Pengalaman Nonton MotoGP 2017! (Part 2)

Continuation from here

Hari ini, Sabtu 28 Oktober 2017 adalah hari kualifikasi. Dari pagi kami sudah bersiap naik LRT menuju KL Sentral untuk bertemu dengan Bang Zarmon, Bang Yoza dan Bang Dika buat pergi bareng ke Sirkuit Sepang. Oya sebelumnya aku perkenalkan tokoh dalam trip ini dulu ya.

Bang Yoza adalah teman kantornya Mak Kitty tapi beda kota. Tahun ini adalah kali kedua Bang Yoza nonton MotoGP langsung di Sepang. Sementara Bang Zarmon ini adalah suami dari teman kantornya Bang Yoza yang bantuin kami beli tiket tribun Main Grand Stand. Bang Zarmon ini adalah suhu-nya MotoGP karena tahun ini adalah kali ke-sembilannya nonton MotoGP langsung di Sepang selama sembilan tahun berturut-turut! Bahkan beberapa tahun yang lalu Bang Zarmon sempat membawa anggota keluarganya lengkap dengan tiga anaknya yang masih kecil-kecil, yang waktu itu kompakan mengenakan kaos berwarna kuning yang masing-masing bertuliskan huruf R, O, S, S dan I. Jadi pas foto bareng, ketahuan dong keluarga ini pendukung beratnya siapa, hehe. Sementara Bang Dika adalah sepupunya Bang Zarmon yang ikutan nonton MotoGP untuk kali pertama seperti kami.

Sekitar jam 9 aku dan Mak Kitty udah sampai di KL Sentral di hotel tempat menginapnya geng Bang Zarmon yang persis terletak di seberang stasiun KL Sentral. Nah, menurutku penginapan di daerah ini cukup recommended mengingat lokasi yang strategis, banyak tempat makan dan kebersihannya yang cukup oke. Sebenarnya berangkat pukul 9 dari KL Sentral itu sudah cukup telat, mengingat kemarin malam janjinya ketemuan di KL Sentral jam 8. Tapi apa daya, semalam kami semua sudah letih, lalu telat bangun dan rada lelet juga.

Jadi untuk mengakomodir mobilisasi penonton MotoGP, panitia menyediakan bus yang untuk mengangkut penonton yang akan berangkat dari KL Sentral menuju Sirkuit Sepang. Aku kurang tahu persisnya mulai kapan bus nya beroperasi namun hari Kamis kemarin, Bang Zarmon and the gank ikut menumpang bus tersebut pulang dari mengikuti autograph session di Sepang dengan ongkos 20 Ringgit per orang tapiiii naiknya harus antri dan sepanjang perjalanan sejauh lebih kurang 45 kilometer menuju KL Sentral harus rela berdiri karena tidak mendapatkan tempat duduk.

Akhirnya pagi ini Bang Zarmon sibuk mencari dan menawar taksi merah di sepanjang jalanan di KL Sentral untuk membawa kami berlima ke Sepang. Setelah hampir setengah jam, seorang kakek Chinese akhirnya setuju membawa kami dengan deal 80 Ringgit (diluar biaya tol). Si kakek berani juga mengangkut lima penumpang dengan taksi sedan sementara taksi-taksi sebelumnya pada menolak karena tidak mau mengambil resiko ditilang Polis. Sebagai konsekuensinya, kami duduk bersempit-sempit ria di bangku penumpang selama sekitar satu jam. Sesampainya di Sirkuit Sepang kami begitu excited! Kami terus berjalan memasuki gerbang bertuliskan Welcome to 2017 Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix.

Gerbang utama

Dari gerbang utama menuju tribun balap, berjejeran puluhan booth dari perusahaan motor, helm, GoPro, souvenir dan aneka rupa perusahaan yang berkaitan dengan dunia otomotif. Ada kejadian unik yang tidak akan aku lupakan seumur hidup setelah beberapa langkah kami memasuki gerbang utama. Tanpa sadar kami sudah berada di tengah kerumunan orang-orang yang berteriak-teriak nggak karuan. Ada apa ini pikirku. Orang-orang di kiri-kanan kok pada histeris kayak orang gila semua. Pas aku melihat ke tengah sumber kerumunan... O MAY GOWDD!!!! VALENTINO ROSSI!!!!!!
"MAKKK.... VAENTINO ROSSI MAKKKK!!!" aku ikut berteriak histeris ke Mak Kitty.

ASUS Vivobook Flip TP410UR: The Laptop Everybody Wants

Hampir satu tahun terakhir aku ber-dormansi dari dunia blogging. Hal ini bisa dilihat dari sepinya entry blog dan aktivitas blogwalking lainnya. You know what, salah satu alasan utamanya adalah karena laptopku yang bermasalah. Ada kerusakan pada mainboard laptop sehingga suka mati sendiri dan nggak kuat kalau dibawa online. Hingga akhirnya ia benar-benar memasuki masa bebas tugas satu bulan yang lalu dan mewariskan hard disk internal yang harus dikeluarkan dari perut laptop sebagai satu-satunya warisan paling berharga bagiku sebagai pemilik.

So, hampir sebulanan terakhir aktivitasku benar-benar tertatih-tatih dengan meminjam laptop ibu dan adikku sembari hunting laptop baru. Aku mengoleksi brosur katalog laptop dari toko-toko komputer. Memilih laptop memang gampang-gampang susah. Saat ketemu spec yang diinginkan, harganya tidak cocok. Saat ketemu harga yang sesuai dengan budjet, spec nya tidak mumpuni. Jadi bisa diterka dong yaa budjetku tidak banyak-banyak amat namun spec yang dibutuhkan cukup tinggi😗. Hingga suatu hari aku melihat notifikasi di youtube Diana Rikasari yang membuka giveaway laptop Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR. Nah ini dia laptop keren jaman now dengan spec yang aku cari! Seperti apa sih Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR itu..?

 

Picture from ASUS.com 

Disain Stylish
Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR hadir dengan disain elegan dan inovatif karena engsel layarnya yang bisa dilipat 360 derajat dan bertransformasi menjadi 4 bentuk, yaitu 2 mode laptop, tablet dan standing display. Bobotnya hanya 1,6 kg, ketebalannya 14,8 mm dan bodi serupa laptop 13 inci namun bentang layar layarnya touch screen 14 inci dengan resolusi Full HD 1980x1080 piksel. Material utamanya terbuat dari logam yang diberi finishing dengan disain gaya hairline berselimut warna grey, membuatnya kelihatan lebih elegan dan berkelas. Dengan interface super kece sedemikian, siapa sih yang tidak langsung naksir pada pandangan pertama?
Disain ini cocok banget buat aku yang sering mobile dan harus menyiapkan bahan untuk mengajar di kelas, sehingga bisa menggunakan mode laptop untuk mengedit presentasi dan mode tablet saat menyampaikan presentasi. Kalau ingin menonton film tinggal dijadikan standing display. Layarnya yang lebar dengan resolusi Full HD yang tajam bisa membuat satu keluarga bagaikan nonton film di bioskop!

