we are fated

It has been more than a month if I'm not mistaken that I've lost my USB. It was so precious because that's my tool to save all of my projects since the other USB was not working well on mac. I know this USB was  given for free when I entered the college, so if it lost, I shouldn't be mad.

The day I lost this USB, I felt like I lost something. just felt like 'Geezz.....my USB." *sad, but then I'm pretty sure that if we are fated, we are gonna meet again someday and that was happening two days ago.

So, back then, I lost it in Officework South Yarra, but when I came back and asked the staff twice, they said that they didn't see my USB and they just had USB in their storage where their put customer's USB. Well......I just let it go at that time.

Two days ago, when I went to Officework South Yarra again, there was one staff just searched other customer's USB left storage, and that's it, I saw my USB with the piggy chains. OMG, lucky me. perhaps I felt lost because I lost the piggy chains as it was given by someone who had deep meaning to me. maybe that is the reason.

I'm happy I got my USB back. it is really helpful. hope I won't lose it again.

The red one with piggy chain. just love my USB.

I learned something from this incident that if we were fated to someone or things, somehow you will meet them and own that things AND you won't feel something has great meaning to you until you lose it even though you just lose a USB. 

officially GROWN UP!

It's been lately, but I don't want miss my special day that just happened once a year :)

Lets start from this midnight. so my brother had bought me a birthday cake which he couldn't hide it from me. so, I weren't allowed to open the box until midnight. then i didn't know that my families in Indo had already gathered and wanted to SKYPE me. then we webcam through SKYPE and my fam sang birthday song for me from indo. kinda funny, hahaXD

SKYPE-ing with siblings in Indonesia

me and my 20th birthday cake :)
thanks for my brother eeyo
I'm officially 20

my 20th birthday cake 

then, I went to small cafe on Lt.collins st called Laurent. the cake was very delicious. yeah, I chose chocolate cake. the taste was so great!

Me and my little folie cake

my little folie cake

iyo's christine cake

Calvin's cake

then, I went to Carlton hotel with my brother and his friend. That was the first time, I drank beer and honestly, I prefer hot chocolate or cappuccino or water better than beer. everybody said that it's sweet, but i couldn't taste it. finally, i couldn't finish a quarter of the beer or even less than that. it taste like plain on my tongue. then, I ate $14 steak. quite salty but it's good :) then we just chatting around talking about 'The Ugly truth' hahaXD

And finally, I was exhausted. but I'm glad I still can have birthday, but my life is going harder than the past. maybe just faced them. i could inherit those experiences to my children perhaps like Ted Mosby did in 'How I met Your Mother'

cheers. have a good day.

Last teenager day

Being grown up was the most excited moment that I faced when I was a little. It seemed that I become taller, bigger, can try something new and have birthday party, also got a lots of presents as well. PRESENTS! the most I expected on my day. while I writing this blog, my mind just flashback to 19 parties that I've been through. I didn't remembered my first to fourth birthday party, but I remembered when I had the fifth, it was celebrated in my kindergarten school. It was so excited to have a party with my peers. the more of them, the more I got the presents :D

yeah, it seemed I always celebrated my first to twelfth with my families around me. Start the thirteenth, when my teenager life began, I started to have birthday dinner with my friends. so excited at that time coz it was my first time I could go hang out with them. and so continue until my sweet seventeen. of course I still remembered those moments. being 17 was great, I got ID card and could drive as well even I didn't want to because I've hit a big container while I was practicing in the past. My sweet seventeen was a blast for me. I dressed up like a princess with blue dress that i worn. blue, my favourite colour. however, i didn't satisfy with my make-up. I prefer my mom do make up on me rather than the salon did.

my journey become teenager still going. I felt like even I was older than my peers, it seemed that they were older than me. they can do make up by them self, so different with me. i just knew foundation and lipstick. yeah...it also because I don't like make-up yet at the moment. I don't know why, but I felt strange when I saw myself on mirror with make up. I like the natural me, however I don't like my natural hair which looked like LION HAIR. my siblings always teased me 'LION HAIR' because of my thick and curly hair (I do bonding now). just let them know that I'll praise my thick hair when we are old in the future  and see who is the baldy one? haha

