Holiday~!

Wew, been 2 weeks since last I updated my blog! Been busy with assignment, but now it's all over and I have 2+weeks of holiday =) Even though the first few days of my holiday disturbed by stupid streamyX people who said that we not yet paid our bills so that they cut our internet! =_=" But now the problem already solved, and I'm enjoying my holiday! Nesia already left in 16, and Sel in 17, so I've been alone for 2 days at home and all I do are sleep, eat, play, sleep and eat again! Well at least I cooked my own food. I've successfully cook my first Fettuccine Carbonara and Aglio et Olio! XD Well, cooking is fun, but when I need to clean all the mess I've done, it's no fun anymore =.=

I'll going back to Indonesia tomorrow, so now I've been racing to finish all stuff that I need to do before I go tomorrow.
- Do all laundy > done
- Ironing clothes > done
- Clean my room > done
- Wash all dishes > 0%
- Packing > 75%
- Call taxi > done
- Buy all stuff my mom and sis asked > done
- Print my ticket > done
- clean my shoes > done

MM068-1's BBQ Party in Port Dickson!

Well, as I mentioned many many times already, our class was having a trip to PD for 2 day and 1 night. Yes, in midterm, when our assignment ready to kill us. Quoted from my YM conversation:

lunatic_rave: where is PD? sounds far
tanyus.indrayani: yea, about 1-2 hours from Sunway. We go there for BBQ. All the way to PD for BBQ. In midterm, with loads of assignment piling in front of us.
lunatic_rave: you guys are nuts

Our trip started in the morning, me and Sel wake up at 6.30am, with Chen threatening us that she'll to do a marathon of calling if we didn't want to wake up. We go to KTM behind Metari at 8am, arrive at KL Sentral around 8.30 and then having breakfast there. I tried to find picture where chen using her sleeping bag as a bazooka (also claiming a trash bin in KL Sentral as her base), but no such luck. Too bad, it's our main entertaiment when we're waiting for Chris to pick us up.

Finally around 9am Chris come and we started our journey to PD!! Whee~ At first we're quite 'normal', but then as time goes by seems like our inner camwhore self started to appear! Behold the super camwhore pict! (OKla, to save your eyes from blindness I'll just put few here)

At first it's only started with Dee & Sel camwhoring

But me and Chen soon joining them!

While Chris seriously driving and Wahyu... umm seriously daydreaming? ^^;

And finally, finally, finally!!! We arrive at our chaley~

This first thing that we do after putting our stuff inside: Playing a fighting game!!! :D
Team Malaysia vs Team Indonesia!!
Result: 6 vs 2. Team Indonesia lose~ T.T

After the tiring screaming session, Wahyu and Chris started doing their 'research' about violence in game by playing God of War while Dee, Chen and Sel doing some 'photoshoot'

Biggest babies ever

And I don't want to feel left out so...

me as old wife, chen as suami gatal, dee as concubine HAHAHA!

A photo I won't proudly show to my children in future.
After that I happily sleep until 5pm hohoho~ While I sleep Cen, Dee and Sel preparing the kebab on satay sticks. So here's our foods! :D

chicken kebab with peppers, cherry tomatoes, and cheese! marinated by Dee

rolled lamb meat with asparagus and mushroom. marinated by Chen

and corns!! cut by me, with all strength that I have, since the corns are as hard as wood. Actually we also got chicken wings, but somehow nobody take the photo lol. Btw, all the food tasted amazing. Even the wood-hard corn tasted surprisingly sweet. Around 5pm+ we fo to the beach! Not the cleanest beach ever, but clean enough for us to play :)

Chen's Daniel "James Bond" Craig pose

Chris relaxing, our photographer fot the jump session :D

The only one non-blur picture of Wahyu on the beach!

The attempt to drown me =_=" from our drown each other jokesJump seesion!

Then we go back to chaley to take our BBQ stuff, and the BBQ begin!!

Nice sunset~

Guess who?

The BBQ!
Our lemon girlPosing in front of our BBQ~
Surprise Bday cake for Chris!Dee & Bday girl
Attempt to squeeze 6 of us in 1 frame
The pretty cat that we meet in PD

Wahh actually there's many more to tell, but this entry already too long! Maybe I'll update the second part later :P

New Layout!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Finally I change the layout! Blogger's system is really confusing =_=" Luckily I got basic in html, if not I think I'll just give up =.=

For now I'll just use font style from default. Tell me if it's hard to read ya :) And btw, I like the cat~ hohoho.

