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Xplode (the youth community at my church here) celebrated its 4 th birthday last week! Tapi saya baru sempat posting ceritanya sekarang :D Anyway, saya jadi salah satu MC di acara itu, bareng sama Andrew. Pengalaman pertama jadi MC, dan yang tadinya berencana pakai bahasa Indonesia, tiba-tiba berubah harus pakai bahasa Inggris karena ada beberapa tamu yang bukan orang Indonesia (FYI, gereja saya di sini jemaatnya orang Indonesia semua :D). Duh, nervousnya jadi double! But thanks to my partner Andrew yang sudah berhasil menutupi semua awkward moments saya dengan banyolan-banyolannya. Almost everyone thought that he’s a professional MC! In fact, that was also his first time hosting an event, just like me! *nyembah* Oya, untuk anniversary kali ini, kita pakai tema Unity in Love, and what’s special is that… we had fine dining at our church hall!  The Menu Apa lagi yang spesial? Semua makanan hari itu dimasak dan dihidangkan oleh our cell group leaders, who dresse...

I was in charged of arranging my church’s Appreciation Night last week.  Well, the main idea of this Appreciation Night thing was to reward all of the church’s servants (activists) for all that they’ve done for the church. In the past, the appreciation used to be given during church’ anniversary, but this year my pastor would like to conduct it separately, so yeah, I was a lil bit nervous (yet, excited) when appointed as the PIC, because it would be the first Appreciation Nite at my church :p  We had a fine dining at the church hall (BIG thanksss to Ci Sophia, Ci Dessy, Ci Ayong cs and of course our PastorChef Ko Yakub for managed the dining tables plus prepared the foods, I really couldn’t ask for more :D) while special guest star gospel-singer Jason sang for us, continued by Praise & Worship session led by our MC plus WL, Wiwin. Church hall magically transformed into Ritz Carlton's ballroom :p Ubercute fruits dessert by Ci Dessy :) "Impo...

First of all… Happy Valentine’s Day! :D Saya merayakan Valentine dengan dinner romantis… berlima belas! :)) Thanks to Felix yang udah koordinir Valentine Dinner for The Jojoba (alias Jomblo-Jomblo Bahagia – meski nggak semua pesertanya jomblo karena ada dua yang pacarnya di Indonesia dan satu lagi yang… hihihi, sudahlah) di Medzs at Orchard Central.  Anyway, semua yang ikutan dinner teman-teman gereja saya di sini, and it was totally FUN! Kita pada meng-hacked BB satu sama lain (cara yang aneh untuk merayakan Valentine sih -_-) dengan cara mengganti display name dan status. Saya juga jadi korban, padahal BB cuma ditinggal sebentar buat ambil makanan. Bener-bener deh ya, kalau lagi sama anak-anak Xplode, do not leave your BlackBerry unattended! Lihat nih display name saya… Selama dua tahun lebih pakai BB ini, saya nggak pernah sekali pun ganti display name (ya cuma Stephanie Zen gitu), eeh cuma dalam dua belas menit di tangan Felix, Kenny, dan Jovi, sudah tiga kali ganti...

First of all, I wanna say Happy Chinese New Year for those who celebrate! Hope that you have a blissful and blessed one! :) Anyway, I celebrated in Singapore with my church' mates! Began with having prata at The Prata House (such an unusual way to celebrate CNY, isn't it? But it was cool! LOL!) Durian pratta and cheese sausage prata! :9 Eliz, Me, Yovani, Cindy Audi, Didi, Tara, Daniel Then we went to our pastor's, Ko Yakub and Ci Yenny's house to have lunch together. These pics were taken on the way from the bus stop to Ko Yakub's home :p FYI, Ko Yakub is such a great chef, and today he cooked babi rica, ayam kecap, bihun goreng, and fruit salad for us. Yum! Sorry I didn't take the pic, I was too hungry to, hwekeke. After lunch, we had games. From monopoly deal (geez! I missed my monopoly deal nites on Surabaya!), to sumthin' called killer-spy-police game. Totally fun, tho some of us, who got the role as the killer, were trying...

Dalam seminggu ini saya menemukan dua makanan yang amat sangat uenak suekale banget! :D Lucunya, kedua makanan ini saya temukan secara “nggak sengaja”. Makanan pertama, Hokkian Mee di Kopitiam: Oya, buat yang nggak tau, Kopitiam itu semacam food court, jadi terdiri dari aneka stall yang jual macam-macam makanan gitu. Kayaknya Kopitiam mana aja jual Hokkian Mee ini deh, tapi kemarin saya makannya di Kopitiam MRT Lavender, habis latihan Praise & Worship Team di gereja. Kopitiam ini udah kayak langganan anak-anak Xplode, karena… dari gereja cuma tinggal ngesot aja, dan pilihan makanannya juga segambreng. Biasanya, kalau di sini saya makan young tau foo, wonton noodle, atau dessert ice longan and beancurd. Cuma, kemarin lagi pakai baju putih, terus nggak tahu kenapa saya tuh ada kecenderungan menumpahkan anything di baju kalau sedang pakai baju putih -_- Jadi, kemarin saya mikir… makan apa ya yang aman? Kalau sampai ceroboh saya kumat dan makanan tumpah di baju pun, nggak terl...

Yesterday, the youth community at my church (named Xplode) had a BBQ party! :D Acaranya dibikin di BBQ pit kondominium salah satu anak Xplode, Justina, di Mirage Tower. Sistem BBQ partynya potluck, jadi tiap cell group bawa makanan yang sudah ditentukan, nanti baru dimakan bareng-bareng. Nah, cell group saya, the famous Ai Ciak Terus alias ACT, kebagian bawa dessert. Dan apalagi yang kami bawa selain signature dish ACT… ice loly (longan-lychee)! Fufufu… How ice loly looks like. It's not yesterday's. Yang kemarin nggak sempat difoto :p Anyway, waktu sampai di kondo Justina, hujan masih turun rintik. Nah, mana bisa BBQ-an kalau hujan, kan? So, me and one of my friend, Kenny, prayed (meniru yang dilakukan Vanness Wu di sini ) that the rain will stop at 5.15 PM, in Jesus name! :D The rain stopped at 5.30 PM, by the way. Yay! Let’s light up the fire! These are few pictures from yesterday’s BBQ. I didn’t take lots bcoz I was busy grilling :D Kipasnya ...