Entries for November, 2004

November 1st, 2004

My weekend

I didn't clean up my room....
The kids moved out... I saw the older one this morning.
Envy them...
Stupid kids sang with their lung out...

Angki came yesterday...
Mum called....

Did my laundry at night....
I want a detergent bar... (feels like a filipino)

And I hate you for not keeping your promises...
It's been like two broken promises already...
That's when I'm counting....

If you couldn't remember,
I wonder why I think you are my best friend at all.

Like the person would read this *bleh*
Currently feeling: angry
Posted by ephi at 05:18 PM | moo me

November 3rd, 2004

New layout

I changed my layout. Actually, the layout has been made months ago, but just got the kick to put it up.
Currently reading: Library Services (Indonesian version)
Currently feeling: cold
Posted by ephi at 11:58 AM | moo me

Du... du.. du...

Surabaya is still as hot as ever. Now that I have no money after my salary day (gave it to my brother, mind you), I'm bored with nothing to do.

When I want to swim, I got my period.

The maid cooked us a very salty dishes and what's worse, it tastes like blah....

Last night, I slept without any pillow. I took off everything last morning because of the blood spill and wash it thoroughly, but after that, I'm only capable and not-lazy enuff to put on the bedsheet, the blanket, and the Bali saroong, and off my body on top of that. Why I put so many sheets? Because it's hot hot and hot.

Couldn't concentrate on my work nor thesis this days. *sigh*

What comforts me more is watching Mars with Leez's SMS keeps spilling to gossip about Abang Vic.

(work)

And doesn't the mango season ends yet? I've got free mangos from the library yesterday! ^^;

I want rain... rain... rain

My old friend Allan is on Friendster and she gave me this testimonial about what I've done to her, that I don't really remember.

Keeping a close look on the race (of votes) between Bush and Kerry in Yahoo.com, very nifty JavaScript I should say.
Posted by ephi at 05:51 PM | 3 moo..s

November 4th, 2004

Tsk...

Was writing something while SMSes kept pouring in and out from Leez. And it seems like, with this rate of SMS flows—pardon for being technical—I won't be able to reply any SMSes soon, because I haven't receive the fund from my sponsor and my last month translation job.

I couldn't sleep after midnight, so I went to the kitchen finding something to eat. Wati was still on the phone with her boyfriend, I think, when I settled myself in the dining table.

I'm being a procrastinator again. I can't seem to control myself to do things accordingly as planned. My thesis. My office's projects. My client's project. Can someone monitors me 24 hours to get me finish things?

I changed the charset from iso something to utf-8, I didn't found out about it until yesterday, yes, I need to learn thoroughly, not pieces by pieces. :p

Oh, it's Bu Ari's wedding tomorrow, and I still don't know how or will I go there, because, you know, no driver anymore... ka ka ka kak. Oh, the food.. *sobs*

And now the half of the burden is lifted, it's off to finish another one, that singing kiddo. Unfortunately, I don't think it's due today. It's her 17th birthday, wouldn't want to ruin that, wouldn't I?
Posted by ephi at 04:34 PM | moo me

November 6th, 2004

Bu Ari's wedding

At 4 we hesitated on going. At 5 we went home to prepare ourselves. At half past 6, we're already on the cab.

I cut myself while making the cards. It was made of three postcards. I got everyone to sign it. Chip in whatever money they have. We work here, means we're not very rich. But, as I lurk, there's a 50K (around US$5, 10 meals here) bill inside the envelope. Oh, well.

It was an inter-race wedding, but the bride and groom looks happy. Ambonese-Chinese blends together. But, the MC is so funny, he can't even pronounce any Ambonese names perfectly, and I wen't complaining about it to Beby.

("more")

It rains when we got out, but not in Siwalankerto. I guess, there's too much sin done in this place.

I want to find a new boarding house, but I'm too settled-in. But the water is really yucky, I bathe in Tante's house regularly nowadays.
Posted by ephi at 10:47 AM | 12 moo..s

November 8th, 2004

My weekend

Duh, the heat in Surabaya is unbearable. We have rain for two days now, but it's still hot.

Plus, I've run out of credits. No more gossiping with Lz *sobs* Anyways, I phoned her yesterday about the latest development on Mars. A bishounen claimed Ling as his love XDDD I bet she wanted to throw knives at me.

The electricity wasn't very stable as well, last night we have at least one period of darkness. I couldn't sleep, it was hot and dark at the same time.

The water isn't getting better even after the rain.
Posted by ephi at 02:50 PM | 8 moo..s

November 9th, 2004

A Thief

Someone stole Selvi and Angie's shoes. We didn't found out after last night. Luckily, mine didn't. I wore high heels yesterday, due to the fact, I'm too lazy to launder my socks in Sunday, so I postpone it until Monday. My shoes is old anyway, it's completely worn.

And Angie was like running in panic, because it's her new shoes. She took all of her shoes and sandals from the front rack, stashed them into a plastic bag and put it inside XD

The phone bill arrived on Saturday and upto this point I haven't finished auditing it yet, because alot of entries are listed as unknown. That damned person should be tortured. If (s)he still forget to write entries again, I'll have to lock the phone for good, no more outside phone call.

