Juicing with Stephany
Pertemanan yang indah adalah pertemanan yang memberikan hadiah tepat guna ketika salah satu temannya berulang tahun. Rasanya ini udah mulai jadi tradisi di The Nyinyirs, hahaha… Karena mereka tahu gue lagi pengen beralih ke hidup sehat dengan minum jus sayur dan buah, maka sekitar 15 orang teman saya bersatu padu ngasih ini waktu gue ulang tahun:
Serasa menang door prize
PS. Tahukah Anda kalau Philips itu adalah merk Belanda? *tetep*
Jadilah aku bahagia lahir batin karena kadonya amat sangat berfaedah! 
Kenapa gue jadi tiba-tiba pengen ngejus sayur dan buah? Justru karena gue nggak suka sayur dan buah. Tapi karena harus sehat, maka kadang gue paksain makan. Nah, makannya ini yang kadang nyiksa. Lalu beberapa waktu lalu pakar kesehatan Nyinyirs, Bu Naniet, bagi-bagi resep jus sayur dan buahnya, jadilah akik penasaran. Secara kita tinggal sendiri ya mak, siapa lagi yang mau ngurus kita kalau bukan diri kita sendiri. Lebih baik duitnya gue alokasiin ke sayur, buah, dan yoghurt daripada ke dokter. Kalau sehat kan mau ngapa-ngapain jadi enak
Selain karena resep jus kiriman Naniet, rasa penasaran ini juga disebabkan karena gue rajin banget ngeliat instagramnya Nadya Hutagalung. Mbak Nadya ini sering banget bagi resep ngejus dan makan makanan sehat yang rasanya gue nggak sanggup kalau tiap hari harus menjelma jadi kambing dan makan dedaunan mulu. Tapi resep jusnya nampak menarik. Gue nggak ngimpi gara-gara ngejus muka gue bisa kayak Nadya Hutagalung *YA MENURUT NGANA*, tapi paling nggak bisa sesehat dan sekinclong dia.
Bayangin mukanya yang udah cantik luar biasa kayak sononya aja masih ngerawat diri sedemikian rupa, kita yang kasta-kasta di bawah ini harus lebih rajin lagi dong Gue pernah nonton salah satu wawancara dia di Hitam Putih ketika Deddy Corbuzier melontarkan satu pertanyaan ke mbak Nadya:
“Jadi, apa sih rahasia cantiknya Anda?”
Nadya: “Kawin aja sama bule, pasti anaknya mukanya kayak saya.“ “I look after myself.”
Nah kan, she takes care of herself well. Makanya udah cantik banget jadi makin cantik lagi, bikin yang ngeliat pengen ngebeset mukanya karena merasa kecil hati, nyahahaha…
Akhirnya kemaren malam gue praktekin deh salah satu resepnya!
Kalau mau coba:
Resep untuk sekali minum:
1/4 buah naga
1/4 buah kiwi
1/4 buah pir atau bisa diganti apel (kulitnya nggak usah dikupas)
1/2 pisang (ini sebagai pengganti gula)
2-3 batang Parsley (jangan lupa bersihin/potong ujung batangnya sebelum dimasukin blender)
3-4 batang Pok Choy (jangan lupa bersihin/potong ujung batangnya blender)
Air seperti takaran di gambar (dikit aja)
2-3 sendok makan Plain Yoghurt Elle & Vire (kira-kira separuh gelasnya)
Tuang semua jadi satu di dalam blender, terus diblend deh! Enak lho, rasanya!
Sebaiknya langsung diminum atau jangan didiamkan terlalu lama karena warna jus bisa berubah dan nggak fresh lagi. Jadi ini nggak untuk disimpan di kulkas terus diminum entaran, keburu kagak enak.
Nah, kalau mau cobain resep-resep lain (gue pun pengen nyoba juga entar, hihi), ini nih kiriman dari Naniet waktu itu.
Silakan didownload di sini ya –> RESEP JUS & BUAH
Nanti kalau ada yang baru akan gue share lagi
Selamat mencoba dan mari hidup lebih sehat!
