Girls, Can You Relate to This?

I certainly can.

Oh, there's the guys' version too.

Guys and Girls in Love

It's not easy for a girl. It's not easy for a guy too.

Guys, I know how hard it is for you. You have to be the one chasing after the girl and put all the efforts to get your love. Even when you're not sure what the result may be. But remember, whether you're successful or not, it takes two sides to decide. You need an opponent in the game. Without her, you'll be playing alone and it's just ridiculous to play alone. So, be mindful of what she's going through.

Girls, I know how hard it is for you. I AM a girl too. I know how annoying it is when a guy keeps saying how nice it is to be a girl because all she has to do is to accept or reject. Decision making is never an easy thing to do. I'm sure you guys understand. So, girls, don't blindly decide. You have to see and respect the efforts the guys are making.

So, guys and girls, always be mindful of what you say. You don't know what the others are going through. Even though you just want to joke about it. Even jokes can lose its wittiness if it's said too many times.

Always respect others.

Celebrities doppelgänger #2

Ha, and it was only yesterday I thought I wouldn't find another celebrities doppelgänger. Here is an additional pair I've just remembered. Please welcome, our first Indonesian celebrity doppelgänger!

Marcell Siahaan - John Legend

Celebrities doppelgänger #1

After watching numerous movies, series and dramas, I found that some celebrities have doppelgänger! To me, they really look alike. Here are some of them I managed to find so far.

Takuya Kimura - Won Bin

Ye Ji-won - Kim Sun-ah

Isla Fisher - Amy Adams

Dominic Purcell - Nick Lachey

Yoon Eun-hye - Jung So-min

Son Ye-jin - Kim So-hyun

What do you think? Well, the Koreans probably look like each other because of the plastic surgeries which they might have gone through.

Maybe I'll post more photos if I encounter more celebrities doppelgängers. 

Faces

I went to toilet and accidentally looked at this, and it made me smile:

See the face? It's quite cute, isn't it?

I didn't rearrange the toilet rolls. They're just accidentally arranged like that.

I think I saw somewhere about a photo project done by a certain person to capture faces in everyday stuff we see.

Well, if I'm not lazy (and remember about it), I want to start my own project.

A Strange Encounter at the Airport

I was on my way to the bus stop at Changi Airport basement car park when a lady stopped me. She was lost and trying to ask for direction in a very poor English. Lucky I caught a glimpse of her passport, which told me that she's Indonesian. Quickly I told her to speak to me in Indonesian so I can help her.  

Her friends left her behind when she was caught up at the immigration line. She passed me her passport for me to check. From her passport I gathered that she arrived in Singapore from Jakarta and was going to Qatar next. She didn't know where to go since the officer at the check in gate refused to let her in. From her look, I assumed that she's a domestic helper being sent to Qatar for work.  

She passed me her passport twice. Without a tiniest doubt. That's when I decided that she wasn't a con woman. Besides, her face looked really worried.  

"My group leader told me to just show this piece of paper to the officer when I want to check in. I showed it to the officer, but he just waved me away. I wonder what's wrong and my friends are not with me. Can you please tell me where I should go?". The piece of paper she talked about was a document in Arabic letters which of course I can't read. But I got a feeling that it was just a visa document for her to be allowed entry to the country. 

I thought she just merely didn't know where the departure area and the gates are. She looked really lost when I told her it's at Level 1, so I decided to just accompany her there.

On the way, I asked where her ticket to Qatar was, so that I know which airline and which gate that airline was at.

"The officer also asked me the same thing, but I don't have it. It's with the group leader and I don't know where he is." 

...  

Taxi Talk

Due to the nature of my work, I travel a lot by taxi. Since then, I have been engaged in numerous trivial talks with the taxi driver. Some are super trivial; talking about my home town, Indonesia, travelling plans, etc. Some are interesting; discussing about the behaviour of taxi drivers, about governments and just recently, about love.

First of all, I'd like to thank the taxi driver just now (sorry, I didn't get your name, was under severe headache attack and I didn't want to make it worse by reading your name plate) for your kind advice. It's really funny and meaningful at the same time.

