HANZKY

You and I are connected in a way that goes beyond romance,..

beyond friendship, beyond what we've ever had before.

It has defied time, distance, and changes in ourselves and in our lives.

And it has defied every explanation except one:

purely and simply, we're soulmates.

I can't explain it, i just feel it.

It's there in the way my spirit subtly lifts whenever we talk,

how the sound of your voice brings me home in a way I can't explain.

it's in the delight I feel when we laugh at exactly the same things.

When I'm with you, it's like a tiny part of the universe shifts into the place it's supposed to be,

and all is right with the world

These things, and so many more, have made me understand

that this is a once-in-a-lifetime, forever connection

that could only exist between you and me.

And deep in my soul,

I know that our relationship is a rare gift, one that will bring us an extraordinary happiness all through our lives.


Hope we can make it to the end ya ndut.

with love,

You and I are connected in a way that goes beyond romance,..
beyond friendship, beyond what we've ever had before.
It has defied time, distance, and changes in ourselves and in our lives.
And it has defied every explanation except one:
purely and simply, we're soulmates.
I can't explain it, i just feel it.
It's there in the way my spirit subtly lifts whenever we talk,
how the sound of your voice brings me home in a way I can't explain.
it's in the delight I feel when we laugh at exactly the same things.
When I'm with you, it's like a tiny part of the universe shifts into the place it's supposed to be,
and all is right with the world
These things, and so many more, have made me understand
that this is a once-in-a-lifetime, forever connection
that could only exist between you and me.
And deep in my soul,
I know that our relationship is a rare gift, one that will bring us an extraordinary happiness all through our lives.

Hope we can make it to the end ya ndut.
with love,

Agh, i'm so hungry and i'm starving for some house special chicken for kahala. I called them up just now but they said they only do delivery for orders more than $10, damn...a house special chicken and fish ball soup only cost me around $6..so..what should i get with the four dollars justify?..no luck on kahala, so i just called sam's cafe and orders shawarma chicken, sam's cafe will still deliver it to you even if you only orders a $2 worth of subs.


I'm chatting with dendre now..he's making some martabak mie..it sure tastes good. You know dendre and i are using web cam now so we can see each other while chatting..hehe, that's cute don't you think? so we can see each other everyday!


Today, when i had lunch at the student center, i browsed around the university bookstore's card section..i was looking for a card for hana's birthday and then i came accross with this really awesome card..all of the words in there are just exactly the duplicate of my feelings and what i think of our relationship. ..even tho i don't really like the layout and the color (it's just too cheesy) but i thought i could use another card and copy some of the words and re-words that a little bit. I don't know when i'll give him the card tho..maybe some times soon..!. Okay, i'll write down what the card says in the next entry.

i don't feel well tonight, i've been sick since last wednesday, man..last wednesday was terrible. I didn't eat the whole day till late in the afternoon...and then i ate noodle once i got home..*smart idea, huh*..that made my stomach really sick and i didn't feel well at all when the night came..but then carson called to have a group meeting and do the mktg 438 homework..i knew i wouldn't be able to figure all of the answers by my self so i said okay i'll be there. And..things just got worse in the library...i felt like throwing up the whole time but i handle that okay i guess. But you know..by the time i stepped on my room..i began throwing up. My body was shaking, my head was so dizzy that i thought i was about to pass out. So i just lied down on my bed, pour some minyak kayu putih..and just took some rest. But after an hour of lying down..(i couldn't fell asleep), i felt like throwing up again so i ran quickly to the bathroom but i couldn't make it there, i mean..i could make it to the bathroom but i couldn't hold it till i get to the bathroom..so my carpet was just covered with all those dirty stuff that came out of my mouth (yikes).

So, since then..i still haven't felt better..i catch a cold right now..i ve been sneezing like every second and my throats is just itchy...oh my god, this is not fun at all. I took some medicine that i bought at walgreens but it seems does not work yet.

Despite all that, i had a really nice and fun weekend. Dendre came here friday night..and he gave me a card...it was so sweet of him..thank you ya nduti....the cards says like this...

