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Kartu ATM yang menghilang

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Dua hari lalu secara resmi saya mendeklarasikan bahwa kartu ATM saya telah raib, lenyap entah ke mana :( . Kalau saya ingat-ingat sepertinya terjatuh atau saya lupa menariknya dari mesin ATM di Slipi Jaya waktu mentransfer uang untuk tiket ke Jogja (lihat postingan sebelumnya). Rupa-rupanya kepikunan saya sudah sampai tahap menakutkan, semoga bukan gejala alzheimer. Kemarin saya mencoba membuat kartu ATM baru, menurut saran suami, sebaiknya saya lapor kehilangan ke kantor polisi terlebih dahulu.

Jam 08.00 pagi, saya mendatangi polsek terdekat. “Permisiiii ….” (dalam hati : kok nggak ada orang ya ?) “Assalamualaikum !” (masih nggak ada sahutan ! oh my…apa sudah pindah ya ?) “SPADAAAAA !!!” Wow..masih tidak ada jawaban ! Baiklah pikir saya, saya pun nekad masuk melongok ke ruangan-ruangan di dalam kantor tersebut.

Di salah satu ruangan ada seonggok polisi yang sedang tidur, tapi saya agak ragu-ragu juga, masa iya tidur sepulas itu ? Nggak bergerak pula. Jangan-jangan…. Saya pun terus menjelajah kantor kecil tersebut, untungnya saya tidak klepto ya ? Kalau saya klepto, para aparat ini bisa kemalingan hihi…. membayangkan headline di detik : “TV di kantor polisi dicuri orang ! BIADAB !” .

Akhirnya saya ke warung, benar juga… ada Pak Polisi lagi ngopi-ngopi di situ. Langsung saya sampaikan maksud saya untuk membuat surat laporan kehilangan. Dengan berat hati namun apa daya, sudah tugasnya… Pak Polisi ini kembali ke kantor . Catatan : Pak Polisi ini tidak mirip Briptu (mantan) Norman.

“Ibu mau lapor kehilangan ya ? Sebentar saya cari formulirnya ”
(10 menit kemudian)
“Nah ini Bu, formulirnya “, sambil memasukkannya ke dalam mesin tik jaman baheula. Saya memberikan KTP saya dan kertas berisi lokasi kehilangan.

cethuk… cethuk…cethuk… Pak Polisi mengetik dengan SATU(1) jari ! Kalah deh semua yang bisa ngetik dengan 11 jari. Saya pun mengisi waktu dengan main Fruit Ninja.

“Waduh… saya salah ketik ! Habis di KTP ibu tulisan tanggal lahirnya mirip angka 6 , padahal 8 ya ? Wah…tip-ex saya masih jalan nggak ya ?”

Hm… memang sih 6 dan 8 mirip banget. Setelah beberapa kali main Fruit Ninja dan mendapatkan status Combo God berulang kali . Pak Polisi belum selesai mengetik.

Dia sekarang ada di lembar kedua , formulirnya sebenarnya cuma selembar sih, berhubung salah ketik melulu lembar pertama dibuang.


“Bu, hilangnya kenapa ya ? Apa sekaligus dengan dompet hilangnya ?”
- “Oh enggak Pak, sepertinya jatuh waktu saya tarik uang tunai di Slipi Jaya”

“Oh ya enggak apa-apa . Saya ketik saja sesuai yang Ibu bilang, kan kalau Ibu bohong, dosanya Ibu yang tanggung sendiri”
Yeaaa..wtf .. ngapain juga bohong soal ATM hilang ?? Saya diam saja dah, mending main Fruit Ninja.


” Waduhh… ini kenapa ya ??? Kok tiap saya ngetik ‘S’ yang muncul ‘A’ ??”
Hmmm ?? Nggak tahu deh Pak +_+ waktunya diservis kali ?

