Movers' Plan and Implementation
31st July 2006
*Plan
Berangkat jam 06.30-07.00 pagi ambil U-Haul.
Berangkat ke IKEA langsung, beli barang, berangkat sebelum jam 10.00 (09.30)
Berangkat ke Rumah Airin, ambil barang, berangkat jam 11.00
Berangkat ke Rumah Nat, ambil barang, berangkat jam 12.00 lebih (12.30)
Berangkat ke rumah baru, taruh barang, berangkat jam 01.30
Berangkat ke U-haul, balikin U-Haul sebelum jam 02.00
Makan, Acara bebas, liat2 daerah, ketawa2
Beli tiket Amtrak sekitar jam 04.00
Makan, Acara bebas, liat2 daerah, ketawa2, menunggu kereta.
Berangkat ke Champaign naik kereta jam 08.00
Tiba sekitar jam 10.00
Mandi, masak dan makan malam, siap2 bahan rapat, leyeh2, lalu tidur
Berangkat ke kantor untuk rapat
*Implementation
Berangkat sekitar jam 08.00 pagi ambil U-Haul, berangkat jam 09.00
Berangkat ke IKEA (beli 1 hot dog kecil),langsung, beli barang, berangkat jam 11.00 (agak macet)
Berangkat ke Rumah Airin, ambil barang, berangkat jam 01.00
Berangkat ke Rumah Nat, ambil barang, berangkat jam 02.00
Berangkat ke rumah baru, taruh barang, berangkat jam 03.30
Berangkat ke Rumah Nat, ambil barang sisa, berangkat jam 04.30
Berangkat ke rumah baru, taruh barang semuanya, berangkat jam 05.00
Berangkat ke U-haul, balikin U-Haul, sekitar/ jam 05.30 (atau jam 06.00)
Berangkat ke Union Station, beli tiket Amtrak untuk kereta jam 08.00
Tiket Amtrak habis, berusaha membeli tiket Bis untuk jam 09.30
Menunggu bis (makan 1 fillet o fish)
Tiba di Champaign sekitar jam 12.00
Tiba di rumah diantar/jemput Driya & Randy jam 12.15
Berangkat ketemuan Lele sekitar jam 12.30 karena Lele butuh Internet (baru dapet laptop tapi nggak tahu mau diapain, hueheheheheh, terus ada 3 assignment boo)
Sampe di rumah bersama Lele hampir jam 01.00.
Makan makaroni skutel
Ketiduran 2 sampe 3 jam
Bangun berendam
Tidur lagi
Berangkat ke kantor untuk rapat
*tambahan:
-Beli satu standing lamp (dengan lampu baca yang bisa dipisah) dari IKEA
-HP N-Gage ketinggalan
-Ketumpahan air dari vakum yang bau comberan
-Kaca spion nyenggol kaca spion
Friday, August 04, 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Somewhere in Between (Babbling)
Summer will end in a little more than a month. I have many things to do, especially the works and administration for the university. But still I feel bore. I don't know, maybe the works are not interesting, but I think its should be interesting, because they are new and I like all the topics. Anyway, I will be buried by the works that I have to do this summer.
I like summer, because it resemble the weather in Indonesia, or Jakarta for this matter. I like hot and humid weather. I'm not saying I never complain about the weather in jakarta (the heat, the sting from the sun, the sweat, the fumes from everything that vaporize by the sun, etc), but this kind of weather give me the thrill more than the other weathers like winter or spring. On the other side, this kind of weather make me miss my wife, family, home, friends, etc. Thinking what we can do in this kind of weather if I'm with my wife and others in Jakarta make me feel depressed.
So, here I am, living a life in Champaign Urbana, IL (study, work and party), without ever feelling content. I'm still thinking about "what if I'm in Jakarta" kind of thing. Hhhmm, maybe I'm not a traveller after all, like I always thought. It is like somewhere in between, like Jack Johnson's song (Better Together):
Well, like I said, I'm just babbling here, a take five from my everyday life in Champaign Urbana.
End
NB: With the courtesy and skill of Mr. Herry Yudha, I present to you, copyrighted picture of me in the heat of the summer. I'm a narcist, or "banci foto" for this case, hehehehe. More Herry works can be seen in http://herryflicks.smugmug.com/
*ngelamun/leyeh-leyeh/gessrroottt
*E.T. calling hhoooommeeeeee...
*dans la lune
*profil
*Lelaki dan Cincin
Summer will end in a little more than a month. I have many things to do, especially the works and administration for the university. But still I feel bore. I don't know, maybe the works are not interesting, but I think its should be interesting, because they are new and I like all the topics. Anyway, I will be buried by the works that I have to do this summer.
I like summer, because it resemble the weather in Indonesia, or Jakarta for this matter. I like hot and humid weather. I'm not saying I never complain about the weather in jakarta (the heat, the sting from the sun, the sweat, the fumes from everything that vaporize by the sun, etc), but this kind of weather give me the thrill more than the other weathers like winter or spring. On the other side, this kind of weather make me miss my wife, family, home, friends, etc. Thinking what we can do in this kind of weather if I'm with my wife and others in Jakarta make me feel depressed.
So, here I am, living a life in Champaign Urbana, IL (study, work and party), without ever feelling content. I'm still thinking about "what if I'm in Jakarta" kind of thing. Hhhmm, maybe I'm not a traveller after all, like I always thought. It is like somewhere in between, like Jack Johnson's song (Better Together):
*And all of these moments
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone,
When the morning light sings
And brings new things,
But tomorrow night you see
That they'll be gone too,
Too many things I have to do,
But if all of these dreams might find their way
Into my day to day scene
I'll be under the impression,
I was somewhere in-between
With only two,
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do,
Or places we got to be
We'll sit beneath the mango tree now*
Well, like I said, I'm just babbling here, a take five from my everyday life in Champaign Urbana.
End
NB: With the courtesy and skill of Mr. Herry Yudha, I present to you, copyrighted picture of me in the heat of the summer. I'm a narcist, or "banci foto" for this case, hehehehe. More Herry works can be seen in http://herryflicks.smugmug.com/
*ngelamun/leyeh-leyeh/gessrroottt
*E.T. calling hhoooommeeeeee...
*dans la lune
*profil
*Lelaki dan Cincin
Monday, July 17, 2006
Hot News in July
Well for the last week, following the World Cup 2006 Final, there are two news that flood the mailist (This is the result of scanning and deleting a lot of email). First news is the Zidane butt-head attack to Materazzi, which made the referre had to give him red card. That news is even bigger than the news of Italian as the World Cup Champion for 2006. This year World Cup gave a lot of nice football games (Every World Cup, I'm always wondering when Indonesian Team will qualified for the World Cup). So, it is beautiful world cup, with the exception of a lot of cards produce in those games.
Second news is about Nadine English proficiency, hehehhehe. People just stormed her from any angle. Well, I tend to take her side, in the sense that she is a miss universe contestant. So, I don't care whether she can't speak english properly, or whether she is a whore for that matter, she is a miss universe from Indonesia, and I'm proud of her participation in the contest. I really hope she can win the crown (heheheh, just wistfull thinking, Miss Universe from Indonesia, that's cool huh, at least for one year the universe centered in Indonesia). So, I'm looking forward to watch the final in 23rd of July 2006, live from NBC. Go Indonesia!!! These support also goes for people who compete in the international level for Indonesia, I think there is science competition going on somewhere.
Other troubling news is the earthquake and Tsunami in West Java and Jakarta. Gosh, I thought after the great tsunami attack in Aceh and North Sumatera, people will try to put some warning system, or something. If we can't predict the earthquake, at least give us some warning or some information for natural disaster emergency activities, so people can prepare if, God forbid, natural disaster occur. Now, I try to find some warning or some possibility of earth quake, but I can only find from US Geological Survey and Thailand Natural Disaster Warning. The death toll at this time is more than 100. My pray goes with all the victims.
On the local news, I just got my cigarettes from Lele, hueheheh. That is good news. Oh I almost forgot, Welcome to Urbana-Champaign for Lele, hehhehehe. Have a nice life here.
NB: I hope nobody is annoyed with my english, because Nadine's discussion lower my confidence (heheheheh, minderan nih).
Well for the last week, following the World Cup 2006 Final, there are two news that flood the mailist (This is the result of scanning and deleting a lot of email). First news is the Zidane butt-head attack to Materazzi, which made the referre had to give him red card. That news is even bigger than the news of Italian as the World Cup Champion for 2006. This year World Cup gave a lot of nice football games (Every World Cup, I'm always wondering when Indonesian Team will qualified for the World Cup). So, it is beautiful world cup, with the exception of a lot of cards produce in those games.
Second news is about Nadine English proficiency, hehehhehe. People just stormed her from any angle. Well, I tend to take her side, in the sense that she is a miss universe contestant. So, I don't care whether she can't speak english properly, or whether she is a whore for that matter, she is a miss universe from Indonesia, and I'm proud of her participation in the contest. I really hope she can win the crown (heheheh, just wistfull thinking, Miss Universe from Indonesia, that's cool huh, at least for one year the universe centered in Indonesia). So, I'm looking forward to watch the final in 23rd of July 2006, live from NBC. Go Indonesia!!! These support also goes for people who compete in the international level for Indonesia, I think there is science competition going on somewhere.
Other troubling news is the earthquake and Tsunami in West Java and Jakarta. Gosh, I thought after the great tsunami attack in Aceh and North Sumatera, people will try to put some warning system, or something. If we can't predict the earthquake, at least give us some warning or some information for natural disaster emergency activities, so people can prepare if, God forbid, natural disaster occur. Now, I try to find some warning or some possibility of earth quake, but I can only find from US Geological Survey and Thailand Natural Disaster Warning. The death toll at this time is more than 100. My pray goes with all the victims.
On the local news, I just got my cigarettes from Lele, hueheheh. That is good news. Oh I almost forgot, Welcome to Urbana-Champaign for Lele, hehhehehe. Have a nice life here.
NB: I hope nobody is annoyed with my english, because Nadine's discussion lower my confidence (heheheheh, minderan nih).
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Champaign-Chicago Movers
I always like Chicago, I think because it's close to Champaign. I always eager go to Chicago, just to feel briefly the air of a metropolis. Densely populated and crowded cities is one of my addiction.
*The One Who Moves-Have a nice time in Chicago sist'
Right after the Spring 2006 semester, people started to get restless. Some people were ready to move to their new work/intern places , other were preparing for the summer holiday, many of them went back to their home country, some of them were going to other places, few of the students are taking summer classes, and a very few of them like me just don't know what to do, huehehehhe. Anyhow, the last group were feeling standing stil. I think because of the others are moving, so I am relatively standing still. For your information, the last summer I went back to my country to meet my wife, not so lucky this summer eh.
*Hmmm, well you get the picture
Anyhow, we have to help our friends whose doing their activities. Most of the activities are movers activities, from packaging to delivery. Well, let's skip the details, and move to more interesting story. Well, first, I have to tell you one uninteresting sorry. I help Lia to move from Champaign to Chicago. We went with Driya, and Lia, Etta couldn't join us. Actually, Lia begged me at the last days. Although Etta already told me that Lia want to move at that certain day long before, but Lia never asked me, or even mentioned to me about needing any help from me. Maybe, somebody else already voluntered for that job. I never volunteered for moving things around too far. All of suddent, Lia asked me for help, of course, we can contemplate about this sudden change, but for now I will leave it hang (let's just say that many people are interested to Lia, huahahahaha). I think it was a man-woman relationship kind of things (ah young people they are soo, well, young). First, I was reluctant to help her, because I don't want to drive alone from or to Chicago, luckily (for Lia) Driya want to accompany me.
*At Midway: me, lia, driya and Diana (The One Who Has Summer Class in Boston, Have a nice time sist')
There are two task that we have to do. First we have to drop Diana at Midway, because she has summer school at HBS (cool huh, I hope I'm not wrong about her summer school place, hehheehe, I'm really forgetful these days). Then, we take all the boxes and others to Lia's new apartment. We started unpacking, nobody there to help except Driya and Lia. When I opened the door with one box in my hand, the first thing that I encountered was stairs (what the fuck?). I have to inform you I hate stairs, very annoying thing, stairs. Hate. I'm using the word "hate" here, about stairs. Hate ( I know it is so "As Good As It Gets", hhehheheh, it's one of my favorite movie). Anyhow, I tried to be calm, I look back to Lia, whom without any particular reason look a little bit apologetic, and I asked which floor is her place. The first word that came out from her mouth was "shit" (What!!! that was not the answer to my question). Well, I'm no clairvoyance, but at that time I started to say my "standard" swear words (you have to notice that I'm more politically correct now, because I reduce my "super" swear words usage).
*The Gals at Japonnais: Airin, Lia and Driya
Of course, I'm right, her place is in the top floor, on the third floor. The stairs are narrow (damn, okey enough swear words paksi), especially if you moving with big boxes and suitcases. Did I mention that the movers are only three person? Yeah I think so. Well, you have to know that Lia is a person that always uncomfortable with asking helping people or friends to help her. She got her reason for "nggak enakan", but for this she should feel bad about withhelding crucial information (hello Lia, if you read this and you still fell bad, that's good, you should, huehhehehe). If I know that information I would asked some of my friends at Chicago for help, or I just refused to help, hueheheh. (she had stayed at that place before, just to give the background that she's familiar with that place). Anyhow, I had to use my strenght more than I calculated before, and we finish our job, I know I shouldn't be bitching when helping others (I rarely do really), but third floor!!! C'mon that is an important information.