"HONEY, can't wait to hug you...for a good long time, can't wait to squeeze you..because you're mine...can't wait to kiss you ...........and if you don't mind..can't wait to get my hands on your behind.."..

huehehehe.. and he draws like a cute smiley face..e. Makasih ya nduti...:)

Ben called me earlier..and he said that he really loves it to see us...he said that we both are really good for each other and we just seems like a very good couple..you know..always happy to be together and cherish every moment together...! ..:)

On friday night..dendre and i didn't go anywhere except to eat at kahala..and his fried rice didn't turn out that good like it always been. Oh..i guess we went to walgreens too to buy some medicine for me..dendre wanted to play pool with ben at 11 actually but he was just too tired.

Saturday, we went to jonesboro to pick up vero..and then we went to marion mall, i really wanted to buy things so badly but it just seems that i couldn't find the one i like, and when i did find the one i like...they didn't have the size for me. But i'm still eyeing at the boots ..maybe i'll get that later..sometimes next month or end of this month. University mall was our next stop after that, and i did buy some things from famous barr, just 2 football jackets..for 9.99....and i bought a black pants also, it's actually a bit longer for me..i have to figure out what to do with it. We went back to my dorm to take a shower and change..and then we went to student center to meet with ben, martha and segu. We all played pool and i played for the first time..martha was showing me how to play with so much patience..hehe...i know i won't be able to poke some balls.

After bored with playing pool, we went to play bowling at coo coos, at first we want to play at the place behind the mall but they were closed, so we had to drive all the way to carterville...it was a fun game, hehe...! We stopped by at walmart on the way back, and i bought alittle present for marilu..it's her birthday today..hope she likes it.

I didn't show up for the surprise party debbie made for her..i know debbie was telling me about it but she didn't remind again me so i was kinda forget about it, and when the clock hits 12...i was far away in marion so i couldn't make it.

I know..i think people will start you know..talking about me..not like gossiping or anything, but they are questioning why i never spare some times to hang out with them??..you know..i always promise to debbie that i will go here and there with her..such as the karaoke presented by taiwanese student association, the soccer game, all those meetings and many others. Marilu and kareen also always ask me to go out with them but i just couldn't make it. I don't know..it's not that i don't want to hang out with them..but i just have a lot of things to do this semester..i have assignment due almost every day, all the tests, project and everything are just killing me. So, having fun at sticks in one of school days is the least thing i wanna do. Besides..clubbing is not really my scene ..!..I don't know..i hope they can understand this..and .to be friends does not mean that you have to hang out, go out and spend times with each other all the time right?

So, after we dropped martha off at ambasador hall, we went for supper at chicago hotdog..i was really hungry. Vero slept over at ben's...hehe...can't imagine that.

Today...we went over to ben's house, vero was still there and we had lunch at kahala. After that, ben took her home and dendre and i went to office max..i needed to buy hp calculator for my finance class, but they didn't have it there. Thank god we finally found it at 710 so, i can catch up with all the materials..(and that..if i can manage to study). I don't mind studying actually you know..if it's for my marketing class. But this is finance..??

I had a group meeting at 8 tonight.....it didn't take that long but i'm getting tired of group meeting.

I still can't believe what has happened to the united states on tuesday, September 11, 2001. That day will be another historical day and the most terrifying day to date. My heart goes out to all of the people who lost their loved ones..i hope god will give them the strenghness to cope with the pain and sorrow. Since the two planes slammed in to the twin tower and caused them to topple and two other planes crashed in the pentagon and pennsylvania area, all of the people life in america would not be the same... i'm still scrambling to understand who could commit such a heinous act?.

I just finished doing some sit-ups, since i watched britney spears diary on mtv...i promised to my self that i'm gonna do sit ups everyday..as much as i possible can, man..she really have the body to kill, she does sit ups 500 times a day..daang... Hmm..it's not that i don't appreciate my body, i like the way i am..but there are times when i wish i could be a few inches taller *who doesn't anyway?*, and have a build up stomach and skinnier legs.


