my pipe collection

i added my pipe collection yesterday with 2 brebbia pipes - made in italy.
The models are unique and they are really small too.
i've seen them in my previous trips to bangkok, but i didn't buy it at that time since i thought i will buy it next time.

My girlfriend said that i should have buy them in case they are sold out since i didn't know when will be my next visit to Bangkok.
so, i decided to by them.

oh yaa, i buy also 2 packs of pipe tobaccos those i cannt find in jakarta ... one is the chocholate tobacco, my girlfriend also likes the aroma

^Y.O^

look how small it is compared to N9210 

nice pipes 

yoko's new pipe collection 

Cipinang...again

Yesterday, I was @ cipinang's warehouse, my job was to find out why tira had a significant increase on work overtime. Since my boyfriend is in Bangkok, my boss wanted me to investigated the reasons behind all the fuzz. However, overtime at cipinang warehouse wasn't new for me. This matter had started since we were about to go live, apparently their new head of warehouse somehow have the tendency to force his employee to finished unloading within the same day. Regardless how many people during the shift (they have 2 shift), he demanded all unloading activity will be finished before they closed the warehouse. Which will trigger them to work overtime plus adding more casual helper to work. At first, i thought that situation will slowly change as their familiarity with the new system increased and as the high season (lebaran) will pass. but i guess i was wrong. Well..after my finding, i will probably talk to p jo about it, and suggest a new scheduling of loading and unloading.

Btw, matrix connection was totally going nuts yesterday, my bf wasn't able to contacted me at all, he was stressing out, ongoing and incoming messages was delayed or cannot be delivered. It last until today, all my friends messages came in this morning, my bf messages which he sent it this morning around 7, just came in while i type in my blog.

I've received an invitation for aussie nite which held tonite at wonderbar, i wasnt too enthusiast about it, though my mom suggested i go to meet old friends and do my networking. However, my boss just told me to come to SAP Gala Dinner tonite at Grand Melia. Maybe I go to grand melia first then go to aussie party.

Still miss my baby..

~Qi~

Diethelm Thailand

Diethelm Thailand

This month i visit Bangkok twice for the same client, Diethelm Thailand. It is not my first Diethelm assignment since i was also assigned once to Diethelm Philippines. The assignment was simple (sounds simple) ... it is about warehouse management system WMS in SAP, well it is the area where my bosses think i am good at. ฉBut when i am here i notice it's not about WMS at all. It s more scary ... their system is just not good, too many modifications. Ok stop about my assignment!!!, coz somehow i have to fix them. Well i found something that interesting me ... look at Diethelm's logo. They have a red colour banana trees silhouette. Here they have these trees in their office area, but i can't remember whether they have also in the Philippines .. i guess not. And for sure not in Jakarta, since their office is in a high rise building. I am just wondering why they choose these trees as their logo. Diethelm has no business in agriculture, they manufacture and also do distrubution.ฉso, wait ... i ll find up the right answer for this, but meanwhile just enjoy my foto's.

^.YO.^

thinking of you 

Slippery when wet

Surprisingly Jakarta’s sky had just changed its color from grayish into bluish, given that it’s been raining since last night. This morning was so cold and wet. I had to get up in the morning to go to the gym. The weather was like July in Perth.

Nothing had actually happen today, except I’m missing my other half who’s thousands miles away from me.

~Qi~

Sunday madness

It's been a while since my last posting, not that I've been busy and all. But I was not in the mood of writting anything.
Today I was in the mood of cleaning up, so I moved all the furniture, and place them in different position, mob the floor and clean all furnitures. My mom was helping me cleaning some of her small object which is fragile and easily broke when touch. Thus, if something happen to those silly object, i wouldn't be the one to blame, since she is the who cleaning 'em. While cleaning and mopping, i was sweating like i've run on treadmill for an hour. The reason behind all this cleaning and mopping was I woke up too early in sunday morning, i was gonna go to church, but then my dad said there was no 10 o'clock session, there're only 6 am and 8 am. Hahahaha...and i had already taken a shower and was ready by 8, but i have to wait for my mom to get dress and do her make up.

Oyah.. My boyfriend had gone to singapore to set for the exam, and he might be flying back to bangkok again for another week. Geez..its nearly holiday season, people supposed to chill out a bit, preparing for christmas and new years, my boyfriend have to work during christmas, coz eventually thai ppl don't celebrate christmas. I feel sorry for him, as he already makes plan with his dad and his family for christmas.
Anyway..I hope everything turns out ok, coz i know my boyfriend, he can get easily annoyed and frustated, and it may lead to him being angry at clients..hehehe.

