August 26, 2008

Princess Mononoke

Sebaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll.........!!! >.< Don't you just hate it when you've planned something perfectly, but in the end things don't work out quite the way you've expect it to be?
Hari ini dari sejak sore gw udah berencana mau nonton Princess Mononoke yang udah gw download pake torrents di laptop gw. Rencananya nonton malem2 sambil dinner...
Jadi sorenya gw beres2 kamar dulu, vacuum clean my carpet, sweep the bathroom floor, sikat closed wc, lap2 meja, cuci piring, etc. Menjelang pukul 7 malem, gw ke asian ghetto beli sushi (crazy horse) dan boba...(ceritanya makanan disesuaikan tema film)... Kalo nonton Life is Beautiful, makannya spaghetti...
But what a bummer...ternyata filmnya english-dubbed... ='( Sushi-nya jadi terasa hambar, dan boba-nya jadi bikin kembung doang... Dan makin lama gw ntn, makin pengen gw ntn versi jepang aslinya...hix2... And sometimes you just reaaaaalllly want something at that very moment that it feels like a jolt in your upper stomach, telling you that YOU GOTTA HAVE IT! Jadi gw telpon Elephant Pharmacy di Berkeley, tapi sayangnya mereka cuma punya English versionnya (again..!), dan sekarang gw lagi nelp Blockbuster...moga2 ada deh...ugh, sebal! sebal! My dad would usually say, "This is Murphy's Law. If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong at the worst possible time in the worst possible way." Aaaarrrggghhh.....! >.<

                            

January 24, 2008

The Castle

It's now 5.07 am. Gw terbangun gara-gara jet lag dan mimpi buruk. Biasanya kalo gw kepanasan, gw mimpi buruk. Either mimpi dikejar-kejar, mimpi berantem tidak berkesudahan sama org, atau mimpi sedih... Biasanya sih it started out like this: malem-malemnya gw kedinginan, toss and turn for several hours, so I got up of my bed and took a sweater, another blanket, and a pair of socks. Baru deh gw bisa tidur. Tapi lama-lama malah kepanasan, and that's how the nightmare happens...


Anyway, enough about nightmares.


Hari ini gw mo crita tentang one of my FAVORITE dreams =) It happened when I was still small (kira-kira waktu masih SD). Malem itu gw dan ade gw abis main di kamar. Gw main Barbie dan ade gw yang masih kecil motong-motong benang wol (ga jelas...namanya juga anak kecil...). Lelah bermain, kami pun tertidur...


Tiba-tiba gw sedang berlari menyusuri jembatan yang terbuat dari batu under a clear blue sky. Jembatan itu menuju sebuah kastil megah yang juga terbuat dari batu (kaya di dongeng-dongeng gitu lah). I was on a mission to save my family yang terkurung di kastil itu. Ketika sedang berlari di jembatan...tiba-tiba BRUK!! Gw terperosok ke dalam lubang! Untung lubangnya ga seberapa dalam, dan dasarnya dialasi jerami, jadi gw ga luka. Ternyata di dalam lubang udah ada beberapa orang lainnya yang juga terperangkap di situ. Mereka juga punya misi yang sama kaya gw, menyerbu kastil. Setelah terjatuh dan masih dalam keadaan kesakitan, gw menengadah. Dua orang nenek sihir sedang menertawakan gw dari atas lubang, "hiiiiiy hiy hiy hiy hiy..." Gw dan yang lainnya langsung berdiri dan melompat-lompat berusaha menggapai bukaan lubang, sambil mengumpat-ngumpat kedua nenek sihir tersebut. Tapi karena lubangnya begitu tinggi, kita ga nyampe. Lalu dua nenek sihir itu menutup lubang dengan penutup teralis yang terbuat dari besi sebelum kemudian mereka pergi meninggalkan kami yang masih di dalam lubang. Kami pun berusaha keluar dari lubang itu. It took us quite a long time, sehingga cukup ada waktu untuk kami saling mengenal dan kemudian berteman. Akhirnya, kami memutuskan untuk membuat pyramid agar bisa keluar. And we did it! We got out of the hole! Dengan segera, kami menyerbu kastil setelah sebelumnya bagi-bagi tugas. Kami menyebar agar bisa menyerbu kastil dari berbagai arah. Banyak musuh yang gw temui di perjalanan, tebas sana-sini pake pedang, sampai pada akhirnya...gw bertemu dengan musuh terbesar: 2 ekor ULAR RAKSASA!!! Pelan-pelan, gw mengeluarkan pedang panjang gw, dan mulai bertarung. Dengan gesit, gw melompat sana-sini menghindari patokan ular. Lalu gw menebas kepala mereka satu per satu. Setelah itu, gw memotong-motong badan mereka kecil-kecil untuk memastikan mereka benar-benar telah mati. Convinced that they were dead, gw masuk ke dalam kastil dan menyelamatkan keluarga gw. And we lived happily ever after =)


