Showing posts with label personal life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal life. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

"The Lord bless you and keep you"


It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain, and even feel it by yourself.

I'm now experiencing that. My heart aches so much. I can't think, eat, or work. I just sitting here at my office, staring blankly at my cellphone's screen, thinking about a pain so deep that belongs to a person I love. I really wish to have a magic spell that allows the caster to share the grief of his/her beloved person. For now, I can't do anything except praying for the best thing that could be happened.

Lord, give us strength. Lord, give us faith. Take away the grief, for all things belong to You, O Lord of all creations.



Amen.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

peeking my workbag

Hi. They say if you want to know someone, take a closer look into that person's stuffs. Today is the special day when I finally let you guys know what's inside my workbag. I'm the type of person who carry only essential things, so all of these stuffs are obviously important to my existence. Let's take a peep!

Here's my workbag! It's from Everbest and it's so spacious I can fit everything inside it freely!

Inside the bag: a folder containing music sheets, ungraded homework, and research papers; my daily journal; a micron pen (I LOVE micron pens!); makeup (two way cake & a red lipstick is enough for me); hand sanitizer (the utmost important thing in this bag!); brolly; paperback novel; wallet; minyak telon (Indonesian baby oil that smells sooooooo good!); keys; and my daily planner!


Inside the folder...

Book I'm currently reading: Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Intense!

The first page on my daily journal

From those stuffs, can you imagine what kind of woman I am? :)

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

missing manuscript

"Give us this day, Lord, our daily miracle. and forgive us if we are not always capable of recognizing it..."
-- Paulo Coelho (Manuscript Found in Accra) 


Hello.

It's been a while since my last post in this blog. Lots of thing have happened in my life since then. I graduated, I came back home, I leave my beloved Melbourne friends, I got my heart broken, I finally had my dream job as a math lecturer, I got really nice students and coworkers, I became a soprano in a choir community called Jakarta International Choral Community and had a 70s themed concert last month. See? Lots.

I am currently ready a really really good book: Paulo Coelho's "Manuscript Found in Accra". That book is amazing. Unlike Coelho's other books that I have read: The Zahir, The Devil and Miss Prym, and By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, the English of this book is completely understandable. And what I like the most about this book is the theme of the book itself. It's about everything. Life, love, miracle, dreams, anxiety, fear, dissapointment, you mention it, it's all in this book. Totally worth reading. Also, I got like Rp.50.000 discount from a bookshop near my office called Books and Beyond. They're now having a promo on that book until the 14th of May, so for those who are curious about the book, I recommend you to buy this book, because this book is the kind of book which you'll read over and over again whenever you need some winged wise words for a stressful, cloudy day.

I tell you. Totally worth reading.

Monday, November 19, 2012

One Day at the National Gallery

Today I went to the national gallery of Victoria to investigate neo-impressionism paintings for my research. For those who don't know, I study pointillism and divisionism art style to be adapted in computers. To put it simply, let's say that my work is to teach a machine to draw like a neo-impressionist painter. Sadly, they didn't allow me to take any picture in the neo-impressionism exhibition room :( but I took many picture of my girl Wilhelmina in the European gallery!

Mina and Monet painting

I can't believe they paint their gallery PINK!

Tired?

Perseus and Wilhelmina

She really liked this room I think

"They should belong together, Tieta. In one painting. Not separated like that..."

"oh God, what's wrong with you old lady?"

"Such a fine detail! Amazing!"

Wilhelmina and a very pretty portrait of a girl

This is Rembrandt, the famous Dutch painter

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Joanna

She's my first Neo Blythe from Prairie Posie line. I actually got her like one month ago but didn't have time to post all of her pictures. I regularly post her pics in instagram tho, but I thought it would be nice to post her pics in my blog as well (because she's shooo cute!)

Her name is Joanna. I named her after Cersei, Jaime, and Tyrion Lannister's mother, Joanna Lannister (although she's red headed, not Lannister blonde). She have four different eye colors: green, blue, yellow (the scariest), and brown. I carry her with me wherever I go: to class, choir reharsal, lab, park, shopping center, coffee shop, even campus lawn :p I just love her to death!

