Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Pada Awalnya
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Call it Nationalism
So I stay there for 3 nights and 4 days with two of my best friend, Sari and Diandra. We planned about visit museums,local temples,and other cultural trip but the truth is we spent a lot of our times at shopping at Orchard Road. Orchard Road is a very well-known street mostly for the tourist, because it has shopping mall,branded shops,everywhere! There's also a hundred,maybe even million (sure i'm no counting on it) people are rushing and making this street always looks busy and crowded as well.
The public transportation also really well organized. Even the bus fare is count from how kilometer have you drive along with the bus.
But somehow I miss Indonesia where I can take a public transportation everywhere, just raise your hand, and the bus will come to you.
Also at the MRT, i saw that almost every people busy with their IPhone, IPad,and using headset or headphones. They're busy with their own world. Most of this kind of people are teenager. And stay a while in Singapore, using public transportation almost all the time, I can say that teenagers in Singapore are very 'dress up'. Anytime, anywhere. Well somehow, it looks a bit too much and annoyed me. How a girl who looks like going to work wearing sexy dresses and stand out heels. She's look more likely go to a bar to attract man than to go to the office. For once again, I miss Indonesia.
They might not look so stylish, fashionable (because not everybody afford it) but they know appropriate look.
Though i compare Indonesia and Singapore a lot, mostly about the discipline, the habit and the cleanliness, I still put my country as the one I really really loved. Maybe Indonesia never will be as clean, as organized, and as wealthy as Singapore, but I love Indonesia however it is.
*ignore the bad grammar and misspelling.i'm a human. :p
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Time Flies
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A Review
"Shadow Play is a basically a documentary film produced by Hilton Cordell Production. Shadow Play uncover the history that had been covered for a long time. This film tell the truth about how Indonesia’s first President, Soekarno, died when his being captivity by Soeharto. It also show how the citizens are being indoctrinated by the government about PKI’s crime which absolutely is a defamation to the communist organization. Those propaganda was spread to made some wrong opinion about PKI and also President Soekarno who’s not banned the existence of communist in Indonesia as a democracy country. The film shows how people on that era were punished for wrong impresion and being arrested although they did nothing wrong. This film is a fact of how something that really powerful can do everything and control everything, even history."
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Eat, Sleep, Repeat vol.2



Mr. Curry Japanese Curry & Sweet HouseGrand Indonesia Shopping Town
West Mall Garden District, Level 3A Unit ED 1-07
Jln. MH Thamrin No. 1, Jakarta Pusat
(021) 2358 1090
10.00–22.00
YAP! icip-icip kali ini kita menjatuhka pilihan ke restoran Jepang yang mengusung cita rasa Kari pada setiap makanannya. Ada beberapa pilihan menu kari-karian, seperti nasi yang disiram bumbu kari, atau rice bowl kari (seperti yang saya pesan diatas),ada juga naan (roti india,mirip roti cane) kari dengan berbagai toping,pizza,omelete,dll. Semua ragam makanan itu dipadu padankan dengan bumbu kari dan toping yang beragam. Awalnya saya tertarik untuk memesan Naan tapi karena perut saya perut orang Indonesia, jadi belom afdol kalo makan belom sama nasi,akhirnya saya memesan Chicken Curry Don (38k). Don itu sendiri maksudnya Rice Bowl.
Ohya di Mr.Curry ini juga menyediakan dessert-dessert yang khas Jepang,sayang saya tidak sempat mencoba. Setelah mencicipi Chicken Curry Donnya, menurut saya rasa karinya kurang tajam, jadi yang terasa hanya pahit-pahit sedikit dari gatau bumbu apa. Mungkin menu andalannya memang Curry ricenya kali ya. Lain kali akan saya coba deh! secara saya penggemar makanan kari. Saya kasih rate 6 deh untuk makanannya dan 7.5 untuk atmosfer ruangannya.
Soalnya ada tempat duduk yang dekat kaca dan menghadap ke entah jalanan atau rumah penduduk, saya ga dapet tempat duduk disitu tapi pastinya bagus. Design interiornya juga lucu tapi emang. Jadi untuk yang suka makanan kari-karian patut dicoba banget! Bawa uang agak banyakan karena harganya disini cukup mahal. Ciao!
