Just Another Thing She Wrote

“But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.” 

-Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

Just a Little Late Night Rambling

Never ever underestimate the power of words. The word 'good luck', 'semangat', and 'have a nice day' that usually doesn't mean a thing, can sometimes make a big impact to someone's day. It can brighten up their day and make them feel appreciated. At the same time, making a joke about someone, even though you don't mean it and you know he/she knows it too, can sometimes really bring that person down. You have no idea what's going on with other people's life. They might be going through a hard time that your simple critic can make them feel like they wanna kill themselves and your simple greetings can give them a new hope.

Smile works when words fail.

No matter how much you know and believe that you have people who care for you and will totally be there for you, sometimes when things happen, you just can't seem to tell them. You might want them to know there's something, yet you don't want them to know what that thing is.

When things happen, remember : All you need is God. God is all you need.

Just a Reminder

Remember!

You are the source of both your happiness and your sorrow.

Everything that happens in your life can be counted as a blessing if you want yet at the same time, you can count it as a tragedy. That really just depends on how you think about it.

This might be cliche. But hey, things get cliche just because it's been told thousands and thousands of times by everyone. And why do people keep telling it? Simply because it's true.

Trick Art Exhibition

A week ago, I went to Trick Art Japan Exhibition at Grand Indonesia. This event is held by Trimitra Events. According to their website, Trick Art is a form of art interpretation using optical illusion. With the perfect color blending, perspective, and lightning techniques, amazing 3D effects are emerged from a flat painting that bring the painting to life.

I went to the exhibition with two friends of mine, Alida and Firyal, plus Alida's sister named Dinda.  I know I'm kinda late. It has already been opened since last December and will be closed on February 3rd, but well, late is better than never right? Haha. I'm not gonna talk much because the photos we took there will probably talk better than I do :p So... here it goes.

Can you see the optical illusion? Well we surely can hahaha. Just to remind all of you who want to go here, don't forget to bring a high quality camera. Unfortunately, we didn't bring one, silly us. We also didn't stay there for a long time because we still had something else to do and it made us only took a few pictures while actually there are still a lot of other artworks we could explore. Yet still, we didn't regret going since we had such a good time there :)

For more information about this exhibition, go to their website here.

Hello

I want to congratulate myself. For being able to survive through hard times, dark nights of the soul, through the first semester of college, and through a lot of goodbyes. For being able to cheer moments of laughter, of hellos, and of hello-again-long-time-no-see(s). And most importantly, for being able to realize that there's always something good behind everything and to smile at the end.

I also want to say thank you to all of the people who have been standing beside me through everything. Thank you for still being there when even I, myself, didn't want to be around me. For saying 'you can do it' even when I didn't know I could. For being there till the end to proved me that I really could. For helping me realize that things can never be better than this.

I know that I've changed a lot since a few months ago, some for the better some for the worse. And I'm sorry because I did a lot of complaining, asking 'is this really my path?', and thinking about how it used to be. But the thing is, right now, I believe that I have a future. So, I promise, I'm not gonna be trapped in the past anymore.

The next semester will start in about 6 weeks from now. I still have a lot of time to have some fun and prepare things. Let's just hope these 6 weeks wont go to waste and will be a good start for the next 46 weeks that follow. Cheers!