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

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

I am actually cool and awesome

 which makes me feel pretty bad to a lot of people... sorry guys

so this comes true.....



it still feels surreal to me.

I mean... how can I?!?! I can't say it out loud because it would be ungrateful, but I didn't really plan this... Initially I don't even want to apply....

I feel sorry to a very good friend who guided me throughout the process but didn't get in... I mean she deserve this too!! God please give her a good scholarship else I'll be very guilty going forward. I want the best for her.

Another person I feel guilty toward was my little sister... if only the initial comparison that people did between me and her is not enough, now that I got this.. it will only get bigger. I hope her self esteem can get stronger so that she won't be so bothered by this..


And man, this beginner's luck was just... idk, I'm speechless. If I recount my experience with this kind of luck, there are some of it in the course of my life

  • When I got into the economic Olympiad in high school for lesser effort than a friend who works her ass off...
  • When I got into favorite public university without any course or intensive bimbel
  • When I win the ad competition..
  • Basically any recognition I got in the workplace..
  • and this... the scholarship man...
I don't know, because I feel like I don't put much effort , I feel like there are much luck comes to play. (not to say that I am not struggling - I do struggle, but I wonder if my struggle was as heavy as other people). And the fact that I got this much luck made me wonder if
  • the failure that life has been saving me from is piled up somewhere someday waiting for me.. GOD I HOPE NOT
  • the failure was relegated to any other life's aspect, i.e  love life. which kinda sad - can I have all of it moderately?
I am grateful since I do want to live abroad at least one year, and to be smart and credible. But all these lucks make me scared.
If these are not luck given from God, then am I really that smart? But I do struggle a lot.
I don't know. These are unreal, I feel grateful and anxious. I hope everything goes well in the future. Thanks God.
Hope you can still give me a lot of chances to meet and cherish all my families and friends, all my loved ones, despite all these lucks in the education/career aspect. Amen. Thank you once again, God.

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

8 june

 Tonight is pretty sucks

I mean, the looming deadline is right there.

My insecurity peaked through since I met the very kakak who I am incredibly jealous of, again.

Shining lights to my very insecure self

How someone who seems very distance every time I interact with her, even when I know her since high school, just got beaten up like that by she who is a stranger.

I was reminded about how my crush was 'stolen' just like that. Which is sucks.

And then I check the Instagram of the wife of my another past crush.

Her profile picture used to be two of them in Paris, but now it's only her prettily with the backdrop of Eiffel.

Again, reminds me how maybe he and I were never meant to be. Which is sucks, because I would like to blame it on timings or whatever, not on our personalities.

I hope things change, but I felt like I was destined to be alone and never romantically loved by man.

God, I hope this is really not the case in the future, please?

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Bisa (?) (!) (?!)

 If I can get this scholarship type in my first try, and go to UK by this year or next year (2023), that would be super cool and awesome