Here she is!

 When she's still in her box. She reminds me of Anne of Green Gables!

Bonjour!

Tywin's beloved

I showed her my favorite shelf at the bookstore

Allyria and her, reading Lolita together (Yes it's not a book for little kids, I know!)

She and the new JK Rowling book I got at BigW for only $20!

Fell asleep after reading, just like me!

Accompanied me during the IR assignment deadline. Such a lamb!


Had afternoon coffee together. Actually it was just me who are buying, she just sit at the table, looking cute

At our pre-concert rehearsal. My friends love her!

I'm planning to make some new dresses for her after I finished my thesis. Wish me luck for my defense guys!

xo


Monday, October 15, 2012

Lately

Hellos!

Been completely missing in action for 1 month solid. As you know, I am a pretty busy grad student, with piles of assignments to do and tons of lecture notes to read. My assignment is next week, and I got two assignments on ONE DAY (how cool is that?). Also, the end is near! My thesis deadline is the week after the exam, and 2 days after the deadline, I will have my thesis defense! *cheer*

I'm not stressed, I'm happy because my sufferings will be over soon :') *denial denial denial*

Many things happened in the last 2 months. The most shocking thing is what someone did to me and it completely changed the way I see him/her. I don't want to talk about it, what's over is over, life must go on, rite? *again, denial* But still, I can't passed that trial without the support from my dear family and friends :) The thing is, I have another important things to think about and that overrode my thinking about that thing. And I'm grateful to have deadlines, chores, experiments, music scores, to wash away my sadness.

Anyhow, I also have a choir concert this week! I'll be singing there as a soloist for two songs from two broadway musicals, and I'm very nervous! Wish me the best of luck!


Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Blythecon Australia

I don't know why I just love this Blythe doll. I mean, some say that they're creepy. Yes they are creepy, but they're so gorgeous! >.< I want to get myself a full-size one, but when I searched for full-size Blythes in Ebay, the prizes are all above $100 *faints*

Sophie's obviously not a full-size Blythe. She's a Blythe from Hasbro's Littlest Pet Shop. She's coming with one pet (I named her Pauline) and her eyes is not changing colors (like the full-size one). But anyway, I'm gonna save up this month and get myself a full-size Blythe, maybe in the upcoming BlytheCon Australia they'll sell that gorgeous babies >.<


Can't wait for November!

Now, should I bring lunch from home everyday for my Blythe? I guess I should :p

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

day 11: turning point in my life


Titik balik dalam hidup gue adalah pada saat gue memutuskan untuk menjadi seorang akademisi. Gak gampang sih dapet approval dari keluarga gue, banyak yang bilang dosen di Indonesia itu kurang dihargai lah, gajinya kecil lah, dan sebagainya. Tapi untungnya ibu gue mendukung gue sepenuhnya, dan bagi gue itu udah cukup :D

Gue memutuskan untuk jadi dosen karena terinspirasi salah satu dosen matematika gue. Dia pernah bilang kalo cara belajar yang terbaik adalah mengajar, dan dengan mengajar, ilmu yang ada di dalam kita gak bakal pernah hilang. Dan gue berpikir itu bener banget, ilmu itu beda sama harta, yang semakin dibagi semakin habis. Ilmu akan semakin bertambah jika dibagikan ke orang lain :) Dan gak ada hal di dunia ini yang bisa bikin gue seneng selain bikin orang yang tadinya gak ngerti jadi "tercerahkan" :)

Aduh jadi gak sabar buat selese S2 terus ngajar kelas pertama gue >.< doakan ya teman temaaan!

Thursday, June 7, 2012

ujian pertama di RMIT

Heho!

Udah ribuan taun ga ngeblog huhuhu, bahkan ga ada satupun postingan yang gue tulis bulan mei -___-" niatnya kan seengganya ada gitu satu postingan yang dipos perbulan, biar archivenya ga bolong maksudnya *OCD*

Hahahaha anyway gue kemaren baru aja ujian data mining. Ujiannya beda dari ujian2 pas gue di UI dulu, ini ruang ujiannya di Storey Hall, gedenya kurang lebih segede gedung tempat gue wisuda S1 dulu. Ujiannya digabung sama anak2 fakultas lain, jadi ada anak hukum sama anak social science yang berada di satu ruangan sama gue.

