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How to simplify your wardrobe

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 5 May 2015 21:58:00 +0700

Hello there! This is my debut post since I decide to take a break from my weekly post. Living away from blogging world bring me anxiety somehow. But thanks God, the weather here in Semarang lately is a bless. I enjoy everytime the gray sky arise, complete with clouds hanging weighty as if they don't want to stay there any longer. Well at least, the weather is on the top list in the good part of my daily assessment lately.

In line with a great weather, last weekend was also a pleasing moment for me. I barely remember when was the last time I have a quality time with myself. Just me, doing what I enjoy to do, with no one else around. I dislike the hustle. Maybe that was one of the reason why I started living in minimalism in the first place. Too many things, or too many people can be exhausting and distance me from clarity. Therefore I crave for a simple, yet more fulfilling life.

Speaking of minimalism, ever since earlier this year, I've been trying a new way to simplify my wardrobe. As what I've said in my older post about minimalism, that choosing everyday outfit is an everyday decision that I want to reduce. So far, this method works for me. That's why I'm taking up time to share about it here. So, here is my step to step advice to simplify your wardrobe and reduce your everyday outfit decision:

Analyze it, pick 3 colors, and stick to it!

Getting rid stuff is a must when it comes to minimalism. Now when you decide to go minimalist, it's time to take a closer look at your wardrobe and declutter it. Take a look at a pile of your wardrobe and analyze it. What colors are dominant? In my case, I realize that I stock up many reddish, black, and white color. Therefore I decide to put aside the other color apart of these three. I also decide to stick with these 3 colors for my future purchase. I even tell my friends to remind me when I'm about to buy a new cloth apart from my 3 main colors.

Keep the neutral color.

In this case, I'm kind of lucky because the neutral color is my dominant. But in case you have another dominant color, try to be compromise and keep the basic piece you have such as white, black, or denim. Because you know, basic things will last for long.

Wear one color for a whole week.

To reduce everyday decision, I decide to wear the same color since I have enough piece (for each color) in a week. Right now I have 3 type of week, the white week, red week, and the black week.

In the beginning it feels so easy because I no longer need to think about "which color should I wear today?." But after 3 months implement it, I often feel bored to wear the same color in a week. It's frustrating to stick even to my own decision. Right now I free myself for once or twice in a week to wear another color instead of resist it while grumbling.

So far I love this method so much. I no longer need to think about what color I should wear today, and nobody pointed out to me that I wear the same cloth everyday. Anyway, I wear just the same color, right?

Have your own role model

Having your own role model can be beneficial in some way. They can inspire you, and the most important is they can tell you where they get their stuff. Haha. One of my favorite is Rosalinda Tjioe since she has basic yet quirky style. But recetly, I also find myself enjoy reading this blog, since she has many advice in growing a minimalist wardrobe. Let say, at least you should get a mentor since living in minimalism is a long journey.

Do it slowly. But do your best!

Every change takes time. That's why you should do it slowly. You may still loving your old stuff. Therefore don't throw your stuff right away. Give them a chance. You could keep them in a separate space in case you still want to wear it. But after not touching it for some moment, then you can consider to give it away.

I myself is not too strict since I still keeping some pastel (OMG, I love pastel color so much!) and greyish stuff. I still keep them, even wear them often. I sometime wear pastel in a white week, or grey in a black week since it's not stray away too far from my main color. But I swear myself to not buy any other color apart of these three in the future. You know, allow yourself to compromise but do your best!

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Minimalist means less. Right now since I decide to live my life in minimalism, I no longer think that more options is better. Instead, I start to feel more free and content with limited option. Maybe you can give it a try.

Human manual book

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 02:36:00 +0700

There is a dark basement in everyone's hearts. If ignored and is only observed, the darkness becomes thicker. You should muster your courage and go downstairs, then turn on the light. - Jin Soo-Wan

If you happen to read my wordpress blog lately, you may notice that I'm interested to learn psychology lately. And tonight, I learn one more thing from a korean drama that I've just watched. It is that,

our childhood has much influence in shaping our personality.

Now when I take a look at my own life, I can't agree more that childhood memory was indeed play a big role in shaping my personality. It's like the law of cause and effect. That if I have any type of personality, something may have caused it. Although not all of our personality is derived from our childhood memories. But revealing the cause is mandatory if you want to master your own self. We should really go downstairs, and figure out the way to turn on the light.

Aaah, how learning psychology is like reading a human manual book. ((:

Happiness theory 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:06:00 +0700

Even when almost every kids loves candy, doesn't mean any kid will definitely happy if she given one. Sacrifice for the sake of somebody's happiness have to be full of consideration. Or it will just end up wasteful. Happiness, is very personal thus it can't be generalized.

