I miss you much much much

Last Saturday I went to have lunch with my friends; Salwa, Rissa, Icha, Linda and Gigi at Fish&Co, the food's pretty great as usual and we have lots of talk. I miss talking with my friends and have a laugh with 'em. So, yaaay for last saturday! it was a very great day : )

after 5 days of college, seminar on friday, going to the dentist after the seminar, after all the craziness

yesterday was Saturday, cos it's Sunday and 7PM already. Saturday was great. Mom's staying at my grandmother's house because she has appointment close to grandma's house on Saturday morning, and Dad's making me noodle for breakfast, after that I told him that I wanna go to Regina's house, she was my best mate in high school and I miss her like hell. So at around 900AM Dad took me to Regina's and we did what we love the most, hiding under her blanket, with the AC turned on, and watching HBO. We watched 'Made of Honor' thank God Patrick Dempsey accompany us that morning.
Going to Regina's house was always like this. The two of us, doing nothing but watching television and eating. We're ordering KFC and eating it while watching Mr. Dempsey doing silly things to steal the bride.
At 4PM, after 2 hrs of sleeping, and the rest doing nothing, Regina told me that she has to go selling flowers and she want me to help her. I always liked to help a friend so I said 'Yes'.
Time flies and now my lazy friend Regina is driving! woo-wee. In high school her driver always drove her everywhere but now, he's sitting beside her and she's the one behind the wheel. To be honest, I am praying from the second the turned the car's machine on.
She picked her friend, Ruhut, and she's a friend of my friend so we kinda talk a lot. I told Regina that I want to go to Ace Hardware if possible, so we went to Pondok Indah Mall. I used to hate PIM on saturday night, but turned out it was nice cos we get to meet our friend.
Regina asked, 'who else in there? i wanna sell my flowers.' so I told her that I saw Ama's updating her twitter said she's at PIM. Oookay, so we went to PIM and it was a very windy afternoon. And I'm being a total moron cos once again I forgot to bring my jacket.
I don't get the wallpaper, so we go straight to where Ama is, Sushi Tei. God I misssss Ama! She's a kind, talkative, funny, yet very good listener. All she can do is laughing when I'm talking. I don't know I'm that funny : )
Ama introduced us to her friends from high school and I asked them if they know my friends who went to school with them and they said 'YES!' and the last thing I knew we were gossiping, laughing, and talking like old friends.
It is always nice to meet new friends, but nicer to meet the old one. Last time I saw Regina was..... I can't even remember, it was months ago I think. And Ama? weee, it has been years! So Saturday was reunion day for me as my Dad went to his high school reunion too.
Btw I bought this book called 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' by Trenton Lee Stewart for only 88000 rupiahs. I can't pay it with my credit card so I pay it with my supposed-to-be-wallpaper-money. And to be honest it has been weeks since I'm using cash to pay for something other than food, hehe.
The 5 days of studying, seminar, group work, hecticness, was worth it.

♥

Photobooth Madness

With my friends from med school. See, we all wanted to be a doctor but we loves to have fun too, so last Tuesday (if I'm not mistaken) we went to Mitha's room before college, at around 7AM and taking some very random and crazy photos. Here's some of it.....

LOL at the photos!
PS: wish me luck for college, thankies ; ) !

Social Interview asked me, 'What Makes Salwa Rijadi Happy?'

I answered:
Me & Rissa Nirwandar.
pity something went wrong so it never got published

Rissa&Moi&Salwa, High School Graduation, 2009
♥

This Will Be A Post Without Picture

Hola, it's Sunday again. Sunday means coming back to real life for me as me and my family moves back to my Grandma's house. Since I started college a month ago I stayed here during weekdays. I usually come back home to Cinere on Friday after college, and moves back to Tebet every Sunday. Gah, it's tiring, really. It's like a group of birds moving in certain season.
Anyways, one of my friend's leaving for Perth today, Anisha. I kinda lose contact with her since we didn't go to the same English class anymore, but we're a great friend, because when we meet again about 2 weeks ago we just can't stop talking! I'll miss you Ashaaaa ♥
Also I have this phrase that I love: Med school is a battlefield. The truth is, it is. Here, everything is a competition, even though it isn't. I really don't realize it (and don't really care about it) but some of my friends do. Well not really those whose close to me. But those book freak kinda person who think everybody is their competitors. Hey, chill! I'm here not to compete, dude! I don't want to either. So yeah, wish me luck surviving this jungle a.k.a med school.
cheerzo! ; )

bye

good luck, AAP
see you when I see you
I'll miss you

♥
NRANP&Bobo

Four days with fellas part 2

Hello hello,
ini dia posting Four days with Fellas part 2 yang merupakan laporan jalan-jalan saya selama 4 hari di Jogja. Di postingan sebelumnya, sudah diceritakan petualangan di hari pertama dan kedua jadi kali ini dilanjutkan cerita di hari ketiga dan keempat.