My thigh hurts because of the high heels. Err.. damnit, I want my salary now, [censored my company name]! I haven't paid the boarding room, the phone call, lz' salary, etc. T_T

Beby got her blog updated with the aura thing.
Posted by ephi at 09:30 AM | 1 moo..s

November 11th, 2004

Getting Colder

For the first time in months, I grabbed my blanket this morning because I feel cold.

But, as I walked to the boarding house at noon, I realise, it's still hot in Surabaya.

Meanwhile, the water isn't getting better at my boarding house. I'm seriously considering moving to Evi's place. But, I have to do that carefully, don't want to send an uproar, since, I've been staying there for all of my time in Surabaya.

I have to put all unknown phone numbers to the owner's account. Damn, I hate doing it, but I don't want to be the one who did that, when I'm already running out of cash. I got 2Ks left in my wallet.

My supervisor haven't email me yet about my salary. Errgh.

Met Lily today, we speak about the boarding house and the prospect of me moving out. She encouraged me to do so, though.
Posted by ephi at 05:44 PM | moo me

November 13th, 2004

Hiatus

I found my Furuba CD. Burn the rest of them that is available online, except for chapter #86, which was corrupted :p

Watch So Little Time, pretty cheesy, but entertaining. Isn't the dad looks like the one in Lizzie Macguire?

Buat semua yang merayakan

Selamat Idul Fitri
Mohon Maaf Lahir dan Batin, ye ;P

I cannot go online this upcoming holiday week, if you need anything, please SMS me here. Use it responsibly and if I don't know your phone number, include it in your message. I'm not sure it'll work, I've been trying to transfer it for the last two hours.

Posted by ephi at 11:47 AM | 1 moo..s

November 22nd, 2004

Lebaran Week

In Indonesia, we got a full week of holidays for Aidul Fitri. I don't have internet connection, so yeah, basically(?) I have nothing to do.

Actually not, of all 5 projects of holidays I supposed to do, I didn't do any. All of them needs computer work and instead of turning on my computer to do something with the project guess what I do? I only boot them to read Furuba! And I realize I missed reading one or two chapters. One example was when Shigure realizes that Tohru doesn't have a swimsuit. It's very funny! Although, this is just a guess, because I don't know what really did happen, it's all in Kanji and Kana.

And sometimes I practise reading Kana, Hiragana to be exact. :p Although, there are some font that are really distorted, I cannot read it T_T

On Friday, Mbak Lia and Mas Aris went home or mudik to her hometown.
Saturday was empty. At dawn Sunday, Mbak Ha mudik to Pamekasan. Monday afternoon, our real landlord and family came here. They will spend their holidays here.

I called most of my Ambonese friends everywhere to ask for forgiveness for this day, although, I couldn't reach Salty. *sad*

Monday night, we went to Bu Teguh. Me, Selvi, and Angie. But, we rush home quickly so we can watch MARS XD I think we missed the Sunday episode.

I called Leez, mum, and Ey. In fact, I called Leez almost everyday during holidays. XD Ey's cellphone got stolen in the bus

Seen Vic on the hotel bed with another girl, Leez sent me an SMS said, 'Abang Vic jahat, jahat, jahat, jahat!' Jahat can be translated to bad, cruel, naughty, mean, etc. XD I think she meant mean. :p But, the fact that—quoted from a character in Sex and the City—he can't get it up, makes it a joke.

And damned, Dong Dao only show up for a second or so. Wearing that stupid clothes.

Tuesday came and, SMSes from the other Mabudachi Trio makes me confused. I thought only Liwat's father came to town. But, he did too.

He said he would come to give the cake, but I was too sleepy to wait for him, so I went to sleep. Still sleepy, he called me and asked whether I already ate? Huh? O_o And we met less than 30 seconds! T_T He only popped out from the car, hand over the cake with some effort. The silver sedan-like car was jammed with people XD They're on their way to Trawas.

And the next day, I think I had a nightmare. Liwat and Sean came for a visit on my old house. Liwat is taller than me (no way!) and Sean has a bald head! XDD Told you it was a nightmare!

Mum missedcalled me. She got a new cellphone. It turn out that she was very sick for a while, but she didn't tell any of us. See a pattern here? But, now she's fine. She can only eat limited food, but it's fine. Our relative's daughter was complaining that she's hard to reach, so one day they came and throw a cellphone by her bed. Take that, so we can call you anytime and not being worried.

And I'm very broke during the holiday, so basically, I cannot go anywhere, the only thing I had in my pocket is a 100 rupiah bill, that's like only 1 cent in US dollar! And what I'm really sorry about, I cannot go to meet Liwat at all while he was in town. T_T Syebel.

Oh, and why did he said he was taken for a spin around Jakarta, when he's actually in Surabaya? *scratches head*

("money ramblings...")

