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Guru, digugu & ditiru

2013-05-08T05:29:00.001+07:00

Beberapa hari kemarin ngeliat antrian guru-guru yang sedang mencairkan tunjangan sertifikasi.

Miris.

Di satu sisi ikut senang kesejahteraan mereka makin diperhatikan pemerintah. Di sisi lain, melihat tingkah laku mereka untuk urusan paling sederhana - i.e. ANTRI - sungguh memprihatinkan. Pantes anak didiknya ga nampak kemajuan yang berarti setelah program sertifikasi dijalankan beberapa tahun.

Etika, sopan santun, MERAH semua kalo dari sisi pandangan saya sebagai orang awam pendidikan.

Eh tapi etika & sopan santun memang ga ada di kurikulum ya. Jadi ga salah sih, mereka kan sekedar mengajar sisi akademis, bukan mendidik mental anak didik.

Jadi harus nyalahin siapa dong?

Salahin orangtuanya yang ga mendidik sopan santun anak di rumah. Karna yang diurus guru hanya sisi akademis dan bagaimana supaya lulus dapet ijazah.

Yeah, right.

*ngelus dada*

*photo by hktang on Flickr

Office politics

2013-04-06T03:38:00.000+07:00

photo by davidcrow on Flickr

... well, not interested to join it.

Welcome March

2013-03-06T06:26:00.000+07:00

photo by daveparker on Flickr

Well, I've survived February. I think I'll survive the rest of 2013. :D
Still juggling between my role as a mom, wife, my day job, and freelance writing project. And so far everything is right on track.

But this blog is abandoned again. :(

If only

2013-02-05T06:01:00.002+07:00

.. we have 30 hours a day, not only 24 hours.

So many things to do to get my plan worked, so little time left.

I've designed a plan for the future, but my dear God seems to choose a different plan for me.

I think I need to calm down and see where the water flows.

(rambling thought in the rush morning)

Rewrite

2013-01-18T17:15:00.001+07:00

It’s still January, but I’m obligated to rewrite my entire 2013 plan.

My (dream) hidden place

2013-01-04T08:19:00.000+07:00

When I was a child, I had a dream of having a small hidden place in the backyard just for myself. And well, I never had a chance to have it until I grew up. I was really thrilled to find these pictures.

from freshome

Pasir Putih Beach Situbondo

2012-12-31T16:13:00.000+07:00

On the way home from Malang we stopped by Pasir Putih Beach.

Batu Secret Zoo Malang

2012-12-29T15:34:00.001+07:00

Mira wanted to see 'harimau', so we took her again to Batu Secret Zoo. (we took her there when she's 1.5 year old) We also had lunch at Jungle Restaurant.

Anniversary

2012-12-14T11:30:00.000+07:00

Happy anniversary for us!

Her smile is our greatest present ever.

Wallpaper ideas

2012-12-12T08:49:00.000+07:00

from apartment therapy

House of my dream

2012-12-04T14:31:00.000+07:00

It would be a house with spacious courtyard.
Amien.

photos from freshome

Day of a (part time) freelance writer

2012-11-21T02:58:00.000+07:00

A good friend of mine (but long time no see) asked me about how I could manage my time between full day job, taking care of the housework and my little daughter, and freelancing on the side. (she read my interview story on Campus Life Magazine)

Well, everybody has her own situation. And the advantage of mine is the fact that I don't live in Jakarta. I don't have to waste my time on the road.

It took me about 5-10 minutes riding in the morning to drop Mira to her preschool and arrive at the office. Lunch at home? Almost every workday. I only skip it whenever office is too busy that force me to skip my lunch hour. I leave the office at about 5.30 pm, and arrive at home at 5.35 pm. Nice huh? :D

The next couple hours are Mira's time until she sleeps at 8 or 9 PM. If I'm still not sleepy, I start to write for about 1-2 hours. Then I sleep, and get up at 3 or 4 AM to continue writing until Mira wakes up.

That's all. Quite simple?

I love and enjoy writing. It makes freelance writing is fun (except you have a tight deadline :P), although I need to cut my sleeping hours.

*photo credits to dmangust on Flickr

Featured on Campus Life Magazine

2012-11-16T12:17:00.000+07:00

Usually it's me who write something to get published. Being interviewed is a thrilling experience. Thank you Herman. :)

Coffee Table Ideas

2012-11-09T10:14:00.002+07:00

from freshome

Bapak Ibu Guru, Mari Mengajar dan Mendidik

2012-11-04T12:48:00.001+07:00

Beberapa waktu yang lalu saya dan suami memutuskan untuk memasukkan Mira ke PAUD. Tujuannya bukan untuk mendorong Mira belajar lebih dini, tapi supaya dia belajar bersosialisasi dengan teman seumuran. Karena di sekitar rumah jarang ada teman bermain yang sepantaran. Selain itu juga untuk melatih dia mandiri.

