Just a horse? Nah i don't think so..

From time to time people tell me. “lighten up, it’s just a horse,” or,

“ that’s a lot of money for just a horse”.

They don’t understand the distance travelled, the time spent, or the cost involved for “just a horse”.

Some of my proudest moments have come about with “just a horse”.

Many hours have passed and my only company was “just a horse”, but I did not once feel slighted.

Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by “just a horse”, and in those days of darknest, the gentle touch of “just a horse” gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day.

If you, too, think it’s “just a horse”, then you will be probably understand phareses like “just a friend”, “just a sunrise”, or, “just a promise”.

“Just a horse” brings into my life the very essence of friendship, trust, and pure unbridled joy.

“Just a horse” brings out the compassion and patience that make me a better person.

Because of “just a horse” I will rise early, take long walks and look longingly to the future.

So for me and folks like me, it’s not “just a horse” but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future, the fond memories of the past, and the pure joy of the moment.

“Just a horse” brings out what’s good in me and diverts my thoughts away from myself and worries of the day.

I hope that someday they can understand that it’s not “just a horse” but the thing that gives me humanity and keeps me from being “just a woman”.

So next time you hear the phrase “just a horse”

just smile, because they “just” don’t understand.

Cidoal, the big teddy bear.

Cidoal just passed away this morning :*(

I was so shocked when Laras and mom told me. then immediately called putri and tasha..Can't imagine how putri must've felt. He was still perfectly healthy yesterday!

For us, a loss of our horse is like a loss of our own family member. You might find it strange but it is true.

They are the ones that grew up with us

Shared our happiness and joy, sadness and pain

for they always listen without saying a word

A tribute to Cidoal du Genetre. One of the most honest horse, the horse that will eat ANYTHING (his favourite was soya milk and fried rice. dont ask. but he loves it), will jump no matter how high the fences are or however tight the turns is. Its a loss of one of the best partnership in the showjumping world of him and Adi.

:( :( !!!

Sometimes tears are not too bad
and an ear on the other side
and a bar of Ritter sport marzipan chocolate
:)

Black bean dumplings

Okay im so feeling ill now..
dizzy head/runny nose/sneezing :( :(

but today I had a good 1/2 day break from the revising hell!! yay!!! Nadia came from Reading. We had super yummy dimsum (ever tried sweet black bean dumpling for desert?? try it!! it fabulous).. then went back to my place and swapped horsy gossips from Spore/Indo/asia-wise. wah ive been so out of touch in wat happening in horsy world back home!! many new and interesting gossip and politics lol xD
Cant wait to go visit her then go for long hack/ride there!

Blue sky

Iieeee.. initially wanted to post a photo of a sun-streaked blue sky which i took this afternoon but realised that it was quite crappy. Not as pretty as it looks like when i took it x( sometimes times like these i wished i have one of those big-huge 'proper' camera to make the image become like how i wanted them to be xp

Yikes im sleepyy but still wanna watch more series.. bad. i really shd go to sleep soon. I think i'm catching a cold as well, mira got headache.. aiks the whole house are falling sick nooo...I hate it when i keep on sneezing in library cos it was so quiet there. This week ive started living in library again, literally. Haii...been there morning-night everyday, lucky got louisa/miriam/baim around to disturb and go for lunch/coffeebreaks. Actually because of studying in lib also i met ppl i havent seen in awhile.. like yesterday bumped to alvin and swee lin, then keith, joyce, enrico, etc. Not bad. then i always aim to finish my 'revising portion' of the day in lib, so can go home and really relax..go jogging then cook and watch shows. :) :)

Hm i feel like calling home but i ran out of phone credit...havent call home for a while but today suddenly feel family-oriented, so decided to email home and send photos.

"If science cannot offer certainity, it can strive to offer objectivity"

nice saying, isn't..then what i wanna say in this post is actually unrelated to the saying above..

On another note, youtube is BANNED in indonesia..

seriously

i was chatting to dian this afternoon (she is in indo) and yep she did confirmed to me that yeap indeed our government has banned youtube :( (newslink : http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/08/indonesia.youtube/index.html)

wanna know why?

because of 'fitna the movie' was released in youtube..

if you are wanna see it.. search google or watch it in youtube (can only open it if you have youtube account). there are quite a lot of shocking images in the movie, but its a short only 6-minutes movie..so have a look if you are curious.

The mind of a student in 2008

3s says:
i wonder how people study back then when there was no internet..
3s says:
sorry random lol
Louisaaaaaaaa~ says:
LOL =0=''. . . . . .
Louisaaaaaaaa~ says:
i would imagine lots of hand copying will be needed. . . . if copying machine was still not available at the time =0=
Louisaaaaaaaa~ says:
i.e. i would die if i were born at those time = =

*Hail to whoever invented internet* ^_^ !!!

Snow (again) in spring

Woke up at 6am this morning. Watching the snowflakes fell outside my window... I STILL get excited by it :) no matter how many times i've seen snowfall before. but how come no one is awake yet to share my excitement?!

"It's time to surrender, there's no point in pretending. That's no use in trying when the pieces don't fit anymore. Still, I keep on trying. I don't know why, I can't explain" -The Pieces Don't Fit Anymore, James Morrison-

U ranch long time ago

this is not important but i cant recognise myself in this photo!.its in trijaya, the riding stable where i literally grew up..i rode there for about 10 years. This must be during one of the competition. omg this was taken SO LONG ago..alena just tagged me in this photo in fb. So so sooo long ago..such goood times SIGH i miss my horsie and my horsey friends :*( :*(

An encounter

This is the first time I've ever encountered a person like you. Interesting. The character is very very observant, yet what I like the most is how you can be strong-willed but at the same time lenient enough so people dont hate you, but instead you gain respect. In addition, you inspire me to appreciate originality.

Random..

but ya, interesting..

I always thought i'm an observant person

but you surpassed my expectations

which makes me even more curious

Backtracking

Oookaayy..re-reading my blog when im having study break is not a good idea. Especially since i got carried away and start to re-read all the emo entries. Bad, bad idea. Makes me emo and lose concentration and start thinking and re-thinking about things. Yikes.. :( summing up,why the hell did i wrote those entries back then??? at least the person involved did not read blogs. at least i think so. hopefully. ah whatever i dont care, correction, i still care but i just simply dont have the time to think more about it these days. Just wait until summer, as usualy, my summers are usually full of answers to the past year's summer and unanswered questions for the next year's summer.

