Saved by Grace

gifts

2012-01-27T20:34:00.000-08:00

Dearest lissa,

I'm ur physical being speaking. First : I love you just like how I love myself. Secondly : as I love you, here is my gift for you to celebrate 2012

1> Full medical check up

2> Skin doctor's appointment

3> Dental appointment

4> Driving lessons

and if you're good with all 4 let's proceed with #5:

5> Dance lessons

Why I gave you all that ?

Coz u're past 30.

Coz every girl posses some vanity over their face lines.

Coz it's time u check ur teeth & gum and maybe do some whitening

and for goodness sake, what's the point of having a driving license if u're not going to use it for the rest of ur life ? so .... go re-learn how to drive

finally : go live ur life, and live it in abundance.

ur body speaking. I shall love u as long as we both live... as we'll part some day :)

biebody {=^o^=}

needs & wants

2012-01-25T09:10:00.000-08:00

In life
We don't always get what we wanted
but God will provide us with what we need

We know that
Seriously....
easy to hear
damn hard to accept it when we don't get what we want
even harder to believe that we'll be given what we need

I join you Gillian Sastra
to learn to live in contentment
to have a constant joyful grateful heart of thanksgiving
lastly : to surrender
*toss

"mengucap syukurlah senantiasa"
mari belajar

bombie {=^o^=}

CNY taon ini

2012-01-23T08:14:00.000-08:00

*sorry for the red text. It's in the spirit of CNY I decided to paint my blog red*

So CNY taon ini

aku sendiri

erm ga sendiri banget seh tepatnya....bareng Fabio di rumah.... kita stranded while the rest of our homies went home last week

BUT..

I'm happy to stay in Singapore :) walaupun ga ada family gathering for me, not even reunion dinner... I'm all good...

Coz I finally got my very delayed 2011 rest. U see, di taon 2011, or tepatnya di akhir2 2011, I have not slowed down dari my sis arrival to SG in July to buying a home on August to musical in October to engagement and wedding and DND competition in November to appraisal to another wedding (OMG.....gw keabisan nafas while baca semua ini) to year end Taiwan - Hongkong trip in December to packing holiday gifts on New Year to finally..... FINALLY....today (phew...finally breathing now)...

Yeah... I was mad-ly busy, sampe mo ketemu El aja taon lalu susah sekaleee..

That's why I'm so glad, dalam waktu yg sangat singkat di awal taon 2012 ini, gua udah 2 kali maen ke rumah El....berasa achievements gitu, bisa sering2 maen ke rumah El :P ahhahaha we still have not done 1 thing though, masak bareng :P

anyway : it's CNY today. Enter the dragon, buahahahah :P

You know what I really love about being a Chinese, is none other than the fact that I have Chinese New Year to celebrate !!

You know the feeling of leaving 1st of January of every year ? I don't know about you but me, I feel so dreadful. haha :P kayak, adoh... another 1 full year ahead to walk on... aih.... mulai dari 0 lagih :P *and I'm not even doing sales... udah drama gini :P ahha*

It sucks. Passed new year feel quite sucky....if not for the fact that I have another new year to celebrate : YAY !! and mungkin kl di Indo suasana persiapannya ga sampe seberapa sampe kayak di Singapore yg tiap jalan tiap mall, sampe yg ang moh mall sekalipun, maenin semua dong dong chiang dimana mana. En u see your colleagues RUAME banget with their CNY preparation. En then you go to NTUC or Cold Storage, it's like food war. Kayak the whole Orchard road ppl are concentrated on Supermarkets doing their CNY shopping. U'll definitely get the hype of CNY here.

All these made passing 1st of Jan not as sucky anymore. You feel like you've give some times di period b/w these 2 new years to adjust your mood, while still have something to look forward to. CNY berasa kayak taon baru semu. The closure new year. The new year that I'm prepared to face and passed. It gives me time to adjust all the festive mood from Christmas to get ready for the year coming ahead. When the Chinese new year come to an end, my feeling is : yeah bring it on ! I just have to be ready for whatever coming ahead.

So even though gw berasa kayak bule trapped in Asian body, atau kl gw percaya reinkarnasi (which I don't) gw mungkin percaya kl gua dulu born American, gua tetep bersyukur being born as a chinese (bersama dengan 2 billion ++ chinese lain lainnya).

So this CNY, even though I'm alone at home far from my family, and didn't have the chance to eat my dinner with everyone else, I am grateful for passing another year with great peace over my 4 days rest and good time for me to finally : finalize my resolution, yg masih belon selesai2 sampe sekarang... oh no.. :P

One last look back on 2011, gua ketemu the small resolution card I wrote during early YRC service last year. In conclusion I wish for God to take my wheel & rule my will.

I have my resolution fulfilled.

Happy CNY everyone. I wish all of you to have the best of time with your families :) Best of health, wealth, and love be with us :)

dong dong dong chiang !!

bombie {=^o^=}

maybe.....

2012-01-18T08:26:00.000-08:00

For all what matters,

the last 11 days of 2011 might probably the best decision I made so far

(Pink : Ef- fing perfect)Made a wrong turn once or twice
Dug my way out, blood and fire
Bad decisions, that's alright
Welcome to my silly life

Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss 'No way, it's all good'
It didn't slow me down.
Mistaken, always second guessing
Underestimated, look I'm still around

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than, less than perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothing, you're perfect to me
bombie {=^o^=}

The one(s) that (I let them) got away

2012-01-16T07:07:00.000-08:00

No, I'm not going to sing "The one that got away" by Katy Perry.

It is about some personals I decided, with a mixed of heavy and relieved heart, to let away

Gua jadi inget conversation gua, El & Gill di Tony Romas, on one of our threesome dates last year :) Supposedly kita sharing happy things on our date right ? Malem itu kita malah share about some of our closest friends who, along the way, got away from our life.

And recently I'm reminded on them. Reminded on why I let them got away. Reminded why it was so hard on the initial stage to convince myself to let them go away. Reminded that even though I thought I'm good enough in learning & knowing about people, I still fail to identify some people's true intention. Reminded that a devout Xtian does not equal a reliable friend. Reminded that even though people can change for the better or worst, the basic characteristic that made a person never change. Reminded that things aren't always what they seem they are.

If there's anything in common that I can say about them, is that they always seem to have the tendency to meddle & try so hard to influence me & my life, in a way that's beneficial for them, yet wrap them in a package that's as if it's what's beneficial for me. Simply said : they want to change me, they want to force me to join their pack, they wanna have a BIG say in my life.

And for most of all, I only realized everything too late. Made it harder to walk away unaffected. Made me wonder, do they think I'll be that stupid forever to keep hanging on in a relationship that doesn't have the give & take factors ?

If it's ever gonna be a comfort, I feel a lil bit better knowing that I'm not their only target. They do the same strategy to everyone else. Also perhaps, at one point of time on our short lived journey, I enjoyed their companion.

The bad : I always tend to fall in love to friends that I made, guys or girls. Not eros love ! A caring love. Most of the time I realize well that I tend to love more than I'm loved. But after all these lessons, I've never loved the same again.

The good thing : I'm glad I've learnt my lesson well, and survived !! I learned that a good friend is the one who is one arm length away when you need a shoulder to cry on, exactly next to your ear to remind & guide you when you did the wrong thing, holding your hands when you feel lost, got your back when you feel like you cant stand anymore, but a few metres away from when the time comes for you to make the most important decision of your life, guiding you with information, support you with your decision, and still keeping their distance. Why ? Because it's your life not theirs. It your choice to make, not theirs to decide. It's you who need to fly, not them being the pilot of your life.

Lastly, I gladly declare that I'm so happy to let them get away from my life :)

And if I can slip a wish, I wish that I can be the kind of good friend I describe, and in doing so I can find a true friend who loves me just the way I am without carrying any additional agenda

I have one now:)

bombie {=^o^=}

Verse of the year

2012-01-08T08:42:00.000-08:00

In the spirit of Wicked I posted this in GREEN :)

Wicked is GOOD !! I'm so enchanted :) I like it better than Lion King ;)

Anyway :

Gw dapet verse of the year taon ini...

yg ga gitu gw sambut dengan meriah...

bahkan ...gua sempet jadi was was en mellow sesaat tadi :P

terus gara2 sedikit bo kam guan gua sampe mo ciam xi ulang...

Sambil mikir2 taon lalu dapet ayat taonan kapan....pas TGIJ or pas ... first service YRC ?

check ulang postingan taon lalu...

ternyata...

TEPAT SETAON LALU gua ambil ayat taonan itu di YRC...

and in some sort of way....guard me....

so... gimana dunk kl gitu ? harus terima dunks yah ?

Somehow for me.... Jeremiah again taon ini :P....

kl dipikir pikir taon lalu gua jg ga terima seh awalnya dapet ayat itu...

hanya kuterima dengan lapang dada di tengah taon...

yah...mungkin gitu jg kali yah this year ? hope so...

terus si Nchep mungut another ayat yg jatoh di sekitar tempat berdiri kita and gua kind of claim the verse for my own too...

in any case ... I'll combine both message which kind of compliments each other... hahahah kiasu mode on...

ya sutra. Verse taken... I just have to wait and see God's working in & through me :)

anyway Peeps:

I LOVE MY FIRST SUNDAY of 2012 :) El did some make up on me which I LOVE.... en si Om gua sampe comment terusssss soal muka pas dinner tadi (tepatnya dia mabok....so kl mabok mungkin cuman muka gua yg full make up gitu yg keliatan cakep ye.... ini bukan berarti kerjaan tangan El ga bagus loh yah !!! ini berarti sampe orang mabok pun masih bisa liat bedanya gua sehari hari sama gua with full beautiful make up...and keep on commenting throughout the dinner dari sober sampe mabok)

so KUDOS to EL ...the new professional make up artist in town !! be ready for her adventure people :) fotonya gua attach :) thank you El :) btw ini bibir di pink in yah El ? I like it :) heeee...jadi merekah gitu yah kayak delima ? *jelek bener perumpamaan gua*

bombie {=^o^=}

Live for the moment

2012-01-04T06:35:00.000-08:00

If there's anything that hit me so true recently, it's that statement : LIVE FOR THE MOMENT !

Thinking about it, all the glorious moments I live by in 2011 it felt only good for the moment, at the moment, on the moment.

That although I wanted to blog about the details every moment so much, my fingers just stopped itself from typing. I guess they scared to ruin the remnants of the memories carved deeply in the walls of my heart.

And they always say : what's a girl without a secret ? I guess I selfishly would like to keep those joyful moments dearly to my private heart. Cause really, a lil bit of me is changed in these endearing moments :)

So here's the most that I can do. To list down those amazing moments here, and guard the impact these moments did to me & carry them forever in my heart:

1> Busy january. Weeks where I really questions God's direction & order to "Seek peace in the City where I have caused you to be carry away captive, and pray for it. For in it's peace, you shall have your peace" It's a month where my 2010 bitterness compressed & peaked. It was a painful, full of tears month.

2> Changing February. Somehow someway, things start to change. Musical work started this month too, bringing a piece of hope & colors. TLG Danz is has delivered it's second ministry by this month. Thank God

3> March : I'm 30. Crazily, the thing I scared most to happen, happened to be the best thing ever happen to me. To be 30 :) To be free :)

4> April: loving Bali. Loving El & Arief. Loving the short break, loving the companies & the seafood

5> May : 2 trips to Malaysia says it all. TLG bonding time.

6> June : I'm mostly restless, hopeless, sad, bothered, not enthusiastic this month. Reason : the sales manager I'm serving the longest is leaving the company. Though he's a major ass, he kicked some ass too. U cant deny he is successful in human's eyes, married, loaded, pretty kids and flying even higher at the age of 34 (this year). l don't miss him, but I was much affected for fear of changes. I fear what will the become of me. I was totally miserable for this whole month, it affects the whole musical dancers directions. I felt terrible & really sorry now that I looked back.

and most importantly : I thank God for true friends who stand up to confront me with the truth when need be. Elrica Diona, SMS loe yang wake me up and negur gua & kuatin gua, ga akan gua lupain :) Please, never be afraid to speak the harsh rightful truth to me El. I appreciate your honesty and your friendship.

also : for a friend who is there to stand up for me when I was so weak & negative then. Gillian Sastra :) Yg diem & cuek aja sama semua comment gua, unaffected and just keep on pushing delivering her best for our Musical.

I thank God each time I remember you two :)

7> July : FAMILY TIME !! My sista is here and I have FABULOUS 2 weeks family gathering with sis & cousins. Best moments : MBS nite 23 - 24 July. Will never forget this as this was the first time ever I don't care what the world think of my extras fleshy body and swam with my Bikini ever in my life at the infinity pool !!! Partly I was forced to do so coz my cousin perlu pinjem my swim wear. I ga tega, I pinjemin baju berenang aye... jadinya kepaksa pake bikini :P

crazily : hehehehe .... I feel so CAREFREE !! HAHAHA :P anyway gua pikir : sapa seh yg bakal ketemu di Infinity pool ini ? bener ga ada :) ahhahah :)

other than that : dont know why I just love MBS :P ahahaha

8> August : withdrawal syndromme. I miss my sis.

But sth else, happenned so fast in my life. 22nd August 2011 : I BOUGHT A HOME !!! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH

9> September : the month of HARD WORK & SWEAT : Musical is coming baby !!!

10> October : MUSICAL !! ENGAGEMENT (Margie in Indo) !! fall sick for 2 weeks, followed by practice all da way for company's competition.

11> November : WEDDING (Margie in SG) !! rest for a week and then : Dinner and Dance competition where we won :) after that no rest all the way coz snowman competition is waiting a week after and ....haha...we won the snowman decorating competition ......again :P hahahaha :) colourful November :)

12> December : whats there to say ? MY SISTA WEDDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SHE'S MARRIEDDDDDDDDDD !!!!!!!!!!!!! and then off for a fabulous 11 days to end 2011. We're the fabulous 7-11 !!!

This is all I want to say about 2011. I will keep everything that I didn't write in details above, dearly in my heart. I will not look back, I will LIVE FOR THE MOMENT from this moment onward, and I will keep my heart & eyes hopeful for the future God has for me :)

One thing I'm very sure of: I love my girlfriends: El, Gill, Dian, Kiyoko :) I love my FAMILY who has been my source of strength :) I love my entertainment crew : Jenita & Nchep :) and I love my colleagues right now :P hahaha

I love my 2011 :)

bombie {=^o^=}

so....it happen to be 2012 now

2012-01-02T07:35:00.000-08:00

Before it became too late, I really wanted to post the highlights of 2011. But that would take me too much time and emotion...

So I'll post them once I have the energy, after recuperating from the exhaust caused from unpacking, laundry-ing, and cleaning the home after 11 days trip, all in less than 24 hours...I'm a dead meat now and tolak angin is my friend

Tp gua iseng mo jawab buletin ginian. Sent from my cousin yg tumben2an ngirim email kurang kerjaan gini :P en gua yg bo liaou ngerjain ini email ... anyway here we go :

At the cusp of the New Year, most of us take a little time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and ahead into the future. We ponder the successes, failures and standout events that are slowly scripting our life’s story. This process of self-reflection helps us maintain a conscious awareness of where we’ve been and where we intend to go. It is pertinent to the organization and preservation of our long-term goals and happiness.

The questions below will help you with this process.
Because when it comes to finding meaning in life, asking the right questions is the answer

In one sentence, who are you?

melissa bombie surya

Why do you matter?

Coz I mattered in God's eyes.

What is your life motto?

Philipians 4:13

What’s something you have that everyone wants?

Joy

What is missing in your life?

soulmate

What’s been on your mind most lately?

scary thoughts of 2012

Happiness is a ________?

choice

What stands between you and happiness?

my wrong choice

What do you need most right now?

strength & patience

What does the child inside you long for?

a soulmate that I've been dreaming since I was a child.

What is one thing right now that you are totally sure of?

that my bank account is at my lowest balance ever since I work....hahaha

What’s been bothering you lately?

2012

What are you scared of?

that 2012 will not top 2011

What has fear of failure stopped you from doing?

Having peace of mind

What will you never give up on?

Jesus

What do you want to remember forever?

Jesus

What makes you feel secure?

Knowing that God approves & lead all my decision

Which activities make you lose track of time?

WATCH TV & dancing

What’s the most difficult decision you’ve ever made?

buying a home :P

What’s the best decision you’ve ever made?

Accepting God

What are you most grateful for?

Salvation

What is worth the pain?

Love

In order of importance, how would you rank: happiness, money, love,health, fame?

Happiness, Love, Health, Money, Fame

What is something you’ve always wanted, but don’t yet have?

a soulmate ( I think it's very clear right now)

What was the most defining moment in your life during this past year?

Buying a home and being a grown up

What’s the number one change you need to make in your life in the next twelve months?

my time management

What’s the number one thing you want to achieve in the next five years?

To have the courage to move out of my comfort zone

What is the biggest motivator in your life right now?

God and His timing

What will you never do?

Smoke

What’s something you said you’d never do, but have since done?

None

What’s something new you recently learned about yourself?

erm...none :P

What do you sometimes pretend to understand that you really do not?

Financial news or talks on bloomberg ?

In one sentence, what do you wish for your future self?

Happiness

What worries you most about the future?

That I don't live to fulfill the purpose of my creation

When you look into the past, what do you miss most?

NUS days

What’s something from the past that you don’t miss at all?

High school days

What recently reminded you of how fast time flies?

that it's now 3rd of Jan 2012 ? wooot :P

What is the biggest challenge you face right now?

myself

In one word, how would you describe your personality?

bombie.... haha :P I never know how to describe myself in one word ...it has to be minimum 2 : prim & proper

What never fails to frustrate you?

SMOKES, cigars & all their families

What are you known for by your friends and family?

strong headed

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

that I'm not as good as what they thought of me

What’s a common misconception people have about you?

that I demand too much in a soulmate

What’s something a lot of people do that you disagree with?

smoke

What’s a belief you hold with which many people disagree?

that a date should be taken seriously & cautiously

What’s something that’s harder for you than it is for most people?

to Settle

What are the top three qualities you look for in a friend?

Integrity, Honesty & faithfulness

If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?

erm....shouldn't this kind of friend be the one that u'll stick to longest as they even speak like the way u speak to urself ? it's like befriending urself, and if you're a good friend u would want to befriend urself ? No ?

When you think of ‘home,’ what, specifically, do you think of?

Surya Wijaya I, Blok sth sth no sth sth, with mom & dad & sis who will soon move out

What’s the most valuable thing you own?

physically : my future property

If you had to move 3000 miles away, what would you miss most?

friendships in SG

What would make you smile right now?

2011

What do you do when nothing else seems to make you happy?

watch TV

What do you wish did not exist in your life?

erm... nothing so far

What should you avoid to improve your life?

watch too much TV

What is something you would hate to go without for a day?

a shower

What’s the biggest lie you once believed was true?

that di dalem polisi tidur bener2 ada polisi lagi tiduran :P

What’s something bad that happened to you that made you stronger?

got cheated over rental matters, that changes my whole game of life

What’s something nobody could ever steal from you?

Faith in Christ

What’s something you disliked when you were younger that you truly enjoy today?

Fish & seafood

What are you glad you quit?

hm.... dont know the answer for this

What do you need to spend more time doing?

Praying

What are you naturally good at?

unpacking !!

What have you been counting or keeping track of recently?

my finances

What has the little voice inside your head been saying lately?

go to sleep

What’s something you should always be careful with?

crime

What should always be taken seriously?

God

What should never be taken seriously?

sarcasm, bully's words & pointless critics

What are three things you can’t get enough of?

God, His love & His favor

What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?

nothing

What fascinates you?

Nature

What’s the difference between being alive and truly living?

The essence of life ?

What’s something you would do every day if you could?

Dancing

At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?

Musical moments

Which is worse, failing or never trying?

Never trying

What makes you feel incomplete?

not having a soulmate....like right now...

When did you experience a major turning point in your life?

22 august 2011

What or who do you wish you lived closer to?

God

If you had the opportunity to get a message across to a large group of people, what would your message be?

Be NICE & considerate

What’s something you know you can count on?

God's mercy

What makes you feel comfortable?

God's approval

What’s something about you that has never changed?

I'm still big

What will be different about your life in exactly one year?

I'm closer to 32

What mistakes do you make over and over again?

sleep too late like right now

What do you have a hard time saying “no” to?

Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?

First one

What’s something that used to scare you, but no longer does?

Darkness

What promise to yourself do you still need to fulfill?

to be skinny

What do you appreciate most about your current situation?

that I'm happy right now

What’s something simple that makes you smile?

serial TV : Friends :)

So far, what has been the primary focus of your life?

Being happy :)

How do you know when it’s time to move on?

When God finally says so

What’s something you wish you could do one more time?

Musical... one more time.... and probably the last :)

When you’re 90-years-old, what will matter to you the most?

