happy new year, indonesia!

happy new year, indonesia!

let us kiss our loved ones or anybody next to us, and blow trumpets and immerse in jakarta's heavy rain. and eat the grilled chicken and sip the whatever cocktails that your sisters/brothers prepared.

and play cards or dance sing or just watch TV and see how other countries celebrate their new year (how come sydney has massive fireworks going on and we don't).

i hope we all had fun tonight.

and i hope this new year find us a better person than we are before.

five personal favorites of youtube videos 2007

i am now doing the listings as 2007 is about to end, henceforth, my personal favorites of youtube videos in 2007 are:

5 - dean winchester singing r.e.o speedwagon's can't fight this feeling
the title said everything. and he got a nice voice too.

4 - snowball the dancing cockatoo
i love cockatoos especially the sulphur crested ones - and snowball can follow the rhythm. amazing!

3 - pak attack in yo momma
this is actually not a youtube material, it's mtv's. i watched it couple of days ago and thought that pak attack is quite funny - he could pull off the jokes pretty well. "but tell me how your mom has more hair than me?" *flips shirt*

2 - full house clips (the tanner one, not the korean)
i grew up watching them and relates me and my sisters as the tanner sisters - heck we even dressed like them ie. matching socks and shirt, black tight shorts and black shoes. this one is a compilation of scenes from full house. dj tanner rules!

1 - anjelah johnson nail salon
anjelah johnson told us what it feels like to be in a nail salon in america. THE FUNNIEST!

on john krasinski, donald and sasi

one of the useful things about facebook is that people actually use it to interact without having to put too much effort. so instead of sending separate emails/text messages, you could make your life more simple by informing it through one of the many facebook applications.

like the notes.

benazir bhutto was killed during her campaign rally. what a shocker. my sister messaged me when i was in PIM2 with the girls.

btw AADC girls, our pictures with john krasinski (the GAP ad) are here - and lots more including with donald and heavy usage of keffiyeh.

donald and i sort of bumped into each other. he quit his job in poland and has been here since mid november. he will be here until mid-january 2008 - he was wondering if the GW kids could meet up before the 4th of jan - i was thinking of the 2nd of jan, just let me know fellow GWallers.

and to my ex-BERC colleagues: mbak sasi called earlier this night - she is currently hospitalised in RSPI because of dengue fever since monday. she has texted balkum and PDIR and PDIR said 'nah lho..', hehehe, just to let you know, if you wanna visit her i also want to come along.

and that's a wrap.

on secret santa and attika and vladimir putin

my sister attika-chan arrived yesterday from malang and she would spend the weekend here - she didn't change much after two months, slightly darker, same hairdo, chubbier, and sort of out of fashion. so we're gonna do girly stuff - shopping and sushi and an hour at bersih sehat.

the christmas party in meby's flat went out great - loads of (junk) foods am telling ya. too bad i had to leave early to pick up attika-chan. i got a mobile phone case from my secret santa. check out the pictures in my flickr like, soon.

and vladimir putin just got chosen as TIME's person of the year. check full story here.

a lovely week it has been.

for everything that is worth believing

i hope my friend will never lose hope

that shit does happen, and it is okay to sulk and wallow
for one or two days, a week, perhaps
but at some point you have to move onyou just gotta move on

that you think somebody is just the perfect person for you
but turned out no
and then you just don't want to believe

because that would ruin your dreams of getting married
in a small church in the middle of a prairie
your dreams of naming your children
your dreams of making your family happy

because your family has agreed to everything
and your friends think that you two make a perfect couple
what would i say to them - you say

there would be a time where you just want to sink deep and sort of feeling
unworthy of living

i hope you will be strong enough
to hit the bogeyman and face your fears with courage

i hope you will still have faith for everything that is worth believing

take a look at these cool stuff!

the sony cybershot DSC-W55 that i've been wanting since waayy back when.

the hippest thermos ever. got this for my 25th birthday this year.

a backpack that could carry everything.

a notepad with the 13th asean summit logo embossed to remind me of my roots. :p

am sure gonna take them all to NZ. thank you everybody.

*hugs*

hady mirza is the asian idol (what?)

oh crap this is going to ruin my day. i guess the strategy to vote two countries sort of backfired, and yes i am putting my surreptitious cap.

in this asian idol we get to vote for two countries. like me for example, i voted for mike mohede of indonesia and abhijeet sawan of india - i wouldn't vote for jaclyn victor of malaysia or mau marcello of the philippines because the two girls are like mike's strongest contenders.

imagine if the majority of indonesians, malaysians and filipinos think the way i do - but this time they voted for hady mirza of singapore.

uh-huh. we didn't see it coming did we.

if you've seen their performances you'd understand what am talking about. mike-jaclyn-mau: they're on the top level, they're captivating and have voices that make you shivers. hady and phuong vy would come second: they're eye candy, still good voice but somewhat inconsistent, abhijeet is well, i don't know what to comment except that i listen only to whichever indian songs that abhishek bachchan pretendly sung.

congrats to hady mirza however, best of luck you lucky you.

woot woot zoukout 2007!

so me and la fleur and darling ucha went all the way to singapore to check out the ever-so-hyped zoukout, and it was worth checking. i think it was amazing.

lots to write on this but can't do it now. however do check out more pictures taken by ucha here!

do you hate indonesia and do you hate it out loud?

my friend nunki just forwarded this hate blog to us: http://ihateindon.blogspot.com. it is a libelous blog really, and so far got people's attention. if red and white flag makes you shivers and if you're true to your indonesia raya - brace yourself before reading the blog.

it amuses me how the blogger have the energy to hate that much - even if he/she doesn't hate indonesia (not indon you foul) that much and cosinders this as just one of those pranks, well this is one serious hate prank.

i don't have that much of hate towards almost anything. but there's always an energy for cursing.

whoever made it: up yours you f%&!@ of a !*^%&(~@!!

1938 citroën traction avant

today is le sunoto's birthday and we gave him a frame from royal selangor and a miniature of a 1938 citroën traction avant - which is by the by charles de gaulle's official voiture. you should've seen his face when he saw the car. i sort of wish he'd be jolly like that all year round.

and then there is the birthday card where everybody get to sign. and then there is the fruit cake which le sunoto referred to as 'the healthy cake'. we then sang him a happy birthday and took pictures together and ate our cakes.

i am going to miss this place very much. i feel so mushy. *_*~~