a week of a lifetime

oh wow, makin lama ya jarak 1 post ke post lainnya...
maybe i am just lazy
or maybe i just have any peculiar stuffs i used to have when i lived on my own back then in sg
or maybe, i just have to travel more? *you wish*

anyway

last 1st December i just got back from my trip to Jogja and Surabaya
it was my 1st time visiting Surabaya, and my 1st time exploring cities together with Cindy (:
anyway it was fun

some issues happened
but then i hope i did not give too much burden for Cindy - what a drama, mel

anyway Jogja, as usual, nice city, nice atmosphere, nice everything
we tried Bakmi Shibitsu, known as a legendary fried noodle (to be exact Mie Jawa)

The famous Bakmi Shibitsu

as people say, the first bite makes you speechless.. you are overwhelmed by the richness of the seasonings.
the sweet soy sauce, the spices, sweet, salty, slight hotness from the chili embodies your tastebud (okay i am salivating, remembering the taste)
the mixture of rice vermicelli and noodle gives a great texture impact in your mouth
the noodle is chewy yet firm
the vermicelli is perfectly cooked, it is not soggy at all
since it is Mie Jawa, it is slightly watery, the broth was poured in cooking process, just a little bit to soften the noodles and give extra punch in the taste.
the cabbage is not overcooked, it is perfectly crisp and fresh
fried onion and sliced spring onion on top give another dimension of taste for this noodle
well actually you can eat this with chili padi served on table, but then this portion is spicy enough for me
overall it was a satisfying humble dinner with heavenly taste
usually i eat Mie Jawa in two different types: dry and wet
the dry one is more similar to friend noodle, it is just slightly sweeter than usual
the wet one is usually pretty soggy, we call it "nyemek", is a condition where the noodle absorbs the soup and creates a soggy-kind-of-dish, but it's not too soggy that the noodle still carries its firmness

Cindy ordered Nasi Goreng Shibitsu, which was not bad at all

we practically went to several culinary places, but we missed one particular famous place called Nasi Goreng Bringharjo
by the time we went there the place was still closed, the next day we could not go there as well because there was celebration of Tahun Baru Haji and it was traffic jam everywhere
so next time i go Jogja, I will definitely not miss that Nasi Goreng Bringharjo again!

next city we went to Surabaya, by train
we departed at 7am and reached Surabaya at 12noon
long trip, tiring as well because we got up so early yet we couldn't sleep in train since the man behind our seats was snoring all the way, creating a harmony between him and his friend
PERFECT

Surabaya, first impression: DAMN HOT, hotter than Jakarta in sunny day
i managed to drink bottles of water since i reached Surabaya
my lips cracked and my skin became ultimately dry
and after we had soto for our lunch, i was completely drenched in sweat *eew
from Surabaya we went straight to Malang
supposedly cooler, but it was not
still pretty hot
we went to cinema and watched PUSS IN BOOTS
hahahahaha!
the next day we went to Batu
we visited Batu Secret Zoo
(more pics soon, i haven't finished editing everything :p)
then stayed at Klub Bunga
sweet!
we spent our day like lazy people
sleeping, eating, playing
fun!
the next day we went back to Surabaya
we visited Museum of Sampoerna
pretty fun
too bad we couldn't take photograph of the process of making the cigarettes
(i will try to make the illustration later on)
but i bought 2 souvenirs (soon to be uploaded) *pinky swear

the overall trip is awesome!
visiting new city is awesome!
i'm planning to visit Bali again soon
let's hope it will come true! (:


happy night

meL

birthday girl 121010

 

first image source: www.comments-hi5.com

monday is good.

i feel extremely bad mood today since i woke up
i guess it's a combination of lack sleeping+period+fatigue

i know, great combination to start a lazy (HEAVY) day
so i am horribly cranky all day long
little simple thing(s) can trigger my time bomb inside me

hahahaa........

*lebay (exaggerated)

but later on in the afternoon, a friend of mine asked whether we would like to hang out together
Rachel asked if we want to go karaoke in group/not
and i said HELL YEAAAHHH LET'S GO!

so i went to happy puppy with Nita
she was so nice picking me up from my house heheheheheheheheehehe

oh, i have not eaten anything since my breakfast
due to the hesitation to touch foods on table and the impact of having HAIRY nasi uduk in the morning UH!

oh btw, i encountered HAIRY foods since like couple days back while i was having my morning serabi
NASTY SUPER NASTY!
i always hate strand of hair in my food!!
but this morning i forced myself to continue eating (someone forced me to)



 and i ended up in toilet after i finished eating it. ARGH!

