Finally.....

Finally I'm done with the term and so ready for my 2-month summer holiday and I believe I'll be looking forward to start the new term again next year, perhaps. 

Anyway, I got this lovely treat from my tutor based on my study performance this term. I really appreciate that and I will also looking forward to get another treat from the following terms. :)

I've also been so happy these days as I got a good result regarding to my 'diet' program. I'VE LOST 1KG IN A TWO-WEEK TIME!! I'M LOSING WEIGHT!! (excuse my over exciting expression). I know it's only 1kg, but at least I'm losing instead of gaining. Hopefully I'm able to lose another kg by the following weeks. I'll also show the result of the machine test, I've been keeping it in my diary book, I just can't let it go as I believe there's a possibility for me to gain weight in the next following weeks. So at least I still can have the previous result that can motivate me. 

Let's go back again to the summer holiday topic. So I'm currently having dilemma whether I should go back to hometown or just stay in Auckland. Both options have their own benefits that even make it more difficult for me to make a decision. However, beside thinking about which one to choose, I had also prepared some companions for my summer. These companions can go along with both decisions. So I have the novel that I've been craving for since the last 2 months, and I also have my little notebook that's quite important and special for me.  So yeah, at least I've got these companions since they also really suit my hobby and interest which are reading and writing. It's gonna be legit!

So, see you again soon!

With Love

Sylvia :)

Epic Night

Helloo

So yesterday was my friend's birthday (colleague) as what I've also mentioned on my previous blog. We started our dinner in the tapas bar accompanied by wine and bubbles, but the most interesting part was the cake which was a mango cake from Philippine restaurant. After the dinner,we ended up going to a bar in town to enjoy the life music and have some fun. It was such a FUN night. Met some new friends, learned a bit of salsa dance, was taught how to sing and 'shout' along with the songs. It was just EPIC. (ignore my capital letters, that's just the of me showing the excitement)
However, we couldn't stay out late since my friend and I had to work on the next day which is today. I covered my friend's (birthday girl) shift for today which was started at 7AM. So after arrived home, I pretty much prepared everything for the shift just in case I woke up late (luckily it didn't happen). After having 4-hr sleep, I got to wake up and be ready for my shift. Tired, sleepy, all the laziness issues came out of my mind. But anyway, I just needed to face it and enjoyed the time at work which I did! :) So work was pretty alright today and I'm gonna have a staff meeting that I've been looking forward to. And I believe I'll have a lovely date later tonight, with the assignment dues tomorrow, yeay! -.-
Here are some pictures from last night :)

Me and the birthday girl, Kat 

Apparently, models of the night

Back to December

December...

This may be the month that everyone has been waiting for, everything is just gonna be fun. School holiday, summer season, Christmas, and the most important is New Year!! It's gonna be my second Christmas and New Year in Auckland, without my parents, but what can I say, all I need to do is enjoy every single moment of it :)

So, I have my day off today which I'm gonna spend on my assignment for the whole day and attend a friend's birthday later in the evening, but for sure pictures will be uploaded tomorrow! 

Let's talk about yesterday which was the fun and tiring Friday. Started the day with a short shift in the afternoon and decided to have another running session with a friend. I couldn't even feel the tiredness after work since I was too keen for the running. I was even more motivated by the view that I got to see on the whole way of my running. So I spent nearly 15 mins just to enjoy the view and accompanied by the 'generous' wind. 

I had such a deep and long conversation with my friend discussing some 'issues in life'. We also came out with a plan to go out later on that night since we haven't been going out for ages. So my friend and I started to invite some other friends to come along and we ended up having 5 of us including me. I can say it was such an amazing night with amazing friends. Before going out I spent quite a while deciding on what to wear, as usual, what most of girls do. So I decided to wear I felt like wanna wear. :)

So yeah, that's all I wanna share for today and hopefully will get many pictures for my next blog.
Once again, happy December guys!!


With Love

Sylvia :)

Helloo...
I just counted and realized that I haven't been updated my blog for 4 days now. Just haven't got the right time to do this since I was engaged with assignments, work, shopping and exam which I had today. Fortunately all went pretty well, just few assignments to go for next week and yeayyy!! Summer vacation is on me, I need beaches and my beach outfits need too!!
Got to capture this few days ago when I did my running.. hmmm.. I'm coming to you soon baby.