Day 3:

Hari Minggu ini keluarga gue ternyata sudah dateng dari Jakarta dan menginap di rumah Om. Dan ternyata pulaaaaa, rumah Om gue ada di belakang guest house jadi kita bahkan bisa main bola voli dengan tembok sebagai netnya hahaha.

Hari ini acaranya pergi ke pantai Baron, yang katanya berpasir putih, lautnya biru dan makanannya enak serta murah. Pokoknya pemandangan surgawi sekali deh. Di perjalanan mobil gue tertinggal oleh mobil yang disupirin Pak Sis. Kronologinya guea nggak tau karena sepanjang jalan tidur, yang gue tau, bangun-bangun mobil sedang melaju di sebuah jalan panjang dikelilingi bukit-bukit kapur di kanan kirinya. Pemandangannya baguuuusss banget. Daripada muter-muter lebih baik foto-foto dulu aja.

Akhirnya sampai juga di Pantai Baron! Ternyata kita salah hari, yaitu datang di hari Minggu, karena banyak bus-bus yang mengangkut rombongan jadi menurut gue suasananya kurang enak. Jadi kita langsung cepet-cepet makan seafood (yang yummy dan murah) setelah itu pulang.

Sebenernya pantainya betul betul seperti bayangan gue, cuma karena rame jadi tidak terlalu menikmati. Yaah, kapan-kapan deh kita balik ke sini lagi!

Tadinya kita mau ke gua Maria. Udah capek-capek mendaki bukit tapi tidak jadi karena ternyata tempatnya sangat jauh.

Pulangnya melewati tempat yang bagus lagi dan kami foto-foto lagi deh

Terus mampir di Patuk, yang mirip Puncak. Disini gue minum susu jahe yang enak banget dan mie rebus.

Habis itu pulang, dan malamnya makan sate daging di deket UGM. Begitu liat menunya, murah banget sate daging isi sepuluh tusuk cuma 12500, tapi pas dateng ternyata satenya kecil-kecil tapi rasanya lumayan enak : )

Day 4:

Hari terakhir di Jogja! Nggak kerasa banget ternyata 4 hari sudah berlalu dan hari ini temen-temen gue harus pulang ke Jakarta sementara gue extend di Jogja, Gigi ke Semarang dan Cindy ke Bali.

Hari ini makan siang di Bebek goreng H Slamet dengan sambal korek spesialnya. Bebek gorengnya enaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkk banget dan sambelnya juga, pedes tapi super duper enak.

Habis itu mampir ke pusat oleh-oleh, karena masih ada dua hari lagi di Jogja, gue cuma beli permen telor cicak. Hihihi, jarang-jarang liat permen ini di Jakarta. Terakhir liat kemarin pas mau nonton Transformerns 2, tapi harganya mahal banget.

Habis dari pusat oleh-oleh, kita mampir ke Malioboro lagi karena hasrat belanja belum terpuaskan, sementara Gigi naik travel bis ke Semarang. Bye bye Gigi!

Di Malioboro, kita nemu stand yang jual kalung kalung dari kuningan bakar yang setelah ditawar harganya jadi 15000. Bandulnya sebenernya udah disusun sama masnya, tapi bisa kita rubah rubah sendiri. Jadi deh kalung custom made seharga 15000, puaaass!

Dari Malioboro kita nganterin Cindy ke airport, habis itu langsung ke stasiun. Gue dijemput di stasiun sebelum pulang ke rumah Om. Liburannya sangat menyenangkan dan seru! Terimakasih teman-teman terutama yang di mobilnya Pak Wagi, karena sudah menjadi Jogja mate yang sangat baik! Kapan-kapan pokoknya kita harus liburan bareng lagi yaaaaa

So long!

Four days with fellas part 1

Okay, so, as you all know (esp cimeng whom asked me, "kapan lo pulang?" even before I go) I went to Jogja about a week ago with my friends. We took the Argo Lawu train (thanks to Nico we didn't have to pay for the ticket!) and the trip was superrrrr fun!

Oh well a week had passed so I can't tell you the complete story. I just remembered some really funny things done by Rissa and Gigi as usual, cuma sekarang ditambah Nico dan Yadi jadi tambah rame hahaha. Oh iya, supir kita baaiiiikkkkk banget namanya Pak Wagi. He had cool jokes and knows cool places, cheap restaurants and shops.

