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hi..
i bought myself a microwave last saturday..
it’s because i got some food from the dinner the night before..
now i can use the microwave to cook the potato with cheese, one of my favorite meals..
i dont have to have rice anymore..the potato is my main menu now..
i’m becoming a westerner now, having breakfast with bread and peanut butter and dinner with baked potato and melting cheese on top..hmm yummy..
now i dont have to worry much about the food outside cause i can prepare it myself at home..
one thing that i hate from this is the washing dishes part..it’s always there: the dirty dishes..
i also iron my own clothes now, just like the old days that i thought i wouldn’t have to experience it ever again..
you know what i miss the most is? it’s a wife..
i want it so badly to have a wife nowadays..i feel lonely at home, in this town, in this country..
i need someone who can cherish me up, whom i can talk to all the time, i need someone that i can hug wholeheartedly, someone who can get away with to anywhere around the globe, i need someone whom i can sleep with everynight, whom i can hold tightly in my arms..
one thing that amuses me about coming to this country is the hope to find my soulmate..i watch closely every woman around me hoping that she might be one of them..
oh dear Allah, please lead me to my soulmate, i can never find her without Your help..

it’s a one-week already that i’ve been in manila
i’ve visited the mega mall on satuday, quiapo and greenhills on sunday
mega mall, though it’s big, still malls in jakarta are much better condition
the crowd is the same
i got bad experience in mega mall, when i bought baked potato, the seller put beacon on top of the melting cheese around the hot potato, i made me want to throw up, i ended not eating that night
quiapo is quite far from my place, me and mr jumbeli, we took a bus ride for about half an hour, we continued using the jeepney, the manila unique transportation. It looks like mandra’s oplet but it has colorful painting on it and costs only 7,5 pesos for wherever you wanna go.
in quiapo, i finally found my kind of eating, halal food, most of the restaurants and food stalls sold halal food because it’s part of moslem community in manila. We ate lunch there and bought some food for the dinner. Quiapo is known for it’s cheap price for goods including pearls, and it’s also the centered for pirated vcd/dvd.
not only indonesian but also philippinos like to do kind of transaction.
from quiapo, we went to greenhills by bus. it’s another mall that look similar to ITC in jakarta
it’s also the center for pearls and handphone in manila
many of the sellers are moslem, that why it has a nice place to pray within the mall
it has also restaurant that sells halal food, the thing that is rare around here

well, everybody in the office has gone home because tomorrow will a long weekend
i’ll come back to the office by tuesday
i’m checking with a travel agency near my apt whether i can take holiday outside manila
tonite my boss and mrs invite me to dinner at their place
well, i’ve gotta go now
bubye

ps. i have bought a washing machine so i dont have worry about the laundry anymore

hi
i’ve moved to my new apartment today
it’s a one-bed-room apartment, furnished and newly painted
there are tv set, fridge, gas stove, ac, mini kitchen set, nice bathroom with shower, queen-sized bed, wardrobe, mirror, couch, kitchen table, and some ornaments
i think i’m gonna enjoy living there tough it’s not that spacious
it costs me php 15.000 plus around php 5.000 for monthly dues, guess i have to spent about php 20.000 for the living cost excluded meals, laundry and mobile
today is my first jumat prayer in manila
there were around 25 persons praying in one of meeting rooms in the first floor
the khotbah was delivered in english by one of the indonesians working in adb
and i was appointed as the imam for today’s prayer
i guess next time they’re goin to ask me to be the khotib, i’ll try my best
for the job, i guess i wont be too busy doing secretarial works though the first few months will be a learning and hectic session for me cause i dont know much of a secretarial chores
by nature i think i’ll be a good improver, at least i try to do my very best
my so far obversation about the people who work in adb that they are hardworking, disciplined, professional and impersonal, i might turn out to have those work ethics by the time i’ve got involved long enough
just one thing that i might be afraid of is that i’d get bored of the rutinity
well, there should a way to plan a better life
i think i will starting to plan for my life right here
i start to think about traveling around the globe, probably one or two countries at one time
i might go for pilgrimage from here
i wanna apply for some positions in the professional staff of adb
i wanna join some clubs here to get know more people
i might wanna take mba degree or a phd
there are so many wonderful things that i begins to wonder
i think it’s about time and time can never be the same
take the chances, grab every opportunity and be lucky
see ya

hi blogy
it’s been a very long time…
i miss writing so much
too bad my computer back home didn work well to get connection
so that’s why, i didnt write again for quite sometime

blogy
now, i’m in manila
i guess i’ll have plenty of time to write to you
i arrived yesterday after 7 hours flight
it’s not that tiring though because i got the chance to fly in the business class
it feels so much comfortable when we travel in the business class
the seat was relaxing, plenty of delicious food, the entertainment was great
it’s really a nice way to travel
arriving manila was not as scary as i had thought before because my indo friend here picked me up so i absolutely had any problems at the airport
the hotel has already been reserved, holiday inn galeria suite, next to the robinson mall
cozy big room rated $80 a night, tough cozy still i can’t stay there long cause it’ll ripe me off
accompanied by my friend, we looked for mega plaza apartment, for a longer stay
not luxurious but i think for the cost of PhP16,000 a month, it’s okay considering the location is a walking distance to my office-to-be
last night i went to robinson to find some dinner, i was so hungry and sleepy as well
eating at popeye junk food costed me PhP131, averagely at the same cost of eating in jakarta
but i cant eat like this for good, it’s not healthy and boring. i’ll find a way to overcome food problem
i slept at 830 last night, it was a tight sleep because i was so sleepy
today is my first at the office, i entered the building along with my friend, i got a temporary id at the front desk to be able to move around the office building. it’s a security-tight building
i got photographed for new id and i went to citibank to open a new account, checking account for two currencies and a credit card.
i met with ahron, the hrd staf who help me alot during the appointment session
she’s so nice, she’s friendly and she’s a funny-type girl, i like talking to her
she explained clearly about my should-know stuff. we laughed sometimes, she’s witty
today’s lunch is actually a farewell lunch for my friend who’ll leave the office and that will be replaced by me
attended by all indonesian working in adb, most of them are professional staff and older than me
they make money a lot more than the support staff
i’ll be like them one day
though there is no place for prayer and whudhu, still i manage to have my zhuhur prayer in the office room
thanks God

well, that’s for today
i wanna get my new id now and my new citibank account
bye bye