off to london
30 Aug 2010 2 Comments
in blabber
an hour from now we’ll be taking off to the airport. it’s time to go to london. yippeeeee!!!
we bought the guide books today and i’m finally getting into it; i’m finally feeling excited about going to london. i looked at the area where the hotel is to see where we could eat dinner closeby tonight and the options were: mexican, fish and chips, japanese, chinese, traditional english. rock on.
and at the end of the trip, we’ll be coming home to a clean flat. i did four loads of laundry this weekend. washed the bathtub and the wall. washed the sink. vacuumed the kitchen floor and washed it indonesian style (on hands and knees using an old t-shirt). washed the kitchen bench. hallway and bedroom are also vacuumed. ran the dishwasher. i know, i’m so good. i just think it’s horribe coming back to a dirty house from a holiday.
i am so ready for a holiday.
ps. missing the girls already. we dropped them off at the cat hotel about three hours ago 
i think, i hope that…
29 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in in norway
summer is finally over.
the crazy warm days dragged me down. sure we usually only have about a month of them in the whole year but my goodness, the summer days here are intensely warm. the sun burns. and to make things worse, we had a lot of humid days this year. it’s like being back in indo, basically. without the ac.
our flat has no ac. my car is over 15 years old antique and has no ac. my workplace has no ac. can’t even escape to the mall because the bloody mall has no freaking ac either.
we tried to cool down. the warm cable on the hallway was turned off. the temperature of that in the bathroom was turned way down. the balcony door was constantly open wide. the doonas got kicked to the floor constantly. tons of ice cream were bought and consumed. mostly by me.
the sun i could take. stayed under the shade and i was ok. the humidity, however, i could not run away from.
and that was how i lost sleep night after night. i took naps a few times because a) it was too warm and the only way i could stop thinking about how warm it was, was by sleeping to kill the time and b) i was sleep-deprived.
this week has been lovely. lots of rain, cloudy days and the temperature has really dropped. no more sticky days before rain, just very cool days.
for the first time in goodness know how long, i went to work in jeans instead of leggings this week (yes, i’ve sunk that low. i wore leggings to work paired with long tops. it was WARM, ok). i even wore a long-sleeved shirt one day. i had my hair down instead of pulling it up into a pony tail. and my bang was freed, not kept out of my face by a hairband. today, i wore boots instead of flats or flip flops.
i am soooooo relieved. i hate summer.
looks like…
28 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in talk
MOH had spaghetti carbonara for dinner today. in all its eggy, creamy, hammy (hammy? lots of ham, i mean) glory.
i had kidney beans soup. yummy, healthy, and tastes like home.
me: look what i have for dinner.
MOH: eeehhhh.
me: what? it’s good for you.
MOH: what is that?
me: beans! lots of vitamins, fiber and iron. very low in fat. and soooo good.
MOH: it looks like something that comes out of me when i have a bad stomach.
as always, classy. we are very mature adults in this house.
off with the extra kilos
08 Aug 2010 4 Comments
in blabber
i bought a little black dress about three weeks ago.
50NOK (sale). h&m. not my size. as in it has around 20cm of zipper and i could only zip up about 5.
i told MOH i liked it so much and i was determined to fit into it.
so i’ve been exercising this last two weeks. the exercise bike has been working hard and no longer just stand there like it was a piece of furniture. and i try to eat sensibly.
i have carried the extra twenty-and-so kilos for over seven years now and i am determined to be rid of them. the good thing is instead of saying i’ll start tomorrow, i am doing it now. and i’m doing it my way, with exercise but without depriving myself of food. the bad thing is this will take quite some time.
but i’ll get there.
ps. i can now zip up another 10 cm on that black dress.
this year, i shall celebrate
07 Aug 2010 5 Comments
in blabber
i was born the long-awaited first child to my parents. my parents wanted a child so much they actually were this close to adopting before they fell pregnant with me. as a result, i was treated like a little princess. year after year, my birthday was celebrated with a party. proper parties where everybody got dressed up, big cakes were produced and a mountain of pressies were taken home at the end of the day. obviously i don’t remember any of these parties but there are pictures. belive you me, there are pictures. lots and lots of pictures. what can i say, being the first child has its perks.
as i grew up, birthdays were marked only by misua eating. not just mine but my parents’ and siblings’ too. very boring stuffs.
for my 17th birthday, i went to a mall and had dinner with two close girlfriends (i was living by myself in surabaya by then). my 18th went by unmarked. i celebrated it by going to the bottle shop a few weeks after and bought liquors for my underage friends (underage as in 17 going on 18, not 12 or anything like that). for my 19th birthday, i invited four friends to my fancy inner city flat and cooked pan-fried chicken with mushroom sauce. it was very low-key because i had my heart spectacularly broken not long before. sobs…
this is weird but i actually can’t remember my 20th birthday. luckily this was followed by a very sweet 21st birthday.
i was a committee member for a student club at uni then and we were having problems with the student guild. to make long story shorts, my friends made up this story that the guild wanted to have a meeting with us and i had to come. i was pissed. on a saturday? yes, they said. the only time they had. right. whatever.
i was taken to a karaoke place in china town with this funny lighting that made white clothes glow in the dark. someone brought a chocolate cake with sparklers. i got pressies. i got flowers. i was surrounded by much loved friends. it was awesome.
i got another chocolate cake (with candles this time) for my 22nd. i was fortunate enough to spent the day with my lovely friends even though i did have to go to a real student guild meeting that day. yes, on a sunday. i also got my biggest birthday present so far a couple of weeks later. september 12th that year, i met MOH.
23rd was very quiet. i could tell the story but MOH would probably kill me for it so i won’t. for my 24th, MOH took me to an indonesian restaurant in new farm. there was a strand of hair in my springroll. it really was like eating in indo 
this was followed by a party with friends at my flat.
that was my last birthday celebrated outside norway. since then, my birthday has been celebrated the norwegian style, with marsipankake. marsipankake has taken misua’s place. i got presents from my in-laws but all in all, they’ve been very sedated birhtdays. but i’m so used to just eating misua for birthdays, i’m not bothered at all. i’m not big on birthdays anyway because i hate being the centre of attention. hate it.
but this year is going to be different. i have decided that after years of not celebrating myself, i’m due for something big. i was going to go home and celebrate it with my family but found out two of my siblings weren’t even going to be in indo for my birthday so plans were changed.
instead of indo, i’ll be off to london.
woo hoo!!!
an english-speaking country (a moment of silence, please).
fish and chips. markets. multicultural city. restaurants serving food from different countries. crowd. noise. traffic. i think i’m going to cry.
the hotel is booked. plane tickets are bought. my visa has been issued.
i CANNOT wait!
dull
06 Aug 2010 2 Comments
in blabber
i feel so… blah lately.
seriously, i’m so off i can’t even think of another word but ‘blah’.
it’s work. it’s everybody off to their summer holidays. it’s the weather. it’s boredom. it’s lack of sleep. it’s this funny feeling i have, of wanting something, anything, exciting to happen to me.
i don’t know. i feel a bit like doing things without thinking. wake up, go to work, sit in front of computer, watch tv, eat, shower, go to shop… all these every day things, i feel like i do them without feeling them, just go through the motion.
i think i’m in a rut. aaaaw, crap.
