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Nov. 8th, 2009

Happy for You

 

Title :  Happy for You
Pairing : None
Genre : Friendship (Akame)
Rating : General
Flame : No, please
Summary : Kame wants to say Omedettou, but can't  find the time to do it. In the end, what matters is sincerity, right?
A/N : I'm feeling really bad and down when I wrote this. I need to distract myself. Despite that, I still hope some of you would like this. Or make you smile.
A/N 2 : Something is wrong with the display. You may find one word cut in two. I tried to edit it, but I can't change it when I post. I looks normal in Word. I apologize, and will edit properly when internet is sane again.

Happy for You )
 
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Oct. 25th, 2009

Kinta's Graduation Day



This is Kinta wearing her graduation robe. And the other one is her wearing a Kebaya, Indonesia's traditional dress.



Me and Kinta.

She graduated from a University of Airlangga, with a bachelor degree in English Literature, and GPA 3,6. Omedettou Kinta-bi!
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Oct. 17th, 2009

I received a package

Katsumi sent me a package.

It's the original audio CD from Shuji to Akira.

I need to confess that I've never had anything original from Kame before.

And I really really love it!!!!

Thank you so much Katsumi, I love you!!!!

You're so kind to me!

Sankyu sankyu.
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Sep. 29th, 2009

I'm sad

My favorite student said he wanted to take a break from Kumon.
I don't care this is selfish or not. Mondays and Thursdays won't be the same without it.
He has allergy. That's why he got thinner and thinner. His doctor said he needs to take routine sport. That's why he has to stop Kumon to do it. He is easily exhausted now.
I cried. I felt so sad. Because he is always in high spirit to learn.
Me and my friends hugged each other and cried, though it's class day.
I still wish he could be back and learn again when he got better.
To top it all off, I have to smile and be cheerful at night because we have our party for two students who graduate from our Kumon, and I was the MC.
Things go alright at night.

But still, my heart is heavy.............
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Sep. 26th, 2009

Night Talk

Title : Night Talk
Pairing : None
Genre : Friendship
Rating : General
Flame : No, please
Summary : He needs to do a lot of things. He can do several other things to entertain himself. All will be cancelled or postponed. What can he do? He received that kind of call.


Read more... )

Sep. 24th, 2009

What Kame said About Jin

Title : What Kame Said About Jin
Pairing : None
Genre : Friendship
Rating : General
Flame : No, please
Summary : In this interview, he is encouraged to tell the truth. Not the sugar coated ones, but just the truth.


What Kame Said About Jin )

Sep. 23rd, 2009

What Jin Said About Kame

Title : What Jin Said About Kame
Pairing : None
Genre : Friendship
Rating : General
Flame : No, please
Summary : In this interview, he is encouraged to tell the truth. Not the sugar coated ones, but just the truth.

What Jin Said About Kame )

Purely Platonic Chapter 5

Title : Purely Platonic
Pairing : Nakamaru/ a girl
Genre : Friendship, romance, humour
Rating : General
Flame : No, please
Summary : Nakamaru Yuichi found 2008 to be a very busy year. Concerts and all of those idols rituals, plus he's in Waseda now. But several things changed in his life. He will have a girl as a best friend, who made his life more enjoyable and meant a lot for him, and he finally confessed to the girl he has like for two years. Let's go see through Maru's life and feelings.....


Summary for this chapter : Making a manga needs commitment. This particular one needs courage. So thought Rie when she faced the owner of the company, or maybe the owner of most of the famous faces in entertainment industry.

Chapter 5 : Expect the Unexpected )

Sep. 19th, 2009

KARA


Recently, I really like KARA, the girlband from Korea. I got hooked because of their MV, Honey. I think they are super cute and cheerful looking.

This is their new single, Wanna :


Current News

This year's Lebaran

Tomorrow is Idul Fitri. Usually we come home to Jakarta to celebrate with our family there. But this year we're not coming home, we only celebrate it in Surabaya, me, my brother and sister, and my parents. My mom is currently cooking Fried Liver with Chili and Traditional Fried Chicken, we will cook ketupat this night.

On What Happened in Kumon recently

I wrote some time ago that there was a conflict. You see, my Kumon used the help of the teachers from other Kumon. They work for more than 2 years in Kumon. In the Kumon where they come from, they were managed very sternly. The boss treated them without compassion, like forbids them to have a chat during working time, scold them in front of the students, and give them very little time for lunch. Well, that and other things.

Where in our Kumon, we treat them equally, we listen to their opinion, and always made them feel important. But they behaved badly. Maybe they're just venting out their frustation in the other Kumon. They always complained, they always think our management is wrong, they spread bad rumors and influenced our new teachers with negative thoughts. It got so bad until they start to teach the kids badly. We want them to teach with smiles on their faces, to make the children feel comfortable. Instead, they start to look stern and even raise their voices to the students.

