Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay...!

Yay Yay Yay Yay。。。。！

考试 :
我估计今天的考试不太难，也不太简单。。。我觉得还可以。。。
We started off with Grammar Exam from 8.10am till 9.55am then Listening Exam from 10.10 till finito (11.55)

Damn Listening exam...surely the speakers spoke like normal Beijingers speak here.. so fast! I'm not really used to the speed.. but it was so inspiring listening to the girl's voice..I want to have that kind of Beijing accent! It sounds soo coooollll..!!!

天气:
However, today's weather is not so nice although the sun was there up up away and shining brightly. The wind force was 9mph.. Brrr.. cold wind blowing against my face and body, not a very nice feeling. What more? I was about to turn on the heater when my sister said our electricity voucher has reached its limit. we only have now, a deposit of 36快.. SO SAD!!! That means, tomorrow after exam, I definitely have to deposit more money. I can't live without heater...tomorrow is said to be 3 to 8 degree Celcius..很冷！！！

I can't believe that it's still autumn here in Beijing... If it was Perth, such weather is considered as winter!

心情:
今天我的心情很好是应为。。。
My dad gave me a green light to do an IMBA Degree here in Beijing..I'm so excited! Now I just have to find out how and what sort of documents needed to apply. Sooo happy! I just think that MBA for me is so necessary.

This afternoon I asked God ... that if it's not meant to be then dad wouldn't give me a green light.. But on the phone, dad gave me one.. So, I really do think it's Your will :) ..Now I can see a glimpse of light..At least I don't feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere anymore :D

Although today's weather isn't so favorable, and exams were quite alright, but the green light to do a Master Degree has definitely made my day.

Thank you God :D

星期 二

你好

Yesterday night after blogging I chit chatted with my IA Sisterhood buddies. I soooo miss them badly :'| . We had such a good time! Surprisingly three of us got drunk during weekend..lol..one got drunk in Brunei, one in Perth, and one in Beijing.. I'm loving such bond! After chatting with them, I went to sleep smiling ..it was such a heart warming midnight chat :).

我觉得今天过了很慢。。 。

My schedule for today was:
8am 我迟到了！我 8点10分 才到了教师。。。Oops
5pm 下课。
5-7点 复习生词。
7-7点半 准备准备
8 点 出去三里屯根朋友们见面。
8 点半 在Let's Burger 吃了晚餐。 我点Salmon Salad .. around 58元。跟朋友们一起走走。。。在街上逛逛。。。
10.30ish went home and practice again for 2morrow's 听写。

The highlight of today was:
TAXI: 2nd compliment from a taxi driver saying we're beautiful girls..awwwww
WEATHER : COLD..but thank goodness it wasn't raining ..pheww..
AT CLASS: 没想到, 今天的口语课很有意思。I actually quite enjoyed the class and got a lot out of it.
Eeks.. Thursday is 口语的考试day.. Not looking forward for it..(>.<)

张老师
curhat about our 班的同学 attitude and behavior towards learning Mandarin.. She wondered why they all fell asleep. 谁有问题？老师还是学生？ Seriously I reckon' it's not the teachers' fault. Me too have no idea why they all asleep in class.. Hmm, don't know..but, I kind of know how it feels to be up there in front of the class giving presentation and none seem to care. Back in Aussie, we all listened and at least acted like we're interested when lecturers/tutors are giving presentations...Appreciation is well-honored. So I told her it's not about her but it's the students. 对汉语，他们可能没有兴趣. I ? I already know how important it is to learn the language..perhaps they're still so young and it wasn't their choice learning the language. OH well, she told me how she feels sad and having bad mood every time she teaches us because most of us are being quite rude (by sleeping in class). .. Poor Zhang Laoshi.. She trully is a great teacher :).

爱莲的了感冒。。哎呀。。。
我们从昨天晚上开了空调。I set it to 30deg Celcius.. coz it was really cold yesterday.. However the kongtiao smelled like burnt metal as I previously mentioned.. We didn't switch it off because it's just too niceeee..I wonder how much it ate the electricity voucher :P

Anyway it's 12:15AM right now.. eeekz.. I shall not be late 2morrow!! Already got a warning!!

Ouh..and today, another person from UIBE 讲解about taking MBA in UIBE.. only for a year! I'm deeply attracted!! Droooollllsssss..that MBA title is really tempting! Hihihihi..