For now there's nothing interesting to write here. Must wait for photos from Dee's and Wahyu's camera first before I can post anything about our bbq :) For now, it's my favorite picture while we're in PD.

If Only...

It's not even November yet, but I've been planning to buy my air tickets to Indonesia. I dunno if I should go back this December or not. If I go back this December, maybe I can't go back in Chinese new year. Actually air tickets for KL-Jakarta is not so expensive, but for Jakarta-Jambi is insanely expensive. Darn, if only air tickets is not that expensive!

If I don't go back this December, I will miss my cousin's wedding and our family's new year celebration. Usually all my cousins will come to our house and we'll have bbq together. Ahhhhhh :( But if I don't go back in Chinese new year it'll even sadder. Like last year, no sa cap meh dinner with my family, no visiting relatives, no ang bao until I go back! :P

Gah, maybe I'll just stay in KL this December.

Movie Recap

Song of the day, the week, and possibly the month:

I blame Hellboy and Abe for this D:
And I really can't help but to smile everytime I hear this song :)

Btw, lately I watch lots of movies, and all are satisfying for me :)
1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Even though the storyline is quite weak, I still really love this movie. Why? I always love fantasy movie, and I think Guillermo Del Toro really win my love when he create such a beautiful fairytale-like world.

I really really love the scene where Prince Nuada come to elven kingdom. Love the setting, love the costume, love the colors, love the creatures, love the fighting scene, and also really love the prince LOL. Somehow long silver-haired man always pwn me. Oh yea, somehow I also really like the princess :)

Another thing that really win my love is the creatures. Visit the official website, there you can see some design and description of the fantasy creatures. Very interesting design and description of the creature :)

So the conclusion is, if the thing that you want to see in a movie is a beautiful visual, watch Hellboy II, but if you want to find strong story, maybe this movie will not so suitable for you :)

Now the problem is, I can't wait for Guillermo to finish directing movie The Hobbit, prequel of The Lord of The Rings! :)

2. The Dark Knight
The long awaited movie! Since the first time I see the trailer, I really can't wait to watch this movie. Great movie, but I think the one that steal the show is not Batman, but Joker.

Agree with what Chen said in her blog, Heath Ledger is the perfect Joker. Psychotic, fearless and frightening, The Dark Knight really become his show. Really love the way he talk, the crazy tone tone that he use really the win.

Too bad that Batman himself do not really give me many impact, the only scene where I like about him is only at the end, where he sacrifice himself so Gotham will not lose their hero.

Also really hate when Harvey Dent become Two Face :( I really like him since the beginning, so this changes really disappoint me. Actually it won't be so disappointing if only he didn't die that soon. If only his changes will saved until the next movie where he'll become the next super villain, I don't think I'll be as disappoint as this though.

But overall, nice movie, Heath Ledger really won't disappoint you :)

3. Red Cliff
An unexpectedly great movie for me. At first I'm not so excited about this movie, but since they got lots of good review, I think I'll just give it a go. And what? I watch this movie 2 times already :P

A very nice movie, I think it possibly the best Asian movie I watch so far.

Very interesting story, afterall it based in The Romance of Three Kingdom :)
I really love the story, and the visual also pleasing to eyes.
Somehow I just don't know what to say about this movie, all I can say is: WATCH IT!
You won't be disappointed :)

Now I gonna continue play games :) Got a very interesting game, will review it later I think :)

Holiday Part 3

8th May 2008
Finally I must go to the city that I HATE most, Jakarta. I hate this city because of it's terrible city organization, annual flood, narrow roads on housing complex, terrible air pollution, etc etc etc. I always feel squeezed everytime I come to Jakarta. And weirdly, I always feel sick, even become really sick if I stay there too long. But I have no choice anyway, the easiest way to come to Malaysia from my hometown only through Jakarta :(

I arrive at Jakarta at 11.30am, but my sister only can pick me up on 2.30pm! Can't blame her, a dam near the airport decided to be broken on the day I come =.= so my sister trapped in jam for 3 hours with her husband, some more that day actually they need to work, but because they want to pick me up they miss the work that day :( I can't stop apologize to my sis and her husband, I really felt bad to cause such a trouble. But yeah, I really can't use taxi to go to their house, they just moved to their new house, and I don't know where it is. My sister worried I'll get lost, so she decided to pick me up.

