Tell'aTale

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2009-10-26T11:24:00.002+10:00

you could be happy.

Yes, I'm obsessed _

2009-10-15T13:40:00.003+10:00

after watching the latest episode for The Office new season, I cant help myself but do this.. ^_^

AND FINALLYYY!!!

these two are my most favorite TV couple. ^_^

Hello, this is me...

2009-09-01T05:03:00.003+10:00

I was bored and I found this site Get to know yourself better
, and this below here is the result..

Your view on yourself:

You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:

Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education

Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:

You have plenty of dream jobs but have little chance of doing any of them if you don't focus on something in particular. You need to choose something and go for it to be happy and achieve success.

How do you view success:

Success in your career is not the most important thing in life. You are content with what you have and think that being with someone you love is more than spending all of your precious time just working.

What are you most afraid of:

You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Who is your true self:

You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

Part 2

Here is the analysis:

You've got great self-confidence and you're full of charm. Most guys who get to know you will be attracted to you. You are far from sweet and proper; your intriguing personality fascinates them. Most guys find it easy to fall for a girl like you.
You don't really care about other people's feelings. You do things the way you want and usually think only about yourself. You are easy-going and love to have fun, but you can be irresponsible as well. You are not keen on serious discussions because they can make you remember that life isn't always about parties.
You are a bright, cheerful and bubbly person. You are thoughtful and considerate, and like to have fun. Everybody feels comfortable around you because of your pleasant nature. When you walk into a room, people's eyes are likely to be drawn to you because of your charm.
Guys see you as being a thinker and a careful person. They will be really attracted to this quality in you, but you need to learn to speak your mind, otherwise people will find you too shy and quiet. Learn to relax and lighten up--it's okay to have fun sometimes. When you learn to develop your fun-loving side, guys are going to flock to your side.
Your boyfriend believes that you are a strong and independent person. Your confidence and cheerfulness make you an attractive person to be around, but sometimes you need to pay more attention to what other people, including your boyfriend, are thinking.

The questions don't just end here, but I decided to stop, or I wouldn't stop until I reach the end. 0_0

Oh Yes, They did!!

2009-08-29T15:11:00.003+10:00

yes they're producing this again!!!!! In different color, and a more rough stitches than the old ones, so it seems. an addition to my wish list it is!! I checked the website and they're already out of stock, and I got the newsletter saying they're selling these again just last night. Nooooooo *sadface*
Having this and that Diana instant back would make my year, seriously ^_^.

Pictures are taken from Lomography.com.

Healthy Lungs are hard to find these days.

2009-08-29T14:05:00.003+10:00

first of all, I don't mean to offend anyone with this, just venting my frustration towards this.

is it just me or a lot more people have started smoking? and they younger and younger by the moment. There are a lot people who I know who smoke that it became a regular thing. I for one hate cigarette smokes, especially when it puffs on face. I was brought up in a smoke free environment, and I like to keep that way, if possible. The smell of the cigarette itself makes me nauseous, and the smoke doesn't make it any better.

What annoys me the most is that, though I know that not all smokers do this, those smokers who don't consider those who don't smoke, those people who smoke in a rude manner, puffing smokes in people's face, would get even ruder when you politely tell them to blow their smokes somewhere else. Don't they know that secondhand smoking is more dangerous than first hands? I've had trouble breathing from time to time from spending days with smokers, surrounded by cigarettes smokes. Then they would start with "why don't you smoke then?", now that's just asking for a bitch slap right there, yes they may and may not be joking around, but that's still annoying. I don't judge you for smoking, but I would for smoking without manners.

We have more than enough pollution here in our world without the addition of cigarette smokes, but then again, smokers has been psychologically examined and said to have stuck in the oral phase of development. The action of smoking, with putting that cigarette in your mouth gives you a certain comfort. if that's the case, go suck a lollipop or something. It would damage your teeth if you do often, but it will do no harm to others.

Just wondering...

2009-08-29T01:32:00.001+10:00

Why is it.. that I am able to write about random things sooo easily.. but when it comes to assignment, it is really hard to make my brain working properly and concentrate -_-.

Sixth Sense = Sign of Sickness?