I know how it feels when a child get too naughty to handle. We're humans, we have limits to our patience. But it's different for them. They teach without compassion anymore. They teach like it's just something they do to get the money. I know we all need money, but it's not the way we should do, especially not in our Kumon.

They started to have no respect to us the full timers. We always greeted them with smiles, they don't even answer us. Complains started to come from parents that said their children were treated badly.

It is confusing. How can they behave so bad when they are treated with respect? I don't get it. And why they can behave so good in the other Kumon, where they are treated so sternly and they even said that they were depressed by it. Depressed but behaving good. Behaving good because they fear the boss? And behaving bad while our boss treat them well?

Finally we decide to give a hard scolding, hoping they will change their ways, in a formal meeting. Instead of understanding and try to even think of what we said, they act like they don't care. Our boss finally asked them to go home for one day and think over what we said to them. We wrote formal penalty letter, to make it official. We have said what we need to say in a good way, for several times, but they ignore us. Finally we gave them that hard scolding. We were hoping that they would try to work and behave better.

But what they do? They resigned. It's crazy. We know perfectly well that they have worst scoldings in the other Kumon. The ones that crushed their confidence and made them cry. But their ego can't take it when we complained to them. 4 of them resigned, acting like they don't need us.

Despite our opinion that their boss is a wise woman--though strict-- she acted very differently. She thought that our boss is trying to offend her personally, and decided to take revenge. She decided that she will not let her 3 teachers who still worked in our Kumon resign too, to leave us short handed and incapable. She doesn't care what will happen to our class.

All of this was a big blow. We all intend this to be a good way to be better. We complained the teachers, though harsh, but never rude or intended to hurt them personally. And look what they do to us.

From having 16 teachers, we all left with 8. After the tears-- yeah we are all women so we cried--, we decided to held our head high and we will survive this. We will take care of our 150 students by ourselves. Though we all have more working load now, it's okay. At least we know we do it full heartedly, for the kids, for the parents that trust us. My boss--who is a good woman and deeply hurt by this incident-- decided we've had enough of sharing staff. We will only have our own staff from now on, that we recruit. The 8 of us, that are recruited exclusively by her, got closer because of this incident, and we are trying to do our best.

Despite this, a blessing happened. We finnaly had our first Completer. Completer is a student who has finished the last level of Kumon. His name is Alif, and he has studied for 3 years in our Math class. He finished the test in September 17, 2009, in Kumon Surabaya Head Office. The normal time is 90 minutes, he finished in 40 minutes, with perfect score, no mistake. We are very proud of him.

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Sep. 13th, 2009

At the vet.

At the vet with Kinta and Akito.Akito
is throwing up and having diarrhea.But
not even one vet is here.We have to wait for one hour.The security refused when I ask the vet's phone number.Oh God.Please help my cat.
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Sep. 12th, 2009

Testing

If you can read this,it means I can update from my new cellphone.
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Aug. 28th, 2009

Daily Ramble

Confession of the day : I think I did something wrong. I don't like how our new, youngest teacher behave. But I've only see her negative side. I haven't see the good side of her. Well, I haven't found one except a sad family background. But she must have something good. I need to give her more chance. What would I feel if I'm new and people immediately think bad of me?

My best part of the day is, maybe making a contract for one of my student's KUMON scholarship. Hai.....

Recently I really think that the situation in my job is better. I mean the atmosphere between us. We start to be friends and trust each others. It feels so relieving after the disaster last month.

I have to admit that when several teachers said that I'm a rude heartless person (well that's not their exact words, but that's the conclusion), especially my assistant, I felt betrayed. I trust her, and I think I did my best, and she never showed any bad reaction. I mean she always behaves nice in front of me. She trusted what others said about me more than myself. But in the end, I think if I continue having a heavy feeling to her, there will be no end. So I try to approach here more. Talk more. Hmmm, I try to reach her. It's hard at first, but we have a good connection now.

I had to ask my boss to move one of the teacher in English class that spread bad influence to Math class. I don't know. I may be cruel. But it's the only way to make the working situation better. And it worked. The teacher in English class, me included, are a good team now. She that I moved act sour and bitter, to me, but I guess I can't help it.

It's Ramadhan and we are fasting. Me and Kinta woke up at 2 am and prepare for sahur. Every Monday and Thursday, after class day, we all eat together for dinner. Our boss treats us. It's fun!

My cat left our house for 5 days last week. We were so sad and thought we lost her. But he came back! Thin and dirty but safe! Thank God!

