October 28

It's almost midnight on October 27...

Tiga manusia Bogor, Ruben Dede n Chemonk, menjemput saya di perempatan dekat rumah. Maklum, rumah saya di jalan buntu dan mobilnya Ruben agak terlalu panjang untuk putar balik di dekat rumah. Dari rumah saya kita meluncur menjemput Ari di daerah antah berantah yang tidak saya kenal di Tangerang. Ngelewatin "Tangerang City" lah pokoknya.

Mobil pun melaju lagi ke arah Karawaci. Beli donat sejenak somewhere along the way, lalu melaju lagi. "Hampir jam 12 nih!", katanya. Dengan agak-agak nge-drift sedikiiiiiit, kita pun sampai dengan selamat di Karawaci.

Tiba-tiba kita menengok ke arah kiri. Hmmm... sepertinya ada mobil yang kita kenal... hmmm.. tapi waktu menunjukkan jam 12 kurang 5 menit. GO GO GO! Dan sampailah kita di rumah yang dituju.

Sedikit kongkalingkong dengan Sasha, adik si penghuni rumah, dan masuklah kita rame-rame tanpa bersuara.

SURPRISE!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHIKHA!

Alhasil, si nona pun terharu ^^

Setelah makan kue dan donat dan ngobrol dan saling mengejek, pulanglah kita jam 3 subuh ke rumah masing2 :)

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update!
Ya Ampyuuuuuuuuuuun ketinggalah satu biji anggota! YANTO!
OMIGOOOOD ampe mutung berat anaknya hahahahaha
Maap yaaaaaah :P bener2 lupa cong!

Berkunjung ke Bogor

Jok mobil ruben memang laknat!

Saya bisa duduk diam dan tiba-tiba molooooor dalam sekejap. Mungkin karena didukung perut kenyang setelah makan Ngo Hiang [五香], plus alunan music jazz kental dari Bubi Chen, plus cuaca Bogor-Jakarta yang cukup mendukung alias mendung, plus ayunan mobil meluncur lancar di jalan tol...

Ngo Hiang - kombinasi "some-kind-of-lumpia-resemblance" Babi dan Ayam +
tahu + kentang + acara lobak + sambal +
saos agak-agak rasa kacang encer yang manis dan mantafff!

Saya bertemu dengan beberapa teman dari Bogor setelah menghadiri kondangan ala Batak [bff-nya Ck] dengan baju baru harga miring yang hasil shopping di TA [lagi2 dengan wanita yang sama], makan BK Mushroom Swiss yang membuat super ketagihan lagi dan lagi dan lagi :P~ [nah, klo yang ini udah merasuk ke mimpi dari minggu lalu - senasib sama ruben!! wakakakaka].

Puas ke gereja di Bogor [sayang sekali pemandangan kurang memuaskan malam itu, tapi intinya ke greja kan mo ketemu Tuhan ya?]... bilas2 dll sepakatlah kami untuk jalan kaki ke mall terdekat. Alhasil kita beramai-ramai nonton LASKAR PELANGI :D ah syenang akhirnya kesampean juga.
I think it's one of the best Indonesian movies ever made!

Lalu beranjaklah kami memuaskan nafsu tengah malam!!
Apalagi klo bukan makan ROTI BAKAR hahahahaha :P Duduklah kami sambil melihat manusia-manusia malam Bogor adu balap motor dan mobil liar... Saya sambil makan Roti Pisang Coklat Keju! *sluuuurp* Beberapa manusia temannya teman saya ikutan masuk keluar warung tenda roti. Adalah yang botak lucu lewat, temennya Chemonk. Kata Dede, dia mah PK. Ha ha ha *tertawa sinis* bukannya semua cowo emang PK?

There were few downs during my little visit to Bogor that i wont write here. It's quite sad, quite brokenheartening, and quite annoying.

So, what's the moral of this story?
Jok mobil Ruben memang laknat!

Haircut Project 08

YEAH, i had another HAIR PROJECT again yesterday night.

