Thank God, it's #88LOVELIFE Vol.2

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#88LoveLife Vol. 2 is finally released!! Yaayyy, i know it's quite late to post this news since this lovely book was released on January 2016. Yep! Good timing for accompany you in this new year. If you notice, i actually already post some of #88LoveLife Vol. 1 quotes on my blog. It's like my another bible which become my role to be a positive-cheerful-kind of human being. Like a vitamin for my soul. Kind of reminder to be a better person.

And this second volume also become my favorite one. It's start with the first qoute that teach you to love everything you do. I learn about how to apreciate my self, my life, and also love others even the haters. It makes me moorrreee grateful for everything i have. That life is imperfect, but that's imperfection we got just makes our life more colorful. I learn about it just the way we face our life through good day and bad day (i love the cupcake analogy on the page #48). This book also teach me about letting go things. Another lesson learn, especially for me, even howmany times i got fall and fail, i would never stop try to get up and i do believe i will be a better person tommorow. I will be a better one with a mind full of positive thinking, and a heart full of love and joyness.

My 2015 goin a bit hard (didn't mean to complain and be ungrateful), but i have a fight with my parents and i run away from home (i mean from my boarding house, that here in Jogja i'm living alone) because i can't handle their complain about my study, it's such a big push for me. Yes, last year was my 7th years in collage and i didn't graduate yet. It's like a 'what a big shame, Laras', you're not that stupid but in fact you didn't graduate yet. For me, looking to (almost) my close friends busy with working life is very exhausted, i feel terribly shame of my self, useless as a person, a daugther, and a student. I live in sadness and my regretness of my past, and i always think if i can back to my past, i will do better, so maybe i have a better life today. In that time, i haven't anyone close to me because longdistance-boyfriend is living in Bekasi, my closest friend are working out of Jogja, so i have to bear all alone. I decided to applying job, and suddenly God gives me His hand, i accepted as human resouce in a new Hotel in town. Then i wake up, i'm not that useless person, i still have something in me. And finally i communicate with my parent, they do accept me with all my pass, and i promise them that i will be a better daughter for them, i will finished my study because that's all they want. And now, i almost finished my last assignment and hopefully this May i get my final presentation to be a S.I.Kom.

But, there's a day that i still regreting my mistake in past, and i just can't remove it from my head. Till i read this #36 words of #88LoveLife :

"when you dwell in sadness, life will leave you behind. Move on. Forgive and forget, even those who do not forgive you. Happiness is not defined by the number of people who love you or hate you. Happiness is about how you love and forgive both others and yourself."

Then i remember, maybe all the regret still come because i didn't forgive my self. How to move on, is i need to forgive my self first. Forgive and forget my all mistakes in past and learn from them. The idea of forgive itself as closer as letting go, letting go my past and build a new me. Those words become my favorite quote from #88LoveLife Vol. 2, it's really really help me to be better when i don't know how to stopped my regretness. Tbh, i can't even say how much i love this book (also the first volume), that makes me thankful also adore kak Diana Rikasari so much, and also thank to kak Dinda Puspitasari who create those colorful-bright illustration that's complete this book. All the cheerful colors and illustration such a wrap for this bright-happy-thought book.

In this second volume, i also find more parenting words than in the volume 1. Since i'am not a mother, i see this quote as the child, Shahmeer would be feeling loved and warms when he read this story someday. And when i become a mother someday, i will try to be a lovable mother. Family always come first, this is also i love about this book, how kak Diana presenting this book for her husband and her son. How she tells about being a wife to her husband is about to be a partner in life too, a team for each other. It seems sweet you know. This book also teach you about her relationship with the Owner of our life, that it's good to talk to Him. And this is kinda teach me to become closer to God. :)

And how i love this book alot, it's not promise you that you will always get a happy-perfect life, but you can have a happy-perfect life with all the imperfection in life, all just about how you see life and how precious it is. 

After my fave quote in page #36, my fave illustration is in page #43. I found that it's a strongest colours among others pages, it's color like summer with some flowers bloom, and it has a simply qoute that represent the whole book : "your happy life is a mindset away."

Pic taken by me

For the last, i just want to say to kak Diana and kak Dinda, "Maybe everyone can buy and read #88LoveLife (both Vol. 1& Vol. 2), but for me it is an honor to be a reader of your book, thank you for inspiring me and all the readers through this love-bible-of-live". I can say, if my religion is love, this book must be the bible. :)

Lots of love,

#88LoveLife loyal reader.

Yellow, Color of Forgiveness

When a friend of mine give me #30DaysChallenge on Path, and the 5th day topic was about something yellow. Then i remember my fave movie that released in 2006 with Amarillys Campos (Roselyn Sànchez) as the main character. One thing that touched my heart is about the yellow poem, i dont know why i just love it..

Yellow, Color of Forgiveness

Pray for me and i'll pray for you

pray for the wicked and the evil, too.

Pray for the genius and the not so smart

who with their smiles still touch our hearts.

Pray for those who would destroy

all the baby girls and all the baby boys

with their evil toys.

Pray for the robber, pray for the thief

pray for the loss of our belief.

