Skin change?

Not because I lose my creativity...just because my creativity has caused some troubleshootings on my blog (-__-#) *sigh (makanya belajar html yang bener dunk). I had my blog resumed to its original skin.......

Maikaaa...(kalau orang Jepang ngomong "ya sutra lah") Despite the skin stuff, I really have to learn how to improve the quality of my writings. Please pray for me (!__!)v

Antara kutu dan semut

(ketika masih males upload potoh-potoh di tahun 2005)

Semut dan kutu sama-sama serangga tul ga?
Dua-duanya suka hidup menggerombol dan bergotong royong
Si semut bergotong-royong mengangkat nasi
Si kutu bergotong royong pindah rumah dari kasur satu ke kasur orang lain

Bedanya semut amat kecil dan kutu super mini,
toh masih sama-sama dibilang binatang kecil

Semut dan kutu punya banyak persamaan
Semut bisa nggigit dan bikin gatel begitu pula si kutu
Bedanya semut menggigit taruhannya nyawa karena dia langsung keliatan dan dipites ma yang dibikin gatel.
Namanya sudah suratan, turun-temurun masih saja semut menggigit dan dipites.
(Yang pasti yang diceritakan di sini bukan si semut angkrang yang bisa bunuh orang hehe, bayangin aja si semut hitam kecil yang jinak dan suka merambat di tembok rumah)

Namun kutu tidak demikian, dia masih bisa menggigit dan bersembunyi di dalam kasur
dan menggigit lagi di saat yang lain sampai yang punya kasur muak dan ambil itu racun serangga, matilah seluruh kutu dalam kasur kalau mereka terlambat transmigrasi.
Meskipun tidak transmigrasi, dengan datangnya musim dingin tahulah para kutu waktunya untuk hidup sudah tidak lama lagi. (Notes: cerita kutu kasur nih..jangan ditambahin kutu-kutu lain termasuk kutu rambut dan kutu buku)

Biarpun banyak persamaan di antara kutu dan semut, namun saya bertemu mereka di dua belahan dunia yang berbeda, di Indo saya melihat semut di mana-mana namun tidak di Belanda. Demikian pula si kutu kasur, pertemuan pertama dan terakhir kami terjadi di kamar 201 Heilig Hart Kerk, student dorm Haarlem. Keduanya tidak pernah bertemu (lagi menurut saya) apalagi memikirkan untuk hidup bertetanggaan.

Hanya dalam kehidupan manusia si semut dan si kutu dapat berdampingan, dipertemukan oleh waktu dan menjalin hubungan sampai batas waktu yang diijinkan Tuhan. Inilah kisah Ant dan Flea :p (yeeeeeeee ga mutu *tertawa ngikik*)

Like ants and fleas, so are we in God's eyes so small and powerless. Yet for us, He became one of us and chose to die at the cross in Calvary.

First aid aka P3K

Macam-macam penyakit dan obat minumnya:
sakit perut--teh manis panas
pengen sakit perut--jus pencit

merasa keracunan--susu, air kelapa, atau es jeruk (salah satu boleh, semua lebih boleh lagi)
pengen keracunan--baygon

diare (murus-murus)--segelas oralit
susah buang air besar--air plus garam inggris (LOL)

mabuk darat, laut, udara--sprite atau minuman bersoda yang lain
mabuk beneran--dua botol barcadi


tenggorokan serik (aka batuk berdahak)--minum jeruk nipis hangat dicampur kecap manis (serius!! ga bercanda)


susah tidur--susu hangat
terserang kantuk--kopi espresso, kalau kurang manteb minum jeruk nipis langsung dari buahnya
tidak bisa bangun--seember air dingin

ngapain saya pagi-pagi ngepost? karena yang punya blog lagi terserang mag gara-gara lupa makan malem...huhu gomen nasai

Want a cup of coffee?

