Meine Damen und Herren, let me present you to....

My homemade noodle soup


i spent 2 hours of my precious time to make it though. why precious? coz i´m having exam on friday, and every minute counts rite? even knowing that, i still cook it. somehow it relieved my stress after cramping all day long with my books by cooking i think. anyhow.. the reason i´m writing this now is hmm.. pake bahasa indo ah, campur2 deh dikit, can´t afford to think too long what the english term should be, haha.. yah.. alasan nulis ginian karena ternyata masak itu makan waktu, n tenaga jg, karena mesti sepenuh hati sih masaknya, hahaha.. (exaggerating now). oleh karena itu, yah.. pikir2, boleh lah abadikan di sini memorinya, memori masak pas stres, walopun waktu uda sangat dikit n makin dekat ujian. anyway, about the taste, it tasted not exactly like yg dijual di jalanan medan sono, but i´m confidence with it lah, coz lately i´ve been trying to not use ajinomoto anymore. wa dr dulu2 jg uda pernah pikir sih, masakan homemade, seharusnya bebas ajinomoto punya, soalnya kalo mao makan ajinomoto2an, yah tinggal jajan ke luar rmh aja, kalo di rmh, harusnya lbh healthy punya deh makanannya. Kalo ga, mao di mana lagi coba, cari makanan yg menyehatkan, hehe.. at least, this dish doesn´t dissapoint me right now, and i hope when the others get home later, they would at least try it, try the dish that i put so many effort into i would say. haha.. yah.. makanannya keliatannya sih simple.. tp gitu2 lama jg persiapannya, rebus ayam, goreng lah, tumbuk2 bumbu2nya, buat sambelnya, even try to make the bawang goreng (tp sayang am ende gosong), haha.. kalo sendirian coba buat itu semua sekaligus, makan banyak waktu jg ternyata sih. salut deh ama abang2 yg jualan. hehehe..

btw, i writing this down while sweating a lot, haha.. its coz my tongue is burning. see those chili on the spoon in the pic above, i actually ate it all and drank up all the soup. hope i dont get stomatchache tomorrow. but thanks to that, now i´m burning to start studying intensively till midnight (after finish this blog of course). thinking now, ga salah jg sih, abisin waktu 2 jam utk buat itu makanan, skrg bisa dgn hati tenang n gembira lanjut belajarnya, drpd setengah hati melulu, banyak pikirin ini itu. haha..
ok, lanjut intensiv now.. gogogo.. wish me luck.. the exam should be not that hard now i think. i can do it, i´m sure.. ^^ but better still wish me luck to get good score, haha.. cya..



burned bawang goreng






cabenya pedes amit.. tp wa yakin buat org2 yg bisa makan cabe, ini ga seberapa ato malah ga ada apa2nya kali yah, haha.. but.. keringat wa nih, buktinya, haha... ^^

Being ignorant and not careful made me had a bad day

hello *waving to you*

i was being blissfully ignorant this morning as i went to fitness studio without knowing that every sunday it primary open at 10:30. And I arrived there at 9:30 and the employee told me that i can´t enter the studio since it wasn´t really opened yet. hmm.. ok.. but what with those people who sitting inside and was training already? i didn´t ask him these though. maybe they´re all the employee there, who can train before the member comes, dun care.. hmm.. what should i do, there were still exactly one more hour. and then i decided to lock my bags and stuff inside the locker in the locker room. and went outside (outside was 4 degrees celcius and i hadn´t any long sleeves or hand gloves with me). now i know why sometimes the soccer player wear hand gloves while playing in these kind of season, i can´t feel my palm after the run. ^^
i start running from in front of EB-Gebäude till Brandenburger tor and back to EB gebäude, i ran for about 40 minutes in total, and walk slowly as i was reaching back to the EB gebäude. one thing, i didn´t know.. i dropped my key on the halfway. oh.. so not careful right? as i went back to the locker room, it was 10.30 already, "yes".. i said to myself, i made it. i can still train for half hour (just weight training today,since i warmed up already) and then i can still made it to the brunch appointment with the others at 12 o´clock. but.. i realized about the key (finally.. andy) i was kinda sure maybe i left it inside my locker and locked it without realizing. and i don´t want to think about the possibility that i dropped it. then i called budi, since it is his lock and maybe he has the spare key (my lock is with didi btw, he hasn´t returned it to me). and then budi said, he has the spare, and he can bring it to me, how nice rite.. and i still with my wet shirt and no jacket at all, can´t sit stil and wait of course, and i went outside while thinking the possibility that i dropped it, start searching on the route that i went. later, as i reached tiergarten station, budi called, he said, he couldn´t make it, since we should be in the restaurant at 12 o´clock. i should first go home and change and then later after the brunch + bowling play (inclusive) i can go back and unlock my things. i agreed right away.

ok, let talk about the brunch now, haha.. i sure don´t want to put you all under sleepy spell with all the chronology story above. the brunch was.. hmm.. nicht besonders, schmeckt einfach nicht so.(can´t think the perfect english word for it, and i think the german version fit better for the description)hehe.. btw, some days ago yy told me, that i should start writing in german from now on, haha.. it´s because i complained to her about me not improving in german language these past few years..haha.. so, maybe you can see me start using some sentences or later on, all my entries will be written in german, hoho.. ok, back to the story, what can you expect for a bruch rite? it was just some bread with all sort of ham and some warm dishes. then after brunch, we played billiard while waiting for the bowling line to be cleared first. and we bowled for 2 hours. i even broke my fingernail, i can see what´s under the nail now lol.. one can i say though, bowling is really an exhausting sport for sure. i did poorly at the first game, and catched up with the others on the second game, and almost win the third game if i didn´t tie with waryanto of course. he and tanzil are still the pro one in bowling. but today´s highest score out of us 8 people was scored by tanidi. he was kinda on fire (hehe) and scored 144 points with his continuous strikes, while we scored at the range of 95-110 at most. es hat spass gemacht, but i didn´t think i would bowl for in the near future now, das spass reich mir schon für einige zeit würde ich sagen.^^

we parted at 5 o´clock since i must went back to fitness studio and all of them want to eat at Bangkok treffp. i met irwin and nauva in the halfway to EB. and they insisted that they want to cook for me, eko and the others too, it was because we were not there in their last housewarmingparty. hohoho.. sure we will be there this time, but please after 12 dec i told them, hehe.. yeah, arriving at eb gebäude with full of hope than the key rather be inside the locker. no, it wasn´t. heh..? it means i really lost it, and it isn´t just the lock key, the keychain consisted 2 or 3 budi´s other keys too.. aiyo.. i asked the pförtner and the fitness employee if maybe someone has found it and gave it to them, the pförtner said nobody, and the employee gave me a box and to find it myself. nope it´s not there, funny to see all the lost and found items though, they were mostly sports digital watches, necklaces and even ipods, and many other thing too.(can i claim those ipod please? haha..) while i don´t want to waste my energy coming there without doing nothing, i did weight training, and it was 7 o´clock already as i wave good bye to the employee, he was telling me story about how he lived in japan as "schüleraustausch". kinda frendly type.. hoho.. and still, i was going back to tiergarten station with my head turned down searching under the moonlight (the full moon was pretty though), i found many things along the way but didn´t picked it up of course, there were pens, hotel cards, hairpins, bicycle lamp but still no keys. people do drop and lost many things huh.. and i didn´t find money also, not even a single euro coin though, haha.. what a bad luck, ^^ i was thinking to enter the forest, but changed my mind since it´s very dark and i dunno what can happen to me if i go inside it. huahahaha.. now this is become the story of my day for today, hehehe.. ok,i know, should end it now.hehe.. very tired and in need for some high quality sleep now. hmm.. high quality? what a word choice andy.. ckckck..

hope you all read every sentences of this entry, since i put so much effort writing it, huahahhaa... just kidding.. wish you all have a good night. later then, ciao.. thanks for visiting. appreciate it.

