Hi Arian, Are You There?

I’m a kind of person who like to find something interesting related with myself. So, in the middle of opening my French books, my fingers opened twitter and typed “@zodiacfacts” there ^^.

I do not think that the characteristics of people based on the zodiac is divination. Because it doesn’t tell me about my future at all, just kind of umm..common nature of people who born at the same period. That’s all. But, CMIIW. And maybe it can be a mirror,  reflects our flaws clearly :).

Here are the things that I’ve got from twitter, because I want to know more about Aries 😀 :Baca selebihnya »

Triste

Ce matin je suis allée au CCF pour suivre le cours, mais j’étais en retard ^^. Je me suis réveillé à sept heures et demie, tandis que la classe commence à huit heures du matin.

J’aime suivre le cours trés bien, bien que je ne parle pas bien la français. Le professeur qui m’apprend est drôle et gentille, mes amis sont agréable aussi.

Dans les deux prochaines semaines, je vais passer un test final. Je suis triste parce que après le test il faut nous séparer si quelqu’un veut prendre une autre classe, surtout si je ne pouvais pas répondre avec mon professeur en cours.

Ce n'est pas qu'un au revoir
Rien durer éternellement.

Don’t You Feel Lonely Being a Single?

Last night, a friend of mine asked a question that surprised me:

Don’t you feel lonely being a single?

I laughed a lot :lol:.

I had been involved in my previous relationships for about 5,5 years. Being a single for last 1 year gives new experiences for me.

After passing through not less than 5 years with having someone at my side, it felt like do bungee jumping in my early life entering “single world”. Honestly I prepared some plans and the relationship ended screwing it up.

We can make plans, but God decides the rest.

I think we’re the only one who decides our direction, to feel sad or happy, to feel blessed or cursed. Soon after satisfied hanging myself in a bungee’s rope, I stood up and started a new life. I feel so excited, I make dreams that I never had  before, feel like flying high and realize there are things that I overlooked before (because I focused on my relationship and its package).

Being single or in a relationship, it depends on you to manage and take the positive points from each of those kind of status. By being single I can be more independent, free to decide many aspects in my life that related with career, dreams and plan of future without having any responsibility to another party except God, family, and myself.

By being single I never cry because a fight with my boyfriend (because I don’t have), I don’t have to ask permission or inform my activities, with whom I hangout, feel jealous or guilty because attracted to someone else.

But by being single, I don’t have someone to be the victim when my period comes 😆 *kidding*.

No matter what your status is, the only matter is how you control your life and fill your time with worthwhile activities :).
Some people say that love comes when you least expect it ^^.

Small Things for A Better Living

Belakangan aku memperhatikan kalau semakin hari rasa kepedulian kita terhadap sesama semakin berkurang. Entah ini hanya dari aku saja yang berubah, atau mungkin memang demikian adanya. Hal ini bisa juga dipengaruhi oleh faktor geografis di mana kita tinggal, apakah di kota besar atau di pedesaan dan kota kecil.

Sebagai contohnya aku akan membandingkan Jakarta dan Jogjakarta. Sebagai pelanggan tetap TransJakarta, baik yang berwarna abu-abu maupun orange, aku sering memperhatikan perilaku baik dari penumpang maupun dari pihak TransJakarta. Aku terkagum-kagum sekali ketika menggunakan TransJogja, perbedaannya 180 derajat.

Di TransJakarta, orang akan berlomba-lomba untuk mendapatkan bangku, jarang saling melemparkan senyuman apalagi berinteraksi, yang ada malah memasang tampang garang dan muka ditekuk jika orang lain tidak sengaja menyenggol atau melukai badannya (yang sebenarnya hal ini tidak dapat dielakkan mengingat TransJakarta seringkali padat dan direm mendadak). Petugasnya pun kadang emosi karena penumpangnya kurang tertib, dan aku pernah melihat sendiri si petugas sampai membentak penumpang karena tidak mau menggeser posisi berdirinya. Intinya: TransJakarta kurang ramah.

Sementara TransJogja, setiap akan berhenti di shelter maka petugas akan memberitahukan kepada penumpang dengan kalimat yang dihafal di luar kepala dengan ramah dan lengkap. Kurang lebihnya seperti ini:

Pemberhentian selanjutnya adalah Halte Malioboro 1. Perhatikan barang bawaan Anda, berhati-hatilah melangkah dan kami ucapkan terima kasih.

