Mind Wanderer

Hello peeps. Back again with me, in this space. Sudah lewat dari 1 tahun sejak terakhir kali update di blog ini. Bicara tahun ini.... ah sudahlah. Mungkin semua orang hanya bisa menghela napas. Tahun 2020 merupakan tahun yang berat bagi semua orang di dunia. Awal tahun yang kurang baik... di Jakarta diawali dengan hujan deras berjam-jam di penghujung tahun 2019 yang mengakibatkan banjir di tahun baru. Merebaknya virus COVID-19 di pertengahan Januari 2020 dan serangkaian duka lainnya yang seolah-olah tak ada habisnya melanda 2020. Even kemarin dunia hiburan Jepang dikagetkan dengan berita meninggalnya Miura Haruma yang diduga karena bunuh diri :( rest in peace, Miura-kun. Tahun ini bakal jadi sejarah deh. 2020... memang sesuatu :") Bicara tentang COVID-19, awal-awal merebaknya kasus ini di China membuat gue gak habis pikir kalau... 6 bulan kemudian... atau lebih tepatnya hari ini... dunia masih saja berjibaku melawan virus baru ini. Gue pikir awalnya bakal kelar cepetlah atau at le...

Postingan sebelumnya di day 1 bisa dibaca  di sini  ya. Day 2 in Melbourne: Strolling around CBD Itinerary hari kedua lumayan padat. Tempat-tempat yang gue kunjungi adalah sebagai berikut: 1. Brunch at Hardware Societe 2. Queen Victoria Market 3. State Library of Victoria 4. Princess Theater 5. Royal Arcade 6. Royal Exhibition Building 7. Carlton Gardens 8. Hosier Lane Street Art 9. Flinders Street Station 10. Federation Square 11. St. Paul Cathedral 12. Yarra River Agenda hari ini full mengunjungi daerah Central Business District alias CBD Melbourne. Bangun pagi tiba-tiba menggigil kedinginan karena ternyata di luar suhunya 13 derajat. Walaupun kedinginan tapi gue merasa excited banget karena belum pernah ngerasain cuaca dingin kayak begini. Jam 10 pagi kita berangkat dari South Yarra. Oh ya, di area CBD ada yang namanya Free Tram Zone. Yes, FREE. Gratis selama kita berangkat dari area yang Free Tram Zone juga. In my case,...

Hi, peeps! I’m finally back to write on this space. This time I would like to tell you a story from my very recent trip: Melbourne - Australia! Never thought that I was actually be able to visit the most-liveable city in the world.  Berawal dari November 2018, waktu itu lagi ada Garuda Online Travel Fair. Kebetulan juga temen SMA gue yang sudah lama tinggal dan juga kerja di sana sempet nawarin buat tinggal di apartemennya dia kalau misalkan gue mau ke Phillip Island untuk nonton MotoGP. Sometimes God works in a very mysterious way, no? Awalnya tuh pengen ke Aussie cuma buat nonton MotoGP aja, eh ternyata yang nonton MotoGP-nya belum kesampean malah dikasih rezeki jadinya bisa seminggu full liburan ke Melbourne :") Nah, berhubung belakangan ini gue tuh lagi impulsif banget kalau soal traveling dan jalan-jalan, langsung cabutlah kita beli tiket pesawat di akhir November 2018 untuk flight bulan Mei 2019. Bersyukur bisa dapet harga di 6 juta untuk PP Jakarta-Melbourne naik G...

It's okay. Because they don’t know you. Because you are different. Because people will always judge. Because you are emotionally tired. Because you have nobody to blame, but yourself. Because you have nobody to lean on, but yourself. It’s okay.

Masih teringat dengan jelas bagaimana tujuh tahun yang lalu, untuk pertama kalinya saya bisa menginjakkan kaki di luar negeri, yakni Singapura di tahun 2012 tepatnya. Singapura dengan SMRT-nya yang keren membuat saya saat itu (dan mungkin kita semua warga Jakarta) berangan-angan. Kapan ya Jakarta juga bisa punya MRT? Ah kayaknya gak mungkin deh. Saat mendengar proyek MRT akan berjalan pun jujur saya masih merasa pesimis. Stasiun Setiabudi Astra

