Liburan...siapa takut!!

Liburan adalah saat yang dinantikan oleh hampir semua orang.

Untuk dapat menikmati liburan yang berkesan, biasanya kita mempersiapkan dari jauh-jauh hari, mulai dari tiket pesawat, hotel, dan lain sebagainya. Termasuk budget untuk liburan tersebut. Karena tiap tahun rasanya harga tiket dan hotel makin meningkat.

Hanya saja sekarang ini banyak sekali digembar gemborkan promosi tiket murah oleh airline tertentu. Dengan catatan untuk mendapatkan tiket pesawat maupun kamar hotel dengan harga murah itu kita harus memesannya jauh sebelum tanggal keberangkatan. Misalnya AIRASIA, AIRASIAGO

Untuk itu kita harus jeli dan rajin membuka website airline tersebut untuk bisa mendapatkan harga promosi.

Tapi tidak semua airline menerapkan hal seperti itu. Kebanyakan malah membuka harga mahal dulu, nanti jika sudah mendekati tanggal keberangkatan barulah harga murah nya dikeluarkan. Entah apa sebabnya. Misalnya: Lion Air, Mandala Airlines (sebelum ijin operasionalnya dicabut)..

Saya sendiri pernah beberapa kali mendapatkan tiket pesawat dengan harga murah hingga super murah.

Pernah pada waktu akan liburan lebaran, hingga kurang seminggu saya masih belum memiliki rencana apapun. Dan pada saat kurang 3 hari, saya iseng-iseng membuka website Lion Air untuk melihat harga rute Surabaya-Jakarta p.p untuk periode lebaran. Dan ternyata ada harga yang untuk periode “high season” termasuk murah. Yaitu sekitar 300 ribu rupiah sekali jalan. Langsung saya menghubungi agen travel langganan saya untuk melakukan reservasi dan pembelian tiket tersebut. (biasanya untuk periode lebaran harga tiket Surabaya-Jakarta adalah mulai 500ribuan sekali jalan, bandingkan juga harga tiket kereta api kelas eksekutif yang berkisar diharga 300-400ribuan)

Hal tersebut terulang lagi pada saat akhir tahun. Saya berencana untuk ke Jakarta pada tanggal 30Desember. Tetapi seperti kejadian yang sebelumnya, saya bermodalkan cara iseng-iseng melihat harga tiket. Mulai dari awal bulan, saya minta tolong agen travel saya untuk melakukan reservasi. Tapi harganya mahal sekali. Sekali jalan mencapai harga 500ribuan. Karena saya memiliki pengalaman bahwa semakin mepet waktunya semakin murah harga yang diberikan, maka saya menunggu sampai saat terakhir. Dan kejadian yang sama terulang. Pada tanggal 29 Desember, sekali lagi saya bisa mendapatkan tiket pesawat ke Jakarta seharga 300ribu rupiah sekali jalan.

Yang lebih mencengangkan lagi, pas lebaran tahun lalu. Pada waktu itu Mandala Airlines masih beroperasi.

Tepat kurang 4hari sebelum tanggal keberangkatan yang saya rencanakan, tiba-tiba muncul di website Mandala Air harga tiket pulang pergi Surabaya-Jakarta hanya 300ribu.

Suatu kejutan yang sangat menyenangkan sekali.

Sayang sekali sekarang Mandala Airlines sudah tidak beroperasi lagi.

Tepat dua hari sebelum ijin operasional Mandala Air dicabut, saya sempat membeli tiket secara online dengan rute Surabaya-Jakarta pulang pergi. Seharga 180ribuan. Tapi belum sempat saya berangkat, ijin nya dicabut. Sungguh mengecewakan.

Untuk penerbangan dengan memesan tiket dari jauh hari pun pernah saya lakukan juga. Naik Air Asia rute Surabaya Jakarta pulang pergi (sebelum rute ini ditutup) hanya dengan harga 42ribu rupiah saja.

Lebih murah dari biaya airport tax dan biaya taxi dari rumah saya ke airport.

Juga rute Surabaya-Medan pulang pergi hanya 150ribuan.

Biasanya berita promosi untuk Air Asia ini dimuat di koran, Facebook, dan bahkan dikirim melalui email.

Sebenarnya saya ingin sekali bisa menikmati penerbangan ke luar negeri dengan harga super murah. Namun karena keterbatasan waktu maka masih belum ada momen dan kesempatan yang tepat.

Secara singkat, ada banyak cara untuk bisa mendapatkan tiket pesawat dengan harga murah.

Ayo mumpung waktu liburan masih jauh, manfaatkan kesempatan untuk memperoleh tiket pesawat dengan harga murah. Siapa cepat dia dapat.

