Yay! I’m back.
Actually I’ve been back from Australia since last week, but I have to catch up my works that I left for 2 weeks. It was very hectic, but it’s all done 
I’ll comeback with stories and photos, but before that I will visit your blogs. I must have missed a lot of storied and news from all of you.
Jason Mraz is a genius
Yay! Finally my tourist visa approved.
So it is official now that my next travel destination for year 2012 is Australia. I only plan to go to Melbourne and Sydney, because I only have 10 days. I can’t go to Australia Great Barrier Reef this time, eventhough I really wanted to. But I will go to Great Ocean Road, hopefully I can see Koala and Kangaroo on the way there. I’m so excited.
So I guess I will be busy making my itinerary, booking hotels and tours this week and pin some pictures on my Australia board on my pinterest 
Australia, here I come….
Introducing the youngest member in the family.
Her name is Bluwek, 5 months old.
She likes to hide in box, plastic bag and hand bag.
Bluwek when she was a baby cat
The picture was taken when Bluwek was still 1 month old. She found a jewelry box and step inside it even if it was too small. She tried to fit herself in it, and fell asleep in 5 minutes.
Bluwek, slept in a box
Bluwek is bigger now, she can climb to higher places. Sometimes maybe Bluwek think she’s an eagle or a parrot, because she likes to climb and stand in my shoulder. Weird cat.
Bluwek the eagle
Bluwek also likes to watch TV. She always stay in front of TV every morning to watch K-pop music show on television. I will not surprise if one day I see her doing K-pop girlband’s dance
Bluwek loves K-pop music
Lady Gaga Tickets
After queuing for 6 hours, yesterday I finally got Lady Gaga concert tickets. When I arrived yesterday morning, saturday on 7 am, there already more than 2.000 little monsters waiting in line. Some of them already there since midnight.
The tickets sold at some cities in Indonesia and also online. The last news I heard, 40.000 tickets were sold yesterday.
Indonesia really love Mama Monster. LOL.
I just told my parents yesterday that I’m planning to go to Australia next month. I’ve been travel a lot (for work and leisure) this 5 years, but I still worried to tell my parents about my next traveling plan. Worried that they won’t allow me to go. But if they did objected, I still go anyway
I just go through the first barrier, my parents.
I still have to pass the next barrier, visa document. This visa thing makes me mentally and psychologically stress out. Because even though all the requirements completed, we can still got rejected by the embassy. Especially some of the country which is very difficult for Indonesian to apply for Visa, such as America and Australia.
I already bought all my tickets last year, because there were promo and I bought the tickets very cheap. If my tourist visa rejected, I should say goodbye to the tickets and the money I used to bought that.
Reading other people experience in applying Australian Visa document made me more nauseous. A lot of them got rejected even if they have enough money on their account, have a supporting letter, have an invitation letter.
While I don’t have invitation or supporting letter and I still have no idea if the money in my account will be enough. There seems to be no clear explanation about how much money you should have in your account to get your visa approved. I’m just guessing.
Visa document really is a problem if you’re Indonesian and enjoy travel. Sometimes I envy Americans, they can go almost everywhere in this whole world without going through the torture of applying visa document. LOL.
This is one of Indonesia Folklore.
Once upon a time there was a handsome young man, his name was Jaka Tarub. A lot of women in the village liked him, but he stays single because he wanted to have a very beautiful wife.
One night, it was full moon at that time, Jaka Tarub was walking in the wood. Suddenly he hear sounds of women near waterfall. He slowly came close to the direction of sounds, he hide behind the trees and saw 7 beautiful women taking a bath.
Those women were so beautiful, Jaka Tarub thought they must be angels (bidadari). He stole one of the shawl of the angel and he wait, behind the dark shadow of trees.
Angels or Bidadari in Indonesian folklore usually didn’t have wings, they fly with their shawl. Bidadari live high above the earth, the place called Kahyangan (almost similar with heaven).
It was time for the Bidadari to come home to Kahyangan. One of the Bidadari soon realise she lost her shawl. She said to her sisters, “I lost my shawl, I can’t go back yet. But I will find it and I will come back. You girls go ahead.”
The Bidadari who lost her shawl is Nawang Wulan.
She tried to find the shawl but she couldn’t find it. She got so depressed and feel alone and she cried. That was the time Jaka Tarub came to her. Comfort her and promise he will help her find the shawl so that she could come back to Kahyangan.
After some time she still couldn’t find the shawl, she desperately thought that there’s no way she could come home. Then, Jaka Tarub married her. They have a son. But for all that time, Jaka Tarub hide Nawang Wulan’s shawl in barn where he keep the rice.
But lies – no matter how hard you try to hide it, will discovered eventually. One day Nawang Wulan accidentally saw her shawl when she wanted to get rice to cooked. And she took the shawl, leave Jaka Tarub and their son to come home to Kahyangan, where she belong.
