The Interview

Monday, November 22, 2010

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picture credit by Deviantart.com and edited by me.

Talking about blogging, I can say I’m not a newbie as a blogger. I’ve been blogging since 2007 , “Jane From The Blog” is not my first one. I’ve told in the first entry that I had an old blog, which is I’d closed it permanently now and start blogging seriously, I never share privacy things again here (:
Well, if you do blog, you will have some readers or followers and if you blog nicely, they will love your blog and being a loyal reader. You have to keep them interested in your blog, maybe you can do some blog giveaways (fashion blogger often do this!), vlog (video blog) or maybe share some tutorials about something you good in it (such as DIY, tutorial about Photoshop, etc).

So, what have I done as a blogger for 3 years?

Maybe I didn’t write something “wow” something amaze you, I just wrote whatever I think it should be shared to my blog readers. I don’t blog because I want to be popular and reach a number of followers to drop me a comment, not at all. I don't want to be arrogant here. It is more fun when you blog something that you’re passionate about. If not, I bet someday you’re gonna stop to blog because you think “I can’t be popular when I blog!” (got it?)
Now I think I should start something new for my blog, something that I never done before. I’ve read some bloggers interview, like Michelle Koesnadi from Glisters And Blisters did her first interview with Lexy from Quirky Explosion, you can check it here. The interview she did sounds very nice. It will be great if I try to interview somebody that I admire to? Just wait for my next interview post, peeps! (:

I Am A "LUCKY" Volunteer!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010


I’ve mentioned before on the previous post that I’m becoming a volunteer for Asian Games, right?
And now, I will tell you something great that happened today on the 2nd-day work!

Gue benar-benar merasa puas banget sama hari ini. Walaupun semalam gue tidur malam sehingga mengakibatkan pagi ini gue bangun agak siang (dan membuat gue sedikit khawatir kalau hari ini gue bakal capek kerja 12jam karenanya), tapi ternyata gue masih SEGAR sampai detik ini mengetik di depan laptop. Apa yang membuat hari ini terasa begitu spesial?

Hari ini gue dan Sastika menjadi “stalker-dadakan” selama jam kerja kami sebagai volunteer.
Tujuan utama kita mau stalk atlet bulutangkis Korea, Lee Yong Dae dan atlet-atlet bulutangkis dari Indonesia. Sebelum jam tugas, kami berdua nongkrong di depan stadium bulutangkis sambil berharap ada atlet yang lalu-lalang dan kami akan langsung “menyerang” minta foto bareng.

Beberapa atlet Indonesia memang lewat, tapi sayangnya... kami NGGAK TAHU siapa mereka. Kami berdua bukan pecinta bulutangkis. Gue sendiri hanya sekedar tahu, tapi nggak begitu hafal wajah-wajah mereka. At least, gue kenal wajah Taufik Hidayat, Sony Dwi Kuncoro, Liliyana Natsir, Greysia Poli, Vita Marissa... tapi atlet yang tadi kami lihat gue benar-benar nggak kenal. Akhirnya, dengan menyesal dan tidak bisa berbuat apa-apa, kami diam diri sejenak.

Beberapa menit kemudian, entah kenapa gue pengen ke McDonald's yang ada di dalam gedung Sport Center, kebetulan Sastika juga mau ke WC, jadilah kami ke sana dan di sinilah hal yang kami nggak duga terjadi.

Di dalam ramai banget dipenuhi oleh beberapa volunteer dan staff AG, di antaranya juga ada atlet bersama tim dan pelatih mereka juga sedang menikmati makan siang. Karena bingung banyak orang, kami berdua jadi linglung persis anak hilang. Waktu gue lagi melihat ke arah pintu masuk, tiba-tiba Sastika mencengkram tangan gue lumayan kenceng sambil ngomong, “CHE, ITU SUTIYOSO!” Gue langsung mengalihkan pandangan ke arah bapak-bapak yang-gue-kira-dimaksud-Sastika-adalah-Bapak Sutiyoso (padahal dia menunjuk orang lain!). Gue sedikit bingung dan ragu... Sutiyoso? Kok dia pakai jaket oranye bertulisan “SINGAPORE” di belakang punggungnya? Nggak mungkin, deh. Sastika sendiri masih heboh, yakin kalau itu Sutiyoso dan langsung ngajak gue untuk minta foto bareng. Tapi tunggu dulu... gue masih ragu... Sutiyoso? Yang bener aja?

Gue: “masa, sih? Kok mereka pake baju Singapore gitu?”
Sastika: “aduuuh... bukan yang ituuuu, yg lagi makan di pojok itu!”

Gue menengok ke arah yang ditunjuk Sastika, gue langsung mengenali siapa Bapak itu dan beliau BUKAN Sutiyoso! Gue juga ikutan lupa siapa nama beliau, padahal muka dia mirip banget sama salah satu saudara gue. Abis itu Sastika agak menepi ke arah tembok dan mulai agak ragu juga, “eh, Sutiyoso apa Agum Gumelar, ya?”

Nah, iya! Agum Gumelar! Beliau adalah Bapak Agum Gumelar!