They way to go back is not better either. We go round and round until we just arrived in my sister's area at 5pm. We go eat bakso first before we go home, and the bakso taste so good! Then we hurriedly go back home because I'll be meeting my friend at 7pm. But in the end I still come late though T.T

At 7.30 I met Hermanto alias Cou cou, my best friend in high school. How I missed him! He still the same gossipy Cou Cou that I know :D He really is the only guy that I know to know more gossips that girls do! Same old Cou Cou, it's really fun to char with him. And he give me an Indonesia design magazine and A book for me as my birthday present! :) After that we go to Sushi Groove for dinner. But before that... We go to toilet first. What's the big deal about toilet? That's because an old joke between us, everytime we go out don't know why he always need to go to toilet, and he always report to me =.=! His usual "Nyi, aku mau ke toilet dulu"
Don't know why, ALWAYS. Even girl not always go to toilet like him hahaha. And he still call me "Anyi", wierd reconstruction from my name "Yani". Yea, in high school we always have a "special" name for each of us.
Cindy -> Achinchin
Hermanto -> Cou cou (from Zhou, his surname)
Steven -> tepen, ven ven
Wendy -> Wen wen
Nesia -> A sia
Me -> Anyi, anyus, tanyu
Actually before dinner we want to surprise Cindy by calling her, but she didn't pick up her phone :( Dunno why among us, only Cindy that is hard to get in touch :(
After that we go around shopping and take some pictures :)
At 9 pm my sister pick me up and I have my 2nd round of dinner, woohoo! We go to eat ayam taliwang, a traditional Lombok food. And I taste AMAZING. Even though I already full from eating sushi, I still eat two portion of rice hahaha!

9th May, 00.10ish
Go back home, and I watch 10,000BC. Not so good I think, but my sister like it anyway. After we watch I go to toilet, and when I go back to the bedroom, suddenly the room goes dark and my sister and her husband already there singing Happy Birthday to me and there's a chocolate cake as my birthday cake! I felt reall really happy that I giggling like mad LOL. I'm super happy, ok! Really don't expect any surprise from them :) After blow my candles and make a wish we retired and go to sleep. The cake will have to wait until morning :p

Wake up, and have nothing to do because my sister and her husband need to go to work. So I just watch DVDs and receiving some calls and sms about my birthday :)
Watched the Golden Compass and Good Luck Chuck. The Golden Compass not as bad as people said I think. Good Luck Chuck is a common romance comedy, but it quite entertaining.

On 6pm-ish my sister pick me up, and then we go to have dinner in Samudra Seafood for my birthday :) Both my sister and their husband there too, the first time I celebrate with them, not on plane that take me back to Malaysia like last year :(
We order LOTS LOTS of food. For the dessert alone I eat 4 puddings! @_@ we really order lots of food that after we eat I felt like just rolling on the floor to go back to the car @_@

Go back home, watching Indonesian Idol. I think the guys are really really good. I like Aris' voice, his voice really really stand out among other contestant. But the girls is just okay I think, I'm not so impressed by their voice.

Actually that night me and my sister plan to not sleep until so late, but then we become super tired, and decided to just sleep.


My holiday finally come to the end :( at 10th May I go back to Malaysia, go back to TOA, and resume my "student life". Means not sleep and eat properly, become a temporary workalcoholic, and many other disastrous kind of lifestyle >_>

Holiday Part 2

The nice surprise is...
We got cats in our house!!!! Yes, you read it right, catS.
Means not 1, not 2, not even 3, but 5 cats in my house! XD
OMG it's like a cat farm XD
Why it surprise me? Because all I know is my family not too fond of cat, so why suddenly there's 5 cats in my house? Wow!
So here's the story (courtesy of my mum) how the cat can ended up in our house.
For your information, we open a small shop mini-mart like in my hometown, so the cat can easily just go inside my house. Two months ago, a pregnant cat come to our shop, my mum almost want to shoo it out, but then the cat give birth in our shop, in storage room for details. There she gave birth for 4 lovely kittens. My mum and dad don't have the heart to just throw out those new born kittens, so they just let them stay in our storage room since then! My mum said she didn't really mind because the cat easy to take care of, so she just keep them there. I'm so happy, okay! Of all my family member, only me the one who like cats! They're super cute XD
I want to take proper photo of them, but it's a VERY HARD thing to do because they're keep moving here and there! So energetic XD The only time they can stand still is only when mommy cat give them their daily milk~

top left: Elros, top right: Celebrian, bottom left: Elrond, botton right: Galadriel
Elrond and Elros bundle up together for napDaily supplies of milk!Mummy cat taking a nap with her kittensmy favorite kitten, Elrond XD

