A simple story of an ordinary life of a wife who loves cat, day dreaming and any thing in between.
Sunday, 23 December 2012
My (Imaginary) Life
but i feel like i am trapped in this life, in the job my profession.
I love the idea of trying new things and sometime I make it comes true. I am young and there is so many things in this world i haven't tried. yet.
one time I have the idea of being a writer. resign from my job and live in a house above the hill at Cimahi and write a novel about a girl kills her bff because a boy or a rich girl from rusia, K, try to escape with her sister and twin brother... from the people destroy their family and killed her parents. or about a women working her ass off for dream she never had.
another time, after having a very adventurous trip at Borneo, I wish i am a photographer or journalist. i travel around the globe to write about people and places. i want to resign and applied for a job at NGO involve in forestry or orangutan or tiger issue... or whatever.
some time i wish i was someone else who is not me.
I imagine, I resigned, me my self have 4 kids. feed them my self, clean them my self. take them to school, helping them out with the homework. living in a my dream house, big garden and big window. have 3 cats. amazing imaginary life.
and i realise, the only writing i made, is this blog and my adventure only happens when i am lucky there is business calls to mother nature (considering my profession, the calls is very rare!) and my 4 kids' name are GSA (gas sales agreement), Major Contract, Minor Contract and BPA (blanket purchase agreement).
Maybe my imagination is just resigned from my work. i feel desperate, suicidal and pessimistic that's all.
BUT to be honest with my self, i don't mind at all... well life is hard. but i am not gonna stop... not now not today. so i will keep imagining things that i am not and do what ever i am today at my best.
What a lovely life i have.... aaaahhh....
Canteen, H-2 to Chrismast with a glass of Hara Kiwi (even the cocktail sound suicidal) and margarita pizza (nice thin pizza with mozzarella fresh tomatoes, rocket and blackpapper).
Saturday, 14 January 2012
the office
Setelah 3 bulan, gue bekerja, yang 2 minggunya sakit mata (seriously, i had a severe eye disease and it's contagious). Banyak hal yang gue syukuri di tempat baru ini, so far I'm happy to work in the Starship, although i really miss my lawfirm in wonderland. Setiap kali either ex-senior cerita project baru atau si Kaki Berbulu (now is the hubby) cerita kerjaannya, rasanya gimana gitu... bak mantan pacar yang susah dilupakan. Apalagi pas mereka libur, hajar dari chrismast to new year, IRI SETENGAH MATIIIII! Hahaha...
The Starship is a whole new world to me (tanpa karpet terbang dan jin yah), basically the working hours is the same, but we start earlier. Trus "pantrynya bagusss bangetttttt" (ini internal joke khusus buat istri idaman se new garden raya), krn lokasinya oke, kalo lunch di mall bisa 45 ud termasuk jalan (kaki) PP. Asik kan =P (yang mana gue seringnya lunch diruangan sampe majikan nyuruh gue 'begaol' krn org mikir kerjaan gue kebanyakan). Makanan mengalir, ada aja makanan free lunch, free snack, traktiran, ahh senang =)
The best part of my job is I have my own room, with garden view (lengkap dengan bunga, air terjun buatan, gazebo, pepohonan rindang, burung-burung dan kupu-kupunya), walaupun kalo malem mendingan city and traffic view sih, secara spooky. Jam 7 pun lampu ud dimatiin, kecuali kepaksa bgt (dan ada temennya), males deh lembur =D
Kecuali hari ini, setelah 2 minggu sakit (setelah 1 minggu ga masuk, pas masuk dipulangin aja loh, gak boleh masuk. Soalnya masih sakit menurut Tiger the Pooh, the doctor, alhasil 2 minggu absen), hasilnya kerjaan gue menumpuk...
Hiks, dan atas kejadian ini gue menyalahkan Penthouse super mewah gue, yang saking amannya dr penyadap dan intervensi sinyal sinyal dari galaxi lain atau dari teroris, sampe sinyal gak bisa masuk, bahkan sinyal di tengah laut Arafuru aja lebih bagus kayanya dari sinyal di Penthouse gue, kampret! Uda sinyal empot-empotan, Starship punya sistem IT yang masyaoloh, RIBET, saking pengen aman apa kecanggihan, gue ga bisa akses apa-apa aja loh... menangislah gue 2 minggu, sengsara mikirin gimana beresin PR dua minggu...
Mungkin cara paling bagus ngerjain PR adalah, gak ngisi blog sih... hehehe (distraksi) yuk ah mari =P
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Good bye :)
dipinggir kali depan kantor diiringi Party Rock Anthem-LMFAO. Sungguh misteri...
Jadi tanda-tandanya dimulai dari, gue harus involved dengan client yang datang dari masa lalu. Yang mana menurut pengamatan gue, lawyer yang ngurusin si client selalu resign satu persatu
, apakah ini juga saatnya gue untuk resign.... *keplak kepala gue, kerja dulu kalee yg bener
*Kemudian pas pulang pijit, sendal jepit gue putus!
Pertanda apakah ini?Pertanda yang jelas-jelas terlihat adalah gue jd sendal jepitless, musti pinjem kiri kanan sendal jepit, yang jelas gue ga beli yg baru, ogah rugi!
Kemudian, semalam, terdengar suara "kraaaaaak" yang kencang dari kolong meja kubikel gue,
terjadi sesuatu terhadap celana kerja gue... sobek dong. Gue kutik kutik
jd kodik
tu celana kerja merek tersebut! Yang mengakibatkan gue ga punya celana item lagi. Jadi gue pulang kantor pake celana futsal.
Jadi ternyata hal-hal diatas adalah petunjuk-petunjuk bahwa yah hari ini adalah hari pertama gue nganggur
sodara-sodara. Gue resign akhirnya setelah 3 tahun 3 bulan 25 hari (kira-kira segitu lah) dengan resmi gue umumkan I'm no longer a lawyer in Wonderland. Hohoho
. Menurut farewell email gue, I will be pursuing my dreams in a specific industry that has been my passion since I was a Law student 

