"Mas, minta kamar yang viewnya Bundaran HI, ya,"
"Mas, tuker kamar bisa, nggak. Jangan di lantai 2 dong, pengin yang view-nya Bundaran HI,"

Meski tidak terlalu jelas karena sejak masuk hotel legendaris ini saya sudah disibukkan dengan mengejar bocah, tapi inti pembicaraannya adalah seperti percakapan di atas: pengunjung minta ganti kamar. Kabarnya, tidak setiap pengunjung bisa dengan mudah menukar kamar. Tentu, yang baru pertama kali menginap atau datang tidak bisa meminta seenak jidat. Logis sih, ya.

Kami sendiri cukup beruntung. Tiga kali menginap di sini, kali pertama dapat kamar di lantai 6 kalau enggak salah dan yang kedua & terakhir kemarin lantai 15. Ya, meskipun pas lantai 15 dapat kamar paling ujung. Dua-duanya memiliki kesamaan: viewnya Bundaran HI yang notabene katanya semacam impian banyak orang yang menginap di hotel peninggal presiden RI pertama ini.

Jujur, saya pribadi tidak terlalu peduli view-nya apa, yang penting tidur. Xixixi. Adakah yang secuek saya? Yaa, kalau toh dapat yang "lebih", itu rezeki yang patut disyukuri.

Setelah melihat sendiri seperti apa view Bundaran HI dari dalam kamar, saya pun memahami kenapa tidur dengan pemandangan seperti ini adalah anugerah. Apa saja? Setidaknya, inilah yang terlintas dalam pikiran saya saat itu.

1. Bersyukurlah yang tinggal di tempat sepi, kalian tidak perlu berdesak-desakan sepanjang hari.
2. Ada yang minder hanya karena tinggal di kampung padahal jika dilihat dari sudut pandang bersebarangan, tinggal di kampung adalah impian. 
3. Ibu kota tak pernah sepi, pagi siang sore malam siap melayani. Enggak jauh beda dengan jantung. 
4. Pejuang tangguh yang tumpah ruah di jalan yang sama ini punya tujuan beragam, hormatilah. 
5. Jangan tertipu penampilan luar karena yang nampak sering tidak seperti kelihatannya.
6. Pada akhirnya semua akan merindukan keluarga mau diakui atau tidak.

Saya yakin, tiap pengunjung memiliki imajinasinya masing-masing ketika melihat bundaran HI dari kamar hotel dan ruang yang sama. Kalau kalian gimana?

I have been a writer since end of 2008. But, I have seriously started blogging in 2018. Before, I had many blog in wordpress, blogdetik, dagdigdug, posterous, etc just for releasing and sharing my feelings. I preferred writing book to blogging.

Since I've become a mom, I made a new blog on www.miyosiariefiansyah.com after followed my friend's online class, The Jannah Institute. I proved that not only writing book can give us money, but also blogging.

Then, how we can get money from blogging? Ehm... honestly, I am not an expert to share about this. I just give information based on my little experience.

1. Change your domain blog from free to top level domain (.com, .net, .id, etc)

It's the first step you have to do if you want to get money from blogging. You can buy it on many online store. I can't mention it one by one. You can search it by yourself on google. One you have to know, now, you can buy domain easily and cheap because many stores often give promo and discount.

2. Be active to write on your new blog periodically, such as one week one post or other options

3. Be active to search job

Now you can get it easily because job for blogger can be found everywhere. All you need is be proactive

4. Choose, which the way do you want to get money from blogging?
- By following blogging competition
- By reviewing product, website, etc as client's request
- By reposting the written article from client on your blog.
- All of them

And now, how about book writer?

You can also get enough money from this activity. To be honest, becoming a book writer is easier now than when I started it 11 years ago.

Basically, getting money from writing book is similar to blogging. You can do these ways:

1. Follow the writing book competition
2. Follow writing community
3. Apply to publisher directly
4. Be active to search what type of book which is needed by publisher or loved by reader
5. Be co-writer

Yes. It seems easy, doesn't it? LOL.

Don't forget that the most important things you have to have when writing book or blogging is IDEAS. There are so many ways to find ideas for writing book and blogging. The idea can come from bad or good 
experience, your activities, other writers' post/articles/books/writings, social media, and many more. The problem now is not how to find ideas anymore, but how to manage them to be good writing whether posted on blog or published on book.

What do you think? Which one will you choose? Writer? Blogger? Both of them? Or none? LOL.