Now i'm on my study break, i finished studying for sales management quiz tomorrow and i will study operations management after this...i'm chatting with dendre now...!. Ohh..i don't know what to eat tonight..for sure i don't want another indomie and i ate tuna noodle caserole this afternoon..so i can't eat the same thing for dinner. What about fettucini?..hmm..no thank you, i want some chicken...kentucky will be good maybe, or some chicken fingers for somewhere else.


Debbie said she's gonna be here..but she hasn't called me since, donna came to my room after we had lunch together in the tv room, she told me about the opening job in andersen consulting. Marilu came by here also to borrow my vacuum cleaner and laura stopped by for a while...we were gossiping about ivonne, hehe..the thing is she's always with lasslo (the hungarian guy), and we are just curious about it. Laura saw them holding hands at schnucks..hehe..maybe they are hooking up..:P

School is fine, it's pretty hectic this week and i've screwed two of my quizzes. My sales quiz was actually sooo easy BUT i didn't know that the quiz was gonna be over chapter 2, i thought it's gonna be over chapter 1 since that's the only chapter we've had covered to the day of the quiz..oh man. My finance quiz was..mmm, i know i could do it but i did some silly mistake, like there is a formula that we supposed to add the value, but what i did was multiply them both instead of adding them together...hee..hee...does that mean i know or i dont?..anyway, it's not like i don't make a big deal out of it, but hopefully it wouldn't hurt me at all, i know i need to spend some extra times for this class!.


My family? Haven't talked to them for a while, almost two weeks i guess?..i'm gonna call my mom some times this week..but i don't have a calling card..i hate it because i can't even purchase the calling card from that site, they always pending my order...gotta use dendre's credit card..hehe.


What else yaa?..i know next week and the week after that will gonna be even more hectic, next week we have to go to great shape and meet with the manager and i have to discuss about ASAF also with Debbie...i'll be the vice president ..yoohooo..:). i have my case due and marketing research exam next week and also my second sales management quiz.. these three things will always come every week!..well i don't wanna talk about the whole assignments thing, i know it's a lot and i just need to get them done..quickly!


You know what, everytime i think about aaliyah, it gives me this chill somehow, it such a big loss for the world that such a sweet and talented young-beautiful artist died in a very young age, i like her a lot. I always think she is pretty and you know..always have this nice attitude, don't talk a lot, she's sexy but not sleazy at all, her style is so sophisticated..i admired her in some way. I know i'm not a huge fan of her or anything, in fact i just started to like her a while ago..and i've been listening to her song "try again" and "we need a resolution" everyday since then...a couple times a day even!..so i'm a bit sad now knowing that she's gone and i really regret it for not trying to get to know her since long ago! i guess angel doesn't belong to earth, huh?.


I normally don't get this serious if some public figures passed away, like when princess diana died..you know the whole world was crying but i didn't really feel anything. I don't know what makes me take this so seriously..i guess it makes me even more realize that we can't take life for granted, we have to know and realize that someday we have to go and also have to let even our closest person go...! just thinking about this makes my eyes all watery!.


The thing that sadden me is the fact that she died in a tragic incident, plane crash. That is really something that i've been really scared of, it's not that i'm afraid of flying..i know i'm petrified of heights but being in an airplane is okay..in fact sometimes i miss the smell of airplanes and being there. But i always thinking about plane crash and all that...i know it's weird, but some times i imagine my self in an exploding plane and wondering what's gonna happen next, what's gonna happen to nduti?..to my family?..oh ..i guess i'm kinda have negative thinking here, always thinking about the worst and always expecting the worst...!. Not that i expecting it to happen...but you know...ugh, i don't even know how i get all these fear..maybe it's just because i'm away from my family and i am so worry about everything, i'm worried that somehow..something will separate us..and we will not be able to see each other anymore..permanently..maybe one day when i have got together with them again i can cut this stupid fear out of my mind totally!.


Every night before i go to bed, i always pray to god... i pray for everything that comes to mind..mostly i pray for him to keep me and all of the people i love in a good condition, good health, i pray for him to keep all of us away from danger and all the bad things and importantly gives all of us a long life. i always ask for strengh, patience and happiness. I ask GOD to give me and all of my family a chance to be together again in a whole lot better condition. I pray for my mom..for ibnu and hana..!. It's funny you know when i pray for hana and ibnu, sometimes i pray for little things...for instance sometimes i would pray for ibnu to eat more so he can get more meat in his body, hehehe...see..i care for even the slightest things.