Thursday turned out to be a fine day actually...

hey ho..!

i have been hating thursday lately. i was hoping there´ll be no more thursday, kinda like hoping it skipped from the calendar, haha.. so, there will be just monday, tuesday, wednesday, friday, and so on. crazy rite? hehe.. the stupid reason is the test i´m having every thursday, this test is customed for microorganism lab participation. which means, if i failed the test, i´m not allowed to attend the course anymore. The result got nothing to do with the final exam, no matter what your score is for the test, we must basically just passed it, we even got 2 chances out of 12 tests to fail. You can imagine how hard is it right, for the test that the perfect score doesn´t matter at all, the questions were all tricky and too explicit. we must simply know it all.. dunno if it just me who complain like this, but sometimes it is just too much i think..

ok, enough of complaining about it, sure i don´t want to bore you all with it.^^ But good news is, this thursday turned out to be a nice fine day actually. I got the best mark in our group for the test. hoho.. and also the presentation we made is going well as well. It is about milk and sayur kol, hmm.. the english word for it? cabbage? whatever.. now i know more about those groceries, hohoho.. since i even intentionally borrowed some book about it just for preparing the presentation. you can ask me anything about it now i think, hehe..

and yeah, another reason for hating thursday is that i have a lecture near rathaus steglitz early in the morning. at 7:15 i must leave home already. lack of sleep because of preparing and fear of the test are enough for a reason rite? but, still, i hope the following thurdays will be as fine as today.

And what about my preparation for the biochemistry exam then? hmm.. i have been busy with this small tests lately, but from tonight onward i will be ready to start learning intensively. and now i just hope 10th december isn´t thurday though.. haha..

btw, i heard rumors said that there will be iphone 5 in the market in january 2011. should i wait for it a little longer? hmmm. i dunno, now i wish i have a friend who works at apple. haiz.. think i will still go for iphone 4.. next paycheck? ^^

Need to stay focused

dear all,

maybe some of you know that, i´m gonna taking biochemistry´s exam in 1 month. there are a lot to memorize in that subject. the problem is that i´m not really good in memorizing.. huhu.. are there some very useful tips that you guys usually use for learning by memorize it? and that´s not all though, i´m having small tests every thursday now, right before entering microbiology´s lab. There are tons of things to memorize, from every of the bacteria´s and microorganism´s name till the products they produce and how they effect food. i think without memorizing, there´s no other way to know it all. i´m indeed in trouble.. hiks2. ^^
1 more thing, i dunno if it because i unconsciously hate memorizing or what, i can´t keep focus nowadays. my mind keep wondering, and truthfully i don´t know what i´m thinking about. what should i do to prevent that? having more rest? longer sleep maybe?
btw, thanks for reading, and your tips also.. sorry for coming out with many problems at once. think i´m a little bit stressed with this afternoon´s test huh? hope i will come back with good result to tell you guys later. have a nice day all. thanks...

Preparing something nice

dear diary,

a week has passed since the new semester started. and i must reschedule my timetable a little bit coz of some organizational things that force me to take a subject unconditionally this semester. the professor said that, this one subject (for foodtech student with diplom degree program) will be gone next semester. that means the subject will be disposed so to speak. The students who don´t make it this semester will have to change to bachelor degree program.. scary isn´t it? hoho.. there is no reason left to study slowly anymore now, is there? and many other thing do happen also this week, but let we just put those aside. and let´s get to the point why i wrote those title up there, what´s the meaning behind it. hoho..

it´s simply like this, tomorrow is my turn to cook in our apartement. and you do know right, in this semester my weeks are gonna be busy as it is. but.. i would like to cook something reallyyyyyyyyy nice tomorrow for all of us at home. and i´ve think of 1 dish that could surprise everyone. (umm.. probably..) ^^ it will take quite a bit time to cook it, but hope all goes well tomorrow. and the dish will be satisfying for everyone.. you know what i´m gonna cook? ^^
i can´t wait for tomorrow to come.hoho.. it´s gonna be a busy day indeed. nite y´all..

Schedule

dear diary,

i have just finished my class schedule. hehe.. i know it´s a little bit too late to finished it, since it has been 3 days since the semester begins, but anyhow after consider whether to take classes from hauptstudium or not and in the end i decided to take some of the courses, here i present you the complete view of it. hoho..




and as for saturday and sunday, i left it blank first. since i haven´t decided on which time i should hit the gym and when is time to do self study. or i will left it blank like that to keep it as flexible as it is, haha.. but anyhow other than that, like you see here, my weeks gonna end kinda busy from now on.. 10 hours away from home almost everyday. hoho.. love to see this timetable, but don´t know yet if i love to pass days just like that, just wait and see then, hehe.. keep your spirit high andy.. and wish you to keep yourself high spirited too friends..

New life begins

Dear diary,

i was actually want to write it´s a new semester that begin there in this blog´s header, but this semester really really means a lot to me. So new life sounds most suitable for me now. yes, like i promised before, this will be the start mark for me to change all my uni life until now. i will become more hardworking and still planning to stick to the motto no day passed by without studying. every exams will be set with 1,0 mark target(best mark). errmm.. sounds a little bit exaggerated here now. but better than got no target at all, right? ^^ better prepare yourself thermo 2 and EIS 1, i am ready to fight.. hoho..

ermm.. not everything went well today, some did, but some didn´t.. michael is back in town, he was arriving in frankfurt at 5 o´clock in the morning today, and at 10 o´clock he was already in berlin and called me over the phone to go together to lecture. wow.. he is gonna be my role model now. hoho.. and yeah, i went to my biochemistry exam´s inspection today, but i can´t gain anymore points, that means i must really have to retake the exam. but it´s frustating to see what a grave mistake i wrote there. better see the bright sight, i still have chance to fight for the 1,0 right. think positive andy.. and yeah, i will..

someone seems having a bad mood today at home.. ^^ and i just want to help out, to cheer up, but i don´t know what to say, seems like i made it worse for you at some point. hmm.. all i wanna say is, it´s really ok to be a little moody for a little while. it´s not scary, i was just joking before. i know this is not a big deal to begin with, haha.. hopefully i didn´t aggravating you by writing this down. just wanna left out what i feel, feel a bit dissapointed that i can´t change someone else mood with jokes i think. but if you do need some space or someone to talk to, you can count on me, k. i´ll be glad to help out or at least to try to help out ;)
nitey..

Bakpao

dear diary,

yeah.. my face seems rounder and rounder just like that pork bun now.. it´s not like i gained much weight lately, on the contrary i do feel my waist getting smaller that my jeans kinda loose tough. hmm,.. maybe it is because of my hair? my new haircut is kinda short. hmm.. think about it, it kinda does make my face rounder. oh no.. ^^

i got up pretty early today. yup.. i know, it´s sunday today. the plan was to go to swimming pool with yy. it supposed to be yesterday on saturday though. but yesterday we canceled it coz i couldn´t wake up before the promised time and coincidentally she couldn´t too. but i kinda dissapointed that we can´t made it yesterday, coz as we arrived there today, the swimming pool was closed due to german reunification day which happened to be today on 3th oct. i didn´t check on the website earlier coz going there on sunday was never our plan at first. it´s just a sudden last minute plan to cover the ruined saturday plan, haha.. why do i make a complicated sentence out of it just now.. haha.. btw, dissapointed about the closed swimming pool we went back to main station and then yy said she wanna find some magazines about pregnancy i think. i come across to pretty interesting article though, i´m not talking about pregnancy, hehe.. but it´s about human brain. the article stats that, we should train our brain everydayin order to keep it fit up there or maybe to improve it, mine will be to improve the concentration i think. at the minimum we just need to play those gehirnjogging game twice a day to keep our brain fit. and then i just come across of the game online and tried it too couple times just now. but i can´t still manage all the 6 tasks perfectly.. really need those training indeed.. ^^ why don´t you try it too?
here´s the link :

http://www.gingium.de/ginkgo-gedaechtnis-gehirnjogging/gehirnjogging/

opss.. it´s almost 3 o´clock now, i need to tidy up the apartement today, since i am the one who´s responsible for it this week. anyway, budi n mumu is studying intensively nowadays for the upcoming exams.. good luck guys.. and wish you success too.. don´t worry after 18 oct i will be joining you all in studying hard, since i haven´t forget the promise i made here in my blog before, the following new semester will be my first step to study harder, no days would pass by without studying for me right then.. wish me luck. btw, if i think about it, why do many people love october that much? dunno about you, but many of my friend stated it so.. ^^ nice weather huh? ^^

oh yeah, i made kue soes yesterday, it was successful try i can say.. it´s easy actually, man just need to be careful with the proportional to get the right dough and the custard though, moreover it´s just a piece of cake to make one.. hoho..

ok, have to end it right now. hav a nice day.. think someone said that she want to go to schloss sancoussi in october. how about next weekend? ^^

Injured

dear diary,

i injured my feet in my morning swim session today.. have i put too much pressure on it? in the end, i can't finish my 25 times routine. i just managed 14 rounds of 100 m today.. still considering though, should i go to basketball practice this evening? hmm...