*Tired Movers's Faces, except the one who smiles, hueheheheheh
Then, we went to meet Airin at her house, and we went around the city, especially the place for Indonesian goods. We ate at Vietnam restaurant, Lia want to pay for the food (I'm sorry Li, it's not enough, huehehehehe, really). We ended up at Japonnais (I had to wear my sandals here, fucking pretentious place). We ate Sushi and drink some long drink. We got one free sushi plate, because some mishap on the register or something, which made we have to wait almost an hour for the sushi (I should throw the manager with my sandals, hueheheh). We were doing some chit chat, because that was the first time Airin and Driya & Lia met. We had one show, which made these two young gals curious or amaze, it was the show of Airin knotted cherry branch with her mouth, huehehehehe. Finally, we had to go back to Champaign, because somebody had to have dinner in Champaign (This is also good story, huahahahahha). So, we went back, and drop Driya at her places, because she had to have dinner with her friend (singular, singular third person), and I have to do one of my routine after Champaign Beyatches left, that is eating dinner alone...
I always like Chicago, I think because it's close to Champaign. I always eager go to Chicago, just to feel briefly the air of a metropolis. Densely populated and crowded cities is one of my addiction.
*The One Who Moves-Have a nice time in Chicago sist'
Right after the Spring 2006 semester, people started to get restless. Some people were ready to move to their new work/intern places , other were preparing for the summer holiday, many of them went back to their home country, some of them were going to other places, few of the students are taking summer classes, and a very few of them like me just don't know what to do, huehehehhe. Anyhow, the last group were feeling standing stil. I think because of the others are moving, so I am relatively standing still. For your information, the last summer I went back to my country to meet my wife, not so lucky this summer eh.
*Hmmm, well you get the picture
Anyhow, we have to help our friends whose doing their activities. Most of the activities are movers activities, from packaging to delivery. Well, let's skip the details, and move to more interesting story. Well, first, I have to tell you one uninteresting sorry. I help Lia to move from Champaign to Chicago. We went with Driya, and Lia, Etta couldn't join us. Actually, Lia begged me at the last days. Although Etta already told me that Lia want to move at that certain day long before, but Lia never asked me, or even mentioned to me about needing any help from me. Maybe, somebody else already voluntered for that job. I never volunteered for moving things around too far. All of suddent, Lia asked me for help, of course, we can contemplate about this sudden change, but for now I will leave it hang (let's just say that many people are interested to Lia, huahahahaha). I think it was a man-woman relationship kind of things (ah young people they are soo, well, young). First, I was reluctant to help her, because I don't want to drive alone from or to Chicago, luckily (for Lia) Driya want to accompany me.
*At Midway: me, lia, driya and Diana (The One Who Has Summer Class in Boston, Have a nice time sist')
There are two task that we have to do. First we have to drop Diana at Midway, because she has summer school at HBS (cool huh, I hope I'm not wrong about her summer school place, hehheehe, I'm really forgetful these days). Then, we take all the boxes and others to Lia's new apartment. We started unpacking, nobody there to help except Driya and Lia. When I opened the door with one box in my hand, the first thing that I encountered was stairs (what the fuck?). I have to inform you I hate stairs, very annoying thing, stairs. Hate. I'm using the word "hate" here, about stairs. Hate ( I know it is so "As Good As It Gets", hhehheheh, it's one of my favorite movie). Anyhow, I tried to be calm, I look back to Lia, whom without any particular reason look a little bit apologetic, and I asked which floor is her place. The first word that came out from her mouth was "shit" (What!!! that was not the answer to my question). Well, I'm no clairvoyance, but at that time I started to say my "standard" swear words (you have to notice that I'm more politically correct now, because I reduce my "super" swear words usage).
*The Gals at Japonnais: Airin, Lia and Driya
Of course, I'm right, her place is in the top floor, on the third floor. The stairs are narrow (damn, okey enough swear words paksi), especially if you moving with big boxes and suitcases. Did I mention that the movers are only three person? Yeah I think so. Well, you have to know that Lia is a person that always uncomfortable with asking helping people or friends to help her. She got her reason for "nggak enakan", but for this she should feel bad about withhelding crucial information (hello Lia, if you read this and you still fell bad, that's good, you should, huehhehehe). If I know that information I would asked some of my friends at Chicago for help, or I just refused to help, hueheheh. (she had stayed at that place before, just to give the background that she's familiar with that place). Anyhow, I had to use my strenght more than I calculated before, and we finish our job, I know I shouldn't be bitching when helping others (I rarely do really), but third floor!!! C'mon that is an important information.
*Tired Movers's Faces, except the one who smiles, hueheheheheh
Then, we went to meet Airin at her house, and we went around the city, especially the place for Indonesian goods. We ate at Vietnam restaurant, Lia want to pay for the food (I'm sorry Li, it's not enough, huehehehehe, really). We ended up at Japonnais (I had to wear my sandals here, fucking pretentious place). We ate Sushi and drink some long drink. We got one free sushi plate, because some mishap on the register or something, which made we have to wait almost an hour for the sushi (I should throw the manager with my sandals, hueheheh). We were doing some chit chat, because that was the first time Airin and Driya & Lia met. We had one show, which made these two young gals curious or amaze, it was the show of Airin knotted cherry branch with her mouth, huehehehehe. Finally, we had to go back to Champaign, because somebody had to have dinner in Champaign (This is also good story, huahahahahha). So, we went back, and drop Driya at her places, because she had to have dinner with her friend (singular, singular third person), and I have to do one of my routine after Champaign Beyatches left, that is eating dinner alone...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Long (Not So) Hot Summer Nights
It has been a while since I posted my blog, which might be forgotten if my wife and my friends did not remind me about this blog. Well, I think this period of summer is just one of the low point in my life. I only have a few targets (for works and school) this summer, which I think I can manage (I hope, I hope, I hope...), but I have a feelling that I've been drained. Damn, I should go home. Well, let's stop here and let me update myself with my activities on the last couple of weeks.
After Ange left, I'm the only Champaign Beyatch left in this small area. Again, one of the most connected numbers was useless, following Yudis and Ardi. Then, the already pilled rollover minutes (around 1000 minutes after I lost my mobile 5-6 months ago) will pilled up again if I don't change my habit, huehehehe. Actually, most of my minutes are used to connect with my wife. I don't get it. Why almost all of my friends complain about the overage? They must have a lot of friends, or a lot of things to talk about, or both. It really pissed me off, if they don't accept my called because they have finished their minutes limit. By the way, I already forward my skype to my mobile phone. If I have credits and I don't pick up the called in skype, all the called made through skype will be forwarded to my mobile, cool huh. So, let's used skype, I'm a fanatic user now. My wife and I use skype religously, the best price and quality for internet telephone by far (This is a review from a long distance relationship expert, any dissapointment from believing this review is entirely not my responsibility).
Okay, where was I? hhmm. Well, the truth is we still have things to do for Ange, even after she left. We have to pick up her things at her apartment, and distribute it to the needy like me and other friends. One box have to be returned to her professor or fellow RA, and I still have one of her box to be sent. Therefore, we went an "errand" for her (I heard about this word a lot, but I think this is the first time I heard one of my friends use it, she's good huh, hueheheh). Of course the big journey was done a week before that, when we went to Chicago to drive Ardi to the airport and drop off Ange boxes. The complete story of the prapation before Ange left can be seen in her blog. The untold story will be revealed in other convinient time, huehehehhehe. Basically, we cleaned her apartment a few days after she left, with the help of Ika and Ayong. By we here, I mean Paksi and Etta. By the way, I think I lost her mobile telephone bill (hehehhehehe), the last time I remembered I put it in my back pocket, maybe Etta has it , but Ange already disconnected the phone. I hope she has a good (love) life in Jakarta, or any other places, huahahaha.
Other thing that I have to do is to guide Etta how to drive. I'm not a good mentor on this, because she always protested my method. She even complained that if she drive with me she misses the sign easily, but not with her friend (gosh, I must be a jinx there).
One night we almost ran in to the ditch at the highway entry. Sometimes, she drove according to herself. If she think it is right, she just go for it, unfortunately most of her thinking were wrong. Of course, like any people with this kind of behaviour, will protested about the traffic light that is not in the 'right' place, the road sign that is 'strange', the line on the road that can not be seen, the Paksi that brings mistakes, etc. Well, maybe she is right, I don't know, I'm not an expert in the traffic science, and I don't believe in jinx, but I know I will not run trough a traffic light, just because I think the traffic light is in the wrong place. Also, it's a waste of time to protest the traffic/road sign, because they simply wont reply. Actually, this kind of things remind me of one of my friend who just went back home, where she often thinks that everythings around her are wrong, huehehehehhe.
Phew, I'm too old for this, my heart is getting weaker nowadays. Well, I think Etta is a serious and clever women, and always takes everything seriously, including driving, huehehheheeh. As for me, driving is one of good relaxation activity, especially in Champaign (the only traffic is on the Green St. and in the traffic light, I wonder why they used traffic light here, it is a waste of electricity). But she finally get better and better everyday. Hopefully, she will take the driving test as soon as possible, before she forget, or before she think too much again, hueheheheh.
Okey, that's all for now, I have to go back to work, well, actually it is a lunch time, so I have to stop playing and start my lunch, huahahahaha. I hope after this post, Etta will still cook for me, hueheheheh. Because she always gives me a threat, like on one occasion, she warn me not to smoke ganja if I still want to taste her cook, huahahah. It was an easy choice. By the way, I have ganja now, hueheheheh.
Live Long and Prosper
It has been a while since I posted my blog, which might be forgotten if my wife and my friends did not remind me about this blog. Well, I think this period of summer is just one of the low point in my life. I only have a few targets (for works and school) this summer, which I think I can manage (I hope, I hope, I hope...), but I have a feelling that I've been drained. Damn, I should go home. Well, let's stop here and let me update myself with my activities on the last couple of weeks.
After Ange left, I'm the only Champaign Beyatch left in this small area. Again, one of the most connected numbers was useless, following Yudis and Ardi. Then, the already pilled rollover minutes (around 1000 minutes after I lost my mobile 5-6 months ago) will pilled up again if I don't change my habit, huehehehe. Actually, most of my minutes are used to connect with my wife. I don't get it. Why almost all of my friends complain about the overage? They must have a lot of friends, or a lot of things to talk about, or both. It really pissed me off, if they don't accept my called because they have finished their minutes limit. By the way, I already forward my skype to my mobile phone. If I have credits and I don't pick up the called in skype, all the called made through skype will be forwarded to my mobile, cool huh. So, let's used skype, I'm a fanatic user now. My wife and I use skype religously, the best price and quality for internet telephone by far (This is a review from a long distance relationship expert, any dissapointment from believing this review is entirely not my responsibility).
Okay, where was I? hhmm. Well, the truth is we still have things to do for Ange, even after she left. We have to pick up her things at her apartment, and distribute it to the needy like me and other friends. One box have to be returned to her professor or fellow RA, and I still have one of her box to be sent. Therefore, we went an "errand" for her (I heard about this word a lot, but I think this is the first time I heard one of my friends use it, she's good huh, hueheheh). Of course the big journey was done a week before that, when we went to Chicago to drive Ardi to the airport and drop off Ange boxes. The complete story of the prapation before Ange left can be seen in her blog. The untold story will be revealed in other convinient time, huehehehhehe. Basically, we cleaned her apartment a few days after she left, with the help of Ika and Ayong. By we here, I mean Paksi and Etta. By the way, I think I lost her mobile telephone bill (hehehhehehe), the last time I remembered I put it in my back pocket, maybe Etta has it , but Ange already disconnected the phone. I hope she has a good (love) life in Jakarta, or any other places, huahahaha.
Other thing that I have to do is to guide Etta how to drive. I'm not a good mentor on this, because she always protested my method. She even complained that if she drive with me she misses the sign easily, but not with her friend (gosh, I must be a jinx there).
One night we almost ran in to the ditch at the highway entry. Sometimes, she drove according to herself. If she think it is right, she just go for it, unfortunately most of her thinking were wrong. Of course, like any people with this kind of behaviour, will protested about the traffic light that is not in the 'right' place, the road sign that is 'strange', the line on the road that can not be seen, the Paksi that brings mistakes, etc. Well, maybe she is right, I don't know, I'm not an expert in the traffic science, and I don't believe in jinx, but I know I will not run trough a traffic light, just because I think the traffic light is in the wrong place. Also, it's a waste of time to protest the traffic/road sign, because they simply wont reply. Actually, this kind of things remind me of one of my friend who just went back home, where she often thinks that everythings around her are wrong, huehehehehhe.