Family

What would you regret not fully doing, being, or having in your life?

doing : trying all the guts challenging rides / sports

being : a born rich girl :P hehehe

having : love

I love you !!!

2011-12-30T09:35:00.000-08:00

Time waits for no one
While it's still on my side
Let me say it out loud

I LOVE YOU !!!!! SO MUCH !!!!!! Much more than what u can think of
I LOVE YOU 2011 !!!!!!

This heart is in great sadness to let you go......
Thank you for being SO ROCKINGLY AWESOME !!!
will cherish every impact on each way u opened for me this year...

thank u thank u thank u

wohoooo !!!!

2011-12-21T15:21:00.000-08:00

fying off in less than 1 hour
I thought I would be able to blog about how AWESOME 2011 has been to my life last night before I fly
But since my sanity & health is more important at these crucial time, I forced myself to sleep...only to wake up in less than 3 hours after...... keleyeng2...puyeng2.... hehehe

in any case
I'M SO EXCITED !!
Let's TRAVEL everybody :)

and I promise I will list down the awesomeness of 2011 to count my blessings by the time I'm back or whenever I have the opportunity to have a descent internet connection and computer to do so :)

see you Singapore
THANK YOU GOD :)

bombie {=^o^=}

how do you measure ?

2011-12-19T19:24:00.000-08:00

So my sister's wedding was over, December 17' 2011.

Having been into much of wedding party, and having the privilege to be the organizer / helper in some of them, being human we tend to compare the wedding we went through. Also, we (read I) tend to be selfish in the sense I always hope for my family member & those friends whose wedding I helped is smooth & successful.

So how do we measure the success of my sister's wedding ? As I'm her sister, my answer would mostly be biased here.

Let's see:

The preparation :

Before the wedding day, baju gua dikritik sama my mom & my sis and they keep asking me to buy new dress which was so last minute. Buat tenangin dia orang, gua pergi ke TA, find some dresses, ga nemu, and then decided to stand on my ground buat ga beli new dress. Stick to my decision.

Also, gua udah leave dari tanggal 12 Dec, while my sis cuman mulai leave dari kamis on Dec 15. In that short time span dia harus kejar sana sini, en selesaiin video sendiri using my Macbook. Cool, I never even make any video using Imovie/ Iphoto. She completed all and even teach me how to use IDVD as well. Cuman yah itu: the timing is so mephet. Thank God selesai.

Taking everything into consideration, I say the preparation is okay. We've done all we could and... que sera sera.

As for my sis & leo, they received lots of praises for taking care of everything about the wedding themselves. Ga nyusahin. Lucunya they got critics for rejecting parents funding. Mereka insist on funding the wedding themselves, and parents di Indo pada protes. well ....?!?!?! speechless abit.

The Holy Matrimony, Saturday December 17' 2011 : 11 AM. Annex building.

Have I told you how happy I was to hear the best news this year that dede gua udah join gereja, JPCC ga nanggung nanggung, and after years of her pending her faith confirmation, she finally get baptized taon ini, officiated by none other the father of gembala JPCC Pst. Jeffrey Rahmat, and above all : accepted and sanctified by one and only GOD ?

For many years I waited, sometimes giving up, to hear the good news and this year semuanya Tuhan kerjakan dengan baik dan sempurna. So buat ngeliat dede gua bisa jalanin wedding ala Holy Matrimony-an gereja instead of makan tok..... I feel SO BLESSED to witness the wedding, and to see my parents taste the goodness of His grace.

Even happier to know that they are planted in JPCC, udah join date, udah ikutin semua aturan panjang persyaratan nikah JPCC (seriously : kudos for their persistence), and to know that the wedding is blessed by Pst. Jose Carol whom I personally favored & respect.

Best part : I have my relatives came, mostly are not believers yet, but at the end of the holy matrimony we saw tears everywhere on every girls and guys (my cousins & uncles are crying)

So I guess : it's one score of success for the Holy Matrimony.

The dinner : 17 December 2011 : Upper room annex building. 7PM onwards

Overall I say :

1. Family members are VERY happy & entertained.

2. MC is good. Dede gua hire Ferly dari stasiun TV mana gua jg kagak ngerti...yg udah sering dipake for his company event. Yg pasti dia profesional, bagus en manteb, warna bajunya aja sampe masuk ke decor, sampe semua pada minta contact si Ferly en pada mo foto2.

3. Band is spectacular. Fantastic. The singer, the songs, the grand piano... woots :) good :) Dede gua sewa some band yg perform dari Nikko hotel on live show every monday. Sekali lagi gua ga tau show yg mana.

4. Baju gua received lots of praises on the day itself ...heheheheh ..untung gua ngotot not to buy new one. Thank you El for recommending Rani. And I've relearnt another lesson that sometimes, you just have to stick to what you believe regardless what the world say, when you know that it's something right & good. It's not what they think that matters, it's how standing in the right ground made you feel, that's what matters.

Also another lesson: parents don't always know best. And I know from the long history of my mom buying or choosing some clothes design for me, that she doesn't know best. Sometimes a hit, sometimes a miss. Tapi biasa mothers, they always think they know best. Spt halnya dlm baju gua dimana dia ngotot luar biasa for me to make/ buy new dress. Well I stick to my ground.

5. Baju dede gua seh ..... va va voom lah hoh. The designer is her high school friend who designed one of dresses worn by Lady Gaga for her photoshoot in harper's bazaar. Google aja namanya : Tex Saverio. Gua sempet ketemu dia sekali doang less than 1 minute, and yup : dia beneran keliatan keluar dari some Manga book :P so animetic.

Banyak yg berentiin dede gua pas lg siang2 foto di hotel buat numpang foto sama dia en bajunya :P Pas dinner, banyak yg nunggu dia turun panggung buat foto sama dia, sambil nanya nanya designer nya siapa. She hired a very good make up artist yg bikin dia cakep bener. Thank God dia share make up artistnya sama gua :P eheheheh thank you De :P

6. General feedback on food was super fantastic. My cousin's fiance, Rachel the Korean girl terus2an dateng ke gua siang en malem just to say : Melissa , food is SUPER GOOD !! I love it..

7. Timing is of the essence and they didn't start too late and didn't end that early either. At the end of the reception we saw alot of ppl staying late just to enjoy the party, and keep taking pics with the couple.

Really overall-ly successful in my own limited WO-ing experience view. WO yg dede gua sewapun do a very good job. Team-nya jg manteb.

So I say overall : it's a successful wedding party with lil bit of small minor hiccups here and there which is normal and make the day unforgettable.

But is that how we measure the success of a wedding ?
The dress, the food, the number of guests, the photos, the make up, the band ?

Which bring us to the sermon that Pst. Jose brought in the morning.
Dia cerita about his wedding. It was in 1998, year of riots. Jadi pendetanya telat 3 jam datengnya karena ketunda penutupan jalan. Sound systemnya sewa 2, yg dateng cuman 1 set, so harus dipindah pindah dari ruang holy matrimony ke ruang wedding. By the time the wedding is started in the evening, itu udah jam 8.30 akibat ke drag sama telatnya holy matrimony en akibat sound systemnya yg baru selesai set up. Undangan yg nongol cuman setengah dari yg diundang coz ppl masih trauma sama riots, and then by the time 8.30 PM udah kesisa temen2 Pst and wife only, which is 300 an orang doang. Sekitar 500 an orang are the parents invite and they have went home.

His wedding was a mess. But is his marriage in a mess ? Definitely not.
So he told my sis en husband (now) : your marriage doesn't depend on the success of your wedding. And the success of your wedding doesn't determine the success of your marriage.

What so good about a successful wedding but a train wreck marriage life ? Good thing about wedding is probably ang pao cuan (kata si Pst.)

So is my sis wedding a success ? Given everything that I saw and the feedback from people during the night, I say it is.

Her marriage however, we just have to wait and see, while praying and blessing them with strength and hope and understanding to go through it all till the end, till it last a lifetime.

a happy sis {=^o^=}
bombie

rambut

2011-12-19T19:15:00.001-08:00

gua smoothing rambut gua kemaren
coz udah ga tahan sama rambut panjang gua yg susah dilurusin, en kl dibiarin keriting yg bener cuman bagian bawahnya doang. Yg atas udah acak adut kagak jelas, plus keriting itu amat sangat merontokkan rambut sodara2..... so gua decide buat lurusin dulu sambil jaga kesehatan rambut biar lebat ....
potong jg...belon potong sependek yg gua mau coz gua pikir potong pendekannya nanti aja di SG :P potong ini biar liberating benernya

tapi....GUA GA SUKA HASILNYAAAAAA......
huaaa kembalikan rambut keriting gua

udah gua bilang sama mbaknya jangan lurus2....udah bilang mbak ga usah catok2an lagi...jangan lama2 kasih obatnya...udah sampe bediri diri ingetin dia udah waktunya cuci...

capek deh...kuciwa daku kuciwaaa.....
bener2 laen kali bonding di Singapore aja deh
I did once in Singapore, it took less than 2 hours, painless, and the result is fantastic
benernya tadi masih mo bonding di SG cuman pikir besok kan I'm rushing with time to get everything done before travelling. So I decided to do it in Indo. Half price of SG anyway.

I did many times in indo wkt msh zama kuliah, the result is always flat hair, and it took me more than 3 hours sitting my butt in salon. Though cheap.

Points taken. next time, ga usah ngirit.
Go for the best.

huaaaa
*mencari solusi cari keritingan rambut biar foto2 travel gua ga bikin aib*

bombie {=^o^=}

time

2011-12-15T07:19:00.000-08:00

2 more days
and she'll be married

7 more days
and I'll be away

16 more days
and the year's gonna be over

thank you 2011
you've been surprisingly full of sweet surprise
sad that you've come too long and gone too fast

random things in this short span of time

2011-12-13T19:30:00.000-08:00

So I'm back home sabtu lalu Dec 10.

Next day I went to JPCC with my sis and bro in law to be in less than 1 week time.
Guess who served the PW that day ? GBI Rock Ambon :P hahahha ;)
Lagu yg dia orang bawa to open the Worship is : Sembah Dia 4X.
Followed with songs that some I know, some I didn't, but overall I felt (yg diconfirm with my sister too) like coming home .... GBI :P hahahahah:) My sis said yg JPCC bengong....ga biasa sama GBI style. While me there, is awed sama suara2 indah rekan2 GBI Ambon and the presence of God we experienced that day :) Mereka pelayanan ke 4 hari itu, there is still one more, and they are still SO powerfull.

Yup... I felt like coming home. haha :P

And so that was Sunday dan gua tidak menyia nyiakan waktu dan kesempatan yg ada di stiap saat buat cari makanan Indo yg gua suka.

So on Saturday evening when I landed gua minta nyokap beli Martabak telor :) Terus minggu siangnya gua minta titip Sekba (bebek Tim) then malemnya gua dinner sama dede gua after church di Pepenero : my face Italian Restaurant yg kudu gua makan tiap kali I'm back in Indo. Terus senen quest berlanjut, gua minta nasi goreng & bihun goreng dahlia. Kemaren gua makan hachi2 di TA, then today udah ada bakmi, nasi Nci Medan dari K7 dulu, en Nasi padang on the way... MAKMUR abis !! busyet dah.... dan kawinan dede gua on the way sabtu ini... haih...

Tiap hari gua sempetin diri sit up push up plus planking demi melawan semua lemak jahat :P *erm..yah kl makannya gitu yah susah jg yah....* cuman gimana cara ngelawan makanan enak yg jarang2 mendarat di perut gua ini coba ? hohaoehoaho :P *alesan*

now on to other things:
I have some pretty humbling things coming home, where smua yg gua lakuin, pilih, dan sukai kembali jadi hal2 yg kurang dimata keluarga gua.... well you heard the word before : family is you best critics (but it may lead to some other not so good things as we all know)

So yah anyway : gua bikin baju buat dede gua yang gua suka, but my family smua protes bilang ga suka... haih sedih. Sekarang gua lagi dipaksa cari baju baru dalam waktu sekejap, spend some money again, and fact that body gua bukan body indonesia biasa (alias kata bengkak kl ukuran Indo)....ga segampang itu buat masuk ukuran L tok. All gamble, kadang muat kadang kagak :P...
So itu satu yg kurang di mata keluarga gua.

Then kemaren gua bantu nyokap isi raport mandarin. Dan kerjaan gua harus nulis huruf dari angka nilai mereka...
Contoh my mom nulis 100, nah gua tulis di kotak yg disediakan : SERATUS.
Bokap gua terus terusan kan cheong terus : kita ada 8 kelas Cie.... 8, sehari doang harus selesai..... gimana bisa ? Sementara gua sok pede : ada Cie Cie Pa...another hand to help, takut apa seh ?

Teruslah gua proceed buat bantu nulis huruf2 itu. Alhasil first attempt : langsung kena cela my mother, ini ga perfect ga bagus ga rapih ga ini ga itu dan ga ga ga lainnya... haih :P sedih lagi :P ahhahah :) there is nothing that's ever be perfect enough from what I do for my mom.... but I grew up with it so I'm used to be belittled and strong enough not to take the face value of her (or their) words, instead dig deeper to know that they are actually proud enough to have me..

oh intermezzo : to all the teacher friends out there who needs to fill up report card, salute dah sama kalian. Tangan gua sampe berasa mo copot semalem nulisin 3 kelas doang :P beh :P hari ini berlanjut my missery :P mana mata kunang2 pula :P ehuahueh :) but well.. I got a job to do :P

Back to the topic, friends if you have a choice, do teach your children with a mix of western and eastern value okay ? It's hard enough to be children of eastern culture where nothing you do is ever enough.

Kiyoko did remind me : don't be too hard on yourself girl. Give credits where it's due.
I like those line and I will hold it dearly.

But overall it's a good humbling experience after I lots of "victories" this year (from musical to DND to small lil competition for Xmas deco in the bank), I'm happy to know that I'm still not good enough. That way I know, I have BIG ROOMS to grow :)

sekian Indo report till this day....
now off to write some more raport and getting busy for my sis wedding prep.

bie {=^o^=}

random

2011-12-11T09:21:00.000-08:00

nope I wasn't tag
tp ini lagi ga ada kerjaan en belon mo tidur

so here we go...iseng2 ngisi things yg udah di tag earlier by El & Gill *sambil melatih muter kepala mikirin jawaban hal2 ginian......susah sodara2*

Rules:
1. Link back the person who gave you this award
2. Share 7 random things about yourself
3. Answer the favorite question
4. Award this to 7 blogger

7 Random things about me:

#1 I never felt pretty, always want & put effort to be pretty, and always wonder what would I be if I'm born pretty.

#2 I REFUSE (caps lock intended)to eat seafood & chili for the first 19 years of my life....at all. No fish, shrimps, crabs, lobster, especially not clam/ oysters. I started eating sea food & chili when I land in Singapore. I would say I can eat them, but I don't love love them.

#3 In my parallel imaginative world : I see myself as an American living in New York, can dance bend & shake like nobody's business, can sing & scream well like Lea Michelle, and living a career as pro dancer, actress, director / producer in LA & Broadway, and E news office is my usual business interview place :P hehehe speak about some dream :P

#4 I love classical music, choir, Disney movies & music, Jazz & blues. It gives you that kind of feeling that you are somewhere chic & high end, comforting & soothing, or that u're just somewhere in USA (when I hear blues)....en anyway classical music's complexity is good for your brain.

#5 My favorite movie when I was young : Sound of music. My fave activity : play piano, dance, sing edelweis, and act the so long farewell part before went up to my old house 2nd floor and pretended to be asleep.

#6 I used to refuse to go to spa because I don't like the idea of people massaging your body when u are lying down with just disposable panties on your body...and I hate to fork out the pricey cost...

#7 Of all animal : I hate snake the most

Questions:
Name your favorite color: anything BLUE off course !! greenish blue & purplish blue

Name your favorite songs: Too many. But one song I strike me the most when I first heard it : We could be in love by Lea Salonga & Brad Kane.

Name your favorite dessert: too much choice, but I welcome cheese cake any day.

What is annoying to you? Unreasonable rich snobbish egotistical good for nothing people who look down on others and worship money as king of everything, parading their branded life & lazy ass.

When you are upset you: most of the time just keep quiet. Unless I'm really really upset, which by then I will run while crying, just wandering around the streets, along the river .....to talk to God and calm my heart.

Your favorite pet: Don't wanna have pet. Chinchilla & puppies are cute but I'll never ever have pets.

Your biggest fear: 3 actually : that one day I walk away from His love forgetting all that He's done for me, that I'll never get married, and that my family don't get saved.

My best feature: I never know... physically : what I like is my teeth that's straight without having to put braces, and my lips. But I think my best feature should be about my behaviour or personality...and on that I say : I like how I love to be neat & clean.

My everyday attitude: life is shrt, why so serious ?

What is perfection: Jesus.

Guilty pleasure: I can tell u but I need to kill u after that :P

*aih capek jawabin ginian euy*

go ahead and take the challenge guys

and again....at terminal 2

2011-12-10T01:07:00.000-08:00

crazy how time flies when you are enjoying life to your fullest..
just like how 2011 has been for me... it way surpassed whatever best year I've ever had....
and the funniest part is.... I declare this as the best year of my life when in actual, my bank account is in it's slimest condition ever since I started to work in 2004.

So what does it says here ? Is that life can be great without money to worry about ... :P hehehehe :P ga penting..

anyway back in terminal 2 about to fly back to Indo for my sister wedding
in the beginning of the year I made resolution to be skinny babe by the time my sister is getting married.... hhhhhh..... resolutions...resolutions... unless I make sure to sign up to a gym membership and find the hottest personal trainer who is single straight available and also looking for long term commitment, plus a christian, not a womaniser, can cook and have a good sense of humour, I'm pretty sure that I'll not lose this weight coz that kind of personal trainer does not exist.... unless they are hollywood actress...

anyway ga penting lagi ... yah gitulah nungguin boarding...u have nothing much to do so ... you blog :P *better than spending my fortune away to another Marc Jacobs perfume : Daisy, that smells pretty damn nice and pretty freaking expensive and will just be another collection of my sweet aroma in my room... forgotten... so....yeah....blogging is better*

point is (do we have any?) ... yeah...point is : I do not manage to achieve losing weight for my sis wedding, I'm back to size 0...with size 0 meaning my original size...not the real size 0 like Fenny Lo size....

but anyway... who cares ? I am HAPPY with my size as long as I dont see that much of double chin and making sure that I eat right..

I am happy when food enters my mouth and taste good... this tounge that can taste is one of God's amazing gift anyone ever have...so u know what ? ... I love food, I accept me the way I am with my fats curve and extra everywhere....I am in charge of my body... and I'll deal with this body when I'm not happy with the way it makes me feel...

Right now : I am just happy...
happy that my sister is getting married
happy that she took the pressure off me a lil bit
happy that I have AMAZING GOD
happy that I live
and happy...that I live...in abundance of God's everlasting love..

I'm going home..
and I'm happy :)

see ya on 21st everybody

bombie {=^o^=}

that time of the year again

2011-11-29T05:11:00.000-08:00

appraisals

haih.... never a good time. Whether u're the one appraised, or giving the appraisal..... it's just so freakin painful.....

aaaaarrgggh.... sutress guaa

what in the name of 24 ?

2011-11-25T06:58:00.000-08:00

24 Nov 11 AM

So I arrived at office, entered into lift. Met some colleagues inside. First girl greeted me congrats for the performance last week. The other colleagues were talking. When we joined the conversation, the she told me that they were talking abt her dress. Let's say her name is ES. Turns out ES has the same dress as DB, and they both knew. So the other colleagues reminded her to go and text DB not to wear the same dress today. All of the girls are going down at 7th floor, while I'll go down at 10th floor. When the lift door opened at 7th floor, guess who's standing outside ?

Who else ? DB !! ES and the rest were so shocked and straight away she told DB "OMG, we're just talking about u. U have this dress right ? Wanted to tell u not to wear dress"

Cannot stand: I said to them : what are u both talking ? You girls are wearing the same dress what ?

Next thing u know they were screaming, laughing, promise to avoid each other, en make appointment to buy 4D !!!!! Untill one uncle in the lift laugh laugh. What a way to start a day !!!!!!

Then at 10 sth, my phone rang. Usual sales number. I picked up still. Answered with my lazy tone, the girl were quite shock to hear my ignore rant tone. Next thing I heard her saying OCBC. So my natural reaction as usual : sorry not interested, hang up.

And to my crisis, the number kept calling, and I kept rejecting, silencing, and getting more and more pissed, wondering: why is she so persistent ? Wah laooooo

She even called using her mobile# that I ignore. I almost wanted to text her (and I alsos thought) : do I owe her money ? Why she kept calling? I never had any dealing with OCBC anyway.

Thank God I never SMS back, coz she finally SMSed and told me that she's calling from peach garden OCBC to confirm my reservation at 1.30PM, and that she's NOT (typed in caps lock) selling anything. Hahahahahhahaha so malu, I apologized many2 time and explained that I had very bad experience with cold call thus my reaction. I found out her name and called the line back to say sorry. When I reached there, I look for her and say sorry again (to avoid anyone spat on my food).

