Yes, Jogjakarta has captured my heart...but just like the concept of Yin and Yang, this city also has the bad side...
What i hate about Jogja are....
The traffic light... if the traffic light is in a crossroad, it takes about more than 60 seconds for the red light and only 20 seconds for the green light. At some special crossroad, the red light takes 106 seconds... and when the sun is high up there on the sky, i'm telling you IT IS FUCKIN HOT!!!!
People would stare at you oddly and awkwardly if you go out (e.g. to the mall or just to grab some food in a small resto, or cafe or even "warung") and use only short pant - almost hot pant like - and flip-flop... why would i want to use long pant if the weather is freaking hot and if i just want to go a few blocks away from my boarding house? *sigh*
Parking fee EVERYWHERE!!!!!! At the bank, at the mall, on the side of the street!!!!! and even WORST --> My own campus!!!!! I wouldn't complain if the public transportation is supportive. But it almost like if you don't have your own transportation, you can only do your activities until up to around 4 or 5 if you hold your life onto the public transportation...
CRUEZY STUDENTS WITH THEIR CRUEZY MOTORCYCLE!!!! Jogjakarta is the city of young people and old people. The young people represent the students and the youth who come to this city on the name of knowledge (just like me) and the old people are usually the people who are actually staying here in Jogjakarta for a long time... I don't know if it's because this is Indonesia, but the students here, they drive motorcycle CARELESSLY... I've been riding my motorcycle for almost 6 years now with only 3 accidents, all being hit or crashed by other rider. But in this city, i'm afraid i'll be the crasher any time soon that it makes me ride my scooter extra slowly... My speedometer never pass 50km/h...the comparison when i was in bali was like 70km/h... For God Sake...
Now what I LOVE ABOUT JOGJA are:
Exactly because it's THE CITY OF STUDENT. There are a lot of choices: amazingly affordable to amazingly expensive, all is available for you that you're free to make your choices. In Bali? everything is expensive. Even if you try to live a simple life like mine it's still expensive.
NEW AMAZING FRIENDS a.k.a FAMILY!!!! I've met amazing people thank's to Jogja. My new friends come from all over Indonesia and we have so many differences that it seems like the day has no ends when i spend my time with them. It's just that too many things i want to know about them, too many things we want to know about each other and too many things we want to find as answer of our very similar questions, though sometimes different. All of these people, despite the differences we have, we embrace one another as a family. I don't know exactly how I end up in this class with this amazing people. Should i just say, it's destiny? :)
SO MANY THINGS TO LEARN FROM THIS CITY. It offers dozens of youth community, workshop, seminars and library. All if not for free then it's very affordable. And then again, i have more chances to meet new people, to get to know more people who have different experience from me. I remember I always get excited every time i think about how thrilling those moment would be if i became part of it. To meet new people and to get to know them. If i was still in my old shelf, i wouldn't have this feeling i guess...
If i think about it again... moving to Jogja has a very profound meaning to me. It's so special and personal in many ways. I used to think i know myself, but when i move to Jogja it feels like i just discover myself, discover my world and more importantly i get to know my parents better. Living with them for 24 years does makes me familiar with my parents but i think i took it for granted just like the air that i breath everyday. As a daughter, i only thought from my shoes, never from their shoes. But when i move to Jogja, my father and my mother become someone new for me that i've became to understand them better...
Yes, Jogja has bad aspects but wouldn't it what we call as Perfection? To be perfect is to be imperfect, just like the concept of Yin and Yang... for something to be called good, then there is other thing need to be called bad. Whether you want to see only the bad side or the good side, it's all your choice. My choice is i want to enjoy every second i spend here in Jogja, the bad ones, the good ones because one day those seconds will mount up into stories that i can share not only to my (future) children but also to everyone. :)
With Love
Dee
Rabu, 30 November 2011
Minggu, 27 November 2011
Yogyakarta 2011: Sebuah Ikatan Yang Akhirnya Terwujud
Entah kenapa, sejak SMA saya merasakan ada ikatan batin dengan Yogyakarta...
