Make up.....

I don't know why... suddenly I'm looking at the make up tutorial videos in YouTube....

Honestly, I'm not really a make up girl, most of the days you'll find me without make up. Even if I do wear make up, most likely it's only an eyeliner and a little bit of eye brows and that's all seriously.

If you saw me in a full make up... which is very very rare... usually it's for a very important party like my family wedding or something. Even I don't wear proper make up for my diploma graduation ceremony.... I know sometimes I'm pathetic as a girl.. My mother, aunties even grand aunt already suggest me to wear more make up, and encourage me to do it every single day....

Well.... they succeed to make me wear make up more often.. but still not everyday :D


It's not that I can't do make up... I can..
But... well... I'm just too lazy most of the time. Make up took time, and honestly sometimes make up bothers me. If suddenly it rains or you did something that made you sweat.. your appearance is even worse with make up.. Okay, you can wear waterproof products... but then you also need to use special other product to actually clean your face.

Oh there you go, another part that I don't like... cleaning your face took longer than usual plus also the feeling of wearing make up somehow makes my face oilier... and I don't like that.

hahaha yup, it's just all of the reasons why I don't wear make up most of the time...

Though I also realize that it's impossible for me to not wear make up especially later on when I'm officially in the career path. Make up is part of woman's clothes. Sooner or later I do need to wear make up....... >.< I guess... I really need to accustom myself to use make up from now... well... not the full fledged make up of course... just a simple one... maybe more on the eye... or maybe with powder.... not lipstick... I don't like those since I was young. :D I remembered when I was little, I was one of the bride's maid for my uncle's wedding, so they put make up on me. But I hate the feeling of wearing lipstick.. when no one was looking, I took it off hahahahahahaha :D



Anyway... from the videos that I watched.. This girl that doing the tutorial video, she also gave tips for healthier skin.. and yups.. it goes back to a healthy life style. I guess I do need to improve my healthy life style again... I did improve it before but then it goes back again to the unhealthy style... and now... I guess I really do put back the standard and improve :D

Well.. if I have a nicer skin.. it means less make up!!!! hahahahaha

Pressure's off but here he comes again...

Yup, did I ever tell you that I had a very relax days last week? Just because my midterm is past? and then we started totally with new subjects on the second part of the semester? Means that now we're just starting again and it also means that the projects would be far off later on?

Truth is... all of the above is just 'or so I thought...'

Last time... I could say I was underestimating my projects, I'm not really prepared yet for them and suddenly the deadline is in front of my eyes and I really felt that I should have done better by preparing better. I should have done it earlier is the sentence that always rang in my head. Not that I don't have enough time to do them, I do have enough time, I could finish all of them on time...
But still... I think I could have done better.

So.. here I am, in my second week of new subjects, sitting in the Library with books around me.
Yeah.. no kidding.....

I know some people do thought of me as a nerd or a diligent student or something. Truth is... I'm not as nerdy as they thought. I do take my time to relax, watch movies, going out, do my stuff and put my projects on a later date. Usually there are people pushing me around to finish my things early, that's how I finished early.
I remember during my high school, there are several people that always waiting for my home works because they need to copy it or to make it as the base of their work... so they keep pushing and asking me when I am finished.... That's how I actually finished my projects earlier.. and now without them catching my tails all the time, I'm pretty relax, and that's the truth.

So.. I think it's because of that thought of I should have done better, that drives me to start early. I made it clear in my calendar of when I should start doing each of my project and the preparation. I'm actually also glad that I had a new friend that is a workaholic, she started way early and done so many things... I think it's also a push factor for me to actually focus and serious at my studies and projects.

And yes, I have decided to be the good student that start the projects early, do a proper research about them and make a nicely done reports. I'll start early now, well, it's not bad for an ending of university life in this school on the top of the ski resort mountain of mine right? It's time to actually practice the slogan of "work hard and play hard" :D

Sorry that I loved you..

This is for someone that once I loved selfishly and forget selfishly....

I forgot when I actually came across this song.. but when I listened to it.. A certain someone came across my mind. I guess this song is perfect to described my feeling for him. And if he ever could listen to this song, I hope he'll know and understand.

Such a Blessing.....

I love learning aikido and shinkendo so I decided to continue and try to find a place which is accessible for me. Luckily I could find one from a teacher came from another city, he came every Monday to the Japanese School here in my city, and I can join them. I felt so happy that I could continue my hobby.

Though yeah... there are some hardships that I need to handle, I need to walk up to the Japanese school like 20-25 minutes walking up the mountain and now in the winter, with all of the snows. Also how to cope up with all of my reports in school..

But then I decided that I need to do some exercise, and this is my hobby too. So it's just something like a force to myself that I need to do some exercise each week and I need to be able to manage my time better. Even like now in my reports week, but I decided to still go. Partly, it's also because the class is so small and I don't feel comfortable to skip classes. The teacher had been so nice to drive up here for like 45 minutes drive from his town.

Apparently he is also a very gentle and nice person. He asked me if my parents going to pay for the lessons, so I answers the truth, no I'm paying it. Then he just torn the payment paper and said that I don't need to pay. He was so nice........... Actually I don't mind paying even honestly I also have a tight budget.

Actually, I am in a state of saving money because I'm not sure if I'm going to be employed later on, and so I need to save as much money as possible for savings later on. And this news came when I'm somehow trapped between unfinished reports.. I took it as such a blessing. Thanks God, thanks my teacher :)

So I have decided that I'm going to make cake/cookies to the class next time when I have time to make it :)

Ok now... I really really need to go back to the reports >.<

"Eyjafjallajokull"

I was reading CNN news about Qantas' Engine Failure that happen today (another excuse just to delay my report..), and I came across this..

