Child, open your eyes
Saturday, December 27, 2008
A lot of things happened recently out of nowhere. Shocking things, both positive and negative. Well, through these things did I found out lots of things, about me, and other people. So... I'm both happy and sad. A rather bittersweet feeling.
Okay I hate putting up personal things in my blog, but I have to let this out:
when did Friendship become so complicated?
Why do friends have conflicts, why do they hate each other sometimes. Why can't there just be peace?
I find all those teenage dramas not to my liking. I wondered what if I could be just left with one person in this world. What's one's can be the others, and two people can completely understand the other. I wondered what it would be like. If I could just sit down with another person in silence and be completely in peace, I'd give for it.
Peace peace peace. I want to have peace. But the world never allows it, big or small. One moment's joy is so easily crushed. People always wish for the time to stop when they've found peace. Like simple things that can mean a lot.
Why do people destroy that...?
Okay I hate putting up personal things in my blog, but I have to let this out:
when did Friendship become so complicated?
Why do friends have conflicts, why do they hate each other sometimes. Why can't there just be peace?
I find all those teenage dramas not to my liking. I wondered what if I could be just left with one person in this world. What's one's can be the others, and two people can completely understand the other. I wondered what it would be like. If I could just sit down with another person in silence and be completely in peace, I'd give for it.
Peace peace peace. I want to have peace. But the world never allows it, big or small. One moment's joy is so easily crushed. People always wish for the time to stop when they've found peace. Like simple things that can mean a lot.
Why do people destroy that...?
Farewells
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Well well I haven't updated in a while =x Sorry guys, I've been busy, been going out every day since the start of the holidays and never had any remaining time and energy to blog.
DEC 22, 2008
The six of us (Chu, Susan, Ratna, Ken, Sam & I) planned to go to Senayan City today, hang out and all. (No more alcohol, btw) And by 10.30am, when Susan Ratna and I were about to leave, we found out that SAMMY WAS STILL ASLEEP.
So we decided to give him a little surprise wake-up visit. With Ken giving directions on the phone, we reached Sam's house which is not that far away. His maids were super confused seeing 3 beautiful girls on his doorstep early in the morning wahaha. He was called down...
Woot woot super short pants. Ratna drool.
I joke I joke. Ah and so the three of us had to wait downstairs on the sofa for a long time since Sammy wouldn't allow us upstairs -_- and he had to take a shower... So wait we did. Then Sam gave me the Lisa Ono CD! Thanks Sizz!
In Sency, we met Ken and Chu. Chu brought us all early Christmas presents! Yay! Ratna was overjoyed with the animal printed pouch she received. And then we went to the food court, where we planned to execute.... MISSION CUPID!!
Oooh curious aren't you now. But I cannot say this in such a public media, I have to keep the privacy of my two friends. But for the sake of nostalgia, I shall list down some things worth remembering...
- Claymore convo
- Chu and Ratna going to the toilet all of a sudden
- Leaving me and Ken confused
- Ratna comes back
- Plan B she said... but there is no Plan B!!!
- We ran
- Pants were slipping off
- Twilight movie tickets
- Chu's little manoever from behind the walls
- My little mental manoever
- I ran away!
- And finally... a successful execution of our MISSION CUPID!!
And well I took the time to go christmas shopping. Found my Dad a tie from ZARA. I wanted to buy him a tie because I've had a conversation with him about it before and he said he wanted an expensive tie but never bought one. So I thought I should buy him something rather luxurious but since I'm just a kid and I can't afford to buy an Hermes tie, I got him one from ZARA. But I like it a lot though!
I also found something for my Mom. I was actually planning to find her jewellery, but that is a little hard to find and so in the end I bought the 'GIFT FOR MOM' package from Body Shop.
Me and Ratna pretending to be mannequins at the TopMan display:
Yeah so throughout the whole mission we were looking out everywhere to make sure we weren't found out or caught... And finally, everyone reunited again:
By the way, we met Dr San. AGAIN. Why oh why.
