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March 30, 2006
ibunya nelpon...
So, bayangin aja kalo Anda seorang ibu, yang anak laki-laki yang udah dewasa, dan dia tinggal sendiri, dan Anda tahu bahwa dia ngga punya pacar tapi lagi nyari dan sering nge-date. Suatu hari, jam setengah delapan pagi, Anda menelpon anak Anda. Dan yang mengangkat telpon rumah anak Anda adalah seorang wanita, yang mengatakan, "Oh, si dia baru saja berangkat ke kantor..."
Apakah Anda akan berpikir negatif mengenai wanita tersebut? Misalnya, asumsinya adalah si wanita tersebut nginep di rumah anak Anda semalam. Apakah Anda juga akan berpikir something is going on antara anak Anda dan wanita tersebut?
Abis... gue kan paling males angkat telpon disini, tapi si Gerard suka bete kalo gue ngga ngangkat telpon rumah kalo dia yang nelpon *telpon aja ke HP gue dong!* Sekalinya gue angkat, nah kan, bener kan, nyokapnya yang nelpon... Huhu, dan dari nada suara ibunya sih, kayanya si cowok dodol itu ngga ngasihtau ibunya kalo minggu ini gue nginep lagi disini... Huhu...
Mana besok malem dia ngajakin gue main ke rumah ortunya untuk kenalan lagi... Adziggg... Hihihi, rasanya lucu, seperti mau ngenalin pacar... OMGLOL...
Posted by Yasmina at 02:46 PM | Comments (1)
March 28, 2006
conversations: Gerard and Yasmina
email one: Yasmina to Gerard
Hello! Good morning!
Why didn't you wake me up? Thanks for the breakfast :)
And, sorry for clogging up your shower drain with my hair!
Have a nice day!
+ysmn.
email two: Gerard to Yasmina
g'morning to you too
next time I'll wake you up OK :-)
and I think it is my hair in the shower!
see you soon
G
and do pick up the phone.....
email three: Gerard to Yasmina
yas
we have a guest this evening by the way
Cindy is visiting around 20 hr....
G
email four: Yasmina to Gerard
Cindy van Bremen?
Do I make myself scarce? Is she coming for dinner?
Does she like chocolate cake?
email five: Gerard to Yasmina
do not make yourself scares
yes I think she would like cake
she is coming to see the place
Gerard
email six: Yasmina to Gerard
Eh btw, what time do you eat dinner if Cindy's coming round at 8?
I must still be stuck in Mediterranean times... :-O This is Cindy van
Bremen, the designer, right? The one I know?
email seven: Gerard to Yasmina
we can eat around that time...
possibly get a pizza?
I have no need to eat at 6!
so you suggest!
g
email eight: Yasmina to Gerard
I'm looking for little muffin-style baking cups that I can stick in the oven...
Do you have some? If not, do you have oven-proof little bowls? It's for
the chocolate cake, have you had them before? The ones with dark dark
chocolate and when you poke them with your fork, the melted chocolate
inside bubbles out to the top... I don't have an oven in Milan, see, so that's
why I want to make some whilst here :)
email nine: Gerard to Yasmina
Need to buy them
I do not have any baking forms - would love to have them
close to the AH is a Blokker - will pay you back
Also a Kruidvat but I do not think they have that stuff
yes it is Cindy van Bremen
gr
G
email ten: Gerard to Yasmina
yas,
I am "home" around 18:30 - Do I need to pick anything up for dinner or baking or anything?
G
email eleven: Yasmina to Gerard
Hummm, OK, pick up 10 eggs, 500g of dark dark chocolate (70% bars)
200g of white flour, 200g of sugar.... just for the cake...
I'll figure something out for dinner, something quick and easy, is Cindy
eating with us? My lecture is still going on and on but lunch break should
be soon and I'll go pick up your drycleaning...
Ciao ciao
In the end, I made roast chicken (sorry, I forgot to take photos) and Gerard made some yummy spinach with ginger and nutmeg and a salad. We ate at seven which is early for me, so after this I'm going to eat a couple of bananas. Then we had the chocolate cake, which was REALLY SINFUL... :)
Posted by Yasmina at 11:40 PM | Comments (1)
not quite a new life
By a strange twist of fate, Robert is now living in Milano, unpacking all of our stuff all by himself, and I am still stuck in the Netherlands, desperately trying to get out.
Am now living at Gerard's house. He's at work during the day, so I can sit in his study with my brand spanking new iBook and Skype into class through Huie. Skyping in is the best way to follow lectures, I guess, because we tried iChat video and it keeps crashing.