Anyway, good night blog..2morrow have to wake up early..Might be another interesting day 2morrow.. 3-5pm is Wushu Show.. can't wait!

xoxo,

杰花

Vodka Weekend & Foggy Monday

Dear Blog,

I had an interesting weekend.. What happened? Well.. after Ray's birthday dinner, my sis and I decided to join our friends going to Vics. They said it's called the Indo Night and it was prolly like once every year. The music was real loud but nice songs!I thought I'd stay sober, it's not prolly gonna be interesting anyway. A friend booked two sofas-cubicles for us. All i could remember was that I was so bored and quite tired and sleepy.. Then I drank the vodka ..and oops.. my mind and my body disconnected! Yep, felt like I gained 10kg..the body surely felt really heavy. We stayed there till 2am and off me, sis, and a friend to our dorm. That was my first ever experience of getting drunk. My head spun round and round and I couldn't walk straight but I was very much aware of my mind..My body just didn't agree with what the brain was commanding. I'm pretty sure my sis would always remember such experience of having to deal with me that time :P..

But I remembered crying before off to dreamland. I was quite sentimental.. moreover, mother text-ed me saying stuffs that really stirred my emotion to the boiling point. And then on Sunday morning, I cried again by 8am..Gosh! it was such a mellow Sunday morning... Another breakdown here in Beijing. I was totally clueless as to what I am going to do, where is my life leading to?

I also remembered yesterday talking to dad on the phone. We had this talk about business and importing goods opportunity. Dad seemed to be very proud of us, he thought we've grown up now..no more spoil brat, now we're talking business. Somehow, no matter how painful our past was, hearing him and feeling him being proud of us..that just officially made my Sunday a Sunny Sunday..no more gloomy aura.

Then we went to have dinner in a friend's dorm..the food came 1.5 hour after we ordered..sucks..but the food still tasted yummy. Then 2 friends came along and join us in our small gathering... Then by 12 we surprised another friend. It's his birthday! Hip Hip Hooraaay! I was already tired but when I was planning to leave the place, a second group with a bunch of guys and girls came and gave him a surprise visit..and it all went along till around 2am. OH one funny thing was that the small cake that we bought + the aromatherapy candle we put aside was exactly the same as the ones the second group bought! What a coincidence!

Then 2 of my girlfriends didn't feel like going back to their dorm so they decided to stay over. And I forgot we had 听写 on chapter 33 today. 所以我和妹妹赶学习 到2 点半.

What a weekend!

I woke up this Monday morning feeling really really really SLEEPY. The weather sucks! It's very coooolllddd...around 8-12 度 but somehow it already felt like 4度!! grrrr. And my body itched all over..don't know why..i'm sensing that the winter rash has caught me! UGH! LOTION LOTION LOTION...I shall massage my skin with plentiful body lotion.

Just had ramen for dinner at Isshin, just the four of us - people from 0 号楼 - ..eating warm soupy food during cold weather is the best option!

听说明天的天气根今天的差不多..but hopefully it won't rain :( ..me no like rain :( . I don't want to get sick.

I'd turned on the heater...it smelled like burnt metal..but apparently it's just because it wasn't being used for quite some time, so it takes time to adjust.

Ohh Beijing, please be nice to me..coz I'm planning to stay here for another semester.. BE NICE.okay? ;P

Full on Friday

Dear Blog

My schedule today:
8.30- 2.30ish went out on excursion to Hutong area here in Beijing. I loved it..was so tiring but was worth the experience. :)
I especially love those traditional Chinese houses..love the heritage listed buildings.. My point is: I love old Beijing city!

2.30-4.30ish compiling postcards and stick them onto our dorm's glass divider between the bedroom and the living room. Now our dorm looks more alive and colourful ;).
My plan was to to go Solana and get some pressies for 2 of our friends.. Ouh and by this time we went downstairs and exchange pillow's cover etc.

4.40-6.30ish Xiuxi time.. was so tired and sleepy.. Anyway, a friend called my sis and invited her to go to TGIF tonight for dinner. My sis had been craving for TGIF for ages eversince she saw TGIF here in Beijing. So we had to cancel our Solana plan.. Plus there was no news from a friend whom I invited to join to Solana anyway.. So get ready for TGIF!

7++ - ?? Searched taxis..nearly gave up..so many of them had no idea where TGIF is (it's in Beijing Guojie Da Sha).. SO finally after..maybe 30minutes plus we finally found a taxi driver who knew the place. Along the way the taxi driver and us 聊天聊天。。 他问我们“你们是韩国人 吗？“我们回答“不是。我们是印尼华侨。Then he said something and we replied "Dui bu qi, wo men ting bu dong!" and he giggled and talked to us more clearly. So along the way he mentioned about us two being 小棍娘，　太漂亮！哈哈哈。。。我们笑了。　我们说“谢谢。。哈哈哈”他也说“你们比中国人漂亮“That made us laugh.. He kept on saying 我们是美 nu er. That was my first time heard a taxi driver gave us complement. ;P

I had no idea what time we arrived in TGIF..but from TGIF we moved on to Marge's coffee place called Unconditional Love Coffee Shop. It's somewhere near Mei Shu Guan.. It's such a lovely place, I like it there..very arty ..and it reminds me a lot of 798. We're there till around 11.20ish pm.. Marge was pretty drunk.. she just broke up with his boyfriend.. Her boyfriend deserved to be called a POO! He ain't a gentleman!

