Tangled

- a little post before I sleep-

When the last time you watch Disney animated classic that based on fairy tale? If you watch The Princess and the Frog, then that might be your recent. But I didn't watch that, then the last time maybe... Aladdin! Yeah, Aladdin! It's 90's movie and maybe the only Disney animated classic fairy tale that I like.

You know, I don't really into fairy tale. I'm into fable, like indonesian traditional story of Si Kancil (The Rabbit) simply because it is smart. But princess story? with prince charming? (please do remember your time with Shrek, we all know th

at prince charming is no more than a thugs!) I don't know, for me it's cheap! I like Aladdin for simple reason : first, Aladdin is not a prince and second, Jasmin has a tiger as a pet :D

So today, I watched Rapunzel - a tangled tale. It based on a traditional fairy tale of Rapunzel from Germany. And I think I like this movie, why? simple reasons: first, Eugene is not a prince and second, Rapunzel has a fry-pan as weapon. Seriously, how many girl bring pan everywhere as weapon? She's quite creative for that one.

The movie is all you can hope from a Disney animated classic, musical. They sing almost anytime and anywhere (and anyone), even the bandits sings. For you who miss this Disney classic theme, then you would like this movie. I feel a little nostalgic too, like back to the 90's with Aladdin, Beauty and The Beast and Lion King. The song itself not sound very special. I do recognize the duo part and the Rapunzel's song, but what really caught my ear is the closing song. I don't know who sings it, I wikipied it and found the name Grace Potter. Never heard of her... should google more.

So, that's all! Hehehe... not so creative for a review right... but please forgives me, it's all because I don't really into fairy tale and I'm quite sleepy... bubye.... :D

Boutiques : computer meet fashion, happy ending?

"fashion comes and go, but style is forever" - Yves St. Laurent

That is one of the most wellknown quote in fashion industry, me myself, heard it everytime I watched Style Star on E! channel. "style is forever", maybe that part of the quote that inspired these bunch of 'computer nerd' and 'fashion nerd' from Google to collaborate in creating an online personalized fashion shop called Boutiques.com. Because Internet can immortalize almost everything. (-hey, I do not know that they hired fashion nerd too, I think the word 'fashion' does not match with 'nerd'-no offense ^_^)

broke, period!

Do you know that when you're overseas a single message sent and received through your Blackberry messenger cost you Rp. 6500???

And do you know that a single window Blackberry messenger conversation has at least 3 lines of message??? maybe like...
A : hey, I'm at singapore right now...
B : oh really? buy me some keychains then :D
A : ok, no problem :)

And do you know that 1 singapore simple keychain cost you SGD$2 (~Rp.15.000) at the very least but that goddamn conversation cost you Rp. 19.500???

And what happen when you has 10-15 BB messenger conversation daily, with at least 20 line messages and you are overseas for 3 days??? Nothing happens until you get your phone bill at the end of the month...


And all of that will happens if you forget to turn off your data service or in my case there are some goddamn error in the system, so instead of registered in free blackberry international roaming package, the system read you as just stupid-soon-to-be-broke international roaming subscriber who turn on her data service when she's overseas, like me! Yes, LIKE ME!!!

Android vs iPhone vs Blackberry

image taken from : http://androidandme.com

Social Network - You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemy

...500 millions users

...26 years old...

$6.9 billions in valuation...

And yes, I'm talking about Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and current CEO of Facebook. I won't blog about him in a biographical type, actually I won't blog about him at all. What I will really blog about is the movie Social Network, which I just watched less than an hour ago. The movie Social Network, which is based on the founding of the biggest web-based social networking in the world- Facebook, is 2 hours long, spent $50 mio in budget, earn $130 mio in revenue, distributed by Columbia pictures and directed by David Fincher.

Kembali ke pojok : Meet cute???

(pic: at Bakoel Koffie - Bellagio Mega Kuningan)

Pojokan itu tidak kosong. Saras menghela nafas kesal di pintu Caffeine for Life, memandang pojok favoritnya yang sekarang diduduki orang lain. Dengan muka agak ditekuk dia mendekati konter, disambut cengiran Komo si barista.

“abis digusur ya mbak?” sapa Komo.

I stuck in the corner of my room with boredom!

Just come back from hangout with friends, grab lunch at Kedai at Kemang (recommended place, I think I'll go there again tomorrow) then watch 'The Switch' at Senayan City. Which is not so good movie. Why? First, I don't like Jennifer Anniston (Yes! I don't like her, sue me if you can't accept that!), second, I don't like this kind of not so romantic and not so comedy movie, third, I get a terrible mood swing!

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Whatever! I don't know what to do, I don't want to sleep, I don't want to eat anything, I don't want to read anything and I don't have any idea what to write, I'm in the middle of an accute boredom. Help me... if you can.

Ada tiga macam pekerjaan 'nyaman' di dunia ini:

1. Pekerjaan yang sesuai dengan passion orang tersebut, sehingga apapun yang terjadi saat pekerjaan itu dilakukan dapat diabaikan dengan mudah.

2. Pekerjaan yang menawarkan insentif yang menyenangkan, dapat berupa gaji oke atau teman-teman kerja yang ramah dan saling menolong. Masalah objek pekerjaannya sendiri bisa diabaikan.

3. Pekerjaan yang saking sibuknya tidak punya waktu untuk mengeluh atau menyerah. Kesehariannya cuman dipenuhi bekerja dan kadang tidak langsung merasakan penambahan gaji di rekening.

Sayangnya pekerjaan gw adalah tipe ke-4: tidak termasuk dalam ketiga tipe di atas.

