rhythm and boom

Monday, July 20, 2009
at 12:31:00 PM

Heyyaa peeps! so sorry for the very very late update on the rhythm and boom fireworks.


Went canoeing on the Friday. Awesome ride! Loved it to the max although the sun was right above us and it was scorching hot. The lake was horridly dirty and there were seaweeds everywhere getting ready to stick to our oars but hey, it was fun! The three layers of sunscreen I used seemed to be ineffective but just in case, so I wont get any sun cancer :P but still, I got way tanner and im not particularly pleased about it.

Anyhoo, last Saturday, there was supposed to be this so-called “rhythm and boom” celebrating the Independence Day – 4th of July! But the weather forecast showed that there were going to be severe thunderstorms so it was rescheduled to the Sunday. So instead, we went for a swim ☺
SO, for the real day of rhythm and boom, we had brunch at this place called sardine. Awesome place and atmosphere. It was right by the lake and it didnt seem like Madison, and somehow it somehow has the high-social-class atmosphere that was quite rare.

Then, off to the park (some park which apparently I don't remember). It was crowded, quite. And the parking fee … wanna guess what the price is? 20 freaking bucks. Uh huh, that’s a lot. And so, as soon as we arrived there, we layed out plastic bags. Whoops, missed the point right there, garbage bags. Those big black bags you use to contain all your stink smelly trash. Yup, those. Tear or cut them and tape them up together. Voila! There you have it, some ridiculously looking carpet but it was enough to get the itchy grass away from skin contact.

Played Frisbee, talked, and laughed. Basically a picnic, while we wait for the awesome fireworks. Seriously, the most spectacular fireworks I have seen in like, ever. I’ve really never seen anything or an fireworks like that before. It was so big and huge like it was coming towards us for us to reach out and hold them. Familiar description? Yep, it was almost like 3D! there was a heart shaped one, a smiley face ☺ and many amazing others. My friend took pictures of them but you cant really see the animation. Still, those are a bunch of amazing pictures.













those last three were supposed to be hearts :DDD hahhaa and i found out that a friend of a friend of mine was proposed right there :) i guess those hearts were for her. maybe :p

Photo credits: Budi
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im back. finally

Thursday, July 16, 2009
at 10:06:00 AM

im back from puncak. im back from being away from my blog for ages. im back to be myself who desperately is desperate.

gah.



i have a post in my sister's mac notes on the rhythm and boom. only one and im gonna update it the next time i steal her laptop. i had a great time at puncak, i'll remember everything and that includes our heart to heart ride in the car, the long hours of singing songs like crazy in the car. we "singles" rock! and im not gonna bother being desperato anymore, hopefully :)


i wont bother updating about the things i missed during the time im away and i wont even update about puncak. im just too lazy.

im eating so much, im gaining more weight plus the 5kgs. im fucking fat i'll tell u that!

till then,

:)
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hotttttttt

Thursday, June 25, 2009
at 12:34:00 AM

okay, so after my last effort to update every day failed, i decided to update after a long long time. im not gonna go into the details like the last posts but a lot happened. and i mean loads! but i've got no mood to update about them. =="

i went to the zoo btw, and it's friggin free! i wonder why :S anyhoo, did i mention that it's fucking hot right now?? well, it's been a burning hell for the last few days and boy, did i get tanner darker. damn it, kulit gosong abis, belang here and there, i dont even want to talk about it. the sun's been scorching really really brightly and the sunblock my sis bought obviously doesnt work ==" never buy the spray type, obviously it doesnt work on me :( plus the temperature is also so hot that my blood's boiling ==" according to one of my friends, we're struck by a heat wave or something, that's why it's so hot. ah gawd, i cant take it!

oh well, im thinking on what to update about. well, one thing's for sure, my sis just got a nose bleed = mimisan. and i dont know what to do since i've never had one before. in my life. so i started calling people and she started freaking out and stuff. boo hoo! i had to stop my assignment and make her a warm drink, take her bottle up to her, get vitamin C, get ice cubes, bla bla bla ... as usual :S


an event?

there was a car accident yesterday right by edgewood. knocked up pretty hard i should say, both cars got their glasses broken and the road was blocked. the bus couldnt get through and so i had to wait inside the bus. of course, i missed the next bus ==" but anyway, my friend fetched me anyway after that. ahhahaha but the bus eventually passed through after a good 15 minutes :)


anything else? hmmm..

nope! just a hot hot hot hot day! more hot days coming ahead im sure, but hey! im off to indo next wednesday :DDD got a paper due next monday, i hope i can do a good job. didnt do so well on the last paper, and the final's up on tuesday. wish me luck luck luck!!


