3 Months 7 Days 22 Hours 45 Minutes 18 Seconds... A countdown to Sadness

Recently I can't help but think about going home... back to Adelaide I mean... 

Just over three months and I'll leave the country... Indonesia... my second home... my friends.. my new way of life... kekasihku... My new campus.. no more daily street-street... no more cheap food at warungs... no more ice skating on thursdays or playing billiards at Shelter... no more speaking Indonesian... I'll have to use western toilets, and take showers.. Sit alone at bus stops.. back to doing my own washing and cooking all my own meals.. spending too much time online... inside.. at home.. rather than out and about with friends... worrying about money and trying to work out where I'm going to live... 

But hardest of all, trying to deal with feeling like a part of me is missing.. like I used to have so much more, and suddenly its all gone.. with the wave of my hand, and a tear running down my face, it will all disappear... not forever... I know that... but it doesn't make it any easier... I don't know how I'll cope when here I see my friends everyday, and yet I still miss them when they're not around...

Shelter

I shouldn't even be here.... dunno why.. but I just wanted to come home... malas maen biliard lagi.. sorry for sometimes switching languages.. but sometimes Indo is just easier.. I prolly should be getting back there actually..  but I'm talking to sam on skype, chatting on msn, updatin my blog, and checking facebook.. I dont really wanna go back! haha.. but I already promised.. so i kinda gotta.

Lebaran

Since that weekend of fasting that I had off... well.. I haven't fasted again since.. hehe... ahh well.. I just had no motivation to go back to it for some reason.. every few days I will end up fasting without even thinking about it.. just cause I'm either too busy to eat, I forget, or cant be bothered... lol... but recently its been harder and harder to find food... today I went to burjo, and it was closed!! closed!! .. its a 24 hour 7 day a week warung... not open...lol..

Now that its almost Lebaran, most people have gone home (mudik) to their home towns to see all their family and what not... out of vando's kos, there is only him left.. so he's staying at my place for the next two weeks probably.. Mas Yodim too.. So I borrowed two mattresses from Aria and set them up in my room... surprisingly everything still fits! 

MATA MUUUUU!!!!!

Its dangerous to go anywhere with Vando!!! First he wanted his teeth checked... so I ended up going with him and having a checkup myself... then they wanted to rip out my teeth.. but I wasn't too happy with that idea... the place seemed a bit dodgy... and I haven't had any problems with my teeth.. so why pull them out?? and "sshhhh dont tell the hospital about this" as if that isn't screaming DODGY!!!! so I left my teeth be..

A few weeks later Vando realized his contacts had expired... So he went to get some new ones... I still couldn't understand how you could want to stick something in your eye! .. but before I knew it i was getting asked if i wanted to try some on... I finally agreed and the lady behind the counter poked me in the eye... it was surprisingly not that bad... once it was in... I couldn't even feel it..  So I walked out 4 hours later with a set of contact lenses I don't really need.. but I thought "what the hell.. its only $15 for  months" .. And I've never worn them before, so kinda wanted to try them out... I didn't know which ones too get, but Vando recommended the bule ones, (tho now I realize my eyes are blue to begin with, so should have gone for green.. haha) they look great huh?? =P HAHAHA... kidding.. they look freaky as if I shine a light in my eyes! cause it makes the pupil shrink n you can see my natural eye colour.. robot... eeeerrrr... robot... this does not compute.. zzzzzzz *boom*

Its ok mum... Don't cry

Finally better! well.. its been a lil while.. but I was just lazy to blog about it.. Ended up going to the doctor, was given so many drugs it wasn't funny! had to take three different types, one of which 5 times a day! on top of the flu, i also had a skin infection... no one could really tell me what it was, or how I could have got it... but just recently someone said it looked like it could have been shinggles (like a relapse of chickenpox) so I'm going with that.. Anyway, what's important is I'm all better..