Prosesor, Kapasitas Penyimpanan, Konektivitas dan Baterai
Selain disain interface yang kece, hal yang sebenarnya paling penting dari seperangkat laptop tidak lain dan tidak bukan adalah prosesor. Saya bersyukur Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR tidak hanya lahir dengan disain yang trendi namun juga prosesor yang paling unggul di kelasnya, Intel Core-i7 generasi ke 7, yaitu Intel Core-i7 7500U. Sebelumnya saya tidak begitu ngerti apa itu prosesor yang unggul, namun sejak hunting laptop beberapa minggu belakangan saya mulai paham bahwa prosesor atau brainware atau "otaknya komputer" inilah yang sejatinya kriteria paling penting dalam mencari laptop. Varian Intel Core-i7 memiliki kinerja paling baik dibandingkan dua varian Intel Core yang lain yaitu Core-i3 dan Core-i5. Dengan prosesor Intel Core-i7, laptop memiliki kemampuan untuk menjalankan berbagai program dengan lebih cepat dengan performa multitasking yang lebih baik. Jadi tidak salah jika laptop dengan prosesor Intel Core-i7 umumnya memiliki harga yang lebih tinggi.

Kehebatan prosesor Intel Core-i7 7500U pada Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR ini juga didukung oleh Random Access Memory (RAM) 16 GB, Harddisk Drive (HDD) hingga 1 TB dan Solid State Drive (SSD) hingga 256 GB. Laptop akan bekerja dengan performa yang lebih baik dengan kapasitas program yang lebih besar sehingga tidak gampang lemot atau hang. Bikin gengges nggak kalau lagi asik online di Facebook, sambil download film, sambil edit file presentasi, sambil denger lagu, sambil ngopy file, sambil edit foto, terus harus merevisi data menggunakan program statistik yang terkenal berat, terus tiba-tiba laptopnya lemot, terus hang, terus not responding, terus harus restart, terus semua yang dikerjakan tadi menghilang karena belum tersimpan?? Huaa bisa nangis bombay 😧😧😧. Ini pernah kejadian loh di aku dan bikin trauma banget.
Nah, kira-kira seperti itu gambarannya. Dengan Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR yang memiliki prosesor Intel Core-i7 7500U dan kapasitas RAM yang besar, nggak perlu khawatir lagi dengan performa laptop dalam menjalankan berbagai program yang seringkali harus dikerjakan dalam waktu yang bersamaan. Kapasitas Harddisk hingga 1 TeraByte juga bikin hati tenang untuk menyimpan file, foto dan seluruh koleksi film Bollywood favorit 😉

Soal konektivitas, Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR terdiri dari port USB Type-C(R) yang revolusioner yang terdiri dari satu port USB 3.0, dua USB 2.0 standar dan HDMI untuk koneksi dengan perangkat lainnya serta untuk transfer data dengan kecepatan super.

Hal lain yang bikin aku trauma dari laptop sebelumnya adalah performa baterai yang menurun seiring pemakaian. Bagaimana dengan Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR?
Saat terisi penuh, baterai Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR dapat tahan seharian, sehingga nggak perlu khawatir tidak kebagian colokan. Selain itu, baterai Vivobook Flip dibekali dengan teknologi Asus Battery Health Charging yang memungkinkan pengguna untuk mengatur persentasi pengecasan hingga 60%, 80% atau 100%. Sehingga dapat memperpanjang usia baterai dan mengurangi peluang kerusakan baterai akibat gembung karena dicash terlalu lama.

Windows 10 Original dan Garansi Asus 2 Tahun
Oh ya, salah satu penyebab yang bikin aku maju-mundur beli laptop di store adalah banyak store tidak memberikan perangkat sistem operasi Windows yang asli pada laptop. Jadi, misalnya di brosur dicantumkan harga Rp 7.000.000, namun Windows nya versi trial alias tidak ori. Ketika ditanya, kebanyakan menjawab Windows aslinya tidak tersedia ataupun jika tersedia maka harus menambah bayar lagi sekitar 20% dari harga laptop semula.
Tau sendiri kan, kalau sistem operasi Windows yang tidak asli itu tidak bisa diupdate, tampilan wallpapernya blank, ada watermark di kanan bawah layar yang sangat mengganggu dan rawan crash. Memang harga yang ditawarkan jauh lebih murah tapi tahu nggak dengan menggunakan Windows yang tidak ori, secara tidak langsung kita sudah ikut mendukung praktik pembajakan hak cipta. Kasian kan para engineer Windows sudah susah payah membuat program Windows 10 kita tinggal copy tanpa bertanggung jawab. Maaf yaa para engineer saya pernah pakai yang tidak ori dan saya menyesal karena selama enam tahun harus install ulang Windows sebanyak tiga kali 😓😓. Waktu itu kan saya tidak tahu, sekarang saya sudah tahu dan ingin banget punya laptop dengan Windows original. Makanya ikutan giveaway ini karena laptop Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR ini sudah terinstall Windows 10 ASLI serta ada garansi 2 tahun dari Asus. Bikin tenang deh 💙
Dengan segudang spefisifikasinya yang tidak perlu diragukan lagi, Asus Vivobook Flip TP410UR is a laptop everybody wants!

Semoga aku bisa menang giveaway ini yaa sehingga aku bisa melanjutkan postingan pengalamanku nonton MotoGP Sepang 2017 yang seru banget dan banyak postingan lainnya, seperti pengalamanku cabut gigi bungsu akhir November kemarin, hingga liburan tahun baru di Singapore yang tentunya setiap postingan dipenuhi dengan foto-foto yang kece😉!

Pengalaman Nonton MotoGP 20171! (Part 1)

Akhir Oktober kemarin, untuk pertama kalinya aku nonton langsung balap motor MotoGP di Sepang, Malaysia. Kalau nggak salah ingat, permulaan tercetusnya ide ini sewaktu aku sama temanku chat tentang konser Coldplay di Bangkok dan Singapura. Foto orang-orang yang nonton konsernya (baik dikenal ataupun nggak di kenal) yang wara-wiri di sosial media bikin hati teriris pedih menanggungkan mupeng, hingga akhirnya muncul ide ini. Alhamdulillah, akhirnya Allah memberikan kesempatan buat nonton langsung MotoGP 2017 ini dengan berbagai cerita yang  membuatnya jadi berkesan. So here is my story!

