... with Michael Bublé and Bic Runga.
Hearing the right songs at the right time makes me soppy. Really.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Tickets are booked!
I finally get to do one exciting thing this weekend. That is: booking my flight to NZ for Amy's wedding! So, I'll be going mid December no matter what. At some point, you just have to stop thinking too much and get the most important thing done. Wow, this is something to look forward to in the next 6 months. How's that for motivation, eh?! Good things happen to people who waits, hehehe...But I have one thing to confess though. I'll be shamelessly flying Qantas. I know, I know... what was I thinking?! But I'm sorry to say, they offer the cheapest fare I could find online. The sad truth of these day and age is ... money talks :)
The next logical step after booking my flights is to start figuring out the itinerary. For some reason, I keep on referring this trip as "going back home". This time I will play a role of a tourist. So many places to go, so many people to meet and so many things to do - 2 weeks wont be close to sufficient to do everything and the Wedding! We'll be spending a week in Auckland for sure, including the New Years. I know Aucklanders or I should say the people that I'm going to stay/hang out with. Will party it up like the good ole' days!
Will have to start making a checklist!
*Picture is from Mr. Vintage website. I love this tee, need to get one or something similar when I'm back!*
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Revived.
I have slowly started getting back to writing. Offline diaries that is. Lately, I found that exercise to be very ... therapeutic. It eases any pressure by letting it out, uncensored, in words. I'm trying to do the same for this poor blog. The last post is dated December last year, and it's already almost half a year into 2010 already! Gosh, how time flies when you're having a good time - Or deadlines!
Getting back to writing is not that easy. Especially in a virtual space like this. This is the place where you want your friends (or whoever reads this) to know what's going on in your life, the emotions you are going through and probably sharing some funny or not-so-funny experience and taking a life lesson from it. But at the same time, you would like to thread really carefully of what you say in this public space. No names, no specifics - nothing that hurts people's feelings nor description of any un-professional behaviour based on subjective judgments. When you think of it, so much for freedom of speech, eh? Tough.
The whole point of blogging is actually to keep in touch with people. Which I have done very poorly in the last two years (or ever for that matter!). Not only with those overseas, even with mates in this city, I hardly keeping in touch in regular basis. Despite technology called BlackBerry. What the hell is wrong with me? I sometimes feel bad for not being able to keep in touch even with the slightest "Hi, how you doin'?". My defense would be, I'm busy and so are they. But that's gonna change soon. You'd be getting random hi on Skype or GTalk or Twitter or BBM or whatevertechnologyyouareusingrightnow from me of late. It would be nice if you could say hi back too! :p And remember, even if I dont say hi/email/call/skype you, I always stalk on on Facebook.Getting updates really make my day. Really, I'm super serious! See, I'm not hard to please! :D
So that is just a little effort to re-organise my life and getting my priorities right. Besides, too many exciting things are happening with my close friends this year. All good stuff.
Getting back to writing is not that easy. Especially in a virtual space like this. This is the place where you want your friends (or whoever reads this) to know what's going on in your life, the emotions you are going through and probably sharing some funny or not-so-funny experience and taking a life lesson from it. But at the same time, you would like to thread really carefully of what you say in this public space. No names, no specifics - nothing that hurts people's feelings nor description of any un-professional behaviour based on subjective judgments. When you think of it, so much for freedom of speech, eh? Tough.
The whole point of blogging is actually to keep in touch with people. Which I have done very poorly in the last two years (or ever for that matter!). Not only with those overseas, even with mates in this city, I hardly keeping in touch in regular basis. Despite technology called BlackBerry. What the hell is wrong with me? I sometimes feel bad for not being able to keep in touch even with the slightest "Hi, how you doin'?". My defense would be, I'm busy and so are they. But that's gonna change soon. You'd be getting random hi on Skype or GTalk or Twitter or BBM or whatevertechnologyyouareusingrightnow from me of late. It would be nice if you could say hi back too! :p And remember, even if I dont say hi/email/call/skype you, I always stalk on on Facebook.Getting updates really make my day. Really, I'm super serious! See, I'm not hard to please! :D
So that is just a little effort to re-organise my life and getting my priorities right. Besides, too many exciting things are happening with my close friends this year. All good stuff.
Friday, December 25, 2009
On this otherwise perfect Christmas Day
Today is Friday, December 25th 2009. I woke up not too early in the morning on Christmas day and was ready to start the day and the long awaited long weekend. There I was turning on my computer when I started listening to the preaching from a nearby praying place that was happening through the loudspeaker. You really cannot miss it as it was really loud.
Loosely translated : "... and they say that God is one, yet they believe and praises the Son of God... The people who believe that God has a son, they are kaffir and God has no place for them in Heaven."