When I was little I only knew that coffee is a bitter beverage for adult only. My mom always had this black nescafe powder and served it to my father's friend. Hum..both my parents don't drink coffee a lot as far as I know (but they do drink tea every morning..sorry out of topic :p).
I did try once or twice but couldn't stand with the bitter taste, what was the enjoyment of drinking bitter-taste-coffee? A delicious drink should taste sweet-sour and it should smell nice. Coffee does smell good until today I still think it does. My little me after all thought it didn't go well with the taste. That's why I put so many sugar when I said to everyone I could drink coffee and be a big-girl.

Then I went to this country, Netherlands, where everyone drinks tea, beer, and of course coffee as their must-drinking beverages. Even until today I am not a coffee addict but I can trully enjoy drinking coffee as much as I can, during work, school, or even when I'm home enjoying my free time. Sometimes I still put one or two teaspoon of sugar but the other time I can just drink two cups of black coffee without sugar and I can say no other taste goes well with coffee without its bitterness and that smell. In that bitter taste I can still sense the sweetness and excitement of drinking coffee as that liquid flows through my throat, warms my body, and refreshes my mind.

Am I trying to say I'm an adult now? That I don't really know. 23 years are long enough to see the sweet and bitter of life. I'm sure you get what I mean when you are living abroad alone miles away from your family. Maybe it sounds really fool when I say you need coffee to live in a country like Holland especially when it's winter. Sorry out of topic again.

I like drinking cappucino with a thick foam on the top of the cup. Even without sugar, it still tastes mild not really that bitter. I think it is the effect of milk mixed in it. However, when I was working in the office, I think two cups of pure espresso a day were the best to give a little refreshment besides keeping my eyes open and my mind focus.

I went to the cafe for the first time when I was doing my double degree in a little city called Gefle in Sweden. That was the first time too when I knew that coffee can be mixed with any kinds of flavours and tastes besides milk and chocholate and yet it tastes great. Say in that cafe, they mixed the coffee with hazelnoot, mocca, or even vanilla and served it with various kinds of shortcakes. It was just a cup of coffee and a piece of shortcake in a small coffee shop but it cost me around 500 SEK (around 6 or 7 Euros) to enjoy. Back in Holland, again I found that coffee can be mixed with some sorts of alcohol too, I like baileys-coffee with Irish cream a lot (does it make me an alcoholic?)


Now I am back to college and I have to save money for long-term supply. Thus, less going out and drinking along in a cafe. That's why back to instant coffee is a good choice after all. Lately in the morning I prefer drinking frappe a.k.a. ice coffee instant. It's just fresh and quick and of course can be drunk directly as it is cold already :p (no need to wait). Then sometimes in the cold evenings, I can make myself a cup of hot wiener melange instant as a substitute of my favourite, chocholate coffee. This is more less composed from similar ingredients, coffee, milk, and chocholate.

Well I think my family doesn't know about this recent habit of mine unless they read my blog. Ok that's it for now, want a cup of coffee?

Time

time is like dripping water in a bare hand
it keeps running even you try to hold it carefully
but when you carelessly it will run faster through your hand and leave your hand dry.

nothing can hold time and none can stop it from running out.
Thus, take a good care and
make a good use of the time you still have.


:)

Hari ini

cuaca mendung, saya tidak kuliah karena sedang libur setelah ujian. Mau ngapain juga masih dipikirkan..nanti kalau ada ide saya tulis lagi dehh ciao dulu

Berbagai alasan untuk mengerjakan satu hal

ho oh...Leanya masih males upload poto trus nulis kelanjutan footage in2005. Alesannya?? Serius yang nomer 1 males, alasan kedua masih berhubungan dengan yang pertama "kenapa males?" jujur kacang ijo saja dengan kemajuan teknologi yang membuat harga kamera digital setara dengan kamera manual dan memampukan saya untuk membelinya (iya itu si digicam) semakin banyaklah poto2 yang tercipta (males resize males upload). Kalaupun potonya hilang karena file corrupted bisa ngopi punya orang (iya dong meskipun bukan murid IT saya kan juga (kadang-kadang) punya backup; siapa2?? hehe..ya lewat masku lah hahahahaha yang ternyata arek IT jg hohoho bercanda).