Sewaktu kelas 3 dan sedang persiapan memilih universitas untuk melanjutkan ke S1, saya punya angan-angan ingin kuliah di UGM dengan konsentrasi Psikologi. Saya menceritakan angan-angan tersebut kepada guru BP saya dan dia sangat bersemangat sekali, bahkan jauh lebih bersemangat dari saya sendiri. Guru BP saya itu kemudian mengumpulkan semua informasi tentang ujian masuk di UGM dan hal-hal apa saja yang harus saya persiapkan. Semakin dekat dengan hari H, saya mencoba mengungkapkan keinginan itu kepada orangtua yaitu ibu saya. Yah...apa mau dikata...beliau tidak mengijinkan dengan alasan saya adalah anak perempuan satu-satunya dan beliau terlalu khawatir membiarkan saya kuliah jauh. Disamping itu mungkin juga karena pertimbangan kondisi keluarga yang agak labil waktu itu.
Singkat cerita, saya membatalkan niat saya kuliah di UGM dan akhirnya diterima di Universitas Udayana. jurusan sastra inggris. Tapi jauh dalam hati saya sudah tahu bahwa suatu hari, kaki saya ini akan berjalan dan berkelana di daerah Yogyakarta sambil menempa ilmu di UGM. Beberapa tahun kemudian, akhirnya keinginan itu terwujud.
Kota ini menjadi sangat spesial bagi saya, bukan karena saya akhirnya berhasil masuk UGM. Tapi lebih karena bagaimana Tuhan membuka banyak cerita selama masa transisi pindah ke Yogyakarta. Ada banyak cerita tersingkap dari sisi yang tidak pernah saya duga sebelumnya. Percakapan dua hari terakhir sebelum kepindahan dengan ibu saya, obrolan dengan ayah selama perjalanan bis 20 jam Bali-Yogyakarta, sms dengan kakak saya dan bahkan sebuah kalimat singkat meminta restu pindah ke Yogyakarta kepada kakak tertua saya menjadi begitu bermakna...
Dalam kesendirian berpetualang di Yogyakarta, saya malah menemukan diri saya sendiri dan belajar bagaimana caranya untuk benar-benar mencintai diri saya sendiri.
Well...from the beginning, i always know that moving to Yogyakarta was meant to be for me... :)
Selamat datang di Yogyakarta!!!!
Sewaktu kelas 3 dan sedang persiapan memilih universitas untuk melanjutkan ke S1, saya punya angan-angan ingin kuliah di UGM dengan konsentrasi Psikologi. Saya menceritakan angan-angan tersebut kepada guru BP saya dan dia sangat bersemangat sekali, bahkan jauh lebih bersemangat dari saya sendiri. Guru BP saya itu kemudian mengumpulkan semua informasi tentang ujian masuk di UGM dan hal-hal apa saja yang harus saya persiapkan. Semakin dekat dengan hari H, saya mencoba mengungkapkan keinginan itu kepada orangtua yaitu ibu saya. Yah...apa mau dikata...beliau tidak mengijinkan dengan alasan saya adalah anak perempuan satu-satunya dan beliau terlalu khawatir membiarkan saya kuliah jauh. Disamping itu mungkin juga karena pertimbangan kondisi keluarga yang agak labil waktu itu.
Singkat cerita, saya membatalkan niat saya kuliah di UGM dan akhirnya diterima di Universitas Udayana. jurusan sastra inggris. Tapi jauh dalam hati saya sudah tahu bahwa suatu hari, kaki saya ini akan berjalan dan berkelana di daerah Yogyakarta sambil menempa ilmu di UGM. Beberapa tahun kemudian, akhirnya keinginan itu terwujud.
Kota ini menjadi sangat spesial bagi saya, bukan karena saya akhirnya berhasil masuk UGM. Tapi lebih karena bagaimana Tuhan membuka banyak cerita selama masa transisi pindah ke Yogyakarta. Ada banyak cerita tersingkap dari sisi yang tidak pernah saya duga sebelumnya. Percakapan dua hari terakhir sebelum kepindahan dengan ibu saya, obrolan dengan ayah selama perjalanan bis 20 jam Bali-Yogyakarta, sms dengan kakak saya dan bahkan sebuah kalimat singkat meminta restu pindah ke Yogyakarta kepada kakak tertua saya menjadi begitu bermakna...
Dalam kesendirian berpetualang di Yogyakarta, saya malah menemukan diri saya sendiri dan belajar bagaimana caranya untuk benar-benar mencintai diri saya sendiri.
