The Avatar Quiz

Hahahaha.. I knew it.. Before taking the test, I've thought I would be associated with Katara.
Moreover, I'm an Aquarian. Long live Waterbenders!!

The other results turns out to be what I think myself resembles, in the correct order.

Still White Day

Haaa.. Yesterday I wasn't able to tell more about the white day. I had class early morning and after class I had to go to Amsterdam for a visit to ABN Amro Business Incubator. I came home at 9.30 last night.

During the day, when I was in class, Mads (Denmark guy) pointed towards the window and said,"Look, it's snowing outside."

Indeed. Soon after class, I rode my bike to the train station and joyfully enjoy the snow, hehehe.. (norak kali pun). The trees and grass were covered in ice while the wind blew the snow away and towards me. Oh God, thank You for such beauty

This morning I open my door again in the hope of another white day (last night in Amsterdam, the icy trees were not so icy anymore because of the somewhat heaten up wheater). And These are the views in front of my 13th-floor-room.

White day

I open my door today for going to the faculty...
And I see white everywhere...!!!

The world is covered in ice!!!

Well, I have to go to class now, I'm posting from the faculty.

Oh, I'm so excited..!!!!! :D

Regine Velasquez's Butterfly

In a brief talk with a friend when I was in Bandung (I forget who and when exactly), I said that I didn't think anyone else can sing Mariah Carey's Butterfly. I mean, someone can sing it, but won't leave a the kind of impression Mariah did.

Well, I change my mind after listening to Regine Velasquez's version of the song

I've been listening to Regine for quite a long time.. Her song "Shine" is truly the best song of her for me.

Link to Regine's performance of Butterfly here

Artis Papan Bawah

Bwahahaha....

Baru sekali ini aku baca tulisan yang jelas-jelas menyatakan klo artis yg dibahas adalah "artis papan bawah"

Cat: artikel diambil dari detikhot

Bike's Saddle & Late Autumn

I arrived at the library at 10am with my bike to meet Harold for doing High Tech Marketing assignment.. It's already dark when I was leaving the building at 6pm and trying to find my bike among the other bikes.

"Well, I never thought I have a sparkly saddle. It looks good by the way..", I wonder. (Kek apa ya bilangnya.. Kek ngeliat kaca yg ada butiran2 bercahaya di dalamnya.)

I run my finger on the saddle's surface and can see a trail appearing.

"Ahh, it's ice!", I rubbed all the saddle's surface, revealing its true self, hehehe..

The winter's coming! I do hope that there will be snow so that I won't just face the cold weather and the rain. Indeed they say the winter's gonna be colder than last year.

Sunday Morning

Wake up early morning for studying Financial Planning & Report
Open up my window's curtain and see the sky's brightened up
Early birds are soaring on the other end of the sky
Accompanied by Hayley Westenra's soaring voice from her album Celtic Treasure
With a cup of hot chocolate (Okay, I admit. It's two cups already )
Perfect day!!

Carmen Rasmusen - Nothin' Like The Summer

Oh my God.. She's so beautiful..!

Babysitting

Last night was my first time babysitting.. Well, not that I do regular babysitting. My friend, Tantri, got the job but unfortunately she was ill yesterday and could not babysit. I just replaced her temporarily.

Basically, I would not say that what I did last night was babysitting. In fact both kids, Daniel (around 4 y/o) and Jingga (around 2 y/o) have been sleeping when I arrived at 20.15. So, I was mostly like 'satpam' () while their mother was away working as a nurse. I was indeed stayed awake doing my Human Resource Management report until 5am the next morning.

In the morning, I woke up in the living room and realized there's someone at the door staring at me. It was Daniel and he wanted to go to the toilet and I could tell he was somewhat surprised to see me instead of Tantri ("Who the hell is this guy?!!", he probably think ).

And I was right.. After doing his business in the toilet, he followed me sitting on the living room's couch and he questioned me, "Hoe heet jij?"
Gyaahh.. I knew only very little Dutch
"Ik been Andy", I replied,"Mama sebentar lagi pulang."

Lucky I was told that he understood Indonesian Language Unlucky, he started blabbering in Dutch and I had no idea what he's talking about. (Mental note: Learn Dutch Language a.s.a.p.!!)

