Ruff Camp~!

DAY 1:
Marina Ancol = Arrived an hour and a half early, legs went numb
Boat Trip = Made jokes about Craig being seasick for 25 minutes ^^
Room = Unpacked, socialized and started the snack savings
Pep rally = regulations, lots of cheering and losing my voice
Games = lots of running and sweaty-ness
Lunch = indo food all the way -.-
Free time = swimming on the beach with roomies
Dinner = indo food...again and socializing
Hall = Chatting and playing piano
Service = singing, laughing, crying a little bit
Restaurant = chatting over drinks and bending forks
Sleep = Midnight after watching the end of Night at The Museum 2

Don't remember much in the middle... -.-

DAY 4:
Room = Woke up late and showered in under 5 minutes *BONUS POINTS*
Breakfast = Ate mostly bread and orange juice and bent forks
Hall = More anonymous notes and face paint for team spirit
Service = singing, jumping, laughing and crying :3
Games = Too much running across corals and hot concrete with no shoes >.<
Lunch = (pokes at the fried squid with the end of my fork cautiously)
Free Time = Swimming, chicken fights, baptisms and scoping hot guys
Soccer Game = Cheered on every team but my own, socialized, danced K-Pop with Kris
Dinner = Freaking indo food! Die!
Hall = Anonymous notes coming out of your ears and socializing
Service = singing, jumping, crying a lot and hugging
Announcements = My team lost completely and Cecily's team won >.< damnit
Beach = dancing with my friends at the bonfire, sparklers
Room = Had a pity party with friends from other rooms, lots of music and laughing
Sleep = 2 am because I drank a fanta too late and watched an Indo drama

DAY 5:
Room = Woke up on time *MEGA SUPER BONUS POINTS* and packed
Breakfast = Ate on the pier, socialized, threw coins into the ocean
Group Photos = Took forever, nearly died in the heat
Service = singing, jumping and lots of cheering
iPad 2 Announcement = ...! Why not me!?
Anonymous Notes = Got some very sweet ones ^^ Made my day
Lunch = Water for the win...sick of indo food
Leaving = Running to the store at the last second for soda, lots of hugging
Boat = Lots of teasing, eating snacks and looking at the ocean
Marina Ancol = ice cream, lots more hugging, phone numbers

THE END
IT WAS EPIC
I LOVE JESUS~!!!

^___^

Summer's nearly over! *opens up a Sprite for a toast* To school! *cheers and chugs, then wipes my mouth* Yeah...

Merry Christmas XD

I hope you guys have a really super awesome Christmas! XD And get some pwn presents ;D P.S. Home Alone 1 is such an awesome movie!

My Vacation

Winter vacation went pretty well for me considering what I did. For most of the vacation, I watched A LOT of movies. Mainly the Harry Potter series. Ok ok ok. I admit it. I had never seen Harry Potter before the break. I already had the first 3 movies at my house but never watched them before. So when my sisters friend Jessica came over, we all watched the 3rd movie. Lets just say we got addicted. Here is how many times we watched each movie this break:

• 2 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• 4 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• 5 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• 4 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• 4 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• 2 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
  

We have an American DVD player upstairs, so we could only see the first three up there. We kept on harassing our dad to let us see the other ones downstairs, but he watch ESPN or something, and installed a multi-system DVD player upstairs so we could see them all and leave him in peace. The time I went to bed during the Potterfest was about midnight, and because of that, I got up between 9 - 10:00 in the morning. The only other movie we saw besides that was Shrek the Third. That makes up for all the time away from the cinema, don't you think?

Staying home was ok considering the circumstances. As you saw earlier, I watched a buttload of movies and stayed up until I was forced to close my eyes. But it was also a good time for me to read. I read at least 10 books over the break: Hoot, The Legend 

of Holly Claus, The Last Olympian, The Battle of the Labyrinth

InuYasha

Volume 1, InuYasha Volume 2, Ranma 1/2, Savvy, Project Paris, and the Wednesday Wars. I have read so many it will take me a while to post them 

all. Also a good time to exercise...I mean swim. :D My dad, sister and I went and bought these huge inflatable boats (big enough for me to stretch my legs out) with oars and everything and let us use them on our pool. Swi

mming in our pool is usually a lot of fun because: (1) we bring the iPod dock outside (2) my sister and I always come up with fun games and contests (3) it is almost always sunny outside. But these past few days the chemicals in our pool have gone really weird so we haven't been able to swim much. :( but other than that, A GREAT VACATION!! 

Cookie Time!!

Around 1:30 today, my mom, Sebastien, Cecily, Sasha, and I decided to make Christmas cookies.