So, here I am, back to the wild
, plonga plongo, have no life insurance, have no jobs (my new jobs will start on next Monday, and my life insurance as well... lo kata ini amerika setiap orang brojol ud pny social security number
), it is kinda weird but i will be getting used to it. What will i miss from my wonderland firm is:1. My works, SAYA ADALAH PEKERJA KERAS
. Ai lof tu werk... ayem e' werkaholik Pastinya I will miss my sleepless night
, non stop email 
, taken as hostage by client
BADLY*

2. Gue akan kangen pastinya kubikel gue
tempat gue menghabiskan 80% dari hidup gue 3 tahun terakhir didalamnya. Beserta segala kertas-kertas yang (i) 30%nya gak penting (ii) 50% gue ga tau itu apaan dan (iii) 20%nya gue rasa punya orang...3. Gue juga akan kangen ditelpon resepsionis, buat nanyain orang-orang kemana?
masuk gak? ada gak disitu? (macem gue resepsionisnya...)4. Gue akan kangen bongkar2 mesin fotokopi...

5. Gue akan kangen redhair si gadis sampah yang sekarang rambutnya coklat aga orange dan gak gadis lagi, tapi tetep sampah, nelpon gue buat benerin PCnya...

-sebenernya gue loyer, merangkap resepsionis kadang2 IT ... kadang2 mba-mba kebersihan

I will miss this Firm Wonderland ini dengan segala kebaikan dan keburukannya, everyone has their own way to impress or annoy me, but somehow I enjoyed being impressed and I didn't mind being annoyed...
Finally, in every beginning there will be an end, my end has come in the wonderland, i have to go and there will be a new beginning for me. Good luck people in Wonderland!

