My December Break

Staying Home - For most of the time during this December break, I stayed at home and rested a lot. I read a few books, studied, and played with my friends. However, we finally got out of Jakarta on New Year's Day, where I went to Bali. Staying home might be boring for most of people, but I like staying at home, resting and relaxing.

Family - Like I said above, I stayed at home most of the times and that was of course with my families. I played a lot with my dad and had lunch & dinner outside with my family. I did a lot of sports like golf, tennis, swimming, and more. When I stayed at Bali, I spent all the time with my family and had FUN!!! I think this is the best part of my December Holiday!

Movies - I watched 3 movies on this December Holiday. They are:

1. Avatar

2. Gukgadaepyo

3. 2012

These are all great movies and I enjoyed a lot when I watched them. Avatar is about... (You all know), Gukgadaepyo is about skiing and 2012 is about Earth getting destroyed by natural disasters (Earthquakes, volcano eruptions and tsnamis). Beside watching 3 movies, I watched this Korean Drama almost everyday for 1 hour and it was really (x 100) awesome. For the next movie, I want to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks 2. "Movie" part of my December Break were really great.

Bali Day 4

This is the last day in Bali for us. I had breakfast in my villa and it was good! After resting a bit, I swam again until 9:30. I think swimming in the villa is really fun. Then I played board games again with my dad's friend and my sister. We also watched Korean drama again. When it was 11:00, we all packed our bags and got ready for leaving Bali. We drank milk and ate fruits. I said BYE to Bali and went to the airport. I rode Lion Air and returned home. I wanted to stay at Bali more!!!!!! =(. Bali was really good and I want to play with my dad's friend again because he is really nice. What a great trip~!

Bali Day 3

This day was just normal and I did nothing special so it's going to be short. First, I had breakfast down at the villa and had the same thing but I also ate pancakes which was awesome!!! Then, I played with 2 of my dad's friends' and my sister board games. It was sooooooo fun! I won all the games! I played board games until 11:00. All of my dad's friends' had to leave now... except for my favourite one! I kept on playing board games with him and my sister. Time for lunch! I had lunch at my own villa and had curry, saland and steak! After a delicious lunch, I came back to the villa and swam with my dad, my sister, my dad's friends', and my baby brother. It was so good!

I just rested again and again and played board games with my dad's friend again. While I was playing, my dad, my mom, my baby brother and my sister went to a spa where they massage you and drink juices. I didn't go there because I thought it was going to be boring but when I looked at the pictures after they came back, it looked awesome! I regreted... again.

We all went to a Indonesian restaurant called Made for dinner. I had nasi goreng special and lemon squash. It was soooooo delicious!!! At the beginning, I said this day was just normal but the dinner was the best out of all days. After the best dinner, we went to Starbucks and rested. I drank this classic juice and also drank sweet coffee with ice cream on top. It was really delicious and this was the first time I tried coffee.

I came back, and my dad and his friend talked about work. After 2 hours, it was 12:00 and I wasn't sleepy. I watched this Korean drama with my dad's friends until 1:00. My sister didn't get to watch it because she slept early.

Bali Day 2

I woke up early morning at 7 o clock. All of MY family woke up at 6:30 but 3 out of 4 of my dad's friends' were still sleeping in their bed, peacefully. I wanted to wake them up and play with them but my dad didn't allow it because they slept late last night after going to a cafe and drink. I just rested (AGAIN) and read book and stuff like that. When it was time for breakfast, I woke all 3 of them up and headed down for breakfast. We had breakfast inside the villa. There were white bread, chocolate bread, nasi goreng, mie goreng, fried and scrambled eggs, and lemon tea. I had mie goreng, white bread, chocolate bread and lemon tea (I'm allergic to eggs). I went back to my villa and jumped down at the little pool and played with my baby brother. He just liked it so much!!!! It was our own little pool and every villa has its own. Then, we went back to the big pool and the pool was warm. It was better for me because I can go right down to the pool. If it is cold, I can't get down to the pool right away.

