aku sedang ingin ...

membeli suatu barang..
tapi ga ada duit.. huhu..
padahal barang itu penting banget untuk kehidupanku.. haiyah...
ada yang mau kasih duit? :p

bude.. anthurium nya minta satuu aja.. terus bisa dapet banyak deh barang itu.. hohoho... *ngarep..

desperate ni..

~hmm, postingan yang tidak jelas. lagi..
tapi setidaknya postingan ini jujur, dalam dalam sini.. (kayak iklan apaa gt).. :)

pas

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ngambil dari Harian Kompas (200108) kemarin.. Isinya pas banget sama serial yang gw maksud di postingan ini.. dan ternyata, jenis serial seperti itu merupakan salah satu favorit penonton lho berdasarkan survei yang dilakukan oleh AC Nielsen. Dan di stasiun TV tersebut, spertinya serial itu merupakan andalan selain m a m a m i a.

Hmm, postingan ga penting sih.. Padahal kalo ga suka mah tinggal ganti aja salurannya.. Lagipula saya ga pernah nonton serial tersebut, hehe.. Tapi ya heran aja, ko bisa pada suka yah?

sin-etron

dosa elektronik... hahaha...

umm, bukan apa2 sih.. tapi setiap kali gw nonton sinetron, pasti kerjanya ngomentarin mulu.. ga setiap kali juga sih, gw khan ga mau menggeneralisir semua sinetron, hehe.. lagian tak sengaja liat sinetron yang dibintangi oleh cinlau.. dan sinetron itu bener2 . . . . . . t.y.p.i.c.a.l

murid baru di suatu sekolah, yaitu seorang cewek cantik tapi miskin yang menjadi bulan-bulanan gank perempuan2 'terkenal' di sekolah itu.. dan tentunya murid baru tersebut dicintai oleh murid laki2 yang paling terkenal di sekolah tsb, dan kontan ngebuat anggota gank perempuan makin panas.. dan yaa gitu lah...

mo komentarin si gank perempuan itu.. kalo di sinetron Indonesia, kok engga oke banget sih? lagian yang dipake itu lho ya.. ckckck.. percis banget kayak etalase-perhiasan-mainan-yang-dijual-abang-abang-depan-sd.. komplit dari bando, jepit, kalung, anting, gelang, sepatu, kaos kaki, dan apalah.. dan warna-warni ngejreng semua.. norak tiada tara lah pokoknya.. hihi.. sponsored by siapa yah? sponsored by abang2 kah? hmm, mungkin lain kali gw mesti liat credit title pas abis sinetron itu.. hihhihi

duh, bener2 ga boleh liat sinetron walaupun sekilas.. buat dosa aja..

tinggal satu

hmm.. mengapa di rumah saya, jika ada makanan apapun itu, pasti semua anggota keluarga selalu berebutan ngambil.. nah, tapi ujung2nya kalo tinggal satu, pasti akan dibiarkan begitu saja di meja. sampe makanan tersebut jadi busuk atau kadaluwarsa, dan nasibnya berakhir di tempat sampah. Mulai dari kacang atom sampe coklat pralin, pasti akan diperlakukan sama: kalo tinggal satu, mendadak diabaikan oleh semua orang.. entah kenapa.. hehehe...

ada beberapa kemungkinan yg mengakibatkan hal ini terjadi:
1. ada mitos yang telah diceritakan turun temurun di keluarga, bahwa orang yang memakan makanan yg tinggal satu, akan tertimpa sial selama seminggu berikutnya. (asal banget ga sih? :p)
2. makanan akan kehilangan daya tariknya jika dia cuma sendirian.. (beraninya rame2 niiii?)
3. anggota keluarga di rumahku orangnya pemalu dan 'ga enakan'. jadi kalo tinggal satu, ga ada yang mau ngambil karena ga enak sama yang lain.
4. udah bosen sama makanan tersebut, jadi pas sisa 1 dah males ngambilnya.

dan setelah kupikir2, ini postingan sangat-amat-tidak-penting-banget-sekali. padahal, banyaaak banget yang mau ditulis.. tapi, yang mo ditulis banyakan berupa hal yang ga mengenakkan.. Berpikir tentang hal2 tersebut saja sudah membuatku merasa tak enak, dan menulis ttg hal tersebut kurasa tak akan membantu ataupun membuatku merasa lega.. (hmm, tapi kok gw tetep nyinggung2 ya?).. udah ah, nunggu moodnya balik..

nu year, oh, nu year..

Hmm, suddenly 2007 has just passed..
Ga kerasa yah? Umm, not really, consider there's quite many things that I did in that year.. Let's we do a flashback.. (hahaha.. gaya banget)..

Januari
Masih rajin2nya buat postingan review Amazing Race Asia.. bahkan tiap episodenya gw buat review.. haha.. sekarang mah ga sempet plus males. kurang lengkap apa coba?
Terus, ngurusin PengmasonIT.. EPT ke Bandung.. Gathering 2b. Jalan2 ke Ragunan bersama BPH. dan banyak nonton dan makan di luar.. hehe..

