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こんにちは、みなさんインドネシアからきたズィワです。ドバイに５年すんでいます

きょうは、私のじんせいを変えた日本りょこうについて、おはなしします。

りょこうとはなんでしょう。どんないみがありますか。

グーグルによると、なにかをさがしにでかけること、そして、みつけてもどってくること、とあります。

わたしのしゅみは旅行で、２０１３年にいった日本りょこうは、人生におおきくえいきょうしました。

それは、私の会社で、夢にまで見ていたポジションに　つくことができなかった　あとのことです。

わたしは旅行中、このようなことにおどろきました。

それは、私の会社で、夢にまで見ていたポジションに　つくことができなかった　あとのことです。

わたしは旅行中、このようなことにおどろきました。

ひとは、エスカレーターにのるとき、いちれつにならびます。私はじぶんの好きな場所にたっていて、恥ずかしくなりました。
まわりにゴミ箱がないのに、まちがとてもきれいです。ともだちは、ごみをいえまでもってかえるよう、私にいいました。

でんしゃは、ただしいばしょに、ただしいじかんに、とまって　はっしゃします。

他人のめいわくになるので、電車の中ではでんわのおとや、大きな声で話すひとがないのにも、かんしんしました。

日本でトイレに入って、音をかくすのもはじめて知りました。いまでは、トイレを使うとき、私は水を流していないと恥ずかしく感じます。

みんな、かえりぎわに、「おつかれ」といいます。他人のしごとをねぎらうことばをきいて、かんどうしました。

他の人のこうどうをおうえんする「がんばって」という言葉をきくたびに、私はほほえましくおもいます。

またこのようなことばもならいました。

いちごいちえ――　一回の出会いを大切にしなさいとういみです。

ひびたびにして、たびをすみかとす――まいにちがたびであり、人生はたびであるといういみです。

 ななころびやおき――いつかはうまく行く――わたしに必要だったことばです。

日本をおとずれるまで　こうしたことばを　しりませんでした。りょこうのあと、私はらっかんしゅぎで、こころをひらいた　せいかくになりました。また、私と周りの人々をそんちょうし、かんしゃする人間にかわりました。

みなさん、このスピーチをたのしんでくださいましたか。それともきいていて、ねむくなりましたか。

 さいごまで、ほんとうにありがとうございました

today

Ibti bilang dia mau nyoba something new,bosen ke eataly (besides more now we don’t get staff discount , hiks) … Ibti said let’s try Parker Dubai mall, Sarah told us it’s the talk of the town and her cousins got the key, *Google Parker dubai mall … intinya kalo mau enter the restaurant we have to search for the key first.. 😄😅😁 *udah laper kalii gw* lol

iftar hari ini jam 716pm and restaurant nya baru buka jam 7 pm ,,and there was a long line! woww.. I’m amazed ….

well.. I Love the fries but the burger is so so .. I didn’t try the desert though.. but it looks nice ..

utensils nya sih gak yang wow gitu ya, piringnya ngingetin gw Sama piring nenek gw, lol.. and tempat naro tissue nya adalah kaleng bekas susu rainbow yang Sama dia gak dicat lagi..tumplek plek gitu aja..  harga antara 20-50 dirham lah, jadi ya masih reasonable lah.. (untuk ukuran dubai )

the view

tapi tetep …gak lama dari situ, gw nyari nasiii, si cinta sejati gw, hehe! 😍😍😍

jadilah pas Haima dateng, gw Ibti and Haima, ate in yo sushi ! gw ordered salmon fried rice.. nyuummm… *nyeseek sih biasanya kalo makan di yo sushi airport dapet staff price.. Huhu..

menunya di kipas

udah Haima and gw kenyang, Ibti ngasih letter dari Lena buat Kita bedua.. I miss her, Dubai feels so different without Lena , but ya well.. people move on Ziwa … you have to accept it .. 😇😇

we definitely will see each other again soon , Le ! inshaAllah 😇

gw spent too much nih bbrp hari Ini, gw beli baju berenang ( mksdnya biar mulai bljar renang) eh tapi kok mikir – berenang dmn? beli 1 baju formal yang gak tau pake nya bakalan kapan… Blm lagi jajan jajan cantik tiga hari ini… Huhuu……focus Ziwa , focus !! pengennya by the age of 31 (or 32?) rumah gw lunas !!! aminnnn 😇

アジスアベバ #countryno21 !

