JOE IS DYING

here's my list of movies to watch for months to come. i only put the ones that people aren't really excited about. because the ones who are super-rated have enough publicity (you know, like Eagle Eye, Rodanthe, American Carol and the other ones). 1. Bed Time Story - Disney. It's another one of Adam Sandler's funny movie. it's about how bed time stories came to life the next day. it's gonna be super, i can tell! see the trailer here . 2. Ink Heart - Warner Bros. About how a book came to life when it's being read by mr.the mummy returns (whose name escapes me). interesting, if you're into Narnia and all that kind of fantasy stories. see the trailer here . 3. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist . well, it's not like i fell in love with the trailer. but i think this movie is going to be cute. i guess. 4. Flash of Genius . this is a heartfelt story of a man fighting against a big car company, ford, who stole his invention; the windshield wiper. see ...

i can't believe that i am staying up all night just to watch 2 movies when i should have been doing my essays. dang! great time management, johanna. now you got 3 essays to finish over the weekend and studies and sketches due the day after monday (tuesday). right, i am devastated. i dont wanna miss church again, and i certainly have to go to wallmart tomorrow (to buy some chocolates and a pair of undies). so please, please, do your work right tomorrow. at least do them on the bus. please johanna, just gimme a nice weekend to enjoy. it's better if you finished them tomorrow so that we can "half-chill" on sunday. but im glad that we did the two other assignments last week. which means we dont have to do as much. anyway, enough of me talking to myself. i just watched; Love and Other Disaster which is absolutely fabulous! it's funny and i can't stop laughing. it's about a girl who works in vogue london and she's totally clueless that a foreign guy likes he...

So i've moved outta basement and claim Andy's place as mine. Andy (Andrea actually, but i call her Andy) is the girl in that picture above, along with Ryan. Gosh, i really miss Andy. She's a great shopping partner, she's so fun to be with... i missed her. :( This room is much-much smaller than my basement room. it is much much hotter too. i mean, i actually wear a sleeveless tee and still feel hot! i got all of my stuff outta my luggage. As you can see the picture down there; i got all my stuff in my bed. i dont kno where to put them bcoz this place is extra small. but hey, im cool with that. no problemo. you know why? here's a few reasons why i gladly move up... 1. I get another monitor; a 17 inch-ish flat screen hp monitor. working side by side with my FabMac. 2. I get an additional keyboard that actually works with my mac. double fab! 3. I can transfer my pictures from my cannon camera. coz there's an extra card reader and an external USB plugs. Triple Fab! 4...

saya harap hujan mau berkooperasi dengan saya. jangan hujan sampai payungnya nyampe dari amazon.com. please, please, please i do not want to be drenched in water all the way from home to school and from school back to my place. today, my parents called. finally! i missed them. so im glad that their voice was the first thing i hear in the morning. later this afternoon, Andrea will move out. which means; i'll be the only girl in this place and i'll get to take her room. am i happy? no, i want her to stay, really. it's gonna be real different with her not around. i mean, who am i gonna take for shopping?! i know i could take Ryan, but he's a guy. uuhh :( i'll keep this post simple. coz i've written yesterday. did i? i did right? yeah, yesterday was karaoke night. which is FUN!!! i went all crazy even before i started drinking. well, you know me... always the perky girl around music. i did a ton of jazz song (i miss Kak Hari!!) and i sang some Vertical Horizon, Deep...

i say, i know sometimes i do feel like overly happy and perky. but as soon as i get alone, i feel differently. not so perky, a lot calmer, a hell lot more calculative. believe it or not, i have been busying myself with my homeworks yesterday; till 12pm doing 2 HW and 1-2pm watching bridget jones diary. hey, dont get angry here! it's friggin weekend, i deserve a tv time. i decided that tomorrow will be another day of work. i will finished 2 other HW of mine. but like a good young girl, i didnt. i went out with my house mates; Andrea, Ryan and Eric. We went to South Center as usual. and i bought 2 body splash (buy 1 get 1 free), one lotion and one fedora hat!! everything for less than 30 bucks! i am so amazed and HAPPY! i finished my mission :D On the way to South Center i did my sketches for Design Drawing class, and this ghetto spanish guy said that it's some "asian shit". i dont mind, really. "shit" here means "thing". so what i did is an "as...