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The incident happened in the same region as Indonesian volcano Mount Merapi, which is now active. Could this have been a factor?

Investigators will look at all possibilities. Earlier this year, no-fly zones were imposed across Europe due to ash clouds from Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull. It was feared that dust and ash from the volcano might damage airplane engines.

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I was like... "What??? How do you pronounce that thing????". I believe you would see straight away which word that I mean by it, or of course it's in the title of this blog entry anyway.
and so, my journey of research takes course (far away from the research that I should be doing now of course :D)..

It turns out that.. I'm not alone. It is an unspeakable word, there are so many people, who try to pronounce it, and FAIL... The greatest part is to actually listen to the news reporters and how much chaos it brings to the audio-visual news industry!! Everyone was like "How do we pronounce it??" "What's the right pronunciation?"


Of course it's a super challenge for poor news reporter/reader around the globe. Some were trying hard to "try" to pronounce it, some were AVOIDING it, and some, being creative, gave it a nickname. Yup a nickname.
This tragedy had become a global news reporters comedy. Especially for the Icelanders, the way these people try to pronounce the name of the mountain was hilarious. You could find various videos in YouTube of official airing from world-known NEWS TV channel on "how to pronounce it correctly guide".. I mean.. how often could you see these things on TV?? :D

Here is some of the reporters refer for "the" volcano / nicknames:
"The Unspeakable Volcano"
"Icelandic Volcano"
"Icelandic Volcano Tongue Twister"
"Bob"
"E15"
"Volcano"



Yes.. I know that this is too late already that I just knew about this name... but I do know when the volcano erupts, but I'm not really exposed to any world news here in Switzerland to be honest, and when I read the reports about this volcano eruptions, it was only stated as "Iceland's Volcano".... they never said the name!!!!! (which I could understand why...), and so.. I just knew about it..

Multi Cultural Diversity Problems in Movies

Few days ago, when I was "trying" to do my reports, like always, I ended up doing something else. This time.. I ran to youtube and found this old videos of The King and I that was produced half a century ago. It's about a widowed English woman who went to Siam Kingdom (Thailand at present) to teach the King's son. She ended up teaching all of his children and some of his wives and concubines.

I have watched the new version of the movie (Anna and The King) a few times before, but it was long time ago and I don't remember it well anymore. But the original version is interesting as well. I took me time to find the original movie, but then I managed it. It's a cute black & white movie, I love the children of the king, they left a big impression when they first appear. There are some differences from the plot of the story with the new one, but both are interesting. I like the King in the original version better though, maybe he looks like my old crush hahahahaha.

Something that I realized when I watched the movie is that unconsciously I was analyzing them!!! Thanks to the Multi Cultural Diversity subject at school I believe.. It's not really obvious in the original movie, maybe because it's more to the musical and drama side rather than giving a little bit more authenticity of the situations while the newer version is more to drama and action but in a more realistic side.

It's incredible how I notice things without actually want to notice it. Like the way they bow in the western society and the eastern society, like her head must never be higher than the king's and how the Thai's custom to put touch their forehead to the floor when they saw the king or no one is allowed to stand in the presence of the king.

The funny part is also when they called her 'Sir', since in their culture no woman could get a formal audience with the important people, therefore they called her 'Sir'. lol
She was also angry when the prime minister asked personal questions to her when she first arrived and she just want to get it done to the 'business' and the prime minister doesn't like it coz it is a custom to know the person personally before going down to 'business'.

The part that the son of Anna confused about why the king has so many wives were also interesting. Since in the west, they only accept monogamy while it is very common for the kings in the east to have hundreds of wives. Anna herself found it uncomfortable to answer that.

There are also lots of other topics that were in the movie such as slavery, torture of the prisoners, the degradation of women, the table manners, dancing, way of dress, cultural beliefs and other things that I don't remember now or even unnoticed by me.



Funny Quotes from The King and I (the way I remember it anyway):

King: "Oh you come to apologize"
Anna: "I'm sorry your majesty but...
King: "Do it and apologize!!"
Anna: "Your Majesty.. I.....
King: "I accept!"
Anna: "Your Majesty, nothing had been said and all the fact that...
King: "Sileeeeennceee....."

King: "I only have 10* children I know it's not much compared to the Emperor of China cause I only have 2* wives and 5* concubines. You see, I spent half of my life in the monastery and I've been trying to make it up. And oh, 10 children is coming"

King: "A girl must be.. like a blossom with honey.. for just 1 man. A man must live like honey bee... and gather all he can.. To fly from blossom to blossom.... A honeybee must be free... But blossom must not ever fly..... from bee.. to bee.. to bee.."

King: "1 2 3, 1 2 3..... something wrong. Oh I forgot and!!! 1 2 3 and 1 2 3 and.."



Anna and The King:

Prime Minister: "If this thing is going on, she would be the equal of a man"
King: "Not the equal of a man, prime minister, but the equal of the king"

If I die young....

I just listen to a song cover by Sam Tsui and Kurt Schneider... If I Die Young.....

Well.. I'm not planning to end my life young, no I don't... but who could know what will happen? I hope I could live forever young.. but again, it's impossible unless vampires are real and I could become one. :D

But well no one could tell when someone would die, it's all in the God's hands. So... just in case if something happens to me and I die young... I would like to tell this to everyone...

