Being A Morning Person

I’m not a morning person. I have never been one. As a Muslim, I wake up at dawn to do my prayer, but I’d usually go back to sleep, and if I have something to do in the morning I’d take a nap anyway, until the last minute. Even if I only have 15 minutes left I still would crawl back to my bed and close my eyes. If it’s a free day, then I’d usually be asleep until 9 AM. That’s the earliest I can be awake without any alarm clock or people to bug me from my sleep. That’s why, if you come and find me before going to work or whatever thing that I have to do in the morning, you’ll see me being in a hurry and like, leave anything behind, or forget something, or whatever. And I’m just so used to it that I can handle leaving things behind and being in a hurry really well.

But I would like to be a morning person, the kind of a person who doesn’t go back to sleep after doing the morning prayer, instead, starting the day do anything what I need to do. They said a great day is started with a great morning. I would like to be that person who always has the great morning to be followed with a great day. But it’s just so hard!! Haha, or I’m just lazy. Too lazy for a person that has been working in a certain office for almost 1 year and has to come to work on 7 o’clock in the morning, five days in every single week.

I have been forced, though, these past two weeks, to wake up earlier than I used to. It’s because I have just moved in with my brother, and my Mom came and stayed in for a few days to make sure that both of us don’t burn down the house and know how to clean up and cook. So, yeah, after she left the house (we’re not living in the same town, me and my brother go to college in the same city, my parents and my sister live in another city), I start waking up way earlier in the morning. Like 5 or 5.30 am, and I do the laundry, and cook. Sometimes I wash the dishes that are left from the night before, or clean the house if I have time before go to work. But I usually leave it and let my brother does his part.

It feels so great actually that I can wake up early and do something. But in the other side, as I arrive at my office, I’ll get so sleepy when staring on the computer, doing my work. And in the afternoon, I’ll end up going home with a headache. The thing is, no matter how early I go to bed the night before, I’ll always get sleepy in the morning. I used to go to bed late at night, like after midnight, the earliest was 11.30 PM. But now, being awake really early everyday, the latest I go to bed is 11.00 PM. However, I’ll be waking up feeling really sleepy the next morning.

I admire people who get up really early and find their spirits right away, being so excited about everything they’re about to do that day. Me? I’m just not like that. Anyone has a suggestion so I can be an ideal morning person? A person who’s not only able to wake up in the morning, but also being excited about the day. Anyone?

 

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Now What?

This is the fifth day since my arrival at Yogya. I still feel weird. Feels like my journey to Singapore was a really looong yet beautiful dream. Yogya is still the same, nothing really changed. Except for some new buildings in some places, most of them are shops. I just realized that I had problems with some friends that I didn’t really understand (till I got here). I haven’t solved it yet, but I hope I will work it out soon. It is stressing me out, really, as I had no idea it is still an issue.

At the moment, I’m avoiding the chance to go to campus. Since I have nothing to do there anyway. So I’m staying in my room all the time. Going online, sleeping, watching cable… Good thing people in the house still have time to hang out with me although they have been busy doing assignments (and dating with their boyfriends *ehem*).

First day was an exhausting one. I arrived around 1 PM and my room was soo messy. Well, my lovely housemates managed to clean it just before I arrived. They swept and mopped the floor, put on the bed sheets, and filled the water gallon. But as soon as I put all my luggage and started unpacking my things, it didn’t look like it was just cleaned anymore. Late in the evening on that day, some friends from campus came over and brought me a welcoming cake. Sooo sweet (thanks Ella, Sasa, Shiela, Nindya, and Dedek). The cake said “welcome home, Karin”. How sweet was that? We enjoyed the cake, took some pictures, and I shared some chocolate and jelly beans I brought from Singapore.

Now I don’t really have anything to do. I still need to take care about KKN (my community service for my university credits), but other than that, I’m a jobless person. Once I asked Ella to ask me to join them when they have study group or something like that. Sally was there, she looked shocked, she touched my forehead and asked “are you sick?”, just because I really want to join them studying. Ella thought I’m that bored. The thing is, I just want to do something. And I always love studying in a group. Actually, I’ve been longing for that since I was still in Singapore. So it won’t be that bad, will it?