2009-08-29T00:48:00.003+10:00

I had this thought for a bout a week now, I think. I was sitting in my Psychopathology class, listening to the lecturer, who by the way reminds me a lot of Dr. Boyke from back home. The topic of that week was Schizophrenia. It was a pretty interesting topic, considering this kinda "situation" was one of the many reason's I signed up for Psychology in the first place. After the 2 hour lecture, we had this session, where a patient who was diagnosed with the condition was invited to talk about his experience in front of the whole class. I love this part of the class, cuz I've always wanted to meet with people who are actually diagnosed with all of these interesting conditions and I get to hear it first hand.
Through out the whole lecture my mind wondered off, just like they always have during lectures, and I kept thinking about one thing, that may or may not be related tot his condition. On the top of my head, one of the most significant symptoms of Schizophrenia was hallucination, which are also categorized into subtypes: touch, sight, sound and some sort of sense. The point is, the people who have this condition tend to "make up" something and believe for it to be true.
Where I came from, things were not so black and white. The belief of there's another world other than where we're living now is strongly held by some people. Some people are believed to have a "Third eye" or sixth sense, the ability to see another "being" that are known as ghost.
In the western world, ghost are made up, they're hallucination. They don't believe it as much as we do in the Eastern world. I have lived in the western world and currently living in one right now, and ghosts are the last thing on my mind. When I get home for the holidays, however, that feeling like there's someone or something else other than you in you own bedroom when you're all alone gets really high up. I have had experiences with this "other world", kinda, and I do believe their existence, but no, I have no ability of any kind.
what interests me is that, when you tell a psychologist or psychiatrist that you are able to see this "other being" and you believed in the existence of this "other world", what would they say. Would they investigate more on the truth of this belief or would they examine this person medically? Having this "ability" is sort of like being a schizophrenic, you believing something that may and may not be true. another thing, what if people who have been diagnosed with this condition actually are telling the truth? that they see these things that they claim to see.
Interesting isn't it? That's what I love about Psychology, things are not so black and white and I like them that way. It keeps you wondering.

All American Rejects AND Hoobastank!!!

2009-08-27T00:22:00.002+10:00

first thing first. I think it is weird that Hoobastank was opening for AAR!! Hoobastank is more of their senior and their genres are different, Hoobastank had a more rock feeling to it and AAR is like the typical American band, one of the good ones, of course. second, Tyson was greaaatt!!!!! they venue wasn't that big and we (munkey, and my other two friends) decided to go the second level to have a better view... and we did. last but not least, after the show was over I wanted to stay a little bit hoping that the band members would come out so we could have out picture taken and whatnot.. but nooo. munkey and my friend said that's not going to happen. they wouldn't come out and greet the people bla bla bla. so we left straight away and got something to eat. when I got home, my other friend who also went to the concert uploaded a picture with none other that Tyson himself!!!! they stayed after the show and not long after the band members came out of the back... I am pissed. but then again it just wasn;t my luck. huff!!
well.. it's video time

Hoobastank!!

All American Rejects

^^^my favorite performance^^^

this point on, the quality of the video are not that great.. I ran out of memory in my camera, switched to my phone..

oh there was also another opening band, called the Sundance Kids. They were a band from Adelaide, if I'm not mistaken. They were pretty good, considering it was the first time I've heard of them. I have a picture of them, only one. I don't have that much memory space in my camera, and I'm saving them fro the two main bands ^_^.

Wolfgand Amdeus Phoneix

2009-08-27T00:10:00.002+10:00

yes it's phoenix!!! you know what's funny... about a year ago, I was in a car with a friend, and we were listening to their old album and we were talking about how cool it would be to get to see them live.. and about a year later.. there we were making our way to the venue of a phoenix concert!!!! oh and realizing this.. we then talked about how cool it would be to get t see John Mayer or Jack Johnson live... Jack Johnson was his choice.. I'm more into John Mayer!! so let's cross our fingers!! hehehehe

now with the evidences!!! no pictures like I said.. too many to choose from.. so here's the videos.. or some clips of the whole show.. ^_^
they're in order of the appearance.. of course ;P

^^^ I'm in love with the drummer in this one ^^

these are all I have from the concert. they kept saying they'd have merchandise.. but they were no where to be found.. a bit pissed, cuz I saw the sample of the event tshirt on the website, and it looked cool. sad sad, still, the show was great!!! to bad munkey wasn't there... and there were a lot of couple... there was even a couple right next to me who were making out, it's normal for me to see that kinda thing with me living in Aussie and everything.. but that was in Jakarta.. you don't see that kinda thing that often, and I had no munkey with me.. so it wasn't pleasant.

concert updates!!!

2009-08-27T00:09:00.000+10:00

yes it is way long overdue. I've been busy with things that I'm a little bit sleep deprived now... *sigh* but no I'm not complaining, cuz i love what I'm doing.. at least for now ;P.
after the phonix concert I went to the All American Rejects with Hoobastank concert as well. they were AMAZING!!! I have a lot of pictures from the concerts.. but thats not fun.. and I don't feel like choosing which ones are the good ones... sooo.. I'll just put up clips from the concert.. I have a lot of them, so let's just divide this into two parts...
enjoy ^_^

one of the good reason to hold onto the past...