Phew, I'm too old for this, my heart is getting weaker nowadays. Well, I think Etta is a serious and clever women, and always takes everything seriously, including driving, huehehheheeh. As for me, driving is one of good relaxation activity, especially in Champaign (the only traffic is on the Green St. and in the traffic light, I wonder why they used traffic light here, it is a waste of electricity). But she finally get better and better everyday. Hopefully, she will take the driving test as soon as possible, before she forget, or before she think too much again, hueheheheh.
Okey, that's all for now, I have to go back to work, well, actually it is a lunch time, so I have to stop playing and start my lunch, huahahahaha. I hope after this post, Etta will still cook for me, hueheheheh. Because she always gives me a threat, like on one occasion, she warn me not to smoke ganja if I still want to taste her cook, huahahah. It was an easy choice. By the way, I have ganja now, hueheheheh.
Live Long and Prosper
Monday, June 05, 2006
On The Sunny Side of the Street (still about commencement)
This post is just another commencement pictures, especially from Lia's commencement (Ange's commencement pictures can be seen in her blog). Enjoy...
*Assembly Hall: Business and Accounting Commencement
*Looking Up
*kongkow-kongkow
*After the Commencement
*The Fans
*Inside the Follinger Hall
*The Outer Side of Assembly Hall
*Tika (if my memory served)
This post is just another commencement pictures, especially from Lia's commencement (Ange's commencement pictures can be seen in her blog). Enjoy...
*Assembly Hall: Business and Accounting Commencement
*Looking Up
*kongkow-kongkow
*After the Commencement
*The Fans
*Inside the Follinger Hall
*The Outer Side of Assembly Hall
*Tika (if my memory served)
Thursday, June 01, 2006
The Last Days of One of the Champaign Beyatches (Ange)
* Together at Cowboy Monkeys: Two Nights Before D Day
Again, the original Champaign Beyatches was losing its members (after Yudi), actually now there is only one original member left, that would be me.
I went to her commencement, and it is a fun commencement, with funny speakers, and cool video presentation. About her commencement, you can read in her blog, where she posted story and pictures about her commencement.
*The Four Women at Cowboy Monkeys
This is a post about her last days in Champaign Urbana. Of course, the last days were filled with last farewell for many of her friends, in Champaign-Urbana and Chicago, and of course pack her things (or threw some). The pictures in Chicago are still in Heri, these picture are from the days after the Chicago day. All the pictures are protected by copyright.
*The Last Picture Together at Willart Airport
Without get into too much details (I'm almost sured, she doesn't want me to get in too much details, hueheheheh), The last sunday we (Paksi, Etta and Ange) went to Chicago, and Ange was the driver, cool huh. The first thing we did was going to the church, which I forget the name. Then, we went to Airin's place to meet Airin and Heri. We stayed there for awhile and we had our dim sum lunch in Phoenix, China Town. This was the place that the Champaign Beyatches enjoyed the first dim sum together. Of course, this time we didn't have the interpreter, but hey, we still survived, hehehhe.
*The Four Women at the bench
Before I continued, I have to tell you, that at that time in Chicago, the weather is very hot almost like Jakarta, which made me miss my wife evenmore, damned weather. But I like hot weather, I'm tropical person.
*Ange and I
There are two places that we planned to go in Chicago. First was the church, and second was the Boat. We wanted to travel together by boat in the river and in the lake. The boat was our primary target in Chicago (in addition, Ange had to buy Chicago's snow globe). After the dim sum, we went to buy the snow globe, and the ticket for the boat. I geared up with my towel, which made everybody embarassed, and Heri geared up with his camera, a very big bag. In the mean time before we board the boat, we managed to rest at the Nordstorm Mall, while Ange buy something for her sister. The gang was three of us, Heri and Airin. Most of them were suffering from the heat at that day, even one of our friend had migrain. Etta managed to buy wasabi peanuts (eeuuww) to entertain herself.
*The Four Women at the bench with smoke
Finally, we boarded the boat. We were a little bit late, so we can't get the sun deck, which make everybody, except me, not happy. Hey, I'm easy to entertain. So, we went down and sit, and enjoying the trip. I like water, expecially sea, and if I live in Illinois, the lake is the closest thing to the sea. Heri tried to find great spots to shoot his Nikon D-100 and Nikon FM something (maybe). Ange tried to stay in the sun=deck, but I think she missed our companion, so she joined us in to the lower deck. We're just talking, and enjoying the wind and the sound of the lake. It was a fun journey, it is athe first time for most of us in this Wandela Boat Tour, except Ange, because she had this ride before... hhmmm.
*The Four Women in the middle of the street
After dark, we went to have dinner in Triple Crown, in the last three trips to Chicago I always ate in this place. They do have a very delicious fried quail. We joined eric, who like always, already had his dinner, huehehe. We have to introduced Etta to Eric, because they didn't know each other before (no more comment for this introduction, huehehehe). Anyhow, we have a good day in Chicago, a lot of fun, and some farewell scene from Ange to Chicago. We returned to Champaign at that night.
*The Four Women Near the Street Lamp
The day after, we have more official farewell in Comunity Centre in Orchad Downs, because Ange will returned home and Mia's family will move to Alabama. So, we had lunch with Indonesian food, a very good one may I say. Friends from Champaign and Chicago came to attend this farewell. It was still a hot day, but better than the day before.
*The Cover (The Sun)
In the night, we managed to go Cowboy Monkey to hear some music and drink. There are Ange, Etta, Paksi and Driya. Later, Lia joined us after I picked her up, ckckckc. When I picked Lia, one of the guys in Cowboy Monkeys tried to talk to them, the three girls. While they didn't want to be disturbed, Driya bravely managed to stir the man away, with one effective phrases: "NO ENGLISH", hehehhehehe. Good girl. When I arrived there, the man already went away.
*The Message from the Four of Us (+Beby)
After the bar is closed, we went outside and took picture of ourselves. It was a quiet street (well, it was 2 in the morning). So, we, actually they, went crazy to have the best pose. It was a difficult target, but we had at least some good picture (I think). It was one of those crazy mornings in downtown Champaign.
*The Unified Message
In the D-1 before Ange leave, she did some errands, well a lot of errands actually. I felt a little bit dizzy so I stayed home, while Ange went to do her errands with Etta. We had quick bites at Bar Louie in afternoon, and we met again in the night at her apartment, when we accompanied her packing "UNTIL MORNING". Of course, I didn't expect that she will finished everything at night, but until the last minutes she was still busy with her packing. Well, it was fun to see her made her decision, how she was panic in the midst of packing. We just tried to help by shredding some paper, Etta with her unbelievible skill managed to fix the new shredder machine, while I transfer some of video to my laptop. Etta and I tried to help a bit, but we're tired to the point where we can only gave our strenght, and accepting Ange orders.
*The Words
Finally, we went to the Willard Airport, Lia went to Ange's place, which made her the official driver, fiuh, huahahahahha (Thank you Lia). Lack of sleep and food, we were driving Ange to the Willard, and we stayed there a bit before she entered the gate. Driya came to the airport to bid Ange farewell and delivered one of the best handmade card that I've ever seen. Thank you Driya, that was a very nice card, it was a surprise even for me.
*The Fun Picture
Then, we bid our farewell, our hugs and kisses, to Ange wish her everything, she entered the gate, we saw her fade from our sight, and we went back to see Lele apartment and had some breakfast. It was a very humid day.
*The Victims of Ange: Lack of Sleep and Food
The End
* Together at Cowboy Monkeys: Two Nights Before D Day
Again, the original Champaign Beyatches was losing its members (after Yudi), actually now there is only one original member left, that would be me.
First I have to congratulate Ajeng Angeline Galuh Nariswari, for her master degree in advertising. I hope you will find what(who) you want soon, hehehehe.
I went to her commencement, and it is a fun commencement, with funny speakers, and cool video presentation. About her commencement, you can read in her blog, where she posted story and pictures about her commencement.
*The Four Women at Cowboy Monkeys
This is a post about her last days in Champaign Urbana. Of course, the last days were filled with last farewell for many of her friends, in Champaign-Urbana and Chicago, and of course pack her things (or threw some). The pictures in Chicago are still in Heri, these picture are from the days after the Chicago day. All the pictures are protected by copyright.
*The Last Picture Together at Willart Airport
Without get into too much details (I'm almost sured, she doesn't want me to get in too much details, hueheheheh), The last sunday we (Paksi, Etta and Ange) went to Chicago, and Ange was the driver, cool huh. The first thing we did was going to the church, which I forget the name. Then, we went to Airin's place to meet Airin and Heri. We stayed there for awhile and we had our dim sum lunch in Phoenix, China Town. This was the place that the Champaign Beyatches enjoyed the first dim sum together. Of course, this time we didn't have the interpreter, but hey, we still survived, hehehhe.
*The Four Women at the bench
Before I continued, I have to tell you, that at that time in Chicago, the weather is very hot almost like Jakarta, which made me miss my wife evenmore, damned weather. But I like hot weather, I'm tropical person.
*Ange and I
There are two places that we planned to go in Chicago. First was the church, and second was the Boat. We wanted to travel together by boat in the river and in the lake. The boat was our primary target in Chicago (in addition, Ange had to buy Chicago's snow globe). After the dim sum, we went to buy the snow globe, and the ticket for the boat. I geared up with my towel, which made everybody embarassed, and Heri geared up with his camera, a very big bag. In the mean time before we board the boat, we managed to rest at the Nordstorm Mall, while Ange buy something for her sister. The gang was three of us, Heri and Airin. Most of them were suffering from the heat at that day, even one of our friend had migrain. Etta managed to buy wasabi peanuts (eeuuww) to entertain herself.
*The Four Women at the bench with smoke
Finally, we boarded the boat. We were a little bit late, so we can't get the sun deck, which make everybody, except me, not happy. Hey, I'm easy to entertain. So, we went down and sit, and enjoying the trip. I like water, expecially sea, and if I live in Illinois, the lake is the closest thing to the sea. Heri tried to find great spots to shoot his Nikon D-100 and Nikon FM something (maybe). Ange tried to stay in the sun=deck, but I think she missed our companion, so she joined us in to the lower deck. We're just talking, and enjoying the wind and the sound of the lake. It was a fun journey, it is athe first time for most of us in this Wandela Boat Tour, except Ange, because she had this ride before... hhmmm.
*The Four Women in the middle of the street
After dark, we went to have dinner in Triple Crown, in the last three trips to Chicago I always ate in this place. They do have a very delicious fried quail. We joined eric, who like always, already had his dinner, huehehe. We have to introduced Etta to Eric, because they didn't know each other before (no more comment for this introduction, huehehehe). Anyhow, we have a good day in Chicago, a lot of fun, and some farewell scene from Ange to Chicago. We returned to Champaign at that night.
*The Four Women Near the Street Lamp
The day after, we have more official farewell in Comunity Centre in Orchad Downs, because Ange will returned home and Mia's family will move to Alabama. So, we had lunch with Indonesian food, a very good one may I say. Friends from Champaign and Chicago came to attend this farewell. It was still a hot day, but better than the day before.
*The Cover (The Sun)
In the night, we managed to go Cowboy Monkey to hear some music and drink. There are Ange, Etta, Paksi and Driya. Later, Lia joined us after I picked her up, ckckckc. When I picked Lia, one of the guys in Cowboy Monkeys tried to talk to them, the three girls. While they didn't want to be disturbed, Driya bravely managed to stir the man away, with one effective phrases: "NO ENGLISH", hehehhehehe. Good girl. When I arrived there, the man already went away.
*The Message from the Four of Us (+Beby)
After the bar is closed, we went outside and took picture of ourselves. It was a quiet street (well, it was 2 in the morning). So, we, actually they, went crazy to have the best pose. It was a difficult target, but we had at least some good picture (I think). It was one of those crazy mornings in downtown Champaign.
*The Unified Message
In the D-1 before Ange leave, she did some errands, well a lot of errands actually. I felt a little bit dizzy so I stayed home, while Ange went to do her errands with Etta. We had quick bites at Bar Louie in afternoon, and we met again in the night at her apartment, when we accompanied her packing "UNTIL MORNING". Of course, I didn't expect that she will finished everything at night, but until the last minutes she was still busy with her packing. Well, it was fun to see her made her decision, how she was panic in the midst of packing. We just tried to help by shredding some paper, Etta with her unbelievible skill managed to fix the new shredder machine, while I transfer some of video to my laptop. Etta and I tried to help a bit, but we're tired to the point where we can only gave our strenght, and accepting Ange orders.
*The Words
Finally, we went to the Willard Airport, Lia went to Ange's place, which made her the official driver, fiuh, huahahahahha (Thank you Lia). Lack of sleep and food, we were driving Ange to the Willard, and we stayed there a bit before she entered the gate. Driya came to the airport to bid Ange farewell and delivered one of the best handmade card that I've ever seen. Thank you Driya, that was a very nice card, it was a surprise even for me.
*The Fun Picture
Then, we bid our farewell, our hugs and kisses, to Ange wish her everything, she entered the gate, we saw her fade from our sight, and we went back to see Lele apartment and had some breakfast. It was a very humid day.
*The Victims of Ange: Lack of Sleep and Food
The End
To Ange (the woman member of Champaign Beyatches: Have a great life ahead and thank you for everything...)
