Farewell

YOu are leaving us...one by one, most of you.

Time does fly very fast before we realize it..I quoted this phrase from Mr. Kato, the head of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, who came to our office last Friday. Perhaps that was the last time I met him too because he's leaving for Bahrain today and planning to move there in September.

Forgive me for being such a indifferent person, one who hardly gets in touch with you in Haarlem. However, when it comes to the moment like this I often recall all the memories that we had from the moment when we were just freshmen in Hogeschool InHolland.
All those struggles of adapting with a new foreign place, tears and happiness, all efforts in the last 4 years finally should be ended by the mean of graduation ceremony.
Those are more than enough to face the fact that it is hard to say the word "goodbye and take care" to all of you who are going back to Indonesia for good.


Are you back for pursuing your dream?
Are you going to be ok there? or don't you miss Holland?
Would we meet again someday and would you still remember me?

I don't know but perhaps it's true if someone says I am an egoist and a-social person with a lot of curiosities of new places and new experiences. I went to Sweden for 2 semesters and when I came back I preffered living in a totally brand new environment to Haarlem, that's why I am here in Amstelveen surviving.

When I was feeding my curiousities, unconciously, I think I have neglected my friends too much. I broke so many promises just because of my laziness travelling 1.5 hours from Amstelveen to Haarlem. Shame on me (-__-#)

I am not good in socialization neither in building a long lasting friendship, but I always remember each of you in a special way :) (I don't ask you to believe it though )
Now that the time is almost up, I just realize that I should have spent more time with you guys..to know you much more and to let you to know me a little bit more.

Well I still do not want to say goodbye...would it be better to say "see you in the future and take a good care of yourself"?

Dedicated to all colleagues from class 2006, Haarlem

Best wishes,


Lea

Ambil Cutii....Taking a break

untuk sementara waktu blog saya akan absen beberapa minggu dikarenakan yang punya blog baru pindahan dan belum ada sambungan internetnya.

this blog will be vacant for a couple of times until my internet connection is well established in my new room....

apa benar begini terjemahannya ??? ^^;

*sigh...when...when????

My graduation

Finally, my wish is granted Thank you God...Everyone has graduated last week was my turn. Yes I am a Bachelor of Business Administration now, a graduate from University InHolland Haarlem (Lea it is a hogeschool not university...uh oh whatever).

Actually if I think it over, what's the cool of having that title? It is simply hard to describe. All I know that I managed to complete my course on time hehe...You know what, I was even called as the first 5 to graduate. Although it was randomly decided I mean it was not based on academic grade, I was delighted to be called as the 4th graduate. My father was there standing with his camera smiling proudly while taking my picture. I couldn't see my mother and sister as they were sitting in the back. But I know that they were very happy for me.

I do not have a bunch of friends besides my classmates who also graduated on that day. But the presence of two great friends, Anton and Hariadi are more than enough. I thanked them for witnessing a modest ceremony of us. Simple but exciting though the hat was a little bit oversized oups...some of my friends couldn't wear it without holding it tight. Anna..if you read this post, I envy you because your graduation's hat was somewhat better. In the end all of us got our diploma, a silver InHolland pen, a hat, and a white rose. The roses were being put in a bucket filled with water until someone accidentally kicked it.... (> <) I personally think those events were the most interesting part of all in spite of the long diplomatic speeches from the docents.

And here is my song for celebration...1...2...3...

As we go on

We remember

All the times we

Had together

And as our lives change

Come whatever

We will still be

Friends forever



So if we get the big jobs

And we make the big money

When we look back now

Will our jokes still be funny?

Will we still remember everything we learned in school?

Still be trying to break every single rule

Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?

Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?

I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye

Keep on thinking it's a time to fly

And this is how it feels....lallalalalaaa....



After all....I am still in Holland not back yet for good.
I have an internship to finish
and new course to start in the coming 2 months.

I wonder if my life just starts here...

Jerman kalah masih ada Prancis

Ihiks...sedih..kenapa? abis tim yang saya jagoin tidak ada yang menang. Korea Selatan yang dikibulin sama Swiss. Setiap kali sekarang disinggung soal itu, saya langsung protes, "Itu off side...gol kedua itu offside...wasitnya goblok udah tuek rabun ga mau disalahin lagi huhuhu.." Yee mentang-mentang sekarang saya mulai lebih mengerti tentang off-side *huek...cuih..cuih..

