The Sky Is Falling Part 2

Exhibit #4
*this is truly amusing*

Out of the blue Mbak LN's - a reporter of the well-known national station “Milik … Bersa… “number appeared on my hand phone and so I picked up:

Princess Tessa : “Ya hallo, Mbak L..sa apakabar?”
Mbak L : “Hallo Mbak Tessa, Mbak bisa nae sepeda kan ya?"
Princess Tessa : *Hmmmm...* “Bisa sih tapi buat apa ya?”
Mbak L : “Ini saya lagi buat rundown acaranya, tapi pake sepeda
makanya nanya Mbak bisa nae sepeda ga,”
Princess Tessa : *Hmmmm... okay...* “Wah, rundown apa ya, Mbak?”
Mbak L : “Eh tunggu, ini Mbak Tessa mana, ya?”
Princess Tessa : “Princess Tessa yang dulu di Periplus, Mbak,”
Mbak L : “Oh ya ampun! Saya pikir Mbak Thessalonika Kaunang Mbak!
Habis suaranya sama... “
Princess Tessa : “Oya, emang mirip sih Mbak... “

And so the story goes...
Can I ride a bike?!
Tsk tsk tsk tsk

The Sky Is Falling!

I think the end is near hihihihi. Too many phenomenon occurring lately:

Exhibit #1
I never usually can meet Lilikh on other occassions than he's meeting up with Pete, now we already bumped in to each other for about 3-4 times in a month. My oh my, once at X2, twice or three times at my office building.

Exhibit #2
There's this really really fierce and mean senior secretary at work, who everyone despises and affraid of, yet, she seems to quite fond of me! She's once sent me to gym and now almost once a week if I go there we'll get off office together then she'll deliver me on her way back.
And now I suppose she has recommended me to her gang that leaves me with a gym appointment with another fierceful female of the company. Man, if could you could only imagine how I feel... so dominated each time near those people, trying hard not to say the wrong words or give any wrong impressions as they might come into tantrum and snap anytime they want... oh why oh why would they want to hang around with me huaaaaaaa....

Exhibit #3
I think there might be a chance that Mr. ... is quite fond of Ms. Rainbow since he somehow remembers her birthday out of the blue. Come on lah, most men wouldn't even remember his partner's birthday. How very thoughtful of him! ehehehe
Well my saying to those two lovebirds, I think you guys could be good together, jia you!!

Dear friends, spread the word, the sky is really falling!!
Aaarrrgggghhh, ruuuuuunnn :D

MY MAN!

Someone wrote on my facebook inbox today :

just curious...if you are already in a relationship, what are your expectations if any?

Shit! that's actually a very good question! LOL

E. E. Cummings Works that I Love *on love*

but if a living dance upon dead minds

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
if(among

let it go--the

Am trying to look for another of his poem about love, telling about love is like an elephant sitting on a cloud, can anybody help find it?

thanks before.

My yellow in this case is not so mellow

The line of such a lovely song from Hendrix's "Bold As Love" is constantly playing on my ears and mind.

Well, yellow for I may have need to feel a little worried of the things going on at work. It all started from the sudden resignition of our head of department (ugh, he's actually kinda groovy as a superior - likes to swear a lot in bad languages *love it! LOL* and all in all quite okay lah as a leader) and we're now still hanging by a thread to who's going to replace. Can't do nothing either with all the directors political moves, pretending to hand over the responsibilities from one man to the other *such craps.*

Not so mellow, I guess since my gut feeling, you know like you just can feel it that everything's going to be alright. It's the kind of solemn serenity that you can only feel yet rather hard to describe nor explain in common sense.

Oh... let's just go ask the *whatever* axis *is* :P

Bahasa indonya gw rasa kayak Ebbiet G. Ade - "tanyakan pada rumput yang bergoyang, dududu dudu..."

What...

... happened when a group of young adult women were hanging out at krispi kreme Senci one day. They probably talked behind each other's back after the event. They might actually dislike one another yet are stuck with each other. They could be just talking about unimportant gossips on partners, sex, clothes, and loath each other still :D

Where...
... do I begin... *you know the song? hehe*

When...

... was your last time attending a mass? I haven't for months hehe.

... did it all begin? From here and there.

Why...

... does it feel soooo good knowing that you smell good today and that you are wearing *and buying* the perfume that you could only dream of when you were just a lad?

