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Category: life as i know it

  • October is My Month

    All the SEO masters will surely cringe at my choice of lame title for this post, but hey! I mean it! October is my birthday month and so it is my month, right?

    Alright. So I finally got a time to go back to the blogland after two weeks of not-even-turning-on-my-laptop-for-anything-besides-doing-progress-on-final-paper. In fact, I just finished marking some posts read on Bloglovin’. Hundreds of them. (Exhausting!) And I didn’t even do that on my laptop. I’m using my (brand new :D) tablet to read blogs and post this tonight. Tiny screen, awkward keyboard, tethered internet connection, but it’s the only convenient way as for tonight.

    I feel like I need to tell you that I hate complaining about my final paper to anybody other than my boyfriend and a few friends. That’s why I’ve been avoiding this blog. I’ve ranted enough on Twitter, I think, that I shouldn’t bring the negativity here. Like I said before, I should probably go back to using this blog as a getaway whenever real life seems unbearable, just like what I did a couple of years ago. Reading back to those days, I can see that my writings nowadays look dull compared to the old ones. I also used to have quite a number of royal readers and commenters. I don’t know if the decreasing number is because of me or if it is because of the big changes in the blogland just like what Kaelah talked about on her blog a few days back. Well, I was never a famous blogger, but even the amateur like me has been feeling the shifting so perhaps it is real.

    Anyway, while I was gone, I got myself a plenty of part time jobs and one that I had to cancel due to the conflicting schedule. (See? I wasn’t kidding when I said I was busy.) I am now a coordinator assistant in a private course institution and also a social media manager for a startup fashion line. Busy, arent I? 😉

    So, yeah… Here’s to October, my super special month.

    PS. My tablet’s wallpaper is from Kristen Victoria.

  • Enough With the Downer

    The last two posts looked kinda depressing, didn’t they? 18 and 19 September were two days to forget, yet I always remember. When you got your heart so broken, it’s hard to forget no matter how badly you want to. But as for now, I’ll let them sit together in the darkest part of my memory lane to be celebrated again next year. I have to think about something else.

    As this week comes to an end, I’m reminded that next week will be a fresh new start to the writing process of my final paper. My #1 advisor contacted me a few days ago to set up a new (permanent) schedule of advising session and my #2 advisor said that she would be available on Tuesday. I hope it will be all downhill from there.

    Also, I can’t write a Weekend Wandering post this week. A and I had planned to go to Floating Market Lembang on Saturday, but it was raining and so we had to cancel. We ended up spending Saturday night at his office, trying to install YouTube on iPad to watch these hilarious videos by Sacha Stevenson (she’s seriously hilarious!)

    However, I will surely post Weekend Wandering #3 next week because Bandung is having Braga Festival again this year. I can hardly wait.

    Here’s to a good week ahead!

  • Typical September

    I hate to say this, but I’ve always had this little hatred for September for years now. Majorly because it is the start of the new school year, but also because last year’s September was, like, the lowest point of my life. I am a pessimist, so when August came to its end, I already knew that I shouldn’t have put too much expectation on September. That, however, doesn’t help with the disappointments I experience right now.

    First, one of my final paper supervisors is busy for the whole first three weeks of September, so I have to postpone any progress of this paper to the last week of September. What?

    And to add to that, my laptop charger is broken so I can’t use the laptop at all. All my files are there, and even though I’m using Dropbox to backup some of them, most of the references I’ve downloaded from the internet are in the folder which is not automaticaly backed up to Dropbox.

    I’m using my family’s PC to post this and the old keyboard is… well, old. We rarely use it now that each of us owns a laptop, so this keyboard is covered with dust, much like the tomb of Pharaoh.

    So, yeah… I really need to fix my charger.

    On the brighter side: my boyfriend bought me John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines(!!!)

    I love John Green. As I said on Anjali’s blog, John Green is like the Albus Dumbledore of young adult fictions. I’ve read all of his books, except An Abundance of Katherines and Let It Snow. The last one I read was Will Grayson, Wil Grayson and I finished it in just three days. What a waste of a good book, no? So for this one, I’m taking my time. It’s been four days and I’ve only read 20 pages. Hahaha

    PS. My dad just called from Way Kambas and he said he’d buy me elephant tshirt and stuffed toy. Woot!

  • Will you sit down and have a cup of coffee with me for a little while?

    I’ve been a little sick for the past couple days. I don’t want to blame it on anything, but maybe I’m just a little hard to myself. I should start writing my final paper, but I don’t. I should start chasing after my supervisors, but I don’t. I should start looking for a way to tell my mum about something important, but I don’t. All I’ve been doing is thinking, thinking, and thinking. All thinking and no action at all. I don’t even go out to enjoy the sun; I just sit around at home and think.

    Then I start wondering why I stop using this blog as a getaway like I used to do all the time. I used to find blogging as an escape from the burden of the real life. Well, you know… reading all those blogs about how awesome people’s lives are could lift up my spirit a little bit, and then after hours of blogwalking, I would get myself on my feet again and chase my dreams. Oh how simple life was.

    I fully realise that this post is totally nonsensical. I’m just rambling here.

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  • The Conversation. Again.

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    “Enak banget kayaknya jadi orang inspektorat itu ya?”

    “Iya. Makanya kamu jadi PNS.”

    My mum insists on me becoming a civil servant. She seems okay if I don’t end up becoming a teacher, as long as I still become a civil servant. I don’t want to be a civil servant. I want to be able to try new things; to hop from one place to another before deciding to settle down in one job. She doesn’t seem to understand. My dad doesn’t either. He keeps talking about the security of being a civil servant.

    But I don’t want to. This conversation is going nowhere at all.