@janet : ga mungkin buffed or super fit. abis itu ga prnh lari lgi, and im eating outside everyday. a lot. gendut like crazy, it's driving me nuts!


omg almost forgot. watched transformers premiere last night! woooohooo :DD was fun, but i was too tired that i slept in some parts. nope, quite a lot. but it was good, though the first was better. i think :))


see ya in 8 days peeeeeeps! im so freakin excited XDDDDDDD
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continuing the update

Friday, June 12, 2009
at 5:25:00 PM

unimportant stuff, but hey! im updating :DDD

back from lunch and bowling. i suck at bowling AND at resisting to eat food. i hope i can control this. watched seven pounds last night. i have no comment on it. it's pretty boring at some parts and a bit confusing, but it was okay when you understand it.


some peeps came over and, my sis and i tidied the whole house in like, 15 minutes? i even vaccumed :P and it was late at 10. glad no one complained. dhina brought fruits for snack. i guess everyone here is trying to control their weight too, which is totally awesome! i'll have more spirit if everyone around me is doing it~

oh, we played frisbee yesterday and went over to michael's frozen custard right after. photos at fb :)

going for volley after this. wheeee! there goes my phone,

ciao!
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run run run

Thursday, June 11, 2009
at 10:43:00 AM

well, jog really. i've been running or jogging plus walking around lake shore these past few days, as you know from my last post. and ...

last wednesday i jogged and walked to picnic point which is the ulitmate end. and i looked it up at google, it's approximately 4 km. and so, when we walked back from there, add another 4 km, totaling up to 8 km. holy shiet that's a lot!

the purple trail
super tiring!
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aw gawd help

Tuesday, June 09, 2009
at 4:14:00 PM

i havent been blogging for ages and gawd, i feel like i should blog but ... things are just not going so well. why? well, last week i just started my summer class: philosophy - ethics

am i jumping around happily? no.

people who took it, with the same teacher, said that it was an easy class. but not for me. maybe coz im taking it in the summer, so everything's so packed and i have short writing assignments every single day. i had my midterm yesterday. i had my presentation 3 days after class started. and i have a paper due next monday.

well, it doesnt sound bad when i remember that it's only from monday to thursday from 10 to 12. okay, so it's not THAT bad. but really, i have to read like a whole lot of pages (50 something yesterday) and most of them are in old english or some philosophical english that basically uses 4 sentences to say 5 words.

best part?! my professor's a bit weird :/ when she laughs you can see all her veins almost popping out of her neck :DDD and she laughs weird too!

okay so, im currently updating from the last time i made the mass update. so i went to chicago on the sunday.

not much pictures, and no group pictures but 16 of us went together!

here's what we ate:

and those are two really huge bowls but they were goooooooooood :DDD i shared with my sister and siska. and i just remembered to take a picture in the middle of finishing.


there's this stone thingy outside the place where there's the 12 zodiac. read mine.

cupcakes. delicioussss!
dinner at a korean bbq! full to the max!!

then basically the next few days, i was eather at home or eating outside :( which again, made me fatter and fatter. did i mention that i gained 5 kgs??! 5 fucking kgs?!? omg, yes! and i aint happy at all about it. holy shit it's so hard to not eat.