I also pray for my self, you know.. to graduate soon with a high GPA, i know i won't be graduating with magna cum laude..but at least i still have some hopes to get a cum laude major GPA..! I pray for me to get a good job, wonderful career, and to experience a long-normal and wonderful life. What i mean by normal is you know just like everybody else, to have beautiful kids and everything...and last but not least i always ask for god to guide me thru my life and show me the way.


Nduti is always been in my prayer also, i pray for him to have an even brighter future and you know..praying that we are really meant for each other and that we can get married sometimes soon, i really want it to happen between today and december next year, i really hope it's gonna happen you know. I have been imagining raising a kid together with him..i really have been imagining down to the very single detail of everything....!. Hope you'll hear my prayer and granted me all that...amin!.

School is fine, it's pretty hectic this week and i've screwed two of my quizzes. My sales quiz was actually sooo easy BUT i didn't know that the quiz was gonna be over chapter 2, i thought it's gonna be over chapter 1 since that's the only chapter we've had covered to the day of the quiz..oh man. My finance quiz was..mmm, i know i could do it but i did some silly mistake, like there is a formula that we supposed to add the value, but what i did was multiply them both instead of adding them together...hee..hee...does that mean i know or i dont?..anyway, it's not like i don't make a big deal out of it, but hopefully it wouldn't hurt me at all, i know i need to spend some extra times for this class!.

My family? Haven't talked to them for a while, almost two weeks i guess?..i'm gonna call my mom some times this week..but i don't have a calling card..i hate it because i can't even purchase the calling card from that site, they always pending my order...gotta use dendre's credit card..hehe.

What else yaa?..i know next week and the week after that will gonna be even more hectic, next week we have to go to great shape and meet with the manager and i have to discuss about ASAF also with Debbie...i'll be the vice president ..yoohooo..:). i have my case due and marketing research exam next week and also my second sales management quiz.. these three things will always come every week!..well i don't wanna talk about the whole assignments thing, i know it's a lot and i just need to get them done..quickly!

You know what, everytime i think about aaliyah, it gives me this chill somehow, it such a big loss for the world that such a sweet and talented young-beautiful artist died in a very young age, i like her a lot. I always think she is pretty and you know..always have this nice attitude, don't talk a lot, she's sexy but not sleazy at all, her style is so sophisticated..i admired her in some way. I know i'm not a huge fan of her or anything, in fact i just started to like her a while ago..and i've been listening to her song "try again" and "we need a resolution" everyday since then...a couple times a day even!..so i'm a bit sad now knowing that she's gone and i really regret it for not trying to get to know her since long ago! i guess angel doesn't belong to earth, huh?.

I normally don't get this serious if some public figures passed away, like when princess diana died..you know the whole world was crying but i didn't really feel anything. I don't know what makes me take this so seriously..i guess it makes me even more realize that we can't take life for granted, we have to know and realize that someday we have to go and also have to let even our closest person go...! just thinking about this makes my eyes all watery!.

The thing that sadden me is the fact that she died in a tragic incident, plane crash. That is really something that i've been really scared of, it's not that i'm afraid of flying..i know i'm petrified of heights but being in an airplane is okay..in fact sometimes i miss the smell of airplanes and being there. But i always thinking about plane crash and all that...i know it's weird, but some times i imagine my self in an exploding plane and wondering what's gonna happen next, what's gonna happen to nduti?..to my family?..oh ..i guess i'm kinda have negative thinking here, always thinking about the worst and always expecting the worst...!. Not that i expecting it to happen...but you know...ugh, i don't even know how i get all these fear..maybe it's just because i'm away from my family and i am so worry about everything, i'm worried that somehow..something will separate us..and we will not be able to see each other anymore..permanently..maybe one day when i have got together with them again i can cut this stupid fear out of my mind totally!.

