Monday, July 12, 2004

Senin Kelabu

Hari ini udah mendung sejak pagi, sampe kantor kerjaan bertumpuk2...
Memang susah jadi diri gue sendiri, kalo ngadepin kerjaan gue selalu merasa bersalah kalo ngerjainnya nggak sampe detailll banget, tapi di lain pihak..kalo ngerjainnya sampe detail banget sedetail2nya bikin waktu gua abis dengan percuma...
Dan gara2 itu kerjaan gue jadi kaga pernah abis...dohh...ini otak kayaknya perlu dicuci pake rinso...biar sebuh penyakit detailnya....
Seperti biasa kalo lagi kerja dan udah suntuk, gue pasang webradio sih..tapi hari ini kayanya kok semua radio salah yah...nggak ada yang sreg...denger dari radio sih katanya ada 11 area di sini yang turun hujan lebat...tapi di dalam kantor nggak berasa hujan...
Sebenernya menurut rencana hari ini sore sehabis kerja mau berenang, tapi cuacanya nggak mengijinkan, so batal deh....dan gara2 batal ujung2nya malahan makan di marche, doh..mustinya membuang energy, jadi masukin energi deh...
Dan last but not least, sampe rumah dapet surat hasil ujian basic theory driving, failed pula...padahal kata CC, dia nanya ama yang jaga ujian, katanya boleh salah 5, dan perasaan gue itung2 cuma salah 3...tapi kok bisa failed yah???....dohh beneran deh hari ini...semuanya serba salah deh..musti mandi air kembang kali yah???

Sunday, July 11, 2004

Windstruck

Finally I could get through the internet booking for this movie last nite. I bought for 1.30 pm show. As I expected, I woke up very late, so I missed the church for today. Arrived at cinema about 1pm past, then queued for the hotdog.
Surprisingly there was no ads at all for this cinema, so when i went in, it had started, as the queue for hotdog was very long, it had to be coz by Spidey 2.
The film is about the policewoman and a man relationship, the girl is quite pretty, the story is a bit unreasonable, like a bit stupid, but well, no regret at all though, I even can recommend you to see this movie.
Firstly I thought, wow, the plot is so smooth, no twist, no nothing at all, everything went smoothly, but later on then I found the twist. Tjis is my first Korean movie though *grinned*
After the movie, then we went shopping. Well after few last week had no shopping mood at all, today my shopping mood is finally come back. Bought quite lots of things *sigh*
I went to Mango, as I still saw a sale signboard outside, but the things that I bought is not on sale *sigh again*. It's also quite frustating as I feel now Mango has changed the sizes of their clothes. I usually wear Medium size, but when I tried (luckily I tried, as usually I'm lazy to try), now I have to wear Large, wow, how shocked I am. I don't think I gain weight, everything is very normal, in fact I feel I'm losing my weight. Feeling uncomfortable, I went to Zara, and tried some clothings there, it's still medium, so it's not my fault *lega* May be mango found all the S'pore girls is too slim to wear mango, so they change the sizes *lugu*
I dare not total up my spendings today, just keep it as it is..so can be imagined how crazy I am today then ......

Saturday, July 10, 2004

Finally

We went out about 5.30pm, wanted to eat Teppanyaki at Tanglin Mall, but the food court is still under renovation. Hmmm...paid parking $3.00, got nothing...*gondok*
Moved to Raffles City, decided to try "Out of The Pan", which sells crepes and waffle, quite nice, I ate BLT crepes, while CC had Smoke Salmon.
After that we went around, it's still sale everywhere, I wanted to look for some shirt, but from all the shop that I went in, I found nothing that interest me *sedih*
Then we decided to look for the ice cream shop that I read somewhere, and I thought it's quite similar to "Passion Flower" in Sydney. So we went to Citylink mall, kept on guessing where it's located, then half way passed already, yet still couldn't find, I told CC," If I couldn't find it, I'll sue the magazine", but actuallt I also couldn't remember which magazine talked about this shop *lugu*
Finally, we found it, it called "Wild Hibiscus", located at the end of the tunnel (Suntec City side). When I browsed the ice cream display, I felt dissapointed, this shop is not so adventerous like "Passion Flower", the weirdest thing that they have only Banana and Thyme, which still has a very strong banana flavour, not exotic at all, and Black Sesame.
I decided to take Banana flavor, which I shared with CC, not really nice, bloody sweet. The after taste is still lingering inside my mouth....don't want to go there anymore...(ntar gue kena sue ama die kaga ye??)

Saturday

Well...nothing much, couldn't sleep last nite, woke up late. Supposed to go to the office for some works, but until now, late afternoon, still stay at home, read newspaper (finished), novel (still on going).
Even today I had lunch in but bought from outside, and after that dessert, lay's chip, kyushu seaweed taste, given by Diana from Taiwan, unique taste, but quite nice. If you had somebody visiting from Taiwan, you should ask for this chips...
Becoz of jimmy, made me curious to see a korean movie, tried to book e-ticket, but couldn't do so, may be coz tonite is Saturday nite *gondok*
If not lazy later on go earlier to the cinema and queue for the ticket first la (nyebelin kaga sihhh??) wanna buy some cds as well (real compact disc not "cd")...
But now, have a quite severe headache...ahh...make me lazy to go out...

Friday, July 09, 2004

Printer Dodol

Weekend is coming, I should be happy, but this stupid printer, take note "the stupid fuji xerox printer", goes against my will. (eh entar gue kena sue kaga ye?)
It's always jammed, then after that prints nonsense...
My neck has already been stiffed since this morning, now facing this stupid printer again arrrrghhhhh....
I try to calm my self down, bruning aroatherapy, lavender oil, it's said can help to release tension, but I'm very hopeless in lighting the candle, may be I'm not a smoker, so even the lighter also doesn't want to work for me *sigh*
Anyway finally I can do it...*jingkrak2* Now my room filled by lavender smell, but yet my neck is still stiff.....

Singlish

When I started writing blog, I also joined blogbugs mailing list. Lots of blogbuggers complained that why should I write in English. I don't have any intention to show off or what, but my main reason is to improve my English, especially in writing.
I feel my English ability is worsened, especially in speaking. I still remember when I was just a few months in Singapore, my cousin (she's from Hongkong) said,"How come you speak so Singlish?",then I realised true enough her English accent is still the same as the first time she landed in Singapore,and doesn't really have Singlish tone too much(she'd spent a few years before me).
Before hand, when I phoned somebody, either for my banking purposes or some other purposes (besides phoning my frineds of course), I was still be able to use my heavily Oz English accent, which could benefit me in certain cases, like better service (coz they tought I'm Ang Moh (read: Bule)).
But now as I speak Singlish fluently, nothing can drag me back to my old English ability. As I found even sometimes it's hard for me to describe something in English, my brain is getting damage, and on the other hand my ability in Indonesia formal language also getting worse...
Now here I am, speak Singlish, sometime even broken English, and speak Indonesian Slank language...weleh....

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Ketemu Diana

Kemaren on the way to Oma(Omanye Diana sihh) house, gue call Diana, Oma yang ngangkat, wah Oma udah tau itu dari gue. Wadoh gue terlalu tenar kali ye, tapi dari dulu juga kalo maen ke rumahnya Diana, orang serumah pada keluar semua ngobrol ama gue, gue sampe bingung karena gue nggak pernah pasang pelet, tapi kok kayanya semua orang kena pelet sama gue? weleh...
Aniwe pas gue sampe di rumah Oma langsung dikasih minum sama Oma, "Ayo minum es jeruk," kata Oma. Tapi pas gue liat2 warnanya kok kayak apple juice, tapi gue pikir ahh mungkin es jeruk model baru. Waktu gue udah haus, sebeum minum gue udah siap2 buat rasa jeruk, lohh tapi kok rasanya apple juice, weleh..mungkin Oma waktu ngambil di kulkas salah liat kali yak...tapi enak kok juice applenya..
BTW gue dari dulu emang suka sama oma2, kecuali almarhum oma dari bokap gue, yang itu gue selalu takut karena tampangnya galak. Tapi ternyata dia sangat cinta berat sama gue, soalnya beliau kan tinggal di Lampung bareng ama Adik bokap gue yang cewe, dan kata sepupu gue kalo sore pas lagi acara ape ye..duh gue lupa, pokoke acara anak2 deh, oma gue selalu nangkring depan tv nungguin gue, dan selalu bilang gue bakalan muncul di tv, weleh...kok bisa yah...tapi sampe akhir hidupnya gue juga nggak sempet deket2 amat ama Oma gue yang itu...doh jadi ngelantur nggak sesuai topik...
Gue stay di rumah Oma lumayan lama, sampe sempet liat video wedding adiknya Diana, karena tiba2 bokapnya Diana balik ke rumah Oma, dan gue disetelin video dari handy camnya, gara2nya gue mau liat foto, nggak ada yang punya..jadi nggak enak ama Oom...
Weddingnya seru juga flower girlnya cute, trus ring boynya ngambek nggak mau gandengan ama flower girl nya..weleh...jual mahal...padahal flower girlnya cantik dan cute banget loh...
Dan pas acara minum teh di wedding itu gue masih sempet iseng nanya ama papanya Din," Oom, tehnya rasanya apa?" Gokil nggak sih gue, padahal jaman masih di jakarta gue kalo maen ke rumah si Din selalu ngecek dulu ada bokapnya nggak, soale gue takut bener ama si Oom, tampangnya galak sih....
Well, setelah berjam2 di rumah Oma, akhirnya gue ngajak Diana keluar, tapi Oma dan Oom nggak ada yang mau ikut, so kita pergi makan roti prata....yummy loohhh...
Tapi abis itu gue kumat, jadinye langsung ke rumah sakit, sayang dokter on duty-nye bukan yang super duper cute itu, padahal gue mau kasih liat Diana lohhh....he he he gue dah kumat masih sempet2nya ngelaba...
Dokternya pas ngeliat nama gue dan tampang gue, dah pasrah," So it's you again with the same problem huh?" Kasian juga gue ngeliat tampangnya dia, dan kali dia juga kasian liat tampang gue...aniwe dia bilang," I don't know what else I could give you, so do you want something for tonight?"
Karena gua kasian ama dokternya gua jawab," Ok then, thank you" Yah udah deh dia discharge gue...kayanya dokternya strees semalem, gue ngeliat banyak banget kasus, dari yang kakinya fratured lah, ada boy yang kepalanya dibandage lah..trus ada 2 orang lagi yang musti duduk di wheel chair, dan pas gue keluar, gue ngeliat pengumuman, waiting time is approx 45 mins....doh gue jadi tambah kasian ama dokternya....dan kasian juga ama Din yang musti nemenin gue ke rumah sakit...

