A Log of Serendipity

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2012-01-29T20:27:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone. Whoa new blogger interface. Kind of confusing for a short while there. So what do you think of it? I personally prefer the old simple one. But maybe that's just the first impression talking. I haven't explored the features much so any judgement by me now will be considered moot.

Well, I am here to share good news (it's a plural in this case)

Good news #1: I made it to the second leg of Pelatnas! It's kind of an old news but I haven't had the time to post it so here goes. I am super duper excited to spend another four weeks at Wisma Kartini, basking myself with biology and think of nothing else. Plus I will be reunited with my good friends slash competitors. It is sad though that Meva couldn't make it and Nobi resigned. But they promised to visit us in Bandung every weekend when we're not having a mid-test or other thing.

Good news #2: The fact that something is something in something something and something is something to something for something has actually something something very something!
Isn't it something :")

Good news #3: Brace yourself because this. is. BIG. I have found the perfect vegetarian restaurant!!! Thank God after 8 months of suffering in finding products for vegetarian such as faux beef, faux chicken etc, I finally met Loving Hut :") Indonesia is not really a vegan supporting country, so deciding to be a vegan here is like being a Moslem in a pork-eating country. I am sooooo tired of having to scour my food for any traces of minced beef or fish. Have difficulties to order food in most of the restaurant here. I can not enjoy delicious food anymore. Now, in a post-finding-Loving-Hut era, I can eat bakso, fried 'chicken', 'sushi' with no worries. They provide both cooked and uncooked vegan materials. My current favorite is the Curry Fired Rice. Boy, does that gluten taste like an actual Rendang :9 But I planned to try all the food on the menu, so my favorite might change. Once I did that, I'll upload a post that specifically describe Loving Hut. Keep tuning in.

Okay, I guess that's about it. Oh, are you wondering about the title? Just google translate it, you'll see.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too far, you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. -Eddie Cantor

Reunion

2011-12-16T05:57:00.000-08:00

It was a sunny morning above the Medical Faculty of Indonesia University. She was mingling with her friends, preparing herself for the competition. Never occurred to her that that day, something out of ordinary is bound to happen. A group of students walked across the field. Someone waved. Hey, that girl thought, that's my senior. She waved back and joined her. They did some small talk. Her senior said that another senior of her also joined the competition and he's walking behind them. She looked behind and waved her hand to her senior. But someone else was waving behind her senior. A familiar face perhaps? As the figure came closer, she realized that he is more than just a familiar face. Yes, it is him. She threw an awkward smile and turned her back on him with great shock mainly and a cocktail of other feelings. All of them then entered the exam room.

During the recess time, they met again. She was walking with her senior who came from the same school as he does when he joined her. He asked her about the exam. He told her that he thought exam was hard. She didn't know what to say or even to use what kind of expression around him. How can he be so calm after all that has happened? Most part of her were relieved that he is such a kind guy to let it all pass and treated her like nothing happened. But it's just like looking at a scar, you're glad that it's healing but it also remind you of how you got the wound at the first time.

Throughout the competition, they didn't talk much. She passed to the semifinals while he didn't. She never met him again afterwards. What a serendipity :)

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein

Road to IBO 2012!

2011-11-23T08:20:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, yes I know I have been malfunctioning my blog for those sad posts but technically, they are serendipities, and as this blog is called A Log of Serendipity I know of no reason why those events shouldn't be posted. But I'll get to the fun part of the post just keep reading :)

Now as a strike breaker post, I'm gonna tell you about my most recent activity, what I've been doing for the last four weeks. One word, eight letters: Pelatnas.

Pelatnas is an abbreviation of pelatihan nasional. It's like a science camp, held specifically to train students who are qualified for a special occasion called the International Biology Olympiad. Shiver me timbers, I want it, like so much so bad. This is also basically a competition to fill the glorious two seat to Singapore as an IBO participant. The activity is being held in Wisma Kartini Bandung with TOBI Team under the house of Bandung Institute of Technology. I basically come here to learn, do some tests, go home and wait for the result. But there's much more to it than it seems. It's making new friends and new experiences. I am thrilled to be united with these 25 other student who is as gifted as ever. I had so much fun while I was there. We studied, practiced. We took exams, we trolled, we celebrated birthdays, watched some movies, threw some water ammo to the assistants, swam (or I'd rather say laid down) in a hot spring and much much more! I'll go with the details in the next paragraph.

Week 1:

Ta-Da! Finally, it's 23rd of October. I have had enough purgatory in school for two weeks ever since I'm back from OSN. Especially every Friday. That day I arrived late to Wisma Kartini. I got lodged in room 3 with Meva, Sifa, Tazky, Tia and Kezia. I met and greeted some old friends.Then out of the blue, they said there will be a pre-test done that very night. Also a new assignment come from Kak Fenryco. So, I did what every man could do, do the best and God will do the rest. Luckily, when the result came out, I didn't screw up too bad. Oh and what's different from the previous pelatnas, instead of in Wisma Kartini, we had to get our lecture in a small, hot, crowded room on the 6th floor of PAU ITB. The week went normally. On the weekend, me, Meva, Sifa, Billy, Nobi and Gun went to Ciwalk and watch Johnny English Reborn.

Week 2:

This is week is just like any regular week. Except, we got to celebrate Assifa Nur Hisana's sweet 17th! The theme of her birthday is sticky ;) So what we did, is tied her up in a pole and then charged her with eggs, flour, soft drinks, etc. And then after all those mess, Gerry brought a cake for Sifa and then we all sang Happy Birthday! So memorable! This week we also got a test from a psychological firm to measure our academic potential and our mental stability I guess? And also a mid test which was difficult as hell. After the test, my mom visited me and we went to Paris van Java to get something to eat. And then I stopped by RE Martadinata to buy a klappertaart which I ate together with my roomies who were gloomy because of the freaking mid-test.

Week 3:

This is week we had a practical exam part 1. It was quite okay I guess, though I haven't got the result just yet. This week we also celebrated another birthday, Nobian Andre's Sweet 18th. His theme was Stinky! Yep. This time we really bring it. All those stuff from garlic, terasi, fish, palm oil, bananas, eggs, flour, we got it all. Except during the torture, ther's a little mishap. The rope used to tie him in the pole got loosened up so he managed to escape. The second everyone saw the rope dropped, they all run like an arrow released from its bow. We managed to tied him up again and the torture continues.This time Meva brought the cake and we all sang Happy Birthday. All the other boys got dumped in the pond as an 'imbas' hahaha. The next day is outing to Rancaupas. It's raining when we got there so we ended up playing water fight with the assistant and then played in the hot spring.

Week 4:

Ah the last and final week :") I started this week with fear cause I have 2 exams waiting for me at the end of the week. 2 super important test which will decide my fate onward in this competition. Well, in the practical test, it's sure is worse than the first practical test, but I don't know, once again, the real result just yet. The final test, like always, I prefer the part B of the test than its Part A. I feel quite confident with my answers but then again, sometimes when I feel that way, I end up pretty disappointed. After the final test, we celebrated kak Gun's Birthday! And then almost the whole member went to Ciwalk to watch a movie. Meva, Sifa, Tazky, me and some other guys watched In Time while the rest of them watched Breaking Dawn. We said goodbye the next day, took some photos and then the next thing I knew I was sitting in my car, already on my way to Jakarta.

It was a lovely experience guys and girls. Thanks for everything. I hope we'll see each other again at the 2nd Pelatnas Meva, Sifa, Tazky, Tia, Kezia, Tiwi, Rea, Elza, Lidia, Gomel, Nobi, Billy, Gunawan, Alvin, Eni, Ibrahim, Javier, Rabid, Keju, Gerry, Alfredo, Theo, Reza, Benny, Danu!

When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find a way to get it - Jim Rohn

Enlightment

2011-11-14T07:54:00.000-08:00

Thank God, I finally understand. All this tangled problems. I maybe the most grateful person in the universe at the moment. I now realize that friend is forever. May I shall never forget this again. Amen O:)

G

2011-10-30T09:48:00.000-07:00

Hey bloggers, just giving you a heads-up before you read this post, this post has been rated as a G post ('galau' post) with a score four on the scale of one to five. May I also remind you that 'galauness' is highly contagious, so suicidal person and people who wish to have a happy day/night are not recommended to read this post. Readers who are a cynical are also not recommended to read this, as this post will only make you fall down from your chair and do what we call ROFLMAO.

