Sunday, October 4, 2020

TENTANG PANDEMI 2020 & AKU


Halo, semuanya! Apa kabar? Kuharap kita semua baik-baik saja. 
Di post ini, bukan mau menyebarkan aura positif sih, lebih mau ke curhat tentang bagaimana perasaanku menyikapi keadaan sekarang ini. So, buat kalian yang merasa down, please jangan baca dulu untuk sekarang, karena ya mungkin ini bisa membuat kalian lebih down lagi heheh. 

Jadi, aku tuh tipe orang yang suka overthinking. Either in a bad or a good way. Aku menikmati memikirkan hal-hal yang rumit, kadang-kadang suka tiba tiba terlintas dan mempertanyakan hal itu. Oke. Selain itu, aku gak suka sesuatu yang berantakan/gak tersusun/tersistem/terorganisir dengan baik. Padahal aku Pisces, yang katanya paling benci aturan. Justru aku suka sama aturan, jadi jelas mau kemana, mau ngapain, dan apa yang harus dilakukan gitu loh.

Terjadilah si pandemi ini, di seluruh dunia. Tak terkecuali Indonesia. Yang membuat semuanya jadi berantakan. Sampai ke hal hal kecil dalam hidup. Sekarang, kita gak bebas mau bertamu, mau memeluk, mau ngobrol, mau ngapa-ngapain, parno dan serba gak pasti. Mau ngadain acara ini, takut. Mau dateng ke acara sana, takut. Pokoknya serba bingungin dan bikin khawatir berlebih. Nah, ada hari-hari dimana rasanya aku cape banget, ngeliat berita terutama para pekerja medis/nakes yang kasihan dan para pembantu2nya seperti janitor di RS, petugas makam, ambulans, dkk. Terus cape rasanya melihat orang bersedih karena kematian orang terdekat. Kalian cape gak sih, tiap hari harus pergi keluar, beraktivitas dengan dipenuhi dengan kewaspadaan? Disinilah, semuanya dimulai, aku cape harus waspada, cape harus mikir siaga, cape harus khawatir terus setiap hari. Cape harus nahan-nahan ngobrol gak boleh sering, harus pakai masker, cape harus parno pakai hand sanitizer/cuci tangan terus. Rasa-rasanya semua dunia terbalik. Berubah kebiasaannya, ya itulah yang disebut NEW NORMAL. Beradaptasi dengan keadaan baru yang harus diterima. Masalahnya, serba mendadak! Gak dikasi waktu! Tapi bukannya, aku jadi gak mau waspada, dan nantangin si virus yah. Aku akan tetap waspada, dan mengikuti prokes serta tetap menjaga diri sendiri dan orang lain. Cuma cape aja :')

Teruslah aku berpikir-pikir tentang keadaan ini, dan mendapat sebuah analogi tentang kewaspadaan yang belum juga usai usai. seperti:

"MENAIKI SEBUAH TANGGA KAYU YANG REYOT"
 
dimana kamu setiap langkahnya harus berpikir apakah the next step saya aman? Apakah saya akan jatuh? Apakah tangga ini akan keropos? Apa yang harus saya lakukan jika ini jeblos? Apa saya akan selamat? 

Kurang lebih seperti itu lah keadaan anxiety dan perasaan ku selama ini. Iya, dia kadang muncul, kadang enggak. Seperti yang semua orang di dunia ini lakukan, aku cuma bisa berdoa, dan berharap sambil terus menjaga diri. Tidak ke kerumunan, tidak makan dine in, menggunakan masker dengan lapisan tisu lagi, supaya proteksi ganda, dan tidak ngobrol selama tidak benar-benar diperlukan di kantor. Karena aku adalah mereka, para pejuang ceching ceching (alias uang), yang harus punya tubuh extra kuat dan bandel menghadapi ini semua.

Teman-teman, kuharap kita semua tidak menantang virus ini, dan juga tidak lengah. Jangan sekali-kali kita semua merasa kita sehat dan kita bebas dari virus ini. Virus ini membenci siapapun yang menganggap mereka remeh, karena ya memang mereka itu kuat.



xoxo,
Janice

Saturday, April 4, 2020

TERUNTUK DIA SI EMPUNYA DUNIA


Siapalah kami, Manusia, tidak sebesar debu dari mataNya yang singgah di langit yang tingkatnya tidak dapat lagi kami sebutkan.
siapalah kami, Manusia, sehingga Engkau memberikan rupa dan akal budi yang menyerupai Engkau? 

Makhluk yang ditugaskan untuk menguasai Bumi. 
Tapi akhirnya lupa diri.

