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¡Hola! ¿Que tal? ¿Bien?
Me llamo Erwita Ivana Muthia. Yo estudio en mechanica de ingeniería en Universidad de Indonesia :)


Well, well, tadi itu sekilas perkenalan dalam bahasa Spanyol yang saya pelajari. Semenjak ambil les bahasa Spanol (habla en español), saya jadi mulai sering baca kamus bahasa Spanyol buat memperbanyak kosa kata (ya iyalah weceeeeeee =.=) hahahha. Kaku banget ya kaya anak sekolah. 

Basically, bahasa spanyol itu hampir mirip dengan sister languange nya yaitu English. Perbedaannya ga terlalu banyak. Jadi mudah dipelajarinya. Guru les saya, el señor Advent, is a fun teacher. karena udah pernah kuliah di Spanyol jadi bahasa spanyolnya ngalir banget dan mudah dicerna. Yang lucunya, secara di kelas saya banyakan perempuan daripada lakinya, el señor Advent sering ngasih peribahasa Spanyol yang lebaynya ampunnnnnnnnnn gombalnya.. Hahahaha..

Salah satu contohnya : Si mirarte es un pecado, entonces debo estar en el infierno yang artinya : If to look at you is a sin, then i must be in hell. Wedeeew, dengernya gimanaaaa gitu.. hahahahha. Tapi kalo saya lebih milih surga daripada neraka. Jadi kalo versinya saya : Si mirarte es un regalo, entonces debo estar en el paraíso (If to look at you is a gift, then i must be in paradise)... Ejieeee... Gombal gila.. hahhaha.

Ga berasa nih, les bahasa spanyol saya udah hampir 3 bulan, jadi udah mo selese. Weekend ini bakal jadi minggu terakhir belajar sebelum minggu depannya ujian. Semoga ujiannya bisa terlewati dengan lancar. 

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Well, these few days saya lagi ga banyak kerjaan, malah bisa dibilang emang magabut aja,aka MAkan GAji BUTa hehehehhe :p. Walhasil, daripada nganggurin internet dengan kecepatan tinggi dan tanpa lock ke seluruh situs, jadilah saya mulai searching tentang wedding reception cost and preps. Kenapa udah mulai search dari awal 2014? tidak lain karena saya harus mulai budgetin gaji per bulan buat mulai save up untuk the dream day when i could be the queen for 3 hours hahahaha.

Hum hum.. beberapa minggu yang lalu saya udah coba ngobrolin ama mami soal kemungkinan pernikahan, soalnya si abang juga udah mulai nyinggung-nyinggung, meskipun sebatas becandaan aja. And turn out, my very lovely mother ngusulin dirumah aja. WHATTTT??? nikahan di rumah?? Oooohh nooooooo. Bukan apa-apa atau sok kaya, tapi saya ga suka kalo acara nikahan dirumah secara nikahan dirumah itu waktunya bisa seharian, udah gitu ngebloking jalan depan rumah (yang mana bisa menyebabkan tetangga rada-rada bete,-> saya sendiri suka sebel kalo tetangga ada kondangan dan bikin jalan ditutup :p), tempatnya sempit, repot masak delelel. No way baby, there is no way i want to held a wedding reception in my home (kecuali kalo terpaksa banget). Lalu mami tersayang nanya, "Kalo kamu nikahan digedung biayanya pasti gede, mami & papa ga bakal sanggup biayainnya". Njleebb njlebb njlebb. Wah wah wah...

Next thing is, saya mulai searching dan ngitung-ngitung kira-kira berapa biaya menyelenggrakan pernikahan di gedung. Dari yang saya temuin, paling murah butuh biaya 56 juta untuk 600 tamu (equals to 300 invitation) dengan makanan sebiasanya dan kemungkinan pelaminan yang sebiasanya pula, belom termasuk bayar gedung, souvenir nikah, acara akad, bayar penghulu dan bla bla bla. Woow, very pricey. Dan wajar aja, secara kalo sekarang ini segala macem biaya naek. Mulai dari harga gas, bahan makanan, baju dan segala detail kecil yang memusingkan kepala.. hahahaha.

