Manusia Setengah Salmon
31 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Buku terbaru dan buku ke-6 dari Raditya Dika. Masih berisi ke”absurd”an dia seperti icon-icon lucu, interviews with hantus atau bertanya kepada orang yang salah, selain kegalauan hatinya. Di bagian dalam cover depan terdapat berbagai posenya seolah-olah ikan dengan me”monyong”kan mulutnya. Tak lupa aib keluarganya kembali terungkap dalam salah satu ceritanya. Jadi binun, keluarganya harus berkulit badak alias tidak tahu malu karena aib diungkapkan ke hadapan publik 
Crossing Over
12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Film sejenis Crash yang bertema keadaan sosial. Dimana film ini berkutat dengan perjuangan seseorang menjadi warganegara Amerika. film ini dibintangi Harrison Ford sebagai polisi menjelang pensiun namun masih membantu orang yg terjerat kriminalitas tetap mendapat hak yg sepantasnya. Polisi lain menganggapnya kurang kerjaan namun dia tetap teguh menolong orang yang membutuhkan. Film ini tidak menjadikan Harrison Ford sebagai tokoh utama namun lebih menitikberatkan pada usaha masing-masing orang untuk mendapatkan pengakuan sebagai seorang warganegara Amerika dengan berbagai cara baik legal maupun ilegal.
Cinta Brontosaurus
12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Buku koleksi Raditya Dika yang pertama kali gw baca. Gw tertarik baca bukan karena covernya yg aneh atau absurd gitu. Tapi karena gw ditunjukin video klip Radith pas jadi Stand up comedian di Youtube. Bikin gw ma adek gw ketawa ngakak karena tingkah lakunya yg lebay & banyak ngomong. Buku ini juga lucu, ada revenge of bom bom car, surat cinta semasa smp yg lucu, atau kisah kucing di rumahnya. Kadang gw berpikir nih beneran terjadi atau imajinasi si pengarang yg berlebihan? Eniwei (ini salah satu gaya tulisannya), tetep bikin gw ngakak karena kok ada orang yg kelihatan naif banget. Tapi temen gw jg ada yg ngomong gini si “Bedanya tipis antara naif ma goblok”. So, what do u think?
Kambing Jantan
12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Karya non-fiksi yang bikin ngakak dari Raditya Dika. Merupakan buku pertamanya namun buku ke-2 karangan Radith yang gw baca. Asli ada yg bikin gw ketawa ngakak dari postingan blognya Kambing Jantan (yang sekarang sudah nggak ada lagi). Buku pertama ini mengisahkan petualangannya sebagai mahasiswa di Adelaide, Aussie. Persiapan menjelang kuliah, pengalaman-pengalaman kocak, ke”gendeng”an dia bersama temen-temennya di sana. Nggak tahu malu karena berani pake boxer dan sandal jepit doang buat belanja ke mini market, dideketin bule ngga jelas, peristiwa salah manggil guru bule ke dia ma temen-temennya adalah sekian dari peristiwa kocaknya. Bagus banget buat penghilang stress.
Pillow Talk
12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Novel yang gw beli karena tertarik dengan resensi juga gambar cover sederhana. Cerita yang ada di dalamnya memang bukan cerita yang baru. Persahabatan cowok-cewek yang diwarnai dengan kecemburuan karena masing-masing sama-sama memendam perasaan. Dua karekater yg berbeda namun saling mengerti satu sama lain. Emilia yang spontan, ceria, cenderung blak-blakan dengan Joshua yang tenang, setia, dan pengertian. Bahasa yang ada ringan, apa adanya dan enak dibaca, membuat pembaca terus penasaran dan dengan cepat menghabiskan cerita per bab. Kisah yang menyentuh, lucu, dan hidup. Getar-getar yang dirasakan karakter seolah membuat kita makin menyatu di dalamnya. Buku Christian Simamora yang pertama kali dibaca tapi seneng ma gaya tulisannya. Bravo!!! 