At the foodcourt, we played truth or dare. It was hyperactivity. I was red in the face from all the laughter. I've always wanted to do this to Sam and Ken... hold back Sam's dare, and when Ken gets a dare, we make them both walk together hand in hand in a mall. I've been waiting so long to see it happen and today finally =D Sam was even holding Ratna's animal print bag! Hee!
What else did we do... We made Chu gargle standing up for 10 whole seconds. Ratna had to pretend she had an illness of the unconscious urge to steal and take something from another customer's table. I had to roam the foodcourt using the superman flying pose with Ratna's jacket as a cape.
And uh... don't remember what else. Others were truth stuff and I won't post them here.
Oh yeah and we watched Twilight before we went to the food court. Forgot the sequence of things already.
After Senayan City, Sam, Ken, Ratna and I were going to Ho's farewell party at Pancious. But before that, we had to go to Ken's house. While Ken packed his sleepover essentials, Sam took Ratna and I for a short tour around Ken's house. We went up the rooftop~
Ratna and I agreed that Ken has a rad living room.
After that, we went on a super duper loooooong trafficky journey to Biak where Sammy visited his grandma. I think we were already late. Then we finally left to Pancious. Ratna and I were already feeling at home in Sam's car. We were just sprawled over the couch singing I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing shamelessly. The poor driver.
And finally! We reached Pancious!!!
Oh man I haven't met these guys in so darn long ahah. I could never make it to most school visits since I had Uniprep. IRENE IS BACK!!! Weeeeeee my ojii-san welcome back to Indonesia, babe!
Everyone's hair grew longer... like Janet's... Allison, Angela... Bella and Allison were so proud of their brace-less teeth. Haha.
Here is the good ol' boy, Hos:
Aha I think he was "model-posing" here, giving me "fierce" looks. =D
Well, the day was fun. Met lots of people, had fun and all. And Mission Cupid. Mufufufu.
Aha I think he was "model-posing" here, giving me "fierce" looks. =D
And here is everyone~
Well, the day was fun. Met lots of people, had fun and all. And Mission Cupid. Mufufufu.
Oh and in the night, Ratna slept over in my house. I made her wear my Toadily Cool shirt wkwk. This would be the less scandalous picture of her in my pajamas:
The moment she came in my room, she started charging her phone in my socket. The girl sure knows how to make herself at home. Oh and since she didn't wash her hair, I wouldn't let her use my pillows at first cause it's GROSS. But she later found my long lost photobox pictures with my family in Taiwan so I let her use it.
DEC 23, 2008
I thought that this day would be eventless since I had to plans to go anywhere and Ratna and Susan weren't allowed to go out again. So I was at home chatting...when all of a sudden... Sammy decided he wanted to come to my house.
O_o
In the end, there was Susan, Chu, Ken and Sam. Ratna couldn't make it. At first, Sam and Ken were supposed to go home early at around 4.30PM but some long unimportant things happened and in the end, all of them stayed in my house until 11.00PM...
Aha. Yeah late I know. They should've just stayed over or something. We were already on the brink of sleeping on the couch in my living room anyway... Well, I was. So what we did we watched (but didn't finish) tons of horror movies. And I got to say something, horror movies don't get to me anymore...! O_O
Exorcism of Emily Rose was the least of my worries that night. I think I might have overcome the horror movie fear?? Wow wow. Afterwards, we watched The Notebook... where I expected to cry like mad since that was what happened the first time I watched it years ago but I think my tear gland has improved in the leakage system recently. I cried once... only once... And just a little.
Then we played Guitar Hero III. Nothing much to say here. We only played for a while until we changed the game to Fatal Frame III. Yes, that game again. I just always play it whenever people come. But I wasn't the one at the controls this time, it was Ken. He played until... Hour 4... -_- Even I who only watched was tired. Can't imagine being at the controls.