I got last Sunday off and decided to go out to buy some stuffs in Typo, just the time I got out of my apartment I realized there will be Santa Parade on that day. Didn't wanna miss it, I got to see some of the shows but didn't have any chances to capture them since I wasn't tall enough compared to brunches of people in front of me. So I decided to walk all the way through to get to the stationery and accompanied by the gangnam style song. If I wasn't mistaken, they kept repeating that song for almost 2 hours. hmmm.. Anyway, before I went out on that day, I unexpectedly found my mini gaga t-shirt from my luggage, so I decided to wear it and just wanted to look a bit weird on that day. 

On the next day which was Monday, nothing much happened since it was just like Monday in general. Stayed at home and had conversations with roommate and suddenly came on a plan. And yes, we decided to go to Chocolate Boutique since one of my flatmate was craving for chocolate. The place will always be classic as usual, but I didn't take any pictures of it. However I did take the picture of what I had on that day. So here it is, the White Chocolate Submarino with the kids, Macarons.

After the dessert, we decided to walk home instead of taking the bus since we wanted to have a little bit exercise after consuming the rich, sweet and full of fat chocolate. :)

So, it's 2 days before December, I'm just so excited for the next few weeks. Summer, Christmas and New Year, LEGIT..
Blog will be updated as well and I'm looking forward to upload pictures here. So see you again soon!


With Love

Sylvia

Exhausted

Helloo...
These two days have been so tiring yet fun for me because I chose to it and that's what I love. Forced myself too hard on running and playing "little" yesterday and ended getting sunburn on my face and whole body, having muscles pain from legs to my waist.  I just can't describe how painful it is for me to even move my legs. As I had no choice, I had to do my 8-hr shift today, fortunately I tried to forget all the pain and focused in my job where I could finish the tasks on time. After finished my shift, I needed to think about how to walk home since it was to painful for me to even  make a step, but I had no choice, I just need to get home as soon as I can so I get to have longer sleep (if only I can sleep early tonight).
So here I am now, doing what I feel like wanna do, blogging.. I'll just post some pictures instead and try to go to sleep afterwards..

What If..

Days have been so random which I can't even fully describe what I want to achieve from what I've been doing. Became a very moody person the last few days, enjoyed time with friends and prefer to be alone on the other time, it's just unpredictable. However, today has been quite fun by spending the day meeting new people, learned their culture, got chance to know different ways of thinking, every single thing was just new to me.

Since I still can't put my mind together on what I really wanna share today, I'll just do a simple topic, what if..

What if,

I decided to stay in my hometown rather than studying abroad...

> I might not be the one like what I am now. Have to live alone independently, take care of myself, be as     brave as I can to discover new things, studying and working at the same time, cook for myself, make my own decisions, try as hard as I can to avoid sickness, having heaps of idea in mind on what to do in my future. There are just too many things going on in my life that I might miss by having that decision. 

What if,

I can eat everything I want without worrying about obesity, diabetes, and health problems..

> I'm sure I'll be the happiest person on earth. I can't even describe how much I love food (eating). I'll definitely eat everything I want and whenever I want to, try new desserts without worrying about the sugars and fat, try new restaurants to discover their foods, having snacks next to me when I'm in front of the laptop every single midnight, having nutella and cupcakes as my main meal (I wish to). Never feel like I need to do some exercises and running as a purpose of losing weight. 

It will be so perfect if the reality speaks as what as I expect. 

(As I have a huge crush in Nutella, cupcakes, and red-velvet cake here I post some pictures below :) )

What If, 

I can share my feeling to the person I like/love and anybody else without worrying to be rejected, hated, or people making fun of me and everybody is against me...

> There will be no more sleepless night because I spend the whole night thinking of the people I like but don't know what to do, always feel reveal because I can say what I feel about people (like/dislike, agree/disagree), I won't end up stalking my crush's facebook rather than study and doing assignment because I want to know what's happening with him, no more tears and depression because I hide my feeling too deep even myself isn't strong enough to handle it anymore.

There are just too much, everything can happen instead.

I know this part may sound a bit too dramatic but I believe it happens in the real life, some people can deal and face it but some people decide to remain silent because they aren't strong enough to be rejected and get hurt..

