Warm February

One of the things i love about Toulouse is the fact that it's 20 degrees outside in February! In the afternoon off course. But still! Well, it could be an effect of global warming or other temperature-is-rising theories. Why don't enjoy what we have today, rite?

More over, it was the weekend. So Evelyn, Pierre-Louis and I decided to enjoy the day to the max. We had lunch under the sunshine, in front of a beautiful church. It would have been a perfect picnic if we weren't shooed away by this cleaning service ppl. No worries, cuz we haf just finished our pizzas and soon left the spot and continued walking around the city.



This is what I'm gonna miss from France. Being able to walk around the small streets and admiring the architecture, picnicking in the park, or just simply sipping a glass of fruit juice on the terrace when the weather is friendly is really a bless. Sigh....



Anyway, back to the story.
Around 3pm, we were busy looking for bakery shop to buy some cakes for tea time! haha, we eat a lot I know. Since the salon de the was full of people and we couldn't find any empty seats, so we decided to buy some take aways cakes.

watching sunset over La Garonne

Sitting on the river banks enjoying our cakes with a bottle of cold Desperados was out of this world! We bumped into few people we know who apparently wouldn't wanna miss the warmth too. Looking at ppl jogging, cycling, walking their dogs, playing with their babies, playing guitars and singing, drinking beer with friends...

It's 1 am

and I'm still up.

I had a great weekend. We spent 2 days in Marseille in South of France. Pictures can be seen on my facebook or friendster. It was great fun meeting Dessi and Evelyn again. We were lucky to have been welcomed to this young diplomat's, Mbak Dini, apartment to spend the nite. Saved us big bucks, man!

I think Marseille has great tourist attractions. Beautiful coast along the city, gigantic castles,cathedral up on the hill, etc. The low point is the dirtiness of the city. Garbage is everywhere. Streets are filled with graffities, not state-of-the-art graffities mind you. People "don't speak" french.

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Tuesday night pierre-louis, evelyn and I attended this free concert of Orchestra of Toulouse. It was not an amazing show, there were interesting classical pieces and some boring ones that made us dozing off. But it cured my longing for some classical music. How i miss playing my piano.

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I can feel my body switching off. It's rejecting lotsa things. I feel tired. Mentally and physically. And I don't think this coming full-week holidays will do any good. I have no idea what I need at the moment to boost my energy nor do I know what I want. It's annoying. I'm annoying. Everybody's around me is annoying.

I know I know it's the day to celebrate L-O-V-E........ we're not doing anything. We have never done anything on this very day and we will never do anything on the same date next year and even gazillion years coming.

"What did he give you? Are you guys going for dinner tonite? Did u buy him a gift?"

"Huh? Gift? For what?"

".........................."

"Oh! for V day, oh im sure he dont even know what today's fuss is all about. Aaaah...no wonder i saw ppl carrying bouquets of flowers on the street."

talk abt flowers, why dont men just offer their women a hot, steamy, long episode in bed.
I'd love that...

Alhamdulillah.....

I mean it. I really mean my gratefulness.

The results of 1st semester exams have been put up on the board. And I did, if I could say, quite well!!! I passed almost all subjects except, well same old same old, Law. However I scored 2 points higher than last year, I obtained 8/20 this year! Yeeyy!!!
And another one was Informatique, I got 9.50/20, hey i AM bad at this department.

So, voila! The rest were just fine. Not outstandingly excellent. But enough to make my day and to pop up the Bottle!. After all, all I can say is Alhamdulillah...


The bad news is...

I noticed that I am getting bitter. I complain a lot. I am sick of group works. I am losing patience. Everything is just wrong these days.
What does it mean???

Well, I am becoming french!!!! Oh mon dieu!

No offence to all the french out there, and don't get me wrong. French people are nice at some point, but you guys know very well that what I am becoming at the moment describes perfectly a typical french.

Aren't I right??

See! told ya it's time for me to go back. At least for the time being.

Atas rekues dari bu presiden Dita

Saya persembahkan tim ski dan tari dari sanggar Toulouse ceria! hihi!

Sebelum pentas, foto2 dulu sama penari2 Pacifica

Ini lah teleski yg gue jatoh2 mulu, harus nya bisa berdiri gitu lho!

Neng Wida begaya sama ski, yang penting gaya ya Wid!

PPI toulouse dan org2 laen ga penting sedang ice skating

Pak Tri yg, ga di kelas, di ice skating, tampang nya seriuuuuussss......lg konsen

Hari pertama ski, abis siap2 pake sepatu dan siap2 gotong ski yg bueeraat mampus!

p.s: Foto2 laen dapat dilihat di facebook gue. okeh!

Hidup PPI Toulouse!!!! PEKIIIIK!!!

My bruises tell

that I had fun going to ski trip!!!!

Photos will be upload much later since everybody has some and I didn't take that many cuz I was too busy balancing myself and concentrating how to slide gracefully.

I didn't fall that much, except the time when I had to take the teleski on which we should grip the pole, keep our ski parallel, stand up and relax and let the teleski climb you up the mountain. Well, it's not as easy as it sounds. at least for me. I fell 3 times just 3 seconds on it. How embarassing. And now I hurt my knees and my butt.

oh well oh well, but hey I had a blaassst!!!! It was the coolest thing ever to slide down the snow, turning left and right, the sensation of looking down the hill and trying to slow down.
Oh and not forgetting the gorgeous ski trainers!! So cute and hot in those ski suits.