good friends good food

yesterday, i had lunch together with ulay and liput at Maxi's. i've been wanting to visit this place for such ages and finally, i am here. unfortunately hanifa and tara couldn't join us due to their college stuffs, i wish everything went well with them and hope that they can join us soon. i want to make this post on tumblr so much but the connection was so lame that the pics couldn't be uploaded. sad :(

the last time i met liput and ulay was about year ago so conclusion is too many things those left untold. ulay and her team just won first prize on a civil construction competition. she got a really big amount of money but it's not about money at all, she must be proud of it and so do us, her friends. on the other hand, liput told me that a company based in Thailand has offered her a job as lawyer. since this year would be her graduation year, this is a very good chance to make a good living, i think. but she's still on her consideration due to some stuffs here, so now i'm gonna pray for the best of her :)

it is nice to have best friends. ummm, it's not best friends after all. we talk, we do have fun, yes, but we also argue, throw anger, and event make each other as rival. we're just strangers destined to meet each other in high school. and since then, we are close friends. we don't meet each other often but we always spare our idle time to gather, mostly in Bandung. day of my routines could be so boring and meet them is such a perfect getaway to get rid off rudeness out there. but i realize that everyone's busy with their own life, new friends, and huge dealing recently, i can't promise myself to always have my close friends forever because one day they're gonna put me up on secondaries priority (they will have their own family and so will i). So as long as i am still young, i'll always spare some of my time with these best people :)

see you again soon,

R

Tea Time

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground  

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."
― Douglas Adams

la new sweet escape

i started to work in my new client (new office also) on last Thursday, so today is my third day here. spotting some difference in my morning life, no free ride, no breakfast (at some time i feel the urge of not coming late due to train schedule, it has me skipped my breakfast), no people i used to know, no same day as before. it's completely brand new beginning. i am the only junior here, rest of the team are approximately 2 years older than me.

so many things around me changed slowly. i never realized that the process has happened through second-minute-day i spent but one i surely know is that the atmosphere smells so different. people get further from my cycle, the ones that used to be close to me started to look at another interesting stuff stealing their glances because i barely respond to them, yet sometime i do feel alone because of that. it seems like i was in full sorrow for being alone, a robot living monotonous life. but then i realize, it's all about the mind. my mind.  it's not about the people that left, it's not about everything that changed, it's my mind that control my response to the differences. it might be too hard for me to control what people around me will do, too many people with too many kinds of ego, it will be easier to control the mind. they said life for the ones who feel is tragedy, but for the ones who think, it is no such thing bigger than a comedy. it's the thing to laugh at, not to be sad of.

maybe this is part of being mature, learning to control yourself through waving streams and dynamic motions. maybe this is part of God's plan to show me who are the ones that will keep coming to give me free ride home when it comes to storm.

xx,

R.