It's official now, my sister in-law is PREGNANT!! The loveable old me will (if all goes well) be an uncle next year, in July or August at the very least.
I mean, by age and family I already am an uncle...but so soon??? :P
Anyway, congrats to my bro and his wife, I wish them all the best!!!
A past few days, I've been wondering...
each time I felt something or under a certain situation where a music is playing in the background. That music, represent what I'm feeling/ the situation I'm in, about 70% of the time. It's like in the movies, where you see the character on screen having a distraught and a matching music is playing? It's the same thing!!
It scared me for abit. LIke just now, when I suddenly miss a certain someone so much, suddenly the radio that I left on is playing The Moffats - Miss You Like Crazy.
I know it's cheesy (and I'm NOT a moffats fan) but that music really really represent what I really feels...
aah... life is so strange.....
... WORK! Dammit, this project is taking much more toll than I though. It made my previous work a piece of cake compared to this.
But under this darkness of work, I manage to find some light. Because I actually looking foward to see this project take off and gain something from it :D
Some of the circumstances that happens at work is probably my fault too, so I'm working so hard to compensate for it, and find something to fill the hole in the project.
Btw, did anyone notice that Superman Returns already played in the Theatre!? I'm going to watch it tonight, as I think it'll be a memorable experience :)
So, I finally in a new place, already for a month btw.
Everything is new for me here, new friends, and new job, and new assignments. And I’m thrilled to be here.
My new office is called Pt. Antar Mira Prakarsa, or better known as M-Stars. Originally, they are a content aggregator, a mobile content Provider actually, and they’re apparently one of the biggest in Indonesia, but lately, they found it interesting to enter a new venture of online PC game. Now, they are currently working together with this company from a local film industry (don’t ask ;) ) to do an online game. Now, that’s where I come in.
My work not starts from 9 to 6, so I get to wake up really late but the thing is, I have to wear this nice clothes, each time I go to work. What can I say, I’m the Game Development Project Manager. It comes with the territory. Still, It kinda choke me on the neck :P
Now hopefully it goes well, because this is all new for me and after a month, I’ve known many new people to add to my network of friends.
I've been in this company for what now? 4 years, more I think, I found my old contract document, and it stated March 24th, 2002. 4 Years, 1 month, and 2 days now. I never imagine I’ve stayed this long here and I've experienced many things, both Good, bad, and even worst.
And after all those time, I'm quitting. Beginning next month, I'll be in a new place starting fresh and anew.
It really feels strange to me. As the day got closer to my last days. I mean, all those years, this place felt like home to me. I put a lot of my reference book here, my toys, things that I couldn't even place properly at home. This place is as close as a family to me. I had fun in this place, yet, I feel empty as well, and that feeling become unbearable after seeing all my friends come and goes.
Still it's hard for me to leave this place
Then, nevertheless, I leave it all... why?
Because what I want to achieve need some other experience that I'm being offered to, that offer is a chance to obtain even better future (hopefully) for me. I Pray that my 'calculated gamble' here paid off and I'll have what I'm looking for all this time
Like most of my friend knew, I went back to Surabaya last weekend,
since it's Good Friday last week and so it's long weekend for most
people.
I found this thing sitting alone in a shelf on one of the store
there. It's a magnetic art, distributed as a trading arts, just like
gachapons/ Trading Cards, as in, you don't get to pick the insides,
it's all random.
The box itself is a replica of the original Super Mario Bros Famicom
Cart. Same artwork, different background and the '2' on the corner
that probably shows the series number. What I got its very simple, so
simple I wonder how justified the Rp. 52.000,- price tag. It's a
diorama of Mario and bullet Bills, a replica to be exact, of the game
screen. For most fans, or whoever played this game before, it brings
a sense of nostalgia to me.
I heard there's a lot of this kind of things in Japan. I wonder if
I'm able to pre-order these things...
Recently, all the game I played in my DS is not Megaman Battle
Network, NOT the uber cool Metroid Prime: Hunter, or even the ever
popular Tetris DS!
The game I played everyday is the 'game' Brain Age: Train Your Brain
a Minute a Day (yes the title is that long). It's not a game per se.
It's an application, designed to actually, literally train your
brain. It gave you a series of training program, and keep track of
the changes of your brain activities. Sounds boring rite? it's not,
believe me. It's not. It's actually pretty cool, and it's not a
'game' that designer to be playe more than 15 minutes each day. So
you keep going back for more.
Now, in the end of the training, the 'game' will give you a series of
test to determine how old is your brain, in terms of its activities.
Today, in attempt of some lame ingame joke, the 'game' told me that
my brain age is 7-freakin'-4!!!! After that it changed it to the
correct number which is 24, but seriously, 74? Geez!!!
Any one who've seen X-Men would probably notice, cyclops's cool
sunglasses. That glasses is not the technologically rare design that
Prof. X made. It actually came from Oakley's Sunglasses Line.
Do you know how much that actually cost? a whopping 400 USD!!! and a
friend of mine have one, which I promptly borrow and pose right here :D
It's actually a really cool glasses. Very lightweight. and the lens
in itself is a very good quality both for use and durability (I once
saw a test movie from oakley, and their lens it's actually bullet
proof and close-to-none light bias)
My friend told me that his lens, pictured here, it's the second
version of the same line (ruby), the original ones have a more
reddish tone to it and very VERY rare.
I caught V for Vendetta yesterday. And boy, it is really good! And
somehow, inspiring :D. It's based on a comic with the same name from
Alan Moore. You know, from the creator of League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen. Also published by DC - Vertigo. Alas, the latter movie was
a dreadful attempt to translate. But I'll recommend V to everyone,
should they ask for my opinion of it :D
Anyhow, I managed to finish TR-1 Advanced Hazel too. Heh, my bro did
something very stupid and I needed to get some steam off me and what
better way to calm myself by building Gundams :D
Let me tell you about this particular MS story. It's never appear ini
any of the Gundam anime (yet). It came first as a background story
for a GM Quel modification, and later evolve to a background story
about the story of Titans Test Team. A team that responsible to test
a prototype MS for Titans.
