LalaDanilela

Inspired by "things that defines this decade" made by medias, I decided to list the big events of my life this decade. 2010: handle foodstore di Coke (tak terlupakan seumur hidup) kemudian jadi sarjana ekonomi 2011: ketemu Pimes, keterima di Manchester Uni 2012: dpt MSc, mulai handle Blessing 2013: ke Bangkok sm Kiki Fari, mulai kerja di UKIP, lamaran 2014: menikah, hamil anak pertama 2015: melahirkan Dayen 2016: sempat stay di Soroako dan Kolaka Utara ikut Pimes, Pimes jadi SpB! 2017: memulai kehidupan di Sampit, jadi sekjur, ke Korea 2018: akreditasi FE UKIP, ke USA, hamil anak kedua, Disa lahir! 2019: Pimes masuk vaskuler, resign dari UKIP, masuk jadi dosen UNHAS And to everypart of it, I thank God the almighty ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Tahun ini adalah tahun pertama saya resmi menjadi dosen di alamamater tercinta, Universitas Hasanuddin. So these days, I drive and walk to the school I was attending for four years. Makes me feel so happy, happier than I thought I would be. :) Anyway. Karena tahun ini ada keluarga yang lagi sibuk berjuang untuk masuk ptn, saya jadi teringat sama masa-masa perjuangan PMB dulu juga wwkwkwk. Nostalgia ah. Saya masuk kelas 3 SMA tahun 2005. Di saat itu, saya tergabung dalam "Genk Mati Lampu". Isinya sepupu-sepupu yang sudah kuliah, baru mau kuliah. Bogi, Dala, Wiwi, Franklin, dan saya. We called ourselves genk mati lampu karna zaman itu makassar seriiiing sekali mati lampu. Kalo sudah mati lampu mi, sibuk saling sms minta dijemput karna panas di rumah mau cari ac ato jalan2 ahahahahaha. Lanjut. Tahun 2005 itu, Dala, Bogie, dan Franklin sudah kuliah. Saya dan Wiwi bersiap untuk SPMB (sistem penerimaan mahasiswa baru) untuk 2006. Maka kaka Bogi, the most burenk of us all, mem...

Sejak punya mertua yg tinggal di Bekasi, saya dan anak-anak jadi rutin datang ke Jakarta. Kali ini saya cuma mau tulis kegiatan selama disini. As per usual, saya suka lupa foto di mall sama Pimes dan anak-anak. By the way, ke Jakarta kurang lebih seminggu sebelum Idul Fitri itu sangat recommended! Jalanan lengang luar biasa! ❤️❤️ Sabtu: tiba di Jakarta, langsung ke Bekasi, Union MKG sama Arin, Eston, dan om Karel. Minggu: gereja di Tongkonan, foto keluarga, makan di Aeon. Senin: Nike FO, Living Plaza, One stop baby, Pempek tahu Gaby Selasa: Aladdin, Fanpekka Rabu: drakor, milk, and cookies Kamis: Ancol’s sea lion, dolphins, Seaworld Jumat: baby massage, baby swim, kids bubble bath, mama spa Sabtu: Grand Indo with the Jatbens. Putri Kenanga, Food Hall, Aldo, Smiggle, The Grand Duck King Minggu: GKI Gunsah, Born-Ga, MKG Senin: Pindahan, Central Park Selasa: Kota Kasablanka Rabu: XXI metropole, Sate Senayan Kamis: Monas, Grand Indonesia - Ikkudo Ichi Jumat: Ya Udah Bistro, Mall Taman Angg...

Next April would mark our fifth anniversary. Anyone who has been through the process of wedding preparation would know how hectic and crazy weddings really are. I, like many other brides, became a bridezilla. It was pretty intense. But in the end, the celebration was lovely, we had fun, (most of the) pictures were amazing. One guest actually said that it was the biggest and most elaborated wedding he has ever attended lol. No, our wedding was big alright, but it was far from being the biggest ever. That guest was Japanese, a friend of my bestfriend. May be in Japan, people rarely invite thousands of people? Well in makassar many many many many people do. The first thing we did was to book the venue. We did that right after Pimes and his parents came to meet me and my parents to formally propose. Afterward was the extended family proposal and introduction. As per tradition, the groom-to-be and his extended family visit the house of the bride-to-be for ceremonious proposal and get in...

Adalah: Iya Tidak Belum

I made a blogpost of countries that I have visited. One of them is Australia. Went there two times. Once when I was one year old and my grandfather was an education attaché for Indonesian Embassy. I have zero recollection of my time there, but my mother, aunties, and uncles have lots. Stories to follow. The second time I went there when I was in third grade, age 8. My father took three (?) months course in a hospital in Sydney and/or Canberra. Aunt Telly still worked in Canberra there, so we stayed at her place. My memory of this vacation was blurry, obviously. We visited Sydney Opera House, shopping centres, zoo, and aquarium. Mother purchased a christmas tree then, the one we still use to this day. It's still in the living room at this very moment, which reminds me that I need to take it down soon. It's already February! What else I remember from this visit. Food, I remember eating kangaroo meat (or so my father told me). Also ate a lot of nasi goreng with peas in them. ...

Now that I'm 30 and have recently bore my second child, I came to a epiphany that, if God's willing, in time I'd grow even older. If He'd allow, I'd go through more stages in life, gain more experiences. And looking back, He has allowed me to experience countless events - some of which are life changing, encounter people of many background and characters, visit numerous places, and so on. And if I don't write it down, I might forget all of them in the future. I keep a habit of writing diaries since I was a kid. Sadly, I've lost my elementary school diary. Can you even imagine what kind of silliness I wrote as a kid?? I still have my junior high until university diary, and they are ALL cringe-worthy. But still, I enjoy reminiscing when reading them. Those diaries entries makes me grateful for the lessons I learnt, they makes me regret for the friends I've lost contact with, and sometimes they make me crazy. The last part is because I liked to write song...