Tuesday, March 11, 2025

If only I were less pathetic..

Then I wouldn’t have to find happiness externally, through projection to pop culture and celebrities.

Then I would have experienced more of real life that people are talking about

Then I would not be proud of things that someone else did

Then I would not be ashamed of things that someone else did

Then my happiness would not rely on others

Then I wouldn’t be that friendless loser who spent her time fangirling shameful things

Then I wouldn’t be that friendless loser

Then I wouldn’t view myself as a friendless loser

Then I would have more people understanding me

Then I would have more people accepting me



Then I would have various peer group from all walks of life and not be awkward around people

Then I would be more confident

Then my confidence would not rely on my pride

Then I would have more love from others


Then something this trivial wouldn’t be my source of happiness for the past 10 years.

Then something this trivial wouldn’t harm me this much


…………………

Let there be light at the end of this tunnel. Let this tunnel end. Please.

 Well, life update.


The second half of 2024 sucks big time, mainly due to housing and financial issues. It’s pure bad luck to get a shitty landlord. The worst of luck.

Indirectly it affects the effort I can put out for my job application. Which has not been fruitful until now.

I’m doing my best and grabbing the closest opportunity that I can grab to learn and putting my foot in the front door of the new career direction that I’ve meant to take, but I don’t think it’s enough.

I desperately need money, to pay rent, to pay for my apartment back home, to make sure that my parents don’t worry too much.

I’ve cried multiple times due to all of those. The toxic landlord, the financial loss, and rejections from all the job-hunting effort.

Lastly, tonight I cried because not only I had to let go a part of me for more than 10 years, but also because that part of me sucks. By “part of me”, meaning an identity cultivated from a fandom that I’ve been a part of since 2011, a drama that change my life, a song that meant a lot. An intersection of my life’s pride and stability that has revolved around an actor, whose work and presence has been saving my life multiple times. I don’t know what to make of it. This feels like a cherry on top of other happenings in my life. It is disorienting and quite devastating.


If there is a silver lining, or things that I’m still grateful of, it would be my parents, my core family. Their visit on December kept me living life. Kept me going. I wish I have more time with them physically in this world. I wish to finish my quest in London / UK as soon as I can, to be financially healthy again, pay them back, make them happy, and then spend my time with them - maybe through a remote job? If my apartment installment finishes, maybe I could take some months resting from the rent. Maybe?

I still want to change the world, but as I didn’t have any outlook on what that would be like career-wise at the moment, I don’t have any plans or dreams. Long story short, I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. But, I feel like time will tell and let me know if the steps that I take in front of me is the right one or not. I feel like I can only keep going. I want the universe to tell me if there’s anything that I should change. And I want to find myself and be happy again… 

Words is the most powerful form of action

 It gets crystallized, articulated clearly, contextualized, felt, conveyed, simple.


My most unpopular opinion would be: "Words speak louder than actions." Someone can always do any action if they have the means to do it. Also, they might consider some actions 'responsibility' or 'requirements' to the roles they perform.

Meanwhile conveying the 'true' words, the sincere ones, require vulnerability and bravery, trust and maturity. Everyone can act if they want (and capable) to, but not everyone can say the words. Words is the most powerful actions you could do, and have

Words stay longer in the hearts, words feeds into someone's emotion, words hurt like no other. Words can be written and crystallized. Words are beautiful.


-April 5th 2024, just published now

Monday, April 1, 2024

Halo dari London!

Apa kabar haha

Sekarang udah S2.

Kaget banget nggak ada tulisan apapun di tahun 2023, padahal tahunnya cukup eventful. Rekap hidup sampai sekarang, grak.

Gue dapet kuliah di kampus keren dan keluar negri, ke Longdon hehe. Kampusnya membuat gue merasa hal-hal yang sebelumnya tidak mungkin jadi mungkin, dan kasih makan idealisme yang sebenarnya sudah aku punya sejak dulu. Tapi itu perasaanku di Autumn Term, mostly. Di Winter term, aku dihadapkan dengan kenyataan kalau ternyata idealisme ini cuma bisa ada dalam lingkaran tertentu aja yang belajar tentang ini, bukan orang biasa. Sayangnya jadi subjek yang paling tidak dipedulikan orang lain pada umumnya. Lagi berjuang bagaimana caranya supaya api ini masih bisa dijaga. Karena kalau tidak dijaga, kayaknya guenya yang runtuh bersama apinya. 

