Kekecewaan hadir akibat rasa syukur yang kurang. Wahai hati, ingatlah kembali. Bahwa apa yang sedang kita miliki dan jalani adalah yang terbaik. Kalau saja kita tahu bagaimana Allah berencana pada hidup kita, hati kita akan luluh demi melihat kecintaan-Nya.

Bersyukur dan bersyukur. Carpe diem. Melakukan hal yang disukai. Hal-hal ini harus tetap kulakukan. Berdoa dan terus berdoa semoga setiap detik yang kita lalui berharga, bernilai ibadah di mata-Nya.

Taken from blognya Ijaah

Cuma sebagai pengingat buat Epphy yang akhir-akhir ini kurang bersyukur dan ngeluh mulu.

Padahal mah ini hanya rangkaian hidup. Susah senang datang silih berganti. Semua adalah jalan hidup yang sudah diatur oleh Allah. Apapun yang terjadi, yang terpeting adalah respon kita dan bagaimana mindset kita. Come on Epphy you smart, you so lucky, you know the key of happiness, just be grateful and everythings gonna be oke. 

Oke.

Clear.

No ngeluh-ngeluh anymore. 

Semua yang tergenggam pada akhirnya akan terlepas, so mengapa harus sedih? Mengapa harus kecewa. It's just a matter of time. Cepat atau lambat semua sahabat, keluarga, jabatan, kekayaan akan pergi. Yang tersisa hanya amal ibadah kita. 

So, udah lega kan? Tarik nafas dalam-dalam. Lepaskan perlahan.

Life is good

Just enjoy the ride

Balik jadi Epphy yang dulu lagi, yang kuat dan selalu bersyukur.

Jadi Epphy kesayangan ibu bapak, dan kesayangan mase tersayang.

Go Epphy Go

Up! Up!

Charmbracelet

"Flashlight" by Jessie J

When tomorrow comes
I'll be on my own
Feeling frightened of
The things that I don't know
When tomorrow comes
Tomorrow comes
Tomorrow comes

And though the road is long
I look up to the sky
And in the dark I found, lost hope that I won't fly
And I sing along, I sing along, and I sing along

I got all I need when I got you and I
I look around me, and see a sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're getting me, getting me, through the night
Kick start my heart when you shine it in my eyes
Can't lie, it's a sweet life
Stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're getting me, getting me, through the night
'Cause you're my flashlight (flashlight)
You're my flashlight (flashlight), you're my flashlight

Ooh

I see the shadows long beneath the mountain top
I'm not afraid when the rain won't stop
'Cause you light the way
You light the way,
You light the way

I got all I need when I got you and I
I look around me, and see a sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're getting me, getting me, through the night
Kick start my heart when you shine it in my eyes
Can't lie, it's a sweet life
Stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're getting me, getting me, through the night
(Light, light, light, you're my flashlight)
Light, light, you're my flashlight
Light, light, light, light, light, oh
(Light light light you're my flashlight)
You're my flash, oh

I got all I need when I got you and I
I look around me, and see a sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're getting me, getting me, through the night
Kick start my heart when you shine it in my eyes
Can't lie, it's a sweet life
Stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
(You're my flashlight)
You're getting me, getting me through the night
'Cause you're my flashlight
'Cause you're my flashlight
You're my flashlight

Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh oh oh

You're my flashlight
Light, light
You're my flashlight
Light light ye-yeah

(Light light light
You're my flashlight
Light light)

You're my flashlight

Dedicated to all people around me and be my flashlight, thank you.

Something that I'll be missing when I leave Jakarta. A bowl of fruity soup.

Such a dream come true,
Sudah 3 tahun sejak mengkultuskan diri untuk menjadi entrepreneur, namun baru kali ini bisa bikin proposal bisnis sekaligus bikin prototype-nya.

Good job Arista

Gak penting lolos seleksi ato gak, I just do my best, and good idea will find the way.

Puassss bgt.
Alhamdulillah

Pelajaran Berharga dari BulDag

Semalam saya menonton acara di Metro TV yang dipandu oleh Fifi Aleyida Yahya. Sebenarnya saya jarang menonton tayangan ini, semata karena jam tayangnya terlaru larut malam. Namun pada kesempatan ini entah mengapa saya rela menahan kantuk karena penasaran dengan tema yang diusung.

Buldag alias bule dagang. Menyorot para bule yang karena berbagai alasan memilih untuk mengais rizki di negara Indonesia dan merintis usahanya dari nol. Mereka yang kesulitan mendapatkan izin kerja di perusahaan swasta Indonesia akhirnya memilih untuk berdagang. Ada yang berjualan caputti, es pisang ijo dan burger. Saya salut banget sama mereka. Demi mengais rizki mereka menangkis rasa malu mereka dan berjualan kecil-kecilan seperti penduduk pribumi lain.

