PADANG PADANG BEACH

Pantai ini semestinya tidak lagi asing di telinga kita, apalagi semenjak Eat, Pray, Love yang dibintangi Julia Roberts itu begitu booming di Indonesia. Saya masih kurang yakin apakah Padang Padang Beach ini terkenal di Indonesia karena film ini dan Julia Reoberts atau Eat, Pray, Love lah yang terkenal di Indonesia karena melakukan sejumlah pengambilan gambar di pantai ini. Tapi bagaimanapun kenyataannya, Padang Padang beach memang merupakan salah satu dari begitu banyak pantai indah di Bali.

Actually this beach shouldn’t sounds allienated to our ears,especially after Eat, Pray, Love which is played by Julia Roberts become booming in Indonesa. I’m still not sure wheter it s Padang Padang Beach became famous in Indonesia because of this movie and Julia Roberts or Eat, Pray, Love is the one that became famous in Indonesia because this movie took some shoots in this beach. But whatever the truth is, Padang Padang beach is indeed one of gazilion beautiful beaches in Bali.

Pantai ini ada di daerah Nusa Dua, sekitar 30 – 45 menit berkendara dari Kuta. Untuk sampai ke pantainya, kita harus berjalan menuruni anak tanggal di dalam gua karang, seru! Tidak lama hanya sekitar 3-5 menit saja.

This beach is located in Nusa Dua area, around 30 – 45 minutes driving form Kuta. To reach the bach, we have to go down the stairs in this rock cave, wonderous. It only take 3-5 minutes. 

Ketika kami berhasil sampai, pantai ini masih sepi sekali. Hanya ada saya, Ranisha dan dua orang turis asing. Lantas saya menitipkan tas saya ke ibu-ibu penjaga Warung (p.s. hanya ada satu warung di pantai ini) dan langsung menikmati pantai ini hingga puas. Ombaknya cukup besar mungkin inilah salah satu dari sekian banyak alasan para turis asing itu senang berselancar di sini.

When we finally reach the beach, it still really quite. There’re only me, Ranisha and 2 foreigners. Then, I immediately leave my bag to the lady who own the Warung (p.s. There’s only one Warung in this beach) and start enjoy the beach. The waves is quite big, maybe this is one of so meany reasons why the foreigners love to surf here.

Perpaduan pasir putih, air laut, bukit karang dan hutan kecil menyambut saya di sini. Dan saya pun kehabisan kata-kata untuk menggambarkan semuanya. Pasirnya yang tersa halus di kaki dan buih ombak yang begitu lembut membuat saya benar benar tenang.

The solid fusion of white sand, water, rock cliff and a little forest greet me here. And I lost my words to describe everything. The sand feels so smooth on my feet and the white foam from the waves is so mild, it really makes me calm. I feel happy in solitude. 

Love,

@prettyspraire

Bali, Bali, Tropical Bali

Bali, tempat yang seringkali kita kaitkan dengan pantai indah. Yah walaupun kita tahu tidak Cuma pantai indah yang ada di sana. Tempat ini menyimpan sejuta keistimewaan dan rahasianya sendiri.

Bali, a place where we always relate to beautiful beaches. Well, eventough we know there are not only beaches. This place holds millions of fabulosity and its own secrets.

Januari 2014, saya memutuskan untuk berkunjung sekali lagi ke Bali. Kali ini dengan sejuta rencana yang sudah saya siapkan di pikiran saya. Januari sejujurnya memang bukan bulan yang tepat untuk berkunjung ke Bali. Tapi, toh saya ngotot pergi ke sana. Hujan dari pagi hingga siang berlangsung setiap hari selama 4 hari saya di sana. Tetap saja hujan tidak menghalangi saya dan Ranisha untuk bersenang-senang di sana. Selalu ada hal baru untuk ditemukan, selalu ada hal kecil nampun berarti yang membuat kita merasa senang sepanjang hari. Mulai dari anjing-anjing ramah yang saya temui di sekitar hotel (fyi, saya takut anjing) hingga udaranya yang terus membuat saya merasa nyaman. Sepertinya, Bali memang punya atmosfer sendiri yang tidak akan kita temui di tempat lain.

January 2014, I decided to go to Bali once again. But this time, with a gazilion plans on my mind. January, indeed, is not the right time to go Bali. Still, I insist. It was raining all day, from morning till like 11 o’clock in the afternoon during my 4 days in Bali. Rain does not stop me and Ranisha to have some fun there. There’s always something new that makes me feel good all day. From the friendly dogs around my hotel (fyi, I’m afraid of dogs) to the comfy atmosphere. Well, Bali really has it’s own atmosphere and ambiance which will never be found anywhere else.

Empat hari sepertinya memang waktu yang sangat singkat untuk menikmati Bali, tapi di tengah kesibukan harian yang cukup padat, sepertinya 4 hari itu cukup memberikan saya suntikan energi ekstra. Niatnya sih saya akan me-review, menceritakan lebih tepatnya, tempat-tempat yang saya kunjungi. Mulai dari yang cukup mainstream seperti Tanjung Benoa dan Ubud sampai tempat yang sebenarnya indah tapi sepi dan belum banyak diketahui turis lokal kita. Turis asing? Nah, mereka jauh lebih mengenal Bali daripada kita.

