A Significant One

After the long weekend I spent restfully at home, I am ready for another month of struggling with the projects :) Welcome March!

"No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Warm Soup for the Soul

After months being busy with stuffs resulting me always fail to reach the monthly recitation, yesterday I finally could attend February's recitation in one of my high school friend's house. This time we discussed about how a Moslem should work or behave at work; being honest, spirited, tawakal, and believe that blessings and prosperities are all coming from Allah's generosity, just like what the prophet Muhammad taught us so.

Well sometimes, I think what I am doing now is already in the right way, being good only as far as I could and I would, but what it's all for? By working 9 to 5 in every weekdays, what I am actually searching for? Pursuing my dreams to have the world? Do I still remember to knowledge myself about the real life; the life after this world? I always said I try to be good and to cherish all the things Allah has given me in the life I live, but how do I go realizing it? I pray every five times a day to God, raise my hands asking more things I want to be happened in my life, do I know what He really wants from me as one little creature of Him? Have I already cherish my life in the way God wanted me to? Oh noo.. I am still faaaaaaaar away from being one of His obedient. ;'''(

ps. A recitation is always a delight warm soup for my hungry and dried soul, giving health straightly to the inner, keeping my faith alive and slowly kindling my love to Allah, hopefully. Amin ;)

Late Morning's Devil

Devil in Her Heart that my old brother listened from the family room made me finally get up. Beatles's music is always always very thrilling! :D

Now is almost eight morning, my mother always said that it's not a good habit for a girl to get up late, but pardon me, it's Saturday, it's weekend! ;)

The Enchantment of Olympian's Demigod

Yesterday night, when the rain kept running all day till night, my friend and I decided to watch Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the cinema. As I told you, I am not a good movie review writer, let alone being a spoiler :D so this will be about a guy: Jake Abel as Luke Castellan, the son of Hermes!!

Who was successfully being my breath-taker during the movie every time he appears in the screen. Very W.O.W! my friend Richie said that I acted so teenager-ish! hehehe

ps. I end this post with a stupid conversation :P

me: who is this guy?
my friend: Luke, the son of Hermes.
me: who is Hermes?
my friend: one of Greek God.
me: hoo I think it's a bag.
my friend: oh no..

=))

A Decade After

February 18, 2000;

Was a time where a man had gone, left his wife husband-less with their three children. Where a little girl lost hands who always raise her up, chest where she always feels warm in, and world she usually stands up at..

Now today, this little whiny girl had grown up, and she already turned out to be a reckless and slashing big girl like me; a daughter who had the same angry state of mind's level and the same reading hobby of him.

He really loved to sing. And also a good singer and band multi player, while I am not. Hehee. Yet we're not surprised with my 'ancient' taste of music from him I was so much influenced.

I liked to attend my daddy's open trial after school time so we can go back home together. I liked seeing him being the center of attention reading the accusations and pursuant final results. I was so proud having a father wearing a black judge's robe and banging the gavel whose sound that I really scared of, as a child.

He also taught us to have the eagerness to travel and see new places every time we get the chance to. Well, there were so many other things he had taught me in our short togetherness back when he was still here among us, and I still could remember all of his sayings.

This is my favorite picture, I was a bit dissapointed (read: jealous) when daddy asked my younger brother to join our photo session. Hohoo

And..
If someday I were given a chance to choose, I would like to have a man as strong as you, as nice as you, as brave as you, as smart as you and as gentle as you. Peacefully rest my old man, I will keep trying to be good so later in the afterlife we could meet each other again...

Too Much Rain

It is my current favorite song from the Chaos and Creation In the Backyard album by Paul McCartney which I bought when I was boringly hovering from mall to mall in Semarang just to kill the time :D

I barely believe this, but it's true! They sell this one and many more cassettes (which I was like "I wanna buy it all, pleasee!!!!) only for 7,500Rp (Less than 1 USD) !

I always push rewind button every after Too Much Rain has been played. I really love this song; the rhythm, the lyrics, and it' s Paul of The Beatles anyway :D. Let alone that Jakarta's weather nowadays is always raining. Perfect. To stimulate melancholic, weak and low sentiment to come in me. whereas the lyrics itself tell us to keep learning how to laugh and smile passing through the tough times in our life.

