Remembering the time I spent with all my single friends in Jakarta which was the best moment in my life. We were nothing yet to become someone. Let me start with my University friends. It was in 1999. First time I entered Campus-life, I was alone and knew no one! Then I (actually my parents) decided to rent a room in a house, which in Indonesian we call kos-kosan. There are 11 rooms in the house with the owner livesl in the middle (they built the house like an "U" shape). My first friend was Ririn (which now is my ex-friend.. weird, huh?! long story, anyways). She used to be a very nice girl with a great expression of words and attitude (she could have joined "a hall of fame or even a hall of lame!). She's so witty and spoiled and loves to laugh, wears sexy clothes and loves tank-tops. We made a pretty good connection to each other. Then there was Martha. She comes from Lampung (part of Sumatra). She looks like Chinese actually (I really thought she was a Chinese! haha) and she is so damn smart! She used to be the one who became our lecturer after the class over. Haha. She's got a high tone of voice and she's got the most white skin among us (and oh yeah, she loooovessss to scrub her body! hahaha). Next, there was Inggrid. A mixed Ambonese-Netherland girl. Cute, small, got a very unique shape of face, got a smooth white skin (like a baby!!), furry, wore braces and glasses (sometimes softlence) and she cannot spell "R" (which is cute! at least for me!). A very spoiled girl, crybaby, sensitive, got a nice voice (she can sing and play guitar!!), and more religius than us! hahahaha..
Then last one.. it is me, Krisna! A tall skinny girl with a bitchy face (according to people´s first impression =p), dark brown skin, a not-so-cute or pretty face with a little smile on the corner of her lips, a moody and a crybaby-psycho, a panic victim, a love traveler and a Gemini (is this one really important?! =D).
Four of us were newbies in the University, majoring Dentistry and each of us really got totally different characters but somehow we feel like sisters. We got our own specialty which made us help each other:
Ririn: knowing facial beauty products plus make up.
Martha : Smart, diligent and always had a very nice notes from the lessons from each classes with a very nice handwriting.
Inggrid: Make up appliance, body treatment, music and soap opera updates.
Krisna : Collecting and saving money, hair dresser (got some hair dryer and hair straightener (we call it in Indonesian as "catokan" =D), and sleeping (hahaha)
But there are two big similarities about us.
1. We love SHOPPING IN MELAWAI!! hahahaha... That is really a great place to spend our money to get a (quite) nice and very cheap things! Every weekend we took a bus or a taxi and went to Blok-M, Melawai and bought T-shirts, pants, underwears or even food, especially snacks! Of course we always did it on the first or second weekend because usually on the third or fourth weekend we were already got bankrupt! hahahaha..
2. We EAT A LOT!! Oh my gosh.. all of us are not big or fat or whatever you call for a greedy person, but still we are skinny (but probably Inggrid is the only person who always complain about her weight though she's not gaining any weight!!).
It was not always easy to get some food (meal) outside. We did not cook by ourselves though there was a kitchen for us to use (sharing with the host family). We always bought the food outside from the small cafetaria and it's quite cheap. Actually we could have just walked down a little bit far (about 500m) then we could fine a quite lot of food tents which sold cheap food like seafood, porridge, fried rice, etc. Near that area there was a PIZZAHUT restaurant (very close to the supermarket, HERO), but I think now it is closed. The funny thing was, eventhough we didn't really have much money, but we still (I think) went to PIZZAHUT every 2weeks! hahahha.. that's totally crazy, indeed! But hey, we got a special trick for these kind of things! We always chose 1 portion of salad and 1 big size of pizza but then the silly thing is that we make a bowl full of salad (like a mountain of salad!) so we can share it for each of us (hahaha). So, that way made us even so full yet save our money! hihihi Since then, the waiter and waitress note that we will always come and take that kind of portion of salad, which kinda made them so upset. Haha. But yeah anyway, that was a kind of live for students who wants to survive with a little money =p
We lived in a small area which in that area also a lot of kos-kosan with a different types of rules and students. Of course most of it are Dentistry students but some are students from Trisakti University of Tourism.
I started to live there in August 20th. In that house, where everything was started.
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