Let's get 'gila'!

I'm writing this an hour before leaving to SFO.
Just a quick post. Yesterday, Elda, Terry, and Aymee were having quite a lunatic night to celebrate our freedom after final exams. I started off the day by having a dance final exam, which turned out to be unexpected than what my dance partner and I expected to be. We prepared the whole choreography the day before and ended up getting a worthy score! Despite our inability to compose a choreography unlike other groups.

Then, I caught up with Elda and Aymee and together, we had a lunch at Quickly across our school. Anyway, we were going to have a sleepover yesterday and had planned to cook some curry (as suggested by Terry, our dearest friend from Japan).
After the quick shopping, we went to the cinema with the purchased tickets to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

For some reasons, we were quite disappointed with the story. Won't spoil it here though.
Anyway, we went straight to my apartment, only to find out that the curry spices we bought for dinner were only for one person per serving. So in other words, we had to do nothing but decided on making an alternative choice of food, which turned out to be soup in two flavors (tomato flavored and salty flavored).
The activity resumed with us taking silly webcams together.

Then we continued the rest of the night by watching Toy Story 3. That was the first time for Terry and Elda (Aymee had returned home) watching the movie. Since Terry is a Japanese and Elda is pretty much into Japanese stuff, so you can imagine the excitement they had when they spotted Totoro in the movie. In the end, the whole Toy Story movie suddenly turned to be "Totoro hunting", as we tried as hard as we could to spot the legendary character of Ghibli studio in any scenes of the movie.



So I guess that's about it. Actually I'm writing this in my bedroom. Somehow I couldn't make it to finish the whole post prior to my departure so I decided to continue the rest here.
My journey home was EPIC! I'd definitely share it here :D

SF!!!!

This is another San Francisco story, only this time, I got to go there with Elda instead with my mom. Basically what we did were eating and visiting some interesting places we'd been to, but never got to be there together.

We took off not-so-early in the morning to catch an afternoon train. From SF train's station, we went straight to Golden Gate bridge using the same old route I used when I went there with my mom.

What's different from that day's trip to Golden Gate, I'd never walked on the bridge, ever. Despite the limited time we had in SF, Elda and I decided to take a walk along the bridge.

We also got a glimpse of the city of San Francisco from the distance.

Next up, we went to Pier 39 by bus and helped ourselves with famous Dreyer's ice cream! Yum.








Luckily enough, I also got to take more pictures of Pier 39 than before, and got to explore a place there where I'd never gone to. It was a wooden platform facing the sea. Alcatraz stood right across the platform. I'd honestly never got a view of the small island this close.







Before taking off to San Francisco train station, we spotted a huge Christmas tree in front of the entrance. Whoa, it was late November when Elda and I visited SF, and seems everyone's preparing for Christmas already.

Well, at first we were planning to visit Union Square but it was already dark and we were afraid we wouldn't be able to catch a train home, so we went straight to the station.
Finally we hit Sunnyvale train station at 10 o'clock in the evening. Quite late huh? Then we had a late dinner in Wing Stop before heading home.

Even though San Francisco and Cupertino were considerably close and only required $6.00 for round trip train's ticket, I rarely go there.
Sad huh?

Things to do in Indonesia (completed in 3 weeks, hopefully)

I may not be super overexcited about my returning to Indonesia. 3 weeks aren't a long term for a native Indonesian to spend her time in her country, therefore I have come up with a list of what to do there in three weeks:

1. Meeting my friends: high school, junior high, elementary, EF, Taiwan Guan Study Tour, even my very first best friend I've got back in kindergarten (we've been in contact via Twitter and planned to meet up).
2. Visiting my school (taking the last glimpse of the blue building before it's demolished)
3. Bus ride! Obviously no cord needed to pull there to stop the bus.
4. Sunday swimming and dancing session with my cousin
5. Teaching my cousin my new hip hop movement
6. Sushi Tei!
7. Jam session with my fellow violinists and our violin teacher
8. Going to Grand Indonesia (honestly I've never been there)
9. Going to Dufan
10. Going to Bandung (I'll either choose this or Dufan)
11. Dinner at Abuba Steak
12. Getting the taste of Indonesian food. There's a lot that I can't name them all here
13. Watching Narnia with friends
14. Relaxation massage.
15. Playing piano
16. Going to malls, obviously
17. Going to PIM on foot. Living in the US simply enables you to walk for blocks and blocks. Why not doing the same thing in Indonesia?
18. Reconciling with my daughter and granddaughters, as well as my crazy EC fellas.
19. Playing Playstation
20. Watching DVD
21. Book shopping!
22. DVD hunting!
23. Shopping in Mangga Dua!
24. New Year's eve in an exciting place
25. Taking pictures!
    
26. Seafooooood *drools* especially the one in BSD
    
27. Basically doing everything that doesn't exist in the US.

Is my demand a little too much?
:p

Perfumized!

Hi guys, how are you all doing? Anyway, I'm going home in less than a week
LESS THAN A WEEK!

My heart is constantly flip-flopping. Excited? Of course, but I still have many things to do prior to my departure, such as packing, although I don't really know what to pack aside of unused outfit, really.

Anyway, this week, Elda introduced me to a Japanese girl group called Perfume, consisting of A-chan (the youngest but she's the leader), Kashiyuka, and Nocchi. At first, their style kind of reminds me of typical Korean girl groups Wonder Girls or Kara. One thing you should know though, that Perfume specializes in Electropop instead of normal RnB dance song.
Well, the trio has an eyecatchy dance movements, like the tap dance in Nee PV and the 'walking' dance in Natural ni Koishite, as well as the eccentric video style they have in Fushizen na Girl.

The music style somehow brings me back to the good old days when I was still a huge fan of Jpop.

Check these videos out featuring my most favorite songs of theirs.

Nee (ねぇ)

Fushizen na Girl (不自然なガール)
Perfume - Fushizen na Girl (HQ)

Vezi mai multe video din muzica


Natural ni Koishite (ナチュラルに恋して)

Simply weird

Okay, got something to tell here.
Apparently, I won't be able to post my recent pictures on this blog. The thing is, the computer hasn't seemed to read my camera. I tried to refresh it and there was no way for the camera to gain an access to my computer.

With this thing occuring then I'm sorry to say that all recent documentaries have to be postponed until further notice. I gotta go back and see what's wrong with my camera :( I don't know what's wrong but let's just hope nothing really bad happening to either the camera, the computer, or the cable.

Work, camera, work! *plugging and unplugging the connection cable to the computer desperately*