Class dismiss!

It is a pending post.. i've been planning to write this post since 2 weeks ago..

Finally, it’s a wrap..

Kelas Pengantar Psikologi untuk semester genap 2011-2012 ini akhirnya berakhir dua minggu yang lalu dan ini kelas kedua bagi saya. whadda fun!

Seperti biasa, di akhir kelas perpisahan, saya selalu minta para mahasiswa menuliskan kesan dan saran mereka untuk cara mengajar saya, dan mereka cukup jujur menuliskan positif dan negatif dari cara mengajar saya serta saran yang mereka berikan pun cukup menarik.. Thanks a bunch guys! it’s been a pleasure to learn with you all…

Beberapa hal besar yang saya bisa simpulkan dari kertas-kertas yang mereka kumpulkan, mereka suka dengan pengaturan kelas melingkar yang saya aplikasikan sesuai dengan kelas Psikologi emosi saya waktu kuliah dengan seorang Profesor hebat, Bu JEP.. I actually love the way she taught me back then. Selain belajar dari pengalaman saya, pengaturan kelas itu juga saya lakukan karena tahun lalu saya mendapat saran bahwa para mahasiswa suka pengaturan seperti itu dan mereka merasa lebih nyaman untuk saling bertukar pendapat dengan posisi “equal” seperti itu (tahun lalu saya hanya berlakukan pengaturan duduk di diskusi menjelang akhir semester.)

Hal selanjutnya yang mereka suka juga adalah hukuman menyanyi bagi para mahasiswa yang terlambat, namun mereka juga meminta supaya saya lebih tegas sehingga tidak banyak yang bisa terlambat seenaknya sampai hampir tiap minggu. Alright then, I will make a strict rule for the next class..

Kemudian ada yang bilang kalau saya terlalu sedikit memberikan tugas, padahal saya sudah agak takut kalau ternyata saya malah berlebihan memberikan tugas, maklum, saya belum benar-benar bisa membuat standar tugas yang pas. It is something that I need to learn from experiencing it.. atau mereka bikin saran ini karena tahun depan kan gak mungkin saya ngajar mereka lagi? hehee nice suggestion by the way…

The fact that my age is not so far from their age makes this lecturing more interesting and they ask for more “curhat time” while what I want is different, I need to cut out the sharing time (beside sharing about the lesson of course) due to the massive things i have to deliver for them. I think I will provide the after or outside session for them in a regular time, or based on their need. yeah, call me a call lecturer.. *sound weird*

One thing that I need to do is read more, more and more, because this youth whom I teach is very smart!

by the way, Selamat UAS ya semuanya.. hohooo

Kartini #sobatbumi

Tadi pagi waktu di jalan mau ke kantor dengar siaran Your Morning Coffee nya Female Radio dan seperti biasanya, saya mendapat banyak info yang menarik kalo dengar siaran pagi. (mungkin kalo dengar siaran malam saya udah ngantuk jadi gak begitu memperhatikan apa yang dibicarakan, hee)

Dari acara tersebut saya jadi tau kalo Pertamina mengadakan acara Kartini Sobat Bumi, yaitu menanam pohon yang banyaaaaakkkkkkk… dan kita bisa berpartisipasi dengan mudahnyaaa..

dikutip dari sini, berikut cara kita berpartisipasi :

1. Setiap 2 tweet (tidak termasuk re-tweet) dengan hashtag #sobatbumi akan dikonversi menjadi satu bibit pohon untuk ditanam dan dirawat oleh Pertamina di lokasi-lokasi yang sudah ditentukan.
2. Konten tweet berkaitan dengan penanaman pohon, ajakan aksi penghijauan, atau inspirasi untuk melestarikan bumi.
   Contoh: alam yang kita nikmati saat ini bukan milik kita tetapi titipan anak cucu kita, mari kita jaga dan lestarikan #sobatbumi
3. Setiap orang dapat memberikan tweet sebanyak-banyaknya
4. Tweet tidak boleh mengandung unsur SARA.
5. Bibit pohon yang dikonversi dari tweets akan ditanam dalam periode waktu 1 (satu) tahun.
6. Laporan penanaman bibit pohon akan disampaikan pada akhir tahun 2012 melalui www.kartinisobatbumi.com dan www.pertamina.com

Daaaan.. yang paling saya sukai, kita bisa ngecek lokasi pohon yang kita sudah tanam dan berapa jumlah pohonnya di web itu. Grafisnya membuat saya gembira pagi ini, hijau dan menenangkan. Kita bisa Login dengan akun twitter kita untuk melihat berapa pohon yang sudah kita investasikan dan dimana akan di tanam, kita juga bisa milih avatar yang sangat lucuuuuuuuuu… sayang, pilihan baju avatarnya masih kurang representatif.. hehee

anyway, it’s a great idea to save our mother earth!