Persiapan: Membeli Tiket Sirkuit, Pesawat dan Hotel

Tiket sirkuit MotoGP adalah tiket yang pertama kami siapkan. Soalnya if anything happens, who knows ya kan, toh tiketnya bisa dijual lagi. Tiketnya kami dapatkan sekitar bulan Juli 2017. Pada awalnya tentu kami survey mengenai lokasi tribun mana yang mau dijadikan lokasi nonton yang seru dengan mendownload map tribun dan browsing di internet. Awalnya aku mau di tribun VR46 sebagai basisnya pendukung Valentino Rossi, tapi temanku yang bernama Armaini (selanjutnya disebut Mak Kitty) pendukung Dani Pedrosa. Doi keberatan dong, lagipula setelah baca-baca blog disebutkan kalau tribun VR46 itu nggak ada atap pelindung dan nggak ada kursi so berabe dong kalau panas kepanasan kalau hujan kehujanan #persoalan. Akhirnya, kami sepakat untuk ambil tiket di tribun Main Grand Stand, yang terletak di trek lintasan lurus pas di depan garis start dan finish.
 

Circuit Map (taken from Google image)

Setelah itu, kami mencari di manakah tiket tersebut bisa dibeli. Aku cek di blibli.com, eh taunya tiket Main Grand Stand udah ludes aja! Aku cek di beberapa web lain, harganya rata-rata di atas Rp 700.000. Singkat cerita, Mak Kitty memesan tiket via teman kantornya yang juga akan nonton MotoGP, yang nanti bakal jadi guide kami nonton MotoGP selama 2 hari penuh. Oya, tiket yang dipesan seharga RM 222 atau sekitar Rp 700.000 an juga lah wkwk.

Tiket sirkuit udah, sekarang booking hotel. Kalau ini, Mak Kitty yang handle soalnya doi baru jalan ke Malaysia bulan April kemarin. Kami berencana stay 3 malam di KL dari hari Jumat malam sampai Minggu malam. Untuk Jumat sampai Sabtu malam, Mak Kitty booking Pacific Hotel di daerah Pasar Seni. Sementara untuk Minggu malam, which is pas banget setelah nonton race MotoGP, kami berencana nginap di bandara karena flight kembali ke tanah air Senin paginya. 

Booking tiket pesawat lain lagi dramanya dan the lesson learn is: pesanlah tiket pesawat jauh hari sebelum hari H balapan kalau perlu satu tahun sebelumnya karena guys, empat bulan sebelum hari H aja rate tiketnya sudah nggak masuk akal bahkan udah ada yang ludes! Kami sendiri termasuk agak lelet dan banyak mikir ini, mikir itu, nanti dulu, undur dulu, pasti besok lebih murah, dll dst hingga akhirnya terpaksa beli tiket pesawat dengan harga yang agak mahal. 

Kalau saya dapat tiket Air Asia PDG-KUL pergi Jumat-pulang Senin pesawat paling pagi semua. Sementara Mak Kitty dapat tiket Air Asia PKU-KUL Jumat pagi, tapi tiket pulang direct flight KUL-PKU untuk hari Senin udah ludes aja sejak kapan tau. Akhirnya untuk pulang Mak Kitty harus muter dulu lewat KNO wkwk. 

Nah jika menyesuaikan dengan jadwal MotoGP, pesan tiket pergi Jumat – pulang Senin sudah cukup ideal. Jumat pagi sampai di KL, siang hingga malamnya bisa jalan-jalan dulu di KLCC, Bukit Bintang dan sekitarnya. Sabtunya nonton kualifikasi, Minggu nonton balap GP, Senin kembali ke tanah air. Jadi cukup ambil cuti kantor dua hari. Tapi kalau menurut saya, pergi Kamis – pulang Senin lebih oke, sehingga dari hari Jumat sudah bisa ikutin sebuah rangkaian acara MotoGP yang tidak bisa saya ikuti hiksss… What is that? Makanya baca terus ceritanya sampai habis yaa!

Oya, satu lagi, pesan saya, for worry free travel, buat perginya gak apa-apa gak pakai bagasi, tapi buat pulang nya pesanlah bagasi. Jangan kayak saya yang jadi nggak beli apa-apa gara-gara gak pesan bagasi hiksss. Gak perlu banyak-banyak, yang 20 kg saja sudah lebih dari cukup. Jadi bisa bawa sedikit cokelat-cokelat, Milo Cubes, teh tarik, sedikit produk-produk skincare, baju kaos VR, baju jalan, selendang, sepatu, assesoris…. Haduhh ini oleh-oleh apa mau kulakan wkwkwk.

Day 1 (Jumat 27 Oktober 2017)

Yeay! Today is the day. Pagi jam sekitar jam 7.30 aku sudah sampai bandara BIM buat menuju KUL. Karena sudah web check in via webnya Air Asia, gak ada halangan berarti yang kutemui saat di bandara. Satu ransel kecil dan tas yang berat total keduanya 8 kg pun tidak dijadikan masalah sama petugas bandara. Fiuhh. Antrian imigrasi sudah cukup ramai dannn… di sini hawa-hawa MotoGP nya sudah mulai berasa. Sama petugas imigrasinya aja aku ditodong secara terang-terangan, “Mau nonton MotoGP yah?” Hihi aku hanya tertawa. Pas di ruang tunggu keberangkatan, hampir semua penumpang mengenakan kaos dan topi pembalap kesayangan. Yang paling banyak siapa lagi kalau bukan Valentino Rossi. Gerimis yang turun saat itu juga bikin beberapa abang-abang berceletuk, “Wah, hujan nih. Rossi pasti menang” dengan percaya diri. 

Setelah satu sekitar satu jam di udara, pesawat tinggal landas di bandara KLIA2. Keluar dari pesawat, penumpang harus jalan jauhhh banget menuju loket imigrasi yang antriannya sudah mengular tangga lagi-lagi oleh orang-orang dengan atribut MotoGP namun kali ini lebih bervariasi tidak hanya atribut kuningnya Rossi, tapi ada yang oranye, merah, biru dan lain sebagainya. Setelah melewati loket imigrasi dan custom, aku keluar dari gerbang kedatangan mencari wifi untuk menghubungi Mak Kitty yang baru akan lepas landas dari PKU pukul 11. Untungnya bandara KLIA2 menyediakan wifi gratis. Bagi yang ingin beli kartu SIM Malaysia bisa membelinya di konter DiGi atau Hotlink yang terletak persis di depan gerbang kedatangan. Kebetulan, aku titip kartu SIM Malaysia DiGi sama Mak Kitty yang dibeli di Dumai seharga Rp 73.000 untuk telepon dan kuota internet 2 GB yang berlaku selama 1 bulan. Lumayan lah bisa update-update untuk 3 hari-an, tapi kalau kamu tergolong narsis tingkat Dewa level di atas Mak Kitty, 2 GB untuk 3 hari tentunya masih kurang >_<

Antrian loket imigrasi -__-

Sekitar 2 jam aku menghabiskan waktu keliling-keliling bandara, mampir di Watson di lantai 3, lalu makan Naan dan minum teh tarik di restoran Quizinn di lantai 2M sebelum kembali lagi ke gerbang kedatangan menjemput Mak Kitty.  

