Kenapa? kenapa? kenapa?
Kata-kata 'kenapa' itu udah lazim banget digunakan didalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Bisa dibilang 'kenapa' itu adalah ingredients words yang kita ucapin setiap hari nya. 'Kenapa' biasanya digunakan untuk mengekspresikan ketidak tahuan.
Lucunya, ada 'kenapa' yang mudah dijawab, agak sulit dijawab, bahkan ada 'kenapa' yang tidak bisa dijawab. Aneh ya? Kenapa seseorang bisa berfikir sampai ke arah itu, sedangkan sebenarnya tidak ada jawaban untuk itu.
Ada lagi 'kenapa' yang tidak perlu dijawab.
Kenapa? (see, kita sebut sekali lagi kata ini)
Bukan semuanya 'kenapa' harus dijawab - Ummi.
Seperti kata orang, sometimes something has to be left unspoken.
Seperti kata-kata diatas. This post is left unspoken. If you ask why? please refer to the sentence above.
I'm surrounded by great people. But, I myself is no one. I'm not someone. And people around me is someone. And day by day, I feel....... No need to mention. We all know that feeling. Do we? or it's just me?
yeah probably everyone is someone. And I'm the only no one. :/
Kutipan itu selalu ku lihat
dengar dan ingat
Tiada yang tahu apa arti sejatinya
disebalik kutipan itu
Bukan hanya aku
kamu ataupun dia
Semua orang tau tentang itu
Kutipan kata yang selalu
menghiasi dinding kamarku
Lalu apakah arti disebalik itu
Lima hari yang lalu
aku menemukan arti sejatinya
kutipan itu
Buat ku kutipan itu sangat benar adanya
Aku telah merasakan nya
Anehnya kau mengatakan hal yang sama
kau merasa hal yang sama
Kita sepakat
Home is where the heart is
dan di sini lah kita
masih berdua, menuai cerita indah
Home is where the heart is.
Hujan-hujan, abis kehujanan, mandi dan minum peppermint tea plus dengerin lagu nya kahitna. Bahagia itu sederhana.
Entah kenapa peppermint tea itu jadi pilihan untuk menemani di saat mellow. Ya ga harus sedih, misalnya lagi hujan juga enak. Lebih cocok deh dari pada hot chocolate. Peppermint tea itu lebih clear dan enteng kalo dibandingin sama hot chocolate. Lagian royal family pasti ada tea time in the evening ( mostly the drink earl grey or chamomile ). Karna teh itu lebih netral kali ya.
By having peppermint tea and rains, it feels good! Ahh.. sip the tea, smell it. Heaven! cold weather with peppermint tea.
Dan spesial malam ini, peppermint tea hadir di tengah-tengah my i-don't-know-what feelings. Malam ini beda banget, lebih merasa tentram aman damai dan peacefull. Ada yang beda sama malam ini.
Thanks to you peppermint tea.
Tonight's feeling, I'll call it 'Peppermint Tea Feeling"
Kali ini ada salah satu, entah itu policy atau hanya sekedar 'trend' di Malaysia yang menyebalkan. Bahkan sangat menyebalkan. Kalian tau tempat wisata? Ya, kebanyakan tempat wisata di Malaysia saat ini membeda-beda kan antara warganegara dan bukan warnanegara. Mereka memberi harga yang terjangkau kepada warganegaranya. Sedangkan untuk turis, mereka memberi harga yang lumayan mahal.
Kalau memang policy atau 'trend' yang baru seperti itu, kita semua bisa maklum. Malaysia bisa mendapatkan keuntungan dari pariwisatanya. Bagi sebagian turis, harga yang sudah di tetapkan dianggap normal-normal saja.
Lalu bagaimana dengan kami? Kami yang bukan warga negara tetapi tinggal di Malaysia. Apakah kami harus membayar dengan harga turis? Kami tinggal disini tidak gratis. Kami harus membayar visa setiap periodenya (lamanya tergantung kepada jenis visa/ izin tinggal) dengan harga yang tidak dikategorikan murah. Selain itu, kami yang menetap dan tinggal di Malaysia ini juga membayar pajak. Entah itu road tax, pajak penghasilan sampai pajak rumah.