and since i barely touched the foods on table for lunch, i ended up had late snacking time
i ate snacks and mangoes for late lunch :/

rating: 3/5 can taste the milk yummm! :d

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so anyway Nita and I reached first and we booked the room for karaoke (HURRAYYY!)
but since the others were being late
we decided to take a walk around the area
and we ate a grilled banana and a toast while we were waiting for them

grilled banana with chocolate, cheese, and milk ::2.5/5::

then we had karaoke for 1 hour
then we had dinner (food again!)

and i had INTERNET for the first time YAY!
INTERNET is not literary internet as in website etc.
INTERNET is a name of food. it is actually instant noodle (indomie) served with egg and cornet
hahaaha i have been wanting to try it since so long long long long long long super long time ago
wow after 22 years i have lived i finally tried it *lebay
hahahahaha!!!!

the taste? it is so-so
har har har

but hey, there's nothing wrong in trying something new at least now i know how does it taste like (:

INTERNET

then we went home

but wait

i promised someone that we would have dinner together today so I ATE AGAIN
hahahahahahahaah!!!!!!!

we went to dixie at benton junction
i had fried chicken with berry sauce and also sharing pizza
he ordered burger steak with steamed rice

the reviews and ratings for foods in dixie:
the pizza is ok.
it is 2.5/5

the burger steak tastes different from what i had long time ago
it is now 2/5

the fried chicken is still fine i give 2.5/5

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and we ended up so full with foods

and now i am cuddling with blanket and pillow and my handsome MR. WHITE (:


and i am happy YES I AM HAPPY

what a good monday, remedy for my crankiness

oooh and btw i got this new maroon 5 cd, thanks to my lil bro who bought it yesterday :* xoxo

timeless time.

it's kinda weird whenever i think that, you know, friends last forever?
but do they?
i mean, how should i put this......

it's like now, for example.
i graduated from school, ready to embrace so-called "earning and experiencing REAL life", life becomes so dull
it feels like i've been losing so many friends along the way, along the journey
well not literary.
but it just feels like it?
I wonder if it's like this for every person or is it just me?

some of my buddies are busy with school, some are busy with work, some are busy i don't know what they're doing, some are just disappeared.
weird isn't it?

how back then we used to hang out together because we were bounded by certain common.
for example, first year of uni, we spent our times together because we wanted to share our stories and experiences in our different places.
we were bounded by it.

and now some are still in school, some are just graduated, some are working, and some are just plain jobless-busyless (yea my own word) like me HAHAHAHAHHAHA
now it feels like i laugh pathetically bout myself for being busyless.
geez

and now life feels so dull, well not fully dull, but it's just dull.
dull in a way that i can't just call a friend and ask them to hang out with me right away, i mean i should at least "book" them couple days/weeks/months prior to the event wth.
then other thing is that, i myself is free all the time, but not with the rest of my friends

and now i spent 4 years abroad, away from almost every friend i have - let's say i was "isolated" in a way that i separated from them whom i usually befriend with - and now i am back to my hometown, it feels like i'm some kind of alien

i barely know what's happening here
what's happening with my friends, my best friends
i feel like i am totally alienated by...........myself?????
):

yes i'm writing this as a form of protest, but whom am i protesting?
what am i protesting?
while along the journey i was alone - with new buddies abroad - whom i don't find them here in my hometown, none of them are here
so who am i shouting at?
nobody.
i simply shouting in my own mind, silently.

almost frustrated, no-not yet.
almost gone mad, i don't think i'm capable of.
angry, no don't think so.
sad, probably.
pathetic about myself, begin to.

i literary want to scratch wall due to this madness..... well i probably should do that, hoping that it'd ease the anxiety HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

maybe i simply am lonely ):
maybe i simply miss my friends, my best friends the most
maybe i simply miss hanging out with people who used to be there for me
maybe i simply am losing the presence of friendship
maybe i simply want to share laughter again
maybe i just want to laugh happily with them again

and maybe, i should stop being so pathetic bout myself
maybe i should go watch the last airbender tonight, yes maybe.......
maybe i should do things i want to do now, put aside these weird feelings
keep it until i meet my best friend, one by one i would love to knock their head with my knuckles and tell them how cruel and mean and bad they are right now to me! ):

indonesia tanah air beta~

.....and everything comes to an end

and i have been staying and studying in singapore for 4 years and i guess now is the time i go back to my home town, my beloved country

there are so many contradictions, pro and con about me having this decision to go back to indonesia
some say that job offers are much better here in singapore, some say that indonesia is a definitely best place to explore art

me?

i shall say YES to those who say that money and job is much more better here in singapore compared to indonesia... but whom am i trying to satisfy? myself? or other people?

