2012 Best Moments

Happy new year! so many hopes and dreams I would like to make in this year.

But rather than listing down those to-do-list in 2013 I'd prefer looking back to what experiences I've had in the growing-up-2012-year.

January
Meeting Monang. Starting as a couple. Definitely, there was no better way than this to start the year.

Hello Mister!

February
Went to a short trip in Bandung with mister and some friends. Caught up a new cute place at Stevie G, Maja House.

March
Had a fun and silly two-days trip to Bandung with best friends. We actually went there to watch Kahitna and Rick price in concert but the silly times we had after the concert was much more remarkable :)

April 
Full of work and dance rehearsal. One of them was an event at Mall Taman Anggrek that provide car simulator with real Jakarta street to ride. What an advanced technology. This warn me that I do really need to improve my driving skill.

May
I luckily had the chance joining DLDC to a week tour in Vietnam. We went there performing a masterpiece, "Perempuan Lala" in Vin Long, Bin Phuoc, Dong Nai and of course Ho Ci Minh. The story was inspired by a novel of Pramoedya Ananta Toer entitled "Gadis Pantai". We collaborated with the best dance community in Sumbawa, Sanggar Nyer Nyer to perform some pieces of Sumbawa traditional dance
Before going to Vietnam, we performed the piece in Jakarta. So glad that my best friends, family, and mister come to watch us!
Perempuan Lala become my first time having a duet scene. The dance was Challenging, while the tour was exciting. It was one of my best moment to remember for a lifetime :)

Stand for DLDC

Perempuan Lala performance - Jakarta

After performance at Ho Ci Minh

June
Mister and me went to my favorite stand up comedian special show. The night after was our fifth month anniversary and for the first time he gave me flowers, haha, and cute bottle filled with colored light bubble he made by himself. What a lovely night :)

July
Brought some beauty editors to pleasant trip to Hotel Padma Bandung for work. I love the Hotel, I lovveeee the scenery with those trees and hills, I love the cold weather. Too bad I didn't have the pictures. Looking forward to be there free from work hihi.

Lunch at Maxi's resto

Me, Mba Ulfa, and Mba Iti at Dinner

August
This month was full of break fasting gatherings and  heart breaking phase :p. At the end of the month I went to Medan for the first time, again for some work. I gotta to be there again!

With high school friends

Welcoming Sasa back home to Sentul

With friends from work and media

September
This month was full of fun times. First, Time and me had s short holiday to my favorite city, Solo to watch Matah Ati and of course got as many Shijack milk as I could. Second, our office had a three days outing in Bali whilst having new identity. Third, attending my best friend's wedding. She was my first closest friend who got married.

BEST fresh milk

Team bonding & water sport

Dinner at the beach

Happy for Ichy & Randy

October
I went to Jogja with some journalist for work. After 2 hours delayed, this Lion let us stood at the back of the plane because we weren't get the right seat numbers :(.

November
Happy 23rd birthday, Ega! Mister and me share the same birthday. I already told everything in the previous post about this :)

Happy 23!

December -
A great way to end this year? of course by having one of my dream came true. Five years ago, when i was a senior high school student, I watched Javanese dance performed by DLDC and I was enchanted back then. This year, DLDC had another Javanese masterpiece called "Banowati, Jalingan Golek". Luckily I participated on the piece and let some senior high school students watch me. What a dream came true :)

at the backstage

Banowati, Jalingan Golek - GKJ, 1-2 Dec 2012

friends came supporting me :)

That was my story of 2012. I had lots of fun but also lots of lessons for reason to grow up.
2012 pretty much inspired me to be much better. I made my dreams came true, and the best part is that  I will be able to create and put new hopes and dreams into reality in 2013 :)
 

Twenty Three on Twenty Three with Mr.Twenty-Three

I had officially turned 23 this November.
Yeaaay!

And the special part was, this year I shared my very special day with my beloved boyfriend.
Yes. He and me was born on the same date, November 23.

Was I having a good time? definitely yes.

Ka Dim and Me

In the morning, as usual family and me shared some delicious cakes,

In the afternoon, I shared some donuts with friends at work.

In the evening, he picked me up after office to have our birthday dinner date

Who got to pay the dinner when both of us were the king and queen of the day? No one.
Haha, after fighting with the heavy rain and the crazy traffic on Friday night
We chose a steak house where everyone who is on his/ her birthday eats for free.

Coming back to home, we both got our birthday gifts.
and I got the extra gift from him

Isn't it cute having room decorated like this? :) I got very surprised seeing my room was full of orange balloons all over the place.

and there was a big happy birthday picture made by him lying in my bed.