sebanyak-banyaknya gue mau punya baju-baju keren, gue gak punya duit. sekarang gue sibuk banget belajar. tiap hari gue ada pr. tidur malem2 sampe mata gue rasanya berat bgt. sekarang aja gue baru selesai buat Journal Humanities gue. ahh, sulit sekali rasanya untuk menahan diri gak buka firefox dan maen youtube atau imeem. sempet sih tergoda dikit, gue maen ke amazon dan masukin satu bubble umbrella ke chart gue. which reminds me, i need to buy: 1. umbrella (hari ini gerimisss... uhh, gak senang!) 2. lotion 3. kick ass perfume (body splash will do actually. link-nya ini parfum lama gue...) by the way, pas kemaren maen ke south center, gue hampir mau beli fedora hat di 21 yg harganya 5 dollar. keren sih, black and sort of warwick-y. but the shape is sorta not solid. and i asked my bro, he said i gotta buy those in ebay. it's much cheaper. but GOSH, i love tangible shopping. coz i could check them out on me, and not imagine how it would look like much alter (and sorta gamble with th...

I met my brother at south center. At first it was just another hang out time, you know like the good ol' times. We had lunch at Sushi Land and went to my place. He met my house mates and my host fam. I noticed that he had grew so much. Well, he's not taller (or at least our height is still in the same comparison - like i grew just as much as he did). His hair grew much-much longer. His sense of style too. He talked like an american now, which is an improvement. He had learned a great deal of responsibility and i am proud of him. At the end of the day, we took pictures, we talked a lot. He showed me things that he liked at you tube just like we used to do. I showed him my fave band too. By the time he went home, i still think that it was just like we used to be. Like, we're gonna meet again by tomorrow morning and we'll be talking about anything random. But then as he went away, marlon said "6 months of not meeting and all you got is 30 minutes bonding time?"....

Today i worked on my homework till 11.30pm-ish. i watched TV all morning and got inspired by Project Runway and Top Design. We had dinner at Pho Hoa (which according to ryan is supposed to be read as "fa hoa"). I've finished my Digitl Drawing and Digital Darkroom home works (not so bad. one's vector at AI and the other one is a bad ass photo manipulation).  I think i'm going to be sick. i'm having the meler and sakit tengorokan symtoms (what's the correct spelling?). gue udah coba minum OBH tapi rasanya kok jadi keras sekali disini. dingin di tenggorokan luar biasa, sampai2 takut over dosis. terus gue minum redoxon. rasanya juga jd sangat keras. sodanya jd banyak bgt. akhirnya gw gak minum obat dan cuma minum air putih terus. sekarang gue mengalami jenis batuk yg sering gw dapet di binus. batuk yg cuma bisa berhenti kalau gue langsung minum air. which means, gw bakal banyak pipis.  Yesterday, we went to Bellevue Square. i was in love with that mall. it fee...

here's the trailer for that porn movie we watched in humanities class. what's funny was my humanities class was pretty much packed (there's at least 15 ppl). and all of us was shocked. the movie was extremely sex-ed. One girl (i think it was Maya or Carly) said "they didn't even talked, they just have sex!" and Tonny replied "that's just the way it should be". it was so disgusting because the girl and the man (15 and 32) had sex every night. The girl is 15!!! that's like, having sex with your flippin little sister! The girl is this poor french girl, and the man is the rich jobless chinese guy. both horny, mind you. all the boys was like exhausted after seeing the movie, the girls felt like we've been molested. i just can't believe that our teacher said that the movie bridges the topic beautifully, the topic is... Colonilism. that's a bull!

i was watching VMA and the brit guy was talking about Jonas' Brothers' Promise Ring. I was like "what promise ring?" and i searched on the internet and i realized what a great band they are. i was laughing, and i;m still laughing now. Not that i ridicule them, but i just can't believe it. they are BOYS! and boys don't usually do this stuff. this promise ring thing is wicked brave. i didn't mean to contradict myself (i used to think that the brothers are the they'll-be-gone-in-a-couple-of-years band), i still think their songs are too pop-y, but i am glad that they took such a bold move and literally tells the world what they believe in and what they wanna be. and i am GLAD that my little sister is being a fan of a great band that people should look up to. sad that they didn't win against Britney on the best video awards. But still, i'm glad that they are a band that show these teenagers that you gotta keep that purity in you. God loves you, kid...

