It is finally December. The mighty one. If I’m being asked what the best song to portray December perfectly is, it would certainly be Desember by Efek Rumah Kaca.

I’m not recapping 2011 (yet), so I just give you things I like/love lately.

Descign is a brand focusing in Science and Education. It is holding the mission to introduce Science by its funny lines and fancy design. As a die hard fans of children encyclopedia I love Descign. Founded in late 2011 by two ITB’s Biology student and it just launched its first T-shirt collection (which I already order two instantly :P).

Here’s one of the illustration from their website.

Victoria’s Secret Show 2011 features Maroon 5 with their latest hip song ‘Moves Like Jagger’, which sometimes I doubt whether people singing along with this song knows who Jagger is. My favorite wings (once again) come from PINK collection, where they put the colorful neon in heart and wing shape. And it is official that Behati Prinsloo (the one in the middle) is my next star struck ♥. Visit her mini gallery here where she displays her photographs in black and white.

Dianna Agron has been everybody’s favorite Glee clubbers and personally, one of my crush. I suddenly don’t feel that bad anymore after cutting my hair short after seeing Agron’s gorgeous hair :P

YouMeandCharlie is a website full of inspiration where Agron shares her writing, photos, sketch, and everything to inspire others. Although I sometimes lost focus on the scattered main layout web, I still love the website. And here I quote Agron words that certainly made my day.

… I am a SF-bred girl who would live my entire life down the rabbit hole in a world of nonsense, but due to the low probability of me ever finding that damn hole, I use my vivid imagination every day and refuse to ever truly grow up. Not all the way! That wouldn’t be fun! Why not embrace a life like Peter? I love what I do, I love to see a smile turn a smile turn a smile. Life is too short, too melancholy for some. I’d like to try to diffuse that as much as I can. I am only one, but together we are so much more.

Cheers to December, to life, to you ♥

When being asked to fill a recruitment  form or even email sign up form, all of you must have been asked what is your gender. Have you ever thought why ‘Female’ choices always come after ‘Male’ (even in drop down menu) though ‘F’ comes way before ‘M’ in the alphabet? I do.

When it comes to gender equality at work, obviously I never give a damn thought about it. As I wrote before, I believe there’s thing made to do for a man and a woman, and sometimes I leave it as it is. In the case of my field of work, sometimes there’s really a bold line to everything. My friend sometimes whines at her timeline how people see woman to be inferior on this industry. I can’t blame it even though I don’t believe it.

While it is a common thing to do for my fellow male co-worker to work overtime, I never work overtime during weekdays simply because I avoid using public transportation late at night (the traffic and the high number of criminality have been around, so you know). I don’t stop there. As the replacement, I got to work earlier than my fellow co-worker (I usually arrived at work 1.5 hours earlier than my office hour) or sometimes I finish my works at home (though I avoided this one too), and I catch up to things.

The thing is I don’t get my gender equality, because obviously I don’t want it. I don’t want to be treated equally, because certainly I’m doing things differently. So why would I need the same treatment? But I believe by doing the works my way, I got the same respect than my other fellow male co-worker got. I do, and that’s what matters, to show the same capability I have.  By having those so called respect, then I’m quite sure that I will be having the opportunity.

And here’s what they all talk about. It is the opportunity what this gender equality is all about.

I got lucky when I finally got a site visit to Sulawesi and then East Java to see the ‘real world’. To finally touch things I see on pictures and 2D drawings, or maybe things I overheard. I know my company is being too kind to give a chance to female employee conducting a site visit. I’m not sure either if I’m being the last resort (because certainly nobody can attend the site visit, ‘oh well then you go’). But then again, my total 8 days of site visit cannot be compared to my cubicle male friend who’s on his 4^th month already got a 1.5 months visit to be an engineer on site on the completion of the running project. And once again, I can’t blame it.

Although the number of female engineers on my company can be count by hand (one hand actually), I don’t see the light will ever fade on me. Everybody has different ground to shine, to question that we need to be treat equally is a waste of time. Well, I really don’t see the time when people grab the opportunity from me. Because when they do, I just pity them. I pretty much believe with the sentence “if you don’t get one, then make one“. And I know, I will be having better

because I don’t need permission to jump… or fly :)

Para penantang malam (tentu saja) tidak tidur.

Berhadapan dengan angka dan paragraf, tanpa resiko kematian.

Dengan pendingin ruangan dan lantai berkarpet.

Hanya untuk memenuhi centangan kecil. Yang kadang perlu, kadang terbuang.

Para penantang malam bersua dengan para penyongsong pagi. Bertukar salam di pepohonan.

Berpengharapan dan berkeyakinan, para penantang malam menutup hari.

Para penantang malam kadang kecewa, karena semua usahanya sia sia.

Karena para penyalah hanya bisa menyalahkan.

teruntuk para calon pembuat pipa bawah laut.