Home, February 14th 2015

Comes to an end

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:09:00 +0700

Dear God,

Tonight in planet earth, we are celebrating a new year. Which make me feel sorry for the throwing-fireworks that ruin your sky which already beautiful. So let me just sit here and write this blog post that make me feel like we’re sitting in a cozy couch and I try to pour down my feeling and gratitude for you.

2014 has been, uhm, wonderful. I've found myself become more happy, less sad and top of everything, you allow me to slowly discover some pictures of my gigantic puzzle. Even though life feel so hard sometimes, but I glad to have you through.

And I wanna thank you for the countless opportunity you gave me this year. For every beautiful scenery I've seen, every thrilling experience, every beautiful city you allowed me to visit and every single happiness I've felt. Thank you so much.

Not everyone is being nice to me. But I wanna thank you for such a big-heart you gave me. I know I couldn't have everyone on my side, so I let them to pass by.

And thank you for the idea and courage to start my own Happiness Project in March. Because as soon as I start it, I’ve been meet my local favorite band twice. Although I never be a real-fan of them since then, haha. And then I create Pudee, my very-best puppy because he will never ever barking or complain. And it release me from having to deal with its feces such as if I have a real puppy, haha. I feel so grateful that March has been so stressing so I start my happiness project that help me to be a person that less-complaining, less-upset and less-angry. One thing that now I realize :

Happiness is not the thing that we should pursue. It something within ourselves that we should feel.

And also, I should be grateful for the sorrowful September that get me a chance to learn about self-compassion. Which then lead me to be more mindful about my life. I learn a lot from that. It lessen my stress level and I somehow become more compassionate towards myself.

And now that I just wind up my craft business earlier in December, I come to realize that it become easier for me to let go of something. It’s like, I feel sufficient as long as I got my own self and you to guide me through.

Life is balance that way. We feel incredibly happy, but something might come up and make us sad. We feel sad sometimes, but then we learn something from our sadness. Perhaps, we lost something but another good thing might come up without we knowing it. So in the end of this year, I just wanna say thank you so much for the chance to be alive. For the opportunity to pursue all the things that matter to me. Yes, there are some obstacles and I slipped sometime. But thank you for making me able to look from the good side in every situation. Thank you for 2014.

xo,

kelimutu

Dear self

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 7 Dec 2014 07:14:00 +0700

Don't be too serious towards your own fardel. Sometimes, you should try to put yourself as an audience of your own life. Life is funny that way.

We often unconsciously exaggerating our feeling. Like, losing money make you feel upset or a delayed vacation disappoint you. But very often, it's your mind that make you feel that way. Losing money is not that bad, because it maybe remind yourself to share more. A delayed vacation is not that bad because maybe you can have a better offering next time. Don't be easily affected by a trigger that can cause you a negative emotion. Master your own mind and you will find out that life is better that way. ((:

xo,

kelimutu

The way other people pursue happiness

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:47:00 +0700

Sudden thought as I turning off the light of my room last night.

I wonder how other people earn their happiness. Are you willing to share with me?

In love with, Calvin Harris

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:12:00 +0700

Blame my high-stress-level lately. Now I'm in love with electro music. And because Calvin harris is my first crush since "Feel so close", now I can't help to not get addicted of his latest single "Blame."

His music was so good to be listened especially if I feel like escaping from my routine stress. It's like its beat is saying "it's okay baby. I got you, I got you." Even my happiness blog seems so sorrowful lately. I just realized it by now, *sigh. Ahhh, did I being too much drama?

Image source : http://weheartit.com/sinem_sert

You're not that busy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:38:00 +0700

Ki, don't misunderstand thinking as working. As when thinking, you're just imagining that work. And nothing gonna change through imagining. So just do it anyway.

You're not that busy. Your brain is just too crowd of ideas that fussing to be realized. And you might be just misunderstand those thought as an actual work whereas you're not even start anything yet. So roll of your sleeve, baby. You gotta work harder than ever.
It seems like an enormous amount work to do because you haven't start. So just remember your own promise on this post. Kay? (;

Image source: http://what-is-your-fashionality.tumblr.com

Maturity

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 02:29:00 +0700

I'm no expert to talk about maturity. But since I hit an early stage of twentieth, I start to think a lot about the essence of being mature. Being old is a scary phrase for me. But being mature is a different topic. Getting old is a matter of number but mature is more into emotional state of a person.

I start to don't mind about something I used to consider as important thing for me. Such as, birthday maybe? I don't know, I start to loss my excitement of celebrating birthday. But I know it doesn't mean that I was mature enough when I no longer whine about birthday party to my parent or hoping for birthday present from my friends. But it is the essence that I'm talking about. You no longer want to troublesome other people around you because all you think is you wanna be independent.

You start to think about your preference career. You start chasing goals. Not only achievement goals but also property goals. You no longer easily offended by trivial thing because life itself has been complicated, right?

