1437 H - A Contemplation

Pardon me for this very standard title but all I wanna say today is Happy Idul Fitri 1437 H! Let me tell you something, I came from a not very big family so Idul Fitri is usually filled with five to ten people at most and we don't really visiting each other house.

Met lebaran hehe. Lagi nyoba-nyoba cat air.

Yoi, jadi berkunjung dari rumah ke rumah tuh gak wajib di sini. Apalagi kalau udah ketemu pas sholat Ied, ya udah deh. Halal Bihalal sama temen misalnya, di luar texting dan telepon palingan maen bareng or ketemuan di mana gitu. Gak ada kunjung-kunjungan ke rumah. Makanya pas di Palembang saya agak culture shock. Di sana ternyata tiap lebaran ada yang namanya sanjo (entah gimana nulisnya wkwk). Jadi kunjung-kunjungan ke rumah temen tuh di sana udah kayak wajib gitu. Di sini? Keluarga besar udah paling banyak kalau yang menyerupai sanjo. Kalau sama temen-temen dekat or biasa gak segitunya di sini mah haha. Tetangga se-RT palingan. Bagus juga yak, mempererat silaturahim.

Tahun ini sebenernya saya lagi dapet cuti panjang. Baru kepake beberapa hari sih karena saya lagi gak ada kegiatan yang bikin saya harus cuti panjang (like traveling or umrah maybe?). Besides, kerjaan lagi banyak banget! Sejak ganti jabatan di Agustus 2015 lalu load kerjaan saya nambah beberapa ratus persen. Dibilang sibuk ya gitu deh, tapi musiman. Bisa sibuk banget dan ada juga waktu dimana saya bisa santai banget. Anyway sebenernya moto saya kan gini, mau santai mau sibuk yang penting kerjaan selesai. Maksudnya gak harus sibuk menyiksa diri padahal 'kan kerja itu orientasinya hasil, bukan semata-mata proses. Oke proses penting biar keliatan sibuk kalau bos kebeneran nanya kan asik wkwk. Tapi kalau gak selesai buat apa? Mendingan santai, sibuk sekali-kali tapi selesai doong. Hardworking doesn't mean to be always look like very busy all the time, right? Tapi itu imho sih lol.

Strange Games (As If Your Life Is Not Strange Enough)

Several weeks ago (Wait, WEEKS?) I accidentally met one of my colleagues from my early years in this company.  We haven't met for like, four years since our on-the-job-training and not much changes except I recognize on of his friends (that was actually ALSO MY acquaintance) was forgot my name *sad face*. So after small talks like, how are you doing, where are you placed now, etc., etc., he then said:

"Btw I still read your blog, and I noticed that sometimes you seems disturbed (Actually the Indonesian word for this is "alay" lol), why was that?"

I just laughed. Okay the good news is people still read my blog lol and he blogged, too, so we kind of follow each other blog although he's been dormant till now. I was quite surprised because it's been too long. Thanks loyal reader! Lol. And the bad news is, as a blogger, your life becomes more and more predictive. Like, when you are disturbed, people can see it in your writing. You tried to hide it once or twice but it's not always successful. I no longer care now actually. I can just laugh it off lol.

Life Is Strange is my current favorite game. Really love the gameplay and ambience. Dark enough to be my thing. If only The Sims has this kind features lol. Illustration by me.

Anyway, I've been playing games again for several days now. I am a seasonal gamer and when I play, I spend hours and hours. Since I rarely go out and I've been paying my fasting debt (I know, it's a shame because I'm such a procrastinator) so to kill the time I just play the games. They are mostly on PC. Mobile games are interesting, too. They are just too short to fulfill my interest.

Well to feed my satisfy, my game has to meet 80% of these criteria (lol):

1. ARTWORK

As seen on my post here, no matter how suck the game is I will still play it if the artwork took me fancy. Whimsical or fairy-tale-ish creature will be an additional value.

Yang Kamu Lakukan Ke Saya Itu: JAHAT!!!

Karena sudah lama nunggu, dan sudah sangat familiar dengan cuplikan dialog pada judul di atas mengingat trailer yang sudah wara-wiri entah dari kapan, juga meme parodi yang bertebaran, maka ketika adegan tersebut benar-benar tayang dalam filmnya, saya jadi agak-agak nahan napas sambil mikir, "ini dia!".

My ticket.

Diramu dengan dialog yang memorable, quotable dan cerita yang relatable, maka seklise apapun AADC, dia tetap memikat para fans baru maupun lama. Die-hard fans? Tentu saja bakalan susah move on selama beberapa hari lah paling lama. Well seperti saya bilang, film ini terlalu ditunggu dan terlalu sulit dilupain.

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Memorable

The Sparkling Thing You (Think You) Envy

For some reason, I LOVE talking about how I am coping (I mean, surviving) this wanderer lifestyle that I'd never think of in the past. You know, the family missing thing, the unsure of what to do most of the time stuff, and the homeless feeling, kind of coloring my life in these 5 years. Well told you again this time, I am not an adventurer type whatsoever. Of course I had times when I went around as a kid, got into forest and forbidden place without parents' permission, like a very fun child, but in fact I'm so private and independent and I hated people that I might get home schooled but fortunately I didn't.

I am a wanderer because of work who spent 1/3 of her life (it's 2/3 now btw T_T) being a corporate slave and blah blah (read my "about me" page, will ya?). But honestly I'm starting to like it: hell yeah, liking what you do, not doing what you like (like a wise grown up). And yes, instead of being unsure of what to do (as said above), luckily now I've got a lot of things to mind.

Tokyo Ghoul by Me.

My friend once said that it is a very brave thing to do, choosing this lifestyle. OMG you are wrong, pal. I never choose this. It chose me. But forget it, because I got paid lol so I have no rights to badmouth it. And people always talk no matter what. They say they wanna be like me (I'M SORRY, REALLY?). I'm glad they see me positively like, as an ambitious working girl, postpone a lot of things to be what I am today, hard worker (cynical words sorry).

To be busy.