Yolanda Sujoso

Fast and Furious 6 is finally here! 

I'm very happy when I know that Fast and Furious 6 has been released in Indonesia two days ago and I watched it right away which on 22nd May 2013. I've watched all of Fast and Furious saga from the first to the last one which is the five. I don't really like the 2 Fast and 2 Furious and Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, simply because there's no Vin Diesel in it as the main actor and the story line wasn't that great as well.

One word for Fast and Furious 6 will be amazing for sure. This movie was truly amazing though. I mean, they take it to a whole new level for sure. I remember when I have Fast and Furious marathon (second and third sequel exempted), they started from the street and dealing with the cops and trucks stealing thingy which is quite the basic one compared to the latest ones. 

This time they're dealing with a world-scale problem. Each time they made their sequel, their main problem will keep increasing. As before, after dealing with only the street racers and cops, then they're dealing with a cartel and so on. They stick with Justin Lin to direct the movie from the fourth movie which I found it great and the same writer as well whom I forgot his name.

Not to forget, Joe Taslim was one of the actor in this movie! Not just someone who passing by but someone who actually managed to got a full shot of solo fighting scene! Joe Taslim is an Indonesian actor by the way. Charismatic and tough looking guy. I'm one proud Indonesian here because of him. I mean, he managed to act along with Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez and others. Also, he got his solo air time when he had a fighting scene in the subway. For me, it's a very great achievement. I mean, come on, a solo fighting scene. He acts really well and fights well.

Right now, they're not just dealing with fast cars but also tanks! This is where they go through a whole new level still with the essence of the street racing and modified fast cars. What I liked about Dominic Toretto here is that he's a guy with a code and he really cherishes his family and protects his family so much.

However, there's one scene that I don't really like though. Watch out. Spoiler alert. It's a scene when Dom caught Letty. Come on, it's too ugh bad. Nonsense. Just that scene alone, the others? Perfect.

Then, come to the 'surprise' at the ending of the movie. I'm really surprised with the 'surprise'. I really like THAT 'surprise' but I hate 'the surprise'. It sounds confusing but once you watched it you'll know. For me, it ruins the whole Fast and Furious essence. I know it will be great anyway but still. For someone who watched every single of Fast and Furious saga, I feel bonded with Fast and Furious then suddenly with this surprise, I won't feel Fast and Furious essence anymore in the upcoming movie. Who knows it might outshine the other casts. Is it just me or others who watched Fast and Furious from the first felt the same? LOL. That's just my opinion though. Once again, I love 'that surprise' but not 'the surprise'. Different.

It's almost the end of my short getaway. I gotta make the most of it, right? Me and my sister just realized that we haven't eat Four Fingers at all since we arrived here! Every time we want to eat there, they have a very long queue which I found it weird because the last time I went here, there's no such thing as long queue at Four Fingers, probably because they have became more famous now. So, we decided to have our brunch at Four Fingers. I know it's pretty unhealthy to eat this kind of food around 11am to 12pm-ish. Oh well, since during those hours there won't be any long queue. At last, we have a bite of these oh-so-amazing chickens.

Our first plan for today is to have a little adventure to the Holland Village. We took MRT to get there and I already got one cafe and one restaurant that I wanted to try in Holland Village but in the end I only had the chance to try the cafe. I thought Holland Village would be like Holland-ish for real but turned out it's not. It's just the name. A bit disappointed but the ambiance there was nice though, it's quite and homey even though it's a bit crowded because there's a lot of restaurants and cafes.

So I'm heading to MU Parlour. It's a cafe. It's quite hard to find it that I had to use my cell phone's GPS. Turned out it's located in the second floor. So we had to go upstairs and there we could find a cafe. The cafe's setting was a bit European classic style with a simplistic touch. The walls are white and the chairs are white with the typical classic style with a red cushion. It's very homey and a great lighting from the huge window facing down the street along with a jazz bossanova songs.

They offer varies of cakes but I got one in my mind which is Hazelnut Lemon Praline. It looked good and sounded good. They offer teas as well but I'm stick to the ice water LOL. So the Hazelnut Lemon Praline was not too big yet not too small and it had this little macaroons on the top of it and some berries. When I tried it out, it's very gooey and it's sweet. I liked that sweet but I know if I ate that too much, I will feel not good because it will be too sweet in the end that's why I balanced it out with ice water to even it out. It's even sweeter with a lovely yellow flowers on the table. Ha. 

Since we need to make the most of our time today, right after I finished with my little beauty praline cake, me and my sister went to another place right away. This time we took MRT and bus. We're heading to Carpenter & Cook. I heard that their theme was a vintage oldies kind of cafe and their foods are quite nice. Excited to see that. It's quite far and along the way to the eatery place, I discovered some huge houses that I thought it's not exist in Singapore. I've seen houses with a fancy car such as Porsche and stuff but this time it's a big house. Not a European classic style house but just a simple house but it's big. Amazed at that. LOL.

So once we reached there, it's practically out of nowhere. I had to walk several minutes to reach the place and again I used my GPS to get to the place. First time being around this area and I wouldn't want to go here if there's no Carpenter & Cook because there's nothing in there and it's practically out of nowhere. 

Since I'm not that hungry, I bought bacon quiche in the end along with ice chocolate. The plate was really pretty and I can get the feeling of the vintage from the plate itself. The meal was very homemade-like and it tasted quite nice while the ice chocolate just like a basic ice chocolate but still it's good.



After done with Carpenter & Cook, it's time for me to go back to Orchard to finish my shopping time. We rode bus to go back to Orchard then we went around Orchard from mall to mall then we decided to buy Smoothie King. The Smoothie King in Singapore wasn't that great. It's good but the one at South Korea tasted better than this one and somehow I prefer Boost. As night approaching, my tummy was growling again looking for food. Thus, we went to Yoshinoya. Yoshinoya in Singapore is much different than in Indonesia and tasted way better. My sister bought the salmon bowl while I bought the ebi and beef combo. Their salmon is really good too! I wish Yoshinoya in Indonesia is like this. Also for my late night snack before sleep was mushroom and cheese prata. I love their prata because they have it along with a curry sauce and the curry sauce is really good.

