The Conversation. Again.

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    “Enak banget kayaknya jadi orang inspektorat itu ya?”

    “Iya. Makanya kamu jadi PNS.”

    My mum insists on me becoming a civil servant. She seems okay if I don’t end up becoming a teacher, as long as I still become a civil servant. I don’t want to be a civil servant. I want to be able to try new things; to hop from one place to another before deciding to settle down in one job. She doesn’t seem to understand. My dad doesn’t either. He keeps talking about the security of being a civil servant.

    But I don’t want to. This conversation is going nowhere at all.

    24 March 2013

    Life Lately

    Posted in college, him, my day, teaching by

    Hi! Just stopping by to share some updates in my life recently. After some silly posts telling you all about what’s going on in my mind, let me tell you now what’s going on in my life.

    Remember the student teaching program that I told you two months ago? The programme is supposed to last until May, but it looks like mine will only last until early April. Good to know that I would get some spare time to revise my final paper proposal and submit it in time. I can’t afford being late and not being able to submit it again. No way!

    And today, my boyfriend and I decided to (finally) do a photoshoot sesh in a proper studio. The result will come out on the coming Monday, so I’ll share it here later.

    Now, how’s your life lately?

    21 March 2013

    Future

    Posted in college, life as i know it, workin' hard by

    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?

    18 March 2013

    If I Knew Then

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    I was still 19 and you were 21. Funny how at first I couldn’t even remember your name. I just remembered you as ‘that guy who also comes from Lampung’. But I’m glad that we had some pictures taken on the first day that we met. Now I’m 21 and you’re almost 23 (next month!). It gets even funnier, now that your name is the first thing that comes to my mind when I wake up in the morning. I can’t technically say that I come from Lampung, but who knows that Lampung may be the same place we’ll call home.

    I love you, A. I wonder if we had really met when we were in junior high, would we be together like we are right now?

    12 March 2013

    What’s Inside My Bag

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    You guys, I’m bored. My team is currently one score behind in the big match versus Manchester United. They’re playing quite monotonously, so I decided to give you a scope about what’s inside my bag. (I know, I know. I made that post before. But it’s a different bag with different stuffs inside, so I guess it’s okay if I do it again, no?)

    Besides the difference in the quality of the pictures, this post and that post also differ in the type of bag and what’s inside them. Time flies. When I posted the old WIMB post, I was still in my second year of college. I still carried textbooks everywhere. Now that I’m in my final year and am currently student teaching in a high school, I don’t carry textbooks anymore. Instead, I carry these:

    1. An ASUS U24E. Bigger than my previous laptop, yet lighter. Also, it’s bold red.
    2. A Blue Cross wallet. I’m very sad to say that my old black Milk Teddy wallet was lost (again) but this time, it never came back to me.
    3. A Minnie Mouse notebook. I don’t carry binder notebook anymore.
    4. Two bank account books. I have two bank accounts now and I carry these books everywhere without any specific reason.
    5. A stationery case.

    6. The Three Rey back pack. Which is super comfy!
    7. A bone-shaped eyeglasses case. I still have it 🙂
    8. Make up (sunblock, Wardah face powder, Maybelline lipbalm, and Wardah brown eyeliner pencil)
    9. Miss Molly. Just kidding! (She’s too heavy to be carried around)

    10. My students’ homework
    11. English module

    12. A plastic bag. You never know when you will need one.
    13. Power terminal. Because I’m a power hunter.
    14. Laptop and phone chargers. As said above, I’m a power hunter.
    15. A white Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 with Mentari SIM card (for making calls and texting)
    16. A black Sony Xperia Miro with Axis SIM card (for catching up with several social networking sites and WhatsApp-ing with my darling A)

    Sixteen boring items that I carry around everyday in my boring life. Hope it doesn’t bore you, though. Now, back to the boring game…

    PS. By the time I published this post, both my team and Manchester United already scored two goals.

    10 March 2013