This WeekEnd

ENGLISH

Today there was nothing special at school. I got back from school at 11.10 AM (that's why I also like Saturday). I think I will have 2 most favorite days starting next week, Friday and Saturday....

This evening my friend invited me to come to her birthday party. Well, not a party actually, the word celebration is better to describe it :) I arrived at Popeye's Restaurant (where she had the celebration) at 16.45 PM. Then, at 17.30 we had dinner. Well, just to be honest, it was such a boring celebration. However, I left the restaurant at 18.30 PM.

On the way home, I got an sms from my friends. They asked me to play bowling. I accepted it. Then, I picked them up and I got back home to take some bowling vouchers. Then, we played bowling. It was not my day. I played terrible. Probably because I wore a shirt (a party shirt) at that time and I think it was unfit to be worn when we wanted to play bowling... . My arms moving were terrible and I found out that my shirt was a big obstacle at that time.

Then, after playing bowling, we had dinner (again) at Silla Restaurant. Actually at first we planned to have dinner somewhere else, but that restaurant was FULL!!! >> it had been 21.00 PM and it's still full? Wow....

We finished eating at 22.30 PM and went back home...

INDONESIAN

Hari ini nggak ada yang spesial di sekolah. Aku pulang jam 11.10 pagi (itulah kenapa aku juga suka Sabtu). Kayaknya sih mulai minggu depan aku bakalan punya 2 hari paling favorit, Jumat dan Sabtu...

Sore tadi aku diundang temenku untuk dateng ke pesta ulang tahunnya. Sebenarnya bukan pesta sih, kayaknya kata ngerayain lebih tepat deh untuk mendeskripsikan :) Aku sampe di Restoran Popeye's (tempat dimana dia ngerayain) jam 16.45 sore. Trus jam 17.30 malem makan. Umm, jujur aja nih, tadi acaranya ngebosenin banget. Trus jam 18.30 aku pulang deh.

Dalam perjalanan pulang, aku dapet sms dari temenku. Mereka ngajak aku main bowling. Ya udah, aku ok2 aja. Trus aku jemput mereka trus pulang dulu ke rumah untuk ngambil voucher bowling. Trus, kita main bowling. Hari ini bukan hariku. Aku main jelek banget. Kayaknya sih gara-gara aku pake kemeja (maksudnya untuk pesta) waktu itu dan kayaknya sih nggak cocok untuk dipake waktu kita mau main bowling.... . Tanganku geraknya payah banget dan kayaknya sih bajuku tuh penghalang terbesar deh waktu itu.

Trus, habis main bowling, kita makan (lagi) di Restoran Silla. Sebenarnya sih pertamanya kita mau makan di tempat lain, tapi tuh restoran dah PENUH!! >> padahal dah jam 9 malem tapi masih penuh? Wow...

Selesainya jam 22.30 trus aku pulang ke rumah...

About The Apprentice Indonesia

Just like what I have promised before, I would write about one Reality Show in Indonesia: The Apprentice Indonesia.

First of all, because we have the official site of The Apprentice Indonesia, so I don't write the Indonesian here since that the official site is all written in Indonesian...

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The Apprentice Indonesia is actually adopted form the US's version (The Donald Trump's version). Before it's played on TV, Indosiar had presented 2 seasons of The US Apprentice (the first and second season which brought Bill Rancic and Kelly Perdew as the winner). The Boss here is Peter F. Gontha and the two advisors are Hans Nugroho and Gaby Motuloh

We have 16 candidates here, which came from different background and location (all of them are 'booksmarts' >> they have the university's degrees) which consist of 8 male candidates and 8 female candidates. Peter F. Gontha at first divided the candidates into 2 groups, men versus women. The men named their team: GRANDE Corp. ; and the women named the team: PT. SRIKANDI INDONESIA.

It was quite similar with The US version. At the first four weeks, 4 male candidates (Pandu, Michael, Aries, and Eka) got fired and only left 4 more male candidates. Then, on the fifth till seventh week, three female candidates (Restu, Agustini, and Putri) got fired. On the eighth week, the boardroom was very very hot and quite controversial since Nji attacked Franky sharply. However, because Franky was The Project Manager at that time, Franky was the one who got fired at this episode. Then on the ninth until twelfth week, 4 more female candidates (Louise, Nji, Elva, and Susan) got fired and only left Lila as the only female candidate on the top four. On the thirteenth episode, Safti got fired. Therefore we got Fendi, Lila, and Albert as the top three of The Apprentice Indonesia. The fourteenth task was the interview task and at this episode, based on the 4 execs' recommendations and the 3 candidates' performance on the previous tasks, Albert got fired. Click here if you wanna see the Project Tracker completely.

Then, we are now down to The Final Two with 2 candidates left: Fendi and Lila. Who will be The First Apprentice?? We will find it out next Monday!!!



