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Oh My God, Three Months

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I know I’ve been pretty lazy lately, but my last blog is three months ago? Haha. I am surprised myself. Wew, I don’t know when I write my next blog then. Another three months or even next year. I really need some motivation here. Can’t really remember the things happened in the past three months, but here are some of them which I can still remember. Better write them quickly before I forget them completely:

Memorable Events

  • Mom’s Elementary School Reunion
    I went with my mom to her elementary school’s great reunion in Situbondo. Mom didn’t socialize a lot when she was in the elementary school so she didn’t make many friends. But Mom had a very close friend back then. Unfortunately she couldn’t come to reunion. So sad since Mom had been waiting for the reunion with her best friend after more than 20 years. The last time Mom saw her was in my parent’s wedding party. Be patient Mom, there will definitely be another chance.
  • My Birthday
    Hmmm, what did I expect? Can’t remember. Maybe I didn’t really expect anything. At least, early in the morning, Mom and Sis called me. A greeting card was sent from the church several days earlier. And, as usual, my colleagues celebrate my birthday with a candle on a cake, a present from Vebby—the yummy Papa Xous, and a usual photo sessions, nothing really special actually. But thank you guys, at least some of you remembered my bday :p .
  • Long Vacation (My Dad’s Bday)
    I take a full week leave last June and went to my hometown, Jember. A total refreshing. Eating all day, sleeping all night, playing games, watching DVDs and TV, and other pleasure-giving things. Btw, I encountered another house renovation here. It means that the house was in a great mess and full of stuffs and building materials. I hope it will already be finished on my next visit. Also we celebrated my dad’s bday that week. Not really a celebration though, but at least my sis bought him a bday cake. Happy birthday papa.

Memorable Movies

  • Kingdom of Heavens
    The movie about Crusade. It beautifully mirrored the conflict between European Christians and Middle-Eastern Muslims happened on the Holy Land of Jerusalem. Full of moral lessons. If you like historical movies, this movie is highly recommended.
  • Starwars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith
    IMO, the best episode of all Starwars installments. It has the deepest and greatest story line. It uncovers most secrets and tragedies. It is also the most emotional Starwars episode.
  • Batman Begins
    This is more Spider-Man than Batman I think. Unlike other Batman movies, Batman Begins is not a full length action movie. Instead, it’s a bit more drama. Batman Begins tells the story of little Bruce Wayne whose parents were killed by a robber. And how he grew up as nobody, but someone who sought justice by his own way. Later it tells how young Bruce was found and trained by a dark Ninjutsu Clan to be the clan leader but later turned into a secret hero. Casual Batman fans won’t be disappointed though since Batman Begins also features top of the art action scenes. By far, this is the best Batman movie according to my opinion.

Sigh, Teenager Nowadays

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I went to an online game center last Friday to play Ragnarok Online. It was the War of Emperium schedule. When I entered the place, I didn’t see any available PC. But the keeper told me that I could get a vacant PC upstairs. It’s true, there were some available PCs there. I was going to go the corner when I saw two cute gals playing RO. And lucky me, beside them there was an empty seat. Soon I took the seat and turned the PC on.

While waiting my PC to boot up, I observed them. I am sure they are still in the high school. Maybe junior or senior. They are about 15 or 16 years old. From the way they played the game, I knew they were new players. The first girl played a female magician, but she didn’t know the correct spells to use on the correct monsters. The second girl who played a female swordie couldn’t find the Kafra NPC. I took the chances and told the magician girl some spells trick. Then I told the swordie girl the location of the NPC she’s looking for.

It worked. I managed to get their attentions. When I finally logged in the game and loaded one of my character, they were surprised at how high my character’s level was. Well I didn’t want to get that much attentions early, so I played my lowest-level character, but still they were amazed. Unfortunately they were not on the same server as me so we couldn’t meet in-game. For about half an hour, I gave them some clues and hints to play the game well.

Later, the War of Emperium begins. Well this one is what keep me playing RO so I put most of my attention there. I didn’t help the girls anymore and they seemed to know that I was busy with my own business. Good for us. I planned to go back to them after the War. While I was in war, however, I heard some. Well it’s usual in a place like that. But I noticed that I heard the cursing more and more and the source was near. Oh my God, it turned out that the ones who cursed were the girls beside me. Holy shit, they swore like there’s no tomorrow. Everytime their characters died, they cursed. Everytime they missed the monster, they swore. Everytime some monsters mob them, they screamed. Geez, the words were definitely not what I expect to come out from the mouth of cute teenage girls like them.

Well I know some people do like to curse for no reason. Even I got some friends that swears all the time. But I still can’t get it. I am definitely not comfortable staying near them. And honestly, I don’t think it’s a good habit. Especially on teenagers like them. If they keep doing that when they are young, they will do it for the rest of their life.

Lazy Update

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More than a month since my last post. Many things to write but I’m lazy so I’ll only give a brief summary:

  • My two other colleagues, Shirley Wibisono and Lisa Handayani left the office. Shirley went to Jakarta to work at an advertising company. Lisa stayed in Surabaya but she now works at a trading company. Good luck to you girls.
  • My office annual meeting this year took place at Trawas. We had a good time there, even though we only stayed a night. Hope next year would be even better.
  • I changed job from a Web site developer to an editor. Neither a promotion nor a demotion. But I needed a change.
  • Added a monster database to my Ragnarok Online site.
  • My StarOne Post-paid subscription was activated at the beginning of this month. Wow, 24/7 Internet like I always wanted to have.
  • Promoted as the moderator of the OpenKore forum.