Sunday, January 1, 2012
Happy New Year, Everyone!
What did you do to celebrate last night? Did you go to restaurants, hotels, clubs, outta town, outta country? With family, friends, strangers? Whatever you did, I hope you had a great time.
I celebrated with two of my best friends, Dinda and Dana. On 31st of December 2011, last day of 2011, in the morning I went to a seminar with Dinda. It was a islamic financial seminar in BSD, from 8 am to 12 pm. At 7.30 in the morning Mama took me to the place where Dinda picked me up. Then me and Dinda went together to BSD by Dinda's car. Dinda was planning to take Gea and Ade to that seminar too, since they both also live in BSD. But they happened to be in Bali at the moment. Celebrating New Year in Bali... such a perfect New Year!
So me and Dinda attended the seminar from 8 to 12, the speaker was Ippho Santosa, best-seller-books writer. He was really funny and practical. He gave some keys to success, those I will definitely do in 2012 (well, some of them). Then we, with the rest of VIP guests, had lunch together with Mr. Ippho in Saung Serpong. The food was great! Super delicious! Especially that shrimp something... yummy!
Then I went to Carrefour ITC BSD to buy some ingredients for my cute fruit salads recipe.
Yeah, I describe my fruit salads as something really cute. The taste is cute for me, like seeing a little girl with pinkish pale skin and fair hair. I went to Dana's new house. His parents and Putra, his brother, were out to buy some other things for the party. I made my salads there.
Dana's new house is really cool. The view, the air, the wind... yeah, the wind is really good because his house is surrounded by huge empty lots. I tried to ride Dana's bike while waiting the party started.
The party was really, really fun! We played and laughed out loud, we watched the greatest movie I've watched this week, Perfect Sense. We watched the beautiful fireworks outside the house, and also took some pictures.
We ate beef barbeque, shrimp and calamari barbeque, rootbeer with that liquor that I don't even know the name (it was really good!), roasted corn cobs, and of course, my salads! I love the food! And everyone seemed to really like my salads and it made me happy. I mean, I've made that salads some couple of times. I've usually made it for my self and my family, and everybody in my family really like it. But Dana's mom and Anne's mom are really good in cooking, so I'm flattered that they like my salads.
Anne and her parents took me home. It was already 2 o'clock in the morning I guess. My house was dark and silent. My mom was sleeping, Deany was having a job, dancing for a new year party in a club, Dad was still on duty, Adrian celebrated with his friends. I felt guilty that Mom was celebrating new year alone at home. :-(
New Days, New Plans
So this is the first day of year 2012. Time to go with the new year resolution.
I think it is really perfect that new year fall on Sunday like this. Sunday is the first day in a week. Sunday is a holiday. People usually started their weekly plan on Monday.
So, as we know, I, just like anyone else, always have plan and schedule, those I promise my self to start doing at one moment. Usually I wait for Monday to start doing those schedule and plan. And when the end of year is coming, I always wanna start it on the first Monday of the new year. But last year (wow, I can't believe that I just called 2011 last year!) the 1st of January fell on Monday! Haha! So, it made me lazy. I was waiting for the 8th of January, and it was too long to wait. When 8th of January came, I already forgot about the plan. Then I kept waiting for another Monday.
By the way, the seminar yesterday reminds me that some moslems told that it is forbidden to follow the Gregorian calendar rules. We have that Hijriah calendar. But well, we live in the Gregorian world anyway. It is easier to follow the universal date. And it is just a goddamn date for God sake! And moreover, Hijriah calendar could be very complicated because the date is not fixed. We kinda have to look for the moon and it's not easy to do. So, I worship my God in Islamic way, but I think it's not a big deal to go with the universal rules, right?
Anyway, from what happened in 2011, I can learn a lesson, that if I really want something and really fight for it, and of course also pray to God to give me what I want, so I will have anything I want.
And this is my 2012 resolution:
1. Work Harder! (the detail is in my personal agenda)
2. Write my diary every single day
3. Learn to speak, write, read, and listen Italian properly
4. Leave my parents house and live by my self (for good reason, really)
5. Publish at least one book!
6. Took English course
Wish me luck, Guys! And I also wish you luck!
