Know what? I almost forgot how much I sometimes hate being a girl... But once a month, I'm reminded by this painful ache in my stomach.
Aish cincayo, nomu appayo...
yayayaaa pardon my sudden burst of korean, agak kampung memang. hahaha.
Yeaaaah, I just got back from Bandung after 4 days and 3 nights there. And... well it's not much of an adventure. But what a release! I finally had my vacation, with my family, but sill though. hahaha it was fun. Bandung is really a boring place actually... you can only shop there. honestly. Yeah probably they have tons of distro, which I've spent most of my times there. I shopped a little bit too much *sorry mom!* and EAT. Oh, how much food we stuffed into our mouth.. but hey it was FUN!!! beside, adit was there too :P

Philately Day with Perpustakan Al-Izhar

Okay, big secret (not really) I'm into stamps. And I am a volunteer at my school's library. I owe the library it was my only friend during 7th grade. So it's my way of saying thank you, being a volunteer there. It's like dedicating my weekend, for godsakes.

So ANYWAY, the library have this philately club, and that club (which members include almost everyone, no literally EVERYONE in the library and few kids from elementary), and I was... unofficially a helper in it. Erlangga and Faqih listed me as a member but I have never bought a stamp in my life before. Well I did, but I wasn't as much as a collector as they are. So because of that, I was dragged into the philately field trip which was today, on Saturday, after UAS, and at 7 o'clock in the morning!! Dddoooiii!!

I arrived 15 minutes late and already I was assigned as a mentor. I had no idea how to deal with kids. Honestly. I'm just good with my own small cousins. Not somebody else's kids. That I'm not good at. I was given 4 children to be taken care of. And I got 4 girls, which are very obedient and very mature. I have NO trouble with them at all. Those girls, Sharima, Anissa, Divva, and Dita, are the smartest kids in the bunch :D
yeay me!

Aside from Faqih, Erlangga, and I, there were also other mentors. From junior high. Reska, Nazhira, Izzati, and Nasha. We got a long juuuust fine. I got close to Reska coz he's a kpop addict too and he has a CUTE sister. Faqih and Erlangga of course bicker around at each other like always... Faqih kept singing:
"Sabana, Sahabat Penaa.... Sabana, Sahabat Penaa...." and DANCING TO IT, of course.. And he baby sat a kid named Avro, he'll make a good father! Papa Faqiiih~

Papa Faqih & Avro

The Faq-Erl couple

I thought today was going to be oh SO BORING. But NO! I was wrong, I had the whole concept wrong. Being in philately is fun. I just notice how fun it is to search for a single stamp and putting it into your collection. I was outta my head, I've gone completely mad when I saw those people selling stamps. All I kept thinking about... Beijing Olympic 2008 Stamps. I'm a big fan of beijing olympic, I love the mascots, and everything about them I've been cravin for it's stamp. They didn't sell it bohooo. But I got a lot of others for VERY cheap prices :D I got Beauty & the Beast mint (which means new or in good condition) stamps. And also, Mickey Mouse in magazines and American monuments versions. I vowed that I will collect Disney stamps from now on! I'll never thought I'd say this. But I will definitely join Philately club from now on.

Erlangga & Faqih Sign me UP!!

Lost in TransJakarta

Today, me and four of my girls (Tika, Naila, Cipo, Scilla) had yet another crazy trip! It was soooo cool hahaha.

We went to ancol. that's right, ANCOL! The most unusual place that we could ever been to. Well... it's a very common place actually, but we rarely went there so.. yeah haha. And we went there with busway. oooh. HOW I LOVE BUSWAY! but we'll talk about that later on..
Okay, so I always thought that using the transjakarta would be just the same like using a normal bus. But it's not. It was comfortable. And you can see a lot of different kinds of people riding it. So maybe you get dizzy a little after standing for a few hours if you didn't get any seats, but it's very useful and cheap. And with air con. And seriously this may sound weird, but it's a good place for photography. Especially when it's raining! The lighting is perfect inside. :PP
So yeah, it rained. We went to ancol and it freaking rained! I didn't know what to do, we had to walk just about everywhere there. So when it rained... damn I was *of course* wet. We ran all the way from the ticket booth to the shuttle bus stop. And it was enough to make me feel very very wet and sick. We got into the bus which was no use, it was open window and such :S so we still got splashed by water.
It still rained when we got to the 'Gelanggang Samudera' or also called the oceanarium (honestly, I just knew it was actually called that). We went to watch the animal show in the rain honestly I was feeling very sick. But then when we got to the dolphin show, it stopped. THE RAIN STOPPED! so we watched in peace. The dolphin and the beluga (that's white whale...) was so damn cute. I want ONE! :(
afterwards we took pictures. And I always like this part every time me and my girls hang out. We always took a bunch of pictures! even if it's the most random pictures we ever took, but it was still fun. We bought bubbles and played with it, using it for our pictures. the pictures turned out pretty good. And ancol is definitely a place to take good pictures. It's... it's just is. We walked around to get the good spots and such, and stopped at Pizza hut to take a grub.
This is when the... fun(?) starts (at least for me and cipo!)
We were tired and had to catch the bus to go back to Pasar Minggu (where Tika's house is), so hurried to the station. In front of us was these three boys. At first they didn't catch my attention at all, cause I was too tired. And then we bought the ticket and hurried into the bus. It was full, so we had no choice but to stand. Right beside me was one of the three boys I mentioned. He had a curly hair and was wearing yellow and black striped hoodie. He was holding on the pole to keep him steady, I was holding on the... I dunno, that thing that you hold above you in a bus, but find it very difficult to keep steady so I held on to the pole also... and then we faced each other and smiled, I was just being polite.