Kalimat di atas akan semakin panjang jika keadaan bus sedang sesak, karena petugas akan mengingatkan penumpang untuk menjaga barang bawaannya dan berjaga dari pencopet. Para petugas juga dengan ramah akan menjelaskan rute yang ditanyakan penumpang untuk menuju ke suatu tempat.

Sebenarnya tidak ada yang salah dengan kota di mana kita tinggal, tapi pembawaan masing-masing individu yang akan menentukan warna dan suasana dari kota tersebut.

Aku pernah memposting hal sejenis di sini, dan beberapa hari lalu aku teringat pernah membaca (kalau tidak salah) tulisan seorang teman yang ingin melakukan 10 kebaikan kecil setiap harinya *sorry, I’m not good in remembering something*. Great idea indeed ^^. Aku pernah membaca juga, jika kita memiliki niat baik, Allah akan mencatatnya walaupun kita belum merealisasikannya. Wonderful!

Tidak ada sedikitpun niat untuk menggurui di sini, karena aku tau kecepatan mulutku lebih cepat daripada otakku sehingga aku sadar aku banyak melukai perasaan orang lain *jedotin kepala*. Dan siapapun yang membaca postingan ini, yang pernah aku sakiti baik sengaja maupun tidak, aku minta maaf dengan tulus 🙂 *mohon dimaafkan segala kebodohan dan kekhilafanku*.

Hal-hal kecil yang bisa dilakukan for a better living, yang terlihat sepele namun bisa memberikan dampak yang luar biasa adalah:

  1. Tersenyum, mengucapkan: salam, maaf, terima kasih, dan tolong. Aku tau mukaku memang ada garis galaknya, tapi kalau sudah kenal, aku cukup ramah kok ^^.

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  2. Mari biasakan untuk membuang sampah pada tempatnya. Jangan hanya sekedar melemparkan keirian atas kebersihan negara lain, mari awali dari diri sendiri ^^. Jika mereka bisa, kenapa kita tidak?
  3. Jika sedang not in a good mood, katakan saja kepada orang di sekitar dengan baik-baik untuk menghindari keluarnya kata-kata yang akan disesali kemudian 🙂 *pengalaman pribadi*.
  4. Minimalisir mengomentari urusan orang lain, apalagi yang menyangkut hal-hal yang sensitif: misal berat badan, status, dan lainnya. Bukankah kita masih banyak urusan yang perlu diselesaikan daripada sekedar menghabiskan waktu untuk mengurusi urusan orang lain? Jika sekiranya hendak melontarkan kalimat yang menyakiti orang lain, tutup mulut dengan telapak tangan, tahan sebentar dan jika sudah “tertelan” lagi baru lepaskan ^^.
  5. Meminimalisir menggunjingkan orang. Konon kabarnya hal-hal seperti ini yang banyak menjerumuskan para wanita ke neraka >_<.
  6. Berbagi dengan sekitar walaupun itu hanya sedikit, misalnya: makanan, uang. Sedekah tak akan membuat kita miskin :).
  7. Belajar berhemat *ini susah sekali*, membedakan antara lapar mata, keperluan dan keinginan. Sifat hemat ini ga bisa muncul secara instan, tapi harus dibiasakan. 
  8. Menghormati orang lain. Secara teori sih seperti membalikkan telapak tangan, tapi jika kita lihat lagi rasanya ini menjadi hal yang mulai dilupakan urgensinya.
  9. Meluangkan waktu untuk membantu orang lain. Ga perlu jauh-jauh, misalnya ada yang butuh “tong sampah” dan orang untuk mendengarkan, luangkan lah waktu sejenak karena it means a lot for them ^^.
  10. Belajar berlapang dada jika mendapatkan kritik *susaaaah ini >_<*.
  11. Membaca doa setiap akan melakukan kegiatan (yang baik) dan mengucap syukur (alhamdulillah) ketika mendapatkan rezeki meskipun sedikit. Hal ini berguna untuk mengingatkan kita akan banyaknya nikmat yang diberikan Allah dan jarang kita syukuri.
  12. Memanfaatkan waktu luang untuk melakukan hal-hal yang bermanfaat, misal melakukan hobi, istirahat, membaca.
  13. Menjalin hubungan baik dengan tetangga, karena merekalah yang akan menolong kita jika kita mendapat kesulitan dan jauh dari keluarga.

Dan masih banyak lagi. Karena ada hal kecil, maka hal besar itu nyata.

CMIIW.

