PHUKET TRIP 2016: Honeymoon after Having One Child

24 - 28 Januari 2016
CGK - SIN - HKT - SIN - CGK

Sekitar hampir 3 (tiga) tahun yang lalu, ceritanya gue dan suami baru aja balik dari acara honeymoon kedua di Phuket dengan meninggalkan Arsyad bersama neneknya di Jakarta. Pastinya pertanyaan semua orang sesampainya kita di Jakarta dan Bandung ga jauh-jauh dari, "Jadi gimana program adeknya Arsyad? Sukses?"

Huahahaha. Tujuan honeymoon-nya sih bukan itu, tapi kita emang pengen refreshing berdua dari tugas-tugas kantor yang sangat menyita jiwa, hati, dan pikiran *lebaaay*. Dan menurut kita, Arsyad lebih baik nggak ikut dulu, soalnya tau sendiri daerah pantai anginnya kan luar biasa banget terus panasnya Masya Allah. *alasan. Bilang aja emak-bapaknya Arsyad kepengen pacaran lagi*

Jadi ceritanya berawal dari kerjaan suami yang gila-gilaan, yang bener-bener menguras fisik dan mental. Anjlogan sana-sini, mesti berangkat sana-sini di waktu yang seharusnya diisi sama liburan keluarga. Akhirnya dia bilang, "Yang, ayok liburan."

Ajakan yang kayak gitu yang gue tunggu-tunggu. Tanpa pikir panjang gue langsung meng-iya-kan dengan penuh semangat. "Ayok! Kemana?
"Bali yuk?" he said.
"Bali?"not bad sih, tapi kan udah pernah kesana. "Ada rekomendasi tempat lain? Bangkok atau mana gitu?"

Pikiran gue langsung menjelajah, mengingat-ingat tempat wisata yang dulu pengeeen banget dikunjungi tapi belum kesampaian.
Opsinya: Eropa, Jepang, dan... Phuket.

Coffee Philosophy

Jadilah seperti kopi, karena dengan tekanan apapun dia tidak akan melembek ataupun mengeras, namun ia senantiasa akan menyebarkan aromanya yang harum.

Saya bukan pecinta kopi. Namun tak ada salahnya saya belajar dari filosofi kopi ini.

I did not know when did I start of being impatient, easily angry, and disliking people who spoke bad about me.
Dulu saya periang, dan teman-teman berkata saya seperti itu.
Saya tak mudah tersinggung, saya asyik untuk diajak bercanda, dan saya pun tak masalah bila ada yang meledek, karna saya tahu yang mereka katakan itu hanya candaan.

But time flies. I met many different people with each different character.
The melancholic, the phlegmatic, the sanguine, and the choleric ones.
Until I realized that I have changed.

Saya sekarang cepat tersinggung, saya cepat terbawa perasaan (baper), yang menjadikan "ngambek" sudah sangat melekat dengan saya.
Why I can be like this?

Entah. Tapi bukan orang lain yang bertanggung jawab atas sikap saya sekarang. Beberapa dari mereka mungkin turut mempengaruhi sikap saya, tapi saya akan lebih berfokus pada diri saya sendiri.

Jujur, saya sangat tidak bisa bila dikasari, walaupun hanya dengan perkataan. Perasaan saya halus dan sekali ada perkataan yang menyakitkan, saya bisa langsung menangis. Dan parahnya lagi, saya akan selalu ingat perkataan yang menyakitkan itu.
I may forgive, but hardly forget.
Karena perkataan yang membekas itu entah kenapa sangat sulit saya lupakan.

When people left good memories to me, I would never forget that.
Also, when they left some pains, I would never forget.

WORDS indeed are sharper than SWORD if you cannot use them wisely.
So, be careful.

Perhaps, I'm what people do to me.
If they do me well and sincere, I can be more gentle to them.
Otherwise, if they hurt me (even only with words), I may forgive them but the hole they dig would never heal in my heart.
So, speak only some good words, especially to your precious ones.

Lately I realized that between title and content is unrelated at all! HAHAHA. Pardon me.

Breastfeeding Equipment: Breastpump

Kegiatan pumping atau pompa ASI emang nggak bisa dilepaskan begitu aja dari kegiatan breastfeeding. Buat para working mom termasuk gue yang pengen terus ngasih ASI eksklusif buat baby, paling nggak sampai si kecil berumur 6 bulan.

Alhamdulillah Arsyad udah melalui 3 bulan dengan ASI eksklusif, tinggal setengah perjalanan lagi nih. Moga ASI bunda bisa terus lancar ya nak.. jadi jangankan 6 bulan, kalau terus lancar Arsyad bisa full ASI Insya Allah sampe 2 tahun.

Pumping atau perah-memerah ASI sangaat banget ditentukan dari media perahnya, Itu menentukan banget kuantitas ASI yang didapat. Perlu diinget, in my opinion, harga nggak selamanya berbanding lurus dengan kenyamanan saat pumping dan kuantitas ASI yang didapat. Initinya sih cocok-cocokan. Belum tentu breastpump yang menurut orang bagus, tapi di gue juga bagus, dan sebaliknya. 

Octoberlicious Part 1 - Am I Getting Married?

Oktober Tahun 2013 itu bisa dibilang salah satu bulan yang bersejarah dalam hidup gw. 

Yak, salah satunya adalah perubahan status gw dari Miss ke Mrs!

All just went so swiftly and... unbelievably.

Who would've thought anyway that I would get married in October 2013??!!

Even my mom still didn't believe it.

And, See You Again

And see you again for the next three months.

Not a short time though, but it's not a farewell.

Just wait and see, will time change everything? Only God knows. One thing for sure, it depends on us, depends on you and me, because future can change, anyhow.

Afternoon Tale

My friend, Nurzaitun, just tweeted this:

"Sometimes I wish I were a-Himono-Onna, so I did not need to feel troubled and taste any sorrow of falling in love."

It looked ridiculous at first, how could she be so troubled when she had someone to rely upon? But later, after any further thought, she was just all true.

When we fall in love, happiness and confusion strangely appear simultaneously. We can just easily happy or sad instead, just like sunshine in a daylight which can change into heavy storm in moments. 

But, yeah, that's the consequences you must take for granted when you dare to love someone and it does not  buy you for free, of course. 

In the end, loving someone is beautiful, indeed, but your anxiety level will increase as well :P 

Farewell

Hello! Again with the spoiler, I'll try to write this one shot story about Alice and her love life. This time is about she and her long ago-crush. Why suddenly I came up with this one? I don't know, I just happened to find a stack of weird sheets of undelivered love letters of Alice which were supposed to send to Gerald Rivers, her desperately-love interest. Due to Alice's cowardliness, they were just left unspoken.

The story was taken place a while before Alice met and best-friended with Dave. Actually Gerry was one of reasons why she finally closed to Dave.

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Rhythm of the Rain

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain, tellin' me just what a fool I've been.
I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain and let me be alone again.

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CHAPTER 1

RHYTHM OF THE FALLING RAIN

Rain poured down heavily from the dark cumulonimbus cloud. Thunderbolt stroke halving the sky along with the rumbling sound of the frightening thunder. Cold breeze blew through my skin and made it shivered in chillness. I took shelter in front of bakery shop, crossing and grasping my two arms coated with light brown cardigan. It was rather wet and successfully made me quivering. My hair was dripping wet because I recklessly ran under the rain from nearby bookstore until the thunder freaked me out with its deafening sound and forced me to stop by here.