Holla Back!

My absence this year and a couple months back in last year kind of tells you that I am pretty busy in college and doing some other important things. So I reckon we have a lot of news to catch up with and I make sure I'll tell y'all everything you've been missing while I was off blogging.

Wimbledon

Murray's winning signature

Since the last 2 weeks I have been bugging people in some social network services about Wimbledon. 

For those of you who love sports, tennis in particular, sure knows how important Wimbledon is and the prestigious of this Grand Slam event.

Murray after defeat Nikolay Davidenko

I got my heart broken by Rafael Nadal when he lost the match in R2 (Round 2). It was really heart-breaking, amazingly disappointing and surprisingly devastating for all of us who love and expect Nadal to made it at least to the Quarter Final.

But it doesn't really matter, because Rafa isn't my only hero. Andy Murray, a Scot 25-year-old tennis player is also my favorite and yesterday (last night in Indonesia) Murray defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) in 4 sets 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

Quoting from a blog post by Ian Baker in Wimbledon's website:

Great Britain's 11-match SW19 semi-final horror sequence of defeats is finally over as Murray became the first home player to reach a Wimbledon men's singles final since 1938, with a nerve-jangling four sets win over Tsonga. After 74 hurtful years, nothing was ever going to be simple and the final realization that history had at last been put to bed came in anti-climatic fashion.

 And the first question in after-match interview stated:

Q: What were you doing 74 years ago?

Andy Murray: Not a whole lot. (Smiling)

The blog post by Ian Baker and after-match interview show that British people has so many expectation on Murray and after a long and tense match, Murray save himself a seat in the final round where he is going to play against Roger Federer (World's #3) on Sunday (July 8).

Andy Murray during a match versus Ivo Karlovic

To be honest, I love both Federer and Murray; so it doesn't really matter to me about who will finally get the 1st place -- as long as it's not Novak Djokovic. A few times ago in Australian Open, I was a big fan of Djokovic but because of several reasons, I changed my mind and now I'm his biggest hater. I don't like Djokovic's attitude now that he's World's #1.

Either way, this year's Wimbledon has been filled with a lot of surprises, ups and downs, tie-breaks, etc. I expect nothing for Men's final but more surprises and a good (hopefully) 5 sets match.

College

I happened to have just finished this year's semester and currently waiting for my entire 24-credits grade to be announced. So far, I got A-s for Microeconomics, Advanced Accounting and Accounting Lab. I got B for Financial Management. And C for Operational Management (I kind of hate this subject anyway). So, I'm still looking forward to other grades to come out. In the mean time, I'm going to take an English conversation class for summer break to brush up my English speaking ability.

House

The biggest news of the year is that my older sister is finally pregnant to my gonna-be nephew. The due date is around late August or early September. My mom has been planning on flying to her city after her labor, and I was planning on the same thing but had to cancel because when I checked on the Academic Calendar, it's exactly where my 3rd year classes begin. So I guess I'll just check on my nephew by Skype. Actually, I was hoping to get a niece this time and it was a major let down when my sister called and said that it's going to be a baby boy. It's okay though, the next one has to be a baby girl so that I'll have someone that I can put cute dresses on, make ups and every girly thingy.

Blood Donor

YES! June 14, 2012 -- a historic day of the year: my first blood donor. Two days before that when I was driving to my mother's office in an intersection red-light, a guy from Indonesian Red Cross handed me a brochure of World Blood Donor Day and I thought "Why not". 

So that day, Thursday, after attended a class in campus, I rushed to the Red Cross branch office accompanied by Quinta (my classmate whose afraid of blood) for my first blood donor. Quinta keeps telling me that she's scared as hell and she's so nervous. I laughed so hard because she wasn't the one who’s going to donor the blood, but she got more scared than I did.

After several medical check-up, one of the nurses took me to a room and then I lay down in one of the bed where the magic happens. 

At first I thought it would be painful and scary but turned out it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would be!!! After a few minutes, the nurse took the needle out of my skin and showed me a bag full of my 250cc-blood.

One of the Red Cross employees gave me a Red Cross mug and a box full of snacks.

The nurse told me that I can donor my blood again in the next 2.5-3 months, and I'm definitely going to do this again as long as my blood is needed.

I love donor my blood.

During blood-taken

A tiny bandage covering the scar