Kamis, 08 Maret 2012

financial revolution

Diposting oleh anindita di 17.07 0 komentar
I remember when I was very young, still in elementary school, my mother decided to take a different approach on giving money. She gave our daily allowance upfront, at the beginning of every month, and a piggybank. What was all that about? Me thought. But then me and my brother and sister were used to it. Up until the final year of my diploma school. We were all used to live in a budget, bought groceries using it, and never asked for more. Thus, when I am already this old, given more than enough salary for a living, I am a bit frustrated to find out that my parents has taught me how to manage my own finance at very little age, yet I haven't been capable of doing it very well!! Yes I haven't got married yet, but when I have, there will be so much things to buy, so much things to spend, and so much things to save for. 

*insert my grim visage here*

Oh well, it's never too late to start a revolution, is it? I don't know why I thought about this lately.. perhaps because I've seen a lot of friends becoming newlyweds, and I've seen most of them struggling to fulfill their desires to live properly. When you were young you were supposed to dream big - wanting to be a doctor, pilot, and it would be on their parents' shoulder to think about where money would come from, hehehehe. Been there, learned from that. 

Kamis, 01 Maret 2012

membaca

Diposting oleh anindita di 11.37 1 komentar
How many books did you manage to read in a year? Me..uhuk..less than five books last year. Ridiculous, mengingat dulu saya bisa menghabiskan 2 novel dalam 1 malam (tentu saja akibatnya pelajaran jadi keteteran), meminjam 4 novel untuk 1 minggu, bahkan kalo diingat-ingat pernah mencapai 8 buku dalam sebulan. Sekarang saya merasa kesulitan untuk meneruskan ritme semacam itu. Suatu hal yang aneh yah, padahal saya punya lebih banyak waktu luang dibandingkan masa sekolah atau masa kuliah. Times have changed, saat ini orang merasa lebih nyaman membaca twitter ketimbang buku langsung.

Sekarang di tahun 2012 ini, saya bertekad akan membaca minimal 3 buku dalam sebulan. Sejauh ini lebih banyak bentuk e-book daripada hardcopy, karena beberapa judul yang ingin saya baca belum beredar di Indonesia, atau harganya kemahalan, hehehe. Semoga berhasil.

Target baca:
1. Primal Fear - William Diehl
2. Brida - Paulo Coelho
3. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
4. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
6. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
7. Middlemarch - George Eliot
8. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

Yoshhhh!!
 

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