Harga yang ditetapkan untuk bukan warganegara bagi kami agak mahal bahkan ada yang menganggap mahal sekali, karna sudah terbiasa dengan kurs ringgit.
Yang menjadi pertanyaan saat ini adalah..
Mengapa kami diberi harga berbeda?
Hello. My name is Afifa. I'm 18 years old. Yes, I'm 18.
Thank you for all wishes.
Thank you friends for those gift. I love you guys. I'm glad that I'm your friend. I love being surrounded by extremely incredible friends like you guys.
Thanks ummi, for those cake. Really appreciate it. I hope in this age I can be the best for you. And for the rest of my life.
Let's see what I got from my incredible friends...
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| Thank you dear chairmate.. :* Love you full raaaa! |
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| Terimakasih pengyou men gue yang paling gila.. I love you all.. and the card says " Happy Birthday Afifa! :* We wish you become a better girl ;) jadi sering nraktir kita :p tambah disayang semuaaanya! Dan dapet apa yg kau cita2kan Amiiin... XOXO - Adel, Retna, Vinca, Shara, Alya- " |
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| Thank you Jim! :) |
And this is my birthday cake from my mom. :)
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| Rainbow Cake with cream cheese <3 td="td"> |
Apa ya?
Hmmmm. Hari ini tepat tanggal 1 September. Ga ada yang spesial sama tanggal 1 September. Tapi setiap tanggal 1 September pasti ada kepikiran tentang 11 hari berikutnya. Yes, tanggal 12. Tanggal 12 besok gue ulang tahun. Ga, gue ga mengharapkan kado atau apapun. Dan yes, gue berharap supaya gausah nraktir temen-temen. Hahaha. Sekali lagi, bukan mengharapkan hadiah (kalo mau ngasih ga nolak kok :p).
Buat gue ulang tahun itu berat. Karena setiap kita ulang tahun angka di umur kita nambah terus. Buat gue, semakin besar angka tersebut, semakin besar juga tanggungjawab yang bakal kita pikul. Gampang nya, makin tua makin banyak masalah. Makin tua juga makin dituntut untuk jadi dewasa. Dewasa ini lah yang kadang-kadang gue suka lupa.
12 September besok jam 10 pagi waktu Berlin, gue tepat 18 tahun. Wow, 18 tahun men! ya kalo di bioskop, udah legal nonton apa aja. Kenapa? soalnya seseorang yang berumur 18 tahun ke atas udah bsa bertanggungjawab sama apa yang di tonton. Itu cuma contoh kecil. Masih banyak lagi. Pokoknya menyandang umur 18 itu buat gue tidak semenyenangkan yang di tv-tv.
Pengennya?
Pengennya sih, 18nya ditunda buat sebulan atau setahun atau...
Maunya?
Maunya masih bisa main walaupun udah 18. Yang kata orang udah dewasa.
Jadi?
Jadi ya terima aja kalo 11 hari lagi gue ulang tahun yang ke-18. I'm gettin' old!
"To please everyone is impossible"-someone
Baik atau jahat? Buat gue itu semua pilihan masing-masing individu.
"Aku percaya bahwa semua manusia core nya itu baik. Hanya saja sebagian dari mereka memilih untuk menjadi jahat. Semua itu tentang pilihan"- Afifa.
Kita terlahir putih, bersih. Sekarang tinggal kita yang menentukan, tinta hitam atau tinta warna yang indah yang akan kamu goreskan di kanvas kehidupanmu. Kembali lagi, semua itu pilihan. Hidup itu pilihan.
Apapun yang kamu pilih nanti, akan hadir konsekuensinya.
Percaya lah, baik buruknya seseorang hanya tuhan yang tau.
Manusia hanya bisa menilainya secara subjektif.
Choose wisely!
Indah banget dunia saat itu.
Bahkan lukisan Van Goh, Picasso dan Da Vinci pun
tidak mampu menandingi keindahan nya.
Saat itu jauh lebih indah dari keukenhof.
Lebih banyak bunga dan lebih banyak warna.
Saat itu semua fokus ku hanya buat kamu.
Dunia ini hanya ada kamu, kamu dan kamu.
Kadang timbul rasa kangen terhadap saat itu.