I am sick and literally sick of being the target of PHP. Fucking bastards double-faced idiots! Why won't you guys leave me alone!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am exhausted, so exhausted, I don't even know if I will ever get out from this demonic circle. Yet everyone thought that I live a happy lucky life. Well guess what, I'm not!! For this one last time oh my God please! I've fallen way past the line and you, yes you are fully responsible for it. Why did you do it from the beginning, why do you make me fall for you, WHY DON'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! If you hadn't do what you did, that stupid stupid phone call , I would've thought otherwise. You don't know what it feels like to be me yet how dare you toy with me. And I hate how perfect the timing is, you break me in the middle of my biggest competition ever!!! But, this won't bring me down. I swear to myself I'm gonna cry my heart out like a coyote tonight and I will become a new person tomorrow with not a slightest feelings towards you. Oh God, I knew this will come sooner or later, I knew that this is stupid, I even thought to terminate this feelings as soon as possible but stupid me, why don't I ever listen to myself. Instead of killing, I nurtured this feelings, fed it with hunches and sweet stories, make it grow strong and straight in my heart just to be ripped out when it's settled. How many timessssssssssssssssssssssss. Don't I deserve a break? Case with D, R, T, N. I guess I'm better of dying so I won't have to feel this this super-painful-irritating-selfish-son-of-a-bitch feelings. I wish someone would understand. Boys just love to do that, don't they? It's all just a game. The winner takes it all. The loser standing small. Sure I'm exaggerating. That's what I do. I exaggerate. Maybe it's all in my mind. But I wanted to know cause everything seems so real so vivid, do you ever actually have feelings for me? Is it me who drive you away? Did I do something wrong? You should know how hard it is to care about someone and not letting them know at the same time. How I want to tell the world what I feel but can't. Read between lines please. It'll be better if you just know.

And the seventh thing I hate the most that you do, you make me love you -Miley Cyrus

So So True

2011-10-14T05:40:00.001-07:00

A Token of Gratitude

2011-09-17T21:35:00.001-07:00

With this post I just wanted to say that I love every single person I've met in my life so much and I am eternally grateful to all of you for taking a part in my life. I will never trade my life with anyone's ;)

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same - Elbert Hubbard

The Edge of Glory

2011-09-16T23:06:00.000-07:00

"I'm on the edge of glory and I'm hanging on a moment of truth"

Thursday, 15th September 2011 is both historical and hysterical. In fact the whole week was magical. I can still recall the atmosphere in Grand Kawanua Convention Centre the night the medals were given away. It was the most awesome feeling I have ever experience.

Yes reader, finally my hard work had been repaid. I present to you this silver medal! I ranked 11th overall and ranked 6th among the other silver medalist. I was a wee bit disappointed though that I didn't get a gold medal because everyone was already kind of hoping so. But it's alright, thinking that I get to experience Pelatnas is good enough for me :) I must fight though, because this time there is only two slots available and I want this thing. So bad.

Anyways, I had a lot of fun with my friends from DKI Jakarta for the past couple of weeks. Meet The 12 Happy Contestants and our co-ordinator:

From left to right, back to front: Matthew Billy, Janice Tanumihardja, Meva Nareza, Bu Naniek, Nazmun Lailah, Alvin Sanjaya, Bu Yus, Tazkya Amany, Elva Vidya, Meutia Admiralda, Afandi Charles, me, Nobian Andre, Fahmi Ahmadi

Oh and the biology team of DKI Jakarta brought home 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals, 4 bronze medals, a best experiment trophy and an absolute winner title. So proud of them! God, I miss them already :')

Award Night at Grand Kawanua :)

So, what's next? Next is pelatnas satu which will be held on 5th of October at Wisma Kartini Bandung. This is a training and selection for Indonesia's delegation at International Biology Olympiad 2012 Singaporee!! I will be rejoined with most of the DKI Jakarta biology team except for Nazmun, Elva and Fahmi. I will miss you guyss :") Please do not forget me okaay.

Oh and before I forget I'd like to thank these people:

Biology most legendary couple: Harun Reza Sugito (Gold IBO Korea 2010) and Marsha Christanvia (Silver IBO Taipei 2011)

Thank you for your kindness and patience during the training week at Belleza and also for everything before and after that. Thanks for the chocolate, and your faith in us. I hope you'll like the present we gave youu :)

Alright, I think that's a wrap. Oh and last last request, please always pray the best for me. I am nothing without you ;)

Torang samua basodara!!!

The Wondrous Month

2011-08-08T07:11:00.000-07:00

Happy Ramadhan Readers! Merry fasting, taraweh, firecrackers, fireworks, tadarus, sahur and ngabuburit :)

Wow, times really did flies. Well, this is my first official Ramadhan as a vegetarian and it feels so hard :( I'm also on a carb-diet which forbid me to eat rice. So basically I'm eating vegetables and anything not rice that I can lay my hands on. But it's all worth it. The thought that I didn't contribute to the market's demand on livestock slaughter makes me a little bit soothed :)

Anyway, it is my third Ramadhan away from home. Remember that I go to a boarding school? It's pretty much fun although I really miss homemade ta'jil. The biji salak, bubur mutiara, kolak pisang.... (Okay stop it, you're drooling) I'm just glad that I could come home and break my fasting twice a week because I must attend INTEN for my national examination preparation.

Without any further ado, I simply wish you guys a wonderful Ramadhan to share with your family, friends, relatives, girlfriend/boyfriend, your pets, teachers, nemesis (it's Ramadhan, declaring truce for about 30 days won't hurt anyone), poor people, orphans and every other God's creature. Show everyone the beauty nature of Islam that, unfortunately, may have been damaged by some irresponsible people. And may at the end of the month, we can taste the sweet flavor of victory, amen.

Assalamu'ailaikum wr. wb.

My Silent Words...

2011-07-17T08:26:00.001-07:00

Hey bloggers, it's been a while. Confused about my last post? Nah just let it go, it's just a phase. I'm sure for the next few days, I will be all over it.

R: Oh for God sakes! Can we talk about other things? Pleasee

L: Owkaay..

This past few weeks has been a theater, a production, a play, a masquerade: name everything with drama, act, feelings, surprises, upside, downside, it's my past few weeks you're talking about. Why? Oh why else would something like this happen beside the fact that ~~Chace Crawford came to our school and declared his love for me in the middle of a lesson!~~ the result of The Province Science Olympiad is out.

Yes, that's true everyone. It is out. And boy that pdf appearance brought a lot of concussion. I'm talking about national mass hysteria here. Apparently there's some changes in the rules this year and those rules were applied without a prior notice to the contestant. Some disappointed contestant even hacked the website of the announcer to send a message that they are messing with Indonesia's best students. Well, in our turf, these new rules costs us our bright students who could have passed but thanks to the stupid 2-students-per-school, they have to stay home and give their last and precious chance to someone below their achievement, who got lucky because apparently they are in the first place in their province.

As to my room mate, my team mate, one of my best competitor and motivator: I miss you so much! We, miss you so much. I don't know what I've done wrong or if I've done something wrong, if I do please forgive and please please please be normal again. You told me that there's nothing wrong but your actions reflect otherwise and it's killing me. It's not going to be the same without you, trust me. I mean we're Motil after all and we've been through A LOT together. You're still the great you even without this OSN stuffy. Don't let it defines who you are. You kicked people's asses before and I believe you'll kick ass as hard as you did before or maybe even harder. No, definitely even harder.

Okay maybe I'm not your favouritest person right now and maybe you'll say that I don't understand your feelings right now but at least please let me be there for you. Don't go all alienized on me, we're room mates for goodness sake, you know how awkward it is when the three of us are in the same room. And well you may say I 'm a coward by putting this in my blog rather than talking to you, the fact is I've tried! I even burst into tears one night and told you that I missed you but then it only changed you for a smaaaaaaallllll amount of time and parts before you go all 'alien mode: on' to me again. Talk to me, pleaseeeeeeee. Desperately need you here.

Call Pest Control

2011-07-12T06:36:00.000-07:00

Butterflies in my stomach, wonder wonder when you came, wonder wonder when you'll go. Wonder wonder who brought them, wonder wonder why they're still there.

