C’est Ma Vie..

Ci Rita and Soetarman families + Ci Rika family came over to my place before ci rita left to Illnois. We didn’t expect they would come, because last night she said they will come at 12, and we waited until 3.30 pm, and they didn’t show up. So.. me, my sister and my cousin went to A&P.. and while we’re walking home, we saw many ppl in front of house.. and guess who? they’re Ci Rita and the gang. hohoho… Dio was here.. Yvan was here.. Mellisa was here.. Ci Rika & Ko Danil, Ci Deasy & Ko Bernard, their parents.. everybody.. and even Tamel was here as well. hahaha…

So… we chit chat for a while before they left… and I couldn’t believe that I cried. I didn’t expect that i would cry, because last time i just almost cried. So yea.. I cried today.. and ci rita also cried. I can say we are very close.. We used to hang around together when we still lived in the same area. and i learnt a lot from her. about life. about cooking. about having a family. about kids. everything. Hiks… I’ll miss you a lot ci rita.. Hope i’ll see you again sometimes. GB your family..

and guess what… finally i got a kiss from Dio. LOL

yayyy.. finally it’s weekend again. I’m feeling better today, no more fever. Just finished one exam today.. one down, three more to go. I am not sure how i did for the test, but i know for sure there’s one question i did it right. and it was 20 points. haha.. yippie!! the rest.. its all up to the professor. True, false or uncertain, and give reasons. those are the kind of exam that i hate so much besides multiple choices. i did try my best though, and i think i analized them all right. LOL

Since i was sick, i almost studied all night yesterday. I took a nap until 7.30 pm, then started studying from 9 pm until 3ish am. I set my alarm to 9 am, and surprisingly i woke up at 8. I was too excited (too nervous i can say) for the test, so i woke up and started to study immediately. Was sooo nice to study when the home is still very silent (meaning: everyone is still asleep). hehehe..

After exam, i met with my cousins and her friends in downtown, and we went to Asia Market. It’s Groceries time. *wink wink* got a lot of foods. finally I found pete - the stinky bean (thats how the ppl at asia market say it). I can say i like it, but i prefer not to eat it at all since i can stand the smell after eating it. So, basically.. i only use it to give some flavor to my foods, i would only put 2-3 pieces of it. hehehe.. and i also bought sarden, since i’ve been craving to eat it since few days ago.

got back home, clean up the kitchen.. and made pad thai for the dinner. i can say it was a failure even though ppl @ home said it’s not. I shouldn’t cook the noodle. Well.. it’s ok. you learn from your mistakes, rite? I’m not a chef, i’m just an ordinary girl who loves cooking. So, i learn how to cook by trials and errors.

and… today.. Ci Rita and Ko chris came to our house. finally we meet them again… hihihi.. tomorrow they’ll come over again before leaving london. hope they’ll bring Dio and Yvan tomorrow =)

Btw, tomorrow @ 2 am will be the daylight saving for us. so i’ll have 25 hours today, one more hour of sleeping. LOL

I’ve been sleeping almost all day today — and didn’t go to school at all. Not that i’m lazy, well.. i know i’m lazy, but i didn’t do it intentionally today. I’m sick.. and i’ve been sick since yesterday. hiks.. I got fever last night, I didn’t realize it until Narto told me. I knew i wasn’t feeling good, and felt so uncomfortable, never thought I would get fever. So he took care of me last night, and gave me tylenol that helped me to fall asleep. at least made me felt a lot better. So, I woke up quite late today, sent email to my professors, and had breakfast. Narto made breakfast (read:lunch) for me, and baked a banana cake again. hehehe.. then, i took medicine and took a nap for 4 hours. lol. I’m so blessed to have him in my life. I’ve always tried to take care of all my family in here, and there you go.. he is here taking care of me =)

been trying to study since last night since i’ll have finance midterm this saturday, but it didn’t go really well. i couldn’t concentrate, well at least i got one chapter covered. will try to finish up everything tonight, and do the review tomorrow.

by the way.. i had a presentation on tuesday for my operation management class. and i was sooo nervous. i almost couldn’t talk at all, was way too nervous. especially after i did the introduction.. blah.. i knew everyone (esp the chinese) would be surprised, and they really did. it really made me more nervous. i ruined my group presentation. and surprisingly, my professor said "it was super guys!" well.. though he said that, i still thought i did bad.. until i checked my email and my prof said my group got 7 out of 7. Well done! i was sooo happy. haha..

okay.. that’s all for today. gotta study finance. bu-bye..