Gw pun terbangun dengan perasaan puas setelah keluar dari mimpi yang begitu berbahaya sekaligus mendebarkan. What an adventure, I thought. Masih dengan perasaan ngantuk, gw merasakan sesuatu di tangan gw. Dalam gelap, gw mencoba melihat apa yang sedang gw pegang. WHAT THE...potongan ular!!! Gw berdiri dalam sekejap, lompat dari tempat tidur, dan menyalakan lampu!
Ohh, ternyata hanya potongan benang wol...

December 24, 2007

The Murderer, the Tsunami, and the Golf Car

This blog is about my dream... Mumpung lagi ga ada kerjaan, dan berhubung gw sering mimpi yg unik dan kreatif, so I thought...hm gw tulis aja kali ya mimpi2 gw di blog. I will take you guys with me on a ride of adventure! hehe... :P Anyway, this piece I wrote before flying back to Indonesia. Enjoy the ride! =)

Tadi malem gw mimpi...Gw dan ade2 sepupu gw, "the lost boys" (yup, tiba2 gw jadi kayaq Peter Pan) menyelundup ke dalam sebuah rumah. Kami mendengar bahwa konon, di dalam rumah tersebut ada seorang PEMBUNUH! Dia membunuh dengan cara melapisi tubuh korban2nya dengan "wax" (kayanya mimpi gw bagian ini kena pengaruh film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer deh, karena gw baru aja ngebahas film itu sama seorang tmn pas lg dinner). Nah, karena yg tau bahwa there inside the house lived a murderer hanya segelintir orang, there we were, the lost boys and I, trying to find out if the rumors were true. It was one of those big houses, you know...those big, creepy, old houses...It had a dark red carpet with yellow carvings all over it. The house was dim as it was illuminated by only a few orange lights. It had many stairs leading to I'm not sure where--stairs that were there just for the sake of being there (this part of my dream was probably influenced by the song "If I Were a Rich Man", a song from Broadway's musical Fiddler on the Roof, which I have been fond listening to these past few days). So "the lost boys" and I were admiring and scrutinizing the big house when suddenly we heard voices approaching. Hurrily, "the lost boys" and I ran up one of the stairs that lead to probably an attic and observed quietly from the darkness. A chubby man in his late 50's wearing a black suit opened the door for a young lady who appeared to be the owner of the house (a young wealthy lady berpenampilan sederhana), followed by a chubby woman, also in her late 50's, who seemed to be the maid of the house (wearing an apron and all that). At that point, we only knew that those three people exist in that house, we did not know who else lived there...But for some reason, "the lost boys" and I had this negative feeling toward the owner of the house. It's like...I had this feeling that she was the murderer, there was just no evidence yet. Suddenly, "WHOOSH!" the scene changed. A bunch of people I didn't recognize, my family, and I were on a tour, where we visited the young lady's (remember, the owner of that creepy house?) farm. She brought us to a place where it appeared to be a barn because there were stacks of hay. I was appaled that SHE was the tour guide and we went to HER barn; suddenly I felt a rush of 'danger' travelling up my back beneath the skin. I whispered to my dad, "Papa, Papa! I think she's a murderer, haven't you heard before about this someone who goes around killing people with wax?" But my dad was like, "Ah masa....." while looking around the barn with awe just like the other tourists. Unfortunately, I think the lady heard me because I could see it through her eyes, she looked rather disturbed and immediately she looked like she was trying to hide something. I had a feeling that there was a corpse lying somewhere beneath those hay stack. Soon the owner left us in a rush while seemed to have succeded in doing something before she left the barn (it was unclear, that something that she was doing, probably aimed to hide any evidence). After she left, "the lost boys" and I immediately browsed around the barn, looking for evidence. One little "lost boy" with a curly red hair came up to me and raised his pointy up to me, "What is this?" said he. There I saw on his pointy finger, a spot of white