Alasan ketiga? saya menerima serangan flu dari bang Bud yang lagi flu juga. Nah ini yang mbuat orang jadi pengennya batuk terus dan bobok terus karena kepala selalu terasa berkunang-kunang apalagi ditambah "my morning syndrom" ketika ga ada ayam berkokok di luar masih gelap gulita ketika jam menunjukan jam 7 pagi. Siapa bilang kalau kuliah bisa masuk dan bangun seenaknya tidak seperti masa-masa internship aka magang. Dari keempat kelas saya selama seminggu 3 diantaranya dimulai jam 8.30 dan yang satu masih di bawah jam 10 pula.
Apa saya kurang motivasi? atau teralu sering menyalahkan pihak lain dan ga tanggung-tanggung berani nyalahin Tuhan lagi "Lord, why this should be happening now? when this week is my last week before exam..sigh."
Anyway saya belum nyerah buat exam (meskipun sudah miss satu karena salah jam LOL) hehehe...hayooo fighto fighto...uhuk.
Sudah deh gitu dulu...

5 years since then (year 2004)

Year 2004 is not my third year in Holland as I came to this country almost by the end of 2002. So these is how I spent my second year in Holland (and of course this was my life outside school).

No picture in January 2004 till February 2004

MARCH 2004
I had my 20th birthday pictures taken by Dipta. Here is one with all birthday-participants minus Anton (he had to go home earlier because of some deadlines, can't help it).


APRIL 2004
Life is not about school and college right? when you are abroad, maybe you will think the same way...anytime there is time and enough budget, why don't we go somewhere new.

So we booked 4-days-trip to Paris, France on April 2004. Yes again, Anna, Harbud, Anton, and I, four of us.

Four of us, student-travellers


with Anna


with Anton, featuring Anna at the back :)

Next, a visit to once-a-year-flower-garden-exhibition in Lisse, Netherlands, which is known as Keukenhof. Together with Anna and her part-time job's colleagues. *still no digicam, this is a scanned one


JUNE-JULY 2004
One and half year in Netherlands was long enough to make me miss home. This year I made up my mind and spent my summer in Indonesia for 5 weeks. Speaking of which, I have almost no picture during my vacation in Indonesia, I mean the digital ones. Instead I secretly took one of my toddler's photo from home and scanned it. This is how I am looked like when I was one year old with my mom and dad eating meatballs..how nostalgic hihi (did I look more like my mom?).


Then I was back in Holland only for 2 weeks before leaving for Sweden and taking my double degree program. End of my summer...

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2004
What a once lifetime experience. I was about to spend my winter in one of the coldest country in the world. I was scared enough to face it but my excitement of this country was over all of those worries. I lived in a city called Gavle located 2 hours away by train from Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden.

My first picture was taken with Baltic sea as the background (can you believe it?? I've visited Baltic sea)


This is the uni where I was studying in Gefle.


6th September, at Sindhu's birthday, the Indonesian contingents minus Ooq


And when you are in a new country, it is natural to find a new way of living (which people know it as "ADAPTATION"). Speaking of new way of living, first thing we had to learn was how to prepare our meal...here is our first dinner:

Reddy the chefwannabe, Sindhu read sms how to cook raw fish, Lea and Lya were the meal testers and eaters LOL

Then we learnt how to get in touch with other cultures, for example
Greek Dinner with Saziki??&%* (dunno how to spell it). Anyway it's Greek Omelet (^o^)


Talking about culture-learning I will never forget to mention the parties every Thrusday's night. I didn't and I don't like going to the party. Nevertheless I did come to some of them.

just a normal party

beach party in the autumn

November 2004
It's lebaran Although in Sweden we could still celebrate it with a little party at our place, Lya's and mine.