I finally got the mood to write on this space phew. So without further ado, here we go: gue abis dari Bali loh! Sumpah ya akhirnya bisa ke Bali juga setelah 24 tahun :') Dengan habit gue belakangan ini yang sungguh-sungguh impulsif, akhirnya sebulan sebelum berangkat, tiket-tiket segala macemnya baru dibeli. Sometimes I asked myself: "Who hurt you sih Ni? Being very very impulsive lately." LOL. Yah engga tau aja sih... belakangan suka ngerasa hampa. Semacam gak punya tujuan hidup. I'm still searching my life's purpose tho... Quarter life crisis is REAL. Traveling selalu menjadi semacam pelarian dan obat yang manjur dari segala macam kegalauan gue. Om Swastiastu So... ini dia tempat-tempat yang gue kunjungi selama 4 hari 3 malam di Bali:

Heyho! I finally back on my blog. Kalau dipikir-pikir mulai pertengahan 2017 ke belakang sudah sedikittt banget nulis blognya. Overall , tahun 2017 cuma nulis 3 post! OMG. I somehow forgot my 2017 resolution untuk setidaknya menulis satu post setiap bulannya. Well... time flies . Sekarang sudah masuk ke 2018 dan bahkan bulan Januari tanpa terasa sudah mau habis aja. Berasa banget gak sih kayak tiba-tiba waktu berjalan begitu cepatnya alias numpang lewat doang dan kita ngerasa, "Duh, kok hidup gue masih begini-begini aja yak." Well. Gue juga belakangan ini selalu merasa demikian. Untuk memulai post di tahun 2018 ini, gue ingin sedikit flashback ke 2017. Let's make somekind of 2017 overview. Seperti yang sudah gue prediksi sebelumnya, 2017 ini temanya mungkin: bingung dan bimbang. Banyak banget kebingungan dan kebimbangan yang gue alami di berbagai aspek kehidupan gue. Mulai dari mempertimbangkan untuk ambil S2 atau engga, resign atau stay di sini, dan lain-lain. Ta...

Hi readers! I'm finally back to blog again after a looongg hiatus :D *maafkan ya karena kesibukan gue yang bikin otak mampet buat sekedar nulis-nulis di sini*. Well , di postingan kali ini gue ingin sharing tentang pengalaman gue ke exhibition The World of Ghibli Jakarta pada tanggal 31 Agustus 2017 yang lalu di Grand Ballroom Ritz Carlton Pacific Place Jakarta. Buat yang masih awam, mungkin bakal bertanya-tanya, apaan sih Ghibli itu? Studio Ghibli Singkatnya sih, Studio Ghibli ini ibarat Disney-nya Jepang. "Studio Ghibli, Inc. (株式会社スタジオジブリ Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Jiburi) adalah sebuah studio film animasi yang berbasis di Koganei, Tokyo. Studio ini telah menelurkan film-film animasi berkualitas sejak tahun 1984. Beberapa judul film animasi legendarisnya di antaranya adalah : Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky,  Grave of the Fireflies dan masih banyak lagi. Film Spirited Away bahkan diganjar Piala Oscar...

Heyho, peeps. It's been a while since my last post. Pardon me for not writing in this space since like 3 months ago. I have tried to be more focused in blogging, but in reality... it's kinda hard to balance between work and blogging LOL. I wanna tell you about my first experience traveling to Lombok. Big thanks to the office who provided us such an exciting trip. Gonna bomb you with TONS of photos here xD So, here we go, then? First stop. Sasak Ende Traditional Village. Seems that this village is a must visit place when you were in Lombok. This village will show you the traditional houses of Sasak tribe. The Sasak people make up most of Lombok’s population. A few villages in this area do not want to modernize along with the rest of the island. These villages are characterised by their lack of modern technology. Their lifestyle is based on farming and weaving. Largely left alone for some time, these pockets of traditional island life are, however, witnessing increasing ...

"Real museums are place where time transformed into space." - Orhan Parmuk It's summer time and everyone seems to be out-of-town due to Eid (Lebaran) holiday. So I think it was the best time to explore my own hometown: Jakarta. Me and my friend decided to take an educational day out by visiting National Museum Indonesia or popularly known as Museum Gajah (Elephant Building). For a person who always has a "thing" for history like me, I was very excited. We went there using free city tour bus that has been provided by Jakarta's government (big thanks to Pak Ahok, former Jakarta Governor who started this cool idea). Started from Istiqlal Mosque, we rode this double-decker bus. We managed to seat on the top level of the bus. Due to Lebaran holiday, this bus was full-packed with family who brought along their children. So you know, it was kinda noisy with children's nagging, curiosity and most of all : CRYING hahaha. I think the city tour bus is a good th...

