Golda & The Edgars

Hello guys, yes, I'm still alive, don't worry :p I've been busy (as usual, duh) but anyways, I'm happy to be able to post something after such a long time, I'm not gonna rant about how busy my life is, instead I wanted to share about how happy I am that I can post another story of my life. This time, about my happily kindy girl ;;) Hope you enjoy it! FYI, this was a real story of mine, just in case you are wondering who I am talking about. Hihi :*

I grew up as a girl who had so much faith in fairy tales, believing that pixie dust will make me fly and that a prince charming was going to come into my life. As I grew older, I came to my senses and realized that life does not work that way. As time went by, I realized that love is also bitter and sweet and also doesn't really make sense.

My childhood was splendid! I was a very lucky little girl back then. I went into the most favourite kindergarten school and it was every child's dream to get into that school. I was one of the smartest girls in school, not only in my class. Basically, I was the girl who guys liked at school that their moms told my mom that they liked her daughter. They told me that I was the primadonna at school. But strangely mom said, I was terrified of them chasing after me because they tried to get close to me. So, in my class there were 2 boys named Edgar. Usually every Saturday, we played sports together and we walked from the school around the church. So everyone had a partner, girl and boy which made 2 lines. But both of the Edgars wanted to partner up with me, but the teacher said 3 people were not allowed. So they liked to fight over me. Because no one could tell them what to do, the teacher allowed the three of us to walk together but in the back of the line.

I once questioned my self, "Was that the so called love that the pixie dust really happened in me since I was a child? Were these two Edgars really my prince charmings?" Well if not, I did feel so mesmerize *blushing*

P.S: Selamat Hari Kartini untuk seluruh wanita-wanita Indonesia :)

x,
Golda Regina

A moment to remember...

Hi there. I am indeed so bad in starting a blog post, aren't I? So.. let's just go straight to the point.

March 31, 2011.
It was Thursday, if I am not mistaken. My dad was picked me up from IEC (my English course place). It was midnight already, around 10 p.m. I reached home at 10.30 p.m. and still found out that my home's living room was so bright. The lamps were still on and as I opened the gate to let my dad's car in, I heard and saw there were 3 Catholic nuns and my mom still talking and laughing out loud. The nuns suddenly came closer to me, hugged me and said 'congratulations' and I was shock, I didn't even reply their hugs and of course I was so confused. 'What had happened? I didn't even join any competitions, so why did they congratulate me?'

I got inside my home without even put my shoes off. I was too tired and wanted to have a sit first just to relax my body especially my shoulders because my bag was so full with books! Yeah, if you happened ever went to Catholic school, I bet you had the same experience as mine. Brought like 2kgs (sometimes more than it) load inside the bag to school. Crazy. I know.

Mom came closer to me with a big smile, shook my hand, and hugged me so tight and said (again, a word that confusing me) 'congratulations ya kak, mom can't say anything. i am so happy.' Then, mom gave me a huge brown envelope with lots of papers inside. I went through it and found out that I got accepted at Universitas Pelita Harapan (my campus now) with 100% scholarship for 4 years (yeah! for my bachelor degree. cool?). Can you imagine that? I got 100% covered scholarship for 4 years!!!! Parents will not spend any cashes for my school fee. Even more, my scholarship also includes the 3 times meals, uniforms, Alma mater, field trips, and many other miscellaneous things. It even includes my graduation fee. How cool is that, huh?!

I didn't know how to express my happiness at that time. I was so shocked (still) and looked at dad that still stood up not far from me and he was smiling! Yes! I couldn't forget that! He was smiling, dudes!!! I knew that he had known this already, but he kept it from me! Oh yes, my dad is a good secret-keeper. Cool. God is so good, yes? :) Can't thank Jesus enough for His works upon my life. I am so blessed! ♥

And today...
Feb 6, 2013.
I am now studying Primary education at Teachers College - UPH, and I am now in my sophomore year. Four more semester to go, two more upcoming practicums are on the corner and I will face my thesis submission due date. Ahh, can't hardly wait for that time to come :') I’d like to call myself a future education practitioner. Yes, in around 2 years, I’m going to be a teacher. A teacher with her own classroom, her own students, and her new stage of life to be encountered. I’ll be dealing with my first year of teaching. I heard some experiences from some seniors, and yeah, they all sound so overwhelming :)

May God bless me for the rest of my years at Teachers College. May I learn, grow, and unite in Christ as I finish all the things that I have started here.