THURSDAY - terrace!! really nice place near school. not my school but my future school. did you know that UW (University of Wisconsin) is one of the few schools that sells beer in the union? hah! i didnt drink, just sipped through some, but the rest did. played cards and uno.

went back to adeline's house to play flip the cup. got ginger ale for me but.. since i cant really drink soda, doesnt really help :(

took a hell lot of photos, but i dont know where they are. i never bring my camera here =a= since the people here have SLR. i dnt want to them to waste their energy carrying those heavy cams for nothing. :) and wouldnt that give me more moments to pose infront of the camera!?

anw, there was a lot of commotion which i dnt really want to repeat here. i told irene though! :) since she was waiting in the airport and i was really scared that night since it was dark and stuff =a=. but a whole lot of stuff happened and let's leave it at that.

forgot what happened on friday.

saturday - NOAH'S ARK! it's the largest waterpark in america

and so it claims. no camera. since it's gonna be wet and all. but i cant lie, it was a hell lot of fun!

then,, my class started for the following week and ended on thursday.

what happened thursday?? well, i got a bunch of assignments for the next week and a study guide for the exam on monday. but it seemed as if the long weekend was short since i wasnt home much. why??

THURSDAY

after school, i was waiting for the bus, then my friend honked me and offered to send me home. asked to have lunch, i agreed. went home, not long - volley. after volley, dinner. then, played board game : clue and apples to apples till a little past midnight. got home, tired and so went to sleep.

FRIDAY

early in the morning - dhina called to ask me if i wanted to run along lake shore. i agreed. it was tiring as hell, and i wasnt fit enough to run the whole way. EXHAUSTED. sent back home, took a shower real quick. 1 hour later, my friend fetched me to go to the movies. ate lunch first - fish and chips.

wanted to watch: UP and angels and demons

UP was at 3.30 and we reached there at 2 something so we had to wait. went into land of lost for about an hour.
shitty movie/50 minutes. will ferrell - and so i didnt expect much

switched to UP.
i like this :) somehow. a bit slow, but nice! especially the beginning

after up, angels and demons was at 6 and we still had another hour. went into terminator.

switched to star trek, too tired to concentrate in angels and demons.

loved it. period.

after the whole thing, i was tired and sleepy. ate dinner at a mexican place - quite okay. then played board games again. till 3am :(

SATURDAY

potluck at erwin's. my sister made macaroni skotel? skutel? whatever. promised to meet up at 2. but we ended up reaching his place at 3.30 :( how hungry was i? SUPER!

played board games, again =a= till 10pm and it felt as if we were in a retreat. hahaha coz his house had that feeling. anw, left at 10 for karaoke. 2 hours full, then we went home at last at 1am, exhausted, of course. no time for homework.

SUNDAY

home at last! homework, exam packed in one day. ran again in the evening. i wasnt strong enough, still. :( sorry guys, you always had to wait for me.

that's basically it! the whole thing. sorry about the weird summary. i dont care if no one reads it, at least i updated.


and, congrats to everyone who graduated! sorry i wasnt there, i could've but i wasnt. sorry :( anw, congrats!!
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LOOOOOOOKIEEE LOOOOOKK!!

Friday, May 29, 2009
at 11:39:00 AM



YAY ME! :))


sorry i havent uploaded the other events. there's lots more but i havent had the chance. sorry peeeeeps! forgive me. (:
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automatic video

Saturday, May 23, 2009
at 10:48:00 PM

okay i know people arent really a fan of the automatic video thing. i am aware honestly, but the thing is, i dont know how to set it so it doesnt play automaticly. im also getting annoyed by it really, it keeps on playing at the wrong times and it's driving me nuts.

someone help yeah? :/
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the week after exam/semester ends *CONTINUED

at 6:53:00 PM

WEDNESDAY

went early at 11ish with ineska :) and we went to fetch the others at palisade and this weird thing happened. two "drunk" (i think) guys approached our car and started looking inside. then they were putting their hands on the windows and saying "high fives! high fives!" and so we pressed out hands on the glass and laughed along giving them fives! and stuff. but then he went to my side of the car and asked for a real high five. and i was like ... ummmm okay, what do i do now? and they insisted that they aint going no where unless we give them a real high five.

ineska opened the window slightly and said that we were in a hurry and stuff but i think they misunderstood and thought that we were gonna give them a high five :S oh well, we did anyway, but it was weird hahahh!

went to rent the bikes and then, off we went! it was hot, and stupid me, i forgot to use sunblock :( and so, there it was, a line right on my arm. the line that separates a dark and light colour =="

we biked to Olbrich Gardens and as usual, photos:






THURSDAY

home.sweet.home.

yes, i stayed at home and ummm i kinda forgot what i did. hahha! i think i just stayed home and did nothing? yeah i think so. yeah, i just stayed home and perpared the documents i needed to report myself to the consulate or something, those stuff. and i needed some documents and so, i need to ask the office to put my name on the lease and stuff. document things. BORING.