But top of it all, mature for me means you start to base your decisions on something different than what you do in the past. It indicates that we start to see the world in a different perspective because our mindset is growing. Of course we all hope it growing to the wiser way.

PS!

I write this article while listening to Coffitivity. Have yourself a try! It's a nice tool to boost your creativity. (:

When you feel insecure, you tend to pretend to be bold to calm yourself down

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:30:00 +0700

I don't know if this happen to other people, but I do feel that I tend to pretend to be bold when I actually don't know what should I do. I feel that bold is a form of positivity that I can maintain to calm my self down. I mean, just like blogging. If you happen to read my wordpress blog, where I babble much thing about happiness, someone may think that I'm a happy-go-lucky girl. The fact is, I mostly write the post when I don't know what should I do.

Funny. Even sometime I write in incoherent mind with something like "how can I find the way out from this problem?" question in my mind. Sometime I also figure out the solution while I'm writing my blog post. So there is a time when a newly published post get me to think "great! You know the theory now let's start the practice".

But there also a time, when I still get stuck even when I write. Just like this post. I actually write this a couple days ago to overcome the uncertainty in my self. But I don't know, until three paragraphs, I still don't know what should I do to overcome that feeling.

But thanks god, yesterday I found this article written by my favorite James Clear. It give me an enlightenment to face my bad habit (dwell on something for a pretty long time before settling a decision).

He said :

Nearly every problem you face is temporary. But it cause immediate pain. And we often let this pain drive our choices and actions

.Making better choices is often a matter of choosing better constraints. By limiting your options to those that fit your values, you are taking an important step to ensuring that your behavior matches your beliefs.

So that's how I finally make my decision.

PS!
Happy independent day for my belove country, Indonesia. I know, I haven't done anything for you but I do wish all the better thing be with us ahead. Amiin (:

And oh, if you have any relative that is pregnant or ever been pregnant, please help me to to fill this questionnaire. Gracias! :D

Holiday update

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:08:00 +0700

Nothing much to say since this is just an obligatory update so I'm not leaving this week without any post. I'm having my college break here in my hometown peacefully. But since it's been almost a month, I'm getting bored here. You know, too much sweet things will bring you into diabetes. Haha.

I don't have anything to preach about in my wordpress blog, so I'm coming here to babbling. Hey, take a look at this guy!

His character in Flower boy next door was just soooo lovable. And I feel that he's kinda similar to my favorite cutie Min Hyuk. Anyone with me?

But when he's acting serious scene, he remind me of my favorite Jo In Sung. I'd like to see him on his next drama but too bad he was started his mandatory military service since April 2014. Hmm, I have to wait a couple years any longer to see him on screen.

Take your time

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:37:00 +0700

When you feel like the time flies so fast, just enjoy your work.
When you feel like the clock ticking so slow, just take your time.
You may feeling guilty doing nothing, but don't.
Life is not just about running.
It's about knowing the timing.
When you have to run, and when you have to take a break.

It's okay to sit around and take a look to your surrounding.
The sky is yours to enjoy..

The sand is yours to feel.

You may want to pause the time so you can feel the moment.
So you can listen to the breeze of the beach much longer.
Even you may going to whine "Can I just do this for a living?"

But dear self, don't be lured by the joy.
You have to know when the time you must going back home.
And back to enjoy your ride.
A long (yet so fast) journey called life.

Renew your habit

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 9 Apr 2014 20:00:00 +0700

Dream is a never-ending topic for me. I strongly believe that everyone has at least one dream she/he want to achieve badly. But the thing is, not everyone know how to preparing their selves in order to achieve it.

We really need to organize our dream, mapping it, & plan some strategies to make it happen. But do not expect to achieve it quickly. Because you know lah, even instant noodle take 5 minutes before it ready to served.

The desire to achieve results quickly fools you into thinking that the result is a prize.

So, since I know that dream must be organized, I start to arranging my own strategy. Creating much of visual reminders that keep me anxious. But one day, I read an e-book which tell me to start with habit change if you really want to achieve those great goals.

Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We’re proud of you for having them. But it’s possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that’s really frightening you—the shift in daily habits that would mean a re–invention of how you see yourself. —Seth Godin

It turns out that we have to break our dream into pieces of habit, stick with it, and achieve it slowly. But wait, starting a new habit is not an easy thing, right? But don't worry guys, everything takes time kok. The e-book tell me to start the habit changes with trigger. The trigger can be anything that you never fail to do everyday. For example, let's say you want to start a new habit to do sport everyday. So you can use "wake up" as a trigger for you to start doing push up, sit up, or anything.

“make it so easy that you can’t say no.”

Choose an easy trigger that makes you feel like your new habit is a routines for you. In the beginning, performance doesn't matter. What does matter is becoming the type of person who always sticks to your new habit - not matter how small or significant it seems.