Lucky (or unlucky), Jingga cried in her room. So, I left Daniel and headed toward her room. Seeing me coming closer to her bed, she cried even louder and "berguling-guling menyembunyikan wajah di bantal dan selimut"

I hurried myself out of her room. She stopped crying for a while, only to start again the next several seconds. So I took Daniel to her room. He lovingly (aww, so sweet) hugged his sister and tried to lift her out of her box bed. Not convinced that he had the strength (ya iyalah), I helped him getting his sister out. She stopped crying and calmly followed her brother who took her by the hand to the living room.

It took quite some times to convince her that I was a nice guy, hahaha. You know, by trying to be funny and showing her that her brother was not afraid of me.

The rest of the babysitting moment was I was continuosly beaten by Daniel because he was somehow convinced that he was Spiderman with all those shooting-web-through-his-hand gestures while I also had to listen to Jingga's story about all things from her little bag.

I love those kids.. Both are very nice (considering I can still control Daniel's energetic superpower) and funny (I couldn't believe Jingga was able to converse with her dad using the phone, in a very cute way) and smart (once their mother was home, she told Daniel that I couldn't speak Dutch and only speak English and Indonesian. To which Daniel replied in Dutch,"Why can't Om Andy speak Dutch? Dad can speak Indonesian.."). FYI, their father is Dutch and their mother is Indonesian.

Tantri is still ill, so I'll babysit again tonight..

Sinterklaas at Krashna Musika

We had a visitor at Krashna Musika Choir rehearsal..
Sinterklaas... Yaayy!

Earlier at the rehearsal break, we went downstairs and made a paper shoe for ourselves. Coloring and cutting the paper, I felt like I was 5 years old again, haha. See the picture, that's my paper shoe.. We left our paper shoe near the Christmas Tree downstairs.

At the end of the rehearsal, two Zwarte Piets appeared and threw us with cookies (It's not suitable to call them cookies I think. Because it's soft. Or was it kruidnoten? But it's different with kruidnoten that I know). Well, it's edible anyway.

The choir sang some Sinterklaas songs (I don't know the song). Then Sinterklaas sat on a chair and called some people. They sat on Sinterklaas' lap one by one (Gilles, the conductor got the first turn ) and listened to what Sinterklaas read from a book, haha (I don't know what he's talking about, it's in Dutch. Apparently it's something funny ).

Before going home, we visited our shoes near the Christmas Tree and found them already filled with chocolates and candies, yipee

Today's a fun day

Lift Canceling Mechanism

I really think Lift Manufacturers should incorporate a canceling mechanism to their products. Or maybe they have, but Roland Holstlaan's lifts don't have that kind of feature.

You know, sometimes people press a wrong floor button unintentionally (Have seen it before), or some people simply do it for fun (their fun, not other's). I think it's handy to be able to press the floor button again to cancel the previous request.

It shouldn't be that hard to implement.. (IMHO)
(Of course with some prerequisites and criteria *programmer minded pisan*)

Today I

I think I will follow the concept of an application in Facebook that simply displays the activities of a user in short description. That will be a good excuse for one liner

Let's start today..

Today I decided to study in the faculty, instead of in my own room, for tomorrow's Human Resource Management exam.

I am really glad I did that because I met Mai there and studied together. Very productive! (plus we got free hot chocolate ).

I should do it more often I think .

Church Bell

The bells from the nearby church chimes in the morning and at dawn every Sunday.
I really love listening to them The sound somehow give me a serene feeling.

Being Happy

I was reminded again today, that by just being happy, we can make other people around us happy..

Emotional, Intelligence, Physical

I take this so called visual personality test at Facebook.. I have to choose one picture from a set of pics to describe a topic. The result is quite correct I think :) Here goes the result..

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Your Visual Personality

About Me

Emotional
Friends and family are the most important people in your life. You're good about keeping track of birthdays, people appreciate that you care about them.

Intellectual
You have a naturally curious mind. If there's something new that you want to learn, you're not afraid to ask questions or investigate on your own.