Day 1:

sampe di Jogja sekitar jam 4 pagi. Rasanya badan mau rontooookkkk rontok serontok-rontoknya. Mata masih ngantuk dan punggung pegel-pegel karena 7 jam duduk dan leher sakit karena tidur miring-miring.

Di pintu utara Stasiun Kereta api Tugu, Jogjakarta, kami udah ditunggu sama Pak Wagi yang memegang kertas bertuliskan: Ms. Rissa. Nah inilah supir kita yang di kemudian hari diketahui bahwa dia itu sangat baik sekali.

Selain pak Wagi dan Pak Sis (supir mobil kedua), kita juga dijemput Pakde-nya Cindy yang nganter ke tempat Guest House. Jadi iring-iringannya ada 3 mobil yang menuju guest house yang ternyata bernama LPP Ambarukmo. Letaknya di sebuah wilayah namanya Ambarukmo.

Sampai di guest house ternyata nggak langsung tidur. Kita rebutan kamar, naruh tas dan ngumpul dulu sama Pakde-nya Cindy, baru habis itu pada tepar geletakan nggak jelas di kamar.

Bangun-bangun ternyata udah jam 10, gue langsung mandi karena setelah ini langsung jalan-jalan keliling Jogja. Rencana hari ini city tour, yang pastinya ke Malioboro dan makan enak ; )

Untuk brunch (lol) kita ke Soto Miroso. Begitu buka buku menunya, waw, murah sekali ya. Soto campur nasi cuma 7500 dan sate telor atau ayamnya seribuan perbatang. Makan di soto Miroso gue habis 15000 saja. Rasanya kalo menurut gue enak cuma kalo untuk lidah gue agak kemanisan, cuma satenya enaaaaaaakkkk banget!

Habis itu kita ke Kotagede yang merupakan sentra kerajinan perak. Cuma harganya mahal-mahal jadi cuma lihat-lihat dan foto-foto aja hehehe.

Setelah dari Kotagede kita kembali lagi ke Jogja, to the most famous street in Jogja, Malioboro! Malioboro ini menurut gue kayak Camden Town, penjual kaki lima seenaknya aja bikin kios di depan toko orang. Di Malioboro kalo nawar harus yang serendah-rendahnya biar nggak rugi.
Tapi tujuan kita adalah ke toko bernama Mirota. Mirota ini menjual macem-macem batik dan pernak-pernak khas Jawa lainnya yang sebenernya dijual juga di jalan Malioboro, cuma disini harganya udah nggak bisa ditawar dan tempatnya nyaman ada AC-nya nggak panas kayak diluar. Di Mirota gue beli tas batik, jam dinding, dan cincin-cincin.

Malamnya kita makan di Jimbaran. Suasana restoran seafood ini kayak di Ubud, Bali, lengkap dengan sawah dan gazebonya. Suasananya enak banget dan makanannya yang pasti super duper yummy!



Karena baru jam 7 malam kami lanjut ke Angkringan dekat stasiun Tugu untuk nyobaik kopi Joss. Gue minum yang kopi susu, ternyata kopi susu joss adalah kopi susu yang di dalamnya ada bara apinya. Quite uniqe, tapi dinding mulut gue ketempelan arang hehehe.

Day 2:

Pagi-pagi kita jalan-jalan ke Borobudur. Panaaaassssss, dan gue sebenernya udah bosen setiap ke Jogja ke Borobudur melulu. But hey, we have to acted like other tourists rite, since it's a holiday. Oh well, berbekal gym crest bag dan rayban lima belas ribuan gue menjelajah Borobudur sntah untuk yang keberapa kalinya. Tapi kali ini yang paling seruu! Nggak kerasa tau-tau udah di puncak aja : ))

Habis itu beli tiket untuk pertunjukan sendra tari Ramayana di Candi Prambanan. Tiket kelas satu hanya 50000 saja. Viewnya bagus, ada candi Prambanan sebagai latar belakang. The show was great, pertama kalinya gue nonton live wayang. I have to take my Grandma there! Ibu bisa nontonin wayang semalam suntuk tanpa ketiduran.

*maaf nggak ada foto pertunjukannya. hehehe

okay, sekian dulu laporan jalan-jalannya. Tunggu posting Four days with fellas part 2 yang akan datang!

Here comes the prom!

So this is it, the day some of us been waiting for 3 years, but for me, prom is just another party I spend with my school mates, celebrating our last meal and drink and dance as high school students.
As the prom begins, my brain actually thinking about the days after today. On 25th, as I said before I'll go to Jogja with my friends. I hope it'll be a nice yet satisfying trip since I canceled my trip with Rissa to London : (
by the way, if you're thinking: Good gosh, what will she wear to prom? well I didn't get the picture of my prom dress, but it kinda look like Emma watson's Chanel navy blue dress but mine's tailor made.

