Study Group

My classmates are talking about forming a study group.

I'm so into it, I just don't see myself studying together in a group with more than 4-5 people.

Study group should be small (for me!), and should consist of people with almost the same kind of personality.

At least, shouldn't have anyone who is super dominant on the group.

The shy (me :) ) will feel left out :p

So, this morning when I arrive at the science computer lab, Morgan was there.

We sat together, working on our homework, and she ask me to form a study group together

And of course I said YES !

I'm so glad that someone is asking me, because I won't dare to ask anyone.

I'm still pretty shy, I am still trying to understand people's culture here.

I don't want to offend anyone, or u know, to make people felt like I'm doing something wrong to them.

Thus other than offering a helping hand, I tend to observe (which seems like I'm very passive)

We start our study group today after we took lunch at Taco Time (good burito, big portion !)

And she said that she will take me with her when she wants to get her tattoo touched up (chance to get a new one for me ?!?!?) 

I made another friends,

I'm happy :)

Design

I currently looking for tattoo design.
I want more !


XoXo

1st week of school

It's been a week, and it was fun.
I mean, I got pretty worried and overwhelmed with everything, but I feel good.
I am still worry about being able to understand completely the lecture, and not being left behind in the class, but I think so far I'm doing pretty good.

My daily schedule changed.
I woke up at 630am, get ready for school and get out from the house at 8, wait for the bus, and arrive at school around 9-ish.
After class, I will wait for the bus, and arrive home around 1600-ish, usually I'll eat, then do homework,
get the dinner ready, eat dinner, clean up the kitchen, shower then homework + study till around 11/
Then sleep.

The bio and chem class aren't as scary as I thought it would be.
I hope it will stay the same way till forever with all the subjects !

And this week I got  the First Year Experience Class (FYE), a class which you have to take if this is your first time going to college.
I've been to college before, but I still take it, since I think it will be really useful to know how the school system works here.
And actually it's pretty fun, I get to know people and make friends :)
One of my new friend is Kellie.
She loves to travel ! She is really nice and she is really good artist, she drew amazing sketch ! (I saw her FB, we're FB friends now  :) )

Well, week 1 went really well.
Better than what I expected.
Hope it will stay like this forever, and hope my study spirit will always be high-up as it is right now.
I felt like I've never study this much in my life.

Phew !

Time to sleep now.
As tomorrow is weekend !
YAY !!

Good nighty

Preparation to go back to school !!!!

I'm going to school tomorrow !
My 1st day at school, a beginning for +/- of 4 years intellectual torture will starts tomorrow !!!

Regardless that I'm so nervous and worry about whether I'll be able to catch up or not, I'm super excited about it !!! :D

Things I've prepared to go back to school :
1. Mental, and good spirit !! Study hard for brighter future ! YAY !
2. School backpack Jansport classic super break backpack in Navy Dreamweaver *mad love!*

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3. Marmot Precip Rain Jacket in Purple, need this because it rains a lot in Seattle

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4. Camelbak water bottle 

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5. I got calculator, note books, text books, lots of pens and highlighters, eraser, colored pencils,

post it notes, and hundreds zillion of things needed for school.

Finally, school started !

YAY !

Blackberry craze !

I've been using Blackberry (BB) for over 1,5 months now.

I got the BB 9650, using Sprint as my provider.

Their service is what I needed (unlimited data) and it is friendly with my pocket :)

I never care BB so much.

I was pretty late in getting to know BB phone.

When my friends in Indonesia are talking about BB, I was "Are there any phone called Blackberry ?? What the hell is that ?? Some friends of strawberries ?"

So I did some googling, and I know that it is a phone !

Was I like it ?

No.

Do I like it now, that I'm a user of BB ??

NO !

I still think this phone is UGLY !

What's so beautiful about this phone ??

Nothing. Period

I decided to use this phone because it cost money to send and RECEIVE text messages.

And, if I decided to use some other kind of phone, which will run the Yahoo! Messenger all the time,

it's still useless.

Why ?

Because I need to talk with my mom, and she is not really friends with technology called computer.

I mean, she can learn how to use computer (she know how to!), but she won't bother to turn it on just to talk with me on YM.

So, by using BB, means I can be on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and she can get a BB too, then we can chat for Free ! (kinda, not really, since we should pay for the BB plan every month, but yeah, cheaper than SMS !)

