the winchester brothers kick ass

i don't have anything important to write except that:

1 - dad finally said yes after a week of acting amish so yes i could go and spend the next weekend at siloso beach;
2 - the days of nothing-to-do-ness continue as i savor the remaining 10 days of leave before 14 december;
3 - i have submitted the student visa application - takes around at least one week to process hopefully amen; and
4 - have i mentioned that dean winchester is hot? well he is and he and his brother sam rocks my night from monday to friday in trans7.

it takes three hours from tanjung priok to pondok indah

the impatient me couldn't stand the tanjung priok traffic with all those big trucks and dust when queuing for toll so i turned right and got myself lost in tanjung priok terminal - warakas - sunter - warakas - sunter - kemayoran - senen - cempaka putih - menteng - kuningan - wijaya - radio dalam - pondok indah. i was dropping my SSEAYP kids in tanjung priok harbor therefore.

*_*

but for the first time i get to see sunter and kemayoran and the small streets of warakas and the old yet charming tanjung priok terminal.

makes me love the more comfortable south jakarta streets even more.

was not overweight overnight

i admire people who are discipline enough to perform self-control. like, taking care of your food intakes and exercise regularly. or limiting your facebook access less than 15 minutes a day (i can't i have cougar o'connor to feed!). the things to do to meet your own deadlines and to achieve your own targets.

how do you do that? i have tried like a zillion times to be in control of the food i eat and i repeteadly failed. you name it, 'lack of motivation' or 'not discipline enough' or 'i just don't feel like it'. i could come up with a thousand excuses to justify my constant failures. i was not overweight overnight. i know that too well. i know what i should do, what i should eat, the names of nutritionists and doctors too too well.

and that's where it gets ironic - you know what you should do but you constantly fail in doing it and sometimes you just get exhausted, perhaps because you're afraid you might again fail.

the silly part is that, i know that i have to go through this, because the more we try to escape from reality the harder it will us. it is bound to hit us. you just got to be brave enough to face it and be done with it. and then you can move on.

reality hit me now.

them statues

i just don't get it why they put statues in the middle of kartika utama street - instead of common separator materials such as those plastic orange separators or black and white bricks.

a new statue is now being placed in front of inul daratista's house, adding to the series of statues: the roman soldier, the thinking man, and the man with holes allover his body. a signboard is also put under each of the statue stating: 'sumbangan dari bapak xxx' (trans.: donation from mr. xxx). we get it.

amusing neighborhood we live in.

om shanti om vs saawariya

choosing what to watch first between om shanti om or saawariya is like, the biggest dillema ever (am being superlative). BUT IT IS, for keen bollywood moviegoers as both movies are to be released at the same date (9 november), tomorrow.

talk about media hype, for example,the past few weeks mtvindia is all about shah rukh khan and the 70s and om shanti om. im in love with 'ajab si' even since september, but now it's just too much with all the 70s theme and shahrukh's six pack. eewwww.

saawariya however, seems very charming, and classy. see the video clips - all blue and subtle yet bright - i don't know how he does it but sanjay leela banshali picks excellent art director.

makes you want to dance with ranbir kapoor in the middle of the rain. hmmmmmm.

may i feel said he

e.e. cummings is a genius.
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may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she

(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she

(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she)

may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she

may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she

but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she

(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she

(come? said he
ummm said she)
you're divine! said he
(you are Mine said she)

the traffic in jakarta is stooopidly insane

somebody with a motorcycle just shouted repeteadly announcing something that i could only catch 'warga pondok indah..', but the voice sounded fierce. it's 11pm now and i bet it has something to do with the construction of the new busway lanes on the main road of pondok indah - which means that all the 25-30 year old palm trees that stretch for around 5km (or more, somebody do the math here) must be cut down. some of the residents do protest but it seems that the pemda jakarta (that is, jakarta local govt) care none.

but then you go, so what do you expect, build new lanes in tanah kusir? or jalan fatmawati? de facto, pondok indah is less trafficky compared to the other two streets. but do you really think that building new busway lanes in pondok indah would solve the problem?

na-ah.

mi amiga really wants to go

one of the hardest things that you do in friendship is when you had to tell your friend stuff that he/she doesn't like - but you said it anyway because you think you're correct - and you know that your friend knows that you're correct yet truth can sometimes be sucky. hence.

so we are leaving without mi amiga. she really wants to go.

writing in spite

i am writing in spite.

am taking two days off - today and tomorrow - as i have 17 days of leave before mid december (and mid december is supposed to be the start of my so-called sabbatical). today went unmeaningfully as i spent most of the time watching mtvindia (ranbir kapoor is h-o-t) so tomorrow i have listed very important and urgent things to do:
1. finish the translation
2. clean-up handover notes
3. buy new birdcage for nduty
4. do 45 minutes jogging in the morning
5. wake up at 6 and do 45 min jogging

oh dean and sam is on already. be right back.