Friday Five#3

Ehm...

Setelah berminggu-minggu nggak ngisi blog, saya berhutang 5 posting Friday five. Entah kenapa, pasca liburan saya malah lebih rajin nulis di blog puisi dan blog satu lagi. Glek. Yak mari, 4 jum'at sudah terlewati, berarti 4 posting friday five yang masih ngutang (+ 1 posting untuk jum'at ini) akan di recap dan dirangkum dalam 1 posting friday five ini. (Pusing gak sih bacanya? Berasa inception gitu, 1 posting friday five tentang five fridays. Pusing deh.) So, here's my Friday five list!

1. Fiday, Dec 2nd, 2011. Jum'at ini adalah salah satu jum'at super riweuh. Selain kerjaan saya (dan kerjaan patjar) yang sedang menggunung -> nasib dikerjar deadline sebelum vacation, ada beberapa hal yang nggak  sesuai rencana. Misalnya, Patjar supposed to do his final fitting for the tailored suite on this friday, but due to some reason, the tailor delay the fitting til saturday/sunday. Okay, saya mulai panik, takut jas si patjar gak akan beres sebelum kita liburan ke xinjiapo. Baydewey dress saya yang ditambahin lengan juga baru akan selesai hari minggu nya. Yah sutralah... Anyway we were pretty excited since we're about to have our year-end holiday in few days. Yuhuuu!

2. Friday, Dec 9th 2011. The wedding friday! This friday is the day when me, patjar and my HYLI friends follow the procession of Vincent and Sereen's wedding. From the gate crashing (with marvellous superheroes and Superman as our chauffeur) , tea ceremony in both groom and bride's place, first visit to the newly wed apartment - with all white and chic interior - (which looks like just popped out of an interior design magazine. Swear to god it was THAT chic), to the wedding solemnization and reception dinner (Oh how I looove chinese wedding dinner. Food was coming out like crazy :p) . It was a tiring, but a very fun and memorable day! And the best part is that patjar got to meet my HYLI friends and got HYLI approved stamp :p. Oh btw patjar wore his new tailored suit and he looks awesome. I was figuratively drooling over him :p Di hari Jum'at ini, saya dan patjar sudah di xinjiapo semenjak hari rabu, dan baru akan pulang selasa minggu depannya. We had a wonderful time! Kayaknya soal liburan ini perlu posting tersendiri deh, hihi

3. Friday, Dec 16th 2011. Yak, Jum'at yang aneh, imbas efek capek habis liburan dan masuk di tengah minggu dimana di kantor sepi karena pada ikutan training M/LWD di SLB Manggar (in which saya gak bole ikut, karena selain jaga kandang, saya yang notabene mantan M/LWD dianggep sudah khatam dan gak perlu ikut training. nyeh, padahal kan pengen ke base dan curi curi pandang ama patjar yang lagi kerja --> ketauan buruk niatnya:p) . Jum'at ini ada 2 farewell di kantor. Satu acaranya temen baik saya yang resign karena pengen kerja di p****m*na jakarta (dimana saya lupa bawa parting card yang udah di bikin dari rumah, jadi siangnya mesti ke tempat mbak ika untuk numpang bikin parting card :p) , satu lagi adalah acara farewell sekretaris departemen saya yang juga bakal pindah ke Jakarta (ada apa sih dengan Jakarta?? pada pindah kesana semua nampaknya?!) tapi tetep di comapny yg sama. Habis dua acara ini, saya ngibrit untuk ujuan oral di Alliance Francaise (dan belum belajar T_T) J'ai de la chance, I got quite a good total score :p

