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"Oh, out here don't you ever know better.."

2012-01-28T10:42:00.000+07:00

I've been so busy lazying around this month, just because I have already submitted my 40 pages internship report that contains me blabbing about how wonderfully tiring it was to work as a fashion assistant in a magazine. I also can not continue to work on my final thesis right now because The Young Liars (the object of my research) went to Paris yesterday! They were invited to play at MIDEM Festival 2012 in Cannes, with White Shoes and The Couples Company. I am so proud of them. So instead of typing thousand words for my thesis now I better send my good wishes for my friends in Cannes. Besides, if The Young Liars could make a good impression there at MIDEM (and of course they will), it would be a really helpful information to be put on my final thesis later :-)

Well then, talking about music and stuff, my friend who is a concert freak asked me to join him to make a website about music gigs, I said yes and it's on progress right now. And have you listened to a song called Automatic High? Yes, it's a single that's just been released by my friend named Wezy, I am so proud of him too! He asked me to be his publicist but I don't feel like it, so I decided to join his team and manage all the things that are related to social media to help him publish his album in March! Wish me luck!

Looking at the calendar, today is the 28th of January already, means I will go to Singapore with boyfriend and my bestfriend for Laneway Festival in no more than two weeks! I really can not wait since I've been waiting for Girls and The Horrors for too long and my dreams will come true next month! Even though I am actually a bit sad because I planned to watch The Horrors twice (in Spore & Jakarta) but turns out they will have their gig here on Feb 14th and I am gonna be back to Jakarta at midnight, it's kind of depressing! I need to force my brain to record everything that happens at Laneway, this is a serious matter.

Pictures below are some beautiful photos snapped by professional photographers and also music bloggers. I'd love to watch all of them but the picture at the very bottom is the band I wanna see the most. Click on these names to check out all of the amazing photographers' websites. (Toro Y Moi, Yuck, Feist, Cults, Girls, The Horrors).

"Oh, out here don't you ever know.. Oh, out here don't you ever know better.."

DAYUM!! I CAN NOT FUCKING WAIT FOR LANEWAY!

My So Called Winter Guy.

2012-01-27T23:01:00.007+07:00

There’re a lot of things happened to my life lately, and guess what it’s only the first month of 2012! Most of them made me happy, like.. uber happy. And gosh how I really miss writing stories, that’s why I decided to write a blogpost again, since my previous posts only contain pictures.

Anyways, almost all of my friends asked me if I have a boyfriend now, cos I have been quiet for almost two months. When I went to campus, my mates teased me. When my other friends asked me, “hey you look kind of happy we can see it in your face, are you dating a guy or something?”, I only smiled and I did not say anything. Now lemme give them (and you) the answer, yes I am. I am now in a relationship. This is one of the things that made me uber happy times 10000.

His name is Ashaf. I actually knew him since about a year ago, I really don’t remember. We followed each other on Twitter, but never talked. We also followed each other on Instagram, he liked my cat pictures, I liked some of his pictures too, but again, we never talked. Wait, this reminds me of something, we once talked via Instagram, but only once. And, I also haven’t met him in person that time. To be honest, I have never thought about chating with him, or even to say a simple ‘hi’ because we barely knew each other. Like most people say these times -- it’s the mutual friends kind of thing that made me realized that there’s a person named Ashaf here in this world.

This might be a little off topic but let’s talk about concerts. For me, music concerts and gigs are the place where I can enjoy my favourite bands live and forget all the problems that happen in my life. Furthermore, music concert is also the place where I can meet my friends who are sometimes really difficult to hang out with. This leads us to the story where my boyfriend saw me for the very first time. It was Tame Impala that time, I went there with my bestfriend and her boyfriend, and I felt like a complete #foreveralone girl. I’m not saying that my bff sucks cos she brought her bf, no, they were like the funniest couple EVER, I love them both, but I just felt lonely. Anyways, the gig went perfectly smooth, I fell in love with the songs again, but never imagined that that gig could make me fall in love with a guy.

The day after, I got a message on Twitter, and was kind of surprised because this guy, Ashaf, told me that he saw me at Tame Impala the day before but he didn’t have the guts to say hi to me, cos he was afraid I would not recognize him. Without knowing that this will lead us to a relationship we’ve got right now, I replied his message. The convo continued until we finally exchanged phone numbers, had chats via whatsapp – not to mention, from early in the morning til midnight – sent each other voice notes and stuff, and we decided to meet up.

From the very first day I met Ashaf, I have already felt something different about him. I could tell him everything and vice versa. We could talk about music, foods, fashion, movies -- literally everything. Two months went by so fast, we continued to meet up almost every week, watched movies, grabbed coffee together, and with no particular reason, we fell in love with each other. If I have to write everything about him and all the wonderful times we've experienced for months, I maybe will need a week or more. So lets just make it short, now I may sound like a girl who falls in love for the very first time, but really, I feel like I am the luckiest girl in the world right now because my boyfriend is simply the most adorable and amazing guy I've ever met. I'm not exaggerating. Best thing is he can make me laugh even though I am feeling completely sad and I never get bored with all the simple jokes that come out from his mouth. (ooh, and double plus cos he can speak both english and japanese). Really, I could not ask for more. I don't see any reason not to like him. He is indeed a gift. (and he sent me a video from Dr Martens yesterday!)

Lets Go On A Holiday - Kamengski

2012-01-11T11:27:00.002+07:00

A friend of mine, Gooodit asked me to make a mixtape for Kamengski. I said yes without thinking twice. At first I was thinking to make a mixtape about how life's treating us so far, but then I realized people need holiday, at least that's how my life's treating me so far. I mean, I saw my twitter timeline, I read my friends' blog posts, think they also need holidays. As for me, I've finished my internship already, but I still need to write the report and stuff.............. FUCK IT, Lets Go On A Holiday, who wants to join?

Tracklisting :
Villages - Alpine

Ghost Train - Summer Camp

Holiday - Albert Hammond, Jr.

All Around and Away We Go - Twin Sister

Amsterdam - Peter Bjorn and John

A Weekend In Brooklyn - Kisses

Jealous of Roses - Bibio

Vacation - Beach Fossils

Jericho - Jamaica

Summer Holiday - Wild Nothing

Duration -- 36,9 Minute

Download here

Heavy rain, a box of Pepperoni Pizza, and Bestfriends (part II)

2012-01-10T01:17:00.001+07:00

That's all they really want, some fun
When the working day is done
Girls - they want to have fun
Oh girls just want to have fun..

Heavy rain, a box of Pepperoni Pizza, and Bestfriends.

2012-01-10T01:09:00.002+07:00

It was a rainy-rainy Saturday. I slept at 4am, and at 10am the next day, there was a call coming from one of my bestfriends, Adit. He said he’s going to go to my place and want to spend the day together, also with Skinnymarie. Even though it was hard to get up from my bed, the answer for both of my bestfriends is always a “YES”.

The result of three minions that have nothing to do on weekends always turns out fun. Spent hours at the bookstore, searching for books and magazines, got tired so we sat in the corner -- looking at Terry Richardson’s penis. Went to the divination and fortune telling section, found a book called “The Book of Answers". Asked stuff, such as: Can I go to London this year? Am I going to go to New York again soon? How are you doing? What’s good for dinner tonight? – ooh, and there’s also a book called “Mom’s Book of Answers”, we definitely asked stuff again like, What would our mom say if we lose our virginity before we get married? What would our mom say if we wanna spend the night with a guy? And the anwers that popped out from the book were surprising! It said: take a bath, go to the backyard and play, or if you can’t do option A, you still have option B and C. Was pretty funny!

Toro Y Moi, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Twin Sister shuffled on our iPod as we strolled around Jakarta in a really heavy rain. Decided to enjoy a large box of pepperoni pizza and chicken wings with BBQ sauce, accompanied by cans of beer and cigarettes. Man, life is good. I mean, what’s better than sharing stories with bestfriends while eating pizza? Hours later, the rain started to stop pouring when we had an idea to do a spontaneous photoshoot. Since I always bring my sunglasses, and Adit always brings his camera, and Skinnymarie always has her sexy brown hair (do they even related to a photoshoot), we tried to find a good spot near Domino’s. I know, I know, Skinnymarie and I are not real models, we are amateurs, but at least we had fun. Enjoy the photos! Adit said the theme of the photo is "Yes, girls just want to have fun"

Welcoming 2012!

2012-01-01T15:43:00.007+07:00

Happy New Year 2012 to everyone and Happy Mew Year to my fellow Frengers!

2011 has treated me real good. Lots of surprises I could not even mention them one by one. From important things like my previous internship as a fashion assistant, another holiday trip to HongKong, my brother's first year in college, my thesis proposal hearing, the ost of Skyscraper album release by Jonas Bjerre, Is Tropical's Native To album release, Apparatjik World for my iPad, Tame Impala, 30 Seconds To Mars, The Drums, Paramore; to simple-but-wondrous things like birthday greetings from Dan, birthday presents from We're No Heroes, and also a signed picture of Is Tropical which I also counted as a birthday present from my friend who lives in California. Made new friends, ate everything I want, done whatever the fuck I want. I enjoyed every ups and downs last year, time flew so fast it's already 2012 today!

If you ask me what's my new year resolution? Well, to be honest, I really dont have one, cos I think if I wanna be a better me, or if I wanna achieve something, I do not have to wait til the end of the year, life's short man, live life to the fullest, just do your best at everything, every-single-day :-) You dont wanna wait til the end of the year to be a better person, right?

Forget about resolution, 2012 will be a year full of concerts. Foster The People, Metronomy, The Naked and Famous, Bombay Bicycle Club will come to my town this month, and I havent even bought the tickets, fuckety fuck. But I am going to Singapore in February because of Laneway Festival! Thank God the ticket is now safe inside my drawer. I can not wait to see Girls, The Horrors, The Drums (ageynnnn), Cults, Toro Y Moi, etc! Man, GIRLS and THE HORRORS. I will see Chri55y Baby and Rhys Webb in front of my eyes next month. That's an accomplishment y'all, seriously. Friendly Fires, Peter Bjorn and John, Royksopp, and (lets cross our fingers, because it is still a rumour) The xx will come to my town too. I'm going apeshit for all of them, 2012 will be a great year, amen!

Anyway, I'm gonna share one of the achievements that I've got last year, it happened when I still had my internship as a fashion assistant with my bestfriends. Our boss asked us to make a 6 pages-fashion spread for the magazine! I was so excited I puked rainbow. Tata, Ocha, and I chose "Radar Detector" by Darwin Deez as the theme/title of the fashion spread. I asked my friend Dede and a girl named Keisha to be our models. We also asked our friend, Jason to be the photographer. That day was really frustrating but fun. We were so anxious, but we hope the photos will turn out good. Here I'll give you the sneakpeek I took with my own camera, edited them a bit, enjoy! (this fashion spread will come out in February, please do not forget to buy the magazine! You will not regret it)

Oh, and one thing, my brother's band, Coke In My Pocket finally released their first music video, Anomaly. If you have never listened to their songs, go to their MySpace and also follow their Twitter for further information! Thankyou.

Dom and Gumby

2011-12-03T15:08:00.002+07:00

Forget the sad stuff on my previous post, I'm trying to move on right now so let's talk about happy things. Last month I watched Tame Impala! Shit got real I stood in front of Kevin. Even though I realy wanted to stand in front of Dom and Gumby, but when you stand in the middle you can watch all of them freely. Chk Chk Chk came out before Tame Impala, and both were so great live. I could not explain how the voice of Kevin brought me to the clouds and how cute Dom's smile was. Look at one of the pictures I took that night, and I'll give you the chance to make the story and imagine their performance yourself.

Anyway, it's been two months since I started my internship at Girlfriend magazine. My office mates and other interns are totally fashionable and fun to work with. No day spent without laughter. As for the works and job desk, all worked out and turned out well. We go in and out of malls borrowing clothes, use them for fashion spread photoshoots the next day and then bring them back to the malls. I've got the chance to write beauty and fashion articles, make press releases, mix and match outfits and stuff. Oh, and for my girlfriends whom I asked to be models for the fashion spreads, whom I asked to be pictured for our ‘street style’ article last week at Brightspot Market, thanks for helping!

