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Wednesday, October 31

Noisy neighbour

When I was in UK, I watched this programme "Neighbours from hell", and I laughed at these ppl, how idiotic these people are (hence called 'from hell'), thinking it would never happen to me, living in 'normal people village'.

How wrong was I?

My current neighbour, let's just call him Mr. Party McLoud, does nothing unusual during weekdays. Everything seems to be normal in McLoud household, apart from that they're building another house behind the one they're living at the moment, so during the day we can expect some loud banging, truck loading, house improvement noise, which I was prepared for it anyway.

Come Friday night, and bam! The McLoud household turns into a party shack, all weekends long. Mr. McLoud seems to have lots of friends, all come with either burst eardrum, or excellent earplugs. The friends have cars with missing mufflers, hence you can hear when they're approaching from 1km miles away, no exaggeration. While they know how loud their cars are, they don't pay regard to others (maybe very proud of their cars), and chose to start the noisy car, let it run stationery for half an hour while they're having loud conversation (they have to be loud, no, otherwise they can't hear themselves with the car noise in the background?). It sounded so reverberating at 3am (yes, McLoud parties only start at about midnight, if you're lucky), I felt the whole house was shaking.

Lately Melbourne has warmed up, so they've decided to party outside the house. Yes, outside, with their loud raucous chats I felt they're talking next to my ears!

One night, Mr. McLoud was absent when his eagerly-wants-to-party friends came. These obnoxious friends then decided to knock his door and all around his house forever. It was so loud I thought they were knocking on my house! Of course, all these happens only at about 1am.

I'm annoyed because these loud noises keep me awake and startles both Agastya and Lila.

Then in the morning, we found beer bottles lying on the street with no one in sight. No Mr. McLoud, no friends.

What worry me most is that the house they're building is going to be occupied by one of Mr. McLoud party goers, none other than Mr. Gaudy McRowdy!

Monday, October 22

Just like my father's eyes...

Somehow I cried when I first heard it..

I may not be every mother's dream for her little girl
And my face may not grace the mind of everyone in the world
But that's all right as long as I can have one wish, I pray
When people look inside my life, I want to hear them say

She's got her father's eyes
Her father's eyes
Eyes that find the good in things
When good is not around
Eyes that find the source of help, when help just can't be found
Eyes full of compassion, seeing every pain
Knowing what you're going through, and feeling it the same

Just like my father's eyes
my father's eyes
my father's eyes
Just like my father's eyes

On that day when we will pay for all the deeds we've done
Good and bad they'll all be had to see by everyone
And when you're called to stand and tell just what you saw in me
More than anything I know, I want your words to be

She had her father's eyes, her father's eyes
eyes that found the good in things when good was not around
eyes that found the source of help when help would not be found
Eyes full of compassion, seeing every pain
Knowing what you're going through and feeling it the same
[Amy Grant - Father's eyes]

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Baa baa black sheep

Baa baa black sheep ... Aga style.


video

This time I tried again using Blogger video upload system, and it seems to work.

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Thursday, October 18

Drama addict

YES, I'm a drama addict and proud of it. :D

I'm in the middle of doing a new section in "interest" section, it's called "drama list". Basically it lists all dramas I've watched with my own rating and some comments on each one, and they'll be divided into 3 categories: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I've just finished the Korean and put it up.

Mind you, this list is no way near djes'. She has watched TOO MANY dramas, I just can't catch up with her :p

Wednesday, October 17

Aga and Giraffe

Pardon me for being so late in delivering blog entries. There are a number of reasons:
1. My days are so busy I rarely get a chance to do anything.
2. When I have time with my laptop, lately I'm just facebooking (Is that a word? Tough. It is now). Yep. Addicted to it. Uploaded all my pictures into it. Seriously, man, if you're not in facebook, you should wonder why. I did.

I uploaded a lot of pictures (I mean A LOT) into facebook albums, I forget that other people don't have facebook and can't access it :p I don't see the point of uploading twice, so either you view the facebook album or none at all :p

Search for my name in facebook and add me as your friend :D Yes, that's the way.

Here's a video from zoo trip earlier this month. I only uploaded it because my sister kept persuading me to upload a video of Aga; and I keep forgetting. I just remembered now so here it is. I'm trying out blogger's video uploading system.. so far.. it's kinda slow!!!! Come on, I need to sleep!! Faster, faster!
[edit: i left the laptop to run uploading the video overnight, to find out that it FAILED!! so i'm going to use my old trusted friend, youtube]



In case you need translation, here Nagi asked Aga to call the giraffe to come closer. Aga: Giraaaaaaafeeeeeeeee.. Giraffeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... Giraaaaaaaaaafeeeeee.. Giraffe, photo dulu (Giraffe, take photos first)..

On that zoo trip, he had his face painted. He insisted he's GOT TO BE A MONKEY. No elephant. No tiger. No zebra. No lion. Not even giraffe. He's a monkey. Damn right he is. :p

Aga had started school on Monday. Yay. It's a Montessori too, just like Kiddieland, and I'm so glad because it means less boring time for him. I know he loves spending time with me and I can be a great entertainer (yes, I do dance and sing for him. Only for him!), but school has toys and slides and swings and friends.

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Tuesday, October 9

Aga the Saint.

For long I have admired the maturity shown by Aga. He is a regular, vanilla flavoured lad. Nothing fancy, nothing irregular, nothing nasty.

