How to Stay Sane?

It's been a while.

Been busy writing propagandas. You know, my job. Oh ya, also adoring man named Jin Ki, actually.

So, this is my first post on 2013. Happy new year! -lol lame- OK maybe I'll start a one-thought-explanation-model for the rest of 2013 (only if I don't change my mind later) which basicaly I took from my daily thought.
Here we start....

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Thought #561 How to Stay Sane?

Wake up early in the morning with eyes half open accompanied by my Grandma's voice try to drag me to the bathroom.  Then after I finish my simple-grooming, I walk about three minutes to the Trans Jakarta Shelter and waiting about three minutes until the bus come, if I'm lucky enough, or about fifteen until thirty minutes if I'm not (FYI: most of the time, I'm not lucky).  It takes about thirty-five minutes to reach the second shelter, walking across the shelter connector bridge for about three minutes and waiting -again- for the transfer bus to get to my office with about ten minutes journey. And...walking again about five minutes from the last Trans Jakarta's Shelter to my office building.

I'll be at office from 9am to 6pm.
Busy munching snacks while writing report and media monitoring. Doing sweet-mouth chit chat with the media.  Gossiping about K-Pop with colleagues. and so-on. I leave office -with extra thick face- exactly at 6pm or some minutes late.

five minutes of walking again in hurry to the main street, finding an available bus to go straight to campus.  In some conditions, I may took transfer bus or motorbike taxi -typical transportation in Jakarta- to save time but increasing cost.  So I just choose based on my situation.  My journey to the campus will usually take about fourty five minutes, again, if I'm lucky.

I'll be studying straight from 7pm until 9pm at night.

I usually arrived at my GrandMa's house at 9.30pm.  After having dinner -if I'm hungry enough to eat- and clean-up myself, I'll check my homeworks.  I mean all homeworks, both from my office and campus.  The one left undone.  I'll try to finish those in one night if I can, but sometimes I'm just human, I sleptover.


Activities above repeats. Five days in a week. P.S.: Most of the time, I have class to attend in Saturday too.

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You see, these are not that simple as it may seems.  To deal with nagging clients, hard people, hard tasks, to think extra, to sacrifice your time, to deal with traffic, to keep calm and wise.  Not easy, at all.

Maybe this post seems like my excuse too whine, because I have no chances to whine to anybody.
However, I just really want to know: How to stay sane while the world driving you insane, dazed and confused?

Why, birthday?

"..Orang umur semakin berkurang kok dirayain.."

Kira-kira begitu kata salah satu kenalan saya yang nggak suka hari ulang tahunnya, terlebih lagi kalau ada yang heboh-heboh ngucapin happy ini itu semoga ini itu.  Setuju? Well, saya setuju. Setuju apabila kita lihat dari sisi negatifnya, memang, tambah tua, umur berkurang, kok orang-orang tercinta pada senang? Aneh, ya.

Ternyata....
Maknanya bukan itu.

Kalau kita lihat dari sisi positif, perayaan atau cuma seremoni formalitas ini penting.  Penting buat diri kita, seperti momen disela-sela upacara bendera, mengheningkan cipta.  Dengan adanya seremonial itu, kita 'dipaksa' untuk ingat. Ingat  kita hidup dengan karunia-Nya sudah selama ini, ingat apa saja yang sudah kita lalui, kesalahan-kesalahan, harapan-harapan.  Umur, kadang jadi tolak ukur, nggak jarang ngingetin kita kalau kita kelamaan jalan di tempat, gak move on, gak ada perkembangan.

So..why be grumpy on your birthday, dudes?
Celebrate it, be thankful to the one who gives you life. Measure yourself. and... Have a happy day!


(Write this on my 1st day of being twenty something)