The one where we raced around town.

Last week me and three other friends, Disty, Kenny, Rissa, joined the Amazing Big Durian Race. It's held by The American Chambers and pretty much inspired by the famous Amazing Race.

I have been wanting to participate in such races ever since i first watched the TV show back in my college days. To race around the world would be perfect.. Not to mention super exciting! I wanted to join the big durian race ever since I first found out about it last year... But missed the registration period. Luckily i didn't miss this year's, so I got to race!

So basically the task of the race was to collect pictures with an object or doing a thing, also collect things. Each tasks has their own points ranging from 5-50.
Tasks were varied from "picture of monas", "picture of you cooking your own street food", "picture in front of obama statue", and some bizzarre ones like "picture of dead rat" or "picture in front pf snake blood vendor". Hahahaha interesting right? Each picture must have at least two team members in it to be valid.

So we raced. We started at Kuningan, and finished at Kemang. We didn't win though, our final points were only 360 but we were'nt the last one, and we had a loooot of fun! Tired, of course, but it was a very fun day lots of laugh.
Funny thing though, one of the task was to picture two kampung kittens. We thought it was an easy one, i mean, kampung kittens are everywhere in jakarta! But that day... We didn't spot two of them, at all! We spotted one, and another one, and another one... But never two of them! Hahahaha crazy!

Oh, here's some pictures from that day.. Enjoy! :)

Me and Rissa - in front of Ambulance

Me and Kenny - in front of Shrine

Team picture inside a Bajaj

Disty and Kenny - Cooking their own street food

Team Picture in Busway Transfer Shelter

Me and Rissa - With ABG dating in a 711 joint lolllll

Funny.

Funny how the things that used to be a problem now become totally the opposite.

Funny how criteria still matters after all these times. I do believe we all want the best but don't the best still needs compromise? After all, no one is perfect, are we?

Funny how much your surroundings can affect you. It's good to feel for others but it's also good to stay grounded, just to keep your balance.

Funny how you think these words don't make any sense at all but to me they mean a lot lately.

Life is funny. You think you know but you have no idea, best you can do is keep your faith that He will made everything beautiful in its time.

The Easter Weekend.

Happy Easter everyone!

This year I'm spending my Easter break holiday in Jakarta, successfully combining work, play, and leisure. Wooohooo quite an achievement for a weekend, right?

My weekend started on Thursday night when I gathered with my best girls to host a bachelorette night for one of us, the sweet Anggun. We stayed over at Diza's apartment then went painting the town red (or at least.. Painting Domain red lol). I really really had a great time dancing with the girls, can't even remember the last time we did that! ( I think it was back in early college days which was 5 years ago?!)

Then on Friday.. I became the living proof the statement "age can't lie". Hahahah, I barely couldn't do a thing except sleeping! I felt reaaallly reallly tired and had no energy, so basically it was hibernation day.

Luckily I still had Saturday, in which I started early, went easy jogging, had yummy brunch, watched a couple of DVDs then finished a proposal for Indonesia Mengglobal that I've been working on for the past week. I also managed to do some research for my future school project.. Then went to bed early :D

Then came today, the last day of this veey happy long weekend. Again i woke up early, wanted to run but it was showering. Went swimming instead, then to the hairdresser to get hair treatment and i was lucky to get free foot massage! Woohoo soooo relaxed! I went to Alia Salon at Jeruk Purut and I have to tell you they do the best blow outs! Loving the result :)
I finished my treatments around 12 noon, which was obviously time for lunch. Was about to eat at Pasta Basta near Hero Kemang but it was closed, but I saw a nice florist next to its old location, bought flowers for mommy cause its Easter day.. Then went to Baskin Robbins to grab some ice creams because the day was toooooo hot! Lucky me, my credit card has 50% off promo for today only!
On the road going home I spotted that Kemang Fish and Chips has reopened in new location, in between Circle K and Toscana. Who used to eat them yummy fish and chips back in their old location behind Codefin? Well they're back now, in smaller place though, so it's better to rake away or have it delivered to your house if you live in Kemang area.

Anywaayy.. That's my weekend. How's yours? Planning to spend the last hours pf it by relaxing.. It's been a great weekend so far! :)

You.

Sometimes i wish life is easy.
If it was, i'd be next to you.
We'd sail the sea of uncertainty side by side.

But I,
I just can't afford to dream big this time.
I'll just lay low, cherishing the simplest bit of what today brings.

Have a good day,you.

Soon.

Soon my days will be sunny and warm, filled with laughter and love.
I may not be the best in what i do, but i am a truly wishful thinker, so be it.
What's the world gonna be without people like me? This world is cruel and cold enough, of course we could use some hope and wishful thinking, right?

365x365

Have I told you that this year I'm running an Instagram project called 365x365?

The idea is to post a portrait picture of the people in my surroundings for each day in this year.. And write a short story about that person, using #storyportrait and #365x365 hashtags.

Why am I dong this? Just because! :) I think it'll be fun, right? This way I'll meet people and hear them stories.. Yay!

Anyway here's a scren shot of the instagram account, do give me a shout out if you'll let me post about you :)

The unusual.

I know that this is my first post in 2013. As other first posts in a new year, I know I should write in a more positive tone, reflecting a more positive outlook for this new year.

But I just can't. Today just seems so wrong, the weather is wrong, cause it was raining this morning when I was supposed to do my morning run. It's still raining now, makes the air conditioner at my office exceptionally cold. I'm guessing there will be one hell of traffic going home tonight, cause you know how Jakarta is.. Give it a bit of rain to add on the usual afterhour traffic, boom you got endless jam!

Everyone seems wrong as well. I barely could concentrate on my boss's words during this morning meeting. I managed to get away though, didn't seem to make any trouble. I also barely could digest the words that came out from my friends' mouth during our lunch conversation. I'm sorry, I am a bad listener today.

Then he asked me about my day. I couldn't answer. All I could say was 'not good'. Unlike usual, I did not know what to say to him.

So this is my first post of 2013. So unusual. I don't know. I can't tell. It's just one of those days. One thing I know for sure, life has its way of ups and downs. This kind of day won't stick to my 2013. There will be better days, happier thoughts, more positive me.

As for now, I'm letting myself getting carried away by the emotions... But not for long.