So around more than a year ago, I bought this so hype journal.
I was still living in my rental room as a university student, so I was so happy to have this journal to waste my time alone.
But apparently finishing this book wasn't as easy as it looked. I managed to finish (proudly) some of them, but also had failed to did some of them too.
Unfortunately, my last two terms made me so busy with non-stop assignments, therefore I was kinda forgetting about this journal.
Until last month, when I was moving my stuffs from my last rental room back to my house, I found this journal again and realized that this journal was far from finish.
This is the video that shows the inside of this current journal:
As you can see, the major colors that I use on this journal are mostly black and red marker, sometimes also blue and green.
I'm planning to continue this project while I'm waiting for my graduation, and I will post my updates of the journal on this blog each month!
See you on the next update!
Okay, so let me get this straight.. I think I've said about this before, but I'm so not into reading fanfics and shipping and all those kind of fangirls stuff.
I am a fangirl, yes, but I just love to stick to the original stories, where things are really happening! You don't make up stories on a made up story!? (I mean, they're fictional, the are already made up, right!?)
Anyway, at least that's how I feel at the moment.
But as you can read on the title, I once made a fanfiction. Probably more than 10 years ago. When I was still in elementary school (see? I'm legit a fangirl!).
At that time, I was all about Harry Potter, just like any other childrens. But I was always that geek, all my friends and family knew that I was a hardcore Harry Potter fan.
I collected any magazine that had Harry Potter theme, I watched Harry Potter movies literally everyday after I got home from school, I knew every spells on the movies (yes, I wasn't reading the novels, sorry if it's dissapointing), I remembered every lines on the movie Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, and I brought my Harry's wand everywhere everyday.
And also, I google anything Harry Potter related on the internet! Because back then, the internet wasn't that popular, we didn't spend our whole life in it just like how we're doing it today. But not for me, the geeky Harry Potter fan.
One day, I found this online forum for Harry Potter fans in Indonesia.
One of the interesting stuffs about this forum was, you would have 2 indentities if you want to join the forum. One is your real identity IRL, and the other is your "alternative" identity in the Harry Potter world.
So here is my magical character:
Full Name: Venetia Serena Mozawski
Short Name: Serena
Place, date of birth: July 18, 1980
Hogwart's House: Gryffindor
Wand: Oak, 11.7 inch, and unicorn's hair in it's core
Position on Quidditch: Seeker
Animagus: Dove
Patronus Charm: Horse
Pet: Hoot Owl, named Adam
Favorite Teacher: Prof. Remus J. Lupin
Favorite Subjects: Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charm, Ancient Runes
Favorite Food: Chocolate Frog
Father's Name: Mike Sullivan Mozawski (Pure blood)
Mother's Name: I forgot lol (Muggle)
Brother's Name: Evan Gerard Mozawski (older, 4 years separated)
Height/Weight: 162 cm / 49 kg
Color of Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brownish black curl
Best Friends: Hermione Jane Granger, Fred-Georgde Weasley
Dream Job: Magical Creatures Caretaker
After making your character, usually you need to tell the forum where is your character be in the story. Like, who are you in Harry Potter world? Just some random dude in Gryffindor? Or who?
So this is my story:
Serena is in the same class/batch as Harry and friends. She's best friends with Hermione, as they sleep in the same dorm room in Gryffindor. Her funny and unique personality makes her easy to be noticed by people around her. She also likes humors and jokes, and then become best friends with Fred-George Weasley, further initially become their assistant on their mischieved pranks. Serena, who is a Gryffindor, has many friends from the Hufflepuff. It is probably because half of her personality is a Hufflepuff. That's why it's easy for her to get along with her Hufflepuff friends so much. Even though some time she can be so silent and so distant from other people, she's very popular and best known as the Hufflepuff Girl.
She and her best friend, Hermione, have so much in common. Even though comparing by their skills on academic, Hermione is way more superior, they are still very close friends. Hermione's friendship with Harry and Ron also make Serena knows those two pretty well. Until one day, Ron has realized that he fell in love with her. Ron then tells this to Harry, who also does not compatible to solve problems about love, and only makes the two of them more confused. Even so, Harry 100% supports his best friend to seek for Serena's attention.
Having his back on his best friend, Ron's finally trying to get close to Serena. But Serena spends too much time with Hermione, whether for studying at the library or just spending their time anywhere. This is an unfortunate moments for Ron, because he doesn't want Hermione to know that he likes her best friend. Learning by Ron's experiences around girls, people are starting to realize that Ron is on the move to get closer to Serena, leaving only the two of them (Serena and Hermione) who don't realize that (because they are always busy studying on the library). This information then arrived in the ears of the Weasley Twins. Knowing that their little brother fell in love with their precious assistant, their mischieved behavior let them plan a big thing for Ronald.
