Off to Florida with Mas Yogi

Without an internet at home, I won’t be able to write blogs whenever I want. So what I’ll do is write my stuff using Words and bring this laptop to a wireless accessible area, like COPA. So yeah, I’m in Argentina already, the place that I was afraid to be before because of various reasons. Since it’s been 2 weeks since I got here, so I have a lot of things to write. I think I’ll do better with computer than actually writing it on a piece of paper :p

After my birthday, things got quite intense: packing, cleaning up mess after mess, corresponding with various people, and even till getting into stupid fights with Mas Yogi simply because I was too anxious and got panicked every now and then. Finally, after long nights figuring out what to bring and to leave behind, we both set off for New York on Sunday morning in Eli’s car (I wonder how many people actually have ridden his car, since he’s sort of the one and only int’l student (well, ex student) who has a car…). We met up with Kosin, who stays in a nice apartment somewhere in Manhattan, Phu, Boon and his shy girlfriend, Kenny. My main purpose in NYC was shopping (how obvious could it be!). But, I ended buying nothing but 2 raincoats for our Florida trip. It was funny how whenever we asked the people at the store about where we could find raincoats, they would ask us if it was raining outside???!!! It was really nice and warm when we’re there J Ooo.. I miss the sunshine… Anyway, that night, we ate at a small Chinese restaurant that has a very tasty “Chinese nabe” ---hot and spicy!!! OMG, next time I visit Chinatown, I must go again to that restaurant! Hahahha… now I’m hungry :p

We went back to Kosin’s with huge tummies, even Kosin changed the way he walks. Around 30 min. after we got to his apartment, Boon called and told us that the police towed his car! Ghee, I hate how the signs in NYC are so misleading that the next time we check our car, an empty space is what we find L So Boon and Kenny stayed over at Kosin’s as well… I was happy that Yogi got to meet up with his “green car” buddies a.k.a CLK :p Plus Kosin wasn’t working that Sunday, although he kept on checking his emails, like he said, “ just in case my boss wants me to be at the office….” L I can’t believe that a job as an I-banker actually exists in this world! How could someone work close to 24/7, staring at numbers, trying to speculate what will happen in the market, and those things that I will never understand… I know the compensation is HUGE… but working your ass while you’re young as soon as you graduate, OH… definitely not for me!!!

For some reasons, when I booked the flight, I wasn’t thinking much of the time. Due to the early flight we took, 720am from La Guardia, we decided to take a cab at 5am! I was assuming, from my conversation with a shuttle river, that it would take us 45min to get to LaGuardia. Apparently, after sitting down in a cab for 20 min, we saw the sign… La Guardia Int’l Airport! Hehehhe… I know how cranky Mas Yogi can be when he’s tired, so I had to put up with that till we got to Orlando. Oh yeah, the flight attendance of the plane from NY-Washington Dulles was really tall, but the airline placed him in a tiny lil’ flight that he has to duck every time he walks. Poor him… He kinda look like Denzel Washington :p hahhaha

Once we got to Orlando, we decided to eat first then rent the car, since Mas Yogi wanted to be able to return at a later hour when we got to Miami. Well, it made a lot of sense, till we saw the line of people wanting to rent cars from Alamo. I guess we all share the same thought—let’s we all rent from Alamo coz it’s cheap! We should’ve booked the car… hix…hix… coz we didn’t, I had to put up with Mas Yogi’s complains and wines about how expensive the rental was L Although at the end, he was happy with the car, plus I picked an interesting color, mmm… coklat orange car :p

We got to DaysInn and OMG, along the street where the hotel is, there are zillion of hotels and restaurants—from 2 star till 5 star hotels, from Chinese take out till a fancy American style family restaurant! :p That night we went to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum, which was a worth of a trip! There was a replica of a headless rooster that I think was able to live for 4 or 14 years, I dunno (I know 4 and 14 make so much difference, but the point is that the chicken survived without its head!). I took a picture with a replica of the tallest man on earth, and yeah, I looked really tiny in the picture :P

