May 2012
4 posts
Here you go - Why I decided to get married this...
When I was telling my friends that I’m getting married this year, some of them asked me straight away ‘Are you pregnant?’ or ‘Are you sure?’ or ‘Aren’t you too young?’ or ‘You guys haven’t been together even for a year’ and some of them simply said ‘Congratulation’.
It’s hard to explain in details why I or we...
April 2012
2 posts
It feels good when you can wear anything without worrying how you look in front of your partner because you know no matter how ugly you are, your partner would still love you and find you attractive.
This rule is especially true for women who care more about their appearance than men.
This is one way to tell whether your boyfriend is the right one.
and to guys, by letting your girlfriend be...
Anytime I look at you, I keep wondering,
Where were you when I was searching for the one?
Why didn’t we meet earlier?
Why on earth I travelled the world to find the right one and you are just right here, in Australia?
What were you doing 2 years ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago? Who were you with? Didn’t you know that you were going to meet me?
2 or 5 or 10 years ago, both of us...
March 2012
1 post
An interesting mindset of Indonesian men
I recently talked to one of my close friends. She has been in a relationship with a guy for more than 5 years. They started dating when they were in high school.
I asked her last night, “When are you getting married?”
She answered, “probably in two years.”
“Why two years?”
“Because my boyfriend just started finding a job, and he doesn’t want to...
February 2012
1 post
I’m thankful for your presence in my life. You proved me that a nice guy does exist, a loving relationship is real, and a pleasant cohabitation is achievable.
I love you. I love us.
January 2012
6 posts
Pieces of memory
Outside was sunny, assignments due soon, yet daydreaming still occupied me. Books everywhere, on the floor, on bed, on the table. Going to the kitchen to refill my jug, in my pink and green Crocs sandals; said hi to my Srilankan housemate who had just finished cooking her yellowish food. -A day in summery Adelaide-
Perth Airport, picked up Eat, Pray, Love, waited for the next flight, decided to...
An ability to immerse in the present results in the ability to isolate the memories that are readily to be recalled at a latter time.
The memories might not include the exact dates or the time, but it is more important that our brain is able to bring back the emotions, the place, daytime or night time, and the people we were with.
Recalling fond memories are a good way to spend your time alone,...
What’s better than having a lovely, caring, and understanding roommate/ partner?
I think I started to finally feel home somewhere.
It’s home when I can feel some certainties that I can build on the life that I have now because this is the life that I want.
It’s just a start, it’s not easy, but it’s enjoyable :D
Oh hey.. I found the answers
I’m 23 years old and I have been in 7 relationships and a few flings before I met my current boyfriend.
I dated my first boyfriend when I was 11 years old, and since then, I have almost never been single. I usually found a new boyfriend after a couple of weeks or even less than a week after I broke up. The longest period of me being single was 7 months, but even within those months, I had...
I wish there was no other men before you.
If I knew that I would meet you, I would have waited for you to come along to my life, creating the only memories I had with men.
I love you and I love our relationship. You mean a lot to me. Hope to have you in my future :D
Enjoying every second of living together with you.
I miss you.
December 2011
1 post
I remember last year, at the same date and time, I was madly in love, yet confused, with someone in Italy. As a matter of fact, I was in Italy. It was fun, it was a good memory, but my heart was not in peace. It kept questioning the reality and I guess, by my current definition, it was giving signals that something was not right with my relationship.
However, I kept going, until August 2011.
I...
November 2011
3 posts
I’m bored of studying. It has been a month now where my daily activity is basically just studying for the exam. Today is the last day of my exam and after that, hm.. not sure what I want to do, but at least I got two leadership camps, almost back-to-back..
Can’t wait until 6pm this evening when I finally welcome the summer break. Bring it on!
Sometimes, to know about happiness, you should be unhappy first.
Sometimes, you can simply feel happy for no particular reason.
Sometimes, you can be very good at deceiving yourself by saying to yourself that you are happy while in fact you are not. Only when you look back, and be truthful to yourself, you will realise that you were unhappy.