I've had this super long and boring haircut for almost a year, or two. Did little changes to my bangs, but that was it. So i decided to freshen my hair up after my trip to UGe. Yet, somehow i feel that my hair still looks BORING.

Then i met Juli and her bf, Fonzie, last Wednesday. Gotta love her new hair! ;) Her extreme hair, vintage look, and "indo" bf attracted people's attention at Senayan hahahaha

*revelation*
There and then i realize... I am doing my hair half way through!
What can i say, to have the extreme hair in Indonesia working culture is not popular at all. But i got bored and bored even more wach passing days. My kind-of-hair and my kind-of-clothing-style are my ways to look a little bit different than the rest of Indonesia girls [those with same hairstyle, same clothingstyle, same fake bright skin >.<'] Thus last night, after 9 pm, i got scissors on one hand and comb on another. I started re-cutting my hair into a different shape. Ear-length short on the front-left ;) want to make it even shorter but my mom will surely kill me! Don't worry mom, i kept my long hair long. I'm not planning to cut all my hair off short for many years to come, anyway hahaha. I'm planning to dye my hair to dark blonde.. or maybe blonde next month! hope i can get hold of the right hairtone.

my old hair, front + back - - - my new hair with extra braids ;)

Next, i also cut my sister's hair. I have been telling her that she need a new and waaaay shorter haircut these last few weeks. HA HA HA I successfully made her surrender to me and my evil scissors {:p

*knip knip knip*

Peter Pan, it's time to grow up!

Minggu malam, setelah menghabiskan wiken saya di karawaci bersama ck, rb, dd, dan yanto dan kekasihnya, saya pulang dan menyalakan televisi.

Klak, klik, klak, klik.
Then suddenly my eyes were fixed to an image of a man, wearing a wet white shirt, with his hypnotizing eyes and hypnotizing voice. ARIEL, tak lain dan tak bukan! Entah kenapa sosok Ariel saat itu begitu... menggugah! ;p hahahahahaha

PeterPan, yang katanya merupakan super band di Indonesia, menggelar konser terakhirnya di pantai karnaval Ancol minggu malam kemarin. Konser terakhir karena setelah ini mereka akan berganti nama. Saya biasanya biasa-biasa saja sama Peterpan, well... walaupun seringnya suka ngiler sendiri klo ngeliat Ariel hahahaha. Tapi konser pamungkas mereka itu memang benar-benar bagus! Saya bukan berbicara mengenai visual, lighting, ataupun tata panggung yang standard ala Indonesia. Saya berbicara mengenai kualitas - performa dan musikalitas yang tinggi dari Peterpan :)


Bintang tamu-nya juga pentolan-pentolan yang top saat ini. Ada Pasha "Ungu" [uhm.. he's alrite, but i dont really like his songs. Too... ordinary], Giring "Nidji" [he's great, man! keren lah pas duet sama Ariel], Ryan "dMasiv" [original!], dan yang paling ok ada Iwan Fals! Mantaaafffff lah pokoknya. Walopun nonton siaran langsung konsernya Peterpan sambil klak klik liat channel tipi laen, tetap saja konser ini patut diacungi jempol! MANTAFFF!


Ada satu scene yang memorable menurut saya. Saat Ariel menyanyikan lagu BINTANG DI SURGA seakan-akan dia menangis dalam kamuflase keringat yang bercucuran.



Saya rasa sih dia nanggis beneran... Lalu ia berlutut di tengah panggung, membelakangi penonton tetap sambil bernyanyi. Pada akhir lagu, Ariel merebahkan diri seolah pingsan dan terlelap. Saat kamera mengambil gambar dari atas, terlihat image Ariel terbaring di antara 2 sayap yang merupakan lambang peterpan. As if he's a fallen angel. NICE TOUCH!

Sukses untuk Peterpan!

*update
Watch the whole concert on Youtube :)
Sudah saya tularkan ke bea hahahahahaha

Bavarian Apple Pancake

Abis berenang enaknya ngapain?
Makaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

Fresh baked butter pancake with Bavarian apple and maple syrup
topped with vanilla ice cream and raisins!
Extra cinnamon powder!