people will always demand something for us and as if our lives are part of theirs..
well i dont say it's a bad thing but i know somewhere, somehow, i am able to reach my own beautiful goal and success..
and to reach that, i do not need peole who bring me down
i can stand on my own feet i shall say

i dont want to become a selfish and arrogant by saying that i don't want to work in a company/office like others do.
i dont see it as bad thing but i dont see it as good thing for me as well
well i have plenty options to choose, arent i right?

it's obvious that i need a monetary support to practice my art but i know somehow i can find a way, other way to succeed

sometimes am tired to answer question "when are you going to work?" or "what is your next plan?" just to hear the same thing from different people all over again

i do understand that getting job is the top priority in this life but just like uya kuya mentioned in today's show "hidup adalah pilihan jadi jangan menghakimi satu sama lain"
i trully believe that each of us has different path in earning success
it's a matter on how we want to pursue it in our life

ngomong-ngomong uya kuya
hari ini yang di hipnotis bencong dan ex-bencong
and i was quite fascinated by the fact that sometimes, those kinds of people are better than us, the so-called "normal"or shall i say ordinary people?

kalo bisa komen sih orang-orang begitu menurut gue jauh lebih beradab daripada yang ngaku2 manusia normal
emang di dunia cuma ada laki-laki atau perempuan
tapi coba dipikir lagi....
kadang kita suka menjudge apa yang orang lain lakuin/gak bisa lakuin karena kita sendiri belum pernah merasakan apa yang mereka rasakan

bisa jadi.....
orang-orang yang ngomong sama koar-koar kalo banci itu cuma manusia laknat dan sebagainya, menurut gue udah menjudge banci sebagai makhluk yang seharusnya ga Tuhan ciptain
tapi toh buktinya mereka nongol di muka bumi ini dan banyak dimana-mana
walau case nya beragam, dari yang dari berojol ke dunia uda memang begitu atau karena banyak alasan jadi mau berubah menjadi banci aja...
tapi regardless apapun alasannya, ga ada alesan buat ngejudge mereka atau memilah-milah mereka itu ciptaan yang layak/gak...

simplenya, mereka sama2 berbentuk manusia, ada kepala, badan, tangan kaki dll yang menurut gue adalah jelas termasuk cerminan Tuhan juga.. seperti apa yang ditulis di Alkitab bahwa Tuhan menciptakan manusia menurut rupa dirinya

sekarang begini aja..
andai dari dulu manusia dikategoriin jadi 3 macem, pria wanita dan banci, jelas ga akan mungkin kejadian banci dijadiin momok cemoohan orang kan?

sebenernya ga masalah mo dia ga normal atau ga layak hidup atau ga masuk ciptaan Tuhan, asal sesama manusia bisa hargain satu sama lain, ga akan ada yang namanya hal-hal buruk terjadi
sayangnya makin kesini, makin bertambah waktu, gue merasa moral dan etika orang bukannya makin baik malah makin ancur, makin parah.....

jarang gue liat ada orang nabrak atau lakuin kesalahan trus otomatis minta maaf...
biasa malah sibuk pelotot2an.....
kasarnya bisa dibilang emang "KALAU MAAF CUKUP, GA ADA KANTOR POLISI"

mungkin klo gue ini jadi pencipta segalanya yah, gue sulap aja semua jadi masa purba deh...
minus dinosaurus...
abisan manusia jaman sekarang kok yah jahat nya ga ketolongan....
mending klo jahat ga nimbrungin sesamanya..
ini udah jahat, melibatkan orang lain yang ga salah apa2 trus biasanya orang jahat itu jelek loh.....
hahahahahahaha....
(mengutip kata bokap gue aja deh..... yang kemaren ini lagi ngobrol nyeletuk "biasanya orang jelek itu banyak kejelekannya loh")

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earlier on this day, i went to church as usual for choir service and i did talk to the sopranos leader that i will be going back to indonesia for good by the end of this june
and i felt a slight tears in the corner of my both eyes
these 4 years have been great
people come and go in the choir but some are permanent residents of the choir loft which make me feel sad about leaving them

the choir in singapore is very different from indonesia which makes me feel horrible leaving them

but i gotta do what i have to do

maybe i'll find a good choir group that suits my style in indonesia and i am so sure i will! (:

2 more weeks is kinda fast i think
but yeah here i am so ready to leave this lion city and begin a new page of life in indonesia!
wish me luck people! (:

wish 01

i don't want to shout at you
even though it might make you feel better

i don't want to preach you
even if it will make you feel less pain

i don't even want to tell you the reasons why
or what should you do or don't
i know im no good at it
so i let myself sit in silence

and listen

and i wish
somehow i can make you feel good

what i really want is that you can become someone i know
like you used to be...