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18:32

 Hi!

Sudah 2022 nih dan masih bergelut dengan pandemi yang innsya Allah semakin membaik sih tapi. Mau bikin update 2021 masih mager sangat tapi mau update yang lain dulu. Duh, hidup gue apa kabar ya selama ini? Masih sering galau? Terakhir gue galau di blog ini pas gue kuliah sama kayaknya sempet pas kerja awal dan sampai sekarang pun masih ada galau galau cuma kayak nggak terlalu dipikirin karena banyak hal yang lebih penting dipikirin daripada galau. Udah mau 30 tahun nih dan kerasa banget perbedaan terutama di temen sih. Asli temen main yang "here we go cus" udah banyak berkurang itu benar sekali adanya. Maksudnya apa sih "here we go cus"? Itu lho maksudnya temen yang kalo diajak main sekali nanya langsung ayo tanpa mikir ini itu. Sekarang karena udah banyak kesibukan masing-masing, kadang kalo wiken ada yang lembur kerja juga kayak gue, jadi kalo mau jalan harus di planning dulu sih bener. Kalo mau dadakan ya ujungnya biasanya gue pergi sendiri. Ya makin gede makin berani sih kemana-mana sendiri (ke luar negeri sendiri aja berani kan ya nes muehehe). Cuma kalo mau jalan ke daerah non kota yang pelosok gitu kadang mikir juga sih haha, tapi kalo ke kota besar mah gue gak pake mikir lagi biasanya ya kalo pengen pergi deh tinggal book tiket pesawat atau kereta en book akomodasi. Jalan ke mol sendirian juga udah jadi hal yang lumrah banget sih di umur segini buat gue. Ya kalo capek kerja kadang pulangnya suka ke mol dulu beli barang gak penting atau cuma buat makan aja. Terus kalo wiken kadang cuma mau di rumah pengen leyeh leyeh aja. Balesin whatsapp juga udah jarang banget, main sosmed juga udah jarang apalagi ngepost. Jadi, wajar gak sih usia segini tuh ngerasa kesepian walau temen sebenernya ada aja yang bisa diajak main atau ngobrol tapi tetep aja gak bisa heboh kalo main ama temen juga karena jumlahnya udah berkurang banyak banget. Duh, walau usia 20an awal itu masa masa labil tapi seneng karena temen masih banyak dan bisa heboh ya. Keliatan banget tuh pas ngundang nikahan. Dulu rame banget nyampe bisa foto angkatan pas nikahan temen kuliahan, sekarang mah (karena pandemi juga sih) paling cuma temen yang deket banget yang diundang dan dateng kan. Jadi, ya tiap stage umur itu emang ada plus minusnya masing masing sih, dinikmatin aja ya tapi.

Duh udah lama gak nulis ya beginilah jadinya tulisannya haha. Ku akan tetep bikin rekap 2021 tapi nanti dulu ini mau nyambi kerja dulu ya~~

Update 2017 - 2020

19:38

Well, I try to write something here again. Actually I wanted to publish this post in May 2020 but because I still had so many thoughts I postponed to post this til now. So many unexpected events have happened in my life since I wrote here maybe some times ago (I just check the last post that I made is in year 2017, so I think my list will be long). I am bullet lover so I must write this event in point one-by-one with the bullet. Here we go.

  • 2017 started in August was uncontrollable and messed up period for me. This year,  my close friend told me that he will get married. We were just friend, of course, but you know the feeling that I would lose someone I depend on, was following me after I got the news. I was so confused and I decided to distract those feeling with travelling. I joined open trip to attend DCF and I also made myself hiked Mount Prau. And this feeling stayed on me until...
  • 2018 started in January. I decided to not attend the ceremony and flew myself to somewhere far, hoped that everything will turn better (for myself at least). In the end, not good result I got. He came to the same place I go after his ceremony without had the idea that I was on the same place with him. After the unfortunate encounter, I came back to routine still with same feeling and time went to...
  • 2018 March. To distract myself from those uneasy feeling, I came back to my fangirling world. I followed an KPOP group and totally immersed to be fangirling. I bought their concert ticket, albums, official merchandises, and joined to the community. I made friends with some of them, thanks to the community. I also joined my friend into her trip to South Korea. I bought plane ticket, booked the accomodation, planned the trip, applied the visa (eventhough I left on 2019). So many things I did and one of it happened in... 
  • 2018 December. I went overseas for the first time, just by myself, for attending concert of the KPOP group I fancy. I flew myself to Bangkok with backpack and it first time I could forget all the lingering feeling about that have happened since 2017. Then the time went to...
  • 2019 March. I went to my second overseas trip to South Korea. I took seven days off and then flew myself to South Korea. For the first time I went to places that had weather under 10 degres of Celcius. The first time I got out from subway station and walked on the street (I still only wore clothes from Jakarta, t-shirt and cardigan) and I froze in the real LOL. But during my stay in South Korea I felt so happy and I didn't want to back home for real. The one that I missed during the trip was someone I left in Jakarta (curious enough?). After I came back I went to trip again in...
  • 2019 October. I went to Singapore this time for only 3 days and 2 nights. Me and my friend wanted to short escape from our routines so that we chose this place (actually we got super cheap plane tickets so that we went to this place LOL). In this month I also booked ticket trip to Japan because I got super cheap ticket and I persuaded my friend to join my trip kekeke. But in...
  • 2019 December I got mourning news from my big family. My cousin passed away after got medication of his illness. I got the news when I was on office and I and my family hurriedly went to Semarang after heard the news. I still remembered that we still did not realize our plan yet to go to Jogja together. You'll be missed, di! And my life went on as usual til I got another news in...
  • 2020 January. I arrived at home from work as usual and I opened my Whatsapp, then I was puzzled. Everyone asked me about my best friend, Nurul. They got news that Nurul passed away. When I heard about the news I was trembling because in the December I still texted her. I knew that she was sick but I did not know that her condition was that bad. I could not think properly at those time but I was really sorry that I could not went to Sragen immediately because this-and-that conditions. But, the next Saturday I flew myself together with some of my friends to visit Nurul's (my eyes was watering when I wrote this). Nurul is my best friend, I tell all of my story to her and she is my trip mate. We already went to many places together. I still remembered when we were on Ijen, we were wondering at those times wheather we could go to this place again someday. I want to go there again when I have a chance. I miss you, ruls! And after that my life went to as usual until...
  • 2020 February. After all that happened to the me in the past 2 months, I needed some another escapes. And I planned to watch GOT7's concert in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. I even already bought the plane ticket, concert ticket, and booked a hotel. And in the March after Kuala Lumpur trip, I would flew to the Japan for the another trip. But, the pandemic spreaded. So fast. And I canceled all of my trip I already planned. It was so sad but I wished that this pandemic would go away as soon as possible. But til...
  • 2020 October, I still tried to live in the pandemic and till hope that everything would go to better.