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Yipeeee

Kayanya selama sejarah gue nulis blog, cuma kali ini yang judulnya mencerminkan gue bahagia *nyengir*. Gara2nya hari ini Diana bakalan transit di S'pore dalam perjalanan pulangnya ke Jkt, dan menurut rencana gue bakalan switch mode gue ke "nungguin Diana telpon mode" abis lunch break. Tak kusangka tak kuduga (minjem phrase dari kokonya Anyess), gue have quite early lunch today, dan in the middle of ngunyah2 makanan tiba2 hp gue bunyi, dan of course feeling gue mengatakan pasti Diana, tapi pas liat nomernya witheld, gue pikir bisa jga bukan Diana. Seperti dugaan gue, it is indeed Diana, horeeee gua jingkrak2. Dia telpon dari erpot makanya number witheld, aniwe setelah gua hang up, tiba2 gue mikir, wadoh gue lupa bilang dia supaya telpon gue balik jam 4-an, well ntar masih bisa gue kejar ntar di rumah omanya.....
Hari ini gue lunch quite early, jam 11.15, perut gue dah krucuk-krucuk..salah gue sih tadi nggak abis breakfastnya, padahal cuma sebuah floss bread loh, aneh juga. Terus gue coba menenangkan perut gue dengan minum air putih (sehat nggak sih gue???), tapi setengah 12 dah kaga tahan lagi, so seperti biasa CC beliin gue makanan di bawah. Benernya gue juga males lunch out sih, pasti tempat makan rame, sampe sono juga bingung mau makan apa (di sini mana ada sih makanan enak?), lagian di depan kan panas *nyari alesan*, nggak tau deh pokoke nggak hobi deh keluar pas jam makan siang gitu.... Untungnya di kantin bawah ada Malay food yng lumayan oke, seperti biasa, menu gue oseng2 tempe dan tauge plus sambel. Ngomongin oseng2 tempe, ini emang salah satu makanan fave gue sejak kecil, tapi biar gimanapun nggak ada yang bisa ngalahin oseng2 tempe di gudeg Bu Kris di daerah grogol sana...duh ngilerrrr...
Hari ini Anyess bilang dia nggak mau online, mau jadi pegawe teladan, tapi hopefully pas baca blog gue dia bisa menyadari betapa sedihnya gue kalo beliau tidak online, gak bisa ngobrol eh salah ngetik donk kalo lagi jutek...Ayo nyesss onlineeee...Tapi tadi Anyesss dah maksa2 gue masang shoutbox, dan yang pasti gue butuh technical support nih nesss...
Ngomong2 jutek, pagi ini meman gue agak kusut, gara2 salah satu client gue nyuruh ngirim surat, tapi isi suratnye nggak sinkron, weleh..dodol duren beneran deh ye....
Sekarang cerita acara ngegym kemaren..mm...pas gue di lift menuju ke gym, gue baru sadar gue lupa bawa kaos kaki, doh, menyebalkan, gue dah bilang ama CC, gimana nih apa balik aja? (emang maunye gue balik aje nggak usah ngegym *busux*). Tapi CC dengan semangat '45nya bilang nggak lah ntar kita cari di watson. mana gerimis lagi, kita jalan ke watson, melewati wajah2 sepa orang kantoran yang berseliweran di CBD, ternyata watson nggak jualan kaos kaki buat cewe, wadoh, gue cuma tau ada g2000, but supposedly yg jualan kaus kaki itu U2, terus kita jalan lagi keliling2, dan gue dengan memelasnya bilang ke CC,"Doh mau ke gym aja kita dah olahraga jalan sebanyak ini, mbok ya batalin aje gymnya". Tapi CC said,"No lah, it's a warming up before gym mah...". Wadoh...semangatnya tinggi banget sih...tiba2 gue liat eh di seberang ada tempelan2 stiker, nike, wilson, etc, dan gue bilang nah itu ada sport shop,yah udah kita ke sono dan beli kaos kaki, dan jalan balik ke gym.
Pertama kita treadmill-an, gue cuma set 10 min, CC selesai duluan dia move nggak tau kemana, dan tiba2 seperti biasa hpnya bunyi, jadi dia telponan dulu, trusan tau2 ada cowo make treadmill bekas CC tadi yang pas di sebelah gue, duh gue kesel bener, masih banyak treadmill2 tempat lainnya napa juga musti di sebelah gue, untung nggak lama kemudian gue dah time out, then move ke stepper, weleh...nggak semudah yang dibayangkan, baru 2 menit gue dah nyerah...trus dah gitu gue dideketin ama personal trainer, nanya2 gue baru yah di gym, any specific target you want to achieve?, gue kesel nih udah menjurus ke jualan nih PT nye, gue jawab ajeh,"I always like to take things slow, and I don't like to push so much of my self with any target". wah asik nggak sih jawaban gue...abis sengit juga sih gue ngapain PT ikut2an jualan...kayanya sih mereka memang wajib menjual, karena gue liat di papan pengumuman ada promosi PT, please approah PT desk.
Abis itu gue lanjut ke stationary bike, 10 mis juga, tadinya abis itu mau join class, tapi pas gue liat alamak classnya rame banget, dan gue liat the crowd also started to come in, so gue bilang ama CC udahan yukk, this place is gettin crowded...lagian dengkul gue dah lemes banget gara2 dah lama nggak olahraga, finally CC setuju, dia juga dengkulnya katanya as soft as jelly, huahuahuhauha....so kita udahan deh...

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Garink

Beberapa hari ini feeling gue lagi agak2 biru nih...hmmm kangen, tapi gak tau sama siapa...sedih..tapi gak tau kenapa....sebel..juga nggak tau penyebabnya apa...rasanya sepi, walaupun banyak orang seliweran di depan gue....
Aniwe gue berasa hidup gue dah nggak berwarna seperti waktu dulu lagi, kali gue kaga pake fuji film kali ye? *ngelantur*
Gue lagi ngedengerin heartbeatstation, buat ngobatin kangen gue ama lagu2 indo, tapi yang dipasang semua yang melankolis2, kali disesuain ama waktu Amrik kali ye jam bobo kan sekarang....
Trusan baca2 blog orang terutama yang tinggal di US, gue jadi kangen ama Sydney, Ashfield, rumah yang rumputnya selalu gondrong karena gue ama megumi males motong rumput, yang kalo mau masak straight away dari supermarket ato ke supermarket dulu, karena nggak punya kulkas, dan kita nggak niat beli kulkas juga, mahal, kan dulu masih student,yang kalo week end selalu cium bau bbq dari tetangga, dan kita ngiri, nge-arrange bbq tapi tertunda melulu, yang kalo berangkat dari rumah musti jalan setengah lari karena takurt ketinggalan kereta, dohhh kangen....sama megumi juga kangen, terakhir kali gue telpon bahasa inggrisnya dah japanese version, sedangkan gue dah pake Singlish version :((
Sekarang juga sambil chatting ama Anyess...tapi kayanya bossnye lagi berkeliaran deket2 Anyess makanya Anyess agak2 pasif...
Trusan doing filing dari minggu lalu nggak beres2 karena ini pekerjaan yang paling membosankan, trusan ngeliat file expenses juga bikin gua depress, baru pertengahan tahun gue dah musti pake file kosong yang baru, gila expensesnya banyak banget, gue nggak ebrani ngitung. Tambah depress lagi barusan CC passed setumpuk check ke gue buat di-sign, gelo gua ngeliat tumpukan check itu dengan mata terbelalak nggak percaya. Dan kontan gue bilang ama dia, " Can u do somethin' so instead of ending out those checks, we receive much more checks?"
Weleh jadi tambah biruuuuuuuu.......

Arrrghhh

Dari kemaren sore, CC udah semangat banget ngajakin gue ke gym hari ini. Jadi semalem kita shopping2 buat perlengkapan olahraga (gue berasa kayak rebecca Bloomwood di buku Shopaholic denk), bukan kita sih lebih tepat gue yang kasih usul.
Tapi gue masih bisa menahan diri, sepatu, masih bisa pake yang lama lah, even though udah lama nggak dipake, kan ceritane udah grown up, musti ngerubah image, nggak boleh bersepatu olahraga ke mana2, lagian kasian pula kaki gue, tapi even though berusaha merubah image, gue tetep milih sendal yang model thong, he he he...sama parahnya, gua udah nggak bisa pake heel shoes lagi nih, padahal dulu megumi udah training gue sampe gue bisa lari2 pake 5 inch heel, kasian Megumi...(eh apa kasian guenya yah?)
Baju, nah ini dia masalahnya, kalo dulu di Sydney pas ke gym, gue sih cuek aja dengan kaos yang biasa gue pake buat bobo dan celana pendek, tapi di sini, so far waktu shop around buat nyari club, gue liat semuanya pada pake proper gym attire deh, dari model yang cuma bra top doank, tank top, dan the most singlet top. Dan orang sini kan hobi ngeliatin orang (nggak separah indo sih, cuma yah kalo elo nggak uniform2 amat bareng mereka, kayanya elo bakalan dijadiin lower class deh) Ini yang menjadi masalah besar buat gue, akhirnya gue beli yang sleveless doank lah, paling nggak nggak gitu pusing mengenai under wear, ya ngak? Dan gue pilih 3/4 pants, karena nggak pe de pake short, soale kok kayanya belakangan kulit gue super duper kering...
So tadi pagi ngepak tas, CC dengan tas biothermnya (gratis dari biotherm), plus sepatu, kaos (kemaren baru beli dari Giordano, ceritane mereka lagi punya product baru namanye dry tech buat sport), dan beach pant (kata gue sih itu beach pant, lah wong punya OP, abis kalo ngeliat orang2 di gym biasanye yang cowo pada pake gitu), dan gembok buat loker.
Sedangkan gue dengan tas biotherm juga (gratis), plus sepatu, one set grey sleveless shirt dan 3/4 pants dari giordano (beli kemaren juga, dan gue pikir2 aduh kok bisa yah gue beli top ama pants samaan warnanye, doh memalukan sekali), gembok buat loker, face wash, moisturiser, eye cream, perfume, tapi lupa bawa bedak, ha ha ha ketahuan bener gak sih amatirannye..soalnya waktu di sydney juga biasanya gue abis gym cuma shower trus kadang2 juga lupa nyisir, langsung ngacir keluar he he he...makanya sekarang gua lagi bingung apa yang musti gue bawa.
Dan sekarang lagi boring dan garing berat di kantor, gara2 kita submit tender, dan keliatannya kita bakalan dapet sih, cuma ada beberapa pertanyaan yang musti kita jawab, gue berasa seakan2 mereka sangat merendahkan kita, dan nggak percaya banget sih ama kita...
Juga di antara pertanyaan itu mereka nanya tentang kemungkinan laen dari address label, dengan alasan, mereka bisa cut cost dengan itu, padahal gue tau mereka bisa nanya begitu karena otak mereka udah dicuci sama big player tentang possibility of cutting cost dengan pake mesin mereka, padahal itu mesin udah kuno banget, dah bisa dibilang hampir musnah...dan harganye amit2 mahalnya...dan gue yakin mereka nggak mau itu mesin yang diinvest dengan harga mahal itu cuma nganggur ajah di tempat mereka karena udah out of date, jadi makanya mereka berusaha buat mencuci otak orang, seakan2 mereka tuh perusahaan besar yang bisa melakukan segalanya...(gak ngerti kan dengan cerita gue? gue juga kalo nggak tau jalan cerita dari awalnya juga nggak bakalan ngerti, he he he, makanya kalo nggak ngerti, telpon gue, ntar gua ceritain deh *nyari alasan supaya pada penasaran jadi pengen nelpon gue, biar guenya ada hiburan ngobrol*)
Memang dasar nyebelin, gue sih kasih perbandingan gini aja, kalo misalnya Oom Bush jualan something dengan teknologi kuno dan bilang dengan ini bisa cut cost, dibanding dengan Tante Mega juga jualan something yang sama tapi dengan teknologi baru, orang tentu lebih percaya Oom Bush donk, ya nggak?
Waduh rasanya arrrggghhhhhhhh......

