#543 - Quick Summary

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Okay, there has been nothing really special happened lately. Anyway, next Sunday I'm going back to Bandung again, hahaha... :) I'm catching Argo Wilis Express. The reason I'm going back to Bandung is because next Monday there will be an inauguration for the new student councils at my campus.

To attend that ceremony I need white shirts, black pants, and a tie!! Wah!! I don't have any tie, LOL. At first I planned to look for a tie at Malioboro Mall today but then I realized that I actually could borrow one of my dad's, wkwkwkwkw... lol. Okay, since I don't have any black formal pants then I gotta buy one since the one my bro has will be used next Sunday (he's attending his friend's 17th birthday party). Okay, so I bought one and in the end I ended up also buying a white shirt (since my old white shirt is in Bandung and the last time I wore it was 2 years ago and I think it's now dirty, LOL. I don't have time to wash it since next Monday I gotta wear it).

O yea, last Wednesday I ate Mie Jawa/Javanese Noodle (I bought from the seller who passes my home almost every evening). The taste is a lot better than Mie Jawa I ate at Bandung this time

::: Mie Jawa Seller who passes my home almost every evening

::: Mie Kuah (Mie Jawa / Javanese Noodle)

::: Mie Goreng (Mie Jawa / Javanese Noodle)

::: home-made spaghetti

::: Bakso Ito I ate yesterday

::: Haagen Dazs Ice Cream I ate 1 hour ago

BAHASA INDONESIA

Oke, kagak ada yang spesial nih yg terjadi belakangan ini. Ngomong2, Minggu besok aku akan balik ke Bandung lagi loh, hahaha... ;) Aku akan naik Kereta Ekspres Argo Wilis lagi. Alasan aku balik ke Bandung adalah soalnya besok Senin kan akan ada acara pelantikan pengurus Persatuan Mahasiswa yang baru di kampus.

Untuk menghadirinya saia membutuhkan kemeja putih, celana panjang hitam, dan dasi!! Wah!! Kan aku kaga punya dasi nih, LOL. Pertama sih tadi berencana mau beli dasi di Malioboro Mall tapi akhirnya kagak jadi soalnya baru inget kan bisa aja aku pinjem dasinya papaku, wkwkwkwkwkw... lol. Oke, karena aku kaga ada celana panjang hitam formal ya udah deh aku mesti beli soalnya celana panjang hitam nya adikku akan dipake dia besok Minggu (kan dia mau dateng ke Ulang Tahun ke 17 temennya). Oke, jadi aku beli satu dan entah kenapa akhirnya juga beli kemeja putih sekalian (soalnya kemeja putihku yang lama di Bandung terakhir aku pakai 2 tahun yang lalu dan kayanya udah kotor banget dah, LOL. Kan kaga ada waktu buat nyuci nih soalnya Senin kan harus dipakai).

O iya, Rabu kemarin kan aku makan Mie Jawa dari penjual yang sering bgt lewat depan rumah kalo tiap malam. Rasanya jauh banget lebih enak daripada Mie Jawa yang aku beli di Bandung waktu ini

#542 - Jogja Again (Scores)

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Well, finally I decided to go back to Yogyakarta, hahaha... ;) This morning I caught Argo Wilis Express to go back to Yogyakarta, hehehe... ;)

Anyway, finally all my fourth semester scores have been announced. I am happy since I accomplished my target. My score:

- Ordinary Differential Equation. Final Score: 100. Score: A
- Life Insurance Mathematics. Final Score: 85. Score: A
- Statistical Mathematics. Final Score: 92. Score: A
- Numerical Methods. Final Score: 94. Score: A
- Numerical Methods Labwork. Final Score: 88. Score: A
- Stochastic Process. Final Score: 94. Score: A
- Ethics. Final Score: 84. Score: A
- Pancasila. Final Score: 86. Score: A

Wkwkwkwkwkw... lol. It means I get another GPA of 4 this semester, yeaahh!!! Thanks God!! ;) Making this semester as the second semester where I get straight As. Anyway, now my a cumulative GPA is 3.95. Wah, hopefully I will also do well next semester, wkwkwkw....

O yea, as you can read here, two weeks ago I took a TOEFL Test. The Result has also been announced, surprisingly I got 601, wkwkwkwkw.... lol. I am a bit surprised since I didn't expect I would get this high, hahaha... . Thanks God!! :)

(yea, it's a narcistic entry, LOL).

