Thursday, December 31, 2009

Kaleidoscope @2009

Hello, I can't imagine that I finally could achieve my monthly target, God helped me again through the construction tenders of education buildings at Andalas University, West Sumatera.
Honestly I sensed that this December was quite scary because of some emotional matter reasons (which I'm not going to talk about), and today, on the last day of 2009, I would like to say thank you firstly to Allah the almighty who still gives me the easiness behind all the difficulties in everything happened in my life, I always feel blessed for every seconds in my life and I am still trying to cherish it all. :)

Just like what I have written here last year, now I would love to breakdown my 2009's life all at once..

Jan.
In a dinner, my college buddies and I suddenly thought about establishing a group consists of us as designers who work to consult and assist people in designing architecture and interior. But this year seems hard for us though due to the friendship matters.

Feb.
I made a lot of new friends in this time, they are mostly friends of my friends. I don't know why, maybe this sounds funny, but in fact I found that with these bunch of kind and friendly people coming from different college I could feel more like 'home' instead of with those from my own college. We even have name for this friendship.

Mar.
Some colleagues said that my carrier seemed to be growing fast as the time flies by starting to help the manager to handle a several-couple-hundred-millions-rupiah project which was the first time experience to me and the company itself. But it didn't work well, because the future client didn't contact us for more details of the project proposal we offered. And anyway, meet a man I am used to admire since high school has completely made me confused and disarrayed, about what I actually feel for him and what I really want for myself and all.

Apr.
Well then, to be honest, I could still remember that in the early days of April, I rejected a promising working offer in the sister company of a national big-scale contractor company for I thought that I need to develop more what I already got here in this current place.

May.
The office was busy preparing its biggest event of the year, and my working days were coloured with some series of rehearsal since I was assigned as one of the Master of Ceremony for the Top 10 Award 2009.

Jun.
As long as I could remember there is nothing particular happened in my life other than an awkward feeling full with question mark in my head that I found this as a fear whose no basis and is existentially distracting.

Jul.
I finally could relieved myself of that fear and to release it go I try more and more hard doing all things at my best, I focused more on my work, I read more books, I watched more DVDs, I played more with friends, I was so excited when the office sent me to Padang to report an event held in Semen Padang factory and I felt pretty confidence and happy with what I currently did as a job. Waw, so far.. my life seems perfectly predictable, isn't it? haha I know it, because some friends said so.

Aug.
I perceive life is like a wheel, we who rotate in it could some time be at the upside and obtained the downside at another; so I could definitely understand if come and go things did happen in life, even when it's your loved ones. I consciously lost a very good friend after defiantly addressed her some spoiled things about our cranky relationship which I can't put up with for any longer. And that's how she and I personally ended, I could say this as I really feel until now that we can't be the same again like we used to be. And the good thing happened was my younger brother's graduation!

Sep.
Lebaran day is a big day that we usually celebrate with all the big family's members. Gathered up with cousins always successfully forced me to think more about future life as a real woman (you know what I mean) and it's super depressing, indeed.

Oct.
It was just like yesterday when the office emailed me that they shortlisted my application and then arranged the time for an interview, but I can't tell with words about time flies so far that the psychology test and series of interviews has already took place completely a year ago.

Nov.
I was turning 23. instead of feeling happy, I encountered myself a bigger fear than the one happened months ago, I said to my friend that 23 is somehow close to 25 and closer to 30. Okey I admit it, I am afraid of being 30 without reaching anything big. Even I have not decided yet what I considered as BIG. Anyway, I hide my birthday in my facebook profile months before the d-day, and it really makes me realize that people who congratulate and send you wishes are they who really care and know you so that they remember your birth date. I don't fancy hundreds of facebook wall congratulating me for my birthday from people I barely know, because for me it's odd.

Dec.
I know life's hard, but I found out that the more you see and pay attention to other things around, you will knowledge yourself more, that is how I learn in this university of life. The chance of backpacking in some South East Asia's countries where I could see people with different cultures makes my eyes wide open and grows my eagerness about the world even more.

This year is nicely closed by my satisfaction after gorgeous Robert Downey Jr and coolest Jude Law's acting in Sherlock Holmes :)

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Late Report from the Backpack Runners

My friend Richie and I went to visit Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Singapore, and Johor Bahru (Malaysia) from December 23 until December 27. We have three days in Ho Chi Minh, one day and a half in Singapore, and one day in Johor Bahru.

When I write this post's title, I mean it literally, because what we did mostly in this trip were either walking or running, since Richie and I are used to walking fast everywhereeee, I consider it as running :D. That is it. Okeeey, actually I want to write the complete report of this traveling, but I found that Richie has successfully writen it very detailssss. So please kindly check her journals divided by day, Ho Chi Minh Day 1, Day 2, and Day3. Yeah, please. :)

And here are some pictures you may not find in Richie's blog hihihi

We and the dolls of Vietcong troops at Cu Chi Tunnels complex. Cu chi tunnels itself located 30 kilometers away from Saigon, fortunately we got a nice tour bus brought us to the eggshell craft workshop firstly before we headed to Cu Chi.

