NEW HOME :)

Hi..

as I promised you I'm gonna upload my new home photos :)

so.. ready?

well, where should we start?

may be my room

that's my bed and studying area

Photos are always the important parts in my live, so.. got some families and best friends pictures always in the frames..plus.. I'm gonna put some more on my wall :) and my dream board of course :) where I put all of my dream list as well as my reminder notes.

Plus some tiny decorations :)

I love the view from my window..isn;t it pretty? here, look closer :)

Oke, now, should we move to our kitchen?

I love moving to this new place, feels homey :) and I also bought some flowers, put 'em in our bath room.

Now, living room plus dining room

You could see our balcony with a really nice view :)

it's a really cozy place to hang out, and this is the view from the balcony

Well, that's the place, now..are you ready for the tour to the park behind the apartment? it's only 2 minutes walking from home.

From this path you'll go to the waterside park

these are all the view from that park :) pretty good place for running, jogging, picnic, or just reading in the arvo

well, the tour's finished..I'm gonna go to bed now..it's 1.43 am already.. nite :)

FINALLY !! I CAN TELL YOU :D YAY!!!

Hey!!

I've been wanting to tell me since a month ago, but I couldn't because I didn't get the Visa yet,

Yes Visa!! ;D guess where.. to the State!! yay!!

you know that I've been wanted to go to new york since forever. and know finally i got a chance.

:D

SO, here's the thing :)

A few months a go I got an email from uni that said that they have a selection for an elective to LA

a trip to LA and a workshop at Frank Gehry Office!! OMG!! I know...Gehry!!!

so.... I just applied it, I knew that it's gonna be so competitive!!

but I applied it anyway, nothing's to lose I thought!!

so.. with my stupid pert folio, motivation letter and my transcript, I submitted my application:)

then... about three weeks later I got an email said that I got it!!

I got one of the place for 20 :)

yay!!!!

So.. I bought a return ticket to LA, then I applied for my visa

I was so affraid cuz.."what if i don't get the visa??" then I'm gonna lost my $1300 for my nonrefundable ticket.

but today!! i got my passport back, and so did the visa!! Yay!!

so...I"m excited now!!

the plan is I'm gonna be in LA for 2 weeks, then go to San Francisco for a few days

then hit NYC!!! :D I'm gonna meet my best friend right there :)

it's been a while I haven't met her, since she moved to NY and I'm in Sydney.

but soon.. we're gonna have a reunion..inshaallah :)

well, wish me luck ;)

ps: I'm using the picture from google now, but I promise i will get my own pictures when I get there ;)

JACK JOHNSON CONCERT!! YAY!!

Look!!! I'm on Jack Johnson concert!! with T-shirt :p

OMG!!! lol...I was so happy..

the euphoria because of the jack johnson concert is still here.

well, remember how excited was me when i bought the ticket for his concert?

it was on june.. yeah and finally i went to the concert yesterday, nope!! actually, 2 days ago.

so.. i ended up going there by myself and met one of my friend right there plus i also met a new friends who's also a big fan of jack johnson.

so Ima post some photos of the concert.

check 'em out!!

That's how it looks when i arrived there, everyone's waiting for the concert and chillin' (seriously?? that's a hot day for chillin' :p

Official merchandise!! yeah!! I've got me one!! and it was $40 for that t-shirt!! shoooot!! it it's not jack's, I wont buy a t-shirt for that price.

Yeah!! that's the one that i chose

The other stuff that I bought just that potatoes and a bottle of water (i'm brooke man...)

yay!!! I finally reached the front row (well, not really front though.. but it's not too bad)

A photo of me in front of the stage?? it's a must..lol

sit and waiting (like his song) and while waiting n sitting i took a photo of these feet :)

and the concert started, first song was Taylor

Better together was the last song..and it was a good ending

and the concert finished :D

1 year and 2 months

Hi :D

It's been 1 year and two months since I moved to Sydney. I admit it that I've been so lazy to update my blog. Well, actually as i told you before, I'm quite busy. This semester's driving me crazy, it's over now though.However, I am waiting for my result to be released, hopefully they'll be alright ( finger cross).

