Small achievements

In the last one week, instead of listening to music while doing my work, I was so much into the court fighting videos and news of Bibit-Chandra case. I find it like battle in the court for the existence of each institution. 5 billions for bribery, wow! what a number of money,can I make that much money in 10 years from now?
Somehow I’m amazed on how the recording of which those names from KPK (Indonesian Corruption Watch- ICW), Anggodo, Yulianto, Ari and all those related stuffs could be consumed by public..  It shows good improvement from those past years and the direction to change a better Indonesia.. Btw, do you also follow Wiliardi’s startling testimony in the court yesterday? Wondering how those two cases will end.. Let us see..

Well, well.. just wanna list down some achievements in this posting.
(1) Got interviewed by Nihon Terebi asking about the impressive points about Japan. Of course, there’re lotssss but only got 10 seconds to convey the impression.  huhu.. Yeay! At least show up on local TV though for 10 seconds only. ;P.  As the rewards, the crews offered us – other four interviewess and me to choose small present : handkerchief , mobile accessories, etc and I picked up set of mechanical pencil and ballpoint. hihihi

Ballpoint and Mechanical Pencil - Nihon Terebi

(2) Round trip ticket for conference to Shanghai bought finally! It’ll be JAL flight, yeay! More points for the milleage! Hope I can claim free ticket  somewhere as I plan to travel after my defense in next Feb.
(3) Hotel reservation done!
Though I failed the funding from graduate school. Only 3 persons’re selected, I guess they put priority on the PhD students. Gotta funding fr supervisor, though not sure how much will be covered.. Oops, but somehow I still need to apply for VISA!
(4) Going for two job interviews.
(5) A lil skill-up for baking. who knows I can open bakery in the future? haha..

Shud be proud of those small achievements though people may see them insignificant in different ways.
I will just take those moments of pride to inspire me to keep going for grabbing lot more of successful stories, hopefully! Amen!

Get ready to fight the weather

Just like in Korea, the temperature here is jumping down quite significant. Judging from the look of the sky, it’s quite dark to start a new week in a new month yesterday.. Ummhh, quite confused whether I should bring umbrella or not since I’ve so many stuffs to be carried.
After checking the weather forecast that it’d be cloudy only..
It’s recently hot in the daytime and then windy at night. So I just covered my neck with pashmina and fur ear cover. (yup, those two spots are sensitive to the chilling cold weather).

But.. the weather’s very tricky.. on the way to my campus, it’s raining, the light one though, and terribly windy. Since i wore no coat, only long sleeve shirt, it’s suffering! So I just left the idea eating in canteen, and had korea nori instant ramen in the lab.

When I was about to leave for home, it was raining too. Oh! Very unfortunate! More than thousands ppl predicted in Yahoo weather that it’d be cloudy and only 58 ppl predicted it would rain though.. Arggh! With less clothing and no umbrella, what a day! Peeping through the room, I took whoever-he-is-who-owns-the umbrella from the umbrella holder. It was 7 degree and kinda lil snowy balls hitting umbrella from Tokyo teleport to the dorm. And…… fiunnnggg..
umbrella’s upside down, huhu.. however I decided to bring it home, like hero holding knight?

I have no idea, how many umbrellas I broke and ended up in the rubbish bin. And need to buy new one to replace the broken umbrella to the lab. hihihi.. And here it is..

Broken Umbrella

The weather change usually makes ppl getting sick. So I decided to fight the dramatical change of the weather by equipped myself with coat,ear cover and scarf. And consume Tolak Angin at least once a day. LOL

Trick or Treat ハロウィーン

Since the Japanese have recently adopted many Western customs (valentine, christmas,etc), many stores’re selling colorful costumes and decorations for Halloween.
For commercial purpose, this event is also promoted in Tokyo Disneyland and USJ (Universal Studio Japan).
Somehow, it’s said that Japanese obon is pretty similar to Halloween. It is a
Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed (deceased) spirits of one’s ancestors. This Buddhist custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors’ graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars.
(Quoted from wikipedia)

I got buzzed by my Thai friend, he’s interested in cooking and baking recently. As he succeeded making kabocha manju(pumpkin bun), so he’s kind enough to let me be the tester.. *happy*
And Here’s the pic I took on my way back home last night.
Do you think they’re considerably fancy?