Februari
ada banjir besar. nengokin cicit's dad.. terus ada 2b gathering versi kecil.. hehe..

Maret - Desember
males bikinnya lagian ga penting juga.. hahaha..

Last year, I did an internship. And the whole process definitely took a long long time, from searching the company until submitting the report to the library. Oooh, it was really 'revise till u drop' kind of work.

Then.. I really really thankful that my GPA in that year was not bad. Especially on 6th semester.. I really amazed and somehow couldn’t believe it.. Yeah, although not as high as Richard Daniel (which got exact 4), or Ario cs, but it’s my highest GPA to date (hopefully 8th semester will be my best GPA.. amiiiin…). Last semester, my GPA wasn’t bad either, although not as good as the previous one.. But in my opinion, it’s really good.. ^^ the lowest mark was on one of compulsory subject, so no guilty feeling of choosing wrong optional subject, and fortunately it was just 2 SKS.. *grin*

Next semester, (which is hopefully my last semester on Fasilkom)..
-I wanna realize a green fasilkom (fortunately has met a person with same vision, hehe)..
-then do imagine cup (idea, where r u??).
-take MSI or SQA subject.
-May be take some competitions out there.
-Don’t know about that offering.. take it or not?
-oiya, buku angkatan..
-then finish my research about image processing that related in biomedical area (sigh, the paper was difficult)..
-join mapres (aka mahasiswa penuh stress) competition.. may be..
-take toefl prep.. searching for scholarship..

Then..
-graduate of course.. wish that I can reach my GPA target.. Amiin..
-Take a scholarship if I get one. Or may be take a job for 6 mnth til 1,5 years. Why I don’t search for an established job first? may be arnold’s article has just got me.. huehe..
-learn some core competence that I just passed it by.

Bismillah…

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Kemanakah saya pada saat malam taun baruan 2008 ini?

Hmm….. One of my family asked me to join nu year celebration with Land Rover Club Indonesia, in Anyer Beach, West Java. But according to not-so-friendly weather that day, so I rejected the offering.

No family party or something like that this year, coz one of my uncle has been unwell in hospital, and considering there’s so many unpleasant disaster that happened to our country.. soo, me myself preferred to celebrate it humbly. (mengingat lagi bokek juga. Wekekek)

Soo.. me, my mom, and two of her friends got into dzikir bersama at Masjid Sunda Kelapa. the khatib were nazaruddin umar and said agil siradj. The mr JK and his wife, MJK were also there too.. the chief of masjid foundation mentioned the JKs name over and over again (which I think it’s not essential :( )

But, after following all the agenda, now I prefer Sunda Kelapa than Attin (which is too crowded, and it’s the reason why I didn’t go there) or Masjid BI (which has bad sound system) or Masjid AlAzhar (I don’t like how they arrange it).

Duh, gw lupa hari itu ngapain aja yah? Yah, intinya gitu.. acaranya padat, dan diisi dengan ceramah, tilawah, muhasabah, sholat tasbih, sholat tobat, sholat tahajud, dzikir, dsb.. dan berhubung jamaah pria ga sebanyak wanita, jadinya lebih comfy, hehe..

Then.. gw lupa hari itu ngapain aja..

Dan 9 hari setelahnya adalah tahun baru hijriah.. at nite, my mom went to Masjid Al-Azhar.. I just on my home, coz really tired that day. I wouldn’t focus enough to follow the agenda.. so, I planned to read ‘the secret’ book, but I failed to realized it.. hehe..

The day after, my cousin asked me to go to Pacific Place, which located near her house at Wichan.. hihiy.. pertama kali ke situ.. masih banyak banget yg tutup.. dan tempat makannya….. AWESOME!!!! Tempat makan terkeren yang pernah gw liat yang ada di mal… intinya, best mall in Jakarta to date!! But worst price, hahaha.. gila. Mahal2 aja tuh jualannya.. Nyari Pancious, tapi belom buka.. akhirnya makan deh di KRogers.. di situ ada kemchick juga.. dan ada Kidzania.. Belom tau apa itu kidzania? Search aja di google, dan kalo udah tau, bener2 bisa membuat lo pengen jadi anak2 lagi.. huhu. Mupeng…….

Abis itu ke wichan.. maen2 kucing ras yg bernama louis dan piauw (hmm, ko namanya timpang gitu yah?).. terus ngenet (hahaha, sampe rumah sodara tetep aja ngenet). Ga tanggung2, dia pasang fastnet dan speedy sekaligus. Ckck.. dan yg buat gw “sebel” adalah, untuk ngenet yg dipake adalah laptop!!! Hiks.. jadi, laptop itu adalah laptop khusus ngenet!!! Deuh, mending buat gw aja deh..

Tentang TA..
Pengen tentang biomedical, dan terus bener2 konsultasi ma dosen dari FKUI.. kebetulan pakde dokter khan koord penelitian bidang patologi anatomik di FKUI.. it must be really cool if I can do it. tapi sayangnya beliau sedang dirawat di RS.. ah, sudahlah.. ga usah idealis2 gitu deh.. paper yg dikasih sama bu Ani aja susahnya setengah mati. Huhu.. doakan saja yah.. mudah2an lancer..

