Jumat, 26 Agustus 2016

Movie review: lights out

I'm not a fan of horror movie. Males aja rasanya udah bayar malah dibuat ketakutan selama nonton. Tapi berhubung suami doyan horor ya ngikut aja. Mumpung ada yang bisa dicubitin tangannya pas lagi adegan serem. 

Nonton lights out tanpa baca resensi atau liat trailer dulu. Cuma baca di twitter kalo ini film horor yg menegangkan bahkan ngalahin conjuring 2. 

Well, filmnya bercerita tentang hantu yang posesif sama ibu 2 anak sampe2 segala suami si ibu ini dibunuhin saking posesifnya. Hehehe..

Ya kurang lebih intinya begitu. Anak2nya si ibu ini berusaha nyelametin si ibu dari hantunya. Eh, malah mereka yang digangguin si hantu. Nah si hantu ini cuma bisa muncul pas gelap. Kalo ada cahaya dia kabur gitu deh. 

Ceritanya sebenernya sederhana. Tapi sepanjang adegan tuh banyak kejutan yang bikin tegang terus. Sering deg2an sambil tutup mata deh. Ada penyesalan selama nonton kenapa sok2an berani pilih nonton film ini. Jantung ku ini loh bang.. Lemes banget rasanya selesai nonton. 

Tapi selesai nonton gak perasaan jadi takut kalo mati lampu jg sih. Filmnya pas buat ditonton bagi yang kuat jasmani dan rohani. Lebih ke menegangkan ketimbang menakutkan sih. 


Jumat, 19 Agustus 2016

Selamat tanggal Duapuluh

"Dokter tau pasien X? Suaminya ninggalin dia udah 5 hari loh dok"

Sebuah informasi yang baru saja disampaikan seorang perawat pagi ini setelah saya visite pagi. 

Dua bulan terakhir saya mulai bekerja di Instalasi Hemodialisa (HD) di salah satu rumah sakit swasta di sini.

Kerja di HD jauh lebih menyenangkan karena bonding ke pasien jadi lebih kuat ketimbang di IGD atau ruang rawat inap. Setiap 2 kali seminggu ketemu pasien yang sama dengan penyakit yang sama tapi keluhan yang bervariatif. Setiap individu punya masalah masing2 dan mayoritas pasien HD punya satu masalah yang sama : depresi. 

Hampir setiap pasien HD depresi dengan keadaannya. Merasa kualitas hidupnya sangat berkurang sejak divonis harus cuci darah rutin 2 kali seminggu. Merasa tidak bisa hidup mandiri karena butuh bantuan mesin untuk menyambung hidup. Ditambah lagi keluarga yang belum tentu bisa menerima keadaan pasien yg hidupnya bergantung pada mesin. Dan tugas dokter HD disini lebih kepada memberikan motivasi sambil mengobati beberapa keluhan2 yang muncul selama HD. 

Sebenarnya kasus diatas bukan kasus baru bagi saya. Ada beberapa kasus pasien yang ditinggalkan pasangannya karena merasa pasien tsb tidak mampu lagi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan ybs. Tapi kabar pasien saya yang baru ini membuat saya jadi merenungkan banyak hal. 

Pasien merupakan seorang wanita, usia diakhir 20an yang diharuskan cuci darah seumur hidupnya karena ginjalnya gagal bekerja normal lagi. Sebelumnya pasien mengalami kuretase dari keguguran yang dialaminya saat hamil anak kedua. Pasien sudah memiliki seorang anak lucu dari hasil pernikahannya dengan suami yang dikabarkan baru saja meninggalkannya ini. 

Beberapa minggu yang lalu, konsultan ginjal saya menasehati pasien "tak usahlah kau punya anak lagi ya. Kan udah ada satu. Agak susah kalo hamil dengan kondisi cuci darah begini. Badanmu tak kuat nanti" dengan logat palembang yang kental. Si pasien pun dengan senyum manisnya mengiyakan seakan sudah mengikhlaskan dan bersyukur dengan keadaannya sekarang.

Terlepas dari profesi saya sebagai seorang dokter, saya merasa sangat bisa berkorelasi dengan keadaan pasien tersebut. Wanita muda yang harus siap menghadapi masalah yang datang bertubi2. 

Saya pernah membaca sebuah tulisan "menikah itu seperti mempertaruhkan hidup. Kita gak tau apakah memilih menghabiskan hidup bersama pasangan yang dipilih itu bisa memberikan kebahagiaan atau malah kesengsaraan, hence, we still dare to do it" 

Sebelum memutuskan menikah, saya baru sadar bahwa saya nggak punya gambaran yang jelas tentang kehidupan pernikahan itu nantinya akan seperti apa. Bahkan disaat saya dilamar pun saya hanya membayangkan kerepotan persiapan pernikahan dengan segala detail yang harus tepat seperti yang saya inginkan. 