ハロウィーン

I recalled last year Koko kun visited Tokyo and we went to Roppongi club. Oh, one year passed! Everybody Happy halloween..

Japanese challenging food..

“To know a country is to eat the food of the country”
Agree???

Somehow food reflects the character gives you the insight of taste preference, life style, etc of a country, that’s why food is part of culture learning and for sure it’s fun, isn’t it?

I bet you know Japanese food, starting from sushi, tempura, soba, udon, ramen, sukiyaki to snacks like dorayaki, takoyaki, and so on..
But have you ever tasted Natto? ^^
Well, I believe some of you know and some don’t..

Back in 2007, in the summer camp I got the chance to know what Natto is.. I didn’t have any appetite and unwilling to take it, and somehow the American guy sat beside me, eating it deliciously..
Wanna see how it looks like? Here, we go..

How to live your life?

It’s no one else but you are the one who are responsible for your life! Neither your family nor your surroundings who rule your life.. It’s you who decide it by your own. Sharing and listening to the given advise will be other thing, but you are the one to choose which path to go..

I somehow hate that recently I’ve been so much multi-tasking, engaged wif different things at the same time and feel like losing my track and my identity, frying brain..*sigh* I still stand my ground on how wrong things have gone so far, the winning story.. the barriers.. the failures which I’m working to fix them.

Agenda till Dec :
- Gotta fully concentrate on the thesis, 頑張れウィリーちゃん!
- Prepare for the progress of the research for lab presentation.
- Prepare for the oral presentation for the accepted paper. Shanghai, till we meet then.. Wish I can extend few days stay to find ancestor’s hut (as suggested by Hadi, haha)
- JLPT 2kyuu, ganbare! 時間が厳しい。。合格ができるかどうか自信がない。。

Stay Focus but keep the life balance is very important..
Then how to make every single day pleasant wipe away the stress for those routines, deadlines?
- Praying, i skipped it since last year, I guess..
- Extracurricular activities, hanging out wif friends..
- Self-reward, I’ve been too stingy for myself recently, somehow it’s due to few unrealized resolutions that I wish to happen next year.
- Sports, going to the gym at least twice in a week?
- Start the habit of eating choco again, maybe?
Am very sleepy, cant think more.. Did I write sth out of the line?
Can I ask more which work for you?

Random things

This post’ll be about random things within these 5 days.

August 29, election in Japan!!

Historical shift in political power. Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) which has governed for decades lost to the opposition party : Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and Yukio Hatoyama will become the next Prime Minister of Japan.

He pledged raising the minimum wage and discourage hiring through agencies or on temporary contracts.

The voters’re mostly frustated and want the change from the new government, to get out from the recession which was claimed as the worst recession since World War II.

In its election manifesto, the DPJ said it will pay about $3,000 per child to each family every year — to encourage women to have babies and reverse the country’s rapidly aging and shrinking population.

It will also pay about $1,000 a month to each unemployed Japanese as he looks for a job.

Do you think it makes sense and will likely to occur?

That day almost the whole day rained, it’s still summer though..

August 30, heavy rain and typhoon no 11.. I broke my umbrella while trying to protect two notebooks with me.. On the way home, I saw bulk of damaged umbrellas in front of convenient store. Oh My!  I had the meeting and not long after the meeting’s finished, I just thought that I’d better leave earlier from lab, and what I did when I reached? I baked the almond crunch bread. In 2007, when there’s typhoon, I also cooked bulk of curry.. maybe typhoon’s my productive day for cooking. LOL

Sept 2, Hadi’s birthday dinner.. We’re 8 and had too much pasta and pizza until i feel like no pasta and pizza for three months.  LOL.. Happy bday Hadi!

Sept 3, Doraemon Logo on Google Japan.

