The plans changed when on the 24th of April I randomly tweeted Suzuki Anne on Twitter saying that I am a fan from England. Unexpectedly she tweeted me back and said that she’s going to London to perform “MUSASHI” at the Barbican Centre. I didn’t know anything about it at all! So, I checked on the Barbican Centre’s official site and turn out that Fujiwara Tatsuya and Katsuji Ryo are going to be in the play as well.

At first I didn’t think I would go because I have to much assignments to do and…well, it’s London! Can be very very expensive due to too much temptation in that city LOL.

Then I text my friend Cathy about it while I checked the National Express for the price of the FUNFARE bus from Chester to London and from London to Liverpool, the price of the stage play and I also text my friend Tike who lives in London, asking her if I can stay at her place from the 6th until the 8th.

It took me around an hour to decide everything and sent a blackberry message (BBM) to my dad, asking his permission to be able to go to London and to use the credit card XD. Once I got the permission, I booked all of the tickets right away. Not long after that Cathy text me back saying that we should go. I told her that I’ve booked everything and I’m good to go! She then booked the train tickets and the play right away and managed to get the seat right next to me (mine was Q28 and her’s was Q29).

A few days later, Cathy told our other friend, Haruka, about it and because she’s gonna be in London from the 3rd anyway, she decided to come along with us…and she’s also a huge fan of Fujiwara Tatsuya. XD

Fast forward a week later or so…

6th of May : We’re in London baby~!!

I couldn’t sleep really well the night before because I was afraid that I might oversleep because my bus was at 8.30AM! I ended up sleeping from 7PM until 12AM and couldn’t sleep until 3AM although I have to wake up around 6.00AM to get ready and then walk to the bus stop in city centre.

It took me around 5 hours to get to London from Chester, I spent the first half of the journey sleeping while listening to my iPod. When we stopped at a service station, I decided to buy a stack of gossip magazines (not really a stack but a packet consist of 4 magazines) for me to read for the rest of the journey.

Scenery outside the bus from Chester to London

I arrived in London Victoria Coach Station around 1.30PM and went straight to Piccadilly Square to meet Haruka and Cathy (who arrived an hour earlier because she took the train from Chester). They told me to go to Japan Centre but when I arrived at the Japan Centre that I know, turn out that It’s closed and already moved. So, we decided to meet at the statue in the middle of Piccadilly Square instead.

I was already past lunch time so we headed to Leicester Square (China Town) right away and I chose to have our lunch at MISATO. I love this Japanese restaurant so much not only because it’s delicious but also cheap and each portion is HUGE! My friends said it was really good and even wrote down the name of the resto and the address as well so that next time they come to London, they can go there easily.

Tori Karaage at MISATO

We decided to walk around and even took some purikura pictures in Trocadero before heading towards Barbican Centre.

Purikura~!

We arrive at Barbican Centre around 6PM and rather nervous thinking that my idols are already inside the building LOL. We took quiet a few pictures in front of the building. My friends we’re like,”Fujiwara Tatsuya is in the building!”…but I was different…for it’s “OMG!!! Katsuji Ryo!!!”. XD

In front of Barbican Centre

When we got into the building, I went to get my pre-booked ticket right away, my friends already got their tickets delivered to their addresses. I didn’t want it to be delivered because I’m too scared I might not get them in time.

The ticket~

Just before 7.15, we went inside the theatre. Although our seats were not that close to the stage but they were right in the middle and we can see everything clearly.

poster of MUSASHI

MUSASHI

Review with random fangirl-ish comments:
First of all, because I only watched it once, there were some part of the story that got mixed up in my head and even a bit forgotten but I think I still remember most of it!

Written by : Inoue Hisashi
Directed by : Ninagawa Yukio
Music Composed by : Miyagawa Akira

Cast:
Miyamoto Musashi  –  Fujiwara Tatsuya
Sasaki Kojiro  –  Katsuji Ryo
Fudeya Otome  –  Suzuki Anne
Takuan Soho  –  Musaka Naomasa
Yagyu Munenori  –  Yoshida Koutarou
Kiya Mai  –  Kayoko Shiraishi
Heishin  — Oishi Keita
Chusuke  –  Tsukamoto Yukio
Asakawa Jinbei  –  Iida Kunihiro
Asakawa Kanbei  –  Hori Fumisaki
Tadano Yuzen  –  Inomo Takeshi

The opening scene was a battle between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro. Musashi arrived late on the island by boat with a long wooden sword. He stood with his back to the sun facing Kojiro which is a disadvantage for Kojiro because he couldn’t see Musashi’s face clearly and he’s already exhausted and furious from waiting too long. At the end of the battle, Kojiro lost but he still breathing and might still alive, so Musashi called someone to help Kojiro while he leave the place abruptly.

In this opening scene, my jaw literally dropped when they starts talking! OMG! They really took my breath away. I just sucked right into the story there and then!

The next scene (after some period of time which I honestly forgot) took place in a temple in Kamakura. Here we saw the other characters, 2 monks of the temple (Takuan & Heishin), a shogun swordsmanship teacher who performed songs of the Noh when he’s excited (Yagyu), a former dancer (Kiya Mai) and a lady (Otome). Musashi took part in a retreat in that temple when suddenly Kojiro appear to take a revenge. He challenged Musashi for another battle which is going to take place in 3 days.

the challenge letter (from the program book)

Until that day, Kojiro is going to stay in the temple with them (here we know from the conversation between Heishin and Kojiro that Kojiro kept half of a mirror with him) but in order to prevent the two samurai from killing each other, the other 3 guys (Takuan, Yagyu, Heishin) used one particular method which is tying the two samurai’s to them by their feet with one of them on either side of the samurai, so that they couldn’t reach each other. Still Musashi and Kojiro starts bickering in the middle of the night which creates a really funny scenes because the other three (who were actually still sleeping) were also dragged along with them!