Now this is the best part of staying at Bali. Going to the ocean and playing water stuff! We divided ourself in two groups. One was the ocean thing and the other one was going to a temple and also seeing monkeys on roads. In the ocean thing, they had banana boat, jet ski, fly fish, parasailing, water ski, diving, snorkeling, seeing dolphins, turtles, and lots more. I decided to do banana boat and fly fish with my sister and one of my dad's friends'. Banana boat is like a long small boat you ride on which looks like a banana and we just go through the ocean really fast. I wanted to fall down to the water but the guy didn't let us fall down so it was BoRiNg, but also fun because it went fast. After resting while drinking Pocari Sweat, we did fly fish where you lie down and a thing flies around the sky and go down, fly around, and go down. It was really fun. Then I just rested while the others did parasailing. I was scared to do that because I'm scared of heights. When they came back, they said it was awesome!!! I regreted. My sister did Jet Ski and the rest of us didn't. We had lunch at this water place and I had hot dogs.

When I came back to the villa, I was tired so I played board games with one of my dad's friend's and my sister again. It was awesome! Then, we decided to go to a restaurant called La Lucciola and had pasta, ribs and more. It wasn't that good but the scenery was AWESOME! It was the best scenery I've ever seen. Then, we all came back to the villa... BUT my dad's friends went to the cafe again! So... I had to do homework and read in my room. After that, it was 10:00 pm but I went to the swimming pool with my sister, my mom, and my little brother. I waited for my dad's friends to return, but they didn't come so I just slept.

Bali Day 1

I should have posted all these days in Bali but there was no laptop so... i have to post all now. Well, Bali Day 1. After a 1 hour 3o minute fly to Bali, we went to our villa called VivaLavi. We had lunch then in an Italian Restaurant called Trattoria Pizza which was just awesome!!! I had pizza and pasta. When I came back to our villa, I played board games with one of my dad's friends. It was really fun and I played board games a lot during this trip. Then I decided to swim at the big swimming pool outside with my sister, my mom and one of my dad's friends'. Since it was the first day, we didn't do much things but just rest in our villas, sleeping.

After playing board games and resting with my dad's friends', we decided to have dinner outside at a restaurant in Seminyak. We had steak and chicken sate which was realllllly good. I wanted to return home and play board games with my dad's friends' again, but all of them wanted to go to a cafe and drink beer and coffee. Our family only had to return home and sleep. However, I watched tennis (Nadal v.s. Fererro) on TV when I returned.

I'm going somewhere... FINALLY!

Like the title, I'm going somewhere... FINALLY! My parents decided to go somewhere during this holiday finally. We decided to go to Bali! I've been to Bali once with my family, and it was a really good and convenient place that everyone would enjoy. For this holiday to Bali, I am going there with my dad, mom, younger brother, baby brother, his maid, me, and 4 of my dad's friends. It's going to be awesome there and I'm going to enjoy there every night. I'm going to Bali tomorrow (New Year's Day) and coming back on the 4th of January. So it means that I'm going to sleep there 3 nights. We ordered a villa (I think) and I'm sure we're having some great food. I'm really excited of going to Bali tomorrow morning. We leave home at 6:30 in the morning and return at 4:00 afternoon on the 4th of January. I'm going to be blog posting about me staying at Bali everyday (1st of January, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. GO BALI!!!

Another Fallen Teeth

Well, there was another one. About one month ago, I posted about my fallen teeth... and it happened last week. My back teeth started shaking since 1 month ago (a looooong time) and I could've took it off, but I was scared to. Like I said, I don't like taking my teeth off because it hurts. This is how my story about the 'fallen teeth'.

Well, I invited Young Woo to my house and started playing this Korean game called 'Crazy Arcade'. Suddenly, my mom came in and gave a spicy Korean food called Tteok Bokk Ki (Weird name). We were eating it and playing games at the same time. I was eating it, and suddenly, I chewed something hard that wasn't like Tteok Bokk Ki. When I took that hard thing off, I realized it was my fallen teeth. My mouth was filled with blood and there were a lot of blood, but fortuitously, it didn't hurt AT ALL! I was relieved and I was happy because when I still had my shaking teeth, it hurt a lot when I was chewing other food. It bothered me, and I wanted to take it off, but i was scared to. I went to the bathroom then and washed my mouth. It was my second back teeth that fell off. I don't have any shaking teeth now, but when that happens, I will let the teeth fall off automatically. Then, I started playing with Young Woo 'Crazy Arcade' again for 1 hour!!!

