Saturday, October 3, 2015

Quiet Saturdays

I feel ready to post today! Today I'm going to share my adventures from this lovely Friday. I was supposed to go to Jaksel to hang out with Rain but a lot of stuff happened and I wasn't allowed to go...so I went to the IBA parent meeting at SGU and it was all very nice until my teacher began talking about how sometimes they get students who are very aggressive and they have heavy burdens in their heart, or something along those lines. I was very annoyed because that was a very badly veiled reference to me. So badly veiled, in fact, that some of my friends gave me funny looks BECAUSE THEY OBVIOUSLY KNEW WHO SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY TALKING ABOUT.

Anyways, I was very annoyed so I decided to just leave the meeting. Impolite, maybe, but I never said I was a proper "lady".

So SGU has this month-long event called Octfest, and one of the events within the event is something called the External Cup. Today there were a few futsal matches and I went to watch them because I left early from the parent meeting and I'd also made plans with one of my other friends from IBA 1B. We met there and then afterwards my friend from Mechatronics (I need to start coming up with code names for these people so the friend from Mechatronics will be Durian) said he hadn't eaten yet so I said, well okay let's go eat somewhere. Now, there is that ever-so-convenient Aeon Mall right across from campus so Durian and I went there and then to the top floor, where there is a Wing Stop, and we ate, of course, chicken wings. Whew, that run-on.

After we got back I started practicing my two poems for tomorrow! I've fully memorized "Weeks" but I'm not quite there on "Blood Pact", so I'll have to practice some more tomorrow morning when I feel a little less exhausted. Okay, lanjut. I practiced, right? And afterwards Strawberry came and hung out with us for a while and we took selfies using my computer.



After practicing Durian had to go upstairs to help out with this SGU Alumni event (why the heck are there so many events on the same day??? Why??) and I was going to get picked up when I met Honey, who is in PR and is a little blunt and then she said, hey let's go to Aeon (again) and eat or something. But we didn't go right away because we were waiting for our other friends. Krupuk, who is also in MT like Durian, came over and he was all, "I'm so tiredddd let's go to Aeon or something. Oh, but let's wait for Durian!" And at the same time Kopi Hitam was sitting at the table with a sour look on his face so Krupuk wandered off and then Honey and I started talking to Kopi Hitam for a while. He is very cynical.

Afterwards I invited Jagung to come with us to Aeon and he said okay, but THEN HE FELL ASLEEP. So Honey and I went to his kost, which is like an apartment building but smaller. We picked him up and reconvened with Krupuk at SGU and then I fell asleep and then we finally went to Aeon and we met Durian there. So it was me, Honey, Krupuk, Durian, and Jagung. We ended up eating at this dim sum place which was at the top floor of Aeon. So today I went to Aeon twice!

Man, I'm really really excited and kind of not excited tomorrow. What's the word? Apprehensive, lah. I haven't actually gone out with Krupuk or Honey or Jagung before this so it was a little new, but I had fun! Really! I know, grumpy little Rin, actually having fun with people. Definitely a change from some of my previous blog entries where I complain about not having any friends. It turns out there are friends in other majors, and I just needed to stay optimistic! (I do have trouble with that though).

The book cover in my post picture today is The Strange Library, a book written by Haruki Murakami. I was on Jagung's Twitter when I saw that he reads Murakami so I immediately decided to ask him about it, since I've never read Murakami and have gotten very curious about him. It was a very good book so after tomorrow is done I'll try and reread it (I read it today in the car since it's an illustrated short story) and get back to you on how I think it is!

I fell asleep super early last night and woke up at 5:30 AM today. That wasn't super fun, because now I'm super tired again. I've been procrastinating on this blog because I've been reading so many other blogs, like Spoon & Tamago. Design blogs make me want to work hard and practice my own design skills so I can unite culture in a way that I really want for my future magazine.

Okay, my eyes have been hurting allll day. I think I'll have to say goodnight now. Thank you, as usual, for reading my blog! It means a lot to me to get positive feedback from you guys, whether it's