I believe it is time to mr. Grumpy to learn how to listen and respect others. Something he should be done a long time ago. It was a shame how we keep silent for all this time even though we were disagree with him. So I hope my message reached him: listen and respect. Treat others equals. They are not your slave and you are not the king of the world.

Kala menyetir (mobil) biasanya saya suka memberi jalan pada kendaraan lain yang butuh atau orang menyeberang. Tidak ada ruginya melepas gas sebentar biar yang lain bisa lewat. Perkecualian untuk angkot dan bis yang suka menyerobot antrian. Pengalaman selama ini, angkot bukan jenis yang tahu terima kasih. Sesudah diberi jalan mereka malah enak saja berhenti di depan kita, menunggu calon penumpang atau ngobrol dengan temannya. Masih mending kalau berhentinya di pinggir, ini di tengah jalan. Ngajak ribut apa.


Biasanya ketika tiba giliran saya butuh jalan, sesemrawut dan se-hetic apapun, ada saja yang berbaik hati memberi. Entah mobil atau motor. Pernah saya iseng berlaku egois, tidak memberi jalan sama sekali meskipun jaraknya masih jauh. Believe or not, waktu saya yang butuh jalan, tidak ada yang mau memberi. Harus menunggu sampai betul-betul sepi.


At least it teaches me something, as you sow, so you will reap.

kemana kau pergi, cinta?

Don't you think it is the time to jump to another ship? The problem is, the rescue ship hasn't arrive yet.

Some blogs have advanced features such as password protection per post, this means people can read post#1 but not post#2 unless they supply the correct password. Sophisticated? I don't think so. The reason is simple:


Blog is for public. Either you make it private to a group of your closest friend or not, the bottom line is the same: you allow others read you. So I don't see the point of posting a thing but prevent others from read it. If you don't want other people to read your post then why you still put it on your blog? Better do not post it at all! If you believe things are better left unspoken then let them be. Do not convey it to the world.


If the reason is because you do not want certain person read your post but you have no problem with the others then I say what kind of person are you? Do you have the guts to tell the truth, your true feeling/opinion or you are nothing but a coward? Kind of loosers who have no courage to take the risk of their own action.


Not everyone is ready to face the truth but I guess if we want to move on then we should start to learn it.

I guess it is true that life is about a choice. You can choose to be somebody or nobody. In more popular terms, you can choose to be a Hyundai or Lexus. It all depends on you. Notice that to be somebody there are effort, pain, tears and obviously time.


You choose who you want to be.
You choose what you want to do.
You choose where you want to be.


Look at the mirror and ask yourself, have you make your own choice?

*Yanni - If I could tell you. Taken from his concert*
It's still hard to turn away

Baru pulang dari suatu tempat di daerah puncak, menghabiskan wiken di sana. Bukan gaya-gayaan atau tiba-tiba sudah termasuk golongan "the have" tapi diminta mengantar pergi dan mengantar pulang dari Jakarta yang panas dan serba beton ke villa yang sejuk dan serba hijau. Sisi positifnya, bisa refreshing. Enak juga menginap semalam di sana. Jalan kaki pagi-pagi menyusuri jalan pegunungan yang alamak terjalnya, minum teh di gazeebo, main badminton sebentar, lanjut ping-pong lalu bakar jagung, leyeh-leyeh di balkon dengan pemandangan lembah terus tidur (lagi) sampai makan siang.


Sisi negatifnya, pegel juga menahan kopling satu setengah jam dari tol jagorawi exit puncak sampai pertigaan beberapa kilo sebelum taman safari. Jengkel dengan berandalan lokal yang berlagak mengatur lalu lintas tapi tujuan aslinya cuma uang dan hasilnya malah bikin macet tambah parah. Dan sebal dengan ulah motor yang seradak seruduk minta digampar plus tingkah laku angkot dan pengemudi APV yang pecicilan. Dari dulu sampai sekarang sama saja, rata-rata sikap pengemudi APV dan Carry selalu belagu dan mau menang sendiri sementara kenyataannya jalanan itu harus dibagi.