Believe me.. I have enjoyed my life the fullest.

I have fell in love and experienced it.
I have lots of my friends that I could trust and share my life with.
I have seen half of the world with my own eyes.
I have played music, sung and danced to my heart content with all the melodies of the world.
I have met lots of people from all over the world that left tiny little foot steps in my life.
I have experienced flying.
I have swam in the ocean, lake and river.
I have went to the jungle, climbed the trees and experience the nature.
I have read hundreds of stories and create some.
I have taste lots of wonderful and amazing foods from all over the world.
I have seen the world from my point of view, learned the magic and fell in love with it.

I could say that I have no regret in my life, perhaps my biggest regret and despair is to die before my mother and father.

But believe me, if I die... I would be flying with the stars and explore the galaxies like I used to dream when I was young, I would be happy and you should too.

If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Send me away with the words of a love song
then you can go and celebrate
coz I'm going to a much better place
I would be singing and dancing all day
with no more worries and pain

Things to do before Graduation

Today I watched a short movie made by Kurt Schneider in YouTube.. It's basically a short movie made for the graduation.. It's sweet in a way and cute too.

One think that actually gave me inspiration is to make a to do list before graduation. This semester is also my last semester in university. I might not be taking any other education program which means it might be my last chance on experiencing university life.. It hits me like a big stone in the face... I never actually considered it that way, and now that I realized it.... I need to make my own list..

I don't want to graduate with any regrets about things that I've never done in university life. :D

I've started to make my list, and it also surprised me... I haven't done any crazy things during my university life.. I guess it's a good sign.. but also.. I think I need to experience the crazy things too.. coz it's my last chance anyway.

I have never been drunk before in my whole life.. but yea.. I guess I need to try it once.

I have never celebrate Halloween with really dressed up, so... this is also my last chance.

You could also say that I never make a move to the person that I fell in love with, and I think I need to do it too... well... if I fell in love in this last semester though.. if it's not.. then... it's fine :D

Ok.. this one is from my room mate, when I asked her for her suggestions and opinion... she told me that I need to just kiss a random cute guy. Because she said.. c'mon it's university life, you need to do that at least once!! Well... I guess that's true too.. I never kissed any guy which is not my boyfriend before... and yea... it's crazy university life anyway :D

I'll keep this list and up date it from time to time... I don't want to have any regrets when I'm graduating because of the things that I didn't do before... ^^

BA update

Well, well......

I haven't updated anything for sometimes now.... well... truthfully I'm busy, but also.. occupied and of course... forgot hahaha..

The first snow has fell down here a couple of days ago, but ti's still a wet snow and it doesn't stay at all on the ground... so you can say it's like rain still, but it will be white and pretty soon :)
I also heard rumors from Asia that this year's winter is the coldest winter in 100 years....... Well.. it's not a good news at all for me. I'm living 15 minutes from school now and if it's going to be very cold... then it won't be good for me!! and I really hope that it's only a rumor, I mean... there's no such news about it here... so... it's only a rumor right?? :D

I have submitted the proposal of my dissertation, it's not as easy as I thought it would be honestly, but I think it should be okay. There are some things that I'm worrying about, like the way I'm going to do my primary research, seriously it's not really reliable way... but... I can't do it reliably. I don't have the time, connection or funds to do the proper research. So.. we'll see about the comments about it soon.

After the proposal... basically I'm in such a relax mood.. so I started watching some cartoons.. the "Nurarihyon no Mago" and "Avatar, the Last Airbender" :D
I love both of the cartoons a lot. Especially I also enjoy the opening song in Nurarihyon no Mago.. and it turns out that the band is Canadian-Japanese with this weird name "Monkey Majik", but they're amazing and I love all of their songs so far and so in love with the melody. Their songs already keep playing in my mind for a few days now but still persistent there :). If there's a guy that I quite like and sing "With You" by the band... I would be in love hahahahahaha.

Talking about love... my other best friend also just got a boyfriend recently. It's a nice event, since I could see that she's much happier now and the guy is also a good guy :D. And myself?? Still the same as always hahaha. Maybe I'm too picky, but lots of other girls also agree that in our environment right now there's not much decent choice.. so it's not only me! hahaha

So... also... why do I suddenly remember the blog?? Well.. got to write some reflective log for one of my assignments... yup.. it's just reminded me of this blog hahahahaha

well... back to the original plan.... assignments!!!! :D

Sadest Video Clip

Ok, I know it's a very very old video clip.. I think I watched this video the first time when I was in high school and that means around 6 years ago?? But still... this video was imprinted in my mind as the most sad video that I have ever seen. Then I saw the videos again, and then I found this one with the english subtitles of what the actual lyric means... this music video became even sweeter and sad...