And that's what we've been doing for the last one month ^__^

So, I came to US, bought the BB, signed the contract for 2 years, and using the phone.

I'm stuck for 2 years !!

Oh well, at least mom is happy.

And now that all my family is using BB, I guess I kinda stuck for longer years.

I hope someday BB will make some cool phone :)

 

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School starts soon ! :D
Next week I will be back to school.
It's nothing serious, really.
It's only the pre-requisite classes which I have to take in order to apply for the Diagnostic Ultrasound (DU) program.

The classes are :

Biology& 160- 6 credits
Chemistry& 121 - 6 credits
Environmental Science 295 - 3 credits


And the schedule for this quarter :
MWF 10:30-1:20pm S-310
TTh 9:30-10:20am S-224
Group A lab: T 10:30-1:20 S-312; Th 10:30-1:20 S-216
Group B lab: T 10:30-1:20 S-216; Th 10:30-1:20 S-312
(Students in Group A and B will be determined in the first week of school)


In order to apply for the DU program, I will need to take 9 pre-requisite classes, and it's all should be done by winter 2012.
In addition for these classes, I want to take the Nursing Assistant Certification (NAC) program, on winter 2011.
So, yeah, so little time so much to do.

Oh, did I mention that most of applicants who got accepted into the DU program has the average of 3,4 GPA, and their average GPA on the Human Anatomy & Physiology (HA&P) class is 3,7 ?!
Competition is really hard, in fact, from a little over 100 applicants in 2010, only 20 of them got accepted.

From what I heard (and I can imagine as well, in fact I have looked into some of the books!) the HA&P classes are brutal hard ! Especially the HA&P 2 (good thing, there are only 2 of HA&P for me!)

I believe this is the time to study study study !
And forget about anything else (but husband and Muffin, of course :) )

mengucapkan....

Dear Astrid,
Untuk satu otak,
Sebuah hati,
Satu pasang mata,
Serta sepasang ibu jari
Yang aktif ketika saya perlu berteriak tentang minyak dan garam,
Terima kasih... :)

Missing....

I miss :

the essential :

no word needed :)

and these people

Through time and obstacles, BLAST

and also this group

The one and only JOJOBA

and these girls :

dearest Fiona Ong See Mun

Lovely Mari Ikeda

If you happen to be one of these people, even though your face might not shown on the pictures, but if you belong into one the two groups I missed, I just want you to know, that I miss you guys, so much.

I thought being married will change things, or the way you feel towards each other.

It didn't.
Being married doesn't change things,
I love husband like I always do,
He care for me like the same way he always did.
We still talk the same way (well, I call him "husband" every once in a while, it never happen before),
I call him Booboo or Bill most of the time.
He call me Boozle or Tessa as always.
He still annoying,
I still irritates him.
We sleep the same way
We live our life like the old day.

Probably if there's difference between then and now is that right now we are more motivated to reach our goal (we had the same goal in building our family, since the past 1,5 years)
We are ready to work hard,
to study hard,
and doing so by supporting each other.
We became more responsible with our life, since now we are living not only for us, but for each other.


*When I wrote this, Bill is out in the wilderness for a hiking trip with his bestfriend, Mike. This is a long weekend, and he left me here. He owe me 4 days worth of trip to malls, craft stores, office supplies stores, etc <3 *

I wish you were here...

Husband is on a camping trip till next Wednesday, which keep me left behind with my mom in law.

I was doing some embroidery this morning, when she show me some pictures from the old days.

There were some pictures of my father in law.

I wish he is still alive.

I would like to know him.

I wonder : "If he's still alive, will he like me ?"

Bill is wondering the same thing too, and he always said that his dad would like me.

Friday night date night good night

Yesterday I went out with husband to the Capitol Hill area. Just the two of us.
Feels like we're going out on a date :)

We wander around, and we stop by the American Apparel store, and end up going out with a canary yellow hoodie like this one :

We have a discount card, and husband said he will pay for 50% of the rest of the price. :)

Thank you, husband.

We've been talking about mexican food and margarita during our walk, so we decided to stop by a Mexican restaurant, sit down and drink a glass of margarita. 

We left and wander around some more in the neighbourhood, and talk some more. I even do some catwalk show for husband wearing my new hoodie. LOL

We arrived home feeling refreshed and (I, especially) sleepy. 

Off to bed we went.