So... where should we start?

hmm.. I told you about my cafe job, didn't I? the other things about job are I am getting busier with face painting right now, get more than one event in a week ( great). Then I am also working casually as a "spammer" :p what I meant by spammer is my cafe doing a letter box drop job, which is delivering menu and coupons of the cafe to houses and apartments in the surrounding suburbs. So I often walking around for 2 - 3 hours to drops the menu to people's letter box :)

Anyway, I still need a weekdays job though, otherwise I'm gonna feel so bored stay at home and definitely more chances to hang out with friends and spend money ( that's bad!!!)

Now, let's talk about my new place to live :)

I'm gonna move to a new apartment, will have my own room :D yay!!!

and the best part is I'm moving to glebe, the place where all the cool coffee shops are :D

and even better our balcony have a water view..:) I promise will post the photo of my new place as soon as I move which is next week :)

so, that's it update for today, I promise will write more often (I hope soo) :p

ps: It's summer now.. sale season..so.. I spent so much money on things :(

pps: I post some of the beach photos :)

Get organized and Happier

Hey ya'll :D

my life's been so busy lately, uni is getting so tight.. must stay over at uni in so many time

but, hey.. I'm quite happy now.. my life seems better and better.

I've got the answer about money for my last semester from my sponsor. They said that they're gonna send it tomorrow morning to my account. So no need to worry anymore about not finishing uni :) and I've got a new Job now. at a spanish restaurant :D so excited..

I'm still on training but i'm sure I'll learn quickly and I love this job.

Get new order for my casual job, the face painting one. Hmmm what else?

yeah!! I start yoga and taichi class now. and they're for free :D

So Far I can say that the lucky star is shining on me now :D

Thanks God.. :D

Well, the only problem is about get up early in the morning. lol

so difficult.. I have that problem. yeah.. wake up at 12ish PM.. I know.. I know.. it's sooo late and I'm sure you think that I'm a lazy girl ( yeah.. I am, may be) :p

but Hey!! I'm trying.., try to really get organized now :D

at least I get a job and start a lil bit of sport ( ow, in addition, I'm still doing the indoor wall climbing). Anyway.. life's so good now :) I also have many nice friends. i thought when I move to sydney, it's gonna be difficult to find girls friends to chat about you know.. girl's stuff ( boys, gossip, shopping, any stuff that we only can talk with girls). but that's not true :D

finally found some nice girls.. we're gossiping, talking about boys.. go shopping, yoga class together, movie night.. etc.

What else? boys? hmmm.. this one is tough :p

I mean.. not that I'm not dating anyone, but.. it's just hard

I met some guys, date them.. but... I just haven't find the right one yet I guess.

No one that click yet :p

anyway!! I don't really care about this stuff.. I always sure that it'll happen on the right time.

I mean.. I'm not looking for now, just really enjoying my time and my life.

having fun yes, but.. nothing's so serious yet.. I just wanna let it flow.. smoothly ;)

ps: I start a new blog, a coffee blog. Since I love going to coffee shops, I decide to write reviews about all the coffee shops that I've visited. including the coffee, atmosphere, music, interior, etc. please check it out here vida @ the coffee shop

I'm officially missing you

this is my song right now.. seriously.. I'm missing someone so bad..:(

Back in Sydney and missing Japan

Hi.. I'm back.. in sydney now, winter.. man.. I'm freezing. it's ramadhan now, you know, fasting month for moslem. it feels so different here. different from Aceh. whe you usually have the different nights in Ramadhan. Anyway.. I'm having a really weird feeling now. I feel sad and missing Japan so bad (I know... it's weird) I mean I just came back from japan, and it was just a two weeks trip. But I think my emotions involve so deep. I like the people and friends there. everyone was so nice.

I'm missing my time with Yuki, mio, shun, yoshi, maria. they all the best team mates. eventhough we're kinda arguing at the beginning.. lol.. but that's process wasn't it? at the end I regard them as my new family... love 'em all. hopefully will meet them again next time.
i'm listening to monkey magic CD now, a canadian japanese band. makes me feel even more melancholic.

Our breakfast time, having bake onigiri and the best miso soup ever

With Shun and Yoshi

Our night working time.. it was so much fun.. we didn't sleep tho

The momen team's girls: Yuki, Me, Mio, MAria

All the momen team with Jun- Our tutor, he's a really nice man :)

Anyway, I should update my blog with my backpacking trip stories as well as Japan trip.
but this time I've been so lazy.. sleeping all the time. Well, I'm gonna drop some Japan trip photo, from izumo. I'll put the ASEAN trip's next time k..

