Friday, May 25, 2012

GT-Man itu anti slip

Aloha hombre, como estas? Kinder bueno? Bueno bueno... (mulai ngaco, epek ngidam Kinder Bueno)

Udah lama gak nulis blog, ternyata oh ternyata, tampilan dashboard blogspot berubah. Sempet bingung gimana cara bikin new post, tapi yah percumalah gw dikaruniai kejeniusan tingkat tinggi kalau gak bisa. Udah sebulan lebih gak menjamah blog ini, *jamah layar komputer dengan penuh has...*, okeh abaikan. Mulai stres, kerjaan lagi banyak. Tapi sempet ngeblog.

Disuruh sama seseorang buat nulis lagi. Aloha Mr. Next, 'sup bro, nih gw nulis. Dan sesuai permintaan lo juga nih, gw bakal nulis tentang gw yang nginep di kosan temen kantor gw, si Slepi.

Okeh, pada suatu hari, Jakarta diguyur hujan deras. Dan seperti yang sudah bisa diduga, Jakarta macet parah. Bikin gw males pulang. Pengen begajulan dulu juga males, gak punya temen. Maklum sebagai kaum Forever Alone, emang suka susah kalau mau gaul mendadak (curcol). Akhirnya gw putuskan nginep di kosan Slepi di belakang GI, di daerah Kebon Kacang yang terkenal sama nasi uduknya. Kesana dengan jibaku, naik kopaja, karena busway ngantrinya parah. Turun dari kopaja, gerimis masih lumayan besar, gak ujan sih, tapi gerimis, tapi gerimis deras.

Gw jalan dengan santai, cool as cucumber. Padahal gw cuma takut kepleset aja karena lagi pake sepatu yang super licin. Slepi panik sambil jalan cepet2, gw jalan pelan2, berdoa dalam hati supaya gak kepleset. Masa dandanan super kece terus kepleset di trotoar? Mending kepleset di catwalk, masuk Detik. Terus disamperin sama anak2 kecil ojek payung. Gw cuekin aja, eh sama si Slepi diajak ngobrol, kenapa sempet2nya coba. Mending ngobrol biasa, si Slepi nanggepin celaan mereka, terus akhirnya keki sendiri. Bego.

Dan akhirnya ke indomaret buat beli sikat gigi, cemilan, aqua, dan... celana dalam. Gw bawa tas pitnes gw, ada baju ganti, ada peralatan mandi (minus sikat gigi), tapi gw lupa celana dalam cadangan pernah gw pake sebelumnya. Akhirnya gw berburu celana dalam di indomaret. Dan ternyata oh ternyata, mereka kehabisan celana dalam wanita. Dan akhirnya, diantara tumpukan celana dalam pria berwarna gelap itu, gw memilih GT-Man yang katanya anti slip. Kenapa milih itu? Karena gw penasaran dari jaman SD, apanya yang slip yah? *cengar cengir bajing ala mandra*

Setelah keluar Indomaret, baru mikir, kenapa gw gak ke GI terus beli celana dalam disana aja coba? La Senza is quite pricey, that's why.

Dan terus, sampe kosan Selpi, dia lupa bawa kunci kosan. Akhirnya dia balik lagi ke kantor, buat ambil kunci. Gw terbengkalai duduk di ruang tamu sambil kelaperan, dan pusing parah. Hampir satu jam kemudian, Slepi muncul dengan muka dongo, dan panik. Dia sempet ngira mau diculik sama tukang ojek karena ojeknya lewat jalan sepi, deket rel kereta pula, dan dia gak tau jalan.

Abis itu gantian mandi, dan turun kebawah buat bikin indomie. Belum selesai indomie gw, lampu mati. Asli. Gw ketawa ngakak banget. Menertawakan hidup gw dan Slepi yang berat banget di hari itu. Slepi? Mencak2 ketakutan sambil bilang "untung ada elo Ras, kalo nggak, gw gak tau lagi". Gw gak peduli, gw kelaperan, nyantap indomie sampai licin tandas. Kemudian lampu nyala, gw mencoba tidur, diiringi dengan cekikian riang si Slepi karena ditelpon pacar. *pasang headset denger musik, gak rela denger gombal2an Slepi ke Beridut*

Terus gimana rasanya pake celana dalam cowok? Errr, I hate to admit it, tapi enaaak. Lega, longgar di bagian bawah. Sampe sekarang gw masih gak ngerti anti slip dimananya, tapi asli, enak.

Monday, April 16, 2012

One of the best quotes from Murakami Haruki

"I realize full well how hard it must be,
to go on living alone
in a place which someone has left you.

But there is nothing so cruel in this world
as the desolation of having nothing to hope for,"

"But even so,
every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness.
The very water I drank, the very air I breathed,
would feel like long, sharp needles."

Thursday, March 22, 2012

For Hasief Ardiasyah

Dear Hasief,
Before I start, I need to warn you that I'm not kind of writer nor a poet. So I'm not quite good in arranging words, both in Indonesian and English, so you've been warned yah...
Your latest post in Tumblr touches me, a lot. And your words inspired me to post something here somehow. If words could kill, you could murder me over one or two conversations. Maybe I would fall for you completely or maybe I will think "you're a freaky and creepy geek".
Where do I have to begin? I never meet you in real life. I just read your tweets each and every day. Sometimes you retweeted me, I don't know, about two or threet imes maybe? And maybe you haven't noticed me until now.
And to be honest, I never thought of meeting you or even talking to you, well, before I read your latest post. But now, after I read it, I want to meet you personally. Well now I bet you think I'm a pathetic looney or kind of psycho who will found dead alone with a cat.
Well, it's just that I always thought you're a music freak who drinks Coke and Ovaltine all the time, loves banana (since all your bagels always have banana inside). But now your post shows the romantic and cheesy side of you. Cool and mysterious guy is so last decade, now is the era of cool and romantic guy.
Back to the topic, your lines impressed me a little bit, and it got me thinking. Not about you, or about me but Future Us-to-be. Err wait, does it scare you? By "Us", I don't really mean to refer to you and me, but someone and me.
But thanks to you Hasief, for inspiring me in my hectic day to be romantic even just for a little bit.


