Happiness is when you’re tired and doing something, you will forget about your tiredness.
Happiness is when you have little, you still share it with other.
Happiness is when you have problems, you can smile and thankful with things that has given to you from God.
Happiness is when you’re angry, and you still can control yourself wisely, talk patiently, and nothing make you regret later.
Happiness is when you fall and feel hurt, you still can smile widely and say “thanks God, You try to make me stronger”.
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. Bette Davis
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don’t find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run. David Leonhardt
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness comes only from appreciating what you have right now. You can even be happy by appreciating your troubles because they are helping to build your character. Harriet Meyerson
Happiness is living in a state of freely choosing to create and exchange one’s rational values with others. John Roberts
Happiness… is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living. Haim Ginnot
Happiness for me is to know that my life has meaning and purpose, and that every day my life touches others in a positive way–whether to make them laugh or learn or both at once! Deanna Mascle
Ya, malam ini adalah malam ke-3 aku di PLC. Tidak seburuk yang diperkirakan, kecuali masalah mahluk lain yang mengganggu teman tetangga kamar di malam pertama kami di sini >.<.
Walo ada yang rada sebel aku posting masalah kehidupan di sini *lirik mas dias*, ya ini kan dokumentasi pribadi juga mas, lagian mau crita apalagi, aku di sini nyaris 24/7 hehehe..
Asrama Lama
Bangunan asrama yang sekarang memang baru, tapi aku belum tau ini dibangun tahun kapan. Sekamar diisi oleh 3 orang yang sesama jenis hihihi. Kali aja ada yang mau mengunjungiku ke sini, dan bawa berbagai macam makanan *ngarep* hehehe.
Tampak depan
Dan yang paling menggembirakan adalah cucian di sini UNLIMITED \m/. Kelebihan lain dari kamar baru adalah lampunya terang, lebih manusiawi kalo dipake buat tidur belajar malem. Ruangan makan cuma selemparan batu dari kamar ^^.
Meja tempat mengerjakan tugas kelompok
Senam pagi hari Senin, Rabu dan Jumat juga masih dengan instruktur yang sama, mbak-mbak yang menyenangkan dengan lagu yang penuh semangat seperti cinta satu malam, dan bukan dengan kopasus (bergabung dengan penghuni PLC) seperti yang aku dan teman-teman bayangkan sebelumnya.
Lorong kamar
Pas masuk kamar, keinget jaman kerja di SEIN, karena ada TV Samsung yang menggantung dengan manisnya di dinding kamar.
Manisnya dia di situ, sayang gada HBO :p
Hal yang menyenangkan lainnya adalah mulai dari senin kemarin sampai 1 bulan ke depan, aku mendapatkan kelas intensive business english bersama dengan native speaker. Sayang fotonya burem, hasil dari candid si hehehe.
He wrote this by himself
Suasana di dalam kelas
Mr Be, orangnya lucu banget, ekspresif. Dia bisa banyak bahasa, termasuk Indonesia, sedikit jawa, sedikit batak, sedikit sekali manado, dan lainnya ^^. Ini kesempatan belajar bahasa inggris gratis. Di EF aja untuk 18 pertemuan, tiap pertemuan 90 menit, aku harus membayar 1,5 juta. Lah ini, 8 jam setiap hari, untuk 20 kali pertemuan, silakan dihitung sendiri :lol:.
Jadi disyukuri saja semua yang aku miliki sekarang, di samping uang saku yang dan waktu untuk bisa melihat peradaban di luar yang terbatas ^^.
Previous sunday was my first time to teach some kindergarten children. It felt delightful ^^. My friend in BPS, Johan, was one of the founder of Taman Ilmu Setia Budi. When I knew he has been doing a great job, teaching there every sunday for free, I decided to join in his program.