Dari petualangan kemarin ada beberapa yang bisa dicatat. Pertama kalo ingin menjajal kemampuan mobil di tanjakan pergilah ke tempat-tempat seperti ini, desa-desa di pegunungan sekitar puncak pass. Belum pernah rasanya menemui jalur yang begitu ajaib, tanjakan terjal dengan sudut miring 45 derajat lalu di ujung tiba-tiba berbelok patah ke kanan. Dan jangan bayangkan selama menanjak itu rutenya lurus seperti huruf I, biasanya sih membentuk huruf S. Seriously, jalur ini mungkin sebenarnya disiapkan untuk dilewati kuda bukan mobil.


Hebatnya MPV mur-mer dengan mesin kecil 1300 cc yang diisi delapan orang dewasa plus satu panci sop, empat raket badminton, satu tabung shuttle cock yang cuma berisi satu cock, dua pasang sandal jepit, tiga bungkus kacang atom garuda dan biskuit ritz plus beberapa tas sukses menaklukkan semua tanjakan tanpa ngos-ngosan dengan ac on depan belakang meski terkadang harus berhenti di tengah lantaran macet.


Catatan kedua, betapa minimnya petunjuk jalan di situ sehngga rute pulang meleset jauh dari rute pergi. Kalau pergi kita lewat pertigaan ciawi arah puncak, ketika pulang lantaran cuma mengandalkan instiusi sambil berharap dituntun the force, akhirnya malah keluar di dekat pintu gerbang Ciawi, tepat sebelum pertigaan yang mengarah ke Tajur. But I call it luck as we were one step closer to highway gate.



Catatan ketiga, penduduk lokal semakin komersial. Tiap pertigaan selalu ditungguin mahluk kucrit yang berlagak mengatur lalu lintas, mulai dari berandal bermuka hancur sampai anak kecil dan ibu-ibu. Di salah satu ruas jalan malah pasang meja plus kopi segelas. Such disgusting.


Catatan keempat, Jakarta memang sumpek dan miskin hiburan.

There is kucrit here.

*In case you are wondering, "kucrit" in this term refers to a person who really loves to disfigure other, defame, annoying, envy and act as the most innocent person in the world. Funny that I have no respect at all to such a villainous person like that.*

it was rain yesterday. and it is raining now in the morning.
so I guess the message is true.
the fairy rain has returned.


and my arms are open wide.
welcome home.
so much i miss you...

I've just returned from a small city in West Java, about three hours driving from Bandung (make it four if we add one hour lunch break and five minutes stop to buy kerupuk melarat into account). We brought our big cooler box with us, load it with milk, yakult, green tea and mineral water. We also brought our snacks: peanuts, bread, cookies, biscuits and chocolate. It was a long trip so we gotta made it fun. And since there were kids and baby with us, we stopped oftenly to give them time to rest *sate maranggi yummy*.


Though the tavern is rustic, the air conditioner has no remote which almost make me freeze the whole night, the light is murky, no buffet for breakfast *what do you expect? breakfast on bed?* and I got no hot water for bath, I must say the trip was quite fun. We may won't have another one like it for a long time.

Everybody says "Heroes is good", "You must see it", "Sci-fi lover eh? Gotta see it by yourself". So I raise my hand, "All right, all right. I'll do". So be it. The next weekend I find my self at a DVD-VCD counter in one of so many ITC in Java, and back to home with three discs of Heroes episode 1-9. Yes yes, I was a litte bit late watching this series, since I lost connection with the collective I find it's hard to keep up to date with what-the-hell-had-happened-in-alpha-quadran.


I have no comment about this series right now as I haven't watch it all *though I'd already knew how far the story goes in season 1, thanks to wikipedia*, yet it leaves me with an allure question *I guess everybody does*: if, I can choose to have such an ability like theirs, which one will do me a favour?


Most people recommend Peter's. The ability to absorb another hero's power, learn it and the way to summon it. It is a good idea I think because:
1. If I meet Nathan, I can fly.
2. If I meet Isaac, I can paint the future.
3. If I meet Hiro, I can bend space and time. I can stop the time, sneak into the payroll database and add an extra "0" in my salary.
4. If I meet Claire, I can heal my self. Regeneration rules.
5. If I meet Niki, I can.. have one night stand with Nathan.. *ups*


But absorb and summon it are different stories and I'll end up be an explosion in space, so I guess mastering them all and then turn into a nuclear kaboom is not a good idea.