Want to start an easy change? I dare you to be a happier person (because I really hate seeing an unhappy person). But don't worry guys. I give you my secret (not so, actually. Because I've written it before) trigger to be a happier person. The trigger is "waking up". The new habit that you have to start is smiling as sincere as you possibly can do. Smile is an easy thing right? You couldn't say no, kay? (:

Smiling help to camouflage your brain that you have a terribly good mood. So, when your brain got your intrigue, it's all set.

To celebrate some of my new habit change, I have prepared this visual reminder template for you guys (if you want to start your own habit change). I also put my challenge for you on the first list (I really want everybody to be a happy person). So, let's start a new good habit, good people! (:

Download link:
- Renew your habit + trigger
- Renew your habit, weekly

How to let go of your dream? Uhm, just don't

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:23:00 +0700

Couple days ago, I checked my email - just like I usually do - and found this article from my current favorite self-development website. The tittle was "How to let go of your dream". I usually agree with whatever they write on the website, but not for this one.

The topic was somehow so me, for now. I read it, and I try to understand her situation -which she write on her post- but I don't think that it will suitable in my case.

Let go of your dream?
Let go of my dream.
My dream, good bye! Oh no.

I don't think that I could be brave enough to gracefully let go of my dream. Although there are lot of time, when it look so far away and unreachable. But dream was just like that. Scaring and of course - if you reach it earnestly - exhausting.

"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough"

The thing is, life doesn't always go on your way. There are lot unsupportive situations and obstacles that makes you feel like quitting. But hell yeah, you always have the reason to stay if you really want to make it.

So keep the faith, self. Just remember what JKT48 said on their song, River :
"Mimpi itu selalu, terlihatnya jauh & jaraknya terasa tidak tergapai."
"Dream will always look so distant and unreachable."

Keep the faith, self. Keep the faith.. (:

Tonight, I decide to be a paper girl

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 02:06:00 +0700

Got my self a long list of what should I do on this week. I'm still in the mood of holiday tho, so getting a short paper-crafting-getaway is likely the good idea. Here's a list of what I've been made lately:
♥ Femaldev mini notebook
Some small presents for the upcoming month Femaledev workshop when we will celebrate Kartini Day. My printer is still run out of ink, so I can't finish the notebook right away. Should be done as soon as I refill my cartridge.

♥ DIY Paper Pinwheels
I've been reading some creative blog lately and I just can't resist not to try this DIY. It's a cute paper pinwheels DIY from stylemepretty. Fortunately, I just bought a new patterned origami paper, so I took it for a try.

even it's reversible! :D

I added a fringe-flower I've made from paper for the third attempt. I've been made the fringe flower since a long time ago, and today I finally have a chance to utilize it. Haha.

♥ Turning my waste paper into confetti
Playing with paper bring me a guilty feeling of leaving so many paper waste of my craft work. So, lately I've been keeping the waste for I don't know what is it for. But today, I have an idea to turning it into confetti. Ha!

Pretty satisfy for the so-much confetti I get, actually. But it's still leaving a less-waste dong. Even It was just half of the waste. Still so much waste remain.

Okay, that's all. Once, one of my friends said that I'm this kurang-kerjaan. Ahaha, yeah. Maybe I am. But I do enjoy my kurang-kerjaan time more than my busy-bee time. Why do they care about my time, anyway? Haha.

You have not come home yet

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:00:00 +0700

Last week, when my first niece was born, I feel like I was the happiest auntie in the world. It was like tears, worries and bad expectations slowly become blur and gone. But then I remember a wise suggestion, "Don't be too happy. Something overrated is not good.".

And then yeah. Human is just human. There may something bad attack your life and BUM! Your mood turn down in a blink. And here come a state of mind that very soft, but you just wanna get away from it whenever you get there.

"Sadness makes you human." Sentence that I always use to calm my self down when I get in that position. Fake smile may works to camouflage people around you, but not your brain. It know what the heart feels. And whenever heart feeling down, brain always there to arrange the solutions.

It's okay to be sad. Sadness bring you time to reflect. Like, I may have done something bad in the past, and this just the time to pay back. And sadness bring you a time to searching for another thing that you should grateful for. Sadness just a moment to remind you that you're just a human. Because there is no perfection for human.

There was an article I read from Tobitall's blog but was originally written on Danielle laPoste's website, "Love your sadness. It won't last." Beautifully written and a perfect reminder to stay happy with our sadness.

