si Jakarta 485

Jakarta ulangtahun lagiii...PRJ lagii...Jakarta great sale lagiii....

seperti kata para punggawa C'mon Lennon ;

aku cinta J A K A R T A (diulang sampe 5x)

Mungkin beberapa tahuuuun yang lalu, saya gak ngebayangin bakal nyebut kota ini jadi rumah :). Selama ini selalu mikirnya Bandung lah yang bakal mencuri attention saya (but, still..), tapi I do love Jakarta more berhubung Jakartalah yang lebih banyak menjadi saksi perjalanan hidup saya selama hampir 5 tahun terakhir (tsaaah..).Susahnya banyaak,senengnya lebih banyaaakk...

Mungkin banyak yang benci kota ini, beberapa teman saya bahkan mengeluh hal yang sama setiap hari, ah jakarta... Bahkan ada seorang teman saya yang gave up sama kota ini dan akhirnya milih untuk mengabdi di kota kelahirannya. No offense, tapi umumnya orang yang awalnya tinggal di bandung atau bogor dan pada akhirnya "terpaksa" mengais di Jakarta punya asumsi yang sama. Kota ini melelahkan...,dengan macetnya, polusinya, kriminalitasnya, demonya, macetnya,jaraknya,padatnya, fasilitasnya,macetnya -oh I said that already ;)-

Tapi saya cinta kota ini, Jakarta slalu bisa ngasi kejutan buat saya. Mungkin karena warganya banyak, jadi tingkah laku orang nya juga banyaaaaak banget jenis nya. Benar kata sepupu saya, - mutya - kota ini slalu bisa ngasih saya tempat untuk menyendiri tanpa harus merasa kesepian, kota ini punya ratusaan tempat buat menyendiri dan bersenang senang. Mungkin memang banyak kesusahan yg bakal dialami d Jakarta, but hey, they have a lot of entertaining places too.

This is totally the city that never sleep, banyak banget rumah makan dan store 24 jam, dan holy cr*p klo ngedatengin sarinah jam 4 subuh juga masih rameee banget orang orang yg menuh-menuhin Mcd sarinah dan Sabang :). Jakarta slalu ngasih kebutuhna apa yg kita cari. Seriously,, mau nyari apaaaaa aja, you can find it in here.

well happy birthday Jakarta, please never stop to amaze me.. for those people who always complain about you? Booo them off the stage,,Jakarta itu sumpek,macet,transportasinya ga ada yang nyaman, ibukota negara, pusat pemerintaha, dan makin tahun makin rameeee....so just deal with it :)

KEEP CALM AND DEAL WITH JAKARTA

Almost lover - A Fine Frenzy

Your fingertips across my skin/The palm trees swaying in the wind

Images/You sang me Spanish lullabies/The sweetest sadness in your eyes

Clever trick/I never want to see you unhappy/I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover/Goodbye, my hopeless dream/I'm trying not to think about you

Can't you just let me be?/So long, my luckless romance/My back is turned on you

I should've known you'd bring me heartache/Almost lovers always do

We walked along a crowded street/You took my hand and danced with me

Images/And when you left you kissed my lips/You told me you'd never ever forget these images,no

I never want to see you unhappy

I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover/Goodbye, my hopeless dream/I'm trying not to think about you

Can't you just let me be?/So long, my luckless romance/My back is turned on you

I should've known you'd bring me heartache/Almost lovers always do

I cannot go to the ocean/I cannot drive the streets at night/I cannot wake up in the morning

Without you on my mind/So you're gone and I'm haunted/And I bet you are just fine

Did I make it that easy/To walk right in and out of my life?

ps: its so funny when a song can directly happen to your feeling and life..

 another 15th of June...another brand new number,,, (hopefully) better me in better age

#YESIam25

three cakes..three group of candles and lotta smiles

GRACIAS AMIGOS MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!

My own new year's eve finally come and adding another number in my life. A couple years ago, birthday its all about candle, cake , gift and free dinner. But, going down with your moving forward age , when the day's come we're gonna give it more credit to what has happened and whatwill happen. We're not getting any younger but please keep our younger mind :) I had mixed feeling on my 15th june,happy,sad,miserable,confused,amused,light-hearted,and blue at the same time. But in the end its all just for my own good ( amien).

Its not enough words of thank to all my friends and related who can still remember the day i born :) It doesnt matter wheter you say it via BBM,t witter, facebook, text, phonecall, voicenote, Path, Line, email and to my face..I owe you all one, thank you :*.

Grow up doesnt always mean grow old *wink

are you really ready to travel?

Sabtu siang kemarin saya dan he-should-not-be-named(anymore) terlibat obrolan yang cukup seru mengenai jalan-jalan atau bahasa tren-nya travelling. Sibuk naming the places we ever been, yaaaa...saya harus mengaku kalah dengan dia yang sudah berhasil mengunjungi Raja Ampat!!!D*mn!But, bukan itu poinnya.. Point is what's gonna happen if you're travel with the wrong person.