Anyways okay this post is damn long and it's giving me a headache. Will write some more soon or later about other events that happened this week! Cao for now!
Labels: Bina Bangsa School, Cupid, Pancious, Senayan City, surprise, The Body Shop, tie, TopMan, Truth or Dare, ZARA
Mates
Friday, December 19, 2008
Yesterday was the first time the 6 of us frequent chatmates (me, Sam, Susan, Ratna, Chu, Ken) met up together. I was first to reach Chu's house, then Susan and Ratna turned up later. After playing the piano and such, Chu offered us to drink!
I have never drank before, and so firstly, I tried the peach Chardonnay which is only 5% alcohol, and just one little sip of it. I tasted, I swallowed. Hm. Okay. Then I tried the 10% alcoholic drink, which name I've forgotten, and drank. Hmmm. Alright.
Soon, I was pouring drinks, mixing honey with lemon with chardonnay and drank it down. So far I've had one whole cup. Then I had more of the 10% alcoholic drink, undiluted.
Sam-chan at the back.
Nice sky, nice weather! 
Drunk pose:
Ken's pose in the above picture gave me an idea for the next theme, Emo: 
The boys... failed to look emo.
I have never drank before, and so firstly, I tried the peach Chardonnay which is only 5% alcohol, and just one little sip of it. I tasted, I swallowed. Hm. Okay. Then I tried the 10% alcoholic drink, which name I've forgotten, and drank. Hmmm. Alright.
Soon, I was pouring drinks, mixing honey with lemon with chardonnay and drank it down. So far I've had one whole cup. Then I had more of the 10% alcoholic drink, undiluted.
When Sam and Ken came, I was in this condition:
Ratna says, judging from those 2 photos, I WAS DRUNK. BUT I WAS NOT. I was merely very sleepy. I haven't had enough sleep for the whole week, and I just had alcohol, and I was sitting on Chu's very comfortable chair, and Susan was playing the piano... I just... drifted off to half-sleep.
Okay so Sam and Ken came. They refused the alcohol. And Ken earned the title "Ice-man" for this particular reason which I am lazy to describe since it's an inside joke anyway. And look at these two people who kept scurrying into one corner playing the piano:
After a while, we went to Mega Mall. I felt... internal heat. And according to everybody else, I couldn't walk straight. Which was not true, since when I tried walking on a straight line of the tiles, I could do it.
Mega Mall didn't really have anything, so after some time, we went to Pluit Junction... we still haven't had lunch. Oh and this is our seating arrangement in Susan's car:
Sam-chan at the back.
Ice-man at the front:
Mind you, it was very very hard to get a picture of Ken.
And we really loved to tease Sam:
... Well, the point is, we wouldn't allow him out the storage compartment.
We had lunch at Frankfurter (is it?). Met several boys Ratna thought was worth being pedophillic over. Played at AMAZON. Took pictures in the photobox I love. One picture was very funny. Ken had a polka-dotted red ribbon on his head and wings on both sides. So cute. Nyeh.
Oh and we also met Helena, Evelyn, and Jesslyn. Helena looks the same as ever! But her voice is slightly different... She now has a Singaporean accent larh, and voice become more bassy some more.
It was over 5:00pm. We were going home...
Nice sky, nice weather!
In Chu's house, we took even MORE photos (I thought we had too little):
Drunk pose:
Ken's pose in the above picture gave me an idea for the next theme, Emo:
The boys... failed to look emo.
Next up, is a pose my friend Recca liked to use, so I call it Recca-pose =D :
Next is android face:
Sam is cut off here:
Next is android face:
Sam is cut off here:
More pictures in Ratna's blog.
The day was a blur. I was hyper. I'm not sure if it's really because of the alcohol though, I felt kind of sober... I think... Well, I can't really remember anymore. And if you're wondering if I will turn alcoholic, I assure you I won't. Because last time, I saw these group of guys who were pretty skinny, but had a bloated stomach, and I don't want that on me. So alcohol-addiction is a no-no.