Being eighteen, just have a small dinner party with 2 friends and 1 new friend because I just fought with the two others. that's why we still friends till now even sometimes I felt like they are not the 'FRIENDS' who I'm looking for. like in high-school, i felt they were never looking for me when we were in different class. they just looking for me if they need me. like now, they have never asked my news or post something on my FB wall. maybe they'll post something tomorrow on my wall just to say 'Happy birthday, Metta! wish u all the best' thats all. seemed like I was the one who really sad. But, I won't it bother me. If they didn't want to say hi to me, I'll say hi to them first. or I could find someone else.

Nineteenth, the happiest moment. I just got a birthday surprise from my classmates in college. It really surprised that we just knew each other for a week then they gave me a birthday surprise. I was thinking 'what my best friend did on my birthday back then?' just gave me a present. kinda happy at the moment.

I've been worried since last 3months. OMG, I'll be twenty soon. it was different when I was in the past. it seemed like this, "Yey! I'll be fifteen next month". and, I almost didn't like being a child at the moment, but now, i really want to return to those moments. yeah yeah, if i could turned back the time.

Well....my teen journey will ended up soon in around 5 hours (Australia time) and welcome you, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty and so on. in my twenty journey, i hope that my parents will treat me like an adult and also i hope i would have more confidence to choose my own path. mostly, i should be more like an adult than a child. most of all, I wish i could be the better person than the past.

Rest in Peace, Sapi

Hi, all..

Today is the saddest day for me. I had a dog in my hometown. His name is sapi. Sapi in Indonesia means cow. I named it for him because he has many black dots like a cow, but he is not like a dalmatian. And, he is gone forever today. I just knew it from twitter. My sister mentioned me and said Sapi is gone forever. I was totally sad and had a little cried for him.

I was there and very excited when Sapi was born. And I was the first one who named him. He is the happiest dog that I have ever knew. Even he had a problem with his two back legs which he can't be like other normal dogs. He just happy and play with his only friend, Whisky (my other dog). Sometimes, he was really annoying to me with his barking. but I just love him. I love him so much. Today, when I read the news from twitter, I felt like kinda broke up with my boyfriend, even it worse. I lost something. It's really true that we wouldn't know how much we loved something or someone until we lost it/him/her.

My brother in Melbourne who is living with me now, posted on his Facebook,

RIP "Sapi".. Dont worry bout the pain.. U can sleep tight now.. We'll miss u.. T_T

My sister also posted on her FB,

he smiled at me before his death, rest in peace my lovely dog ,thanks for the joys we have shared :')

My mom commented my brother's post and told us that before Sapi's death, he shook his tail every time and looked to my mom and my sis. And, he barked as he called everybody to come around him so he could say goodbye. After I read my mother's comments, I cried while I typing this new post. 

Sapi, I'm so sorry if I couldn't make u happy while u lived in this world. Hope you rest in peace and thank you for coming to my life and the joys we shared.

My new Design blog

Hi, there..

I just realised that I visited Office Work 4 times a row in a week. wew! It was because of my design project that told us to do with PHOTOCOPY machine.

Well....I just made a new blog. This blog called 72weeks because I want to record all of my design journey while I'm in Uni. I will go to uni for 3 years and have 12 weeks each semester. I will have 6 semesters and 12 times 6 equals to 72weeks. Yeah! I will spend 72 weeks in Uni if it goes smoothly.

I hope I would have a time to post them all. hopefully. God, give me your strength and your help. Thank you :)

Hmm....and it's 1:27 pm in the morning right now in Melbourne. I think I will just go straight to bed because I have a date with my projects tomorrow, haha..

See ya. Take Care.

My Parent's 28th Wedding Anniversary

Actually, I was in the middle doing my assignment, but I just want to publish new post :) It seem I'm having fun with BLOG now.

