By the time we say hello to Monday, it is the last day of The Mother—January.

Some quick random updates:

Now, I’m taking internship at some consultant company at Cikini. It’s just been a week and maybe I’ll tell the story later on. The traffic is so damn bad and when you read headlines like “Jalanan Jakarta Mengunci”, it is just a sign of later bad luck (sigh). Now I understand why the people on big city got their apathetic way of thinking. They’re busy taking care of themselves, they just don’t want taking extra credit to care about others. So yeah.

Here is my scenery for a day. The office located near the Cikini Station, so it is such usual experience to watch train passed my window every couple of minutes.

Though it takes 3 hours to get home, I guess I’m hanging on well. I love the people at TransJakarta, they’re different from one another. The polite lady who asks you to sit before them. The fashionista who doesn’t bother taking public transportation after shopping on Grand Indonesia, taking a plastic bag of brand clothes. The Japanese with mask, who is busy taking their business calls. It’s just a damn fun to really see many faces of Jakarta citizen.

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Remember the last time I said about how I got on Youth Leader and the whole online volunteering. It’s going pretty good and we’re just launching Our Priorities! You can check out the website here http://ourpriorities.youth-leader.org, then maybe subscribe to the Newsletter or sign some petitions. I should be excited about what we’re going to have next. We’ll be adding member from the Translation Team and later the website will be available in 12 languages.

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I’ve just watch Black Swan! After longing to see some Oscar material, I got a rare satisfaction this time. I watched it with my little sister last week, and our eyes were glued to the screen. That was a damn hell of a movie watching experience. We swear along time the movie, trying to figure it out what is it all about. Then at the end, we got an unspecific answer we’re seeking. And we’re just chilled when the credit rolls. By the way, all the movie poster are so incredibly beautiful.

So, how’s your January? Chinese New Year is coming up this week, and it is the year of Rabbit—my sign from Lunar Calendar and yeah, everyone expect prosperity at the end of the day. May you all have a great year ahead of you, because it is just the beginning of 2011. Cheers :)

Found an interesting website offering you wallpaper desktop with its own unique simplicity called Simple Desktops. The collection is pretty amazing and you don’t need to tire up your eyes with flashy colors or crowded images. I ended up downloaded every single one of them :P

Here are some of my random favorite walpapers:

And here is my desktop looks like now:

Try to visit and grab one. It’s so damn fun :)

Pilihan-pilihan dalam hidup bukan hanya sekedar ‘pilihan‘, tidak sama dengan memilih A, B, C, D, dan E di lembar UAN dan SPMB. Pilihan dalam hidup kadang mencakup masa depan, melingkupi kebahagiaan. Untuk percaya atau tidak percaya, untuk menjawab ya atau tidak. Sekarang, ketika pilihan tersebut sudah diletakkan. Kembali ada sebuah kata yang tersebut kamus ‘penyesalan‘.

Konsepnya mungkin sama dengan mendapatkan nilai 9 jika salah memilih jawaban di salah satu pertanyaan, atau kemungkinan mendapat 10 ketika pilihan tersebut adalah (yang dianggap) paling tepat. Perbedaan angka 1 antara nilai 9 dan 10 menjadi jurang besar walaupun perbedaan tersebut terbilang hanya ‘satu’. Efeknya besar, dan mungkin berlipat. Kemungkinan mendapat penghargaan lebih dari guru atau orang tua, dari teman-teman, dari diri sendiri.

Tapi pilihan dalam hidup tidak semudah itu untuk dipahami. Penyesalan atas kesalahan memilih kadang tertinggal bertahun-tahun kemudian, atau bahkan tidak dapat diterima sama sekali. Bersarang mengganggu dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Sayangnya, hidup berjalan seperti biasanya. Tidak terlalu memikirkan penyesalan ‘kecil’ yang kita lakukan. Kecuali kita memilih kembali, menjadikan penyesalan tersebut ‘kecil’ atau ‘besar’. Memilih untuk diketahui atau tidak diketahui.