On the next day, George, using a polyjuice potion, turned himself into Serena. He's then trying to get closer to Ron and trying to catch his attention. Ron is so surprised by Serena's action toward him, but cannot care less because he's just sooo happy! Serena (George) then confessed to Ron that she likes him, and Ron says that he also feels the same way. So on that night, they're officially dating each others. At least that's what Ron wishes for.
The next morning, Ron runs toward (who he thinks she is) his girlfriend in full of excitement, while Serena is surrounded by her friends. He greets her and talking, and talking, and keep talking and bragging about how they two can be together last night. They're all in silence, only Ron's talking, and then Serena finally make a sound.., "Um, Ron? Since when.. are we.. together..? I was doing my Ancient Runes assignments with them the whole time last night." This time, Ron's is totally shutted. He's totally shocked getting a response like that. Without saying anything he's just running away, looking for his best friend Harry. Ron tells everything to Harry from last night until a second ago, the story that makes his heart shattered into small pieces. Harry remains silent, also shocked hearing that bad things happened to his best friend. But then Harry also tells Ron about something last night, something unusual. He tells him that last night he saw Fred with a girl who looked exactly like Serena. He then asked Fred where is George and who is that girl, and Fred only answered, "George? Who cares. That girl? Oh, that's my girl! She's pretty, right? I know!", while leaving Harry carelessly. Harry once felt curious because he never saw the twins got separated, but then didn't give a single damn about it. Ron's listening to Harry's story furiously, because he knows that his brothers just making fun of him. He's furious to George who had fooled him and pretending to be Serena, and also to Fred probably because he called Serena "my girl". He's jealous. He's then looking for his brothers to hear some explanation, leaving Harry alone.
By the time Ron left, Hermione then come to Harry and is asking what happened. She said she heard what happened to Ron for calling Serena his girlfriend in front of her friends. Hermione wasn't there at that time. She was asked by Prof. McGonagall to replaced the prefect who's currently on the medical treatment. Harry then tells everything to Hermione, from the beginning, to where Ron's going right now. By the end of his storytelling, he just realized that he shouldn't tell this story to Hermione, he was already promised to Ron not to tell anyone, including Hermione.
For unknown reasons, Hermione looks so mad and dissapointed hearing Harry's story about Ron. She then left Harry alone (again), looking for Ron, where she find him in the middle of confusion looking for his brothers. Hermione is furious. She says that she's furious and dissapointed with Ron for not telling the truth. She feels untrusted by her best friend.
Moving forward a few years later, it is finally the last battle between Harry and Voldemort. On the battle, Serena is almost killed by one of the death eaters, but then she was protected by George. George uses his body as a shield, and left him die by the killing curse. As George Weasley's body is falling to the floor, the memory of her and George spinning wildly on her head. Her tears are now falling, which are dedicated to George's body that was prevented her from dying. She realized now, of how much her feelings toward George, but it's too late.
Even though the battle is won on the hand of the good people, but at that time, Hogwarts is covered by a total silent. The silence of unheared cries for their lost friends and family. In one of them there is Serena, crying over and over in the hands of Hermione, beside the body of George Weasley.
After that huge battle, everything backs to normal. At this time, Serena is getting closer and closer to Ron Weasley. After spending so much time together and finally decided that she would settle down on Ronald, Ron then decided to marry her best friend, Hermione. It's also revealed that Hermione already had a feeling toward Ron since a long time ago. That's why she was furious to Ron, knowing that someone she loved, loved her best friend. She was also dissapointed because she thought that her feelings couldn't never be responded. Knowing that, Serena doesn't want to hurt her best friend's feeling, so she lets her feelings go for the second time. In the future, Serena then become the bridesmaid for Hermione and Ron's wedding.
Not long after that, her Mom's job in the Muggle world makes her family leave England and move to America. One day, when she's in blue still thinking about George, a guy who is American mixed Latin who has the last name of Archuleta come to her life. She doesn't know it yet, but later, this guy will be the one who will erase all her sadness and make her happy forever.
THE END
SO HOW COOL IS THIS?
I WAS ON THE 5TH/6TH GRADE WHILE WRITING THIS!
I'M PROUD OF MASELF.
