Category: personal

  • What’s in My Everyday Bag (September 2017)*

    What’s in My Everyday Bag (September 2017)*

    What's in My Bag September 2017 with Tokopedia cover | Hola Darla

    Kalau kamu kenal aku di dunia nyata, kamu pasti tau kalau aku adalah orang terkepo sedunia (:p). Jadi, salah satu jenis postingan favoritku tiap liat blog orang lain adalah home tour, room tour, atau postingan kayak gini: what’s in my bag, alias isi tas. Kepo banget kan? Hihihihi…

    Aku udah beberapa kali bikin postingan isi tas sebelumnya (di antaranya adalah postingan ini dan ini), tapi seiring berjalannya waktu dan banyaknya perubahan di kehidupanku, isi tasku juga tentunya berevolusi. Kalau pas kuliah dulu aku masih suka bawa-bawa laptop ke mana-mana dan harus pakai tas yang agak besar, sekarang aku lebih milih pakai tas yang kecil. Kalau dulu aku suka dengan ransel, sekarang aku lebih suka pakai sling bag. I don’t know, I guess I’m just getting older and start liking simpler things :’)

    What's in My Bag September 2017 with Tokopedia | Hola Darla

    Anyhow… inilah barang-barang yang biasanya ada di dalam tasku yang mungil:

    1. Planner – Karena sekarang siswa privatku lumayan banyak dan ada yang suka ubah-ubah jadwal, cuma nyusun jadwal dalam kepala jadi makin bikin pusing. Makanya sekarang aku punya planner khusus yang aku bawa ke mana-mana.
    2. Novel – Kadang ada jeda waktu yang cukup banyak di sela-sela jadwal ngajar, jadi aku selalu bawa novel supaya bisa baca sambil nunggu waktu ngajar selanjutnya.
    3. Dompet
    4. Peralatan touch up – Makin ke sini aku makin males dandan, tapi yang tetap wajib dipakai adalah sunblock, bedak, eyeliner, dan lipstik (sebenernya aku gak suka pakai lipstik tapi berhubung mukaku akhir-akhir ini nampak pucat, jadi terpaksa dirajin-rajinin hahaha).
    5. Kamera – Sekarang aku lebih suka bawa kamera saku ke mana-mana karena lebih ringkas dan ringan dibanding DSLR. Dan lebih praktis juga untuk quick shoot karena kamera saku kan sistemnya point and shoot jadi gak ribet. Kualitasnya memang jauh di bawah DSLR tapi kalau cuma untuk Instagram doang mah lumayan lah.
    6. Charger dan power bank – Manusia jaman now memang gak bisa hidup tanpa listrik. Hihihihi…
    7. Handphone dan wireless earphone – Dua lagi barang yang gak bisa dipisahkan dari kehidupan manusia jaman now xp

    Segitu aja sih sebenernya. Kalau didaftar begini mah jadi keliatan banyak ya, padahal kalau udah masuk tas mah kayaknya dikit kok. Hehe

    Terus, tasnya beli di mana? Nih ya sebagai manusia jaman now (aku gak suka istilah ‘jaman now‘ tapi somehow jadi kebawa-bawa mulu di tiap percakapan, ugh!! *tutup muka*) kamu bisa langsung aja cari tas wanita di Tokopedia. Gak ribet, tinggal cari aja yang kamu suka, beli, dan tunggu tasnya diantar mamang kurir ekspedisi langsung ke tempat kamu. Kalau udah, jangan lupa posting tas kamu sama isinya apa aja di blog atau Instagram terus colek aku ya, aku kepo banget soalnya :p

    PS. Udah cek model baju batik kombinasi brokat di Tokopedia juga belum?

    Dara | Bloglovin’ | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

  • Hello Again!

    Hello Again!

    Hello Again | Hola Darla

    Ah… well, this is embarrassing.

    I never meant to stop blogging entirely for more than two months. That was never my intention. But then I went and did that. I have lots of things to say, but I couldn’t seem to form them into words.

    There’s a lot happened in these two months. The highlight of them all is perhaps the one where Miku (my sister’s cat) went missing and magically came home ten days later. My sister was miserable during those ten days, but I guess that’s a story for another post.