Pertama di 2008

hehe.. sebenernya ini postingan pertama di tahun ini.. dan memang saya udah lama ga buat postingan. terakhir kali sih sebenernya pas 25 atau 26 des yang lalu.. banyak rasanya yg pengen diceritain.. tapi males. jadinya upload foto aja di facebook, karena ada yang mengatakan bahwa suatu gambar bermakna lebih dari 1000 kata, hahaha..

kemarin baru pulang dari evaluasi plus jalan2 tengah taun.. menginap di villa bu imas, yang berada di kawasan hotel seruni, cisarua, puncak, jawa barat. lokasinya deket sama taman safari.. jadi ga heran kalo suka ada banyak binatang langka yang tiba2 masuk ke villa. mba2 di situ bercerita bahwa seminggu sebelumnya ada monyet langka lagi ada di kamar mandi villa.. (bohong banget.. hahaha..).. Ohya, thanx banyak buat bu Imas yang membuat segalanya tambah menjadi menyenangkan... :)

the villa was... awesome!!! may be not the best one that i've ever visited.. tapi yg istimewa adalah, di villa tersebut, just felt like home.. dan bagian yg paling menarik adalah: pas malem2, udaranya wangi bunga... madly love it!!!! (hmm, tapi bukan wangi yg bikin merinding lho ya..)

besoknya ke STT Telkom Bandung, studi banding ke HMIF sana.. Moderator dari pihak STTnya ternyata adalah sodara gw.. hehe.. Jadi, orangtua kami berdua itu masih sepupuan.. Pertama2, dia dulu yg inget gw, katanya pernah ketemuan pas lagi reuni keluarga.. Untung aja dia menyebutkan secara tepat nama keluarga2 gw.. Coz, sampe sekarang pun gw masih ga inget kalo sebelumnya udah pernah ketemuan.. hahaha.. maaf banget yak.. maaf banget banget... Tapi ternyata ada juga yang kenal gw, padahal gw sebelumnya mengira di STT ga ada yg gw kenal. beda sama taun lalu waktu jalan2 ke IF ITB, pasti bakalan ngeliat temen2 SMA di sanah..

Lagian gw heran banget. dia kok bisa2nya inget gw. Reuni keluarga besar itu khan cuma ada setahun sekali, dan gw juga kadang2 ga dateng.. Tapi, bisa2nya dia inget.. salut, salut.. Bahkan dia inget gw angkatan berapa.. ckckck...

seneng banget dikasih makanan dr sana utk semua yg dateng (40-an).. ckckck.. dapet dana dari mana yah? thanx a lot.. dan ternyata, tingkat narsisme anak2 sana sudah mencapai tahap gawat darurat, mencapai stadium 8 (dari skala 4, huehehe)... gw kira anak2 fasilkom udah parah banget, ternyata di atas langit masih ada langit.. :p

abis dari STT, ga langsung balik.. ke Cihampelas dulu berdasarkan keinginan sebagian emak-emak yang ingin belanje.. gw sama viku akhirnya terdampar di McD sana buat makan petang.. Udah jauh2 ke Bandung, makannya ko McD? biarlah.. hehe.. gw pesen gourmet wrap, karena sebelomnya belom pernah nyobain.. ternyata gede juga yah.. gw kenyang banget, mana makannya buru2 lagi coz gw ngejar waktu kembali ke bis.. eeh, ternyata pas sampe bis masih sepi gitu, padahal gw juga udah termasuk telat.. makanya kadang2 gw suka males datang on time.. hahaha.. tapi ujung2nya dateng ontime ko, khan profesional.. :p

hmm, sebenernya pengen nulis nu year resolution ni.. tapi di postingan selanjutnya aja yah... ^^

walkin-walkin

[24 dec 2007, written on dec 25]

After spent the night at hospital, we went home. And then I have another schedule: walkin-walkin (WW) 2b.. hoho.. actually, at first just I, awl, mika, and tuko who’ll join the WW. But, I thought why I just don’t invite other friends to join us? May some of them had no schedule on that day. Soo, I began to message some of them. Until now, I still am wondering why I messaged ‘em? Often, it used to make me tired, and kind of annoyed with waiting the reply. But I’ve learned that I must do it sincerely, if some of ‘em reply my message, it’s good. If no, yeah, may be they’re in hectic state so they couldn’t deliver any reply.

Some of ‘em couldn’t join cause they had another occasion, like JZ, who predictably must accompany her parents shopping. Dela n Arri, who just exhausted after had vacation on outer city (luar kota maksudnya). Ndy n Lid, who picked up their family on soekarno-hatta airport. Nda who got her frequent stomachache, kush went to garut accompanied her dad, vij went to two mangos, etc etc.

This WW was held on Senci aka Senayan City (first, Arri asked me where’s Senci.. wakakak.. dia taunya Singapore sih sekarang..), at wendy’s. the choice of wendy’s as gathering location, because we didn’t know whether senci had any foodcourt or not.. hehe. But one for sure ,we knew that there’s wendy’s on senci.

