A Home For My Thoughts

This is an easy post about multicultural marriage (or relationship). Take it as entertainment if you are in the same situation as ours 😆 
Differences always fascinate me. Then I am married to someone from a different culture. It's challenging but also fun at the same time, here's why:
One becomes grammar nazi and one becomes grammar police. 
I can say that he is a kind of polyglot and I speak 4 languages daily (most Indonesians are bilingual already 😉). But we talk to each other in English because my Dutch is super broken, his Bahasa Indonesia is much better than my Dutch but we usually use it for ordering foods in when we are in Indonesia only.
So as a fluent English speaker, he always corrects me when I got it wrong. That's totally okay. Only it is not that okay when he did it during the fight 😂 Like how could you do that during the fight? Though I sometimes correct his Bahasa Indonesia when he tries to talk in Bahasa here, ordering something or trying to impress local pe…

"Wah emas lagi tinggi nih, gw jual gimana?"
"Trus kalo dijual mau dialokasikan kemana dananya? Udah tertarik saham?"
"Nggak juga sih, ya buat beli emas lagi aja ntar kalo udah turun"

Lak mbulet ae koyok entut 😂

Investasi itu bukan perihal ikut-ikutan lho. Ya gapapa ngikut investasi tapi pastikan profil resikonya sesuai dengan diri sendiri. Jangan pernah samakan profil resiko kamu dengan orang lain. Kalau ada yang nanya gw selalu tanya profil resikonya apa dulu. Masa iya yang konservatif langsung investasi saham? Ya mabok 😅


Ada tiga jenis profil resiko: konservatif, moderat, progresif.

Sesuai namanya, konservatif ya yang nggak mau terlalu beresiko. Maunya hidup tenang, tidur nyaman, nggak dihantui mimpi "Woi investasi lu lagi turun, jual-jual sana daripada makin rugi lhoooo." Biasanya jenis ini maunya yang pasti-pasti aja macem deposito. Tentu saja sesuai prinsip investasi, kalau maunya yang aman yaaaa return juga baliknya dikit.

Jenis kedua adala…

How are you doing guys? A few weeks ago I went for groceries shopping and I thought that I needed to visit the beach after 2 months. The supermarket I went to was a few mins from the regular beach so ... here's some pictures I got that day. It was empty almost in every spots.




Mask on

It is allowed to be naked with mask on 

some broken English, guys 
waiters were waiting for sunset as they had no customers in the restaurant









I hope you enjoy the pictures here 😉 Have a good day 🌞

I can feel the butterflies in my belly whenever I think about being married to someone I love. 
There's always room for agree to disagree, different opinions, bad times, rough times, pains, and any other unpleasure times. But there are always more and more space for pleasurable times.  Marriage is always challenging since day one. How can it be not challenging when you try to communicate what's in two different heads into one compromise that both can accept? But that's the beauty of commitment, I guess.

I am grateful for what we have now. Nothing can beat it.

Dear husband, thank you for staying with me with all of my stubbornness and cuteness (for sure), through all of these ups and downs. I know it is not easy but you always surprise me in an unimaginable way. 
Dear myself, thank you for always trying harder and not giving up easily to make it work. I know you can do it. You're a tough one. 
Dear us, let's make it work for many years to come. Let's grow old t…

Aduh portofolio saham gw anjlog men, gara-gara covid-19. frangipani
Sounds familiar? Itu yang gw dengungkan sejak akhir Februari!! 😂

Sejak covid-19 menyerang, itu virus bener-bener ganas banget. Bukan cuma manusia yang disasar, tapi juga pasar saham di seluruh dunia. Gw lagi pantau akhir-akhir ini pasar US dan Kanada karena urusan kerjaan, eh nggak jauh beda juga nasibnya. IHSG sampai berdarah-darah tak terkira hingga pasar sempat ditutup karena turun 5%.

