Day 7

Day 7 - One story of a memory you have

I don't think I wrote this before. But here we go :)

When I was in second semester of 8th grade, the whole year went to a study tour/trip to Jogjakarta for 5 days. It was my first experience to go away from home without my parents. Each homebase was assigned to one bus with 3 teachers as supervisors. 

The great thing about this trip is that you're allowed to choose your roommate. Each room consists of 6 students of the same gender. I was with my 5 best friends; Marina, Lucy, Resti, Ghea, and Egy. We were all really close at the time so we have soooo many things to talk about every time we were in the room. We also carry our own baggage on trip so we really have a lot of things to be discussed. It was like having girls night out for a week, or being with your girl cousins on a trip.

As a result we stayed up real late every single night and missed breakfast every morning. We had to ask the other group of girls from our class to wake us up every morning :P

We also were a bunch of teenagers so we pulled prank on people. The one that I actually remember was we phoned other rooms and said hello for so many times until the person on the other line hung up, or just said nothing.

We had a lot of fun.
We cried and we laughed.
It was a beautiful, memorable trip - awesome 5 days with awesome best friends.

Sadly, we rarely talk today :( nonetheless, I love them all to bits..

Day 3

Day 3 - Five songs you like

OH NOOOO!! It's pretty hard to choose just five songs. JUST. FIVE. 

So, I think I'll put the ones that I recently listen to for the past weeks or month to be fair :D here goes...

Sorrow - The National

Save Yourself - James Morrison

Ooh Child - The Five Stairsteps

Free Fallin' - John Mayer

What Hurts The Most - Rascal Flatts

Here you go, the five songs that I listen to the most for the past few weeks.. Listen to some of them and tell me if you like any or may none? Hahah. See yah!

Day 1

Day 1 - Seven things that crosses your mind a lot.

Why people do what people do
I like to find that out, what justify people's action, what causes reaction, why some things are okay to do for some people or in some culture and some things aren't.

University
I'm going to one next year, and to be honest I don't know whether I should be excited, happy or nervous and scared, or all at once.

My family
The last time we got together was 3-4 years ago when my uncle got married, and some members couldn't come for important reasons. I would love to get together with everyone sometime soon.

My friends
Some of my best friends are now all over the country and the world and I can't see them everyday. And I miss them so much. It's a good thing I guess that I handle it better now than I was 3 years ago.

Music
I would love to do more of this forever. But I know I'm not oh-so-wonderfully-amazing at this, so yeah..

Memories from school
Especially the ones that I went through at home. I learnt a lot from them, I miss them. Sometimes, I become really mean and wish that I could redo everything all over again because now what I love and cherish are just memories. It wasn't perfect but that made it beautiful. It was special and full of special people and I met the ones I want to be with forever in my life if I have the chance.

Things I should've said or done but I didn't

I just couldn't help it. I do this all the time.

Oh wow, I don't think I'm aware of these until I write it down for the world to see..

Otaknya Lagi Berisik (Pt. 1?)

"Karena 'sekarang, selalu, dan sepanjang segala abad' sejatinya hanyalah ada dalam doa."

Berat, saudara-saudaraku. Hahahaha. Entah gimana ceritanya, waktu malem-malem lagi naik bis umum pulang kerumah, kalimat ini melintas sedemikian rupa di otak gue. Mungkin karena belakangan ini, orang-orang di sekeliling gue agak lebih sering bilang kalau mereka capek, entah batin atau fisik. Kebawa suasananya juga pada akhirnya, pikiran pun mulai pesimis-pesimis sedikit.

Apa sih di bumi ini yang abadi? Harta benda bisa berubah - bertambah, berkurang, bahkan hilang dalam sekejap mata karena banyak hal yang mungkin terjadi. Kesempurnaan fisik bisa diubah-ubah dengan kecanggihan teknologi zaman sekarang.

Nama dan prestasi... Mungkin bisa bertahan sangat lama, tapi ada dua kemungkinan. Antara ada yang pada akhirnya mengalahkan prestasi yang sudah tercatat atau memang orang-orang tidak pernah peduli untuk mengingat.

Pengetahuan? Bisa dibilang sih cukup abadi. Contohnya, tulisan-tulisan Plato masih dicetak, diterbitkan dan dibaca oleh banyak orang di tahun 2012 ini. Tapi pemikiran manusia berkembang, konsep-konsep akan selalu dipertanyakan dan besar kemungkinan konsepnya berubah. Kalau pengetahuan yang kita punya, bisa aja kan tiba-tiba hilang kalau kena penyakit? *amit-amit lari cari kayu buat diketok-ketok*

Sempet gue tanya sama temen waktu ngobrol. Karena kita cuma nyebutin hal-hal yang ngasal, ujung-ujungnya ada juga yang bilang hal yang satu ini - perasaan. Entah gimana ceritanya. Hahahaha. Begitu kita denger, langsung diem mendadak. Lalu, tawa-tawa bermuntahan dari semuanya. Memang terdengar klise (alasan kenapa harus dilanjut dengan tawa), tapi yang ini mirip dengan pengetahuan, bisa dibilang sih cukup abadi.