Disneyworld’s Day!!! I couldn’t believe that I was actually visiting Disneyworld. Mas Yogi wasn’t that excited, coz he’s not into Disney and he thinks it’s for kids :p well, I guess I’m still like a kid then :p hahahha…. It was a challenge trying to take pictures of the castle, but it was kinda a “dream” of every girl seeing with her own eyes the castle of Cinderella :p Mas Yogi couldn’t believe when I said that I wanted to see the show of Cinderella at this age, but again… it’s a fantasy of his lil’ Tia J

We took quite a lot of rides and definitely walked a lot in the amazingly HOT SUN! When I was there, I didn’t miss the sunshine, coz it was so hot that I got tanned :p anyway, I think Mas Yogi preferred the thrilled rides, but I was scared to death… so we ended up only taking the Splash Mountain :p ok, we also went into the Haunted Mansion which was disappointing L Mas Yogi trying to scare me was much scarier than the whole Haunted Mansion! I don’t know why I don’t remember the names of the rides we took at DisneyWorld L mmmm… leave this for later than.

My impression after taking a 2 hour walk around was that DisneyWorld looks so similar to Tokyo DisneyLand… the rides, the neighbouring sceneries! How interesting! I was kinda disappointed that I didn’t see much of new things, but still I liked it J Oh ya, I wanted to see the parade, but due to weather condition, it got delayed for almost 1 hour. It was cute seeing the classic characters came out J hhehehe…
For meals, since I know that it’d be ridiculously expensive to eat there, I took some bagels and apples from the breakfast at the hotel for our lunch :p how cheap???!!! And for dinner, we had to stick with the expensive chicken and burger… Oh ya, now I remember the ride that we took, it was something new called… something Stitch. It was pretty cool J Mas Yogi wanted to take the Disney train, so we did for 1.5 rounds :p then we left around 8ish. We decided to skip the fireworks, since we had to go to Universal Studios the next day.

In Orlando, there are a bunch of ticket discounts and variety of promotions in relation to Disney and Universal Studios. Well, restaurants and hotels are quite decent price just because of the booklet of discount coupons. Since tickets for Universal Studios, and Disney, were ridiculously expensive, we decided to go on a promo tour of a resort. We got there around 7.30am with big hope that the sales guy wouldn’t be some jerk! Apparently, it was a promotion of Timeshared system, where you buy a resort, then you can rent it through out the year and at the same time, you can also rent other people’s resorts in other places. Sounded interesting and promising to me, but COME ON???!!!! FOR US??? NO WAY??? So, this jerk tried his best to sell a room and ended up with disappointment L It was kinda insulting when he said that if we couldn’t buy this, then we could never afford anything else in our life. GIMME A BREAK! This guy was obviously working his ass to intimidate us, but our purpose was to grab cheap tickets! :p so after spending more than 3 hours, we had our $40 bucks tickets worth of $120, hehhehe…

Universal Studio was much smaller than Disney. I was kinda disappointed at first when we entered, plus our first ride, Twister, was quite boring! So, Twister… mmm… all we did was standing on the benches witnessing a flying cow and feeling huge wind blowing. L but then it got better! JAWS was awesome, especially cost I sat rite next to the spots where the sharks and fire came out! That was wicked J and Sherk 4D was amazing, I liked it a lot. Mas Yogi took the Mummy Returns ride, which I refused to go with, and I think he liked it J hehhehe… no more roller coaster rides for me, ever!!!! We ended our Universal Studio adventure with ET :p it was so cute, but we’re all drenched in water bcoz it was raining like crazy. Thanks to our NYC ponchos, we’re better than many people who had to either buy expensive Universal Studios ponchos or walk in the rain… We left around 6ish and had dinner at a Chinese buffet. As usual, we ended up eating sooo much stuff in the buffet and I was quite stuffed! :p


Miami trip story is coming up soon (dunno when tho…)

it's 17 in Indonesia, 20 in Japan, 21 in the U.S. and mmm... 20 in Tia???

