Thank you for visiting here.
This blog started way back on the year 2006 and have grown along with me throughout the years. And now I have felt that it's time for me to move on.
More posts and updates will no longer be written in this blog, but the blog will still be open as an archive of my old writings. And I will be publishing a new space, where I would post any ideas, notes, and even my recent works. Thank you again for everyone, old readers and new.
My new journal available at:
http://dossierie.com/
xoxo,
Dee
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Seperti bangkit dari mati suri. Akhir saya kembali membuka halaman demi halaman coretan tangan, kumpulan gambar dan potongan-potongan kenangan saya di blog ini.
Seperti halnya saya yang pernah berkata bahwa hidup adalah rollercoaster, hidup pun telah memberikan saya perjalanan yang penuh ombang-ambing dalam kurun waktu singkat selama saya berhenti menulis. Dan saat ini saya seperti kehilangan arah.
Pernah merasa memiliki sebuah tempat berteduh yang begitu nyaman hingga kamu lupa caranya menghindari perubahan cuaca yang selalu datang dan pergi tanpa peringatan? Atau memiliki sebuah tempat untuk berpegang sehingga ketika bumi terasa berayun kencang semua goncangan tidak berasa, dan ketika pegangan tangan itu lepas yang terasa hanyalah tubuh kita jatuh dan jatuh dan jatuh.
Saya bukan hanya seperti kehilangan arah, tapi juga seperti tersesat dalam langkah kaki saya sendiri. Dan yang saya rasakan hanyalah betapa jauhnya orang-orang berada saat ini sehingga saya tidak dapat lagi berteriak memohon pertolongan. Saya sudah tidak bisa lagi menangis karena tahu tidak akan ada lagi yang dapat mendengar.
Kata "takut" terdengar seperti an understatement. Saya bukan lagi merasa takut. Saya tidak lagi merasa. Hanya tersesat, dan tak tahu lagi harus mengarah ke mana.
Hidup memang mengejutkan. Tapi yang paling mengejutkan adalah ketika saya sadar bahwa bahkan ketika saya dalam sekian tahun selalu mengingatkan diri untuk bersiap akan hal apapun yang disodorkan kepada saya, tetap saja saya tidak siap untuk menghadapinya. Dan sekarang semua sudah terlambat.
Seandainya waktu bisa berputar balik. Seandainya saya bisa lebih bersiap diri. Seandainya ada yang bisa mendengar tanpa saya harus berbicara apapun dan memeluk saya tanpa bicara apapun. Seandainya saya bisa menghilangkan rasa kesepian yang menyakitkan ini. Seandainya menjadi dewasa tidak begitu terasa sepi. Mungkin suara di dalam kepala saya ini akan berhenti berteriak setiap saat dan saya bisa berpikir dengan lebih tenang untuk dapat menjalani semua. Mungkin.
Seperti halnya saya yang pernah berkata bahwa hidup adalah rollercoaster, hidup pun telah memberikan saya perjalanan yang penuh ombang-ambing dalam kurun waktu singkat selama saya berhenti menulis. Dan saat ini saya seperti kehilangan arah.
Pernah merasa memiliki sebuah tempat berteduh yang begitu nyaman hingga kamu lupa caranya menghindari perubahan cuaca yang selalu datang dan pergi tanpa peringatan? Atau memiliki sebuah tempat untuk berpegang sehingga ketika bumi terasa berayun kencang semua goncangan tidak berasa, dan ketika pegangan tangan itu lepas yang terasa hanyalah tubuh kita jatuh dan jatuh dan jatuh.
Saya bukan hanya seperti kehilangan arah, tapi juga seperti tersesat dalam langkah kaki saya sendiri. Dan yang saya rasakan hanyalah betapa jauhnya orang-orang berada saat ini sehingga saya tidak dapat lagi berteriak memohon pertolongan. Saya sudah tidak bisa lagi menangis karena tahu tidak akan ada lagi yang dapat mendengar.