Tapi, ya itu tadi... Ujung-ujungnya semua hal itu penuh ketergantungan. Ada yang hartanya abadi, ada yang cuma sekedip mata. Ada yang cantik tampannya abadi, ada yang diubah-ubah. Ada yang pemikiran, prestasi dan pengetahuannya dikenang lama, ada yang sebentar. Ada yang perasaannya selalu sama, ada yang setiap detik berubah.

Terus, terus, apa iya kalau kejadian 'sekarang, selalu, dan sepanjang segala abad' berarti selama itu semuanya selalu bahagia? Hidup ada dua sisi, kan? Tapi orang kan maunya bahagia terus? Jadi, gimana? *tarik nafas*

Tadinya sih masih mau bahas banyak. Tapi masih kecil ah, takut. *indecisive-pisces-quality kicks in*

Ada yang kepikiran skenario 'sekarang, selalu, dan sepanjang segala abad' yang beneran kejadian?

Slogtember 30 - Last Slog

And here we are, the last of Slogtember!

I know it's already the middle of October and it's coming to an end (for October) and Slogtember is supposed to be project in September. But I'm currently at home now and I have no internet connection at home since the only usb modem doesn't work on my laptop, only on my laptop, magically. SO I couldn't finish this on time. And I'm really sorry about that. :(

Other than that, though, I hope if you're reading this you've been enjoying my randomness in September and if you read any of the post you can comment on it, or do whatever you want :) I'm enjoying this experience and I hope you do, too.

If you're wondering how in the world I can write a blogpost now if I said I have no internet connection.... I'm in a coffee shop, everyone's favorite. I drag my mom too since I can't go there alone. Just to finish this. Look at my determination guys! :P

So, see you in another blogpost! Enjoy life! :D

*last but not least my creepy face*

Slogtember 29 - Diamond vs. Uranium 235

Pernah digombalin? Pernah digombalin dengan dibilang, "You are one in a million" atau "You're precious/rare as a diamond"?

Pernah digombalin begitu terus ngerasa seneng atau bangga?

This post is directed to girls and girls only.

If someone has ever said to you something like I have illustrated above. Please, please, don't be so happy. I'm not saying you cannot be happy, ever. But don't be too happy, don'e be overjoyed.

Why? First, let's talk about "You are one in a million". There are 6,973,738,433 people in this world. Say what, almost 7 billion people in this one small world. If you are one in a million, there are approximately another 7 thousand people who are just like you in almost every single bit. Do you want that? No... So be one person in almost the 7 billion people in this world because you are who you are, and no one in this whole wide world can be you better than you are.

Second, if someone has ever said to you, "You are as rare as a diamond", that person obviously never go out and pass a jewelry store. I'm sorry but diamonds are not rare. You can go in to any jewelry store in this world and find at least one piece of jewelry with diamond on it. So no, women are not rare as a diamond.

If they say "precious"? Well, they're close but no. Yes, diamonds are expensive indeed. But which kind of diamonds? Different types of diamond depending on where they come from has different price for them too.

Maybe if they say, "You are precious/rare as uranium 235", we should feel pretty good or something. Since uranium 235 is indeed rare. It's not easy to find that isotope. Precious? Of course. It is rare therefore it is precious (read: expensive too). It is powerful (if you don't know, uranium 235 is for nuclear reaction and stuffs) and it has a very long half life (the fission reaction can last for a long time in great power).

I would rather be uranium 235 than a diamond. How about you?

Slogtember 28 - Heaven on Earth

I miss weekend and going to places. This picture below is one of the places I want to go again. This is like the paradise in the middle of the jungle (like literally). Jembatan gantung ini cuman muat satu orang lebarnya dan di kanan kirinya adalah pohon pohon yang tingginya tinggi banget. Serunya adalah kalo udah naik sini tuh rasanya adeeem banget walaupun kena terik matahari dari atas tanpa ada halangannya. Pemandangannya, walaupun nggak terlalu bervariasi, hijaaaauu banget. Cocok buat ngademin mata dan lepasin beban beban mental...