Dibilang passion??? masih belum bisa jawab, tapi kayaknya enggak....

insentif yang menyenangkan??? gaji yah segitulah... teman kerja ya gitulah juga....

sibuk banget??? errr.... yang satu ini saya bisa dengan pasti bilang enggak!

jadi.... ya liat aja entar sampai ikatan dinasnya abis.... hehehehe...

Happy Eid Mubarak everyone... :)

Kembali ke pojok: Kisah Kita

[This one inspired by the song Kisah Kita by Vidi Aldiano. I repeated this song over and over in my iPod this past few days, and still not over it :) Nice song and nice voice Vidi]

Terminal 2 bandara Soekarno-Hatta tetap padat seperti biasa, walau di petang hari seperti ini. Aku duduk di depan booth makanan siap saji yang ada di lorong depan bandara, menunggu. Sesekali memandang ke arah kiri dan kanan, mereka bisa datang dari keduanya tergantung dimana mereka berhenti, dan sampai saat ini tanda-tanda kehadiran mereka belum juga muncul. Aku melirik lagi arlojiku, masih sekitar dua setengah jam sampai keberangkatan, tapi aku belum check in. Mungkin aku salah mengambil jadwal pesawat, jam pulang kantor seperti ini jalanan pasti super macet, terkutuklah Jakarta dan kemacetannya.

"hah... limabelas menit lagi gak dateng, gw cabut deh..." gumamku, cukup keras ternyata, karena ada yang membalas.

"cabut apaan? cabut bulu?" suara yang kukenal. Aku menoleh dan menemukan empat orang yang sudah sedari tadi kutunggu-tunggu.

From Shinta-Jojo to $6 billion

How you define the very word 'YouTube'? The first word popped up in my mind is video, the second is Google and the third is... Shinta Jojo :D

Actually, the third word will always be varied based on current 'highest watched' or most popular on that online broadcast service.

Shinta and Jojo, Indonesian version (and better looking :p) of Moymoy Palaboy being a trending topic for several days on Twitter (under topic 'keong racun'). Me, of course the late response one, don't know what this 'keong racun' means. When I know about them, voila... they already come to my office for a business deal(?) or partnership maybe... I don't know the exact purpose.

I-E-A-I-A-I-O

MORNIIIINGGGGG!!!!!

I don't know what happened to me but suddenly I have a hell of energy this morning. I came at office unconsciously early (because my watch is 15 minutes ahead), then at office... voila... mbak Niken finally back at work (she's in days off last week, and I miss her so much), and then again... someone buzz me on gtalk with unexpected news... gossip in the morning ladies... hahahaha... and one again, my payroll will come today (wide-grin :D). Hell yeah!

The title of this post is a song from System of a Down. I listened to it on the way to Jakarta yesterday, and it keeps playing around in my head. And right now, in this blissfully morning of mine, I keep humming the songs, it's the kind of song you want to jump and headbang to... and with this energy of mine, I think I need a healthy session of heandbang :D

So worlds.... me and my comrades want to says good morning to you all.... MOOOORRRRRNNNIIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!

Sleepless week...

Last week is a very hectic week for me. Began with strategic planning workshop in Bandung, and then my brother's wedding preparation and yesterday, Pagelaran LSS ITB Jakarta. All of this activity paid me less sleep... just 3 or 4 hour a day -_-

- strategic planning workshop -
2 days at Novotel Bandung, with almost all day stay indoor and just stay sit in conference room actually, brainstorming here and there and produce more storms inside my head. Okay, I don't want to re-run this one. Just read this, then maybe you know what I mean...

Trapped, No Brainery and Heisenberg... should we add Schrodinger's cat.... blalalalla...

I'm trapped! in the middle of a discussion which I'm not part of it, but have to pay attention to it, with no slightest idea where the discussion head to.

You know, when you see people with power or at least pretend that they have power to change things, talk to each other with judging note and pretend to discuss problem which they don't (they just toying around with not-so-new idea and positioned it like you'll die if you not talking about it, and no intention to make it end), and you realize that all this crap they talking about is not contribute to the big solution you think you have to produce by the end of the session, then you doomed! You'll got nothing, you'll not produce anything and forget anything about contribution to the bigger part, you're trapped! nowhere to run, with solution that never come out and stone-head people who think they too important to listen others.

In the middle of this indefinite discussion, I'm distracting myself with another complex concept, in this case : Heisenberg's uncertainty concept. At first I thought it's a math problem, specific to observation theory, but then I found out that it's physic, part of it was observation theory, and the small part of quantum mechanics. Haha... there I said it, no-brainer-blabber of qantum mechanics...

But here it is, I try to link the theory I just read to the specific condition i'm trapped into. Heisenberg build the concept specific to particle observation, I make it an analogy for observing human behavior.

In simple, the uncertainty concept on observing particle told us that when we know the exact velocity of particle, we'll never know it's exact position and vice versa. Simplify to a simple conclusion "you'll never know anything perfectly, in particle or even person". Linkage to my current purgatory here... these people are babbling about a subject, with different view, where they make it a absolute condition for everything about the subject. But hey, how come you know it's absolute for everything when you narrow your view just to a little part of it??? Can we just define the whole framework first then observe it in any angle you people think you expert on then we can summarize those up to a solution that maybe not perfect but a solution that we can live it through. It just the same with observing the position of particle in a wave packet on Heisenberg theorem.

Haaahhh.... here I am, babbling no-brainery about something high level thing like quantum mechanics with the whatever linkage it has with human behavior, in the middle of a what-the-he*l-they-talking-about discussion! I'm doomed!

