Of December and Wedding

Congrats Vicky and Nanan!

Today has been an exciting and eventful day with the wedding of my cousin Nanan and his wife Vicky! My family gathered today for their wedding and their ROM and it's great to see everyone again. Time flies really, my cousin is now a husband haha. Feels like yesterday when we were still running around. I feel happy for both of them and I wish you both a blessed and happy marriage!

The Baros United fam 

The day started with the ROM and Buddhist ceremony at the temple. As usual tears were shed and it's always a touching event to witness. After that we all went home to change first, and the ladies to have their makeup touched up before heading over to the wedding venue. I went with my sister, brother in law and my newest nephew Fedric mwahaha. We arrived at the venue earlier for some photo taking session and food catered for the family members. The rest of us rendezvous after that.

I was helping out at the angpao booth with my cousins and a few of my cousin's cousins (we take turns). It was quite fun doing it with them haha. There were a lot of guests who arrived at the same time in some moments of the night and we had to delegate our jobs to split things easier hah.

After that I stayed for a while with my aunts for more photo taking session and some chit chats.

With the couple

It's been a packed Saturday but definitely a happy one for all of us. Not sure who's the next of us whom we will attend the wedding of! Don't look at me. See you all soon!

Congratulations to the newlyweds again! :D

Raining

It's the beginning of December and... It's finally raining here! Although it doesn't rain for a long time, at least now it rains everyday so far. I wish we can have like a good one hour rain or something. Usually the rain only lasts for 10-30 minutes here, but at least they are heavy. However other parts of my hometown are raining really heavily, with some even experiencing strong winds that destroy houses :O

I have to say that 2019 has been a year with weird weather patterns. We have a long drought and it is a strong one too. Although it isn't as long as the drought in 2015. I remember in 2015 it didn't rain from May to November. There were rains here and there but I remember the dry season was really long. This year the last time we had "proper" rainy season was in July-ish I think. Cause I remember in the beginning of July, there were still rains here and there. And in September too.

But after that the drought came and it came strong. The temperatures hit 33 degrees in the afternoon. I don't remember the temperature hitting those levels... Even if it does, it won't last for weeks. It would be a one-off thing. And we have really humid nights to a point where it is so uncomfortable heh. I've been leaving my windows open at night for the past one month because it was that hot. Usually the weather will be cool and I have to close all my windows heh. Now it is the opposite!

Because of this our flowers bloom too quickly too. Like we harvested the flowers meant for Christmas in the beginning of November! And now we're harvesting flowers meant for end of December. And my worker just reported that the flowers for January are starting to bloom. Die!! Haha.

But what can we do really. We just harvest them I guess.

So yeah I'm just glad that we're finally entering the rainy season. The farmers can start planting again after a horrible drought season. And the earth can rejoice in the freshness of water. 

Alright that's all for now. More post to come soon! See ya.

Thirty One

It's the last day of November now which means that... We're left with 31 more fucking days to 2020! Okay sorry for the swearing, I'm just utterly shocked at the rate time is flying. I swear it feels like November just started yesterday. This month flew by rather quickly. Perhaps because too many things happened in this month. Mind's preoccupied and so on. Time flies when you and your mind is busy!

I don't want to start my yearly reflection early heh, I think there's still time to think and talk about it. But whew, it's been quite a year. Though it's kinda difficult to put it into words heh.

Anyway, I want to start writing more here. I think I'm pretty pressed for time to hit my goal. But I'll do it!

Here's to a Dauntless and Driven December, let's end 2019 beautifully!

Everyday Life

Right it's that time of the month again, where I'll share some awesome music of the month. I didn't discover a lot of music this month but two albums that I've been anticipating for quite some time are released! They are Coldplay's Everyday Life and Hindia's Menari Dengan Bayangan. Here goes.

