TRIP TO GOA CINA WITH MY FELLOW SENATORS

It was the first time for me to visit a beach – moreover, it’s a beach in the southern part of this island, where the tides are high and strong – with my friends, riding a motorcycle.

We went to GOA CINA beach, Kab. Malang.

It was indeed absogoddamnlutely a greeeeeeeeeeeeat, so much fun!!!

Pre-departure

We departed at 9.00 am. Zen was the navigator, for he knows the route.

It took us approximately 3 hours for the journey. During the journey, everything I saw was mostly green rice fields, blue sky, and chirpy birds cheering us, the happy 16 senators of DMF Sastra UM J

We arrived there after dhuhur time and we parked our motorcycle, then we gathered to have a meal.

Finished with the meal, we put our bags in a storage place, some of us changed clothes and…. It’s time for playing in the beach!!!

My happy shriek

We laid on the shore and let ourselves hit by the great tide. I was worried about being drowned, but I grabbed any friends beside me, thank God I’m saved. It was so much fun to feel the splash, to feel the salty sea water poured my face, to be hit by the tide, to feel the wind, to yell that loud….

Le Me being hit by the tide

Look! we had so much fun, rite?

It was almost 5 p.m when we finally finished playing on the beach and clean ourselves. GOSH! sands are everywhere, on my hair, on my ears, and even in the smallest hem on my trousers and in the pocket of my top. I needed a very hard effort to get rid of those damn sands, haha....

a snapshot taken before going home

I want to maintain this friendship, I want to keep this harmony.
I want us to stay strong, stronger than ever.
Lord, please bless this fraternity, strengthen our bond and make us
YOUR loved ones....

We finally started our journey to come back home when it was already dusk. Mbak Ulin drove my motorcycle. it took another 3 hours journey and I kept on praying, May Allah save us during this risky journey. You know, we went through hills with many loops and it was dark already. 

At about 9.00 p.m, we finally arrived in Malang and stopped on a food stall to have supper.

finished with the supper, we finally went hooooome ! 

we were extremely exhausted, and we admit that we should clean ourselves again, many of us said that sands are still sticking everywhere.

It was a great fun, senators... thanks for the wonderful experience.

We should experience a great vacation like this again one day!!

Love y'all, senators!

Another snapshot of HELL-iday...

Hi dear, this HELL-iday is kinda killing me, so monotonous, although I'm having my internship as a radio announcer, but - yeah , not having such kind of craziness with friends makes my life felt so dry....  thank God this HELL-iday will be finished soon!!! I'll start my class again on August 27th! can't wait can't wait can't waaaaaaiiiit......

Anyway, happy eid mubarak for everyone....

I can't stand of having a too-long day-off, therefore I went back to the studio earlier than my friends do... and I feel so delighted to have a halal-bi-halal with the other employers of RRI Malang, and to find out that there's a SNACK CORNER on the studio!

Alhamdulillah....

BTW, I'm going to start the class on monday with Belajar dan Pembelajaran class, and I join Sastra Indonesia's class. the fact is that I'm THE ONLY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENT in the class. bismillah ~

Went swimming with ussyong :)

Dear, do you know what was the last time I went swimming? it was when I was 18, and now I'm 22!!
When I vas 17, I joined a swimming club and learned frog-style swimming #eh, frog-style? is it the right term?
I WAS quite good and enabled to swim around the pool, even in the 1,50 m depth, I can deal with it. but, then, 4 years passed and I preferred my college life along with the activities I had with Legato, BEM, and now DMF, I simply completely ignore my swimming activity.

Actually, I once asked my classmates to go swimming together at the nearest and cheapest swimming pool - which is LEMBAH DIENG =D
but it's kinda hard to make them agree, not everyone loves swimming.

I decided to go swimming in Permata Jingga pool with Ussy, an old friend of mine. Ussy said that Irma, also our highschool mate, has a lot of free pass to enter the swimming pool. GREAT! then both of us went there by using Irma's freepass.

it was the first time for me visiting that place and I was kinda amazed. Hmmm, no wonder, permata jingga is an elite housing complex which residents are mostly rich, therefore the facilities are designed awesomely.

ok, blogger is being uncooperative - again!

shame, the picture is messed.