Oh. My. God. Are you serious?? On Christmas day out of the 365 days you preach about THAT? Ouch. What a killjoy.
I have said soo many times before that I am not overly religious (or even not at all). But for some reason I am very upset hearing this. VERY. So much for all the learnings I've gotten through my primary school about tolerance, keeping peace with your neighbours. And what makes me sad is that we are a huge country with different everything, perhaps there is an underlying reason why we never at peace no matter how long ago was our independence day.
*Big sigh* Let us all rot in hell them but nevertheless Merry Christmas have a joyful one!
Loosely translated : "... and they say that God is one, yet they believe and praises the Son of God... The people who believe that God has a son, they are kaffir and God has no place for them in Heaven."
Oh. My. God. Are you serious?? On Christmas day out of the 365 days you preach about THAT? Ouch. What a killjoy.
I have said soo many times before that I am not overly religious (or even not at all). But for some reason I am very upset hearing this. VERY. So much for all the learnings I've gotten through my primary school about tolerance, keeping peace with your neighbours. And what makes me sad is that we are a huge country with different everything, perhaps there is an underlying reason why we never at peace no matter how long ago was our independence day.
*Big sigh* Let us all rot in hell them but nevertheless Merry Christmas have a joyful one!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Be careful of what you wish for
I am not an overly religious person. Not for a very long time. This does not mean that I do not believe in God though. I still believe and pray to God, it's just I am not overly enthusiastic in being part of or boxed in to one "religion". I have heard and seen too many corruption in those institution. What is a religion anyway, it is an organised believe. When ever there are a gathering of more than one person, there is always bound for politics involved. In whatever scale.
Anyhow, that is not the point of this posting. For many times I prayed for something to God but that thing never exactly stroll along and presents itself to me. So, maybe I don't deserve it just yet. So I was asking something that is I think pretty reasonable and something that I would very much need at stage of life. Patience.
I am someone with little patience, that is why Jakarta's traffic is not my bestest of friends - not so much because of the fact that you can only run 5 Km/hour but more like the people's stupidity in driving drive me insane. My life is a fast-paced life. Everyone wants things to get done either NOW or yesterday. I had to plan my life yearly where "what next" is a regular question asked annualy. I lived (and actually still am living) in a world where You snooze, you lose. My year used to be filled with performance measurement being measured in annual basis, based on the 365 days a year. I cannot afford to lose a day getting bogged down with underperformers. I have no tolerance nor the patience to deal with it.
At heart, I am a very laid back person. I just don't have much patience anymore living in this world where everything happens instantly.
Anyway I was asking for patience to God. It's no harm, eh? I'm asking for some help on self-improvement. Instead of dumping a helluva patience on me to make me feel more relaxed, happy and serene... He dumped sh*t on me. Oh, way to go. That particular shizzle, tested my patience "to the max" almost felt like I had a heart attack (massive surge of blood goes to your brain, you can almost feel it flooding in your vein)!
Today, a colleague of mine sent me a Bible Reading (what the..?!) and guess what? It was about how the people around you shape or develop the quality you want in life. According to the reading, I was being sharpen with every people and every event that happens in my life. It's probably right. I should be careful of what I wished for next time.
Anyhow, that is not the point of this posting. For many times I prayed for something to God but that thing never exactly stroll along and presents itself to me. So, maybe I don't deserve it just yet. So I was asking something that is I think pretty reasonable and something that I would very much need at stage of life. Patience.
I am someone with little patience, that is why Jakarta's traffic is not my bestest of friends - not so much because of the fact that you can only run 5 Km/hour but more like the people's stupidity in driving drive me insane. My life is a fast-paced life. Everyone wants things to get done either NOW or yesterday. I had to plan my life yearly where "what next" is a regular question asked annualy. I lived (and actually still am living) in a world where You snooze, you lose. My year used to be filled with performance measurement being measured in annual basis, based on the 365 days a year. I cannot afford to lose a day getting bogged down with underperformers. I have no tolerance nor the patience to deal with it.
At heart, I am a very laid back person. I just don't have much patience anymore living in this world where everything happens instantly.
Anyway I was asking for patience to God. It's no harm, eh? I'm asking for some help on self-improvement. Instead of dumping a helluva patience on me to make me feel more relaxed, happy and serene... He dumped sh*t on me. Oh, way to go. That particular shizzle, tested my patience "to the max" almost felt like I had a heart attack (massive surge of blood goes to your brain, you can almost feel it flooding in your vein)!
Today, a colleague of mine sent me a Bible Reading (what the..?!) and guess what? It was about how the people around you shape or develop the quality you want in life. According to the reading, I was being sharpen with every people and every event that happens in my life. It's probably right. I should be careful of what I wished for next time.