Kata "takut" terdengar seperti an understatement. Saya bukan lagi merasa takut. Saya tidak lagi merasa. Hanya tersesat, dan tak tahu lagi harus mengarah ke mana.
Hidup memang mengejutkan. Tapi yang paling mengejutkan adalah ketika saya sadar bahwa bahkan ketika saya dalam sekian tahun selalu mengingatkan diri untuk bersiap akan hal apapun yang disodorkan kepada saya, tetap saja saya tidak siap untuk menghadapinya. Dan sekarang semua sudah terlambat.
Seandainya waktu bisa berputar balik. Seandainya saya bisa lebih bersiap diri. Seandainya ada yang bisa mendengar tanpa saya harus berbicara apapun dan memeluk saya tanpa bicara apapun. Seandainya saya bisa menghilangkan rasa kesepian yang menyakitkan ini. Seandainya menjadi dewasa tidak begitu terasa sepi. Mungkin suara di dalam kepala saya ini akan berhenti berteriak setiap saat dan saya bisa berpikir dengan lebih tenang untuk dapat menjalani semua. Mungkin.
At a cousin’s wedding event. While chatting with my grandmother, I saw a little girl, tall and skinny with a straight long hair, standing awkwardly in her purple dress and half clinging to her mother as if looking for protection.
I was reminded immediately to myself, on my early teenage years and thought of how much alike she is to how I was on those years.
And then a few minutes later her Mother approached this woman who sat next to me and told the girl to introduce herself.
The girl shakes the woman’s hand while introducing herself, “Dita”.
I was reminded immediately to myself, on my early teenage years and thought of how much alike she is to how I was on those years.
And then a few minutes later her Mother approached this woman who sat next to me and told the girl to introduce herself.
The girl shakes the woman’s hand while introducing herself, “Dita”.
2013
Diawali dengan langkah-langkah kecil baru dalam hidup, pekerjaan baru, rumah kontrakan baru, teman-teman baru, bahkan anggota keluarga baru.
Kemudian sedikit demi sedikit Tuhan memberikan ujian-ujianNya.
Pada pertengahan tahun Ibu menjalani operasi pengangkatan tumor payudaranya. Dan berturut-turut keluarga kami kehilangan orang-orang yang berharga.
Dimulai dari Pakde Djarot, paman yang banyak berjasa untuk keluarga kami dan berperan dalam acara pernikahan saya dengan suami di tahun 2012, meninggal menjelang puasa setelah berjuang melawan kanker paru-paru.
Tak lama kami kehilangan Eyang Is, tante dari Ibu yang juga meninggal setelah beberapa lama sakit. Mendekati akhir tahun cobaan semakin berat datang.
Om Ayik, adik kandung Ibu dan bapak kedua saya yang saya panggil dengan sebutan Papi Ayik, harus berjuang menghadapi kanker hati dan berpulang di awal November.
Pada waktu yang sama orangtua saya pun sakit.
Maka saya pun meninggalkan pekerjaan saya dan saya bersama suami kembali ke rumah orangtua saya supaya saya bisa selalu mendampingi Ibu yang setelah kehilangan adiknya langsung mulai dirawat di RS karena serangan tumor ganasnya.
Awal Desember Ibu berpulang ke Rahmatullah dan tepat di penghujung tahun Bapak pun pergi menyusul Ibu.
Masya Allah...
Mungkin rasa sakit di dada dan kehilangan yang luar biasa ini akan butuh waktu yang lama untuk sembuh dari cobaan yang bertubi-tubi datang di tahun ini. Tapi saya benar-benar berharap bahwa tahun mendatang akan lebih "terang" baik untuk keluarga dan diri saya sendiri.
Semoga bisa jadi lebih kuat.
Semoga kami bisa meneruskan cita-cita dan berbagai ajaran hidup Bapak Ibu dan mereka yang telah pergi meninggalkan kami.
Semoga...
Selamat tahun baru 2014.
Bersyukurlah untuk hadirnya orang terkasih yang ada di samping kalian saat ini. Jangan sia-siakan segala momen hidup yang kalian miliki.