layer. "Let me see," I said, while taking the white layer with my bare hands only to realize that it was actually a layer of wax. Immediately I was sure that the owner truly WAS the murderer, and she somehow tried to hide the corpse before we came for the tour. And I had an even stronger feeling that she had dumped the corpse into the river next to the barn. Let me explain a bit about the barn. From inside the barn, if we look out through the entrance door, there was a huge river (almost like a cliff) that separated the barn from an enormously huge square building painted bronze. The bronze building had many windows, and a pipe sticking out from the middle of the building pointing straight towards the barn (not sure what the pipe was for). Hurrily, I ran to my father and showed him the wax on my finger, "Papa, look! Wax! She IS the murderer! And she probably dumped the corpse in THAT river!" (pointing towards the river). My dad turned his head towards the river, and approached the barn's entrance door to take a better look at the river. I was just standing at the same spot while staring at the bronze building. Several seconds later, I saw something coming out from the building's pipe, like a bubble gum blowed by the pipe. The bubble was small at the beginning, but it grew bigger and bigger in an exponential growth of velocity. I had a feeling that the bubble was caused by the wax of the corpse that was dumped into the river. Because the river could not dissolve the wax, it became accumulated in the pipe and turned into something similar to a bubble gum (ok this part doesn't make sense scientifically, but bear with me, it's just a dream). I called my dad, "Papa, look! (pointing towards the pipe)." My dad said, "That's probably from the wax of the corpse she dumped to the river!" We froze looking at the bubble from the pipe. It got bigger, bigger, and bigger, until eventually..."Pop!" (the bubble burst with a small popping noise). Then, SILENCE.....(I had a really, really bad feeling, though). Two seconds later, the building started to crack from the middle, and crumbled down like what happened to World Trade Center on September 11th. The crumble of the gigantic building into the river caused tsunami. My dad immediately tried to save our family. Unfortunately, there was not enough time. He could only grab my hand and my younger brother's hand, and we ran while the tsunami wave was chasing us from behind. I really hoped my mother and the rest of my family were also running behind us, not drowned by the tsunami yet. Finally, we reached a beach.... The tsunami was no longer chasing us... I saw an old lady in pink sitting in a golf car yelling to someone a few meters on her left in an angry voice. I had a feeling (yes, this dream is all about my feelings, sometimes I think that I design the plot of my own dreams by having these feelings coming first before it happened) that the lady in pink was the mother of the murderer. When I looked to see who she was yelling at, I saw the murderer, sitting in another golf car a few meters away from her mother. She looked a little panicked to see that I had found her. Immediately she turned on her golf car engine, and as she was about to drive off, I woke up.....

September 05, 2007

Aku Ingin Bersama Selamanya

oleh: Rako Prijanto

Ketika tunas ini tumbuh
Serupa tubuh yang mengakar
Setiap nafas yang terhembus adalah kata
Angin, debur, dan emosi
Bersatu dalam jubah terpautan
Tangan kita terikat
Lidah kita menyatu
Maka apa terucap adalah sabda pandita ratu
Ahh...di luar itu pasir di luar itu debu
Hanya angin meniup saja
Lalu terbang hilang tak ada
Tapi kita tetap menari
Menari cuma kita yang tau
Jiwa ini tandu maka duduk saja
Maka akan kita bawa
Semua
Karena..
Kita..
Adalah..
SATU


(blog ini gw persembahkan untuk temen2 terdekat, baik yang sudah, maupun yang akan hadir dalam hidup gw...) ^ ^

May 11, 2007

"THE EQUATION"

"Wrong timing + Wrong situation + The devil within us = Misunderstanding"

GENERALLY speaking, "the devil" includes:
- fear
- pride
- low self-esteem

...and everything else root from those. (Or did I miss out something else?)

