Thank God It’s Finally On Us!

Dear my faithful readers, I'm going to pop a quick question: in several of my posts I mentioned about my olympic life, didn't I? I hope so, because this post is going to be a recent news about my olympic life and Thamrin's (my school name) olympic life. Remember what I said in the previous post about my olympic life that was unnerving and stuff, now (hopefully) all of it will change.

Recently I have won a national biology competition held by Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor Agricultural Institute) along with my two team-mates Tiroy Junita and Meva Nareza. Thank God for your blessing, we placed 1st :)

Which is kind of amazing because our rivals are so tough. They are biology masters such as Harun Reza Sugito, Marsha Christanvia, Patricia Jonathan, Lilie Fransiska, Thoriq Salafi. Their team-mates Jeffry Alamsjah, Matthew Billy, Gunawan, Ibrahim Ardisasmita, Parangeni Muhammad are OSN medalists and TOBI's pelatnas members.
However, the main goal is still The Tenth National Biology Olympiad which is going to be held at Menado in 2011. I take this as a stepping stone to create, what my Biology Olympic teacher, Miss Celine, said: A Snowball Effect. Hopefully my snowball will gain size as big as a mountain when it's time to strike NBO with it, hehehehe.

I've also participated in another competition called LCTIP (Lomba Cepat Tepat Ilmu Pangan) with a physic student Indhika Fauzan and a chemistry student Hana Antonio but we didn't place. Another team consist of Bagus Wicaksono, Fiorentina Cemerlang Ririhena and Fauzanil Azmy also made it to semifinals but they didn't place too. We also send out two teams for Medspin UNAIR 2010 at Surabaya: Tiroy Junita, Nurul Aulia, Ubay Noor, and the second team are: Selma Ramadhani, Aisyah Hafizha and Radhian Ferel. Tiroy's team made it to final and placed 10th. Okay that's enough about biology. Wanna hear from other major?

1. Please welcome Ayu Fatmawati, Dhata Karuni Mutia Masyita and Nurwidya Utami Jati who have just gotten back home from World Mathematic Team Competition (WMTC) in Beijing! They didn't place but we are still so very proud of them!

2. From the English major (like we got any), we placed first on 48 Senior High Debate Competition against 81 Senior High. The team members are Inado Grace Simarmata, Michelle Ginting and Vera Ridhani. I am so excited that they got the first prize and beat 81 :D Don't ask me why haha.

3. Chemistry major rocks Health Ministry Chemistry Competition and brought home the first prize. They (Nurul Aulia, Bagus Wicaksono and Prika Maulina Agaristi) made it into semifinals too at IPB but they didn't proceed to final. But that's okay. They've won after all ;)

4. Me, Tiroy Junita, Fiorentina Ririhena, Meva Nareza and Melysa Sitepu flew to Jogjakarta on December 2010 to attend the semifinal round of Indonesian Bio-Science Competetion held by Universitas Gajah Mada (Gajah Mada University). Thank God, I made it to semifinal round two, but I didn't proceed to the final.

Past events that are also amazing to share:
1. We dominated the semifinals of Universitas Negeri Jakarta (Jakarta State University) Math Competition called Pelangi and our math master, Dhata Karuni Mutia Masyita placed 5th!

2. Tiroy Junita attended Asian Science Camp in Mumbai, India along with other gifted children conducted by Surya Institute. She apparently gain a new bff along the journey :P

3. Ayu Fatmawati and Fiorentina Ririhena get a bronze medal for Singapore Mathematic Olympiad of junior category. You know what, they are a 14 years old 11th grader!

4. Samuel Leonardo Putra get a bronze medal at Chemistry National Olympiad at Medan and now he just got back from Pelatnas. Welcome back amigo!

Well that's just about it. To be true, I am really happy because our school has become famous for our good reputation. People start to fear us in the arena and that is an amazing thing because our school have only been there for two years. And we are now doing everything we can to maintain our reputation. But I feel reallly sad because, not that I underestimate them or anything, I think our predecessor must struggle to keep up with our education year, because from what I heard or see, they haven't got what it takes to be a champion. Well, wisest thing to say is to just wait for time to do its thing. I begged you my junior, please please don't fail us. I know you guys are amazing so please please make sure you will hold on to everything that we have gained and push it higher. I have faith that you all can do it :D May our school be the best school in the states!