>> I was supposed to discuss another "what if," above based on the reality I've seen out there, but I haven't got really good ideas about it. If you have any ideas, I'll be more than happy if you can pop your comment below. 

So here it is "what if, I'm falling in love with someone that is taken, I've got a very strong chemistry with that person, I've been trying to remove the feeling because I don't wanna break someone's else relationship, but it didn't and never work out"

Hope you enjoy the topic I chose today. See you again soon!

With Love

Sylvia :)

He Came to Me Again...

It's been not fun...
Yes, today hasn't been the day I really wish to have. Woke up with a ridiculously strong headache, the worst part is, I got migraine this morning. "He came to me again", ('He' refers to the headache). He's been far away from me for the past few weeks and for whatever reasons he came to me again this morning. Come on, it wasn't just the right time. As the result, I had to skip classes this morning, stayed on my bed until 1pm to ensure he could go away from me and fortunately he left around 2pm today. I could have done many things today, but I missed the classes and lessons instead. What a day.. But anyway, I can't really blame anyone for this, how bad my day is, all happened for a purpose that I haven't figured out until now. I just didn't wanna spend my day for nothing, so I decided to do some assignments, developed new 'healthy' recipe. So yeah, I haven't got too many things to share today. I'm just gonna put some quotes and random pictures.

With Love

Sylvia :)

The Timing

Tik Tok Tik Tok...
The clock has been ticking as I realized that it's been quite an 'empty' day for me. I haven't really done things I was supposed to do. I only spent around an hour to do my assignments and more interested in the shower where I spent nearly 45mins on today. Finished my shower and found out it's almost 6pm, my dinner time. I decided to go out and get some fresh air before I did my quick grocery shopping and heading home straight away afterwards. Without any doubts, I prepared this meal, made from cabbage, dashes of mayo and my homemade dipping sauce. It may not look appealing for you, but anyway I just got to eat this healthy dish.

I believe I'm gonna write a shorter blog for today since I haven't got too many things to share. But let's refer to my title "The Timing" and the clock picture that I put above. This idea popped out of my mind when I was having my 45mins shower.
So I've been watching both The X Factor UK and USA for the past few weeks. I've been kinda addicted to those shows because they are filled with amazing and talented people. I also watched some episodes from the last seasons through Youtube and realizing something very inspiring, especially for me. I believe everybody knows the UK boy band One Direction and honestly I'm not quite a big fan of them, but I learned something from what they have gone through. One of the member 'Liam' was in the 2009 audition and unfortunately he was sent home from the judges house and he was told to come back for the audition the year after because he wasn't quite ready yet. In 2010 he came back for the competition and one of the judges was amazed by him and saying "this is what I meant for telling you to go home and come back this year, you are a different person now". So Liam went through the audition and judges decided to put together some of the boy singer into one group called "One Direction", Liam is one of the member. As we can see now, the band has been on the edge of fame for the past few months.
So what I learned from this story is, sometimes our timing on doing something toward our goal isn't quite right yet, but it doesn't mean we have to give up and leave it behind. Why don't we have another go and learn from previous experience. We will never know what is waiting for us out there, and for all the effort that we put in on another try, we might end up having a happy ending. Look at the band I wrote above, they were just on the perfect timing to meet each other and put together into something big. However, if you've been trying more than one time and can't reach your goal, you might want to refer to you past experiences and figure out what have gone wrong. If the last outcome isn't the one that you've been aiming for, you will at least still be proud of yourself for putting huge effort towards your goal, and all those past experiences will turn into life lessons for you.
After the story above you may want to refer to the journey of the band from Youtube and find out that it was kind of a little miracle for them to meet each other in that year.
I wish you enjoy my today's blog and see you again tomorrow!!

With Love

Sylvia :)

The Changes....

The Sunny Windy Gloomy Sunday
Sundays will always mean waking up late for me if only I don't have any shifts on those days. Today is one of those days that I could wake up as late as I wanted to, and I ended up wake up around 11am this morning. I totally had no plan on what to do today so I just cooked my breakfast and texting with a friend and we came out with a plan. We ended up going to a cafe not far from the city center as part of our cafe hunting. It was kind of the cafe that has a very warm and welcoming atmosphere followed by the classic and unique style as part of the cafe signature.There were huge choices of food and beverages but we decided to have the host's recommended desserts. It was such a legit experience overall, and I even captured one of the spot that I love most from the cafe. Classic, unique and smart!