Sudah 6 bulan saya menikahi laki-laki ini. Sudah 6 bulan pula saya tidur dengan suara dengkurannya.
Sudah 6 bulan ini saya melakukan apapun dengan meminta izinnya. 
Sudah 6 bulan ini saya berdamai dengan diri menerimanya apa adanya. Menerima dia yang tidak pernah mengembalikan benda yang diambil ke tempat semula, menerima dia yang selalu menjawab "iya" setiap saya butuh pertolongan tapi tetap lupa/tidak dikerjakan. Menerima saya yang selalu ditinggal tidur tepat dinafas ke-5 sesudah obrolan santai kami. Menerima segala tingkah laku kekanakannya, kekunoannya, dan kekakuannya. 

Sama seperti dia yang sangat sabar sekali menerima saya dengan segala keburu-buruan saya, kelabilan saya, emosi saya, keposesifan saya, dan keegoisan saya. 
Sudah 6 bulan ini setiap subuh dan maghrib dan kadang di waktu sholat yang lain, saya selalu berada saru shaf di belakangnya. 
Sudah 6 bulan ini menghabiskan waktu bersama, tertawa bersama, menangis bersama, dan bersyukur karena menikah masih keputusan terbaik yang pernah kami ambil. 

Sampai di hari ini.
Sampai di detik ini muncul pertanyaan tentang kesetiaan lelaki yang saya percayai sebagai lelaki terbaik dan terpantas untuk penjadi pasangan dan ayah untuk anak-anakku kelak.

Tentunya sampai sekarangpun saya masih percaya suami saya adalah keputusan terbaik yang saya ambil seumur hidup saya. 

Kejadian pasien tersebut membuat saya jadi merenungkan kehidupan pernikahan itu tidak hanya seputar kasih mengasihi, tapi juga keikhlasan hati memberi dan menerima keadaan satu sama lain in the best or worst. 

Baru 6 bulan menikah, masih terasa seperti pengantin baru. Walaupun banyak perselisihan yang sudah dilewati, tetap hidup bersamanya adalah yang satu hal yang tidak pernah saya sesali. Dan saya berharap begitu selalu. Selamanya. 

Amin ya rabbal alamin..

Selamat tanggal 20, bang bulu 😘
Tadi pagi saat membereskan jas suami nemu kertas kucel ini di kantongnya. It's enough to make my day 😊😊😊


Senin, 15 Agustus 2016

Book review : Harry Potter and the Cursed Child


Beli bukunya impulsif banget pas April lalu jalan ke gramed ngeliat pre order Harry Potter dengan diskon 25+5%. Dengan nama Harry Potter dan diskon segede itu tanpa mikir panjang langsung daftar PO dengan DP 100k. Saya nggak tau kalo J.K Rowling nerbitin harry potter ke-8 saat itu. 

Awal Agustus saya dapet telfon dari gramedia yang ngasih tau kalau bukunya sudah keluar. Yang buat saya makin semangat ternyata launching buku ini serempak di seluruh dunia. Saya belum pernah beli buku import dan ini buku termahal yang pernah saya beli. It cost me more than 300k and is it worth to buy?
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Saya baru tahu ternyata buku ini bukan karangan J.K Rowling melainkan script theatrical yang dibuat oleh John Tiffany & Jack Throne. I found it out from Elle twitter account just right on the day I bought it. Perasaan mulai nggak enak, setelah liat bukunya makin mulai nyesel. 
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Bukunya terbilang tipis untuk kategori novel Harry Potter yang biasa menghabiskan lebih dari 600an halaman. Dan setelah dilihat ternyata cuma 330 halaman dicetak dengan spasi 1,5. Yaahh.. Kalo kaya gini sih 3 jam kelar.
Halaman pertama saya mulai merasa ditipu ternyata baca script yang isinya dialog. Bukan seperti novel Harry Potter biasanya. 
Script yang isinya dialog. Ngabis2in halaman aja deh ini 😤😤

Memang salah saya yang nggak nyari info dulu tentang bukunya langsung ikutan PO aja dan akhirnya misuh2 karena out of expectations. 
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Well, dibalik semua penyesalan saya ternyata buku ini cukup menghibur. Lumayan page turning. Saya menyelesaikan baca bukunya seminggu. (Sengaja ninggalin bukunya di rumah sakit, bacanya pelan2 biar nggak nyesek banget beli mahal2 malah cepet ditamatin bacanya 😔😔)
Seorang teman dekat saya sesama Potterhead nanya bukunya gimana? Worth to buy kah? So here is my point of view: 
  
So, apakah saya nyesal beli bukunya? 

