Brisbane Trip

I went to Brisbane for a day yesterday...
It was a tiring day despite the fact that it was quite fun too!

I woke up at 6.25 am sharp yesterday coz I need to leave home at 7. My taxi came and the driver almost left me as he couldnt park his car in front of my building (I forgot it's clearway time!) but luckily I was only 3 mins late so I still could catch him back :P

I checked my bag again while I was in the taxi and suddenly I realised that I forgot my damn ticket! Man... the taxi needed to go back again :-(
It's good that my building is probably only 15 mins away from the airport so I could still make it and in fact, I've got there so early :-) no baggage... so it's very fast to check in.

There is another girl from other division who went to Brisbane with me. She's nice... and it is good to have someone go there with you, so if you get lost, you do it together... :)

The session was alright, better than I expected...
They had this door prize idea where people were encouraged to ask many questions so he/she could get more chances to win...
I asked quite many questions and I got like 5-6 chances to win compared to 2-3 who didn't ask many. But I still didn't win it -____-
But everyone went home with no empty-handed. We've got Suncorp umbrella. Does this sound pathetic? Hahaha... yeah Sydney's always raining recently and we've got a big umbrella which can protect us from rain and strong wind...
I heard only employees who have been in Suncorp for 10 years would get it. Hehe I guess I speed-up my employment to 3 weeks to get that! Nice... :-)

On the way back to Sydney, we had another guy joined us coz we caught the same plane and all of us held an umbrella each.
Being proud to get the umbrella before we reach 10 years of employment, we really wanted to bring them to Sydney and prolly show it off to other mates haha :P
But the umbrella has a sharp tip and it's a NONO to be placed in the cabin.
UMBRELLA NEEDS TO BE CHECKED IN. Sound ridiculous to do that? NO! We love our umbrellas... One of the officer from Qantas said "Just throw it away! They're just give aways..."
We said "No, we came all the way to Brisbane just for these umbrellas!" hahaha... that's true though :0 I like it :P hahaha (Man, I sound so cheap >.< )

Then we checked them in and guess what? They're OVERSIZE BAGGAGE hahahaha

Well oh well, in the end if you like it, then you gotta go for it! Don't listen to what people said :P

I'm so tireddddd.... Looking forward to meet other guys and girls in the choir team coz I didn't go there last night becoz of this trip. :-)
Have a great weekend guys!

Church Choir

It's been a while for me not to blog these days..
I'll blame my busy days lately... umm... busy at work? not really...busy having fun? maybe... busy solving unexpected problems? definitely... :|

Just got back from the church today and guess what? I think I'm gonna be part of the church choir... but not at the usual church I always go to... but the church in the city where they have Indonesian Catholic Community serves as the church choir every 1st, 3rd, and 5th week...

I know a guy who just joined and I thought...ummm it would be good if I can join too coz every now and then I always wanted to be part of the choir... but then I didn't know anyone and I think it would be very awkward if I just jumped to the group and asked "can I join?" :P
I'm pretty sure they'll be very welcome and grateful for me coz it is for a church :-) but yeah I think having a friend (and it'd be even better to know more than 1 friend) who like participating in the choir is even better... so that's the story why I decided to join this time...

My first choir practice was last Friday after work... I met my friend first and we went there together...
Then I met a bunch of new people whose name I hardly could remember :P but I'm getting there :D
I learn many new songs that I've never sung before but yeah I think it's pretty easy to follow :) *HAHA I'm boasting right now!* :P... my voice is not a golden voice but I think it's not bad... at least I know how to follow the tune :P

Apart from that I think I'm gonna go to the fund raising that would be held next week... I haven't really decided on that but it'd be good if I can participate in it... (NOT performing...but just to raise some funds for those needy people :-)

Hope this is not one-off thing... coz sometimes I like doing it if I feel no motivation for me to keep doing it :)
Wish me luck :-)

Happy Birthday Yosefien!