An Advise of Love

"Are your parents against interracial marriage?"

"Yes, as far as I know."

"What would you do if you love a man not of your race, love him very much? Would you go against your parents and fight for your love or listen to your parents?"

That question baffled me for a moment.

"I was never in such situation, so I don't know. Probably I'd listen to my parents. If they're against it, I won't push too hard. They know better."

"Well, my wife fight for me. And I'm glad she did. She went as far as going against her parents. Her parents disowned her at that time, wouldn't even look at me. Her brother pushed me and talked rudely to me. Now that we are happily living life as husband and wife, and still together until now, they accepted her back. Well, not too surprising, since her other siblings had failed marriages, though they married Chinese. The husbands of her sisters fell to gambling and womanizing. It's just so sad. So I tell you, don't marry young, marry around 28-30 years old, and marry the right guy."

joke of the day

...oops, you've got caught searching for wi-fi.

Silly Things I've Done #4

1. Flagged down a police car instead of a taxi. Twice. To my defense, it was already late at night.
2. Ate a clearly (vaguely to me) spoiled 'babi kecap' just because I didn't want to waste food. Puked big time the next day.
3. Absent-mindedly put a sizzling hot spoon from the pot on my mouth. Ouchie.

Happy new year 2014!

Yup, first of all..happy new year to you all!! I hope 2014 will be a great year for all of you. (Amen!)

In this new year which only 2 days have just passed by, I might have discovered a buried talent in me. It's... unexpectedly, a gift of... fortune telling? Or prophesying in other word.

I spent my Christmas and new year in Surabaya, hardly ever read any news, let alone opened Google news during my stay there. I was even too lazy to check on my Gmail. So I was not that updated in any international news.

Then one night, still a December night, I had this weird dream, where I learned the news that Yoona of SNSD (K-pop lover must know them at least) was dating Lee Min-ho (Heir, Faith). It really was out of nowhere. I wasn't watching or reading anything related to K-pop which can lead to that ridiculous dream before I slept that night. And I'm not a fan of SNSD or Lee Min-ho, so I wouldn't know about their latest gossips.

And then this afternoon, when I was bored, I browsed Google news and found out that THAT Yoona really is dating someone. But not with Lee Min-ho haha (she's dating Lee Seung-gi). So I was wrong there. But still, the news really is the same! And the guy's surname is the same!

Source: Channel NewsAsia, MediaCorp

A few months back, I just learned that Orlando Bloom was married to Mirranda Kerr (Victoria's Secret model). Then, a few weeks following, I was wondering whether their little family was still one, and they were. Then... a few days after that, they were divorced. They were not the first couple who divorced right after I was wondering how their relationship is.

Some don't-know-how-many-years-ago, I was wondering about how long Adjie Massaid, a pretty famous Indonesian celebrity, had been married to his 1^st wife, Reza Artamevia. They were still together when I thought about that. Then, around 2-3 days after, a big scoop on the newspaper said that they just divorced after almost 6 years of marriage. Ha.

The same thing happened on the then Brad Pitt-Jennifer Aniston couple. Since they were the first western celebrity couple whose wedding I watched on TV news, of course I got curious on how they were doing after a few years. A week after my curiosity rose, I read the news that they were getting a divorce. HA.

Well, let's just think that they are really big coincidences, shall we?

What would you do...

...if you have to make a phone call to a person with first name Tit and last name Phoo?

I decided not to give her a call, fearing I would burst into laughter. I'm so sorry...

Silly Things I've Done #3

1. Playing Candy Crush while walking down the stairs. Result: skipped a step, fell down fantastically, with all other commuters watching. I'm too embarrassed to lift my face to confirm it. I earned a swollen ankle, right before I went back to Indo for my cousin's wedding. Urgh.
2. Enjoying Candy Crush too much 'til I missed my bus stop.