About japan trip, an unexpected things occured. err.... i can't say it unexpected though, i already thought it can happen, and it's actually aready expected that the tickets were sold out before my brother could book any for us. everybody seems dissapointed that's for sure. sure there are many other travel agency that provide a similiar tour like that. But with the price difference around 10-15 million rupiahs per person, my family will need time to consider it. So thats's why, my journey plan to japan will be postponed for the time being.. ^^ hey, i still got time to learn japanese then... Konichiwa?? ^^

Although i feel pity for my brother that he already put so much effort in looking for the travel information from a few days ahead, asking everybody in the family who want to go there a few days back before the promo was even put on internet, researching the travel fares compared to other travel agencies, etc. And he seems very irritated as he told me, at the first day of the flight promo he can easily book for 10 peoples. but the others still considering wanna join or not. but then, now, there were just 4 seats left. We can't of course left the others and enjoy ourselves there too, can we? but i told him, all of us have learnt a lesson from this event. next time, it won't happen again at least, there will certainly be another promo next time. a better tomorrow, right? ^^

Btw, i'm updating this blog from office, think i can't continue to write long story here.. it gonna cost too much time, and it's not good for my boss.. hehehe..

have a nice day everyone. think there will no quotes for the time being too.. been too lazy to search for some nowadays. too much quotes can harm body too, hahaha.. kidding..

Destination --> Japan

dear diary,

hello, how are you? think that was the sentence i used to almost all of my housemate today, hahaha.. i was very happy i think that i´ve been told by my mom this evening that my family are really going to have a holiday trip and i am in it too, hehe.. yep.. it´s just like i wrote it up there, i´m going to japan on my next holiday which is in the next springtime. yippie..

that place has been my number one destination place to go since i was a kid, dunno the exact reason, but it´s kinda magnetize me since i was a kid. haha.. is this some dream comes true situation? if it is, it´s really wonderful..

it was just not more than 4 days ago, my older brother told me that my family was thinking to go to japan. but at that time, he told me maybe june or july were the right time to go. and then they decided it is in june, i was kinda, hmm.. i want to join you all, but june is not good for me, coz i got no holiday in june. and i was just like, ok, you can go without me, i´m ok.. have fun there. there are still next time if i want to go there with you guys, aren´t there? i wasn´t sad or anything, i didn´t even think about going there anytime soon. and then yesterday morning, my brother called me via msn and said that, they changed their mind, they will go there in march since mother and aunty wanna watch the sakura when it´s blossoming. my brother was just saying it like just giving me new information that they gonna change the plan. there were actually no intent to ask me join anymore at first, since he really thought my holiday is not until august. i think it is because i have been telling them since these past months, that i´ll be flying to indonesia next august to spent my holiday there. aha ok, i said. but, wait a minute.. hey.. my winter holiday always begin by the end of february and ended in april. hey, i can join you all! nah, story short.. after called my mom to discuss about it, we decide to buy the ticket tomorrow. since the promotion price for it is gonna end by tomorrow, ^^ hope everything go smoothly that we don´t run out of tickets, got easy visa application, that i have a nice and promising and successful semester ahead, successful weight lose too, etc.. Cheers..! hope all went well... can´t wait for tomorrow to come.. ^^

thinking about having holiday trip with my family excites me now. i dunno if maybe some people think i´m a little bit too old to be in family holiday trip with mom and daddy too. haha.. i don´t really care, hehehe.. it has been too long that i´m having holiday together with my family. i missed them, being together, having fun, spending happy time is also not bad. i really cannot waste this opportunity right.. huahahaha.. i´ll always cherish them.. ^^

hope all went well for you guys also, and thanks for visiting..

early bird

dear diary,

i woke up early today. it was not even 6 o´clock in the morning but i was forced to wake up already, not by someone else though, but by the appointment that i made with my friend yesterday. yeah, we wanna try to go to swimmingpool earlier so that he can still go to work at 10 AM. and 6.30AM is the earliest opening time. We arrived there at 6.40 AM, and i asked myself, who on earth will gonna go swim this early on monday morning with cold weather, but as i enter the pool, my question is answered by just looking at circa 50 heads of people who are already sunk and up there. they are just like seas of people. anyway, we were trying to join the crowd, *sigh* it was really hard to just swim forward, i got kicked from my right n left sides sometimes. and people just can´t stay in his line, how can i come forward if you´re coming to me from the other side of pool. and then we tried to swim left and right, in order to dodge another people. huh.. it was a good experience, hehe..

but after swam for a while, and the clock showed almost 8 o´clock, suddenly i realized there were fewer people there. and i counted them, there was 8 people left. how come? and then after a while me and my friend realize that, there is reduction ticket for early swimmer (6.30 AM - 8 AM). it cost 2,50 EUR while the normal price is 4 EUR. no wonder there were so many elder there. Lucky for me and my friend that we´re still student. we got those reduction anytime when we showed our id-card there. that´s why i said to my friend, we should not bother the elders anymore next time, there were too many people already in the morning, why should we make it hard for them, while we still can go there at 8 AM. oh, i´m such a nice guy, thinking of them that much. hahaha. (another reason, actually the real one, we don´t need to wake up that early anymore right?^^). oh, it´s good to be student here, in my country, there is no such special treatment for students so far i know. make me want to be a student longer and longer, haha.. joke.. ^^

by the way, i just got back from basketball practice just now. yeah, swam in the morning and basketball in the evening. super tired already, but i still wanna write this entry, haha.. what i really wanna share is, that i lost 4 kgs in these past 5 days.. hehe.. i dunno why, but i felt so motivated nowadays, maybe it is because the friend that joined me in swimming. he was pro already, that he has ever lost 30 kgs. he is very motivated to lose his weight as he keep asking me, when will we gonna swim again, tomorrow? a day after tomorrow? that makes me, umm.. ok, i can.. no problem.. it really makes me forget my limit (btw, i think there were no such limits in the first place, my mind made it up, lol..). but now, i remember how it was, when i first started my lose weight program half years ago. as the time passing by, i actually still keep trying to stick to the goal (to lose weight), but unconsciously i am doing it not as strict as before. as an example i sometimes told myself, this week it is ok to not do some sport at all, or i can eat more tha enough just for these 2 weeks, haha.. it´s indeed because of lack of self disipline, haha..

but now, starting from last thursday i got new addition of motivation power. i ate less at night and i think i done 2 sports in a day. swim for 2 hours in the morning and work out for 45 minutes in the evening or like today basketball in the evening. fiuh.. i can say, it is indeed exhausting. but i´m not complaining, this is the process to one of my dream also.

ok, i suddenly forget if i do got any writing idea anymore, umm.. i think none, that was all i thought when i decided to write this entry before. ^^

so guys, hope my story can do something good for you, either it is to accompany you when you´re bored or maybe it can motivate you in some other ways. anyway, thanks for reading..

in whatever you´re doing now.. fighting...!

FLU.....!!!

dear diary,

think i catch the flu.. (and you better don´t go near me if you dont want get infected ^^). my nose won´t stop running since i was in office today. it´s strange, my nose was alright as i swam at 7:30 AM this morning. umm.. is it the cause of my flu? wonder.. ^^

yeap, about the swim routine. it was not my idea to wake up that early just to go to swimming pool in this cold weather.. it was the idea of an old acquaintance of me. i do know what motivate him that much though. it was because he just know a few days before that i often go to swimming pool to swim in order to lose my body weight. (we met accidentally at main station). and he was very happy to know that someone else has the same goal as he is now (losing weight). from that time on, he always joins me to go to swimming pool. interesting is, that 4 or 5 years ago, he has lost 30 kgs just by doing jogging. but he is now gained 20 more kgs back in these past 2 years. that´s why he is redoing his weight loss program again now accompanied by me.

i asked him how he lost that 30 kgs before, he told me that he jogged everyday and thats not all, it was twice a day, in the morning and the evening too. wew... it does sounds extrem, doesn´t it? after hearing the "everyday" word, i felt tired already before i try that though.. um should i try that too? or should i just stick to my daily program. hmm.. it really does sound extrem to me. haha.. i think he should just stick to my swim program, we are doing my way, muahaha..

ouw.. i feel so sleepy now, and a little bit hungry too.. you know what i ate yesterday for dinner? i just ate 1 slice of wheat bread with rendang sauce. and i didn´t eat breakfast in the morning coz of the swimming, i think that´s not good to eat just before you wanna do some sport, so i skipped it. after i done 25 rounds of 100m in about 2 hours, you should now what i feel that time. tired? hungry as hell? yeah, you´re right, that was what i felt. i rush to office straight away, and certainly didn´t forget to buy and eat 2 small baguettes in the shop across my office building. and that goes my lunch. i think i will be sleepy at office because of the exhaust from the swim, but tons of work are waiting to be done today. finishing it while going back and forth to toilet, since my nose won´t stop running.. :(

oh, i should sleep now, too sleepy to continue already :) and i think i will just skip eko´s spaghetti tonight, is it because of i don´t feel that hungry anymore or that i´m curious how much i weigh tommorrow morning.. um.. i dunno which one.. but i do want to break the 97 kg curse, since i seems can´t weigh lower than that since my last entry on friday. strange.. is it my limit? T-T
hmm.. why i smell something like avocado from my pillow just now. am i imagining things now? haha.. nite all.. sweet dreams..