Time flies by really fast that I didn't realize it's been three days since the first day I arrived here. Today's plan will be going to IKEA and Marina Bay Sands first of all then afterwards I might arrange it later with my sister. So, for breakfast, we went to IKEA to have breakfast first and I couldn't wait to eat IKEA's meatballs because it's just too good to be true. I ordered the meatballs while my sister had salmon pouch. As usual, the meatballs were really delicious and I felt like bring it back to Jakarta. I wish IKEA will open at Jakarta as soon as possible and I knew that IKEA will be open its branch in Indonesia soon from my lecturer which is totally awesome!

Right after we finished with our breakfast, we decided to go to Marina Bay Sands so that later on Ci Margareth could learn how to ride MRT as well and she could go to Vivo City and other place if she wanted to. We took photos for a while at Marina Bay Sands also since we're going to Marina Bay Sands, I put on a clothes which hmm more formal in a way, I think. I managed to got a picture of it with the help of my sister of course. Even though there's something within my outfit that I just bought yesterday but I'm wearing it right away LOL

My sister was looking for a watch so we went around Marina Bay Sands first in hope that we could find the perfect watch. So my sister and I went inside Chopard then the one who service us was an Ang Moh, a very handsome one, I might add. Mesmerized by him LOL. He's really nice, oh well of course he's nice. Even though my sister couldn't find the perfect watch for her, at least I get to met this handsome ang moh. He's young probably late 20s or early 30s, I supposed.

After we went around Marina Bay Sands, we decided to go to Orchard to do another shopping because we've been spending three days for mostly food. But, once we got to Orchard, we still eat and eat and eat anyway. I went to Dean & Deluca first which was located at Orchard Central. I thought the place will be great and pretty but the fact was pretty boring and okay it was good but that's it.

I ordered Salmon and Spinach quiche while my sister ordered meat pie or something I forgot the name. My food was great and the veggies was good as well with a special sauce and it's delicious too!


Our next destination will be Paris Baguette at Wisma Atria. We're going to have their cakes and try out their pudding. Many people said that their pudding is really nice that's why I've been eager to try it out especially their caramel pudding. Sounds yum!

I ordered Oh-My-Baby crepe and my sister ordered Mango Napoleon and also not to forget the so called ultimate delicious caramel pudding. The crepe was good but pretty dry and if you eat too much of it, you won't feel good. Whereas the Mango Napoleon tasted great! As for the pudding, it's truly yummy! Can't get enough of it that I might order five of it and maybe bought some for me to bring to Jakarta later on.


Then for the closing, me and my sister bought Dry Beef Noodle with meatballs at ION's food court. Best dry beef noodle. The beef was so tender and no fat on it. Just my ideal beef. Really yummy.

I have another appointment with a doctor this morning but it's my mom's doctor. We're here to find out the result of her check-up and so on and so on. The doctor was very kind and energetic and he's quite young for a very intelligent doctor whom usually are quite old. He's also a member of WHO if I'm not mistaken. Amazing. I started my day with chocolate milk. Singapore's Milo is different than the one Indonesia had. Singapore's Milo is much tastier and rich in its chocolate flavor.

Me and my sister haven't had any breakfast yet so we decided to try a restaurant which famous for its brunch and quite a hip place at that time. It's called Wild Honey which located in the Scott's Square, the new mall. When I entered the restaurant, I can sense that it's very homey and comfy yet it's bustling with people's talk and laughter which I found it a bit disruptive and it's pretty similar to Union's ambiance but this one's better of course.

I was seated in a long table with another pack of people on my right and left but I didn't find it annoying, well a bit though but I couldn't careless much about it. I love their interior and it's nice, all perfect to their famous dish which is the brunch set even though if I'm not mistaken is that they served brunch dishes all day lol

I ordered European and my sister ordered something with Portobello since the meal consists of portobello mushroom while mine is the classic egg benedict. My sister's a vegetarian dish but I expect it to be as delicious as mine though since from the description, it looks good. Not long after that, the dishes arrived.

Mine was an egg benedict covered by an almost raw bacon I think and when I cut the egg, the yolk was very gooey and it was poached perfectly. The bread itself was quite sweet but in a good way. There were some mushrooms and it's quite nice. Overall, it's great but the portion was huge and I felt a bit nausea after ate it since I don't know, if I eat it again, I'll probably order one and then divided into two for me and my sister because if it's too much, I would puke for sure. I even felt nausea after I left the restaurant.

My sister's tasted good as well even though it's a vegetarian dish but it's quite the same for me in regards the nausea feeling and puking feeling. Because, I ate one of mine and one of my sister's and vice versa to my sister. I felt really full but not in a good way even though at first it tasted quite great. I had to drink coca cola to ease up the nausea feeling though.

After finished with our brunch, I made a call to my mom because she missed me and she wanted to know the result of her check-up. Then, me and my sister decided to go to the Bugis area, I've been wanted to visit Haji Lane and Bugis Shopping Market, is that the correct name? My sister always refuse to take me to Bugis Market because there are many pickpockets there and the quality of the products are pretty bad but still I wanted to see it since most of my friends always go there.

First, we've been craving for mango sago at Ah Chew Dessert near the old campus of Raffles Design Institute which now is located in Clarkequay. It's pretty famous and it's very good. Very thick and creamy and simply delicious. Couldn't wait to eat it again tomorrow or maybe the next day.



So I went to Haji Lane afterwards. We rode a bus and then we alight at a bus station and it's quite out of nowhere then because my sister forgot where exactly it was so we used GPS on our phone to find the location. We're a bit lost but then we found the correct way and TADA we're arrived at Haji Lane. Basically, it's just a one long road with lots of shops on the right and left. The shops were very cute and unique and quite expensive because many tourists came there right. I found this one beautiful ring but it costs around SGD$40, it's way too expensive for a ring so I didn't buy it sadly.


Since we're still near the Bugis, my sister decided to take me to the National Library. I was really amazed when I first saw it. I don't know before that the national library will be this big and great. It has 12 floors and it's filled with books in each floor. How awesome is that. I went around in their first floor. Lots of people were just hanging around, read newspaper, read book, even just sleep. It's very quiet and peaceful, like really quiet. They even have comics and novels and we can rent DVDs too.