4. Friday, Dec 23rd 2011. Jum'at dimana kantor nampak seperti kuburan, saking sepinya. (Hampir) semua orang sudah pergi cuti natal/tahun baru dan tinggalah saya dan beberapa orang jaga kandang.  Jum'at ini saya berencana pulang cepet karena si Patjar mau manggung (dan sudah latihan nyanyi dari malemnya) buat acara Jum'at Dahsyat a.k.a JuDas (ampun deh namanya) di SLB Manggar. Si patjar ini aslinya drummer, tapi karena dia sadar drummer kurang dapet jatah difoto, beralihlah dia ke vokalis. Sayangnya, kerjaan saya lagi banyak-banyaknya, jadi saya baru sampai jam 5 dan.....penonton sudah pada bubar. T__T Jum'at ini pun saya pacaran sama kasur, bedcover dan bantal guling karena sehabis nyanyi-nyanyi (dan menang lomba band nya kayaknya), si patjar mesti lembur. Oh, akhirnya saya bisa bermesraan lebih lama sama si kasur empuk...I love my bed (and sleeping), seriously.

5.Friday Dec 30th 2011. Jum'at hari ini, the last friday of the year! Looking back, I have awesome fridays this years. Well, I have an awesome years in a whole. The Big Guy has been so kind to me, my family and patjar and his family this year. Yes, I had my ups and downs, mais c'est la vie... Ujian di tahun ini banyak sekali, tapi pelajaran yang saya dapat lebih banyak lagi. Saya belajar menghadapi ketakutan dan kehawatiran - hantu yang saya ciptakan sendiri. Bahkan di tengah-akhir tahun ini saya belajar mengkonfrontasi masalah dan si penyebab masalah (Yes, you know who you are, and you are forgiven but never forgotten. I am just glad that I had faced you once, and for all). Saya hidup lebih sehat. Saya (mungkin) akan pindah dari log analyst tunu field menjadi petrophysicist data management (yang masih sesekali membantu operational tunu field). Saya punya keluarga yang baik dan patjar  yang membuat hidup saya luar biasa. Hallo 2012, Saya punya harapan yang saya gantungkan tinggi di tahunmu lho ;) Semoga semua lancar, amien. 

That's a five Fridays in Friday five, that's a wrap for this year! Btw saya sedang merencanakan acara tahun baru di balikpapan yang "menyenangkan" ini. Ada beberapa opsi, but definitely me and patjar will have bbq with D&M technicians and FEs, alongside with some friends of ours. Habis itu entah kemana. House of Masquerade, maybe? :p *ngarep*. Anyway, buat yang tinggal di balikpapan, ada 2 spot kembang api (yang sejauh ini saya tahu ya..), yaitu di Balcony city mall dan mall balikpapan baru. Eniwei, Selamat Tahun Baru 2012!  Be good, 2012, Insya Allah :)

Friday Five#2

My week, in recap:

1. Preparation for SG's holiday and Vincent's wedding: Got our IDR exchanged with quite a rate to SGD, Got our new schedule revision (the risk of taking low cost airline - they can change your schedule to a weird hours. Nyeh), Got our itinerary planned and such. The highlight is that Patjar got his new suite tailored and I got my old dress remade. I did accompany him from buying the textile (from an old shop in Pandansari - a good place to shop good stuff with reasonable price in Balikpapan) to choosing the style and details in the tailor. For the price we paid, I think we got ourselves quite a bargain :p. I just can't wait for the final fitting *grin*

2. Just found out that there's gonna be ZoukOut 2011 on Dec 10th. Wow. The wedding will be on 9th and since me+patjar bailed out from watching the wicked musical, then I was thinking...maybe....just maaaybe...we can go to ZoukOut. Gonna be fun! Update: All happy hour tickets are sould out. Our option now are the buying-in-advance ticket or on the spot ticket. Le sigh.

3. One of my closest friend in the office is....*drumroll*...resigning. Third person resigning this year. I am happy for her, though, since she's going to move to Jakarta, working as permanent employee in the national oil company. Well needless to say I'll definitely miss her. She's one of a few people that I can really have a nice, deep, and sometimes out-of-the-box-kind of conversation with. But hey, this means we can go out whenever I go back to Jkt :p. On the other side of the coins, this means more workloads for moi, since the two newbies are still on the training. Ngok.