Infact, all the naughtiness that you may choose to observe is dictated by the fact there is Lila somewhere around. Anything he would do or want to do, we try and clarify that it is acceptable for that particular time given Lila is around.

He is never fussed about anything. He will go and play with anyone. He is willing to accept what you give him and understand why you withhold something from him. Obviously, like any other kid, if you are in ToysRus for example, he will always say Mau ini, Mau itu but you can give him any excuse for a reason and move forward. He neither would cry nor whine about any of that. You could see other kids older than him, flat on the ground in ToysRus demanding their parents buy something that instant or else their tantrum would find no bounds.

You take him to any restaurant. Monica and I may have preferences. He never minds what we order for him. He happily eats what we give him and we do not have to chase him around trying to finish off his bowl. It is, as a matter of fact, the other way around. He would chase you just so that you do not deprive him off any delicious food!!!

He would have fallen off the slide and scrapped his palm and his blood is about to flow. He will not cry he will come and show you: Red hands daddy. In the night, when the pain kicks in, he will slowly come over to you and say Sakit Daddy. You gently blow on his hand and enquire if it feels any better. Ofcourse, he says with a BIG, special smile.

Krupuks Mami!!! Aga mau Krupuks. Aga mau Yello krupuks sama orange krupuks sama ...

He is like Yovita in those. He can eat anything crunchy and loves the Indian Papad! He loves it. He can have a main course of Papad. Monica complains about spicy food and he can voraciously consume the same without any complaints. Milk, water, juice - any of that, in a carton or in a bottle or in a cup. He does not mind and he does not insist.

You may not believe this. If you would ask me to recount how often he has cried, I would say a total of 5 minutes every 2 months. He just never cries!

So, I think: If Lila was not around, I would not worry if he would accidentally step on her or wake her up with his actions or make her cry by patting her a little harshly. Assuming Lila was not there, having explained in the previous paragraphs, don't you reckon Aga is a Saint?

School time Aga !

We found a school for Aga already. Maria Montessori at Wheelers Hill, Victoria. I think it is run by a bunch of Anglo Indians and at least two of the teachers there speak with a local, Australian accent. I hope the other teacher, whom I have not seen yet, does not speak like Apu.

In any case, it is just a place where he gets to see a lot of other kids, learn and play. It would free up Monica during the morning and she can do a few things in the house without having to worry about Aga damaging something {or someone} or Lila running away.

Aga starts on Monday next week !! Woo yay !

Friday, October 5

Vio's birthday

Today is Vio's birthday. Aga doesn't know that yet, but I'm going to call Vio's home after his afternoon nap today. From what I heard from Nadia, I believe they miss each other very much. We're still sorting out school-slash-activities to keep him occupied during the daytime.

Nadia said she's organising a birthday party at Kiddieland for Vio today. I wish Aga was there to party with him. If he was there, this is probably what they would have been doing...






Happy 3rd birthday, Vio. Here's to you. - from Aga.





Lila's 4 months statistics: (she was 4 months and 2 weeks for the appointment)

Weight: 6.035 kg
Length: 62.5 cm



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Thursday, October 4

Aga and the food.

We were at DFO and buying some junk as usual. You know, with my back, I never stand in one place or just stand right up for more than 1 hour. I need to rest my back. I tell Monica may be we could sit for a cup of coffee and she could feed Lila at the same time. Righto, no worries.

Aga sits on a comfy chair.

One look at the place and he KNOWS this palce serves delicious food. SMELLS good daddy !!

I don't ask what he wants. Monica tells me she wants someting chocolatey, but cool. When I come back, Monica tells me Aga had been giving her an order - what to buy for him when the "waiter" comes by !!! Can you believe that ?

Aga mau mie, sama cheeckin, sama saaaaapi, sama naaaasi, sama telor, sama tofu, sama ....

.... I am on the ground, flat.

Words of wisdom

Monica told me that Aga said the funniest of things to her last week. I heard it from Monica and I wonder what made him say that. The only possible explanation I can give is that Aga is too wise for his age !

Aga: Mummy
Monica: Yes, what ?
Aga: Aga pipis Kecil {small}
Monica: {With a concerned, quizical look} Hmm.Ok....
Aga: Daddy pipis BESAR {big} !!

.....monica on the floor laughing her huge arse off

What the fuck ? How does he know ? I swear, Aga has never seen me naked. How the heck does he know !!

Words of wisdom from Aga.

Wednesday, October 3

Highschool on Wikipedia!

A rare occasion where I blog twice in a day (wow I must be so free - huh not a chance) only because I'm so excited ...

MY high school (Kolese Loyola) is in Wikipedia!!! I know it's probably no big deal for you people who live in an all-connected-through-internet-first-world country. This is a high school in Semarang (not even the 2nd or 3rd biggest city in Indonesia). Wow. I'm impressed. Now what do I need to do to enter myself into that "Notable alumni"? :p

Here is Loyola in the Indonesian wikipedia version. Much much more information but unfortunately only for those who understand Indonesian, obviously. I didn't even know it has a forum website. WOW.

I still remember those times when "responsibility" was just a difficult word to spell (even in Indonesian, trust me!), "the future" was so far away and everyday I daydream about it. Now I'm living it, heck! It wasn't quite as what I dreamed about (of course we're talking about details, details), but I'm happy nevertheless, wouldn't change it for the world. Now where's the tissue box??

Aga.. or... Lila?

Guess.. which one is Aga... and which one is Lila. Or are they both Aga? Both Lila? :D





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