Hi Everyone,

Hows life treating you guys? I'm back now and currently typing from Indonesia, my home country which honestly doesn't feel like home.

Anyway, that's not the point of me writing this blog. I'm writing this blog to say hello and what else, I miss you all! I miss browsing and chatting on the net talking about photography-related stuffs. I miss hunting and taking pics as well, including the editing stage.

Btw, I already graduated from University of Queensland, last December, as Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (whohooo hooray to me) and my mom bought me new camera Sony Cybershot T-200. The cam is so stylish and the colour is pink, so girly. I'm not gonna continue further on the 'cam review' cos I haven't used it properly as in taking great objects and upload them in dArts

What else, umm, I've been feeling so lonely in the middle of the crowd and sadly, I almost lost my passion for taking pics (I miss 'clean' objects without too many people on the frame. Cos the more doesn't always mean the merrier).

Please say Hi to me if you have a spare time, I would be really glad to hear your news personally I guess its time to reconnect with old friends.

Ciao for now,

Lady Adia

Some (possible) shortcut answers to your problems:

1. Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get (Spanish proverb).

2. This too shall pass (My Best Friend's Wedding)

3. Why your problems seem bigger than anyone else's? Because they are yours (Magazine).

... so now you consider yourself as the unluckiest person in the world?

Actually, life is great as long as you think so,

... since there is no good thing or a bad thing, but thinking makes it so (Shakespeare).


What's the valuable possession by the way?

Your life and every piece that constitutes it, every single second, every single scene ...

I would say its a H E L L I D A Y as opposed to H O L I D A Y

Every kind of life

... is special.

Mind me sharing my shallow point of view previously.

I used to think some people's life is a pack of boring episodes. Living in the same place for the whole of their life, hanging out with the same peers everyday, visiting the same places again and again. While there are some people which i really envy for their life which to me appeared to be slightly similar to Silver Queen advertisement or even Legally Blonde movie.

However, two descriptions of typical kind of life is clearly not enough.

Here's what my simple mind thinks:

Since there are billion human being in this world, obviously billion kind of life exist. What kind of life? Well, every kind of life.
In every few metres (my assumption), live a mind who's in a process of growing up (surely, people grow till the end of their life), the lovely mind who's striving to accomplish their own idea (which again, various idea for various mind) and diminish the discrepancies between their actual self and ideal self (mind me being a bit influenced by my major -psychology).

A beautiful skeleton wrapped with lovely skins of different colours. Black, white, yellow, red, whatever. They are growing up everywhere. Being nurtured in different circumstances, different cultures, different time and spaces. All of them are special. Every of those lines in their face, wrinkles below their eyes, scars on their skins. All of them are special.
The difficult time.
The happiness time.
Time of their life.

A girl was married yesterday in Rome.
A girl was raped yesterday in Manchester.
A girl was surrounded by their lovely friends yesterday in Sydney. A girl lost his brother yesterday in Iraq.

I don't know now what to say, but there are various life people living in.
Its all special. Its all special. Its all special.
Its all special how you pursue your own happiness, stay alive in the middle of the bomb explosion, continue your life after being sexually harassed or verbally abused, or even continue your happiness till the end of your life.

I cherish the life I have. I'm thankful of every scene that was presented in front of my two eyes or inside my small brain (in size but big in its capacity *'tis an attempt to boost my self esteem).

When I said every scene, I mean it as every scene. Including my failure in IELTS test (well, finally I made it though), some low scores in some subjects (count them as negative events as well), or even posing a wrong answer in front of the class.

Every scene also includes the episode of being invisible, not being an 'IT' girl back then (obviously its no longer a current worry consider this is the time of being a true individual, its an old issue of every adolescent girl I reckon), the episode of being a secret admirer (sounds pathetic, but hey now I can laugh out loud toward those embarassing moments)

And importantly, every scene meaning it also includes those grief and mourning sessions when I lost some people that I love cos they passed away. In a long term, I might lose my mates as well since one shall continue their life without always carry every piece of them from time to time.

