Gala Dinner

Got invited to a fancy dinner but I don’t see that happening anytime soon (the dinner part I mean). Its some opening for a Borobudur exhibition but I came for the food but so far all I’ve seen are dances and speeches, can’t they serve the food at the same time? Next to me my sis claims she is not sleeping when she so obviously IS. I think personally I did a good job feigning interest until my stomach started complaining. Geez when is this guy gonna stop talking? Where’s the food?!
This really cute girl is sitting next to me…see in the picture?

Later… (11:30)
I feel so shit. After the dinner we met the head monk of the temple and he was just so overly friendly that (considering my international school upbringing) my mind suggested that he was gay. I didn’t actually say this outloud though, so I told my sister who told my cousin who told me that I’m screwed. I mean how was I supposed to know that the monk could tell what you’re thinking when you’re in his prescence? But religion’s all about forgive and forget right? Right?

Cheng Ho

Okay there are so many celebrations here in semarang for some Chinese admiral called Cheng Ho. Aparrantly he arrived in this town like 600 years ago but I mean who cares? He went to Africa and America as well but they don’t celebrate the century anniversary of his arrival. What I also don’t get is why the Buddhists are celebrating his arrival when he came to Indonesia to spread the Islamic religion. My uncle says it’s a fact that he’s the greatest admiral in history, but then again he also knows that the forbidden city consumed 270 000 eggs, 30 000 chickens and 4000 pigs in one day. Who remembers things like that? I mean he’s a SCIENTIST. He thinks me not knowing facts like that means I’m an idiot… it’s tough living with a genius.

piano lessons

My aunt asked if i could teach her piano student today (she was feeling kind of tired). But i refused, i mean who knows how much damage 45 minutes of my teaching can do to someone's musical future?

(black) chicken farm

I swear we are living on the grounds of a chicken farm. We have bleating crippled chicks which die in the morning in the dining room, egg incubators in the living rooms, violent hens that peck half to death at you when you walk out the door and roosters which crow at 4 am in the morning- sometimes only 2 hours after you sleep. But it’s all good for the experience right? And it’s enough excitement to keep me busy in the holidays.

the harry potter craze

fake dvds and fake cds i get. but fake books? what has our world come to? lol

friends

i take that back, made friends with new tenants in the building and so I'm living up my holiday without a problem! lol. Leaving for Jakarta on tuesday so i'd LIKE to go out to empo with everyone before i go but whatever. Got to content myself with what i've got right, i think i'll call pim tonight...

a bored person not a boring one

i don't really want to say this but i'm starting to get bored in this holiday. THAT though doesn't make me a boring person ( as a wee teacher once suggested) because i have tons of things to do, i'm just bored cuz i have to keep doing the same things everyday. sigh, i'm going in circles.
i think this isolation from socialising is driving me to insanity.

all dressed up

went to a concert tonight and i gotta say it was not all that wonderful, its the kind of music that puts me to sleep. Apart from the singing which did result in silent laughter emitting from me in the back, i mean honestly who can keep a straight face when listening to someone literally sing "tralalalalala" repeatedly in the middle of a soprano french song and watch some deep voiced guy invent gay actions for his piece? It's not that I didn't try to appreciate the music I did but maybe i'm just not built to appreciate serious classical stuff. Overall the concert was cool considering the fact that i've never actually been to one before and towards the end this old guy came up to play a LOT of piano but i have to say he was really good as well as the choir they were good too. AND we saw the princess who came with an entorage of security gaurds and there was a lot of bowing and curtseying involved.

constructive time wasting

As i said i'm not quite a "computer girl" but i surprise myself sometimes. Today I started tutoring this year 8 kid in excel. Yep me a teacher, now how weird is that, oh and very constructive as well... but i'm not quite sure if i actually get paid for it; i'm tutoring him again tomorrow. Whatever, voluntary work gets you great karma right?
Talking about wasting my time constructively i cleaned up my room (if you can really call it that in the state that it's in) for the first time in well...uh... five years? It took me like 5 hours and i didn't even get round to cleaning up half it. At least now you can see my desk and there's space in my cupboard for next years books. I think it made some difference but the room still sort of literally looks like a warehouse, and i'm not even exaggerating there. Lets just say there are still a LOT of things left to throw out. Maybe i sould have done this before the end of the house recycling competition with all my stuff who knows samui might have won. lol.

Japan

yeah we all went to Japan in the last week of school and I don't think I gave it enough credit. When we came back i was pretty bummed because I felt like we didn't do so much but now that i've actually had time to think about it i think i was just bummed because it was over. We had shitloads of fun and we did do a lot we just didn't realise it. So I take whatever i said back, Japan was worth every penny. Vietnam may have been a lot of fun to those who went but i don't regret going to Japan I think it was just as good.

hey

hey, this is weird. I never thought that i'd ever start one of these things up for myself i mean i'm not exactly a computer type girl (apart from emailing and msn lol) but whatever, there's a first time for everything. It's also the summer holidays so i think it would be better to use my time more constructively than eating when i have nothing to do. Okay don't want to bore whoever's actually reading this (which is probably not many) half to death cuz i guess that's really all i gotta say... for now anyway.