Have a good sleep :)
Golda Regina

Chillin'

Hi all, how was your weekend? Mine was great! I spent my Saturday attending the Health & Physical Education class (yeah, cool :p), joining Bireun Seudati (folklore dance group at my campus) audition though I will not going to the cultural mission in Europe then chilling out with my friends from the other faculties who were joining the audition as well :) I didn't straightly go back to my dorm after we had our late lunch at Serba Food (I really love their XO Fried Rice, nyumm... =9), I spent half of my night at my friend's apartment who are actually my friends from Medan and one of them is my friend since primary school :) :)

We talked like the world is ours, talking with our own hometown dialect (thank God!) without worrying that somebody will get hurts, laughing like there is no tomorrow, taking pictures and so much other fun fun fun things we did today :) So happy that I can met them here. I feel so frustrated talking with the Jakartans people dialect, my tongue is bloody tired :p

Ahh if I have the freedom to leave the dormitory as I want, I would have a sleepover at my friend's apartment tonight and doing crazy stuff for sure. But that's okay though, because the apartment is really close to my dormitory so that I can visit every time just by walking 5 minutes only. Let's count it as an exercise :p

Well, here's the pics for today's post! Hope you enjoy ;)

Hugs and Kisses,

Golda Regina

Hasian

So, yesterday I checked Twitter timeline and found out @angga1402’s tweet said exactly the one that I sent the message to mom and dad this morning. When I read the tweet, I was laughing so hard and went ReTweet it straightly. It was very funny! At first, I just want to have fun with my dad and mom by sending them that tweet. I didn’t have any idea that their answer would be like that. Never crossed my mind. It was really beyond my thought. Especially my dad, he is sooo plain. HAHA! If only I were a materialistic daughter, I would send this everyday. HOHO. :P Peace out, daddy! :D It was so contrary with my mom’s replied. So stingy of you lah, mommyyyy! LOL :D :D She replied: Begu which means Hantu in Batak laguange. What a great morning started with a warm laugh. Thank you Jesus {()}

P.S: Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been sooo busy with my assessments and assignments. Also, please pray for me so that I can get well very soon. Thank you so much lovely earthlings :)

Golda Regina

Demi Ucok Trailer

YOU GUYS SHOULD WATCH THIS AND HOPEFULLY CAN HELP THEM TO REACH 10,000 CO-PRODUCER AND MAKE THIS MOVIE TO BE SCREENED IN NATIONWIDE CINEMA!!! THIS IS HILARIOUS!!!! I BET THIS WILL BE A GREAT MOVIE IN 2012. I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH THE FULL MOVIE IN CINEMA.

For Medan people, especially the Bataknese one, just like me :D You MUST watch this because I told you guys, if you never realised that most of the films or sinetrons in Indonesia which put the ethnic Batak in their films, they always put it over. I mean like the pronunciation of the letter "e" is sometimes or always redundant. But this movieeee, oh my goooossshhhhh, they got it naturally and smoothly, or Medan people say "Medannya dapat kali!". :D :D :D LOOOOOOOOVVVEEE IT TO THE MAAAX!!! Call me over too, I don't mind, cause I tell you the truth ;)

P.S: - IT'S NOT A MOVIE. IT'S A MOVEMENT -

Golda Regina

...... just can't get enough

People, how you guys doing? Hope everything's going smoothly.
Yeah, my blog is dead for real, I know. I am sorry anyway. I know it's a lil' bit late to welcome March, but here I am, talking to you. No matter what it is, I just hope March will be a good month (in fact, it is not..so far). People, if you in my position, you'll know what I'm feeling right now, this second, and when you do, I'm sure that you want to scream out loud those things which you've kept inside for so-so long time ago. Well, there are so many not-so-good-things happened recently. I don't know where to start. It's just I really dislike people who love to insult races. We do have many different kind of races in our country. But why do we seem to see that as a problem?