Okay, today is my parent's 28th Wedding Anniversary. It's not special as 50th Wedding Anniversary, but I just amazed with their relationship. They just met for the first time and then, married until now. It's just amazing :) I was so envy with them. I think I'll be waiting till my one come.

My parents married on September 19, 1982. Number 19 is really precious for our family because my second older brother was born on September 1 and my first older brother was born on September 9. If we combine both of the date, the answer is number 19. My youngest sister was born on July, 12. If we added 12 with 7 (July), the answer is number 19 again. Lastly, I was born on October 19. Indeed, that's why number 19 is my favourite number :) That's short history behind of number 19.

I just remembered 3 years ago, it was my parent's silver wedding anniversary. Me and my siblings plus their girlfriends planned a surprise for them a month before (really a month before). We each took a part. My brothers went around to our uncles and aunties and my grandma to record greetings videos. I made a letter 'Silver Wedding Anniversary' and my youngest sister drew a story about my parents from their first meet until they have 4 of us. I think I still had the photos, but i left them

Well, I just wanna to say that Happy 28th Wedding Anniversary, mom, dad :) Both of you are awesome. I love you both and I hope my relationship will be like you someday^^ long lasting.

KAFEART 17.09.10

Hii, semuanya...

It's been a long time I haven't tell my story after I finished my FOUNDATION studies in Swinburne. WEll....I'm uni student now. jadi baru berasa anak kuliahan..hahaXD

oke, gue ga nyangka hari ini bakalan menjadi hari terSPECIAL buat gue. Hari ini ada acara KAFEART yg diadain sama PPIA (Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Australia) RMIT. acaranya ada Fashion show, Art exhibition, Photography contest n Band competition. diHOST sma VJ DANIEL MANANTA. akhirnya gue bisa liat dia MC di depan mata gue, ga cuma pas Indonesian Idol doank di tipi, hehe. Ganteng abis. trus dia pesen ke kita2 "kalau sekolah ke Australi, jangan bergaul sama anak Indo aja. That's the biggest mistake ever!' katanya. soalnya dia crta dia punya temen, katakanlah Joni, Joni udh 8thn di Ausi, trus diajak bonyoknya ke Amrik. begitu Joni n bonyoknya dinner, bonyoknya suruh Joni bayar. dan Joni bilang,'Waiter, can I have BON please?' HAHAHA XD bonyoknya: Itu harusnya BILL kali. kalau gitu mami papi juga tahu!'. ampun dhe, gue bisa malu abis kalau di situ >,<

Trus, ada Guest starnya yaitu TOMPI. jadi keinget temen gue Melvina Vanessa yg ngeFans sama Tompi. Actually, gue ga pernah ngeFans sma TOMPI. nyanyiin lagunya pas dia lagi manggung aja juga gara2 terbawa suasana, hehe. Tapi, gue suka banget sama lagunya TOMPI yg judulnya Sedari Dulu sma Tak Pernahh Setengah Hati. Sedari dulu thu musiknya enak banget, klo Tak Pernah Setengah Hati, gue suka banget sma MVnya. so sweet.

Tompi :)

Tompi and Vj Daniel

Dan guest starnya ada 1 lagi which is KAHITNA. my favourite since I was Junior High School. Sejarahnya gue suka banget sama KAHITNA itu gara2 CD lagu koko gue. gue klo nyetel lagu thu ga peduli sama singernya, tapi begitu denger lagu yg liriknya romantis and so sweet banget, gue jadi penasaran sama sapa yang nyanyi. dan ternyata itu KAHITNA. Nah, di situ gue cuma tahu kalau KAHITNA sweeeetttttt banget, tapi ga pernah tahu personil lengkapnya kecuali Yovie, musisi yg menurut gue TOP abis. Musik2nya thu enak didenger bangetngetnget. 

Yovie On stage

Dan karena ada KAHITNAlha gue jadinya thu dateng ke KAFEART. tadinya udah 50/50 gitu mau dateng apa nggak soalnya kalau pulang malem kan serem juga (ternyata Melbourne masih rame jem11 mlm) dan saya akhirnya datang bersama teman2 saya! dan bertemu teman yg tak terduga juga.