2009-07-28T07:05:00.004+10:00

this is really random..
I was making my way back from Tasikmalaya, where I had spent my last weekend or every weekends that I have spent home. there were two cars, my parents with the driver and my brother with his friend and girlfriend. At first, I was in the car with my parents and the driver but I asked my dad if I could move, since my brother had a more spacious car so I could straighten my feet more. My dad said yes.
at the beginning of the ride things were going pretty ordinary. I was asleep for a moment until we got to this restaurant, where we stopped and got a bite to eat. after ordering our food, my brother his friend, girlfriend and I went to the back. the restaurant was surrounded by all of these rice fields, it was quite a view, a sight for the eyes and a great fresh air for the lungs, it also had some type of outbound attractions. My brother and his friend took some pictures of the view while his girlfriend and I just sat around on the steps of one of the "ride", then we found this tree, a "kersen" tree. I have no idea what it's called in English, but it is some type of berries, I think. It's very tiny and it has a very distinctive sweet taste. What was significant about this tree was that it was one of the fruits from my childhood. There used to be a lot of these trees where I used to live when I was little, and my friends and I used to climb, yes I said climb, up and find the riped ones. I felt a bit nostalgic, but that was it.
A little rain started to pour, so we decided to go back to our hut, it was a Sundanese restaurant where the eating areas were divided into little huts for privacy and traditional feelings. we waited for our foods to come and finished it to go back and continue our journey home.
In the car I fell asleep again and I woke up to this old Indo song by Nugie, who was one of the greatest musicians back in the 90s. I love all of his songs, and listening to his song was like a breath of fresh air. No offense to those who enjoy the Indo music these days, but I prefer the songs form the 90s (A LOT) better. They were more meaningful in a way, I think. music these days, they are all sound similar to each other and it's lacking in creativity and meaningfullness of the songs, which is sad. I know they all have great talents and taste, but they are falling into the trends of love and heartbreaks themed songs, along with the melayu-type genre. The people in this generation are so used to listening to these types of songs that when there's a song with a different feel to it, they wouldn't respond to it like it used to.
It got me thinking, what the hell happened to musicians/bands like Nugie, Kla Project, /rif, Jamrud, Base Jam or Andre Hehanusa, etc? they were some of the greatest musicians in the 90s and I miss them. I miss their musics. yes, they were also talking about love and heartbreak, but the way they brought up the songs with the lyrics and music was different. They weren't as cheesy or crybaby-feel (cengeng) as the majority of the songs nowadays.
I think this is why I kind of back away from listening to the current Indo songs, I know shit about the Indo music these days, even my Ipod contains a very minimum amount of Indo songs in it, at most I only have about 8 songs out of the 3000-ish songs I have in my ipod.
This is sad.
There's a lot of things that saddens me when it comes to generations differences, I'll talk about some of them later on with a different topic... but my point is...
I miss the 90s and I miss my childhood!!!!

I LOVE THIS VIDEO.

2009-07-23T22:21:00.001+10:00

how was your first kiss?

new Findings = more things listed into my wish list.

2009-07-23T04:27:00.002+10:00

I WANT!!
This one seriously trumps the previous wish list post. I just found out about this today when I was accompanying my friend to buy something for her boyfriend. I want this one badly. I'm just being realistic here. I do have polaroid camera, but they're like on the verge of extinction, I mean it's really hard to find the films for polaroid outside of the US. well you can buy it through ebay, but they sell packages, which is a bit expensive, methinks. fuji intanx film are still producing massively.. so in surviving wise, this is a better choice.
however, I really need to start looking for the casing for my Diana F+ camera first. it's pretty fragile, and I'm kinda scared to take it around...
still still.... me waaannnttttt!!!

wish list.

2009-07-22T03:09:00.003+10:00

uhm.. this probably only a current impulsive thing.. but I have the sudden desire to own an iphone. and no, it's not like I know someone who's using one right in front of me.. or seen anyone using it right in front of me, cuz most people that I know are using blackberry, me included. maybe that's why I want one. My concious is tired with all the blackberry phones that practically everyone here is carrying...
I've been looking for good deals on ebay for this phone, but I'm still not sure yet.. gahh. me want. but the touchscreen thing is just annoying.. huhuhuh. confioso.

My warm-winter Holiday, so far..

2009-07-09T03:04:00.003+10:00

Just as long as I was expressing my obsessiveness over the movie Penelope, I might as well write up a little update on my holiday. To make it simple, I've been eating like a pig. I've been stuffing my face with anything I could think of. I need to exercise, or eat less. huhuhuhuhu.
I've also been spending time with my family, especially my mom, it's been nice. We've been going out to eat and squeezed in a little shopping here and there. I love my mommy, That's all I gotta say.
my results to the previous semester came out last night. I was scared shitless. I was pretty sure that I wouls at least faill one class, but Alhamdulillah I passed all of my courses. the grades? not important. I just want to pass my course and get it over with. ^_^
this holiday is different than any other holidays I've been in because during this holiday, I experienced my first time contributing to my country by using my voice in this term's election. There was a teeny tiny problems though, I was not registered ot vote here in Jakarta, but I did register myself back in Brisbane, and I lost my ID. Thank god the election committee decided to allow the non-registered citizens to show up at the election post near their house and bring the Kartu Keluarga (a document that shows the family members of each households) and some sort of identification, in my case I used my passport. I waited for about 10 minutes and I did my duty for my country. it was unfortunate that since it was my first time voting, I was somewhat nervous that I forgot to take pictures, the situation in the election post near my house wa pretty quiet that it made me more nervous. However I did take a couple of pictures on the way tot he post and afterwards during lunch..

yes, we brought our dog along with us, and that's my brother.