::: My Hoka-Hoka Bento dinner for yesterday

::: passing Progo River in high speed

BAHASA INDONESIA

Hmm, akhirnya aku memutuskan untuk balik ke Yogyakarta, hahaha... ;) Pagi tadi aku naik Kereta Ekspres Argo Wilis untuk balik ke Yogyakarta nih, hehehe... ;)

Ngomong2, akhirnya nih semua nilaiku semester empat udah keluar. Aku senang banget soalnya aku mencapai targetku. Nilai saia:

- Persamaan Diferensial Biasa. Nilai Akhir: 100. Nilai: A
- Matematika Asuransi 1. Nilai Akhir: 85. Nilai: A
- Statistika Matematika. Nilai Akhir: 92. Nilai: A
- Metoda Numerik. Nilai Akhir: 94. Nilai: A
- Praktikum Metoda Numerik. Nilai Akhir: 88. Nilai: A
- Proses Stokastik. Nilai Akhir: 94. Nilai: A
- Etika. Nilai Akhir: 84. Nilai: A
- Pancasila. Nilai Akhir: 86. Milai: A

Wkwkwkwkwkw... lol. Artinya IPS semester saia semester ini 4 lagi nih, yeaahh!!! Terima Kasih Tuhan!! ;) Hal ini membuat semester ini menjadi semester kedua dimana saia dapat A semua. Ngomong2, sekarang IPK saia jadinya 3,95 deh. Wah, semoga semester depan berhasil lagi deh, wkwkwkwkw....

O iya, seperti yang bisa dibaca disini, dua minggu lalu kan aku ikutan tes TOEFL. Nah hasilnya juga sudah diumumkan, dan mengejutkan aku dapet 601, wkwkwkwkw.... lol. Aku agak terkejut soalnya nggak mengira akan dapat setinggi itu, hahaha... . Terima Kasih lagi Tuhan!! :)

(yup, ini adalah posting yang narsis bgt, LOL).

#541 - Over The Weekend

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As you can read at my previous entry, yesterday I went on a diklat from my campus. Last Sunday I got up at 4.50 AM and prepared everything (including having breakfast (a burger) since I thought I had to eat first before going). I walked to my campus (since it was still too early in the morning I gotta go around pretty far since the shortcut's gate is still closed at that time) at 5.30 AM. At 5.45 AM I arrived at the place where we gotta gather. Then, we waited and waited and we were still there. We had breakfast first (nasi kuning) and departed at 7.30 AM (arrrrgggghhhh, if only I had known that we departed at 7.30 AM, I didn't have to get up that early in the morning!!). Hahaha.... ;)

Apparently, the mysterious place (yea, we weren't let to know where we were going before Sunday morning) was Ciater Resort. We arrived there at 8.30 AM. Well, mainly on the first day we just played games all day long. I had played some of them before tho, but it's still pretty fun, hahaha... ;) At some games we really gotta 'use' our brain to win, huahahahahaha... LOL. The second day we only had 1 program, a lecture. It was late and the lunch was late causing we also was late on going back to Bandung. Today we arrived at 2.15 PM.

Anyway, actually I had a plan to go back to Yogyakarta next Wednesday and went back to Bandung again next Sunday. However, last week I considered it and thought that probably this week I would be better staying here in Bandung, since last week because I was in Jogja I didn't attend an OSPEK meeting (just in case there is/are meeting(s) this week). But this afternoon I got an information that there will be no meeting this week!! Hmmm... . What should I do then?? I have nothing to do in Bandung actually. Hmmmm....

::: one spot at Ciater Resort

::: a horse field

::: bonfire

BAHASA INDONESIA

Seperti yang bisa dibaca pada posting sebelumnya, kemarin aku pergi mengiktui diklat dari kampus. Hari Minggu kemarin aku bangun jam 4.50 subuh dan menyiapkan semuanya (termasuk makan pagi (burger) soale aku rasa penting tuh untuk makan dulu sebelum pergi). Aku jalan ke kampus (karena masih pagi-pagi buta kaya gitu aku harus memutar lumayan jauh juga soalnya gerbang jalan pintasnya jam segitu kan masih ditutup) jam 5.30 pagi. Jam 5.45 pagi aku nyampe di tempat berkumpulnya. Trus kita menunggu dan menunggu dan kita masih ada disana. Kita trus makan pagi dulu (nasi kuning) trus baru berangkatnya jam 7.30 pagi (arrrrgggghhhh, jika saja aku tau kita baru akan berangkat jam 7.30 pagi, kan aku jadinya kaga harus bangun sepagi itu!!). Hahaha.... ;)

Ternyata, tempat misterinya (iya, kita nggak dikasi tau tu sebelum Minggu pagi kita mau pergi kemana) adalah Ciater Resort. Kita sampe disana jam 8.30 pagi. Hmm, secara umum hari pertama acaranya kebanyakan adalah permainan. Aku uda pernah mainin beberapa game sebelumnya sih, tp masih cukup fun juga koq, hahaha... ;) Pada beberapa game kita harus 'menggunakan otak' untuk memenangkannya, huahahahahaha... LOL. Hari kedua cuma ada 1 acara doang, kuliah gitu. Kuliahnya telat dan makan siangnya telat jadinya kita harus balik ke Bandungnya juga telat. Tadi baru nyampe jam 2.15 siang.