A very surprising news came out yesterday when my boss told Ocha, Tata, and I to do one fashion spread by ourselves. I was amazed, this is the first time that interns were given the chance to do the whole fashion spread, to find the models, the photographer, the location for the photoshoot, the theme, the wardrobe, everything. Isn’t that cool? Please wish us luck and I’ll show you the result later! But I'm gonna end my internship on December 20th, I'm kind of happy and depressed at the same time. Happy cos I finally have the time to focus on my thesis (I nailed my thesis proposal hearing weeks ago!), but depressed and sad because I have to leave my friends at work. Here I wanna show you how works can be really fun to do at my office! Pardon my face.

Oh No Ono splitting up

2011-12-03T12:55:00.000+07:00

There’re lot of things happened this year and I can’t believe it’s December already. There’re too many things to do, I’ve got no time to even check my own blog. To make matters worse, it’s been a month since I moved to a boarding house, and the wi-fi connection can not be detected in my room, so I’ve spent the whole month playing with only my phone, and yeah, no TV, cos I am not a telly-person. I went back home every Friday after a whole week of working. Spent almost all weekends at home with family and friends.

I kind of agree now that we can not live without the internet, I missed a lot of news, phew. When I got home yesternight, I went straight to my bedroom and turned on my laptop to check my email and stuff. There’s a message coming from my friend who lives in Jalisco, and she said, “Oh No Ono won’t exist anymore. I’m crying”. I did not believe her at first, I kept saying to myself, “the fuck this can’t happen!”, but when I checked their site, well it’s true. Oh No Ono told the fans that they played their last show last friday night. I don’t know if you guys have ever listened to Oh No Ono, but my love for them is as big as my love for Mew. This news broke my heart, it is far worse than breaking up with your boyfriend, or maybe losing your mobile phone. I read their post 3 times until I finally believed that it is true they split up. One of my dreams, to watch them live when I move to Europe, gone in seconds. I played Sunshine and Rain at Once on repeat, and cried.

I will always love them, no matter what, for me they're still Oh No Ono.

I Am 21 Years Old --- "happy birthday, birthday thing x"

2011-10-15T20:13:00.001+07:00

These cute guys are Kay and Jelte from the band, Valerius. I've got the chance to watch their show for free last month, came to their meet and greet and got pictures with them too. Valerius was great. I am in love with Jelte and he told me that if they knew that it was my birthday last month, they would have sing a birthday song for me on stage. Too bad they knew it after the show. But it's lovely to know that nowadays great bands out there have really friendly members you don't feel like you're the fan of them but you're their friends who love the songs from those bands. Don't youu agree? How many of you have already had a chat or even be friends with members of the bands out there? :D

Anyway, last month was my birthday, and it was memorable. Got lots of birthday wishes from everyone; my family, my friends, and some people I don't know, it was really sweet. But what made it totally memorable was because I've got all of the things I've wished for. I've told you on my last post that I really really really wanted to have my internship in a magazine company, God heard my prayer and I started my first day of internship in Girlfriend Magazine as a fashion assistant on September 28th, which is my birthday, and to make it even better, my bestfriend Tata also works there. That was like a dream came true for me. As for now I've already worked for almost 3 weeks and I really enjoy it. My job is to go to every malls, boutiques, shops to borrow clothes, do photoshoots with models, write fashion articles and stuff. I was also asked to be a model once for our December edition! That was fun.

These are other presents I got: Apparatjik's We Are Here CD and DVD, The Drums' Portamento, Darwin Deez' self titled album, Danimal Kingdom's vinyl, and The Nylon Book of Global Style from mom. The last picture shows you presents I got from this UK band called We're No Heroes. A week after my birthday I've got a white box sitting on my desk, and when I opened it I found those CDs inside. That was a total surprise for me. It's really beautiful. How many times can you get a surprise present from one of your fav bands?

Oh and one story, the next day after my birthday my mom told me to open my facebook wall. I didn't know why at first but after I looked at it, I cried. Dan from Danimal Kingdom sent me a message that said, "happy birthday, birthday thing. I hope your birthday was awesome. Let me know if you're coming over x", maybe you think I am exaggerating but you will not understand how much I love him and his works, that's why the message made me cry. It was simply the best birthday wishes ever!!

and last but not least, who loves Mono? Raise your hands! Please don't beat me up after you look at the pictures down here. I volunteered for "An Exclusive Night with Mono" last week. Their live performance was beyond wondrous, I felt like my heart was being sliced slowly everytime they played their tunes. One word, it was BEAUTIFUL.

September.

2011-09-21T17:14:00.005+07:00

It’s September! Rainy season is coming, and how was your holiday, anyway? Had lotta fun? Mine was actually quite scary and nervousing. The thoughts of the upcoming 7th semester with internship, final thesis, thesis hearing, etc made my brain works frantically. It was like “oh shoot I wanna go somehere, to the beach, have fun and not worrying about stuff” but then again, still the thoughts haunt me. What made it even worse was when two of my close friends have already had their internships and that time I had not even sent one CV yet. Weeks after that, I sent my CVs to some magazine and television companies. Got called by ANTV (a tv company) for interview and they have already given me the work schedule and everything. They said they’ll call me again in two weeks. Wish me luck!

Another thing is, at my university, we have to start writing on our final thesis on 7th semester. The title of my thesis is “The Advantages of Micrboblogging Site as a Promotional Tool for Independent Bands”. My thesis advisor likes the idea and told me to start writing on the first chapter; the background and stuff. I will have my thesis defense in October, this news makes my stomach lurch upside-down, but it’s so exciting at the same time.

Back to September, I’m gonna let you know some random stuff this month. First thing first, September 3rd is my parents’ wedding anniversary. It’s their 22nd anniversary this year. Secondly, the birthstone for September is the sapphire, and this is the reason why my mom gave me a blue sapphire ring for my birthday present years ago, I just knew this! That makes us proceed to the third thing, September 28th is my birthday. I've already got myself birthday presents in advance actually, but can I have a birthday wishlist? I want Mew to come back here again, a big bucket of Liquorice jelly beans, and a simple call from any company that tells me to work at their office (amen to that).

Anyway, that's not all, we still have another birthday this month! It's September 21st, Frengers must know this, today is Jonas Bjerre's birthday! Which makes me soooo happy to be born in the same month with my favourite person in this whole wide world. Jonas is the most friendly musician I have ever met, he has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard, he is my inspiration, our inspiration. He is ethereal. I made a birthday present for him yesterday, took a picture of him from his facebook, and edited it. My Indonesian Frengers family also made a video for his birthday, guess which one are my fingers? :D

Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Jonas Bjerre.

Paramore and how they made an earthquake in the heart of Parawhores

2011-08-24T10:36:00.004+07:00

Finally after years of waiting, all of the fans of Paramore, or as we all know, the Parawhore have reached one of their goals in life, to watch their favourite band live. As mentioned on their website, Paramore will be on The Vans Warped Tour from July 14th through August 9th and followed by another tour to Asia, including Hongkong, Singapore, and our beloved country, Indonesia. This was a surprise after all the news about the departure of two members of the band, Farro brothers. Everyone thought Paramore broke up, Paramore won’t be a band anymore, but we were wrong. They recruited new members for live shows and they still gave us a very great performance.

About thousands of people filled Carnaval Beach Ancol on August 19th, 2011. Most girls wore leopard-printed-tees, since Hayley Williams, the vocalist loves leopard-printed stuff. Boys wore various Paramore t-shirts. Some of them were fasting, but they did not really care how hungry their stomach were, they waited for Paramore since 3 in the afternoon, whereas they were informed that the gate will be opened at 7pm. Thankfully, the promoter provided free drinks for those who were not fasting and an entertainment for Parawhore who were still waiting for the gate-opening. There was a small stage next to the line where we sat, 3 bands performed there and accompanied us through the waiting, Gadis, Last Child, and Gecko which were pretty entertaining.

The gate finally opened, everyone ran to take the best spot to watch Paramore. Fortunately, I got the chance to stood on the front row on the left side of the stage. The concert was supposed to start at 8pm but the show started an hour late. The Swellers, which was the opening act for Paramore went up to the stage at 9, and Paramore came around 10-ish. This did not bring Parawhore’s adrenaline down because just when Hayley, Jeremy, and Taylor came out to the stage, everyone screamed like crazy.

Like every concerts they had before, Paramore gave us ‘Ignorance’ for the first song, it felt like an earthquake attacked Carnaval Beach because every single person there started jumping right after Taylor shredded on his guitar for the intro. They brought 18 songs total from every album. Looking Up, Playing God; When It Rains, Where The Lines Overlap, Misguided Ghosts for the accoustic session followed by Crush Crush Crush (we can feel another great earthquake), and the new song everyone has been waiting for, Monster.

An hour has passed, Hayley grabbed her standing-mic and started singing The Only Exception. Everyone sang the lyrics beautifully and the song ended with pyrotechnic waterfall on the background. Sounds like an ending, but live concert will not be complete without the encore! All of them came out again and brought the famous ‘Brick by Boring Brick’, and ended the concert with their first single from Riot! ‘Misery Business’.

We all may have a thought that Paramore will not be the same without Farro brothers, but the concert last week made us realize that Paramore was a great band, is a great band, and will always be a great band that can make an instant earthquake in the heart of every Parawhore, because of their wondrous and powerful performance.

Java Rockin Land 2011 pt. II

2011-07-31T13:37:00.005+07:00

Artists line up for the third day were Good Charlotte, Kensington, Frente, Young The Giant, Helloween, Happy Mondays, etc. I came the third day just to watch Good Charlotte, Kensington, and Young The Giant, because honestly I dont really like Frente. Just like anyone else who are maybe not a big fan of Frente, I only like Bizzare Love Triangle.

I’ve never watched Kensington live, they were the first one to watch on Sunday so I went to Simpati stage and stood in the front row, to be exact, in front of Casper fucking Starreveld!! They were just as awesome as I expected. I shouted Casper’s name several times, and he realized it was me shouting his name he smiled at me. Eloi, Jan, and Niles also gave their best performance, Eloi said “terima kasih” many times to the crowd. After that, I went backstage, just randomly tried my luck, I might get to meet the guys from Kensington and yeah Eloi came out from the backstage I called him and took pictures with him!

Just when I finished talking and taking pics with Eloi, I heard a very familiar drum roll from Intermusic stage. I knew Benji and Joel are coming out, so I ran to the huge stage, and enjoyed Good Charlotte’s live performance like I enjoy eating ice cream every summer. Massive crowd but they had really good attitude not like the ones I had around me on the first day. Benji kept his promise to sing SM*SH – I Heart You and it was freaking funny, I recorded that (all videos of Neon Trees, 30 Seconds To Mars, The Cranberries, Young The Giant, Kensington, Blood Red Shoes will be uploaded ASAP to my YouTube account).

After Good Charlotte, we went to BNI stage and waited for Young The Giant. They came out and brought lots of songs like I Got, My Body, etc. Most of the crowd sat around while watching Young The Giant, I looked behind me and there were four tall guys standing behind me and I was so shocked they were Casper, Eloi, Jan, and Niles. I smiled at Casper, he said “Hi” and just like that I asked him if I can take a pic with him, and he said yes!!! After we took pictures I pulled myself together and tried to ask Casper if the guitar he used was fender Jaguar, and I was so shocked when he patted my back and whispered to me “What?”, I was trying to answer him but before I opened my mouth he put his ear just an inch close to my lips and I asked him again, I swear I was shaking. He then answered my question, “nah, I used Telecaster! Hey you like Young The Giant too?”, again, to my ear. We had a chitchat and Casper whispered to me everytime he speaks asdahfjladjkasdj, I cant even, I did not know how to feel and what to say. I also took a pic with Jan and Niles, and François from Young The Giant gave my brother his drum stick. That’s awesome! Anyway, days after JRL, I showed Casper the pic of him shredding his guitar via twitter and he replied “I do (enjoyed shredding his guitar at JRL) and I remember you! Hope to come to Jakarta again soon”.

OK, stop fan-girling, but overall Young The Giant was a really good choice to close this year’s Java Rockin Land for me (because I did not watch Helloween), and I’m hoping to watch other great bands next year! Anyone reading this and also went to JRL last week, please tell me your stories! I would love to read it. See ya!!

