going to Singapore in few weeks

Hopefully it can be done. I am planning to stay in Singapore after Papua. I've found out living in Papua has not been so easy. But I keep saying living here in Papua is obviously worth experiencing. I'll probably stay in Yogyakarta for about 2 weeks to have my dissertation interview and then head to Singapore to look for a job there.

See ya!

I miss Yogyakarta

When you get in an island such as Papua and have been living in Java, you will somehow miss Java. In Papua, at least where I live now in Jayapura, they don't have movies, even there's only one big mall far away in another city. Takes an hour to get there by so-called 'taxi'.

I miss big buildings, big malls.. haha. But doesn't mean that Papua is that bad and boring. It honestly has its own unique things. I will surely, and I bet, miss Papua when I leave the island.

Anyway, keep updated with my posts in Special Report PAPUA!!. I just posted a blog there (along with pix!!)

introducing the first post in Special Report PAPUA!!

Check out my newest blog site Special Report PAPUA!!. I just posted my very first blog over there about my flight route to the island.

This can't be happening..

My dissertation interview that should be on Thursday this week has been delayed. I got such piteous news just this afternoon when the teachers decided that this would be too fast to hold the interview this week as they were not ready yet. I was ready for being interviewed this week. Too bad, I've like worked MAO on the paper and went through such a huge stress to get it done within only days. If I knew I would not have the interview this week, I wouldn't have had worked that hard as I'd just stayed inside my room all day and night for weeks working on the work. The interview would be held in August as I'll leave for Papua this Thursday.

Sometimes I really hate changes..

busting another stressing blog..

OK, it's over 2 am in the morning. I can't sleep as I still have million of things running through my mind at the moment and they're mostly about my paper work that apparently has to have some major changes. I was trying to work on it as hard as I could but I realized I just couldn't do that tonight. So I was planning to sleep in my sister's room as she's not in the town at the moment for some holidays in Borneo. I brought my paper also but didn't do much on it so I just watched anything showing up on tv. I managed to watch a cool movie starring Jennifer Aniston and Van Haughn or something I'm not sure what the guy name was. It was cool and made me a bit relaxed. But at the same time the movie just kept me up till I couldn't get to sleep. So I went out of my sister's room to mine. I found my computer still on and here I am sitting on the floor busting another stressing blog. I am getting worse with this paper work as I've got to make some changes and they put me even further than ever. I think what I need now is shut this computer off and get some rest ASAP as I think I should get up earlier than usual to catch up my paper work retard.

Hope you all have better situation..

Counting down the time.. to Papua!!

7 days to go ..

I'll finally be leaving Yogyakarta at least for few months for Jayapura, Papua. To meet my partner there is the ultimate reason why I'm leaving, but I'm also thinking about finding a job while staying there. I am interested in teaching foreigners or any one who likes to learn Indonesian. And, due to my trip to Papua, I will create another page here titled "Special Report PAPUA!!". The page will contain anything that involves my trip on the island. Sure I'll still update my blog as it also contains my personal life. What I'll speak about in the new upcoming page is pretty much places that I visit over there, maybe the food, the people, the traffic, the language, etc. And surely I'll add interesting photos.

Gotcha!!

Unbelievably disgusting! it's a rat!!!! Ewww..

Last night 'it' finally showed up. I was doing a paper work at the computer and suddenly behind me in the rack something made a noise. I looked back to check it out. What I saw first was a long tail. I sensed it was the animal that had been haunting my room. But at the time I thought it was the tail of a chameleon. I waited for a moment. I came a bit closer and got surprised by the animal. It was not a chameleon or any other animals from the same family. It was a rat!!!! :s ewwwww.. I am totally disgusted by rats to be honest.

So I decided to set a trap during midnight. As usual (the last two nights) I went to my sister's room to sleep there. I left the trap with a piece of meat as the bait. When I woke up in the early morning as I have to do some more paper work, I went to my room checking out the trap. Gotcha!! Yoohooo! The trap worked very well.

Oh, I feel so much glad now. One last task to do now is to clean up all part of the room. Hard work, indeed. Wanna help??

Can't stand it anymore

Something's got to be done. It's due to my previous post. The 'it' haunted me more last night while I was sleeping! After posting a blog last night, I turned off the pc and lights and went to bed. I kept the AC on for another a while 'till I almost fell asleep. My plan was to keep the AC on so the room stayed very cold for the 'it' to just stay inside the wardrobe. I thought 'it' wouldn't make any more move. I was wrong. Moments after I turned off the AC, I woke up to a noise at the window. I have like a set of hanging dolphins attached to my window and it moved (or was moved) by itself. I got freaked out, indeed. Must be 'it' doing that. OK, I thought 'it' wanted to find a light by coming near the window. Well, that'd be good as it would just stay there until the sun showed up. I fell back asleep. Mins later... you can't believe what happened... the disgusting creepy haunting 'monster' was right beside my face in my bed!!!!!!! Daammnn, you're disgusting (that's what I said to myself last night). Ewwwww.. it took me only a sec to jump out of bed, turn the lights on, and go checking what it was. Apparently, it'd jumped out of bed too. Geee, what was it?? I kept wondering and searching.

OK, that was it. I went out of my room and slept in the sofa. It was still like 2 am.

Can't stand it anymore! Something's got to be done today! Urrggghhh....

Haunted midnight

It's midnight and something creepy keeps me up. It's in my wardrobe!! Well here's the situation: for the whole day I let my door to the podium wide open thinking the fresh wind from the outside would give some kind of good circulation inside the room. I let it open from morning 'till near evening. I didn't have any bad feelings about anything, yet until I decided to turn on the AC to help me sleep. Something moved the door of my wardrobe. Ohhh, I'm freaking out now. I was like at my computer checking emails while waiting for the room to get a bit colder before I went to sleep. I suddenly heard and saw the door of my wardrobe was making a small tiny but significant move. I knew it was an animal. Just knew it. (Hey it's in the middle of the night and I should never think of any worse than animals, yea? like .. ghosts.. :s Let's be realistic)

I waited for a while until the door stopped making the move. It was like there was something sliding through in the back/inside side of the door and definitely quite heavy as 'it' could move the door. Mins later (which is like 30mins ago!), the 'it' made another noise. I guess 'it' was moving inside the wardrobe and touching some things. I freaked out. I went out to wake up my sister (well she was still watching TV in her room actually) to help me check what's such creature inside my wardrobe. She did the best she could, I supposed so. She used my tennis racket as it's always right hung near the wardrobe to use it like a stick by sticking it inside the wardrobe to see if the whatever 'it' would get disturbed and get out. As you may have guessed, no nothing happened. The creature won't make any single move... even until the second I am writing this post!!

I am feeling uncomfortable to lay down in my bed. I guess the reason why it took quite long until the 'it' made some move in the wardrobe is my room that's getting colder and colder with the AC on. At least (hopefully) that keeps 'it' staying inside the wardrobe 'till tomorrow morning. I will obviously make a huge deal with this creepy thing. Don't mess up with my sleep. I'm gonna ask my Bibi for helping me to move out everything inside the wardrobe. Hope she won't get trapped in the world of Narnia (oh what am I talking about??! there's no such world)

Oh god what is it? So wondering but scared to find out in this mid night.. :S