Just an hour ago I was still working on my thesis presentation, and I wasn’t giving attention to my blackberry’s e-mail notification. Eventually I got bored and check out on it. I thought it was from one of online games I play (yes, I’m playing some :p) but it turned out to be an e-mail from a sender I don’t recognize.

I scrolled down and started to read it:

Dear Maharani,

thank you very much for your interest in our seminar, “Smart Materials for Design and Architecture.” We were very happy to receive your paper abstract and would like to include you in the day’s presentations.

… (the rest of the e-mail was fading away in my eyes, yes, it’s like I was having these mini-heart-attack moment and I was just freezing)

Oh, now I remember, 3 weeks ago I was ogling around dexigner apps in my iPad and I found this seminar: http://en.red-dot.org/4758.html

And I recall that I also sent my CV and abstract. I never thought of any possibilities that my papers will be selected! I mean.. IS THIS FOR REAL???

LIKE.. REAL????

They really want me to be one of the speakers, to give a lecture about my thesis in an international design seminar??

And I’m going to Berlin, to Red-Dot Design Museum????

i need someone to slap me.

oh, no need for that, reality already did.

(omg i gotta stop this masks-things already)

So I e-mailed my lecturers, and my thesis adviser straightly told me what to do (after she mock me a little at first, as usual), and what should I prepare for tomorrow. I will need financial aid for the travel expense, so I need to be quick and effective just like my adviser! (I really glad to know her, she’s a great lecturer and a super-woman!)

please please please God give me plenty time to do those opportunities, I need ways to find myself, and I know You know what i want and what i need *fingers crossed*

Lilith & Eve, a random doodle i made this evening. They say, evil wears a kind smile, so which one of them is actually evil, Lilith the 1st wife, or Eve the Adam’s rib?

number three here.

in less than 3 weeks, i’ll have my 1st single-trip abroad, there. not for long, just for 8 days as a starter of my self-distinct searching. nervous.

i just found this and i think i need to read more.

(via creatingaquietmind)

unconsumption:

More tennis-related repurposing:

Swing made from used tennis balls.

(via Danny Seo’s Daily Danny blog, mentioned previously here)

wired:

laughingsquid:

A Skull Made Out of Typewriter Parts by Jeremy Mayer

Would make a lovely desk ornament. 

(Source: jemayer)

(via quote-book)

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

She’s not the kind of girl
Who likes to tell the world
About the way she feels about herself
She takes a little time in making up her mind
She doesn’t want to fight against the tide

And lately I’m not the only one
I say never trust anyone

Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you’ll get what you want this time around

Can’t bear to face the truth
So sick he cannot move
And when it hurts he takes it out on you

And lately I’m not the only one
I say never trust anyone

Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you’ll get what you want this time around

The trick is to keep breathing [x2]

She knows the human heart
And how to read the stars
Now everything’s about to fall apart
I won’t be the one who’s going to let you down
Maybe you’ll get what you want this time around
I won’t be the one who’s going to let you down
Maybe you’ll get what you want this time around

The trick is to keep breathing [x7]

-Garbage-