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Category: workin’ hard

  • Life (and the Other Blog) Update

    Life has been intensifying for these past weeks. When I had my final paper oral presentation last month, I knew that I would need to find a job right away. I didn’t know that just in a span of one month, I’d be this busy working from 10 to 6 for two jobs from Monday to Saturday. And instead of being happy whenever Sunday comes, I feel stressed that I only get one day off every week. Just two weeks after accepted the job offer to teach English to kids, I already told myself “This isn’t what you want. Your heart doesn’t want this.” Funny how since my second year in college I had always thought that I didn’t want to be a school teacher and yet all I want now is to teach in high school. I guess that’s why you need to experience things: so that you can know what your heart truly desires. I may have found what my ‘dream job’ is. Don’t get me wrong. I love teaching kids, and so far, I love my little students with each of their characteristics, but I know that I was meant for some other thing. Perhaps I should need to figure more things out. Like I’ve mentioned before, I’m really bad at this growing up thing.

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    On another note… Have I told you that my boyfriend and I have a blog that we maintain together? We’ve had it for almost one year and yet there are only three posts. He recently decided to move it to WordPress and tweaked completely changed the theme. It’s beautiful, isn’t it? I love my code-genius boyfriend.

  • 2014 Resolutions: Get More Organised

    schedule board




    Since getting not one, not two, but three part time jobs, I knew I needed to get more organised. So this is it, one of my resolutions for 2014: get more organised. I use this schedule board to track the things I need to do. I also write lists of targets I want to achieve this month. Hope it will help me do my works.

  • October So Far

    It wasn’t my intention to go two weeks without posting anything, but lo and behold… October has been proved to be extra busy for me! With the increasing burden to finish my skripsi as soon as possible plus me working three part time jobs (three!), evenings are for resting. No internet for me (except for the one in my phone). I may be this busy until the end of the month, but who knows… perhaps I would be even busier. Let’s just see.

  • 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.

  • Future

    You know what I hate about being in early 20s? Those talks about future, i.e. job and marriage. It wasn’t until I turned 21 that I realised how I had wasted my life when I was still a teenager. I should’ve done better than this. I regret a lot of things, including my university and major choice. I shouldn’t have taken education major as I don’t really want to be a teacher. Now I want to be an editor in a magazine, whilst my parents still want me to be a teacher. The conversations about job and career aren’t going anywhere with them and it drives me crazy.

    And marriage. MARRIAGE! Boy am I still 21. I don’t understand those people (non family) who keep talking about how and why I should get married soon. It’s not like I don’t want to get married asap, but enough with the talking already! Might as well just wait for the good news and mind your own business. Why don’t you get married soon? And why is it your business when my own parents haven’t even mentioned it?

    Now getting back to the first topic, I need your help:
    In your opinion, what are the reasons why teaching is awesome? Why do you think I should be a teacher?