Salam,
Dita.
Diawali dengan langkah-langkah kecil baru dalam hidup, pekerjaan baru, rumah kontrakan baru, teman-teman baru, bahkan anggota keluarga baru.
Kemudian sedikit demi sedikit Tuhan memberikan ujian-ujianNya.
Pada pertengahan tahun Ibu menjalani operasi pengangkatan tumor payudaranya. Dan berturut-turut keluarga kami kehilangan orang-orang yang berharga.
Dimulai dari Pakde Djarot, paman yang banyak berjasa untuk keluarga kami dan berperan dalam acara pernikahan saya dengan suami di tahun 2012, meninggal menjelang puasa setelah berjuang melawan kanker paru-paru.
Tak lama kami kehilangan Eyang Is, tante dari Ibu yang juga meninggal setelah beberapa lama sakit. Mendekati akhir tahun cobaan semakin berat datang.
Om Ayik, adik kandung Ibu dan bapak kedua saya yang saya panggil dengan sebutan Papi Ayik, harus berjuang menghadapi kanker hati dan berpulang di awal November.
Pada waktu yang sama orangtua saya pun sakit.
Maka saya pun meninggalkan pekerjaan saya dan saya bersama suami kembali ke rumah orangtua saya supaya saya bisa selalu mendampingi Ibu yang setelah kehilangan adiknya langsung mulai dirawat di RS karena serangan tumor ganasnya.
Awal Desember Ibu berpulang ke Rahmatullah dan tepat di penghujung tahun Bapak pun pergi menyusul Ibu.
Masya Allah...
Mungkin rasa sakit di dada dan kehilangan yang luar biasa ini akan butuh waktu yang lama untuk sembuh dari cobaan yang bertubi-tubi datang di tahun ini. Tapi saya benar-benar berharap bahwa tahun mendatang akan lebih "terang" baik untuk keluarga dan diri saya sendiri.
Semoga bisa jadi lebih kuat.
Semoga kami bisa meneruskan cita-cita dan berbagai ajaran hidup Bapak Ibu dan mereka yang telah pergi meninggalkan kami.
Semoga...
Selamat tahun baru 2014.
Bersyukurlah untuk hadirnya orang terkasih yang ada di samping kalian saat ini. Jangan sia-siakan segala momen hidup yang kalian miliki.
Salam,
Dita.
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| Mom & Dad on their 30th wedding anniversary dinner |
"Ibu sama bapak itu kaya kisah Romi dan Yuli ya. Dari SMA sampai seumur ini", Ibu - sewaktu sakit.
"Bapak ibumu memang kaya Romeo&Juliet ya. Apa-apa sama-sama, susah senang sama-sama, sekarang sakit aja kok sama-sama", Eyang Uti.
Gak pernah menyangka Bapak Ibu bisa berjodoh dunia-akhirat seperti ini.
2013 jadi masa yang tersulit untuk keluarga kami, dari eyang Is, dua paman tercinta, kemudian Ibu berturut-turut pergi meninggalkan kami.
Dan pagi ini kami kehilangan bapak kami, yang setelah berminggu-minggu merindukan Ibu akhirnya menyusul Ibu ke surga.
Semoga Bapak Ibu bisa bersatu dalam damai di Surga. We love you forever, Mom and Dad.
Always.
Dedicated to
Our beloved Father,
alm. Sri Danardono (26 April 1955 - 30 December 2013)
Each year on Mother’s day I always wake up in the morning and rush to find you in your bedroom or at the dining room and I would kiss your forehead before sitting with you having tea and plan for our special dinner. I did that this morning and you were nowhere there. I miss you, Mother. I hate this a lot.
Happy Mother’s day, Mom.
I am sending my prayers as always for your peace in heaven and sending my kisses through the air I’m breathing.
I love you, Mom
You are the light of my life.
You are my angel.
You are my inspiration.
You are my ultimate hero.