Now, it's the time for me to find a new pair of sandal jepit and pantalon
*(semoga bos gue baca blog ini, jd gue dipanggil lg =P *daydreaming*)
Monday, 9 May 2011
Magnificent May
Karena lahir di bulan Mei... jadi pasti kalo ulang tahun dapet kado. Hahaha!
Itu dulu... setelah gede sadarlah dia kalo ulang tahun musti traktiran belom tentu dapet kado =[ weeeekss!
Hahaha, gak kaya kelakuan si Wabistan, tiap ulang tahun doi musti SMS send to many isinya "Hari ini gue ulang tahun, semoga gue tambah cantik, kaya, pinter, dll. Ditunggu yah kadonya. Makasih temen-temen" Seriously, kelakuan tu makhluk satu kaya begitu. Sama kaya kalo dia sakit waktu itu. Well, i kinda miss her, jadi dia pindah lah ke pulau di sebrang laut Jawa. Baik-baik lah kau disana nak...

Well, agak sepi juga si Wabistan gak ada, secara dia dynamic duo-nya si Muka Lebar, makanya pas si Wabistan pindah, berdoalah si Muka Lebar bak baim di sinetron indonesia "ya Allah semoga si Muka Lebar dapet banyak banget kerjaan, supaya gak kesepian, si Wabistan gak ada..." and bums! Allam memang Maha Mendengar, Alhamdulillah.... Bahkan gue gak bisa ke perpisahan Wabistan karena kerja, but anyway thanks for the Nasi Goreng Ijo Pastis-nya... That is my favorite
Gue rasa ada bagusnya jg ga dateng, jd gue ga mewek.. hiks
Well, there goes Chipz, then Wabistan... Untungnya masih ada Cabidut the Juicy Berry dan Ciputz yang udah pindah ke Jakarta... Well, kasian amat yak? Gue macem gak ada temen lain aja
(hahahaha) Well, anyway talking of May, gue punya resolusi bulan ini yaitu rapih, hemat dan rajin
. Gue sekarang rapih looo... kosan wangi selalu! (soalnya taruhan sama Wabistan, gue musti rapih sebulan penuh!) dan kubikel pun gue rapiin, gara-gara satu dua hal... Kubikel gue dulu berantakan mampus, dokumen ketelisut kemana-mana. Mungkin sudah saatnya gue rapih (mengingat gue, si Piggy the babi dan si Red Hair DHW of New Garden pernah dapet email jaman dahulu kala dari si OM "Pls clean up ur work space" Blaaah....).![]() |
Satu sisi yg skrg rapi jali... (Wabistan siap-siap lo kalah tarohan!!! ) |


Dengan semangat membara kami (Mr. Otot, si Kaki Berbulu, si Red Hair DHW of New Garden dan Piggy the babi dan taklupa si Muka Lebar) ke menara UOB (well, actually cuma gue kayanya yg dengan semangat membara, penantian panjang akhirnya berlalu!), masuk ke Tony Romas di lobbynya sudah tercium bau wangi grilled meat/pork/whatever... mouth watering... perut krucuk-krucuk... Duduk lah dengan manis, yang punya gawe belom dateng, si Mr. Otot dengan was-was nanya "doi dateng kan?", yang akhirnya kita memutuskan untuk memesan duluan dengan syarat, gak boleh ada yang pura-pura ke WC, kalo the best E gak datang!
The signature dish adalah prime ribs yang mostly pork, dan cuma satu yang beef, southern something beef ribs with something sauce yang semua anggota pesan itu, si Muka Lebar memutuskan untuk memesan Wagyu Grade 4, medium well (ingat dulu tragedi well done? gak lagi-lagi deh). Agak dilema memang, ketika di traktir, wagyu di Tony Romas ada 2 macam yaitu Wagyu Grade 4, 250gr, seharga 250rb dan Wagyu Grade 10, 250gr, seharga 600rb. Tapi kerena tau diri, si Muka Lebar memutuskan i'll go with Grade 4, dengan pertimbangan sungkan dan pengen membandingkan grade 4 Stix-Park Lane dan Tony Romas, walaupun sudah di tanya "kenapa gak yg Grade 10?" sama si Mr. Otot. Hahaha. *maunya sih gitu
*Datanglah si Ribs pesanan anak-anak yang porsinya aje gile mambo banyaknyo (setelah makan kita baru sadar di meja seberang, satu porsi rib buat bertiga). Dan si wagyu, yang minimalis (tanpa sauce hanya butter).
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| perfection in simplicity *sok mbois deeh* |
Talking of wagyu, karena yg dijual kualitas daging (rumornya yah si sapi dipijitin dan dikasi makanan khusus), memang tepat kalo sausnya cukup butter, the meat has to be stand out, he is the hero (mecem juri Master chef "Eggs is the Hero!"). Mari kita potong, medium well-nya pas, tak ada darah, tapi tengahnya tetap kemerahan, juicy dan gak amis... great!