Time and again

I feel like slowing my pace down when walking these days. I mean, like literally.. walk with slower pace. Wanna know why? becos I feel like I was being rushed everywhere, everytime. It doesn't help that London IS a fast-paced place. Slow down then you get carried away with the flow. It sucks isn't it, when sometime all I wanted to do is just to slow down a bit. Going to St Andrew makes me realise that I do miss the slower pace of living in Shrewsbury. It's strange isn't it, because I am a complete city girl. I was born and bred in Jakarta. For 16 years I lived in a city in which getting from one place to another can take as fast as 10 minutes with good traffic or as slow as 2 hours during the rush hour. It was a city which is not only fast, but also messy in every sense. Messy buildings, messy traffic, messy houses. Yet, I do not feel stressed.. well, I did of course sometime. but then again my school life back then was so relaxing.. good grades can be achieved with minimal amount of work. School was for socializing. For making friends. Playing basketball. Student organisations. School events. Basketball tournaments. Beside school, my other main activity was riding my horses. Riding lessons. Training camps. Overseas competitions. Hanging out with horsy people in horsy competitions. Spending weekends in the stable and weekdays in school. That's about it. yet..living amidst the heart of messy J-town did not feel as rushed as living in London. Its strange isn't. In addition, I have much more free time on my hands these past three years but then again I feel like I never have enough time. Ahh.. time, i really have to manipulate you and not the other way around.

Whee...i finally get back the bit of myself that's been lost after riding this morning ! :)
horse-deprived last week was not so good for my mental health and well-being

East Coast

In front of castle ruins in which somehow we just cudnt find the entrance even tho we see ppl inside..

Sandy beach!! and it was longg...stretched for 2miles or so..

This is interesting : the square-ish pool u see on the left hand side is a 'bathing pool' that was used by some reverends to swam and by public in the old days. and the rocky cliff on the right hand side is the 'witches cliff' where they used to kill the ppl who were suspected to be witches ...they throw them down the cliff and before that hanged them on the hill beside it..

Just came back from St Andrews :)

thanks david for letting us crash ur place for three days hehe..in return we cooked for you and you have enough food to last u for weeks i think. The train ride was surprisingly not as long as I expected, probably bcos we took the train with the fewest stops so it only took us abt 5 hrs to get there from Kings cross. The St Andrew town itself is really a uni town..its a bit like a huge boarding school with the halls and various departments scattered all around the town itself. The best part ? i LOVE the beach!! yeah in the years ive been here, yesterday was the very first time i came across a pure sandy beach in UK. it was niceee...and the wind was strong but it was sunny. How i envy david who told me he goes for runs along the beach x( well i got the river here but still...run along the beach! i want to. Ahh going out of London feels so SO good..see, after 2 yrs in concord i miss the city life so i went to london..now almost 3 yrs in london i start to miss the fields, the trees, the sheeps.. we, humans, are just never satisfied arent we ..hmm. Oh ya on additional note, finally im able to see st andrews becos ive been wanting to go there ever since i know prince william used to study there xp

oh well, good trip, excellent company :) im happy and yeah back to revision starting tomorrow !!

Back from a good run in a crisp cold morning at 7 today :)

and i like the plum-scented lotion thingy that mom gave me last time...

Feel very refreshed and ready to take on another day of revising !!

I miss my old best friends these days :( wish i'm back home now

Toby is travelling around Asia now, how envious x( i also wanna go home..summer come soon pretty please??

ps : pic above is from La tartine gourmande food blog http://www.latartinegourmande.com/ (she posted amazing food photos!).. i just really like the blue sky photo but somehow cant crop the picture of the chocolate-pecan teacakes next to it xp

Kalo uda mulai revise kaya gini, rasanya uda bener2 lupa tanggal hari dan jam deh. gw ama irma uda ber-hibernate mode gini, mana diluar dingin parah dan ujan mulu :(

at least weekend ini gw bkl k st andrew buat short break lah..tp jadi merasa guilty gitu kalo 3 hari ga revise sm skali. sbenernya ini juga revise sudah dlm panic mode yang rada2 on gitu gara2 gw nyadar kalo ada module yg bener2 masi gw ga bisa grasp bahan2nya..huhuhh. yah anyway ini last exam gw di uni, cepett bgt yah rasanya baru aja kmaren gw masuk jadi freshman taun pertama eh tau2 da mo lulus. Kadang2 sempet mikir kok kynya 3 taun di uni ...tapi tidak trll trasa ya..

halah..

sdg mellow nih. tadi br abis ntn talented mr ripley bareng mira.. (dan yeap untung ada mira yg masi sering menonton dvd kalo ga gw dan irma uda sgt stres krn revise mulu haha..). trus tadi bertambah mellow krn gw mendengar lagu2 mellow pas sambil bikin notes ttg my lovely insect-plants haha.. sudah smakin better sih skrg, gw uda ga se-moody bbrp wkt kmaren. tapi yah tetep aja ada setback mode kadang2. aa..cepetan pgn slese exam.. !

White easter Sunday

It's snowing right now outside my window!!
heavy, pure white snow falls
!!!!
so excited! havent seen proper snow in a long time since concord!!! sadly all my flatmates are still asleep now, so the only person i can share my excitement is Silvia on msn just now
but yeah, snow!
in easter and heavy as well!!
wah..

(Last) spring break

What a freakishly shitty weather London has these days
sigh
Revision mode : ON
Hibernating : tick
Comfort food : tick
Riding : tick

5 weeks of revision
with visiting David in St Andrew and going to Paignton with Louisa in between
then FYP..my activities are mapped out for the next 12 weeks x(
...and what a random post this is..

Cold Monday afternoon

It was so so so so COLD today!

No mood to stay in uni anymore so i decided to go home and skip whatever class is left in the afternoon (which is nothing much).Opened facebook then saw that daryll commented on these photos (above), the snowy one just FITS the cold day today so i just have to put it up (kuambil dr fb mu ya tii hehe tenkyu sayy) and the first one on top is just our end of 6.2 dinner, in which daryll also commented then i feel nostalgic, so again i have to post it xp

Kangen komik

Sunday passed damn fast.

I woke up early today and yesterday, so my day feels longer lol

Waking up early is good, because then i feel like i'm not wasting time

I guess i'm a morning person as always, even though i did try to switch to sleep late and wake up late mode a few times, but mornings are preferred in comparison to late-nights.