Monday, July 05, 2004

Roti Coklat

Kemaren pas lagi di sun moulin bakery di Isetan Orchard basement, gue liat ada roti cokelat, wadoh gua langsung seneng, di sini mana ada roti coklat, yang ada cuma roti yang isinya red bean doank.
Gue pengen jingkrak2 pas ngeliat tuh roti, tapi masih sadar sih..kalo gue jingkrak2 ntar jadi pusat perhatian lagi hihihihih....
So gue beli buat breakfast pagi ini. So tadi pagi breakfast gue bersemangat banget pengen cepet2 makan roti coklat gue. Tapi ternyata rasanya mengecewakan sekali...kenape ye Singapore bisa bikin floss bread tapi kok roti coklat yang sederhana ajeh nggak bisa bikin....payah euy....
Ngomong2 hari ini gue agak bawel yah nulis blog sampe berkali2 *blush*

Pemilu

Sepanjang sejarah hidup gue kayanya gue baru sekali ikutan pemilu, itu juga waktu gue udah usianya legal (fyi gua belom merit, masih available...ada yang mauuu kaga sama gue? hehehhehe), selebihnya, apalagi setelah gue moved out dari Indo, first selalu nggak tau gimane daftarnye, kedua lupa daftar (atau sengaja lupa), ketiga emang cuek.
Bukannya gue nggak peduli sih sama negeri sendiri, but well, you know...
Bukti gue masih cinta Indo, passport gue masih ijo, gue nggak punya intention ganti WN, gue cinta banget ama kecap manis (even though CC benci banget ama kecap manis, tapi kalo gue masak biasanye ngga gue bilangin dalemnya ada kecap manisnye huahuhahauaua), bubur abang2, ketoprak, gado2, nasiuduk, ayam goreng, sup kaki mbeeeekkk...doh jadi ngiler (even though kalo balik indo gue nggak pernah makan di abang2 apalagi setelah kenal CC, soale dia selalu protes kalo gue ajak kaki 5-an), tiap kali gue denger orang mention diving ato snorkling, gue langsung promosiin lombok, tiap kalli gue denger orang bangga2in pantai malaysia, gue selalu jawab, wait till u see Indonesian one...., gue juga selalu bangga punya SIM Indo, dan gue always tell people, if you drive in Jakarta, you'll survive to drive anywhere in the world he he he.....(bokap gue bukan polisi lohh), itu adalah sebagian bukti2 bahwa gue masih cinta Indo.
Hari ini gue juga kaga ikutan lagi, ssstt jangan bilang2 ye...he he he...dan gue juga sedih, soale hari ini kan libur buat elo2 orang yang ada di indo, dan Anyess juga libur (sekarang kayanya beliau lagi di bioskop nonton shrek) *sirik*, kalo di indo libur kan artinye kaga ada yang ngirim imel ama gue...hiksss, sedih nggak sih?
Saking sedihnye gue sampe kreatip banget, mikir2 kali pemilu diadain hari ini, biar orang2 pada sempet nonton final Euro 2004 malem sebelomnye kali ye? he he he kreatip kaga gue?
Dan tadi pagi gue juga receive sms dodol banget dari temen gue di Indo tentang mau milih siapa, aniwe kayanya nggak etis kalo gue tulis di sini isi smsnye, cuma kalo inget itu gue sampe sekarang bisa ngakak2 sendiri....
Aniwe sekarang gue lagi stuck ngebersihin data base yang amit2 junknya...sambil dengerin web radio, dan ngantuk banget, mana hujan lagi...hmmm ngak bisa ngopi lagi....hikss...

Euro 2004

Waktu sebelum semi final game main, gue dah bilang ama CC, gimana ntar kalo final kita nonton di bioskop? (Di sini golden Village selama Euro 2004 play life telecast di bioskop mereka yang di Plaza Singapura dan Great World City) CC sih oke2 ajah seneng, tapi gue ngebayangin ampir jam 3 paginya itu loh, ntar beauty sleep gua terganggu...
Pas berita jam 9 males, mereka ngelaporin sejak sebelum jam 9, Chijmes juga dah rame ama orang2 mau nungguin live telecast final, dan gua masih dengan polosnye ngajakin CC lagi nonton di GV, CC sih he eh he eh ajah, dia juga tau gue kaga niat pergi *blush*
Weleh Greece menang....itu juga dugaan gua waktu ngeliat fakta bahwa France bisa kalah sama mereka, tapi banyak orang2 termasuk CC, tetep aja ngejagoin Portugal, karena kata mereka home ground advantage.
Waktu Greece menang ngelawan Perancis itu otak gua langsung konek, wah ini jangan2 mereka minum ramuannya si Obelix huahuauaa.....dan bener juga ramuannya manjur, ato jangan2 si asterix ama obelix ikutan maen yak?
Coba kalo gua pasang bet tuh...(padahal beli juga jaaraaaaanggg banget), gua bisa ngunjungin Si Anyesss lagi yah Nyesss...huehehuehue...lo bayangin ajeh oddnye gede banget, buat portugal cuma 1.7, sedangkan greece 4.6 kalo ngak salah, welehhh....dan CC beli Portugal nggak bilang2 gue...waktu dia balik dari beli dinner baru dia bilang bahwa dia beli Portugal, sebeeellll....

Sunday, July 04, 2004

Fitness

Tadi siang abis pulang gereja, CC ngedrag gue buat sign up gym, weleh padahal gua dah berharap2 dia bakalan lupa akan perkataan dia tentang join gym membership.
Bukannya gue males sih, tapi gue nggak suka gym di sini tuh rame banget...dan orangnya tampangnya sepa2...yang biasa di daerah business district gitu lah...dan bayangkan ini singapore cink....tampangnye pasti lebih gahar dari negara2 laen....
Gue pikir ngapain juga join gym, mendingan jogging di taman kek, botanical garden kek, dan save the money for shopping, ya gak? he he he....
Tapi kalo mikir2 Singapur itu panasnya amit2, ya gue no comment deh, mending join gym ada airconnya. So tadi kita udah sign up.
Sewaktu di sono, pas gua lagi bengong2 gitu nunggu proses aplikasi gue, tiba2 gua denger orang bilang, "So this year you'll be 69 years old, rite?" Yah ngedenger gitu bikin otak gue langsung respons dan nengok ke situ. Gua sampe kaget ngeliat beneran ada opa2 mau join. Weleh..opanya sih masih fit, cuma gue nggak bisa kebayang si opa itu join gym, dan yang gue kaget kenapa juga si sales nya kaga nyuruh si opa buat obtain Doctor letter of approval to join the gym, kaya yang musti dilakuin waktu gua di Aussie.
Di sini cuma sign upa dokumen yang isinya si gym kaga bertanggung jawab kalo terjadi apa2 pada diri elo, padahal kan mustine mbok ya setiap orang mau join gym musti dapet surat dokter dulu gitu...weleh...

Saturday, July 03, 2004

Rebonding

Today CC said he wanted to get his hair cut, so I decided to rebond my hair as well.
So imagine, I had to sit there from 1 pm till nearly 6 pm, luckily, got magazines and book to read thru.
But now as what I have expected, my neck is started to itch, I've been wandering why my body is very bloody sensitive this days....

Friday, July 02, 2004

Starlight Cinema Singapore 2004

Last nite me and CC went to the Stella Artois Starlight Cinema, they played "Love Actually". I'd been longing to see the Starlight Cinema since last year, but yet finally I made it this year, thanks to Starbucks that gave me free ticket to admit 2 persons for the cinema.
It was written that we suppose to bring mat, and we could have a picnic there, but we ate our dinner first after finished my doctor appointment which still gave us plenty of time before the movie started, and we also didn't bring any mat with us, which made us sat on the grass *kasian nggak sih???*
Even though we had had our dinner, we still bought a kettle chips and 2 bottles of mineral water for our logistics though.
Arriving at the event, our hand were chopped, reminded me of going to DUFAN, but I was wandering why there was nothing at all on my arm, curiously I asked, they said it was UV chop *kampungan bener ye gue*
Anyway until now I'm still thinking is it really UV chop? *bener2 kampungan*
After we sat down, my mind replay back my childhood in Jakarta, usually this kind of thing that we call "Layar Tancep" is usually held during wedding, then a lots of hawker will also come and take the opportunity to sell their food stuff to the people who come to see the movie.
For this one, they also have some booths which sell stella artois beer of course as the main sponsor, and also Evian, Wall's Ice cream, and Jiffy the van food people, where you could get hot dogs, popcorn, etc...
There was a little fun incident, as we sat there, less then 1 metre from our place was a "Singaporean typical auntie", you know the one that quite hmmm..."siong" (rese-red), and busy talking on the phone, and we suspected she had to mark the place for her "Khaki" (gang-red).
After a long time the group arrived, and one of them wanted to sit in another place, so the auntie gave her the mat and let busy asking to the rest of the group to decide where to sit.
Suddenly one couple arrived and stand about half a metre from the auntie's mat, but the other auntie that quite "Siong" told that man off and said that place belonged to their group. Aiyoh....where got such thing? *ya nggak?* They were not eeven standing on that place that she claimed belongs to her group...but finally that auntie furiously tried her best to chase away the couple by spreading another mat over there. Unfortunately the man only said," Cool down, no need to be so pushy." then they walked off....
Really typical Singaporean behaviour, isn't it? and after the movie about to start, that "Siong" auntie still busy talking, just wandering she came there to see movie or gossiping? haizzz....
But aniway the film quite crazy and quite refreshing....and at the end of the show my buttocks really felt pain and flattened, the good news is no mosquitos at all.....

Basic Theory Driving Test

Sebenernya yang ngambil test nggak hanya gua, tapi CC juga, tapi gua daftar duluan baru besoknya CC daftar, venuenya sama, dan kita pikir jamnya juga sama, eh kaga taunya gua 6.30, dan CC punya 7.30, untung gua daftar duluan dan gua yang dapet 6.30, kalo nggak kan malahan ntar datengnya telat jadi 7.30.
CC coba sweet talk ama uncle yang jaga di ssitu tetapi tidak berhasil, yah jadinya gua naik ke ruang ujian sendiri.
Waktu gua sampe dah hampir penuh ruangannya tinggal sisa tempat duduk di pojokan belakang, tumben yah...biasa kan kalo telat pasti sisanya cuma yang depan..well...ini Singapore cink!!!!
Gua begitu liat kelasnya ampir penuh gua ampir panik, dan gua browse weleh tempat duduknya susah dijangkau di ujung sana, mana jarak antara mejanye juga sempit banget....mmm dan kali ekspresi muka gua keliatan banget kali ye sampe ampir semua orang ketawa pas gua masuk (bagi orang yang mengenal gua, gua sekarang tambah ekspresif loh :P)
BTW gua kaga gitu prepare buat ini sih, seperti biasa cuma 1 malam sebelumnya gua baca bukunya sekitar setengah, dan dilanjutkan sore sebelum ujian, dan finishingnye yah waktu di mobil sepanjang jalan (seperti kebiasaan gua dulu waktu sekolah lah....)
Yang bikin surprise lagi banyak Indian worker gitu (Singapore pekerja kasarnya banyak import dari India), gua lagi mikir, weleh mereka gimana ujian ye, perasaan mereka ngga bisa bahasa Inggris, biasanya di tempat kerja, ada kepala regu yang orang Singapore tapi India, jadi ntar mereka yang translate ke mereka2 itu.
Itu testnye seperti yang gua duga pake kertas scanner, jadi yah musti bulet2in gitu, sebel bener, cuma dulu waktu sekolah kan dibilangnya musti pake pensil 2B sampe seluruh areanya ketutup kan, tapi yang ini bebas, asal pake pen hitam atau biru.
Sedikit ngelantur..di singapore kalo beli undian juga pake kertas scanner, dan gua selalu liat orang2 nggak pernah buletin sampe sempurna kayak yang dulu diajarin di sekolahan itu loh...
So pas gue ngeliat gue ampir nyeletuk..wah kayak beli 4D (di sini undiannye namanye 4D dan Toto), untung gue kaga nyeletuk, soale tadi kan dah jadi bahan lucu2an, kalo ngelucu lagi ntar gue tenar lagi he he he....
Total pertanyaan ada 50, cuma a, b atau c doank, so lega dikit lah at least cuma milih 1 di antara tiga, kalo multiple choice kan pilihannya lebih banyak *lugu*
Gua takjub banget ngeliat buku ujiannya, ada 4 bahasa untuk tiap pertanyaan cink! pertama bahasa inggris, kedua melayu, ketiga chinese, keempat tamil, so gua nggak gitu worry buat temen2 India gua yang tadi gua sebut2 di atas, at least mereka bisa ngikutin yang tamil punya...
Buat gue tentu aja gua baca yang inggris, mengingat kemaren itu waktu gua nunggu di rumah sakit, kaga ada majalah laen selaen majalah melayu yang baru gue baca 3 halaman gua udah pusing banget gra2 bahasanya....
So daripada gua bingunk sendiri nantinya, mendingan play safe, ya gak? basically ada 4 pertanyaan yang gua bingung jawabannya, tapi so far pas gua keluar nyocokin jawaban kalo nggak salah sih gua cuma salah 3, tapi gua juga kaga yakin...
Pas gua keluar, yah gua langsung dengan paniknya suruh CC belajar, karena banyak pertanyaan yang agak nggak terduga ditanyain, yang gua yakin pasti kaga dibaca sama CC, so dia langsung panik dan ngibrit nyari bukunya, padahal gua pikir waktu nungguin gua test dia bakalan buka2 buku lagi loh....
Yah begitulah pengalaman gue....moga2 aje gua lulus, tapi CC dah bilang untung gua ujian dulu, jadi dia paling nggak bisa dapet dikit bocoran, even though kombinasi buku ujiannya banyak, tapi at least dia bisa dapet gambaran soalnya kayak apa....mau marahhh nggak sih?