Sebagai makhluk yang ditakdirkan lebih suka soliter *ooooo baaaa maaaaa seeeeelf~*, gue itu gak suka ada di tempat yang terlalu banyak orang. Ini gue musti UJIAN di tengah2 banyak orang, dengan atmosfir tegang dan pengawas2 yang mondar mandir dengan annoyingnya di sekitar gue. Pengawas2 ujiannya pake rompi merah (which is warna yang menurut gue annoying) dan tiap dua detik pasti ada pengawas yang lewat di samping kanan-kiri gue.

Ekspresi gue setiap ada pengawas liwat kira2 begini:
-_________________________-"

Selain faktor tempat, soal ujian yang kemaren gue kerjain itu sangatlah BANYAK dan kalo gue gak nulis dengan kecepatan cahaya, gue ga bakal bisa selesaiin tuh semua soal. Jadi ada 6 soal, satu soal beranak dari a sampe h. Dan musti dikerjain dalam waktu dua jam (di ruang ujian yang bikin lo nervous dengan orang2 annoying berompi merah yang mondar mandir di deket lo). Bayangin tekanan batin gue waktu ujian kemaren. Coba bayangin.

Tapi walopun gitu, gue bisa kerjain sebagian besar soal2nya. Ada satu soal yang gue jawabnya ngga yakin dan pas gue cek ternyata salah total which means gue SOTOY pas jawab itu soal pas lagi ujian. Jadi ya walopun gue gak bakalan dapet full mark di ujian ini, ya kira2 hasilnya pasti bagus lah, karena gue ngerti apa yang gue tulis. Yaaa semoga aja hasilnya bagus :D

Ngomong2, hari ini gue bete karena sebuah hal, yang menurut gue rada irrasional buat dijadiin sumber kebetean. Tapi karena gue lagi PMS jadi gue menghalalkan hal itu pantes bikin gue bete (ini bahasa gue mulai ngebingungin -____-"). Jadi hal itu adalah sebuah hal yang wajar dilakukan oleh dua orang, yang saling temenan, gue juga sering melakukan hal itu dengan teman2 gue yang lain sih, ya tapi gue gak suka aja. Ada masalah? Hah? Hah? *mulai sewot*

Yaaa mungkin gue bete karena gue merasa insecure. Tapi kenapa gue musti insecure? Apa sebenernya yang bikin gue insecure? Hal itu? Apa kedua orang yang melakukan hal itu? Setelah gue analisa lebih dalam ternyata gue gak suka dua duanya. Dan ketidaksukaan gue itu bersumber dari hormon estrogen yang menggelegak di dalam gue saat ini.

Oh i hate being such a weak woman.

Hang on, I AM NOT a weak woman, i have proofs of that. Tapi gue membiarkan hormon (dan perasaan) gue mengontrol mood gue seharian penuh ini, which is gak bener, produktivitas gue jadi turun (padahal gue banyak banget kerjaan) dan semua hal yang gue liat hari ini adalah SALAH. Temen sekelas gue terlihat 100000x lebih mengesalkan dari biasanya (dan desibel suaranya 100000x lebih annoying dari biasanya), makan siang gue jadi gak enak, ga bisa mikir dan sebagainya dan sebagainya. Salah gue juga sih kenapa gue suka kepoin idup orang. Kadang banyak hal2 yang pengen gue kontrol sesuai keinginan gue, cuman gue gak bisa, bukan karena ga mampu tapi karena gue ga ada hak buat mengontrol itu. Siapa elo? :))

Hahahaha cukup2 ah. Semoga gue cepat pulih dari kondisi cranky gue saat ini dan mood gue cepat balik. Gue ujian lagi tanggal 15 di tempat yang sama kaya gue ujian data mining kemaren. Semoga gue udah bisa beradaptasi dengan torture room yang menegangkan itu :))

Ciao!