On the Sunny Side of the Street
I hope you can pursue another stage of your life succesfully. Of course, this happy conratulation also goes to his wife Rury, who had endured long distance relationship with her husband. I wish joy and luck for both of you.
Yours Truly
Paksi and Beby
in the Earliest of June 2006
Conratulation for Dewa, after completing his master level study in some place in Norwegia (I forget about the place, sorry)
I hope you can pursue another stage of your life succesfully. Of course, this happy conratulation also goes to his wife Rury, who had endured long distance relationship with her husband. I wish joy and luck for both of you.
Yours Truly
Paksi and Beby
in the Earliest of June 2006
My Two Troubling News from Indonesia
First News:
The first news is about earthquake in Yogyakarta and Central Java, my mother born in Yogyakarta, and the latest news from my wife, our extended family are fine. Thank God. It was big and destructive earthquake, the death toll is more than five thousands, and the injured people is more enormous, around 15.000 people. I hope Yogyakarta will regain its vitality.
God bless all the victims, and all the helper that will rebuild Yogyakarta and Central Java.
Second News:
This news happened before the Yogyakarta's earthquake, and I knew because I've read Dewa's Blog. It is about the demonstration and riot in Makassar, which became a racist demonstration. Well, it is not new in Indonesia, that kind of riots, but the more troubling news is the leaders of the racist demonstration are student. What the fuck... Maybe the stupid student just forget about the May tragedy 1998, or they don't read about that history. Well maybe they were still young to remember about the history (At that time (at least May 1998), they were still in junior high school, high school, or maybe elementary school). But still, it is one of the stupidest thing that I've ever heard about student movement, and believe me, students do a lot of stupid things throughout the history. I will give this link of the article from Ariel Heryanto and exact paste from the article like in the Dewa's Blog (hehehe, I love copy paste, I have to read news more often like Dewa). The quote is a good reminder for students all over Indonesia, so they are not become so fucking stupid.
NB: I really think Indonesia has to make anti-discrimination law, maybe It will be rubber law like subversive law, but with diversity and rage like Indonesia maybe the law is the second best solution.
God Bless Indonesia
First News:
The first news is about earthquake in Yogyakarta and Central Java, my mother born in Yogyakarta, and the latest news from my wife, our extended family are fine. Thank God. It was big and destructive earthquake, the death toll is more than five thousands, and the injured people is more enormous, around 15.000 people. I hope Yogyakarta will regain its vitality.
God bless all the victims, and all the helper that will rebuild Yogyakarta and Central Java.
Second News:
This news happened before the Yogyakarta's earthquake, and I knew because I've read Dewa's Blog. It is about the demonstration and riot in Makassar, which became a racist demonstration. Well, it is not new in Indonesia, that kind of riots, but the more troubling news is the leaders of the racist demonstration are student. What the fuck... Maybe the stupid student just forget about the May tragedy 1998, or they don't read about that history. Well maybe they were still young to remember about the history (At that time (at least May 1998), they were still in junior high school, high school, or maybe elementary school). But still, it is one of the stupidest thing that I've ever heard about student movement, and believe me, students do a lot of stupid things throughout the history. I will give this link of the article from Ariel Heryanto and exact paste from the article like in the Dewa's Blog (hehehe, I love copy paste, I have to read news more often like Dewa). The quote is a good reminder for students all over Indonesia, so they are not become so fucking stupid.
Yang namanya mahasiswa telanjur dianggap cendekia. Keistimewaan mereka diduga berada pada kekuatan nalar dan kecerdasan intelektual. Sementara warga republik lain kembang kempis menanggung krisis ekonomi, mereka menikmati kemewahan bertahun-tahun mengolah ilmu di tempat terhormat yang tertutup bagi mayoritas warga negara seusia.
NB: I really think Indonesia has to make anti-discrimination law, maybe It will be rubber law like subversive law, but with diversity and rage like Indonesia maybe the law is the second best solution.
God Bless Indonesia
Monday, May 15, 2006
Friday, May 12, 2006
May 1998: days which will live in infamy*
*Quoting from the famous FDR speech about December 1941
From the late 1997 to early 1998, the student demonstrations were growing in the very fast pace. I can give a lot of reasons, about that phenomena, but that would not be the case for this post. I will try to give you some of the things that I still remember, or in this case, some of the things that I still feel about May Tragedy 1998.
I participated in some of the demonstration from 1997-1999. At the beginning, we were afraid, mainly because campus at that time was sterilled from any political demonstration or rally. The regulation is cleared, if students participate in the political rally, they will be expelled. Of course, this also give excotic reason why the student eagered to join the political movement. The army at that time is also harshed to the political movement against the president. Until now, I still remember the 27th of July 1996 riots in Indonesia Democratic Party headquarters, because it happened near my house and my university (I took short semester in June and July 1996). I witnessed how the army treat the people like garbage.
After awhile, when the student rallies became more solid everyday, I started to feel relax. Well, I still felt tear gas and occasional beating from the army when we did the rallies, but we were young and dangerous at that time. The most scary thing at that time, if the student activists is spotted, they can be kidnapped by the army. But as long as we stay together, we felt stronger.
Then, around May 1998, when the demonstration was already widespread, we were very busy to join the demonstration. Suddenly, in 12th May 1998, one of our meeting place for student movement (the basement of Faculty of Economics University of Indonesia Library, Badan Otonom Economica) got a phone call from our friends that several students died in the rallied today. What! Students died! How can it be?! When, we were settling down with our position, that kind of thing just hit us. Then, the student activists prepared for another rallied, with cautiuos. We were afraid, but also mad, and of course that event quickly became a momentum for students to strike back. After a lot of consideration, 13th May 1998 would be our mourning day, considering we don't want to have our friends, and ourselves, shots to death. Basically, we stayed in the campus to mourn the death of our friends.
But in 13th May 1998, I and Ben decided to go Trisakti to attend the mourning day in the place where the army shot the students. I promised my friend to come, and I just can't stay without seeing the scene of the crime. We went with motorcycle, and we could arived fast. Nothing extraordinary, I paid my visit to mourn, to meet my friend and as Arya already mentioned to check out Trisakti cute students.
After awhile, we noticed groups of people, not students, gathered outside the Trisakti University to see what happens inside the university. Students shot by army was, is, a big thing in Indonesia. When the crowds was getting bigger, the army get restless and they start to disperse the crowds with tear gas and water bomb. The tanks were ready for them, if somethings happen. The students were mad, and started to yell at the army. Then, the army also shots tear gas in to the campus, and threat the students. Bacause the crowds can't get closed to the campus, they retreated, but when they retreated, they started to burn everything that they passed. They threw building around the campus. Hell, they almost suceeded burning the gas station near the campus. Then, the situation get out of hands, because the students couldn't contain the crowds. That was the starting point, before the hell broke loose.
In 14th May 1998, UI students planned to rally inside the Salemba campus, but we didn't dare to go outside, with army stand ready outside the campus. Again, at that time the crowds gathered outside Salemba campus. Then, the crowds started to get restless, and they went amok.
In a couple of hours, Jakarta started to lit, I can see the burned building everywhere. when I saw Jakarta from above the building, I could see smoke everywhere. Outside the campus, I can see people burned cars, especially army cars and Timor cars. Also, from my mobile (my notorious Erricson GF 317) I received news: the amok became racism riots, the crowds strucked the chinese race people and their properties. I, we tried to chew what happens outside, but it was simply beyond our ability. Then, we started to call our friends, to help them, to tell them to stay put in the safe place, etc.We set up an information centre to contact our friends who joined today's rally, whether they were safe or not. During that time, the news about amok kept feeding us with terror. I could see the horror from the body that kept cooming to the mortuary that located next to economics building.
I saw Menteng Prada cleaned by the people. Some of the students manage to calm the crowd in some places, but in general Jakarta was burning. I remembered I called Beby to know how she's doing. She had to walk from around Salemba to Sunter, because there was no transportation at that day. She told me the crowds plundered the small shops. She told me passionately, well actually furiously, how the crowds plundered Chinese property in Cempaka Putih, Cempaka Baru, Sumur Baru, Sunter Jaya and Petak Sembilan, because people in that places are poor, maybe even poorer than the people who plundered. At midnight, we were tired mentally and phisically, the only thing that we could do is smoking (just to remind Arya, we managed to get cigarettes from one of the warung(street vendor) free of charge, because the owner didn't want our money, the old lady event offered us soft drink, again free of charge, we run because we felt guilty to have something free from street vendors, hehehhehe). By the way, where is the fucking army and the police, they supposed to protect the people, they just fucking dissapeared.
15th May 1998, I stayed at my house, I was dead tired. My parents talked to me, discussed the situation (well, at those time, I wasn't stayed in my home often). I tried to relax, actually in my neighborhood the place was calmed, in order to enter our neighborhood in Menteng we have to showed our ID at those times. We watched news in television, actually I've enough all of that, but hey, we have to know about outside world. After that, My father and I were strolling around the city to see what happened. It was a mess, road blockade everywhere, people gathered with hand weapons. They are tired, but ready to attack. We have to open our windows, sometimes get out from the car to explain our purpose of trip, and this was in the centre of the city (Menteng and surrounding area). Many of the cars and the buildings are burnt. Again, we saw the horror that we had seen in television.
The days after that filled with another demonstration, another analysis about what had happen, the impact of the riots, political implications, racism in Indonesia, and bla bla. But again, like my friend said we might never forget the May Tragedy, the tragedy. Although the student movements became stronger from that day, but the tragedy is still haunted me and my friends, until now.
Nowadays we joked about the demonstration, the student movement, we tried to supress the horrors, among other things May Tragedy and Semanggi Tragedy. We always laugh, because if we look back we had done stupid things, funny things, and other things. But again, we can't surpress the tragedy easily from our conversation, although we tried to talk about then in a funny ways.
I think we should't forget those days, it will make our country grows by learning from the history, even the dark one.
May 1998, eight years ago: days which will live in infammy...
*Quoting from the famous FDR speech about December 1941
From the late 1997 to early 1998, the student demonstrations were growing in the very fast pace. I can give a lot of reasons, about that phenomena, but that would not be the case for this post. I will try to give you some of the things that I still remember, or in this case, some of the things that I still feel about May Tragedy 1998.
I participated in some of the demonstration from 1997-1999. At the beginning, we were afraid, mainly because campus at that time was sterilled from any political demonstration or rally. The regulation is cleared, if students participate in the political rally, they will be expelled. Of course, this also give excotic reason why the student eagered to join the political movement. The army at that time is also harshed to the political movement against the president. Until now, I still remember the 27th of July 1996 riots in Indonesia Democratic Party headquarters, because it happened near my house and my university (I took short semester in June and July 1996). I witnessed how the army treat the people like garbage.
After awhile, when the student rallies became more solid everyday, I started to feel relax. Well, I still felt tear gas and occasional beating from the army when we did the rallies, but we were young and dangerous at that time. The most scary thing at that time, if the student activists is spotted, they can be kidnapped by the army. But as long as we stay together, we felt stronger.
Then, around May 1998, when the demonstration was already widespread, we were very busy to join the demonstration. Suddenly, in 12th May 1998, one of our meeting place for student movement (the basement of Faculty of Economics University of Indonesia Library, Badan Otonom Economica) got a phone call from our friends that several students died in the rallied today. What! Students died! How can it be?! When, we were settling down with our position, that kind of thing just hit us. Then, the student activists prepared for another rallied, with cautiuos. We were afraid, but also mad, and of course that event quickly became a momentum for students to strike back. After a lot of consideration, 13th May 1998 would be our mourning day, considering we don't want to have our friends, and ourselves, shots to death. Basically, we stayed in the campus to mourn the death of our friends.
But in 13th May 1998, I and Ben decided to go Trisakti to attend the mourning day in the place where the army shot the students. I promised my friend to come, and I just can't stay without seeing the scene of the crime. We went with motorcycle, and we could arived fast. Nothing extraordinary, I paid my visit to mourn, to meet my friend and as Arya already mentioned to check out Trisakti cute students.
After awhile, we noticed groups of people, not students, gathered outside the Trisakti University to see what happens inside the university. Students shot by army was, is, a big thing in Indonesia. When the crowds was getting bigger, the army get restless and they start to disperse the crowds with tear gas and water bomb. The tanks were ready for them, if somethings happen. The students were mad, and started to yell at the army. Then, the army also shots tear gas in to the campus, and threat the students. Bacause the crowds can't get closed to the campus, they retreated, but when they retreated, they started to burn everything that they passed. They threw building around the campus. Hell, they almost suceeded burning the gas station near the campus. Then, the situation get out of hands, because the students couldn't contain the crowds. That was the starting point, before the hell broke loose.
In 14th May 1998, UI students planned to rally inside the Salemba campus, but we didn't dare to go outside, with army stand ready outside the campus. Again, at that time the crowds gathered outside Salemba campus. Then, the crowds started to get restless, and they went amok.
In a couple of hours, Jakarta started to lit, I can see the burned building everywhere. when I saw Jakarta from above the building, I could see smoke everywhere. Outside the campus, I can see people burned cars, especially army cars and Timor cars. Also, from my mobile (my notorious Erricson GF 317) I received news: the amok became racism riots, the crowds strucked the chinese race people and their properties. I, we tried to chew what happens outside, but it was simply beyond our ability. Then, we started to call our friends, to help them, to tell them to stay put in the safe place, etc.We set up an information centre to contact our friends who joined today's rally, whether they were safe or not. During that time, the news about amok kept feeding us with terror. I could see the horror from the body that kept cooming to the mortuary that located next to economics building.