Noobie, my dog, waiting for my turn to be called up.

Me and my mommy at the Gelato Bar, as you can see my mom dipped her finger deeper than me, you could barely see the ink on my pinky.

as for the results, I think it's pretty much save to say that I was right with my choice. he wont he election with a pretty sognificant gap with the other two candidates, I wouldnt say it was a landslide, just significant. yaiy!!

PENELOPE

2009-07-09T02:34:00.003+10:00

I just finished watching this movie by accident. I have never been interested in watching this movie before, but Star Movies (Cable Channel) was showing it and I was too lazy to go downstairs to change the channel. I figured, Christina Ricci's in it, it shouldn't be THAT bad. The movie seemed ok, but then this guy showed up...

JAMES MCAVOY!!!!!!! I am hooked straight away. I've seen him in the movie Wanted and I thought he was pretty cute and no doubt he is also a great actor, but his character AND the way he brought up the character, I'm in love!! He's just too cute. Him paired up with the adorable Christina Ricci? beyond adorable, they just had that chemistry. I will be hunting for the DVD for this movie, I just have to, yes i can be pretty obsessive over something silly sometimes ^_^.
the storyline in this movie was pretty simple and easy to follow, considering my level of boredom, and when I'm in this mood I pretty much block out everything I remotely not interested in. I especially love the scene where they (McAvoy and Ricci) were talking through the one way glass, the way they connected with each other and how comfortable they seemed with each other, so simple yet it is one of the most significant part of the movie, I think...

This movie is no doubt will be in my list of all time favorite movies!! I'll just post some more pictures from the movie..

I just can't resist..

Holiday Mode: ON!!

2009-06-29T19:14:00.005+10:00

as I already said before in my previous post, I'm done with exams, assignments and all things school-related, at least for now. one month of pure hedonistic lifestyle. it's nothing ti be proud of really, but I'm so sick of all the work and the long hours spent in front of my laptop and reading all the journals. one month of freedom! yippie!!
it's been 4 days and counting, and I've been out and about. hehehe.. the first day was last friday. Tika, ratih adn I planned out little celebration by basically dancing the night away, literally. we went to mystique night club. it was the only club who put on RnB songs, which is better than other clubs which put on trance all night long. people say it's a dodgy club, but it was fun. on my munkey came along to be our guardian, he was by himself taking care of 3 girls. poor him, but nothing bad happened, and none of us was drinking. pure innocent fun ^_^, here are the pictures.

the Beginning of the night, when our hair and make up are still intact.

waiting for munkey to pay for parking ticket.

the elevator. see what I mean by hair and make up still intact in the first picture?

the next day munkey and I dropped of ratih at the airport in the morning and we went to gold coast int he afternoon. we were there for the whole, so it felt. We went to Surfer's Paradise at first, to accompany Tika to find something for her boyfriend. We went for a grab to eat afterwards then off we went to Qdeck. It is a 77 story building and at the top of a building we could see the view from the top. we saw night lights and the shoreline. it was pretty. then for clisng we went to Max Brenner for late night chocolate dessert. yummy. Ive been wanitng to got there for a while now. I got me some waffles and hot chocolate. yummy.

I love this picture, it has the movie poster feel to it.

It's been almost two year I've been in Brisbane and a lot of time back and forth to Surfer's Paradise, this is the first time I actully took a picture here.

Qdeck!! seeing the night lights ^_^.

another Qdeck picture with Munkey.

Max Brenner!! I love this restaurant so very much.

The artictic wall outside of Max Brenner.

Yesterday, Muneky and I were meant to have a movie marathing, open with terminator, followed with The hangover and finish with Transformers. but silly old me fell asleep and woke up quite late. the tickets for the hangover sold out and we ended up watching transformers, which by the way, I thought it was mediocre. I'm not saying it was bad, but it was pretty boring compared ot the second one, it was predictable. there were cheesy scenes with the music-video-like type of camera movement, it ruine the whole action part of the movie. overall it was an ok movie, but I gotta be honest, I'm a bit disappointed on the way it was made.

four days out of a month, 5 days to my flight to Indo. home sweet home I miss.

Finally I can Breathe.

2009-06-24T23:09:00.004+10:00

EXAM IS OVEEEEERRRRRRR!!!