Perhaps the second most interesting power is Hiro's. Bend the space and time. By mastering it I can:
1. Jump to the future or past
2. Join "Super deal 2 milyar" quiz and before I choose "Tirai 1, Tirai 2" etc.. I stop the time and see what's behind.


Although seems cool but without having super strength, I find it is a little bit less worthly, especially if you are chubby, nerds, rarely do sport and you need to pull away a big-tall-black-man with a wounded-half-blank-woman from an exploding car.


So I guess I still have no idea which one is my fave.

Sometimes, how I wish that I can simply walking away. Pain, misery, desire. Leave them all behind. Sadly in fact, life is not as easy as it is and sometimes we are forced to carry them with us.


If only I have that power.

"You smell of petrol," said the girl.
We did not answer her. Faquarl moved his hand, beginning a gesture. I sensed his regretful intention.


Why did I act then? Pure self-interest. Because with Faquarl momentarily distracted,it was the perfect opportunity to escape. And if I happened to save the girl too... well, it was only fair. It was she who gave me the idea.



I lit a small Spark on the end of one finger and tossed it at the cook.
A soft noise, like a gas fire being ignited, and Faquarl was an orange-yellow ballof flame. As he blundered about, roaring with discomfort, setting fire to the leaves about him, the little girl squealed and ran. It was good thinking: I did the same.[7]

[7] Only without the squeal. Obviously.

And in a few moments I was in the air and far away, hurtling at top speed toward Highgate and my stupid, misbegotten master.


I read the The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Amulet of Samarkand, 160 of 287 pages. Yes it is still a long way to go consider that there are still two others books waiting for me. So far, I like the Bartimaeus character. He has a sense of humor, a little bit strange, cynic but I find out it just perfect for him.


I haven't read *buy, I mean* Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows, still waiting for someone generous to lend me one since I found 285k++ for a kiddy book is not a reasonable price and obviously out of question.

Suatu siang ketika sedang menyusuri gang-gang sempit di sebuah ITC di bilangan Jakarta, seorang SPG menyapa saya dengan pe-de-nya:


"Boleh pak bh-nya...."


Untuk sesaat sempat saya memberi dia antara lirikan sebal "enggak liat gue cowok?" dengan ingin tahu "mana mbak? coba lihat...", sempat terpikir untuk berhenti dan melihat-lihat sejenak tapi akhirnya dibatalkan setelah mempertimbangkan fakta berikut:


1. Seperti menilai orang, saya lebih concern dengan 'isinya' ketimbang 'bungkusnya', jadi saya tidak mau menghabiskan waktu untuk menilai sesuatu yang 'kosong'. Kalau yang ditawarkan itu 'isinya' boleh jadi akan lain ceritanya.
2. Akan jadi pemandangan ajaib jika seorang Adam berada di tengah-tengah 'perabotan' Hawa yang warna dan bentuknya beraneka ragam itu. Bukan cuma weird tapi juga berpotensi mengundang bisik-bisik dan masuk infotainment


Sampai sekarang saya cuma bisa menerka-nerka alasan si mbak SPG menyapa seperti itu:
1. Majikannya sudah menset default configuration-nya seperti itu sehingga siapapun yang lewat, kalimat pertama yang keluar otomatis itu.
2. Lagi frustasi lantaran sampai sesiang itu masih sepi pembeli
3. Produk yang dia jual transgender alias bisa dipakai cewek, cowok dan yang berdiri di antara keduanya.
4. Si mbak sebenarnya salah satu anak buah Voldermoth yang menyamar dan bh itu adalah portkey yang harus diserahkan ke saya untuk membawa saya ketemu dengan bos-nya. *Apa enggak ada barang lain yang lebih cocok?*
5. Produk yang dia tawarkan itu barang antik karena pernah dipakai Wonder Woman.
6. Di balik bh itu tersembunyi light saber yang bakal dipakai untuk menyerang saya karena si mbak ternyata orang suruhan kelinci energizer.