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My name is Olva Prisca, usually people call me Prisca or Pika, but some of my close friends call me Pikong. I came into this world on the rainy night of December 04, 1992. Born in Macassart, a town in the east of sulawesi island. My parents, Elly Jontah and Joshapat had tried for five year to conceive their first daughter and I just happened to be the lucky one, when I was born, my big brother was four year old boy , and five years after I born my little brother was born.
My Family Background.
My mother and my father are the complete opposite of each other culturally. Elly, my mother, had lived in hong kong all her life, her two brothers and her father were in the trading company. She grew up with the very traditional chinese customs. However, she spoke Canton and Mandarin. On the other hand, my father was born in southern side of Borneo had lived in and grew up there, and moved to Surabaya, East Java when he is in University, until now. His father were in the Indonesian public servant. He spoke no Mandarin and was raised in a very typical Indonesian family. Therefore, I guess I'm sort of stuck between both cultures. You might be asking yourself how the two of them ever ended up together even though they are so different. Well, both of them are engineers, and they met while my mother was in Surabaya for some project.
Childhood.
The majority of my early memories from childhood are somewhat vague, but for the first years of my life, I mostly spent the day either crying or sleeping , as babies do. A year later I began walking around my house , or what I remember as taking a couple steps and then stumbling awkwardly onto the floor. I also began to utter my first spoken words in Mandarin, but without knowing the reason I stopped speaking Mandarin, and just speak Melayu.
In 1994 at the bright age of three, I was enrolled at a local kindergarten at Saint Joseph Catholic where I would learn children's songs or play in the sandbox all morning and spend my afternoons reading the Disney comic at home. Most of my vacations included long and tedious trips to Maccasart, with the purpose of visiting my grandparents. During the christmast holiday we'd visit my paternal grandparents and relatives in Jakarta. It pretty much stayed that way some time.
Once kindergarten was over with, and upon my mother's insistence, I entered a Indonesian local primary school in my town-still at Saint Joseph- where I studied up to my sixth year basic of Indonesian education. In that same period my Brother, Zefanya was born and he came into the family. At that time Zefa was a sweet kid, and he would do anything for me, but like all brothers and sisters we fight like cats and dogs. Sometimes when no one was around, Zefa would come up to me and bite my toes for no reason. I still love him but only because he is my brother.
My elementary school period wasn’t that good, I didn’t really enjoy my days, I don’t have many friends, and I have some problems with my teachers. At home I act like a good kid, but actually I have a problem with my parents too, just I didn’t show them. I have serious problem about adapting to the environment around me. I think this is caused by my family background, my mother taught me very disciplined, I felt like I was trained by Mao Zhe Dong, it’s makes me not able to interact with the environment. I always felt very closed and isolated, everyone looked at me with a look of mock, even my relatives too, it’s made me grew into a moody child who has no friends, and being extremely sensitive, I was often involved in fights with my school friends, my parents often got a call from the principal, and I had almost expelled from school. I felt very lonely and alone. But I didn’t blamed my mother, because now I undertand she just want to give me the best all she hadm just maybe the way is wrong.
Adolescence.
At the age of twelve I was through with junior high school. I’m just continuing from Saint Joseph primary to Saint Joseph junior high school. At that time I was haunted by the looming dark days during my elemntary school, I would met my old friends and of course they still remember about how bad my behavior before. But I was determined to change to be better, tried hard to get along with my classmates, at first it not easy, they still afraid of me, but I show them that I’m not a monster anymore, by joined student council so they no need to be afraid of me, and slowly they want to be friend with me, and they do not mock or avoid me anymore. While I was at St. Joseph I joined school sport team and played taekwondo for the junior varsity team in the evenings and took the scout and traveled around the area on weekends. I’m such a bit tomboy, I have a lot of boys friends there, and they treat me like a big boss, I didn’t have much interaction with girls, I just have only one girl friend there. I did cut my hair really short, like a boy and joined gank. The reason why I’m joined gank is just to show my existence, it is part of the process of finding my identity. Though I belong to gank, but I’m not a bad girl,I’m kinda geeky and nerdy and yes, I’m lazy too, but can still keep my record to get a ranking in each semester. I also joined in journalistic club at school, I was quite active in writing articles for school magazine and I had written some scientific papers too. I was dreaming being a reporter at that time. Everything seemed perfect in my life at that point: I was doing great at school, my family was great, I was as happy kid. I usually spend my time with reading book, or ride a bicycle.
In 2006, I entered senior high school at Petra 5 Christian senior high school, the school was really diffrent with my school before. Petra is a popular school in my town, most of smart student schools there, or if they’re not smart at least they have enogh money to pay school fees, because Petra school fees such a bit pricy. In my first year at Petra I was strugggling really hard with my new environment, the new diffrent curriculum studies, new friends, new teacher and then most important problem is the diffrent life style. It’s all had me going through hard times, but I got over it, and slowly I can enjoyed my school days there, start to have a lot of friends, and finally I found my true best friends there too. At school I learned a lot about the meaning of life, and I think I’m on my way to grew up.
After I graduated from the Petra 5 Senior High School at 2009, I began studying at Widya Mandala Catholic University majoring in agricultural technolody and took food and nutrition technology as my minor. I joined Jujitsu club and being a very active member there, and participated in some champions. I was a very active students. A hectic period in my teenage years had concluded and I was able to slow down and enjoy my family and friends. I matured quite a bit and built up my self-confidence and independence. Until I had an accident that makes me quit school. It was a motorcycle accident that broke my left legs, and makes me couldn’t walk normally for more than a years. I go back to school when my cast is removed, and use a cane to help me walk, this is very uncomfortable, I just try my best to endure it.I wass too long missed my class, I had to retake a lot of class that I missed, and I was overwhelmed. But not long after that I was back in the hospital, this time because there is inflamation and gallstines and it made me have to completely rest for more than 2 weeks in the hospital, and of course I couldn’t follow the lessons I haven’t done to catch up because of my accident, and now I still have to leave my class again, this makes me really destroyed. I have to repeat from the beginning of my lecture. I hesitated between continue or stop in this way. I’m going through a pretty tough time. Frustation and depression became my best friends. My parents give me advised me to stop and wait. During the waiting period I was accompanied by my mother who was very patient in care of me, my emotions very unstable at that time. I often feel useless and raging, my mother was the one who kept support me to survive. I just stayed at home and reading book all day long for 6 months before I finally found SIIBT, the school where I continued my studies. SIIBT (Surabaya International Institute of Business and Technology) is a nice place where they not only teach you about business lecture, but also mandarin. I had such a good time here with the teachers and all friends, and I realy enjoyed schools here. I am pretty much on the happy side of life, but like all teens I do I have my “days off”. That means I do have some sad days or depressed days. I have a few friends here that sort of look out for me and when I am having a bad day, I have someone here at school to talk to. I make my school days go by thinking of either the next hour or what I will do when I get home or on the weekend.
What's comes next?
I will be tweenty one years old in this year. After this phase I'd like to continue my Banchelor's Degree in hotel management in Taiwan,I got a scholarship from Taiwan Shoufu University. The first step of my study abroad dream was reached by getting this scholarship but I'm still not sure it, I just might change my mind and do otherwise, although I haven't come up with what that something else could be.