Every night before i go to bed, i always pray to god... i pray for everything that comes to mind..mostly i pray for him to keep me and all of the people i love in a good condition, good health, i pray for him to keep all of us away from danger and all the bad things and importantly gives all of us a long life. i always ask for strengh, patience and happiness. I ask GOD to give me and all of my family a chance to be together again in a whole lot better condition. I pray for my mom..for ibnu and hana..!. It's funny you know when i pray for hana and ibnu, sometimes i pray for little things...for instance sometimes i would pray for ibnu to eat more so he can get more meat in his body, hehehe...see..i care for even the slightest things.

I also pray for my self, you know.. to graduate soon with a high GPA, i know i won't be graduating with magna cum laude..but at least i still have some hopes to get a cum laude major GPA..! I pray for me to get a good job, wonderful career, and to experience a long-normal and wonderful life. What i mean by normal is you know just like everybody else, to have beautiful kids and everything...and last but not least i always ask for god to guide me thru my life and show me the way.

Nduti is always been in my prayer also, i pray for him to have an even brighter future and you know..praying that we are really meant for each other and that we can get married sometimes soon, i really want it to happen between today and december next year, i really hope it's gonna happen you know. I have been imagining raising a kid together with him..i really have been imagining down to the very single detail of everything....!. Hope you'll hear my prayer and granted me all that...amin!.

I usually don't like monday, but today is okay..maybe because it still the second week of class and we don't have that much of assignment to do yet. But i do have 1 case for this week, one homework, one quiz and one test...that's quite a lot..!. Well, maybe because i'm enjoying school right now, i just want to do all my work, finish all my classes, graduate and go away from here, it's not like i don't like it here, carbondale is such a friendly environment actually but.. i just can't wait to see the world and the opportunity it offers.

So today i had 2 classes, it was marketing channels and the management class, i sat together with marilu and karen. marilu and i went to the student center after the class cause she wanted to buy a cigaratte but then once we got there, she just realized that she didn't bring her wallet with her, so she borrowed money from me. We had lunch together at the dining table in ambassador hall. Anyway, she was telling me about her new relationship with vincent..hehe..i mean that was fast because they just met each other for less than 2 weeks, oh well...what can i say, love conquers everything!..Anyway, i'm just curious how debbie reacted about this news..

h..i'm sneezing right now, don't tell me that i'm gonna catch a flu or something....!.

I think i read too many magazines, watch too much TV, you know in media...there are a lot of stories about guys cheating on his girlfriend with her sister or her roomates, her bestfriends, her personal trainer, his ex girlfriend, his friends and all that. My estimation is in every 10 americans there are maybe only 2 who remains faithfull to his/her loved ones...and that makes you think like wow..you are in this world that full of unfaithful people and you really have to be aware of your situations...!. It's just sad you know...and for me, loyalty is like my top priority in a relationship among all, i value faithfullnes soo much that i even dislike someone who i know is not remain faithful to his/her significant others.

There is this show in MTV called temptation island, there was a couple who wanted to test their relationship, MTV then put them away of each other and they bring a couple girls to the guy and bring a couple guys to the girl, just to see whether the couple tempted to flirt around..so as the story goes, the girl passed the test, she didn't flirt around with any of the guys..but her boyfriend..oh my god, he was so tempted and he had a crush on one of the girls, they showed the video of them kissing by the window in his hotel room, and after that he just locked the door and CENSORED..that was the end of it, the end of the show..and the end of their relationship. How could you just blow out your relationship like that over some girls you don't even know..? I really hate that guy and that show makes me really sick when i first watched it, i even flipped to other channels if they played that shows over and over again, because i can't stand it..it gives a hole in my heart...i don't know why..but it really makes me sad..