Dulu waktu krisis 98, gw masih SD kelas 1. Yang gw tau saat itu, yang gw ingat saat itu, TV rame protes dan kekacauan. Mamak gw ngeluh karena harga beras jadi super nanjak banget. Tapi yaa apa sih yang anak usia 7 tahun pahami tentang krisis moneter kala itu? Toh gw masih tetep jajan, masih tetep main, makan enak.

Nah, waktu kemarin IHSG seanjlok itu, gw tiba-tiba galau mikir duit cadangan ada berapa, aset ada berapa, hutang ada berapa, stok beras, stok indomie, segala-gala gw itungin. Ya ampun, mungkin ini yang dirasain nyak babe gw…

Ganesha, my favo dewa. Taken by H.
This year is my first year to experience Nyepi. As we all know, the virus is still going on and we are advised to stay home until further notice. I've been staying home since mid March and doing my work from home. Yes, I am lucky enough to have this chance.

I expected my first Nyepi would be watching Ogoh-ogoh a day before Nyepi but the festival were postponed until August. Yea, so what can we do?

The landlord texted to inform some things related Nyepi, about the do's and dont's. I thought the internet would be turned off but the wifi and my provider didn't turn off the internet. So I was lucky, I can still work and connect to the world lol.


Everything was so quiet. I left my bed at 10 am, took shower, made breakfast then started to read the news and anything to wake my mind up. I started to work a little bit then I heard some noise from the back of the house. I thought people next door were doing something. I walked closer and found …

Sembari membuang kebosanan karena gw di rumah aja dan nggak berani beli makanan via online padahal gw udah kangen nasi kuning ambon, nasi campur bali, nasi sembarang kalir aku kangennn tapi yaaaa udah tahan dulu tahan!!!!

Jadi tiba-tiba pagi ini gw dan Frontsummer lagi ngobrolin soal negara-negara di Eropa perihal social distancing ini. Karena di desa-desa kecil di Eropa sana kan jarak rumahnya udah kayak orang musuhan gitu kan. Jauuuuhh banget. Trus ada yang nyamber, "Iya gapapa jauh-jauhan ntar bisa buka warung pecel samping rumah."

Nah... jadilah bahas makanan dan harganya di Eropa sana. Karena gw kemarin ke Geneve, masih kebayang banget ya tuhan mahalnya makanan di sana. Ini bukan gw bandingin konversi ke IDR lho ya. Ini bandingannya negara Eropa lainnya.

Sarapannya orang Geneve mirip orang Prancis karena emang mepet Prancis dan mereka pun berbahasa Prancis. Bagi beberapa orang yang tinggal di sana bilang kalau Genf itu so France minded lol. Rata-rata cafe menyediakan pa…

Ya nggak tau makanya gw nanya 😂

Gw udah seminggu lebih nggak keluar rumah kalo nggak belanja, udah mulai bosen banget. Kerja dari rumah sih, tapi yaaa begitulah. Bosen juga ternyata nggak ngeliat dan berinteraksi dengan manusia lainnya.

Kemudian gw liatin foto-foto di folder gw yang masih di HP waktu ke Saleve. Trus mikir, "Gimana ya rasanya tinggal di desa kecil gini?" Ya meskipun desa kecil, akses internet ya udah oke lah. Tapi karena masih yaaaa sabtu minggu nggak ada yang buka si toko-toko ini, bener-bener weekend khusus untuk waktu di rumah bareng keluarga. Gw pernah tau, ini cerita di Jerman begini dulu. Tapi ternyata ya Swiss pun begitu (Mall hari minggu tutup), ternyata Saleve ini juga gitu.

Saleve ini desa kecil yang ada di perbatasan Swiss. Jadi udah masuk Prancis, tapi 30 menit aja naik bus dari Geneve. Desanya terletak di puncak gunung ini. Pohon-pohon hijau yang muterin gunung itu, jalan yang bisa di akses mobil juga.




Jalan menuju puncak, yang mengelilingi gunu…