Hellooooow

Hi Bloggie Blog! Long time no see..

Kayanya uda lama banget aku ga apdet blog yah, mainly karena:

1. January is insane! kerjaan setahun kayanya numpuk di 1 bulan January, dengan objective setting, seabrek presentasi, banyak bener orang dan bos yg resign, segitu banyak perubahan
2. Banjir di Jakarta - thank God, rumah aku sih aman, damai dan bahagia. Ga ada banjir, ga mati lampu, ga dikerangkeng di rumah juga karena sekeliling rumah banjir. Cuman, emang ga bisa ke kantor karena akses di tol bandara dan dalam kota sempet ke blok
3. Sakit : aku jarang sakit, tapi di January ambil 2.5 sick leave. Hebat! blame it to cuaca yg ga kondusif dan samhaw stress haha
4. Stress karena masalah pemberkatan di gereja, finalnya adalah karena oknum sang leader, aku dan BF sekarang terlunta-lunta ga ada gereja untuk pemberkatan. Sampe sekarang masih pusing dimana kita harus berjemaat.

That's January madness. haha.. But yeah, life's good still. So, aku mau belajar untuk melupakan yg lalu dan move on.

Plan untuk rest of January adalah:

1. Cari baju bridesmaid untuk married cc aku di 2nd Feb - haha masih belom cobaa
2. Bantu2 di sangjit dan meritan cc di 2nd Feb
3. Berdoa mudah2an otak pinteran dan hati lebih tabah dalam menyambut kerjaan seabrek - seriously, ini point yg sangat penting
4. Cari gereja untuk pemberkatan - maafkan aku kalau aku dateng2 langsung minta pemberkatan ya. We never meant it to be benalu. Maapkeun

Entah kenapa ya, kok aku dan BF bosan dan ga semangat urusin wedding ya? Kayanya overwhelming banget. Pengen buru2 kelar aja dan di fast forward. Normal ga sih kaya gini?

1st Weekend 2013 Update

Weekend kemarin adalah weekend pertama di 2013, padahal rasanya baru aja kemarin tahun baru, tiba2 kita uda tgl 7 January aja. Feeling aku nih, tahun ini bakal jadi tahun yg cepat berlalunya. Time flies.

Di weekend ini ada beberapa highlights yg terjadi sih, mostly terjadi di seputaran cerita tentang wedding preparation sih, entah resepsinya sendiri atau renovasi rumah untuk menjelang wedding.

Hihglight pertama adalah tentang dekorasi. Akhirnya, sang dekorator uda kasih aku sketch dan layout utk resepsi. Ingatan aku sih mengatakan dia janji untuk kasih sketch yg sudah diwarnain. Cuman kemaren sih sketchnya masih black and white. Hmm... mungkin aku salah denger kali ya. mungkin diwarnain nya setelah kita deal kali ya? ga tau juga sih. But anyhow, masih lumayan lah dia kasih sketsa karena aku tau banyak dekorator bahkan ga mau kasih sketsa.

Setelah aku liat sketsanya sih, aku ya ga excited gimana, tapi ga kuciwa juga. Yah within my expectation I would say. Cuman ada beberapa hal yg mau aku ubah sih, mainly di:

• Wedding gate : aku ga suka wedding gate. Tapi dia masi keukeuh kasih wedding gate karena dari gedungnya memang dapet paket ini. Aku merasa lebih penting punya gallery foto yg bagus. Jadi aku mau nego2 lagi ah.
• Mini Garden : itu loh bunga (atau rumput) yg ditaruh di depan pelaminan. Entah masih sketsa atau beneran seperti yg digambar, mini gardennya sepertinya sederhana sekali, as simple as rumput aja -_-" aku ga mau rumput aja :( aku mau ganti jadi bola2 bunga, please please.. jangan nambah uang yaa *nyengir kuda*

Aku mau upload revisi yg aku proposed, tapi kok ga bisa ya? maapkeun ya, nanti klo uda bisa upload, kushare sketchnya.

Highlight yg kedua adalah, kita akhirnya pergi ke rumah yg nantinya akan kita tinggalin dan ukur2 ruangan untuk furniture nanti. Awalnya kita pikir, kita hanya akan renovasi 1 kamar tidur dan 1 kamar mandi aja karena daerah lainnya ga akan kita ubah. Ternyata oh ternyata, kamar mandi ada 2 yg perlu diperbaiki, kamar tidur jadi 3 yg harus diperbaiki dan plafon banyak yg sudah bocor. Asik deh ngeluarin uangnya :(

Memang susah ya menahan uang untuk mengalir deras huk huk huk..

Beberapa update singkat lainnya adalah, cici aku bakal merit di tgl 2 Feb dan aku akan jadi bride's maid nya. Jadi kemarin sempet meeting2 singkat untuk review rundown dan checklist. Cici aku ga pake WO karena bener2 intimate wedding. Cuman yaa.. deg2an juga. Menurut aku sih, hire jasa WO emang perlu mau sekecil atau sebesar apapun weddingnya. Kita kan belom pernah wedding, dan kalaupun ada yg pernah wedding di rumah, semua pake WO, jadi kita ga tau detil2nya. Ternyata detil2 itu sungguh merefotkan -_-. Doakan lancar yaa.