Quizinn Restaurant

Oh ya, ini nih yang bikin aku cukup sedih hari itu. Sewaktu aku masih di ruang tunggu bandara di PDG, Mak Kitty share info kalau rider autograph session alias sesi tanda tangan pembalap itu dilaksanakan hari ini, Jumat mulai dari jam 11.30. Aku cek di facebook Sepang International Circuit, ternyata benar. Info nya baru saja dirilis pada Jumat pagi di laman facebook tersebut. Sementara dari blog-blog yang aku baca sebelumnya, dituliskan kalau rider autograph session itu dilangsungkan pada hari Sabtu pagi sebelum kualifikasi. Jadi lemes dong bacanya. Padahal aku sudah cetak foto-foto pembalap buat dimintai tanda tangan dan sangat menantikan acara itu. Hikss… Yo wis lah ini belum rejeki namanya.

Langsung sedih :"(

Pukul 13.00 aku kembali ke gerbang kedatangan untuk menyambut Mak Kitty. Saat itu kebetulan pas jadwal kedatangan pesawat dari Iran. Penumpang asal Iran yang cantik-cantik bangeet berdatangan silih berganti. Aku sampai bingung men-scan wajah Mak Kitty diantara wajah-wajah cantik itu wkkk. Setelah menunggu sekitar 45 menit dari jadwal landing pesawat pukul 13.10, Mak Kitty dengan raut muka kebingungan muncul secara tiba-tiba di gerbang kedatangan wkwkwkkk.

Waiting for Mak Kitty >_<

FYI, Mak Kitty ini temanku dari SMA, well dari SMP sih tapi pas SMP nggak deket biasa aja. Pas SMA aja kami duduk sebangku. Anaknya baik dan humornya nyambunglah sama aku. Jarang-jarang lho ada yang humornya bisa nyambung sama aku wqqq. Kami naik lagi ke lantai 2M ke restoran Quizinn karena Mak Kitty belum makan, setelah itu kami turun ke level 1 untuk naik Sky Bus menuju KL Sentral. Tiket bus dari KLIA2 menuju KL Sentral seharga RM 12 dibeli terlebih dahulu di konter penjualan tiketnya. Oh iya FYI again, di lantai 1 ini juga terdapat Capsule Hotel tempat kami akan menginap pada malam setelah nonton race MotoGP. 
 

Floor Directory

Sampai di KL Sentral, kami naik LRT ke Pasar Seni, check in hotel, solat, beberes sebentar, lalu jalan ke KL City Gallery terus ke Bukit Bintang buat ketemuan sama temannya Mak Kitty yang bantuin kami beli tiket sirkuit. Kami ngobrol sambil makan di restoran Pakistan bernama Paradise (kalau dilihat dari nama dan penampakan luarnya, restonya terkesan rada-rada gimana gitu, haha) bergaya ambil sendiri yang masakannya lumayan mengobati kerinduanku akan makanan India Utara.

Setelah makan, kami jalan di sekitaran Bukit Bintang. Suasananya ramai sekali oleh orang-orang dengan atribut MotoGP berlalu-lalang. Kios-kios di sepanjang Bukit Bintang yang biasa berjualan souvenir khas Malaysia sekarang berganti jadi berjualan souvenir bernuansa MotoGP mulai dari baju kaos, topi dan lain sebagainya. Terakhir kami mampir ke Sephora. I was quiet excited, karena pas ke Malaysia kemarin belum ngerti apa itu make up high end dan Sephora itu toko apaan wkkk. Cukup puas lah testing-testing lipstick dan produk-produk yang selama setahunan terakhir cuma bisa aku lihat dipakai oleh beauty influencers, seperti Tarte, Benefit, Make Up For Ever, dan juga the new Fenty Beauty. Mak Kitty sempat belanja pinsil alis, sementara aku nggak beli apa-apa. 

@ Sephora Bukit Bintang

Sekitar jam 11 malam barulah kami kembali ke hotel dan beristirahat.  Tomorrow is qualification day. So excited!

To be continued…

Turning 26

Hi guys

I think it's been my longest hiatus since I started this blog, 9 months already! Well, despite all the social media nowadays (yes, I admit that I've been a little into instagram, twitter and facebook lately) my personal defend is that I am no longer connected to internet on my laptop. My laptop has been in serious trouble since the beginning of this year and it gets worst everytime it goes online, so yeah... hopefully I will get a new one soon bcoz honestly I prefer being online trough laptop instead of mobile phone. Just like right now, I am writing this from my mobile phone.

So, the update from my side is that alhamdulillah, I have completed my graduate study on August. All praise to Allah swt who made all this possible. Later I wil write my experience going through all those academic thingy okay.

And.. what else... Yaa that was the major update.. little little update I will surely write as soon.

And yep, as the title said, I am turning 26 today! 

Well, birthday is supposed to be a happy day but this time it felt different. I am feeling sad right now bcoz my cat is sick. She seems to get hit and run accident 2 days ago that caused her cannot walk properly. I have been so sad ever since. She hasn't shown any noticeable improvement, so I am thinking to take her to vet tomorrow. Insya Allah.

This what I am saying... just a few paragraph and I feel sleepy already writing in such small screen and keyboard.

That's all for now guys, and here is sad picture of me of today that I also put on instagram. 

Thank you for reading!

Hello 2017

Hi everyone!

It's been a very little while since my last post.
Happy belated New Year 2017!
May we can achieve what we want to achieve more better than the previous. May God's blessing always be with us. Amin.

So, to kick off this year I have a 1 month field-work office to complete in this January. It is located at a local health office in a rural district northern side of my city. Because of the 110 km distance, I decided to rent a room and stay there from Monday-Friday and go back home on weekend. 2 weeks done, 2 weeks more to go!

Well, things run well and quiet fun there. It was a bit tough at the beginning, as usual when you enter a new environment but things get better by time and you get yourself used to it.

This is a whole new experience for me to tune in to a government organization. I mean, yaa, witnessing how civil servants work and how complicated the bureaucracy is.. it's got me like... Oh My God, please let me work in something I really love and capable so that can live not only my self but also my family and many people, a work that is fulfilled with passionate and hard-worker people without any complicated bureaucracy.

That thing doesn't seem exist unless you really push yourself to build your own company, in whichever field. So, the conclusion is, it is right that government is now vigorously promoting entrepreneurship to the young generation. But I personally think, before the entrepreneurship lesson, all younger people need to master is a certain skills so that with their skillful hands, they're going to be able to develop their skills into business that can live their life and the lives of many, without relying on the government.

xoxo

A Sad Afternoon

So this afternoon I witnessed a cat being hit and run by a car. It happened so fast just right in front of my eyes. A pick-up car ran so fastly when a cat carefully crossed the road. And it happened in second.

