What an Early 2016 Brought Me

2016 brings me back to Bandung earlier, which explains that I used to wake up strongly facing up the last semester of college life! Yes, sounds exciting! Instead of hiding the sadness of finally thinking to move out from this lovely city in the middle of this (hopefully) year (I won't back to Jakarta, it's so stressful :( aaak!). Well what actually brings me back here faster of this period is due simply and solely of Tugas Akhir and the duty of finishing its paper this whole month left. Tugas Akhir means I have to bang myself forward to the line of graduation day... Oh Gosh, everything will end so highly quick!

To carry pickaback all the data, I've been collecting the information I got from the books, e-books, websites, personal blogs, papers, maps, and other resources that related to my itinerary. As a young-unofficial-surveyor (geodesy kind of thing), I should go to the locals and come to the point of the places I've marked to my impermanent map manually. So yesterday I decided to walk from one place to another by bringing the camera, notes, map, umbrella and mobile phone with both hands (with also, some helps from Alif like he always does to me; so cute I wanna die). Common place we firstly came to a visit as our first day of surveying is near of Jl. Asia Afrika, to be exact we marked GKP-RI Hotel Lengkong as our first destination to take its photograph and so on we continue by walking to Jl. Kasim - Jl. Asia Afrika - Jl. Dalem Kaum - Jl. Dewi Sartika - Jl. ABC - Jl. Braga - Jl. Viaduct and last Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan. 

The popular spot you all have known, Alun-Alun Bandung and Masjid Raya Bandung.

Last shot from yesterday, Gedung Indonesia Menggugat.

Well honestly we had make some kilometers of walking that one day, and that was successfully shaking all of the parts of my body (hardly to see and walk, my head and legs were hurting the system either) and got sick immediately while stopping by ourselves to have a late lunch; poor me I should start running again this year :') Then how about you? How do you spend your holiday? In any case, it wouldn't be the last survey I should take. Cause yeah, you know, this is how we work as Anak Lapangan like everyone said. Howsoever, I want to thank Alif a gazillion times for always volunteering himself to accompany me in any condition; later I know you're so tired with all your works you deal with this week, I would like to thank you so much ♥

From my yesterday's Snapchat video, sorry for the bad resolution; I just want to share, that's all :)

To cherish the glimpse of this short holiday I have, I'd like to dare you to watch these cute little sisters (my forever favourite channel on YouTube) Dodie Clark and Hedy! Can't stop watching them singing, adorable!

You should check her channel on YouTube by using the keyword: doddleoddle or doddlevloggle. Dodie Clark also created her original songs, go check her out! Well, once again happy holiday fellas!

half year and so forth.

To boast a little, like some present couple glorify the "semiannual" of theirs, I publicise today as ours too. Regardless how we end up in this relationship circle--just like the words inside the 13th paragraph of the letter I gave it to you 6 months ago--you'll be the only sweetest porcupine I can securely touch, yes you will always be.

It's okay If I absented myself from the final test of the deutsch sprachkurs, both written and oral. It's okay if I forgot how many chunks of tomatoes I put into my boiling chicken soup. It's okay if I hardly remembered to stop the desire of eating at night. Despite of those kind of things, the date of 5 doesn't escape my notice for every month we've dealt with.

Dear you, my well-loved better half, I cheerily give you the list of things I want to do with you start from the beginning of the rose-pink dawn to the shadowy twilight that I collect into a compilation of Kinfolk's videos I politely grabbed them for some strangers' ports. (P.S. Have a nice short getaway in Kalimantan with your Mum, see you on Tuesday!)

Adani, A.D. (2015). "half year and so forth". Bandung.

(Photo and video: Kinfolk Magazine)

The Perks of Reviewing Environmental Remote Sensing Paper

Well, leastwise, I agreed making a business with those papers to subtly finish reviewing them from 10 to 5 pages this whole typical night.

To all the not-too-okay prawn balls, to all the ballots of Birdy, and to all the complaints someone--somewhat being so immature. Thank you all, for the time you keep company me wasting my night to think about the presentation I should quickly done. Being so normally undertake the homework I should finish before the 5th of November comes. Being also normally undertake all those handicraft works before closing this month's pre-order. Being (again) also so normally undertake the GPS presentation to do all the terrestrial mapping assistant thingies. And last being so normally surf into all the strangers' portals whom I uncertainly know who-they-are, where-they-come-from, what-the-department-they-major, and their-relation-with-someone-I-know-well-lately. Cause Alif ever said to me "the past is always just the past; that's why I never asked you about your old scar cause I know how to appreciate this time we've been faced." Cause I know he appreciates me while I don't; cause I know he never wants to look back while I want; cause I know he stays to all the positive minds while I turn to the opposite; and I know I don't have to be afraid cause he believes; he believes that all the insecurities I conversed to him about will surely fade away.

