stories of some bad ass girl

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• Too bad so sad, bye-bye!

Today, I had a fall out with my so-called friend, Quan. After numerous texts that she sent me, and after she had to go above and beyond by texting Laz and putting him in the middle of our issues, I said that's it. All this while, I've been doing all my might to keep my life drama-free, and will do my best to keep it that way. Time to call it a day. She's not worth my time, nor I deserve anything that happened today.

We may now go on with our lives.

• counting the blessing

One Thursday this week, Laz texted me and asked me to have lunch with him. This was rare, btw. We do dinner, not lunch. So it was nice.

Then he took me to Chaya for dinner as well that same evening. I gotta say, I haven't had that much fun with him in a while. I enjoyed the food, the drinks, and the silly but serious talk we had... well, until baby mama called to ask when he be picking up his son.

Bummer.
Story of my life. Haha.

Being all understanding, I asked him to just cut the night short so he could pick up Dylan before his mom catching her red-eye flight to who knows where. For some reason Laz insisted D could wait and that we be out and having fun until closer to time she had to leave. I refused. I told him I don't want to be the reason they're fighting.

Surprisingly, Laz asked me if I wanted to hang out with him and D at Chuck e Cheese the next day. Despite the horror stories I heard about CeC, I went. This was another effort made by Laz, there's no way I would skip it. Though I didn't get to interact with D much, nor would I force it, I had fun. I just love the fact that he made an effort.

Noted and appreciated, luv.

• The keyword is DO.

You know when you feel the need to talk to someone, asking for advice and opinion, it's just some sort of seeking assurance of the answer you already knew. Well, that's pretty much what I did the past 3 days with Irish. After a long, heavy, truthful conversation with her, I know I have to do what's called "stepping back to think and see things in and for a bigger picture"

Things have been pretty rough with me and Laz. I'm not sure what it is, whether it is me or him. I can only see it from my perspective as I can only understand me. Lately, I have became insecure and it's taking a toll on how my attitude is towards him. When things don't go the way I expect or hope for, I became annoyed and irritated. I know that just because he doesn't love me the way I want him to love me, doesn't mean he doesn't love me with all his might. I understand that just because I feel I have tried my almighty to understand him, doesn't mean he sees it being enough.

Love can be very painful and complicated, indeed.

What I need to do from my end is to brush off this insecurity of my back, then take a step back, analyzing if this is something I wanted to commit to.

The keyword is DO. Not try.
I believe that as long as we both do love each other and do want this to work, then we will be fine.

-trias-
-los angeles-

I've always been different growing up. My being the 3rd (middle) child might have added to it too, maybe. You know the old saying about being the middle child often has the sense of not belonging, the feeling of invisibility, which makes them try harder to get the attention from the parents to make them stand out more than the first and last child. They (read: experts and/or old people) even have it called a 'middle child syndrome'. I don't know... But yea, I grew up trying my best to annoy my parents, well, in my defense, I don't think I did it consciously. Compared to my other siblings, I wasn't the most polite child (my oldest sister was), nor the cutest (my youngest sister), and not even the worst (my brother haha!). Well, maybe I'm the second worst, which wasn't anything I should be proud of.

I grew up thinking I could do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. The sky was (and is) my limit. I was a tomboy and a bad kid too (I skipped school a lot during my junior high and finally got caught by my dad and boy did I pay much for it). I always love boys too. I know how to get them just by talking to them. I was (hopefully still is) a Miss Personality. I dated a lot. From one boy to another. I was obnoxiously flirty. My mom had (still has) problems with this "habit" of mine for liking boys so much. I always love English language. I wanted to travel overseas and spoke the universal language to anyone and everyone. I grew up knowing that if I speak English, everyone in this world would understand what I say. Make sense, right? Then I also always wanted to work in an office. I wanted to be a career woman, an independent woman who can afford anything on her own. I wanted to be bigger than the biggest.

Which isn't normal in any Indonesian culture guidebook.

By standards, an Indonesian woman is expected to be a good wife. Period. Oh yes, she can work, she can drive a car, she can play basketball, but at the end of the day, she MUST learn how to and become a good wife. Hey, first off, I'm not saying it's bad, I think it's great that a woman can be a good wife, but COME ON!! We, women, can become much more than that. We can be something bigger than that. Again, it's great to be a good wife, but when it's expected by the society, I think it's ridiculously silly. Human is human, regardless of its gender. We, women, should be allowed to have the same choices and opportunities as men, in any part of the world. Unfortunately, not in my part of the world. So yea, I'm fucked.

Before you punch me in the face for saying so, let me say this.

I tried.
No. Not just tried. I did what was expected of me as an Indonesian woman. Yes yes, I was married and did my best to be a good wife. Actually, I was a great wife. I did my best living my life by Indonesian standards. I was happy, but I turned into a different person who lived under a shadow of the person I was with. Yet, in my head, there's always this big question mark: Now what? Why do I feel lost being in this "happy" marriage? So, when the marriage fell apart, aside from feeling like the biggest failure in the face of the earth, I also felt..... relieved. Not happy, but relieved. For a few who knew me from/before the day I failed my marriage should know how devastated I was . I was broken, pathetic, lost, and pushed to the weakest point of my life. I lived in my own lonely little pathetic world (celibacy was part of it too) for a good one year.

But then I snapped out of it. HUGE thanks to my family and few of my friends who stood by me, helping me going through the worse time of my life. Kar who bought me a TV soon as I moved in to my own studio apartment. Sus who forced me to go get a vibrator to get through the celibacy time. Mel who gave me this silly book, sort of a guide, on how to be a BAD girl. Before I knew it, there I was having a buck fuddy, OK, two. ^-^

I learned my lesson the day I failed my marriage. Following the standard of a society is a good thing, but doesn't necessarily make one happy. Since then, I learned to live my life by whatever makes me happy. Sound selfish? Yes and No. It is a simple way of a person who wants to be happy. It is also my choice to make everyday a good day. To have a great time during miserable time. To be half full instead of half empty. It's my choice to laugh and not cry. To let go of hate and stop worrying so much. I learn to know that nothing, I repeat, NOTHING is a big deal. Because it doesn't matter how big of a problem I have, there's always someone else out there with a bigger problem. That's, my friend, when I know the exact meaning of "count your blessings".

Fast forward: Entering the 4th year of divorce anniversary *grinning*. Here I am. Stronger than ever. Bad ass for life. ^o^
[Monday, April 21, 2008]

Her mom and siblings and niece and nephew, movies, movies, movies, hats, unicorns, to smile and laugh, her friends, a Vinci Code, Mashimaro, manggo, black shirts, Gym, vodka-holic, tom Welling, dark chocolatte cuz its bitter, Korean language, Retro necklaces, Jeong ji-hoon, iPhones, Venice Beach, Nordstrom rack, hot guys with british accents, web design, Ebay, blogging (duh)

Pretentiousness, running (be in on a treadmill or outside), humidity, her left thumb, hypocrites, dangdut, hung-over, white shirts, tight pants, sandwich and salads, cowboy hats, black coffee, slow wifi