*Please let me know in the comments below what you think about this. I'm really curious.*
I always question the science of soulmate.
Soulmate.. we usually thought about a romantic partner. Well that's totally true. That's what I always think about.
Soulmate, or in Indonesia, we called it "jodoh".
I always wonder how we can find our jodoh. How my friends have found their jodoh. How some people have had tons of relationships. And how I never find one for mine until now. Like, how?
We have some close friends, and all of them will have one and another relationships that come and go, meanwhile you're still untouched.
You might think it's normal, because you have the other friends that has never even in a relationship for once, while you already in a relationship two times.
That's what happens to me. I never bother if my friends have relationships with their partners while I remain single. It never really crosses my mind to look after somebody. It's just not me. I think about a lot of possibilities, like, good person deserves good partner, that's why I never found one, because I've been surrounded with "bad" people lately, or maybe it's just not the right time, I probably should focus on other things first.
But then lately, something changed my mind.
One of my intern friend made a big announcement: she has a boyfriend.
Why is it so necessary? Because I know that she is pretty stubborn, and she is the kinda person who has a strong idea and will stay true to what she said forever. And what she said was: she didn't want to get married. She didn't want to make a commitment with other people. She had a trust issue. She's the kinda person who enjoy being alone instead of worrying about other people. She's not a relationship material.
But somehow, she has a boyfriend right now.
She told her story about how her relationship started, and I can tell that this jodoh thing is real. It's something that you can't believe it will happen a second later. One day, they just happened to meet.
They just happened to be so similar by their conversations. It grew stronger and stronger until they decided to be what they are now. Jodoh had played its part.
That is the story that got me thinking, how can people found their moments. How can I haven't found mine?
And it got me..
I've found my jodoh. We all have found ours. We just always look at the wrong way.
As I said earlier, we always thought that jodoh/soulmate is always romantic things, but it's not.
Remember the story about my part-time job from my previous post? That's jodoh. I and the job are supposed to meet. It's one of the thing that I couldn't believe that would happen a second later. It's jodoh.
Remember the story about my runway (that I never finish to tell about lol)? It's jodoh! It's just there. I wouldn't ever think about joining a runway!? Never! But somehow it's just showing itself at me. It gives me an opportunity, and I got it!
There are many other things that had become jodoh to ourselves, like the study path that we chose, the rental room that we live, or anything!
This is why some people are so whiny and there are a lot of unnecessary stupid romantic quotes and relationship goals account spreading on the internet, because they only focus on one sight: love life.
Love life is not always the first thing, and definitely not the end of everything.
There are many things that we can cherish and look up to instead of looking for the right guy/girl who can make us happy. Stand for ourselves! Make ourselves happy! We definitely know more about us than other people, why needing someone's hand that much?
Be open-minded! Your life deserves so much more than focusing only on one thing and forgetting about the rest!
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I'm a cat... (Meow!)
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I'm a cat... (Meow!)
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I'm a cat... (Meow!)
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So let me tell you a story..
As a kid, I enjoy a lot of western movies and novels. Usually the fantasy stories about teenagers who are the chosen one (you know, that kind of stuff).
One of the things that always bothered me and became one of my dream is that a lot of teenagers on the west can work as a part-timer on any local shops, like coffee shops or bookstores. Yes, you guess it, I want to do part-time job too!
In Indonesia, part-time job isn't something that happens "normally". A student doesn't work, period. We only let to study. It's like an unwritten rule; it's our culture. Meanwhile, on the movies or stories that I watch and read, students usually have a job as a part-timer. And all I think is: Cool!
Because of that, I always wanted to work as a part-timer since I was a junior high student.
One place that's always in my mind when I'm thinking about part-time job is to work at a pet shop.
As you know, I love animals so much. Little that you know that when I was an elementary student, every time when it's time to pray Dzuhur at my school, I always ended up running out of it and went to a pet store. Just to play with the animals..
So, yeah, it became one of my dream to work in a pet store..
If you're an Indonesian, I know what you think: "What? You want to work in a pet shop? You can only eat well in the beginning of every month if you work there!". Well, I know that! That's why I want to work there as a part-timer! I really want to try to work in an environment full with animals for once..
And maybe I already know my fate in the future or something, I ended become a social student and then become a student of faculty of psychology. Something that would never related to animals environment.
Elementary student, junior high student, then high school student, I really couldn't believe that I finally made my dream come true at university...
In Indonesia, when you've graduated from high school, you can now do something beside studying. As a university student, it is time for me to explore about everything. Literally everything. Including looking for a part-time job.