I am here in Teachers College where you can find the students from all over Indonesia. I have one friend, my classmate, from East Indonesia, who like to insult the way I talked and the vocabulary that I used. She said that Medan people broke the vocabulary of Bahasa. Bitch, please. It is okay if she insulted it once, I am not that serious person, I took it as a joke, but she kept insulting it and it was getting on my nerves. Yaa, lama-lama panas juga kan kalau dihina terus, mentang-mentang kita nggak marah jadi seenak jidat begitu menghina-hina orang. Until I became angry and shouted out loud to her that I didn't like her attitude. If you want to make a joke, please, don't put things about races there. We are not the same type of person, note that!

I asked God, why He put us here with many kinds of cultures, ethnics if only it will just make each of us keep insulting one another? But, I look up to the sky & see the light of Him, I feel He has touched my heart. I learned each & every day in life that even in the worst time, there are always blessings inside of it. I realized that I've done so many things that hurt Him, I just can't thank Him enough until today, He still love me and ask for nothing. He made my mood happy again through these lovely couple, kak Eda and Nadya :)

I am addicted to these couple above. They are so humble, friendly, funny and cuteee >,< Looking forward to meet them again, hopefully soon :D

P. S: I have a primary science and technology field trip to Kebun Raya Bogor tomorrow. Gotta prepare the stuff and sleep afterward :) Nighty night :}

till then,

Golda Regina

Awesome Blessings

...................."Aduh Miss, kemaren aku kejedut, jadinya aku lupa deh."

Davin, bocah kelas 4 SD itu sukses membuat aku cengo', nggak berdaya tapi nggak bisa nggak ketawa ngakak juga. Iya, jadi sekarang dunia ku udah nggak se-flat dulu lagi. Sekarang selain kuliah, cari ilmu sebanyak-banyaknya, aku mengajar disalah satu tempat di daerah Gading Serpong. Muridnya macem-macem, nggak tentu. Kadang aku bisa hanya mengajari 1 anak, kadang 3 sekaligus dengan grade yang berbeda-beda dan pelajaran yang berbeda-beda. Sempet kewalahan, apalagi tingkat kecerdasan mereka berbeda-beda. Ada yang cepet nangkep, cepat pula ngerjain tugas yang aku kasih, tapi ada pula yang lambat sehingga kadang suka ngebuat si anak yang cepet nangkep itu nungguin. Kasihan kalau harus dibiarin diam gitu, tapi mau gimana, wong si adek satu belum kelar-kelar ngertinya. Hihihihi.

Murid pertama ku namanya Valerie, kalau disekolahnya sih dia grade Learners C, yaudah sih supaya kita juga nggak bingung, sebut aja TK :p Anaknya lincah banget! Dan untuk seumuran dia, dia itu termasuk anak yang cukup pintar, nggak cuma cukup, tapi pintar banget! Aku ngasih penjumlahan 50-100an dia bisa. Cerdas nggak tuh?! Tapi ngajarin Valerie itu butuh kesabaran extra banget banget, dia suka nggak betah duduk lama-lama belajar. Jadi suka lari sana lari sini. Jadi berhitung sama dia sambil belajar PE deh. Makasih ya nak, Miss jadi kurusan se-ons hahahaha {()}

Hari berikutnya ngajar, langsung digerombolin sama 3 anak. Untungnya semua grade 4 tapi pelajarannya pada beda-beda. Aaaaaa, Miss mau mati ngajarnya naaak. Murid-muridku namanya Davin, Gustavo dan Fidelia. Davin itu muridnya lucu, asik, sama cerewetnya kayak Miss nya. Hahaha. Kalau Gustavo, dia pendiam, tapi proaktif juga jadi belajar mengajarnya nggak canggung deh ;) Oh ya, Gustavo juga hafalannya jago loh, cepet banget ngafalin sesuatu. Kemarin Gustavo ulangan, semoga hasilnya bagus ya nak. Miss nggak ketemu kamu hari ini :) Nah kalau Fidelia ini kakaknya Valerie. Dia juga pendiam tapi pinter banget matematika, tapi susah kalau hafalan :p ^^V

 