Inside Wants Out

2011-06-20T07:20:00.000-07:00

Did you ever want something so bad that you burst into tears and weep? If you're four years old then I'll be surprised if you don't. Problem is, you're not. I'm not. Hopefully, we're all not. But I have this desire, very very big desire, to see the world. I have always had this wish but never as strong as it is now. I spent the past two hours staring at my laptop screen and scouring for any travel agent in Indonesia that offers international tours. And unfortunately, no offers fit my pocket.

I grew up in Indonesia, not a developed country, but beautiful and daring. I love my country so much but it's like living in a box you've given birth into; At first, the box seemed so big and spacious. As you grow up, you eventually realize that the box is not growing with you. It doesn't expand. Within sixteen years, your head and arms and leg were struggling to fit inside the box. Some people were able to adapt and feel comfortable living in that box because they made up soothing reason to entertain themselves. "I've lived in this box my entire life and I feel fine. I will not sacrifice this just to have a peek of the outside world" or "I know my strength. I'll never be able to break this box. Rather than fracturing my limb in the process, I think I'll survive living inside this box"

But I don't want this kind of life! Ordinary is boring. Normal is overrated. I want to not only take a peek of the outside world but also be a part of it. See it with my own eyes. Breathe the air with my own nose, hear the crowd's voices with my own ears and feel the ground with my own feet. I don't want to leave this world with only a few pictures in my camera. It will be a waste of money since the camera worth a fortune, right? I truly believe that the world is too small for someone with a will. And hopefully I can overcome this economic trench between me and my outside world and then finally, I can live the life I want to live.

Sure I'm exaggerating. There is more to life than just filling in photo albums. I've said it myself. But is it wrong to have a wish? I will never know whether I'll be able to break my box or end up exhausted and surrender, adapted to live inside the box. This dream is a one-to-a-million shot. I will need a hefty sum of money to be able to live the life I want to live. I even doubted myself will this ever be come true. But a girl can dream, can't she?

To all the places I have not visit, yet. And to the languages I have not mastered, yet. And to all my friends I have not met, yet: I love you, unconditionally. -Lindy Dharmawan

What Makes My Day

2011-06-11T22:25:00.000-07:00

Waking up in the morning with a phone call of someone singing this song.

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I wanna chase
You're the one I wanna hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul

I know that you are something special
To you I'd always be faithful
I want to be what you always needed
Then I hope you'll see the heart in me

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I wanna chase
You're the one I wanna hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul

Your beautiful soul, yeah
You might need time to think it over
But I'm just fine moving forward
I'll ease your mind
If you give me the chance
I will never make you cry c'mon lets try

Am I crazy for wanting you
Baby do you think you could want me too
I don't wanna waste your time
I don't wanna waste your time
Do you see things the way I do
I just wanna know you feel it too
There is nothing left to hide

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul
You're the one I wanna chase
You're the one I wanna hold
I won't let another minute go to waste
I want you and your soul

I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste
I want you and your beautiful soul

Thank you :)

Whisper & Faith in House

2011-06-11T04:47:00.000-07:00

Whisper by A Fine Frenzy and Faith by George Michael.

You've got to listen to these songs!!

I discovered them while watching my current favorite TV show: House MD. Hugh Laurie is a-mazing! It's been a pandemic in my school for the past week. Thanks to Meva Nareza for introducing it to us! As you know, our high school is divided into four major and I currently majored in Biology. Finding a movie like House is like killing two birds in one shot. We get to watch a movie AND learn something new. Not just biology or meds material, but also humanity and morale value. And some belly-shaker as well :) If you haven't watched it yet, go run to the nearest DVD store and enjoy House's hospitality in your flatscreen.

At first, I find some difficulties to watch this TV shows because it is full with medical terms. But don't worry it will not ruin the story cause eventhough you don't understand it, it doesn't really matter. Also House likes to use metaphors to make things a little bit more 'understandable'. Hey but if you're curious I'm going to list some medical terms that are used frequently in House's series. Enjooyy:

1. EKG: Electrocardiogram; used to monitor heartbeats

2. EEG: Electroencephalogram; used to monitor brain electrical activity. You'll hear terms like alpha waves, theta waves, delta waves etc.

3. CSF: Cerebrospinal Fluid; fluid that surrounds brain your spinal cord

4. LP: Lumbar Puncture; diagnostic test that takes out your CSF from your backbone and examine it

5. PT: Prothrombine Time; time measured for how long does your plasma clots

6. PTT: Partial Thromboplastin Time; time measured for how long does your blood clots

7. CHEM7: A test that measure your blood chemical substances. There are 7 subtstances measured: Sodium, Potassium, Chloride, Glucose, CO2, Creatinine and BUN

8. BUN: Blood Urea Nitrogen

9. CT, PET, MRI: Scanning devices

10. OR: Operating Room

11. MS: Multiple Sclerosis: a disease where the nerves are demyelinated

12. MRSA: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

13. HLA: Human Leukocyte Antigen; it's what they tested if they want to do a bone marrow transplant

14. Intubate: Make airways for people who have respiratory distress

15. B.P: Blood Pressure

16. O2 Sats: Saturation of haaemoglobin with O2

17. Bradycardia: Slow heart rate

18. Tachycardia: Fast heart rate

19. Preeclampsia: Pregnant women with high blood pressure

20. Sarcoidosis: inflammation of lymph nodes and other body tissue

21. Amyloidosis: amyloid protein abnormally deposited inside your body

22. V-fib: Ventricular fibrillation; severe abnormal heart rythm

23. V-tach: Ventricular tachycardia; rapid heartbeat that starts in the ventricle

24: DIC: Disseminated intravascular coagulation; your body throwing clots everywhere

25. CBC: Complete Blood Counts

26. Everything ends with -oma: Cancer

27. Everything ends with -itis: Inflammation

28. Everything ends with -pathy: Anomaly

29. VQ: Ventilation-perfusion scan, measure your airflow and bloodflow

30. Paraneoplastic syndrome: it's a syndrome that occurs if your body got a cancer

31. Anythings IV: Intravenous, liquid

32. IG(A/D/E/M/G): Immunoglobulin, type of antibodies

33. Banana bag: A type of IV fluid with lots of vitamins and dextrose for alcoholic. They called it banana cause it's yellow

34. Dialysis: a machine that takes over your kidney's job when they're failing

That's about it, I think. Well, if you find more, you can always depend on Mr. Google. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to continue watching Dr. House. I am hoping that one day, I could be a doctor just like him. HOPKINS HERE I COME!!! *music plays*

Just Another Game

2011-05-11T08:54:00.000-07:00

FYI, I am posting this while listening Fireflies, Vanilla Twilight, Umbrella Beach, Dental Care, Sunburn, The Saltwater Room, Technicolor Phase all by Owl City. The newest addition to my iTunes library. I've always loved electronic genre but songs with electronic genre that I know talk about no other than booze, sex, clubs, etc. It feels so good to finally find some electronic songs that have decent lyrics. Owl City is definitely going to be a highlight in my iTunes for several weeks forward.

Tomorrow is IGCSE English as a Second Language. Yeah I know I should be sleeping right now but due to the fact that I just woke up from a three-hours nap, I think I could wait for a couple hours before hitting the crib for the second time. By posting this,

I get to kill two birds at one shot, updating my blog and practice writing for tomorrow. By sleeping, nah.

I wanted to post but can't really think of anything so.......yeah I'll play another game. So, I'm going to googled it up for a while and.......ah here it is: "Choose Your Own Adventure". How to play:

1. You are given a short story which has an option at the end of the page

2. You need to pick an option that will lead you to an different story

3. I am choosing the short story titled Another Story of Another Random Person

Let's get started:

Hi! This is a story about your second life. You are walking through the park when you see a small puppy. Your mother said that dogs are dirty and smelly and she doesn't want one.

I then check the puppy for a name tag

You checked it and find the name: "Dragon"

I brought Dragon home

You pick Dragon up and start walking to your destination. You can feel its stomach begin to rumble and Dragon begins to get restless. Just then you have have the horrible realization that there is something warm and sloppy running down your hand. "Dragon!!!" you exclaim, as you toss the dog to the side, wringing out your hands of the foul mess.