"good shoes will brought you to a wonderful place"

Shizuka Toudou [Hanayori Dango]

Flat

it's been a long time since the last time I post something here...
it's not because I'm busy, yes I'm in a tight schedule right now, but not literally busy... it's just, i don't have anything to write or at least I don't have anything interesting enough to write.

even now... when I'm typing this will-be-short-post... I don't have anything to write...
haaahhhh... sorry blog... it's just my life feel so flat this day... flat and boring!

Google goes politics...

As internet user, we all have known Google's long culture of innovation to meet the user's need and find better value for advertiser. So, here's something new. Yesterday, through their official blog, Google announce their own platform for campaign called You choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit in Youtube.

Merekam Purnama

Ya Tuhan...
Ingatkanlah aku selalu pada satu malam di Karimun Jawa
Saat purnama terpendar, dan riak laut bersinar...

Ingatkanlah aku pada malam ku memuja kasihMu dalam bisu
Mengingat betapa rendahnya aku, dalam sebaris sabdaMu
'maka nikmat Tuhanmu yang manakah yang engkau dustakan?'

[29 Mei 2010, Pantai Nirwana - Karimun Jawa]

Ben je boos, pluk enn roos!

Zet hem op je hoed, dan ben je morgen weer goed!

If you feel angry, pick a rose!

Put it on your hat, and you'll feel better in the morning!

[anonymous]

What if I don't get any rose??? Will I wake up still angry???

Kopitiam Oey

At my last visit to Singapore, I became a fan of Kopitiam across Singapore Management University. At first, I thought Kopitiam is somekind of coffee franchise like Starbucks or Coffee Bean, but today I know what Kopitiam means.

Di pojokan kamar : Melamun

7 Mei 2010, Pukul 23.35

Lampu kamar sudah kumatikan, hanya tersisa sedikit pendar kehijauan dari lampu meja yang biasa menemaniku tidur. Ini malam tak terasa lebih istimewa dari biasanya, ini malam wajarnya tidak beda dengan malam-malam sebelumnya. Jika pun ada yang membuat malam ini berbeda, adalah karena ini malam sabtu, dan tidak ada yang lebih membebaskan selain malam sabtu.

7 Mei 2010, Pukul 23.40

Tidakkah waktu 5 menit terasa sangat cepat terlewati saat kau berpikir?

Aku mengalaminya selama 2 minggu ini. Satu tugas riset sederhana yang dengan kekerdilan otakku hanya bisa diselesaikan dalam waktu 2 minggu, harusnya bisa lebih cepat. Dalam dua minggu itu, terdapat beberapa 5 menit yang terlewati dengan cepat, menghasilkan beberapa kalimat informatif dan mungkin jika aku sedang beruntung, kalimat inspiratif. Kemudian dalam dua minggu itu pun, terdapat lebih banyak lagi 5 menit yang sangat lambat, dilewati dengan pandangan hampa ke monitor dan kerlingan sebal pada jarum arloji, biasanya diakhiri dengan keluhan sebal, 'mengapa lama sekali menuju jam 5 sore'.

7 Mei 2010, Pukul 23.45

'fifteen minute to midnight', aku memasukkan kalimat itu ke box putih dibawah tulisan Google. Satu mesin virtual mahadahsyat yang membuatku menyadari betapa Tuhan menciptakan manusia tidak untuk kesia-siaan. Ada pikiran luar biasa di luar sana yang bisa membuat satu jaringan telepati luarbiasa sehingga setiap manusia yang bertanya padanya dapat dihubungkan pada jawaban yang paling tepat menurutnya, dimana umumnya memang tepat. Aku mengetik kalimat itu tanpa niat apa-apa, hanya iseng, yang kudapat adalah satu halaman teks berlatar putih dengan tulisan berwarna biru dan hitam, tiga posisi teratas adalah berita tengah malam, judul album band Linkin Park, dan judul video Iron Maiden - two minutes to midnight. Sedikit meleset, untuk alasan tak jelas, mungkin itu tak masalah.

7 Mei 2010, Pukul 23.50

Di kamar berukuran 3m x 2m ini terdapat 4 buah jam yang menyala. Jam dinding menunjukkan 23.50, jam di komputer menunjukkan 00.08, jam meja menunjukkan 00.10, dan arlojiku menunjukkan 00.18. Ah, tak ada yang sama, bahkan waktu adalah satu bentuk relativitas. Yap, Einstein memang jenius.

7 Mei 2010, Pukul 23.55

Di dunia dimana teknologi macam telekomunikasi adalah nyata, jarak bukanlah penghalang sama sekali. Dan ketika kerumunan virtual bernama internet memanjangkan jaringnya melalui entitas bernama Blackberry, waktu sudah sangat tidak relevan untuk dipermasalahkan. Pada jam segini, kotak mungil canggih itu berbunyi, mengantarkan serangkaian doa dari sahabat di bagian kota yang lain. Wahai kawan, aku berharap segala doamu itu terkabul, dan bersyukurlah aku kepada Tuhan atas skenario tak terduganya untuk menghubungkan kehidupan kita berdua. Tak ada yang lebih rumit dan lebih indah dari automatisasi alam semesta.

7 Mei 2010, Pukul 24.00 - 8 Mei 2010, Pukul 00.00

Angka 22 tak pernah terasa lebih bermakna dibanding saat ini. Biasanya dia tak lebih dari nilai diskrit yang terdapat di antara 21 dan 23. Dia bisa dibagi 2 untuk menghasilkan 11, dan bisa dibagi 11 untuk menghasilkan 2. Jika angka dalam bilangan 11 dijumlahkan akan menghasilkan 2. Dan waktu ini adalah tengah malam, dalam penanggalan dapat diartikan 2 hal : berakhirnya tanggal sebelumnya, dan berawalnya tanggal sesudahnya. Ada banyak angka 2 yang muncul saat ini, dan angka 22 benar-benar terasa lebih bermakna. Hai Pratiwi... Selamat ulang tahun :)

Unclear

Sri Mulyani and World Bank maybe the hottest topic in Indonesia this last two days. It's been the trending topic on Twitter yesterday, and it's all over the TV. There's debate at Metro TV yesterday talking about it, special headline in TVone and others.

Me on the other hand, doesn't give special interest in the topic itself. I like Sri Mulyani, as Indonesian woman I'm very proud to have one of our own being internationally praised like that, especially when our people doesn't valued her enough. Something that caught my interest is how the media blow up the topic in a very extreme way. They're intentionally bring up the past Century Gate issue, create a debate with surprisingly wrong people as panelist, or empasize their own point of view in a discussion. Wow, how far they want to bring Indonesian people from true information???

This pattern is what media futurist called old-media-way. Pull viewer attention with somekind of controversial content so the rating is up and advertiser willing to pay more for the spot, *bleh* very evil kind of way.

I spent this week researching on an information and media based company whose mission is focused on bring the most relevant information to people, so when I look at how our media blow up an issue in unclear direction, honestly, I hate it. Our media has to find another way to get profit instead of confuse people with their unclear information.

"knowledge always good, and certainly always better than ignorance"
[Sergey Brin]

Short term goal : study abroad!

I've decided to take Dutch language course at Erasmus Taalcentrum. Some of my friends questioning me, "why dutch?", my answer is simple: "I want to take my master there!".

There, I said it. Sometimes when you want to commit to something you have to say it out loud, so people who hear it will be reminder of your commitment. And so I said it.

Until last year, I still don't have any particular plan for my future, short term or long term. I think about it over and over then I come with the decision, yes, I want to take master in technology and innovation management, and yes, I want to take it abroad.

Then, why Dutch? 3 reasons:

1. Dutch is in the list of country that cover in Depkominfo scholarship. I don't have enough money to go on my own, so I have to rely on scholarship, and Depkominfo is my first priority,

2. Netherlands is in Europe, and it will be easier for me to have a euro trip kekekeke... :D

3. I will have access to most of books and documents about VOC and Hindia colonization. Haha... there it is, the history-freak-side of mine :)

The timeline is a year from now, after I finish my 2-years contract with my company, and I want to do a little research for my thesis topic. For now, it still "managing innovation in telecommunication company to face the era of internet domination". Yap, it based on my experience so far in this company. The topic will improve, and I have to do more research on that.

So, my friends... if you have any information or any input for me, I'm open for discussion.. and wish me luck... :)

Trip to Temasek...

Last weekend, I go to Singapore with my friends. This is my first time going to another country and I'm so excited. I've planned this trip for almost 4 months. The initial plan is to visit Singapore all the way to Malacca. But then I realized that Universal Studio is doing soft opening, so I revise my plan and add Universal Studio on my itinerary.

The trip go out well. I visited the place I want to visit, and take a lot of picture of anything that caught my interest. Most of people come to Singapore to shop, but for me, going there just to walk around and take several pictures is enough. The urban planning is amazing. From how they manage to build modern building along side the old one, and how they centralized the citizen activity and the ultimate is they MRT system. The system is so well organized, from the route to the way people buy ticket. From the rules in the platform to the traffic. Everything is well organized and preserved. Actually, I thinking about reside in Singapore just because their MRT system, considering the way I go to work every morning using kopaja, that thought is very tempting.

Here I attach some of the pictures I take, to bad the camera is not that good (people, SonyCybershot pocket is really-really not recommended, buy something else if you want a pocket camera) and my photography skill is almost lower than poor, but at least I take pictures right??? :)

3idiots: the best Rp.50000 I've ever spent

Okay, this is the read-the-title-then-stop-reading-and-go-watch-it kind of movie review. It doesn't makes any different what I write in this blog, the fact is clear: you are an idiot! An idiot movie watcher who can spent million on sucks movie but doesn't watch this one, complete idiot! Even I curse myself why I didn't watch it earlier... Oh yeah I remember, just one studio in one city with a bunch of competitor watcher who can buy the ticket anytime and that hell distributor who just give this country one copy of the roll... Yes, just ONE! That's why I didn't watch it earlier.

3idiots is not just a movie, it's an answer. For a person who spent 4 years of her life studying to be an engineer who didn't do any good at it, graduate with average GPA, with no passion for specific career and have no idea what kind of dream she wants to reach after college, yep, a person like me. Watch the movie just makes me feels like being called 'idiot' by my master-of-all-master-teacher Prof. Jon Sapiie in front of the class but with different circumtances, he's laughing (which is impossible in real life, because if prof jon calls you 'idiot' during class, it means you've crossed the line and got special prize: his anger). The story is about the kind of problem I always encounter this past one year, future and passion. Oh, passion, my eternal mystery.

The punch line is typical: do what you want to do, work at something that you really passionate about, and don't let yourself died in regret. The special thing is the plot. It's still bollywood movie, with corny lyrics song and i-want-to-throw-up-just-because-i-watch-it kind of dance, but the dialogue is made simple, simple and superb hilarious. It makes 3 hours flies easily, at the end you just realize your throat hurt from too much laugh and your lips dry because you forget to take a sip of your pepsi (or worse: you just forget to buy any drink- like me).

