In the evening, my family gathered to have a big CNY feast. The next day in the morning is an angpao hunting day. Well, actually I somehow felt uneasy receiving the angpao. It was certainly fine if I got the angpao from my close relatives whom I met often. I was really happy, I got bundle of cash. But it turned awkward when I still get angpao from distant relatives who I only see once a year. I got the feeling that they contemplated the night before whether to give me or not: 'But, Anggie is a grown-up'.

My outfit of the day is red shirt paired with loose jeans. Red is an obligation on Chinese New Year. To look hipster :D, I bought vintage glasses and I enjoyed wearing it. Looks cool.

Chinese New Year means angpao and angpao means money. Related to money, the prediction said that Horses will be quite lucky in finance this year. My Chinese Zodiac is Horse. Good news! I'm always expecting prosperity every year. Glad that someone said I could have financial luck this year. Must have believe it.

Speaking of finance, few days ago someone shared an article saying that Millennials tend to spend more on travelling than an investment. The result is they get broke, have no money left for 'the future'. At first I was against that idea. These days, people realize that experience worth more than materials, so spending money on travelling is something that should be everyone's goal instead of buying thing, like cars that make global warming even worse.

However, I started thinking it might be true because the internet now brings people to glorify travelling. The sad truth is not everyone can afford travelling, well, including me. All these 'take me to...' or 'follow me to...' hypes are like two-sided-coin. Travelling brings happiness indeed. But it's kind of the new form of consumerism. People make themselves travel for the sake of experience or collecting nice pictures for their Instagram. I think it's not worth at all to be broke or worse, to be trapped in debt, after the trip to Maldives that actually we could not afford. 

I'm being me. I'm going to take it easy. I'm still thinking to go to Japan first rather than buying car or house though. And, since I'll be lucky this year in finance, let me still expect my first out of country trip in 2017 *finger crossed.

Instead of wishing September to end soon, I should be the one who's responsible to finish everything. Finish the things that have been my job. Speak up and just be happy. September will be nice for me.

By the way, I've planned to create weekly posts of my fashion diary. One more step to be a BLOGGER, with capital letters. 

Have a nice Wednesday.

Bored, we moved to a place with nice illuminations at Baywalk, Pluit. A giant rubber duck that was too small compared to the one in Hongkong stood there. It was also my first time I went there. I had a thought that place would be nice if the sea was blue.

We saw fireworks from afar. That was quite calming even though I barely saw a good one.

First day in 2015, I went to meet my aunts and cousins. I finally met Molly again in months. She was so cheerful as usual, running around in never-ending excitement. I couldn't even snap a good pic of her.

Later, my family decided to go to Baywalk. Oh well, there again. But I also thought it was a best decision, since I have no idea where to go. You know when a family in Jakarta want to have some nice hangouts, they would end up being inside a nice building called 'mall'. Isn't that monotonous and repetitive until you can find it boring?

But yesterday at Baywalk was surprisingly great since I could watch fireworks again and eat seafood. 

Outfit I wore yesterday made me looks somehow slimmer. You agree? And I just realized that my hair has grown pretty long.

Selfies with Alin.

Besides New Year, January 1st also means Nia's birthday. We celebrated her birthday while waiting for the food we had ordered.

This fish was also great but no match with the prawn. 

And I had birthday cake as dessert.

Later on, there was fireworks near the sea. This time Baywalk mall itself lit them for the visitor. So I had a chance to take nicer pictures since the fireworks was really close. I was so happy because of it until I think I'm going to thank Baywalk personally.

This year, I bought a camera so I can capture every moment in my life nicely. Every year I've watched fireworks, it was so nice but sadly it would appear plain in picture, taken with just my phone camera. So when I said I was happy seeing fireworks, it was real happiness, added by the satisfaction of being able to capture the image of it as nice as it's seen in real.

Now I have finished the activities report and it's time for New Year resolution.

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Kidding! I won't make one.

First reason is because I even cannot fulfill half of my lists in 2014 (read here), so why I should make another one. Now that I recall to last year, I was pumped up about 2014, filled with optimistic behaviors and positivism. Indeed, 2014 was a great year. I will talk more about it below. But now, quoting my self from last year "I'm gonna regret it and mock my self for being like a teen girl who post resolutions on her own blog", that's true, definitely comes true. I'm a bit embarrassed of my own post, like how come I could write that kind of post in this blog and want everyone to read it. Moreover, I didn't even do half of them *facepalm*.

Second, it was because 2014 has brought me to a state that I don't feel euphoric of a 4 changes to 5. I'm not in such a depression. No. I'm thankful of 2014. But I think I just realized that instead of wanting to do every new things, it would be better to keep the pace and fix the old things that still can be fixed. Instead of running towards blurry goals, it would be better to treasure every day I have and move forwards step-by-step to a better day.

2014 was great for me. It was started with such a great enthusiasm, and every day I found new interesting things. I'm really sure that I've learned a lot this year. All teaching experiences, meeting new students, finding new hobbies, going to exciting places, it was all awesome. But as I've said, I've left too many scattered pieces behind, thus made the goal so fragile until I constantly come back to a state of 'what should I do from here?'.

Now what should I do from here? I'm not even sure I've taken a right step, but if things go wrong, I must be ready to fix it.

So happy new year all. Hope 2015 brings happiness for you and me.