Some of the cheerfulness from Frida & Eki's party last night. The highlight,,, I grabbed the wedding bouquet!!!

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Yesterday (9/1) I attended wedding reception of Frida & Eki, my seniors in college. During the reception, the bride and groom would throw the hand bouquet. Well you know the 'legend', if single woman can grab the bouquet, she will be the next one who's getting married hehehe.

At first, I reluctant to participate because the majority participants is my seniors. But then I saw one of my friends go with the crowd. So I stepped into the 'battlefield'. You know, in this occasion, the process of grabbing the hand bouquet can turn into massacre and brutal hehehe. When Frida threw the bouquet, it came to my direction, hit the head of my senior, fell to the ground, I quickly grabbed it. YEAY!!! I'm the winner!!! So glad I got it, because I also got gift voucher IDR 500,000 from MAP!!! Thank you Frida & Eki!!! I just found 1 shirt in Zara that I like. Very expensive and this voucher will help me buy it hehehe.

My friends congratulated me and said their wishes for me. I kept smiling all night. When I came back to my rental room, I couldn't help to think, "Is it a good sign for my love life in 2011???"

Hopefully, it is a good sign ^^

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First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!! Let's have some 'fun' this year hehehe.

Finally!!! Thanks to Mbak Ketty, I have my ticket to Musikal Laskar Pelangi!!! I've been dying to see this show since last December 2010 and I will watch it 7/1 at TIM hehehe. This will be my first entertainment show in 2011. Hopefully, I can attend another great shows throughout 2011.

Can't wait for 7 January 2011!!!

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At 18/12, Koperasi Siswa Bangsa (KSB) held a workshop for SSB students. The workshop called "Let's Manage Your Money". The speakers is the famous Ligwina Hananto from QM Financial. Basically, the students were taught how to manage their living allowance. All SSB students is the recipients of Student Assistance Program and every month they received living allowance. Hopefully my 'kids' can learn a lot from this workshop and apply it in their lives.

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Another thing that I love the most working in SSB is... lots of event!!! One the event is Year-end gathering that was held in Pasha's house. Pasha is SSB Marketing Manager. We have a lot of fun!!! Singing, eating, talking, dancing. It's a great time hehehe. Thanks to Mbak Ketty and Pak Arnold for the pictures hehehe

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Finally, SSB students will compete in their first competition. The competition will be held in February 2011. Here's a glimpse of what happen in the selection. Between the selection process. As usual, the staffs also want to have the picture hehehe.

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Although I don't celebrate Christmas, but some of my family members are Catholic. So there's always Christmas party in my relative's house. But that was long time ago, before my parents divorced. Since the divorced, our family was separated between Surabaya-Jakarta. I haven't seen my other family members for ages!! Especially my grandma, Oma Nel.

Oma Nel was good at cooking. She specialized in cakes and pastries. During Lebaran and Christmas, she always prepared various cookies. I used to helped her, although only sprinkled the tops hehehehe. But that was fun activity for a little girl. But that activity ended after my parents divorced. One thing that made me sad, Oma Nel had a diabetes and already took one of her kidney and her sight. So she can't make any delicious cookies years ago.

I just called her today, just to say hi. Well tomorrow is Christmas and those memories suddenly came up. She's 86 now, very fragile age. I thanked God that in this age, she still have spirit, still able to talk clearly, remember clearly. Despite her treatment for her crushed hipbone because she fell about 2 years ago, she's in good condition, not ill. I'm very sad because the last time she saw me when I was in elementary school. Now I'm 25 years and she couldn't see me in my graduation pictures, or my brother's. She couldn't see how me and my brother grow up. I'm sure she only have the image of us as a little boy and girl, not a grown up man and woman.

I promised her that next year I will go to Jember to visit her. My friends asked me to go vacation to Surabaya and I'm thinking to extend my vacation to Jember, too. Hopefully my wish will come true. Until then, I will cherished all my memories with Oma Nel, including the Christmas one. Even though I'm not celebrating, that doesn't mean I can't have the memories :)

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