Oversince, saya mulai menabung gila-gilaan. Lebih dari 60% penghasilan masuk tabungan, plus, i took another part time job, so i can buy my own dream wedding reception (sedihnyooo, huks huks). Tapi saya ga mau ngeluh, yang namanya keinginan dan harapan, maka ada harga yang harus dibayar. Jadi saya rela ngorbanin weekend untuk pekerjaan kedua saya dan mangkas pengeluaran secara drastis. And since i will be the one that pay for my own wedding, saya harap ga ada interupsi dari mami atau papa untuk kemungkinan tamu yang saya  undang. Dan semoga ga perlu ngundang orang-orang aneh yang saya ga kenal, tapi entahlah, secara mami itu pesohor disana sini, bakal alot kayanya nentuin daftar tamu.. hahahha. I don't know about it yet. Tapi saya harap saya bisa egois ga perlu ngundang temen-temen mami yang segudang. Aamiin..

Helloha People! J

Let me introduce myself.

My name is Erwita Ivana Muthia. I am recently graduated from Universitas Indonesia, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Previously i am working as a consultant at PT. Potenza Putra Makara. An engineering consultant company owned by my Lecturer, Mr. Adi Surjosatyo. Right now i am working as Marketing Engineer at PT. Prowell Energi Indonesia. A private national company specializing in Wireline Manufacture and Bottomhole Pressure Tools/Downhole Tools. I also a certified Internal Auditor of this company, as we are one step closer to be certified with API standard. This company that i work for, is a high quality company, with the staffs and founders who are expertise more than 30 years in Wireline. We are also sole agent (in Indonesia) for some of the High Quality Tools, like D&D, BNT and Peak Well Services.

Well, that's my official introduction as a worker. But i also have another introduction. 
My name is Erwita Ivana Muthia, I am an engineer, a teacher, an alumni of UI, a daughter, but Best of All, I Am A Moslem J

This actually just something  wrote for fun. Not to mention specific person hehehehe :p
Little letter :

Maybe there is no such thing as eternal happy ending, but at the end of the day, i know you're the one i can find my peace. A sincere smile that brings happiness in my life.

I wanna be with you, sharing the good and bad times. Walking hand in hand, hugging the secret world that only we know. We careless of other things.

Just simply you and me..

This is what happen when you got to come to work and yet you have no work to do and the internet really have high speed. You just want to updating your blog..hahhahaha :D

Winda lagi galau, secara percobaan pertama pake serat pisang punya winda :D

Ngebersihin pompa yang mandek kena serat nanas punya ka tice

Photo session ngilangin bete di kosan winda

And all the stress leads to madness..hahaha :D

Senyum lagi dag dig dug

Before thesis exam. What a stiff smile

Finally!! GRADUATION! HOORAAAYYYY

It's not that i am not grateful enough for the life i've been living,but... sometimes i can't help but to feel lazy, for example like today. It''s really blue sky outside and i wished to be there instead of staying and sitting in the office.

People rush all over the town
tick tock tick tock,
the clock says
as he reminds them of day to start

I found myself become one of those people
rushing everyday
running to catch the train, hurrying to get the bus
whoa! what a busy morning

this journey is already started
make the best of it
or either crush it

life is so short,
So let's live the life the life to the fullest!!

It's raining outside as i am writing this post. It's almost 3 months since my graduation ceremony and i got to leave campus things behind to start a new journey. Yes i am going to enter the "work life" in this company. Just this morning i read novel anne from summerside. After i read it, i found that life in 1900s were so simple.

A nice work environment with greeneries and simple tasks, no traffic, no rush people. Well, i wish that i can go back and live at that time. Traffic is really crazy these days and i can't help but to wish to be transferred to other less-crowded city or town.

Anyway, i got to be passionate with the new job and do a great work. Fightinggggggggg!!!!!! 