Friday, December 11, 2009
370 Days
This "temporary" alternative route in life has become less temporary and more permanent as the time goes by. The first time in life that I came to a full cycle in this so-called "professional, full-time, corporate world". Slightly more than year ago, I was just contemplating about the options in life - what to do, where to go, where I want to be which I already had quite a good idea at that time - internship, changing the world, Europe and of course traveling.
But life can be funny and presents you with the complete opposite opportunities.
Working full time in an MNC, living with the parents (AGAIN. What the...?!) and above all ... live in Indonesia, those are not in my short to medium term plan. Probably not this soon. But as life has it, here I am. And I believe, whatever you do, where ever you are, whatever you are going through - you have to make the best of it.
What has my 'white collar' professional work experience has taught me and what has changed?
- Getting old is mandatory, growing up is optional
- I realised that I am kinda emotionally-challenged ... whoops :/
- Stay away from office politics, it could get nasty
- MYOB - but don't expect others to do the same, I suppose
- Adaptation is the key to evolution for a reason
- Do not fire open questions - this is not an AIESEC office ><
- Learn by doing - Ah the usual. Just throw me in to the deep end. I'll be 'right!
- Perception is a reality - this is nothing new but I never learned my lessons, eh?
- Do not get involved emotionally, it's just work. This actually could take sometime to get used to having been doing a labour of love for so many years in AIESEC.
- It is a jungle out here
- No matter where you are, what you do you will ALWAYS feel "Over Worked and Under Paid". Unfortunately, this is just human tendency.
- I am an idealist - and yes it is frustrating to see something does not go according to how it should be (refer to Adaptation).
- Never compromise your integrity. Just, never!
- This is a world where position and power is not always proportional to performance and brain capacity - sadly.
- Proven the "C got degrees" point.
So, what has changed of me?
- I am getting less and less "care" to make changes in the world. Everything is about today, now and the present. It is all now about working through your to-do list and hoping it does not get longer by the day. I really should make time.
- Being indecisive. This is a step backward I know. I don't know how this developed over the last 18 months, but it certainly does.
- Appreciating (and looking forward to) a 'work-life balance' more than ever now.
- Observant - ask Amy and Sim :)
- Adjusting, adapting, reintegration - whatever it's called I'm still working on it
- Stop wondering who moved my cheese and start looking for new cheese
Nothing much changed. Just a helluva lot of learning this year.
But life can be funny and presents you with the complete opposite opportunities.
Working full time in an MNC, living with the parents (AGAIN. What the...?!) and above all ... live in Indonesia, those are not in my short to medium term plan. Probably not this soon. But as life has it, here I am. And I believe, whatever you do, where ever you are, whatever you are going through - you have to make the best of it.
What has my 'white collar' professional work experience has taught me and what has changed?
- Getting old is mandatory, growing up is optional
- I realised that I am kinda emotionally-challenged ... whoops :/
- Stay away from office politics, it could get nasty
- MYOB - but don't expect others to do the same, I suppose
- Adaptation is the key to evolution for a reason
- Do not fire open questions - this is not an AIESEC office ><
- Learn by doing - Ah the usual. Just throw me in to the deep end. I'll be 'right!
- Perception is a reality - this is nothing new but I never learned my lessons, eh?
- Do not get involved emotionally, it's just work. This actually could take sometime to get used to having been doing a labour of love for so many years in AIESEC.
- It is a jungle out here
- No matter where you are, what you do you will ALWAYS feel "Over Worked and Under Paid". Unfortunately, this is just human tendency.
- I am an idealist - and yes it is frustrating to see something does not go according to how it should be (refer to Adaptation).
- Never compromise your integrity. Just, never!
- This is a world where position and power is not always proportional to performance and brain capacity - sadly.
- Proven the "C got degrees" point.
So, what has changed of me?
- I am getting less and less "care" to make changes in the world. Everything is about today, now and the present. It is all now about working through your to-do list and hoping it does not get longer by the day. I really should make time.
- Being indecisive. This is a step backward I know. I don't know how this developed over the last 18 months, but it certainly does.
- Appreciating (and looking forward to) a 'work-life balance' more than ever now.
- Observant - ask Amy and Sim :)
- Adjusting, adapting, reintegration - whatever it's called I'm still working on it
- Stop wondering who moved my cheese and start looking for new cheese
Nothing much changed. Just a helluva lot of learning this year.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
The All Whites Goes to World Cup
It's not new news. The draw for the qualifying round is out. New Zealand is on Group F, not the easiest group to be in but I think they still have a chance if they worked really really really hard between now and June next year. Italy would probably be leading the Group without a doubt. Paraguay sounds like a tough match. Don't really know about the Slovaks but they should be equal. This would be interesting.
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