4. 9GAG is Awesome. Period.

5. Remember the weekend trial for BeneFit Smokin eye palate? I nailed it. Totaly 100% poka-yoke*. So now I can safely bring this for my vacation without worrying that it'd be useless stuff that eats up my baggage space. Err, I'm a packing OCD. Even a small adding space for eye shadow set (that used to be predicted  as useless stuff) can worry me.

And to close this FF post, I present you, courtesy from 9gag that somehow is.. so me.

Exactly. 

*Poka-yoke is a Japanese term for fail-proofing, used in Lean. Guess how did I know this? Yes, my ME boyfriend gave me a Lean lecture (from the types of waste to the Poka-yoke) while I was doing my smoky eyes trial. Guess how geeky cool is that? 

Next, Patjie?

Hey...

Aku ingin mengajakmu ke Ubud.
Menikmati tenang rintik di dua cangkir teh hangat yang diseruput
Menghela udara di sawah saat matahari terbit, lalu bersepeda bersamamu menuju arah kicau burung
Menyandarkan diri pada bahumu sambil bercerita
(mungkin mencoba ikut kelas yoga)
Menikmati cafe dan dansa, serta gelak tawa
Dan membiarkan malam menyelimuti kita dengan haru cinta

Lain kali,
(Jika ada rezeki),
Aku ingin sekali mengajakmu kesana.
Berdua.
Boleh
Ya?

Countdown

1 Month to go to our December trip!!!! Can't can't can't wait. Me and Patjar haven't had a decent holiday (except for Ied, for sure, but that's with family) and Vincent's wedding on xinjiapo this December is just a perfect moment for us to have a holiday trip! It's gonna be fun since we're gonna spend it with my HYLI malaysian friends and some of Patjar's ENG 1 friend (if they're not at the rig...crossing finger...) The itsy bitsy for lodging is done (yes, we're doing it in backpacker's style) , gift for the wedding is on its way, and itineraries are planned already. The complete Malaysian HYLI will be coming from KL and Ariff+wifey will be flying from down under. I am now hoping that John or Glenn can make it from manila so we'll have the Pinoy HYLI (since it'd be quite impossible to fly in Donald or Wain+wifey from US). Ah..another wedding reunion for me and my HYLI friends :)

On the side of the dish, I am finishing my two short stories, submitted to NBC Balikpapan (Nulis Buku Club Balikpapan). Writing fiction has never been my strong side, but I thought I'll just give it a shot, and ended up with two pieces . One is inspired by a poem I wrote couple years back, the other one is inspired by a side story in a manga I read back when I was a kid. This whole writing thingy makes me kinda nervous, actually, considering how I never show my piece of writings to other people (besides poems, of course. But poems is entirely different stories from usual fiction). It's 2 days before deadline and I've submitted mine already. Hope the NBC folks will like it. Hope they wont be harsh in giving feedbacks. Hope that this can be a stepping stone for me to start write fiction :D

In a wrap, November in Balikpapan will be windy and gloomy, with some kicks of rain, but just like Patjar said, warmth is something that begin at heart :) Have a nice November !

The Makeover...

from this...

to this..

Heuu.. Pas acara Make Over nya Estee Lauder di Singapore tahun lalu itu, saya lagi kurus kurusnya...ngoook..pengen kurus lagi, pengen make over lagi *haisyah*

Ubud

Tiba-tiba rasanya ingin sedikit menenagkan diri dan hati, menyepi ke suatu tempat yang hijau...
Tiba-tiba, ingin liburan ke Ubud :)

..tinggal di guest house murah selama beberapa hari, sewa sepeda, keliling sawah, biking , hiking, ikut kelas yoga dan meditasi, makan makanan veggies dan ramah lingkungan, ikut kelas masak, rafting, menghirup udara segar.. *dan ke cafe salsa yang tersohor disana :p*


..Semoga ada rizkinya.. :)

The beauties in our own backyards...