Ahhahhahahhahhahaha fail !!!!! So malu !!!! What a 24 !!!!

bombie {=^o^=}

into make up

2011-11-22T08:28:00.000-08:00

yup

gw belon ceritain about last week

the historical 17 Nov 2011, the one that signifies a truly new beginning of my 8 years journey in office.....

intinya Puji Tuhan kita menang the group competition within our internal Department.... we being the legendary Kikoko (bukan nama sebenarnya) and moi.

more on that on next blog.. gua ngutang banyak benernya.....dari cerita nginep di MBS bulan July (en bulan November) kemaren, sampe si talent time inih... emang gua blogger kurang motivasi neh.. hehehe :P ada award blogger malesh ga ? boleh di nubuatkan ke gua...

karena gua bukan blogger inactive (yg tenggelam sebulan - 2 bulan sebelon nongol lagi)....ataupun super active blogger seperti tante Gillian Sastra en Tante Elrica :) .....tp gua blogger sesuka ati guaaa.. hahaah:P intinya seh blogger mood moodan.... more into mood *ah malesh ah ngeblog hari ini*

ANYWAY BUSWAY KETEMU SUBWAYYYY...... gw lagi ketepa El neh... jadi rajin make up... gelora jiwa terpendam dari kecil yg tiba2 bergejolak gitu kencengnya...

bisa jadi gara2 gua udah harus train my hands again karena banyak wedding depan mata en makin hari gua makin ga percaya tangan orang lain to do make up on my face selain tangan2 seperti Wi In, tangan gua...or tangan orang yg udah gua liat hasil kerja Fabulousnya seperti El :)

selipan comment : mata peacock loe seh El..... GILEEEE !!!! Aye jatoh cintrong sama si mata PEACOCK...kuereeennnn ...sayang gua ga bisa pake mata peacock on people's wedding :P AHHAHAHAH :) or not even on my own wedding... HAUEHAUHEUAUAHEUH :P *bisa jadi I don't instead of I do... or maybe ..Do I ?*

So anyway gua ngerasa I need to train my hands again, karena makin hari makin berasa rusty doing make up.... eh benernya mah gua memang ga terlatih seh make up make up an .... cara pake base foundation yg bener gitu semua....gua cuman tau satu : PAKE FEELING AJA :P ahhahahah :P paling kayak ngelukis di muka gitu... muka jadi canvas...tangan jadi kuas... eye shadow jadi color tube...air jadi oil nya :P

mungkin diliat orang kadang2 ada yg bilang hasilnya bagus.... tapi kl dia orang tau teknik gua seh...maybe geleng2 kepala in disapproval :P

yah anyway dalam keisengan gua mampirlah gua ke Daiso, liat make up murah (semuanya 2 dollar kan anyway ? ahhahah) tangan gatel...beli lah gua... recently gua lagi very much into shading yg bikin muka khurus :P en gua berasa Gatot in this field... alias gagal total !! jadi gua mo belajar teknik shading yg benar.....hebatnya belajarnya bukan cari youtube....tapi maksa pake teknik spt biasa and again....feeling :P

yah kl ada waktu gua pasti ke rumah El belajar teknik make up yg baik dan benar sebelon datelinenya.

so inilah hasil iseng tangan gua di tengah malem jam 12 AM jg.. (bahaya ini kl inspirasi datengnya jam 12 malem tiap kali.. hahaha)

masih kurang berhasil neh....kurang kurus pipinya....

but anyway ... gua cukup bahagia dengan hasilnya en I've decided to go with this look for my morning session di gereja for my sis wedding. Natural look... tapi matanya agak2 serem ga ? hahahaha :P

gua cukup yakin bokap akan protes as usual : Jie.. mata jangan dibiruin, itemin Cie... kayak Batman. Mata kita udah sipit jangan tarik more attention ke mata sipit kita...cukup dikit merah2-in aja.... terimalah nasib mata sipit ..... *very encouraging Dad....very...*

okie that's all for tonite...

lastly : just to be clear : I am VERY into make up anytime actually... the very same girl who did not want to go to school unless her mother buy her a RED lipstick that she chose on her own, is still within me....

yup...I'm very into make up.... as long as the make up is not on me everyday :) just weekend or as and when I want it to be :) HEEE HEEE

I LOVE MAKE UP UHUY !!!

bombie {=^o^=}

sebelas. sebelas. sebelas

2011-11-10T20:36:00.000-08:00

di hari ke 11, bulan ke 11, taon 2011 ini

ane mo ngepost hal2 yg ga penting dari keluarga ane
topiknya mengenai kega(galan)tek(nologi)kan babe sama mak aye

jadi, kalau orang tua orang lain udah pake facebook, skype, email, whatsapp dari zamannya backstreet boys
my parents baru aja get in touch with technology. Itupun setelah my mother kepaksa harus open email account buat urusah ngajar mengajar bahasa mandarin nya.

Jadilah di satu malem gua terima email dari nyokap aye yg bikin gua surprised !!!!! WUEDEH... my mother punya email..and sending me email yg isinya luar biasa :

"test"

sekian.

Stelah 30 tahun gua idup, my mother akhirnya punya email, and the text only goes for " TEST "????????????????? {"--__--"} capek deh mak...

anyway, gua cukup bahagia si mak punya email. Sampe...... dede gua cerita proses pembuatan email tersebut (yg tentunya dikerjakan oleh dede gua instead of my parents).

Pertama : Mama mo pake nama apa Ma emailnya ?

Parents : sekian sekian sekian (censored maksudnya )@gmail.com

Dede : Okay sekarang password

Papa : Nah, passwordnya ini kita mesti bikin yg gampang inget nih, biar ga susah lupanya.

Dede : Lah kl terlalu gampang inget ga bagus Pa. Password itu harus susah biar ga gampang ditebak orang lain.

Papa : LOH ???? Justru biar gampang diinget orang lain dong De ? Makanya bikin yg gampang biar Papa bisa kasih tau temen2, jadi temen2 jg gampang ingetnya, gimana seh De ?

Dede : !@#$%^&*()_+)(*&^%$# @!#$%^&*()_+ ????????? Papa mo kasih password email kita ke temen Papa ngapain Pa ? Namanya jg password itu buat disimpen sendiri dong Pa.

Papa : HAH ? Lah temen Papa kl mo buka email yg Papa kirim ke dia, kan dia perlu password Papa De ? Emang bisa dia buka tanpa pake password kita ?

Dede : *tang ting tung teng tong Gubrax dags dugs digs jreng gombreng* {"--__--"} capek dehhhhh............

sekian cerita pembukaan email.

Sekarang soal password. Dasar parents emang ga gitu suka sama computer, cuman terpaksa belajar words sama excel buat persiapan pelajaran, gua pulang kali ini and my mom minta gua cekin emailnya.

Mama : Jie, bukain email mama dong Jie.... Cepetan ini mama lagi nunggu email dari si guru sekolahan.

me : *lagi baca komik males malesan di ranjang.....* hmmmm hah....

Mama : ayoh Jie...neh passwordnya mama kasih.... bla bla bla bla bla ... mama spell yah ... bla....bla...bla....

me : *terusik dari baca komik*.... apa Ma ? itu passwordnya ??? *ketawa gegulingan di ranjang sampe sakit perut* ......itu password mama ? mateng deh... ini si dede iseng ngerjain bikin password sampe norak gitu apa siapa seh yg nge joke banget passwordnya begituan ?

pertanyaan : apa menurut kalian password email bonyok gua ? cukup berpikir ala indonesian chinese parents, 60 - 65 years old, yg gatek en pengen password gampang (yg gua baru tau dari Dede gua, masih sering dilupain sama dia orang.....hebattttt )

{"-_-"} anak yg terhibur
bombie

about a very good, lost and found, very strong, changed friend

2011-11-09T09:59:00.000-08:00

Thursday Nov 3' 2011 : 11.57 PM I received this sms :

K : Thank u for giving me the best gifts anyone cld ever give- the gift of new found confidence n excitement towards doing something tt I love( singing) n Tt I loved ( dancing).

Thank u Mel.

I m sry if I've hurt u in past. I admit I tend to get lazy at times wif friendship. Dun make enuf of am effort but jus so u Noe ALL of u in team A the old arms I mean all hold special meaning in my heart. Cos u guys saw me thru my ugliest, lousiest, weakest moment. In fact looking back I din cry Tt much Wen my dad died cos I wad too bz looking after mom n worrying to cry..

So THANK U FOR BEING THERE THEN N NOW. always told sis I Hv this group of special frens where tho we dun meet often we will ALWAYS b there for one another in time of need. And I meant it then n I mean it now. Always knew that I could count on u. Wen I stained my skirt.. Oops Tt was June haha n lost my contact lense rem?? I was still quite uncomfortable n new in team A n u helped me look thru the rubbish bin. I will never forget that. Love u Mel Mel.N thank u for .. Maybe helping me relight my love for dancing again. :)

and I replied this :

B : HahahahahahhaMy pleasure to be a blessing for ur life... HAHHAHAHAHAHAH
I noe u lah... That's why even when that happen i know u dont intentionally did it... And that's why I get over it....

If that's ur ugliest.. Then i can tell u this : IT'S NOT THAT UGLY !!!! don't think so badly on that period okay ? Anyone.. Who went through what u went u through..will do even MORE UGLIER things than what u did....

Fact that u LIVE....and living LIFE even more.... If I'm a writer, i want to write a bookabout ur life...

U are a living testimony of the good old story.. That it doesn't matter where u came from... It doesn't decide where u can go in life.....

God is good in ur life... And I want u to wait to see even more what God can do to you.. And THROUGH YOU !!!
Will give u bible verse .. Wait for it okay ?
Good nite... Good rest pls...
And for ur info... U put more effort in our frenship....If it's for me... We wouldn't be talking by now coz I wont bother to ask u lunch... Hahahhahaah

and she replied again:

K : Haha Wat Eva I like Ur company so I will still ask n wif u I can b myself. So yeah. TOO BAD!
A great teacher not only transfers knowledge, she's able to inspire her student. N u my fren has inspired me. :)

Thank u for Tt.N yes I will wait for the verse. :)

Uve come a long way urself too. Admire ur courage n independence. I cld never do Tt. Cldn survive hall already. Ha.N YOU at such a young age bought ur OWN PROPERTY wif YOUR OWN MONEY. Not parents BUT ur OWN MONEY hard earned n saved in a v disciplined manner over the yrs. So U SHD BE V PROUD of urself.

N of cos we wun be where we r without Him.Rest well too. Gd night my fren. God bless us all. :)

This is a blog entry about a friend named Kiyoko.
Some of original blessed version 1 would have heard about her, long way back to 2005. We first met in 2004, became colleague in the good old ARM days.

In '05, I told much of Blessed V1 about her struggle, having just broke up then. Like seen above in her SMS, it was her ugliest days. It wasn't pretty for sure.

So 2 girls sitting next to each other, both melancholy, both soft, both silly, both juniors, both have very differrent approach towards neatness (me neat, she likes to mess up my things, me very serious, she just like to pull a prank on me ), we blended. Blended quite well. If u ask me to point one closest colleagues who has turned into a good friend, I'll point to her. Hey 7 years of relationship (knew her since '04) goes a long way don't you think ?

But in actual, we've almost lost touch in between, with me being annoyed that she didn't really see how our relationship the way I saw our relationship. I knew that it was probably just me being sensitive, but me and my strong head in my sensitivity decided not to give a damn to mend the broken string.

I wasn't bitter, I didn't cry when I talked about our broken relationship then, and I never cry even till today. I just thought, hey I'll still be here when she needs me. She doesn't have to know how I feel about our relationship, but honestly I will not put in anymore effort in this thing. I won't ask for lunch, I won't email, I just will not do anything at all...anyway who cares ? right ?

Best thing about her, she never care about how I feel towards her :P *that should be bad right ?* but no. With that confidence, she always step back into my life with her usual way of annoying me, always try to guide me but fail, laugh at my clumsiness, making me laugh with her idiocracy, sharing good quotes, motivates each other to carry on with life coz it always goes on and it's meant to be lived beautifully in abundance, not knowing that I almost wanted to kill her :P hahahaha :P

Simply said: she went back bugging me for lunch right when I'm ready to write her off my "current friends that I foresee will be friends for life" list. Thank God, I did not stay being stubborn rejecting her lunch. What happen between us affirm my previous postings that things are not always what they seem to be.

When we make up, she found a better me, and I found a changed her. 7 years of life added in our age have definitely taught us some lessons to live this life with a better strategy.

But other than that, we're just the same 2 girls finding comfort in the good old friendship, and expanding it to new frienships along the way :)

And for things that you could never have thought and imagined before, she now believes in the living God. Attended Catholic church lunch mass, reading scriptures and downloading bible apps which SHOCKED me *but I tried not to show* when she told me. Her name is Kiyoko for a very good reason that she used to believe in Japanese Buddhism.

I have no part in this salvation works. I was even away from her life when it happened. God is the ONE and only GOD who cares about her. I just hoped whatever role I have played in her life, me and my weaknesses have done our best in shining His love to her :)

And for all that I know : The Kiyoko now is really a changed woman, then the girl name Kiyoko in 2004. I thanked God I've found back my best friend in my office, and thank Him for finding her back to His love.

to even hear this from her :
"There's one thing that I want us to do if we ever get through to final. I want us to pray before our performance"

and :
"remind me to pray before we practice later on "

and :
"Mel !!! We forgot to pray today !!! No wonder I can't seem to get it right. Can we pray now please ?"

is a sweet melody to my ears.
Thank you GOD for finding me, and letting me keep, a beautiful friendship with a living testimony of Your work. A very good friend indeed.

If you read this friend, please keep her in your prayer so one day she can openly attend a church service without any fear. She's still unable to do so.

And after hearing so much legend about her, David Chandra managed to finally meet the legendary Kiyoko on the day I decided to buy my home. They were there with me on the day I made the biggest decision in my life (so far). 2 persons I will invite on my home grande opening day, are both of them :) *Vid, RSVP open from now...hahahah*

bombie {=^o^=}

pulank

2011-11-07T01:18:00.000-08:00

at T2 boarding gate E4, Changi Singapore
somehow, I like to post something while I'm at Changi alone, before flying off anywhere

yeah, pulank Indo for a good 1 week.
after experiencing another cousin's wedding, this time around.....closest cousin of us...Margie
very much mixed feeling kept deep in my memories...

and then gua pulang hari ini while all my aunties masih di SG...and they were asking me...
"Pulang ? Loh kok pulang ? kenapa pulang ? ada urusan ? Ga ada urusan ngapain pulang ?"

bingung gua jawabnya....in the first place bingung gua..... kenapa gua pulang orang2 heran ....
especially when they ask "kl ga ada urusan di Indo ngapain pulang?"

you know : there is 365 days in a year... out of that 365 days, I probably went home, to the max, 3 weeks in total that makes it good 21 days ? 21 days to meet, talk, share, *and argue sometimes* with my parents, enjoying the good days of being a child, or serving a good quality time as a child honoring parents, what's so weird with that ? ahhahahhahah...

really....I think 21 days out of 365 days a year, is not alot for a single girl, commitment free like me....to give to my parents...

and somehow gua cukup sedih jg.... I know they know how much I love Singapore, but come on, I'm not that detached to Indo either....*speaking of which kayaknya gua udah harus perpanjang SIM di indo...though ga nyetir as a good citizen gua masih punya en tetep perpanjang SIM all this while....see ?*

kok gua pulang Indo orang2 heran ? huuuu...
anyway : the reason why I go home is : I just need a good break
after musicals, wedding ...and another 4 project in the coming months waiting...
it's time to withdraw from the world and withdraw what's pouring from above

so see ya in a week
miss me...dont miss me... ur choice
bombie {=^o^=}

one day

2011-11-01T09:51:00.000-07:00

One day

on halloween 2011

me, david, owen

went to watch a movie

titled...

what else ?

"One day"

spoiler alert, felem ini quite draggy built up nya

but at the end the movie touched Owen, got David thinking, and made me lost for words quite a bit and then sleepless at nite...

intinya sama...it got me thinking...

thinking..... how painful it can be when you lost someone who has been that close to you, as close as husband and wife or lovers can be ?

gua .... thank God .... belon pernah rasain hal itu so far....

the closest to that feeling will be putus..betul ? dan gua jg belon pernah putus.... karena jadian aja belon... gimana putus ?

surely patah hati kagak bisa disamain sama the lost caused by death.....

if........just by watching a movie and see how close 2 human being can be, and then in less than 2 hours the built up of the movie made me fall in love to Anne's character named Emma, and then as expected she passed away suddenly and I felt the lost in my heart wanting her to be alive again, that it was just a twist, how then real lovers in real life ? Gimana coba rasanya keilangan ur lover ?

separation by death is indeed a very fearful powerful thing......that if we are not strengthen by Christ to move on........ life will be a sombre phase to live on....

belon jalanin....bayangin aja....gua cukup shaken... so jgn dibayangin now frens.......

if one day it has to come, grace and strength to carry on will be sufficient to us in Christ alone

right now..... let's just ..... LOVE & LIVE LIFE

bombie {=^o^=}

shalloww weeeennn

2011-10-30T10:12:00.000-07:00

heran.....

gw teh maless banget sm halloween... dress up gory gitu....

tp napa orang2 teh yah demen ?

pretty much things to be scared in real life....why look for elsewhere for gory stuffs ?

ya emang cuman gw kali yah ..... kuno gitu :P ... ga gaul.... :P

vocabularies of the day

2011-10-28T19:14:00.000-07:00

Happy = blogwalking to other ppl's blog yg makin rame recently :)

bingung = not knowing what to blog

sibuk = year end dateline, plus nekat performance in bank (yup me & kiyoko lulus audisi for ct got talent), plus margie's wedding, Nia's wedding, plus taiwan trip, plus TLG Danz commitment

capek = for a very surprisefull & very packed full dah pokoknya, end of year of 2011 (it started slow...peaceful.... then suddenly bam bam bam...... tadaaa !! ruameee kyk nano nano)

sedih = fact that Fabio mungkin migrate ke KL

looking forward = to Taiwan trip. For a rest, that I don't need to plan itinerary, that I just need to go and sit and MAKAN......(oh yah belon book Hongkong tiket....kerja lagi)

stress = belon diet buat kawinan Dede

hopeful = for recovery setelah sakit ampir sebulan (ashtma flu dan teman teman lainnya)

blessed = for opening my 30 ies with a blast like this year has been.... for being able to toss aside the worries that 20ies has..... for learning even closer that life is short and no other way to live it other than... LIVING IT IN FULLEST ABUNDANCE OF GRACE AND MERCY....for salvation that's coming nearer to home..... for friendships that bounds...for sisters in Christ that comforts....for brothers in Christ who protects.....for life with their ups and down.....

BLESSED = for living with a LIVING GOD

mungkin telat = for buffet treat from Shandy (go mandi now)

what's going on in here ?

2011-10-19T10:03:00.001-07:00

dan yg di atas tadi adalah phrase yg dibuat famous oleh Kevin.. anak yg jadi polisi di musical MP kiteee....anak yg RUAJIN en BAEK banget.... latian nari nonstop all the way....

anak yg gua sayang :) ehheheheheh :) kl liat dia latian ...suka mo nangis terharu :) ehheheeh:)

anyway ..postingan ini bukan soal Kevin...

tp gua cuman mo nanya .... what's going on in here that setelah musical.... perasaan gua belon sempet rest....and the next thing I know :

TADAAA..... October udah tanggal 20 !!!!!

aje gileeee...what happen in these 20 days seh benernya ?

Tuhannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.....apa yg terjadi pada diriku..... kenapa bentar lagi 30 ku berlalu ????

sekian....tell me... what's going on in here ?

bombie {=^o^=}

D & D-1

2011-10-11T02:50:00.000-07:00

That's what we called Sep 30 and Oct 1st' 2011......Been wanting to blog on what happen on D-1 and D day...... if there were most memorable moments nomination on MP journey.... these 2 days are definitely in, together with Dancers audition days, 1st Practice @ Beck's home, the first combined opening dance & music @ OHGS, the day when I finally cry it all @ OHGS, the mass dance practice on last Sunday Sep 25th, and last practice @ MPS

but for now : D-1 and D day wins them all, and here's what happen

D-1 : 30 September 2011

I took whole day leave. At first I need to arrive by 9 AM @ ACJC. But thank God, by Andri's grace he allowed me to arrive @ 10.00 AM.

Tetep gua bilang ke Andri that I'll try to come earlier than 10. But in the end, due to too much packing and preparation for D day, I slept late, got up late to a beautiful rainy day which should make me even harder to wake up supposedly, but due to much of the stress level I woke up just nice to make it to ACJC @...... 9.50 AM (later than what I promised earlier....around 9.30)

When I reached AC, anak2 props udah pada sampe semua lengkap sama SEMUA props on stage, demikian pula baju2 udah ada sampe.... salut sama dia orang.....pagi ajeee sampenya....wow....