P.S.: Young Woo and I are both good in Crazy Arcade.. but he's a little better. =)

Avatar

Yesterday afternoon, I had nothing to do except for staying at home, doing nothing. Then, my mom said "Si Won! Do you want to watch the movie Avatar?" I said, "YES MOM!" I headed to the movie theater in PIM with my little sister. It was the 2:45 time and we just got in time. This movie is a science fiction movie which can be in 3D. I thought watching in 3D would be dizzy so I just watched the normal one. Avatar is not the Avatar cartoon that u can watch in Disney Channel... it's a movie. (You can realize this on the pic)

Avatar is about a main character named Jake Sully. He meets a lady called Grace, and became friends. When they go in the container kind of place, you turn into a monster (in the pic left side). This monster is tall and strong. One day, when Jake Sully became a monster by going in the container, he hunted by himself and got chased by a huge monster which is a different kind as him. He got saved by another monster looking similar as him but a different kind. It was a female, and she took him to her family. The family had over 300 people. Jake Sully learned how to become their kind and learned their language, how they act, and got a dragon looking huge bird. One day, the real human came to destroy their world and destroyed their enormous tree with a missile. Jake Sully and the others decided to do revenge so they had a huge war. They had over 500 dragon looking birds and over 500 horses, and also men. The human had a explosive bomb and lots of tanks, airplanes, missiles, rocket launcher... etc. They fought, and after a long fight, Jake Sully's team won. However, the boss of the human was still alive, and fought Jake Sully and his girlfriend. When the boss was about to kill Jake with a knife, his girlfriend shot two arrows on his chest and he died.

This was a great movie with lots of action. I loved watching it but it was a long movie which was 2 hours and 35 minutes. Before I watched it, I was disappointed because I thought it was the cartoon Avatar, but it wasn't. My sister says it was one of the best movies she has ever watched. I love this movie, but it isn't the best movie I ever watched.

It's CHRISTMAS!!!

The day that everyone waited... CHRISTMAS!!! It's finally Christmas today!!! On Decemeber 25! Most people celebrate on Christmas. They go to relatives' house, play with their friends, go Christmas shopping, and do a lot of things. Well, I don't. Even though it's the December holiday, I don't go anywhere... (Even though I might go to Bali), don't go Christmas shopping, and DONT EVEN GET PRESENTS!! I don't know what to get for Christmas. My mom already bought me a Kipling Bag about 2 weeks ago, but I don't count that as a Christmas present. However, if I know what to get and I ask my parents to buy them, they 'might'.

Some people believe in Santa Claus and some people don't. In my case, I believed Santa Claus last year, but I don't anymore. I did a test if Santa gives us presents on Christmas last year. I was in Malaysia with my friends then. When I was sleeping and my friend on the other bed, he woke me up and said 'Lets see if Santa Claus is our parents and lets stay up until they come.' My friend's mom went up for shopping and didn't come back until 3. Suddenly, his mom opened the door so we rushed back to our room. She brought a shopping bag so we thought that it was our presents. When my friend's mom went to her room, we sneaked up to the shopping bag and looked. It was... my friends baby sister's present!!! Next morning, we realized that Santa Claus is not real.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! AND ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAY!!!

Gukgadaepyo

Yesterday night, after I came back home from a Korean restaurant called Chunggiwa, my dad decided to watch a Korean movie called Gukgadaepyo. My dad already watched it but he said it was a great movie so he wanted to watch again. My mom, my sister and I haven't watched it before but I heard that it is a good movie.

It is about a man (the guy that is in the middle in the pic) that lost (but didn't pass away) his mom. He wanted to find his mom so he wanted to be famous by being a Korean Ski player in the National Team. When he went to his first training, he met a coach, and 4 other teammates. In the picture, the one who is in the most left is a Middle Schooler, and he was a bit mental, but in ski, there was no age limit, so he decided to be a ski player, but only if someone gets injured in his team. After over 1 year of training, they still slipped and weren't good enough, but they trained every night and day so they became better. They had to participate in the ski World Cup and be in at least 6th place out of 8 to go in the Olympic in Japan. The day before the World Cup, all the ski players met each other. The Korean national team and the American national team fought by punching and kicking. The referees decided to not let Koreans play in the World Cup so they were disqualified. They just watched the other players ski in the TV. Suddenly, there was a bad fog and lots and lots of snow. The World Cup got cancelled so the referees decided to make all teams qualify and go in the Olympic!!! In the ski Olympic, they had two trials. Korea had to go last and this was the first time Korea participated in the ski World Cup. In the first trial, the first person got 130 m so Korea jumped up to 3rd place, where you could get a bronze medal. The second person slipped so they went back to 11th place out of 13. The third person got 128 m so they went up to 6th place. The last person did a good job so they jumped up to 3rd place again. After a rest, there was the second trial. The first person got 136 m so they stayed at 3rd place. The second and third person also did good but the other countries were even better so they went back down to 5th. The last person got injured in the first trial so the mental Middle Schooler had to replace him. He did a good job! He went soooo far but... he FELL! Other people gasped but still cheered for him. Korea went to 13th (last) place and the tournament ended.