Hoaaam… it’s 11.50 pm now, and i’m already very sleepy. I just finished reviewing my French for tomorrow. Oh man… this year is so tough. I feel like i don’t have enough time to do everything. Exams keep coming weeks after weeks. It never ends. Can’t wait until Christmas holiday, at least I can have a rest for couple weeks. I don’t care when my final exam will end, as long as i can rest for at least one full-week.

Presentation is coming this Tuesday, thanks G that we already finished it. Finance midterm is coming this Saturday. Econ and Accouting are coming next Saturday, then I’ll have operation’s a week after accounting, and then French’s a week after operations. huaaah…. I’m so dead! I already lost few pounds, and i really hate it =( Hope i won’t lose my weight anymore.

I’m going to sleep now.. have to regain my energy so i can start studying again tomorrow…. sigh..

I don’t know what i’ve been doing.. but i know for sure i’ve been quite busy lately.. just got back my operation exam yesterday.. wasn’t that good, at least it’s not as good as i expected. well, too bad. that means i’ve to work harder for the next exam *sigh*

i just woke up now, and i’m having my breakfast. I have rice with sup kacang merah. do u think it’s weird that i’ve to eat rice every morning? actually.. everyday. just like my mom.. she also can’t live without rice. hehehehe…

alrite.. say no more. i’m getting ready for school now. will have french quiz, and get my econ exam back as well. hopefully things will go well today.

wohooo.. finally, it’s over.. at least i can breath and live easily next week.. i just finished my operation management exam this morning. it wasn’t bad, i won’t say its easy and i could do it, but i did my best. i thought my cheat sheet was the worst one.. actually, it wasn’t. the prof came over my table and saw my cheat sheet.. he said.. "it’s not bad, unlike some ppl, they make it really small i wonder if they can read it!" hahaha… i already typed it really small <size 8>, and he still said it’s not bad. yaaay… lots of calculations.. some of theory were tricky… hopefully, i guessed them right. yea.. guess!! no, i didn’t really guess, i only guessed on my parts that i wasn’t really sure and it wasn’t on my notes >.<

actually, lots of stories and pictures to share from last week.. kinda late to tell.. but i want to share it…. =)

First, i had the first thanksgiving dinner with my family. We didn’t plan on celebrating it, but it all started when Narto ask if i want to cook turkey; and i said sure, why not… nekat booo ceritanya… kan ga pernah punya pengalaman bikin turkey. Trus, on Saturday, Narto said "if you study effectively, we can go to Loblaws and make turkey". So i did… beneran belajar stenga mati dey, bela²in bgt biar bisa masak.. soalnya begitu bilang mau masak turkey, langsung dey otak gue muter² mikirin mau bikin apa aja… hihihi… parah ya gue….

So, we had very late groceries shopping on Saturday.. we were looking for the recipes in the internet, wrote down all the ingredients that we didn’t have.. and headed out to Loblaws. We bought a small turkey, weighed about 3.5 kgs, and all other stuffs.

Sunday, i went to church with my cousin.. and started preparing for the dinner immediately. well,me and Narto sempet²nya ke mall dulu buat fotobox & beli kopi…

-silly picture-

trus baru mulai sibuk² degh… dan ternyataaa.. bikin turkey ga segampang yg kita bayangin boo.. beratnya stenga idup, ga akan kuat dey kalo masak sendirian…. mana sempet salah beli bumbu.. jd Narto mesti bolak balik ke A&P 3 kali.. but it was fun. we spent almost 6 hrs in the kitchen. we passed out in the middle of cooking.. hahaha.. yes, we did, we slept for 1 hour while roasting the turkey.

Had the dinner together with my sister and my cousins.. and they said it’s good. well, it’s good for a first time cooking. What make me so happy was.. my sister said it’s better than what she ate at her friend’s house… *blushing* hihihi…

Monday.. we went to ci Rita’s farewell party. It was held @ tante Yuli’s house.. ooooh.. the house is so comfy.. i feel like i can stay there forever. love the house… it’s soooo clean, neat… bright.. everything! but its not my dream house gonna look like =p huehuheuhe… the foods were great, love the empal, sambel terasi, sayur asem, rujak. ugh.. my mouth is full with saliva now. and finally i met Dio… he’s such a big boy now. met prudence… oh my.. she grows up really fast, last time i saw her.. she was one month old, and she is one year old now, and she almost walks!!! time really flies so fast. Gonna miss Ci Rita’s family so much… me and her almost cried. huhuhuhu.. hope they’ll come over to london for Christmas. can’t believe i have 2 farewell parties in a month..