Since I have nothing to do, I opened my mint comics. They are still wrapped with plastics, most of them are scanlated comics that has been licensed here in Indo, so I've finished reading them on computer. BTW, has anyone watch Rebelde Way? I think I'm going to like it and I'm going home earlier later. ^.^; It's Monday to Friday at 6PM on Indosiar. Mia is actually a very nice character, although, she's too spoilt.

The other TV shows are pretty okay. There's English-dubbed Germany fairy tales movie like Frog Prince, Snow White, etc. The translation for Snow White is correct. Not Putri Salju, but Putih Salju.

And there's also Kamen Rider and Ultraman. XD Ultraman Cosmos movie ending is very cool, Angie asked me to look for it. Well, later. But, the Kamen Rider movie has already been screened sometime in the past. Although, it never hurts to see bishies. Ooh, and they showed us Kamen Rider RX, loh! And I just realize that Kotaro and Nobohiko had girlfriends. *LOL*

Oh, I wonder about the Kanji for Kotaro Nanami in Tantei Gakuen Q to Kotaro Minami in Kamen Rider RX *ROTFL*

The weather is very hot. I didn't dare to turn on my computer after sunrise. Only did it after sunset. And yesterday, the smoke filled our boarding house. Someone is burning garbage in the backyard, not ours though. I went out, grabbed the hose and start sprinkling the frontyard, within minutes I started sprinkling my own body. Ha ha ha.

When I was still sprinkling the frontyard, I overheard my landlord asking his son about the telephone bill. After that, that son paid his bill, obviously from his parents. But, it's too late, Liwat was in Jakarta already T_T

The landlady went laughing at me. Yes, it's pretty weird to see an adult playing with water. Actually, I love doing this in elementary school, before the boobs pop out :p We use to help my dad clean our car, I especially like cleaning the tires and windows. For some reason, my brother likes the roof. After that, water spree... wee..

I think that's all for now. See you later.
Posted by ephi at 11:28 AM | 7 moo..s

November 25th, 2004

Where am I?

I've been nowhere. Monday, I got nothing to do, but my mum called about the money. I was sick so I skip watching MARS.

Tuesday, I went to Poon Cafe. Story and pictures are here. Watch MARS a bit.

Wednesday, I went to get a massage, but it still hurt. I skipped Rebelde Way... argh! The telenovel has 200+ episode and it will be run for a year or 52 weeks. XD
Posted by ephi at 10:25 AM | moo me

November 27th, 2004

Choo...

When I got to the campus yesterday morning, the gate that I usually passed is closed, meanwhile the one in front of my alley was opened, if only that I know I would've used the T gate! So, I have to walk a couple of steps to another usually closed gate that was opened a bit. *grmbll*

We're having a competition called MCC or Matrapala Cross Campus. All of Pecinta Alam (literally means Nature Lover) was everywhere. Although, I wouldn't call them that. They smoke like there's no tomorrow. Is this what they called by loving one's nature habitat? Shouldn't they promote enviroment conservation? Clean air is one of them, right? And I bet those who did smoke can't read either! We have tons of signs saying 'No Smoking' all over the place. >_<

At afternoon, I found out that someone is stealing a mobile phones inside the campus. Is this more reason to accuse those so-called-ingenuine nature lovers? I know I'm a bit biased. The only time the gates were closed was when 'the murder case' happens.

Remember the demo and stuff happens a couple of months ago? Well, nothing has changed. The students are now able to park there and people are still selling stuffs as well on the disputed landmark.

Anyways, some students choosed alternative parking lots. Likes the ones near my boarding house (the back of it not in front). This morning I found a guy was peeing besides his car! ^^;

Hendra, my deepeset condolences for your late father.
Posted by ephi at 11:43 AM | moo me

November 29th, 2004

What should I put as a title?

Arrgh, I'm just a time-waster. >_< I have a very worthy project and had to clean up my room, what did I do this weekend? Sleeping and watching TV non-stop, someone please hit me in the head!

Spent all day on Saturday in the library as usual. Skip an ad shooting because I have to supervise my computer re-installation. I didn't do it myself because.... I don't know how to do it! Kekekek. Besides, it's not part of my job description. ^.^;

Buyung from the automation division did it. First he wants to do a quick format (I still remember that DOS command), but I caught him and protests. He was especially very loud and noisy that day, and to think that he was actually late for about two hours, that's weird. Well, actually he was soaked completely from the rain. I hope he doesn't catch any cold.

He also complains that the software I want to install is too much. To think most software I use is web-related I wonder if that's much. I use Photoshop for imaging, ACDSee for a few cases, NotePad for HTML and CSS coding, Dreamweaver for reference ^^;, Firefox for testing, and some other browsers, ThunderBird for emails, SecureFX and SecureCRT for file transfer and telnetting, and finally MS-Word for creating reports and use its Thesaurus, that's not so much, right?

Near the end of the work hours, Ellen stop by to use the computer. We talk about something, I guess. Oh, I forgot to tell you, she cut her hair extreemly short.

Now, I remember, I asked about her thesis. It's due on Dec 2nd, and I wonder if she's prepared. She said yes. We'll have a date later that day or the next day XD

(more on the day)
Posted by ephi at 04:29 PM | 6 moo..s