Kiluan Bay, Lampung

Peaceful Afternoon at Kiluan Bay

Twilight

Deep Twilight

I wrote this poem as the gratitude expression deep within my heart. There were times when i walked alone in Universitas Indonesia. Many times, actually, i walked around UI in afternoon untill it turns to twilight. The view in the sky was undeniably beautiful with swishing wind on my face. And i feel grateful for Allah's bless, that i made it this far. For the uncountable bless, even when it appears as moderate beauty in UI :))

I actually wanted to put picture of UI's sky that turned to twilight, but unfortunately, my camera could not captured it perfectly, besides, it's kinda not romantic putting pictures of UI in  this poem hehehehe. Therefore, i'd like to thank my friend, Yugo Bittriano for allowing me to put his pictures for this poem. The photos were taken in Kiluan Bay, or better known as Lampung's Dolphin Bay. I hope you guys like it ^^

Burning Heart

Well, it's been quite sometimes not updating my blog. But yeah, there's nothing i can do about it. Since this november has become a restless month. Really, i have no free time at all. I got to teach from morning to night, helping my lecturer with his project and ultimately i got to finish my Final Project in Universitas Indonesia. Oh Allah, please help me pass the exam soon. Can't wait to graduate from UI. I actually feel a lill bit sad of leaving UI, because this campus has been my second home for 5 years now. So many stories and events had passed my way. So many uncountable lessons that i learn (why suddenly tears almost flowing from my eyes?? :'[ )

One of my lecturer actually willing to be my benefactor / sponsor for my postgraduate in UI, but i also want to have carrier outside, not for a long time, only for two years. I have to answer his question, about me staying under his guidance or walk on my own path. Oh Allah, i really confuse. Please help me determine the decision, A Postgraduate Student or Employee/Entrepreneur??

credits to : riaupos.co

Tadi pagi (baru beberapa jam yang lalu), saya membaca posting tweet dari adik kelas saya Esti Septianih, yang nge-RT artikel dari Kompas mengenai golongan darah Rhesus negatif. Setelah baca artikel itu, saya langsung tertarik buat ikut gabung berhubung saya sendiri golongan darahnya O-. Buat readers yang barangkali belum tau, berikut uraian singkat mengenai golongan darah Rhesus.

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Well, in my 23 years of living on earth, one of the most important thing i learn is you can't expect life to be too flat or in literally means your life plan may change suddenly and accidentally. Even when you carefully plan your life to certain ways, the x factor is always there. Let's call it as fate.

I am acknowledge myself as a person who carefully arrange each step i take. Because i always believe good preparations bring good result too. But as i learn, God plays a major role in creating the plan to be true or God may change the plan into something else. Or in third alternative, God delayed the plan because maybe it is not the right time to fulfill it.

Recently, i am confuse of what road should i take. I am about to graduate soon from mechanical engineering UI and i actually love to pursue my education to higher level. But then when i read all terms in UI, i found the postgraduate program is pretty expensive, it's about 24 million rupiahs in the first term. If i can finish my program in 2 years, it'll cost me 48 million rupiahs in total. Whoa! Where i can get that lots of money? I can't ask my parents to fund my college nor i have sufficient money.

One of my lecturer offers me to be my financial supporter. But still, i can't rely fully on my lecturer's kindness. I just don't wanna be a free loader. I must be able to stand on my feet. Then i apply for scholarship abroad, but they afford me only half of the school tuition. Oh my.. i feel like my plan slowly shattered into pieces.

And suddenlly when i thinking to add alternatives to my plan, suddenly i came up with some ideas. Well, if i can't pursue my college now, then maybe i should rearrange it. So now, i have a better view on how my llife would be or should be.

1. After graduating from UI, i wanna go travelling to Phuket (a must do!)
2. I will apply for job and hopefully it'll be a good one
3. While maintaining my new carrier, i will take a pastry cooking school in saturday.
4. If it's smooth, then i'll start my own bussiness in pastry. But in short term only as a part time job.
5. Bit by bit, i shall save money to take hospitality and culinary school abroad.
6. After i graduate from school, i gotta open my own store.
7. I quit my job, establish my store and take postgraduate school in mechanical engineering.
8. I work as lecturer and pastry chef, both in two different field. hehhehe.

pastry chef in future!

Wahh, what a plan! I calculate the plan may take two years. But yeah still have no idea of how the future will be, but one thing for sure, i don't wanna work as full time worker. I don't really interesting in that kind of job. Being a lecturer is my main plan, but the side plan is become an entrepreneur in pastry.