Win it

Dear diary,

i just got back from my morning swim routine. hmm.. (how can it become my routine if i decided to swim just yesterday night? haha..). anyhow, while seeing the swimming pool, my mind suddenly wandering off to some swimming training hall that i watched in television some time ago. The athletes there train very hard everyday, in order to win in some olympic -look alike- tournament. They want to become the champion and get those gold medals. at that time i said to myself, what if they lose and all that efforts of hard training before will go in vain instead. Isn´t it very heartbreaking?

And then for quite some time now, i realise that all my life i´ve been thinking like that in everything i do, take studying for example. it´s not that i´m afraid i´ll fail at some subjects but what i most afraid of is that, i tried hard and gave everything i got but then ended failing.

but now, just like the old sayings, the older you get, the wiser you would be. i think my thought has been wrong all this time. the heartbreaking things should not be the concern at all. rather we should say, by trying there are actually nothing to lose. on the contrary after trying hard, you won´t regret anything behind.. and even sometimes when we´re out of luck that we maybe cant achieve what we want by trying hard, at least, we must count the experience we collected, i could tell you it´s priceless. so, better not stop trying harder from now on andy..

ok, i think it´s kinda boring to talk about how lazy i was all the time, ^^ sorry.. lol.. next, let´s move on. you know that i weigh 97,3 kg now? and it become my lowest weight record in the past 4 years, astonishing isn´t it? yup, these 2 things would be my top goals for now.. i will just focus on these 2 things. first priority still will be the way to change myself to be more hardworking in studying and the second is to lose my body weight more, although i think the second priority is easier to be done than the first one, haha..

btw, i should write more of my priority, but because of this 2 things up here is really a big achievement already if i could made it, i will just stay focus on that 2 first. and as for the third one, hm.. it´s for my better half out there, haha.. could you wait for me after i deal with these 2 things first. it´s not that i consider you aren´t important because i give you this third place in my priority list, but i would like to change myself to be a better man who can plan and see a little bit where and how in the future he gonna be first and then i will come right at you. so, don´t go anywhere, stay there and wait for me ok.. ^^

btw, it´s feel nice to let out what you think and feel to others and discuss it. Now, all the weight in my shoulder become lighter and mumu has agreed to be our next housemate in the near future also. problems are solved by that i think.

ok, now time for the quote of the day :

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

last but not least, stay healthy everyone.. take good care of your health.. ciao..

Sick after all

dear diary,

yeah.. sad.. but i´m sick after all.. T-T

worked for 11,5 hours today.. standing while sorting hundreds of drawings.. i did bought vitamin c on my way home, and drank it right away as i came home. but after took shower and ate dinner, suddenly something watery comes out from my nose swiftly.. omg.. i got a nose bleed.. (rushing to my bed right away..). hope i can be fit again tomorrow.. ^^

but hey, erick is online, he called me via msn, and told me about how he is doing in belgium. hehe.. here is some part of our conversation look like, in case you want to know his news there too..

ersdrick sagt (22:01):

oi, tak sempat balas fb lu

haha

ada cek email aja w

tak masuk fb liao

ini w baru pindah dare hostel

wakkaka

Andy sagt (22:01):

no prob lah.. oh, pertama2 tua hostel dulu ar

ersdrick sagt (22:01):

3 are lalu tinggal hostel ar

hoho

Andy sagt (22:02):

apartemen komplet ama internet lah yah ini brarti, atopake wlan tetangga?

ersdrick sagt (22:04):

hoho

ini juga masi lom permanen apartment w

haha

bakal tinggal disini 2 minggu ampe 1 bulan dulu

abis tu baru ada apartment permanen

ini w tinggal macem di villa

ada acek kaya ma girl friendnya

trus ada 2 anak

LOL

Andy sagt (22:05):

u tinggal bareng mereka yo

ersdrick sagt (22:05):

di aga luar kota sih

tapi rumahnya besar2 lol

kamar w kecil2 aja tapi

wakaka

ersdrick sagt (22:06):

iya, tinggal bareng mereka

Andy sagt (22:06):

keren tuh di foto rumahnya, kenang2an

ersdrick sagt (22:10):

iya

btw, fotonya dipajang dimana?

wkakaka

dibingkai lar

hahaaha

Andy sagt (22:11):

mksdku fotonya pajang di fb

my new house

ersdrick sagt (22:14):

sini semua mahal kali

kepiting yg lumayan

haha

kepiting sini sama kek vihn loi keknya 7,8 euro

Andy sagt (22:14):

u mao yg pedas yg terakhir?

biaya hidup sana lbh mahal dr jerman ar?

u makan resto trus?

u bole masak emang di villa?

ersdrick sagt (22:16):

haha

sementara w tak brani masak lar

kepiting mati keknya landlord w

wkakaak

tar abis pindah ja

wkaaka

ersdrick sagt (22:17):

w sementara makan lunch di kantor

kalo dinner, roti

wkkaka

lunch di kantor sedap jg, european ma japanese style kira2 6 euro gitu

kalo resto 8 +

w stres

wkakakaa

mahal kali barang2 sini

hahaha

tadi w kia2 ke central nya

Andy sagt (22:18):

hahaha

ersdrick sagt (22:19):

central brussel

gien ciak asia ciak

uda dikit

trus satu piring 8 euro gitu e

bo kam buan ciak

wkaaka

trakhir da mao mati kelaparan, ketemu vietnam

Andy sagt (22:19):

mkn apa tuh? gebackene brustfillet?

ersdrick sagt (22:19):

makan nuddel suppe jadinya

ersdrick sagt (22:20):

8 euro

minya, macem tiong sim

trus ada dikasi uda

udang*

Andy sagt (22:20):

sama kayak harga paris jadinya, sekali makan 8 euro resto

ersdrick sagt (22:20):

udangnya satu ekor dibelah dua

kemak

haha

trus ada macem ang bak gitu

tapi iris tipis

waakka

yah, mahal macem sai

wkaakkaa

Andy sagt (22:21):

skill masak u makin leveling liao lah brarti ntar

Andy sagt (22:22):

kalo ga, bisa melarat u di sana, makan luar terus, balik sini, uda bisa buka japanische küche di

alex sini

ersdrick sagt (22:22):

haha

iya, w care2 bisa makan apa yg murah

terakhir ketemu dürum 3,5 euro

ersdrick sagt (22:23):

itu gunstig banget keknya

haha

biasa w liat döner uda 4 euro

emce amik kai

wakaaka

Andy sagt (22:25):

dinner roti brapa?

ersdrick sagt (22:25):

roti w beli 1 kg

Andy sagt (22:25):

dinner masak rendang aja, biasa utk 3 kali makan, kakakaka

ersdrick sagt (22:25):

weissbrot

1,5 euro

trus nutella

yg 825 gr

da lupa brp

wkkaka

g gitu mahal kalo tak salah nutella

ersdrick sagt (22:27):

uda lumayan senggang ini

bakal update blog dulu

wkakakaka

btw

itu botschaft pukimak lai

haahaa

w pai sa brangkat kesini

w ampe airport

cek email

katanya uda kluar visa w

hahaha

w ai phak i liao

Andy sagt (22:29):

rabu jg brarti keluarnya yah

ersdrick sagt (22:29):

iya

haha

Andy sagt (23:23):

kayaknya kalo lu lg suntuk skrg, hiburan u cuma fb yah, haha..