Much Love 2012, Welcome 2013

2012 has been a fantastic year for me, the two of us and my family. It does seems like it can not get any better, but I am sure it will. Life, Love, Health and blessing is flowing abundantly. I can only thank God for all the amazing things He has made for us.

I hope that 2013 continue to be a wonderful year and becoming a memorable year with many wedding celebration in my family including our own wedding in September :)

I will share the highlight of 2012. I will try to keep this brief and simple! :)

Jan 2012 :
Our New year trip to HKG and Macau.

Feb 2012:
Our 2nd anniversary together. We had been saying that 2012 will be the year we get married. But, to be frank, this is the time where I start to wonder if we will ever get married with the current state. But time has prove me wrong.

Mar 2012:
I am engaged! isn't it dramatic change from all the doubt I had in mind just 1 month ago. The engagement was insane, my bf wasn't even planned for it until a couple hours before. Yeap, doesn't sound romantic I know. haha, but still, I appreciate him and His time.

As I shared before, I was in doubt that we can ever get married with our current financials, and he was sharing the same doubt. Instead of keep on worry (and whine like I do), he decided at 5 PM to go to Frank & Co and buy an engagement ring. Without me knowing, he suddenly said that he's coming to see me at home. Yes, I wore t-shirt and short pants, and it happened in my house's guest room -__-". I remember he said to me "I know time is not right for any wedding, but I am thinking to take a leap of faith, to show that I have a good intention and I want to marry you. And hoping that it will come true soon". and what was my reaction? (while laying on the bed - grasakan style ya, not a princess laying on the bed style), I simply said "why don't you kneel down? and where's my ring?" hahaha   -__-"  I didn't expect that he will give me anything (sorry bf, I didn't know that you can be romantic too). But when he showed me the ring, I was speechless. He meant it! so finally, I accepted his proposal and we are happily engaged for 9+ months now and our wedding is in 9 months. God is good, isn't He?

Apr 2012:
Most memorable happenning during this month is the baptism of my parents :) My parents have 7 children from 42 years old to youngest 27 years old. I am number six! :) all of the 7 sibilings is christian, and we have been longing for all of us as a family unite and worship the same God. The prayer has been started since early 1990s. It eventually came true on April where both my parents decided to be baptized.

May 2012:
May is a memorable month for 3 things : 1. period where I stayed at office until almost midnight everyday incl. working during weekends (you suck, GPS!!%^!~$!! haha) and 2. my first trip to France, Swiss and Italy! Some of you might have read part of the trip in old post and 3. Bf got a new job! this is a dramatic change that makes all the wedding preparation commenced! Super Thank You God!

June 2012:
June, don't remember alot of happening except that the GPS issue continue. Hence, still working late and working on weekend. But now, I have additional 18 days of leave from all the overtime! insane. Donno how am I going to spend it all without money.

July 2012:
Mostly spent on home design of what-we-thought-would-be-our-future-home. haha, a very strange one, no? All along we have been thinking that we will stay at BSD (partially owned by bf with fam) until we can buy our own house in city (BSD is too far). So, we spent time thinking of how to renovate and what kind of house we want it to be.

But eventually, a single visit from my dad can change many things. He visited the house while we weren't there and said "i don't think that you can live in a house as small as a birdcage and a place too far away from anywhere. You can't even drive". So, finalnya adalah teng tereteng.... kita akan beli rumah yg uda 1/2 kepemilikan di Gading Serpong. Nah karena kita kontrakin rumah itu 3 tahun sampe 2015, kita tinggal di rumah lama ku yg kosong di area grogol. Blessing banget, karena ini akan simplify banyak hal untuk preparation wedding, on top of, ga membuat kita harus menggelontorkan banyak biaya untuk persiapan wedding. Thank God.

P.S : this post is supposed to be in english, but I can't help writing in Bahasa and I am too lazy to change to English, Forgive me.

Aug 2012:
Lebaran di Surabaya and few days getaway to Singapore. There's one major happening with is the proposal between future-groom parents to future-bride parents. This is one of the tradition in Asia, and should be counted as one major event prior marriage. But then, I dont know when it was happening, while it was such a BIG event haha. I suspect that it happenned sometime in August. I asked my bf and he doesn't know too! haha.. we are a very casual and happy-go-lucky couple (a.k.a crazy). It was a 2 hour dinner in restaurant nearby and his mom, aunt and uncle propose and give me a necklace. The "speech" itself from his aunt is too very formal and over the top to a level that it's embarassing. it is a momerable moment, but I just don't remember the date.

Sep 2012:
We start planning for a wedding reception, including budgetting and expectations. In comparison to our initial budget (budget version 1) to our current (budget version 5), budget version 5 is 171% higher than budget version 1. Bravo!! -___-"

Oct 2012:
We bought a house, well I mean officially through mortgage haha. but we can't live in that house as we are renting it until 2015.

