PMS

You know there are things unexplainable, silly, and weird about women and they tend to blame it on hormones. Well, not that it wasn't true at all (ehem, woman here speaking), but err..yeah, it's true, I blame it on my hormonal condition as well. But what mostly true is, at the end of the day women would regret it; regret why they let things happened the way it was, let that flowing hormone control their emotion...and maybe when they tried to regain their memories they learned something.

That all they ever need is someone to lean on. Someone only to offer a warm embrace and gentle tap on your head because there are no words coming out and you're too tired to talk and listen. Comfort, so easy yet mostly failed to communicate with.

And as the rest of the day goes, you are alone in a crowd. No one can speak your muteness, and your boyfriend leaves you behind because he doesn't know what to do. So there it is. You feel a distance and a bit hurt of everything.


Or: "dammit, you just have your PMS!" your boyfriend cursed. 

bersih-bersih

Sepagi ini sudah membaca bait-bait blog jaman masih nulis di multiply ternyata bisa bikin terharu ya? Ternyata dulu saya begitu alay dan norak, heuheuheuheu. Eh tapi lebih banyak kangennya sih daripada haru, jadi dulu saya, dem, dan kai rajin sekali nulis dan saling ngirim komentar (liat aja usernamenya masi alay gitu, hihihi). Kan begitu ada postingan baru langsung terkirim ke email, jadi begitu blog terposting gak lama kemudian akan ada komentar masuk entah dari siapa yang lebih dulu. Berlanjut terus menerus. Good ol’ times J Sekarang kami bertiga udah gak ada yang aktif di situ.

Hmmhh, sekarang nulis apa ya. Posisi kerja saat ini jadi sekretaris, beban kerja uda gak sepadat dulu. Harusnya porsi kuliah jadi lebih memadai ya karena uda gak terlalu mikirin kerjaan yang deadline-nya seabrek-abrek, tapi motivasi lagi berkurang karena ada peraturan baru L Salah saya sendiri sih gak ngurusin dari kemaren-kemaren, percuma kalo makan hati sekarang mah... *lanjut mewek di shower*

Some events that I attended: konser Sum 41, The Datsuns, Anti-Flag (termasuk berhasil meet and greet! ah, should’ve written more detailed about this), seminar Smart Wonderful Women, backpacking ke Vietnam dan Kamboja, wooohhh... turns out there are so many yak! Saya nyesel kenapa saya gak jadi orang yang rajin kayak dulu nulis-nulis, menjadi blogger dan diarist yang kaffah, karena daya ingat saya lumayan labrador saya udah gak inget mau nulis ulang hal-hal tersebut darimana, huhuhu. Sibuk ngapain sih coba? Twitter-an? Palingan pacaran doang kan ya? Ngok. Tapi mungkin kalo mau positive thinking, artinya saya lebih sibuk berkiprah di dunia nyata *benerin kerah baju* sampe-sampe gak punya waktu buat nulis hal-hal beginian, ahahahaha.

*menampar muka sendiri karena bikin alasan dangkal*

Baiklah, saya nyapu-nyapu halaman blog ini dulu. Mudah-mudahan saya jadi lebih rajin nulis mulai dari sekarang. Horray. 

financial revolution

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. 

membaca

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!!

Menghapus Multiple Entries di Google Calendar dan Blackberry

Suatu hari, saya sedang baca postingan temen saya, Nunu, di blognya dan tertarik pada artikel ini. Woohhh, ini penemuan yang amat berguna, mengingat saya adalah tipe orang yang rajin mencatat peristiwa-peristiwa tertentu di kalender handphone, termasuk hari-hari libur nasional dan cuti bersama. Tutorial yang dikasih Nunu jelas membantu kemalasan saya, dan sangat berguna juga karena disinkronisasikan dengan Google Calendar. Tapi kemudian saya menemukan kelemahan dari pengaplikasian sinkronisasi ini: event-event yang saya catat jadi muncul banyaaaakkk sekali! Dengan kata lain, one entry I type for a day suddenly grows multiple! Yap, entri yang sama dan di hari yang sama, dan jumlahnya ekstrim, sampe 100 buah.

Jelas untuk menghapus satu persatu terlalu melelahkan. Apalagi Google Calendar dan Blackberry gak bisa loh menghapus multiple entries sekaligus. Rupanya kejadian semacam ini juga banyak dialami orang-orang, multiple entries dan ribet kalo dihapus satu persatu. Nah, saya menemukan solusi untuk masalah ini dan udah terbukti ampuh. Caranya: download aplikasi Google Calendar Duplicate Remover di SINI. Aplikasi ini masih berstatus free sampai sekarang.

