the professor

salam,

people i swear i should be studying now. i won't say a thing, u can say i am procrastinating and i really don't wanna make excuses. just came from khaira's place and i feel like to talk instead of studying...........meanwhile exams is already really really close.

so last week i went out of town somewhere north from frankfurt, i've booked the train seat so i simply seated there and accidentally an old man came and asked whether was the seat next to me free. i was so surprised that he seemed sooo friendly unlike the most cold germans, we were a lil bit unlucky then that our train got 10 min delayed so the man beside me was murmuring and complaining with a light laughter, then he took some paper and started to read them. they looked like script from university, oops maybe he's taking his Ph.D or a professor, i thought. so bad there was another announcement that out train was having a 5 minutes extra delay, the man kept looking at his watch and laughed to me.
then i asked him where was he going, it was hannover.
it turned out that he was going to speak in a conference and he probably be late due to our train's delay, and yes my guess was right! he is a professor in the medical faculty of goethe university frankfurt.
after a short time he realized that i put blue nail polish only on my left ring finger and asked me if it has a particular meaning. of course no..... it was just for fun. fyi i like to put different color to my finger ring to replace the cuteness of a ring, i know, i know its just me lol. he thought it has a meaning as he knows in some country ladies have cultural habits or restrictions related to fingers. then i asked him to guess where do i come from and after some guesses he decided to say malaysia. after i revealed i come from indonesia, he told me some of his experience in indonesia yea he said he don't really like bali beside ubud, he enjoys jogjakarta the most, bandung hat ihm nicht gefallen, and he barely got some sleep in jakarta because it's so noisy and hectic he said, even when it was in 1981 that time.
shit....1981? oooold time. we laughed at the fact that i wasn't born yet that time. he continued reading his paper then i started to put back my silence as i thought i would bother him concentrating if i asked more questions.

i enjoed my time playing some games in my tablet then the professor has finished reviewing his paper, he directly talked to me about indonesia. about tanah toraja which he has been to and about maternal culture of minangkabau, aaa he asked me also about a woman i didn't know, he said she's quite famous hahaha OH MY GOD AM I EVEN INDONESIAN?
we talked about muslim majority in indonesia, bahasa, foods, medicine, about skin (as he is skin specialist), about some cities in germany that the finds attractive, a lot actually, but he commented on my games even tried to play.
er hat kaum zeit zum spielen, naja wegen arbeit hat er gesagt, so ist das leben. he always wanted to learn spanish but got no time yea i can imagine how bad it is.........
i even asked if i could know how old he is. i guess 60. BINGO +3 he is 63.
it was a good guess already he said, because to guess someone's age who comes from other continent is hard, because our skin pigment isn't that similar. i thought he has grandchild already, but not yet. i hope he will, soon.

i don't know the essence of talking about this but i swear he is the kindest german i ever met, because i am pretty much an awkward person and getting more awkward if i shoud talk in deutsch as i think my speaking is really really really ewwww. i googled him after i got home as i know he teaches dermatology.

dear mr. professor thank you that at least you make germany feels nicer,
salam
ps: i think the grammar inaccuracy level in this post is beyond normal. sorry :p

heat / summer / colors

Salam,

i wish you all doin fine, dear readers.

last week was just like literally summer torment i overslept after i studied and bam i woke up and was like ITS SO HOT GOD PLEASE FORGIVE MY SINS!!!
everytime. i. woke up.
because simply the temp was essentially reaching ca 40 degree celcius
yes, #thissummerissohot #literallyhot #heatup #cryinglikeababy
i mean, i really miss you......dear air conditioner :"

my first summer in my new flat and it turns out to be a free sauna because the daylight exposes my walls directly like 12 pm to 7 pm is so far the worst i can remember. even underwear felt too much.
i preferably go to the dept store nearby or bookstore or even the supermarkt because the library is also a torture. but today is beyond fine, the breeze makes me so thankful and the temp drops a bit degrees.
everybody is literally happy with today's weather i guess.

so this summer i rather feel excited because i get my enthusiasm into colors back!
yap i think i used to be a person who maintained the color scheme in my daily outfits, it wasn't that hardcore but at least i tried to have two pieces in the same color range. then this past year i got into the phase which i hate to mix and match colors i just loveeee neutrals, black and grey in particular.
well, i think some reasons why:
1. having 4 seasons makes me feel troublesome in choosing clothes.
especially because i am wearing Hijab. example is when i had a well matched top and trousers but then my top was with some kind of motive, print or ornament, so all i needed was a nice plain shawl but then it wasn't thick enough for winter all i had was a thicker Hijab in same color but it had motive too. so i prefer having all black, kinda easy to combine.
2. i was so nomadic
university things and stuffs i kept moving and i left my treasures somewhere to be picked later up when i got settled, i definitely didn't have the ability to bring a lot. so i chose some neutrals with me for a while i just wore them. definitely satisfying.
3. i was getting minimalist
was getting more and more and more inattentive about colors
4. darks make me feel covered and comfortable

and now voila!
its back.
i am so attracted to colors just exactly like the old days.
i consider purple and turquoise as my most fave color, but then i love the black-grey-white gang. then now pink even yellow and light blue are my current delights.
for God's sake i don't even know why this is happening to me, i always have my all time fave colors and some my current fave colors like, please dear self, isn't that similar to loving all the colors or even having no favorite? it keeps changing duh.
weird.
and yes i think i have also the my-secretive-fave-color, i just realized after seeing so many stuffs i have are basically in this color even if i never consider it as my fave.
can u guess which color is that?

salam!