Journey of Mi[rna]

"Where’d You Go?"

Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone.

She said "Some days I feel like shit,
Some days I wanna quit, and just be normal for a bit,"
I don’t understand why you have to always be gone,
I get along but the trips always feel so long,
And, I find myself trying to stay by the phone,
‘Cause your voice always helps me to not feel so alone,
But I feel like an idiot, workin’ my day around the call,
But when I pick up I don’t have much to say,
So, I want you to know it’s a little fucked up,
That I’m stuck here waitin’, at times debatin’,
Tellin’ you that I’ve had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where’d you go?"

I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone.
Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone,
Please come back home…

You know the place where you used to live,
Used to barbecue up burgers and ribs,
Used to have a little party every Halloween with candy by the pile,
But now, you only stop by every once and a while,
Shit, I find myself just fillin’ my time,
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind,
I’m doin’ fine, I plan to keep it that way,
You can call me if you find that you have something to say,
And I’ll tell you, I want you to know it’s a little fucked up,
That I’m stuck here waitin’, at times debatin’,
Tellin’ you that I’ve had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where’d you go?"

I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone.
Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone,
Please come back home…

I want you to know it’s a little fucked up,
That I’m stuck here waitin’, no longer debatin’,
Tired of sittin’ and hatin’ and makin’ these excuses,
For why you’re not around, and feeling so useless,
It seems one thing has been true all along,
You don’t really know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,
I guess I’ve had it with you and your career,
When you come back I won’t be here and you can sing it…

Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone.
Where’d you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it’s been forever,
That you’ve been gone,
Please come back home…
Please come back home…
Please come back home…
Please come back home…
Please come back home…

Ah, after 12 days being away from Jakarta………I’m home at last. I just got back from the airport. It was very crowded, probably because it’s Sunday.
I miss my Rara……I miss Indonesian food: sate ayam, bubur ayam, gado-gado……….

I take a day off on Monday to exchange last Friday. Relax and take care the house, then I think I’ll go to Ibu Ani’s house. Her birthday is on March 21 but I visited her tomorrow. I have prepared a present for her.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Then, off I go to see my Rara. Thank God, she does’t forget me. I waited untill my sister and her husband came home from work, then we went to Pizzahut in Bintaro Plaza to get the dinner.

Felt so great when you are among your family members.

After checked out from Evergreen we checked in to First House Hotel, which we booked through the net.

There was First Hotel, and First House Hotel. I have never
been to the location during my last visits to Bangkok.
It’s called Pratunam. A little bit awkward. Taxi driver said he knew the place.
But he took us to First Hotel. Then I asked him to ask the door guard of the
hotel if he knew the location. Oh my God! He said that the hotel is smaller and
not far from there.

Susan and I looked each other, smaller????

Well, the thought was right. We had to go in to an alley
to get to this hotel. It was in market area. I wasn’t comfortable with the
atmosphere. But what can we do? We were stuck there for 2 days, so let’s just
enjoy it. The room wasn’t too bad, breakfast I can handle, by only ate toast
bread and salad.

There were shopping malls, e.g. Platinum Plaza where it has thousands of
store that sell fashion clothings, bags, and shoes. Too bad I have big size
feet, otherwise, I will buy those pretty shoes!

Aspirators lectures.

Only one thing I’ll remember:

Vadim - Vadim - Vadim - Vadim - Vadim

Ummm, no wait…………It’s five! Hahaha

Class finished early.

Hansen reported about our client’s problem that has occured.

Dinner with Jolean, Jin, and Young at the same Indian restaurant I went last night.
Jolean wanted to buy Bangkok bags………Jin showed us the store at Patpong, then we went back to hotel.

Used our welcome drink coupon with Susan, Jolean, Victoria, KM Chung, and Xi Bin.

Must pack tonight because tomorrow we have to check out and move to First House Hotel.

Had no class today, they will discussing new products: RADIONICS. We enjoyed sleeping and woke up late. At least we still had a chance to take our breakfast. Something happened in Jakarta, one of the hospital was having a trouble with their CE video. Asked Hansen to investigate, therefore I must talk with him online.

Then, worked out at the gym for one hour, took a shower, and with Susan we went to MBK. Well, the plan was to go to MBK for lunch then browse Siam area. But we went out quite late from hotel, we could not get to Siam because I had an appointment with Anil at 5 PM, so we went back to hotel.

I bought so many things, I didn’t know how to pack them in my luggage, not to mention the overweight luggage!

Anil was waiting for us, so we took taxi to Gems Gallery. Dian asked me if I can check out gem stones in Thailand, especially ruby. Anil went there sometime ago and bought some gems. We were late, there was traffic jam, and the gallery will be closed at 6 PM when Anil confirmed.

When we got there, the sales supervisor Anil met greeted us and showed us the gems.
Eeeksss……….Ruby is expensive. Small piece can be range from B 40,000 to B 120,000.
Hmmm…….Dian must be informed about the price.

I was just looking around. I didn’t want to buy anything more. I have spent my money. I even withdrew some from my ATM because of the nice stuffs.
I asked Ms. Wan, the sales supervisor, about my birth stone, it is diamond. Godness! I can’t afford to buy that stone!
I didn’t know what came over me, I bought a bracelet with garnets. It’s so pretty. But actually it’s better if I bought gold instead of gems.

The gallery sent us back to hotel without no charges at all. Anil and I decided to have a dinner and asked the driver to drop us at Himali Cha Cha, Indian restaurant near our hotel.

What a coincidence, we met Karen, Rich, Vadim, Murray, Caroline, Christina, and Phillipa there. They were finishing the dinner, and we joined them. Phillipa asked me if I wanted to go with them to Suan Lum. I wished I can……I have no money left in my wallet and I really need the rest. I still haven’t done my proposal yet.

It was a nice food. Then we went back to the hotel, I have a class tomorrow.

Today is Mayfield lecture, I must know how to assemble the system. Mayfield is our new product granted from Integra.

I took notes, played with the headrest, headclamp, assembled and disassembled them. Well, that Indian distributor broke one of radiolucent headclamp…….I think Mike was upset. He told us to be very carefull with it.

Saw a cute guy at the restaurant while we lunch and he sat with the group. I was wondering who he was. It turned out that he is Vadim Gurevich, product manager for ultrasonics aspirators. Gees…………he’s so young, Tony said he is probably less than 30 years old. What a record for Integra to have that young manager, beside Tom Hur of course….

We haven’t used our free massage coupon. So at noon, we called the place to book a place. I heard from Ms. Chan that they had a bad experience with the staff there.

After the class, Susan, I, Jolean, and KM (her boss) went there. The three girls had a same room. We enjoyed our Thai massage.

Health Land Spa & Massage, reception desk

Then we went to a seafood restaurant near hotel where I went with Tony several days ago.

Dinner was on KM. He said because we have treated and taken care Jolean so well.

Look at our prawns!