I wanna say THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH to Marisa Harfiana for her drawing. See, my friend Marisa is good at fashion drawing and she draw my prom dress. The other day she went to the textile shop to choose the textile for my dress. So when I arrived, all I have to do is just pay for the textile. Also, a great big hug to my buddy Aregina Pernong for her kindness taking me to Dian Pelangi Kemang since the Bintaro one didn't take order anymore.

I literally crossing my fingers right now, hoping my prom will be fun, great, my dress fits me prfectly, the after party will be fun as hell

any tip for me?
well as the Americans say: Break a leg!

Somewhere along the lines

I've graduated today.

Feeling so happy, lucky, it feels like someone lifted the weight from my shoulder. Yet I felt sad. I looked around the room trying to memorize these faces I know. We're not really a close batch. Every people in this room have their own 'comfort zone' and trying to avoid talking to some people but, somehow, these faces I know, these people, are the ones that are walking with me this past three years.

We'll go our separate ways. I'll stay in Jakarta while some are leaving.

Maybe I am sad knowing the fact that I'll stuck here for other 7 long years, maybe I'm sad because I'm not gonna see these faces again in September.

We're not gonna be 'angkatan 12 SMA islam Al-Izhar Pondok Labu' anymore, we'll be 'angkatan 12 alumni SMA islam Al-Izhar Pondok Labu' the word alumni feels so...... i don't know. weird?

We wont be studying in the same school again.

Now that is weird.

I get used to these people. I laughed with them, and sometimes I hate them. There are times when I'm feeling really bored of high school and wanted to leave it, ASAP. But when I opened the envelope this morning, reading the word: dinyatakan LULUS, I said to myself, "Am I really leaving high school?" there are too much memory here, somehow, I can't just leave it all behind.

But hey, life goes on. If I have to leave high school, so be it. I AM GRADUATED PEOPLE! I'm more happy than sad. No, not just happy, I felt relieved. Yes, I felt relieved and happy. Sad is another thing ; )

What I'm saying is, angkatan 12, somewhere along the lines of life, we'll meet again. Entah itu di acara reunian, kawinan temen, 7 bulanan (hehe), we'll meet again someday, I believe it.

So these people, nothing can erased them from my memory. There's this tiny place in my heart where I'll keep those memory of high school, and there's this part of my brain that rewinding it.

I love you, people.

goodbye, au revoir.

good luck

mucha suerte

te queiro mucho ; )

Hello again!

Sorry to say, but I'm not saying hello to you, but to my friend Cindy who arrived this evening from Kuwait . Wow, it's been 1,5 years since she left and I miss her! she used to be my classmate in X-4 and we did lots of crazy things together, but my favorite was 'kejar-kejaran sehabis ulangan bahasa inggris' which is a bit cruel for certain girl but it's a great memory I think ; )

after that, we acted like total strangers in Jakarta (me, buli, adiz and silmi) and took photos at the airport, it was fu-u-u-nnn! I just knew that there're vending machines there at the airport. you only have to pay 5000rupiah and you get what you want hihi norak sekali ya?

While we're waiting for Cindy, I remember that hey, I'm in arrival gate, am I? so I remember this quote -I don't remember everything, just "whenever I get gloomy with the stage of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at the Heathrow airport......" so I kept saying it until my friend said, "stop!" but a few seconds later, i'm saying it again : D

here's the complete line:

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the
world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's
starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't
see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly
dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and
daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the
planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the
people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of
love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all
around

.

<3

this memory keeps me alive : )

Hari terakhir di London, kita semua berkumpul lagi di Bar The White Bear (kalo nggak salah) untuk pisah. Ada dua kelompok, yang akan pulang ke Jakarta dan yang lanjut keliling Eropa. Disitu suasananya sediiiihhhhh sekali, kita peluk-pelukan, nangis-nangisan, ketawa-ketawa bareng untuk yang terakhir kalinya sampe supir busnya jutek.

Bus kelompok yang akan berangkat ke Eropa sampai duluan, jadi kita juga yang duluan pergi. Sedihnyaaaaa, dua minggu bareng-bareng di negeri orang bener-bener bikin kita jadi deket lho, I even thought that I've found some of my best friends during that trip. Karena walaupun cuma 2 minggu susah seneng kita rasain bareng-bareng, kesasar bareng, ngerasain seneng deg-degannya ke tempat baru bareng, foto-foto bareng. : )

Disaat-saat seperti ini, ketika kita jauh dari rumah, adalah saat-saat dimana kamu bisa menemukan orang-orang yang membantu kamu untuk mandiri, istilahnya, helps you stand on your own feet.