If you think these pictures are somewhere in Hawaii,  Thailand or Maldives, or even Caribbean beaches and dive resorts..

....then you're completely wrong :). From top to bottom, they are:

Pic 1 & 2 : Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia. Picture taken from here

Pic 3 & 4 : Wakatobi Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Picture taken from here

Pic 5 : The famous Bunaken, Sulawesi, Indonesia . Picture taken from here

Pic 6 : Beaches on Pulau Weh, Indonesia. Picture taken from here

Pic 7 & 8 : Moyo Island, NTT, Indonesia. Picture taken from here

Pic 9 &10: Derawan Island, Borneo, Indonesia. Picture taken from here

Pic 11: Sabang, Aceh, Indonesia. Picture taken from here

Pic 12: Belitong, Sumatra, Indonesia. Picture taken from here

Pc 13:  Mentawai, Indonesia. Picture taken from here

And these are just a small few beautiful beaches from Indonesia, an archipelago country  of 17.508 islands, 6000 of them are inhibited. Go figure how many beaches, diving spots, and surfing spots there are across this country. Go figure how many hidden paradise, waiting to be discovered. Go figure how much potency we have for beach tourism, eco-tourism and resorts.For me, the possibility to find beauties in our own country's backyards seems endless. 

In my "next-to-go" list, probably visiting Bunaken is the most feasible one. Soon... *Crossing finger*

Notes: Why this post only shows beaches? Simply because I just love beach holiday :p. Other potential attraction of my beloved Indonesia will be discussed in another post. Bon Weekend!

What I love from Batu Secret Zoo (and Museum Satwa) are...

Welcomed by the big, bizarre-neck giffy, in a very clean, well-maintained and informative zoo

Instead of usual rodent, they have the giant one. With cute name.

They got a classroom full of lemur. King Julieeeeeeeeeeen!!

A snow white male peacock who thinks is is more well-groomed than me...

Pond full of pink-ish flamingo, makes you just wanna sit and watch..

A sleeping leopard(?), Ignorant of the oh-so-close-curious-me-taking-pic

A cute bird on our path, walking just like the zoo visitor. Catch!!

A stare game with scary-looking bird...

My Dearie's looking at greedy alpakas. Their woolly hair really does seem comfy. 

The sleeping raccoon. On wheel. Geeze I guess I am not the laziest after all..

A Barn owl that fits on my shoulder...

A fish that looks just odd you want to eat it..

Escaping from the shark..

A prey bird (buzzard?hawk?eagle? I am clueless) that somehow made my Dearie's smile looks odd..

A Bengal Tiger that licks its...err.."that". you know. They're cat too, after all..

...How pink flamingos turns out to be greedy eaters

And the raccoon is shy of me..(boo)

But the Meerkat? No they're not shy. They're friendly, cute and quick!

..The only place where you can about to bite one's tail but the animal still smile:p..

And feeds the African elephants at their meal time..

Is the meerkat smiling, or is it just me hallucinating??

Warning. Birds love hat. And corn seeds. And arms. And good-looking boy :p

Hey! They love hair too! and a good-lookin gal, alrite..

It's a place where you can see brown bear playing around..

And where exotic bird strolls along with visitor..

So does the bengali tiger who loves a good walk..

And the golden tiger who loves lazying around while eyeing us, the prey..

Squads of Mario Bros...

The feeling how how small I am compared to Mr T.Rex

And super cute stegosaurus that my dearie can pose with

Beautiful, well-maintained and Informative collection 

Oh how we just turns into lil' kids again...

In front of the grandiose, in fresh-chilled Batu afternoon air..

Overall, we're two happy kids! And definitely we'll come again!!

They say, a picture says a thousand words. These pictures says what i want to says about Jatim Park II : the Secret Zoo and Museum Satwa. It's way exceeding my expectation (And as a grumpy demanding customer I do have a quite high standards of a place's decency, mind you). Too bad we didn't hop in the giant Ferris Wheel. But the air is too chilly for both of us. I know, I know, we're old :p