The attendance were me, mika, awl, tk, fiz, mon, bol, dil, dian, ima, vig, and tisa.. 12 people, man!!.. one of the most successful 2b reunion.. heheh.. usually, it’s below 10 people.. and sometimes it’s end up with me, mika, n awl.. hehehe.. soo busy my friends are.. walau direncanain dari jauh hari jg ga ngepek..

I did sholat at ground floor on musholla named executive musholla (beeeuh, gaya banget dah namanya..). the place was clean and classy.. one of the best musholla in mall I think, though the musholla on 6th floor was not as good as the one on G floor..

We had a chit-chat on wendy’s, then we took pictures on some of LEGO decoration. Yes, there was Lego expo there. It said that the expo was the biggest on south east asia. Then, we took pictures in front of a huge bear doll near the main gate, hehe.. we just threw away our shyness, since no one knew us.. hahaha.. wait, no one knew us? Of course NOT, because we met some pals there. I met adi-kun (known as adi tepar), andhika fajri, then chacha. Chacha even said that beby was also there. Dian and bola met their college-mate. Mika met her middle-school mate, and many more. Hahaha, tumplek semua di Senci.

We watched Bee Movies. Thanx so much to viga, she bought all of us popcorn and aqua ^^. The movie is about a bee named Barry. he was shocked to discover that the humans had been stealing and eating the bees' honey for centuries, and sued the human race for stealing their precious honey. Barry won the lawsuit, and all honey in the world was returned to the bees. Is it the perfect decision? Just watch the movie..

Overall, I thought the movie was really entertaining and children-friendly. Although rotten tomatoes criticized it as “has humorous moments, but mostly forgettable”. Yeah, quite true. But at least I was very entertained, had some good laughs, and left the cinema room with pleasant feeling. The graphic was colorful, bright, and lovely. The storyline was not extraordinary, but well, good enough. Hmm, this was may be because I just wanted to watch something that doesn’t really need brain to gulp it.

Score: 3,5 from 5

Then we searched some place for sit, first destination was J.Co. unfortunately it was full. The krispy kreme was quite empty, but the doughnuts there were over-sweet, so we didn’t go there. Soo, we just entered the food hall at sogo. There’s few resto, just chopstick, bakmi naga, ganesha (Indian resto), and another one that I forgot its name. because most of us were hadn’t hungry yet, so we ordered some light food or snack. We ordered chicken skin, dumpling, and chicken wing from chopstick resto. The tastes were good.

After that, we visited woman emancipation expo (I forgot the name). in the expo ,there was photo exhibition, then film showing. The movie has entitled ‘kloset’, directed by a famous Indonesia director: Garin Nugroho. The movie told about the situation in Indonesian villages, where the people very poor, then women there had dilemmatic situation between choosing stick to live in poverty in village, or take a ENORMOUS risks by become a TKW to foreign country.

May be u asked, why the title of the film is kloset? It’s because the main character, Ayu, has a child who just want to loosen the bowels on WC duduk. Ayu didn’t have money to bought him what he wanted.

So happy that the WW has succeed. Now, there are other things to organized. Ouch..

Talent

Finally, I’ve done read it, lascar pelangi novel, and just newly finished the second eps: sang pemimpi, authored by andrea hirata.

Great novel. But, I agree with u Momo, I’ve been thinking that some parts in the novel were just too good to be true. hehe.. Andrea used many brilliant metaphor in his novel, some of them are unexpected, and left me smiling and saying silently: “it’s so damn true!!”

I just love the novel that put honesty, or at least made the reader said, “gosh, It’s soooo me!!” (ini gue banget!!), but sometimes we just doin’ it soo casually, we just used to do it, so sometimes we don’t know that may be other people has different opinion about our habit. Or if one of the novel’s character did some bad things that we also ever did, we just smiled bitterly and said, “what a mess I was!!”.

Beside some over-detailed description (in my stupid opinion), I really love the book. If u want some review, just search it on google and you’ll get many, since the novel has been published since 2005.

Surprisingly, the author frequently pointed out to some aspects that I often think. Like about talent. I often think that the LUCKIEST persons in this world are the ones who RECOGNIZE his /her talent, LOVE to do his/her talent, and have OPPORTUNITIES to develop it. May be there’s a person who has more talent than Roger Federer in tennis, but his job is as cendol seller, so he never tried how to play tennis. Or may be one of asmat race in ruler area in Papua will be more successful than Schumi if he ever try how to drive a car. Soo, be grateful if you know the talent and has opportunity to develop it. Don't ever waste the blessings..

The main character, Ikal, has some ups and downs. And I just love how he could lift his downs into ups. He showed us things that we can learn explicitly, but not in ‘gaya menggurui’.

Keep your dream as high as sky, and don’t be pessimistic. Even some people might say that pessimistic has some linear relation with realistic, but he called pessimistic is one form of ‘mendahului nasib’. And it’s awfully wrong. So, I must do THE BEST thing that I can do in every single current state that happen to me..

A must read one, really...

