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Another boring day at office. No internet connection, my means of communication is only email, which sometimes doesn’t work. I just got another delivery failure report this morning. How am I supposed to perform if I’m not supported with necessary facilites? *sigh..Well I don’t mean to spread bad words about my current company, but that’s the condition I’m facing. Nevermind, I will be leaving this company anyway.

There are so many things I wanna write, but most of them are scattered in my mind. After watching Kate in Underworld Evolution, the following week was uneventful. But it was getting better at the end of the week. Thursday, Feb 16 was my best friend’s birthday. He gave me one of the best testimonials I’ve ever had. I also got Olga’s pictorial that day. She was stunning, a fine example of exquisite oriental beauty. Then at Friday I went and stayed at Liv’s house. Went there with Irwan, Harris and Temmy. On our way to Liv’s house, the weather was terrible. The rain was pouring down heavily and it got worse because the wind was also blowing very hard. The lightning was very scary, but we arrived safely. We ate at 24 hour KFC n then played SingStar. Played bluffing card, UNO and cap sa till 4 AM. N then we slept.

Woke up at around 8, ate breakfast together. Irwan played piano and we sang together, damn he was good. And then we played card….again. I took a bath at around 9 AM, n then we went to Hanamasa (Me, Liv, Hen, Harris n Temmy). I ate so much and felt very full. Went back to Liv’s house n then went to Gadink. Her father dropped us at Gadink mall coz he accompanied Liv’s sister to see a doctor. We went karaoke at NAV for two hours n then Liv n Hen was picked up by her father n we went home. Now they’re already in Beijing, I’m gonna see them next year. Spending time with Liv n Hen reminded me of my time in Perth. It was unforgettable experience.

Later that night I chatted with Phoenix, a girl I met from a forum in the internet. N then I went to sleep for almost 12 hours..lol. Woke up on Sunday, relaxing till afternoon n then went to St. Jacob church to attend the afternoon mass there. Went there with Jef, he waited in the car while I was attending the mass. After that we went to Willy’s wedding reception. It was very surprising when I got the news from Jef. He called me a few days earlier n told me that Willy had asked him to give an invitation to his wedding on Sunday. I barely believe it; my Jr High School friend was getting married. Wow….and he married the girl he dated since high school. I think they have dated for 5 or 6 years… Met lots of old friends at the reception. David came with his (ex????) girlfriend. Agus, Yudhi, Mansiong, Aan, Dewi, Linda, Wendy, etc. After the reception we went upstairs n played some pool till 10 sth PM n then went home.

Monday till today was boring….typical. Trying to achieve the target but it’s hard to do with the inconsistency of the email system. Went to Nestle on Tuesday n I was impressed. The office environment was very beautiful. It’s more like an elite apartment complex. Chatted w Liana in the afternoon and guess what, she invited me to join a conference, only to find that there were sicnotz, dw and kriz there….what a small world….unbelievable. Went to Permata Hijau on Wednesday, Popeye’s (SOHO) office. Went back home by bus…after a long time. Met Tendy at Slipi Jaya; I finally went in to Slipi Jaya just to pee…lol. But it was quite nice actually. Yesterday went to CIFOR (in Bogor) for the 3rd time. We were treated lunch once again by Mrs. Lely. She was very generous.
End of transmission………………………… (originally written on Feb 24, 2006)

Actually I was gonna make the following as a different post, but I think I’d just put them together as one post….so..here’s the next part….enjoy…

Weekend

Yeahhhhhhh……it’s been a marvelous weekend. Though I didn’t play badminton but I got some decent sleep. Watched John Travolta in Be Cool. A very good movie, it’s too bad that the DVD was a little bit damaged so I had to skip 20 minutes or so. There’s also Christina Milian in that movie. Her voice was incredible. And then I went to store, mom went shopping for a while. Went to MBK Church (I suppose it would be called Mary Mother of Carmel in English, but I’m not sure so I just use the Indonesian name, MBK) at 3.40 PM. Arrived there at 4.30 PM, the road at Saturday was clear. Attended the mass and I was quite surprised to know that March 1 is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I followed the mass anxiously cause I had another plan which was go to JCC to attend the 5th Lustrum of Binus. I got the invitation (Binus was kind enough to send it to my office, I was quite flattered…) and I wanted to see what it would be like. In the invitation it said that there would be Project Pop and Titi DJ. Unfortunately the mass finished longer that I had expected. It finished at 6.30PM,while I expected it would finish at 6 PM.