Ngomong2, sebenernya awalnya bgt aku uda berencana mau balik ke Yogyakarta besok Rabu dan balik lagi ke Bandung besok Minggu. Namun, minggu lalu aku mempertimbangkannya dan aku berpikir mungkin akan lebih baik kalo seminggu ini aku di Bandung aja deh, soale minggu lalu waktu aku di Jogja aku juga kaga ikutan sebuah rapat OSPEK (kan sapa tau minggu ini akan ada rapat gitu). Tapi siang tadi aku dapet info kalo katanya minggu ini kaga akan ada rapat sama sekali!! Hmmm... . Gimana yah enaknya?? Aku nggak ada yang dikerjakan di Bandung ni sebenarnya. Hmmmm....

VOTE BUAT INDONESIA!!

Klik link berikut ini: http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/liveranking/ trus ikutan polling-nya tuh untuk memilih Tujuh Keajaiban Dunia (Alami). Vote buat Indonesia yah, Indonesia diwakili sama 3 tempat: Danau Toba, Gunung Krakatau, dan Pulau Komodo. Polling ini untuk memilih 21 besar nominasi, kemudian dari 21 besar itu baru dipilih 7 keajaiban dunia. Oya, polling dibuka sampai akhir tahun ini. (kita harus memilih 7 tempat sekali vote, yang 3 jelas pilih Indonesia aja, sisanya terserah tapi pilih yang lemah saja biar Indonesia masuk, wkwkwkw... LOL)

#540 - Back to Bandung

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Well, now I'm back in Bandung. The reason I go back to Bandung is to go on a diklat tomorrow. Waaa, tomorrow morning we will depart from campus at 6 AM so I gotta get up at 4.45 AM!! Waaa!!! Probably I will write about it later next Monday, hehe... ;) Hopefully it's fun!! :)

Today I caught Argo Wilis Express which departed at 12.29 PM from Yogyakarta Railway Station. It arrived at 7.33 PM, about 19 minutes late from the schedule, but it's fine... ;) Well nothing too much to write down now, so I post some pics I took these days...

::: home-made Imported Wagyu Steak with Mushroom Sauce I ate 3 days ago. It was SO tasty!! :)

::: home-made Imported Striploin Steak with Barbeque Sauce I ate 3 days ago. Another tasty steak!! :)

::: Mie Jawa (Goreng)

::: Yogyakarta Tugu Railway Station

::: Argo Wilis Express entering platform 3 on Yogyakarta Tugu Railway Station

::: tall, coarse grass field

::: Hoka-Hoka Bento as my dinner today, hehehe... :)

BAHASA INDONESIA

Hmm, sekarang aku balik di Bandung nih. Alasan aku balik ke Bandung tuh untuk mengikuti diklat besok. Waaa, besok pagi berangkatnya dari kampus jam 6 pagi nih jadinya aku harus bangun jam 4.45 pagi!! Waaa!! Mungkin aku akan nulis tentang ini besok Senin deh, hehe... ;) Semoga menyenangkan!! :)

Tadi siang aku naik kereta api Argo Wilis Ekspres yang berangkat jam 12.29 siang dari Stasiun Kereta Tugu Yogyakarta. Tadi sampainya di Bandung jam 7.33 malam, telat sekitar 19 menit dari jadwal, tapi nggak papa sih... ;) Hmmm, nggak banyak hal yang bisa dituliskan sekarang, jadinya aku posting beberapa gambar yang aku ambil baru-baru ini saja yah...

#539 - Death in the Clouds

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Finally last night I finished reading Death In The Clouds, a novel by Agatha Christie.

Plot Summary:

Hercule Poirot was a passenger of an international flight from Le Bourget Airport, Paris to Croydon Airport, London. Weirdly, some times during the flight there was a bee. One passenger, Madame Giselle, was found dead some minutes before landing. At that time Poirot found a weird poisonous dart lying on the floor. On the check, a blowpipe was found on his seat! This, however, made 10 passengers on board and 2 stewards became suspects.

He, of course, started his investigation of this case. Some past secrets were dug, many things were analyzed, a likely 'intruder' came in but then eliminated. In the end he found who the murderer was.