And the next morning when I opened my curtain, the snow was everywhere, white was the most color I could see.

and since then the sun went down earlier than before...geez I was quite depressed. During the winter the sun rose at 10:00 AM and went down around 3 in the afternoon. Therefore my housemate and I often felt like dinner time was a way too long to wait. Nights were just too long for us who were born and used to live in a tropical country for the last 18 years.

DECEMBER 2004
Another Christmas and New Year occassion. We celebrated this season by posing in front of Swedish Christmas Goat, the goat that would be burnt by the end of the month (why? don't ask me..it's just the tradition):


To live up the Christmas spirit what else we could think but a nice pre-Chirstmas dinner


However, I missed him, Anna, church, and others in Holland. I prayed to God and tried my best to pursue my daddy to let me go back during Christmas and new year. Thanks God, He and my dad did allow me to enjoy my Christmas and New Year in Holland (about this trip I have written it in this blog two year ago New Year 2005). And this is how I ended year 2004.

Next..welcome to year 2005

5 years since then (2003's memory)

Ok these were happened in 2003,

This is the photo that I could recall when entering year 2003. On January 13, 2003, Anna's 19th birthday at Schoterstraat 2, Haarlem :) I came over to her place by bike in the evening. The picture was taken by my first new manual camera, which I had just bought it in Media Markt with Elli. Unfortunately I lost the camera now...I don't really remember when where or even how ^^


In April 2003, my friend Rico arranged a trip to a theme park called Six Flags (note: now it is called Wallibi World). Lots of fun, first time I discovered myself not liking roller coaster riding hehhe... LOL


Somewhere in July 2003, my first summer in Holland before Via went on vacation to Indonesia



As the time flew, I met him at Bethany church in Hoofddorp. We didn't have so many photos back then. Maybe this was our first picture featuring Daniel (aka Nyot2) and Marlina (aka Qiyut or Nina) at Schiphol Airport. We went there on Saturday right after fasting-prayer at church. No particular reason, just an afternoon hangout. When was it again? If I'm not mistaken it was taken around August 2003.


December 2003
The same sentence keeps playing in my head, time does fly fast. I did not have a digicam yet therefore, not so many I can post here. I pick this picture from Silvia's friendster and my old file. During Winter holiday and in order to celebrate the coming Christmas and New Year, the Dutch Train Company or the NS usually has some special offers. Anna and I were very excited back then since we never went anywhere outside Netherlands. Two trips were decided, the first one was to Christmas market in Koln, Germany.


Few days later after a trip to Germany. We did go to our second trip, but this time with different participants. On that one chilly day, we went to Brussel in Belgium together with Anthon, Harbud, and Johan. Thanks to Harbud and his digicam, quite a lot of pictures had been made in Brussel.


Then..Christmas is here again!!! and of course a Xmas celebration. A photo of the team


Maybe we just did not want to end Xmas only at Church. In Netherlands everyone has second Christmas day. On 26th December, everyone went to our place, Anna and I. A little celebration with soft drinks and Europoly!!!!


Honestly, that was one of the best time of my life in Holland :) HONTOU yo!

6 days later on 31st December 2003, New Year's eve...a year-end service at church.



To be continued to year 2004

5 years since then

First of all, let me say HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 to all of you. Here are some of my footnotes in Holland since 2002, just for some old good times... :)
2002
August 16, a couple hours after leaving Indonesia, our first picture together in Kuala Lumpur


August 17, our first dormitory in Haarlem, NL


First excursion to Zaanse Schaanse


My first international group,


Four of us, Silvia, Tata, Anna, and I


First and finally in 2002, my dream-comes-true, first snow in Haarlem,


End of 2002 sorry no year-end picture, I was lost in Schiphol with Anna and Silvia without "vervoer" or public transportation around. All public transportations stopped after 19.00, 5 hours before the new year.

To be continued