Mungkin untuk travelling emang yang paling bener dan menyenangkan adalah bersama para sahabat arau teman dekat yaaa pastinya bisa bikin hubungan tambah akrab. Biasa kelakuan aneh dan unik mereka akan semakin terlihat dan that's bitter and sweet. People said, kita baru akan benar - benar tau tingkah laku seseorang itu kalo udah pernah travel "susah" bareng- bareng. And thats affirmative!!! Singkat cerita saya pernah traveling bersama seseorang yang entah kenapa sampai sekarang saya masih menganggap dia tidak akan pernah berhasil untuk traveling sendirian -ya kalo pada akhirnya dia berhasil, that'll be GREAT-. Akan sangat menyusahkan dan merepotkan kalo traveling sama orang yang nyusahin hahahaa...in other word,spoiled!Jadi, singkat cerita teman saya ini sifat manja nya kebangetan, padahal dia jauh lebih tua dari saya, jadilah ketika mengunjungi suatu tempat dia keukeuh minta makanan yang cocok di lidah, air mandi yang super bersih, transportasi yang memadai yang bernama mobil harus slalu stand by dan dia sangaaaat mudah changing mood.Kalo traveling, usahakan sebisa mungkin jauh - jauh dari tipe ini, its totally gonna ruin your mood. You come for holiday not to take care some kindergarten student. :) Kalo udah gini, hal yang mungkin bisa dilakukan hanya (terpaksa) bersabar.


Beda cerita dengan pengalaman teman obrol saya, ketika ia mendapat kesempatan langka untuk bertugas ke Sorong, tanpa buang waktu ia langsung curi kesempatan untuk mengunjungi Raja Ampat. Kebetulan, karena ia bertugas sendiri, maka dia bergabung dengan turis lain yang ingin ke tujuan yang sama. Dengan kata lain, dia berangkat traveling dengan orang yang sama sekali belum pernah ia temui sebelumnya. Thats kinda fun and..scary at the same time. Tapi yaaa karena dia laki-laki dan menurut saya laki - laki lebih mudah dalam bergaul, maka dengan nekat dan tekad yang bulat pun dia berangkat. Bergabung dengan 4 orang lainnya dalam 1 grup pastinya membuat dia memiliki 4 teman baru, yang 2 pasangan dari Austria, yang 2 lagi merupakan turis lokal dari Surabaya. Menurutnya, berkelana dengan orang yang ga kita kenal itu sebenarnya menyenangkan, karena obrolan penuh basa basi dan saling berbagi cerita akan dapat mengalir. Namun, jika kebetulan dapat orang yang kurang fun, akan sangat menyebalkan. Seperti, 2 pasang bule itu sangat akrab mengobrol dengannya dan berbagi cerita tentang pantai - pantai di Indonesia, sedangkan yang 2 dari lokal sangat tidak bersahabt dan susah untuk diajak bicara. Yaaa,mungkin mereka benar benar ingin liburan sendirian tanpa gangguan :).Tapi ujung-ujung dari komunikasi satu arah itu adalah, yang lain akan dirugikan ketika si guide kesusahan buat nyari si lokal setelah acara free selesai, akibatnya kapal pulang jadi terlambat hampir 3 jam.


Intinya sih, kalo kita mau travelling bareng sama temen-temen, sebisa mungkin kasih gambaran jelas tentang situasi tempat yang bakal dikunjungi. Entah itu situasi yang menyenangkan,banyak fasilitas dan akomodasi gampang, atau bahkan tempat yang akomodasi nya sangat terbatas dan penuh kemakluman :) Or you'll end up listening their whiny hehehe

I'll see you at the end of Java

Long weekend..Looooong weekeeeeennnddd!!!!!!!!!

Hellow everyone, a week ago I just got back from a really amazing trip on my long weekend.There is anonymous said work hard play harder..So there it is, a 3 days and 2 night trip to Peucang Island!!

Why called it an Amazing one? After all the rush and a lot of preparation, not to forget that you had to drink the anti-malaria a day before, we left Bogor at 5 am and drive head to Sumur,Labuan. According to an "inceredible" time keeper, we're gonna reach Sumur at 1 pm and have a nice lunch and enjoying Peucang. But, God's said : No..not that easy my friend.. Then with a lof of "are we there yet?" question and bored to sleep (can you believe that WE tired to sleep??!@#$), we arrived at Sumur at 3pm, a little bit clean up and we ready to set foot on the ship at 4pm. The Capt said it'll took 3 hours to reach Peucang.But then again, God's said : No..not that easy my friend :) The ship's muffler got burned and we're stuck in the middle of Java sea until 9 pm. Its grateful anyway, how often did you get to lay on the deck at night, with sea breeze and sleep beneath a thousand glorious stars to stare all night long. Touchdown Peucang at 9pm and theres nothing we can see but the house on stilts. As we pack to the room and got bath, we had our lovely dinner served by the best Peucang's chef,Mr.Odah. Cant wait what will happen in the morning. 