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Mati Lampu

Buat Indonesia, mati lampu bukan suatu hal yang aneh, tapi semalem di tempat gue tiba2 mati lampu, sekeliling blocks tempat gue tinggal juga nggak ada lampu, gelap gulita. Gua cuma bisa berharap moga2 aja sirene kaga bunyi...kalo aja sirene bunyi itu bearti Singapore dalam keadaan bahaya.
Gua mulai start sms-in temen2 gue yang tinggal di daerah laen, Choa Chu Kang oke, Tiong Bahru oke juga, trus pengen sms temen gue yang tinggal di Orchard, gua pikir itu cuma buang2 tenaga aja, soalnya kalo tinggal di orchard itu kan artinya tinggal di condominium mewah, pasti lah kalo mati lampu ada genset yang bekerja.
Ya udah gua mulai tenang, toh so far temen2 gue kaga kebagian mati lampu, tapi ternyata pagi ini CC bilang daerah yang kena mati lampu itu cukup banyak loh, kalo nggak salah inget, selain clementi, yang kena adalah bukit batok, sengkang, ang mo kio, dan gua ngak inget, soale gua kaga baca koran hari ini (baca: kaga sempet baca koran, red).
Dan tadi siang waktu dengerin radio, tukang radionya juga bilang semalem pas mati lampu banyak yang telepon ke stasiun radio dan banyak juga yang panik.
Yah bayangin aja Singapore bisa mati lampu...sampe nyokap gue aja panik pas gue bilangin, tapi gua tangkis dengan, amerika ajah bisa mati lampu, masa singapore ngak boleh mati lampu sih, ya nggak????

Exam Day

Well...it's not really exam that I'll have today, but it's a test, basic theory driving test to be exact. but as Indonesian, whether it's a test, quiz or exam, we always treat it the same as exam.
You might be asking why I should attend this test, especially for some of you who knows I've got my driving licence since a long time ago, and some more who knows my quality of driving *sombong*
Anyway, it's all becoz I want to convert my Indonesian driving license to Singapore's one, as I station here for quite some time and I can foresee it will be till indefinite time *hiks*
Based on Singapore's rule, everybody, no exception at all have to take basic theory test before they can get Singapore's license, which I always here lots of people grumble over this regulation.
Actually, as Indonesian, I always believe, if you got Indonesian license and can survive driving in Jakarta, that means you'll no need to worry to drive in any other parts of the worlds, isn't it true?
So this is my wise words to my self, no matter what the result is going to be for today exam, I don't care, anyway it's only S$6 per test, and my drving is pureeeeefect, just go for another boring test, and pay another S$ 6 again, agreeee?????????

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Singapore

"S" is for Singapore, and also can be for "SALE". May be that's why Singapore start with "S". It's The Great Singapore Sale from 28 May to 25 July. Lots of people go for shopping, especially for the first few weeks when the sale started.
But yet when Singaporean started to cool down during this period, the Indonesian started to flock down orchard road as the school holiday in Indo also started, but actually it's normal for Indonesian to be here every week end to shop.
Anyway, during this sale period, not every shop having sale through the GSS period, some of them had their so called special events. The things that surprised me most is that Mango is having a sale, and some of the item is even just came out few weeks ago, so during this Mango sale, whoever bought those design with a full price and found out it is on sale now, I can imagine how painful it is :)
But anyway as I obeserved here, the sale can be said is all year long, even though they have special even like this GSS or year end sale, but surely ever week end some of the department store will have special offer...
So Singapore is equal to Sale can said :)

Monday, June 28, 2004

Weleh

Tadi sore waktu pergi ke printer, pas mau parkir mobil, tiba2 gua ngeliat ada mobil yang orangnya kelupaan cabut kunci mobilnya dari kunci bagasi....weleh...ada2 aja....kalo itu di jakarta coba bayangin...
Trus gua nanya CC apa perlu kuncinya dikasihin ke security guard aja? tapi CC bilang biarin ajalah di situ, juga nggak bakalan ada orang yang berminat bawa lari itu mobil.
Bener juga sih keliatannya, pas gua turun dari tempat printernya, itu mobil dan kuncinya masih tetap pada tempatnya...moga2 aja kaga apa2....

Body scrub

Kemaren kamis, gua booked spa buat gua dan CC, sebenernya bukan spa sih, itu spa lagi ada promotion, dan gua diforwardin email ama temen gua tentang promotion itu, dan waktu itu rencananya gua mau pergi ama temen gua, tapi karena gua nggak enak badan so waktu itu batal.
Akhirnya gua register lagi deh di webpage (yang dulu gua kaga register sih), dan kok ditunggu berhari2 nggak ditelpon atau direply pake email, trus yah karena iseng gua telpon, dan book...harganya S$ 38 dollar di luar GST (5%), bisa pilih, facial atau body massage atau body scrub, nah gua milih body scrub, dan CC milih body massage, di situ kalo cowo cuma bisa facial atau massage...
Sampe di sono gua dibilangin ntar pas pengabisannya musti steam bath, weleh gua kaget...soale gua nggak suka steam bath, mereka bilang unless gua gak under special offer package kayak gini, gua bisa nukerterus gua ditawarin apa gua mau ganti aja...gua bilang nggak mau..pokoke maunya body scrub, steam bath juga nggak apa2, akhirnya mereka promise buat memperpendek steam bath-nya.....
Trus pas ngobrol2 ternyata mbak-nya (gua nggak tau istilahnya apa lah...) orang Johor, seperti pada spa2 lainnya biasanya mbaknya pasti orang malaysia, cuma yang ini surprisenya bahasa inggrisnya lumayan loh...tadinya gua pikir s'porean....
Waktu treatment, kan ada lagunya tuh seperti pada spa2 pada umumnya..gua denger2 lagunya kok quite familiar...ternyata lagu gereja...weleh....jadi ini instrumentnnya pake gitar...jadi yah lumayan beda ama spa2 lainnya, biasanya kan musiknya agak boring....
Waktu gua ditaruh di ruang steam bath ada orang lain juga (cewe lah tentunya), dan yah udah gua terus menerus bilang pada diri sendiri..oke relax, toh nggak panas2 banget....relax...toh nggak steamy2 banget....relax toh gua masih bisa napas....relax...toh musiknya juga masih kedengeran.....yah udah alhasil gua nggak lari keluar masuk kayak waktu pertama kali gua steam bath (kampungan banget kaga sih???), dan gua yakin itu lebih dari 10 mins, soale lagunya ajah kalo nggak salah sampe abis 4 lagu, gua nggak dipanggil2....tapi itu mustine dah diperpendek juga sih..soale orang yang satu lagi sampe gua dipanggil keluar, dia juga masih beloman dipanggil...he he he.....
BTW seperti pada umumnya kalo ngambil paket harga promosi, ujung2nya pasti dipaksa2 beli....mereka yah maksa gua....dengan bujukan2 halus dan iming2 yang menggiurkan buat sign up package dengan mereka....dan gua seperti biasa kan even though nggak interested tapi untuk menjaga perasaan mereka gua berusaha nanya2 ini dan itu....supaya waktu gua nolak juga berasanya halus he he he....*busux* tapi mereka kira gua bener2 tergiur...sampe akhirnye mereka bilang ini paket interesting loh...harganye bener2 murah....gua senyum2 ajeh....gua dari pertama kan dah bilang gua dah sign up di tempat laen...Pertama cuma satu orang yang berusaha membujuk gua, tapi karena gua lumayan alot, supervisornye dia ikutan masuk dan ikutan ngebujuk gua...
Karena gua dah bosen gua bilang yah udahlah gua bakalan inget ama elo orang kalo paket gua di tempat yang sekarang abis...yah udah akhirnye mereka terpaksa melepas gua pergi...
Ternyata CC nggak suka sama mbak tukang pijetnya....gua dah ngeliat sih dari pertama si mbak..nggak mbak sih...kayaknya mbok..huhauauha soalnya lumayan dah berumur...Si mbok itu keliatan banget piss off dapet client cowo...mana model CC yang gede dan lumayan berotot lagi..kali dia pikir capek kali ye mijetin yang model gini...CC bilang pas alarmnya bunyi, 1 jam teng, si mbok buru2 bilang okeh dah beres, kurang ajar nggak sih itu mbok...beneran deh....nggak punya tata krama sama sekali

