2013 Recap

1. finish my bachelor on summer  August! Done :)
2. get a good place to work or good place to start master -- in progress
3. keep on smiling everyday
4. visit at least two of these countries: Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Ireland, Malta, Iceland, Slovenia, Czech republic -- no money, but I visited Belgium
5. have a new boyfriend -- well, I've been in some dates, but no boyfriend. I learned that I shouldn't have put this point in my resolution. I should be more submissive in the next year. To have wanted someone and then ended up without having him by myself hurts a lot. I was (again and again) too possesive before he became mine. Then it also became difficult to move on and move up. Anyhow, I learned: do not fall in love with your long-term colleague, unless he fell in love with you first.
6. more time for God I think I prayed more last year :(
7. less buying food from the cafetaria, cook more
8. clean up my bedroom more often
9. no coke from January 4th -- not suceed, I was forced to drink cola on the day I was faint after blood donation -.-

In comparison to last year, this achievement is far away from perfect and satisfying :(
Let's hope more for 2014 (Horse Year! Horse Rule!)

So I called it Christmas

I never expected that I would celebrate christmas and new year at home in 2013. Pap suddenly missed us and so yeah, we were home. I was in Bekasi for about 10 days. I arrived on Monday 23rd Dec and flew back on Jan 2nd. Almost everyday was visiting appointment. So, hmm, eat all the time. No wonder that I gained 4,5 kg in 10 days (OH NO!!). However, I also did  (again) movie marathon with Fliska (Sendy was out of town). We saw: Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck and The Hobbit. I met Mbak Lala (we ate together at Tawan n went to photo box, haha). Ohja, I attended the new year's eve youth mass and at the end we took pict together (Jes, Boedi, me, Galih). I even sang in the choir in the mass on Dec 24th and in duty as ministrantin on Dec 29th. Overall, my christmas and new year was awesome :)

Bolu pink

Martabak bangka!!!!! Huaaahh

My beloved pecel lele

Sepedaan sama mami ke Bunderan HI dr Senayan

Menu abis sepedaan 1: sate ayam

Menu abis sepedaan 2: kue tetek/kue ape

Menu abis sepedaan 3: singkong goreng, ubi goreng

Menu tahun baru: wagyu steak made by papi

Menu tahun baru: kartoffelgratin made by mami

Menu tahun baru: ayam suharti

Christmas Market Marathon Part 2

Route: Nurnberg - Wurzburg - Munchen - Wurzburg (15-18 December 2013)

Day 1: Nurnberg
I said to my brother, that I wanted to see the christmas market in Nurnberg so badly. By accident, Kris planned also to go with his uni mates to Nurnberg that day. So we met up there :) Teja who lives there in Nurnberg was our tour guide and led a small city tour for us. Well, Nurnberger Christmas Market was really crowded (I took one pict down there). Since I couldn't meet the christkindl it seemed just like another christmas market in Germany, but the kiddy market was something different. Special. I love it! Decoration that you couldn't find in any other city. I'm glad that I decided to turn and see that before I went back to Wurzburg.

Menu 1: 3 Nurnberger Wurst mit Brot 

Menu 2: Scheibebrot mit Mettwurst

Menu 3: Fleischkuchle

Photo of the day: Henkersteg under the fullmoonlight

Menu 4: Feuerzangenbowle

2-level Merry-Go-Round

On the roof of every stand in kiddy christmas market

Menu 5: Crepes

Day 3: München

1st Christmas Market

Menu 6: Auszogn

2nd christmas Market

3rd christmas market: Marienplatz

 Day 4: Würzburg

Menu 8: Riese Kusse

Late birthday presents

Hihihi.. :) I got a lot of birthday presents on my last advent day in Germany.

1. Earring from my ex-flatmate
2. Tiny little late birthday cake with a candle on it (and I could finally make a wish) from my date.
3. 2 bottles of white glühwein from Tom.
4. Orchid (yes yes yes it's first flower I got ever!!! :D), thanks a lot Mattis, Sonja and Mathilchen

Glühwein, Pizza and Les Miserables. Perfect to end the day, which full of feelings: happy, lovely, nervous, sad, empty, irritated, shock, loved, exhausted.

