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name: andre aryanto
age: 20 (gonna change again next october!)
b.day: 10-10-87
origin: jakarta, indonesia
location: s'pore > CCK
occupation: student; changkat primary school (1996-2000), dunman secondary (2001-2004), st. francis methodist school (2005-2006), SMa School of Management (2006-____)
cca: ex-badminton player (2005), CF guitarist (2006), gutarist intern for TPMC
likes: needforspeed!!!, badminton, guitaring, drumming, music, chilling out with friends, sleeping, slacking, etc.
abt myself
Me? A pretty talkative person, haha!! I love playing computer games, particularly because I love cars. I am not a very good subject opener when I'm in conversation, so basically when you talk to me, there'll be some moment in silence, and a few seconds later, I'd talk about absolutely nothing in common that we just spooke, haha!! That's why I'm a boring person, if I get to describe one of my attributes. My English ain't that great either, so that's probably one of the main reason... =P
[To all my indo peeps (others can read as well.. Hope u guys can understand too, heh!)
Heh.. abt gue? gw org ya ma bosen punya, haha! gw seneng main computer, gw jg suka mobil! gw paling ga suka buka topik kalo bicara.. mankanya tu gw orangnya tu bosan. gw tuh juga perlu orang buka topic buat gua juga.. kaloo nga cuma gw tanya ini ono.. ya bosan la tentu, haha! sori ya, blognya bahasa inggris. bahasa gw dah hancur bangat, dah 10 taun di S'pore, haha!!]
Friday, January 16, 2009
MOVING DAY!! :)
Blog moved! Click here to my new blog:
mraryanto.wordpress.com.
Entries will be made in that blog from today henceforth. I won't be deleting this blog away. It's been a good companion since my SFMS days. =)
See you on the other side! =)
1/16/2009 05:00:00 PM
Thursday, October 02, 2008
7 + 1 to 20 + 1
Here we go again, another long delayed post. It's not like anyone reads my blog, but I'm gonna post anyways. :)
Now, how long have I been gone? Oh, a month and a half. Right.. Um, I'm not gonna go into exact details 'cuz it's just gonna be extremely long winded.
1.) Went back for a vacation in Indonesia for an amazing week. Did nothing but eat and play. Absolutely LOVE it! =)
2.) September kicked off, and attended my beloved Tasha's 18th birthday at Warren Golf & Country Club at Choa Chu Kang. Couldn't really clique well with the people who were there. Thankfully John came along. Hitched a rather short but long ride back to the bus stop after the party and took a straight bus home, and crashed to bed immediately after a rainy and lethargic day. Thanks Esther! =D
3.) New semester began about a month ago. I'm glad I have two of the best lecturers in SMa I could ever begged for: Frankie Yee and Piya Chee. Lectures have never been so interesting until this trimester. Just submitted my first assignment on Monday. =)
4.) Went for GCA 2008 (Games Convention Asia) over at Suntec City about a couple of weeks back, and got to try out the brand new installment of the NFS series - NFS Undercover. After the convention, met up with my bro for lunch, and off we went to another convention: Super Imports Night at Expo. It's been a while since I've attended an automotive exhibition. 3 years back to be precise. Despite the over-excessive displays of about 20 or so Nissan GT-R's, there were a few which caught my eyes, with Bentley's Continental models, BMW M6, Lamborghini Gallardo Hamann and Murcielago LP640 and a Ferrari 599GTB Fiorrano just to name a few. I'm a little disappointed that they didn't bring in the Maserati. I'd really like to see the MC12. We were treated with some urban street drifting at Expo's parking lot after we've finished roaming in the hall.
5.) Formula 1 - Singapore Grand Prix. One of the best highlights this year, and it happened right on our own backyard! How amazing right? =D
Most of you might not know, but I actually followed F1 before I moved to CCK, 'cuz we didn't have cable. Now that we do, we did not sign up for the Sports Group 'cuz it wasn't cheap as what it used to be 8 years ago. So I kinda lost touch with the sport, until recently. I wasn't kidding when I said I didn't regret NOT buying the tickets, 'cuz I'd rather watch it on TV; it captures every single moment of the race. And the commentators are of good help for non-followers like me too, for I would have been lost if they didn't walk through the rules of the Pit Lane closure and etc. If only my assignment was granted another week of extension and declared 26-28 a holiday , I'd have gone over to City Hall last week just for the opportunity to hear the ear-pleasing yet defeaning noise melody of the V8 engines. Watching it on YouTube already gave me chills. It's really an adrenaline pump. I mean, a decade ago, it never came across my mind that F1 could ever take place in such a small country. This is really a major breakthrough. I'm elated. I hope I'll get an opportunity next year.
