Starting Photography Session

Well, I guess I'll start learning more about photography. Since I've taken that accidentally cool photo, it influenced me to take more pictures.

The first two pictures must have been posted before on my previous post. It told about how did I accidentally take the picture and re-touched those 2 pictures on Picnik.com . Still, Picnik was in Indonesian (and I was lately aware that Picnik has been acquired with Google, so that might be why Picnik automatically translated into Indonesian).

Before edited on Picnik. Automatically blurred. I didn't set anything. I was using my phone camera, so it must had been just standard camera settings (size 1024x768 px, auto-flash, auto-white balance). I wasn't satisfied with the picture yet so I decided to edit the picture on Picnik.

Yep, looked better than the previous one. I was satisfied enough with the result. Using simple effects (cross process, focal blur, contrast, and additional text on the right-bottom side). I didn't know how could it make the shrubs blurred whereas my face wasn't blurred because I didn't set anything :P a bit surprised, but amazing. Amazing for me as an amateur beginner photographer (I didn't think about professional photography techniques firstly).

Just several days ago, I was attending "Public Speaking" Workshop at Arion Swiss Bel Hotel, Bandung with my brother. Finding a Parlor Grand Piano at the lobby of the hotel, spontaneously we were surprised! So itchy to play some pieces on those black-white keys! But depending on the situation (and that gloomy oldie wrinkled annoying bellboy kept looking cynically at us so made me annoyed and shitty grumbled), we just took a photo of my brother playing that piano.

The original picture. Note the over-blurred areas. The picture had been not rotated yet, you gotta turn your head 90-degree-clockwise to see the picture in normal view. The picture looked so.. Umh, I thought nothing was special, else the blurred-areas. So again, I re-touched the picture on Picnik.

I saw blurred-areas, then thought "Why don't I make bigger blurred-areas if so? Or using focal blur, I want to focus it on koko's (brother) face". Focal focus point, cross process, focal BW settings, and additional text on left-bottom side. Tadaa! Actually, I was bending on my knee when I took the picture. *Sighs* extreme angle positioning to capture great picture from amazing angles. I didn't want to take pictures in ordinary ways (basically landscape and irrational focus point). I also tried to sharpen the face area. And finally, the result was.. yeah simply gorgeous :P

Gonna take other pictures, soon :)

The Native Who Cannot Speak Native Language

Saya, sudah tinggal cukup lama di kota-kota dengan bahasa daerah Sunda. Tapi sampai sekarang suka takut bicara bahasa Sunda. Jujur, bahasa Sunda bener-bener bagus dan keliatan sopan santunnya (mirip bahasa Jepang dimana cara kita bicara ke orang tua atau atasan selalu dengan kata-kata yang sangat sopan; read: merendah). Dan karena itulah salah satu alesan saya agak bingung kalo ngomong bahasa Sunda karena saya taunya bahasa Sunda yang kasar >.<

Gimana tidak, yeah memang ya lingkungan adalah faktor yang paling mendukung dari pembentukkan pribadi (karakter) setiap orang. Termasuk cara dia bicara. Orang Indonesia, walopun memang dia orang Indonesia tapi kalau tinggal di Amerika pasti logatnya ikutan berubah. Iya kan? Begitu juga saya, yang setiap hari kebiasaan ngomong pake bahasa Indonesia dan sekalinya ngobrol pake bahasa Sunda agak-agak bingung. Mungkin biasa buat ke temen-temen sebaya, lah ke orang tua?

Intinya, kalo saya ngomong Sunda nanti ujung-ujungnya jadi *maaf ya* "Jing! Baleg sia!" atau "Ah, babi! Aral aing!".

Tapi kalo ngedenger orang ngomong Sunda, saya bisa nangkep (cuman kemampuan reply nya aja agak-agak bego). Nah kebetulan saya waktu itu belajar pupuh (hahaha lagu-lagunya kocak, suka ngga ngerti tapi kalo ngeliat dari kata-katanya lucu). Ada pupuhnya kaya gini, kalo ngga salah Kinanti. Tapi saya coba terjemahin dan jadi ngakak gara-gara "imajinasi" saya yang gentayangan :

Budak leutik bisa ngapung

Babaku ngapungna leutik

Ngalayang kakalayangan

Neangan nu amis-amis

Sarupaning bubuahan

Naon wae nu kapanggih

Kalo diterjemahin ke bahasa Indonesia, bakalan agak ga nyambung :

Anak kecil bisa terbang

Terbangnya tuh malem-malem

Terbang melayang-layang

Nyari yang manis-manis

*what does Sarupaning mean in Indonesia?* buah-buahan

Apa aja yang ketemu

So now, let's try to translate it to English :

Little child could fly

He got used to fly in the night

Flied up and up

Looked for something sweet

*Sarupaning, what does it mean in English?* fruits

Anything he could find

Tuh kan! Langsung imajinasi saya ngalor-ngidul (kesana kemari).

Anak kecil bisa terbang. Terbangnya malem-malem. Saya ngebayangin anak kecil seumuran TK kali ya yang masih lari-lari terus jatoh terus nangis terus babysitternya dateng ngegendong pulang terbang malem-malem (kaya tuyul! hahahaha!), terbang ngelayang-layang (malah jadi kaya layangan), nyari yang manis-manis (emangnya ga bisa apa ke warung beli permen?). Sarupaning itu artinya apa? Saya ngga tau, hehehe. Buah-buahan. Oh, mungkin nyarinya buah-buahan. Tapi kan manjat aja ke pohon ga usah terbang! Apa aja yang ketemu. Lah, kalo ketemunya cengkeh gimana? Masa anak kecil mau gigitin cengkeh? Yang ada teriak gara-gara rasanya pahang.

Setelah konsultasi sana sini, ternyata itu tuh menceritakan tentang kelelawar! Tapi kenapa harus dianalogikan dengan anak kecil? Padahal kan kelelawar itu, emang sih kecil tapi gara-gara taringnya yang gue banget (taring saya kaya drakula wkwkwk) jadi ngga keliatan kaya anak kecil, malahan kaya tuyul sangar. Terus terbang nyari yang manis-manis. Banyak kan yang manis-manis, tapi ternyata dijelasin nyarinya tuh buah-buahan.

Hahahahaha! Kalo udah tau arti sebenernya malahan jadi kocak ngebayangin imajinasi ngga jelas saya itu..

Mon Pays et Paris..

A song by Madeleine Peyroux. This was one of my favorite songs from her. She had an unique vocal style which I couldn't describe it. The song was about two love between Paris and New York (it was written 'Manhattan' so I guessed another city was New York). So jazzy, created a serenity in a lounge or semi-outdoor café. 

But I was in my friends house, in the pool side. I was alone there sitting on a swing, looking to the outstanding landscape of mountain and green green prairie, and listening to this song. A sunny day and calm breeze. Slowly I fell asleep there..

On dit qu'au dela des mers
La-bas sous le ciel clair
Il existe une cite
Au sejour enchante
Et sous les grands arbres noirs
Chaque soir
Vers elle s'en va tout mon espoir

J'ai deux amours
Mon pays et Paris
Par eux toujours
Mon coeur est ravi
Manhattan est belle
Mais a quoi bon le nier
Ce qui m'ensorcelle
C'est Paris, c'est Paris tout entier

Le voir un jour
C'est mon reve joli
J'ai deux amours
Mon pays et Paris

Accidentally Amazing

I was going to northern Bandung with my big big big brothers. Finding a great open space was a good idea for amateur photographer like me LOL. I didn't bring neither digital cameras nor SLR cameras, so I just took some pictures with my phone camera (so pathetic, whereas the landscape was outstanding T.T gotta go there again someday).

Yeah, started taking some pictures. And I thought, I was the one who took it better than my brothers (hahaha), cuz I took it from different angles. Meanwhile, my brothers just took it 'horizontally' or 'vertically' (they used to take it as landscape mode, meanwhile I used to take in potrait mode). Daddy told me that good photographer sometimes used different and unique way in taking pictures, also the angle position in making the picture dramatic. The focus point was also involved in making greater and finer results. So I did what Dad told me as a reference in photography.

So hard to find the best angle for self-taking picture. I couldn't ask my brothers to do that (they were to busy with their ordinary self-taking picture *sorry :P*). I kept trying every angles and finally I got this as the result...

Hmm.. seemed dark, eh? I loved the focus point in this picture. Finally, my Nokia N70 phone camera could do (at least) as good as digital camera does. Natural blur (automatically and I didn't set anything to make it blur) on the shrubs, I didn't edit this picture yet. And, then I went to Picnik.com and edited this picture. Using "Cross Process" and "Focal Blur", I got the result soon...

Whoaaa! Thanks God, finally I got this finer finer and much much finer result than the original one! I applied my signature in the bottom of the picture. And I was so proud of this picture LOL. Sounded exaggerated but it was true. My favorite one. I loved this :)

Picnik in Indonesian :P

Setelah lama saya ga buka Picnik, akhirnya kemaren ini saya buka lagi buat ngedit foto (males ngedit lewat Corel haha). Hmm, ada yang beda..

Picnik in Indonesian! Saya baru sadar bahasanya jadi bahasa Indonesia. Jadi lucu, apalagi hampir semuanya diterjemahin ke bahasa Indonesia (sampe nama-nama efeknya juga!). Seperti biasa kalo kita masuk ke Picnik buat ngedit foto, di halaman awal kita disuguhin link button ke menu editor utama (nantinya ada pilihan kolase, dan lain-lain). Nah pas lagi loading itu, biasanya (dulu dalam English) ada tulisan (mungkin kalau di The Sims kaya Loading bla bla bla, Reticulating Splines, Characterizing bla bla bla..). Nah sekarang tulisan 'hiburan' itu diterjemahin ke bahasa Indonesia. Saya suka senyum lucu kalo ngeliat tulisan-tulisan itu.

"Memetik Blackberry.."

"Mewarnai bunga-bunga.."

"Memakai penyangga matahari.."

"Bekal makanan.."

"Mencuri .................... "

Masih banyak lagi deh tulisan-tulisan lucu yang ada. Saya ga pada hapal. Entahlah, sekarang ini banyak ya mulai nasionalisasi situs-situs. Mungkin berdasarkan server yang dipake bisa tau kalo kita ini di Indonesia jadi secara otomatis si situs ubah bahasanya ke Indonesia. Ckckckck.. unik.

Light of My Life

Yesterday, I forgot you

Yesterday, I didn't remember you

But you kept smiling at me, what a sacred love

And from now on until the end of the life

So please don't leave me

Stay close to me, you're my everything

Rap :

The repentance never comes at first, when the eye of the words and feelings are totally useless

Reminds me of a moment when I forgot

Forgot the love that was here in my heart

I was impressed by another different girl

Amazed by another different shining ray

A girl who wasn't loyal yet

The light that wouldn't glow for longer

Unlike your light, you're my admired girl

So shame to admit my mistakes on you

Honestly this heart cannot be honest, I've prepared all the times just to be together with you

In a moment when I can't replace it with my heart

The love you've given is irreplaceable, just this word strings of sorry

You're light of my life

Yesterday, I forgot you

Yesterday, I didn't remember you

But you kept smiling at me, what a sacred love

And from now on until the end of the life

So please don't leave me

Stay close to me, you're my everything

Rap :

I'm a hateful man, when I hurt a girl I love

She gives me a heart I give her back a lie

She gives me a love I give her back a hurt

I was impressed by another different girl

Amazed by another different shining ray

A girl who wasn't loyal yet

The light that wouldn't glow for longer

Unlike your light, you're my admired girl

So shame to admit my mistakes on you

Honestly this heart cannot be honest, I've prepared all the times just to be together with you

In a moment when I can't replace it with my heart

The love you've given is irreplaceable, just this word strings of sorry

You're light of my life

Yesterday, I forgot you

Yesterday, I didn't remember you

But you kept smiling at me, what a sacred love

And from now on until the end of the life

So please don't leave me

Stay close to me, you're my everything

Similar But... Different

Jadi inget saya beli baju di BTC. Saya langsung ngacir ke tempat dimana baju-baju sisa ekspor yang murah meriah tapi sering banget saya nemu yang 'wah!' ato 'O-God-it's-branded!' disana.

Yeah, duit cekak. Tujuan saya kesana doang. Ga punya cukup uang buat ke Ouvalresearch atau Unkl347 soalnya biasa.. tanggal tua >.< (baru liat online catalog di official site-nya Ouval aja udah pusing ngeliatin harganya. Dan juga mabok gara-gara jaket-jaket sama Tees mantep di online catalog unkl347). Saya kesana deh dan baru sampe depannya nemu baju-baju dengan printed cartoon yang baru itu juga saya liat. Dengan label 'Newbie' saya tanya ke shopkeepernya.

"Mas, kalo yang ini berapa ya?"
"Itu 35 rebu. Beli 2 dapet bonus satu dek."

Whoaaaaaaa!! Langsung dah saya borong dua. Saya beli yang warna putih dengan gambar Policeman berambut ungu dan satu lagi warna hijau tua pucet dengan printed kartun engineer-engineer kecil yang lagi nyusun kata 'Newbie'. Nah, satu lagi gimana? Saya kan bingung cari satu laginya yang mana. Akhirnya, saya bongkar-bongkar (buru-buru soalnya udah mau tutup :P) dan nemu baju yang sama kaya yang Policeman, tapi warnanya biru ke abu-abu (mungkin Navy Blue tapi pucet, lebih ke arah Toten Sky). Setelah milih baju yang mana aja langsunglah saya bayar ke kasir.

Sampe di rumah waktunya buka harta karun! Yeehaw, baju baru murah meriah lucu-lucu lagi (entahlah, mungkin karena postur badan saya yang 'chibi' jadi selalu pas kalo pake baju dengan printed animation yang dibilang kawaii). Tapi sebentar, waktu saya coba yang warna putih.. Oh God, ternyata sizenya M! Lagi-lagi berurusan dengan postur tubuh saya yang kalo baju dewasa ambilnya size S (malahan XS) dan baju anak-anak dengan size L (kadang M juga muat T.T), akhirnya kalo pake baju itu serasa mau main basket :P Tapi gapapa deh keren juga ternyata. Hmm.. yang warna hijau sih gapapa, ga ada masalah dengan size. Dan saya coba yang warna abu-abu tua itu. Chotto matte! Ini dia masalahnya. Karena buru-buru, saya ga liat kalo printed-animationnya itu ternyata Policewoman! wtf kenapa saya bisa sampe sekonyol itu sih?!

Ga bisa dibalikkin dan ga akan pernah bisa diterima balik sama tokonya, akhirnya saya terima baju Policewoman itu. Dan guess what, justru sampe sekarang saya suka sama baju itu! Hahahahaha.. Ga peduliin gambarnya sih, toh diliat-liat juga mirip cowo gambarnya (salah sendiri cewenya rambutnya kaya cowo). Terus karena saya orang baik, akhirnya baju yang putih dengan gambar Policeman itu saya kasih ke Ko Joseph, yang emang ternyata mau nerima baju kegedean-di-saya itu. Saya malahan sering bilang gini ke Ko Josh :


"Ntar kalo Jum'at ke sekolah pake baju yang itu ya biar samaan. Kan aku adeknya Ka Josh.."

Sounds unique and a bit weirdoo, karena saya pake baju yang gambarnya Policewoman itu. Yang mungkin lebih pas dipake sama couple-couple. Tapi whatever deh I don't care.. Hahaha selama saya nyaman, kenapa ngga?

So, kalo suatu saat kalian melihat ada anak laki-laki tinggi kulit sawo matang postur atlet basket pake baju warna putih dengan gambar Policeman dan brand 'Newbie' sama anak laki-laki berpostur Chibi pake baju warna abu-abu tua bergambar Policewoman dengan brand 'Newbie' pulang bareng, mungkin kalian ngeliat saya sama Ko Josh :)

아브라카다브라

이러다 미쳐 내가 여리여리 착하던 그런 내가
너 때문에 돌아 내가 독한 나로 변해 내가
널 닮은 인형에다 주문을 또 걸어 내가
그녀와 찢어져 달라고 고
Every night I feel with you
Do you love her do you love her
매일 나의 꿈 속에
Do you love me do you love me

Bring bring 너를 내게 가져다 줘
뭐라도 난 하겠어 더한 것도 하겠어
Bling bling 도는 나의 fantasy yeah
모든걸 걸겠어 널 내가 내가 갖겠어

못참아 더는 내가 이러다가 정신을 놓쳐 내가
도대체 왜 너란 애가 내 마음에 박혀 니가
찢겨진 사진에다 주문을 또 걸어 내가
그녀가 떨어져 달라고 고
Every night I feel with you
Do you love her do you love her
매일 나의 꿈 속에
Do you love me do you love me

Bring bring 너를 내게 가져다 줘
뭐라도 난 하겠어 더한 것도 하겠어
Bling bling 도는 나의 fantasy yeah
모든걸 걸겠어 널 내가 내가 갖겠어

I'm the Boo in the lsland 널 되찾기 위한 plan
매일같이 이렇게 나눌래 널 향한 마지막 step
그녀의 손을 잡고 그녀와 입을 맞추고
그런 너를 상상조차 하기 싫어 이 주문에 염원을 실어

랄랄랄랄랄라 랄랄랄라
랄랄랄랄랄라 랄랄랄라

One For Me

I know you're the one geudae gieoge nameun saram 

ajigdo naigil bujoghan narangeol aljiman.. yeaa
I know you're the one uri gateun gileul ganeun geol
eonjena hamggeran mideum ddae muniran geol aljyo

Cham eoryeoun ildo manhassjyo jichigehan seul peumdo
yeongweon halgeoran mideumeuro ireohge gyeon dilsu isseo

I know you are the one for me naege gareu chyeojun
geudae sarangeuro bicidoego sipeun naemam algo iss gessjyo
I know you are the one for me naege gareu chyeojun
geudae mideumeuro nan gateun jarie hangsang seoiss eulgeyo

I know you're the one uri gateun gileul ganeun geol
eonjena hamggeran mideum ddae muniran geol aljyo

Cham eoryeoun ildo manhassjyo jichigehan seul peumdo
yeongweon halgeoran mideumeuro ireohge gyeon dilsu isseo

I know you are the one for me naege gareu chyeojun
geudae sarangeuro bicidoego sipeun naemam algo iss gessjyo
I know you are the one for me naege gareu chyeojun
geudae mideumeuro nan gateun jarie hangsang seoiss eulgeyo

So Hard to Match The Argumentation..

It's been happening for a couple years. Yeah. I dunno why but as I live in my own world, whereas my Mom keeps working on her jobs and lives in her own world, so simply we get separated. I don't know, so hard to match the argumentation of each of us. So often make a buzz-buzz, or a little quarrel caused by a simple damn thing. So what do you want exactly? I can't always walk on your way. I have my own way, I have my mind and I know what's going on within.

It's a short post for tonight. Hope I'll succeed in telling the point.