But then sudenly:
Curly: Turun dimana
Keisha: (thinking: okay, that was random....) Matraman..
Curly: Oh, sama dong, gw jugaa
Keisha: oh iya.. (emang gw peduli??)
Curly: Abis dari dufan juga?
Keisha: nggak sih, tapi dari ancol juga, gw tadi ke gelanggang samudera.
Curly: Oh...

And then he stopped, and moved aside coz some people had gotten off the bus. My friends asked me who he was and I said I don't know. Though, he was kinda cute. Naila was jealous coz she had been eyeing him for awhile, haha. sorry dear :D And then we got off and changed bus, so does he. At the next bus, we didn't really talk coz it was SOOOOOO FILLED WITH PEOPLE! I do not recommend people to use transjakarta at night.. It was... almost as full as shinkansen. And then I got off at Halimun shuttle.
We were lost. Honestly. We didn't know which bus should we take.
And Naila's feet was beginning to hurt, so she had to sit. So she sat. Guess who sat *well almost* beside her? Curly and his friends. I had no choice but to sit next to Curly. We were lost, so we had to ask someone. So since Curly here tried to be nice to me, why shouldn't I talk to him.

Keisha: eh, boleh nanya gaa?
Curly: (smiling super widely and so cute) boleeh, nanya apa tuh?
Keisha: Tau yang jurusan pasar minggu itu dikiri atau kanan gaa?
Curly: Aduh, maaf kita juga gatau, soalnya kita pendatang,
Keisha: (kaget karena ada pendatang seganteng mereka) Ooh, gitu
Curly: Iya, emang rumah kamu dimana?
Keisha: Ya.. pasar minggu makanya gw nanya, emang lo dari mana?
Curly: Kita dari medaan. karena lagi liburan kita ke dufaan. ini juga mau ke blok m
Keisha: Oh.. ke blok m, yaudah kita sama2 nyasar dong yaah, sama2 nanya yuk hahaha

Yaa... terus kita tiba2 ngobrol panjang gituu. hahaha. It was very funny. to meet a random person and be that close hahaha. Anyway, Scilla asked one of the ticket booth and then we know which we had to take and so did they. We were supposed to take the SAME bus, but my friends were still confused so they ended up going first. Too bad hahaha :PP
And after that, I slept in the bus until I arrive home hihi

So.. the conclusion of today is...:
1. Hanging out with the girls is always fun!
2. We should go to the monas next
3. Check the forecast next time
4. MEDAN BOYS ARE HAWWWTS!!! :PP

PLASA: 4 days trip in Jayamukti

BWAHAHAHA I'm BACK!

damn how I miss being home! After 4 days stranded in a village called jayamukti located in Tasikmalaya, I am finally back in Jakarta. How I miss it so... Never thought I would miss the view of the front of my school (which is this ugly institute with very bad building and a market) and a view of a paddy rice field is very interesting at first, but after four straight days, it gets really boring. haha

My team of four and I settled in this house belonged to Bu Oneng. She a REALLY nice lady I'll tell you. She's a small lady with four kids, she has this small drink stand right on her patio and a strawberry field on her backyard. She has two house! for some reason, I just don't know. We stayed at the house on the backyard. 

I consider myself lucky, the other groups had to sleep in the living room; on the floor with sleeping bags (mine wasnt even used), and they only eat small amount of food. Whereas my group, well you can say we eat like queens. We have many leftovers every meal that we have to call in the boys from the other group.

The journey was mostly spent by foot. We walk around by foot. It was something that I'd never thought I could do. I was never a fan of walking around. But those four days? I wasn't even close to tired, walking from here and there. And I was interracting with people there, I was never good at that too. I played with the kids there, they were mighty cute.

Writing this entry, if I would write the whole detail, will make it very very very very very very very very loooong. There was so much to write. The new friends I've made. The new lessons I've learned. The things I've bought; with very cheap price; the view (okay, the view was very boring for me). But it was all a new experience for me. And it was fun. Really fun. Jayamukti was definitely the best place among the three provided, it was also the most civilized one. Never gonna forget that place. I might even consider of going back on holidaay haha.

Well... CIAO