Happy New Year, Everyone!
What did you do to celebrate last night? Did you go to restaurants, hotels, clubs, outta town, outta country? With family, friends, strangers? Whatever you did, I hope you had a great time.
I celebrated with two of my best friends, Dinda and Dana. On 31st of December 2011, last day of 2011, in the morning I went to a seminar with Dinda. It was a islamic financial seminar in BSD, from 8 am to 12 pm. At 7.30 in the morning Mama took me to the place where Dinda picked me up. Then me and Dinda went together to BSD by Dinda's car. Dinda was planning to take Gea and Ade to that seminar too, since they both also live in BSD. But they happened to be in Bali at the moment. Celebrating New Year in Bali... such a perfect New Year!
So me and Dinda attended the seminar from 8 to 12, the speaker was Ippho Santosa, best-seller-books writer. He was really funny and practical. He gave some keys to success, those I will definitely do in 2012 (well, some of them). Then we, with the rest of VIP guests, had lunch together with Mr. Ippho in Saung Serpong. The food was great! Super delicious! Especially that shrimp something... yummy!
Then I went to Carrefour ITC BSD to buy some ingredients for my cute fruit salads recipe.
Yeah, I describe my fruit salads as something really cute. The taste is cute for me, like seeing a little girl with pinkish pale skin and fair hair. I went to Dana's new house. His parents and Putra, his brother, were out to buy some other things for the party. I made my salads there.
Dana's new house is really cool. The view, the air, the wind... yeah, the wind is really good because his house is surrounded by huge empty lots. I tried to ride Dana's bike while waiting the party started.
The party was really, really fun! We played and laughed out loud, we watched the greatest movie I've watched this week, Perfect Sense. We watched the beautiful fireworks outside the house, and also took some pictures.
We ate beef barbeque, shrimp and calamari barbeque, rootbeer with that liquor that I don't even know the name (it was really good!), roasted corn cobs, and of course, my salads! I love the food! And everyone seemed to really like my salads and it made me happy. I mean, I've made that salads some couple of times. I've usually made it for my self and my family, and everybody in my family really like it. But Dana's mom and Anne's mom are really good in cooking, so I'm flattered that they like my salads.
Anne and her parents took me home. It was already 2 o'clock in the morning I guess. My house was dark and silent. My mom was sleeping, Deany was having a job, dancing for a new year party in a club, Dad was still on duty, Adrian celebrated with his friends. I felt guilty that Mom was celebrating new year alone at home. :-(
New Days, New Plans
So this is the first day of year 2012. Time to go with the new year resolution.
I think it is really perfect that new year fall on Sunday like this. Sunday is the first day in a week. Sunday is a holiday. People usually started their weekly plan on Monday.
So, as we know, I, just like anyone else, always have plan and schedule, those I promise my self to start doing at one moment. Usually I wait for Monday to start doing those schedule and plan. And when the end of year is coming, I always wanna start it on the first Monday of the new year. But last year (wow, I can't believe that I just called 2011 last year!) the 1st of January fell on Monday! Haha! So, it made me lazy. I was waiting for the 8th of January, and it was too long to wait. When 8th of January came, I already forgot about the plan. Then I kept waiting for another Monday.
By the way, the seminar yesterday reminds me that some moslems told that it is forbidden to follow the Gregorian calendar rules. We have that Hijriah calendar. But well, we live in the Gregorian world anyway. It is easier to follow the universal date. And it is just a goddamn date for God sake! And moreover, Hijriah calendar could be very complicated because the date is not fixed. We kinda have to look for the moon and it's not easy to do. So, I worship my God in Islamic way, but I think it's not a big deal to go with the universal rules, right?
Anyway, from what happened in 2011, I can learn a lesson, that if I really want something and really fight for it, and of course also pray to God to give me what I want, so I will have anything I want.
And this is my 2012 resolution:
1. Work Harder! (the detail is in my personal agenda)
2. Write my diary every single day
3. Learn to speak, write, read, and listen Italian properly
4. Leave my parents house and live by my self (for good reason, really)
5. Publish at least one book!
6. Took English course
Wish me luck, Guys! And I also wish you luck!