Tp gara2 gua buru2 pagi itu, en coz of the woman's date that's getting nearer to my calendar, gua sakit perut sepanjang taxi. So gitu nyampe ACJC, say hi hi bentar.....taroh tas, and then gua langsung cari WC. Tapi ga dibuka.... panick.... gua cari si OM ACJC Shawn... minta dia bukain WC...

My first thing that I do in ACJC ? Boker :P ahhahahhah :p gw udah mo sms Gill, laporan kl sekali dateng gua udah mark teritory di tempat ini... by blessing them with my human pupuk. Parah :P ...

Gitu keluar dari WC, gua langsung disambut Glenn Mykey Venessa yg super high energy... they welcome me with CICI ..why u look so tired...... lah orang baru boker..... mana bokernya sampe melilit bener itu perut....gimana kagak lemesh ya tampang gua ? ahhahha

And .... sementara gua lemesh, they kept being so energized. By the time gua balik ke theatre, barang2 props di stage udah cukup ilang, and Andri & directors at AV room are trying on pre recorded songs like dugem and MRT. Shandy & Shella juga udah nyampe...

Since para directors in AV room played a lil bit of lighting on the stage..... Ga ba bi bu... dancers take on the stage (whatever area left for us to dance) and practice some moves. Kaki gua masih sakit by then so I do a little bit extra of warming up :) .... the rest of the dancers just move along the music while they were played.....en it seems like it kept on playing on loop.... capek jg benernya pagi2 langsung overdrive :P ......but Glenn.... was on HIGH energy ...

By the time they stopped with all the songs, we figure out we have nothing to do at theatre, so gua bawa dancers2 yg udah dateng ke bawah to show them backstage and tell them the dancers space. Waktu kita sampe di bawah, wardrobe crew were hanging up all the clothes to the hangers. Since my dancers were just sitting down doing nothing and wardrobe crew were left with 2 ppl hanging aaaaalllllllllll those clothes, gua minta (i.e merintah kali yah....hahahahha) dancers there to help hang all the clothes. With 5 additional man power added, kita berhasil gantung semua baju dengan cantik, arrange them in the girls name & dancing order, even sampe park the shoes nicely under the clothes. And then gua bilangin dancers lagi to chop their own mirror space and park our stuffs in our territory. Terus gua minta tolong Nessa & Shella to post dancers rule & blocking in dancers room.

By the time we did all of that it was already 12.20 PM.

Lunch break was supposed to be from 1 - 2 PM, tapi gua request ke Andri to release us early so we can come back early too. Since beneran dancersnya dah pada bengong....and what we do when we bengong ? most of the time..........langsung kagak focuss......

So we go for lunch by 12.30 PM. Kita makan di canteen nya AC. Dasar makanan skolah murah banget, Shandy ordered : chicken chop with wedges, nasi padang, and some more food. Gua makan nasi padang for 2.30 only.... nice !!! Milo peng was another legendary drink there and it's super shiok !! 1 bottle (600ml) for just 1.20......shiokkk :P

After the eating spree, shandy me shella nessa (mykey & glenn milih tidur di theatre instead of makan since dia orang udah makan paginya) balik ke theatre and I straight away head to dressing rooms with the girls to put on make up and do hair.

Soon other dancers slowly arrived. Gill nyampe and again the first thing she did....spray dressing room with her Cherry blossom perfume...... and then she did what I first did : boker !!!!! Wakakakaakaka. Buat mencegah wangi2 yg ga enak...dia bawa si perfume ke kamar mandi and semprot semprot disana.... Nah ini yg seru.... kita punya 2 shower room & 2 toilet in each of the dressing room. Tapi .....ada tapinya... ga ada pintu gede buat si toilet.... :P jadi toiletnya lumayan open concept.... whauheuaueaea....so kl boker yah ati2 aja deh sama baunya... pasti kena berkat harumnya dah yg kesisa di dressing roomnya .... hahhah

Dressing roomnya sendiri, yg kebagi 2 for girls & guys, ada 19 mirror on each room. Since dancers gua cuman 14 coz Jennita & Shandy itung cast juga, kebayang dong luxury kita yg ada EXTRA 5 mirror ? heheheheh :) and one LONG & BIG mirror di samping gantungan baju yg spaciousssssssssssssss.....honestly...AC lumayan ciamik lah backstagenya.... en each room is equipped with 2 TV to show what's going on at stage, and the best part...audionya nyala... :) ahhaah :) we didnt have such luxury during Naboeng :P

Anyway, waktu bergulir and dancers2 lain : Selvy, Daisy, Jenny, Jen Tjung (who skipped her class) mulai berdatengan around 2 PM. Gitu sampe, semua dancers I ask them to put on make up and do hair right away. Jen Tjung di bantuin sama Nessa yg sampe ngambil posisi tiduran ala cleopatra di dressing table just to help Jen with her make up..... hahahahah......saking keasikan dia orang sempet break satu bohlam di dressing tablenya.... buru2 kita buang tuh bohlam, and Nessa took picture of the moddle and series buat ganti exactly the same bohlam the next day. Sambil dandan, miss Gill yg doyan bener music ( gua notice dari taon ini waktu kita leaders retreat, Mrs Praptana suka geber music pake HP nya di pagi2.......ahhahhha) minta diputerin lagu sambil kita dandan. Ga tanggung2 gua puterin....BURLESQUE theme songs.... ciss...... darah showmanship dancers pada gua bakar pake lagu gituan....berasa beneran di dressing room kayak pelem2 (aih norak)...make up pada berani tebel semua langsung... HAHAHAHA....

By 15.30 PM kita udah pada siap with hair & make up and Jawa costume, and director udah minta kita mulai with practice on stage

The practice was kind of detaileeeeeeddddddddddd ajehhhh........so much so detailed that latian buat babak 1 doang went aaaaallllllll the way to 6.30 pm. Although by then semua dancers udah dateng....(was quite happy with the early arrival of them) We still have not touched on act 2 yet and we still dreamed on running full dress rehearsal...

Nah kl udah latian gini... kita most of the time pasti ada timeline nya dunk ? en kl based on Naboeng..timeline kita pasti LARI semua.... alias kata let's play by ear di hari H nya nanti.... kl menurut timeline...by jam 2 - 6 kita udah harusnya selesai lighting & blocking practice.... en then kita dinner and straight away full run...

but see where we where then at 6.30 PM ? gua cukup yakin saat itu kl kita ga bakal run full dress again this time around... like .. mana mungkin cuy with our musical being longer than Nasi Boengkoes ?

So by then, with stomach starts growling, food was no where to be smell, and Act 2 untouched , if u ask me I am super pessimistic that we can clean a full dress rehearsal that day and get out by 11.00 PM.

But gua salut sama siapapun jg yg come out with the next action plan...... manteb !!!

Directors release us by 6.30 PM for dinner, to come back by 7.05PM. Dinner kita was not packed per box so kita mesti ngantri lagi buat ambil makanan, another frustration of mine. I hands on and help shove the rice then continue to eat with thunder speed, we did our best to finish asap... but in the end kita mulai2 lagi sekitar 7.15 PM.

Terus Andri's kasih direction : we'll practice act 2 till 7.50 PM, secepatnya.... By 7.50 PM we'll go down dressed up, and at 8 PM, we'll run FULLY Full dress rehearsals NON STOP like the actual day.

Pessimist tetep kl kita bisa mulai jam 7.50 PM. True enough, kita mulai full dress rehearsals at 8.10 PM. When the full dress rehearsal start, that's when I start to feel a little disbelief that hey..... we are running full dress rehearsal..... literally running it NON STOP just like how it's gonna be tomorrow, just exactly what we need to do right here....right now !!!! WOW .... sedikit serrrrr.... we are running....wooo :p something we missed to do on our 1st musical trial..... kl kata principalnya Glee seh : Achievement ?!?!?!?! ehhehehehe :) indeed it was a betterment

When we run the full dress, ada beberapa usher & crew lain yg duduk nonton. Iot was there taking pictures .... GREAT pictures I must say... aih Iot ane mah bangga punya temen kayak loe ;) heuehauheu :) biar kata kursi2 pada kosong.....lumayan berasa gimana rasanya tomorrow will be....

Selama full dress berlangsung, though kita harus ganti baju back stage and for that harus naek turun tangga, I dont feel the urgent pressing need of time... berasa kayak normal latian di MPS aja....waktunya jalan normal2......

contrary to Nasi Boengkoes yg waktu latian aja kita udah HEBOH hectic bener ganti bajunya dikejar kejar waktu and space ....dont say on D day... haywire.... kl sepatu aja biar nyasar ke sound system....yah El ? hauehauuahuhau *super sweet memory*

but as the nite go on... ga tau pengaruh kurang tidur....apa gara2 pake make up dari siang gua jadi capek .....pala gua makin malem makin pusing... hajar tolak angin pun ga nolong....yg nolong benernya harusnya seh panadol...but gua kagak bawa si panadol :P

so waktu gua lagi nunggu buat nongol for battle scene... entah napa itu badan capekkkk banget.. di backstage gua cuman mau tidur benernya kl bisa.... gua merem aja all the while... berasa busyettttt.... ini lama amattttt yah latiannya...

mana sebelomnya pas anak2 nanya...ci ada intermission ga ? gua sok yakin ngejawab kl ga bakal ada intermission soalnya kita mulai latian aja 8.10 PM.....EH...tiba2 Andri announce kl bakal ada intermission 15 menit......kita bener2 latianin si 15 menit itu btw.... gua bingung jg.... lah emang we have the luxury of time kah ? maklum lagi joget ga boleh bawa jam tangan cuy.....

so anyway...masuk ke babak 2 yg dibuka sama MRT dance....sempet ada kejadian cukup ricuh.... salah satu kita ga dapet majalah yg harusnya udah siap buat MRT scene dance.. gaswat... since itu full run kita jg ga boleh teriak WAITTT STOPPP majalah.... !!! kita cuman silent wagging and screaming ke props team... majalahhhhhhh majalahhhhhhhh kurang satu !!! bahaya.... suara Satria dah nongol euy..... bentar lagi pintu MRT naek.... yah worst come to worst gua pikir no majalah sampe besok loh...

Suddenly bagai kegelapan petir malem......dedenya Billy & Debby..yg sampe sekarang gua susah bener inget namanya....(so sorryyy)...... lari dari belakang and pass the magazine terus flash out like black thunder.....feel like a super props hero team......gua cukup IMPRESSED with his initiative & speed !! terharu.... kl itu interview kerja.. confirm dia gua HIRED !!!

yah lanjut balik ke battle scene... dimana gua nunggu en kepala makin pusing ga karuan..... en gua nanya ke Gill bawa panadol ga and Gill jg ga ada....gua titip besok buat bawain panadol soalnya gua ga pulang malem itu...

entah kenapa battle scene malem itu set my blood super boiling.... selama latian kita udah mulai bener....tapi sekali lg malem itu... music buat battle masuknya lebih cepet lagi...making gank antonio belon sempet stand on the right blocking en dah mulai nari.... en the best part....bukan salah Gill... tapi karena satu dan lain hal pala gua sempet mencium paha Gill alias kata kena tendang......di tengah kepusingan kepala gw... Gill sampe sorry abis itu..... tapi gara2 gua udah keburu bete sama si music.....pala gw yg pusing en kena goyangan dasyat itu jd ga berasa apa2 banding betenya gua saat itu...

ga tau napa waktu itu gua sampe.....eerrrggghhh gemeshhh banget mo protes en minta ulang lagi sama music team... kayak pengen teriak... CUT !!! repeat.... off course kagak bisa .... :P

yah.... roll roll roll...not long.... we finish full dress..... WE FINISH FULL DRESS !!! aaarrrrggghhh....kebetean gw cukup sirna sesaat inget the new mile stone we achieve in our 2nd attempt doing musical...

time left : 15 mins to clear the hall.... langsung all dancers balik bawah, park baju kita balik nicely at the dress hanging bar, and shoes under each own table, pack pack pack... keluar by 11 PM..... *when I look back at dancers room.....I'm happy........ it was NEAT & NICE :)*

Then kita briefing di luar theater. 11.15 PM, everyone is released. Iot ketemu gua en bilang: nice bomb :P.... gua bingung antara percaya ato ngerasa dikasianin.......kadang kuping tuh susah percaya that it's nice... honestly..... yah gua ga nonton mana tau nice or not yah kan ? cuman yah gua thank you in aja and hoping so much things will be better tmrw....u noe perfectionist ?? en Iot give honest feedback jg bilang kl kita kecapean on Act 2....it all shows up...... true ...gua pusing remember ? kena tendangan tanpa bayangan pula... en bete sama music dah bikin gua....ahhhh..males dah....

I prayed hard my mood will not be affected like that tmrw.... gua compose myself and talk to Ceka, set some code on timing tmrw.. then hati cukup damai abis itu....

Then we go home... When we walked out... Raimond bilang ke Gill....untung rumah kita deket yah.... puji Tuhan... then Gill bilang : tanya dong bombie tinggal mana ? Mana bomb ? ....gua tunjuk : tuh sebrang....one north....jalan kaki 15 menit sampe dari AC..keliatan tinggi menjulang....

So basically gua udah plan buat tinggal di rumah Kaoru malem itu... since besoknya kita harus sampe di AC jam 9 pagi....cukup kejam Serangoon AC dikejar jam 9 pagi.......so gua udah minta Kaoru izin jauh2 buat tinggal, buat pinjem hair dryer, anduk, piama....etc.... Kaoru bilang okie ......dia bilang just come anytime Ci....

okie...so gua dadagh dadagh sama all dancers.... sahhhh gaya....jalan ke depan nyebrang....pas gitu gua call Kaoru... ga ada yg angkat... call sekali lagi....dia angkat... wah...dari suaranya kedengeran udah tidur si Kaoru... oh no.... mana gua perlu keramas pula that nite...kl gua hairdryeran di studio si Kaoru which mean satu kamar gede tanpa batesan pintu yg isinya ada 3 mahluk yg dah teler semua...gimana ? Kaoru bilang gapapa Ci....just come....

okie deh gua lanjut jalan sampe di bawah rumahnya...then gua sms... no reply.... sms lagi...no reply lagi... so gua mulai telpon.....telpon...... telpon lagi....en teleponnnnn lagi... sampe pusing gua dari ada sampe makin ilang......25 menit berlalu....gua sampe duduk di trotoar diliatin satpam en residence yg pada pulang...

akhirnya gua nyerah gua sms Kaoru bilang I will go home.... walk back cari taxi.... pulanglah gua ke serangoon......tadaaaaa :P

garink abis emang but it's definitely a wiser option to go home daripada brisikin mereka...and when I reach home jg gua langsung berasa bebas gitu so I move faster to clean up and get to bed......and gua bisa tinggalin barang2 nginep gua yg notabene...berat :P yah... I'm happy I went home... familiar with my bed...

terus jam 1 AM just when I was about to go to sleep...kaoru telp :) ahhahahah .... say sorry :) so funny...gua seh ketawa2 aja...kasian dia feel so guilty..

anyway....even though this is like 2nd musical and I should be familiar with stuffs......that I'll probably be sleepless and easy to wake up..... tetep aja gua berasa kayak bakal telat dateng ke AC .....

But then....ternyata..... jam 7 pagi....alarm belon bunyi gua udah TRENG !! terang mata en seger:P gua paksain tidur tiduran bentar sampe udah deket timingnya baru gua jalan.. we're supposed to reach AC by 9....dan gua sampe 8.45 AM..

sampe sana, Andri & Eggie & Glenn....DAH SAMPE !! beneran si Glenn sempet Mac Donald breakfast sama Eggie....superb Bukit Batok Brotherhood :P padahal malemnya gua udah mo taroan kl dia ga bisa bangun pagi gitu.... ga disangka sangka..... :P hebat *tepok tangan*

en yg udah disana jg.... Wi In... dedenya Wina.... to me she's the best make up artist in town :) hehehehe :) gua cocok banget sama make up nya Wi In dah :) love it so much :) gua contact Wi In for last minute help buat keritingin rambut anak2 dancers.

Since kita bisa masuk AC jam 9 pagi, gua langsung do my hair at 9 di dressing rooms. Jadwal gua jam 9.30 benernya...but I thot let's save some time.... pas jam 9 tepat di AC tuh kayak kena guyur badai...ujan GUEDE :P gelap bener langit... so yg seharusnya pada dah dateng jam 9 pagi, pada kagak nongol.... yah gua pikir gapapa lah ujan... anyway gua udah consen sama rambut gua jg...

sekitar 9.15 am udah pada nongol dah manusia2.... Wi In selesai keriting gua jam 9.30, langsung gua oper next Gill. Other dancers gua minta diem dulu or warm up or stretch or...basically jangan wandering around ga jelas lah.... sambil nungguin Ci Ida dateng buat keriting dancers laennya...

by jam 12 siang...most of the dancers dah pada kribo......yg belom dateng tinggal Jen Tjung...some dancers bahkan udah di lenongin mukanya sama team lenong martha tilaar... honestly.....we're pretty much ahead of time... so kita makan siang...nasi goreng dari indo padang...

selesai makan siang......baru most of the dancers lanjut dilenongin mukanya....

sekarang gua baru bisa jawab jujur kl benernya gua AMAT takut sama make up dari Indo......awalnya... :P soalnya gua pernah di make up in sama team Indo jg en jadinya gua cina bener .... itu di IAF taon 2003.....aih gilee serem dah kl liat fotonya jg.......so gua cukup was was sama team MT kali ini...

tp waktu dia orang trial muka Daisy & Tania yg pertama kali gua send pergi make up....... slowly gua cukup ditenangkan ngeliat at leasttt.... mereka ga bikin muka yg model chinaaaa abis :P

so after lunch, gitu ada chance gua langsung duduk minta didandanin.... ada 2 orang make up artist... dua2nya okie tapi somehow gua ga mo kl dikasih warna kuning di mata gua.... en gua masih agak fail to recognize yg mana yg pake warna kuning di muka... jadi gua cross fingers aja waktu duduk minta dandan....moga2 bukan dia aja :P

thank God .... gua dapet orang yg tepat... yg waktu dia layer the make up slowly....I have to say I was at ease...and very happy indeed.... looks cool colourful and pretty ...orang yg sama yg dandanin Gill jg... en Gill jg demen sama si mbak kita...

by 3.30 most of the dancers are done with make up semua... MT team ini yah ... MUANTEB ABIS !! palagi si mas rambut kite... satu orang dia hajar rambut semua dancers di handle sama dia.. aje gilee mass... cepet bener pula dia kerjanya... Team si Julien yg lbh banyak waktu itu aja ga ada apa apanya sama dia dah !!! saluttttt abis

sambil kita dandan di bawah...yg di atas tetep latian full di stage.. sapapun yg selesai make up naek ke atas latian..... so sekitar 4 PM udah pada latian full semua..

at this hour gua inget lari larian siapin bakul dancers sama roti rotian Manda. Stage and backstage Gill yg in charge...

so waktu si bakul beres, gua ikutan latian di stage yg waktu itu udah battle dance....kita masih betulin diri kita... I remember one point dimana semua orang ngomong and dancers pada goyang2 ga jelas di stage yg bikin off course hati gua panas... so keluarlah hardikan terakhir.... DANCERS !!! Stop moving .... be SERIOUS pls ......

effectively....mereka diem....en kita progress... sorry if I need to do that dancers...but time were crucial and I believe our musical is not a game to play.... yah ...anyway.....I dont regret being harsh when required on the right time

jam 5...latian selesai...kumpul semua for briefing......then we go for dinner...

selesai dinner ... maybe 5.45 PM kita kumpul lagi di stage...lalu kami berdoa bersama semua.. gabung tangan ke tengah...and then BERSERAH :)

then all the haywire at backstage happen...ganti baju ... pemanasan... siap sana siap sini ....as explain in the previous entry....

what happen during the musical... mostly udah gua ceritain semua di previous entry... yg kurang gua sebut perhaps are just this :

1> martha tilaar team yg cuman 6 orang aja .... berhasil touch up, ganti rambut, ganti lipstick, pasang glitter, ganti eye shadow colour sodara2....to around 38 cast members in total... SALUT GA SEH ? gua seh beneran.... terharu deh dapet dia orang... HEBAT abis !!!! asli...gua sukaaaa banget team dia orang yg waste no time..

