Meet the Author

Hello guys! Nice to post again. Well, as you can see... Little Journal is changing its' background! Yeah, I was getting bored of the old one (the green one), so I decided to change the background and the little stuffs. Many thanks to Gilda who told me to go to Shabby Blogs.com for unlimited stock of cute blinkies and pictures. You should go there if you want to pimp your blog into a retro or girly way. Me and Gilda did, and we were painfully happy of the results. I wanna share some things about my real life. So check it out!

Ten Things i wish i could say to 10 different people (but don't say their names):

1. Have you ever thought just maybe, you belong with me?

2. I wish you could be a silent, nice mom who bakes pancakes. Not like this one. 
3. Damn, you are so annoying.
4. I don't know if you're even real because your life is so perfect, far from what they call 'dull'.
5. Stop interfering my private life, I call it private because I don't want other people to touch it.
6. I love you, you're my best friend ever!
7. We haven't really talked, so I guess we're strangers now.
8. Stop dominating my father like you're his only child.
9. You're attractive, so enough with the staring and start introducing ourselves.
10. Really proud of you because you stand so strong even though you're not supported by your environment.

Eleven things about myself:

1. A family person (really wants to have my own family).

2. When it comes to matters of the heart, I fight back, not cry in disappointment.

3. I'm an over-analytical and sometimes I piss off people with this trait.

4. A true Aries, a true curious goat.

5. I don't like people who wants to know about my private life.

6. My tongue is very sharp. Sometimes I can't even hold what I'm saying.

7. A true realist.

8. Loves music more than anything else.
9. I find social studies are more interesting than science. NOTE THAT!
10. Pretty much egotistic.
11. I really hate copycat.

Eight ways to win my heart:

1. You're kind.

2. You have a superb sense of humor.

3. You appreciate the way I look and don't even have a thought of changing it.

4. You appreciate things in life.

5. You want to see me as a lover and as your best friend.

6. You don't try too hard to be a romantic, because I suck at being romantic.

7. You don't keep me waiting, although my patience is worth to try.

8. You have great self-confidence and feel comfort with yourself.

Seven things that cross my mind a lot:

1. What my future is gonna be.

2. When I'm gonna move out from Medan.

3. How's my 'prince charming' doing out there.

4. Money, money, money.

5. How to save money in a more practical and approachable way.

6. How to please myself and others.

7. What book should I read on weekends.

Six things I do before I fall asleep:

1. Log out of my Biscotti

2. Wash my face

3. Say good night to Giulietta

4. Pray

5. Texting/tweeting/joking around with my phone until I feel sleepy enough

6. Thinking what to dream about

Five things constantly in your possession:

1. My body

2. My way of thinking

3. My personality traits

4. My clothes

5. My shoes

Five things you did today:

1. Eating

2. Cleaning my room

3. Browsing

4. Sleeping
5. Listening to musics

Three places which mean a lot to you:

1. Home is where the heart is

2. My high school and my university

3. My room

Two things you want to do before you die:

1. Get married

2. Make my parents proud of me

One confession:

1. I write this blog in English to exercise my English ability. But sometimes I write in Indonesian.

#2 Dear Crush

Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly

Adam, I can be your Eve if you let me to. :)

who i really am

I've got people asking, "who the hell is Marisha Eliana ?"

Let me answer that goddamn question now.

The name is Marisha Eliana. It may sound American-German, but I have no American-German blood in me. I am Bataknese born Indonesian. I'm sick of people asking me if I'm a Chinese or I have Chinese blood in me. I aint Chinese and Chinese doesn't run in my blood.
I am turning to twenty two next year, straight, single, and christian. I'm wondering if aliens really exist.
I was born on March 24, 1989, and that makes me an Aries.
I go to Methodist University of Indonesia, and I am now officially a student of English Literature . I find social studies more interesting than science, NOTE THAT!