I patronized the dog, making fun of it and make it ashamed

Your face grows red with anger and you croon over Dragon and clench your yellow teeth. Dragon inspects you for a moment, gets up and POUNCES AT YOUR THROAT!!! The horror grips you much too late -- Dragon is a pitbull with rabies!! You grasp at the dog's iron jaws, but you fall into a gentle sleep befor ayour attempt succeeds. The last thing you hear is a faint "woof", though it is a happy woof.

(cricket chirping in distance)

That's it? Oh my. What a crunchy story. Where do the short story come from you ask? Visit here. There are a lot of other story. I was just unlucky to made a bad choice in a bad choice. I'm sleepyyy already. It's 00:42 already. Hoam, just wish me luck like you always do okay guys. Bye, love you, love the world.

Frantically gorgeous absent-minded leprechaun, Lindy

One Day I'll Have A Photo Just Like This

2011-05-08T06:55:00.001-07:00

He doesn't have to be a royalty but he MUST be madly in love with me :)

P.S: Dear future husband, take notes of what you saw at The Royal Wedding

El amor encontrara una manera -Yo mismo

Wish me luck for Cambridge tomorrow!

These Lyrics Are Just Ugh!

2011-04-27T10:15:00.000-07:00

Aloha!

I've just finished celebrating Aishanura Handina's sweet 16th birthday party. Once again, happy birthday girl! Have a blasted year xoxo

I don't know why but I want to post something, but as usual I couldn't find any good topic to write. So that means I'm going to play another blogging game! The rules are simple, here:

1. Prepare a digital music player (iPod, Zune, your handphone, your laptop, CD player) and put it in shuffle.

2. Make a target list. In my post I'm going to stop shuffling after 20 songs

3. You must write your favourite part of each song that comes out. No more than two sentences!

4. If you don't know the song's lyrics you can look it up in the internet

There! Now let's get started....

"You can see through my flaw and keep lovin' me me me" For the Love, Drew Sidora ft Mario

"Better yet make your girlfriend disappear. I don't want to hear you say her name ever again" Girlfriend, Avril Lavigne

"Only with you, can I move on" Move On, Bruno Mars

*It's hard to decide which one is my favourite part because the whole song is just stunning

"It's all you can do. use what's been given to you" Live Like You're Dying, Lenka

"And it takes no time to fall in love. But it takes you years to know what love is" Life is Wonderful, Jason Mraz

*This is also a hard one

"Out of the sky, I close my eyes. Heaven help me!" Like A Prayer, Glee Cast

"It's time that you and I sat down and had a little chat and look me in the eye take off that stupid fitted cap" Alfie, Lily Allen

*I love Lily's British accent in this part!

"But he's scared of the light's inside her, so he keeps her in the dark" Pearl, Katy Perry

"Though her home is on the surface, she is still the universe" Live High, Jason Mraz

*I would write "The whole song" but then I'll be disqualified hahaha

"They want a look, we can give them a encore" Freakshow, Britney Spears

"Your love is nothing I can't fight" I Like It Rough, Lady Gaga

"Tell me how to win your heart, for I haven't got a clue. But let me start by saying: I love you" Hello, Lionel Richie

"Live your life until love is found or love's gonna get you down" Lollypop, Mika

"If you could see what I see, that you're the answer to my prayer" Angels Brought Me Here, Guy Sebastian

* Hard!

"This is the last game so make it count, it's now or never!" Now or Never, High School Musical 3 Cast

*Last chance to score a gold Lindy!

"Whatever happened to the values of humanity? Whatever happened to the fairness in equality?" Where is The Love, Black Eyed Peas

"You are relentless, I am defenseless" Get Back in My Life, Maroon5

"And here we go again, we know the rules, we know the end. Master of the scene" Voulez Vous, Mammamia Cast

"It's like a dream, although I'm not asleep" Breathless, The Corrs

"And I can't believe, oh that I'm your man. And I get to kiss you baby just because I can" Everything, Michael Buble

It's twenty already! It feels so good because I haven't heard many of these songs for ages. Oh it is now half past one in the morning. No wonder I feel sleepy. Got to have that beauty sleep then. I'm happy with this post :D Take my suggestion and play this game too. Fun!

Aloha everyone, see you next next daay

Shame and Remorse

2011-04-26T03:20:00.000-07:00

Q: What's with the title?

A: (sigh) I'm regretting something

Q: What?

A: Don't wanna talk about it

Q: Stingy

A: Nosy

Q: I thought we're best friend :(

A: We were

Q: WHAT?!!! #$%&*@!

A: JK. Ooohhh, I'm regretting my previous post :( Why did I have to write it?

Q: Oh. Yeah, I thought it was a little bit cheesy.

A: (one eyebrow up)

Q: Okay. It has cheesy written all over it. I almost thought that you are a failed poet.

A: (sigh) I know...

Yes! I am so ashamed of my last post, I don't even want to look at it anymore. Well, it all started when today I finally decided to post on my blog. As usual, I opened my blog first, read what's in the last post and only then will I write a new one. And I am literally shocked when I read it! Followed by shame. Huaaaaaa, what was I thinking? That is SO NOT ME. Ugh, the words are slimy, weak and so desperate that I feel like it is a dying message.

Q: Why don't you delete it then?

Okay, maybe I was possessed by a lonely desperate ghost at that moment but hey it's still me. And I must have some consideration to actually really post that kind of thing. So I'll let it hang in there and write this counter-post to clarify that I am not proud of my last post. Well at least the first three sentences of the post. Just thinking of it makes me have a goosebumps.

That's it I guess. I'm afraid I'm kind of wasting my time because tomorrow is another CIE mock test week of Physics so, got to do some hard work. Mucah!

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do -Zachary Scott

In Case You Forget

2011-04-12T02:42:00.000-07:00

In case you forget, I am NOT a girl who can blatantly, without any hesitation, doubt and equivocation, show my feelings to anyone especially the feeling of admiration.

In case you forget, I may acted the same in front of you and everybody else, but please do notice, I showed something else I won't show to any other man.

In case you forget, even though my expression remains flat when you smiled at me, talked to me, flirted with me, deep down in my heart I've got fireworks inside of me

In case you forget, why I acted this way you asked. Oh, it's nothing more than a product of bitter memories.

I don't know whether you will read this or not, but all I can do now is hope, hoped that you will catch up with my faint signal, hoped that you can pick-up the puzzle pieces and solved it in time. Because I have realised that this lack of emotional showcasing ability is a lapse, that I'm afraid, I will never cope.

But then, life's too short for you to be stuck with someone that may or may not become your lifetime companion. So, I'm not going to fall apart like I used to do before if in the end I couldn't claimed you as my own. I am stronger now. I've been through many things. It's just that sometimes I think I deserve to take a rest from my independence and rely on people's shoulder for a while. What do I feel right now? Numb. I can't feel a thing. Not sadness, not joy. I just hope that all my hardwork at the moment will be well-paid later in life. Because I really deserve that.

What can you do when your good is not good enough

When all that you touch tumbles down

Cause my best intentions keep making a mess of things

I just wanna fix it somehow

But how many times will it take for me to get it right?

So I throw up my fist

I will punch in the air

And accept the truth that sometimes life isn't fair

I'll send out a wish, I'll send up a prayer

And finally someone will see how much I care!

Imperfection is individuality -Unknown

Love, Lindy

My Virtual Heroine

2011-03-16T06:43:00.000-07:00

Hiiii everyone. Ah, it's good to be back blogging. Yes, I have been busy. And yes, I have been busy studying. And yes, I have been busy studying for Cambridge AS Level test this May-June -___-

What? Haven't I told you? Oh yeah I haven't :(

Yeah, soooo, my school is kind of a semi-international-olympiad-national school like I told you before and in the second year we all have to take an international test called Cambridge AS and A level test *shudder*

It's sort of SAT but Cambridge University endorsed it and if we pass the test with good grades, we could skip international student college in almost every university in the world. Fun and then not really. I sort of wanted to experience student college though. And apparently I'm thinking about taking my B.A degree in Indonesia. So, yeah you can conclude it on your own.

But let's not talk about desperate things shall we? I'm sure you don't want to read it either. And here we are back to the post's title. My Virtual Heroine. Who do you think she is? Well ladies and gentleman, please give it up foorr.....