Actually, I had no idea how to teach kids. 10 kids came into kindergarten class. They are so nice, cute and wonderful. Some of them are very excited, but there are still some kids that can’t write. The most difficult thing is I have to find ways to make them excited, because kids get bored easily :).
The lovely class ^^
I teach english, and I felt nervous because I never did such thing before. When I told what I felt, si mas said:
him: your students are elementary kids..you can just easily fool them lol. just kidding though
me: juahaaaat 😆
I think I have to learn some kids songs ^^, because they love songs and it will make them easier to learn and remember new english vocabularies. Wish me luck ^^.
And I think I’ve found great thing to replace my sunday routine before, went to francais class, and this is one of my dream ^^.
So, if you read this and want to join with us, please be our guest ^^.
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 🙂
LifehouseCharmingLovely Jason
Lifehouse merupakan band dari USA yang telah mengeluarkan 5 album:
No Name Face (2000)
Stanley Climbfall (2002)
Lifehouse (2005)
Who We Are (2007)
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 :).
Here, I’d like to present a lovely, beautiful and peachy song from the famous Celine Dion. My french teacher played this song in class for listening session this morning. She gave us paper with some missing lyrics, and we had to fill the blank parts with the correct answers.
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 ^^.
God bless my new playlist ;).
At the beginning of this week, I’ve decided to change my playlist and put some new songs (not exactly new, just songs that I never heard before). For me, sometimes the songs do between brighten your day or make it gloomy as well.
And here, because I’m not kind of person who like to keep a good thing by myself, I’d like to share this song with you ^^.
Hopefully this can be a warm chum for us, as well as Joshua Radin himself (it warms me inside while raining outside 🙂 ).
Some kind of magic happens late at night
When the moon smiles down on me
And bathes me in it’s light
I fell asleep beneath you in the tall blades of grass
When I woke the world was new, I never had to ask
It’s a brand new day
The sun is shinning
It’s a brand new day
For the first time in such a long long time
I know I’ll be ok
Most kind of stories save the best part for last
Most stories have a hero who finds
You make your past your passed
Ya you make your past your passed
It’s a brand new day
The sun is shinning
It’s a brand new day
For the first time in such a long long time
I know I’ll be ok
This cycle never ends
You gotta fall in order to mend
And it’s a brand new day
It’s a brand new day
For the first time in such a long long time
I know I’ll be ok
Soon after I saw the title, I was a better mom before I had kids, I clicked and read this post. Actually, from the title I can imagine about the things to say by the author. I already have plans for (future) my children and this post makes me worry about what if I ruin my plans. But this makes me realize, it wont be easy to raise children.
Before I had children I was a great mom.
When my husband and I decided that we were going to start a family I was confident that I would be a “great mom”. I naively felt that I had the credentials to back up my bold assumption. After all I hold a university degree that includes many courses in child development and psychology and after graduating from my undergrad, I went on and completed my teaching degree with emphasis on grades kindergarten to six.
I have spent hours reading books on how the mind of a child works. I have researched papers about the inner workings of a child’s psyche. I used to be current on the research about TV watching and intelligence, which foods were toxic and how to cultivate well rounded, thoughtful individuals.
I think back to those cocky days, when my patience was intact and sleep deprivation meant pulling one all-nighter and having to work in the morning.
For those with kids: I don’t have to explain how my preconceptions about what life with kids would be like and the world as I knew it simultaneously shattered after my children were born.
For those of you without kids (who just read over this list with the same bravado that I once had): read my top ten “Before I Had Kids” list and memorize it. It will come back to haunt you.
Before I had kids I was . . .
Never going to let my kids sleep in my bed.
Never going to allow the T.V. to be on while we ate meals.
Never going to bribe my children to be on their best behaviour.
Never going to applaud/cheer when my child peed in the toilet.
Never going to allow my kids to have a dirty face, dirty hands or wear dirty clothes in public.
Never going to leave the house looking like a disheveled mess (i.e. hair a mess, track pants, no make-up, etc.)