Mira masuk sekolah sejak awal Juli, dan sekarang di akhir bulan Oktober (4 bulan berjalan) dia kelihatan sangat betah bersekolah. Kosakatanya bertambah banyak, hafal lagu kanak-kanak dan ini yang bikin saya takjub, dia sudah hafal surat Al Fatihah dan beberapa doa harian. Padahal PAUD Permata Hati ini ngga berbasis agama karena dikelola Dharma Wanita kabupaten tempat saya tinggal. Tetapi karena seluruh anak didiknya beragama Islam, akhirnya hafalan surat pendek dan doa harian termasuk aktivitas yang diajarkan di sekolah.

Bangga? Ya, saya akui ada rasa bangga melihat kemajuan Mira. Tapi terbersit juga rasa khawatir kalau-kalau Mira belajar terlalu banyak di usia yang masih sangat muda.

Terus terang saya tidak ingin Mira terlalu fokus pada pelajaran akademis seperti saya dulu.

Kenapa?

Ini cerita saya.

Read on »

Fairy Tale House

2012-11-01T16:25:00.001+07:00

Remind me of Hogwarts. :)

from freshome

Indonesian Blogger Day

2012-10-29T15:19:00.000+07:00

I've been blogging since April, 2004.
I forget the exact date, but I still remember how it started.

That day I read a novel by Adhitya Mulya, Jomblo, and I noticed a web address written on the book which he called as his blog.

Blog? I got a big question mark in my head along with the curiosity.

So, after I finished reading the book, I visited his blog. His writing was so funny, so I was compelled to read nearly all of the previous posts. Then I started to click link listed on the blogroll.

The first link led me to Enda's blog. An entry entitled '8 Sebab Utama Memiliki Weblog' had made me tempt to create my own blog. I read the next post, 'Panduan Mudah Membuat Blog', and shortly afterwards I created my very first blog on blogspot.

There are many blogger community in Indonesia and I joined Blogger Family. But since I live outside Jakarta and also faraway from other major cities in Indonesia I never attend any blogger event.

I was a regular silent reader of numerous blogs at that time (and until now). I am amazed with their transformation. Lots of them have become successful through blogging.

Those veteran bloggers now rarely update their blogs. Some of them created twitter account, and I become their followers. Yeah, I know them, they don't know me. But I'm okay with that.

Last Saturday they reminded me that October 27, 2012 was Indonesian Blogger Day.

Whoa! It encourages me to sit down and write this entry, to recall the day when I started blogging.

Congratulations to me to keep this blog alive until now. :)

picture credits to hgjohn on Flickr

Mommies' dirty little secret

2012-10-24T11:13:00.001+07:00

It was not just me as a mother who ever pinched her daughter or son.
I was relieved when I read this entry (including the comments).

I'm just human who made mistakes sometimes.
Not a super mom with infinite patience.

Fibonacci Cabinet

2012-10-23T14:54:00.000+07:00

from freshome

Patterned Paint Rollers

2012-10-22T08:45:00.001+07:00

Cool! Also see the video on freshome.

First time

2012-10-15T11:51:00.000+07:00

Last night, I pinched Mira for the first time.

I felt bad afterwards. She didn't deserve that. :(

I'm (definitely) not a good mom.

Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe

2012-10-02T10:26:00.000+07:00

At first I thought this book was about another love story. I needed a light reading after office hours, and didn't want to read anything that force me to think hard.

Meet me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan.

It's a story about what happen when you pursue your dreams. When you follow your passion of life. Not always a great picture though.

It's about Issy Randall, who's made redundant from her safe corporate job, choose to jump into baking business. Well, baking is her passion (and talent). But the business? Imagine about marketing, dealing with local bank manager to get loan, paperworks, rent, employee, you name it.

And also a love story. :)

An inspirational book. And these lines had slapped me in my face.

"... You have talents and skills but I just don't see where they've been used with you running around chasing up expenses and timesheets. It's like you just wanted to hide away doing something safe and a little dull, hoping nobody would notice you."

"... And I will say that if you end up doing the same job for someone else... I think you'll probably be as dissatisfied there as you have been here."

This book had forced me to think afterwards. To think about my own life.

People change

2012-09-21T12:16:00.001+07:00

I always feel sad every time I hear news about someone who got divorce. A high school friend, a blogger whom I never met but I read her blog regularly, even if I never knew them in person, like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's divorce recently.

The same question would always pop up in my mind: "Why? What happened with their commitment?"

Until recently I concluded that the only answer is... well, people change.

Someone might get new insight that lead to new life goals, and the spouse failed to join her new life journey. Someone might get spiritual experience that make her more religious, and the spouse didn't agree with her new perspective.

And she might meet someone else who understand her better than the spouse.

The world is always changing, so are the people.

People always have the choice to stick to their commitments and communicate the changes to their spouse, or to move on to the next journey and leave the spouse behind.

Mind-worm

2012-09-19T11:13:00.001+07:00

Menyebalkan adalah ketika benak tergelitik sekali untuk menulis sesuatu, tapi waktunya belum ada.

Will find the time, soon.

*get back to tons of documents on my office desk*

The best aromatherapy in the world

2012-08-30T08:18:00.002+07:00

.... adalah aroma (kecut) kepala Mira saat bangun tidur pagi hari. :p

*ga bosen2 cium2 rambut Mira kalo baru bangun tidur*