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Wonderful Bday

Yes it was my bday not long ago...
I had my bday exactly on the same day as my flight back to Sydney... isn't it wonderful? :-)
Well it is coz that means a lot of people attending my bday :-)

It was not that bad...in the morning I still got the chance to celebrate it with my parents and friends... we had lunch or to be more exact, it was a brunch coz I was afraid I wouldn't make it if it was for a lunch... so we had brunch at around 11am.
I got quite many presents and gifts...but more importantly I got the chance to celebrate it with my closest ones... and that's what made me happy :-)

I also had some important people sent me messages and emails congratulating me :-) I really appreciate that...
Even someone who is really important to me sent me a msg...hehe I thought that person would have forgotten it :P

Ummm the story doesn't end there... after the brunch.. it was the time for me to get my stuffs and went to the airport... I thought "ahh sunny day... having a trip back to syd on my bday would be blessed" and it was indeed... there were just few obstacles that I need to bore a little...
So my dad dropped me and my mom first just in front of the gate so that we could just check in while he parked the car.. I told my mom to wait for my dad and I put my luggages under the x-ray...
Guess what happened next? BLACK OUT!!!! and the sky totally changed. The sunny day had turned into a cloudy and stormy day... "Man...why it has to be now???", I thought...
When I checked in, I asked the officer if the plan would change and she said "the runway is just closed... I don't think any plan can land here...it's too dangerous!"

I was quite panic but I tried to remain positive... I told myself that I would be OK and would still fly on that day...
So I told the officer to put me into other flight which doesn't reschedule their plan. People think it was quite hopeless to try other flights coz in most cases all flights would be redirected to other airports...

Then I also met my friends who were going to go back to Jakarta...their flight is different from mine but their flight also got delayed coz of the weather...
Then after waiting for about 1/2 hrs.. the weather got better and the airport was opened again...
One plane landed and it was my friends'... so I quickly ran to the counter again and they also called my name at the same time, trying to inform me that they can put me into other flight... so you can say I was popular for 1 day coz my name was mentioned several times hahaha...

I could say I was lucky coz everyone was trying to buy tickets for that flight and it was soo full... it was the only flight which got delayed for around 1 hr... other flights could get delayed for 3 hrs or even more.. :| and IF I got delayed, my connecting flight to KL would be wasted coz I could hardly make it :-S

After I arrived at Jakarta, I still needed to change terminal and queued up to check in... you know what?? one of MH (Malaysia Airlines) flights got canceled and most passengers of that flight tried to squeeze in my flight... no wonder soo many ppl lined up in MH counters...
I got served very slowly :-| but I could make it in the end to KL...

Now, from KL to Sydney... it was a planned connecting flight so it shouldn't matter anymore...it was just too tight I could say...
Once I got off from the plane, one MH officer was waiting for me...and it was only me (?????)
She said "quick you gotta be at gate X quickly"
I walked fast there and they've boarded already... at least I wasn't the last passenger so the other passengers wouldn't hate me :P
And the story ends at Sydney where I got off safely :-)

Such a happy ending story isnt it? :P
Now I still got a little jet lag and hopefully I can adapt to Syd time again in no time...

Yosefien's Wedding

Debie is back!!!
My gosh...it took a while for me to recharge my energy...

Anyway, just want to share some pics with you on my best friend's wedding in Semarang...
You know I woke up at 4 am coz I was a bridesmaid? hehe well if you want to get that position, you gotta sacrifice a bit rite? :P
Anyway, it's nice to share your bestfriend's important moment I guess... I feel important for her and him :P hhehehe... and not to forget, of course they are very important part of me as well :-)
So wake up at 4 am was nothing really... :-)

HOWEVER, after the wedding was NOT alright!!!
I was dead right after the wedding party... the day after the wedding supposed to be my bday and normally I would sleep at 12 am on the dot hehe so that I can pick up my friends' calls (hahaha yes I sometimes anticipate this) :P but this time, I went straight to bed coz I couldn't even open my eyes...they felt sooo heavy hahaha

nevertheless, it was soo fun though.... all the invited friends sat at the balcony and pretty much we could have our own time to celebrate our little reunion :P (it's OK we still checked the couple what they were up to) hahaha :P
Here are some pics that we took together...



- At the reception


- Taking picture at the end of the party



Ah yeah let me tell you about this pic...
After the wedding, a bunch of my friends asked me to have lunch with them.. STRAIGHT from the church... so just imagine, I was still wearing this white long dress, together with the gloves :P... Once I entered the restaurant, everyone's eyes just went straight into my dress 0___0 mannn!!!
But yeah it was so fun that it didn't make me uncomfie with such appearance :P

- At the church



- During lunch