Well...from the beginning, i always know that moving to Yogyakarta was meant to be for me... :)
Selamat datang di Yogyakarta!!!!
Selasa, 28 Desember 2010
My First Impression of Marry Me, Mary!!!! Flat Drama with Amazing Casts
I just watched the first two episode of MARRY ME, MARY. What should i say? Not much... It's not too cutesy and adorable (except for the relationship had by JGS and MGY) nor it has an open ending that we couldn't predict the ending or vague clarity that we couldn't understand why it happens.
So, here goes the story... Wi Mary (Meun Geun Yong) has a freaking dummass father whose's work is simply making debt and dragging the whole family into debt. Therefore, as a loving child, Mary works her ass like hell to pay all the debt. On a great day, she get a call from her friend who needs driver and Mary is happy to do that as long as she got paid. So there she goes driving her friends.
On her way she accidentally hit Mu Gyeol (Jang Geun Seok). She, then, tries to get a written signed agreement from Mu Gyeol to avoid the possibilities of being blackmailed by Mu Gyeol. From here their life get bounded to each with bickering cute moments and many soju bottles. Mary then met Jung In (KJW), the fiancee to be set up by Mary's father and Chairman Seok (Jung In's father) who used to be bestfriends on the old days and it seems they are still bestfriends until now,
Things got complicated when Mary who doesn't want to be engaged nor marry Jung In, makes a weeding photos with Mu Gyeol, also cheered by both besties and then show it to her father. Mary's father becomes agitated and decides to do an extreme move by registering Mary's name and Jung In's name upon marriage without Mary's knowledge. To cancel the document, Mary would have to sue her own father turn him as a criminal for faking document. If i were her, i would've done that. Mary, obviously, can't do that.
Knowing the fact that Mary is married (though it's a fake one and he doesn't know...yet), Jung In propose to his father to give 100days as a chance for Mary to live in between these 2 husbands and let Mary decide who will she choose in the end: Mu Gyeol or himself, Jung In. The competition between fake marriage of Mary-Mu Gyeol OR parents arranged marriage Mary-Jung In has just began.
The story is somehow simple but i'm not sure about its charm. Fake marriage or arranged marriage turns real marriage is not a new idea. We saw the fake marriage in Full House and i read one about arranged marriage from Indonesian novel. So overall, for me this drama brings nothing new. Though so, thank God, they cast Jang Geun Seok as Mu Gyeol (a.k.a. Happy New Year) and Meun Geun Yong as Wi Mary (or should we call her Merry Christmas ^^). They are the only thing that's worth to be watched... The face...the bickering...the chemistry...the sillyness (what's up with the cauliflower????? Amazingly silly but in a cute way. Florist!!! Start using cauliflower to replace roses from now on please! It's bigger and healthier!!).
I have always felt a big favor towards MGY since i watched her in Little Bride... While JGS left me a pretty deep impression as a beautiful cute man in Hwang Jini... MGY as Mary is adorably so cute that she managed to pull off Pussy On The Boot teary eyes... She's such a great actress... From cute Little Bride to tomboy Painter of The Wind to cold bastard Cinderella Sister to cute sweety daugther who makes guys go 'Marry Me, Mary' ... She knows how to do everything. Eyes to mouth...body to voice. Different. As usual, JGS is cute and beautiful. And i actually not a fan of beautiful man. But i can't hate him for being beautiful, especially in this drama. Not when he is the reason why i watch this drama. JGS does great in depicting Mu Gyeol. I think the writer made the image of beautiful Mu Gyeol based on the real JGS, i mean... I can't think of any other actor that would have pretty beautiful image as JGS. (Sush to those who scream Lee Sung Ki's name... xP)
KJW on the other hand make me feel like i'm watching an upgraded version of the wafel maker in Coffee Prince.. Same cold attitude but with dandier and sleeker fashion style plus gentlemanly jerk attitude (Mary says that...not me). He's doing good so far up until episode 2, from the coldness side. I'm hoping to see more of his fun side actually but i guess Jeong In character is supposed to be a cold chaebol son with perfect mark as future husband, financially and physically.
