Sssstt.. Hati-hati berbicara!

Minggu lalu sewaktu lagi homili di gereja MBK, si pacar bilang "beberapa minggu ini capek banget yah, Sabtu Minggu selalu penuh urusan yang harus dikerjain. Capek, rasanya pengin makan dan nonton ajah sambil jalan-jalan di Mall" (jalan-jalan di mall nya saya yang tambahin hihihi).

Memang benar sih, beberapa minggu terakhir banyak sekali acara kesini dan kesana. Rasanya kangen juga sama Mall yang dulu paling sering di kunjungi buat nonton. Yak betul! Puri Mall! hehe.

Di lain waktu, si pacar bercengkrama sama keponakannya yang sedang libur semesteran "Wah, enak yah kamu bisa libur semesteran, Om juga mau doonk!"

Memang sejak kerja, kapan coba kita bisa libur sepanjang 3 minggu? nggak pernah kan? dapat 2 minggu ajah susah (eh, tapi sekarang saya ada cuti wajib 2 minggu lho! hehe)

Akhirnya, Tuhan mengijinkan kami, saya dan si pacar, dikasih libur beberapa hari tapi dalam rangka sakit! yak betul sakitt!!

Hari kamis kemarin si pacar kena DB (doain cepat sembuh yah pembacaaa!) dan saya kena mencri-mencri yang dicurigai disentri (tapi ternyata bukan kookk *pheeww*). Si pacar istirahat selama 1 minggu dan saya dapet istirahat selama 3.5 hari termasuk weekend. And guess what?? Week end ini harus kita habiskan dengan istirahat yang banyaaak! *Do u see the relation between the title and the story?? hehe*

Well, morale of the stories is everything happens for a reason. Tuhan menghimahkan si pacar dan saya sakit, agar kami bisa beristirahat hehe. Dan fitur tambahan dari mencri-mencri saya adalaahh *jeng jeng jeng* saya turun 400 gram lhoo!! hahaha (penting banget sih Win?!)


Well then,
Get well soon honey and me! :)

Tentang Sesuatu

Well, It's been 5 years since my first post..
Dengan umur blog yang 5 tahun itu, kalo di blog lain isinya pasti sudah ratusaaan posts. Sedangkan disini, sepiii...siiiiiingggg... :)

Makanya mulai sekarang, dengan pekerjaan yang sudah agak longgar, saya mau menggalakkan menulis lagi. hehe

Anyway.. Tulisan kali ini adalah mengenai "Sesuatu".
Oh, bukan-bukan, bukan tentah Syahrini.. (oh no! Big NO!)

Biasanya saya membuat New Years Resolutions menjelang pergantian tahun, entah di diary, entah di doa, entah di pikiran, ataupun di blog ini..hehe..Tapi, you know what? seperti biasa, semuanya keookk...semangat cuma bertahan sampai 3 bulan pertama. Contoh paling sederhana adalah disini. I had 5 resolutions I had done nothing. hehe

Makanya, mulai sekarang mau buat resolusi yang kecil2 dan sederhana saja dhe.. no more BIG RESOLUTION..

Pertama,
TENTANG BERDOA
Biasanya saya berdoa di waktu-waktu tertentu: saat bangun tidur, saat mau tidur, saat mau nyetir (kalau inget), saat di gereja, saat mau makan di luar rumah (kalau makannya masakan nyokap nggak pernah berdoa. serius!), dan saat kepepet masalah. Doa paling simple adalah doa pagi dan doa malam saat sudah telat bangun dan saat sudah sangat ngantuk. Inti dalam doa cuma mengucap terima kasih. Doa berikutnya yang paling simple adalah doa pas mau makan saat lagi lapar. hehe. Doa yang paling rumit adalah doa saat dirundung masalah (hey! don't judge me! I'm pretty sure everyone did that hehe). Dan most of them are always about me. *oops

Saya mau merubah doa saya supaya lebih tidak egois (titik).

