my holiday so far

I know I'm a lazy log who doesn't update my blog. (sorry for the bad poetry attempt)

But firstly Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!!

Recently, I went for Central Java road-trip with my folks for Christmas. We went mainly to small towns, like Magelang, then Solo, followed by Salatiga, then Kuningan (a village near Cirebon). OK so I thought small towns would be boring, but, I was wrong!! Except for being carsick on the first day, (we spent like 11 hours in the car) the trip was full of yummy food! (a bit no connection). Very cheap some more! Satay, fried chicken, ronde sekoteng, yum!!! But of course gluttony is a deadly sin. Sigh. Very scared to see weighing scale when I returned to Jakarta. And the people were friendly, the abang-abangs on streets were polite young men, not thugs. Can feel some kampong spirit burning in the hearts of the people...

But this is weird!! It's against the nature that on the 4th of Jan, for the first time in 5 years, I'm not going to school.

It's not like I've got no activities at all, I manage to make a little money by helping my mum giving math tuition. I've got one pupil, who goes to a school here, which follows Singapore syllabus (I won't mention the name). With a twist. They are condensing Sec 3 and Sec 4 in one and a half year! Oh, maybe it's not crazy enough, but hear this: they gonna condense 2 years of JC in one and a half year too!! What?? Such thing can, meh? So, my poor pupil here is in the sec3-sec4 hybridisation, and when I asked her,"So when will you take your O Levels?" she's like, "I dunno.". I symphatise with her suffering. I just sincerely hope that she (and other poor students in the school) won't go on to the insane JC1-JC2 hybridisation.

And, I'm learning Chinese too, finally! After so much agonising because of not being able to speak it, and the lump in my throat whenever someone asked me with a mix of pity and anger shown clearly in their faces, "Ni bu hui jiang huaiyu ma?" and me answering feebly, "Bu hui, bu hui...". Argh. I'm not even sure the hanyu pinyin of 'jiang', as in 'speak', so pardon me if I'm wrong. But here, no one cares whether I speak it or not, no one uses it, no one speaks to me with it. But I still want to learn though. Because I want to explore my roots, and also the rise of China as one of the most powerful economi... blah maybe because of those Taiwan drama series lah.

And I'm going out with friends. Some of my Indon college-going friends are on holiday too, which is good, and there's always the rest of the gang (Dwee and Cindy) who reside in Jakarta and are equally bored as me. But that's very seldom, of course because of the public transportation problem in this country, where it's unsafe to ride on one because the risk of being molested, robbed, kidnapped, raped etc is really not worth it.

Those things take little of my time, most of the time I'm just 'menggelepar tak berguna', which is very boring indeed. (erm... sprawled uselessly?)

I'm also watching TV diligently, if that counts. But other than that, nothing!! I have promised myself to frequently hit the gym or go swimming to shed off all the kilos I've gained during the holidays, but so far it's still quite an empty promise. So most of the time you can find me inside my house, sprawled on the sofa (and sometimes staring blankly), one hand holding the remote control, the other stroking my dog.

Does it sound like I'm not really fond of spending my holiday at home? Well it's not that, I do like it. But, usually it's always lazying around for 1-2 weeks or so, agonising because soon I would have to go back to Singapore, and then the holiday ended and I continue on with my life. It's fun because it's only for a short while, and I appreciated it so! This time the holiday is uncommonly looooonnngg and it's like going foreveeerrr aaand eeeevveeeerrr. I can't go on like this.

Of course, the very first week of the holiday when my big sis was still at home too was one of the happiest time. But then she left! Argh! Why our holidays never coincide? How can I not, it was the first time that there were more than one kid in the household since 2002. Mostly what we did was gulping large doses of the OC DVDs (2nd season), but still we had fun! 'Bored' wasn't in my dictionary then, simply because there were 2 of us. Got someone to talk to (other than a stupid adorable dog) in the afternoons, when parents were at work. A simple act of brushing teeth together even moved me, a bit, since it reminded me of our old happy times, I was in Sec2, she was in SMA 2 (erm that's like JC1).

But then she left. And, as usual I'm the only kid left in this house yet again.

Whahaha I write long enough. Then the next few days don't need updates already. Haa :)