Here is the lyric with the translation that I found in a blog :)

Dodeche ar suga obso namjadurui maum
wonhar ten onjego da juni ije tonande
ironjog choumirago nonun thugbyorhadanun
gu marur midosso negen hengbogiosso

I just cant understand the hearts of men
they tell you they want you and then they leave you
this is the first time, you're special
I believed those words and I was so happy


marur haji guresso nega shirhojyoda go
nunchiga obnun nan nur bochegiman hesso
norur yoghamyonsodo manhi guriurgoya
sarangi jonbuin nanun yojainika

you should have told me you didn't like me any more
but I couldn't see that and you just rushed me
although I will curse you I'll still miss you
since I am a girl, to whom love is everything



modungor swibge da jumyon gumbang shirhjungnenunge
namjara durosso thollin mar gathjin anha
dashinun sogji anhuri maum mogo bojiman
todashi sarange munojinunge yoja ya

i heard that if you give up things too easily
to a man, he will get bored with you
i don't think this is wrong
a girl says that she will never be fooled again
but she will fall in love again



marur haji guresso nega shirhojyodago
nunchiga obnun nan nur boche giman hesso
norur yoghamyonsodo manhi guriurgoya
sarangi jonbuin nanun yojainika

you should have told me you didn't like me any more
but I couldn't see that and you just rushed me
although I will curse you I'll still miss you
since I am a girl, to whom love is everything


[narration] Onur urin heojyosso budi hengbogharago
noboda johun sarammannagir barandago
nodo darun namjarang togathe nar saranghanda go marhanten onjego
sorjighi na nega jar doenungo shirho
naboda yepun yoja manna hengboghage jar sarmyon otohge
guroda nar jongmar ijoborimyon otohge
nan irohge himdunde himduro juggenunde
ajigdo nor nomu saranghanunde

[narration]
Hey babe
the pain
it's not enough to describe how i feel
we were so happy together
but I know now
I've been blind
you told me that you'd never let me down
whenever I needed you you'd always be here
I can forgive but I cant forget
even though you hurt me
I still love you
I still love you



sarangur wihesoramyon modun da har su inun
yojaui chaghan bonnungur iyong hajinun marajwo
hanyojaro theona sarangbadgo sanunge
irohge himdurgo oryourjur mollasso

don't take advantage of a girl's willingness to do anything for love
and her caring instinct
i didn't know that to be born as a girl and to be loved was so hard
although i will curse you i'll still miss you
since i am a girl, to whom love is everything
although i will curse you i'll still miss you
since i am a girl, to whom love is everything


Narration (Guy, only in the music video)
There's someone I'm in love with...
Although I can't be with her now...
I'm still in love with her...

BA life is Starting...

My first week of BA has past now.

So.. how's my impression? It would be a very exciting semester I guess. Lots of my friends had gone because they have finished their BA while I'm doing the optional internship. I was afraid that I won't have much friends this semester but I was wrong. I made a lot of new friends :)

Though it's very different with the past few years of education, but I feel very excited and challenged now. Yes, it is harder. Yes I would need to put lots of efforts for this semester. But yes, I am excited as well. We need to read so many things just by the first week!! Well, the motto of the year is read, read, read and more reading. No joking, that's all the teacher was saying in the class. It seems that by the end of the term I would be falling in love deeply with those books.

But why am I so excited?
At last I felt that I'm really in a university and no longer in high school. I decided to live outside the school with one of my best friends, so we actually had to walk up and down every single day, which most of the normal university people need to do. We had a lot of independent studies now. More individual reports too. So... I think I'm going to enjoy this last semester :D

Things to do:
- buy the Lebara mobile number
- upload holiday pictures in Facebook
- read the article and book for MCD
- read the article for ACB
- make the power point for ACB
- read and do the test for CI
- sign up for IRF & the workshop
- update CV
- make the dissertation topic
- contact Royal Caribbean for primary research permission

Diet Program

Yup, the title says it all... I'm planning on a diet. Why? Because my parents are coming. My mother actually that matters.. she always complains about my body condition which is, well... a bit overweight. Honestly, I never even bother to weight myself, cause I simply don't care. As long as I still could fit into my clothes, though I know already I'm a bit overweight, but as long as I didn't go to a big big overweight... I don't care. :D

But well... having my mom complains to me everyday, then followed by the whole family.. It's just like an echo that keeps ringing inside my head (because it's going to be very often said to me every single day..) is not something that I want. So... here we go.. less than a month diet.

I just read several sites about dieting and how to lose weight etc. etc., and.. I made a list that I COULD take (which means the ones that goes too extreme like weighting the rice that your going to eat goes out of the list straight away lol), and the things that are already in my habit, means I don't put it anymore :D

Here you go, the list that I got in my hand:

1. Drink lots and lots of water
2. Eat lots of vegetables and fruits (must present in every meal of the day)
3. Eat low calorie snacks
4. You still can eat your favorite food, no matter what it is, just in a smaller portion (or take it to hiking picnic, so you need to exercise before and after the meal)
5. Eating smaller portion of meals, more often if needed
6. Higher protein diet, especially breakfast (yoghurt, nuts, beans)
7. Get 8 hours of sleep [Gosh.. this one's going to be difficult..]
8. Aromatherapy could help
9. Spice your food (black pepper, ginger, chili pepper) [I love this one ^^]
10. Drink green tea [this too]
11. Don't drink too much while eating
12. Eat slowly
13. Skip desserts [T.T.... I love love love desserts T.T]
14. Take calcium into the diet (1 glass of skim milk before and after sleep)
15. Walk, walk, walk (don't use elevator, take longer route)
16. No alcohol [it's not that I'm a heavy drinker or something, but it's just means that I have to say no every time I got the chance socially to drink one]
17. Spread out the exercise (a little exercise here and there is better than 3 hours straight kind of exercise)

Ps: it is recommended to skip the diet SOMETIMES and not all the time, just to keep your mental healthy :D

Oh no!! it's 9.30 PM!!!!! I need to sleep at 10.00 PM if I want to get my 8 hours sleep!!!!!!
Well... we'll see how much can I reduce the fat in my belly LOL

Les Miserables

I'm in love......