Java Rockin Land 2011 pt. I

2011-07-31T12:51:00.007+07:00

Here I’m going to tell you how Java Rockin Land 2011 went, in case you did not go to there last week. Well, I went there for the whole 3 days and it was freaking awsum! Because there was no camping ground this year, me and my brother decided to stay at Mercure inside Ancol. I think that was a good thing to do because going in and out of Ancol everyday costs a lot of money and (of course) energy. I bought the ticket when the price was still Rp 440.000 for 3-day-pass and it was all worth it, even though that time JFP has not confirmed all the artist line up, but I really did not care because there were rumours here and there that 30 Seconds To Mars and The Cranberries are going to perform at Java Rockin Land 2011, so why wait?

Let’s roll to the first day of JRL 2011. We Are Scientist, Blood Red Shoes, and 30 Seconds To Mars performed that day, there were lots of other bands since JRL provided 10 stages, but I gave my attention to only those 3. Shodi and I sat in the middle of the crowd while watching We Are Scientist and I’m a bit dissapointed with their live performance. I don’t know why, is it just me or they actually did not sound really good live, if you guys watched them too, what do you think? But overall they’re good, they played my fav song, so I gave them good score.

The schedule then followed by Blood Red Shoes. I was afraid I’m not going to stand close to the stage for 30 Seconds To Mars so we decided to watch BRS far away from Simpati Stage, cos BRS will perform again the next day, at least we got the chance to watch them again. 30STM delayed their performance from 11pm to 1am so we had to wait for about 2 hours standing in front of GG Intermusic Stage, my energy drained.

1am, Jared Tomo and Shannon came out and everybody was getting crazy. Around me were all big guys, no girls, and they pushed each other like morons. I remember the second song was A Beautiful Lie, and when Jared sang “It’s a beautiful Lieeeeee..” I was pushed here and there, I could not see anything, I heard someone broke bottles behind, I heard someone puked, and those big guys were jumping like crazy, I nearly died, if it’s not because of Shodi, Yan, Adam, Abi, Kafka, and two other guys who made a circle around me, I will be squished to death. I’ve been to great concerts with crazy crowds but this one is the worst. After the 5th song, This Is War, I could not take it anymore, everybody was screaming, shouting, and fighting with each other so I decided to go out from the crowd, and enjoyed Jared sang from the small stage behind the crowd. Apart from that crazy experience, as always, Closer to The Edge and Kings and Queens made me shiver a lot, I felt butterflies not only in my stomach but all over my body. 30 Seconds To Mars was fucking amazeballs.

The second day came and we were so excited to watch Blood Red Shoes, Young The Giant, Neon Trees, and The Cranberries. We went to Carnaval beach around 4pm and watched Young the Giant at 7. They were really, really good, what excites me more was when they played The Strokes’ You Only Live Once, Sameer had a very great voice and they are really good live. After YTG, we waited for about an hour and a half and Neon Trees came out, Shodi and I stood in the front row, of course! They played all their songs. Tyler was hot, and Chris winked and smiled at me several times he gave me and my brother two guitar picks! That was lovely.

I think the biggest crowd for JRL 2011 was on Saturday, everyone was waiting for The Cranberries. They came out at 11pm, I stood in the middle of the crowd and sang along with Dolores. I recorded Linger with my camera because it is my favourite and Dolores sang it beautifully. After that, I went to Tebs stage and was surprised to see Laura and Steven from Blood Red Shoes were checking the sound for their performance. I stood in the front row in front of Steven and shouted his name several times he smiled at me! Finally the crowd from Cranberries came to Tebs stage and BRS started their performance, they sang my fav song, Heartsink!

to be continued..

Between Surabaya, Paris, and Jakarta

2011-07-30T11:57:00.003+07:00

The 6th semester ended two days ago and it was such a relief for me. I can stop worrying about all of my tasks and those crazy-ass assignments. Good news! My Intercultural Communication final exam which was a thick book containing all activity report, execution and stuff about Germany and our Intercultural Conference is ready to be shown to people! I am so proud of myself and my classmates.

The holiday started yesterday and do you remember the guy I told you about in my older post? My old friend from France, yes, he is coming to town! Has been here in Jakarta for two weeks already and I met him yesterday. My mom joined us too because she is Julien’s mom’s friend. Funny thing is the second I met Julien he shouted, “aaah akhirnya ketemu juga” with his funny Indonesian accent, but then he started to speak in English all along the way. He brought his sisters, Laetitia and Gabby, whom are my juniors in elementary school. We went straight to Starbucks and had hours of chitchat. 6 hours to be exact and I don’t think it’s enough for us to share all the stories we had after Julien moved back to Paris 10 years ago.

The nostalgia begins with stories of our old friends from elementary school, the good ones, the bad ones... We were talking about this guy, our school mate whose attitude so bad and rude, we imagine he’s now a criminal and is in jail. Our bestfriends, teachers that we love and hate, stuff like that. Julien still remember how at weekends it’s either Tisha and him had a sleepover at my place, or vice versa. I asked him if it would be good enough for me to study abroad and he said yes, and he knows that I really want to move to London :)

I taught him slang Indonesian words like “songong” and “sotoy”, and yeah he pronounced the word “SONG-GONG”. I realized Julien has not changed that much. I mean he’s a lot taller, and honestly he’s getting more handsome and funnier indeed, he did lots of funny things, but he’s still the old Julien I knew years ago. He asked me “Seriously? I did not change? Emang dulu aku bandel dan jahil juga?”, again with his funny Indonesian accent. And yeah, he still craves for soto ayam, onde-onde, gado-gado, etc. That’s when I taught him the word “sotoy” and he said “AAAAH you made me remember SOTOY AYAM. Mom I want soto ayam.”

That day was just awesome.. Imagine you’ve never met your friends for about 10 or eleven years long, and just like that you had a cup of coffee and talked for hours. Too bad he has to go back to Paris this Saturday, but we promised to meet up again soon. So see you, Julien!

His last text for me:

"It was great seeing ya! Hope there will be another time, in Paris, or Jakarta, or even Surabaya!", amen to that.

The Intercultural Conference

2011-07-04T23:36:00.002+07:00

The Intercultural Conference went really, really, really well, just like what we expected. All the laugh, love, tears, sweat, swollen and watery eyes because we stared at the monitor from early in the morning until another morning, fights, cooperation, everything.... are totally paid! I mean like, from all the designs for the promotion materials, the one that's being choosen was ours, and stuff like that.

I was actually a bit dissapointed that my class' presentation was being cut by the moderator because she said the time was up, and I saw Mirad (my lecturer) went out from the auditorium right after my group was being cut. So he did not watch us debate, and did not watch us answering questions from the audiences. I was a bit sad, but then after the conference ended, he came and told me that he really were sorry because it turned out that he had to lecture night class.

I asked him if he was mad because we were being cut but he said "Hey, you guys were really great up there, the presentation was really good and concise. I am not mad! I have class to lecture. You guys did a really great job", I was so happy he told me that. I know, for the past two months he was a bit dissapointed because (you know.. teenagers....) we always do stuff last minute, just near the deadline, but that's the thing we learned from the whole project. Never do last minute work, I also learned how hard to bring together so many ideas to be one great idea, but in the end, we are very proud of what we've already accomplished.

I wish I can show you the video but it's still in the process of editing, so here are the pictures from the conference. I'm proud of all my friends from Batch XII.

Skippin Town with THE DRUMS!

2011-05-27T22:09:00.006+07:00

These names, Jacob Graham, Jonathan Pierce, and Connor Hanwick have been flying around in my head for days. Yes, they are those damn gorgeous guys from The Drums. I've got the chance to watch them performed live in my town two days ago!! I am so happy I could not even tell you how happy I am. Their concert called "live and up-close with The Drums", when I arrived at blowfish, fuckyes.............. FUCK YES!!!! I'll tell you best moments from the concert in points:

The stage is only stomach-high and I stood in the front row
I touched Jonathan Pierce many times, I swear he once held my hand sooo tight. I am serious, I can't even.... I felt his sweat and everything.
I called Jacob many times, he first looked at me, waved his hands and raised his eyebrows to me. Minutes after, I called him again and he smiled, pointed his finger at me and WINKED!! My ovaries exploded that time.
Connor stood in front of me.
Jonathan drank his bottled water and put it in front of me and my friend, yes you can guess what happened next, we drank it. We fucking drank it, KISSES VIA BOTTLED WATER WITH JOHNNY.
JACOB GRAHAM IS FUCKING HOT HE IS MY FAV, JONATHAN IS A FUCKING EPILEPTIC DANCER, AND CONNOR IS SO FUCKING COOL, NO SMILE, NOTHING BUT HE'S SOOOO COOL, SWEET JESUS!!
Johnny said "Tonite is the best crowd definitely so far during this tour".

Do I need to say more? No. The pictures I took from the concerts are also featured in Junk on their article and also their facebook. I'm so happy!! Here are some of the pictures, please enjoy, and envy me :p

PS: I've recorded 5 or 6 videos of the concert, but have only uploaded 2 just yet, check them out on my Youtube. And if you guys have 8tracks, follow mine? Who's planning to come to Java Rockin' Land 2011? I've bought the 3DayPass tix already!! See you there!

Assignments, assignments, conference.

2011-05-27T21:31:00.006+07:00

It has been a very busy month. I have lots of assignments to do this semester and I am now working on my Intercultural Communication final project, which is going to be an International Conference on June. All students from the major PR and Mass Communication are divided in class-groups. Every class represents a country, and my class got Germany. My project leader asked me to be one of four representatives for my class, and we will have a culture-related debate with representatives from other class and countries.

Actually this project is really fun and also tiring at the same time. Fun, cos we got a chance to learn deeply about those countries' culture and stuff by watching their movies, listening to their music. We have to go to the embassy and ask questions, promote the event to everyone, make videos, etc. Tiring, because we only have less than 2 months to prepare all of them. Each and everyone of us representatives has to watch the movies, then analyze them, relate the movie to all aspects such as stereotypes, ethics, language, relationship, etc. Took quotes from those movies that are important and relate them to the country's condition right now. We have to listen to their music, analyze the lyrics, and find out if the artists talk about love, or other stuff. See? It's fun, yet tiring. So please, wish us a very good luck, because the conference will be held on June 22nd, and there will be VVIP guests, like all ambassadors from embassies, they will watch us debate!! It's making us nervous, but we will do our best for this project, so pray for me and my classmates!

Another big assignment I have this semester is that I have to make an online campaign for my Digital and Social media subject. My group made a campaign called "Books for Future", if you have not heard of it and have not followed our twitter and liked our page on facebook, well you should!

The campaign encourages us to grow our desire to read books more often than before. We have to reach 600 followers on twitter and 1,800 likes on FB page til the end of June. Thank God because everyone's now on twitter, we've already had 1,200++ followers on twitter. I, myself can not believe that there are still so many book lovers these days, when some people prefer things that are related to the internet or maybe they also prefer to watch TV rather than reading books. But anyway, we still need your help to reach the goal, if you love to read books, if you need any recommendations about books, follow us on twitter and like our page on Facebook.

Can I tell you one more story because I feel like I need to share this with you guys. Have you ever felt so sad because there's this really big opportunity coming to you, all people around you support you, but you decided to not take it? I have.

Last week, my uni sent me a recommendation letter, telling me that they have an acceleration programme (a combined programme bachelor/master's degree), where you can get your master in only 5 years. I've been dying to take it since forever, because like... You can graduate from master's degree when you are only 23 years old. That's a hella great opportunity, I tell you. My dad really supported me and he forced me to take it. At first I was thinking that I will definitely take it, because this is my dream, I want it so bad. What made it easier is that last year, I took City&Guild examination from Cambridge, level 2, and I passed. First class pass, distinction. With this result, I don't need to take a placement test to join the acceleration programme.

But then I asked my seniors about the acceleration programme. Some of them told me that it will be really tiring because I need to finish my internship proposal, my final thesis, while taking classes from master's degree (++assignments, and assignments, and assignments). Some of them also told me that I should take it, because then again, it's a great opportunity.

