Friday, June 25, 2004

DVD

I bought...some dvds...again...
the last five dvds I bought were...Hercules, Jurassic Park III, The Wizard of Oz, The Odyssey, and Gloria Estefan live Concert in Miami.
and now..I got a bunch of dvds...
at home...
the only movie entertainment I got..when I am at home.

Kartu As


Now I have KARTU AS (As Card).another cellphone card issued by Telkomsel this particular simcard for my cell phone is somewhat intriguing in a sense that it boasts to give its users free sms services until July 31st. isn't that great?
and that's just the reason I bought it.
In fact..I bought three of them.
one for me. one for my wife and the other for msyd.
and now...we could send sms-es...free of charge.
another reason why we bought it was that..it is much much more cheaper to buy the starter simcard than buying a reload card.
afterall...lots of vendors lured customers to keep changing their numbers or so I assumed.:) well..maybe I could be wrong, though....

the fact is ....now I can send sms to my wife freely without any burdens of having to pay the price...:) hahaha.
but it will only be available till July 31 and that's only a month away.

for the time being...I am using it.
and now....I am using two different Hp numbers..and two different cellphones:)





Rafky...

Rafky...
the story revolves around him.
I bought this book written by an author renowned for his non-standard art of writing. he combines song and words into every novel he wrote. this so called 'lelaki terindah' thing that some say was phenomenal...captured my attention. Even my wife asked me to read the book just to tug her into bed. I suppose she liked the way I read the story....
well..though the story seem so intriguing to talk about in here...
it is way out my comprehension that even my wife liked it.
and was it just a coincidence that we both liked the book.
or was it just....she knew what to do when it comes to commenting on what her husband likes or not...
I didn't have a clue...
but...I read through the book. and
I found it interesting.

even...we plan to give our 2nd son ....a name....RAFKY...:)

what a couple:)
yup...we are this kind of couple...
fun as always...
and try to do things in our own way
so as to make both of us happy

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Last Friday in June

today...is Friday.
I started the day a bit late...well..the thing was that..I couldn't concentrate on things when lots of stuffs stuffed my mind.
I woke up at 5.30 or something. dawn prayer. went back to sleep *gee**
and then...woke up again at around 8 just to find that a heap of examination sheets needed my utmost attention to finish. ^^:(((

there it came again...
I was stuck for about an hour...prying my eyes...setting my mind to those tiny and chicken scratched handwritings of my students...:^^^
well..got to finish that later on...; for I got to go to the bank.

I got this 2 mil. or so...that I got to save into my account.
I couldn't handle this money by my own...lest I would spend most of it:)) see what I mean?

and..then...Meity and I went to the bank...and got to wait for about 30 minutes before my turn came around.
I got to hv this queuing number.....
my goodness..it was Friday..and still...people were flocking into the bank just to check their money out or just to invest..I didn't know..
it was just as hectic as any other days...

swell...

then...it was 12.07....and I got to be in a hurry just in time for my Friday Prayer at the Mosque.
we rushed to Kampus Mosque..and there it came again...as usual...the crowds...the flock of cars...
came from all directions ....that I was a little bit choked up...
but then...
I could control myself and tried myself to be as calm as possible
as I set myself in the 2nd floor of the Mosque..
the Kutbah already started when I entered the Mosque...
people were listening to the Imam...
and then..I did.

took about 35 mins. or so...
and I rushed to meet Meity for I got to take her to LIA...as she got a class to teach...at 1 p.m.:)....well. she said it was just an oral class or so...Still at 1 p.m.?

then...I sent an sms to mas yudi asking him where he was...and whether he had had lunch yet...
and to my surprise he told me that he was having his lunch by himself in one Padang restaurant just across the street of the market.
and..there it came again...
I was speeding....so as to be able to catch the glimpse of his face...
and I was right...
he was still there...
waiting...
eating alone...

and a minute after I got off the bike...he finished eating...well I supposed he got to be back into his office lest his boss would consider him 'naughty' ...well...it's true.

we were sitting face to face...
barely spoke a word...
silence broke the table...
and just the heat of summer day closed the gap between us...
I just told him that I was glad to have a chance to see him in person again..
after almost more than a week or so...

and...I said goodbye as he went off to his office.
I was alone again...
and...

I met this police guy who stopped me..:0
I was oblivious of not looking of where I was going.
I should've stopped when the lamp was red:)

Now I got something to do...:)

what a cool day...