Saat itu memang paling susah untuk dilupakan.
Mengingat nya pun bisa membuat hati melayang sendiri.
Walaupun saat itu sudah berlalu,
masih tersimpan di benak ku.
Sebagai awal dari memori indah bersama mu.
Bisa ditebak sendiri ya, ini momen apa. :)
*going out from the cave*
ahhh, it's been years since the last time I posted in here (not really). My blog is down for awhile. I can not access my blog from my chrome. So yes, now I'm literally back!. Btw, It's Ramadhan! and almost over. I have a great one so far. May my days in Ramadhan is blessed. Amin! And also, I'm going to my grandparents house to celebrate hari raya. Meet my cousins and relatives and the most important of all is I can eat lots of delicious food!
I wish everyone Happy Eid Mubarak!
It's been such a quite long time since my last post.
Until middle of July is my holiday. I'm enjoying the 3 weeks. I re-paint the house to welcoming the holy month of Ramadhan. My family decided to have new surrounding when fasting. It was the busiest week in my holiday. I painted my room with pine bud-color. It was cool and calming. Makes me always feel sleepy. :D
16th July is back to school time. We're having the orientation day for the new students. 4 days busy around the very hot school's hall. Not much to tell. I'm happy the treasure hunt went very well. :) Thanks to OSIS this period. You guys rock! Me gonna miss to work together with you guys.
And this is SENIOR YEAR! I'm not really happy cause exam comes nearer and the fact that my class only got 14 people left.
Well, tomorrow we all start fasting. Marhaban Ya Ramadhan. It feels happy to face Ramadhan again. Hope this month will bring us more goodness and blesses. Amin. Happy Fasting Everyone!
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve
Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation
Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.
That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5? deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation – the Macintosh – a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me ? I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance.
And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry – Stay Foolish.
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source: http://www.sudutpandang.com/2008/03/tiga-hal-menggetarkan-dari-steve-jobs/
Kalo kepsek gue punya "Cerita di Bulan Juni" kalo gue punya "B June". Kenapa B? B itu stands for Busy and Blue. Well, lots of thing will change after June. Timeline for June.....
Early June- Sibuk dengan majalah sekolah. Sebagai Tim Redaksi yang amatir, kita tergolong hebat bisa menyelesaikan nya dalam hitungan hari. Ya 14 hari. :) Tanggal 7 dan seterusnya, ulangan akhir semester II.
Middle of June- Sibuk lagi nyiapin wisuda kakak kelas serta Tutap dan Malam Budaya. Oh ini juga pararel sama remedial. Cuma remedial TI (yang gak biasa-biasanya remed) dan subject paling apa banget di IPA, Kimia.
End of June - Kembali lebih sibuk karna D-day udah deket. Tutap dan Malam budaya. Anyway, saya MC buat Tutap dan itu dadakan abis. H-1 Latihan ngemsi bareng Raymond. Hari H pagi, Raymond mengundurkan diri, cari yang lain dapetnya si Dwi. Akhirnya latihan bareng. H1 sore belom ada orang, Tutap nyaris ga jadi. Tapi akhirnya jam 5 dimulai. Yes, saya Mc yang paling gagal dalam sejarah. Malamnya malam budaya, cuma jaga bazaar jual majalah sekolah. Agak maleman dikit baru nonton performance nya.
Oke capek kan bacanya? Belom itu aja, disini adalah part yang paling bikin bulan juni ini blue.
Besoknya bagi rapot. Well, nilai saya tidak terlalu mengecewakan tapi tetep aja jelek. Hari yang sama, Nadia memberi tahu semua orang bahwa dia akan pindah. Dan itu positif jadi. Oke, kelas berkurang 1 orang. Ga cuma itu my dear chairmate juga akan menyelesaikan pelajaran nya di SMA karna dia mau ganti aliran. Haha. Kinda. Dan, again berkurang lagi 1. This is so sad teman!
You just have to believed in. I survive maths exam while suffering the ache that caused by my period time.
Math was given for 2 hours. My stomach ache start a couple of minutes before the exam was started. And while I was doing the ache is still there in my belly. 15 minutes before the exam ends, THE PAIN WAS GONE! and I was like hgsdfdhkgthjsgfgjdfdgdgfht. Okay, today was perfect day. Super duper hard math exam with period ache.