Tim kedua yang saya jagoin adalah Jerman dan akhirnya kemarin malam tim tuan rumah harus pulang setelah merelakan gawangnya dimasuki bolanya Italia dua kali. Pulang kemana??? ya kerumah masing-masing lah...namanya juga tuan rumah. Kasian juga Jerman, kirain mereka bakal berakhir seri dengan Italia...sapa sangka Del Piero yang saya kira sudah berakhir masa-masa jayanya tanpa sengaja masukin satu bolaaa (ini namanya orang ga terima kalau tim andalannya dikalahin). Makanya saya bilang juga apa....tim tuan rumah MERELAKAN gawangnya saudara-saudara...(sedang baek hati kaliii).
Jerman kalah yang nangis satu negara
Sudah kalah masih disuruh minjemin lapangan bola buat negara lain lagi...huhu
*dari kejauhan terdengar suara background, si Anton yang sedang teriak-teriak Itali...Itali...

Jangan kuatir perang masih berlangsung koq say...belum ada yang menang dan yang kalah. Selama abang-abang gundul dari negeri Napoleon masih bersinar kepalanya harapan masih ada...go Zidane...go Barthez goolll!!

Ternyata saya belum ada mood untuk blogging lagi...

When I am not in the mood of blogging

When I am not in the mood of blogging.....
.....I am playing Neopets
......I am thinking of making a new skins with Kogepan background :p cute!!
......I am wondering around to some friends' blogs
......I am collecting more neopoints
......I am posting in the neoitems.net

After all... I am in Neopets mood....poor my pets they were dying after I left them more than 10 months *sigh yet they think I am their best owner until I abandon them in the pet central.

Nonton Drama Asia Nyookk...

Siapa yang suka nonton drama asia?? Jepang, Korea, atau China??? Ayo angkat tangan!!! Saya salah satunya juga ding hehehe...Kalau ditanya mana yang paling berkesan, sebetulnya cukup sulit juga untuk menentukannya karena masing-masing negara punya ciri khasnya sendiri. Berikut ini ulasan singkat saya tentang drama-drama Asia yang ada di benak saya.

Drama Jepang dikenal juga dengan Jdorama.
Biasanya memiliki tema yang cukup sederhana. Ceritanya berkisar kehidupan sehari-hari orang Jepang. Mungkin karena tema yang biasa-biasa ini orang biasanya tidak pernah bosan mengikuti dorama Jepang. Perkembangan ceritanya cukup tidak terduga dan kadang endingnya pun tidak seperti yang dibayangkan. Berikut ini alur cerita yang biasanya disajikan dalam dorama Jepang.

• Orang kantoran berusia 30 an belum dapet jodoh pergi ke acara matchmaker
• Gadis SMU yang jatuh cinta kepada cowok yang lebih tua termasuk guru muda yang baru saja pindah ke sekolahnya. Gurunya cuek sok cool dan punya masa lalu yang suram. Alternative lain gadis smu itu memiliki penyakit kronis yang ga ada obatnya
• Seorang lelaki setengah baya yang ditinggal mati istrinya dan hidup berdua dengan anaknya, biasanya anak perempuan sih.
• Kehidupan kakak adik di sebuah apartemen tanpa orangtuanya, si kakak bekerja keras dan adik masih di sekolah. Kalau kakaknya cowo adiknya cewe di SMU biasanya si adik ga sengaja hamil karena pacarnya.
• Kalau yang main Takuya Kimura biasanya akan berkisar tentang satu kerjaan profesional. Jadi pilot, pemaen hoki, tukang potong rambut, pengacara, atau jadi pembalap
• Cewek yang menderita penyakit mematikan jatuh cinta kepada pemuda yang sehat walafiat.
• Seringkali ceweknya yang agresif dan bilang duluan kalau dia suka si cowok...yeee cowok-cowok Jepang koq pada melempem ya?? sok jaim ahh...
• Kalau ceritanya seputar kehidupan orang-orang kantor, abis kerja pergi ke bar minum beer trus si cowok nganterin si cewek sampai depan apartemennya.
• Cowoknya belum tentu ganteng tetapi para cewek yang ngiler sama dia cantiknya bukan maen.
• Jarang sih yang bercerita tentang perbedaan kelas sosial, kebanyakan pemeran utamanya berasal dari kelas menengah ke atas (pengecualian buat hana yori dango nih hehe).
• Antara episode satu dengan yang lain biasanya ceritanya ga teralu berhubungan. Di tiap episode selalu menyajikan satu cerita pendek yang ada penyelesaiannya di akhir episodenya.

Dan masih banyak yang lainnya..wah dakara watashi dorama ga dai-suki desuuu.