I saw Menteng Prada cleaned by the people. Some of the students manage to calm the crowd in some places, but in general Jakarta was burning. I remembered I called Beby to know how she's doing. She had to walk from around Salemba to Sunter, because there was no transportation at that day. She told me the crowds plundered the small shops. She told me passionately, well actually furiously, how the crowds plundered Chinese property in Cempaka Putih, Cempaka Baru, Sumur Baru, Sunter Jaya and Petak Sembilan, because people in that places are poor, maybe even poorer than the people who plundered. At midnight, we were tired mentally and phisically, the only thing that we could do is smoking (just to remind Arya, we managed to get cigarettes from one of the warung(street vendor) free of charge, because the owner didn't want our money, the old lady event offered us soft drink, again free of charge, we run because we felt guilty to have something free from street vendors, hehehhehe). By the way, where is the fucking army and the police, they supposed to protect the people, they just fucking dissapeared.
15th May 1998, I stayed at my house, I was dead tired. My parents talked to me, discussed the situation (well, at those time, I wasn't stayed in my home often). I tried to relax, actually in my neighborhood the place was calmed, in order to enter our neighborhood in Menteng we have to showed our ID at those times. We watched news in television, actually I've enough all of that, but hey, we have to know about outside world. After that, My father and I were strolling around the city to see what happened. It was a mess, road blockade everywhere, people gathered with hand weapons. They are tired, but ready to attack. We have to open our windows, sometimes get out from the car to explain our purpose of trip, and this was in the centre of the city (Menteng and surrounding area). Many of the cars and the buildings are burnt. Again, we saw the horror that we had seen in television.
The days after that filled with another demonstration, another analysis about what had happen, the impact of the riots, political implications, racism in Indonesia, and bla bla. But again, like my friend said we might never forget the May Tragedy, the tragedy. Although the student movements became stronger from that day, but the tragedy is still haunted me and my friends, until now.
Nowadays we joked about the demonstration, the student movement, we tried to supress the horrors, among other things May Tragedy and Semanggi Tragedy. We always laugh, because if we look back we had done stupid things, funny things, and other things. But again, we can't surpress the tragedy easily from our conversation, although we tried to talk about then in a funny ways.
I think we should't forget those days, it will make our country grows by learning from the history, even the dark one.
May 1998, eight years ago: days which will live in infammy...
For the rememberance of the May 1998 victims
Link for Arya's Essay (Remembering "Tragedy Mei 1998")
Essay's from one of my best friends about the May Tragedy 1998.
Everytime... everytime I remember those damn days,-the demonstrations, the deaths, the chaos, the tear gas, the blank bullets, the real bullets, the burn, the friends, the panic, the destruction, etc-I've got a shiver.
Nice post bro', hope can make one too...
Essay's from one of my best friends about the May Tragedy 1998.
Everytime... everytime I remember those damn days,-the demonstrations, the deaths, the chaos, the tear gas, the blank bullets, the real bullets, the burn, the friends, the panic, the destruction, etc-I've got a shiver.
Nice post bro', hope can make one too...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Sunday, May 07, 2006
*NOT FINISHED AND I'M TO LAZY TO FINISH IT ALERT*
Sometime I write something and hang in the middle of the story. Usually I just delay the writing, and I promised to myself to continue the writing. But after sometime, I'm not just in the mood to finish it, I even forget what I want to write (aahh, fuck it). Well, I don't want to delete it, but I don't want to see it laying at my posts, not published. Now I will post the example of this situation, maybe I will finish it later or maybe someone will have their own story to continue about this subject. For now, I don't really care.
Changes
*It is the end of the world (semester) as we know it.
Actually this essay was inspired by the people who are approaching the end of the semester, especially the one who will graduated next week. They are expecting changes, because they will left their comfort zone. Personaly, I don't believe, or at least I don't understand, about this comfort zone things, but I will follow this logic to analyze the changes that people are expecting. I will used first person experiences in this essay.
I nearly reach my 30 and married, and now still studying to pursue my PhD. Before I enrolled to the PhD program, I had passed my master program, my undergraduate program, and all previous schools before that. In between, I also worked as an assistant lecturer, a lecturer, and a researcher. If we use comfort zones thing, I've moved from comfort zone to another comfort zone quite often. Furthermore, with this logic, I predict I will have more comfort zones in the future, because I think comfort zone of a person is a function of time: the longer I lived, the more comfort zones I will have. If something is a function of time, then you will have little control over that. If I don't have control over something, then it will be futile to analyze that thing.
Now, I will talked about me. If I stroll through my city, Jakarta, I can see my elementary school, and my high school. The building hasn't changed much, many of the teacher already retired, some are still surviving, but again not many has changed during these last years (except the tuition fee, hahahaha). Although, I think I can't see any changes, because I don't really cared about happen in those school. Well, I passed it. Of course, we meet regularly with our friends, sometimes we meet with our teachers, but those are all we cared about.
Sometime I write something and hang in the middle of the story. Usually I just delay the writing, and I promised to myself to continue the writing. But after sometime, I'm not just in the mood to finish it, I even forget what I want to write (aahh, fuck it). Well, I don't want to delete it, but I don't want to see it laying at my posts, not published. Now I will post the example of this situation, maybe I will finish it later or maybe someone will have their own story to continue about this subject. For now, I don't really care.
Changes
*It is the end of the world (semester) as we know it.
Actually this essay was inspired by the people who are approaching the end of the semester, especially the one who will graduated next week. They are expecting changes, because they will left their comfort zone. Personaly, I don't believe, or at least I don't understand, about this comfort zone things, but I will follow this logic to analyze the changes that people are expecting. I will used first person experiences in this essay.
I nearly reach my 30 and married, and now still studying to pursue my PhD. Before I enrolled to the PhD program, I had passed my master program, my undergraduate program, and all previous schools before that. In between, I also worked as an assistant lecturer, a lecturer, and a researcher. If we use comfort zones thing, I've moved from comfort zone to another comfort zone quite often. Furthermore, with this logic, I predict I will have more comfort zones in the future, because I think comfort zone of a person is a function of time: the longer I lived, the more comfort zones I will have. If something is a function of time, then you will have little control over that. If I don't have control over something, then it will be futile to analyze that thing.
Now, I will talked about me. If I stroll through my city, Jakarta, I can see my elementary school, and my high school. The building hasn't changed much, many of the teacher already retired, some are still surviving, but again not many has changed during these last years (except the tuition fee, hahahaha). Although, I think I can't see any changes, because I don't really cared about happen in those school. Well, I passed it. Of course, we meet regularly with our friends, sometimes we meet with our teachers, but those are all we cared about.
Friday, May 05, 2006
Pesan dari Istriku "Beby's Sound Advice"
Setelah istri mendengar jawaban dari salah satu oknum dari sepasang manusia yang dimabuk cinta tetapi tidak mencoba untuk bersama. Maka beberapa saran2 dilontarkan oleh istriku.
"Kalo nggak mau dicoba, nggak bakal tahu. Kalo dicoba ada dua kemungkinan gagal atau berhasil, kalaupun gagal yang penting sudah mencoba. Kalo nggak dicoba mana tahu.
Namanya manusia yang penting berusaha mencoba, dan berdoa. Kalo gagal minta dikuatkan, kalo berhasil bersyukur, dan berbagai kebahagiaan dengan sanak saudara dan handai taulan, kita2 ini (contohnya dengan ditraktir), huahahahahaha.
Orang kalo menjajaki hubungan cinta mestinya dari sekolah, karena kalo dah kerja prioritasnya di dunia kerja dan pergaulan udah jadi prioritas yang kesekian. Kalo sudah kerja maka istilahnya waktu kita sudah dibeli oleh orang yang membayar. Kan enak tuh kenal kita pasangan kita saat belum apa2, masih tergantung dari orang tua, belum ada kedudukan. Jadi dimensi yang kita kenal lebih banyak, mungkin dari masih belum apa2, sampe menjadi semuanya. Kalo pacaran dari sekolah, pada masa2 paling indah saat tai kucing rasa coklat (it's so my wife, I love you luv), setiap perkembangan dimensinya bisa diketahui.
Ini sangat penting untuk pengenalan dan adaptasi. Kalo belum mau jadian, tapi mau komit dulu untuk saling mengenal, yah nggak masalah, bukan kartu mati kok, paling gagal, dan kita toh punya kesadaran bahwa bisa gagal. Karena orang tuh unik, kalo orang bisa cocok sama satu orang dan hidup dengannya selama 40 tahun kedepan (katanya di Alkitab umur manusia sekitar 60, kalo 70 udah bonus, di Mazmur katanya kalo nggak salah), yah kenapa mesti susah2 nunggu yang lain, belum tentu ada 2 atau 3 orang lainnya yang cocok kayak gituh selama hidupnya. Alasan dengan pertanyaan apakah dia orangnya, itu mah tugas kita untuk berusaha saling mengenal.
Apabila sudah bekerja, baru mencari yang cocok, biasanya orang jadi setengah mati dalam mencarinya. Karena pada saat mereka mencari2 yang cocok, waktu utama ditujukan untuk bekerja. Waktu untuk mencari yang cocok merupakan sisa dari prioritas waktu yang lain (bekerja), akibatnya susah konsentrasi untuk benar-benar mencari yang cocok. Kalau sambil lalu .... mmmmmm .... dapatnya juga yang 'sambil lalu' cocoknya.
Yang penting sih kata tante coba dulu, dengan mencoba memberi peluang 50% untuk berhasil, kalau sama sekali tidak mencoba memberi peluang 100% untuk gagal. Satu lagi kalo dia mencoba, berarti itu emang kemauan sendiri, bukan disuruh2 oleh orang lain, dan kemauan sendiri tuh penting. Emang gampang apah ketemu orang yang cocok."
Disclaimer: Mungkin orang lain bisa mendapat pencerahan dengan membaca tulisan diatas, tetapi maksud penulisan untuk sepasang manusia yang saling mencinta tapi memutuskan untuk tidak mencoba karena ada kemungkinan untuk berjauhan. Pake Skype duong, huehehehhehehe. Sekali lagi tidak dimaksudkan untuk umum, terutama bagi yang sudah melewati masa-masa sekolah, tetap semangat, huahahahahahhaha.
Setelah istri mendengar jawaban dari salah satu oknum dari sepasang manusia yang dimabuk cinta tetapi tidak mencoba untuk bersama. Maka beberapa saran2 dilontarkan oleh istriku.
"Kalo nggak mau dicoba, nggak bakal tahu. Kalo dicoba ada dua kemungkinan gagal atau berhasil, kalaupun gagal yang penting sudah mencoba. Kalo nggak dicoba mana tahu.
Namanya manusia yang penting berusaha mencoba, dan berdoa. Kalo gagal minta dikuatkan, kalo berhasil bersyukur, dan berbagai kebahagiaan dengan sanak saudara dan handai taulan, kita2 ini (contohnya dengan ditraktir), huahahahahaha.
Orang kalo menjajaki hubungan cinta mestinya dari sekolah, karena kalo dah kerja prioritasnya di dunia kerja dan pergaulan udah jadi prioritas yang kesekian. Kalo sudah kerja maka istilahnya waktu kita sudah dibeli oleh orang yang membayar. Kan enak tuh kenal kita pasangan kita saat belum apa2, masih tergantung dari orang tua, belum ada kedudukan. Jadi dimensi yang kita kenal lebih banyak, mungkin dari masih belum apa2, sampe menjadi semuanya. Kalo pacaran dari sekolah, pada masa2 paling indah saat tai kucing rasa coklat (it's so my wife, I love you luv), setiap perkembangan dimensinya bisa diketahui.
Ini sangat penting untuk pengenalan dan adaptasi. Kalo belum mau jadian, tapi mau komit dulu untuk saling mengenal, yah nggak masalah, bukan kartu mati kok, paling gagal, dan kita toh punya kesadaran bahwa bisa gagal. Karena orang tuh unik, kalo orang bisa cocok sama satu orang dan hidup dengannya selama 40 tahun kedepan (katanya di Alkitab umur manusia sekitar 60, kalo 70 udah bonus, di Mazmur katanya kalo nggak salah), yah kenapa mesti susah2 nunggu yang lain, belum tentu ada 2 atau 3 orang lainnya yang cocok kayak gituh selama hidupnya. Alasan dengan pertanyaan apakah dia orangnya, itu mah tugas kita untuk berusaha saling mengenal.
Apabila sudah bekerja, baru mencari yang cocok, biasanya orang jadi setengah mati dalam mencarinya. Karena pada saat mereka mencari2 yang cocok, waktu utama ditujukan untuk bekerja. Waktu untuk mencari yang cocok merupakan sisa dari prioritas waktu yang lain (bekerja), akibatnya susah konsentrasi untuk benar-benar mencari yang cocok. Kalau sambil lalu .... mmmmmm .... dapatnya juga yang 'sambil lalu' cocoknya.