The next day, Chusuke (Otome’s servant) came and asked the two great samurai (which was interrupted by a cough from Yagyu because he’s also a samurai) for help because Asakawa Jinbei is coming and apparently Otome challenged him for a battle to take a revenge for her father.

The funny thing about it is the fact that Otome challenged Asakawa on the same day, time and place as Musashi and Kojiro’s duel! She said that she don’t know what to do so she just copied Kojiro’s challenge letter! XD

This is one of my fave scenes when they asked why Asakawa hated Otome’s father. Turn out that Otome’s father is a brilliant tea taster and always win in a tea tasting battle, on the other hand Asakawa always be the runner-up. Everyone were commenting on how annoyed Asakawa must’ve been because of that when Musashi walked toward Kojiro and said…”Yes, it must be annoying to always be the runner-up!”.

Otome, Kiya Mai and Chusuke asked Kojiro and Musashi to teach them swordsmanship. Kojiro then teach the basic movement for swordsmanship by showing them the movement while shouting “Migi…Hidari…” while moving his right and left feet to the front and back. Then we can see that the monks, Yagyu and Musashi joined in (Musashi said he might learn something new!). The simple movements later turn into a funny dance scene!

Musashi then said that there is no way they could master the swordsmanship in only a few days. When they asked Musashi if he got any plan, he said his plan is “A Plan with No Plan” or something like that. The plan was that they would just run towards Asawaka & co. and just swing their sword towards them.

Before they are ready to go to the battle, Asakawa & co came to the temple and demand to do the battle right away! Otome & co then proceed with Musashi’s plan and ended up winning with Otome cutting the revenge ‘line’.

I am a bit blur at this part but I remember that Kiya Mai told a story about how hard her life is where she had to moved to 10 different places where she had to change her names in every cities. She also said that she had an affair with an aristocrat where she ended up pregnant but had to gave up her child. Apparently the aristocrat is the emperor’s family (sort of forgot the relationship XD, was it cousin? or brother? or something). Which made her son being 18th in line of the throne. She said that she gave half of a mirror to her baby while she kept the other half.

Kiya Mai said that her son is Kojiro and saying that if Musashi killed him, it means that he killed a future king! At first Musashi and Kojiro didn’t believe it at all but turn out that the mirror is matched to Kojiro’s mirror!

Again, this is one of my fave scenes when Kojiro realised that he’s going to be 18th in line! “Dai Juuhachi???!!” and faint right there and then. In this scene, during the conversation between the other characters, Kojiro would woke up randomly and shouted “Dai Juuhachi??!!” and fainted again.

At one point, Musashi asked Kiya Mai about her name changing but left out 3 places where actually based on her previous story are significant in her life. However, she didn’t realise that Musashi didn’t mention those places. Here Musashi realise that she was actually lied about being Kojiro’s mother.

Later that night, Musashi went to see Kojiro who was still laying on the futon and tried to woke him up to tell him that he got tricked. This scene was also really funny because we can see the usually hot blooded Kojiro turned into a mama-boy when he woke up and was looking for his mom LOL To wake him up completely, Musashi had to hit his head with a fan which was done a lot of time because evidently Kojiro was not completely regain his consciousness.

When he finally wide awake and understand what Musashi said, they decided to still have the duel. They went out and threw away a huge rock in front of the temple, which led to a change in the weather to storm with full of lightning.

[highlight this part if you want to know the ending]

Suddenly all of the people (all characters minus Musashi and Kojiro) appear in front of them wearing white clothes which actually wore by one in one’s funeral. Turn out that all of the other characters already died and the wanted to trick Musashi and Kojiro so that they would stop fighting.

Here we can really see the moral of the story right there and then! They all told a story about how they died and how they thought however bad their life was, it was much much better than death and would give anything to be alive once again.

Then everything back to normal and Musashi and Kojiro decided to stop their fight and Musashi even introduced Kojiro as his ‘Yuujin’ (friend).

After the show which received a standing ovation, we went out of the building and jokingly Cathy said,”why don’t we go to the back door!”. We then thought let’s do it and when we get out of the building, we turned right and I saw there was the stage door!

We then waited outside for quiet sometimes in the cold along with my suit case which I still bring along since Chester XD First the older cast members went out of the door and actually I was thinking about getting their autograph but I think I was rather slow because when I realise, they already walked away. Then suddenly Ninagawa-san came out! I was really excited and we all bowed and said “Otsukare-sama” to him but before any of us can do anything else, again he walked away.

Not long after that, Fujiwara Tatsuya appear from inside. He tried to open the door but it was locked so someone had to open it for him. I was speechless because he’s one of the first Japanese actors that I actually like since I watched Battle Royale 7 years ago (after randomly finding BR VCR in my hall of residence in Cambridge where I did my A-Level). To tell you the truth, I don’t remember everything because I was too excited! LOL

Then I saw Suzuki Anne came out and again I was speechless! She’s one of my idol! She’s in a lot of my fave dramas and one person that I really admire and looked up to as my inspiration in acting. Cathy and I came up to her to asked for an autograph but turn out my pen wasn’t working so I took Cathy’s pen (Sorry Cathy, I realise that I didn’t say anything when I took your pen! LOL).