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I was feeling it. Pure sadness — the inescapability of it plowing through the softest part of me. When you’re in that kind of painful place you’ll try to climb the walls to get away from it. You want it over with.
“Love your sadness. It won’t last long.” A friend texted me late at night. I caught it just as I was turning off my bedroom light.
Love my sadness?
Love my sadness.
Sadness, I love you.
Let me give you a kiss, instead of my fist.
You’re heavy, but you’re so honest.
I should give you more credit. More space.
I’ll be grateful when you leave —
but I know I’ll be grateful that you came.
A metaphor: You know when you catch a cold, and part of you is just a bit grateful for it? The cold itself sucks. But it gives you a reprieve, an excuse to stop, curl up, wind down — it demands a compassionate response.
And if you’re smart, you milk it. Take the day off, order in, watch the entire “Breaking Bad” series on Netflix, sleep… a lot. And while you’re sleeping off your fever, you get the sense that you’re burning off months of built up stuff — and sorting out some internal things. You get better, you put fresh sheets on the bed, and you’ve got a new attitude.
Same thing with sadness.
Sadness gives you the chance to be still with the most tender place of your being.
Sadness is an opportunity to deeply appreciate your losses and your longings.
Sadness brings you eye to eye with your desires.
Appreciation is fuel for change.
Love gives your sadness the energy it needs to move through you… so it can move on.
By loving your sadness, you’re respecting your truth.
And freedom always follows truth.
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So, back to the wise suggestion I've mentioned before. "I won't be too sad. Something overrated is not good". Let me try to love my sadness, try to respect the truth. Maybe sadness will love me back, and leave me slowly.

Oh, doesn't it sounds too drama? Pssssh, maybe I'm just feeling anxious because I have not come home yet. Home make me bored sometime. But I couldn't agree more that home is the place that the heart belong to. (:

Udinus Webmaker Party 2013 & Mozkopdar SMG

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:49:00 +0700

When I was a little kid, I used to play with mud or sand to build my own hand-made house. The moment when I turning my imagination into hand made house was really exciting. And now, as I grew older I feel that I found the same excitement when I design my own web (blog, web-page, whatsoever). I feel that web is a new home for me.

And when the first time I know the Webmaker project from Mozilla, I knew that this gonna be more exciting. More people will able to understand how to build the web, with the very easy tools they have. So here we are, the first Webmaker Party in my campus (even it was the first time in town) was held last month, Desember 14th 2013 with the help of some peers I have from Open Source Community in my campus (Doscom).

We called it as a party but it was actually a six-hours workshop (haha, but I hope everyone had fun). It was attended by about 40 students. And I even met 2 Mozillians from Malang, Jawa Timur who sneaking out within their internship time in Semarang (Thanks for coming, Insan and Alfin! (:

Though there was some trouble with the internet connection, but everyone was still excited to join the sessions. We're playing spectogram and turn out so many of them want to make e-commerce (I sniff the entrepreneur spirit here, haha).

Everyone is so excited playing with Thimble, X-Ray Goggles, and Popcorn Maker. And finally, we ended it with Zoomarang winning as the best group-project of the event.

Zoomarang team.

Can't get enough of the party, we held a second Mozillians meetup (#MozKopDarSMG) on the next day. A Mozilla representative from Jakarta, Mbak Rara was explaining Firefox OS project and I myself, explain about Firefox Student Ambassador Program. We had a lot of fun talking about Firefox OS and trying the FirefoxOS phone.

Can't wait to manage more event in the future! ^^

Photo credit : @rara79

A love letter

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0700

Hello mom, my name is holiday. It's because we're miles apart and mostly meet just in my free time which is holiday.

I must say that you're the most independent woman I've ever known. You may not know it, but I adore you like, a lot. It's like you have nothing you afraid of except losing your family. You're such an amazing family-woman. I love you so. ❤

You yelled a lot of times (I'm sure moms out there also did), but you always cook my favorite menus when I'm home (even without asking what I want to eat. You know it perfectly).

We know it exactly that we have a lot of difference. But as I grew older, I start to realized that my temper was a lot like yours. We just feel, sometime without saying. Tho I can say that I am more frank than you are (you can't deny).

And as you know, we have a terrible time back then when I was younger. I hate you sometime (I'm so sorry) and think that Dad love me more than you do. But now I even amazed, how could you resist having a super selfish daughter like me. I love you. ❤

Aaaah, the point is I'm just trying to say..

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!

Please do not mistaken. I'm not celebrating your getting-older day. I'm just a grateful daughter who celebrate the day when her mom was born. I'm so grateful I still have you here, and hope we can grow older together. Hmm sorry, no. I hope I'll never get older and be your forever-little-daughter.

Thanks for making me proud having a mom like you. I know I'm such a rebel but I really hope I have not failed you. Please, bear with me. I'll make you happy in my own way.

Just remember this, whatever I do, I will always love you from earth to the eternal world. ❤

xoxo

Your fortune

Reviving

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:12:00 +0700

Lately :
♥ Cutting my hair a little too short and being sad right afterwards
But after a few consideration and a little more cut (I have a fringe again, now. Like, it feel so awkward at first. Tehe :3) I feel more relieve. Sometime we should learn to let go something we love, right? (;
Haven't shoot any photo of my self with my new mushroom-kinda-hair yet. So, no photo. Hehe.

