26 January 2013

http://irisonbooks.com/

.I don't know who this Iris is, where she comes from, I am even clueless of what she looks like. but I'm very glad, I did stumble upon her blog--it definitely is on my bookmark bar now. all she wrote there were so insightful--especially to those bookworms out there. really inspiring, so you can decide what book which might satisfy your perusal. I once was confused, what to choose between The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman or Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones, since I had limited budget to buy some books. but hey, thanks to Iris with her reviews about both. I decided to purchase them all :D whenever I go browsing the internet, this blog obviously my favorite stop by.
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23 January 2013

what a heartbreaking moment due to terrible event happens in Jakarta recently. yeah, you exactly know what I'm talking about. flashing back to the year of 2002, we all had witnessed how disastrous the rainfall could be. sadly, it appeared to be happened again five years after. some call it, a five-year flood cycle, but it sounds more like a myth to me. there's no such thing like a disaster that comes periodically. I don't want to blab around on how you should manage the garbage, of course we all know where to throw it out properly. but the thing is, after these eleven years, have we not learned something? do we ever learn anything?
it's no use to yammering here, I know. my prayer goes to the flood victims, may God protect you all and keep strong!
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22 January 2013

It should have been posted last Saturday, but nah... nevermind. well, I hope this isn't the furthest distance we could go. I hope there'll be more places, more experiences, more laughter and more things to go through together. I hope next year, and the years after, still it's you, the person I share this story with. I really am not good at this, but let me quote a thing :  I look good alone. But we look awesome together. Let’s stay that way - @amrazing

Happy Anniversary #1 :)

(oh by the way, just a little wonder left : of all the books you could have picked in the bookstore, why you had to opt Harlequin novel as a gift? but, thanks anyway!) :p
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15 January 2013

kadang gue suka merasa sentimen kalo ada yang menyinggung sekarang tuh udah 2013. berarti di akhir tahun ini, angkatan lahir 1988 umurnya udah 25 tahun ajah. mau diperhalus jadi seperempat abad juga, teteup aje rasanya 25 (ya, menurut loe?). dulu waktu gue Sma, pokonya saat usia belasan, menurut gue umur 25 tuh kayanya dewasa (baca : tua) banget. umur yang rasanya loe udah beralih ke sebuah tingkat kehidupan yang jauh lebih kompleks (dan emang iya). bukan ga ada seneng-senengnya, tapi rasanya 'bersenang-senang' pun udah harus di-set ulang, kapan waktunya hepi-hepi, kapan waktunya serius, intinya udah ribet.

sebenernya gue mau bahas gini--jadi itu tadi ceritanya paragraf pembuka. gw punya temen, udah lama sih ga ketemu, cuma kontak via twitter ajah itupun ga intense. dan umurnya kurang lebih sama dengan gue. nah, si cewek ini tuh, fans beraaaaaat musik Korea. hampir setiap tweetnya, bahkan SEMUA tweetnya dalam sehari bisa kali cuma ngebahas artis-artis Korea demenan dia, yang gue aja bingung gimane cara nyebut namanya. duh, if I could be so judgemental, pengen banget rasanya gue bilang langsung ke dia, "get a REAL life, nyeeet! you're too busy minding of somebody's life (artis-artis Korea tadi). who don't even know you exist!" eh, gue bakal bilang gitu kalo gue sahabat dekeett dia mungkin. kenapa ga gue unfollow aja? ga sih, unfollow itu udah tahap gue ga nganggep dia lagi kan? ah ribet emang aturan dunia maya sekarang yaa.

intinya, di umur yang 'middle 20-ish' ini, gue pribadi merasa udah ga cocok untuk nge-fans sampe cenderung fanatik pada sebuah band/grup musik/penyanyi dsb. iya ga? ngga juga untuk sebagian orang ya? masih nge-fans pasti, tapi kalo sampe fanatik, trus kehidupan loe rasanya cuma ngurusin artis-artis idola loe, buat gue udah ga pantes. itu tadi kalo gue 'judgemental' berdasarkan twitter temen gue yaaa. semoga kehidupan nyatanya ga seperti itu.

menurut gue, masa-masa untuk jadi 'fanatik' sama seorang artis/penyanyi itu udah terjadi di umur belasan pas SMP-SMA. misalnya, dulu pas SD gue fans beraaaaat The Moffats, semua hal tentang mereka adalah prioritas gue. ngumpulin berbagai macem berita mereka dari majalah, koleksi poster, pokonya apapun tentang The Moffatts. pas SMP, gue fans berat The Strokes. sama juga tuh kelakuan begitu, ngumpulin semua tentang mereka. waktu SMA, lagi doyan sama Good Charlotte, bahkan gue pernah kirim surat ke mereka via pos ke Amrik sanah! gatau gimana nasibnya, wong sampe sekarang udah ga ngikutin itu band lagi. kalo sekarang, gue nge-fans dengan banyak band juga koq. masih suka The Strokes, Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, dan banyak lagii. tapi posisi gue sekarang cuma jadi penikmat, ga lebih. cari berita mereka seadanya, kalo jodoh yaa semoga bisa nonton konser mereka (AAMIIIIN!).