Miss. Nancy Drew!!!!

YEAY! If your a fan of Nancy Drew too, please shout SLEUTH. Now! SLEUTH!!

Aaa! I'm so happy I could die :')

For those who don't know her, hell no, where have you been living? Under the rock? She's a fiction teenage girl detective that have existed since your grandmother's grandmother were a little girl. Her first appearance was in a book in 1930 it is called 'The Secret of The Old Clock' written by Edward Stratemeyer. Now, how I fall in love with her is not because of her book. But by her Mystery Video Game Sequels!!!!

My first encounter with this game is, gratefully, another serendipity. Years ago, I was out of town for a holiday, in Bandung, for a several days. One day we stopped at an electronic center because my dad wanted to by parts or something for his phone and I was wandering around looking for something interesting. I have always been into computer games but there was no game that followed specifically. I just looked at the shop, if I find something interesting I'll buy it and if I don't then never mind. My kind of game till that time was Barbie series, fashion designing clothes and that thingamajig, but on that very day, I wanted to try something new. I've always loved solving puzzles but I don't like easy puzzle or common type of puzzle I want something that have storyline. So I asked the shopkeeper. He told me that Agatha Christie's good, but apparently it is out of stock. Then he pointed out another game called Nancy Drew. I've watched the movie and it was kind of good so, ta-da, this is my first Nancy Drew game:

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

When I played it? At first it was not interesting. Why? It is sooo hard, I was stuck and couldn't move on! So when I'm stressed out, I looked for walkthrough in the internet but they are all a spoiler, bleh. But then I found one website that still guide me by giving me hint by hint and not spoiling at all. After that, I played it like a thousand time!!! I know there are sequels of this game, and from that day I started to collect them one by one. But I have to buy each of them in a long interval because, dang that thing is expensive! (For me. But the price is standard, just like any other PC Game)

So, I have collecting it for about 2 and a half year and I've collected and played almost all of the series. It's just that it is so hard to found Nancy Drew's old game in Indonesia. It's like finding a needle in the haystack for Nancy Drew Series older than 'Secret of the Shadow Ranch'. The only two game that I've successfully found was 'Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake' and 'Danger on Deception Island'. But my friend, Syifa Adinda and Meva Nareza has purchased all the 23 Nancy Drew game from online shop (Thank You Kaskus!) and now we're taking turn to installed it. So happy I could die :')

Now, I am thinking about reviewing every single Nancy Drew Game I've played but then it's going to be a very long post because I swear I will talk about it with all my heart. I, then decided to review my favouritest of the Nancy Drew Series. And the winner is.......

Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor

Yes, I know! It is also currently the crowd favourite as well. Here's a little summary:

It is the 11th Nancy Drew Game. This is the first time Nancy Drew is travelling out of the States to solve case. And in this game Nancy is going to England! Nancy's going there to investigate the strange attitude of Linda Penvellyn, a daughter of Nancy Drew father's friend and also Nancy Drew's neighbour in River Heights. She (Linda) live in a house called Blackmoor Manor and she married Hugh Penvellyn who turns out comes from the Penvellyn family that have been issued of witchcraft and supernatural thing since generations ago and there are rumour that Blackmoor Manor is cursed. Why is this the best game ever? Played it yourself and you'll know why! Whatever you do, don't forget to order some loop de loop, bangers and mash, pinky and perky and a dog's eye!

See you soon. Ever Yours, Lindy.

Session

2011-03-12T07:24:00.000-08:00

Reblogged it from Jason Mraz's blog. Click here to visit my hero's blog

Three In One

2011-03-09T23:48:00.000-08:00

Hell-o blog-gers. I have just come back from the year two-thou-sand-six-ty-two with a mis-sion to save the e-arth from des-truc-tion and dra-ught. That is why I call my-self Gre-bo from The Green-o-bot Inc. I re-quest your to-tal sup-port de-ar rea-der.

Wassup everyone? Let me tell ya, something strange is going on in our school. There are robots invading our school! Yeah, we've just started robotic lessons and everyone seems so frantic about it. But the truth is, I'm not that interested. Although I was crazy about robots since I was one-metre-tall, the robotic lesson in my school outcasts people who already join olympiad and the lesson is a little bit exaggerated and not practical so I lose interest in participating. But sadly, I HAVE to create one robot with a group of three, to be my final assignment (sigh) We may choose whether to create a tree-planting robot or a lake-cleaning robot. My group (Me, Mega Ananda and Dinda Kusumawardhani) decided to create a tree-planting robot, although we have no idea how to create one. We must post our progress into a blog, which you may read here. It's still empty now. But I hope it won't be empty for long. I hope.

Now for the second news, (that is why I call this post two in one), be prepared now everyone because this is a shocking news. I AM A VEGETARIAN! Yes, starting from 11th March 2011, Lindy Mawardhani Dharmawan is a vegan. I don't eat slaughtered animals like chicken, cows, sheep, et cetera but I still consume fish. I also still consume eggs and diary products. Now the question is: why? I don't know. I just feel this sudden urge to become a vegetarian and I'm ready to take whatever responsibility that I must face as a vegetarian such as saying goodbye to Pizza Hut Meat Lovers and Oriental Chicken Spaghetti. Oh, or Kentucky Fried Chicken, McChicken, Steak! Brockwurst Sausages, Chicken Noodles. Yup. I'm ready to let them go. I just wish that this ideology will be permanent on me. I can do it and I will do it.

And as the last news, I will review this book I have just finished. It's a classic called 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontee. Well, who doesn't know this book? It's already 164 years old and one of the most famous and well-rated fiction in history. But I say this book is absotively poselutely the best book I've ever read in my life! If I could, I would change all my fingers into a thumb and raise all of them for this book. I love every words, every sentence, every paragraph and every page so much that I felt extremely sad when the book ended. I cried because of the pure and sincere love emitted by Jane and Mr. Rochester at the end of the story. There's only one problem. Because I couldn't found the english version of the printed novel, I ended up buying the Indonesian version and I think I lost so many beauty because it was translated. You couldn't translate art. When you did, it's just not the same. So I tried to download an ebook of the English version, re-read it and I was even more dazzled. I love Chapter 23. My favourite!

Okay that's it guys. Three In One. Just like our traffic rules. See you soon.

Om shanti shanti shanti om

Pictures Through My Eyes

2011-02-25T20:40:00.000-08:00

Hi blogger. Nice to see all of you again :)

Today, my post is inspired by tumblr.com. You all probably already heard about it, even maybe some of you already have a tumblr account. I love it but not going to create one. Why? Simple answer. I already have too many social network accounts! Facebook, twitter, blogger, skype and looklet. Not that much, I know. But basically, all of the social networks genre had been covered by those five sites. Facebook for wide friends interaction with lots of other application. Twitter for daily feeds and daily throw-ups. Blogger for story-telling. Skype for a video conference and looklet for' exchanging' fashion tips and mash-ups from talented stylist all over the world.

But, tumblr is what you call microblogging. Sometimes it only consist of an image and some text or sometimes a short text, but blogger still beats tumblr to it. One thing that I like from most of tumblr posts is that they only consist of an image with beautiful caption and I just love it haha.