Tiba-tiba gue jadi over-excited begitu sadar kalau beliau adalah Agum Gumelar. Beliau lagi asyik makan bareng rekan-rekannya. Gue dan Sastika berusaha keras mikirin gimana cara ngajak Beliau untuk foto bareng, karena pasti sungkan banget, kan minta foto sama pejabat negara. Tapi ini kesempatan langka bisa ketemu pejabat negara di negara orang lain, di McDonald's pula!

Setelah bolak-balik nunggu Beliau selesai makan, akhirnya Beliau selesai juga dan beranjak keluar pintu. Sastika langsung nekad menghampiri Beliau pas keluar sambil ngomong, “Maaf, Pak... boleh foto bareng?” tanpa diduga, Beliau langsung mengiyakan ajakan Sastika dengan antusias, “Ohhh... boleh-boleh...” Lalu, Beliau langsung menjabat tangan kami dan menanyakan nama kami dan di mana kami bertugas sebagai volunteer, setelah itu, gue dan Sastika langsung semangat atur posisi, keluarin kamera (walaupun modal kamera hape doang, setidaknya ada kamera, deh!), siap untuk foto bareng Bapak Agum Gumelar. Untung banget Beliau dan teman-teman ditemani oleh salah satu volunteer yang ternyata kenalan senior dari kampus kami, dia langsung inisiatif untuk fotoin kami bertiga.

Kata salah satu rekan beliau, cahaya di foto ini kurang bagus dan gue pake topi jadi muka gue nggak kelihatan, akhirnya pun kita diminta foto ulang, hahahaha 


Selesai sesi foto bareng, salah satu rekan Beliau becandain kami, “abis ini pulang langsung upload deh di Facebook.” Kami langsung ketawa. Karena sepertinya mereka mau nonton pertandingan bulutangkis, kami langsung berpamitan. Dengan sopan kami berpamitan dan bilang terima kasih sama Beliau dan teman-temannya, nggak lupa sama senior kami, dan dengan ramah mereka pun membalas pamitan kami.

And you can guess what we were doing after they left us... we’re screaming out and can’t stop smiling! Bahkan rasa excited itu masih tersisa sampai saat ini!

What a day! Nggak foto bareng sama atlet, tapi bisa foto bareng pejabat negara jauh lebih menyenangkan!

Thanks, dear God for today!

SEMBILAN BELAS

Monday, October 25, 2010

"Don't you think time is walking TOO fast??
Okay, really... you're not longer a little-young-girl, Jane...
You're now officially NINETEEN!"


Kesan buat Si Sembilan Belas?
Gue hampir nggak percaya kalau umur gue saat ini sudah sembilan belas. umur yang udah di menuju ambang pintu kepala dua. Bahasa lebay menurut gue, masa remajaku akan segera hilang, deh. Semalem di chat gue ngomong kayak gitu ke salah satu teman, dia bilang, makin tua sih pasti, cuman setiap umur pasti ada kesenangannya sendiri, jadi nggak perlu sedih makin tua nggak bisa senang-senang. Gue pikir, apa yang dia bilang ada benernya juga, sih. Lagipula gue juga nggak mungkin selamanya tujuh belas atau delapan belas, kan? (;

Harapan buat Si Sembilan Belas?
Harapan, yah? Sama kayak wishes kan, yah? Emm... jujur, wishes gue sama kayak tahun lalu, nggak berubah, hahaha! Masih sekitar soal keluarga, diri sendiri dan prestasi. Yang pasti, makin tua, makin dewasa aja, deh. Kalau kata my mom, gue udah bukan anak kecil lagi yang masih harus bergantung sama orang tua. Bukan bearti sekarang gue bener-bener udah nggak bergantung sama orang tua gue, ya. Cuman maksud beliau, gue harus udah bisa cari peluang job sendiri sekarang. Minimal gue punya pengalaman kerja sebelum gue lulus kuliah nanti. Mumpung gue sekarang ada di negeri seberang, nggak ada salahnya juga buat cari tahu soal pekerjaan. Apalagi di sini channel-nya luas banget! Yahh... Gue nggak berani banyak berharap, sih... wish yang terbaik aja dari Tuhan (:

Lain-lainnya?
Lain-lainnya sharing foto-foto pas ulangt tahun aja kali yah. Oh iya, tahun ini spesial sih, soalnya yang ulang tahun tanggal 25 Oktober ini nggak cuman gue, tapi ada satu teman lagi namanya Michael, dia berulang tahun ke lima belas! *applause*
Foto-foto di bawah ini diambil sama si abang ganteng kita yang lagi liburan ke Guangzhou, the only one Kokoh Indra! 

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The birthday cake!

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The birthday kids! We shared our birthday cake! 

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The photographer!

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Best friend! (:

Tambahan lainnya:
Dua kado terbaik dari dua sahabat terbaik.
Yang satu memberikan mini pudding-cake nggak lupa dengan lilin kecil, diantar ke kamar tepat pukul 12 malam di saat gue habis berdoa! Langsung make a wish malam itu juga wohoo. Thanks my dear you are so sweet!

bday!sas
Thanks a BUNCH Sastika Taniady! I LOVE U FULL.
Kuenya enak banget loh, ternyata cheese cake yah!