Resign dari kantor - happy karena menyadari seberapa banyaknya gue disayang orang. Rasa happy-nya mirip sama pas wisuda (dapat banyak bunga dan kata-kata sayang), tapi bedanya ini ada sedihnya dan takutnya juga. Sedih karena merasa kehilangan komunitas dan support system. Takut karena ngga punya high paying and fulfilling job lagi (menurut standar aku)

Hampir jadian serius sama orang, yang ternyata malah huge HUGE red flag that I actually dodge - ini di awal tahun 2023, tapi rasanya kayak belum lama karena itu jadi pengalaman terakhir yang membekas dan actually traumatis. Quite sucks karena traumanya masih sampai sekarang. Ini cukup menyedihkan sih. Tapi rasanya there's not much I can do... entah. The worst that actually happen is how that weakens my faith in love and how it hurts my pride. Tapi gue ngerti salahnya dimana, salah dari menurunkan standard dan nggak mendengarkan guts feeling. Salah banget ya Allah. Untuk pertama kalinya hubungan romansaku diakhiri dengan disgust instead of longing. Mau move on dari anger dan disgust ini ke something new, Tuhan.

Punya mimpi dan idealisme baru. Pengen lebih banyak ngelakuin hal baik untuk banyak orang. Pengen kerja di tempat yang baik sama dunia dan punya orang-orang yang baik sama dunia juga di dalamnya. Paling nggak, yang punya intensi baik, atau ya orang-orangnya baik cukup sih. Mimpi besarnya pengen jadi petinggi di NGO, dan United Nations aka PBB Tuhan. Pengen berdampak pada dunia, pengen meninggalkan jejak baik, punya legacy, mengubah dunia jadi lebih baik, mengubah orang jadi lebih baik. Lebih punya empati dan lebih mau peduli. Jujur merasa naif banget, telat punya mimpi ini sekarang. Somehow mimpinya juga berasa childish untuk umur segini? Karena udah pushing 30, harusnya udah lebih ngerti how the world works dan nerima aja. Tapi entah kenapa malah punya dorongan kuat untuk jadi rebel dan beda sendiri. Yang tentunya bikin pusing.

Krisis. Merasa sedih, hopeless, helpless, dan frustrasi karena dunia dan orang-orang sekitar ngga punya pemahaman yang sama tentang apa yang baik dan tidak baik. Standard moralnya rasanya beda. Krisis ini secara langsung ataupun tidak langsung berpengaruh ke hubungan dengan teman (jadi susah vulnerable karena merasa beda sendiri dan tidak dimengerti) dan ke keterbukaan terhadap calon partner. Sedang dalam proses melewatinya. Selama disertasi mungkin. Tapi untuk strategis menjaga energi emosional dan resilien sama hal-hal buruk, selama masih ada goal ini, mungkin baiknya dijaga harapan yang ada sekecil apapun dengan berada di circle yang suportif dan sepaham.

Semua itu juga mendorong proses perpindahan relasi dan pertemanan. Apalagi didorong dengan pemilu yang secara langsung menunjukkan moral standing orang-orang dalam life priority-nya. Meskipun fuel-nya ignorance, still sedih. Apapun relasi yang hilang, aku cuma berharap supaya bisa tumbuh kembali dalam bentuk lain. Aku harap banget sih.

2024 sudah beres Q1, masih panjang. Banyak takut, sedih, dan cemasnya ya, kalau dipikir-pikir. Semoga aku kuat. Wish me luck universe. 

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Manifesting a life experience/scenario

 This one


Terus gue keinget... kenapa kalau manifesting gini ga pernah soal jodoh ya??? Padahal kan bisa terwujud

Ada deng di list ideal itu wkwk tapi beda


Manifesting juga supportive life partner yang physically lebih TINGGI (kalau bisa jauh) dan goodlooking, pinter/well educated tapi open minded dan passionate in everything he do. AMIIIINNNNNNNNN


Hoping to close this year with a good bang, as a better, cooler person!!!

Semoga trip ke Bali dan outstation2 lainnya baik2 saja!! Ortu dedek juga sehat2!! Amiiinnnn!!!!!!!!!!! Love, me

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

There is no way...

 There is no way someone, woman, could have their self esteem intact when they have never been pursued first by all the men she likes.. after living in this world where everything gets romanticized in the media, where other women get wooed and pursued by the men, where the women job is to wait.

When her crushes all settled with cute and pretty women that just not her...

Thursday, September 1, 2022

To be honest.. this looks bleak

 Seeing how there is definitely some sort of generational trauma that I have, financial needs, and personal/professional aspiration, I feel that it is extremely difficult and challenging for me to ever have a good romantic relationship and even get married.. Must admit that I'm not feeling optimistic right now and really can't imagine how I could ever find someone to fall for or to have someone fall for me.. and to have a bond so strong that we are willing to commit forever.. and to have the financial means to support adequate lifestyle cost and to raise other beings...

I just don't know man.. I would want a companion, but I don't see any possibility even for me to open up to new people in this space.. So I'm being realistic and setting expectation.. and living life vicariously through medias I consume.


I don't know what to pray for myself for now. God I hope I can find what exactly is I am looking for somehow, whatever it is