Link - 10 Things Every Girl Should Know That School Won't Teach You

I would like to share a link from Michelle Phan's blog, here's the link.

For those of you who doesn't know who she is, you're only one click away to know about her. Google will give a better explanation about her than me. But in short that she started with uploading make up tutorials on YouTube and now she's a business woman, thanks to the internet (and of course she works hard for it). I admire her passion and dedication to what she's doing and she seems to really enjoy it. She loves to share it with the world, and I am inspired by her. She's around my age and I can see that she's really doing a really great job on her career. I follow her Instagram account and waiting each week for her new videos on YouTube, though most of the time I only watched the video and felt mesmerized by her make up skill (oh so envy). It seems like doing make up for her is like breathing for me, so natural, effortless and easy. While me? I'm still struggling to draw an even line for my eyeliner everyday haha (but I keep getting better!).

Anyway what I shared on the top of this post is an article she wrote about life and the lessons that you get by going through it. I believe that writing those type of article is harder than doing a make up tutorial video. It's something that you can write by experiencing it, going through it and always trying to find something positive on no matter hard life's gonna give you. She wrote it in a non-whiny way and making it an inspiration to many of her fans. So thank you Michelle for the article.

I think that most of her viewers/ subscribers are younger than my age (25+ ahem), so she write the article specially for younger girls, but I believe that once in a while, a little reminder for us (men and women) will give us some refreshment of what's in life for us. For me personally, I think that the point that most of the time I forgot because of my routines and daily chorus is Appreciate the little things. Sometimes I tend to focus on the troubles and worries of my life, not knowing when to stop and just enjoy the situations around me. It's like: count your blessings everyday- trust me, you will feel very grateful on the little things that you have.

So cheers to everything that we have not learned from school, but we'll survived through it in real life anyway. Just like the article said - We are stronger than we know!


Great days ahead for us!
x.o.x.o

Abeth

Estetikasisasi*

Baru saja malam ini saya dan ayah tercinta pergi makan ke salah satu restoran kwetiau (kwetiaw or kuetyaw?) terkenal di Kelapa Gading. Sebut saja namanya kwetiau A. Lalu dibelakang huruf A ada -kang-nya (lah ketauan dong namanya cyiiin).

Dalam rangka iseng2 plus sok eksis pengen nambah posting di social media, saya fotolah kwetiau goreng yg dimasak dengan arang tersebut. Inilah hasil jepretan saya. TARAAA!!!

Sehabis jepret kwetiaw dalam tiga kali shot, saya berminat untuk langsung update di Path, tapi kok rasanya aneh ya... ke restoran, makanan dateng malah foto dulu trus kudu lapor ke orang2. Jadi saya urungkan niat saya karena perasaan ga penting2 amet toh apa yg saya makan. 

This world doesn't evolve around me gitu loh. Walhasil saya makan dulu lah. Sambil menjauhkan diri dari hape selama makan. I think it's a bad habit to continue checking your cellphone during dinner time - and I admit that I need to stop that bad habit.

Sesampainya di rumah, langsung menikmati weekend ini dengan leha-leha browsing di hape, lantas saya sudah siap mengupload foto. Pilihannya mau upload di Instagram atau Path. Lantas setelah banyak pertimbangan (apa juga yg ditimbang ya oom?), hati saya memilih untuk ngepost di Instagram. Setelah pilih foto, ngecrop dan tambah filter, saya merasa tidak puas dengan foto yg saya ambil. Tapi saudara2 boleh percaya boleh tidak, kesalahan bukan terletak pada fotografer (saya sendiri) ataupun pada kamera (henpon baru nih cuy *sombong dikit dong*). Rasanya ada yang kurang dalam foto ini.

Setelah dikilik-kilik (bahasa apaan sih ini?) dan perenungan secara mendalam, menurut saya, yang kurang di foto di atas terletak pada penataan makanan di atas piring tersebut. Coba Anda perhatikan lagi gambar di atas. Mungkin kalo dibandingkan dengan istilah anak TK, seperti mewarnai di luar garis. Kalo istilah dandan, pake blush on di seluruh muka instead of pipi doang.  Bayangkan udang-udang berserakan di piring Anda. Ada yang di bawah, arah timur tenggara, selatan barat daya ga ada sih, intinya si mas koki langsung menaruh kwetiaw yang baru matang ke atas piring, tanpa memikirkan estetika penyajian dari makanan di piring tersebut. Mungkin banyak juga yang ga peduli tentang hal ini (kayanya cuma orang kurang kerjaan yang menghabiskan waktu buat ngeblog soal ini), tapi kalau Anda mau ngepost makanan di social media tapi ga ada nilai estetikanya, mending jangan deh ( mi opinian personal). Masih banyak postingan tetangga yang gambarnya lebih cakep-cakep dan bikin ngiler. 

Sebenarnya memang yang namanya makanan, ya bukan untuk difoto. Tujuan utamanya yang penting enak, tamu senang, dan lain kali dia kembali ke restoran tersebut. Tapi yaaa menurut saya ada nilai estetika dalam penyajiannya ga rugi kan? Kalo difoto cakep dan diupload ke social media, bikin orang-orang lain ngiler, kan lumayan tuh. Promosi gratis. Tul ga?

*Estetikasisasi: this word is not exist in real world.

A week after Beijing

Last night I had a dream about missing my first day at school. It was the new semester at the Chinese Center I’ve studied for the past last two semesters. So it struck me like a lightning bolt (aih ga gitu juga sih), I just got back from Beijing precisely one week, with no intention of going back there anytime soon. But then just when you thought you could move on from something, start a new journey, somehow somewhere some memories uninvitedly comes to your dream.  Geez, do I sound like a broken hearted girl? Hahaha… Trust me; I was a good experience in Beijing for the last two semesters. I just never thought that somewhere below my conscious level; I’ve missed Beijing, like, this early. Hellow… it’s only been a week.

Okay, a brief background story for you. Last year I quit my job and decided to study Mandarin in Beijing for two semesters, the Chinese Center I enrolled named Beijing Open University (BJOU). First semester started on September 2012 and ended on December 2012. During the winter holiday (Jan-Feb 2013) I went back to Jakarta because there wasn’t a lot of people stayed in the dorm (yep I stayed in the dorm) anyway and winter is not the best time for you to travel (my personal opinion).  Then the second semester started on March 2013 and ended in July 2013. So it’s not even a year yet I stayed in Beijing, but it opened my eyes and mind to see another world. Not only I learned about Mandarin, but mostly I learned about dealing with different kind of people I met in Beijing. I’ll miss the fellow students from around the world, I’ll miss our lovely teachers, I’ll miss “laoban” who sell stuffs for us. I wish I could “da bao” you all and bring you guys back to Jakarta.

A lot of stories can be told during my Beijing Experience. I’ll write it down for you guys when I’m not lazy, because as for time, I have all the time in the world; I’m still unemployed hahaha… In the mean time here's a peek of some lovely friends I met in school.

In front of lovely school/ dorm. Yep, it’s a door to school/dorm.  

Cheers everyone!

Abeth