Embracing May 2011

Today's Sunday, May 1st 2011.

I woke up at 7am. Early? Nah, this is the latest so far for my Sundays.
I've been working on Sundays this semester and this is my first Sunday of 2011 that I've got my Sundays off. :)

Today's plan:
Brunch
Grocery shopping
Body Combat
Chat with family
French assignment
Study for mid-test

Quite a bunch of list and need to be done today!
That's fine, new month, new resolution.

Oh, and my brother's birthday is in May, am looking forward for it, even though I won't be able to celebrate it with him.

Not My End Yet Has To Be

I'm back again.
Not even one week since I blogged, that's good, need to keep this up.

Many things happened this Easter.
I didn't have any work on Friday, but they still pay me for 5 hours.
(Yes I've checked my payslip!)
I worked for 9 hours on Saturday, but yeah, they haven't pay me for my overtime...
Why? Because they paid my salary on Thursday when my work is on the weekend.
Weird huh?
And normal work normal pay on Sunday.

But good news, I've got my Sunday of starting this week!
My next target is asking for holiday in June or transfer to other branch.
I do hope to get other branch so I don't need to wake up at freaking 4am on weekends!

So in the weekend, I worked, watch movie and had dinner with my friends.
On Monday I went snorkeling at Mornington, then shabu-shabu on Tuesday.
Yesterday I had lunch at Moonee Ponds.

I still have until this weekend before my holiday ends.
But yeah, June is my exam period, so I need to focus on my study starting.... TODAY!
So it's not really a holiday, it's just mid-break.

I just finished my laundry, time to study and do my assignments....
Oh wait, maybe I need to have lunch first!

Catching-up Before Easter

Wew, I believe it has been such long long time ago since I last posted blog here.

There are too many things going on that it will be too long to write here.

Maybe I'll just update briefly on some stuff.....

I've moved out from my apartment like.... one months or so?
Yep, moved from city back to Glen Waverley, the first suburb I lived when I first arrived to Australia.
At first I thought that I can do the moving out stuff (removal) by myself (and the removalist of course) and I intended to do it that way.
Why don't I ask for anyone's help? Hmmm....
Firstly, I'm naturally a passive person.
Secondly, if I can do it myself, I'll do it myself, I don't want to be too dependent on people.
Then.... I don't know, maybe those two are the reasons.
Then there are these friends who offered their help. I was happy that they're concerned with me, I know who to call friends.:)
And yeah, without them it will be disaster...
So they deserve a treat from me yeah? I treated them to Ying Thai, a thai restaurant in Lygon street which is apparently quite popular among Indonesians. Yep, I want to show them how grateful I am, even though I wanted to give them something better if only without money limitation....

Ok, move on.
I'm quite enjoying my time here in Glen Waverley.
It's peaceful, it's nice, it's closer to uni.
It's just too far from my workplace though..... T__T
And it seems like I've been having weird dreams every week.
They are interesting dreams, kinda cool if I have to say it, haha....

Now, back to the present.
Easter is here! Yep, even though it's only Thursday, I've started my Easter break as Thursdays are my day-offs! :)
Been doing the laundry, washing my shoes and eating the whole morning till now.
And yeah, this is the first time this semester that I woke up at 9.30!
I almost forget this sensation, hahaa....

There will be many things going on this Easter...
Church, BBQ (not necessarily called a bbq), snorkeling, water rafting....
Oh, and a big banzai for 5-hour paid Friday as it's a public holiday, 2.5 times wages on my 8-hour shift on Thursday and 1.5 times wages on my either 7 or 8 hours shift on Sunday! A gold mine I reckon!

Ok then, time to iron my clothes. :)

My True Day-off

This semester, I'm only have Thursday as my day-off.
Well, usually that's very good coz I'll be having weekend as my day-offs as well.

It turned out that it's not going that way.
I'm having work Friday-Sunday every week!
To make things worse, my weekend shift is the long shift of 7 hours each!
And that will make me get out from work at about 2-3pm.

