OMG. All this time I've been looking for the singer of this song in which it has lots of "thank you"s in the lyrics.
My very first expectation was, the singer might be Avril Lavigne.
But that couldn't be Avril, since I was listening to the "Big 90s" program of a radio when Avril just started her career in 2000s.

So i did another research tonight on the internet, with keywords 'thank you thank you lyrics', 'avril lavigne thank you thank you', 'song that has thank you thank you lyrics with the singers voice like avril lavignes'.

And I almost give up, till i searched 'thank you thank you 90s' on youtube.

And........ I found it.

Well, at first I hesitated, but then I clicked on this video with the title 'alanis morissette - thank you' with some Spanish words after the title. Was still a bit unsure, I typed 'Alanis Morissette', and found her official music video!

And yeah, it really WAS her!

She was the singer of this songs with so much 'thank you thank you' in the lyrics.

Then i searched if Avril Lavigne was inspired by Alanis Morissette, and I found some information that they HAD ever been on duet!

And you know what? They BOTH are Canadians! Alanis' voice at first tricked me cause she has this kind of pitch and thick accent like Avril has, so I thought her song 'Thank You' was actually Avril's.
But it wasn't.

But seriously, if you listen to her songs and close your eyes, you can really hear Avril's voice :P
Oh! And I also found one of Alanis' music videos looks a bit like Avril's (Alanis' "Everything" and Avril's "Mobile") well, at least for the background.. XD

But anyways, I love Alanis' 'Thank You' so much, it kinda takes me back to some songs I used to listen on the radio when I was.... 1 or 2 years old maybe? Well, it was in 90s, right? :P
Both Alanis Morissette and Avril Lavigne are amazing!

Well, okay then. So I guess that's enough...

If you wanna know who exactly Alanis Morissette is, and whether it's true that she had been on duet with Avril Lavigne, you can watch the videos I found below! (I couldn't find the full video of them singing on duet)


 

Hey hey hey! It's March already! Well duh, y'all do know it's March already, since 11 days ago :P

But I seriously haven't post anything on my blog since I don't know when...

Well, I'm in the progress of making some posts of my 'short-holiday' in Medan (it was about 2 months ago, on January).

So... I guess that's it for today's post.

Oh wait!
One more.

The midterm test is gonna be on next week and I seriously haven't prepared anything for it. I'm not even in the 'good' mood (in which i consider 'good' as 'studying-till-you-can't-even-feel-your-hungry-belly').

But I'll try anyway, to get rid of my laziness while doing another crazy school stuffs some of my teachers gave us while the 12th graders are having their school final exams *takes breath* in senior high.

Well, then I guess it's enough. 
Like, it's really really enough for today.

I'll try to make another posts as soon as I'm capable... XD



Ciao.

I just did a random search when I accidentally found this:

"People with this name have a deep inner desire for a stable, loving family or community, and a need to work with others and to be appreciated.

People with this name are excellent at analyzing, understanding, and learning. They tend to be mystics, philosophers, scholars, and teachers. Because they live so much in the mind, they tend to be quiet and introspective, and are usually introverts. When presented with issues, they will see the larger picture. Their solitary thoughtfulness and analysis of people and world events may make them seem aloof, and sometimes even melancholy."

Yup. That was the meaning of my name, Kezia. And I think that it's about 99,9% true about me. So... Yeah :/ XD

Just wanna post this :P

Selamat malam tahun baru 2013 semuanya! :D

Akhirnya, tersampaikan juga keinginan gue untuk bikin postingan di malam tahun baru. Gue rasa ada baiknya menggunakan saat-saat terakhir sebelum tahun 2014 dimulai dengan membuat postingan terakhir.
Nggak tau kenapa, rasanya udah kayak nulis surat wasiat .__.

Oh well, lupakan.

Bagaimana malam tahun baru kalian yang lagi baca postingan ini? Suramkah? Meriahkah?

Well, malam tahun baru gue sendiri bisa dibilang berada di antara keduanya. Hahahaha. Yah, oke. Dimulai dari tadi pagi jam 9.30 gue bangun, langsung beranjak ke kamar mandi dan melakukan 'ritual mandi' yang memakan waktu 1 jam karena yah.. Gue memang tipe orang yang seperti itu.