Cute, right! XD It's sooooo nice to play with them! At first they really scared of me, but later they become so energetic, even strach me and keep chasing me! I'm sooooo happy! I even thought about taking one of them to Malaysia with me, but I know that's impossible :( Our shared apartment here too small to raise a pet, and not all my housemate like cat :(
I guess if I keep talking about my 5 cute cats I wouldn't be able to stop, so let me continue my talk about my holiday!

22nd April 2008 - 8th May 2008
Can't really remember chronologically what I do in my hometown, but here's the thing that I do:
1. Helping my parents to run our shop
2. Going for culinary tour with my favorite cousin, Jessica :D
3. Playing with kittens
4. Take care of sick mommy cat
5. Reading lots of books, thanks to Chris for lending me lots of nice books!
6. Thinking and introspecting a bit about my study
7. Playing my good old Playstation!
8. Playing strategy game that I terrible in playing it
And now I'm not as bad as before, ok! Before I only can pass the first 2 stages, but now I can pass until 5 stages! :D patience is virtue! I'm not good in games, but I still love to play :p
9. Eat
I eat a LOT, people started telling me that I'm getting fatter than before. Will elaborate later :p
10. Go shopping with my mum

11. Walking around my small home town, yes, WALK
12. Teaching my auntie how to write Chinese characters using computer
My auntie is very passionate in teaching and studying! Even though she's already in her 60s, she still study mandarin, even teach some kids! At first there's just 3 people that asked her to teach them, but now there's already more than 20, and my auntie teach them for free! She's one of my favorite auntie :D
13. Talk a lot with my mum
14. Hearing family gossips among my aunties :p
15. Go to my auntie's new house
16. Not touching my laptop everyday, just sometimes
It's a very amazing thing, ok! Since I come to Malaysia to study in The One Academy, it's VERY RARE for me to not touch my laptop for every 3 hours or less!
17. Reading my writings
I used to write some short stories that I never finish! I always know the whole story in my head already, but then when I need to write it, my mind goes very complicated that makes me give it up. So I read them, and I surprise myself that I'm not so bad actually! :D But I embarrassed to show it to anyone hahaha!
18. Listen to my old CDs
19. Plan to cut my hair short!
After I read the book "Norwegian Wood", suddenly I got an inspiration to cut my hair short! I'm getting tired of my curly hair, so why not make it change extremely then! But my Idea must wait until Selvia go back from China, because neither me nor Nesia remember where the Salon we usually goes for! Hahaha! I forget ok, because it's not around Sunway!
20. Stay the night at my auntie's place
Playing Wii with my cousin until my hand become sore :p Some more I always lose, never win even though just for once! Those young cousins taking advantage of the old me! :'(
21. Reading lots of LOTR fanfiction
Some more the one that I read is the slash ones! Usually I only read the humor/parody/general ones, but for this holiday I try to read slash, and to my surprise, it's not as bad as I though. Quite entertaining actually, even though there still some part that I can't take.
DON'T, DON'T you ever makes MY Elrond become so feminine, ok! He might be a lore master, scholar, etc but he also a warrior, a herald of high king before he become the Master of Imladris! I really can't take it when those slash writers make Elrond become terribly feminine!
DON'T, DON'T, DON'T you ever make Glorfindel sounds so weak, ok! He's the mighty Balrog slayer! Even Nazgul run away from his wrath! I hate it when Glorfindel become the weak ones, the feminine ones. In my imagination Glorfindel always be the hero huhuhu! So making him the bottom ones really breaking my heart ok! He's always a mighty but still goofy Glorfindel for me :p
Phew, so far that's the only complain. And oh yeah, I hate sad ending. So I try to avoid fanfiction where there got Gil-Galad's death there. I like Gil-Galad so much, but too bad the High King must die T___T
Err ok, I think I talk too much about the fanfiction :p Move on!