Yang satunya lagi, my long-distance best friend wrote the whole birthday letter in her own Tumblr.
Entah sejak kapan dia jadi ramah bermain sotosop, ralat... dia bermain dengan sotoskep katanya
(ternyata sotoskep itu Photoscape, yaelah!). Yah apapun itu, MAKASIH banget yah Princess Kina!
Sedih sih, lagi-lagi kita nggak bisa lewatin ulang tahun bareng ):
Tapi nggak apa-apa, aku tetap senang kita bisa melewatinya bersama di MSN semalaman sampai ngakak-ngakak, hahaha! We always do this every time gitu loh!
But anyway, here what she wrote in her blog. Nggak tau kenapa dia obsesi banget jadi princess sampe bikin cerita dongeng gini LOL

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Once upon a time, there was a beautiful little princess named Princess Kina. She was a very cheerful and full of joy little princess. She lived in a beautiful palace in a private island with her family. But one day, she had to move to another island and a new palace with her family because their own island was going to be attacked by another lame kingdom. So then they moved to a new and a bigger island, called island J.
Princess Kina who used to be a cheerful little girl changed into a not-talk-so-much type of princess. She felt like she did not want to leave her island and her master bedroom in her ex-palace. She was so sad because she had to leave her friends on the island, the friends who always accompany her to play, sing and dance together. She was so damn sad.
Until she entered her new palace, she was first so afraid with everybody new and strange to her. Especially when she knew that her parents were no longer the king and the queen of the new palace. She realized that she had to start to know everyone knew in that new palace. So, she had no idea where and when to start.
Lucky that there was a Gala Dinner in the palace. Everyone was invited, including Princess Kina and her family. Ah, as usual Princess Kina, she couldn’t ask people first, or smile first. A very shy yet fabolous. (*puke*) .
So, she was standing near her daddy’s feet, the suddenly, “Hi! My name is Princess Jane! What is your name?” a talkative and chic little girl who claimed herself princess talked to Princess Kina. Then, Princess Kina did not answer her, she was hiding to her daddy. Princess Kina felt insecure. But that little girl did not give up. She gave her hand asking Princess Kina to shake hand with her and then maybe to ask Princess Kina to become her friend. AH! When you are in this kind of situation, your parent must be helping you. Princess Kina’s daddy said ” Kina, introduce yourself, please! She is Princess Jane, the daughter of King John and Queen June! She is a nice friend you know. Shake your hand!”
Then, they shook hand. “I am Princess Jane. What is your name? Can i be your friend?” the little girl repeated her words. “My.. my.. my name is Princess Kina. Hallo, Jane!” replied Princess Kina. Then Princess Kina’s dad said, “Princess Kina, Princess Jane is a princess also, just like you. So, therefore you still want to be called Princess Kina, you should call her Princess Jane. You got it?”. “Okay, Princess Jane.” said Princess Kina. “So, are we friends now?” asked Princess Jane.
And, it was a little story about two little princess when they first started their friendship. The time flies so fast, until these two little princesses realized that they were not “a princess”. They were just two ordinary girl who likes to call themselves “Princess”. They have grown up now. They even are not living together anymore like years before. Princess Kina still lives in Island J with her family. But, Princess Jane lives in Island C right now. Her family still lives in Island J and even still building the Kingdom with Princess Kina’s parents.
And today, actually, Princess Jane is celebrating her 19 years old born day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wah. I can’t believe i just mentioned that. Ah. I have no idea why does it so hard for me to say this. Maybe because Princess Kina told me that she was missing Princess Jane too much, like too much so much. She told me that she was so sad because she could not celebrate Princess Jane’s born day together due to the distance that seperating them. So, by this great time to talk, Princess Kina asked me to type this to Princess Jane, and also to Prince Yu (who is now in a relationship with Princess Jane.
“Dear Princess Jane, happy born day! Wah, i could not believe that you are a 19 years old princess now. Today, i woke up and read a reminder in my cell-phone saying ‘Jane is getting older today’, and i was happy to know that yet i was so sad that we could not celebrate it together. By this message, i would like to wish you happiness and i hope that you can smile each day, even in your hardest day or your heaviest weight( you need diet!). And even though it is too hard to smile, then don’t forget to remember me or your parents or your boyfriend or your Savior! I miss you too much. And to you Prince Yu, i order you to respect Princess Jane, to be humble even though you are dating the coolest Princess on earth, to love her and to take care of her and also take care of yourself because if you are not healthy then who else will take care of her, and from now on you are also my friend ! You’re so lucky, you know? And, Jane, i have a present for you. Please wait in an hour then i’ll give it directly to you, so please be ONLINE! And now, blow the candle! 1,2,3 …..
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THANKS a BUNCH for Kina Grace! I MISS YOU SOOOOOO

Ini dia kue dari kerajaan untuk Princess yang berulang tahun, hahaha!