Midnight Workout

A couple of days ago, I was invited by the ISV members to come to campus' quarterly event, Storm the Night Dance. The event took place on Friday, June 8, and I didn't decide on going until my friends dragged me to it. Well, I thought, why not? I came to the similar occasion two quarters ago, and everything should be the same as it was. For a note, I'm not a party-goer. I don't go to clubs and dance till morning, but well, I do sometimes love to step on the dance floor...with the condition: no alcohol.

The preparation for Storm the Night Dance was considerably sudden for me, as I looked up for the dress a few hours before the party commenced, meanwhile most of my friends already got all the stuff they'd been planning to wear since a week ago. I strolled in Valley Fair on my own and finally my attention was hooked on a simple, mini black dress with a black rose embroidery on the left shoulder, complete with a belt.

ISV people were supposed to gather around in Lynn's place before leaving to the venue (which was at school) at 9.00 pm, but apparently we spent too much time on make-up. Only the girls though. The guys were patiently waiting outside lol.

I left with Agnes, Catfish, and Lynn. It was 9.45 pm when we took off and we still needed to pick up Van who lives in Sunnyvale. I know, we were super late for the party and we only had two more hours to have fun before the committee had to wrap it up.

Time to have some fun!
Basically I'm just going to post the pictures and maybe put captions on some of them.

ISV forms a dance circle yeah!

Later on, I met my two Indonesian friends, Jessica and William, who were apparently surprised to see me in this kind of occasion. At one point, some random guy led the entire invitees to dance along with him, kind of like a mass aerobic session. The movements reminded Jessica, William, and me of poco poco dance. Weirdly enough, three of us tried to demonstrate the poco poco dance out of randomness to see if it was similar enough with the dance being led at that time. YOLO.

DAT GAZE!

Barefeet girls!

Our feet ached from jumping on heels!

When we took our heels off and stepped on the wet grass in the chilly night...

IT WAS SO DARN COLD!!!

*seriously I felt my feet were temporarily frozen

Koosha and Cynthia are having so much fun!
(btw, oh hi Erin...*the guy in the back*)

 

By the way, at one point during the dance, two strange boys came up to me and tried to have some talk with me. One of them whispered to another in a pause, sort of asking him what to ask me. I was so dumb not to realize immediately that they were actually hitting on me and the hints are as follows:

1. One of them asked me where I got the glowing neon bracelet. I told him to go to the welcome booth at the entrance, but he hesitated to go. I kind of sensed he actually wanted ME TO WALK HIM THERE. dafudge
2. The same guy asked “Do you have a boyfriend?” I had to say I did so that he didn't hit on me any longer. However, he continued “Are you married?” The fudge dude are you high or something?
3. The other guy asked “Hey my friend right here doesn't have a date tonight. Do you want to dance with him?” I refused, of course. HELL NO.
4. When I was about to turn to my friends, one of them stopped me from doing so, saying “Hold on, why are you going to your friends when you have us?” Four words to both of you gentlemen. Go poo your self. Or at least your common sense.

Good thing one of my Indonesian friends came up and handed me the camera (yeah, while I was being interrogated by these two strange guys, my friend borrowed the camera, which might explain why I wasn't on some of the pictures). Weirdly, my friends didn't help me to get away from those guys because they thought those guys were MY FRIENDS.lol

Anyway, I asked my Indonesian friend to distract me and take me away from them. Thank you so much for saving me from these weirdos!

Apparently, I wasn't the only victim. Some of my friends later told me that they bumped into the same guys and explained that they were in their drunken state in the party (despite the event itself prohibits any forms of alcohol). Those guys must have drunken heaps of liquors before entering the party.

Anyway, no more complaints. Let's have some more fun!

Mona and Chika! Two kawaii Japanese girls!

Not sure what Luna tried to do to Channon by placing her hand on his back

The staircase family, with Eric the tallest among all

The party went on and it came to an end at 12. Some people begged the DJ to play some more songs, but once it ends, it couldn't be continued any further. This is not a club in the end. This is a school event, and everything had to go according to its schedule.

So yeah, no encore. Bummer...