You are the one I run to whenever I am scared, alone and lost.
You are the one who always hugged me and tell me that everything will be alright.
You are the most forgiving person I have ever known.
Thank you will never be enough to repay everything you have done for us.
Forgive me for not being able to give you more.
I will always remember your beautiful voice, your beautiful smile, and the warmth of your touch.
My love for you is eternal.
Rest in peace, Mother.
You are my angel.
You are my inspiration.
You are my ultimate hero.
You are the one I run to whenever I am scared, alone and lost.
You are the one who always hugged me and tell me that everything will be alright.
You are the most forgiving person I have ever known.
Thank you will never be enough to repay everything you have done for us.
Forgive me for not being able to give you more.
I will always remember your beautiful voice, your beautiful smile, and the warmth of your touch.
My love for you is eternal.
Rest in peace, Mother.
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| Our beautiful Mother, Alm. R. Ay. Waty Ariani Hestiwulan (6 Agustus 1956 - 6 Desember 2013) |
You are my home...
Mengutip sebuah tulisan lama:
"it's amazing how life can play tricks on us."
Ketika waktu terus berjalan tanpa henti, hidup - melalui jalannya yang terus bercabang - juga terus bergerak. Dan di atas jalan hidup kita berdua terus berjalan, terkadang berdampingan tapi terkadang berjauhan, menuju arah yang sama.
Semua berawal dari tahun 2003. Dan semenjak itu berbagai kejadian telah kita hadapi, berbagai kejutan hidup kita lewati, dan entah seberapapun jauhnya kita berjalan kita selalu saling menemukan lagi di tikungan-tikungan kecil yang kita lewati. Sepanjang waktu dan hidup yang berjalan mata dan hati kita tampaknya memandang terlalu jauh ke depan, tanpa melihat ke kanan ataupun ke kiri, melupakan banyak hal yang ikut berjalan di sekeliling kita, dan selalu gagal menghindari lubang yang menganga di depan langkah kita.
"life is beautiful with all its tricks and surprises."
Tahun 2010, hidup lagi-lagi memberikan kejutannya. Di saat kita sama-sama terpuruk di dalam lubang, setelah kita sebelumnya berjalan saling meninggalkan, tikungan itu muncul lagi. Dan kali ini kita baru menyadari, bahwa kita selalu tetap berjalan searah namun berlari terlalu kencang dan melupakan satu sama lain.
Akhirnya perlahan-lahan potongan demi potongan puzzle yang selama ini kita cari itu pun terkumpul. Dan kita dapat melengkapinya bersama. Kemudian pada tahun 2012 kita memenuhi beberapa potongannya bersama mereka yang telah menjadi saksi kejutan-kejutan kecil kita.
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Ada sebuah potongan puzzle dari hari itu yang terlambat untuk dibagi, tapi selama waktu dan hidup masih berjalan tampaknya kata 'terlambat' terlalu tabu untuk diucapkan.
Untuk kalian yang telah lama ada di sekeliling kami dan selalu ada untuk berbagi, silakan menikmati...
World's full of strangers
You're the only one I see
No matter how far I'm lost
Always coming back to you I'll be
Life tells us nothing
They make what we believe
Wrote down words to a story
Full of flashes of memories
This has been a nice, nice dream
Don't fade as I wake
For I'll be here for you to take
You are a piece of my surprise
Hidden beneath all mysteries
It's you who I want to keep and to keep me forever
I know I've gone too far for too long
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To you
I'm coming home
-HOME-
Song/arr. : Wahyu Adi Pramardika
Lyrics : Dita Wisnuwardani
DIY Project: Handmade Craft Journal
It's been awhile since I updated this blog. I won't exactly use my current activities as the reasons to my lackness of blogging, but let me just say that my current mood to write is a bit off...I just don't spend that much time in front of computers lately except for working. For this first comeback post I'll try to share something from my current hobbies.
I have been developing a new hobby lately on crafting. I have started scrapbooking, both digital and paper scrapbook, and I also started knitting and learning how to sew. I guess I got too deep into these new hobbies of mine that I kind of not having some extra time to write.
