Dinner!

It has been about 2 months since I came to Singapore. Since I am staying at PGPR (Prince George's Park Residence), I usually have my dinner in the canteen there. There are two canteen in PGPR. First, it is the so-called "old" canteen, which is near the R1,R2 and R6. Second, it is the so-called "new" canteen. It actually has a name called Foodgle Hub. The major difference between these two canteens is the air-con. The latter is equipped with air-con. Well, after 2 months I am here, I feel pretty bored with the food already, though there are still some stalls I have never tried.

For last night's dinner and tonight's dinner, I have a unique one. Last night, I had a dinner with William Luimenta (a.k.a. Winong) and Thomas Edyson Chandra. Both of them are my senior. They are PGPR RAs (RA=Resident Assistant) and on their third year. They were Sutomo 1 students. That night, we had carrot cake for our dinner. Since I cannot cook anything, I prepared a loaf of bread and "sambal hebi". The cook was Winong. He is so skillful. The carrot cake he cooked was awesome! Although it is just a simple dinner, I had a very good time.

As for tonight's, I had my dinner in KEVII's dining hall. Hall-ers have a unique way of dining. They get to choose 2 main dishes and 1 side dish. They also have fruits, soups and drinks. Having dinner in dining hall does have a different taste. It can be more fantastic if the dining hall is full. Hahaha. ^^

Finally, it's Recess Week!

After 7 weeks of the instructional period, we had our recess week! Yeah!

Last Sunday, I had UNLEASHED (my ex-class' name while in high school) re-union for the first time in Singapore! We decided to go to Sentosa and played at the beaches. I cannot really describe all our activities. I'll just briefly write about it. We all first gathered at Vivo City. Around 12 pm, we went to Sentosa! Firstly, we went to Tanjong Beach. We went to one spot of the beach and started to put down our things. What else we will do other than playing some water? However, nobody dared to initiate. Thus, I started to splash some water to others and we ended up splashing water towards each other. Still, there were some of them who did not want to play with water. We decided to drag them down into the water. Hahaha. Finally, we ended up soaking everybody! (PS. Thanks a lot to Nadia as a photographer. In return, she was not soaked. ^^)

=UNLEASHED @ Sentosa=

After that, I had a crazy idea of burying myself. Accordingly, everyone started to help burying my self in the sand. Hehehe. Before we had our lunch, we cleaned ourselves and headed to Palawan Beach. There is a nice foodcourt at Palawan Beach. One thing that is unbelievable, it is very affordable price! Even though, I had prepared my own lunch. So, I only snapped some from my friends. Hahaha.

I wondered what were we going to do next. I decided to buy a volley ball (thanks to Ady and Eric for their little share!). Since we just finished our lunch, we decided to walk around first. We went to a place so-called "Southernmost Point of Asia Continent". Time passes and it was time to play ball! We firstly wanted to play volleyball. However, it ended up failed. So, we tried another game. We wanted to play captain's ball in the water, but not everyone would like to be wet again. = =
At last, Kelvin, Aristo, Setiadi, Hari, Theresia and I were the ones who played. It was really not an easy game. We just played for a while, but it was quite tiring. Moreover, it was quite boring since there was only six of us. Thus, we decided to play on the beach. As predicted, more people joined us and we had a great game.

="UNLEASHED" written on the sand of Palawan Beach=

UNLEASHED re-union ended very nice. Next, I had to serve Ady and Eric. Both of them decided to stay one night in NUS. After we had our dinner, we went to KEVII Block F lounge to play board game "RISK". It was so fun despite it was just a usual game. We really had some fun gathering together. The next day, we had some tour around NUS. We took them to have our best canteen in NUS "The Deck", which is Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' canteen. We then took them to Central Library, University Cultural Centre, and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.

Well, I am not satisfied just for that. I decided to go to NTU for overnight. So, here I am, writing this blog in Ady and Eric's room. I played badminton after dinner in NTU's SRC just now. This recess week is really fun. Still, I had to remember. I only can play for these few days. Starting from the day after tomorrow, I had many things to catch up. Anyway, I will still try to update my blog!

PS. For more photos, please visit http://vixklen.multiply.com

UNLEASHED OFFICIAL WEBSITE!

Hi, guys and gals! Please visit my class' official website at here: http://sutomounleashed.tk/
This website is created by Kelvin Anggara. It will also be maintained by him. Actually I want to help him, I'll ask him later. Hahaha. Anyway, for all Unleashed-er, please do visit this website. If you have any queries or suggestion, please fill free to contact Kelvin. Well, you can contact me as well, I think. Hahaha.

PS. You can drop your comment in the website, please try! Have fun. ^^

Manual, should you read it or not?

