Apr 30 - His and Her Corners

It's been sooooo long since I last wrote here! Crazy. April has been mental indeed, I feel like it's just passing by so, very quickly that I have been having a hard time keeping up with it, especially mid-month towards the end --now--. One big milestone is when I helped organize a national law seminar/training; it familiarized me more with my idea of the perfect job for me and reassured me that it really is what I want to do with my life. Apart from that event, I have just been catching up with people I hadn't seen for a long time; although time consuming, I know it was necessary.

As far as our relationship goes, we hit the 20th month this month! Yay! First month to ever start with the number 2, and an inch closer to two years where he'll be here to celebrate it with me. I have already started a few lists regarding his next visit, from outfit plans, date ideas, and the massive "Things to Bring". Hahaha, the last one is getting kraykray every day since he just can't stop buying me stuffs! From snacks to chocolates to home ware stuffs to dolls to other presents. I'm positive I will cringe the moment I take a look at what's inside his suitcase: at least 70% of what he carries must have been for me! Hahahahaha..

Here's a reminder of how his suitcase looked like when he first arrived in Jakarta last summer:

It's excessive! I know!

For the stuffs waiting to be given to me in the summer, he stores them in an area in his bedroom that he calls my corner. Remembering he has a handbag, two hand fans his mom brought for me and my mom from Spain, three normal-sized dolls, and a whopping TWELVE-piece set of little dolls, two mugs, a candy jar, and a set of coasters for me, I bet you it looks like a steep mount. Please note that the stack hasn't included the edible presents I classified as snacks and chocolates before. Nuts!

But to be fair, well, in that sense, I'm not too different, I guess. I also keep buying stuffs for him in addition to making DIY's for him. Apparel-wise, I've accumulated a long sleeve shirt, a plaid flannel shirt, a long sleeve Batik, a 3/4 sleeve raglan tee, two t-shirts, a sweatshirt, a pair of chino pants, and a pair of football shoes. I store them together with his t-shirt and basketball shorts he left for me, so yes, he can basically board his plane to Jakarta bringing nothing at all (besides boxers cause it'd be weird in so many levels if I got him them as well, hahahaha). Oh and hair gel cause the man is practically married to it.

Recently I moved the mounted stack of things I bought him into an old bookshelf which I've emptied beforehand. It looks much neater and more organized now. The only drawback is, I'm running out of space already! *sweats* The initial idea of storing them into the bookshelf is to not have them occupy such large space in my room (that I call his corner). But if I can no longer fit the stuffs inside the bookshelf, looks like we're going to get back to having such unattractive hoarding-look in my bedroom! Hehehe.

Here's how the new storage system looks like (minus the football shoes):

Since he's coming, you'd think I can give everything to him so the space is free again right? No. That's where I'll store his gifts he's been keeping in my corner in his bedroom, hahaha, it's only going to be a mutual exchange. Plus, who says I've grown tired of buying him more stuffs the second he flies back to The Netherlands? ;)

Apr 02 - I Wrote This For You (Part 1)

For a long, long time now, I have been addicted to the writing style (and the work) of a South African blogger named Iain Thomas. He's been posting on I Wrote This For You (IWTFY) since 2007 and some of his posts have been compiled into a published book which goes by the same title as the blog. It's... surreal to think that I've been following him for actually 8 years of my life!

On my previous blog that I stopped writing on the moment I started to get serious with Luis, I once list a few of my favorite posts of his, dated on December 5, 2010. Today, the favorite number has gone to a much, much longer list, but I just thought it'd be lovely to repost my old favorites (till 2007) here as well.

“There is no need to escape. To break the chains. To storm the gates. You are already free. You just need to realise it.”

“I’d leave the memory of you at the station, if it didn’t already know the way home.”

“Wish you were here. Wish I was there. Wish it was different. Wish wishes came true. I’d wish you back.”

“To wake up next to you. And confirm that the images I saw on the back of my eyelids seconds before, have all been made real.”

“We’re going to build a fort. And it’s only going to be big enough, for just me and you.”

“You tell me that everything is rented. That even my time, is borrowed. Well, sir, at least my thoughts are my own.”

“Your ability to stop and think, about what you think, is the most important gift you possess.”

“You are the distance between the way things are and the way I want them to be.“

“It feels like you or the world will never change. But I’ve seen you change. Both of you.”

“Making love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held hands.”

He used to post almost everyday before his blog got super famous and he's ventured out to other side projects. To each post, there is a photo taken by his virtual penpal, a Japanese-based photographer with code name Jon, whom he sends his drafts to and would capture just anything that inspires him about those drafts. Very, very interesting concept of a teamwork (that obviously works wonders). But the main thing I love about his writing is how vulnerable, sensitive, and raw it is, that you just can't help but relate them to yourself, although you know he doesn't write about/for you, for sure. The honesty in his writing makes it hard to believe what he said that these posts are actually fictional: there has never been a single human being who triggers them. Simply un.... believable.

You can find him here (he's replied to my tweets before) and see him speaking at TedX Johannesburg here.

Luis' comments on the blog, "He has great one-liners. I get why you love it so much." Of course he does, he always does. :)

Mar 31 - Future Battles/Wars

I was doing my usual round on my laptop to check documents I no longer need when I found a set of pictures in a folder I apparently had always missed before.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. :) It reminds me a lot of this and this posts about similar football interest. It turns out we were playing same games growing up, as well as watching Dragonball films.

Next years are going to be even more interesting! #TeamVictoria #VictoriaMeansVictory