TOEFL Ibt

If all goes well, I'll be having my TOEFL Ibt Exam next Sunday.
This test will be a back up for the requirements from any Universities that I am looking forward to go to next year (hopefully).

If you read this, please keep me in your prayer, or at least, say a little pray for me.
It means a lot to me :)

Thank you and wish me luck.
God bless.

C'est la vie

Last Tuesday I had a day off. As usual, I was planning to do everything that I couldn't do during my working days - 6/7 -.

At first I decided to go for gym, but since I woke up (considered) quite late, I decided to just wash the car and count it as another form of exercise. And after that I planned to watch movie(s). I knew I would watch the movie on my own, since everyone else is working, but that doesn't bother me at all since I am used to it already. So I finished washing the car at 11, then I took shower and I went to the cinema for a 12 O'clock Movie which was, Step Up 3D.
I thought the movie was inspiring. I've always wanted to dance, though even until now I've never had the chance to dance. I can't find one here in my hometown. And I remember there was a time when I wanted to go to a dancing studio in Malaysia, just a few meter walking to the studio, I got a very painful accident, hit by a motorbike. So there was it. I thought I've never meant to be a dancer or even to dance.

But this movie, it wasn't just about dancing. I learned how to not give up to the thing that we want to achieve in our lives. And in country like America, chances are quite a lot, unlike Indonesia. Having watching this movie, it pushed me to aim higher and to think positively. Not giving up and keep on asking and praying. I've this feeling that one day I'll fulfill my dream. Not a very clear one at the moment, but it's something much better than my current situation.

Finished with that, I went for lunch by myself, and I went again for another movie, "Eat, Pray and Love", but this time, with my brother.Honestly, I don't really like the story line of the movie,it wasn't really clear for me, but one thing that I liked was the traveling part. Italy was really interesting. I learned a bit of Italian culture from there (the hands moving and the lifestyle). It's so true when they talked about how Americans are so busy with their work and they concern so much about their appearance, til they don't enjoy life as much as the Italians do. Hmm... In terms of appearance, you can see it clearly how they much they spend their time in the gym working out on their body, though it works for some of them :). But for the working adults, it's just so real that they're really stressed out with their daily work hectic.
Life oh Life..

Anyway, finished with that I went home for a while and moved on to the French class. Man, French is getting more difficult. And I can't find a time to work on it other than in class. fiuhh.. -_-"/..

Prayer for my beloved Grandma

My Grandma will be having an operation tomorrow morning..

Please pray for her, that everything will alright..

If only I had weekend, I WOULD HAVE already gone there and waited for her, with my mom and aunts..

I HATE working on weekends! sighhh.
I hope there's something greater to come.
I do hope and believe that He's got a Bigger plan for me, something exciting!! :)

All I want is VACATION part.1

I am back to Balikpapan after a week of super short yet exciting vacation. Thanks be to God for the little time that I managed to get away from work. It was a NICE ESCAPE.
The vacation was really packed as I could call it. You wanna know why? That's because I went to 3 countries within that ONE week! Some of you might have done that before, I suppose.. :)

Sept 30th afternoon, I left for Singapore..
Oct 1st midnight, I moved on to Malaysia..
Oct 3rd morning, I went to Thailand..
Oct 5th afternoon, I was back in Malaysia..
Oct 6th afternoon, I was back home in the evening..
Oct 7th afternoon, I was back to work.

So now, what do you think??? ;p

Singapore..

Thank you Meity, for a very comfortable room to stay in. You've really got a really nice room there! ;) thanks for calling Adrian, accompanying me to get a bus ticket to Malaysia, and every other things!
Thank you Dian, Daniel, Adrian for making it to meet up even just for a dinner. I love you all! and Dian, for taking me to the local dessert in town! Bugis area ;) and also for paying my MRT! hehe..
Last but not least, for sure, thank you Nadia!! for your time spent with me at Universal! you companionship really meant a lot for me :) and especially that it was on your birthday. Thank you also for picking me up at the airport! all the way from your school to airport and just to send me to meet my friends at City Hall :)



Malaysia..

I arrived at Jalan Imbi - Berjaya Times Square at 5 o'clock in the morning. And that time, Tracie who was coming to pick me up, she was still on her way from Melaka. Thank God I saw a 24-hour Mamak restaurant nearby, so I decided to go there. I ordered Roti Canai and Hot Milo while waiting for her. Luckily I had my Canai here orelse I wouldn't have time to have Roti Canai at all. An hour after, Tracie came and picked me up to her house. And we rested for an hour before we headed to MidValley for shopping! :) Bought a wedding gift for my newly wed friend, Cassie as well.

Met up with Tee (college's friend) at Chillis'. I always want to go to Chillis for no exact reason. Even when I was there, I didn't actually want to order the Nachos. but the Fries was really good! ;p


At 5.30 PM I left MidValley to go for Mass at SFX. Thought the mass started at 6PM but actually it started at 6.30PM. Anyhow, I was glad to reach there early for the Prayer with Mother Mary. Cos it was the first week of the month.