Next time , i wanna try other swimming pools in town, and hopefully in this holiday I can go swimming more often :)

As days are being counted

3 Days to go :)

my aunt starts packing her things, her clothes are already taken away from the cupboard and are now packed in boxes. her medicines are already cleaned up from the table.... 3 days to go and i'll (again) be the master of my holy pink sanctuary....

can't wait that day to come

can't wait to clean up my bedroom

can't wait to decorate my bedroom

can't wait to buy new accessories...

look at the table. it used to be full with medicines, but not now. they are already cleaned up.

my aunt's thingies. they're being packed right now, and will be sent to jakarta through expedition

another corner of my bedroom. these tables are used to be put many kinds of bandages. but now, they're empty already.

I have to be patient. to wait for sunday to come, to wait for my salary to be received, and decorate my room to make it cozier...

Damn! time is crawling..

Lord, thanks for blessing me, and granting what I wished for. Thanks for giving my privacy back. Thanks for giving me this bless along with a happy moment I will have with legato: A vacation to jatim park! it's going to be the first time for me visiting that amusement park. THE FIRST TIME? am I kidding? no!

I come from a family which hardly ever goes out to have vacation. Dad dislikes refreshing or visiting amusement parks or tourism sites. while mom, though she likes and badly needs a vacation, she can't drive by herself to go for a vacation, and her hectic schedule makes her unable to steal some time to go out. while me, I badly need a vacation. I always feel jealous and envious seeing my friends traveled to many beautiful places, and I am sitting alone at home, watching the photos of my friends having vacation posted in FB, no one asked me to go out with them. believe me, I feel badly, terribly, deadly, JEALOUS.
OK, you can say "IT'S WEIRD TO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO JATIM PARK!!" But it's INDEED a fact that my father dislikes vacation. Mom admits that. not only mom, but also everyone in his office admits dad's disliking in vacationing. they said that that's the way my dad is. Poor me :(

And this is going to be a precious time for me. To have fun in jatim park with legato. Dear legato, somehow I feel jealous to see your photos having vacation in beautiful places. this time, I wanna join you, so that I can show to my great-grandchildren that their grandma has experienced a vacation - which is very rare in my family. 

Dad, mom, vacation is expensive in this family. So, may I trust my friends instead of both of you for having a qualified vacation? thank you.

Welcoming the 6th semester

so, what do you do to gain enthusiasm and excitement to start a new semester?
me: buy pink things.

my pencilcase with pink stationaries

my phone strap, it costs IDR 7K, kinda too expensive,huhu

my binder note

my meal box bag

so, these are a few of the giftpapers I collect, to be  put in my wall as a decoration

P.S.: Well, blogger is kinda uncooperative, look at the pictures I upload, they're messed up :(

OK, tomorrow I'll start the 6th semester, with new courses that will increase (or kill?) my curiosity in linguistics. about development of language use in society. well, I realize that majoring linguistics is exactly the best choice, it is exciting, indeed... =)

2011 CALEIDOSCOPE

I wanna share to you my 2011 caleidoscope.... haha

finally I finished all the assignments and I feel relieved.... *jumping jumping like destiny's child

so... here they are

JANUARY 2011

the first time working for Student Executive Board, as a committee of Karnaval Sastra. I was appointed as the event-planning division for Malam berbintang lima, the celebration night of Karnaval Sastra. Also, in this january, for the first time, I was appointed as the captain of the class. It was on the critical reading class, taught by Bu Iroh who was pregnant at that time =). Well, starting on this January, I am officially an English LINGUISTICS student. it's because starting on the 4th semester, the courses we take determines the specialization we major. I took TEFL, it shows that I belong to linguistics.

FEBRUARY 2011

Is there something special on february? emmm.... not really. ah, yeah! the TEFL lecturer, Mr. Andi Muhtar gave me an assignment that required me to meet my English teacher when I was at SMANAWA! hoho, I came back to smanawa and interviewed my favorite English teacher Bu Intyas Yanuartanti.... waaaa, I found out that Bu Intyas knows Pak Andi muhtar :) having a teacher that graduates from the same university with me is such an interesting thing, I can share many things about the lecturers we have :)

Also, in this month, I befriend with a japanese student, Sayumi Mizuno. She is an AIESEC participant having a project in Malang, introducing Japanese culture to senior high school students. I'm glad to befriend with foreigners... :)

MARCH 2011

On march, the critical reading course ended. ENDED? yeah. due to the lecturer's pregnancy, and she was going to have the termination in April, therefore she decided to add 2 additional classes. Hey, what a hectic schedule, dude. During these 3 months I had 4 reading classes and we worked very hard. it feels like taking 26 credits. ahahaha! it was so hard, when finally this class finished, I yelled "YAAAAAAAAAAAYY, I'M TAKING 18 CREDITS NOW! THOSE 4 CREDITS FINALLY GONE!".