It's really hard to listen to Walter talk in class because he'll start saying things like, "We're going to start with this point here..." and somewhere in class he's probably pointing to a line or segment which I cannot see, so I end up Skyping Huie or some other poor classmate and asking, "Which points? What coordinates?"
Yesterday's session was really hard because we were doing 3D engines and stuff, and I really lost the plot after a while, omg...
Living with Gerard is cool; kind of like living with Eva, like having housemates. I like having housemates; and he's been looking after me really well, almost kind of being a babysitter. In a really cute kind of way. Eva is like that too.
Anyway. Class is supposed to be starting soon, so I better go.
Posted by Yasmina at 09:47 AM | Comments (1)
March 24, 2006
exiled
Well. Things have gotten way too complicated. Long story short: I have to go to Indo to get a new Italian visa. It's just faster that way. Plus, somehow I am a prisoner in the Netherlands as I cannot get another sticker on my passport that allows me to travel.
Not completely happy about going to Indo because this means being away from Italy for around three weeks. I feel terrible towards my group mates Huie and Dona, since we have to work remotely and I won't be there to help them present our project.
It's also super shitty for Robert because last week he was super happy with the idea of us finally moving to Italy and living together again.
More updates later.
Posted by Yasmina at 05:09 PM | Comments (8)
March 21, 2006
nosebleed
WARNING: IMAGES OF GROSSNESS IN THIS POST >> MOM, DAD, CINTA, ROBERT: LOOK AWAY NOW
Augh! Today we had a day of Processing at school and tonight I just had the worst nosebleed in my life! Not good! Should have labelled the class with "Might cause nosebleeds"... j/k :P
Well, at least tomorrow I am in NL and I will definitely swing by my GP to see what's wrong. I had something similar to this a couple of summers ago and they ran blood tests on me but everything turned out normal and nothing was wrong, so it could just be a repeat... I'd always been prone to nosebleeds as a kid, but not so much as an adult...
edit: I really am OK, I am now in NL, no nosebleeds or anything on the plane. Called my doctor and I will see him tomorrow re: frequent nosebleeds. :)
Posted by Yasmina at 01:10 AM
March 18, 2006
soal menjadi interaction designer
Nah loh... Gue masih pengen jadi interaction designer ato ngga yah?
Kemaren, setelah curhat kepada Mr.S di Seattle dan Mr.H di Miami, gue ngerasa better about myself *why are my friends living so far away?!* tapi kok yah gue masih ada sinking feeling? Kaya'nya, sejak gue mulai kuliah lagi, bukannya gue menambah ilmu, tapi gue ngerasa jadi semakin nyasar! Hahaha... nah loh...
Well, menambah ilmu juga sih, karena reading list yang semakin panjang, dan yang jelas, gue sekarang bekerja dalam interdisciplinary teams yang jurusan dan pengalamannya beda jauh sama gue. Hasilnya? Banyak diskusi, banyak mikir, banyak translation dan re-definisi karena persepsi kita yang beda-beda. Tapi jadi bete juga, soalnya kayanya gue lebih banyak ngebakar sel otak dalam berkomunikasi sama anggota tim yang laen daripada mikirin solusi desain.
Gue harus belajar mengontrol ekspresi muka gue deh. Belajar poker face gitu. Udah beberapa kali gue diprotes dosen dan sesama mahasiswa karena selama mereka presentasi, ekspresi muka gue seringkali berubah dari tampang tertarik, intrigued, bingung, tidak percaya, bosen, skeptis, sinis, dan bermacam ragam ekspresi lainnya. Ekspresif sekali kan? Mendingan ekspresif dong, daripada tampang ngantuk... ;)
Robert agak doubting soal kuliah gue ini. Mungkin dia udah capek dengerin uneg-uneg gue. Mungkin dia udah capek restoring kepercayaan diri gue. Mungkin dia ngerasa gue, dalam kapasitas gue sebagai desainer, udah bagus banget dibandingkan dengan mantan kolega kita di Belanda, yang udah kelamaan kerja di satu tempat jadi kerjaannya gitu-gitu aja.
Setidaknya, sejak gue pindah kesini, gue tau bahwa dunia itu ngga hanya kantor gue doang. Waktu kerja di kantor gue yang dulu, rasanya seperti di dalam boks. Dan kita ngga ngeliat apa yang diluar boks, cuma apa yang di dalam boks doang. Kayanya banyak kolega gue yang takut untuk melihat dan menemukan hal-hal apa aja yang ada diluar boks.
Makanya begitu banyak diantara mereka yang horrified pas mereka tau gue dan Robert akan cabut ke Milan. Bukannya bilang "Congrats" kek, ato apa, mereka malah nanya, "Kenapa?!?!" Aneh ya mentalitynya. What's wrong with studying? Bukannya menambah ilmu itu suatu hal yang positif?