2> banding ruang cast, ruang dancers itu kayak spa... sepi tenang sepoi2....ga havoc or haywire... gua bahkan sempet collect all valuablesnya anak2 and kumpulin in my bag, lalu di lock... all dancers baju accessories semua rapihhhhh di meja masing.... during performance no screaming no running ... everything....in order....

siangnya gua cukup kasian ruangan kita ga lively....ga kayak ruang cast, coz all the make up artist are there... so havoc and heboh di backstage cast room dong..... gua cukup kasian sm dancers2 yg ... pengen heboh hebohan jg dung pastinya....

gua seh seneng sm ruangan kita yang serene peaceful gitu... belon tentu dia orang iyah kan...

tapi dari sore ke malemnya.... I'm totally happy that ruangan kita in a very good order.... en tenang gitu... sampe2 cast member yg mo latian pada dateng ke ruangan kita buat concentrasi... I'm very happy with the ambience... with the commitment level and the profesionalism going around in the room... I feel like a professional performing...I really hope my dancers can feel the seriousness level too...

saking tenangnya sampe gua bisa : lipet en rapihin semua baju, barang, and sepatu gua sebelom curtain call.....and I look around the room, kagak berantakan :) baju2 dancersnya jg rapih.... each individual... :) THANK YOU DANCERS !!! SO PROUD of u all.... really !!!!!

3> di backstage ada TV yg sorot stage... so whoever backstage pada bisa nonton semua... and that's a very good thing :) si willy, raimond ...tiap kali kita turun en ganti baju...the adrenalin rush was really there...kita bahkan sempet tos tosan... encourage each other... turun disorakin... hahahahah :P lucu seh ... tapi berasanya.... ARRRGGGHHH ..gimana gitu *neh gua merinding lag*.... kayak...aaaa we're doing good job...

harusnya gua udah mention semua ....

and by 10 plus plus... we are done....

WE ARE DONE.......

the curtain calls

the lights are off....

and my body was TOTALLY tired by 11 PM..

so we went home..

on HIGH....

very HAPPY...

esp : El bilang bagus .... en gua percaya El..

my cousins are all entertained....

Nchep & Jenita maen MANTEB abis ...

en battle dance gua en Gill okie bener

most importantly.....

GOD IS GLORIFIED.....

lights off....

by D :)

see u in 2 years

On prettttt, tess, miracle, time, award and gifts

2011-10-03T07:03:00.000-07:00

Dan

Kuyakin

Semua kan indah

Pada akhirnya

Tiada ragu

Tiada bimbang

Ku melangkah dengan pasti

Demi .... Cinta

above is a line from a song of "Mencari Putri The Musical"

a line that works to me, just like how "you raise me up" works to Maharani Aprilin

each time I remember this... my eyes starts to get watery...

Yup... TLG has just finished our 2011 musical last Saturday Oct 1' 2011, and following the history I did 2 years ago, I blogged the journey right away the following monday...

but it will not be a super long blog entry like what I have 2 years ago... becoz this musical .... is to me : short & sweet...

So let's talk about pretttttttttttttt

what's that ?

Benernya itu adalah paduan suara kentut gua, eggie and gillian sastra yg hiding behind close doors before the musical starts. Jadi ceritanya kita berempat kedapetan tugas buat bagi2 anduk kecil to open the show, dari bangku penonton. So kita sembunyi dulu di satu ruangan yg ga lewat dari 2 x 2 meter, berempat, nungguin waktu masuk.

Ga tau gara2 makanan, or gara2 kita nervous, semua jadi sakit perut and mo kentut kentutan. Jadilah kita berempat minta maap, minta izin dan tanpa malu2 mengenduskan zat asam ke udara luar. To avoid 4 of us fainting from the poisonous gas, kita buka pintu en julurin pantat kita tiap kali kita mo kentut... en stilll... masih belon mulai2 si Willy.....

Thank God, kentut kita berenti when the pre-recorded MC start, and so far belon ada penonton yg protes nyium zat asam kita yang....bueh.... wangi bener :)

AHHAHAHHAHAHHAA edan semuaaaaa.... gua ga bakal lupa choir kentut kita.... or how close we are that kentut pun bukan masalah lagi :P *apa zaman udah berubah ? *

yg kasian : Shandy yang kagak kentut sama sekali tapi nyium zat asam kita dimana mana :) HAHAHA :P maap Shan....sehat kok kentut kita :)

Now on Tesssssss

Tesssss .... are my tears...

Tears yang ampir ga bisa gua bendung before the musical start. It was around 6.45 pm on D day, and I was thinking it's time for us to do one last warm up and loosen up. Willy and the rest of the cast nyanyi2 di luar, so as a dancer I believe it's appropriate for us to warm up & stretch. Lagi tengah jalan warm up, Ieie dateng en manggil yg jualan dari arah penonton (the kentut choir group) buat siap2 jalan ke hiding place saat itu jg, or we'll loose our chance to walk from there.

Di tengah2 shocknya gua antara : hah pagi banget ngumpetnya..masih banyak orang yg masih di luar ga seru dong kl liat, to wadoh keranjang belanjannya masih di belakang casts yg lagi pada warm up, ga enak ati kl ngambil... it got down to me on one point....

sampe di detik itu, ga sekalipun gua lepas anak2 dancers gua sendirian.... I watch over them (I know I over watch sometimes, sampe kayak discipline master), keep scolding them to keep quiet, keep calming them, keep giving them orders on what to do next, here and there... every little thing.... gua cerewettt abis...

that moment, I realise....will be my final moment with them before we meet again on stage.... (kayak lama aja... padahal 45 menit kemudian kita bakalan ketemu lagi di panggung betul ?)......

di saat itu, for a moment gua almost lost my cool.......I'm lost...feel like : gilee si ini and si itu masih belon bener, adoh si ono tau ga seh dia nari nyante bener.... ini dia orang udah siapin semua barang belon seh ? seriously... siap ga seh mentalnya ...masih cekakak cekikik kanan kiri..kl ganggu cast gimana.....kl yg laen bete ama dia orang gimana ? adoh ...adoh...dag ...dig...dug.... *en Ieie keep caling...*

when I start collecting myself again, I call of them to round up in circles, together with Gill, we give the authority to Selvi and Daisy to take charge, tell them we wont be with them anymore till the show start..... and I gave them my last order....

Hampir..... hampir....

Hampir aja semua make up gua yg ruame kayak lenong si jali jali pas ulang taon jakartee....or kayak xmas tree..... plus bulu mata palsu yg total 3 (2 atas 1 bawah) luntur saat itu, coz I was REALLY working hard in my heart with ALL energy that I have to hold my tears.....

They will be alone back stage........ huaih....rasanya mo lepas mereka kayak....OMG.... I'm so scarred yet so excited for you.... this is your time...this is your moment to experience how GREAT is our God ....... what if you guys are lost ? will u be okay without us ? if I have the time: I want to HUG THEM ONE BY ONE

So I do what I can do best, kumpul tangan ke tengah (nahanin nangis padahal) and we scream : MP DANCERS FOR GOD !!! Then I walk away surrendering to God above... all my kids.....

I wont forget those moment when I walk away...it reminds me how painful, excited & proud it is for parents to let go their children and see them growing up & owning up their life.... That was me....to a child not my own, getting closer to them in just 5 months time....

how ....would a parent feel ?

anti climaxnya: setelah haywire kita siap2 to hide in.... ternyata ga jadi.... so we have another half an hour...and I GOT TO MEET MY KIDS AGAIN.... HAHAHHA :P *lucu ini*

ga ada yang tau anyway kl gua udah mo nangis saat itu kan ? ahhahhhah :P good... thank God gua kagak nangis.... malu bener udah nangis2 terus... Guys... I'm back..... let's do jumping jack again ... 1...2... asli anti climax.....

so when I'm back in the room, I suddenly go back to my game mode....and .... marah2 lagi :) ahhahaha :) pemanasan lanjut.... order sana order sini..... seperti biasanya gua... feeling like I am given another half an hour to support & guide them...

and the best moment that I'm so glad that we are given the privilege and time to do before the musical : a joint prayer by dancers (inclusive of kevin, jason. mardian, eggie, yohanes) surrendering the next 2.5 hours unto His mighty hands....dan sekali lagi.....ampirlah gua tessssssss....... cuman skali lagi.... ga ada yg tau juga kan ? puji Tuhan....

so yeah....that's my tessssss story

Now on miracle

Many of the musical crew know and notice my left knee...

Gua ga tau gimana kejadiannya, tapi yg pasti di latian hr minggu 25 September somehow knee kiri gua keplitek.....bilang keseleo full yah nggak... tapi sakit seh sakit... ga bisa full power dah intinya....

Aneh... asli aneh... coz hari minggu itu gua ga macem2... everything was okay....tapi senen paginya waktu bangun...wadaow..kok ga bener yah... jadi weak dah pokoknya...

en selama seminggu terakhir kita latian...gua ga berani over exert myself for this left knee (sampe hari ini) masih ga gitu beres...

tadinya gua diemin aja.... with faith : pasti sembuh dah di berapa hari jg... counter pain pun gua kagak pake...urut jg ga karena takut gua salah urut...

sampe hari udah ganti jadi rabu, terus kamis....lah kok masih sakit yah.... bsk jumat... pegimana ini ? mana gaya pas battle en MRT butuh si kaki kiri ini buat strong bener pula...

Lalu jumat dateng pas gladi resik... en knee gua masih sakit... Since gua on leave that day, gua telp Selvi titip beli knee guard di watson.... puji Tuhan tiba2 gua jadi inget ankle guard gua merek apa dulu, jadi gua minta Selvi beli knee guard yg sama mereknya : FUTURO

Selvi udah beli...gua pake seharian on Friday.... Nolong, tapi tetep ga sembuhin *nah sekarang gua bingung fungsi si knee guard benernya apa ?*

And you know the best part yg gua bener2 kuatir benernya ? Backstagenya ACJC itu di bawah. Samalah kayak NAFA....bedanya cuman satu.. NAFA ada lift... kita primitip pake kaki...and dancer tiap kali ganti baju itu di bawah.... so bayangin berapa kali kita nari....yah berapa kali itulah kita naek turus tangga.... (6 kali)

Definitely it doesn't do good to a knee that's not functioning well..... di hari jumat kita udah lari kayak wus wus .... nah begimana hari sabtu ? Gua cukup ketar ketir... gimana yah besok....I want to dance full power tapi ini kaki bisa support ga yah ?

Saturday arrive... MASIH...sakit... sampe Nchep nanya gimana ci kakinya ? Gua bingung jg gimana jawabnya.... kl udah gini gua bisa gimana yah ? ga ada quick fix....kl pusing bisa panadol-an... kl sakit leher bisa tolak anginan... kl keleyengan bisa pocari & vitamin C an... kl kaki gini ? bisa diapain selaen tumpang tangan ?

hebatnya lagi gua pas lagi sabtu pagi sempet lari2 naek tangga en...jatoh di kaki yg lain.... jago kan ? knee kiri sakit...knee kanan mo dibonyokin jg.....

singkat cerita...kaki gua masih sakit sampe sebelon acara dimulai...but somehow along the show, it's either rasa sakitnya benernya masih ada but I was over excited sampe I don't feel it, or it was totally gone....

point is: I felt no pain.... all the way... sampe selesai musical Nchep nanya lagi : kaki Cici gimana Ci ? gua bener bingung, kaki apa yah ? Yang tadi sakit itu..... OOOHHH.... ga tau napa Nchep tiba2 sembuh gitu aja... ga sakit lagi .... lalu gua gerak gerakin tuh kaki... bener kagak sakit en luwes luwes aja...

Amazed ? U don't ? well I AM TOTALLY AMAZED till this moment, dimana ini kaki udah balik sakit lagi.... but only on those 2.5 hours I needed the most....faith survived and faith win...

Faith that somehow......God will deal with this knee.... while I'm focussing on doing nothing but : dance it out.....

That was over Miracle I received..

Now over time...

Di minggu2 terakhir menjelang musical...tiba semua casts member cewek pada dapet semua. Dari Jennita sampe Janette... dan gua....yang udah cek tanggal, doa kenceng biar cepet dapet bulan....eh kagak dapet2....

masalahnya, gua tau jelas di bulan Agustus gua dapet tanggal : 31 coy !!! jadi kl perhitungan primbon jawa.... kagak meleset jauh lah dari tgl 30 - 1 october...gua bakal ketemu si bulan....Jackpot.... dhuar !!!

And for guys who cannot understand the emotion & pain level involved in having this akibat dosa hawa.... percaya aja sama kita2 that it is.... horrible condition...

after imagining that...coba bayangin lagi dapet....terus harus jejungkir balikan plus ngesot ala batle dance.... uhuy !!! ciamik abis sakitnya...... bedehhh :P

so....all the way gua cekinnn terus itu agenda...plus doaaa terus......cepet dapet donk... en again for guys who don't understand.... bulan itu adalah penyakit menular.... jadi kl satu cewek itu tend to get close to another woman....siklus bulan mereka bisa berinteraksi....

so then when I share that gua belon dpt2...gw lupa sapa yg ngomong, Cilla apa Jennita.. yah Cici tau gitu aku tularin waktu itu .... ini aku lagi dapet..... hebat yah bulan aja bisa ditularin.... emang wanita...segala cara jg halal dah demi nyepetin /lamain si bulan :) ahhaha :)

tp off course gua ga tempuh cara tidak halal seperti minum pil penghambat / pencepat penghancuran sel darah di dinding rahim wanita... jangan geli atuh sodara2...ini teh biologi kelas 2 SMA....

what I do is again, berdoa and bargain sama Tuhan... Tuhan..kl bisa cepetan yah ? kl ga cepetan yah tanggal 2 October lagh Bapa... jangan 1 aja...pokoknya jangan 1 dunk Tuhan... pls pls pls ?

Sampe Jumat.. masih belon dapet........ okie dah... pikir kl Sabtu hari pertama masih okie lah... selama kagak hari kedua ajah dapetnya... hari pertama or ketiga itu cukup aman terjaga deh lingkungan....

cuman yah the best kl bisa jangan dapet jg dunk di hari sabtu...

so Saturday come... kl digambarin perut gua itu kayak ada geledek gitu... yg cewek2 biasa tau deh si geledek perut yg menemani kedatangan bulan... nah sabtu pagi itu geledeknya dah berkicau.... was was dunk... ini mah alamat hujan badai bentar lagi.....

sampe musical ends : BERSIH sodara sodara.... tadaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! si bulan nyasar kemana tau ....

en then minggu pagi... jeger... meledak lah dam di perut gua....SAYA DAPAT BULAN !! uhuy !!!

Tuhan emang ciamik dah... His time is pristine purfect !! ada amen sodara2 ? *yakin gua yg cewek 100 % Amen !!)

mungkin ini aneh, but I always have issues with bulan and time.... but I have witnessed with my own body how God press paused and it stops ...and He press play...and it plays... if a woman over 12 years of bleeding problem touched Jesus rope and she was instantly healed.... I believe my blood flow is no challenge for Him :)

Now over award

after the show....banyak yang feedback mereka demen MRT dance. I choreo the dance without knowing how the dance will work in the end...

Some of you know that I go for classes at Jitterbug, and jauh sebelon choreo2 kita jadi, each week I suppy the dancers with what I learned at Jitter. Dari on the floor, sampe si chillin chillin.. (oh I miss those momentsssss ....aaaaaaa)

Automatically, banyak choreo2 di musical kali ini was cut copy pasted and editted from those movement... these applies to dugem and battle. Honestly si om yg ngajarin hip hop ini ..... gayanya somehow gua suka... emang dia kadang rese :P ahhaah :) but gua cukup cocok sama style dia.... remember that should be me El ? heheheh :)

But MRT dance... was one dance where I don't take anything from the movements I learned from si Om.... I can only say, this dance is holy spirit inspired, and for the joint part dimana kita dance rame2 buat MRTnya, it was choreographed SO FAST that I couldn't believe : hey IT'S DONE !! Hanya satu siang di OHGS setelah gua selesai kerja di hari sabtu, ga lebih dari 1.5 or 2 jam.... I really could not believe it till today.

Yg sitting down part, it took couple of days for me at home to finish it as we need 3 sets of movement and 3 sets of role to play. So it was kind of tricky.

Battle, dugem, smile dan yg lain lainnya took couple of trials to make. But MRT took nothing more than 2 hours. Gua inget ngomong ke Gill, dance MRT yg rame dah jadi, gua bisa ajarin besok (dgn cukup ga percaya dalem ati benernya)

Let's talk about the music of this dance. I know that Ceka is super stressed with this MRT song. Terbukti dengan marah marahnya dia di akhir2 musical yg bilang : ga ada, 2 taon lg ga ada bikin2 lagu hip hop.... aaaarrrggghhhhh....

Tp dance ini ga akan keren kl musicnya ga keren. And I will never get the inspired movement kl musicnya ga inspiring. Though the pilot song was not the final best result, it got me moving. As days gone by, dengan Ceka perfecting the song *sambil diancem ancem gua..... satronin rumah ceka sampe jam 11 malem....... en demanding banyak beat sana sini.....sok toy....kaypoh...dan lain lainnya.....maap Ceka*.....the final result of the song is to me.... is a Perfect match with the dance.... and for me : this is by far Ceka best work in hip hop song :) EHHEHEHEHEH :) Don't give up Cek... 2 taon lagi kita bikin hip hop song lagi atuh :)

So all the award that goes to this collaboration of MRT dance should go to no other one than the Inspirer : GOD :) He overcomes our expectation, infused me with movement that I don't need to rely on the power of man (si uncle hip hop) but relying on Son of God Himself, and I believe He put the beat in Ceka's mind, and He granted the idea to Felix.

This award goes to HIM and Him alone :)

Lastly....over reward.

Yg sering baca blog gua would know that I have bought a home on August 22nd' 2011.

Di tengah2 sibuk2nya musical, gua sempet squeeze in some time to see, decide and clear the paper works to buy the home...... September 2011 was indeed : MADNESS.

and for those who bought home before will know the HYPE and excitement of : buying ur first home :) aaaaarrrrrgggggghhhh .... bahagianya itu kayak.... I don't know how to describe it...... the gratefulness for a wonderful gift is ... amazing...

Selesai gua beli rumah di tanggal 22 August itu, that was the first week dimana kita mulai latian gabungan Musical...which was sooo hectic......so even though I was so excited, I didn't have the time think about it much...

On one YRC service after I bought the home, He simply give me this message:

"This home is my gift for you. You take care over my business through this musical, and I'll take care over yours. I am your provider and I will provide" langsung air mata gua kejerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ga karuan....

What have I given to God through this musical ? It was only time, commitment, practice hours, .....anyone could do it... I don't think what I have given to God is equivalent to the price of the house. To certain extent as seen in my earlier blog, and as what I have curhatted to El....I feel like quitting this musical.... I just want to : runaway... let Gill handle all.. my commitment was not the best.... if I must say... worst than the commitment I gave to Naboeng...

I should be ashamed shouldn't I ? I should... but I know well I'm imperfect. He knows far too well that I am super broken goods ... but this broken goods want to give everything that's left unbroken in her to the hands of the Potter for Him to fix.

In exchange...He gave her a home....

this fixed goods is forever grateful....

Above is my story on how my life was changed dramatically over this musical..... over prett, tess, miracle, time, award and the gifts

and to close :

dan kuyakin semua kan indah pada akhirnya

tiada ragu tiada bimbang ku melangkah dengan pasti...

demi.... Cinta

bombie {=^o^=}

Finding Princess

2011-09-19T08:56:00.000-07:00

is not easy..

yup... it's not easy to find this princess...

for to find her ...

I have....lost a lot of hours of my life for practice practice and practice....and then some more practice

not to mention wasting time doing something I'm totally not good at : making Hip Hop music....*alamak*

alot of sleeping time for it's practically making me sleepless.....

literally lost my DKNY watch and my Esprit umbrella *mourning badly for them now*

and the best :

I have lost my power to hold my tears of frustration... and for the first time ever in the musical history...I cried before the time came for me to cry.......

yeah....

I don't know why is it so hard to find this princess....

perhaps though

it was probably that hard for Him to find me then ....

that He lost His life....

for me to finally found mine....

I guess...... for all that we've lost..

we will finally find ..... princess

and it will worth every sacrifices

and when we remember that....

we'll be......EXCITED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bombie {=^o^=}

Babies

2011-09-14T06:28:00.000-07:00

This year, I'm surrounded by many newborns of my girls
Mulai dr Lie Mei, Lydia, and recently Dian. Joining the crowd, Soyfan and Zoe's baby.