Easy A
18 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in Movie
Sebuah film yang diawali oleh cerita seorang remaja cewek pintar yang tidak sengaja berbohong. Kebohongan yang dibuat di depan sobat ceweknya menyebar ke seluruh penjuru sekolah. Padahal kebohongan itu berawal dari kesengajaan karena ingin membuat sobat dekatnya iri. Kebohongan bahwa dia telah kehilangan keperawanan menyebar ke seluruh penjuru sekolah dan tentu saja rumor negatif menyebar lebih cepat kala dibumbui dengan hal-hal baru yang ditambahkan oleh penyebar cerita tersebut.
Belum selesai rumor negatif tersebut tatkala dia menyelamatkan temannya yang gay supaya tidak terkesan gay, rumor baru muncul bahwa dia adalah cewek yang mau dibayar untuk melakukan seks. Padahal apa yang sesungguhnya terjadi adalah bertolak belakang. Dia hanya membantu temannya dari jerat bullying yang seringkali muncul di sekolah. Namun, hal ini tidak serta merta membuatnya menjadi pahlawan dari orang-orang lemah di sekolahnya. Predikat negatif terhadap dirinya justru kian lama makin erat dengan dirinya.
Kondisi inilah yang akhirnya membuatnya tidak nyaman dan memutuskan untuk menghentikan lingkaran kebohongan yang semakin membesar. Kisah yang diceritakan cukup unik dan banyak pesan moral yang dapat diambil di dalamnya dengan ending yang bagus.
Joining Mandarin Course
13 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
My dreams for joining a Mandarin Course came true. I’m excited to do it. I already browsed from internet, looking for a Mandarin course near my office, asking my cousin for qualified course. My choice is closed for 2 places; at UI Salemba or Atma Jaya. Unfortunately, the course time at UI didn’t match with my activities and I called Atmajaya but they said they don’t have a new class and promised to call me if new class opens. During those time, I also ask someone by email to tutor me for private Mandarin Course. I knew his profile by reading a Mandarin Study Book at Gramedia. He did reply my email but he only have time for weekend and his house is far from my place. I canceled it and think maybe this is not the perfect time for me to study Mandarin language.
Last month, during my travel going to my hometown, someone texted me. It’s from Atmajaya Mandarin Course and asking me about joining their class. I’m excited and said that I will join their class immediately. Now, it’s already 1 month, I’m joining the Mandarin Course. At the first day, I think it would be interested because there is one foreign student (especially for Caucasian;>) but he came only at the first day.
Whether there is Caucasian or not, the course still be fun for me. I said it now, I’m still excited for learning whether it’s getting difficult. I must read it again and again and try to repeat it over and over for saying in a right tones. We’re still in the step for reading and saying it, not yet for writing. Hopefully, I could manage my joyfull like this until the end of the course. Xie xie, laoshi
Laugh at it?
13 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in Friendship, Reality of Life
When I feel difficult to forgive someone or somebody, it makes me thinking that I’m worthy enough for forgiveness and redemption from Him? In some case for my life, I knew that it’s not so easy to release and forget those things easily, especially for someone who close to me or have a long relationship history with me. It easy to avoid that kind of person we hate and it’s not so easy if the person appears in front of us. In my case, it’s like a circle of life. I already forgave one fault and the same person, doing it again (hurting me again) for other case. I think it such a waste of time by doing the good relationship if there is no reciprocal from the other side, isn’t it?
I intend to have a good relationship, I’m trying to make it right and now it’s time to make things clear, straight and to the point. Release it and let it go…. It’s a healthy rationalize thinking when we’re in a healthy mind. Instead, a lot of person did otherwise. They let themselves being hurt again and again. Are they masochist person? Who knows?
I realize that I can’t trust the people who lied or misused me. I can give them a chance to do the otherwise but the whole process by trusting them 100% full, I think it’s rather difficult to do it at the first time but I believe that people need second chance. I dont want to justify my action or my habit but for some people, they do not want to learn and repent.