One hour trip

I started my day with a thought of missing someone, yeah...I know it’s ridiculous, he was just gone for one day. Maybe because we’ve spend so many hours together, during work and all, I’ve never been with someone where I got to spend most of day with him. That's why i miss him a lot.

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell." ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

I usually like to spend time for myself, at least once every week, doing some pampering, went shopping, hangouts with my girlfriends. Don’t get me wrong, I still do enjoy those thing, its just I get caught up with so many things during weekend lately that I don’t have time to do all those things.

This morning I had to go to Australian Embassy to lodge my passport, in order to get it evidence by the embassy. I had to catch a cab from my office, was drop near the embassy and had to walk there. The security was quiet nice and very helpful, though I had to let them took my xda, since it had a built in camera.

When I went inside the embassy, there was only one small counter where you can talk to one of the officer in charge, and a bunch of guys from travel agents waiting for their client visa’s application to be approved. Some of them know each other, assuming they see each regularly when visiting the Aus Embassy, and even call one of the officers in charge by name. I was standing behind all of them, while one person behind the counter sort of look at me, but then turn her eyes to somebody else, then when I took a step near the counter, she approached me asking “how can I help you ma’am?”. After I’ve told her I need to lodge my passport for an evidence, she said one of the officer will handle it, without even taking my name and my passport (or my ID card). After awhile, there was an Indian looking women came (she look more friendly then the other), she was busy handing outs passports to agents, then she look at me, asked whether I was being served, and take my passport and my ID card with her. After waiting about 15 minutes, the same lady came and gave me a receipt of my passport being held, and took my name and my contact number, she told me I have to wait until they contact me in regards of my pr visa. So, I went outside, get my mobile back from the security, walk towards MMC Hospital (the road between the embassy and MMC are still closed) look for a cab, with luck. There’s one cab a minute ago about to drop their passenger in one of the building near by. As a result, my trip between my office to embassy and back again only takes me about 1 hour. This wasn’t that bad considering lunch hour traffic.

~Qi~

Company Outing

@ sol marbella - anyer

This picture taken at Sol Marbella - Anyer, on sunday 28 november, it was the last day of our company's outing. We arrived at anyer on the 26 (friday) evening, coz my boyfriend had to attended a presentation for the prospective client. Therefore, I spend some times at the hairdresser at mall kelapa gading, had ice blended caramel while waiting for him to finished with his presentation. By the time he'd finished, it was around 2 pm.

When we arrived, i have to talk to someone for room arrangement in regards of some of families and collegues that won't be coming. Afterwards, we check into our room, which was huge, it has a living room and a kitchen and a balcony over looking the beach (not really though..but you can see a part of the beach from where we stayed)

Around 6 we went to griya anyer to have dinner, we were planning to eat outside but changed our mind because of the "bugs life".

After dinner, we went back to hotel, had a warm shower, have some ciggarete outside on the balcony, then poured some chivas mixed with ginger ale (my boyfriend bought it with a good price) and watch tv and talk all night.

It was another beautiful and wonderful nite we've spend together.

The next morning, we were too lazy to actually get up in the morning to have breakfast and go for a swim (we were planning to do those thing..), so we end up order room service for breakfast and some coffees. By the time we finished eating our breakfast, it was nearly 12 noon, thus we had a quick shower and drove to griya anyer for company's lunch.

When we arrived, most of our colleagues are already there..but the foods hasn't been out yet, so we weren't that late. Some of their kids are so cute, especially ricky's baby. (I had pictures with him taken by boyfriend)

After lunch, all of us went to the hotel, some have to settle to their room, some have to arranged the events held by hotel management. We (me, yoko, agus and lia) spend time at our room drinking beers.

To make the story short, after dinner that night, some of our colleagues (including our boss) came over to our room. Boy..those guys can talk! Wine, beers and chivas was served, while my boyfriend had a called from Bangkok, saying that they need his assistant for warehouse management there. Yupe..they still talk about work over drinks. I knew straight away from what my boyfriend told me, that he have to go to Bangkok immediatelly. And my guess was right. While i'm sitting here at the office, writting this blog, my boyfriend is in bangkok working at a project,cleaning up someone elses mess. (",)

^Qi^

End of Lebaran Holidays

Yupe, it s over now, the longest Lebaran Holiday i ever have.
In 10 years, that numbers reflects how long i have been working after my graduation, this Lebaran Holiday takes too long.

Well, maybe the phrase "longest" holiday is not valid for everyone because during the economic crisis some companies also offered their employee to take all of their leave days during Lebaran Holiday (i think it was 1999 or 2000, gosh i cannt remember).
The reason was, there were companies that "almost" dying or the business at that time was not really hot during that time.
I knew it since the office where my best friend used to work also closed for almost 3 weeks during Lebaran (they can choose a combination of one week before and two weeks after Lebaran or the other way around).