Idiotic
Buset daaaah! bahkan namanya ngambil sedikit dari personal message Msn gw. hahaha.
Jadi teman-teman yang punya waktu luang yang super banyaaaaak, dan kepengen baca tulisan-tulisan caur plus foto-foto canggih, jangan sungkan-sungkan untuk segera buka www.ketapelehkelempar.blogspot.com
Nah sekedar bercerita,kenapa pm gw saat ini adalah ketapel karena begini ceritanya yuguys...
Malam Minggu kemarin gw pergi ke pameran Fashion,Craft and Accessories di JCC. Disana beragam banget yang dijual, banyakan sih kaya baju batik, tas, furniture, mainan, makanan juga ada. Nah lalu Fadli tuh menemukan stand yang jual ketapel gitu,bagus sih emang, cuma rada mahal,10 ribu untuk sebuah ranting belah dikasih karet. Hahaha gw udah tawar pun ga digubris. Ok lah, trus akhirnya kita lewatin aja tuh stand dan bergerilya ke seluruh penjuru hall pameran.
Gw pun nemuin kaca yang dibingkai dengan motif zebra yang sangat BAGUS BANGET!
Gw coba nanya harganya dan nawar-nawar dan si mbaknya suruh gw dateng besok, karena bsok hari terakhir jadi kemungkinan harganya bisa diturunin.
Akhirnya dengan niat kuat gw besoknya balik kesana sama nyokap, mau ngasih liat doi dan berharap dia mau beliin gw kaca yang super fancy itu. Gw keliling-keliling nyariin itu toko dan susah banget ketemu. Ohya gw juga sempet ngelewatin si stand yang jual ketapel, dan kebetulan Fadli mau nitip,begonya bukannya gw beli malah gw lewatin lagi itu stand tanpa ngapalin tempatnya dan nama standnya. Gw mikir ntar aja gw belinya belakangan. Alhasil, setelah gw nemuin stand yang jual kaca yang gw mau, itu kaca udah dibeli aja sama orang! aaaaaaaargh! rasanya mau jedotin pala gw ke kaca! akhirnya gw putusin untuk menyelesaikan tugas gw selanjutnya,beliin Fadli ketapel! Gw keliling2 depan belakang hampir kaya orang gila, tapi NIHIL,gw tidak melihat sama sekali penampakan si stand yang jual mainan itu. Naas banget gw. Gw sampe nanya2ain semua orang bodo amat itu siapa. Dan dengan hati kesal gara-gara ketapel itu akhirnya gw pulang dengan sebuah topi jerami. Yes,setidaknya gw beli topi jerami. tapi tetep aja ga bisa nyembuhin sakit hati gw sama si ketapel yang ga sempet kebeli. Maaf ya,Fadli :"(
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Eat, Sleep, Repeat vol.1
Gw dulu sempet bikin blog kuliner yang ga pernah gw publish jadi kemungkinan ga pernah ada yang buka. Sampai akhirnya ketika gw mau ngepost blog baru di blog kuliner gw itu, gw lupa email dan passwordnya jadi mubazir deh blog gw itu. kalo kalian berminat liat, alamatnya adalah http://www.repeatsleep.blogspot.com :D
nama blognya sendiri EAT SLEEP REPEAT yang kalo ga salah gw ambil dari judul albumnya Copeland. Ga kreatif emang. Nah akhirnya tragedi itu gw atasi dengan mindahin si blog kulinernya ke blog gw sendiri aja. And here it goeesssss...
Jl Tebet Barat Dalam Raya No. 23, Tebet - Jakarta Selatan 12810
Tel : (021) 835 4735 Fax : (021) 837 02169
Email : sales@chzcakefactory.com




Siang itu gw sedang main ke kantor nyokap yang ada di bilangan Tebet, trus dia ngajakin makan hotdog gitu. Biasanya optionnya selalu jatuh ke Frankfuter yang sekarang cuma ada di Setiabudi One tapi karena gw ada janji disekitar Tebet akhirnya kita berangkat ke Cheese Cake Factory.