These are some souvenirs made by eggshell, oh they are sooo pretty and that is why they price very expensive. We, the budgeted backpackers, obviously could not afford it.

And the man standing between the two girls is Long, our funny tour guide ;) Richie did almost all the communications with him because she could understand what Long is saying faster than I did. I need a really long time and think even harder in comprehending his words due to the lack of good English pronunciation.

Visiting Cho Ben Thanh market somehow presented a familiar feeling for me, where here Richie and I can do bargaining as well as what we've usually done when we were shopping in Indonesian's markets. and Richie is right, please offer a logical price when bargaining, I got shoed by the sales girl because I bargain the price to only 15% of her offer price. You know what the sales girl said, "ARE YOU CRAZY? NO! GO GO GO! YOU GO!" Hahahah I am sorry, I thought in Indonesian rupiah when bargaining, and I carelessly forgot to convert it into Vietnam Dong. :))
(at that time, 1 IDR = 2 VD)

Day 4, after we arrived at Singapore last night, we scheduled our one day trip Johor Bahru using the yellow bright colored Causeway Link Bus (CW1). The bus fare was pretty cheap (compared to Jakarta's city air-conditioned bus), but unfortunately, Richie and I got tricked by the signage, board at the Simgapore's immigration checkpoint. And there we were, walking for almost 3o minutes from Singapore's Woodlands Checkpoint to Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex in Johor Bahru thinking that it was the right way to go get our Causeway Link bus back, but NO, we have walked across half the bridge till a man with motorcycle told us that it's impossible to reach Malaysia's immigration checkpoint by walk, unless if we persist to keep walking, it will need one or even two more hours. HUAHAHAHAHA. No way for it so we went back to Woodlands and then we have to enter the Singapore's Immigration Duty Office to explain that mistake.

After did some sight-seeing and book shopping in Johor Baru City Square (at first we thought it was Kotaraya Shopping Mall, but it wasn't), we went back to Singapore in the evening, all I can say about the trip to Johor Bahru was: we just tried to consider that our repetitiously bad lucks as funny things we could laugh at together. and until midnight we were just walking (hmmm, at this time we're not running) and experiencing the crowds at Orchard road and finally bought juices at Esplanade before we went back to her sister's apartment at Amber road.

The last day, we kept on walking (read this as running please) from one place to place. I said to Richie, the sums of our walking distances is the same as the distance if we start from Bojonggede (West Java) to Pasar Minggu (South Jakarta) and go back to Bojonggede again. Hahaha. Very tiring.

But we survived! We made it, Ki! :D

PS: One ridiculous thing that Richie made me realize was that the photo in my passport (which had been issued in 2007) looks TOTALLY different with the real me now, people who ever knows me at around that year and before, could easily know why.. hehe, it's simply because at that time I still (for your information) weighed 165 lbs. Since I have won fought those lbs (hihihi) of course my 2007's face was muuuuuuch chubbier than today's. This passport photo matter has caused me encounter full of suspicious distrust stares from the ALL of the immigration officials who checked my passport, and the proccess in those checkpoints took really quite some time. Hahaha should I have a new one with the latest photo inside?

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

A Whole New World

No matter how many times I've watched Aladdin since it was firstly released long time ago when I was still a little, it becomes even more impressive now and then when I watch it over and over again. Thanks to the television station for playing the movie in this early morning.
Okey! I will be off for a while and have a leave from the office :D So have a happy holiday everybody! :)

Monday, December 21, 2009

Chainlink Maggie

What my big bro bought me when he was shopping at a mall of Emirate of Saudi Arabia in his free time is what I am recently craving for and yess I definitely looove it! a madison chainlink maggie bag, aaaaw a COACH, brother! :D Bunches of thank you yaa! :)

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Big Bro's Coming!!!

Know what??? My older brother together with some aunts and uncles will be coming back to the country tomorrow!! They were going on a pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) as one of a moslem's duties described in the five pillars of Islam for almost 40 days.

Hence, the whole house has been cleaned up, and for the welcoming of his arrival back home my mother and I went to Tanah Abang Market to buy some goods.
the waterpots for soon to be arrived zamzam water :)

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MY BROTHER, you know, life here is kinda a little bit hard :P all of us do sure need him to take care of our living continuity again hehe :D

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Broken Things

It is not a secret that I am kind of a super great destroyer; everybody knows why things somehow have these soo big tendencies to be more fragile when they comes in to my hands.. oh it's not like that, but it is just too good then that even they could be very pretty messy when they are already labeled mine. Hokey now the truth is, I think the newly bought telephone is not working properly, awahawhah. So you get about what I'm telling you; that there's always this giant shit I put on things and I just couldn't resist myself from doing it, I might say I did this outside my self-conscience, well as what I have wrote above; I am a great destroyer, literally. And you know what is so not special today, I start to think of stopping punching the goods and get more patience when things are not coming on my way and try to be a better one. Oh I dont like saying so, because, when I said it that I'm trying to be better, I lie.

been felt so intimidated has made me feel too hate to living in this sphere full of hatred, hhhh to relate with a my bad angry management is not that easy ever since, but in every time I played as an ignorant, there were still these misbehaves hit me which I can't tolerate.