I was really nervous and forgot all my Japanese but I told Anne-san that I tweet her saying that I’m a fan from England and she tweeted me back telling me about MUSASHI. At first she was like…”ohhh…” normally but suddenly changed to “OOHHH!!!”. I think she remembered that tweet XD Then I told her that I came because of that tweet and that I’m a fan since Kindaichi no Shounen no Jikenbo and Stand Up!! (I forgot to asked about Haken no Oscar! Should’ve asked about it because my fave comedian, Tokui Yoshimi, was in it! XD). What I love about her is the fact that she looks really enthusiastic listening to me which I really appreciate! I asked her if I can take a picture with her but she said I can’t. After that she went to talked to the other.

Right there I saw a really familiar figure standing near the door! Katsuji Ryo!! I wanted to asked for his autograph but a few people were talking to him for a while so me and my friends waited. I was afraid that they have to go right away and when the girls done with the pictures and everything, Katsuji already had to go!

All the cast and crew except Katsuji walked to go back home and I saw Anne-san and she waved at me saying,”I’ll see you on Twitter!!”. Nothing I can do other than saying the exact same thing! LOL

The girls finally done with the pictures and I don’t want to waste any more time and asked Katsuji for his autograph. As he gave his autograph to my friends, I checked my camera and silently saying,”Can I take a picture with you?”. I wasn’t really talking to him more like practicing on what I’d say to him but he turned to me and moved his head closer and said,”Sorry?”. To be honest, I was blanked out! Katsuji Ryo talked to me! LOL. Then he sort of figured out that we asked for picture and we took a couple pictures with him.

Katsuji Ryo and Suzuki Anne autographs

Kayoko Shiraishi-san's Autograph

with THE Katsuji Ryo (I pixelate my friends faces just incase they don't want to have their face in my blog)

Again with THE Katsuji Ryo

After that he went to go home. As for me and my friends…we’re still in rather shock mode and left not long after.

Cathy and I going to stay at my friend’s house so we went to my friend’s workplace to see her before heading to her place in Fulham.

7th of May : Being a tourist for the nth time~!!

Although I’ve been in London for I don’t know how many times but again I turned in to a tourist because I’m taking my friends to some tourist spots in London XD

8th of May : Heading for KIKCIUY meeting~!!

I went to Liverpool with Tike to see our other friend Peni. We’re gonna stay over at her place for a night just to see each other after a loonnggg time (altho I see Peni nearly once a month XD)~! We went around city centre and Albert Dock before heading back to Peni’s house. There we spend an actually normal weekend. Just eat, talk, watching movies and singing randomly! ROFL!!!

It was a great fun!! When we all get together, we really can let everything go and just have fun!

9th of May : Back to Chester…Back to McD~!!

I have to be back in Chester before 5PM because I have to go to an orientation for McDonalds at 5PM. Yup, I finally got a part-time job back in McDonalds~! Not the one I used to work but the other branch which is actually closer to where I live.

I think that’s all my great weekend! Sorry, I’m to tired (and lazy) to write down the other 3 days…LOL

Ja,

DT xx

Jadi minggu lalu hari Jumat/Sabtu tmn gw si Peni yang gw kenal sejak gw SMP berkunjung ke Chester krn dia lg bosen ama Liverpool. Jd si Peni ini lg volunteer work di Liverpool selama 10 bulan dan skrg udah bulan ke 6.

Dia dateng hr Jumat malem abis pulang kerja n nginep semalem di rmh gw. Hr Jumat itu rencananya gw mau nyeret dia buat minum2 di pub berhubung gw dah lama bgt gk minum. Tapi ternyata abis makan malem (fish & chips yg porsinya gak normal gede bgt XD) kami kekenyangan n jd males kluar rumah krn dingin. Akhirnya kami di rumah aja n nonton sambil ngobrol.

Pertama nonton “Dara” trus lanjut ke Glee ep.13 krn di Channel 4 mg lalunya diputer ep.12. Trus berlanjut ke “Ju-On : Kuroi Shoujo”. Nyampur2 ya genre-nya ROFL!! Bosen nonton kami ntn random things di youtube sampe jam 1/2 3an baru tidur.

Paginya gk tau knp jam 8 gw dah bangun trus ntn CSI sebentar berhubung si Peni blm bangun. Rencananya mau ke city centre jam 10an gitu deh trus makan siang disono. Tp berhubung itu Sabtu jd kami malas2an ROFL! Sampe akhirnya gw buka jendela biar udara masuk! Baru deh mulai rada bangun beneran berhubung dingin! ROFL!!

Akhirnya kami baru ke city jam 1 siang trus papasan ama tmn gw di jalan. Jujur ya gw sebenernya pengen ngumpet supaya gk ktauan dia tapi sebelum sempet ngumpet dia dah ngeliat gw -_-”. Bukan apa2 ya,disini gw ampir gk pernah ngomong bahasa Indo dan dengan adanya Peni kan gw bs ngobrol Indo dengan puasnya! Klo tmn gw ikutan jalan brg kan gk mungkin ngomong Indo~ kesannya gk sopan bgt.

Bener aja, pas gw lg ngomong ke Peni ttg udara yg anehnya siang itu panas banget pake bhs Indo, tmn gw blg,”Jgn ngomong Indo donk.gw kan gk ngerti!”. Males banget gk siiiihhhhhhh….!!!!!! Pdhl rencana gw tuh seharian ngomong Indo!