How...

... I miss this guy:

Si "Babi"

Mom took it to the laundry for a few days and now am having trouble sleeping huhuhu... I never knew how I'd miss "Babi," he has always been there for me...

New Year, Fresh Beginning

Now that seems to be such a perfect title don't you think?
Alas, here I am, hoping that nobody outside of my small aquarium with three occupants office room, noticing me smelling my new red Zara shoes *pete's bought it for me by the way* LOL!

I've resigned from Periplus and is now with Truba Alam Manunggal - it's a Tbk company, providing all services for power plant etc.
Couldn't help to get a little sentimental on my last day at Periplus and got a surprise date invitation as well from someone.

Now my new office... still haven't much to say ya, since am still learning and adjusting myself to the work, people, and culture. I love that we have a Starbucks downstairs where the bule-bule hang, hope one day one of them got the guts to introduce themselves to me ehehehe.

The rest would be on my to and fro daily trip by busway, which are just okay and quite good exercise with a lot of walking and standing and loneliness.

That's all...

Politik 'Saya Tidak Tahu'

Sudah beberapa waktu saya coba praktikan politik ini dan hasilnya memuaskan. Caranya mudah saja, setiap ada hal-hal di kantor yang memang tidak terlalu berkaitan langsung dengan Anda namun entah bagaimana kebetulan saja Anda yang sering dianggap mengetahui segala sesuatunya dan ditanya seseorang, katakan "Saya tidak tahu." Setelah itu, segera berlalu atau sebutkan siapa yang seharusnya mengerjakan hal tersebut.

Saya mengetahui politik yang luar biasa efeknya ini dari sebuah film, sayang tidak ingat judulnya, yang pasti filmnya tentang kisah seputar politik dan para pembantu presiden yang sedikit banyak dimintai pendapat saat ada krisis.

Seringkali kita berpendapat bahwa jika ada rekan yang menanyakan mengenai pekerjaan maka untuk terlihat pintar dan bisa mengendalikan banyak hal, kita merasa perlu untuk memberikan satu jawaban terbaik yang saat itu kita punya.

Padahal, daripada memberikan analisa yang sok tahu dan sok ikut campur, sama sekali tidak salah bila Anda mengaku tidak tahu. Seperti yang dilakukan salah satu penasihat yang senior di dalam film tersebut, di saat yang begitu genting dan penasihat lainnya meminta pendapatnya, dengan berani ia mengatakan: "Saya tidak tahu, saya tidak tahu."

Jadi, saran saya, mulai sekarang jangan malu lagi untuk berkata: "Saya tidak tahu."

Omaigod Glenn, I got it!

Here's your lyrics:

T.G.O.D
(The Good Old Days)

You know baby, I was such a wuss back then
To say goodbye I didn't dare
What my momma said I could care
Til come that day I said
"What the fuck am I doing here?"

Falling in love oh so easy to stay
How could I end the good old days?

Hell yeah I thought it was love
Such a dear friend I never regret
A beautiful soul at least I'd a good laugh
oh what a fool I had enough

Letting go the good old days
so cry with me now

Ah cerita-cerita ah...

Today am feeling like sharing another episode of our love story.

We are living in a such a fucked up world, don't you think? Or hasn't it just been the same, only the people who're getting crazier? I'm not sure...

Just think of the UN's Climate Change Conference in Bali, at one side the agenda is to achieve better results in exchange of the the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. On the other side, Indonesian Government is screaming for more allocation of funds (or incentives or whatever) on our poverty issues, which could be good and worthwhile for the people if everyone could have a good attitude and commitment towards it.
However, what good will it bring if most of the freaking money goes to the authority pockets? I kinda only have a little faith that this agenda would bring any real effect for Indonesia other than just false hopes, let alone the whole climate change issues.

Having such a skeptical attitude towards my country's system is just a start.

And then more on relationship issues, how human beings, including myself, choose to believe regarding romance.

Lately I tend to believe that there's no such thing as "love conquers all" bullshit hehehe. Like, come on seriously guys, you still believe on that crap?

What does it take then for a relationship to last?
I'm completely, positively certain that love alone won't be enough.
And money, compatibility, equality, respecting each other, open-mindedness, endurance, persistence, a good teamwork, negotiation, even kids still aren't the strongest reasons for a partnership to last.