Ban mobilnya menggilas si kucing malang, gak tau juga ntah ekor atau badan bagian belakang, tapi bulu-bulu kucingnya jadi tercerabut gitu. Kucingnya masih hidup, terus jalan tersuruk-suruk gitu ke taman pembatas jalan. Gw liat itu mobil sempat memelan sedikit, trus kabur. Gw refleks berhenti dan nepiin motor lalu gw turun ngeliat si kucing malang. Gw aslinya penakut, dengan hati-hati gw deketin si kucing, gw elus-elus badannya, mau gw balik tapi takut. Dia kayak mengeong kesakitan gitu, lidahnya bergetar, bukan karena haus tapi karena kesakitan. Gw kan punya kucing dua, jadi gw tau itu lagi kesakitan bgt. Akhirnya gw balik badannya, alhamdulillah ga ada darahnya. Gak ada luka lah, tapi sedikit bagian tubuhnya jadi botak gara-gara bulunya tercerabut gitu. Bulu-bulunya jg banyak berserakan di sekitar tempat dia tiduran sekarang. Trus gw liat ekornya, eh dari lubang kotoran kyk ada bercak darah gitu... duhhhh gusti...

Trus dia coba jalan, ehh ternyata dia gak bisa jalan. Dua kaki belakangnya gak bisa dibawa jalan, jadinya dia ngesot sambil nyeret dua kaki belakangnya. Kayaknya tadi ban mobilnya ngegilas bagian belakang badannya, soalnya ada bunyi kayak mobil ngegilas batu atau polisi tidur gitu. Ya Allah.... gw mau nangis rasanyaa....

Trus gw belai-belai terus, dianya tetep mengeong dengan nada meringis gitu. Lidahnya masih bergetar-getar. Gw mau kasih minum, gw lupa gw gak bawa botol minum.. duh... biasanya kan gw selalu bawa botol minum ke mana-mana.. duhhhh

Apa yg harus gw lakukan... orang-orang ga ada yg peduli. Ada bapak-bapak yg baru parkir di seberang jalan malah ngomong, udah.. biarin aja..

Dasar gak punya perasaan tu bapak.

Gw kepikiran buat bawa pulang aja tapi... apa ini kucing ada yg punya atau ngerasa punya? Soalnya dia cukup gede dan bulunya lumayan bagus, warna cokelat kekuningan gitu.

Duh.... gimana nihhhh....

Akhirnya gw putusin buat puter balik pake motor ke jalan seberang arah pulang ke rumah, kalo emang gak ada yg peduli gw bawa pulang aja si kucing gw masukin kantong kresek gw abis beli baju tadi.

Pas sampe di seberang jalan, gw cari-cari si kucing kok gak ada... gw berhentiin motor gw cari sepanjang taman pembatas jalan kok gak ada tanda-tandanya. Kalo dia gak bisa jalan kan ga mungkin bisa pergi dengan cepat. Gw sisir lagi sepanjang jalan pake pandangan, gak ketemu. Beberapa bapak-bapak mulai mendekat, dan mobil-mobil mulai rame berseliweran nglakson gw.

Duh..
Dengan berat hati gw pergi meninggalkan TKP.

Dan sepanjang hari tadi gw lemes aja gitu bawaannya, kebayang sama itu kucing..

Cing...
Kalo kamu masih hidup, semoga kamu sehat-sehat ya dan bisa jalan lagi.

Buat driver mobil pick yp putih yang gak bertanggung jawab... ahh... speechless gw...

Super Weird but Sweet Dream

So yesterday was the birthday of my sweet jaan Shah Rukh Khan.

As usual, I wish my jaan on both Twitter and Instagram. If last year I got a reply from SRK's twitter (which was handled by admin or auto-reply due to the promotion of the movie FAN), this year I got a very weird surprise.

Exactly last night, I had a super nice dream in which... I met SHAH RUKH KHAN in person!

I couldn't remember if I ever had the dream of meeting SRK before, but this time it felt so nice and real and a bit emotional.

So it started from a spacious living room in a super luxurious house, there was me and some random people-who all looked tall and elegant like celebrities-having a party kind of event. The two faces I recognized were the stunning Raline Shah and the gorgeous Shah Rukh Khan! (super random right?!)

Suddenly a lady with a veil and sunglasses came in and joined us. When she opened her glasses, we all chocked up realizing that she is Rani Mukerji! Everyone seemed soo happy, even me and some people were a bit teary meeting her (bcoz we all know that Rani Mukerji has always been a very private person).

And then, it's the time for documenting session. We all were moving towards each other to strike pose in front of camera, with Rani Mukerji (whom everyone would like to be close with, including me) in the center. I barely remembered, but I am pretty sure that SRK was somewhere on my left side.

After group photo session's done, everybody was taking personal photo with each other alternately. For me, I took my first photo with SRK. Before taking photo, I wished him Happy Birthday and told how much I adore and really love him OMGGG and he smiled soo generously and looked super happy too. While the photographer was about to click our picture...

Trrit... Trrit.. Trriiit... Trriiirtt...

OMG!

My mobile alarm's ringing!

4 AM in the morning.

I found myself lying in my bed!

Fufufufufufufu.....

Felt soo sad, the picture with SRK was almost clicked!!!

Huhuhuhuhu....

It was a dream.

But a super sweet one and it felt sooo freaking real!

OMG

I only pray to Allah that it will become true one day. Amin. That's one of my bucket lists.

Btw, it feels just like tomorrow when my Happy Birthday tweet got a reply by Shah Rukh Khan last year. How time flies, right?

Happy 51 Birthday my hero, my jaan Shah Rukh Khan.

Turning 25

I am turning 25 today. Alhamdulillah. All praise to Allah for all the beautiful blessings in life especially for the health, good food, good shelter to live, loving family and friends and precious chance for me to live my life a year more. Hopefully I can always improve my life each and everyday towards a better way. Amin. 

As usual... Birthday picture of the birthday girl

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Missing Doraemon

Hi everyone.

It's 3.50 AM in the morning and I just finished my powerpoint presentation for today's class. Hopefully it's running well.

It's Sunday today and to be honest I do not like having class in Sunday bcoz it makes me have to skip 2 activities I always look forward to every Sunday morning; jogging/working out and watching Doraemon.

Been missing my Doraemon in the past few weeks, hopefully next Sunday I will be able to meet my Doraemon.

Have a nice Sunday everyone!

Just A Sorrow of A Night

Hi all
Hope you're doing well, but unfortunately I feel quiet sad now.
11.29 PM now and still couldn't sleep, something very unusual for an early riser like me.

You know, as a woman, a single woman to be more precise, life gets hard as you reach the phase of adulthood. And today I just experienced one of the worst things that promotes my sleep disturbance tonight. Hopefully it'll last just for tonight, okay.

Well, I have normally never felt any kind of jealousy, envy or a chronic level of galau when it comes to people asking me (mostly on a wedding or family event) about: "Ayye sweety, so...  when is your turn?" , "Oo Siti, we cannot wait to see yours next" , "Is there any candidate yet? I know someone that might be matching to you" , bla bla, etc.

Sometime I think I might be a heartless woman who has never been offended by all those rhetorical questions or those kind of jokes. Well.. some guys come and go, just like that. Every relative introduced me to a nice guy, exchanged our numbers, then we had a little texting, and then BUM! All gone with the wind. And the cycle runs the exact that way with some guys. Ended up just like that. Well, I--honestly consciously and sincerely--AM totally fine with all that. Really. No galau-galau or anything. I swear. My parents were... okay, mom was a bit exciting with some but she's just turned out okay too. No probs. While my dad was really cool about it. He has never interfered me when it comes to that kind of thingy.

