Wishes?

Thanks to Eve for this pic!

Hello all!! Happy super-belated CHRISTMAS 2011 and NEW YEAR 2012, happy GRADUATION for all of my classmates and happy early CHINESE NEW YEAR! ^^

and I would like to say my farewell to the so-called  Long Distance Relationship! :))

Meet my lovely mister and me! Taken at my grad ceremony. ^^ This is definitely one of the happiest moment in my life.

 
I had a very tiring but super AWESOME month of January so far. I got to meet my mister! We had a really nice vacation in China, we spent some times in Suzhou, got the chance to go to Beijing and Shanghai for a while, and the best part was he managed to attend my graduation ceremony in which I gave a speech in Chinese, haha, pretty awesome, right? I never imagined I would be able to stand in front of so much people and giving a graduation speech and the hardest part is not using my own mother language.
Here are some of the photos from Jan 5, 2012:

This is my super mom and me. :))

All the Indonesians graduates from batch 2006 and their fams, I'll upload more on my facebook later. I miss you all already!! You all are the BEST!

My favourite aunties from the church: left is auntie Jenny, a very happy and fun auntie, centre is auntie Gloria, an amazing cook!, she has 2 adorable daughters Elli and Edna, I miss you all!

On January 14th, we had the "Heaven or Hell: Prom Night", all credits to batch 2007 and the rest of the juniors. I should really say I am very impressed of what these 19 students can achieve together, you guys are amazing! Thanks for everything, thanks for the efforts, thanks for the amazing yearbook, thanks for the memories. I have to agree with Sylvia's post though, this year prom was not as personal as last year's was. But the event itself was fully organized, superb! Congrats to all people involved during the prep, sure thing it's everything but easy. I feel very lucky to have friends like you all, i love you all and I do hope we will cross-path again in the near future! All the best for your internship year 2007! God bless!

Well, I am back in Jakarta for now. I am very happy! I am meeting my mister for dinner later this evening. :)) I am currently staying at my sis' place (kost-an).

I can't just sit down and do nothing though, I need to start looking for a job while waiting for my certificate. My original plan and it is still my plan for now, I will apply for a job (in any kind of field, read: other than medicine), hopefully I get a job SOON so I can get more experience in how to deal with people and get the knowledge of what work life is all about exactly. Then I have to go through all the long procedures in order to apply for adaptation program if say I want to pursue my medical career. God helps me figure this one out. In Him, there is nothing impossible, in Him wishes do come true. :) So don't be afraid, dream big, make wishes, PLUS the efforts!! and let God works!

Waiting.

Can't you believe it? Just 4 days to Christmas! About the Christmas dinner, it's been decided, we'll go to Secret Recipe on Sunday evening, which means I gotta make the reservation sometimes this week. I'm going to Christmas Eve service at SIF (Suzhou International Fellowship) church to meet some friends there, then later for the evening I'm going to celebrate Christmas with Marcus and auntie June (they host a meeting every Saturday 4 PM at their house, the regulars are Janesya, Jenhan, Melisa, Swaroop, Pradeep, and me ~ 4 Indonesian and 2 Indians, all med students), we are going to order in the food from various restaurants. ^^ For the Christmas morning service I'm going to the Catholic church, but most of the people I know will be gone for holiday though. -_- This will be my last Christmas in Suzhou I guess (kecuali apabila Tuhan berkehendak lain, hehe).

Besides the Christmas celebration (party and everything), we shall not forget about the true meaning of Christmas, me myself sometimes got too excited with the mood for celebration till I forgot about what actually the real purpose of Christmas itself. It is about the birth of Jesus and everyone present during the birth of Jesus (i.e. Maria, the shepherds, etc), it is about joy for the savior has born, we need to spread the good news, just like the shepherds did. ^^ Let us make the the time to read about the birth of Jesus on the bible (Matthew or Luke) and spread the good news, let them receive the good news also. :)

P.S. Just 2 more weeks till I get to see my mister! thennn I'm hoping to say goodbye to LDR!

I miss this! Let's go there again! Make bunch of new even-more-memorable memories. ^^  This photo was taken in Lembang, Bandung.

Ideas for Christmas Dinner?

I am still thinking for ideas on how to spend my last Christmas here? Hm.. I would really love to spend it with my friends here, one of the idea is to have a Christmas dinner together. However, I am still looking for the perfect place.
Secret Recipe? They have this amazing chocolate cake "Chocolate Indulgence". If you never try it, you definitely have to!! It costs 20 yuan for one quite-big-slice of this delicious cake.