Well, I wanna write one spoiler, huahahaha.... :D

=== spoiler starts ===

- the murderer was the one who had 2 identities

=== spoiler ends ===

Okay, my comment. I think this novel is a good one. I like the storyline since it's not confusing nor giving too many unnecessary details. One thing is that I like Poirot's Method of digging the suspects' past, analyzing them and deciding who was guilty and who were innocent. I like the way he focused on the weird fact(s) (the existence of a bee on board) >> Err, actually this thing is kinda usual for detective stories but I still like it, hahaha... :) That's why I really like Detective Conan. The simple twist is also one appeal of this novel.

Anyway, while I was still reading I also made a guess about who the murderer might be. Well, my guess was correct, wkwkwkw... lol. But actually it was only based on feeling, LOL.

So yeah, I agree that Agatha Christie is a great novelist!! hahaha...

::: Agatha Christie's "Death In The Clouds" front cover

::: Agatha Christie's "Death In The Clouds" back cover

BAHASA INDONESIA

Akhirnya semalam aku selesai membaca Death In The Clouds, novelnya Agatha Christie.

Ringkasan Cerita:

Hercule Poirot adalah seorang penumpang penerbangan internasional dari Bandara Le Bourget, Paris tujuan Bandara Croydon, London. Anehnya, pada waktu penerbangan ada seekor lebah. Satu penumpang, Madam Giselle, ditemukan meninggal beberapa menit sebelum mendarat. Waktu itu Poirot menemukan sebuah panah kecil beracun di lantai. Waktu pengecekan, sebuah sumpitan ditemukan di kursinya! Hal ini, akhirnya, membuat 10 penumpang dan 2 pramugara menjadi tersangka.

Dia, tentu saja, memulai investigasinya atas kasus ini. Beberapa rahasia masa lalu diungkap, banyak hal dianalisa, sebuah 'penyusup' kelihatannya masuk namun ternyata bisa dieliminasi. Akhirnya ketauan deh pembunuhnya suapa.

Iseng ah, mau ngask bocoran dikit neh, huahahaha.... :D

=== bocoran dimulai ===

- pembunuhnya adalah dia yang memiliki 2 identitas

=== bocoran selesai ===

Oke, komentar saya. Aku rasa novel ini ok juga loh. Aku suka jalan ceritanya soalnya nggak membingungkan atau berbelit-belit juga nggak memberikan terlalu banyak informasi-informasi nggak penting. Satu hal yang aku suka adalah Metoda-nya Poirot yang menggali masa lalu para tersangka, menganalisanya dan memutuskan siapa yang bersalah dan siapa saja yang nggak bersalah. Aku suka caranya dia fokus pada fakta-fakta tak biasa (misalnya keberadaan lebah di pesawat) >> Hmmm, sebenernya itu standar sih ya kalo untuk suatu novel dekektif tapi aku suka2 saja tuh, hahaha... :) Makanya juga kan kenapa aku suka banget sama Detektif Conan. Twist yang sederhana (menurutku) juga merupakan satu daya tarik novel ini.

Ngomong2, waktu masih membaca novel ini kan saya juga menebak-nebak siapa pelakunya. Nah, tebakan saya bener loh, wkwkwkwkw... lol. Tapi cuma berdasarkan feeling saja sih, LOL.

Jadi, yah, aku setuju kalo Agatha Christie adalah novelis yang hebat!! hahaha...

#538 - Monday & Tuesday

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Well, these last 2 days have been pretty ordinary, haha... :) Yesterday I hanged out with my friend. We went to Ambarrukmo Plaza then Galeria Mall. In the afternoon we had lunch at Kiko Restaurant. O yea, at Galeria I bought a novel by Agatha Christie, Death In The Clouds. I actually was looking for her next novel, The A.B.C. Murders but the stock was zero, damn. Well, I am interested in it since I read it at Detective Conan. O yea, yesterday I bought my favorite bakso, Bakso Kornelan, hahaha....

Anyway, because AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines now operate non-stop flight from Kuala Lumpur to Yogyakarta, there are so many Malaysian Tourists now in Yogyakarta, hahaha... .