TTD,
Stephany Hutagalung Josephine
(Financially) Independent Women
Gambar dari sini
Mimpi gue untuk menjadi perempuan yang mandiri baik dari segi kehidupan maupun segi finansial sebenarnya bukan berangkat dari semangat feminisme. Ya kali dulu kepikiran gitu-gituan.
Masa remaja gue bisa dibilang berat dengan keterbatasan uang saku dan financial plan keluarga yang buruk. Kami sampai di titik terendah ketika bokap pensiun, sementara gue baru mau masuk kuliah dan dua adik gue masih harus dibiayai sekolahnya. Gue liat sendiri bagaimana orang tua gue, terutama nyokap, berusaha memutar situasi yang nggak enak ini. Sayangnya, karena semua serba terbatas, akhirnya kami memang harus menguatkan diri bertahan dengan gaya hidup yang sangat sederhana bertahun-tahun lamanya, bahkan sampai hari ini, walaupun keadaan sudah lebih baik karena gue dan adik-adik sudah mulai bekerja.
Berangkat dari pengalaman masa remaja yang pas-pasan dan nggak enak, mau nggak mau gue harus kreatif untuk mencari sumber penghasilan lain. Gue memulainya dengan ngajar les bahasa Inggris part-time semasa gue kuliah dulu dan kemudian berlanjut ke kerjaan pertama gue sebagai sekretaris di usia 21 tahun. Emang duitnya juga nggak banyak, tapi ternyata punya duit sendiri itu enak banget, ya. Gue membandingkan diri gue ketika masih sepenuhnya bergantung pada penghasilan bokap yang kemudian berhenti pada saat dia pensiun, sampai akhirnya waktu gue mulai bisa cari duit sendiri. Apa bedanya? I feel empowered. Rasa “helpless” itu puji Tuhan perlahan-lahan hilang. Gue nggak serta merta jadi kebanyakan duit, tapi ada perasaan lega dan semangat untuk nyari duit lebih banyak lagi ketika menerima gaji hasil kerja sendiri, apalagi kalau bisa bantu-bantu orang rumah.
Sejak momen gue mulai nyari duit sendiri, gue berjanji untuk terus meningkatkan karier dan mencari segala cara yang baik untuk meningkatkan kelayakan hidup gue dan keluarga. Gue melihat sendiri bagaimana nyokap struggling, bertransisi dari kehidupannya sebagai ibu rumah tangga yang sepenuhnya bergantung sama penghasilan suami dan kemudian harus mengalami masa ketika penghasilan itu tidak ada, apalagi setelah pisah dari bokap. Puji Tuhan, walaupun harus melewati masa-masa susah, nyokap gue semangatnya nggak pernah mati untuk mengejar kebebasan finansialnya. Sekarang nyokap pelan-pelan melakukan usahanya sendiri untuk menghidupi dirinya dan membiayai kuliahnya. Yak, nyokap bilang dia pengen banget punya gelar S1 supaya paling nggak punya “pegangan” dan berdoa supaya dia dapat kesempatan kerja dan hidup yang lebih layak kalau punya status pendidikan yang lebih baik. Sekarang nyokap udah masuk semester 5 dan kuliah bersama anak-anak yang bahkan lebih muda dari adik gue yang paling kecil.
*brb nangis*
Senengnya, ternyata semangat mengejar kebebasan finansial ini memang sudah merajalela di kalangan perempuan Indonesia. Ya iyalah bok, masa nggak punya duit kita diem aja, we have our dreams to chase! Menurut data Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) tahun 2012, dari total 112 juta jumlah pekerja di Indonesia, ada 43 juta pekerja perempuan yang membantu pertumbuhan ekonomi Indonesia yang stabil dan menemukan kebebasan finansial. Para perempuan tersebut juga menemukan kebebasan dari sistem bekerja tradisional ke sistem bekerja secara freelance. Tren bekerja freelancing yang sedang menjamur menjadi kesempatan baru yang menjanjikan bagi jutaan perempuan ini, baik bagi yang membutuhkan penghasilan tambahan maupun bagi yang membutuhkan cara lebih fleksibel dalam bekerja yang disesuaikan dengan lifestyle mereka masing-masing.
