Darla!

Author: Dara

  • money (+some other) issues

    I know it would sound like an old song if I told you that I need to be more strict about my spending spree, but God knows I do! I really do. I could spend more than IDR20,000 for food per day. You see, I don’t live in a dorm, so that’s a quite big amount of food money. It happens because I rarely eat at home. If I force myself to have breakfast before leaving for classes, I think I could save IDR5,000 per day more or less.

    I also need to be more organised at stuffs. I have to create a weekly schedule for doing the laundry. I have to tidy up my burrow. I have to rearrange my college stuffs (I can’t find my little notebook and that’s depressing!). I have to tune my guitar. I have to clean my netbook’s desktop from unnecessary icons.

    Most of all, I need to reformat my mind.

    Yeah. Let’s try this.

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • quoted saturday

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    “He told me right to my face, that although he loved me very much, I wasn’t the home he was looking for.”
    –Dee

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • “sing a new song, chiquitita!”

    I used to be a singer back when I was in kindergarten and elementary school. I won some singing contests. Never the first place, but still I got the trophies.

    Little Putdar singing in her kindergarten graduation day

    10-year-old Putdar singing in a competition in which she won the third place

    (If you notice, I wore the same dress in those pictures. That was my favourite dress. My mum bought it when I was in kindergarten and the last time I wore it was when I was in the fourth grade. The dress is now in my wardrobe, waiting for the day when I pass it to my daughter 🙂 )

    I stopped singing when I was in junior high school. My voice changed. Now nobody would believe that I was a singer.

    But, this afternoon, I signed myself up for an audition to be a member of students’ choir. I was so nervousssss…

    Read from bottom to top

    All the other candidates sang good songs. I was so nervous that I kept changing my mind. I was going to sing Ten 2 Five’s I Will Fly, and then I changed my mind and I would sing Marcel’s Firasat instead. But in the last seconds, I changed my mind again. I ended up singing Ebiet G. Ade’s Nyanyian Rindu. After singing in front of the whole crowd of students’ choir, I stormed out the room. I still don’t know the result. I think I don’t wanna know. Haha! *nervous laugh*

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • my, my…

    See? I’m gone again! I didn’t even post Quoted Saturday this week. What have I done? Why do I keep neglecting my sweet little blog?

    Kay. I think I need to take a deep breath now… *sigh*

    I’ll try to go back to write on daily basis about my boring life. Cheer me up, universe!!!

    Anyway, a few weeks ago, I won this giveaway at Punk Projects. The prize is a set of postcards from Alla Fironova. On Thursday, the cards finally arrived at my door. Here they are:

    They all are pretty. And yes, I think I can smell Europe on them! Thank you, Alla 🙂

    Also, I want to tell you that sponsorship for October is opened! Do you want to do a button swap with me? Visit this page for more info.

    And one more thing before I go… I finally become an author of blowupi.info! My first writing is up on the site. It’s in Indonesian, but that’s why they created Google Translate, right? ;D

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • the a-z of putdar

    Yesterday, Michelle did this in her blog, so I guess I’ll give it a shot. Here it is, my friends, the A-Z of Putdar 🙂

    A. Age: 19 (20 next month)
    B. Bed size: Double. I share it with my sis.
    C. Chore that you hate: Hanging the laundry to dry. I hate looking up for too long.
    D. Dogs: I kinda have a phobia of them, so… no. Never.
    E. Essential start to your day: Extra hour for sleeping.
    F. Favorite color: I’m not quite sure. I love blue, grey, brown, black, but lately I’ve been wearing purple and pink clothes too.
    G. Gold or Silver: Silver.
    H. Height: No more than 160 cm.
    I. Instruments you play: I can play simple guitar chords. Haha!
    J. Job title: Colege student.
    K. Kids: Hopefully 3 in the next 10 years 🙂
    L. Live: Bandung, Indonesia.
    M. Mother’s name: Ratu Laila
    N. Nicknames: Putdar, Puput, Dara, Putri (family only), Darae, but Mr Boyfriend likes to call me Idung (or nose)
    O. Overnight hospital stays: When I was 1. I have no memory of this.
    P. Pet peeves: Guys with long hair. Seriously, guys, that us ladies’!
    Q. Quote from a movie: “That’s my blender!” – Will Smith in Enemy of the State
    R. Right or left handed: Right.
    S. Siblings: A younger sister.
    T. Time you wake up: Mostly 5 am.
    U. Underwear: Absolutely yes.
    V. Vegetable you hate: Most of them! I hate vegetable…
    W. What makes you run late: Oversleeping.
    X. X-Rays you’ve had: None.
    Y. Yummy food that you make: Pizza, I guess?
    Z. Zoo animal: Are you kidding? Elephant, of course!

    Have you ever done this in your blog? Well, you should! Please comment with a link to your post 😉

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.