How I wish Indonesia has this kind of library. I know that we have national library too but not this big and not as clean as this or even as great as this. Have no idea whether Indonesia is able to make a library like this or even make it as clean as this. Well, you guys know how Indonesian right. I'm amazed at this place. It's very perfect for someone to study or working on an assignment. Uh, I want to move to Singapore but not really too. Oh, well. LOL.


From Bugis, it's quite close to Kembangan MRT. I need to go to Kembangan area to have a taste of cheesecake at The Cheesecake Cafe. It's quite an adventure since we came to an area that we have never know before and never visit before. It was said that they have great cheesecake. It's pretty in the middle of nowhere actually when I reached there. I walked and walked and walked guided by my phone's GPS. Pretty lame that I'm using phone's GPS to guide me to get somewhere.

Thankfully it's during middle of the day so it's not night thus not dark and creepy. It's pretty confusing to reach that place and the sky's getting darker because it's going to rain soon I think, heard from the rumbles of the thunders. Me and my sister decided to go back to Orchard area because we wouldn't want to get stuck in the middle of nowhere. So we went to the nearest bus stop and looking for a bus that can take us to Orchard area or at least Somerset. So we found one and we waited for that bus. In this area, there are lots of houses. If you compare it to Indonesia, it's counted as a small house but boy you know how expensive house is in Singapore and of course the owner of the houses owns expensive cars such as Porsche and stuff.

While we were waiting for the bus to come, there are three boys probably still in elementary school waiting for the bus too. Amazed at them because they were still little and they're already go home by themselves. Well, since it's Singapore so no worries unlike if you're in Indonesia of course. Basically, those are my adventure for the day. We've had enough so we decided to just go around the Orchard again to shop.

It is time for me to have my 6-month check up post surgery. Frankly, I feel nervous for my check up while I don't feel nervous at all for the surgery. I know it's weird. Pretty excited because I get to escape from my classes and tasks for a while and forget about it and having fun at Singapore. Pretty nerve-wrecking to find out the result of the check-up. Again, my paranoia strikes me.

I took morning flight from Jakarta. I went to Singapore along with my dad's accountant whom very close to our family and she's really nice and kind toward our family. She bring along her daughter as well. Thankfully, her daughter is a nice kid, so it's not going to be a troublesome or annoying. As usual, I hate plane's food.

I also asked Dr. Theo regarding the Cervix injection and he encouraged me to take the shot, whether in Singapore or Indonesia because that vaccine is very important for girls. I need to ask my mom first whether we're going to take it in here or Indonesia because there are three shots overall within 2 month and 6 month and I need to return to Singapore for another check-up in 6-7 months because Dr. Theo said that he couldn't let me off his sight yet. He's very nice and friendly and also we prayed after we're done with the check-up. How nice, isn't it?

I felt at ease after my check up and it's holiday time for the next 6 days ahead! Can't wait to eat and shop all the way. So I walked around the Orchard Road first because we finished the check-up appointment around 3 already and I need to go back to the hotel first to get my room first. After that, me and my sister were showing Ci Margareth (the accountant) around Orchard for a while then we split up so we can enjoy our day better without having to wait up for each other which will wasting most of our time.

We had our early dinner at 313@Somerset Food Republic. I've been craving for their pork cutlet curry rice so I bought that one and its portion was really huge. Never thought it'd be that huge or it's just me perhaps who's easy to get full by now. Still, I enjoyed the food. Also, as usual, I went around Ion Orchard, Wisma Atria and those malls around Orchard Road and how I miss Singapore. Finally I ate Gindaco Takoyaki. Best takoyaki, maybe not the best if I went to Japan but still it's the best yet.

I watched Oblivion last night with my father and my sister. I've been expecting this since it's Tom Cruise's movie and obviously he looked handsome and amazing as always. Somehow he looked younger in this movie, oh well, because of make-up maybe but still gorgeous of course.

So basically this movie's setting is on 2077 which is we knew it by then that this is a futuristic sci-fi movie. The plot was that earth was being attacked by scavengers, they called, and the scavengers burnt the moon and it caused a chaos to the earth, and in the end the earth used nuclear to wipe out the scavs and they won the war but they lost earth and thus they made Tet which was located at the Saturn's moon and Tom Cruise as Jack Harper is still staying in Earth as he is the mop guy whom obliged to repair the drones.

We were presented with a beautiful yet ironic view of the earth after the war which full of sand and really in a demolished state because of the nuclear yet somehow I find it beautiful and I couldn't help but to think will our future will be like that as well? I pray that our future will be nowhere like that 'cause it's scary.

There are twists inside the movie which a bit predictable though. In my opinion this movie is a bit off in their script and it's pretty slow but I don't mind since Tom Cruise's acting paid it off really well and so does the visual effect that is very stunning.

Many people said that this movie is pretty bad because it's only a one-man-movie, but I can tell that they're wrong. Clearly wrong. Even though it's almost one-man-movie but really Tom Cruise's acting was marvelous that this movie basically doesn't need another actor to play beside him, except Morgan Freeman of course.

I just don't like their scripts and for me they didn't explain about some things quite well and I can pretty much say that in the end it's almost didn't make sense at all but still I enjoy watching this. 

Some memorable quotes that I like:

Not many people have experienced miracle in their life. They have heard it before from the bible or their relatives or their friends. Many of them too would like to experience a miracle in their life. It all depends on God of course. I've never thought that I'd received this kind of miracle in my life. Everything that happened during this event are all miracles to me. Starting from the coincidence, the timing, everything.

So one day, I was scrolling through my Twitter timeline and I saw a tweet regarding blood type. I know that there are two types of blood type; Rhesus negative and Rhesus positive. If I'm not mistaken, I was being tested back then at school and the result was stated that I'm a Rhesus negative B. It was stated there in that tweet that Rhesus negative bloods are very rare and if a girl own that, the girl will have a hard time during the pregnancy or even the girl couldn't have a child. I was scared so I asked my mom to go to the hospital to check my blood. You see, I've been always scared of injection and needle. I will always cry even before the nurse show me the needle. My mom was pretty surprised that I'm the one who asked her to go to the hospital to check my blood. So, my mom told me as well to go check what's wrong with my tummy because recently it's getting bigger and yet it's hard. I thought it was just a belly fat because I didn't feel hurt at all and my bowel movements are relatively good and I often sit right away on the bed after having a meal. So I agree with her suggestion.

