new year = new project

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    Hello! Happy new year, y’all! In this first day in 2012, I would like to introduce you to my new project called Putdar Everyday!

    Inspired by ^this^ article in Gogirl! Magazine, I decided to follow the path of Noah Kalina who takes a picture of his face everyday for eleven years (2000 – now) and post them in a blog. I will start taking pictures today. Isn’t it fun to have 366 pictures of your face with a same expression at the end of the year? 🙂

    Okay. Now let’s move on to another thing. I know most of you may have seen this video, but I really want to share it here in my blog.

    The two are wonderful! And I’m with the 99% of the world population who think that they can make a very cute couple. Are you with me? 😉

    *UPDATE*

    I decided to just go with the name The Nerdy Elephant. Why? Because I love it very much! Everybody in the blogosphere will agree that I’m the first one who came up with the name. I don’t care about that thenerdyelephant.com guy. Let’s just see who will be the nerdiest elephant 🙂

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

    1 January 2012

    good bye, 2011! hello, 2012!

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    I still remember spending new year’s eve of 2011 at Ipa’s house like it was just last night. But then… KABOOM! It’s December 31st again! Where did the time go?

    2011 has been fun. Well of course I have my ups and downs, but looking back, it’s not really that bad. This year, I have experienced:
    + losing my wallet (and getting it back intactly)
    + writing so too many blog posts in February, March, and April
    + writing an unsual motivational post
    + being the coordinator of Scrabble Competition in AECS 2011
    + going to Mr Boyfriend’s house for the very first time and visiting Taman Bunga Nusantara
    + joining BlowUP! and then going to Jakarta and Bekasi with them
    + changing le blog’s name from Sincerely, Putdar. to The Nerdy Elephant
    + getting stuck in the worst traffic jam ever
    + going back to Lampung with Mr Boyfriend for the Nationwide E-Fest 2011
    + turning 20
    + being very, very busy during November and December, preparing NATION

    2011 has given me a lot adventures. I feel I have grown up a little during these past 365 days. May 2012 be better for all of us 🙂

    And as for my resolutions… Well, I’m not that kind of person who can stick with her resolutions. I will surely forget them as soon as the calender turns into February. But I have succesfully fulfilled my 2011 resolution (yes, it’s only one): wearing a better headscarf. The unpractical one. I realised that to be able to fulfill resolutions, I need to make them as simple as possible. So, for 2012, I wish I could:
    + be able to control my anger (my inability to control it has put me through a lot of troubles, actually)
    + try to eat healthy
    + try to be strict with money
    + be more fashionable and learn how to do make up better
    + try to stop procrastinating
    + start planning my final paper

    Okay. They’re not that simple, but I will try to fulfill all of them. I’ll do it one step at a time 😉

    I hope you have a wonderful new year’s eve. How are you going to celebrate it? I myself will stay at home, watching good movies in TV while eating ice cream and drinking Fanta with my family. We’re not going anywhere because Bandung will be very, very hectic with all those people from Jakarta celebrating new year’s eve here. (I don’t understand them. They have their own fantastic city yet they still want to invade my city.)

    Happy new year!

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

    31 December 2011

    the good and the bad news regarding this little blog o’ mine

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    Check out the address bar in your browser!

    Yes, my friend! sincerelyputdar.blogspot.com is now simply putdar.net 😀

    However, I still find an error when opening http://putdar.net (without the ‘www’) in Chrome, but the address works perfectly fine in Firefox. The old address still works, though. If you open this blog via the old url, you will be redirected to the new one.

    That, my friend, is the good news.

    The bad news is… well, yesterday I googled ‘the nerdy elephant’ (like I always do whenever I’m bored). This blog was still dominating the first page, but there was a Facebook fanpage which had a different description than mine. So I checked it out. Turned out someone had a website called The Nerdy Elephant. The site is brand new and still has nothing in it. My heart is broken. Completely broken.

    So I might change the name of this blog. Again. Very soon.

    I’m still thinking a new name, the one that (hopefully) could be a permanent name for this blog. I don’t want to confuse my readers and followers, but since that person who has The Nerdy Elephant website seems serious about it (they even bought a .com), I think I should be the one who takes a step back.

    I’m so sad. I got the name by thinking about it very carefully with Entin. I had done some research first by googling various names (like ‘the dancing elephant’, ‘the jumping elephant’, etc.) before settling down on ‘the nerdy elephant’. Why didn’t that person do some research before deciding to use it? 🙁

    Now, do you have any suggestion as to what I should name this blog? (Or if you have any suggestion regarding The Nerdy Elephant)

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.


    PS. NATION was a huge success! Gonna post about is as soon as I get the pictures from Richo (I was so busy that I didn’t get the chance to take pictures). In the meantime, you can see some pictures over at Dini’s blog or at NATION’s official Tumblr 🙂

    30 December 2011

    i’m taking a break from the reality

    Posted in what's inside my head by

    Some people I know say that it is not good to overthink about the future. I know I should really stop worrying and just embrace whatever the future might bring, but I’m not that kind of person. I believe that the future is built by what I did in the past and what I do today.

    Every night for the past few weeks, I go to bed very tired and uneasy. I don’t sleep well and wake up every morning even more tired. I keep getting headaches every now and then. I know quite well that my body is in its full condition and that the headaches are actually the result of my ineffective night sleeps.

    I’ve been thinking about the reason why I’ve been so weary. And this morning I came up with a conclusion that perhaps I think about the future too much. I’m afraid that all my past mistakes cannot be changed and that they could keep me away from the future I have designed.

    It’s breaking my heart to see all these things falling apart. What will you do if you know that something’s gonna end soon?

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

    25 December 2011