Monday, June 21, 2004

Surabaya part III

so, I watched The Day After Tomorrow in Surabaya.
actually...I went to Sby just to see this movie.
well...despites the fact that I had only limited time there...I didn't want to waste any minute of NOt watching this particular movie.
Despite some bad reviews it received, this movie still had this powerful magnet to attract my own curiosity.
the thing is...I like sci-fi movie. this one combines thriller and real-life like stuff...(though some scientific stuffs about global warming and tornadoes did confuse me....:( ^^ stilll...it entertained.

Tunjungan was crowded at that time.
the plane landed at around 10 a.m. and I still had time to look around the terminal just before getting out of the airport.

the bus waited.
I took a ride and let myself relaxed in a not-so-cozy air conditioned bus. To my surprise...some passengers were standing.!! how could they let them ride in this kind of airport bus!!

(knock...knock...knock...anybody home? wake up, Suray...this is Surabaya!! still ...in Indonesia:))) where rules are made to be broken. so they say...:( gosh...what a life...

hey...cheer up...
the ride went on...though:)

okey...

so the bus stopped at the bus terminal where I got to transfer into city bus taking me to Tunjungan Plaza (my last destination in Surabaya that day).

It took me almost 45 minutes to get there. although the bus AC was working...still it couldn't help me from feeling hot. the weather was really really...stiflingly HOT.

thank God...Tunjungan was near.
I got off.
ran away....to avoid the blistering sun shine.

and to my surprise..It was Friday.
and it was around 1 hour before Friday prayer started.
so..I guessed...
I got to buy the movie ticket first..and then jumped off to the nearest mosque I could find there.

hmmmm....I was lucky enough to find...a mosque located on the 8th floor of the plaza. cool, eh?

okey, ../.
as soon as the prayer was over, I ran into the movie theather..and bought one ticket for me:)

At last....
I managed to see the movie....in a theather.:)

what a day.

(June 11,2004)

Sunday, June 20, 2004

Eiffel I'm in Love (extended)

Saturday night..
Gosh....I never thought that lots of people wanted to see this movie. the 3.5 hour-long movie really captivated lots of moviegoers around Indonesia..--so I thought. well..at least that was what I saw in Mataram Theater in Jogja.

It was 25 minutes before the last show started. .to my surprise...the parking lot was crowded. it was jammed. not even a small space left. gosh..luckily I managed to dash into some other motorbikes parked.

Only a few tickets were available.
luckily ...some guy at the parking lot told me that I could get the ticket at the back of the ticket booth. (what? )././

well..well..well...it turned out the manager of the theather had a way of selling ticket behind the curtain (officially, though)....so as to avoid the long-queue that has been happening in the last few shows.

so...with the same price..we could get the best seats!

well...for about the next 3 and a half hour...we were absorbed into this eye-candy or candy-eye(?) movie.

good...as I expected..though a bit dry in some scenes...but not bad for a movie this long...it could keep the pace of a teenage romantic story....^^

it was 00.35 when the movie was over.
cold.
got to go home.
riding a motorbike...

and....hungry...!!! hahahaha
(June 19,2004)








Friday, June 18, 2004

Surabaya part II

continued story...about Surabaya,

so....at about 730 in the morning..I took a bath at home. fresssshhh water....
and then I was speeding up to the airport just to rush with the time..
I managed to get the ticket luckily.
Mandala Air...the first time ever.

the thing is that..I just got to be able to make time for everything. I paid for about 200.000 rupiah just for the ticket alone. well.it's fine, so I thought..

So...I got the ticket and I enjoyed the beautiful sky-scenes from Jogja to Surabaya.
what a view!!!!
breathtaking view indeed.
I got the time to enjoy and experience the mountainous areas and paddy field along the way.

sky was so clear that I could feel like touching it.

dizzy...

today..I have been such a *prick*
I didn't know what to do. I just kept doing things in the wrong order. guess... I am not ready, yet.

today.I did my best to finish all the stuffs at the office. still it was sooooooooooooooo hard for me just to finish a few pages.

I don't know what to do..next

things are getting blurry.

but I guess I just got to keep running

In Surabaya...a.l.o.ne.

it's friday..and it's been a week since I had myself buoyed in Surabaya. yup...
I was in Surabaya. A.l.o.n.e. hmmm
what more could I expect from that?
I had this thought of going to Surabaya just to have myself pampered by the luxurious candy-eye movies on theathers.
right off I went to Surabaya by a plane.

it was early in the morning when I woke up and started to think of something..
I needed to get ouf of Jogja for a while just to let myself indulge in the candy-eye movie I had been wanting to see...

I called some airlines asking them whether there had been any extra flights to Surabaya early in the morning. to my surprise there had been some.
so I picked up a an 8.45 direct flight to Surabaya by Mandala Airlines.
It was my first time using the airline..

