I just realized how hard it is to translate from one language to another. What happens to me was, I tried to translate English to Indonesian using my faulty engrish and rusty Indonesian. Inggris belum lancar, Indo udah mulai lupa..

Here goes:

Happy birthday LEGO, cheers for all the joy and happiness from all the children (and everyone who are still children at heart) ^.^

Kudos for RCTI and Indosiar for keep broadcasting the papal mass, keep up the good work! I don’t think that any public tv station in the states will air it. EWTN definitely has it, but come on, they are catholic channel. But I guess the circumstances are different for every country. Merry Christmas and peace on earth! Selamat natal dan damai di bumi!

Why is that? Probably because there is no autumn in Indonesia (we only have two season: hot and hotter), or maybe because I’m just being so isolated from chinese culture. But anyways, it is kinda interesting to see how Chinese Indonesian put themselves on the Indonesian society for the next 10-20 years. I think I’m one of the last generation that never have Chinese language taught freely in the class. Nowdays, they even start teaching mandarin in the kindergarten! Heck, I still remember that my first English lesson was when I’m already on the 4th grade :(

So looking at this new generation, I wonder if they are going to speak mandarin fluently as their mother tongue, or local language will still be the first choice. Back in Semarang, I know that almost all my Chinese friends speak Javanese fluently (when I say fluently, that means using it as social language), I even know some friends that speak Javanese better than Indonesian, or at least having difficulties speaking Indonesian without putting one or two Javanese words :p But that should not be surprising, considering that we have to take Javanese language class for at least 9 years, from grade 1 elementary to end of junior high (some senior high school also require Javanese, thank God I did not have to take it for another three years). Now, do you think this new found freedom will change that? Will Indonesian Chinese back to their root, and find themselves in a similar position to Malaysian Chinese? Or are they going to assimilate with the local culture, and change to a totally new culture (American born Chinese?)

At 3 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, April 18, the chimes of Orton Hall, on the Oval, will play the Virginia Tech alma mater in memory of those individuals who lost their lives Monday on the campus of Virginia Tech University. Following the chimes, please join the entire Ohio State University campus in a moment of silence, so each of us, in our own way, can offer our private thoughts and prayers on behalf of victims of this terrible tragedy. Wherever you may be at 3 p.m., please pause and join the entire campus community for a moment of reflection.

Let’s pray for everyone who died on this tragedy. May our heavenly Father forgive their sins and give them eternal life.

Anyway, I found this one comment:

now if you started reading this dont stop its really scarey!ok send this to five other videos in 143 minutes.When you are done press F6 and your crushes name will apear on the screen in big letters this is weird because it does work.If you break this chance you wont have a crush in the next five years

I press F6 and nothing happens :( Liar >_<

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International donation: Catholic Relief Service

Eleven good years, and I don’t have any appropiate picture to put here :( Thanks for everything! We’ll definitely miss your present..

Note: the pictures were taken a yr back, when she was still as healthy and as lazy as ever :)