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Day 3 - Places that you want to visit

There are a lot of interesting places I want to visit. Basically, I want to go around the world. Visit as many countries as we (me, my hubby, and Mecca) can, taste diverse cuisines, and go to both touristic and untouristic places in every country. But if I have to pick the top 3 I would love to visit in the nearest time, then it would be:

Saudi Arabia

This may be more about religious reasons. I want to pursue umrah with my loved one. It always excites me whenever I see content or posts with a setting in Makkah and Madinah. I think the place is so pretty, and I already know that I would be very amazed when I go there. Ya Allah, please invite us to the holy land of Makkah and Madinah as soon as possible. Aamiin ya Rabb.

2. Switzerland

I think this one is the most beautiful country in Europe throughout every season. Even though I only saw it on the Internet, the landscape is just in awe. The beauty of nature is really exposed there. As nature naturally brings calm and peace, therefore I cannot wait to be able to experience it. Although many people said that Switzerland is very expensive, I guess it is worth the view and memories that we will collect there.

3. Japan

At first, Japan was not really a country on my bucket list, but I heard that it is very unique and interesting to visit. The combination of cutting-edge technology with traditional culture and values holds a lot of cartoons that were very popular during my childhood. Not to mention their culinary. Those all just make Japan a very curious place to visit.

I think for now those are the countries I really, really want to visit soon, hopefully this year or next year? Who knows, right? Aamiin kan aja dulu, hehe.

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Day 2 - Things that make you happy

Since it is only about 40 minutes left to new day, therefore I will just write very short one.

The number one is of course my husband, anything he does is even just his presence always makes me happy.

Ya Allah lindungilah selalu suamiku, sehatkan badannya, panjang umurnya, berkah pekerjaannya, istiqomah ibadahnya, jernih hati dan pikirannya.

The second one is my daughter, her smile is priceless!

I love them both so muchhhh

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Day 1 - Describe yourself in 3 words

If I were to pick 3 words that could describe me, then they would be:

Grow

I would say that I am the person who always wants to grow. I always want to have new knowledge, acquire new skills, and I love to talk to people that inspire me. Although I also often find myself overwhelmed with a lot of things that I want to learn, which unfortunately ends up with me learning nothing. Therefore, as I was already aware that it is not good, then I started to learn to focus on one by one. I think making a to-do list and checklist of things that are already done will help me a lot to overcome this.

2. Encourage

As I mentioned earlier, I love to talk to people who inspire me. I also like to hear people's stories, and sometimes they show me their vulnerable side, so because of that, I like to encourage them to get out of their "down" situation and motivate them to get back on track by achieving more and having their desire back.

3. Emotional

I can become very sensitive when I hear sad stories. I think that really describes how emotional I can be. However, in terms of anger, I can regulate it very well in front of the people, but it's kind of challenging for me to hide my emotion in front of my family and loved ones.

All in all, I think those are the 3 words that can describe me the most right now, but who knows if it will change in the future?

My room in my parents' house—11.32, 03/04/2025

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31 Days Writing Challenge

Yesterday I found an interesting post on TikTok, which is about writing every day with 31 different topics. It immediately ignited my interest in writing. At first I thought, where should I write it? Instagram? I don't think so since actually it does not have to be posted on social media, and also the topics are too personal to be seen by many people. Then, suddenly I remember that I have this blog, and I have some of my notes here as well. When I read them again after several months or years, it kind of brings me some joy. So, I decided that starting tomorrow and 31 days ahead, I will write in this Tumblr again :)

Day 1 - Describe yourself in 3 words

Day 2 - Things that make you happy

Day 3 - Places that you want to visit

Day 4 - Someone you miss currently

Day 5 - Your favorite book and the reason

Day 6 - Your favorite movies or series and the reason

Day 7 - Things that make you sad

Day 8 - Describe yourself during your childhood

Day 9 - Your favorite song and the reason

Day 10 - 10 things that you love the most in the world

Day 11 - Your role model and why love him/her/them

Day 12 - Your partner criteria

Day 13 - Things that you love from yourself

Day 14 - Things that you want to change from yourself

Day 15 - Describe your family

Day 16 - Describe yourself for the next 5 years

Day 17 - 1 sentence that motivate your life

Day 18 - Tell about your 5 closest friends

Day 19 - Tell about 3 of values that you hold firmly

Day 20 - Your feelings 3 months lately

Day 21 - Someone that you love and the reason

Day 22 - Describe the word "Family"

Day 23 - Describe 5 of your future dreams

Day 24 - What is your opinion about "Love"

Day 25 - What is your life goal?