Satu hal yang disarankan: semoga lo nggak takut sama monyet liar. Karena monyet-monyetnya beneran bakal gelantungan dimana-mana, nggak bohong. Dia bahkan bisa ikutan ke jembatan juga loh... Dan itu satu hal yang gue agak ga suka karena gue jujur aja takut sama binatang liar jadi kemaren waktu kesini, gue bener2 jerit jerit di atas jembatan ini setiap kali ada monyet yang keliaran. Bahkan waktu gue lewat ada monyet berantem segala.... -____-

Tapi balik lagi, tempat ini adalah salah satu tempat terdamai dan terenak dan terseru yang pernah gue kunjungin. Selain hutan ada juga running track dan danau yang dibuat latihan dayung :) plus nggak jauh dr rumah jadi makin enak (walaupun jalan untuk ke jembatan ini sangat jauh dan bikin capekk)

Lokasi: MacRitchie Reservoir

Slogtember 27 - Contradiction

How many times have you contradict yourself?

For me personally, in my 18 years 6 months of existence, the answer would be a lot, a lot of times. I might do it right now as I’m writing this. It’s not that I already have a fixed ideals and principles about life. My view is still changing constantly almost everyday of my life. One day I would say that I would not sleep to late at night but the other day I would say just live in the moment and screw that. How about you? Maybe, never?

Is it wrong to contradict yourself?

Well, I really don’t know. People do it, we all do it. If you say you have never ever contradict yourself in any matter in you life, I can say that you’re lying. I might be right as well about that. Just think about how many promises you have made to your parents? How many of them you did not break? Or maybe the promises you made to your ex(es). Nah, I won’t start on that.

Some people might say because everyone does it then it’s okay to do it. It’s a common practice, a public secret. What the hell is that anyway? Is it true when people do it almost every time then it becomes the right thing to do? No. Just because so many people kill each other nowadays doesn’t make the act of killing other human being a right thing to do. It still is wrong. But is this wrong? Coming back to my first sentence, I don’t know because I do it too sometimes.

Why do we do it?

We? Okay. If you think you have never contradict yourself or your own promises, principles or sayings, with all due respect, please go away and don’t read this.

Oh reasons, fun. We could go on forever listing all the reasons we can come up with. Probably, because we want to know what happen on the other side? Curiosity. We want to know what would happen. We want to answer all what ifs that come up every night before we go to sleep. Maybe it’s because we want to change the principles in the first place and change the way you live (despite being good or bad, that’s not my concern anyway). In the end, curiosity kills the cat. Well, you’re not a cat so nyan that. Sure…

Maybe it’s because you want to comfort yourself or maybe you want to comfort other people. You don’t want to hurt them so you lie to yourself. Or you don't want to hurt yourself so you lie to people. Who wins?

Maybe… Well there will be a lot of maybes that I can’t write one by one but I’m sure people have their own reasons to justify whatever it is they decide to do.

So?

Everything depends on you and whatever you decide. Whatever your ideal is. It’s your decision; it’s your life. It’s not wrong but no one has ever said it is right. I’m still figuring things out. Isn’t that the reason why we live?

Slogtember 26 - Thank You Mas Darto (spesial)

Teruntuk Mas Imam Darto,

Mulai dari kelas 5 SD saya bisa dibilang hampir setiap hari dengerin Mas Darto dan jatuh cinta sama suaranya. Dari zaman Safari Sore, Mas Darto sama Tante Sessa. Trus ada Mucho Macho, Mas Darto sama Mas Okki (yang jujur saya kangeeeenn banget dengerin kalian berdua siaran. Mungkin nggak ya siaran bareng lagi?). Lalu ada Mass Darto yang siaran cuma Mas Darto sendiri. Sampai sekarang ada The Dandees, yang ada Mas Darto, Mas Danang, dan Mas Fatur kadang-kadang.

Terima kasih banyak banget ya Mas Darto karena tetep ada di Prambors dari 8 tahun yang lalu. Kalo nggak ada Mas Darto, mungkin saya nggak bakal sesetia ini dengerin Prambors. Terima kasih banyak Mas Darto karena taste musik Mas Darto yang bener-bener yahud. Terima kasih banyak ya Mas Darto, walaupun saya nggak pernah ketemu dan nggak pernah kenal, Mas Darto selalu rajin bikin saya waras tiap hari, memberikan saya dosis ketawa yang sangat pas setiap harinya, keeping me sane after all these years, making me forget all my problems and my sadness. Terima kasih ya Mas Darto udah selalu lucu setiap sore selama 8 tahun saya dengerin Prambors. Semoga Mas Darto pahalanya berlimpah udah bikin banyak orang bahagia.