A better world is possible. And we’ll make it, because we care :).

Lifehouse Will Be Here!

I want to use bahasa indonesia for this post because besides I know that my english sucks, I’m feeling tired of learning and using 3 foreign languages these days.

Okay, semalam di tengah menghafal dan membuka buku les (bergantian menghafalkan vocab korea yang diberikan bos di kantor), aku melihat twitter sebentar. Mataku terbelalak, jantung berdetak kencang, tangan tak kuasa menahan untuk membeli online *lebay sedikit* demi cintaku pada mas Jason Wade seperti yang pernah aku tuliskan di sini, karena mengetahui Lifehouse akan datang ke Jakarta tanggal 4 Desember mendatang *bersorak sorai dengan pompom*.

Yap, Lifehouse akan manggung di Rasuna Epicentrum Kuningan, Jakarta dalam acara Guinness Arthur’s day. Harga tiketnya sangat-sangat affordable, berkisar antara Rp 150.000 – RP 250.000. Bagaimana mungkin aku tidak kalap?

Lifehouse @Atrhur's Day

Kurang jelas gambar mas Wadenya? Baiklah 🙂

Lifehouse
Charming
Lovely Jason

Lifehouse merupakan band dari USA yang telah mengeluarkan 5 album:

  1. No Name Face (2000)
  2. Stanley Climbfall (2002)
  3. Lifehouse (2005)
  4. Who We Are (2007)
  5. Smoke and Mirrors (2010)

Jason Wade sendiri yang sekarang berusia 30 taun *drool* merupakan main songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist-nya Lifehouse. Kalau mau info lebih mengenai Lifehouse, langsung aja ke situs mereka, dan untuk informasi pembelian tiket konser Lifehouse Desember mendatang di Jakarta bisa ke Raja Karcis.

Sejenak setelah melihat harga tiket dan ingin membeli, aku langsung teringat kalau minggu kemarin sudah membeli tiket PP ke Jogja pada hari yang sama dengan hari diadakannya konser Lifehouse *membik-membik*. Akhirnya hasrat membeli tiket ditunda dulu sampai minggu depan ketika jiwaku telah tenang dan mendapat kepastian mengenai masa depan *halah lebay lagi*.

Lagu Lifehouse yang sedang sering sekali aku dengarkan akhir-akhir ini adalah It Is What It Is, yang merupakan soundtrack The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 22 (episode terakhir) dan lagu yang terdapat di album Smoke and Mirrors.

When my love for you was blind, but I couldn’t make you see it -Blind

I was only looking for a shortcut home
But it’s complicated  so complicated -It is what it is

Cause I am hanging on every word you say and,
Even if you don’t want to speak tonight that’s alright,
Alright with me.
‘Cause I want nothing more than to sit outside Heaven’s door and listen to you breathing,
Is where I want to be. -Breathing

The broken locks were a warning
You got inside my head
I tried my best to be guarded
I’m an open book instead
And I still see your reflection
Inside of my eyes -Broken

Honestly, aku sangat berharap agar bisa datang di konser mereka :).

Gone

Rain can turn your mood to something you never expected before. Like this, I don’t have a plan to post something before, but suddenly I want to write something here sungguh labil 😆

Without any purpose, I heard this song “Gone By Matt Nathanson” on Jango and I clicked on Lyric button. And here, I copas-ed it:

Love,
I’m aching to believe
give me something real enough
give me somewhere to fall from

’cause in the dark
I can’t find my feet
built my world on promises
colorless and cold

I’m short of breath, I’m sure
gone, let it wash away the best I had
gone, and when I disappear
don’t expect me back, don’t expect me back

lost, sweetest things get lost
in the static far away
painted pictures of you
I fold
don’t want to be holy then
don’t want to be sold again
the way I was with you

How To Deal With 4 Languages At The Same Time?

In every Sunday, I join in a french class in CCF as a very very terrible beginner. Besides french is one of the UN languages, I find that french is an interesting thing to be learned.

I admit that I feel very tired because I have to wake up earlier on Sunday, my class started at 8 a.m. But I keep going and burying my laziness because I feel happy every time I’m in the class and learn something, and it makes my tiredness away.

My manager knew about this. He asked me why I don’t learn korean language (currently, I’m working at a korean company). So he gave me (and my friends in office) homework to memorize 200 basic korean vocabularies. And I’m the first person who will be tested.