Physical
If the weather is nice, you like walking around your neighborhood. Going to the farmer's market or park is how you prefer to get in physical activity.

Dinner with Krashnees

Sejak gabung sama Krashna Musika Choir, aku cuma kenal sama beberapa anak2 baru juga, plus sejumlah tenor2 yang duduk di sekitarku, (yang bantuin nerjemahin apa yg diomongin conductor. Pake bahasa Belanda sih..), plus sejumlah kecil anggota lama dari golongan suara lain.

Jadinya aku kepikiran untuk kumpul-kumpul sama beberapa teman Krashna Musika (namely Krashnees), makan bareng ato sejenisnya. Eh, tau-tau Nicolas (Bass, French) mengundang untuk dinner di roomnya di Spacebox, bareng beberapa teman Krashnees. Kok pas banget, hehehe..

Jadi tadi jam 7 malem kami kumpul di kamarnya. Nicolas lagi masak dibantu Roser (Alto, Spain). Masak sesuatu bernama Fi-something (I don't know it), seperti pastel berukuran setengah piring, isinya bayam dan potongan salmon.

Sambil nungguin matang, Rizky (Bass, Indonesia) dan Aleksander (Baritone, Serbia. Iya gitu tulisan namanya :D) main piano sambil membahas tentang partitur musik klasik (ada electric piano di kamar Nicolas). Ling Juan (Soprano, China) dan aku (Tenor, Indonesia. Aiyaah, ga penting :p) cuma dengerin aja sambil ngomentarin dikit-dikit.. Hahaha, dasar pengetahuan minim.

Sambil makan, obrolannya makin melebar ga jelas.. Mulai dari piano, musik klasik, ukuran pulau di Indonesia, gempa dan tsunami, Beijing/Peking, karakter tulisan China, kaitannya dengan Jepang, Taiwan, gerakan separatisme di Spanyol, Politik, pronounciation Spanish & Catalan, dll. Dessert-nya Chocolate fondue(potongan buah dicelup ramuan coklat cair + cream + cengkeh).

Agak2 ngaco emang, tapi overall sangat menyenangkan. At least kita ga cuma ketemu di latian choir. Looking forward to our next gathering.. At badminton games in the sport center, maybe :D

I Can't Make You Love Me

I stumbled upon a video in YouTube of someone doing an audition for Idol somewhere (Haha, I didn't pay attention).. But the melody caught me.. I wonder where I had ever heard the song. Consult Google as usual for the title "I Can't Make You Love Me" (I did remember the title).

It was written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and first recorded by Bonnie Raitt. Taken from Wikipedia:

The idea for the song came to Reid when upon reading an article about a man arrested for getting drunk and shooting at his girlfriend's car. The judge asked him if he had learned anything, to which he replied, "I learned, Your Honor, that you can't make a woman love you if she don't."

And then at the end of the article, "Ah ya.. How could I forget my lovely Haley Scarnato.." It's the song for her American Idol audition. I'm quite surprised that her singing actually is hanging in my memory.. That means she's good despite some of her bad performances, ahahaha..


I Can't Make You Love Me

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me

'Cause I can't make you love me If you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart, and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't

I'll close my eyes and then I won't see
The love you do not feel, when you're holding me
Morning will come, and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then, to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight

And I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
And here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no, you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't

Ain't no use in you trying
It's no good for me baby without love
All my tears, all these years, everything I believed in
Baby
Oh yeah
Someone's gonna love me

Wisnu Idol lagi

Eh, ini Wisnunya bukan Wisnu yang Indonesian Idol, tapi Wisnu Witono Adhi yang #5 Norwegian Idol. Pernah disebut juga di post sebelumnya.

Nemu video clip-nya di YouTube.. Keren juga suaranya.. Judulnya Love Like That. Lagunya yang lain judulnya Every Part of Me.. Aku lebih suka yang ini. Good luck deh Wisnu!

Notes: Di previewku, videonya nampak loading ga brenti2, tapi sbenernya tinggal klik tombol play-nya.. Hmm, knapa gitu ya..

Cappuccino

My newly bought Ernesto Cappuccino with Hazelnut flavour smells and tastes funny.. (blaahh..)