I’m speechless… the exams were sooo difficult, i dont know if i’ll pass it. it’s kinda useless spending many days preparing for the exams. Well.. nobody would expect the prof would give us those kind of questions. We’ll see what the prof will say today.. it’s worth 25%, hope at least i can get the pass mark. *finger crossed*

there’re a lot of things happening this week… but i still don’t have enough time to sit in front of the computer updating my blog. I still have one quiz for today and one midterm for tomorrow. will post the stories and some pictures once i have time to update this blog.

wish me luck….

gelo.. uda hari kamis lagi? unbelieveable! rasanya kmrn baru aja hr senin… udah mau wiken lageh? untungnya sekali ini long weekend for thanksgiving. i have more times to study for my midterms on tuesday. I won’t say I’m ready <never say ready> for my tests, but i already did the readings, and the exercises. There’s some part that i haven’t understood yet, but i’ll work it out with my Jun tomorrow. My plan for this weekend… have fun with Narto tomorrow <he said there’ll be a surprise tomorrow, i wonder what it is>, and study on Saturday and Sunday. I really have to finish all of my materials on Sunday since I have an invitation to Ci Rita’s farewell party on Monday.

Another farewell… so sadddd.. won’t be able to see Dio and Yvan growing up again. hiks hiks… Dio and Yvan are Ci Rita’s sons and i used to babysit them few years ago when we still lived in the same area. huaaah…. everybody is gone.

something really stupid happened to me today. I left home in a hurry today and i forgot to bring my key… so i went to classes, and during my French class i already felt i was in so much pain <yes this is the M day> and when i was on my way home i just realized i didn’t bring my key. I called Narto and my cousin to borrow any of their keys, but nobody picked up the phone; they were busy studying @ the library. I went home hoping somebody was at home. And nobody was home. I called my other cousin and he said he’s on his way home.. so i waited for him in front of our house for 1.5 hours and was in so much pain. I felt like i almost fainted, but thank God i didn’t. I couldn’t walk, just sat there, and counting down the time. that was brutal. Once my cousin arrived, i walked in to the house and took my medicine and went to sleep as my medicine started to work. What a day..=(

yellow mellow… <cieh.kaya ada yg baca aja!> not so many story to tell this week. things were getting more and more hectic every week; exams are really coming soon. everyone in my house was busy studying @ the library including me. haha.. true! i did study, even me cannot believe myself would spend almost the whole saturday in the library. well, thats how a student’s life will always be.

all the fun stuffs always start on friday. I met Narto at school after class, and i also met his friend, Shaun <the funny and nice guy, i can tell>. we went to the UCC looking around at the poster sale <it was the last day of poster week> for a while after missing so many buses. i was planning to buy some posters, flowery posters, to color up my wall. i did found one, was beautiful, so picked it up and went to the cashier. I couldn’t believe the line was soooo long, so i decided not to buy it. i wouldn’t waste my time lining up for something that’s not so important. Moral of the day: don’t buy anything on the last day of sale or you’ll end up lining up the entire day.

So, we left, Shaun went home <actually we lost him @ UCC>, we went to Take Sushi. wuhuu.. finally i could eat that yummy foods after craving it for weeks. I didn’t know we would go there because Narto was already busy for his exams, was surpised, and happy of course. we had the spicy beef soups and some sushi as well.

Went home, cooked some dinner for my cousins and my sister, and made banana cake for the dessert. Actually, Narto almost did all the baking work, he loves "helping" me in the kitchen.. and surprisingly, the cake was finished in less than one day. i only had a chance to eat a piece of that cake. I’ll post the recipe later. it’s very easy ánd simple to make. don’t need a mixer, all you need is a mixing bowl, the ingredients, fork, baking pan and of course an oven. <daaaa!>

Saturday.. woke up quite late at 10ish.. cooked a quick meal for my cousin who left alone at home <we all went to the library> so i cooked "Kari Ayam + fried egg with minced pork" for him and for my lunch and our dinner as well. Went to library, i almost spent the whole day in the library and got back home at 7.30 pm. I made "sambel ijo"to accompany "kari ayam". hmmm… What a meal..

Sunday.. as usual, went to church with my cousin and I finally met Mrs. Pudney again. she hugged me like always, and i always feel good after getting a hug from her. She really did make my day. Several things I got from the Sermon… the holy communion, and something to learn and to remember. "…I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to  what lies ahead..” (Philippians 3:13). "…Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.” (Matthew 6:30)

instead of going to library, i decided to go to Loblaws. I had to buy rice and some stuffs to fill up my fridge and my storage because next week i won’t have time to do groceries shopping. and while walking around the store, i suddenly felt i wanted to cook "Nasi Hainan". yea.. so i did pick up a whole chicken and cucumber to make the "Nasi Hainan". and Narto stopped by to had dinner with us and of course he helped me to chop the chicken. hahaha…. was good… first time to make
the complete Nasi Hainan and it was a success.

Time to get back to work… will post some more next time. Bu-bye…