I reached home at 8:00pm, and went online. But since my internet was sucky, I actually went to sleep at 9:30pm.....!!! O____O I mean wow. I can't remember the last time I slept even close to that time. So early. It was good though.
Oh yeah! Another thing~ TODAY IS MY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! ^___^ ... before the holidays, I mean. Christmas holiday, yipee~ I've been looking forward to this for sooo loonggg... Ah I'm going to relax myself... Joy.
Labels: alcohol, AMAZON, chardonnay, Christmas, Mega Mall, photographs, Pluit Junction
Twilite Youth Orchestra
Monday, December 15, 2008
Ohmygod I'm so tired today... Monday blues monday blues...
Alright I can cross one thing off my wishlist now! Yay! I've attended my very first (official) orchestra performance! =D
It all happened one day a week ago. I was telling my Dad about a vision of myself in Melbourne attending an orchestra performance wearing a black winter coat and boots and... Yeah, so I was yearning to watch it. And later in the night, Sammy asked me if I wanted to watch Twilite Youth Orchestra!
Wow. I agreed of course. Orchestra...!
So after a week of anticipation, Sunday arrived. Our beloved, kind, generous friend Chu actually offered Susan and I a ride to the place. Thanks a lot buddy!
Alas, after about 45 minutes of car ride, we... were still not there. Apparently we went the wrong way... Well, fortunately the actual place wasn't too far away, and we reached there in... well, half an hour, but still. Anyway here it is:
I seem to always have this argument with other people about colours. Often, I would be one to call them colour blind... Yesterday, everybody agreed the thing was orange in colour. And Sam called ME colour-blind. However, that is not possible since girls cannot be colour-blind. Guys only. Chu even suspected my blue contacts had an effect on my colour judgement. Well... I don't think that is the case. No matter how I look at it, IT IS NOT ORANGE.
People tend to simplify colours, which is something I never and cannot do... There is just so much more than primary colours:
Let's take the sky for example. Would you call it BLUE??? How can the sky ever be JUST blue. Look at the picture above, that is blue. And do we ever see the sky in that solid blue colour? No we don't. Now let's have an example of the different tones of a single "blue" colour:
Susan thinks that no matter what, I am only adding extra adjectives for instance "metallic ashen brown" is the colour of the bass's neck when it catches the light.... Sam thinks it's just brown. How can it just be brown. 
=.=
I don't think it resembles the colour of the tank top.
Miss Amanda!
If you read my older posts, I once mentioned I would like one of those bear thingies... Well, according to the box, it's called a Birthday Mouse. But I think it still looks more like a bear... wait... okay nvm, a mouse it is.
You can't really see it since I took this picture from the mirror, but "SEP" for September is printed on one ear, and 25, which is my birthdate, is on its faceless head. Also, the box containing gifts for me and my brother is super duper CUTE:
I am so keeping it!!! Thanks again Shar~
Owee~ Chu says I resemble a fish here. Kay whatever you Shaun-minded-person.
Alright I can cross one thing off my wishlist now! Yay! I've attended my very first (official) orchestra performance! =D
It all happened one day a week ago. I was telling my Dad about a vision of myself in Melbourne attending an orchestra performance wearing a black winter coat and boots and... Yeah, so I was yearning to watch it. And later in the night, Sammy asked me if I wanted to watch Twilite Youth Orchestra!
Wow. I agreed of course. Orchestra...!
So after a week of anticipation, Sunday arrived. Our beloved, kind, generous friend Chu actually offered Susan and I a ride to the place. Thanks a lot buddy!
