Sunday, March 11, 2012

Mein Bruder und Mir

So I bet I was (kind of) celebrating my brother's arrival from Singapore. Izi, he unpredictably showed up and made me shout "OMG you're here!". I'm going to skip to the best part. Today, I attended a mini-concert and, yeah, I also performed on the concert. Mein bruder attended the event and watched me with my jiejie and my friends. And you know nothing of him impressed me. I thought there would be something new of him, but he didn't change. Hahaha I saw him as bruder Izi like he used to be.


Izi is the one who sits in my left side, on the picture. He had cut his hair, it looked shorter and I felt a bit weird. As usual, talked about random stupid things but, he spoke English much more fluently. I didn't have difficulty to talk with him in English since he spoke Singaporean English. The topics would never be far from things like musics, stupidities, and he often put rude and slang idioms in his sentences. He did not change, dear spectators.

Well that's all I want to share. Let's say that this post must be short and, it's probably a bit useless. But that's all I want to share. My brother came home from Singapore and he didn't change.

Er ist etwas sengklek und viel kabetrik...

PS:  You might find out the meaning of sengklek and kabetrik in your Sundanese dictionary.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Basketball and Me

Okay, let me count the days since I launched my latest post. Hmm, it must have been a week, or probably a couple days. Then now, I'm thinking what to share. Candies? Chocolates? or DJMAX? Okay, enough. I'm going to tell you a story about me, and basketball.

Hey, I have to tell you from the very start that I am not a basketball player. Yes, I'm not a basketball player. So if you think that I'm a basketball player because I write such a title, you're wrong. I've never really played basketball before. Let's say that I probably have once played basketball, but it wasn't a match or competition. Just trying to shoot the ball and getting the points, well just that. No competition, no regular practice, no team.


I have basketball jerseys. But it doesn't mean that I play basketball. I liked basketball when I was in elementary school. Yeah, I liked it anyway. I preferred basketball to soccer or baseball, and I don't know why I liked it. One day, I heard my jiejie talked about basketball with her friends. Soon I saw a basketball competition and I suddenly felt like I had to buy a basket ball. I didn't have much money at that time so I decided to save money so I could afford a basket ball. It didn't need a long time for me to collect money. I bought it a couple days later. My jiejie's friend taught me how to play basketball well. She showed me how to dribble the ball properly. I started playing by myself. Alone. Shooting the ball, dribbling, I did it alone.

As I grew up, I started being focus on music. I didn't play basketball anymore. Even I didn't do sports, except jogging and swimming. I didn't even understand the rules. I didn't know name of the teams. Talking about basketball, I could only mention these names: Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. That's all. The ring is too tall for me to reach. The ball sometimes bounces too high so I have to jump higher to get it. My opponents are taller than me so I can barely get the ball and shoot. I can't run faster to chase my opponent. I'm not good at playing basketball.

So what's the main point? Hahaha, let me tell you that sometimes, what I dislike today has such a story related to my past. Probably no one knows that I liked basketball, but not today. Today I do not either hate or love basketball. I sometimes watch a basketball competition. and sometimes feel like not going to watch. I sometimes wear basketball trunk and sometimes I don't feel like wearing it to certain places.

It's kind of funny anyway. 

Thursday, March 1, 2012

And Finally... Technika 3 Platinum Card

I cannot determine how long I've been addicted to this game, DJMAX Technika. At the first time, I was not really interested in DJMAX. I saw it for the first time at Game Master in Paris van Java. I was very, very addicted to Pump It Up and it was the first version of DJMAX Technika. Else, it spent more credit from your swipecard so-called Power Card. I remember the credit deducted for the first DJMAX Technika was IDR 6,250. So I could only play DJMAX once if I deposit IDR 10,000 to my swipecard. I didn't think to pay that much for one-credit play so I didn't play the game.

One day, DJMAX Technika 2 was released and for the first time I played DJMAX Technika 2, I found it quite difficult to play. I remember I lost the game at the very beginning of the song. It made me feel trolled anyway. Later, I played it again from the easiest mode called Star Mix. Star Mix is similar to Pump It Up's Compact Mode, where the options and song level provided are simpler and easier. After feeling good at playing Star Mix, I tried to play songs in Pop Mix, where the difficulties vastly varied.

I started being addicted when I finally succeed playing songs from Maximum level. I still played DJMAX even though I didn't have the Platinum Card. Platinum Card offers you special advantages such as songs, DJ title, and so on. To play some certain songs, well I had to borrow my friend's Platinum Card. I found it a bit bothering because I couldn't play some certain songs without using the Platinum Card. When I finally decided to buy Technika 2 Platinum Card, a friend of mine suggested me to buying the Technika 3 Platinum Card, instead of the Technika 2. She told me that Pentavision would release Technika 3 as soon as possible.

I've waited Technika 3 for so long until one day I saw Technika 3 at TimeZone. There was a long queue that I was sure I couldn't play. So I just bought the card and waited until other video arcades would have at least one Technika 3. And yeah! Finally Game Master introduced Technika 3 and I was so lucky because there was no one playing Technika 3 when I arrived at Game Master in Cihampelas Walk. So let's say that I was one of the first players of Technika 3 at Game Master in CiWalk. 


Thanks God, I finally got my own Platinum Card...

Monday, February 27, 2012

Photography: Beautiful Dusk


Cuaca yang cerah di sore hari nggak jarang bikin langit sore nampak indah, apalagi kalau cerah berawan ditambah angin sepoy-sepoy. Suasana seperti itu pasti bikin kita nyaman.

Saya dari dulu sampe sekarang memang mengagumi suasana-suasana seperti itu. Pemandangan langit sore menjelang matahari terbenam bikin saya amazed. Cahaya matahari ngasih efek keemasan pada langit biru keunguan. Semakin mataharinya tenggelam, warna langit semakin jingga kemerahan, yang akhirnya jadi semakin gelap. Awan-awan yang ada di langit bisa ngasih sentuhan unik. Dari mulai awan jenis cirrus, sampe stratocummulus, awan-awan selalu punya cara sendiri buat menghiasi langit.

Ada nuansa berbeda di sore hari yang sempat saya tangkap gambarnya ini. Tenang, berawan, cukup cerah, dan berangin. Suasana seperti ini bisa ngasih nuansa damai yang bikin kita nyaman dan tenang. Seolah-olah suasana kayak gini jadi pelarian istirahat setelah beraktivitas selama seharian.







Just Three of Us


Due to different activities and business, I rarely spend time together with my brother and sister nowadays. We probably meet, but just meet and you know, less chit-chat and sometimes it sounds like "Hi-and-Bye". So that's it! My sister is hospitalized for being sick now and my brother, well he must be so busy doing his assignments, just like me.

I can have a little chit-chat with my brother, just a little chit-chat. Borrowing shirts, sharing songs, asking news, telling jokes, trolling, well it's kinda common for me. My sister has the most sharing sessions with me; telling about problems in life and something else. But what I want is that we can go somewhere together. Just three of us! Spending time together, enjoying cups of coffee, playing DJMAX, buying apparels, biting stroopwaffel, tasting nachos, watching movies, or anything!

I must have talked too much. So hereby I'd like to emphasize that I need time to be with, just three of us...

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Bedroom Avenue







These are a few of my photo-project so called "Bedroom Avenue". The project was done in my bedroom, exposing my favorite stuffs such as headphone and travel magazines. The idea came when I was viewing photos stored in my digital camera and looking for unique places to shoot. All the pictures taken were then edited and turned into monochrome.

Sometimes you just need to put something here and there, probably tidy up your bedroom and clean the mess, and turning your bedroom into a photo studio is not a magic.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Unforgettable

This afternoon, I went to game arcade to play Pump It Up with my friends. As commonly seen at game arcade, I saw a doll-grabber machine. It is actually one of my favorite childhood game machines. The box contained so many dolls and puppets. They were so colorful and cute, but my eyes kept staring at a brown cuddly teddy bear.



Teddy Bear was one of my favorite childhood stuffs, beside R&C, drawing books, tamagochi, miniature railway, and jet planes. It was so cute that I couldn't stop staring at it. Then I decided to take a picture with instagram. I only focused on the teddy bear, because that was the only one I wanted to have.

The same thing also happens when you consider someone as unforgettable and irreplaceable. Well, there are a number of uncountable girls in this world. Blonde, brunette, anything! Businesswoman, nurse, chef, writer, pianist, singer, actress, they can be anything. But as soon as I find someone so irreplaceable that I cannot stop love her, I simply focus on her. It happens naturally.

That's why someone can be so unforgettable.
Thanks a lot, to all my beloved persons for being irreplaceable and unforgettable.

Comics and Rugby


Well, in fact I've never played rugby before. Yeah, I have never played it. When mom came back home from Adelaide, she brought me this rugby ball and how I found it as something surprising since I was never really into sports.

As time went by, I got so busy. There was always at least one assignment to do in every single night. Having no plenty time to play and read, I left my unread comics disarranged and the rugby ball in my bookshelf. Well, I gotta admit it, I have a messy bedroom. I let stuffs disorganized and sometimes my desk is covered with dust since I don't have time to clean it. My books are arranged randomly so sometimes you can still find Animonster among grammar and linguistic textbooks. 

One day when I was doing my assignment, I looked around my bedroom and saw a spot. It was a simply great spot that I quickly grabbed my camera and took pictures. Then I laughed at myself. Something messy could turn into something great. And this picture will show you how one untidy and dusty spot can turn into something simply wonderful and cute anyway :]

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Bring The Happiness

Some people try and think hard how to become happy. They spend everything they have to get the happiness, and sometimes their effort doesn't reach fruition. What they spend sometimes is just a waste. They pay more to get less happiness. How come?

Some people think that happiness can be got by spending their money for stuffs, party, and something else. I'm the one who has ever been categorized into that kind of people. I thought money could buy happiness, but actually I was wrong. Fuckyeah, I was wrong! Now I realize that money cannot afford some things in this soon-to-be-destroyed world.

One day, I saw a CF of world-famous drink brand. The CF is probably no longer seen nowadays due to its contract, but I still remember how it went. The plot told about an elementary student who came to the front of the class and told everyone about his father's job. And the story went like this:

My dad drives a big red truck everyday. He leaves home early and delivers a lot of beverages. Not only beverages, he also delivers books for students. He told me that he even helps ensuring the soccer match a succes. 

And one time, he came home late because he was with his friends help cleaning a beach. But my dad always says that he's happy seeing other people happy. When someone asks what my dad does, I tell them he delivers happiness.

Then I realized that sometimes, what makes us happy is to see other people happy. It's quite simple somehow even though some of us still have evil-heart to consider it has hard thing to do, due to their envy. Sometimes, making someone happy is a pleasure we can make for the others, and particularly for ourselves. Being happy is actually simple and bringing happiness is a simple pleasure in our life.

What a life!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

An Inspiring Song From A Cigarette CF

Semenjak jadi anak kuliahan, porsi begadang saya jadi nambah. Selama begadang itu buat ngerjain tugas (dan tentunya FB + Tweeting), saya biasanya sambil nonton acara di TV. Baru-baru ini, saya liat sebuah iklan rokok yang durasinya cukup lama, sekitar 1 menit. Di iklan rokok itu menceritakan tentang seorang cewe, kayaknya karyawati yang sedang nyebrang terus jatuh, dan kertas-kertas kerjaannya berterbangan karena ditiup angin, sementara itu ada seorang penyebrang jalan, cowo, yang bantuin cewe itu ngumpulin kertas-kertas kerjaannya sambil nyanyi. Dan akhirnya, datang lagi seorang cewe yang lain ikut bantu sambil nyanyi sama cowo itu. Gak cukup sampe disitu, akhirnya scene pun berganti dimana ada seorang perempuan yang kesemprot sama genangan air di jalan raya ketika sebuah bis melintas, dan orang-orang di bis itu ikut nyanyi. Scene demi scene terus menyorot kejadian-kejadian yang berbeda, tapi orang-orangnya tetap nyanyi lagu yang sama. Lirik lagunya seperti ini:

Kadang hari, mendung seakan tak mau pergi
Sinar selalu kan datang lagi 
Hujanlah hujan hari ini. 
Membuka ragu..
Pacu langkahmu..
Bersamaku...

Jangan kau merasa sendiri (kau tak sendiri)

Gapai tanganku
Mereka kan bebaskan kita
Percayalah semua...

Kadang hari

Mendung seakan tak mau pergi
Sinar selalu kan datang lagi 


Di scene akhir, di jalan dimana karyawati itu terjatuh akhirnya berkumpulah orang-orang yang menyanyikan lagu tersebut sambil berjalan ke arah kamera. Si karyawati itu akhirnya ikut nyanyi sama orang-orang tersebut dan hujan pun turun. Iklan berakhir setelah logo khas rokok tersebut muncul di layar.


Iklan rokok tersebut adalah iklan rokok A Mild, yang tagline-nya baik di televisi ataupun banner besar di jalan sering menarik perhatian. Tagline-nya singkat, tapi sangat bermakna dan terkadang agak nyindir. Saya sendiri jujur aja seneng sama iklan-iklan A Mild di televisi. Dan kalau boleh jujur, dewasa ini banyak iklan rokok yang justru cenderung menampilkan banyak inspirasi, ketimbang mempromosikan si rokok itu sendiri. Contohnya ya iklan yang saya jelasin di atas tadi. Daripada mempromosikan si produknya sendiri, iklan itu lebih cenderung menginspirasi orang-orang dan menarik perhatian orang-orang lewat jingle-nya yang singkat tapi asik buat didengar itu. Kalau secara sederhana sih, bisa aja dikatakan bahwa iklan itu gak nyambung, karena yang dijual adalah rokok tapi ceritanya beda, nggak to-the-point misalnya. Tapi justru karena konsepnya yang unik itulah, saya rasa rokok tersebut jadi laku. Terlebih lagi, A Mild memang brand yang nggak hanya menjual rokok, tapi juga ikut jadi penyelenggara beberapa event yang memang worth to attend. Konser-konser musik, sampe liga olahraga, saya rasa saya udah cukup sering melihat event-event semacam itu diselenggarakan sama A Mild (tanpa mengandung unsur promosi loh!).

Lagu itu masih terngiang-ngiang di benak saya. Aransemen yang simpel, tapi karena liriknya yang nggak neko-neko dan bermakna itulah yang bikin saya tertarik. Lagu penyemangat yang dimainkan di sepanjang iklan berlangsung, cocok sama konsep video iklannya. Terlepas dari produk yang dijual, saya mencoba objektif untuk melihat bahwa terkadang, produk semacam rokok, yang menurut peraturan iklannya hanya boleh disiarkan di malam hari, justru bisa memberikan kita sebuah inspirasi berharga bahwa setiap kali mendung datang, sinar akan selalu datang lagi.

Kadang hari mendung seakan tak mau pergi, sinar kan selalu datang lagi...
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