Kedua,
TENTANG BERPERASAAN
Saya ini terlahir di keluarga berdarah tinggi (alias cepat sekali tersulut hehe), tapi saya juga cepat sekali mereda. Banyak sekali hal-hal yang membuat saya bete. Misalnya, ketika berjalan di jembatan busway yang sempit, kadang ada ajah orang yang jalan berdua sambil ngobrol dan menghalangi jalan orang lain yang mau cepat. Saya, dalam hati, pasti sudah misuh2. Misalnya lagi, saat sedang menyetir, kalau ada pengendara lain (baik motor mobil maupun angkot) yang nyetirnya seperti siput, atau berhenti dipinggir menghalangi jalan saya, saya teriaki dari dalam mobil (nggak buka kaca sih, takut jadi masalah haha).

Saya mau mulai tarik napas-buang napas dulu 3x sebelum mulai marah2 hehe. Dengan harapan setelah tarik-buang ketiga emosinya sudah reda. hehe

Ketiga,
TENTANG NAFSU MAKAN
Kali ini resolusinya bukan tentang berat badan lagi, karena sudah dari tahun ke tahun beresolusi menurun kan berat badan, hasilnya not even lose a kilo, nambah iyah, kurang nggak janji. hehe. Kalau kata orang-orang, memang equilibrium saya di sini bentuk tubuh seperti ini (cie ilee, justification banget sih saya hehe). Karena saya baru saja disadarkan bahwa saya memiliki keturunan kolesterol, darah tinggi, dan juga diabetes, saya mau mulai merubah pola makan hidup sehat (bukan dengan OCD yah..BIG NO! saya sangat tidak pro OCD).

Saya mau berubah dengan memakan makanan sehat, mengurangi gorengan, mengurangi manis dan yang paling sulit adalah mengurangi makan babi (hiks). tapi boleh lha makan babi dan steak2 lain sesekali sebulan. hehe.

SUDAH!
itu saja, 3 saja..nggak mau banyak-banyak..
Tiga saja jalaninnya pastiii susah. hehe.



Cheers,

It should be romantic

Been a while since the last time I sat in front of my laptop and wrote something..

Sharing for caring, right? I hope everyone who read my blog say YES! coz I'm gonna share one of my romantic-comedy moment.
Oh by the way, I already had the permission from my bf (well, the story is about him) to share this.

It is already a while since we were talking about marriage. Yes, we are planning a marriage (let's wait for the invitation, guys!)
I told my bf earlier that if someday he gonna propose, I want a romantic proposal, please (I'm sure I said "please"). Coz back in 2008 when he asked me to be his gf, the setting is not usual: in front a TV played AFI (Akademi Fantasi Indosiar! don't judge me! in my defense, it was a well known talent show back in 2008).

So, here is my proposal story

One weekend, we finally could enjoy our-time by watching a movie at Blitz PP. Once again, he brought the ring. After we finished watching, he asked me to have dinner in a nice restaurant which offered discount! (I'm sure it was because of the discount, not because he wanted to find a nice restaurant to propose hihi!! I'm just kidding).
Then, after we ate, he pulled out the ring from his pocket and he proposed. Then I said YES!

It should be romantic scene if he did not forget the ring that he left in the car!!
Report: failed. haha!!

He tried again. One day his car was occupied so I drove my car to his house. He was alone. He gave me fishcake (siomay) when I arrived. I am his gf for 5 years, so I've learned a lot about his gesture. On that day, he was groggy. We were about to leave from his house to go grab some lunch. He was walking to the house terrace than went back to the kitchen for couple times. Then, he stopped by his bag and grabbed something out. He opened a small box of ring and say "I run out of the proposal idea. Here, I just give u the ring" then I laughed out loud and he saw me and said "you have sauces on your teeth!"

Report: succeed haha!!!

He told me the first story when we left to grab a lunch.

We are officially engaged for couples months now hehe

Morale of the story:
You can't push your bf/gf/spouse/anything u called to be romantic. They are romantic in their own way :) Just like mine :)

So long, Sydney

Yes, as in the title, this is another end from one of my chapters of life. Ok, I typed it, chapters of life, but when I read it again, and this expression sounds so lame. haha.