Selesai mandi, ngeringin rambut dan lanjut berpakaian.

Singkat cerita, sepanjang siang ini gue habiskan untuk bantuin nyokap masak buat malam tahun baru sekaligus beres-beres rumah.

Malamnya, gue dan ortu pergi ke gereja karena ada kebaktian malam tahun baru, dan memang karena kita sekeluarga tugas ngiringin kebaktian.
Ribet juga sih. Maksudnya, gue adalah orang yang paling nggak suka ngerasain degdegan dan 'wara-wiri'-nya persiapan dalam menjalani peran di saat-saat yang spesial kayak malam tahun baru. Tapi, namanya dipanggil Tuhan buat jadi pelayan di gereja, jelas nggak baik kalo nolak :)

Jadilah gue dengan electone gereja, nyokap dengan piano gereja, dan bokap dengan bass electric ukuran kecil yang belakang baru dibeli, mengiringi puji-pujian di gereja.

Awalnya gue sempet berharap ada orang-orang yang ngajakin kami ngerayain malam tahun baru bersama-sama. Tapi ternyata nggak ada .__.

Hahahaha
Bukannya nggak ada sih.

Ada temen nyokap gue (yang anaknya juga temen gereja gue) yang ngundang ngerayain tahun baru bareng di rumahnya. Rumahnya nggak jauh dari gereja. Jadi mestinya bisa langsung ke rumahnya abis dari gereja. Tapi ternyata bokap nggak enak badan dan akhirnya dibatalkan.

Temen gereja gue juga ada yang ngajakin gue untuk dateng ke rumah temen SMP kita yang awalnya ngundang temen gereja gue itu. Cuma karena sedikit yang dia kenal di sana, jadilah gue diajak untuk ikut. Tapi terus gue jadi bimbang. Masa gue tahun baruan bareng temen-temen tapi ortu cuma berdua dirumah?
Lagipula, nggak enak juga sama nyokap karena tadi gue udah janji bakal makan malem di rumah. Toh, nyokap dan gue juga yang nyiapin semuanya.

Jadilah gue dan ortu pulang ke rumah, dan gue bersama nyokap nyiapin segalanya yang kita butuh buat makan malem.

Saat itulah gue 'diserang' rasa panik karena takut kalau-kalau makanannya belum jadi sebelum jam 12. Karena kalau udah lewat jam 12, mustahil bagi gue untuk bikin postingan terakhir di malam tahun baru.

Tapi untungnya jam 11 makanannya udah jadi. Dan 15 menit kemudian gue udah nyalain laptop.

Oke, sekian dulu.... Pembukaannya.

Yang mau gue tekankan di postingan terakhir di tahun 2013 ini adalah gimana kita udah ngejalanin hidup kita sepanjang tahun ini?

Wowowo. Bukan bermaksud menggurui, sih.

Tapi tadi malam sepulang dari gereja, gue merhatiin orang-orang yang lalu-lalang di jalan raya sambil bawa-bawa terompet kertas tahun baru.

Ada berbagai macam orang di luar sana yang lagi menunggu berjalannya waktu sampai tahun 2014 tiba.
Di pinggir jalan, gue liat banyak pedagang kaki lima yang saling ngumpul dan duduk di trotoar, merhatiin kendaraan yang lalu-lalang di depan mereka.

Lewat beberapa meter kemudian, gue liat ada orang lumpuh yang biasa gue liat di tempat yang sama, di jam yang sama pula.

Dan makin deket rumah, gue makin banyak ngeliat orang-orang kampung yang naik motor sekeluarga--iya, sekeluarga--sambil bawa-bawa terompet kertas dan balon anak-anak.

Gue mampir ke minimarket dan gue liat banyak mas-mas dan mbak-mbak yang lagi ngangkut-ngangkut boks berisi barang-barang minimarket yang kayaknya baru sampai.

Makin deket ke rumah gue, gue liat ada mas-mas duduk sama satpam, dan kayaknya sih dia ngerayain tahun baru sama satpam itu yang nampaknya adalah temennya yang jauh lebih tua.

