stories of some bad ass girl

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Have fun reading it.
Comment only if you must.
Bear with my randomness.
Not be judgemental. Not towards me at least.

• Promises promises promises

"Are you happy when you're with me? Because that's all I care. If you're happy, that in itself is an improvement from what you've already experienced in the past. I can only promise you that I will do everything in my power to make you happy. I will make sure that I don't hurt you for whatever reason. I don't want to complicate your life with my issues. Things are going to be better for us. If you feel that I am bad for you, I will leave. I just want you to be happy. I love you so much that I will make that sacrifice for you. Only you can make that call. Only you can see how much I love you and how well I treat you. So, you make the call."

• Home alone? Not so much.

Think I've gotten used to having a family (Irish and the boys) around so much that I seem to forget that I have lived by myself since 2004 before I moved out here. So when she told me she was going on vacation with the boys this past weekends, I got nervous a little. As if I no longer know what to do with myself being home alone. I've gotten spoiled in that sense, I guess :)

Bless his heart, Allen came to my rescue. He packed a small suitcase and stayed with me all weekends. He took me out on Friday, we stayed up late talking to some strangers at a bar in Fairfax, making friends and all. We slept in on Saturday, literally doing nothing but watching TV, talking and chillaxing. We didn't get out of the house til dinner time. Then Sunday, after I drove him back to Fairfax, I thought I was gonna catch a movie just to kill time, but no good movie was out. I drove back home thinking that I could just spend my Sunday doing my training, but nooo.. Allen texted me, saying he missed me already and if I let him, he'd drive out to see me again. Haha. How cute. We ended up chilling at the house again, watching VMA on MTV til he had to leave around midnight.

Thankful that he did the best he could to be with me so I don't feel as lonely. The efforts are definitely much appreciated. And for now, it is enough.

• Investing in me.

I'm half way through the IT/PMP training, yay!
For someone who does NOT like online classes, I sure move pretty quickly on this. But then again, I'm unemployed, so I SHOULD have all the time in the world to finish it within the 8 to 12 weeks I give myself to. Especially after looking at the job market for PMP job in DC, boy.. I'm hoping I can shift my career to this. Starting pay is 85K, dude! That's like.. super awh-sooome!

Next would be getting the certification for it. I know that's gonna cost me, but hey.. I can't worry about money. This is me, investing in me. :)

• 2 days and nights

Lots of talk, drink, EAT!, fun, arguing, making up, and talk some more. But more importantly, we just be us. Together.

(The Borgata - 622, Atlantic City, NJ)

• Exactly how I feel

"We all have heard the warnings and we've ignored them. We push our luck. We roll the dice. We play with fire. It's human nature when we've been told not to touch something we usually do, even if we know better. Maybe because deep down we are just asking for trouble." - Grey's Anatomy

and in my head, it'd be like..

But I love him... but I don't!
And I love me more.. but he's sweet!
No he's not, he's selfish..
(and repeat)

Ugh.

-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