So I'm going to write a post by posting three random pictures I find on the internet and tell a short story (100% based on my point of view) of each pictures and there ya go. Here comes the first picture:

It's a picture from an inside part of a window, figures. I bet it is taken from a window of a car because I highly doubt that I will find a house with such view from outside the window. And I guess the big black shadow is a silhouette of a palm tree and space beside it was a small path and it was taken at near dusk by a fair 19-years-old boy photographer who was mad at her mum at the moment and run away with his friends and got stuck in a storm. They have to stop until the storm get betters and there is where he take the picture. A masterpiece out of a serendipity caused by a boredom. Love the way it sounds :)

You must have thought that there was a wild party in here and everyone just left because, say, a police came, right? I thought differently. I think it is an unfinished surprise party for a banker. So, that day was the banker's birthday party and she has a really bad eyesight. Some of her friends, say, 4 people prepared her a surprise party but she got home so late so they decided to start the party without her. They have went a little crazy when the banker suddenly arrived at home. They panicked and hid. The banker has a habit to wash her face right after she got home from work so while she wash her face and remove her spectacles, one of her friend got out from their hideout and took the spectacles. The banker is confused and tried to reach her spare spectacles in her study room. She brought along her paperbag that consist of her client's money so she knows that it is in a safe place. But her study room is across the living room where it is still messy because of the party. The other friend of her throw his shoes to get her attention. But her eyesight is really bad so when her friend throw the shoes, it caught her attention for aminute but she thought it was a waving table cloth and simply ignored it. Her other friend than took the last step. She turned on the light so the banker did not notice the plate on the floor and slipped, throwing out lots and lots of money from inside of her paperbag. And that how Lindy sees it :)

Whoaa. Weird huh? Well, how do I see it? Simple. There was a renovation of the local telephone cable's post so all the workers had to plug out the cable from its post and laid it in the streets. A man, come along with his car, parked in front of his house, not knowing that some of the telephone cable is rolled in his car's tire. Because the cable telephone is really really long and the distance from each post is far too, when they wanted to plug the telephone cable back in, they did not realize that the cable telephone already has an 'extra load' with it, they only know that it is harder to lift. So by the time the cable telephone has been plugged back in, the car, attached to the telephone cable, raised to the air as well :) Mystery is solved.

Yeay! So that's three pictures. Actually I wanted to upload five pictures but got no timeee!! I'm writing this in my break time at school so now I must go to my class. It's Indonesian class and we are going to perform on a play :) I've always been into plays. Bye for now everyone. Oh, and another quote for you :)

Imagination is the beginning of a creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will -George Bernard Shaw

Adjoe laesare!

A Different Point of View

2011-02-24T02:40:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, Lindy’s here! I’m sorry because I haven’t post anything for a long while (I love sentences that is just gramatically error :P) and now I’m back to write some more, yeay!

My recent roommate, Meva Nareza, one day, out of the blue, showed me a video about a girl’s transformation from a fair-mediocre girl to a plastic-looking barbie doll by using make-up and I have to admit, that the girl got my attention. I searched this girl on YouTube, found out her name is Michelle Phan, a spokeperson for LÂNCOME Paris and also found out that she is a professional make-up artist with lots and lots and LOTS of make-up tutorial videos which I find very good. But you know the clique’s rule. Once a person is popular and has billions of fans, along came haters. And these haters are really annoying! Not that I’m in Michelle’s side or anything but these haters are people who have nothing to do in their life, got jealous to people’s popularity and not happy about it. When I see quality, I see quality, and she is GOOD! They’re just being such a pain in the ass because they can’t achieve much in their life. Haters go to hell. I mean it.

Well, what does it has to do with my post and my post’s title? In one of her video, when she tried to mimick Sailormoon, she put in a heart-grasping ending. Maybe she attached that ending because of the uneducated critics from those uncivillized-foul-mouthed-unhappy pilgrims which flows like a river. She told us about dreams and achievement. About how we must be strong to face our life. And sometimes, when we know that we cannot move on, we will turn to something that can make us stronger, sometimes an alter ego, like a girl and her superhero costume. It makes us feel stronger, makes us feel invincible. For her, make-up is her alter ego and no one can change it. I almost cried when the video ends. God, it’s such a moving video :')

And then it strucks me, sometimes what you see as a loser quality in people around you (based only on your point of view) is actually someone’s alter ego, their whole existence and maybe: their only reason they find worth it to continue living. For example, people who spent their life in a game centre, beating high scores or people who rot in net cafes, struggling to get through level by level of online gaming seems like an obligate losers eh? But maybe it is their alter ego. If they couldn't be somebody in the real world, why don't they be a hero in their own world? They turn to their fake world because they find strength, invicibility and the most important, comfort in the world they call their own. And they are not a wanderer. They have goals they wanted to achieve, a purpose of life, even though it's not as great as some people's. And that's a great thing isn't it? Finding out that an unimportant thing is actually your whole existence in the universe.

But then you asked, what is the meaning of life? Nor I can answer that question. But I believe that God didn't create all of us to be successful because what fun would it be if you have everyone in the world equal to each other. But I didn't say that God created some people to fail, but more of He created some people to succeed in His way. And the true meaning of success is not one. There are 6,884,909,953 definition of success. Say me, my definition if success at the moment is to achieve gold medal but in the same time, the definition of success according to a fisher in a pond must be to catch a 19 inch largemouth bass.

And so, this opens up my mind. I won't be judging people anymore by what they do, how do they look like, what they were thinking, how lame is their life purpose or how ambitious some people are. Because hey, I'm not going to be a people who's going to ruin someone's dream in their own comfort zone. Achievement is achievement. No matter what it is or how small it is. If someone calls it their achievement than it IS an achievement.

Aaaanndd to end this post I'm going to quote a beautiful mockquote (an edited famous quote), but check it out, it's very good:

Cross my heart, but I don't want to die. Heaven knows, well at least I try

Confused? Now that's the art of poetry guys! You have to figure out what it means. By the way I read this when scrolling through the tweets of a friend of my friend and I just stopped to admire how beautiful (but in the same time amusing) this mockquote is hehe

Okay then I'm doneee. Oh and I almost forgot, you can watch Michelle Phan's video I'm referring to by clicking here. It's almost dark and I have to get back to my dorm. I didn't asked all of you to agree with me. I just love the pleasure of telling people what I was thinking.

Merci, mon cher lecteur! :)

Thank God It’s Finally On Us!

2010-12-03T20:06:00.001-08:00

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

2010-12-03T07:14:00.001-08:00

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

2010-11-11T21:52:00.001-08:00

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

2010-11-09T21:32:00.000-08:00

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....

2010-10-19T09:51:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-30T13:30:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-18T16:02:00.001-07:00

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

2010-01-09T02:01:00.000-08:00

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:

My Favourite Place In Bandung

2009-11-28T03:50:00.000-08:00

Back, back, back :)))
It's me again, tired as I was, just back from Citos after having a fun day out with my friends. And here I am, in front of my dearest laptop and ready to ~~write~~ type!

This assignment is about making a descriptive text and I wanted to describe other than the usual describing topic, so I decided to describe the place I love the most in Bandung. The place's called The Valley. It is one of the most beautiful place I've ever visited!

This is what The Valley looks like in the morning

This is what The Valley looks like at night

What is The Valley anyway? Why do I love to go to this place? Well, The Valley is a bistro cafe and a resort. By bistro, it means (in its original Parisian incarnation) a small restaurant serving moderately priced simple meals in a modest setting (looked it up in Wikipedia.com :P) but it is actually a bit more like an open bar to me. They served a variety of food in that place, but the light and semi-light meals are the best (in any kind of situation. you'll know what I mean if you keep on scrolling down the page). It opens everyday all day long but the best time to visit it is when the nightfall. Or if you prefer different atmosphere, you can try having a brunch there.

The Valley is located in Jl. Lembah Pakar Timur 28, Bandung, DAGO with the telephone number +62 22 253 1052 (I don't know the exact address, so I have to look for it in the Internet. I only know it is located in Dago, but I figured out that maybe you will need a full address in case you're interested in visiting it and the telephone number if you want to make a reservation). You won't miss it because that place has a gigantic name plates.

It is usually pretty crowded knowing how popular it is these days. If you want to have a great spot while dining in, you need to book for it first. The best place for you to be seated in this restaurant, is the spot near the clifside. From that place you can see the panorama of Bandung at night, covered with thousands of lamp that looks like an ocean of stars.

The Scenery Of Bandung From The Valley

What's so special about this place is, its atmosphere and scenery. Every single night, The Valley is bright and stunning with thousand bulbs in every corner of the place. There is a big cyprese in the middle of that place and also covered in bulbs. I think you should see it by yourself to see how beautiful that place is. And the atmosphere, it is so breezy out there and so...romantic. With a beautiful scenery and great music with great food, it is a perfect place to launch a dream date, hahaha.

About the food, and why me and my family prefer light food like appetizer and dessert and pre-main course to the main course itself, it's because the food there are relatively expensive. Not only because it is expensive, but the true mission my family and me brought to that place is to sit back, relax, enjoy the scenery and not to dine in. So we usually order some tea, cappuccino, assorted cakes, shortcakes, soups, pastry to warm up the night. And it beats the main course as well. We tried a steak in the other night but we promised ourselves to not order it again (do not ask why). Another great food for you to try is the pasta. Lasagna, spaghetti are also a wise choices with good taste as well. My dad's friend said that the wine are not pretty enjoyable but we couldn't judge it because we do not drink.