It's been a lovely day since the sky was so cheerful today and meeting only one friend wasn't enough for me. Later on today, I ended up having tiny reunion with 2 other friends. Good conversation, 'smart' joking, and personal sharing, such a quality time, as always :) So here is our picture, I just don't wanna miss the moment.

Let's refer to my title for today which is "The Changes".  I was supposed to put on another topic until I faced this certain situation few minutes ago. My mood was totally dropped down by the situation and I can only share it into my blog, that's all I can do for now. I will skip what has actually happened in the situation and move on to what I feel for it.
Time has passed by and I just realized that everything has changed as well. The most important thing is, people have changed into ways that I can't even realize and describe. The one that used to be the stranger just became your close friend and the one that used to be your bestfriend just changed in days and turning into someone that you don't even know anymore. Someone that you thought as a bad person is actually the one that's doing nice things towards you, supporting you when you fall, always there for you when you are down. On the other hand, the one that you thought will always be there for you as your bestfriend is actually the one that will never be there when you need them and the worst part is, they don't believe in you anymore as what they used to do before. They are just gone. You just have no idea what is actually happening in between. Maybe I should just forget it and move on, but that's not what I want to do, this thing can't be solved with this way. I'll try my best to figure out what has happened and if things don't work out maybe I'll just leave things unsaid. There's one thing that I can never do, hating people that betray you or unforgiving people that made mistakes towards you. They used to be my friends and for whatever reasons they will still be my friends, even they don't feel the same for me.
I learn something from this situation, I will just need to deal with it and move on to what I need to do, but there's no way for me to hate people. All I can do is LEARN LEARN LEARN. Maybe I need to evaluate myself and learn from my mistakes, but if you are really my friend or I can say my 'true' friend, you are the one who should tell me what I've done wrong, not the one who leave me after my mistakes.
I've been writing such a messy story today and my feeling has been so random since I got that situation. Thank you for your time to read this topic and I am sorry for making you feel bored by reading the long long story above.

With love

Sylvia :)

Try!

Saturday Saturday Saturday....
Started today with the weirdest dream ever, and I believe it was weird enough to wake me up quite early before my work at 12pm. I wasn't brave enough to continue my sleep since I didn't want to continue that weird dream again, so I just moved on to the kitchen and prepared my breakfast. It was such a good breakfast and the sweetest thing was the nutella. I just realized this morning that I kinda can't live without nutella, I'm not trying to be dramatic but that's the fact.
The breakfast gave me enough energy to do my 8-hr shift today, so I just jumped on to the shower and prepared myself for the shift. Time passed by and I arrived in workplace 15mins earlier. yeay!

Without realizing the time, finally I finished my shift for today, work was quite fluctuated in terms of the busy hour, but everything was going well and I pretty much enjoyed it, especially the 'amazing' weather which was raining the WHOLE DAY.  So I left workplace around 8.30pm today and I was quite pleased that I got to see this beautiful sky when I was on my way home. I stopped walking and spent 30s (approximately) to capture that moment so I can share it here. So here it is, the enchanting sky to accompany my way walked home. :)

After spending 30mins walking, finally I arrived home. It's been a long day and I have to admit it's been so tiring for me. Without a doubt, I decided to have my late dinner, and since it's already 9pm, I just prepared this dish. I know it's too simple, but hey, at least it's healthy (for me). Here it is, another picture for today which is my dinner, made by cabbage mixed with fat free mayo and strawberry!, my favorite fruit on earth hmm..

Done my dinner and it's time for blogging!! :)
Anyway, let's step backward a little bit since I have something to share about what happened this morning. So I was on my way to workplace and accompanied by my phone's shuffle songs, and suddenly this song popped up. I'm not sure if you know this song, it's "Try" by P!nk. I haven't really focussed in every single word of the lyric before this morning. I was engrossed and fell into this song. This song has a very deep meaning especially for me. What it taught me is I shouldn't have to be afraid to do something or decide on something, even the outcome might be bad and terrible but it doesn't mean I'm gonna fall down and 'die'. However I should have thought that everything can possibly turn out into something good or something that worth to learn. The only thing that I need and I have to do is "TRY", we will never know how things will be, on the other hand, if we leave it and not brave enough to try, we might have been throwing things behind without realizing that might be a huge opportunity that worth trying.  So yeah, that's my little lesson for today, it's totally a useful thought for me, and I hope it can inspire you as well!

