Happy Mothers Day, Mom

Mother. No words can describe my feelings to the most incredible creatures that I know since I came to this world. The one who love me even before she saw me, the first person who burst into tears when I called her mom, a person who smile when knowing I want to be astronout in the future, a person who tell me that I'm beautiful in every condition, a person who cheer me up in the first day of school, a person who says no to my boyfriend when I was in junior high school, a person who wait me in front of the door when I came home late when I was in senior highschool, a person who support me to go to the best university, a love-hate relationship, a person who is my worst enemy as well as a super lover, a person who look at me with her beautiful eyes and say "happy birthday, don't grow too fast", and a person who I loved the most and always will.

Thanks mom for being a great mother, thank you for showing me the real world, thank you for direct me to the a right decision, thank you for hit me with your words because that was the lesson learned, thank you for always saying the ugly truth instead of beautiful lie, thank you for support me in every time, thank you for standing behind my back as a mother, standing beside me as a friend and standing in front of me as a leader, and thank you for loving me without being asked.

And I want to say sorry for all my stupid mistakes, my impolite words, my crazy attitudes, my bad point of view, and all of the things that might hurt you.

I promise you, someday I will be te person who can makes you smile, who can take care of you just like what you always did to me, a person that you can lean on and a daughter that you can be proud of.

I love you, 

Happy mother's day.

Cyber PR

Please kindly check my video for mid term examination, Cyber PR Subject. This video represents my point of view towards SIAK NG (Sistem Informasi Akademik Next Generation) and how UI students use this site for their study and searching for information.

Dream, Believe, and Make it Happen :)

Another miracle happened to me last night, me and both of my friends in the photo got the 3rd place of traveling competition held by Daihatsu. First of all, this competition held in their website, then we try our luck to join this. We have to make a post card and make a story about our friendship, fortunately from 14.000 participant, we were choosen to be 105 candidates of Daihatsu Cerita Sahabat. In this term, we attend the event, and shared our friendship story to the judges. Beside, we also have to sing the Daihatsu song. Then the idea came up, because the three of us can't sing well, we have to be stand out, then we wear those clothes (look at the photo), Ajeng (in the left) draw 1 and DAI, me (in the middle) draw 0 and HAT, and Dita draw 5th and SU, we're dedicated this to DAIHATSU 105 anniversary. In the judges room, we didn't sing well (our prediction real happened) then we shared our friendship story, Dita told them that we have different characteristic and personality, but this diversity make us one, just like Indonesia quotation; Bhineka Tunggal Ika (Berbeda2 tetapi tetap satu), while Ajeng told them that we're also democracy, in this friendship we care about each other but never force each other to tell their secret or problem. Moreover, I told them that our t-shirt represent our feelings and proudness to be one of 105 candidates of Daihatsu Cerita Sahabat. 

After judging section, we went out from that room, looked each other and laughing out loud. Cause at that room, we're like throwing our feelings towards this friendship, we try to believe that we can do this. Even though, we can't sing well, and truly don't know that the judges likes our story or not.

The announcement held at night, we gathered in Djakarta Theater, surprisingly there was Sheila on 7 which remind the three of us of prom night. Then finally, the announcement...... There are three places as the prize, the first winner will be going to Japan, 2nd winner to Manado and the 3rd to Bali. Our target was to Japan at that time, then they called the 3rd winner first, when it comes to teenager category my friend's name called "IMANIAR NAHJAN RADHITA" that is fuckinglyyyy our grouuuuuppp!!!!! Alhamdulillah..... even though it's not Japan, we still thankful for this :) at least our effort paid well and the most interesting part is BALI FOR FREE :D Thank you Daihatsu Cerita Sahabat for this opportunity, happy 105th anniversary!! <3

Success isn't the destination, but the journey itself!

