Ameru's blog

  D ay 28 of 30 days writing challenge Loving Someone When you truly love someone, you just know that you clicked with them. Was it the touch, the talks, the smile, or the gentle stare, everything was in line just for once. You can talk for hours and hours without even getting bored. You always long to be with him. You know you wanted to be with him. Look into his eyes As eyes are the window to the soul. You'll know you love someone and someone loves you back when you see the reflection in his eyes. You can't really lie about loving someone, at some point every lies will be revealed. You can't force your love, you don't ask to be loved. It really doesn't matter how the world see your lover, in your eyes they'll always be perfect. Though sometimes along with times you'll be weary and it's hard to keep things precisely as they were before, but you've got to nourish the love you had (and have) so it will continue to grow. Still learning this since I...

D ay 27 of 30 days writing challenge Inspiration As a muslim, we should always look up to our Prophet Muhammad PBUH as a source of inspiration and aspiration for doing our daily lives and also for the afterlife. Yes , Islam really emphasises on afterlife as a final destination of any human.  Easily Misunderstood The Prophet was known for his honesty , and gained the title of al-amin , which means a trustworthy person. His one and only true love was his first wife, Khadijah RA . When he was with her he didn't marry anyone else. Quite contrary to what the haters belief which tarnished his name as a womanizer while fact is he was only remarried after Khadijah RA passed away and all of those marriages was for social and political reasons. Muhammad PBUH is on the top list of Michael H. Hart's: the 100  (in Indonesian translation : 100 tokoh ), a book about 100 most influential figure in human history, defeating Sir Isaac Newton and Jesus Christ. The book was written in the 70s b...

  D ay 26 of 30 days writing challenge School* *I'm sorry, this is not a fun posting, will be quite serious. I attended private school until junior high, and got into public school during highschool, and continued my further education to state universities. Might considered myself as lucky to have a chance to pursue high education, since only around 8% of the population able to have it. Our country's literacy and education level is so low it's depressing. Anyways, regarding my parents' decision to have our education in private schools since kindergarten, from my point of view now is a bit trying too hard and unrealistic. Not blaming them, they portrayed their generation perfectly. They tried so hard to give what's best for us in their rigid opinion, which often made them bleed to achieve what they wanted . People around me nowadays, those new parents workmates, pushed themselves so hard to put their children on fancy private schools with really high tuition fee--m...

D ay 25 of 30 days writing challenge An Inspiration (behind the 11th picture) As a part in succeeding social distancing and upgrading survival skill, I've been doing personal culinary improvement these few months. It might be far from perfect cuisine, but it surely brought personal satisfaction.  The story behind this picture is it's the first time ever I made a home-made steak (not really aesthetic , but tasted quite nice actually hehehe) so I took a shot of it. Preferably by cooking this, I'm saving about £12 (around idr 230k) or so from dining out--also the fact we can't dine out due to extended PSBB , only take away. Got the materials through online fresh marketplace. Though my blood pressure is high these couple of days, I'm still eating this. Lol. It's more like a food to the soul.  Anyways I put a lot of my pandemic culinary experience on my  Instagram, along with many of Miko's pics. One of my friends said that lately Instagram is filled with tikto...

  D ay 24 of 30 days writing challenge Lesson Learned As my challenge skipped a day (yesterday was frantic ), I'm trying to continue on. There was a huge protest goin' against the new bill. There's also a deadline of the new job--but old job actually--that was quite depressing. I went to the office knowing that it's going to be a chaos right in front of my office in the heart of our capital. Lucky I got home prior to the clash. What should I've learnt? During these past few weeks the pressure from work is tremendous. They said that they have less position than people applying for it, and we have to compete in order to stay in our current position. Well, I'm on what we Indonesian said "Bagaikan telur di ujung tanduk," or in English, walking on thin ice . I was assigned as a group coordinator, and it really gets in my nerves. People in my group are like s××× and ungrateful brats. They're like a bunch of obnoxious people with no sense of logic, and n...

D ay 23 of 30 days writing challenge A Letter Dear Self, How are you? Long time since I see you really smile. I know I've been abusing you for so long. It's not that I wanted to, sometimes I can't even control anything. Don't worry too much. You've always been an overthinker, you need to chill down a bit. You still have people that care about you. Although not much, but they mean the world to you, so you've got to hang on for them. When did the last time you feel happy? I know it's not easy to be happy, but please remember to take things slow (in your mind especially) and accept that some people are born that way (to be jerks), so just let them be and let them go. I've known you for so long, and yet sometimes I still don't get you. But please, don't give up on life, don't give up on everything. What you feared of, everyone's experiencing it. So be brave and persevere. Please take care of yourself for me.  Sincerely yours, Me P.s. I made t...

Day 22 of 30 days writing challenge About Today It has been a tiring day. No, not really physically exhausting , most probably psychologically. Yet, these past few days I've been a bit under the weather . Two days ago it's like I'm all drained out and had so little (if none) energy left.  Well, as for today, the whole country ran havoc since our parliament approved an omnibus law  which triggered so many people due to its contents. The bill consists of 905 pages (that's actually super thick) which pretty much talks about every aspect investment and workforce/labour related. Might not be a good idea to talk about this anyway. I don't have the energy to talk about politics right now, and also seems like it's not really a privilege for some people to discuss this openly *wink. I just hope things will settled and minimum (if not none) damage should occur.  Continues on.... Maybe it's a better idea to talk about how people feel during these lockdown. Well it...