Jadilah kami - Ck, Ari, dan saya, berhubung Lala diculik oleh kekasihnya - bertengger di Pancake Parlour di mall Karawaci dan makan pancake super enak sambil tertawa melihat hasil foto di Uge.

*update the following weekend
Went there again. I tried Chocolate Berry Jubilee! :D

Headache

Ok. I admit it.
I got a bad headache lately. Maybe i got stressed out because of the upcoming event in November [i have nightmares about it!] Or maybe i just got struck by several cold facts about my past "relationships".

My BIG time childhood/adolescence CRUSH is going to get married next year, on valentine's day. He told me that personally [if one consider "over the phone" as personal]. At that very second, i feel crushed by a building! Then all the madness occurs.

We've been "friends" for a long time now. Our "friendship" has been on and off and on and off all the time [for years and years now] since we got separated and brought back together and separated and back together... and of course, he's been busy too with his own conquest. I remember my girlfriends, back on high school, used to slap me for being so utterly stupid and hate him for being who he was. I admit it, at some point in my life i really thought that i may end up being with him for the rest of my life. How cheesy can that be? I'm miserable, it's undeniably true.

I know how his past girlfriends used to get a little jealous of me, out of the blue. It somehow flatter me a little :) Yet, it will not change the current fact that he is getting married... on valentine's day. How ironic for me :( *sobs*
SAYA TIDAK RELA! uhm... mungkin belum rela :( *sobs*
if somehow YOU are reading this.. well.. I do wish you happiness and I say a little pray for you
Gosh, this is a lil bit like my best friend's wedding scenes! No!

Another thing...
My old friend told me that my ex is married, already, when we chatted several days ago. Still a speculation tho, since he's been missing for several years. We were forcefully separated because of that outrageous conflict in Ambon years ago. Funny thing was he was so upset that i would meet my other "friend" hahaha... Ok. Why is this bothering me now? The fact is, I've been wondering how he's been after all those years. Wonder if he's fine, wonder if i could meet him again, give him a hug... sure i do care about him :) It's just quite shocking to know that he's most probably married already - he's not the kind to settle that easily. RELA sih, cuma bakalan very awkward aja klo tiba-tiba ketemu lagi.. tapi pake ada istrinya disebelahnya yang melihat saya dengan tatapan kejam.

And the last one.
It's minor, but it hurts the most. Two days ago, I had a dream about my polar bear, Y. Dream about us still being together, as if nothing has ever happened :)

All bad coincidences?

Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs

Our daily lives is filled with love songs - the all-time-greatest ones, the super duper cheesy ones, the bad-but-got-stuck-in-your-head-all-the-time ones, the sexy ones, the teenage-kind-of-cute ones, and so on, and so on.

Love songs are itchy.. yet inevitable. We human can't avoid it; it's human nature to love love songs - it's the air the we breathe, it's the food that we eat. It's contagious!

Should we surrender to its power and be mellow and mushy all the time? HA! NO!
We may love love songs. But there's nothing wrong with mocking them, too.
So today i decided to get stumbled with this different interpretation of love songs :P

"Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs" VH1 version
*actually there are 40, but I'm just gonna write down the top 10. As the countdown subtly changes are viewers votes coming, i should say that the top 10 is not definite.

10 Heaven by Warrant

9 When You Close Your Eyes by Night Ranger

8 Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden
Hey i do love this love song! YES i know the lyric is overrated. "I'll be your dreams, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy... I'll be your hope, I'll be love, be everything that you need..." A woman can surely do that. But how on earth can a man bear all of those thing just to be with his woman? HAHAHA what a big fat lie.

7 Get Here by Oleta Adams

6 The Search Is Over by Survivor

5 You're the Inspiration by Chicago
Chicago with their high-pitch voice did inspire many people back then :P Oh my oh my peter cetera. I do remember to link them with "Like a knight in shinning armor, from a long time ago... Take you to my castle fly away..." Wake up wake up. Life and love? Not that cute.