It's almost 3 weeks in 2017. Happy belated new year, anyway. I personally happy knowing that I survived through the storm in 2016 :") Patience and faith are two things I learned the most during 2016. I found no motivation to write on this blog, recently. Work matters seem occupied my mind, my body, or even my soul (?) It's been 2017 already and I'm still feel like I'm lost in life, somehow. I still don't know if my journey right now is the right thing and the best path for me. Steve Jobs once said, "You cannot connect the dots by looking forward, but you can connect dots looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." But my "dots" in life seems so errand and unconnected HAHA. Looking back, I majored in Science when I sat at high school. Going forward to uni life, I took Accounting as my major and Capital Market as my minor (oh God, look I AM DEFINITELY SO RANDOM); and finally here ...

It's almost two months since my last post. I've been neglecting this blog....for quite a long time. Sorry. But anyway I have few updates on my life (is my life somekind of TV series LOL). Lulus probation I finally passed probation period phew. Three months working here feels like A YEAR IN HELL *ups* hahaha. Intinya lega banget deh akhirnya resmi jadi karyawan tetap :") Bersyukur masih dapat kesempatan untuk bekerja dengan learning curve yang tinggi banget. I met so many people, discussed and collaborated with them. One thing I learned from working life is.... don't you ever ever be BAPER (bawa perasaan - read) or never include your feelings in work stuffs lol or simply being professional. Working life is much much cruel than school/campus life. The struggle is real. Challenge ke depannya di pekerjaan gue yang satu ini bakal semakin bertambah. Berharap semakin wise dan semakin mature juga buat menghadapinya. You can do it, Ni! Semangaaat :"D Update...

Hi readers! I'm finally back again to blogging. This time I will write about my personal best movie so far in 2016 : DOCTOR STRANGE! Not only for its stunning - mind-blowing - beyond-imagination VFX, but also the spiritual message they intended to deliver through this movie. So, today I'm gonna review it as a movie watcher; ya berhubung gue memang nggak baca komik-komik Marvel tapi selalu cuma nonton filmnya aja haha. So, here we go! "The impossibilities are endless." Kalau Marvel biasanya menghadirkan sosok superhero yang punya kemampuan fisik di atas rata-rata seperti Thor, Captain America atau Hulk, kali ini Marvel menghadirkan sosok superhero dengan kekuatan ilmu sihir. Doctor Strange berkisah tentang seorang ahli bedah saraf atau neurologist bernama Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). Strange dikisahkan sebagai sosok dokter yang sombong, arogan dan egois. Suatu malam, Strange mengalami kecelakaan mobil fatal yang mengakibatkan kedua tang...

Happy birthday dear my 23-year-old me! Udah tua yak udah 23 aja :") 23-year-old selfie. Masih imut kan xD This time I think I don't have too many wishes. I just wanted to be healthy, happy and be more grateful :"D Bersyukur karena masih ada yang inget dan nyelametin :") On this birthday I was super happy cos my birthday is celebrated by my new office mates. Pagi-pagi pas training gak ada yang ngasih ucapan selamat ultah. Gue pikir ya wajar ajalah ya gak ada yang tau baru 3 minggu masuk kantor bareng. Eh tapi ternyata pas lunch malah di-surprise-in. Thank you ya guys~ Yha walaupun tulisan kuenya malah ala-ala orang lagi anniversary (mau anniversary piye sih lah wong pacar aja gak punya *nangis di pojokan*) RA Batch 2016 Kirain barengan tanggal ultahnya ternyata beda wk xD Udah gapaham lagi... One year older, one year wiser. I hope that this year is going to be amazing and I want to grow to be a more matured woman. Tahun ini juga tahun pert...

I'm back again. It's been two weeks since my first day to work as an IT auditor. So far so good (ya iyalah karena belum lembur gila-gilaan). All I did was sit calmly and listen to the training instructor. Terus juga sepanjang hari happy banget karena dapet lunch gratis + 2x snack time. Baru 2 minggu berat badan udah naik 2 kilo aje. I'm gonna enjoy this time to the fullest sebelum badai menyerang haha. Actually I'm coming back to the company as the former intern. I'm glad that most of them actually remember me :") And practically everyone is excited to see me. Working life might not be so bad then :") *pray hard* Terus update yang satu lagi.. ceritanya gue dapet birthday present in advance nih haha. Sejujurnya gak nyangka banget bisa menangin lomba blog :") Setelah ngeblog lama dari tahun 2007, akhirnya pecah telor yah haha. Terimakasih untuk Phillip Securities atas hadiahnya! Intinya sih bersyukur banget karena masih bisa dapet banyak berkat :...