I thought a lot about this acceleration programme. I looked back at how my uni-life affects my health condition these past years. I've been sick too many times, because my not-so-good immune system. Sometimes, all of the assignments made my week so chaotic. Sometimes, I could not organize my time-management, even though in the end everything went really well, and thankfully I got good grades, but still......... I decided to not join the acceleration programme. I know, my dad was a bit dissapointed with my decision. That time, I also felt dissapointed with my own decision, why did I waste such big opportunity? But I do think that I will have even better opportunities in the future. I am going to work in a great company, and search for scholarships abroad. I will, and I have to. I promise myself, I will make my parents proud. Amen to that :>

Did I sigh a lot? I did, literally. Haha, so to make the post brighter, no dissapointment, no sigh-ing, I'll give you the latest pictures Dhea took for our random photoshoot, enjoy! The pics with smoke - all totally failed, LOL. Dhea needs to work on that later ;)

PS: My brother has already graduated from high school! Congratulation, broski. MomDad and I are so proud of you. Fuck school, say hello to waking up late and university, man!

Hurts live at NYLON Music Festival, May 7th 2011

2011-05-11T21:19:00.004+07:00

I knew HURTS since the beginning of 2010 when I first listened to Better Than Love, and fell in love right after the song ended. I tried to look for their CD but it said on the Internet that they have not released a CD yet so I waited and waited. I downloaded some of their song and they made me love them even more. I asked my friends if they know Hurts but too bad they dont, I had fun with their songs alone until finally a friend of mine asked me to send her the songs, and I was so happy cos she said she likes the songs. I waited for months, and finally they released the CD. I, literally, went to the music store that day, and the CDs havent arrived yet. So the next day I went to the store again, and bought it. The first day Happiness album released in my town.

I have never had a thought that they will have a concert here in Jakarta, because I know that Hurts is not as big as such bands like Mew, Kings of Convenience, etc.. When I went to Hongkong I saw posters telling us that Hurts will have a concert on May 11th and I was so desperate I want them to play in my town too, but then.. I was soooo surprised, I was so stoked when I read Urbanite Asia's tweet about Hurts' concert in Jakarta I was like "WHATTTT THE FUCK SWEET JESUS IS THIS REAL?!", and yes, it's totally real. I can not believe they brought Hurts to Jakarta. I thanked Godddd for it. Hurts played live at NYLON Music Festival here, and the concert was located at Epiwalk. I watched the concert with my bestfriend, Skinnymarie. A guy from NYLON took pictures of me and Skinnymarie for the magazine :) The venue was not big, but I really like it a lot because the concert was like... an intimate concert.. The stage was not high, a knee-high, the space between the stage and the front row was only about a meter.

Jonas from Mew is still the God of all guys in the world but I can not lie that Theo Hutchcraft is one sexxxxy man with niceeee voice and sexxxy dance moves, super sexxxy smile, and ultra sexxxy stare, seriously, my ovaries exploded when he smiled while raising his eyebrows twice. I dont care if you tell me that he wasnt actually smiling at me, but I am fucking sure that he smiled at me because I stood there like in front of his mic, likeeee in front of where he stood on the stage, seriously. I know, call me a psychofangirl, but..................
I cant even.............................. Adam's also super cute he pulled funny faces, but I still love Theo, his stare made me pregnant. I recorded some of my fav songs, enjoy.

"this is for your friend!"

2011-04-29T20:57:00.001+07:00

It is April 29th, 2011. And well, mostly today, people are cheering for the royal wedding, Prince William is marrying Kate Middleton, but to be honest I dont really care about it. Cos what I fucking care about today is that one of my fav bands is coming to Japan and they said that they'll be at Harajuku around 2pm, to be tourists. I felt totally miserable when I read their tweet yesterday, because yeah..... I won't be able to come to Harajuku, and I laughed everytime the members of the band tweeted about Tokyo, I felt desperately miserable, I had a fake laugh.

But then I told my Japanese friend, named Erika that the band is going to Harajuku. Erika is also their biggest fan, so she decided to go there and meet them. She told the band via facebook and they replied "see you in an hour and half", damn I was excited and nervous even though I am not the one whom going to meet them hahaha. And yeah, I am friends with all of the members on facebook and they are totally kind! Like super kind, the drummer once said "happy valentines" to me, they also follow my tumblr, and I puked rainbow reading that, thanks to them.

So, after long hours of waiting for a news from Erika, she finally told me that she went shopping with them, and Erika told them about me, that I am one of their biggest fan, she also showed them my tweets, and their comment was "REALLY COOL!". OMG I AM PSYCHEDDD!!!
Erika took pictures of them, and they said "THIS IS FOR YOU FRIEND!" and then they posed for me! Under all of these happy paragraph is the picture. BIG LOVE AND THANKS to Erika, you go girl!

OMG can I just you know............ Kill myself right now, be a ghost and fly to Japan to watch their gig tomorrow?

PS: I didnt tell you the band's name, cos yeah, I AM A PSYCHO FANGIRL OKAY. THEY ARE MINE. And if anyone knows who they are, envy me much? You should, and you should envy Erika, she's the luckiest girl ever :p

yearly-shopping time

2011-04-23T19:44:00.000+07:00

I went to Hong Kong again last week. I've got nothing to say tho, because I've already posted all stories about HK here in my blog. Call it the yearly-shopping time, I spent the whole week shopping with mom and dad. Too bad, Shodi could not come with us because he was having his national examinations! I do think I should go to HK with my broski alone to visit Disneyland in the future.

Beside shopping I went to Lantau Island because I was eager to see the big Buddha. I felt so peaceful when I reached the top of Ngong Ping. I compared the size of my body to the statue, and guess what, my body is smaller than its thumb! Anyway you can go to Ngong Ping by bus or cable car, I chose bus because I was too scared to use the cable car, like going to the top of a mountain by cable car is a big NO for me.

Oh, and I also visited St Paul's hospital, because my dad was born there, and also visited St Paul's convenient school because my aunt studied there too. The rest of the week were filled with shopping and eating my favourite wonton noodle.

Apart of all stuff I bought in HK last week, I think my best buy this time are Doc Martens' 6Eye baby pink boots, JohnLennon and Yoko Ono's cropped t-shirt, bagsss from H&M, and Everything Everything's Man Alive CD! I also took two posters of Hurts Live in Hong Kong ha ha ha. I'm going to watch Hurts on May 7th, I cant wait!!

pics to enjoy!

I took this pic from the ferry. It's Hong Kong and you can see the traditional Chinese ship which is really awesome.
The view from Salisbury Rd. where you can see the double decker bus station and the famous Hong Kong's clock tower.
I found this building so beautiful, it's located at Causeway Bay, near St Paul's hospital.
Hong Kong at night, took the pic from Avenue of Stars, my favourite place to hang out at night, when I felt tired already after the whole day walking from one place to another. You can find Starbucks here, so yeah :)
Me in front of: The Big Buddha, Hurts posters before I took em, and Nathan Rd!
My 6Eye stepped on ParkLane!

Happy Birthday, Alex.

2011-04-06T00:05:00.002+07:00

Hi from me - 2011

2011-04-01T22:13:00.002+07:00

I am saying hi to all of you guys! It's been a long time since I wrote my last post about Mew at Soundburst Music Festival (which was last year), and I started to blog again because I joined the Cornetto Competition, so I haven't actually write stuff like I used to write a long time ago!

For starters, I've blogged two posts that contains my drawings, and now I just wanna give you the latest pic of mine -- being super narcissistic. I dont change a lot tho, well I think I don't, but when I went to my campus at the first day of 6th semester, some of my friends told me that I'm getting fatter, but some of them said I'm super skinny. I think I'm getting skinnier because I've been sick for the first two weeks of my 4weeks holiday last month. A mosquito bit me and it gave me the worst disease I've ever experienced in my life, Chikungunya. Got fever for about 4 days and my bones started to hurt, from my neck, spine, my arms, my fingers (I could not even make a fist), my legs.. I was not able to stand up on the ground for two weeks, I could not go to sleep because it really really really really hurt a lot. That was really bad, but thank God I'm curedddd, I can go back to my daily activities and have fun with my life.

And yeah, I also want to thank my new followers, I hope you enjoy my blog. Visitors that gave me their words on my cbox, I really appreciate it. I'm so happy just to see people wrote "blogwalking" there. They made my day. I promise I will link you guys back as soon as possible, and will follow you back too! And promise that I will blog posts at least every week! So see you :)

PS: if you have tumblr, follow mine, and if you have last.fm, add mine! Let's share everything.

Coke In My Pocket

2011-04-01T21:40:00.003+07:00

On my previous post, I said that I drew a lot lately, I did not lie. It's actually because I just started my 6th semester in uni, and there is nothing much to do, so I spent my time drawing people that I like. Scanned some of them, including the picture above this writing. Yes, it's Coke In My Pocket, my brother's band. I drew them just because I love them and they are all my brothers. I do think they need an appreciation post here on my blog. What makes me even happier is that the manager of the band asked me if they can use the picture on basically every site they have, and of course I said yes :) Long story short, you can check them out on their MySpace.
Anyways it's the 1st of April, yes, April fools day. Until 11am this morning I've been fooled twice, am I that stupid? Hahaha. But forget about the 'foolingaround' stuff, I am so happy that finally we reached April, cos I'm going back to Hongkong again on the 12th, for a week. I can't wait for this, but I'm kinda sad tho cos my brother can't come with us, he is preparing for the National Final Exam so yeah, pray for him guys?

mgmt - not.

2011-03-26T15:34:00.005+07:00

I feel miserable right now. I don't blame MGMT cos they come here tho, no. I do blame myself. I really, really havent got any money left in my pocket months ago cos I bought lots of stuff (which is very important to me, thousand times more important than just a ticket to a concert), so I decided not to buy the tix, and I actually ignored all stuff that are connected to mgmt. Like when my friends asked me if I'm going or not I was like "nah" and when they asked me why, I didnt say anything. Just to make it worse, my cousin's wife went to my house weeks ago, said that she watched mgmt once at Coachella, the only senctence I remember is "IT'S A MUST TO WATCH THEM LIVE, SERIOUSLY".

I tried so hard to ignore and forget about mgmt, when finally one of music promoters told us that The Drums and Hurts are going to have concerts here in my town. That time, all the thoughts of mgmt disappeared instantly. Because frankly, if I have to choose which one I like more (or in this case, which two), I am mad for Hurts and The Drums, and yes, bought The Drums' ticket already. Still until then, I didn't really care anymore about mgmt.

But today is March 26th, finally. The day comes, tonight mgmt will perform at Bengkel Night Park. My friends in my twitter timeline talk about mgmt since last night, this hurts me so bad. I'm seriously getting more miserable missng out on this concert. So miserable I mute some of my friends on twitter today, hahaha. Gonna unmute them tomorrow. All I can say is have fun, guys. I told my gurlfriend to go run to the front row, I mean, come on it's Andrew right there, spread your legs gurrrrl!! No, seriously I am not kidding and my friend said, "OH I AM SO READY TO GET ANDREW INSIDE MY PANTZZZ". True.

Well... let's just forget about mgmt, I drew a lot these past days.. I haven't got no time to scan them (kidding, I'm too lazy to scan them). I only scanned this one, because this guy right here asked me to send this picture to his email, so yeah........ *faint*

and anyways,
1. would you guys please check this out? My brother's band, Coke In My Pocket got the chance to be reviewed by Hai Magz, and they got a page on Music Demos. I really like how they called CIMP's genre "hidden heavenly indonesian beaches' waves at midnght", kinda long but it's rockin, I think. Go listen to their songs and be a CIMPanzee!
2. my bestfriend-forever, Dhea, finally made a new blog! She said I am her inspiration (I dont really know what is she talking about) but yeah, you should visit and follow her blog. She's the photographer to all of our random shoots (1 + 2), so I promise you won't regret it. Thanks!!

MEW // Soundburst Music Festival 2010 // my best birthday present

2010-12-20T22:09:00.007+07:00

December 2010.
You guys know that MEW is my life. So, I went to Surabaya only to watch MEW live at the Soundburst Music Festival two weeks ago. I felt so sick the day before I went to Surabaya, felt butterflies flew inside my stomach, stomach cramps, and stuff, why? Because I dont know.. I felt like I'm going to meet Jonas, Silas, or Bo like... in front of my face (at least I was hoping so bad to meet them). I went there with some of Indonesian Frengers from Jakarta like Ditar, Dion, Papi, Ario, Vindri, Dhika, etc. Ok, this is going to be a long story.

