Year 2009 ..

will be just hours away .. 2008, the year of most Chinese people considered as lucky year is soon gonna end .. what did I accomplished? Well not much I suppose ... other than gaining lots of new friends, more settling in work wise .. I don't think I've accomplished anything extravagant over the year.

However, as crazy as it might sound, I did feel proud and happy that I finally be able to realizing my big trip to taiwan and HK on my own expense. I know I had travelled on my own expense before but never as big as this is. Though yes I felt so poorly bankrupt at the end, 'till now .. but I'm happy that I'm capable of it haha. I know I'm not even making any sense here .. but anyway, I guess that was my biggest achievement this year, to my own standard of achievement of course.

As of my end of the year holiday .. I practically didn't do much. I was so reluctant to go out of the house for some reason, I guess I was so fed up and tired with the Jakarta condition. So I stayed at home mostly, where I feel most comfortable at and drowning myself with the stories of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan ... yes! I was so into the characters and the stories. Big praise for Stephenie Meyer. I've never been so intense and fast in reading any books, finishing 600 over pages in less than a week? WOW! A new record!! And how can you not love Edward Cullen ... "I promise to love you forever, every single day of forever, will you marry me?" -- cheesy line for guys ey? But hey, it definitely works for gals, that's the line Edward did in proposing to Bella. OMG!!! I've never actually thought myself of being so romantically involved with a character ... well, that did it!! Though that was just one of many other breath taking lines Edward said in the book.

I'm now in book 4 of the saga - Breaking Dawn where Edward and Bella are finally bind in holy matrimony, I have yet to learn what the ending of this book but gladly what I learned today from browsing the Net, there will be 5th book of the Saga called Midnight Sun ... yey!! It's Stephenie's ongoing work for the time being, as her first draft of the Midnight Sun was leaked through Internet so it has been re-write ... but the stories of Edward and Bella will continue :)


Other than drowning myself into this unbelievable "fiction" story yet so real .. I'm also Heart.Beating with LH's latest album .. the anticipated album of the yearend is finally out. So far all the songs are well ear-accepted except track number 9, but knowing LH, in order to enjoy his masterpiece, we have to listen to them over and over again. Well done Homie, you did yet again another fantastic job .. with the albums and your brilliant performance with the HKPO.


Happy New Year everyone ... hope the year 2009 will be much better than this year, will bring you more joy, luck, health, wealth and happiness to each and everyone of you! Enjoy!!

Boxing day

I'm not even too sure what exactly is boxing day ... is it where all people start boxing at each other? LOL .. I got to know boxing day, of course when I was in Aussie, but yet I've never actually found out what it actually means, all I know it was 1 day after Christmas which means longer holiday for us, though it wasn't much different 'cos we got like 2 weeks off uni for Christmas if you're not doing Summer Class. Yupe for those who got confused, Summer is December in Australia .. ^^

This year Christmas is considered to be rather quiet for me .. for my fave holiday at least. I didn't put up Christmas tree this year. HUH! I know .. I didn't have time to get it out of the storage and none of my other family even intend to help out! Sigh!! So I spent this year Christmas without anything Christmasy at my house.

So since I didn't have any big plan for the holiday .. other than of course going to church which another good performance my the Youth Choir (again sadly I didn't join this year performance) then followed by Christmas gathering with some friends last night .. with Italian Food and exchanging gifts. Her house was filled with lots of Christmas decoration ... so the spirit was there ...


After dinner, we had our gift exchanged and again whoever got my name knows exactly what I like ... yupe, another My Melody Collections. Gotta take pic of my new collections again.


Other than that, I also received a glasses case from Tika's family .. my xmas gift from Aussie. Thanks all! Which means I finally completed my Twilight Saga Collections, YEY!! ^^ -- Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse (thanks to Tika) and Breaking dawn!! Perfect holiday.

Again ... Merry Christmas People!!! Have a good one!

Christmas Day

Merry Christmas everyone .. this is my first post from home. Yes, I have internet at home now .. FINALLY!! :D

Have a good holiday everybody!!

Merry Christmas

So this is Christmas .. well almost ... in 3 days time, but since today is my last day of work, in case I don't get to online during the holiday, I'll just sum up it all now.

Just can't believe that it's already the end of the year again, time flies really this year, 2008 was the year I've been waiting for 'cos of the Beijing Olympic, that went pass. Then my BIG TRIP went on too, though not so much of my 2008 New Year Resolution actually came true, too many obstacles in making it real. Sadly! But anyway, as this is the holiday season, full of spirit, so it's time to look back and thinking about how you have lived your life, whether you have achieved what you wished for and how happy are you with it ..

Christmas has been and still is my favorite holiday of the year since I was a kid. Being with family, singing Christmas songs, hoping for miracle ... though I've been always dreaming of having WHITE CHRISTMAS, but it's still a dream till now. I mean face it, the only WHITE CHRISTMAS we can get is if only we go to US or Europe along with the Christmas atmosphere, decorations and the feeling. Instead I went to Australia and had HOT CHRISTMAS. But I still enjoyed 'cos the Christmas decorations were all over.