On Fridays, work till afternoon, then straight 4 hours lecture, finishing at 6pm.
On Saturdays, work till 2-3pm then I've got some time to hang out.
On Sundays, work till 2-3pm then going to church before some time for myself.
All my shifts start at 7am which force me to sleep earlier the day before.

To conclude everything, I only got a tiny bit of afternoon and tiny bit of evening on weekends for myself, i.e. no life!

Let's look at the good side:
1. I won't be drinking
2. I won't be out till midnight
3. Now I'm a morning person
4. Double pay on Sunday shifts. :)

I can expect to pay my own expenses now thanks to work.
That includes rent, meals, transport, and shopping.
I will have some savings as well.

All Weekends gone, now my REAL Day-off is truly Thursday.
It's raining today but I'm sure I'll be enjoying Thursdays from now on.
I don't care if it's raining or not, I'm going to get the so-called best butter croissant in Melbourne.
I went there last year in the afternoon just to find that they ran out of butter croissant, pity.
That time, I tried their brownies instead and it was really really good!
I'm thinking to buy some again, perhaps.

Ok, I'm off!

Going Home

Hi, I'm going home today. :)
Going home as in back to Indonesia.

I'll stay at Jakarta for about a week before flying back to my hometown and I'll be in Indonesia for a month.

Hope it's going to be a pleasant trip and joyful holiday for me.

Ciao

Where is the Future?

Today it was raining the whole day.
What's worse, it was very hot despite the sky being cloudy.

I spent most of my time in public transport today.
Tram: Was like hell, I got free sauna.
Train: The best of all, I got to relax as it is air conditioned.
Bus: The first one was smelly as it had no air condition and it was old but the second bus I took this day was much better.

Well yeah, that's all about the public transport in summer, when the weather's hot.....

On the journey I had, I was thinking a lot of things....
What I will be doing this year? In the future?

Good thing that I finished almost all things I need to do, I have time for myself to do a reflection. I was thinking like what I want to do, now and in the future.
I still have no idea yet on what I want to do in the future though.

I know I need to take it slowly, but yeah, can't help getting excited, curious, and scared at the same time.

I'm thinking of taking IELTS again, with aim of 8 overall!
Kinda dreaming, but Need to aim higher and higher from now on.

2010 had taught me heaps of stuff, in a painful way.
I don't want to learn that way, it should be the last.
I'll change slowly, but in a certain speed that I won't be left behind.
I need to create my own future and for that to happen I need to do my best!

Resolution for 2011: Graduate, Get PR, Get full-time JOB!

First week of 2011

Yep, New year means transition of time!
We're now in 2011.

I had my 21st b'day on 31st Dec 2010.
Had my besties threw a surprise party midnight.
Honestly, I didn't though they'll do it midnight.
I just thought that only one person will come, coz he kept saying that.
Well, maybe I'm still too naive, eh?

Anyway, Exactly a month ago, I tried this Legend burger from Maccas.
And guess what? My b'day cake was exactly the SAME meal I had when I first reached Tazzie!
Legend burger, nuggets and fries... Talk about coincidence?

I had heaps of fun even if I need to wake up very early in the morning.
No, I can't say morning at all, I need to wake up at DAWN!
And that's really what I did, woke up at 4AM since I have work at 5AM.
I know it's very early, but I was lucky since my colleague passed by with his car on my way to work so he gave me a lift!

There was only headache on first 2-3 hours of work, it was my first time not really enjoying work there.....
But after I had a hang of it everything was fine.

Then At night I had Japanese fine dining, which was really good, and a "little" bit of sake.
On midnight, we watched firework to welcome 2011.
Some phrases that I could still recall clearly:
HAPPY NEW YEAR

and....

a sweet HAPPY BIRTHDAY being singed with me in the middle. :)

After that I had a bit splash of water, luckily it was only from one bottle of mineral water.

So far this week is being good to me.
I know I had heaps of 'to-do' list, but somehow I am still to lazy to do all of them, haha.....

I had my pay from my hard work at the end of 2011, hard work paid of!
I want to save at least half of it and spend the rest to reward myself.

When? Maybe this Friday will be good, I was planning to do it today but I'm too lazy to go to city, lol.