Gustavo nggak ada fotonya, katanya "Malu ah Miss" :p

Nah hari ini aku ngajar lagi, ketemu lagi deh sama Davin :D Kali ini Davin agak kalem, tetep cerewet tapi nggak pake banyak gerakan tubuh. Hehehe.Hari ini itu bener-bener "nyatu" banget sama Davin. Aku seperti guru, kakak, sekaligus mama nya dia. Agak lebay sih tapi nggak tau kenapa, rasanya ada sesuatu di anak ini yang bikin aku "tertarik" dan berasa "kepancing" untuk terus ngikutin perkembangannya dia. Apalagi tadi waktu ngajarin Davin matematika kita kompak banget, ya walaupun aku masih kadang suka nggak ngerti Davin ngomong apaan hihihi :p Tadi Davin ngasih liat aku buku Communication Agenda sekolahnya. Padahal kata Davin, nggak semua orang boleh baca itu. Tapi Davin kasih buku itu ke aku. Kata Davin sih, karena dia malu, karena isinya kebanyakan komentar negatif dari homeroomnya. Darisitu aku semakin termotivasi untuk bisa meng-encourage Davin buat belajar lebih giat lagi. Juga masalah Davin dengan mama nya dirumah. Dia cerita pelan, kadang wajahnya sedih tapi lebih sering sih penuh semangat :D Emosinya dapet banget deh. Banyak banget ngobrol bareng Davin hari ini. Seneng deh :) Tersentuh bnaget *beneran*

"Miss, Davin janji mau rajin belajar biar nilai ulangannya jadi 70 ya Miss. Boleh nggak Miss? Eh jangan Miss jangan, 80 aja ya Miss yaa. Trus mau rajin berdoa, nggak ngomong yg nggak baik lagi dan nggak kata-katain mama lagi."

"Oh iya Miss, lupa! Rajin buat PR juga :D"

Tuhan makasih banyak sebanyak-banyaknya udah kasih hadiah indah banget buat aku. Anak-anak ituuuuu. Ahhh nggak terbilang harganya *ambil tissue* *nangis* *beneran*

P.S: Post ini sekalian buat ikutan giveawaynya kak Gogo. Welcome to the new world of mine with those cutey kiddos, kak! :D Oh iya, aku tau blog kakak dari blognya si abang kodok ijo, aku tau blognya si kodok ijo dari blognya kak enno, di blog rollnya gitu ada blognya mereka rame-rame, ya biasa kak, masih SMA kan waktu itu, masih kepo-keponya, sampe sekarang sih sebenarnya :P Dan ternyata kita satu daerah asal ya kak, Seneng deh. *loncat pagar* :D :D kiss kiss :* :* :* {()}

Golda Regina

Ice Caffé Mocha

Bonjour tout le monde! It's a Sunday afternoon and here I am savoring my cup of hot green beans cereal while typing away. The rain fell so heavily today. It's cold outside. Strong winds and thunder flashed continuously. What exactly would you like to picture, God?

HIIII. I want to continue to tell about my trip to meet my brother last 2 weeks now. Ready? Tighten your seat belt, babies! :p So, before the bus stopped at the Blok M terminal, I found the passengers were getting fewer. I sat in the back and near me there were only two men. One sat behind me and another one (which seems to be able to trust to ask) sitting one row in front of me. I dared to ask him where was the address I was looking for. At first he was confused, because he never heard the name of the street. But he gave me a little hint, where I should go down, and recommending me to ride motorcycles (ojek) in order not to be fooled by taxi drivers (in fact, I was fooled by a motorcycle rider). It costed me Rp 20.000,00 when actually I could be able to pay only approximately Rp 10,000 by taxi.

Then, this man told to the ojek that I wanted to go to Gunawarman Street near STM Penerbangan. Oh ya, forgot to mention that, the reason why this man gave me a little hint to just rode ojek was because I said to him that the street is near STM Penerbangan. (In fact, I really don't know, where the heck is that place. LOL) Luckily, during WhatsApp-ing with Mr. WhatsApp far before I ended up went to the venue, he ever mentioned about that place. Just my luck! :D

I fully giving my trust to mas ojek of our journey. I did not know the way at all. During the trip, I see a lot of  cafes along the way but none of them called That's Life Coffee. We rounded all the way up to Senopati, KFC, until 2 times but still couldn't find it. Ask here and there and they all gave the same answer and still could not find it. I was hopeless and mas tukang ojek also did not know where else he should bring me. Apparently the cafe it's not entirely cafe. Its located on the 2nd floor of a house. No pamphlets cafés name. What made me more confuse was the pamphlets of that house is a physician practice. LOL.

 ft. kak Diela Maharani an awesome illustrator

 Hello, my name is Ekoy. LOL

 My brother and me. (I know, I only love the effect :p)

 I forced him to take photo again *grin*

 Meet the owner of the cafe, kak Arris Aprilio. He is the friendliest man alive I have ever met.