On The Final task, Fendi and Lila got 6 'employees' (the ex-candidates). Fendi got Nji, Pandu, and Elva; and Lila got Agustini, Albert, and Franky as her employees. As The Final Task, Fendi had to run an autoclub event and Lila had to run a basketball event. Actually Lila had a problem with Agustini because on the sixth task, Agustini got fired, and Lila claimed that nobody liked Agustini as the member of the team. Fendi got an advantage since during the show, he had good relation with all other candidates. But, he had to run a tougher task to do as The Final Task.

During The Show, Peter Gontha reshufled the team members several times. And also, the name of the teams were changed. Grande evolves to Reborn Corporation on the sixth task (and it brought them a victory after 5 weeks losts) and Srikandi evolves to Synergy Corporation on the twelfth task (and it also brought victory after 6 weeks losts).

The tasks were mainly concentrating on marketing, especially on the beginning until the middle of the show.

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I like this Reality Show a lot, and I will write my comments about this show on the next message after we get The First Apprentice.... :) But in my own opinion, I think Fendi has a bigger chance to win.... :)

Monday

ENGLISH

Today was suck... . Why don't we get a holiday today?? Yesterday was Sunday, and tomorrow we have holiday.... . Why don't they just make Monday as holiday as well so we get 3 days holiday?? Arrgghhhh....

Well, today we had a full schoolday. We started the lessons at 7 AM and ended at 13.35 PM. There was nothing special except we got surprising and shocking news. We will have math exam next Wednesday and Physics Exam next Friday. Don't u think that it's crazy?? We have not been having our lessons for more than 1 week yet and now we have already got 2 exams appearing!! Arrggghh....... .

Well, let's just move away from school activities. After getting back home I had to help my dad copying some datas from my computer to the floppy disk. And in the evening, actually I had planned to go to the gym (I have been absent again for 2 weeks!!!) but I had to cancel it because I had to help my dad going to the office to print some pictures for the new shop. Unpredictably, it took 1 hour to print all of them (well, we met some problems with the printers there...).

Then at 6 PM I went to My TOEFL course until 7.30 PM. Then I got back home and surfed the net and also watched TV (wow, The Apprentice Indonesia now is down to the final two!! >> I will tell you a lil' about it next week... )

INDONESIAN

Hari ini nyebelin banget... . Kenapa nggak libur sih?? Kemarin tuh Minggu, besok libur... . Kenapa nggak ngeliburin Senen sekalian biar liburannya jadi 3 hari?? Arrggghhhh......

Hari ini tadi tuh udah kayak biasa lagi sekolahnya. Pelajaran mulai jam 7 sampe jam 13.35 siang. Nggak ada yang spesial sih kecuali kita dapat berita yang mengecutkan dan bikin shock. Bakalan ada ulangan matematika besok Rabu dan ulangan Fisika besok Jumat. Gila nggak tuh?? Kita belum masuk sekolah lebih dari seminggu tapi sekarang kita dah ada 2 ualnagn yang muncul!! Arrgghhhh........ .

Dah ah, ngomongin yang lain deh. Habis pulang sekolah aku mbantu papaku ngopi beberapa data dari komputer ini ke disket. Dan di sore harinya, rencananya aku mau pergi ke gym (aku dah absen lagi selama 2 minggu!!!) tapi aku terpaksa mbatalin soalnya aku mesti mbantu papaku pergi ke kantor buat ngeprint beberapa gambar tentang toko yg baru. Nggak terduga aja, ternyata lebih dari 1 jam untuk ngeprint doank (soalnya ketemu sama beberapa masalah dengan printernya disana....)

Trus jam 6 sorenya aku pergi ke kursus TOEFL sampe jam 7.30 malem. Habis itu aku pulang dan main internet dan nonton TV... (wah, tadi The Apprentice Indonesia dah masuk babak final tuh... >> aku bakalan crita dikit ttg ini minggu depan...)

Friday The Sixth

ENGLISH

Today is a quite good day for me. (like what I said to you a couple weeks ago, Friday is my favourite day....).

At school this morning, we had lessons. And one bad thing is that we had schedule reshuffle this morning. Sport that used to be our first lesson on Friday (so we had it in the morning at 7 AM where the atmosphere is not very hot and it's also comfortable) moves to 9.30 AM!! (it's hot at that time, and I think I will be in a situation like being in hell when we have to do the running test on the field!!!).

My physics teacher also gave us an assignment to do that has to be handed in tomorrow!! Actually she gave it before the holiday, but there was not enough instruction about what we should do or write on the assignment. Therefore, we got confused and we asked her this morning (and of course we had done nothing). And guess what she said?? She said that the assignment still has to be handed in tomorrow!! Arrrgghhh.... .