4 God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You by *NSYNC

3 Joanna by Kool & the Gang

2 Is This Love by Whitesnake

1 Hero by Enrique Iglesias
Hahahahaha Enrique! He's not the master of cheesy and awesomely bad love songs... Yet he's overact persona in this song [you gotta see the clip then] is the one that makes the song awesomely bad. Well, the lyric, too, is a little bit too much for me personally. The whole "I can be your hero baby, I can take away the pain..." thing is full of bullshit!

Read more, listen more on VH1 page here.

So, do you have your own version of "Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs"? ;)
share them.

Siapa mau "Belah Duren"?

Pertama kali denger lagu ini pas otw ke Uge, di mobilnya si Yanto. Rada-rada setengah pusing setengah ngakak setengah berhalusinasi, maklum aja... dengerinnya tengah malem sambil dikocok-kocok perutnya di mobil ngebut di jalanan berkelok-kelok ha ha ha ha

Didenger-denger... musiknya Dangdut House abis, suaranya Jupe yang rada-rada mendesah basah... jadi penasaran ini video klipnya kaya apa yah. Bener-bener super temptation buat orang-orang yang lagi puasa bulan lalu! Pertamanya masih rada-rada gak nyambung apa maksutnya "belah duren" *wajah polos* Tapi setelah diperagakan gerakannya sama cowo-cowo sepetualangan Uge barulah saya mengerti wahahahahahhahahaha
Parah abis XD

So, kudu tau liat videoklipnya baru boleh komentar! Itung-itung menghargai musik asli indonesia, dangdut man!

Julia Perez - Belah Duren


Menurut saya, ini videoklip bagus banget untuk musik dangdut. Bahkan klo dihilangkan suara musiknya, tidak ada kesan dangdut sama sekali! Wong pakaiannya ala burlesque begituh... dengan tulisan La Femme Fatale pula di background-nya.

Silahkan dibelah :P

P.S. Sepertinya saya berhasil, terlalu berhasil malah... menularkan virus belah duren ke Mr. E XP

I met Ulms, and Diana Krall, and Edric!

Tired, still.
Spent the whole day sleeping and sleeping and sleeping. Yet somehow my energy can not be well-restored! ha! Well, un-restored energy doesn't really keep me from going to Senci to meet Ulmie and Goldie hehehehe

Haven't met Ulmie for 2 years now, since she is still living in NL. She looked good, happy, and - she said this herself - gain a lil weight during her 3 weeks stay in Indo. She brought her bf, Iko si anak gaoool hahaha, who is apparently Sita's friend, too. We ate and chatted for approximately 3 hours there. It was a good catch-up :)

I skipped church the following morning, a thing that made my mom so furious. Well, i prefer sleeping in my own bed than sleeping in the middle of a mass. Doh! Am still in Uge after effect anyway; am not ready to go back to church >:)

So went back to sleep again. and again. and again. I forced myself to wake up and get prepared for Diana Krall's Concert in Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Pasific Place Jakarta :D [Lengkap tuh informasinya!] I adooooooore Diana Krall!

My precious Diana Krall ticket!

I got goosebumps when she got on to the stage. Golda and I [oh yeah, I watched the concert with Goldie and we accidentally met Natnat] got the middle row there, enjoyed every bit of the superb jazz performance! Oh how i ENVY those who got the platinum tickets for they might get the chance to have a cocktail after party with Diana Krall!!! Kya! I spotted several celebrities watching the concert, too.

Edric!! YES i spotted Edric. He walked pass me after the show. I was so stunned i couldn't say a word. And Goldie was not very helpful as she didn't really recognize Edric. Auw... he was so... uhm.. cute? Uhm cute is not the right word. He was so Edric! Sukaaaaaaaaa! Hope I can met you again, uhm maybe in Gading :P Ah, saya suka Edric.

And now i'm hungry again. I'll grab something, anything, to eat before crashing. Ciao!