So I really thank you, for you people who helps me there, in our beautiful playground ; ) I will never ever forget you guys, because I loooooooovvvvveeeeeeeee you you you soooooo freakin' much, and I miss you.

Just like we promised ya, suatu hari nanti, kita akan kembali menjajah Inggris! yeeeaaaahhhhh ; )))))

Adventure

I went to Pasar Senen today, with Gigi and Rissa

Kita naik busway, naik dari Ragunan turun di Dukuh atas 2, sambung ke Harmoni, terus ke Senen. Seruuu lho, dengan uang 3.500 udah bisa ke ujung Jakarta tanpa macet. Overall, dari Ragunan ke Senen kira2 makan waktu 45 menit, yang nggak mungkin banget kalo naik mobil 45 menit udah nyampe Senen.
Dari Ragunan-Dukuh atas, buswaynya lumayan rame, tapi kita dapat duduk karena naik dari pemberhentian awal. Yang rame banget itu dari Harmoni-Senen, mungkin karena tengah kota ya? Sebenernya menurut gue, halte busway itu kecil bangeeettt! hehehe, dan orang yang naik busway banyak, terus ada beberapa jurusan gitu kan di satu halte, jadi ngantre mau masuk buswaynya harus nafsu ; )

Di Senen, pertama nyampe kita naik ke atas, ke tempat yang bagusan tapi sepi, terus Gigi (yang sering kesini) ngajak kita ke bawah, ke tepat penjual-penjual yang dulu kebanjiran pada pindah ke dalam pasar. Begitu masuk, ada satu kios yang rame banget ternyata jual baju 5000/2pasang! Gileee, baru sekali ini nemu baju semurah itu. Ngobrak-ngabrik, akhirnya gue nemu sekitar 4 pasang kalo nggak salah, habis itu lanjut lagi.
Kios favorit gue adalah kios yang jual dress, yang punya ibu-ibu berkerudung yang sangat ramah sekali, dan letak kiosnya harus diingat banget. Gue beli satu dress denim selutut seharga 10.000, yummy! Dan jualannya itu rapih, semuanya digantung jadi enak milihnya.
Badan udah keringetan tapi masih lanjut doong, pindah ke kios jual rok-rok 10.000/3psg tapi gue kecewaaaa! Soalnya banyak banget rok lucu-lucu tapi lingkar pinggangnya seperti nyindir gue, alias kecil banget. Setan.
Terus kita keliling-keliling sampe ujung, tiba-tiba ada meja dengan setumpuk pakaian yang sepertinya menarik. Pas gue tanya, ternyata harganya.............. 1000 rupiah saja, mbak! Woooaaaah, langsung kalap doong. Gue aduk-aduk aja itu tumpukan, karena biasanya yang bagus-bagus ada di paling bawah. Ps udah nemu lima baju dan udah bayar, gue masih berdiri di sebelah Rissa karena dia baru nemu empat, tiba-tiba gue narik baju ternyata itu jaket jeans tapi bahannya adem enak gitu bagus deh. Langsung gue kasih Rissa, eeehhhh tapi ternyata sampe jalan gue kebayang-bayang jaket itu terus, jadi gue beli lagi deh dari Rissa hehehe.
Dari Senen-Harmoni buswaynya rame bangeeeeetttt! Udah berdiri, desek-desekan pula, bawa belanjaan banyak banget lagi! Tapi untungnya dari Harmoni-Dukuh atas kita bisa berdiri dengan leluasa, dan dari Dukuh atas-Ragunan yang paling enak. Mungkin karena udah masuk Jakarta bagian ujung, jadi yang naik busway juga sedikit. Bisa duduk, barang bawaan taruh di samping............ tidur. hehehe.

Naik busway juga berguna banget buat kamu-kamu yang keseimbangan badannya kurang. Contohnya waktu dari Dukuh atas 2-Harmoni, kita harus berdiri tapi untungnya nggak desek-desekan. Si Rissa, males megang handle yang diatas kepala itu, eeehhh tiba-tiba busnya ngerem dan dia refleks nyender ke gue, gue megang handle tapi miring 45 derajat ke samping. Posisi ini bertahan selama sekita 10 detik paling panjang dalam hidup gue, karena dalam posisi seperti ini juga gue udah nahan ketawa ; D

Oh yeah, one more thingy, sepertinya di busway harus dikasih pengharum berbentuk pohon cemara yang untuk mobil itu deh ; )

loco amigos

i love you, guys ; )