And Odah, I loosely talk to you, to my own self; by hearing the sounds of your playlist this night just deeply remember "let it all go, let it all go, let it all out now." cause if you're strong enough to let it in, you're strong enough to let it go.

karena.

Yesterday's gift for him.

Karena katamu, melewati sepersekian hari sampai saat ini hanyalah sebagian kecil dari hari-hari yang akan kita lewati untuk berbagi keceriaan bersama sampai tua nanti.

Karena darimu pula aku belajar, menyayangi tak pernah semenyenangkan ini sebelumnya, menyayangi tak pernah seindah ini sebelumnya, dan menyayangi tak pernah senyaman ini sebelumnya; karena bagiku, mencintaimu merupakan hal yang sederhana.

Karena dari itu aku ingin berterima kasih; untuk segala kebaikanmu, perhatianmu, kesabaranmu, perilakumu, kepekaanmu, dan kejujuranmu. Terima kasih telah mau menyayangiku dengan segala ketulusanmu dan keikhlasanmu, terima kasih telah mencuri waktu hanya untuk sekedar berbagi kisah denganku, dan terima kasih karena tidak kunjung beranjak untuk melanjutkan hari-harimu bersamaku.

Karena itu aku berharap, apa yang aku tulis di hari ke-92 untukmu ini akan selalu menitipkan senyum di setiap dirimu membacanya.

Terima kasih sudah datang,

wahai laki-laki yang singgah di tanggal lima - bulan ke enam - tahun ini.

[05/09/2015]

To you, who fall asleep on the helo deck.

"Sleep tight baby, sleep tight."

I mumbled your name every time you lost the signal, every time those double ticks marks on WhatsApp didn't turn to blue, also every time you didn't wake me up at my shady dawn.

I'm thanking God for bringing you as the core component of my happy life; for every food we ate, for every road we passed, for every laugh we shared, for every snap we clicked, and for every heartbeat we felt. As a loud talker, I maybe criticise you a lot, on the other hand you are so truly calm; deeply hearing to my captious babble, quietly understanding my thoughts.

Do you sleep well? Eat well? Exercise well? Those questions haunt me. Me, for 20 days speaking in robotic, monotonous drones. I waste my time by personally buffering to moving visual image, listening to some songs that resemble to you, and pluckily cooking foods you command me to do.

How's the weather? Is it nice to you? How about the sky? Is it clear enough to be seen? How about the crystal sea? Is it okay to jump in? You, the one who regales me with stories of your distant travel, please come back home soon.

See you when I see you, my lovely jewish companion.

I Love Your Mess

Ruby Sparks: "Were you disappointed when you got to know me?"

Calvin Weir-Fields: "How can you ask that?" 

Ruby Sparks: "I'm such a mess."

Calvin Weir-Fields: "I love your mess."

Been urgently watching Ruby Sparks at the first time I bought this movie for gazillion times! (I give 11 points over 10 to describe how coolest this story is! FYI, source from IMDb told me the rating of this movie is about 7.2/10 from 25217 users, a-super-WOW!) This typical love story is dispatching hundred messages to boost the affectionate taste of not afraid to recreate everything that peculiarly seems unreachable. I, sometimes, do the same thing like Calvin did to his imagination. Creating a person he likes perfectly, owning her to his undeniable dreams for some nights, and magically composing his "creation" to real world. Calvin treats Ruby so well, all soundtracks instrumented by Nick Urata  (I play all musics he had produced over and over again) have deeply pooped up a question: "How far would you go?" that's platonically sweet. This movie touches my feeling too the deepest. Being alone like this honestly doesn't give me an extra time to enjoy my life. People are not going to live alone, they all need partners to complete what they really have to find in their own real lives.

Muchas gracias amigos. Adios.