I checked to the internist doctor at S Hospital. He checked my pulse, my blood pulse, my stomach and everything. But it took quite a while for him to check me. He pressed on my back and my tummy. I told him as well that my waist back is hurt and it's like the muscles there got sprained or something. He asked me, 'Is your bowel movement is good and you do it everyday?' (for those who do not know bowel movement, bowel movement is poop) and I answered 'Yes' right away. He asked me to take a blood test and CT Scan for stomach area with contrast injection to make it clearer. It's kinda expensive though, the CT Scan with contrast injection because CT Scan for stomach is the most expensive, the nurse told me.

So, that's me wearing a special dress and on the right picture is where the needle of the contrast injection. The nurse told me that once the contrast liquid is being injected, I'll feel warm or even hot throughout my whole body. Once they injected it for real, I can actually felt the liquid passing by and kept coming in my veins and it felt weird and I didn't like it and I only felt warm. They also took my blood and I asked them to check my blood type as well and the result of the blood test came out right away and my blood type is B+ thankfully. The result of the CT Scan will take few days. So I went home without thinking much about it.

Few days had passed and suddenly I received a call from mom. I was in my room by myself watching shows and my mom asked me, 'Are you alright? What are you doing?' and sort of questions that she didn't usually ask me and also she told me that the office is working until late that's why my parents and my sister still not yet home. By then, I knew that there is something wrong and I had this feeling that something is not right but I'm not sad or bothered or troubled by it.

Once the three of them got home, they acted like usual only that my mom hugged me suddenly and I quite forgot they told me they're going to bring me to Singapore that day right away or the next day. Nevertheless, they told me that they will bring me to Singapore for a further check-up and I don't have to worry about anything else. When they told me that, they haven't told me the result of the CT Scan. They still kept it as secret from me. But I knew it right away that there's something unusual with the result but I'm not sad or scared at all though.

Few days after that, I insisted them to tell me what's the result and that's when I got told that there's a myoma (miom in Bahasa) on my stomach that coming from my left ovaries uterus (indung telur rahim kiri) and it's been growing into a huge myoma that it can be called as tumor already. I was shocked of course because I never thought that my stomach is getting bigger and hard because there is a tumor inside of it. At first, I didn't cry but because of my mom and my sister, the whole family started to cry. My dad found a good doctor at Singapore, introduced by my dad's younger brother's wife. Because my uncle's wife also ever had myoma but not as big as mine.

It all happened in a rush and sudden. That's the first time that I didn't feel excited for going to Singapore. So we went to Singapore and made an appointment with two doctors at Mount Elizabeth Hospital. First, Doctor Cheng Jun; an internist and the second, Doctor Teoh Seng Hin; an obs-gyn and surgery for women. The first appointment was with Doctor Cheng Jun. He looked very friendly and he asked me to lie down and he pressed my tummy two times and he knew right away that there's a tumor inside my stomach but to make sure he did the ultrasound and it showed clearly that there's a massive mass inside my stomach but he told us that it's supposed to be not cancer because there's no huge amount of water on the tumor. He explained that usually a cancer will have quite amount of water on the mass or the meat to put it simply. He managed to told us that there's a tumor in a matter of seconds I think. Indeed, the doctors in Singapore are much better. No offense. He asked us to go to meet an obs-gyn doctor, he introduced us to a doctor which is one of his friends but we also told him that we already have an appointment with an obs-gyn doctor and when we mentioned the name, he said 'Oh yeah, he's a good doctor. Very famous.' I felt relieved at that time.

So, we went to the second appointment which is with Doctor Teoh Seng Hin. He looked very fatherly and kind and friendly. We told him the symptoms and he made me lie down to do the ultrasound again and asked me to got my blood taken.

At first, the nurse tried to take my blood from my right arm but I was too scared and I cried even before the nurse showed me the injection. I was too tensed up so the nurse couldn't take my blood, the blood won't came out. She told me to relax and not too tensed up and not to be scared. It's hard but I managed to calm myself so she tried to take from my left arm. This time, she managed to take my blood. Because of that, my right arm got blue-ish thingy for few days but it doesn't hurt at all, just scary.

The next day, the result came out and Doctor Teoh told me that there is a tumor inside my stomach and the root is from my left ovaries uterus. It is a huge tumor so of course I have to undergo surgery to take it out because it's too big. But he said it's not a cancer because there's no huge amount of water inside the tumor and it's shape is oval and not like cancer which is a bit abstract not in a perfect shape. He explained to my father and my sister (my mom didn't come along because she's scared and to take care of the office and home) about the myoma or tumor and difference between tumor and cancer and things like that. He explained it to us slowly and truly made us understand. He's willing to explain it to us patiently.

We decided to undergo surgery on Wednesday (that time was on Monday). He made a call to the surgery section and turned out all the surgery rooms were full for Wednesday. So we postponed it to Thursday. Then I asked the doctor, 'Is it okay to postponed it to Thursday?' and the doctor replied me, 'You had this tumor along with you for like 2 years and now we're going to postponed it one day, it doesn't matter at all.' and we all laughed. That is true. My stomach is getting bigger since I graduated from high school until my third semester in University. At Indonesia, I was asked to undergo surgery that night, the night when the result was out because it's a malignant tumor and it pushed the kidney already and the intestines as well. I was agreed to take my appendix as well during the surgery so that I won't have to experienced appendix in the future.

I was given a medicine that I need to drink the night before the surgery for my bowel movement. To clear my intestines out. Because the doctor said it's very risky and dangerous to do surgery on the stomach area because if the intestines are dirty and the doctor touch it wrongly or do something wrongly, it can affected the intestines bad and it may be fatal cause. The nurse told me to drink it by mix it up with 7UP or Sprite. I was shocked, like a medicine mix with 7UP? A soda? She said yes unless I can handle the medicine alone without mix it with anything.

