Once Upon a Dream

This writing is inspired when I was youtube-ing Lana Del Rey and finally heard she sings ‘Once Upon a Dream’ for Maleficent soundtrack.  I repeated that song for many times, and she sings creepily beautiful. Sounds magical, she puts her soul on it. The story of Maleficent itself, is a reversal, it is a story about the villain in the sleeping beauty – that makes this song and the movie much better!

As we grow older, we will realize that our life is far from the fariy tale princess as we taught to be when we were a children. Finally found the disney movie that is not all about princess makes me feel secretly pleased. As I may share this, the real story of Sleeping Beauty from Grimm’s Brother is far from the Disney has been shown: Found the princess that fell asleep in the castle, the prince is not woken her up with the true love kiss, instead he raped her until she got pregnant and gave birth to twins. One of her baby, sucked her fingers and the needle fell and she woke up. The prince himself, already has a wife in his kingdom.

You might not believe it, but you may start googling about some disney movies that has been adapted from Grimm’s Brother stories, this is a story about sleeping beauty that I quoted from Huffington Post:

“In Giambattista Basile's tale (which is the actual origin of the Sleeping Beauty story), a king happens to walk by Sleeping Beauty's castle and knock on the door. When no one answers, he climbs up a ladder through a window. He finds the princess, and calls to her, but as she is unconscious, she does not wake up. Well, dear reader, he carries her to the bed and rapes her. Then he just leaves. She awakens after she gives birth because one of her twins sucks the flax (from the spindle) out of her finger. The king comes back, and despite him having raped her, they end up falling in love? However, another big problem: the king is still married to someone else. His wife finds out and not only tries to have the twins killed, cooked, and fed to the king, but also tries to burn the princess at the stake. Luckily, she is unsuccessful. The king and the princess get married and live happily ever after (despite the fact that he raped her).”

More on : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/the-real-story-behind-eve_n_4239730.html

Back to the song, if some of you may know, Lana Del Rey, who sings this re-make song, has a dark past, She is being raped when she was just 12. Idk, if she knew the real story of Sleeping Beauty, that make she sings so magical in it.

Here is the lyric:

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream

But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream

One Day Trip to Amsterdam

On our 2nd week in The Hague, we decided to have a one day trip to Amsterdam, we kept it simple : it was just having lunch and drink, strolling around, and took picture on I Amsterdam :)

We bought weekend retour ticket, means that we can go on saturday and going back on sunday with the same ticket

Getting off from the train - Amsterdam Centraal

One Fine Day with the warm and good weather outside Amsterdam Centraal

Already felt the vibrant from Amsterdam : From grannie to youngster,everyone have their own style

 Tourist Office across the Amsterdam Centraal, we bought a map there and asked some info about direction to the I Amsterdam sign near Rijksmuseum

Before we arrived, we had lunch in -idk-where-it-is- but we walked through the narrow street and there are some nice shops, so I bought a sneakers :)

 So....Hungry...

We also found the oldest pub in Amsterdam, good catch! :)

 I Amsterdam....checked ! ;)

 Enjoyed the evening before going back to the Hague

So that was it! :)

-Ririn Mustika-

Another broken promises

Another broken promises.
I remember a year ago, I promised that i'll post all my adventures in Europe. That was until I became an event manager and committee for PR Festival 2013 in my uni. This is an annual event that will be held for Public Relations Major, is kinda big, that the vice of governor came, some of important people from non-profit org also participated. So, I didn't even had a time for myself.

After the event was finished, there is an internship thingy, it is compulsory for the last year student. So I joined with Praxis PR consultant for 3 months, where I got a chance to learn PR 'in the real world', also involved in some clients, such as : Tigerair, Tigerair Mandala, Citibank, Putera Sampoerna Foundation, Bank BTPN, Jafra Cosmetics,etc... I learnt that every clients need different approach (eventhough still PR) it depends on what their business is.

Seems like an exhausting works are not enough, I'm also doing my thesis, this is very drama, that I got thesis advisor that famous for "smiling killer". He might be smiling at you, but then, he might be the one of the reason that you failed on defense. BANG!

After the drama, I decided to change my thesis subject, and do the research in Forbes Indonesia. Also I throw my luck applied as intern there for my observation. When I was being interviewed, I said that I want to do a research for my thesis here, andddd.. I accepted.

Working in forbes indonesia is like working with family there, they were so funny and I learnt a lot from there. I worked for 2 months, even though I was being asked for extend, I decided to focus on my thesis and the graduate first.

So that was my February 2013- December 2013 like. Now, i'm doing my thesis, I think this is the lowest point in my academic related so far. Idk, if I can't get along with my thesis advisor or what, but I try to. I want to graduate!

So, that was my excuses. Sorry I spilled out my story, promise that I'll post something useful or entertain later. Fyi, i just got back from Singapore, will try to write if I have time ;)