When I still believed in Santa Claus, I've never forgot to shine my shoes, prepared grass for the reindeers and some cookies for Santa -- come to think about it, it's pretty funny yet cute ;p though in some occasion, I would actually still believe in that Big Fat Old Guy, with his friendly smile and those flying reindeers :D I guess that would explain there is still a kid inside me, in fact I won't deny that there will always a kid inside of everyone.

So anyway, Christmas is not only about celebrating the joy of the Birth of Jesus Christ, but it is also an attitude, a new spirit of your life, being with your family and friends and how you reflect yourself with the spirit of the Lord. Christmas is also about letting Jesus Christ to enter your life, recognizing the fact that almost 2000 years ago, He came to this world and give His life for us, to save us. So, while you are out there celebrating Christmas, drinking, having good meal with good friends, don't forget to invite HIM and let HIM enter and be part of your life .. 'coz Christmas is HIS Birthday after all ..

This year Christmas, I hope to live my life like it's the second time around. I hope to appreciate more the time that I have while I'm still here and I hope I can do more to others. I hope there will be no more hunger, poverty and war. Let peace be with you all ... THE WORLD and hope the global economic crisis pass quickly too *grin* so I can start making plan for next year ^^

I also would like to take this opportunity to say that I'm truly sorry for everything I have done that might hurt anyone .. my family, my friends and everyone I know. Also to say thank you for being part of my life 'till this very moment in time .. to those who have touched my life so sincere and opened up my eyes to face the challenge in life to never give up and keep on trying.

And in welcoming the New Year, it's time to take few steps back from your usual perspective and take a good look, whether you have done enough, less or too much. Don't be afraid to seek for help if you think you need one .. we are all here to help each other to make this world, our life a better place to live.

As for me, I wanna live my life to the fullest, I don't know wanna regret on anything .. like this famous quote from some old local Ad, "there is always a first time in everything you do" so don't be afraid to try something new, 'coz you would end up not knowing anything if you don't try.

To one and all .. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas. I suppose that sum up everything.
Happy Holiday everyone ...

celebrations

I had quite a birthday celebrations this year and it seems to be all Italian food .. hmmm it was totally unplanned. First was dinner with the OHI gank at Pizza Hut then lunch with friends at work at Spaghetti House and finally with my 'FRIENDS' gank at Domino Pizza ...

And this was the last celebration for the year .. Early Christmas dinner with the office people at Yoshi on Monday Night .. we had a cross cadeau, and I got the bunny headband. Whoever got me that .. it's Xmas, you know .. I shouldn't get bunny, I should get Santa's hat instead or reindeer horn at least or maybe Angel's wing? LOL

Andy was being traditional rocker guy that night, with his Batik shirt and fan plus his rocker bracelet haha .. what a interesting combination and we sang Dewa's version of "Kangen" .. yupe, he is fluent in Bahasa and Japanese .. 'bule kampung' that what we call him .. haha ^^

And my last gift from my bday ... :)

the end of twilight ..

I'm finishing 'Twilight book' .. by tonight, 498 pages in 5 days .. a new record! For me at least .. :)

I got the 4th book 'Breaking Dawn' today and yes I haven't got the 2nd and 3rd book ... will get "New Moon" hopefully tomorrow. The manager of Periplus bookstore promised me that new batches are coming in tonight so by tomorrow "New Moon" should be in my hand. And I should be getting "Eclipse" by the 22nd Dec the latest .. my xmas holiday is set, gonna spend it with Edward Cullen.

I'm so totally addicted to Edward Cullen and the Cullen's clan ..

Having twilight in hand and the song "Everything" in the player .. what a perfect combination *big grin*

brain overload

Since the announcement of Heart.Beat .. all of sudden I have too much happening at one time. Keep changing plan and schedule -- not to mention the global financial crisis adds up the album issue. So I have to sort the local pre-order (a lot) with price increment and also sorting out the taiwan pre-order ... headache!! And just when I thought that has completely done ruining my day, I had another info that autograph session is cancelled .. NO!! Why are you people doing this to me?

Not that I'm not happy with the album release -- I'm absolutely thrill, but as always the preparation part sucks! Just like prior to the Jakarta concert ... But thankfully I'm doing this all for LH, so I'm not gonna complain much instead I'm gonna enjoy it and learn more about handling different issue in one time.

Plus Christmas holiday is approaching, 2 of my department friends are taking their long annual leave as I'm going to too .. so that makes all of us work extra hard. We need to finish all the works before our leave .. which is quite frustating.

Oh well .. life ain't easy my friend, so might as well enjoy it.

twilight

Everyone should have heard the fuss about the movie .. of course the books by Stephanie Meyers. There are 4 books out up 'till today -- started with Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and the latest one is Breaking Dawn.

I'm a bookie but I'm not really a big fan of those imagination kinds of stories. I do watch Harry Potter, Lords of the Rings but I don't read the books. So when I was told about these series, I wasn't that interested .. specially it includes Vampire .. nah, definitely not my type.

