December 22th, 2015

Happy Mother’s Day for all of great Moms all over this universe!

For real I forgot about this December 22^th is a mother’s day. I saw one of my office mates this morning which a Mom of two brought a red rose and I directly asked her what’s the occasion.

“it’s Mother’s Day, she said cheerfully”

By looking for her expression, I would be easily predicted that she was so much happy and happily celebrated this day. Maybe the celebration was no longer like ‘a huge celebration’ for her only as a Mom, but I smelt something like thousand of prides for being a Mom depicted in her face and I could show it clearly. It was a small thing actually but it affected me in unspeakable way.

I saw lot of friends of mine did the same thing to express their feeling about their Mom as well. They posted a picture together with their Mom where some of them are the  ‘local emigrant’ that far away from their Mom, it seemed like I could feel what were they feel in this very short time.

Since I didn’t call my Ibu yet, I was starting to pick up my phone and was trying to arrange bold and golden words to show her how great and precious she is for me. I want to tell her lots of praises and  prayers so that she can feel the euphoria as I felt this morning. In fact, I only texted her a I used to do in my routine with additional words “Selamat Hari Ibu untuk Ibu”. More than 10 minutes I waited for she texted me back but she didn’t. During this moment of glory to wait for her to reply me, lots of moments with my Ibu suddenly hit me and it made me recognize how far I am just now from her. The fact that I am one of daughters that far away from the mother’s  hug in this universe, I want to yell out loud that I am missing her so much and I couldn’t imagine who I am just know without her beside me. I couldn’t expect myself to write down all of her greatness because I would never possible to do that. I know for sure that being a Mom, a super great  Mom is uneasy. This day made me re-realize how ignorance I am to always let my Ibu feel sad because of me, feel worry and attention less because of me. This day made me understand about the importance of being a great Mom, because the love of Mom will always remain in her children’s heart and always be a call for coming home no matter how far you go, just like what my Ibu does full day and full time in her life. I love you beyond words, Ibu.

Pantai Setokok

Gimana ga cinta ama KEPRI?

 

Tinggal di wilayah yang dikelilingi pulau, bikin orang yang cinta pantai, pasir dan laut setengah mati macam saya ini berasa dimanjain banget dengan pemandangan alamnya. Pokoknya Kepri dijamin jadi surganya para pecinta alam, baik darat ataupun laut. 

Di postingan ini, saya hanya akan membahas salah satu pantai yang ada Batam. Posisi pantai ini sebenarnya tidak terlalu jauh, hanya berlokasi 1 KM setelah jembatan 3 Barelang. Tinggal berbelok ke kanan, mengikuti jalan kecil yang beraspal, berkelok-kelok sedikit, ya kira-kira 2 KM sampai masuk ke lokasi pantainya. Karena ini pertama kalinya saya berkunjung ke pantai ini, yang terlintas dipikiran saya adalah bahwa pantai ini memiliki potensi untuk menjadi daerah tujuan favorit namun sayang pengelolaannya belum terlalu baik. Semoga deh beberapa tahun kedepan bisa berkembang dan jadi tujuan wisata yang menjual buat Batam.

Pasir di pantai ini jernih, lumayan untuk memanjakan mata sejenak. Karena cuaca yang juga mendukung, jadilah pantai ini jadi eksotis disaat menjelang sunset. It was a nice experience for real untuk saya bisa bertemu dengan pantai baru lagi selama saya dibatam. Mungkin tidak semua pantai saya tuliskan didalam blog ini, biar ntar nyicil deh diceritain soal pantai-pantai yang pernah saya kunjungi.. mumpung masih domisili Batam.. hehehe

Ini beberapa foto-foto saya dari trip kemaren, selamat berkunjung -->

Comfort Zone Dilemma

Sticking to routine is totally boring, right?

Having years spent in one place, from Monday to Friday, 08.00 a.m. to 17.00 p.m. and you do it regularly with similar activities day to day, does this question come to your mind?

Is it life all you want to be? 

It was fresh in mind the first day I joined this company. Firstly I stepped out from my boarding house and had spirit to do my best with all efforts that it needed to make me awesome in the workplace. I believe for sure that almost new worker who experienced the moment of ‘officially hired’ in their first day will have the same feeling as I am. Everything seemed good at that time, I was full of spirit and felt enthusiast to anything right in front of my face. What a feeling when you met new people, new friends, new environment and new things to learn about. Each day was great I think, because I found out new things came out by interaction, by communication and by world created as consequent of smart people I dealt with as my knowledge source. 