Maybe this is the way i was raised, i really look up to my mom in term of loyalty, patience, tenderhearted and all that...she is more than hundred percent loyal to my dad, maybe she is too loyal *well..there is no such thing as too loyal, is there?*..yea maybe there is if we are loyal to a wrong person..anyway..

last weekend... Dendre came here on friday night.. We ate kahala that night and we also went to barnes noble..and the next day, we went to target, mall, walmart, and ate kahala again for dinner with ben too, we stopped by at his place..! On Sunday, we went to snhucks , international grocery and just drove around with ben's vans..!. That's it..that was lovely..i really feel comfortable when he is here with me..:)..

it's mid night, first day of this semester has passed, i have two classes today, one is the promotional concept and it's in the agriculture building..it's pretty far, i took an endless walk to get there, hehe..okay i'm exagerating. Anyway, we only spent 5 minutes in that class, the teacher..who happened to be chinese just giving out the syllabus and just explain some of the things about the course and he let us go. But my other class, which is management 318, the teacher explained the first chapter right away, can't he wait till next session?..


i went to see my advisor this afternoon, i was waiting for an hour in there, well..turned out that i still have 15 more credits to graduate, i thought i only have 9 or 10, well that's fine, i still can finish them up on spring semester, and hopefully there won't be any schedule conflict or anything or i'll be stuck in here for another semester. *no thanks*


so..i had the tuna subs for lunch from the wise guy, i used to like that a lot but i guess this one is not that good, maybe because i didn't put hot sauce on it and i didn't eat it with doritos...!. Kay came over here when i was chatting with nduti, linda and fuad..she needed to use the computer to check on her orders, she ordered a computer thru online from best buy.


Five minutes after Kay justify, somebody was knocking on my door again, and it was kay and On, hehe..kay told her that i have a really nice room and wanted to show it off to her, while in fact my room is still messy and all of the stuffs are not in the place where it belongs. Anyway, i just checked my hotmail e-mail, i was just curious about the layout because kay checked her hotmail email and the layout was totally different with mine. But when i checked mine, i found out they have new looks and everything and it looks nice, i almost wanted to use my hotmail again..hehe, but i have my klikmarketing email.

Sunday Morning...i'm really glad that class starts tomorrow, i know this semester is gonna be fast and i'm gonna rock!!..hehe..Anyhoo, i just got back..well at least an hour ago from dinner with all of the indonesian (mas heru, mbak susi, yoga, ben, mbak maya, mas abdul and cutie kania..too bad nduti justify this afternoon so he couldn't join us), we ate dinner at pizza hut and i ate 3 slices of pizza even though i wasn't hungry at all, in fact my stomach was still full of the chicken leg over rice from kahala. After that we stopped by at Mas heru place and den ben dropped me home.

Dendre was here the whole weekend.. He came here on friday around 7 o'clock, jay came along with him but he got off at the car dealer. That night, when he just arrived, he waited for me doing my SLA stuff at the student center and then we ate Mc Donalds. I was ready to leave the student center and debbie said it was okay for me not to go to the mentalist thing, so we justify but then on our way home we thought that it wouldn't be a bad idea if we watched the mentalist show, so we headed back to the student center. But I think the show hasn't started yet by the time we got to the auditorium, instead there was like a speaker trying to explain about the whole college thing and he was trying to look like a comedian. Not worth to see, so we just justify. We stopped by at Barnes Noble to get some ice cafe mocha and then we went to Walmart, i bought a couple of things but i didn't find all the things that i really need. We went home after that..

On saturday, went to eat kahala for lunch, i discovered the same menu as the ayam gosong at chinese restaurant in bloomington, it's not as good as that one tho but not bad at all, it's called chicken leg over rice in kahala. After that, we went to target and i bought quite a couple of things...and after finished shopping we went back to my room but we stopped by at the storage to pick up some of my stuff. There was this dance party held by SIU at the student center to welcome new students, so all of the sla had to be there too. Nduti went there with me and we met Ben, the party was not so entertaining, i don't like the songs and all that, so dendre and i just justify but i knew that the sla need to be there when the party ended to clean up the ballroom. So just went to Chicago hotdog, they just moved by the way, they moved next to sidetrack and the place is much bigger and nicer than the old one. That is really a good thing since some of the businesses here are closing down. Dendre ordered the philly cheese steak, hehe..i still remember that two summers ago, we used to eat there almost everyday, even dendre sometimes ate there twice in one day, the philly cheese steak was so good that we got to eat that all the time, and dendre figured it out that it's all the beginning of the BIG him, hehehe....!. We went back to the student center after that, and the party was over and the sla had a meeting outside the ballroom, but it was for only 5 minutes and we didn't have to clean up the ballroom....!.