Today gw br buka lagi bengawan solo voucher dr Lydia and sioe hong. Br gw liat the amazing things of these babies.
You know how I love numbers right ? So these babies have chosen the best set of numbers that I can easily remember :

Allyson (Lyhong) :born on 11.02.2011
Keith (Fondi) : born on 2.9 at 4.29 PM
Anya (Sof Zoe) : born on 4.9.11 at 11.49 AM

Babies... U guys are cool !! Hehehehe
(erm....gw ga tau gw born jam berapa... Coz my parents jg ga tau... HAHAHAHAH)

dear blog

2011-09-11T10:46:00.000-07:00

banyak banget yg mo gua kasih tau you oh my dear blog....

esp setelah baca ulang postingan2 dulu...

aih blog....andai kau tahu apa yg sudah terjadi sepanjang taun ini....

eh...wait...u actually know the most blog... banding yg lain

the year that I thought will be pretty boring...not bad...but not so "happening"

turns to be a WOW WOW year....

sabar yah blog....tunggu musical selesai I ceritain .... coz musical jg mungkin jadi another wow wow story sendiri blog......

makanya......banyak dah blog.... dikau bisa bosen dengerinnya

blog menjawab : hoaaaaahemmmmm skrg aja dah ngantuk non....

bombie menjawab : okie deh blog...tidur dulu sana... nanti udah seger baru I ceritain :P

I cuman mo bilang ini ajah blog :

TUHAN ITU BAEK !!! Amen blog ?

blog : Amen non !! tidur...bsk repot non...

bombie : okie blog......eh blog... btw.. I kok jadi bikin dialogue gini yah blog ? apa musical mendatang I jadi script writer aja yah blog ?

blog : ASHTAGA NON !! ngimpiin aja itu pikiran sambil tidur Non !! ngidam seh yang nggak nggak........ udah malem banget ini Non.... bobo non...bobo...

bombie : haih...ya udah deh blogg.....niteeeee.......laper ini padahal blog...bisa masakin Indomie ga blog ? Si Nchep baru makan Indomie tuh blog....lapeeerrr

blog: TIDUR !! GOOD NITE !! TITIK

bombie : haihsss.... okie dah ....malemmmmmmmmmm

*I iseng {=^o^=}*

Let it go yow

2011-09-04T23:27:00.000-07:00

At this point of time
I dont need another matters of heart to disrupt my stable life

most HAPPENING month !!

2011-09-02T19:26:00.000-07:00

So here's what I have on my plate this September :

*please slip me in your prayer once you are done reading this ??? thank youuuuu*

1> as expected, as seen it coming, as excited as I can be, TLG will have MUSICAL DRAMA peformance : Finding Princess on October 1'st 2011. So that's a guarantee that September will be a FULLY PACKED practice life.

2> On top of that, my office : after inhabiting in 7th floor for like almost close to 15 years ++, decided to move it's presence to a higher floor : 10th. And of ALL month they can do so, they choose to do it when ? September !! On the last week of September to be exact, where all my adrenaline's is running high for musical. When I actually plan to take leave during the week.

3> then...before I know it, and even I cant figure out well till now what and how it happen so fast, or I still cant believe it to be exact, I entered myself into a long term commitment. The way I see it now : I'm stepping into GOD'S promise land (and I still smile....all the time).....

yup.....guess what :

I'VE BOUGHT MY HOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA......*still cant believe it*

there I say it, my public announcement....

thanks to David who insist on bringing me to Euhabitat show flat, who got me thinking...hard...till I went sleepless....and in 2 days time, decided to buy it.

Nah Lydia : udah kejawab kan ur question ? hhhehehe :)

anyway all the joy aside, the time that I need to think about bank's loan, the paperwork and procedure is A LOTTT.... and all need to be settled by when ? September 16 !!! Tadaaaaaaaa

4> and...thanks to my silly idea to forced Kiyoko to join the talent time in the bank, I got myself involved too by promising a duet with her.....

I told her to join just to make the boss happy to make up in participants number, join for fun. As she has won IPB Idol in 12 May 2005 before, she first believed that she's banned to join. Then, when I convince her that she can join, she become soooo excited and switch gear to competitive mode !! I don't like to loose : that's what she says ----> but I just join for funnnnnnnn {'--____--'} just do it like Karaoke mode can we ?

so there you go..... only 4 things.....but 4 major things indeed, esp the Musical and the property part..... my CRAZIEST MONTH in my life where I make VERY FAST decision in buying home, joining talent time (for the first time in my life), doing another musical with bigger expectation and move my seat again when I just did that less than 1 year ago :P ....

they say life begins at 30 ? or wait.. is it 40 ?

hahahha :) anyway : it seems like my life just began again :)

And it's great !! haha *tertawa penuh arti *

TOLONG TUHANNNNNNNNNN !!!!!!!

scarred, excited, terrified, surrendered bombie {=^o^=}

things aren't always what they seem to be

2011-08-28T10:02:00.000-07:00

it's late now and I need to sleep but I need to post this before I sleep.

Through a lot and long experience, I got the emphasis of what I need to learn, that :

things aren't always like what they seem they are.

Take for example :

Kemaren ini gw buy some clothes from woolen mitten-nya Dedenya Gill (Gladys). For more info of woolen mitten, find them on facebook, like them, and start buying !! *aji mumpung dot kom*

for one reason or another, gua mo cancel one of them cos I feel I couldn't fit

gua udah minta Gill buat bawa satu aja, the one that I think I could fit.

but when the clothes finally arrive, dua duanya mendarat dengan mulus di SG

so I opened them, and guess what ? I LOVEEEE the one that I think I can't fit (and I fit into it well), and I totally need to squeeze myself to the other one that I thought I could fit.

Ga ba bi bu, langsung gua pake itu baju the next day and I'm smiling all day long, bahkan sampe maksa Depot temenin gua jalan2 sekitar SG supaya gua ga langsung pulang rumah. Why ? Coz I feel pretty wearing the top I dont want to go home directly :P hohoho *biasa cewek*

But I learn something that I've learnt before, and relearnt again that day. Something very valuable. Never judge anything/one by its face value.

Kl gua ngotot bilang Gill bawa satu aja, I'll end up with ...no beautiful blue top that I cant wait to wear again soon.

And then all the memories seems like coming into remembrance, anything that's related to this lesson.

Things, aren't always what they really seem. No Europe holiday is not something that's so painful after all. In fact, no holiday at all might also be a good thing if I look deeper into the matter. Wait, I don't need to look deeper, I KNOW far too well that no Europe holiday this year might probably be the BEST thing ever happen to me.

Friends that I cant seem to get along then, might not always be a friend that I worth giving up right away. For the record, I did give up on her, but somehow, God knows why, she didn't. And look at where we are now....I'm talking about Kiyoko. More on her next time.

Whatever things are in this world :

when they seem good outside, they might be rotten inside (we all have that person in our life whose words and action are so much contradicting to each other. puke blood !!!)

when they seem useless, they might be gold (look at Pst. Bill Wilson)

So as things aren't always what they seem, let's be wise and pray for Godly wisdom and guidance that we may see, hear, and do the truth, and nothing else.....but the truth.

Lastly : in HIM we trust :)

bombie {=^o^=}

the loved one

23 August 2011 hari siapa ?

2011-08-23T09:10:00.001-07:00

HUAPPY 27 TAHON GILLIAN SASTRA !!!

let me declare : I LOVE U POL POL ... as much as I love my other sistersss in Christ.. :)

u ... have been my answered prayer for TLG dance, my pilar of strength in this one year... and you have been one

AWESOME DANCER, GOOD AND VERY MUCH FATED FRIEND !!!!!

hari2 bahagia kulalui bersama dengan dikau dan El... kan kuingat sepanjang masa sampe badan udah rewel :) heheheh :) maksa.com.bok

selamat !! panjang umur !! bahagia selalu !! cepet dapet baby !! langgeng kangkung sama si abang !! masak kangkung jg sama si abang !! jangan lupa bilang2 !! pasti gua dateng bawa keranjang !! bungkus kangkung terus pulang kandang !! gile gua garink girank !!

sampe jumpa Gill dan Abangnya :) BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YOU BOTH :)

bombiena tulalit kesetrum insomnic {=^o^=}

jreng jreng

2011-08-22T10:31:00.000-07:00

life will never be the same from today onwards...
OW EM GI....

Cheesy posting

2011-08-16T23:25:00.000-07:00

Sekarang gw ngerti napa El bilang kok gw pergi ke Amrik lama bgt last year
padahal hanya 2 minggu saja
exactly the same amount of time loe go to NZ this year El
But seriously

IT FEELS LIKE I'VE NVR SEEN U FOR AGES.... *hyperbol*

lama yah ternyata... Ngerti gw skrg El...

ga penting

2011-08-13T11:25:00.001-07:00

so di FA kemaren malem.... gua dian alfons david elisa darvin lie mei berhasil membawa topik yang sangat ngawur en mungkin kurang penting..... but very enlightening in the end !!!

what would that be ?

mari gua bertanya : apa bedanya sapi en kebo ?

so konon menurut david, kebo cowok, sapi cewek. Dan intinya mereka adalah sama aja, si kebo kawin sama sapi....

en it got into a very interesting discussion dimana bahasa kita semakin ngawur (ngomongin si susu sapi) en we decided that, theory apapun yg kita lancarkan ga ada gunanya kl kita ga ngecheck di google / wiki...

so we go Wiki...and here is the conclusion :

Sapi = Cow : dalam bahasa indonesia

di dalam bahasa inggris :

Cow adalah Ox yang betina

Bull adalah Ox jantan yang tidak dikebiri

Oxen sendiri adalah Ox jantan yang dikebiri

mereka semua satu jenis.... tapi ga ada satu nama dalam bahasa Inggris yg gabungin mereka bertiga, sementara dalam bahasa indonesia: ADA !!! mereka (cow, bull & ox) adalah = SAPI

and Sapi....ada jantan ada betina ....

Kerbau dalam bahasa inggrisnya adalah : Carabao (nah !! gua jg baru tau ada bahasa inggris kebo) dan dia adalah sejenis water buffalo yang notabene bukan ox, bull, or cow !!

so dengan demikian asumsi david yg sedikit maksa kita buat percaya kl kebo di indo kawinnya sama sapi.... karena kl ga kebo ga ada temen kawin.... adalah SALAH :) asli Vid... kl gua sampe percaya asumsi loe seh... bahaya !!! anak gua jadi apa nanti kl gua ajarin sapi kawin sama kebo ? AHUEHAUHUAUHEUAHU

our next question : bagaimana dengan sheep, lamb and veal ? siapakah si lembu, kambing, domba ? siapa yg punya 4 perut buat pencernaan yah ?

and no dont tell me kl lembu cowok domba cewek....don buy that anymore...

apa yah hasil keputusan si lembu semalem ? lupa gua...besok tanya lagi dah ke anak :P

#postingan yg asli ga penting :P heehehhe

food for thoughts

2011-08-10T08:51:00.000-07:00

Do you have a food that can bring you back in time ?

I have !!! Andersen's blueberry ice cream.

Gua ga akan lupa es krim ini, coz es krim inilah yang temenin gua di kala gua patah hati yg palink patah !!! bodo amat deh ada atau ga-nya bahasa patah hati yg terpatah :P heheheh :P intinya...... yg paling sakit & emo lah yah...

kejadiannya di taon...erm bentar mikir.... oh..2004. Somewhere in October...di jurong point yg msh belom reno...

waktu gua di NUS, gua suka ke JP sendiri. Esp di hari ulang taon gua... maybe dari sana muncul fetish gua buat travel & enjoy life alone :P ehheheeh :)

singkat cerita....di food court JP hari itu...gua yg udah travel demikian jauhnya demi menemui ttm gua....mendapatkan revelation yg plg menyakitkan .....cahhhh !! ini gara2 udah ampir lewat 7 taon ajah kejadiannya makanya gua bisa cerita sambil ketawa tiwi...nulis di blog pula..hahaha :P coba dulu...... kagak ada limapun yg tau my heart story (ga bisa bilang satupun..karena ada 3 orang yg tau.... WAUEHUAHUEUHHAUEHUAHE)

pada dasarnya gua tertemplak oleh sebuah kalimat yg intinya sebagai demikian :

"silahkan pergi ke swensen makan Ice cream loe sendiri. Gua ga bisa temenin loe !! "

Sebelom para pembaca kecewa dan berpikir kl gua adalah monster cewek yg ga bisa puas serta gampang marah gara2 ga ditemenin makan di swensens yg notabene tidak baik bagi cewek berbody seperti daku.....mari saya clearkan sedikit bahwasanya : gua bukan cewek tuh orang, dan bukan permasalahan accompaniment di Swensens yg bikin hatiku pedih.

Untuk cerita lebih lengkap, please dial 1900 998 9998. Calls are toll free, if you can get through. Anyway pst toll free, karena di Singapore ga ada toll..adanya ERP !! hehehe

Kl ga get through en masih penasaran, ya salah sendiri :) tau no hp gua kan ? Telpon gua langsung lah !! saya bersedia bersaksi untuk malam yg menyedihkan di taun 2004 itu :P heeee heee :)

balik ke si makanan.... so yah gitulah..

dalam keadaan hati yg patah...gua jalan keluar food court.... nahan nangis dikit (drama added)...sesungukan, belon makan, dari bestway (tanjong pagar) naek MRT sampe ke Jurong point pikir bisa ditemenin makan, yg ada disuruh makan sendiri....jelas laper....merana...gelap deh dunia like there's no tmrw :P aih.....roman picisan :P HAHAHAHA :)

yah intinya gua wander around JP..... en end up di depan si Andersen's Ice cream itu, dan gua lampiaskan rasa kesel gua by buying one big cone of blueberry Ice cream from Andersen's..

It is : the ice cream of my life !!!! If a guy never forget when he earned his first dollar.... that's my same feeling.... I'll never forget the healing that comes from that Ice cream :P Hahahahah :P

Since that day, tiap kali gua lewat andersen Ice cream...I'm always transported back in time....to the pain and the healing I felt that nite :) what I gone through that nite was liberating in a very painful way.

Coz of that, gua ga sembarangan makan Andersen's Ice cream... I only buy that when something special, or something really bad happen... I treat it with so much care...

and so tonite....after hip hop class...gua jalan lewatin andersen Ice cream di PS. And although Andersen ada di NEX jg....gua ga pernah beli disana sekalipun......so tonite pas lewat gua mikir... is the occasion worthy enough for me to take Andersen's Ice cream ?

think...

not long : 5 seconds... I decided to :

JUST BUY LAH !!!

seriously who cares what happen in 2004 ? Why do I treat this Ice cream with so much respect ? I just want this Ice cream now.....and I'm gonna get it *regardless of my body shape....again...*

AHOEHAOEAHEAOEAOHOAHOEHOAHEOA

and an Ice cream after a good hip hop class : is like Cherry's on top...

sweeeeeeetttttt

thank you andersen's Ice cream..

u're still a dear comfort to my heart

cuman lain kali I will not buy blueberry.... karena ternyata si fruit portion atau fruit poison apa lah gitu.... lebih enak :P HAHHAHAHHAH

bombie {=^o^=}

August is here

2011-08-01T04:40:00.000-07:00

phew !! only 2 post in July... hoho...parah :P

not because it's not happening....it's too happening that I didn't have time to blog...

let's see :

I opened July with a heart that's ...... so so

well... RM gua yg udah gua serve sekian lama (6.5 years) berenti di bulan July. So, I totally dont know what to expect in office.... scarred actually.... being in an unfixed situation, not knowing what to expect next.... (ngerti perasaan kamu Jend).....

but it turns out to be all right so far (cross my finger)

and then it gets better :) dede gua dateng dari tanggal 16 July kemaren spending 2 weeks here...

while she's here, we have :

1> Gone to Seletar air base to eat the famous seletar chix wing that has 30 level of spiciness. If you order level 30, they will give this certificate to proof your.....well...guts !! ahahah :) What does this certification serve ? Honestly : just bragging rights !! hehehe

So how spicy did we fare ? AHHAHA !!! ga lewat level 3 !!!! Itu pun dengan doa, keringat, dan penuh tetesan air mata plus ingus meler mana mana....en tetep... wing sepedes itu ga seenak wing yang level 2 yg pedesnya pas.

Well.....kl kata gua sih : BON CHON cukup lah !!! ga usah jauh2 ke seletar :P yg gua demen malah bukan wingnya, tapi aglionya...which they called : funnily : spaghetti alo alo :P

2> watched Harry Potter @ NEX.

3> have dinner @ Italianies with Depot yg ended up with us rushing home in cab coz Dede gua magnya ga enak

4> go together to Patrick hip hop class. What so funny is : Patrick liat dia, terus ngomong : why u good ah... always bring new friend (refer ke El as my friend). Then selama hip hop, as usual he always say stupid thing during class.... at the end of the class dia bilang lagi, minggu depan bring new friend okay ?

Terakhir gua ga tahan, gua jelasin ke dia : this is my sister, not my friend. The other girl that you think is my sister, is my friend.

lagian, gua ama El pertama kali ikut kelas dia, first thing he asked : 2 of you sisters ? No ? Twin ? *jreng* !! Dede gua dateng sampe terakhir disangka freeeeennnnn terus :P hahaha segitu miripnya gua ama El..

5> she has come to my office to have lunch with Kiyoko @ Salad shop. Which entertained Kiyoko to the most, how she see me and Nia so much look like she and her sister. Si Kiyoko terus terusan bilang ke dede gua, dont listen to Mel, she like to talk nonsense. Don't be so obedient to her....ignore her lah...... to which I gave kiyoko back my scarriest glare !!!

6> Gone to NUS buat ngejar Laksa yg berakhir naas coz laksanya tutup. We end up eating fong seng and Prata, which still taste the same.... NICE !! And then we went to IKEA dan masing2 kita end up with 2 new sandals. Thanks to her gua jg beli jadinya, semua sendalnya dia yg ketemuin (and then she praised herself : tuh kan Cie...selera gua bagus ---> {''--__--''} )

7> and the best : gua, dede gua, my 2 cousins : Margie, Kaoru, Vita... we stayed at MBS on 23 - 24th July. I need another entry for this unforgettable experience ;)

8> we have tasted Wild Honey and Paradise dynasty for dinner

9> and we also went to the must go place in Singapore : Universal Studios for our first time. A place that I wasn't looking forward to go if not really have too. Well, I have to say : I have a GOOD time in USS. Ga terlalu rame jg :) and si Nia dragged gua naek hal2 yg ga gua ga mo naekin :P but okay lah....all turn out fine so far :P haha

10> visit Kaoru K's home di One North. Yg bikin gua inspired and makin terpacu to buy my home, or at least nabung to buy. I love her home... the only set back : ga bisa masak. ll Coz it's a studio :P

and then...today si Nia pulang... after 2 weeks of eating out, gossiping time, having fun.... I have to say I'm having withdrawal symptoms...

emang dengan adanya Dede gua disini ga di deny dompet gua makin tipis, waktu gua buat hal2 laen like choreographing jg agak2 tersita, intinya ada sedikit disruption in my ordinary life...

However : it's a kind of GOOD disruption that I dare not say I welcome it anytime, but I dare to say that it's a disruption that I'll certainly miss..... and I'm missing it right now.....

the family time : me, her, my cousins and their plus 1, my aunts and uncle...

huix... I need to adjust my mindset quick buat masuk ke gigi 4 for musical that's like coming in 2 months time exactly from today !!!

AAAAAAAAAAA

*sport jantung*

okay: back to normal hectic speedy life now.

update later on MBS :P

bombie {=^o^=}

bahagia rasanya diberkati :)

2011-07-08T21:02:00.000-07:00

to receive unexpected kindness, isn't it the best feeling in the world ?

just like today when I'm supposed to be cleaning up my home, I woke up and ternyata bonyok Depot yg lagi dateng kesini udah bersih2 rumah.....AAAIIIHHH terharuuuu gua...

Di hari2 yg repot gini : dopeng, meeting musical, gereja lagi, latian musical, senior dancers dinner.... to receive such kindnesss....aih.. rasanya PLONK gitu...

recently I've received ALOT of kindness, dari temen2 yg ngajakin gua lunch en traktirin gua...then all the happy time having dinner date di rumah El, and today this....

aihh..thank you prennnnnzzzzzzz :)

and Lord...THANK YOU !!!

thank You ... terharuuu

july

2011-07-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

life's gonna be different from now on

Can I handle it ? honestly ?

fun run was fun

2011-06-23T07:40:00.000-07:00

It's official
Citibankers are superrrrr competitive

gw pengen ikut acara bank gw called fun run...but knowing my limit
so gw tanya temen gw yg organise.. Gw mo ikut..coz it's for charity.
Ada yg jalan ga ? Gw mo ikut tp jalan doang boleh ga ?

Jawabnya : I'm sure there's alot of them who walks Mel.. Just join lah
so...i decided to join

the run is today
a week ago gw udah prepare myself by buying new running shoe
but the company is so downgrading the fun runners lah...
While competitive runners were given so much rule... Guidelines...
Fun runners disuruh bawa camera en dont finish later than 8 pm
hebatnya lagi...Boss gw so into the mood of not running lo
she wear her Stuart Weissman sandals...bring Doritos.. Water.
Bring picnic mat some more

then.. Gt mereka tiup pluit.. MATENK!!!
Mana fun run... Each to each own mannn
leaving all the fren behind
haahhaahhahah

gilaaa
gw yg biasanya ga kuat lari tiba2 bisa kaya ada drive drmana gw jg ga ngerti
parah!!! Seumur umur ga ada deh gua yg namanya lari ber K K...
400 m aja dah bagus

eh dikejar 5K.. En ga ada yg slow down.. Sintinggggg
in the end gw cuman berhasil finish in 35 minutes...
Walk and run some way
and Thank God not the last person..