Day 26 - What is the meaning of "Life"?

Day 27 - What are your 5 strengths?

Day 28 - What are 3 things that you want to give to yourself?

Day 29 - What is the reason for you to survive?

Day 30 - Write the "thank you" message for yourself

Day 31 - How are you feeling after completing this challenge?

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I wish you a happiest birthday!

Since I've been with you, the end of the year has become even more special, as you have your birthday two days before the new year. It makes me reflect on not only what I've done in a year, but also recalling memories of what we've been through together. So, allow me to tell you about your 29-year-old as seen through my eyes.

A year ago, we start your new age by doing the groceries shopping at Lidl. We intended to eat outside afterwards in a café nearby Bennekom Centrum to celebrate your birthday, but then we decided going back home since we were afraid to miss dzuhur prayer if we ate outside. No surprise and gift like what I used to do years before, we ended up just eating pizza and ice cream cake in the kitchen. At that time, we still lived in the previous housing owned by Rob -an old man with long white hair- at Achterstraat 22. Sometimes I feel bad when I flashback to that moment as I had very minimum effort for your birthday, even you often said that you totally didn't care about it. Sorry babe, you know that love cannot be measured by surprises, right? haha.

In the twelve months of your 29th year-old, I become more acquainted with you.

You are really a hard-worker, no wonder you get a good position in WKS before. You should remember how your colleague at distrik 5 often called you to ask for your advice related to the job-matter during the first three months you were here. I know how much you love your job, yet the fact that you chose to accompany me here and leave it all behind still impresses me. You work so hard and very responsible, even the job you are doing currently is completely different with what you had in Indonesia. Now, you finally can manage your time to study as well beside working. Fighting! I believe you will achieve it! Aamiin, bismillah.

I have no idea before that you are an extremely helpful husband. You said that my task is just study and cooking the meal. Your words melted my heart because you actually prove it. You help me with the house chores almost everyday (except during the time you were so busy working around 14 hours a day, but when you have free time you still help me tho. Despite it means that you only have like 4-5 hours to sleep huhu). Thank you for that, really appreciate it!

You always give compliment to the food I made, even I know that sometimes it is not tasty but you still ate it huhuhu. Little did you know that the most awaited moment after I cooked is your response towards my food, I love to see your expressions.

Traveling with you is the time that I always wait for. We have been traveling together to 8 countries so far in the past one year. Although sometimes there is a sad story behind it, such as losing our items and documents. But all in all, exploring new places with you never disappointed me (especially you are good at taking-pictures xixi).

I realized we do experienced the ups and downs of our "iman". But I should be thankful that you are constantly remind me to pray not at the end of prayer time and also to recite the Qur'an. The most beautiful sound that I want to hear more and more in our home is when you recite the Qur'an.

Of course it is not always rainbows and butterflies. We sometimes argues, mad, and do the silent treatments to each other. But I do not want to tell more about those things since it is your birthday! We should be happy :)

Overall, I wanna say thank you for everything. I hope your health soar high and live a long, fulfilling life. May Allah SWT always protect you, give you abundance happiness, makes your dreams come true, and forever shower His mercy upon our marriage. Aamiin.

Happy birthday, Abang!

Friday, 29/12/2023 at 06.24 a.m. Beringhem, Bennekom, The Netherlands.

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Done with social media?

It has been so long not to write things on this tumblr again, either it is for sharing or for self-reminder. So let me tell the story about the Christmas break this year.