That night. I mixed the oral fleet with 7UP and I smelled it but nothing smells and I drank a bit of it and oh my for Heaven's sake it tasted really bad. Really awful. I can't describe it in words. It's not bitter. It's just awful, seriously. I understood by then why the nurse asked me to mixed it up with 7UP. I had to drink one whole bottle but in the end I didn't drink the whole bottle only left it a bit because I couldn't handle the taste. It did make me went back and forth to the bathroom but surprisingly, I didn't get stomachache so just the feel to go to the toilet. It made me tired though, nevertheless.

Then, it's the big day! I still remember the date very well. Thursday, 20th September 2012. My surgery will be done on 3pm. My dad asked for a one-person room but all of them were full even until the VVIP room was full. All that was left was two-person room. It's better than four-room person of course. The room was good though and I'm really grateful that it's a two-person room rather than four-room person. 

I'm dressed in a blue one-piece waiting for the bed to come to my room. The bed that will take me to the surgery room. Then when the time came, the bed came to my room and I was put there and I was being taken to the surgery opera, that's what they called it if I'm not wrong. It feels weird to take the elevator while lying down instead of standing on your feet. After saying goodbye to my father and my sister, I enter the surgery opera. I was being put in queue first in a big room with curtains to cover each patients. There's one nurse who attended me and asked me certain questions about my life, my university, and anything else. 

Surprisingly, I didn't feel scared or nervous at all. I'm not lying. I'm being completely honest. I've prayed when I'm being left alone in that queue room. Just felt a bit nervous but that's all. I don't feel scared as people mostly feel when they undergo surgery. I'm very grateful of that. God made my heart in ease because I know He's with me and I'm gonna be okay because I'm in God's hand.

Then, the kind nurse took me to the surgery room. It was a big white room and very bright. I saw a huge lights like the ones in the movies and there are around 7 people wearing green robes including Doctor Teoh Seng Hin and the nurse I met in his office and also my appendix doctor, Doctor Michelle. They inject me again with the IV but I didn't feel hurt or scared at that time because Doctor Michelle and the nurse kept talking to me. A male nurse or doctor put something on my feet, it made my feet warm and it's like massaging my feet. It felt nice. Then, before they put me into sleep with full anesthesia, Doctor Teoh Seng Hin held my hand and we prayed together. He told me already before that he will pray with me before the surgery. How kind he is, right? 

After we prayed, Doctor Michelle told me that the anesthesia will be injected to my IV and I will feel sleepy. She kept talking and then I felt my eyelids were heavy and wanted to close. I tried to resist it but I can't. The last thing I heard was Doctor Michelle asked if I was sleepy and because I'm too sleepy, I just answered 'Ung' to her and then I fell asleep. 

My dad asked Doctor Teoh how long the surgery will be and Doctor Teoh said it will be finished in one hour or two to the top IF the tumor sticked to the intestines which is a very serious case. After this session, I heard it from my sister and my dad. So, I was in the surgery room for 4 hours. At the third hour, my dad grew panic and anxious because the doctor said I'll be in the surgery room only for 2 hours to the top but this has gone to 3 hours. Then Doctor Teoh's nurse came out and looking for my dad and my sister. When she saw my father and my sister, the first thing she said was, 'Oh my God! It's huge! The tumor is really huge! Oh my God'. So, she said that it took for a while because Doctor Teoh wanted to make sure that it's not a cancer and it's just a merely tumor, a huge meat. That's why they sent it to the Pathology to check it on the spot. Because if they stitched me up and turned out it's a cancer, it will be troublesome. That's why Doctor Teoh waited for it because IF it's a cancer, he will clean my insides right away from the cancer. The nurse also told my sister and my dad that I lost a lot of blood that I need to have blood transfusion. I lost a lot of blood because of the tumor.

Then the surgery was finished, my sister got called that I have been transferred to my room. My sister and my dad went back to my room right away but I haven't reach the room yet, when I reached the room, my sister told me that she feels weary and sad looking at me like that. She said I'm asleep but with 4 tubes on both my hands, 2 on the right and 2 on the left and another one on my nose for my oxygen. I lost a lot of blood that's why I might lost oxygen as well. My sister and my dad need to wait outside because they need to move me from the rolling bed to my bed. My sister said that I was grunted and groaned pretty loud when they moved me, it's like I'm in hurt or I didn't want to be moved. Because my dad was not allowed to stay in my room until tomorrow morning, both of them left and went back to the hotel because the nurse said that I won't wake up tonight because of the effect of the anesthesia.

Tomorrow morning, around 11am, I regained my conscious and I didn't feel hurt at all but it's just that my stomach seemed tight and if I tried to move body, it hurts. I asked my sister to took a photo of me right away, I mean, this will be first and the last time I will undergo surgery right.

As you can see, an IV on my right hand and two tubes on my left hand. One is for the antibiotics medicine and the other one is the blood transfusion. I needed two packs of blood anyway. Also one more for the oxygen on my nose. This picture was taken right when I regained my conscious. The bottle of the antibiotics seemed big but when my dad checked it, it's only less than 10mg. Doctor Teoh said that this antibiotics were the best antibiotics and it's from Germany. I needed the best one because I'm still young (counted as a kid and underaged) yet I had to underwent a major surgery at such age.

That day I kept sleeping because of the anesthesia, I still felt drowsy and sleepy. I was not allowed to drink, so I only allowed to sip in bit by bit that day. The next day, I'm only allowed to eat ice chips and sip in again. Then the next day again, I can drink and starting to eat if I'm not mistaken. Because I got my appendix taken as well, I need to eat soft-diet food.

I had to eat this for three times a day. I got released from the oxygen and the blood transfusion on the second day or third day I think and I was asked to start learning to sit up and moved my body bit by bit and it quite hurt at that time. I'm not really good at swallowing tablets or capsules but I was asked to eat a painkiller and I lost my timing to drink and swallow and it tasted bitter and I couldn't swallow it. I think because of that, I kept throwing up in the night. I even told the nurse to not give me the painkiller as I didn't feel hurt anyway and they gave me pink syrup panadol only as my painkiller.

I was getting bored in the hospital and getting sick of it that I kept feeling nausea and throwing up during middle of the night. Then on the fourth day, I was asked to start walking around the room and go outside for a walk a bit. I got tired easily and it's hard to lie down again or to move my body but slowly I grew accustomed by it.