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Day Surgery

Kemaren akhirnye gua pergi day surgery untuk gastroscopy dan colonoscopy. Ngak gituh takut juga sih....waktu arrive di check in counter, gua lagi mikir loh kok tvnye ngomong bahasa indonesia, ternyata dia nyetel RCTI, gua sampe bingung, apa karena demi menyambut gua tvnye dipasang rcti kali ye? *ge er*
Trusan suster yang di check in counternye mukanye rada2 asem, kali dia sarapan asem ye paginye? hihihihiihihihi....
Dan pas gua duduk nunggu dipanggil, gua baru sadar ternyata strait times edisi hari itu lagi ngomongin colonoscopy, cuma sayang itu koran dikuasai oleh orang yang duluan nyampe di situ, jadi gua ngak bisa baca. Gue jadi tambah ge er, kok wartawan bisa tau ye gua mau di-colonsocopy? *belaga polos*
Aniwe akhirnye gua dipanggil masuk...dan di dalem ada locker buat naroh barang2 gua, dan abis itu gua dapet ranjang nomer 9, ternyata di ruangan itu ada sekitar 9 ranjang buat orang ngelakuin day surgery, tadinye gua pikir surgery-nye bakalan dilakuin di situ juga tapi gua pikir ah tidak mungkin..soale aneh atuh tiap ranjang cuma dipisahin dengan tirai doank, dan ternyata itu ruangannye buat orang siap2 dan buat recovery abis keluar dari ruangan treatment-nye....
Trus gua disuruh ganti dengan baju rumah sakit yang cuma jubah doank dan iket di belakang leher itu loh..kayak yang dipake sama si jack nicholson di pelem ape ye..kok gua lupa...pokoke yang itu lah...ntar kalo inget gua edit tulisan ini...
trusan susternya nanya gua mau baca majalah nggak, so gua bilang yes please lah...eh dibawaain 2 majalah satu style, dan yang satu lagi parenthood....benernya majalah style itu dah gua baca di marie france waktu treatment, tapi pas gua liat majalah parenthood ada headline tentang how to cope with yourkids something gua lupa ape, gua pikir wah itu bisa nambah gua stress sebelom gua masuk ke ruangan treatment atuh, so yah udah no choice gua baca style deh...dan setelah gua perhatiin, ternyata ranjang nomer 1 ngak ada di tempat, so orangnye pasti dah di ruangan surgery, soale pan waktu gua baru check in dan nunggu di depan gua liat dokternya masuk ke ruangan....
Gua jadi agak gimana gituh, tapi aniwe gua pikir dah lah relax, toh at least ntar gua bisa liat itu ranjang no 1 punya orang pas dibawa masuk gimana kondisinye..pas gua liat weleh tuh orang kok jadi bikin gua serem...keliatannye serius banget, eh tau2 gua ngeliat ada suster ngomong ama dia, dan gua jadi kaget donk...kemaren ini susternya bilang kan bakalan completely knock out....kok tau2 tuh orang keluar bisa diajak ngomong ama susternye...dan keliatannye lemes banget...
Pas suster surgery dateng ke ranjang gua, dengan paniknya gua nanya, dibius kaga sih? susternye bilang dibius kok, cuma elo bakalan masih bisa dengerin orang ngomong2 during the proses, waahhhh gua jadi ngeri....
Pas ranjang gua dah sampe di dalam, agak sedikit mengerikan, tapi at least ruangan ini ngak seserius ruangan yang waktu gua operasi amandel dulu, ngak kelitan ada gunting dan lampu operasi yang gedenye aujubileh gitu, terusan susternya masang jarum di tangan gua dan dokternya nanya "are you ok?" gua cuma bengong aje kayak orang bloon, dokternye bilang "it's ok lah you don't need to worry", trus jarumnye dihubungin ama jarum yang udah dipasang ke gua, dan gua disuruh gigit something kayak corong gitu dan suruh berbaring nyamping, abis itu antara sadar dan ngak, tau2 susternye suruh gua lepas gigitan gua di corong, tau2 gua liat weleh....ada tv yang siarannye bukan rcti tapi usus gua....dan gua ngeliat kok kayanya usus gua ngak tau digunting ape ditusuk gitu dan gua ngeliat ada suster yang dari jauh megang kabel kayak lagi maen layangan, pas dokternye bilang oke tuh suster narik kabel dan usus gua tiba2 berdarah dikit kauak ditusuk gitu..ngak berasa sih cuma yang terakhir aja ada rasanye dikit...abis itu selesai, dan ranjang gua didorong balik ke recovery room. Wah lega rasanye....
Pas sampe sono gua liat kok ranjang 8 dah nggak ada dan ranjang 1 masih terkapar gitu, gua sampe bingung, suster yang in charge di recovery room ada 2, yang 1 nyuruh gua tidur, tapi gua ngak bisa tidur kok, gua pikir gastroscopynye beloman, kali ntar dibawa masuk lagi buat gastro, soalnya gastro dari tenggorokan, sedangkan colon dari belakang periksanye.
Trusan nggak lma ranjang 8 balik dan juga terkapar gitu, kan ada nyokapnya nungguin, dan gua juga denger waktu ada telpon masuk ke hp nyokapnya, nyokapnya bilang dia masih tidur dibawah pengaruh obat bius, quite heavy sleep, gua jadi garuk2 kepala gua (eh nggak ada kutunya loh he he he), kok semua orang terkapar gua biasa2 aja, akhirnya suster yang satu lagi nengokin gua, dan nyerah kali ya ngeliat gua masih celangak celinguk gitu, dan dia bilang wah kamu keliatannya seha dan sadar banget, makan ajah deh ya, dan gua ditanyain mau kopi apa coklat panas, of course gua pilih coklat panas, dan abis itu susternya ngasih gua coklat panas dan tuna sandwich, weleh akhirnya makan juga gua....dan CC masuk...trusan susternya bilang yah udah sekarang coba berdiri..kalo nggak apa2 yah discharge aja deh...akhirnya gua didischarge, tapi musti consult ke dokter lagi...hasilnya everything is ok, unless di usus besar gua kata dokternya kayak ada parasit atau bakteri gitu, ktanya mungkin dulu kena food poisoning (weleh..sedap malem euh??? waktu pulang jakarta waktu itu????)kali nggak bersih parasitnya masih nemplok di perut, anyway no need to worry, nothing serious kata dokternye, tapi masa yang digunting2 itu dikirim buat biosy, bikin gua takut ajah, tapi test darah hasilnya oke banget nggak ada unsuspected growth cell sih, dan balik lagi ke dokter minggu depan, meanwhile gua under very heavy antibiotics..
Aniwe everything sih kayaknya mulus2 aja cuma perutnya berasa banyak angin banget, soalnya kan nggak makan solid food dari kemaren siangnya, dan abis minum obat cuci perut itu bener2 perut gua dicuci sampe bersih....jadi yah berasa banget anginnya...Abis ketemu dokter akhirnya kita makan siang (asikkk makan lagi), dan abis itu balik ke kantor...tapi karena perut gua agak nggak enak berasa banyak angin gitu, ya gua tidur siang di kantor. Dan sorenya, kita left office sekitar jam 4, mampir di cafe caltex beli cake dan coklat panas (asikkk makan lagi hehehehe...) trus ketemuan ama Diana dan bisa jalan2 he he he...malemnya makan malem di hui cui (asikk makan lagi, gua jadi seneng makan gara2 puasa kemarennya itu loh *nyengir*)..
Hari ini so far so good, cuma ada weird feeling doank ajah...kayak biasa mau kena attack gitu.....

Monday, June 21, 2004

Bubur

Seperti yang diperintahkan oleh dokter, so makan siangnye harus bubur...aniwe...sepanjang sejarah....gua nggak suka bubur...apalagi chinese porridge, weleh kamsiah deh.....kecuali kalo terpaksa taroh kecap banyak2 dan taroh kerupuk seabreg2 juga....
Kalo bubur abang2 sih yah so far so good lah....itu gua lumayan doyan setelah grown up...dengan catetan musti kasih kecap manis banyak2 dan kerupuk seabreg2 juga....
Nah kali ini di Spore mana ada bubur ayam abang2....so mau gak mau makan bubur chinese deh....dari kemaren CC dah pusink...mau nyari bubur di mane...soale di Spore kalo hari senen tukang makanan biasanya tutup, karena hari minggu tempat pemotongan hewan itu tutup, jadi supply daging kurang, begitu juga dengan pasar, biasanya hari senin juga pada tutup.
Akhirnye tadi pas jam makan siang, tiba2 CC punya ide cemerlang buat nyari bubur, ada satu tempat deket daerah orchard (international plaza tepatnye) ada toko yang jualan cma mie ama bubur, ditambah dengan side dishes lainnya juga....Biasanya kalo gua ke sono yah pesennya mie, porsinye kecil, makanya biasanya pada pesen side dishes juga.
Nah kali ini no choice kan musti makan bubur doank...yah udah terpaksa deh....barusan gua berasa laper abis...weleh....ngak boleh makan apa2 kan...udah kebayang bread talk segala, atau sekedar ice cream juga lumayan lah...tapi apa boleh buat rek...hiks....
Seperti yang dikatakan suster kemaren gua juga musti minum itu larutan mengerikan buat nyuci perut...tapi anehnya sebelum gua minum, juga udah ke belakang beberapa kali....mungkin stress kali ye? he he he....
Barusan pula gua minum larutan itu, weleh pas baca dia bilang maksimum 45 ml atau setara dengan 9 sendok teh....tapi kemaren suster bilang minum setengah botol hiks....emang sih ada tulisane unless directed by doctor...tapi yah ngeri ajeh......
Susternye kemaren juga bilang rasanya ini agak asin2 gituh (yang otomatis gua terjemahin rasanya pasti amburadul), so gua tadi minum sambil pencet hidung, tapi alamak...ngak nolong, rasanya terlalu menyengat, waktu sebelum diminum gua cium ngak ada baunye...tapi pas diminum weleh......mane entar malem musti minum setengah botol sisanye lagi....doh....nape juga dokternye nggak nyuruh gua check in malem ini ye?
So far sih belom ada reaksi ape2 cuma perut gua aje agak panas......

Breakfast

Today, as me and CC planned last nite, we had our lunch at Mc Cafe West Coast. It was as peacefull as the first time I went there, coz today is Monday lah.....
So I'm quite happy for today, where I could enjoy a nice breakfast with a good ambiance as well....
But now my head started to tense again, I don't know why, work is not that much for today, may be becoz of CC looks different these past few days. I'm sure it's very stressful and drained to face my condition, even me myself feel tired of my life, if I had to go, why I had to suffer like this? Then if I could recover, why should I suffer this long?

Saturday, June 19, 2004

Check Up

I had a series of stomach problems these past few days, so CC decided to bring me to see the specialist. The appointment was this morning, and the doctor asked me to go for Gatroscopy and Colonoscopy, which will be done on Tuesday.
CC ever had Gatroscopy before, and he said it's only a slight uncomfortable feeling as the tube will be inserted through the throat and gone down to the stomach, which of course I can't believe his saying of "slightly uncomfortable", imagining the tube is inserted thru your throat, besides he is not good in telling lie.....
So I was so worry just now, as I did another blood test again today, but the doctor said that I'll be under injection that put me to sleep, then I became a bit calm down, but of course still scared.
Even the nurse assured me that she had been gone thru this test before, and it was absolutely okay. So next tuesday I'll be on day surgery, but on monday I'll have to take only porridge for my lunch and soup for my dinner, follow by the strange liquid after the meals that will cause a diarrhea to clean up my stomach.
So until then I'm still quite worry......

Friday, June 18, 2004

Danger in the night

When I arrived at home last nite, I were shocked by the glass crushing sounds by the door. Then I realised that the ceiling light had fallen down. It was such a mess, glasses was everywhere.
After cleaning, CC tried to reset the main switchboard and disaster started to begin, we could not on all the light. So we had no choice but tried to contact 24 hours electrician which we found from the newspaper advertisement.
They charged S$40 for the trip, and whatever price they named after fixing the electricity, we ended up paying total S$ 100.
Well this one is not the first time such accident happened, before hand we also experienced another ceiling light dropt down from the ceiling, just wandering why this type of things could happened.
CC said I have to move out from that place, as a few weeks ago, we arrived at home with the wooden door opened, but the door grill was still locked.
Lucky things (as we always say even though we had a bad things happened), nobody was at home and watching tv when the light dropped. Also there was no fire spark happened after the light felt down.
Wow....such an experience....

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Gucci Sale

Gua dapet postcard dari DFS Singapore yang isinye DFS Sale (aniwe itu postcard gue yang ngirim he he he...dan krn gua jadi anggota yah gue juga nerima postcardnye deh....dan sebagai anggota yang baik dan benar kan gua musti belaga tau sale itu dari postcard donk....ya nggak?), eh maksude Gucci Sale tgl 9 dan 10 Juni.
Jadi CC dengan semangat 45 bilank ke gue ayoh bangun pagi kita ke Gucci Salenya DFS, gua sih terus terang lebih berminat tidur daripada ke sale (aturan mainnya jam 8.30 -10.00 am mereka bagiin nomer antrian, dan jam 9, pintu mulai dibuka buat orang yang udah dapet nomer antrian, dan jam 10 teng pintu dibuka buat umum), lha yah bayangin ajeh, Gucci se-sale2nye juga yah masih gucci pan.....mana bisa tahan euy.......itu kalo dibeliin mcDonald bisa sampe perut meletus juga masih sisa banyak.....
Gua pernah baca di majalah artikel yang ngebahas mengenai orang Singapur yang kiasu2 itu kadang2 bisa ngantri dari jam 12 tengah malem buat sale macem ginian, dan gua bilangin CC tapi CC nggak percaya.
Waktu gua sampe ke sono jam 9.40 am, DFS keliatannye sepi, tapi pas gue masuk, gua dapet nomer 347, dan CC nggak boleh masuk karena dia bukan member..*kaciannnn*, trus pas gue masuk, ada orang yang sampe lari2 naek escalator....gue pikir ngapain juga lari2..toh kita dah dapet nomer antrian...ye nggak?
Dan sesampenya gua di depan gucci outlet...weleh.....itu orang banyaknya....ck..ck..ck...semua pada ngerubungin gucci, karena dipanggil per-batch, waktu guwe sampe nomernya baru sampe 120 (dan ternyata yang masuk 40 orang per batch), dan salenya itu ada di second half of the shop, dan orang2 pada jinjit2 nyiba ngeliat di dalem barang2 yang sale itu apaan...
Dan penjaga guccinya padahal dah bilang loh outlet laen juga ada sale kok (emang di postcardnye nulis polo ralph lauren, burberry, fendi, kate spade ama apalagi gue lupa juga ngadain sale, cuma topik utama dari kartu pos itu adalah gucci sale up to 60%), tapi orang masih ngerubung di depan gucci....dan tiap orang keluar dari gucci semua langsung ngelirik2 nyatronin apa sih isi kantong tuh orang....termasuk gue juga ngelakuin hal yang sama...
Sekitar jam 11-an lewat giliran gua baru masuk...tapi pas guwe masuk yah seperti dugaan gua banyak barang yang udah abis....tadinye gua mikir nggak bakalan abis deh stoknye....terus pas gua nunggu2...gua baru mikir kalo misale kaga abis stocknye masa orang pada betah sih ngantri dari ber jam jam sebelumnye.....
Dan fakta lain yang gua temui adalah....most of the things yang di sale itu yah cuma reduce 30% doank...weleh......dan seperti dugaan gua sebelumnya...gua kaga beli ape2.....

