About "The Apple..." Proverb

It would be easier to know the answer of our life’s questions, if we had known our parents answers to theirs.

They're So F****ng Talented (dalam meniru)

Heartless

You got two
Therefore I got none

Mengapa?

Trus kenapa?

Sebuah alasan yang telah dijelaskan namun tetap menimbulkan ketidakjelasan berarti tetap membutuhkan jawaban. Dan ketika jawaban tersebut kembali membutuhkan penjelasan, apakah pertanyaan awal yang menanyakan alasan masih perlu dipertanyakan?

Untung

Aneh banget pagi-pagi
Ada satu anak STPDN
Nggak sok, tapi percaya diri
Jalannya cepat nggak ngerem-ngerem

Mukanya serius ngomongnya becanda
Nyuruh-nyuruh pulang
Padahal bilang selamat datang

Untung tak jadi bertanya
“Kapan lulus dari Jatinangor?”
Bisa-bisa balik ke desa itu lagi
jadi dosen penunggu gaji
Karena ternyata ia Din Sumedi

Kenapa pindah?

Karena ialah saya pindah ke tempat kerja yang sekarang.

Pertama kali bertemu dengannya sekitar 4 tahun yang lalu di lantai empat Gedung Victoria. Copy buatannya disukai oleh banyak orang. Walaupun bagi saya susu buatannya lah yang paling mantab.

Kini kami bertemu lagi. Belum secara langsung bekerja bersama, tapi setidaknya ada di lantai yang sama. Harapan saya, semoga ia bisa tetap sehat. Tidak seperti beberapa waktu lalu saat ia mengalami kerusakan yang cukup kritis. Beruntung perusahaan sayang kepadanya. Semua urusan pengobatan dibuat lancar.

Mudah-mudahan hari-hari kita ke depan akan lebih seru lagi dari sekarang, Mr. Coffeemaker.

My Views Lined Up with The Candidates

Droga For Obama

Droga5 have thrown their hats in the fierce furnace political election by joining with Sarah Silverman asking Jews to get their butts down to Florida for The Great Schlep.

The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor.


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Libra Man

A man who has no balance like his Zodiac symbol. He is not the gentle, cool, calm and charming guy like what you see. He has another dark side of aggression, stubborn and he likes to start an argument the most. Sometimes he can be so depress and unstable. Up and down like he is trying to balance himself most of the time.

To many people, he is a friendly guy and always smile even when he is mad or up set. His voice always gentle and calm. he always set and comb his hair as if he comes out from a shampoo advertisement. Mostly Libra men are good looking, even the ugly one is charming. When he smiles, it is so bright that the whole world is smiling with him too.

When he is in a balance mood, he is the type of person you want to be with. In other unbalancing mood, he likes to make people argue about something and watching it with fascination and fun. He will wait to be the one who compromise and clear thing up. He likes to be in a conflicting conversation.

Libra man is lazy by nature. After his tired day at work, he likes to sit still and just look out of the window or read quietly. He likes to be in his own world. After recharging his battery, he will be very energetic again and may even take you out that night.

Libra man normally will not do any shocking or abnormal things to be noticed. He likes to be conformed with his crowd, but if you watch him carefully, you will see the different. If he wear a shirt, it will have to be a zipper front instead of buttons, or a special tie bar. There is always something in him that he will not allow totally conformity to take him over.

A straight forward , no non-sense guy. He is careful and delicate in details. He will spent extra time to doing it right, than comes back to correct them later. He hates people who boost, or exaggerate. He does not like over dressed woman or make herself a center of an attention.

He loves to read. He loves poems and loves art. When he works he can work like crazy, but after work he can turn on romantic jazzy music and treat you so gently. He loves to give people advice and normally give a good advice. If you fall for him, you will stay like being trapped in a spider web. If you want to break up with him, he will persuade you a zillion ways to stay and you can not stop him anyway. After he persuade you to stay, or after a big fight, he will be so sweet to you as if he has never hurt your feeling before ever.