Last topic before I end the post, is I'd like to describe about my favorite cuisine in The Valley. It is.....The Zupa Zuppa Soup!

My Favourite Cuisine In The Valley :)))

I'm pretty sure that you have already know this kind of cuisine, even already taste it before or just like me, have fall in love in this cuisine, but this one is really really different. It is much more creamier and softer than the other zuppa soup I've tasted before. It's sweet and salty and creamy but it doesn't make you have a nausea either. This thing is one of the reason I keep going back to The Valley. The pastry (or some of you guys called it 'the bread') on top of it, has the perfect level of crustiness (whoo, i made my own word) and blends very well with the soup. Well basicly, THIS is something that you mustn't forget to try as soon as you visited The Valley.

Other than The Zupa Zuppa Soup, I also love the Chocolate Cheese Cake and Hot Cappuccino but somehow I feel a strange ingridient in it. My dad said it was some kind of rhum (but not rhum) that people use to add if they live in a cold area, but nevertheless, they are awesome as well. I have to end up my post because it's getting dark and I need to have a rest, please. So I'm leaving. I hope this count as a descriptive text. (I planned to write a descriptive text but in the middle of the text-building I get carried away, haha. My bad :P)

Have a great weekend Blogger! :)

Unforgettable Moment in School

2009-11-21T16:42:00.000-08:00

*singing*

Sing about that oh love it's a brittle madness

I sing about it in all my sadness

It's not falsified to say that I found God so

Inevitably well it still exists, pale and fine I can't dismiss

And I won't resist and if I die well, at least I tried

What's up with that song? It's the song I love for the moment. The title is 'On Love, In Sadness' by my favourite singer of all times Jason Mraz! It really really represent every unforgettable moment in my life, from love to sadness :)

This week's assignment is about: My Unforgettable Moment in MHT

I have sooo many unforgettable moment in this school eventhough I only have been staying here for 5 months. The first time I get to live at dorm, the first work program of the student organization, my first 100 in hard science (Math), the math olympiad, the science party at IPB, those are one of so many unforgettable moments in MHT. But this time I'm going to talk about the moment that I'll never forget for the rest of my life:

The Time Me and My Friend Played Truth or Dare

I believe you have already known the game 'Truth or Dare'. It's nothing special, you just spin a bottle, wait for it to stop and whoever is in the way the bottle is pointing, she is the lucky one. But this is not just an ordinary truth or dare, it's The Ultimate Truth or Dare. Let me tell you how it started.

It is Wednesday night, Selma, Putri, Ayu, Hani, and Vinny were in my room, we talked about different things while studying Biology. I told them stories about my previous school and told them the game I used to play then. One of them were Truth or Dare. They're interested and willing to tried the game. And the game started.

Here's the result:
Selma: Braid her hijab to school

Ayu : Hair-do her hair like one of the Sailormoon character

Hani : Tied up her hair in two to school and act in the canteen as a broken heart girl and flirt Krishna

Putri: Tied up her hair in two as well

Vinny: Braid her hijab too

Lindy: (I get the most -.- *sigh) Have two ponytails and wear bandana, act like a lonely woman in canteen, forced to confess that I liked Adam P, and walk like a model in the catwalk.

It's Thursday and we all have to fulfill our task. Everyone were suprised and I think they sure think that we have taken a wrong pill on the other night. No one refuse to do their task and no one seem to take it seriously because they know it is only a game. We did it all and it was really fun, really crazy and really bold. We laughed at almost every occassion and it did spread some gossip too (risk -.-)

Well they played it for the second time at thursday night and did the task on the next day but I didn't follow the game because ~~I have to attend a meet and greet with my fan s in Sultan Hotel~~ I have to study for the biology competition in IPB with Tiroy and Hana. Well if you want to know what happen on the other day you can click here.

Here are some photos. Enjoy!

My Dormitory Life

2009-11-15T04:24:00.000-08:00

Hey Ho, BlogSista ;)
It's me again. I hope you haven't miss me so much that you can cry because of it. Kidding.
Well, I'm writing my blog to fulfill my second english task: to write about my dormitory life. I must admit that I am thankful to my english teacher because if it wasn't for her, I will never take care of my blog again. Hahaha.

My Dormitory Life

Not like any other student who entered dorm immediately after they started go to my high school, I choose to stay at home and took a round trip every day from my house to school. But I think it is such a waste of energy and money, besides I don't have anyone at home to teach me in case I don't know how to do a case (which happen like a gazillions of time)

Sooo, I decided to start living in dorms. I still remember the exact date I get to live at dorm: 17 August 2009. My roommate is Putri :))) At first,we stayed at room 219 but then we are moved to room 214 because the room we lived in is leaking :(

A week after I entered the dorm, the holy month arrived. I must do fasting. It is a little bit different to do fasting without my family. On the contrary, I have to do fasting with my friends. At first it was not comfortable seeing how I've spent my whole fasting month with family but it turned out really fun.

Dormitory life have 90 degree differences with my house. I must wake up really early and pray Subuh at the mosque. I experience a sleeping problem for some time but now I sleep as tight as a panda :p And there's no TV! I'm sure I'll be as primitive as a caveman if I do not pick up information in the internet. And we have a second mother in here, a woman named Mrs. Eci. We call her Bunda. She is a very strong woman and have an amazing ability to wake people up.

My friends in the dormitory are very kind to me :)
They often come to my room and study together. They also love to have a sleepover if we are facing a great exam tomorrow, like what we did when we are facing the mid term examination. We also love to play UNO! together, play piano and guitar, play truth or dare, watching movies, eating pop-mie (:P) together. We also enjoy celebrating and tricking our birthday-friend. We also loved to chat in the dining room about almost everything, from school life to dreams and imagination. The following names are the people who often come to my room: Hani, Ayu, Fio, Selma and Syifa.

Like I said to one of my friend: Living in this dorm is like living in a huge house with a lot of younger sister and older sister. So, I am thankful that I am given these kind of dorm. I hope to write many more about my dorm but it's getting late and I have much much more assignment to do, so I guess that's it. Please wait for another assignment! ;)

OH MY GOD!

2009-11-12T06:30:00.001-08:00

Hi bloggers (wave)

I'm writing this post in a super-panicked situation. I am going to face a really REALLY important competition tomorrow. And I'm panicked! (Haniyyah Hasna, my bestmate, neighbour is sitting right beside me and calming me down (hahaha))

Well, back to the topic. Overall, I don't think I'm ready. Yet. I'm really really scared if I do not manage to win the competition. Because this competition means a lot to my school, my teacher, my friends and even to myself. This is my big opportunity to make my big entrance in the debating world, but I just keep panicking. I don't know what else to do.

I've called my mum (best mom in the world :P) and she said it's okay if I did not manage to make it through, as long as I have tried my best. My friends also told me so. Now, I'm a (little bit) relieved. They are really really nice to me (Hani said: especially me!) I do need this kind of friends, hehehe. Thanks guysssss, me heart you :)))))))

Daily School Life

2009-11-07T20:47:00.000-08:00

I'm baaaaack and I'm ready to write about my daily school life :))

Overall, I like my new school. It's (hmm, what's the right word)...different. It is really really different from my previous school, 109 Junior High School. There's nothing wrong in being different (don't get me wrong), I love differences. I love my school, I really do.

I am a 10th grader now, BUT I must finish my regular high school lessons in this year! Acceleration? No. In the 11th grade we are categorized into an olympiad clas and we only learn the olympiad subject that we choose. We also going to prepare ourselves to take The Cambridge A Level test, which (if we managed to make it through) allow us to enter any university in the world! It is ~~amazing~~ FANTASTIC! And in the 12th grade we'll prepare ourselves for National Exam, Pre-University Material and do some research? Cool? ;)

I get up at 4.30 a.m every day to pray Subuh at the mosque and my lessons start at 06.30 a.m. What's special about my school, is that we only learn hard science subject once a week, but for seven hours in a row! The girls also pray Jum'at every Friday which is usually only done by men. We use a moving class system, but since two weeks ago, hard science class has become permanent in the Laboratory Building.

