city cat...miiaaauuuu....

Assalamualaikum....

*big grin* I'm just sooo happy this morning, I don't know why. 

Wait....I think I know why, it's because all the things happened in my life, things that happened in my past and things happened recently. It's all beautiful..I'm so blessed, Alhamdulillah.

One thing that always makes me happy is meeting my friends, whenever, wherever...

And yesterday I met my friends Edwar and Sri in Melbourne (that's one of the reasons why I feel happy).

I actually came to Melbourne to fix my phone, then Sri and Edwar agreed to kindly accompany me to the city..hehe..you are the best guys!!

Well..as usual, we met at the station. I was a bit late because the rail way is under construction so I have to get the bus to get there.

Anyway, we met at the station with empty stomach, so we decided to buy some breakfast.

 We had our breakfast at the Yarra bank

That's Edwar busy with his "bala-bala jepang" hihii...

Sushi and okonomiyaki for breakfast..yuumm...

Well, we actually planed to go to some places on that day...Melbourne botanical garden, Aurea sky deck, and doing window shopping that usually end up in salvos..hehe..

But the city cat was soo tempting...and the weather was just perfect for the city cat..sunny and clear.

 the city cat

look at the blue sky...

and the birds

So, we decided to buy the ticket, it cost $25. The tour guide was speaking so fast that we couldn't really catch what he was saying. He's like bla..bla..bbla..(dan kita ngangguk2 aja pura2 ngerti..haha). And we just realized that the trip took two hours to go to the port and going back. Wwoooww...that's pretty worthy for $25.

so here we are

me, edwar, and sri

 the port

me with the city cat...miaauuu...

After that we walked down to the city to find "happy mobile shop" to take my phone, it's on Lonsdale street. The owner is Chinese and he has strong Chinese accent. He said that the phone can't be fixed, I asked what's his suggestion and he said just buy a new one. Hadeeehhh...

Then we had lunch @pa'e...it used to be our fav resto but they took soooo long to serve the food so we missed the train to the city and I missed the train to go home..what a pity..

I was so worry because I might get home too late and it might be dark already, and you don't want to walk home in the dark in freezing temperature.

I got no phone, and it's dark, what you can do is only praying, so hopefully you get home safely. And it didn't take long for Allah to answer my prayer. I met a lady at the station..we walk together, we chat and I found out that she knew my host family and she offered me a lift. Alhamdulillah...

that's it..that's how things happen...beautifully arranged..thank you Allah..You are the best. :)

Book of Life

I don't really like to write. I've never had any diary book in my life. It just kinda hard for me to express how I feel, but a very good friend of mine, she told me about "Book of Life". So it's not sort of the diary where you need to write everything, just take some pictures, stick some things that might be important to you, say a few words, do some drawings and that's all. Well, it's actually like the scrap book. I like this idea, so when you look at the book, you can remember how you feel at that time.

that's her...my dearest wieka

We took that picture about two days before I left to Australia, and that's the day when she told me about the idea of making the book stuff during my journey

We had a very nice dinner that night, talked about our dreams, promised each other to keep in touch, laughed..laughed..and laughed.... :D

Yapp..I'm staying in Australia now, for a year. I'm leaving at the beginning of the year on 2012 and I'll come back to Indonesia next year, Insya Allah. I've never been away from home before, except for KKN, which is only 40 days and yes..my mom visited me couple of times. So it's HUGE!! :D But I'll be fine cause I got lots and lots supports from people I love and love me as well, even from someone that I haven't met before.

It's a letter from Miss Ana and I have no idea who Ana is. 

And this is what she said on the letter.

Dear Riana..

We were born as a great package with great purpose in life...

That's why we have free will. We control our destiny because we have the power to control our attitude... 

Choose what is right based on what you think is right without making other at lost...

And in the end, you know you are the ruler of your life...

Be ambiguous...

Be vague...

Be gray...

Be neutral and never take sides...

Because every story always has two sides...

Be you...always be yourself cause everyone else is taken, no use to be somebody else...

Be happy, be grateful, be amazingly blessed because LIFE IS AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL.

Isn't it just nice when someone you completely don't know write that kind of thing for you?! 

Isn't it nice to feel the love even from the one you  haven't met before?!

Well Miss Anna is actually wieka's new friend at the office. Wieka told me how inspiring she is, so lively, so positive, so optimistic. She such a woman with big heart. She has traveled a lot, and she put all her stories on her scarp book which finally become our inspiration to travel, see the world, and share it with others.

and that's what wieka wrote to me

Dear you,

It's been nice to have you this past six months. So many stories we shared, sad, happy, even weird story about my ex :p

I'm gonna miss you so many much...

Take care there...

See you next year with our new life...

Don't forget to text...

Try to speak to the strangers and share it with me...

Let's enjoy the life because we are life enjoy-er!

Au revoir my riana

Love you

Wieka...

hehe..sorry I wrecked the letter and there's sticky tape on it..

maklum nilai kerapihan wktu SD dapet C -,-

 and I've already find the perfect book for the project.

look at the tiny tittle on it, it says "the journey" :)

that's me, anit, and wieka...

she came very early in the morning to say goodbye before "I supposed to leave"

and there's a story behind that quote mark...hehe :D

catch you up latter guys..thank you for the friendship and lesson all my friends..especially you dear wieka
let's spread the love!!