Now, we think economy are already normal but we still got this long holidays for Lebaran. Why? Goverment mentions once that this is necessary to help tourism businnes to recover, since it was damaged by all the terrorism actions in this country lately.
I dont know how effective it was and i dont think there will be study to review it.

i spend these holidays, most of the time with my girlfriend. we had great time, enjoying Jakarta's traffic which we wish to be that easy in the future.
we went to malls, bars, cinema and visit gym several times (the last time was really new for me).
Now, everybody is already back in town. I havent seen the traffic yet, coz we go to the office really early today.

I know that the Lebaran Holidays has reached its end, but i am still not 100% on my speed.
Maybe i am too lazy, maybe i am enjoying being spoiled by my girlfriend during those holidays, maybe because i know within 4 weeks we will have another long holidays and i am not assigned to a project ...and there are still a lot more maybe's that i can write it down, but it s about lunch time, so i'd better stop and have a break!!

^y.k^

The Incredibles

movie and coffees..what a gud combination huh?

Movie's Clipping from "The Incredibles"

A bunch of superheroes fighting evil and saving lifes. A Cute baby with a power of flaming fire. An odd character named Edna, which I adored very much. She is the powerful woman behind all those superhero's custom.

TGIF

Wow..Jakarta's streets are totally empty..It only takes me 15 minutes to get to the office..I wonder how long will this situation going to last. Life will be so much easier if those motorcycles whom gone to their suburb won't be coming back to Jakarta agian...hehehe.

I'll take some pictures of it at lunch time. TGIF!!!

Weird Finding

Weird finding

As i was driving in MT. Haryono, right at the traffic lights, this car was drove past me, it look so weird isn't it? Somehow, it look similar like that Megane from Renault, though this one too small. I bet the owner want to copied Megane...hehehe...cute though.

~Qi~

Domus

Domus Italian Restaurant @ Jl.Veteran 30

Me and my boyfriend went to this Italian restaurant called Domus, it's located at Jl. Veteran, it was my boyfriend idea that we had dinner there. The place was so cozy, it has a warm colour wall and furnished with old furniture, with a high ceiling above, lightning in there was not so bright, it almost a dim. The food was beautiful though, i had salmon with angel hair pasta and my boyfriend had raviolli with duck meat. We order some house's wine, i don't know what it called, but my guess was some sort of Shiraz. The amazing thing about the place, that the toilet was so so cold, when I entered i almost felt like a different weather, the weather in the ladies toilet felt like Winter. Well, the night went perfect, or is it because I'm with him which made it perfect? (",)

Drama Queen

Recently, I have been a bit of “drama queen”, on Sunday evening when I was being sluggish at home, I have found out that my residency in Australia which my parents bought and which I’ve lived during my study has been rented to my little brother’s friend. I was so annoyed that no one bothered to tell me about it. I couldn’t believe that I might be coming back to Perth to get my passport stamp as first entry, and have to stay at the hotel, when my own place will be occupied by someone else, how ridicules that’s sounds. It took me nearly an hour to calm myself down. I had a cold shower then told myself that everything’s going to be just fine. Is it really?

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“Good thing happen to good people”, does this expression always accurate? Or it is just a presumption made by people whom fortunate enough to experience the good thing in life?

First of all, is this phrase means that good thing can’t be happening to not so good people? How can one judge another whether they are good or bad? What is the intensity of being a “Good People”? How can one fall into “Good People” category? Why can’t we just said, if you being good to others – others can do the same to you.

Second of all, what happen if “bad things happen to good people”? Let just say what if one of our dearest friend whom we know is a “good people” had misfortune and lost their car, then will the phrase be re-phrase as “not all good things happen to good people”. Or we simply said it was just one of those days, where one should just accept being mobbed or being robed. We often find ourselves asking why ordinary people, nice friendly neighbors, neither extraordinarily good nor extraordinarily bad, should suddenly have to face the agony of pain and tragedy. It is sad, how the suffering of other can be the happiness of another.

Sometimes there is no reason…

~Qi~

Wicker Park

I watch Wicker Park on Saturday afternoon on DVD, and I was so impressed by Josh Harnett performance. He is such a hottiest! He is tall, dark hair and had a face of “next door neighbor” with a cute dimple. Though, I think the movie was so much like the old “copy cat” movie. It has the same reflection upon envy, love and jealousy. Josh also starring in quiets a view movie, such as Black Hawk Down and Pearl Harbor.

Wicker Park