On 8th May 2008, 00.01 am My mum sms me:
"Selamat ultah yo. Kadonyo gek mak ksh *censored*"
translated: "Happy birthday. Mum will give you *censored* as present"
At first I though like this:
"Oh, wow! I'm 20 years old already! I even forgot about my birthday!"
but then when I though about it again:
"Mum! It's 8th May! My birthday is at 9th May! T______T"
Huhuhu! T________T

Ok! Will continue to the next part, my holiday in Jakarta! :D

Holiday part 1

Three weeks of holiday bliss! I'm soooooo happy with this term break. The much deserved holiday~

Friday, 18th April 2008
Planned to woke up early because Chen said we will go to Malacca about 9am, failed miserably, woke up at 11am instead. Lucky Chen sms me said that we will leaven at 2pm. Phew!
Leave for Malacca at 2pm, go to TOA for a while, taking Richard's photography work. Chatted with Chen along the way, share few stories with her :)
Arrive in Malacca about 5pm and greeted by a botak schnauzer! Hahahaha that schnauzer is Jacky, Chen's pet :) He's lovely, got the kind of "I'm sorry please don't hate me sob" look LOL. But Jacky looks a bit tired, Chen said that Jacky just recovered, that's why he's not as energetic as always. Go to pasar malam about 6pm, meet Chen's best friends there, Ju and (correct me if I'm wrong) Yen. Walk along pasar malam, ended up buy gorengan too much =.= Also eat a Yuyu Ice there. It taste so nice! Must have it again if I come to Malacca next time!
Go back home and watch Amazing Race (laughing at the "goth couple" naming and wondering how if Wahyu and Selvia paired for this race LOL). The watch movie "Last Knight" about king arthur thingy, seeing Chen swooning over Richard Gere and throwing something (an empty box I think, but I don't remember :p) when she get angry in certain scene hahahaha!
About 11pm suddenly I feel SUPER sleepy, so I didn't join Chen and her friends to mamak. Sleep peacefully instead~

Saturday, 19th April 2008
Woke up late (again) hahaha! Lucky we still have some time. Plan to change our money in bus station, but the Money changer not open yet =.=
Read "First They Killed My Father" along the way to Singapore, a book about a Cambodian girl that live when Pol Pot still become the dictator of Cambodia. Love the book very much! It's so touching, I almost cried when her sister died T.T Why they're so cruel! Grr! Will talk about book later, will focused this entry about my holiday first :p
Story about me and Chen's journey in Singapore you can look in her blog, she has written in her entry and there has many lovely photograph that she took there :)

so... let me jump to:
Monday, 21st April 2008
Go to Batam about 8.40pm Singapore time, arrive about 8pm West Indonesian time 8D
My uncle fetch me, then treat me to eat pecel lele. How I miss Indonesian food! My uncle even buy extra sambal pecel just for me! :D
Wanna see my little cousins, but too bad they already sleep :(
That night I sleep early, because my mom said the plane to Jambi went from Batam on 9am but actually...

Tuesday, 22nd April 2008
the plane is for 9.30am =.= Hey, listen to me first before you say "It's only 30 minutes!"
In small cities, where you can go almost everywhere for only 15 minutes, go earlier means you wasting your time waiting, ok! So I ended up arrive too early and wait there =.=
Bring two big alcohol drink (Martel, I think) that my father asked my uncle to buy. And you know what? The security stop me like a criminal! =.= Pfft! Asking me many question, his boss even tell me to just leave those beverages! Lucky his friend persuaded him to just let me pass. So I pass, and there I met my relatives in waiting room. Not a close one, but we knew each other, so we end up chat together. At least I'm not alone in airport~
Arrive in Jambi finally! My beloved hometown! :') I'm touched! But my father FORGET to fetch me in airport. So I must wait about 15 minutes in airport before he come. Good that I live in small city! Everywhere is very near, from my house to airport you just need to go straight, meet traffic light, go straight again until you meet traffic light again, and then go straight AGAIN until you see the airport! How lovely is that? LOL
And when I go back I met a nice surprise...

I'll continue later in part 2!
Now I need to go to Ragnarok Online, my friend waiting for me there :p