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| the beautiful medium well... |
Bahkan si Red Hair the DHW of New Garden minta juga (padahal doi gak suka yg medium2an, yg masih merah), puas. Kualitasnya boleh lah untuk steaknya. Side dish, std bgt yah mashed potato dan coleslaw yg std. Chicken wing yg spicy me likey! Enak sekali! (walopun si Kaki Berbulu tetep bilang lebih enak chicken wing something diablo-nya Pizza e Birra), i like this one...
Sedangkan ribs yang lainnya, memang yah, kualitas daging okeh, porsi monster, saus nonjok. Enak deh
. Beda sama Iga pangpol (ditabok deh gue ngomong gini, harganya 6x pangpol neeeeng...) Untungnya porsi monster, si Red Hair DHW of New Garden (like she always do), ngasi iganya 2 ke gue, untung gue hari pertama mens, abis aja gue sikat tu iga.... (pulang-pulang berubah jd babi) dan pulang masih dibungkusin 2 iga pula pas pulang... (punya si piggy the babi dan Red Hair DHW of New Garden, who else?). Ajaibnya begitu selesai makan, langsung berasa deh, rasanya sakit hari pertama... Ajaib, the best E boleh pesen lagi gak? biar sakit perutnya gak berasa? Hihihi... Eniwei berkat bungkus iga, jadilah hemat makan 2 hari kedepan (segitunya yah), sampe si piggy the babi, berkoar-koar dengan ceramahnya tentang kesehatan... gue pan ud kebal hihi (keseringan nginget makanan bolak balik). Plus setelah makan kaya babi, ditambah mau hemat diajak si senior "beli hageendaz promo yuk! buy 1 get 1", dan survey cupcakes buat acara-acara bocah (ponakan si Kaki Berbulu). Jadilah gue musti rajin fitness.... Jadi dari pada hari minggu nge-mall sekarang, gue ke tempat fitness (hemat bukan
? gak ke mall... Hehehe)So, bulan ini musti RAPIH selalu! HEMAT -pangkal kaya- *amin dan RAJIN fitness!!!!! Semangaaat!
Friday, 22 April 2011
My oh My...
Well anyway kerja di gedung tinggi ada enak enggaknya. Enaknya gaya... Ditanya orang "lantai berapa?" jawab "Lantai 150!" (*banyangan si Muka Lebar the villager kerja di gedung tinggi keren, makin tinggi makin keren*). Walaupun my beloved Butut dulu waktu tes di kantor ini dengan lebainya bilang "Ya ampuuun teteh, kamu sendirian, itu harii minguuuu, gak ada orang, lantai berapa? haaahhh tinggi bangettt... nanti kau ada apa-apa gimana naaakkk?????", padahal waktu test kaya ada 250 peserta lainnya (yah yg ini mark up jumlahnya). Yang mana pas ada gempa aja si emak gak nelpon ayeee... (yang turun lewat tangga darurat sekian puluh lantai sampe bawah gempor). Mana yang mustinya khawatir deh...
Enaknya lagi dipaling atas ada restoran mahal! Sama VIP karoke, sama Bar atau apapun lah... (halah kaya yang ke sana aja, kesnaa juga gak pesen apa-apa, "Larang Cuk!" kalo kata si Wabistan), Seumur hidup si Muka Lebar pernah ke resto itu dua kali, sekali ada selametan apa gitu ("celebrate" kalo kata orang kantor, yang lupa apaan yang di celebrate-in) yang kedua salah pencet lift... kalo lembur, pulangnya kita bisa selift sama mba-mba sexy dan mas-mas trendi yang wangi-wangi.
Emang di kantor orang-orangnya suka lembur, kecuali si Muka Lebar. Yang penting kerjaan kan beres (alesan). Well, gak kaya si Kaki Berbulu yang demen banget ke kantor, ada kerjaan tiba-tiba (*malam-malam) yang bisa dikerjain di rumah (kalo si Muka Lebar), kalo si Kaki Berbulu bisa balik ke kantor...
Seperti yang dilakukan beberapa saat lalu. Jadi si Muka Lebar dengan alasan hemat energi memutuskan untuk menurunkan suhu kulkas. Pas pulang. Banjir. Esnya Mencair. Basah kemana-mana. Maka mau gak mau, bongkar-bongkar lah itu kardus, box, kotak, piring, gelas, panci. Karena air setitik rusak semua barang-barang. Dan karena sudah nanggung sekalian lah beres-beres kamar yang udah kaya kapal pecah.
The good news is, telah diamankan makanan expired. Sehingga don't worry be happy, kalo datang ke tempat si Muka Lebar no more expired food (*bangga*). Bad news is, rangkaian beres-beres adalah, bongkar barang-buang yang gak penting-lap pel kering-sapu-kembalikan semuanya-cuci yang kotor (yang kotor ternyata segunung sebagian cucian piring beberapa
