Rock of my life

"But you see, it's not me, it's not my family

In your head, in your head they are fighting"

[The Cranberries - Zombie]

I vaguely remember when the first time I'm listening to The Cranberries song, but I'm sure that the song is Zombie. It was on my aunt's self-made compilation cassette, and it was love at the first sound. From the acoustic intro, to the grunge feeling after that and finally Dolores voice. I've never imagine before that a girl's voice can be soft and bold at the same time. I remembered at the time I asking myself, "who is this girl???". And then I saw their first video on MTV. It's not Zombie, it's Promises, and I fell deeper in their music.

The last time The Cranberries held a concert at Jakarta, I'm still at highschool and impossible for me to attend the concert at the time. I remembered being sad, and more sad when I watch the news about the concert on TV. I always want to watch them live, and that dream comes to realization through Java Rockin Land 2011.

The moment I knew that The Cranberries has been confirmed as one of headlining band for JRL 2011, I bought the ticket. I even didn't care how much it cost or at what day they will perform, I bought the 3-days pass. Yesterday, I watched them and HELL it was GREAT!!!

They play all songs that I hope they will play.

From Analyse as the opening, to Dreams at the closing encore. When intro for Linger being played I throw my hands in the air, when I heard the rhythm for Salvation I dance, when I heard the first humming of Ode to Family I lost in thought, when the perform Zombie I scream my lungs out, and then when I heard the first verse of Promises I jump frantically. It was magical! Seeing Dolores with my own eyes. Realized that now she's almost 50 but still feel like in her top performance, scream out, jump from side to side of the stage and doing all the weird moves she always do at their concert. They also performed 2 of their newest songs from their upcoming album Roses, it title Tomorrow and Schyzoprenic Playboy, I don't really into the first but I love the later. I sang in almost all of the song, and scream in between. I never be so happy after watching a band performance before.

I left the main ground of JRL 2011 with wide smile across my face. Eventhough I felt dead tired I don't really care. I walk out from the JRL area with more happier heart than when walk in. I felt wonderful, it didn't matter that my back hurt or my feet feels numb, I have the rock of my life!

Value of time

Have you ever calculated the exact value of time?

What is the meaning of '1 second'?

What is stated in international standard? "the duration needed by caesium-133 atom to responds certain times of radiation at certain level of states"? Is it really reflecting the exact value of time??? No, that just a standard to measure time, a model some scientists universally agreed on to simplified the complexity of the universe.

I thought about it for a second and remember my high school physics teacher once said, "time is a metric that doesn't have negative value". Once it's gone, it's gone. He said that to teach us that there's no such thing as 'second chance', you just have once shot of everything. What we call today as 'second chance' is actually different attempt on different point of time, it's a repetition of experience not the event . There's no turning back from what you've done, not even in a milisecond. Even in quantum physics we learn that it's possible to time travel to the future, not to the past. And maybe that is the exact value of time right? Time is the sum of every single unique event that you will never repeat. Something to be thought of, be evaluated, be regretted, to be happy about, but won't be repeated.

Just a thought.

picture taken from here with the help of Google image search.

Macchu Picchu

I found this question : Where would you like to go right now, if you could go anywhere?

My answer would be: Cuzco & Macchu Picchu

The ruins of Macchu Picchu was found at 1917. At 10.500 feet high, it's maybe the highest ancient civilization ever existed. My interest to Peru and particularly Cuzco and Macchu Picchu started back at my 4th grade. I read this comic series published in Bobo magazine, I forget the title, but it's about a kid that has befriended an alien that used to landed in Cuzco. I gained quite a story about Peru and the Maya and started to wonder about Cuzco since then. Cuzco is the second place in my place-to-visit-before-I-die list, just next after Mecca :)