curhatnya • janus

Life's too short to be sittin' 'round miserable
People gon' talk whether you doing bad or good, yeah.

(Cheers (Drink to That) - Rihanna)

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Before I start, I've got a new banner for the blog, yay! <3 Also, if you see the sidebar to the right, you'll see 'About Fransisca Theodora Fances' :3 Click to know more about me if you had the time. There's my bucket list there h3h3h3. **what**

It's actually been quite long since every education stuff is being halted, but I can't really muster up the idea to write about anything; because nothing happens to me (yeah, channeling the spirit of John Hamish Watson before Holmes) and, well, turns out that long school break is quite boring, indeed.

So boring that I got reduced to this:

(A cutscene from Janus)

Ha, pardon my stupidity.

Anyway I've been re-learning stuffs like using Photoshop and designing simple editing jazzy things and stuffs to cease my boredom and to fulfill an important work I've got to do. Turns out that my skill in Photoshop is sooo underdog and I'm going to start uni in August and I'm going to be majoring in Arts (then Cinematography) and I've got no skill at all, oh my what I'm going to do?!

(Janus: Roman's God of doorways, choices, beginnings and endings.)

I'll just go for it, I guess.

sekolah • like it's a birthday

Hullo people!

Hereby I proudly declare that School Final Examination is officially done! And I might fucked them royally. Kinda. I'm sure I failed Economics, badly, along with Math. So yeah, fingers crossed that they didn't turned out being that bad.

 Amen.

Anyways, one of the last thing to do in the series of SFE is doing a day social work in an assigned place, and S3 (my class) got Melati Kasih, a shelter for children to learn things, like crafts or something. Twas a lot of fun! I'm infatuated with their pearl of laughter and adorable smiles.

Yes, I have soft spot for nice, well-behaved kids.

No, there's no one having a birthday that day. But it looks like it, yeah? Especially with that happy birthday balloons, haha! Colorful is happy place, even though the balloons refused to stick in place for more than five minutes. (-__-)

A LOT OF CHILDREN.

It was crowded, like, realllyyy crowded. Especially when we are doing games.

And there's me teaching English. My team can't differ between mother and father in the beginning, but we finally aced that and won the game. Fuck Yeah Team 5!

It was a really tiring day, with a lot of shouting instruction and stuff. In the end of the session, after the kids all went home, Mrs. Darti, the caretaker of the shelter, have us gathered, and there's a small study session about Wayang.

SHRIEK. It's one of my favorite Indonesian crafts!

There isn't a lot of my friends excited about this thing. But I love it anyway!

He's a Dalang (wayang's puppet master), and he has 170 items of wayang, and his teacher is a great wayang maestro.

There's this story he told about wayang that left my friend a little freaked out. So, he learned about wayang in Solo (there are different wayangs in different areas, like Mangkunegaran, Pakualaman, and so on?) and he told us that there's a special wayang in Keraton Solo that's made from human skin (wayang's usually made from buffalo's skin) and that wayang has a curse. If you touched it, you'll die.

Thus, she freaked out.

Another thing is, wayang is realllyyy expensive. And that day, I fucking hold a fucking two million rupiahs Gunungan (a type of wayang used as background in the show) and damn that thing is SO COOL.

They have different pictures on each side.

I WANT ONEEE ;;_____;;

Sooo that's all for now. The only obstacle left is National Final Examination, which will be held on April 15-18. After that, a long day offs awaits! So excited for that already, whoop!

Dag!

fotonya • juli

And the sky was a-flare,
when he came up for air,

in his homemade, fan-blade,

one-man submarine ride.

( Walt Grace Submarine Test, January 1967 • John Mayer)

(i'm pretty sure her crop tee was from forever 21; and obviously the pair of shoes is converse; shorts? zilch. got no idea.)

Endless Summer.

Model: Eva Pastora

Photographer: F. Theodora