Atau tirulah cara saya. Semakin mepet waktunya semakin murah harga tiket yang diberikan (cara ini bisa diterapkan jika keberangkatan tersebut bukan merupakan suatu keharusan. Jadi berangkat hanya jika mendapat tiket murah)

SELAMAT BERBURU TIKET MURAH

SHOP TILL YOU DROP

SUPER SALE up to 90%...
SUMMERSALE up to 50% ALL BRANDED ITEMS...

MIDNIGHT SALE …
WINTER SALE BUY ONE GET ONE FREE
(terms and conditions apply)

Let’s take a glance at the sale session, nearly at all shopping centers, we can find many women who carry at least one shopping bag. They seem to be on a shopping spree.

Almost all women like shopping. I do not mean to disregard men.

It’s one of the most interesting ways for relaxation for women.

Some magazine even wrote that shopping is stated to be one of the therapies to release stress. (Though the effect after shopping will cause another new stress, e.g: an over limit credit card, lack of money, etc)

It is said that while doing the shopping, they seemed to have an extra energy that burst out. They will ignore the exhaust feeling, pain on their leg, as long as they get the super cheap goods. And the cheaper the things they get, the more satisfied they will be.

Actually, in the period of sales, we must be very careful about the offers.

The sign of sales will be designed to attract us. Usually the stores make them in an extra big size, but add some tricky words also.

As stated above. SUPER SALE up to 90%

However the 90% discount is not applicable for all items. It’s only for few of them. Those are: the abnormal size, the extreme color item, the slow moving item.

The other store put the sign SALE 50% (for the second same item).

If the buyers do not aware of the sentence written in smaller font, they will be trapped.

During these periods, sometimes we compete with other people who happened to have the same targeted discount items. These are very risky for us, especially for women. As the best target for these big sales, usually they do not check the discounted items thoroughly, because they are afraid if others will take them first.

So, they will buy a cheap thing but not long lasted one

This is just a warning for the reader to be aware. Don’t be easily trapped with the BIGSALE signs. Shop till you drop, but do not drop your money.

HAVE A HAPPY AND WISE SHOPPING….

What you want is not what you always get

In computer lingo, there is a phrase: WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET

We can not apply the phrase in our daily life.

As a human being, we have a lot of wishes and desires, just like others.

We need a car. We need new house appliance. We need a bigger house. We need these. We need those.

A lot of wishes will appear in our lives. Nobody lives without needs.

That is why there’s a fiction about Genie who can fulfill all our wishes.

However, not all our wishes can be fulfilled. We don’t have any genies or spirit or whatever it is named to serve us all days.

We must realize that sometimes we will not get all our desires. It’s because of the condition and situation of our life.

Sometimes what we want is not appropriate enough for our life, and GOD knows about it. That’s why He does not give permission for us to get it.

We must understand that although He seems to be very still and not have any concern to us, but He will give us the best thing according to His thought.

We do not get what we want but what GOD wants us to get.

Joyful Cherie

Just remembering

Of every single day I have passed
Year by year
Full of laughs and tears
Unspeakable feeling of
Love and Hope

Come oh come my cheerful mind
Hand in hand we will
Enlightened the world
Rejoice in the spirit
Imagine a great moment of an
Everlasting serenity

(Written on my 36th birthday)

GOSSIP

In a very quiet suburb, there was an old couple who lived in a small house surrounded by a cozy garden. Mr and Mrs Still. They live quietly too inside the house. Never make any noisy and crowded sound. They lived their life peacefully. They were very gentle and friendly to all people at their neighborhood. They never conducted any bad behavior. They were always good to everyone.

Until one day, there came a young lady who stayed next door. Her name is Ms Chatty. She looked very cheerful and talkative. She liked to talk and chat.

Upon her arrival, there were a little bit changes in the street she lived. It became more cheerful because of the high volume of music all day. Every morning, Ms Chatty had already sat on the bench near Mr and Mrs Still’s garden, made telephone calls to her friends and chat for hours. Told them about everything happened in that place.

She also liked to stop by at her neighbors, just to say hello and have a little chit chat here and there. Soon, she was quite well-known in that neighborhood.

One day, the Stills planned to cut down a very old big tree in their garden, since the dry leaves of the tree caused a lot of mess, and the twigs created a noisy sound in a windy season. So, they discussed about their plan.

“Darling, tomorrow we must work our plan. We can’t wait any longer. It’s very annoying. Mr. Woody will help us to execute the big body. We must cut it little by little until he got collapse. ”

“Ok. You make it bald first, and then I will do the rest”

“We should get rid of those bugs first.”

“We must prepare the axe, chopper, saw and all tools.

While they were talking about the tree cutting, Ms Chatty happened to overhear. However since the volume of the music inside is very loud, she can not grasp the whole conversation clearly. She was very shocked indeed. She hurriedly went to Mr Nosy’s house. She told him in trembling voice, “You would never believe me if you did not hear it directly. Mr and Mrs Still were not as good and gentle as their appearances. They were very sadistic. They said that they would execute Mr Woody because that bald and big body was an annoying bug. They want to cut him until collapse. They have prepared all the weapons.