Note this, you can relief your stomach ache in your period time by doing math for almost and hour. It'll work on 30 minutes of time.
This is June already, this is gonna be my first post in June.
June started means exam started. Nervous.
Good bye May, you've been the most terrific month in this year so far.
Just need more luck and prayers. Pray for me!
Bracing my self, exam is coming. (this is so 9gag)
Dari judulnya kita bisa tau kalo gue masih dalam suasana di pantai. Maklum baru pulang study tour ke Pangkor. Seru loh, gue tim biologi. jadi kita snorkeling sama jalan-jalan di pantai. Jadi agak sedikit menghitam sih kulit. Tapi gapapa, worth it. Ngomongin ombak, ombak itu bisa menggambarkan banyak hal. Salah satunya perasaan. Yep, kita pasti sering denger puisi-puisi atau lirik-lirik lagu yang menggambarkan perasaan lewat ombak. Atau ngga? atau gue yang sotoy? Yaudah lah. Tapi perasaan itu emang kadang-kadang kaya ombak. terombang-ambing. Ga jelas kemana. Tapi yang kita tau, ombak akan berakhir di pantai. Sama seperti halnya perasaan, walaupun labil ga tau mau kemana, atau mau pilih apa, pasti ujung-ujung nya kita akan menjatuhkan satu pilihan.
Pas study tour, gue snorkeling bareng tim biologi yang lain. Gue main ditengah-tengah laut yang sepertinya sebentar lagi pasang. Seperti yang kita tau, kalo pasang ombak nya bakal jadi gede dan kenceng. Pas gue berenang gue kebawa ombak, tapi ujung-ujungnya keseret lagi ke tempat awal. Gitu aja terus . Yah, kurang lebih selama stengah jam. Gue ngerasa gue labil banget pas kebawa ombak. Kadang gue mendekat ke pantai, tapi ga lama ketarik lagi menjauh dari pantai. Kadang mendekat ke pantai trus nabrak karang-karang, sakit. Nanti tetep aja kebawa lagi menjauh dari pantai. Bisa ngebayangin kan?
Buat gue itu semua seperti kehidupan. Kehidupan gue sepertinya sih (buka kartu). Eh, ngga juga. gue rasa semua orang pasti pernah ngerasain kehidupan yang terombang-ambing. Gue gatau mau nyelesein tulisan ini gimana. Yang pasti gue sekarang lagi berada ditengah-tengah ombak besar. Nope, gue udah balik dari Pangkor. Jadi gue ga lagi beneran berenang di laut.
What make people protest about something? It's only because they are critical thinker. They analyzing something before they accept it. In most of the cases, the people who are smart usually criticize something.
Yep, I'm one who protest when I'm being told of something. No, I'm not saying I'm smart. I've taught that way of thinking. This thing happen really often in my surrounding. I am protester, so yes I protest quite often.
But, sometimes it happen not in the right situation. Well, I did that lots of time maybe. Recently I feel different way about protest. I mean, I enjoy protest about something which I find not suitable or not right. But, this time I'm the one who being criticized. Not really criticized actually, just a bunch of protests. Because, there is no point there.
Being protested is not as fun as protesting. I've been there.
Well, what happen to you? I'm sorry if I did mistakes. I don't even know what it is, if I had one. Well, you can remind me if you want to. I'd rather hear you yelling and mad at me than to have you keep silent all day long. I'm about to cry now. And already did. I Love You. I just don't know where did I get wrong. Like seriously I don't know. Yeah, maybe I had one. So, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry then. I don't know when I can express this without having write it in my blog. I mean to talk face to face with you. It's seems very hard to talk to you. All my mind thinking of you, yelling at me. And that's not a respond that I hope. Well, I don't really expect you to read this. If you read this. Please, keep in your heart that I love you. No matter what. Maybe I'm not your best. Even I'm the useless one. But, believe me that I'm trying all my best to be the best for you. To be what you really want me to be. I know, I've already asking too much forgiveness. Deep in my heart I know, you'll forgive me. You're the best. I just always forget the good thing you did. I just remember the thing that I don't like. I'm sorry. Hope this gonna end very soon. I love you mom.