About my fic(s)....for some reason, I have the draft of the next chapter of Purely Platonic. But somehow, I can't feel it's okay to post. It looks like something unfinished, like it's just descriptions of main ideas. I can't make it feel like a story. I will still try to finish it though.

Current favorite song is "You're not alone" by Saosin. Because of the lyric : "You're not alone. There are more to this, I know. You can make it out. You will live to tell".

Regarding KAT-TUN, Kame is my current desktop. No, he's not always my current deskstop so stop saying what's-the-point. Really. KAT-TUN takes turn to be our desktop. And I'm dying to listen to Cristal Kay and Jin's "Helpless Night".

Oh and Kenichi Matsuyama with Koyuki? Cool!!!

I hope all of you are alright and enjoying your days. I will be glad if you would tell me what are you doing and thinking these days.

 

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Aug. 22nd, 2009

First Day of Ramadhan

Hi my friends?

How are you all?

This is my story today.

The bad news is : I think I need to go to the dentist. Several days ago I ate lunch and bit a very hard piece of corn. The teeth is the one in the back of the left one, the teeth below. It still hurts until now. I need to go to the dentist soon. I can't eat comfortably. Maybe it cracked.......


Ramadhan has come again. And this is the first day. I made it!

Well, surviving hunger is easy. Surviving emotion is harder. You can't get angry, insult others, or do bad things during Ramadhan. This is the month to learn to be a better person. And to pray more and generally be thankful to Allah S.W.T. I hope I can be a better person, who pray more, be more patient, and be more good to others.

I had a good training day today. Well, my boss is a great motivator. But what she said was all sincere and not too god to be true. I'm inspired and I will try to do my best!

I end my fasting day by drinking iced coconut water. It felt delicious after a long day without food and water.

I wish you all the best, to my Moslem friends this month.
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Aug. 19th, 2009

The 10 Things

Hello! Hisashiburi! 

I'm here because I miss writing here.

So...let's start with the easiest.

My current favorite ten things (in random order) :

1. Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori 

This is the only thing in Hanalala that I read. I tried Vampire Knight, but it's not so fun, though the drawings are beautiful. So I ended rooting for Ouran Host Club. The drawings are great, the story is good and funny, and it's different, somehow. I love Tamaki, Haruhi, Kyoya, and Hikaru and Kaoru. This manga makes me laugh. I love it!

2. Perfect Girl Evolution by Tomoko Hayakawa

This manga is not your average shoujo manga. Sunako, the female character, loves anything horror. She enjoys sitting in a dark room, accompanied by a manequin often seen in biology class, a fake skull, and jars of cremated things. She watched Freddy Krueger every day. She hates the light, she loves blood, dead bodies, and other scary things. All because she had a trauma, a guy that she liked told her that she was ugly. Thus she decided to live in the darkness. Just her bad luck, she had to move to her Aunt's house (very big and mansion-like), with four gorgeous guys who have a mission to change her into a lady (by the request of her aunt). They are Kyouhei, Ranmaru, Takenaga, and Yuki. This story is super funny and crazy. You must read this!

3. Neiro by KAT-TUN

Everytime I get the chance to turn on the mp3 player, I put this song on. I so LOVE it! It's romantic and calming and heart warming.

4. Zahra. Is the name of my current favorite student.

5. Chili. Seriously. These days, I can't even eat without chili. I eat my breakfast, lunch, and dinner with chili.

6. The last movie that I watch and I think it's good and fun and makes me happy is "Bridewars".

7. Wedding.
This is the Korean series that I'm currently watching. Played by Ryu Shi Won and Jang Na Ra. The story is about two people that are totally different, one a serious diplomat, the other a fashionable girl, married after knowing each other for a short time. I know, not a new Korean theme. But I like it!

8. Facebook
I open Facebook often these days. Because I like to read what my friends are doing. 

9. My Kumon Math Homework
I'm a retard when it comes to numbers. And well, Math. But working in Kumon, I have to make learn Math, and I have Math homeworks. This is the first time I want to be able to understand Math without anyone forcing me or without the nightmare of not being able to pass class.

10.  The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
This is the book that gave me a hopeful feeling while I read it. And made me think more than other books. It's good! Read it!
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Jul. 24th, 2009

Being 25 on July 25

I'm going to be 25 years old in three hours, Indonesian time.

25 is a special age, I think. I already live a quarter of a century! You're only 25 once in a life time.

And because this is me, it's time for some thinking and evaluation.

Looking back, when I was younger, I thought I would change into someone calm and elegant when I'm 25. It turns out that I definitely am not, and I'm glad about it. I'm me. Sometimes the hyperbolic, too much imagination, rather goofy me. I think I wouldn't be able to stand being calm and elegant anyway.

There are mistakes that I made, which I'm ashamed of and hoped I could erase, but I guess it's what it should be. I better learn something from it rather that crying over it.