Great Music of November

- Everyday Life by Coldplay (album)

- Menari Dengan Bayangan by Hindia (album)

- Blue Coloured Mountain EP by Szymon

- Bloodflow by Grandbrothers

- When Love Awaits by HMGNC

Song of The Month: Everyday Life by Coldplay and Secukupnya by Hindia

Okay shall not talk much about the songs. But yes as mentioned from last month's post, I've been very excited for new Coldplay album! And well, everytime they're releasing a new album I'm always stoked haha. Come to think of it I've been listening to them for the past 14 years now. How can I not be excited for a new album haha. I would say this double album is pretty good. Like I think it's one of Coldplay's best work. AROBTTH is still my favourite album from them tho heh.

But I just love the whole message behind the album, and their promos have been very interesting too! I think we might get another album soon next year. I've been reading some articles saying that they might be releasing a new one next year. Just like what they did for Ghost Stories and AHFOD releases.

And Hindia's new album is also pretty damn good. Definitely one of my top 5 of the year I'd say! I just discovered him about a month ago I think. I didn't know that it's the solo project of .feast vocalist haha. The video for Secukupnya appeared on my recommended tab and when I first listened to it... I actually cried haha. I think this song (or the album) reflects my life in the recent years a lot.

I wish you can understand Indonesian because the words are awesome really. 

Alright that's all for now. Damn it, the year is coming to an end. Again.

Menari Dengan Bayangan

So I just listened to Hindia's debut album called Menari Dengan Bayangan (Dancing With The Shadow) which is released tonight (it's past 12 AM now heh). Wow. I'm just blown away. I think this is an incredible album. I feel like I have found a piece of me that I've been searching for a long time. Thank you Baskara for this masterpiece. I think a lot of people will find solace in this album.

I discovered Hindia recently after discovering .feast, and in fact I didn't know Hindia is Bas' solo project haha. Was a bit confused at first but yep I ultimately found out that Bas is .feast's vocalist and Hindia is his solo project. I really hope to see him live one day! I really enjoy this album. His songs are amazingly... Empowering but at the same time also comforting. It really made me feel less alone.

Once again thank you Bas for this beautiful album. I hope you do take care of yourself too.

Would like to end with one of my favourite lines from Mata Air

Mata airmu ada di sini

Mata airmu diri sendiri

Temukan makna hidup mu sendiri

Menarilah dengan bayangan diri sendiri

Standby

Okay so sorry for not blogging for a long time. Lots of things happened... Okay not exactly a lot of things, just one. My dad fell sick for the past week. It was quite serious that he had to be put on IV drips and administered with antibiotics for this whole week! Thankfully he's so much better on Saturday. Still weak but better than the whole of last week. And today he's off-IV and feeling much better.

Well basically he developed a secondary infection. I think it was a viral infection first (on last-last Saturday (16/11). He had a recurring fever and it was on and off. And he's like getting better, then the fever returns and so on. We ordered a blood test and his leucocytes level was normal. Suspected of dengue or typhoid fever but both went negative as well (twice). But for the whole of last week his fever didn't subside. So on Thursday he went for more blood test and his leucocytes and neutrophils increased! So doctor suspected a following bacterial infection and... Thus antibiotics.

And yup after finishing his dose of anticiotics, he's much better on Saturday. So I'm glad everything turned out fine! I was just really worried when his fever didn't go away. Cause my dad never has fever for more than 2 days-ish heh. He usually gets well after 1-3 days, and be normal again.

The human body is amazing but it can be scary too I guess. Take care of yourself folks.

Endgame

We're left with 6 and a half more weeks to the end of 2019 and... Can I finish writing 100 entries here?! That's a question haha. I'm currently also struggling to fill up my journal even though I'm confident that I will be able to do it! I have plans for the endgame. Wow sounds so Avengers haha. 

Actually sadly speaking... I might not continue blogging next year. I mean I will still blog, but not as often as I used to. I'm still going to aim for 50 posts a year. And I hope to continue keeping this blog alive. I really don't wanna abandon you. You've been a friend of mine for the past 11 years!

Also I'm just keeping my English skill up to standard. I realise sometimes it's kind of deteriorating already heh, I forget a few words and so on. So blogging is one way where I can keep it alive too. And yeah I just want to keep on writing until I can't write anymore. There will be a huge change next year!

The endgame is coming. Lets finish good.