Studies Session

What's different about today is that there were three representatives from UNSW presenting and introducing the campus and the faculty to us.

Chris Hammil, the ambassador of UNSW of Indonesia (he's Australian) came and gave us very useful information about the university. He told us about the availability of the so-called Blackboard which is used for students to achieve more practices to improve themselves. Moreover, he also mentioned about the dorms there: Unilounge. He said that students under 18 are strictly restricted by the government to live by themselves. This is as to safety reasons of course. So in order to resolve this problem, Unilounge  or Homestays are available. However, Homestays are again an issue. It is a bit complicated for students as the people from UNSW has to check their Homestay Guardians and all sort of things.

The other speakers talk about the faculty of science. One of the speakers, Merlin Crossby (If I'm not mistaken), the head of Faculty of Science in UNSW, shared lots of useful information about the science department. I even asked him about the major I'm interested of. Not to mention he was happy of hearing my interest was same like the major he has taken back in his university days. The other speaker was a woman, I don't know her name but her voice is so soothing. So sweet and so calming.

Overall, they are the nicest speakers ever. They are so friendly. And have I mentioned that the head of Faculty of Science looks a bit like Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. I am excited going to Australia after this conference with the experts.

Another thing I would like to share is that Chris told us that there is a UNSW youtube channel too. It has all the recordings of the lectures in class. It's awesome! Oh, I wished I have the link to the video he showed us today. Unfortunately, I could not find the right one.

Songs of the Day

I'm totally addicted to these songs below. I can't stop listening to them. These songs make me smile all the way. Too sweet. And the meanings are deep. :)

Aunt Anna's Wedding

Today was my mom's mom's elder brother's son's youngest daughter's wedding. It was my first time seeing her. I have never met her before. She's very pretty today and very young, only 21 years old!

I woke up really late today! I even missed my haircut this morning. 

The wedding was held at Hotel Mulia Ballroom. I was really looking forward for the wedding despite the ery fact of not knowing what to wear for the wedding. haha. but let us discuss about that later. Basically I didn't really do much today. Time seems to went by really fast.

As soon as I woke up which was at a quarter to 2 in the afternoon, I went downstairs and 5 minutes after that my sisters and my mom came home from the grocery store. My mom told me to call Blue Bird group to reserve a taxi at 5. However, I could not reach the hotline and my mom tried calling it and the funny thing was that she could reach it. --". 

Afterwards, we went to eat lunch. 

the invitation

the inside of the invitation

I started to prepare what clothes I should wear to the wedding. Oh yeah I even repainted my nails. :D 

my green nails

In the end, this was what I wore: 

the green cardigan to match my nails 

FYI, the taxi we ordered at 2 in the afternoon did not come at 5. As a matter of fact, it was not coming after all. And what made matter worse was that the Blue Bird Group did not even tell us anything about the unavailability of any cab. We were late and was running out of time. My mom was in rage and started to complain to the Blue Bird Group hotline. 

In the end,we went to search a taxi ourselves and luckily we found one fast enough to save some time. 

We arrived awkwardly on time, a few minutes before the whole ceremony even began. What was surprising was that I was located in a different table from my mom (my dad didn't come). On the bright side, when I looked at the location of the tables, mine was actually beside my mom's table. LOL. 

So I sat with my sister, Vivi, while Helen sat with my mom at a different table. 

The setting of the wedding reception was amazingly classy! It was really beautiful! Just look at the platform's decoration! 

the platform. Sorry for the lot of heads. 

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There was even a reverend too! It was my first time seeing both wedding matrimony and ceremony held at the same place. Usually, the matrimony was held at churches. But this was different. The holy matrimony was done before the guests are served.

Guess what's more unique about this wedding? There were actually 3 languages used : Korean, English and Indonesian! The groom was Korean and the Bride was half-Korean. That explains the Korean and English Language used. How awesome is that right! 

