What will you do if you love someone?

Barusan aja, pertanyaan itu muncul di pikiran gue. Mungkin itu sebuah pertanyaan sentimentil, galau, rapuh, labil, atau apalah itu disebutnya, but seriously, WHAT will you do if you love someone?
Mungkin ada yg bakal jawab “Bego lu yu. Ya kalo gue cinta ya gue bilang lah.”
Yang lain mungkin bilang “Ya kalo gue cinta gue bilang, lalu tunjukkin rasa cinta gue ke dia. Talk less do more, men.”

Terus, gitu doang?
Bilang cinta, buktiin, berkorban, menyayangi, blah blah. Mungkin itu semua sudah, atau at least ada yang sudah kita lakukan. Tapi, apa cuma itu?
Sebenernya apa yang mesti lo lakuin saat lo jatuh cinta sama seseorang? Nyatakan cinta kah? Beli bunga kah? Doain dia tiap hari kah? Ajak kencan kah? Sebenernya, apa tolok ukur cinta yang sesungguhnya?

Well, gue sendiri pun kesulitan ngejawab pertanyaan ini. Kita nggak tau kapan perasaan itu dateng, atau pergi. Tapi mungkin yang gue tau, dan gue yakini… Cinta itu sakral. One does not simply said love to anybody they attracted to. However, life doesn’t come with a manual book, so does love. So I guess I’ll search the answer by myself. The journey is still looooong way to go.

How about you guys…. What will you do if you love someone?

Just a Few Words..

Jakarta. Kamu.
Kombinasi yang unik seperti roller coaster.
Ingin mengenal, tapi terlalu kencang dia berlari.
Tetap didatangi, dijalani, meski takut.
Pengaman tak seberapa, tapi bisa bertaruh jiwa.
Aku tau itu, tapi aku mencoba.

Little Angel..

Aku membayangkan diriku sebagai seorang wanita berperut besar dengan malaikat kecil di dalamnya,
Yang menendang nendang kecil, mengisyaratkan.
Haru menyeruak menyadari ada hadiah besar di dalam diriku, hadiah besar dari Tuhan karena sudah mencintai kamu.

Dan aku membayangkan kamu menggeletak manja di sampingku,
Menyesak, seolah cemburu karena malaikat kecil sudah merajai diriku..
Bermanja kepala di atas dada, merasakan detak jantungku
Tanganmu pun tak bisa diam, menggoda menanti malaikatmu bereaksi…..

Dan dia menendang. Satu kali.
Kau melonjak senang, mulai menceracau berbicara dengan perutku.
Dan dia menendang. Dua kali.
Ciuman manis kau daratkan ke perut buncit yang hampir meledak. Kau tertawa.

Lalu satu pelukan yang hangat, dalam.
Aku mencintaimu.

Oh how I love Japan! - Jakarta Japan Matsuri

Another Japanese festival I volunteered. Jakarta Japan Matsuri, 2011.

LOVELY day, lovely memories!

Oh how I love Japan! - Ennichisai Matsuri

Taking Japanese literature major, I've seen so many different kinds of reaction because of what I chose to study. Here in Indonesia, people tend to see Arts and Literature major as a "Easy-you-dont-have-to-go-to-college-to-study-that" kind of major. How about your country? Is it the same or what? Feel free to share with me! :*

But there's also people who incredibly amazed knowing that I take Japanese literature major, and I really really respect that :')

Japan? Talking about this country, you don't forget their cultural festival called Matsuri. Like Balinese people, Japanese people have so many kinds of matsuri, even in every shrine/city/region, the matsuri is different. Japanese people in Jakarta are also held matsuri every year. I've been volunteered in some matsuri in Jakarta, one of em is called "Ennichisai Matsuri" or Little Tokyo at Blok M Square.

The traditional clothes called Happi. I look like a child! Lols

With one of my best friend, Anti. We're lifting a portable shrine called Mikoshi, and its super heavy! 

The Giant Omikoshi. Of course the man lift this, its 3times heavier than woman's!

We had fun and be able to communicate with Japanese people in Indonesia. It was so much fun!

