Resolution ... Reprise ... Rejoice

The new year has come. This will be the final year to finish my long journey being a student. I made my plan to what will come ahead. Maybe it is too high-expectation but I am trying to make the best of myself. Thanks to long discussion during new year vacation.

The new year vacation was very exciting. I had the 15 years-postponed-concert show. When they made the only show in Indonesia, I could not see them even I already got 2 tickets for that. This time, my friend luckily bought 2 tickets and she didn't have anyone to ask with.

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I also had another concert. That was my second time to watch the band. I watched in different town this time, bigger stadium and more enthusiastic audiences. They also performed very well even the setlist was same for all their asian tours. Maybe that is going to be my last chance to watch them.

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What a holiday .....

                            

Between a rock and a hard place

I just checked the Chaos in Motion dates for Japan. They're going to perform only in Tokyo, January 15th. It is tuesday. I always get my tuesdays busy with presentations as always. How can I catch up with the show? Anyhow, I can spin out to other performances Velvet Revolver or Linkin Park. They are going to have show in Japan also in November.
Confused ...

In The Heat of Summer

This is my first summer in the new apartment.  I didn't equip my room with air conditioner, so hot air and high humidity are the perfect combination to turn my room into shauna. I have to get used to with this condition, at least for one more summer next year, I hope.

I just finished my one week road tripping to the north. It was also hot there, I thought  it would be cooler. I had the best adventure during the trip. We spent less money to gain more fun, drained our energy more though. 

These days I prepare to get back to normal work. Trying to fight the heat and the tiredness from the trip. I just submitted the "first track" and now waiting for the review. This process really looks like making an album for the musician. I really enjoy it.

New Family

This was started from a lunch. I had my lunch alone that time. Then, Fong, Tan, and Bassim called me over to join them. It became a larger group with some campus staffs joined us also. We keep introducing new members into our group and now we are settle. We came from different countries and cultures. So, we  share customs, ideas, and ,of course, jokes. No more lonely lunch time, even we can plan trips and weekends together now.  I like this group. Hope we can keep the spirit.

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One Joke

I heard this joke from a radio station a long time ago. I still find it is funny.

Sometime in the late night, there was this man just got back from his business out of town. He didn't have any other choice than to take a cab to bring him home. After got into a cab, he tried to pull off some conversation to show some manner.

"You've been driving a cab for long, sir?" the businessman said. "Of course. Driving a cab is a job that runs in the family. My grandfather, my uncle, my father, even my little brother, they're all taxi drivers. So, don't you worry, just sit back and relax!" the driver replied.

In the middle of the way to home, the driver just passed a red light sign. The businessman shouted, " Whoooaaa.... Did you know you just pass a red light, or you just didn't see that?". The taxi driver again replied, "Don't you worry, just sit back and relax! I'm an experienced driver. Driving a cab is a job that runs in the family. My grandfather, my uncle, my father, even my little brother, they're all taxi drivers."

Another red light sign was passed again and the businessman worried about his safety and yelled, "Are you trying to kill us both?" The driver lightly responded, "Don't you worry, just sit back and relax! I'm an experienced driver. Driving a cab is a job that runs in the family. My grandfather, my uncle, my father, even my little brother, they're all taxi drivers."

Reached the final intersection near the businessman home, the traffic light was showing green. He relieved that finally he'd be home safe. But then, the taxi driver stopped the cab suddenly right in front of the green-lighted junction. The businessman shouted again, "Are you carzy? Why are we stopping in the green light? You seemed ok to pass the red light." The driver smile and said, "I'm afraid that my grandfather, my uncle, my father, or my little brother will pass the red light from the other side."

Filling The Space

No interesting story to post recently since I got overwhelmed by the study works.

I am just getting used to live in my new appartment. Fortunately, I have friends that willing to share an appartment with, considering the rent cost. Nothing new in life beside new appartment, and new habit on cleaning around.

Less workout this month, hmmm... though I still keep maintain weight. So, I can start to reduce by exercising.