Sebetulnya speciality mereka itu ke cake,tapi dari taglinenya aja "We are More Than Just a Cake Shop",naaah bisa lo terka sendiri kan tuh apa maksudnya.
Ketika gw sampe disana ternyata tempatnya lagi rame banget, parkiran penuh, bahkan buat duduk gw harus nunggu a.k.a waiting list. Itupun kita berebutan tempatnya buat dapet yang enak. Gw,nyokap dan temennya nyokap order :
- Classic Hotdog, picture on top ; 45k
- Ice Lemon Tea, second picture ; 15k
- Creme Brulee, third picture ; 27 k
- Chocolate Milkshake,bottom picture ; 25k
Gw malah sedikit kecewa dengan Creme Brulee yang penampilannya cantik sekali tapi rasanya ga sepadan sama luarannya. Walaupun gw baru pernah makan Creme Brulee, tapi pokoknya yang ini ga seenak ekspektasi gw. Kaya ada rasa telornya gitu,jadi bikin enek. Kampungan ya gw.
Terus kalo minumannya sih standar. Milkshakenya gw ga sempet nyicipin abisnya itu pesenan temen nyokap gw. Kita juga ga mesen cakenya soalnya udah kenyang duluan. Overall, gw kasih nilai 7 deh dari 1-10.
PS: kalo dateng kesini,usahain jangan bawa mobil soalnya parkiran selalu susah. Trus kalo dateng siang hari, usahain duduk jangan disebelah kanan pintu masuk, bakal panas banget kena matahari langsung.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
RanaGemilang
http://www.myspace.com/rngmlng
pssttt... his some kinda crawling for his big success just now on
so be the first to watch his movement!
endjoy peeps!
oh and check out his hilarious blog on
www.ranagemilang.blogspot.com
to know em better,if it necessary
Friday, July 9, 2010
Dude vs Dudettes
Okay, back to our topic, enough with the intermezzo. There's a time I realize that there are many 'single parent' around me and most of them are woman. It make me speculate that "Dude are sooo lame!", in fact when a married couple divorce, who's going to survive at the end? the woman. One night, i watch a 'banned' local tv program which recommended by my own sister. It's about a fragile condition of a family who has many problem inside it and trying to recover it infront of the psychiatrist and the TV host and also there's a judge. The problem is commonly happen on many family i thought,and my family is one of that kind. The husband became rude to part of his family after he got fired and jobless,at the same time, his wife still work and turn into 'money maker' for the family. It was accidentaly change the husband role for being an head of family to became the loser while his wife burden the responsibility of living the life for the whole family.
I hear this case not only once, but maannnyy times. Two of my aunties telling exactly the same problem as my mother's problem. Count it three. Some of divorce story is also have the same background like i've tell you before. Looks like no guys can be rely on right now, or if there is, maybe i can count it by my fingers. Hey man,WAKE UP! where the hell is your dignity? You are blessed to take care of those woman and your children. It's such a shame and a mortal sin to abandoned your responsibility God have give you.
I lose my good point of view for most of guys nowadays,and only few of them is worth to appreciate. Most of them are losing his awareness to protect others and became the leader or guide for their family. Women are so going to rule everything right now.
So my point is,never let any guy let yourself down, because i'm sure that they're weaker than us. Let's give applause for us, girl and woman, daughter,mother and sister. We are tough more than we ever imagine. Like my tshirt say " You never know how strong a girl can be"
Cheers!
Monday, July 5, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Heroes
There's also a Rachel Corrie's speech when she was a 5th grader that makes me thrill.
She left her home,she left her parents, she left U.S.A to make her dream come true. She made her dream then she gone forever. She die in case of saving human rights, for justice and she left us a huge influence and invaluable lessons. I'm sure that there's no such thing as a fame, a name to remember, or any prize she would get when she did this radical action. She might think that was the only way too save the Palestine's slums and to warn the Israel for the violence they'd done. Meanwhile, she pays it with her own life.
