Appointment with P. Sherman

This,

Is a glimpse of my favorite corner in my bedroom.

Along with many other stuff I didn't snap in this frame, I put these three -plus that cute photograph of my baby days- in random orders. No reasons, no considerations. All arranged just because the angle pleased my eyes.

The kangaroo doll came in first. My mom impulsively bought that from her trip in Melbourne last year, and being confused of what to do with the typical tourist trinket, she just gave it to me. The fish tank arrived after I watched "Finding Dory" just this year. June, or July this year, I guess. It's a build-your-own tank which took me hours to make -including the fishes because yes, those two beauties started from stupid little pieces- so yea, it's such a waste if I don't show it off and of course it's an honor to expose my mini dentist tank on my table tops. And the Red Bull cap, was bought in Singapore, during my F1 trip several months ago -you know the story. It belonged to Daniel Ricciardo, my favorite driver from Perth.

Quiet a few weeks after this scene was arranged,

I realized that there was something on with these three.

But I took it for granted until two months ago, when I finally once again jumped into an AirAsia Big Sale, and successfully booked another big trip. Guess where it will be.

Yep,

A U S T R A L I A

Pic's from here.

The land down under has always been something I'm dying to visit. So by the second I spotted these super cheap flights covering the east coast's top cities, well, I don't care much about anything else. So there I was, laughing in front of my laptop on the low table, teeth colliding as I laughed too much in excitement, head tilted up in pride and satisfaction and a bit of pain, and I caught these three staring at me.

Mom's kangaroo minion,
EAC's famous inhabitants,
And my Aussie guy's hat.

So it was a sign.

Well I don't believe that much in superstitions.

But this one's just too real, and too coincidental.

Maybe, MAYBE, because I had my teeth hurting,
It turned out to be the dentist's way to invite me,

The 42 Wallaby Way

Re-Calling: Piggy Bank

You do remember about the AirAsia promo I told you about earlier right?

Well...

I got those freakin' cheap airplane tickets to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok woohoo!! It means that by the early of 2013, if we made it on doomsday, I'll be flying to Malaysia and Thailand yaaayy!!

The image of Malaysia is from here, Thailand's from here

So do you remember back then, well, if you've been my loyal reader since 2010, in which I'm kinda sure I've lost some of my old readers already because by 2011 I happened to stop posting things due to some personal issues and--whoa, whoa easy, Vick! You're out of control...

Okay let's start over.

You remember back then, on 2011 when I planned to go to Bali with my friends, and I promised myself that I would save my money for the whole semester just to make sure I'm living in welfare on that trip? Okay if you forget, or yet if you don't know, just click here...

So yes, that's why I'm here. To state another oath to myself, to save my money for the rest of the year, and make things easy on my trip abroad! And here it is,

"I, Rifky Ramadhan Amin, will officially announce that on this fourth-to-fifth term of my college, I will rarely spend my money for flash-term pleasure things such as watching movies, eating out and buying things prodigally."

-Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok Trip Oath-

Soooo psyched!! Never done this before! And you know what, when I find out about these tickets, I got panicked and started to hunt them aggressively until by the time I had the tickets purchased, I just realized that...

I didn't ask anybody else to go with me.

And now the promo has finished and I'm still on my own.

This is so fvckin' awesome!! I'll be going abroad, ALONE!!

But ssshh, please don't tell my parents, cause if they know,

I may ruin my finest trip ever

Dear Airlines, Sincerely Passenger

Lately, started from two days ago when a friend of mine told me that AirAsia offered promo for the period of January to May 2013, I began regularly visiting the web and checked for some flights I may be interested to fill my fourth-to-fifth semester off.

And I started to feel dizzy. Man these schedules. I can't decide which flight to take cause I really, really want to go to Bangkok but fly there from Jakarta will cost quiet much. So I checked the flights from KL to Bangkok which indeed, were much cheaper than Jkt-Bkk. But if I take this one, I'll have to pay more for my flight from Jakarta to KL and plus, more for my hotel rooms too.

It's sooooo depressing yet I really want to experience this!

Then somehow I remembered to a story told by one of my lecturers about someone who hated Adidas so much that he shared his thoughts on his blog. Then out of nowhere Adidas knew about that and started sending all their products to this someone until he finally flipped and turned to like Adidas, and shared his best experience online.

That happy ending story inspired me to write this:

"Dear AirAsia, 

I hate you and your schedule! I really have no interest to take your flight from Jakarta by January 30th and from KL by February 10th, including your hot seat and nasi lemak. Not to mention your other flight from KL by February 3rd and from Bangkok by February 7th. I don't ever want to take that and your other hot seats plus your finest chicken curry, ever!

Please consider my letter."

Okay, okay I'm just kidding.
But still, deep inside, I'm hoping.
Will I ever get free flights after this?