Revising bits and pieces done, but still not 100 % revision mode yet. Been skype-ing like mad these days, talking random things and just now me and Thia realised that we talked more compared to couples do! arghh.... i should have never re-downloaded skype on my comp!! I know i deleted it for a reason sigh

Now been watching anime, im giving taiwanese dramas a rest for a while cos if the storyline got depressing, then i got depressed too. Missing my manga collections...

Choosily choosing choices

I thrived on choices
literally, in all aspects of life...
I choose to have choices
It's not always a good thing as now I have come to realise
aarghhhh

Finally today i can get a day off
a much needed one indeed as the past week been so hectic i hardly had any time left for sleep..

Stop

Omg i just want to die...so so many things to do but got no time *sigh

ive been doing 9-5 lectures/lab every single day.. then got indonesian night rehearsals like 3 times a week now (in which this past two days we stayed in LSE until 10-11pm ish..and today i left home at 8am morning, got back home briefly from 6-8pm.. went to LSE and didnt come home until 12pm! aaa...)

24 hours is SO not enough

i still got lab reports, have to start revising for finals, have to email final year project supervisor

at least i finish all my postgrad applications already

tired! and i cant actually sleep yet even tho im tired but a thousand things still run through my mind, its like im mentally making checklists of things needed to be done, notes to be made, journals to be printed etc etc

and London is damn damn cooolllddd today

actually this is a very random post, sorry

just got to the point when i asked irma today :

'why can't we simply just EXIST ?'

wouldnt it be wonderful if we can just simply LIVE life

no need to worry about school, work, family, money, future etc

These days, we have endless targets to chase, things to accomplish, places to visit..

We did A levels to aim for grades so we can be accepted into a good university, we got the grades and enroll in the university we want.. but do we stop there? No, now we want to get 1st class degree, so we work our butt off to get our degree....three years later we got our degree..but do we stop there? No, now we want to get our 'dream' job...so we fill and send endless application forms, wrote endless personal statements and went to endless assesment centres and interviews.....finally we got a job, but do we stop there? No, now we want to built up savings... after a few years working, we finally saved up enough to buy a house, buy a car, a horse and invest some of the money for little luxuries.. but do we stop there? No, now we want to settle down with a family...so we hunt for 'the one'...finally we found him/her, got married, got kids...but do we stop there? hmm at this point maybe some people will actuially STOP there, but i have a sinking feeling that No, now we want more and more and more and more things... .... when will we actually STOP ?

Barley tea

Muscles are blisfully aching from basketball just now :) (even though i feel like i was dying during practice.. i'm extremely unfit! sometimes i feel bad at my teammates cos they keep running and i was like, no i'll stay half the court cos i seriously cant run anymore :( and no riding does not make me fitter, due to muscle habituation after years of doing it continuously, seriously riding did not tire me that much at all these days, but if i go home, my trainer really know how to make me dying by asking me to ride at least 3 horses straight for proper flat lessons, not that i complain lol)

...then stomach full from dinner at OC, crispy roast pork yumm :)

going to read more about my very interesting horsy topic for my essay, make a nice cup of barley tea.. then going to have an early night in today..

Happiness! i feel content.. a good Saturday indeed

Dragon or others

Sleepy..zzzzzzzzzzzz

falling asleep on my problem sheets..

sometime i work so slow, but i prefer to work slow as long as i actually understand what im doing. but seriously the so-called-dry-lab today really took a LOT out of me, its not physically taxing but you know that feeling when you work hard then finish, then its a bit like brain dead feeling. argh. i realised im not very smart, but then again its back to the old saying abt either being the head of the dragon or the tail. i gues im near the tail, but the even though its the tail, being the dragon itself is already above average right.

Was stuck in a moment of panic attack just now when i realise that exams are NOT far away and this is bloody 3rd year in which it will count 65 % towards my final degree!! aaaa....

then manage to calm myself down by doing laundry (switching to my Monica-from-friends-mode)

And on another note, im pretty proud of myself ! the reason ? 26 days!

H-7

Cool, right?

H-7 until Indonesian Night :) !!

this is what i've been doing these days, don't ask how my genetics write-up and problem sheets are going :( but happy!! today we finally got the chance to practice in old theatre together with the drama and Bruneian dance people. Can't wait until next week!!

Thursday 6th of March : Indonesian Cultural Night in LSE

come people !!!!

People-watching : a habit that every commuters pick up to kill time
I can actually say quite proudly that i'm able to pick out which clothes came from which shop (most of the time when my shopping mode is : on).

I want to eat dimsum...

Mika – Happy Ending

This is the way you left me,I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No Happy Ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like it's forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.

Wake up in the morning, stumble on my life
Can't get no love without sacrifice
If anything should happen, I guess I wish you well
A little bit of heaven, but a little bit of hell
This is the hardest story that I've ever told
No hope, or love, or glory
Happy endings gone forever more

Listening to this song used to make me feel sad, but i've listened to it again recently and it doesn't make me feel sad anymore. Yay :) (pic above taken frm a fajr's fs page tx!)

Self-contentment

I've never felt stronger before. These days my self-esteem are very good i think. Hehe.. and no this doesn't mean i'm free from all the stress of being a final year biologist, it just simply means that, hmm how do i put this into words? That I can feel myself changing, bit by bit, towards a more realistic me, more.. mature? no, not mature. Its not exactly confidence either, its just a feeling when you feel satisfied with yourself and happy being who you are. Knowing your faults, brave to face your problems and loving yourself a lot more than you used to be. Like someone said to me before, we create problems in our mind and it all just depends on your perspectives. Hmmh... feel sooo good these days :)

It is a well-known fact that when i blog often it means one of these three things :

i'm stressed

i'm bored

i'm exuberantly happy

I wish the number 3 will be the most often reasons, however today i'm blogging due to reason number 1. FINALLY today i can get home before 8 pm! such a relief. Our presentation was pretty crap today, but at least I had a really good long longgg jog just now to clear up my muddled up thoughts. And i went back and cleaned my room/.bathroom, switching to my clean-freak self is another thing i usually do when i'm feeling kind of brain -dead. like now.

Eat and Two Veg

Eat and Two Veg

a vegetarian restaurant located on Marylebone High St :)

Had lunch there with Wilson and Jac today, nice schnitzel! pork but not pork..i think i havent eaten non-asian food for at least a month. And I discovered that Marylebone is a pretty, quaint area, and walking there this afternoon really lifted my mood up.