The ending is a typical too-good-too-be-true with bollywood style of happy ending, I thought it's a little let down after 3/4 plot full of simple surprise. But over all this is a great movie, as I say in the beginning of this post: you're such an idiot if you still spent time reading this post but didn't watch the movie. Go watch it! If you find it difficult to get ticket, just buy the DVD at ambass or kota kembang or other similar market, or just download it somewhere in the net. It's a must-watch movie, but it's not your fault if the release is limited, so... just find yourself a way to watch it :)
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Aku melihat ke barat dari tempatku duduk. Ke arah matahari yang terbenam diantara beton-beton ibukota. Satu hari lagi terlewat dengan desahan nafas... satu lagi hari yang kusesalkan.

Aku ingat satu pesan dari trainer sebuah pelatihan softskill yang kuikuti dulu...
"ingatlah baik-baik, hidup itu sulit!"

Dan ternyata, baru sekarang aku benar-benar merasakannya:
Hidup memang sulit.

dan sekali lagi aku diingatkan:
sulit bukan berarti mustahil.

yah... mungkin aku harus mengingat kembali pelajaran sejarah yang kusukai itu. Manusia-manusia itu tak akan tercatat namanya dalam sejarah jika mereka tidak berhasil melalui hidupnya dengan bermakna.

Mungkin aku hanya butuh usaha lebih keras... usaha lebih keras...

The winner....

Too bad Avatar didn't win Best Picture...

Too bad James Cameron didn't win Best Director....

VIVA Hurt Locker :)

Best Picture
The Hurt Locker

Directing
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart

Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side

Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Actress in a Supporting Role
Mo’Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Animated Feature Film
Up - Pete Docter

Art Direction
Avatar - Art Direction: Rick Carter dan Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

Cinematography
Avatar - Mauro Fiore

Costume Design
Sandy Powell - The Young Victoria

Film Editing
The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

Foreign Language Film
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)-Argentina

Makeup
Star Trek - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall dan Joel Harlow

Music (Original Score)
Up - Michael Giacchino

Music (Original Song)
The Weary Kind - Crazy Heart

Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson

Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson dan Ray Beckett

Almost Alice

Will watch Alice in the Wonderland 3D today. Can't wait to see Johnny Depp plays Madhatter.

This is the Almost Alice album, not the original soundtrack, but almost the original soundtrack :p

The full list of the album is bellow... just listen it... it's amazing!!!

1.	"Alice"	Avril Lavigne	3:35
2.	"The Poison"	The All-American Rejects	3:53
3.	"The Technicolor Phase"	Owl City	4:27
4.	"Her Name Is Alice"	Shinedown	3:38
5.	"Painting Flowers"	All Time Low	3:25
6.	"Where's My Angel"	Metro Station	3:39
7.	"Strange"	Tokio Hotel and Kerli	3:51
8.	"Follow Me Down"	3OH!3 and Neon Hitch	3:23
9.	"Very Good Advice"	Robert Smith	2:58
10.	"In Transit"	Mark Hoppus and Pete Wentz	4:02
11.	"Welcome to Mystery"	Plain White T's	4:28
12.	"Tea Party"	Kerli	3:29
13.	"The Lobster Quadrille"	Franz Ferdinand	2:08
14.	"Always Running Out of Time"	Motion City Soundtrack	3:00
15.	"Fell Down a Hole"	Wolfmother	5:04
16.	"White Rabbit"	Grace Potter and the Nocturnals	3:21

Poetic picture

Check this out guys... PoeticPicture's Portrait... all I can say is LOVE THIS!!!

Monolog

Ritual sabtu pagi. Seperti biasa, hanya aku dan dia, secangkir kopi hitam dan secangkir teh hijau panas. Cafe ini masih sepi seperti biasa, dan dia pun memulai monolognya dengan kalimat yang sama...

"haaahhh... apa gw resign aja ya???"

Pertanyaan retoris itu kembali terlontar dari mulutnya. Aku tak menjawab, karena memang aku tak perlu menjawab, kita berdua sama-sama tahu bahwa dia tak akan pernah resign. Lima tahun mengenalnya aku jadi menganggap pekerjaan akuntan publik hanya cocok untuk orang tukang ngeluh, karena mereka akan mengeluh ingin resign setiap 3 jam sekali, setiap hari, setiap minggu selama peak season, setiap tahunnya. Tapi lima tahun pula aku mengenalnya untuk tahu bahwa dia terlalu mencintai pekerjaan itu untuk bisa resign. Karena itu aku tak perlu menjawabnya, aku hanya butuh tersenyum.

"gila, bisa sinting gw kalo kerja kayak gini terus, nyokap gw udah ribut aja ngeliat jadwal gw balik ke rumah. ya mau gimana lagi, gini kerjaan gw..."

Dia kembali memulai monolog panjangnya, hal yang akan terus diulang olehnya, ini adalah ritual sabtu pagiku selama 5 tahun terakhir dan monolog itu akan berakhir dengan...

"...hah... gw capek"

Aku kembali tersenyum. Memperhatikan dia mengacak rambutnya sendiri, rambut yang jika tidak kuingatkan mungkin akan lupa dia potong. Kenapa rambut laki-laki harus selalu cepat tumbuh? menjengkelkan sekali melihatnya gondrong. Aku mendorong cangkir berisi teh hijau panas ke arahnya.

"minum dulu" kataku.

Dia melirik cangkir teh itu dan tersenyum kecil. Perasaan itu kembali muncul.

Setiap kali aku melihatnya tersenyum, walau di sela kesal yang teramat sangat, senyum itu selalu muncul. Aku sangat menyukai senyumnya itu, membuatku ingin mengacak rambutnya, tertawa dan memeluknya erat. Aku tak perduli dengan segala keluh kesahnya asalkan senyum itu selalu muncul pada akhirnya.