After we arrived in Surabaya and found a place to stay, I went to this mini market to buy coca cola (which was going to be the ticket to Soundburst), that time, I didnt bring my wallet but two cameras! That's kinda weird, and for me, I didnt know too why I brought cameras instead of wallet! Once I reached the mini market, Dion called me and hysterically said, "Where the heck are you? Come back here, no need to change clothes, we're waiting inside the car in front of the homestay, quick!". Then I said, "Wait, what's going on?", the answer from Dion made me shiver "We're going to go to Dapur Desa, Jonas Bo and Silas are now having dinner there". I ran back to the homestay and thought "fuck, thankGod I brought my cameras, thankyou God. Thankyou".
Inside the car, my friends said that the trip was actually a gambling. Someone posted a pic of Mew having dinner at dapur desa but it was 30minutes ago, so we didnt know if they're still there or not. But Ditar whom arrived at dapur desa minutes before us gave me the answer, she said, "Yes. MEW is inside". That just gave me another stomach cramps.
The girls, Ditar Vindri Rizky and I went inside the restaurant but we didnt see anyone there on the 1st floor. So we acted like we're searching for a venue for a party and asked the manager to show us the VIP rooms which are upstairs. The manager agreed and brought us four to the 2nd floor, while the boys were waiting outside. There. I was standing in front of the VIP room, and someone wearing a black suit with this very warm aura walked in front of me, and guess what, I saw his face, and he smiled, yes.. Jonas Bjerre. Jonas smiled to me and Ditar. I got so weak in the knees, I cant hardly smile back to him! I knew I was looking so stupid, but it's Jonas! The most gorgeous guy I've ever seen in my life!! I freezed a while and went back downstairs.
We told the guys to wait outside, and we're going to wait for Mew to come down, so once the bodyguards come down we just need to call the guys and ask them to go inside the restaurant. We were so confused of how to make Mew notice that we're there for them, so I asked Ditar if she brought the "Eggs Are Funny" mask, and when she showed me that she brought them, I said we just need to wear the mask when Mew go downstairs. They will notice us. And yeah, 40minutes after that, Silas went down and looked at us three wearing the masks, he smiled and said "Oooh..!!", he noticed the masks. Ditar greeted him and said that we're from Indonesian Frengers.. We took pictures with Silas, and then Jonas came.. He said "Hello, I'm Jonas.. how are you?" to me and smiled, he shook my hand twice, that was just the best day of my life.

We didnt have much time because the bodyguards said that Mew was having a jetlag (I know, Copenhagen - Indonesia, we're not stupid) and they were very tired so they needed to go back to the hotel and had some rest for the show. That night at the homestay, we were very surprised that Jonas tweeted this

"Jetlagged in Surabaya, got some nice local cuisine and got to meet some lovely Indonesian frengers all the way from Jakarta! See you guys tomorrow at the show! - Jonas"
His tweet made me shaking, all shivery and I wanted to cry tears of happiness.

The next day, Soundburst Music Festival 2010 at Pantai Kenjeran Surabaya! Mew played at 12am-2am and another best day of my life, I was standing at the front fucking row! Look at how near Silas played the drum in front of me :D The setlist was freaking amazing, they played Tricks of The Trade, Eight Flew Over One Was Destroyed, Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years, which were very rare.
The best part was when Jonas took a panoramic picture of us Frengers beforre they played the new song called Do You Love It, and said "Kamu cantik-cantik" I felt like fainting, seriously. Jonas also posted the pic right after the show to facebook and twitter with the caption:

"Thank you so much for a beautiful night, Surabaya! And all the Indonesian frengers who traveled
all the way from Jakarta!!"

The third day, I went to Sheraton with Ditar and Fajar to meet the guys from SoundRhythm, and yeaaaah another best day of my life, Bastian and Dr Nick Watts showed up and we took pics with them :D Doc said I am so small!! Hehehe He's such a sweetheart!

The setlist

I thank you God for giving me the best days of my life (so far), I've never felt this good before. Got the chance to talked to Jonas and Silas, Bastian and Nick (Bo was sick so he didnt get out from his room), stood at the front row the whole freaking show, recorded the whole show (you guys can watch the videos on my facebook). 2010 is the best year of my life, I turned 20 years old this year, got the best present ever (MEW). You will never know how happy I am right now. It's almost two weeks after the show and I still remember Jonas' smile, I still remember his voice. Mew really give colours to my life.

RR

2010-11-17T19:26:00.004+07:00

Finally, another random photoshoot, again!
I looked like a raccoon with that kind of make up, but it's cool tho!
Thanks a lot to the superb photographer, Dhea :*

#fuckyeah20yearsold and a photoshoot

2010-10-03T19:31:00.011+07:00

Hell yeah I am 20 years old now! Welcome to the club! HAHAHA. I seriously didn't expect any present for my 20th birthday, but I got a cross necklace from Dhea. I also got the best feeling ever - watching and listening to F1 in Singapore! I did not pay for the extra expensive ticket to get in! I just sat beside the arena, but I could still see the cars and also Lewis Hamilton walked!! MAN! Well happy 20th birthday to me!

This is what I have been waiting for. A photoshoot with my bestfriend, Dhea Reladi. We have been planing for this for too long, and finally yesterday when I went to her house, we decided (randomly) to just do the shoots. At first Dhea didnt want to model too because she is the photographer, but then I asked her to model for me too! A very simple wardrobe which were only animal print leggings and black tank tops, peacock eyeshadow for my make up and purple pink for Dhea. Here are some of the pictures! Anyways, we are going to do another photoshoot but still have no idea about the concept. Give me ideas and comments guys! Thanks a lot!

The Anatomy Show and Fixie!

2010-09-20T19:48:00.005+07:00

Shizzz. Tomorrow will be my first day of 5th semester after all the 2 months holiday. My brain has been frozen already. Have no mood to study at all but meeting friends! A lot happened this past 2 months. I've been very very happy. Surprises to surprises came to my life and they are awesome.

Anyway.. Yesterday I went to this very interesting exhibition called "The Anatomy Show" which consists of real human bodies and organs that are preserved using a preservation process called Polymer Impregnation. The exhibition is super cool and creepy at the same time, hahaha. But overall it was very educational.
The exhibition takes place at fX Sudirman, held until October 3rd, and the ticket price is 70.000 rupiah.
Here are some pics I took yesterday.

real skull. epic!

This is a body that was divided into 409 parts. And it's fokin creepy!!
Looks a bit like beef bacon, hahaha. The white parts are the muscles.
And below are your inside, guys! That's what you'll look like when you dont have skin!

And, my family have been sooo into fixie and bikes lately. My dad actually has passion for mountain bikes since he was young, but he stopped riding his bikes a long time ago, but then these young dudes, my brother, my cousins started to ride fixie, and my dad finally brings his memories back! The whole holiday, everytime the boys met at some place, what they've always talked about are bikes bikes bikes bikes and especially fixie.
I just knew that every Sunday the boys gather at Sudirman to ride their fixie. I finally decided to come with them last Sunday, and hell yeah there are lotsssss of cool fixies and bikes down there! I also found lots of my friends! And, yeah.. I also decided to make one for myself! My dad has already bought the frame and the wheels. It's time for me to design and decorate my bike, it's gonna be all black and magenta!! So see you next Sunday!

my brother and his fixie

PS: It's Septemberrrrrrrrrr!! September 28th will be my birthday! I can't believe I'm gonna be 20 years old this month, Geez. Shoud I make a wishlist? TeeHee.

2010-08-23T22:14:00.008+07:00

So have you guys went to the Visual Art Exhibition, EVENING MEMORIES?

It's my friend Tampan Destawan and his friends from FUR magazine whom held the event. Loads of talented and like real cool artists join the exhibition. I went to Bandung (yeah, finally aholiday trip) with DheaReladi and AditTirta on friday, went straight to the gallery and found Desta, Philo, Ical, and Kintari. Helped them a bit and then we grabbed something to eat. The opening of the exhibition was held on aug 21st, and hell yeah loads of people came. Loads of my friends from Bandung came too, I was so excited!! Well, enough talking, here you can see some pictures I took from inside Galeri Padi. Won't give you the whole photostock, you shud come see yourself!! The exhibition is still on tho until august 28th, so if you guys have not came yet, you should, I insist.

and here are some pictures I took with Dhea. Small-all-of-a-sudden-photoshoot! Haha.

#Indonesia65

2010-08-17T17:05:00.002+07:00

Happy Independence Day, dear Indonesia!
I'm giving you my love!
I hope Indonesia will be a better place after its 65years of independence :)
Well, it's red and white.

Say Hi to GIANT!

2010-08-07T23:51:00.001+07:00

Bestfriends Are Everything

2010-08-07T23:11:00.004+07:00

Because this is holiday, some of my bestfriends are going back to their hometown, especially my campus mates. So we decided to do our ritual that happens everytime we have our semester holiday, watch movies and hang out at my house! We watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, but I scored the movie 6 out of 10 stars. One thing that made the movie looks cool is because Jackson Rathbone plays as Sokka there :p Haha forget it. We celebrated the "last night in Jakarta" thingy with buying this whole box of mixed fruit cheesecake and ate it together. You know what, Now I feel like I wanna vomit everytime I think about cheesecake.

Hello August

2010-08-01T20:59:00.006+07:00

Accidentally took this pic with my Lumix, my opinion, it turns out awesome!! Haha!!

How was your July? Fun? Great? Mine was pretty fun and surprising! There were lots of crazy stuff happened on my July! So I kinda like it. And yeah, it's holiday now! My university gave us 2 months holiday, I will go back to campus and start my 5th semester on September 20th, haha that's gonna be a really long time. I am thinking about going to Surabaya and Bandung to meet my friends, but it's kind of 50% for Bandung and 30% for Surabaya and 20% staying here in Jakarta. Bandung is the nearest haha.

One of hundred things that surprised me yesterday was when Nadirah, my friend from Singapore (whom I mentioned on my older post) texted me that she's going to Jakarta next week! Hoohray!! Surely gonna meet her again.

Let's close our 'July' part from the diary, and move on to August people ;) I feel that time goes by so fast right now, dont' you think so? I asked my dad why, and he only answered with a really simple sentence, "Well, it's because you always enjoy your life". For days I thought about his answer and now I agree with him. When I enjoy my life, I feel grateful of all things that happened to me, happiness - sadness, everything, there is always a reason behind that, and what I have to do is to make all of them better than before, therefore you can feel joy in your life and time will go so fast.
I love you dad. It's going to be his month anyway, August 28th is gonna be his birthday :) Thinking of what present I should give him this year, cos he's been such a great daddy.. Like, best daddy ever! You cant imagine. Any idea guys? What should I give him?
Talking about "how time goes by so fast", my oldest cousin will have his marriage proposal this month :D I can't believe it, finally, we will have a new "member" entering the family tree! Congratulation Kakak Dimas!

Ooh, and by the way, I now use Blackberry. Damn, after almost a year denying my friends when they asked me to buy a BB, I gave up. I still use my Nokia 5730 tho, cos for me that phone is like, the coolest phone I've ever had! But, well yeah, I use Blackberry. Whatever, forget it.

PS:
Best movie 2010 (so far) >> INCEPTION
Have you guys watched it? Damn.. I can not say anything.

I hate insects, full stop

2010-07-24T13:53:00.004+07:00

Just wanna let you know that sometimes a very small insect could be so brutal. I woke up one morning finding out that my cheek hurts so bad, and also my fingers too! It looks like a fat white caterpillar glued to my finger it was so gross!! I cant show you the picture. Yuck.
My face looks like this a week ago. It was not itchy but hurts badly. The doctor said that this small insect walked on my cheek when I sleep, bit it and peed on it! Shit! So be careful guys. The insects come from the garden, shaped like a diamond, very thin but when it bites you, creeps the hell out!

but thanks a lot God, my face is now back to normal after the wound is dry and peels off. The colour is still a bit different tho from my normal skin, but s'okay as long as it doesnt hurt anymore. Fuck you insects.

