Au Revoir!

Greetings everyone!

2013 is coming to an end and all I can say is that I'm grateful for this year!
This year I made one big leap of faith which I can't be more thankful
I also had countless of blessings
Things were not so good at some points
But in the end, I can't be happier. 

So thank you God. :)

This will also be my last post in this blog, as I'll be moving to another platform and start blogging more seriously ;) 
This blog has been online since 2005, it's been a good 8 years of blogging i can say! 
I shall continue blogging, though in a different platform and in a slightly different mode. 

I honestly don't know if anyone reads this blog, but anyway, it was a good 8 years. a very good one. But i want to say, THANK YOU!

Now, hasta lavista, au revoir, till we meet again.
Cheers!

Christa 

P.S:  let's keep in touch - please check out and follow my new blog 

The trip.

So.. I did it! The big trip! 

That one leap of faith that I'll never regret and never forget.. The US trip. 

Yes, it's been a week now since I'm back in town after my 18 days long US solo trip. I basically was based in Orange County, south California. I did visited Las Vegas, San Francisco, Solvang, Santa Barbara and of course, Los Angeles in between.. But I spent most of my days in The OC, trying to bring my teenage OC dream to life (Helloo Seth Cohen! :p) 

In the next couple of days I will publish several posts specifically on this trip.. The pictures, the experiences, and the stories! Bear with me! :) 

Worry

wor·ry

verb: worry; 3rd person present: worries; past tense: worried; past participle: worried; gerund or present participle: worrying

1.

give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.

From google. 

I have been giving way to anxiety. I have allowed my mind to dwell on difficulty.
I let my mind got lost in negative thoughts, in all possible ways of difficulty.

I let myself got exhausted
I let anxiety took over

I do realize though, that this has to stop
Because all of those things are not real
They are just playing around in my head

Stop.

Reason

Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, applying logic, for establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information. Copied from Wikipedia. 

Consciously making sense of things - I can't stop thinking of you. But I think it makes sense, when you're the first person I talk to after I woke up, the last before I sleep. 

Applying logic - We are two grown ups with mutual interest of each other, so all the times and effort we are spending for each other is completely logical. 

Establishing and Verifying facts - You were there when I was this and that and this and that, I was there too when you are this and that and that and this. Again, fact is that we are always there for each other. 

Changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information - So.. I think it's completely acceptable to say that I have fallen for you.

Right.

Looking back, I realised why we didn't work out.
We were so good together, we are compatible, but it was mainly covered with excitement. Lust. Fantasies.
They blinded our eyes and made us didn't see that we were heading two different ways. I was high with hopes for the future, and missed out on the reality. 
So we parted ways, and now I see, that it's for the better.

Hang in there.

From Pinterest

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