The girls I mentioned earlier and I tiptoed all the way to Agnes' car barefeet. We were planning to go to Zoey's house for an afterparty, but the party at Agnes' car was supposed to drop by at Ihop to buy something to eat during the afterparty, while I guess the other party should be buying drinks.

Zoey's house was packed with more than I expected. The later the night got, the more people came to chill and have fun. Some people decided to play some silly game, while I was enjoying myself playing playstation with the other party (I actually played Naruto, which is strangely fun). By the time I needed to go home, the boys switched the game to Winning Eleven. Sometimes, life's totally unfair... -_-

Well, I had a great time overall that night. Yeah, if only I didn't have driving lesson the next day, I would love to stay overnight with a dozen of people in one room.

cooling our heads

Okay, this story is a bit out of date, but I decided to just post it here since it's too hard to forget.
On late August (don't remember the exact date) I was invited by a friend of mine who comes from China, to attend a fellowship event. Elda and I also joined in the trip, with a little confidence and was quite assured that the whole event would be conducted in Chinese, since most of the participants come from Chinese speaking countries.

So here goes the event. It started with a visit to Santa Cruz. We carpooled from DeAnza college to Los Gatos first, stopping by a decent house to have a glass of orange juice, then went straight to Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz might not sound that strange to me, but the thing is, I had exactly no idea where that was, whether it was close or not to Cupertino.
Anyway, it was a good place though. In fact, a fascinating one. I've never been to any beaches in America not until that visit. Obviously it look different from Indonesian beaches, especially minus the seaside-counters-and-sellers part.

I met some new friends! Terri, my Japanese-born friend, and Sierra, who comes from Hong Kong

We had a group picture together. Can you spot me there?

Then we had a beach walk on our own. I felt like wearing the wrong dress-code (gah, there's no dress code by the way) since I attended the outing wearing a semi-formal checkered outfit, jeans, and sneakers, without knowing that we were actually going to the beach ><. If only I had found out, then I would probably wear shorts, Tshirt, and a pair of sandals.
The water was freakishly cold! In contrast of the hot weather and burning sand! So you can imagine me running confidently into the water then practically flinched when the water met my feet.













By seeing the pictures above, at least you get the picture of referred beach I'm talking about.
Right after a beach walk, we happened to spot that the beach itself was connected to a nearby small theme park called Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Before entering the theme park from the beach, we had to pass like rows of shop. Nothing interested me though, so I just kept on moving.

Anyway, I thought this theme park required every of its visitor to pay for the admission fee, but turned the entrance didn't have any ticket boxes so visitors could roam freely inside the theme park. BUT there was actually one ticket box in the middle of the theme park. So it turned out that we did have to pay for $3.00 or $4.00 per ride. We didn't need to ride all of rides though, but if we wished too, just go to the ticket box and requested your desired ride. The lady would hand you the ticket after you pay.

Piece of cake huh?







Doris was ecstatic about riding on some rides, but maybe one ride is enough since our time being in the theme park was obviously limited. Actually Doris was excited about riding on this pendulum-like ride, but she hesitated to go on her own (since all of us had this gut to ride the ride along with her). So we switched to another not-so-gentler ride which is Speed bump (boom boom car)



After spending quality yet fun time at Santa Cruz, we headed back to Los Gatos for barbecue time. Anyway before having dinner, we had some games to break the ice. The game was a bit hilarious but it kind of challenged the heck out of our memories to memorize everyone's name there.



After the game, we had a dinner. The host was kind enough to provide food ranging from spaghetti, chicken, to sushi. What a comforting yet warm food in the contrary of the cold weather and the blowing wind. The rest of the night was spent with some more games but this time, it was conducted fully in Chinese, so there was no way I could join in.







Spent the rest of the night watching religious videos in the living room and the goals of the organization. The host also thanked for us all for coming to her house though



An impressive night indeed. Got to make some new friends and joined in the game. The valuable lesson that I got to learn is that that language isn't the barrier of communication. I can hardly speak Chinese but some of those games don't really require language as two-way communication, only with gestures and laughter.

Phiew, that was one quite long post. Have a great day!

It's a night to remember!

Hey y'all! Happy Saturday! Guess what I'm doing while I'm posting this. Yes, I'm watching World Cup match right now. Netherlands vs Japan! Talking about colonizers.