Am I realistic? Just wondering.
Stand up comedy. Gue mulai mempelajari bidang yang satu ini (baca: nonton youtube). Stand up comedy ini baru aja di Indonesia. Sebenarnya di Amerika udah ada lama. Cuma yah, bahasa inggris. Jadi jokesnya suka garing. Sebenarnya sih karna gue ga ngerti ya. Yah, gue kan cinta bahasa tanah air.
Okay, back to stand up comedy. Awalnya baca bukunya Raditya Dika, trus follow twitternya. Dia sering mention stand up comedy. Dari situ mulai gue cari di youtube. Pas ketemu nonton dong pastinya, gue nonton yang Raditya Dika. Dan, sampai akhirnya, gue merambah kemana-mana dan sudah nonton semua stand up gig yang ada di youtube.
Gue menaruh hati kepada seorang comic (panggilan untuk stand up comedian). Don't get me wrong, menaruh hati disini artinya gue suka sama jokes2 dan semua gig nya dia. Nama comic nya Acho (@muhadkly) . Dan gue telah baca inside story nya dia. Hati gue terenyuh. Bener-bener sedih ceritanya dia. Gue amazed dengan abilitynya ngelucu, sama tulisan dia yang di blognya. Very different between both joke and his writing on his blog. Dan, dua-dua nya keren.
Selain Acho ada lagi namanya Sammy D.P (@notaslimboy). Postur tubuhnya yang gendut, bikin dia lucu kalo lagi stand up. Materi yang disampein bagus2. Nyindirnya kena banget. Ga banyak sih gig nya dia di youtube.
Ada lagi Pandji (@pandji). Kalo yang ini comic multi talenta. Dia bisa nge-rap, nyanyi, ngelucu, nulis buku dan macamm-macam lainnya. Dia mendukung legalisasi ganja di Indonesia. Stand up nya sering nyidir pak beye. Dia bisa ngikutin gaya pak beye pidato. Pokoknya dia juga keren.
Dan yang terakhir, gue sangat berharap mereka mau dateng ke Kuala Lumpur. Gue mau nonton LIVE!
Betapa mudahnya mengucapkan keinginan
Entah kenapa, kata-kata ingin sudah tidak asing lagi
Begitu ringan lidah mengucapkan "aku ingin"
Kata itu terus mengalir dengan derasnya dari lidah ini
Yang selalu kupertanyakan
Mengapa sedikit pun hatiku tak tergerak?
Tergerak untuk mau berusaha
Berusaha merubah yang masih dapat dirubah
Kata-kata tanpa bukti
Bagaikan langit indah tanpa bintang
Bagaikan musim gugur tanpa daun yang berjatuhan
Hampa rasanya
Seseorang selalu menagihi ku bukti dari kata inginku
Dan aku hanya bisa diam
Seolah aku hanya sebuah tape recorder
Mengulang setiap kata tanpa ada perubahan sedikitpun.
it's been awhile since the last post. I'm enjoying my holiday right now. Actually, a couple of weeks holiday when my seniors and juniors facing exam is kinda not fair. I mean, we are happy while others suffering. If you know what I mean.
In the middle of the night like this, random thought sometimes came out of nowhere.
I need to make up my mind for few things. Choosing between the good choices is difficult.
Nope, this blog ain't my diary. This is the place I express feelings and thoughts.
So yes, senior year in couple of months. Last semester exam and *poof* SENIOR YEAR!
Actually, I can't wait for being in senior year. But then, when the time comes, I don't want to be there. 1st and 2nd year in senior high was terrific. I never wanted it is to be over. Next semester will be extremely busy . Need to focus for the 5th semester result. I want to apply at University Malaya, they accept our 5th semester result. So, I've to fix the report card to be minimum all 8 in it. And it is tough. The thing that I got 7 in my report card is the science it self. I know it's embarrassing. I will figure it out very soon.
I'm preparing my self, physically and mentally. To welcome SENIOR YEAR. No more sleep during class, submit assignment near dead line, no more throwing away homework and pretend like there is no homework, no more having TV as much as I can, no more go out as often as now and no more studying last minute.
Senior Year, be nice!
I used to be a dancer. Long time ago. And I miss it. I really enjoy dancing.