Yang penting sih kata tante coba dulu, dengan mencoba memberi peluang 50% untuk berhasil, kalau sama sekali tidak mencoba memberi peluang 100% untuk gagal. Satu lagi kalo dia mencoba, berarti itu emang kemauan sendiri, bukan disuruh2 oleh orang lain, dan kemauan sendiri tuh penting. Emang gampang apah ketemu orang yang cocok."
Disclaimer: Mungkin orang lain bisa mendapat pencerahan dengan membaca tulisan diatas, tetapi maksud penulisan untuk sepasang manusia yang saling mencinta tapi memutuskan untuk tidak mencoba karena ada kemungkinan untuk berjauhan. Pake Skype duong, huehehehhehehe. Sekali lagi tidak dimaksudkan untuk umum, terutama bagi yang sudah melewati masa-masa sekolah, tetap semangat, huahahahahahhaha.
Wasted + dimarahin istri karena terlalu banyak minum
Hehehe, itu adalah status gue di Yahoo, karena semalem gue wasted abesshhh, sampe stomach pumping sampe pagi. Hehehehehe, tentu istri seperti biasa tahu (6th sense gituh deh), nah dimarahinlah saya, huhuhhuhuhu. Setelah saya dimarahi, dan istri sedang mengerjakan sesuatu, dalam keadaan kadar alkohol yang masih tinggi dalam darah, dan dalam rangka menenangkan istri, saya dan istri, membuat lagu-lagu yang kita sukai bersama, huehehehehhe. How about that, cool huh? :D
Berikut adalah lagu2 tersebut:
She oleh Elvis Costello: Waktu di Korea gue nyanyiin buat istri gue pas kita karaoke bareng, dan tentu dia juga tahu lagunya, salah satu lagu speak2 bau darah (istilah temen2 CC gue), huehehehehe. Sountrack Nottinghill...
Nuansa Bening oleh Keenan Nasution: Yah kita emang pasangan yang 80s gituh deh, jadi lagu2 tahun 80-an banyak yang jadi koleksi kita. Lagu ini adalah salah satu lagu yang keren,istri gue apal, gue senang lagunya nih. Menurut gue hampir semua cinta awalnya kayak ginih, huehehehehhe.
Fallen oleh Lauren wood: Nah itu salah satu lagu "kita" yang pertama-tama, eh kayaknya lagu yang pertama deh (detailed event is witheld, hueheheheh). Pas banget deh lagunya, pada saat itu. Soundtrack Pretty Woman...
Kau yang Terindah oleh Java Jive: Beberapa lagu-lagu kita ada dalam genre lagu yang isinya kekasih yang terpisah jarak, karena kita itungan masih commuting. Lagu ini gue suka banget, nah jadilah salah satu lagu kita, kata2nya itu lho, huehehehhe.
Can't Smile Without You oleh Carpenters: Ini lagunya istri gue, dia suka bener ama Carpenters, jadi yah gue jadi suka lagunya, iyahlah, I Can't Smile Without You gitu lho, judulnya ajah nendang bow...
Pergi untuk Kembali oleh Ello: Salah satu lagu baru yang disukai istri gue, katanya suaranya bagus, dan ini bagus buat gue, biar inget terus "hanya sekejap saja aku kan kembali lagi", sekali lagi ini genre kekasih yang terpisah, Indonesia banyak nih yang kayak gini2 nih.
Better Together oleh Jack Johnson: lagu kita yang paling terakhir nih, pertama gue suka, terus dia suka, terus masing2 beli satu album (walaupun kabar terakhir CDnya dia diminta adek gue). Apapun yang kita lakukan, baik ketika kita mengejar karir sehingga harus berjauhan, atau berseteru ketika kita berdekatan, tetapi
and we shall!
Selamat Jalan Kekasih oleh Chrisye: Yah semua orang seneng chrisye, kita pernah nonton konsernya bareng, kita banyak senang lagunya. Nah lagu ini dipilih karena lagi pas ajah, wong lagi jauhan. Kalo lagi deketan lagunya seringkali Malam Pertama kali yah, huahahhahahahha.
Sunday Morning oleh Maroon 5: Well, it's cool song, nice rhythm, and we always treasure sunday morning, when we often wake up to prepare ourself for church, breakfast, go to the mall, etc. Pokoknya hari santai bareng2 deh, sekali lagi salah satu hari yang paling gue rindukan bareng istri deh. Gue kutip deh lagunya hehehe...
Kangen oleh Dewa: Wah udah bosen ah, jelasin lagu2 kayak ginih, heheheh, tapi ini lagu dari judulnya ajah udah jelas, Leiden-Jakarta, Seoul-Jakarta, Champaign-Jakarta, lagu ini harus ada, kan kangen bow...
Somebody oleh Depeche Mode: One of the ultimate song, lagu speak2 bau darah sepanjang masa nih, gue rasa setidaknya lebih tinggi setingkat dari She oleh Elvis Costello. Boleh tanya temen2 gue deh, gimana efek lagu2 kayak ginih (ada suara jantungnya), ngeriiii...
Menikahimu oleh Kahitna: Istri gue fans beratnya Kahitna, kita harus ngejar kalo kahitna lagi manggung, kalo nggak, wuiihh bisa dimarahin gue, sebenernya gue sukanya pertunangan, tapi karena kebetulan nggak ada yah Menikahi ajah deh, kita suka juga kok lagunya, eh istri gue sih suka semua lagu Kahitna.
If oleh Bread: Ini lagu klasik, yang artinya lagu lama, jadi gue dan istri gue udah tahu sebelumnya, dan ini lagu kayaknya okeh juga dimasukin genre kekasih yang terpisah, lagu ini menjadi klasik bukan tanpa alasan (lagu klasik speak2 bau darah), huehehehe.
Saya Kau Tak Disini (SKTD) oleh Jikustik: INi lagu keluar ketika hubungan Leiden-Jakarta, belum menikah, terus terang menurut gue lagu Jikustik emang agak menye2, tapi buat gue pas banget, kayak digebukin, sampe ngeri gue, hueheheheh. Terus setelah dia pulang kita nonton konsernya di HRC Thamrin, beberapa bulan kemudian nikah deh, huehehehe.
Your Love is King oleh Sade: Istri gue sebagai salah satu bekas anggota dari paduan suara selalu bisa menilai suara2 yang bagus, nah ini adalah salah satu penyanyi dan lagu kesukaannya (nadanya santai membius), gue sih suka karena beken doang, eh gue suka juga karena istri gue suka duong, katanya ini lagunya buat gue, istri gue jago bener deh speak2 bauk darahnya, heheheh. Soundtrack Bridget Jones Diary...
Sweetest Thing oleh U2: Mau nunjukin ajah bahwa kita juga pasangan rock n' roll, video klipnya bagus nih (bagus bener deh), lagunya bagus, ini lagu cinta yang buat orang babak belur, but still the sweetest thing, heheheh, ampun Mas Bono.
The Nearness of You oleh Diana Krall: Leiden-Jakarta lagi nih, waktu dia nonnton North sea Jazz gituh deh, karena dia udah nonton North Sea Jazz gituh deh, sedangkan gue belum, dan itu salah satu cita-cita gue gituh. Gue dikirimin CD edisi khususnya North Sea Jazz, dan ini adalah salah satu lagu yang enak penyanyinya, gue nonton loh konsernya di Indonesia, dan lagunya emang klasik, merinding denger lagu ini....
Okeh, udah. Kenapa ada 17 lagu, karena di itunes, kalo mau dibakar ke CD audio yang bisa dimainin di CD player cuman 17 lagu maksimal. Akhirnya gue dan istri gue tidur dengan tenang...
Hehehe, itu adalah status gue di Yahoo, karena semalem gue wasted abesshhh, sampe stomach pumping sampe pagi. Hehehehehe, tentu istri seperti biasa tahu (6th sense gituh deh), nah dimarahinlah saya, huhuhhuhuhu. Setelah saya dimarahi, dan istri sedang mengerjakan sesuatu, dalam keadaan kadar alkohol yang masih tinggi dalam darah, dan dalam rangka menenangkan istri, saya dan istri, membuat lagu-lagu yang kita sukai bersama, huehehehehhe. How about that, cool huh? :D
Berikut adalah lagu2 tersebut:
She oleh Elvis Costello: Waktu di Korea gue nyanyiin buat istri gue pas kita karaoke bareng, dan tentu dia juga tahu lagunya, salah satu lagu speak2 bau darah (istilah temen2 CC gue), huehehehehe. Sountrack Nottinghill...
She
May be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for through the rough in ready years
Nuansa Bening oleh Keenan Nasution: Yah kita emang pasangan yang 80s gituh deh, jadi lagu2 tahun 80-an banyak yang jadi koleksi kita. Lagu ini adalah salah satu lagu yang keren,istri gue apal, gue senang lagunya nih. Menurut gue hampir semua cinta awalnya kayak ginih, huehehehehhe.
oh, tiada kejutan pesona diri
pertama kujabat jemari tanganmu
biasa saja
masa perkenalan lewatlah sudah
ada yang menarik bayang-bayangmu
tak mau pergi.
Fallen oleh Lauren wood: Nah itu salah satu lagu "kita" yang pertama-tama, eh kayaknya lagu yang pertama deh (detailed event is witheld, hueheheheh). Pas banget deh lagunya, pada saat itu. Soundtrack Pretty Woman...
And I was not looking, was content to remain.
And it's ironic to be back in the game.
You are the one who's led me to the sun.
How could I know that I was lost without you
Kau yang Terindah oleh Java Jive: Beberapa lagu-lagu kita ada dalam genre lagu yang isinya kekasih yang terpisah jarak, karena kita itungan masih commuting. Lagu ini gue suka banget, nah jadilah salah satu lagu kita, kata2nya itu lho, huehehehhe.
Kau yang terindah hadir dalam mimpiku
Kini bertemu dalam jalinan kisah
Mungkin kita bukan cinta, aku tak perduli
Tapi kita manusia yang punya hasrat jiwa
Can't Smile Without You oleh Carpenters: Ini lagunya istri gue, dia suka bener ama Carpenters, jadi yah gue jadi suka lagunya, iyahlah, I Can't Smile Without You gitu lho, judulnya ajah nendang bow...
You came along just like a song
You brightened my day
Who'd believe you were part of a dream
That only seemed light years away
Pergi untuk Kembali oleh Ello: Salah satu lagu baru yang disukai istri gue, katanya suaranya bagus, dan ini bagus buat gue, biar inget terus "hanya sekejap saja aku kan kembali lagi", sekali lagi ini genre kekasih yang terpisah, Indonesia banyak nih yang kayak gini2 nih.
Ku akan pergi meninggalkan dirimu
Menyusuri liku hidupku
Janganlah kau bimbang dan janganlah kau ragu
Berikanlah senyuman padaku
Better Together oleh Jack Johnson: lagu kita yang paling terakhir nih, pertama gue suka, terus dia suka, terus masing2 beli satu album (walaupun kabar terakhir CDnya dia diminta adek gue). Apapun yang kita lakukan, baik ketika kita mengejar karir sehingga harus berjauhan, atau berseteru ketika kita berdekatan, tetapi
I'll tell you one thing
It's always better when we're together
and we shall!
Selamat Jalan Kekasih oleh Chrisye: Yah semua orang seneng chrisye, kita pernah nonton konsernya bareng, kita banyak senang lagunya. Nah lagu ini dipilih karena lagi pas ajah, wong lagi jauhan. Kalo lagi deketan lagunya seringkali Malam Pertama kali yah, huahahhahahahha.
resah rintik hujan
yang tak mungkin menemani
sunyinya malam ini
sejak dirimu jauh dari pelukan
Sunday Morning oleh Maroon 5: Well, it's cool song, nice rhythm, and we always treasure sunday morning, when we often wake up to prepare ourself for church, breakfast, go to the mall, etc. Pokoknya hari santai bareng2 deh, sekali lagi salah satu hari yang paling gue rindukan bareng istri deh. Gue kutip deh lagunya hehehe...
But things just get so crazy living life gets hard to do
Sunday morning rain is falling and I’m calling out to you
Singing someday it’ll bring me back to you
Find a way to bring myself home to you
Kangen oleh Dewa: Wah udah bosen ah, jelasin lagu2 kayak ginih, heheheh, tapi ini lagu dari judulnya ajah udah jelas, Leiden-Jakarta, Seoul-Jakarta, Champaign-Jakarta, lagu ini harus ada, kan kangen bow...
Kau bertanya padaku Kapan aku akan kembali lagi
Katamu kau tak kuasa Melawan gejolak didalam dada
Yang membara menahan rasa Pertemuan kita nanti
Saat kau ada disisiku
Somebody oleh Depeche Mode: One of the ultimate song, lagu speak2 bau darah sepanjang masa nih, gue rasa setidaknya lebih tinggi setingkat dari She oleh Elvis Costello. Boleh tanya temen2 gue deh, gimana efek lagu2 kayak ginih (ada suara jantungnya), ngeriiii...