Ya Tuhan, apa yang telah kami lakukan?
Kami tega menghinaMu dengan mengutuki diri sendiri.
Kami tidak bersyukur atas hidup yang diberikan dengan bunuh diri.
Kami tega membuang hidup yang begitu berharga dan dibuat dengan amat teliti.
Kami makan apa yang seharusnya tidak kami makan.
Kami membuang muka terhadapMu.
Kami menghempaskan pelukan yang Kau berikan.
Kami tidak ingat lagi siapa Engkau, di tengah hiruk pikuk dunia ini.
Kami membangkang ajaranMu dalam indahnya dunia gemerlap.
Kami lupa Tuhan melihat dalam takabur kekayaan kami.

Kami lupa asal diri kami dari debu dan tanah yang tidak berharga di dunia ini. yang disapu orang,
yang dialirkan hujan dan lenyap, yang ditiup angin, yang dibersihkan orang.

Kami terlarut dalam kesombongan atas perintah “Kuasailah Dunia ini dan seisinya.” 
Kami hilang kendali, membabi buta, tidak paham batasannya, tidak tahu apa artinya.
Kami mencuri. Kami mengambil apa yang bukan milik kami, tanpa mengembalikannya.

Kami tertawa di atas tangisMu
Kami tersenyum di atas pedihMu
Kami makan di atas lukaMu
Kami minum di atas lelahMu

Apakah Dia akhirnya lelah? Apakah Dia sudah cukup berurusan dengan kita?
Apakah Dia sudah muak? Apakah ini waktunya pembalasan? Apakah Dia justru takut
terhadap makhluk ciptaanNya sendiri yang digadai-gadai paling jenius di muka bumi? Kata seorang penulis.

Ya Tuhan, palingkanlah mukaMu sekali lagi terhadap kami.
Kami mohon ampun dan tersungkur di kakiMu.
Ya Tuhan berikanlah maaf dari mulutMu,
alirkanlah tangis dari mataMu. 
Lihatlah kami ya Tuhan. Kami hanya punya Engkau.
Ya Tuhan, ulurkanlah tanganMu, lukislah pelangiMu.

Ampuni kami, karena kami tidak tahu apa yang kami perbuat.
Ampuni kami, karena kami akan melakukanya lagi.






photography by : Massimiliano Marosinotto on unsplash.com
location : The Canary Island, Spain

xoxo,
Janice

Saturday, September 21, 2019

ECO WORTHY & HASSLE FREE PAPERLESS POST

One thing people can’t get rid off or will always be on the top list needs is paper. We could list a tons I believe, e.g. textbooks, notes, novels, receipts, menus, books, tissues, marketing kit such as flyers, banners, and not to forget, invitations. Although we knew gadgets already expand their functions to a more paper less products, like e-menus on Restaurants or E-book, still, people tend to feel more comfortable the old ways.

 Another thing is, people won’t stop their tradition of celebrating distinct events, like birthdays, seasonal parties, weddings, anniversaries, and else. As a kid, I used to love receiving cards and invitations, it was so attractive and I really liked the materials, I adored how the messages written by themselves. But now? Everytime I get the invitations, mostly wedding’s, I don’t know what to do after the event? I couldn’t keep them, although they’re beautiful, but I still can’t break a way on how to re – use them? Hence, most of the time, they will just end up in the trash bin or move from one drawer to another.

Nowadays, in this Digital Era – I don’t know the exact year when all the E-invitation webs are spreading like a fungus – and in a more advanced technology and super brainy, they escalate the E-Invitation effectiveness to a higher level which is very amazing. When I found this web – PAPERLESS POST once and pretty much interested, so I kept scrolling to know more about this product. Wow. Yes, the first thing on my mind was, this was genius and was amazingly well created to assist  people, so it would be less worry and less hustling in their celebration parties. You could choose tons of their beautiful designs for every occasions! Either it’s a wedding, meeting, reunion, seasonal greeting, birthday, gathering, luncheon, company holiday, charity, talk-show and anything you can think abou (e.g. sympathy, apologize) they cover it all for you. For a more personal touch, you can choose their custom services (adding your personal photos or messages). They also offer an exclusive design from famous designers such as Rifle Paper Co, Oscar de La Renta, The New Yorker. The other exciting part is you can upload your own design and let them help you create the code/link to share it with your guests.



 




Paperless Post even make your E-Invitations more effective by adding a guest responses for RSVPs or put on requests (allergies, vegetarian, etc.) and you can easily collect the information to discuss a suitable event to your organizer for your lovely guests. Isn’t that something helpful than to call of all your friends, asking them one by one via phone? OH gosh, this well designed web can do it for you. You can save a lot of time for something else. For me, this web is like a one stop online design agency. Letting you select a suited size cards, choosing the theme and how you want your card looks like, or you can talk to them via their design team. They also have blogs for some great tips. Oh! I just forget to let you know, that now they are launching a new product which is FLYERS! Spread your fascinating events or new products by using an E-FLYERS to reduce the town waste!



