Our Jakarta Wedding Prep
Posted on: February 21, 2012
Kalau kalian temenan Facebook sama gw, mungkin sadar atas pergantian status gw dari ‘in a relationship’ ke tahap berikutnya. Yup, Januari kemaren Erga & gw sudah melaksanakan tahap lamaran, dan Insya Allah we will be getting married this December!
Kita berdua sebenernya sudah memulai proses persiapan buat resepsi pernikahan kita, bahkan sebelum lamaran, jadi udah mulai merasa ribetnya milih vendor yang akan kita pakai. Untungnya, banyak banget review vendor pernikahan di Jakarta, yang ditulis oleh orang-orang yang sudah pernah nyiapin pernikahannya sendiri tentunya, di forum ataupun blog. Nah, karena gw ‘ngambil’ info yang sudah ada, gw juga berniat membalas dengan ‘ngasih’ info yang gw punya.
Kalo cerita ke temen-temen gw, banyak yang bilang kok nyiapin nikahan aja ribet amat. Gw + Erga sebagai pasangan emang niat banget nyiapin pernikahan kita, karena masih lama sih, jadi masih idealis, pengennya macem2, hehe. Buat gw, pernikahan adalah project seperti yang gw kerjakan di kantor, jadi kudu direncanakan dan dilaksanakan sebaik mungkin. Buat Erga, ini art project yang kudu dikonsep sebaik mungkin juga. Jadi, silakan tunggu tulisan-tulisan gw soal persiapan pernikahan, yah!
Let’s Share!
Posted on: February 21, 2012
This is my first post in 2012, yay! Biasanya, tiap taun baru, gw menulis recap apa yang terjadi dengan gw di taun sebelumnya, dan rencana-rencana gw di taun berikutnya. Nah, di tahun baru kemarin, I had a significant life experience, yang membuat pikiran dan emosi gw sering banget nggak stabil. Gw share-nya bentar lagi ya, after I have things kind of more settled, hehe.
Setiap taun, pasti salah satu resolusi gw adalah menulis lebih banyak, termasuk di blog. Alas, it never happened
Now that I have more spare time than usual, gw pengen nulis lebih banyak, especially on my wedding preparation (yippie!) and traveling experience. Like I once wrote, I have received a lot of knowledge from the world, and if I keep on feeling selfish for only keeping them for myself. So, I hope this year I can share more thing in here, tweet more (I already did, yay!).
Gw juga baru renew “About” page, dan mencoba “narik” posts di blog lama. It doesn’t seem to be working, though
Anyway, enjoy my writings and drop some comments if you have any thoughts about them. Cheers!
Weightless
Posted on: July 12, 2011
The sky is the limit
And I just wanna flow
Free as a spirit on a journey of hope
Cut the strings and let me go
I’m weightless, I’m weightless
Millions of balloons tethered to the ground
Weight of the world tries to hold us down
Cut the strings and let me go
I’m weightless, I’m weightless
I’m weightless, I’m weightless, I’m weightless…
All the things I held in my fist
If I don’t let go, I don’t exist
They’ve become the things that define me
How I look and the things to buy me
That’s not important anymore
I feel me rising off the floor
Light as a feather, I’m carefree
I’m weightless…
Feel, Think, Sense, Act
Posted on: July 12, 2011
Most of the time, I will have this series of decision making before I finally act on something. At first, I usually feel I need to do something. This feeling can be extremely excited or extremely disappointed. At this point, I don’t decide right away on something, as I’m afraid it’s only a sudden emotion. When my mind can come back finally, then I think on the benefit vs cost of it. Then, before I act on what I have thought, I’d try to sense if I would make the right decision for me by doing the action. This is the point where my thinking, experience, info, feeling, and common sense would blend together. Sometimes, I will loop back and forth between rethinking and resensing. However, the feeling part can only come back after I act, which might only be the first step of actions. And before the next action, of course I will have the feeling part first.
I know this might be a boring post. I’m just writing my random thoughts.
Women
Posted on: March 31, 2011
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I’m grateful to have a chance to learn about women.
In my office, I see career women doing their best for their work, no matter how difficult it is. I don’t know how they are at home, but at the office they’re confident and responsible with their decisions.
During my commuting time, I see women proudly going to work, doing their best to look beautiful, even though some fall asleep during the travel, might be tired from doing their job and serving their family – no time for rest.
Some of these working moms call their children during the day in between their busy meetings or in the evening on their way home or at night when they have to go for out-of-town business. They work hard to handle their double roles, yet they handle them very well. I guess this is what our modern society expects to women: to work with the same quality with men, yet handling responsibility to take care of the family.
Now, let’s look at other kind of women. My current job is handling products for women. Of course, I need to understand my consumer. With this, I get a chance to see women with different role from what I wrote above: housewives. Since I haven’t got a chance to have this role on my own, I didn’t know how their life is like. Here, I learn what they feel and what they do, what makes them happy or sad. A lot of people think that being a housewife is easy, happy, not frustrating, etc. But when I hear from them, I see that they work as hard – to keep their husbands happy with their appearance, food they cook, house they clean up, to take care their children well, or even to ensure the money their husband gives is enough for all the household needs.
Doing their not-as-easy roles, yet a lot of them feel they are nothing compared to men, or even to career women. I think this world is not built by only some group of people, but by each of us. We need everyone to feel as important. Women – together with men – build the world. We might have different roles, but it is not our right to undermine roles of others.
Sakit Perut dan Tukang Ojek
Posted on: September 7, 2010
Ya, 2 hari yang lalu gw ngejanjiin posting ‘backdated’, yang sampe sekarang ini blom gw sorting juga. Maaf ya sodara-sodara. Dari kemarin pagi gw mengalami mencret2 alias sakit perut. Nggak tahu kenapa, tapi gw curiga ini gara-gara pas hari Minggu lalu gw makan pake tangan tapi nggak cuci tangan dulu. Sampe sekarang deh sakitnya. Kemaren sih masih mending, karena kemaren gw nggak puasa karena biasa deh, lagi dapet anugerah sebagai cewe. Jadi masih bisa minum yang banyaaaak.
Nah, hari ini gw mulai puasa lagi. Sementara nggak minum seharian, mencret gw tetep keluar dong, jadilah gw lemes dan rada pusing. Makanya itu, tadi sore gw pulang cepet, sekitar jam 5 (biasanya gw pulang abis Maghrib). Soalnya di kantor juga udah pusing, nggak bisa mikir. Nah, saking lemesnya, gw pengen naik ojek dari depan kantor gw di Mampang ke Cawang, biar nggak usah jalan kaki jauh-jauh. Eh, ternyata ya, si tukang ojek ngasih harga Rp30,000! Idih, tiap pagi gw naik ojek dari Cawang Rp12,000 aja, loh.
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