kesimpulannya, gue ga mau ngurusin hidup orang lain (baca : temen gue tadi) ini sih refleksi diri aja. berasaa banget gue udah 'tua', dan kadang ada lho hal-hal yang harus 'disingkirkan' supaya beban pikiran ga nambah (jieh...banyak pikiran si Intan). kalo hal ga penting macem si artis idola A kawin sama si artis B yang kita benci, bukan berarti harus jadi 'pikiran' kita donk?
segini aja deh, selamat menikmati umur 25 untuk temen-temen se-angkatan! selamat merasa tua dan selamatkan diri dari hal-hal ga penting! :D
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11 January 2013

after more than two years, I just realized that this blog has reached over 5,000 hits. certainly not a thing I should be proud of--of course, I'm not. but, let me thank you! thanks for coming, dear visitors, fellow bloggers, stalker (if any :p) and those who probably lost in Google search, and by any chance clicked the link. still, you cannot participate here, but that doesn't mean I need no second opinions. that is why, I put that Twitter bird picture connected to my account.

okay... what's next? well, I wish I could write something insightful here, something casual but more thoughtful. but nah... maybe next time. I really am in the good mood today. hmm... I don't know, perhaps because I have a good plan for this weekend with my boyfriend! yippee! just a regular date, but it's always been special to me. hahahaa :p

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I accidentally stumbled into a friend's blog. many interesting stuff she wrote there. but, what made me rolled my eyes, was about her messy English grammar in some posts. it's so terrible I couldn't ensure if I was too dumb just to understand the simple written English.  pardon if I sounded too conceited, but that was a  noteworthy thing.

I'm afraid people would roll their eyes whenever they read my written English, just like I did to my friend. my English proficiency maybe just in average. good enough in speaking, at least in colloquial expression. my reading is okay, proficient enough though I need to read even more.  so, what's the point? it's not only about the language, it's a matter of how you convey something correctly based on the proper grammar. I'm not a native English speaker, that motivates me to keep learning more and more.
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09 January 2013

it's so funny how people's presumption onto something could be totally wrong.
how the unspoken thoughts and the unconfirmed actions could mislead you into a misinterpretation. and how you eventually found yourself ended up being the ridiculous one.
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iseng~

03 January 2013

lagi liat folder foto-foto di PC, kangen jugaaa menyibukkan diri dengan mendesain atau lebih tepatnya ubah gambar yang ada dengan nambahin gambar pohon/bunga sehingga menjadi gambar baru dan poles-poles foto pake Photoshop. dan kemudian menyadari, banyak hal yang tidak bisa disembunyikan atau diubah, bahkan dengan secanggih apapun software dan program desain mengedit foto. seperti contoh dibawah, coba yaa gimanaaa ituu supaya pipi-pipi ituu keliatan tirus walau cuma dalam foto?!


btw, kita mirip ga sih? :p dimiripin aja lah ya :))





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02 January 2013


tiba-tiba gue kangen sama band ini. plus jadi kangen kostan dulu di Jatinangor. kangen liat band ini maen live di kamar gue (via youtube tentu saja). lucunya, satu lagu bisa membawa kembali banyak memori. ohh... Monyet-monyet Benua Arktik, kapan main ke Jakarta? :')
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mungkin ini pengaruh PMS, yaa kadang gue juga bingung kalo lg masanya deket-deket period, gue berasa punya kepribadian lain. lebih sensitif, bahkan over thinking, worse over analyzing.
but, oke, here's the thing.
well, do you know why I wrote down every single thought I had, here, in this blog?
and why I also set the comments off? simply because it is the safest place to restore what's on my mind.
since I know it has less viewer than the other socmeds I have, I'm not afraid of being judged or being mocked. I'm free to be the lame version of me. just in here. 
oh call me drama, call me whatever you prefer~

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01 January 2013

mungkin ini rasanya jadi the outsider. people I used to think the-friends-I-belong-to udah ga menganggap gue siapa-siapa lagi. pertemanan dari awal SMA yang rasanya dulu manis itu, sekarang kaya bukan sesuatu lagi. oh waktu memang mengubah banyak hal. termasuk hubungan dengan banyak orang. atau gue aja emang geer dulu merasa mereka menganggap gue padahal emang ngga sama sekali. cih.
jadi, pernah baca circle friend tiap orang itu akan berubah setidaknya dalam setiap 7 tahun. oke.
gue merasa gak akan bisa 'masuk' dunia mereka sekarang, even if I want it so bad.
jadi...gue rasa bukan cuma cari pasangan. pertemanan pun memang jodoh-jodohan. sigh.
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a muse to think?



/pic taken from Twitter. it was RT-ed by @newsplatter
Happy New Year 2013! 
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