Been in school since yesterday, then again today..sigh the after-effect of procrastinating is NOT fun. Totally underestimated the amount of work we had to do :(

Food for thought(?)

I've eaten three expired food products for my dinnner today. Amazing.

Usually i'm one of those people who will finish all their food in the fridge waayyy before the expiration date, however these past week i've been busy as hell thus hardly had any chance to gobble down the remaining food in my fridge.

What i've just eaten : mushroom, bacon and hazelnut yogurt (the mushroom and bacon were cooked with pasta, of course, not eaten with the hazelnut yogurt).

And our third dance rehearsal in LSE was getting better tonite. yay! but still the saman dance from PPI Prancis was amazing really, go watch in youtube as 'tari saman PPI Perancis' and thats what we're attempting to do (well progressing more likely).

Loved

I just said this in my blog post a few days ago, but am gonna say it again :

I feel so loved :)

happy.. seriously. I just went back from a belated-birthday dinner with Louisa and Simon in Mangosteen. Good food, great company. What more can I say. I feel truly blessed indeed :) thank you (again) dear friends, all of you had really made me feel extra-special and very much loved during my birthday this year *hugs and lots of kisses* !!

From the pre-birthday chocolates sent from my cousin in Brighton, midnight celebration with Irma and Mira at our lovely flat, Loki's company in the morning (yes he does count even tho he is a horse), lunch with Carina plus the cake surprise, shopping spree with Irma and Silvia in the afternoon, then the surprise gathering at night (thanks to manda & nti who've ran literally to wongkei and frantic-candle-searching xp, yan who came all the way even tho she was ill, and silv and irma...hugss super big hugs for you guys!), ended with drinking too much with Irma all night lol. Yummy dimsum lunch wt ninghn, mt, lex, wilson ...cant believe this IS our last year in bio :), then finally the last one is dinner today wt simon and louisa.

Love u to bits everyone!!!!!

My timetable for the rest of this week

Okay, sleeping for 11 hours straight last night was probably not such a good idea after all. It left me feeling lethargic throughout the whole day today actually. And I've been in school from 8.30-5 pm now.. Wanna go home but have to go to LSE for rehearsal. Arghh why do I let Silvia talk me into participating (again) in Indo nite this yearr.... at least we're doing the Saman dance in which i dont mind doing cos we dont have to wear kebaya (i cant fit into mine anymore, the last time i wore it was like in 1st year concord...when i was still thin enough haha..but seriously it doesnt fit me anymore sigh). Anyway, panic mode will be on very VERY soon because me and louisa is still in 0 % in doing our NGF project !!!

damnn...

argh............................

then tomorrow all day competing in UCL.. bday dinner at night with simon and louisa

then thursday gonna watch lion king..

then friday another rehearsal in LSE

then saturday riding and basketball and cny dimsum

omg when the hell will i find time to do proper work!!

panic mode : ON

Small little world

I guess as you get older, the more often it is to cross paths with people who know each other. Strange, what a small little world we live in. Isn't it ?

I feel loved :) :) ! Thanks again for everyone for the birthday wishes, wish I could name you one by one but then you all know who you are. Love you all to bits, and to some, miss you guys so much as well !! and I need to sleep, some serious long, dreamless, sleep.. much needed indeed. Dunno how I was coping these three days with just 3-4 hours sleep per night. I need my beauty sleep hehe..

Catch 22

22 today!!

on 2 feb :)

okay i might write something really stupid here but blame it on the wine-champagne-and chocolates lol. Overall had a very VERY enjoyable birthday today :) one of the best ever. Started with champagne and chocs at 12 midnite on 1 feb with irma and mira..slept at 3 am then actually (im proud of myself for actually waking up!) go ride Loki in the morning by 6am tube. Rode him in flat went superb, he did counter-canter damn well now... still got some over-excitement in doing flying changes though. It was FREEZING this morning!!!! what with the temperature around 0-1 C and i wear three layers of clothings doesnt help. Then went home, lunch with Carina in Arang. This nice small korean restaurant in Picc circ....got another bday cake there. Shopping spree wt irma and sil, went home and found Manda and Artati hiding in the kitchen (hehee tx guys seriously i thot ure all gg join us in clubbing which didnt happen in the end xp xp). Then got my 3rd bday cake :) :)

thanksss everyone!! cant act mention ur name one by one but yah..thanks a hell lot! today was one of the best birthdays i've ever had :) !!

*hugs and kisses!!!*

Billy Elliot the Musical

Teacher :

"Billy, how does it feels like when you are dancing ?"

Billy :

" I can't really explain it

I haven't got the words

It's a feeling that you can't control

I suppose it's like forgetting, losing who you are

And at the same time, something makes you whole"

'Electricity' from Billy Elliot the Musical :)

One of the best musical i've ever seen. Big hugs to irma and mira who had convince me to go and watch, since i'm always been a bit apprehensive to watch a musical due to previous experience when I fell asleep during Phantom of the Opera. And don't stare at me in shock, because for you all Phantom might be one of the best musical out there, but i'm just not too musical i guess..however I do enjoy Mamma Mia because the songs are very lively/pop-ish (and I love Abba songs). Anyway, that lyrics Billy sang above just really struck me, one word : horse riding.

Anyway, i'm gonna be 22 in about two hours!!

and i've got tomorrow nicely fully booked hehee...strangely, i don't feel that excited turning 22. I just feel..nothing. I even almost forgot that my bday is this weekend if not me checking the timetable last week to check when my essay was due.

I'm turning 22 on the 2nd day of the 2nd month and i live in flat 222 (ignore this end bit).

i love 2's !