That's me at Ennichisai Matsuri 2011, volunteered as a Omikoshi lifter. This year, another Ennichisai Matsuri was held at 30 June-1 July 2012. I was going to volunteering again, but then my friend offered me a great job as a Japanese interpreter (which is also for Ennichisai Matsuri), so I picked the job, lols!
Oh how I love what I do. Will talk to you soon about another festivals!

Kiss from IndonesiaXOXO

Ayu

Internships!

Now that I'm at my 6th semester on college, I'm kinda started to freak out.
I mean, really, nobody is ready to be an adult. Being adult sucks. You gotta get job, you gotta get married, have a baby, keep happy, keep faithful, and you struggling so much to have a happy life so that other people don't call you a loser.
Sometimes I wonder why would an adult have to do that?
Well, now I'm starting to understand why. Because when we're an adult, we started to care. We started to care about our future, our happiness, people that we love, because we want to make everthing alright.
Because we want to be a responsible person :)

Enough with the drama, now lets get real!

Now I'm in a internship program at Halo Jepang!, a website from Jakarta Shimbun (Japanese newspaper for Indonesia)
Giving people in Indonesia informations all about Japan, in Bahasa Indonesia. I work as a translator (Japanese-Bahasa Indonesia)
and a content writer. And its a Japan office so its full of Japanese. It's kinda shaky and nervous when I have to talk to them or when they ask me questions.
This is exciting and feels great to know how the real work situation is. And being team with my friends..

You guys wanna take a look at my work? Please just kindly visit: http://www.halojepang.com/
Or you can just jumped on those articles that I wrote:
Parade Funatogyo, Pertama Kalinya dalam 54 Tahun Disaksikan di Tokyo Sky Tree
Lomba Makan Soba Tercepat Digelar di Kota Nikko, Prefektur Tochigi
Tigon Luncurkan Sepatu Olahraga "Lazer Beam" Khusus Wanita
NHK Tayangkan Serial Animasi "Ginga e Kickoff!!" Tentang Kecintaan Anak Terhadap Sepakbola
Ayo Memasak! Mitarashi Dango
Nikmati Pemandangan Bunga Bakung di Area Ski Dataran Tinggi Nasu, Tochigi
Honda Luncurkan Kendaraan Unicycle Pertama di Dunia
Resepsi Pernikahan Yaguchi Mari-Nakamura Masaya Diselenggarakan di St. Grace Cathedral, Tokyo
Ayo Memasak! Horenso Tappuri Chahan
Nakama Yukie Menjadi Pembawa Acara Variety Show "Nazo no Kyoudai Seibutsu o Ou~ Nakama Yukie Ogasawara no Umi o Yuku"
"Momoiro Clover Z 24 Jikan Daihousoudaze!", Program Spesial Momoiro Clover Z yang Akan Tayang Selama 24 Jam
TOEI Luncurkan "Kamen Rider Fourze THE MOVIE!" & "Tokumei Sentai Go Busters" dalam Waktu Bersamaan
Penyanyi Top Jepang di Era 80an, Matsuda Seiko Menikah Untuk ke-3 Kalinya


Internship is fun! :D
So sorry with for the boring long post about work, but I do feel excited and proud of what I've done.
See you soon on another post, ciao!

Kisses from Indonesia! AyuXO :*

I'M BACK! Like.. Really back!

BLOOOOOGGGGEEERRRRRSSS!!
Its been suuper so long since my last post. Like what, 2010?!
I really owe this blog a gigantic apology, which I promise I'll pay for being such a crappy blogger.

Well here we go...
There's certainly a looot of things going on since the last time I wrote on this blog. I broke up with my boyfriend (now my ex) not so long after my last post, but then I got in a relationship with a great guy.. But then we broke up  because he has to concentrate on his final project.
So.. Now I'm a single lady now. Celebrating life! XD

College is fun. I volunteered in some big Japanese festivals, I can keep maintain my GP above 3.00. I still sing, write, dance, fashioning, and I do some photoshoot for my amazing fashion line project "Walks In Beauty". Life has been really wonderful and I can't wait to share it to you guys! And just so you know, seems I'll write some posts with Bahasa Indonesia, but I do still hoping that you guys will always be supporting me and my blog.


Gotta go. See you very soon!

Kisses from Indonesia
AyuXO