So our friends (like any of us) are having issues in their relationships. Funny how each deals with problems. So scary ha to know that your partner can hit, swear or throw things at you in at manic state.

And then there's the story of Braindamage's brother , which is just madness ha, I wish I've taken the blue pill and bathed in ignorance, instead of knowing too much and now where do we go from here? Hehehe.

Again, what does it take then for a relationship to last?
Pete calls the X factor as a miracle.
While I believe no matter how hard you tried to work on even to push a relationship to last, when you guys aren't meant to be, then you're just not.
How do you say 'jodoh' in English anyway? Kalo ga jodoh ya bisa apa?

For what it's worth though, I think I'm quite lucky to have Pete, yes?
Now this is the part where I kinda let loose and put aside too many intellectuality and let the gossip begins :D

He has such a fatherly love, warmth and protection, very sophisticated, sexy, attractive, yada yada yada and bla bla bla.

Then what does a climate change conference has to do with my romance gossips? Nothing! LOL.

I would just be so lucky to be with Pete to the end.
*mampus hidup ngarep deh, tess* muahahaha


Song lyrics | I Should Be So Lucky lyrics

Oh, How I Love "Loving You"

So this is my story of loving "Loving You" - D'cinnamons.

Isn't it a wonder how people can get connected through music?

It's just occurred to me that by sharing the same taste and having the same state of feeling from a song can actually bring you closer to just about any stranger.

I think the same happened to me and "B.E." of JP's - Weekender.
We were in the middle of confirming an exclusive interview and the ice had broken once he called me and heard my ring back tone, which is of course D'cinnamons' "Loving You."
As soon as I picked up, BE immediately said, "You have the same ring back tone as mine!" and so we're just clicked from then on, although we only get to meet a few days afterwards.

Anyway, this song is highly recommended!

Got this Sarah McLachlan going pop-acoustic, deep, mature, strong feel.
*umm and does anyone get this gayness feel as well?*

Edited on Dec 26th:

So, I've finally listened to the whole album and yep am still quite sure that their vocalist has this McLachlan voice color (in "Good Morning") with a bit of Dido touch going on. Also instead of having a lil' bit gay sense, the album is actually consisted of very very girly songs here and there, a little 'King of Convenience' touch on "Tak Takut."

Hope you enjoy the album as well! :D

Song lyrics | Loving You lyrics

I Want List

I want to :

- be a manager
- move to US/OZ/UK/Canada
- have a car
- have a house
- have a long vacation to Europe
- have a vacation in Bali
- settle my credit card debts
- eat gummies as much as I can without getting fat or tooth ache :D
- get married someday

Oh and I forgot to mention:

- I want to buy a notebook

- Would love to loose some more weight as well

- I want to move to a new job

Updated on October 31st 2008:

- Loosing some weight, currently 78 kg :D not bad
- Moved to a new company, building a new career as Investor Relations
*but also still looking for any available manager position*
- Had some good chunks of gummies from Ina's last trip to Europe, thanks and yummmssss!

Until next update - so long :D

What is it with women and branded items?

I was with Pete about a month ago and commented on this lady wearing something branded that I think looked really nice. You know what Pete's reply is? He said: "I don't care what she's wearing, but she sure has a great body." lols

Yay! mejaku bersih lagi...










before









after

The Weekend Adventure of Ms. Tummy Ho

It’s been quiet an exhausting week for Ms. Ho, after her trip to Bali for 5 days and straight to work just after her plane landed. Works have stacked for 3 more launch and book signing preparations within this and the next month. The good thing was that she’d got the chance to taste one of the best wine she’s ever drunk at The Laluciola, but the rest of the food were just so-so nothing extravagant or anything. She'd been so blank that she'd left her things at the supermarket's deposit counter on one of the days.

She felt very, very happy and content though and sooo damn lucky that her bestest tummy mate Mr. Wetbutt has been kind enough to give her some lovely treats. All you can eat dim sum at Eastern Restaurant in Permata Hijau on Saturday! A carrot cake and espresso in the afternoon, apple-orange juice, skipping dinner, and end the night 2 Dunkin Donuts.
And for Sunday, it was sushi frenzy at Sushi Groove.

Boy oh boy… and so today Ms. Ho is totally into some heavy workouts to burn them all out. Yes, we should all cheer for her. Go Ms. Ho, gooooo…!