Well it was a very nice moment to look back. Nescafe gave me an opportunity to explore one of the city in Indonesia, my sweet hometown, Aceh. Maybe it sounds weird that I explore my own hometown, but the truth is I never explore my own hometown, except Banda Aceh. Therefore, this is my oppotunity to see how beautiful my hometown is, and visit all the incridible places in it. I live 19 years named Tjut Aliffah Keumala, for your information "Tjut" is a traditional name from Aceh, I personally have that name with pressure. Why? Because everytime people in Indonesia know there's Tjut in my name, they'll asked me with usual question "Are you from Aceh?" I definetely said yes, "How's Aceh? Is it a beautiful place? What is the tourism place in Aceh?" with this question, I answered "I don't really know, cause I only visited banda Aceh and for me the food is amazing". I kinda embrassed with this answer, cause I know they expect more and wanna know the information from me. Back to Nescafe Journey, I was super duper mega exited that they gave me this opportunity to visit Aceh.

It was Monday, 17th of September, we gathered in Soekarno Hatta airport waiting our flight to Banda Aceh. I carried my super heavy backpack and everyone laughed at me knowing the fact that my backpack's size is half of my short body haha. The trip went amazing when we reached Takengon, after our long damn trip from Banda Aceh to Takengon, our exhaustion got paid by the scenery. We went to Danau Laut Air Tawar, this is the picture which captured at that time:

Then the plan is, we want to visited Meulaboh (this is my grandma's hometown). I never been there, so the exitement raised to the high level!! haha. We need more than 8 hours to reach Meulaboh, its already dark outside, the road was not good, finally we decided to stay at the locals house to rest. But the problem is, in our group there are two ladies and three men and we know that the religious atmosphere in Aceh is so strong. So we decided to stayed at police office in Rikit Gaib village. It was the very first time for me to sleep in the police office, me and Bulan stay in the mushola while men stay inside the police office. It was a creepy place to sleep, not the mushola but outside! I heard someone knocking outside and heavy things fell down, and all I can do is just hoping the sun rises quicker than before. This is my photo with the police, his gun and mas Darto: 

It was can not be uttered uttered by words when I leave the police office, thank God we just stayed there 1 night. So we continued our trip to Meulaboh. It was a very ugly road we passed, rocky road, road climbs and the worst is there was no service in our cellphone. We passed the shallow river and we have to went out of the car in order to ease the burden on car. In the middle of our way to reached Meulaboh, our car got stucked, the car could not passed the uphill rocky road. Heavy rain fell, there was no locals went down from the hill.. so we decided to go back.. I was a bit sad that we can't go to my grandma's hometown but the journey goes on....so we just facing the reality that we need to go back :')

We went to Medan and took the direct flight from Medan to Banda Aceh. The day after, we went to the most amazing island in Aceh, Sabang island. This island offered us a very nice beach and yes, Im falling in love with the scenery.. We went snorkeling at Iboih island (one of the snorkeling spot in Sabang), we also go diving, it was the very first time and the last time for me to go diving, cause I sucked in the intro diving practices T.T haha

This island is located in the western part of Indonesia, particularly where the western part of Indonesia began. Cool isn't it? We went to the 0 km and enjoyed sunset there :)

Our journey went very well.. We had a super great time together, this is my Nescafe journey team; Mas Darto, Bulan, Me, Mas Tyo and Mas Onie (from left to right). In a short span of time, they've become my new family. Thanks Nescafe for the journey, the opportunity and the experience. Especially, thanks for my team who made the trip amazingly unforgettable <3

Worst vacation ever

My eid went fine before I go to the most annoying place on earth: Wonogiri. Actually wonogiri is my hometown, but knowing the fact that the whole family (grandma, uncles, aunty, cousins) is in town, I think there's no need to go to Wonogiri. Doesn't mean I'm arrogant or something but the trip just irritates me, we rent a big bus for the whole big family, we spent 17 hours and more just to reached Solo then went to Wonogiri. Crazy isn't it? And the house in Wonogiri just...........makes me in misery. Anyway I don't have to explain about it, I just want to tell that keeping a tradition that makes you sick is not cool. If my grandma or some close family still in Wonogori, I'd love to go.. but this is different situation :'( 

Moreover, we went to Semarang for some holiday, and yes I expect a very nice place in Semarang.. Doesnt have to stay in luxurious hotel or expensive place, one that I need is just COMFORTABLE. Too high expectations bring you down, that quotes bang me when I reached the hotel in Semarang. I feel in the haunted place and need to struggle (again) just like in Wonogiri but in a different situation :'O 

The hotel was creepy and my room was spooky.. My cousin said that this hotel was hounted, in the end I can't sleep at all. 'Great' vacation.. I hope I don't have to go to Wonogiri again, unless my grandma or one of my close family move to Wonogiri.