Dari sekian banyak orang yang gue liat, gue sadar kalau banyak diantara kita yang masih belum bisa mensyukuri segala hal yang ada di sekitar kita.
Well, termasuk diri gue sendiri.

Padahal banyak yang berharap bisa nikmatin kehidupan mereka dengan cara yang lebih baik dan lebih nyaman walaupun mungkin nggak senyaman yang bisa kita nikmatin.

Kalau sekarang kita berharap bisa ngerayain malam tahun baru semeriah mungkin, try to think a little deeper of how those people wish they could celebrate it with some of their family members that might not be with them wherever they are.

Seenggaknya, kita yang masih bisa kumpul bareng keluarga, walaupun cuma bertiga (nyokap-bokap-kita sendiri) harusnya bisa bersyukur karena bisa bersama-sama keluarga di pergantian tahun ini.

Dan untuk yang sendiri, seenggaknya bisa mensyukuri kesehatan, tempat tinggal, dan segala hal yang bisa kalian nikmatin (termasuk nafas kehidupan) :)
Nggak semua orang bisa ngejalanin malam tahun baru sesehat dan senyaman yang bisa kita rasain sekarang.

Be grateful for everything that you have now :)
 
So, I guess that's all for tonight.

I'll see you next year! I mean... Tomorrow! ;D

Have a blessed new year!!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Yeah, I know I haven't been as consistently-making-new-posts as I used to be lately. But here I am, tring to make another new post cause it's Christmas! :D
Get it?
It's Christmas, so.. Kinda like a special time to make a new post.

Well, never mind.

Anyway, how's everyone's Christmas holiday so far?
Mine's not that 'special' as I thought it would be, but still I'm quite grateful to be with my mom and dad along the holiday and just spend my 2-week holiday (till I get into the school next year) at home.

Well my mom actually had a plan for us to visit my grandma cause it's gonna be her birthday on the 29th but we thought it was impossible since we knew he're not gonna make it cause we'll have to do our church service on 31st.
Besides, we'll have a family gathering on the 1st January (2014!) where everyone will be gathered on the very first day of 2014, so.. I guess it's good enough to just meet my grandma there.

I'm getting kinda curious about what everyone's new year eve is gonna be. But well I don't know what mine is gonna be..... yet. But yeah, I guess I'd rather just take it slow and enjoy the last days of 2013 anyways.

So I guess that's all for tonight. I don't think I can write more cause I'm currently using my old computer with this old keyboard... It's tiring though :P  I don't wanna break the 'backspace' keyboard anyway.

So, MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Have blessed days ahead before the new year! :D

Huaaa udah lama nggak mengunjungi blog! Akhirnya, kesampaian juga setelah 2 bulan penuh 'sibuk' sama tugas-tugas sekolah yang menumpuk. Dan nggak tau kenapa, rasanya skill menulis gue jadi menurun. Ahahahah..

Oh well, anyway hari Jumat kemarin (6 Desember 2013) gue baru aja selesai UAS alias Ujian Akhir Semester di sekolah :D
Yaaaayy.
Akhirnya, setelah 6 hari menghadapi serangkaian ujian, gue selesai jugaa!

Sebenernya sih, nggak ada yang lagi pengen gue tulis di blog kali ini. Cuma yah, daripada nggak ada postingan baru? Hahaha. Asal blognya nggak berdebu~

Sebenernya sih kemarin pengennya ngupdate blog sekaligus marathon mantengin website Hulu, nonton America's Next Top Model Cycle 20 since I couldn't watch any other cycle 20 episodes on YouTube, so I tried Hulu. And it works!

Seneng banget rasanya akhirnya bisa nonton semua episode cycle 20 since I've been rooting for Jeremy Rohmer to be the winner.

Oh well, segini aja mungkin untuk postingan kali ini.

Untuk postingan mengenai ANTM Cycle 20, menyusul :D

Huaaahh... Nggak kerasa, udah hari Jumat. Itu artinya, besok adalah hari Sabtu. Itu artinya, 3 hari lagi akan kembali ke sekolah dan belajar kembali. Itu artinya, mulai minggu depan yang mengurus Rohkris adalah para pengurus baru...

Jadi, begini ceritanya...