Saturday, May 29, 2004

The Great Singapore Sale

Today started with a messy morning, I went to McD at West Coast, my fave place, then the cafe queue was very long. Considering I had to go to office as well, I just grabbed the apple pie and tea from Mc D.
The place was so unbelieveable crowded and messy. So my tense gradually started to grow, faster finished my brekkie, then rushed to the office.
After office then CC, asked me to go shopping, as The Great Singapore Sale officially start today, as I expected, Orchard Road was full of people, lots of Indonesian everywhere as well....
Lots of people carrying Burberry and Hugo Boss shopping bag, which indicated that Burberry and Hugo Boss sale are on, but yet lots of people carried big LV shopping bag as well, for this one, I'm not really sure whether LV also having a sale or not, but the queue in front of the shop is very long....
After Orchard, we went to Singapore River for a while, tried to look out for any sign of Singapore Art Festival which is also started last nite, but found no luck, then drove around, dinner at CBD, then had a stroll at East Coast Beach, it was quite jammed there.
Arrived at home, then I realised today is the Karaoke Nite, until now, all the out of tune voice still singing outside, what a day.....

Friday, May 28, 2004

True Blue Singaporean

I'd just finished my lunch when I was waiting for CC who were going to money changer.
Suddenly my eyes caught a glimpse of unusual things happened in front of my eyes, I didn't realise what had gone wrong, until I saw the women bought a Strait Times, and straight away opened the "Special" section, which is talking about the Great Singapore Sale.
Yeah then I just realized that usually people during lunch time will buy The New Paper, because Strait Times usually can be found early in the morning, so people will not buy Strait Times anymore during lunch time, then some more she only opened straight to the "GSS Section", alamak.....what a true blue S'porean.....

Thursday, May 27, 2004

Hair Colouring

During my last trip to Jakarta, I coloured my hair.
Actually I've ever done once in Singapore, and my skin was allergy to hair colour, but i thought may be it's caused by the brand, so this time I tried once again, and the result is worst than before, I got fever for 2 days.
I don't know why this time could be worst than before, which I suspected because of the prawn that I ate the night after I did my hair colouring.
Luckily, the fever did not come out in Jakarta, it could wait until I arrived in Singapore then came out, otherwise........

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Birthday Party

CC and my mom were born on the same day, so this year again, they shared the birthday party. It was held in Pearl restaurant at Marriott hotel Jakarta.
Surprising though, this time when me and CC suggested the venue, there were no objection at all from my parents.
The party went quite well, could be said a bit wild, luckily I didn't need to sit together in the big table, I was having a table for 4, together with CC, Sari and Rudi, so we were having such a good time of our own.
I've never known my dad was so crazy, till the time that everybody asked my dad to feed the birthday cake to my mom, he tried to feed, but my mom kept on laughing, and he fed the cake to his own mouth....
But anyway in conclusion the everything went well, and everybody was happy.....

Friday, May 21, 2004

Dikejar-kejar

Setelah balik dari jakarta rush minggu kemaren, gua rasanya capek kayak dikejar2, apalagi kalo inget hari ini, jumat, gua musti balik Jakarta lagi karena sebenernya kita rencana ke Jakarta buat tgl 21-23, dalam rangka ulang tahun bareng antara CC dan nyokap gua, tiket udah dibeli sejak jauh2 hari.
Dan minggu kemaren rush ke jakarta kan gara2 wedding exhibition itu, jadi gua ngak bisa donk bilang ama mama bahwa gua nggak jadi dateng ke jakarta buat ultahnya beliau.
Sementara itu seperti biasa kalo jadwal pergi2an gua dah tersusun dengan rapih, tau2 kerjaan datang bertubi2, especially kemaren, dari pagi gua keluar kantor buat ngurusin film buat diprint, dan baru balik ke kantor jam 3 sore, itu juga dengan perasaan deg2an yang amat sangat parah, dan sampe kantor musti doing data cleaning, sebelom diproses lagi lebih lanjut.
Tadinya gua mikir yah sudahlah tahan dikit toh abis data cleaning trus bisa rush ke printer bentar dan pulang nyantai sambil ngepak. Biasanya gua kalo balik jakarta nggak pernah ngepak sampe terencana, karena kali ini banyak amanat dari mama dan papa, jadi mau gak mau ngepaknya harus serius.
Ternyata dugaan gua salah sodara2..di tengah jalan mau ke printer, ternyata ada telpon something wrong with the film, weleh.....jadi balik lagi ke tukang film, ngecek lagi nunggu cast out pilemnya....padahal ini kesalahan aneh bin ajaib, graphic desainernya pake freehand 8, sedanglan tukang pelemnya pake freehand 9, yang setau gua mustinya ngak problem donk, unless kalo graphic desainernya pake freehand 9 dan tukang pelemnye pake 8, nah itu baru problem....ternyata sodara2...ada text yang kaga keluar....weleh...printing 4 colour lagi bikin pelem lagi, dan nungguin lumayan lama...
Abis itu rush ke printer dan makan malam....baru gua pikir okelah not that bad abis makan bisa pulang, tau2 disaster ada telpon lagi, gua sama CC kemaren tuh seharian dan semaleman kalo denger telpon bunyi udah tegang ajeh...dan ternyata beneran telpon itu bilang ada yang musti diganti lagi, jadi kita bilang okelah abis makan kita rush ke kantor dia orang...sampe sana ternyata mereka tampangnya udah kasian banget, dan kita nggak tega nolak permintaan mereka. So kita rush balik ke tukang pelem, ganti lagi...weleh nunggu lagi, lama lagi, gua sebenernya dari sore abis dari kantor itu udah mulai sesak napas, karena panik attack gua kumat....
So sepanjang jalan dari tukang pelem ke rumah, gua cuma berbaring di mobil nggak berdaya banget, capek berasa dikejar2....dan ngak bisa napas....
Sampe rumah setengah dua belas, ngepak, dan kayanya masih banyak barang2 yang belum terpenuhi...nggak apa2 deh paling ntar malem dengerin nyanyian dari mama dan papa...
Dan gua ngebayangin musti ngadepin nyokap gua juga udah buat gua sesak napas.....hopefully..everything go smoothly lah yau.. dan sekarang sebelom berangkat gua masih ngerjain kerjain sembari ngepak barang either pake ransel gua atau travelling bagnye CC, huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh cuapeeeekkk

Marie France

Sejak pertama kali gue ke mari france konsultasi (nanya harga maksudnye) treatment, gua selalu terbengong2 ngeliat setiap orang yang keluar masuk ke ruang treatment itu bisa dikategorikan langsing (bukan staff tentunya, karena kaga pake seragam), dan gua mikir mereka ukurannya segitu apa mereka maruk (pengen lebih kurus lagi, you know women....) atau mereka tadinya gede (gendut maksudnye) dan karena marie france mereka jadi sukses jadi kurus begitu... which is sampe sekarang gua masih nggak tau the truth...
Anyway...gua sign up, karena menurut gua...gua itu gendutnya gombyor...maka si marie france mustinya cukup efektif buat gua.
Selama treatment so far gua liat mostly emang dah kurus kok, dan ada sih yang semi gendut kayak gua, tapi kayanya lebih keker dari gua (kalo gua kayak dia sih gua ngak bakalan ke marie france soale kaga bakalan efektif menurut gua), dan ada juga beberapa tante2 yang kira2 seumuran 40 akhir sampe 50 gitu deh...yang masih mau nyoba treatment (dan menurut gua sih..yah sudahlah 40an akhir atau 50 an gitu badan segitu kan normal).
Baru kemaren hari Rabu gua ngeliat yang bener2 gendut itu juga keitung ama jari satu tangan kok, sepertinya mereka mau konsultasi....
Well kalo hasilnya pada diri gua so far sih, dalam bidang berat gua cuma lost sekitar 0.5 kg lah.....tapi kalo ukuran kayanya sih lumayan ilang..soalnya sekarang gua liat gombyornya gua sedikit2 mulai hilang.....hopefully sih berhasil ye....

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Facial

Yesterday I booked a facial session for me and CC, actually that one supposed to be CC birthday gift, but you know, sekali merengkuh dayung dua tiga pulau terlampaui, kan gua jadinya ikutan juga, sah2 ajeh donk? masa ada facial session gua kaga ikutan facial, rugi atuh *busuk*
Anyway, we talked to the consultant, as I predicted, she asked us to do the micro dermabrasion, it felt like she grinded my face, the first one used diamond, second one was crystal. The diamond one is more painful than the crystal, and I could felt it's rougher compare with the crystal one.
Anyway she offered me to do sonic cleansing, which is something like extraction, whoaaa....i've never felt the extraction so painful as this one before, as she did it on the entire surface of my face, but anyway, we quite satisfied with the result, may be we'll go there again in 2 or 3 months time.

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Pulank kampung

Last weekend, I went back to Jakarta with a short period of notice, it's all because of receiving sms from Jane on Friday nite, that said Photomax was having an exhibition at JHCC, so I quickly assumed that there must had been a bridal show over there, which I believe the biggest even for the wedding show of the year.
So I quickly told CC to go back to Jakarta on Saturday, checked with Sari thru sms, she said that it was only till Sat nite, wen back home, panick, tried to call photomax office nobody picked up, called sophia bridal, then they said it would be till Sunday, as what I'd been expected before.
So that nite, with panic feeling also, tried to surf thru the website looking for ticket, but no (cheap) ticket available online, so on Saturday morning we were rushing to travel agent to get the ticket, with the ticket for 21 may still on hand, which made the travel agent so amazed.
Anyway before the plane landed, I saw a beautiful view, the combination of paddy field, prawn farm, trees, greeneries, standard house and industrial areas around the airport, suddenly made me felt something different, realizing that I'm back to my own country.
I was picked up by Sari and Rudi, then was brought direct to JHCC.
Been in exhibition, which I felt it was very rush to make decision at that point in time, we decided to come back on Sunday. After we came back to the hotel, I still felt the pressure to make decision as fast as possible, as I also didn't want to waste this rush trip for not making any decision at all, beside the price that I faced is the exhibition price, after called here and there, then I made decision. Hopefully I made the right decision.
On sunday morning I woke up, and saw the smog covered the whole Jakarta, then I felt sad for the pollution that have been our problem since a long time ago.
The smog still could be seen when the plane took off from Cengkareng to brought me back to Singapore.

Monday, May 17, 2004

Good Bye Ah Lian and Ah Beng

Last saturday, one of my gold fish was dying, and I didn't know what to do...
I don't think it's possible to bring fish to the vet ..
Anyway I'd known that it would die very soon, but the things that I wasn't aware is the other gold fish also died...
So know no more gold fish...
Bye Ah Lian and Ah Beng

Friday, May 14, 2004

Titik darah penghabisan

Beberapa hari ini kerjaan gua sibuk banget, dan gua harus ngeprint banyak banget. Karena kulit gua kering banget, jadi setiap kali harus bergaul dengan kertas, tangan gua banyak kena gores.
Orang sering bilang berjuang sampe titik darah penghabisan, salah satu contohnya yah kerjaan gua ini, demi sesuap nasi gua harus berjuang sampe berdarah-darah.....
Dulu gua juga bingung kenapa orang bilang kerja keras membanting tulang. tapi agaknya gua udah dapat pencerahan sedikit tentang hal itu, yang gua terjemahin saking capeknya kita ini bekerja, badan pada pegel abis, seakan2 kita habis dibanting-banting...bener kaga ye?