I am an amateur swimmer, a part time pathetic writer, a full time daughter, and a freelance teacher and dancer.
I am a wordsmith. I am a thinker. And my motto is, if  I want it, I will get it.
I am a day-dreamer. I am always ate. I love my apple cheeks.

I speak Indonesian, English, Batak language, and French. I'd like to learn German and Spanish.
I would really love to visit New York. (amen)

I am interested in books, arts, music, Taylor Swift,  movies & internet.
I scream, I cry, I laugh, I smile. Well, basically I do things normal people do, the difference is, I do it my way.

I love my family very much. You know I will always do.

PHTHISIS

      Guess what? I'm sick right now. I have cough, in detail ‘phthisis’, or in Indonesian "batuk kering". This disease started the last two weeks. After having meatball as my dinner with my bestie, I felt very thirsty, so I drunk a glass of mango juice. And the next following evening, suddenly I felt an irritating sensation in my throat. It felt like it was being scratched by a small insect or something. I cough to clear my throat. When I looked at myself in the mirror, there’s nothing wrong with my neck. I managed to make stroking motions on it, though it felt like something was keeping my neck from being calm down, and my throat suddenly looked worse than it was. I couldn’t stop coughing. DOH!!! I connected to the internet straight-away, and found out that I was having phthisis.

      The pain worsen until today. The worst thing is in the night, when I find out I couldn't stop coughing because I felt like there was a fishbone is stuck in my throat. My bestie, Citra, asked me to buy something to calm it down. So I decided to buy cough medicine. I’m not gonna post its brand name here. Actually I really don’t like to take medicine to cure my disease, but this phthisis has bothered my activities. So I decided to take it. You know, I have consumed this antitussive for two days yet I still have that irritating sensation. I thought I’m going to be okay. And now my throat is still in bad condition. Then I tried to ask my internet friend, Tora, to do an anamnesis on me. He suggested me to buy another cough medicine. I have drunk it (and antibiotics also, because the chemist asked me to take it together with the antitussive) for two days but the irritating sensation doesn’t want to go far away from me. People got me think if I have Tubercolosis, Pneumonia, Bronchitis. Oh God, what happen to me? What’s wrong with my respiratory tract? I can’t stop coughing. So hurting!!!

      Okay, enough from the introductory. From what I can assume, cough is a natural response that guards our lungs. Coughing is helpful in cleaning of our airways from irritants, like smoke and mucus. This cleaning prevents infection (taken from Wikipedia). Also cough can be an indication of a medical problem. Coughing occurs when our airways become irritated. Usually the causes of coughing are from some materials (like smoke and pollen), medical circumtances, and medicines; although in some cases, coughing is a small symptom of bigger disease. Usually a person can get infected by coughing from doing actions with a person who is having coughing. This reminds me that two weeks ago I played with a baby who was having coughing, according to his mother. That's why the disease spread on me.

       While most people consider cough is a small disease, it can be a serious disease if not being treated well. For small medication, you can drink much of warm water (WARM, not HOT), or just take antitussive. If the disease doesn't go well in 3 days, you better consult a doctor.

     I hope this post will broaden your knowledge about daily diseases that you might get everyday. Remember, preventing is better than curing.

"Life's purpose is not to be understood, but to be lived." –Marisha Eliana

Jatuh

Cinta menerbangkan aku jauh ke langit

Ku lihat indah, sejuk, dan damai saat kau menggandengku melintasi langit

tapi kenapa cinta terlalu jauh menerbangkanku?

hingga mataku gelap tak melihat apa-apa

hanya sakit yang ku rasakan saat aku tau

Aku terjatuh....

 Love flew me far away to the sky

Beauty, freshness, and state of mind were all the things I could see,

when you hold these hands by air

but why did it fly me too much from this earth?

and made both of my very own stupid eyes blind

It was only hurt  I got

when I knew I'm fallen.... 

So.. this afternoon I wrote my very first poem of my own. And it rhymes :)

I don't know if it's any good, I'll just let you describe it.

I made it in two versions, Indonesian and English. Enjoy it!