A day had been turned into month, few months just felt like yesterday and this month already expanded to years. The oxygent you inhaled in the same room for 8 hours a day was no more be different like the other days. You just saw nothing wrong with your life, even so much things that need to be complaint about, such as salary, personal attitude of your workmates, a boring boss and not debatable superior you had, but you only prefer to deal with rather than againts it. In this stage, I’d like to say “welcome to Comfort Zone Area”.

I’m so often to hear a very well-known sentence by Neale Walsh ‘Life begins at the end of your comfort zone’, but the problem is getting out from comfort zone is very uneasy. Trust me. I am so really deeply want to move forward but tons of unimaginable scenarios came over my head and drove me crazy. Lots of questions starting with ‘how if’ sat in my mind. How if another places not better than this one? How if the pressure in another place hit me more than this one? How if I eventually become more miserable in a new place. These questions actually has no answer because it doesn’t happent yet, but it scares me more than I realize. I spent hundred of days to brave myself take a step to out of my comfort zone, but unfortunately, here I am – still sit in the same chair, in front of same table and tumble with the same problem every day. Now I feel my life so damn flat, so lame and stuck.

I looked around to find out is there any body who feel the same as I am. The fact is, all of people surround me have different dilemma, even they also feel the same. Mostly it happens because of reasons to choose for survive in this place are heterogeneous. Here are some of main reasons based on my personal view. They  have no other option, less confident to compete in the new place & supportive environment that enliven them, and these three are my problem just know, I am on my way to gather my braveness to step out and no more want to look back with no regret, not even once. Wish me a better step ahead!

Adek Ke Pulau Abang!

Dear My Blog,

Udah lama ga update soal jelong-jelong seputar Batam. As you know, karena batam masuk ke wilayah Kepri, itu artinya daerah  ini dikelilingi oleh pulau-pulau eksotis nan mempesona. Salah satu pulau yang lagi hits belakangan ini adalah pulau Abang, iya Abang. Nama kerennya sih brother island.

Lokasi ni pulau lumayan jauh kalo diitung dari Muka Kuning. Kenapa dari muka kuning??? Karena meeting pointnya saya dan teman-teman QHSE ya dari sana. Karena jelong-jelong ini disponsori oleh kantor. Ini acara gathering diikuti sama 26 orang yang umurnya udah pasti beda-beda. Ada yang super exciting ampe sempet catokan dulu sebelum berangkat, ada yang selau macam dipulau, ada yang ga mau bedakan karena yang bakal diketemui di tu pulau cuma ikan doang, ada juga nih yang telat datang tapi ga ada pake basa -basi minta maap *upss.

Perjalanan kita sampai pelabuhan makan waktu ga nyampe 2 jam, mungkin karena kita berangkatnya pagi, jadi jalanan masih adem ayem ga ada macetnya. Plus, mbak EO a.k.a Sherly yang cantik udah ready beliin kita sarapan. Jadi yaa… no need to complaint lah, hehehe.

Overall, dari pelabuhan sampe tempat snorkling yang pertama is the best part of me, mungkin pengalaman pertama kali ya.. jadi liat laut luas pagi-pagi dengan udara yang seger itu berasa surga bangetlah. Apalagi ini pengalaman pertama snorkling, jadi maklum ni anak ndeso super duper girang liat kaki katak pertama kali dipake. Beehh…

Karena ga bisa renang dan lupa kalo pelampung itu ga bakal bikin yang make bisa tenggelam, mulai parno deh waktu babang-babang instrukturnya bawa kebagian yang agak jauh dari tepian. Yang ada dipegangin tu abang, ampe diancem ga boleh kemana-mana. Mungkin tu abang eksotis sebel banget ma eike, ampe bebusa dia meyakinkan kalo saya ga bakal kelelep. Ampe ada yang becandain, ‘Ciee.. digandeng terus kayak truk’ -_-

But, it was totally Fun!

Habis dari pantai pertama *lupa nama pantainya*, kita dibawa ke titik-titik snorkling yang lainnya. Semuanya baguuuus banget, nget, ngeeet. Ga bakal nyesel lah pokoknya. Agent yang bawa kita juga cooperatif, ga ribet dan easy going banget. Jadinya perjalanan ini eike kasih point 98. Tempatnya Oke, timnya Oke dan Agent yang bawa kita juga oke banget. High recommended!

C ya again Pulau Abang, adek bakal kesana lagi baang!