6.) Went for a community work, giving out rations to the elderly. It was an eye-opener for me; an enriching experience. It makes me appreciate the things that I have now even more. One lesson I learnt from this session: complain less. :)
7.) Isaac's and Eileen's birthday. Went to John's and Marcus' place respectively for the celebrations, although I must say I was more nervous for Eileen's, 'cuz due to 'unforeseen circumstances', all the planning were thrown to me at the very last minute. For what it's worth, I'm glad everything went smoothly. Happy birthday once again you two! =)
So that's my 1 month plus worth of activities. May not seem a lot for a month, but it's been one heck of activities for me. For now, it's back to TV for me. Heroes and Ugly Betty areback for Season 3, Desperate Housewives have desperately geared up for season 4, and Gossip Girl is bitchier than ever. With Survivor, The Amazing Race and The Amazing Race Asia to sum up my list of must watch this October, there's no doubt I'll be well-entertained this month. =)
Countdown begins: 8. If this doesn't suffice, the song will be of a good lure to the clue. Break a leg! =)
10/02/2008 03:30:00 PM
Friday, August 15, 2008
tomorrow's the day
OK, I can do this.. Since the Olympic craze has gotten into me, I'm just gonna carry the "Olympic Spirit" with me to the exam hall.
After tomorrow I'm gonna slack until next semester begins. =p
"D", here I come..
8/15/2008 05:24:00 PM
Thursday, August 14, 2008
history maker
"I've just won an Olympic medal!" If it were to be you, you'd already be so damn proud you wouldn't even care less about anything else. The pride and joy of representing your country and setting the mark, it'd just be too much to contain.
"I've just won 5 Olympic gold medals and broken 5 world records in 4 days!" If someone were to disclose that to you, you'd think he is in dreamland or probably drunk or just plain insane. Unless, of course, he bares the nickname of "The Baltimore Bullet".
History has been made today by a man who swims faster than he can walk. This is of a man who has emerged victorious in 5 of the 8 races he has competed in and setting new World Records not only on his lap times, but also for being the first ever athlete to ever win 13 Olympic medals (11 gold, 2 bronze), giving him the most number of Olympic golds ever won by an Olympic athlete of the modern Olympic era.
Mission accomplished, you may say, having won 5-for-5. But no, he is not going to stop there... the Gold Digger is still gunning for more. After all, he still has 3 more events to go. He is set to demolish Mark Spitz's record of 7 Olympic golds in a single Games which has been holding strong for the past 3 decades. Gold medals or not, what the heck. It doesn't really matter anymore. He's made history... an Olympic history. One journey where no athlete has ever gone before. A feat which doesn't usually happen for any typical 23-year-old. Well, maybe just one particular bloke from a small US state of Maryland who just happens to love swimming.
This is the life of arguably the greatest athlete to have ever walked swam on this planet today. An individual who will never ever be forgotten for a very long, long period of time.
To us, he's the winningest athlete in the Olympics, the greatest Olympian to have ever competed in the Summer Games.
But being the humble, soft-spoken person that he is, he just wants to be known as Michael Phelps.
8/14/2008 01:52:00 AM
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
olympics: ups & downs
OK, so we're about mid-way through the first week of the Beijing Olympics. Plenty of hi's and lo's.. So what's the 411?UPS:
- Singapore's Tao Li made it to the finals of the 100m Butterfly and finished a respectable fifth, producing a new Asian record timing. No medals, but still a major stepping stone in her swimming career. WELL DONE Tao Li! You are a force to be reckoned with! Schipper, watch out in 2012. Hehe! =)
- USA's swim team & the Dolphin Phelps himself.
WOW! Where do I even begin? Let's see.. Dara Torres, a 41-year old Mother who is making her fifth Olympic appearance in Beijing, just won a silver medal in the Women's 4x100 Freestyle Relay. How cool is that!! Ooh! What about the one where Michael Phelps seized the gold medal in the Men's 400m Individual Medley while shedding off 1 second plus off his previously set World Record timing? Or his other gold medal victory in the Men's 200m Freestyle with a new world record perhaps?
No?
OK. What about the most talked about swimming event thus far: the Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay, where the US swim team (Jones, Phelps, Lezak and Webber-Gale) not only successfully claiming what's rightfully theirs, but also obliterated the field by shedding off 4 seconds off the World Record timing? I think that'll do.
Now count it - 3 GOLD MEDALS for that Dolphin and 5 more to go. He has successfully claimed 3 out of the 8 targeted gold medals that he is aiming for, at the same time not forgetting to stamp his name into the record books, breaking World Record timings for the final events that he's in. I'm so glad I've grounded myself at home to savour all these amazing once in a lifetime moments. Haha! I'm left speechless after watching all the records getting trimmed off JUST like that. They made it look like it's just a walk in the park. Realistically speaking, it's just.... it's just not done. That just goes to show how experienced and agile the American swimmers are. Brilliance at its best. Absolutely unbelievable. *salutes*
Talk about the dream team. Move over LeBron James and co. The US swimmers are the new Dream Team. =)
DOWNS:
- Taufik Hidayat (my badminton idol) lost out to Malaysia's Wong Choon Han in the Men's Singles round of 32. That poor dude just recovered from dengue fever which he caught it in Indonesia prior to the Games. I was really, really confident that he was gonna retain his Gold which he claimed at Athens in 2004.
- Tau Li's final swim in the Water Cube, not managing to qualify for the semis in the Women's 200m Butterfly.
So Tuesday's a wrap. Let's see what the Water Cube has to offer tomorrow at 10AM, kicking off with the Men's 200m Butterfly Finals. I dare say Michael Phelps will emerge triumphant in this event. No doubt about it. I just wanna know his time.. =)
Anticipation beyond words can say...
8/12/2008 08:38:00 PM