Nal's Slices of Life

“What is your dream city?” “If you have one chance to live in one city for the rest of your life, which city do you want to choose?”            I guess that most of the people will mention Paris, Prague, London, Florence, Barcelona, Kyoto, Edinburgh, and so on. Well, they have a great point. Those cities indeed are beautiful cities and famous from all over the world. The most reliable website also put such kind of the cities I mentioned before. I admit those cities are beautiful even I only scroll down the websites page.            Among those countries, I love to visit Prague and London one day. However, those cities are not suited to answer the questions above. I prefer to choose one of the cities in my country. It is Jogjakarta. YES. Jogjakarta is my dream city and a city where I wish to spend my rest of life. This post is not for comparing which city is better than another. This is p...

      It was 19th of July 2018 after the opening ceremony of Community Service Program on my campus in Indonesia. The agenda ended at 2 p.m. and I asked my friend, who also my neighbour, to go back to our hometown. I insisted to go back home, despite my mom said 'NO' and told me to stay at my boarding house. I knew how stubborn I was at that time, but I had some valid reasons too; the lamp in my bathroom was off and I was alone.      Shortly, my friend and I went home at 4 p.m. using her motorcycle. She gave me a ride. I brought many things include the huge backpack on my shoulder and paper bag. The thing that we forgot, that my town was crazy traffic. All vehicles stuck in the road. My friend wanted to go through the traffic by driving on the sidewalk path. Well, yeah we knew clearly it was illegal. On our right side there were two big trucks and when we wanted to go back to the main street, unfortunately, my friend lost the motor balance....