“Nah ini Bu suratnya. Maaf lama , habis orang lain sudah dikasih komputer, saya masih pake mesin tik”

- “Terimakasih Pak” (sambil ngasih ‘uang admin’).

Begitu tiba di Bank tercinta(BCA). Terkejutlah saya karena Mbak CS yang baik bilang, ” Bu , sebetulnya tidak perlu laporan ke Polisi dulu, langsung saja ke BCA” . Aaaaa !! Tapi lumayanlah, saya sudah mencegah mesin tik Pak Polisi dari bahaya karatan :D !

Will Indonesians ever find their way out :( ?

A sign of aging

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E : Sandy, send me your IC number and DOB please , it’s for the flight ticket.
Me : Huh ? What flight ticket ?
E : What ? It’s for the 6th of April ! You forgot !! So are you coming with us or not ? I’ve checked the price, it’ll be Rp. 1xxxxxx return, we better book now before the price goes up.
Me : Okay, book away. FYI , I didn’t forget (I lied..) !
E : Great !
Me : But where are we going anyway ?
E : Have you been reformatted or something ?? Jogja !!
Me : Oh yeaa… Jogja, fun ! … and what are we doing there ?
E : -___-

Gong xi fa cai !

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Let’s welcome the dragon year with a blast ! Astrologers said the year of the dragon will be highly unpredictable, sheesh… of course , don’t need an astrologer to tell us that, no year is ever predictable.
Happy lunar new year everyone ! Gong xi fa cai ^^ !
Here’s Daviuz’ Gong Xi Fa Cai for you. Gongxi fa cai ! Enko Enci semuanya ramaiiii !

That viral Ah Wing video

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My Malaysian friends are crazy about this short youtube movie depicting the everyday life of Ah Wing – Malaysia’s #1 Salesman. It’s so funny it makes me wonder, what did Ah Wing do to the salespeople in the other shops ??? He must have spiked their drinks and then stash them somewhere ! Poor salespeople… or maybe… all the shops are owned by Ah Wing’s boss , so it doesn’t really matter! Smart!

Cintaku hanya kamu, cinta merah..merah jambu ^^

Rinduku hanya kamu, rindu hangat..hangat kuku

Lihat pohon pisang, bila berbuah hanya sekali…

Itulah cintaku yang takkan mungkin terbagi-bagi

Cheesy ? Yes ! But very very catchy!

Who’d guessed that Hubby was Nia Lavenia’s biggest fan. He thought she was the cutest woman ever alive in the 1990s, well I think she’s alright , of course I’m cuter ^_^. So to entertain annoy Hubby, I’ve been singing this song repeatedly and I shall bring it to the karaoke rooms too !

Aku tetap setiaaa…tetap setiaaa sampai mati  :p

Our laoshi (teacher) told us to write about our holiday. Piece of cake ,I thought . I’ll just translate my previous blogpost on Tamansari into Chinese and I’ll be done ! But once I started I realised this was such a difficult task! It’s so darn difficult to write eloquently with my minimal vocabulary and grammar :( .

After 4 nights poring over dictionary and nciku.com, I finally submitted my draft (although deep down I know it was still poorly written, incoherent, whatever… sigh…). Laoshi notified me on grammatical errors and incorrectly used phrases, so here is the second version – that might still contain errors , proceed with caution :

放假的时候, 我和老公去他父母的家。我婆家住在马格兰,中爪哇省。

因为马格兰离日惹不太远。我就老公陪我去日惹玩儿。在爪哇,我很喜欢两个城市,一是泗水,二是日惹。 泗水是我的家乡,我当然喜欢!泗水是大城市好像雅加达,美天都塞车。但是泗水比雅加达好,因为泗水人很酷!哈哈!