Book Review: 168 Jam Dalam Sandera

Karangan Meutya Hafid, salah seorang pembawa berita (anchor) saluran Metro TV. Buku ini isinya adalah berupa cerita semasa dia dan kamerawan Budianto disandera di Irak pada tahun 2005 yang lalu. Dengan membaca buku ini, gw jadi sedikit tau apa aja sih yang dikerjain oleh wartawan, risiko apa aja yang dihadapi termasuk di daerah perang.

Meutya menurut gw pandai menuturkan apa yang dia alami, sehingga buku tersebut jadi enak dibaca. Gw cukup terbawa dan bisa merasakan emosinya, walau gw tau yang dirasakan olehnya pasti jauh lebih berat. Yang buat gw seneng, dia cukup objektif dalam penyampaiannya. Padahal, bukannya tidak mungkin isi buku tersebut menjadi bermuatan politis, berhubung yang diceritakannya adalah masalah sandera.

Yang cukup menarik dari ceritanya adalah, bahwa penyandera tersebut sama sekali tidak memperlakukannya secara kasar. Malah, seorang anggota mujahidin yang bersikap tidak menyenangkan dipindahtugaskan oleh pimpinannya. Para mujahidin tsb, yang biasanya jarang makan daging krn saat sulit, selalu memberikan makanan terbaik yang mereka punya kepada Meutya dan Budi tiga kali sehari. Bahkan, untuk bolak balik di gurun menyediakan makanan dan air bagi Meutya dan Budi, resikonya adalah nyawa.

Terharu aja melihat tercipta sebuah persahabatan dalam situasi penyanderaan.. It's just uniquely amazing.. How beautiful the ukhuwah is.. Mereka sebenernya baik, tapi sperti itu memang benar2 terpaksa krn tidak ingin diperlakukan semena-mena..

Menyadur kata Quraish Shihab, cerita ini menunjukkan bahwa setelah kesulitan, atau bahkan terkadang bersama kesulitan, ada kemudahan..

Beverage Review: Bir Pletok and Kombucha

At idul adha day, we came to my pade’s house at panglima polim, south Jakarta. the aunt offered us to eat and drink. Because we just had ate at aunt designer’s house before, so we couldn’t afford to eat anymore, but to drink was okay. So, the ageless aunt gave me some beverages that I hadn’t tried before. First was Bir Pletok. Well, some of u who are betawinese must have know it. Okay, although the name contain the word ‘beer’, but it doesn’t contain alcohol or anything that can make u drunk.


Bir pletok is betawinese beverage, made from ginger extract, sugar, and other various roots extract. If we drink bir pletok, first u will get hot on ur mouth, and then your body will feel warm. More or less, it’s quite similar with jamu.

The second beverage is Kombucha. Kombucha is the Western name for sweetened tea that has been fermented by a macroscopic microorganisms called a "kombucha colony,". The taste is sour. Yeah, just like others fermented drink such as yoghurt: they are all sour. So, I just don’t really like it.

Some said that kombucha is good for health. So, if u wanna try. Just try it. U can buy the bacteria at some proper shop. Hehe..

no one but me

hihihi.. sebenernya tidak ada yang lucu, tapi tertawa miris melihat kenyataan di dunia ini. Ssaya abis membaca buku LasPeng, dan di situ ada cerita dimana masyarakat Melayu yang mau menang sendiri dan egois dalam mengambil hadiah yang dibagi2kan pada saat suatu upacara. Berbeda dengan orang Sawang yang mengatur strategi untuk mendapatkan hadiah-hadiah yang terbaik.

Yah, geli aja. Akibatnya, orang2 Melayu hanya mendapatkan radio, tapi antena nya saja, atau pemutar volume nya saja. Walau ada orang lain yang lebih dulu ngambil, tapi mereka suka ga rela dan lalu merusak punya orang lain tersebut. "kalo saya ga dapet, yang lain juga tak ada yang dapet".

Frankly speaking, gw juga kadang2 begitu. Ngerasa seneng kalo ada orang yang nemenin susah, hehe.. Kayak misalnya gw lagi dapet nilai yang jelek, terus kalo ada orang lain yang dapet nilai jelek, gw cenderung seneng (walau bukan berarti seneng karena dia dapet jelek, tapi lebih cenderung karena kita punya temen yang senasib sepenanggungan). Dipikir2, hal tersebut rada2 jelek juga ya.. Kalo orang lain dapet bagus, khan mestinya kita seneng juga.. Gw juga seneng sih, tapi khan ga enak aja kalo sendirian yang menderita.. huwah, ternyata saya rada egois juga yah, hehe.. duh, penyakit jelek nih..

Movie Review: National Treasure Book of Secrets

Starring: Nicholas Cage

Tadinya Bola ngajakin nonton ini pas acara WW 2b, tapi jadinya nonton Bee Movie. Terus, temennya si adek bilang kalo film ini seru banget, dan menjadi panas lah gw. Apalagi adek bilang kalo yang sequel sebelumnya dari Nat Treasure juga keren. Jadilah hari ini gw dan si adek nonton film ini di Citos.

Ceritanya adalah tentang pencarian harta karun berupa kota emas yang hilang, serta dilatari dengan motif ingin membersihkan nama baik keluarga. Sebenernya, gw masih rada bingung juga sih apa hubungan antara ngebersihin nama baik dan nemuin kota emas, hehe..