Her name used by the Irish boat as an Aid Boat. Her story was pop out because there might be an attack of 'Rachel Corrie' Aid Boat on Gaza by Israelis a couple days ago. Rachel Corrie was actually died on March 16,2003. It was kinda late for me to knowing her, but at least I can rectified my mind. We've got heroes. One of them is Rachel Corrie,and it's our mission to produce it excessively. We can be heroes for any real case and we should stop dreaming of being heroes with super ability with high technology. Because a heart of a heroes come in a real simple way. Good luck,future heroes!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Hmm
Ohya, gw baru dipinjemin komik Buddha sama Fadli. Udah kepengen baca dari lama cuma males belinya, akhirnya sekarang baca dan gw terpengaruh cukup besar.
Daridulu, hiudp gw banyak terpengaruh komik sih, kebanyakan besar komik Jepang.
Alhasil, gw jadi percaya sama reinkarnasi dan karma. Yang gw akhirnya bisa ngerti lebih jauh dari komik Buddha ini. Gw setuju seratus persen sama cara berpikirnya si Buddha ini, ya walaupun ga begitu aja gw lalu pindah aliran. Cuma gw jadi semakin berpikir tentang hal-hal tentang manusia, hewan, tumbuhan, alam dan penciptaNya. Bisa gila kalo mikirin tentang bumi dan segala seluk beluknya. Tapi setelah baca itu gw bisa ambil kesimpulan, manusia yang bikin dunia ini carut marut. Mereka diberi akal budi supaya bisa merawat bumi dan segala isinya. Tapi berdasarkan apa yang gw liat sekarang, yang terjadi adalah kebalikannya.
Ga cuma akal budi, tapi manusia diberikan juga perasaan. Mungkin hewan juga punya, tanaman juga, cuma mereka gak dikaruniai kelebihan untuk menunjukkanya. Perasaan dan sifat-sifat dasar manusia ini yang merupakan bumerang buat mereka sendiri. Sifat kaya ga pernah puas, pengen enaknya aja, membeda-bedakan dan masih banyak lagi, itu yang bikin manusia celaka.
Pernah ga sih Tuhan bikin agama? ga pernah kan? yang buat agama itu manusia sendiri. Mereka kebanyakan menganggap kalo agama mereka sendiri itu benar. Lalu demi memperjuangkan pendapatnya, membela agamanya, lantas mereka perang, sampai kata-kataan, tereak-tereakan, bakar-bakaran,bahkan sampe bunuh-bunuhan. Emang pernah ya Tuhan ngajarin kita untuk saling bunuh-bunuhan? Itu semua karena manusia yang terlalu mudah terprovokasi. Gw yakin Tuhan ngeliatnya pun geleng-geleng kepala sama tingkah manusia yang udah keluar jalur ini.
Lalu semakin parahnya juga, manusia udah ngerasa lebih berkuasa daripada Tuhan. Alam itu setau gw diciptakan Tuhan bukan cuma untuk manusia, tapi juga untuk hewan dan tumbuhan dan ciptaan lainnya. Lalu kenapa sekarang bahkan seorang manusia untuk bertempat tinggal pun dilarang? Padahal yang nyiptain tanah emangnya manusia? kenapa tanah menjadi sesuatu yang diperjual belikan ketika Tuhan memberikannya untuk kita secara gratis?
Kenapa juga hewan-hewan tidak bisa menentukan haknya untuk bisa hidup di alam bebas tanpa harus tinggal dikandang? Bahkan yang beruntung tinggal di alam bebas pun tidak selamanya berbahagia, karena mungkin saja tanpa sepengetahuan mereka, ada manusia-manusia serakah yang hendak memburu mereka.
Kalau hal seperti ini direnungkan, tentu saja tidak ada habisnya. saat ini manusia memang berkuasa, mungkin lebih daripada Tuhan. Ya. Manusia mungkin merasa merekalah Tuhan.
