Jefferson’s Blog

Hi teman-teman,

Melalui blog ini gua pengen ngucapin selamat buat Nando-Devina yg telah terpilih untuk menjadi Koordinator Paroki (KorPar) Antiokhia Kelapa Gading tahun 2005-2007. In my opinion, kalian memang pasangan paling cocok dibandingkan calon-calon lainnya. Hmmm congrats deh, I will try to do anything to help both of you, unfortunately gua cuma bisa bantu dari Amrik, but I will do anything that I can do.

Senangnya pas Follow Up (FU) ke-2 Antiok kemaren gua bisa ketemu temen2 lama lagi terus bisa ketemu anak2 baru WE VII, huaaahhh senang deh bisa ketemu teman2 lagi. Malemnya bisa makan nasi goreng (nasgor) gepeng lagi ama pius huehuehuehu senang.

Hmmm… kemaren-kemaren ini ga banyak ngapa2in sih paling cuma ke pabrik terus ke mall hmmm ya gitu2 doang tapi senang kok. Hari ini Vannia-Xylia bakal balik ke Amrik lagi. Terus ntar sore-malem ada latihan drama and Gladi Resik buat misa 17 Agustus. Hari ini pengen ke CC tapi males deh lagian dah janjian juga ama Steven dan mungkin yg laen bakal dateng ke CC pas misa 17 agustus di CC, sekalian ketemu banyak guru2.

Jadinya pagi siang ini ga ada kerjaan deh, gpp istirahat huehehuehe. Btw, gua bingung tag board gua kok masih ga muncul dan ga ada yg kasih comment2 lagi ya?

Hi teman-teman,

Today will be my first day to work at my father’s factory. It is a tire retreading factory. Well it is not so related with my major, Electrical Engineering, but at least I learn something about work, and who knows I can use this experience in the future, since I am thinking later in the future I want to work and help my father. I am so excited today, well actualy a little bit lazy but it’s ok I have to keep my promise to work.

Mondey afternoon just arrived and go home and sleep it’s like 7.30 PM and I woke up at 4 AM (sucks!!!). Tuesday went breakfast noodles with my mother, and then went to Santa Ursula High School to "kidnapp" I. Then just visit her house and then went back to do some stuff and slept again at 8 PM and woke up at 3.30 AM (sucks!!!)

Wednesday it was a very tired day with full of eat (how come eat make you tired?). I went early in the morning to Prodia to check my blood and then met with cousins in Toko Luwes, also bought Pecel Lele (uenaakkk deh). Went home and then online for a while and then went Lunch with my mother, Tante Tin, Vita, and Ping2. We went to Shangrilla to eat at Rp150.000 ($15) buffet, it was just OK food, there were nothing special or really good, it was not worth it to eat there. The only things that I really like that I close the lunch with drinking Jamu (I like Jamu, unfortunately no Jamu in America). And then my mother and Tante Tin went home to KGP, me, vita, and ping2 continue our journey to EX. We walked for a while there and then hang out in Cafe (I forgot the name). It was kind of weird for me since it was very rarely for me to hang out at luxury Cafe. We order drinks (about Rp 20.000) of course it was expensive for me, since I usually drank something that only Rp1.500. It was fun to hang out with vita and ping2. I thought it would be horribe since I do not talk much with them before, but it was fun. Then we drove Ping2 back to Tanjung Duren (of course with traffic jam). I arrived at home about 8 PM. Then take a shower, call I (boring), and then call Epi (she’s eating so ttyl), and then call X (it was fun). Then go to sleep about 10PM. Just wake up at 5.30PM and received a text message from I that made me to ask for an explanation. Did she ever think about me?

Sutralah, I want to eat breakfast (fried rice made by my maid) first and then prepared to go to work. Any comment?

Hi teman-teman,

Akhirnya selesai juga summer fiuhhhhh I hope I did well this summer. Setahun sudah kulalui belajar di De Anza, klo hidup disini ya hampir setahun lah. Setahun ternyata waktu yg cukup banyak. Banyak bgt hal2 yg gua alamin disini.

Hmmm yg pasti gua ketemu byk temen-temen baru, lingkungan baru, everything is new except myself. Disini juga mulai gua punya temen2 non-indo. Gua pun baru menyadari klo anak indo tuh banyak juga yg high schoolnya di singapur ck ck ck.

