From food, to Alicia Vikander, to Bong Chandra, and to food again

Monday, January 23, 2017

Juicy caramel pop corn…

Salty pop corn with extra butter…

Pizza with extra cheese and lots of black olives on the topping

Rich, creamy chocolate milk shake with extra whip cream

Snickers, Pringles, chocolate ice cream with almonds… damn I’m so hungry.

I’m not actually hungry, I just ate, really. I just can’t stop thinking about food. I was watching a movie and it just felt wrong to watch a movie without any snacks. Well, the ideal movie night for me is sitting on a couch with one or more dogs on my lap, while eating pizza and drink some chocolate milk shake, then when I’m done finishing the pizza, I’ll continue with pop corn, the caramel first, then the salty one with extra butter, then the other snacks.

But how am I gonna enjoy all the food if dogs are all around me? They’ll want to have some of my food, then I wouldn’t be able to focus on my movie. Okay, no dogs. Just food and movie, that would be perfect.

I keep thinking of food! Like… all the time! Is that healthy?

Wait! OMG! I still have the hot chocolate from the seminar! Wait, was it chocolate or coffee? Please be chocolate! Okay, let me check!

Great! This is chocolate. And now I’m enjoying my cup of the most delicious hot chocolate ever. Seriously! How could this chocolate be so good!

I’ve been wanting to tell you about the seminar I attended on Saturday. Well, I’ll tell you on the next post.

Anyway, for the first ten or fifteen minutes of the movie I kept thinking of the snacks I should have had with the movie. But then I’m so drown to the movie.

I just watched ‘The Light between Oceans’, and boy that movie was… awesome!

I love it!

I haven’t seen the review before, but when I saw Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander on the cover of the DVD, I knew that the movie would be a good one, and I was right!

The story was very touching, and I love them so much! I fell in love with their characters. I also fell in love with their acting as always. As usual, when I’m so drown by a movie, I would google everything about it. So I googled all about the movie, and found out that Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender have been dating since the making of the movie, which is early in 2014.

D’oh! Where have I been? But, actually, yeah I kinda recall that I’ve heard that they were dating before. I just forgot. I wasn’t that into Michael Fassbender. Not as much as I love Alicia Vikander. That girl was amazing! That girl was the greatest young actress, so naturally beautiful, so adorable! I’ve been a fan ever since I saw her in ‘Ex-Machina’. She’s really talented and always great in all of her movies. And her movies are always great too! ‘Ex-Machina’, ‘Men from UNCLE’, ‘Testament of Youth’, ‘Danish Girl’, ‘The Light between Oceans’, you name it.

And she’s unbelievably gorgeous!! She’s on my Top 10 Most Beautiful Actresses list. Look at her teeth! So perfect, so white! And her skin! Oh My God! The most beautiful skin I’ve ever seen! And her big, dark eyes! Those eyes are super beautiful! Her body is far from perfect, at least by my taste. But it makes her even more adorable.

Btw, when I went downstairs to get the hot water for my chocolate, I found chocolate flavored Energen Cereal. So, after I finished my hot chocolate, now I’m busy chewing on the Energen Cereal powder. One of my favorite snacks!

Hey, you know what? I’m gonna tell you about the seminar now, not in the next post as I said earlier.

So, on Saturday I went to a great seminar. Really! That seminar was awesome! I usually fall asleep in a seminar. Correction: I ALWAYS fall asleep in every seminar I ever attend. Every single one of them.

But I didn’t sleep on Saturday’s seminar. It was too inspiring! I didn’t even feel sleepy at all. The main speaker was the most successful young motivator in Indonesia, Mr. Bong Chandra. And then there were three other great speakers: Mr. Kevin Osmond, Ms. Grace Natalie, and… for me, the most inspiring one, Mr. Leonard Theosabrata!

They all have given me a whole lot new ideas, perspectives, thoughts, and of course, information and knowledge. But for me, personally, I was so amazed with Leonard, because it was the very first time I saw a speaker speaks so bluntly. I’m so in love! No, not that way. I know he’s married. I mean, I know you know what I mean.

He said he hardly ever read a book. He said he only read like… five books or something, for his entire life! And he said he never bother to pretend to be someone he’s not. He doesn’t care about branding. He is just whoever he is. I fell in love with him with every word he said. Seriously.

I just didn’t know a successful business man could be that casual. He’s really casual, not only the way he dressed that day, but the way he talks, the way he thinks. I feel like he’s the only seminar speaker I can relate to. He’s so casual, simple, funny, charming, yet bold, brave, and somewhat genius.

Among all the great things and ideas he said in the seminar, I just can’t stop thinking about what he said about the ‘Mindfulness’.

“Mindfulness is the art of conscious living. You didn’t have to be a Buddhist or a yogi to practice it. Waking up and seeing things as they are. A practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action. Mindfulness practice is gentle, appreciative, and nurturing, heartfulness.” That’s what was written on his slides.

Mindfulness. Yeah, so I’ve heard. I knew. But it was so hard to do. For me, to be conscious is difficult. To be in touch, to be heartful, to be focus on something is one of the most difficult things to do. Some said I might have an ADD. And I think it is probably true. I mean…, just read my blog! Read my entries. Read how I always jump from one thing to another. That’s how easily my focus moves.

That has been an issue for me. I can’t keep focus on my conversation with people. I can't even focus while kissing. But that doesn't really matter. Anyway, I just can’t keep focus on the present. My mind is (almost) always everywhere but at the present moment.

I’m trying to practice mindfulness in everything I do in my everyday life. But I do have some things that I can do with mindfulness, like:

1.      Mathematics, pattern, and anagram

2.      Drawing, making sketch, making artwork

3.      Destroying things

4.      Playing games

5.      Eating

Yes, eating. I can stop all the activities and thought when I eat. I’ll focus on my food, enjoying every bite, smelling it, taste it, feeling the texture while I chew it, the sound of it. Sometimes the taste of a food can even make me dance. Taste is like a music. I can say I have a pretty special relationship with food.

That’s why I actually really hate it when people talk to me during meal time. I hate talking while eating. But sometimes I just have to.

Okay, I’ll tell you more inspiring things about the seminar when I got the time. See you later! Ciao!