That's all my sharing and I hope you enjoy reading my 'messy' story for today.
See you again tomorrow, peeps!

With love

Sylvia :)

Begin Again

Boo!!!
So here I am, I know it's been almost a year since I posted my last post. I've been trying to find some reasonable reasons for forgetting my blogging activities, but nothing has really come out of my mind.
I just counted and realized that it's been 11months now, I should have kept blogging since there have been too many things going on during that 11months. However, those moments have passed, I can do nothing with that. Here is the good news, maybe not a good news for some people that don't like my 'talkactiveness'. From now on I will be blogging on the daily basis again or at least once in every 2days.

Finally, it's the festive season again in New Zealand and followed by the summer season, except these few days have been slightly gloomy, windy and also followed by the 'crying sky'. Life has been so so so good for the past 11months, learnt some new life lessons, made mistakes, made the wrong decisions, but I have nothing to do with that anymore. I just need to take all the previous lessons/experiences into account and start to enjoy this festive seasons.

College term is finishing in the next 3 weeks and yeay! I will be working for more hours this December before I go to Indonesia in January. So yeah, it's gonna be such an interesting story to put into this blog for the next few months. Once again, I wanna say welcome back to myself and see you again tomorrow!! :*


With Love

Sylvia :)

(Excitement) of New Year Eve?

Ahaaa, so today is the first day of the new year, 2012, hmm, feeling bit excited about that I think. Hopefully u guys had a great night of NYE as well. 
So, yesterday was kind of an important day for almost all people in the world, me included as well, it was NYE, yihaaaa... There were party everywhere and the street was full of people who are gonna watch the fireworks last night. For me, I didn't plan too much about what to celebrate because for me, I'm just gonna be very thankful for God who has given lot of blesses during the year and yeah, focus on my work and school. The good thing to know is, I have to work in the morning at 9.30AM on the 1st of January, well, I'm really fine with it, the problem was I had to control myself by didn't drink alcohol at all in NYE cause I'm just gonna be very hangover for the next day. As my wish, I just decided to have dinner with friends at 7PM then go home and sleep! wohooo, sounds interesting, doesn't it? :)
Move on, so I had dinner in my workplace last night, with Kathi, Robin, who are from Germany, Linh, who is from Vietnam, and Nurjanah, who is from Indonesia, same like me. It was pretty fun yet pretty awkward, in my opinion :) but anyway, we still had lot of foods, they were about 10 tapas last night, yummy. Ah, I forgot to take all the pictures so I can share them here, but wait, at least I got this picture which I captured in the end of the dinner, I know there aren't so much foods here, but as we can see, there are some olives, mushroom pesto, and my orange juice which is still full :)
Here it is! :)

 After finished eating, I decided to walk home at least to see the euphoria of NYE cause I wasn't gonna celebrate it with other friends by having party or drinking a lot. For sure, before I walked home and said good bye with my friends, I ask for pictures with them, and these are what I got here, from left side, Nurjanah, Me, Kathi and Robin. Ups, there's no Linh there cause he was the one who took the pictures for us, thanks Linh for your sacrifice *cheers :D

 Taking pictures with friends wasn't enough for me, so at that time I also saw one man with a very cute look on his hair part, and suddenly I just asked him for pictures and he was agree, wohooo!!
So there he is, quite cute huh?, with red ribbons around. I'm thinking to make my hair exactly the same like this someday, should be pretty, (what do u think) :)

Well, well, and well. So that's all the things that happened during the NYE for me. Quite enough for me and happy to meet friends for dinner as well. For today, which is new year, I'm just gonna say happy new year to all of you guys!! Wish you guys have a great year ahead and have some goals to reach with good plans as well. See ya! HAPPY NEW YEAR AGAIN!! :)
Sincerely,
Sylvia :) :*