This picture was taken when I managed to leave my bed and managed to sit for the first time at chair. It was on the third day or fourth day I quite forgot about it. I had to sit while holding on the chair and used the strength of my legs and hands and thigh instead of my stomach because it will be hurt if I used my stomach strength to sit down because of the stitches.

During the fourth day, Doctor Teoh said I got gastric and he gave me gastric medicine, the white liquid like usual tasted mint. Then I insisted to leave the hospital because I thought I'll feel better if I'm staying at the hotel instead of the hospital because if I'm staying in the hospital, I'll kept remembered that I'm a sick person. Finally, Doctor Teoh let me to leave the hospital around 5pm because that's when he finished working because he needed to check me again.

I had to use wheelchair for the meantime because I can't walk properly because of the stitches. So I went around the Orchard Road using wheelchair. The thing with people at Singapore, they all respect wheelchair users and didn't stare it like I'm sort of a weird people. They made way for me. Very different with in Indonesia for sure.

I had to come back for three days or one week I think. For another check up before I went back to Indonesia.

I didn't wash my hair for four days and I really wanted to wash my hair despite my condition so I managed to asked my sister to wash my hair at the hotel's bathroom even though it's hard especially with Mandarin Hotel's bathroom. The bathtub combined into one with the shower and it's a bit high that I had to lift up my leg and I couldn't do that so I kinda bend my knee a bit and lean back a bit to wash my hair. It's a bit hard but nevertheless I was able to wash my hair even though not as clean as if I washed it like usual. But, still, I supposed it's quite clean.

After a week, I went back to the clinic and told the doctor that my legs are swollen and why is that. The doctor made a letter for my university and for the airport to give me wheelchair and to give me front row seat because I just underwent a major surgery and I'm still not able to sit on an airplane that well.

Doctor Teoh asked me to go around and had fun while I'm in here while waiting for his call. Because he wanted to make sure again that my tumor is not a cancer and also checked my blood because of my swollen legs. So when I'm walking around in the Orchard Road, I received a call from himself. Stating that the tumor is not a cancer for sure and my legs got swollen because of lack protein. I was like what? So I had to eat soft-boiled eggs 5 in one day. 4 without the yolk and 1 with the yolk. I have to eat lots of meat and fish and anything with lots of protein. He gave me vitamins also for the legs.So basically, he didn't give me any medicine for my stitches beside a cream to make the stitches looked good or for the post-surgery for the insides. Only vitamins for the swollen legs and cream for stitches. Isn't that awesome?

I had to wear abdomen surgical binder to support me when I'm walking or anything. At first, I couldn't separated from it because it really helps me in walking or sleeping or sitting. But nowadays, I only used it if I'm going out. I'm no longer use it when I'm at home or when I'm asleep.

I had to come back in one month for another check up. The doctor suggested me to stay at home for one month until I came back and got checked-up. My mom insisted me to stay at home as well. Basically I almost cannot do anything because everything I do will used stomach strength. It was quite troublesome and it hurts sometime if I moved my body to sideways.

1. This tumor had been growing in me for two years and it's getting bigger yet I didn't feel any pain and my bowel movements are great until that time I got checked in Indonesia, my back starting to hurt badly. I even been told that I've been lying that my bowel movements are great by the doctor in Indonesia.

2. I don't have any intention to check on my tummy even if my mom kept ask me to check it since long time ago until I wanted to check my blood, simply because I wanted to know whether it's a rhesus negative or positive.

3. I came across two good doctors. A very good doctors. If I underwent surgery in Indonesia, I'm pretty sure they will take my ovaries or perhaps my intestines too? LOL

4. The day after my 1-week-after-surgery check up, Doctor Teoh will be gone to Germany for a seminar. If I came late to Singapore, will I be able to underwent surgery in time?

5. The tumor's size is 19 x 17 x 15 in cm. That's for the long, wide, and thick. That's why my stitches are done vertically instead of horizontal because of the tumor. The tumor is too big that's why the stitches has to be done in vertically and it will be scarred for sure. The length horizontally is 19cm, length vertically is 17cm and the thickness is 15cm. That big thing is inside my stomach. Can you imagine that?

6. The tumor is that big yet it's not a cancer. It's a very rare thing. The nurses even surprised at the size of the tumor. And the tumor's root is only one which is on my left ovaries uterus and it's easy to take it out. The root is only one and not more than one. Doctor Teoh told me before that this kind of case ever happened in Mount Elizabeth but only once and it happened to a woman in her forties while me, I'm still in a young age.

7. Before, my face and my thighs got bloated but I didn't realize it and now I look thinner than ever. Even though I need one year to be fully-recovered.

8. This event made me realize that I needed to be more intimate with God and love him more and getting closer to him.

For those people, if you have a big tummy and it's hard, please check it right away. Seriously. Just to let you know, I don't believe in Indonesian doctors right now. Sorry to say that, didn't mean to sound arrogant at all but that's the truth. I was being told that I lied and the tumor is a bad one and it's sticked to my intestines already and pushed my kidney already while it's not. Unless that doctor is my friend from high school.

Most people didn't know but I underwent a major surgery. This is not a small matter. It's just that God helped me and made me didn't feel any hurt or something bad, that's why I've been able to live well for these two years without complaint at all.

International Law class always made me miserable and every time the class ended my brain seemed like wanted to explode because of the information overloaded state. The lecturer is Ms. Jessica Los Banos and she's a Filipino and simply said that she's a brilliant person and she's very smart. Her class is one of the class that I actually learnt a lot and she teaches us in the correct way and properly.

She talks really fast and always use legal term that I never know what it meant before or I didn't even know before that such word is actually exist. She always wanted us to answer the questions in an essay form with a FIRAC form which stands for Facts, Issues, Rules, Application, and Conclusion. Basically, that's what a lawyer always do. It's pretty hard since I didn't have any background of such thing and also I didn't join the moot court thingy while some of my classmates are joining the moot court therefore they're aware already of such thing and how to assess a case and answer it. She taught us but still the way she teach, it's pretty abstract and she often thinks that we already know which is you know hmm.

For this time, she assigned us to make a case brief. Not just for one case but 7 cases. Can you imagined that? Those cases are real and we need to look it up at the International Court Justice website. The difficult thing with International Law is that there is no exact rule because we needed to use State Practices, Convention such as Vienna Convention, principles, and stuff like that.