So when the movie was out, I didn't plan to watch it of course .. but heard the review and said it was good plus Puri played Twilight in 3 theaters, so it got me interested. I went anyway, kinda wondering what's the big fuss about.

Less than I expected, I actually like the movie and planning to get the books .. yes books means all of them. But they were gone, I suppose all of people are like me .. get addicted after seeing the movie. Some even fall in love with the character ^^

I personally don't really fond of Robert Pattison as Edward Cullen -- he's not too gorgeous and cool. But as in character, I love Edward Cullen .. coming out from the theater, I feel like having a boyfriend. LOL!!

Here is my fave quotes from the movie, they were in bed after Edward keep asking Bella to stay away from him .. at the end, he was the one who couldn't stand being away .. hmmmm!! Corny yes, but this is my romantic side do the talking .. well typing :)

Edward Cullen: I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore.

Isabella Swan: Then don't.

Anyway, to those who haven't watched .. please do!! It might be a little bit mushy romantic corny kind of movie and yes of course it's unreal, but hey .. it's a movie -- for entertainment purpose, so why not?! :)

Have fun watching people!!

Six packs Homie

Finally .. Lee Hom's new album Heart.Beat (心‧跳) will be out soon enough -- it's gonna be a perfect Christmas' gift. The album is scheduled to be out just 1 day after Christmas -- just PERFECT!! ^^

Pre-order sales in Taiwan will start this coming Friday -- 12 December 2008 to be exact, what a perfect timing that Ling is heading off to Taipei this weekend. Hope you'll be able to attend the autograph session girl :D and snap tons of pics.

As for the Heart.Beat (心‧跳) song .. it's the typical ballad of him, less than I expected from his Chinese Rock What's Wrong With Me or Ai De De Ti. But LH always combines his albums and of course never left his trademark in ballads.

Can't wait .. you have increased my Heart.Beat Homboy ... :)

how old am I?

I had a birthday celebration yesterday with the girls at Pizza Hut in TA ... just a simple meal but wonderful company. Seriously we couldn't stop laughing throughout the night 'till we realized that we were the last 2 tables on the restaurant. We chat almost everyday through emails and we actually meet up quite often but yet there are still lots to laugh and talk about .. you are the best girls!! There were only 8 of us, but I think we were the noisiest amongst .. ^^

Thank you all for made by special day extra special ..

And look at the gifts I got from them .. am I turning 5? Not that I don't like them, of course I love them, look at those cute things? It just got got me thinking, is it normal for me to still like these kinds of things?

And cutlery set? Dede .. what a cute thought indeed! :) Thank you anyway for the lovely thoughts and gifts and thank you for all the wishes everyone had for me yesterday ..

special gift

These are my 2 special gifts I got today .. My Melody cushion and 300 thousand worth of Metro voucher for friends at work .. thanks a lot gals .. they both mean a lot.

- isn't she cute -

another year ...

Yes, as of today I'm entering new days, new beginning, new journeys and new experiences as a 30 years old gal (not consider myself woman just yet :D). Well, everything remains the same -- The routine, the behavior, the people around me .. everything stays the same as I'm living in my 'very moment'. Enjoying it though ..

As for turning 30, there is no special feeling what-so ever. I guess it's kinda true what some people says .. birthday is just another day, the different is just that you'll get older, hopefully get wiser and and you'll get lots of wishes and maybe some presents :D. Some people afraid of getting older, some people afraid of a new experience in life and some people also worry about their uncertain future. I guess I'm in the mixture of all that .. worry about will I find the 'perfect man', the man of my dream, wondering what the future holds for me and afraid of getting older but haven't managed to achieve any of my dreams and a little bit of this and that.

But then again, age is just a number. getting older doesn't mean you have to stop having fun .. anyway, without so much of negative thoughts .. I wanna say to myself, CONGRATULATIONS, you've made it another year, Net.

Thanks to God for every blessings, for everything that happened to me in the past year, thank you for keeping me save, healthy and happy. Thank you for those people around me .. thank you for all your supports, advices, friendships, prayers. thanks to Mom for still caring so much about me .. couldn't live without you for sure.

Thank you all for this year's wonderful journey and for sharing it with me. To all my friends ... love you all! Hope this year I can find my special someone, my perfect man and live happily ever after .. wish me luck! *wink*

Hari ini .. hari yang kau tunggu

bertambah satu tahun, usiamu

Bahagialah kami ...

Yang kuberi, bukan jam dan cincin

Bukan seikat bunga, atau puisi, juga bukan kalung hati

Maaf, bukannya pelit atau gak mua modal sedikit

Yang aku ingin beri padamu, doa setulus hati

Semoga Tuhan melindungi kamu

Serta tercapai semua angan dan cita-citamu

Mudah-mudahan diberi umur panjang,

Sehat selamanya .. selamat ulang tahun

by Jamrud

Happy Birth day from Mayday