Damn. I ramble too random. Even myself couldn't find any roots of the cause here. Well, later!

"Sometimes I think you make me sane. "

Monday, December 14, 2009

Sugar Town

I sometimes listen songs online from www.imeem.com, but have just realized that it is a part of MySpace Music now.
Well, I just wanna share my recent favorite song, Sugar Town from Nancy Sinatra which is performed by Zooey Deschanel in a scene of the 500 Days of Summer movie. Lovely, isn't it? :D

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Beautiful Indonesia in Miniature Park

Or also known as Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) is one of Indonesia's interesting tourism's destination within Jakarta as the capital city. Today we attended the wedding party of our best friend's only older sister which was held at one of the buildings there. Happy new life Kak Intan (and you also, Billy hehehe (?)).
After the party, we surrounded this complex to see the representation of our superb archipelago in just one route along the edge of the artificial lake. We dropped by in some places during the tour and here are some pictures (from my supeeer lame cellphone's camera with its bad quality, of course :D)
me in front of Tionghoa's Cultural Park

Phinisi Nusantara boat's model at Keprajuritan Museum

ps: to know more about Indonesia's magnificent tourism, kindly visit here.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

this week

Oh wow. I am happy for being here again, finally. Just like what I've wrote in the previous post, to keep my working performance always on the track ( so I will still be considered by the management hehe), I should achieve my weekly targets. Well thank you so much to the infrastructure projects' biddings in Lampung, Jambi, and some other in South Sumatera; through them God had saved my life :)
Anyway, on December 8 night, my best friends and I were at this comfy chinese-themed restaurant located in Tarogong street celebrating our youngest december girl's birthday! :D Hi there, don't be so sad with the conspiration's results please, we'll hopefully try to make it better next years! Heee
ps: I cheated her blog post's title, hehe. Dealing too much with the project tenders in the office lately, has somehow made me kind of lacking for words.

Friday, December 4, 2009

This is My December

It's already Friday! and the first week of 2009's last month will be ending. I actually need to accomplish a weekly target set by the office so it will be terrific, well not the most horrible thing though hopefully I can make it together with the next week's target within fortnight.

I really think that I need some time to prepare the road trip (ehehe) and actually, to reconsider my future life plan.. oh did it sound so serious? hmm I mean, I am serious about this :). I've got plenty of brand neewwww important things within this wonderful year; involve in a quite lively work with amusing and resentful things, redetermine who are my true friends (and undoubtedly fight foes!), improve my relationship with the family members, find a way to restrain my soooo bad angry management, which those all had given me a wider view in seeing things, and then aren't I (and you too!) supposed get better improvement next year?

And it looks like that I will leave this post with no conclusion paragraph or any closing statements, because the manager has emailed everyone to gather in the meeting room for the monthly research meeting.

Well, Hello December! it's still too early saying goodbye to 2009 though. Needless to say, the rest will be hopefully FUUUUUUUUUN ! :)

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Placebo Girl

When you feel so lonely (even you're not physically alone) and scared and distressed and restrained but you do not exactly know why why whyyyyyy.. what would you do?
the first thing moves across my mind is remembering my daddy, the warmth that came along with the recalled memories of him and I together in my never-ending like childhood is always able to make me feel better like I've ever written before :) thank you dad..

But besides, another fastest way I could do is just pick up the phone and dial a number I've known by heart since the first moments of my college time, and astonishingly I could expel all the negativity just by hearing her voice where we have a little unimportant chit-chat about anything; about the construction of Sultan Thaha Airport's passenger terminal in which we both don't take any parts (hahaha), about the bad weather that fails our holiday plan to some places these times, about the planning of our university's development, about the evils that take place in our works or any other shallow things. I don't even need to let her know about what I'm scared about or what had made me feel so lost; because then all are amazingly vanished. Is she some kind of a drug or something? :D So please let me introduce you to a girl that had been chosen as the first person encountered to be one of my closest friends from college :) and I really hope that this will last forever.
Here are some of my old posts related to her, hehe; here here here here here !
Isn't it overwhelmingly flattering? :P But here's the way I thank you for everything that seems simple yet means so much for me! :)

ps. 'placebo girl' is not her nickname (I am worry that the title of this will mislead people :p), but sometimes, calling her with various words written in her T-shirts is just another simple enjoyment hehehe :D