Tmn gw ternyata mau makan siang Jepang yg pasti gk akan gw ikutin krn muahal dan gw gk ada duit XD Jd selama jalan ke city itu gw udah memberikan hint2 dengan nanya dia abis ini mau kemana n kami gk akan makan dlm waktu dekat krn baru aja makan jd masi kenyang bgt trus kami mesti ke boots dll dll…alasan2 random lainnya.

Dan tau apa jawaban tmn gw?! “It’s okay…”. AMPUN DEH!!! KY banget!! (KY: Kuuki Yomenai alias gk bs baca suasana gitu deh) It is NOT okay! -_-” Klo ada dia kan kita gk bebas ngobrol! Sedangkan gw ama Peni itu jarang bgt ktmu krn sibuk n masing2 lg kagak ada duit buat saling mengunjungi sering! GAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Akhirnya mungkin dia kelaperan n kliatan bgt klo kita berjalan kearah yg berlawanan bgt ama resto yg mau dia datengin, dia blg,”Gw makan dulu deh nanti klo udah gw sms ya.”. Senangnya kami terbebas!

Mungkin kesannya gw gimana banget tapi ya mbok baca suasana kek! Klo misalnya gw papasan ama tmn gw yg lagi ama tmnnya jalan, sedeket apapun gw ama dia, gw gk akan langsung nimbrung ama dia klo dia gk ngajak! Karena kan bisa aja mrk emg lg pengen ngebahas hal2 tertentu yang gk pengen org lain tau or apa lah hal2 lainnya…*tarik napas panjang*

Anyway, pokoknya hr Sabtu itu kami jalan2 di city trus Peni pulang jam 5an gitu ke Liverpool.

Hari Minggu-nya gw telat bangun pdhl rencana ke Gereja! sudahlah Tuhan mengerti hehe. Tp nyokap ngebangunin gw jam 10an ngajak Skype. Ternyata bokap gw lg pergi ke Palembang. Pulang hari sih tp krn nyokap bosen dirumah jd skype-an ama gw.

Pas ngobrol2 ternyata bokap nelp nyokap kasi tau klo dia udah di airport Palembang n bentar lg berangkat jd minta tolong kasi tau ke supir buat jemput ke airport. Pas nyokap ngomong di telp kan gw bs liat tuh, ternyata mrk rencana mau makan Korea buat dinner!! Gila! Gw super iri banget!! huhuhu Disini mana ada resto Korea yang terjangkau yg bs gw datengin…ihiikkk…Oh well XD

Hari Senin, yah seperti minggu2 sebelumnya kecuali kehebohan yang terjadi di kelas sore! Karena dosen gw tiba2 bilang klo minggu dpn bakal ada test! Kita emg tau bakal ada test buat anak2 S1 tp untuk S2 harusnya gk ada! Karena kita dpt 2 coursework yg gila…Bengong donk kami anak2 S2 yang ada di kelas! XD

Untung tmn gw punya bukti yang menunjukkan bahwa kita gk perlu ada test minggu dpn n dia bener2 ngeyel bilang ke guru gw klo di pelajaran yang lain itu kita dptnya 2 coursework instead of 1 coursework + 1 test. Karena nanti bulan Juni kita ada exam jg!

Akhirnya gurunya bilang,”Ok, minggu dpn gk ada test untuk anak S2″! Senangnyaaaa…muka anak2 S2 lgs nyengir semua sambil sok2 mengasihani anak2 S1. hohoho

Oiya ampir lupa! Paginya ada training ttg Agenda something2. Pokoknya ttg bagaimana merencanakan meeting dan semua yang berhubungan dengan meeting. Disitu gw ketemu sama kenalan gw yg dulu sempet kerja di international welfare n lulus S1 taon kmrn n skrg lg mau lanjut kuliah lagi.

Kami ngobrol2 random ttg dorama2 Jepang krn dia jg suka Mirai Koshi Meguru sama kyk gw, sampe pas dia ngeliat hp gw pas wallpapernya Sho. Trus gw blg,”Loe pasti tau siapa dia!”. Gw gk yakin bgt dia bakal tau sih tp dia tiba2…”ARASHI!!”. Gila gw ampir treak trus heboh sendiri gitu hihihi Ternyata dia tau si pedagang pasar angin gunung itu! hihihi

Ternyata oh ternyata…dia bilang klo dia lbh suka MatsuJun dan dorama kesukaan dia sepanjang masa itu “Kimi wa Petto” hihi. Yappari, Jun-bait wa ii naa~ ROFL!!

Abis training kami jalan bareng karena searah gitu, trus ngobrolin variety2 show contohnya Tokyo Friend Park II. Senangnya gw nemu orang disini yang bisa diajak ngobrol dorama2 n variety2 show!!

Bisa gw racunin Arashi gk ya tuh org! hihihi

Hari Selasa gw training di Warrington (kita sebelah gitu n ada cabang uni gw disitu). Untuk kesana mesti pake bus tp untung ada shuttlebus gratisan dr kampus gw. Pas di bus gw duduk sebelahan ama org Nigeria yang sering gw liat krn kita suka dtg ke training2 yang sama. Akhirnya gw ngobrol ama dia selama perjalanan ke Warrington selama 45 mnt itu. Obrolan yang sebenernya gk mau gw lakukan pada jam 9 pagi! Karena kami ngobrol ttg politik dan ekonomi negara masing2! Pas udah mulai males akhirnya gw biarkan dia yg ngomong banyak n gw yg nanggepin. Jd skrg gw lumayan tau byk ttg keadaan Nigeria! hoho.