ersdrick sagt (23:26):

hahaha

w arus byk baca2

w pas di company

diajak jj w

liat2 facilitynya

masuk ke ruangan yg ada mesin mobil

dia nanya w

ini apa

itu apa

cibeng

w cuman no idea

waakakaaka

ersdrick sagt (23:27):

w khua koq ce e tiok kua tui liao

Andy sagt (23:27):

hahahahah

Vitacimin

Dear diary,

ouch, it has been a tough 3 weeks now, that i worked everyday. (read : really almost everyday). i´ve been working without a day break in this past 3 weeks, let´s roll back a bit, in the first week i worked from monday till "saturday", umm.. forgot already what i did on sunday but then once again worked from monday till friday in the second week, and on saturday i spent my day from noon till night in the kitchen, preparing satay, hardworking e? and this week, i´m working from monday till SUNDAY, crazy no?

i think it was because i have to stay till 22PM at work yesterday (standing for almost 10 hours) and went home late in this kinda weather (very cold here right now in the night) that made me feel like i´m a little bit sick now (catched a cold maybe). huh? am i that weak or is it my limit already? ^^ think i really need to take vitamin C today, but i don´t have any stock right now, it made me remember as i was a small kid, in takengon -my hometown- my father always has vitacimin in his drawer that i would steal and eat many of it. as long as i can remember it tasted sweet, er.. not too sweet but yummy and healthy also i think.. ^^

many things happened today at work. i came a little bit later than usual (about 15 minutes) coz i chatted too long with my brothers, my youngest brother even asked me what the meaning of being mature? he is eighteen years old.. haha.. i can say, it´s really quite a rare chance that he opened up to me like that, i mean open up to another people in general. my older brother who is living with him just told me the other day, that this youngest brother of us don´t like to talk to him about anything at all.. haha.. he always keep his thought within. anyway, i´m glad that you still can trust me your brother though. what i want to say here is, it´s not that i am better or nicer than my older brother, but it seems everybody in my family talks a lot more to me when they have problems or questions, and i would definetely help them as long as i´m capable of helping, and i do it happily too, u know why right? it´s makes me feel needed and still being loved too.. hahaha.. and i´m still a mr. nice guy after all, hehe.. *lebay mode*

ok back to 15 minutes late at work.. umm.. my chief greeted me with "nah, overslept today". i don´t know if she was joking or not, but does that 15 minutes really that important, considering that i´ve stayed there over 3 hours extratime the night before. anyhow it was my mistake, ok, i´m sorry, ^^ (i want to say that right away to her that i was sorry, but my brain is so slow, that i can say it just now, *devilish smile* hehe..). just like the ad that i saw in the past weeks, that words of german people is harsher that what they really means.. ^^

and i still made some small mistakes here and there at work today too. how come i overlooked a 2 o´clock appointed time-slip assignment, i made my co-worker a little bit annoyed that she must hurrily cut the drawings and send it to the customers right away. -.-

my chief came by like every hour to ask me who i want to take with me to work this sunday, she even told me that she don´t really very like tanidi to work there, since she recognised him as a guy with very many mistakes. how come she thinks like that i wonder. tanidi had just worked there for 2 or 3 days at most, it just a normal case for new guys to make mistake, but to not like him that much, hmm.. dunno, however i should warn tanidi that he should careful and take a lot more attention while working there. my chief even added, workplace is not a playground to play around, ouw.. that has deep meaning.. but thinking of tanidi´s characteristic, it will be not easy to say that he made mistakes at work, since i have never hear him admiting anything if he did made any, he is always right, that´s what he always made us believe, hehe.. but as his friend, i better warn him, right? telling you this, i sound of like i´m judging tanidi. but let me make it clear, i always think, judging another people is not a good thing to do, what rights do i have that i can judge another people.. ^^

aih.. really need to sleep now. i wonder how could i arrive at schönefeld´s workplace at 9 AM tomorrow if i´m still fully awake now.. ^^

some random quote that i found on my facebook, i like it :

success seems to be connected with action. successful people keep moving. they make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Author, Mery Ong

(even unintentionally confirmed with her that this is hers originally, haha..)

Memories.....

dear diary,

ouw... how long has it been since your last update? i missed you so much.... ^^ erm.. not really actually, i was just saying it.. ^^ hehe.. kidding..

hmmm.. there are a lot things happening lately, don´t think that i can sum all of it for you, but let´s just try then.. ^^

eits, but first, i want to say happy birthday to jeferry, which happen to be today and happy birthday to cl too, which is like 2 days ago. hope u both do like the small party that we prepared for ya. and i certainly don´t want to left out the good news from both of you too, that´s why i wanna congratulate you both again on passing foundation´s entry exams. that was really a good start already. keep the good work.

i think there´s something wrong with the weather nowadays, the summer seems going over faster than normally. it´s not that i like hot weather though, but i kinda like it if right now my room a little bit warmer than it is. just checked the weather, 11 celcius degrees, brrr...

oh, curious about what i have done in my holiday? don´t be.. it´s boring.. i didn´t go anywhere other than workplace almost everyday. i really thought that last friday was my last day at my old workplace and then i will have one week free time before start my new one, but.. *Sigh* i still have to work there for one more week, since they can´t find somebody to replace the firm employee who is in vacation for one more week. ok, better look at the bright side, i do can earn some extra 1 week money that way right? ^^ besides i haven´t have some good plan to pass the free week if i do have it. so, just enjoy it andy. and it was just the other day that i told budi that i should start saving up some money from now, in case if i want to buy something i desired, um.. iphone 5 maybe? hahaha.. dunno if i really need those gadgets, but my present cell phone kinda acting strange recently, i know it, it´s almost time to change it real soon.. and those 3 years service of yours, i won´t forget it.. ^^

and yeah, one of my class fellow from my foundation year will be going back for good today. she has finished her bachelor study here, congrats to her. if i´m not working today i would definetely waving good bye to you at the airport this afternoon, but unfortunately, i can´t left my work, since it´s me alone who is taking care of the whole division today. so, this is good bye from me to you then.. good bye meta.. good luck to you and take care, my friend..

here i will start to study really hard too, to finish what i came here for.. gooooo andy go!

about study, i think it was a few days before that i run to some article about human memory. i would like to post the link here, but i can´t seem to find it (forgot to bookmark it). but as long as i can remember, hehe.. it is said there, that people tend to have a strong memory about what he likes and interested in. when we have big interest in something, we may have a chance to never forget it, it will even last a lifetime. oh, i´m gonna so motivate myself to like and wake my interest in everything i´m doing from now on. so, deutsch, studying, i will start to really like you now. that´s why i´ve asked budi to install dvbt software to my laptop, so that i can watch german broadcast again. it all thanks to budi how spent his time cracking the software (fyi, my old dvbt seems not compatible to windows 7 before). and just now i watched a documentary news about 15-20 kids of the age 15 years who spent 6 months sailing and at the same time home schooling on a yacht. it´s must be a wonderful experience for them. it´s good to be young rite? hehe..

ok, hope the article about memory is true.. improving my interest for the time being now~~

Today´s motivational quote:

(ermm... doesn´t the last paragraph make it up already? hehe.. joke..)

ok, here it is

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

i-grill party postponed

dear diary,

it´s raining here since midnight, yeah.. it has been raining for a whole week already now. and it will be raining too tomorrow. that´s means the planed grill party on sunday will be sadly postponed for the time being. sorry guys.. i know many of you will be dissapointed, haha.. hope we can make it on next sunday, um.. probably.

usually i write a lot in every of my blog entry, but today, i don´t think it will long though, i don´t know what to write, err.. don´t feel doing anything at all actually. let´s see then.

um.. yeah.. anyway, let get started. err...i woke up early today, thanks to my alarm.. planed to go jogging with yy and war, but since it´s still pouring out there and it´s cold, we canceled it. when i imagine that the cold water sprinkling on our face and hair, it will be very uncomfortable indeed, just like last thursday as i joined the kinematikers to play football in the evening. in the end we came home totally wet from head to toe coz of the stormy rain. we were already wet and cold as we waited for about 20 minutes in the bus station too. luckily we didn´t got sick in the following day. and i can tell you it was fun though..