Finally no more sleepless night caused by me studying, no more lecture slides, no more me going back and forth to the blackbpard wesite. No more studying!!!!! at least for this semester. now I just have to wait until the results to be out. This is terrifying. I really have no idea how I did and what I'm going to get. but yeps, hoping for the best. ^_^
For my first night of freedom, typical me would choose movie night, so I did. I chose this movie, it seemed simple, relaxing and definitely entertaining, and it was. It was sort of Devil wears Prada, I think it was based on the same author too, but I might be wrong.
The best thing about this movie is, of course, I can definitely relate. especially lately. with the stress happening from all the unbearable and endless assigments, followed by exam, shopping is the best solution. Like what Rebecca said in the movie that shopping is the one thing that makes her feel better, and it's true. Shopping makes cheers me up the best, the monthly bill not so much, so its like a cycle really. hehehehe
below this I posted some of the posters I could find for this movie. I was looking for a scene from the movie, but I couldnt find it. so posters will do for now.

next up on my celebration of freedom? just wait and see. ^_^

Self Portrait

2009-06-23T04:27:00.002+10:00

The things I'd do to prevent myself from studying, other than facebook games.
I haven't edited any pictures in a while, and I kinda miss it.

the Monkey Philosophy.

2009-06-23T03:33:00.001+10:00

I just had to post this here.

now, it's time to sleep.

CONCERT DATES!!! -REVISION-

2009-06-22T18:53:00.003+10:00

first thing first, stupid stupid me.. I got the concert date for beyonce show mix up. the concert is in September, not August. either way I still am excited. yippies!!
now to he juicy stuff. I'm done with my third exam for this semester. one more one more!!! I'm so not ready for this exam but I really want to get this over with. I'm mentally and physically done with this semester. I feels o rushed into the assignments and before I know it, it's already exam period. shit. other than the one I just had, I have a very low confidence for my grades this semester. gaaah!!!!
scaredy scared.
back to studying? huh.

CONCERT DATES!!!

2009-06-21T17:19:00.003+10:00

August is going to be full of excitement!!! I already have 2 concerts lining up, well hopefully three.. still not sure about this one. Let's just get to the details, shall we..

PHOENIX is coming to Jakarta!! August 1. this is too cool for this city. hopefully i get to go and see them live. Their newest album is sure as hell brilliant, imagining them performing live is just to die for *crossed fingers*.

BEYONCE in concert August 13th. To be honest, I only know some of her new songs, but I would be a fool to miss her guaranteed wonderful show. the ticket was expensive, but I'm sure it will worth every cents of it. oh, better news, her opening act would be FLO RIDA!! I would boogie and dancing my ass off all night on that dancing floor. yayness!!

Last but for sure as hell is not least, the ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS in concert August 19th, with HOOBASTANK as their special guest. the ticket is too cheap I think for this kind of show. two great bands sahring the stage. my oh my I can't wait for this night.

There you go. I'd be sure to be posting lots and lost of pictures. maybe even video too. can't wait!!!
now back to the lecture slides!! exam at 8am tomorrow. Yaiks.

Just My luck.

2009-06-21T02:24:00.004+10:00

isn't it unfortunate that there are a lot of kids and adults out there that are unable to pursue their dreams due to financial problems? it is unfair that they would have to work their ass of night and day to earn a little money just to continue their studies, and even so what they've earn is still not enough.
now look at the other half of the world. those people with the recession at the very back of their mind, spending every single cents they have on something that they might never ever need.
shit. I sound like one of those infomercials for charity. the reason I brought this up is that, very recently I just got in touch with my long lost cousin, some might say, she's a cousing from my mom's side of the family, and things haven't been great so yeah we lost contact for quite a long time. not just me, but with the others too, and no I won't be getting into this.
what I wanted to say was that, I read from her wall post ot my mom that she's been having problems financially, that caused her her educations. she hasn't fisnished her degree and she was almost dropped out due to her financial problems, so I've read.
this kind of thing makes me sad. I know she's just one out of countless number of people who's facing a hard time due to the recession, and it doesn't seem like it will get better anytime soon.
it's just sad that looking at myself, Im not going to point finger to other people when I know I can be one of these people most of the times, I haven't been the most gratefull. I basically have all that I ever need and I'm still asking for things I don't need. bitching is ne of the things I'm great at. I bitch about anything, really.
I really don't know where I'm going with this, but I know I was sad when I read her post. here I'm wasting my time blogging, browsing and doing other things that's killing my braincell every intance I look at the laptop screen, and out there people are killing themselves to gain more braincells.
just my luck that I was born and raised in a pretty well.... privileged family. and I should be grateful, I am grateful. though it sure is hard to live up to this privileged.

Must Watch Movies.

2009-06-20T14:36:00.004+10:00

these are the list of movie trailers that I really want to watch.

I love Amy Adams.

New Storyline, New Look, NEW MOON!!!
I'm hooked.

From the goofy and annoying younger brother Louis Stevens to the heartthrob Sam Witwicky?
Transformer I'd say.