Satu hal yang membuat saya terharu adalah kesetiaan dan rasa tanggung jawab penjual es pisang ijo dan burger pada istrinya. Dan ungkapan salah satu istrinya adalah "I believe that he can hold my hand till the end". Kata-kata ini langsung bikin saya merinding. Teringat dengan mase yang ada jauh disana. Kuharap dia memiliki semangat juang yang serupa mereka, because I believe in him too.

"Hidup adalah perjuangan tanpa henti, tapi pastikan selalu ada waktu untuk menikmati"

Ucapan happy birthday from Google. Love it love it ♥♥♥

Perjalanan

Selalu penuh ketika pulang dari sebuah perjalanan dan melibatkan buku-buku.

Ulang tahun, lagi

"A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessing and be happy." Unknown

Sudah menginjak usia 28, dan aku sudah berlapang dada untuk dikatakan sebagai seorang wanita dewasa. Siap lahir batin. Tak terasa, waktu memang begitu cepat berganti. Kita hanya cukup menjalani dan melakukan yang terbaik yang bisa kita lakukan. 

Be realistic and be wise

You are older now

Lost Star by Adam Levine

Please don't see just a boy caught up in dreams and fantasies

Please see me reaching out for someone I can't see

Take my hand let's see where we wake up tomorrow

Best laid plans sometimes are just a one night stand

I'd be damned Cupid's demanding back his arrow

So let's get drunk on our tears and

God, tell us the reason youth is wasted on the young

It's hunting season and the lambs are on the run

Searching for meaning

But are we all lost stars, trying to light up the dark?

Who are we? Just a speck of dust within the galaxy?

Woe is me, if we're not careful turns into reality

Don't you dare let our best memories bring you sorrow

Yesterday I saw a lion kiss a deer

Turn the page maybe we'll find a brand new ending

Where we're dancing in our tears and

God, tell us the reason youth is wasted on the young

It's hunting season and the lambs are on the run

Searching for meaning

But are we all lost stars, trying to light up the dark?

I thought I saw you out there crying

I thought I heard you call my name

I thought I heard you out there crying

Just the same

God, give us the reason youth is wasted on the young

It's hunting season and this lamb is on the run

Searching for meaning

But are we all lost stars, trying to light up the dark?

I thought I saw you out there crying

I thought I heard you call my name

I thought I heard you out there crying

But are we all lost stars, trying to light up the dark?

But are we all lost stars, trying to light up the dark?

I like this song so much, I like Adam Levine too, his voice is so nice and delicious :D

Tengah 2015

Tak terasa udah mampir di pertengahan 2015 aja. Waktu memang cepat sekali berputarnya. Tak terasa.

Dan beruntungnya aku, di tahun ini anugrah Allah bertubi-tubi menghampiriku. Hampir seluruh wish list-ku untuk tahun ini terpenuhi. Segala yang kuinginkan bisa kudapatkan dengan mudah. Alhamdulillah.

Qurban tinggal menunggu hari-H. Registrasi TAP dan karil udah, tinggal belajar materi2 buat TAP dan bikin karya ilmiahnya. Deposito udah mulai ngumpulin uangnya, karena gaji udah alhamdulillah cukup bgt aku yakin bisa nabung buat buka deposito tahun depan. Memoar, on the progress nunggu kelar kuliah baru ntar buka2 lagi draf-nya.

Fa biayyai robbikumaa tukaddziban?
Semua nikmat Allah ini akan senantiasa aku syukuri. Terima kasih ya Allah. Anugrahmu sungguh sangat istimewa. Semoga dengan segala karunia ini aku bisa menjadi pribadi yang makin bersyukur dan berguna bagi manusia lainnya. Amin....

Mudik

You know what, all the story  was beginning from one word "mudik". Long long time ago, when a was a child I imagine my self "mudik" like other people. Bring so much thing for my family and give it to them. So silly. But this is the most important dream that I ever had. If I never dreamed about "mudik" this journey will not happen. And if this journey never happed, then I will never gain anything.

Thanks God, for every step that I take. It changed my life.

This year, I can't mudik and meet my family. But I'm so happy. I've been blessed. Allah give everthing that I need, more than what I want. Next year I will mudik and, its gonna be my last mudik.

Alhamdulillah.

Selamat mudik bagi yang mudik.
Yang gak mudik, mari nikmati heningnya jakarta *tapi gak hening-hening amat juga sih*

Be happy

New Pond

I have a friend that have a disease, which is make her to avoid stress feeling. But for the sake of money and responsibility she have to work. As known, work in the office will make a stress feeling, little or much.
But she can't deny it. She still work and get stressed.