Begitu KAHITNA manggung, gue seneng banget dengerin lagu2nya :) dan ga membuat gue pengen duduk. maunya berdiri di depan panggung ngeliat mereka nyanyi.

favorite gue:

Andai dia Tahu

Cantik

Cerita Cinta

etc yg gue ga tahu judulnya

dan mereka nyanyiin semuanya..OMG!! so sweett.

apalagi single terbarunya yg judulnya 'Mantan Terindah' bener2 ngingetin gue sama seseorang, hehe.

Oia, gue sebenernya thu klo dengerin lagu2nya KAHITNA, gue gx tw judulnya, tpi kalau udah dengerin REFFnya, OOOoooohhhhh.....................*nada baru menyadari.

Pas KAHITNA manggung, gue didadahin sama salah satu personilnya and pas akhir reff lagu CANTIK, yg pas 'SUNGGUH AKU SAYANG KAMU' dia nunjuk ke arah gue. WOW! gak nyangka banget bakalan dapet Surprise from God. Thanks God for your sweet present :)

pas di sana sih gue seneng banget, tapi sekarang gue malah mikir beneran gak sih personilnya nunjuk ke arah gue? jangan2 belakang gue. hahaXD

Dan setelah menGOOGLE, gue baru tahu dia namanya Mario Ginanjar, hahaXD *fans apa bukan sih?!

Pulang2, dengan Norak dan Pamernya, gue upload video Cantik by Kahitna n foto2 Tompi n Vj Daniel di Facebook and tag2in temen2 gue yg di Indo plus koko dede gue. beneran ini sih GUE NORAK BANGET. yah abis jarang sih. apalagi KAHITNA favourite gue, hehe.

Lastly, this is for you all. Cantik by Kahitna :) enjoy.

I Love My Artworks

I've told you that I am doing my packaging design project , right?

These are the result.

Wrappers
(Front and Back)

The Box and the wrappers
(open)

The Box
(close)

It just hard to begin

but

I enjoyed them in the middle

and

satisfied in the end

I do love my artworks and I'll start to love every single of them 

^^

Buddha's Day

I went to Buddha's Day this afternoon. It's just a great event. There was a food bazaar and performance. All of the performances are multicultural, there are came from Japan, China, India, and others.

The Altar

One of The Performance
Japan's traditional music

And also, there was a wish stand. So, I wrote my wish on the paper that it shaped like Bodhi leaf. Then, the stand personnel put it around the little Buddha statue

People's wishes

My wish
"May all of my family's member be healthy and happy"
(I should use Indonesian and put my name below, hahaXD)

I do love this event

and

Can't wait to go to this event again next year :)

Art, Song and Present

I quite had a great day which I will tell you exactly..

The story began,

I woke up at 3am this morning because I wanted to give a birthday surprise for my mother in Indonesia. I just looked my oldest brother there was giving her surprise by giving her 5 cupcakes. me, my 2nd brother, and the rest of them who in Indonesia were video calling through SKYPE for an hour. I slept again after that.

Dear Mom,

Happy Birthday 

May you always healthy

May all your dreams come true 

May you have more progress in learning and practice Dhamma

Here your daughter's prayer for you

Sadhu..sadhu..sadhu

I woke up very late this morning. AGAIN!! maybe I should set many alarms so I would wake up. Then, I cooked a fried egg like my friend's sister did. The taste was quite same, but the different was in the shape. It's not round like an usually egg and also it scorched. haha :)

My first class in the afternoon is Graphic Design which is taught by Holly-Anne. She is very kind, nice, and also she like to help us with any problem with photoshop and illustrator. I watched many music video in her class, but I had already done with her task before, so I could watch to kill the time. I watched korean singer's MV, such as Super Junior, Girl's Generation and FT Island. I started to like them all today, even though I don't remember all of the members. I just remember LEE HONG KI from FT Island which also an actor in korean drama titled You're Beautiful. 