I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Menikahimu oleh Kahitna: Istri gue fans beratnya Kahitna, kita harus ngejar kalo kahitna lagi manggung, kalo nggak, wuiihh bisa dimarahin gue, sebenernya gue sukanya pertunangan, tapi karena kebetulan nggak ada yah Menikahi ajah deh, kita suka juga kok lagunya, eh istri gue sih suka semua lagu Kahitna.
Menikah denganku
Menempatkan cinta
Melintasi perjalanan usia
If oleh Bread: Ini lagu klasik, yang artinya lagu lama, jadi gue dan istri gue udah tahu sebelumnya, dan ini lagu kayaknya okeh juga dimasukin genre kekasih yang terpisah, lagu ini menjadi klasik bukan tanpa alasan (lagu klasik speak2 bau darah), huehehehe.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.
Saya Kau Tak Disini (SKTD) oleh Jikustik: INi lagu keluar ketika hubungan Leiden-Jakarta, belum menikah, terus terang menurut gue lagu Jikustik emang agak menye2, tapi buat gue pas banget, kayak digebukin, sampe ngeri gue, hueheheheh. Terus setelah dia pulang kita nonton konsernya di HRC Thamrin, beberapa bulan kemudian nikah deh, huehehehe.
Saat kau tak ada
Atau kau tak disini
Terpenjara sepi
Kunikmati sendiri
Tak terhitung waktu
Tuk melupakanmu
Aku tak pernah bisa
Aku tak pernah bisa
Your Love is King oleh Sade: Istri gue sebagai salah satu bekas anggota dari paduan suara selalu bisa menilai suara2 yang bagus, nah ini adalah salah satu penyanyi dan lagu kesukaannya (nadanya santai membius), gue sih suka karena beken doang, eh gue suka juga karena istri gue suka duong, katanya ini lagunya buat gue, istri gue jago bener deh speak2 bauk darahnya, heheheh. Soundtrack Bridget Jones Diary...
our love is king
Crown you with my heart
Your love is king
Never need to part
Sweetest Thing oleh U2: Mau nunjukin ajah bahwa kita juga pasangan rock n' roll, video klipnya bagus nih (bagus bener deh), lagunya bagus, ini lagu cinta yang buat orang babak belur, but still the sweetest thing, heheheh, ampun Mas Bono.
You know I got black eyes
But they burn so brightly for her
This is a blind kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
The Nearness of You oleh Diana Krall: Leiden-Jakarta lagi nih, waktu dia nonnton North sea Jazz gituh deh, karena dia udah nonton North Sea Jazz gituh deh, sedangkan gue belum, dan itu salah satu cita-cita gue gituh. Gue dikirimin CD edisi khususnya North Sea Jazz, dan ini adalah salah satu lagu yang enak penyanyinya, gue nonton loh konsernya di Indonesia, dan lagunya emang klasik, merinding denger lagu ini....
It's not the pale moon that excites me
That thrills and delights me, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
It isn't your sweet conversation
That brings this sensation, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
Okeh, udah. Kenapa ada 17 lagu, karena di itunes, kalo mau dibakar ke CD audio yang bisa dimainin di CD player cuman 17 lagu maksimal. Akhirnya gue dan istri gue tidur dengan tenang...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Spring in St. Louis
*Selamat datang ke Arch, perkenalkan kameraman amatir, huehehehe
Hmmm, istri gue kembali mengatakan bahwa blog gue kurang foto, jadi kayak kurang hiasan. Sekali lagi sesuai titah istri tercinta maka gue akan memasang foto2. Karena gue emang nggak punya kamera jadi gue emang kurang moto2, tetapi setelah gue liat2 ternyata gue punya foto jalan2 yang okeh banget gituh deh, hehehehe. Nah itu yang gue akan tunjukkan disini. Silahkan menikmati.
*Old Courthouse, the Arch, and the three of us
*Gue dan "latar belakang" gue yang keren, eh itu guenya lagi yang keren
Wah kemaren gue ama Ardi dan Lia jalan ke St. Louis, berhubung pada mau refreshing dulu sebelum ujian kali, sama mau menikmati musim semi yang indah dan tempat baru, maka kita jalan2 kesana. Sebenernya ini kali kedua gue kesana, waktu itu ama Teja, Ajeng dan Yudi. Tapi temen2 gue yang lain belum, jadi gituh deh jalan2 kita. Sebenernya Ajeng mau ikut, tapi dia sibuk banget gituh deh seperti biasa, ada kerjaan yang tiba2 dateng deh. Pokoknya akhirnya kita cuman betiga.
*Nongkrong2 ajah gituh di tangga karena ada yang mau motoin
orang dari timur, dengan latar sungai yang menjadi pintu ke daerah barat
St. Louis adalah salah satu kota tua, dimana dia terkenal dengan archnya yang melambangkan gate to the west. Karena dulu menjadi pintu gerbang orang2 yang mau ke daerah barat, ketika daerah tersebut belum terlalu terbuka. Jadi Lewis and Clark memulai perjalanan ke barat melalu tempat ini. Untuk menghormati itu maka dibangun arch.
*calon temen seapartemen gue, cakepkan, eh masih cakepan gue sih
*Eh cantik juga nih yang ikut2an foto bareng gue, hueheheh, kayaknya, kayaknya nih, calonnya calon temen seapartemen gue, eh, ooppss
Nah perjalan pertama gue kesana tuh waktu spring, dimana udah gelap di jam2 sore, dan udara dingin jadi kita yang perlu2 ajah, alias cuman arch dan sekitarnya (tempat moto di depan old courthouse) dan mall tempat makan di Landrys. Pokoknya kita berusaha untuk lama2an di dalem ruang, namanya juga dingin, terus kalo bisa, kemana2 naik mobil gituh.
*Harus agak mundur nih motonya, karena duduknya jauh2an, tapi okeh jugalah gayanya, kayak gimanah gituh
*A: Kemana kita harus melangkah yah, kayaknya perjalanannya masih jauh.
B: yah nggak papakan, bareng ini.
Di perjalanan kedua ini di musim semi, maka waktu terang jadi sangat panjang jadi kita bsia dengan santainya melihat keliling, nongkrong2, duduk2, sama jalan2. Jadi kita masuk ke dalam arch, eh kita nggak naik karena udah tutup, gue lupa tutupnya jam 6, heheheheh. Terus kita keluar duduk di tangga, terus ke sungai bentar, dan dan jalan ke tempat foto arch yang disarankan yudis. Setelah itu anak2 muda ini, temen2 gue, memutuskan untuk jalan ke mall. Buset berapa belas blok tuh udah kita lewatin, karena gue males untuk jalan, perasaan gue naik mobil waktu itu mayan lama. Yah anak2 muda semangat muda, akhirnya jalan kita. Ternyata tempat yang kita lewatin bagus, enak buat jalan, enak buat motret2, dan lain sebagainya. Wah yah enak deh jalan-jalan sore bareng mereka, apalagi kayaknya mereka, eh gue ngomonga apa lagi, udah ahhh.
Karikaturkita dan kita, mirip semua yah
if a picture paints thousand words -lagunya Bread nih yang judulnya If
Terus kita ke mall, belanja2 dikit, terus beli fudge yang sampai saat ini masih bersisa di rumah gue. Beli tiga gratis satu, empat2nya di rumah gue. Katanya fudgenya kemanisan, kalo pahit mah makan buat maja ajah kan pahit tuh, payah daahhhh. Akhirnya kita makan di Landrys, dan kita makan di luar, di pinggir kolam, wah sedep bener dah, mana makanannya dan makanan penutupnya enak2. Dari semua yang paling susah adalah mesen makanan pembuka, lama deh, tapi luncang bambang bow, huahahahahahha. Setelah itu akhirnya kita balik, hueheheheh.
*Bertapa... nggak sih, yang moto kagak liat2 gue lagi merem atau nggak, ah padahal latar belakang dan posenya udah asik berat beng beng gituh deh, hueheheh
*Di depan St. Louis Union Station yang udah jadi pusat perbelanjaan
Perjalanan balik, gue ditelpon ama temen kita yang nggak bisa ikut, diajak ke Chicago minggu depan, tapi barengnya pas pergi dan pulang doang, wadddd???!! Emang mau ngapain sih diantaranya? hhmmm, gelap... Gue ngomongin apa yah barusan, wah gue mabuk nih, huahahahahha.
*A: Eh gimana2? Eh, kok kita harus sok liat2 ke arah arch yah, biar nggak ketahuan ngomong apa yah?
B: Apa sih Paks?
di depan tempat makan kita, Landrys, eh jeans gue kok bolong yah? Eh ini kayaknya beli bareng istri gue deh? Kapan yah belinya? Hehhehe, yang di PRJ kayaknya, atau Bandung...
Terima Kasih atas Perhatiannya...
*Selamat datang ke Arch, perkenalkan kameraman amatir, huehehehe
Hmmm, istri gue kembali mengatakan bahwa blog gue kurang foto, jadi kayak kurang hiasan. Sekali lagi sesuai titah istri tercinta maka gue akan memasang foto2. Karena gue emang nggak punya kamera jadi gue emang kurang moto2, tetapi setelah gue liat2 ternyata gue punya foto jalan2 yang okeh banget gituh deh, hehehehe. Nah itu yang gue akan tunjukkan disini. Silahkan menikmati.
*Old Courthouse, the Arch, and the three of us
*Gue dan "latar belakang" gue yang keren, eh itu guenya lagi yang keren
Wah kemaren gue ama Ardi dan Lia jalan ke St. Louis, berhubung pada mau refreshing dulu sebelum ujian kali, sama mau menikmati musim semi yang indah dan tempat baru, maka kita jalan2 kesana. Sebenernya ini kali kedua gue kesana, waktu itu ama Teja, Ajeng dan Yudi. Tapi temen2 gue yang lain belum, jadi gituh deh jalan2 kita. Sebenernya Ajeng mau ikut, tapi dia sibuk banget gituh deh seperti biasa, ada kerjaan yang tiba2 dateng deh. Pokoknya akhirnya kita cuman betiga.
*Nongkrong2 ajah gituh di tangga karena ada yang mau motoin
orang dari timur, dengan latar sungai yang menjadi pintu ke daerah barat
St. Louis adalah salah satu kota tua, dimana dia terkenal dengan archnya yang melambangkan gate to the west. Karena dulu menjadi pintu gerbang orang2 yang mau ke daerah barat, ketika daerah tersebut belum terlalu terbuka. Jadi Lewis and Clark memulai perjalanan ke barat melalu tempat ini. Untuk menghormati itu maka dibangun arch.
*calon temen seapartemen gue, cakepkan, eh masih cakepan gue sih
*Eh cantik juga nih yang ikut2an foto bareng gue, hueheheh, kayaknya, kayaknya nih, calonnya calon temen seapartemen gue, eh, ooppss
Nah perjalan pertama gue kesana tuh waktu spring, dimana udah gelap di jam2 sore, dan udara dingin jadi kita yang perlu2 ajah, alias cuman arch dan sekitarnya (tempat moto di depan old courthouse) dan mall tempat makan di Landrys. Pokoknya kita berusaha untuk lama2an di dalem ruang, namanya juga dingin, terus kalo bisa, kemana2 naik mobil gituh.
*Harus agak mundur nih motonya, karena duduknya jauh2an, tapi okeh jugalah gayanya, kayak gimanah gituh
*A: Kemana kita harus melangkah yah, kayaknya perjalanannya masih jauh.
B: yah nggak papakan, bareng ini.
Di perjalanan kedua ini di musim semi, maka waktu terang jadi sangat panjang jadi kita bsia dengan santainya melihat keliling, nongkrong2, duduk2, sama jalan2. Jadi kita masuk ke dalam arch, eh kita nggak naik karena udah tutup, gue lupa tutupnya jam 6, heheheheh. Terus kita keluar duduk di tangga, terus ke sungai bentar, dan dan jalan ke tempat foto arch yang disarankan yudis. Setelah itu anak2 muda ini, temen2 gue, memutuskan untuk jalan ke mall. Buset berapa belas blok tuh udah kita lewatin, karena gue males untuk jalan, perasaan gue naik mobil waktu itu mayan lama. Yah anak2 muda semangat muda, akhirnya jalan kita. Ternyata tempat yang kita lewatin bagus, enak buat jalan, enak buat motret2, dan lain sebagainya. Wah yah enak deh jalan-jalan sore bareng mereka, apalagi kayaknya mereka, eh gue ngomonga apa lagi, udah ahhh.
Karikaturkita dan kita, mirip semua yah
if a picture paints thousand words -lagunya Bread nih yang judulnya If
Terus kita ke mall, belanja2 dikit, terus beli fudge yang sampai saat ini masih bersisa di rumah gue. Beli tiga gratis satu, empat2nya di rumah gue. Katanya fudgenya kemanisan, kalo pahit mah makan buat maja ajah kan pahit tuh, payah daahhhh. Akhirnya kita makan di Landrys, dan kita makan di luar, di pinggir kolam, wah sedep bener dah, mana makanannya dan makanan penutupnya enak2. Dari semua yang paling susah adalah mesen makanan pembuka, lama deh, tapi luncang bambang bow, huahahahahahha. Setelah itu akhirnya kita balik, hueheheheh.