日惹不是大城市,但是很有意思。在日惹文艺和教育很发达。我觉得那边的人态度特温和,很有礼貌,也很有创造力的。很多画家和艺术家住在那里。

日惹有很多漂亮的Batik,雕塑,皮影戏,银器和优雅的传动舞蹈。人说日惹是爪哇岛的灵魂。无须说,我是同意的。

我和老公去 Tamansari,以前 Tamansari 是皇室的浴场,很大也很漂亮。这个浴场是三百多年了。当时的国王录用葡萄牙建筑师设计的。

如果我们要到大门口,我们要先路过不少隧道然后我们可以看到很美大门口。

里面有三个水池,一个是国王和王子的,一个是王后,嫔妃,和公主,一个是小孩子的。

在每个水池有几个喷泉,皇家也可以用桑拿室。 在 Tamansari 洗澡应该好玩儿!我希望我是那边的公主。

日惹有更多有意思的地方。 如果你们想去那里,最好不要去十二月份或七月去,因为学生放假很多人去那边。太挤了!

The Big 3-0 !

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My big 3-0 goals (a.k.a belated new year’s resolutions) :

  1. Be a vegetarian at least 4 days/week
  2. Work harder and smarter
  3. Finish that goddamn novel
  4. Pass HSK exam that will happen around June this year >.<
  5. Drink more water
  6. Earn more money
  7. Reduce clutter, throw away junks, pack and move to our new apartment !

Intermezzo : Kagonekoshiro

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These four Japanese kittehs are hilarious ! They’re very calm, very balanced, meditative with great esprit de corps. All for one and one for all ! It seems Shiro (the white cat) is the leader of the pack, and he also happens to be the funniest (albeit laziest) one of them all.

Shiro with stacked cans of cat food:

All for one grapefruit and one grapefruit for all :

One Kumquat Per Kitteh:

I have no idea what those plastic ducks are:

Love ..love ..

Visit their blog too : http://kagonekoshiro.blog86.fc2.com

Our train arrived in Jogjakarta at 4.00 am, I was half asleep so hubby literally dragged me out of the train into the family’s car and off we went to Magelang. After several hours of rest, our first destination was the Taman Sari a.k.a the Water Castle in Jogjakarta.

Taman Sari was the bathing place for the Sultans and his family in the old days. It was very intricately designed to pull clear fresh water from the ground and unlike your regular bath tubs, Taman Sari is much bigger, as the name implies, Taman Sari also serves as the royal garden. Basically, it’s the royal family’s spa. Going there isn’t as easy as jumping out of your bed into your bathroom, you have to follow a maze-like tunnels to get there.

Let’s start :

The walls were super tough concretes, but because of war, etc.. some parts are ruined.

Taman Sari was built in 1758, during the reign of Sultan Hamengkubuwono I.

Tunnels everywhere … Some part of the tunnels head nowhere , I wonder why.

Such as this one ..

We stopped to take a picture ! Behind us is the palace maids’ and security guards’ quarters.

Now let’s check out the main area :

Since this is the most well-preserved area and is still currently used for major events like the royal wedding,

we had to get a ticket and pay entrance fee.

All entry ways are seriously short. Our guide said, it’s not that people were shorter back then,

but to slow us down and reminded us to bow.

There are 3 bathing pools, one for the Sultan and princes , another one for the women (queen, concubines, princesses) and another one for kiddies. I think the fountains are placed there for jacuzzi effect .

This is the bed for ‘ratus’ treatment. Ratus is kinda like sauna but they add various traditional herbs to the steam.

There’s a tiny plate of ‘sajen’ (offerings for the spirits) on top of it. I asked the guide why is there a sajen there?

Is the bed haunted or something ? >.<

He said no, it’s just a custom to put sajen on places that are now empty and unused.

I think what he was trying to say was … yes … it is haunted.

This place also has a locker area, so they can change after enjoying the bath and sauna. Notice there’s a sajen there too…

The big vase was used as mirror since there was no mirror back then so they fill up the vase with water and

use the reflection to fix their hair and makeup.

Yet another intricately decorated gate.

Conclusion : Isn’t it great to be a Sultan ?? ^_^