Gram's Birthday and Few Updates

So, I supposed to post this subject since last week, but due to my business I should regretfully postponed this post. My Gram's (my Mum's Mum) birthday was celebrated last Sunday with whole family at Coca Suki Steamboat Restaurant. My Gram is a talkative one, just like another Grams, but I love the way she expresses her affection to me and I like to be cuddled embarrassing. I'm her first grandchild, I spent many days of my childhood at her house, and before I born she really hoped for a safe arrival of me (I should have an elder brother but my Mum was miscarried). Thus, I constantly happy to be around her (I even wanted to move to her house, if only I can). My Gram's birthday date always confusing me, she follows Chinese calendar which I have no idea about :-/ But Happy Belated Birthday, Gram!

Entrance of the restaurant

 

My Mum's elder brother already booked a VIP room

The room with 15 people capacity, my family arrived first

 

Never forget to take a pic :-/

 

And finally the room became so crowded after everybody arrived

 

My Gram with her children, my Mum is the only daughter and also middle child, my Gong-gong already died since my Mum was only a kid

Me, Gram, and Mum ;)

 

Waiting for the steamboats

Yeriel, Chelsea, and Alfredo

 

Sergio with Fay, do you notice that Fay had half Chinese half Indonesian face? That's because my Mum's elder brother married an Indonesian (Sundanese) woman 

Yeriel, my Mum's younger brother's son

 

Antics? :P

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A few updates for this week:

1.) I got 94 for Physics Essay and 92 for Social Test.

2.) Passed violin test smoothly last Thursday. 

3.) Currently in a lazy mood.

4.) Fun hang-out with bestie, Silvie, to a bookstore and game-center.

Me and her :D

6.) Dad bought a remote-controlled Helicopter.

"Above 14 years!" My brother was so annoyed when I coaxed him lol

7.) Dad bought 40-inch 3D LCD with white rack for attic room.

My eyes often spoiled by technology and books :'(

8.) Finished 2 novels, left 1 novel unread for this week

 

The Secret by Julie Garwood, story setting in Scotland year 1200

 

*Picture not mine* Borrowed this book at Library, about Chinese who moved to NYC

 

Left unread due to religion issue and personal sights, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

9.) Watched The Way Back movie, alone.

 

Alone :)~

10.) Dad always cough lately, I'm afraid, it's because of his bad smoking habit :'(

Last Day of School 2010

Yeay! Finally, last day of school for 2010. We ended semester 1 today by received a final report of our hard work during half year in grade 9.

 

Letter for parents, a souvenir, and my record portfolio 

 

It was a calender for 2011 as souvenir, not bad

 

Left column is KKM (standard), right column is my score (average of all scores per subject during semester 1)

1.) Religion: 87

2.) Civics: 88

3.) Bahasa Indonesia: 81

4.) English: 89

5.) Mathematics: 73

6.) Science: 87

7.) Social: 87

8.) Art and Culture: 80

9.) PE: 78*

10.) Craft: 91*

11.) Computer: 78

12.) PLKJ (Environmental Studies): 95*

*highest among class members

 

Extracurricular score, I joined Mandarin Club and achieved B. I also got a 'Good' marks for my moral and character in school.

Overall, I satisfied with my achievement. I felt grateful to God and motivated to do better for next semester. But, for now, I'll just let my brain to rest itself ha ha ha. Next week I'll go to Singapore, must be a fun time to relax :) Anyway I watched Tron 3D tonight! It was packed with a complicated plot plus don't forget the awesome 3D! I didn't sleep at all, just because the 3D effects mesmerizing my eyes during the show ha ha ha. I hardly understand the story, simply confusing actually, but I made it thou. I understood the main plot at last moment of the show, how pathetic!

Didn't quite satisfied with the story, but Tron's 3D was hella awesome!

 

Also bought a historical romance novel, The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey

 

Lastly, visited Sour Sally Yogurt to buy healthy treats :D

Happy weekend to you all! Have a great refreshing time with your family :D

Usual Outing, Unusual Chat

Today is Saturday. Just like usual folks, I went to mal with my Dad and siblings. We chose Central Park as our destination. We rarely go there, I was bit surprised when I saw how different Central Park now -- well, I visited Central Park once, way long time ago. Okay, I will let my pictures do the talk!

Main enterance, I found this medium-sized Christmas Tree

We were eating on an Indonesian Cuisine

We distracted by a Homemade-Chocolate Store called Chocola lol

Dangerous zone ha ha ha please ourselves with many choices of chocolate

We spent IDR 110.000 for 2 little packs of chocolate that we picked, what the!

We found a cozy park near main lobby, we were playing around there ;)

Ugh! Bad quality of picture :-/

We started to see a beautiful enviroment as we walked around

This place reminded me with one of Boys Over Flowers park scene ;P

Fish pond! A slight Jazz music floated nicely when I entered this area

So weird here!

Oh, I didn't expected a bigger Christmas Tree :)

Snap this! Snap that! :P

After that, we decided to watch a movie as usual. We immediately headed to Blitzmegaplex. I loved Central Park Blitzmegaplex's theme, they used a Space theme. Whereas Grand Indonesia and Pacific Place Blitzmegaplex chose an ordinary modern theme, but still they're huge, all Blitzmegaplex are somehow exclusive. Grand Indonesia Blitzmegaplex is the biggest movie theater in Indonesia. Anyway, we watched Due Date, didn't really work on me, you know I barely laughed :P

During way back home, I was chatting with my Dad while both of my siblings were sleeping peacefully. Our topics were his business, my life purpose and future, his friend problem, my friendship life, his opinion about Indonesia, my opinion about this life, and last but not least, about Mummy. We weren't talk behind her back, it was just a simple discussion about how she behaves and etc (Dad and I, we're similar with a mature and introvert characteristic. On the other side, Mummy is a childish cheerful woman who thinks a lot about herself). That was an unusual chat, we picked many hard weighty topics. Well, I do often talk with a weighty topic to him, but never we had enough time like what we did tonight, collected many weight topics and discussing it one by one. Thanks to crazy traffic! For earth sake it was 11 PM at night but this is Jakarta, a sleepless city.

Tea Time With Me

Hey, guys! My Dad just left home, he has another business abroad with his colleagues. Last night, we had our last bonding time, we watched Narnia 3D: Voyage To Dawn Treader.

Anyway, tomorrow my school will held a Friendship-Day event. I have no interest about Friendship thingy and I planned to skip school for next Monday (Tuesday will be public holiday). All I want just to have more 'Me-Time'. 

Since yesterday, all I did was enjoying my freedom. I finished Dear John novel that I bought last Friday. I locked myself inside the attic while reading it. I brought along a cup of tea and Belgian Chocolate Ice Cream with me. I lay on the wooden floor under the cool AC and played a Ballad song from my cellphone. I couldn't be more happier even I was a bit disappointed with the ending of Dear John.

See the sunlight? It was from the window over the ceiling. You could open or close it ;D

I'll do the same today. I bought another novel (Splendid by Julia Quinn) and movie (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) last night. I'm into romance now (that's why I picked Dear John and Splendid), I have no idea, I just feel melancholic and I want to read something sweet. Normally, I prefer read a philosophy, physiology, or true-story. But you couldn't predict what will happen next with 14 YO teenager, right? Just weird!

Random picking from romance section yesterday :)

I heard it's a good one :)