Jadi pelajaran hari ini adalah, totalitas.
1. Habiskan makanan sebelom expired! (kalo roti asal belom jamuran gpp kayanya!)
2. Jangan ngecilin suhu kulkas kalo bunga esnya banyak...
3. Sedia kain gombal sebelom ngecilin suhu kulkas...
Sekian.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
The Battle of Horse and Squirrel
Anyway, apparently now I have time. While I am waiting for my boss revising my work, and I am here sitting in my cubicle having a good time with famous amos and brainstorming. Actually I can do anything else more important (in this case important for my work) instead of writing this. But let me see this office, people are really busy with their work. My boyfriend, Kaki Berbulu, which happens to be my colleague, has spent his birthday at work. And we didn’t even have time to have a birthday dinner, and now he has done his works, here comes my works. Ahhhh…. I really need time out.
The most painful moment of revising a report that is when your boss will say “please make general change for this [stupid] arrangement” while like hundreds hours ago, I have the exact arrangement she wants then a great senior of mine walk in and said “please change the arrangement into this [as my brilliant mind told me so]” and I said “but, doesn’t she likes better this arrangement [in which I acknowledged from the first time I work with this two people. I have to change the arrangement over and over again, just to follow them. And it ended that we (me and the great senior) has to follow her since she’s the boss]” and he said “just change it [as my brilliant mind told me so]”.
And here we go again; I have to face the truth that I am just a small insect [I choose to be lady bug] in this jungle trapped in the battle of horse and squirrel [I dedicate the lions for my partners]. From my seat I can see my co-worker, which has also trapped in the battle of horse and squirrel. Collecting his friends, to find out, how to change the arrangement in the quickest way. There’s no way dude you have to change it one by one…
Why do people not learning from their experience? Why do we have to fall into the same hole? And you have to drag all of us in the hole of never ending change of arrangement.
Happy Thursday!
Happy working eh changing the arrangement…
Monday, 18 October 2010
Living with the Rumors
#1 People say that anyone who has my profession lives glamorous. Notwithstanding the facts that i am still A JUNIOR in this business (although i have passed the bar exam, i have not had a professional license-i have to wait until i am 25), but take a look at my collagues...
(with the back sound of "Guilty Conscience" Eminen Ft. Dr.Dre) Dr. Dre's voice
"Meet A, she working in a well known firm. On the weekend, after a long working hours she spent Friday night in the top notch club with friends, and wakes up in the saturday afternoon, goes to the mall, has a sandwich club as brunch in a cozy cafe, then goes to magnificent Tony and Guy and gets her hair dyed, walks for window shopping and ends with a pair of fancy shoes that are not on sale and do not forget, a delicious dinner in Marche."
Eminem's Voice
"Meet Me, she works in the same office. On the weekend, after a long working hours on Saturday afternoon, skipping breakfast and lunch to find a discount stuffs, then go to market (Pasar Festival is festive market right?) to have Wendy's Baked Potato as a lunner to go (between lunch and dinner, what would you call it?) and eat it in a famous Jhonny Andrean to get her hair treated for hair loss, and end up the day with KFC to go as dinner and do not forget to buy Sex and The City series (SATC in 2010, you gotta be kidding me!)"
the conclusion, we do not always live glamorous. I do live like normal people. Am i right?