Foggy Monday

Imperial Idol?

not recommended..dont watch, seriously it sucks. but oh well its for charity maybe that what makes so many bio ppl go, including me. It is the SECOND ever i've actually attend some event in imperial in my whole three years.. the first one was a christian union xmas choir sth like that. Haha yeah the antisocial being i am. At least being a treasurer for riding club made me actually step into the student union more often and meet some new faces lol

Owkayy.. been drinking hell lot of vitamin C related food today since i feel like im coming down with a cold blah :( and yesterday night i had the strangest ever dream :

i dreamt the dream in the dream before

if that statement makes any sense, you are smart

otherwise, ignore me as i must be going a bit crazy

Cape parah abis main basket tadi.. sptnya memang bener gw sgt unfit deh akhir2 ini. Tapi enak sih mainnya, senang. at least tadi gw ga trll byk mlakukan kbodohan yg biasanya gw sering bego kan tuh kalo dikasi bola. Tapi pasti deh bsok super pegel.. dan kynya im running a fever jg nih huhuhh gara2 tadi pulang males ganti jeans jadi tetep pake clana basket plus sweater, mana nunggu tube lama abis train nya..jadilah kynya saya akan masuk angin bsok. Btw tadi swaktu lagi mem-vacuum flat dan bersih2 kamar mandi..sekilas mendadak gw mikir, kynya gw harus menemukan suami (dari langit apa yah jatuhnya..pacar saja tak ada hahah) yang sgt bersih deh..soalnya gw akui gw itu sdikit2 obsessive compulsive disorder loh. kya monica di friends. im a clean freak saya akui.. (dan juga diakui oleh irma dan mira yg tinggal bareng gw uda 2 taun ini). bersih2 dan rapi2in itu bikin pikiran tenang..bener loh, bagi yg blm perna mencoba.coba deh. Yes bsok hari minggu dan gw akan bermalas2an dirumah sharian! ada coursework menanti sih... tapi oh well besok sharian pnuh tak ada acara! yayy senang

Gallops

Long weekend for me this week. Went out to the woods with Loki this afternoon, he was damn full of himself! we galloped flat out and it was wicked. At one point, there was this huge wide puddle of water (in which he hated, he hates to get his feet muddy) and he decided to sort of leap/jump at it :) yeah a bit reckless i know but oh well we had fun, don't we Loki ?

I put up old highschool pictures in facebook as 'the way we were' and got so many comments ! i guess my efforts as always being known as the-one-who-carried-a-camera-everywhere since ages ago was pretty good :)

Yay dinner party tonight!!! and long weekend tomorrow :)

Thames

Walked all the way home from Waterloo today, whilst river Thames by my side. Havent done that for a while now, but walking like that made me realise again how I love London a lot! and even now living next to the river, I still love going out and just stare at the water. Its comforting.

Pasar Barito, hanya tinggal kenangan

Goodbye Pasar Barito..

hari ini pasar barito digusur.. tadi gw abis baca2 beritanya di www.kompas.com sedih. Pasar barito in a way adalah salah satu kenangan masa kecil gw, dari sd-smp gw skolah disana trus gereja juga dsana. Jalan-jalan di pasar burung/ayam waktu dulu tiap hari minggu pulang gereja..beli kelinci dan ayam semasa dulu gw suka piara hewan dirumah. Terharu juga tadi gw baca kompas ngeliat banyak masyarakat umum yang turut kontra protes akan penggusuran ini.. trus tadi juga diupdate ama Dian. Ahh.. memang yah heran deh apa sih maunya pemerintah kita ini.. yang ga penting2 digusur, hal2 yang ga penting mulu yang mau diurusin. Bikin busway, ga guna.. so far bikin jakarta macet parah yang ada. Masih banyak hal hal lain yang bisa dan harusnya diperhatiin..

:( kecewa saya.

A penny for your thought in this rainy day

Tadi lagi iseng2 buka friendster, when I came across a blog entry from a friend of mine yang isinya tentang persepsi dia mengenai kenyamanan (wid, nyolong isi blog dikaw yaa hehe). Beberapa hari ini gw lagi banyak berpikir dan basically i think i spent a little bit too much time with my own thoughts. Kadang2 ada hal atau masalah yang dimana loe sebenernya pengen cerita dan minta pendapat dari orang lain, tapi sebenernya diri loe tau bahwa jawabannya yang loe cari itu cuman bisa didapatkan dari diri loe sendiri..dan bahwa sebenernya the so-called-answer you are looking for, you already knew it. Nah, kira2 beginilah perasaan gw dalam beberapa hari ini..yah sebenernya masalah ini uda gw pikirin sejak beberapa bulan lalu sih..its there at the back of my mind all the time. Dan gw tau, seberapapun inginnya gw pengen ngomong dan curhat ke temen2 gw... ga akan nemuin jalan keluarnya & i knew the answer is within myself. Akhirnya hari ini gw sudah memutuskan dan berani untuk bikin keputusan. Hey, growing up is all about making choices..isn't it?

Okeh, balik ke awal posting gw diatas tentang kenyamanan. Temen gw itu nulis kalo sebenernya ga ada definisi yang pasti tentang kenyamanan. Kenyamanan itu adalah perasaan yang cuman bisa loe sendiri yang rasain dan definisiin sebagai sesuatu yang menurut loe nyaman. Contohnya bagi gw, beberapa momen yang menurut gw bisa men-define kenyamanan contohnya nonton Loki makan rumput sambil menghirup udara pagi yang dingin (ini mah kalo menurut orang2 normal yang tidak terkena virus horse crazy sperti gw..ga mungkin suka haha), menghabiskan satu hari penuh sendirian di flat gw sambil baca buku during the weekend ato bangun tidur subuh2 dan took a jog along the river whilst watching London wakes up... anyway sebelum gw menghabiskan satu halaman penuh nulis hal2 yang menurut gw define kenyamanan best for me, intinya yaitu kalo mau kita perhatiin, hal2 kecil dalam hidup sehari2 itu banyak loh yang bisa bikin kita senang.. ..ga usa ngoyo banget untuk jadi orang yang terlalu ambisius dalam hidup, just be thankful for all those little things that makes life worth living really..karena sejujurnya kita (umm this applies to me dan hampir smua temen gw i think) termasuk orang yang sangat SANGAT beruntung dalam hidup ini dibandingkan kalo mau contoh ekstrim, orang2 yang bahkan tidak tahu kapan mereka bisa mendapat makan untuk hari esok.