dunno why, but nowadays i´m craving for food more than ever.. feel like to eat indomie, half boiled egg, and crepes all of the sudden. and luckily i have fulfilled those since day before yesterday, it was 3 days in the row for each of them..^^ thx to cl that made "martabak manis" yesterday. it made my day, hoho.. think crepes and martabak manis are the same. they are one of a kind, don´t they? but right now, i do really want to test out the apple crepe that i found on the internet last time,hmmm.. ok, will have her to taste it later, as a thanks. omg, i better not talk about diet right now, huahaha.. no..no.. jk. i will need to do some sport later in the afternoon. um.. before that, i will need the exercise video link that she mentioned few days ago. ok, i will ask her for that later too. talking about youtube, i was watching a few video about crepe and martabak manis yesterday, and found that martabak manis is actually pricy, i didn´t know it before, but it costs 35,000 - 45,000 rupiahs for a portion. it´s about 3-4 euro. ckckck.. thought it was not more than 20,000. ^^

btw, there is something interesting to share too from my workplace. as my chief told me to enter her office yesterday, she asked me if i can work till the end of the month not till the 18th august. fyi, in my workplace the 18th day of the month is the salary settlement day. and the day 19th till the next month´s 18th will be counted as next month´s settlement (dunno if i explain it correctly here. hehe..). i said yes to her, since she told me that one of her firm employee will be taking holiday for 3 weeks. she is very thankful and later she told me that she really want me to stay working there actually. i dunno if she was just saying it or really like me for being hardworking, dependable, honest and earnest at work that she wanted me to stay. but decision has been made. since she got no ability to raise my pay if she really wanted to make me stay or any other action. it was not her decision to made about the raise, only the upper executive can do that. anyway, i was just smiling to her to respond her that time. as i told erick about it yesterday night, he told me, i should try to talk to her about a raise, haha.. thanks rick, but i better not too attached in just 1 job for years, better find new environment too if the chances comes. (sounds like consoling himself for the decision that been made, ^^). it make me thinking though, about my future career, i mean the one after i finished my study maybe. If i really am that hardworking, dependable and reliable that my future chief trying to make me stay at the company, it will be awesome, giving me a raise, facilities, etc etc.. hehe.. better not thinking that far further yet. and it is actually not my dream too, to work for others. my dream is to be the chief and build my own company. someday.. ^^

ok, it´s time to end this, don´t want to bore y´all any longer, hehe.. till next time guys..

today´s quote :

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now”

Alan Lakein quotes

My to-do-list

dear diary,

as you know, there will be no uni for me until 11th october. what to do le? go to work? i don´t need to go there everyday, so what should i do if i don´t have to go to work, just like this morning? woke up just like the usual, 8 a.m sharp. hadn´t planed anything before hand for today, and then thinking hard, there must be something that i can do and then i remembered that i can do the things that i always delay a lot (by a lot i mean over half a year at least). yup remembered that i have delayed some pretty important things actually, such as go to deutsche bank to ask for new TAN numbers that i have lost for like 8 months ago? and then i should send a termination letter to one of my handy provider that i should do like a year ago, haha.. and then the things i should do keep getting more and more that i need to get paper and write it down in the end. this is what it looks like :

- updating my blog ✔

this to do list helps me in such a great way, should really do something like this more often. the feeling while seeing the checks (marking that show the jobs is done) is wonderful. hehe.. i admit i´m a person that forget things easily, that´s why this list is really helpful. like today in rossmann, while i was there i saw on the list that i should buy toilet papers, dish liquid and softener, but as i passed by toothpaste section, i saw some pretty interesting discounted colgate, and i then happily choosing one or two since i rarely use this brand. and then i just took 2 of different kind and go for dish liquid and softener and direct to the cashier. while i was leaving, i checked my list once more, and then this toilet paper shows up (it is always there already andy). haha.. i went back in there and as i want to pay for it, i was saying hello while whispering "again". the cashier heard that and said to me, "oh, didn´t those the most important thing that you forgot to buy?", and i was like, yeah.. definetely it is (fyi, there was no a single roll left back home, hahaha, here i am again, i "forgot" to buy it yesterday) :)

and i didn´t finish the to do list for today though, maybe i left those for tomorrow unconsciously since i don´t have to work again tomorrow, since there aren´t much to do there in the office. maybe the day after tomorrow,who knows?

hmm.. what more to write? yeah, just finished watching fly me to polaris (1999) with the genx. touching story about blind man who fell in love with a nurse, who love him back too actually. but the sad part is that the man died before they could tell it to each other. one lesson that i picked up from there, sometimes seeing with heart is better than seeing through eyes. keep your eyes close more often and try to see people with heart and also cherish people around you more, ^^

many people told me this movie was kinda a hit back then, but where was i? hahaha..

ok, i told cl that i could finish my new blog´s entry in 15 minutes today, let see how many minutes is has been? hmm.. *glup* 40 minutes?? err.. still, it´s not bad for the first start right? ^^

after i check my to do list, yeah THE to do list, i just realised, i did have washed my clothes, but i forget to take it out from the washmachine to peg it out. geez.. where has my mind flying to nowadays? hehe.. that´s my story of today, hope you enjoy it.. till next time then, good night..

quote of the day :

“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”

unknown autor.

Back to business

dear diary,

the exams are over, but still the stress isn´t yet. it´s still stuck with me somehow, hehe.. as you can see it in these past 3 days, i ate a lot when i´m kinda stressed out. anyhow, think it´s time to go back to business, coz i gained 3 kgs already since the last time i posted my weight, really should start eat less from now on (oh no, there will be a hell lot of party this weekend, doubt it that i can eat less, let´s just see then), my 70 kgs finish line is nowhere to be seen yet, huhuhu :( <--- see how depressed i am? ^^

oh yeah, this month will be my last month @ K (place that i´ve been working for about 3? 4 years?). yup, i´ve told the chief on monday that i will be working somewhere else starting next month. i think my decision is correct and the reason is logical too, at K the working time is uncertain everyday, sometimes there is a hell lot of job assignment that made me stay there more than 4 hours on the day where i suppossed to go to uni in the afternoon, since the daily assignments must be finished by any means and in the end it made me skipped my lectures. and at the other time there is nothing to do, went home after an hour is the worst, since i´m hourly-paid employee there.

i can actually live with it though, that´s why i can stay there for years.. it´s not that i want to complain everything about my old job, man shouldn´t do something like that, every job is good, as long as we enjoy it and happily do the task that are given to us. But to be honest, i wasn´t thinking like this not before 3 days ago. While i was working there last monday, i´m kinda lost in thought, i said to myself, soon you will left these job, i will not doing these kind of tiring (was doing an assignment that made me need to stand in front of binder machine for about 6 hours) and boring job anymore. and then there was one thought that suddenly struck me. instead of complaining i should be thankful that i have a job after all, considering there are a lot of people who doesn´t have any job and maybe stressing and struggling out there to just have any. i shouldn´t be the one that complaining, should do my job diligently instead, that´s why as my chief asked me if i can come the next day too, i said of course, the old me will just say no to such assignment. so, here i am, i´ve working everyday in this week. dad, mom, granpa, granma your beloved son/grandson has just become wiser day by day now, hehehe..

ok, that was enough complain about the old job already, now i wanna tell you about the new job, it´s a little bit better than the old one. as this chance to have new job coming, i really don´t want to miss it..^^ a little catch up about my new job, there i´ll be working with fixed 60 hours a month salary, but it´s up to me when in the weekday to go there, whether everyday or twice or thrice a week. thanks to erick for making this all to happen. fyi, it was his job and i´m subtituting him as from now, err.. not till september i mean.

btw, there is something else i wanna share, hehe.. i cooked curry aceh yesterday, at last i can say it is one of my favorite dish after all. although it´s spicy, i still can eat it. due the fact that i can´t eat anything spicy except curry since i was a kid. hehe.. tasted exactly just like the one my big aunty cooked. yeay.. although it still can´t beat the one that sold in takengon´s warung yet, still dunno what theirs secret irgendients yet, hehe.. but anyhow, i´m satisfied already.

ok, think i write long enough already, as closure of this entry, i wanna wish mumu, mikel and cl good luck with their exams.. have confidence and faith in yourself, don´t think too much (although i dunno if you really thinking too much, ^^)

Today´s quote :

If you don´t work diligently today, you will be diligently looking for a new job tomorrow.
Chinese Proverb

but i like the german version better.