    In a few days, September will end and then October (the best of months because it’s my birthday month!) will start. The beginning of the wet season has already creeping in between the last hot days of the dry season. I’m not ready yet to face the wet season but what can I do, eh?

    I’m currently reading The Handmaid’s Tale and loving it so far. The world gets scarier each day so I guess the story of The Handmaid’s Tale feels even more real. For the first time in months, I don’t have a pile of books to be read. The Handmaid’s Tale is the last one. I’ve been waiting specifically for October to go book-shopping because I have a 20% discount voucher from Books and Beyond that can only be used in my birthday month.

    So, in conclusion: October is my birthday month. Hahahahaha

    Right. I’m gonna stop rambling now.

    See ya! xx

    Dara | Bloglovin’ | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

  • My November Goals

    Jessi and Chop-Chop the Cats | Hola Darla
    Is it too late to write my November goals? I’ve never done this before, writing monthly goals, but seing that my life is such a mess right now, I think it may help a bit to write down specific goals for this month. So even though it’s already the sixth of November, here are my goals for this month.

    Keep working out regularly. My gym membership expired yesterday. I don’t know whether I’m gonna re-apply or not. Those sparks of energy to go to the gym disappeared about two weeks ago. Regular workouts have lifted me up mentally, so I know that I need them, but going to the gym & sticking to the classes’ schedule have been hard for me (the gym is like an hour away from home). My goal is to keep working out, at least go running once a week.

    Finish off current projects and decline project offers that I don’t wanna do. I don’t know why exactly, but lately I’ve become a yes person. I need to start saying ‘no’ more. I’ve kept accepting projects and then become overwhelmed. (And whenever I feel overwhelmed, I tend to procrastinate; it’s in my DNA.)

    Catch up with lotsa TV series. Elementary and Agents of SHIELD, mainly. Also, I need to start watching Stranger Things, Westworld, and Outlander. I heard they are good?

    Catch up with lotsa comic series. Because srsly!

    AND catch up with lotsa books. I rarely read anymore and it makes me sad 🙁

    PLUS catch up with my favourite blogs. If I used to comment on every single post on your blog but then completely stopped doing that, chances are it’s not your fault; it’s mine.

    My goals are pretty achievable, no? I hope I can reach them all. The year is almost over yet I feel like I haven’t really done anything.

    Dara | Bloglovin’ | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

  • Drowning.


    Is it selfish to just stop doing what I no longer enjoy doing? To severe the ties with people I no longer enjoy seeing?

    Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m drowning. Meeting people drains my energy. I want to live by the rules of “Do more of what makes you happy”, even if what makes me happy is being alone and isolating myself. Is that okay? Or is that selfish?

    I want to run.

    Dara | Bloglovin’ | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

  • Changing Lane


    Life is crazy.

    Like, the craziest thing I’ve ever done.

    I’m sad to see a lot of my favourite bloggers have started to go AWOL. The ones who’re staying have started to become unrelatable and in turns also become annoying. Remember when blogging was easier? Like when we can just write a post about what happened that day and people would just leave comments. Now it seems like every blogger is giving recycled blogging tips. Nobody seems to blog for the sake of blogging anymore. Personal blogs are no longer personal. Every blogger has LLC’d themselves and rebranded their blogs and started labeling themselves as a pro and offering expensive ‘blogging class’. It’s exhausting. I followed you because I wanted to read the posts about your cats, or your home tour, or how you turned that old coffee table into a chic ottoman. I don’t need recycled tips, I want your writings; authentic words from you.

    For months I’d been contemplating about shutting down this blog and starting fresh. New blog, new name, new platform. The plan was almost complete, but then I took a look at this blog and realise how much I loved it. This blog has been with me since I was 18 and has helped me through a lot of things. It’s been 7 years, and even though it hasn’t grown as big as I used to dream it would be, it’s big enough for me now. It’s enough.

    So like I’ve said again and again, this blog is staying. I will no longer aim at becoming a ‘big blogger’; I just want to be a ‘blogger’ right now. As simple as that. And since I started this as a personal blog, I will make this personal blog personal again.

    Now how’s that for a campaign slogan, eh?

    Dara | Bloglovin’ | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook