Sabtu, 31 Desember 2016

Review 2016

These are my favorite posts this year:

1. "Valak!!"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/07/valak.html

2. "Jealous"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/01/jealous.html

3. "Potong Rambut"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/01/potong-rambut.html

4. "Pasien Nyebelin"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/06/pasien-nyebelin.html

5. "Penyayang Binatang"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/01/penyayang-binatang.html

6. "Kisah Baju Ronaldo dan Abang-abang"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/06/kisah-baju-ronaldo-dan-abang-abang.html

7. "And Here I Write about Love Again"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/02/and-here-i-write-about-love-again.html

8. "Renungan 10,000 Jam"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/09/renungan-10000-jam.html

9. "LGBT"
http://astaripahlevisdiary.blogspot.co.id/2016/04/lgbt.html

Overall, thank you for everything. Good bye 2016. Welcome, 2017!

Rabu, 21 Desember 2016

For Me, 2016 is about Languages

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Eleven days before the first day of 2017, and I think it is the perfect time to write a little review and new goals and resolutions.

I seem to have more objectives to reach than most people. It seems like I'm greedy and I've got too many goals so every year I couldn't focus on those goals because they're too many. But, actually, most people goals are including career, family/love, health, and religious stuff. I only change family/love, health, traveling, and religious stuff to writing books, making artworks, and learning languages. So, yeah, those are my goals. I failed to reach all of those goals, not because they are too many, but because I have no discipline.

As much as people with body goals go to the gym, I'm supposed to be in front of my computer more. Well, yeah I've been in front of my computer enough, but not doing what I was supposed to be doing.

So, how's 2016 going for me?

I haven't reached my goals in career, writing, and arts. I traveled, and my trips were lovely for sure, but they weren't my traveling goals.

But... this year I've learned languages a lot. I started learning French and Dutch. And I can say I speak five languages so far: Indonesian, English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Well, I don't speak well. Not yet. I really need more practice. I'm still used to Indonesian and English because everything around me is either in Indonesian or English. But the only thing written in Italian around me is 'Pane del Giorno'. Oh, and 'I Gusti', but it's actually a Balinese name.

A real polyglot wouldn't say that I speak Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, but yeah, if you speak those languages around me, InshaAllah I would understand you. I am able to have conversation in those languages. I also understand French and Dutch, but I can't say I speak those languages. Not yet.

But overall, I'm satisfied with my language goals.
And besides my goals, 2016 has been very nice and full of beautiful moments for me. But I'll tell you in another post. For now, I just wanna make some new resolutions.

Next year I'm gonna learn German, Greek, and Japanese. Yeah I'm gonna take some classes. German and Japanese classes would be easy, but Greek..  where should I take Greek class? Greece? Yeah maybe I should. I f'ing love that country and I'd be happy to live there with those extremely nice people (I'm a big fan of Italy, Greece, and Brazil and been to two of them).

And of course I still have my career, writing, art, and traveling goals. I'm just gonna tell you about my traveling goal.

I have this dream of visiting every single province in Italy. Why? Because Italy is freaking awesome and I freaking love that country, almost like I love myself. Yes, I wrote it right, myself, you don't need to correct me.

So Italy have Torino (Turin) in Piemonte (Piedmont), Como and Milano (Milan) in Lombardia (Lombardy), Venezia (Venice), Padova (Padua), and Verona in Veneto, Trieste in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, La Spezia in Liguria, Bologna, Parma, and Modena in Emilia Romagna, Perugia and Assisi in Umbria, Roma (Rome) in Lazio, Napoli (Naples) in Campania, Matera in Basilicata, Sicilia (Sicily), Sardegna (Sardinia), and of course... Toscana (Tuscany)! Firenze (Florence), Pisa, Siena, and Pistoia are both in Toscana region. There are lots of interesting provinces in Italy and I really need to visit all of them. They have 115 provinces and all of them are awesome! But you can Google why I should mention those provinces and regions above. That's why I wrote their names in Italian and English.
Yeah, I know my new year resolution sounds more like Italian tourism advertising.

I would say visit Indonesia too, but lately I feel like this country has been so much like a f***ing khilaf**. Sorry for being so bitter. Many bitter things have been happening in my lovely country.

Happy new year!