Although we are now in so-called "hi-tech" era, many people still find out it hard to use the technology. Many drawbacks happen, such as, functions in a smartphone that is not fully used. In fact, the manufacturers always give a manual along with the hi-tech items. It is just that this manual is always quite boring. Furthermore, when it is needed, for instance, when you are looking how to solve a problem in your PC, it always turned out that this manual cannot solve your problems. However, this manual is given because it is very essential.

First, you can probably wrongly install your sophisticated item. This happens usually to someone who has been using hi-tech things. These kind of people usually think it is just the same as the older one. In fact, new item is preferably made because it has new functions or features. Most people will read the manual when they have made a mistake. Usually, it will be too late to read the manual.

Secondly, you can miss out many functions or features that are actually very useful. For this phenomenon, it is too common. I can give one very simple example, my simple scientific calculator. I am quite sure that most of my friends who are using the same type of my calculator do not know about this feature. As a matter of fact, I just found it out few hours before. My calculator is CASIO fx-350MS. I just knew that it can help us convert a complex number from rectangular form to polar form, and vice versa. This function is actually very very useful, especially in electrical engineering(because I am studying it!).

Lastly, of course, you will know how to use it. Why do I state this reason? It is because there are still many people asking how to use this certain item or how to install it. Well, for some countries such as Indonesia, where people still feel more comfortable by listening than reading, it is a common problem.

To conclude, although it is very boring sometime, please read the manual for your own sake. Don't you feel you are in disadvantage since you have paid so much for it but you are not using its full features?

written by Prajnananda Kusuma

PS. Wah! My first essay that is written by my own will. Well, actually I am writing it so that all of you do not experience the same thing as I am.
PS. 2? If you want to know how to use the function I stated earlier, please just find me in MSN!

The Book Costs S$ 0.00 ?

It was Tuesday, so my lesson finished at 14.00. That day, I met Wilson while I was having my breakfast. He said that he wanted to buy a textbook. Since I had a NUS Coop membership, I could buy things at NUS Coop with 10% discount. We decided to go to NUS Coop at Central Forum after our late lunch at 14.00.

The books Wilson was going to buy are "Intermediate Accounting" and "Corporate Finance". Actually, he did not really want to buy "Intermediate Accounting" textbook. It was because his lecturer had an online assignment which uses the software(not so sure, for clarity, find Wilson) which you could get by buying the textbook(a nice way to get the students to buy the textbooks. She(or he?) is indeed a business' expert! ^^).

Wilson took the books and handed it to me. Thus, I went to cashier to pay the books. *Bip. *Bip. Two sounds indicated that the books were scanned. I found out that the books were so cheap. It was only about S$37(after discount). But, who cares? I paid and went out. I handed the book back to Wilson and asked, "Business books are quite cheap despite their fancy look." However, Wilson was confused. He then took the reciept and checked it. We soon found out an interesting fact. "Intermediate Accounting" costs S$ 0.00!

We were stunned for a few seconds. Wilson then rushed back to the Coop and asked his friends who had bought the book(we met them while we were inside). He then came out and told me what had happened. He somehow missed the instructions how to buy the book =='. The book we were taking was actually taken from the box. It was actually the book they haven't inputted in the database. As a result, it costs S$ 0.00. In fact, if you are going to buy that book, you should ask for the barcode at the customer service! Why? Because the so-called "software" you need is on the customer service, along with the books that have been inputted into the database. Well, accordingly, we returned the book into the box and bought for a new one. It turned out that the book is really expensive. It costs about S$ 45(after discount).

It was indeed a funny experience. See you in my next post! =)

PGPR Mid Autumn Festival!

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PGPR Mid-Autumn Festival
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Venue: PGPR Plaza
Date: 13 September 2008
Time: 07.30 p.m. till finish
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It's another PGPR big event! It was very crowded. Everyone was enjoying themselves after the long week. I am sure it was quite a tough week since it was so-called "quiz-week", though some major do not have quiz. I, myself, had a tough quiz. Uh... I hoped the result was still okay. Anyway, let's talk about this event.

There are 7 booths. First, it is the "Chinese Calligraphy". There are some people from Chinese Society Club came here to write our names in Chinese. I also got one for myself. I pasted it on my room. Hahaha! Next, we have "Chinese Traditional Costum". Kelvin, Harris and I took a photo together. Moreover, it's free. Why should we hold back?

=Kelvin, Harris and I=

We arrived to the 3rd booth "Riddles". There are a lot of questions for us to guess. I didn't find it interesting, probably because I couldn't answer it. Hahaha. We then went to the 4th booth "Chinese Tea". They provided 3 types of tea, jasmine tea, phu erh tea, and guan yin tea. I loved this booth a lot, hahaha. I even asked for some tea leaves to take it back to my room.