I was wondering if today’s the anniversary of Doraemon, but I found out that the original run was April 2, 1979. But finally got the answer.

It’s because.. it’s said that the birthday of Doraemon’s September 3, 2112. ^^

Btw, I got one Hagen Daz, new taste.. it tastes really good.. Have a try frenz! Blueberry cheese cake flavor..

The start of Autumn?

Summer starts in June and lasts until August, this’s the hottest time of the year in which temperature exceed 30°C and been the no no no season for me.

In the last one week, the weather’s totally changed, making big jump from the hot and humid weather to milder ones day by day and even today it rained heavily. As far as I remember, the remaining summer temperature’s remained uptill the early of September last year but not for this year. That’s why a lot of people agreed that Tokyo’s hot and humid summer weather seems not that tough and also shorter as compared to last year.
It’s somehow good since I dun like the humid summer in Japan, but too bad, I havent gone to the beach, wearing bikini. hihihi..

But does it mean the autumn start earlier?? So before the summer ends, here I uploaded what’s on around Odaiba in Summer.
1) The giant life-size Gundam in Shiokaze Park,Odaiba – celebrating 30 years anniversary of first anime series broadcasted(1979).
More precisely 30 years since the original Gundam anime series appeared (1979).
*Btw, give a guess what’s the life-size height of Gundam?*

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And the answer for your guess..

The rising star has come!

You’ve got mail!

From : Surya
“Sis, this is the newest TV Commercial for Mie Sedap, but in the meantime please don’t publish it, since it’s not on air.. It’s just because I’m quite closed to the Production House crews, he sent it to me, haha”

I remembered one day  how excited he told me that this CM’ll be on air in Malaysia and other 2 countries soon .. So I was co curious to watch the clip as I never watched even single of his clips..like  the XL CM with Luna Maya, and the others. When viewing the video, I couldnt stop smiling.. He looked like eating greedily. LOL.. and he’s not that photogenic in the video too!  When I gave my comments to him, he made his defense and proudly telling me, it means he succeeded conveying the message : the noodles he ate’s yummy. He then shared that the other brother of mine when first watched this CM, went to the kitchen and prepared himself a pack of instant noodles. LOL.
Enjoy!

By the way, Surya’s first movie entitled “TIME” will be in Blitz Megaplex fr Sept 18, I badly wanna watch his first movie, had requested him to send me the DVD. He’s one of the main actor in the movie together wif Nicky Tirta, and the others. He’s excited and anxious whether ppl’ll watch the movie on the prime day.
Hey, easy going, bro! Yup I do understand that any first time brings a lot of excitements. Just enjoy it!
Hey, so if you’ve a chance to watch, please watch and comment for the movie. ^^

Ladies and gentlemen, we are proudly presenting the poster of Surya Lee’s first movie.. ^^

RIP Chiro

This’s been in draft for almost one month.. LOL..
*Dibuang sayang*

.. It’s always hard to say good bye to the dear ones ..
These days a lot of friends’ve left for their countries, moving out for new life. Warming greetings right start from beginning and by the passage of time passing the days together with lots of excitements ups and down but then when it comes to farewell, I always hate this part. Wish you all the best S,R,R,J.. People come and go from our life, should we feel happy? should we feel upset? We should for sure, but again just try to meditate that the attachment is really the root of all the sufferings. And it doesn’t limit to the attachment to human only, but also the stuffs.

Colorful Season (Part 1)

I’ve been neglecting my blog for so longgg.. >.<
“There will be ups and downs, but it is important to remember you’re on your own beautiful journey, and once you’re on it you have to see it through to it’s own conclusion. And try to never be afraid to do anything because what’s the worse that can happen?” (Jonathan R Meyers)

So many things happened, ups and downs but had no archive in the digital diary.. too bad!

Yosh, am trying to refresh my memory and notes on what I’ve gone thru in recent months. If only in the future I just hop back to my archives, reading my posts, I believe those days turn out to be so priceless.. the milestones as a part of Willy’s momental life in Japan..
Let’s begin!