Lain negara lain pula dramanya apalagi yang suka nonton Korean drama pasti sudah tahu cerita apa yang bakal ditampilkan. Berikut adalah pendapat pribadi saya.

• Lakonnya ada empat orang dua cowok cakep dan dua cewek cakep. 2 cowok dan satu cewek anak orang kaya yang cewek terakhir anak orang kere.
• Kalau drama Korea jaman bahula, biasanya ceritanya super sedih ngalah-ngalahin kehidupan nyata. Tetap saja lakonnya masih 4 orang, inget Endless love ga?
• Cewek kere jatuh cinta kepada seorang cowok kaya (sebut saja si A).
• Di awal cerita si cewek kere biasanya penuh derita tetapi tetap kuat menghadapi hidup (cieee...) biarpun diinjek-injek disia-sia ama si cowok A yang punya segalanya.
• Yang maen si cewek kere pasti cakep lebih cantik daripada si cewek kaya..biar gitu dia selalu dianggap dan dipanggil jelek dan si cewek kaya selalu dipanggil cantik.
• Si cewek sepanjang hari ga pernah tidak pakai make up mulai bangun tidur gosok gigi sampai tidur wajah tetap bermake-up. Kecuali kalau sudah sekarat mau matek...
• Cowok A punya kisah cinta dengan cewek kaya yang akhirnya putus gara-gara cewek kere.
• Cowok A dengan cowok kaya B tu sahabat baek yang akhirnya bertengkar karena cowok B ada hati dengan cewek kere.
• Cowok B adalah seorang playboy kelas kakap yang bertobat setelah berkenalan dengan cewek kere.
• Biarpun udah tahu saling suka, cowok A dengan cewek kere sepanjang cerita berlangsung ga pernah ada satu episodepun keduanya akur dan ga adu mulut....buragu???
• Akhir cerita, cewek kere jadian ma cowok A...cewek kaya dan cowok B meranaaa dan merestui hubungan keduanyaaaa...
• Kalau diperhatiin lagi mulai dari episode 1 sampai terakhir baju para pemainnya tiap hari tiap episode ga pernah ada yang sama kecuali kalau anak sekolahan atau seragam kerja.

Gilaaaa...saya sampai ngakak ketika ngetik blog ini.

Nah melebihi drama Jepang dan drama Korea, saya bilang Chinese drama has what it takes to be the most hilarious of all....yang saya maksud di sini tentu saja komedi-drama China modern belum termasuk yang jaman perang dan penjajahan Jepang di China.
Simak opini-opini berikut ini:

• Hiduplah satu keluarga besar, kalau yang tertinggal cuma bapak sama anaknya di episode selanjutnya mereka akan bergabung dengan tetangga atau keluarga besar yang lain.
• Di mana-mana, setiap episode banyak banget adegan makan terutama makan pagi dan makan malem, satu keluarga, satu meja.
• Saya tidak tahu siapa yang mencontek, korea atau china..tapi biasanya ada cewek blo-on anak orang biasa jatuh hati kepada seorang pangeran lokal alias cowok paling guanteng di kampus atau sekolah.
• Si pangeran bisa anak orang kaya, biasa atau anak orang kere tapi kuerennya amit-amit, tinggi lebih dari 178 cm, mata sehat, jago olahraga, paling pinter satu sekolahan, rambutnya gondrong kaya F4 dishaggy-shaggy, biasanya pakai celana gombrong dan baju berkerah termasuk hem yang tidak pernah dimasukkan atau sweater dalemnya ada hemnya lagi ughuu.
• First kiss biasanya terjadi ketika si cowok ma cewek lagi bertengkar hebat trus tau-tau dicium paksa tapi ceweknya ga nolak...paling-paling abis kecium baru nampar trus lari hehheehe...
• Kalau alurnya lagi dramatis biasanya ujan deras turun di malam hari, trus si cowok peluk erat-erat si cewek di tengah hujan seraya mengungkapkan betapa sayangnya dia sama yang cewek....uhuiii romantis juga walaupun selalu mengingatkan saya sama pilem Bollywood.
• Kalau adegannya lagi bertanding olahraga atau pukul-pukulan...visual efeknya kaya sinetron tutur tinular di Indo..nah ini yang niru-niru sapa ya.
• Ada adegan penjodohan, biasanya si cowok dijodohin sama cewek yang satu kelas sama dia sama orangtuanya. Trus si cowok memanas-manasin si cewek dengan pura-pura mau dengan gadis yang dipilihkan keluarganya.
• Suatu hari pasti si cowok dan cewek ditinggal sendirian dalam satu rumah entah orang tua kondangan, ada urusan mendadak, atau pergi ke luar kota...si cewek jadi takut dan deg-deg an karena berduaan untuk pertama kalinya dengan si cowok.
• Akhir sebuah episode adalaahhh...tanda tanya besar dan yang jawabannya ada di episode selanjutnyaa yeeeeeeeeee.......asal mula sinetron Tersanjung kali ya yg akhirnya keterusan.
• Yang pasti sulit menemukan drama China berdurasi kurang dari 20 episode.