I am really hoping to make it come true. May Allah fulfill my plan... Aamin and Insya Allah. :))

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......... kuliah sudah kembali dimulai. Saat ini saya sedang menyelesaikan semester terakhir Mechanical Engineering di Universitas Indonesia. Berhubung mesti lulus sidang skripsi, hobi jalan-jalan saya pun tertunda. Skripsi, project dosen dan ngajar menuhin hari demi hari saya yang berharga. Kadang saya udah bosen rasanya ngeliat segala macem angka dan itungan ini.

Temen sekelas saya ada yang ngajakin ke Pulau Umang. Dimana itu pulau berada saya juga ga terlalu tau hehehe. Lagi males googlingnya. Waktu itu temen saya snorkelling di pulau umang bareng istrinya. Bukan ama pasangannya yang bikin saya iri tapi laut dan pantainya. Liburan tuh paling seru ke laut daripada ke gunung. Temen saya bikin rencana jelajah pulang umang dan lanjut ke ujung kulon buat kayaking. Gileeeee, denger rencananya bikin mupeng abis. Tapi pas kita udah kumpul semua dikampus rencananya malah batal soalnya transportasinya belum bisa fix..huhuhuhuhu... aku kecewaaaaaaa... hiks.

Kemaren juga ada temen yang ngajakin jalan-jalan bedua. Ga masalah sih, secara saya udah kenal dia dari lama. Seru kali ya kalo bisa jalan bedua temen ke tempat-tempat baru nan eksotis. Jadi belakangan saya sibuk buat searching tiket dan paket liburan ke luar negeri, yah mumpung paspor juga udah dalam genggaman hehhehe :p.

Ada beberapa tempat yang jadi target saya yaitu Singapura, Brunei Darussalam, Phuket dan Halong Bay. Tapi yang paling menarik hati saya adalah phuket karena phuket udah lama jadi tujuan wisata jadi mereka organizenya udah profesional, almost like bali.Setelah saya itung-itung ke phuket kayanya cuma abis 5 juta, itu udah beres semuanya. Tapi masalah waktunya ini lho yang belum jelas soalnya saya belum tau sidangnya kapan. Yaah apalah daya, niat jalan-jalannya baru bakal bisa terlaksana setelah semua urusan kuliah ini selese. Semoga saya bisa lulus secepatnya dan travelling ke Phuket!! Amin, amin, amin, amin dan aamiiiiinnn...

Hari ini menandai sebuah kejadian yang sangaaaaattt penting. Ga penting-penting amat sebenarnya hehehehe.   Hanya sebuah cerita tentang bunga ^^.

Bunga yang pengen saya ceritain beneran bunga tanaman hidup lho, bukan bunga nama samaran untuk seseorang pada kejadian tertentu. Jadi ceritanya pagi ini ketika sedang nyapu teras rumah, ada seorang bapak - bapak penjual bunga yang lewat. Saya awalnya ga terlalu ngeh, agak ragu - ragu juga mau manggil. Tapi kemudian bapaknya berhenti di depan warung yang jaraknya 7 meter dari rumah. Saya pikir ini kesempatan juga buat nanya-nanya harga bunganya.

Bapak yang jual (saya lupa nanya namanya), bawa banyak bunga mawar dan beberapa perdu yang langsung dibeli ama pemilik warung deket rumah saya (sebenernya saya juga ngincer perdunya -,-). Nah yang tersisa ada bunga mawar kuning batik, bunga perdu kecil dan satu bunga lagi yang saya amati nama bekennya hydrangea. Bunga yang terakhir ini warnanya ijo. Kalo kata pemilik warung, namanya bunga mekar seribu soalnya emang bunganya kecil-kecil tapi banyak.

Harga bunga mawar satunya 15 ribu, bunga putih kecil juga 15 ribu dan bunga hydrangea harganya 25 ribu. Dengan bantuan abang ipar yang orang sunda, akhirnya bisa ngelobi penjual bunganya (secara bapaknya juga orang sunda hehehehe). Akhirnya tiga bunga tadi sukses saya boyong dengan harga 32 ribu ajah. Alhamdulillah. Keinginan beli bunga emang udah ada dari lama. Saya senang berkebun dan nanam macem-macem tanaman. Mulai dari pepaya, sirsak, keladi, tales, anturium, lidah mertua sampe belimbing dan jambu ada di rumah. Tapi saya ga pernah punya tanaman bunga, jadi saya selalu mupeng kalo bertamu ke rumah orang yang ada taneman bunganya.

