The past week

It's another week that I spent quite variously while in the process of distracting myself to gain a refocus on something that's been bothering me in the past two weeks. I told you about some problems I had. Still fighting.

Here are things that I did in the past week.

Our (my) new favorite eatery.
A friend once introduced us in the class to this eatery that specialized in salad and yogurt. I immediately got excited. I had been looking for a real good place that could offer nice salads. What I miss about living in Singapore is how it was so easy to get a ready-to-eat salad from the local supermarket. Western salads is not really part of our culture here even though we have our own version of salad so called Gado-gado.

So, I asked everyone in the class to try this place out. Like "let's go there tonight after class!"

This photo was taken on our second visit.
I had been there twice before the photo was taken. They don't have a big menu to offer. Everything in the menu is quite standard as in there isn't really a specialty that the eatery has uniquely. But salads should be kept simple. They also have mixed fruit with a choice set of yogurt.

Monalisa.
I've been quite interested in Monalisa painting. I thought it'd be nice to have a painting in my room. I've been struggling to find just a good one to hang on my wall. Not thinking about that for a quite long time, we went to Gramedia book store and I saw this 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle of Monalisa(!). It wasn't actually what I saw first. I had to go through quite a lot of boring pictures (a big house with flowers and plants, Transformers, anime, classical romantic pictures of a couple) before the kind staff offered me the Monalisa kept in the back of the other rack. It took me half second to nod to agree to wanna buy it.

I bought this last week and thought doing the puzzle would be something to do to kill time during the long weekend this weekend starting from today as I write this. I can't wait to open the plastic wrap to start the project today! Wish me luck! :)
Oh, SK told me he did the same thing with the same picture of Monalisa for the new year's eve last year. I don't know though if it was also a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle.

Presentation on New Media affecting organizational structure.
The past week was also kept busy by me reading a quite thick chapter of our handbook. I had my presentation yesterday which went just fine. It was actually a very interesting topic to me to talk about. However, the lecturer for the subject is more of a person who is more into political examples so when he tried helping us with a better explanation after I delivered my presentation I couldn't really relate to his examples. The problem is I'm not into the politics so much. The examples that helped my presentation that I made were more from the technical side since I was talking about new media effects toward communication and information systems (CISs) in an organization.

Let's say how electronic mails as a new media as opposed to the conventional mails or letters affect CISs in a company. The use of e-mail helps with the documentation or archiving system, for example.

Japanese Culture Day.
"Welcome"
On Sunday, at where I attend my Japanese lessons, the center held so called Japanese Culture Day. We were told about it last week and that we could bring a couple of friends. So, I brought two friends to the event. We were introduced to the Japanese culture in general but mainly to one of the most common food and local clothing.

We learned how to cook Takoyaki. Let these photos below speak for themselves.



And, here are a couple of photos of us wearing... ummm... I don't remember what they're called! Hahaha. I used to think there was only Kimono but we were introduced to many other similar looking "dresses" whose names didn't stuck in my head for a long time. Haha. My bad.



The Avengers.
After my presentation yesterday, we had one class cancelled. I already had an appointment set after the second class for watching The Avengers. So, going home would not be worth it as I would have had to go out again. I brought two friends out for late lunch, and we stopped for a prayer at the university's mosque.

It is my third time studying in the university (Universitas Gadjah Mada) since 2003 -diploma, undergraduate, and now postgraduate, but I had never taken a picture at this city-wide famous mosque belonging to the university. So, as we were there I initiated an idea of a photo of us at the entrance.
Ok, The Avengers. Oh, I loved it. No one told me before that the movie was going to be funny so it was quite surprising to me. I did talk with a few friends about the movie and what they thought about it and none of them said anything funny about it. I actually would love to watch it again in 3D. And, I in million years rarely do that!

That's all.
Today's a Christian national holiday. I might go out to see some animals at the animal market. I might. I'll also definitely start doing my Monalisa puzzle(!) Exciting (or, boring?). I've actually done a thousand piece puzzle before when in Papua with the housemates back in 2008. It took us a few days to finish because we were doing it not intensively. It was fun. I've always liked puzzles, board games (Sudoku is my most favorite game!), word games, and such.

You have a great long weekend!
Wish me luck for everything that's good! :D
I'm wishing you luck back.

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