MONEY!

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
Spike Milligan.

To be honest, I completely agree with the quote above. Why? Because it describes how I feel about the existence of money nowadays. But in my opinion, how pleasant the misery is depends on HOW you manage the money itself. And for me, I only get the misery without any pleasure these days -_-"

Ironis emang, melihat gw yang ngambil economics with finance as major pusing tujuh keliling karena uang. Tapi perlu diketahui, hal ini bukan berarti uang yang dikirim orang tua gw pas-pasan, cuma anaknya aja yang dungu dalam mengatur keuangan. Mungkin itu salah satu alasan kenapa orang tua meng-encourage gw untuk ngambil ekonomi kali ya...

But put that aside, one might wonder how complicated is it to actually maintain my expenses. Buat gw pribadi, baju dan atribut-atribut kewanitaan lainnya bisa lebih gampang gw hindari (shoes are the hardest one though), tapi tidak untuk yang namanya MAKANAN! Bagi orang-orang yang udah kenal gw, mungkin udah ga terlalu heran melihat kapasitas perut gw yang sepertinya lebih gede dari karung beras. Tapi hal itu sama sekali tidak membantu gw dalam mengatasi temptation akan berbagai macam makanan yg ada di sini. From all kind of crisps, cakes, chinese food, you name it and I will definitely love it! Tanpa melihat haram atau halal, semua gw telen bulat bulat (I know I'm being sinful, but at least I realized the food contained with pork AFTER I finished it)

Selain makanan, satu hal lagi yang menjerumuskan gw ke penderitaan adalah biaya transportasi. Even though I love British public transportation, it rips me off! 50 pound lebih bisa habis dalam sebulan cuma untuk train and tube. One solution that I encounter is not going to London every once a week, tapi melihat diri gw yang bakal berjamur kalo tinggal di dorm, for now I'd rather go somewhere than rot myself.

So,I'll ask you, what do you think I should do to make my misery more pleasurable? Any kind of suggestions will be considered : )

Reading week (y)

First of all I'd like to say: "Yeaaaahh, blog danya yg baru najong banget - sorrey, mengganggu mood mu dan"

Anyhoo... READING WEEK HAS BEGUN! For me at least. It's basically like a mid-term break, only, it's not a break. You have to work; read mostly. And that's annoying. Reading "Harry Potter" is different from reading "The Age of Extremes: 1914-1994" by Eric Hobsbawm (I sounded so smart having just said that, but really, I only understood 5% of what the gibberish book is saying)I wonder if Hobsbawm himself knew what he was writing about. Nobody should know more vocabulary than Shakespeare, unless he right-clicked and thesaurus(ed) every word he wrote. If you can get the point across using simpler words, then why bother writing sentences like "Even the cadres of communist parties began to concentrate on the ordinary satisfactions of life once the millennial aim of earthly salvation, to which they had dedicated their lives, moved into an undefined future." [insert reference here]
What...the bloody BLEEP.
That, ladies and gentlemen, was a glimpse of torture. It's a really fun subject, but the reading ain't so fun.
Soo yeah, end of rant :D

Bon soir,
Monica

Lost in a Battle

It's finally here


Homesickness that comes after you thought you're already settled in is, by far.. the worst

Sorry to alter the mood in the blog completely, just felt that I need to write this down

:)

Danya