I am deeply in love with 'Les Miserables'. I first knew about this opera when I was still a French language student in Jakarta. They were having this opera in Jakarta. I got the chance to see it. But as it was not familiar with me, and no one that could really accompany me to go there, I let the chance pass. I didn't even bother with it that much, which I regretted now.

Then... I heard this song.. 'I dream a dream' sang by Susan Boyle, the song was so sweet that I really love it straight away. Then again, I heard it in Glee, it still charms me. And so, just by curiosity I search it in YouTube, to see the original singer. I was surprised that it's actually a song from a play, Les Miserables, a play that I got the chance to see!!!!!

The video that I saw was a concert rather than a play actually, but the singers was so awesome, they are full with the characters. You can really feel their emotions inside the song, it's so beautiful. I end up watching the whole series of the concert..., and I fell in love.

The story itself is actually quite devastating, as the title itself, "Les Miserables", though it's originally in French, the language I mean, but in this concert, they sung it in English. I was truly satisfied though, since I understand English much more than my limited French, and so I can understand all the 'dialogs', which is one of the most interesting part. But something for sure, the songs... it's so incredible, beautiful, sweet, but very realistic. It really shows how the world could be such a dreadful place for some people, how luck could goes for such scoundrels, but how some people could still live their life with such hope and love...

Here is some of my favorite songs :)

Upcoming Holidays......

Life is sooooo nice when you're having somethings to wait for. It's true right?

My life before was just normal, so-so, and a bit down when I knew that I might not be able to go back home again for this year. Especially when my friends and I actually planning somethings back home. Yeah... we were planning to have a trip around Java Island... T.T

Too bad that my parents decided to come here instead and my plan to go on a vacation with my friends back home has to be thrown out of the widow.

With my parents coming, I feel happy too though, it's been a long time since I have a proper holiday with them. :)

Then my uncle and aunt decided to join my parents, and they want to go on a cruise... Hm.. I've never been to a cruise before.. so... okay, I think I'm going to like it. And then.. my family asked me to look at the cruises, see if I'm going to like it, then I'm starting to see all of the options and things that I could do while cruising... It seems FANTASTIC...

I know, they have great marketing there lol... Then, booking and then planning further make it even more exciting :)
Right now, it's 7 of us that are going on a cruise, yup, my grand-uncle and grand-aunt is coming too. Now it has become a big family vacation.

Soon me and my friends will go to Venice :) It's really something to wait for. Venice is one of my favorite city to visit. It's an old city that's very beautiful. And before it disappears to the ocean, we should visit it!!!

On September, I'm also going to watch Cirque du Soleil Varekai ^^
I have watch Cirque du Soleil Corteo before, and it's so amazing, that I will never forget that show. It's actually one of a push factor for me to pursue hospitality and event subject that I'm studying now.

My friends and I even made a presentation about logistic of this circus last semester, and finding more informations about it really made us more impressed by it. And now that a chance came up for us to see it, we're not going to let it pass :D

Puzzle Time :)

Yup, I loves puzzles, especially this type of puzzle... solved one before about 5 houses, and was just trying to solve it again and see if there are other puzzles with similar type.. and I got it!!!!!

Trying to solve this yesterday for an hour I guess.. it's harder than the 5 houses, but it's so much fun!!!!!!

Try it if you love puzzle as much as I do :)

From http://brainden.com/einsteins-riddles.htm

Meeting (meet this challenge)

Another hard nut to crack (just like Einstein's) was published in the QUIZ 11/1986.
Eight married couples meet to lend one another some books. Couples have the same surname, employment and car. Each couple has a favorite color. Furthermore we know the following facts:

1. Daniella Black and her husband work as Shop-Assistants.
2. The book "The Seadog" was brought by a couple who drive a Fiat and love the color red.
3. Owen and his wife Victoria like the color brown.
4. Stan Horricks and his wife Hannah like the color white.
5. Jenny Smith and her husband work as Warehouse Managers and they drive a Wartburg.
6. Monica and her husband Alexander borrowed the book "Grandfather Joseph".
7. Mathew and his wife like the color pink and brought the book "Mulatka Gabriela".
8. Irene and her husband Oto work as Accountants.
9. The book "We Were Five" was borrowed by a couple driving a Trabant.
10. The Cermaks are both Ticket-Collectors who brought the book "Shed Stoat".
11. Mr and Mrs Kuril are both Doctors who borrowed the book "Slovacko Judge".
12. Paul and his wife like the color green.
13. Veronica Dvorak and her husband like the color blue.
14. Rick and his wife brought the book "Slovacko Judge" and they drive a Ziguli.
15. One couple brought the book "Dame Commissar" and borrowed the book "Mulatka Gabriela".
16. The couple who drive a Dacia, love the color violet.
17. The couple who work as Teachers borrowed the book "Dame Commissar".
18. The couple who work as Agriculturalists drive a Moskvic.
19. Pamela and her husband drive a Renault and brought the book "Grandfather Joseph".
20. Pamela and her husband borrowed the book that Mr and Mrs Zajac brought.
21. Robert and his wife like the color yellow and borrowed the book "The Modern Comedy".
22. Mr and Mrs Swain work as Shoppers.
23. "The Modern Comedy" was brought by a couple driving a Skoda.

Is it a problem to find out everything about everyone from this information?

Good luck!!!!!! :)

My Favorite Things

This was one of my favorite song when I was young, and I have it in my iTunes, and I just heard it again, just when I actually feeling down, worried and sad. Well, it do cheer me up and the idea of listing my favorite things came up. :D
First, based on the original song, and.. So.. here we go...........