But I do miss writing, and since it's been years that I don't have any personal diary book (I use to have some when I was growing up), I decided to have another one again now that I actually have a lot stories and problems and ideas to share. I wanted to have a special book to write on, and have been looking for a notebook with special designs that would make me love the book enough to write on them often but i couldn't find the perfect kind of book that I like. So I figured, "Why not make my own? So I can have a special diary book that will show my personality best?". And so I did...
Let me share how I made it...
First, I prepared the items that I need to make it. I found this black notebook at Grand Indonesia which have unlined pages and the kind of paper that I love, and I prepared some fabrics to make the special covers. The first fabric was a pink double chiffon with butterfly graphics that I chose because I adore butterflies dearly, and the second fabric was a white lace with flower details that was actually the same fabric as my wedding outfit. Other items I prepared was sme scrapbook materials, contains of vintage butterflies pieces from Prima Flowers, and some of the digital scrapbook materials that I have printed on recycled papers. If you want to do this at home, I suggest that you pick any kind of notebook that you like or most comfortable in writing on and make sure that the covers are plain and thick enough so it would hold the fabrics perfectly. And you can choose any kind of fabrics that you like most, or perhaps use wrapping papers if you prefer them more. I also use special glue that I use for scrapbooks and crafting, and a sharp scissors.
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| The materials needed |
- Measure the fabrics so it can cover the whole surface of the notebook perfectly, and make sure that there's a lot of extra fabric. It's better to have more than less. And then put glue on the edges of the front of the outside covers evenly and generously, but be careful not to put too much so the covers and the fabrics can get too wet from it. Pull the first fabric straight above the surface and gently press them on the covers until it stays. Make sure there's no air bubble on the surface. If you can see at the image below that there's a dark line at the edges, that's exactly where I applied the glue. If you apply them too wide on the surface it will show through the fabric so be extra careful about it. Do the exact same thing to the backside covers.
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| The first fabric applied evenly covering the surface of the notebook's cover |
- After you have applied the fabric to the front and back covers, you can have fun with the covers. What I did to my diary was I add some of the scrapbook materials on the front covers for decorations. I used one of the scrapbook items that I printed on recycled paper at the center and I put some of the Prima Flowers butterflies around it to give the extra touch on the butterfly theme.
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| This is how I decorate my front covers. I then added my name at the center with my own handwriting |
- Once you're done decorating the front covers, now it's time to add the second fabric, the white lace. Do the exact same steps as the first step above on applying the glue and fabric to the covers. Since both fabrics that I used were so delicate, I had to be careful when I was applying the glue. And since the first layer of glue would come through the fabrics so I actually didn't have to apply much of the glue for the second time. I just have to add a little amount at the exact same area as the layers of glue underneath and let them rest just as that. After this step I let the book stayed one night to let the fabric stay at place and let the glue, fabric and cover dry, so I can go to the next steps more easily.
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| How it looks like after I apply the second fabric. Don't worry about the excess fabric at the adges, we''l work on that later. |
- Next step - which I continued the night after - was to do the inside cover. Since if I let the fabrics only covering the outside covers and trim the rest at the edges won't make the covers look neat enough, I figured that it's best to flip it to the inside covers. This step is a little tricky so be careful. First, apply glue at the inside covers (what I mean by inside covers is the surface exactly beneath the ones that you've done before), and again apply the glue evenly and generously only at the edge of the surface. Right after you've done so, pull the excess part of the first fabric straight across the surface you're covering until it sets evenly and press hard until it stays. And then add a little more glue at the exact spot as before but this time on the fabric, then pull the second fabric the same way to cover the first. Make sure they covers evenly at the surface without any air bubbles. And while you're doing both steps, flip along the fabrics at the other side edges to the insides and arrange so the other sides of the excess fabrics are evenly covered by each other.