Benar-benar, drama mandarin ini mengingatkan saya kepada sinetron Indonesia. Apa ini karena teralu banyak orang Cina yang hidup di Indonesia?? Alkuturasi kah? Sebetulnya dalam hal ini kita sebagai orang Indonesia harus berbangga melihat perkembangan sinetron di tanah air melebihi pendahulunya, drama mandarin dan mengadaptasi berbagai teknik drama kelas dunia. Lihat saja,

• Dalam satu sinetron, episode pasti lebih dari 20 kalau bisa berlanjut sampai 3 turunan dan 7 seasons biar mirip sama serial FRIENDS.
• Suatu saat pemeran tokoh utama bermasalah dengan rumah produksi Pujanbi, akhirnya dalam cerita tokoh utama dikabarkan mati (kalau ini masih bisa ditoleransi) atau kecelakan, mukanya rusak trus operasi plastik. Ini lebih hebat daripada operasi face off yang akhir-akhir ini sedang menjadi berita hangat di Indo. Kenapa? karena abis operasi plastik mukanya jadi lebih mirip Adam Jordan ganteng bok.
  
• Akhir episode pasti menggantung kalau bisa tidak usah diselesaikan biar penonton penasaran...Kalaupun banyak cerca dan makian yang diterima rumah produksi, kita juga selalu optimis dan menganggapnya sebagai support untuk memperpanjang cerita.
• Jika ceritanya tragis sampai lakon utamanya mati, produser sinetron kita tidak pernah kehabisan akal. Di cerita selanjutnya anda masih akan bertemu dengan si tokoh utama yang menjadi makhluk halus. Anggap saja satu langkah mendekati rating film Ghostnya Demi Moore.
• Kalau drama Korea dan Cina, tokoh utama ceweknnya menderita di awal-awal cerita, dalam cerita Indonesia kalau perlu tokoh utama cewek harus menderita selamanya.
• Siapa bilang visual efek drama mandarin superior? sinetron Indo jauh lebih maju dengan ilmu tenaga dalam yang bisa mengeluarkan laser warna-warni, menghilang, dan terbang.
• Kalau sampai tokoh utama ditinggal sendirian berdua di rumah biasanya bukan takut diapa-apain ama cowoknya tetapi lebih takut lihat makhluk-makhluk dunia lain hihihi.
  

Sudahlah sepertinya saya sudah semakin gila mungkin ini yang disebut syndrom jam 12. Sekian dulu deh..sampai kapan-kapan lagi.

Belanda kalahhhh....

First comment: who cares???? hauhauhauhauhauhauhaua...

Sebenarnya mau ngomong gitu keras-keras berhubung saya tinggal di pemukiman student belanda yang kebanyakan pecinta bola. Saya turut berduka cita atas berpulangnya tim Oranje ke negeri Belanda.
Bukan berarti saya membela Portugal lho dan turut berbahagia karena berhasil mengalahkan Belanda dengan 1 nol.
Mau membela apanya??? wong loro karo ga onok bedane..kabeh payah duduk maen bola malah maen kartu piye sih awak-awak iki???
wasite kakehan nyemprit..priit sithok kartu koneng prit rong kali 2 kartu koneng dadi kartu abang.

Sudahlah bukan urusan saya koq...nah who cares toch

Salad and I

I used to believe that salad is a very prestigous cuisine back in Indonesia. One of the reason was because it only could be found in Pizza Hut (LOL). The salad that I mean here is not those that you eat together with pecel lele, gado-gado, or even with javanese fried chicken, you know lah such as fresh cucumber, kemangi, and "kol."
I came to Holland four years ago and got in touch with the world of salad and salad dressing but still I hardly ate it. Three years afterwards, I started working in the World Trade Center as a trainee and try to behave as a real working woman, including having my lunch in the cafetaria, which the main menu is salad. I tried many times and still, for some reasons, I tend to force myself to eat and admit they're delicious than to enjoy the meal normally.
Another chance, I filled my bowl with various kinds of salads:
-tuna mix salad
-ink fish carrot and cucumber
-tomato salad
-and some other kinds, which looked tasty for me..but the taste was indescribable.

and I ended up eating the sweet corn and eggs only...*sigh
salad oh salad why can't I eat you?

