i just went to see feist in concert (second time this year... she's awesome). it was the perfect summer concert. i went with one of my best friends, it was outdoors (mccarren pool, brooklyn), the weather was perfect (cool but not too cold, warm but not too hot), and we just sat on the ground and enjoying the music with a glass and a lucky strike. hmmm....
and we saw mischa barton walking right in front of us. ok, i'm not a big fan of hers and i never watched the o.c. (except when her character got into the car accident). but everyone knows i'm obsessed with meeting celebrities, especially that i've lived in nyc and i never met one (not until today, that is!). so that was exciting, seriously. yayy... my first ever celebrity sighting. i wonder if it's going to be in us or people mag this week... maybe i should start buying.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
technologically challenged
i have to admit, i am technologically challenged. it took me a while to figure out how to reduce pic sizes so i can post them on my friendster (and believe me, it's not photoshop). photoshop is another thing. i'm jealous of people who can stitch pics together, make stuff on their photos, and change the photos around. i tried, i really did. took me a whole hour before i finally gave up.
and now i finally figured out how to do this blog thingy and not to be smug, but i think i've done a pretty good job so far, right? right? i finally figured out how to post a picture along with a blog (pathetic, i know, when there's an icon that says "add picture to your post"). i still can't figure out how to add more than 1 picture though, so it's probably another year or so before i figure it out *sigh*
so it's one more week before school/work starts again. i am excited and nervous at the same time because this will be the first time i'm going to be the classroom teacher *yay* and i know my school workload is gonna be as crazy as ever, so goodbye to waking-up-later-than-6ams, checking-my-email-while-having-my-morning-coffee rituals, lazing-in-the-afternoon schedule, and all other worldly pleasures. welcome waking-up-at-5:30, drinking-coffee-on-the-way-to-work, getting-home-at-9-to-do-homework life once again. blaaahh.
and now i finally figured out how to do this blog thingy and not to be smug, but i think i've done a pretty good job so far, right? right? i finally figured out how to post a picture along with a blog (pathetic, i know, when there's an icon that says "add picture to your post"). i still can't figure out how to add more than 1 picture though, so it's probably another year or so before i figure it out *sigh*
so it's one more week before school/work starts again. i am excited and nervous at the same time because this will be the first time i'm going to be the classroom teacher *yay* and i know my school workload is gonna be as crazy as ever, so goodbye to waking-up-later-than-6ams, checking-my-email-while-having-my-morning-coffee rituals, lazing-in-the-afternoon schedule, and all other worldly pleasures. welcome waking-up-at-5:30, drinking-coffee-on-the-way-to-work, getting-home-at-9-to-do-homework life once again. blaaahh.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
quote of the day
"shoes are fabulous- even if they're not always comfortable. you just have to suffer for beauty, honey."
well said ms. kimora lee simmons.
well said ms. kimora lee simmons.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
totally!
i listened to fergie's big girls don't cry for like, 2 hours last night (on repeat, continuously). i don't usually like fergie much (fergalicious? glamorous? anything-else-ous? and do you realize she always spells out words in her song- or spells out her name, more like- yes ferg, i know it's f-e-r-g-i-e - you don't need to mention it in each and every song you ever sing).
anyywaayy (got sidetracked a little), i really like the song and the video is even better because that peter guy from heroes is in it (yuumm... new season is sept. 24, by the way). so my point is, i think there's really no point, is there? i just feel like announcing to the world that i like fergie's song (not that there's anything wrong with it, is there?).
so, umm, i also finished harry potter again (remember, i told you i'm re-reading the whole series again- and i accidentaly splattered pasta sauce all over the book- dammit). i finished the 7th book at 2 am last night and i had to get up early this morning. i'm glad i did it though because it turns out i skipped a page and i read a lot slower this time, so i got all the details. and i cried. for 10 minutes, no less. it's really sad. i cried everytime someone died. boo-hoo... i might send a howler to jkr.
by the way, after reading hp for, like, a week straight, i've memorized many of the spells and everything now is somehow related to the magical world. i think i've gone cuckoo. that or too much fergie. maybe both. oh well.
anyywaayy (got sidetracked a little), i really like the song and the video is even better because that peter guy from heroes is in it (yuumm... new season is sept. 24, by the way). so my point is, i think there's really no point, is there? i just feel like announcing to the world that i like fergie's song (not that there's anything wrong with it, is there?).
so, umm, i also finished harry potter again (remember, i told you i'm re-reading the whole series again- and i accidentaly splattered pasta sauce all over the book- dammit). i finished the 7th book at 2 am last night and i had to get up early this morning. i'm glad i did it though because it turns out i skipped a page and i read a lot slower this time, so i got all the details. and i cried. for 10 minutes, no less. it's really sad. i cried everytime someone died. boo-hoo... i might send a howler to jkr.
by the way, after reading hp for, like, a week straight, i've memorized many of the spells and everything now is somehow related to the magical world. i think i've gone cuckoo. that or too much fergie. maybe both. oh well.