I already made appointment with Gaby for attending mass together, but God brought more than a Gaby. :) He brought Crisabel, Emily, Stephie, Peter Toyat and many more! Praise God that I was able to see many of them altogether :)

After the mass, Gaby and I headed to Sunway for dinner. And I got appointment with Cassie as well. So we went to Kim Gary since Zanmai was really full. Cassie gave me Green Tea mooncake because she knew I was craving for the mooncake :p

Later on, Aaron Lee, Aaron Leong and Rowena came. Thank you for coming guys! :)



I shall let the story be continued... gotta go back to work! ;p

Happy Eid Mubarak 1431 H

I am off from work today. :)
The day started at -+11AM when I left my house to go for visitations :)

1st Place was Renny's, my Junior High school bff..
There I had bakso, chicken satay, abit of sambal goreng kentang, and Nastar for sure :)
2nd Place was my GM's apartment at the hotel itself.
There I had a buras and chicken ala Makassar. :)

3rd Place was a colleague's house, mba Midhe.
There I had a cup of es campur, yummy! :)And while my friends and I were there, the rain was all of the sudden falling down heavily. Then it got quite down a little bit, so me and my friend decided to just go back to the hotel before we got really stuck there. Man oh Man, a few seconds after leaving the house, the rain got heavier. and that we were on a motorbike. So we ended up wet! It was something cool though. hehe. knowing that I don't get under the rain at most of the time.
Arriving at the hotel, I straight away went to the nearest department that was House Keeping and got myself a towel.


Before, I was planning to visit Lina's place as the next destination, but since it was raining heavily, I decided to go home. However, on the way back, the rain wasn't too heavy, so I changed my mind and decided to drop by to her house. and I made it!
So the 4th Place was my bff, Lina's house.
Had a couple of cookies and a glass of Sprite over there :)

Then I went back home at around 3PM. And at 4PM, I was off to Church to meet up some Legioners for our task, that was to visit the fire victims at Klandasan.
So there were me, Tomas, and Risna. Just the three of us instead of the five as planned earlier.. a little bit disappointed, but well, there were at least three not just me and Risna. God brought Tomas to us.

So there we went, saw the area where the fire had burnt down the houses.. there were more than 100 families who have lost their houses and belongings. (I have no photos of the area yet atm). There was a lady, Mrs. Yuni who showed us around and in the end of our visit, we prayed together. She joined us in prayer though she is a Muslim :) In the end I gave her a bit of food and snacks, which me and my friend received as a Lebaran present from a Loyal Client in the hotel where we work at.

We finished at 5PM and Tomas and I decided to go for daily mass at 6PM. To kill the time, we went to Le Grandeur hotel to have a look at the gym facilities, cos Tomas' looking for one..
Fast forward, I am so glad that I made it for mass today because we were given the wine as well during the communion.^^ I guess that was the first time ever I had it here in Balikpapan. :) So it was good..

After mass, heading back home, meeting the family and again, I went out with them for a dinner. A lot of restaurants were closed and we ended up having the dinner at Pacific Hotel***. It was not so great, but just enough :)

Thank You Lord for this special Beautiful and Blessed Day ^^, I Love You.

Happy Birthday Mom Mary!

Hello!

First of all,
Let it be according to Your will...

As usual, I have only 1 day off in a week. So that one day is generally always packed. ;p and no wonder if there's at least a thing or two that I miss out.

Anyway, as for yesterday, morning was reserved for Gym. And then it was Mother Mary's birthday. Honestly, I didn't plan for this.. And I even already had a schedule for the day.
But while I was at the gym, this idea came up, that I wanted to get roses for Her bday. And so I texted a friend of mine. And she was interested to do the same, so we met up and bought 4 Roses and 2 Polianthes Tuberosas. So 2 roses and 1 Polianthes Tuberosa for Mother Mary's at St. Clement and another couple of flowers for the one at St. Theresa.. Prayed Rosary as well for each place.. And before this, I asked another friend of mine, what shall we do to celebrate Mother's bday and he said it's good to pray the Rosary and to attend daily mass. And I said to myself, "But I have an appointment already for a reunion with my friends.. What am I supposed to do? I don't have many days off and they're here for just a week maybe.." But I asked Him that He'd give me what's best. :)

Next, heading back home, had a quick lunch and moved on to E-Walk. There, got an appointment with another friend for T-shirt design. We met up at Starbucks. (Rp.43,000 gone just for a cup of Hot Green Tea latte with soya..). The design looks cool so far. It's still on a paper, so I have to draw it on computer, print, and bring it to the meeting of Legion of Mary on Sunday.

The day didn't end yet.. finished with that, I went back home and turned the computer on to be able to get in touch with my friends whom I was supposed to meet up afterwards. (Worst of all, I didn't have the no. of some friends in my phone!). Okay, so i was trying to call Lina, couldn't reach her since afternoon.. And at 5.30pm she finally called me and said that she was not feeling well. Another friend, Renny, she was like, having another appointment at 7pm; Nisa, she didn't get back to me (until night time, was busy); and voila, there were me and Ricka.. So I thought I'd be better if we just postponed it.. So it was postponed, til I don't know when but I hope to visit each of them tomorrow :)
And in the end, it was God that I headed to. I went for Mass! :) I made it!
And after it finished, I was invited to pray for Rosary with some Legioners. And that was my 4th Rosary of the day. Felt sooo blessed :)

Not finished yet, after the Rosary, I moved on back to E-Walk! haha. Meeting up with Tomas again and we went for a movie "the Expendables". We finally made it for the movie! ;p It's almost been a month when we planned to watch it. lol.

Felt bad to my bro though, cos I was using the car (as usual) for the entire day. My bad, but then, he should have told me earlier if he wanted to use the car, instead of getting angry at me and my parents.

I guess I'll have no vehicle tomorrow for Lebaran visitation.. well, there's always a way - Angkot! yeay! =D

Happy Raya to all of you who celebrate it! ^^,
Mohon maaf lahir dan bathin..
Have a super awesome one!!!

God bless.

Butter cake

I finally managed to make a butter cake/muffin!
Thanks to Tracie for the recipe! hehe..

A friend from Holland is back!

Mr. Kaak is back to Balikpapan! =D
This time he took his friend with him, Madame Elizabeth.
I ♥ them ^^,