Never going to use the T.V. as a babysitter so I could: a) have a shower b) talk on the phone c) do anything else for myself.
Never going to lose my cool during a temper tantrum.
Never going to feed my children anything less than the healthiest, most organic, delicious food.
10. Never going to give them a B.S. answer to any of their questions, no matter how challenging the answer
would be, no matter how uncomfortable I would be, no matter how long the conversation needed to go on.
To all of you mothers and fathers, what are some of the things you promised you would never do as a parent that you have found yourself doing since having children?
I am kind of person who difficult to remember names. When I watch movies or tv series, I don’t do please-remember-all-names-of-character. This doesn’t mean I don’t focus on the stories, I just don’t get used to doing things to remember. Actually, I do not know many names of actors and actress ^ ^.
Therefore, I only have countable names of celebrities in my head. If I like them, I would ask for help from google to display multiple stories about them and sometimes I use their last name and add it to my name for makes some fun with my friends. For example when I fell in love with Lifehouse songs and know that Jason Wade (lead singer) is also a songwriter, I sent greeting to my friends like this:
Safitri Wade says good morning and have a nice working day ^^
Fun enough for me :p.
As far as I remember, I ever used 3 lovely last names. And proudly I presents:
1. Jason Wade
Charming and religious one
He’s the one behind religious and soothing lyrics of Lifehouse. When I read the lyrics sometimes I find out that it’s like song for God, to show his feeling how much he puts his trust in God.
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-
Find Me Here
Speak To Me
I want to feel you
I need to hear you
You are the light
That’s leading me
To the place where I find peace again.
You are the strength, that keeps me walking.
You are the hope, that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose…you’re everything. -Everything-
Yah, undoubted he’s adorable in his way.
2. Channing Tatum
The cool and attractive one
I knew him first time from his role in Step Up 1. There, he didn’t talk much but his smiles melted heart away.
In 2006, Tatum met Jenna Dewan on the set of Step Up. They began dating shortly after filming had finished. The couple became engaged in early September 2008 in Maui, Hawaii. On Saturday, July 11, 2009, they were married on the grounds of Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu, California. -Wikipedia-
3. Wentworth Miller
The brilliant brain.
Thanks to my boss for having put me on the BD team, because that place where I met Wentworth Miller several times a week from Prison Break Season 1 to Season 4 :grin:. I love him for his role as smart, brilliant, cute, kind and lovable Michael Scofield in Prison Break.
He’s 38 yo but still attractive (at least in my eyes). He graduated from Princeton with a degree in English. His father is African-American, Somalian, Jamaican, British, German and part Cherokee; his mother is Russian, French, Syrian, and Lebanese (this is the secret recipe handsomeness of his face, noted).
He is a 1990 graduate of Quaker Valley High, Miller moved to Sewickley Heights for his senior year of high school with his father, Wentworth Earl Miller II. His mother Joy Marie Palm, is a Special Education Teacher. His dad is a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney, a Lawyer and a graduate of Yale. He has two younger sisters, Gillian and Leigh. Gillian is studying to get her PHD in Massachusetts and Leigh is in Law School in Virginia.
Wentworth describes himself as a very private person who likes to spend time just relaxing at home when he’s not working. He enjoys swimming, reading, taking naps as well as going to different restaurants every week.
Here are his personal quotes:
You might look at my CV and see I’ve had 12 jobs, but I’ve been to over 450 auditions so I’ve heard ‘no’ a lot more than I’ve heard ‘yes’. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.
My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that’s helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison‘s “Beloved” where she says, “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined” – so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don’t particularly belong.
I’m kind of a dork. I don’t have much game. I’m not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of “Law & Order” (1990) or “The Simpsons” (1989).
Taken from imdb.com.
Yeah, how can I don’t love him? ^^. I think from them I got a lesson: I like or love guys who don’t talk much, don’t boast around, smart, and funny.
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