#2 People say that anyone who has my profession can not watch a movie after work or have a favorite soap opera in the local channel.
They are wrong! Here i am, finishing my work, get home as soon as possible and turn on the TV to watch everything that is left on the menus. It is important to have cable, the show sometimes is replayed, if you miss the 7 pm show, you can always catch it at 11 pm and 2 am. I usually watching Desperate Housewives at 1 am and it is as fun as the show at 7 pm. One of my collague is also has her own favorite show and watched it regularly after work in the cable. (oke, it is not local channel but what do you expect from local channel?).
#3 People say that anyone who has my profession always go to the court (and hell, wtf?!). And the most interesting was my freaking weird junior at school, called me one night (he is looking for my sister but frankly my sister was afraid to him, because he is weird, surprise?) and said "Mbak, you are not afraid that someone will pay a hit men to kill you?" -because of my profession to be at that time, i was still in university-
Oke, i always tell everyone there are lots type of my profession and we are the one who does not go to the court. We have a litigation section but only for commercial litigation. In life (work, study, relationship) we always have a choice, between the right and wrong. That is what we are doing no matter what we do, we always have a choice to do whether the right or wrong thing. Talking of hell, who the hell in this world who does not go to the hell?
Oke another the rumors out there about my profession....
Hm, have any? Let me know. I will gladly tell the truth
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Money=Mood?
"A mood is a relatively long lasting emotional state. Moods differ from simple emotions in that they are less specific, less intense, and less likely to be triggered by a particular stimulus or event.[1] Moods generally have either a positive or negative valence. In other words, people typically speak of being in a good mood or a bad mood. Unlike acute, emotional feelings like fear and surprise, moods often last for hours or days."
Tuh mood itu lebih long lasting, las for hour or days. Mood juga memiliki out put baik positif atau negatif. Bad mood, biasanya uring-uringan, marah, jutek.
lebih lanjut "According to psychologist Robert Thayer, mood is a product of two dimensions: energy and tension.[2]"
sakit, capek dan kerjaan numpuk bisa membuat bad mood. Apa sih yang bisa bikin mood kita baik?Well, contohnya kaya...
" with deadly stare
" with an angel smile.
" sembari mengelakson dan dim-dim.
" sembari tertawa.Lantas apa yang membuat mood tiba-tiba membaik, seketika?
Isinya besok kita dapet THR


!*Senang, karena ATM ud gak bisa ditarik lagi, gajian masi 5 hari lagi*


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