JAPAN - the dream comes true

"Japan..I'll come to you!!"
It was written in a green memo with a cute penguin picture on its corner. I wrote it long long time ago.. i think when I was in senior high school. the memo was sticked on my bulletin board on one of the corners of my room. I think it's still there now, dusty, unless my sister throw it away when they clean my room (since I am not living there anymore, i mean move from home).

Going to Japan is my dream since I was 12 years old. I love Japan so much!! I like to read mangga (Japanese comic) learn all the things about Japan, even the language. But, since I study in architecture, I have been very busy. I do not really intense to Japan things anymore. I even almost forget my Dream of going to Japan, but deep in my heart I always believe that I'll go there! someday! and it's TODAY!! :D

Well, I'll tell you about this trip. it's from my university, a collaboration between UTS and Tokyo University. one of my studio in UTS, global field studio. So.. here I am now. in Tokyo!! anyway, I have a funny story, or silly I think, about how am I ariving in Japan.

I flew from Sydney at night. and I found a miracle. well, may be the word "miracle" is too much. I saw an other plane from my window, two actually!! can you believe that?? I thought that kinda thing only exist on my childhood imagination where you can see other plane from your plane's window. But, it's real!! I did see other plane, well off course it was not close like I used to imagine when I was a kid, but I saw the light of the plane. I was amaze. also the sky was so beautiful, I saw stars and the moon :)

Anyway, back to my feeling flying to Japan, I'm a kinda person that seldom feel nervous. I do feel nervous, but never have a kinda butterfly on my stomach or feel like I'm having diarrhea. But this time is different. I flew from Sydney to Japan with China airlines. On the way from Sydney to Taipei, I was fine. but on the next flight from Taipe to Tokyo, I was started to get really nervous... I had to use the lavatory on the plane!! yeah.. I got diarrhea ( what an embarrassing) then I couldn't eat my meal.. I feel like I wanna puke..., then I started to cry.. my tears just feel down.. it was a happiness tears.. I started to be so emotional when I was thinking that my dream comes true. Then I started to smile all the time. I was really stupid and silly. The closer my distance to Japan, the more I feel nervous and cannot stop smiling.

Next, I arrived in Narita airport. I hold my promise, I call some friend's names( cause they told me to call their name when I arrive so may be one day they also can go there). with a loud voice.. I don't care that people look at me.. :p


Then I asked a girl to take a photo of me in front of "welcome to Japan" sign hahhaa.. hmm..what else.. I started to practice my Japanese, I said to an airport officer "watashiwa Nihon ga suki, I do love Japan" I know.. that I was so ridiculous and silly. but Hey!!! that's my childhood dream.. I really don't care what people think.

Then I go to a hostel that I booked from Sydney. New koyo Hotel in minami Senju. And wow!! I have to go there by myself with no Japanese ability!! using a lonely planet japanese pocket book that I bought from Sydney international airport, try to speak Japanese and asking information of the train. I should only change train once in Narita station, but I missed the train. Therefore, I had to go with other train, and changed for train several time. Wow!! that was crazy!! but I'm happy I made it to the hotel. Finally :D

Well, today is my 4th day in Japan. I have been walking around to many famous building by great Japanese architect such as Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Kurikawa, Aoki, and many more, as well as visit Bow wo's office. I went to Ropongi hills, Harajuku, Ginza, shinjuku, etc. and I also bought a yukata today :D yay!! it's expensive though... 5300 yen, or around 75 AUD, or more than Rp.600.000... T,T but well, I think I hv to buy it.. that's my dream.. and it's Japan!! :p
hmmm.. That's about it for today, I'll tell you more later on, or may be moe photos.

Wearing the Yukata, I tried to put it myself.. I made it.. offcourse not tidy, I don't even know if it's right or not.

High school girl with sailor uniform and that vending machine, usually I just see it from manga

at the Japanese garden, Nezu museum.

Having Japanese lunch

In Harajuku

"Yay!! I'm in Ginza"

At another Japanese garden, on that Gate that I usually see also on manga

Tea ceremony

The Tea ceremonyset

Don't you think it's look like I'm working with this guy with the same uniform? he's promoting their traditional japanese pedicap drag by human.