I decided to do the assignments at Starbucks Central Park with a booze of caffeine and sugar to excite me even more. It's fun to read cases and assess it but I'm still not that good at arranging words and to make it very FIRAC-alike.

 Also I ate Indonesian food today. Our family's favorite restaurant which is Pak Jo. They have the best sambal, I swear. I only love their Sambel Tempe Penyet along with Ayam Goreng and Sayur Asem. Yum!

I find a great quote from the back of the Calais cup and also I totally adore Xiaxue's bunny! It's just too cute to be true, for real. Also two shots of my #ootd 

Let's say that sushi and Japanese food is one of my favorite food and I'm practically can't get enough of it. Especially salmon sashimi but I can get actually enough of it that I practically didn't eat it for a week or two weeks.

In Indonesia, Sushi Tei is a pretty decent japanese food restaurant. Not that expensive but they serve a great food and they also serve free ocha and it's bottomless. Isn't that great?

Next one is Salmon Mentai and Kani Mayo Inari Sushi. I loved their salmon mentai but I wouldn't eat it too much since I would get pretty bored of it and I'd rather eat the other as well. The kani mayo inari sushi just so-so. Actually, there are other sushi that I totally recommend but I didn't order it this time, maybe next time.

Ordered Gyoza as well and I should have ordered Deep Fried Gyoza. However, Sushi Tei's gyoza is not that great. It's edible but I have another gyoza that is better than this one. So, I used to know this gyoza at Mangga Dua which tasted really nice but now they closed already, unfortunately. For deep fried gyoza, I still prefer Ajisen Ramen's deep fried gyoza. I know a bit shocking since I said before that their ramen tasted not that good anymore but their deep fried gyoza still delicious.

One of my secrets is that I cannot swim that well. I find it hard to take a breath during swimming like the other people. But, these days I managed to learn swimming by myself at my pool and slowly I got the hang of it and yeay I can swim, but not really expert but at least you can call it as swimming.

I used to be able to swim when I was a kid, but then I didn't swim for a long time and therefore I couldn't swim anymore. Right now, I find it really fun! I swim for almost everyday these days and also I'm not a sport person so I guess by swimming it helps me to do one sport activity at least in my whole life besides I want to have a jogging or running by dusk around my house.

Today I take my concert tickets at Mangga Dua Center and thankfully it's not that crowded or I have to queue for such a long time because I ordered the ticket from the fanbase and thank God that fanbase is not crowded as the other fanbase.

Audrey already told me that today she and her brother, Gamal, will come to my house to borrow my house, my living room and stairs to be exact for Gamal's final project movie. He's been looking for a circling staircase and then he saw one of my photos and asked my permission to let him shoot one scene using the stairs. 

So, here they are. The movie is pretty unique though because it's like the main character is being chased by a figure and that figure is a man with a suit but his head was in the form of a mouse or you can say it's mickey mouse.

I had to take picture of it though because it's like yeay Mickey is in my house. LOL. Afterward, I need to rushed to go to my class, Civil Procedural Law. Pak Frans Winata, the lecturer, didn't look like a lawyer, or maybe he did but he suits to be a surgery doctor more LOL. He has this fatherly face too.

Afterward, my sister took me to Summarecon Mall Serpong to have dessert at Haagen-Dasz to lighten up my day after studying. I ordered a crepes and my sister ordered waffle. Tasted good and indeed it lighten up my day right away. I have always loved sweets. I got a sweet tooth I know.

It's hard to find a decent Ramen in Jakarta nowadays. Ajisen Ramen used to have a good and decent ramen but I don't know since they changed their system or something like that, their ramen didn't taste as good as before. Then I tried Marutama Ramen and finally a decent one. Well, not that great either but still pretty decent compared to Ramen38 or Ajisen Ramen.

Been craving for half-boiled eggs but my mom always told me that I'm not allowed to eat half-boiled eggs at Indonesia because the eggs are not that good especially when you eat it half-boiled, if I eat it in the well done state that it's allowed. So I decided to eat it secretly because I've been craving for it. So I went to the mall and went to Roppan to order half-boiled eggs because their half-boiled eggs are pretty nice also I like their Iced Teh Tarik.

I found a book which I found it unique and very interesting at Kinokuniya today. So I went to Plaza Senayan and as always I went to Kinokuniya. There is this book called The Good Spell Book. Inside the book, there's a love charms, magical cures and other practical sorcery. I don't know if this book was for real or not but I was intrigued by this but I didn't buy it of course. It's not like I would practice a love charm to a guy that I like right. Lol.

It's just pretty much a so-so day for me and my sister and I were confused of thinking what to eat and finally we ended up at Sushi Tei. Lame, I know but couldn't help it. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the food though.

No, no, this is not about that 'Up in The Air' movie. It has nothing to do at all with that movie or even with flying or something like that. It's just I'm not good with titles and one of my photo that I'm going to posted here got a caption 'Up in The Air' so yeah just use that one.

Craving for Chinese food and dimsum so I asked my sister to accompany to go to the mall to have a meal. We went to Imperial Kitchen and I ordered chicken something, turned out I ordered the wrong thing, I used to eat a chicken and it's quite 'pedas' or 'hot' and tasted really good but this one was different and I knew I ordered the wrong thing. Oh well. I ordered hakau and prawn balls too.

Since it's the Lebaran season therefore almost all of my maids are returning to their hometown and that's why my mom asked me and my sister also my dad to help her clean the house. I'm pretty much clean my own bedroom only and the second floor as well while my dad help to clean the bedroom and the living room. It's pretty funny to see him actually sweep the floor. He's skinny right, that's why it's funnier.

My mom always made juice for all of us every day if she didn't wake up late. This time, she's having her own time to actually mix any kind of fruit. So this juice consists guava, kiwi, orange, apple, and others that I forgot. I was like, what? but hey actually it tasted nice too!

Today I already have a plan to have a small reunion with my best friends, Audrey, Jessica, Kiko, and Jane at the mall. It's really hard for all of us to really meet-up together and have a meal together. Even this small reunion is not complete because of the absence of Diana and Robert but still we managed to get together to have a meal and catch up with our lives.