Morning dew on flowers and leafes and furs on teddy bears
little jewelries and warm woolen mittens
hot chocolates in a cold night
Colorful paper packages tied up with strings and ribbons

Black or white stallion and crisp apple streudels
the sound of piano, harp, and violins, and won ton with noodles
Starry nights

white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my hairs
Silver white winters that melt into springs
Sunny day with cool winds

Cute little children and lots of interesting novels
painting houses with lake and blue skies
hiking with friends and sweet desserts
sitting near fireplace in winter
dancing crazily with friends

go on a ride in a theme park
flying on the back of the horse
solving puzzles and riddles

THOSE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
:D

Bored to the max......

08.20 AM

I am working now... yup I am..
So.... what am I doing now??

Writing my blog.. yeah right..
Why?

Because there's nothing else to do!!!!!!!!
It's public holiday, Easter. Most of the companies in Switzerland would be closed, including the academic of the school. Well.. too bad that my school also provide the accommodation in school, it means that the operation of the school must keep working. And that, including me as a receptionist.

It's just that... there's not much to do. I'm serious. No posts coming, no deliveries, yesterday was the last day of exams and reports for the students, so I'm so sure they went to party crazily last night (it means that they would be dead sleeping until midday) and most of the students are out of the school anyway (since it's holiday, they went traveling abroad).

So.. here I am, sitting behind the reception desk, from 7 AM, with nothing to do (I can't open the document server because of the server error, that means... I can't continue the things that I might be able to do), with no games or chatting allowed and no students to attend to.

I hope the reception-mac will be fixed soon, so I can use it (right now I'm more comfortable with mac rather than PC plus di mac gw punya account sendiri and jg posisinya lebih memungkinkan untuk melakukan hal2 yg ga bersangkut paut dgn kerja haha).

I hope my partner will come soon, coz I have some questions that I need to ask.. .. Our supervisor left us a note of reminders to make sure that we do everything right or not forget about anything because we no, I am alone! And I don't want to make mistakes.. I need the reminder.. but... WHERE DID HE PUT IT???

08.52 AM

Great.. now the school e-mail server is down... I can't open the working e-mail.. The front office program is also down.. How am I supposed to work??

10.53 AM

Ok, Eric took the memo home, and he gave it to me already :) Now I remember what are the things that I could do... It's just that... the server is still down and without the server I can do NOTHING.
Great right? The only things I could do is answering phone calls, give the students their recommended mails and.. .. .. sit nice behind the reception desk and be a nice decoration.

Well, I could pass some time by playing hangman, just found it in igoogle, not great but ok. I just need to wait around 20 more minutes and I could have my lunch break.

Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock......

03.14 PM

At last.... it's working!! And yes, my shift finished at 4 PM. Well... it seems that it's only the email that works though.. the program is not working yet..... OMG.. luckily it's really quiet.. if not.. well... nothing that I can do..

Horse Riding Vs. Dragon Riding

Yesterday, I just finished the third book if the Inheritance trilogy of Eragon. Honestly, this is one of my favorite book. One of the most interesting part is the bond between the rider and the dragon, how they actually love each other even maybe more than the love of man and woman. How they feel each other as if the other being is part of themselves. It's truly an amazing kind of bond.

Before I started to read the last 2 chapters of Brisingr, I just finished my horse riding session. Then a thought come to me... It's actually not much different with the bonding between a horse and its rider. Well, in some ways at least.

I already thought of a horse as some kind of a dragon before, when a stallion, a big one suddenly held his head out of his room and blocking my way in the corridor, it surprised me. I know that horses could be big, their shoulder is taller than me, and when I say big, it really is means big!! Well, though some could be as small as a dog, such tiny little dwarf horses!!

Well, when only the head and the neck suddenly came up and blocked my way, I really thought and felt as if a dragon's head and neck blocking my way. It really is felt that way.

Then again, in the book it is described that when the dragon and its rider is flying, even though their minds are not connected, they still could feel what the other being is doing. A horse and its rider could do the same. I'm serious, it might seems that I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. A horse is very sensitive and they could feel if their rider is afraid or not, even little body movements of the rider could affect the horse. A horse rider could also feel the horse, when it's moving, even when it just wants to start moving, when the horse is comfortable or afraid.

I have some horse lovers as my friends and I've seen them loving their horses like their own child. They can talk about their horses literally the whole day... (which make people that's not so fond of horses suffers of boring and striving to continue the conversation a lot.. lol) I think it is the same case with the dragon and the riders too :D

Well some people think that horse riding is easy, that the horse is just an animal that you control without depending on the animal's will. Hm... it's totally wrong. Yes, horse rider do control the horse, but the horses also has their own will. When the horse is not cooperating, it is very very difficult to ride them if it's not impossible.
Horse riding is a sport that's not only the human is responsible of winning or losing. If you see the sport, they always announce the name of the horses too, it's always considered that they are partners, not a master and his animal. They often stay with the same partner, very rare that they'll change, usually if the rider change partner it is because of some injuries that will make the partner impossible to be rided.

The same as the rider and the dragon, horse rider and the horse will need a great trust of each other in order to be a great partner. You can see show jumping for example, that trust of their partner has to be very high. Of course, since if you fail during high jumping, it really is could cost the horse rider live and permanent injury for the horse.