Your friend, senior, teammate, classmate, roommate, tablemate
Lindy Mawardhani Dharmawan

Haven’t Met You Yet

I’m not surprised, not everything last
I’ve broken my heart so many times I stopped keeping track
Talk myself in, I talk myself out
I get all worked up and then I let myself down

I tried so very hard not to lose it
I came up with a million excuses
I thought, I thought every possibilities

And I know someday that it’ll all turn out
You’ll make me work, so we can work to work it out
And I promise you, kid, I give so much more than I get

I just haven’t met you yet

Familiar with these phrases? Yep. It’s Michael Buble’s. Just wanna share about what’s been on my mind lately. I am going to post an actual post after this, I promise. Until then, you are obliged to be happy with this short post :)

Greting loved ones,
Ms. Dharmawan

A Little Too Something

Hi blogger. Have you ever heard the words above? Maybe in a song, or in a poem, or in a movie? Or you haven't hear them at all? It's okay because I made that words up. I don't know if anyone have ever published it before. I really loved those words. It reaally reflects the whole aspect of my life. My friends, my school, my teachers, my olympic life and so on and so forth.

Maybe it can reflect your whole life as well.

Wanna try it?

First of all, think about one specific category of your life. Let's say........your school. And then, think about your school and put as many adjectives you think fit to replace 'something' in those words. Let's see.......what fits? A Little Too Old, A Little Too Strict, or maybe A Little Too Big? Hahahaha. Do it for other categories and see what results come out. Have fun! Here is my result:

My School:

• A Little Too Big
  
• A Little Too Complicated
  
• A Little Too Hectic
  
• A Little Too Abstract
  
• A Little Too Annoying
  
• A Little Too Exhausting
  
• A Little Too Unhappy
  

My House:

• A Little Too Cozy
  
• A Little Too Warm
  
• A Little Too Joyful
  
• A Little Too Indulging
  
• A Little Too Plush
  
• A Little Too Complete
  
• A Little Too Perfectionist
  

My Friends:

• A Little Too Caring
  
• A Little Too Nice
  
• A Little Too Sensitive
  
• A Little Too Envious
  
• A Little Too Cheerful
  
• A Little Too Competitive
  
• A Little Too Supportive
  
• A Little Too Generous
  

My Olympic Life:

• A Little Too Lousy
  
• A Little Too Busy
  
• A Little Too Tiring
  
• A Little Too Exciting
  
• A Little Too Mobilized
  
• A Little Too Expensive
  
• A Little Too Unnerving
  

My Teacher:

• A Little Too Control-Freak
  
• A Little Too Modern
  
• A Little Too Demanding
  
• A Little Too Friendly
  
• A Little Too Weak
  
• A Little Too Undecisive
  
• A Little Too Rich
  

Now for the Grand Finale, My Self. But I won't answer it myself, leave a comment to state what 'A Little Too Something' I am J

From Jakarta With Love

Aloha Means Hello and Goodbye

What's with the sad title? Oh nooo, it was not sad. It's inspiring. Because we all know that every hello followed with a goodbye. The problem is not everyone know when to say goodbye, or how many time they have left until they have to say a goodbye. A goodbye can be planned or it can arrive like a wind and they'll be gone before you know it.

Oops, I forgot to greet the bloggers. Hi everyone. It's been a long time since I posted for the last time. I swear I tried to post as often as I can but consider this condition: I'm on a boarding school with super hectic schedule and many competition to participate and I have to win all of them in order to get a scholarship and my modem is not available and my school network is sooo moody, looking at that situation, I am grateful if I can write one post per month. Okay but I will not talk about that. At least not at the moment.

Guess where am I now bloggers? New Yooorrrk! Malaaang! City of Flowers and City of Apples! What am I doing here? I am participating a competition. A biology competition held by Universitas Negeri Malang (Malang State University). The competition is called Lebah Madu and the theme of this competition is "Where Great Minds Compete To Become A Real Biologist"

It was fun and amusing. We didn't get into the final because our experiment score are very low, but thank God we manage to become the best performer in case study. We scored 91,5 out of 100!! Isn't that fun-fu**ing-tastic? I feel bad to my friend that I didn't manage to get into the final. But I personally, feel satisfied because of that case study score. That means we are ready for the theoritical aspect.