- After you have flipped all the excess fabrics to the inside covers, take the first pages after both the front and back covers and glue the edges of the opposite pages from the surfaces that you just worked with. Usually some notebooks have that extra first page which were made with different material papers than the papers in the body of the book, you can use this. And just use the paper of the very last page of the book for the back cover. This way you don't have to worry if you make a mess on the fabrics that you flipped to the inside. Just glues these papers together with the inside covers that you just worked on and makes sure that all fabrics are neatly set between the covers that you've wrapped with the fabrics and the glued paper opposite them. Press hard so they will set in place perfectly. See the image below to see clearer.
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| Glue the first and last page to the inside cover to cover the excess fabric. |
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See how the edges are automatically trimmed.
Then press hard so it will set.
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- To make the whole covers set perfectly let it stay overnight until the glue and the whole fabric and covers/papers are dry. I pressed the under a heavy dictionary for one night so the whole cover that I worked with will stay in place until they are dry.
- Take a look at your diary the next night/morning. If all the wet glue are dried, and both front and back covers are as stiff as a novel book covers, then you are done. Enjoy your own custom made diary book.
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| There it is. The final result, my own custom made diary. |
Until next time!
xoxo,
Dee~~ ♥
The loveliest wedding gift ever
The 10th March was my wedding day and it was so beautiful. Though we had some misshaps along the way but everything went well in the end and everybody had fun. There was so many people that came and so many that couldn't join our celebrations sent their love from afar.
In this post I want to share you one of the most beautiful gift we received. It is from our dear friend, Nuki, who lives so far from us since she moved with her husband to this beautiful island away from our big city. She is a remarkable scrapbook artist, and I love every creation she makes that she posts on her blog or facebook page.
She made two pages of scrapbooks for us which we then use as decorations on the wedding, and both of them are beautiful. She made one with turqoise and peach color theme which actually were the color theme of my wedding and the other with black color theme with a cute bird cage hanging on top, which is also perfect because we used bird cages as decorations on the wedding party. And she made them both only in a short time, since I didn't send the news to her about the wedding untill about a week prior of the D-day. Amazing, huh? :p
This is how we received the package...
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| (Sorry for the blurry pictures, I only had seconds to take them before leaving the house) |
I don't have any of the pictures showing them how we set them on the wedding party yet but this is how we set them on our living room now...
PS: you can see more of the details of the scrapbooks and the stories behind them from here and here.
xoxo,
Dee~~♥
Timeless Tales
I have started blogging since 2006. Back then I had so many blogs with different purposes and themes. I had one that compiled all my fiction writings, another one was about music and movies, others were my daily journals, where I shared my personal stories of love and heartbreaks. On the year 2008 I started compiling stuff from those different blogs, throw away all the cheessy and unimportant posts, and put the important or interesting posts into one single blog. That was when I started my blog, "The Diary of Ms. Dee".
I chose that title because I had no other idea what to name it with and decided to go for an obvious line which basically describes best of the posts consisted in my blog. Just about my life, my diary, my personal interests and thoughts.
But then I started to write different things, my work, my creations, my ideas and talk less about my personal problems. And also I felt that, having so actively blogging for so long, I need to expand this blog on more things to share. Because my life is also expanding. I'm going through some more experiences in life, I travel more, I create more, I write more and share more things that aren't totally personal for me. And with more people joining in this blog, many new people reading it more day by day, I don't think that being "just a diary" is no longer relevant. Therefore I decided to change the title of this blog.
I chose the title "TIMELESS TALES" because I love telling stories, of my life, of my love, of my family and things that I have loved for. And I love to share more lately about everything that I cherish in this world and I am working on, and more new interests that I found along the way. Thank you to all of you that have been reading my stories and words on my blogs since 2006, or this blog since 2008. And also thank you for new followers and readers who have been so kindly to drop by (please drop by more often). I will keep blogging as long as I can and I will share to you all everything that I am going through from this day onwards.
xoxo,
Dee ~~♥
Counting Down March
Sooo.....It's March! Finally...!