For me, horse riding really is like dragon riding in the real world. :D

Kesendirian

Aku jatuh cinta
padanya yang selalu ada
dikala mereka tak ada

dikala ku suka
dikala ku duka

aku menikmatinya
dikala ia di sana
ditempatku berada

aku membencinya
dikala mereka menyapa
dan ia pun sirna

kumencintainya
lebih dari yang seharusnya

kumenyayanginya
padahal benci kuseharusnya

sunyi ia
walau ia disana

keegoisan cintanya yang membara
mengikat diriku padanya

cemburu ia
mereka merenggutku darinya
mengusirnya
dan ia pun pergi dengan murka

tetap saja
ku jatuh cinta
pada egoisnya
pada diamnya
pada cemburunya
pada murkanya
yang membuat rindu bersuara

12 Years Ago

“Alaiz! What are you doing? It’s dangerous to sit near the window!”, gasped a woman in her thirties, almost dropping the big basket full of fresh baked breads that she was carrying. She hurried to the little boy’s place, going up the stairs that was located near a big window where the boy sit and gazing outside.

“There’s a big smoke over there mom. It started a few minutes ago”, he pointed to a big grey smoke from one of the buildings about 1 mile away towering to the sky. He just sat calmly, gazing as if a lot of things are crossing his little mind.

“Oh my God, it must be the oil store on the central street…” shock, fear and desperate were all there in her face. Her hands covered her blue eyes along with her sighed before she took Alaiz’s hand in a hurry and dragged him down the big stairs. It was quite a big house with nice furnishings, but certainly old. The paint was fading away and the big living room was simple, very humble for the size.

“Mom, why do they hate us?”, asked the little boy slowly. His mother stopped, she looked at her young son’s blue eyes, and sighed. She went down and hugged him, when she finally released her hug, she tried to say something but nothing came out from her mouth. “Did we do some kind of crimes?”

“No, dear, no, we didn’t do any crimes”, replied her helplessly.
“Then why do they want to harm us?”
The woman sighed again and again, cannot find any words to reply her son’s questions.

There had been news on the street saying that the country was in a bad economical condition. The food prices had gone up steadily, small riots appeared sporadically throughout the country, and now, things had gone to the worst. Alaiz hadn’t gone to school for days now and none of the people had gone out from their home either. Everyone hid in their homes, full with fears.

“Is it a crime to have blue eyes?” he asked again.
When his mother just about to reply, they heard a lot of shouting and swearing from the street, coming near.

“Alaiz, listen to me. You have to hide.” She said with determinations shone from her eyes. “I’ve made these breads for you, hide them with you, you could survive with these for days. If those brown-eyed people broke in, all you must do is hide. Don’t cry, don’t make any sound. No matter what happen, no matter what you heard, don’t come out from you hiding, don’t even try to find me or dad. You hear me? You must stay silent!” Drops of water already on her blue eyes. She hugged him tight and whisper “you must survive”.

Bribery

Yesterday we came to this topic in our chat, yup "Bribery". This topic is no stranger for me, for I was raised in a country that lives with the slogan of "money could buy everything".

Not only to get illegal things legal, but even to actually get the process of something legal done! Depends on the amount of the bribery, it can goes very very fast or without the bribery, well.. maybe next month if it's not next year...

You can also get various things that's unusual, well for example, VIP room and treatment in jail. It was known to public that if you pay enough, your jail room could be transformed to a spacious luxurious room that your family, friends and business guests could visit anytime they want with TV, telephones, internet, .. basically, anything you want and need.
Well, as long as you have enough money to bribe everyone involves.

Back to the first topic, it came from my Romanian friend, she's writing a report about the events in her country and she came to this event budget that's written literally on it:
Bribery with invoice
Bribery without invoice

..
..
My reaction was WOW!!!!

Ok, it's not a new thing, also in my country to get permission of this and that, there's no other way other than bribing the officers, even though you are eligible to actually do the event without problem, it's just that the officers will find some 'problems' if it's done without bribery. Well, if you want the process gone smoothly, you need some under the table transactions.

It is a common knowledge and secret. That's how the things done. I know even a big international factory that was operating in my country was closed due to the high amount of 'unrecorded expenses'...

Well, usually the bribery expenses are something that's not officially acknowledge, so everyone tries to cover it, so in the accounting section, the bribery money is always written as 'various expenses' or 'unpredicted expenses'. But the way they do in Romania was... just.. WOW.. they literally just write it there, without shame or any acts trying to cover it..

"BRIBERY"

Updates

Yeah... again.. blog ini terbengkalai untuk sekian waktu...

Well, setelah exam selesai, dan tak ada lagi keharusan untuk belajar, hilang lah juga pelarian dari belajar, blogging, dan terbengkalai pula lah blog ini hahahahahahaha
I'm so honest, am I? :)

Lalu setelah masa liburan yang amat singkat itu, dimulailah masa internshipku di reception, SPA, sports and leisure. Cukup sibuk kadang kadang, lumayan menyenangkan. So far, I enjoyed it much.

Well, I love it much more than the F&B :) hehehe



Di masa masa tanpa internet ini... aku kembali ke my old habit, reading books... yup, aku kembali melahap novel novel, dan urge untuk menulis cerita pun muncul kembali. Begitu banyak jalan cerita yang telah muncul ke benakku, dan seperti biasa, terinspirasi oleh mimpi, tapi tak sempat tertuliskan.. sayang sih rasanya, tapi ya.. kita lihat ya, semoga aku bisa menuliskan beberapa cerita di masa masa kerjaku ini.