Jadi saya sudah tidak heran kalau Tuhan ingin me-reshuffle dunia ini layaknya seorang Presiden yang sudah begitu muak dengan para anggota kabinetnya yang bejat.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Car Free Day
OH! dan ada hal sangat amat penting hari itu. Jadi begini, hari itu Fadli juga berencana buat lari pagi di Senayan,dan dia bilang ga mungkin bawa handphone. Alhasil,sms dia yang gw bales juga ga kebaca sih yee. Eh sungguh tak dinyana,ketika gw lagi lari-lari kecil menghindari orang yang lalu lalang, gw melihat sosok bapak-bapak (oopsy!) berkacamata hitam dekil pake baju merah kokakola diseberang,dan segera gw panggil lah sosok familiar itu, YA AMPUN ITU FADLI! hahaha akhirnya dia nyebrang aja gitu dengan gampangnya ngeloncatin pager2 tanaman. Yang gw yakin kalo gw yang ngelakuin gw pasti udah nyangsang. Akhirnya kita jalan bareng dan nonton pertunjukkan drum band bareng2.
Lumayan cape deh hari itu tapi menyenangkan sekali. Bahkan ada panggung-panggung radio yang nampilin band-band kece masa kini, kaya Gruvi, ohya ada Drew juga. Kepengen deh kapan2 ikutan car free day lagi, kalo perlu car free day diadain aja tiap hari. Biar semua orang jalan kaki kalo ga naik sepeda. Skating, skuteran, roller bladean juga boleh deh. Biar ga polusi dan udara ga bakal sepanas kaya sekarang ini. Malem sama siang panasnya ga ada beda. Shit. Hahaha okelah,ayo mari yang belom pernah ikutan, patut dicoba loh car free day! Asik coy! Berikut salah satu buktinya :

Kapan lagi mejeng di Bunderan HI tanpa rasa malu?
dan ada remaja labil agak lekong minta difoto sama mas-mas waitress (?!) wtfSaturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Yesterday,ONCE MOREEE!







Yes,it was immensely fun! After a day of 'oh-so-bored' at school we had a very nice trip to Kemang. Even the K-area also sound so bored but it gave me a lot of new experience. For God sake,yesterday was my first time eating at D'Cost. It was HELLAA GOOOOOD! we are include 5 person,they are me, Arty, Banu, Deby and Nana. We ordered five different side dish and rice for 5. It taste really fine and my highly recommended menu is the gurame steam with onion. I hate onion. I hate that smell of onion in my mouth after i ate it. But this gurame steam didn't have that bad after-taste. Ohyeaa,the price is also pocket-friendly ya know! I have this tummy 'FULL TANK' while my money still left.
We continued our trip to Bray!, a shop that sell vespa accessories and stuff. It's quite interesting when me,as one of vespa fans (who doesn't know how to ride it), found this place and start dreaming (again) of riding a scooter, like Allison on Yes Man.
Than we passed by some coffee shop and yelled "We should go there!" hahaha i just made up that words. Actually, we've been planning to go to some coffee shop but we need food instead of drink so we canceled the 'coffee shop' plan and have a brutally lunch at seafood restaurant.
Than we went to a boutique which i forgot the name,is it Kiora,Kaori, or Koira? hmm well it's beside the Spinach Records anyway. I found a nice dress but helpless to buy it because i don't bring enough money. Things i like from this shop is they accept to sewing the cloth if the size doesn't fit with us. Sounds so rare,isn't it?!
We end this trip session because Arty have to go to BTA. SIMAK is approachingggg guys! Well good luck for you who is going to have this 'one hell of a test' to enter your dream university :D
and wish me luck too! The end of the story,ciao!
pardon me for the bad grammar and unconcious mistake i've made
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Di Balik Layar
Lalu saya membatin,wah benar banget tuh! Saya memang tipe orang yang lebih penasaran dengan cerita dibalik terjadinya suatu hal atau terciptanya suatu barang dibandingkan hanya menikmati finalisasinya. Seperti layaknya sebuah barang handmade, yang terbuat dari tangan-tangan si pembuatnya. Bukan buatan pabrik yang bisa dicetak ribuan kali dengan bentuk yang sama persis. Itulah indahnya suatu proses. Mereka punya ceritanya masing-masing.




this is why i love car free day!