♥ Two projects I currently working on
I always want to join a social project since about my own social project is clogged. And now, I'm one of IT & Creative rangers of Future Leader Summit for 2014. It's very exciting to work with another youngster that also care about social issues.
And oh, beside that one social project, I also working on my new crafty business (as I mentioned in my previous post) which we call our product as inotes. ^^
We create customized notebook for gift, any occasion, or daily needs. And I'm currently working on our instagram and tumblr, but it's not finished yet. So please, bear with me. For now, you can ping me via e-mail or twitter if you want to order the notebook. ((:
(update! The tumblr is now online on : http://inotesblog.tumblr.com/ ^^)

♥ Get myself a very first skirt & dress that I bought by my self
Never have a skirt or dress before, except uniform or get it from a gift. But now I get my self a new season. Just bought a cute pink skirt (actually, I bought it because it's cheap enough. Hehe), and I even bought a floral dress. ((:

♥ Organizing my first event as a Firefox Student Ambassador
Haven't mentioned in my blog before that I'm a Firefox Student Ambassador now. Organize a small workshop with my Doscom pals and also a #MozKopDarSMG (Semarang's mozillian meet up) with a Mozilla Representative (and also a blogger!) from Jakarta, mbak @rara79.

♥ Launched inotes and join a creative expo on campus
Launched inotes on a creative expo held in our campus.Though our social account is not finished yet, and we haven't launched our first collection. Haha, but that's fine. Success comes from process, right? (;

- Joining a national-blogger-gathering "Blogger Nusantara 2013" in Jogjakarta
Join a national blogger gathering in Jogja called Blogger Nusantara 2013. It's not a well-organized event, truthfully. But meet a lot of blogger from around Indonesia is one precious experience for me. I even met a kid blogger! :D

inotes notebook I made especially for BN2013 (:

♥ Visiting Jogja Digital Valley!
Take a chance to visit Jogja Digital Valley for the very first time after BN2013. Can't be more happy!

2 good friends who accompany me along BN2013. We called our trip as #NdamparInJogja since we really have no idea about Jogja. Hehe XD

♥ Having a new family in a new home
Such a new family I have in my boarding house now. I'm the youngest one that I usually being so spoiled among them. Haha :D

Feeling enough

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:38:00 +0700

The key is feeling enough.

Discovering someone else's mistake may disappointing. But that's life. We create mistake and learn from it. Be thankful, because life keep going.

Past mistakes doesn't make someone become bad. Attitude, it is. The key is, feeling enough. I'm enough with criminal as long as they good to me. I'm fine with Christians or even atheist as long as they're a good person.

I'm fine with my life, but actually my virgo side of me is feeling:

PS!
Stay tune on my blog. I'm currently working on my new crafty business. (;

Recharge

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:00:00 +0700

Hi, bloggaz! *hug*

Sorry for neglecting this blog for such a long period. I barely have no time for my own self with bunch assignments and projects that have to be done. But I always enjoy being busy. Moreover, it's all the things that I enjoy to do like social work, designing, learn new things, organize an event and such. Hopefully the result will worth every stress. (:

Meet a lot of people from morning till night drained my introvert energy so tragically. Therefore, weekend is the perfect time to recharge. And blog was always be my perfect getaway for having me time. Writing blog for me is the time of fading from my routines, wander around the fantasy and pour it into this virtual world. What about you? What's your favorite thing to do in your me-time? Shopping spree? Watching movies? Well, I do enjoy both actually. Haha

Truth to be told, re-designing this blog is also listed as one of my projects. At first, I want to make the template by myself. But the thing is, I still learn html5 and stuffs and haven't understand much about xml so yeah. This is what I can do for now. More fixing will be

I get this template (for free! :D) from 54Blogger. I've been digging the web searching for a simple and responsive blogger template and found this template which called Responsival and I'm going "Nah!".

Oh, do you know what 'responsive design' supposed to mean? Try to press Ctrl+Shift+M on your keyboard (only if you're using Firefox :3) and find out what you can do!

No need to shrink your phone/tablet screen anymore (;

PS!
Visit my latest wordpress blog. I write more often there now (:

Happy weekend!

xoxo

Turning 20

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:50:00 +0700

I'm turning 20 today. People say your teenage life is over on 20. It can be scary for some people, as well as for me. But I think we can just always do whatever we want to do as long as we take the responsibility. So, thought that I will always be a girl no matter how old I've reached. Hahaha :D

The feeling of being 20 is like walking in a new different road. And I'm wondering, how will the scenery look like? Is it gonna be a fun journey? Sort of questions. It freaks me out a little bit, but I know I'll be fine as long as I'm being honest to my self. I mean, we're the one who always know what makes us happy, right?