I was welcomed in the "twenty" club yesterday, since it was my 20th birthday!!! "happy birthday to me....!!!" It was a nice bday, with great celebrations, of course all of these wouldn't have happened without mi amor, mas Yogi.

So, I was excited since last week (prolly way before that :p) that I kept on asking Mas Yogi to do this and that for me. hehhehe... now you know how spoilt I can be :p So, on Thursday nite, I passed out around 930pm. I asked Mas Yogi to wake me up before 12am, so that I could get ready for my bday :p Zzzzzzzzzzzzz... and suddenly, I heard this song (in quite loud volume) "....Semoga Tuhan melindungi kamu Serta tercapai semua angan dancita-citamuMudah-mudahan di beri umur panjang Sehat selama-lamanya ... Amin ...." I was like, HUH???!! What song is this? After I "recovered" from my sleepiness, I realized it was jamrud's Slamat Ulang Tahun song :) ooooo... so sweet! Apparently Mas Yogi downloaded this song and played it at exactly 12am, well I think it was (^_^)

The song ended, and I continued cleaning up my room :P Finally it's almost done, just need to fold my laundry, double check on everything and hopeully we'll all be set for the trip :)

back to my birthday. Then I worked pretty much the whole day and it was RAINING the whole day too (>_<) I don't think I remembered being rainy ever on my bday (??!!)
anyway, in the evening, mas Yogi took me out to dinner at Hama Restaurant, a Japanese restaurant at Hamden, CT in his "car." hehehhe... The restaurant was actually smaller than I expected, but the food was awesome! There was this old man who ordered sushi boat dish that looked soooo delicious! And another guy ordered a huge basket of sushi. Yuuuuummmmmmmm.... As for Mas Yogi and I, ehhhehe.. we ordered a small plate of sushi as the appetizer. I had seafood yakisoba, which turned out to be superb! And amazingly I almost gobbled the whole thing :p And Mas Yogi had swordfish steak, yuuuuuuuummmyyy! For the dessert, hehehe... I was hoping to get a free tempura ice cream coz it was my bday, but I guess we're to shy to ask for one :P But we ordered one anyway. Ooooo, I want another one! Great dinner (^o^)

We didn't do much at nite, since I was tired (again...)

This morning, we returned the "car" ad stopped by at John and Gina's house. Said bye..bye.. and OMG, I thank Allah SWT for introducing me to them. They are the people that have helped me sooooo much! Then we stayed at ST, coz Mas Yogi had to take care of "book...book..book...!" This is Eli's terms :P we basically spent the day at ST and my room.

In the evening, we had diner at Typhoon, basically to celebrate my bday and my farewell too (hix...hix...). A lot people came, I'm sooo happy! Jerry, Selina, Gimseng, Mao, Corinne, Eliza, Thang, Am, Henry, Tachie, Maiko, Rika, Mark, Bach, Ying and Eli (^O^) Thank you------------------!!!!! We had good dinner and there were some interesting conversations too :P hhehehe...

I'm going to miss Wesleyan. I never actually thought this way, I can't believe how much I like Wes. I think partly because lately I think I have become more embraced with the entire Wes. I have a major that I like, I know the people and I have found "the people," I know my stuff (well, sort of...). It's always like this; once I feel comfortable in one environment, I must go on. In a way, I"m coming back to Wes after my study abroad program, but I'm sure that certain things will not be the same. For sure, the class of 05 will not be here. Mmmm..no Intan with her silly jokes, no Bella and her comforting conversations, no Cecile and our Sociology brainstorming days, P'Poon and his orange jacket, Eli and his, "Ok lha, steady...." :p and many more

As for me, I'm a junior and I'm 20 too :P I may sound as if I'm making a big deal out of this birthday thing. But I think it's because I'm leaving for Argentina, I'm a junior now and all these mean that I have to start thinking of my LIFE!

