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

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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"

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"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

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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.

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