keepsake blog

It's been a few weeks that this early limerence had begun and though I stopped thinking about you a lot, there are times when I view images of you in my head.

Somewhere in April, I said to myself that I wanted to be brave and feel vivid feelings upon someone and to constantly be thoughtful for them without wanting something in return. By the middle of May, I realized that I now am. And although the feeling is like seeing the sun for the first time, it's not enitrely pleasant.

I never thought talking was a difficult matter even if most people ignore me in the end. At least that's what I thought, but then eventually I realized I had to stop thinking that way because there are complex people like you who either takes the conversation or not at all. And balancing that interest, or keeping track of the maze had never been easy to me after fathoming that some people are just difficult. But the drive of knowing people like you was something I've never imagined and I guess it's wonderful even in the tiniest bit. I cannot say it's a nice thing but it does have goodness within the unpleasant feeling.

Photo by Zoe Suen. Fukuoka, Japan 06.2015

The stars look different tonight. And I am here. 

Surprise, I was brave and bold enough to visit the Univeristy of Indonesia for its Alsa 19th debate competition they held since this month!

I should have been busy since this April to June because I have IGCSE preparations and a whole load of other studying shit. But I'm not born to be someone busy, so I guess I'll try delaying my work to write something in here.

I have a couple of songs I'd like to introduce to you about that I currently adore first, they are both by Skrillex & Diplo and those two songs are:

1. To Ü (ft. AlunaGeorge)
2. Where Are Ü Now (ft. Justin Bieber)

Hello there, it's been a week since I turned 16 years old now. Not that it matters though.

I'm here to post a prologue of my new story (that I will finish hopefully). The story will be called For You.

Since we (Sammy, Tsamara and me) thought that doing a term break project where we shared happiness through flowers and quotes were something that had ought to be done, we decided to do it and shot it on film for proof that yes we have done this term break task. However, you may notice that I am not (mostly) shown in the process of giving the flowers, which might distract the grading of this project, please acknowledge that I did get along with them to do it and did try my best.

Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D10NAZxTfOk

For the second task which I abruptly have just known that we were supposed to do a second one, here it is:

Interviewing housemaids

When I knew that we were supposed to interview minor workers, I took the chance to communicate with the people working in my house because apparently, housemaids in Indonesia is something popularly common. Thus I interviewed my the housemaids that work around here, and this is the result!

His name is Din, he lives with his wife (who was Erna) whom he apparently takes with him to work in here too. They both are pretty young (they are in their twenties) but the man is younger by three years. He lived in Java, more precisely Wonosobo and was a primary student graduate. His wife had been a housemaid longer than him and even went overseas, instead he worked fixing things in the garage/workshop. But then they both decided to work for my family.

They begin working normally at six and finish by early by 8 p.m., and yes the do stay at our house, they sleep at the room in the backyard where it is separated from our house but still considered close. His daily routines would consist of opening the gates most time, or helping around the house when there is work to be done. While she would normally cook and get along with finishing laundries. They both each earn $100 a month (I say dollars because it's more appropriate than saying Juta/rupiah). 

By the question obstacles, they quote that it is hard working as what they are and that they feel like they do not earn enough. And overcoming it is usually to simply accept life and keep moving on. Their family are as perfectly fine and they do enjoy their jobs as it is their jobs.

It was a both regular and irregular thing to interview them. I was satisfied with what I made up my mind to and felt great to actually know more about the people around us. In the end, I sadly did not have thought of giving them anything in return and decided to not ask help for a weekend!

(Hahahahaha)

Thankyou for reading. Hope you enjoyed!