Anyway..it's 12:55am..My plan is to sleep at 1am.. I'm really really sleepy...
Hmm.. that dude bbm-ing me again.. asking the very same question.."Why your reply took so long?" .. Goodness meeee! I've told him like hundred times I could only reply if there's wifi available within my wifi ntwork range. (-__-)..

I'm so sleepy..it's 12:56am now..

Tmorrow is going to be another fun and tiring day I think..
It's Ray's bday 2morrow and it's going to be a drinkie night.. Hmm.. I wonder what to wear 2morrow.. hmm hmmm

Anyway.it's 12:57am now..
My eyes are only half open..

Good night Blog..


xoxo,
me! (12:58)

12.10.10

Hello Blog,

So 12.10.10 开始 when my sister woke me up to a friend's birthday surprise thingo. I was already fast asleep when at 12 she asked me to get ready. So anyway, went to his place with my pajamas, no make up, and sang him Happy Birthday while still gathering my mind at the same time. We stayed at his place till around 2.30am ..and 8点 上课！我很累也很昆！

During lunch break me and my sister went out to Ito Yokado and bought teapot, pan, and other necessity stuffs. 一边吃方便面一边看 Ip Man 1 movie from sis' harddrive. Time went real fast, we headed off to our next class and went to our last class which started at 6pm.
This class called the "Hanyu Jiao Class", it's a class where 我们跟中国朋友一起聊聊天. So I talked with this one Chinese guy whose majoring in Deutsch. Time went really fast, I enjoyed talking with him because he acted like half "hanyu tutor" and half "new Chinese friend". Anyway, after class, me, my sis, and our two other classmates decided to 一起去晚饭在西门的附近.

我们吃 korean bbq, 聊天到9.30pm! We just sat there chit chat with eachother and I supposed we enjoyed eachother's company. Although by age we're a bit far apart, but at least it seems like we're able to connect with eachother.

Right now I'm quite tired...it's 10.36pm and I'm listening to 'Dawn' by Dario Marianelli from Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack...it is so smooth, calm, and pleasing to the ear.

Oh.. by the way, grammar teacher told us to make a small composition about our life in Beijing.
I'll write it down here...;)

生活在北京

虽然我对汉语和北京没有兴趣,但是有很多人告诉我,"英语现在不是世界的第一与.现在各地涌汉语所以学汉语非常重要!"

所以3月前我决定来北京学习汉语,上月我从印尼来到了北京,我听不懂汉语,说得也不流利.有印尼朋友告诉我,很多中国人不会说英语.我觉得这是很糟糕!我想一想我应该怎么办.我觉得我必须认真学习汉语.所以除了复习和写作业,我也常常去饭馆用汉语点菜.去北京很有意思的地方逛逛, 拍照片,跟别人 练习练习我的口语.我觉得这样学汉语很轻松.最近我对汉语和北京发生了兴趣.

I Miss My Architecture Buddies...

I don't know why..maybe it's because of the songs I've been listening to..
They all reminisce back to my Perth momentos..

I miss my architecture buddies...

I miss IA Sisterhood very much...
Cindy, Clarissa, and Kim...
They're the best girlfriends I could ever ask God for...
With or without make up
Fat or not fat
Good or bad mood
They all know who I really am deep inside...
I feel really secure with them...
They accept me the way I am...
I miss them terribly...


I miss my architecture buddies...all of them ..from Andrew to Moses..
I miss telling them my lame jokes...
I miss procrastinating with them...
I miss doing stupid kiddish stuffs with all of them...
I miss our study sessions...
I miss talking about philosophies, psychology, architecture, lecturers, exciting events, and food..ofcourse.

I miss going to the beach and marked our feet on the sand and wrote "3.58pm we were here"
I miss crashing into Kim's house together...playing RockBand...studying for exams...eating her snacks...
I miss spending hours and hours till dawn in Kim's house...
I miss Kimmy's guinea pig...
I miss crashing into Clar's crib...talking heart to heart...eating her candies...borrowing her straightener...and listening to her RnB collection...
I miss driving to and from Cindy's unit... I miss the stupid traffic we had to deal with..I miss the random topics we talked about along the way...
I miss our arguments...
I miss our chats..
I miss our ritual tea-drinking session...
I miss how we all feel comfortable with each other with no need of making conversation...


