Post-holiday Blue

20 hours left for me to be back to school. My heart beats fast, this is not the ordinary post-holiday blue, it’s a post-looooooooooong-holiday blue. I’ve been 4 months off, after high school graduation. Now I’ve got to get ready to hit the books again. It’s not that I feel not ready, I only consider that it is probably hard in the beginning. Going to the college in the first time means seeing new environment, new faces, and so on. Everything is new. What I am excited about is that I would have new friends. Yay! I’ll be happier if I find my besties there, hopefully. God speed!

My mom said, college is a place to flirt to boys. I don’t think so. It was never my intention to have a schoolmate as my boyfriend. I want to befriend right now. Wish I had sooooo many friends :)

Although I don’t know how to get rid of post-holiday blue, at least I have strong confidence that I’ll be a cheerful girl like I used to be (before I moved from one school to others). And I’ll study hard in the college so I can make my parents proud of me.

I remember before studying in the college, there’ll be Ospek. Ospek is a kind of school orientation, so students get acquainted with their school. The main characteristic of this event is that we have to bring a lot of things with unique name. It’s like a riddle. Seniors say the riddles, the following day we should bring the things that the seniors mean. If we got wrong, then we might be punished. Lately I google about it then try to memorize the riddles and the answers one by one. Hahaha. Am I afraid of the punishment? Maybe. Honestly, I can’t stand for a kind of embarrassment. Public speaking, I might be able to handle it. But as for singing a ridiculous song without instrument in front of public for punishment, I’d better die.

Actually, whether or not taking a part in Ospek is not a force. It’s all up to us. I choose to join in because I think it’d be fun. What am I gonna tell to my children someday if I miss it? What am I supposed to do when my friends excitedly tell the experience?

Though I’m not sure I will join an extracurricular in my school, I promise I’ll be an active student. For activities I think it is useful, I’ll join. 

Hey, readers! Would you wish me luck in Ospek? Do you know how to get out from post-holiday blue? Tell me in comment, and I’d thank you so much! Thanks for reading my boring blog! :)

Xoxo,

Agni

Richness + Simplicity = Perfection

Studying in a vocational high school makes me have most of my friends looking for a job after graduation. They seem to be rich, now. At least they could go shopping every week, purchase cool gadgets, go to beauty salon regularly, buy cosmetics, etc. Everyday is living it up, because their money is much. To be honest, I really want to go to work like them. I want to have much money, and be a daughter that my parents could be proud of. Then I find out that my parents want me to go to college, not to work. Even though I can work balancing with my college, I am not sure I can. I have a target, that I’d pass the college by achieving cum laude. I don’t think it is super easy, so I would try very hard and give everything (one of them is my time) I have to reach it.

If someday I get a job, I promise I won’t spend my money only to treat myself. I get inspired by my auntie, Setyowati Rita Okiani, she is a super woman. She is the first children (same with me) of my grandparents. After graduating from Airlangga University, Surabaya, she found a job as a radiologist in a hospital in Situbondo, Indonesia. Since then, she helped my grandparents to pay her siblings’ tuition fee. Do you know how many siblings she has? She has 3 sisters and 2 brothers! If I were her, I was probably sick of spending all money I look for to pay what my parents should pay. But what my auntie did is not to stop paying her siblings’ tuition fee until they were graduated. And lately I heard from my grandma, that she would pay my tuition fee if my parents couldn’t afford to. OMG, I never found any women who have a big heart like hers around me.

Allah is merciful and compassionate. What my auntie did, has done, is doing, do, and will do, Allah knows about it, and sure he gives much better things what my auntie gives to others. She keeps giving, but she is getting richer day by day. What’s more? Her husband is a manager of a financial company, I’m pretty sure the salary is higher than my auntie’s. He is handsome, patient, full-smile, and the same as my auntie, my uncle is rich but not arrogant. Their sons inherit their personality, I see. What a great family! I’m amazed.  

 
The things I remember the most, my auntie never tried to look pretty by wearing either glamorous dress or expensive sparkling diamond, she even don’t wear any make up. She looks gorgeous because her natural beautiful face and her beautiful heart of course. In the BlackBerry trends in Indonesia, my auntie and her family don’t follow it. So is it with other trends, my auntie stay cool with her own style, simplicity.

I want to be like my auntie. She really fits my philosophy of life: less is more. If you want to look gorgeous, you don’t need to be glamorous, simplicity is the best. No matter how much money can I get, I won’t be the other Agni, I won’t be glamorous. I’ll still be a minimalist in the way of dressing up and disbursement. That’s my fashion. Fashion is not about following the trends, it shows what our personality is.

The most part of my first salary I would dedicate to my mom. For the next months, I’ll pay my tuition fee by myself. The rest is for my brother, I let him ask me to buy anything he wants. Oh, that’d be so lovely. :)

Wish I found a good job someday. Hope I reach cum laude, hope all of my dreams come true! I believe I would. Wish me luck!

P.s. Finally I've got a modem for my PC! So from now on, complain me if this blog is lack of my updates. Have a nice day everyone. :)

Xoxo,

Agni