Showing posts with label My Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Life. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

time flies by and does not stop...

Today, not more than four hours ago, my fren gave me a shocking news. HE'S GETTING MARRIED soon!!! WOW... I'm really excited to hear this news. He's one of my closest fren back then in junior high school in Medan, and yes he still is now although we rarely met and talked.
On the way home from office, my memories about us were flashing back. He is such a good fren of mine, we usually spent time off discussing homework, music, movies, sport (err this can be opt out as I'm not a big fan of sport haha), and girls... We used to be teasing each other about the girl we do like and dislike haha... When we were having an extra afternoon class, I used to go to his house for break as his house is near to the school. We did lose contact after graduating junior high school and that time I had to move to Jakarta. Never heard a single news about him for 4-5 years until I knew that he's taking degree at Binus while I'm at Untar. So close yet so far haha...
After that, we do have contact each other even tough I had flown to Batam and now stuck in Singapore. And I remembered during school time, I ever once jokingly asked him whether he is keen to be my best man when I'm getting married someday. But GUESS WHAT... Now he's the one who's asking me to be his best man. I'm quite surprise and it is hardly for me to resist his offer.
Congratz, bro... I'm happy for you :)
However, the news about him getting married soon had blown me away and made me realize few things:
1. I'm getting older now... Oh man, next month I will reach the magic number 27... auch... haha... It's better not to let my mom knows about this news, if not... better not to say it here :D
2. I've been wasting my two years waiting for nothing. Yeah, I always thought that I could and have over it, but I could not lie to myself anymore that I'm still in love with her, wanting her all this time, which I think it is the silly thing to do as it does not erase the fact we are not and should not be and could not be meant for each other.
3. It's time to open a new leaf for my heart (I kept saying this all the time even in my new year, my chinese near year resolution :D).. I know this time I have to do it, not just say it... Move On... Go on...

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Graduation (Friends Forever)

And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down
These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love
But it came too soon
And there was me and you
And then we got real blue
Stay at home talking on the telephone
We would get so excited and we'd get so scared
Laughing at ourselves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels

As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come Whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever

Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us 'round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly


Note:
Quoted from Vitamin C (with a bit modifies)...
Congrats to my beloved students who has done 4 years studying and working hard.
I'm happy for and proud of you all.
Wish you all d best in the future after taking the Bachelor or Sarjana Komputer (known as Baskom) title :)
Although I did not attend your memorable moment, I can feel down in my heart I was there watching you one by one...

Monday, August 4, 2008

who moved the big cheese?

i will keep this short as i don't want to say much.
"who moved the big cheese?" was my yahoo messenger status today. I thought of this statement on my bus way to office while reading English idioms book. There is a "big cheese" idiom, which means the person who are important to the group. When putting the status this morning, it didn't mean anything to me and i never thought it would later on. Before lunch time I heard a shocking news, big cheese has made a big move. It has left a question to all of us, who moved the big cheese? and why???

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

writing homework

as i mentioned in the last blog, i will post my writing homework here.

The task is to write the following topic:
Creative artists should always be given the freedom to express their own ideas (in words, pictures, music or film) in whichever way they wish. There should be no government restrictions on what they do.

To what extend do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Here is my writing:

Democracy and liberalism has touched many of life aspect, including arts. Most artists expect they will no longer dependent to or interfered by government rules on creating their own creativity. In this essay I intend to discuss my point of views to this matter.

I always believe that if someone is given a chance to express their own ideas, it will lead to a new thingy or so-called invention. In music history, rap is considered as a big breakthrough. Eminem, an American white rapper in one of his interview, once said that rap was born as a freedom form of music which you can see from the lyrics. Film also does have an invention of its own. I refer to the animation film. Some producers or directors use this kind of film to show a different angle in which they cannot find if they cast the real actor or actress. Beowulf is a good example. In this film, you can see much nudity. If this is to performed by an actor or actress, there might be a negative talking about them.

Freedom is indeed a good thing, but must not be misused or misplaced, especially in Asian country. If the artis is not careful, it will sure harm himself or even can create a chaos in society. For such case, i agree that government will have to interfere. In my country, Indonesia, sex is still a taboo, let alone using sex as novel topics, it would result a controversy. Ayu utami, a young generation novelist had shocked the public in 1998 with her novel called Saman, in which she described the woman genital very clearly. In order to calm down the situation, government had to censor it.

Apart from negative side that can be created, the creativity might give the benefit to the society. People will have more choice in choosing what they like and what they don't. When Singapore government run the Mandarin language policy back in 1970s, others Chinese dialects like hokkian, teochiew, or hakka was banned from public appearance, including film. But since the government gave a green light few years ago, now its citizen can enjoy their local taste of films. For example 881, the first full hokkian made by Singaporean film. Its success in achieving box office has proved it.

