a wonderful person :)

I opened formspring this noon and I ran out of question to answer so I decided to ask myself a question.

No, it does not mean that I answer my own question; it means that I asked the computer to generate a question for me to answer.

One of the questions asked about “who is the best teacher I have ever had?”

After a few seconds I came up with an answer:

Miss Dila!

HERE’S MY STORY

When I was in the 3^rd grade my English score was so baaad that I need to join an English course

I live in BSD and I have several choices (like Eloquency, EF, LIA, etc.) but my mom told me to get into this ILP course.

It is located behind ITC BSD, which is close to my house.

So I studied there and I really learn lots of new things!

I made friends and we grow older.

Some of those friends were really close to me. Firli, for example.

One time when I was in upper elementary,

I have a class with some cool friends:

Fariz, Azizah, Me, Astrid, Adit, Dita, Nissa, Raka, and some others.

I really love those friends and I even have a crush on one of them ;)

A BIG, big crush

Hahaha

Anyway

One time when we pass a level we were assigned to a new class with a new teacher

It was Ms. Dila.

I really remember her, and we love her!

She was soooo close to us

She way young, lively, hilarious, fun, and she’s reaaaaally beautiful

She is the principal’s cousin or something (The principal at that time was Mr. Wiku Respati)

She has 6^th sense and she often shares her stories with us. I remember that one time when she told us about the elevator ghost which she ‘met’ when she went to Bali. It was terrifying!

She ‘s studying at UI, and she still is. (I think) she’s majoring in English Literature.

Oh, and I really remember her signature!

It was deelju

She said that because there were two Dilas at UI, her friends made a nickname for her and she was called deelju (as her last name is Hadju)

She can make identical signatures. I mean, the ones she wrote at home and at course was totally the same! All of us were impressed.

We didn’t even feel study-like atmosph

ere with her and her English was just so good and her pronunciation was awesome as she lived in foreign country for some times. I love her!

But unfortunately time flies and we finished the term.

The next term, she no longer teaches us. She doesn’t even teach at ILP again.

She continued her study, yada yada yada.

But fortunately, when I was taking TOEFL class at ILP (2008), we met again! She begin teaching again in ILP.

I want to say hi to her but I was shy and I’m not really sure that it was her, but I remember her face well and one time when I was leaving my class to go home, she entered that class and asked me if I were her student. I said yes and we said hi. It was the last time we said hi to each other because I no longer go to ILP because I have finished my study. But I’m glad she remembered me!

This noon when I was asked that best-teacher question and her image popped out in my mind, I felt that I really miss her; I miss all the time we had spent together. So, I search for her name at facebook.

Thanks for her easy-to-rememb

er signature I remember her full name: Dila Hadju.

I found her facebook and I added her.

I viewed her profile and I know she have a great life now.

And on the relationship status, believe it or not, I see that she’s in a relationship with Rayi Putra which is one of RAN’s personnel. I don’t think it’s an hoax, I believe in her :D

I miss the times we had spent together, all the times we tell stories to each other instead of just studying, the break time we spent talking to her in our classroom, the times when we talked about those boys in our class, the time when we think her drawing was funny, aaa <3

But unfortunately, life goes on. We can’t stop the time and we get older day by day. We learn from our mistakes and become more mature. We go to different places and we make new friends. Then we grow old with them, until it is time to walk away.

I know there’s still a loooooooooooooo

oooooong looong road in front of me that I have to pass

I will meet plenty wonderful peoples in my life so there’s nothing to be sad of!

I will make a lot of good memories with my new friends so there’s nothing to be regretted.

I just have to keep the pace, keep on walking.

Hello Miss Dila, and goodbye

Thanks for all the things you told me, all the memories we made together.

You may not remember me as clear as I remember you, but really I want to talk to you, even for one time only :D

I know you’ll be sooooooooo cool now! Ah! I’m envious of those children you teach now at ILP! It must have been so fun! Zzz

-_______-

ENVY ENVY ENVY ENVY hahaha miss you ;)

p.s.:

your impression lingers :DD

thanks for everything!

dictation test

ok it's not really toefl anyway but whatever
my native speaker teacher made us do this dictation test and i still remember it until now hahaha
so yeah i have nothing ti do so i decided to post it here:
(ACTUALLY i have to do A LOT of things - believe me - but i am too lazy to think so i'll just do what i like :P)

Last week my teacher's cousin suddenly decided to come to Indonesia from Singapore. She had never been here before. My teacher met her at the International Airport and they flew to Jogjakarta (Yogyakarta, whatever) together. They found a nice hotel there (Ibis) and the next day they hired a taxi to get to Borobudur. My teacher's cousin loved it there and the highlight of her trip was when she rode an elephant for the first time. However, she got sunburned because it was really sunny, and she didn't really like Indonesian food. Now she is working back at Singapore and she will fly back to England next week.


hahaha it's true story though and if you want to copy paste this story don't worry you don't have to credit me ;P

coelacanth

BANG!


here i go again~

for the last three month i have taken a toefl prep. course
and i've just gotten into the most tiring part: reading comprehension.

this reading thing is confusing, even for me: an unco bookworm. and this reading part often talks about things i don't know *and don't care* at all

really, plenty of 'em talks about unimportant things: bacteria, an army post in la la land, banking crisis, et cetera.

but sometimes i DO find interesting subjects.

such like a hoax, and the fact that Charles Ludwidge Dodgson (his pseudonym was Lewis Caroll, you know, the one who wrote Alice in Wonderland.) was an author of some dorky math text books (some of 'em involving TRIGONOMETRY). *uh, well. i think he seriously had a multiple identity crisis. his first identity is the excitingly over-imaginative boy and the other one, the alter-ego, is the creepy math-a-holic guy*

and last week i had just found an article about FISH. certainly not my favorite pet, even though i have to admit they're kinda cute.

there was this fish *not the 'cute' type, i'm sorry*. it's REALLY an ugly looking fish*, named
COELACANTH.
the coelacanth is a type of fish that was believed to be extinct. from fossil remains of the coelacanth, paleontologists have determined that it was in existence around 350 million years ago, more than 100 million years before the first dinosaurs arrived on earth. because no fosilized remnants of coelacanth from the last 70 million years have been found, the coelacanth was believed to have died out around the same time as the dinosaurs. however, an unexpected twentieth-century rediscovery of living coelacanths has brought about a reassessment of the status of this prehistoric sea creature.
in 1938, a living specimen of the coelacanth was discovered in the catch of a fishing boat off the coast of South Africa, and since then numerous other examples of the coelacanth have been found in the waters of the Indian Ocean. a few of them was caught in indonesia, too. google 'em. really, they are interesting inspite of their ugliness. they don't even worth a fortune. in fact they are NOT even valuable. but they are still interesting. right?


okay, people. let me tell you one thing: semoga anda tidak membaca kata coelacanth secara indonesia: KU-lacanth.
actually my teacher said that it should be read like this: SEA-lacanth.

well? did ya' make a mistake? ;)

haha, don't you think i can't recognize that dumbfounded look on your face!

ciao, then.