Selain tiga tanaman tadi, saya juga nanya tentang bunga natal atau nama umumnya poisettia, tapi kalo di tukang bunga namanya khas tuba. Saya suka dengan bunga ini, terlepas dari bunga ini sering dijadiin dekorasi natal atau ga, yang jelas saya jatuh cinta dengan warna flaming red-nya. Very beautiful.

Red Poinsettia

the biggest, hydrangea

I wish i could remember the name of this flower

Mawar Batik Kuning

Assalamualaikum Warrahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

Dear Allah, this is the second letter i write to You as my grateful feeling towards You.

Dear Allah, since You always watching me, i know that You knows best for me. Allah, i surely can't pay for each bless You sent on my path. Eventough my married plan already flushed away, but still You keep showing Your love to me, to this weak person.

Allah, yes, You took him from my side for he may not the best person for me and yet You replace the sadness feeling of losing him by pouring me good friends who always stay beside me, accompany me and making me laugh to forget my sorrow.

Both in my tears and my happiness i found You. I cannot fully express how grateful i am now, but to say alhamdulillah for all the time. Eventough at the same time i have this illness inside of me, but knowing and understanding Your love helps me going through this difficult times. At first, i was afraid of dying, that doctor's judgement of my health. But so far, with my faith in You, i'm sure that i can fight this illness. Just as Your promise, within patient, victory shall exist.

God, You show me so many things, taught me the best lesson through daily events. i will never want to lose my faith in You.You the One i trust, The Best Teacher that guides my life.

I wanna live as a true moslem. To breathe in the air of Your Love. Please forgive me of my sins, Dear Allah. I can't live this life wthout Your light shine on me.

The Oft Merciful and The Oft Forgiving.
The Almighty, Allah, i praise You. Be my witness of my act, God..

Setiap langkah kehidupan, apapun kejadiannya, telah tercantum baik dalam Al-Qur'an maupun Al-Hadits. Kali ini saya mau cerita pengalaman sendiri. Cuma untuk sekedar berbagi, ga ada maksud tersembunyi hehehhe.

Alhamdulillah, sejauh ini selama kuliah di UI, saya dipercaya banyak dosen untuk membantu mereka. Tanggapan dari dosen juga cukup baik (kalo di poltek dulu saya "musuhan" ama dosen mesin tapi jadi kesayangan buat dosen energi :p).

Ketika kita push diri untuk melakukan performa terbaik serta antusiasme yang tinggi, akan lebih mudah ntuk mendapatkan perhatian dari dosen. Perhatian disini bukan untuk cari muka lho, tapi tetap dalam konteks untuk belajar lebih banyak. Dosen sangat menghargai mahasiswa yang eager dengan apa yang ada dihadapannya.

Saya pribadi tidak akrab dengan seluruh dosen, tapi sebagian besarnya mengenali saya. Alhamdulillah dari antusiasme itu, beberapa dosen mempercayakan tugas diluar kuliah. Mulai dari tugas menghitung (bikin saya jadi rajin ke perpus), buat ringkasan materi (ini bikin lebih rajin lagi, secara merangkumnya dari banyak buku meskipun ga jarang saya jadi keliyengan saking banyaknya yang mesti disatukan dalam penulisan hehehe), ditugaskan jadi ketua kelas (tugasnya banyak, mulai dari nyiapin spidol, nyari absebsi, absenin temen, ngumpulin tugas, update grup, sms ingetin dosennya, ingetin deadline dsb), dan yang paling baru ini menghitung untuk project dosen pembangkitan daya di RRC.