Satu hal lagi yang dia tulis dalam blog itu yang juga cukup ngena buat gw.. yaitu jangan terlalu ngoyo berusaha dapetin balik apa yang dulu pernah loe punya. Jangan terus berjalan sambil menoleh ke belakang deh...bisa2 nabrak tiang listrik kalo gitu caranya hehe... Kenangan, thats all it is. Emang seneng sih skali2 bisa balik and take a look down that cherished memory lane (warning : jangan keseringan, yang ada either jadi ngerasa makin depresi ato ga pikiran logika loe bakal tertutup oleh bayangan khayalan yang loe bikin sendiri dengan amat kreatifnya haha).. tapi yang masa lalu itu uda lewat. Yang bisa kita lakuin adalah fokus ke masa depan, ke hal2 yang bisa kita capai... Kalo mikirin masa lalu terus, mau dipikir ampe jungkir balik juga itu bakal tetep di masa lalu kok... let time tell kalo kata orang2. Memang, kadang2 ga sabar rasanya untuk nunggu si 'waktu' itu memberi jawaban yang kita mau..pengen rasanya bisa punya mesin waktunya si Doraemon ato nge-fast forward waktu biar bisa liat sebenernya keingininan kita tuh tercapai ga sih di masa depan. Tapi ya itulah hebatnya waktu, seperti suatu quote yang pernah gw baca.. 'the only thing that is guaranteed in life is that it goes on'

Nasi bacang

Kemaren kan critanya gw ama Louisa uda pusing ngerjain tugas neuro di lab, eh pas dia lagi buka2 blog...trus terlihatlah foto2 dimsum yang ada nasi bacang dan charsiu pao. Mendadak langsung deh kita berdua ngidam mo makan dimsum, tadinya mo pergi kmaren malem tp masa malem2 makan dimsum rasanya aneh ah..jadilah tadi siang ini kita pergi ke china town utk ber-dimsum ria di Golden Dragon. Lucu deh biasanya gw dulu ga suka makan bacang, tp entah knapa tadi lg sangat ingin makan itu.. Puas skalii abis makan dimsum, perut kenyang dan hari masih siang (yeap berhubung course gw yang ini emang banyakk benerr free time nya.. cuman 2 jam lecture tiap pagi dari jam 9-11am trus udah deh bebas..tapi sedihnya ga bebas juga sih, berhubung mesti research bahan2 project dan assigment lainnya).

Yah anyway, merasa senang dan puas saja atas dimsum yg sangatt yummy tadii hehe.. :) have to go back to neurobiology now *sigh (dan fyi, neuroscience itu emang kedengerannya keren... dan itulah slh satu alasan gw ambil course yg ini, tapii buat yg mo belajar ato berniat berkarir di bidang ini, gw kasitau aja..susahhhhh nya ampun2an!!!! hikss...skarang aja saya uda takut fail di exam nih argh).

After-effect

Happy birthday Hank!!

Its been awhile since we all get together like these, getting rarer these days since everyone is busier than ever. I slept at 3am last night, woke up at 8am today and did nothing productive until Ajeng called me out for dinner/desert at the creperie. Anikha was there as well, and I met this guy called Tessa who looked sooo familiar, but neither of us could remember when and where we met before so thats a bit funny. In the end we concluded that we must've met during one of those PPI gatherings somewhere sometime ago.

I'm still feeling continuously sleepy..hoahm. Never had bouts of jetlag as long as these before.. *sigh

Its 2008

I went back for christmas holiday this year. A single sentence to describe my holiday ? it was short, yet sweet. It was not enough time to meet up with everyone, but then the ones i really want to see were there and they also spend their time to keep me company which really is all that matters. Japan was also great in its own way, and Inka is one of the best to travel with! i miss you ka when we finish our trip haha... seeing how we spend 24/7 in each other's company for 10 days, even caught the most horrible flu together in Singapore as well. I must say that going back even for a short time did refreshed me a lot, maybe because I was in under a hell lot of stress before the holiday period too. Anyway, two more courses to go and one final year project to tackle..then I'm officially (*fingers crossed**) saying goodbye to Imperial !

Powder Room Experience

Irma managed to get me having my nails done for the very first time EVER in my life today! well basically she managed to book a place for both of us in topshop powder room, in which we each had a two-hour slot and we can get our hair/nails/make up/skin done for FREE :) ! great isn't it?? they should do this more often man...

anyhow, yeaps there we went.. me feelin quite excited and curious at what people actually do in salons, and why they seem to love spending hours to get their nails done etc (i do like going to salons, but only for hair..never before ive been bothered to get anything else done). It was indeed a nice small secluded-ish place, tucked in the basement floor of topshop. we sat down, the receptionist took our coats, gave us firefly drinks in which i love. then off i got my skin done, eyes done (this lady from shu uemura give me tips in wht colors can suit me..yay..usually am quite lazy to experience wt eyeshadow, i love pink/gold-ish eyes and thats all the colors ive ever put on my eyes ever once in awhile). I got my hair styled in a flicked-up style as well which seems like the best option since my hair has not been touched by any hairdresser for about 3 months now sadly, the last time i got this nice bob,,but now the ends are long-ish and in need of a proper trim. Manicure too! it was surprisingly quite fast and got a clear pink shiny polish on the tips of my nails. So..after 2 hourse we then emerged looking quite refresehed, and I must say i quite enjoy it really. will ask irma to drag me along next time she do this again haha... ...

Oh term ends yesterday and we had one of the most enjoyable end of term ever :) Our applied ecology course convenor, Simon Leather, took us to the london zoo to have our last lectures.. and some behind-the-scene bugs research (we saw this cool hissing bugs!). And the most surprising part, he actually gave us presents and awards of all sorts ..so everyone got some kind of awards for partaking the course (i got best poster 3rd place, not bad eh..hehe...got chocolates). he gave books, waterstones vouchers, medals etc. Seriously, during my 3 yrs in imperial now..this is one hell of a great example of a course convenor who actually really cares for his students :) he's also very appoachable, made the course very interactive. and even though I admit this course was very very hard due to the amount of courseworks which was insane, with me sleeping for 3-4 hours or even no sleep at all in the past week to chase all the deadlines..plus the statistics which kind of overwhelm me since i never touch stat at all since 1st..one word : I learn a hell lot from this AE course. A LOT.

Then yesterday finished off with having dinner together at my flat ;) i somehow decided to invite a few ppl over for dinner, then panicking afterwards on what to cook. not that i didnt like cooking, but i only cook for myself so i dont really care if the food sometimes didnt taste too good as long as its edible..but seeing that i need to cook for my friends, so i decided to put an effort hehe.. it turns out well! and the salmon turns out fine too which was good (trims ti hehe..tipsmu bermanfaat! dahulu aku uda 3-4 kali bikin tp crumbs nya ga lengket gitu). the apple crumble can came out better, will try to experiment more hehe.. anyways, now the fridge is empty completely..except for milk. lol. glad tht ppl came and enjoy the food yesterday!! ninghn nina simon rea meli louisa ,,come again okkk haha

Libur natall ...