Sekarang masih jaman ga ya jajanan aneh di depan gerbang sekolah? Hmm, jadi kangen jajanan depan sekolah. Somehow, it is tasty! Walaupun air yang dipake gatau air mentah atau mateng, walaupun kotornya nauzubillah tapi somehow rasanya enak plus ngangenin.
Gue masih cukup amazed dengan immune anak-anak Indonesia. Kalian bisa bayangkan, selama 6 tahun +3 tahun (kalo smp masih jajan di depan sekolah) +3 tahun (kalo sma juga masih begitu). Selama itu kita makan jajanan yang kategorinya jauh dari bersih dan tidak jelas bagaimana proses pembuatan nya. Hebat kan anak Indonesia?. Kita bisa survive dengan makanan yang kaya begitu. Selain itu, pedagang Indonesia emang kreatif dan inonvatif.
Mari kita ungkap semua jajanan yang biasanya dijual di depan sekolahan.
Waktu gue sd (2006 backwards), ini adalah jajanan yang paling popular:
1. Kue Cubit setengah mateng
Apa yang menarik dengan kue ini? Kue ini kue cubit biasa, cuman ini setengah mateng! Dulu jaman gue sd ini paling favorit di kalangan anak-anak sd. Rasa nya enak walaupun setengah mateng. Mungkin orang yang ga biasa ngeliat nya aneh ya. But the fact is, ITU ENAK BANGET! dan harganya murah Rp 500 dapet 3 biji.
2. Gulali beraneka bentuk
Ini yang paling ga sehat. Tapi ini juga paling enak. Gulali ini awalnya adonan nya sticky. Setelah di bentuk nanti akan mengeras sendiri. Ini dibuat nya pake pewarnanya akut nih. Keliatan dari warna-warna nya yang eye catching. Yang paling mahal harganya Rp 1500, yang ini biasanya di bentuk trompet trus nanti dalemnya dikasih susu kental manis, nanti susunya bisa di sedot.
3. Cireng
Cireng ini enak, biasanya dibentuk bulet-bulet, trus di tusukin. Satu tusuk 3 buletan. Harganya Rp 1000 kalau ga salah. Nanti dikasih sambel nya juga. Asem-pedes gitu sambelnya.
4. Gulali dengan air soda
Nah, yang ini different version nya Gulali yang warna warni itu. Gulali ini biasanya di sangkutin ke sedotan kecil. Trus kita bisa milih mau pake air soda apa? Fanta? Coke? Sprite?. Cara makan nya, biasanya gulali ini dicelupin ke air soda nya baru dijilat-jilat.
5. Tahu Gejrot
Tahu Gejrot yang kampung nya di Cirebon ini populer banget dikalangan anak sd, terutama yang udah kuat makan pedes. Biasanya kita bisa request berapa cabe yang kita mau. Dulu waktu jaman sd, kita sering main banyak-banyak an cabe. Tahunya udah digoreng, udah siap makan si abang abang hanya perlu ngulek cabe sama bawang trus dicampurin sama air gula yang udah jadi.
6. Baso tusuk
This is unusual baso. Baso ini kayaknya cuma di rebus. Lembek-lembek gitu baso nya. Baso ini dijualnya beda sama baso biasa. Baso ini dijual nya pake plastik, jadi baso nya dimasukin plastik, trus nanti di tuangin sambel nya. Biasanya Rp 1000 untuk 5 biji baso.
7. Lidi Pedas
Lidi ini lebih serem lagi. Ini kaya spaghetti belom dimasak. Rasanya asin-pedas banget. Enak bikin nagih. Satu bungkus biasanya Rp 1000. Beneran lidi ini rasanya pedes banget.
8. Telur Dadar Bulet- bulet
Yang ini juga enak. Telur di dadar di bentuk bulet-bulet. Sepertinya menggunakan cetakan yang sama dengan abang kue cubit. Telur dadar ini rasanya enak, ada daun bawangnya. Dijual biasa nya Rp 500 satu karna telur mahal. Ada sambelnya juga.