I should not think about this whole LIFE thing now. I should go home and clean up.

saw this one from a close distance... it was cooooool 

4th of july fireworks 

from the brightest to the darkest :P

A traffic jam at MIddletown??!!!

Last night, Mas Yogi, Bach, P'Poon, Corinne, Mark, Martin, Mao and I walked towards CT river, around the Harbour Park area. As we walked, there were many people going towards the same directions. We all had the same purpose---> wanted to see the 4th of July fireworks. I like fireworks since I was lil' :) When we got there, Oh WOW.... A LOT OF PEOPLE w/ their blankets, folding chairs, drinks, a set of picnic equipments sitting all along the Conn river. Where as us, heheheh... we were standing behind them and looking in the dark for a nice spot to enjoy the scene, of course WITHOUT blankets, folding chairs, drinks, and a set of picnic needs :p so unprepred :P
P'Poon found us a nice spot near the sidewalk, but we had nothing to sit on. Altho I didn't mind sitting on my butt, it would be nicer to have something in between the rocky ground and my butt :P So Corinne took out a WES MAGAZINE out of her bag and said, "Hey guys, I have this [wes mag.]. Shall we all use this??!" hahahhaha... we had no shame of tearing off the newly issued magazine and sat down waiting for the first "pheeeeeeewww.... BOOM!" to come.

Not long after, they started shooting the fireworks! It was awesome... I loved fireworks (^o^) It's much better watching it like last night than sitting in the car in the middle of a traffic jam :p hehehhe... the fireworks made some REALLY LOUD NOISE that your hard started to thump hard, BOOM...BOOM... I liked when people said, "Ooooo... Oooo..." whenever there were great fireworks :p

It lasted for less than an hour, but I think that was enough for me. I don't want to reach the climax and started to hate the sound of fireworks. We all started to walk back and OMG, there were sooooo many people walking with us. P'Poon was the one who was very amazed about the fact that there are more people at Middletown than we thought :P And when we reached the corner of Church St and Broad St. we saw something that we all had never seen before----> A VERY LONG LINE OF CARS ALONG CHURCH ST AND BROAD ST :p too bad I couldn't take any pics of that moments (no battery... classic reason :P), but P'Poon apparently took one. Prolly I should ask one from him. (^o^)

Then we stayed at Eli's house for awhile, watching people eating Bakwa (Ba' wa? or Bakuwa?). Anyway, it's supposedly a Chinese pork BBQ snack :P i've only seen them on movie "I no Stupid." But they look goooood :p hahahhaha...

4th of July at Middletown is not as boring as I thought :P

el día se está aproximando....

Cuando recibí la carta de IFSA Butler que se dice que me aceptó en el programa y voy a estudiar en Buenos Aires por un semestre, me encantó muchísimo!!! Me alegró porque el proceso de solicitar no era facíl y todo de mi esfuerzo esté remunerado. era en el abril...

Hoy es el día de independencia de los Estados Unidos, 4 de julio. 3 mese después de ese día. Me alegro todavía??? Sí. Pero, cuantos porcientos? 50%?? 75%?? 20%? No me entiendo, pero ahora no quiero ir porque entiendo perfectamente si fuera en el 11 días, no voy a estar con él... él, la parte muy importante en mi vida, no va a estar con migo por 6 meses. Podrá hacerlo??? No puedo pensar cómo es mi vida sin él... (>_<)

Yo, siempre pienso que 15 de julio no va a ser el día de separación. NO! Creo que hacemos esta cosa porque creemos que estamos progesando a la vida mejor. Y nuestra relación va a estar más..más fuerte! Lo quiero muchísimo... Por eso tengo que tener mucha confianza en él.