Training hr itu ternyata agak membosankan walopun org yg ngejelasin tuh asik n rame banget. Jd gw dah rada mau pingsan kebosanan dan ngantuk! ROFL Hr itu trainingnya ttg “Self-Employment” yang sebenernya menarik sekali.

OTW pulang gw akhirnya tidur selama 45 mnt di jalan itu karena sampe Chester gw mesti langsung ketemu dosen gw utk ngebahas ttg project gw utk salah satu module. Daripada gw ketiduran pas ktmu dosen gw mending gw tidur di bus kan! LOL.

Hari Rabu harusnya off-day gw tapi berhubung gw skrg ikutan ampir semua training yang ada di kampus gw (semua trainingnya gratis n dpt sertifikat! ROFL), jd gw ada training hr Rabu itu. Kali ini judulnya “Problem Solving Tools” yang berjalan dr jam 1 siang sampe 5 sore! 4JAM!! Sebenernya itu berguna banget tapi yang ngasi training gk tau kenapa bener2 membosankan! Agak ngerasa kasian sih gw ama dia berhubung dia baik tapi ya gimana…bosen bgt! ROFL

Nah, sekarang hari ini…

Gw ada kelas dr jam 9 pagi biasanya gw bangun jam 8 trus buru2 n berangkat dr rumah jam 9 kurang n sampe bener2 mepet. Tapi gk tau kenapa gw pagi ini bangun kepagian trus lgs ntn Criminal Minds sambil siap2 n berangkat jam 1/2 9 dan sampe kelas jam 9 kurang 10 ternyata blm ada seorangpun yang dateng! ROFL!!!

Gak tau kenapa, diantara semua pelajaran2 gw di uni skrg, gw paling cinta ama Differential Equation jd gw walopun kelas pagi tapi senang2 saja hoho. Tapi ternyata hari ini ngebahas hal yang memerlukan Eigenvalues dan Eigenvectors. Pas jaman S1 dulu itu salah satu pelajaran yg paling gw suka tapi gk tau kenapa gw lupa cara nyarinya! ROFL! Pas gw tanya tmn gw tenyata dia jg lupa~ Akhirnya seperti orang2 modern lainnya, kami langsung search di wikipedia pake BlackBerry gw XDDDD

Abis kelas itu, gw pulang ke rumah buat makan siang n ternyata goodies gw sampe~ *gonna talk bout it later in the next entry maybe?*. Makasih ke tmn serumah gw yg ngambilin pas dia ngambil mail di resepsionis…woohoo!!

Trus jam 1 gw ada kelas Statistic yg mg lalu kelasnya gk ditemukan itu tp kli ini gampang aja nemunya wong kita dah pada tau hihi Harusnya kelas tuh selese jam 1.50 karena emg dikasi waktu 10 mnt utk pindah ke kelas lain. Tapi kelas gw setelah kelas itu ada di gedung yg letaknya rada jauhhh…Jadilah gw jalan buru2 banget n sampe ke kelas selanjutnya ngos2an ROFL

Skrg gw lg ada di kelas ECDL (kyknya gw kmrn dah nulis ttg ini). Kli ini ngebahas ttg Internet. Yang bahasannya bener2 gak guna banget karena hal2 normal yang biasanya kita lakukan di inet…XDD Tapi ya seperti training2 yang lain, gw dateng demi sertifikat nanti yg gw dpt diakhir training dan kelasnya gratisan. huehehhehehe

Jd selama kelas, gw cuma nulis blog aja pas trainer-nya presentasi ttg internet dan hal2 lainnya.

Okay, sampai berjumpa lagi….nanti sampe rmh gw mau foto2 goodies gw yg baru sampe trus di post. *norak mode on* hoho

Ja,

DT xx

Setelah kelas pagi, gw makan siang trus jam 1/2 12an gw pegi ke Allen building tempat kelas Statistic diadain. Begitu sampe sana gw bingung ktnya kelasnya ada di ruangan 106 yang artinya di lantai 1 tapi kok gw cari2, satu2nya tangga naik ke lantai 1 itu fire escape yg dikunci. Setelah muter2, gw nanya ke orang dimana kelas 106 itu. Ternyata mereka bilang klo gedung itu cuma ada 1 lantai aja karena lantai atasnya adalah bagian dari perpus yang gedungnya ada di sebelahnya. Nah lho!!

Akhirnya gw duduk aja sambil nunggu guru & tmn2 sekelas gw. Gak lama kemudian 3 tmn sekelas gw dateng n nanya knp gw bengong disitu gk masuk kelas.

DT:”Guess what?! Gak ada kelas 106!”

dan gw jelasin apa yang gw denger dr org yg gw tanya tadi~

Akhirnya setelah bengong2 nunggu guru yg gk dateng2 dan kita bingung mau kemana, kita mutusin buat ngecek ke perpus sapa tau kelasnya ternyata disitu. Tapi pas kita keluar gedung, papasan ama guru gw yang ternyata jg lagi nyari kelasnya karena dia salah masuk gedung Molloy yg ada di sebelah. Setelah kita kasi tau persoalannya, dia masuk lg ke Allen buat mastiin dan emg jelas gk nemu. Kemudian kami ber 5 jalan ke perpus buat ngecek apa ruangannya ada disitu dan tentu aja gak ada! XDD

Setelah muter2, kami balik lg ke gedung Allen n ngecek sekali lagi. Ternyata ada kesalahan teknis dan harusnya di ruang 016! *gubrak* Jadi kelas yg harusnya 50 mnt jadi kepotong 15 menit dan gw udah harus ada di gedung Rigg yang jaraknya 15 mnt jalan dari Allen.