Doki doki suru

Do you remember the first time you're falling in love? Well I'm kind of reminiscing those moments when watching this Taiwanese version of Itazura na Kiss. It is all about the bitter and sweet of liking someone for long time without any certainty until it ends up with being in a certain kind of relationship. Have you ever got such an experience? I have got it once or maybe twice in my whole lifetime.

Believe it or not, actually it is really exciting when you are in the middle of that period.

Wondering all days about what kind of girls he does like,

Questioning whether he will like me back when he knows I have a crush on him,

Denying ourselves not liking him at all when someone is guessing our feeling

And also some jealously and feelings hurt when he gets closer to certain girls.

Could those be one of the best parts in a love story?

Most of us who have been or are in a relationship might have forgotten the very first chemistry and emotions that occurred in the beginning of a relationship. Even worse, some of us are start thinking there is nothing special anymore between us; and everything becomes so plain, common and that is it. The only reason we stay together is the time and cost we have spent together and they are not inexpensive.

In this case, those moments of liking someone are indeed the best part of being a couple. Ok this part stops at this point because I am not in the mode of talking about the bittersweet to be in a relationship.

Back to the topic. When finally the person that we like show signs he seems like us too, everything is getting more thrilling and we start thinking of what would happen next. I used to have so many imaginations too about what I think he would do and say to me. Just thinking of those made me suddenly laugh and smile with no reasons and people around me considered I was out of my mind. Everyday was daydreaming time. It was silly but exciting.

I feel like watching myself several years ago when watching the drama. To see the main actress's expression while giving a glimpse to and adoring the boy that she likes from distance. The boy actually has never given her any attention and seems ignoring her all the times. When at last, he saved her from a group of gangster, the girl felt her heartbeat beating faster because he finally noticed her existence and he held her hand tightly. After that incident, apparently, everything was back to normal like nothing has ever happened. Until one day, they were arguing each other and the boy couldn't stand anymore and suddenly kissed her to shut her mouth up. (KyaaAAAaaa...I almost screamed loudly)

Later on in the story, the boy finally realized that he had the same feeling towards the girl. Even though, yet he intentionally ignored, played with her heart, and enjoying the cute funny angry disappointed expressions on her face.

Such a simple plot but it gives more intense feeling to me when some scenes resembling my first memories with him :) :) ...Maybe I would say that first time experiences of holding hand, first kiss, feeling jealous, and making up again are some of the most beautiful moments in life.

hohoho I can't wait to go home and continue watching some more episodes....

Again this post has no point after all...gomen (-__-#)

Skirt or Trousers?

OR

To be a girl was something that I always proud of when I was just six. Girls can wear both skirt and trousers when boys can't. I used to love all kinds of skirts, short one with beautiful laces or the one that looks like a balloon. While wearing it, my little me often felt like dancing and spinning like a ballerina so that the skirts would spread and move around with my body. That was something cannot be done with the pants.

My mom introduced me to a pair of jeans when I was seven. My first trousers with a teddy bear holding a flower decoration on it and I thought they were so cute. I was enchanted by my first encounter with that piece of clothes called jeans. Since then, I hardly wore skirt anymore except my school uniform and tended to avoid buying any of them. My mind began assuming that trousers were simply better, safer, and looked cooler, without mentioning that I had had some bad experiences of wearing skirt.

One day I had to wear a gown in my cousin's wedding and I ended up stepping on my gown and I fell ridiculously in the reception because it was hard to make a big step with long gown. The other day, I went to a mall wearing a jeans skirt together with my dorm's friends. First impression, the skirt was looked good on me. When I was walking, my friends suddenly realized that something went wrong and finally couldn't stand anymore to laugh at me because the way I walked. It was simply looked like a gangster than a normal girl....Obviously, it was something that they couldn't see clearly when I was wearing my long pants. Perhaps, that was the result of Tae Kwon Do activity that I was following in my 3 years study in high school.
Starting from that moment onward, I start believing that skirts don't suit with me after all.

It is not like I don't want or I hate wearing skirt at all. Honestly, when I see my girl-friends wearing it, I do envy them a lot. They are looked nice and pretty in it with a pair of boots or high-heels shoes.
I wish someday I could wear it again and hear comments that it fits me better than a pair of jeans. Before that happens, please teach me how to walk well and straightly :) (watashi no wagamama onegai dake yo... :p )