I’m going to Semarang tomorrow, spend my weekend there. Just because Andin wants to go home, so I think I might be able to finally do something if I join her. So yeah, I’ll be at Semarang for 2 days and 1 night. Enjoy some homey atmosphere in Andin’s house. I miss my family, actually. Really want to go home to Bengkulu but I still haven’t fixed my KKN thing. Plus, some Singaporean friends will come to Yogya next week. I promised them that I will take them around, so I can’t really go home.

So, what for now? Not much. Just enjoy my day-offs, and try to not get too bored.

Nocturnal

Literally, after I checked in the dictionary, nocturnal means “in the night”. This term is also used to describe creatures (animals) which do activities at night, such as bat or owl… Well, enough scientific explanation. Because I’m not gonna do more research to write more about the real definition about nocturnal. The reason why it becomes my title of post today is because I had sleepless nights these past 3 days. I was still awake when it’s dawn and saw how the sky became brighter from my window. Since I live in level 6, I pretty much can see the clear sky without building to cover my view. But, wait… Why am I nocturnal?

It’s not that I like to do that. But it’s more because I HAVE TO. I have two essays due this week. At first, I thought one of the essay is due on Tuesday, and the other will be due on Thursday. But I was being stupid by not double checking the date of the essay deadline, so it turned out that the essay (the one that I thought was due on Thursday) was due earlier than I thought, which is on MONDAY. It’s even worse because I just found out about it at 3 PM on Monday, while the deadline is on 5 PM, and I haven’t done anything about the essay. NOT A SINGLE WORD. Since I thought I still have plenty of time to do that, so I was concentrating on the other essay instead.

So, yeah, I went crazy. Because the two of them hadn’t finished. I already stayed up until 6 AM to finish my Tuesday’s essay on Sunday night. Then I also stayed up on Monday night to finish both of the essays. I went to sleep the next day (which was Tuesday) at 10 AM in the morning, after I handed in my essays. I woke up at 7 PM in the evening, and missed 25 calls from Sita, Josef, Alvin and Yushi who were trying to wake me up, because we planned to go to Singapore Flyer that afternoon. I managed to catch them up though after their dinner and we had some photos in the merlion. At that time, I felt relieved because I had done all my essays.

After our night walk, we went back to PGP and I had my dinner. But I didn’t sleepy at all. It’s because I just had a nine-hour sleeping from 10 AM to 7 PM. So I didn’t do anything on Tuesday night but I still couldn’t sleep. I turned off my laptop and all my lights. I closed my curtain so I couldn’t see if it’s sunrise already. But it’s still didn’t work. I feel asleep at around 6 AM but then I woke up again at 6.30 AM to had my morning prayer, and I couldn’t sleep until now. Yeah. I’ve been awake for almost 30 hours (with 30 minutes sleep in between) and it’s because I stayed up too long to get my essay done. But I was still awake all night although all my essays are done. And I even also woke up in the daylight. So I’m not even nocturnal! Maybe I’m a non-sleeping creature? Haha. They said ants never sleep. Oh well…

I know it’s so not healthy to keep staying up late every night. Because even before Sunday I stayed up late already to play pingpong, cards, and chatting in the weekend. So I should go sleep early now. Roy said people who don’t get sleep in a week will get a sleeping coma. And I have not been sleeping for…… Wait, let me count.

Friday : played pingpong, patin tero, and cards —-> slept at 6 AM in the next day (Saturday)
Saturday : played pingpong again —-> slept at 3.30 AM in the next day (Sunday)
Sunday : wrote my essay (the one that was due on Tuesday) —> slept at 6 AM in the next day (Monday)
Monday : finished all essays (I handed in late for the Monday’s essay) —> slept at 10 AM in the next day (Tuesday)
Tuesday : tried to sleep, but couldn’t make it. Fell asleep for 30 mins at 6 AM in Wednesday —-> haven’t slept until now

Whoa, it’s already 5 days! I only have 2 days left and if I still stay up all night I’ll get a coma!! I don’t wanna get a coma!

I guess I’d better go to sleep right now. I wasn’t born as a nocturnal, so I shouldn’t be one. Morten said I should get my beauty sleep anyway. Haha.

So, goodnight!