I'm  making a few new friends. But, old friends still kept in memory. This study really limits me to contact all of my friends. Or maybe, I just own too many? No, I like having many friends. It's my nature keeping as many friends as I can. Even sometimes, it's considered wasting times by most people. Well, I don't collect stamps. Then, is it wrong to collect friends?

The Curse of 'Gongkers'

This is about a club I joined when I went to college in Bandung. This club is filled with students that have big interest in Balinese art, specially in traditional music and dancing. It's named MGG. We had this big interest in the activities so that we did a lot of performances everywhere around Bandung, Jakarta, even abroad, at most of the famous exhibition halls in those cities.

During the years, there was also some up and down, fightings, disagreements, and curses. The curse is the interesting part. So, there was a time when we had one of our player got drop out from the university. And another year went by, another player got drop out too. Then we gathered and wondered why each year all the dropped out students play the same instrument, the 'Gong'. "Was it just a coincidence? Maybe we should do something about the 'Gong'". Then we did something in Balinese culture way to honour the 'Gong' to get rid off the curse.

After some times, still nobody had enough guts to replaced the 'Gong' player. Then, I myself changed my position to the 'Gong' player. Years went by, we performed like usual. There was no student got drop out in the first year I played the 'Gong', I relieved. Then, I played for another years since I continued my Master degree there. There was no dropped out students from our club anymore. The curse was already gone.

In the middle of our joyfull moments, I wondered that the curse was not gone, it just altered. I realized that I already been in this performance activities for more than 6 years and I can not leave the 'Gong' because everybody still affraid to play it. Then we called another curse of the 'Gong'. "One who take the 'Gong' will leave the club immediately or can't leave it at all".

So that is the curse I have right now. I can't leave the 'stage' things, even now or at least yesterday.

Lost

It's not about the new TV series. Not the one with a group of people that got their plane crashed in the middle of exotic island. It's about losing friends.

Within this month, 2 friends of mine had passed away. One of them was right before my eyes. I still could not have much anything to say about that, that was a tragedy. The other was a friend that already got an illness for long. Sometime, I don't know how to react cause I realize this moment would come eventually. But I know a person that keep hanging there when facing such a situation, I still admire her.

Upon this event, reminded me for a story that I read about how people going to say when they visit our funeral. I said to myself, "They had experienced that." What will they say about me at mine?

To my friends Fukushige and Murni ...

Quoted

In the middle of these summer work days, a friend started doing one silly thing. He tried to google his own name and found out few results. Then, I also tried to google mine also. I was surprised that I found my name in a seminar proceeding. Then I traced the proceeding, even it was not easy to view. I had to download the whole proceeding. After careful read, there is this technical report that was submitted by a friend of mine from back then when I had an internship. He quoted few paragraphs from my bachelor thesis.

I really felt glad yet embarrased since something that I wrote years ago is mean something for him. When I wrote the thesis about 4 years ago, I just felt want to report something. There was no intention to be given such appreciation. It really meant much for me. Maybe the next writings I made, I should write more carefully. Thanks to all my friends in LAGG-Puspiptek Serpong for the appreciation.

Assembling The Army

Dscf0481 Last Tuesday, I called my friend challenge to join in the craziest concert ever, KISS concert. In the high school time, I listened to this rock n roll band. Not many friends of mine in the high school listened to their music. So, I was considered having weird sense of music at that time. Gladly, I met many people of my kind here.... heee

The concert started at 7 pm, but my friend planned to have a dress code preparation at 1 pm. I can not join him to get prepared cause my supervisor wouldn't let me left the lab seminar. Then it's OK for me to go by myself to the concert.

When I arrived at the concert hall, the line of KISS Army already assemble in front of the entrance. They were all really prepared. I was amazed by the fans enthusiasm, compare to the other two concerts I saw before.

The show also was great. My seat was perfect, just 17 rows behind the stage. I started to think 17 is my lucky number since I also got 17 for my student ID number in the college.

After the show, my KISS Army friend asked me to have a KISS Army dinner somewhere near the Kanayama station. And, we really had a great KISS Army night then.

So, SHOUT IT OUT LOUD .....