Since I am currently work on my thesis, so basically I have the flexibility to work whenever and wherever I want. Honestly, parts of me wants to spend the holiday just being at home and work on my thesis as the deadline is approaching as well. Although another part of me also has a sense of FOMO that wants to get holiday like what most people do during this time. So, we decided to just go to the neighbor country of the Netherlands which is Brussels, Belgium. We went to Den Haag Moerwijk on 23th December, Saturday afternoon to sleep over at Tante Fau's house. On the next day morning which is Sunday, we went to brussels by train about 2 hours and spent one day for sight seeing this city. It was raining almost all day, thankfully we had the umbrella with us, so we didn't have to stop or delay our day-trip. We first went to the royal market, but then we were hungry so we were looking for halal food but some restaurants still not opened yet even it was already 10.30 a.m! After a walk for about 15 minutes, we found turkish cafe and ate there. Then, we continued our tour to the grand palace and the so called manaken pis. Nothing was excite me, to be honest. But since I was browsing on the internet that there is grand mosque in Brussels, I was so keen to visit and pray there. Surprisingly, the mosque's location is very strategic, at the heart of the city. It is located just across the EU office building, on the side of the road, and at the same area of a big famous park in Brussels. The mosque is quite big and function as Islamic center which had madrasah as well. Then, we went to the famous iconic atomium and ending our trip with eating wafels and buying chocolate for tante fau.

Fast forward to monday's evening, we got invited by kak kau (tante fau's daughter) to had a dinner with them and their family at their house. We had a house tour by kak kau and tante fau. The design and interior of their house is very interesting, they adopt industrial-modern-minimalist concept for their house. It is beautiful, smart, warm and cozy! Meanwhile, the dinner was so good, they cooked turkish meal. As starter, we ate lentyl's soup made by kak kau's mother in law which is so tasty and also gyoza made by kak kau. Then, for the main course we had grilled salmon and tuna accompanied by pomegranate salad with chop lettuce and lamb cheese, very lekker! also combine with fried potato. Then, for the dessert we had bowl of mix grapes, strawberry and persimmon with lemon. Ah, it was a really tasty dinner!

After we finished our dinner, I and husband have a chat with kak kau, she also served as with hot tea. She told us that she's been working for cyber security for one of the bank in the Netherlands. She told us that she never have any social media, except linkedin since it is a professional platform for job purpose. It amazed us, since we never had a friend who's not or never on social media. I told to her that we are Indonesian is so attached with that like it is part of our daily life. Although, I do aware it wasted my time so much but it is still too addictive for me. She told us that by being active on social media, it is more likely that anyone can stole our data privacy. There is a potential of data leakage which perhaps later can be used by unknown people for applying debt or anything related to cyber crime. She also said the reason why she is not into social media is also because she wants to keep her life private and not want to waste her time. I said to her that some of my Dutch friend I know also prefer not to have any social media, or if they have they would prefer not to put their real name. Then, she thought maybe it is also because dutch is more skeptical. Despite she has a lot of skills like painting, playing a piano, photography and traveling which on my perspectives would be very interesting for people if she wants to put her life on social media, but she choose not to do that. I asked her how did she coped with boredom as I often open my social media to kill the boredom. She replied that she would read the book or e-book. She also told us how she spent her holiday without bothered by phone because she wants to really feel the holiday. Wow oh wow, what a peaceful. mindful and productive life she had!

Honestly, I do aware of the negative side of social media and really wants to limit my activity on social media as well. But the problem is I am still not that firm to do that and I still wants to keep my memories somewhere that maybe would never be vanished. Although deep down, I want my life to be more productive and meaningful.

That was a really nice evening. Hope that when I read this again in the future, I can see myself and my husband as a productive and successful person who does not really care about social media anymore and live a mindful, meaningful, and very pleasant life!

Tuesday, 27/12/2023 at 00.13 a.m. Beringhem E-9, Commandeursweg 500, Bennekom, The Netherlands.

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Bold and assertively written. What a words 👌

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I am not looking for a perfect one.

I am looking for imam who can elevate my iman and guide to jannah together.

I am looking for a partner who are faithful to me, understand me and accept my imperfection.

I hope you are the person I am looking for all this time.

Sei Tapa, 04/12/2019 09.00 a.m

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Things change.

As time goes by, people could turn to be more mature, wiser or even getting worse.

Their thought and feeling may different from the old them.

And so do I.

The most romantic or flirty words in this world could still means nothing for me when I do not see your action.

I am not a person who can easily fallin' in love by the sweetest word as I was a teenager.

Things change.

I am currently more attracted with action, attitude and character of a person.

I don't believe words with no evidence.

Jambi, 24/11/2019 15:58

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I have to level up my life

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Kita adalah..

Kita adalah cerita sehari-hari yang dikemas dalam balutan introspeksi.