APRIL 2011

Officially becoming a SWINGING FRIENDS (Mocca's friendsclub). attending the meeting in MOG to prepare the gathering, and I met new nice friends. Dewi, Icha, Jono, Eva, Nungki, Wini, Alfi, Rosa, and many more.

I finally know how it feels to be a member of a fans club, to befriend with many people who have the same interest. 

Also, on april, I got a nephew. Meet ISMAIL MUHAMMAD... he was born on April 16th, 2011 =). He is the second son of Bu Iroh and Pak Agung.... waaa, I feel so delighted to have this handsome nephew.

MAY 2011

becoming the coordinator of English 3D Wallchart competition for SMA student on Legato Anniversary is kinda hectic and stressing, but at last I feel relieved seeing the event was finally done successfully =)
I turned 21 on May 3rd. thanks God.. for being given a chance to live, to have a chance to learn....
On May 14th I met MOCCA, my favorite band, and I had a very good time with Swinging Friends.

JUNE 2011

My teeth's plumbing got broken. it INDEED hurt. It made me shout crazily inside my bedroom. therefore, I couldn't go anywhere.
Oh yeah, I also worked for Cerita Segala Rasa magazine and interviewed a senior lecturer, Bu Siu.

JULY 2011

On july 15th I had a music night with my friends at pak murdib's house. well pak murdib and his wife, bu arwijati, are both our lecturers... I love their classes so much. I sang Looking Through the Eyes of Love and Menanti Sebuah Jawaban. nice event =)
Most unforgettable day: July 25th. Had a lunch with big sist! we ate at Pizza Hut matos, then we went to hypermart, and had photobox shoot =) I LOVE THE PICSSSSSS!!
Not long after, my parents forced me to go to jember, accompanying my Aunt who was hospitalized because of her diabetes. I said, "SUUUUCCCKK!" I really wanted to be in campus, being a committee of OSPEK!

AUGUST 2011

Oh, SMANAWA's anniversary is absolutely not to be missed. I love that school very much, this emotional bond will never fade. Also, on this august, for the first time, I am expelled from my bedroom. My Aunt (whom I told u above, who suffers a diabetes) is finally treated in malang, after 1 month hospitalized in jember. Until this very second when I typed this post, auntie still stays in my home, and I don't know when will she go home. :-( T_T

SEPTEMBER 2011

Having a long holiday is so SUCK. believe me.
My Murabbi (mentor) interrogated me why did I never show up in Majelis dakwah sekolah's events, the halaqoh (Islamic Study forum), and I also disappeared in their FB group. I also behave as if I against them, by blaming them in my FB status as if they restrict me on expressing my narcissisms creativity.
Finally I said, "Well, somehow I am DIFFERENT with you all. you are way too shy to show yourselves. you don't want to show your photo in FB. you only want to sing only in female forums and afraid if there's a man hearing your voice. you avoid showing up in public. Different with me. Even I have a desire to be a model. I love lipsyncing and upload it in my FB. I love singing, accompanied by my friend playing guitar, and they are BOYS!. I love dancing. When Tani Maju, Jawaika, or any other bands perform on Sastra's events, I don't hesitate to come up in front of the stage with the crowd, and dance together, along with the music! I love being in a flash mob! while you expect me to be like you, and you forbid me to have these kind of activities!"

finally my murobbi said, "So I have understood it now. that you don't want to be with us"
I said, "It's up to you if you make such kind of conclusion"
then she said "OK, it means that now we're over, you're no longer in our halaqoh forum. rite?"
I said, "It's OK"

The conclusion is, I QUIT from that organization after being inactive for approximately one year. after working with them from 2008-mid 2010. I finally quit.

Dear, to be a religious person, I don't need a big headcover, skirts, socks, a forum where girls (ooops, Akhwats) and boys (ooops, ikhwans) are separated with curtain, a halaqoh forum, a must of hiding our photos hn FB, a must of singing only in female forums, the use of ana-antum-akhi-ukhti-afwan language, and many other stuffs I had when I joined that organization. What I learn when I work for Ormawa Sastra ir that we are free to express ourselves in many kinds of media, in the name of freedom of expression. I indeed do agree with this. I uphold the freedom of expression. Nothing's wrong with it. that's why I feel nothing wrong when I danced along with my friends on music nights held by BEM Fakultas Sastra.

Dear ukhti, I'm different :) if you think you can't go with it, it's OK. What's the meaning of happiness for you, have it your way.