Oh, why we? Because I don't fight alone. We enrolled as a team and my teammate is Tiroy Junita. She is a super smart student and I'm glad having her as my teammate. We also meet our cousin-in-law (literally in law), the brilliant class students, Zuriel Immanuel Natan and Yosua Heresta. They are pretty bright as well but nonetheless we still score better than them :P

On Sunday (that means yesterday) we spent the whole day exploring Batu, the tourism city of Malang with BC students and our guardian teacher, Mr. Dion. First of all we arrived at an agrotourism object. There we picked two apples and two guava and eat an apple friedrice. After that we took a really nice photoshoot and of we went to Cuban Rondo Waterfall. It is amaziiiiinng there. The cliff are soo cool and the air is so cold. We took pictures in front of the waterfall, buy some souvenirs and head back to the hotel.

The next day we searched for more memento.Our friends asked us to buy apple crackers and jackfruit crackers so we went for them. I bought some Malang Apples as well. We also stopped by a crystal store called Crystalline that it's advertisement we saw at the airplane on our way to Malang. We love its handphone cover so we're looking forward to have it. But when we asked about the price, I got hopeless. It is sooo expensive. Almost 1,2 million rupiahs per item. So we skipped it. We stopped for a while at an ancient ice cream shop called Toko OEN. It has been in there since 1930, it means since the Dutch Colonial era. I ordered the one called Calypso Fantasy and it is awesome :9

We have to go back to the airport by 1 p.m. We had an uneventful airport experience, a normal flight and I'm back in Jakarta. I love coming back to Jakarta because Jakarta is such a great place to live in. They have everything in here. Name it and you'll find it here. But coming back to Jakarta means I have to go back to my routine, which I resent. Well, not actually resent but I don't want to learn anything but Biology at the moment. I think one of the reason I still failing is that I'm not focused. I don't give a shit about Cambridge or any other thing going on in my school. I just wanted to win many competitions for my CV in order to get a scholarship. Selfish? Tell me about it. Well, the point is I just hate saying goodbye and go back to my routine. Just like when I come back from OSN. But, every hello has it's own goodbye. So, Goodbye Malang and Hello Routine :)

Heartache No. 201010938....

Hey Blog, I am hurt. Very bad. Super bad. Really really bad that all I want to do right now is piss people off and beat up the people who made me this mad with a baseball bat until he no longer has his face's shape so I will no longer be hurted by his most selfish grin and gave me the look, "You're the one who is stupid, Stupid!" or "Why don't you look at my favourite boy, he is so smart! But with that brain of yours, I guess you will never beat him. Ever."

HELLO, if you really treat this class a a class-filled-with-30-students not a-class-filled-with-a-few-of-your-favourite-smart-student then I'm sure this will not happen. If you spent more time explaining to us CLEARLY not with all the in focus and stuff and exercise that we haven't finished but you keep saying 'next' but thanks to your lovely few favourite students, the ones that you keep on paying attention, we flunked on math :)Seriously, I don't feel this class as a class but a a private lesson class. Every exercise you always turn to '*****a, **a*, *a***, have you finished?" He answered, "Yes, sir" and then he replied "What's the answer?" ")&:!:@.!-" they said. "Correct!" and then he officially ended the exercise. Meanwhile, I just finished rewriting the question.

I want to say it out loud but I'm afraid that I will offend someone and hurt someone like that person hurt me. I hate confrontation, I really do. I also have experienced what shouting-out-your-heartache in public will do to you. I also have beem betrayed by one of my close friends so I guess the last place to run is my blog. I am not a hyprocite, talking about someone behind their back. I just need a place to cry out loud, and after I come to my senses (this paragraph) the feeling just......vamooshed. I still angry, yes, but not that much.

Well this is it. I love having you around bloggers :)

Introducing Me

Hey HOOO Bloggers!

I'm back! Well, since I decided to become an active blogger, it means that I have to post more often, am I wrong? No? Yes? Not really? Feel free to think.

I don't really know what I want to share but now I'm in my classroom, my teacher is missing. He was just here and the next thing I know we're all already facing our own laptop and surf the internet.

I wanna write! But I'm confused about what topic should I wrote. And then it strucked me. You haven't know anything about me except that this is my one and only blog and my twitter account is @libsybitsy and other tiny mini informations from my previous posts.

But, thanks to Camp Rock 2 and Nick Jonas' newest song, Introducing Me. I'm inspired to wrote a post that contains 28 random facts about me. Why 28? Because it is one of my favoutite number. Why? I don't really know either...

28 Facts About Me That No One Have Ever Asked Before

1. My favourite Tango flavour is vanilla

2. I prefer liquid correction pen to roll correction pen

3. When I grow up and have much money I want to buy an island and make an education foundation in that island and make schools from kindergarden to university for gifted children.

