15. 8 Days

First of all, I would like to congratulate my friend Agus, who now has become Bachelor of Computer Science. Last Saturday, he had his thesis ‘trial’, I watched it and he passed. Congrats man!! After that we played pool at Metro. It’d been a long time since I last played there. I ordered Iced Lemon Tea and it was the best iced lemon tea I had ever drunk. The flavor was just right. After shooting some balls we went home. Later in the afternoon I attended the 6PM mass and went straight to store. Nothing eventful on Sunday, just went shopping with mom. We went to Diamond Gadink and C4 Pulomas. I bought Executive shirt and formal pants, coz they’re having this discount and the price was quite cheap. After that the next week had been quite exciting. At Monday I had my first WG gathering. It was fun. We met at PS. I went there with viechien, then we ate together with other WG member such as shella, cool mom, bowie, kuroro, wiedz, frog, nugie, DJ Arya, and the famous uting. We talked like we’re friends from a long time though it was the first time we met IRL (at least that was my first IRL encounter). It’s kinda amazing how you can make friends through the internet. Tuesday went slow, nothing special, just another day calling the clients, making quotation and YM conference. Wednesday I had this meeting with a law firm; their office was very neat, very comfy. And then at Thursday got some problems with invoice thing and my computer was infected by spyware. Luckily it’s my office computer that was infected. Friday, had general meeting, went home at 7 PM, stopped by at C4 Ambasador to buy cake ingredients for mom. And the last, yesterday I woke up late. I was supposed to wake up at 6.30 AM, but I woke up at 7.10AM, I went to ASEAN Hall immediately. Played badminton till 11 AM. Tirta came yesterday, and he really sparked things up, coz he was very good at badminton. It was very good. I was tired, but I felt healthy. When I was walking to Bakmie Bromo to eat, I met Andrainy. And then we went to Glodok (I wanted to buy medicine for mom), and then to ITC Mangga Dua (she wanted to buy contact lens). Took a quick nap as soon as I arrived at home.

Speaking about shopping, it reminds me of Shania Twain’s song, Ka Ching. With all the hypermarkets spreading all over Jakarta, we become more and more consumptive. Not to mention about credit card. It makes us buy things that we want to buy, but not necessarily need to have. I felt this when I was at Diamond and C4, I wanted to buy pants, racket for playing badminton, wrist band, new pair of shoes, etc. I had the money, but did I really need all of that? Fortunately my rational mind had won the battle and defeated that impulse buying urge. Well…I guess that’s all. I supposed to have an appointment with an instructor at Celebrity Fitness at Gadink, but I think I must cancel that appointment. I still feel exhausted and I better save my energy for the following 5 days of work. As usual, I leave you, my faithful blog reader with a song. I think this song is excellent and it has a moral message for all of us. Ciao….

Ka-Ching by Shania Twain

We live in a greedy little world
that teaches every little boy and girl
To earn as much as they can possibly
Then turn around and spend it foolishly
We've created us a credit card mess
We spend the money we don't possess
Our religion is to go and blow it all
So it's shoppin' every Sunday at the mall

* : chorus
All we ever want is more
A lot more than we had before
So take me to the nearest store
Can you hear it ring
It makes you wanna sing
It's such a beautiful thing
Ka-ching!
Lots of diamond rings
The happiness it brings
You'll live like a king
With lots of money and things

When you're broke go and get a loan
Take out another mortgage on your home
Consolidate so you can afford
To go and spend some more when you get bored

*

Let's swing
Dig deeper in your pocket
Oh, yeah, ha
Come on I know you've got it
Dig deeper in your wallet
Oh

*

Can you hear it ring
It makes you wanna sing
You'll love to dream
With lots of money and things
Ka-ching!