Heineken vs. Bavaria..Ouch!

Below is Heineken’s latest commercial in the Netherlands. Hilarious and highly memorable.

Apparently Bavaria decides to do something about it….LOL!

Funny… :)

Obama asal Jawa

Now this is hilarious! :D  Indonesian Obama. Watch the commercial and see his picture below. hahaha..

“Gara-gara bertampang mirip presiden Amerika terpilih, Barack Husein Obama, Ilham Anas, ketiban rezeki nomplok.Anak asli Bandung ini dikontrak oleh sebuah perusahaan obat asal Filipina untuk membintangi iklan televisi produknya untuk kurun waktu satu tahun. Tujuannya, tak lain untuk bercanda dan bergaya seolah-olah mereka telah berfoto dengan Obama asli, yang saat ini juga tengah menjadi tren dimana-mana. “Waktu itu sih niatku hanya ingin membuat teman-teman senang. Mereka malah minta foto satu per satu seolah-olah foto dengan Obama yang asli. Hasilnya mereka kirimkan teman-temannya lewat milis” jelas Ilham.” (Tempo Interaktif)

New year, new look.

And no, it has nothing to do with hairstyle. It’s 1.24am and I’m sitting behind my laptop (I really shouldn’t….gotta work tomorrow) but hell…no boyfriend around means more ‘me time’….so I decided to rejuvenate the design of this blog. Not much, as (some of) you might notice, just the header. I like this one a bit better, somehow looks less stiff than the one before. Anyway, I should go to bed now.. the coming week is gonna be one hell of a week in the office. However, I’m very looking forward to my trips to Switzerland, Spain and Belgium the week after. I guess I’ll stick with my motto this year: work hard, play hard :)

Just dropping by to say..

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May we all be better, happier, wiser, and smarter people in 2009!

Addiction Alert!

My roomies and I just bought a set of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock!! We were playing like rockstars last night and are planning to spend the Christmas break trying to master this game! It was a good decision after all to buy the guitar set.

More on Sekolah Kami

An article about Sekolah Kami: by Gentur Putro Jati

My apartment, recently redecorated :)

Things to be grateful for.

Life is cool:

1. I have new friends from work. They are awesome.

2. I am going to Indo in a couple of weeks. Really looking forward.

3. ….will probably go to Bali with my best friends during my holiday.

4. Work is getting more and more challenging. Have been learning loads.

5. I don’t have to ask my parents for money anymore.

6. I  started to go to the gym.

7. I am healthy.

8. ….and so are my parents and brother.

9. Just watched The Dark Knight. Great movie.

10. It’s weekend.

Alhamdulillah. :)

Au revoir Les Blues

France lost to Italy. That was sheer luck for Italy, they played poorly against ten people. Buffon was great though, as usual! What else can I say? the ball is round, nothing is impossible in football. Now it’s the perfect time to change a winning team. Viva Hollandia! To Mr. Andrew Land: I admit defeat mylord! ha.

Done.

I am now approaching the end of an era. If everything goes as planned (amiiin), I will end my life as a student and start working full-time in July. Well…nothing is 100% sure yet. I guess we’ll find out really soon. My teacher will e-mail me the collective grade of my thesis and presentation on Thursday. It feels really good, ya know, came home after defending my thesis and just relaxing without having to think of what else I should do for my thesis and stuff. I never enjoy waiting, of course. But at this point, there is nothing left to do but playing the waiting game. A little bit about the presentation yesterday, all in all it went pretty well. The atmosphere was pretty laid back with minimal “deadly” questions. It was even better and more comforting to have my housemates (Kemal and Chaki), classmates (Andrea and Roxanne) and Akbar watching (thanks guys :D). One of the teachers said that I was talking a little too fast and had a bit too much of information in my presentation. But despite those minor technical problems, the messages I was trying to get across were well understood, so it’s ok. Summarizing a 40-something-page report into a 15-minute presentation was definitely not the easiest thing to do (at least for me). But anywayssssss….it’s over..for now! And right now, I have to focus on this report that I must deliver to my managers before next Tuesday. Gee I need a holiday. Am really looking forward to going to Hamburg and Berlin next week..yaay…! oh and to watching John Mayer next Sunday…yippy!!! and to getting my grade on Thursday…uh-oohh..! people please pray together with me!!!??? :)

Football Fever

The title says it all. Yes I’m infected. I’ve been a huge fan of football since, ehm, a week ago. This whole Euro Cup excitement sure has affected me and my daily routine. I actually have something to look forward to after work (besides dinner and bed time). To take the excitement up a notch, someone sets up this pool in the company, resulting in an even greater eagerness to watch every single match on TV. All employees were invited to give 5 Euro stake together with their forecasts before the competition kicks off. A point system is applied, which means those with the biggest points will get a certain precentage of the stakes. 55% for the first winner and 30% and 15% for the second and third winners respectively. The following rules apply:

• Every correct “exact” half-time-score delivers 1 point;
• Every correct final score delivers 2 points;
• Every correct “exact” final score delivers 1 bonus point;
• Every correct quarter finalist delivers 2 points;
• Every correct classification of the quarter finalists in the group (classification 1st or 2nd in the group) delivers 2 bonus points;
• Every correct semi finalist delivers 3 points;
• Every correct finalist delivers 4 points;
• Correct European Champion delivers 8 points.

I have successfully gained 18 points within 5 days. I am currently the 13th rank holder out of 65 people participating in the pool, only 6 points gap with the first rank holder. I, of course, expect to gain many more points within the upcoming days. I won’t tell you which country I (and Dimas) think will be the winner, not just yet. But I’ll give some updates really soon.

On another subject, I am only a few days away from my thesis presentation. So please wish me luck, guys!! ;) If I pass -and with a satisfying grade (red: an 8 or a 9)- then I will be a happy camper. For those who don’t know me that well, yes I am a bloody ambitious person! and a control freak, too! hahaha.

One heck of a super active weekend

Friday: Straight from work, went to Assendelft to attend Cem’s BBQ party. Stayed until around 11pm and arrived at home around 12am.

Saturday: Worked on my oh-my-god-I-am-about-to-have-a-nervous-breakdown dissertation before going to Yoga’s b’day party at his place. Stayed until 12.30am.

Sunday: Went to Pasar Malam Besar in The Hague to eat good food and watch Slank. Stayed until 10pm and arrived at home at 12am.

…resulting in terrible exhaustion and bankruptcy..*sigh