Thursday, August 11, 2011

English, Bahasa, dan Basa

a little break from posting in english....

GW BOSAAAAANNNNN!!!

Pengen tertawa sendiri dengan kenyataan bahwa setiap saya posting dengan menggunakan bahasa adalah untuk marah-marah atau mengeluh. Sebegitu tak indahkah bahasa tanah air saya sampai saya hanya bisa menggunakannya untuk mengeluh?

Jangan salahkan palu ketika jarimu terpukul, jangan salahkan pena ketika tulisanmu tak terbaca. Intinya, bukan bahasa yang jadi masalah, tapi memang saya kurang bisa menulis yang indah-indah menggunakan bahasa, alias taunya emang cuman bisa marah-marah :)

Tapi ternyata kasus ini hanya berlaku untuk saya seorang. Beberapa teman bisa menulis dengan begitu baik pakai bahasa (dimana saya berusaha menulis dengan english supaya lebih keren kebacanya), dan oya... ada juga yang mendedikasikan blog nya untuk menulis sajak dan puisi.

Tarolah Hasan Aspahani sebagai contoh. Blog Sejuta Puisi-nya adalah satu blog yang saya sering kunjungi. Sajak dan puisi buatannya begitu bagus sampai saya merasa malu sendiri sebagai orang yang 20 tahun lebih berbahasa indonesia tapi tak bisa menulis dalam bahasa sebagus itu (walau pakai english pun gak pernah bagus-bagua amat sih...). Sajak Hasan Aspahani buat saya terasa jujur, mengungkapkan hal-hal sederhana menjadi sesuatu yang mengundang imajinasi. Saya sudah lama berusaha mencari buku kumpulan sajak beliau, sayangnya belum berjodoh untuk ketemu saja dan bahkan beberapa hari lagi kumpulan sajaknya yang baru akan diterbitkan.

Saya selalu ingin bisa menulis puisi. Ibu saya bilang dulu waktu kecil saya punya buku kecil yang isinya kumpulan puisi buatan sendiri. Hmmm... aneh, karena saya sendiri tak pernah ingat saya bisa menulis puisi :P

Kembali ke bahasan mengenai bahasa. Sebagai orang sunda, saya juga menguasai sedikit basa sunda. Dan setelah saya pikir-pikir ternyata saya hanya bisa menggunakan basa sunda level pergaulan, alias kasar dengan banyak 'mah', 'tah', 'maneh', 'urang' dan 'siah'. Hihihihi... karena memang setelah diingat-ingat, yang mengajarkan saya basa sunda itu teman-teman sekolah waktu SD, dimana level pergaulan lah yang dipakai. Kemampuan basa saya sedikit meningkat ketika saya bergabung dengan Lingkung Seni Sunda saat kuliah. WOW... orang-orang ini ada yang bisa membuat tembang, narasi, puisi dan lain-lain menggunakan basa sunda yang se-kecap pun saya baru dengar saat itu (dan saya agak yakin ayah dan ibu saya yang sunda tulen pun tidak akan begitu mengerti saat membacanya). Pada awalnya saya berpikir basa sunda saya akan lebih baik karena LSS, pada akhirnya saya tahu itu tidak terjadi. Mungkin basa sunda saya lebih lancar, tapi ya dengan kenyataan karena banyak saya gunakan untuk marah-marah juga (seharusnya saya gak pernah ngambil posisi di evaluasi -_-).

Jadi, kesimpulannya, mau menulis dalam apapun saya paling fasih ketika memakainya untuk marah-marah. Kenyataan menyebalkan yang perlu segera diubah. Syukurnya, saat saya belajar nederlands saya tak diajarkan cara marah-marah lebih dulu, tapi bagaimana memesan makanan dan minuman, sedikit perbaikan :)

Monday, August 8, 2011

Transformers 3 - Dark Side of the franchise


Just Trivia...
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Lennox : "no sign of Optimus?"
No Lennox, Optimus actually has a hard time TRAPPED in a web of chain and waiting for the autobots to free him, What the &%$@???
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Rossie Huttington Whiteley can be a Victoria Secret Angel with glorious face, great hair, hot body and killer legs, but she's just so unimportant in the movie to the point I hope she's not there at all.
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Too much robot can kill you, in term of you got confused to death which one is this, and which one is that. I can't recognize all the robot.
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It just a boy universe, where a jobless Ivy league graduate can save the world, have an alien Chevy camaro as car and hot-girl that irrevocably in love with him.
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It's freaking two hours and 30 minutes long movie!!! And that Shia boy is so insignificant in the first half of the movie...
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*will update when I'm in the mood for writing more sarcastic things...

