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It’s been a week since I arrived in The Netherlands, the training goes very well and there are a lot of things that I learned, not mentioning that I can’t remember them all. I have visited Amsterdam last Friday as the part of the training and got a chance to do canal cruise while having lunch, that was very great. On Sunday, I went to Maastricht which located 3 hours from Den Haag. My friends and I went there to see a carnival, but we didn’t get much time since all of us were vulnerable to the cold and wanted to be back to our flat in Den Haag as soon as we could.


The air is always cold (well, what do I expect in the end of February and in the beginning of March?). I’m still trying to get used to the life rhythm here which is too much different with my country. But, I think I’ll never get used to the cold which kill me every day. I still have four weeks to go and I hope the weather will get warmer.  


Amsterdam




Maastricht Carnival 

This is my second time to travel to Australia for business trip and this time is Sydney!! Yay

The weather here is freaking cold – not as cold as Northern Europe but it’s already too cold for me. I’m here to attend the IACEPA meeting which stands for Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (don’t ask me the details because it’s too complicated LOL and kinda top secret).

Basically I have not much time to hang around since I have to sit at the meeting room and bla bla bla. However, I want to use that limited time to visit some places, oh and I haven’t visited Opera House which is very close to the hotel where the meeting was held.

I plan to visit it tomorrow (if the weather permits me because it’s raining all day).

I always get excited for business trip, not to mention that I have to write long and boring report and make a courtesy call to the Indonesian consulate general, but overall it’s exciting to see new places. I hope I can visit Melbourne or Perth next time.

PS: I think it’s really easy to live this city, but I don’t want to be posted here because I aim for Japan (if I’m lucky enough).











PS 2: That was the plane I rode to Sydney, I was dreaming of riding it when I worked at Bali Aiport six years ago, well, the moral story is : dare to dream, right??
I mean, I would have never ridden that plane with my own money LOL


 

MURAKAMI’S WORLD

The first time I read Murakami’s work was in 2009. My friend was a novel freak and I happened to borrow her book, ‘Norwegian Wood’, which was the only Japanese novel she had. The book was well translated into Indonesian and that was the time I called it ‘love at the first reading’. Murakami had changed my view about how novel should be, he could make us entering his world, the way he described the situation, the way he chose the right words and the beautiful poem-like writing style is ready to accompany you to the end of his book.

I wrote my thesis based on ‘Norwegian Wood’ and I enjoyed it very much, I could answer the tutor’s questions for all day if it’s about his novel.

I began to collect his works, both English and Japanese version and no matter what languages, the beauty of his novel is hard to describe. Murakami doesn’t solve anything in his novels; he let us stay in a mystery together with the main character, perhaps for some people it’s bad to leave your readers confused, but for me, it’s a charm that no other writers have.

The observer even said that he is ‘the best novelist on the planet’ and I can’t agree more with that. He is just amazing.

Here are my favorite lines from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki:

"You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them"

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.”

“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”



A man who loves cat and well very much

Listening to Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience album and it's a kind of reminder to me that I'm going to get married next week.
Why Justin out of the blue? Maybe because I grow up with him for all these 15 years, since that curly-blonde hair in Nsync until he married Jessica Biel.

Now, it's my turn to enter a new phase in my life, even though it doesn't mean I'll go to another galaxy and leave what I have. I'm still around, writing fics, translating mags, watching Arashi and doing crazy things.



my pre wedding pic (or maybe not) haha with my boyfriend, he's Japanese and support me with all arashi things, including buying me magazines, uchiwas, etc.

I don't know, but Justin Timberlake has helped me to enter wedding mode.

Okay, enough with my blabbering 

My New Year gift was an announcement from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia and I passed!!
I couldn't believe what I read and I cried, but it's real and I will start my new life as a diplomat (still long windy road to go though).
So, all my hard works were paid now and I believe what Arashi's songs said, 'yume ha kitto kanau hazu' I dared myself to dream, even for the most impossible thing and it's really great when you can reach it with your own hand. I know I will face a new life and it must be hard, but no matter how, Arashi will always be my role model and I will come to them in Japan!!!!!


Thanks to eiko_lotus nee chan who always be there for me and fulfill your promise to take me to my new life by yourself, I will be your nuisance for another eight months and I hope you'll never sick of me LOL.

Believe what Arashi said :)