Bachelor party gone bad?

Paul Rudd ft. Jason Siegel. yum.

my kind of romance movie.

Michael Cera!!!

another Adam Sandler goodies?

Katherine Heigle and Gerard Butler. yum.

bitter old man + spunky little scout boy = funny flick.

Rachel McAdams!

shit. there's a lot of movie that I want to watch.

In need of a getaway

2009-06-20T13:53:00.005+10:00

yes yes, I haven't written anything a very long while. Ive been buried under a lot of assignments now I have final exams on my plate. let's see what has been happening the past month(s).
things are pretty boring actually, nothing big has happened other than my own stressful life as a student. my results for my assignments are out, and they're pretty decent I think. I have never been they kind who's obsessed with grades, I'm just not that ambitious to begin with. now I just need to focus on my exams. I'm done with two and I still have two more. I need loads of luck. ^_^
relationship wise, things are ok too. it's been 2 years and 3 months and we're still going strong, just calmer, which is a good things. look at some of the corny but sweet things he's done. I was dead tired and I woke up with these notes on my coffee table. ^_^

yes we do have a thing for Monkeys. Nguk.

Mrs. Fields cookie nibblers. yum.

yes we do still fight once in a while, but fights are good to keep us still intact on our special path.
oh almost forgot. I just bought a concert tickets for BEYONCE and ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS with a special guest star HOOBASTANK!!!!! theyre both showing in september. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!! I will sure to post pictures from these events. both tickets are for standing and I cant dance and boogie for beyonce and jumps and sing my lungs out for the american reject. well maybe I could sneak in a little boogie for this one too. hehehehe. oh and Im trying to go to phoenix show in Jakarta on the 1st of August.
yes Ill be back home in 2 weeks. I can't wait. but I'll be away from my munkey for a month. that would suck, but it's ok. this way we'll get to miss each other. hehehehe. one month in Jakarta means shopping, lots and lots of food and self pampering. fun fun!! and of course i get to spend time wiht my mother dearest. ^_^.
oke then, I need ot get back to the books, Evolutionary and Therapy exams are waiting for me. 2 shitty things that seperates me from my smiles and laughter.

side note: a pretty cool intance happened. Bubbles by Colbie Colliat was playing when I was writing about my relationship with munkey, home by Michale buble when I was writing about going home. coincidence?

kissies!!

Friends or Foe.

2009-06-20T13:29:00.003+10:00

They say boyfriends come and go and friends are forever. yes, I was a strong believer for this philosophy before, I chose my friends over my boyfriend at the time any day of the week. I realize though as I get older good friends are REALLY hard to hold on to, on the other hand, the boyfriend never skipped a beat. i don't know if its because of as people get older they get more selfish and focused on their own thing, or it is just me, and my past. I do think my past has a really huge impact on my life, how I do things and how I think. it's very psychological, and no I don't want to get into it.
back to the friends problems, no I don't have any major friends problem at the moment, and no I'm not planning on having one in the nearest future. like I said, I have had my share of this drama all through my life. but things are oke now, I hope.
I have thought about certain things a long the way, how I might have changed and why ight cause this changes to happen. well one thing, I do have a serious trust issues. I'm not blaming this on anyone but myself, being a psychology student in my third year, I kinda did a little self analyses myself, a case of miss-diagnosed may and may not happen. so, trust issues is the biggest and major problem I have right now, I find myself constantly thinking about what's the pther party's hidden agenda. why would they anything, really. no, this is not me being overly paranoid, but its just me being a cynical and realistic. I mean, just think about it this way, people do have their own agenda, they always have something they can get out of from other people or anything. it's human nature, so no one should be ashamed of realizing this.
of course, trauma also holds a pretty big role. I guess in way, I used to have a huge expectation from my friends, and not so much from my (ex)boyfriends. this way, when bad things happen with my boyfriend that that moment i wouldnt be so crushed, because i would still have my friends, but back to my what I said earlier, people are slefish in their own way.
these days, I have my own theory about friendship, that is, don't be too naive (of course), don't take things too seriously, and all humans are self-absorved, so everything is based on their own benefit. sad, but it is true.
it is actually a good thing that I decided ot take psychology, this way I could leaan there's no such thing as normal, and with the highly complex being that we are, everything is possible in the mind of us human.

a song for a thought.

2009-05-07T21:39:00.002+10:00

Closer
Joshua Radin

So, we're alone again
i wish it were over
we seem to never end
only get closer
to the point where i can take no more

the clouds in your eyes
down your face they pour
won't you be the new one burn to shine
i take the blue ones every time
walk me down your broken line
all you have to do is cry

hush my baby now
your talking is just noise and won't lay me down amongst
your toys in a room where i can take no more

the clouds in your eyes
down your face they pour
won't you be the new one burn to shine
i take the blue ones every time
walk me down your broken line
all you have to do is cry

photographs and brightly colored paper
are your mask you wear in this caper
that is our life
we walk right into the strife
and a tear from your eye brings me home

won't you be the new one burn to shine
i take the blue ones every time
walk me down your broken line
all you have to do is cry

when there's good, there is bad.

