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Those Three Words

Friday, March 5th, 2010

I’m a ‘man of my words’ type of girl. The written ones, the spoken ones.

I think all people should be responsible of their own words. Beautiful or bad, happy or sad. And I think, “I love you” is a really bold statement. It takes a lot of responsibilities. It takes time. In some cases, it takes a lifetime. For me, it is not only about letting a person know. This is one of my favorite piece of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close,

“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”

 

Brilliantly said.

I think many people say “I love you” a bit too easily. They say it loud, they make songs, they tweet it, they carve it on trees. It is not the point for me. There are too few of them, who keep the responsibilities. So, I decide to be careful. To say it less, so it wouldn’t be less special. To mean it, and keep it.

Instead, I say: “I’m happy. Let’s go to the zoo, or to the park, so we can play, and take pictures of our laugh.” Or, “I’m hungry, let’s have some sushi and green tea.”

:)

Board Games

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

halma

Sepertinya sudah lama sekali saya nggak main mainan semacam ini. Kangen rasanya. Maklum, saya bertumbuhkembang dengan mainan-mainan ini. Mainan yang rapuh oleh angin kencang, dan mengharuskan kita berinteraksi langsung dengan lawan, dimana lawan adalah anak tetangga. “Janittt, Janitttt….” begitu dulu saya selalu memanggil teman masa kecil favorit saya dari depan pagar (namanya Janitra). Saya bertumbuhkembang di kompleks BTN, dimana tetangga adalah keluarga, dan silaturahmi adalah pasti.

Anak-anak zaman sekarang sepertinya nggak mengalami masa menyenangkan itu ya? Sepertinya mereka lebih asyik dengan mainan seperti play station, atau bahkan sekarang nintendo wii. Memang canggih sih, tapi kok sepertinya sepi ya? Terlalu sepi ah untuk masa anak-anak. Hehehe. Eh, tapi kalau anak-anak gaul jaman sekarang masih main kartu atau uno sih. Mainnya di kafe tapi, dressed up dan pakai make-up, sambil ngerokok. Sangat nggak nostalgik ah :P

Kemarin saya dan Ais (Ais ini nama pacar saya, haha, ahey :>) mendadak mau main monopoli atau halma. Kita lalu putar-putar keluar masuk toko-toko mainan untuk mencari board games tersebut. Tapi ternyata sudah jarang yang jual. Akhirnya saya berhasil mendapat mereka di Pasar Simpang Dago, setelah mencari di beberapa toko.

Ibu Penjual: Iya, sok neng, mau cari apa?
Saya: Ada game kayak halma atau monopoli gitu bu?
Ibu Penjual: Wahh, kalau game mah nggak ada neng.. Adanya mainan.
Saya: Oh, iya. Mainan aja deh kalau gitu. *langsung berencana update blog pakai Bahasa Indonesia :P*

monopoli

Yeyy.. Akhirnya dapat.
Teman-teman, ayo kita main :)

Hello world!

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

‘Hello world!’ is the default title of the very first post when we start blogging with Wordpress. Well, quite representative because it’s true: the second you start owning your blog, “BAM!”, you’re instantly world-class publisher. You say hello, and you greet the world, but whether people would read it or not, would say hello back to you or not, it really depends on you.

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I was interviewed in E-Lifestyle program in Metro TV this afternoon. Me, and Mas Koen. We talked about blogging, macro-blogging (oh yes, ‘macro’ is just for dramatizing the difference between blogging and plurking or twittering or even worse, facebooking :P ), whether it’s already been defeated by the charm of 140 characters limited posts or not. Whether it’s still worth it to strike back or not. Well, you can see the full interview in MetroTVNews.com, I won’t retell about it in here.

Being on TV was somewhat exciting :D But not that much. Well, as I’ve always said, I’m more like behind-the-lens type. The second reason is: I don’t watch TV. I sometimes do, but I’m pretty cynical about everything on TV, well, in general, everything popular.

However, this afternoon, I, errr, felt like biting my tongue. I used television popularity to say something I always want to say about blogging.

About how I love blogging, and how it has nothing to do with money. My blog doesn’t pay me, instead, I pay for it. My blog has been teaching me a lot of lessons, and I’ve grown up with it. It gives me more than one dollar or two per click:

It gives me opportunity, and it gives me friends. A lot of them.