Kamu pilih makhluk yang mana??

Alkisah.. ada tiga dara jelita yang berencana menghabiskan malam bersama di kamar kost salah satu dari mereka yang paling dekat dengan kantor. Tiga dara tersebut seperti dara-dara lainnya tidak mungkin langsung tidur, pasti ada ritual gosip sebelum tidur, maklum… wanita ya djeung…

Entah siapa yang memulai, untungnya mereka tidak menggosipkan orang lain, tapi mereka malah menggosipkan makhluk dunia lain. Masing-masing bergantian menceritakan kisah horor yang pernah mereka alami atau pun yang pernah mereka dengar terjadi pada orang-orang terdekat mereka. Ternyata cerita itu sangat banyak dan ternyata tiga dara itu bisa disebut sebagai orang yang malang melintang di dunia perhororan.

Ada yang menceritakan bagaimana eyangnya berkelahi dengan api merah yang terbang masuk ke rumah mereka, ada yang menceritakan bahwa pagi hari setelah neneknya meninggal ada jejak harimau yang mengarah pergi dari teras rumahnya karena ibunya memilih untuk tidak meneruskan ilmu sang nenek, bahkan ada yang bercerita bahwa ia sering bermimpi bertemu dengan keluarganya yang sudah meninggal dan bisa berkomunikasi dengan mereka melalui mimpi tersebut.

Banyak ragam kehororan yang dibagi oleh tiga dara pada malam itu, hingga salah seorang dara sampai pada bagian akan menceritakan pengalaman dia ketika magang di daerah Pontianak, ia bercerita bagaimana perang ilmu yang terjadi disana dan pengalaman langsung teman satu kostnya. Mendadak ada suara wanita yang berteriak menyeramkan, dua dara terdiam, karena mengira itu suara sms dara yang ketiga, ternyata suara itu berasal dari musik yang dari tadi diputar dara ketiga melalui ipodnya. Ketiga dara mendadak pucat karena sang dara ketiga tidak merasa pernah memasukkan lagu tersebut, dengan sigap ia matikan ipodnya dan menghapus lagu itu dari playlistnya yang ternyata berjudul “Andai Aku Gayus Tambunan.” hm….

Tampak belum jera, mereka lanjut bercerita mengenai kisah-kisah seram yang mereka alami. Lagi-lagi ditengah keasyikan mereka bercerita, lampu di kost mendadak mati dan karena belum pernah mati lampu, Dara pemilik kostan tidak punya lampu emergency sehingga keadaan sangat gelap gulita dan mereka bertiga pun berteriak, merapat dan saling berpegangan tangan. Lampu pun hidup mendadak sebagaimana dia mendadak mati.

Akhirnya setelah merasa dua kali mendapat peringatan, merekapun berhenti bercerita seram dan kembali beralih bercerita mengenai makhluk dari dunia mereka sendiri. *capek deehhh…..

I Survived!

Forget to bring your handphone is a nightmare. Better left your wallet instead, they said.

If it is so, then I was experiencing a real nightmare today. I forget to bring my cells to the office, which I realize when i’ve already arrived in my office and wondering why there was such a silent during my journey.

I tried to stay positive that it is a chance for me to have a peaceful time, no disturbance from anyone else. Then I finally remember that I had to return the “Malay Dress” to the “Sanggar Melayu”, asked by my brother, to one part of Jakarta that I’ve never been before, called Pondok Bambu. DISASTER!

Arrived in the office, I call my Father to inform him that i cannot be reach until i get home tonight, call Mr.J to tell him that he can email me in case he miss me #eaaa and then call my “Still-in-honeymoon-at-bali Brother” to email me address of the Sanggar Melayu.

I had a very peaceful day in the office, so peaceful that i became sooooo sleepy… or maybe it was because i’ve been out of the town for some moment that made being in the office became more boring than it usually did. haha

Back to my so-called-disaster plan, as soon as i received the email from my brother, i ask people in my room how to get to the address in a very easy way and jam-free way. Got the answer, although i haven’t understand it perfectly, i just hope for my best luck that afternoon.

And the luck did show it self, in a form of my friend name Miss Mcuy.

I accidentally bumped into her in my way to my car and an idea came in a sudden that her home is around the address, so i begged her to please explain me the detail about how to get there and she offered to lead me the way to somewhere very close to the address instead. What a kind girl.. Thank You Mcuy!

Thanks to Mcuy, she lead my way till Klender and it is so close from the address, I just need to follow my brother instruction. It’s quite easy tho, if my brother did give me the right instruction. I found the street that he indicated in the directions, i just need to find an “ind*mart” and turn to left afterward, but it turned out that no ind*mart in that street. I have to go back to the street again and I found “Alf*mart” instead, and with all my guts, i decide to turn left there and voila! that was the street and I found the Sanggar!