*author's note*

The origin of Ms. Tummy Ho

Tummy is of course referring to my tummy :D

We were walking through the mall after eating sushi as I mentioned before and Pete was teasing me for my bulging tummy, so we were laughing about it.

Ms. Ho

You noticed how sometimes you'd laugh so hard that your whole body shakes? And so while we were laughing my tummy shakes like Santa, now that's why it's called Ms. Tummy Ho as Ho stands for Ho ho ho *Santa's laugh, well of course, LOL!*

Oleh-oleh dari Bali















Ay-ay Captain, let me take you round Bali!



















'Tis crucial Sir, that before you begin enjoying this beautiful island to pay some respect at Ground Zero, it's the monument remembering victims of poppies 1.














Of course a stroll at the beach before shopping.



















And head back to the beach again for the sunset (with shopping bags on hands.)



















Some pictures of you in front of the Hard Rock Hotel is a must :P














Oh well, remember to always smile even if it is not a real holiday since it is on company's account and you have to work with a tipsy photographer.














Bigger smiles if the author is lovely and undemanding.















Finally, enjoy a good sunset walk at the beach!

This is how my table looks like 1 week to a book launch - cocktail party and press conference during Ubud Writers Festival, madness....

If you were in the dressing room with me...

I'd ask you: "What do you think, should I buy this dress?"

I'd tell you: "Hey lately I've been getting to like Pete more than ever,"

I'd whisper to you: "Psst... do you know that I wish I was a Caucasian named Naturale," lol

I'd turn to check my behind for awhile to say: "My ex texted me on my birthday just to say happy birthday tess and I'd replied thanks."

I'd turn one more time to take this picture and tell you: "Okay, you can get out, I'm going to change now!" ehehehe

Better Understanding on Women and Men

I’ve this colleague whom I shared cubicle with at the office told me on how he’s just got back from Bali and met some ‘new gal pals’ there. And so he was telling me how he liked to have fun by going out with a lot of chicks, despite the fact that he has a steady girlfriend already. I asked him what the fuck were guys thinking that even when they already on a steady relationship yet they’d love the thought of having someone else just for the sake of having fun.

I suppose well it’s not only guys that are being that way, probably girls like to be flirtatious too once in a while. Perhaps I should try it myself, eh? That should be fun.

And so I browsed through the internet to find what recent researches have found. As an old fashioned (or should I say I’ve been living too long in a male dominated environment) thinker I have to say that I’m quite amused with the fact that nowadays women are also as much of a cheater as guys. At first I thought men should have more tendencies to fool around while women are more monogamous, guess that’s far from the latest trend then.

I like what Wheaton said on his article Who Cheats More: Men or Women so neutral! lol.

Check out the survey from The Sun UK “WOMEN are far more unfaithful than men, a survey reveals.

Forty per cent of females cheat on lovers, compared with 34 per cent of males.”

How about this article Why Women Cheat that breaks down some reasons why women cheat.

If I were to cheat then the reason most likely will be I’m still looking for my “Sugar Daddy” – a man of higher power and wealth :D uuhh yess… gimme that bling honey! LOL

Anyway, on the other side I believe (unless the person is just plain stupid or retarded) he/she should consciously aware that there would be a risk of getting burned by his/her own game.

It’s not a good thing at all or like winning the person over the other by becoming the ‘other guy or woman.’ Just like one of Oprah’s shows in which it explored on ‘the other guy or woman’ in a marriage issue; Dr. Robin Smith stated that it is actually an insult for someone to make you his/her ‘other guy or woman.’ They may say they love you and treat you well yet still he/she’s making you the x object that he/she is actually missing on the relationship that they’re too childish or running away from their responsibility of coping with daily life problems.

Oh well, but who am I to write as an expert eh?

Moving on people, I must say that based on experience, simple talks with Pete, reading materials, aren’t women just much much complicated than men.
I was just talking the other day with braindamage on how he imagined to had sex to his cousin and I was on the-eewwww-what-the-hell-were-you-thinking-you-sick-I-don’t

-understand-guys’-kinky-sexual-desire mood.
Even to cheat women more likely to do it based on emotional reasons. While we are still struggling with insecurities and often wondering “do you like my tits?” men…. they’re just simply following wherever their peckers lead LOL! So simple and unfair!