Pray for those who can no longer pray

pray for the loss of another day

My mother and my father

have gone from here

others I've loved from yesteryear

as I grow old and move toward sleep

releasing pains I've held so deep

deeper than the soul's regret

memories I've yet to forget

O hope, my love, don't leave me yet

your lips speak softly of the light

as I move humbly into night

form the book

Colors by Miles Emory

This post wouldn't complete without the movie trailer of Yellow (2006)

I am really into this movie. May you say that this movie a bit feminist, but that what i love. Woman should give her best to reach her dreams, woman should not give up her passion only for a man. There always be something to sacrifice when you are facing your future. It's your choice, but you girls don't get rid of your dreams easily :) Fight for it.. xxx, eby

Melasti & Tawur Agung sebagai Rangkaian Ritual Hari Raya Nyepi Saka 1936

Melasti sebagai salah satu bagian dari rangkaian ritual menjelang Hari Raya Nyepi bagi umat Hindu, memiliki makna menghilangkan kotoran diri dan jagat raya yang disimbolisasikan dengan labuhan sesaji ke laut serta menyucikan arca, pratima, nyasa, pranlingga sebagai wujud atau sthana Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa dengan segala manifestasi-Nya (Source : PHDI). 

Nah, karena Nyepi tahun inipun aku masih di Yogyakarta, jadi aku mengikuti upacara Melasti yang diadakan di Pantai Parangkusumo (as always) pada hari Jumat, 30 Maret 2014 lalu. Puncak acara di Pantai Parangkusumo dilangsungkan dengan berbagai ritual keagamaan serta pembacaan doa. Ritual diakhiri dengan melabuh berbagai sesaji ke laut selatan. 

Setelah banten/ sesaji didoakan dan beberapa ritual awal dilaksanakan, seluruh umat Hindu yang hadirpun melakukan persembahyangan bersama. Dan seperti biasa, setelah persembahyangan diakhiri dengan nunas tirta seperti pada gambar diatas. Dimana umat diberi air yang sudah disucikan dan menggunakan bija/ beras di kening, dada, dan dimakan.

Ini dia puncak ritual melasti seperti yang sudah dijelaskan diawal, berbagai sesaji dilabuhkan ke pantai. Melasti biasanya menggunakan air sebagai simbolisasi pembersihan, sehingga kegiatan ritual ini berlangsung di pantai, dan juka jauh dari pantai dilakukan di sungai atau mata air yang dapat dijangkau dengan mudah. (Source : PHDI) 

Dan yang dilakukan oleh umat setelah melabuhkan sesaji adalah membersihkan kaki, tangan, serta muka menggunakan air pantai sebagai simbol membersihkan diri.

Setelah Melasti, ada rangkaian ritual lain yang dilakukan setelahnya, yaitu Tawur Agung Kesanga. Biasanya ritual ini dilakukan pada Tilem (bulan mati) terakhir sebelum Hari Raya Nyepi yang merupakan perayaan Tahun Baru Saka. Ritual ini dilangsungkan dengan tujuan membuat dan memohon kepada Tuhan untuk kesejahteraan alam lingkungan. Untuk perayaan Tawur Agung di Yogyakarta biasanya dilaksanakan di Candi Prambanan.

Ini tenda khusus pejabat, menteri agama hadir juga lho disini.

Setelah selesai persembahyangan

Ritual ini dilaksanakan di Area Wisnu Candi Prambanan

Baracuda adalah nama KMHD (Keluarga Mahasiswa Hindu Dharma) STIE YKPN di Yogyakarta

Menu sarapan sebelum ke Prambanan, Nasi Ayam Betutu by Warung Bu Komang :9

Well, of course i'm not gonna skip the selfie moment in this post, hehehe. All of picture here is taken by the awesome Lenovo S960 or known as Lenovo Vibe X ;)

Here's the before after pic about my hair. I do simply bun for daily templing, and i have a set of jepit bunga jepun in many colors so i can use it adjusting to my kebaya colors. This pic is for Melasti day.

My outfit of the day on Tawur Agung ritual.

Oke, mungkin sudah cukup aku bercerita tentang perayaan Nyepi ku yang ke-8 di Yogyakarta. Glad to having this post :)

Om Santi, Santi, Santi Om

Eby

Nyepi Çaka 1934

My room

23 Maret 2012

10.29

Nyepi makes me lonely..

            Selamat Hari Raya Nyepi Tahun Baru Saka 1934 bagi seluruh umat Hindu yang merayakan. J Especially for my mom, dad, adek Yoga, mbak Nina, and my whole family.

            Esensinya, Nyepi itu selain melaksanakan Catur Brata Penyepian, juga buat instropeksi diri. But see, aku menyalakan lampu di pukul 9.45 pm . itu karena aku gak cukup tahan dengan rasa kesepian yang menyelimuti.

            Aku yang pada hari biasa cukup mudah merasa kesepian, bagaimana tidak aku merasa semakin kesepian di hari Nyepi ini. Jauh dari orang tua, dengan seabrek tugas kuliah dan kesibukan lainnya. Dan aku butuh sahabat-sahabatku untuk meluluhkan rasa sepi ini. Saat semua rasa ini tidak terakomodir, disitulah gunanya social media seperti twitter ato blog untuk aku menyalurkan dan menumpahkan seluruh rasa yang mendesak keluar.

            I missed Bapak and Ibu so bad. Ini adalah tahun ke tujuh aku Nyepi sendiri tanpa keluarga. I Just missed all the moment with my Family. Besok pasti di rumah rame banget tamu yang dateng buat silaturahmi. Dan bagaimana repotnya ibu tanpa aku dirumah untuk menyiapkan segalanya. Oh damn, I miss all the food made by mom. L I miss how my dad talk wisely about Hindu and the whole things.

            I prays for mom, dad, and my lil bro as always J 

Warm regard,

Your daughter, Your sister