Gue pun dikelilingi oleh teman-teman perempuan yang kreatif mencari duit dan tetap bisa mengurus rumah dan anak. Mulai dari yang jualan sambel jambal, cupcakes, steak, sepatu, pernak-pernik, baju, furniture, sampai jasa event organizing, content writing, dan digital campaign. Semuanya kreatif, semuanya jadi punya waktu yang lebih untuk melakukan hal-hal lain, dan hampir semuanya jadi lebih cekatan dan taktis mencegah momen-momen sepi job yang bikin penghasilan menurun.
Tentu saja ini nggak bikin perempuan kantoran nggak sama cekatannya. Gue pun saat ini masih ngantor 9-5 dan melakukan beberapa kerjaan freelance menulis. Kita semua punya cara masing-masing untuk menghidupi diri kita, tapi gue punya mimpi, mungkin nih suatu saat kalau gue udah nikah misalnya, gue bisa punya pekerjaan yang jauh lebih fleksibel dan tetap “menghasilkan” sehingga gue punya lebih banyak waktu untuk gue dan keluarga gue. Apa kata Mike Lewis nanti kalau gue nggak bisa meluangkan waktu buat dia dan anak-anak kami? #digamparpembaca
Buat temen-temen yang juga masih lari marathon mengejar kebebasan finansial (kagak kelar-kelar ya bok ngejer duit), semoga kalian bisa mendapatkan bahkan menciptakan kesempatan kerja untuk diri sendiri, ya! Kalau butuh referensi lowongan job freelance, coba deh klik: http://www.freelancer.co.id/ siapa tahu ada yang cocok 
Semoga kita semua bisa mandiri secara finansial, bisa mengejar mimpi-mimpi kita, nggak lagi pusing kalau pengen beli ini itu atau pengen keliling dunia karena kita bisa bayar sendiri, dan bisa kipas-kipas pake uang sendiri while masih punya waktu untuk Mike Lewis keluarga ‘Cause you know what? We can do it!
26th: A Birthday Adventure
So here comes my favorite day of the year.
Today I’m turning 26 and the older I get, the more I feel pumped up to chase my dreams. I realize now I feel even more alive. Alive okay, not old :p
But also on this special day, I am reminded once again of how very blessed I am. My life is surrounded by so many sweethearts. Family members, best friends, acquaintances, blog readers, colleagues, basically everyone has been amazingly kind, the ones that make you speechless you just end up smiling endlessly. So thank yo so much, dear ones. Thank you for the prayers, wishes, and sweet thoughts. I feel loved. 
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I have made it a habit since last year that every year, at least after my birthday, I have to travel somewhere new. Go to places I have never been or maybe re-visit the places I love. Last year I started with Australia and after that I just went crazy. I knew I was crazed by this whole traveling thing because even when I had not hopped off the plane to the country I was visiting, I was already thinking about where I should go after that trip. The first thing I did right after I got back from Australia was browsing airplane tickets and created another holiday plans for the rest of the year.
I don’t have all the money in the world, but thank God for the control freak in me, before I spend anything I usually make a financial estimation for 12 months ahead, so I know when to spend and when not to, and how much money I can allocate for those impulsive trips I planned. The fact that most of the time I’m traveling alone makes it easier because I can spend as little as possible yet have so much flexible time. I can basically sleep anywhere and eat cheap food and feel just as happy. By that I can tick all the places I want to see and make as many pictures as I want with my orange teddy bear. And nobody will complain, ’cause I’m on my own
The best part of all of that, is writing and sharing the stories of the trip with all of you I am even more happy if you find my information useful and you even do the same trip I’m not saying that this is the best technique of travel planning, but it is an option. I would rather see lots of places but not having too many fancy clothes or the coolest gadget. Some might want the combination of both so they only travel once or twice a year and can still buy things they want. Then I might be rather extreme, I just want my passport to be full of immigration stamps, hahaha…
I know I often laugh and do self-mockery of my being single, but the more I travel the more I realize, this is what I need for now. Things might not be easier had I have a boyfriend. I mean, if I did, he could be a great traveling partner, who knows, but he could be not too. Being free and unattached gives us a lot more authority and flexibility. Your money and your time are yours alone. As of now, I don’t want to feel the need to ask permission or updating someone every now and then of where I’m going, where I’m at, and why I’m going alone. But for later, someday I hope, I will find someone who is just as crazy about seeing the world as I am, and have the same traveling rhythm with mine Amen.
