note to self (1)

Found this on my Facebook page, and it did hit me! *sorry it's in Bahasa Indonesia

Jack Ma pernah berkata, "Ketika berjualan ke teman dekat dan keluarga, berapapun yang Anda jual ke mereka, mereka akan selalu berpikir, Anda sedang mencari untung dari uang mereka. Dan semurah apapun Anda jual ke mereka, mereka tetap tidak menghargainya."

Selalu ada saja orang-orang yang tidak peduli dengan biaya, waktu, dan tenaga Anda. Mereka lebih baik memilih ditipu oleh orang lain daripada membiarkan Anda mendapatkan hasil dari mereka, lalu mendukung seseorang yang mereka kenal. Karena di dalam hati mereka, mereka selalu berpikir berapa untung yang dia dapat dari saya? Bukannya berpikir berapa yang telah dia bantu hematkan atau bantu hasilkan untuk saya?

Ini adalah contoh klasik mental orang miskin!!

Bagaimana caranya orang kaya menjadi kaya? Alasan utama adalah karena mereka bersedia mendukung bussines associate mereka, menjaga kepentingan satu sama lain, maka secara alami mereka mendapatkan lebih banyak lagi.

Teman-teman Anda akan secara bergantian mendukung Anda. Maka lingkaran kekayaan ini akan terus bertumbuh dan semakin bertumbuh.

Sederhananya, kamu akan mulai menjadi kaya ketika kamu memahaminya.

Jack Ma berkata, "Ketika melakukan penjualan, orang pertama yang akan mempercayai Anda adalah orang asing. Teman Anda akan menutup diri dari Anda. Teman biasa akan menjauh dari Anda. Keluarga akan memandang rendah Anda."

Ketika suatu saat Anda telah sukses, Anda akan membayar semua tagihan ketika makan malam bersama, entertainment, dan disitu Anda akan menyadari semua orang akan hadir, kecuali orang asing.
Apakah Anda sudah paham?

Kita perlu memperlakukan orang asing lebih baik lagi! Dan demikian juga kepada teman yang tahu apa yang Anda lakukan, tetapi tetap mendukung Anda.

Mari memperlakukan orang asing yang membeli dari kita lebih baik lagi mulai hari ini. Karena mereka adalah pelanggan terbaik Anda.



The ugly truth, sad but true!

Singapore Bound #4

Day 4 : Changi

Holiday had to end here apparently..

Day 4 was our last day in Singapore in which we spent checking around the neighborhood in the morning. We had our breakfast in one of the neighborhood center and bought the $1 ice cream for dessert. We had ice cream at breakfast :D Ice cream is always irresistible, right? You just want to have ice cream at any time during the day, even in winter.

After the dessert, we walked back to our hotel and got ready to go to the airport.

Arriving at Changi, we directly went to our airways counter to check in our luggage so we could walk around carefreely. We planned checking on every facilities available at Changi, which we did. We found the movie theatre near the Sunflower Garden but the movies were nah, so we decided to look around. It was pretty good that an airport has fish ponds and gardens inside. When you have nothing to do waiting for your next flight, you can do various activities, can even hit the gym in the airport which I'm sure I won't do *I might miss the next flight dozing off on the chair after workout

But we felt bored eventually because that's all an airport can offer. It kept you busy for the first few hours when you just arrived and got really excited about exploring it. We ate, we strolled, we shopped til drop, literally entered (well, almost) every shops. Then our legs gave up and we just sat waiting for our flight to bring us home. Noo, holiday really had to end here *sad

I really think Singapore is a nice place to stay, it's very very neat and clean, everything is super coordinated. I dreamt that I would live abroad one day *I did when I studied in China, but hey my dream was so much more than that. So, we'll see where life will bring me.

But for now, back to reality.. Bye Singapore!

- meLLe- 

P.S. I'm glad that I insisted on going to Singapore this time with Monic and Intan because later on I found out that I got accepted to do my internship in a hospital in Bandung and Monic got accepted to a university in Ireland. So this was like our vacation before we walked separate ways for a while ---> means study

Oh, and, sorry for the lack of pictures here. I took most of the photos of Changi in my S2, haven't transfer the photos to my laptop *adding some pictures later ^^ 

Singapore Bound #3

After "few" rounds at the Universal Studios the day earlier, our legs hurt so much that we crashed the bed as soon as we reached our hotel. We rested well and were ready for the highlight number 2 on day 3.

Day 3 : S.E.A. Aquarium

Same routine as the previous day, we woke up and got ready to start our third day journey but a tad slower. We preferred to take a bus tour to the HarbourFront to enjoy a slower pace and took a bit sight viewing of the city. 

I was super duper excited for our tour to the aquarium. Did I tell you that I love water and marine life soo much? Oh, I thought may be I should have become a marine biologist instead.

This photo credit goes to Intan ^_^

Instantly glued to the shark tank when we entered the aquarium. I have always thought that sharks and whales are super cool!

Uber cool!

It was simply a surreal world beyond words.. @o@

I'll share you some pictures of my favorite place on earth ^_^ *squeal

Some lion fishes posing

My first time seeing a diver cleaning the fish tank. Wondering why they cleaned it during the opening hour of the aquarium? Maybe they were preparing the best view for feeding time?

Ready for a feeding frenzy?

The diver entering the tank and..  the fishes started to notice..

The fishes surrounded the diver

Ambush!!!

Guys, meet Nemo and Dory!

Neon lights

Few more shots from the main tank, the Ocean Dome..

Duo manta rays

Duo sea explorers?

That's the end of our tour!

(I kid you not, we stayed there until they almost closed..)

FAREWELL!!!

From Trio Sea Explorers!

- meLLe -

Singapore Bound #2

I'm in the mood for blogging tonight, so gonna blog away through my short visit to Singapore.