Hal yang gue ngga pernah pikirkan soal kuliah adalah: bagaimana kuliah bisa membuat gue nyasar dan kehilangan identitas dan memikirkan lagi soal kapasitas gue sebagai designer *gue good designer ato bukan sih?!* ... Hahaha... Gue jadi mikir nih, apa gue masih terus pengen jadi interaction designer, karena gue mulai sebelll sama kata-kata interaction design, hahaha...
Anyway. Hari ini gue bakalan jadi ibu rumah tangga. Nanti malam temen-temen pada mau datang untuk cooking and dining together. Eeek! I have to clean the house!
Posted by Yasmina at 11:24 AM | Comments (8)
March 14, 2006
menyebalkan...
dari tadi ngisi never-ending formulir asuransi, jam segini masih belom selesai juga. gue dan robert sekarang pake expat service salah satu bank di belanda untuk menyatukan semua asuransi kita, mulai dari asuransi kesehatan, asuransi legal advice, asuransi perumahan *kalo-kalo ada yang mau merampok rumah kita di milano untuk nyolongin handbags gue*, dan asuransi accidental *kalo-kalo gue ngerusak barang orang like dropping their pbooks or something*...
dude, what is up with all these forms??? satu booklet geto lohhh...
and i have a feeling this is not the end of it... minggu depan gue balik ke belanda untuk ngurusin pindahan rumah, dan ngurusin visa itali gue yang berantakan gara-gara konjen itali di eindhoven ngasihtau gue bahwa gue engga perlu visa dari kedutaan itali, cukup pake KTP belanda gue doang, dan surat check-out dari belanda... *doh*
robert besok balik ke belanda... dan si eva udah pindah ke apartementnya yang baru... goodbye sunshine, hello loneliness...
Posted by Yasmina at 12:27 AM | Comments (6)
March 11, 2006
one
this time last year... and how i wish we were back in bali...
Posted by Yasmina at 07:58 PM | Comments (2)
March 09, 2006
vomit
ugh. that time of the project again. presentation time. eek!
huie and ana decided i am going to be the group narrator in tomorrow's presentation. oh, joy.
on the way home, robert laughed at me *in a sympathetic husbandly kind of way* about it because he knows i always get nervous before presentations, and he knows i am going to be fine. i know i'll probably be ok, but i feel vomity nonetheless. i have yet to actually vomit on anyone though, so i guess the faculty is safe. unless the word "value" comes up again too many times tomorrow.
oh, we ran out of water at home *husband not so domesticated, as i thought* so now we are drinking beer.
edit, friday lunchtime: ok, we had the presentation and it went allright. i actually said the words "value" a few times during the presentation. eek! i was upset that liliana was not in the audience because she always grounds me in presentations; when our eyes lock and i relax as everyone disappears and i feel as if i'm only talking to her. i MUST learn how to find more anchors in the audience.
Posted by Yasmina at 11:57 PM | Comments (3)
March 04, 2006
dent
today huie and ana came over to do some group work at my house. we were making really good progress, and i felt much much better about the project. then, ana tripped and brought my pbook crashing to the floor, as i was working on it (!)
there was a sickening, unhealthy thud that made my heart splash into my stomach and the pbook landed on its side, then back to normal viewing position.
not a happy camper.
i am now copying all my data onto my ipod because i noticed, after a restart, that my poor baby pbook was doing odd things; namely, itunes and mail not starting, and safari crashes when i try to fill in certain text fields, hence no titles on this post and flickr images... during the data transfer, popup windows kept coming up saying there are problems copying stuff so i've had to copy every folder one by one.
although the bottom left frame of the screen has the most damage physically, the screen is actually working fine. no fuzzyness or weird black spots with dead pixels.
it's most likely to be a hardware problem so there's nothing i can probably do at this point. just get my head down, my butt down and get to work. deadline on monday.
*sigh*
Posted by Yasmina at 10:28 PM | Comments (11)
March 02, 2006
bruiser
i woke up feeling not so hot this morning. so, for some reason, i decided to dance myself into a good mood. i don't know what possessed me. i danced and jumped around my room for a good half hour until i was dizzyingly breathless and sweaty. it felt good.
until i hit my shin on the wooden corner of the bed. ow ow ow! big ouch!
but an even bigger ouch...
eva is leaving me!
boo hoo! she finally found a room in a flatshare near her school, and she is leaving me in about a week. i am SO going to miss her! in the couple of months we'd been living together, we really bonded. i feel like i'm getting divorced or something :-(
Posted by Yasmina at 10:44 PM | Comments (1)