He will has his own way to win a girl love and affection. Once she says yes, he will lay back and wonder if he should go on or if he should back out. In his teen, he changed many girl friends because he can not clearly separate loving a friend and loving a girl friend. He will check and re-check if his match is suitable and compatible with him.

Even he is a romantic man, he can hardly understand the emotion of the one he loves. He is a generous guy even he sets his life so systematically. He never knows when he makes you unhappy. He never knows how he up set you. He will never knows what he said wrong. If he is your lover, be prepare for this.

A not so pretty girl with no brain is not his type of woman. If you are not pretty enough, he will not mind talking to you but he does not care to get to know you. Any girls, pretty or ugly can ask for his help, he will be happy to help. He hates to argue by yelling at each other, so you tend to see he argue with his girl friend seriously but try at best to be very quiet.

He likes to have a girl friend by getting to know each other like a friend first. If you want him, you have to like the same thing he does. He prefers a pretty and gentle woman than a smart and ugly woman. You have to understand his mood especially he can has many different moods. He is a private person, so when he needs to be alone better let him be.

Ternyata Hanya Belum Mau

Entah apa yang memotivasinya, yang pasti ia berhasil mengalahkan ketakutannya.

My mom writes this whole day. Writes my day too.

Keep it going, Mom!

Tidak Ingat? Atau Tidak Mau?

Kurang lebih dua pertiga dari total biaya pendidikan saya adalah hasil kerja keras ibu saya belasan tahun sebagai corporate secretary. Dan tentu saja sebagai seorang sekretaris andalan boss ia banyak mengetik menggunakan komputer.

Pagi ini ia bertanya kepada saya dan adik saya, "Kalau ngetik di laptop nantinya bisa di-print kan?"

Saya sarankan adik saya untuk meminjamkan laptopnya, karena berpikir ibu saya akan lebih mudah beradaptasi dengan laptop pc.

Ternyata tidak.

Dia sudah lupa bagaimana membuat huruf kapital, bagaimana membuat teks menjadi justified, dan hal-hal standar penggunaan Word lainnya.

Saya ingat dulu ketika saya mengetik tugas di rumah seringkali ia mengingatkan untuk memencet control s, tapi sekarang ia kesulitan mencari tombol itu. Kok bisa ya? Kalau kita sudah pernah naik sepeda, kapan pun naik sepeda lagi pasti akan ingat. Tapi mengapa ia tidak? Umur?

Saya rasa tidak. Tebakan saya karena rasa sakit hati yang tersisa sehingga dia menjadi apatis. Karena mengingat kembali cara menggunakan komputer berarti mengingat kembali suasana di kantornya saat itu. Kembali lagi mengingat pengkhianatan anak asuhnya, kembali lagi merasakan penghinaan dan sakit hati.

Siapa juga yang mau merasakan hal seperti itu lagi.

Independent Thinker

ipersonic. Tahu dari LiaCapri karena kita lagi ada kerjaan bikin tes-tes beginian. Iseng-iseng nyoba kok hasilnya mirip. Seumur hidup baru ada dua tes kepribadian yang cukup tepat. Pertama berdasarkan zodiak (kalau masih ada filenya saya posting di postingan berikutnya deh), dan yang kedua ya yang ini.

Coba juga deh testnya, klik di sini. Jangan lupa buat share hasilnya ya. Ini adalah hasil tes saya.

Independent Thinkers are analytical and witty persons. They are normally self-confident and do not let themselves get worked up by conflicts and criticism. They are very much aware of their own strengths and have no doubts about their abilities. People of this personality type are often very successful in their career as they have both competence and purposefulness. Independent Thinkers are excellent strategists; logic, systematics and theoretical considerations are their world. They are eager for knowledge and always endeavour to expand and perfect their knowledge in any area which is interesting for them. Abstract thinking comes naturally to them; scientists and computer specialists are often of this type.