Allah, me dé la entereza, la confianza, el futuro mejor. Y también me bendiga en toda la cosa que hago. Ojalá que él esté bien todo el tiempo y vayamos a estar juntos siempre...siempre...

tengo que tener la mente positiva porque el día de salida se está aproximando! Tenga mucha confianza!!!! toda la cosa va a estar bien (^-^)

The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences
You prefer your own inner world, you like to be alone, and you are aware of your own strengths, weaknesses, and feelings. You learn best by engaging in independent study projects rather than working on group projects. People like you include entrepreneurs, philosophers and psychologists.

scores:
Intrapersonal 89%
Verbal/Linguistic 82%
Interpersonal 82%
Visual/Spatial 46%
Logical/Mathematical 39%
Bodily/Kinesthetic 32%
Musical/Rhythmic 18%

Taking silly quizes from Quizfarm.com can be fun :P some of them I feel actually reflect the real me.. oooo... Like the one above for example, although the occupation list is not very accurate. First, I think the enterprenuer genes from my grandma and my dad failed to be passed onto me (>_<) second, I'm not interested at all in being a philosopher (perhaps since I've never taken any philosophy class). And last, I decided not to be a psyc major coz I sucked at it (@_@) aaaaaaaaaaaa.... Well, although people often say that I'd be a good psychologist, but how could i be one without taking the classes???!!!!

the next one here is quite silly, but a cute one. I hope this is true...

Which Kind of Girlfriend are You?
You're the perfect girlfriend. You're the kind of girl that can hang out with your boyfriend's friends and be silly. You don't care about presents or about going to fancy places (though that would be nice)Just hanging out with him is enough to make you happy

scores:
Perfect Girlfriend 100%
Motherly Girlfriend 75%
Sensitive Girlfriend 50%
Bad Girlfriend 31%
Not interested Girlfriend 25%

heheheh... I don't think Mas Yogi will agree with completely :P I should sk him once he gets here. (aaaaaaaaaaaaa... aku gak gt seneng dg orang yg ngajak mas yogi pergi hr ini. Lelet... gak jlas gt klo punya jadwal, ngomong doank, aaaaa.. bnk lha pokoknya. Bae' sih orangnya, enak klo diajak ngobrol, tapi sifatnya itu lho!!! koq ya ada cewe' yg bs ngadepin org yg JAM KARET?!!!)

Tomorrow is 4th of July!!! I remembered last year's 4th of July... Stuck in NYC's traffic jam! (>_<) ended up watching from the car with hundreds other people who shared the same thought----> why didn't they build wider streets so that more cars can pass by??? :p Tomorrow's plan, mmm.. I guess, going to the river and enjoy the fireworks from the Harbour park. I should try to celebrate events at Middletown :p as a way to embrace myself better in this tiny town (^o^)

why can't you just disappear from this universe???!!!!

OMG, I was once desperate of love, wanted someone to love e sooo badly... BUT...BUT.. I know my limits, I know when to stop trying! Unlike this one stupid BRUJA who has no shame at all...!!!!!!!!!!! (@_@) How dare she posted the pictures of Mas Yogi without even asking for permission?? Ok, forget about asking fo permission thing, BUT, how about giving respect to him and me???!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaa.... writing this blogger doesn't help at all :( what will help me is punching her until she disappears (>_<)
I know I shouldn't be like this---> stay cool, think about how foolish she is, forget about this bruja, and pray for her own sake that she soon finds someone who can handle her insanity... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... I'm no one but Tia, so...
Ghee, this girl is stupid.. I bet she has never been in love before, she doesn't even have a bf I guess! God, please tell her to just go and find someone else.

no entiendo porque hay una bruja que no puede entender como pasan las cosas en esta vida. me molesta muchisimo porque tiene las fotos que no son suyas!!! son mias!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..... ojala que ella pueda olvidarse mi amor y MOVE ON WITH YOUR PATHETIC LIFE!!!!!!!!!!