Kita adalah pikiran-pikiran dengan perspektif berbeda untuk tujuan yang sama.

Kita adalah sejuta mimpi yang enggan berhenti mewujudkan realiti.

Kita adalah rasa yang disimpan dalam-dalam untuk dinyatakan menenangkan.

Kita adalah rindu yang bertumpuk disudut hati hingga selesai waktu menanti.

Kita adalah rapalan do'a yang berserah pada sang pencipta.

Dan sesungguhnya..

Kita adalah insan yang terbiasa sendiri, namun menyerah pada rasa sepi.

Sei Tapa, 22/07/2019 01.22 a.m

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Even though sometimes the memories come across my mind, I've tried and will continue try my best to forget.

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Congratulations, vira! you had wasted about 106 hours of your time on HIMYM serial :’)

So, today I finally finish to watch all 9 season of How I Met Your mother serial since I start to watch it (again) from December 2017. Actually, it all started back then when I was in High School, my father installed a TV cable and automatically we had a lot of channel options from both national and international. I was so happy at that time, because I really love everything about English, so I thought that it was perfect for me to learn more about English by watching international channel. Then, I found Star World channel and HIMYM serial was playing at that time, I was talking to my self that I really love this serial cause it was literally funny and my favorite character is Barney Stinson(I even looking for his real name and found out that he is gay! I shocked a bit, he’s really seem like a straight guy!) because he’s the one who was always joking when I watched it several time in randomly episode(I didn’t really following this serial because I was busy with homework, went out with my high school friends and maybe also busy clean a house), plus I didn’t really buy the story due to my poor English.

Many years went by, I already forgot that the serial have ever existed and also forgot all names of the characters but I remember pretty well that it was a funny serial when my friends who I barely knew mention that he had been watching How I Met Your Mother serial while he was talking to my another new friends in community that I have just joined. It was June 2017, I was really curious to watch it again, then I went to cafe that provide plenty films to copy and... gotcha! I just know that it is a long serial, it started from 2005 until 2014 and have one season each year. I think it’s too much, so I just copy from 2008-2014(6 season). But apparently, I wasn’t satisfied not to watch it from the beginning because I missed many story and it doesn’t made any sense to another next story. So, I  copy the 3 remaining seasons (2005-2007) and then watched it again from the beginning until season 7 on July when suddenly my laptop could not be turn on again since its push button don’t work and become more broken when someone repaired it.

Months went by, I copy HIMYM serial again on December then watched it all over again from season 1-9 and now I finish to watch all those 212 episode which I assume I spent around 106 hours or even more since mostly I have to pause or rewind some part to understand the conversation cause I decided not to use subtitle in order to increase my listening skill in English.

It was a great TV serial! It’s not only entertaining, but also I learn so much things about friendship, relationship and life. They’re all funny! Ted, Marshall, Lily, Robin, Barney, they all really have a crazy sense of humor! (actually the director and the script writer). The plot is unpredictable, I kind of upset when Robin was married with Barney instead of Ted but then I also can’t accept when Robin adn Barney were getting divorce. I thought that Ted will end up happily ever after with his wife, but apparently in the end his wife is passed away and he is getting back together with Robin. Totally unpredictable! but I’m happy because it has a happy ending :)

They are joking most of the time, but they also have a good and wise point when it comes to a problem. So, here is top three of my favorite quotes from HIMYM serial :

“I am not in college anymore, I would love to go back and be that person again, but you can’t move backwards. You can only go forwards.” -Lily on eps.05 (season 1)

“Okay, yes, it’s a mistake. I know it’s a mistake. But there are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake, but you don’t really know it’s a mistake, because the only way to really know it’s a mistake is to make the mistake, and look back and say “yep, that was a mistake.” so, really, the biggest mistake would be to not make the mistake because then you’d go your whole life not really knowing if something is a mistake or not.” -Lily on eps.21 (season 1)

“If you’re looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want, no matter how much it destroys you, it’s love! and when you love someone, you just don’t stop, ever. Even when people roll their eyes or call you crazy. Even then. Especially then! you just don’t give up! Because if I could give up.. if I could just, you know, take the whole world’s advice and move on and find someone else, that wouldn’t be love. That would be some disposable thing that is not worth fighting for.” -Ted on eps.17 (season 9)