Independent Thinkers are specialists in their area. The development of their ideas and visions is important to them; they love being as flexible as possible and, ideally, of being able to work alone because they often find it a strain having to make their complex trains of thought understandable to other people. Independent Thinkers cannot stand routine. Once they consider an idea to be good it is difficult to make them give it up; they pursue the implementation of that idea obstinately and persistently, also in the face of external opposition.

Independent Thinkers are not the type who easily comes out of his shell. Speaking about their emotional life is also not one of their strong points. Anyway, social relationships are not particularly important to them; they are happy with just a few, close friends who find it easy to share their intellectual world. They find it difficult to establish new ties. In love, they need a lot of space and independence but this does not mean that their partner is not important to them. Independent Thinkers often make a cool and reserved impression on others; but this impression is deceptive: they can hardly bear it if people close to them should reject them. They prefer a harmonious, balanced relationship with a partner who shares their interests and with whom they can realise their visions.

Adjectives which describe your type

introverted, theoretical, logical, planning, rational, independent, intellectual, self-confident, analytical, structured, dogged, witty, resolute, self-critical, visionary, inventive, independent, unsociable, reserved, nonconformist, quiet, visionary, honest, demanding, hardworking.

These subjects could interest you

art, jazz, classical music, science fiction, computer, drawing/painting, spiritual matters, meditation, handicraft, writing, strategic games, politics.

Cita-cita

Setelah punya rumah, apa cita-citamu? Kecil saja:
ingin bisa sampai rumah saat senja supaya saya
dan senja sempat minum teh bersama di depan jendela.

Ah cita-cita. Makin hari kesibukan makin bertumpuk, uang makin banyak maunya, jalanan macet, akhirnya pulang terlambat. Seperti turis lokal saja, singgah menginap di rumah sendiri buat sekedar melepas penat.

Terberkatilah waktu yang dengan tekun dan sabar membangun sengkarut tubuhku menjadi rumah besar yang ditunggui seorang ibu.
Ibuwaktu berbisik mesra: "Sudah kubuatkan sarang senja di bujur barat tubuhmu.
Senja sedang berhangat-hangat di dalam sarangnya."

(Joko Pinurbo, 2003)

secretly in love

kebetulan melakukan yang sama terlalu sering terjadi, begitu juga yang berlawanan yang menghasilkan keutuhan. padahal saya tidak percaya dengan kebetulan.

saya tidak kenal dia, dan sebaliknya. tapi kami berada di dunia yang sama, dunia di mana hanya kami sendiri yang dapat hidup di dalamnya, yang sama-sama kami cintai dengan cara kami sendiri-sendiri.

I've been watching your world from afar
I've been trying to be where you are
And I've been secretly falling apart
Unseen
To me, you're strange and you're beautiful
You'd be so perfect with me
But you just can't see
You turn every head but you don't see me

I'll put a spell on you
Before You'll fall asleep
When I put a spell on you
And when I wake you I'll be the first thing you see
And you'll realize that you love me

...

(strange and beautiful by aqualung)

unedited blog

Selama ini, saya selalu memberikan waktu lebih untuk setiap postingan di blog ini. Ditulis, didiamkan, diedit, ditulis ulang, diedit lagi, dst sampai akhirnya "ya udahlah, cuma buat blog ini" dan akhirnya tulisan pun diposting.

Makanya jumlah postingan di blog ini cukup lama bertambahnya. Dan setelah saya membaca-baca lagi, nggak bagus-bagus amat juga tulisan-tulisannya.

Kadang saya merasa, ini tulisan gw nih, kok gini? Atau kok gini ya jadinya, maksud awalnya kan bukan ini? Dan lain sebagainya. Bottom line, bogus.

Orang Indonesia banget ya saya, maunya bagus malah jadinya bogus.

