Mengatur Keuangan untuk Newlywed

                Alhamdulillah, sebulan terlewati dengan suka dan duka. Yang penting kami sama-sama belajar bagaimana hidup berdua dan berusaha melakukan yang terbaik untuk keluarga kecil kami. Salah satu hal yang kami pelajari setelah sebulan hidup berdua, adalah cara mengatur uang. Sebelum menikah, kami memiliki tabungan bersama yang khusus digunakan untuk biaya pernikahan, membeli moda transportasi (Alhamdulillah, akhirnya punya si imut Scoopy J) dan InsyaAllah untuk membeli rumah. Setelah menikah, tabungan tersebut masih ada dan program tabungan kami masih berlanjut. Pengantin baru itu tidak hanya mikirin tabungan loh ya, kudu juga mengatur aliran dana supaya tidak macet sebelum gajian berikutnya. Berikut usaha kami dalam mengatur keuangan. Enjoy! ;)

Alokasi Dana Setiap Gajian 

Why Him?

                We met at early 2013, where I really has spoken to him. Before that, he was another new employee like me, usually we came back home sent by the same car, very late at night (trainee’s life, never been easier). Whenever I had a chance to look at him, I really thought this boy (yeah, fresh graduate, right?) is quite arrogant. Well, it’s my honest first impression towards him. But life is very unpredictable right? When I was away for my BLT school in KL, everything started to change. 

                Starting from a so called social media named Facebook, this boy requested to be my friend. Started liking most of all my posts on Facebook but never ever try to chat o FB or talk to me in real life. Honestly, I do have a feeling that he likes me. HAHA Indonesian said, GeEr. Then when I was in school he started to post this, on my FB :

Menjadi Istri

                Sepertinya musim banget nikah muda, termasuk saya sendiri (?). Nikah muda? Beneran nikah muda karna suruhan agama atau kebelet pengen nikah karna liat temen udah pada gendong bayi, perut udah pada besar nunggu hari melahirkan atau mupeng liat temen upload foto mesra sama pasangan halalnya? Jujur, saya pernah menargetkan untuk menikah pada umur 25 tahun. Alhamdulillah, Allah ngasih pasangan ketika saya berumur 24 tahun. Nikah muda kah itu? Buat saya, tidak ada istilah nikah muda. Adanya nikah dewasa. Karna muda jelas sekali artinya menikah ketika usia dini dan sikap masih belum mencerminkan orang yang siap menghadapi hidup berumah tangga. Kalau nikah dewasa, artinya menikah ketika umur muda tapi pemikiran sudah matang dan dewasa.  

Picture source from here

Learning to Respect

                Nowadays, normal people can easily become celebrity. Instagram for example, an easy access for everyone to become famous with numerous numbers of followers and getting free stuff from endorsement. Well, do I have problem with that? Previously I might have problem with that. But now, let’s learn to respect people and their choices. 

People who keep on updating selfies or keep it as their own privacy

                The power of internet has magically turns people private life getting live on the social media. Telling the world where they are going, posting photos of their pretty and handsome facial expression, photos of their food, photos of their shoes, photos of their dress and many more photos. Yes, especially photos. Honestly, I did that. Sometimes or maybe most of the times. While some others who rarely update their social media, their Instagram is empty, they have no likes and it seems silent. Some called them anti-social. Really? My husband and I are one of the examples of these two. I am the one who become more into social media while he just being him. Updating once a while and don’t care what people say. So here I learn that the two sides of this story. It happens to other people to. They are doing what they like. If they like posting things on social media let them be. If they like being a pious man on Facebook, let them be. Learn to respect, because sometimes we are doing what exactly they are doing. Social media is easy; you can hide things you dislike without removing them from your friendlist, right? 

Menikah itu….

                Sampai saat ini, saya sudah menikah selama 23 hari. Bukan, saya tidak bermaksud untuk menghitung mundur ke ‘month-versarry’, menghitung bulan untuk tanggal penting buat pasangan, yang nge-hits di kalangan anak muda. Entahlah, seiring waktu berjalan, menghitung tanggal itu terlalu alay dan hari istimewa itu tidak lagi istimewa karena tiap bulan dirayakan. Iya, saya dulu pernah alay dan sangat ke-anak-anakan dan pernah merayakannya. Tapi cukuplah, manusia bisa berubah kan? :)

                23 hari usia pernikahan itu, ibarat teh hangat buatan bunda di pagi hari saat cuaca dingin, enak sekali. Harumnya menusuk ke kalbu. Rasa manisnya istimewa. Setelah diminum, rasanya lega. Setidaknya itulah yang saya rasakan. Semuanya terasa indah. Ini bukan lagi seolah-olah kami memulai lembaran baru dalam catatan hidup kami, tapi ini benar-benar kisah baru yang akan dicatat lalu akan diceritakan untuk anak cucu kami kelak.