We go home (to the dorm actually) everyday without a specific time. Sometimes you need to stay a bit longer in class if your teacher is holding a tutorial (which I love <3).>Gambang Kromong. It is our state traditional music. I happen to be one of the main player in the group. I play an instrument called Kromong. And I'm also one of the member in my school's Student Organization. I am it's secretary :)

I belong to the X.1 class. My class consist of 21 crazy students. Our recent favourite activity is 'Truth Or Dare'. We played it several times this week and it was fun! We learn Chemistry on Monday, Soft Science on Tuesday and Friday, Physic on Wednesday, Biology on Thursday and Math on Saturday

My School Member <3

We always study every night at dorms because if we don't, it means we are preparing ourselves to get the worst score ever imagined. We usually create a small group and study with our group. It is fun because we can discuss and share information. Especially if we have someone smart in our group :P

Well, I think that's all about my school, I'll try my best to be the best in this school! Ganbatte Lindy!! :)))

Let Me Introduce You To My New School!

2009-11-07T19:28:00.000-08:00

Heyyyy Guyyyss! :)))

I haven't post anything for a long time, have I?
Well, recently I've been busy ~~running away from paparazzi~~ studying because my new school is just HECTIC.

What? I haven't told you guys about my school? Hohoho, my bad. Okay then, let's start the story.

Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri Unggulan Mohammad Husni Thamrin Jakarta

Yep, that is my school's full name. What's with the 'unggulan' thingy? Well, this school is designed to prepare their student as one of the medal achiever in many subjects of Scientific Olympiad. That's why our school's schedule is almost as busy as a celebrity.

And this is what (a part) of my school looks like:

It is Big, It is Cool, It is as complete as a sport club.

We have this huge football field, a (you can call it) gymnasium, swimming pool, fitness room. We also have a big auditorium and even a mini theater!

Cool isn't it? Yes it is! Are you jealous already? Hahaha, just kidding ;) Soon, I'm going to post all about my 'Daily School Life', it is one of my English task that Mrs. Desi gave me. Well, I think I'll stop now, I have to take a brunch (breakfast lunch, i haven't take any breakfast but it's almost lunch -__-) first. I'm staaarrviiiingggg. Bye bye!

Love, Lindy

JHC

2009-03-31T07:29:00.000-07:00

JHC. Apa itu JHC? Well, JHC adalah sesuatu yang mewarnai hidup gue di kelas 9.11 ini. Itu adalah sebuah forum (atau lebih tepat disebut kelompok bermain dan ngobrol) yang h.e.b.a.t. banget! (hati-hati, penilaian subjektif)

Anyway, JHC adalah kependekan dari ***** (sensor). Kira-kira sendiri sajalah. Saya takut membuka rahasia forum disini.

Ketua forum ini adalah Tante Dedes Masyeroni, mamahnya Shifa Anindhita yang menjabat sebagai Wakil Ketua. Sekertarisnya adalah Putri Jati Ayu dan Nadia Budiani Arini. Bendaharanya adalah Medina Rakhmah. Seksi keamanan dipegang oleh Nadia Budiani Arini dan Devi Qhistina Linati, sedangkan gue dan Siti Faridah menjabat sebagai Informan.

My Beloved JHC on our school farewell party! I miss you soooo :')

Sebenernya apakah kerja forum yang bernama JHC ini sehingga memerlukan ketua, sekertaris, bendahara, informan dan bahkan keamanan? Sederhana saja. Tugas kita adalah menjaga 9.11 dari cengkraman (waw) tangan (let's just call 'rara') Rara yang munafik dan menggelikan. (kali ini penilaian objektif) Nah, berikut daftar tugas masing" jabatan:

Ketua : Memberi arahan kepada kita tentang apa saja yang harus dilakukan
Wakil ketua: Memimpin rapat di sekolah dan menyusun strategi bersama anggota
Sekertaris : Membantu wakil ketua
Bendahara : Karena tidak ada uang, sebenarnya bendahara tidak diperlukan. Tapi supaya lengkap aja
Keamanan : Menjaga supaya tidak ada informasi yang bocor keluar
Informan : Mencari informasi terbaru

Jadi, siapakah rara sampai harus ada forum segini hebatnya untuk menumpas dia? Dia adalah orang yang muna. Titik. 9.11 akan damai kalau tidak ada dia. Atau mungkin begitulah yang kami pikir.

Selain tadi sebagai tugas utama kami, JHC juga dapat berfungsi sebagai kelompok belajar, kelompok bermain, kelompok curhat, kelompok gosip dan lain-lain. Intinya, selain hebat, JHC juga multifungsi. Kami juga punya aset penting yang kami beri kode 'paus'. Dia adalah salah satu korban nyata kejahatan rara yang menderita namun masih tetap rela melakukan segalanya untuk rara. Huekk. Goblok banget deh. Yucks.

Yang spesial dari JHC adalah gossip points-nya! Apa itu gossip points? Gossip points adalah poin yang diberikan untuk masing-masing gosip yang masuk ke JHC. Poin terendah adalah 1 dan poin tertinggi adalah 10. Dilihat dari segi menarik atau enggaknya dan mengagetkan atau enggaknya gosip itu. Gosip yang udah bisa ditebak atau udah kentara pasti gossip points-nya kecil. Gosip besar dan tak terduga harus diberi poin besar. Poin gosip juga menurun seiring 'basi'-nya gosip tersebut.

Well, itulah sekilas info tentang forumku yang sangat kucintai ini. Mudah-mudahan kalian juga terilhami untuk membuat forum-forum serupa.

Love, JHC :D

Fry Day, 20th March 2009

2009-03-20T02:33:00.000-07:00

Dua cerita mengapa hari ini disebut Fry Day (hari digoreng)

Cerita satu : P.E sucks!

Satu pagi yang panas, kelas 9.11 dikumpulkan oleh guru olahraga PKL yang charming sangaaat (sorry shifa :P) di lapangan basket sekolah. Semua berjalan seperti biasa sampai suatu makhluk, merayap mendatangi kami di lapangan. Makhluk itu mengenakan semacam baju bercorak batik dan penutup kepala berwarna hitam. Makhluk itu mulai berbicara dengan bahasa yang tidak kami mengerti.

Makhluk: bla bla bla...berkeringat...bla bla... un...bla bla bla... otak encer...bla bla
9.11 : ......
Makhluk: make up...bla bla...push up 20 kali...bla bla bla...kliling lapangan...blaaa
9.11 : uweee.. (ketawa)
Makhluk: Ketua kelas mana?
Lindy : saya (sambil mengacungkan tangan)
Makhluk: iya, kalo yang lain push-upnya 10x kamu 20 x
Lindy : hah? (of course dalam hati)
Makhluk: kamu kan ketua kelas yang harus membimbing...bla bla
Lindy : iya
Makhluk: bla..bla.. ayo kita tos dulu... 109, OO! kamu lari duluan, buka pintunya
Bimo : (melakukan apa yang makhluk itu perintahkan)
Makhluk: putri lari duluan 5 kali keliling lapangan depaan!!

Begitulah cerita dibalik lari keliling lapangan yang tidak direncanakan terjadi. Makhluk itu mengacaukan good mood anak 9.11 yang sudah sangat senang sekali karena si maniak basket tidak mengajar kita. Worse, setelah ngos-ngosan lari, kita dijemur di lapangan di bawah matahari terik. Even worse, kakak PKL yang charming itu sepertinya ketularan virus Makhluk sehingga tidak bersikap baik seperti biasanya. What a nice day...

Cerita dua: Extra lesson, extra energy

Setiap Jum'at, gue and friends ada les biologi sama guru kita tersayang, Ibu Umi. Hari ini ada anak-anak baru yang mengikuti les tersebut. 11 orang plus Bu Umi berdempetan duduk diatas sebuah tikar di serambi rumah orang. Panas. Walaupun begitu, anak-anak tetep nekat bercanda, ngobrol dan cekakak-cekikik padahal mereka semua cukup pintar untuk tahu bahwa aktivitas itu menguras tenaga. Pulang les jam 1. Harus jalan dari tempat les ke depan komplek yang berjarak sekitar 1 km. Panas terik.