I went with Mariama on our off days

9-10 dec 2015

And yappari!! Bau nya sangat sangat khassss !! starting from inside the plane ….. :S

the sky of Addis

we can not exchange Ethio’s money in Dubai so we bring USD with us to be exchanged in Addis.

the rate 1 usd : 21 birr  ( my budget for this trip : 142 USD = 2984 birr )

berasa d nuyok, yellow taxiss.. hahaaa

first day ::

we arrived around 2 pm (flight is departed late almost 1 hour from Dubai) and the immigration queue is not so long but it moves very very slow..

after exchange our money, we were trying to look out for our hotel pick up which is …. none… X_X !!!

ok then , lets make a phone call.. thats when we realized .. we can not use our roaming services! we were trying to look for public phone or sim card provider store when this guy came to us and said come come,, let me help you, — we said boldly, NO, thank you, we have pick up hotel arrangement already.. but then he said you’re coming from Dubai if it is late then the guy must be left already,you can call the hotel from landline over there (pointing on counter which i believe his hotel’s counter ) and the public phone is not working (true!) and if you want to buy sim card it’s outside — probably he’s bluffing and not sure why , still, we follow him to make the phone call. X_x

the other guy at the counter is the one making the phone call to our hotel. his name is Elfas . after waiting for a while, our pick up arrives and Elfas said he is off tomorrow and would be glad to take us around — we pay any amount we want,,, should we trust him and say yes.. we both looked each other, kind of asking each other, 🙂

while waiting for the pick up, elfas teach us some of amharic words (the language of Ethiopia)

we stayed at Zola international hotel.. as booking.com review it’s a good hotel , four stars, clean and safe ! — agreed.period. alhamdulillah. our staying here is a good decision 🙂

the hotel is 800 birr..

after rest a bit, we went to edna mall.. (which i keep hearing it as ednamon and thought it was some kind like african style historic place, lol)

its about 15 minutes from the hotel by car ..

the mall is kinda like a pasar jatinegara (even jatinegara is better) 😀 with the cinema that looks like wira …

inside the mall, i was trying to find international chain fast food , but none..

maybe it’s KFC ethiopia’s version

in the street full of beggars .. seems scary though cause they looked at me like they want to eat me,or maybe it’s only my feeling..

after tired of just roaming around, we had rest for a while at kaldi’s coffee , One of the hippest coffee shops in Addis Ababa..

at night , we had our dinner in the restaurant near the hotel and we ordered shiro.. consist of Enjera ( ənǧära እንጀራ ) is an East African bread with a unique, slightly spongy texture. Traditionally made out of teff flour ,  it is a national dish in Ethiopia and Eritrea. the taste is kinda like bread vinegar for me.. ( shiro as per wikipedia ; a stew with primary ingredients of powdered chickpeas or broad bean meal )

day 2 ;

we went to piassa , merkato and post office – it’s the place people usually buy souvenirs (i wanna buy the ethio’s dress for mama) and try again the local dishes..

on the 2nd day we called elfas , he took us to one of his favourite restaurant ,and i ate the raw meat ;D

elfas ordered Bayonet , incase we can not eat the raw meat … bayonet is a popular fasting food for Ethiopians and consists of a few different vegetarian wats like lentils, pea powder, local greens, potatoes, cabbage, carrots and more.

*at the end i only able to eat 3 cubes of raw meat, they dont have any taste and its so cold. 😉

*elfas asked the waiter to cook it – cooked meat , they called it tibs ..

in piassa (inside haron tower , elfas told us to buy tomoca , the leading coffee company in Ethiopia.. he said it has been open since 1953 .

coffee is in fact very popular in Ethiopia.. and elfas told us proudly that Ethiopia is the one of the world’s largest coffee producer .. (dalem hati, Indonesia juga keleusss… lol )

passing Bob Marley statue

how Ethiopian drive makes me thinking– salute.. most of the traffic light in the junction is not working (except this one below) and yet they still can very tertib passing the junction ;D bravoo !

  

bus nya mirip busway di kita yaa ! 🙂

alpukat and mangganya kecil kecil. Elfas said “because we grow it without any chemical…”

 

Tentang perempuan

Kata2 “tergantung suami” …. it’s annoying and I’m annoyed makanya memutuskan untuk nulis tentang ini..

saya gak setuju banged dehhh 😦

Akhlak baik bila suami … Wth !! Kenapa jadi bila suami? Jadi peranan orang tua si perempuan gak dianggep? Pendidikan ? Family background ? Helllooo 🙈🙈

Pintar bila suami … Ini ngaco! Kemana rasa haus si perempuan akan ilmu? Kemana lari nya ambisi diri ?

Salehah bila suami…  Ini makin ngaco lagi,, it is the woman’s own responsibility to strive for Jannah and make herself closer to Her creator !

Jangan bila suami,, jangan tergantung suami,, suami memang tugasnya memimpin tapi biarlah tergantung pada diri sendiri… Sama sama memantapkan diri masing masing..

how i become Indonesian in Dubai

Penang, Malaysia – April 2010 

She laughs so loud when i told her I’m thinking to apply for a job in Emirates, told me don’t dream so high, and be realistic. (that moment when air asia cancelled the route to Abu Dhabi and the fact that i feel career link in Emirates’s website is blinking, lol ) 

She left me stoned. In my mind running the question, aren’t dreams made to be high so that we can aim higher? and again, WHY. is there anything funny? aren’t you my best friend who just asked me what am i gonna do during my jobless period, who i think suppose to just listen to me and support me mentally in any way you can? 

she still cant stop laughing when she finally told me “if my husband who can speak four languages and so much national dialect can’t even get into emirates,why can you ? ” I just sealed my lips. in my heart i whisper, she is wrong God, let me prove it.

after that incident, my days are like other job-seeker, sending email, going to job fair, asking person to another person if they have any connection reading newspaper , browsing and the list go on. 

Jakarta, Indonesia, August 2010

it’s more than half of the year that I’m unemployed. been kicked out from my friend’s house ,been treated like you have no value, been humiliated by your (used to be colleagues). just mention it, i’ve been there.

I start to feel like I am a big loser when i applied everywhere, and no reply even one.

I start to disappear from anyone. set status to hiatus.

I know God is listening, I asked HIM many times.

I know God is aware of my pain, I’m trying my best to keep my faith.

I cried to mom, dad , I cried to HIM, I cried for the feeling of failure. for the feeling my life is having no sense. I cried for HIM letting me down so long. I cried until I cant even cry. 

my mom told me to not let anyone convince me that i don’t deserve what i want . she said hold on to God, life is a wheel . that’s one of the sweetest song to my soul. I think she saved me by saying that.

on October 20 2010 , exactly, on my birthday, I received an email. when I even not hope for it, when let’s say i forgot about it. I’m glad God hear my prayer and since then i keep my card close to my chest.

I’ll never forget the day i flew for the first time with emirates, I’ll never forget the moment i was so excited to see stars above the ceiling of the plane, I’ll never forget the moment i did my first eye scan. I’ll never forget the moment i first arrive in Dubai airport which will be my workplace,i’ll never forget the shocked i am knowing the toilet can be flush by putting your palm on the sensor. Never forget the day i experienced my first sand storm (i think one of the greatest achievement for people living in Dubai is to walk outside during the storm) and the day i had my first summer (the first time i feel like i’m a grilled meat) the first time i saw Burj Khalifa, go top of it just to scream my name , the day i am able to touch the camel , ride the camel and eat the camel. ^.^

there is sentences that i always keep in my dream board and scrapbook

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it — I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.

I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.” 
Denis2005 Virginia Satir quotes (American Psychologist and Educator, 1916-1988)

In life, when God leads you to the cliff, only one of two things will happen. God will either teach you how to fly or catches you when you fall. And things happen for a reason, and it’s definitely for the better…’

I’m a salary-woman in Dubai and a dreamer. I like backpacking and daydreaming. I wanted to learn and get trained.
I’m enjoying myself and eager to pursue a career in this country wholeheartedly.
I would like to have an opportunity as my learning platform to be a better travel-writer .
the idea that my writings and my pictures will be somewhere on the media is just makes my day. ^.^

im pretty sure that this post is there on my draft quite long ! hahhahaa.. 

you CANT guess life :)

last week is been a hectic week for me and i was feeling a bit down due to the neediness of change in terms of “job” as you are aware that I started to feel bored and fed up(again) of my life, c’mon! ive been in the same position for more than 4 years man.. (goin to be five!!! )

soo, yaa,, mungkin cengeng and lemah bgd kdengerannya but that night, i did cry a river. sampai aku lelah dan bahkan sempat berfikir lelah hidup. (God,forgive me! T_T) then without i realized, morning came.. the sun is up and i am awake. my eyes wide open, I watsapp Vina,she also felt down and was crying the whole night too..hmm.. sorry, we are girls! :D..so we agree to just go out .. to anywhere,,,,

that afternoon, we decided to just roaming around festival city,from the abandoned theme park till the helipad,randomly snap pictures and try our best to feel relax..

then, this man came, told us that if we took in the middle of helipad, the view would be nicer, and then he opened the fench for us. (wow,so kind (y) ) we continue our photo session till sunset and nights. and then this man, came again, he turn on the lights and we were so amazed by the view. it’s just beautiful ^^

after we finished,when we walked back to our car, we said thank you to this man. and he introduced himself as Captain Anas, and he is the owner of the helipad. we were like oohh.. WOW.. OKAY… and he gave us the business card and we had a small chat when he suddenly said, so you want to see the view from the helicopter? when are you free ? saturday ?

we were really cant believe what we hear, so we were like hmm.. but we don’t have that amount of budget. that’s when he continue saying “it’s FOC on me” and we both were like “it’s like a dream for us, woww.. is it for real ?” and he straight away took out his phone and called his secretary,, “hey,please book two seat for the helicopter ride on saturday, VIP, FOC on me”

I just cant believe of what i heard and what had happened to me.. imagine, i was crying and feeling down the night before and got this life time chance to ride a helicopter in Dubai the next day… I swear,I really cant guess life…

the ride is for 22 minutes. our pilot that day is thiego, from Brazil.

the view ? it was AMAZING.. “mewah kalo kata Andi”  

but well, I will not deny that i prefer more fresh greenier view for my eyes right now..  😡

iseetheworld !!!

the palm, my dear !!!

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that moment when you were in musholla of Dubai mall and there is this lady who wash her shoes after she took wudhu and makes you wondering , is it comfortable to walk around in the mall with wet shoes… ;S

Tokyo 4th trip ~~ 6-10 April 2015

I went to Tokyo this spring with Haima to chase Sakura ^.^

and we made promise that we will speak no English. hehehe.. we broke it a few times but still we manage to really really practice our nihongo skill 😀

I met Haima in Narita airport as I went to Tokyo from Jakarta with ANA ( I hope Emirates will keep the agreement with this carrier otherwise T_T) then we had our dinner first in the foodcourt (2nd floor) in Terminal two . it’s halal restaurant. the name is ….

this time i stayed in Le monterey Ginza , it’s 15000 yen per night, divided two , so each of us paid 37500 yen.

my budget for this trip is AED 2600 (+290 dhs for the ticket CGK- NRT)  and it equals to 80000 yen 🙂

1st day :

Ueno koen – Asakusa – Shibuya (met tante Nita ) – Tokyo camii – Odaiba – hotel

2nd day :

8 april 2015

Raining and snowing !!!

we had onigiri as our breakfast from 7Eleven.

then we went to Tokyo Intl forum to take some pictures, Haima is admired the architecture. it’s the glass building.

after that we roam around in marunoichi area up to International Palace . then we went to Tokyo station to eat ramen .