Things to do:
save money
reserve a place in Fromagerie
reserve a place in Manege
buy some drinks for the weekend party
find out the phone contract
read more books

Exam: Day 2

11.05 AM

Yup, I just finished Management Principles Exam!!!!!!!!!
yay!!!!!!!!!!
One down, 2 more to go, go, go, go, go :D

Um.. just as I expected, it's not that hard but the questions are a bit tricky that I'm quite afraid.. I knew that I already made at least 1 mistake, well approximately around 7 mistakes in total (I hope less!!) without the essay.
The essay questions I had predicted, so.. not that hard, but I hope he like my answers lol
Oh well.... 2 more to go....

Yippiiee!!!!
:)

I'm waiting for lunch now, as soon as I have my lunch, I'll have a good sleep!!! (you should see me this morning, I was like trying so hard to be awake, but my whole brain just screaming 'sleep, sleep, sleep..... SLEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP' yup I was dozing off the whole morning.

Exam: Day 1

12.45 PM

Again, I always ended up here when I'm supposed to study...
I have Management Principles for tomorrow, Marketing in Service Industry for Tuesday and Human Resource for Wednesday.

Did I study before?? NO.
Am I good in these subjects? Um.. let me think... er... not really, er.. so, that's a.. NO.
Are there a lot to study? OF COURSE!!

So? What am I doing here??? er........................................... running away? yeah right....
I'm not going to study if I don't have the mood anyway, my studying mood will only goes ON at night. It's a gift from God that I'm able to remember my studies in a short time I guess, if not I would have been screwed since long time ago I guess.

Ugh... Gw bener" ga tau mesti ngapain suapaya bisa langsung belajar.. ato supaya bisa lebih niat belajar... bingung deh, susah banget buat bikin nih mood jadi studying mood... >.< style="text-align: center;">----------------------

05.25 PM

Exam pressure is felt everywhere from the third years, as well as report pressure from the BA's. In my room, Francis, Cindy and me were crazy for some times and start giggling and laughing out loud of everything.... after few hours of revising.

When the craziness stop, Francis went back to her 'hot seat', Cindy made a cocoon on the bed and I went to a good, long and warm shower. :D

Just after the shower, I went to the balcony to get some chilling fresh air, yeah... it's winter and -2 C outside just with a shirt and a short (the power of hot shower).. then I heard.....

"O Soooooloooo Mioooooooooo, .. .. .. .." (go on with the lyrics..) a voice of a guy from a balcony somewhere of this school. Loud, clear and proud, though... not really good to hear I must admit. Oh well, it's just another 'crazy' student because of the exam pressure.

Yup, we're not the only ones.....

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07.04 PM

"ugh... I sat too long, my back is painful.. Vivienne, do you mind walking in my back?"

"Sure, no problem"

after several moments of walking on the back...

"are you actually having exercise too out of this?"

"yeah... um, well, actually ANYTHING BUT STUDYING"

................................

"can you imagine our room without all of this cupboard?"

"well, it's going to be very empty..."

"yeah, it would be so ugly.. what would that place be I wonder.."

"um.. if we could still have the little table, I guess it would be great to have
more big pillows and just put it there, make it a little living room or something"

"reading corner!!"

"yeah, that would be great!"

"I can imagine reading a good book there with a pot of tea next to me"

"and a plate of cookies and chocolate on the table"

"yeah!! that would be really nice!! I want to have one now.. just relax, read
a good book with tea and cookies"

"isn't it a wrong conversation for a day before the exam?"

"yeah.."

New Year's Story

*****

She lied on her bed, reading a book. The story that she was reading was so engaging to her that she can't hardly put it down. It's about a lass, younger than she is, that was sacrificed for the sake of her village and to pay the debts of her father.

Then she looked at the clock, it's almost midnight. She remembered, it's almost new year, her friends went to the town to celebrate. She's too lazy t0 go out and prefer to read the book that she started in the evening, and the weather outside was too cold for her. It's in the middle of winter and her health hasn't been that good for a few days, she really don't want to go out and became really sick the next day.

A loud cheer was heard from the town, it must be the crowd celebrating the new year that was almost arrived. She knew in a few minutes she would hear another noise from the fireworks, and she could see them too. Her house is a little bit up in the mountain, in the outskirts of town, the fireworks would be clearly visible from her windows.

She's thinking to get up from the bed and sit near the windows, to see the fireworks. But on the second thought, she has seen the fireworks from year to year, and seeing the fireworks alone would only make her feel lonely, so she decided to stay on her bed and immerse herself in the story again.

Just when her world of imagination started to build, the loud cheer disturbed her again, this time accompanied with the sound of explosions, the fireworks had begun. It's midnight.

She wanted to build the imagination walls again, but the noise keep disturbing her. At last, she gave up. She got up from her bed and walked to the windows. Then she sat down on the floor just by the windows, and watched the fireworks. She still could hear the loud cheers from the town every time the big fireworks came.

As she watched the fireworks, she started to wonder. If she decided to go with her friends, she might have a great time right now, watching the fireworks with a glass of wine or champagne on her hand and cheer with her friends or even making new friends. Or if she hadn't fought with her dear lad 2 weeks before, he might not returned to his homeland and still with her now watching the fireworks with her, together. She suddenly missed him, missing his hugs and kisses.

The fireworks had finished, the loud cheering ceased and so did her thoughts. She got up, and returned to her bed. She picked up the book again, and returned to her world of imaginations.

*****