Alas, after about 45 minutes of car ride, we... were still not there. Apparently we went the wrong way... Well, fortunately the actual place wasn't too far away, and we reached there in... well, half an hour, but still. Anyway here it is:
The first familiar face we saw was Vika. Shock. I didn't expect to see him there. Actually, I didn't expect to see familiar faces at all! Well... I was wrong... But before I get to that, let's start of from the beginning first.
So I called Ken, whom I had expected to be there first since his house is very close... But... him, Albert and Sammy were still in his house... Shock. Well, we bought the tickets first for 50thou. We also got the paper thing with the song list and the performers' names. It took me several minutes looking for a long name like "Gratinius Putra Data", which is Wesley's last name. But I couldn't find it. Then Susan or Chu pointed out his name... which was typed as a simple "Weasley"... Poor poor guy.
Then, since I planned to blog about this event, we took pictures!
Damnit. Stupid blurred camera.
Later the guys came:
... which was unexpectedly FAST. Like only 5 minutes... And notice... that there are two people wearing the same outfit. Ahaha soul mates. I mean even the white t-shirt inside is the same.
We went in the hall just in time. Our seats were somewhere in the front. There I saw Keyzia, who was my junior in BBS. Didn't expect to see her.
I know cameras aren't allowed but I took this photo before the performance so it's okay.
The first song was pretty good. Since I had spent my previous days watching Nodame Cantabile live action drama, I knew what to look out for. I focused more on the concert master, who is the violinist at the front left. I also observed the conductor, Budi Utomo Prabowo.... which is something I would never bother to do if I didn't watch Nodame Cantabile. I now understand the role of the conductor. Often, I would just look at him, towering over all the other players, waving his white wand ever so gracefully. And every gesture seemed to bring the music alive, and... I would describe in more details, I would. About how the light shone and how beautiful the instruments looked in it. But this paragraph is fatty as it is so let's leave it at that.
The soloist was an 11-year-old cello player called Harry Gilfillan. Well I guess he is good... But don't know, I wasn't THAT impressed. It was just like oh okay cool. Maybe it's cause I've seen too many little kids below 10 years old being musical prodigies on youtube.
After the Cello Concerto, we had a 20-minutes intermission, which we all spent just sitting down, looking back to search for Dr Santosa in the crowd of people. Yes, Dr San was there. The lady who sat down next to me said so when I told her I went to school in BBS. I also saw for the first time, Ms Lydia's new boyfriend. He really looked like Try!
And then check out this picture...
Look at the tailpiece of the contrabass/double bass (don't know what it's called) on the right. There is an 'orange' thing stuck beneath it no? Well, we had a long long argument about it... Although yes I admit in this picture it looks orange-y, in real life, I can swear it is PALE CORAL RED.
Or, as in this visual, it would be classified as the colour 'Dream Sicle':
I seem to always have this argument with other people about colours. Often, I would be one to call them colour blind... Yesterday, everybody agreed the thing was orange in colour. And Sam called ME colour-blind. However, that is not possible since girls cannot be colour-blind. Guys only. Chu even suspected my blue contacts had an effect on my colour judgement. Well... I don't think that is the case. No matter how I look at it, IT IS NOT ORANGE.
People tend to simplify colours, which is something I never and cannot do... There is just so much more than primary colours:
Let's take the sky for example. Would you call it BLUE??? How can the sky ever be JUST blue. Look at the picture above, that is blue. And do we ever see the sky in that solid blue colour? No we don't. Now let's have an example of the different tones of a single "blue" colour:
Susan thinks that no matter what, I am only adding extra adjectives for instance "metallic ashen brown" is the colour of the bass's neck when it catches the light.... Sam thinks it's just brown. How can it just be brown.I know what you're thinking, I'm making such a big fuss over small things. But I don't get it either why these ignorance to different colour tones gets on my nerves... For example, does this sound accurate?
There is an orange tank top on the green table.
=.=
There is a pale coral red tank top on the seafoam green table... I would say that...
I googled, and this is what is classified to be true orange:
I don't think it resembles the colour of the tank top.