4. When I'm bored I tend to doodle a bear doll that made of 'small circle, small circle, big circle...'

5. I don't like to draw lines or higlighting important lines in my coursebook because it makes my book dirty

6. I collect a huge amount of stuffed animals and dolls since I was a little girl

7. I can sleep without a bolster in my side, and with or without a turned on lamp

8. I love to go shopping with my little sister and my mother

9. Winter, spring, summer or fall? Summer definitely.

10. I usually look at Teen Vogue and Nylon for my fashion reference

11. Cookies or cupcakes? Cookies for choco-chips and cupcakes for cheese!

12. The first thing I do after I wake up from my sleep: look at my handphone to check what time is it.

13. I don't really know any football club so I don't have any favourite

14. I really wanted to try to travel by backpack but I haven't done it until this moment

15. I never order other pizza topping from Pizza Hut except meat lovers

16. I want to visit New York! At least once in a lifetime.

17. My second favourite flower (the first one is rose of course because it's in my name :D) is white aster. Or sunflower. Or lavender.

18. Green grass or white snow? How about pearl-coloured sandy beach? ;)

19. My shortest password consist of 4 character and my longest one? 20

20. I think the most disgusting thing people can do that I ever witnessed is that he throw up his half-munched food and eat it again. Yucks

21. The most untolerateable colour to be worn as an outfit is a magenta-shocking-pink t-shirt with big prints on it. Especially if it is worn by a black boy

22. I really love the scent of my current perfume: The Body Shop White Musk

23. I cannot resist Indomie fried noodle

24. I never get bored watching Peter Pan and Lemony Snicket: The Series of Unfortunate Events

25. Favourite internet browser for my Mac devices is Safari, for my Microsoft devices, Google Chrome

26. I love to imagine what will happen if I have a life just like Miley Stewart in Hannah Montana series.

27. I stepped on a solder once when I was a little girl and I couldn't walk for more than a week

28. I am easy to please. Just smile at me and I will be happy

Okay that's it. 28 random facts just like I promised you. Hopefully, you will want to know me better after this so contact me on MSN: lindy.ding.dong@live.com or YM!: lindystrub@yahoo.com.sg or follow me on my twitter. Oh, and this post is made by accepting help from Meva Nareza! Thank you mevaa. Keep following my blog guys. Good afternoon!

OSN IX 2010 :D

Hey bloggers, how are you? I'm doing just fine.
I know, I know I haven't posted for ages but now I am ready to share a new one!

I'm in my room right now waiting for my call to go to the school while I'm writing this blog. It is now 06:10 a.m and Sugar Sugar from the Archies is playing from our dorm speaker -____-

I'm going to share all of you my most recent breathtaking experience and that is: attending Indonesia's most prestigious academic competition.

I am very very very proud to become one of the participant in that event eventhough I didn't get any medal or even get to be the Indonesia's Biology Olympiad Team. I wasn't trying hard enough to deserve that medal so I guess I'll have to try next year :)

About the competition, it is divided into eight major for high school student and that is: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer, Geology, Astronomy and Economy.

I majored in Biology which I resent for the first time but now I'm really in love with this subject <3

Now, biology is divided into three main competition. One experiment and two theory. I failed in the experiment and the theory as well. My score is only 49.24 out of 100 and that makes me in the 61st position (general) and 22nd position (11th grade)
And the requirement to be a TOBI is that I have to at least become the big 15 in my grade (11th) and I only lose 2.08 point to the last big 15. Isn't it heart breaking? :'(
Well, that's competition.

But what I really want to share is that I miss being a part of that event, I miss the training, I miss my DKI Jakarta team, I miss my coach and my friends I met in Medan. I miss the atmosphere and the competition aura. I want to dedicate my whole life for Biology. I want to be a part of this event forever, whether I am a participant, a coach, a crew, a companion teacher or even a reporter in that event. Every year I get to meet many bright students from all over the country, I learned their key to success and sometimes envy them on how life can be so easy for them. But I am so thankful that I have an opportunity to be a part of this event and realise how small I am to thius big big world.

I also wanted to congratulate my friends who had been able to carry that medal home. Wish me to catch up with you guys next year at Manado. Au revoir! I have to go to schoooollll

Holy-Dayssss

My good! My God! My Goodness!!! I can’t believe it’s holiday at last!