And these lyrics are the best part:

"Sigh, as you brush away your sorrow
Make a vow, that's it's not going to happen again"

Just like what's written in the QS 94: 5-6 as well,

For truly with difficulty comes ease.
Truly with difficulty comes ease.

For people out there who feel so blue without any discussable logical reasons, like what I feel now,
:)
Cheer Up, Guys!

Chúc Mừng Năm Mới

I would like to say Happy New Lunar Year to all of you who celebrate it! :) Btw, these are some photos from my work trip to Semarang, Central Java.

I wonder what this place is, it's a building to watch local art performance, I guess. Located near my hotel, so it did work well as a landmark for me.

Sam Poo Kong Temple. This was at first a place where Admiral Zheng He in his seventh voyage ordered his crew to cast anchor. Because of his kindness to help Java appeased its civil war, the local people then built this place as a honorary tribute towards him and now used for Buddhist worship with Barongsai show and ceremonies.

Praying altar for the departed spirit of Hoo Ping; Zheng He's soldier crews

Intermezzo; say hi to my reflection ! ;p

GONG XI FA CAI 2561!

ps. Chúc Mừng Năm Mới is Happy New Year in Vietnamese based on Lunar calendar. I recently know it after I saw the message from my office's general manager :D

Start Getting Square

Hello Blogs, I finally came back from Semarang, a little city in Java Island's north-coast line last night, the flight take-off was actually scheduled at 3.15 PM but unfortunately it was delayed for almost two hours!! Oh, isn't it lameee? There were no technical problems as they said and the weather was good, yeah I consider it was just my bad luck I dealt with an indiscipline local airline this time.

Well, today I met my friend Richie at the biggest mall in my little lovely town (haha! oh I really missed this town when I was ALONE back in Semarang whose NO uninteresting malls to wander in :P) and then we went to the cinema to watch Legion. Here's a quote from the movie that successfully had me blown straightaway.

"When I was a kid... my father would sit by my bed every night before I went to sleep. And he's say to me: 'Percy, if you don't wake up tomorrow, if it turns out that today is your last day on earth, will you be proud of what you've done in this life? Because if you ain't, you better start getting square."

~Percy Walker (Legion, 2010)

You know, I have decided that.. I really should start it, whatsoever.

Existed Centre of Srivijaya Empire

Though I was born in Sumatera island; in a town named Pekanbaru for exact, I barely visited the towns scattered north to south along the island since I grew up in Java island. Just like what I have told before, I am so obsessed with the island, you know, it somehow reminds me to my lovely childhood time when I still have my father around :) So, how could I say NO when the office planned to send me there to make a reportage from Indonesian Association of School of Architecture (IASA) 's event. :D

Aaaand then, I have just arrived home from Palembang the night before yesterday, though I only spent two short days (and mostly filled with all the work stuffs) it was really really good! We the two girls are absolutely having a little escape time. Will insert some spoiler photos :D

The famous Ampera Bridge across Musi River

a big ship in the river

Me and Pupuk Sriwidjaja Factory as the background

Floating house; this one reminds me to my childhood house back at Kuala Tungkal, Jambi

And this is my partner Gennie in the boat

That's all, and I'm gonna sleep now because I have to catch the earliest flight to Semarang tomorrow morning. Yes, another work trip from the office. See you around later!

Hello Bandung Hello :)

Wow, it's February now! Well, it means another new days to come, another new targets to achieve, another new problems to solve. But new spirit I brought from last weekend's event at Bandung held by the office has lifted my optimism up surely! :)

heading from the office's parking lot

at the lobby of The Ardjuna Boutique Hotel and Spa

Dinner at Warung Lela

The after event photo shoots :D

Late lunch at Cabe Rawit Restaurant

at Bandung Railway Station

Bandung is always a lovely city to have fun with :)

ps: I give my biggest thanks to Futurarc managers who let me join the team in this event. ;> I really really enjoy all the jokes and crazy laughter.