Untuk yang cabang Chinatown ada 2. Lokasi tempat saya menginap adalah Project Chinatown 1
yang terletak di Pagoda Street. Lokasinya sangat dekat dengan MRT, tidak begitu jauh dari tangga
eskalator, pintu keluar Pagoda Street.

Taken from Haruki Murakami book, Norwegian Wood.

Sunday morning I got up at nine, shaved, did my laundry, and hung the clothes on the roof. It was a beautiful day. The first smell of autumn was in the air. Red dragonflies were flitting around the quadrangle, chased by neighborhood kids swinging nets. With no wind, the Rising Sun hung limp on its pole. I put a freshly ironed shirt and walked from the dorm to the streetcar stop. A student neighborhood on a Sunday morning: the streets were dead, virtually empty, most stores closed. What few sounds there were echoed with special clarity. A girl wearing sabots clip-clopped across the asphalt roadway, and next to the streetcar barn four or five kids were throwing rocks at a line of empty cans. A flower store was open, so I went in and bought some daffodils. Daffodils in the autumn: that was strange. But I had always liked that particular flower.

Three old women were the only passengers on the Sunday morning streetcar. They all looked at me and my flowers. One of them gave me a smile. I smiled back. I sat in the last seat and watched the old houses passing close by the window. The streetcar almost touched the overhanging eaves. The laundry deck of one house had ten potted tomato plants, next to which a big black cat lay stretched out in the sun. In the yard of another house, a little kid was blowing soap bubbles. I heard an Ayumi Ishida song coming from someplace and could even catch the smell of curry cooking. The street-car snaked its way through this private back-alley world. A few more passengers got on at stops along the way but the three old women went on talking intently about something huddled together face-to- face. 

I got off near Otsuka Station and followed Midori's map down a broad street without much to look at. None of the shops along the way seemed to be doing very well, housed as they were in old buildings with gloomy-looking interiors and faded writing on some of the signs. Judging from the age and style of the buildings, this area had been spared the wartime air raids, leaving whole blocks intact. A few of the places had been entirely rebuilt, but just about all had been enlarged or repaired in spots, and it was those additions that tended to look far more shabby than the old buildings themselves.

The whole atmosphere of the place suggested that most of the people who used to live here had become fed up with the cars and the filthy air and the noise and high rents and moved to the suburbs, leaving only cheap apartments and company flats and hard-to-move shops and a few stubborn holdouts who clung to old family properties. Everything looked blurred and grimy as if wrapped in a haze of exhaust gas.

Ten minutes' walk down this street brought me to a corner gas station where I turned right into a short block of shops in the middle of which hung the sign for Kobayashi Bookstore. True, it was not a big store, but neither was it as small as Midori's description had led me to imagine. It was just a typical neighborhood bookstore, the same kind I used to run to on the very day the boys' magazine came out. A nostalgic mood overtook me as I stood in front of the place.

The whole front of the store was sealed off by a big, roll down metal shutter inscribed with a magazine advertisement : "Weekly Bunshun Sold Here Thursdays." I still had fifteen minutes to noon, but I didn't want to kill time wandering through the block with a handful of daffodils, so I pressed the doorbell beside the shutter and stepped a few paces back to wait. Fifteen seconds went by without an answer, and I was debating myself whether to ring again when I heard a window clatter open above me. I looked up to find Midori leaning out and waving.

Hi, I'm Riana Dewi, 24 years old (born in 1991, October, Libra)




This is me (the photos taken in 2011, haha hope the face is still the same)

If you're seeing me taking the commuter line every morning, please say hello! :D
I love taking train and public transportation, but I always wear headset, because it will be huge disaster of not wearing those. Hahaha (if u know what I mean).

But please say hello to me, even though I'm not seeing u.
I love talking and sharing with people, I think I always get new lesson by having conversation with others. So, I will enjoy talking with you.

Sometimes I even talking and having deep conversation with stranger like Uber, Gojek or Taxi driver. Haha, it's always nice to talk with people!

Please pardon me, if i'm being too talkative sometimes...

I love writing, but I think I have problem with consistency :))
There is 1 obsession that I can't be fulfilled : writing 1 article in blog every day.
It's always hard to start writing, but when I write, I can't stop....

By just looking at my body, you'll know I'm foodie.
I enjoyed eating. Of all the food that I eat, I like Chinese the most, but the halal one ya :)
Also I enjoyed waffle, chocolate and all kind of ice cream (all sweets please come......)

This year, I just realized that I have the new favorite beverages : Teh Tarik and Milk Tea. I feel very happy and my mood will boost by just drinking this. So, when I got a very bad mood, please give me this :P (kidding)

I'm taking degree at Communication Science in University of Indonesia.
When I'm still very young (junior high school) I always admire people who can write at newspaper. I always think that they are very smart, bright and cool!
So, that's why I'm taking Journalism as my minor in university.

But..... don't know why, right now I'm not being journalist.
Every one can have dream, but my career path leads me to work at tech startup company! Haha

I love working at startup.... I enjoyed every second of it... never regret my decision to choose this

Beside working, I love watching movies and listening music.
I don't have favorite music, sometimes just like any kind of music playing in the radio :p
For movies, I love watching any kind of movies that the character (lead actor) is developed
For example :
+ From just someone that is being bullied by his family to the famous magician (Harry Potter)
+ From the ugly and not fashionable to the beauty, smart and chic (The Devil Wears Prada)
+ From the bad student to the brightest vocalist in choir (The Boy Choir)

I also like bibliographic movies and the movie whom the lead character is very smart and even genius (like Sherlock Holmes, The Imitation Game, The Martian, etc)
The genre of movie I like mostly is science fiction, family, romance or drama. I don't like watching horror, thriller or action.

I will not refuse if my friends asking me to watch horror, thriller or action, but it will waste your money to take me watching horror or thriller, because most of the time I will close my eyes during the movies.... :))

So, I just share a little note about me.
I would like to get acquittance with you, if you have anything to share or ask, you can send me email to rianadewi.121091@gmail.com, I will be happy replying even though we're stranger

Nice to e-meet you all!
Have a good day and cheers :D

I think most people have to redefine what passion means to their life. Passion is not the way you have to do in life so you could get bucks. If only you doing something just because it will be beneficial (get money) for, it's not passion, at all.

Passion also, not something that need to be enforced to yourself.

You just love to do that for the sake of your own happiness.

It's passion when you wake up at midnight, not because you have to do it, because tomorrow is the deadline of your work. But you really have to do it because you just want to do it and love to do it.

And, we are human, we sometimes feel bored of doing something continously. Even when you realized that it's your passion, for example writing story for children. You follow your instinct to make hundreds or even thousand stories. Do you think you'll feel bored? Yes, i think. You will feel bored if you just sit and wait inspiration comes to your brain.

But, if you mix it up with anything you love, that wont be too bored

Because we, as human, we love so many things. Even when you love writing, sometimes deep in your soul, you always love travelling, or singing when rain falls down, or maybe gather with your family or friends.

It's not a mistake i think, to stop doing -that you believe it's your passion- when you feel bored, and doing other things you like, gather with people you love or trying other things you really want to do.

In the end, it will still guide you to your passion. Because passion is something you love. Something you really like. You'll never forget about something you really love easily, right?

If you just like something for being professional, it's not passion, i guess. If you do something so you can be recognized by people in society, it's also not passion.

Passion is something that you did without purpose. You just love it and you want to do it again and again and again.

Because being proffesional is not about looking cool with many books and newspapers. Its about continously doing something you love -anything.

Everyone is so special.
If you cant be like others, why you should be upset?
You are not destined to be like them. You destined to be the special pieces that match the puzzle. You dont have to be the same as everyone does.

:)

Tidak hanya parkirannya yang penuh. Saat masuk ke dalam, para pengunjung pun sudah memenuhi meja makan. Sebagian pengunjung lainnya memilih menikmati panganan di tempat makan yang disediakan di luar, ditemani semilir angin dan rimbunnya pohon.