But today.. I feel extremely mentally died. Here is the short version of the story:

One of my relatives tried to "match-making" me with a guy. He comes from a not-so-far relative of the matchmaker. The mobile number exchanged, that guy started SMS me few days ago, then we talked in mobile for a good 1,5 hours. He sound nice. Okay. He has already seen my pix sent by a relative, while I have never seen him nor his picture. When asked, he said that his android mobile was broken that he couldn't send any pict yet. Okay. No probs.

There hasn't been any conversation nor a single SMS between us for a few days after that phone-call up to this day. Okay. Well, I can say that I was busy to attend my first classes in college on the usual weekend schedule. Little did I thought about that guy, he might be busy too. FYI, he runs a shop by himself, a.k.a an entrepreneur. Okay. Having never seen a single pict of him just made me feel all flat.

So, far before that guy sent me the first SMS, the matchmaker already warned me to say this and that, not to say this and that, to be warm and friendly, in conclusion: be a nice girl. Okay.

After the first day of SMS-ing, the matchmaker again warned me to be more warmer, do not late to reply the SMS. Okay.

On the evening after the first 1,5 hour mobile conversation, the matchmaker sound soo extremely excited. Okay. That's a good thing.

During the few hiatus days of the absence of SMS and mobile call, the matchmaker kept asking me, how's it going on? What? He didn't SMS you? No call? So you send a SMS first, lah. Just pretend to text, "Assalamualaikum abang, how are you today? How's the shop?" and all possible types of cheesy text.

I remained still for a few days, not sending anything at all. I don't know, I might be shy but I just don't feel comfortable to do that. Additionally, I didn't know how he looks so what to expect? And the most terrible part is, the matchmaker has also never seen that guy too! Duh! So what is the point of all this?

Well, okay, it is rumored, based on the info the matchmaker got from the guy's parents, that he is a nice guy, has already owned his own shop, just bought a car, basically in 10 words: a settled young entrepreneur who is seeking for a wife. Okay.

This morning the matchmaker asked me again, how's it? I said, still nothing going on. In the investigating voice the matchmaker asked me, what was the last topic you both talked about? I replied, just normal kind of topic, family, activities and all that. It sound okay.

This afternoon the matchmaker asked me again for the second time of the day, the exact same question. Well, I think I am quiet patient by nature but this time I started feel irritated. I tried to reply the same thing with a nice tone, showing my respect to the matchmaker the way I respect my parents. So after talking this and that, the matchmaker then started to sound discredited me.

"There are only 1/3 male population in this earth now, thus we need to select a good one too. So please lah, you start SMS him. What is the big deal? No need to shy about sending 1 hi/hello SMS. The man side will also be happy if you're becoming a warm girl too. If you want something you need to give your effort to get it too. Do something about it. I know the place where that guy lives. You can ask, assalamualaikum, tok.. tok.. tok... like knocking door, asking about food there. Make some jokes about this and that. But don't ask sensitive questions like, how many shops do you own? Do not do that! Ask more about religious thingy, bla, bla"

I calmly tried to reply, "My respectful matchmaker, let it goes naturally. It is all about the feeling. Well, I have never seen any of his pix neither have you. So I didn't want to start any of that flirting thingy coz I don't know how he looks. Look doesn't really matter for me but doesn't mean that's not important too. Meanwhile I felt a bit shy too"

"Well if you kept your shy attitude then it's up to you. You know that it's not easy to find a nice man to be a husband nowadays? You have studied in UI for that long, then why can't you get a nice one in the pool of intelligent, excellent men that time? Then comes A, B, C, D, the list goes on.. then all just ended up like that? Look at these your girl cousins, you want to get married at the emergency age like them (27-29)? Look at that aunty, 40+ already but she's so selfish, no wonder she is still single until now! So after few hiatus days, make your first move now. Go SMS him!"

My breath choked. I tried to respond calmly till the conversation ended. I grabbed my mobile texting SMS to that guy while... few drops of tears coming down my face. My hands trembled. SMS sent. I started sobbing, crying like a crazy. My whole body shaked. I felt like my heart just got hit so hard that it fallen down to the floor. I felt like all things I've done and I've been progressing have gone to waste coz the only thing matters now is to get married. Married. Married. Married. Everything else is useless. My education, my degree, is all useless. I cried with chocked breath for a good 1 hour I guess. My eyes got swollen, my face turned red. I felt so ugly inside out.

After a few hours, all tears shed, I felt little light.
My parents came and I told them everything. I felt much lighter knowing that my parents are all supportive of my on-going education, to finish what I have started first before committing to anything else.

For the matchmaker, thank you so much for the kind-hearted attention to introduce me to a guy. I really appreciate that, deep from my heart.

But as for what's been happening from the past few days: all the interrogation kind of questions and the dictate of scripted words to say to that guy that really contradicts to my nature and has made me feel beyond bad about my self, I think it's time to dismiss this matchmaking. The decision is final on my behalf.

Independence Day

So today I find this short clip from my all-time favorite movie, Veer-Zaara, on Twitter and it reminds me with one of my initial reasons to visit India in 2013... 3 years ago... how time flies... fiuh..

One of the best scene in "Veer Zaara" 🇮🇳
BHARAT KI SHAAN SHAH RUKH KHAN pic.twitter.com/QjAJVHtetl

— SRK Universe (@SRKUniverse) August 15, 2016

Happy Independence Day India!

Jai Hind!

Maternal Instinct

So my class today was very insightful.
The lecturer is already retired but is still requested to teach in the classroom bcoz he is one of a few experts in nutritional field. Today we discussed about the importance of good nutrition intake on the first 1000 days of life of a human, starting from the embryo until a 2 year old baby.

For preggie mommy, the connection you build with your baby since the day you know that you're pregnant is something very crucial that will be going on until the breastfeeding time. Wherever you go, you always think about breastfeeding your child, so that your milk gland will automatically be filled. This thing builds an attachment between you and your baby until the end of time. And health-wise, the babies that got exclusive breastfeeding are proven to be healthier and have good immunity.

It's been a long while since the last time I think about "having family" stuffs and today, I just did. And I realized, it is an incredibly beautiful thing.

I remember one day, around last year, I boarded commuter line in Jakarta. Sitting beside me was a young lady carrying her little baby, peacefully sleeping on her leap. Suddenly, I felt like I was hit by an electric shock right on the left side of my chest. And you know what... that little cutie baby was touching my boobs! She woke up, stretching her little fingers trying to reach my boobies. Maybe she felt thirsty and thinking that mine would get her thirst fulfilled. Her mom smiled graciously, taking her baby's hands off my boobies. "Ooops, that's aunty. That's aunty. Here's mommys".

pict taken from google image

OMG I felt really awkward and had no idea what to feel; embarrassed, happy, angry, joy, or maybe @*#&^^.