Mengambil setting di Inggris, Perancis, dan mostly di Amerika. tipe2 filmnya mirip2 Tomb Raider, atau film2 sejenis yang bertema pencarian harta karun lah.. Memecahkan teka-teki, then cari clue selanjutnya, sampai tiba di tempat harta karun itu berada.

Ohya, book of secrets adalah sebuah mitos bahwa terdapat buku yang dilungsurkan turun temurun dari presiden amerika serikat yang satu kepada penerusnya. isinya adalah the toppest secrets of the country..

Dari segi cerita, beberapa hal menurutku kurang masuk akal, seperti presiden amerika yang rada2 "gila"... terus dari segi visual effect pun menurutku tak ada yang istimewa.. tak ada adegan yang menyentuh. bagian yang tegangnya pun rasanya ga buat tegang2 amat. yah, tanggung lah menurutku..

berhubung ni film semuanya nanggung dan kurang menghibur, soo kalo ada film lain yang dirasa lebih bagus, nonton film lain aja deh mendingan, hehe... ditambah lagi tadi pas nonton di citos, AC nya ga begitu dingin.. ugh.

Bermalam di depan ICU

my uncle was on emergency situation, he had gastric bleeding that made him unconscious for days. Actually, he and his wife were doctors, senior doctors, so there’re always some of their juniors or students who ready by themselves to accompany my aunt at night, waiting near the ICU. But still, there’s always be a better feeling if the one who accompany her is her family member, or may be her assistance, driver, or others that already has close relationship.

Then, at sunday nite, me, my mom, n my bro accompany her in front of ICU. We sleep on the hallway. Yes, it’s just a hallway. We just placed carpets above the floor, set up the pillows, and voila, it’s ready as a place for our sleep. Because uncle was still on ICU, so he got no personal room. Okay, so it’s first time for me to sleep on hospital hallway, with abundant of things that my aunt brought (she’s expert on bringing things, hehe). We were incredibly looked like refugees.

Slept near the ICU was really touched my heart. Somehow it made me feel that many people also felt the same, because their relation was in emergency state too. It taught me about tolerance, patient, and sympathy.

Uggh, honestly I want to write so much more. But writing in English just kill my creativity to arrange words. Darn…

Update:
Now, my uncle has been get better. Alhamdulillah. Now, he is conscious and soon will be placed in usual room. hope he can get better and better, so he can do his usual activity really soon..

akhirnya libur

uwenakee bisa liburan..

Walaupun ada yang mesti diselesaikan, tapi krn kerjaan itu ga bisa dikerjain pas liburan, praktis gw menjadi rada2 idle beberapa hari terakhir. And I just feel awkward about it. Saat hari2 biasa, trkadang pengen dalam 1 hari itu ditambah bbrp jam supaya item2 di 'to-do-list' bisa mark as complete semua.

Akibatnya, beberapa hari ini bisa ngelakuin hal2 yang tertunda, such as: baca2 to-read-list, nonton2 mini_series and movies, benah2in isi harddisk di kompi, arrange kegiatan2 yang akan dilakukan beberapa bulan ke depan, ngeblog :p, upload2in foto (penting banget ya?), belajar, jalan2, de.el.el.es.be..

ngomong2 tentang tivi series, sepertinya dalam sebulan belakangan ini ga ada episode baru (trutama tivi series dari usa). do u know why? hal itu krn ada pemogokan dari serikat penulis di amrik sana.. so, series spt heroes, amazing race, CSI, dan talkshow spt ellen's, leno's, dan lain-lain berenti utk sementara. akibatnya, channel tv biasanya menayangkan rerun dari serial2 tersebut..

efeknya buat saya? hmm, ga ada sih.. cuma biasanya ada yg ditunggu utk didonlod tiap minggunya, skarang ga ada lagi.. jadinya cari serial lain utk ditonton, hehe..

Food Review: Zoe

continued from Food Review: Mang Engking

After we’d ate at mang engking, me and JiLid went to Zoe (Margonda Street, Depok).. it was after the rain, so some of its seats was still wet (even then it's raining again and I just got the tempias.. hiks hiks). One of the waiter is sooo friendly and sweet, heheh.. bcoz we just had ate before, so we didn’t order any weighty food, and I even didn’t wanna ordered hot chocolate or sth like that coz it’s surfeiting. I just ordered hot lemon tea. But, alida ‘smartly’ said to the waitress that I just had a diet so I must maintain what I eat and drink.. Unfortunately, the waitress just ‘menelan bulat-bulat’, believe it, and said, “oooh, berat juga ya sepertinya?”.. gabruks… tserah lah.. we ordered smoked beef/chicken fajitas as the snack.

The place was quite nice; the lights were good, quite cozy. One thing that I didn’t really like was the music, they played ‘dewa’ over and over again. Bosen… And if it’s raining, you must be cleverly choose the seat, if u don’t, u’ll get the touches of rain.. hehe..
The smoked beef/chicken fajitas was bad. So so salty.. really really don’t recommend it. The drinks were so so. The place was nice. The price was affordably pricey. Oya, there’s a musholla on it.

