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15 December 2008 | 15:19:42 PM

This is what my day looks like since 2 (or is it 3?) days ago:

SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER

15.00: Arrives at Olip's place for the family dinner
16.00: Heads to No Signboard Restaurant @ Pacific Place
17.00: Guests appears, making my rounds as on-duty family photographer :P
17.30: Dinner begins
22.00: Dinner finally ends with the last guests gone home
23.00: Arrives back at Olip's place, where I'm staying for the night a couple hours.

SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER

00.15ish: Finally gone to bed
02.00: Woken up by Olip & Tari, because apparently I have selective hearing when asleep (completely ignoring my roaring alarm LOL, sorry girls :P)
02.30: Heads to a beauty salon at Melawai where Olip's doing her face and hair done for her wedding
02.50: Arrives at salon
03.40: Failed multiple attempts to sleep
04.00: Ordered two meals at McDonald's because starving
07.15: Make-up and hair (finally!) done
07.50: Arrives back at Olip's place with Hammy (who came around 5-6? to take Olip's preparation photos)
09.00: Finish showering, and is blow-drying my hair when Eric arrived to begin morning wedding schedule stuff
10.20: Heads to Kristus Salvator Church with Hammy and the Purple Team LOL
11.30: Church ceremony begins
12.30ish: Eric & Olip reading their wedding vows in tears :P, followed by them expressing their thankyous for the parents where everyone started crying
13.30: Church ceremony ends, Eric & Olip is officially a married couple!
14.15: I'm off to Balai Samudera, Kelapa Gading where the reception is going to be held
15.10: Makeup session for me!
16.10: My face and hair done
16.15: Lounging for a bit with Olip
17.15: Putting on my dress
17.30: Rehearsal time for bridesmaids & groomsmen entrance
18.00: Early dinner for family and everyone that are on-duty for the night
18.45: Waiting for our turn to enter the reception area in style :P
19.00: Reception officially begins. I entered the hall with groomsman Mamad, my partner for the night
22.30: Leaves Balai Samudera with VP crew, speeding all the way through to get ready for Olip's surprise birthday at Mulia Hotel

MONDAY 15 DECEMBER

00.00: HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLIP!!!! (20+ people came through Eric & Olip's hotel room LOL)
01.30: Leaves Mulia Hotel with Mikael & Nia
02.00: Home sweet home, finally.
02.45: Finally finishes pulling all those hairpins out of my hair and shower (yes, I showered at almost 3 AM! And I washed my hair too, it's dying from hairspray overdose)
03.00: Hybernation period begins.

... and I woke up at 1 PM, with my whole feet feeling like jelly. Gaaaah. But nevertheless, it was a great night, catching up old Recis friends etc. who came for the wedding. Eric & Olip looked radiant, and me and Amonk managed to catch the garter (I'm somewhat pissed because the person who caught the wedding bouquet is a GUY. Psh.), and since I sort of forgot that I'm wearing a dress, hopefully no nipple showage during the garter-catching XD

So obviously I'm taking a day off. My feet needs resting, and maybe I'm gonna grab another shut-eye in a couple minutes.

On assumptions.

04 November 2008 | 14:48:56 PM

Assumption is a very risky move. Assume the wrong thing, and you'll be an ass. Nevertheless, people keep assuming things. You assume that the other person already knew, you assume the other person does / doesn't wait, you assume things will be the way you want it to be. But in many cases, how many times have you been proven wrong? How many times have people complained to you "Why didn't you tell me?", to which you replied: "I thought you knew..."

The problem with assumption is that you don't know exactly WHAT the other person is doing/thinking/knowing, yet you act as if you know. Not only it's a waste of time, it can be irritating to the other person as well, and could lead to one hell of a fight. All these can be prevented by a simple act: ASK. Find out what the other person is doing/thinking, or let the other person know what you are going to do. It shouldn't take longer than roughly a minute, but why so many people skip this part?

Is it a habit, laziness, or just pure selfishness?