-Mission Accomplished-

for the moment…

until I realized that I still have to find my way back home. For some people, it could be an easy A, but for me, it was a hard thing! I’ve often lost in my journey to my home from the place that i’ve known pretty well, and since i just follow Mcuy on my way to that place, i haven’t paid any attention to my route that afternoon and it was already dark when I wanted to go home, so it was another DISASTER for me. hmm.. I guess I just rely on my feeling and became very aware of the direction boards. This is when I need to trust my self and the Self fulfilling prophecy* would come true.. long story short, i finally arrived safely at home. pfiuh, what a journey!

Another disaster was waiting for me in the house..

I reunited with my cells and I wanted to inform Mr.J that I have the mission accomplished, but turned out that my cells run out of credit. I couldn’t believe it because i ‘m sure that i have around 30grands credit the night before, then I remembered something about calling Mr.J last night that I couldn’t recall a “good-bye”, yes, i was sleeping while calling him and from the “120 minutes and 30 seconds” call log, I knew that he fell in sleep too.. d’oh!

WHAT A DAY..

Lucky that I still had my “a taste from heaven” Durian Pancake from my best friend Ji for dinner.. yes, I am too lazy to cook and had no cash to order a delivery service. This time, Luck show in a form of Durian Pancake..

Luck does exist, in many forms.

…and for me, Luck is part of Blessings from Allah..

* i would like to write about it some time in the near future..

[Very Late] Eid Post

Idul Adha is already passed and the vibe of that sacred moment is also gone, but I still want to post my pics from that Eid Day.

I celebrate the Day with my Cousin, we went to The Mesjid in front of our house to done Shalat Eid and then we headed home to enjoy dishes cooked by my cousin the day before… After done all the delicious dishes, we planned to see the Qurban, but being so sure that we’ll hear the announcement if they begin the Qurban ceremony (due to the very close distance from Mesjid to our House), turned out that we missed it. They didn’t use the mic! lol *very foolish of us*

Here are some pics from that Big Days.. enjoy!

Agar-Agar with Marie Roti + Dragon fruit as the garnish

Granita Coke a la Chef Dody

the Grilled Chicken as the main Dish

i am the PIC for arranging the table.. lol

instagram-ed

and this is me… hihihiii

teteup… #mejeng

Better late than never, no?

Love,

The Dark Jasmine

11.11.11

11 November 2011 or 11-11-11. That is the most awaited date in the world, or at least in Indonesia, where many people held their wedding ceremony or done the birth surgery, or other special occasion, but not for me, i’m not a fan of that kind of worship. I never planned to done something special that day, but occasionally, Allah had planned something for me. I will never forget what was happening that day… or at least not to forget it in the near future, maybe i would forget about it sometime in the far future, who knows?

In that day, Friday to be exact, i got to go through my Unplanned Journey. Yeah.. my father is hospitalized, in ICU.. who want to spend a day with her father facing the death threat? not me…

Thank God… He is all better now, not in fully recovery condition yet, but fresh enough to force himself back to his office no matter how hard we forbid him. And I am too, back to my routine, to my office, facing the sophisticated J-Town.

My father’s condition is all my concern now,, He’s happiness is all that matter for me now..

I would like to thank all my friend that help me through this nightmare, i am very lucky to have you all.. me and my family thank you all.. please keep praying for my father health, i pray for yours too…

Love,

The Dark Jasmine

Casa di atas Aksara

another weekend trip!!

yay!!

Last friday, we went to Kemang.. yes, Kemang again..

This time we went to dine in Casa but due to the waiting list, we were window shopping first in Aksara and I just Love Aksara!

There was a feeling of “syahdu” *ceilah* that Aksara lit up in my heart.. i love the vibrant of this bookstore. i love how they arrange and decorate the books and all the unique things they sell there… Unfortunately I can’t take the photos there..

finally, we get the seat in Casa..

I ordered Spaghetti Aglio Olio again, but this time it is followed by the peperocino and it was soooooo spicy! but still soo tasty.. hihihii

Mr.J ordered Salmon Teriyaki + Rice (biasa, tipikal orang indonesia, kalo makan harus pake nasiii,, hihihi peace!)

let the pics tell more…

The Drinks: my Hot Chocolate, Mr.J's Lime Squash + Mineral water

Spaghetti Aglio Olie e Peperocino

Salmon Teriyaki + Rice

i love the candle..

romantic dinner

Just you……

...and me

Love,

The Dark Jasmine

Wedding + Traffic Jam + Nite Sale = Great Food

Saturday??

Yes! another weekend to spend with him, my lovely Mr.J …

Wedding??

nope, not my wedding, at least, not yet.

last Saturday, I went to a wedding in Cibubur and it was a tiring journey, due to the saturday afternoon traffic jam in Jakarta, worst!