I think that sudden, simple touch of the baby on that right spot has activated some parts of my brain. And I felt like, I wanna have a cute baby and breastfeed too. Yep, I guess that's what is called as the maternal instinct. Today's class just gave me a reminder of that beautiful thing.

July's Update

Assalamualaikum all
It's been quiet a long while since my last post. Please excuse the hectic of Ramadan, Eid and all college stuffs in the past 1 month. Since it's still in the month of Syawal (day 15 already), let me express my Eid greetings, Happy Eid Mubarak 1427 H to all my readers. May Allah's blessings always be with us. Ameen.

So what's going on in life?

This Ramadan was quiet sad for me coz I lost one of my uncle due to some  illness, he is the husband of my father's late older sister. Just 2 days after that uncle's gone, my paternal grandfather, the father of my father, passed away at the age of 100 years old due to some illness as well. Alfatihah for them. May Allah place them in the best place on His side. Aamen.

Okay. So right on the very last day of Ramadan... guess what...? I accidentally got the chance to click a picture with Mr. President! That evening I was visiting market with my parents until we saw the president's official car parked in front of a department store. As we all know, Mr.President decided to celebrate first day of Eid in my town, didn't really know if it was political agenda or whatever. So, seeing that Indonesia 1 car with lots of security officers, we decided to take pict with that car. After asking permission from officers, we took some pict and of course I didn't want to miss a selfie lah.

I am a little tacky and I know it!

Long story short, we then realized that Mr. President is in tha house yo! Along with the crowds, we greeted Mr. President and my mom was quiet lucky to be called by Mr. President himself to take some pict. When I was going to take pict of my mom, one security officer let me to follow my mom to strike a pose with Mr. President! He took my mobile and clicked our pict. Yeayness!

Not really a fan of JKW to be very honest, nevertheless still I respect him as the leader of this nation

Btw my face was highly outshined by the sunlight! *hufft*

So 1 week after Eid, my cousin got married. As I consider her as my closest cousin, for the first time I feel a bit melancholy to witness her wedding ceremony. Deep inside my heart, I don't know, I started to dream of my own too (you know what I mean).

And oh yaa, just 2 days after Eid, I got a confirmation email for the abstract that I submitted to attend a conference in Japan got accepted. Alhamdulillah... So happy! Doraemon I am comiing!!

Confirmation: I am not a Dr yet

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The euphoria of going to Japan didn't last long. I was shocked that I wouldn't be able to get the funding sponsorship from my college. Well, after some long-ass consideration I decided to dismiss the chance this time. A bit sad, but I believe one day I will visit Japan for more cool purpose for sure.

Yeap. I guess that's pretty much it.
Hope you're having a nice day.

Thank you for reading.

OMG Saina Nehwal Retweeted Me on Twitter!!!

Mannn this is the second time twitter left me hyperventilated!!

As said on the title... The Queen of Badminton from India, Saina Nehwal, RETWEETED me on Twitter OMG!!!

It is BCA Indonesian Open Super Series tournament going on in Jakarta right now. As a Badminton loverz, I get myself updated on twitter. So when seeing at this tweet last night...:

Dibilang Cantik, Nehwal Tersipu Malu #IndonesiaSSP #EaaForIndonesia

Selengkapnya: https://t.co/ys7k1o3qIV pic.twitter.com/vYV1ASGCyS

— Djarum Badminton (@DjarumBadminton) May 31, 2016

... I decided to translate it to English and mentioned it to Saina.

Cc: @NSaina "Being called pretty, Nehwal blushed" #IndonesiaSSP https://t.co/UaNVCFNwhD

— siti_masyitah (@smasyitah) May 31, 2016

It only took a few minutes until I couldn't believe to what I saw on my notification...

Say whaaattt...

Go go go Sainaaaa!!! Bring back the gold medal home! 
Meeting you in person has been one of my bucket lists. See you in very soon!

Movie Review: Kapoor and Sons

Hi everyone!

Kali ini aku mau review film Bollywood yang masih terhitung baru, Kapoor and Sons. Jadi ceritanya mau manfaatin bonus kuota internet, sayang kan kalo gak dipake sebelum masa aktifnya habis. Browsing-browsing review film Bollywood yang kayaknya seru, akhirnya aku sampai pada dua pilihan: ABCD 2 dan Kapoor and Sons. Pilihan pertamaku jatuh pada ABCD 2 ehh... ternyata download link-nya broken. Yasudah jadinya download Kapoor and Sons deh!

Film ini bercerita tentang keluarga Kapoor yang terdiri dari Kakek (diperankan oleh Rishi Kapoor), Ayah (Rajat Kapoor), Ibu (Ratna Pathak), putra pertama Rahul (Fawad Khan) dan putra bungsu Arjun (Sidharth Malhotra). Sang putra pertama, Rahul adalah penulis novel yang karirnya mulai menanjak di London. Sementara sang adik, Arjun, yang tinggal di Amerika bekerja paruh waktu sebagai bartender sambil berjuang menemukan jati diri dan pekerjaan yang cocok dengan passion-nya. Suatu hari Rahul dan Arjun menerima kabar bahwa sang Kakek terkena serangan jantung dan dilarikan ke rumah sakit. Keduanya lalu memutuskan pulang ke India untuk menjenguk sang kakek. 

Selama di rumah, alih-alih menemukan ketenangan, selalu saja terjadi pertengkaran baik antara Ibu dan Ayah maupun antara Rahul dan Arjun. Suatu hari Arjun bertemu dengan Tia (Alia Bhatt) di sebuah pesta dan diam-diam menaruh hari padanya. Tak disangka, Rahul yang sedang mencari villa juga bertemu dengan Tia, yang tak lain adalah pemilik villa yang akan ia sewa. Pesta ulang tahun Kakek Kapoor yang ke-90 akhirnya mempertemukan Rahul, Arjun dan Tia untuk pertama kali. Di pesta yang sama, pertengkaran antara ayah dan ibu Kapoor juga memuncak. Apakah yang kemudian terjadi? Akankah kebahagiaan kembali menghampiri keluarga Kapoor?

Wheww.. You know what, that's pretty much what I watched from the trailer, but when I watch the movie till the end... tears exploding guys! Really! Seriously! Udah nonton sampai 3 kali juga sesegukannya nggak ketulungan!

Akting dari aktor-aktornya superb! Mulai dari senior actor Rishi Kapoor dengan prostetic makeup yang membuatnya jadi 30 tahun lebih tua, Ratna Pathak yang keren banget memainkan ibu yang emosional dan tentu saja duo cowok kece yang menjadi magnet terkuat kaum hawa pencinta Bollywood: Fawad Khan dan Sidharth Malhotra sebagai the most good looking brothers on earth. Alia Bhatt juga cute banget walaupun cukup emosional juga.