Ya. Mengingat harganya yang menurut saya terlalu mahal dibandingkan dengan isinya yang tipis dan ceritanya cukup sederhana agak kekanakan. 

Kalau dibandingkan dengan novel asli karya JK Rowling? 
Yah.. Untuk dibandingkan aja rasanya belum bisa..

Jumat, 20 Mei 2016

Honeymoon: Bali (Day 2 - Nusa Dua)

Why did we pick Nusa Dua? I had no idea what's good there. People say Nusa Dua was famous with its water sports. So at first I was planning to did all these extreme water sports. Then in the last minute my mother told me to stay calm, "nggak usah lasak2 lah nen. Siapa tau hamil"

There it was..

We went to our next destination Nusa Dua without having any plans. After check out from Seminyak, we went straight ahead to Nusa Dua by Grab taxi. I shouldn't have thanks to Uber and grab enough. They're saving our expenses a lot. It saved us around 200k for transport fee. It charged us IDR 70K from Batubelig, Seminyak to Mahogany Hotel, Nusa Dua.

By the time we got Mahogany Hotel, we're served by a very kindly and helpful receptionist to help us check-in. We booked the hotel from traveloka (I've compared many travel website and I found traveloka is the most affordable of all) by IDR 473.737 (with 10% discounts). And the hotel itself beyond my expectations.  The super helpful and kind staffs with an excellent facilities they offered, I wouldn't say no for the second visit.

I chose this 3-star hotel just because they gave a free shuttle to Bali Collection, which is mean save us another Rupiahs for transport fee. We booked for a room with a Balcony and here what we paid for a view..

That's a Bali Mandara Toll Road view right from our balcony. The night view is more gorgeous but I forgot to capture.

Sunrise from the rooftop

Morning swim at the hotel

At 3 pm we're already steady at the lobby for a shuttle to Bali Collection. At first I thought there would be a minibus with some hotel guess. Maybe because we came in low season, it only both of us were privately taking there by an Innova. The driver who is still young (around my age, I guess) telling us what to do and where to go while we're in Nusa dua. Because we're avoiding any extreme sports, so he thought maybe we could hired a half-day tour. We didn't want to go with a tight schedule tour, but this half-day tour sounded promising which is we didn't have to rush to dealt with tight schedule. So we decided to take this half day tour tomorrow as we checked out from hotel.

Bali Collection 


Welcome to Bali Collection, that places to find expensive stuffs

By the time we got to Bali Collection, I didn't quite impressed. It's an outdoor shopping mall with international tourists as their target market. The price their tag was real high and the weather itself was so damn hot. I was a bit regreted. It's sooooo HOT FOR GOD SAKE. what's the matter with Bali and its weather 😩

And I have a bad story there. We were stopped by a hotel salesman that insisted us to go to their hotel grand opening and urged us to took the so-called-grand prizes that I got. We're on our honeymoon and a grand opening hotel would be the last thing we're probably visit indeed. He was persistently forced us to give our number so he could picked us tomorrow morning for their grand opening hotel. It made me irritated by took my hubby and left him talk rubbish alone. At first, I just want to help him sharing the brochure. But his attitude and the freaking hot weather were getting on my nerves. 

Afterward, We went to sogo for 2 reasons. I want to bought a sandals and craving for aircond. 
Pamer sendal jepit baru 😂😂

Nusa Dua Beach

We had about a half hour before our shuttle came to pick us back. So there we went to Nusa Dua Beach which is took us 5 minutes walk. And I'm falling in love with it. it's clean and full of shade tree to blocking us from sun. The sand was smooth and again, it's quite. I love beaches when it's quite and clean.

May Allah give us what is best for us in this world and grand us Jannah in the hereafter ❤️

Super HOT. Felt like above 36 degree here



Diner by the Jimbaran Bay

People kept telling that having diner at Jimbaran bay by watching sunset is a must. So there we went, at a seafood restaurant in Jimbaran Bay, we're expecting a quite, romantic and private diner. But the reality hit me, there're sooooo many people that I feel like going back to hotel.
Too many table with people talking, laughing, taking selfies, drinking that I couldn't hardly breathe. It just felt so wrong. We just planned to have coconut drink by watching sunset and have a nice chat. But waiters kept coming and abit urge us to order their food, and people around us were drunk and keep drinking and drinking and laughing and EVERYTHING FELT SO WRONG.

oh well, after all, we did enjoy the sunset view. It's the best sunset l've seen so far. But I don't think to make another visit here.