I know that there will be some people who still need the paper version of their invitations just for some keepsake. But don’t worry, they partnered up with Paper Source.

Perks from using Paperless Post are easily access, it takes no cost to send them out to thousand of peoples, and everyone will get your invitation in no time, without worrying about the shipment time and places. The best part is, it is zero waste and prevent the trees from being cut down. Their work ethics also include respecting the customers that paid for what they love, with no ad sponsors and third parties.


What makes you think twice, right now? Go check ‘em out and let us take a small step to help this Earth! 

xoxo,
Janice

Thursday, September 12, 2019

H O ---- M E



I used to wander the meaning behind 'HOME' in those every single damn sad quotes. 
Either it was a broken hearted one, nor blooming loves. 
I often thought, it was only as simple as I'm comfortable around them, but the more I dig deeper into it, 
it is beyond the word of 'comfortable'. 

Home is where you can rest. You find comfort. You find shelter from the raging world. 
Home is where you grow up. Learn bad things, good things and all in between. 
Home is where you taught to be someone. A place that helps you fight your fears, 
holds your tears, subside your anger, provide you a warm hugs on a windy day. 
Home is where you can express yourself to the fullest, either it's in a good or bad way.
Home witnessed your hard rides, hears your interesting stories yet sad songs you played a
thousand times in your showers. Home is your hiding place, your safest sanctuary, 
yet also your battlefield. It keeps safe your past, celebrate your present and excited for your
future. Home accepted for who you are, it is silence when everyone's being so loud, but it
doesn't always like this type of situation. It scolds you privately. 
Home offers warmth and joy. Home unite and reunite. 
Home is both the first and the last thing on your mind. It will always be your favourite 
hide out, no matter how wrecked, no matter how bad, no matter how small, how cheap, 
but home never leaves its place, it stays and patiently waits whenever you want to come
back. It welcomes you over & over again. It could be rusted, but you can always rebuild. 
It may broke in some part, but you can always fixed.

Home is where your heart is,
where all the magic always happens.


xoxo,
Janice

Thursday, May 23, 2019

8 EXTREMELY SIMPLE WAYS TO ZERO WASTE

It’s been like a thousand years I’m abandoning this e-diary of mine.

Believe me, it’s just your girl here who’s bad at time management and the blame will be on the cliche “BUSY” words. hehe. To be honest with you, guys, I’m really not having my best time at taking pictures. I wanted to collect the real memories here in some part of my brains, instead of busy capturing everything and not living in the moment. Time is priceless, and you can’t turn it back (well, yet) I do believe someday, we could travel to past or future.
Okay, intermezzo, PAST or FUTURE? Let me know in the comment box
and why?

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Without further introductions, let’s get to the topic which I kinda interested lately. ABOUT HOW WE CAN SAVE THIS PLANET :D

Our Mother Nature isn’t young anymore, and as our human Mother, we need to keep her alive, keep her safe, keep her feel loved and cherished as she grows old. Why? it’s simple as, we love them! And she already gives us life first. She took care of us, she gave a safety embrace more than we need, she provided us with everything we don’t really deserved.

She never wanted anything much from us (if you couldn’t) just a simple help would be so much appreciated. So, what can we do as a regular human being that can slow down our Earth from its destruction? Because of big responsibilities can be assisted by Scientists, Billionaires, Governments, etc.  

Earth is not only a space-thingy thing, but all that took part. The Sea and its inhabitants, the Sky and everything up there (atmosphere, air, etc) and the Land where there are also us, humans inhabit it. Yes, we can’t stop any animals from the brink of an extinction, nor decreasing the CO2 that is on the dangerous scales, but we could help prevent it.

Today, I’m eager to share some really really simple tips for us,  on how we can also took a part. It may only one tiny dot acts, but if we all do this, we could be a whole circle. I still want to witness the wonder of the extraordinary world in my next ages!






So. which one have you done? Is it hard to be a habit? But, don’t worry, as you do it every day, everything will get a little easier. Just, keep moving forward.

Let’s love our Earth, and for the sake of our next generations. I still want to see them make a time travel pod, discovering Dementia meds, more healthy foods, proving Atlantis is not only in a myth, roaming to other planets, or even find an alternate Earth out there,  and so on! Our kids born in the 4th Industrial revolution which displays them a lot of new techs and opportunities within their advanced brain.

Will you cherish and support them? Or just breaking their world?

it’s all in your hand. small steps, for a great change.


-Editor : Malvin A.

xoxo,
Janice

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