Akhirnya..gw bebass!!! selesaiii deh itu smua assignments gw slama sminggu trakhir ini. seumur2 ga pernah loh gw yg namanya bener2 begadang ga tidur smskali.. yang ada biasa kalo terpaksa begadang paling malem juga jam 3an.. kemarenan ini, yah sminggu trakhir ini lah. gw tidur jam 7 pagi saja loh, dan bangun jam 10 pagi... parah, gw k uni uda kaya zombie gitu. untung ada inka nemenin chatting hehe..trims ka! trus kalo uda pagi biasa ktmu yaya ama dian juga.. jadi bisa online ama anak2 di indo deh :) tapi bener, gila ni module trakhir gw applied ecology... ahhh...legaaa dan senanggg!! tadi presentation gw juga beres, trus lab report beres, poster beres, essay beres... yayyyyy

There's no use in trying when the pieces don't fit anymore
-James Morrison-

Christmas spirit

I love lazy Sundays :) after waking up early to do some work this morning, now am just lazying around in the living room with Irma. Watching old christmas songs on tv, whilst lazily blogging/chatting and talking on the phone with some people.. plus our living room is sparkling clean as we've just cleaned it. Ahhh what a nice life.. I can smell the rice being cooked too, contentment. simply, pure joy..can feel the christmas spirit slowly coming!!!

it truly feels like holiday already if i can just get through the next two days filled with presentation, making poster and writing journal..in which i will surely do! :)

Just finished updating my photo collections of Yoon Eun Hye hehe... she reminded me a lot a lot like Jeanne. Totally love her new photoshoot for the korean vogue (see above). The short hair suits her much better compared to the long one before. Anyway, ive been in full working mode since yesterday and guess what, i'm actually being pretty damn productive! truth to be told, i think i learn a hell lot from this applied ecology course. which was good. In fact, if you asked me, I can hardly recall what i've actually learnt these past 2 years in uni. I can recall perfectly well what I learnt in A levels, but nope not the ones in uni. I guess my brain ability just seem to decrease as i get older lol..but yah as I mentioned before, this course at least I can truly say I really 'absorbed' much of the taught modules and the other so-called transferable skills that SRL taught us. Not bad huh.

And Japan here I come in exactly ONE week...cant wait to go there and see Inka too!! wooohoooo.....................then followed by going back home and visiting mom in Spore :) !!

Friday night and here I am sitting in front of my laptop doing coursework.
.... .... ....
not much can be said
I am indeed a nerd
^__^ *~~

Random ajah

Hari ini gw ngrasa kaya ga ada energi buat ngapa2in sm skali deh.. tadi bangun kesiangan jadi miss lecture yang jam 9.30, trus dateng ke skolah ikut lecture jam 11 n ga guna juga krn gw ga konsen smskali (tp bukan gw aja sih, nina sama fran juga yg duduk sbelah2 gw sama2 ga konsennya kok,,jadi intinya salahkan lecturer yg amat sgt membosanka, pdhl topiknya menarik sih tentang river ecology gituh). Jam 12 lunchtime louisa sms ngajak lunch bareng, ya udah gw samperin di saf cafe as usual..duduk2 bentar ngobrol, trus uda makin ngantuk aja gw..akhirnya pulanglah saya dan dgn sukses nya skip lecture sore yang jam 2-4. Pulang..uda pulang juga masi aja ga mood mau ngapa2in, padahal ada 1 paper en 1 lab report yang mesti gw bikin (dan gw belom mulai sm skali..mati aja deh. pdhl due dlm sminggu). Akhirnya mutusin buat nelpon indo dan ngobrol2 ama orang2 yg gw kangenin.. nah membantu loh, finally setelah menghabiskan hampir 1/2 hari ini dgn do nothing yg berguna, akhirnya sore ini mood kerja gw dateng juga. syukurlah...

November Birthdays and a few more bits and pieces

Indosoc dinner (the 1st time I came during these 3yrs! lol..the laksa was nice tho)

Happy birthday darling :) ! thanks for the fab food hehehe...

Cooking time (um I dont actually help..more like I watch and eat)

Seymour House, Brunswick :) (ma, we really shd get 3-double-bedroom nice flat like this one next year hehe....)

Alex visited London! havent seen him in absolutely AGES!

Am so tired and cant feel my legs. Basketball is a REALLY good exercise. Somehow cant imagine how fit i must be back then in highschool when i played basketball 2-3 times a week and riding 4-5 times a week as well. but i must say i always enjoy that exhausted yet satisfied feeling after a good exercise. Anyway, I've decided am gonna be a really good girl and stay in for the rest of next week due to the fact that I went out almost every night last week..which was fun indeed but now i realise im still completely clueless on doing biodiversity indexes and there are a hell lot of carabid and spider data waiting to be analysed. My days are going to be filled with statistical treatments and tests next week as I foresee it. I've done my bits of reading today. I actually sped through six chapter of the philosophy of woodland, also the nice bits i like are the chapters from this conservation biology book by Primack. still..there are three to four more heaps of textbooks i must go through. Last week was fun. Meeting David at Carina's place was fun :) catching up with him and Manveer. Can't believe she's going to get married next June!! Too bad David cant come more often from St Andrew, otherwise we all can have get together more often..Then been seeing Simon, Louisa, Jo, Nina and Miri for meals.. Silvia's birthday dinner was yesterday as well. (lots lots of November birthdays! ninghan,silvia,k'bq,tasha,laras,ivan,novi,angel..happy bday to you all!) . Then we had Indosoc dinner also the previous night made me realise how I have no idea who my juniors are in imperial *sigh*. These days I dont even take notes of the dates anymore, days simply flew so fast. In less than a month i'll be on the flight back to Spore/Japan/Indo..wohoo.. cant wait!! Looking fwd to meet Inka .. looking fwd to meet you back home as well .. and of course my lovely horses :)

I guess i havent updated my blogs as often as I used to do. Not really due to lack of time, but merely due to lack of wanting to remember things (if you get what i mean). I'm the type of person who likes to keep bits and pieces from the past, jotted down good memories, took pictures, wrote a journal, keeping all the birthday cards/xmas cards and then keep all those precious memories tucked away inside a box neatly so I can go back in time whenever I feels like it. I like the past. Im more of a person who perceive the past as something that has made me the person I am today. I did not hate or love the past, more like I cherish it and learn to accept it day by day.