Berhubung kakak-kakak kelas 11 sekarang sudah kelas 12 (dan itu artinya waktu yang mereka punya sekarang sedang difokuskan semaksimal mungkin untuk persiapan menghadapi ujian-ujian kelulusan dan Try Out, dsb) dan munculnya adik-adik kelas 10 tahun ajaran 2013/2014, maka Rohkris sekolah gue mengadakan acara yang bernama 'Regen' alias Regenerasi untuk para pengurusnya.

Hasil dari berbagai pergumulan dan 'pengamatan' yang para kakak kelas serta alumni Rohkris lakukan dalam memilih siapa saja yang bakal jadi pengganti mereka, akhirnya diumumkan dalam ibadah Persekutuan Jumat hari ini. 

Tepat pada hari Jumat, 20 September 2013.

Jadi, pas PJ tadi siang, hampir semua anak Rohkris dan Rohkat di sekolah (yah, 20 anak yang nggak dateng sih. 56/76) duduk di dalem ruang Rohkris buat sama-sama nikmatin PJ.

Dengan Kak Santi sebagai pembicara, Kak Enggal dan Kak Thomas sebagai gitaris, dan Kak Echa sebagai liturgos, PJ pun berlangsung lancar dan gue bisa liat sebagian besar jemaatnya cukup nikmatin PJ hari ini dengan tema "UGM".

Baiklah, singkat saja. Berikut susunan pengurus Rohkris 2012/2013:

Ketua                           : Kak Selvi
Sekretaris & Bendahara  : Kezia (gue ._.)
Seksi Acara                   : Kak Enggal, Kak Thomas, Nelly
Seksi Doa & Pemerhati    : Kak Isti, Brendan
Seksi Humas                 : Kak Echa, Melan
Seksi Perlengkapan        : Kak Jay, Pras

Dan ini adalah susunan pengurus Rohkris 2013/2014:
Ketua                           : Pras
Sekretaris & Bendahara  : Anggit
Seksi Acara                   : Nelly, Desty, Clara
Seksi Doa & Pemerhati    : Kezia (gue ._.), Vinska
Seksi Humas                 : Laras, Adrima
Seksi Perlengkapan        : Melan, Kevin


Kayaknya masih ada lagi deh anak kelas 10-nya. Tapi, gue lupa siapa aja.
Yasudahlah, intinya sekian dulu.

Kiranya para pengurus baru dapat saling berkoordinasi dengan baik dalam memanajemen Rohkris :)


Note: Harusnya postingan ini di-post pas hari H. Jadi telat begini. Haha. Ha. Ha.

Okay... So, It's kinda weird cause it obviously is 12.40am here and I'm still using my mom's laptop just to write on my blog.

It's been around 1 and a half month since my first day of being an 11th grader and... *sigh* Well um, I don't know. I mean, I'm not sure how I would write about this 'whole new life' experience or.. Whatever you call it anyway.

It's been quite weird and kind of 'annoying' when someone just hardly believes that I'm not in the Science class. And they also say that I should've been (or even would rather be) in that class rather than in Social class. Well, I dunno. Guess it's all because of my nerdy look and how I 'always' take things way 'too serious' and that I look just like a robot.

No expressions. No laughs. No smiles. No hearts. Always look everything straight to the point (well, not really actually).

But seriously, living in this Social environment really is kind of a new experience since I've almost had never been in a class where the teachers were almost all didn't come to the class to teach us.

So it still is kinda weird cause when it happens, all of the kids in my class are all going crazy like you know, singing some silly and awful songs, walking around the class, listening to some songs on their phones and ipods, having some snacks, going to the canteen, and anything that I would hardly do because I was raised (means used to be) in a private school on which the rules were way much stricter than the rules that I have to hold on to now in this school, I would take my novel and read it silently, or sometimes doing my homework because I obviously have never had much time to do those at home cause I use my time to sleep and not touching any school books.

Well, okay then. I think that's all for... today? Tonight? Duh. Don't know, don't care either.

Guess I'm not going to sleep after this cause "I Wouldn't Go in There" will start soon at 1.40am.
And that means 15 minutes left after this.

And that means that I'm not going to sleep tonight though am gonna have to be at school tomorrow at 9.

Well, ciao.