iez’s

it is 2:29 pm now
normally, this is my time to take a nap, or if im not at home, i will be yawning badly trying to kill my sleepiness…. but now, my body clock has somehow changed. i just woke up about an hour ago, had a shower and checked my emails - that i haven’t checked for several days, unusual me -
this is all because of the design workshop that i joined in the past one week. it is a join program between Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Chiba University, Japan. there were 19 participants, 13 from NTU and 6 from CU. at first, i wasn’t really excited… now, i would say that this is one of the greatest experience i will tell to ppl when they ask me at the end of the year "what is the best thing happen to you in the past one year?"

ok, i shall write it here while everything is still fresh in my memory. we had a very packed program. we had several lectures from both singapore and japan’s professors, watch designer from seiko, plan visit to seiko singapore, group project, final presentation, tours, games, and lots of meals… -indeed, i gained 1.5 kg throughout this workshop-
the group project was very intensive, and we really worked hard in that. (shall i say that most of us were almost fall asleep in the lectures as we worked too hard for the group project? haha… psst… don’t tell the professors…) generally there were 3 members in a team, and we were asked to design a dream of wearable tool in the year of 2020. great topic… we can play a lot with our imaginations… due to the packed schedule and limited time, most of us almost could not finished the project. that bad, until nobody really went back home at the last night, working on our design and presentation. i guess the organizers expected that. they booked the workshop room and design lab 24 hour for us to use. my team stayed in the workshop room, some others were in the design lab, and the rest were in the cad/cam lab. nobody really slept that night. i was lucky that i could catch a nap for about 1 hour at around 6-7 am in the morning. nevertheless, the strong bond tied among ourselves and the learning experience worth much more than the hardwork.

that’s all for now… there are lots of things to write, it is just so messed up in my mind that i could not express them in words.
surely, i will miss all of you guys from the NTU-CU design workshop!   

perhaps you won’t realize how precious something(one) is until you lose it(him/her). sometimes it is just good to sit down calmly, and think: How if…. and when you cannot answer the how if, or do not want to imagine it, you should then know what to do.
it is easy to write it here. perhaps it is damn hard to even start doing it.

one week holiday in bali
i spent most of the time to hang out with my family members. i visited my sister with her newborn baby girl in jogjakarta.
vivi… cute baby, cries loudly, always hungry, and always successfully wake me up from my night sleep

i also spent lots of time with my other two nieces in bali
yaya… talkative, pretty long curly hair, talented for balinese dance, and with pretty high ego too
kayla… sweet girl, loves candy and chocolate, naughty, and can make the most tidy house untidy

through them, i realize that…. i am not ready to have a child on my own. no, not yet… not in a short term…