Anyway, today is my last day in Sydney. I have been through a lot of things here. By a lot I meant A LOT! Maybe some of you had read my grumbling, showing-offs, self-motivations on twitters, facebook and blackberry-messengers’ status. But believe me, there were a lot more than that. Yea, maybe I exaggerated a little. Ok, too much. But you should understand that blog needs to be attractive so that everyone interested to read. So, there were a lot. Haha. anyway….

In the beginning
I feel it was just yesterday I texted one of my colleague at the office and told her that I thought I might want to "submit". At my office (was), it means: step on your boss room, spit on his/her desk, and mess around with his/her computers in order to get fired in the next day. haha. No not like that, it means resignation submission.

After that submission process, everything came so fast. Sooo fast that I couldn’t really call the detail. What I know is a week before I left Jakarta, I sat on my bed and had a second thought(in thrill): What have I done?!

Days come and go so fast. I flew to Sydney. Lucky, I have a very kind cousin, whom I never met before in Indonesia, wanted to give me a room to live before I got a room near my campus. And finally, a week before my semester commenced, I met one lovely couple who bravely rented their room for me. Yes, bravely coz they did not really know me before. They are friends of my elementary school friend. What if I was such a bad girl. haha. Lucky for them, I am not.. :D

Memorable things for me
Finding part time jobs was the most challenging thing. Before I did Accounting Tutor, I tried Fast-Food Cashier. Well, the only one that I tried. Which I did not get paid!! He made me bought that 20 dollars shoes and did not even pay me. He never even said thank you! I forgave him, since God already made great plans. I found two casual jobs and the most important thing is: well-paid! I worked as "black-magic-Accounting-Tutor". I taught Accounting for bachelor students who need it. But, I think it was black magic! I kinda made Accounting more confusing than the Lecturer, especially when it was mixed with very low English capabilities. haha. I'm kidding. I was a good Tutor! I worked with heart!! I did! ok, I should stop. It is now exaggerated.

Having fun and making new friends are also quite challenging. My brother has a motto: Social life is not my thing. I thing, I kinda have that thought too. I enjoy my time at home rather than go outside making new friends. I am described as how an accountant's social life looks like: a geek without the brain! haha. But it was not the point to pay a big money studying overseas. So I decided to have fun! go outside, make new friends, couples of besties and enjoy Sydney. Besides, after new frineds become friends and finally become besties, you'll be thanking God you went outside. (I am sorry brother, I involved you in this blog haha)

Next thing is doing the exams. Well, I think I did those quite well. Not much to tell in this part. A lot of studies, as usual. If you did not really understand the subject, try to torture your Lectures by doing regular consultations. Coz you’ve paid them FOUR thousands dollar to make you smarter. So if you don’t feel like become smarter, make them to make you smarter. You know what I meant. Thus, the most important thing is: an exam period usually ended by playing as hard as you can! really hard till I spent a lot of money to flew to Singapore on the winter break! :( But it was worth it!

Communication should not be a problem. There is video-conference technology like YM, Skype, etc. The problem was if your boyfriend, partner, spouse or anything you defined is an auditor who also happens to have footballs activities on weekend. I have one! :) He was skyping me every night on the first half month I was here. When I realized, it already became once in a week. haha. What I am trying to say is communication tools is not a problem. The issues might be on the doers. The understanding you need when one of the doers cannot make the communication. Ah, I talked like a smartass. ok, I'll stop. :)

The last thing is DIY: Do It Yourself. Do what? everything: cooking, doing laundry, cleaning, ironing, studying, and SURVIVING! I also had my bachelor degree outside Jakarta. It also made me to live outside my parent's house. But the DIY thing was not as much as in here. Back then, I paid the house-maid to do my laundry. I bought my breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I used taxi for the most time, and I called my boyfriend if I really needed a ride. I could not do those sort of things in here. All I could do is walking or using public transportation.

The End!
Finally, here I am. writing a blog, hoping there will be no delay for tomorrow's flight. I had my second experiences in university and I am now ready to face my second chance in working experiences. I am on market now. (So please, any employer who read this, please hire me! I am a hardworker, as you can see on my stories! no kidding :D)

Finally I would like to say:
So long Sydney. It was a pleasure to know you.
I may miss you someday, but today I miss Jakarta the most.

