Episodes of The Chocolate Lover - Ria Tumimomor (best reads of all time .txt) 📗

go there alone.

So, here are the things that becoming my consideration to make that spot my favorite nest:

1. Sofa
I love sitting on the soft couch or sofa… My favorite sofas located at Starbuck Plaza Senayan. Whenever my friend and I went there, we anxiously look for that sofa. Hoping in vain that nobody sit there… There are two sofas facing each other and separated by a small table. The location is at the corner of the café, near the window glass. Enable you to sit and relax and watching people passing you by.
I love sitting there, and after few minutes I would curl in that sofa…as if it was mine only…

2. Electrical socket (or in Indonesian : stop kontak listrik, please see this link *)
I totally need to be near it to re-charge my gadgets… So, I will be able to have a chit chat with my friends through my BB or do something else with my laptop… And my company is a hot Hazelnut Latte… Ah, that is soo beautiful

3. Hidden space
Often, a café have this kind of hidden spot, which people will not be able to notice if they are a first timer. If I hang out with more than two or three friends, we prefer to sit there. You know very well if there are four women sit together and have a chat, we are not going to have a conversation with low volume. Unless we are talking about someone who is happen to be there as well, but chances are slim. Sitting in the hidden place, will not bother other customers…until they choose to sit near us…

4. At the corner
If I go to the café alone, then I prefer to sit at the corner. Don’t know why but I just like it that way instead of seated in the middle of other tables. I feel comfortable to do my own things. Reading or writing anything that cross my mind…

So, what kind of favorite spot that you have in mind?

*) http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_indonesian/electronics_elect_eng/2474897-convenience_receptacles.html

GETTING OLD

A few days ago I went to watch this movie RED (Retired. Extremely Dangerous). I think it is like another action comedy Hollywood kind of movie. But, what I like this movie talk about a group of retirees government agents.

Have you ever wondered how you are going to spend your old days? Are you going to be in the nursery home for elderly? Will you ever going to have enough saving to live there? We all know that the expenses are not going to be cheap. But then, if you do have a saving to be spent there… what are you going to do in your old days… Well, if you are going to make it there… What are you really going to do?

I saw in that movie how those agents tried hard to adjust with their new life… I could imagine if in their younger days they must be facing endless task not to mention dangerous and adrenalin pumping. But it seems they are those people who simply born with it. And secluded solitude life does not fit them right. They are agitated and always find excuse or reason to back into action.

To tell you the truth I have no idea what I am going to become in my old day…that is if God is willing that I should reaching that age. Now that I am single, I am starting to think to save bit by bit so I can afford the expenses to live in a nursery home. I have nobody that I know is going to take care me in the old age. And I am not expecting anyone will want to do that. Getting old is hard whether we are willing to admit that or not. First we are not as strong as we used to. We get tired easily…and want to have a quick rest from time to time. Our sight not as good as before and worst we probably going to be senile. Forget things and anyone easily.

My Dad once told me about his friends entering the pension period. Most of them passed away shortly as they did not have activities at all. When we said activity it doesn’t have to be heavy physical. They could spend the morning with do a little bit of walk or simple exercise. That is for physical exercise… And for the mind…probably do a little cross word or even Sudoku… And for the heart…surely to have a little bit of chit chat with other people… Like my friend used to say, if she is going to be put in the nursery home for elderly she is going to hunt for a new husband… Hahahaha… She’s nuts.

So, back to our previous topic… What is actually I am going to do in the old age? Really have no idea. Perhaps I am still going to write and write? Gosh, I hope my eyes still allow me to keep on reading and writing… Hopefully already published books so at least I have something to be proud about…

I just hope I don’t end up sick and bored and wish to die to avoid the misery of life… May God still grant me the energy to spend my old days admiring the beauty of nature and my surrounding… Something that youngster use to neglect and suddenly remember about it in the old days…


FEELING?

