Patrina's Note ✍️

  image by  Jerry Jenkins At the time you read this blog, I have been in my home since last month. I come here thinking that I would be literally jobless, staying at home and doing nothing. Yet what I found a month after is how busy I can be even when everything in this world is going literally downhill. We all know how chaotic this year is, many things have happened in each and every country that might affect our day to day life. To be honest, it is not easy to get through this hard time with so many people seems so reluctant to wear mask and keep a safe distance from each other. Yet here we are living the life we had today in the middle of this chaos. Moving on from that stressful topic… After graduating, I fully know how I will be so confused about my life and literally clueless on where to go or what to do. During the first couple of months of the pandemic, I decided to focus on my own self development, that’s why I start to work out and taking care of myself more. I...

Image by  @sketsakopi.id Semua bermulai dari betapa stuck -nya saya ketika ingin kembali menulis sesuatu. Writer block is suck indeed . Jadi saya berpikir untuk mencari suasana baru yang mungkin dapat mengembalikan mood saya untuk menulis. Saat itulah saya teringat café yang baru dibuka di Jalan Pulau Nias No.2, Denpasar, Bali. Dari rasa pensaran sampai akhirnya, saya pun senang untuk sekedar mampir dan menikmati secangkir Teh Telang (13k); yang pada akhirnya saya anggap sebagai minuman favorit entah berapa kalipun saya mampir ke sini. Image by  @sketsakopi.id Pertama kali saya datang, it was so awkward, I felt like dying (for real) . Saat itu cukup ramai pengunjung, jadinya saya terlihat malah kayak anak domba yang tersesat. Syukurnya kakak-kakak yang di sana cukup peka sehingga diri saya yang canggung ini bisa terselamatkan ( it was so embarrassing… ) Ketika saya mulai berpikir untuk duduk dan memesan, I was enchanted by the menu book design . It was so cute and prett...

  pic Source: Goodread     Everything started from a simple question, “Do you like to read?” that question honestly threw me off a bit. Since I can’t quite recall the last time I take my time and actually read one book properly but a friend of mine, I usually call her Ce Nesa , asking me this question and I simply say, “Yes, I do like to read.” Now, here I am finally writing what I get from reading this book. Breaking Barriers: Portraits of Inspiring Chinese-Indonesian Women was published in 2012 and it aims to inspire everyone who read this, not just women, to pursue and achieve their dream. Aimee Dawis write this book in a journalistic style and she wish that it will be accessible for anyone who is interested in Indonesia, its people and its culture. As a reader, I can say that this book is really inspiring and the writer herself has tried her best to give us a good portrait of these inspiring women. This book started with a foreword from Krisnina Maharani Akbar Ta...