My Pakistani brother *justkidding*

One month ago, me and my parents (just me and mom exactly) want to have an experience being a host family for home stay student. At the very same time, one of organization in my campus held some summer project and they invited lot of students all over the world. My friends whom join that organization offered me the chance to be a host family, and I definetely agree with it. My friends gave me two option, because all of the foreign students already have host family, they only have two foreigner left which were from Chinese and Pakistan. Personally, I don't have idea how to choose this in a sudden, so I just randomly choose a student from Pakistan. My friend said that the student is a girl, ofcourse I'm totally fine it, but suddenly my friend called me that the student is a boy and they don't have any foreigner left, he asked me if I'm fine with it? I asked my parents and they agreed with it (even though I'm a bit worried). Shortly, this is the story that I wanna shared, a boy from Pakistan suddenly become my brother, without any introducing we met up in the airport on 14 July 2012 when I picked him up.

I went to the airport with my best friend, Yuka. She accompanied me cause both of my parents can't picked him up with me. I waited for approximately one hour, but he did not came out from the gate, all of the estimation came up in  my mind, Does he missed the plane? Or he cancelled suddenly? I'm in a super panic situation, thank God Yuka with me. I started to figure out from the information desk, the boarding board, and finally I got an idea to asked some passenger, even though they didn't gave me a conclusion. They just told me that the plane landed from an hour ago which was I know it! 

After that me and Yuka went back near the gate and just.........wait. Finally there's a guy walked out from the gate and I'm a bit familiar with his face. I'm sure that he's my homestay brother, I know it from the photo, I ran to that guy and showed the paper written his name on it. And he looked at me and we shaked our hand. He told me that the luggage is missing, it was the airplane fault, therefore it tooks his time. So we went home and from that moment we became a very good friends, he is a very nice brother, loving and caring person. We had an unforgetable conversation everyday after he went back from internship, He's very smart, he tought me lot of things, gave me advices, and important information about life and worldwide situation. He changed my mind about his country, Pakistan. I thought Pakistan is a war country, but he explained that Pakistan isn't a war country and so on. Beside all the heavy conversation, we had fun together everyday, like I made jokes and he respond it with funny faces and words.

Thirty five days with my brother flew so fast, I never thougt that we'll be a very good brother and sister. It was 18 August 2012 the day that he went back to pakistan, I feel very sad at that time, knowing the fact that my brother will be gone. He gave me his journal in Indonesia so I'll remember him every time and I also gave him a CD which contained some video so he will remember me in the future. I dropped him to the airport, I hate goodbye. We promise that someday we need to meet up again, I have to go to Pakistan someday, its my promise, so did him, he promise me to visit Indonesia again, I hope it will become true :) See you Jahanzeb Hadi. Thank you for being a very nice brother, it was an amazing one month.. xx

A #journey begin with a single step

Thursday, 9 August 2012.

Nescafe team was suddenly came to my house, they announced me that I'm the 2nd winner and Imam Darto was there. I'm overwhelmed, overhappy and overeacted haha. Some people said, a journey begin with a single step, here is my single step and hopefully the other step will be blessed :)
Thank God for this accomplishment, from thousands of people who shared their story I became one of the 60 candidates and they reduce it again to the big 6.
And secondly thanks to my parents who always support and encouraged me for everything <3
Thanks to my best friend Yuka who helped me edited the video til 2 o'clok in the morning, she's the best!!
Thanks to my friends who wrote the comment on facebook,
and finally thanks to Mas Darto and Nescafe team whom choose me to join the #journey. It means a lot..
See you real soon, Wakatobi, hopefully :)