I wrote this last post just past midnight on Sunday (or Monday, technically) saying that I needed to focus more on my final paper. I went to bed very late that night, and then I got up, got dressed, and went to ITB to work on a project that a friend had offered and I had said yes. At that time, I had written down a timeline for what I was going to do this month. First week, I was going to work on said project while also conducting observations for my final paper. Second week was for finishing my research and third week was for finishing my final paper so that I could sign up for the oral presentation at the end of the month.

But then my manager asked me to join the team and fly to Pekanbaru on Thursday. The business trip would take two days and we’d go home on Saturday morning. There goes my whole plan, fellas. The next thing I knew was I was sitting on my seat in a plane flying north.

I will probably write a separate post about my business trip, so please let me continue the story to after we landed back in Bandung. It was Saturday and it was Velentina’s birthday. We had had a plan for that day since January, so I didn’t want to cancel. Hell no. We went karaoke-ing and walked around the mall wearing party hats.

The next day, Sunday, my cousin held her wedding ceremony and reception. I had been assigned as a bridesmaid, so I got up early in the morning and got dressed and had my makeup done and bridesmaid-ing all day.

It was one helluva week.

On mid November, my sister got infected by chickenpox. We still don’t know where she got it from, but she got well after 10 days. She now has a few scars on her face and more on her other body parts. She didn’t show any symptoms other than those little bumps (i.e. fever, fatigue, etc.) Well unfortunately for me (who hadn’t been infected), my immune system gave up and so I was infected too, right after my sister got well and started going to school again. My symptoms were the opposite of that my sister’s. I got high fever and fatigue, but I only had a few little bumps on my arms and legs. Now that I’m getting better, I’m so thankful that there is only one scar from the chicken pox (the rests are from pimples. Ha!)

So glad to finally be able to walk outside the house and feel the sunshine on my skin. I love being healthy!

After being busy for about two weeks and rarely had time to spare for relaxing, I finally get to stay at home for the last two days, thanks to this bruise on my left foot. A and I had a small accident on Sunday evening when we were en route to my house after having a date. His motorcycle almost hit a cab and in attempt to avoid crashing right into it, he swerved to the right but my left leg successfully rammed the cab’s rear bumper. No broken bones, though. I only ended up having this not-so-big-yet-not-too-small bruise. Thank goodness. The brighter side of this story is that I get to sit and laze around at home, eating ice cream and listening to Pitch Perfect soundtrack album. It has been raining these past two days, so I couldn’t be happier to stay at home.