Well, the point is, it's just this personal feeling I have about specifications of colours. Just giving opinion.
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Yeah anyway. Back to the concert.
After the intermission, the songs became REALLY good. To be honest, I was getting a tad bit bored during the Cello Concerto. Whoops don't kill me. But after the 20-minutes-break, everything was just... AWESOME.
I loved The Tame Bear and Wild Bears from Wand of Youth Suite No.2 by Edward Elgar. Very impressed by the ending of Wild Bears.
And after that!!! PEER GYNT, SUITE NO.1 BY EDVARD GRIEG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ohmygod if that isn't one of my absolute favourite... Morning Mood is like... the one song I was anticipating so much for.
I forgot to mention - the small cellist, Harry, played a solo for his last song. I was surprised because I actually played that song on my violin in the morning before the concert! It's in my Suzuki Violin Method Vol.3 book, called Gavotte in D Major by J.S. Bach.
Okay back to Morning Mood. So when the song had just started, I was dying to just squeal and be an annoying little brat in an orchestra performance. But of course I kept it down and just smiled ever so excitedly to Susan who was beside me. Throughout the song, I constantly smiled to the music... I watched the conductor flow, and the bows of the violins seemed to follow suit, like this really calming wave... The flute was also really awesome; good job Weasley!
Unfortunately the song had to end. Alas! The other songs from Peer Gynt were also AWESOME. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, especially during the last song, In the Hall of the Mountain King. I was like... omg. Totally amazed. Stunned. Also, in the song Death of Ase, there were reeaaally silent moments, and I just literally held my breath. It was like if I breathed, something would go wrong. I thought about the possibility of me suddenly thinking of something funny and LOL-ing, but I immediately got rid of the thought in case I remembered a hilarious joke. It would be so embarassing...
After the concert, I met Stacia! Didn't expect her either. And later I found out that Amanda plays in Twilite too! Whew. And look who I met:
Ah yes.
So we all waited for the performers to come out. Wanted to give a hollywood celebrity papparazi greeting. I was ready with my camera:
Miss Amanda!And Weasley!
Only after that, did I realise that our friend from BBS, Jeremy (no, I won't say it's 'Jordy' again, Susan, I don't make the same confident mistake twice) was also part of Twilite Youth.
Jeremy, Susan, Amanda, Stacia, Vina (whoo damn I look tall here), Sammy, Wesley, Ken, Chu, Albert
Thank you Gaby for the picture =D
Okay my hands are tired from typing this post. Damn long. Anyways after approximately 20mins of just chatting around, we went home. Susan and I went to Chu's house where we would be picked up by my parents. On the car ride home, the three of us had a little bonding time =)
I realised I haven't been in good contact with them. Who can blame me? They're always going out when I can't. Blame Uniprep for dismissing me so late (hey who am I to complain, don't want to get kicked by Science students). Anyway aaah I want to spend more time with you guys before I actually leave to Melbourne, which is not too far from now. In fact, Uniprep is ending in approximately 3 weeks, excluding the December holiday, which is not that long anyway.
And here is a little gift from dear Shar who just came back from Singapore woot woot:
If you read my older posts, I once mentioned I would like one of those bear thingies... Well, according to the box, it's called a Birthday Mouse. But I think it still looks more like a bear... wait... okay nvm, a mouse it is.
You can't really see it since I took this picture from the mirror, but "SEP" for September is printed on one ear, and 25, which is my birthdate, is on its faceless head. Also, the box containing gifts for me and my brother is super duper CUTE:
I am so keeping it!!! Thanks again Shar~
Owee~ Chu says I resemble a fish here. Kay whatever you Shaun-minded-person.
Labels: Budi Utomo Prabowo, colours, Contrabass, Double Bass, Dr San, Harry Gilfillan, Orchestra, Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Twilite Youth Orchestra, Usmar Ismail Hall, Wand of Youth Suite No.2
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