As I have discussed before, freedom in creativity is indeed a good thing, and sometimes can give the benefit to people, even might resulting to an invention. But there is still need a government role to ensure the freedom is not misused and misplaced.

Friday, July 18, 2008

sense of words

i should have realized before that blogging or telling stories about life either it is our own life or others is harmful. people reading it may interpret differently. people can sense the words wrongly. for example, the two singapore bloggers fought each other because of the words. What make everything worsen is lacking of vocabulary and grammar like me that can cause people reading it become miss understanding. sometimes their perception is running far from my original thought.
it happened on my previous blog entry. actually i'm not telling a story about me, but high school friend of mine. she has a complicated problem and i had no advice for her except being a good listener to her.
anyway back to the topic, in that blog i said something about "people who stand alone like me. family is far way from distance. So how?" what i'm trying to say is "bagaimana rasanya kalo hal itu terjadi pada gw yg hidup mandiri dan jauh dari keluarga?", but somehow my friend who read my blog said i'm so pity to have such lonely life... you see how i wrongly make a sentence with my bad grammar and vocabulary and lead to misunderstanding...

the main reason of me blogging actively recently is to practice my english as advised by some friends and my teacher. but i think from now on i must avoid this kind of topics and choose more general topics.

anyway, i have a writing homework. the topic is about artist. i will post it after i have done it... wish me luck then... ^_^

Thursday, July 10, 2008

time flies by

two nights ago, i called my senior high school friends, eni dahayu... she came to singapore since last week to accompany her mom for medical check up. her relative, eddy susilo, which is my friend also had asked me to meet her last saturday, but was canceled because eni had no time.
anyway as we talked in phone, we flashed back about memories of our high school... wew... it was a decade ago... time is flying by so fast. many of our school mates got married and have kids already. sansan, siti, fancy, hengki, senpri, laura are among the list. eni will join the list soon. she will get marry this September... then she kept asking me why eddy, me and jan andre still in the jomblo club... hahaha... i guess we are too picky, aren't we? haha....
during today lunch time, i got called by eddy whether i can join their dinner together as eni will fly back to jakarta tomorrow... too bad i can not join due to my english course huhuhuhu...

Friday, July 4, 2008

beyond my limit

what is limit? how can one measure and set the limit? what would happened when someone stepped on behind their limit?

according to dictionary, limit means the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure. for me, how to measure and set the limit is very relative to each person. one can set the same or higher limit than others for the same occasion.
then when someone already set the limit, what if he/she pass by the limit? what if it is over limit? usually over something is not a good thing, i.e. over weight... then what about over limit?
should be not a wise thing to do...

it happened this week when i forced myself beyond my physical limit. I felt sick from last sunday but I still had some projects on the go that I had to complete by the end of this weeks, which is today. Later I treated myself real hard. I consumed every what I thought can help me to go through this, i.e vitamin C twice a day, Mr. P aka Panadol, tolak angin, chicken soup, etc. yes, it was worked. I was able to deliver the project on time as well as I still could manage to attend the courses.

As I said before this is not a wise thing to do... My stamina drop very fast now. I felt body aching, coughing, sore throat, cold, headache. But at least tomorrow is weekend so I can take a good and long rest...

Sunday, June 29, 2008

alone in the dark

Sunday, 29 June, 2008

07.00 am
woke up with a bit headache...

07.30 am
tried to sleep as headache worsen...

10.00 am
woke up and went to market to buy breakfast...

10.30 am
went back home and watched Frog Prince...

13.00 pm
got lunch...

14.00 pm
body aching and felt unwell... tried to take a nap...

18.00 pm
woke up... took a bath... frens asked me to join them going to singapore flyer, but instead of asking "do you want to go?", he asked "you don't want to go, rite?"... at first i felt pissed off hearing that as if he expect me not to go, but i'm get over it now...

18.30 pm
chatted with some frens...

19.00 pm
felt hungry... but shit... all the nearby shops didn't open... what a coincidence...
decided to go to tbp... had a garlic chicken... then oh shit again... it was raining... and i'm trapped inside as i didn't bring any umbrella... waited for half hour but the rain seemed not friendly... thought of two options... watched movie or went somewhere place...

20.00 pm
decided to go to river valley to watch bungy... but hei... it was also rain there... failed to connect online... scanned phone contacts to find someone to chit chat with... at this state for about few minutes, i felt very lonely here... really alone... scanned contacts again, and called one of my ex colleague for 57 minutes 23 seconds...

21.30 pm
the rain stopped, but i haven't watch the bungy show yet... walked around the central to wait the show to start again...

22.00 pm
watched 3 pinoy gals testing their fear factor and took two kinds of bungy instead of one... wew... at this state for the first time in the day, i'm able to smile and laugh by hearing their scream... haha... they screamed really loud... i was tempted to try that bungy as i need to scream also... haha... but right inside my heart, actually i felt abit scared... haha...