My favorite 'Chocolate Indulgence'

I was planning to have my Christmas dinner at this restaurant but I am not sure anymore now because I had too much of this cake already, hahaha. The food is just so-so, but I think I will still consider this as an option.

I don't feel like celebrating Christmas by eating at a Chinese restaurant, somehow it's not so Christmasie. So maybe I'll cross out the Chinese food restaurant option.

Pasta perhaps? I miss PEPeNERO so badd, although I've only been there for like twice, both with my mister. ^^

My mister suggested steak. Hm.. A good idea for... a candlelight dinner for us though. Hahahaha.. Not sure for this one since there will be at least 16 people with limited budget (read: pelit, ahahaha, maklum anak kost semua). I wish there are more good restaurants here in Suzhou just like in Jakarta!

Lists for Christmas dinner place options:
- Secret Recipe
- Mister Pizza
- Papa John's
- Yang-yang (Chinese food)
- TGI Friday
- Casa Zoe (Mexican Food)
- Korean Food

Update for last Saturday, December 10, 2011. 
I had this amazing Christmas dinner at a church friend's house, her name is Auntie Gloria, she is an amazing cook! She prepared everything by herself, I so wanna be a great cook like her in the future. ^^ Anyway, last Saturday she prepared turkey (usually she has to prepare for 2 days to cook turkey, but this time because she was so busy she only prepare it for 1 day), ham with honey mustard sauce - super delicious!!, penne pasta, IKEA meatballs (I wish we have IKEA in Indo!), boiled buncis (I don't know the English word for buncis), and one of of her guest brought Vietnamese rolls, uu, too bad I am allergic to shrimp. The best part is the dessert, I LOVE dessert, auntie Gloria made blueberry pie and apple pie, and we ate it. Aaaa, I was so full that day! I wanted to have some more pies but there was just not enough space in my belly. -_- Thank you so much Auntie for hosting such a wonderful Christmas dinner!

All the yummy food!

The kids (the girls on the right are the adorable and cute Elli and Edna, auntie Glorias

's daughter)

This pic was taken from last time I had dinner at her place. Left: most delicious apple pie , Right: home-made chocolate cake

Too bad I didn't take any proper pictures for each delicious food, hiksss, adding camera to my wish list.

Nostalgila..

Since it's almost the end of the year, looking back to the beginning of the year 2011:
1.) January 2011: hmmm, I can't even remember how I spent my New Year's Eve, hahaha. But, I'm guessing I spent it with bunch of friends here in Suzhou. Nothing special, justtt that I started my Internship training (all those Med chinese class, practical class and case studies). Oh yaa before the training was my senior's graduation and prom! (batch 2005 was the first batch with 12 Indonesian students majoring Clinical Medicine in Suzhou Uni)
And another thing was I cut my hair short, and had a perm curl which lasted for about 2 months.

Here are some pic from back then:

Everything was so white! I wonder whether I'm going to experience something like this again before I'm going back to Indo.

East Camp Dorm, the left building: mostly Koreans, the right one (no AC, hot water): Chinese students' super cheap dorm

Me and the snow, near the building where the internship training was held

2.) February 2011: still training, short CNY holiday then had a small exam before starting the internship, finally the beginning of my internship, first department was Ob-Gyn, first week was horrible, I remember I tried so hard to fit in, struggled with the language and everything but finally got to enjoy every seconds of it. I love my Ob-Gyn rotation. :))

3.) March, April, May 2011: more internship thingies. Spent most of my time in the hospital except Saturday and Sunday. My last Spring in China! Definitely gonna miss all the beautiful flowers.

4.) June 2011! Probably best month of the year after December. ^^ I got to go back to Jakarta and meet my family and my mister! I got to attend mister's sister's wedding ceremony. It was beautiful and such a memorable one. #ilovewedding I love the gate-crashing part, hehe. I also got to meet my baby niece, Chiara. :))

It's me and my mister in front of the Cathedral! ^^

Meet my baby niece.

5.) July 2011: Baddd because I miss home so badly! I got the taste of freedom, love, hahaha aga lebayy. The point is I really really miss everyone back home. The weather was not so friendly either and by this time I have started my rotation in the Internal Medicine department.

6.)  August 2011: ...

7.) September 2011: Finally, I went to Huangshan! aka the Yellow Mountain. Cheers!! It was amazing, the weather was great. I always love travelling, it's just hard for me sometimes to find the right time (such a lame excuse yahh) and the most important is that I must save up a lot first. Hehe. If you guys ever have the chance to go to Huangshan, you definitely have to go! Just make sure to spend the night at the peak to make sure you don't miss the sunset and sunrise scenery, both which unfortunately I haven't experienced yet.