I am not really a good student. In the learning process I am not a very patient person and therefore often seek easier ways to learn the lesson. Like when I learned English for the first time in Junior High School. There were so many theories (well, for me is a bit much)… Like how to form a sentence using Past Tense, Present Tense, and Future Tense…. I think I was stop dead at Past Perfect Tense or something like that… See? I could not even remember the exact tenses!

Realizing that if I have to limit myself with standard theory (though it is mandatory for future understanding) then there would be big chance that I was going to flunk my studying. So, I decided to memorize more vocabularies, and naturally their form in different tenses. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know… IT IS A WRONG WAY TO STUDY… I was like a butterfly could not get out from its cocoon and decided to get help but in the end…I have no strength to survive… is it correct? Well sort of like that… I sort of depended on the feeling every time I faced English test. I am pretty sure that if I have to sit on official English test it will be a catastrophe.

Anyway, one day our English teacher started to give oral tests to each one of us. Like why this word put it here, or why we have to choose that one to this sentence… And we all managed to answer her questions correctly. However, she was upset to learn that NONE of us knew why this verb should be in this sentence… or how do we know to use that form for this sentence… And most of us answered, “Well Ma’am… we depend on our feeling… “
She was flabbergasted and then almost screaming to the whole class… Obviously she was mad because if we all depending on our so-called-feeling…then she has totally failed to teach us about the correct ENGLISH…

I think I also speak terrible English because well…you know… I have no idea how to write English with proper grammar… Actually…correction… I am just too lazy to find out how to write with correct grammar… And I am just too ignorance to care about grammar when it comes to speaking with foreigners in situation like during vacation or on a trip somewhere. If I have to think…oh no…how should I say this word… Did I say to them correctly? Did they laugh at my stupidity? Oh dear… I would end up not moving forward…
Well, all I am going to say…my ways to learn English probably did me good in the short term but definitely not in the longer term. I am too lazy to learn everything from the bottom again because I am too arrogant thinking that I have known to write and speak English though not perfectly. That’s not a good may to completely able to do things in the most perfect way. You may not going to find out the difficulty now but surely you are going to in the future…

(Note from the writer: If you ask me whether I am going to open my English book again after giving you all lecture…then shamefully the answer is still: NO)

GRAVEL IN YOU LIFE

Have you ever feel pain inside your shoes while you are walking? Then you realized that probably gravel, that tiny little small stone don’t know coming from where has entered your shoes… You tried to ignore it as you think…, oh is only a small stone… I am not going to stop walking because of that… But a few minutes later, the pain is unbearable and finally you are forced to stop and get that gravel out from your shoes…

Sometimes we see one problem as a minor thing in our life… As for example, you notice that there is this small leak from your roof every time rain pouring downs the earth. You check it out and there is this tiny crack on the roof… If you fixed it right away, then the leaking problem will be over. But naturally, we decide that there are more things that need our attention… Beside the water leaking still does not bother anyone in the house… So, naturally you dismissed that and move on to other things… Unfortunately the crack getting bigger and in the end, you will have small leak no more… Instead, you have whole lot of water leaking to probably your room, your guest room, your dining room or to whatever room inside the house… Finally you have to fixed the problem but it has cost you not only your precious time but also money and other damages due to the leaking…

Well, sometimes in life we encountered many problems… It may relate to health, studying, equipment, financial, etc… We have to know which to be prioritized in our life in order to avoid further damages… But then… all problems seem important… Which one that I have to deal first? Or if anything to do with health, sometimes we just scared to find out the truth and decide to postpone the matter… In silent hopes that the matter will go away and clear automatically later.

I have no idea how to set up priority in deal with many problems that sometimes come to me all at once… Usually, I decide which one will give negative impact or bring damage first… I suppose the wrong things that we often do after make priorities is that we forget that even no matter small the problem is…we need to clear it… And don’t just forget about it or pretend not to remember…in silly hope that it will just go away… (Like people with credit card problem who always in denial hoping the debts will just vanish)

I often made that kind of mistakes… Thinking that since this problem will not give me direct impact and can be postponed…I just drop it… Not to be finished later but to be forgotten… Until it bites me later and eventually I have to take time to stop. Noticing the problem, and figuring out what to do with it