Anyway, my school's prom was yesterday and it was superb! I love the whole sophisticated vibe and the formal-ish atmosphere filling the venue, with my friends donning elegant long gowns and some (including me) chose to wear mini dress instead.

The thing is, I found the dress right on the Dday, in the afternoon to be exact. I got to watch Toy Story 3 with some of my friends (who sadly didn't join the prom) and after buying the tickets, I decided to spend some time before the movie getting my own prom dress.

One thing I really regret: So sad I didn't get to design my own prom dress the way I did for my junior high's prom.

Trust me, it's really hard to find a fitting yet a dress to my liking. Whenever I found one to my liking, the size wasn't really cooperative to my body size. Too big or too small. Ugh. Think I really need a custom made one.

However I finally got one! I thank my friend for choosing that and the fact that I really love it! It was silver, and good thing no one was wearing silver at the prom.

The price was quite reasonable too, and better, it got a discount! Love love <3

With Mila, who won the best dress for the prom :)

Sorry about the low quality of the images.
I just happened to forget bringing my camera in such an important event. Despite the low quality of images, the magic of photoshop would surely make them look better. Well, not in quality. They still looked blurred and all messed up. But at least they looked brighter (the original pictures looked darker).

Oh just found these higher quality pictures on Facebook :)

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Tomorrow Wonder Girls would hold a showcase concert at Balai Kartini. The tickets weren't for sale, however if we wanted to obtain them, we needed to purchase this particular Sony Ericsson phone. Free tickets were also given away or offered to random people. My cousin was lucky enough to be offered two tickets to attend the showcase. She asked me to come along.

To be honest I love Wonder Girls but too bad I only recognized two of their many songs. And just today, she told me she couldn't possibly attend tomorrow's showcase due to a sudden plan. Ouch.
Well, no need to be sad. I only know two songs of Wonder Girls #tryingtocheermyselfup

Ouch, Netherlands-Japan: 1-0...
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ONE MORE THING!!
Blogger just had this new feature on designing blogs. I may try myself experiencing on it. Looks pretty fun :)

GRADUATION DAY

Saturday was the most memorable day of my life, ever.
The students of Tarakanita 1 High School entered Hotel Sultan still as fresh graduates, and exited as officially alumnis of the school. I've never been so ecstatic in my life. June 12, 2010 was the most anticipated and the most un-anticipated day at the same time. We all had waited for the moment, but didn't expect it to come so soon.

I wouldn't say much here. In short the event was fantastic! Too bad the pictures taken by my camera didn't produce high quality images (anymore). I'd really like to post some pictures uploaded by my friends, but they belonged to them so...

Beware of the picture spam below :)

Tell me, you've seen students graduating by wearing those typical graduation caps or maybe those who also wear batik outfit, haven't you? But have you actually ever seen graduated students wearing simply school uniforms BUT with pink roses crowns on their heads??

Kudos to the committees for the unique concept!

Endah and Rhesa, the rising (indie) singers also made a surprise performance. I'd heard their song in the radio before but seeing them performing life was just epic :D

It was simply a night of surprises. Lots of surprises. Thank God I got the first rank in my department - Language Science. My heart stopped beating the moment my name came out in the announcement of ranks. But I sure would like to thank all of you girls whole heartedly, for being great academic partners and true friends at the same time. You girls rock!! Also for the teachers for their dedications throughout the three years.

Anyway what is more surprising for me is that, the trophy that I got is actually the first individual trophy for me ever. I've got actually like two trophies but I got them from winning group contests. So, it's cool to finally have my own trophy, eventually.

Other surprises came from both teachers and students.

Teachers made a surprising fashion show, making an entrance to the catwalk in pairs, dressing in traditional outfits. Another surprise came from my friends who managed to show a movie which criticized the school's system and everything that the school needs to fix.
Even there were these dancing sessions for teachers and students. So the dancer tutor called out teachers and students to come to the dance floor following his choreography. LOL

It was a really magnificent event! It wasn't as formal as I expected it to be. Turned out it became a party after the dinner break! The lights were turned on, balloons were released, tears and cries were all mixed, blended into one emotional atmosphere at the end of the party.

Congratulations girls!
We did it! It's been a fabulous night! What a night to end these sweet three years. Looking forward to see you in another time in the future :)