It  was a wedding of Mr.J’s friend which was held in Wiladatika, Cibubur. The building name is Pandan Sari. It is quite beautiful, with high ceiling, white and has terrace for the guest reception. The size of the building is medium for around 500 guests or less.

.grabbed it from here, not exactly from the wedding we came.

How about the decoration? hm.. i couldn’t tell you whether there was good or bad decoration since we arrived there around 01.20 pm while the invitation wrote that the ceremony is only from 11.00 am to 01.00 pm, so at the time we finally arrived there, the decoration was a messed! *people were redecorating it for the next wedding ceremony*. argh.. that is why I don’t want to hold my wedding here in Jakarta, or at least, if I had to hold it here, I want it to be an evening ceremony.. *pray-pray-pray so hard*

The dishes? Although the room were under redecorating, they left some dishes for late-guests like us, but I totally had lost my appetite because of this messy things. I only try the salad and it was  a masterpiece! *oke, ini lebay* *but really, it was so delicious!* and after Mr. J finished chit-chat with his friends and took a pose with the newly wed couple, we were heading directly to the Mosque, Mr. J hadn’t pray yet.

Done the Shalat Dzuhur, I suddenly feel so hungry and i’ve been craving for Spaghetti Aglio e Olio since i’ve tried that dishes in Aston Rasuna when my father visited me last month. We finally choose to go to Pizza Marzano Kemang for the afternoon snack *yes, pizza and pasta is Snacks!* and thanks to The Traffic Jam + wrong route decision by Mr.J, we arrived at Kemang around 4 pm! i was really hungry at that time, I felt like I could eat Mr.J for taking the wrong way! grrhhh.. *but I still love you a’… hihihiii

at Pizza Marzano, I ordered Spaghetti and Dough ball as side dishes *because i am so HUNGRY*, Mr. J ordered Pizza . When the food finally came, we finished those delicious foods right away so that I forgot to take the pictures. I love the Spaghetti, it was flooded by the Olive oil and taste so delicious but the pizza was not thin enough for me that i don’t like it so much, the dishes of the day was the dough ball with the garlic sauce. The sauce was rocking my tummy!

 

 

 

.our empty plates.. yummiy!.

Driving through all the traffic made Mr.J wanted to relax a while and he wanted to go creambath and I was dying to buy some new books, so after finished all the dishes, we went to PIM (i don’t exactly remember why we chose to go to PIM ). PIM turned out to be the wrong destination again because there was a nite sale at that night in PIM and you can imagine how bad the traffic was (we need about 30 minutes just to park the car!) and the mall was SO CROWDED that gave me dizzy… having lost our intention to done anything there, we decided to go back home and called it a day.

Do you think that our journey to my house was an easy adventure? nope, hm.. honestly, I don’t know, I could only remember that Mr.J complaining about Traffic jam around Ragunan or somewhere else which is usually not a crowded street, was packed with cars at that night. I was falling asleep all the way home… poor Mr.J who struggle alone through the streets. *i do really love you! :p

In Sunday, we actually had decided to just chilling out at home, relax and just take a rest. I’ve spent my morning eating mangos, oranges, and any fruits left that I could eat *due to my laziness to cook and in the name of diet*, watching Star World and working with my uphile. Around noon, Mr.J called me and reminded me that we have one disdus voucher for gold facial treatment in Wonder Skin Tebet, he asked whether i wanted to go there or not, since i have nothing to eat for lunch, i agreed to go there. He made the reservation and he told by the receptionist there that there were no need to make a reservation, we just need to go there and they are closed in 5 pm. Mr.J picked me at 2 pm and we arrived there around 3 and thank you for the miscommunication between Mr.J and the receptionist, we couldn’t done the treatment that day (They need 2 hrs for the treatment and they are not accepting customer after 3 because they afraid there will not enough time and they full, they thought that when Mr.J called them, we’ll go there straightaway).

Rescheduling and reserving the treatment for next Saturday morning, we hurried toward Radjaketjil for very late lunch.

Radjaketjil is a restaurant I knew from Twitter and so curious to taste the food, turns out to be a VERY DELICIOUS foods! we ordered Hainan Rice for two, Cameo putri baik hati, Seafood Soup, black pepper beef and Fried Cassava for side dishes. I LOVE IT! I just love it. I highly recommended this restaurant for you all, especially the “Singkong goreng”, so crunchy and hm.. i just so in love with cassava.. Mr. J has Red bean Ice as the drink and I drank Terong Belanda Juice.

.The Menu.

.my hungry face.

.stunning dishes.

.my favorite: Singkong Goreng.

Every food tasted so good and the drinks completed the wonderful dishes. Radjaketjil also comforted us by their cozy environment + the rain poured outside. It was the perfect closing for my weekend. Thanks to Mr.J, you completed my life again..

.cozy place + gloomy afternoon.