This MS later would evolve to what all Gundam Fans know as Gundam MKII
Yesterday was a bit of a disappointing day. Even though I did have
fun in the end, but it's practically ruin my weekends' plan!!! and it
all because of HIS mistake!!!!
YEAH YOU!!! YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!! (lol)
I'm okay now... really :D
The thing is, I had plan to go to Ancol together with some friends of
mine during the weekends but there were some complications, and long
story short, they all went there yesterday leaving me with my
incredibly-sucky-job-since-all-the-others-went-without-me :(
We did get together later that night and ACTUALLY have fun, two of
them two be exact.
First one is stuffing our poor empty stomach with Seafood (shells,
crabs, fried fish, and barbecued fish, you know, the standard fare)
Second one is singing to the top of our lungs. God, it's been so long
since I did that. Lol
We all ended up drain all our energy for the day. I hit the sack
almost immediately when I got home, I'm pretty sure the others did
the same thing. There's should be some photo made during the singing
but I haven't stea... ahum, obtain it just yet.
I hope I can go to a karaoke together like this again sometime in the
near future and with some particular person too
In the mean time, I should figure out what I can actually do on the
weekends...
Later that night, we have our dinner at Fish & Co, also at Taman
Aggrek Mall. It’s a restaurant that specializes in Seafood. We
ordered some food, shared some laugh, and share the food together: D.
One thing about the taste though. I think seafood is always taste
batter somewhere else small rather than in some big mall. Seriously.
I love the French fries though, but the seafood itself? Only So-so
but it’s fun when you ordered the platter for two (which basically
meant for 4 person) and ate it at the same time.
The platter for F...two!
Guys, I know there's a cute girl in the picture, but can we please focus on the food now? Thank You! :D
The causalities of 'war' :D wait, I think I took the prawn after this photo was taken
I don't think I ever talk about Reed previously.
Reed is a cafe. A chocolate cafe to be exact at the Taman Anggrek
Mall in Jakarta. Where the cakes, the drinks, everything, is
chocolate oriented. I went there last Sunday to meet a friend and
discuss a project together (and also check out some cute chicks, the
place is abundant with them during the weekend: D)
So anyway, who knows I ended up back there the day after? You see, I
have some friends coming over from Surabaya to Jakarta because they
wanted to look at some clothes material to buy. I decided to
introduce them to a friend who's basically major on the subject :)).
So, long story short, I'm back at Reed's
I ordered a Strawberry Chocolate Banana Smoothie, quite the opposite
of the 'Midnight' that I ordered the last time (which is basically a
hot dark chocolate - yummy). It's sweet, and cold, and not for those
people who distaste sweet drinks.
drinking the strawberry thing
what my friend ordered. It's called 'Dawn' it's basically a hot white chocolate. Haven't tasted it though. Maybe I should, eh? :D
So I decided to cut my hair off yesterday. And to follow a certain
someone's advice, I decided to not spend too much this time on my hair.
Big Bad Idea
The thing is, I never know what hair look good on this deformed head.
I tend to leave it to the expert to do their job and find something
that actually looks good on it.
So here comes this hairdresser that goes by the name of A, tell me “I
think you should get something a long the line of what your friend
just had” (I was with a friend that day). So that’s 45k down the
drain, with a result that I hated, a style that I want to get rid off
so immediately.
I guess I much prefer that 80k that I spend 4 months ago to cut my
hair Japanese style. Love the guy! But now, I’ll just have to wait
for another month or two before I throw my money to this head of mine.
I forgot to attach this photo to the previous posting, enjoy it (got
to buy that bread again if I get the chance :D)
Mom comes for a visit last weekend, actually? She just wanted to shop
here; it was dad who has an IODI (Ikatan Olah raga Dansa Indonesia) -
a national dance organization here in Indonesia.
So we go around Jakarta, mom, my bro, his fiancee, and me. From
morning till night, the second day we decided to sleep over my aunt
house (where my mother is staying).
There's one thing you should know about her house, it's basically
empty!! I mean the whole family is always busy doing stuff, so the
house is empty for the most of the day. So all of us just help
ourselves, and buy breakfast for ourselves the following day.
We went to Sogo supermarket, and guess what we found: a 3 foot
Turkish Bread!! It was so big, I imagine the four of us could bite
from all 4 edges without ever touching each other: D. The bread
itself is delicious, and it only cost like 18k here.
GOD! It seems like forever since the last time I make an entry, and
there's already so many things happening to me... Well, not major
ones, minor, but oh do I wish for a major change happen to my life
nowadays.
Ok where was I?
I still work in this damned stressful company, still working my @$$
off for something I Supposedly enjoy. I can't elaborate anything on
that due to professional reasons, but in short, a lot of people here
feel that they're under appreciated, that's all I can say... for now.
Couple of weeks a go, there was a Toy Fair held in Jakarta, and, even-
though I spent only a little of my money there, I ended up with a lot
more than I deserve!!
While I was there, won not one but two zoids model kits, and a star-
wars Lego (the one with the land speeder and the cantina) ^_^. I was
so happy that day but I ended up sick at home, hehehhehe.
There are certain times when I hated the way people think. I know
it's an opinion, and it's theirs, but still...
I recently I come onto news that both disappointing and heart
breaking, and all because of the stupidest reasons too.
I mean, what compels a person, to do something that he/she might
regrets, but do it anyway because it was "natural for them to do so"?
Is life so short that people will rush into such an important decision?
