Teman2 PERMIAS di Bryan/College Station Area:

Pada bulan Juli 2004 yang akan datang, group band Dewa dari Indonesia akan
datang untuk melakukan charity tour keliling Amerika. Tempat2 yang akan
dikunjungi antara lain, SF, Seattle, dan Boston. Tapiii..... ternyata mereka
juga ingin manggung di TEXAS!!! naahh.. ini kesempatan bagi kita permias
college station untuk mengadakan konser Dewa di state of Texas.

Acara ini mungkin akan diadakan oleh kepanitiaan 3 kota: Austin, Houston,
sama College Station tentunya. Naahhh.. saya ingin minta pendapat teman2
sekalian, apakah teman2 bersedia untuk membantu menyukseskan acara ini? Kita
butuh dukungan temen2 sekalian untuk bisa membantu kepanitiaan acara ini
sehingga bisa bener2 terselenggara. TOLONG REPLY SECEPATNYA!!! Deadline hari
JUMAT! semakin banyak yang reply, semakin besar kemungkinan Dewa akan
manggung di Texas. Acaranya kemungkinan akan dilaksanakan pada tanggal 9
Juli 2004.

Saya minta temen2 bisa merespon ini secepatnya. bisa ke email saya langsung:
iwanardian@yahoo.com, sweet_t3a@hotmail.com, atau ke mailing list permias:
list@permias.tamu.edu

terima kasih.. dan please tolong respon sebelum jumat.

thanks,

iwan ardian

K says: belum pulang juga? tadi papa chatting dengan ucok
bamboozled says: iya ni pa bentar lagi kali..nunggu besok pagi lagi
K says: ha ha tidak ada batas waktu kali ya
b says: ntah lah banyak kali masalahnya
K says: ya satu satu di solve, case by case
b says: iya hahaha...ini yg pertamanya aja belum terpecahkan
K says: bawa tidur dulu lupakan semua besokya bangun akan nampak jalan keluarnya. jangan dipaksa. You need a rest
b says: ciecie..ok. ya sudah mau pulang lah kalo gitu daaa
K says: ia kan endurance kita kan limited

hahaha..he's so sweet ya...maap nggak ada ide mo posting apa lagi hari ini...

You know, just please do yourself a big favor. If you were ever going to help anybody, do it sincerely. You can take my name off that f*ckedup paper for all I care. I don't need that kind of mumbo-jumbo!!!!

X

What?? Looks like there will be a dissolution of the MacFarlanes' marriage. His book is the first of one, and safe it is to say, is the only one of this genre I' ve ever encountered. I am not that familiar with his other line of works, but judging from his public display of "holyness" all this time, the divorce or annulment or whatever it is they're working on is plain ridiculous. So, what happened, Bud?

hoi, Jeng chrys, pinjem trademark ngeposting-mu ya.
dimulai...
waduh waduh waduh walo sekarang ini ike lagi gila-gilanya kerja buat ngejar deadline lima april (where have i been, kok deadline yg ini nggak terkerjakan sebelum-sebelumnya ya???) semangat f-ster tetep jalan terus dong...hehehe...klik sana sini, dan akhirnya ketemu sahabat lama di jaman sd dahulu kala. berikut cuplikan message dia setelah saya minta dia nambahin saya sebagai temennya...
Subject: Hey you...
Message: Buset...gile, kok elo bisa nemu gue yah??? inget
dulu kreatip banget kalo maen petak umpet...pura2
jalan di tengah2 keramean...hehehe...Huaahhhh
kapan coba terakhir ketemu elo? Almost 14-15
years ago...
Oh my Lord...Pa kabar nih??? Read your
f*****ster...are you still at Texas A&M? Wah PhD
candidate pula, which major? research apa
nih?...gileee...otak elo tuh masih encer
aja...Scholarship c*ltex nyambung ama fellowship
di TAMU yah? Ngiri nih! Adek elo bareng di TAMU
juga?...hmm...ucok yah kalo enggak salah namanya?
Titip salam juga deh...hehehe
Oh iya, maap yah...engga pernah belajar bhs indo
yg bener, maklumlah sejak pindah ke jkt gue jadi
jago nyontek, abis satu kelas kompak banget bagi2
jawaban. Bhs inggris-nya juga parah...jadi
ngomong sekarang gado2 gitu.
oke deh itu dulu...ntar bawel-nya nyambung lagi...

abis mbaca pesan tsb, ike bagekan terkena amnesia sesaat, lupa-lupa inget kalo pernah ikutan maen petak umpet spt yg dia bilang..huek huek..paling ada juga dulu lari-lari di lapangan upacara berkerikil tanah oranye...hei? tak terhitung luka-luka di sekujur kaki kalo kepleset di situ...yg ike ingat, temen ike ini orangnya pinter banget (ember, sekarang lagi ngambil phd di USC, chemistry, waktu undergrad pernah ikut projek NASA, keren kan, keren dong, ckckck). kita segank suka dengerin cerita-cerita kung-fu dari dia seru bo'. oiya satu lagi trademark-nya dia ke sekolah pake koper presiden (yg versi skolah itu loh inget nggak lulu pade?) klo nggak salah punya die yg warna item. nah pas bu/pak guru lagi ngajar di depan, dia taro itu koper di mejanya dibuka dan dia sibuk ngerjain macem-macem...asli nggak peduli ama sekeliling...hueuhaha...
ya udah deh ike cabut pulang dulu lapeer sekalee. krn tadi pagipagi buta udah batal puasa makan dagingnya sekalian ike mo makan kuetiau goreng sapi (mudahmudahan bukan dari daging sapi gila) dari ciwok buat makan sialam (siangmalam) hari ini...hmm..nyamnyam...
ps: gimana? udah lumayan bawel dan garink kan ike...