It's really nice to meet your high school friends again when you're in university already. I can tell that both of them are different, in friends perspective I mean. Somehow, high school friends are the ones that you're really having fun with and really know each other because we have known each other for years already while in the university, it's sort of individualistic but I'm very grateful that I have best friends in university which is as good as the high school friends.

We talked for quite a long time while having meal together and laughing together and I had a great time with them. Can't wait for a complete reunion with my best friends!

I never knew that a restaurant can be different among its outlets. So, I visited Han Gang restaurant at Grand Indonesia because I just confused what to eat so I decided to eat korean food at Han Gang because I usually eat Han Gang at Living World, Alam Sutera so of course I expected it to be the same right since it's the same restaurant with a same name and menu.

I ordered Kimchi Stew and Kimchi Pancake. I've tried their Kimchi Stew before at Han Gang Senayan City and it's quite great. The kimchi that was served as the side dish tasted really awful and really sour. It's really bad. They put on Korean songs but one of the crew turn on another song, Indonesian songs that's really loud that almost beat the korean songs. 

I complaint about that. I told the server to shut down one of them because it's confusing to listen to two songs at the same time and you know what he did? He turn off the korean songs but instead letting the indonesian songs played. It was played from the server's cellphone though, I know.

The foods have arrived and I tried it one by one. The kimchi pancakes are bad and so does the kimchi stew. I didn't know that the taste could be different between one outlet and another one. When I'm done with my meal, when I walked to the door, the sound of the indonesian song is really loud that it reached the entire restaurant. Stupid servers. 

Basically, it is really different. The price is even more expensive! I can't believe it. That's why I no longer want to eat at Han Gang beside at Living World or at least Senayan City. Clearly, Han Gang Grand Indonesia sucks big time.

Foods that I've been munching on lately are such as spicy rice cakes, strawberry yoghurt smoothies, french toast, and also caramel-dipped potato chips from Royce. Caramel-dipped potato chips sounds crazy I know, but it tastes really really really good. Also I've tried the chocolate one and it's very good. Crunchiness and its saltiness and also the sweetness become one and it creates an amazingly delicious combination.

I went to Central Park and we had a small trouble regarding what am I going to eat for lunch. I decided to eat Hongkong Cafe since I never tried it before and few of my friends told me that it's good and it's not that bad. So I give it a try.

The interior was nice and the surrounding was calm and a bit touch of antique and classy in a way. So in that corner, there are three restaurants become one and Hongkong Cafe is in the corner with a glass door to divide the room which I find it nice though. There are antiques plates on the wall and the chairs are nice too.

So I ordered some dimsum and a baked cheese rice for myself. The dimsums were quite good and not that oily or greasy while the baked cheese rice is pretty good. I was really full when I finished my meal because there are so many of them and because of the baked rice cheese, I felt really full.

I also took some selcas today before I went to Central Park and also when I'm at the restaurant. Just because  I like it. Tee-hee.

People were buzzing about Union and how great that restaurant is. I have always bought their cake only and haven't try to dine in before. This time, I'm trying out Union restaurant at last. I'm curious to what people have said to me before whether it's really good or it's just another overrated restaurant. Some people told me that Union is overpriced and their food is not that great either. Still, I gotta try, right?

Union restaurant is located at Plaza Senayan inside the Sogo department store besides Starbucks. Its interior is very american-ish and not that big in my opinion and the smell of smoke fulfills the air heavily as if I'm not mistaken the whole room is a smoking area. It's really crowded and full with the chattering noises yet it's really noisy and loud unlike Social House, we can hear chattering noises but not as loud and noisy as Union.

So I came there with my sister and when we're seated already, we were told that the seat only available for one and a half hour only. I mean, what kind of restaurant is that? I know perhaps it's very busy and therefore they made a limited time for the customers but one a half hour is a really short time. I simply dislike any kind of restaurant that limit our time inside the restaurant.

They served us a basket of bread with cream cheese paste and the bread is really nice and the cream cheese paste too. It leaves a deep impression to me because the bread is really fresh and crumbly. So I ordered ravioli and my sister ordered souffle dessert. The ravioli pasta was good yet it's salty and therefore the taste of the ravioli is like a simple restaurant's taste instead of a high great restaurant such as Union. The taste doesn't worth for its price because I expected a very delicious taste and a very rich taste yet I was given a very ordinary taste and it's salty for this kind of restaurant. As for the souffle, it's nice. Better than Bakerzin's though. So thankfully, it's not that disappointing for the souffle.

I was being informed that MUHA Space is opening a booth at fashion exhibition at Plaza Indonesia. I feel so proud of Robert because he made it this big and I believe Muha will keep growing to be a bigger one and more awesome! So I came to Plaza Indonesia with Claresta and later on meet up with Kiko, Audrey, and Mike.

Then me and Claresta had lunch and basically we talked for hours. Approximately 4 hours at the same place which is The Playground. Time flies! We talked about almost everything since it's quite hard for us to meet up and actually have lunch like this so we made the best out of it.

Looking forward to another lunch or dinner with her! I just finished read Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides To Die. It's good for those people who ever thought about suicide.

I got myself an album of G.A.C finally! I feel so happy to know that my best friend, Audrey, finally released an album already! Along with her brother, Gamal and the other girl, Cantika. All her hardwork are now being paid off. I'm wishing all the best for her so that she can have a long great career in the music industry with her great voice. I feel honored when she mentioned my name on her Thanks To in her album.

 Also another shot that I took today. Mango juice, Starbucks, and my staircase.

I can practically saying that steak is my favorite food. Among others of course. But still, I really like to eat steak. It doesn't have to be really expensive steak. For example, like Holycow Steak. They serve wagyu steak with affordable price. For me, it's enough. It tastes really good and chewy and it's not hard to chew at all. I don't like to spend hundred thousands on one single food because there are cheaper food that's also delicious. I don't mind too to eat the expensive one, once in a while though.

So I went to Holycow Steak again but before that I went to Pan Ya bakery at Plaza Indonesia. Pan Ya got delicious breads and varieties of breads. I like their curry bread. As usual, I ordered Tenderloin Wagyu at Holycow Steak because I don't like the fats on meat. I can't eat that kind of food with that kind of texture. Makes me wanna puke.