Sunday, January 5, 2020

Me Wassup #57 - 1st post in 2020


Halo~

Ga tau mesti dikasih judul apa, lagi ga kreatif~

Tahun 2020 diawali dengan bencana. Gw seperti halnya jutaan masyarakat Jakarta lain kebanjiran. Airnya masuk rumah sepaha. Perabotan pada rusak. Cadangan makanan menipis, listrik ga ada, literally tinggal di goa.

Nyokap bokap stress mikirin kerugian materiil yang harus dihadapi. Estimasi kira2 20 jutaan ada liability mendadak. Banyak prioritas tahunan yang terpaksa dibatalkan. Traveling, belanja, beli apartemen, semuanya harus ditunda.

Gw sendiri kesel banget dan merasa ini 100% salah si gubernur wan aibon. Masa jaman Ahok ga ada apa2 tau2 sekarang jadi bencana besar gini?! Resign aja lo!

Mudah2an banjir kemarin udah ya puncaknya, ga usah ada following banjir lagi~ Bikin ga produktif banget. Kamis & Jumat harusnya gw ngantor tapi karena banjir jadi ga bisa. Besok Senin harusnya masuk kantor normal tapi sekarang selalu waswas ninggalin rumah~

Ah udah ah males ngomongin banjir mulu~ Berita baik yang gw dapatkan di awal tahun adalah Bigbang comeback di Coachella. Rasanya bangga banget. Selama ini wondering ini Bigbang comeback-nya bakalan gimana dengan situasi seperti sekarang. But then they made it to Coachella. Ga ada yang lebih perfect dari comeback via Coachella. The last act making a comeback through Coachella was Bey and she got Netflix deal afterwards. Bravo!

Anyway, update lain selama 5 hari apa ya? Paling ini, gw main Tinder lagi. hahaha~ Sempet berhenti beberapa bulan lalu karena ga conversion, terus somehow kapan itu bosen lagi, akhirnya main lagi. Kemarin baru match sama beberapa orang, but don’t know-lah, ga mau expect apa2. It wasn’t real anyway.

So yeah, besok masuk kantor. Bismillah #2020gantikantor. Lagi mencoba media terbesar di Indonesia, sama ada secercah harapan di sebuah brand makeup, sama sebuah NGO, semuanya finger crossed-lah.

Happy new year y’all. Walaupun blog ini ga ada yang baca. Hahaha~

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Decade’s Highlights


Hi, guys! How y’all doin?

Apparently, it’s now a trend to yearly highlight a decade of your life like one sentence/phrase per year.

I tried to do that last night but it failed. I can’t highlight my years in only one sentence. So I thought let’s make a long-ass highlight here, on my safest haven, my blog.

Here we go!

2010
- Last year in uni
- YouTube addiction
- Harry Potter addiction
- Turning 21, a legal age in Singapore, super excited to be able to visit Marina Bay Sands’ casino.
- First time visiting Universal Studio Singapore
- First time visiting malaysia
- Made a movie!

2011
- Finished final assignment earlier than my peers
- Graduated from uni
- Heavy travel, Hong Kong and China for the 1st time
- Mild post-graduation depression
- Entered “the jungle” of employment, got my first job at XXXXX
- Getting to know and obsess with 2NE1 and K-Pop

2012
- Absolutely in love being an entertainment journalist
- Super addicted to Kpop
- First time to Bali

2013
- Exclusive interview with Carly Rae Jepsen
- First internal conflict at work
- Addicted to concerts
- Made it to VOA’s finalists

2014
- First time promotion at work
- Met and interviewed 2NE1, watched YG Famcon
- First time being bridesmaid
- Severe depression because of career’s insecurity

2015
- Got wisdom tooth surgery
- Left XXXXX, joined WKWKWK
- Living agency life, feeling unfit
- Looked out for scholarship, took IELTS prep and test, got LPDP
- Bought Macbook

2016
- Second internal conflict at work
- Made new friends from LPDP
- Bought iPhone
- Accepted in Unimelb
- Relocated to Melbourne
- Uni life part 2
- First time hiking, fallen in love with nature
- New Zealand for the 1st time

2017
- Had the time of my life from down under
- Netflix addiction
- Alcoholic year
- Skipped fasting month and Eid
- Learned deeper about depression
- Graduated with a master degree

2018
- Relocated back to Indo
- Joined Lazada
- Downgraded career
- Brokenhearted
- Experienced depression for real, got help

2019
- New challenge, new boss
- Super heavy travel
- Thailand and Korea for the 1st time
- Looking for my own place, thinking about investment

Well, well.

Gw ga tau gimana menggambarkan satu dekade ini buat gw. I learnt a lot, experienced a lot, disappointed a lot, happy a lot. I failed. I succeeded. I had the time of my life. I depressed.

Kalo boleh milih, my best year itu 2011, 2014, dan 2017. My worst year itu 2015 dan 2018.

2020 ga tau bentuknya akan seperti apa. Tapi yang pasti next decade gw akan punya kerjaan baru, punya rumah baru, dan menikah.

Mungkin punya kesempatan buat traveling lagi ke negara2 atau daerah2 baru, who knows?

Tapi yang pasti gw akan upgrade diri sih, on every aspect I could think of. Satu dekade terakhir harusnya udah cukup mempersiapkan gw untuk dekade selanjutnya yang bakal super challenging. So, I’m ready!

A’ite! Time to fuel up for a decade!

Bobo duyu~ byeee