Finally, baru kali ini nonton drama keluarga Bollywood yang diperankan aktor-aktor muda yang ceritanya keren pake banget banget banget. Walaupun yaahh.. banyak smoking scenes which I really hate, the value of the movie is a gem! So if you're having a rough time in your family then this is a movie for you. Really seriously, it is a must watch! That's all I can say.

Thank you for reading!

Wedding Marathon

Hi everyone

The past few weeks I had been so busy with the weddings going on in the family. There are 3 of my cousins tying the knot starting from the middle of March, April, and the early of May.

I am so happy for all of them. Wishing them a happy married life forever. Ameen.

One of a very few pictures of myself. I was on duty to be photographer in every wedding so yeahh the consequences was I wouldn't appear much in photos :"(

And oh yaa, the last wedding was held in Tanjung Pinang so...

"Once a year, go some place you've never been before." Dalai Lama.

Yes! Done done!

I took that quote too seriously bcoz I consider last year, 2015, as the most boring year bcoz I didn't travel to any new place.

Okay.. So I took flight to Batam from my city for just 1 hour flight and then from Batam I took ferry ride for 1 hour too and voila.. I landed in Tanjung Pinang!

Tanjung Pinang is a nice city. It's occupied a small island called Bintan Island so it is surrounded by sea on its every edge. The weather is nice and not hot at all. The food is awesome too! You'll find a lot of fresh sea food. When I visited a relative's house they served lots of big fresh prawn dish, my favorite! And on the wedding as well, the catering served big fresh prawn dish too. I forgot to ask one aunty how much the price od prawn per kilo here, but I guess it's not as costly as my place.

We also went to eat out on an open-air food courts nearby the shore and there were lots of variety of food to choose, from Chinese food (both Halal and non-Halal), Javanese food, Melayu food, sweets, etc etc.

One of my uncle who once lived in Tanjung Pinang for 4-6 years told us that Tanjung Pinang is also known as 1000 kedai kopi or 1000 coffee shops bcoz there are lots of coffee shops around. I think it's bcoz drinking coffee and hanging out in coffee shops have become a habit of Melayu people.

Other than Tanjung Pinang, Batam is quiet hotter in temperature but is more advance and modern. Would love to explore more of Batam (read: to shopping) in future bcoz this time we landed here for transit only.

Not much pict taken, which I really regret. Sorry guys I just don't know I didn't remember to click any pict, even a random one #bloggerfailed

At Pelabuhan Punggur, Batam 

En route back to Batam from Tanjung Pinang

In a Masjid in Batam

That's all blog-worthed photos that I took.

Thank you for reading!

Workout workout!

Found these fun workout videos and been practicing them for the past few days.

The best ways to get sweating and cardio I have ever done so far! The sweat I released in 10 minutes doing these workouts is way much more than sweat I released when doing 10 minutes of running.

I love the choreography, I love the musics. Very recommended for those who want to get fit in the beat of Bollywood!

And... adding the Belly Dance for cooling down wouldn't hurt.

Happy workout!

Pengalaman Belanja di Bukalapak.com

Hi everyone!

Tepat satu hari setelah memposting my wishlist, aku memesan 1 unit meja portable Table-Mate di Bukalapak.com. Sebenarnya di Lazada atau Tokopedia juga ada, tapi setelah diliat-liat lagi, yang di Bukalapak ini harganya cukup oke (bukan yang paling murce loh yaa) dan setelah membaca review-review pembeli, pelapak (yang punya barang jualan) ini keliatan trusted gitu.

Setelah pemesanan komplit, aku langsung bayar aja pakai internet banking mumpung lagi online soalnya males buka laptop lagi nanti cuma buat bayar doang. Setelah melakukan pembayaran disebutkan kalau dalam 4x24 jam pelapak belum melakukan pengiriman, uang akan dikembalikan. Oh.. Ok, bagus juga sistem berjualannya. Uangnya di keep dulu sama Bukalapak, nanti baru dikasih ke pelapak setelah mengirimkan barangnya ke pembeli. Sebagai pembeli, saya merasa lebih secure dari kekhawatiran barangnya nggak dikirimin sama penjual.

Tunggu punya tunggu, sampai 4x24 jam belum ada konfirmasi apa-apa dari Bukalapak. Kebetulan hari ke-empat dari pemesanan adalah hari Jum'at tanggal 25 Maret, bertepatan dengan tanggal merah hari Paskah. Pagi hari Jumat pas buka email, ada konfirmasi kalau pembeliannya dibatalkan karena tidak ada konformasi dari pelapak. Di bawahnya dikasih option untuk  pencairan uang.

Setelah pikir-pikir sebentar, akhirnya aku pilih option pencairan uangnya. Agak males juga ribet buat nyari-nyari barangnya di pelapak lain. Lagipula, setelah liat-liat review meja Table-Mate, kok kayaknya mejanya rada ringkih dan gak begitu kuat ya?

Nah, untuk pengembalian uangnya, nanti dikasih form untuk mengisi nama bank dan nomor rekening pengembalian uangnya. Untuk beberapa bank pengembalian uangnya gratis, tapi untuk beberapa bank lainnya dikenakan biaya transfer antar-bank (Rp.6500 kalo nggak salah) yang dipotong dari uang belanja kita. Setelah mengisi form tersebut, kita tinggal tunggu pencairan uang kita yang diproses dalam waktu 1x24 jam hari kerja. Waktu itu aku dikasih notifikasi kalau proses pencairan uang di bank yang aku pakai lagi maintanance karena ada gangguan, jadi mungkin bisa memakan waktu lebih dari 24 jam.

Oh.. yo wis lah. Yang penting uangnya kembali aja, mau 1-2 hari nggak masalah.

Sore harinya, masih di hari Jumat tanggal merah itu, aku buka email lagi, dan dapat notifikasi kalau pencairan dananya sudah berhasil! Aku langsung cek rekening dan memang benar sudah ada kredit. Uangku kembali utuh tanpa ada potongan sepeserpun!

Wow! Salut sekali sama Bukalapak. Sistemnya bagus dan secure banget buat belanja online. Nggak heran kalau Bukalapak jadi perusahaan sebesar ini. Dua jempol deh buat Bukalapak.com.

Side note:
Alhamdulillah mulai hari ini aku bisa buka laptop pakai meja lungsuran dari kamar ibuku. Meja kayu biasa aja, tapi kuat dan nyaman. Tingginya pas, nggak bikin punggung sakit dan ada tempat buat naroh kakinya. Jadi sekarang uangnya bisa aku save untuk keperluan.... perpanjang paspor!

Ihiiiyyyy... I am going to travel soon, Insya Allah ^^. Doain yah supaya jadi dan lancar-lancar semuanya!

Thank you for reading!

Headache

Today is national holiday but why oh why I got headache????
Would love to go outside to get sweating and breath some fresh air but... just not in a good mood -__-"

Cuma Kamu (Only You)

Can not stop playing over this song despite it brings tsunami onto my eyes.
Mrs Rita Sugiarto is just killing it!