"lu kok tahan dengerin keluhan gw?" tanyanya sambil mengangkat cangkir itu.
"dah kebiasa" balasku.
"hmmm... seandainya Ira gitu ya... hah, kemarin gw ketemu dia..." dan monolognya kembali dimulai. Masih monolog yang pernah kudengar, hanya dengan topic yang tak pernah bisa kunikmati.

Ceritakanlah padaku semua kesalmu, tentang pekerjaanmu, keluargamu, teman-temanmu, tapi kumohon jangan tentang dia. Lima tahun aku mengenalmu, dan tidak sampai setahun kau mengenalnya. Aku lebih banyak mengenalnya lewat keluh kesahmu dan bukan cerita bahagiamu, lalu mengapa harus dia?

Monolognya tetap sepanjang biasanya, dengan setiap kata yang seperti menyayat langsung ke tubuhku. Oh Tuhan, ini sakit sekali, aku butuh anesthesia.

"... tu cewek tuh bikin gw kesel setengah mati, udah tau kerjaan gw ribet, tambah diribetin urusan dia... ngomongnya cerewet lagi... haahhh... dasar cewek!" monolognya selesai.

Aku memperhatikannya erat-erat, menunggu tusukan terakhir yang aku tahu akan datang... dia tersenyum. Dia tersenyum seperti halnya senyum saat dia mengakhiri monolognya yang lain. Betapa senyum yang sama memberikan efek yang berlawanan padaku, membuatku bahagia dan menyiksaku juga. Aku diam, menutup mata, menekan rasa sakit itu sekuatnya.

Selalu aku ingin bertanya, aku yang mengenalmu lebih lama, aku yang mengenalmu lebih baik, aku yang bisa mendengar semua keluhmu tanpa protes dan aku yang selalu melewati ritual sabtu pagi ini selamat lima tahun terakhir, hanya aku dan kamu, lalu mengapa ada dia? mengapa aku selalu melihat senyummu untuk dia?

... aku tak pernah mengerti.

Wake up call...

"you're full of energy and always passionate in everything you're doing"

That's my wake up call.
Lately, I'm kind of looking down at myself, being confused of what I'm best at and my actual value. It affects me badly, I lost my spirit at work and think about how small the benefit I give to my surrounding, I reach my lowest point of self esteem. But I got my wake up call this morning. That sentence enough for me. I remember the time when I was in Lustrum VII committee, someone told me this...

"kamu tuh leutik-leutik tapi euweuh kacape, tau kelinci energizer? tah kamu banget itu teh"

Maybe I'm not looking at myself clearly. There's un-optimized values lying in me, waiting to be awaken. It's time to wake up and seize every moment I have and maximize every strong point in me. FIGHTING!!!

82nd Academy Award : Nominee

There's 10 best-picture nominee at this year's Oscar. Once again, 10! First time in 60 years of Oscars tradition to have 10 nominee instead of the usual 5. For me, it's the right way to do... because last year movie line up is incredible! You can see the complete list here.

I won't talk to much for the nominee line up. Actually I agree with 80-90% of them. One thing I regret most is I delay myself to watch The Hurt Locker and it turns out to get 9 nominations, together with Avatar. Why? because I hate war movie! It hurts me too much. Romance or sad movie with too much melancholic scene won't affect me at all, but war movie is another story. But seems that I have to watch it soon before the award presentation at March 7. Lets watch all 10 best picture nominee before March 7!

Best Picture

• Avatar
• The Blind Side
• District 9
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• A Serious Man
• Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Up
• Up in the Air

Best Director

• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron – Avatar
• Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor in the leading role

• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
• George Clooney – Up in the Air
• Colin Firth – A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Best Actress in the leading role

• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren – The Last Station
• Carey Mulligan – An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Actor in the supporting role

• Matt Damon – Invictus
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress in the supporting role

• Penélope Cruz – Nine
• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
• Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
• Mo'Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

Best Original Screenplay

• The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
• The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

Best Adapted Screenplay

• District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• An Education – Nick Hornby
• In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche
• Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher
• Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Animated Feature

• Coraline – Henry Selick
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson
• The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements and John Musker
• The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey
• Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

Best Original Score

• Avatar – James Horner
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
• The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami and Beck Sanders
• Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer
• Up – Michael Giacchino

Summary:

• 9 nominations: Avatar and The Hurt Locker
• 8 nominations: Inglourious Basterds
• 6 nominations: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire and Up in the Air
• 5 nominations: Up
• 4 nominations: District 9, Nine and Star Trek
• 3 nominations: An Education, Crazy Heart, The Princess and the Frog and The Young Victoria
• 2 nominations: A Serious Man, The Blind Side, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Invictus, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Last Station, The Messenger, Sherlock Holmes and The White Ribbon

Coba Katakan

"aku tak ingin terus terdiam memandangi harapan.
terlena akan manis cinta dan berujung kecewa.
aku tak ingin terus menunggu sesuatu yang tak pasti.
lebih baik kita menangis dan terluka hari ini"
[Coba Katakan - Maliq & D'essentials]

This song keeps playing over and over in my head... first time watching Maliq & D'essentials live performance at New Day for Indonesian Music event by LangitMusik Telkomsel last saturday. Really great performance and the music composition at the performance is more fabulous than the one in the recording. And one thing I really like from their songs... it's trying to make us see the reality of something. Dream and hope is one thing... but still... they're imaginary. Real act will bring them to life.

Daily topic...

i'm looking for daily post topic... I found some blog that keep up with something's daily, like teh Nisa with crane-origami photos... or kang Muy that start posting one picture everyday...