Walaowee
dont want to trust my colleague ready
damn competitive lahhh hahaha

BUT
i must say: I LOVE IT !!!
So..at my 30ies.. I'm happy to dare and try sth totally new
breaking boundaries...and LIVE !!!

Next thing u know I'll be on my way to a blind date
HAHAHAHAHA
u wish...

Still a no to that

haha
niwei
A GOOD DAY INDEED
thank u Father :)

this june

2011-06-18T07:58:00.000-07:00

Juni oh Juni,

kenapa Juni taon ini kerasa gitu dull, flat, down, hopeless, colourless .... en just plain...blah ni ?!?!?!

cukup muak feelin this way for most of June.....padahal kl nurutin cycle cewek gua...harusnya beginning to mid month is happy time, terus down time, terus flood time, and go on...

yg ada before flood dah down, pas flood masih down, after flood gua MC, so udah mo naek ceritanya ...eh turun lagi...., selesai MC gua lanjut flat...

mana happiness peaknya ? Blah !!!!

en ini kebawa bawa kemana mana in my life aspect

Seumur umur gua belon pernah bisa download SYTYCD felem sendiri..

sekarang sekali giliran gua bisa download dengan baik, on time, jelas dan benar... tiap nonton gua ga berasa gimana banget... ga gigit nendang nangis or merinding...

ga bengong or teriak2 depan compie... boro2 kedorong buat gerak joget2...

napa coba ? padahal gua agree2 aja sama Nigel kl talent yg ada jago2

kl mo ngomong logic, bisa jadi gara2:

1> so far masih belon ada Nappy Tabs choreo, Stacey Tookey's choreo, Mia udah jelas2 cabut, Wade Robson jg ga tau kemana, en Adam juga udah ga judging... ilang gitu the colours of SYTYCD......

2> nothing against Mary & Nigel, loved them. Tapi judge ketiga teh sapa itu ? ga jelas gw ...

en gua jg agree sm one american comment yg bilang : Why suddenly all the routine deserves an Emmy ? They have all the hype about Travis Wall contemp for Melanie & Marko's routine kamis kemaren.. tapi pas gua nonton... napa ga gigit or nusuk kayak Hallelujah's Alex & Alison, or supaya gua ga dibilang biased sukanya sama Alex terus, kok bahkan ga segigit Collide's Lauren & Kent's routine about prom nite, yg di choreo sama Travis jg?

BTW SYTYCD fans, u should check this link... and tell me if you agree with them..

Best 25 routine of SYTYCD so far... and I ...agree

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20389677_20502439_20974188,00.html

Lalu :

Musical dance..

Yup..ini bulan yg cukup sepi...pada pulank semua.. en somehow kebawa ke gua jg....

somehow gua jadi hopeless banget... with the fact that lagu2nya belon ada yg jadi juga...lagu belon ada mo bikin dance apa atuh ? padahal kita cuman punya sisa 3 bulan... *merinding gua ingetnya*...

so far udah banyak banget gaya yg kepikir di otak gua.....but biar kata semua gaya udah ada di otak gua... honestly I know myself well that ga segampang itu tuangin isi otak gua ke gaya nari.....

ga nolong lagi : liatin semangat team musical yg ada, en frekuensi email / contact kita... kok jarangggg banget gitu ? I'm so lost..... maap banget neh kl jadi curcol... or maap jg kl ada anggota musical di yg baca blog ini.... I just have to be honest.... we need some fuel..kita perlu bensin & api buat bakar semangat musical kita..

aih ... kacau kucar kacir ketar ketir ati gua

terus..kebawa lagi ke hal2 lain..

I felt such a failure sampe Juni ini gua ga kurus2....yg ada muakan terus like there's no tomorrow... en aneh bener the fact that kenyataan kl dede gua bakal married December ini which demands me to look nothing less than fabulous ....itu ga macu semangat gua diet sama sekali....

en then: office :

RM yg udah lama gua support...paling lama in fact.. ( 6.75 taon) bakalan berenti soon... dia seh nyebelin attitudenya emang....cuman tetep aja artinya gua bakalan ngalemin pretty much a big change di kantor...en I absolutely have no idea what's gonna happen next....

it's like...there's just so much things go out of my control... after what I can say... a pretty good 2011 so far ...... in a month....thing's turn to be so...bleh...

en worst: I know I can do something about it..tapi asli gua ga tergerak to do something about it ---> though I know u want to say"ya salah loe sendiri".... just Don't .. It's something that I dont need right now..

AAAAA... frustasi.....*exaggerating drama mode....ikutan Jennita .. *

amidst all that... gua cuman bisa bersyukur kl gua ga sendiri di musical ini..

untung Gill masih semangat en masih lanjut full of ideas...

blessed are you Gill...jadi penopang gua en Raimond.....oheoaoah :)

gua jg bersyukur sama Depot ....housemate gua yg suka sok imut..... yg tanpa dia sadari .... udah jadi penghibur sejati gua....just with her silly comment...en her effortless presence and comfort at the right time... where I need her most....

and with June...supervisor gua di office.. yg makin hari makin terbuka sama gua....yg very much forgiving to me.... yg have done so much for me in my last 7.5 years.... she always makes my day...

with all that.... mari gua conclude Juni yg so far so bad ini with one conclusion :

"two is better than one. If one falls down, the other can lift him / her up"

I guess I need my other one...

yg notabene masih kosong besar so far..

siapa, dimana, ada atau ga aja in the first place...gua ga jelas...

I surely hope & keep my faith kl si other one ini beneran sudah ada, is living, breathing, learning, preparing & getting ready for us to meet one fine day...

boleh dong ngarep ?

kl boleh : sekalian deh gua ngarepin satu hal lagi...

cepet dateng napa ??? haih... capek banget kali nunggu sa chap years

mari sama2 kita ber experiment en buktiin kl dua itu lebih baik dari satu... a sentence yg masih mau gua buktikan kebenerannya to really know the truth

lastly : Father God... aaaaku beeerrr serahh... aaaaaku berrr serahhh.. pada Yesus...Juru slamat...aaaaaku berrr serahhhh

Your divine intervention is highly requested Lord

bombie {=^o^=}

being melissa

2011-06-15T08:51:00.000-07:00

"Learn to be what you are

and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not"

by Henri Frederic Amiel

I'm recently hooked on a TV Series called "Being Erica"

Kiyoko Yap passed it to me last year and I only have chance to see it now

They have some moving quotes that makes me ponder... in a very peaceful way

Here's another fave quote:

" The heart wants what it wants

It forces us to act when reason dictates otherwise

It tears down walls, it breaches boundaries

And for better or worse, it leads us places that the heads, would never go"

I solely agree

another one that really felt bold out when I was watching the show:

"Thinking is easy

Acting is difficult

and to put one's thought into action

the most difficult thing in the world "

by Goethe

and in some spirit of quoting

I made my own. I dont think it's any good compared to those soothing quotes I heard from the show, but it's what I'm feeling right now.

And if there's anything I ever learnt from this show, is the quote I put on the first line:

Learn to be what you are

so here's my quote, posted them on FB :

Changes

no matter how much we're looking forward to the day it happens

like a night longs for the sun light

still heart will doubt a little

and it falls a beat when a change finally arrives

is this will be.....for the better ?

bombie {=^o^=}

something's missing.... u

2011-06-09T07:25:00.001-07:00

seberapa senengnya gua sama SYTYCD SO8 that's just starting, I'm not as excited as last year...and I know why :

THERE IS NO ALEX WONG THIS YEAR ...

after 1 year....

gua masih sedih ..... banget banget.... for his early departure...

hix.. I want more of Alex...

it's hard when you have fallen in love to one dancer...

ga bisa pindah ke lain hati... hixx

bombie {=^o^=}

gloomy gloomy gloomy gloomy

2011-06-07T09:27:00.000-07:00

Somebody tell me what should I do when I'm gloomy for no good reason...in fact..still investigating for any reason... And in the process of doing so... I got even gloomierrrr

ga.. Bukan pms...coz it's just over and it's suppose to be happy time now
then Why??? Why am I gloomy ?? Why should I be gloomy ?

not that all things are so perfect now.. But Life's not perfect and I know that well
so why... Am I just so.... Arghhh

better pray
and sleep it over now

& oh
adding to the irony
i just watched a ver happy musical
hakuna matata...

Sighhhhh
hakuna matata Lissa
sleep !!

u say.... ikutan ga yah gw ?

2011-05-25T09:52:00.000-07:00

The deal :

participate in a flash mob at Ion, sometimes in July

The sacrifice :

4 times 4 hours every saturday in June @ somewhere in Yishun

Definitely missing YRC in those 4 weeks

Definitely missing life too, not to mention time, sweat energy... etc

one time on site rehearsal @ ion

one very gruelling saturday to wake up at 7 am for prac before action

a bet that I'll have my confidence beaten down participating with real pro talented performer dancers, unlike me who is trying hard to be ...a dancer

The payoff :

Flashmob !! for national day preparation !! @ Ion some more... my first ever

The experience

The fats & calories burnt

The so many choreographies I can learnt

Fact that it's only 6 times practice ?

okay lah okay lah...got money ... 100 only ... not like got gold bar lah..

things to consider:

1> can I commit ?

2> will I walk out feeling like a looser seeing all the pro young dancer ?

3> I'm 30... will chance ever come again ? If I dont do know ... when then ?

4> exactly becoz I'm not good enough, rather than I be a laughing stock, waste time... why not just dont do it ?

5> also....YRC... how ?

6> however.... u'll learn alotttttt .... so it's now...or neva....

HOW ? should I ?

bin nyun ...

bombie {=^0^=}

anyway kl ada yg mau ikutan ....and... you think you can dance... can ask me bout it.

some poem long long ago

2011-05-24T08:39:00.000-07:00

found this di laci kantor gua...

some poem long long ago....

titled:

And I will be your your friend

Just like we have always been

when memories of past starts to dig in

let me just remember this rhythm

that I'll always be your friend

not the best but definitely worthy

of a pure friendship we've built

based on trust and peace you gave me

assurance you've ascertained me

that 4eva we shall always keep

this friendship till eternity

should I start to question

on admiration I have on your works of faith

joy I kept when you made my day

encouragement u've shared not only to me but all else

shall I remind myself that this prevails

that I've been your friend all along in the past

I am your friend as this moment where I stand

and till forever and then

I'll always choose to be your friend

with every effort that I can

for your gift of friendship is one of the best privilege I could have

Never wanna loose it, so I'll keep it with all I am

Silently I wish u'll neglect

small changes in me that I wont let

your eyes to see regardless how perfect

your vision can be..cause I'm definitely

keeping your gift of friendship

that I treasure best

bombie {=^o^=}

*kapan yah I made this ? cant remember....

in any case .... when I read this again... I got mellow... it feels at peace and at ease ... and I think it's beautiful #banggainpuisisendiri=norak:)

love this poem... love my friendship

biar genap

2011-05-22T09:46:00.000-07:00

postingan ini hanya bertujuan supaya ga ada yg protes kl di bulan Mei ini gua jarang ngeblog... hehehe :P so here's all the random thoughts that have crossed my mind ...

1> UDAH 23 MAY !!! bentar lagi... JUNIE.... padahal gw msh berasa baru selesai kawinan El....and to make things worst....all 3 public holidays in April and May are all... done... finish... huixxxxx

cepet banget ga seh 2011 ? apa ini sindrom sa chap ?

2> I always wonder : apa seh yg ada di pikiran orang cakep kl dia orang lagi ngaca ? sadar ga seh mereka how beautiful they are ? and if they do... what does it feel to be beautiful ?

3> yg ini ... gw maap2 dulu deh yah kl ada yg offended....beneran ga ada maksud apapun terhadap subject tapi ini bener2 my own sentiment towards the object..and the object is : Rokok en asepnya...

Asli....gua benci !! titik dan sekian...gw ga langsung jadi benci semua perokok..... esp yg temen2 kantor gw.. ya mo gimana....gua udah kenal dia org as friends sblm knowing them as smokers...masa yah gua jadi benci dia orang ?

Tpi kl ada satu hal yg menurut gua layak punah di muka bumi ini .... itu adalah taneman tembakau dan business nya ... nyiksa banget ke idung gua yg sensitif ala doggie jagoan sniff sniff....bikin badan jadi stiff stiff ....

4> my current life is filled with...u noe : musicals, weddings (cousin & sis) and trip planning.. sibux jg yah taon ini... musical wise, sadly gua ga se-panic dulu.... knp sad ? krn kepanic-an adalah hal yg baik untuk berlangsungnya musical.... dan gua tidak panic.. tidak panic = tidak bergerak.... tidak bergerak = tidak ada hal yg diproduksi = cilaka besar when what we have in our script is a BIGGER dreams..

which makes me and Manda questions hari itu...kita....mimpi terlalu besar ga seh ? the stakes are high yow....en I really feel that kt sendiri as director are asking ourselves a higher quality..we challenge ourselves.. on which now I'm worried...are we asking for too much ?

hm...yah ... that's one part of musical... another happy part .... well....maybe it is too early to say but I believe a better morale leads into a better energy & spirit....

so I just want to say that... I really thank God for sending the right person to be dancers this time around

we trim down our numbers alot... we had a tough audition... and again maybe it's too early to say.... but then again they say : speak it with faith and He'll make it happen for His glory....so I cross my finger and declare that... somehow I see the selected dancers have impressive attitude and commitment towards this musical.....I pray what I see is what the truth He gaves

nuff said on musical... let's just make it happen yow :)

5> last random thoughts.

so .. mungkin I wrote before about one of my colleague yg gua serve...intinya ya dia salah satu boss gua lah... orang yg gua serve yah boss donk ?

so dia ini : lahir taon 78....udah married punya anak 1... rumah 1 tapi nyicil 2 rumah.... mobil dah ganti dari mazda terus bmw (wkt dia 29) then sekarang maserati (wkt dia 32)

kasat mata liat gitu... u'll think he's such a successful person dont u ? ... by facts... I think so too...kerjaan dia perfect...rajin bener kerja sampe jam 1 (at his latest hour)... always meet target... always meet deadline...promoted to highest rank dalam waktu 4.5 taon mungkin ? pinter seh gua cukup yakin dia pinter...anak RI .. RJ... and all the other R kl ..tau dah.. intinya....dia pinter, bisa kerja de es be de es te..

however : EQ minus !! dalam arti ...dia punya the worst attitude di kantor lah...bisa marah2 ga jelas..kelakuan kayak anak kecil ... semua ngomong : he's such a boy.... yup... ga ada compose2nya.... banting telpon....banting semua yg perlu dibanting...teriak kanan kiri.. en off course yg kena gua jg intinya....

ini bukan curcol....krn kl mo curcol...gua perlu duduk one on one with u terus minta doa pemulihan dr neh orang ......

intinya : it makes me question again....most ppl yg gua tau pinter intellectually...yg kagak dalem Tuhan yah....itu either very low in EQ....are just simply pig...

aneh.....asli dah otak gw mah ga tinggi2 bener gw tau... bisa lulus sampe 18 taon sekolah aja puji Tuhan...tp emosi gw as u know... jalan bener lah yah...

apa emang gitu ga seh ? org yg pinter gt tend to be.... honestly... ansos ppl ? ignorant ? yg pasti gua tau Ieie Vanya Meily Rimbo.... 4 mahluk first class honours yg dalem Tuhan...yg ga gitu..

other than that.... I hardly saw orang pinter yg punya hati.... IQ rocket EQ minus.....

dan gua sedih :P sedih karena they know how good they are and they gloat over that.. dalam kasus ini ...yah si boss gua tadi...

udah gitu aja... gua jadi sedih lg kl inget ini .. hahahahah... kita butuh banyakan orang pinter yg ga gitu :) ...hear my cries Lord :) hee hee :)

jadi...

gua udah ada 2 postingan di bulan May..

yah ?

bombie {=^o^=}

lontonkkkk

2011-05-02T09:32:00.000-07:00

To be honest....

as everyone gets more and more excited towards 1st October 2011

I am standing on another end...

Gua lagi amat sangat pesimis that I can contribute a good choreography peace for this musical

and even more pesimistic that I can do a good job...

otak lg kosong tanpa inspirasi en I feel like I dont know how to move and I cant even remember all things I've learnt last 1 year di Jitterbug..

Youtubing doesn't help much currently....

huaih...stress actually...

Lord....

I need Your supernatural's intervention

running on empty here

*en Gillian Sastra plus Elrica Diona...your presence selalu kuhargai dan kusyukuri setulus tulusnya dan sedalam dalamnya.... *

aih.....tolonkkk ....sos...

bombie {=^o^=}

Baliiii

2011-04-27T06:31:00.000-07:00

One should never leave Indonesia without going to : BALI !!

I should know that .... right ?

not really :P ahhhahah :P gitu lamaaaa gua pengen balik ke Bali.. envy my cousins who went there... envy my friend... regretted many chances that I rejected to go Bali... ogle at compie screen for all the heavenly resorts located there.... ask my cousin for the list of the best cheap romantic resorts around...

yeah... still gua ga balik ke Bali.... since 2001......sampe akhirnya kawinan El kemaren....

bingung jg seh napa gua gitu takut ke Bali .... in my mind ... somehow gua lebih berani to conquer New York sendiri banding ke Bali sendiri...

somehow gua mikirnya: New York ada suburbs, hotel jg harusnya rame terus so pasti ada orang melek all the time, anytime gua lost ada GPS, I know there's lots of crime story there.... tp somehow gua feel more comfirtable conquering NY sendiri daripada Bali...

gua jg mikir... I mean... yah what's there other than beaches ? food should be normal...... ethnic stuffs jg... yah ... pasti ada tapi jg ga sampe gimana banget lah..

yeah.... I flipped out at the very fact that I had a WONDERFUL trip to Bali this time round.... for the second time... I finally understand why Bali is so...... Bali..

Panas as usual..... jauh lebih panas banding Singapore.... spend 2 full days walking around Bali.... sama 2 young girls ...yang spt kata Depot : si centil Jennita (in a good meaning off course) .....hahahah .....en the sweet Becky....

ga tau napa Becky agak diem trip kali ini..... kasian gua...apa gara2 gua sama Jennita yg over excited sampe ke arah kampungan ? *erm...tepatnya gua doang kali... ahhaah*

anyway : couldn't have a better companion than those 2 :) ... make me feel young again.....sampe gua bilangin supirnya ... saya 10 taon yg lalu terakhir ke Balinya Pak...

Pak Nengah : supirnya : wah.... waktu itu muda banget dong adek ?

bombie : .... oh ga... saya 20 waktu pertama kl kesini...

Pak Nengah : 20 ? kapan itu ... baru2 aja ?

bombie : ....loh..10 taun yg lalu Pak....

Pak Nengah : lah.. adek umur berapa skarang ?

bombie :...saya.. 30 Pak ...

Pak Nengah : HAH? saya kira 25.....Saya pikir adek masih pelajar.....*pinter banget yah nih supir ? boleh lah Pak gua kasih extra tip ntar *

so kita mendarat jumat malem after Good Friday service di Denpasar Bali langsung ke New Kuta Condotel.... hotel kita yg manteb !! Murah meriah :) 3 malem I pay for SGD 240++ so each night 80.... breakfast inclusive :)

udah malem so kita istirahat langsung..

Next morning gua en Beck breakfast. Trs gw minta Becky tanyain El kita jadi ke Kuta bareng ga ? Thank God El reply cepet...bilangin kl dia ga sempet kemana mana that day..

Langsung gua cut breakfast asap... jalan ke concierge ..jam 9.20 an pagi lah... check msh ada space buat shuttle jam 10 gak ke kuta

ternyata semua shuttle full dari jam 10 - jam 2... susahnya dari hotel kita : jauh kemana mana... agak deserted... so orang hotelnya nawarin taxi ke kuta for 150rb sekali jalan..

gua pikir rugi dong 150 sekali jalan .. mending gua cari supir...

knowing that it's good friday holiday and there should be alot of tourists in Bali.... gua agak pesimis kita bisa dapet supir... thank God... Jennita dapetin Pak Nengah..

jadilah kita cabut jam 11 dari hotel

first destination : Pia legong. Jemput Pianya Jennita. Lanjut : Khrisna .. Di Khrisna kita bilangnya cuman mo setengah jem aja...yg ada : 1.5 jem !! then kita laper.. so makan di Nasi Pedes Ibu Andika yg MANTEB !!! murah meriah kenyang enak !!! makanan en minuman gua total 20rb tok :)

terus gua centil mo cari bikini....pergi ke surf girl... yg ada mahal yak si Bikini sana...yg gua demen ampir 300 cenk !! bagus seh emang qualitynya beneran...pedingnya tebel..motif bagus.....tapi tetep aja 300 ceng pake jadi daleman doang pula..... malesh dah gua beli...

so dalam semangat kecentilan en ngotot cari Bikini... kita minta Pak Nengah anterin kita ke Pasar yg deket Kuta...