Friday, August 5, 2011

A thin line between Hero and Pirate

Just a little conversation in the sea of forest of Mermaid Island, between Jinbe the Sichibukai and Strawhat Monkey D. Luffy.
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Monkey D. LuffyImage via Wikipedia
Jinbe : "If you're going to do this, don't be the brutal human that smashed Hody (mermaid villain), be the hero of this island!!!"

Luffy : "Hero?! Forget it!!! We're PIRATES. I love heroes but I don't want to be one!! Do you know what it is to be a hero??"

*pause*

Luffy : "Let's say you have some meat, okay? Now, a pirate would chow down on that bad boy, but a hero would share it with everyone!! I WANT TO EAT MEAT!!!"
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So, in the bottom line, A hero will share what he want with anyone, but pirate will take it all down with them. Maybe they do the same good deeds, but with different perspective and motive... how interesting :)

NB: Monkey D. Luffy is the captain of Strawhat Pirate in the japanese manga One Piece. He maybe stupid with animal-level IQ, but very strong, loyal to his friends and has a clear vision. I love him :D
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

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!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

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.

Friday, July 1, 2011

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 :)

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Kembali ke pojok : Marah pada siapa?

Aku menunggu layar biru itu berkedip dengan perasaan tak tenang. Aku benci mesin ATM. Bukan karena bentuknya, bukan karena aku punya masalah dengannya, lebih karena aku tahu setiap kali aku mengunjungi mesin itu artinya angka di rekening tabunganku akan berkurang. Alasannya banyak, bisa untukku sendiri dan kadang seringnya, untuk orang lain.

"Saldo tersisa di rekening Anda : Rp. 7, 243,657, apakah Anda ingin melakukan transaksi lain?"

Aku menghela nafas dan menekan tombol yang menunjuk 'YA'.

Sudah beberapa bulan terakhir tabungaku terus berkurang, bertambah mungkin, setiap tanggal 1, sebagaimana layaknya pegawai negeri lainnya, tapi sebelum sampai tanggal 5 seperempat dari tambahan itu sudah menghilang -pengeluaran rutin. Sebelum tanggal 15, seperempatnya lagi, untuk kebutuhan sehari-hari. Dan kemudian, pada tanggal 25, saldo tabunganku akan kembali ke posisi sebelum gaji masuk, transfer ke orang tua.

Rutinitas itu adalah siklus standar untuk rekening tabunganku, tapi untuk beberapa bulan ini aktivitasnya bertambah. Adikku sakit. Dan bukan pilek atau flu seperti yang biasanya terjadi padanya, infeksi ginjal. Bisa dibayangkan, adikku, baru saja lulus SMP dan sekarang terkena infeksi ginjal. Dia sering mengeluh sakit perut, aku pikir hanya manja-manjaannya saja. Kemudian mengeluh kencing berdarah, aku berpikir mungkin datang bulannya saja sedang tidak benar. Sampai satu ketika dia sering pingsan, dibawa ke dokter dan difonis terkena infeksi ginjal. Aku kena marah, oleh dokter dan oleh ibuku. Aku juga ingin marah, tapi pada siapa? Adikku sakit, dan terlambat ditangani, aku ingin marah, tapi pada siapa?

Monday, June 6, 2011

Awesome People


I've got chills down my spine when I saw this picture for the first time. Not because the people in the picture already passed away or that it's a black and white picture... But can you imagine? All the people in this picture are actually people who set standard for new era of science!

Pauli, Born, Broglie, Heisenberg, Lorentz, Bohr, Planck, Schroedinger, Curie and of course Einstein! Names that you'll heard next to constants, laws, equations... names that you'll heard after you understand Newton and his generation, names that start the future! All that names in one place. I don't know where or when the picture was taken, but still... it's a great picture.

NB: Madame Curie looks super cool in the picture, first for her fierce expression, second because she's the only woman there.