Four days, indeed, is really short the enjoy Bali, but in midst of a pretty solid activity, seems like 4 days area quite enough to boost my energy. Actually, Im going to write some review about the places i went to. From the mainstream one loke Tanjung Benoa and Ubud to the really beautiful desolate places which our locals doesn’t really know about. The foreigner? Nah, they know Bali better than us.

Saya cukup berharap tulisan saya gak bikin kalian jenuh, maklum newbie J

I’m hoping that I don’t bored you all, knowing the fact that im just a newbie J

Ciao

@prettysprairie

On The Edge of Bewilderment

I always want to be surprise by what future may holds. Sometimes I do day dreaming and create my future on my mind but then I think where is the element of surprise? But still I day dreams a lot.

I have always been in the crossroad between becoming the person I want to be or be a person people want me to be. I often want people to see me as smart, cool and successful person. I used to think that working in a prestige company would be great and people would see me differently. But do that kind of things make me happy? I can’t figured it out. Then I closed my eyes and start thinking about the things that make me happy. And I found out that I’m happy with all those little things happen in, my life. I like it when it’s raining, I also like it  when the sun shine and the weather is warm. I’m happy when I can spend time with my mom. I love watching movies, go to music show case and concert, visit the new art gallery over the town and practicing my french. I love reading the new book from my favorite writers.

If I could just choose what I wanna be, I want to be one of those brave women in Gaza. I want to be a volunteer on remote islands. Meeting all those new people, see things from their point of view. See the world with a new perspective.

But then, chance won’t knock twice. When it comes, I gotta made up my mind. And, if I let that chance away. I will left my self wondering. A man gotta do what a man gotta do.

That Girl

So what you're form the other side of the tracks,
So what the world don't think we match,
I'll put it down like my love's on wax, guess what?
I'm in love with that girl
And she told me, that she's in love with me

I was in the middle of cleaning my room when this song pop up from my laptop.
And then I think, this song took the idea of romanticism on my head to a whole next level.
So, here I am, abandoning my "shipwreck" room and write my blog with this song repeating over and over.

I've  listen to this song more than one time before this. But today, it is a different case, a different situation and different feelings.

I hope you guys know this song, if you don't then I don't know what Google is used for? Move you lazy ass and find it. Well, okay it is 'That Girl' by Justin Timberlake. As I type down this blog post, I realize that all the paragraph I've made is started with 'I'. What an egoistic person would do that. But I'm just too lazy to change that and thinking of another word.

Well let's back to this song, this is what I intended this blog post for. Before I start blabbering about any unnecessary things.

This song just made me imagining things that I hope maybe someday would happen.
I was imagining that one day, okay I know this is cheesy, that guy will sing this for me, at least he lip sync it for me and ask me to marry him. Shit, this is cheesy. But sometimes girls love those little cheesy things. I want to be 'That girl', the girl he will proudly say that he's in love with that girl.

I listen and listen to this song, over and over again I can't stop smiling.
So before my mom creep in and ask me what happen and I have to face an awkward conversation with her. Well, she's already in. So, I think I should end this blog post.

Ciao 

Life is full of choices, what you choose determine everything

"Life is full of choices" we heard this often. I've to admit that it's true, the truest of the true. 
You know even before we open our eyes after a long napping or hibernating we already make a choice. Whether we are going to sleep again and continuing our dreams or we are going to get up and chasing those dreams, make it happen. The choice depends on us! 

So make your choice carefully because it's the one which will lead us up to the future.

A Poem by Tennesa Querida

Amazingly freezing my brain,

Dazzling like a sparkling star,

And I'm sink down deep to the

subconscious and just disappear

I'm just lunatic in the fantastic universe

#4 Essay - Reason Why I Would Like Join the Program

Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. - James Tuslow Adams

All men are cerated equal, this statement is giving me an illumination that every single person has the same right to get life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As this ideas is the root of American Dream. We all know that American Dream is the national ethos of the United States. This ethos is hwat ultimately made me want to go to America to see and feel the passion of American Dreams. This IELSP program is my way to purse this. In this program, I will not only learn English but also deepen the thought about American Dream.

I keep applying this ethos on my daily basis. That is why I am doing my best to get the same right on everything. I studied Computerized Accounting since 2009 till present and will be graduated in 2013. In this major I learn about business process and system that could sustain it. English is the major key for me to emphasize my education because there are so many information sources which can help me that are written in English. Therefore, I feel the necessity to maximize my English. My parent took me to an English Course since I was 10 years old, in the end I completed my advance class. But my eagerness does not stopped there, I joined the Bina Nusantara English Club right after I entering the college. In this club I took news casting and TOEFL class. Its thought me so many things from the way to communicate, English structure till friendship. I am interested in becoming a news anchor and I hope that everything I will learn in this IELSP program would greatly help me to bring my dreams into reality. Because I believe that all men are created equal, so I can be everything I want just like everyone else.

I learn in contradiction but there is not an inconsistency to be found.