Arbeiten Sie heute nicht fleissig, dann suchen Sie morgen fleissig nach Arbeit.

make a wish...

yup.. it´s august now, some of you ~my friends~ are gonna getting older (numerically), since your birthday is coming closer. getting older means getting wiser and more mature, stronger and more independent i think and more hapiness and more joy to come also, since it´s still a long road till we attain each of our dreams yet, worry not, we are on the way to it though.
Btw, i don´t know if it´s too late or still too early to ask you to write down your wish list on your blog or here by me in the comment section, please write 10 to 15 things that you would like to have as your birthday presents, that way, we can manage to give you the things that you actually need. this goes for you (budi, cl, jef, tanidi) write it as soon as you read this please. the earlier the better. thank you for your attention.. hehehe..



quote of the day :

"Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you’ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated actually."
Author Unknown

Optimistic me

dear diary,

lately i´ve been asking myself, where the old me has gone. As far as i remembered, i used to be very optimistic in everything i´m doing, included when i was preparing for my exams. but as so many years have passed, i find myself has changed much, i don´t have many confidence as before. Like when i was just studying intensively just 1 day before exams years ago, i know that´s not the way a real student supposed to do, but with the thinking like, i can do this, i need no more than a day, that the confidence that has made me passed all those tests so far. what i´m focusing in this entry, it´s not the 1 day before exams preparation, but the confidence, where did all of it gone actually? *sigh*

btw, talking about the old me, i have changed in another way too.. i think, i used to be very humorous, i could make practical jokes on almost every sentences i said. But nowadays, i dunno why, maybe because i watched too much comedy series (lol..), i find that my jokes aren´t that funny. that´s why i rarely telling anybody any, i simply kept it to myself, by saying, it´s not that funny, don´t need tell other people about it, and this make me kinda being a guy with no jokes to tell..haha.. togetherness (with friends or families) without laughter isn´t the way i wanna picture my life with. should start thinking a way for that too now.

despite of all this thought i had, by writing this now, i think i kinda know where the problem actually lies. i could have just change myself back to the way i was before, or i can just change to be better from now on. people do change, dont they? my exam is in 3 days (have been preparing for almost 2 weeks already), if it goes wrong, then i really really should change myself starting by making library as my second base after my bedroom and having "no study today, no gain tomorrow" as my life motto. hohoho.. think that would do it.

thanks for reading everyone..




Quote of the day:

Never be afraid of falling down, ‘cause when you stand on your feet again be sure you’ll be a different person.
~Author Unknown

Happy Birthday Dad...!!!!!

dear diary,

oh, you don´t know how i wish to be home right now, to celebrate my father´s birthday at home. it´s his 52th anniversary, wish you stay healthy and have a long, happy and blissful life dad.. though hearing your voice just now over the phone showed that you´re happy that i called, it can´t make me happier to know that. (geez.. i´m not crying right now, believe me!). love you dad.. Happy birthday.. ok, yos.. i must pass this exam for you.. cia you andy..



quote of the day :

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~Author Unknown

how i spent my lazy day today

dear diary,

yeah i know that i must study for my -in 2 weeks- upcoming exam. but dunno why, i felt so sleepy since morning. umm.. what have i done today? woke up at 7.30, sat in front of computer doing this and that for about an hour and then as i wanted to start my studying, felt really really sleepy. ok, change of plan, i tried to relax a bit by continuing to watch Red Cliff which i left half watched the night before. almost crying though (nah.. joking). and then it was 11a.m. already. at first i wanted to take a bath, but as i entered the bathroom, i just realised that i haven´t clean it for quite a long time already, and then decided to clean it while assuming it as an exercise. hehe.. in the end i didn´t just clean the bath, i cleaned the whole apartement (kitchen and living room too). feel happy though to see how clean it is now, hope that can at least last for a week.

and then it was 1.30 p.m. already, i took a bath *finally* and then ate my lunch which is just rice with sunny side up. ^^ hmm.. think i must stock more foods in fridge so that we can eat proper lunch everyday (ok, noted). the time surely flew so fast, it was 3 p.m. decided to do some groceries shopping for tomorrow cooking at real (carrefour look-alike) in the gesundbrunnen center, and in the end just bought a pan since i havent decided what to cook. one thing that caught my attention though, there are some new machine there, it called self-service cashier. i don´t know if i am outdated or something, but it´s really new for me to see that though. man can just scan his own groceries there and pay with debit/creditcard and even cash. it´s cool but by installing it, i can imagine, many people will lose their cashier job. that´s technology for ya.. btw, i didn´t try the new mashine though, since i´ve already in queue of the ordinary cashier. think there would be still 2 or 3 normal cashiers that open for people (maybe older people) that inconvenient with the new technology. and then i continue my journey *hehe* stopping by in rossman to buy light bulb and didn´t forget to buy baking paper too so that someone can still bake for us when she feel like it of course.. right hui?

as i came home it was 5 p.m. then i went swimming just like i planned the day before. the water was cold. on the board it´s written the water temperatur is 27 degrees but why i feel it was like 20 or 22 degrees, brrrr... but it´s ok, since not many people there that afternoon, really enjoying it. and then on the way home, which is just about 100 meters from the pool, there were 3 girls by around ages 16-17 keep calling me by psst.. pssst.. pssstt...

geez... kinda annoying.. i know that i´m good looking and cute, oopss..haha.. but.. it should be boys who do that to girls, not the other way around. i don´t know how to react to something like that, feel a little bit shy actually, and they keep doing that louder and louder coz i didn´t turn my head to see them. now i know how it feel when some girl being pestered like that by man.

btw, i didn´t directly go home and did some stop by *again*, i went to saturn (electronic mall) to buy batteries for my scale and did go to see if any fan was available, since they are out of stock last week. they are just 2 types of fan there in saturn (normally there was quite a lot of choices, at least 8 fan types), it means they are still short of stock. the cheaper one costs 25 euro.. it was exactly the same as the one in my room which costed just 10 euro back then.. 10 euro is quite ok already but 25? definitely not recommended to buy.. and the other one cost 150 euro.. ok, better come back next week.. then i also try to go to media markt, media markt is way bigger shop than saturn, it must at least provide more choices, but there were just 2 types there also. 66 euro one and 88 euro.. so, i was just talking a walk there.. and coincidentally i met irwin and nauva there, they are looking for refrigerator but didn´t find a suitable one also. they said they were just from my apartement to give us cakes that nauva made as a thanks for helping them moving last time.

and added that we should not worry, they are still gonna make inauguration party sometime in the near future. they said it´s not that they won´t make any, but they still havent got any free time. i just smiled and said we are also got exams in the next few weeks, so we didn´t really expect any party soon. i really wanted to tell them that we are not thinking like that, like we earned and really longed for their party. when there will be a party, that´s cool, when there aren´t, it´s ok too.. but it´s not my decision to make since everyone in alex helped them, not just me. well, just let it be then.. as i arrived home it was 8 p.m. already, was very hungry and ate dinner that waryanto prepared. nice..

so, this is all of what i´ve done today, as i re-read it again, is it really my lazy day or is it my busy day actually? hmm.. left it for you to assume.

quote of the day :

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”

Harvey MacKay quotes

Clare´s "Abschiedsparty"

dear diary,

yeap, i come home from her party just now.. have i mentioned about clare here before? if i haven´t here some short intro about her. she is an exchange student from australia that studying here in the TU Berlin for a semester. young, nice and very friendly, that´s her.. and also, sometimes in the weekend we went jogging, she´s one of my jogging teammates.. gonna miss her, since she´s gonna fly back to her country this thursday (22th july). wünsche dir viel Erfolg da, und schön dich kennenzulernen. ^^ hope we can meet again sometimes in the future.