Knowing about yourself is the key to happiness, such...
A morning couldn’t be better than waking up and finding your arms around me.
October 2011
6 posts
Confused which one I should go,
Council of Australian Postgraduates Association Conference in Sydney
or
RYLA leadership camp.
that happen at the same dates.
For both, I will be fully funded.
:D
How nice is it to be visited every night by someone special?
Happy to see you soon.
It isn’t the matter of who you say you are, it’s about what you do.
The more you do something for others, the more you gain for yourself.
Keep learning, keep creating, keep manifesting.
Updates on my life
Monday, 24 October 2011
5.30am woke up
6.45am ran to the uni
7.00am rehearsal, final preparation for the workshop HAA organised.
8.00am participants started coming in
8.30am ice breaker activity
9.00am-4.30pm managing the work flow of the workshop, overseeing details, supporting the team
4.30-5.30pm photoshoot for Monash 2012 handbook
5.30-6.00pm back to the meeting, debrief and...
Anytime I see the pictures of Italy, I could not help to revisit the memories I have in that country.
Trieste - Barcola, Castello di Miramare, Piazza Del Unita, Canal di grande, Le Terazze, Duino, Sistiana, Instituto de Venezia, Corso Italia, Via Fabio Filzi, Via Monte San Gabrielle, Opicina
Venezia
Dolomiti Mountain
Verona- Lago di Garda, Bussolengo, Lazise
Toscana (Tuscany)
Prato
Mugello
...
The day we find love once again
September 2011
5 posts
2 tags
Is it a sin if I fall in love again within days after I broke up with my boyfriend?
I don’t pick whom I fall in love with. I don’t decide when I will be falling in love. I barely have controls of people who come along to my life and write stories on the pages of my life.
Let’s write a new chapter Mr. -you-know-who- :p
I feel loved, I’m lucky.
Breaking-up with my loved one
I broke up with Dami a week ago, but we just have settled the issues this morning when he finally let me go.
We got along very well and there’s no particular issues that triggered our break-up.
The reason was I suddenly felt the urge to be free and explore my life.
I have been someone’s girlfriend for quite a long time, one boyfriend after another.
I haven’t built my career...
I’m happy.. and I’m lucky to be able to put an end in this relationship without misery and hurts. The beautiful memories are kept safely in our hearts without any effort to erase them. They are still there. Africa 2010. Italy, Summer 2010, Winter 2010-11, and Summer 2011.
Thank you Dami.. You’re the best… I love you.. :D I really appreciate it that you set me free..
August 2011
4 posts
It’s really easy for a relationship to become a battle of war between the two parties.
When one’s needs are not met by the other.
Doubts and fears surface, as if there’s no way out other than breaking up.
Think twice. Your relationship is really valuable, especially after you have been putting so much effort and time. Change your way of reacting to each other.
I speak from...
Before Sunrise
One time, I read Rara’s blog, and I saw many beautiful quotes taken from a movie, called ‘Before Sunrise’ and ‘Before Sunset’.
I asked my boyfriend to look for those movies and shared the movies with me.
I just had a chance to watch it just now,
and the movie took place in Vienna, a city that is really similar to Trieste, which is understandable as they were both...
Thank you for loving me.
I thought that I could be with a new guy here as we are so far away and it seems that our future together is blur, but I find it really hard to be with someone else because I still want to be with you and I don’t want any guy to get in our story.
I don’t want to think too much about the future and I don’t care if I’m not with anyone here because I still love you so much...
July 2011
5 posts
one night, or nights with Dami
Me : Dami, would you please fart in front of me? Because I can’t believe that after almost 90 nights sleeping with you, and you are still not comfortable enough to fart in front of me?
Dami : But Listy, what kind of perversion is that? Asking someone to fart?
I even pumped his tummy to make him fart, but to no avail.
And night after night of...
Next destinations:
India, South America, like Chile or Brazil or Argentina, Mongolia (somehow I really want to visit this place), back to the US, Qatar or United Arab Emirates, can I can I? Please….
