The Opera House, Harbor Bridge, and Royal Botanical Garden were often mentioned by exchange students as Sydney's main attractions, but this was not the case with Devita. She sure found that Sydney has plenty marvelous tourism destinations, but the surprises came from her host parents' culture and habits. Her aim to learn English in Leumeah High School seemed trivial after she stumbled upon Spanish burial ceremony, ate loads of Spanish food, found out that members of the family rarely took a bath, and had a crush on her host parents'...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
taken from http://www.emel.com/images/reflections_i98.jpgI was starstruck today because of an act of selfishness. Selfishness is placing concern with oneself or one's own interests above the well-being or interests of others. I did not know that someone could be that selfish. I mean...I read and heard about selfishness many times, but few minutes ago was the very first time I really felt it. I am currently stuttering...wow. Could you really...
Monday, 25 February 2013
WAIT! I still have GMAT on my schedule!Torture isn't over yet, I guess. Hola,Huff...I took the iBT last Sunday and it felt messy. There were like 50 kinds of wrong things that day and every single of them managed to ruin my test day. Do you know the iBT? it is basically TOEFL. It measures your ability to use and understand English at the university level. And it evaluates how well you combine your listening, reading, speaking and writing...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: greenvia SysAdminUpdate Palooza, (Wed, Feb 20th): UPDATE 2Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.02 was published today as a fix for CVE-2013-0640 and CVE-2013-0641. More information at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-07.html.Wireshark 1.9.0 was published today. Its an experimental release for testing new features for the upcoming 1.10 version.UPDATEMore updates arrived:Thunderbird 17.03 arrived yesterday. It fixes 8 security vulnerabilities.Apple released yesterday iOS 6.1.2, which...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Hi,I am a bit gloomy today because somehow I feel like I am being abandoned and I end up tracing every single person who 'abandoned' me. My mom, my dad, my brother, my husband, my friends, and my prince charming. Do yo know why I typed abandoned inside those two apostrophes? because they did not actually abandon me. None of them intentionally left me or some of them did, but they did not mean to hurt me at all. However, still...the feeling of being...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Yihaaa!Just finished reading this one. It took me weeks to do it because I've been busy lately and I had to steal few minutes here and there (20 minutes before working hour, 15 minutes in break, a bit after and before I did my iBT reading material, etc), but it's totally worth it! It is a fun, educational, and well-researched novel. The extra efforts, the book's price, and the lengthy pages do not mean anything compared with what I got from...
The other homeA space we created to be with each other from time to time. We used to talk a lot, fight a lot. We moved together, develop and shrink along the way. We have our weird names on its walls.It's quiet and empty now...for some reasons I know nothing aboutI have monologuesI sit in the corner of our home. Waiting.I yearn for your existence, but I do not dare to beg since your time is not rightfully mineSigh...you are not rightfully mine Where are you?My heart is gripping with worriesAre you alive? Are you dead already?...
Monday, 18 February 2013
This is me in general.If there is someone who feels uncomfortable being around me, just tell me, stop helping me, leave me and I will never ever be mad at you because of that, blackmail you or threatening to expose your secrets. Relax, please...no one, no one has any obligation to be with me. At least, I am not obliging anyone to stay with me. Not my husband, not my mom, not my daughter, not my relatives, not my friends. I want people around me to see that being or not being with me is a choice for them. I do not want to be a liability to...
Hi!At last, after all this years, I get the chance to study English inside a real English class. I got admitted in an Academic English class in K****n along with my friends (Titi, Tri, and Yuda). The schedule is flexible, the study materials are good, the classes are more comfortable than my workstation, and the teachers are...mmmm...we shall get there later. The most obvious downside is the location. Well, it is strategically located in the city, near BSD and ITC BSD, but it means I have to spend almost half an hour to get there...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Hey,Apparently Titien is not the only one with issues with work environment. I'm not going to say that my colleagues are wrong, nah. I am gonna say that I'm not in the same page with them. I am a very direct person. I do not take comfort behind sweet words, polished sentences, or cynical smiles. Every time we argue about something, I tried to be direct and clear and ended up feeling like a bad guy because my words sounded rude and crass. I just wanted to make a stand of my opinion.I had a thesis supervisor once and I told him not laugh at me. I...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
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