Project 365

I didn’t plan to go anywhere today as I had to do my take-home exam. But then at the end of the day, I realized I didn’t have any foods left in the fridge, so I decided to do my last-minute grocery shopping.

On my way to the supermarket, just a few meters away from my house, I saw a huge bear-shaped balloon placed in front of a house. The bear balloon was so big!!! It’s twice higher than the entrance door! Then there were also many pink decorative balloons in front of the door, with a VERY BIG sign:

HOERA! EEN DOCHTER!!!

In English, it translates to: Hurray! It’s a girl!

Somehow it made me laugh! I could  definitely understand the happiness of an arrival of a new baby, but to put a big sign and many huge balloons in front of your house, located on a busy street?! Hahaha. I didn’t know what to say. Ok, the street isn’t as busy as the city center, of course. But there are many people passing by, as the red light district is located just few meters away.

Suddenly, I felt like going to that house to congratulate the parents. LOL. I wanted to take a picture of the house, but there were just too many people there and I didn’t want to attract attention hahaha.

Thank God I went out of my cage.

One of my most favorite piano songs. It gives me shiver every time I listen to it. If a guy played this song for me with a piano, oh I would probably be kissing his feet!!! HAHAHAHA. Of course, I’m exaggerating. But this song is my weakness. Thankfully it’s a hard song to play :P. Unless you have a kind of bond or connection with the song, it’d be hard to play it with the right tempo. This is definitely going to be in my wedding. LOL.

LOL for this comment on YouTube:

Rockheads all over the world, listen!

The world is changing! The tallest player in the NBA is Asian!

And the chick with the highest pitched voice is Justin Bieber!

No one listens to metal anymore! Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ video currently has over 500,000,000 views! What the f*ck! Everybody unite on July 1st and watch Breaking Benjamin. Refresh your page 5 times to give it 5 more views! Thumb this up so it gets noticed! And copy + paste to all rock vids of your choice!

Oh Justin Bieber. I don’t know any of your songs (except ‘Baby’ since somebody pointed that one out when I was in the mall), but I pity you, seriously. Most of the comments on YouTube have some sentiments toward you. Yet, that is your “home”. You were “born” there. Hahaha.

* Such a waste of time posting this, right? 😛

OH MY GOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some people just can’t LEAVE ME ALONE!

When I said NO, it’s a NO. It’s not going to change after YEARS or even centuries. It will never be! And this person, this specific scary person, shows up again. For God’s sake, GET A LIFE!!!!!

This world is full of scary and wicked people! *____*

*Sorry, I just feel like throwing everything out. I hope all the crazy people read this. Grrrrrrr.

2007. I started my final year project with 6 other great teammates. I became involved in a student organization called AIESEC, became in love with it, dived myself into it, and devoted my time for it. It was such a busy year, but I found a way to divide my time between uni, AIESEC, and Saman Dance. I met a lot of new awesome people, but I had much less quality time with my closest friends. I was ignorant enough to realize that this was my final year! I wasn’t ready to be apart from my best housemates in the world, Jenny and Mayu. As expected, time flew by and suddenly I held my farewell dinner. I had planned on going back to Jakarta upon graduation. But suddenly, my mum changed the plan; she would rather having me back in Jeddah.

2011. I’ve started my thesis project. I’ve been involved in an Indonesian student organization, PPI/e, become in love with it, dived myself into it, and have been devoting my time for it. It’s been quite busy time for me: thesis, PPI/e, and angklung! I’ve been meeting a lot of new awesome people, but I’ve been having much less quality time with my closest friends. No more potluck dinner or hanging out in a café for hours — I wonder if it was me or them who have no time. As usual, I’m ignorant enough to realize that this could be my last year in the Netherlands. I’m not ready to face farewell and to give up my routine that I come to love and enjoy. I’ve been planning to go straight to Jakarta upon my graduation, but 2 days ago, my mom called and she told me to go to Jeddah first because she misses me hahaha… 😛 So it seems like Allah SWT still wants me to go back to visit the Baitullah, uh? Lucky me 😉

I feel like my life is in a circle and I’m almost approaching the finish line. After the finish line, I’ll start the lap again — from the beginning — fresh, confused, and excited. I’ll be in the stage where I’ll try to adapt again, find new friends, be longing to go back to the past, and then… at some point in time, I’ll be enjoying my life again and thinking nothing but about the present and future. If my life is a process, then this would be the so-called steady-state (geek mode: ON hahaha).

Oh dear life. Please be gentle on me.

I went to Enschede today with some friends to visit Baby Kenji. Enschede is a city 3 hours away from Eindhoven by train; quite far by Dutch standard. Before we visited the newly born, we went around the centrum first and had lunch at La Place. My friend had some discount coupons so we used them to buy 2 tuna sandwiches, 2 fruit cakes, 2 banana yoghurt drink, and 2 coffee. It was only 5 euro per person! Hehehe. I loveeeeeeee bargains! 🙂

And… baby Kenji?!

He was just an adorable and cute little baby! Oooohh I always wanted to squeeze him soooo tight! Soo sooo soooooooo CUTE!!!!

Even after all this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."

Look what happens
with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky

— Hafez

I finally met up with a Brazilian CouchSurfer, Vivian. She contacted me two weeks ago but I had been busy the past two weeks so we only got to meet today. I was so glad I met her! She’s my age, friendly, open-minded, and thoughtful. We had a very nice conversation for 3 hours at Usine, my favorite café (of course!). We just talked, talked, talked like we knew each other for years! Hahaha. It was a great afternoon!

Well, I learnt quite a bit of things about Brazil from her:

• Not many Brazilian can speak English. If you can speak the language, you’re considered "educated" or "higher" than others.
• Brazilians are usually not so fond of Portugal due to long colonial history 😛 (I asked her if she’d live in Portugal since they speak the same language, and that was her answer hahaha).
• You’ve probably heard about Singlish (Singaporean English) or Manglish (Malay English), but have you heard of Portuñol? LOL! It’s Portuguese Spanish! I didn’t know that!
• The word gereja is from Portuguese! How come I didn’t know that?!
• The Portuguese in Indonesia were kicked out by the Dutch in 1570’s while the Dutch were kicked out by the Portuguese in Brazil! 😛 They both got their portion, eh?!
• Brazilian guys are hot and sexy but they’re not "created" to commit on their relationship. She said that it’s common for them to cheat on their girl or wife 😐 She was even very sure that all of the Brazilian guys (99%) at some point in time have cheated on their woman! That’s not good.

I can’t remember what else we talked about. There were too many things, but these were the main ones. We’re going to meet up for lunch next month probably… I’m going to cook an Indonesian food and she’ll cook a Brazilian food. Excited 🙂

I’m getting bored. Getting bored of spending my time with the same circle of friends again and again. It’s been a month (or probably more) that I unconsciously never move from this circle. I never even try to peek to another one. I’m kinda stuck here.

Don’t get me wrong, nothing wrong with them. This is just me. If you know me well, then you won’t be surprised. I need to be in a different environment. I need to talk to different people. I need to share with different individuals. I need to hear different stories. Something that stimulates me. That’s the reason why I like to have a different group of friends.

I guess, now is the right time to meet up with fellow CouchSurfers…

Great job, everyone 🙂 And yes, that’s the trophy!

This would be the last event I organized and involved in. I still have a web design work to do with an Islamic School here, then I’m done and I will focus on my thesis entirely… Oh boring life awaits…