Hm... started out with back to the pool again! Yeah baby, swim regularly is back on schedule. Almost everyday excluding Wednesday and Saturday, me and papo and retty will go swimming. Not losing any weight yet, but at least feeling a bit freshened. However, there are some issues of swimming in Makassar.
1. All the swimming pool is outdoor so if you dont want to get too tanned, you must have to wait until nighttime - my swimming time is around 6.30 - 7 PM
2. The other thing about swimming pool is most of people who go there are not swimming. They are in the pool for hanging out. If you are unlucky, you get into a hotel swimming pool and think about doing 15 laps at least, you end up going home after 2 or 3 laps. Why? Because you have to swim zig zag, or you just bump into everybody. In another case, you are making the other peeps jealous since you are doing 5 laps non stop and they are only doing one-go and stop. Sometimes, they are dealing with phone (with the water proof casing of course) in the pool. OH MY!!! hahahahahahaha
Anyway, swimming helps me a lot!
Second thing about Amayzing May is - I watched a very cool drama that keeps me giggle everytime I watched it. Called What's Up - I've made a post in my MABOG (Majalah Blog, all about reviews). Watching each episode feels like watching a movie. Each episode was made with a handful of care. I even made a note of which episode that I really liked the most, which scene, and so on. I ended up making a journal about it hahahaha. I have never been hooked by a drama this much. Before I went to sleep, I would see a scene or in the end, I just wanted to re-watch it again.
Also, I found a book that answer my questions about country with a name - Stan,. Stan, Stan. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan. Agustinus Wibowo's book - Garis Batas. It reminds me of my Anthropology's textbook or Asian-American History textbook. Full of Anthropological points hahaha and history of East Asia, a foreign land for most of us. I did not know how they look until I encountered a friend of Kazakhstan and a cute waiter from Kyrgyzstan in 2008. Since then, I always wanted to know more about those Stan Stan countries. Don't worry, I will write about it in MABOG as soon as I finish reading about it. I personally wish, it can be published in English, should have told Agustinus Wibowo to work with John McGlynn in Lontar Foundation!
Third thing, I GOT MY SUPER (Belated) Birthday Present! It's SOEGIJA's DVD with a signature of Garin Nugroho, the director. Gosh kudos to Stella Pacis!!! hahahahahahaha
However, this month, my mood is still out of control. There were two days that I felt miserable again! I cried out of blue. I was suffocated till my heart wanted to explode. And I cried, alone! My father was out at that time. At night, I cried loudly without knowing the reason. and Today, I am feeling lazy. Lazy meeting people. So here I am writing a post.
Regardless those unfortunate feeling, I am still saying that May is AMAYZING ;) You dont know that nowadays, feeling extremely free of worried, or exciting are really rare for me? So 20 days of excitement minus 2 days of mellow-ing, I am still saying that that's an achievement. And Can't WAIT FOR JUNE!
Why?!
Numero Uno... I will not be a teacher anymore. I will have my getaway to pull myself and ready for a new adventure out of Makassar. (deep breath).
3 weeks for calming my self. Watching drama, movie, variety show. Writing blog, my Alex,Alex, dan Alex, writing articles, travel notes. Reading English books, improving my English. Embrace my past and at the same time.... my future. Thinking of it, make me realize that 2013 is really fast. 2012 did not let me to have a dream. early 2013 was too hard for me, and in this month of May (after 100th day of my mom) I start thinking about this again - dreams... goals...
When I decided to go home for good in 2011, I knew that I could be stuck. In 2012, I just realized that I did not have any goals; thus, I was nearly stuck - lazy. monotone. Therefore, goals are needed to keep me moving. Dont you think?
Kim Byun Gun ever said (one of the characters in What's Up, played by Jo Jung Seok), a dream is becoming real when you are not sitting down and daydreaming about it. Yes indeed.
So this is what I want to do.
1. August 2013; finish Alex, Alex, and Alex
2. September 2013; start working at .....
3. December 2013: upgrade my phone
4. March 2014; JAVA JAZZ FESTIVAL
5. October/November 2014; Korea trip!
Pray for me as I can reach those goals :) aaah just thinking about it, I can smile... that's the power of 'dream'
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| My father had put a lot of care in doing this. The only one in the world I may say, a woman he loved is accompanied by a stone turtle. A sign of immortality, fortune, and loyalty... |
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