Picking Up the Pieces

Life has been weirdly wonderful. I haven’t updated my Cancer Talk section in a long time, partly because I just don’t wanna talk about cancer right now. But I will tell you this, the result of my transplant wasn’t as good as I hoped but it wasn’t a total fail either. I have to continue my treatment for another 6 months, but not chemo or radiation. The treatment is once a month, a two hours antibody infusion. It’s not painful at all, very fast and I can go back home after the infusion. I call this infusion my superpower recharge.

So what to do during those period at home? I feel well enough now to do activities (though not for a full day), but what activities can I do? I have no job, I cannot travel like I used to anymore, I feel like standing in the ruins of my life. I can’t just not do anything at home, it would be too boring for me and possibly stress me out. I am a person who actually likes being busy.

When I came back home after the transplant, I was happy to be back home. However, after a while it was easy to drown in my own sorrow, to feel sorry for being in this condition, to see all my friends thrive while I was stuck. I didn’t want to feel this way and so I decided to pick up the pieces of my life. I may not have the life that I imagined I had at this age, but I refuse to be useless and pity myself.

Favourite Noodles of Petaling Jaya

It's been a while since I posted here, really am trying to be a better blogger LOL but I am failing miserably (obviously).

Anyway, this time I'm gonna be writing about food, everyone's favourite topic.

I have a little confession with you, I am a little tired of "Malaysian food". Don't get me wrong, it's not that the food in Malaysia is bad, it is not. I've written plenty about my favourite cuisines in Penang, Melaka and Kuala Lumpur, but it's just ever since my treatments in Malaysia, I associate Malaysia with hospital visits. As I used to stay for a long period of time in Malaysia for my hospital visits, having the same kind of food over and over again really made me frustrated. I missed Indonesian food and I just grew tired of nasi lemak and friends.

ART|JOG 2017

Senang sekali tahun ini saya bisa sekali lagi melihat pameran seni ART|JOG. Hampir saja saya gak sempat ke sini karena harus ke KL, tapi ternyata saat saya pulang masih ada beberapa hari sebelum pameran ini selesai.

Staycation Kejutan

Entah apa yang mereka pikirkan, namun dua teman yang saya kenal di dunia blog tiba-tiba mengirimkan e-mail ke saya. Isinya bukan tulisan yang panjang, melainkan hanya sebuah gambar dengan beberapa kalimat saja. Salah satu kalimatnya “Prepare your sunglasses and put your hat on, for this Tropical Staycation”, lalu ada alamat salah satu hotel yang sedang naik daun di Jogja.

Solo dan Ulang Tahun

Beberapa tahun belakangan ini, setiap kali keluarga kami ada yang berulang tahun, tidak pernah dirayakan dengan spesial lagi. Alasannya ya apalagi kalau bukan karena saya yang sedang sakit.

Mei tahun ini, saya sudah lebih enakan dari tahun-tahun sebelumnya. Pas sekali bulan Mei papa berulang tahun, dan pas sekali kami sedang di Jogja dan adik saya yang di Singapore bisa mengajukan cuti.

Cancer Talk #30: What’s Next?

Mid 2016

After several rounds of chemo, my doctor told me I needed to get a PET scan. I hate PET scan. I don’t mind the actual process of PET scan, but I really dislike that moment when the result is in my doctor’s hand.

Anyway, I took my PET scan as planned and guess what? My cancer was almost all gone except for a small part. I was mad, because ALMOST is not good enough for me, I wanted to hear it’s ALL gone.

My doctor looked at my result and he told me that he thinks chemo wasn’t working anymore. Well, he could keep giving me chemo and it would probably make that small part go away but chances are, it would come back again.

Cara Mudah Scan Foto Analog

Penemuan yang bikin seneng sendiri pada minggu ini adalah: Google PhotoScan.

Gak sengaja banget nemu aplikasi ini karena sedang download yang lain, terus saya iseng download juga.

Ternyata aplikasi ini memudahkan kita untuk scan foto-foto analog dengan mudah. Di rumah, saya punya banyak banget foto analog dan memang pingin banget saya simpan secara digital tapi bayangin harus satu-satu dimasukin ke scanner dan nungguin satu per satu discan aja saja udah lelah.