OCTOBER 2011

Dear, being appointed as a fundraiser of English month 9 is somehow a SUCK. I hate having miss-communication with the sponsor who actually misunderstood the proposal and the MoU, but they blamed us. C*zz*! d*fici**te! c*gn*!
Also, I finally resigned from Ar Rohmah Putri. FREED.... FREEDDDDDDD....

NOVEMBER 2011

Finally finished the service period in Legato, with many sorts of memories..
I can't feel the time passed by, and finally I finish the beautiful 2 years.
Also, my junior high school teacher whom I call Mama, Bu Sugi, ask me to tutor her daughter for English subject. Yaay, finally I can earn some money to buy room decorations

DECEMBER 2011

Officially appointed as a senator :) I'm now the head of Prosperity Commission of Student Legislative board. my duty is to check the inventory of our office, and make the office into a homey place :)
Also, our CCU class held a CCU gathering where we had so much fun. Icha, a friend from the other CCU class, performed Tari Topeng. My classmate Renisya with her SBSquad performed korean dance. And, of course, me - as a Swinging Friends who is fond of Arina Mocca, performed TAP DANCE!
Finally, thanks God I had a chance to show my dancing skill.

Those are just a few of the stories I had back in 2011....

Resolutions? Why? I make resolutions not in every new year, but in every Birthday!
But I do hope that I can be more mature, not to blame every single thing so easy,
to be more calm on facing everything.
And, one more thing. should I say it now?
OK.
Dear, I want a... yeah, Boyfriend.
#huekbyooooor Angie talking about boyfriend? wait wait, she never reveals her love life in public place!

of course, because I've been single since the day when I born. I've never been in a relationship, u know.

and it somehow sometimes sucks. I admit it.

Well, actually I have so many hopes and wishes, cannot mention one by one.

Anyway, happy new year! hoping you have a blast all along 2012. let's prove that the doom's day won't be happened this year. it's just a HOAX, dear.... hahaha
Only Allah knows.. la haula walaa quwwata illa billah. one of thd sign of being faithful is to believe that the doom's day will come, and to believe that only God knows the D-day... ain't it?

alone for a while, I've been searching to the dark. for traces of the love you left inside my lonely heart.... (eh. this is Final Fantasy IX, huh?)

ok, this is going to be a very short post for a blog but too long as a tweet or FB status.

So, tomorrow, my parents are going to be away for all day long. My aunt will be in her sister's home. Lil bro will be at school doing his robotic thingy. This is absogoddamnfu**inglutely a Purrrrrrrrfect time to do anything that I can't do recently. Buy snacks a lot in the nearby minimarket. work on stop motion video for January 9th. do Videoke-ing. Write a poem. HELL YEAH!!! 

Bicycling, new TV channel, and.... RESEARCH STATISTICS! AAARGH ~

Me: "What's the hardest part of working on our thesis?"
My Senior: "to turn on our laptop and click the documents"

That also applies in doing assignments. At first I thought that I only have Sociolinguistics assignment which is doing a mini-research about alay language. I've copied many alay wall posts, comments, and names on FB. i thought that's all of my assignments until suddenly I dreamed about my email. LORD! I have an email from my lecturer containing about.... Research statistic assignment!



We are supposed to find the answers on the E-book we downloaded at www.library.nu.
well, I'm not used to use e-book as a reference, and I think having a hard copy of a book is more practical. but, the problem is, should I print out that 227-page-ebook by my own papers, by my own printer, although the lecturer said so?

Yeahh, I admit it, that the hardest part of doing a homework is not to think what the answers are, but to start working on it. to turn my laptop on and open the desired document.

Well, somehow I try to boost up my willing to work on my assignments by writing this very kind of post, to share it with another. but the problem is, it is mostly not working.

they are only 10 questions, but - yeah - why it is so hard to start?
I don't want this course to be a hard subject.

Hmm, I wanna tell you that I feel fresher now, although I'm upset. I just had bicycling around my campus and feel the convenience of my campus area on day-offs. No students, no vehicles, and it was breezy. something that makes me upset that: This is the 2nd time the right pipe of my trousers was torn because it was hooked accidentally on the bicycle's gear. Argh!

Have you found out that we have a new TV channel, Kompas TV? managed by a well-known newspaper, Kompas, now they spread their media to TV channels. Cooperating with a local TV channel, ATV, kompas TV is streamed throughout malang city. and guess what, dad directly falls in love with this new TV :) and maybe sooner or later I'll love it too :)

Badly need.....