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

What a hot day

These few days Singapore is getting hotter and hotter, and the humidity is really crazy, I think it could melt me down anytime soon. This afternoon I felt quite happy seeing the sky was quite cloudy, but yet the rain hasn't fallen down even until now.
I'm just wondering, a few months back Singapore was very cooling, not like Singapore per normal, yet now the weather is getting crazy.....

Saturday, May 08, 2004

Hmmm Saturday

Today was started with breakfast at McCafe West Coast, it's pretty brand new, I like the place a lot, I think this one is the coolest place to hang out in Singapore for me. The danish is quite yummy, but the coffee is a bit over price if I compared with Sydney (or may be in Sydney, the price has been increased already, but yet I don't know).
I was enjoying my breakfast, suddenly the first annoyance happened, CC said he forgot to bring his handphone, then luckily today is Saturday and a quite relax day in the history so far. Secondly everytime I tried to concentrate to my book which I purposely brought along with me to read while enjoying my breakfast, CC always commented or talked something to me. Thirdly a group of guys arrived and seated at the back of my chair, started to smoke like a train, I don't know was it my fault to seat outdoor, or that guy who seated at the back of me, but I think it was mine anyway. Forthly, I got stomach ache, I had to do my natural duty. So I faster finished everything and moved out from there.
On the way, suddenly CC hp ring, I was quite mad at him considering he said that he forgot to bring his hp, but actually it was inside his right hand pocket instead of the usual one in the left.....hmmmm.....
Then we picked up ticket at travel agent, and suddenly I met my friend there, it's been quite a while not seeing her at all, then suddenly accidentally met up at travel agent, so we decided to have lunch togetther but had to wait for Mimi to finish her job. At first Mimi said 1 pm, then change to 1.30, then changed again to 2 pm, I was quite hungry, and nearly fainted, so I decided to go to the cafe and waited for her arrival, at least I could have my drink first.
After lunch then we sent everybody to their destination, while we continued to see the Hifly parade, not that spectacular though, but quite okaylah.....
Today finished with having dinner at Great World City again......

Friday, May 07, 2004

Frustasi

Starting from Friday last week I got my attack come back, CC keep on saying I should see my GP everytime I got it back, but yet, where have we got anytime to see the GP?
Well, after a long delayed, today finally I saw my GP, after a very scary episodes of this morning attack, where I could feel half left of my body felt like numb or weird kinda feeling, then really felt like fainted while CC was having a meeting with client inside the building.
Luckily when we arrived at the GP place, not many people were waiting, so it was not making me mad for the queue again. After seeing her, I felt much better, that one is caused by my level of stress which leads to annoy my stomach, hearts, and also brain as well. She gave me some medicine to tackle my stomach problem, so it will not disturb any other part of my body and said that I could stop the medicine until my stress level reach the normal level, which I answered satirically, this stress will attach to me for the rest of my life, and she laughed.
Well...leaving the GP, I saw CC face starting ti tense again, which trigger my stress level up also, continued with a stress lunch. Arriving at the office the tense becoming higher, as I received a few email which contained some database which no explanation that have any clue at all about what to do with all those bloody database, this one that always made me crazy, as CC also doesn't know what to do, but keep on forcing me to do something, I feel like I work like Andrea under the Miranda Priestly from the book of The Devil That wear Prada.
Now I didn't care, I just log into my blog and write down all these things, while I've known that CC must have hate me to do this things during the hectic working hours, and I'm pretty sure that he can see me through his office of what I'm facing in my computer screen, but who cares? I also can't proceed my work as I really don't have any clue at all....
Why so many stupid people can exist in this world.......hmmmmmmm.......

Monday, May 03, 2004

Long Week End

Itu hanya berlaku buat mereka yang tinggal di Indonesia atau yang kerja di kedubes Indonesia. Di Singapore cuma libur tgl 1 mei, itu juga jatohnya hari sabtu, dan bagi sebagian orang yang kantornya baik banget, mereka menerapkan karena tgl 1 mei jatuhnya hari sabtu maka hari seninnya diliburin juga. Tapi buat gue, tanggal merah kek, hari minggu kek, tetep aje musti kerja, weleh sedih nggak sih.
Yang bikin gua heran pas hari jumat malam ceritanya kan gua beredar dong, kan malam week end, di orchard, wadoh di mana2 orang pada berbahasa indonesia euy, kata CC ini takashimaya apa plaza senayan ye? he he he.....
Sekarang trendnya pokoke orang Indo kalo long holiday pasti pada kabur ke singapur, weleh..ke singapur dah kayak ke puncak ajeh ye? jadi sekarang masih krisis ekonomi nggak sih ye?

Friday, April 30, 2004

Pusing

Setiap orang itu punya karakter yang berbeda, seperti kata orang, even though a twin, they still have a different. Dan yang harus gua hadapi adalah orang yang latar belakang budayanya bener2 beda ama gua, cara hidup dan cara memandang sesuatu juga beda, terus kalo kaya gini jadinya gimana ya?
Perasaan dulu gua ke Australia adaptasi ama lingkungannya nggak susah susah amat model begini, tapi gua pindah ke singapore...semuanya beda, cara pandang, budaya, pace of life, segala macemnya deh...pada intinya sepertinya gua nggak cocok hidup di sini. Terus mau pindah ke mana dong?

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Competition

Beberapa unit dari office gua ada satu perusahaan keluarga gitu, usia bossnya yah setengah baya gituan deh kali lebih muda beberapa tahun dari nyokap gua.
Waktu office gua baru pindah ke gedung ini yang bearti itu uncle dan auntie punya tetangga baru, gua perhatiin, cara mereka berpakaian yah selayaknya orang usia mereka lah, kaya model bokap dan nyokap gua gitu.....
Tapi lama kelamaan gua perhatiin kok cara mereka berpakain berubah yah....yang pertama sih si unclenya itu...waktu awal awal gitu kan si CC banyak ketemu client, jadi mau nggak mau ke kantor berpakain rapi pake business shirt gitu dong, soale ntar pagi ato siang atau sore bisa tau2 ditelpon suruh nemuin client...
Nah si uncle itu tiba2 juga ganti tuh model pakaiannya, ngikutin si CC, tiba2 rapi banget pake kemaja lengan panjang pokoke kaya may meeting gitu deh....
Okeh itu pertama, terusan lama2 CC ganti model baju nih pake kemeja tapi tangan pendek, yang modelnya lumayan trendy..eh si uncle juga ikutan.....
Trusan abis itu CC suka banget pake Polo shirt buat ngantor...nah yang ini si uncle pick up nya lumayan lama, sampe minggu kemaren baru gua liat..weleh si uncle sekarang ngantor pake polo shirt juga man...
Sementara itu si Auntie agak telat pick upnya.....gua sampe terkaget2 waktu itu gua liat weleh si auntie keren banget pake sepatu boot segala, tapi pakaiannya masih model2 gituan deh even though udah agak ganti model dikit...dan lama2 si auntie mulai pakai jeans, dan t-shirt atau kaos polo gitu, soale gua kalo ngantor emang pakaian gua kayak gitu...lah wong gua ngantor nggak ketemu siapa2 kok, paling cuma delivery mannya gua, delivery man-nya orang ama komputer......dan yang pasti gua nggak pake sepatu bootlah...ngapain juga..emange gua petugas DPU ape he he he....
Anyway CC kasih tau gua...eh si auntie kayanya lagi nyoba ngurusin badan, dan tadi gua perhatiiin iya tuhh...kayanya lumayan banyak berat badannya berkurang...ternyata...si uncle ama auntie nggak mau kalah terhadap gua dan CC...weleh...
Gua lagi bilang ama CC, ya udah ntar mulai minggu depan gua ngantor pake spagetti strap ama halter neck ahhh......hauhahahahhaha....

Saturday, April 24, 2004

Wrong Calculation

After the past 2 weeks in a row, I had a very busy week end to fly back to Jakarta, I thought I will have a very peaceful and relax week end today.
I got it wrong, this morning had to help to clear the school project, so had to wake up quite early, then squeezed my brain for it. Finished around lunch, then went back home to change for my lancome birthday party, had a quick make over, wore a acceptable clothing.
Today quite surprising suntec city was very quite, it was never been like this before, i meant out of during the ancient time when suntec city had just opened, and nothing inside. I think it's because the accident at Nicoll Highway, so people dare not go to Suntec City until further announcement.
After Lancome party, we still had to supervise another project for citibank, very tiring and very bored, then we had dinner at Great World City, the usual japanese stall inside the food junction, then we went home, hoping could get rest.
Yet it is another disaster, tonight is another karaoke night, oh my....can not help to hear all those aunties and uncles sing, especially those who always out of tone and tempo.....

Friday, April 23, 2004

Emirates Part 2

On the way back to Singapore of course I took another Emirates flight, then it was also full by all the TKI who's going to work in UAE.
When reaching Singapore, everybody had to go out from the plane, as there would be some cleaning to be done inside the plane, but yet, none of the Emirates staff spoke Indonesian, so one of the stewardes, spoke to them in English mixed with the sign language and body movement to ask them to remove the hand luggage, boarding pass, and passport as well...
But yet still a lots of them looked very confused, so moved to the front i politely told them in Indonesian of course to remove their belonging, boarding pass, and the most important thing is their passport. They looked at me with disbelief look in their eyes, and said they were told to come out in Colombo (may be it meant that they change the flight at Colombo), then I still talked to them patiently, because the plane needed to be clean, that's why they have to go out for a while and then later on came back again to same flight.
Thinking about it, i feel sorry for them, we can't choose to be bornt to certain family, but all has been determined by God.
I also learn to be thankful for whatever I am now, and for my family as well.

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Emirates

Last week end when I was in a hurry to go back to Jakarta, I have no choice to take Emirates Airlines.
This is my first time to take Emirates, actually the price different between Emirates and Thai Airways (which I normally take), not so significant, but due to work commitment (ceilaaa.....) I had to take Emirates...
It was a transit flight from Colombo and most of the passengers are TKI (Indonesian workers, mostly maid) from UAE.
Been heard so many bad news about how our TKI got abused over there, I was wondering, all of them looked quite well, happy, no sign of abused at all.
On board, I was very "kaypoh" as the one sitting next to me is one of the TKI, so I chatted her, she had just finished the contract of 2 years, and decided to go back to her hometown, NTB. Asking about how was the treatment and all the news that we always heard, she said it all depends on the employer, the worst that she got was only scolding here and there. She said if they don't like the master, then they can ask the office to change, and the same as the master.
From her story, she said that the in Jakarta office they had to join a class, based on the education that they had before, then they were taught English, which she said it's no use at all, because in UAE all the employer speaks Arabic, so most of them only can cry as they felt so helpless, and started to learn by themselves. She also said she waited for about 6 months before being sent to UAE, and for those unlucky one, they could wait for ages....so it is encouraged to bribe the officer so that you can be sent immediately, even the fake certificate also been provided.
I felt sorry for them, they look so naive, young, playful, etc...So I reminded her by the time she arrived in Jakarta please don't trust anybody with her money, don't trust anybody with no identification as an officer or what so ever, as lots of story also they were cheated and conned by the time they reached Jakarta.
When we arrived, the queue at immigration was so long, partly also because of all the TKI, and they don't even know how to fill in the form, some of them also got problem with their passport, so my time wasted quite a lot to wait for my turn.
Now Indonesian immigration divide the counter for foreign passport and Indonesian passport, so CC went to queue for the foreign one. The previous week the officer insisted to see his return ticket, so last week I made sure I passed him the ticket before he queued up, then this officer straight away asked him,"Wah sering ya datang ke Jakarta (soale minggu lalunya kan dateng juga), ada urusan apa ya?"
CC answered (CC can speak broken Indo though),"Jalan jalan", then the officer said," Minum kopi dong", CC still insisted "Bukan, jalan jalan" Actually CC had already knew what he meant. Finally the officer said "Tolonglah pak kasih saya uang untuk minum kopi."
Hearing that request so CC voluntarily opened up his wallet in front of everybody and gave him 10 Malaysian Ringgit.... Haizzzzz....Indonesia....masih aje kayak gitu ye......after that the officer gave CC a very broad smile.......