Monday, August 20, 2007
c'mon spence...
okay i made a conclusion that it's dangerous to be near the computer and to have access to a blog at that special time of the month.
after i've ridden the emotional roller coaster today i watched the hills and all i wanted to say is, spencer, grafitti on the apartment wall is not art, and you don't know what you're getting into. that was just the beginning, mate.
that's all i wanted to say and i think this should be my last entry for the day (dammit, 3 in a day, i think that's more than enough!).
one more thing, if i may add: 23 is not too young to get married, only when you can buy your own ring and not use your friend's credit card. just a general advice for the population at large. ciao.
on a serious note...
okay after that whole sombre why posting, i feel like i want to write about the state of education in indonesia (yeah... after i lament about my love life now i'm pretending to be the minister of education...)
i think that teachers are underpaid. i know this is something everyone knows and realizes already (heck how come no one's done anything about it then?). but i really believe this is one thing that causes education in indonesia to deteriorate. i mean, parents believe to get good (ie. adequate) education for their children, they have to send their kids to another country (singapore, australia, usa, and canada preferred). or i don't know what's worse, is that good education comes from another country, hence all the popping international schools in indonesia. education doesn't come cheap. but it shouldn't be that way.
and it all comes down to money. the incentive or motivation for people to work is money. don't deny it, we all need money. you need money, i need money. we all need money to survive and we never have enough money. so the song hati senang walaupun tak punya uang..oo... is a bunch of bull. and teachers don't work to become the unsong hero. even heroes need money too.
another reason why teachers don't do such a great job is because they're getting lazy. it's true. and why, you ask? one, because their hard work is not reflected in the amount of money their making (thus my argument #1 can be applied here). second, the pedagogy is flawed. there is no pedagogy. teachers teach what they read in textbooks. they don't have the skills or the background education to apply known tactics in education.
in our school, our motto is the student is always right. if a student is not learning (for whatever reason), it's because the instrution is flawed. we cannot say a student is lazy, a student does not want to learn because the motivation is missing. as a teacher, i would need to figure out what's motivating to the student and use that to motivate the student to learn. we cannot say a student cannot learn because s/he has autism. this is one laaamee excuse. no matter what a student has or does not have, any person can learn given the right teaching methods. so it's our job as teachers to figure out different tactics for different students. education needs to be individualized and teachers need to be held accountable in their students' learning.
that's my soap-box moment. back to moping about relationships...
i think that teachers are underpaid. i know this is something everyone knows and realizes already (heck how come no one's done anything about it then?). but i really believe this is one thing that causes education in indonesia to deteriorate. i mean, parents believe to get good (ie. adequate) education for their children, they have to send their kids to another country (singapore, australia, usa, and canada preferred). or i don't know what's worse, is that good education comes from another country, hence all the popping international schools in indonesia. education doesn't come cheap. but it shouldn't be that way.
and it all comes down to money. the incentive or motivation for people to work is money. don't deny it, we all need money. you need money, i need money. we all need money to survive and we never have enough money. so the song hati senang walaupun tak punya uang..oo... is a bunch of bull. and teachers don't work to become the unsong hero. even heroes need money too.
another reason why teachers don't do such a great job is because they're getting lazy. it's true. and why, you ask? one, because their hard work is not reflected in the amount of money their making (thus my argument #1 can be applied here). second, the pedagogy is flawed. there is no pedagogy. teachers teach what they read in textbooks. they don't have the skills or the background education to apply known tactics in education.
in our school, our motto is the student is always right. if a student is not learning (for whatever reason), it's because the instrution is flawed. we cannot say a student is lazy, a student does not want to learn because the motivation is missing. as a teacher, i would need to figure out what's motivating to the student and use that to motivate the student to learn. we cannot say a student cannot learn because s/he has autism. this is one laaamee excuse. no matter what a student has or does not have, any person can learn given the right teaching methods. so it's our job as teachers to figure out different tactics for different students. education needs to be individualized and teachers need to be held accountable in their students' learning.
that's my soap-box moment. back to moping about relationships...
why?
why is it that a simple thing called religion could rule over everything else?
why is faith not good enough?
why is it not enough for two people who love each other to be together?
why do we need to always listen to our parents? (well i know why and i'm sure you do too, but i thought i had to add that for a nice effect...)
why can't we just do what we think is best without having to think about what other people think is best for us?
why oh why no one knows why (cool, i can rhyme!)
why is faith not good enough?
why is it not enough for two people who love each other to be together?
why do we need to always listen to our parents? (well i know why and i'm sure you do too, but i thought i had to add that for a nice effect...)
why can't we just do what we think is best without having to think about what other people think is best for us?
why oh why no one knows why (cool, i can rhyme!)