Peucang's finally said SURPRISE to us in the morning. Step outside the house you'll gonna meet dozens of deer, a wild boar family and the monkey,,yes there's a lot of monkey!!Then we saw a really really reaaalllyyy beautiful beach of Peucang. I tell you my friend, as far as my age now, the best beach of an island that i ever saw is Kayu Angin island at Pulau Seribu, but this one's is really can compete with that. Its blue, clean, clear, and you'll always cant found any waves, but you surely gonna see a thousand of school fish!!AMAZING isnt it!!

This trip truly adventurous for us, we got to doin' some amazing  2km tracking cut cross the forrest to reach Karang Copong and its white sands beach,saw the deer and peacock and hornbills in a wild forrest, had a lunch with a hungry stare from monkey and wild boar, canoeing to Cigenter to observe rhinoceros and wild bulls, not to mention to always feeling insecure while canoeing since theres a lot of estuarine crocodiles and poisons snake. 

we are truly enjoyed this trip. We're being served like a king by the forrest official, eat properly and sleep well. We reaaaaaly dont mind to get to this place again :)

 see, I've told you the beach is beyoooond beauty

 here to us

 say hello to Papa wild boar....

... and his rest of family 

 karang copong

 meadow of wild bison

 the house that stilts :)

tracking to karang copong

Isn't it FANTASTIC!!!

 Sorry for the unordered photo :*

Anyway this trip only cost us 450 thousand rupiahs, and its include all in!!

Theres no way that may buddies trip gonna cash out as long as this trip. So, a nice adventorous trip with an amazing sigthseeing and cheap? Who would say NO to that.

Big thank for Mang Ade and family, the RPUM crew, Pak Odah, for a pleasant hospitality.

Thanks to Pak Yayan for drove us and picked us up again.. Marcopolo!

Ira,Utiey,Anggi,Rahma,Mutty,Theo,Pandu,Utun,Edit,Lukman,Amsyong,Pijul,Acay for being a really fun trip-mate!

where's next? :*

the blue attack

SECOND EVENT. *yay!!

So, at 29th April twenty-twelve, we finally gather and executed the 2nd event of LUMAKU fo.  This time for Putri Bunda. Got myself super excited for this main event because I did fall in love with the kids since the first introduction, a couple weeks before the due date.They really are easy to mingle and very very active. Could be because all of these resident are young women between the ages of 7 to 16 years old. Anyway, after a couple weekend meeting, lot of hours to rehearsal at night before, and not to miss the miss-communication, eng.. ing.. eng..VOILA!!! 

We arrived right on time at Putri Bunda's and straight run the rundown. Teaching and sharing about rhetoric, mass media, entrepreneurship and  kind of gardening - which in this case we both know that maybe they're smarter than us..they did the gardening thing every week - . First we thought they'll be bored and just listen. But, they really seems passionate and fascinated. They even prepare a dance routine and sing in front of us as their appreciation. The big mom of the house also being super kind and enjoying that moment. At the afternoon we played some games and it got more interisting and fun at the photo session. They really momentarilly uncontrolled and cant wait to take a picture with us. To be truth, at that exact moment, we do felt like superstar. With the grabing, the hugging and their quarreled with their friends to be photographed first.So super super supeeerrrr exiciting!!!!

as they really enthusiasm sharing their facebook account with us, so at the end of the day I voluntarilly write down all their facebook name. And when I checked out my own facebook to upload some phot o at the next day, they already friend request-me first. That made us stay connected till now :')

ah we are so happy. Exhausted all paid off. Even some of us gotta work on Monday, we don't mind!!! All smileeeee form ear to ear :)))) *Grin*. Maybe our Lumaku's really a small scape foundation, but I do believe we're gonna do great someday!!! amien!!

see you at next event...*yay*

mixed salad inferno

Beberapa hari yang lalu saya berjumpa beberapa sahabat di salah satu coffee shop di Gunawaman, namanya Thats Life. Tempatnya enak, wifi nya lumayan kenceng, dipake ngobrol lama juga suasananya lumayan nyaman. But we're not gonna talk about the place :) Jadi waktu itu saya sempet pesen yang namanya Mixed Salad disana, ngeliat bentukannya sih kayaknya simple dan rasanya enak!!

So, two days ago I tried to make the exact same salad with my own extra mixture :)

lettuce, grilled bread, boild egg, thousand island and CHITATO!!!

ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS :

 Wash the lettuce first, and cut it with your hand to get the natural point

and then take an egg *for one serving, hard boiled and cut it into pieces.

For luxurious, you can use a long french bread, but for instans, lets just grilled a couple of regular bread and cut it into squares.

Then, put the lettuce in a bowl, mix it with grilled bread and eggs that have been processed. Add the thousand island, and as the final touch,...... crumbled the Chitato or any chips you like all over the salad!! 

and Voilaaaaaaa......taste good!!!

happy eating!!

Just saying..

Being nice to people you don't like isn't to faced, it's called growing up!

hometown glory

a little escape from all the craziness at the O *sigh*

after all those things, home and family is really what you need

winding road, cold weather, all the smiley face...

lets left the bad stories behind.

One thing I learn and have to admit from this moment

People changes

let me let me let me

another concert to attend!

but the pre-sale ticket already soold out!!!

Money money come to mama..

mama want to enjoy Morrissey