2009-05-02T01:06:00.005+10:00

I have good news and bad news. good news forst, my Cat lilo just had new little kittens!!! like about 8 of them crazy i know. now I think now we have about 20 of cats and kittens. shit that's a lot. we should be putting up "cats for sale" in front of our house anytime soon.
Bad news, one of the kittens died 2 days after it, yes the sex has not been established yet, was born. it was pretty sad. my mom was holding it trying to feed it baby milk to help it live, but as soon as my mom carried it, it went to sleep and died. tears fell down her cheek soon after. huhuhuh. RIP little kitten.

Lilo and the her new babies!!

next stop, Ive been burying my head under my assignments that i finally decided to treat my self for a little shopping spree. I went to meet with a friend in the city this afternoon and meant to accompany her to look for a present for her secret crush. so we went in and out of stores, tried on different things. it was fun, for a while. and then... let's just say my "little" shopping spree went a little out of hand. I have picture and bank account balance to prove this. shit.shit!! I have to go to a no-more-spending spree for the rest of the months. no moooooreee. it shouldnt be that bad, right? hohohoho

my guilty pleasure

in general sense. things are pretty good. My presentation went well, I received good feedback from the tutor, although my nerves were highly visble. shit. but overall it was great. yes, I have about 4 more assigments, so far its going great. I kinda have some ideas about what I'm going to write for my essays. so hopely they could be put smoothly into writing. with good quality too.
hopefully.

Bonobos do cook.

2009-04-27T19:43:00.001+10:00

I had this assignmenton evolutionary approach to Psychology, and I have a presentation thi sthrusday about cook, whether it is uniquely human or shared trait with animals/primates. I was convinced, since i couldnt find anything evidence, that it is uniquely human until I found this video.

the dercription said that they raised and did a longitudinal research about this Bonobo, along with her 2 relatives. soooo, I had built up an argument to make my presentation interesting. finally, I have gained hope!!! after days of hunting for journals. I'm happy. wish me luck!!

Not so good with making plans

2009-04-27T00:39:00.004+10:00

another picture of the sky. no this one is not from my balcony, but it was still around my place though, just taken from inside a car. isnt that just a great view? I wish we had something like this back home.
so, last thrusday i made up a schedule of what I'm gooing to do over the weekend. friday i have my early (real early) dinner with the Laskar Pelangi committees, SAturday I would go to dreamworld to fresh up a bit, and sunday I would have my saman practice then I would stay at the library to finih my presentation for thursday, then watch a movie later at night.
well, lets just say friday plan was a success, the rest was just a plan. on saturday we forgot about the fact that it was anzac day, and when my friend called them up they said they won't be open untill 1 pm, which is a wate since theyre still going to be close at 5pm sharp. so we cancelled that. then my friend called and told me that she had some kind of bubble in her right eye, scary I know, and she asked if i could take her to the hospital. tatti picked me up then we went to the the nearest emergency hospital, which was Wesley hospital. tatti and I waited there for a while while my friend went in and got her eye checked. she came up looking a bit iritated, she said that they did several tests on her eye then he just said its a viral infection sort of thing, something with inflamation, she forgot what it was called. so we went to the pharmacy to get her prescription then we went to get a bite to eat. we went to sushi train. personally I never liekd that place, the choices of food are not that great, the lady who supposedly in charge is not that nice, I'm not going to say shes a bitch but shes not that far from that circle, and he place is just not that comfortable. tatti seems to like that place, I dont know why. we went there for like half an hour, it was a trip basically. after that tatti dropped me home and i just spent the day at home, relaxing.
today is SUnday, and saman practice got cancelled since most of the people said they wont be comeing due to assignments and exam this coming week, so that made me even more lazy to come ot uni to do my assignment. I decided to just stay at home and clean my really meesy room. but that only work for about an hour then I ended up sitting down on my cushion holding my phone and clicking through the channels.
I did go see a movie though, The Fast and The Furious to be exact. overall it was a great movie, better thna the last one, Tokyo drift. that one just really random and it killed the whole saga for me. this newest was great, it was too bad that michele rodrigues had to die in the first couple minutes, but i guess thats how the story went.
there were about 10 of us wathcing including a friend of mine who everyone said he looks like vin diesel. I feel bad for him, cuz everytime vin diesel, Dominique in the movie, came out or do something weird in the movie, we automatically look and him. at the end he finally said that hes had enough of this vin diesel thing. poor him.