It was my plan to dedicate my this year birthday for my self. A whole day of me time. Doing things that I love to do, buy things that I like, wear my favorite piece of clothes, eat good food. All the things that remind me that I have a wonderful life. (:

For me, birthday is the moment to reflect what I've been doing on my life. I know, I haven't share much impact for my surrounding and I still have lots of bucket list to accomplished. Therefore I still have bunch of homeworks. But I can't thank Allah enough for gave me this beautiful life. I know I'm walking the right path for the past 19 years because I have God who guide me through this time.

Turning 20 may freaks me out a little bit, but in the other side, turning 20 also sounds exciting for me. I mean, I think it's the time to think about to get a job, or start a new bussiness, or study harder in order to reach my every single dream. Planning the future is always exciting for me.

My parent would be the luckiest parent one because I never beg them to celebrate my birthday even on my 17. I mean, celebrating our self for getting older? Pssh, that is sooo mainstream. Hahaa, one of my creativity rule is "Do not do mainstream." Hahaha :D

But despite it all, getting an USA visa would be a best birthday present ever for me. Hehe

Aaah, how growing up is a good thing. (:

My Strongest Friend Ever!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 23:45:00 +0700

Her name is Ferina Aquila. I know, Aquila is a quite unique highlight of her name. It remind us to tequila because it just simply similar. We're on the same class in the first year of junior high school. She's one of the smart girl on class. Though we're not very close at first, but I must admit that she's really inspiring.

She was suffering from soft tissue sarchomas or rhabdomyosarcoma disease (type of cancer) since November 2011. I can't imagine how does it feels because she was on her first semester when she know her disease.

Actually, I don't like being in a hospital because I can't stand looking at people suffering. But she was really cheerful when I visit her this morning. Last week is her birthday (June 14 to be exact) that's why we brought a petite cake to celebrate her very late birthday (anyway, teteup ya, happy belated birthday Mper! :D ).

By the way, the good thing is that she's also a blogger! Yeah, she's still eager to do something even in her condition (what I admire the most of her). And her writing is amazing even from the very first post! Seriously, I notice that some blogger (including me :3) do any-kind-of silly post on their early post. But hey, you better check her blog HERE to prove my words.

And yeah, she's indeed the strongest friend I've ever had! Get well soon, Fer! :D

Btw, you can reach her by twitter too (@mperinaa) (':

Google Week on Campus - Dinus University

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:42:00 +0700

Do not spell it wrong, people. It's Dinus (stands for Dian Nuswantoro University). Many people often surmise Dinus as Binus, so I'm just trying to clarify the thing up here. Hehe :D

So, it was an event held on my university (Dian Nuswantoro University Semarang). It's sort of event arranged by Google student ambassador of my campus to introduce Google app especially for education and business.

The event it self is held for 4 days from 11-14 June 2013. The first two day is the seminar and the third & fourth days is for workshop. The workshop quota was full-booked when I try to register and I just get the seminar entries. So, here is the recap:

Day 1 - University day

The speaker of the first day was Mbak Pepita Gunawan (@pepitaholy). She's an Indonesian, but work at Google Singapore as a program manager of education. She explain us the overview of Google apps for education (just like, -you know- gmail, google calendar, google doc, google drive, and some more).

Google has many apps that we could utilize to simplify our work. Many of us still using manual way while there are plenty technology we can use (even for free!). So, this seminar held to introduce the attendees how to use the Google apps in their daily activity.

Oh, there also the GSA (Google Student Ambassador) explain about the advantages of some Google apps like Google Site (it's different with blogger), Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google +.

Google Corner

Day 2 - Organization and Business Day

The most interesting day of the whole event (haha,in my opinion loh ya). So, the second day of the seminar mostly talk about utilizing google app for business and organization. The speaker is from local community called GBG Semarang (Google Business Group Semarang), Mas Jefri/Uje.

I came late, so I can't really tell the about the whole event. But it mostly is about Google Adwords and the speaker was sometime talk about Youtube Partnership. Whereas I really want them to talk about Google adsense and Google wallet (which I don't know it well). But it's quite interesting because they're talk about social media! (haha, my wordpress reader should've known about this).

Everyone, really should to Go Google!

To view complete album of the event click here. // More info about the event here. // Images credit goes for the event comitee.