This wedding was a bit western too. There was the exchange of rings brought by the groom's little brother. And also the best man gave a speech and a toast to the happily married couple! Furthermore, there was a dance between the newly-weds later on. And what's a wedding without a wedding kiss, of course there was one but not a long passionate kiss though. They were a bit embarrassed. I was relieved! HHAHAAH. I still could not handle those kind of stuffs. 

After the holy matrimony, there was an entertainment called Food Parade presented by Hotel Mulia :

there was a performance by the waiters before serving the food.
Food Parade

food parade 

There was some music too! There was a famous Singaporean singer, Christina Ong, 2 famous Korean singers of whom I not know of, and my favorite entertainment of the night, The Andrew Lee Band! Their arrangement of music was the bomb! I fell in love with the piano improvisations! Not to forget the selection of songs! There were various genres too: disco, romantic, pop, etc etc. 

The Andrew Lee Band

Another thing I would like to mention was that there was a couple of dancers too. They were called The Three Musketeers . They danced to a Justin Bieber song, Baby. --" 

Enough with the entertainment, let us head on to the food served for the night! 

BBQ Appetizer Combination
(BBQ) Roasted Duck, Jellyfish Salad,Crispy Fried Sliced Beef
with Sweet & Sour Vinegar Sauce, & Chilled Conch Salad

Double Boiled Shark's Fin Soup with Snow Fungus Dried Mushroom,
Red Date and Chicken

Nicole, my aqiu's daughter

Vivi, my sister

amazing flower is amazing

they were cutting the wedding cake

Wok-fried Prawn in Mayonnaise with Black Sesame & Almond
Deep-fried Crisp Chicken with Sesame Seeds
Wok-fried Sea Garoupa Fillet with Thai Sauce

Braised Sea Cucumber & Flower Mushroom,
Seasonal Vegetables in Abalone Sauce

Wok-fried Fragrant Rice with Shrimp & BBQ Chicken Cha Siew
Yang Chow Style 

Chilled Sweetened Pomelo with Sago Cream

 As you can see from the captions of the food above were really detailed and vividly described as I actually took a photo of the actual menu provided. HAHA.

Helen, Ivan and Hans (my ii's sons)

fire. my digicam was running out of battery

 So after all the food was served, we went home. :D

the wedding cake!  heavy 

hank's cake

i thought this was a candle or sth

it turned out to be candies

smells really nice

 The wedding today was probably the best wedding and the sweetest one of all and also the grandest of all weddings I have ever attended ever! Congratz to newly-weds again!

WMU Reunion

So yesterday I met up with some of WMU students. Some of them could not make it though but no worries there will be Reunion part 2 later in June. And I am really looking forward to people having the time to attend! 

We met at Grand Indonesia at the Skybridge. I came late though but there were a few more later than me. LOL. After gathering there we waited a few more minutes to wait for the others to appear but unfortunately my stomach was hungry and could not wait any longer. So we went to Sushi Groove. 

fried rice bimbimbap! super yummy! 

 At sushi groove we were really noisy. I also took photos using my handphone and William's samsung galaxy tab. HAHA. I'm such a show off even though it's not mine.

william ali. wew, this really looks a bar setting. 

derrick, david

william and his tab

I have no idea what they were looking at. 

reyner and william. blurry..   

danella and filbert

talking about sth i forgot. maybe talking about me. hahaha. 

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resembles an internet meme in so many ways

donny! he's in binus right now

reyner is working with his dad

too zoomed

an internet meme too. lol 

just in front of candy world.

after sushi groove we went to PI, to watch! We watched Dark Shadows! Can't believe I have watched Dark Shadows for two times. This is utterly beyond expectation. After buying the tickets, stella and I accompanied Danella eat. Before then, she decided to go to the ATM machine and guess what we found ! We found the Avengers posters! 

danella.

So we took photos there! LOL!

LOKILOKILOKILOKILOKI

We accompanied her to Fat Burger! 

Then we watched! 

Afterwards, we went to take photos at a place near the escalator. It was decorated beautifully. I think it was for advertising something relating to weddings. 

movement

Btw, this might sounds off topic. But I found this hilarious picture on disneyfaceswap.tumblr.com ! HAHA.