Those 7 Secret Things I Want To Be Given With (1st Chapter)

Sometimes being single is eventually okay, because there's no one who's being excessively protective in order to screw the gap of jealousy we face. Also sometimes, I need the one who gives me his helping hand to always protect and put my name on his pray. Sometimes I need, yeah sometimes, so does every girl. And those are the factors that play a large role in girl's mind thinking that being single is a big bullshit they ever did. But through puberty, a lot of girls get the feeling that everything's going wrong with them. Love life is always baffling, will always.

Almost girls have listed some beautiful things they dream wanting to be given by someone whom they love. I personally am making my own list too and there are 7 secrets things I want to share, but I'll just give half of them to be presented now.

1. Floral Crown

I'm not in the business of denying this simple romantic thing. I dream a lot, yeah a lot. Figuring myself that I've captivated in my own fairytale story and been wearing a reddish floral crown which is made by a hero who saves me waking up from my daydream.

2. Teddy Bear

The sweetest Mr. and Mrs. Teddy won't ever regret me. They all are the cutest, double. I've met thousands of marionettes and none of them really erase the obliviousness I experience while stuck seeing some Teddy Bears displayed on the outskirts of the store. I really want to have a couple of Mr. and Mrs. Teddy, portraying themselves as the reflection of me and the man besides me. So lovable.

3. Merry-Go-Round
"I’ve done the merry-go-round, I’ve been through the revolving doors, I feel like I’ve met someone I can stand still with for a minute. Don’t you want to stand still with me?". Love song will come up when spinning this lovely object. Laughs won't ever stop screaming. The happiness is completed by opening the box including Merry-Go-Round inside. I'll be surprised, like a child ever did.

to be continued...

The Edelweiss Has Been Wizened

Are you still awake? Really? Oh good to know that, because I voluntary am begging you to hear my unfinishied story about "she" that honestly wants to always be the one who waters the Edelweiss. But lately, this story can't be continued because she has finally given up on him. Why? Find her reasons by listening to my story. Let's start.

She worries.

Yes, a hundred percent she's afraid if Edelweiss will abandon her after knowing a felling she has hidden in this very short time to him. She hates refusal, she doesn't want to be denied by someone that she adores.

She believes in fate.

Let God do the rest. Yes, God will always do. All she can do is just begging for His bless and waiting those fantasies might come soon. When the time has been matched, she hopes that Edelweiss is the answer of every prayer she has asked for.

She just waits.

She doesn't want to be that fanatic, that's the biggest mistake she ever did before. She's not going to repeat her fault again twice. It maybe hurts her a lot, but it's much better to wait and see who'll come next to be hers permanently than declare herself as a loser by spreading the secret of her feeling to Edelweiss to others.

Dear Edelweiss, she doesn't know how to stop loving you.

The Greatest Edelweiss Around The Slobbers

Hi, I know it's still a fresh morning to wake up and do some outdoor activities around the environment. But I barely can't wait to give a bedtime story to be heard (actually to be understood, indeed). So, give me a chance to tell and please listen my story very carefully about a friend of mine. Lets start.

She had been hurt. Yes, she had.

She's not in a hurry of falling for someone whom she liked (if you really know what I mean). She might like thousand boys, but none of them she loves. When she started to love, the boy betrayed her. How can she believe all of the bullshits spoken from the boys' mouth? She's now alone, she can't even succeed loving others who are really qualified, those have chosen their own lovable girls to be had. She had been grieving, not for her ex, but for another hopeless thing to reveal. New horizon comes to her life. New friends. New relatives. New atmosphere. New routine. And also new faces to be seen everyday. Once in the blue moon, she feels the most appropriate rhythm echoing inside her heart.

An Edelweiss has grown up around other slobbers.

The must-have treasure of this era. Yes, she finally realizes that Edelweiss has stolen her attention. The Edelweiss should be the nicest of them all. He's tall (really tall), some rumors said that he's a player of sport he does like. He has tan complexion, the sexiest skin color she loves the most to be compared to others'. He uses glasses, lovable enough to be seen. He shall be smart (yes, he shall). His voice is really like a gentlemen ever spoken. They also ever in the same PT and he sits right in front of her, and also queue behind her (but actually separated by maybe 3 or 4 lines between them, but she still can see his appearance). At last, they ever have an eye contact, deeply looked in both eyes.

Can her true feelings be declared?

The Edelweiss doesn't know about this. Both of them don't know each other, even recognize. All she can do is just be the silhouette of her stories. She just can do nothing. Dear Edelweiss, she waits.

The End.