UGe: The After-Effect

*update October 14
here's the photos ;)
Facebook Album - Ujung Genteng Part 1
Facebook Album - Ujung Genteng Part 2
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Ujung Genteng was a blast, out-of-my-world experience!

I went there with 10 other people, 9 of which i never knew or even met before.

Pergi tanggal 29 Sept malam dari Jakarta, semobil berempat saja. Tujuan pertama ke Bogor untuk bertemu dengan teman-teman baru saya. Setelah makan tengah malam, berangkatlah kita.. 1 mobil dan 6 motor ke Ujung Genteng alias Uge yang terletak jauh di pesisir selatan pulau Jawa bagian barat. Pelabuhan Ratu masih jauh ke sananya lagi, katanya. Akhirnya, setelah melalui perjalanan panjang yang berliku-liku, sekitar jam 5/6 pagi sampailah rombongan jakarta-bogor di Uge.

Kami ramai-ramai bermukim di rumah penduduk di kawasan Cibuaya. Kok bisa rumah penduduk? Anak-anak Bogor ini memang sering bolak-balik maen ke Uge, jadilah mereka mengenal penduduk setempat yang bersedia menyewakan tempat tingal murah. Saking letihnya karena perjalanan, langsung kami mengambil posisi masing-masing, bergeletakkan di kasur dan di lantai, tidur selama beberapa jam. Selama beberapa hari jadwal tidur kami memang kacau balau hahahahaha.. namanya juga perjalanan/petualangan :D

We spent 4 days and 3 nights swimming in various beaches in and out off the woods with several scars as proofs, catching big big waves in Pangumbahan, drinking and drinking, smoking and "smoking", yelling vulgaric utterings out loud, laughing down to our cores, seeing sea turtle, collecting falling stars in the beautiful clear night sky [i got two stars btw, haven't wish on any of them...], etc etc :) Far from Jakartan civilization - we left our mobiles at home, no internet, and just a little bit of tv feed. Actually, it was good!

The road to Ombak Tujuh and Cikepu beach, two of the secluded beaches were quite a challenge! Good that these boys are very professional with motorbikes since they have been to those places several times now that they managed to bring us girls there, safe and sound and happy, too. I rode there with Erdman aka chomeng aka mongki aka cimenk aka akang ojek. Crazy was when we were rolling down the hill with no brake... passing dry-sharpy plants with speed! Wohoooo! I got my self several scars during the journey hahahaha But soon after you see the beautiful beach and the scenery, you know that it's all worthy.

Cikepu - cool water, heavy stream

The people. Uhm, i prefer to call most of them as my friends after this Uge journey... Ck [already a friend of mine], Ari Bwangkong [which i just found out that she's E's friend on fb!], Yanto yang seperti Joker, Ruben si penyu terdampar [lol the guy is so funny. A polar bear too, just like Yk], Erdman Chomeng, Dede Michelle, and Koko Andre :) Ah! This guy, ko Andre.. is an available bachelor! Well behave, straight edge, smart, kind, and good looking. Girls.. go get him! :D

Anyone caught my eyes? Yes sure ;) This one guy i kinda like is the most impossible of all [somehow, i always drawn to impossible thing], a bad boy indeed. Haha.. Bad boy does turn me on! Yet somehow i can see his hidden soft characteristic. Well, B said, "Now you got your own Chuck Bass, Chinese version." Wahahahahhahah.. not really a chuck-bass, but yes.. that's a good comparison :P

Brought home both good and bad memories from Uge - well.. mostly good :) Wish we could stay for several more days, but jobs and other stuffs are waiting back home. A good thing tho, because we need to freshen up before heading toward our usual activity.

Today i got back home at 9pm. Sejujurnya, saya sangat letih... dan lapar [sial gara2 nv ngomong makan bakso! gak sopan] dan sangat hitam dan dekil [4 hari di Uge itemnya ngalah2in itemnya 10 hari di bali!]. Tapi saking kangennya sama internet jadilah ngendon dulu beberapa jam di depan kompie.

Looking forward for next Uge experience!
But meanwhile, Bandung is waiting hahaha... rite, ck?