Toleransi


Di luar orang-orang yang beruntung mendapatkan beasiswa, banyak orang awam yang beranggapan kuliah di luar negeri itu semata-mata hanya untuk sebatas educational degree untuk bisa mendapatkan pekerjaan yang lebih baik in the future maupun investasi jangka panjang (e.g. bergaji dan posisi tinggi, perusahaan terbaik, dll). Adapun yang beranggapan kuliah di luar negeri adalah untuk prestis dan gengsi keluarga karena orangtua dapat menyekolahkan anak-anaknya ke luar negeri dengan biaya pribadi.

Gue jadi inget beberapa tahun yang lalu di kantor ada beberapa teman yang sedang diskusi santai mengenai aspirasi tentang education anak-anaknya dari segi biaya sampe dengan sekolah - sekolah idaman/tujuan yang mereka mau anak-anaknya bersekolah. Kalau ngomongin soal sekolah rasanya ga mungkin kalau topik biaya tidak diikutsertakan dimana dibahas biaya untuk kuliah ke luar negeri jumlahnya berkali-kali lipat dibandingkan dengan kuliah di negeri sendiri.

Disini tiba-tiba ada yang nyeletuk "Ngapain kuliahin anak ke luar negeri mahal-mahal? Mending uangnya dipake buat yang lain. Tuh liat si Sari, kuliah jauh jauh ke Amerika ujung-ujungnya juga sama kaya kita kan?"

Jujur, saat itu juga gue kesel banget. Ngapain juga bawa-bawa nama gue? Tapi lama-lama gue antara ngeh dan ngerasa sedih juga karena gue baru ngerti bahwa pemahaman mereka mengenai kuliah di luar negeri hanya sebatas mata kuliah dan pekerjaan. Perhaps they will never know what they missed out in life...ever.

Tedak Siten alias Turun Tanah


Sebagai keturunan Jawa yang baik (baca: Jawa reject), gue dan suami bikin acara turun tanah atau bahasa jawanya tedak siten untuk Eric ketika dia umur 7 bulan.

First time driving in america


My cousin Sasti came down and move to Washington DC for her MBA years ago. This is actually a very old video where she just got herself a car and driver's license and was trying to make her way from her place to the campus before starting her first semester.

Reza (still her bf at that time) were trying to show her to navigate the road with a GPS as she was adjusting to drive on the different side of the road with the American left driver's seat as oppose to the Indonesian right driver's seat.

It took her 45 minutes to drive from her place to the campus on this first attempt during a regular hours. Then later we figured that most of her classes are in the mornings where her commute will be during rush hour. That should add another 20-30 minutes ride with traffic. Yikes.

Meanwhile I was just becoming a useless commentator through out the trip. LOL. Not sure if I was helping to ease her nerves in any way but it was so funny to see this in the video again. Good times!

Review: Shiseido Natural Eyebrow Pencil


Brow game has been a very hot for the past few years.

If you're one of the unlucky ones who has sparse eyebrow, then keep reading. Every time I mention eyebrow, somehow, Anastasia products always comes to mind. But I personally never used their products because I had found my holy-grail long before Anastasia came around.

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