Nov 2012:
Wedding preparation. This month is all about visiting wedding vendor and venue. You can read all the review in previous posts.

Dec 2012:
Uneventfull december :( sadly, this december is the most uneventful one, no bad things, but there's no surprise or usual joyful december. blame it to work! blame it to stress haha. It's not a bad one though because of series of blessings to bf. So still thank GOD!

as a closure of 2012, it has been a wonderfull year and a year full with blessing. I can't thank God enough. So thank You, Jesus. Your name be lifted high :) Through the good and bad in 2013, I will keep praising Your name.

Christmas and New Year Update!

Wah sudah lama ya ga apdet dunia per-blog-an lagi, karena banyak kerjaan dan banyak libur juga, jadinya ga sering nge-blog. tapi tetep sering brosing2 berkelana gak jelas haha.

Sebenernya sepanjang libur christmas dan new year ini, aku ga kemana-mana karena harus kerja, secara kan kerjaan aku setengah finance setengah operation. Yah naksibnya ya harus stay di kantor untuk year end closing, padahal yah kerjaannya gitu-gitu aja. Ga super sibuk, cuman otaknya uda 50% ngadat dan holiday mode, jadi ya slow deh.

Kalau dipikir2, tahun 2012 adalah last christmas dan last new year being a single dan tahun depan uda as a married couple, tapi ga ngerasa beda begimana sih, pas malam natal dan hari natal, bener2 ga ada beda sama normal weekend -_- ke gereja aja engga (hehehe...). Untuk tahun depan, kayanya pada plan liburan lagi. Biasanya keluarga besar aku selalu ga di Jakarta untuk NY, cuman tahun ini jadi exception karna kita pikir mau irit. Cuman based on pengalaman tahun ini, kayanya pada mau ke luar negri lagi tuh, karena pada merasa abis cape kerja setahun, ga ada liburan. Jadinya ga menikmati hidup.. yaelahhhh -__-"

Pas malam tahun baru, semua keluarga besar inep. Kebayang dong ya gimana rasanya ada 15 orang inep dalam 1 rumah (plus 2 ART dan 2 doggy), rusuh! tidur kaya di barak militer. Acaranya juga simple banget, potluck dan tukeran kado (kayanya wajib ya acara tuker kado buat NY). Acara tuker kadonya ga kalah rusuh, heboh banget dan lucu banget, puas deh ketawa2 ngakak. Acaranya sukses!

Nah karena kita2 ini uda "tua", jam 10-an aja uda pada tepar. Jadi jam 10-an aja uda pada ngorok hehehe, cuman kebangun bentar pas jam 11.30 - 12.30 karena kembang apinya itu loooh, kaya lagi di afganistan rasanya. Tapi tetep, begitu pesta kembang api selesai, kita langsung tidur sampe jam 8 besokannya hahaha..

Happening penting 2 minggu terakhir, practically ga ada kecuali.... battle kita dengan kutu kucing sudah hampir berakhir! kita akhirnya sewa jasa Terminix. Terminix itu saingannya rentokil, kalau ga tau rentokil juga, keterlaluan hehehe.

Nah kalau kalian baca post aku terakhir, kan aku share step2 untuk melawan kutu. Dan semua hasilnya adalah NIHIL! semprot anti kutu, gagal. Tick collar, tetot. Mandi anti kutu, gatot. Pel pake obat khusus, mihil tiada hasil. Voodoo, dosa. Semedi, ketiduran. Lah, emang semedi bisa ilangin kutu!! sampe sejujurnya saat2 terakhir sebelum panggil terminix, aku uda bersahabat dengan kutu. dia gigit pun, aku uda kebal gatel!! menyedihkan ya. for your inpo, aku digigit 180 kali!!! dan skrg kaki bener2 "mulusss".

Karena ga tahan lagi menahan derita gatal karena kutu kucing, kita memutuskan untuk deal paket 1 tahun seharga 3++ juta, lupa exactnya. Mereka bakal datang minimum 1 bulan sekali untuk membasmi semua tikus, kecoa, nyamuk dan kutu keramat. Jadi tgl 31 Dec kmrn mereka datang utk menyemprot semua. Sampe sekarang, ga keliatan ada kutu, cuman untuk nyamuk, rasanya cuman 1 hari dimana kita bener2 ngerasa surga dan ga ada gangguan nyamuk sama sekali. Tgl 1 Jan, aku uda nemu 1 ekor dooong. huaaaaa......

Kenapa aku bilang hampir berakhir? karena kutu itu bertelor cepat sekali, jangan2 abis di pesticide masih ada telor superman yg belom meninggal.  si terminix bakal datang 2 minggu lagi untuk memastikan si kutu hilang dari peradaban selama-lamanya. amin.

dengan demikian, hilanglah episode kutu dalam kehidupan kita dan para doggy tersayang yg juga jadi korban derita. sekian -__-"