Paradiso Perduto

Meet little mage Veruchka and her pink cotton candy wolf! Veruchka is my character on habitrpg :)  Hi, people, I haven’t died yet (surprise, surprise!). I know I’ve been on hiatus for a rather long period. These last few months I’ve been quite busy, and Indonesian internet was being…well, the usual Indonesian internet, so I was not able to post a lot, aside from my short comments/rant on twitter and goodreads. I admit laziness also played some part, but no worries, now I already found a way to banish the laziness and I ‘m going to share it with you! See how nice I can be? ;) I admit that I am not naturally organized. I forgot things. I procrastinate. I don’t do things in the most effective and efficient way. I wrote things on notes so I would not forget, only to find myself completely forget about the notes later. Being organized and productive has been always an obsession for me. Some kind of elusive dream, something I always strive to be, but I was never quite there. ...

You don't want to enter that gate accompanied by a wrong tune I’ve been saving love songs and lullabies… and there’s so much more no one ever had before Something’s telling me it might be you Yes it’s telling me it might be you All of my life (It Might Be You – Stephen Bishop) This post is developed to avoid musical faux pas I often witnessed in wedding parties. Singing “Someone Like You” at the top of your lung at someone’s wedding? Some wedding singer just got no sense of decency. It’s even more suspicious if the one who sang it was not wedding singer, but friends or relatives of the bride or the groom. Hmmm…was there a hidden feeling or love affair we weren’t supposed to know? I wonder. Some  -okay, most- of the listed song can be qualified as “oldies”, since this list is compiled by yours truly over here. Some are so mainstream, and some you might never heard before (especially if you have been living under a rock for the last fifteen years or so). By ...

Greetings from Bali! Hallo zusammen! This should be posted since around two weeks ago, but…what can I do, I was a lazy blogger so busy with work so I just have time to write this now! Hahaha. This trip was already carefully planned since December last year. Nevertheless, because of reasons I’d rather not disclose, Syifa Rini, and Tiwi could not join us. So, yeah, of course the main purpose of this post is to make them REGRET THEIR FAILURE TO CONTINUE WITH THE TRIP PLAN. *very evil smirk* YOU ARE JEALOUS RIGHT? MUHAHAHA. No, really, girls, I love you and miss you etc.etc.etc. (for some part of the trip anyway, when I was not too busy enjoying all Bali had to offer, haha). Wish you were there with us. There were less room-cleaning, motherly scolding, bule-ogling, and shopping spree than what I expected if all of us go together. Maybe for the next trip? Lombok, anyone? Or, I don’t know, Jeju-do? OR PERHAPS EUROPE? Ok, back to the story. So, three of the girls...

Hola, Paradiso! Surprise... Hahaha. Yes, I am still alive. If you follow me on twitter or befriend me on Goodreads, you might realize that I am even more chatty than usual, although I have been on a long hiatus on fictionpress and (well...) this blog. Actually, the last three months were going quite well for me. I graduated (like, finally), got a nice job, met nice new friends. Germany won the 2014 World Cup, and I think it's going to be a mood booster for me at least until the end of this year, hahahaha. My friend Scott said this a lot to me and it works like a charm every time: V : I'm so [insert complain here] S: At least Germany won. V : Owwwww yeah! (happiness recharged) *hug* Source : Guardian *kiss* Source :  The National AE *very fangirl-ish screech* Source : Reuters   Yup. What a beautiful first half of 2014 for me, personally. I hope I can say the same about the last half :p So, don't worry, I was not on hiatus because I contracted ...

I am looking at you, future. And you, future husband. LOL. Hahahaha (Percakapan Vera dan Ditta melalui LINE) Ditta (D) : Eh, sekarang teh kerja dmn? Vera (V): Health Research Unit FK D: udah tetap itu teh? V: Kontrak setaun sambil mikir mau ngambil master apa D: Woorgh D: Ke sini [Jerman] ver  V: Aamiin dit D: Sikasik V : terlalu banyak yg dipengenin euy dit lieur D : pengen naon wae emang? V : [menyebutkan daftar panjang studi bidang studi S2 yang diinginkan] D: Neuro yuk V: Pengen sih dit...haha D: Urang jg semester depan kayanya mau mulai cari penelitian disertasi D: Bhs indonya promosi jg bkn sih? D: Kayaknya neuro ok, ngan lila euy V: Biar lebih murah jadi nebeng kamu yak D: Hahaha sama si aa atuh kesininya D: Tar urg yg numpang di tempat maneh (jadi bibi) D: Hahahaha V: Iya pengennya gitu sih tapi...haha D: Haha sabar V: Kumaha abdi kudu kumaha haha D: Santai heula [Vera dan Ditta ngegosipin kisah percintaan teman-teman semasa SMA. Demi privasi...

FINALLY. I KNOW, RIGHT? TOOK ME SUCH A LONG TIME.  YEAH, I ALSO WANT TO PUNCH MYSELF FOR BEING SUCH A BIG PROCRASTINATING LUMP. Tanggal 21 April 2014. Tepat 1 tahun 15 hari sejak memulai skripsi. Setelah melalui berbagai kejadian yang kalau diceritakan semua bisa jadi satu buku memoar sendiri, saya maju sidang juga. You know, some people said, "yang penting itu bukan lulus tepat waktu, tapi lulus di waktu yang tepat." Berhubung "tepat waktu" sudah lewat sekitar satu tahun yang lalu, saya berharap banget ini adalah waktu yang tepat, hahaha. D-1. My  ( often overreacting but lovely and magnificent) parents booked me a room in Hotel Puri Khatulistiwa Jatinangor. Katanya daripada saya stress, harus sidang pagi tapi lalu lintas Senin bikin darah tinggi. Hasilnya, jam 7 saya kucluk-kucluk datang ke kampus. Belum ada siapa-siapa. Gila, waktu kuliah saya tukang mepet waktu masuk, mana pernah merasakan udara kampus jam 7 pagi di hari-hari biasa (bukan k...

Some of you might have already known that I and some of my friends created a joint blog project for our loneliness-themed fiction. Sounds bleak, huh? Well, I can't promise you anything, but despite its gloomy premise, the authors are pretty excited about it. Sometimes, I think we're too hyper for a bunch of young adults who write about loneliness, haha. Within You Without You by Chickaferdy, taken from  here "Within You, Without You" is the title of my story (you can read the first chapter here ) in Illufiction. It's a combination of several projects I haven't finished or even put into realization. A manuscript of novel I wrote in junior high school that was stopped abruptly in the middle of chapter two. Sporadic scenes from another novel-to-be (also from junior high era) that I abandoned because I "can never got the plot right". And recently, a plan for a project called "The Beatles Babbles" in which -true to its name- I will babble...