Live your life as if you are in love

A favourite singer of mine once said that he always lives his life as if he is in love.

When you past the age where you receive comfort and safety of home, living in a big city with new people and expectations held upon you, you finally feel the complete loneliness.

Yesterday, I went through some minor breakdown. I’m so confined on my work desk even often having lunch on my desk that when I wanted to eat out, I had no company.

You feel that emptiness and say to yourself “what happened to me?”. Friends of high school and college are gone busy with their own problems. (At the same time, I wonder if they think and feel the same way as I do).

So, lately I have been trying to get to know myself.

I got a guitar (someone special bought it for me). Finding the tune to a song, playing a favourite song, and singing along to it. I didn’t realize that the simple act of playing my guitar and playing songs I like would make me happy that much.

I love my guitar and my music.

I have also been taking care of my body. I used to didn’t care much about it and as a result I would easily get sick, even hospitalized, I was under weight and had many headaches every day. Now, I try to sleep properly, wake up early and drink green tea every day. In fact I also began to care about my make up products. Going online buying make up is something I recently discovered as an uplifting experience. To see yourself clean in the mirror gives positive energy every morning.

I love my body.

People around me also gives me support. I have my mom, dad, and brother that calls me every week, and just listening to them talking about their day makes me believe that at the end of the day, whatever happens, I will always have that comfort and safety at home.

I love my family.

Also, my biggest shout out is to my closest human beings. I have my best friends who are always with me in spirit and keep me laughing and grounded.

Finally, I have my frownee, you give me the reason to live my life like I am in love, which I am.

Take note of every little positive things in your life every day, and you will realize that your life is full of love and you will be living your life as if you are in love every day.

“to think is to…

“to think is to revolt, to be in the movement of meaning and not in the movement of the streets”
(Kristeva, “Revolt She Said”, 2002, 39)

Wet Wet Friday

17.27 pm, still at the office, working but now too exhausted and have decided to write for the blog.

Jakarta is raining heavy this afternoon. From the looks of if (5th floor view to the center of Jakarta) traffic jam is colouring the streets of Jakarta. I had wanted to go out tonight to go buy some books for me to read but I don’t know about it know. Travel to GI (the nearest mall from the office, I think) which would usually only take 15-20 minutes would probably last for almost about an hour. I don’t think it is worth it. But I want to buy a booookk.. Oh such a dilemma.

Anyway, today was a bit up and down. Work was constant but I am having strange occurrences of nauseating headaches, which I know is partly my own fault.

So yesterday, after work I decided to go to the salon for a hair spa. My hair is turning into the mane of a lion (which is ironic considering the name of this blog) so it is not flattering at all. Hence, I decided to go to the salon near my house.

Came there. Was amazed at how cheap it was. 45.000 rupiah for a hair spa. That’s like only 5 US dollars. And it was amaaaazziinggg. My hair was cleaned thoroughly and I got a full blown message to the head and my shoulders.

Now problem is when they began to massage my shoulder, it was slightly a bit too hard. However, the guy that was doing my hair looked so earnest and he was really putting a lot of effort into it. So I bared with it and thought “well, it might be good this way instead of a just a slight touch that wouldn’t have any effect”. Well, guess what Willa, you really got some effect. Painful shoulders in the morning with fainting symptoms during the day. Terrible.

Moral of the day: If you can’t stand the heat, just walk away, no need to be ashamed. If you keep it going, you will have painful shoulders. Hehe.

Despicable Me Trailer: Banana Song

This is the song that I listen to when I need to laugh. Never stops cracking me up. Childish, yes, but being a child is a luxury these days, so put on the Mickey ears and be a kid!

Pope posts first tweet

Reblogged from This Just In:

Pope Benedict XVI posted his first message to the social media service Twitter on Wednesday under his handle @Pontifex:

The pontiff followed up his much-anticipated debut tweet with two more within minutes.

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The public sphere is not to be undermined, ladies and gentlemen..

A Gap Year?

In some countries, young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between finishing high school and starting university studies. This is often called the Gap Year.

The main reason behind this is for young people to experience life outside of school time to figure out what they really want to do in life as an adult. It is hoped that through work experience or travelling to see nature, meet people, and understand the multitude of cultures of the world, young people would have a wider, and even worldly view of what it is out there offered around the world.

The advantage of this decision to do a gap year is young people would get a better glimpse of what might interest them to pursue later in university. To start university with a sense of direction and conviction means that whatever they do in university hopefully would be based on a purpose and a certain understanding of the world.

The disadvantages of doing a gap year is when that person is caught up in the travelling and working either because their experience is too depressing or too exciting. They got stuck in that that life they are now considering as their new life and to move back to studying would require extra effort. That is to say that some people’s gap year becomes a never ending year. They could have an optimistic attitude towards life and believe that life could be pursued through work or travel instead of a university degree. Or they could a negative attitude towards life that they decide just to live life as it is without need to pursue a university degree.

Either way, there is a risk when you take away the momentum of studying for young people. They either perceive it as an incubator of an experiment for the study itself or it takes them away from studying further entirely.

“If the person …

“If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Learning to be patient is the hardest thing for me to do. I move very quick, I eat very quick, I talk fast. However, people learn and adapt. To be patient with a person of a slower rhythm, now I have mastered. But to be patient with a person that does not a have rhythm that I recognize, hiding away in their own bubble of thoughts, that is a different kind of patient.