I watched Super Junior new MV titled BONAMANA. It's very cool. The effect and the dance is so awesome, although I thought that the dance like an aerobic first, but in  the end, they danced energetically and compact to each other. And also, I watched Girl's Generation MV titled Genie. I like their costumes in this MV. I sang their song all the time today and my friends told me to stop. But, I can't because my brain just remember that song, nothing else. haha.. sorry, mates X(

I had GARETH's class this evening. Remember Gareth? My favourite teacher in this semester. His drawing is great and awesome. see below?

Gareth's Perspective Drawing

Gareth's Microscopic Illustration

What an awesome artwork, right? I am nothing compare to him. Here are my drawings today. Today's topic is MICROSCOPIC ILLUSTRATION :)

My Microscopic Illustration

Behind the story of this drawing,
Firstly, I was so desperate to draw this small branch into large scale because we have to drew the detail as well. The detail was very small which my eyes are not able to see it unless I can zoom in in computer.  Then, I drew many lines as I can. I draw the lines messily because it was so cold in the class so I couldn't control my hand. I thought I'll ruined my drawings again. Gareth told me to do cross-hatching in the back so it could be looked darker. I did what he said and TARA!! the result is what you can see above.
I was so happy with this drawings.

And also, I drew a small tree there because I had to much free time in the class, haha

My Small Tree

I got a present today. It's not a present actually. Let me tell you,
When I opened Gareth's cupboard where the students usually put their artwork in, I saw a bag that design students in my campus usually bring.  They usually put their artworks in. It sold in bookshop, but I prefer to buy in Indonesia because it's cheaper.
I asked him "Nobody owned this?". Then, he looked the bag and said that the owner were not here anymore, then he gave me the bag. YEY!!! I was so happy and tell him that he was the best. And you know what was his answer? He said "I know"
hahaha^^ Thanks, Gareth.

The Bag
(I don't know what Australian called it)

I was so ashamed

Today,

I woke up very late this morning, although I've set alarm in my iPhone. Besides that, I also got surprised that 6.30am was very dark and that made me want to sleep more. I thought I just slept for 15 minutes, but when I woke up, it's already 7.43am. GOSH! I was so late today. but it didn't bother me. I guessed I would just late for 30 minutes. It's just not a big deal (well...30 minutes will be very worthy for me in the future carrier) I've done my English report, so I didn't have to worry so much.

Then, I walked to stop 49 where it is near to my place. I just realised I didn't bring my iPhone when I wanted to take it from my bag. So, I return to my unit and searched it and I didn't find it on my table. I just removed all of my stuffs from my bag and I still didn't find it. Then, I just realise that the iPhone was in my pocket (in the back of my jeans). GRR!!!!! Why I am so forgetful girl. I'm not old enough too forget something easily.

I took tram 16 from my house to High Street. Unfortunately, I get off at the wrong stop. It was 1 stop behind. I was forgot. so I didn't want to talk to the driver that I stopped at the wrong place because I felt like a little bit shy to open my mouth and said "Sorry, Sir. I get off at the wrong stop. I should get off at 1 more stop." (I don't know if I said it in right grammar). So, I guessed that's okay and walked because it had a little bit traffic jam on Glenferie rd and I thought I would be faster than tram, however I was wrong. God!

After that, I waited for tram 6 which could take me to the campus. First, I looked my TramTracker that the tram would be there in 7 minutes. I waited for a long time and I felt that it was more than 7 minutes, then I looked again to my TramTracker, it was 15 mins. As a result, I was late for an hour. I shouldn't take tram 16 and tram 6 anymore. I will take tram 64 start now.

