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So  the apartment that my family lives in is located in rather city central. We got it for a very affordable price for its proximity to basically anywhere in Central Jakarta. The secret? When we decided to move there, not all the units were individual apartment units. Some were the typical hotel for nightly rental. Despite having legit families living there, the hotel was popular as place to have one night stand affair and Middle Eastern tourists having 'contract marriage'. I lived there for about two years before I went to study overseas, but all rooms have basically transformed into normal apartment for families and long term tenant now. There are still Middle Eastern tourists, but they are much more family-oriented these days. Also I have never seen drunk taxi passenger arguing over fare while drunk whenever I go for dawn prayer anymore. It was a crazy place.

Perhaps I have been living in Noa Dogenzaka afterall.

Who was your favorite Naruto character?

So my younger self cried a lot. I can count at least once a day back in elementary school. The record was something like 5-6 times on a day if I am not mistaken. I stopped crying on daily basis in my middle school. So one day, two close friend of mine 'reported' me to the counselling room for being a crybaby and they wanted to see me change into the better person (how nice of them!). And voila, I stopped crying on daily basis. It did have a cost, because for some reason I thought those cynic-ass manga character are cool and I wanted to be like them. So the crying stopped, but I wish I were kinder to everyone.

Now I do cry, not once a day obviously.I heard it's healthy occasionally.

(Yeah, Shikamaru Nara was my favorite character)

On Deliberate Practice

"I may be weird but I am at least I am not boring", I said this to a group of friend in my excuse of doing weird stuffs. I am not confident enough to say that I *AM* interesting, but sure I have always been well opinionated in many things to justify that I *AM* not boring. But you know what is the problem? The things I think as my qualities are tacit. Whenever I consciously think about my opinion on some stuffs explicitly I couldn't conclude if I really have a strong opinion on that. It's completely different when I have a conversation naturally and spouting all my nonsense. Maybe just like everything, having good opinion requires practice.

As for 2019, I want to be better at managing my finances. Amen to that.