The end. #Pheww

P.S:  My father will go to China. His boss asked him to have a vacation there. Envy! Envy! :D I hope your China visa will be issued real soon! xoxo

Golda Regina

Hey, Brother!

Morning! I hope your day is good. Although mine was not pretty good but I try to chin up and smile because I believe, I will walk through all these difficulties. As finals are coming real soon, it means that we're going to end our first 7week in our second semester. Time flies!

Well, I was so happy last week that I met my brother eventually. When he came to my hometown for a long break from his collage life, that was also the time for me to fly here to Jakarta to pursue my education. It was such a sad moment in my life. I really miss him! Since he was accepted in ISI Jogjakarta, he often said to me that Jogja is actually his home. He likes everything in Jogja, well, not literally everything, but most. He said that, if it was not because of our parents, he would never go back again to Medan (which shocked me) and he meant it!

Last Christmas, it had been also such a gloomy Christmas, well, at least for me. No brothers at home. Yes, It was just the four of us. My pop wasn't had any holidays during Chritsmas week until New Year. He just had one day break right on the Christmas day and had to go back to work as usual the next day. It was also happened the same thing on New Year, the different was, my pop asked for 2 days break as we were going to pay a visit to my pop's hometown to visit my one and only grandma and pay a visit to my grandpop's grave. Nothing much happened.

Ok, so, now you know how much I miss my brother. Last January, he texted me said that he will come to Jakarta on February as his art had been accepted in Kopi Kelling online exhibition. As Kopling (the short name of Kopi Keliling) will celebrate their first birthday in the 20th day of February, they were planning to have an offline exhibition. The birthday itself actually fell on Monday which was a  work day, so they made it one day before the exact day on Sunday the 19th. They invited all the artists which their arts being exhibited. My brother found it could be a fun event, so he decided to come along with his 2 friends, one of them also joined the SWAP Party. He came starightly from Jogja by bus! So brave of him, right? Thumbs up :p

How happy I was at that time. I bet you can imagine it. Well, I live here in Lippo Karawaci which is I find it really far from everywhere. I am still a newbie and I don't know what bus should I take to go somewhere outside Lippo Village. I was kind of depressed at that time because the desire to meet my brother would fail. I did search on the internet but it wasn't gave me any clues but confused me. I did also ask my seniors and friends who came from Jakarta but I got nothing. They were compacted to say "Don't know". I was like .....

But I didn't stop there. I kept on praying to God that I really wanted to meet my brother. Even though I was so galau one day before, I did kept praying and praying to God to stenghten my decision and giving me bravery to go even without any friend accompanied me. I didn't talk much as usual, I wasn't cheerful as I used to; my roommate, kak Yenny even didn't have the courage to joke with me. After the student fellowship on Friday night, I went straightly back to my dormitory and slept. I woke up at 5 a.m. and still confused whether I went or not. But I didn't know why, I directly came down from my bed and immediately shower. By 6, I had breakfast alone and went straight to the toll.

I didn't know who pushed me to have the courage to ask to one of the women who had just came down from the public transportation with me. I asked her which bus should I take if I want to go to Blok M and she answered me nicely and said, you can take the bus number 34. How thankful I was! There was one bus number 138 stopped there and this woman suddenly said to me that I also could go by it, even faster! Can't find any words to describe how thankful I am! I immediately got into the bus. Such a beautiful morning at that time. I couldn't imagine that the street was very quite and the trip was really pleasant. There were no singers (pengamen), no jams, not many passengers at the bus and the weather was so very supportive. I could see the street through the window without anyone disturbing me.

 The location was at That's Life Coffee, Gunawarman Street no. 24, South Jakarta. I arrived there beyond my expectation. I arrived at 8 a.m. and that was sooooo fast! But the owner of that coffee shop, kak Arris was really welcome. He is very friendly. We talked quite much, we laughed while waiting for others to come and display their arts on the wall of the cafe. The clock was shown at 10 and not long after that, my brother came with his two friends. Finally.

Kyaaa. I met him! I met him, guys!!! After 6 months and now we were met each other. HUGS!!!