I know, she must be so confused.
But if I have the same situation I will move on. I am the kind of person that really want to feel free. So, I don't want to anybody or anything make me uncomfortable with my environtment.

I will make new pond. As Diana Rikasari said at 88 Love Life "Find new pond where you can swim free and happy, no matter how small or big. Even better, make your own pond"

Daniel Mananta : "Gue Pengen Jadi Orang Kaya"

Judul diatas adalah salah satu statement Daniel Mananta waktu penjurian Mtv VJ Hunt tahun 2005 kalo gak salah. Saat itu Daniel belom sengetop sekarang dan baru memulai karirnya sebagai calon VJ Mtv.

And guess what, time flies, sepuluh tahun kemudian Daniel telah menjadi lelaki yang rich and famous. And the point is, how hard he has worked and get what his dreamed for just ten years. I can imagine it. Be the VJ, MC, actor, producer and entrepreneur. Whoahhhhhhh. Kerja keras banget ini pastinya.

I want to be like him.

Pengen niru semangat, perjuangan dan kerja kerasnya.

Boleh saja kan?

Menghilang dan Menemukan

Lama sekali aku gak menulis. Jangankan menulis, sekedar menikmati hidup aja aku tidak sempat. Semua tentang kerja, belajar, kerja, belajar. Bukannya mengeluh, tapi demikian kenyataannya.
Sejak awal tahun aku emang sudah menisbahkan sepanjang tahun ini untuk belajar, agar bisa lulus tahun depan. Dan, yep aku tidak main-main dengan janjiku, sudah setengah tahun berjalan dan aku puas telah belajar keras.
Semoga perjuanganku tidak sia-sia dan bisa memakai toga di tahun 2016. Aminnnn

Make A Better Life

Everyone has the opportunity to make a better life but not everyone knows how to #88LoveLive by Diana Rikasari

Yes, everybody want to make a better life, include me. But not everyone knows how to, include me.

Apapun rencana saya kedepannya, saya tau pasti bahwa saya menginginkan kehidupan yang lebih baik. Tapi di antara rencana-rencana saya tersebut selalu ada ketidakpastian. Belum tentu rencana-rencana saya tersebut akan menyeret saya dalam kehidupan yang lebih baik. Tapi setidaknya saya tau pasti akan tujuan saya.

Just go for it.
Make a better life.
Make a better living.
Make me a useful person and having happy family.

Go home next year,
Planning for a marriage,
Having baby,
Then reborn my online book shop Premier Reader, and build new empire in my village.
I can do it, for the sake of better life.

Thinking Out Loud, by Ed Sheran : The Most Beautiful Love Song

When your legs don't work like they used to before
And I can't sweep you off of your feet
Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?
Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks?

And, darling, I will be loving you 'til we're 70
And, baby, my heart could still fall as hard at 23
And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe just the touch of a hand
Well, me—I fall in love with you every single day
And I just wanna tell you I am

So honey now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades
And the crowds don't remember my name
When my hands don't play the strings the same way
I know you will still love me the same

'Cause honey your soul could never grow old, it's evergreen
And, baby, your smile's forever in my mind and memory
I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe it's all part of a plan
Well, I'll just keep on making the same mistakes
Hoping that you'll understand

But, baby, now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
Thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are

So, baby, now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Oh, darling, place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are
Oh, baby, we found love right where we are
And we found love right where we are

Waktu

Jangan pernah menyandarkan rasa pada waktu, karena ia mempunyai masa kadaluarsanya sendiri.

Barangkali quote tersebutlah yang mampu mewakili hal-hal yang membayangi otakku saat ini. Quote tersebut merupakan kalimat yang paling aku ingat dari buku legendarisnya kak Windy Ariestanty yang berjudul Life Traveler.

Kini, rasa itu berubah. Obsesi untuk menjadi maha hadir di segala acara keren di Jakarta kini telah memudar tak berbekas. Capek, masalah finansial dan fokus kuliah menjadi alasan mendasar mengapa kini aku tak lagi seobsesif dulu. Mungkin juga kini aku sudah lebih dewasa, dan mau tidak mau harus mampu memilah mana yang penting mana yang tidak.

Di satu sisi aku bersyukur, aku sudah tak lagi kecapean seperti dulu, sudah bisa mulai menabung, hubunganku dengan masku jadi makin akrab dan bisa fokus belajar materi kuliah. Tapi di satu sisi kadang sedih juga harus melewatkan begitu saja momen-momen acara yang seru. Sempet kepikiran juga kan mumpung masih di Jakarta. Belum tentu lho tahun dpn masih ada di sini.

But eniwei, everything is fine. Semua ada waktunya masing-masing. Tugas kita hanya mempersiapkan diri untuk menghadapi segala perubahan. Be wise, Arista!

The Perfect Couple