23.00 pm
headed home...

23.20 pm
arrived at home...

23.30 pm
blogging now... ^^

gud nite...

Sunday, June 15, 2008

falling in love again with agnes

recently i'm in love with song and video "Matahariku" by Agnes Monica... She looks much much beautiful and mature than before....

Friday, May 2, 2008

friday blue

I feel blue today eventhough today is friday... I'm veri tired and sleepy. probably this is side effect of the "long and high yesterday journey". I also feel unwell and pain in my tooth.
I'm missing my bed so bad haha...

Thursday, May 1, 2008

mis-placed behavior

last nite while waiting 4 my fren @ city hall mrt station, there came 3 SPF young man (probably NSFs posted to SPF) to tighten the security there... Surprisingly, the one stand in front of me kept texting while on duty. Even though I'm not Singaporean, I do work and live here and concern about the security, so I felt a bit annoyed about this guy's mis-placed behavior. Too bad I didn't get my camera along and my phone was dead. If not, I could snapped away some pics of him, so you can see how irresponsible he was. Is this kind of lack of discipline had made Mas Selamat escaped? err.. I'm not the proper person to answer that...

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

reaching the end of HaiZiWang chapter... will reborn as WangZi

Looking back for 25 years, life has taught me so many things... Frenship, Love, Hate, Joy, Fun, Happy, Sad, Cry, Hurt, and so on... you named it, you got it... err, of course except sex and marriage... haha... I call it HaiZiWang life.
I've been through up and down few times in HaiZiWang before, but never felt so hurt and down like one year ago. It cut so deep it hurts down to my soul. My friends told me I ain't the same no more. I knew my heart was breaking. I really learn from it. I finally built up the strength to walk away. I don't regret it but I still live with the side effects. Still little protective 'bout the people that I let inside. Still little defensive thinkin folk be tryna run my life. Still little depressed inside, I fake a smile and deal with the side effects.
And now I marked today as the end of Hai Zi Wang (King of kids) chapter, and will start a new beginning as Wang Zi (Prince).
Some of you may think it is a metamorphosis phase of me... no, it isn't. it is not like an ugly caterpillar becomes a beauty butterfly. HaiZiWang is part of me, and always be. I won't throw it away as I also don't want to forget it. Maybe the fit word for this is reborn. yeah... I reborn as the same old brand new me haha... Now I see people in different way. I can see and know myself much better than before. I love who I am now. I do care more about myself. I do want ppl see and look high at me. I do want to be a talk-active. I do want to be a pro-active. That's why I describe it as "Wang Zi" with all his ego and charisma...

The new chapter "Wang Zi" begins from here...

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Lactobacilus Acidophilus

i bet you guys wonders what Lactobacilus Acidophilus is about? it is a beneficial bacteria for our body...
i tell you how do i know that.
two weeks ago i got a high fever and pain all over the body, then i decided to see a
physician. the lady doc then gave me only muscle relaxation + fever medicine only... but i still got a high fever the day after seeing doc. then i decided to see the doc again coz i'm scared of having dengue... the second doc gave me antibiotic.. the medicine was effective to cool down my fever, but i started vomiting whenever i ate something... i thought it took a while only, but i had to suffer for days... i mean i kept vomiting... then i go see the doc again, this time i was given a vomit medicine. the doc explained that the antibiotic caused that and i must stopped consuming it. apparently, the vomit medicine didn't work, i felt desperado... then i went searching on net, i found some article that explains the antibiotic we consume may "kill" beneficial bacteria in our body, that's why it causes the vomiting... the solution is we have to consume Lactobacilus acidophilus. this bacterial can be found in some yogurt. I decided to take this advice, and seems it worked... ^^

this story maybe can be used as a reference hehe

Monday, April 7, 2008

untitled

wew... it's been 2 months + since my last post... i was soooo lazzzy to create a new post, even though i have many stories to tell, like my chinese new year holiday @ jkt n bandung, my new job, my new interest of game, my bday.... why am i so lazy? i also dunno why...
anyway, i resume what happening for the past two months...

before i started my new job @ starhub, i took a long break to jakarta and also to celebrate cny. jakarta was flooded when i went there... and what make it worst no electricity at all at my house for days...wtf...

about my new job, so far still ok... nothing much to tell...

about game... i'm crazy about the maple game now... maybe because it's 2D game that make me interest to play it haha

my bday? i got so many wishes... really thx... and i also got a choco cake from my ex-students @ batam.. so nice of you guys.. thx alot

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

DnD Takasago 07

Takasago Dinner n Dance 2007 was held at singapore civilisation museum at 14 Dec. This year event brought up shanghai casino nite theme... so the dress code must also followed the theme....