P.S: what love can do. Love brought me to Bourheim, despite of wind while biking ;)

P.P.S: "Let the wine of friendship never run dry"~ Les Miserables

P.P.P.S: Ab in die Tropen!!

It's a small world afterall

You remember that song, don't you?

Kali ini gw mau bercerita ttg date gw yg ehem, kalo menurut lagunya Armada "mau dibawa kemana hubungan kita...?" gw ga tau apakah hubungan kita bakal berhasil. dan selama ini gw tidak merasakan kupu2 dlm perut :(

Anyhow, I chatted with one of my old friend from Vietnam. She has a boyfriend from the same place my date comes from and baby. Waktu itu date gw ini emang pernah cerita kalo dia punya adik cowo, dan tinggal di Dussi. Tapi gw ga inget kalo temen gw yg dr studkol ini pernah bilang kalo cowonya pindah ke Dussi. Dan td stlh temen gw ini nanya kabar gw (dan kabar percintaan gw), gw cerita lah ttg percintaan gw yg amburadul. Trus stlh cerita, cerita,cerita, dia tanya siapa nama date gw. Gw sebutlah itu namanya. Bang! Seriously, dia kenal doooonnngg.. Parah bgt ga siiiiiiihhh.... Date gw itu kakak pacarnya... Aduuuuuhhh... Udah badan gw semakin lebar, makin sempit lah dunia ini. Haih.

Firasat

(Firasat = Vorahnung = Premonition)

I was totally shocked. I won't mention any reason today, but it's worse enough to describe my day.

Can't cry much. I let my tears wiped by the wind.

Then, I was thinking about this word "Firasat". I don't know whether the translation correct.

It's some feeling, a special connection that you have, when you love someone. Virtual bond.

And it has been said, if the bond strong enough, one can feel that something (bad) has happened.

I got this kind of feeling since last week. I couldn't really enjoy my birthday, my sweet escape to Würzburg.

At that time, I was under pressure to decide whether to go home for christmas or not.

My feeling yelled a strong "no". I actually have no reason to refuse Pap's wish, but I just had no good feeling.

I just wanted to stay in Jülich. I got a feeling that there's something gonna happen if I go too early.

Worse case is accident or kind of *amit2* 

But today I found out why. Why had I not good feeling..

I hope this is really the one. And I realized, how strong the bond is between us. It's not always how long we have been through together that decides, but how we love each other :')

Please stay :'(

The Piano Guys Concert- Düsseldorf

It has been a perfect day last week. Trully happiness. Our first date went fine, though I'm still not quite sure how long it needs to fall in love in him. Don't wanna talk about it though. The Piano Guys were perfect!! and totally entertaining.

They played mostly the songs we've heard on youtube (All of Me, Rockelbel's Canon, A Thousand Year, What makes you beautiful, Süße die Glocken nie klingen, Kung Fu Piano, Waterfall, Can't help falling in love, Peponi, Beethoven's 5 secrets, O come o come Emmanuel, Rolling in the deep, etc). I didn't expect that even in live version it heard as good as in youtube, even better! And I totally admire Bruce Lee (Steve's electric cello) and its special blue pedal effect. It's really cool!

Jon's $2,000 grand piano

Steve's cellos

For those who are friend with me on facebook might know that I posted on my wall that I would love to hear "Angels we heard on high" in the saturday concert. And they did play that song as the second encore!!! And they said that was the first time ever they played it live. Yuhuuuuuuu!!! Isn't that great!!?? It was the best pre-christmas and birthday gift ever! ;)

The coolest thing is that we got autogram and photo session with these awesome guys after the concert. YEEEEAAAHHH!!!!

Paul Anderson,, Al van der Beek, Steve Sharp Nelson, Jon Schmidt, Dita, Darwin, Christian

THANK YOU SO MUCH, THE PIANO GUYS, FOR THE REALLY NICE CONCERT! 

I LOVE YOU :*

P.S: When they told the story about how they came up with the idea of kung fu piano and how they wish to be able to make video on the 7 wonders of the world, I got an crazy imagination of colaboration on Indonesian's Candi Borobudur and wanted to write them for that. At home, I checked the kung fu piano video again and found out that Indonesia is not on the list :( I forgot that Candi Borobudur is not any longer counted as world's seven wonders since several years.. Huhu, schade (that's a pitty). But who knows? maybe in another chance ;)