Funny, how like a week before he told me he doesn't give surprises
Yet he surprised me unexpectedly.
Meanwhile I only gave him my unsurprised gifts. Haha.

Thank you, Mister for still being here giving me comfort, care, and contentment.

Looking forward for our more birthday dates :)

What Matters in Dancing

There's a time for each purpose under heaven. There's a time to weep, there's a time to mourn, and there's a time to dance - Footloose (2011)

People keep asking why I love dancing. What is it so special in dance?

I remembered my friend compared dance and football. He said “apa enaknya sih nari? Misalnya kalo gue main bola, begitu berhasil ngebobolin ke gawang rasanya kan jelas tuh enaknya, puas banget. Kalo nari apa?”

Here are my statements of what matters in dancing :

1.   I can completely be myself 

2.   I don’t have to care other damn things but the dance

3.   When it’s too hard communicate  my deep feelings, dance it and all around will notice

4.   Dance shows who you are 

5.   There is no right or wrong in dance, it’s just whether it looks good or not good to people 

6.   In choreography, when I can do it right, it feels like something is accomplished  

7.   I only feel pretty when I dance

8.   Dance give me lessons, as in I often realize things while dancing

9.   The feel of togetherness is inevitable. I won't feel alone.
10. Dancing delivers the most delightful feeling

The Second Time You Get A Heartbreak

I happened to randomly find an interesting article entitled “TheSecond Time You Fall in Love” and in fact, it was an honest and fine opinion.

But most people maybe experience more than that. If there is a second time of us falling in love, then there might also be a second time of us get a heartbreak.

In response, here I am writing my version of The Second time You Get A Heartbreak.

The first time you get a heartbreak, the world seems like shutting down. No, it’s only you who shut down. You hardly have proper sleep, bad dreams are haunted, you spend your days keep on wondering all those “why” questions. Soo not easy to make you feel happy while all you ever wanted is being happy with the one that left you.

Then you finally come to a turning point. Here he/she is, your second–time-fall-in-love-guy.

All those feelings written in the article is undoubtedly true, I guess.

But then as what happens in life. There comes the problems, fights, doubts, cries. What seems to be so easy at the beginning, turns into tough times.

Then you get your second heartbreak. This time, you are no more crying and suffering all nights. You are no more pushing yourself to get the answers of those “why’ questions. You just lost.

For a while, you can’t differentiate what is truth and lies.. You don’t trust. You don’t get mad. You don’t blame anyone neither yourself. You don’t have the guts to be in any relationships. You don’t need anyone cheering you up. You fed up hearing those sad songs. You lost for a while.

What you know is, you need to get other ways of happiness for yourself before you shut down.

But life running in circles. There will be times when everything will be back okay.

The Photo Wall

saw this cute picture while random browsing. So lovellyy!

orang wall with cute instax photos. I'm so gonna have this one on my own bedroom :)

A Little About You

It's a bliss
When I had no expectation at all, and I got surprised of what universe could threw to me.
It's you.

Meeting you was the most unexpected moment
Knowing you was the most liar imagination I could have
But after all, falling in love with you become my favourite happiness
And when your smell starts lingering on me, it's when you become irresistable

So let's not make any drama
Let's not make any promises
Let's just be us
For I cherish every imperfections of us

Better than Yesterday

This November, I'm officially 22.
I am blessed with so much personal accomplishment.

I've started my new career, by joining myself as an Account Executive at Stratcom Indonesia.
Stratcom is a PR consultant , part of Indopacific Edelman, which is the company I've been imagining stepping in there since I was still a newly innocent student in UI. Here I am, enjoying my job now :)

I am no longer having bad dreams at nights.
No more past popping on my days
I live my life so much happier and lighter than before

I am still dancing. No can do, giving up the dance for career.
I'm trying to keep it balance between dance and career. It is so hard, and it's getting so much harder.
But I still remember when I had this serious talk with my best friend, Dinda Sarasannisa, through BBM.
She asked me "What would you do on your future Ga?"
I answered her spontaneously "Gue mau berkarier dan berkesenian Ndat".
This is the truth : I've never seriously thinking about what I would do on my future before. And when you asked me this, I just said what was the first thing popped on my mind. And now, I found out it's true.
I seriously do want to keep everything in balance. Thank you for inspiring me, Ndat :p

I also just had a super happy short holiday with my family.
it's been a quite a long time since we've had our family holiday just the four of us.
Dad, Mom, Kak Dim, and me had 4 days in Singapore.
This was undoubtedly the best way to refresh my mind before I let my self drowning in working-hours :p

In short, I watch myself on a great path
I'm grateful with what I am, what I do, and what I have.
I'm grateful being surrounded by great family, great friends, great work partners.
I am better than yesterday :)