Dari saya masih kecil, SD-SMP di Indonesia sampai zaman SMA saya di Singapura, saya tetep dengerin Mas Darto tiap siaran. Dan siaran Mas Darto di Prambors adalah salah satu alasan saya kangen rumah dan juga penyembuh kekangenan saya kalo lagi kangen Indonesia. Saya masih inget banget dulu setiap Mas Darto siaran saya lagi belajar. Saya juga masih inget kalo SMS ke Mucho Macho terus dibacain saya pasti senyum-senyum sampai besokannya lagi. Saya juga masih inget waktu MASS Darto siaran, saya pernah ngetweet: “Suara Mas Darto udah jauh-jauh di Singapur masih kedengeran sexy banget ya” terus dibacain tapi pas buffering saya lagi bener-bener lemot jadi kelewatan. Saya ditelpon temen saya sampai jerit-jerit dirumah sesorean. Pas The Dandees juga tweet saya pernah dibales dan saya bener-bener seneng waktu itu. Saya juga dulu rajin baca tulisan Mas Darto di Provoke! dari kakak yang udah SMA waktu itu dan sekarang juga mulai baca tulisan Mas Darto di Freemagz.

Sekali lagi, terima kasih banyak ya Mas Darto. Semoga akan selalu sukses dan semakin sukses kedepannya. Semoga tetep lucu dan semakin lucu. Semoga semakin semakin yang lain lagi yang baik baik. Yang terpenting, semoga Mas Darto nggak pernah capek mengudara dan menghibur saya (plus jutaan orang lain di dunia) :D. Amin.

*sebenernya ini nggak cukup banyak tapi untuk sementara ini yang keluar :)*

Slogtember 25 - Thank You The Dandees and Mas Danang

Teruntuk The Dandees dan Mas Danang,

Terima kasih banyak untuk duo Mas Danang dan Mas Darto dalam The Dandees yang dengan semua joke kejayusannya, Hai Lai, Mass DarTop5 (sama Mas Fatur), dan Kocrot Kecret Show selalu menghibur saya dari hari pertama kalian on-air. Thank you so much for making me laugh non-stop for 4 hours every time I listen to you guys. Thank you so much for keeping me sane, curing my homesick for four hours, making me forget about all my sadness and pain and problems, bringing me happiness and joy. Thank you so much for everything that I can’t express with words. I might not be your biggest fan but I’m so grateful you guys do the show together.

Buat Mas Danang, terima kasih banyak ya udah cocok sama Mas Darto dan on-air berdua. Terima kasih banyak Mas Danang karena Mas Danang selalu ngebanyol juga tiap sore. Terima kasih karena Mas Danang bikin saya ketawa banget dengan jayusnya dan “bro bro” dan “kureng”nya. Terima kasih karena selera music mas Danang yang keren-keren jugaa. Walaupun saya nggak pernah ketemu dan kenal pribadi sama Mas Danang, tapi Mas Danang udah setia bikin saya ketawa dengan suara Mas Danang yang ganteng banget (Mas Darto juga ganteng banget loh suaranya hahaha).

Terima kasih karena Mas Danang udah baik banget sama saya dan nggak sombong. Saya masih inget waktu saya ngetweet: “Kenapa nggak The Dandees bilangnya ‘The Most Wanted Guys In The Whole World’ aja?” dan pas saya bilang saya dengerin dari Singapur, mas Danang langsung ngajak ngobrol tentang konser Foo Fighter. Saya nggak berenti senyum hari itu J. Saya juga masih inget waktu Mas Danang bales tweet saya waktu Mas di SIngapur nemenin pemenang kontes nonton konser Foo Fighter walaupun konsernya batal. Jujur, saya seneng banget waktu tau Mas Danang baik dan nggak sombong :D

Semoga Mas Danang juga semakin seru dan semakin sukses dalam apapun itu. Semoga Mas Danang juga makin lucu dan semakin yang lain-lain lagi yang baik baik tentunya. Dan semoga Mas Danang nggak pernah bosen mengudara sama Mas Darto menghibur kawula muda (dan jutaan orang lainnya) :D Amin.

(Terima kasih untuk Mas Dartonya ada disini, klik sini klik yaa)

Slogtember 24 - Thank You Prambors

Teruntuk Prambors,

Terima kasih sedalam-dalamnya, dari lubuk hati yang paling dalam untuk Prambors. Saya mulai mendengarkan Prambors sejak saya kelas 4 SD, walaupun belum rutin karena ditular-tularkan sama kakak. Terima kasih Prambors, karena dari dulu selalu menyediakan program-program yang bagus dan penyiar yang bener-bener menghibur. Dari Safari Sore, Mucho Macho, Toserba, Putuss, sampai sekarang ada The Dandees. Terima kasih karena Prambors dulu selalu muterin lagu-lagu yang bagus bagus banget dan up to date. Jujur, sebenernya saya agak kecewa sekarang sama Prambors karena lagunya terlalu generic dan yang hits aja, padahal yang hits sekarang jelek. Kangen banget sama Prambors yang dulu yang lagunya sangat berkualitas. Semoga cepet membaik ya Prambors J saya tetep mendengarkan loh walaupun sudah merantau ke tempat lain :D