1. A headset for my SE K630i!

2. New pencil case: Mine is already torn badly!

3. an underscarf!



emm.... I wanna ask something: is it still appropriate for a 21-year-old girl like me to use a metal pencilcase which is usually used by elementary school students? heheh
everytime I walk around stationary store, I always can't stand of the cuteness of those metal pencil boxes... Especially with those hello kitty ones.
but somehow I also tempted to have furry pencilcase like the one I saw in str*beri.
BTW, i just purchased the university's parking ticket! Haha, no need to park my motorcycle in ormawa too often :)

Another boredom in this holiday

firstly I would like to say Minal aidzin wal faidzin, happy idul fitri, everyone...

Hi dear, I'm having a 2-week holiday, and I don't like it.
I feel so bored! I miss my campus, my Legato, my classes and my classmates very badly.
Hmm, what am I going to talk about in this post? I feel very dry and don't know what to do.
OK, I had a very ordinary Idul fitri celebration. I had my id prayer on Taman Krida Budaya with my family and went home, asking apology to all the members of the family, had breakfast, then went to pasuruan to visit grandparents' grave.

One different thing in this year: I don't know why do my neighbors don't visit my house this year! hahahahaa, it's a luck for me, I can take a longer sleep then :) and I don't need to clean the front room very often, hehe

hmpft, I'm glad for having a task of doing a mini research of alay language in facebook. it's easy to collect the data, alay language is easily found in Sm*shblast's fanpage. fufufufu...

Thanks sm*sh for having such alay fans. It makes me easier to collect data of alay language, huhuu.

Well, I can't wait for my classes to begin this semester. Holiday, please stop your steps immediately!

Music Night at Pak Murdib's house: I CAN SING!

I attended a music night at My lecturer's house, he's Pak Murdib, and his wife Bu Arwijati who is also my lecturer. there were Mas Nabhan, Bu Renzi, Ivana, Reincy, mas mupenk, zen, ogie, yerrico, rosel, tiche, sahirul, lee, and trias :)






Dear, I've proven that God made no waste - including my voice.
at first I doubted my voice, will I sing well on this song? :



Looking through the eyes of love. I love this song, and fortunately Pak Murdib, my lecturer, can accompany me with his electone. I can sing out loud! I freed my voice to come out, together with the melody. Lord, I can sing!

I sang not only looking through the eyes of love, but also Menanti Sebuah jawaban by padi.

It was a very awesome night, so impressive that I can't wait to have the next opportunity to sing along with my friends!!!

Yes, Lord. YOU made no waste. I can sing!

BTW, yesterday I bought GADIS magazine with a School Agenda as the bonus. Hmp... I'm no longer a teenager, nor a high school student. but I'm so tempted to have this agenda.

somehow I feel that this agenda is quite similar with Girlfriend Magazine's agenda that I got on 2008....
it is as heavy as girlfriend's.



the columns are quite similar, but they are spacious enough to take notes from my classes or legato's meetings.

Hahaaha.... sounds so 'high school mode on' I think, but the Fashion theme that Gadis picked up for this agenda really suits me, as my passion for fashion increases.

can't wait to have a meeting with legato, so that I can use the agenda for the very first time.. hahaii.
anyway. I'm going to fly to Jatim Park 1 with my classmates. the first time for me going there! bismillah...

PENGUMUMAN! saya tidaksukaliburanpanjang

kampusku mengumumkan bahwa libur lebaran cuma 5 hari. protes, cerca dan pengemisan minta perpanjang pun menggema di penjuru UM raya, tapi aku cuek aja.
gimana nggak? aku arema asli dan gak seneng liburan. males dirumah q.... paling dirumah ya jadi korban otoritas, absolutisme dan kediktatoran yang nyaingin ferdinand marcos.
aku lebih menemukan kedamaian di kampus. di sudut-sudut gedung E. mendekam dalam nyamannya ESAC ditemani maroon *panggilan untuk laptopku tercinta*. tidur di legato, bercengkerama ria dengan kawan2 legato. makan di pujas. mengikuti kuliah bersama dosen2 yang cantik, ganteng, gaul dan ngopeni mahasiswa. mengerjakan tugasku sebagai CO kesekret EM8. merencanakan ulang tahun dosen, dan merayakannya seseru mungkin walaw sederhana. terus rapat EM dan EFW yang lalu disambung teriakan LEGATO FIGHT! membahana di langit sastra. Oh, the English department! I don't know what word is proper to say that I love you very much. Thank god aku udah pindah kesini, disini aku bener2 nemuin jiwaku sebenarnya.

aku bakalan kangen kalian semua guys, kalo liburan panjang.