Of course, whenever my family does something together, it turns out to be a great memory. Today my brother and I made cut-out cookies, Cecily made jelly cookies, and Sasha and Yuyun (my maid) made sugar cookies. We had turned on music and churned out a few batches when my mom decided to come around and pat peoples faces with flour. (that's how I got my face dirty. Cecily did hers by herself. She dunked her nose in a flour bowl. But Sasha got hers out of trying new things.) Then we got to decorate the cookies. The animal cookies were the most fun to decorate. My mom made the icing and put it in a BAGUS bag and cut a hole in one end. Then we squeezed the bag and decorated the cookies. We had snowmen, stars, holly, bells, Christmas trees, angels and reindeer. We put sprinkles and ChaChas on the cookies too.

With my scraps, I made these really small balls of cookie dough and baked it, and as soon as they came out of the oven, I dunked each one in powdered sugar and stuck mini chocolate chips in the cookie. Then I sprinkled a little bit more sugar on top. It looked like the chocolate chips were hiding out in the snow!

My sisters cookies were the best though! She cut out circles of cookie dough and separated them equally onto her workspace. On one side she cut small circles in the middle of the dough. Then she baked it. As soon as they got out of the oven, she took strawberry jam and put a spoonful on a circle. Then she put the cut-out circle onto the top like a sandwich. It was SOOOO good!

You see? This is the kind of stuff that keeps me on my toes during the holiday seasons. And we all get a laugh out of it in the end!

Babysitting

Today I had to go to this charity place called JICC for the camp thing (a bunch of activities and stuff for a few hours) and it turned out that the instructor person couldn't come for some reason. So I had to play with 3-9 year olds (not exactly playing, more like babysitting.)

In the beginning, my mom was sitting with us on some couches when this lady came to take my brother into this room with a bunch of other little kids. We waited for another 15 minutes for the person to come, but they didn't come. So my sister and I had to go into the room with all the little kids to paint on CARDBOARD and color CANDLES and CHRISTMAS TREES. IT WAS PRACTICALLY TORTURE!!

Then it got a little weirder. This random guy and his friend (a girl) showed up. This guy was 8 and his friend was 9. The girl was ok, but they guy was soooo bratty! When Sasha (my 3 year old sister) accidentally stepped on his foot, he kicked her and started screaming "OWW!! SHE HURT ME!!" He got too rowdy and I had to protect these two girls Barbara and Victoria from him because they got really scared. They thought he was "evil" or something.

Then my brother got rowdy. Those two guys decided to freak all the little girls out by being "evil" and "scary". All the girls were talking to eachother in the tent and the guys would come up to the tent and start screaming and throwing plastic balls at it. And they wouldn't listen to the teacher ladies. After 1 1/2 hours, my mom came back from the store to pick us up. It explained to her what happened and she said that she paid for us to be creative, not to babysit other people's kids. What makes it even worse is that the kids think that I am coming back again tomorrow to do the same thing. Like I said yesterday, "If given the chance to stay home, take it. You might not live in the outside world." I would say this is a really good way to show what I am talking about.

3 Hours of Weird

Ok, I was sleeping peacefully this morning until my sister shouted upstairs, "Hey Maya! Get up! We are going out to breakfast!" 40 minutes later, we are riding in the car. "Where are we going to eat?" I ask my dad. "I don't really no yet." I thought that this answer was a little weird because HE was the one driving the car. He should know where he was going. We pull into the Kristal Hotel. "Were here!"

Seriously! We were eating at the Kristal Hotel! (bad memories. I was stuck there for almost three months)They have this restaurant called Kafe Pinang and we used to eat there every day. It was a little weird because all the staff and security guard recognized us (even the laundry guy) and all of this Christmas stuff was propped up all over the place. Not just Christmas trees. Plaster reindeer and Santa Claus, live Christmas trees and flashing wreaths were all over the place. Plus my sister was acting really strangely. She sat still for about 40 minutes, then started running around the buffet in zig-zagged circles. Everyone was staring at us.

After that, my mom decided that she need a membership at the health club place (we are still in the hotel) and we check it out. Sebastien and Sasha kept on walking into the exercise room to check out the machines and the people using them. After that, the Salon and Day Spa caught her eye.

The morning was getting weirder and weirder by the minute. Mom, Cecily, and I all went into the salon and Cecily got a manicure. It would have been pointless for me to get one because I have no nails (Literally. I have bitten them down the where you can see skin.) So I sat there for 40 minutes doing nothing. I had to watch a soap opera through a mirror while my mom read a magazine. (She was going to get her nails done but they didn't have what she wanted.) It was the most boring time of my life. What made it even worse was every 15 minutes, Cecily would turn around in her chair and ask me "Are you bored?", laugh, and turn around.

Well, I lived through that, and I have some words of advice for you: "If given a choice to stay at home, take it. You might not live in the outside world."