It’s near yaesu north exit, behind the ticket counter opposite of daimaru.

then we went to akihabara – Ikebukuro to buy kitkat in kitkat boutique and then we went to Tokyo metropolitan to view Tokyo  from up.. after that we went to Ookayama campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology (to have campus tour with ka puspa) and then we ate tempura in a restaurant near mizunokuchi station , ka puspa and bang mol treat me and Haima.. 😀 😀

3rd day : 9 april 2015

Ghibli museum – Mt.Takao – and had our dinner in Sakura Hatagaya hostel  – I felt sick already , bought some medicine from the pharmacy ,, huhu…

4th day : 10 April – Haima roam around by herself and i took rest at the hotel. I just couldnt stand up anymore…Felt really sick.. 😦 😦

this day we suppose to meet Ibu Dwi and have lunch in Pasona office but maybe because i feel not well already , we couldnt find the place T_T so we end up ate ramen in Tokyo station again, and then I went back to hotel, Mbak Indah pay me a visit to the hotel.

night, around 2000 i went to the airport to catch my flight back to Dubai..

and i went to work on 11 april at 12pm , but only able to work for two hours, I asked Mehdi to release me early, he  agree to release me but what he said is not nice in my ears : he asked me whether I’m dying or not coz he is shortage of staff.. and me like :S seriouslyyyy???

when i went to the doctor, my temperature is 39 degrees, i got 3 days sick leave (which means i am really sick ) and the doctor asked me to go to lung and heart specialists in aster Al Fahidi.. I haven’t go untill now..  anyway, in short I thank God that ive been able to reach Dubai safely,coz seriuosly i felt like I’m between heaven and hell when im on the plane.. O:)

Syafakillah ziwa…

meet the shaikha

7 march 2015

I went to Emirateslitfest , the event held in Intercontinental hotel, Festival City, one of the programm is regarding the International Woman’s Day which is celebrated every 8 of march.

the reason i went there, because I really need to get motivation to keep going and not giving up (I was talking about life,really! i think i’m in the state of midlife crisis now T_T) well.. one of the speaker is Sheikha Lubna Khalid Alqasimi.

i really love the event, i think i get some light and feel motivated again to continue mylife in Dubai..

we as a woman have to always be ourselves.  it is okay not to be like-able .

we have to keep ourselves hungry (keep dreaming and have an ambition!)

Never let anyone discourage you or tell you what to do .

If you believe you are (not worthy) of creating something, you won’t ever even try, will you ?

after the event , one goal in my mind : I want to greet Shaikha in person, tell her my name and take picture together !

which I did. *missionaccomplished!!* ~~~

    

middleeasttravelconference

soo.. last february 20, I went to this event called middle east food & travel blogger conference, located in Alserkal avenue, Al Quoz, and it’s part of the Dubai food festival programme..

been long time I haven’t roam around alquoz area (since i move out from al Khail accommodation myb less than 10 times i went there) i was a bit nostalgic that time, and glad that now the area has changed from really sandy industrial area to at least many small cafes and cultural venue (still sandy though)

move on- soo.. this Alserkal avenue looks like not really popular among the taxi drivers, I have to look and read the direction to him few times, when he realised aah.. it’s near the home centre warehouse.. X_X (shame on me. ive been four years in Dubai and still not driving and blind about the road! T_T )

they gave free food for the participants.. *nyumm*

well..

the event itself really gave me more insight about blogging and at the end how to be an influencer… which i don’t think i have that capacity yet.

despite of busy working, I’m not really productive as well:(

anyway,

humility in our business is a sign of grace and passion… confidence combined with competence is the winning formula

last…

it is important to always be willing to try, dare and push the limits. courage is essential