Two days later, I came to the place again, now with Rora.. the friendly waitress still there, and she remembered me!! Unfortunately she asked, “udah ga diet lagi ya? Ini makan berat..”.. deeng, awas lo Lid..

We ordered ayam bakar betutu, and mango squash apple squash.. the beverages were good. And the food, I must admit that it’s delicious!!!! They’re right for makin it as ‘chef recommend’.. really really love it. May be because the hunger effect, but still, I thought it wouldn’t change my opinion even when I’m full. A must try!!

Food Review: Mang Engking

At first, I and JiLid just wanted to come to Zoe to learn DSS subject for the exam on two days later. But, after considered my mom and her mom were came to the campus to meet ms KMJ and mr ANH, so we tried to provoked them to mentraktir us for lunch. Fortunately, her mom was wanted to take a survey for her arisan. But, my mom was fasting that day, so she couldn’t join.

Then, we (me, JiLid, ms Yuli, and mr ANH) went to Mang Engking (in Area of Universitas Indonesia, Depok) at about 12. Lid ordered fried gurame fish, udang bakar madu biasa, udang bakar madu super (the waiter recommended it as restos’ fave), and kangkung cah.

About the place..
I think I just love it, really cozy.. and when I come there, it was raining a bit so the weather was really fresh, the gentle breeze was perfect. Perfect for studying, hahaha.. the fishes were bubbling at the artificial pond around the huts. Ikannya buanyak banget dan gede-gede. Dikasih makan pada rebutan ga keruan, rakus2 amat..

I really love the place, the plants, the pond, fishes, huts, the yellow flowers, and so on. Refreshing!!


About the food..
The restos fave, udang bakar madu was good, sayang banget mr ANH benci dengan yang namanya udang.. hahaha.. so he couldn’t taste the deliciousness of the shrimps.. oia, we just made a mistake for ordering two kinds of udang (biasa n super). If u wanna go there, just order one kind and it’s enough. The difference just on the size, but actually the aggregates of it’s filling was just the same (isinya sama aja, yg gede sebenernya isinya ga jauh beda)

About the price, I think it’s quite pricey. Although it’s may be because we over-ordered the food. And, unfortunately they don’t sell snack :(, jadi susah deh untuk menjadikannya tempat bwt blajar.. mahal sii..

continued on: Food Review: Zoe

Travelers' Tale

Hehe.. akhirnya saya baca juga deh novel ini, setelah sekian lama tertunda2 mlulu (sambil ngelirik setumpuk bacaan lain yang juga ga sempet dibaca).. Yang ngarang adalah Adhitya M dan istri serta teman2Nya. Adhitya ini yang ngarang novel Jomblo, yang sudah pernah dibuat versi layar lebar maupun layar kecilnya (maksudnya tipi)..

Berhubung novel lama dan pastinya udah banyak yang ngeripyuw, jadi saya ga ikutan ngeripyuw ah.. Cuma pengen ngomentarin ajah.. hoho..

Dari segi cerita, menurut gw lumayan seru.. Apalagi dengan 4 orang yang nulis, jadi kerasa aja beda tulisan antara satu sama lain. Walau keliatan banget gaya tulisannya si Adhit beda dan heboh ndiri (dengan tokoh si Ucup), emang lebih seru kalo ada 4 orang dgn gaya penulisan berbeda.. at least ga monoton lah..

Tapi honestly, walau buku itu mengambil setting di banyak tempat (mulai dari vietnam, kenya, jordania, amerika, dan mostly negara2 eropa), tapi gw merasa deskripsi dan narasi akan detil setting nya kurang. Atau mungkin karena dapet jatah space nulisnya dikit, jadi disingkat2 gitu. atau emang supaya disesuaikan dengan jalan cerita kali ya? Seperti "museum ini adalah simbol kota X, belum ke kota X jika tidak mengunjungi museum ini." terus tiba2 ganti setting.. ga tau ya, tapi gw pribadi merasa terlalu singkat aja..

Hal yang paling bisa diambil dari novel ini tentunya tips2 traveling yang bertebaran di sepanjang buku. Well done.... :)..

Overall, bagus untuk dibaca ko.. ^^

Setelah gw pikir2 tentang alasan kenapa perjalanan di travelers' tale menurut gw kurang greget, mungkin karena kisah2 yang pernah diceritakan seorang bude gw, yang sering gw namakan bude apoteker atau bahkan bude pendongeng jauh lebih greget.. hehe..


Aunt Traveler

Now, the story about her begin..

Bude ini berinisial SS (gw ga mau nyebutin nama orang di blog ah..), beliau merupakan lulusan farmasi ITB tahun... hmm, tahun brp yah? pokoknya udah lama (ya iya lah...), seangkatan sama dosen2 senior di kampus brarti..