Ya atau tidak, percaya atau tidak percaya, peduli atau tidak peduli. Entah mengapa sebenarnya semua hal hanya berputar di tiga pilihan itu saja. Hebatnya, beberapa orang terlalu sempurna. Otaknya tersekat hebat. Seperti biner, hanya 0 atau 1, hanya iya dan tidak. Tidak ada abu-abu.

It is amazing to find out, that nowadays, internet is changing the way everything works out. The web is amazing place to explore and contains so much potential on its own. To be honest, I have never consumed internet connection like these last two months. But still, there’s always something new each and every day. The internet has never failed to amaze me.

Nowadays, you can find almost EVERYTHING on the web. Websites like Fimela.com and Tanagok.com are only a few examples of online magazine that carry the will of paperless era.

Forums and mailing list like (my favorite)—Kaskus and Indowebster have gained loyal followers. They believe, the existence of these websites have made their life easier. Whether it is to provide them with knowledge about daily news or simply give you download links of your favorite serials.

It gives me perspective about many possibilities that one can make on the internet. Odesk.com is one of the websites that connected people to get freelance jobs. Sometimes, it made me think about how exciting life can be working on certain websites, taking a little part of this digital era.

I just ordered a business card from kartunama.net. Great website. The coolest thing is, you just need to send your business card design via e-mail or upload it on their website and voila you got your business card delivered to home. Life certainly is easier every day.

Lately, I’ve been making some account on Triond and Bukisa. The two sites are basically sites to promote your articles online. From what I read on Kaskus, some people even earn money from the sites (eventhough I don’t understand how). The website however enabled Google search trackback, that allowed us to know what keyword that makes people come to read our articles. It’s so weird to find that someone basically found my articles after Googled “what prisanti putri is doing right now?” Oh, maybe he/she is looking another person then. Some good friends also wrote hello on my inbox and walls. That’s a nice thing to find someone that actually simply asking “how’s life?”

So here’s my life now.

* I’ve been staying at home all those time. Cooking and watching entertainment shows with my mom. Playing Baking Life and City of Wonder on Facebook, please mind me if you find me playing another game online. It’s been hard to resist the temptation :P

* I’ve been taking my driving license (woo-hooo), the photos however is so ‘suram’ that I barely want to scream after the officer handed my license.

* I’ve been volunteering online with Youth Leader Magazine. Organization that I found from Onlinevolunteering.org. The organization however is already receiving their 4^th time UNESCO status with UN Decade for ESD 2005-2014, their Indian team also just got an award from UN as the Best Online Volunteering Project for the year 2010. They’re going to launch Our Priorities websites soon, their newest addition focused on online campaign and petition for youth. The main goal is basically to spread campaign from other organization like Kiva and Avaaz, making them short so people can print them out to be placed on school board and etc. The captain of this whole project is a German named Eric, he’s been nice and also very visionary. I never imagined that people like this could really exist. He has been asked me to help him being Coordinator trough the making of this project.

At first, I feel inferior because this is my first time doing an online volunteering. In addition, when I go through my team member resume, uh woow, you’ll find many amazing people. Half of them are already taking their Master degree, some just taken their /second/ Master degree. Many of them have volunteered in famous organizations and travelled country to country, just because they care. But then, I’ll try.

It is hard coordinating people just from e-mail and chats. People come and go easily, because there’s no commitment involved. This whole online volunteering helped me fill up 2-3 hours of my early morning and early evening. Since it doesn’t take much time to do all the stuff, it suits me the best at this time.

* I will soon have another project with my friend who is also a pengangguran :P I guess we’re just the same desperate graduate in need of extra saving. And some other projects with also some other friends.

* Random Things: I’ve been googling a lot. How I can’t wait to get on a train again. Learn softwares that I hope will be useful someday. And yeah doing stuff (still at home), some this and that.

 

So, that’s basically my life right now. The same boring life, yeah sometimes I feel like I’m the most useless worthless people on earth. For a person who has run all her life, this kind of a life feels like torture. But yeah, I guess it’s not about what routine you have to do, but how you can make the most of it. Then I’m fine :)