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Roger Starnes Sr via Unsplash 17 Maret 2021 kemarin jadi anniversary 1 tahun gue WFH. Ga terasa udah lebih dari satu tahun aja kita berjuang melawan pandemi Covid-19 ini.  Disini gue mau cerita pengalaman vaksin di Istora Senayan kemarin yaaa. Karena privilige dari kantor, gue bisa dapet vaksin Covid-19; Vaksin Sinovac, dimana vaksin pertama gue itu tanggal 25 Maret 2021, dan vaksin kedua tanggal 22 April 2021.  Disclaimer : pengalaman ini bisa jadi berbeda di lokasi Vaksinasi Covid-19 lainnya 1. Before Vaksin  Dapet pengumuman satu hari sebelumnya via email kantor dan SMS, undangan untuk hadir vaksin Covid pertama di Istora Senayan. Setelah dapet undangan ini, langsung deg-degan sii. Penyebab degdegan nya yaa banyak, pertama karena bakalan keluar rumah dan ketemu banyak orang di Istora (karena sebelum2 nya gue udah dapet foto2 yang di share temen2 yang udah vaksin duluan, dan kondisi nya rame banget orang2 di Istora), terus takut efek samping nya gimana gimana. Tapi akhi...

 She asked me,  "How did you move on? It's really hard for me. And it really hurts". I gather my thought for a while, letting some 8 years-flashbacks running thru my head, and exhale , "I once did everything in my power to save myself from drowning unnecessarily. Will you do the same, to save yours?". I believe that it's not running away, that it's merely the act of changing priority on loving and caring my self more. And I'm not looking back.

Source : Unsplash My friends and I were talking about changes that happened in our life in this past year (yes, i mean 2020). With all that happened around us, specially during quarantine period, where we have to stay at our room all day everyday. It came to the moment to She asked me, "how can you survive quarantine in Jakarta? I could not handle it,  that's why i sped up my move back to home." To that question my only answer was because i'm comfortable enough with my self, anywhere.. Quarantine for me is 70% blessing, 30% torture (coz i miss traveling duh lol).. "I guess the city is never a home for me", she continued.. I forget what i told her after that, but her words baffles me till now. It makes me think, We practically grew up here, since college and work for almost 5 years here, how could this place is not a home for her?  Because it is home for me, i guess.. Well, this city really is a city for an ambitious dreamer like me, it offers me hope, story,...

Here we go again.... 2020 has passed us by, like poof, no trace.. I don't think i actually lived in 2020, like 2020 just passed in front of my eyes 😂 BUT, 2020 ended couple days ago, and it's time to look back to my GoodReads Challenge..  So in 2020, i optimistically set the goal of number of books that i would read in total = 36 books. Well, I actually achieved it.. Uyeeaay.. I tried really hard to be consistent by finishing 3 books a month in 2020,  if it's a song, it will be "Jatuh bangun aku mengejarmu". I consumed books in so many channels, eBook with different sources; Kindle and iPusnas apps, audio book from ;YouTube, Spotify, Blinkist, and of course the hardcopy book. I also used multiple devices from my phone, iPad, and Mac. To summarize, it IS HARD lol 😂 2020 was an exciting years though for me as a hard-core Andrea Hirata fan, because he released Guru Aini and some unedited version of his previous books. For me, Guru Aini is really awesome copy, as it...