And about the party, there were at least 20-30 people attending, and of course we were supposed to bring our own drink, so i brought 3 bottles of beer with me. since i think it´s westener´s party, nothing better than beer would do. btw, have i told you, that i promised not to drink anymore? or i haven´t, rite? ^^. dunno, but i think it is ok, to drink beer sometimes on such event, it´s not like something gonna happen to me if i drank just that much, right? drank 2 bottles beers plus 2 glasses of coctails. the party was not boring at all, the music playing good songs all the time, people talked a lot there, some guys took these chance to woo some girls, some were dancing, or some simply sat in the corner like me, talking to some guys beside me. some serious guy´s talk..hehe.. about how to woo girl in that kind of party, their or their friends experience with girls and which girl interest us the most. they were so into it, and i simply a little bit dozed off, since i´m not too open about it (this was the second party i´ve attended to since i came to berlin, that´s why i dunno what to talk about, since i actually don´t like partying and drinking beer). i´m not the guy that can make some relationship from a party with a girl i just know. since i think relationship is some serious thing to take, love need time to grow, so i always think.. we can´t force it. we can´t just love someone we just know, and he/she surely can´t love you back too without knowing urself more. but, in some tv love dramas, there were always some protagonist that regret the girl he likes taken by some other guy. i think it is the procedure already, we just realised that we like her/him if they were taken from us. is it really too late by then? then, should we took the chance to court the girl we like, even if we know, the girl hasn´t certainly yet into us. that´s also suicide, rite? i don´t believe in love in first sight. think that love can grow along with the time (it´s a little bit like philip lahm´s love story), it needs care, understanding and commitment to maintain, and it´s unconditional, when you love someone, love her whole. love is sharing your world with her, and it´s where you automatically prioritize the loved one above ourselves. hmm.. wonder, why i´m still single?? In the party, i was wondering that it is true when someone said that, we human are born to be a pair. the guys need the girls, and the girls need us guy´s company. it´s just as simple as it is.

i think i´m so drunk already by writing things like this, hope i won´t regret writing this entry as i wake up tomorrow morning or in the afternoon.

Back to clare, before i go to the party, i said to my housemates that i´m gonna be at the party at the latest till 23 o´clock. But as the time showed 23:30 am, i was still there. the party host was busy checking on every of us, talked to us, made the party not boring at all. i said to myself, if i go home now, i will be harsh on her. as the time goes by, i can´t stand my tiredness, feel so sleepy and got a headache too, maybe because of the alcohol i drank. it was 00.10 a.m. that i went to the toilet and saw my face in the mirror, it was a total tired man i see there, then i decided to went back to my sit to take my bag and went to find clare to say goodbye for the last time. but like i already know, she asked me why can´t i stay longer, she´s unhappy. and then i said, the party was great, but i should go home now. and then she also asked, is tomorrow jog more important than my party. as i want to answer that question and to add more goodbye and wishing her good luck sentences, her boyfriend suddenly approached her and said that he should go too. then they were talking very long in some serious tone.

i don´t want to disturb, and i just went home. feel sorry for her, that i can´t say proper goodbye with some resonable reason, and i think that me dissapearing like that without really saying "bye2" was impolite. regret it now, i should have waited till they finished talking. feel like, i´m gonna text her tomorrow, to say once again that the party was great, greater than i thought it would (no offence, it is just me that a little bit anti-social here i think, haha..), but i must go now, need some sleep, and prepare for monday´s exam. wishing her good luck and success there in australia where she´s gonna be always near her big family. and please don´t miss all her friends that staying here in berlin too much..

and as i came home, there were cakes on the table that cl made this evening. yay... happy that she´s that free to bake us tasty thing to eat almost everyweek. her staying here was really a good decision. hihihi.. ^^

nite everyone.. and may we all find our own happiness soon.. hehe..

quote :

(i will add it tomorrow, since i don´t have any energy left to find some nice quote)

edit:

“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.”

~unknown.

A Better Change

thanks to a friend of mine that just recently made me finally remember what i come here to berlin really for. Why do i really realised that after i did bad in my exam yesterday.huh... If i learn and prepare for it long before, that exam would be just a piece of cake. But now, i think, even if i pass the exam, it would be just with a very sufficient note. *sigh*

A better change is indeed needed. i don´t know if it is too late already to realize it now. but hey, it´s better late than not changing at all. Hope it will better for me in the next exam. Oh, headache and hot weather please go away asap.. i still need to learn many things tomorrow. wish me luck.

P.S. Look like i didn´t just owe you ice cream, i owe you more than that this time.. thx..

Quotes of the day :

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

~Douglas Pagels

14 Ways to Not Gonna Get Girl in Your Life

(for fun purpose only)

1. When you´re with a girl you like, don´t start any conversation. just keep quiet and make thing awkward.

2. Don´t be there if you´re needed, but be there when you´re not.. XD

3. Don´t be yourself in front of her, just be someone else.

4. Don´t show that you have interest or feeling for her.

5. Don´t try to know her better, to find out what she likes or even to find a way to make her like you.

6. Make her sure that you are not the guy she will be happy with, don´t trouble yourself to try to make her happy.

7. Be nice to all girls. Don´t think this is like some gambling to find if there will be one of them that will fall for ya, believe me, if they know you´re nice to all of them, they would not.

8. Confess your love to every girl you know included even the one you just know.

9. Pay no attention when she´s saying something and never compliment her about anything.

10. Don´t call her for no exact purpose such as to just simply ask how she is.

11. Never tell her that you care about her.

12. Always think far far away in the far future about how you gonna support your family-to-be with your tight condition like right now. Think that the future will just stay like that and it can´t change at all.

13. Don´t let her know that she has touched your life in an unique way like no one else could and just seeing her around could make you smile cause she´s so special that you seriously want to promise her your everlasting devotion, respect, loyalty and your unconditional love. Don´t prove to her that you´ll always be there for her, to listen and to hold her hand, and that you´ll always do your best to make her happy, and feel loved.

14. Don´t share your dream, your world, and every aspect of your life with the girl. Don´t dream with her, or build with her, cheer her on and encourage her. Don´t tell the girl how you always think about her even when you try not to think about her. Never let the girl know that she´s your first thing in the morning and the last thing when you go to bed at night.

P.S. This writer is showing a symptoms that normally occur to people who watched too much romantic comedy lately.. haha..

do i love summer?

dear diary,

yup, it´s summer time already here in berlin. the temperatur was about 28-31 degrees these past weeks, and it will rise higher day by day till early august so it was said. hope it won´t go over 40 degrees though.. btw, although it was just 31 degrees a few days ago, i came out sweating from the bath where i was just had a shower. yeah, i know, it´s unbelievable.... and as i walked out from the apartement´s door with my jeans on to go to university, hmmm.. the word that can describe it well was = unbearable.. ^^

then after uni, i did bought 4 shorts in the evening. it cost me, but considering i have never bought any shorts here in berlin for these past 5 years, i think it´s ok to add more shorts in my wardrobe. (it seems that, this andy don´t want others to start calling him shopper addict by writing that^^).joke..

yup, now i´m equipped n ready to face this summer. make me love you, would ya? ^^

btw, since the temperature seems very dilligently rise itself up. i won´t lose in preparing for my exams next week too. however, as i tried to study in library the other day, i spent half of the time by surfing on fb. mostly seeing others photos.. (since i always trying to avoid some stress by distracting myself to other thing). aih.. but it was just that one time, and now i´ve already made my mind, no more fb for me except maybe once a day in the morning. but i did found many interesting things on that day though. A junior of me (he is also my cousin) who is studying in spore, is having holiday and went back to Takengon, my hometown. He post quite many pics. It was sure nostalgic. saw some pics of his friends there too.. wow.. havent seen them for ages already. at least the last time i saw them, it was about 6-8 years ago. i did went back to the town 2 years ago, but didn´t met them.

what i wanna say is, they changed a lot.. i mean really a lot. the chubby fat boy and girl turn to handsome/good looking guy and girl. i haven´t have a slightest idea that they can change that much when they are thin. now i wonder how handsome i can be if i´m losing more weight, hahaha.. (audience : oh come on dude, really? is that even possible? andy : shut up..^^). My motivation is boosting up...

here are some of the pics about my hometown i would like to share.. ^^ (copyrighted by my cousin, haha.. i need to write that rite?)

Lake view 1

Traditional Market 1

Traditional Market 2

Market 3

condiment store 1

condiment store 2

Top hill view of the town

Coffee plant (coffee is the biggest export-commodity in my hometown)

view from lower side of the hill

Lake view

Picnic Hut

From waterfall..

...to some cave (tourist mostly come here)

fresh pineapple from local garden with rojak sauce and rough chopped peanut

town center

town from above 1

town from above 2

nice view from some corner

some local snack (martabak)

martabak in progress

town+ lake + mountain = takengon ^^

yup, that was the pics from his fb.. but not all of what you´ve seen it here is all of it already.. this is just some little part from how my hometown look like, hehe.. come to visit if you want, me and my family would gladly welcome you.. ^^

today´s quote :

“Don't go through life, grow through life.”

Eric Butterworth quotes (Minister and author)