Banyaak banget yang bisa diceritakan dari bude yang satu ini, tentang how extraordinary she is.. Tapi kali ini gw cuma mo ceritain tentang kepiawaiannya berkisah.. such a great storyteller.. kehandalannya bercerita ditunjang dengan pengalamannya yang sudah banyak berkelana ke negeri orang.. mostly in europe and america..

dari kecil, gw udah sering diceritain oleh beliau, mulai dari dongeng2 aneh dari tatar sunda (yes, she's a half sundanese) sampe kisah2 beliau di eropa dan amerika.. jadi di satu saat dia akan mengajari gw lagu cingcangkeling dan jaleuleuja, di hari lain gw diajarin lagu baa baa black sheep.. hoho.. now i just realized that it's pretty cool.

dulunya, beliau bekerja di berbagai multinational company eropa yang bergerak di bidang farmasi, spt merck, sandoz, dsb. nah, berhubung kantor pusat dari perusahaan2 tersebut ada di eropa, beliau cukup sering pergi ke sana. Dan krn beliau hobi traveling, kalo lagi libur biasanya jalan2 ke negara2 sekitar..

nah, beliau pinter banget nyeritain kisah2 dia selama di luar negeri.. selain cerita objek wisata dan special event, juga cerita tentang orang2 yg beliau temui.. uniknya, ada aja hal2 istimewa yang beliau alami. Dan yang gw suka, ceritanya itu ga seheboh ceritanya adhitya m (yg menurut gw, dia menceritakan kejadian aneh yang menimpa tokoh yang emang aneh. terlalu heboh untuk ukuran orang normal :p). Bagaimana beliau tiba2 dapat kamar ekstra di hotel di UK, terus nyasar ke suatu acara sekolah di Jerman tp disambut hangat, atau hampir kena badai salju di US. Dan misalnya di Indonesia, beliau terjebak di daerah terpencil di Rancabuaya di Jawa Barat krn terjebak sungai periodik yang tiba2 ada krn abis turun hujan. sampe2 keluarga besar kalang kabut, dan kontak2 polres, SAR, n wanadri.. untung cepet ditemukan.. Dan banyak cerita2 lain yg menurut gw seru banget.

Extraordinary stories from extraordinary person. Duh, sayangnya gw ga pinter cerita. Ada juga kalo gw menulis cerita yang dikisahkan beliau di blog ini, nanti pada muntah2 lagi.. hehe..

Walau punya banyak pengalaman, but she's really really humble.. kalo ketemu di angkot, pasti bakalan ga nyangka akan pengalaman beliau. gw aja kadang2 suka ga percaya :p, dan baru percaya kalo beliau udah mulai berbicara, heheh.. trus kalo ngomong2, akses sundanya masih cukup kental.. misalnya aja, "waktu bude di swiss, orang2 di sana mah meunih baik2 pisan".. heheh..

Masih banyak sih yang bisa diceritain dari bude ini, spt bgmn perjuangannya melawan kanker tingkat lanjut, bagaimana perjuangannya mendidik anak satu2nya yg tuna rungu sampai anaknya bs mandiri and punya banyak kemampuan... tapi, gw udah cape nulis ni..

met liburan yah!!!

these two days

First, I thought yesterday was such a drama.. Now I realized that today is waaaay more dramatic..

~one liners..

google on everything

sebenernya sih ga mau posting.. tp barusan ngeliata bahwa ada visitor yang dateng ke blog ini dengan menggunakan keyword aneh:

"soal quiz 3 SDA Fasilkom", at 15:36

hihi.. ketauan deh, pasti itu anak 2006 yang tadi ada quiz SDA.. hehe.. gw akui kalo gw juga suka meng-google info2. cuma kayaknya ga seekstrim itu deh, sampe2 nyari soal quiz segala di google.. emangnya bakal ada ya? hahaha..

tapi emang ya? banyak yg nyari info apapun lewat google, misalnya aja teman kita si frhe itu. karena ga tau NPM gw, dia lalu mencoba untuk mencarinya via google.. dan, trnyata ga ada.. hehe.. lagian aneh2 aja sih, nyari NPM ko di google..

dan, sekarang saya pusing.. padahal mestinya bljar utk uas, atau ngerjain protex.. whew.. berita baiknya, I've some plan for post-iduladha holiday.... :)..

Oya, baru selesai nonton Amazing Race Asia.. daaaan... Kinar dan Brett tereliminasi lho... hahaha.. dugaan gw sejak awal ternyata benar.. they wouldn't go far.. tapi sayangnya dugaan gw benar.. yaa sudahlah.. hehe..

rehat

lagi rehat dulu ah..
males nulis blog..
sepertinya tak ada yang menarik untuk diceritakan..
too much assignments..
kecuali mo nulis tentang assignments itu.. hoho..
but that's a big no no for me (and 4 u too I guess)
lagipula bentar lagi udah UAS.. uas terakhir utk beberapa temen gw yang bentar lagi lulus (amiiin..)..
pengen cepet2 libur...

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And i've been revising my internship report til I bored to death..
Why we can't just stick to ONE lecturer as the advisor?? Cause different lecturer has different style of report. Hence, I should reshape it from beginning til the end???

And why the advise was not from 1 or 2 months ago, immediately after we'd gave the draft? And now, when the intern report is soooo yesterday, we must revise it again? T____T...