A Small Peace Called Imagination...

How some ppl can have more time than others

I've been doing nothin in the last one hour. Listening to local radio from Jakarta, but how come there's no DJ?? All DJs are also enjoying weekends? While I'm still here in my room, a lot of projects are waiting for me to do but I just dun have moods to do and tempted to procrastinate. (Oh finally... there comes the DJ's voice in the radio).

A few days ago I met a girl in the friendster. I got the link to her from one of the Indonesian young writers which I already added in fs. Then I said hello to this girl. She's a young writer as well. But u know what, she already started writing a novel. And her first novel is going to be published this December. The second one is next July. She's also a co-writer of a famous scriptwriter for television. And she's one yr younger than me! See what a difference one year gap can make. I'm just an amateur short story writer, sometimes during vacation I write one short story to local magazines in Jakarta. If it's published, I'm very happy. Until now, how many have I published? I guess only two stories. The first one is when I was 13 or 14 yrs old. Then the second one is a few months ago. The other one is a poetry published in the anthology of poetry.com. The in-between 5 years, mostly I just feel no time to write. And no good idea that motivates me to write.

How come some people like that girl have enough time to write a hundred-pages novel? She finished it in 5 months. Wow, that's a great job, isn't it. I always wish I could publish a novel someday or write a script for a movie (hehehe it's my BIG dream). But I just wonder whether I can achieve it. Even now is worse. My schedule in university is very packed (with projectsss, of course). But some ppl said that when u're still young (dunno which age till which age is considered young), do as much things as possible n do what u wanna do, coz u may not be able to do it later. When u realize, it's already too late or time flies.

posted by pembual kata @ 10:19 PM 8 comments

Tropical beach mode

I'm listening to OST 50 First Dates rite now
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/50firstdates
The songs take me somewhere out there.

Imagination: I'm in a tropical beach. Surrounded by white sand, palm trees, clear blue sea, and bright sunny day. Some Latin American ppl wearing 3/4 khakis play traditional Mexican instruments and sing swing blues. Some ppl sipping cool soda cocktail from the nearest bar. Some ppl lying on the sand enjoy the sun-bath. Some children swimming, laughing happily n splashing water to each other.

Reality: I'm in my room. Looking at the hundreds lines of Java codes. Wondering how to send encrypted data over the network. "Google"-ing around but can't seem to find anything helpful. Hoping that these 3 weeks will pass as soon as possible...

posted by pembual kata @ 6:06 PM 4 comments

Yesterday Once More

Today I went to my friend's bday. Happy belated b'day Lydia! We had lunch in Orchard then we went to watch movie. It's been a long time I haven't watched movies in cinema, more than 1 month I guess. A long time I haven't been to Orchard as well. Maybe only twice this semester. Haha see.. how "isolated" I become this sem.

My friends and I watched Yesterday Once More, starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng. It's a very nice movie. Okay actually I like when both of them play together in a movie. They're so compatible in the movies. Last time I watched them playing in Needing You, Love on A Diet, and a few others whose title I forgot.

Yesterday Once More is about the couple husband and wife who are both ex-thieves since their high school. Well, they are still "kleptomaniac" even after they're married. But one day Andy Lau asked for divorce. His reason is because their sharing of the jewellery that they stole is unfair, Sammi asked for larger portion (she's actually quite selfish at that movie haha). Then they divorced although they still loved each other. So it's a stupid reason, rite? But actually... the actual reason is not like that. For those of u who plan to watch the movie, better stop reading my blog here coz I'm gonna reveal the story hehe.

The actual reason is that Andy Lau had terminal disease at that time. Two years later when they both meet each other, they still have their old flame. But Andy never told Sammi abt his disease. Shortcut to the ending (actually there're a lot of scenes before this but I'm just lazy to type hehe): even when he died, Sammi didn't know abt that. Actually I'm not quite satisfied with the ending. It's a bit "hanging". The plot of the movie is quite confusing but overall nice storyline. I didn't expect that the movie is kind of sad-ending coz usually both of them play happy-ending movies. I can't keep my tears from rolling down. I dun really like a movie when the actor/actress died becoz of the disease or they part away because one people died. That kind of movie always makes my tears drop. It reminds me of someone I love very much. My mom. I miss her.

But anyway... u can't ask "yesterday" to come "once more". Better treasure everything that u have now n just do the best what u can do today. Coz when today becomes yesterday, what's left is just a memory and u can't turn back time.

posted by pembual kata @ 10:44 PM 5 comments

Career quiz

I've just taken a quiz in http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/careers/

Social
Your results suggest that Social type work might suit your interests and preferences.
Social types like roles that focus on helping, teaching or supporting others and very much prefer working with people to working with things or ideas. They tend to prefer working in teams and like to feel they are doing something useful. Typical roles for social types include teacher, counsellor, nurse, minister of religion, clinical psychologist or police officer.