The drama itself has a very clear foundation. Clear because from the first time i can feel the chemistry between Mu Gyeol and Mary. I can understand why Mary is drawn towards Mu Gyeol and vice versa. They have a lot in common which is being deceived, although from Mu Gyeol's side the story hasn't been unfold much yet except when he tried to terminate a contract with a woman who is apparently a sly agent. I can understand why Mary's father insists Mary to marry Jung In. Most of it is because Jung In is damn so rich that Mary won't have to suffer from the debt collectors nagging again and as the bonus, all of the debt will be paid. I can also understand Jung In's proposal of 100days for Mary. Even though it's an arranged married, he wants Mary to agree upon her own willingness. Fair for her, fair for his father and it's a win win solution for him. Whether Mary will choose him or not, he will still get the sponsorship from his dad. I can also feel for Chairman Seok preserverance of protecting Mary from suffering. Trust me, I haven't read any recaps nor watch the episode streaming because I SWEAR TO GOD i don't want any spoiler, but i can sense that Chairman Seok has a deep feeling towards Mary's mother in the past that he wants to protect Mary badly from any kind of suffering in this world because Mary reminds him of her mother A LOT.
Despite of many reviews say that this drama is silly for its unacceptable plot, i dare to say that it would be still fun to watch this drama. If not, why do they even bother spending 20 hours of watching this drama, right??? It means this drama still has something to hook you up. For my drama besties, that would be because of JGS while as for me it's because MGY. It's meant for entertainment. So let's just enjoy it :)
Based on JGS and MGY i would give them 4 stars out of 5 stars. 3 stars is enough for the story. So if you have list of drama you want to watch, you can put in your big 5 or big 10 list, on the last line.
So, here goes the story... Wi Mary (Meun Geun Yong) has a freaking dummass father whose's work is simply making debt and dragging the whole family into debt. Therefore, as a loving child, Mary works her ass like hell to pay all the debt. On a great day, she get a call from her friend who needs driver and Mary is happy to do that as long as she got paid. So there she goes driving her friends.
On her way she accidentally hit Mu Gyeol (Jang Geun Seok). She, then, tries to get a written signed agreement from Mu Gyeol to avoid the possibilities of being blackmailed by Mu Gyeol. From here their life get bounded to each with bickering cute moments and many soju bottles. Mary then met Jung In (KJW), the fiancee to be set up by Mary's father and Chairman Seok (Jung In's father) who used to be bestfriends on the old days and it seems they are still bestfriends until now,
Things got complicated when Mary who doesn't want to be engaged nor marry Jung In, makes a weeding photos with Mu Gyeol, also cheered by both besties and then show it to her father. Mary's father becomes agitated and decides to do an extreme move by registering Mary's name and Jung In's name upon marriage without Mary's knowledge. To cancel the document, Mary would have to sue her own father turn him as a criminal for faking document. If i were her, i would've done that. Mary, obviously, can't do that.
Knowing the fact that Mary is married (though it's a fake one and he doesn't know...yet), Jung In propose to his father to give 100days as a chance for Mary to live in between these 2 husbands and let Mary decide who will she choose in the end: Mu Gyeol or himself, Jung In. The competition between fake marriage of Mary-Mu Gyeol OR parents arranged marriage Mary-Jung In has just began.
The story is somehow simple but i'm not sure about its charm. Fake marriage or arranged marriage turns real marriage is not a new idea. We saw the fake marriage in Full House and i read one about arranged marriage from Indonesian novel. So overall, for me this drama brings nothing new. Though so, thank God, they cast Jang Geun Seok as Mu Gyeol (a.k.a. Happy New Year) and Meun Geun Yong as Wi Mary (or should we call her Merry Christmas ^^). They are the only thing that's worth to be watched... The face...the bickering...the chemistry...the sillyness (what's up with the cauliflower????? Amazingly silly but in a cute way. Florist!!! Start using cauliflower to replace roses from now on please! It's bigger and healthier!!).