Posted at Sat Mar 09 08:57:02 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/105753934066455389309874869309495287396 http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/105753934066455389309874869309495287396 pika Sat Mar 09 08:57:02 UTC 2013 i was very busy with my school recently, and well finally i graduated!!! yaiiii..
i'll continue my study in taiwan, and im started to studying chinese languange nowadays

Posted at Sat Mar 09 08:47:18 UTC 2013
]]> http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/323048620766607428958578223281026866788 http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/323048620766607428958578223281026866788 pika Sat Mar 09 08:47:18 UTC 2013 _<
난 나쁜 여자 아니야 !

Posted at Thu May 24 14:36:10 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/1493699 http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/1493699 pika Thu May 24 14:36:10 UTC 2012 He said that "USA girl have open mind and free to talk about anything, that's why people is followin USA "now, and that's why he doesn't like to talk with Asian girl because Asian girls have introvert mind.
Let's make it clear!
First, not all USA girl want to talk about their private live, including sex or whatever like that( I have some American and western friends who dislike to talk about that topic).
Second, not all Asian people has same principles like me, some Asian people also like dirty talk.
Third, who want to talk about that topic with someone she /he just know by virtual world?we are here for studying and learning about other people language and cultural, right?so no reason to dirty talk.
In my case,
I'm free and open minded, but it doesn't mean that I like to talk about private live kinda sex or something taboos topic! For me, it's rudeness ! I can't allow , and I'll ignore you, I don't think I have a reason to talk with rude people. please understand it, it's not because I'm Asian or the place where I stayed at is called Asia, so I'm not able to talk about that. I don't like and I don't think that I need to talk about that topic with someone I just know from virtual world..its the principle of my life, and I'm sticking to my principles! Just kinda value of my life.
I wish you all could understand me.

Posted at Sun Apr 15 15:36:59 UTC 2012
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Posted at Sun Feb 26 03:27:01 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/1334107 http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/1334107 pika Sun Feb 26 03:27:01 UTC 2012 I'm really confused about using that words in sentence, which one is "tired "and really tired, as I know for "really"just put "너무" isn't it?

Posted at Wed Jan 18 08:28:55 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/1273012 http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/1273012 pika Wed Jan 18 08:28:55 UTC 2012 Running man is really best variety show I ever watched!! Full of foolnes.. kkk
I also can learn Korean but they speak So fast... Just can understand a bit.. kk

Posted at Sun Jan 08 15:56:10 UTC 2012
]]> http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/1258660 http://lang-8.com/345649/journals/1258660 pika Sun Jan 08 15:56:10 UTC 2012 My id "pikrunchz "thanks ^^
wish that we can have good chitchat ^^

Posted at Sun Jan 08 08:31:54 UTC 2012
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Posted at Sat Jan 07 08:09:51 UTC 2012
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