My Virtual Heroine

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.

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Three In One

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Haven’t Met You Yet

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

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

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

I just haven’t met you yet

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

Greting loved ones,
Ms. Dharmawan