Well, actually, holiday’s over. I just hope that I can say that word one more time in this situation -______- Hahahaha.

Dear blogger, after all these chaos, event and et cetera, I can finally post my blog again eventhough (as always) because of the assignment Mrs. Desi gave me before. This time’s assignment is to compose a recount text about our last holiday and post it in our blog. BUT, before I tell you about my holiday’s story, first of all, we must know the origin of this journey. Let’s check it out.

Origin:

Earlier this year, I begged to my dad about having a family vacation because the last big family vacation I ever had is when I was in 4^th grade of primary school. We went to Singapore and Malaysia that time. Since then, we hadn’t had a grand family vacation. We usually spent our vacation dining in many kinds of restaurant, visiting malls, watching movies and else. And by I mean ‘grand’ is that we go on a vacation, with the whole member of my nuclear family to some place far away and stay for a quite a while. My father agreed. And I had one requirement. NO HIGHLAND. I am SICK of mountain view, forests, green scenery, tea leaves, cold and damp air. It gave me a nausea everytime I think about it. Eww. I missed BEACHES, seashore, the sound of the waves, making sandcastle, feel the sun on my face, getting blown by the sea wind. It is my kind of World’s Nirvana, hahaha. Maybe that’s because it’s in my blood. I was born as an archipelago kid, born in Batam, part of the Riau Archipelago. In my first month in this world, my mother had taken me to the beach. So I guess me and beaches are like calling each other to become reunited with a gazillions of joy in each heart.

So, my father decided that we can go to Parai Beach in Bangka Belitung. My father said that the beaches there were still virgin and isolated. So it is like we’re in our private beach. But I refused. Beside visiting beautiful beaches, I would like to do many activities as well. It will be extremely boring if you go to a beach and only sit back and relax and watch the beach as the time pass by.And looking at how my father described the beach, I concluded that the beach was very isolated that nothing fun and glamorous will be there. And I guess that you have already guessed which state in Indonesia that we visited? Yep! It’s BALI. The decision-making-process really took some time so that we were too late to book an airplane ticket. So we decided to go on a tour, explore Java Island by car to get to Bali. Then it’s settled.

Journey:
(Okay, let me tell you before, that I am not going to write any date except the departure date and the arrival date. Now let’s begin)

Day 1:

It was 23 December 2009. I was waiting in my house for my father to come home from his office and then we’re ready to set off. Oh and yes, we took our driver with us, Mr. Didik so he can drive the car back home because we came home from Bali by airplane. Our first destination is to Majalengka, my mother’s hometown. It is in the route to our real destination, Jogjakarta. We spent a night there.

Day 2:

Early morning, we continued the journey using the Southern Route. We managed to arrive at Jogjakarta at 4 in the afternoon and checked in at Wisma MM UGM because we couldn’t book any big hotel due to the high season and that we only had decided our vacation two weeks before. My dad said that we’re lucky because we can get a place to stay. Almost every hotel in this city had been full booked for the holiday. After settling down, we went to Malioboro Street. I bought many souvenirs for my friends. And since I have two different categories of friends: 109 JHS and MHT, I had to buy many kind of souvenir. I also thought of buying a Batik dress for my vacation in Bali but I didn't find anything my size and my pocket. So I just let it passed. Beside Malioboro, I also visited the Gudeg centre, Dagadu and Bakpia 25. I bought Bakpia for my friends at dorm and also bought a Dagadu T-Shirt with funny writings on it. I rode on a tricycle around Djogja City together with my dad :)

Day 3:

Early in the morning, I woke up and continued the journey. But first, I stopped on Kotagede, the silversmith city. I bought a silver ring with three zircons tied in the ring. I t is very beautiful and luckily, there's a big sale so I can get it for only 80.000 rupiahs! Beside that ring, I also by a pair of earings for only 75.000 rupiahs :)) Our next destination was: Batu Malang. On our way there, we passed Prambanan Temple and couldn't help ourselves to not to dropped by. I bought a bamboo bracelet which I wear until today :)) We arrived at Batu Malang at 10 p.m after gone through the scariest lost ever! The road led us to an uncivilized forest with steep road and curvy turnings. Even scarier, there are no one but us and the fog were starting to come down! Fortunately, with the help of my dad's GPS (thank you technology :)) we can hit the main road and made our way to the hotel safely. This hotel is better than the one in Djogja. The one in Djogja is good, but this one is great. The structure of the hotel is like a cottage.

Day 4: