Aromatherapy Bath-Salt

So I was tidying up my bedroom and guess what, what I found this!

Guess what I found! It's a bag of aromatherapy bath-salt. I bought it a year ago at Soaphisticated. Yeah, it should be a very long time ago. I rarely used it due to my daily activities. It still smells good and relaxing, despite the dusty beautiful blue fabric. I forgot the name of smell but it should be rare.

Wondering how to use it? It is not something you can use to scrub your skin. No, it isn't. If you install a bath tub or whirlpool in your bathroom, pour two or three tablespoon of salt into warm water, let it dissolve, and just bathe. Enjoy the smell because the smell is (mostly) relaxing. Soaphisticated sells different fabulous smells of their aromatherapy bath-salt stocks. I've once found a coffee-aroma bath-salt, but I was not very interested so I didn't buy it. They also sell products like goat-milk soap and body scrub. Well I do not know how to use the body scrub, since it's not my thing so I just bought aromatherapy bath-salt.

What makes me interested is, that they pack the salt in a fascinating package. As you can see, they sell the salt, packed inside cute colorful fabrics. So be aware because they do not sell sweets!

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.

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. 

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...

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...

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.

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 :]

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!