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Next week is my final week. I'm sooo stressed out. Seems like there are endless things to memorize and understand in order to passed the final test. I even don't know where to start ... business law? accounting? mandarin? On Tuesday, my accounting team supposed to collect all our assigned team homework, but 2 of our members went missing. Fortunately, one appeared 30 mins after the class started. The other one was still missing up until now. We tried to email her, but there was no reply. So last tuesday, we were forced to divide up her share of homework. I got 2 exercises to do. And I still haven't done the summary for extra credit points in mandarin... So, in my panic mode, i asked my husband if it's okay for me to miss my BS meeting this wednesday ... So instead i can spend the whole day lurking in barnes / borders near his office and study. I like to study there because there's usually no distraction - aka facebook - so i'm forced ...

Oh~! What a busy weekend i had. Haven't been able to post the fall pictures nor any updates ... will do that soon. Meanwhile, just a quick recap, we had our civil ceremony and my hubby's surprise bday party last weekend! It was so exciting. We use korean theme for the foods. Turns out korean is yummy eh? =) longer post about those two events later on~!

Finally November is here =) For me, this is one of the special months in a year. Why? Because I first met my husband face to face in November. Additionally, this is his birthday month. He will be turning 31 this year!  Thinking back, I remember how happy we were back then when we're finally able to celebrate his birthday in Jakarta for the first time together. We were not even officially a couple at that time. Well, going to be one soon =P Anyway ... I just want to post some updates. My business law midterm was so satisfying. I got a really good score. Praise the Lord! A day after I passed my driving test, I got my California ID. Even though in our plan it was kinda late .. we've already registered our marriage in the county clerk without it ... but still I think this will make my driving license process much much faster. All is good in God's timing then =) I got my first halloween experience y...

As a human, I often forget how much blessings I've been given ... I often complain for things that I didn't have or didn't able to do. I was really sad at the beginning of this week but God reminded me that I have more than enough. Remember my midterm? Last tuesday I had the hardest midterm this quarter, the business law midterm. I think I did ok though. I hope it was ok =P By the way, my prayer was answered. It was a multiple choice question test. 111 questions. I had to memorize a lot of latin term ... learn a lot about American court system and English court system ... but thanks God it's all over now. I've done my best. I already got my two other midterms scores though. I think I did pretty well ... thanks God =) I only lose 2 points from 200 points total in Accounting and i got 92.5 in mandarin. Now i'm waiting (anxiously) for my business law score. Hopefully all is well. Today i got one more blessing from God ... I passe...

S eems like school has just started but time really flies. Guess what ... two weeks from now I will have my midterm. I'm kinda nervous about the midterm. I just hope all my teachers will give a multiple choice question type on the midterm because for an ESL like me, it will be much easier than an essay question. I get really scared if I remember how many cases I need to memorize for the Business Law class...not to mention all the definitions for the law terms =( Anyway, just when I'm starting to get busy with my study, some of our friends are going to Hawaii! I'm really jealous =( They're so lucky, they get a very good vacation ticket deal. But still .. according to my husband if we join the trip, we might end up spending more than $1000! That's such a big amount of money for us. I guess, this is just not a right time for us. Even though the deal is really good. Moreover ... maybe next time there will be an even better deal. We never know...

When I was finally able to sit comfortably infront of my computer last night, I was too tired for everything except facebook games =P Well, after spending almost 10 hours studying inside and outside class room, I was afraid my brain could explode due to overheat and overwork so I tried to make them relax with those games... anyway, during school days I'm usually too tired to do anything at night. Not just that, due to the morning rush, I usually forget to do devotion =( BUT, last night somehow I had the desire to read bible and did quick devotion. I try not to miss daily devotion although I still can't devote a special time in my day for it. So back to last night... Even though I was almost ready to sleep, somehow God gave me the energy to asked my husband to hand me my bible. At first I didn't put much attention to the title of the article, which is "Why There Is Color?" and the first three paraghraphs that described the process of how tree lea...

When I woke up in the morning last Thursday, the first thing I did was checked my hand. To my utmost horror ... It had became that big! Gosh ... the final result from the nurse was positive with 14 mm bump. So whether I want it or not, I need to go and get a chest X-ray =( PS : Btw, have I told you that this bump will stay for months? =( Oh, and it is starting to itch too ... =( UPDATES: The bump disappeared after a month or so. There is no scar whatsoever on my hand. I heard that a lot of people who were born in Asia usually get a positive result. It is because they had TB Vaccination while they were little. Anyway, I did get my chest X-ray. There is nothing to worry, everything is good =)

This is what it looks like after 36 hours : I really hope it could stay like this until tomorrow because I think this means I'm negative. *crossing my finger*

One of the things that I hate the most in life is shot / injection. I think, I have a phobia for needle =P This phobia started a long time ago, back in my early childhood. I got typhoid or abdominal fever when I was three or four... and back then, their healing method was still traditional. They had to monitor the virus inside of me daily. So they took my blood every other day. This lasted for almost a month. Can you imagine the horror of this? Especially for a three or four-year old girl? Ever since that incident, needle has become my big enemy. Before I went to U.S. last year, I was forced to get an MMR shot. Oh, it was so scary. I remember I couldn't feel my knees soon after they gave me the shot. My knees became limp in such a short time! Anyway, after that injection the doctor gave me a note, like a proof for the injection. Through my agent, I sent that doctor's note to Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. When I transferred to De Anza College, TAMUCC didn't for...

I want to open this blog with my today's devotion taken from Our Daily Bread. The title is "Keeping busy?" "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:25-30 You know, lately I often wonder why sleep can no longer restore my energy. I often wake up and still feel exhausted. Is it because of the mattress? Hmm ... or is it because I only try to restore my physical energy but not my spiritual energy? That's why I'm struggling to make daily devotion a habit again in my life. Like a lifeless branch that is not connected to the tree, I think my energy isn't restored because I'm not connected to God. I used to have a habit of doing daily devotion back in Indonesia, but somehow once I got married, I've became very busy with my life. I forgot to reserve a special time to communicate and grow with God. Hopefully from today onward, I could make daily devotion a habit again in my life .... and m...