On that time, I never thought that I would apply on a pet shop as a part-timer. It's because pet shops in my country is really not that big and not that "businessful", so I didn't think any pet shops would open a job vacancy for a part-timer.
But one day, more than a year ago, I saw a job vacancy that I would never thought about I would see: A job vacancy for a part-timer in a cat cafe!
I was happily shocked at that moment! Didn't know what to expect!
Because to be honest, I didn't even know there was a cat cafe in my country!
After doing some research, apparently it was a newly opened cat cafe in town. One of the first cat cafes in Jakarta.
Some times later, I tried to come to the cafe and fell in love with place, the cats (what? Of course!), and the ambiance.
I want to work here! I really want to! So bad!
Unfortunately, I was in a 3 months internship at that time, so I couldn't join the cafe. Another unfortunate moment, after the internship had finished, my work lot for the next term was too freaking much I barely lived.
After the term finished, I decided to use my holiday to rest, so I didn't follow up the job vacancy since the first time I saw the poster. And then for the next semester, I finally faced my biggest enemy: thesis.
But at this time, I knew that I had to look up for the vacancy if I really want to apply to be a part-timer. It was my last opportunity, after all, before I graduate and need to find a full-time job.
In the beginning of this year, around the end of January, I finally contacted the two cat cafes that I know, asking about the job vacancy as the part-timer. Only one of them replied my mails, and then I was asked to send my CV and cover letter to the specific email.
Anxiously waiting, I was finally called for the interview. Two times. And then the time has come...
I got an email one day.. I'M ACCEPTED!! I GOT ACCEPTED IN CUTIE CATS CAFE!!
One of my actual dream has come true! It was so amazing! I'm so happy!
Even though it's just a part-time job, in the end it really was my dream after all.
I work with full excitement ever since. I work with cats!!! I can play with cats! A lot of healthy and happy cats! How dream-jobby it is!
Now that I almost graduate, I know that I will let this job go one day. But I'm still gonna cherish every experience and every moment with it..
I LOVE MY JOB!!!
I enjoy the night sky so much.
I may not live in a big city like New York, but I also don't live in a small village.
What I want to say is: I also get the effect of light pollution.. I cannot see the night sky very well.
According to the image above, my city's sky is counted as suburban/urban transition. That's exactly how my night sky looks like if it's clear.
It's sad. I love to look up at the sky at night and I hate to not seeing anything there. I can see some shiny stars, yes, but because I've seen a lot perfect night sky images around the internet, I always wish that I'd be able to see those kind of starry nights when I look up.
It's really beautiful.
It's becoming one of my bucket list to go to a place where it has the perfect night sky above it.
Other than being beautiful and so admirable, the night sky is also full of mysteries. The night sky actually shows the true face of the universe: dark and full of stars. If we can see the perfect starry night far from light pollution, we can see infinite numbers of stars that our eyes can still catch.
That infinite stars probably only a part of a galaxy, and then there are many other galaxies beside the one that we inhibit. Millions of galaxy then becoming one universe, and scientists believe that there are many other universes out there.
As you can see, just by admiring the night sky, we can learn a lot. One of the thing that we can learn is that we are small. We are nothing in this world. We can compare ourselves to small insects like ants and feeling so superior and all, but we're still nothing.
Our Earth is smaller than Jupiter, the biggest planet on our solar system, but the Sun is always bigger than any planets. But then again, the Sun itself is believed to be smaller star compared to any other stars nearby.
The universe is gigantic. The world is enormous.
There are more of things out there that we don't know. And probably will never know. We really can see so much by looking at the night sky.
That's why I think it's pretty wise to just lay down on your back and look up at the night sky and: live.
Be grateful.
In this humongous world, you are one of the lucky creature that gets the chance to live. If you want to use math, I'm pretty sure the probability is too small to be true (if you believe that all the living creatures in this world only walk on Earth).
Just be grateful.
Be grateful for living.
Hey there workout addict, do you use Nike+ Training Club App to workout?
If so, please follow my account:
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It should be good to have some friends to keep you challenged, so let's cheer for each other!
For those who don't know, it's a workout application from Nike. It's very recommended for those who wanted to start working out but doesn't want to go to the gym.
It has so many workout sessions that you can choose, from different kind of intensity and level.
You can connect your saved workout session to Nike+ Run too!
The new update is different from the original one though, but it still has so many good workout to try.
So if you'd like to try, just download it and let's get sweat!
*It's not sponsored, though! I genuinely love the App!*