It's a Small World

It's a world of laughter, a world of tears

It's a world of hope and a world of fears

There's so much that we share, that it's time we're aware

It's a small world after all

Merry Christmas everyone !

Wishing you all the timeless treasures of the season. The warmth of home, the love of family, and the company of good friends. To celebrate all the good things happened in 2016, let me share with you some of the happiest pictures I took from my recent trip to Disney World ! 

A trip down memory lane to the most magical place on earth last month meant a lot for me. It was more than just a vacation at Walt Disney World... Life has been giving me non-stop surprises and blessings, send me more kind people and remove the negative ones. With 2016 has been a year of discovery - a year of moving forward with new perspectives and new favorites. The very last thing I wanted to do before end of the year just coming back home to where it all started so I can give thanks to the place and people who gave me so much. 

Obviously it felt so good to be back in the Sunshine State. But what's even better ? Definitely reunited with my favorite cast members ! Ooh I remember, arrived in Orlando for the very first time in March 2014, I had no expectation at all how Disney would change my life. My managers and colleagues became my second family...my support system. While our main job was creating magical moments - it was the people you met and worked with everyday who truly brought magic and colors into your life. The way they gave you hugs and unconditional love, they provided true home and inspire you with their beautiful souls and passions...that in the end of the day, no matter how exhausted you were from working all day - you still found yourself smiling and incredibly blessed for all the great opportunities you had.

Special thanks to my darlings Christian, Neung, my big sis Wayan and her family for showing me a good time. Last minute change of plans turned into great Thanksgiving ! Always love spontaneous trip with the Mellos to catch the sunrise at Cocoa Beach continue with breakfast at Tampa, picnic at Daytona Beach with my Indonesian community, reliving the good old days from one park to another, lunch and coffee date at Winter Park, Christmas shopping at Disney Springs continued with dinner at Chipotle and Earl of Sandwich, quick visit to my old apartment Chatham Square, dance like noone's watching in front of Magic Kingdom... Well, who needs a holiday itinerary anyway when it's so much fun to do simple things with beautiful people.

To all the wonderful cast-members I knew, thank you for being my lights. See you guys real soon !

Happy holidays all :)

Postcards from Magic Kingdom

Here's the thing about working at Disney World, you could never get sick of the castle at the Magic Kingdom. Well, maybe a little bit, as a cast member, you probably have the love and hate relationship with Magic Kingdom, especially to know how the park can be brutally hectic during some big holidays, but as a fan of Disney - this place will always have that magic and isn't it why they call it the happiest place on earth ? When I started working with the company - I was very lucky to get a chance doing the backstage tour, to see with my own eyes all the little details and how the dream factory bring the fantasies into life. The magic did not stop there, everyday there's always a thing or two...in fact too many things you can learn from the biggest entertainment company in the world. Surrounded by creative people in a very dynamic and international working environment, I still have to pinch myself sometimes for being incredibly lucky to experience all the great things, including one very looooong night where we had to filming for a commercial break from 11 pm to 5 am with my partner in crime Kathalizsa. Got to see some creative people playing with the lights at the castle was one of my favorite moments in Disney World, it was truly inspiring - to prove me once again the power of hard work, persistence and dream. I decided to share few photos of the castle here on my personal blog to remind me how far I've come and I definitely look forward to many more adventures in life... Asia next week ? 

Magic Kingdom, Disney World

The castle at Magic Kingdom during winter

One magical night at Disney World during shooting commercial

If you can dream it, you can become it - Walt Disney

Tell me one of  your biggest dream ? Working for Disney World, checked.

Feel free to visit my previous post about Disneyland Paris and Disneyland Anaheim

Postcards from Orlando

  Looking at these photos I took at my days off wandering around Disneyland Orlando from Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, til Typhoon Lagoon - I still have to pinch myself sometimes then for a second I realized this is not a dream. Celebrating 2 months working in the happiest place on earth, I got nothing to complain ( OK I lied, I miss real Asian food ) but really grateful for amazing flatmates, colleagues, guests, fireworks, clear blue skies. Disney and these people definitely bring more colors and magic into my life. 

   While one night on the way home from a party, I asked myself how did this happen ? Of course it wasn't hard to flash back, but one sweet email I received the same night from a reader seemed to make it much easier for me to remember how it all started. My reader congratulate me for living my new life and the story I wrote at  The Secret.tv really inspired him. Found it's pretty amazing how my little story and dreams I wrote on a piece of paper can be inspirations to some people, nothing else I want to do but to keep working hard and continue become inspirations for those dreamers.  Back to few months ago when things have completely fallen apart, told myself I deserved something bigger and better then I got this job in luxury industry which I thought at the beginning ummm maybe the new adventure there would let me explore things I've never tried before, just in few days I realized the work environment didn't let me learn a lot, I couldn't express myself, the only good thing was I worked with some amazing people that taught me to stay humble, appreciate little things and never settle for less. Slowly I got back on my feet again, being grateful and positive attitudes helped me a lot through the hard times, next thing I knew Disney contacted me and here I am...enjoying every minute in Orlando, let myself totally lost over and over again in different countries / pavilion in Epcot, dreaming about Paris, fell in love with blue details in Morocco pavilion,  in awe with every single details I could possibly find in Disney's Animal Kingdom that made feel like in Nepal and Africa, riding roller coaster  - screaming - and happy like a-7-year-old-kids, ohh did I mention about how sweet and tempting the caramel flavor in German pavilion ? Also, Disney's parade and behind the scene of movie productions at Disney's Hollywood studios never fails to blow my mind away, over flowing inspirations and curiosity made me can't help but dreaming to be a part of their dream team. Still, the girl can't get enough of clear blue skies and fireworks, the burst of colors just like the universe and I celebrating life and love.  Excited to welcome summer, auditions, and my upcoming birthday trip, hope you enjoy some postscards from Orlando...

Ps : More photos from Disney,  click For Safeena : Colors, Dreams, Happiness

My kind of cotton candy

Disney's Hollywood Studios

Chatham Square 

Sharing Indonesian culture ! Go Gyscha !

Marocco pavillion, Epcot

Fireworks never gets old

  And speaking about being thousand miles away from home, as much as I am really happy to be able sharing Indonesian culture, Balinese ethnic dance, Angklung, and Indonesia tourism with our guests here in Disneyland, I still wish I shouldn't have missed few important events happened back home last week. My best friend's wedding ! Dinda, Irham and I went to high school together, it's a privilege for me to see them have grown up from teenagers until they graduated from top university and working in big companies, still found it hard to believe they have met the love of their life and just got married last week. It seems only yesterday we wore that white and blue uniforms, they were being supportive when I was MC-ing for school events and theater, saw me as the next VJ MTV, had no doubt that I'll make all my dreams come true. Ooh where are the years going - really ? While both of them are currently enjoying their honeymoon, I wish them all the happiness in the world. Here's another year of our great friendships, we keep supporting each other, you all just another reasons for me to create more than I did yesterdays, to make you proud.