We live in the parallel world

I found a blog written by a girl, who is now studying in the same university with me (was). Then, I felt like writing a blog.

I went through her blog, post by post. She told the readers about how she missed her high school friends, how she felt of being in OSGAB and Accounting Student Orientation: Attraction! (anyone can recall this event?? *smile*).

All the sudden I recalled my own stories in that campus. All the friendship, laugh, life, and love stories. How I missed those times.

Time flew. Five to six years after all of those memories, I can't believe now I am here, miles away from Bandung while someone else is now experiencing my old life, making her own memories.

I am pretty sure there is someone out there who already did a similar life as mine years ago. While she is remembering all her memories, I am making mine.

Anyway, it is how life goes. Someone left, another came. Someone is remembering, others are making the new one. It is what I called "paraliel world".

Letter To God

Nope. Don't expect me to write a letter to God here. :)

I didn’t feel really well today. Maybe, it was because a lot of thoughts such as final exam, homesick, boring, afraid, etc. Thus, maybe I felt really exhausted due to all-day-study-in-the-library things.

Then, I promised myself not to study anymore when I got home.

Anyway, one thing came to another I decided to watch a movie. Yupe, as you can guess, the title is "Letter To God"

In short, this movie is telling us about how brave an 8 year old kid faced brain cancer and how he could change everybody's heart and feelings through his fate. And the most interesting part is this movie was a true story! I cried my eyes out since the beginning. (how embarrassing haha).

Then, I looked back to my story; why was I sad? because it hard to get part time jobs, because I hate to study for my final exam, because I feel homesick..really really homesick (I was dreaming about coming backhome this winter break! huhu..). What are those things compare to an 8-year-old-kid-with-brain-cancer ?? And now I am feel so small. But not too long! Now I know what I have to do.

In the end, something popped up on my mind. Maybe, God picked that movie for me to watch. He wanted to say to me that I am not alone. He will stays beside me, walk with me just like he did to Tyler (that 8 year old kid; I should said the name from the beginning, shouldn’t I? ). And He picked me, because I am the story teller (haha!). I am the one who can tell everybody that He is with me, through my blog!

Last word (I promise). Hey Reader (gotcha!), do feel lucky when you read this particular blog..hehe..
For you who have watched this movie: great movie huh?!
For you who haven't watch it: I couldn't say anything but this is a great movie.
For you who knew me and haven't watch this movie: ask me for free! hehe..

Let's open our hearts and let God do something on our lives.

A Bed Time Story

I was doing my assignment report and talking to a good friend here. Then, I feel like writing another story.

This scene, talking to a good friend via YM while doing the assignment, is like de javu for me. It was happened about 3 or 4 years ago while I was in Bandung, doing another paper assignment talking to another good friend via YM.

This time, we were talking about future. We were drawing our own future. We have the same fear. In short, we are afraid if we won't have better job. For me, my additional fears are I don't wanna go back to who I was, a very busy girl who almost never has a "me-time".

In short, we ended up talking about our past. How struggled we are to do our final thesis while we already had to work in one of the accounting firm. In the end we have survived, we finished those damn thesis on time and we worked on that (I don't know how to express my previous office..haha) firm. Thus, we were talking dreams. So I called this "A Bed Time Story"

We draw our future so beautiful.

In the next three years, we will be doing this again, talking via YM, in our very own MNC Financial Service Company. We will be talking about our past, with the starting question: "Hey, remember the time when we were talking about how we gonna get a better job after we graduate?"

In that scene, we will be success career woman who gets a big money. And most importantly, who can get home at 5 PM..!! :) One of us or both of us might have been married that time.. :)

We never know what our future will be. We never know who will we meet tomorrow, maybe someone who brings u your future. What we can do now is keep believe in God, in our own hands, never stop hoping and never stop trying.

Sometimes you might face pitfalls that can fade out our hopes. What I can say is, enjoy that time. Remember every detail. Coz in the near future, we will see what have happen and we will smile to what we have done.

So, see you in the next three years!