@BrightspotMRKT

2010-07-24T13:20:00.006+07:00

People, have I told you that I went to the latest Brightspot Market? It is the place where you can find lots of cool local and international designers' shops! Well for me, it's both a place to shop and also a place to meet my friends from around the city and also from outside :) Didn't take a lot of pictures tho because it was so crowded there I was too lazy to bring out my camera! But got some shots from Dhea's camera, here!

Dimas Theodora, my old friend, whom is a member of Localdrugstore!

Joanina!

Adit Tirta my bear, Lady, Tata, and me

Dhea Reladi

So, did you guys go to Brightspot too? Gonna meet you soon at the next Brightspot Market!

Peacock!

2010-07-08T20:46:00.006+07:00

I have been pretty busy with stuff lately. Campus stuff. I am now at the end of my 4th semester, it's the exam week. And all of the final assignment projects are hell confusing. I have been trying not to cry over those stuff, because if I cry I will feel weak, and maybe won't be able to do the rest. But thankfully God helps me everytime, and some of my friends are also helping me to get thru this. I once got so blank when I had to write a mini thesis for my English for Writing final project called "Does Advertising Reflect Culture?", but then one of my friends whom is a pro in advertising came just like that and helped me to finish the work. I also have to make tons of materials for my Desktop Publishing class, including Posters, Banners, a 20 pages booklet, Sticker, Postcards, Advertorial, and once again, when I got so blank and got no ideas at all, I feel that God helped me and just in a snap I finished them. I also got this TV, Film, and Video Production class, and the whole class as a group have to make a mini program for TVRI, and we did great!!! Seriously! Please wish us the greatest luck because the winner will get 10million rupiah ;) I cant wait to know the result!

Ok, forget about my projects.
The other thing that I wanna tell you is that.. I broke up with my bf a month ago. You dont have to know the reasons why but we have already decided what's best. I was so sad back then, I felt like something was missing. But time went by and now I am okay, I've already closed my old book, and now I'm writing a new one, and yes I am single :) means more hang outs with my best friends, my family, and so on and so on. I also joined the Indonesian Frengers, finally. After considering a lot about it! Haha. So I have new friends, and guess what? My old friends (like... real old friends from hi-school, and even junior hi school) are now back and we've been hanging around together lotta times!

Anyway, my dad bought me a new digicam! Haha I've been craving for this shocking pink Lumix, and he bought me :) he really knows how to make her daughter happy! Ha!!
And, besides being my dad's model, I also model for Canti's Goldilocks and The Party Bears, I've told you right? Yesterday Fajar whom is my brother's friend, and also a photographer asked me to be his model too!! But sadly I could not do it for him this week because of the assignments, but I am so excited for his photoshoot later this month! I also plan another photoshoot with Dhea Reladi next month, and I wanna have the eye make up like this......

(I tried to have the PEACOCK colour, like electric blue+green, and here is the result, please ignore my bad hair!!)

So that's all for today's post! See ya later and wish me luck!

One Light

2010-06-27T20:07:00.002+07:00

Dad asked me to be his model again.
I love this one!
I love you dad.

Singapore :)

2010-06-07T11:54:00.004+07:00

I went to Singapore with my brother and 3 of my cousins a week ago :) It really boost up my mood. Because if you read my latest post, I felt so bored and mad, but Singapore made me happy.

The purpose was actually to go to the new Universal Studios Singapore. Hell yeah the place is so great, it's a must to go there! Too bad the biggest roller coasters (Battlestar Galactica) havent opened yet, but the second greatest attraction which is "Revenge of The Mummy" (from Wikipedia: a high-speed psychological thrill ride with sharp turns and fast reverse sections, as it pits guests against fireballs, scarab beetles and robotic warrior mummies — all in total darkness) is the best!!!!!!!!!!!! I rode that twice, if you're so curious about the attraction you can search it on youtube.
Almost all of the attractions are great, I went to the "Steven Spielberg's Lights! Camera! Action!" twice it was so cool, but I havent uploaded the video! The rest of the attractions from Jurassic Park, Shrek's Far Far Away Castle, Sci-Fi, etc are also awesome!

the other thing that made me happy, I MET NADIRAH BABY!!!

Is that a feeling?

2010-05-26T22:31:00.002+07:00

Bored, is what I am feeling now. Reasons why are because I hate to do the same thing over and over again, and even worse, I hate to answer the same question everyday. It annoys me real bad. I can't even think of how do those people feel when they receive same answers everyday according to the questions they gave me. I have already told them to not do that, do not ask me same stuff everyday, you have already knew the answers! It's the same, what I do everyday is just the same!! And they still bug me. That, you can understand why I got so bored. I feel like I wanna lock myself inside my room for weeks, put away my phone, and everything. I am bored with the outside world. I am tired of those who speak too much. Who comment a lot of others. (Well, that's life, it would be even more boring when you can't talk about others), but that's it, I am not interested. I am tired.
I tried to find new stuff I could do to wash the feeling away, and I finally got back my "used-to-be-favourite-hobby", swimming. I was also recruited to become a script writer on my team's investigative program, so I hope these two could help me get rid of the bore. But still, right now, I am bored.

My International Examination, my score.

2010-05-11T19:31:00.009+07:00

How are you guys? Today I feel really fine and absolutely happy! I am gonna tell you why.
My university, which is London School of Public Relations has this big exam for the 2nd year students called the City&Guilds examination. It is an all English test and it is coming from Cambridge University, because London School works with Cambridge. There are 3 levels of the exam. Based on my english scores from the first semester to the third, my university advised me to take level 2.
I was so confused because I actually felt a bit scared, I dont wanna fail the exam. What made me more scared is that the examination costs £400, and if I fail, I have to pay for the test again next year. That's a lot, seriously, for an exam that only contains 5 difficult questions. The other thing is, I really dont want to make my parents dissapointed. They forced me to take the level 2 examination because they said if I take the level 2, and pass, the certificate will be very useful for my future, for my jobs.. So finally I took it.

We've already signed up and chose what level we will take. We can not withdraw and escape from reality in all of a sudden, so about a month ago each and every 2nd year students of my university got real scared because of the test. But it happened, anyway. At that time, my mom had a holiday with my aunts to Malaysia, that, somehow made me more scared, just because I could not see my mom before I went to campus. But I really did my best for 2 hours and got out from the class with a big 'nervous' word written on my forehead.

A month passed...

Today, I just finished my second class and went straight to the restroom. When I got out from the restroom, I saw lots of my friends stood in front of this big announcement board in front of my class, and guess what, the score came out!! I was so afraid but curious at the same time. There, I found lots of paper and I searched for my class, done. Lots of my friends got this P for the score, I know that is a PASS. I thank God for them. A few of them showed an A, which is Absent, so they didnt come to the exam room. A few of them got an F, Failed. I got more scared, and when I found my name.... FCP.
I was like "WHAT THE HECK IS FCP?" and the one and only student who got FCP is me. I didnt know what to say, but then I started to search for the explanation, what is FCP. You wanna know what I saw?

A = Absent
F = Fail
P = Pass
FCP = First Class Pass (distinction)

My heart stopped beating for two seconds. I passed, I passed with a distinct score. I can not say anything, that really made my day. I told my parents and they said they are really proud of me. That is all I wanna hear from them, seriously. I just wanna make them happy. I am happy for myself, I feel satisfied.

Now, my only hope is to get a scholarship for my Graduate Program ;) Would you guys pray for me? But I do think if I want to extend my study for Graduate Program, I must take the level 3 of C&G exam.
The other thing was Mr. Stafford (my English for Communication II lecturer) once read my writing, and he told me that I am good enough, and I have the ability to take the level 3 of the exam. I am going to think of it :)

PS: I miss this picture of me, so I am feeling to post it again? Hahahahaha.

HK part 4

2010-05-09T00:13:00.003+07:00

As I promised you guys, I now will tell you stuff about Tung Chung.
Tung Chung is actually not a tourist destination, but my mom that really knows HongKong very well told us to go there. At Tung Chung you can find a huge mall called the City Gate and that place is a total heaven for me, all branded stuff with big discounts :D I spotted Mango, Esprit, edc, Nike, Adidas, Evita Peroni, Guess, Clarks, Roxy, everything! City Gate also has a book store named Dymocks. Anyway, you can guess, I did shop a lot :p

Other thing that I really really really love from HongKong is SUBWAY SANDWICH!!
I've been in love with Subway since I dont know.. Since I was born?
Too bad Subway closed their outlets here in Jakarta years ago, I felt like half of my soul was taken away, seriously.
After I go crossed by ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong (anyway random thought, my uncle's name is Ferry, it's because he was also born in HongKong and he was named after the Ferry-ship hahaha) and arrived at Central, the first thing I didwas looking for Subway Sandwich, and yes, there I found Subway. I am sorry I only took the pic of the cover because I was so hungry and forgot to take picture of the sandwich!! I ordered Teriyaki Sub with Plain bread. Yummmm I can feel it now inside my mouth :9

Anyway guys, Granville Road is also a great place to shop. It's located in Tsim Tsa Shui too.

I think that's all for now.. I actually have a lot of stories to tell but I think 4 parts are enough :p I am hoping that I can go back to HongKong again on November or December, my mom wants to feels the joy of christmas and new year there, she told me that the weather and the christmas songs they play at the mall, everywhere, really makes her happy, so I am a bit curious with that one haha. I also havent gone to DisneyLand so I hope I can go there again this year.
I am a bit hungry now, think I will imagine eating a huge subway sandwich...
and maybe a bowl of Shrimp Wonton Noodle?
Yummm :9

Hk part 3

2010-04-28T11:02:00.004+07:00

The tram from the peak was the same with the tram that goes to the peak. The only thing different is that this time the tram goes down and it's really scary, felt like I ride a roller coaster! But it's a must for you to try! I think you can also go by taxi, but tram is cooler.

After the trip to Victoria Peak and the wondrous time at Madame Tussauds, we decided to go to Causeway Bay. It's located in northern shore of HongKong Island. Causeway Bay is somehow a nostalgic place for my dad's family, coz they lived there years ago at the apartment above Daimaru. We found the apartment and took pictures in front of it but not with my camera so I cannot show you guys now, maybe later when my cousins tag me :D But Daimaru has already changed into a mall named FashionWalk. Everytime we went shopping, my dad just sat at Fashion Walk's Starbucks. I think he doesnt like shopping that much? LOL.

Back to Causeway Bay, yes, like I told you, again, this area is full of shops and restaurants. I am crazy over it. But the only shop I found really suits my style is Maple and Cotton On. But Maple is seriously everywhere, at Causeway Bay, Wanchai, Granville, etc. But I think the biggest and the greatest Maple shop is the one that is placed at Johnston Road, Wanchai. Wanchai and Causeway Bay is near. As long as I can remember, Wanchai's MTR station is exactly next to Causeway Bay station. Only takes you 2minutes to go there from Causeway Bay. I bought lots of stuff there at Maple, I'll show you later on the next post maybe? I havent took the pictures yet. All the prices of the stuff at Maple is affordable, they're around HKG $50 - HKG $500.

At Causeway Bay you can find a restaurant named Mak's Noodle or... I dont know I really dont remember the name of the restaurant but I found the picture in someone's wordpress. The restaurant serves us the best wonton noodle I've ever tasted! Here are the pictures, drooling!!

Even Antonie Bourdain went there and said that Mak's wonton noodle is the best! You should try it!! I also found the famous egg tart at Causeway Bay but it doesnt taste that good.

And for sushi lovers!! I have good news for ya, there is a sushi restaurant named Hokkaido Katsu and Sushi located at Causeway Bay! They have a special offer actually, from 2pm until 6pm you can buy Salmon sushi for onlyHKG $3 each!! But too bad when I arrived there the salmon has already sold out, so I ordered my other favourite, Unagi sushi and Sword Belly sushi. I ate 4 plates containing 3 sushi each. I just said OH MY GOD, that's the best Unagi and Sword Belly I've ever tasted seriously. AHHH HONGKONG IS HEAVEN!!
Hokkaido sushi also has a really cute ocha glass that made me and my cousins wanna steal it so bad!! Here are the pictures, bet you wanna go to sushi restaurants now after you see them :p

I spent the whole day shopping and walking around Causeway Bay and Wanchai.. That's totally funnn but my foot sprained and I had to stop walking that night, so we took a rest at a cute small cafe named Hui Lau. They offer us really tasty desserts. I bought Mango with Mango juice, and my mom ordered Mango with Coconut Milk if I'm not mistaken, they are so delicious! I also ordered mango mochi which is also yummy :9

I also went to IKEA at Causeway Bay!! I always love IKEA!! It is located in front of Toys R Us. And then I also went to HMV the famous music store in HongKong. My brother bought a really cool white headphones for only HKG $150!! Worth to buy! I searched for the original MEW LIVE IN COPENHAGEN dvd, but they dont have it :( I am so sad.. But I'll keep searching for it!