I have always felt a big favor towards MGY since i watched her in Little Bride... While JGS left me a pretty deep impression as a beautiful cute man in Hwang Jini... MGY as Mary is adorably so cute that she managed to pull off Pussy On The Boot teary eyes... She's such a great actress... From cute Little Bride to tomboy Painter of The Wind to cold bastard Cinderella Sister to cute sweety daugther who makes guys go 'Marry Me, Mary' ... She knows how to do everything. Eyes to mouth...body to voice. Different. As usual, JGS is cute and beautiful. And i actually not a fan of beautiful man. But i can't hate him for being beautiful, especially in this drama. Not when he is the reason why i watch this drama. JGS does great in depicting Mu Gyeol. I think the writer made the image of beautiful Mu Gyeol based on the real JGS, i mean... I can't think of any other actor that would have pretty beautiful image as JGS. (Sush to those who scream Lee Sung Ki's name... xP)
KJW on the other hand make me feel like i'm watching an upgraded version of the wafel maker in Coffee Prince.. Same cold attitude but with dandier and sleeker fashion style plus gentlemanly jerk attitude (Mary says that...not me). He's doing good so far up until episode 2, from the coldness side. I'm hoping to see more of his fun side actually but i guess Jeong In character is supposed to be a cold chaebol son with perfect mark as future husband, financially and physically.
The drama itself has a very clear foundation. Clear because from the first time i can feel the chemistry between Mu Gyeol and Mary. I can understand why Mary is drawn towards Mu Gyeol and vice versa. They have a lot in common which is being deceived, although from Mu Gyeol's side the story hasn't been unfold much yet except when he tried to terminate a contract with a woman who is apparently a sly agent. I can understand why Mary's father insists Mary to marry Jung In. Most of it is because Jung In is damn so rich that Mary won't have to suffer from the debt collectors nagging again and as the bonus, all of the debt will be paid. I can also understand Jung In's proposal of 100days for Mary. Even though it's an arranged married, he wants Mary to agree upon her own willingness. Fair for her, fair for his father and it's a win win solution for him. Whether Mary will choose him or not, he will still get the sponsorship from his dad. I can also feel for Chairman Seok preserverance of protecting Mary from suffering. Trust me, I haven't read any recaps nor watch the episode streaming because I SWEAR TO GOD i don't want any spoiler, but i can sense that Chairman Seok has a deep feeling towards Mary's mother in the past that he wants to protect Mary badly from any kind of suffering in this world because Mary reminds him of her mother A LOT.
Despite of many reviews say that this drama is silly for its unacceptable plot, i dare to say that it would be still fun to watch this drama. If not, why do they even bother spending 20 hours of watching this drama, right??? It means this drama still has something to hook you up. For my drama besties, that would be because of JGS while as for me it's because MGY. It's meant for entertainment. So let's just enjoy it :)
Based on JGS and MGY i would give them 4 stars out of 5 stars. 3 stars is enough for the story. So if you have list of drama you want to watch, you can put in your big 5 or big 10 list, on the last line.
Selasa, 27 April 2010
A small piece of Rich Dad Poor Dad
I was wandering around my boss living room yesterday when i found this book entitled Rich Dad Poor Dad. It wasn't captivated my heart so bad but since it was raining so hard that day and i was running out of courage to stay alone at the office because of the thunder, i decided to take look at the book.
The subtitle caught my eyes... It's says Work to Learn, Don't Work for money. Then i read that chapter randomly. Since then i've decided i need to finish our reading this book.
This morning, when i arrived at my office, i found myself reading the book as a side dish entertainment. It turned out i found a piece of great conversation between a 9 year old son who wants to know how to get rich and a rich dad who wants to teach the son how to be rich. The son was employed for 3 hours everyday for 10 cents per hour (as supposed to 25 cents per hour). 1 month passed by with no conversation about the exact way of HOW TO BE RICH and he was ready to quit...
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"You lied to me. I've worked for you and you have not kept your word. You haven't TAUGHT me anything".
"How do you know that i've NOT TAUGHT you anything?" asked rich dad calmly.
"Well you never talked to me. I've worked for three weeks, and you have not taught me anything," I said with a pout.
"DOES TEACHING MEAN TALKING OR A LECTURE?" rich dad asked.
"Well, yes" I replied.
"That's how they teach you in school," he said smiling. " But that is not how life teaches you, and i would say that LIFE IS THE BEST TEACHER OF ALL. MOST OF THE TIME, LIFE DOES NOT TALK TO YOU. IT JUST SORT OF PUSHES YOU AROUND. EACH PUSH IS LIFE SAYING 'WAKE UP. THERE'S SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO LEARN' ".
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I'm still on my way of finishing the book, but i already feel this connection with the book that it will give me a broader view of Education (as every book has done to me..)
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