Sekitar jam 1.52an gw kabur dr kelas (gak kabur sih, kelasnya emg udah selese) cepet2 menuju Rigg. Yang paling rese adalah krn gw lewat jalan pintas yaitu jalan dpn rumah gw, bener capek klo jalan cepet2 berhubung jalannya menanjak bgt! XDDD

Jam 2an lebih akhirnya gw sampe juga di kelas komputer itu yang sebenernya gw ikut karena klo lulus bakal dpt sertifikat ECDL yang diperluin klo mau kerja nanti n kampus gw nyediain kelasnya secara gratis! Jelas gw ikutan donk! gratisan gini! ROFL

Ternyata minggu lalu-nya udah ada kelas dan gw gk tau! -_-” Pas gurunya tau klo gw minggu lalu gk dtg, dia langsung,”wah! mendingan kamu gk usah masuk kelas hr ini karena hari ini test pelajaran yg dibahas minggu lalu!”. Tapi gw sok pede aja bilang klo gw gpp lah gk ikut kelas minggu lalu n langsung ikut test minggu ini.

Keputusan gw itu ternyata benar sekali…karena pertanyaan di test itu benar2 bodoh XDDDD
Misalnya:
Diatara 4 extension di bawah ini, yang mana yang menunjukan file gambar?
a. .wma
b. .pdf
c. .mp3
d. .jpg

*ngakak guling2an* klo gw gk bisa jawab parah banget gk sih? XD

Setelah test itu, gw balik ke rumah trus skype-an ama bonyok ngobrol2 n ngebahas hal2 random lainnya XD

That’s all XD

Ja,

-dt-

Inget kejadian #bangmamat kemarin? Gw kirain semua akan berakhir hari itu saja dan cuma karena kegilaan sesaat. Ternyata perkiraan gw SALAH TELAK! Karena hari ini anak2 INA malah menggila~!

Diawali dengan penamaan MatsuJun menjadi Mamat si penjual kacamata, para member yang lain juga punya nama panggilan baru yaitu Baba si penjual kebab (Aiba), Mas Nano si pedagang DVD + Game (Nino), Mang Toto si tukang ikan (Ohno) dan Somat si penjual koran + majalah + dll (Sho).

Padahal awalnya semua mood-nya lg anjlok banget gara2 denger bahwa Arashi bakalan nge-rilis DVD Anniversary Con 5 x 10 bulan depan pdhl baru2 aja semua pada ngeluarin duit buat goodies2 dan single Troublemaker. Akhirnya twitter dipenuhi keluhan para fans atas keputusan JStorm ini. Dari yang stress karena gak punya duit, sampe yang stress karena tanpa sadar pencet “Pre-order” di Yesasia, CDJapan, dll.

Namun terima kasih kepada para anak2 INA yang gila, kepusingan pagi itu dapat teratasi! Dari mood yang super low, berubah menjadi hari yang gila dan bikin gw ngakak sendiri kayak orang gila seharian sampe2 diliatin orang2 pas di kampus.

Setelah penamaan anak2 Arashi itu, dilanjutkan dengan penamaan pasar “Angin Gunung” yang berada di “Gang Pelangi” sebagai tempat 5 pedagang itu berjualan. Dan obrolan random lainnya yang bikin semua pada sakit perut seharian!

Ditambah lagi dengan ‘keputusan’ pada La Familieta (para fans Jun di INA) untuk bawa banner tulisan “Ganbatte Mamat!” dengan warna ungu menyala kalau nonton konser! XD

Tapi bisa jg sih ide itu terealisasi dalam waktu dekat ini kalo INA jadi ngadain Nobar (Nonton Bareng) DVD Con 5 x 10 nanti! Lucu kan tuh klo setiap ’sub-group’ INA pada bawa spanduk tulisan dukungan untuk para ichiban.

“Sekali Makan Kebab BABA Dijamin Ketagihan”

“Toko Kelontong Serba Ada MAMAT bin Junaedi”

“Anda Ingin Nonton? Kami Punya DVD! Mas Nano Selalu Siap Menjualnya!”

“Ikan Mang Toto Paling Segar Seantero Jagad”

“Yang Terhangat Dan Terpanas Selalu Ada Pada Somat!”

Okay, Diti sepertinya udah mulai gila ROFL!!!!

Selasa, 02/03/2010

Hari ini gw hrs ketemu dosen gw untuk membahas Mini Project gw yang bertema “Heat Equation”. Jadi isinya ngebahas bagaimana cara menyelesai-kan persoalan Heat Equation dengan menggunakan 3 metode yaitu Euler Explicit Method, Euler Implicit Method dan Crank-Nichols Method. Tentunya juga harus bikin program dengan menggukan MATLAB (software yang paling gak gw suka~!!! emosi mulu bawaanya klo pake ini XD). Ya pokoknya gitu deh LOL

Abis meeting ma dozen gw, pergi makan siang di Binks seperti biasa (gw kesono ampir tiap kli gw males or gk sempet masak) dan makan Mushroom on Puff~! Enakkkkkkk <3333

Malemnya gw masak utk mengirit ceritanya. Tapi gw ke dapur salah jam!! -_-” Pas banget pas gw kesana, pas 2 tmn serumah dari Cina gw yang share dapur ama gw lg masak dan mrk klo masak suka luamaaaaa~! Akhirnya selama nunggu gw motong2 semua bahan utk gw masak dan ngobrol dikit2 ama mrk.