Debbie and the others were planning to go to the stix after that, but i didn't feel like going to a club you know..besides, you won't ever find a decent club with a good music here, soo..forget it. But i did say that i might join them later tho...just for the sake of it.

So later on that night, yoga called and informed us that he has arrived and now is in the amtrak station. So we dragged our ass out and pick him up and drop him at mas heru's place because i don't have any place for him in my room, and i don't have extra comforter, blankets and all that, so he better sleep at mas heru's place. We hung out there for more than an hour and then we went home..

Today..i was still sleepy even tho i slept for what it seemed to be more than 9 hours. Mas heru also went to my room for a while,and after i took a shower and everything...we went to the uhaul place to pick up yoga's truck. I'm not sure how he's gonna make it but..i hope nothing bad happened and he'll get there safely..amiin. i really do pray for him you know because it's just scary to imagine him driving down the uhaul all the way to indiana, without any experience of driving a car in the states, let alone a full loaded truck. But..i don't know..i think something might happen, but i assume it's only something small tho, like maybe he bump into something and the car get slightly dented..i don't know...i hope not tho...!

After we got the truck, we went to the storage and loaded all of his stuff to the car, so the storage is empty now, and after that we went to kahala..another chicken leg over rice, and then we went to seventen, i needed to buy some textbooks. But then dendre suggested me to check the price at the university bookstore first since i will get 15% discount as a sla. So we went to university bookstore, they have the same price but since i got the discount there, so it's quite cheaper, i could save around 30 something i guess.

At 3.25 i had to go to kaskasia room to attend to student involvement session, so i went there..it only took 20 minutes, dendre and yoga was waiting outside.

So we had a picnic, i know i came a bit late..like 20 minutes late maybe, but there was no point of me being on time anyway, doesn't make any difference, it's not like i had a duty or responsibility. The important thing was i was there at the picnic and i was there during the choir and the meeting. Yupe, we had a meeting around 6 o'clock, it was a wrapped up kind of meeting and we got out certificate.

So..how is it like being an SLA (student life advisor)?..well i don't know..i'm not proud of becoming an sla though and this is not what i expected. Most people were sad that the orientation was over but i wasn't sad at all, i didn't feel anything...maybe because i don't feel like a big family of the SLA'S. I don't know who they are and everything, i couldn't even named 8 of them..i mean outside the international SLA, and i think it was the stupid thing that they handed out the angket about who is the most enthusiastic sla, who is the sla who has the most saluki spirit and all that, how can i answer that when we don't even know the name of all the people?..

I thought as an sla, we will have so much responsibilities and duties, i thought i will spend every minute of my time helping and assisting all of the students, I thought i will be so busy and hardly have time for my self. But..most of the time i found my self just sitting around being bored at ISS or just chatting around with other people.

i just feel like most of the assignment given was not clear enough. I know i was assigned at Housing sections but i didn't even have enough information about the housing, i'd like to know every detail of it before i let my self being asked by the students about all the apartments and dormitory, and i don't think it was really helpful tho..well..i know some people got their housing from us but still you know. For example is that we have a list of apartments to give out to the new students, but so what? they can get the list from the newspaper....and by giving out the list the students still need to call the landlord and find the address by themselves..what they need is the transportation to get there, how to approach the landlord, etc.i mean..i don't know..maybe it's just me, but if i'm helping someone..i want to fully help him/her till he/she get what he/she wants, i don't like to leave them hanging just like that. Ooh..it's just hard to explain...!.

The other thing that i don't really like is this orientation is not really well organized, i know they are trying..but they didn't encourage students to come to each of the orientation and participate in that. So only a couple people showed up during the library tour, the train tour, etc... Overall, the good thing about being an sla is that i got to meet quite a bunch of people....Well, it's over now..

i'm just gonna read the glamour magazine i bought at the shnucks, ooh
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forgot to tell you that i went to international grocery and schnucks with yoga and his truck, hehehe... posted by hanzky at

..it's been more than a week since the last time i wrote here. yea, i've been really really busy with the orientation staff, well not like i have a lot to do when i'm at the ISS, but i just have to be around there in case someone needs help or something. This orientation started last monday and we have been there since 8 in the morning till 7 at night. Today is okay cos i just need to give them the library tour at 2, maybe it will take about an hour or so then the next thing is at 7 o clock, so i will have a chance to go home and..i dont know..do some stuff like unpack my stuff maybe, my room is just like a plane crash..you can't even see the floor..