Besides the things I mentioned above, about korean and french, I have to finish my job to translate countless strings from english to bahasa indonesia. And I find out that it’s difficult to use bahasa indonesia correctly (berbahasa indonesia yang baik dan benar).

So, my to do list are:

  1. Learning french intensively, because I have a final test on Nov 21th. Memorizing vocabularies and conjugations *bleeding brain*.
  2. Memorizing 10 korean vocabularies and its hangeul each day. I’ll give about 30 minutes every day for this thing.
  3. Finishing my english-indonesia translation, maybe about 500 lines to go.

I found this, an interesting article about the plus value if you have skill in foreign language(s).

Let’s do this happily \(^0^)/.

My boss sent an email to all member here:

사삐뜨리 한국어도 열심히 공부해요.

오늘도 좋은 하루 보내세요.

I’m still thinking my boss is jealous for knowing his employee (me, as an example) choose to learn french than korean :lol:.

I Don’t Care Although You Have 10 Cellphones

Yesterday, like another Sunday, I went to CCF Salemba by using Transjakarta from UKI shelter. It takes bit longer time when I arrive there more than 7.20 am to catch Transjakarta with Harmoni, Senen or Ancol as destination. It took about 10-15 minutes until Transjakarta Harmoni arrived.

This time I got small bus and crowded, so I didn’t get a seat and I had to stand till UI Salemba shelter. In the middle of my way to CCF, a young man made a call for his friend. He said he lost his Blackberry before he entered the bus, someone had stole his cellphone. He started talk to his friend, and I started to control myself. I can’t translate what he said in english, because it will decrease its meaning.

Gue habis kecopetan, seriusan. Gue tadi kan naek angkutan, trus turun di UKI mau ke Tanjung Priok. Pas mau turun, ada mas-mas di pinggir pintu yang ga mau geser. Gue jadi kesusahan pas mau keluar.

Tadi si blackberry habis gue pake BBM an, gue taro di kantong jaket, gue kan BAWA TIGA hape, yang dua gue taroh kantong clana. Pinter banget copetnya, milih si Blackberry.

Eh si BB gemini skarang brapa ya? Oh, nggak ah gue ga mau yang itu (he mentioned a BB type). Gue mau beli BB yang baru aja. Brapa sih itu skarang?

Eh ntar gue pinjem kartu kredit lo aja ya. Soalnya kemaren pas cewe gue tanya, gue bilang kalo CC gue ga bisa dipake. Ntar ketauan lagi kalo gue beli BB pake CC gue. *:lol:*

He made the call for about 15 minutes and every time he said “Blackberry”, his voice will be louder. I didn’t know the urgency of telling your privacy in front of public. Didn’t he feel ashamed?

Hey, young man, I don’t care what kind of phone that you have; BB, iPhone, Samsung, Nokia or whatever. It won’t make me put more respect in you. And, I think all of us need to learn how to behave in public :).

I Tasted Love So Sweet (A Project)

In the middle of my working time, I decided to chose The Vampire Diaries as a checking media :p. Several days ago, I also posted a song by Matt Nathanson “All We Are” here.

Nah, when I was watching The Vampire Diaries, accidentally the song was played as soundtrack. This is a beautiful song, simple, lovely, as sweet as candy ^^, and I sent its certain lyric to her.

I tasted, tasted love so sweet
And all of it was lost on me
Buttons sold like property
Sugar on my tongue

I kept falling over
I kept looking backward
I went broke believing
That the simple should be hard

All we are we are
All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful

It never came to my mind before about her reply, she said:

It’s like the taste of something that I ate yesterday, as sweet as love.

She bought wafer which has peanut butter inside, actually :D. So. I’m as an active person, as written in @ZodiacFacts : the typical Aries doesn’t rest like most other people; both male and female Aries are too busy with some project, I had an idea to make a project called “I Tasted Love So Sweet” and she agreed.

In the next one month we will taste foods and beverages which have tastes as sweet as love, take their pictures, and we will put soundtrack for each food if it’s possible. After that, we will write posts on our blog. This project and its contents are subjective because we think the definition, taste, desire of a thing (including love) are subjective too.

The aim of this project are we want to share to other that there are many ways to feel the taste of love, make “me-time” more cheerful, pick bliss up around us that had never considered before, and we hope this can encourage broken-hearted people to live their life 😀 (it ever came to our mind to run broken-hearted consultant service, because we see many people need companion, free shoulders, and feel friendless lately ^^).

If you want to join with us, please be our guest :). Let’s spread the taste of food love ^^.