I miss them crashing into my house when I decided not to come to the 8am lecture...
I miss them hitting my head with pillows so I wouldn't sleep at 4am...
I miss them teaching me about cosmo stuffs...
I miss their stories and opinions...
I miss them being so caring to me when I was in one of my lowest moments...
I miss them giving me rational and wise advice when I was down...
I miss their voices...

I miss them all..very...very much...

Loads of Love to Miss Blair, Miss Bonjour, Miss Pinkie and my super clever architecture friends,


xoxo,

Miss Jazzy


:)

the re-appearance|church|me

Dear Blog,

Me bete today.. NOt just that it's Sunday and I had classes.. but moreover, he suddenly re-appears (-___-)..

He and I both knew we had sparks.
He and I both knew Beijing could mean "to be continued" or "the end".

Beijing here I came.
Two weeks of emailing and no more words followed.
No news no effort no nothing from both of us.
I was passive and so was he.
So, I decided to click "the end" button.
Thought there's no use in waiting for uncertainty.

I forgot that I had opened my heart slightly for him.
I forgot that he might be somewhere waiting for me.
I forgot that we once had sparks.
A month has passed with no news, what do you want me to expect?
I have been happy. I've smiled. I've laughed. Without him.

All of a sudden he reappears.
Messages in blackberry were full of his texts.
So how did I react?
Happy? No. Excited? No.
The momentum and the sparks have gone with the wind.

0% feeling.
0% likeness.
0% everything.

He texted me saying about how I should go to church et cetera.
He just perfectly hit a sensitive topic.
That is definitely a minus.

I'd say he still thinks I like him just like I did back then. Sorry Mr Religious, you suddenly re-appear with the wrong topic.. Not your fault, that's just the way you are..being very religious..but I'm nothing like you. I'm sure a lot of religious girls do wish to have a partner-for-life like you :)..but I guess I'm not one of them.

o%.

Right here in Beijing

I Dear Blog,

it's been a while hey.. It's October now .. I've vacuumed blogging since April..wow.. a lot surely has changed...

Right now I'm in Beijing studying Mandarin at UIBE.. It's been about a month..I quite like it here.

Departure in airport wasn't great..
I felt like crying when I was about to leave for Beijing.. It wasn't my wish to come here..It wasn't my dream..But I had this feeling that I had to let go whatever I was dealing with in Indo and moved away to Beijing.. I just knew that this is the best path.. So I went along with it..and here I am in my dorm blogging.

Here in Beijing my goal is to purify my mind and soul, to really open up myself from the constraints I've been living with, to really try new exciting things, and to learn some Mandarin..I just know that by the end of this semester, I'm going to be a brand new strong person, someone tougher and wiser. I know I'm not going downhill, I just know that by being here in Beijing, it's like a self-disciplinary camp, I'm not going downhill but up up and up and I'm on my way to where I'm supposed to be.

A wise quote I read from the net by H.Ruff "It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." was really inspirational.. He was well-prepared for the big flood coming. People laughed at him for there was no rain at the time and the earth was dry. Why would he built an ark? It didn't make sense before.. Until the rain came and flooded every living things..Only Noah and his ark survived. Very inspirational. I want to be like Mr. Noah =).

Anyway...

So many stories to tell from here in Beijing...Anyhow..I just got back from Inner Mongolia last Tuesday, it was a 5 day trip and was loads of fun :) ...such an experience I shall always cherish..an experience I shall never forget! Met new friends, for that 5 days I forgot all my worries..I had a blast! And it was also my first time drinking 8 cups of beer.. including bai jiu. Not drunk, just a little tipsy ;P.. A friend of mine told me to try drink 1 big bottle of beer.. I will! just wait and see ;P.

I still can't believe I'm in Beijing..seriously..

Oh..one more note to this post: ..I've lately fallen in love with Kings of Convenience and Adhitya Sofian ! Me likey their songs..they sound so smooth, so relax, and I just loveee them ~oo~ They've been accompanying my daily chores in my dorm. xoxo.

So many to tell from Beijing..I don't know where to start..
Surprise2, Beijing is safer than Jakarta.. and a lot more organized! It's nothing like what people say on the net / scary bb fwd messages about China black market, overseas students, etc. Well I suppose such thing exist but not in the areas where I hang out. Furthermore, the food here is so cheap...and surprisingly quite tasty! It's just too much oil..but other than that..they're so cheappp!! I wonder whether chicken meat is really...chicken meat :P..anyway, not a big deal when my tummy roars for food xP

Good night Blog