Artistic
Your results suggest that Artistic type work might suit your interests and preferences.
Artistic types are interested in creativity and art, preferring freedom and independence to following rules and procedures. Self-expression is very important to Artistic types and they may prefer to work alone. Typical roles for Artistic types include artist, singer, designer, photographer, musician, writer and actor.

Conventional
Your results suggest that Conventional type work might suit your interests and preferences.
Conventional types are happy to work within systems and large organisations and tend to focus on accuracy and efficiency, preferring to know what is expected of them. They tend to like things to be organised and predictable and are often involved in roles that involve recording, sorting, documenting and organising. Typical roles for Conventional types include the range of administrative and clerical roles (e.g. in the government and financial sectors) as well as accountancy, banking, bookkeeping, secretarial work and some inspecting roles.

Realistic
Your results suggest that Realistic type work is less likely to suit your interests.
Realistic types generally prefer action to words, they like physical activity and may prefer working with things to working with people. They tend to favour jobs where they can work with their hands or produce things, and often like outdoor work. Typical roles that suit Realistic types are gardener, mechanic, driver, electrician, farmer, sportsperson, skilled trades, labourers and some engineering and military roles.

Enterprising
Your results suggest that Enterprising type work is less likely to suit your interests.
Enterprising types like persuading and influencing people as well as controlling, managing and selling to them. They like to take a lead and are often quite motivated and ambitious but may be impatient and can find rules and detail frustrating. They tend to favour roles such as salesperson, manager, estate agent, supervisor, lawyer, advertising or marketing executive and often like positions that have status and prestige.

Hm... looks like IT is not my field, right?

posted by pembual kata @ 8:21 PM 4 comments

In between states

Gee... I dunno what's wrong with me today. This morning I woke up, almost fell down from my bed coz my head was dizzily spinning around. I thought I only dreamt then I slept again for a while. But when I woke up again, it's still like that so I forced myself to get up. Until now I guess I'm between "conscious vs. not really conscious" states interchangeably. Sometimes I feel I'm okay, sometimes I feel very dizzy till the earth is like moving (something like earthquake, dun laugh okay). Lack of energy to do anything today. No mood to eat, ate a few spoons this afternoon. No mood to do my projects n assignments (still tons of them). Maybe I'm too stressed, tired n lack of sleep these days till my brain already complains. How I'm really longing for vacation...

posted by pembual kata @ 3:08 PM 6 comments

Another boring Saturday

I wish I could go back to high school time, when Saturday is the most enjoyable day of the week. No need to think about projects, assignments, etc. Can just watch TV/VCD, practice a new song in piano, gather with my family, chit-chat with my cousin or call my friends. Slacking in my air-con bedroom, covering myself in warm banket, tuning in my favorite songs, and reading my favorite novel. Or maybe just go to the mall window-shopping or watching movies in cinema with my friends. What a lovely Saturday.

Now Saturday is no different with other weekdays. Still staring in front of computer like what I'm doing now, thinking of my unfinished projects. Waking up, eating, breathing, sleeping, studying are all done in one place. Campus.

NUS revolves around my life. And this is my life now. There're no more weekends when I can just slack and release all the stress thought. Weekends = weekdays.

Sigh... what am I doing now? Complaining will never change anything. I think I must start doing my project.

posted by pembual kata @ 8:48 PM 6 comments

Checklist of my "life" this semester

I've been busy since last week with tons of projects, assignments and midterms. At least all my midterms have finished, now focusing on projects. I think I need to make a checklist. I'm confused becoz there're just sooo many projects.

1. CS4260 - case study, pair of two (finished)
2. CS4260 - Creative Technology 25 pages (draft finished, interview to go, and final proj due 20 Oct, final presentation on 27 oct or 3nov)
3. CS4260 - Streamline Inc. presentation (on 13 Oct)
4. Midterm + Quiz 1 Finance (finished)
5. Midterm Chinese 3 (finished)
6. Midterm CS3235 (finished)
7. Quiz 2 Finance (hm... I forgot, should be in week something)
8. CS3235 Comp Security project (assgnmt 1 paper finished, assgnmt 2 programming due on Nov)
9. JS2225 Marketing in Japan project 6000 words (haven't started, oh no!!! due beg. of Nov)
10. Chinese 3 short speech exam (either 27 oct or 3 nov)

This semester is the busiest sem I've ever had so far. Even my weekends, Saturday and Sunday are spent for ECA, project meetings or project research. But this Saturday is supposed to be the last session of NVAC, so next week Saturday hopefully will be free. I think everybody in SoC is also very busy. All of them sleep very late to do their projects. I dunno abt other fac, but sometimes I just feel that SoC students really has no life...

posted by pembual kata @ 2:55 AM 3 comments