No more guppies

Puas!! ahahaha... akhirnya mini-project gw tentang guppies selesaiii :) :) yayy...ah nothing beats rasanya kalo baru nyelesaiin suatu big assignment dan u know dat u did well.

Legaa..

bisa tidur nyenyakk..

i need my beauty sleep heheh..

Td gw n ti br ktmuan ama alex pang, sayang cmn bentar cos he need to get back to Norwich. but as they all say, people change. they really do. It was fun tho, a quick trip down that concord-memory-lane once in a while was indeed refreshing. Spoken to Yan as well just now for a good long chat whilst I was curled up under the big duvet in the living room with a cup of teh tarik..relaxing. Then yesterday I chat wt yaya as well for sometime. Not bad..this weekend I've got a good dose from everyone that i've kinda missed :)

Daybreak

This morning I woke up groggily as usual around 5am..throw some proper clothes on and went down to catch the 5.30 am tube (one more plus point of my new flat : tube station is literally just downstairs! yay). I was actually thinking to catch the later tube because there is no sunlight until 7.05 but oh well i was thinking to just spend the time waiting with Loki inside his warm stable. Arrived at the stable, took Loki out and tied him up outside while I mucked out his stable. And here's the funny thing.. it was so windy and the sound of the wind blowing was quite scary. I could swear that Loki was looking at me with big-puppy-eyed stare which seemed to say "Can I go back into my warm nice and comfy stable pretty pleeassee..?". It strikes me as funny because usually he acts so high and mighty when he was tied up outside, but this morning he just looked at me pleadingly to be allowed back into his box. Of course I ignored his stares, but I kept talking to him whilst I was mucking out his stable..as he's always been a scaredy cow when it comes to windy moments. Anyway, all turns out well in the end and we had a good one-hour flatwork. After a good ride is one of the moments when I feel the greatest :)

happy.. what a nice Saturday :)

susah yah menghilangkan seseorang dari hati dan pikiran..
bener deh, apalagi dihari2 lagi ujan mulu.. rainy windy mau keluar rumah juga males. jadi mellow deh pikiran gw melanglang buana..
"The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival" -Leo Buscaglia-

oh wait actually there was one nice surprise today, whilst i was waiting for the-number88-bus-that-never-came-in-the-end in Picadilly..an old friend gave me a call :) It was Alex, he's coming down from Norwich this weekend. At least he kept me company whilst i was waiting for the bloody bus. That's the one and only thing that make me smile today i think. Blah today was the day in which i should have just stayed in bed. really.
Ok back to my long-overdue dinner now.

The rants of a commuter

I absolutely hate London transport today!!
it took me THREE hours to get back home from riding!!! whilst normally it took me 40 minutes door-to-door!!!!!
OMG
NEVER ever again

...totally ruins my mood for the rest of the night.....................................................

Bingung

Akhir2 ini banyak pikiran deh. Bingung saya..tadinya uda berniat yakin 100 % ni mau ngambil master langsung pas abis uda lulus taun depan. Uda research dgn lengkap pula, ampe uda bikin personal statement, urus transcript nilai & diskusi ama personal tutor gw.. ehh minggu lalu nelpon nyokap, malah disaranin kenapa ga langsung nyari kerja aja? nah gimana ga bingung dan sebal saya..

Tadinya mereka yang bilang ni, ya uda ambil master aja langsung ,toh cuman staun ini.. trus gw bole ambil subject mana aja. ya uda donk, gw pikir..okey gw ambil master di subject yg gw enjoy saja..ya ga? uda milih tuh gw, animal bio ato conservation sci. uni juga uda milih, tetep di Imperial ato pindah Royal Veterinary College...

Nahh trus kmarenan mereka nelpon bilang kalo gw ambil 2 subject diatas itu, prospek masa depannya kurang cerah di indo. Nah gw juga tau gitu, emang iya banget kalo kerja di conservation itu bener2 depends on funding, political condition etc etc.. tapi selama ini gw berprinsip, why noy do something yang gw bener2 suka gitu loh..kita hidup juga cuman sekali ini, ga bakal keulang lagi ya ga.Kalo gw mau egois sih, gw bisa aja bilang ama bonyok kalo gw cuman mau kerja di dunia berkuda aja.. tapi kan gw juga masi realistis donk, i mean i got a good degree from a good uni..kan sayang kalo di wasted. jadi yah niat awal mau kerja di conservation.. nah skarang?? bingung aja lagi..heran deh bonyok gw maunya apa siiyy kadang2 ..huhu

Stress response

Yesterday morning we had a lecturer from Hammersmith hospital, about stress response thingy in animals and how it affects their physiology.Interestingly, there are different types of stress in which am not gonna talk abt it in here since its long winded. One thing i remembered was that he said us, as final year students are more likely to be in this type of constant stress, but not over the threshold. Also that our body can cope with stress just fine as long as after each period of stress, it has to find a way to go back to the relaxed, happy state for a bit..before it can survive yet another period of stress.
Me : 'thank goodness for horses' (Loki in particular)
One of my classmate : 'oh no... how can i stop stressing, i am stressed all day.'
Me : *grinning*

anyway, point is...thank God i have horses :)
another note, I've finally decided I will do my masters. Yay. One decision made. Whereabouts are still not sure, but I'm going to apply to a few universities and probably go and visit the unis. Anyone for Potters Bar or Silwood park?

Roller-skaters :)

Roller-skating disco was FUN!!

Irma managed to convince me to dressed up in 80-90's legging/brightly coloured tops/leg-warmers (initally I was planning to throw on my usual outfit of jeans and tshirts, for the sake of convenience since I've never rollerskated before..so I was all prepared to take a lot of trip and falls). So here we go, 6 girls in a complete 80's outfit..off we walked to the roller-skate disco which situated nicely only 3 min walk from our apartment.

1st impression : so eighties!!

music : oldies pop (my absolute fav.. yep, me love old school type music)

sooo... after 10-15 min fumbling around wt the skates.. we all managed to skate more or less pretty ok. Sasha was there which was good since she used to be a pro ice-skater back in Malaysia (really cool).

but it was so so fun! i liked it!!! will def. drag more ppl to go there next time.. the addition thats its just across our place is even better :)