Maybe, the simple tips what I shared here can be your alternative choice in your career, especially if you are a married woman or a mom. You can get money without leaving home, especially your children.

Next month, I will have become a writer for 11 years. I have experienced many ups and downs in writing, though, what I have been through is not as much as my seniors.

If you ask me why I write or why I choose to be a writer, my answer is because I love writing. There is no other reason. Yeahh... I enjoy every single word I write to create sentences, paraghraphs, and finally turn them into articles or books.

I almost write my daily activity every night before I go to sleep. It has been a ritual for me since I was in elementary school. I have been known by my family as a person who prefers writing to watching television. Yeah... It's like... I can be whoever I want by writing. I can create whatever I dream about. It can't be found by doing other activities.

Honestly, I also write everytime I feel down or happy. Even though those feelings are in contrast, but they can be blended in writing. Writing gives me pleasure and self healing. That's why, I always write my good and bad experiences.

My husband said I was more suitable to be a writer than to be others when we were young. He always totally supports me. I was often reminded by him to write freely, not because of expecting something in return. Wew... It seems... It can't be described. LOL.

But, I don't argue his opinion. Yeah, I have the same thought. When writing activity is just used to earn much money without considering other aspects, we'll become selfish and never satisfied. On the contrary, when writing activity is intended to make everything enlightened, we'll become better.

 Everyone has their own purpose in writing, doesn't they? How about you?

When we decide to study through an online education degree program, we have some considerations that written below:

1. We are busy

We work every day and almost have no time to study again. But, in the other hand, we want to improve our knowlegde. So, finally, we choose online education degree program that can be followed by busy people because the class is so flexible.

2. We want to study abroad, but we don’t have much money to stay in another country

Maybe, we want to study abroad. But we don’t have much money to make it real. By online education degree program, we can make it happen. We can study in another country that we want without staying there.

3. We want to have different condition by learning online 

Online education degree program is like home schooling. We can study at home although our university or school is so far. We only need to connect with internet so that we can communicate with our lectures and friends from another country.

4. We have other reasons which make us decide to study online


Is online education degree's quality as good as offline?

Actually, wherever we study, It depends on ourselves. No matter how good school or university, It will never make us good too automatically. If we are lazy, we can't succeed. Yeahh... although many people still have an opinion that good school can produce good and successful people.

And then how to make online education degree program more effective? We have to do several ways as written below:

1. We must be discipline although we study at online and our lecturer don’t know whether we study or not since we study online.
2. We must allocate time every day wisely and don’t use it for useless activites.
3. We have to relearn the lesson we received.

Let’s try and good luck!! 

For my friends who often ask me when I will move to Japan to follow my husband, this... I write all on my blog post. So, you can read and also pray for me (whenever you want and remember).Thank youu so much. Hehehe.

Honestly, My husband and I want to see each other soon and don't want to be apart anymore. Moreover, we have been in a long distance marriage since Sept 2016. So, you can imagine how impatience we are. But, heyy, moving to another country is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand, isn't it?

Several days ago have been a month since my husband submitted all documents for applying CoE. But, Immigration Bureau of Japan has not issued the CoE yet. In the other hand, my husband has been preparing to move from a single dormitory to a family dormitory. I don't know how to describe my feelings. Should I be happy because I still can enjoy my hometown or should I be sad because I still have to be patient... more... and more.

If you ask me when my CoE will be issued, sorry I don't know too. Based on many informations I got and also my husband's experience, CoE will be issued about one to three months after required documents were submitted.

But, if you ask me what CoE is, I am trying to explain like written below (sorry if it's not correct, just based on my own definition).

CoE or Certificate of Eligibility is like permission or guarantee letter which is issued by Immigration Bureau of Japan for foreigner who wants to live in Japan for a long period of time (more than three months). Getting CoE is not easy. We have to have a sponsor. My husband's CoE was taken care by his university. How about us (my son and me)? Yeah... my husband would be my sponsor. He took care of my CoE after arriving in Japan.

Every country has its own policy, include Japan. I don't know how other countries, but in my case (Indonesian who wants to move to Japan as temporary resident), having CoE is the most important thing before we take care of other things. Yeahh, that is my conclusion.

These are the procedures how "CoE" can make me and my son enter to Japan.

My husband as a sponsor will get the CoE from Immigration Bureau of Japan. Then, he will send it to me. I bet it takes a week sending a document from Tsukuba (Indonesia) to Malang (Indonesia). The CoE will be used to apply for dependent visa. Fortunately, we do not go to Jakarta to get the visa because we can submit our application for Japanese visa in Japanese Consulate General in the big city which is suitable with our ektp. For example if my ektp is located in East Java, I should apply visa in Japanese Consulate General in Surabaya. For others ektp, you can check the suitable embassy/consulate that you should go in the website.