Pengantar Traveling Ala - Ala

21:15

Halo semuanya, udah lama banget emang gue nggak pernah posting lagi karena lelah dan nggak pernah menyempatkan diri buat nulis (ternyata mager nulis itu nyata!). Malam ini karena rasa bosan yang luar biasa dan lagi sangat mood buat ngetik, jadi mau share tentang Travelling! Sebenernya travelling itu mainstream banget lho, setiap orang kalo ditanyain hobinya apa, biasanya yang aman jawab travelling, tapi pas ditanya lanjutannya udah travelling kemana aja. Nah loh bingung deh jawabnya.

Nah, gue yang orangnya sangat rumahan banget ini juga kadang kejebak pertanyaan kedua ketika gue menjawab pertanyaan pertama. Sebelum tahun 2016 gue cuma rajin ke traveling ke Semarang (buat mudik) dan Jabodetabek paling pol Serang dan Bandung. Itu juga biasanya kalo ada acara apa, pokoknya acara travelling yang bener-bener jalan sama stranger itu jarang dan bisa dibilang nggak pernah.

Nah, tahun 2016 setelah gue memulai ada duit dan kerjaan mulai libur regular akhirnya mulai deh travelling pertama nggak jauh-jauh ke Bandung. Trip ini sebenernya nggak sendiri-sendiri banget karena ada dua temen gue yang lain yang nemenin. Jadi, sebenernya kita ikut open trip bareng orang lain dan walaupun pihak travelnya nggak canggih-canggih banget (masa iya one day trip ketiga tempat semuanya nyasar) at least gue mencoba "keluar dari rumah". Hari pertama ikut trip bareng trip dan hari keduanya solo trip bertigaan aja pake angkot kemana-mana. Pengalaman ini bikin gue buka mata banget.

Abis Bandung selesai, masuk tahun 2017, gue dan dua temen trip Bandung akhirnya berniat jalan agak jauh lagi, yaitu ke Jawa Timur dan sekitarnya. Kita pilah-pilih banget pihak travelnya, akhirnya nemu satu yang oke lewat Instagram. Niatnya jalan berempat (3 orang Jakarta, 1 orang Surabaya) tapi akhirnya cuma jalan berduaan aja ama temen gue dari Jakarta. Ini the real trip jauh gue pertama dan waw dari sini gue mulai kecanduan yang namanya travelling.

Abisan trip Jawa Timur itu gue mencoba jalan sendiri ke Bandung dan Bogor. Di Bandung nyari temen yang bisa diajak jalan dan nemu sepupu gue yang baru aja pindah buat kerja disana. Terus ke Bogor yang biasanya mentok ke Kebun Raya Bogor, kemaren nekat ke Taman Nasional Gunung Halimun - Salak pake transportasi umum (alias ngangkot).

Setelah itu gue ikut trip yang agak jauhan lagi ke Dieng buat ikutan acara Dieng Culture Festival. Ikut acara ini demi liat lampion dan gue pribadi mau naik gunung Prau tanpa nge-camp di atas. Tapi ternyata bonusan ikut trip ini banyak banget dan nanti semua trip di atas Innsya Allah bakal gue bikinin postingannya satu-satu (semoga nggak mager AAMIIN)

Apa sih yang gue dapet dari ikutan hal yang menurut orang lain itu buang - buang duit (eh beneran lho gue pernah dibilang buang - buang duit karena nge-trip terus). Asal tau aja ya dari trip-trip yang gue ikutin banyak banget hal yang bikin hidup gue bahagia, Pertama, dapet pengalaman baru, temen baru, dan setidaknya cara berpikir baru buat ngejalanin hidup ke depannya. Terus plus-plusnya lagi gue jadi tau ternyata gue seneng banget fotografi dan editingnya. Nyampe gue akhirnya memutuskan membeli suatu barang yang dulu mungkin jadi list ke-beberapa ratus sekian untuk dibeli.

Kalo kata fasilitator training yang gue ikutin kemarin, intinya adalah "At least you try to get out from your comfort zone" karena cara banyak peluang di luar zona itu. Kayak gue deh, dulu gue pikir nggak mungkin bisa naik gunung tapi sekarang gue udah pernah hiking ke Ijen dan Prau yang walaupun treknya nggak lama tapi tetep aja hiking ke gunung kan?

If you wanna break your limit, don't hesitate and start from now :)