Seiring dengan dunia baru, gua pun mulai menemui masalah2 yg baru yg ga pernah gua hadapin dan terkadang masalah itu tuh gede banget sampe kayaknya gua ga bisa hadapin. Kemaren ini gua chat ama si H, gua cerita masalah gua disini, sampe terkadang gua itu ngeraguin si Dia. Hmm I dunno deh, tapi ngadepin masalah gini emang bener2 bantu gua utk belajar ngadepin masalah sendiri, selama ini gua selalu tergantung ama orang, pengennya masalah gua dibantu, tapi gua belum tentu bantu orang lagi. Makasih juga buat si A yg dah selalu bantu masalah gua, even though loe pernah ga bantu, but ternyata itu malah ngebantu gua buat mandiri so thanks deh.
Disaat ini gua ngerasa apa yg gua lakukan bakal nentuin masa depan gua, sampe gua khawatir bgt ama nasib gua di amrik tuh mau jadi kayak apa. Gua tuh takut bgt, gua tuh ga suka ama ketidakpastian, apalagi ini berhubungan ama masa depan gua. So I guess I just need to go through this tough way. Semua masalah yg gua hadapin bener2 kadang ngebuat gua stress bgt tinggal di amrik, pengennya pulang aja, kayaknya beban gua gede banget. Tapi gua pikir gua harus lewatin ini semua deh. Seperti si H bilang klo ini tuh proses pendewasaan diri juga hmmmm maybe ya.
Yang pasti gua keinget ada yg pernah bilang klo Dia itu kasih cobaan ke kita supaya kita tuh makin deket ama Dia bukan justru utk ngeraguin Dia. So I guess I have to increase my Faith in Him.

Tapi dunia baru ternyata tidak membawa kesulitan baru doang kok. Mereka juga membawa kesenengan baru. Paling ga gua udah ketemu temen2 baru, sifat2 baru yg bikin gua open minded. Bisa kebetulan ketemu Mudika disini, jadi gua ga kehilangan something yg udah ada di diri gua for 6 years. I learn a lot juga ttg Iman dari temen2 mudika disini. Gimana juga disini gua bisa jadi conductor bagi music choir mudika disini, suatu hal yg seru bgt juga. Terus bisa jalan2 ke tempat2 cihui kayak monterey, SF, Oakland, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, dll, nyobain restoran enak juga wuahhhh senang deh pokoknya. It’s been a nice place to live, I wish I can live in this place later.

Ya emang bener sih namanya hidup ada enak ada ga enaknya juga. Hmmm I guess that’s the beauty of life. Berbagai macam peristiwa happen dan itu justru bantu loe utk jadi makin "manusia".

Ini adalah journal sekilas bgt kehidupan setahun pertama yg gua lalui di negeri Paman Sam ini. Ini bener2 general bgt ga ada detail ama sekali, habis klo mau diceritain juga panjang bgt kali. Tapi ya moga temen2 bisa dpt bayangan deh apa yg ku alami setahun ini. Any comment?

Hi teman-teman,

Besok adalah hari terakhir summer yg diakhiri dengan exam final math. I can only make 6 mistakes out of 35 multiple choice problems to get an A. First of all, I really hate multiple choice, because I am not allowed to show my thinking process. Geessss I am afraid that I will make more than 6 mistakes. This situation the same with what I had last quarter where I should not make 6 mistakes out of 40 multiple choice to get a B (if i’m not wrong about the number). At that time i manage to get it and I got B for the course. Now, I hope that I can do it again to get an A.

I hope this summer give me somekind of boost for the next year. First I make a target to get B for EWRT 1A and A for Math 1D. But now I have a hope to get A for EWRT 1A (depend on my last 2 essays). Well if I get B for EWRT that do not bother me much since that is my target. But for MATH??? I will not allowed myself to get B. Of course I hope I manage to get A on both classes and it will boost my morale to school in De Anza. But if I get B for both classes maybe I will only blame myself because no one else to blame. I hope I can close this first year with a good grade.

Friends, I really need your pray for me (of course i’m praying for myself too). Thanks Ineska for helping me tomorrow, somehow I just need your help for tomorrow.

Wow I just realize that this is my first blog that I write in English hmmmm ya sutralah ya.

I have put more photos in my Retreat and Angels Camp trip album, and I also add 1 more album with the title BBQ Mudika WKICU. Just check it out and give some comments ok?