FRIDAY

lunch at chili's :) splendid i should say. 3000 calories of onion rings strings. the guys were talking how it was mentioned in a magazine or so. whatever, it was great! but oily :S

watched wolverine and night at the museum after that. a bit late, but oh well. wolverine was pretty cool :)


night at the museum, not so :( like the first one better! way better.


SATURDAY/TODAY

home. walked to sentry for groceries. SMORES!




okay this was a bad one :S

SMORES!

CHEERS TO SUMMER! im going to chicago tomorrow :)
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the week after exam/semester ends

at 12:20:00 PM


SATURDAY

it was commencement day for the graduates! although im absolutely confident that no one here will read my blog but
CONGRATS TO OCHA, IAN, SUN, ADELINE, HANDARA AND REXXI!

so we went to their graduation, took hell lot of pictures but none of them are with me. it was warm but the wind was cold so the sunlight didnt really affect anything. plus i was wearing shorts so that messed me up :/

went to sylvi's house to help her pack for indo and then ate dinner at sa-bai thong :D a thai cuisine here in madison. stayed there till late night and then fell asleep right after i reached home.

SUNDAY

stayed at home to clean the house. exam week's always a wreck in the house and stuff keeps on appearing everywhere. laundry. vaccum. just stuff.

MONDAY



devil's lake outing!

went and meet together with everyone at around 10.30ish and then drove off to devil's lake. the drive took about an hour or so, and we listened to big bang's songs most of the tune. well, not really, but it's nice to hear their songs. and it's really nice that matthew's car always has the song on super loud :) AWESOME RIDE!

arrived and the weather was super windy. we planned to rent canoes and kayaks but the wind was so strong that the canoes weren't on rental anymore. since it could be dangerous i suppose. so all we did was hiking.


off we go~







trust me it was tiring. it was super tiring. well, at least for me :( and my shoes were hurting my foot, the back of my foot to be exact. it kinda bled and scratched pretty badly.

since the wind was so strong it was pretty cold as well, and i wasnt really glad about it really. it was freezing, i should say. anyhoo, pictures:













we did some bbq after that. since the wind was so strong, it took us qutie some time to light up the fire, and coals but we managed! and there were one hell lot of FOOOOD~







lastly, GROUP PICTURE!





went home at around ... ummm i forgot but it was pretty late. and i was pretty tired and exhausted honestly. wanted to sleep early but, cant fight the insomnia :(


TUESDAY

it was felix's bdae! HAPPY BIRTHDAY FELIX!



went to his house at 9.30 to wake him up, with a PAN! but the sound was so awful, didnt seem like a pan :S he actually woke up at 7 to send (i forgot who) to the airport and so, he came back pretty tired i think.

when we came, he was still sleeping. IN HIS BOXERS! all of us came into his room but he was staying put under his blanket. HAHA. it was so funny that he went and brush his teeth first and shoo-ed us away so he could wear his pants. :D



had lunch at FUGU after that. they had two indos serving there. at first when i sat down, i heard the woman behind me say something in indo, but i thought i was just hearing wrong things. but then it turns out that they were speaking in indo. perfect indo and so conclusion = they were indos :)

had volley after that! from 2ish to 4.30ish =a= it was so tiring and people were still wanting to go badminton :S but no thanks for me! i was already so tired from devils lake, didnt sleep for the right amount and my supposedly time for resting was taken for lunch today.

again, i cant really sleep early these days. i dont know why :(

im gonna stop here since im getting distracted and i start doing other things ==" i'll probably continue the week later on! CHEER ON, IT'S SUMMER!
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