Silly Things I've Done #2

1. Lost the movie tickets. I usually put them in my pocket and they were usually safe there. Unluckily, that day I put my phone on the same pocket and I often took it in and out. So perhaps I accidentally dropped them somewhere. I traced back the shops I went in, hoping it's still there on the floor untouched. But that hope remained only a hope. Luckily the ticket booth person (I don't know what's the proper name for this position) was nice and gave us a handwritten tickets for us to go in. And, luckily nobody took the tickets to go in and took our seats. From then on, I'm never the one to keep the tickets, haha.
2. Talked all too familiarly with my friend's father, mistaking him for my friend over the phone. Well, on my defence, I did feel that the voice on the phone was different from my friend's, so I was hesitating and asked to speak to my friend. But the voice told me, "What are you talking about? It's me! Don't you recognize my voice?". I only can say,"Oh, for real? Doesn't sound like you, at all man! Thought you were your dad or...". Then I got cut off mid-sentence to hear the voice laughed, told me to wait for awhile and called my friend to answer the phone. Da**. 

A Tribute to You, My Beloved Companion...

Oh how we have been together for the past 7 years, shared our special moments together; the sweet, plain and bitter life throughout all these years.

Not even once you betrayed me. 

My faithful friend, I will never forget our memories together. I keep them close to my heart.

Thank you for always being there for me, every day, without failing, even during the darkest night and the earliest morning of my life.

You will forever be my most precious...

Silly Things I've Done #1

I can't remember all the silly things I've done and there will be additional things to come in the future, so this list will be updated continuously as soon as I remember the event and experienced it. The list is not chronological.

1. Missed out my practical exam for Computer in my 2nd year of middle school days. I was happily having my lunch and relaxing at home when I realized I should've gone back to school for the exam. I hastily went back to school, and I think because of my very pitiful face that I unconsciously made since this was my first time ever failing to be present in an exam, the teacher was so kind as to let me join in the next class' exam schedule. I narrowly missed my first FAILED mark in my whole life.
2. Forgot to wait for my brother to go home together, and this happened after three days going back together with him ever since he entered middle school. My driver also forgot that we were supposed to go back home together. Hadn't my mother asked me "where's your brother?" when I reached home, I wouldn't have remembered right away. Lucky our house is not that far away from school, so he didn't wait for long. Sorry, bro!
3. Washed my hair with body wash. I think this happened to almost all of us. I did it around 3 times in my life.
4. Forgot to apply shampoo when washing my hair. Only when I realised that my hair was still oily after it dried that I remembered I didn't put any while "washing" my hair.
5. Woke up at 6 p.m. after a nap, thinking it's 6 a.m., went to take a bath, and put on my uniform to go to school.
6. Searched for my glasses while I was still wearing them.
7. Wore my glasses while I was still wearing my contacts.

...to be continued

How long do you need to work to buy one Big Mac?

Unfortunately, it's not applicable to Singapore since there is no minimum wage per hour set by Singapore Government. In Indonesia, people need to work 5.9 hours to be able to buy one Big Mac.

Smoky day, here I come!

News said that haze from Indonesia is back for the next few days, with PSI ranging between 50-100. This is still fine compares to the haze in June which peaked at 401, a new record high for the PSI level in Singapore.

It is still better days than in June. Sky is still clear and the smell doesn't stick to my body. But haze or no haze from Indonesia, I will still smell smoke these days. Sigh...

My Very Own Drama

Oh my goodness!

I really can't believe this!

They are engaged, and she still worries I have 'something' towards her fiancée!

I think I can make my own Korean drama out of my life story hahahaha.

DISCLAIMER: I didn't, and I don't, and I won't ever have any feelings towards the guy whatsoever. He's just totally not my type. AT ALL. In the past, now, or forever. And to me, the idea was, is and will be just too ridiculous to be true.

OK, here is the story:

once upon a sunny day...

... I accidentally saw the beautiful clear blue sky from my balcony...

(but it was a very hot, hot day...)

joke of the day

well, it's not exactly today.. but, anyway.. (dlm bahasa indo, krn bakal lbh make sense haha)

Friend: "Itu kunci yang kamu kasih ke aku, itu kunci duplikat kantor gereja dari orang?"
Me: (utterly confused) "Hah? iya, dari orang lah.. emang dari sapa lagi? Hantu?"
Friend: "..."