Not that I'm implying that yours is better than mine nor mine is better than yours. The bottom line is yours is special for yourself while mine is special in my own way. You have the things that you appreciate (and me too), thus, do NOT attempt to insist your values on me for I have my own mine. I appreciate you and your values but its NOT important for me. I care not with your idealism for your idea is ideal for you and again its NOT ideal for me, and vice versa you don't have to bother seeing me holding to particular value.

Typing and typing and typing.
If God is starring at me now though eyes could not see, I thank Thee, Lord.

You too, be thankful.

Even after I say 'period', you shall be continuing your life.

One more sentence.


I wish you all: happiness.


Period.


(... and have fun for the rest of your life)

November to February are supposed to be a period of having fun under the touch of sunlight and summer breeze, however instead of holiday guess its better to call it hell-iday (borrowing this words from a crush of my bestie).

Two days a week, instead of having fun, i had four lectures and four tutorials. Well the good thing is that the lecturers and the tutors are still young and energetic. Obviously the subjects are also interesting (consider i have no choice but to take these two subjects). Oh i'm taking PSYC 3082 (counselling and psychotherapy) and PSYC 3152 (applied topic in developmental psychology)

Actually this holiday is not totally filled with (again) academic-related things, which is kinda pathetic if its only still around uni things. Well, I had a great 5 days and 4 nights holiday as well in Sydney (discounting the excessive worry due to PSYC 2010, it should be quite a perfect holiday).

1. Sightseeing in Sydney: Sydney Opera House, passing the Harbour Bridge, going to Manly Beach (there were lots of seagulls, its good feel the touch of the sand and water on my feet. hey we wrote our name as well and the name of the current guy i'm currently close to. lol embarassing), Bondi Beach, Darling Harbour, Hyde Park, Chinatown

2. Shopping in Sydney: well ladies, we cannot separate shopping from our holiday plan. its actually one of the essential part hahaha. ok we went to Queen Victoria Building which connected to other surroundings big shopping centre. but too expensive for us students. Next is Haymarket which was located exactly in front of our hotel, thats quite a bargain price in Haymarket (lots of factory outlets like Supre, Esprit, Cue, Lonsdale, etc.). Well, my favourite one is Birken Head Point. Its a collection of factory outlets as well with extremely incredible price. I bought skirts and t-shirts in FCUK which cost me not more than au$ 50, one tanktop and shirts in Marcs for only au$20, and an australian designer hat plus Sisley purse in David Jones for less than au$ 50 as well.

3. Eating time: Pancakes on the Rocks (great pancakes and crepes with a big range of selections), Hurricane (crazy delicious big and reasonable prices of Lamb ribs, located in Bondi beach), Riviera ice cream (never had I saw that huge size of ice cream. i guess one portion could be for 4-7 persons seriously im not kidding), Japanese food (forgot the name but this one is a famous japanese food in chinatown. i ate their fish teriyaki and takoyaki like in japanese comic. its all delicious), Max Brenner (bestest part. its a chocolate bar. all chocolatey here. famous order: suckao! milk chocolate one. funny how to drink this -well maybe suckao means sucks the cacao hehe. oh and bapka and truffle with a melted chocolate dip. whohoooo. drunken due to the chocolate consumption). well the last bite, of course, Krispy Kreme (we tried everything from original glazed, blueberry, chocolate, etc. but well, we had that in Indonesia. though i never tried it cos they just open the counter when im already here).

4. Best feature of the holiday: Grand Final Australian Idol live from the Sydney Opera House. I'll put some pictures i took while i watch it. Well, i always try to love my so called digital camera with its major 'limitations' and consider those limitations as a challenge in creating great pictures. But sometimes in lots of the occasions such as this, those limitations became extremely irritating. Crazy, what could I do with only 3x optical zooms if i sat far from the stage. plus its shutter that extremely took a long time, obviously i couldnt let my hand not to shake. So yeah, sorry for complaining.

Anyway, happy studying for all the students. happy working for the workers.
Lets do what we should do. Being a good student. Being a good worker.
Life is great.

(*btw, i'm writing this in the law library -im a psych student though -and there is this (omg) irritating couple in front of me who's acting as if they are in Romeo and Juliet movie. not a cool couple. i like seeing cool couple but this one? 'duh. Anyway sorry for the long journal, after this i'm gonna hit PSYC 3082 and PSYC 3152 assignments. Sniff)