So, it's been 5 days since dendre and i have been away of each other, not long but enough to make me miss him....he justify on sunday afternoon after he dropped me off at the student center. But last tuesday, i stopped by at his place..for only like 15 minutes, debby wanted to pick up yanos at the airport and she asked if i wanted to come down with her so i could stop by at nduti's, hehe..


Living in ambassador hall is okay i guess, except for the fact that it's not so easy for me to eat, i mean it's not like that i always cook but it's just that i don't like to be going in and out the communal kitchen whenever i feel like eating. . Anyway, there are a lot of people here in ambassador hall, i met some of them....laura is living on the same wing with me but her room is all the way at the end, and ivonne room is just accross from laura's room. Upstairs, there are yoko..the japanese girl, marilu from peru.., next to marilu's room is martha's room. Kay room is upstairs too but i forgot what number she is in, and ON is also on my floor. I don't have like a close friend or anything here, but i think i know enough people to make me feel comfortable. I get along with Kaori okay, debbie is nice too.. The rest of the guy are okay, the malaysian group like paul, yap, ling are nice, well it's not like i wanted to get close with them. but they are good, the nigerian like wally, niyi, dotun and nsikak are fine too..i click with them, i mean they are nice and funny too..they always crack me up..haha


Hmm, i don't know what else to write..i'm trying to convince dendre to come over here tonight..but i know he'll be tired and all that so maybe it's okay if he just come down here tomorrow till sunday, either tonight or tomorrow..i will still see him right? but i prefer tonight tho........! Well, i think that's it for now..i'm trying to build ASAF website and maybe just cleaning up my room..it smells like onion!!

..it's been more than a week since the last time i wrote here. yea, i've been really really busy with the orientation staff, well not like i have a lot to do when i'm at the ISS, but i just have to be around there in case someone needs help or something. This orientation started last monday and we have been there since 8 in the morning till 7 at night. Today is okay cos i just need to give them the library tour at 2, maybe it will take about an hour or so then the next thing is at 7 o clock, so i will have a chance to go home and..i dont know..do some stuff like unpack my stuff maybe, my room is just like a plane crash..you can't even see the floor..

So, it's been 5 days since dendre and i have been away of each other, not long but enough to make me miss him....he justify on sunday afternoon after he dropped me off at the student center. But last tuesday, i stopped by at his place..for only like 15 minutes, debby wanted to pick up yanos at the airport and she asked if i wanted to come down with her so i could stop by at nduti's, hehe..

Living in ambassador hall is okay i guess, except for the fact that it's not so easy for me to eat, i mean it's not like that i always cook but it's just that i don't like to be going in and out the communal kitchen whenever i feel like eating. . Anyway, there are a lot of people here in ambassador hall, i met some of them....laura is living on the same wing with me but her room is all the way at the end, and ivonne room is just accross from laura's room. Upstairs, there are yoko..the japanese girl, marilu from peru.., next to marilu's room is martha's room. Kay room is upstairs too but i forgot what number she is in, and ON is also on my floor. I don't have like a close friend or anything here, but i think i know enough people to make me feel comfortable. I get along with Kaori okay, debbie is nice too.. The rest of the guy are okay, the malaysian group like paul, yap, ling are nice, well it's not like i wanted to get close with them. but they are good, the nigerian like wally, niyi, dotun and nsikak are fine too..i click with them, i mean they are nice and funny too..they always crack me up..haha

Hmm, i don't know what else to write..i'm trying to convince dendre to come over here tonight..but i know he'll be tired and all that so maybe it's okay if he just come down here tomorrow till sunday, either tonight or tomorrow..i will still see him right? but i prefer tonight tho........! Well, i think that's it for now..i'm trying to build ASAF website and maybe just cleaning up my room..it smells like onion!!