Doing this un-ordinary things can keep up our daily spirit and push us to find anything interesting in our daily routine. Once I heard this kind of idea at a seminar with Yoris Sebastian. The problem is... I can't decide what kind of topic I want to commit, any suggestion???

Kembali ke pojok : perang bubat dan dilarang nikah

Saya baru saja membaca satu posting di blog Serba Sejarah, sedikit komentar dan pengantar tentang sejarah Perang Bubat. Bukan postingan baru, tapi menarik perhatian saya. Seperti diketahui bahwa peristiwa bubat menjadi satu tonggak fundamental perubahan hubungan masyarakat sunda dengan jawa, khususnya terkait pernikahan.

Saya jadi teringat beberapa cerita teman yang pacaran backstreet gara-gara yang satu sunda dan yang satu lagi jawa. Atau yang lamarannya ditolak ortu sang kekasih karena kasus yang sama. Waktu mendengar ceritanya saya cuman komentar, "weleh... weleh... masih ada ya yang begituan". Buat saya sendiri atau mungkin keluarga saya, yang notabene sunda murni secara turun-temurun, hal ini sudah tak dipikirkan lagi. Apalagi semenjak salah seorang bibi saya menikah dengan orang jawa, gak ada yang aneh tuh.... jadi kami sudah tak terlalu ambil pusing lagi.

Yah, sedikit banyak saya masih merasa bingung ketika ada orang yang masih meributkan perbedaan ini, walau sebenernya kembali ke keyakinan setiap orangnya lagi dan saya tetap harus menghormatinya (tapi tetep aja pengen komentar :D). Toh sekarang suku bangsa sudah sangat bercampur. Saya punya teman yang punya nama Gusti Ayu tapi menulis suku bangsanya Sunda (kekekeke... iya gak yu??? :D) atau kalau mau ditilik beberapa pupuhu LSS justru orang jawa (walau ngomongnya sunda banget, bisa ngomong bilingual lah...). Atau beberapa orang sunda yang lebih fasih bahasa Jawa. Yah... apapun sukunya masih Indonesia kan??? atau lebih luasnya, masih manusia kan???

Ya gitu deh... bahasan perang bubat itu pasti nyindir ke pernikahan lintas suku ini. hmmm... saya jadi berpikir, sampai kapan luka hati di masyarakat sunda akibat peristiwa ini akan sembuh??? Dan butuh berapa lama untuk satu nilai kultural seperti ini akan hilang (oops... yg ini punya arti ganda). Jadi ingat cerita teman saya Bayu yang dulu menjabat Ketua bidang Seni dan Budaya di LSS saat kami menjadi pengurus. Dia satu waktu diundang untuk mengisi kuliah mengenai budaya sunda dan ada peserta kuliah yang bertanya mengenai adanya aturan adat tak resmi yang melarang orang sunda dan orang jawa menikah, saat itu bayu menjawab:

"itu mungkin efek dari perang bubat dulu, tapi santai kok, kalo saya gak keberatan nikah ama siapa aja".

Wehehehehe... diluar kenyataan bahwa dia narsis luarbiasa tapi ya sebenernya itu intinya, balik lagi ke setiap orangnya, keberatan atau enggak?!?! Kalau udah niat mah pasti 'gunung kan kudaki, lautan kan kusebrangi' deh... hahahhaa... lebaaaaayyyyy!

ME WANT ONE!!!!!!!

I WANT IT!!! I WANT IT!!! I WANT IT!!!

Remember

"Just remember 10 years ago... When you curse the world if they compare you to other people. Remember the time when it's really hard to make people see your true self pass all the label and condition. Remember the time when you give your best just to make people recognize your value. And remember the pain you feel deep down in your heart when all your hardwork just gave no change at all. Just remember that, and stop doing things because that's what people want from you. You can't make yourself loved, but you can love yourself!"
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langit musik

Guys... try this out... Indonesian music online store... www.langitmusik.com...
It's LOCAL, LEGAL, EASY, AFFORDABLE, and PORTABLE... it's music!

... and don't forget to tell me your opinion

-yang terbaik bagi musik indonesia, terbaik juga bagimu-

Golden Globe 2010!

The winner list is out!

As expected, Avatar won Best Motion Picture - Drama and Best Director for James Cameron, it will be a huge scandal if they don't win. I love the winner line up, there's Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side, Robert Downey Jr. , Meryl Streep and of course the incredible Christoph Waltz for his great performance in Inglourious Basterds. Up won Best Animated feature film and Best Original Score. Too bad 'I see you' didn't get the Best Original Song, but it's okay...

Here is the list for the motion picture category only, you can see the full list of the winner here. Can't wait to see how Oscar will come out in March, they're not even release the nominee BLEH... But yeah, lets wait! May the best movie win!

Best Motion Picture - Drama
AVATAR

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
The Hangover

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mo'nique – Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Animated Feature Film
Up

Best Foreign Language Film
The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band - Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte) (Germany)

Best Director - Motion Picture
James Cameron – Avatar

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - Up In The Air

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Michael Giacchino - Up

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)" – Crazy Heart

Anomali on Friday Night

Just another friday night with friends, after office hour hang out to Anomali at Senopati, quality talk-quality time, and a cup of latte.

This week maybe the busiest week in my ten-months-work and on the other hand, it also the most interesting week. The hectic schedule makes me has no time to contact my friend via IM, not even Ayu, Zakki or Ditha. And now, sitting around a coffee table at the corner of cozy coffeeshop and talk about everything. From harmless thing to the very sensitive one, from hang out plan to backpacking plan, from joke to work... It's very refreshing!