Mr Nosy was also shocked. He directly drove his car to Mr Shabby’s store and told him about what he had just heard from Ms Chatty.

“Hi Mr Shabby, you know what. There would be a very brutal execution in our district. The Stills was not as still as we assumed. They would cut the annoying and big bald Mr Woody into pieces and prepared some bugs to get rid the collapsed body.”

“Is it true? Wow…let me tell my friend”

Then the story was told from one house to another house with various versions.

And the following day, everyone in that suburb was standing near the Still’s house and waiting for the execution.

When Mr Woody came to the Stills, all people whispered to one another. “Poor Mr Woody, he will end his life in the hand of a brutal and cruel old couple”.

When Mr and Mrs Still looked at the crowd, they were amazed and wondered.

They asked them why they stood outside the house. Then Mr Shabby asked Mr Still why he wanted to get rid of Mr Woody and give the body to the bugs.

Mr Still was very shocked and almost choked hearing the news. Then he explained to all people the real story.

And Ms Chatty as the first one, who spread out the wrong news, was suddenly disappeared. And not long after that incident, she moved out from the suburb.

The people at the suburb were back to the normal life again. The quiet and peaceful life.

We can learn from the story, that we must not spread the news or stories if we don’t know it very much. And we even add some “flavor” to the story to make it more “juicy”. The real story will be very different to the spread one. The effect of the spread rumor sometimes would hurt many people.

That is why we must be very careful in our talking.

Wonderwoman? or Superman?



 Who said that man is stronger than woman?

Although he has more muscles but the strength of a woman will overcome all.

Most of us should admit that woman is much more powerful than man.

Let’s talk about the double functions of a woman. Nowadays almost every woman must work outside home to increase the income. Early in the morning she has to prepare the meal for the family, arrange everything for the kids before going to school, and then go to her own working place.

At the afternoon she still has to do the housewife’s tasks, do the housework, and assist the kids to do the schoolwork.  She has almost no time for herself. I think woman really has an extra energy to do all duties.

While usually man just prepare for his own necessities. (the fact I stated here, is the condition in the most family, not mean to underestimate the man)

Let us find another example. A woman can bear the tremendous pain while delivering her baby. Just imagine if it is a man who must take that position. Wow... I think no babies will be delivered to this world. Seeing that man absolutely can’t push hard for bringing out the babies.

What else.

Hmmm … I find one more example.

Most ordinary man can’t stand to see blood. While every month, woman should have her period. What a very bloody time for a female.

There is also another example of woman strength. While doing the shopping time, she seems to have an additional magic power. She can walk around the shopping mall, from morning till dawn, if possible. Not feeling tired at all. While man, if he needs something, he will only come to one place and buy the things there. Done.

Actually there are still many cases which show that women are stronger than men.

So now all man…don’t you ever underestimate the woman for they have a hidden super power behind their calmness and weak appearance.

from Zero to Hero ... from Hero to Zero

Nowadays we often hear this term: from zero to hero. It is what the instant new comer in the showbiz named. There are many singer competitions, talent shows, pop star contest in television. And off course they attracted the "talented" ones and drew the attention of most people even from the rather isolated place. They will come and join the audition of that contest. From thousands they are extracted to ten with many qualifications. Then the competition is begun. The ten chosen qualified contestant will perform their ability, they will be trained and skilled with variety of issues. And one by one they will be eliminated because of the audience selection. At the end, there is only one person, the "most talented and qualified" one from the audience point of view.   Then this new comer will suddenly become a superstar. Many people will greet and salute him. Make him as their idol. All of a sudden, he must metamorphose his life. From just an ordinary people, he should transform into an artist. All habits must also be adjusted to the new life. This is a very risky moment. If this new superstar cannot adapt the new circumstance, usually he will not survive much time. There is too much temptation in the showbiz world.  Drugs, alcohol, clubbing, adultery are very exciting for them.   Actually it is not only the new comer who must be very careful and alert to the temptation. Many senior artists were also trapped in the same issues. We heard so many stories about them being caught at the nightclub or hotel bringing some marijuana or narcotics, surrounded by women. The news about this matter has just been broadcast widely. The case is blown up very quickly. The actor unexpectedly switched the glamorous life into an ordinary one in jail. The fame and good name was vanished. Their fans will certainly be very disappointed to their attitudes. All mockery will be spread out. No more respects.   The jargon is changed. From zero to hero will reverse into "from hero to zero ". It must be a very hard struggling time for them. It's difficult to recover the reputation after the unrespectable reaction from the fans. After they were released from jail, they must start their life from the beginning. They must be very careful in life to avoid any embarrassment again.