The pict said it's calm yet it's not

A magnificent view, I always admire this twilight moment 

TOO crowded 

Then let's call it a day. We're back to hotel by Grab. And just like Jakarta, Uber and Grab had that controversy in some tourism places in Bali. So our grab driver reminded us to not tell the people in store we're ordered grab. Just told them that we rented a car with driver. Anything you want, Mr. Driver. As long as we got low expenses. It cost us IDR 32K.

Tomorrow, We have a tight schedule trip. Pandawa, Uluwatu, Sunset road are coming soon.

Kamis, 19 Mei 2016

Honeymoon: Bali (day 1 - Seminyak)

Before honeymoon left remain forgettable I'd better post it here as memories to remember.
So we decided Bali as our honeymoon destination. Since I've been there at 3 yo (which I couldn't even remember a thing) and hubby was agree wherever to go as long as it's honeymoon.

We started our trip on March 16th, 2016 in the morning. It cost us IDR 1.695.867 (CGK - DPS - CGK)
The first thing I remember as soon as I got there is Bali was freaking hot as hell. We had lunch at the airport and ordered grab taxi to got to our villa at Batubelig, Seminyak. We had no idea that Grab and Uber are available in Bali which was saving us a lot of money from taxi costs. It only cost us IDR 60k for grab taxi instead of around 200k if we're using taxi.

Since the title was honeymoon we didn't into traveling. Just wanna enjoy the moment we've spent together there without rush in with the tight schedule tour.

I had this wish since before we get married to stay in a villa once in our honeymoon trip. So we searched for an affordable 5-star villa that suit to honeymooners in Seminyak. We used agoda, booking.com and traveloka as comparison to find the most affordable one. We ended up booking this villa from traveloka. It's called Asthana Batubelig Villa in Seminyak. It cost us IDR 1.148.857 (after 10% discount from traveloka) for a night. So take a look at the villa urself :)

The aisle to villa. Isn't it lovely? 😍

We request for a honeymoon setup at first and didn't cost any additional payments ahead (yayyy)



Sunset at Batubelig beach

We went to Batubelig beach, looking for beautiful sunset there. It only took us 5 mins walking from villa. This was the best beach for me not because of the view, but the quite and far from the crowd place which we really craved for. What a sweet serendepity by sawing bule running by the beach along with some dogs, no local people taking picture with selca stick, making noises or threw junk all over the beach. It only us (the locals) and all the bules enjoying the sunset. Priceless (literally).

We tried walking along the road at night just because. For the record, Bali is not Moslem friendly. It's hard to find mosque or halal food. We only ate halal certified junk food there. We back to villa after bought some simple groceries to be made at the kitchen that provided in our villa. 

First honeymoon dinner. Nothing fancy, just bread, self-made martabak mie, drinks and a gorgeous man in front of me ;)

The private pool right in front of the bedroom. You could just jump straight to it.

As we check in we'd already given breakfast menu for tomorrow morning. So we chose indonesian and american breakfast menus and set 7.30 am as the time to deliver the breakfast. Yes, the breakfast delivered straight to our room. It's a truly heavenly honeymoon. 


"Just look, don't eat! I'm not done capturing" told the lady to the man who's absolutely starving. His comment after breakfast "I prefer normal all you can breakfast that provided by usual hotel. This is too little to my tummy" which I couldn't agree more. Namanya perut indonesia. Mana cukup makan dikit gini.

So we've spent or first day long of honeymoon almost in villa. Well, it's honeymoon tho, what do you expect? We didn't care of places, stuffs or culture there. And we paid some rupiahs for a villa so it such a waste to not enjoy everything there. After all, It's all about us, isn't it? 😝
Let's call it a day. The next day we moved to Nusa Dua that I'll write in the next post.
Thanks for reading, and if there anything I can help please do leave a comment. It's my pleasure to help 😊

Rabu, 24 Februari 2016

I love you because Allah

One of my friend texted me that she was tearing by my latest post which is took me here to see what exactly I was written back then to make her tear up.

Well..
I only make a quick post here. A little nice announcement.

Alhamdulillah, since the 20th of February Mr. Arief Rachman has officially marrying me. 
Semua yang dikerjakan setelah halal itu sungguh luar biasa nikmatnya.
Aku bersyukur kita sama2 nahan untuk nggak pacaran sampe halal.
I finally know why people called marriage is a paradise on earth. It is for sure. 

Dear Mr. Rachman, my father has delegated his responsibility of me to you. 
Please take care of me as good as him (because no one could beat my best man 😋) and I'm expecting Jannah with you as our destination. 
Let's through this phase of life and stay faith to the straight path.
I love you because Allah.