9. Anak ayam warna warni
Yang ini bukan makanan. Dan benar, ini anak ayam. Dulu gue pernah beli ini anak ayam. Lucu-lucu warnanya macem-macem. Eye catching banget untuk anak sd. Dulu gue beli warna kuning. Since di kartun anak ayam pasti kuning jadi gue beli warna kuning. Sampe dirumah gue mandiin itu ayam saking sayang nya. Pas disiram, warna nya luntur. Anak ayam nya jadi putih lagi.
10. Keong
Yang ini keong, dan yak, ini juga dijual. Tapi jaman gue sd ga diwarnain kaya foto diatas. Ini nama aslinya Hermit Crab. Biasanya kalo gue beli, di kasih makan nya tebu. Suka di 'hah' in atau ditiup supaya dia keluar dari cangkangnya.
Sekian aja, gue lagi kangen sama jajanan ini. Makanya gue post.
Dan gue bangga bisa sehat wal afiat setelah mengkonsumsi itu semua selama 6 tahun. :)
Hidup Indonesia! *loh
I've been fell in love with these two products. One from Korea and another one from Japan. The thing is, I don't know whether they are Halal or not. Okay, maybe they just run the business so, to get halal certificate is quite difficult. The first one:
Gong Cha.
I like Gonga Cha. But, Gong Cha still not certified as HALAL product. In Singapore, someone ask the same question. They answered that, Gong Cha so far used HALAL ingredients. So, I accept it as HALAL. Insyaallah Halal. Gong Cha is bubble tea with unique taste. They have many taste, but I love the Taiwan Green Tea. It's pure tea without milk. But, the one with milk is also nice. Gong Cha is on KLCC and The Gardens! What I like about Gong Cha is the price still affordable. Gong Cha Taiwan Green Tea with Pearl only cost RM 4.90. It's good to have a try!
Another dessert, called Mochi. It's from Japanese. Mochi is made up of glutinous rice and red beans (optional to the taste). I love the Green tea and the peach one. They taste like heaven ( like I've ever been to heaven) The sticky mochi with cream as filling is just very tempting.
Mochi Sweets is on Tokyo Street, Pavillion and One Utama
When you give a try on the green tea one, you gotta love it at the first bite. Really do. The green tea mochi is very tasty. It cost a bit expensive, but it's worth it. Like seriously worth it. :) Again, I'm very concern about the halal of their product. I've search in google, what mochi are made up of, I found out it only use glutinous rice and sugar. As a filling, it's optional. Anyway, You shall try!
Okay, here are my food review.
From the explanation above you can say that I AM A GREEN TEA LOVER. (Y)
It's nice, trust me! GIVE A TRY!
My stomach wont stop calling the mochi and the green tea when I passed the shop - Afifa
I want to say Alhamdulillah, Thanks to my beloved lord, Allah S.W.T who always blessed me with thousands of joy and happiness. And I wanna thank Allah for this following blesses:
1. I met someone important to my life. Last Friday. At first, I'm a bit nervous and scared. I'm scared about what her impression on me. But, it turns out fine. She's nice, friendly and I'm save *I think* I love last Friday, I wish I could stay a lil bit longer to know her more.
2. On the Saturday evening, I went to ART FRIEND! After begging and made a puss in boots cute face. Full effort! and yes! my mom bought me a canvas and acrylic. How happy I am. I'm still thinking what to paint on it. since I only have the basic color.
3. I passed my driving test! This Monday.. Yeay finally.. and I got my driving licence this evening. Alhamdulillah, after a failure I got it already. Now, I'm getting sure that proverbs 'Failure is the beginning of success' is true. Alhamdulillah. :) Driving Licence babe!
4. I miss my late Nikon D3000. As I love photography but have no skill in it, on Tuesday a friend of mine asked a help to me to take photos of all my school student. In the new building, new classroom. We set chairs and bench for them to sit and took their photos. And a stool for personal pictures. I use Canon. School's camera. I really enjoy it. Feel like the new class is my studio. REALLY ENJOY the photo session. We're gonna put it on the year book. :) oh my school is getting better than ever.
5. My marks, even I don't receive all the results. But, the one that I have it now is quite okay, except Chemistry ( I told you before) and English. Ah my English sucks at this test. 76 out of 100. I used to get above 80. Need to study a bit hard. Alhamdulillah, I got 96 for Mandarin! and 92 for Indonesian language which is the higest. And 93 for civic. I really love to see 9 in my marks. 9 as the tens of course :D Alhamdulillah. May the rest have a good one too. AMIN!