Alhamdulillah dengan banyaknya kepercayaan ini saya jadi semangat. Menurut saya, kepercayaan itu mahal harganya. Sekali image tercoreng, habislah sudah semua effort yang selama ini dikerjakan. Kepercayaan mendorong saya untuk terus maju "berkarya" lebih baik dan berusaha lebih keras. Saya tidak mau menyianyiakan kepercayaan orang, meskipun saya harus tersandung, terjatuh selama proses pemenuhan amanah tersebut. Yes, i am willing to give you my best performance, Sir.

Ada dua pengalaman yang paling menarik dalam proses penjalanan amanah ini. Pada dosen IIH, saya bukan cuma harus mengurusi kelas tapi diberikan banyak motivasi untuk terus mengembangkan ilmu. Ya, ketika dunia diluar sana begitu luas, kenapa harus berhenti mencari ilmu disini? Baik pak, saya akan teruskan perjalanan mencari ilmu ini.

Sedangkan untuk dosen yang kedua, AS, mempercayakan proyek penelitiannya untuk saya hitung. Pak Dosen malah langsung telp saya untuk meminta bantuan. Saya senang sekali bisa membantu dosen ini, karena mata kuliahnya memang jadi favorit saya, tapi disatu sisi berharap juga semoga bapaknya bisa ngajak saya ke Cina juga buat ikut liat real projectnya. Aaaahhh...tapi entah kapan itu bisa terjadi, saya cuma berharap saja. Yah semoga dengan semangat ini, pintu - pintu menuju masa depan yang cerah terbuka untuk saya. Amiiiinn ya Rabbal Alamin. Semoga Allah memberi jalan kesana.

Belakangan, setelah kembali aktif mengajar dan punya sedikit duit buat bersenang - senang, saya punya 3 kegiatan paling favorit seluruh dunia yaitu travelling, wisata kuliner dan nyalon. Hahahha..kalo dulu pas masih mikir rencana buat nikah, saya ga berani buat sedikit melek ke salon apalagi jalan - jalan ke tempat jauh secara takut mubazir dan mikirnya kalo udah nikah nanti mesti punya tabungan pribadi. And so, ternyata rencana itu buyar, ambles, ambruk di tengah jalan, maka saya pikir ga ada gunanya hidup super ngirit buat hal yang udah pasti diluar jangkauan saya. Maka mulailah saya melirik paketan jalan-jalan (kemana aja boleh, meskipun dalam kapasitas saya sebagai mahasiswa adalah jelajah indonesia dulu hehhehe). Dan jalan-jalan itu emang super asik, ngabisin waktu ama temen, ngelupain beban di belakang, seru-seruan nemuin hal yang baru. What would be the best thig to do but to have an adventure in life? Yuhuuuuuuu..

Aiguuuu...it's been a while since i left Pekanbaru, my hometown. 5 years ago my journey as a college student started here, in Depok and i never go back to Pekanbaru. Not once. Oh my.... lately the feeling of going back there haunting me. Espescially when my newest and youngest niece born. She born in June and till now i can only saw her face from my other niece's mms. Mom said, Callista is a totally beautiful baby girl (her full name is Annajma Callista Zahira). Oh well, mother definately able to raise jealousy over my mind..hhuhuhu..

Yesterday, i went to this market in Eastern Jakarta (i forgot the name of that markt) to buy bicycle for my nephew Razan Isya Permana and i found this stall selling sugar cane juice. Without thinking twice, i instantly bought two glass of it, one for me and another glass for my sister. Well, i bought it not because i was thirsty, but more of the sentimental feeling. When i was a kid, and my family pretty poor back then, my father used to buy me sugar cane juice instead of fruit juices because those juices were pretty expensive, my father could not afford it.

I took a sip of the juice and my head flying away to my hometown. How is Pekanbaru look right now? My sister told me that city has change alot. With new skycrapers, fly over streets, new stadium, new bridge at Siak River and so on. Gosh, i guess i really wanna go back home after lebaran, just to see and taste the originality of my hometown  and maybe if the time adequate, i'd like to go to Maninjau, my parents' hometown. Well, may Allah granted my wish..aminnn...

It's always annoying meeting a person who think she gotta know everything in this world so she started to ask you thousand of questions. Oh please, those kinda people need to get a life. Eventough you answer it in a simplest way, they incredibly able to change your statement into something fully different then burst it to the world.