Speaking of which... I also crashed my bike.... I thought I would wait till I was all good again before blogging about it so mum didn't freak out too much.. Went to turn left at a T intersection, and someone was on the wrong side of the road, so i slammed on the brakes and fell, didn't crash into anyone or anything, just fell.. was surprised it didn't hurt at the time.. my bike is fine, and I only had a small scratch on my knee.. but then when I got home my arm was really sore too.. I guess I didn't notice cause of the adrenaline or something... i couldn't twist it for about 2 days.. but after that it was all good again.. I really dont understand how I could have fallen off, not really have been hurt, and there are barely any scratches on my bike... just lucky I guess. =)  ... and honest mum... I am FINE... so dont freak out... hehe.

in other news, its now Ramadan, the month of fasting, I've fasted for a couple of days, but kinda stopped over the weekend... didn't plan on fasting today, but I haven't eaten or drunk anything, so I guess I can wait another few hours.. hehe... we usually get up at about 3am and have breakfast, then its no eating, drinking or smoking (not that i care) until after sunset. and as soon as its time to break the fast, it gets insane here! all the traffic! people everywhere looking for food! haha.

well... a few important things that I missed.. Riri and Ima are already back in Holland =( so no more street-street with them... it was a bit strange at first, but not too bad now, still plenty of street-street to be done, and there's been a few additions to the group... well.. they were always there, but now just more often... Heru, Mita & Dama.. tho not for long, since Dama is moving to Australia next month. 

not much else has been happening..  going to a salsa class later tonight, lets hope I dont step on anyones toes!

Ps.. Good luck to all you guys back home about to sit your exams!!! SEMANGAT!!! and what are you doing reading this anyway?? you should be studying!! damn you procrastinators! 

The new year

After a delayed flight and an overnight stay in Sydney, dad finally got home. It was great fun having him here.. all the street-street that we did! But I think it kind of wore me out, coz on monday I got sick.. haha.. Anak yg baek kan? nunggu bapaknya pulang sebelum mau sakit..

So anyway, Uni started on Monday as well, but I ended up bolos-ing (crazy indo-english mix :S ) cause I wasn't feeling well.. Spent All day yesterday in bed watching Scrubs, taking medicine and eating.. dvd's spread out all over my room, a bag of tissues beside my bed, uni books on the floor, and clothes everywhere, I mean absolutely everywhere, on the flooor, on the bed dad was using, hanging off the cupboard doors, poking out of draws and hanging off random nails sticking out of the walls... My room couldn't possibly have been any worse... but I was sick, right... I didn't want to clean it all up... and there, out of nowhere came something horrible... a voice.... it was calling... "Bondan..... Bondan..." the curtain opened... it was Vando.... "It's ok" I thought.. not too embarrassed if  Vando saw my room like this... but it wasn't just Vando.. he brought Heru, Kiki and Lindsay (cowoknya vando hehe) so the first time the new guy saw my room it looked like a bomb hit it... they were all asking if there was an earthquake in my room... but what can ya do..  hehe

oh yeah.. speaking of which, I haven't mentioned cowoknya vando before (just teasing btw.. semester ini vando jadi pendamping) All the new Aussies are here, I think there are about 25 of them.. They're not too bad at Indonesian either, dont think it will take them long to get it. (assuming they socialise with Indo people)

Dont think I've got much other news... its Winnie's Birthday today... dunno what we're gonna do for it... thinking about celebrating it in a few days, cause I'm sick.. hehe, tomorrow or friday I should be fine.

anyways, thats it for now.. hope all is well in Australia!

Ramayana Ballet

Its awesome! Just went to see it with Dad tonight..  A little long, but brilliant none the less.. 

oh.. and I think I've chosen my subjects for this semester...

Bahasa Jepang semua:

- Tata Bahasa

- Mengarang

- Membaca

- Berbicara

- Menulis

- Menyimak

- And one to be mentioned at a later date (maybe... hehe)