I am totally excited for this month but at the same time probably a bit nervous about everything. A bit event is coming this early March, and we've been preparing it for months now.
Anyway, I made this in the middle of my spare time. While I'm starting to learn how to do scrapbooking, I keep doing it digitally in my spare time or whenever I'm not busy (or maybe just bored) while I'm at work. It's easier to do and I can do it anytime I want, especially when I have to sit in front of a computer 9 to 5 everyday. This time I got this cute digital scrapbooking kit from one of my favorite blog, Shabby Blogs, which I adore so much that I try to create something out of them. I downloaded the calendar from Creating Keepsakes. I found this blog from Mbak Nuki's post on her blog (you should check it out, she's very talented in scrapbooking. I'm a huge fan of her work :p)
I'm making this as a reminder on my computer since I don't regularly put a calender on my work desk (and it caused me forgetting dates and all), while creating something sweet on my desk to cheer me up everyday.
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| Dee's March Mini Calendar |
If you pay attention closely you might find a mark in the image as a little spoiler to what event is happening and when. I'll share about it more much later, probably :)
Meanwhile, have a splendid March, everybody. Enjoy life to the fullest!
xoxo,
Dee~~♥
Bliss
Dissapointment is probably the one thing that many people would find in the middle of finding a way on reaching dreams and fulfilling hopes. I've had a lot of hopes, dreams, goals in life that I want to reach, but probably not that too ambitious about it and I try my best to compromise everytime there is anything in life that I met that would lead me to different directions.
But regarding to ideas....it is always so hard for me to do so. Thousands of ideas are roaming inside my head waiting to come out and I've been waiting patiently while working hard to fulfill them one by one, a step at a time. And most of the time when someone try to "kill" those ideas, my heart just crushed with dissapointment. I am really, in fact, so sad right now for facing this again, at the very important time of my life.
I've faced this so many times, back when I was still studying in college. No one other than us, students of design, should know how hard our days in college are (or were). We had to be always so creative, always to come up with new ideas, new design, new concept that we could actually work on and create them in real life, but it was always hard to convince people (and out tutors) about our ideas and it was hard to make it all happen. But I guess that's how I fell in love with what I am doing.
Anyway, my fiance and I are going to leave this super busy big city for a few days. Just a part of our big preparations. See you all soon with more tales on travelling and more photos. Cheerios and hope all of you are well.
Dee~~♥
All pictures were taken by Wahyu Adi Pramardika with Olympus Pen ees-2
Locations: (1) Plaza Indonesia - Transjakarta Shelter Bunderan Indonesia (2) Bekasi Square (3) Bakrie Tower Kuningan - Semanggi Intersection
My Kind of Valentine
Today is Valentine's Day. Nothing extremely special really, since I'm not a person who regularly celebrate this day (well, not since 10 years ago haha). Today I skipped work for having this cramps on my stomache since I woke up in the morning and I was just simply trying to find anything to do and to get my mind off the pain. I've been in love with scrapbooking lately but haven't found any spare time to do it on my own or collecting the materials needed, especially when I also don't have the space to do it in my room. Everything is pretty messy around with all the preparations for this big event coming in a few more weeks and I really don't want to add any more mess in my room.
And then I found another way to do it, by digital scrapbooking. I've been trying do learn to make stuff with this and never really show them to people. And today I suddenly wanted to give a little something fun to my fiance while I'm at home and he's at work. After almost an hour working on some scraps I finally managed to create something that I immediately sent to him as a Valentine gift. Here it is....
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| My first try on digital scrapboking, a special Valentine gift for my fiance :) |
I emailed it to him this afternoon in the middle of his busy hours and felt really good. Not bad for my first try, huh?
I got the idea from a simple sentence "Everyday you are my Valentine", and place some of our pictures and that clock image to describe how I love him everyday of my life.
