The 1st Wedding of 3Gers

Hari sabtu kemarin 2010.10.02 aku dan Elly tour ke 3 kota di Jawa Timur: Surabaya, Gresik dan Bojonegoro. Berangkat dari Cikarang menggunakan bus DAMRI yang ke bandara jam 5 pagi, karena kami ingin menghadiri acara akad nikah dari anggota 3G yang lain yakni Elys. Kakluk yang dari Bali pun dateng (sayangnya, dia tidak bisa menyabotase 3 bule untuk menemani kami :p).

Hal yang dapat disimpulkan dari perjalanan kemarin adalah:

  1. Buseeet, Bojonegoro jauuuuh :lol:. Waktu yang diperlukan untuk tiap perjalanan Cikarang-Bojonegoro atau Bojonegoro-Cikarang (Jakarta-Surabaya dan sebaliknya menggunakan pesawat, termasuk waktu tunggu, ngetem, dsb) adalah 11 jam. WOW!
  2. Kalau dari Bungur dan mau ke terminal Osowilangun, naiklah bus P8 yang via tol Panjang untuk menghemat waktu.
  3. Dari bandara Juanda ke terminal Bungur bisa naik bus DAMRI dan cukup membayar Rp 15.000.
  4. Di Bojonegoro ga ada taksi.

Pernikahan pertama dari 3Gers ini seketika membawa euphoria dan kenangan jama-jaman kami masih duduk di bangku kuliah. Sejak dulu ketika aku, Elly dan Kakluk harus mengerjakan tugas dan menginap di kosannya Elys, atau ketika kami hanya mengadakan acara menginap hanya untuk ngobrol atau have fun, ramalan siapa yang akan menikah duluan pun sering tertuju pada Elys. And it happened ;). We’re happy for you, pal ^^.

She didn’t through the way easily, ada nangis-nangisnya yang pasti ^^V ketika harus menghadapi pilihan-pilihan. But we decide our own destiny, choose and live with it. Karena seperti kata Elly, kita hanya perlu mencari pasangan yang kompatibel dengan diri kita *tsaaah*.

Mengenang jaman-jaman kuliah memang menyenangkan dan gada habisnya. We had our love stories, mengagumi para dosen (yang sayangnya sudah beranak istri :lol:), tempat makan favorite, the silly and stupid but awesome things that we did :p, dan masih banyak lagi. Kakluk mengidolakan dosen yang sekarang sedang di Aussie untuk menjalani pendidikan S3nya, dan aku tentu saja mengidolakan kedua dosen pembimbing skripsiku *evil laughs* yang salah satunya sedang menyelesaikan S2 di Jerman.

Dulu (dan mungkin sampai sekarang), kami masih aja sering rebutan tanggal cantik. “Heyy, tanggal ini uda aku pesan. Kamu pake tanggal yang lain aja“, tentu saja itu tanggal yang dipilih untuk tanggal pernikahan :p. Ada yang 101010, ada yang pengen pake angka biner *lirik Kakluk* dan terciptalah 010111 (karena kalo mau pake 101010 udah nyaris ga mungkin :p), ato ada juga yang 091011 ihihi, yang jelas angka cantik dikantongi dulu walaupun sang partner masih dalam perjalan kemari.

Oh ya, ada 1 hal yang bikin kami ga berhenti tertawa adalah ketika aku menginap di rumah Elys kemarin dan aku dipinjami kaosnya. Di kaos itu ada sablonan foto Elys yang ternyata itu adalah kado yang pernah diberikan oleh salah satu fans nya :lol:. Love makes someone more creative, right?.

I love for having you pals ^^. Dan siapapun diantrian berikutnya, we’ll come to your wedding (or my wed, who knows? 😉 ).

Foto akan diupload menyusul, karena belum dapat filenya dari Elly hehehe.

I Had A Dream

When I walked alone, I remembered that I ever had a dream. We’ve talked about that couple years ago.

Someday we’ll move to someplace outside our country. You said we need a good place for us, a green small town with great neighborhood, and i agreed. I could smell the green grasses around the house, and feel the fresh air in the morning at that time.

The park

Russell Lupins flowers
Yellow eyed penguin
Sunset of the city

I said I want to have a small shop, sell some Indonesian products. An awesome thing when I imagine the bules will come and buy those things. And you? Of course you’ll keep running your own business.

On the weekend, we will do vacation and bring meal that we prepared on the previous night. When we’re bored and need our-time, you’ll pick me up and we’ll walk along the edge of the street and find a nice place to enjoy ice cream and local cuisines.

But finally I woke up, and it was a beautiful dream that I ever had. We’ve ever had.

“Les rêves sont comme des étoiles. Vous ne pouvez pas les toucher, mais si vous les suivez, ils vous mèneront à votre destin.”

“Dreams are like stars. You can’t touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.”

Ways To Express Love

Suddenly I remembered my eldest sister. The last message I sent to her was a news related with my future plan. And she replied “it’s okay, so learn again”.

She has a tough personality, independent, a hard worker and she’s a kind of person who will stand on the front line to protect her family from bad things other people do. If I have to use one word to describe her, I’ll choose “fierce” :D. But behind her tough characteristic, she has a soft heart. Most of the times, she gives her best effort to people who ask for help.

On the previous New Year’s holiday, I spent my time there, at her home in Jogjakarta. We talked much at night, because she has to work until afternoon. As always, I am as person with expressive and stubborn characters, revealed some of my thought in front of her. And we took time until nearly down to find an agreement. I felt like long time didn’t talk to her in person. That was perfectly nice.

When the day came for me to go back to Jakarta, she accompanied me to airport. On the last time, I kissed her and she looked bit awkward 😀 and said “you’ll come again, right?”. I just smiled and pushed my trolley away from her because I had to check in.