Day 2 : Universal Studios Singapore

My friends and I decided that we were just gonna stroll the night in Singapore on our first day to save our energy for the highlight on our second day. We were planning to spend the whole day at Universal Studios, from opening til close, yep, it's from 10am - 7pm.

We woke up early in the morning then went to HarbourFront (VivoCity) to take the Sentosa Express to Waterfront. We were there before the gate opened to find there's already quite a queue forming in front of the gate. Very impressive, folks! Everybody was ready for a day in the park.

The Universal Globe

I know I should've wait for the globe to turn and capture the whole "Universal" but who cares, I took a picture anyway. Let's proceed to the entrance gate, troop!

When the entrance finally opened and I entered the theme park, first thing that came into my mind was "Whoa! This is insane! This much of people flocking every single day, they are making a fortune! I'd like to amass a business empire as huge as this, too!" (thus it hits me right and square in my head right now, shit, I've got to get back on track making my own empire, and I will!). 

Found a cute diner in Hollywood with my name on it!

See?! Hehe

We were just walking past Hollywood and New York quickly to go to the Sci-Fi City and directly queue for The Transformers ride, heard that it has the longest queue. But couldn't resist the urge to take some pictures on the way just before everyone else flocking.. So..

Hello Cookie Monster, Big Bird and Oscar! ^_^

Wondering what will I become..

Well, I am a doctor!

How about the rest of the gang?

Me - doctor, Monica - engineer, Intan - illustrator

While passing through New York..

Pharmacy, eh? A doctor can't get away too long from "medicine" apparently *sigh

Cute!

Okay, nuff pictures gals! Let's ride The Transformers!

Bumblebee is waiting for us at the entrance!

I must say, it was FUN! Yippee, let's ride again after we finish going 'round the whole park!

Passing the Battlestar Galactica.. Crazy roller coaster, not sure I'd want to ride on it if it was open tho *not a big fan of roller coaster :(

At the Ancient Egypt while we were going to The Mummy ride, I had to brave myself to ride this one. One, I am not a big fan of roller coaster, two, I was scared of anything mystical related and I hated the movie, The Mummy. But I rode anyway, I've paid to experience all the rides.

Why I hated the movie? Well, the first movie I watched in the cinema was The Mummy, I had to watch it against my will just because I was gonna watch a cartoon, Atlantis, but when my friends and I arrived at the cinema, we were late for Atlantis. My 2 other friends decided to watch The Mummy, so it was 2:1, I lost, and it was the most terrifying 2 hours of my juvenile life. That's the story.

At The Lost World, in front of the famous gate, Jurassic Park! One of my favorites since I was kid.

Teaser only ehehe, we walked past the Jurassic Park tho, we saved it for the last. Warning in advance, the ride would get us super wet! So, save the best for the last! We've prepared a change of clothes and flip flops especially for this ride ;) *little did we know it was gonna be useful later, I'll spare the story for later

In the land Far Far Away..

We visited the castle to see Shrek and proceed to the Puss in Boots.

How was it?

Good!

After that we were hungry and headed to my diner, Mel's Drive-In, hehe. And that was our first round of the theme park. Finished fueling our energy, wouldn't be a good idea to directly hit those roller coaster rides. We went for the slower pace rides, strolling around and taking photos for a bit.

From afar

Found my dad's name now :D

Sesame Street street performance

Now it's almost time for the Waterworld show, we again walked towards The Lost World. 

Walked past the Far Far Away once more to pose in front of the castle and brave the sun *o*

Ooh, almost blind *o* Too hot!!

Ain't nobody too old for a merry-go-round in Madagascar!

Then we finished our second round. Twice already! Curious with the Steven Spielberg stage, we ran into the queue. Worth the queue, it was cool, no wonder they "Universal" made it this far. Great special effect!

When we were out from the Steven Spielberg's door, I felt few drops of water "Oh, they sprinkle us with water, still part of the show, eh?" Then we literally looked up to find that it was actually raining cats and dogs, NOO!! Luckily we were full throttled, we brought umbrella with us as well, rain wouldn't get in our way! *perks of having ourselves fully equipped. We even changed to flip flops. A lot of the tourists were drenched and had to find shelter because it was so sudden, it was really hot and then suddenly it was raining heavily *again, perks of bringing everything with you because no one could ever predict the weather, we are trained in Indonesia

Out from New York to Sci-Fi, braving the rain through the Ancient Egypt to The Lost World, we were ready for the wet ride we thought but unfortunately the ride was closed due to bad weather, whatt?! Uh okay, well, we decided to buy ponchos so we could walk without worrying our backpacks getting wet. So here we were, in the middle of the rain, walking around the park with ponchos, flip flops and umbrellas, TRIPLE COMBOS AGAINST THE RAIN. We tried to find a restaurant to snack because we kinda felt hungry but the seats were all taken, no empty seats, no kidding. Finding no seats to rest, we decided to just walk around, we wouldn't get wet anyway. So, one more lap around the park. And we're back to the Hollywood. That's the third round!

There were plenty of benches in Hollywood so we could rest our almost-gave-up legs. Time to take some pictures again! With the minion this time!

Papoy! Does it mean hello?

After some quality time with minion and our legs well rested. Hey, the rain stopped! Let's go to the Jurassic Park again for our final last ride and take some photos with T-Rex :D

Good girl :)

It's getting darker as we were leaving the Jurassic Park..

We've survived the Jurassic Park! *this pic taken earlier before the rain

And that's a whole day spent at the park! 

Good bye for now! Our legs gave up :(

1.. 2.. 3.. Papoy!

Me thrilled to meet The Cruisers! Wait, who are these guys again? Ah, never mind, they're cute <3

7pm, closing time

SEE YOU GUYS !!!

- meLLe -