O yea, starting today J.Co opens its new branch at Malioboro Mall Yogyakarta (the first J.Co in Yogyakarta). As usual for its first day, so many people bought J.Co today causing a really long line of people queuing for donuts!! hahaha... :) At 7.45 PM the donuts were sold out and people gotta wait for about 30 minutes before it's ready to be back on service. Lucky I could order so I didn't have to stand in line, LOL

::: my meal at Kiko

::: Bakso Kornelan

::: Agatha Christie's "Death In The Clouds"

::: Bakso Kornelan I ate this morning

::: es blewah

::: J.Co Donuts

BAHASA INDONESIA

Hmm, 2 hari belakangan ini menjadi hari yang biasa2 saja, haha... :) Kemarin aku jalan2 sama temen. Kita pergi ke Ambarrukmo Plaza trus Galeria Mall. Siangnya kita makan di Restoran Kiko. O iya, di Galeria Mall aku beli novel pembunuhan karangannya Agatha Christie, Death In The Clouds / Maut di Udara. Sebenarnya aku mencari novelnya yang selanjutnya, The A.B.C. Murders / Pembunuhan A.B.C tapi stok-nya kaga ada, siyal. Hmm, aku tertarik soalnya baca di komik Detektif Conan sih. O iya, kemarin aku beli bakso favorit saya loh, Bakso Kornelan, hahaha... .

Ngomong2, karena AirAsia dan Malaysia Airlines sekarang mengoperasikan penerbangan langsung dari Kuala Lumpur ke Yogyakarta, sekarang ada banyak turis Malaysia loh di Yogyakarta sini, hahaha... .

O iya, mulai hari ini kan J.Co membuka cabangnya yg baru tu disini di Malioboro Mall Yogyakarta (J.Co pertama di Yogyakarta). Seperti biasa kan di hari pertama tuh ramee banget ada banyak yang mau beli donat sampe menyebabkan antrian yang sangat panjang sekali!! hahaha... :) Jam 7.45 sore semua donatnya uda habis dan orang harus nunggu setengah jam sampe siap lagi. Untungnya aku bisa pesen jadi kan kaga harus ngantri, LOL

#537 - Sunday The 1st

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Today is Sunday. This morning, I went to the church. Something I always often do when I'm at Jogja, hehehe... :) After the liturgy ended at 8 AM, my family and I had breakfast at Soto Pak Parman Kridosono.

Actually my parents had a plan to go to Magelang to attend their friend's 'syukuran' party for her new tire shop there. However, this weekend my dad joined a table-tennis competition and yesterday he won making him proceeding to the next round which was today. Okay, he didn't feel good to be 'WO'ed and asked me to accompany my mom to Magelang, hahaha... :) Okay, so I did. We also asked my grandma whether she wanted to go to Magelang or not to visit our relatives. She said okay.

Then, at 10 AM we went to Magelang. At 11 AM we arrived there and dropped my grandma at our relatives' house and my mom and I proceeded to the party. At 11.30 AM the party started. Well then of course we had lunch, haha... :) There were Timlo Solo, Nasi Liwet Solo, Sate Ayam, and tengkleng. I ate 3 of them (not tengkleng). At 2 PM we went back to Jogja.

Then the rest of the day was just ordinary. I went to Malioboro Mall (arrgghh, damn BBM, the fuel price rise really made people's buying power drop).

::: swikee I ate yesterday

::: 'sate ayam'

::: 'Nasi Liwet Solo'

BAHASA INDONESIA

Hari ini adalah Minggu. Pagi tadi aku ke gereja. Sesuatu yang selalu sering aku lakukan kalo di Jogja, hehehe... :) Habis misa selesai jam 8 tadi aku sekeluarga makan pagi di Soto Pak Parman Kridosono.

Sebenernya kan ortuku lagi ada rencana mau ke Magelang untuk dateng ke acara syukuran temennya yang baru aja buka toko ban baru disana tuh. Nah tapinya wiken ini kan papaku ikutan kompetisi ping pong dan ternyata kemarin dia menang makanya hari ini kan lanjut ke babak selanjutnya. Oke, dia nggak ngerasa enak kalo kalah karena WO. Makanya dia nyuruh aku nemeni mamaku nggantiin dia ke Magelang, hahaha... . Ya udah gapapa deh. Trus kita juga nanya nenekku (mak-ku) mau kaga dia ikutan ke Magelang sekalian berkunjung ke rumah saudara. Katanya sih mau.

Trus jam 10 gitu kita berangkat ke Magelang. Jam 11 kita sampe disana dan nurunin mak-ku di rumah saudara trus aku sama mamaku pergi ke tempat syukurannya. Jam 11.30 acaranya mulai. Tentu saja kemudian kita makan siang dong, haha... :) Menunya tadi ada Timlo Solo, Nasi Liwet Solo, Sate Ayam, dan tengkleng. Aku makan 3 diantaranya (nggak mau tengkleng). Jam 2 siang kita balik deh ke Jogja.

Trus hariku biasa saja. Aku pergi ke Malioboro Mall sore ini (arrrgghh, sialan ni harga BBM naik kan jadinya daya beli masyarakatnya jadi turun, grr...).