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
obsessions
i'm just too obsessed with harry potter. i read the 7th book in 2 days and now i'm back to the 5th book (i re-read the whole series again, except book 2 because i don't like it much. the whole thing about ginny and the diary and *sigh*). and i can't wait to read book 6. i know i could just skip the other books and went straight to book 6, but i feel obligated to read all the other books first (except, as you know, book 2).
another thing i'm kinda obsessed with lately is am new york's crosswords. you know, the free newspaper. and what's bad is that they actually post the answers online, so if i ever get stuck (like today for example), i just go online and cheat. there, i said it. i cheat on crossword puzzles (but i did the whole thing by myself on monday!). my friend told me it gets harder as the week progresses, and i agree. it was a lot harder today. i might as well just go online tomorrow morning and do the whole thing with the answer key. ha!
another thing i'm kinda obsessed with lately is am new york's crosswords. you know, the free newspaper. and what's bad is that they actually post the answers online, so if i ever get stuck (like today for example), i just go online and cheat. there, i said it. i cheat on crossword puzzles (but i did the whole thing by myself on monday!). my friend told me it gets harder as the week progresses, and i agree. it was a lot harder today. i might as well just go online tomorrow morning and do the whole thing with the answer key. ha!
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
cat no more!
yayyy the cat is gone (not gone as in, gone missing, but one of our friends is going to take care of it - she's a cat person - almost like the simpson's cat lady - but not that crazy). we cleaned the whole apartment and now it's nice and clean.
on another note, i'm getting married so lately all talks have been wedding this, wedding that. and i'm getting a bit tired of it, i want to have a nice conversation with my boyfriend (err... fiance - gosh it's so weird to call him that) about anything other than wedding. but it always comes up.
speaking of which, i decided last night i don't want bridesmaids. i looked it up at theknot.com and i found out all these duties and responsibilities of a bridesmaid. in indonesia, a bridesmaid's duty is to look pretty and to walk down the aisle before the bride. i think i'll stick with that. maybe one of my friends can just set up the bachelorette party and help me here and there, but that's about it. i don't need a row of bridesmaids walking together in uniforms. aagghh.
i just got up way too early because somehow i had an exceptionally full bladder even though i didn't drink a lot of water last night. so i'm going back to bed.
on another note, i'm getting married so lately all talks have been wedding this, wedding that. and i'm getting a bit tired of it, i want to have a nice conversation with my boyfriend (err... fiance - gosh it's so weird to call him that) about anything other than wedding. but it always comes up.
speaking of which, i decided last night i don't want bridesmaids. i looked it up at theknot.com and i found out all these duties and responsibilities of a bridesmaid. in indonesia, a bridesmaid's duty is to look pretty and to walk down the aisle before the bride. i think i'll stick with that. maybe one of my friends can just set up the bachelorette party and help me here and there, but that's about it. i don't need a row of bridesmaids walking together in uniforms. aagghh.
i just got up way too early because somehow i had an exceptionally full bladder even though i didn't drink a lot of water last night. so i'm going back to bed.
Friday, August 10, 2007
i hate the cat
there's a cat in my apartment right now and i hate it. i'm just not a cat person. it's white and big and it sheds like there's no tomorrow, so there's hair everywhere (and i mean, everywhere, even on the stove).
i already said no but my friend was desperate, so my roomate is being nice and taking care of it. i won't even touch it. i'll give the cat his food and drink and all (i'm not a cruel person!!) but i can't wait 'til monday when i can actually walk barefoot in my own apartment again.
and i have to keep my door closed cuz the cat kept trying to come in and hide under my bed. perfect timing as it's 100 degrees with 90% humidity. awesome.
i already said no but my friend was desperate, so my roomate is being nice and taking care of it. i won't even touch it. i'll give the cat his food and drink and all (i'm not a cruel person!!) but i can't wait 'til monday when i can actually walk barefoot in my own apartment again.
and i have to keep my door closed cuz the cat kept trying to come in and hide under my bed. perfect timing as it's 100 degrees with 90% humidity. awesome.
Pondok Statue?
Soo... I was driving by Kartika Utama (keep going straight from RaDal, you'll see PIM on your left, just keep going straight) and on your left, you'll see a nicely decorated house of Sanyoto/Warsito I forgot already and right in front of his house, there's a sign that says "Welcome" (to where?) and a giant roman warrior statue. When I say giant, it's big and it looks like one of the guys from 300. And the eyes light up at night (a nice, bright green shade) and a nice green lamp shines from below so that you can't miss it once the sun goes down.
Just so you know, this guy likes to show off. Oh yeah. I don't even know him but I know he has that many cars in his garage because he keeps his garage door open at all times (ooohh with glass panels all around and nice big paintings hanged... in the garage).
Anywaysss... keep going straight and you'll find even more bronze statues, in the middle of the road, and underneath each statue it says "Donation from so and so for the beautification of our community." Yeah, right. An art show in the middle of the road. Nice.
Just so you know, this guy likes to show off. Oh yeah. I don't even know him but I know he has that many cars in his garage because he keeps his garage door open at all times (ooohh with glass panels all around and nice big paintings hanged... in the garage).
Anywaysss... keep going straight and you'll find even more bronze statues, in the middle of the road, and underneath each statue it says "Donation from so and so for the beautification of our community." Yeah, right. An art show in the middle of the road. Nice.
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