Exploring Time!

To follow new topics in my reader is such a hard one, because I have follow almost every topics. I like to keep my mind open and sometime I found many interesting stuffs from things I used to hate. 😀

Nevertheless, These are topics that I recently followed:

1. Pop Culture

One can’t forever avoid what’s always popped up, no?

2. Sport

I guess I really need some motivation for my better sporting lifestyle.. Teehee

3. Politic

a preparation for my master course. *burned*

4. Inequality

Balanced life is not always about an equality.

5. Marriage

another preparation. *Silently whispering* 😀

And I try a new theme, whaddaya think? I choose this because I haven’t use something orange before, it turns out rather fun!

Yay! I could keep up with the challenge again..

Love,

The Dark Jasmine

a Very Late Day 3

Pardon me for this very late post.

Today’s assignment: write the post that was on your mind when you decided to start a blog.

To answer this sentence, I have to go back to 1st January of 2007, the day I decide to start blogging. I went through my first post and found out that my first one is only a greeting post, I haven’t write about why I made this blog in the first place.

A safe House. This is what this blog is all about. A safe place for my thoughts and everything that crosses my life. Maybe an online space and a safe house are two concepts that cannot be in one theme, but for me, this blog is my safe house. I like writing here because I am lack of ability to talk to people, even though I am working on it as I am a lecturer, I prefer writing than talking. I could be whatever I want here and everybody can have their own image of me by reading this blog.

Poetry is my main interest when I start blogging. I’ve posted mainly poems in my early blogging time. Now, this blog is built for many kind of minds I’ve got. You can choose to read about my thoughts in Psychology area or Volunteering or places I’ve visited and of course food I’ve tasted. This is my personal mind’s empire.

Lost in Soulful Journey

This is it, the day 2 challenge is finally here. It was a hard one, tho. I need to keep my promise to keep up with this Zero to Hero thingy.

Do you like my new title?
Do you get my new tagline?

I really need a feedback.. I’ve been lost for sometime, finding and building an identity for this blog. This is my escape route from my routine and my reality. I found my other self while blogging here.

This blog is indeed a journey of mine. A journey that feed my soul to keep me alive. The first title of this blog is “and the heart isn’t unheard” which I love the most, and still use it as my tagline many time offline.

The second title, which was written just a couple of months ago is “pick your own dose of bitterness”. I choose that because of my writing express the stormy mood, so it is surely has a rhythm of bitterness on it.

After reading the Day 2 assignments, I roll my mind and rethinking my title and tagline. Mirroring all that I’ve post here, my mind then come up with a soulful journey….

That was my journey to finally make a whole new identity for my alter ego home. Hope you all as excited as I am now…
*cheers*

@darkjasm in 2014

Moving out to a new year. Leaving behind all the things I’ve done in 2013. Memories of hurts, loves, hates, likes, joys, tears, dreams, and realities stay and keep in my mind forever. All that I’ve ever been through in 2013 no matter small or big they are, shape the new me.

First thing I decided about my blogging life this year is gonna make my self committed in joining the Zero to Hero blogger. Commitment in blogging is my very big problem, always. I keep saying that I have to update my blog regularly, but I keep having trouble keeping it, due to many reasons my mind has made up. The new me is really eager to accomplish this 30 days assignments to prove that I really am a girl who can keep my promise.

The day 1 challenge is to “introduce yourself” which I’ve done a couple weeks ago by updating my about page. Due to my commitment, I need to post something about my self to fulfill the very first challenge, so I want to introduce my self from a different angle. Why I choose “darkjasm” as my online identity.

Darkjasm literally an acronym of “The Dark Jasmine”. Jasmine is the name of my scout troop back in my junior high school time, when we were competing in the “Lomba Tingkat Nasional” (National Ranger Scout Competition). I experienced many things during the competition and found the meaning of a true friendship in my troop. My school sent two troops to compete, the other troop is the boy’s and the name is Crow. Crow, as we know is a Black bird that often associate with a bad luck. My interpretation of my love for the boys is adding the “dark” before the Jasmine. And these facts are also the reason behind my love for black and white.

What do you think about my introduction?

Much Love,

The Dark Jasmine

Better Education for All

After such a long hiatus in posting and after encountering my own fear to be involve again in a social forum, I came to PS Bloggers Gathering last night at Es Teller 77 Adityawarman. (This is gonna be a long long post, pardon me)

Education to Employment: Preparing Globally Competent and Highly Employable Indonesians.

That was the theme last night. The speakers are Iwan Setiawan (author of “9 summers 10 autumns”) and Chris Crow (US Fullbright Scholarship Alumnus). We shares our concerns about Education in Indonesia, Chris also presented USBI that offers many fun ways to educate young people.

Just yesterday morning, I read an article about how Indonesians are lazy to read and Mas Iwan also highlighted these thing in his sharing session. He said that in Indonesia, students are not encouraged to read because most of us are just memorizing the lesson for a good grade, not to make ourselves understand the subjects. Chris also share his experience when he was teaching english in Maluku, he said that students there, are good at answering close ended question, while they found an open ended question very hard to answer. I guess this problematic fact root once again to “reading habit”. In the article I’ve read earlier, the writer shared that he was mocked overseas because he said that his hobby is reading. Reading is not a hobby overseas, they just read, while in Indonesia we classified reading as an hobby so people who stated their hobby is watch movie, they probably never read.

Continue reading “Better Education for All”

It’s Just Another Way to Communicate

It’s a fast respond for this post from one good friend of mine

Courtesy of Gustilaya Riza

H.O.N.E.S.T

is a way you should do when you communicate

Look closer

Open your heart and mind

U.N.D.E.R.S.T.A.N.D.I.N.G

is what you need while you communicate

You and Me,

different person and different personality

Don’t push someone to understand you, when you are not willing to do the same

J.O.K.E

is not a BAD way to communicate

Life is gonna be hard if you are really serious

You just need to take a right time to do it.

S.H.A.R.E

How do we communicate, you said?

Well, I have no Idea how to do it the way you want

But hey..

Sometime, when you really need it,

just tell it all in the simplest way.

LET IT GO.

SHARE IT.

H.E.A.R.T

and when everything is going to be really bad,

believe me.

You always have someone who love you by your side,

understanding you. Even when you say nothing.

That is what happen, when your heart communicates.

P.s Thank you very much for these lovely words, Agust!

I feel blessed to have friends like mine.

Love,

@darkjasm

Tercecer #2 *edisi Tersherina*

Apa pula itu judul postnya?

haha.. yang jelas, lagi merasa sepengalaman dengan lagu ini.

I always love Sherina’s work.

Genious!

Tak mau lagi aku percaya
Pada semua kasih sayangmu
Tak mau lagi aku tersentuh
Pada semua pengakuanmu

Kamu takkan mengerti rasa sakit ini
Kebohongan dari mulut manismu

Pergilah kau
Pergi dari hidupku
Bawalah semua rasa bersalahmu
Pergilah kau
Pergi dari hidupku
Bawalah rahasiamu yang tak ingin kutahui

Tak mau lagi aku terjerat
Pada semua janji-janjimu
Tak mau lagi aku terkait
Pada semua permainanmu

Back to #, Reff

Bertahun-tahun bersama
Kupercayaimu
Kubanggakan kamu
Berikan s’galanya
Aku tak mau lagi
Ku tak mau lagi huoo… Yeee…Hee…

Pergilah kau
Tak ingin kutahui
Pergilah kau
Ku tahui