Monday, April 19, 2004

Go Back Kampung

Last week, during Easter holiday and this previous week end I was in Jakarta for doing research.
During my stay there I went through major shopping mall there, Taman Anggrek, Plaza Senayan, Plaza Indonesia, and even Plaza Ex (The extension of Plaza Indonesia).
I saw a lot of brands that are available in Singapore also already available in Indonesia, you name it, they have it, eg. Mango, Phuture London, Starbucks, Baker's Inn, Coffee Beans, Thai Express, Gloria Jeans, Bread Talk, Giordano, U2, G2000, Papa Beard, DQ (now they alived again and the concept is almost the same like Singapore's one), Ajisen, Louis Vitton, Hermes, etc....
Then I'm so amazed until now, then I'm thinking how the local Indonesian Brands can survive with this type of heavy competition from International brand, especially people more into the international brand of course.
From the price wise, they are more expensive compare with Singapore, especially for the fashion type, which for food stuff may be just slightly expensive or a bit cheaper.
I was very shocked everytime I came back to Jakarta, remembering all the inflation that happened after the riots in 1998, as I leaved Jakarta in 1997.
I felt why everything suddenly become so expensive, then I wonder also If I happened to live in Indonesia and worked in Indonesia, could I afford all these things without any financial helped from my parents at all?
From my observation, I see more people entering and buying the international designer shops, which made me more confused...
It looks like the rich become richer, and the poor become poorer, then I don't know where the middle class belongs to?

Thursday, April 08, 2004

Ngantuk

Saking banyaknya kerjaan seperti yang tadi gua tulis di posting sebelomnya, gua jadi ngantuk berat dan nggak konsen abis...
mana tadi sempet sakit perut dan kunci kantor dibawa ama supir lagi, dan CC juga lagi keluar, alhasil gua ngak bisa ke toilet...
Akhirnya setelah penantian yang sangat panjang (jie..gua jadi kayak pujangga lagi yak?), CC balik ke kantor, tapi gua udah nggak sakit perut...
Setelah beberapa lama, sakit perutnya muncul lagi, so buru2 gua ke toilet, dan untungnya cubicle yang gua suka itu kaga ada orang...tapi akhirnya gua bukannya melaksanakan tugas gua di toilet, malahan ampir ketiduran....doh beneran deh....untung akhirnya sadar sebelom ketiduran dan pas keluar..gua liat di kaca...yang ada mata gua dah berubah jadi panda....dark circlenye gede banget dan item banget...weleh sia2 gua beli lancome, biotherm, etc..etc....gak nolong.....
Dan yang lucunya..tadi pagi gara2 bangun gak kesiangan dan buru2 beresin cucian yang belom dijemur...trus mandi, sarapan dan ngantor...sampe di kantor baru sadar..ternyata gua cuma sempet ganti celana panjang sedangkan kaosnya masih kaos tidur...weleh...untung masih pke kaos OP kalo kaga ampun dehh(biasanya gua ngantor cuma ngejins ama kaosan doank sihhhh..makanye bisa kejadian gini......)

Pete

Udah beberapa hari ini kerjaan dateng bertubi2, jadi gua rasanya kaya dikeroyok sama kerjaan.
Begitupula hari ini (doh gaya bahasa gua amit2 nggak sih???).
Aniwe...barusan CC beliin makanan (nasi bungkus lah istilah indonesianya) buat gua....jadi gua ama CC makan di kantor...gua kaget waktu buka makanan gua walah....gua dibeliin pete....padahal gua kaga doyan pete...
Mana petenya diiris kecil2 lagi, kan susah tuh misahinnya..alhasil makan siang gua jadi amburadul banget berusaha misahin pete dari sayur2 laennya....kali yah ada deh yang kemakan sedikit...tapi luckily pete singapore kaga separah pete indonesia sih (kaga sepahit dan sebau itu)....so yah gua kaga bau2 amat deh....

Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Deg deg-an

Udah lama banget gue kaga ngopi, padahal dulu gue kaga bisa idup tanpa kopi, apalagi abis kerja di starbuck, kalo kaga minum kopi rasanya seperti makan sayur asem nggak pake asem (ganti istilah kali2 ngak ape2 kan....)
Tapi gara2 penyakit dodol ini (panick attac disorder), gua refrain dari mulai kopi, teh kental, sampe minum soft drink juga udah gua quit.
Tapi barusan nggak tau nape, tiba2 gua pingin minum kopi, so gua pikir okelah...ngopi yang ringan dan lucu, gua ke esso petrol kiosk (supermarketnya lohhh bukan beli bensin pan..), gua beli nescafe mocha yang kalengan itu loh.....
Setelah gua minum, ternyata gua nggak suka....kayanya creamernya agak kebanyakan (gua pan nggak suka susu...) tapi yah gua pikir udah tanggung so gua abisin juga satu kaleng...karena gua beli 2 kaleng 1 gua kasi buat CC, satu lagi buat gua....
Eh alhasil sekarang gua jadi deg2an....doh sedih deh...mana nescafenya nggak enak2 banget...kalo enak dan sekarang gua deg2an masih kaga nyesel gua....eh udah nggak enak deg2an pula...
jadi kesimpulannya tolong ingetin gua supaya jangan beli nescafe kalengan lagi ye....(eh ntar gua dibanned ama nescafe kaga ye?)

Saturday, April 03, 2004

What a sinful days....

I can't remember how it was exactly started, suddenly I have an urge to eat all kinds of sweet things (except candies). Started by Baker's Inn profiteroles, the next day continued with dinner at French Stall (of course I'm ordering french food lah...) then still ordering dessert (usually I am not into dessert kind of things), giant profiteroles again, but this time the profiterole is much more bigger.
Next day ate lunch at delifrance, snacking dove chocolate, and finished with dinner at burger kings...so this week is full of sinful chocolate.....just don't know what's happening with me...

Friday, March 26, 2004

Printer Jammed

Today I have lots of printing to do, I was so confident to finish it asap, until one of my printer jammed.
Now only doing with one, luckily, not that much things left to print, otherwise....
Outside is raining heavily, this morning the weather was very bright, I was very happy, coz I thought I might go out to take some good pictures in the evening.
Well in Singapore weaher is always unpredictable, just like melbourne, only in Singapore 2 seasons can be happened in a day, whereas melbourne, could be 4 seasons in a day, that's the only different :(
Talking about Melbourne, make me miss Australia so much especially Melbourne...ah...such a sweet memory there.....

Thursday, March 25, 2004

D70

Last week there was a computer show at Suntec City, one thing I observed is the more computer show to come, the more crowded it's going to be. They were really offering a very irresistible offer during the show, they offered you lots of freebies when you buy their product, and even if you were patient enough to wait until the last day of exhibition, they will slash the price with more freebies coming with it...
I bought the Nikon D70, after being persuaded heavily by my friend who bought this camera on the first day it was launched, and really found that this camera is really awesome.
So everyday I always bring my camera along with me (even though it's big enough, but when CC drive me around of course), just in case i found some interesting pictures to take.
But the bad news is I haven't tried to download the pictures to my computer at all......
Anyway this story is not an advertisement at all though, because so far I always buy canon for my manual SLR, but Nikon D70 is a good buy.....

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Spa Manicure

I just had my manicure and pedicure done this evening, after a long wait and an unpleasant encountered with the voxy counter at bugis *be te berat*
Yesterday I went to the counter about 5.45 pm then the girl said the next available time slot will be 7 pm, so CC said ok lah to wait, then we went for our dinner first at i dim sum, quite boring food, and made my stomach weird....actually my body felt weird since yesterday afternoon...
Came back to the counter about 6.47, the girl just ignored us, then we decided to go out again and came back at 7 pm, the girl tried to ignore us again then I just stayed there, didn't care..finally she attended to us then said sorry may be we could come back 8.30, but finally i gave up i said no and said i'll come next time...
But this afternoon i called the counter at Ngee Ann city, but finally the girl said i could come at 6 pm, when i arrived it was still 5.45, and the girl asked me to come back around 6, mo marah nggak sih? Actually the girl had nothing to do at all...but i followed her instruction and came back at 6, not bad she did it straight away, and i also asked if there's possibility to do pedicure as well, she said let's see, but finally she did it for me....
Got incident, the girl cut my finger, and bleed, she apologised so many time, but i said it's okay...you now me well rite? i'm always nice to everybody...
But overall experience good la...I'm sure I'll come back for next visit....
Now my hands and feet are so smooth, like a baby........

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

New strange habits

Last sunday morning i was preparing the breakfast, I looked out through my window nothing happened.
I took a carton of milk from the fridge then looked out of the window, the ambulance was parking in the middle of the road. I tried to find out what was happening outside, I looked right and left, finally saw a small bicycle was laying under the front part of the van.
I wondered how the rider was, was he allright, was something bad happened to him? But no trace of blood.
After stunned there quite a while I saw the paramedics carried back the bed, it was empty, then I felt scared.
But finally I saw the paramedic was carrying the boy, it was only his hand, I think he might break his arm.
After that incident, suddenly I felt nausea, then I blood started to withdraw, nearly fainted.
Is it because of the accident? I mean I can not see any accident at all? Never known I can't stand this type of things before
Then last nite suddenly blood flowed out trhough my left nose, hmm quite weird usually this type of things only happens on children. But I have no history of nose bleeding at all during my childhood...but now like newly found habits.

Saturday, March 13, 2004

Drugs

Gua bingung sama orang yang suka pake drugs....
Gua sekarang ada di bawah pengawasan dokter buat terapi penyembuhan panik attack disorder
Dan untuk itu gua musti makan macem2 drugs yang biasa suka disalahgunain sama orang2
Menurut pengalaman gua sebenernya pengaruh drugs yang kata orang2 asik itu adalah tidak benar
Di bawah pengaruh drugs pada umumnya gua jadi dodol banget, lamban, susah inget2 sesuatu, pokoknya frustating deh...
Ada juga yang bikin gua capek sepanjang hari, dan ada juga yang bikin gua berasa kaga enak, lebih buruk dari efek hangover abis mabok2an semalem.....
Pada dasarnya kenapa gua bisa gonta ganti obat sih karena gua selalu protes sama dokter buat efek sampingan yang ditimbulkan oleh obat2an itu...
Jadi pada kesimpulannya, kenapa orang nge-drugs ya?

Friday, March 05, 2004

Stuck in the office

Still stuck in the office until now, just finished my KFC dinner which we bought take away just now
Anyway for your info, KFC is our staple food when we're doing over time.
it reminds me of Mc D at Barker St., our loyal and faithful friends especially during exam period, always be there for us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The entertainment here quite a lots, boring magazines, internet connections, boring collection of cds, and a pair of gold fish which always excited when i go near the tank.
Well don't know what to write anymore, ciao....

Thursday, March 04, 2004

Finally

Finally I get sick of all those specialists that I see
Finally CC agreed with me to go back to my family GP
Finally I can get rid of unnecessary medicines
Finally I know that all those stupid medicines contributes to what I feel now
Hopefully my withdrawal symptoms can goes very smooth
Hopefully I can get well soon
Please pray for me for my health and recovery

Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Life is Unpredictable

Just received news from one of the people whom I know in Jakarta passed away on 31 Jan 2004.
First Adri, then Mike, and now Andre.
Shocked, sad and confused that are my reactions towards all of these news.