After finish the English class, I went to Menya in Elizabeth st with my girldfriends. I ate ramen. It was very delicious. I chose the one with prawns because it is very expensive if I bought a kg of prawns in SAFEWAY. That's my way to eat seafood and save my money, haha^^

Then we went to Dinkum where located near to RMIT university. RMIT buildings are everywhere in Melbourne City. It seems like it is a famous uni. I won't take my parents to the city. They probably will force me to move to RMIT because it looked good. Well...Swinburne is different. It is not located in city, but in suburb. I really like that. I felt like I really study in overseas. Yeah..back to Dinkum. Me and my girls went to Dinkum to print our packaging project. They were really want to get a good marks (me too!) They print more than mine. I just printed 3 pgs, but they printed almost more than 10 pgs. I didn't do like they did because firstly, I really want to safe my money and I didn't want to spent many papers (How GREEN I am, haha^^ *No Offense, but I really do care our environments now)

I felt that I've done my tasks and want to go home by train. luckily, I just waited for 2 minutes. Suddenly, when I wanted to hear my musics, I didn't find my headset and that made me back to my campuses AGAIN! AGAIN I was so forgetful. My memory was not good enough to memorise something. GRR!!!

The funny thing today was...

So, yesterday, when I wanted to had my dinner with my soup which had already served as well. My brother's housemate (male) also wanted to had dinner with his RAWON (Indonesian food). He offer me his rawon to try the taste. Then, I also offer my soup straightforward to him. you know, the soup which I offered to him was not the new one which still in the pot, but the one that I had already served with my rice. That's why he wouldn't try it because it was in the same bowl and I'd already eat it some. And the bad thing was I just realise it today. OMG!! I didn't look like almost 20 year girl. I was so ashamed =.=

That's why my classmates told me to more GROW UP!! I'll try my best, pals.

Love My Assignments

Well....this week is my 11th week for 2nd semester in Foundation Design. I just didn't realise that it has been eleven weeks since I began my 2nd semester. This semester ran faster than I imagined. My foundation will finish in 14th week. It still has 3 weeks. I just can't imagine I'll go to higherEd after that. That will be more challenges there. sometimes I feel kinda afraid to join with the locals because of my English which is not very well until now. And also, the lecturer who I heard from many sources said that they spoke fast.

hmm.....maybe don't talk about HigherEd right now, hehe :) let's talk about foundation.

Since I started my 2nd semester, I found that my assignments were really fun and fantastic. firstly, I had to do perspectives thing for design studies and the student were not allowed to use RULER. OMG! I found it was very difficult for the first time. but, practice makes perfect. I do believe that. well....maybe not as perfect as my teacher did. I thought it was good enough for beginners. Now, I am doing PACKAGING design. I also thought that this task were really hard, however it went really well since I got the idea. BRAINSTORMING was a good start. believe me.

Secondly, I did visual identity for graphic design. So, we were told to make business card, logo and digital image. It was really fun^^ I love it. I chose a Photography company. I built like a photo studio. I made the logo and the business card. And the 2nd task for this subject is poster design. I haven't done this one. It's still in a process.

Thirdly, I do really love drawing and illustration's class, even though it is really hard to get a high marks. I have submitted 2 assessments and still did not get a satisfied mark. I have to try harder for this one. The teacher, Gareth Basset is my favourite one. His drawings are fantastic. I wish I could draw like he did. He has loved ART since he was in junior-high school until now (he is around 50 now). wew!

I promise I will post my artwork in next post :)

another homesick

Well....I've never write any post since last year. so sorry =.=

I thought I had a homesick today. I want to fast forward the time like DVD to June when my foundation finished, then I want to have a vacation in my hometown. I want to meet my family and friends. I kinda miss them so much. I want to meet them.

Sometimes, when I saw piano in music store, I felt I miss my piano at home. unluckily i couldn't buy piano in Melbourne. There is not space enough for it in my place. I wish I could play violin because it is easy to carry violin.

and also, I miss indonesian food. It's hard to find a delicious Indonesian food in Melbourne. The menu is same but not the taste. I miss sate kambing (Indonesian BBQ), steak, etc.

On the other hand, I want to get a job to earn extra money. I want to but SLR camera by my own money so I will feel satisfied rather than my family buy it for me. It sounds like I'm not doing nothing and get what i want. I want to buy something from my own money. The feeling will be different then.

It is like a dilemma for me. I really want to meet my friends, but I want to earn money, so my plan is I will back to Indonesia if I don't get a job.