A Little Flashback for 2013

• 1:What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before?
• I live on my own
• 2:Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
• I did not  :( and I will. 
• 3:Did anyone close to you give birth?
• My friend's sister did.
• 4:Did anyone close to you die?
• Thank God, no. 
• 5:What countries did you visit?
• Australia, Singapore, Indonesia
• 6:What would you like to have in 2014 that you lacked in 2013
• I would like to have the flipping will and motivation to do things
• 7:What dates from 2013 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
• Feb 8: the first day in Australia, Aug 8 to 18: my first musical experience as a performer, Aug 22: mid year ball and the man I met after that, Winter break: meeting my best friends and Summer break: meeting my chums
• 8:What was your biggest achievement of the year?
• Surviving a year of living alone, a year in uni and performing in a musical
• 9:What was your biggest failure?
• Not getting the marks I wanted 
• 10:Did you suffer illness or injury?
• I fell from my bike
• 11:What was the best thing you bought?
• This year? tickets to home
• 12:Whose behaviour merited celebration?
• What?
• 13:Whose behaviour made you appalled?
• That guy who broke my heart
• 14:Where did most of your money go?
• food and tickets to home
• 15:What did you get really, really, really excited about?
• Anything about the musical, coming home, meeting family and friends
• 16:What song will always remind you of 2013?
• Any Macklemore songs will do
• 17:Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? (c) richer or poorer?
• a) sadder than usual but happier too at times b) thinner until mid year then fatter c) relative
• 18:What do you wish you’d done more of?
• Studying. 
• 19:What do you wish you’d done less of?
• Doing nonsense, watching youtube videos
• 20:How did you spend Christmas?
• Spent it with my family back home. 
• 21:Did you fall in love in 2013?
• I did not
• 22:What was your favourite TV program?
• Bones, the classic American version of Whose Line Is It
• 23:Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
• Definitely 
• 24:What was the best book you read?
• I re-read Titanium, that. 
• 25:What was your greatest musical discovery?
• Justin Timberlake's new album tbh
• 26:What did you want and get?
• New friends, chance to go home
• 27:What did you want and not get?
• Great grades, a job
• 28:What was your favourite film of this year?
• Iron Man 3, Thor The Dark World
• 29:What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
• CATS The Musical!
• 30:How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2013?
• Wear all things you see first
• 31:What kept you sane?
• My best friends and my chums, TV shows
• 32:Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
• Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Macklemore
• 33:What political issue stirred you the most?
• The Indonesian political situation
• 34:Who did you miss?
• All my friends and my family
• 35:Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2013.
• You can and able. Don't hang around people who don't value your effort or trust. 
• 36:Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
• "When the dawn comes, tonight will be a memory too. Look! A new day has begun..."

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Chant

It's not there
nor here
What am I looking for?

I run so far so fast
Promised myself I'll be fine
I tried so hard
I'm trying really hard

Pretty scenes, amazing people
Unknown opportunities lie ahead
of me and I am willing
to open my door
'I can do this' I said chanting
over and over in my head

But sometimes the clouds
are grey and not white
Sometimes people cry
and they don't smile
some times

you feel sad and
you feel glad
and you pick yourself
up. Start again
try harder
Try harder, I said
chanting over and over

-Saturday, 23 March 2013

 21:11, Braddon, ACT

Welcome Back!

After a brief hiatus, I'm back!

In those very short hiatus, I've accomplished a few things in life. I'm now in the land down under currently studying as a university student (finally!) and I just had my first week of lectures :D

I'm living in a self catered dorm. Not a common choice for first years, I guess. That means, I have to cook all meals myself. Since it's a dorm, we have to share bathroom, which is a new experience to me. Good thing the room is all for yourself and you don't have to share it. My view is pretty awesome as well:

Things are going interesting and I probably have a few stories to tell.

Last Thursday, at 6.20AM, I was woken up by a horrible digital alarm sound. I thought it was my alarm (even though I know for sure it doesn't sound like that) so I tried to get back to sleep. After one or two minutes, I realised that it came from outside. I opened my door and there is a little speaker on the corner of the wall, wailing loudly. Pissed, I came back to my bed.

A few seconds later, I heard people coming out of their rooms. I opened my door and saw people heading to the foyer. My next door neighbour came out looking really confuse. Since we both are new residents, we decided to follow everyone out to the foyer. I took my time to take my jumper and headed out.

When we were there waiting for the senior resident, I realised that I FORGOT TO BRING MY KEYCARD. I went downstairs with everyone else while cursing myself for being so stupid. We were all heading to the parking lot. It was 6.30AM and it was around 10 degrees outside, I was wearing my OFS senior hoodie, tee and shorts. IT WAS FREAKING COLD for a girl who spend all her lifetime in 25 to 35 degree celcius everyday. I was shivering for about half an hour trying to awkwardly move to keep my body warm.

Since it was a fire drill (if you haven't worked that out yet, there you go) we went back upstairs at around 7AM and everyone is saying "good night" to each other. My senior resident was there and talked to us about the drill and how pissed we all are at the time. My SR let me in to my room and not counting it as a penalty because it's a fire drill.

I had a lecture at 11AM that day but I successfully woke up at 10.40AM and decided to not to go to the morning lecture. Luckily, Nadeen (first Indonesian girl friend yay) is on the 4PM lecture so I'm not alone.

It doesn't stop there. Being a clever girl I am, I successfully locked my self out, AGAIN, just a few minutes ago. I was about to take a yoghurt in the kitchenette when I talked to other residents and forgot to leave my door unlocked. Without phone, or anything really, just a spoon. A useless spoon...

I couldn't call my SR nor the duty warden so I decided to knock on his door and he wasn't there. I was panicking because both of my next door neighbours are not in their rooms since yesterday (I guess...). So I asked my other neighbour to help me and call my SR, interrupting his card game just to unlock my door. Lucky I have a very very very nice SR and neighbours.

Yeah, I just write this because I feel stupid and I feel so bad for disrupting people's beautiful weekend...

P.S. Found this in my uni, happy as can be:

Slogtember 16 - Teruntuk, Aku.

Paginya bukan pagimu lagi
Paginya sudah dimiliki
Paginya bukan pagimu lagi
Paginya teruntuk yang lain

Dipikirannya bukan kamu lagi
Kalau saja kamu pernah mampir
Mungkin dulu bukan kamu
Mungkin dulu hanya ilusi

Senyum itu bukan untuk kamu lagi
Teruntuk orang lain
Bahagianya bukan karena kamu lagi
Dari dahulu pun bukan karena kamu

Tapi kabutnya adalah kabutmu
Selalu sejak dulu
Janjimu tetap disitu
Disebelahnya tak berubah selalu

Janjinya bukan lagi janji
Tapi janjimu tetap milikmu
Keputusannya bukan bergantung padamu
Tapi keputusanmu akan tetap begitu

Paginya bukan pagimu
Pagimu tetap miliknya
Malamnya tak berbintang kamu
Mataharimu tetaplah dirinya.

Surat untuk diri sendiri

Rabu, 19 September 2012

19:19