Rainbow Warriors

2009-04-24T01:58:00.004+10:00

about a week ago, PPIA Queensland collaborated with the embassy of Indonesia located in Canberra held a screening for one of Indonesia's best movies "Laskar Pelangi" or Rainbow Warriors. it was without a doubt one of the best movies ive ever seen. The story was very touching *I cried at the end, thank god for dark theatere*, the movie itself was well crafted.
I was part of the event, somehow, I helped out a bit. with the ticket sales before the event, and being an usher during the event. the crowd was great. both indonesian people and Asutralian came to the screenings and they came out in tears, of joy of course. they also had the dvd and soundtrack cd on sale at the ticket box. they were sold out within minutes after the first screening. I was lucky enought to get the last DVD. hohoho. here are some of the pictures taken during the event.

ratih and I with Cut mini (Bu Muslimah)

We had our shirt signed by Cut Mini between shows

Eveeryone who helped out for the event.

moi, Andrew and Vane

Ratih, Andrew and moi

I miss my room

2009-04-21T02:56:00.005+10:00

the picture above is the view from my balcony at dawn this morning. the last thine that i saw BEFORE i went to sleep. it is a great view, the camera on my phone did not do it justice, but this assignment thing is plain silly. I slet at like 5.30 this morning. I really need to fix my sleeping schedule. huhuhu..

and yes. i do miss my room. I have been home to sleep and take a shower then off I go to either an event, practice or assignment. i dont have the event and practice thing, but assignment. shit. it's almost 3am and I just got home from my tatti's place finishing up our group presentation for tomorrow. huhu. we've been everywhere today. from his house library for like three time coming in and out to do two different assignments.

this picture was actually taken on our second time going into the library and about 5 seconds before tatti forgot the document was in his laptop, he hasnt transferred the into his usb, and that's my laptop he's using in the picture and arthur was wathcing the show shown on tv at the library. we're a great team, don't you think? *no sarcasm intended*
the good news from it all is that I finished my first assignment of this smester today. and tomorrow i ahve my group presentation. followed by another individual presentation next week then 2500 words essay the week after. then 4 more assignments that lost track of the dude dates. but i know it's not anytime soon. phew!
well, I should get some sleep. I have the big presentation tomorrow. wish me luck ^_^.

what I've been doing

2009-04-20T04:51:00.022+10:00

after a long time of hibernating from the world of blogging, I'm actually attempting to make a new one. let's see it has been how long ago? almost a year i think.
there;s not much going in my life at this point. Just Uni work which seems endless and I'm not exactly helping by killing a lot more brainscells playing games or watching TV instead of reading the piles of journals that i should be reading. huhuhu.
oh yes. I'm also twittering right now. I started about a year ago, but of course that didnt last long. so I just figured why not continue it. I have nothing to do, literally. and updating my thoughts or my activity through twitter may not be a bad idea.
just a quick update on what I've been doing the past couple of months..

coldplay concerts!!!!!! viva la vida world tour came to brisbane and yes i got to see them live for my second time in my life. their show was better than the first time i saw them of course, which mean they got better. the sad was that i FORGOT to bring my cameras AND my boyfriend's cameraas allowed to be brought inside because they said it was professionall camera since they saw the lense poping out with it was turned on. so we had to rely on my phone camera, which is not so great in quality. *sobs*

yes. I also went to vfest2009. the line up was crazy amazing. but i only got to see some of them. since it was all the way in gold coast. and i had Sama practice beforehands. it wasnt a bog lost or anything, i got to see the bands that i really like like snow patrol, kaiser chief, and the killers. too bad for my tatti though, he wanted to see elbow play. but they finished as soon as we got there, i mean we could hear them play while walking fromt he bus stop to the gate. I felt bad for him, but at least he got the band tshirt.
I also went to see Jason mraz in concert, I'll post the pictures at the bottom of the page. great performance in general, but for soem reason he was playing a lot of mellow songs. they were great, but just not what i had expected. and i'm terribly disappointed that he didnt play lucky and details in fabric. huhuhu.. but it was still worth it watching him again for the second time in a row. ^_^

our merchandises

Lisa Mitchell, the first openign act

my friend and I got tired from waiting

Eric Hutchinson, second and better opening act

Mr. Az and his percussion guy. i leanred his name before but i'm sorry i just can't remember.

oh yeah. this is my tatti with his prize eeyore. got this from the doll bending machine thingy. a lovely addition to my eeyore colelction. thank <3. kiss.

a Clean Slate

2008-07-31T02:09:00.002+10:00

so here it goes. my first entry. i have created and written some stuff before on my previous blog, but it's a bit messy. high school days. full of uncontrollable emotion bundled up inside, lead to a very messy blog posts with gibberish and now that i have reread some of the post, some of them dont even make any sense.
i dont know if its because the fact that i have just started watching the Sex and the City series for the past couple of days, im inspired to make a new blog and start writing again. it may just be a temporary thing, but we'll see.
here it goes. my new blog. let's see whether this one will actually make sense or not.