My heart beats differently today. maybe because i had someone on my mind, who's just by accidental reason, placed himself in my head last night. what's weirder is that thinking about him didn't made me happy and fluttery. It made me...silent. and i thought, well this is certainly different. Mr.Big Nose is his name. and i don't wanna talk about him. As soon as i got home from school, i was tired. i was in a good mood, until i turned the imeem on, and started listening to my jazz playlist. and all of the sudden, i got the blues! and i started to realize that it's either my head or my heart that's messing with me. my eyes started swelling for no reason, and i started feeling down! i did not feel like im missing my home, or i missed somebody back home. i feel ok. Only, this heart is beating weirdly for no reason that i know of! And you know what, i always think that when my heart is doing this... then somebody is thinking about me. and that somebody has been thinkin...

So far my life has been a total ride. Yesterday, ada Nigga yang overheard my conversation (the viet, not my classmate) with Ryan. here's the story... Ryan: So, what's that book there? Joe: Oh, it's my drawing book. i just bought it at Pike Street yesterday. Ryan: how much does it cost? Joe: (contemplating...) Ummm... (i know it'll be unwise to say the price right here in the bus stop. but, oh well...) ten bucks. Ryan: shiiittt... Joe: i know, i was like "im not paying 10 bucks for that thing!" The Nigga: (all of the sudden) what do you got in there? Joe: what? The Nigga: what's in there? Joe: oh, nothing. it's blank. (joe showed him the blank book) The Nigga: (to ryan) did you pay 10 bucks for a blank drawing book? (he's definitely getting the wrong signal) Ryan and Joe: No, no... The Nigga: Damn, 10 bucks for a f***ing drawing book. (over and over again) i was scared. sekarang gue selalu berdoa setiap kali di bus stop. gw takut ketemu mr.nigga lag...

it was... a relieve. of course, nothing so very ordinary happen to this girl. She (i mean, I) thought that it was monday. and my monday class began at 1pm. so i was lounging around, and all of the sudden it came to me like a smack. i was yelling " IT'S F***ING TUESDAY!!!". but of course nothing i could do but wait till it's time for the second class (minus 1.30 hours), and then i left... The second class of the day was cool. there was just 8 of us (Amanda, Tate, Nancy, the hat chick (aby), Jillian, Me, Rachel, Ryan and... the blonde-sunglasses chick). the teacher was Mrs Hull, it was nice. she came from south africa, and she's very good in drawing (which is why she's a teacher). i hope i'll be able to get a B at least in my classes. Selesai Kelas, gue pergi ke Utrecht Art Shop di Pike Street buat beli barang2 untuk drawing class. it took me around $37... and i met Taylor there. He helped me picked the right stuff. He's an interior design kid. not to m...

Im broke broke broke! man i got 30 dollars left for the whole two or three weeks to come. Dang, dang, DANG!! why did i bought the word.mac plus extra ipod touch and extra printer! man! i am regretting this... or not. ok, i might not regret this. it's cool. it's just that, i spend too much in one day that i might have to pack my lunch (which is possibly sandwich) till next few weeks! how will i ever survive that! but i know i will, my God will provide these things. Anyway, we went to Boeing in Everett today! Marlon (my host) drive us (Joe the Indo, Ryan the vietnamese, Andrea the taiwanese and Kyu the korean) in his old 1988 Ford. The tour was $15, it wasn't exciting, but it was educative. no complains for me. just out of money, that's all. marlon said that he could tap me, but i decline that very nice offer because i haven't pay him another part of my monthly housing, how could i take so much more from such niceness? So, after boeing Andrea, Ryan and i went to WallM...