Next, we have "FOOD" booth. There were some traditional cookies and tea-boiled egg. I didn't get the egg. Arghh... Next, we got "Chinese Chess" booth. This booth was filled up by the RADs. These proffessors all are very good players. Ckckck. I played with one of my friend who was in charge of this booth. With some luck, I won the game. Hahaha. Nice one.

=Thomas... Waiting for my turn=

Here is it! The most crowded booth -- "Make Your Very Own MOONCAKE!". Everyone get to make one mooncake. They first showed us how to make it, then we did it ourselves. In fact, it was very easy and I made it quite excellent. It's because we only did the very last step. Hahaha!

=Thomas... still trying to make a good one=

Yup2! That's all! There will be another Mid Autumn Festival by NUSBS next week. Wait for the story!
PS. Sorry for not giving labels of the photos... I'm quite lazy right now. Hahaha!

Unbelievable Skill!

Last night, after I am almost stress because I chased up reading my book, I decided to have a chat. So, I started to look for someone to chat. Usually, my chat always ends up like this:

Me: Hi!
Others: Hi!
Me: How r u?
Others: Fine, u?
Me: I'm just so-so (or whatever)

Last night, I was really annoyed by my messenger. It couldn't connect. So, I decided to use meebo, instead. However, it's also failed. Finally, I used ebuddy. Luckily, it worked! Yeah!

Then, I saw one old friend (not really that old, hahaha, just dunno how to describe her). Her name is Nora. I knew her back there in high school when we went to Surabaya for National Science Olympiad. Thus, as usual, I will start with "Hi!". Well, usually, it wouldn't be long, unless there are really some interesting topic to chat. On the other hand, she could bring up such a warm chat! Can you imagine? It is started just because she asked why I was so blue that day? (Because I was using blue text and it is a default by ebuddy). I'm really impressed with her social skill. She really showed that social skills are very important. I am always weak at this point. I wish I have some sort of these skills.

For those reasons, those of you who are studying social sciences, don't worry. You got some skills that is very important for life where many natural sciences' students, like me, not very good at it. Last words, thanks Nora for the chat. It was fun! ^^

It Doesn't Seem Like a Fire Drill...

When I was writing the last post, suddenly, the bell rang! Argh, it was very very loud. Actually, I had been informed by my cluster leader. Well, it was sure annoying. However, why didn't I try it? Just for refreshing... Hahaha

I took my passport, handphone, wallet with me. Then, I locked my room door and walked slowly out from the emergency exit, which is just there beside my room. I saw nobody came out. I entered again to my cluster and saw my cluster leader and a cluster mate. The others? Probably they were going somewhere to avoid this so-called "fire drill". Following the cluster leader's instruction, we went to the basketball court, which was the assembly point. On the way, I saw some smoke coming out! They even made some fake fire for it. Hahaha. It's interesting.

We were then told to line up according to our block. After they have finished marking the attendance, we were given instruction on how to use the fire extinguisher. We then also allowed to try it. Well, this was the first time I'm using it.

Here's how to use the fire extinguisher. There are 3 main steps.
1. Pull the pin (which is used to lock it)
2. Aim carefully
3. Kill the fire!!!

It was very easy. Hahaha. They also demonstrated how the flame is getting worse if we use water, instead. Well, don't try it at home! To sum up, it was a nice refreshing.

Why didn't I reliaze it?

I've been waiting to write another post! Finally, I got some stories and some time to write it.

It was about last Sunday. Since my Dad was here, we decided to visit my relative. But before that, since it was Silvia's birthday, Kelvin and I decided to buy something for her. It was very sad for her spending her birthday in the house doing her homework. We bought something (if you curious, you can ask her directly what it is ^^) and went straight to her house. At the main gate, my Dad suddenly said, "Eh, it's Yong An Park". I stopped and asked my Dad, "Yeah, someone Dad knows live here?". My Dad explained to me that one of my distant relative is staying here. Hm... I just know that. So, we decided to drop by later.

Knock..knock.. I knocked the door. It was Sylvia who opened the door! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Kelvin and I said to her and handed over the present. We went in and had a chat. Suddenly, someone who has just slept for half an hour came out. Well, it was Nadia. With her sleeping face, she greeted us. After some chat, my Dad said we were going to visit our relatives. To my surprise, Sylvia said she could guide us there. Ha??? But... wait a minute, yeah! Why didn't I realize it? This relative of mine is also Sylvia's relative, which means Sylvia and I are distant relative. I should have known that from the very first time.

Accordingly, we went there and we were greeted very warmly. Their house was very like home. I felt very comfortable. We had a long long chat.

Kelvin and the others decided to visit a temple. I didn't join them since my Dad and I were going to another relative's house. In the end, I have visited all my relatives in Singapore. Hahaha.