So I rushed to JCC (Met LG at the parking lot, he was with Linda, his gf…another surprise ;p). Thank god I could make it on time. I arrived there at 6.51 PM but it was difficult to find parking space. I had to negotiate with the parking guy to finally get a parking space. I gave the books (we must give book(s) in order to get in to the event) and went in to Plenary Hall. At first I just went in to the tribune. I sat at the B section, next to a cute girl (yippiee), but I think the guy who’s sitting next to her other side was her bf…(grrrr……). Short story, Verra called me, we talked a bit n then I went down to ask where should I sit. I was expecting to get a VIP seat and I got it by talking a little with the usher (yeahhhh…). So I went in the Plenary Hall again, but this time I went to the ground floor, the VIP area. To my surprise I met Shanti, haven’t met her for ages. She offered me to sit next to her. She was with Albert and Mr. Freddy Purnomo, our Major Secretary. WOW!!! I hadn’t known that Shanti knew Mr. Freddy and it seemed that they knew each other quite well. So I introduced myself to Mr. Freddy and Shanti added some spice about me being one of the bla..bla..bla… and he invited us to try the buffet..WOW again. Well the show which was supposed to start at 7 PM finally started at about 8 PM. We went back to our seats and enjoyed the event. Basically it was Binus’ anniversary celebration and a promotion to show Binus improvement from it’s beginning till today.

The event was hosted by Ferdy Hasan and Indy Barens. They’re great MCs. And then Project Pop came out and sang their first song of the night, which was “Tu Wa Ga Pat”. They’re very hilarious, very entertaining. I liked them even more after watching them in live performance. After a few songs they cut it and showed fragments of Binus’ portfolio. Project Pop sang about 5 songs after their first song and after their last song, Titi DJ came and sang “Sang Dewi”. After that she sang this song that I really liked and I finally knew the title, it was “Setengah Hidupku”. The event ended at about 10.30 PM. It was unforgettable experience. I also got Mr. Freddy name card. He was interested in the .NET training.

Sunday arrived. Well I slept like a pig on Saturday night (I think I very often sleep like a pig..lol) and woke up at about 9 AM. I went to Eddy’s for a while, asking for his father’s advice about motorcycles. Then I went to gadink to meet with the Safax Gank. We met on Starbucks (yeah, our standard is Starbucks now….hahahahhahaha), ordered some coffee and omelet and we chatted there. There’re me, Winy, Aan, Ryan and Agus. Not so long after that Yuni came. We talked till about 3 sth PM n then David came with Bowo and Maria. We went to La Piazza to eat. We ate at Chatterbo Café. When I was looking at the menu, I was interested in Fish n Chips coz it reminded me of Ciccerello’s, Freo and Perth…..hmmmm *sigh. The fish n chips was good, it’s delicious. We had crazy conversation there, typical whenever there’s David n Agus around….lol. We finished eating about 6 PM; then we went karaoke on (“old”) Happy Puppy. We sang for two hours there until about 8.30 PM. Duet with David n got 99 for “Menunggumu”…Yeahhh… also got 77 for Jay’s “An Jing” . After that we went home with a promise that we should meet again in June.


Today’s another busy day. Last night I wrote application letter to UNICEF, which I hope will make the HR staff who read it touched so I can be granted an interview. I dropped my sis at her office and then went to Daan Mogot to get a driver license for motorcycles. Got there at 8 sth AM. I studied the procedure and tried to follow it. There’re some offers but it was expensive, about Rp. 420.000, so I decided to process it on my own. I followed the steps n took the written test at 10.00-10.30 AM. I met Aries when I was waiting for my written test result to be announced. We talked and ate tupat sayur together. At around 11 AM I got my result and I didn’t pass and that I have to take another written test on March. I was sure that I’d pass coz the questions were very easy. But then again who’d have known??? Aries had the same result, fail. So we tried to “change” our result and we finally made it with the “help” of a policewoman. After that we went to take the practice test.

It was just a formality, really. All of us were passed..well almost all of us. There’re also few that didn’t pass. When I looked at their disappointed face, for a moment I felt guilty coz I used money to “bent” the rule, but then again it’s the way it is. It’s how it goes. Money talks. I could see the sadness n disappointment in their faces. I understood that for some (a lot) of us, Jakarta citizen especially, Rp. 420.000,00 was quite big amount. That’s sad. There’re too many things, factors that contribute to this GIGANTIC gap between the rich n the poor. For me, spending Rp. 420.000,00 was also something that I had to consider carefully, but remembering that it’s how it is, the system is money power I didn’t have much choice, did I? So they who didn’t pass went back with their disappointed faces and we, me n Aries went to another step of the driver license processing. After that we got our picture taken and we waited for our driver license to be printed. I waited only for a while, about 10-15 minutes, and then I got my C driver license. Yeahhh…..all the efforts were worthed. We went to Setiabudi coz I had to pick up my sis. We ate at Mami, Aries went to ETOJ to say hi and I played some pool at La Forca. My sis came about 4.40 PM

That’s it. A fabulous weekend and a lesson learned today. Now all I have to do is practicing my motorcycles skills….Peace Out