Throw Back Stories: Welcome to Scotland (3)

What a world ! Today my deep condolence goes to my beloved country, demonstration every where and a lot of people questioning the validity of justice here. Does it really exist to anybody without seeing their ethnic, religion, skin color, hair lines, intelligence, social level? Should Indonesian change their Bhinneka Tunggal Ika motto? I doubt that our people behavior still represent it.
Well, let's back to my stories because the exhilaration is still hanging up in my brain ~
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I opened eyes then I felt dizzy and cold. The sound of kids were waking me up. "Aunty Ria, Aunty Ria, wake up ! Let's have some walks today" my niece said. Oh yeah, it wasn't in Surabaya anymore but Glasgow. Yes, the biggest city in Scotland with its unique accent. I can easily recognized he or she iss Scottish, especially Glaswegian from their talking tone.

I was going down from the bed, trying to reach my charged phone. Hmm, I should change my SIM card first. I was using EE at that time, my brother choice. Some people said it was quite expensive but trust me, it service was never disappoint, easy to use, and provided simple bundling packages. Good job. I brought my phone to the Glencoe and Loch Ness but the signal was still there, although I couldn't reach internet at few spots in. At least I could send unlimited messages or voice talking.

My phone was set up, let's get breakfast ! An email notification suddenly popped out on my cell screen. "Email? Really? Been some weeks I've never received a serious one." I knew it was important because the mail was sent to my working email. Unexpectedly, the content of it was going to change my whole plans in Scotland. I was accepted to be one of volunteer in Glasgow Botanic Garden ! It was like a dream come true, the volunteer coordinator wanted to meet me immediately. Then I offered tomorrow Friday at 10 AM. For God Sake, it was my dream that I want to taste working in one of UK botanic garden so I can learn how do they manage the garden, especially in handling the weather. I announced this good news to my brother and sister, they were so happy too. "Okay, there is no time for you to jet lag, let's get rid of it by strolling around the city."

Me and my sister were at the halte bus Great Western Road, near Ripon Drive. Usually we took "First" bus number 6 or 6A if our destinations were around the city center.

 

This one, my lovely place in Glasgow city: Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Garden. Left side below is my favorite flower in here during summer, it 's called Pellagornium.

 

A pond near our flat. I was amazed with animal welfare in UK, especially scotland. This animals were wild and no one feel annoyed by their presence, even they care about them. Right side below, that was me while feeding birdies from a few distances hahahaha I was little bit afraid to give my bare hands, I just can't imagine how was it feel when their beaks were doing that "reflection massage" 😅

 

Here it is, the city hall of Glasgow and the field in front of it is called George Square. It has a wide public space for gathering, discussion. and yes, those old style building were adorable. I love its architecture ! Right side below is Glasgow center of Modern Art.

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Such a warming heart memories, dear Glasgow. I really miss you now xoxo !

Spirit of Hope

Hi there!
It takes a long time to bring me here, so sorry. The core is I'm back, I'll be more often write over and over again. This time, I come with challenge.......for myself. Ha ha ha. I'm not joking by the way, I want to challenge my self producing one post every one day. The post topic should be the neutral one, so anyone can read it.

Let's see how good am I in fulfilling a promise to my self.
Nothing waste when you write logically and truthful.
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Please meet my lovely flower named, Aprillion. It's included in Phalaenopsis family, Indonesia people usually call it "Anggrek Bulan". But why do I called him that name? Because I met him in March 8th 2016 and gladly bloomed in my bedroom in April. Octasharia, one of my lab mate gave aprillion to me. She said that she trusted me to take care of this flower, besides purple color was suit to describe my dynamic and passionate personality. Thank you so much Sari, you know me so well ! Indeed I'd rather choose the life flower than the bouquet one.
Since that time, Aprillion stayed in my dorm bedroom. Even when I moved everything to Surabaya, I brought him as well. I grabbed its pot all day long on the train, probably about 18 hours from Bandung to Surabaya. I do love him so much. He's my witness of everything, especially how hard is facing the world after college. If I can describe my post college life in few words, it may be like willing to preserve idealism in the other hand the surroundings keep judge you down and follow the main stream. At the same time, Aprillion also taught me how to get up and try again.

That's Aprillion's flower stalk, the purple one, proudly standing up on the front line of this photo !

At the first time Aprillion stay in Surabaya, he was little bit shocked. The leaves are falling, roots were diminish, even the old flower stalk was drought. Somehow he still survive.
It was new year, Aprillion start to bloom once more, even though took a long time to build a perfect flower stalk. February, the flower buds were getting bigger and looked like ready to bloom. But the faith said something else, unpredictable too much rain in that month ruined everything.

I thought Aprillion never know the give up words, at the beginning of April a new flower stalk appeared from the failed one and it grows faster than before. I was amazed to Aprillion, he always try until the result was more than I expected. It was blooming about three days after my birthday with addition of another flower stalk ! The most beautiful gift this year, thank you dear Aprillion 💜

Yellow Flower

This is one of my favorite flower after lily and chrysanthemum, it's called Gerbera or Hebras for bahasa. This creature somehow have a certain meaning which is cheerfulness, purity, innocence. I feel so satisfied looking at this beauty every day, hope my future house will full of it ! :p