8.) October 2011: Peds rotation. 2 months before final exam.

9.) November 2011: Study, study, study!!

10.) Last but not least, DECEMBER 2011: final exam ~ practical (Dec 3, 2011), final exam ~ theory (Dec 6, 2011), I'm just glad it's all OVER. tee hee! Isn't it the most wonderful time of the year? ^^

Thanks GOD for such a wonderful year!

P.S. I have some trouble uploading photos because of the connection. -_- Going to upload it next time or maybe after I'm in Jakarta, because as you know, here in China I need to use proxy to open several websites.

Helloo December! ^^

It's the most wonderful time of the year! ^^ I have so much to be thankful for, but firstly I would like to say that I am officially done with med school, well, at least for now! 5.5 years, oh I'm so DONE!
I still have many things before I can actually practice medicine, but still I'm just so grateful now that I finally finished the first step. Thanks to everyone who had been very supportive throughout my study in here. Thanks God, without Him I'm nothing.

I am looking forward to go back to Jakarta! But before that, I can't wait to see my mom and my mister! Yes, that's right they are coming here for my graduation ceremony. Mom is coming on Jan 1st, my mister is coming on Jan 4th.

Hopefully, I will have more time to take care of my blogs. I have way too many blogs to maintain. -_- *my bad* and plus I really need to improve my blogging skills.

HELLO DECEMBER, HOLIDAY SEASON IS HERE!!!

Things to do before leaving China:
- Pack my things then send everything back to Indonesia (esp. BOOKS! -_-) I love my books but they are just so heavy and it will cost a lot.*sobs*
- Selling stuffs -_-
- Spending more time with friends here
- Finish my C.V. !! ASAP!
- and the list still goes on..

The Wheel of Life

Here come another storm in my life. I've been so anxious about waiting my HSK result to come out.
Turns out I haven't pass level 6 yet so that means I have to re-take the test which will cost me another 250 yuan. :(
So sad, unbelievably sad.. But, I need to look on the brighter side, I need to stay positive.
I'm planning to re-take the exam next month, June 20th, it's almost the end of semester, and I really need to prepare for my other exams as well.
Extra work! Less american tv series will help, I will start to watch Taiwan tv series instead to practice my listening.

So anyway, the old HSK (the one that I took 3 times already) has 4 parts, I screwed up the listening part of my last HSK. The scores for the other 3 parts actually is already inside the range of level 7. But due to my horrible listening ability, it got me into level 5 only. And even worse my uni will hold the old HSK exam no more. They got the new pattern which is utterly absurd, can't really explain it in detail. Singkat cerita it is much more expensive and much more complicated. It's always about the money here.. Money, money, and money. Argh.. ~_~ I have to go to Shanghai this Friday to register for the next HSK (they still have the old pattern  guess, gonna ask about it tomorrow by phone).

More current events in my life:
- I applied for a Chinese Govt Scholarship sometimes around last week, the school will choose the winner, and they will announce it at the end of this month. I really hope I can get it. *crossing my finger*
- I moved to the new dorm last weekend (4th floor which is almost the same as 5th floor), the shifting made my whole body ache, especially my feet. Still in the recovery phase now. :p

In need of a cup of comfort and big plate of encouragement. Jiayou Lilli!!

Hello, hello! It's time for a change.

Much things happened in this past few weeks. I given my HSK Exam last April 18th, the result will be out in about 2-3 weeks I guess, I just keep on praying that I'll pass level 6 this time so I will not need to give another try. I had enough with HSK, but still need to improve my Chinese! I haven't been so diligent about this one. My Chinese Proficiency Level is just like my life, there's time when it is really good, and there's also time when it is really really bad..
Other than HSK, my life has gone back to its usual routine, classes in the morning, nap time in the afternoon, then I have more classes, finally come back to my dorm and just spend most of my time in front of my laptop.
I need to remind myself again and again to focus on the goal! GRADUATE and become a GOOD DOCTOR, not just a doctor. And in order to do so, I need my Chinese both speaking and writing ability to be ready for next year's internship.
I still have no idea what I'm gonna do after, well, first on my list after I graduate is to continue my study, I just pray that God will make the way, I pray that everything will go on smoothly. It is true what lots of people said that being a doctor is a never ending study. Everyday there is always something new, something to learn. God help me, I want to study diligently because I don't want to have any regrets in the future. I want to do my best.
Anyway, in the midst of uncertainty and doubt, there's always something to be thankful for. I thank God for the weather, finally a nice and warm weather. :) I thank God because I'll be back to Jakarta soon! Haha. Not that soon actually, just for a bit of encouragement. :p I'll be going back to Jakarta on July 15th (papa's birthday), I'll be spending my summer holiday in Jakarta and mostly in Bandung I think, my sister is having her baby. :) See? I still have some things to be thankful for. Hehe..