Today I am officially starting my journey as an auditor (which means I am also officially ended my 5-months-hermit days). I know it is never easy to find a job after you graduated, but thank God I managed to secure a job within 4-months after my graduation. God is so good all the time :") I'm not gonna take anything for granted. Be grateful and maximize your own potential. Don't forget to pray. Let's FIGHTTT. And welcome "lembur" and "begadang" days.... :") Well, wish me luck! *demi bisa membahagiakan orang tua, jalan-jalan keliling dunia dan meningkatkan taraf hidup yeay xD*

"Travel is discovering the part of yourself that you never knew existed before". Critical Eleven, Ika Natassa My trip this time was the memorable one. It was my first time traveling alone (practically not all alone sih), tapi sepanjang perjalanan PP Jakarta-Semarang, I was on my own. Now I proudly declared it as an achievement *smug face* Thanks to the introvert main trait, I am now dare to travel again ALL ALONE HAHA. It was somehow relaxing when you wandered alone, getting lost and learn more about yourself.  For a well-planned and organized person like me, this was the most spontaneous and unplanned trip. I bought the train ticket two weeks prior the date and even WITHOUT ITINERARY (which is definitely a big no for me xD). I was impulsively and quickly saying "YES" when my high-school friend asked me whether I want to visit her in Semarang or not xD I could say that this very trip is some kind of "vow". I said to myself months ago; that if I m...

Okay guys, this post is going to be the most useless post of all time. I couldn't resist the temptation to share this thing xD When you watched Olympics badminton women single group match (Lindaweni Fanetri - INA vs Okuhara Nozomi - JPN) and then suddenly the camera zoomed in... THIS GUY... BOOM! *OVARIES EXLODED* SAKURAI SHO APPEARED ON INDONESIAN LOCAL TV!!! I mean it's very rare to see a Johnny's talent appeared on TV; specially on your LOCAL TV. OH MY GOD. I literally jumped out *dan hampir kejengkang* and screamed the seconds when he appears x)) Sakurai Sho is a News Zero reporter and he is currently on duty to do Rio 2016 coverage. It's his 3rd day in Rio.  GOD thankyou cameraman-san for this! Pic credit : Yunhotic/Twitter Kameramennya tau aja ada cowok ganteng xD Pic credit : Twitter And suddenly my Twitter timeline overflowing with his pictures. All Arashi fangirls (especially Indonesian fangirls) were like heboh gak jelas. Emang deh kela...

"An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming." Actually I've been longing to do archery since the beginning of the year. It's already on my bucket list. Due to some reasons we had to cancel it many times LOL. But we had the perfect time just last Saturday so we went to Gelora Bung Karno Archery Field and do archery. As a person who likes to learn and try something new, I don't wanna miss the chance. We had a coach to teach us as a beginner in archery. At first, it's very hard to pulled out the arc and the arrow missed the target so many times. But as the time goes by, we were getting used to it and at one time we successfully placed the arrow on yellow area (center area). Who knows that archery could be this fun ;) I learned how to be calm and remain focus to the target. It's somehow addictive you know, t...

This is going to be my first J-Dorama review ever haha. Yep. I'm gonna review Sekai Ichi Muzukashii Koi ( World Most Complicated Romance ) or  Cinta Paling Sulit Di Dunia in Bahasa. Reasons for watching? Sudah jelas karena ada Ohno Satoshi-nya dong hehe xD Dorama ini munculnya barengan sama doramanya Matsujun : 99.9 ~ Keiji Senmon Bengoshi. Awalnya sih gue kelarin 99.9 duluan karena di Twitter rame banget pada  share foto Matsujun yang lucuk imut gitu dan temanya gue suka karena tentang detektif. Kelar 99.9 gue juga penasaran dong pengen nonton deh doramanya Ohno, soalnya pada bilang lucu dan menarik. Selain itu ratingnya juga cukup bagus. Apalagi ini tuh first Ohno-san's romance drama . Well , rom-com sih lebih tepatnya. So, here it is my J-Drama review (spoiler alert! ) Sekamuzu Samejima Reiji ( Ohno Satoshi ), 34 tahun, CEO sekaligus founder Hotel Samejima yang sudah terkenal di tingkat dunia. Banyak pengalaman di dunia perhotelan tapi Reiji is compeletely zero e...