So yes, Thank you Allah for blessing me with such a happiness.
Alhamdulillah.
When happiness comes in a row, you will find it's very amusing, life seems like no problem at all - Afifa
Dajia Hao! Today is last day for Mid Semester test. It was, urm.. BAD. Yes, today's sucks. Chemistry somehow very hard and ya wanna know? I filled the answer paper with some kind of abstract painting or doodling. Okay, it's over now. Tomorrow is 'Nyepi' in Indonesia, so my school will have a day off.
Oh, I haven't mention that I fail the driving test last two weeks. Hehe. There are 2 part of the test. One inside the driving range and in the real road. Okay, I passed two part in driving range. But, the 3pointer I fail it. So, it consider I failed all. Not sure if you understand. And the road test, THEY GIVE ME VIVA! okay, viva is nicer than Kancil. But, I used to practice with kancil. So when I use Viva, I'm not confident enough. So, yes I fail the test! Gonna repeat it next Monday! pray for me!
Anyway, I bake macaroons. Taste weird and look peculiar. But, at least I'm trying. And, Thanks to Tante Wulan, who bought me the flour and borrowed me the silipad. Thanks a lot tante :)
And, this is how they look :
My Home made Macaroon :)
gou le! wo xiwang shi bu duo madness zai my life. wo yao kuaile life. - Afifa
oh you can translate one by one. after that, you'll get it. :)
I believe, huge passion somehow can beat the talented one - Afifa
This is Adel, me and Vinca on the Red Carpet.
I really love the Red Carpet. Proud to be the one who made this!
Thanks to anak cowo yang nginep! mereka yang masangin...
LOVE THE RED CARPET!
RED CARPET IS AWESOME!
- Mid Semester is around the corner Afifa! Belajar gih sana! nilai jelek semua juga, malu dong!
- Find new hobby deh, jadi dirumah tuh ga baca komik+tidur aja. Find something yang bermanfaat deh!
- Mana katanya New Year's Resolution nya mau life nya lebih ter-organize?
- Udah lah, kegagalan bukan segalanya. Bahkan itu awal dari kesuksesan!
- Stop being not you fa, you're great with what you have and what you are.
- Stay away from clingy and annoying part of you Afifa! It's disturbing people.
- Pikirin mau jadi apa kamu Afifa, mau ambil jurusan apa? mau kuliah dimana?
- Tanya ke diri sendiri deh, umur berapa sih? kok masih childish banget.
- Satu lagi, itu benang di bibir jangan di gigit-gigit, ntar kenapa-napa loh! dijait lagi mau?
Previous post, gue mempublikasikan PENSI sekolah gue. Jadi PENSI kita tema nya FANS ( Fascinating Art Nation of SIK) Gue ga pasti apakah itu tema atau nama event nya. Kita udah was-was takut hujan dan ga ada yang nonton. Tapi ALHAMDULILLAH banget cuaca nya cerah, walaupun panas banget kita masih tetep bersyukur banget ga HUJAN!
Acara berjalan lumayan mulus, walau ada sempet adegan mati lampu. Tapi syukur bisa nyala lagi. Dan yang paling klimaks di acara tearkhir. Tamu undangan kita WTO (We Taking over, Showdown Top12) sama THE AZENDERS. Mereka mendapat respon yang sangat baik. Pokoknya FANS IS AWSOME!
SPECIAL THANKS TO :
- Sponsors
- Donatur
- Pihak sekolah
- PANITIA YANG RAWK!
- Penonton yang meramaikan acara
- WTO
- The Azenders
- and many more
FANS crew with THE AZENDERS
Vinca, Adel, Retna dan gue with THE AZENDERS
FANS crew with WTO ( We Taking Over)
The Broad-Band
WTO (Showdown Top-12)
The Azenders
FEEL THE CROWD!
p/s: bisa anda lihat di kedua foto terakhir itu
ada cewe yang dua2 nya di foto dia adalah Vinca. \m/
FANS CREW!
KEEP ROCKIN' GUYSSS!