It just feels nice to have your friend gather around you, share their thoughts and experiences, give me more knowledge easily than any book I've read. I just love being around them. And after this interestingly-tiring week, finally I feel calm and relax again... It's nice to have really good friends!
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Something purple...

Love this purple shoes so much! My first non black-or-grey shoes, and I'm very happy to have it. So comfortable and fit my feet well... Once again, I Love it!
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Sore Menuju Jakarta

Pinggangku sakit.

Sudah dua jam lewat, dan papan di tengah jalan tol ini baru sampai pada angka 50. Masih 50 km lagi sampai ke kota Jakarta.

Hampir setahun sudah aku melewati rutinitas akhir minggu ini, perjalanan ke Bandung saat jumat malam, dan kembali ke Jakarta pada minggu sore. Perjalanan dimana sekali pergi seharusnya hanya memakan waktu dua jam (seperti diiklankan dulu saat tol ini dibuka) akan membengkak menjadi 3-5 jam saat akhir minggu seperti ini. Ratusan bahkan mungkin ribuan orang dari Ibukota hijrah bersama-sama menuju Bandung. Setahun lalu, aku masih mengutuki mobil plat B yang memenuhi jalanan Bandung, sekarang siapa sangka aku akan menjadi bagian dari orang-orang yang kukutuki itu. Haaahhh... Sungguh tidak keren!

Aku tak bisa bilang aku menyenangi rutinitas ini, tapi aku membutuhkannya. Hari kerja mungkin hanya 5 hari dalam seminggu, 8 jam setiap harinya, tapi aku merasa itu telah berabad mengambil angka usiaku setiap harinya. Mengapa? Karena... Ah sudahlah, akan butuh beberapa halaman lain hanya untuk membahasnya. Intinya, rutinitas pulang ke Bandung ini telah menjadi kebutuhan, aku butuh merecharge semangatku, dan kota berjarak 120 km dari Jakarta itulah tempat dimana bateraiku dapat diisi kembali.

Jumat kemarin aku berangkat menuju Bandung dengan tujuan itu di dalam kepala, dan aku boleh kecewa karena tujuan itu tak sepenuhny tercapai. Yah, akan sulit untuk mengisi ulang tenaga saat yang kau dengar hanya keluhan dan argumen pertengkaran. Rumahku tak terasa sama lagi.

Beberapa bulan lalu ayahku divonis menderita satu penyakit, Bell's Palsy namanya, penyakit syaraf wajah yang membuat syaraf wajah bagian kanannya mati, dia terlihat seperti two-face dalam film Batman sekarang. Aku sendiri tak begitu tertekan dengan penyakit baru ayahku ini, selama bertahun-tahun aku dibesarkan dengan pemikiran bahwa ayahku sakit, beliau memang menderita asma kronis semenjak lama. Jadi tambahan satu penyakit seperti ini tak terlalu membuatku tertekan. Tetapi ternyata tidak dengan ayahku, dia menerima penyakitny ini dengan lebih berat dibanding kami keluarganya. Temperamennya mudah sekali naik akhir-akhir ini, pagi ini saja aku dipanggil sarapan melalui suara adu argumen orangtuaku, yang hanya meributkan tentang satu pemberian kecil pada saudara. Aku mengurungkan niatku untuk sarapan dan diam di kamar sampai ayahku bersiap berangkat, barulah aku turun menyapanya dan memberi salam karena sorenya aku akan langsung pulang ke jakarta. Sesudah ayah pergi, aku sarapan dengan diiringi curhat panjang ibuku tentang berbagai hal. Aku ingin mendengarkannya, tapi kepalaku pusing, akhirnya aku menyalakan TV dan menonton serial CSI, entah mengapa penyelidikan pembunuhan ini terasa lebih menghibur dari rumahku sendiri.

Sekarang aku dalam perjalanan kembali ke Jakarta, dan tidak merasa ter-recharge sama sekali. Kupikir, mungkin ini adalah efek bertambah dewasa, kau tak punya lagi lahan untuk bermanja saat kau berharap bisa merasakannya. Atau mungkin hanya aku saja yang merasa begitu? Mungkin. Tapi mau bagaimana lagi, hanya aku yang dianggap bisa mendengar semua keluhan itu. Pikiran Kakak laki-lakiku terlalu terpecah untuk bisa fokus pada masalah keluarga, meskipun dia masih tinggal di tengah-tengahnya. Dan kakak perempuanku... Ah... Biarlah tak usah menambah sulit hidupnya yang memang terlalu sulit dimengerti, bahkan oleh dirinya sendiri. Yang tersisa hanyalah aku, anak bungsu yang kehilangan hak bermanjanya lebih cepat.

Sekarang dalam perjalanan yang tersisa ini aku perlu memikirkan bagaimana mengejar sisa baterai yang belum terisi. Mungkin dengan menonton ulang Sherlock Holmes di bioskop, atau mungkin dengan secangkir kopi panas. Aku akan menentukannya saat sudah sampa, setidaknya aku masih punya beberapa jam sampai hari senin dimulai.
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2010

Should I say Happy New year???

YES. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

What 2010 means?
New Laptop (because the old one is broken, literally broken!)

Turn 22 y.o (nice number )

A year I've been living in Jakarta and work for this company

More focus on my career

Prepare to take S2

Take business communication course

Take Dutch language course

Will have at least 2 vacation: 1 domestic (can be Bali, Lombok or Makassar) and 1 international (can be singapore, malay, or thai)
New Camera and learn photography

Live more healthy! Food combining + go to gym regularly!

200 blog post at the end of the year!

Self-strategic plan 2011-2015 rollout hehehehe...