Anyway, my point is, deep down inside, no human being is evil. It just so happens that not everyone is strong enough to fight the devil that's trying to control them (sometimes). So the next time someone hurts our feelings, let's try not to see that person as 'mean', but 'weak' instead.....(assuming time and situation error negligible) :p

The next time we encounter a problem, let's refer to "THE EQUATION", and see if it works! ;)

Note: This blog is just a self-reminder for future reference. But for anyone who happens to read my blog, feel free to be reminded.

January 31, 2007

So Random

~ Thought I need a break from my studies...so here I am, decorating my blog :D  Don't really hv anything to write, tho..so I decided to copy-paste my daily horoscope instead :) ~

Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21)

Sagittarius

The Bottom Line

If your hopes are not going to pan out, then get busy making up some new ones!

In Detail

As each day goes by, you have been learning more about someone you have recently met -- today you will get the final clue you need to evaluate your feelings. Do not be surprised if the road to romance takes a giant detour today -- but it will be for the BEST, whatever happens. Your visions of the future are not always accurate, but they should always be hopeful. If you discover today that your hopes are not going to pan out, then get busy making up some new ones!

~ hmm............. ~

September 25, 2006

Loving Someone Imperfect.....Perfectly

Ketika bertemu orang yang tepat untuk dicintai,
ketika kita berada di tempat pada saat yang tepat,
itulah Kesempatan.

Ketika kita bertemu dengan seseorang yang membuat kita tertarik,
itu bukan pilihan, itu Kesempatan.

Bertemu dalam suatu peristiwa bukanlah pilihan,
Itupun adalah Kesempatan.

Bila kita memutuskan untuk mencintai orang itu,
bahkan dengan segala kekurangannya,
itu bukan kesempatan, itu adalah Pilihan.

Ketika kita memilih bersama dengan seseorang walaupun apapun yang terjadi,
itu adalah PIlihan.

Bahkan ketika kita menyadari bahwa masih banyak orang lain
Yang lebih menarik, lebih pandai, lebih kaya dari pasangan kita
Dan tetap memilih untuk mencintainya,
Itulah Pilihan.


Perasaan Cinta, tertarik, Simpatik
Datang bagai Kesempatan pada kita.
Tetapi Cinta Sejati yang abadi adalah Pilihan.
Pilihan yang kita lakukan.


Berbicara tentang pasangan jiwa,
ada suatu kutipan dari Film yang mungkin sangat tepat :

"Nasib membawa kita bersama, tetapi bergantung pada kita
bagaimana membuat semuanya berhasil."

Pasangan jiwa bisa benar-benar ada.
Dan bahkan mungkin ada seseorang
Yang diciptakan hanya untuk kita.
Tetapi tetap berpulang pada diri kita.
Untuk melakukan pilihan apakah kita ingin melakukan sesuatu untuk mendapatkannya atau tidak ...

Kita mungkin kebetulan bertemu dengan pasangan jiwa kita,

Tetapi mencintai dan tetap bersama pasangan jiwa kita,

adalah pilihan yang harus kita lakukan.

Kita ada di dunia bukan untuk mencari seseorang yang sempurna untuk dicintai

Tetapi untuk ...

belajar mencintai orang yang tidak sempurna dengan cara yang sempurna!

-taken from milis Panekuk Sanur-

June 08, 2006

Lembaran PeRtaMa

Hi semua...pakabar? (Hehe maap, masih kaku yah...blog pertama sih) :p Karena banyak yang sudah me-"launch" blognya masing-masing, AKHIRNYA hatiku "tergelitik" untuk menerbitkan blog sendiri.

Beginilah...korban mode...=p

Ya ok lah, without further a do,

Selamat membaca :)