Well, afterschool I made that assignment. But halfway, I felt very very sleepy so I decided to take a nap. Then at 2.30 PM I got up and I went with my friends. Today I had to drive my sedan (that actually I'm not used to drive it) because my father drove my usual car. But I think it was well. We played bowling (again) >> (but my score was not very good) until 5 PM, then we had dinner until 5.45 PM. It was fun...

Then at 6 PM I had my TOEFL preparation class until 7.30 PM then I went back home and continued doing my assignment....

INDONESIAN

Hari ini lumayan baik lah untuk aku. (kayak yang beberapa minggu lalu aku dah bilang, Jumat adalah hari favoritku.... ).

Di sekolah pagi ini, tentu aja ada pelajaran. Dan satu hal buruk adalah adanya pergantian jam pelajaran pagi ini. Olahraga yang biasanya jam pertama di hari Jumat (jadi pelajarannya jam 7 pagi ketika suasananya nggak panas banget dan juga nyaman) dipindah ke jam 9.30 pagi!! (sudah panas pas jam segitu, dan kayaknya aku akan ada dalam situasi dimana seperti berada di neraka waktu lagi ada ujian lari di lapangan!!!).

Guru fisikaku juga ngasi kita tugas yang harus dikumpulin besok!! Sebenernya dia ngasinya sebelum liburan sih, tapi dia nggak ngasi instruksi yang cukup jelas tentang apa yang harus kita kerjain atau tulis di tugas ini. Akhirnya, kita bingung dan nanya ke dia pagi ini (dan tentu aja kita belum ngerjain tuh tugas). Tebak apa yang dia bilang?? Dia tetep bilang kalo tugasnya mesti dikumpulin besok!! Arrgghhh.... .

Trus habis sekolah aku ngerjain tugas itu. Tapi setengah jalan, aku ngerasa ngantuuk banget, jadinya aku mutusin buat tidur siang deh... . Trus jam 2.30 siang aku bangun trus pergi sama temenku. Hari ini aku mesti nyetir sedan (yang sebenarnya aku nggak biasa nyetir ini) soalnya papaku pake mobil yang biasa aku pake. Tapi kayaknya sih ok2 aja koq. Tadi kita main bowling (lagi) >> (tapi nilaiku nggak bagus...) sampe jam 5 sore, trus kita makan sampe jam 5.45. Lumayan asik juga...

Trus jam 6 sore aku pergi ke les persiapan TOEFL sampe jam 7.30 malem trus aku pulang dan ngelanjutin ngerjain tugas....

The Last Day of My Holiday

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Finally the last day of my 2 weeks holiday shows up. Tomorrow I will start going to school everyday again. Well, I think there will be no class tomorrow on the first day. Probably we will only do reflection in our class and we talk to our teacher and get back home early... .

Tomorrow I have to manage my wrong score. It's very crucial because probably I will still use my first semester score for registrating to enter a university. I hope it's not very hard and I hope it doesn't take a long time... . In my opinion I think it should have already done before the holiday, because at that day I was still more on fire to do a protest. But it couldn't happen because this is the procedure that I have to follow... :( . Well, now I am still on fire, but the 'fire' is not as big and hot as it used to before the holiday... :(

I must study hard this January, because this is the last month for me to prepare myself to have the entrance test of the university abroad. I only have one more month (actually one and a half). One of my New Year's Resolution is this January I will study hard so I can pass the entrance test. Amen.... .

INDONESIAN

Akhirnya hari terakhir dari 2 minggu liburanku muncul juga. Besok aku akan mulai pergi ke sekolah setiap hari lagi. Tapi, kayaknya sih besok nggak ada pelajaran di hari pertama. Kayaknya sih cuma ada refleksi, ngomong-ngomong sama wali kelas, trus pulang pagi... .

Besok aku harus mengurus nilaiku yang salah itu. Ini penting banget soalnya mungkin aja aku masih butuh nilai semester satu untuk daftar ke universitas. Aku harap sih moga-moga besok nggak susah-susah amat atau ngurusnya juga nggak lama.... . Menurutku, seharusnya pengurusan ini dilakuinnya sebelum liburan, soalnya di hari itu kan aku masih semangat banget untuk protes. Tapi itu nggak bisa soalnya ya beginilah prosedut yang harus aku ikuti... :( Sekarang sebenarnya masih semangat juga sih, tapi 'api'nya kan dah nggak segede dan sepanas dulu lagi pas sebelum liburan... :(

Aku harus belajar keras nih Januari ini, soalnya ini adalah bulan terakhir bagi aku untuk mempersiapkan diri sendiri untuk ikut tes masuk universitas luar negeri. AKu tinggal punya waktu satu bulan lagi (satu setengah bulan sebenarnya). Salah satu semangat/janji Tahun Baruku kan aku akan belajar keras biar lulus tes masuknya. Amin.... .