Berburu lagi loh kita di Pasar... itu udah jam 3 an siang...sambil gitu gua minta Jennita contact Wynne yg baru mendarat sabtu siang.. since kita ada supir....kita pikir mending dia nyusul kita di Kuta en pulang bareng ke hotel banding bayar 100 ceng lagi buat taxi.....

tapi Erick males gerek luggage ke Kuta... So mereka decide buat naek taxi langsung ke hotel...But not long after that... Wynne bbm Jenita lagi bilang susah banget dapet Taxi... Then kita decided to stop torturing our wallet di pasar (kl dilanjutin the shopping can go on and on....) en decided to pick up Wynne en Erick di airport terus pulang hotel just on time for dinner with EL Rip & whole family :)

So we reach hotel... msh ada waktu before the dinner.... jadilah kita foto2 di balcon kita yg punya pemandangan not badd.... ngadep laut, kolam renang, bisa keliatan blue point en some pure uluwatu kayaknya....

Pas gitu kita ngeliat El & Rip yg lg foto2 prewed sekitar kolam renang hotel :) ... selesai foto2... I count my spending and took out our "achievements" i.e.: hasil belanjaan kita2....en as what girls usually do : kita cobain hasil shopping kita :) ahoehoahoeho :P

Then...we have dinner with Familynya Arief & El.... ada yg lucu pas dinner. Ada temen El yg duduk barengan kita setelah dinner selesai. Dia ikutan ngobroll.. panjang ... lebar...

Then gua lupa lah pas kapan gitu... EL bilang.. Ini loh Wan ... Wynne.

Then temen si EL (Irwan)... hah ? siapa ?

El : tanya lah siapa namanya... gua bilangin gua temen Wynne, en Wynne bakal dateng ...loe ga percaya...

Irwan : Siapa ya namanya ?

Wynne : .... siapa ? Aku ? Namaku......Wyn........ *dalem ati jennita comment : capek de..* Wynnnnneee

si Irwan : hah ? Beneran yah ? Oh mi gut... beneran ini Wynne ...... gila.....gua pikir becanda... omg.. gila .. malu ....*mukanya Muuuueeerruaaahhh buanget*

kita : HAOEHAHEHOAEAHOAEHHAUEHUAHUAUEHUAE !!!!!

At the end of dinner, kita berhasil nyusun itinerary buat minggunya. Tadinya rencana awal kita mo nangkring di hotel aja seharian sampe weddingnya...

tapi somehow kita gatel mo jalan2 lagi....since Erick and Becky baru pertama kali ke Bali..en Erick cuman sehari itu doang ke Balinya.... so we decide to rent a car again...and plan our full day activity dari pagi sampe ke wedding sampe Erick & Wynne balik ke Airport

So besok paginya kita berangkat dari jam 9 pagi bok !!

First stop : Pia legong. So we want to try our luck to buy si Pia.. Mereka buka jam 9 ....kita sampe 9.40 an lah... and the person in front of Jennita is the last person to get the Pia... *gilaaa ini Pia..parah ramenya*

gagal....kita lanjut ke Khrisna lagi...Wynne mo beli oleh2..... sekali lagi kl udah sampe Khrisna....pasti ada aja dah yg kita beli... aneh !! gua belanja lagi .. *hehehe*..

kelar dari Khrisna udah jam 12.15.... we got to reach the wedding venue at 4.30 pm.... so considering that....gone is our Spa schedule ..... haha :)

Instead .. kita decide to go and eat seafood di Jimbaran ..Wynne bawa kita makan di Nyoman cafe... ENAK BANGETTT !!!! makan di depan pantai siang2.... panas2 bawah tenda, sambil minum kelapa muda, ditemenin alunan musik dari one group band with songs like : stand by me .... haihhh......berasa di Hawaiii *lebayyyyy*

Kita makan sekilo oyster, sebiji ikan merah, sekilo cumi dibagi 2 : sebagian di bakar sebagian goreng, 6 biji udang gede, plus 5 kelapa muda....en langsung dapet kangkung otomatis...plus buah.... all 430 rb....asli kenyang banget en happy banget... Wynne traktir kita :) thank you Wyn :)

Selesai makan we rush back to hotel... nyampe hotel sekitar 2.40... ngebuttt mandi en dandan (bayangin aja 3 cewek share satu kamar in 1.5 hour getting ready to a wedding ceremony).... havoc !! hoho :) fun havoc !!

Then we russshhhh all the way ke Uluwatu.. sampe di Tirtha exactly waktu El do her entrance (maap El kita miss out the beginning)

And the rest ....are history:

When she said she loves him, she said I do....cherish you.... for the rest of my life.....

When she said she loves him, she went and put on her white gown, got down to Bali....and marries him

The venue was beautiful, the ceremony was professionally prepared wonderfully. Good choir :) Before the couple cried...gua udah banjir..... ga bawa tissue ...sampe Becky bingung..... Cried hardest when El read her vow. Loveeee your vow El... mana lu sounds so sexyhhhhh waktu baca vownya....so smooth with a lil bit latino accent :) ahoehoahoe :) mantaaabbbss !!!

Rest of the evening was just as lovely......Located @ cliff with no fench that makes it quite dangerous for running toddlers, *basically salah jalan .... plung u fall ... see ya in heaven*.... with a splendid breathtaking view of the sea and clear bluish orangish sky ... perfected by the smooth breeze of wind... none of us waste our time sitting around, instead : straight away cam whoring :) ... while Arief & El sibuk foto keluarga... kita sibuk foto keluarga BCS di samping cliff :)

We were treated with a sumptuous dinner: gila hr itu gua beneran makan enak banget dari pagi sampe malem ... seafood di siang, tirtha food at night.

Gua suka chicken mushroom saute nya, salmon and potato, delicate beef, sate...risol en lumpianya aja enak !!!! gila gua makan udah ga kira kira dah...

Then I save my stomach for dessert manteb juga : highlight : mango cocktail and orange cheese cakenya.... ENAKKKKKK !!!!!

Malem2 Arief & El unjuk talent :) Dia orang folkstrod bok !! Keren dancenya :) all the worries you have is now all gone El ... gua nyangka Arief can pull it off so well :) salutttteeee !!! susah oi dancenya..... en it was skillfully, sweetly, romantically executed :)

Overall

a very eventful memorable enchanted evening

a very rewarding get away....

and a blessed marriage journey of Rief & El just begin :) thanks for bringing us

Bali I'll be back

bombie {=^o^=}

the union of Hiro Nakamura & Ayumi dopelganger

2011-04-22T02:12:00.000-07:00

@ Airport now
nungguin waktu terbang ke Bali..

jadi weekend ini... Hiro Nakamura bakalan bersatu sama Ayumi ....
hauheuahueha.... off course I'm talking about Arief & El...
banyak yg bilang Arief mirip Hiro (menurut gua cakepan Arief.... kasih tau si Arip geh El)
belon ada yg bilang seh kl El mirip Ayumi....tapi kl kalian liat salah satu profile pics El di facebook.... u'll agree with me .... cari yg rambut El pirang abies en dia kayak orang Jepang pol di foto itu....

gua....excited..
tapi jg capek banget...mungkin gara2 kurang tidur sepanjang minggu ini for such a hectic weekend :p.. ahuehuah :)

anyway I wanna talk abt sth else..
mengenai puasa gua minggu lalu...
jadi minggu lalu gua puasa ikan lagi (minum doang kagak makan)
since gereja ada puasa raya, gua decided to join... en tadinya gua mo full 10 hari puasa ikan
apa daya minggu kemaren TLG Danz cukup banyak itinerary ....

jadi dari senen tgl 11 April gua puasa sampe minggu siang 18 April jam 3.30 pm tepatnya : gua buka puasa after 6.5 hari makan air, angin ...en kadang2 makan ati jg .. ahhahah :P

what's amazing is : kl emang hati kita niat puasa, there is no way God will allow anything bad happen to your body ...ada Amen sodara2 ? quite a few amazing things happen in between...
another thing is : this is the longest I've ever gone without food.. dulu2 puasa ikan gua hanya berlangsung max 5 hari ...

off course gua jg bermaksud sekalian detox sambil puasa...
and that's what happen.. pernah denger dong yg detox lemon 10 hari itu ? nah gua belon pernah sampe neh 10 hari...

dan selama gua jalanin yg 5 hari itu...gua belon ngerasa efek indahnya si detox sampe yg WOW !!
katanya neh konon : bisa sampe kulit muka terasa mulus...badan kerasa ringan...de es be de es te..

nah ... untuk pertama kalinya di puasa kali ini..I feel all that..
so di hari minggu malem waktu gua mandi... kerasa banget kl kulit gua itu muluuuuuuuuuuussssss bangett.

waktu nari hari sabtu sore di TLG pun, walaupun itu gua belon makan 6 hari .... badan kerasa ringan waktu nari.... sedikit ringan sampe mo melayang (nah yg ini gejala puyeng maksudnya)... cuman beneran ringan bahagia deh hari itu hari...

so I think.....I might just do it again.... this fish fast
akan gua coba 10 hari... I will train my body in between

however, I will also remind on the danger of this detox program ( kl tidak disertai dgn doa & puasa):

1> it's not easy. train your body first...I've train my body for 2 days fast, terus 3 days, terus 5 days,then I go with 7 now. Jgn dipaksa...kl ga sanggup pls langsung makan

2> orang bilang this might be a way to loose weight fast... which is quite true... however we'll also lost muscle.... karena itulah timbangan turun drastis karena fat lebih ringan dari muscle...

alasan yg kedua inilah yg bikin gua decide buat break di hari minggu siang sebelom latian nari musical perdana, karena gua tau gua perlu tenaga anddd... nari itu perlu muscle..
although badan terasa ringan...gua ngerasa kaki gua capek naek tangga...padahal tangga rumah gua doang.... sementara track gua biasanya tangga serangooon MRT yg ada sekitar 5 X 10 anak tangga
walau badan emang kerasa ringan dibawa kemana mana ... tapi tetep kerasa gitu kl emang otot jadi sedikit kurang kenceng (although mah emang otot gua ga pernah kenceng pada dasarnya...ahuehauheuahuehau ) tapi bukan itu intinya.... intinya as an adult kita tau lah yah composisi badan kita gimana...

so akhirnya gua break di minggu siang walaupun tadinya gua masih mau lanjut sampe rabu tanggal 20 April kemaren..

Thank God... it was the right decision. Karena latian dari Mbak Gillian Sastra adalah latian yang kejam bagi body yg belon makan 6 hari, en bagi dancer2 yg baru tau how FIT Gill is, namun penuh arti en cinta bagi otot2 musical dancers prodigal daughter !!!

all in all...it's a good fast (kulit gua masih halus, badan msh kerasa sehat, tidur masih pulesh... en it's really good detoxing).... it's a good experience... it's a good week....

He's a SUPERBLY GOOD GOD ...
died at the cross..
for u en me..
that we can have this gooooooddd life..

CIAO !!!
c ya nex wk
Bali here I come

bombie {=^o^=}

nope lembar gocengan sama dengan cetiao

2011-04-19T09:47:00.000-07:00

so .... gua bakal ke BALIIIIII this weekend...

phew phew phew...

I am.. EXCITED !! uhuy !!!

jadi buat persiapan ke Bali ini... tertulis di agenda gua kl gua harus beli Rupiah...

jadilah gua ngantri tadi siang beli rupiah..

btw : ratenya lagi fantastic sodara2 :) ahoehaoe :) 1 SGD = 6900 Rupiah

so gua mo beli se-jut rup aja buat bawa ke Bali...

bayar 145 Sing... huah terharu gua :P

setelah ngantri sekian lama (setengah jam), sampe lah giliran gua...

orang2 di depan tuker sampe ceceng sing, go ceng sing dollar..

gua.... pek go :P... haha :P *small fry*

en mungkin gara2 itulah... gua dikasih... tebak sodara2..

gua dikasih 200 LEMBAR GOCENGAN !!

haih... lemesh gua...

cuman bawa cetiao doang...gua perlu amplop ke Bali... astagaa....

dgn muka yg kurang percaya, shock, mashgyul, en lemesh....

gua jalan balik ke kantor..

gimana caranya bawa 200 lembar gocengan ke baliiiii sodara2 ??? haih si mas teh nyusain atuh ...

bombie {=^o^=}

Gaga Rio

2011-04-15T22:02:00.000-07:00

You guys know who she is. Yup she's Gaga...

What I want you to know is ...or if you have knew it : she's wearing a dress designed by an INDONESIAN ... name : Tex Saverio. More known as Rio (kayak pelem2 si burung yg lg terkenal itu)

and another thing that I want to let you know is : I have heard, or knew about this Tex Saverio from last year .... why ?

and this is the OMG part :

HE'S MY SISTER WEDDING GOWN DESIGNER !!!!!!!!!!!! AND HE'S MY SISTER HIGH SCHOOL MATE (SMAK 1)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I've been to his house, seen his gigantic humongous over the top design that he displayed, been impressed by a dress that's more like for Ice Queen in Narnia to wear, been frightened on how my sis wedding gown gonna look like if it's designed by him...... but it has never....ever .....crossed my mind kl dia bakal di pick sama Gaga for Harper Bazar's issue..... even E NEWS (USA) is talking about her shot in Bazar's (tapi ga kasih tau sapa designernya)....

selamat dah De... you've spotted a potential world class designer .... salute!!

*I promise from now on buat berenti protes sama harga gown nya dede gua yg seroket......... instead : Thank God udah deal taon lalu.... kl sekarang... berapa pul jeti jadinye ? * hohoohohoo

heee hee.... jd sedikit bangga neh sama designer indo :P heheheeee

bombie {=^o^=}

nyang lagi terharu...

tp tetep ga bakal bikin sama Tex this time around ...hahaha... ntar keluarnya drama lagi...ruephuot :P

hororrrrr

2011-04-13T06:13:00.000-07:00

teman teman

teman teman...

TEMAN TEMANNN !!!!

udah Aprilllllllllllll

dan gua msh ga tau mo nulis apa di blog ini... haih ?!

ya udah gua ceritain cerita horror aja lah yah, seputar seputar Singapore

Minggu lalu gua denger cerita on a client yg telepon minta di block accountnya. Kenapa ? Karena that Friday, dia ambil uang di atm kita. Selesai dia ambil, balik badan, to his horror : ada orang yg dengan ga tau malunya dan pedenya en ga ada sorry sorrynya record pake camera his Pin number en account balance.

Itu orang udah ga tau diri, ga kabur pula. Sang client pun kaget, ngomel.. and according to his own word : he got abusive to that cameraman kurang ajar.

Gua cuman denger ceritanya dari another colleague so I dont know what happen next. I'm just shock enough !! GILAAA ...yg kyk gini kejadian di Singapore, while di Indo lagi heboh sama si Melinda Dee, tante silikon yg konon full plastic surgery en bawa lari duit orang, plush heboh kematian sekjen partai gara2 debt collector.

On the other part of the world, gua baca di kompas.com, ga tau dari twitter sapa, ini another cerita horor bego kl gua bilang.

So konon ada satu orang fotomodel Brazil yg foto sama uler Cobra yg cukup ganas. Konon lagi si model ini suka gaya2 'panas'. Entah napa si model pengen bikin si uler 'panas' juga. Ga tau dah motivasi dia apa... yg pasti dia cium2 si uler ...sampe pake acara jilet si ular apa gimana gua ga lupa kompas ngomong apa..

eh, beneran si uler jadi panas : dia patok breast tuh cewek....

so what happen next ? u probably guess that the model died..... uh uh....wrong

yg meninggal : si uler !!! why ? coz si uler kena patok silikon yg implanted di breast tuh cewek en dia kena racun silikonnya, lalu E O : keok .... muatek..

hebat silikon !! ato hebat tuh model ? haha..whatever it is... buat gua ini amazing stories...even more amazing that kompas masukin cerita ginian..... jreng !!

yah sekian cerita2 horor yg gua tau...

banyak cerita 'horor' lain seputar kawinan since di sekitar gua yg married ada 3: El, cousin gua, dede gua..

but well..those stories are for me to keep...

as are other stories I have kept in all wedding I've helped... well...fact is : there will always be that 'lil grumbling moment' between groom & bride to be due to the stress level of wedding preparation. That's perfectly normal...

so buat yg udah mo married : just embrace it...it's the complete package of the marriage deal anyway :)

and lastly from me : SELAMAT BERJUANG !!! FIGHTING !!! ALL THE BEST !!!

hauheuahue :)

bombie {=^o^=}

the beginning of a new decade

2011-04-03T08:28:00.000-07:00

Okay

Jadi ulang taon gua minggu lalu went like this:

Kamis March 24:

never thot of this. Tp my colleague had a surprise for me.

So intinya gua dibawa ke lunch sama my usual lunch partner Alice. Jadi gua ga suspect apa2 waktu mo nge lunch, even though tumben2an dia mo makan Pasta di Riccotti bareng gua. Biasanya mah susah bener ajak dia makan bule di tempat yg agak sedikit lebih mahal just for lunch only seh.

En wkt nyari tempat duduk, gua heran napa dia belok ke dalem padahal di luar banyak seats. Taunya pas gua ikutan belok, masuk ke dalem, a total of 4 friends have waited for me there. They are a mixed of my closest colleagues throughout my 7 years, yg masih lasted in our team..

It was quite a nice surprise, the fact that susah buat gua to imagine gathering them altogether buat duduk & makan bareng. Each are close to me, tapi kl digabung, well.. ga smua cocok lah. So to see them gather together...yah.. seneng lah yah :P

Then Jumat March 25

I was on leave. So I decided for lil journey to the west : homey NUS. Took train to harborfront, naek 143 dari sana, berenti di Fong Seng, beli Ice Milo, passed by Eusoff hall, jalan towards Arts from LT 13, all the way ke Arts canteen yg udah kena Reno, langsung head straight to laksa stall and order as much as I want (9 Item laksa with rice) for just : guess !! 2.7 Dollar !!

Gilee kan murahnya. Abis makan, jalan2 along Arts fac towards Central Library. Sepanjang jalan lg ada bazaar so iseng2 gua beli stuffs that you cant find to be so cheap outside.

Then I landed at CO-OP :) And beli lagi barang2 yg gua suka dari CO-OP: Food :) hahahha :) And then I head home to prepare dinner :) Friday nite, sacred society gather di rumah gua for eat pray love session.

and pass midnite : gua minta sama membersnya especially not to buy cake. Just pray for me will do karena gua akan masuk denial mode kl gua udah.....well .. u noe lah berapa :P

Saturday March 26

The deadline. Wake up, gua change my mind from going to message appointment jam 10.30 yg ga bisa gua datengin on time. Gua cancel appointment gua, terus gua decide to catch a movie to NEX at 10.45 AM. Kosong :) happy :)

I watched Morning Glory. Review says it's not good. But, I cried and I enjoyed the movie so much :) Coz: it filmed in New York, and I love TV. So a movie about TV business is definitely interesting :) Lesson learnt : review doesn't always count as a good gauge.

Selesai nonton gua lanjut ke Kenko Spa di Esplanade. Did a full treatment that tooks 2.5 hours. By 5, gua selesai feeling fresh and rejuvenated.

Then..gua bingung mo kemana :) Yg pasti gua mo ke Orchard. So gua harus naek bus dong dari Esplanade? nah di saat seperti itulah, fate brought me back to where I should be : ohgs !!

bus 36 berenti di depan mata gua at esplanade bus stop exactly when I stepped into it. Sampe di dhobby ghout, tiba2 naeklah Mooya yg nyapa gua kenceng2 : Ci...Happy Birthday !!

Satu bus ngeliat..... sutralah =P ahhahaha :P

Then gua denger dr Mooya kl hari itu yg khotbah : Chris Long. Wuih, sutralah. Destiny brought me to OHGS for a good time. Coz rencana awalnya gua ga bakalan visit OHGS at all.

Sampe di OHGS, ketemu Gill, Raimond, Ieie, Menthol, de el el yg nyalamin gua.

Terus cabut ke Tony Romas sebrangnya OHGS for a jolly good time with my family :) Dinner, lalu pulang.

There... how I spent a good 2 days of celebracion.

Another surprise on Sunday : a gift from TLG Danz-ers

Thanks Girls... Pasti gua pake soon hadiahnya en show it to you girls :) ahueauhe

yup..

i'm 30

bombie {=^o^=}

new decade

2011-03-30T09:47:00.000-07:00

Finally....

I am..

the new 20 !!!!

HUH !!! TLGers beat that !! there's a new teenage girl in town !!! me !!!

hahahhaha :)

*denial mode*