Karena itu, mulai sekarang saya mau ubah cara saya menambah postingan, tanpa edit. Maafkan kalau ternyata nantinya banyak typo atau grammar yang salah, tapi semoga dengan begitu keaslian pemikiran dan maksud dapat tersampaikan dengan benar, tanpa pretensi.

Ugh...

Listening What You Are Saying

Saat membeli produk yang iklannya kita yang bikin selalu menyenangkan. Menanyakan pertanyaan padahal kita sudah tahu jawabannya, lalu mengeluarkan anak-anak pertanyaan yang terkadang dikejutkan dengan jawaban-jawaban baru.

Pagi ini saya membeli Kartu Flazz BCA untuk pertama kalinya (padahal iklannya sudah mau masuk tahap ke-3). Sebenarnya tidak ada niatan khusus untuk membelinya. Tujuan utama adalah mencairkan deposito. Nah, selama saya dilayani, CSO (customer service officer) di meja sebelah sedang melayani nasabah yang mau membeli Kartu Flazz. Saya pun pasang kuping panjang sambil melirik dari ujung mata.

CSO di sebelah menjelaskan mengenai produk ke nasabah menggunakan brosur (yang saya dan teman-teman di kantor buat). So far so good. Saya lalu menunggu bagaimana CSO akan menggunakan beberapa kata yang saya inject sebagai signature (baca: keisengan biar semangat ngerjain kerjaannya, hehehe). Dan dia menggunakannya! Hahahaha…

Tapi saya belum puas sampai di situ. Saya pun meminta penjelasan Kartu Flazz ke CSO yang melayani saya. Ternyata CSO saya itu kayak supervisor atau senior gitu, jadi ia tidak menggunakan brosur sebagai alat bantu. Penjelasannya lebih mengalir dan ketika ia hampir sampai ke signature saya, ia bangun penjelasannya hingga saat ia menggunakannya terasa lebih dramatis. Hebat deh dia.

Saya pun “terbeli”. Proses transaksi terjadi. Tapi maaf nih saya tidak akan memberitahu signature saya. Bisa ribet kalau ketahuan.

Berhubung moodnya lagi enak, saya lalu menyampaikan complain teman saya mengenai Kartu Flazz. Yaitu beberapa merchant memberlakukan minimum pembayaran. Itu kan mematikan fungsi si kartu sebagai pengganti uang receh dan alat praktis biar nggak usah repot berurusan sama uang kembalian. Huh!

Dan karena CSO saya itu jago, ia menangkap itu dan mencatatnya. Ia juga mencari tahu detail masalah seperti merchantnya apa dan adanya di mana.

Saya pun sepertinya segera bisa memberitahu teman saya untuk tidak perlu khawatir dengan masalah minimum pembayaran di merchant langganannya itu.

PostSecret

Semakin susah tersentuh. Semakin susah tergugah. Karena semakin mengerti dan menikmati sakit.

Seorang teman pernah bilang, "Mind works like muscle, abuse it." Sepertinya hal itu berlaku juga buat consience kita.

Dan ini adalah salah satu bentuk latihannya.


Can you tell which one is mine?

See more of them, here

Note:
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

Obama In Berlin

“Will we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the one each of our nations projects to the world? Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law?”

Senator Barack Obama drew a crowd of more than
200,000 in Berlin on Thursday

Begini Seharusnya Puisi

Maria sangat sedih menyaksikan anaknya
mati di kayu salib tanpa celana
dan hanya berbalutkan sobekan jubah
yang berlumuran darah.

Ketika tiga hari kemudian Yesus bangkit
dari mati, pagi-pagi sekali Maria datang
ke kubur anaknya itu, membawa celana
yang dijahitnya sendiri dan meminta
Yesus untuk mencobanya.

“Paskah?” tanya Maria.
“Pas sekali, Bu,” jawab Yesus gembira.

Mengenakan celana buatan ibunya,
Yesus naik ke surga.

"Celana Ibu"
Joko Pinurbo
(2004)