Man, i dont wanna say this but i sorta hate to use mac. i just buy it and i find it pretty hard to get use to. i mean, i'm so intune with microsoft that i dont think mac has the ability to surpass microsoft. but anyway, i spent a hell lot of money for the laptop. i can't believe that i spent GOSH more than what i expected. I though i just need a mac book pro and a CS3 application. But na'ah, i need an office.mac too and there's this promo happening and i could get a $440 refund if i buy an ipod touch for $3 and a HP printer for $10. my host was like "hell, yeah!" and we make a decision that i'll pay for these items and the refund will go to my host as if i am paying for my housing through that. i think "that's ok, i guess". Seriously, on the first day of our laptop hunt, i was so tired, i can't concentrate. i know what the seller is saying, but it didn't get to my head. i was like a walking zombie. Two days later, when i get back to t...

im here! cornish is cool, the ppl here are cool too. so, be relieved you guys, haha!  Anyway, gue ikutan orientation selama dua hari, tiga kalau lu hitung hari dear-partment meeting. hari pertama sama kedua, kita kaya maen-maen sambl hangout di thai restaurant, jalan2 ke capitol hill, ke dance center. it was ok. i get to talk with lots of these kids from different departments. ada amy and mariah from theater (and the boys from theater who are wicked funny), mara and ashlee from design, there's meygan from dance, michelle from interior, ichel (the music sophomore), vicky the piano girl, jake the theater sophomore (lumayan...ehem2, ada jenggot dikit yg mana adalah daya tarik versi aneh gue), some art boy and art girl yang namanya gue lupa, terus ada bbrp anak lagi... total2 ada 23. hari pertama gue pulang early krn hrs set up bank account in the back of america. i got lost for 30 minutes downtown and i walked back home, took a bus. Di hari ke-dua kita makan thai food and jalan2. sela...

Got it! Got my visa (in three hours), got my host family confirmed (just now!), got my plane tickets confirmed (to taipei. still waiting for confirmation for a plane to get me to Seattle). So now, what i gotta do is: 1. shop for bare necessities, becuase im leaving TOMORROW! 2. send an e-mail to my homestay agency about my plane tickets and who should pick me up 3. send the copy of my passport to Syscom (an agency that has helped me with my tickets and questions) along with my visa This is the beginning of the next chapter of my life. Walau gue ngga punya duit, i know that God will suffice. Just like what he did today. The hope that he has given me will never fail me. Thank you God! Love love love You!!! He answers all my prayers. He put my feet on solid ground, a firm place to stand. My God is an awesome God. Is yours as awesome as mine? :) *update: gue udah selesai packing (jam 12:54), sekarang mau e-mail homestay agency gue untuk pejemputan gue di bandara. I'll leave tomorrow a...

Yay! good news, i got my visa! Thank GOD! Even when the visa officers knew that i have not pay my SEVIS fee, they still allowed me to go into the office, have a little interview, and had the chance to get my visa! i'll take the visa and my passport and my I-20 on moday, which means i'll leave on monday noon. Now i need to pay my SEVIS fee, however i need to enter my I-20 numbers (which are now in the possesion of the embassy). i have no idea what's my I-20 numbers are. MAN! now that's another praying matter... So help me lord, what's my i-20 numbers? *Update: i finally went back to the embassy, get my i-20, photocopy it, get my sevis fee done, returned to the embassy and finally learned that; i can't get my passport back and photocopy it. which means that i wont be able to purchase a flight ticket anytime soon. but im still hoping to be able to fly to seattle on the 25th. i'll pray for the best of luck!!

Yes, another art link! Remember what i said about my love for the 2D Ratatouille (and Samurai Jack and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friend, which will come in another posts. promise!)... well, here is an artist with similar style. Only, she's a Disney Legend. She helped built a disney ride, she drew Alice in Wondreland for Disney, she do the captain of The Lost Boys too (well, you guessed it; Peter Pan), Cinderella, and more! She wasn't so much of a big hit in her time, but now...she's a modern cartoon legend. Her colors are amazingly variant and though her designs aren't as dimensional as some art schools expected its students to do, her shape and colors convey really strong emotions! I took these pictures from moderncartoon.com (my newest fave site), amazon.com (notice the book covers) and abeautifulmess.typepad.com (my fave blog to check out too!) So, without further ado, i give you; Marry Blair! Her biography; "The Art and Flair of Marry Blair" ft. Ali...