If you want to know more about CoE clearly, you could go to this website. It might be useful for you one day.

While waiting for issuance of CoE, I think, my time will be not wasted if I spend it by doing positive activities.

Being patient doesn't mean we do nothing, but what we can do while waiting?

And then, what am I doing? I write it in nine points below.

1. Collecting information about Japan as much as I can

It's not my first time to wander. After married, I moved from my hometown in Batu to Bekasi, Bandar Lampung, and then Balikpapan. I was so excited being a wanderer. I learned so many things that I didn't get in my birth place. But, it will be my first experience living in another country which has different language, culture, etc. So, I think it's so crucial to look for the information about Japan as much as I can.

Fortunately, I can get it all easily now. At least, these are four sources which provide all information I need about Japan:

1. Websites
2. Legal e-books in Gramedia Digital
3. My friends who has been living or who lived in Japan
4. My husband

And... after collecting all about Japan randomly, I got these points about what I should do:

1. Learn Japanese language which can be downloaded freely on playstore.
2. Don't bring too many stuffs, bring only important stuffs, very very important. I shall write down what the stuffs or things that I bring.
3. Learn about local's habit. It will be useful to interact with each other.
4. Don't be careless, be polite.
5. Anything else?


2. Finishing my businesses here

Yeahh... I have to finish my several businesses here.


3. Working like usual

Fortunately, my work is remote. So, I can work everywhere and everytime. It helps me stay sane while waiting for CoE.


4. Spending quality time with my relatives

I am so thankful because Allah has given opportunities to me to be close with my family. We have been spending time and doing interesting activities together.


5. Preparing my mental

Becoming a new comer in a new place is quite difficult for the first time. Yeah... everyone feels like that. So, preparing mental well is a must.


6. Starting packing

What? Xixixi. Actually, It's optional. I have not packed my clothes yet. But, at least, I have made list which stuffs will be brought to Japan. Writing the list early can make us have time to check it again later.


7. Trying to lose my weight

What?? Yeahh.... My weight became over when I was getting pregnant. I just lost 25 kgs, but I feel still overweight. I wish I can give surprise to my husband when we meet again. I don't know whether I can get my weight like when I was young or at least before I became a mom. All I know is... trying. 🤣


8. Giving information a lot to my son

Although we (my husband, my son, and I) often go to somewhere together such as Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Surabaya, etc by car or plane, but it's the real first time my son and I go to abroad. Yes, just my son and me.

My husband was always with us so I had a partner, but now... NO. I will take care of my son alone. So, It's so important for me to educate him about this. I wish he can coorperate. 😅


9. Praying

Yeahh... PRAYING is the most important thing we should do after the hard day we have gone through, isn't it?


Those are the points about my activities while waiting for CoE. Do you have any suggestions what other things I have to prepare while waiting for CoE?

In my previous post, I shared my story about applying passport through online application. Now I am going to share the offline application process.

You still need to come to immigration office although you already apply online through the application. From the online application, you will get queue number. This number will be used when you come to the office so that the offline process will not take long time.

If you read my post before, you'll know that I chose Kediri immigration office because quota in Malang was full.

It took about two hours from Malang to Kediri. I went with my husband and son in the early Friday. We're worried if the traffic was crowded. So we thought going after having breakfast about 6 am was the best choice.

And... we were not wrong. We arrived in Kediri at 08.00 am. Oh yeah... I'll share our route too. From home, Beji Batu Malang, we were passing by Pujon, Ngantang, Kasembon, and finally... our destination Kediri.

For me, it was a second time going to Kediri. First, when I went to Yogya in 2018 through this city and second when I applied this passport.

I'll not tell more about Kediri as Kota Tahu. I promise I will share in another post. I just want to focus telling about applying passport.

Oh yeah, it's so important for you to ensure that your documents you carry is complete.They are:

1. Identity card (EKTP and KIA. "Kartu Identitas Anak" is optional but, I brought it)
2. Family card (KK)
3. Birth certificate
4. Bachelor degree certificate or last formal education certificate
5. Marriage certificate

Don't forget to carry stamp duty, ballpoint, and enough money. You also need to copy all documents. Although usually there are photocopy service, ATM, and little stationery shop in immigration office, but it's better if you prepare them all well from home.