In the sense of some progress of my life, I finally found the job that I love. The job that made me feel useful, the one that I know I'm good at. It's teaching English, or something related to English in general. I have to find it through years of insecurity, several jobs that gave me more depression than completion, and in the end, a feeling worthlessness. I'm happy that these periods are over, or else I might turn a dreary mentally unstable girl who hates her life. That would be so bad.

About the classic question of when will I get marry--believe me, I start to get that--, I will say that it's a wish for sometime in the future, but I can't really imagine when. I need to find someone right first. And basically, I'm enjoying this phase of independence and freedom in being 25, working, and mingling. I'm not ready for that kind of commitment now.

My financial condition is......enough, I could say. I'm not rich. Maybe a bit far from it. But I'm okay. I'm able to save, and it gave me a sense of safety, regardless of how small the sum is.

I'm planning to take a master degree. Maybe in teaching or in English. But master degree is expensive. And getting a scholarship is very hard. So I need to save first to take another degree. I wish to fulfill it before I'm 30.

My current biggest ambition is having my own course. Maybe my own Kumon someday.

In family life......

A lot has happened. For all the bad things, there are exchanged with good things. We fight sometimes, I cried, I got angry, but I never ever stop thinking that I would never have anyone better than Papa, Mama, Kinta, or Reza.

Papa : has found the job that he could stay for more than 10 years. It's the issue of his life and he's finally settled.
Mama : is getting sick easier these couple of years, but still managed to be a perfect mom. I hope she will always be healthy.
Kinta : has gained her bachelor degree.
Reza : has recovered from a terrible accident. Thank God. And next year, hopefully will graduate high school and starts university. The biggest challenge would be financing him in university for the next years, I think. 

In social life, I know I'm not spending enough time communicating with my friends, but I hope they know they are important for me. Those best friends from school and university, from internet, and from fandom, are all very important to my heart. Their weight in my heart differs by how many times I send messages to them. So if you're one of the people that I send messages through LJ, facebook, YM, or my cellphone, you know who you are. But I didn't say hello to one of my dearest friends from school in 6 months or more, so it's not really counted. Whatever. I don't even understand what my point are. I just feel thankful for all of you who want to be my friend. Thank you so much. I love you.

The highlight would be meeting with my university friends this month (Maya and Faroch), and the gathering with fellow KAT-TUN fans in my city and those times when something happens and my first thought was texting Anna and Katsumi (love you both so much, by the way).

Wishes? I want to be a better person. And keep enjoying life as much as I do now. And be happy with all of the people that I care about. The general bigh wish : I hope people could live with more tolerance to others. That's all that we need.

So, happy birthday to me. Happy 25, me.

Yuck. How the hell this entry could turn so long?
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Jul. 17th, 2009

Kame said "Happy Birthday Jin"

It's late, but I finally listened to Kame's radio show where he said "Happy birthday Jin". I'm really happy to hear that.




Jun. 27th, 2009

Sighing

And I wonder,
Why is the person who works the less, usually criticized the most?

I'm feeling bad.
And also a bit angry for myself for feeling offended.
But I do........

She didn't even had to think of anything. Only doing my simplest order. She also didn't do anything to makes things better (not that it was bad). While I think of this competition and do lots of things to make it go well. But I didn't protest......
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Jun. 26th, 2009

Rest In Peace, Michael Jackson

So the world mourns the death of Michael Jackson.

While his fans critiqued the world as hypocritical. To discriminate him and mourn him when he is dead.

He was accused of molesting children.

The suspected plastic surgery to look caucasian.

His eccentric, weird behaviour.

Well.

I will not lie today and say that  "I've always been his fan"

But I think it doesn't makes sense. For someone like Michael Jackson who had a tragic childhood. Who donated millions for children all over the world, it's impossible to molest a child. It just doesn't make sense!

It was said today that he was having a rare skin disease of losing pigment, that's why he was that white. Hmm. But this time I believe he had plastic surgery. People speculates that he did it because he hated his father for abusing him as a child, that's why Michael Jackson tried his best to look not like his father.

His eccentricities, I think, might be a cause of loneliness and the lack of proper fun childhood.

In the end, people always choose what they want to believe.

I chose to believe that Michael Jackson was a good person.

For the last 15 years of bad publicity, people forget how great a singer and performer he was. He was there before the boybands. And we grow up liking at least 3 of his songs. For me it was "Heal the World", "Black or White", "You are not alone", and "In The Closet". And also he needs to be admired for all of his charity to the world, especially children.

Well, Michael Jackson got his fame back. The whole world is responding to his death. I really think his death is a big loss for the music world.

Rest in peace, Michael Jackson.

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