Setelah gw nunggu sambil bengong2 dan main sudoku berhubung di daput sinyalnya jelek banget, akhirnya gw mulai masak~! Masaknya gk gitu jelas apaan karena tujuan utama-nya adalah menghabiskan apa saja yang ada di dlm kulkas dan lemari ROFL!!

Hasilnya lumayan lah~ yang pasti edible banget. Gk tau krn enak ato emg gw-nya yg kelaperan banget gara2 nunggu kelamaan di dapur XDD

Rabu,03/03/2010

Hari ini adalah “Troublemaker” day alias hari dirilis-nya single Troublemaker -nya Arashi. Jadi dari pagi2 bangun, gw liat di twitter semua udah pada mulai nge-tweet utk Trending Topic Project para 6th member (fans2 Arashi berdasarkan statement dari Nino). Kayaknya paling tinggi kami mencapai no.2 di TT~! YOSHAAAA~~!!!

Anyway, hari ini gw ada UniJob Training yg adalah training gratisan dari kampus gw utk membantu kita di kemudian hari XD. Kali ini judul trainingnya “Project Management : An Introduction”. Karena gw buru2 berangkat jadi gw gk ngecek lagi itu training ada di ruangan berapa! Yang gw inget sih cuma Binks 106 tapi gk yakin 106/1 ato 106/2. Jadi pas gw sampe n ngitip ke 106/1 ada banyak org, gw langsung berasumsi klo itu kelasnya! Jd gw masuk dan duduk tp gw ngerasa kok yang ikut training tua2 dan mereka bingung gitu pas ngeliat gw masuk kelas itu! Trus gw jg gk ngeliat muka yg familiar sama sekali dan yang lebih anehnya lagi kok 1 kelas itu saling kenal semua~!

Gak lama kemudian ada yang masuk dan sepertinya itu gurunya….Langsung gw mikir,”hmmm…kayaknya gw salah kelas deh!”, baru gw nanya ke orang di sebelah gw,”What lecture is this?” dan dia menjawab,”Health (something…something…)”. Gw gk denger kelanjutannya krn gw dah yakin gw salah kelas!! Setelah dia ngomong gw lgs,”Ack! I’m in the wrong class!” and ran out to 106/2. ROFL!!

Training kali ini lumayan menarik karena si trainer bener2 ngejelasin dengan cara yang bikin kita semua tertarik dengan apa yang diomongin. Gak gitu lama emang trainingnya cuma 3 1/2 jam tapi gk sekalipun gw ngerasa bosen. Adanya pas selese kita pada masi pengen tau macem2. Tapi sayangnya jam 1 ada kelas yang hrs masuk kesitu jadi trainingnya harus berakhir.

Abis training gw ke Binks (AGAIN!) dan makan makanan yang sama kyk kemaren XD Tapi kli ini aneh banget! Binks Cafe PENUH ABIES! Baru kli ini gw sampe gk kebagian duduk di tempat duduk biasa n kebagian di sofa yang gk pewe banget utk makan~! Pewe-nya utk duduk2 sambil minum kopi dan baca buku XDDD

Kemudian gw jalan ke chinese take away utk beli Chips (aka kentang goreng. Di Inggris, kentang goreng di sebut Chips dan keripik kyk chitato dkk disebut Crisps) utk makan malem. Pas jalan balik gw ketemu ama tmn serumah gw yang bulan Juli nanti bakalan share rumah bareng gw~! Udah 2 minggu lbh gw gk ktemu n ngobrol ama dia karena kita sama2 lg sibuk banget jadi mayoritas masing2 menghabiskan waktu di kamar buat ngerjain tugas ROFL. Kami berbasa basi sebentar di jalan tapi di mesti buru2 cabut karena mau riset ama tmnnya buat tugasnya dia.

Sampe di rmh gw skype-an ama bonyok gw. Seperti biasa kami ngobrol dari obrolan yang bermutu sampe yang gk bermutu. Dari ngomongin sekolah sampe bergosip2 yang gk jelas ROFL!! Gw skype-an ama bonyok gw ampir tiap hari dan gak pernah sekalipun kehabisan bahan obrolan~! XD Sampe2 tmn gw pada bingung kok bisa2nya ampir tiap ari ngobrol tp setiap ngobrol pasti gk kurang dari 1 jam LOL Mungkin klo gw baru aja pindah dr Jakarta itu hal yang wajar. Tapi ini…gw di UK dah ampir 8 taon tetep aja skype tiap ari! Untung skrg pake skype. Klo dulu bener2 pake telp sampe2 tagihan telp nyokap selangit. Klo tagihan tinggi baru deh berenti nelp tiap ari n tiap kli nelp gk lbh dari 15 mnt…hahahahaha…

Hmmm…dah lama gk mulis panjang bgt! XDDD

Ja!