I’m done with Europe, living 3 months (not straight) in Italy killed my fascination about this continent. In the end, Europe is Europe, castles, caves, medieval buildings, country side...
how is it like to be single?
I have been in a single stage for a quite a bit, but I believe if I got single again, it would never be the same.
As well as, if I get into a relationship with someone else, it would be different too (this one is quite obvious though)
cos I’m different person than I’m yesterday.
It’s in my nature that I question a lot, too bad that most of the...
Dami: I don’t think I can find a better person for me than you, Listy.
(I love you, and I appreciate your words, but we are yet to figure out what future holds for us)
A relationship will be different once you think you will seriously marry each other as you will start to close down your heart for someone else and learn how to be satisfied with what you have; learn to accept him for who...
I’m at the crossroad of my life; many crucial decisions need to be taken with careful and thorough consideration.
I’m at the point where I don’t know where it leads to and I’m lack of information input to make the decisions.
I am in Trieste, Italy now. Today was my first day taking Italian course and I found myself pretty fast in picking up Italian. Now, I can fairly...
June 2011
7 posts
Quotes out of my reflection of life and...
In every difficulty, there is always an opportunity for growth.
One has limited ability to know what the future holds, when one can’t decide by the brain, it’s the time to use the heart.
There is no absolute right and wrong, there is no black and white, and there is no ‘either this or that’, instead, there is always another way, another way of seeing things, another way...
Just saying
It’s funny sometimes when people say that ‘I don’t want a ‘bule’ as my boyfriend because they: (I’m just quoting majority of the reasons I often heard) do free sex, they change partners a lot, they drink, they smell, they take divorce easily, etc.
But in fact, when you are really with a white guy, you will realise that above are only unjustified assumptions or...
Connect with your other half in any possible way
Long distance relationship has never been easy. It requires courage and self-belief that you can be on your own, while your other half is hundred or thousand miles away, doing something beyond your sight. You gather information about your other half only from what he says to you; you can’t see who he hangs out with, where he goes, his values, his love to you, etc. In other words, your...
My promise to my friends
I know this has been a kind of recurrence problem in my way of connecting with friends.
I come and go as I please.. I go where I want to go, I come when I want to, I don’t believe that we all have to go to the same direction.
I do believe that people are free to do whatever they want.
This belief sometimes creates awkwardness between my friends and I.
For example, I do have my schedule,...
My relationship came to the point where I’m no longer able to see the attractiveness of other men.
My boyfriend lives up all the expectations I have from a man.
I feel glad and thankful to have him in my life and to be in this relationship, despite of the distance.
Thanks Dami..
Evaluating Argument
Look at the article from NYtimes below and read my evaluation of the argument provided in the article.
(The article is in courtesy to the authors and the original link is provided)
Google Says Chinese Hackers Stole Gmail Passwords
By JOHN MARKOFF and DAVID BARBOZA
Published: June 1, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Google said Wednesday that some users of Gmail, its e-mail service, had been the targets of a...
May 2011
9 posts
Living what we love is real happiness.
I didn’t sleep well last night because I took a nap in such a wrong hour and couldn’t sleep afterward. This morning I got to wake up for an 8am class. Instead of feeling dreadful, I felt joy filling in my body and soul.
How I can’t be happy if,
I live in a place that I love
I go to the uni that I love
I study the subject which is my...
A few seconds of your voice brought me to life again.. Made me feel like dancing under the night sky.
This what happens when love becomes an addiction,lol.
Some advices on relationship
I have been hearing many relationship stories recently and I wanna share what I have reflected here..
1. How much we have forgotten about ourselves when we are in a relationship.
When you are in a relationship, you unconsciously become more and more like the other person. We act differently with different person, we adjust ourselves in a way that enables ourselves to exist along with other...
Recently, I have heard several broken-hearted stories when boyfriends left ‘my friends’ for someone else.
One is the boyfriend left my friend for his ex-girlfriend after they had been in a relationship for 1.5 years. Their relationship was perfectly ok and all the sudden, the boyfriend changed his mind and he didn’t want the relationship anymore. My friend was left...