My way of keeping in touch with friends

I realize that I have been really bad in keeping in touch with my friends. Even with my closest friends... I don't know if it's because of me or them but i guess sometimes we don't really put the effort by making so much excuses.. But here is something that I wrote, that i really feel..

I wish all my dear friends, who i really miss and love so much will understand how i feel.. and i hope you know who you are. . =)

Hey Friend, how are you...
Do you know i miss you so
Ive been wanting to write to you, just to say hello and how are you
But never get the chance to, i don't know why..

I wander how's life treating you..
Do you have the same hairstyle like you used to
Or have you find somebody new
Do you miss me like I do

So many stories I wanna tell you
My life is not the same like it used to
How i really wanna go back to those days we were together
Just keep each other company to make our days feel better

Dear friend, if you read this thing i wrote
Just want you to know that I care so much about you
I might be in a different world out there
But if you need me I will be there for you

I just hope you feel the same way like I do
Hope you still remember those memories we have together
Even though we never know when we can see each other
Doesn't mean that we will never do

Disaster Girl #1

It's been a quite a day today.. My work currently quite hectic.. juggling between developing children media resources for disaster management, managing the upcoming CBDM (community based disaster management) films, CBDM Facilitator Handbook meeting & other little things random CBDM stuff.. For your information, out of 6 team members of the CBDM department (including a coordinator and a manager), Im the only girl on the team.. So thats kinda interesting ya..But our bosses, which is the Executive Director and Development Director are women. Those ladies happen to be one of the closest people i have in Bali, they're like my sisters/moms.

Working in a small organisation that only has about total around 25 staff in our Ubud office (we have a branch office in Aceh which is actually bigger about 60 staff) is actually kinda interesting and fun.We are like this one big family. Lately we've been having quite a lot of farewells since the turnover of staff in our organisation is quite high coz we have lots of international volunteers, as well as peope just keep finding circumstances where they have to leave us.. Oh well, i think i am so used to farewells since when I was in Perth, farewells are like your monthly salary, they happened regulary... (am i right my friends??!!)

Oh well.. what i wanted to write actually was all this exciting projects that I'm doing at work.. Do you know that we just developed 5 disaster puppet films (like Sesame Street type) for teaching Indonesian kids & their community about disasters (earthquake, tsunami, flood & landslide, volcano & social conflict)... Sorry, im not doing promotion but it's seriously really cool.. So IDEP worked together with this Irish based NGO called No String (www.nostrings.org.uk). The founders of No Strings are actually the same people behind the Muppet Show. So this disaster films that we got are all made in New York. So we have a training of facilitator like 3 weeks ago in Sanur to launch this films as well as learning (from the New York Puppeteers) how to be trained Puppeteer. So I am now 'sort of' certified as Puppeteers. We did a trial on a primary school in Sanur, trust me is not an easy job to be puppeteers. Puppets are heavy and you have to do a lot of practices (oops..just remind myself that i havent done any practice since we finished the training)

Anyway,better stop talking now.. I dont want to make you bored with all these work related stories i have. Well this is because currently what my life revolve around, which work...work..work.. But i really thank God for this work i am doing.. As i have mentioned before, I really enjoy what I do & I learn so much... Okay, i promise i will not talk about work on my next post...

Ciao

List of things i miss from my 'old' life

Besides the sweet memories & friendships, there are just some random things that I miss about Perth...

Warning: it contains some weird habits or terms that only close friends might understand

• My regular swan river side walks
  
• Driving my blue Hyundai Accent
• Enjoying Mocha & fries in cold winter night with friends at our favorite cafe
• Hungry Jack, Red Rooster, Subway
• Listening to the radio while trying to relate the songs to my love life
• Adventure with my food hunting crews
• Bitter sweet friendships
• Girl-talk sessions
• Eating take away chiao italia Tiramisu with fellow Tiramisu lovers
• The smell of early Friday morning petrol station

My Ubud Highlight

My life is not like how it used to be
A year ago I was still back in uni struggling with assignments and part-time jobs
I had to take care of my lil' brother, the apartment, paying bills, church activities & other social activities I used to have in Perth..
Now my life is totally different and was never like how i thought or anyone else thought it's gonna be

I live here in Ubud, working at an NGO (non govermental organisation), which was i really wanted to do anyway.. but life is just different..
My work is great.. I love it.. Working in Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM) department which has taught me a lot of things this past few months.
What i do for work is basically doing all this activities related to CBDM like doing community training, developing media, making reports to donours, budgeting, etc..etc..
It's been really interesting so far, though there are so many things i need to know and learn.


In terms of church life, I dont really have a regular church.. I sometimes go to a church in Ubud, sometimes in Denpasar.. Transportation will be my excuse for not being so involve in church related activities or maybe I just want a break with all the ministry since I was so busy with those routine for the past 3.5 years so i might wanna have a little break and just be regular attender (well not so reguler since i go out of town alot :P )


In terms of social life, i dont really go out or hang out with people outside work, yeah..i know thats a bit pathetic.. At the moment i live in my boss house and spend most of time with her family.. It's not bad actually coz the kids keep me going when i feel tired esp. Jasmine the little one... She just lights up my life.. But eventhough my social life is not that fantastic but i have close friends who i can share my life with and I am greatful.. Sometimes my bestfrien back in perth give me a randome call once every 2 weeks which's really great and I'm so thankful she does that coz i guess I'm just as bad as keeping in touch (like every other friends i have)..