Nawang Wulan said to Jaka Tarub, ” I’m sorry I have to go, but this is not where I belong. Every time you and our son miss me, please just look at the moon (Wulan). I’ll always be there watching over two of you.”
Nawang Wulan flew away to Kahyangan and Jaka Tarub feel very sad.
The moral of the story from my opinion, we can’t force love to happen and we can’t force someone to love us. If that person don’t belong to us, the person will go away soon or later.
Picture taken from: http://www-waptros.wen9.com
Call me old fashioned but I think my best friend is crazy.
She’s one of my best friend, we met in highschool. But after college she came home to Bali, her hometown, she’s Balinese. And I think she’s going to kill me if she find out I’m writing this for the whole world to see. LOL!
Anyway, she called 2 days ago and told me she’s going to Jakarta. First she told me that it’s just a holiday, but last night I found out that the purpose of her coming is to meet a guy she knew from online dating. So, she flew 1.5 hour from Bali to Jakarta, alone (well, not quite alone because she’ll meet me here), to meet her blind date today. She said that it’s not ‘that blind’ after all, since they already shared each other picture on Whatsapp messenger. Doh, it could’ve been photoshop-ed, or it could’ve been someone else picture.
It’s not that I against online dating, I know lots of people met their couple online. Online dating is one thing, but online dating with a guy from United State is another thing. United state is on the other continent, not like flying 1.5 hour to Jakarta. It could’ve been more than 10 hours flight. And this guy don’t work here, he only come to Jakarta for 3 days business and back to America. What if my friend meet him tonight and this guy is nice and she fell for him? I think that is going to be a very big problem.
But I don’t know. Maybe I just worried too much that my dear friend have this too many hopes and dreams that she’ll hurt her ass if she’s falling on the ground. If not her ass, then her heart will.
Have you any experience with this online dating?
The first time I decided to make a blog in English, I was a bit worried. Afraid that people who read what I wrote in English will not understand it. I never took any English course and didn’t learn it at school until I was in highschool. First time I learn it was from Sesame Street, and I read books in English. In college almost all text-book were English, so I must understand it. I learn how to pronounced a word by listening to songs and movies. But it still difficult for me to compose a sentences because in Bahasa Indonesia we are not familiar with the past and future form of sentences. The words are always same whether we said it in present form or in past form. I’m still trying to get familiar with the idea and doing it by writing this blog.
I just wanted to say how grateful I am for all of you who visited this blog and made an effort to understand what I wrote here
Last year I did took a language course, but instead of English I took France, which is more difficult. In France everything is masculine or feminine. That’s very confusing when I have to decide whether a table is masculine or feminine stuff. And I have to decide whether Japan is masculine or feminine country. But I like it, I just love to hear how the France language sounds like. Well, I love everything about France and really wish I could go there someday
Reading other blogs also helps me a lot. I found a lot of interesting blogs that I visited regularly. Each have different subjects and different characters. And it all so much fun to read.
I was so surprised when I found out that I got an award. My first blog award. Thank you very very much for Lisa at foodtable//la vie eclectique. This is the award:
Foodtable//la vie eclectique is a wonderful blog about food and dining. It could be very useful if I live in CA, I probably go to every single restaurant reviewed in this blog. Unfortunately I’m not, but I still keep coming back to this blog because I really enjoy all the pictures and it kind of give me inspiration of what I wanted to eat. One day I saw this beautiful picture of BBQ Ribs and I ended up having BBQ Ribs for lunch
This is something about the award and the rules. I copy/paste it
“Leibster is German & means ‘Dearest’ or ‘Beloved’ but it can also mean ‘Favourite’ & the idea of the Leibster award is to bring attention to blogs with less than 200 followers all in the spirit of gathering more connections”
So, this is the blog that I would like to pass the award:
1. Pure Complex by Kay, it’s beautiful and classy blog. Full of arts and ideas of interior design. I don’t know her personally, but I really think she’s a great person.
2. Living, Loving, Laughing by Angelia Sims, she’s very talented photographer. I always love to see her beautiful picture, especially the color composition.
3. Belle on the Boulevard, this is another classy blog and very fashionable one. It’s like a website of fashion magazine. And from what I read in her blog, she going to get married soon… isn’t exciting? I’m looking forward to read more posts about the wedding preparation in the blog
4. This Italian Family by Rach, I love the recipes in this blog, simple but delicious. I think she and Christopher are the cutest couple on Blog-sphere and Oreo is the cutest dog on Blog-sphere too
5. You Fancy Me Mad by B, I like reading it because it’s fun. I think she like movies just like me, and she’s going to Hawaii soon. Looking forward the vacation story on the blog
Have a great weekend !
Have you ever hear a song, and then think… “wow, this song is about me”?