So… this year, in about 8 days from now, I will do another “birthday trip.” I have planned this trip meticulously for a year but I have dreamed about it for 6 years. Six years of always wanting to go back to the first country I fell in love with, Holland. And this April, I’m coming back I will do a solo trip to 7 countries in Europe, though I will not be entirely alone there. But I’ll be flying from Indonesia by myself. Each visit might seem quite brief to some, but for me it is what sufficient for now. I have waited for 6 years, I wanna see as much as I can and pray that I can always go back.
This year Holland will inaugurate a new King after previously being led by Queens for three generations. I think this will be the last Queen’s day for now, and they’ll have a different name for the celebration next year. Every 30th of April the whole country will dress up in orange and basically party all day long. And this year I will be part of it too, yaaay! Can’t wait to write about the event for you guys!
After that I will hop from country to country, one of the highlights is London! AAAK! SUPER EXCITED! Lucky I have friends in most of the destinations, I think pure adventure will happen in Rome and Barcelona as I will be all alone. Wish me luck!
So that’s my plan for the next 3 weeks in Europe, I’m really excited and I can’t wait to tell you all about it
And as I said earlier that I have gone crazy with traveling, I have planned another 5-6 trips for the rest of the year, thanks to budget airlines promo So I hope this blog will be filled with more interesting stories that can trigger you travel more too. Let’s go out and see the world, sweethearts!
Kisses!
Officially Jacked by Afrojack!
Afrojack Jacked Tour was an awesome rave party brought to you by Kuta Entertainment in collaboration with Soundbox (which first event I hosted last year). To think that this was their very first event, it was kind of unbelievable that more than 19,000 people came to Ecopark that night. Personally, this is by far the best rave party I have ever been to in Indonesia. The lay out of the venue, the VVIP & VIP arrangement made perfect sense, the gimmicks, the sound system, the visuals/multimedia animation. It was crowded but the visitors comfortably had a room to move around with lots of stalls for you to look at, or even a tunnel of light by Absolute Elyx for peeps to take pictures. I did not experience the same when I went to Guetta.
And ummm, you know how handsome DJs usually get even hotter when they’re on stage? Afrojack is one of ‘em. I mean, look at those arms… It’s not Teppy if her post is not hormonal
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The line-ups were undoubtedly wicked as well:
And some sneak peeks of the awesome night:
Thank you www.indonesiaclubbing.com, TalkMen, and IdeBaik for always taking me to the hippest parties in town! Until the next event!
Credits: Most photos were taken by indonesiaclubbing‘s team and the rest without logo are personal collection.
Office Party @ Black Cat Jazz & Blues Club
Monday last week our office celebrated another achievement as we were awarded “Country of the Year 2012″ in the whole Asia Pacific region. Having said that, a celebration had to be made to complement the awarding session. And that should be my part.
As a gimmick, the management wanted to surprise the staff and open the event by being a waiter/waitress, serving canapes to everyone in the room. So I dressed ‘em up like one. It was quite a nice surprise with perfect timing. My Scottish boss even served whilst wearing his traditional costume on: the kilt. He said he only wears it to special occasion, and last Monday was definitely special.
I hope you’ll be having some fun time soon too!
You Are More Beautiful Than You Think
Today I feel so uninspired. I’m stressed out because I have to finish my deadlines while at the same time I feel like I’m blanking out. The fact that I’m a bit sick makes it worse… Sleep deprived, stressed, a not so fit body, and feeling quite helpless because I need to get this shit together. I turned off my cellphone this entire night, I ate dinner alone, reading. I walked home without listening to any music like I used to. I kept thinking, and thinking, and thinking what should I do. I need an inspiration, something that gives me eureka moment in my head so I’ll be engined again to write something good. And tonight I bumped into this. It is not directly related to what I’m experiencing right now, but in one way or another, I feel connected with the message. You have to watch this to understand. Sometimes us humans tend to be so hard on ourselves. We give no room for our own flaws and mistakes, and we thrive so hard so that other people won’t say anything bad about us. We give little room of appreciation to ourselves ’cause we are often caught up in the need to be perfect, while nobody is… and we forget to be grateful.
You are more beautiful than you think