*Bertapa... nggak sih, yang moto kagak liat2 gue lagi merem atau nggak, ah padahal latar belakang dan posenya udah asik berat beng beng gituh deh, hueheheh
*Di depan St. Louis Union Station yang udah jadi pusat perbelanjaan
Perjalanan balik, gue ditelpon ama temen kita yang nggak bisa ikut, diajak ke Chicago minggu depan, tapi barengnya pas pergi dan pulang doang, wadddd???!! Emang mau ngapain sih diantaranya? hhmmm, gelap... Gue ngomongin apa yah barusan, wah gue mabuk nih, huahahahahha.
*A: Eh gimana2? Eh, kok kita harus sok liat2 ke arah arch yah, biar nggak ketahuan ngomong apa yah?
B: Apa sih Paks?
di depan tempat makan kita, Landrys, eh jeans gue kok bolong yah? Eh ini kayaknya beli bareng istri gue deh? Kapan yah belinya? Hehhehe, yang di PRJ kayaknya, atau Bandung...
Terima Kasih atas Perhatiannya...
Monday, May 01, 2006
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Itu adalah judul film independen yang baru gue, Ange dan Ardi tonton beberapa saat lalu. Hmm, sebenernya mungkin nggak ada hubungannya dengan tulisan ini, tetapi karena gue nggak tahu judul lain untuk tulisan ini maka gue jadiin judul. Yang namanya film independen, yah menghiburnya juga independen, menghibur seenak2nya ajah, jadi yang terhibur juga independen, suka sukur, nggak suka yah bebas, hehheheheh.
Nah sekarang untuk isi tulisan ini adalah hasil kebosanan gue yang sudah bosen nulis tentang diri sendiri gue yang emang narsis, tetapi lebih cinta ama istri daripada diri sendiri (tuhkan narsis lagi, huehehehe). Anyhoo, gimana kalo gue tulis tentang orang lain, kan enak tuh ngomongin orang lain (pasti udah ada yang mulai deg2an deh huehehehe, bagus emang harus gituh!), soalnya dosa katanya ngomongin orang, dan dosa biasanya enak2 gituh. Nah anggap Me-nya gue, You-nya loe-loe yang baca, dan Everyone We Know adalah temen imaginer gue yang kesannya loe2 tahu. Gue harap setelah gue cerita loe berasa kenal ajah ama orangnya hehehehe.
Hhmm gimana ngomongnya yah, well, kayaknya awal musim semi ini emang cocok kayaknya kalo untuk berindehoi2an. Gue sendiri nggak pernah terlalu peduli masa musim semi ini, tetapi istri gue seneng banget ama musim semi, sampe rencana awal kawinnya kalo bisa di musim semi, padahal kawinnya di Indonesia, tapi karena permintaan istri gue mah nurut. Tapi akhirnya kita kawin di Desember, kebetulan musim yang gue suka, Natal, Tahun Baru, ultah gue, deket ultah istri gue, musim buah2 yang enak, dan lain2 sebagainya, hahahahahha.
Nah musim semi kedua gue di UIUC, gue merasa mulai ketularan istri gue yang suka musim semi, mungkin karena rindu ama istri, mungkin karena temen2 gue yang juga menikmati musim seminya. Terus terang kalo musim semi disini, terutama bulan Mei, berarti saatnya kuliah mau selesai, tugas2 harus dikumpulkan, ujian akhir, dan lain2 sebagainya. Selain itu saatnya bagi yang udah mau lulus, biasanya s1 sama s2 lulusnya bulan2 ini, untuk bersiap2 mencari kerjaan, bersiap2 membereskan barang2nya untuk pulang atau pindah, atau mungkin ada yang pulang pokoknya siap2 mau pergi dari kota pelajar ini dah. Sehingga semua sibuk2 gituh deh.
Selain sibuk2, mungkin karena kesibukan dengan semua mulai berkurang, mulai keliatanlah kesibukan2 yang suka datang tiba2, yang biasa dikesampingkan tetapi selalu mengganggu, yang biasa ditunda2 tetapi selalu menteror, itu adalah kesibukan sayang2an, ahhhh. Pada saat ini, ketika baju mulai baju musim semi atau musim panas, orang2 dapat melangkah dengan ringan, mereka banyak tertawa2, tanpa takut muka mereka beku, maka keceriaan itu muncul. Bunga2 juga bermunculan, walaupun hanya sekejap, tapi gue rasa itu sudah cukup merasuki jiwa manusia-manusia untuk kembali menganggumi keindahan, hehehhehe.
Jadi yah, gue lihat temen2 gue yang mayan deket, kayaknya, kayaknya lho nih, pada lagi menikmati musim semi nih. Hhhhmmm, yah tentunya saya ikut seneng gituh deh, tapi karena temen2 gue tuh orangnya galak2 semua (baik cewek2 atau cowok-->jamak dan tunggal, hmmmm), jadi yahhh, jadi gue nanya nanti tanya ajah sekalian semuanya, hueheheheh. Aduh ceritanya gimana yah nanti dimarahin lagi, tapi lucu deh, yah istilah temen gue Petris pada lagi seneng besukaan gituh deh. Tapi orang2 yang pinter kalo besukaan mikirnya kayaknya kebanyakan, padahal sih menurut gue sih gampang ikutan ajah napsunya kemana, iyah nggak a?, udah gedekan? udah tahu resiko, .rock on!!! Hehehhehe.
Jadi temen2 imaginer gue, yah everyone we know itu, sepertinya lagi berbunga2 gituh, istilahnya Mas Mus Mudjiono, inikah tanda2nya bunga asmara, mulai bersemi, mulai bersemi sekali lagi... Wih pasti Mas Mus pernah sekolah di luar negeri deh, soalnya ada bunga2 bersemi. Setahu gue di Indonesia, bunga bersemi2 terus, heheheheheh. Setidaknya banyakan ijonya deh di indonesia. Gue sebenernya ngomong muter2 ini karena berusaha menghindari pembicaraan, tapi gini deh, para pembaca (you) kalo bisa ikut2an deh untuk saling besuka2an, karena lagi bulannya deh. Terus ada Everyone we Know yang ada di negara bagian lain di bawah gue, kembali dengan semangat meminta kenal2an dari beberapa temannya untuk diselidiki. Wah pokoknya masa2 penuh cinta deh.
Kalo yang disini, gue menikmati kerinduan gue, sambil melihat love is all around. Walaupun kata everyone we know, belum tentu cinta, tapi hareee geenneee, fiuh. Dari dulu selalu ada pertanyaan apakah sesuatu dibuat atau ditemukan, seperti apakah pimpinan itu dilahirkan atau dibuat. Hmmm, ini mungkin sama kayak pertanyaan apakah cinta itu made (dibuat) atau found (ditemukan). Well, karena gue udah dipengaruhi dengan hal-hal yang pragmatis, maka gue kutip kata2 Richard Rorty dalam bahasa Inggris:
Pokoknya nikmatin ajah deh, yeaahhhh...
Jadi seperti yang pernah dikatakan orang2 di jamannya... ROCK ON!!!
Itu adalah judul film independen yang baru gue, Ange dan Ardi tonton beberapa saat lalu. Hmm, sebenernya mungkin nggak ada hubungannya dengan tulisan ini, tetapi karena gue nggak tahu judul lain untuk tulisan ini maka gue jadiin judul. Yang namanya film independen, yah menghiburnya juga independen, menghibur seenak2nya ajah, jadi yang terhibur juga independen, suka sukur, nggak suka yah bebas, hehheheheh.
Nah sekarang untuk isi tulisan ini adalah hasil kebosanan gue yang sudah bosen nulis tentang diri sendiri gue yang emang narsis, tetapi lebih cinta ama istri daripada diri sendiri (tuhkan narsis lagi, huehehehe). Anyhoo, gimana kalo gue tulis tentang orang lain, kan enak tuh ngomongin orang lain (pasti udah ada yang mulai deg2an deh huehehehe, bagus emang harus gituh!), soalnya dosa katanya ngomongin orang, dan dosa biasanya enak2 gituh. Nah anggap Me-nya gue, You-nya loe-loe yang baca, dan Everyone We Know adalah temen imaginer gue yang kesannya loe2 tahu. Gue harap setelah gue cerita loe berasa kenal ajah ama orangnya hehehehe.
Hhmm gimana ngomongnya yah, well, kayaknya awal musim semi ini emang cocok kayaknya kalo untuk berindehoi2an. Gue sendiri nggak pernah terlalu peduli masa musim semi ini, tetapi istri gue seneng banget ama musim semi, sampe rencana awal kawinnya kalo bisa di musim semi, padahal kawinnya di Indonesia, tapi karena permintaan istri gue mah nurut. Tapi akhirnya kita kawin di Desember, kebetulan musim yang gue suka, Natal, Tahun Baru, ultah gue, deket ultah istri gue, musim buah2 yang enak, dan lain2 sebagainya, hahahahahha.
Nah musim semi kedua gue di UIUC, gue merasa mulai ketularan istri gue yang suka musim semi, mungkin karena rindu ama istri, mungkin karena temen2 gue yang juga menikmati musim seminya. Terus terang kalo musim semi disini, terutama bulan Mei, berarti saatnya kuliah mau selesai, tugas2 harus dikumpulkan, ujian akhir, dan lain2 sebagainya. Selain itu saatnya bagi yang udah mau lulus, biasanya s1 sama s2 lulusnya bulan2 ini, untuk bersiap2 mencari kerjaan, bersiap2 membereskan barang2nya untuk pulang atau pindah, atau mungkin ada yang pulang pokoknya siap2 mau pergi dari kota pelajar ini dah. Sehingga semua sibuk2 gituh deh.
Selain sibuk2, mungkin karena kesibukan dengan semua mulai berkurang, mulai keliatanlah kesibukan2 yang suka datang tiba2, yang biasa dikesampingkan tetapi selalu mengganggu, yang biasa ditunda2 tetapi selalu menteror, itu adalah kesibukan sayang2an, ahhhh. Pada saat ini, ketika baju mulai baju musim semi atau musim panas, orang2 dapat melangkah dengan ringan, mereka banyak tertawa2, tanpa takut muka mereka beku, maka keceriaan itu muncul. Bunga2 juga bermunculan, walaupun hanya sekejap, tapi gue rasa itu sudah cukup merasuki jiwa manusia-manusia untuk kembali menganggumi keindahan, hehehhehe.
Jadi yah, gue lihat temen2 gue yang mayan deket, kayaknya, kayaknya lho nih, pada lagi menikmati musim semi nih. Hhhhmmm, yah tentunya saya ikut seneng gituh deh, tapi karena temen2 gue tuh orangnya galak2 semua (baik cewek2 atau cowok-->jamak dan tunggal, hmmmm), jadi yahhh, jadi gue nanya nanti tanya ajah sekalian semuanya, hueheheheh. Aduh ceritanya gimana yah nanti dimarahin lagi, tapi lucu deh, yah istilah temen gue Petris pada lagi seneng besukaan gituh deh. Tapi orang2 yang pinter kalo besukaan mikirnya kayaknya kebanyakan, padahal sih menurut gue sih gampang ikutan ajah napsunya kemana, iyah nggak a?, udah gedekan? udah tahu resiko, .rock on!!! Hehehhehe.
Jadi temen2 imaginer gue, yah everyone we know itu, sepertinya lagi berbunga2 gituh, istilahnya Mas Mus Mudjiono, inikah tanda2nya bunga asmara, mulai bersemi, mulai bersemi sekali lagi... Wih pasti Mas Mus pernah sekolah di luar negeri deh, soalnya ada bunga2 bersemi. Setahu gue di Indonesia, bunga bersemi2 terus, heheheheheh. Setidaknya banyakan ijonya deh di indonesia. Gue sebenernya ngomong muter2 ini karena berusaha menghindari pembicaraan, tapi gini deh, para pembaca (you) kalo bisa ikut2an deh untuk saling besuka2an, karena lagi bulannya deh. Terus ada Everyone we Know yang ada di negara bagian lain di bawah gue, kembali dengan semangat meminta kenal2an dari beberapa temannya untuk diselidiki. Wah pokoknya masa2 penuh cinta deh.
Kalo yang disini, gue menikmati kerinduan gue, sambil melihat love is all around. Walaupun kata everyone we know, belum tentu cinta, tapi hareee geenneee, fiuh. Dari dulu selalu ada pertanyaan apakah sesuatu dibuat atau ditemukan, seperti apakah pimpinan itu dilahirkan atau dibuat. Hmmm, ini mungkin sama kayak pertanyaan apakah cinta itu made (dibuat) atau found (ditemukan). Well, karena gue udah dipengaruhi dengan hal-hal yang pragmatis, maka gue kutip kata2 Richard Rorty dalam bahasa Inggris:
"For we have no use for the reality-appearence distinction, anymore than for the distinction between the found and the made. We hope to replace the reality-appearance distinction with the distinction between the more useful and the less useful."
"... pragmatist think that the question to ask about our belief is not whether they are about reality or merely about appearance, but simply whether they are the best habits of action for gratifying our desires.
Pokoknya nikmatin ajah deh, yeaahhhh...
Jadi seperti yang pernah dikatakan orang2 di jamannya... ROCK ON!!!
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