When we arrived, the office was still quiet. It broke my imagination or ehm... my negative thinking about applying passport... hehehe. I am sorry. Hehe.

Okayy... I'll write the points when I applied passport offline in Kediri Immigration Office. I think it's same wherever we choose the location. So, I hope my sharing is useful.

1. You'll get the queue card when arriving to office. In kediri, I got from the staff directly.


2. You'll be asked for whom the passport is and what's the purpose for applying it. I thought at first we'll be asked seriously like in interview process but it turned out that the questions are informal.

3. You'll get documents like this you must fill in.

Don't hesitate to ask to the staff if you don't understand. I was lucky because my husband accompanied me.

Oh yeah i forgot to tell that to apply passport for kid, the parent must come to the immigration office.  Not only father or mother, but BOTH OF THEM.


4. After filling the documents correctly (don't fill too fast), give them to the staff to be checked. Then you'll be ordered to continue the next process.

5. Then, the staff will take your photo and do the interview. It took quite long time. But do not worry because there was playground for kids. My son played there while waiting the process.

Oh yeah... I was lucky because I got the priority. I thought maybe because I brought my child.

6. The process finished before Jumatan time. Last, I got this (like picture below) after paying it all at counter payment near that place.


You can check your passport whether it is done or not by WA or website. You can get your passport after a week. I took them after going home from Jakarta.

You have to know if you don't take your passport, your application will be canceled and you'll have difficulty to apply again. So please do not forget to take your passport on time.

For all experience that I have gone through, I give excellent score for immigration office especially Kediri immigration office. Thank youu. 😍

Applying Indonesian passport is much simpler now. I proved it when applied for it in early August 2019.

I am going to divide my story in two parts: applying online and offline.

Honestly, I was so lazy at first to apply passport. I imagined how complicated and long the process would be. However, since I am going to move to another country, I have no choice but to apply for an Indonesian passport.

I still remembered when my niece applied a passport 5 years ago when she went to Singapore to attend Singapore Mathematic Olympiad. She had to come to immigration office early in the morning in order to get the queue number fast. I was really surprised when knowing the fact. Because of that reason, I kept procrastinating to make my passport. When many of my friends and relatives apply for passport to travel abroad, I was not interested to do the same. I thought that traveling does not always mean going abroad. Indonesia has so many places to be visited. Perhaps I am an anti-mainstream, but actually I was just indolent to apply for passport. Xixixi.

On the other hand, I was so jealous with my husband because he already has had a passport since 2011. His office took care of it. He went abroad several times for office duty, for instance visited Japan in 2011 or 2010 (sorry I forgot the correct year), Australia in 2015, London in 2016, Singapore and Malaysia in 2018.

Actually, I had a plan to make passport when I lived in Balikpapan because we had a plan to travel to Korea. We had bought promo ticket. But unfortunately, we had to cancel because I got pregnant so I chose to focus on my baby.

In 2019, my husband’s scholarship application was approved therefore we have to move to Japan, the country where my husband is going to study. Whether I like it or not, I must have passport. I was like... ehmm... how if the process is so complicated? But, I also know that I have to do it. LOL.

Then I started by looking for information about how to apply for a new passport. I browsed in google and found many things I need. I just knew that we do not need to come to immigration office directly for applying passport. It is different with the past. When I read it, I just hope that the process will not take so long.

I am going to write down several points about my experience applying passport in 2019. It might be useful for you who have same purpose.

1. Download "layanan paspor online" by dirjen imigrasi in playstore.
2. Open the application and you can find a display like this.

3. Check "saya setuju blablabla" and then click "konfirmasi".

4. You will find page about rules that you must read before continuing the process. There are 7 rules you have to agree. If you have read, then click "lanjut".

5. If you don't have account yet, please make it for the first time. Making new account here is like when we make account in Facebook or Email or etc. It's so simple.

6. After filling the form application, then click “daftar”.

7. Open again the application with new username and password.

8. Choose the immigration office where you'll apply your passport. It's better if you choose the location which is nearest to you home.

Unfortunately, when I chose Malang Immigration office, I could not continue because it's fully booked. There was no quota left for me. Hikss. What a pity.

9. What did  I do then? I chose Kediri. I was lucky because there were still few quotas that I could fill. Alhamdulillah.

10. After choosing which immigration office we will visit to apply passport, then we have to decide which day we will go there. I chose Friday.

11. You'll get booking code which you must capture and show it to the staff of immigration office.


It's all the process to apply passport through online application. But, it doesn't mean you don't need to come directly to immigration office. You still need to come there. I'll share it in another post.