AT 6.30 pm the gate was open. Before the event begun, guests could have a palm reading, tattooing, and of course the casino... I did the tattoo on my left chin. To play at casino, every guests got 5 chips to play with. the chips can be used also for later auction. I lose all mine to dealer hiks...

7.30 pm, but the event haven't started yet... I was so hungry --"
Finally, at 7.50 pm, MC opened the show... but not dinner yet.. weks... Then takasago girls came out to dance and sing some chinese folk songs.. aiyo yo... after the taka girls, MC want us to played the game 1st... 14 tables is divided into two teams: golden and red team.. i joined the golden team one... at final, the winner team will get ang pao to each person :)


the game somehow was pending... Committee gave awards to long time service employers (5, 10, 15, and 20 years)... wow... 20 years??? ck ck ck

after that, the moment i waiting for.... the "makan" time... yeah....


























Then, DnD is continued with another games show, lucky draw for 20 price, a show by two girls...

















the game was pending again. this time MC announced the nomination of best dressed male and female, which will be crowned as Mr. and Mrs. Takasago... and guess what... I am one of the nominator.... wew... I'm so socked yet still got excited... haha... Like Hey, gorgeous (ch u show) the best 3 must do something before got voted.... Men have to do a catwalk and dance tuo tiau - tuo tiau... women have to do a catwalk but not doing that tuo tiau - tuo tiau... wew... not fair aaa.... --"





















After each showing their best, we got voted... and guess what... I won.... I was crowned as Mr. Takasago... what an em brassing moment...
Mrs Takasago is Ivy, my Indonesian colleagues..

after this silly mr and mrs thing... the game was continued and golden team was won and got angpao... haha....

Finally, the moment we've been waiting for that is lucky draw. the grand price was $1188, 2nd price was trip to Bangkok, and 3rd price was digital camera... and as you guys can guessed.. I was no luck in any draw before, so was I this time.. lol

the time have already showed 11.05 pm, all people went to the floor to dance dance dance....
we left the ballroom at 11.45, a perfect time to catch the last MRT train...

so that's the story lho... I still very em brassed until now because suddenly I became a famous man in office... lol.... It's not a good thing haiz...

Saturday, December 1, 2007

amel bday at NTU

hari ini ada acara makan2 di cafe nya NTU.
temen kuliah gw dulu traktir makan2 di sono.
katanya sih cafe itu terletak di puncak nya NTU. dgr begitu bayanginnya seru deh... haha

pagi ini rada telat bgn nya.. almost 10 am aa... buru2 mandi, gogi, ganti pakaian...
liat2 jam.. dah jam 10an... janji ama tmn ketemuan di mrt red hill jam 11...
gawatnya blum beli kado pula... (sori mel, kalo baca harap jgn marah hihi)
akhirnya pg deh ke tiong bahru plaza.. challenger blum jg buka (dr kemarin dah ngincar sih mau beli tas disini).

lagi nunggu, felix (cowo nya amel) telpon kalo janjian ketemuan di mrt undur stgh jam, akhirnya gw ju pg sarapan lho.

hbs sarapan ke challenger, beli tas, then pg toko more than words buat bungkus kado...
hbs tuh buru2 naik mrt ke red hill, ketemuan ama felix, sherly, n karyono.. naik taksi ke nanyang. supir taksi nya rada goblok jg. masa nanyang aja ga tau, blg NTU jg ga tau... swt deh
dia taunya nantu..... aduh... swt lagi deh....

nyampe di NTU kira2 jam 12, ternyata cafe yg dibayangin rada beda deh... "puncak" nya beda hahahaha...
actually, the cafe is not that bad. it is located just in front of school of computer engineering.
(apa hub nya ya) hahaha

amel ternyata dh tungguin ama temenya. namanya patrik, org indo jg, lulusan UI.
then datanglah satu cewe manis dengan bawa payung, namanya vero, anak untar angk 2001. jadi total ada 7 org deh.

hbs pesan makan (gw pesan grilled salmon), ya biasa lha ngobrol2... biasanya korban pembicaraan si amel, tp x ini korban nya si sherly deh hahaha...
jam 1an gt dgr radio deh (dah janji ama someone buat dgr radio jam segitu), tp ternyata gw salah jadwal pula. gw ingatnya jam 12 indo, ternyata acara di radio itu mulai jam 12 sg... wah lau eh....sori ya.... hiks hiks


makan selesai, sesi foto2... jepret sana jepret sini... tp model2 cewe komentar nya byk x.. ya jgn close up lha
jgn keliatan jerawat lha... swt bgt x haha

acara bubar deh, tp alamak hrs jalan kaki turun gunung ke bus stop... waaaaaaaa.... tanggung jwb mel. kok ga dijelasin dulu seluk beluk tmpt makanya aaaaaaaaaaaa....

but anyway.... thx for the lunch... wish u the best this year n next year :)