In the spur of the moment, I would rather:
a. Transfer to other advisor
2. Transfer to other school
III. Quit PhD all together & go find myself a job, even the worthless ones.

I honestly loathe thee, Dr. K!!!!!!
Pardon my hostility.

This is a picture of Ndoros Xinda & Yadda posing somewhere in the China town. We had just finished a late afternoon dimsum session and some oriental grocering, which was followed by a visit to the bubble tea place and the Chinese bakery next door. Oh, for a bit more fun for the day out, we decided to put some teenagery make-up on. Could you guys spot it? Anyway, the next stop was the MFAH.

This is a picture of Ndoros Xinda & Yadda (again) posing from the roof top garage of the MFAH. Cool, eh? It was around 5:30-6 PM, the sun was just setting. You could not trade anything for a piece of serenity like that in the big city.

This is a blurry me posing inside the museum. It is one of the few places inside that they let people take pictures. I didn't remember what was the painting I was earnestly explored. But I do remember this, the two paintings on the back were by Impressionists Cassat and one of the unfinished Manet. High art, low art, what is art, anyway?

We didn't have any film left in the camera, so there was no picturesque commemoration of the hearty, yummy burgers (Jamaican Jerk, Wild Salmon, House) we three consumed at Hobbit Cafe. You guys just have to take my words, those ranked very high on the list of the finest burgers I've ever had in my entire burger-eating career.

I'm off to South Padre in a couple hours, adios amigos!

X

My head still suffers from pulling an all-nighter to (start and) finish a homework that due today. But anyway, the class itself was less torturous. That was partially due to the professor who took the liberty to distribute two boxes of Girl Scout Cookies (his granddaughter's) and a sheet of John Bardeen's short profile along in the hand-outs. So, instead of paying attention to yet another set of band diagrams lecture, I was busy munching on the snack while calculating Dr. Bardeen's age profile during his education and professional working period, in which the Two Nobel prizes were awarded on his behalf. (He graduated from HS by the age of 15, got a BS and MS by the time he's 25, a PhD at 28. In between, he had been a Research fellow in Harvard, a "Geophysicist", and an "Electrical Engineer". His first Nobel was in '56, for the invention of the transistor effect, and the second was in '72, for the superconductor work.)

The other 3/4 of the class period, my thoughts were flying somewhere to the Spring Break plan. Throughout my graduate studies to date, I've never taken a whole week break. Let's just say, I've been following the tradition of the people in the research group to dedicate all of the available time to the advancement of the research. Even with such dedications, students in this particular research group graduate years later than their fellow classmates. But this year, it's gonna be different. I am going to be a rebel (with a cause, and yes, to my own expense). I am taking the next Thursday and the whole weekend off to flee 400-something miles down to the South Padre Island. We (as in the sibblings, the neighbors, anybody else interested on the trip) haven't been working on the details accomodation and places to visit, yet. A day or two should be enough to figure those things out.

Coming out next time, the scanned pictures & accompanying stories of last Saturday's Houston trip.

Holler,
X

Dear Ms. N********:
...
For this year's competition, we received many strong applications and the judging was extremely difficult. We were greatly impressed by the high quality of the applications received, including your own. Nevertheless, I regret to inform you that you were not selected as an award finalist for the 2004 MRS Spring Meeting.
...

This has crushed my selfless soul into a billion tiny pieces.
Better start working harder.

Joy has been married to her husband Tim for almost ten years. She enjoys spending time with her 4 children, Dancing, Gardening, Trips to the River and Home Improvement projects.

--Taken from an industry's inside sales reps list page.

You guys wouldn't think that Dancing, Gardening, Trips to the River and Home Improvement projects are the names of her children, would you? Hiayahauhauah...This just made my day.

A couple days ago, well, Monday, the sibblings and I went watching this movie. I couldn't go on to discuss the significance of the movie to me, let's just say it's way too personal. However, I don't think it is as controversial as what others say, if one views it as an artistic rendering of a 2000-year old faith. Here is an external review of the movie. Here is a Blooper Reel of the movie, in words.

Forgot, The Misnomer turned 1 year old yesterday. Live long & prosper, bloggie!

Dear readers,

Please pardon the occasional sentimental lyrics postings, if you would. I am trying to circumvent that phase of life when everything is boring and tiring. So far, there has been no avail to these attempts. Hopes tomorrow will be different.

Love,
The tediously bored Miss X

Wade in the Water
Wade in the Water
Children wade in the Water,
God's gonna trouble the Water
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If you don't believe I did begin to wade in the Water
Just see the holy ghost looking for me
God's gonna trouble the Water

Wade in the Water, Eva Cassidy