I know this is late af, but I just want to
share it. I mean, after the whole 25/26 years, I finally celebrated new year
with someone besides my churchmates.
A little background, my churchmates are my
childhood friends. We met up every single week ever since we were born, and as we grew up and
became real friends, some of us hang out together even more than once a week.
So, imagine that we’ve met each other once every week, and even more for 25
years.
Yeah, they really are not my friends anymore.
They are more like brothers and sisters, even more than my own brothers and
sisters by blood.
It’s a bit icky to admit this, but this is
fact. Okay, moving on.
I always celebrated new year with them. Ever
since I was allowed to celebrate new year without my parents observation, that
is. I’ve tried to plan my new year with other friends, let’s say college
friends, but it just didn’t work out. Even when I finally didn’t celebrate new
year in church (yeah we churchmates celebrate our new year in church because we
were broke and couldn’t afford a place), I still celebrated it with
my...churchmate.
Classic.
Anyhoo, I celebrated last new year with few
friends in Bandung. We’ve known each other for a year because we met in the
church (YES STILL CHURCHMATES) and we the family less friends decided to hang
out. So we did.
I was actually really giddy, you know. I mean,
these are new friends. I never thought I would make new friends. Well, this
could lead a whole other post, but let’s stop there for now and just get back
to the story.
I went out to but drinks and nuggets on the
D-Day, because I didn’t have refrigerator and I wanted to keep them as fresh as
possible. I also just found out that the carrot cake in Setiabudi Market is
awesome, so, score!
We had our little celebration in Eric’s place
(I know, another Eric for churchmate. Hey, they look a bit similar too!). The
place was uber awesome!
So, he (or his dad) owned this 5-story
building in Sudirmam, a street famous for piggy cuisine. It was located close
to the alun” and basically just laid in the centre of the city. The uber
awesome part?
It had a rooftop.
The view from the rooftop was absolutely
amazing. We could see the unending fireworks from Alun Alun up close. Not to
mention the competitive neighbors who thew fireworks right on the top our
heads. But the most spectacular one must be from 23 Paskal Mall, which wasn’t
far. They must spend millions on fireworks that awesome. Oh, also you could see Lembang, the glittery
night view with hundresd of little fireworks. So beautiful.
Of course, I had a new year resolution this
year. I really want to finish a novel.
It was hard, especially with me keep having
ideas for new novels and my worktime. Seriously, I must applaud Ko Angga for
succeding finishing his even tho he
worked. He is also my writing
partner, and the one to inspire me to really finish mine…because he finished
his 10 years novel already. I also want to achieve that!
This year is just different. I am surrounded
by other people except my peers back in Jakarta, which was something I just
never imagined before. I found a new awesome friend who is just superb at photo
hunting and supporting me to find new dreams. We grow up closer I kinda like how we hang out together.
I don’t
know how this year will end, but I intend to enjoy it.
I feel like this year God wants to teach me
something. I don’t know if I can fully absorp it or not, but I want to learn.
Like it or not, this is a year of change, and my faith to Him is one thing that
will never chnage, but will grow deeper, taller and stronger. I might fall from
time to time, but my confidence is this: He will always pick me up.
Amen!