It's just like that silly little wordplay: ASSUME is making an ASS out of U and ME :)

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03 November 2008 | 22:12:52 PM

On food and other stuff in life.

19 October 2008 | 21:08:03 PM

Listening: Keane - Bedshaped

There is something oddly satisfying when you are doing something that you know is so, so wrong (and yet so, so good). Get your mind out of the gutter, my dirty-minded friends. I'm just talking about non-healthy food. As for you who doesn't know, I'm a self-professed junkfood/non-healthy food junky. Gimme food or drink with amazingly sick amount of oil and/or fat and/or cream, and I is will heart you forever.

I mean, I'm aware of the health risk of eating ramen with pork-fat globules happily swimming in it, or munching down the oily bits on a chunk of steak. Hence I try not to do it as often - if you don't count one/two times a week as 'often' (and if I indulge myself on this sinful pleasure every day.. where's the fun in that?) I eat all the normal/healthy-ish food that my mom feeds me. I even drink the occasional green/chinese tea to wash away the fat from the food I consumed; like I did tonight. As I drink my second cup of green tea I can sort of feel it silently flow inside my body, taking the fatty bits of pork samchan with it :P I also know that I'm gonna pee like a race horse tonight. Alas, to my mom's surprise, I have a healthy level of cholesterol for someone who eats a lot of meat and all its oily parts *heh*

Okay, other than I'm a self-professed non-healthy food junky, I'm also a TV-show junky. There are a couple of titles that I watch somewhat religiously (on DVD, because in this hellhole that is Indonesia all we get is crappy local sinetrons, not the good stuff). My closest friends know that I'm huge fan of: CSI Las Vegas, House, Grey's Anatomy, and Las Vegas. I've been catching up on my beloved TV shows during the Lebaran holiday week, and now I'm running out of stuff to watch. However, I managed to download the premiere episodes from the newest season of CSI Las Vegas and Grey's Anatomy.

Haven't seen the Grey's Anatomy premiere yet, but CSI Las Vegas 9x01 is da bomb!! *to be said in the most geekiest way possible* I've replayed it maybe 5 times since I watched it for the first time. It -is- that good. It's probably one of the most dramatic episode ever, because it features the death of character Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan). And since Dourdan is one of the cast ensemble from the very first episode of CSI, as a viewer I would think he needs to get a very powerful exit. And CSI delivers. Total awesomage.

Okay, back to me. Health-wise, I think I'm going downwards :/ Developing signs of cold, with the sorethroat and stuffed nose (it's common knowledge that the cold virus circulate freely at the office like a vicious circle). Also currently has an annoying ulcer located at back of my tongue. Makes eating a somewhat horrible activity :( I'm starting to down all the vitamins and meds (dosage is carefully maintained to avoid overdosisms :P) because I have a trip planned for next weekend, and am very looking forward to it.

Work-wise, I'm kind of swamped. With official work is constantly flowing, and a couple of side-projects going on, I can barely keep up. Have to keep telling myself that procrastinating won't get me anywhere, but I'm gonna get it done. Promise.

(Wow, not a bad post for a lazy blogger like moi :D)

I will be okay.

03 October 2008 | 0:52:30 AM

Today I realised, that I can actually stop caring. It's something that have never crossed my mind before, yet today it seems like a plausible idea. Doesn't mean that I want to, though. But with the way things are, the way YOU are, the way things never changed for real.. I'm guessing it's just down to a matter of when. When I finally. Stop. Caring. At all.

Today I realised that I can actually stop caring. But the scarier part is that by then you'd probably be too far gone to even notice. Or maybe finding out that you never noticed at all.

And that's when I realised that although I can actually stop caring, I don't want to stop. Yet.

I'm hanging on another day
Just to see what, you will throw my way
And I'm hanging on, to the words you say
You said that I will, will be okay
The broken light on the freeway
Left me here alone
I may have lost my way now
But I haven't forgotten my way home

I'm falling apart
I'm barely breathing
With a broken heart
That's still beating
In the pain
There is healing
In your name
I find meaning
So I'm holding on
Barely holding on to you

-- Lifehouse {Broken}