Anyways, for book lovers, I found a book shop named Cosmic at Causeway Bay. You can find books cheaper there than in Indonesia for sure.. I also found a bookstore inside the Mira Tower at Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. It's located on the 2F floor. The bookstore is really big, and also offers you cheap price.

Ok then, later in the next post I'll show you a place named TungChung and also Parklane!
So see ya soon!!

HK part 2

2010-04-27T20:00:00.009+07:00

The second day!!!
It's Friday and actually we have already planned to go to DisneyLand, but too bad we have to canceled it because there was a thunder storm there :(( I was so sad that day but finally I thought that there's a reason why we have to cancel the plan, it's because I have to go to HK again next time for DisneyLand, amen!

So after a lot of arguing, we decided to go to Victoria Peak and also hoping that the weather will be nice. And God answered our prayer, the weather is really great. It's cold but amazing. I was shocked that Victoria Peak is so high (it is the highest mountain in HK island) I was so scared because we had to use the Peak Tram to go there. It's scary, seriously, but the view... Two words, Jaw Dropper! Tourists love to go here, Victoria Peak offers us the mesmerizing views over HongKong island!

yep, I'm waiting for the tram, and it arrived fast :D

this is the view from the sky terrace. What do you think? My mom said that Victoria Peak is getting much more better than years ago. She's so excited, and so do I. The mountain, the island.. Shizzin. Picture speaks a thousand words.

Have I told you? Hongkong also has The Madame Tussauds museum! My parents have already went to the museum in Amsterdam and London or NY (I think, I forgot) so it's only Shodi and I that went there. It's located inside the Peak! FYI, the tix for Madame Tussauds is $160 worth to buy!! Here, let me show you some of the pictures inside MT!

Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler

Me with the President of China, Shodi with Einstein the genius
Shodi with his speech

OOOH LOVELY JOHNNY DEPP. ENVY MUCH?!

Shodi with Nicholas Cage.

YaoMing is soooo tall!! He's effing huge!

We've always been in love with you, Michael..

for The Beatles fans out there..

and Bruce Lee <3

Done with Madame Tussauds pictures. My favourites are the ones with Johnny Depp and Michael Jackson. They look so damn real and I shivered after I hugged MJ, seriously. Well you guys should go there!

next post about HK will be published tomorrow!

Celebrating my Dad's 50th birthday in HongKong part 1

2010-04-27T11:27:00.009+07:00

April 21st, 2010. I went to HongKong with my family.

My grandpa was a diplomat, so that's why my family kinda travel everywhere. On 1960, my dad's family lived in Hongkong, and at that time, my dad was born. So this year he'll be 50, and he decided to take the family to his birthplace. I think it's kind of a nostalgic time for him, coz he lived there years ago. And for my mom, she's always been in love with HongKong. She told me that HongKong is a heaven for people who loves to shop, and my comment is YES, IT IS HEAVEN.
I've only gone to HongKong for twice before and I was only a little kid, I didnt remember anything, so that's why I'm so excited to go this year!!

at the time we arrived in HK, I felt so happy. Excited to see the huge modern airport, and also the double decker bus! I am hoping that Jakarta will use that kind of bus too!

We stayed at Tsim Sha Tsui, it's an urban area in southern Kowloon. Tsim Sha Tsui is a major tourist hub in Hong Kong with many shops and restaurants as well :D So I spent the first day in HK walking around Tsim Sha Tsui and also went to the famous Avenue of Stars that looks like the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is located at Victoria Harbour waterfront. There you can see lots of handprints and autographs of actors, such as Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Andy Lau, etc. It's a must to go there! You can also see HongKong island in a very attractive way, like this

And this right here is me taking a pic with my hands on Andy Lau's handprints, and Shodi's shoes stood beside the handprints :p

and the best part is the Bruce Lee statue! Who doesnt love him? He's so gorgeous I really wanna die when I saw the statue.

still, the view from Avenue of Stars. I really could spend hours there just to feel the wind blows. The weather in HK is freakin cold, I thought the winter is already ended but it has not! Thankgod I wore my cardigans.

dont you think the pink flowers are lovely?

and this is Mongkok a heavenly place with shops and also restaurants. Mongkok has the famous nightmarket! Shop shop shop til you drop! I did a lot of shopping here, I came home with two big bags of Cotton On. Stuffs at Cotton On made me wanna scream so loud!! it's crazy!

At the end of the day my family and I sat beside Nathan Road, it's the exact place of where we stayed actually. This is the night view of Nathan Road, I know I know, it's amazingly beautiful.

Kings Of Convenience

2010-04-16T17:19:00.005+07:00

Kings Of Convenience LIVE concert in Jakarta on March 28th.

2010-03-16T11:05:00.004+07:00

Pretty friend of mine, Chitra put my childhood pic in her blog. Hahaha. Wait, you have to click the link, her pictures are gorgeous!!!

She made me miss my childhood pics again though, lets see them!

This one is my brother and me

SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS!!

Goldilocks and The Party Bears pt II

2010-03-14T12:09:00.006+07:00

So here it is guys,

GOLDILOCKS AND THE PARTY BEARS
"Spring 2010: New World Traveler"

Goldilocks and The Party Bears pt I

2010-03-12T23:20:00.005+07:00

How are you guys doin? Hope you're doin great.
My life, so far, was great.. Well, it was a lil bit annoying for the first week of classes. New subjects, new lecturers, they just annoyed me. I dont know why.. But still, I love to go to campus ;) Dont worry. I just hate the 'NEW' thingy, but after the first week, they are all OKAY.

Anywayyyyyy!
I got hired to be a photo model!!!
My super friend Pocchi runs a new brand named Goldilocks and The Party Bears. FYI, it's her own brand!
I was so excited til today. We have finally done the photoshoot. The dress are so cool, I cant wait for them to be released. And yes, the due date is tomorrow so you guys just have to wait.

Anyway I am planning to go to Brightspot Market tomorrow. Tell me if you are going!
See you there!!!

This photo I took hours after the photoshoot. Love the make up!

Melon and Mango

2010-02-27T09:31:00.003+07:00

Have you ever tasted the best cheese in this whole wide world?
In my opinion, this is the best. So far :p It's Lemnos Melon and Mango Cheese.
This one can make me happy all day long.

Another New Post, FINALLY!

2010-02-23T11:21:00.008+07:00

Hey guys how are you? Finally i'm back to the world of blogging ;)
I've actually got a lot to tell in this past 3 months, but i dont think i can write it all here? It's too long.

So maybe the most interesting stuff to tell is...
I GOT A NEW KITTEN, i named him Giant. He's now only a month old but his body is so fat, it looks like he's already 2 months old!
I dont have to tell much, just see his pictures under!
And please please give more attention to his ears and eyes, the only two things i love the most from him. And his mouth is so cute too. OK i love everything bout him! I bet you'll love him too just in seconds!
2nd picture, he was a Superman.

NEW PIC OF ME!!!!! It's okay right, to be a little narcissistic? HAHAHAH!

I finally pierced my ears 3 weeks ago!!

PS:
- my brother is going to Spore to watch Paramore. I envy him ;(
- COME VISIT MY TUMBLR!!

twitter.

2009-09-16T12:55:00.005+07:00

OHKAY OHKAY I MADE TWITTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shidaaruya

I CANT BELIEVE IT MAN

and yes, getting addicted in a day. well not addicted "addicted" but i kept opening my twitter homepage til now.
already got 35 followers,
loves :*

Mahogany

2009-08-31T19:11:00.007+07:00

Pictures that my daddy took two days ago. Well i am not a real model, so sorry if the pic is not good enough :)

MJ

2009-08-29T11:10:00.006+07:00

Happy Birthday Michael Jackson.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!

LEON as in KINGS of LEON

2009-08-19T21:55:00.008+07:00

New Family Members

2009-08-14T23:00:00.004+07:00

I got new family members ;)

My cat Pasta gave birth again weeks ago.. Twinssss. They are totally cute, they made me say "cute" many times when i see them in their cage.

oh my god how cuteeeeee (SEE???)

Anyways, my daddy bought me a new laptop, and he also bought my brother a new iPod Touch. How nice.. I love you Daddy <3
And he wants to start his old hobby again which is photography. He took out all of his cameras, and i found lots of great ones! Anyway, he also bought a new camera yesterday. I am sooo happy i wanna be his model HAHAHA.

Today i went to grand Indonesia and i ate this very tasty fish ice cream. WHOA i loooove it.
And and and i crave for :
Ming DimSum, Pizza Marzano, Takigawa Sushi, Quickly, Crabstick Okonomiyaki, and Cherry Jubilee.
C'mon let's eat!!!!

The Spotlight Is On!

2009-08-11T23:23:00.008+07:00

Picture updates from the event The Spotlight Is On @ the Green, Kemang.
Lots of great bands performing live there, including my brother's Coke In My Pocket, Riief's Fire Fighters, and Fiya's U.K! Great Job!!
pictures by Hanna Theodora and Septian Fajar.

I love the day. Great performances. So happy that CMP played the TURBULENCE song, and Useless Kingdom played Fake Tales of San Fransisco from Arctic Monkeys, i just danced like crazy on the dance floor! Cant wait for the next event!

JAVA ROCKIN LAND IS ROCKIN, but MEW is THE BEST

2009-08-11T21:45:00.006+07:00

JAVA ROCKIN LAND 2009 WAS A BLAST! Oh my God!!

I only watch the 3rd day of JRL because I crave for MEW, and they were totally awesome. I don’t know why Jonas and Bo are really gorgeous. And Jonas really has that angelic voice, I felt like I was in heaven when he sang all the songs. I don’t care if I am so small and tiny and I barely watched them because all of the people in front of me were like so tall but I knew God loves me so He gave me space to dance. Haha. I just hope that MEW will come again to Indonesia, or Singapore maybe, I will surely come! Woo-Hoo!

Surabaya oh Surabaya

2009-08-10T22:43:00.008+07:00

Surabaya updates :

I just realized it was really nice to have a small trip back to your past. It is also sad at the same time. But overall it was overwhelming. Fyi, i have been living in Surabaya for years, because my dad used to have a company there, so the family must follow him.

Ok maybe this post will be boring to you. Read or leave if you want ;)

Day 1 :

At Soekarno – Hatta Airport, i was rotflol-ing when i saw these bands, the chang***ers and ni**i stood in front of me. You know why? They dont have such a good attitude. THEY SMOKE IN FRONT OF THE “NO SMOKING AREA” SIGN! What the fuck?! Are you crazy people? If you are all artist, doesnt mean that you can do whatever you want and dont obey the rules. OMFG i hate you all even more! They smoke many times, in the area where you surely are not allowed to smoke, and when there is also a smoking area inside the room. SHIT. What made it even worse, i was in the same plane with them and also sleeping in the same hotel with them, GEEZ, vomit.

Anyway, The first thing i did when i arrived in Surabaya was listening to people talking in Javanese. I was like “wow..” haha. And then i went straight to Garden Palace hotel (this is a really great hotel). After i put all of my stuff, i went to my house there. It was totally empty and a little dirty. I really miss the house. My bedroom is still the same like when i left it. Pictures still stick on the wall, and there was a picture of Cantika that i got from a magazine, and i was laughing knowing that she’s now being my friend.

After my old house nostalgia time, i went to Galaxy Mall. When i lived in Surabaya, almost everyday i went to that mall. So that’s why the people there really knows me, and i was so shocked when i had dinner at GM’s foodcourt, the SPG said “Aduh udah lama ya kak nggak kesini.. Kita masih inget loh sama kakak” and (i am so sorry) i forgot their face.