I thought this was one of the best movies I've ever seen and the ski players jumping was really cool. I hope I could do that sometime and I really really loved it. YAY!!!! What a GREAT holiday!

Go MERAPI!!!

Thursday was MADNESS DAY!!! It was an awesome day... one of the best days of this school year. In Madness day, there were 6 volcanos; Merapi, Bromo, Agung, Krakatau, Salak and Rinjani. I was in Merapi, which wore the green color. Each person had to participate in 2 activities, and I got chosen in volleyball and big ball soccer.

The first session was volleyball, which was a really fun sport. Merapi first played Bromo, which was not a easy match. They had a really tall and good Korean player, who was at least 20 cm taller than me. We were winning really bad until... the Korean guy served. He made 7 serves in a row, and they overtook us, and they won 16: 14, after going in deuce. We lost our first match so I was disappointed. Next match was Salak. They weren't really good, so we won by about 8. We also won by 5 the next match, which were Rinjani. The last match, we faced Krakatau. We lost 15: 11. They were soooo good, and they came in 2nd place. We came in 4th place, Bromo came 1st, and I'm not sure about Salak and Agung.

After the 15 minute break, I had big ball soccer. This was better than the volleyball, because soccer is my favourite sport. We used the BIG BALL for the soccer ball, and it was really difficult to kick!!! Lots of people fell down, and when I faced Bromo, I got hit with the enormous ball two times in a row. It really hurt. We tied all our games 0:0 so I was disappointed. I almost scored at the first match, because when I scored, the finish whistle blowed 2 seconds ago. Krakatau came first, and we came 4th (I think).

After another break, we headed down to the New Gym, to watch the Student v.s. Teacher basketball game. For the 6th grade, the students won. For the 7th and 8th grade, the students won again!!! I thought this would never happen... but it did! I hope I participated in this, but I forgot to sign up. Then, Mr. Boots told us who won the Madness Cup. "Come on Merapi... Come on!!!" I thought. Well, THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

This is the list...
1. Agung
2. Krakatau
3. Bromo
4. Salak
5. Rinjani
6. MeRaPi!!!!!
We came LAST place. I knew this would happen, because we came 5th place at the Madness 1. Agung got the trophy, but we will definitely win the next Madness!!! Go MERAPI!!!!!!!!!

VPA Concert

The VPA concert was on December 15th. It was one of the biggest concert in the year, and it was really nervous when I performed, because I had to perform in front of all of my friends and teachers. Strings, movement, drama, choir, art and band performed in the VPA concert, but art is only a slideshow. I participate in the intermediate band, and today, we performed with the advanced band, which are all 8th graders. That made me more nervous, because if I play a note wrong, it's going to be bad. We performed at 1:00 - 2: 30, and we have another performance tonight, at 6:00 - 7:30. I play the clarinet in band, and I enjoy playing it, so I was excited while performing. For boys, we had to wear white top, black bottom, black socks, and black shoes. We also had to wear ties and belts, and also, shirts has to be tucked in and all the outfits has to be very formal. We performed in the Fine Arts Theater (FAT) and it is a really big stage, and it has a lot of audience to sit. See how nervous I was during this performance? Band played 4 songs: Trailblazers of the Spirit, Breckenridge Overture (only Intermediate band), Deck the Halls (only Advanced band), and Eagle's triumph. We might've not finish the Eagle's triumpth because the time might run off, but there was enough time. It is lucky that didn't happen because this was a really nice piece. During the concert, when a slow part changes to a fast part, the lights illuminated and changed the colour. Changing the light colour happened quite a few times during the performance, and I like this, because the performance was more exciting. Personally, I think performing in front of our friends and teachers was more nervous than performing in front of our parents. This was a really important performance, so I was really careful not to mess up notes. I was nervous AND excited during this performance.