Thankfully, we have wonderful and Almighty God who can sense and knew our deepest feeling and weakness. He always cheer us up by doing something. He could do a lot of ways to make us happy. Trying to reminiscence the old days, and be wonder that He did it. Maybe it’s not a marvelous way to make us laugh but it worked on us.
Those case goes to my brother who sometimes looks on things as a simple case and often laughing at me. Sometimes, I share my problem with him whether he’s seven years younger than me. When I heard that he’s laugh, I think that I’m so silly by thinking it too much. Most of women always an emotional person who always connect with feeling.
So, when some case it’s a neutral case and we can discussing it with other men, we can share with them and listen to their opinion, maybe we take it too much by ourselves. It’s really worked and also reduce the stress itself.
Other alternative is by doing a lot of activities which need our attention. I’m doing it also by learning new language. It’s so much fun indeed because our teacher is very supportive person. I’m enjoying it. Whether I don’t do a lot of talk with other course member, just a simple talk, I enjoy it.
Back to my feeling, I think about it lately. I make my own decision, why I’m still bear a grudge about her action? It’s not healthy, Yovita. I hate her action. You must move on. God has wonderful plan for you. Don’t waste your time by doing such an useless thing! OK, I’m done over it. God help me to always have a heart like You, who easily to forgive our mistakes. I choose to be happy.
Review, Asking, & Hunting
13 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
Recently, I’m enjoyed to looking for new thing to buy whether for myself or others. Maybe, my friend at the office influenced me to do it. If I’m interest with something, I will look for it by googling it first, read the reviews, asking other person if they have it and the last action is hunting. I’m excited to do it.
It kind of relieve if I could find the cheapest price for it. It’s worthied whether we should spend time longer for it. Such as my office bag, I buy it cheaper from Facebook. And I’m satisfied with it.
Nowadays, we can read a trending topics fastly. From Facebook, tweeter, new informations are spread over beyond our imagination. Especially for bad news, rumors, it such a trending topics. We can have a lot of information or nothing at all by browsing internet. World is in our hands. It’s fascinating but in the other side it’s scary things also.
Happy Shopping girls!
The joyous at work; create it or it should be?
13 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in Reality of Life, Work, work, work
Sometimes it’s easy to have good courage or spirit to do the job. Lately, I admit that I’m not focus anymore. It’s easy to distract me by other events. Stayed up late is one of my bad behaviour. It is OK and not such a big problem if we do it for special reason or special occasion but doing it most of the time, it makes you exhausted. The bad effect is that I didn’t focus at work and it makes me felt guilty by not focusing the job itself.
I’m jealous by other person who easily quit about their job and finds another one easily too. It’s a big decision and could change everything just at the moment you accepted it. Could I do it if the time comes? Or I don’t have any guts to do it?
I do learn a lot of lessons during my job right now. I’m thankful that there is no offensive treatment from my colleague and most of them are supportive. But now, my boredom easily comes often. Job felt like a burden to me and there is no joy inside of it. My Mom said these words at the phone, “….. so what do you want? What kind of job do you want?”
What kind of job do you enjoyed it most? I’m still questioning this inside of my head and I’m still looking for the satisfied answer. I’m jealous with other women who enjoyed the job and be an expert for their carrier. From the Sex and The City movie, I saw 4 success women and enjoyed their job. Compared with my condition right now, it’s so contrast.
Do I prefer job with high salary? Off course, yes. Whether I’m still looking for it but it’s not the only one reason for my purpose life. Yeah, I’m realize I could say it out loud because I’m still single and living for myself. I hope that my life is worthwhile whether I’m married or single and I do it according to His Word in the right path.
The reality is human is quite difficult to be pleased. Only the grace of God who could satisfied our thirsty in the mean, evil world. The joyous itself found in the presence of the Lord in our heart.
