Tentang Teh

Tea is one of the most frequently used word for me lately at work, simply because we share "tea" to each other especially my closest coworkers hahaha.But I also have a story about the actual tea. Let me tell you...Sebagai warga yang seumur hidupnya cuma minum teh kantong/kemasan, pengetahuan teh-tehan dari teman teman Chinese di kantor jadi sangat menarik.Misalnya saja soal "tea washing". Sesuatu yang tidak pernah ada di budaya saya karena ya teh cuma diseduh dari kantongnya, atau ditaruh di [...]

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About Compliment

A meeting just called off as our China counterpart is on public holiday this whole week and instead of utilizing the timeslot for preparing my training deck, I feel the urge of writing something about work, a quick one.Work lately is a like roller-coaster ride--um, although I never did one, but that's how people would call it. In my description it would be, "one day I learn to do one thing, struggling, cry, then sunshine. The next day I had to repeat as they assigned me to do a new one". Yeah, like [...]

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First Half FY24 Workout Review

Pada recap 2023 tahun lalu saya menulis satu kalimat soal memulai olahraga di kuartal akhir. Tidak terasa separuh lebih FY24 sudah terlewat, tepatnya delapan bulan. Ternyata saya masih konsisten masuk kelas-kelas olahraga di setiap bulannya. Kadang skip 1-2 minggu biasanya karena pulang ke Jakarta/Bali atau kunjungan keluarga ke sini. Here is the recap from 1 September 2023 to 21 April 2024:I attended total 44 classes, 2520 minutes missing 5 classes due to kecapean, kena macet, atau [...]

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2023

Saya menulis catatan ini dalam perjalanan pulang dari HCMC. Sebenarnya draft tulisan penutup tahun sudah dipikirkan sedari beberapa hari lalu saat masih di Saigon, tapi selalu beralasan “ah tidak ada laptop untuk mengetik, ada yang kurang, nanti saja”. Tapi dipikir lagi, perjalanan ini akan makan waktu 2 jam, saya pun tidak mengantuk. Maklum, selama 3 malam di Saigon selalu tidur pukul 9 malam dan bangun pukul 6. Sangat ideal hahaha. Jadi saya putuskan untuk mengetik saja di perangkat genggam [...]

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Praktisi Mengajar 2023

Semuanya dimulai tahun lalu, di bulan terakhir saya di Jakarta sebelum pindah ke Malaysia. Seperti biasa, kalau sedang di Jakarta dan Buku Berkaki ada kegiatan pasti deh menyempatkan diri untuk ke datang. Waktu itu mereka sedang menyiapkan buku untuk dikirim ke Pasaroan, Sumatera Utara. Kegiatannya kurang lebih mendata buku buku donasi dan menyampul satu per satu dengan pembungkus plastik. Bukan kegiatan yang menarik, memang, tapi bisa dibilang ya ini bagian yang harus dilakukan sebelum bukunya [...]

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2022

It has been 44 days since of 2023 and I just started to write my 2022 recap.What to blame this year? Of course the hassle of moving in to Selangor - the state I never thought I would visit, let alone to live in.2022 was another surprising year. I knew exactly I want to leave ID again, but I never expect it would be this quick. It's only 2 years since I'm back from Sydney. Well, it's quick but not that quick. The recruitment process itself took almost a year since I first submit [...]

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Wika in Joyland 2022

The excitement was there even when it was just the start of W43.I finally went to a festival again after the last one was in 2018: We The Fest.Kenapa jaraknya jauh banget? Karena the timeline was sucks. Festivals biasanya mulai dari akhir Juli sampai akhir tahun while I left for Sydney just in the first week of Aug 2019. Arrived, adapting, watching only Rich Brian, then covid happened.Long story short, sebenarnya banyak rencana nonton festival ini itu yang banyaknya di Jakarta, tentu saja. [...]

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What Changed Her?

I don't know what's the trigger. All I know is that I act differently this time.She used to be that person who stays in her comfortable room, get food delivered to her place, having the least conversation and rarely walk around to see the neighbourhood when she first moved to a new place. She was too reluctant or shy or scared to have an interaction with human. It took so long until she finally open up herself. I don't know why.This time, on her first day, she surprised herself. She walked [...]

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