Hello world! This is me on my blog,
I love you, and now, let’s start to forget about being on TV :)


“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
- Bill Gates

2009

Monday, December 21st, 2009

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“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”
-John Lennon

If I had to choose the most memorable line from Raditya Dika, it would be, “Time doesn’t fly, it warps!” Simply because it’s so true. It’s already our last ten days in 2009. Another beautiful year, and I’d say, this is my second most favorite year (after 2007) of my whole life. A lot of things happened; a lot of missions were accomplished, and a million blessings were poured.

Most points in my ‘what-are-worth-to-be-dying-for’ list were checked.

Joining Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknik Geologi ‘GEA’ Institut Teknologi Bandung, checked. Joining Liga Film Mahasiswa Institut Teknologi Bandung, checked. GPA > 3.5 of 4, checked. Blogging back, checked. Being a freelancer and earning some coins for my saving checked. Letting my hair grows long, checked. Learning photography (plus owning a DSLR, and 3 Lomos that I love love love them very much), checked.

The rests were left unchecked.

Like losing weights (duh!), and reading 50 books (but I bought stacks of books this year :D ), and learning French, and learning to drive, and doing more cooking, and some other else.

And rain is never a plan.

The earthquakes. My father got light stroke. My grandmother, and Yogie, my classmate passed away. I had conflicts with my relatives. I did heartbreaking and got heartbroken (duh, yes). I broke many promises just because I was too busy, or too tired being busy. I also failed on flying.

Twelve months after every New Year, my monthly planner agenda becomes such a kaleidoscope. A mirror tunnel with small pieces of memories in various colors. Happiness, friends, assignments, exams, trips, responsibilities, promises, downfalls, tears, love, meetings, deadlines, celebrations, and anything else. Making patterns then leaving lessons about life.

Now it’s already the time to make new year resolutions, and ‘what-are-worth-to-be-dying-for’ list. Time to build another mirror tunnel and be ready to create new future memories. Time to learn more about life.

One of my life-lesson about this year:
We, people, love to plan. But we can’t plan to love.

I know that I’m truly blessed. I can’t thank God much enough. I would have to spend every single minute to praise Him, and it would still be not enough. Luckily we don’t literally have to (I mean, praising Him every single minute).

But here, I’d like to say:

Alhamdulillaahi rabbil-‘aalamiin.
All Praises to God, Lord/Cherisher/Sustainer of the Universe.

SEVEN

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Well, I’m attending SEVEN. (just click to know more ;) )

So I’ll make this post sticky and try to draw my days for the next 7 days :3

7th of November

Day 1. (November, 7th)

Saturday night with books, and bed. Fine. :)

8th of November

Day 2. (November, 8th)

Sunday afternoon, at campus.

Happy Blogger Day! :)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Happy (belated) Blogger Day! :)

It should be yesterday but I didn’t know what I should have posted to celebrate it. It’s unlike a birthday when you can make wishes, or have sparkling cakes. It’s unlike a wedding day when you can tell about how much you are nervous and happy and in love. It’s unlike Kartini day that everybody should wear particular costume, in this case, for example, wearing modem as statement necklace.

It’s Blogger Day because the minister of communication and information declared so, in the first Pesta Blogger this date two years ago. I didn’t attend the previous twos (2007 & 2008), so I decided to come this year. Pesta Blogger 2009. And it felt like a reunion. Reunion with good old friends. ‘Old friends’ because we talked about ‘those good old days’. It is called ‘those good old days’, not because our days are not good anymore. It has just changed a lot.

After 7 years, some of us stay, and some quit. A few have gone famous and succesful. Many have got married, and the rest have got drunk. I left my teenage years and I grow up. It has just changed a lot. How I write, and how I mention myself. How I read other blogs, and how people read mine. How we define ‘blogger’, how we define ‘blogging’.

Good old friends’, because we’ve been friends through these changes :) :)

And here are some pictures of Pesta Blogger 2009 I took with my Fish Eye camera (well, yeah, call it Lomo):

bersama KDRI :D
With Stormtrooper from KDRI :D

La La La :P
Stay young and healthy! :P

Bersama Ichanx
Don’t we look like geologists? :P

bersama Lala
With Lala. Finally we met! :) :)

BBV
BBV, as always, hehe :D

So, happy (belated) Blogger Day, everyone!

Let’s blog. Let’s start, and restart :)