Basically Everything That Was Left

Yes, so there was never an entry for the graduation day. Why, you're asking? Well, it was simply because I did not have the time to make one. Since several days before the graduation and until my departure for my vacation trip, which is exactly a week from my graduation day, I was working on a major fanfiction project. All my time was focused on that project, and even with that I still failed to get some of the contents on time. But enough of that. I am still going to tell about my graduation. It went quite well. I love the song they use on the graduates' entrance to the room; it was Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance No. 1. The whole graduation ceremony was nothing special really; I commented through speeches and coughed (unintentionally) in between the speeches at times right where people would think I was snickering at the speech. But really, I was just having a cough! (self defense) I gave a very very short speech, too, and... oh! there's the most exciting part of the graduation: there was a band performance! Of course, the band consisted of students (including myself) and I had fun playing. Lots of fun, because one of my best friends is in it, too. Well, that was basically it. Oh, there's one more thing: I didn't get the first rank; only the second, but I am content with it. I did not put any effort to get any kind of rank, anyway, so the second rank's gotta be appreciated.

Well, that's basically all of the graduation that I can think of. Now, moving on to the holiday trip! It was quite an amazing vacation, save for the train we took on the departure. It was full of ants and roaches and overall not so nice looking. But the toilet is clean, so I have no real complaints. The cuisine is just perfect there and there's the fact that you get almost anything you want in my mother's hometown and mothers have almost no authority at all; one of the oldest maids is the only one who can get us to bathe and eat and basically take a break from whatever game or nap we're doing. It might not sound exciting, but it was loads and loads and loads of fun. Well, we stayed there for two weeks, and on the night of our arrival back home, I fell ill. Wasn't that nice? Which is why I didn't type an entry right away - I was practically deserted from the computer. Not that I'd be feeling up to sitting in front of the monitor right then... I was healed right at the time we had to go to Pangandaran - a beautiful beach in West Java. I did not feel 100% well yet so I did not take many photos, but I do have some beautiful ones...

Whoops, wrong photo :P

Well, what do you think? The first four are taken on a boat so I'm sorry if they don't even look straight. But I'm kind of proud of these photos because they absolutely better than the ones my brother took (for real!) But in reality, no photograph can do justice of the gorgeous scenery we saw there. Most of the amazing views can be seen while we're on the bus, and it was absolutely difficult to take photos from the bus, not only because it's moving but also because the angle is kind of difficult to take. It's not like the road was easy - it was rather scary: small, narrow and it goes up and down like a roller coaster. But it's fun. And beautiful.

I guess I have to end now since this is, I'm sure, the longest post here, but I'm not going to before sharing two jokes about two cute two-year-olds I met... One is my cousin and the other is my cousins' (the almost-brother ones) cousin.
I call them by their Chinese names, but in order to keep things easy, I'm using English names with a mix of Japanese suffixes because it's kind of difficult to translate the original ones. Consider the English-Japanese mixture equivalent of Indonesian-Chinese...

(1) Note: In this case, I was wearing a brown t-shirt, but my mother and cousin said it's almost green. But I still find this funny.

Me: Alice, what's the color of this? *pointing to my t-shirt*

Alice (my 2-year-old cousin): (in English) g-eeen~! (she means green)

Me: Is it green or brown?

Alice: Bwown! (read: brown)

Me: *still pointing to my t-shirt* What's the color?

Alice: G-eeeen~!

Me: Green or brown?

Alice: Bwown!

And it continued until my mother told me to stop *nods*

(2) Note: Ivan is my younger cousin - one of the two I consider brothers. Justin is Ivan's paternal cousin, who is not my cousin. Oh, I am also using '-nii' in substitute of big brother...in half-Chinese *nods*

Me: Justin, is Ivan-nii handsome or ugly?

Justin: *happily* Ugly...

Me: What about you?

Justin: *still happily* Equally ugly...

Justin speaks in an unbelievably soft voice, and he's very very cute. Alice is very very cute, too, but she cries a lot. I like her, anyway.

See you next time.