Two days after I came back to Jakarta, she made a call. She said with half laughed and cried that she cries when open the door of the room that I used when I stayed at her home, because she thought that I was there ^^.

Nice thing also happened when she forgot my birthday. Soon after she realized that she made a biiiiiiig mistake *hyperbolic hihihi*, she talked to me and said “unyil, honey, my lovely youngest sister, please forgive me blahblah..” :D. She’s nice indeed.

We can’t ask people to express their feeling in the same way with ours. Some people will choose to hide their real feeling deep inside and show the opposite with many reasons; shy, not get used to it, awkward or just for keeping his/her pride high or something else. But on this case I walk on my theory, I’ll let the people that I love know what my real feeling is. Because I don’t want to take the risk to regret in the rest of my life when I have to lose my time to tell them what the truth is. No matter what. I’ll choose to feel ashamed than regret. And I realized that they’re not mind reader who can find things unspoken correctly.

So, which way will you choose? ^^

Huge hugs and lotta loves from here, sis..

Kriteria Buku Yang Akan Aku Lirik

Honestly aku bukan penggila buku, tapi aku senang untuk membeli buku. Tiap kali ke Gramedia, rasanya ga bisa menahan diri untuk membawa satu, dua, ato beberapa buku dari sana dan memindahkannya ke rak yang ada di kamarku.

Bahkan kemarin lusa pun, sepulang dari acara dinner bersama teman sekantor di PIM, aku mampir ke Gramedia. Warning yang uda disetting sebelumnya “Jangan membeli buku dulu sampe yang di rumah kelar dibuka bungkusnya dan dibaca semua!” menguap begitu aja. Dan aku menggesek kartu debit untuk biaya pindahan dua buah buku dari sana ke kamarku. Great -_-.

Aku termasuk pemilih soal buku yang mau aku beli. Mungkin bakal ada yang bilang bahwa don’t judge a book by its cover, but i can’t ^^, sorry.

Hal-hal berikut ini yang biasanya menjadi pertimbanganku dalam memilih buku yang akan aku beli:

  1. Judul.
    Ya, judul buku harus menarik keingintahuanku untuk lebih menyelami lembaran-lembaran yang tertulis di dalam buku itu. Judul yang menarik ini bisa menghentikan pandangan mataku dalam menyortir deretan buku yang terpampang di rak-rak toko buku. Kalo ga menarik, lewat.
  2. Cover.
    Yap, desain cover juga mempengaruhi penilaianku. Karna desain ini kadang juga sebagai interpretasi karya yang ada di baliknya, lembaran-lembaran yang menanti untuk dibaca, dan juga orang-orang yang terlibat dalam proses kreatif pembuatan buku itu. Dari cover (skali lagi ini menurutku), aku bisa membayangkan apakah mreka profesional, kreatif, niat dalam menerbitkan buku tsb atau sebaliknya, menerbitkan buku cuma untuk mengumpulkan koin-koin dan memanfaatkan genre yang lagi ngetop saat itu.
  3. Penulis.
    Ada beberapa karya penulis yang memang aku patok “I must have their books”. Karna menurutku, mau ga mau nama penulis ini juga menjadi jaminan mutu dari karya-karya yang mereka buat. Baca selebihnya »

A Walk To Remember #1

I love documenting moments, because someday i’ll read this blog again and put a smile on my face while remembering the past.

This time i’d like to write down a short story from my dinner with Mbak Tiar, she treated me frankly ^^. I got a treat because i won the bet she made.

I ever said to her “Why, why i cant stop talking though i’ve to talk alone? “. And suddenly, maybe that time she felt bored and needed someone to cheer up the day, she said that she wants to make a deal with me. The deal was if i can keep shutting my mouth up for 1 hour, then she’ll treat me. Though i felt doubt to take the deal initially, i won the deal finally ^^. Baca selebihnya »

My (Another) Happy Sunday

Yap, after incident on the previous sunday, people keep asking “hari minggu pergi ke mana? sama siapa?”. Heuuu… *scream loudly, “MAAAASSSS TANGGUNG JAWAAAAAB!”*. Sigh, you left me here with a bunch of questions and curiosity *throwing remocon*.

Yesterday, i woke up late and decided to cancel my plan to go to Istiqlal. But i still went to JakSel to buy something. My first destination was Plaza Semanggi.

I looked for a clothes, i already drew the clothes in my mind before i go to find it. Unfortunately, after about 20 minutes in Centro, i found nothing. I decided to take a step to JCo *sluurp*. I’ve missed the doughnut anyway ^^. Ya ya, i knew i’m on diet program. Because of that, i just bought 2 doughnuts and ate them there. Oh God, the taste was so…..luscious. I relished each bite of them. Baca selebihnya »

I Will Carry You

Salut mon chéri, je dédie ce pour vous. Pouvez-vous parler anglais? Je crois que oui ^^.

When the waves are crashing down
Pulling you to sorrow
I will sail you back to shore
When there are no more heroes
Over under, near or far
I’ll be right beside you
Standing here with open arms
When there are no more heroes

And through it all
And through it all
When you’re tired and you stumble I will carry you
When starlight falls, my love will guide you home
You’ll never be alone
When there are no more heroes
It was you who showed me how
Brought me back to glory
Through hopelessness and darkest days
It was breath you gave me

Bonne journée..

Hug

I woke up earlier this morning. The morning silence perfectly can bring an atmosphere that drag me to realize what i feel indeed. I was searching an article and suddenly i found a Free Hugs video on the site. I watched it, and i cried.

Lately, i work harder to make the distance between me and my dreams closer. I feel enthusiastic, but deep down inside i feel scared for sure. There’s no another word beside “what if”. The scare wrapped my heart for one minute or two, and i think a free hug can make me feel better.  Baca selebihnya »