Darla!

Category: weekend

  • Mata Ilmu Teachers’ Playground


    What makes a good company? I think the answer is happy employees. When the employees are happy with their working environment and/or workmates, they will resonance a positive vibe and their performance will become better. Our company, Mata Ilmu, overs tutoring services, so we really need that positive vibe and good performance from our employees (aka tutors). For that reason, we held an outing yesterday morning. It was called “Teachers’ Playground”. Even though only few people showed up, the event was super fun! We had several games, like photo hunt, the Thumbs Up game, the Put Your Hands Up game, fast typing game, and quiz.


    We chose The Town Hall Park as the venue. We felt that an open public space was more suitable for an outing rather than to go to a specific outing venue. Lucky us, it was cloudy but didn’t rain during the event. The Park was not too crowded, which made it more convenient for us.


    It was so fun and full of laughters. We hadn’t had an outing since June (which was our annual gathering). Yesterday’s event made me realised how much I had missed hanging out with them. We’re trying to create more similar events like this rather than a simple monthly meeting that we usually have. We hope that there will be more tutors who come to our next event 😉

  • Sunday


    Whoops! Look at me missing a whole week of blogging. Really, I’m trying to get back to regular blogging like I used to do back in 2011, but it’s just so, so hard. Life happens, but no interesting thing shows up; nothing to blog about. So I guess I’ve grown up to be a boring, lame adult who never has fun and just work work work for the job she doesn’t really like. *sigh*

    But, BUT, rambling set aside, my fiance and I did a little photo session for our save the date. We chose to have it at the very first place we met: our university, or the Partere Park to be precise. We went back to the exact same spot where we first introduced ourselves to each other. Although I actually wrote a blog post when we first met, I haven’t really told the story of how we met (like met met, not met met–get it? Haha). It was kind of funny. Everytime I look back, I always smile and think “Oh how I wouldn’t have even thought about marrying that skinny boy!” (he was skinny). Maybe I’ll just save the story for later, eh?

    Anyway, hope you have a great weekend! XOXO

  • First Iftars


    I think I’m turning into a bad blogger because I rarely take blog-worthy pictures anymore. I had iftar with Vicky on Friday and with A on Saturday, but the only picture I took was that of McFlurry and Tahu Brintik I had with A. I need to remind myself to take more pictures. More pictures, Dara!

    Anyway, as I mentioned above, I finally went out to have iftar together with Vicky on Friday. We are in the process of starting a business together and we decided to have iftar and a meeting in Ngopdoel. We’ve reached an agreement and everything is almost settled. We will meet again tomorrow to open a joint bank account and sign the MOU. This is so exciting! I’ll post about the business as soon as everything is ready for the (re-)launching.
    I also went out for iftar with A yesterday. We were a little bit late when we arrived at the restaurant and so we had to wait. We decided to have McFlurry and Tahu Brintik first, hence the picture. I hadn’t seen him for days so it was nice to spend the evening with him, even though it was only for a couple of hours.
    The first week of Ramadan has passed. Three more weeks until the Eid!

  • idGeekGirls Share #2 Food and Social Media


    Taking pictures of your food and then posting them up on Instagram has become such a common thing nowadays. It started out simply as a fun way to share what you were having for lunch, but then it got big and bigger, and now we what we call as foodstagrammers (I know this guy and this girl in real life). This phenomenon was what drove the idGeekGirls community to hold a small talk show called “idGeekGirls Share #2 Food and Social Media” on Saturday. This event took place in 90 Gourmet restaurant. There were four speakers and around 20 participants.


    For about one hour, we talked about the effects of foodstagram (and food blogs in general) from restaurant owners’ point of view, how to write a good food review, how some restaurant owners handle complains delivered through social media, food styling, and many other things. I also met some people among the participants, like fellow bloggers, an owner of a newly opened restaurant, a reporter from a local newspaper, etc. We were given lunch of our choice (I chose Chicken Maryland which was super yummy), and then after we had our lunch, the event was closed with quizzes and giveaways.

    For a free event, it was pretty awesome. The talk show was very informative and it gave me new knowledge in foodstagram and food blogging. Besides getting a big lunch, I also went home bringing a goodie bag plus a (huge) jar of cookies. I’m definitely looking forward to joining another event by idGeekGirls.

    ***

    I’m currently participating in a blog competition held by Hijabers Community Jakarta. Please vote for me by clicking here. Your vote brightens my day. Thanks! XOXO

  • It’s Sunday Again


    Last week passed me by like it was only just two days and it’s Sunday again. I had planned to just stay at home, looking up for jobs online, but then I decided to go out with A for a flash date. We went to have surabi and milk soda in Waroeng Setiabudhi, then we walked to Ciwalk to play PIU. Turned out, playing PIU with a full stomach was not wise. We both felt like throwing up but at least we made it home. I really hope next week will be fine. I have a big thing going on on Friday next week. See you then.