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  • TV Series I’m Currently Watching

    After living in a super fast pace last month, I finally have some room to breathe now that my paper is (almost) finished. I now have time to watch TV series again (yay!!!) I can’t say that I’m a fan of TV series, but there are some that I’ve been following. Here are four series that I’m currently watching.

    Trophy Wife (Season 1)


    I was flipping through the channels on my cable when I stumbled upon this show on Star World. At first I thought it was that kind of drama with family conflicts like Mistresses or Desperate Housewives, but then I decided to watch it anyway. It turned out to be a sitcom and I really liked it! So I went browsing for the whole series and now I’m on episode four.

    Elementary (Season 2)


    When I first found out about this ‘American Sherlock’ on Tumblr, I thought “Damn you, Amurrica. Can’t you just leave British series alone and come up with fresh ideas?”. And then the news came out that in this ‘American Sherlock’, Watson would be a female. WHAT???!!! But when the pilot of the first season came out, I watched it and instantly fell in love because it was not like Sherlock (BBC) at all. Joan Watson also made the story even more fresh. I got so hooked up on the show and now I’m one episode behind in the second season.

    Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Season 1)


    My boyfriend and I are huge fans of Marvel’s films. We’ve watched all the films in their Marvel Universe and our favourite is, of course, The Avengers. We jumped with excitement when we found out that Coulson was still alive and that he recruited several people into his special team. Now it has become a routine for us to watch this show every Saturday night.

    House (Season 4)


    I started watching House when the final season was airing in the United States. I used to watch four episodes per day, but then college took over my time and then I completely abandoned the show after finishing season three. I picked up season four and started watching again. Now I’m on episode twelve.

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    I think I should also put Downton Abbey here as an honourable mention. I used to worship this show, but I stopped watching mid season three because I got spoiled with the Christmas Special, found a shocking ending, and then abandoned the show, vowing to never watch it again. However, last week I chatted with a friend who is also a fan of Downton Abbey. We talked about it and I got hit by nostalgia. Perhaps I’ll start watching it again sometime soon.

    So if you watch one or more of these shows, can we talk about how OMGWonderful!!! they are?

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  • High School Revisited

    Apologise for being so quiet over here for the past two weeks. I’ve been busy doing several things and what-nots. One of them being revisiting my high school, SMA Negeri 12 Bandung. I hadn’t been there since God knows when, so it’s no surprise to see that things have changed. New buildings, new cafetaria, new mosque in the making… But the atmosphere is still the same. Revisiting that place brought back so much memory. High school is the best/worst, huh?





  • Pekanbaru in Some Pictures

    It’s been more than a week since my trip to Pekanbaru. It’s kinda too late to write a post about it, but I need something to write about anyway. So here are some pictures taken during the trip. Some were taken by me, and some others were taken by my co-workers.

    The content team upon arriving
    First day meeting
    There were elephant statues in front of the hotel!
    Swimming at dusk
    The luxury life we had back there

  • It was a Crazy Week

    I wrote this last post just past midnight on Sunday (or Monday, technically) saying that I needed to focus more on my final paper. I went to bed very late that night, and then I got up, got dressed, and went to ITB to work on a project that a friend had offered and I had said yes. At that time, I had written down a timeline for what I was going to do this month. First week, I was going to work on said project while also conducting observations for my final paper. Second week was for finishing my research and third week was for finishing my final paper so that I could sign up for the oral presentation at the end of the month.

    But then my manager asked me to join the team and fly to Pekanbaru on Thursday. The business trip would take two days and we’d go home on Saturday morning. There goes my whole plan, fellas. The next thing I knew was I was sitting on my seat in a plane flying north.

    I will probably write a separate post about my business trip, so please let me continue the story to after we landed back in Bandung. It was Saturday and it was Velentina’s birthday. We had had a plan for that day since January, so I didn’t want to cancel. Hell no. We went karaoke-ing and walked around the mall wearing party hats.

    The next day, Sunday, my cousin held her wedding ceremony and reception. I had been assigned as a bridesmaid, so I got up early in the morning and got dressed and had my makeup done and bridesmaid-ing all day.

    It was one helluva week.

  • If You Can’t Hold On

    Right now I think there’s nothing more hurtful than seeing your best friends all graduating college and leaving you alone to start their journey on the real life (or career path that is), while you’re here being busy and such with the part time jobs you think you need just because you want to have a CV full of work experiences. What am I doing with my life? What am I pursuing, really? I feel like an infant who is already running a marathon while I actually still need to learn how to walk. I have to finish my final paper and graduate college before having multiple jobs, don’t I?

    This is it. This is the point where I need to take a big break and re-evaluate my whole life. Bear with me, my friends. Bear with me and be there in the morning to pull me through.
    Cause I think I can’t hold on any longer.