Future Leader Summit 2013 - #FLSummit2013 Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:16:00 +0700

It was an amazing and memorable moment when I attend the Future Leader Summit 2013. The event was held for 2 days, from 18 until 19 May and take place in Semarang. Gathered with so many inspiring figure is inspire me a lot to do more for Indonesia. There are 6 room, the delegates should pick based on their interest. There are Human Rights room, Environment room, Education room, Business Development room, Health Care room, and also Art & Culture room. I kinda confused to choose one of the room available at the first time. But remember that the basic point of helping other people is humanity, I choose Human Right. There are 300 delegates selected among 500 more registrant. And lucky me, I got accepted on the room that I choose! So, let's straight to the event recap (;

Day 1

The first day of the event, we gathered at Sam Poo Kong on 08.00 AM before separated into 6 bus (each room in one bus). The agenda of the first day is City Tour and there's also the Networking Night. On the City Tour we guided to visit some inspiring place in Semarang which is different for each room. For my room (Human Right room) it self, we visit the School Of Life Foundation.

So basically, the School Of Life Foundation (TSOL) is a shelter for the unwanted people. The founder was a sightless yet inspirational woman, named Mbak Priskilla. She's taking care of the foundation together with her husband, Mas Fandy and some volunteers. Right now, there are about 50 more disciple (TSOL Family Member) she take care on her own house. I admire how humble she was. She said doing things this far just for the sake of her love towards those people. So dim sum yaa? (btw, dim sum actually means touching heart. Hehe)

1 & 2 : The disciple (TSOL Family Member). 3 : Martin (the blue one in the middle) singing a song made by the diciple and Mas Fandy. Ohya, mbak Priskilla was the one in pink behind Martin and Mas Fandy was the one in the right corner playing instrument.

After fully charged by inspiration from The School Of Life, we headed to Kota Lama Semarang to continue our City Tour Agenda. It's a bit boring for me, because I have visited this place so often back then (I college in Semarang, remember?). Ohya, there are also our tour guide from community called Lopen Semarang (Lopen in Dutch means Walking around. So Lopen Semarang means Walking around Semarang. Keren yah?)

clockwise from the right. Me, Nisa, Iren, and Lintang

Oh, didn't I tell you about some new friends I met there? I'm not a good person at friendship & even can't open my self easily towards strangers. But Lintang (@dinindyalintang), Iren (@irenesarahh) and Nisa (@AnnJasmine) are really warm and kind that makes me feel comfortable being together with them. Iren is from Planology ITB, and then Lintang is from Law Faculty, Undip and Nisa is from Psychology UI. Me & Iren were the only one representative of our university in Human Right room so we have no company and haven't know anyone at the first time. Lintang & Nisa were also haven't know anyone in our room so maybe that's the reason why we stick together during the event.

Mural art I found in front of Semarang Contemporary Art Gallery

A very huuuuuge banknote inside an album

Apparently, there's an exhibit in Semarang Contemporary Art Gallery. The building was still in Kota Lama area. The exhibit was tittled "Faraway so close" by Agung Nugroho Widhi. Mostly, the artistic work in this exhibit are talking about Semarang. Based on the theme, the artistic work here could be divided into 3 category that is memory, distance, and visibility.

It's a tribute to Marco Simoncelli made by Yudi Sulistyo. Can you believe that it was all made from paper? GOD for sake!

Found an unique sculpture inside the building

Aaand, at 04.00 PM, we head back to the lodging in Badan Latihan Kerja Luar Negeri (BLKLN) to prepare for the Networking night. At 09.00 PM we went to Amartapura Grand Ballroom, Grand Candi hotel to attend the Networking night.

Watching Aljabar live for the first time. Can't believe they're playing my favorite song, Flattery (it's become my favorite because I just know that one song, hehe)

The project leader of FLSummit, Muhamad Ibnu Sina @muhibnusina while giving speech on the Networking Night opening

Something bother me. As a graphic designer, I'm a kind of deplore the logo of FLS. The color combination was somehow didn't work. Red and yellow, and then shocking blue? Better to fix it, for the next year, pleasee. (:

Okay, back to the event. The networking night was good, and full of amazing performance including the Banceran traditional dance performance by Billy Castyana (he's also one of the delegates in my room, human right). There's also Mantra Sangit tranditional dance performance by Putri Amelia Rizkiana (I met her in the toilet after the performance. haha). And my favorite one was must be performance from PSM Undip (the Gundul-gundul pacul performance was sooo amusing). At around 11 PM, we went back to BLKLN.

I met soooo many inspiring people even on the first day of the event. Future leader summit was kinda awakening me to do more for other people, especially for my beloved country, Indonesia. Two days full of inspiration from youth generation all around Indonesia, I felt to blessed could involve in such an awesome event. Moreover, it's in Semarang while this kind of event mostly is held in Jakarta. Thank you sooooo much for all the FLSummit 2013 committees for such an amazing and really inspiring experience! Also thank you so much for the hard work and just like our taglines, Let's Integrate!

Wait for my next post to get update of the second day of FLSummit yaa (;

PS!
You can read the Day 2 Recap of FLSummit 2013 here.

xoxo
kelimutu

The challenge is getting off your couch and making the conscious decision to turn your ideas into something real.

PS! But you will always find a reason not to try. (:

credit photo : Me & Iren