Thanks a lot to Shabby Princess Designs, Kimeric Kreations, and Dee's Deelights for sharing the beautiful materials :)
And Happy Valentine's Day to everyone...♥
Love,
Dee~~♥
Singapoh! (part 3)
Day 3
The last day part of the tour was a special free day for all. And again I re-group with the same team as the day before to went out to IKEA and had an extra shopping for goods there. Going out with the public transportation was fun.
We got back at the hotel at almost time for all the group to gather for the last time before going to the airport. But since we noticed that we still had time to catch a local ice cream from a street cadger that is located at the traffic light corner right in front of Takashimaya Dept. Store. So what we did was, we walked as fast as we can (with a little bit of sprint running) from our hotel right after we finished packing our stuff towards Takashimaya which was about 4 traffic lights intersections away, bought the ice cream, ate it while walking faster (and more sprinting) back to the hotel, and finished eating them right at the exact time as we got to the hotel again and got up to the bus. Ridiculously fun and full of adrenaline rush haha...
And the whole walking extra fast and sprinting didn't end there. We re-joined the others and went straight to Changi airport. Right after passing immigration and heading to boarding room our boss contacted one of us and insisted to show us the airport terminal where he is at, which was much bigger and much more exciting than where we were. So the four of us (the same team as yesterday and the ice-cream hunt) rushed out from the boarding room to the other terminal by Skytrain, meet our boss and had a short tour where he showed us the amazing designs and all the facilities that were provided. We timed our meet for no longer than 40 minutes, so right after we rushed back, got on the skytrain and walked faster back to boarding room. I'm even tired just by picturing the whole thing all over again. *sigh* *inhale-exhale*
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| IKEA! |
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| Cute things in IKEA :) |
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| Salmon for lunch at IKEA's cafetaria :) |
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| The amazing details in Changi airport |
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| Waiting for the skytrain |
Anyway, it was only about an hour later when we finally got onboard the airplane, and we landed at CGK at about 9 PM that night. And such a coincidence that my dad had just landed an hour earlier from Solo so we got to go home together.
It was a fun short trip and tiring. The next day was Friday and the last message our boss gave us that NO ONE could skip work that day so we all got back to work as instructed the next morning. I can't wait to go on a travel again. This was a good start for 2012.
All photos were taken by myself (with Canon 350D and Nokie E63), my work-mates Rio, Eko and Mbak Dede, and of course, our boss.
Documentation courtesy belongs to the company.
Singapoh! (part 2)
Day 2
We got up early for breakfast at the hotel and re-group early that morning for the next tour. The second part of the tour was going to Universal Studios. We spent the whole full day having fun and touring in the area. Since we did have a 'special homework' on learning all the architectures in Singapore, we paid much attention on the details in the Studio. Everything, the details, designs and the rides was amazing. And we did have fun.
My friends and I got separated with the whole group and went searching for different rides and stuff in a small group of four. This little team then sort of went adventuring alone in Singapore from that time onwards. The tour on Sentosa Island ended by watching the beautiful performance of Songs of The Sea.
My friends and I got separated with the whole group and went searching for different rides and stuff in a small group of four. This little team then sort of went adventuring alone in Singapore from that time onwards. The tour on Sentosa Island ended by watching the beautiful performance of Songs of The Sea.
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| Photo in front of the globe |
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| Entering the fun |
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| Receiving instructions from our tour guide before having fun |
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| Rio and I, with the crew of Water Worlds |
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| Shopping cute things for my fiance and family :) |
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| Lining up for Transformers - The Ride |
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| The details are insane |
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| We tried. Hard. *sigh* |
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Shoping! |
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| A walk down on Merlion Park, Sentosa Island, on our way to Songs of the Sea |
Later that night I joined some of my workmates (the whole architect team) to had a night tour. We went to Marina Bay and took a long walk around Esplanade area, and went back to our hotel at Orchard Road around midnight.
Oh, and look who's having a specially great time :)
(--to be continued--)
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| Yes, of course I brought little Terry with me :) |
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| BBQ Squid. yummmm :p |
Oh, and look who's having a specially great time :)
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| Little Terry with his camera ;)) |
(--to be continued--)
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