(up to now..I could boast to myself as having flown with national flag carriers such as Garuda, Merpati, Lion, Citylink, Bourag..and now..Mandala Airlines. WEll..it was cool enough to have a chance to try other airlines apart from International flag carriers I mostly used like Garuda, KAL, Vietnam, Asiana, and Thai Airways).

back to Surabaya story...
well..
before that I think I got to tell a story about what was happening at home...
NO WATER.
no water was running from the pipe. the water was jammed. so we didn't take a bath that day...actually we didn't either the day before. (sigh***)
but..what could I say...

so...my wife and I...together with her sister packed our stuff and ready to go to our home in purwo (aroun 9 km off the road from jalan kaliurang where my parents live)..and off we went there.

and./...I think I got to stop now..
to be continued...

Tuesday, June 08, 2004

wednesday

today is my first day in the office again..after for about 3 days off from work. the thing is...I got this terrible cold. and now I am feeling much much better than before.
the first thing to do was to prepare some material needed for Korean I final exam. some of my students didn't do their exams. well..I may be to nice to let them have another time for exam.

** it's wednesday..usually I kidnap tfom to hv lunch with me. but today tfom said that da has something else to do & that da has lunch at da's office. so da told me that I can kidnap dat 2mrw. well..that'll be nice, as well.

** today...I checked my email, too. to my surprise..I got this nausea..haha. I mean..lots of emails poured into my mailbox. some of them are from my students at LIA. well.they got this problem of sending their works, for the website I built was jammed or so I thought. some guy had managed to sneak into the site and jammed the content. most of the data was lost. I can't believe it myself till now.

well..nothing is more important than doing things in order now.

Sunday, June 06, 2004

having a cold...

I catch a cold. I am helpless now. It's been my second day. well..it all started about a few days ago when I thought I was just tired. sore throat. feeling of nausea. and stuffs...
I was a bit scared of what I was having..for I didn't hv a clue of what I was suffering from.
yesterday..was my 'lucky' day, for I knew for sure that I got a cold. no more than just flu.
I've taken some medicine. most of it has been 'jesscool' some liquid stuff I usually see on TV about sore throat reliever or something.
well..it kinda helped me a lot, for I could feel that I had throat once I drank it.:)

I got some hot soup at Pizza hut yesterday with my wife and her sister. well..it kinda helped me, too.
and today..I had soup again. and "sayur asem" one of my favorite dishes.

sick and helpless as I may...still I got to go to the office this morning.
I just found out lastnight that I got to submit the exam to LIA, for I had a test today. gosh..
so I rushed out to LIA early in the morning....dashing through hectic traffic in Monday morning.

I made it.
I am relieved.

Friday, June 04, 2004

research meeting ...some stuff.

Today I just finished attending the meeting about some research guidelines that I am about to do this coming four months. well..it's kind of good to know that they provide me with some additional information on what I should do during my research project.
The good thing about coming today is that they provide us lunch hahaha. ^^. well...to my surprise: it is not something that I can eat, though; for they prepared some friend chicken !!! hahaha. (I happen to be a vegetarian, you know).
It is not that I don't like attending it, it's just that I am now having two meetings at the same time.
and now look what I'm doing...
I am hooked into my blogger stuff. ***.***
guess I got to finish and jump right to the meeting.

What else?

I haven't returned the movie I borrowed, yet. Not even now. Gosh..what have I done?
and now the most important thing to do is just to relax...if I could!!!
the only thing that left in my mind is the only thing that I can't possibly do without....tfom.

well.
last night I didn't hv a good dinner. I was eating with my mouth shut and eyes closed!!! not to mention...the feeling churning deep down my throat!.
she was--once again--just like what she used to do---kinda making me feel irritated. I thought she was angry of having to fry some crackers for me. she looked so stiff. her face wore the reddest(?) & burning looks she could possibly pose to show off. Gosh..what a terrible feeling I had.
so that's it.
I thought she was angry with me.
I was wrong.
she was being angry with her sister for having broken her promise.

she should've told me what happened. I wouldn't hv been that miserable last night if she had told me what actually happened.
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anyhow...we got over and talked about it this morning.
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we're fine now.


I think...

It's June already. and I never thought that I could manage to do what Iv'e been trying to do for the past few days.
I have my silent week now.
I got nothing to do.
I got my new memory card for about 320.000 rupiah.
I got my new books.
I met my friends.
I met tfom.
I managed to go to 5000 rupiah store.
I managed to eat es murni.
I managed to finish the assignment.
I managed to do lots of stuff.
I had a nightmare last night !!!
but luckily she was right next to me.
I haven't returned the movie I rented a few days ago..Kill Bill vol.2
I think they gonna charge me more for delay