wrapping up

    
While the year 2009 had been a tough mentor for me; 2010, you are a great friend. It felt like only yesterday I had gotten to know you. There will definitely be a little teary moment on my part when we celebrate your departure in two days time :') Anyway, enough tears for now.. I wish everybody a merry, merry Christmas, goodbye 2010, and hope 2011 will be another great year! 

Once again, January - whose name comes from the two-faced Janus, Roman god of doors and gates - is just around the corner, and we have to go through another year-end. ("Yayy!" celebration-wise, but "Nooo.." work-wise) Earlier this month I had gotten so depressed when I found out there won't get any days off for Christmas and New Year's since Chinese people don't celebrate those; Shyne will be coming to Surabaya to make up me not going to Korea though, so that's something to look forward to. My work is so crazed.. I feel like I've been tricked into romusha - but with great company; my funny high-on-caffeine colleagues keep me entertained for at least 8 hours a day. 

For the past month, whenever I have time at home my eyes have been glued to the screen, finishing all 13 episodes from the first season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

At first I thought I wouldn't find it tasteful; I only became attracted to try watching it for the sake of the perfect abdomen muscles on the DVD cover. But soon I found the drama and overall plot immensely addictive. It felt like I was being thrown back to high school days; in history class when we were learning about slavery, watching Kirk Douglas play Spartacus and how my teacher would pause the movie every now and then, adding details and starting discussions. Oh, how I loved history class. Anyway, it might not be your type of thing, but I highly recommend Spartacus: Blood and Sand to anyone willing to try. It's much bloodier than my how I imagined it back in high school, and fortunately much sexier!

Yes, I'm now back to being jolly since I've finally gotten over the loss of my Curve Javelin krisBerry, and am now so smitten with my new Bold Onyx 9700 :D  Still wishing I could get my hands on the leaked OS6 from boygeniusreport though..

Onto another topic. Considering the much needed sport to flex our air-conditioned muscles and long forsaken athletic skills, a little group of friends and I have recently gotten together and started playing badminton once every week after work. Although I do treadmill runs and basic exercises, because I haven't actually played anything in so long, the day-after pain from the first times I played rendered me unable to type with both hands! Anyway, it feels good to get back to some routine sports, and I vow I'm going to get so good at badminton quickly.

Tomorrow, the final match between Indonesia and Malaysia will be held in Jakarta. It's funny how up till this year's AFF Suzuki Cup, nobody even knew what our national soccer team looked like - but now even my mother knows the all the gossip around each player. About 98 percent of the country's population are suddenly paying attention to the matches because of the sudden surge in supporters on Twitter (I only discovered how powerful Twitter is a few months back) I found that no matter what the topic is, as long as it gets on the Trending Topic, the whole world will be all over it in no time. Now I'm not too sure which team is the underdog, but.. Go, Garuda!

"I.. AM.. SPARTACUSSS!! AAAAAAAAA!!"