New Year's Eve

ENGLISH

This year New Year's Eve is a lot different with some previous New Year's Eves. The main different is: this year I celebrate it just in Jogja (I don't go anywhere this holiday... :( ). I still remember, last year I celebrated the New Year's Eve at Kuala Lumpur and two years ago at Bangkok.

Last night I went to a party titled "New York New York. End of The Year Party" at Quality Hotel Jogjakarta. I arrived at 19.30 PM and then I had dinner first. The dinner was quite delicious. I ate fried rice, lemonade friend chicken, fish wellington, roasted beef, spaghetti, and lasagna. It sounds a lot right? But it's not that many I think.... . At 21.30 PM I finished having dinner, and the room had already been full of people.

Finally the party started. A band came up and sang some song, then a group of comedians showed up (with their corny jokes), and also there was something like 'fashion show'. While we were waiting for the midnight, the band sang some songs again and people danced on the dance-floor.

At 11.58 the last song finished and people started to count down (well, I mean they started counting down about 30 seconds before the time). Five... Four... Three... Two... One....... Then at the time all people blowed their paper-trumpets and said,"Happy New Year" to each other... . It was very very crowded at that time....

Then, after that the first doorpirze session started. Unfortunately, I didn't get any. (the prizes were quite interesting actually>> voucher to stay at some five-stars hotels, airline ticket, etc...). Then, the band sang some songs again and an over-confident 'granny' (I mean a middle aged woman) with her 'unfit' clothes sang 2 songs and also danced!!! At 1.30 the second and main session of doorprize started. The prizes were interesting (the main prize was: Jogjakarta - Kuala Lumpur - Jogjakarta airline ticket by Garuda Indonesia plus staying at Quality Hotel KL for some days (I don't remember how many days)). Unfortunately, I didn't get it. Then, the party finished and I went back home...



the room before the party started


spaghetti-lasagna-fish wellington-roasted beef


people dancing on the dance floor

INDONESIAN

Malam taon baru taun ini jauh berbeda dengan beberapa malam taun baru sebelumnya. Perbedaan utamanya: taun ini aku ngerayainnya di Jogja doank (aku nggak kemana-mana liburan ini... :( ). Aku masih inget, taun lalu aku malam taun baruan di Kuala Lumpur, trus dua tahun lalu di Bangkok.

Tadi malem aku pergi ke pesta yang judulnya,"New York New York. End of The Year Party" di Hotel Quality Jogjakarta. Aku sampe jam 19.30 malem trus makan malem dulu. Aku makan nasi goreng, ayam goreng lemon, ikan wellington, daging panggang, spaghetti, sama lasagna. Kedengarannya banyak kan? Tapi nggak sebanyak itu koq aku pikir... . Trus jam 21.30 malem aku selesai makan, trus ruangannya dah penuh orang.

Akhirnya pestanya dimulai. Sebuah band muncul trus nyanyiin beberapa lagu, trus sekelompok pelawak muncul (dengan lawakan-lawakan jayus mereka), dan juga ada semacam 'fashion show' gitu. Sambil nunggu jam 12 malem, bandnya nyanyiin beberapa lagu lagi dan orang-orang nari di dance-floor.

Jam 11.58 lagu terakhir selesai dan orang-orang mulai menghitung mundur (maksudnya menghitungnya ya sekitar 30 detik sebelum waktunya gitu...). Lima... Empat... Tiga... Dua.... Satuu.... . Trus di waktunya semua orang niup terompet kertas mereka dan ngucapin,"Met Taun Baru" ke orang-orang. Pas itu bener2 rame....

Trus, habis itu sesi doorprize pertama dimulai. Sayangnya aku nggak dapet apa-apa (hadiahnya lumayan menarik juga >> voucher menginap di beberapa hotel bintang lima, tiket pesawat, dll...). Trus bandnya nyanyiin lagu lagi sama ada nenek (maksudnya perempuan setengah baya gitu) over PD dengan bajunya yang nggak cocok nyanyi 2 lagu sama nari!!! Trus jam 1.30 pagi penarikan doorpirze kedua / yg utama. Hadiahnya menarik loh... (hadiah utamanya: tiket pesawat Jogjakarta - Kuala Lumpur - Jogjakarta dari Garuda Indonesia plus menginap di Hotel Quality KL untuk beberapa hari (aku lupa tepatnya berapa hari)). Trus pestanya selesai dan aku pulang ke rumah...

Happy New Year 2006!!!!

Hi all...

I just wanna say:

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006 !!!

:::My wishes for you:::

H ours of happy times with friends and family

A bundant time for relaxation

P rosperity

P lenty of love when you need it the most

Y outhful excitement at lifes simple pleasures

N ights of restful slumber (you know - dont' worry be happy )

E verything you need

W ishing you love and light

Y ears and years of good health

E njoyment and mirth

A ngels to watch over you

R embrances of a happy years!

(THX to NJI... >> I took ur words.... )