DT

Klo gw kluar lagi berarti gw hrs muter2 ato bengong di cafe sampe jam 1/2 10 yg artinya kluar duit buat beli kopi-nya. Jadinya gw nunggu di dlm gereja aja selama 45 mnt-an. Sialnya, gw lupa bawa Rosario jd selama nunggu gw bengong2 aj~! Pdhl klo bawa kan bisa berdoa Rosario dulu…

Jam 1/2 10 kurang orang mulai berdatangan dan misa mulai gk lama kemudian. Seperti dulu2, yang dtg ke Gereja di Chester tuh dikit banget~! Beda bgt rasanya sama pas gw di Isle of Man ato di Liverpool dimana klo ke Gereja telat dikit dijamin gk akan dpt tempat duduk XD

Abis Misa gw pegi ke Cafe Nero untuk bengong2 sambil baca “Laskar Pelangi” n minum kopi. Gw milih Nero krn  Starbucks lg tutup krn renovasi n bosen ke Costa. Ternyata berhubung hr minggu, jam 11-an cafe-nya penuh banget! Hampir2 gw gk dpt tempat duduk, untung nemu 1 tempat duduk di pojokan. Tapi yang paling gw sebel dengan cafe2 disini adalah klo duduk di bagian dalem pasti gk bakalan dpt sinyal~ *guling2*

Setelah puas duduk2 di cafe sambil baca buku, gw mampir dulu ke Subway buat beli makan siang/mlm sebelum pulang ke rumah. Berhubung selama masa puasa gw mutusin buat pantang daging merah jd gw beli “Veggie Delight”.

Dalam perjalanan pulang inilah suatu ‘legenda’ INA terjadi dikarenakan dpt tweet dari Miranti ttg scan-an Sho yang dia bilang mengalahkan Bang Mamat. Bang Mamat siapa lagi klo bukan MatsuJun~! Tiba2 si iPeh beride buat bikin #bangmamat jd TT di twitter. Mulailah kami nge-tweet dengan #bangmamat.

With this plugin I can crosspost my WP entry to LJ~ weeeeee~~~!!

And so, haven’t update the blog for months already.

Just some newsflash:

• I’m already in Chester for nearly 6 months now doing my MSc. Mathematics.
• After years of being in Chester, I finally know how it feels to live in the student hall. Not bad! At least we don’t have to think about all the bills ROFL
• My junior high school friend Peni is doing a volunteer work in Liverpool at the moment which means I go to Liverpool A LOT! XD
• Realise that Chester doesn’t change much
• Realise that I don’t miss Isle of Man LOL
• I still LOVE Arashi of course
• I also still love Tutorial
• Started to watch Quiz Hexagon II and absolutely love it. Watching it while laughing over Yamada Shintarou’s epic failness.
• etc…etc…

Anyway, I promise myself that I will write everyday…okay, that’s too ambitious! Maybe I will write periodically (not yearly or course! and hopefully not monthly).

See ya later~!

Test posting a pic:

We arrive at ABDA around 9.30AM and met someone from IBEC (my agent). We went through some sort of security check before we get into the visa office and have to turn off our mobile.

I was around 9.34AM and my number was 222, so it’s like 11 more people before my turn. I thought, “Okay, it won’t be long~”. But I was SO WRONG! I have to wait around 3 hours to hand in the documents and another 1/2 an hour to do the biometric + photograph thingy. Gosh! It was soooooooo boring! ROFL! I should’ve brought a book to read or Nintento DS maybe -_-”. I ended up twitter-ing while trying to hide the phone so that the security won’t see it LOL

Anyway, I met a girl who’s going to study in Manchester this year (she got the same agent as me). Turn out that this year a lot of Indonesian are going to Northumbria, Manchester, Birmingham and the usual London. No Indonesian in Chester again???? LOL. Yeah, I’m going back to Chester! For some reason, I just love this city…see, you realise how great a place is when you don’t live there anymore. XD

Wish me luck with the Visa! They said it might be a week or so~ *praying*

I woke up around 9 AM and had a breakfast with my sister before taking a shower and just laying around in my bedroom. For some reason, for these past few days, the weather in Jakarta is really hot which made me being in this lazy state LOL.

Around 1 PM, I went to have lunch with my Father and because my Mom was ill she didn’t join us. On the way to lunch, we still couldn’t decide on what to eat but my father drove us to Kelapa Gading anyway even before we decided where to eat. Yeah, my family (nearly) always go to Kelapa Gading because honestly you can find anything you want there and it’s really near from my house (around 15 mins by car). Suddenly I feel like eating Maguro Sashimi so we decided to have Japanese for lunch.

We had lunch at this Japanese Restaurant in Kelapa Gading Mall (darn! I forgot the name of the resto XD) and I had my beloved Chirashi Sushi. Everytime I went to a Japanese Resto, the first thing I check was whether they have Chirashi Sushi or not. If they have it and the price is reasonable, I would definitely order it. The first Chirashi Sushi that I had was in Manchester and I just love it right away because it consist of my fave ingredients.

As usual, I ask the waitress to replace the Salmon with Tuna because I just don’t really like Salmon.

When I looked at it, it didn’t look big or I should say it’s a rather small portion. However, I was stuffed when I finish! I even got a Chawanmushi that I can’t finish and Miso Soup.

I just love raw tuna <33

Then my Father called my sister and ask what does she want to dinner. She said she also wanted Japanese food. I was like “WHAT! Japanese again??!” but she changed her mind and said that she wanted some Sop Kaki Kambing (Lamb’s Feet Soup, sorry I just don’t know how to translate it to English LOL).

My Father and I went back home and I went back just laying around in my room again but this time I already turn on the AC although it was still rather hot because temperature outside was just too high.

We then went to have dinner when my sister came back from meeting her friends. Guest where we had dinner! Yup, that’s right…We’re back to Kelapa Gading Mall ROFL! My Father and Sister had Sop Kaki but I decided to have Meatball Soup instead.

So, that’s my usual Saturday. XDDD