Oyeah i also went to Supermall Pakuwon, and tried to search some of my friends that worked there at Planet Surf or Point Break, but the people there said that all of my friends were already resigned or moved to Jakarta. It was so sad but i was happy that the new people realized my face. Thankyou ;) I miss you Surabaya!

you will pass colorful lights on the way to Supermall!

Day 2 :

I had a total 2 hours massage, and it was guh-reat! Then i went to Tunjungan Plaza and met some of my friends, accidentally. I met Shaula, Ikank, Zulmi, Mira, Winda, Othy, Aming, Gerald, and so on and so on there are lots of them, and i think i passed Lauretha! I wanted to call her name but she didnt have bangs, and she tied her hair! Hahaha. So i cancelled my plan. But i think it’s really her! Because she was mad and asked me why i didnt tell her that i went to Surabaya ;p so sorry baby!!!!

Day 3 :

Went to Surabaya Town Square. It is a new mall, i have not been there before, and i think it’s kinda cool the place. But it is effing hot, man Surabaya is much hotter than Jakarta, so when you go to a mall that is using no air conditioner, you will sweat. Well, i sweat there. Haha, but Sutos is cool. I watched the movie ‘UP 3D’ again there, just to try it because it’s only 25.000 rupiah!!!!! So cheap. SO SO SO CHEAP.. That’s why it’s so nice to live in Surabaya, everything is CHEAP.

Last Day :

Before going to the airport i spared my time to go to my elementary – junior high school, Al – Azhar. It was a PLEASURE!! I went there and every teachers, every securities, and all the office boys said they missed me and my family. My teachers even kissed me many times. I love Al – Azhar, and will always love them til i die.

Anyways, as i promised, i wanna give you the name of places to full your tummy, enjoy!

· Ayam Penyet

Galaxy Mall 1 foodcourt

Pakuwon Trade Centre

Bu Kris (Jl. Kayoon, in front of Pertamina gas station)

· Semanggi

Galaxy Mall 1 foodcourt

· Nasi Campur Tambak Bayan

Galaxy Mall 1 foodcourt

· Majapahit Dimsum

Hotel Majapahit

· Bebek Goreng HT

Jl. Karang Empat

· Zangrandi Ice Cream (the oldest ice cream shop in Surabaya)

Jl. Yos Soedarso in front of Bioskop Mitra 21

· Kue Rin

Jl. Pucang

· Loops (a place like Kemang food fest but much better)

Citraland (in front of Supermall Pakuwon Indah)

more food information, click here

Zwartepiet

2009-07-19T16:10:00.011+07:00

Hey hey have i told you? That i actually have an allergic to cats. But i dont know why my mom have 14 cats inside my house. Isn't that cool? HAHA.

I named her, Zwartepiet.

My Baby Pictures

2009-07-17T22:02:00.011+07:00

My condolences go to all the bomb victims at Ritz Carlton and JW Marriot today.

What i was trying to say is why the heck did you have to blast a bomb there? And at times like this? Are you NUTS? Oh i know, i know, you dont have a fucking brain, or maybe you have one, but it was inside your mother-f-ing ass. I hate you, you stupid human being. I swear i am so mad today. There are lots of thing that made me get on my nerves.

I just hope that MEW will still have their concert here in Jakarta. If they don't, i will surely curse those people whom blast the bomb today. I will fucking curse them. Gosh, i love cursing stupid people!

Oh, and as i promised yesterday, i will put my pictures here in this post. My baby pictures. Enjoy and dont laugh okay haha. It was my daddy whose very creative and totally being a crazy daddy that drew moustache and made me a baby hitler hihihi ;)

Sandra

2009-07-14T10:07:00.016+07:00

I know i know there will be loads of pictures in this post. Because pictures tell you everything right?
So last Sunday, which is July 12th 2009, i went to my cousin's home at Cibubur, because my other cousin, Sandra was having a birthday party. How i missed her sooo much, last time i met her was like 2 years ago :( It's so sad because she and her family live in Sweden. She is now 18 years old, same like me.

Anyways, some of my friends told me that they saw Sandra in a reality show called Makin Gaya in Trans TV and for the answer, i will say YES it was Sandra.
So when she shopped at Grand Indonesia, these TV people asked her to join the show but since she doesnt understand Bahasa at all, she didnt understand all the thing those TV people said, but finally she accepted the offer, and she joined MAKIN GAYA (i was so curious though, why are the tv people cannot speak in english?????????????).

We saw the show together with our big family and Sandra was like "Oh God Shida can you shoot my head now? It's soooo embarrassing. God i am so shy, can you accompany me to watch it inside my bedroom? Blablabla", why oh why she was shy haha she's uber pretty there in the show. And she also sang a song there, her voice is gorgeous!

Sandra, Reza, Chod, Sisi, Me

Sisi's mom, Sandra's mom, My mom

It's Lilo, wonder why all my family members love CATS

Try this lovely dragon fruit

2009-07-02T21:15:00.003+07:00

Now this dragon fruit makes me crazy like hell. My mommy bought this cutie cutie little magenta fruit yesterday at Grand Indonesia and i felt heaven when i saw them. Seriously, i was like did not want to eat them but when i finally ate them, they are really heaven. Best served cold :p OMG just look at the colour!

I searched for dragon fruit in wikipedia and found out that this fruit has three types, and what i ate was Hyclocereus costaricensis. Well, if you have not tried this fruit, you must. It tastes like kiwi (which i also like so much teehee).

I am totally bored this day. Parents and Chod left me this morning, i woke up with a very bad voice. My throat hurts so bad :(
So i just spent the day with watching Gossip Girl, go online, reading magz, watching all MJ's videos and also his live performances (AND CRIED AGAIN WHEN I SAW CHILDHOOD VIDEO), and now i ended up (finally) working on my assignments for the final test. I am soooo not in the mood to do anything. Don't know why..
I wanna go to DisneyLand.

2009-06-14T10:57:00.003+07:00

I have a blogger friend named Katya, she loves cats and i would love to share pictures of my favorite cat (including their unique poses) with her, and also with you all :D

This is Pascal and he's my favoriteeee.

Picanto the husband, and Pasta the wifey :D

MEW MEW MEW MEW

2009-06-14T10:49:00.003+07:00

Really made my day.
I just cant wait for this.
Holiday, and MEW.

I have nothing to tell now. My days are full with assignments.
I feel sick and so tired.. SERIOUSLY.. The assignments weight a ton.

Okay this is so cool i tell you

2009-06-09T18:02:00.005+07:00

If i browse LOOKBOOK.nu, and you ask me what is the first thing i usually search in LookBook? These pictures will give you answer.

and i am so confused when someone asked me why i adore him.
Do i have to answer the question?
If i do, i will say "what is the first thing you notice 'UGLY' from this guy?"

inside my mind

2009-06-02T19:30:00.004+07:00

Bali Holiday

2009-05-26T22:02:00.028+07:00

After i moved back to Jakarta 2 years ago, i have never been in a REAL holiday. Me and my family were too busy with our own hectic activities. (Oyeah i remember several times we went to Bandung but i dont think it's a holiday. Going to Bandung equals 3-days-shopping, but not holiday-ing).
Sooo when my daddy told me that we're going to Bali, i felt heaven.
5 days in Bali was a real holiday.
Why?
Because my daddy asked us not to study anything, not to touch computers or notebook, not to play facebook, or any social networking websites, so we just have to refresh our mind.
Dont think about anything, just have fun, and i did :) I went to the beach in the morning, swam in the afternoon, went to the beach again until evening, had dinner, and went to Starbucks everynight.
fyi, i didnt go to place like tanah lot or sukowati, etc. udah bosen!!! HAHA.
I only bring camera and my cell phones. Done.

Bali has not changed at all. Still fresh. The peoples are still very very nice..
Well, i have a list. List of everything that i like and dislike in Bali.

what i like..

beach

sitting and getting water-splashed

sunset

waves

surfers (including my brother and daddy haha)

sunbathing

eating mama's pizza

walking around kuta - pasar seni - kuta, shopping.
all the tubedress my mom and i wore are the result of shopping.
(day)

(night)

breakfast @ck

lunch @mc donalds

dinner @pizza hut

and doggies! omg i love dogs.
these two dogs came to the place where i did the sunbathing..
they are total cute!! shit, i want to have dogs.

this one named Vaness.
you can see her as a result of Collie mixed with Golden Retriever.
she's just TOO cute.

and the black one.. i dont know the name.
he just came to my place and then sat there. super cute!

What i dislike...

tender-hearted-but-annoying-ibu2 that sell fabrics, bracelets, and also offering-you-plus-pushing-you to braid
your hair and polish your nails. or "mbak mbak.. tattoonya mbak.. your legs are beautiful. tattoo tattoo".. i dont want to be rude and i dont say i hate them, i just felt annoyed. i mean, cmon.. i know that those stuffs they do are their work, but please, if we have already said NO, dont push us too hard and too often. in a day, a same ibu2 can offer me their braiding hairs thing for 5 or 6 times. Gosh.

i think Kuta better make sidewalks like pictures above. Those pictures i took also in Kuta Beach, but i can only found few sidewalks there. At least the ibu2 and bapak2 who sell souvenirs can have their own place beside the sidewalks, so the tourists and all the visitors can feel their holiday peacefully without being annoyed, and if they want to buy souvenirs, they just have to go to the sidewalks and shop. What do you think?

I was shocked when i saw this banner. I've never seen this before (or at least never put attention on this banner before, because i dont do shower or change clothes there). But when i saw this, i just asked my dad to take the pic, and what i've been thinking was why the heck people have to pay for shower? Ok, i do think it is fair to pay Rp 2000 for shower, but Rp 1000 for changing clothes? Geez.. I think Kuta Beach can get other incomes, the local government can provide funds from other sources. Not with asking people to pay for changing clothes and washing their feet.

The last thing i dislike, garbage. I dont have lots to tell.. *Sigh.

But overall, i still really love Bali.

how facebook rules the world

2009-05-17T14:44:00.004+07:00

click for the bigger size

i am just so amazed how internet (ok especially facebook, im going to talk bout this site) really rules the world these days. i skipped advertising media planning class last tuesday, and got no idea if there is an assignment to do. my friend texted me and asked me if i have already done the assignment or not and i was like "what assignment???" and she only replied "just check out your notes in facebook, you are being tagged". i was being tagged by my class mate, and the note consists of 5 (uber hard) questions.

haha i was just trying to remember how we used to did homeworks on paper, brought books to class, searched for the page, open and re open the books.. and now technology rules the world, i only need 3 minutes to turn on my pc and open my FB notes, and voila! "oooh.. so this is the assignment for tuesday",
and i am not shocked that lots of the comments under the notes said :
"thanks for tagging" >>> omg sounds like so happy being tagged on the fuckin assignment note haha
"ahhh please someone if you have the answers, write it down here and tag meee"
"omg can we just skip the assignments?"
"please give me the answerssss"
"where the heck is the answers?!"

but still, i need hours to do the assignment. GRRRRR.. back to work guys!
(believe me i wont do the assignment til midnight. craving for facebook, fashion websites, blogs, and stuffs)

picanto the godfather

2009-05-12T09:39:00.003+07:00

dont you wanna stare into my eyes?
this golden brown eyes, i know they hypnotize you..

Talent : Picanto, the godfather of all my cats

fisheye pt 2

2009-05-08T10:51:00.006+07:00

this is how i make my header

2009-05-07T08:43:00.005+07:00

okay to somebody who likes my header (thanks) and asked me to tell him/her how to make my header,
here are the easy steps :

1. open your Adobe Photoshop, make a new layer and also open a file that you want to use as the background of the words.

2. write the words on the blank layer, and after that, drag and drop the background picture to the 1st layer (the one you've already put words on it). see, the 2nd picture will tell you how it looks like if you drag and drop your pic to the 1st layer.

3. after that, choose Layer on the toolbar. next step, click Create Clipping Mask. the 2nd pic is the result, and i also change the opacity of the background.

see, DONE!! it's so easy, you just have to crop the layer and upload it to your blog. voila!!

sky sky sky with fisheye

2009-05-05T20:59:00.010+07:00