Berikut adalah keterangan yang saya sadur dari website ryanvision yang menyediakan link aplikasi:

Duplicates in Google Calendar?

If you have ever tried to sync your Google Calendar with your Outlook/Phone/Blackberry and ended up with duplicates, you have come to the right place. This tool will delete duplicates from your Google Calendar.

Why is this free?

We strongly believe that not everyone can afford software, but that should not stop them from solving their problems. If you can afford, please make a donation.

How does Duplicate Remover delete duplicates?

Just run the installer, start the application, give your Google ID, and the date range from which you want duplicates to be deleted. The tool does the rest. This tool is very safe, and will only ever delete the duplicate entries. We delete duplicates based on the title of the event and the start and end times. If we find multiple matches of the same event, the event gets deleted. If you feel the tool fixes your issue, please leave us a note. Also, if you would like additional features, please let us know.

FAQs

Why can’t I delete more events?

Google Calendar has a quota system that limits accounts to less than 15000 events deleted within a 24 hour period.

Is entering gmail username password safe?

We use strict Secure http protocol to talk to google. We never save your password/ transmit.

How can I avoid events reappearing on my Blackberry? 
The problem seems to lie with Blackberry sync and Google sync both trying to synchronize the calendar. Turn off the Blackberry sync by going to Calendar–> Options–> Select your account (the gmail address that you are synching with)–> Un-check ‘Wireless Synchronization’. Once this is turned off, use Google sync.

Blackberry: How can I delete all my events on my Blackberry’s default calendar 
Go into the calendar, set your view to be agenda, and then scroll up to the top of your calendar, highlight the first date listed and hit the menu key. Now choose “delete prior” and it will remove all of your calendar entries.

Okay, semoga berhasil!

chapped lips

Actually I'm being very kind not to post my close-up chapped lips in this blog so that any of you readers won't get too frightened. The image would be gruesome and how it feels on me is double. It's been three weeks I suffer from this, on and off, and I'm kinda lost on how to deal with this situation. Any heelllpppp?

Uhuk..so let me tell you how it all begins..hiks hiks..

I have this The Body Shop Wild Cherry lip butter which I got for free as a present for my birthday from the store. Yes, it was on October 2010. And the story goes, I didn't realize it's been a year past until one day I checked myself in the mirror and noticed a strangely vague crack on my lips. It's not unusual since we're in a colder season, so I didn't give a damn...and I kept using it over and over and over until then my lips were fully chapped, swollen, and dry. There were also erythema circling around. Yuck. Have you ever had this condition when one day you licked your lips and tasted a strange oily liquid? Strange because you didn't put anything on it but you couldn't stop sweeping away? That, my friend, is an oily film of your lips being removed.... and when you finally stop licking, your lips has been painfully dry. So stop licking lips even though they are fine.

not mine...

It took me that worst to finally throw away my HG lip butter and found out that the cause is expiration. 

I have another lip balm, this one is Banana Boat's. Good enough for daily use with sunscreen and such, so I thought this one could offer a bit help. What happened was it triggered the worst the chapped could be. I should know better that there's no way another chemical-contained lip care could heal. So the day after.. I could barely move my lips without feeling the pain. The lips looked almost all-white in crackness. Painfully gruesome. Total gruesome.

Now I'm using Vaseline petroleum jelly. 

It works like a magic. I mean my lips are gradually getting better, just need to dab it a few times a day.  But there are moments when I feel I am recovered enough and want to try that banana boat bitch because I left Vaseline at home. Nah, the chapped lips gets back. I realize that now I can't use any butters/cream/balms on my lips afterwards...so I'm thinking that Vaseline just gives me temporary relief, does not repair or heal, huhuhu.

By the way, from the references I read, there are other remedies to help. Coconut oil, applying honey, a slice of cucumber, aloe vera lip balm (bollocks, my Banana Boat also contains aloe vera), and....nasal sebum. Or in Bahasa: ingus. Thank God I have Vaseline in my room.

EDITED
And the next month, I had to go to see a dermatologist because my lips became allergic to petrolathum!! Yikes, the pain is not over yet! I stopped using Vaseline, stuck to her prescription, and used Nivea Lip Balm (blue packaging) instead. The lips still gets dry at times (compared to the past, yes it gets dry more often), but Nivea moistures it enough I don't have an allergy afterwards.

ngisi kuesioner...

Menurut anda, bagaimana pengaruh prestasi yang anda dapatkan di sekolah dengan keberhasilan anda di masa depan ?

Oh, they care? I can’t see that there's any...