P.S: There are still so much I want to tell you guys about my trip and the birthday party at the next day, but I have to go now. I have a care group party with my ex care group leader this morning. More photos will come soon. For more info about SWAP PARTY you can go to this link: http://kopikeliling.com/news/swap-party.html

Have a nice weekend buddies!

Golda Regina

Other chocolates! #3

Today's happiness:

• My pigeon hole once again full of chocolates. The most happiest was, I got the chocolate along with the card and it designed with lace, my favourite! Whoever is he/she must know me so well. Thanks! <3
• Great presentations  for today's Primary Science & Technology class. Everyone did a great job. Full of laughs! :D

P.S: Systematic Theology's quiz 1 tomorrow at 2 p.m. Ganbatte, Golda!

Golda Regina

I am not forever alone #2

Maybe I should cancel the plan of hibernating for awhile. Yeah, I guess I shall keep posting whenever I feel like I want to! It's midnight and I was just went back from TOGE NIGHT. What's that? TOGE NIGHT is TOGETHER NIGHT, the togetherness party right on the Valentine's Day held by the Spiritual Growth UPH.

Happy Valentine's Day to you all :) Wish you have a blessed Valentine's Day today ♥. I thank God for a good weather in Lippo Karawaci. Well, it doesn't rain and it feels good. Oh yeah, anyway, it was my first experience, celebrating Valentine's Day at UPH. It was a wee bit not crowded compared to my expectation before, but still, I enjoyed it much! :)

Anyway, I had just reached dorm. We had dinner over at UPH's Olympic swimming pool.  There were lots of food. Hotdog, spaghetti, French fries, pudding, soft drinks, and roasted corn. I was fully full :D And as a result, I'm sleepy. HAHA. I guess, I need some beauty sleep right now. Oh well, let's call it a day, a good one. Once again, happy Valentine's Day y'all. xxx.


Oh wait! Let's count the happiness ;) Here it goes:

• I woke up this morning and found chocolate on my desk :) ♥

• I had Fuyunghai for breakfast!!!! I loveeee Fuyunghai so much! :9 Nomnomnomm ♥

• I got 4 hours for my SoW after 1 week without doing any SoW. ♥

• Doing really well on today's Curriculum Studies' presentation along with my girls Grecia, Jessica and Marna. We made a role play about constructivism and got a really great responses from classmates and lecturer! ♥

• During the Question-time, my lecturer said that I was really good at answering all the questions. Though I had no slide presentation in front of the class, but I can answer and explain every single thing deeply and clearly. God's grace! ♥

• I also got other chocolates from my care group leader and the big one from one of the part-timer in the office named Koko ( I don't know that Chinese's man name :p ).

• Received the SMS from Mr. Whatsapp. My mood booster of the day deh! ♥ ♥ ♥

• Got huge of new friends during the TOGE NIGHT. ♥

( and the list goes on )

P.S: See ya on the next happiness! {()} 

Golda Regina 

Count your happiness! #1

I stumbled upon Alodita's blog and find out this post about happiness. I read through it all without missing any single thing there. I started to think that instead of grumbling allllll the time, why didn't I just count my happiness today? So, here is today's happiness:

1. I woke up later than usual at 6.00 o'clock and didn't have to woke up earlier because I had to submit my homework by seven o'clock because one of my classmate texted me last night that she would love to collect it all to the lecturer's pigeon hole. She volunteered herself. ;D
2. I met my favourite singer kak Eda who used to be the vocalist of POTENZIO at UPH garden this morning! He remembered my name! Oh wow! I can't stop smiling even until now I typed this. And he gave me high-five twice! We had a chit chat for 5 minutes and it was such uh-wow for me. I loveeeee him so much! He is so humble even he's quite famous now. What a morning! :D :D :D
3. Mr. WhatsApp whatsapp-ed me today! I don't know why, but whenever he whatsapps me, I am just happy. The feeling is like when you are waiting a text or a phone call from your lover. Happy to the max and ngangenin :p
4. My supervisor gave me her handmade; early Valentine's chocolate cake. It was the very first time for her baking cake and it tasted not bad ;)
5. I received my parcel from ROMWE today and I got it for FREE! Woohooo ;D

Tell me, what's yours?

P. S: Until we meet in the second happiness! <3 <3

Golda Regina