she will not be there next year

yesterday, we celebrated the birthday of db. her bf is now at sydney, her family is at bandung, and practically she has no one to celebrate with. so she invited us all to celebrate her birthday together.

we chat, eat, laugh together.


but i came into realization that next year we could not celebrate her birthday together over a dinner like last night again.

she will move to sydney maybe only few months after her wedding.


i suddenly felt a bit sad.

one has moved to japan, one has moved to alaska, and next year another one will move to sydney. oh, and a couple might move to italy also next year.


this group is getting smaller and smaller each time we gather.


and i don't think we ever managed to gather all of us. only once almost all of us came, but it was after one had gone to japan. so in the end, it was still not complete.


indeed that life goes on. indeed that i am happy that my friends are reaching towards their dreams. but sometimes i am still sad thinking how we would seldom meet and how i miss them all (especially those who are and will be faraway)


and hey, it's been two years since our first big gathering. it's beyond amazing :)

meet the guys

so my trip to europe feels more like meeting some guys than holiday (or even working :P)

i feel so grateful because i could learn a lot from this short meeting with all these guys. and even now have a good communication with some of them.

and of course seeing the blue sky makes me happier than ever. in jakarta, you seldom see the blue sky, or even worse you might never see it.. but there.. everywhere is blue and so many green trees. i am happy :)

and portugal is dessert heaven. lots of varieties, though some are very sweet and based on cream so i didn't eat a lot. but still the food is amazing.

and i drank lots of wine.. portugal wine is superb and cheap.. happy to bring some of several varieties of porto wine back home :)

can't wait for my next travel (but not with air france please, i had enough)

a long journey

tomorrow i will have another flight. this will be my first long, very long journey. three flights, two transits, and one train journey.

it feels so unreal though the time is coming. the visa application takes more than one month till i get my passport back in my hand. and some documents are missing. sigh.

hopefully nothing bad happens there.

and i haven't finished packing :P and the poster is not done yet.

so much need to be done by tomorrow. and cannot forget some things that are essential to be brought.

need to be ready :)