And thanks to you for inspiring me to skip breakfast and lunch just to have a box of cold Ovaltine. You ruin my diet to lose some weights.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Donggi, Central Sulawesi


With birds I'll share this lonely view...
(RHCP, Scar Tissue)

Friday, March 2, 2012

fur dich, Adia

I know I did something so miserable
I know I did something so unforgivable
I know I said something so unforgettable
But would you forgive me?

I know my weakness is undeniably wrong
I know it deserves no generous mercy
I know that I let you down, in every possible way
But would you forgive me?

It's hard anytime I think of you
Make me barely breathing
But I love you
and I miss you

Yes I know it's just too late...

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Not now but soon...

I tried my best to convince myself this is how my life rolls. Tried so damn hard to have faith in you, in me and even in God’s plan. Don’t people say everything happened for a reason? If it’s true, so this is one of God’s insane plan for me, right? And as we all know, God is the best scriptwriter, the best architect. So who the hell am I to say God’s plan is wrong?

I could only tell myself, maybe this is the best time to learn about ikhlas, and to forgive. Maybe I should learn about it in a hard way.

Crap. Crapity crap.

I have nothing else to say. Paulo Coelho once said writing is the best way to empty his mind and fulfill his heart. But it turns out it doesn’t work for me. After a few months hiatus, this is all I can write. I have many things to say, but I don’t know how to say it. I can’t find the right word to depict how I feel right now.


I just have to hold on, right? Hold on, waiting for the help that is on the way.


The worst part is I don't know that holding on is hard, this hard...


Not now but soon, the most beautiful light will wake us to pillow fighting excitement

(Imogen Heap, Not Now but Soon)

Friday, January 27, 2012

L'Arc~En~Ciel hits Jakarta! (Finally, at last)

Oh crap, it's such a dream comes true. L'Arc~En~Ciel is about to hit Jakarta on May 2! Woohoooo.


Jadi inget pertama kali suka sama band ini pas jaman SMP. Gw kenal band ini karena mereka mengisi sontrek dari Samurai X (Rurouni Kenshin). Dan walaupun gw gak ngerti liriknya (boro2 ngerti, nangkep liriknya aja kagak), gw jatuh cintrong abis2an sama band ini. Dan mulailah kecintaan gw terhadap J-music. Dan sayangnya jaman SMP itu mereka belum tersohor kyaq sekarang. Jadi gw gak ngerti musti dapetin lagunya darimana. Dan gw juga dikatain freak karena suka sama mereka. Dikatain Otaku-lah, as if they know the meaning of Otaku. Gw mah belum ada setengah2nya Otaku, gw masih kurang maniaaaak...


Terima kasih kepada MTV pada jaman gw SMA yang menayangkan video clip mereka yang Ready Steady Go dan Hitomi no Juunin. Yang bikin virus J-music mewabah di Indonesia. Yah walaupun bikin alay2 harajushit sok2 ngerti musik jepang, dan sok2 suka. Padahal yang mereka tau juga cuma beberapa lagu. Yang konyolnya lagi, sok2 suka J-music, tapi yang mereka tau cuma Laruku. Cih, sok tau tingkat ASEAN banget.


Tapi berkat mewabahnya virus J-music, pas SMA, gw nemu kaset mereka, SMILE. Eh ini gw bukannya mau ngikutin si Marissa Haque yah, tapi emang judul albumnya SMILE. Dan gw langsung dengerin begitu sampe rumah, dan gw nangis pas denger lagu Feeling Fine. Ngerti liriknya Ras? Kagak. Tapi gak tau kenapa, gw nangis aja gitu pas denger lagunya.


Dan akhirnya, bagai pucuk dicinta ulam tiba (ulam apaan sih btw?), ada beberapa temen SMA gw yang suka sama L'Arc~En~Ciel, dan akhirnya gw bisa dapet file MP3 mereka, dan akhirnya gw punya Flower, Driver's High, 4th Avenue Cafe (their first song that I fall for), dan hits2 mereka. *nangis terharu


Gw makin suka sama band ini. Jatuh cinta sejadi2nya. Walaupun pas jaman kuliah, sekali lagi gw menjadi freak yang suka sama band ini. Tapi pas jaman kuliah juga, gw pacaran sama si Shining Light yang sangat sangat sangat suka L'Arc~En~Ciel. Dia lebih freak dari gw, eye for eye, freak for freak (peribahasa ngaco).


Dan akhirnya pas kerja, ada beberapa orang yang freak banget sama lagu Jepang, dan akhirnya gw jadi bisa melengkapi seluruh album L'Arc~En~Ciel. Booyaaaah... Maaf agak terlalu heboh, terlalu recet, tapi tapi tapi maklumin yah, ini kita lagi ngomongin L'Arc~En~Ciel.


Dan penjualan tiket dimulai besok. Dan gw kyaqnya bakal beli yang VIP package yang terdiri dari tiket Premium festival (850ribu), ditambah dengan official merchandise dan bisa masuk duluan, jadi totalnya 1,2 juta. Mati, alamat puasa dan megap2 ngatur keuangan. But bloody hell, ini kita lagi ngomongin L'Arc~En~Ciel!

Ah akhirnya gw bisa menghirup udara yang sama ama mereka...

Gak sabar nunggu tanggal 2 Mei!!!!