This is one of the spring scenery that I really love. It's in my campus ground.

One more thing, I decided to leave my glasses in its box for a while, I am wearing contact instead. I am trying to get use to it now, I almost buy the one with colors, but finally I got myself 3 pairs of Acuvue Clear contact lens. I really want to try the green color though!! I tried brown ones, and it makes my eyes bigger, I love it, but I really want to try something new and I hope it will be a good change for me. I think I am in a state where I want a lot of things in my life to change, a good change of course.To be continued..

Chinese New Year Resolution Part 2

6. Watch less TV Series! Or at least watch it only on the weekend. Let's count how many TV series I've been watching: ‘24’. ‘Grey’s Anatomy’-definitely my favorite!, ‘Criminal Minds’, ‘Private Practice’, ‘Heroes’, ‘V’, ‘Gossip Girl’, ‘Ghost Whisperer’, hmm.. I think that’s all, oh no, there’s more.. ‘House MD’, ‘LOST’, ‘The Forgotten’. TV series are getting better and better.

I used to watch ‘Lipstick Jungle’, but this series ended already. Not to mention ‘The OC’, ‘American Idol’, ‘ANTM-America’s Next Top Model’, and many Korean and Japanese dramas. I watched a lot, and still watching a lot of them.

Besides TV series, I also love watching movies.. I am a movie addict.. It’s one way to forget about the world and relax. But sometimes, not sometimes, most of the times I become so attached and can actually feel the feelings of some of the characters. It can be quite depressing sometimes yet it can also make me feel so elated.

The good side is lots of them, they give me inspirations, they teach me how to survive the world, a lot of good quotes too.

7. Be a more people person. Socialize more, make time for friends, patients, teachers.. Be a pro-active not a pessimist!

8. As for my family, pray more for them, email them more. I can’t wait to see my sister’s baby be brought into the world. ^^

 

Happy Chinese New Year from the piglet family.  新年快乐!

Chinese New Year Resolution

Since I didn't make any resolutions for January 1st New Year 2010, I have this resolution for Chinese New Year. :p Hihi..
1. I want to pass HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi), it is a kind of TOEFL but for Chinese. I want to be able to pass level 6 or higher! I want to so I WILL! Amienn.. x) I will communicate with Chinese people more often than last year.
2. I want to have a better relationship with my boyfriend, actually this is our new year resolution. He always have this vision of having a relationship yang adem ayem, ga ada berantem-berantemnya. Sangat setuju, tapi entah mengapa sulit sekali.. Me with so much negativity (maaf ya, pacar) and him with his positive energy all around him. Sebenernya kalo kita ga jauh-jauhan adem ayem, begitu ga ketemu huuu.. LDR can be hard sometimes.. Thanks for being very understanding and patient with me.
I used to be a very patient and a very understanding girlfriend, unfortunately it is for the wrong man. I learnt my lesson. But it is affecting my new relationship. Some part of me want to let go and just be what I used to be, but the other part is so afraid of getting hurt it tells me not to lose myself.  I think I decided to be the old me but a better version of course, I hope it works for us. It is so confusing.
Thanks to Mister, with his endless patience and love, I am who I am now, you make me love again.
3. Wake up early everyday, make time for God before going to classes.
4. Be more organized (nyiapin barang2 untuk besok dari hari sebelumnya) and rajin bebersih tentunya!
5. Rajin pangkal pandai! Read textbook everyday and learn something new everyday and try not to forget it.

To be continued..

Hello from Shanghai Zoo!!

I just got back from Shanghai, I stayed at a friend's house for couple of days. Shanghai is always great, it always reminds me of Jakarta, so crowded, tall buildings everywhere, and everything is just so organized in a way but very unorganized in another way. It is very easy to go from place to place, and you can find almost any famous brand, any delicious food there. If you know where to go.. :))
Too bad I forgot to bring my public transportation card ~ I think I left it back home :( , therefore I have to always prepare lingqian (coins) for the bus.
Anyway, I went to Shanghai Zoo with my uni friends here, and here they are the cuties.. ^^

Mr. Bear

 

 

 

Sleeping Panda (I think Mr. Panda forgot to bathe.. :p)

Mr. Polar Bear is missing his hometown