~ just like your another normal day!

I was visiting my family last week. It's been a while since the last time I met them (read: a Year), so I won't be surprised if there would be a big home-welcoming (I was hopeful, mind you). Imagine my disappointment at the same old lack-of-reaction my family gives me. They picked me up at the airport with the altogether-bland-look like it's a routine occasion and I just back from visiting the neighbors. I'm sorry if I do not feel the love.

The week passed by very quickly and uneventfully. It's a high time for the flu season and I'm no superhuman, I guess sickness do lower our energy and our motivation to socialize. I spent my time resting, eating, gaming, resting, lazing around, resting, and being the perfect introvert that I am. I'm back to Jakarta with only a few increased-on miscellany goods (a request from a few people) and looks no worse for wear.

I think it's a problem of choosing a "proper time". A week before I schedule to came home, my mother departed to Mecca for Haji. For the record I'm happy to contribute that I met her at the airport, and she greets me with the Usual heartwarming hug, makes me wonder if she is the only extrovert in the house and the obvious lack of her make us the most awkward and standoffish bunch of blood-related-people around.

I think I'll consider my time-management for my next visit, so these thing won't happen again.

I guess, I'm finish with the ranting and now on to some interesting facts: I only found out about the Daylight Saving Time Today! Yeah, I live in the equator and my country never observed it and I always see a notice about it in Every website that I Visited during the past months and the past years... :sigh: I just feels shame that I never bother about many things in life.

Yet another interesting fact, there's a thing called Computer Zone Time. And it differs about 193 seconds from the Local Standard Time. I now knew the reason why I always have another 3 minutes more to get ready after spending so much time in front of the computer every morning.


~fin. Total time consumption: approximately an hour and a half for both typing and editing. I hope there would be only a small amount of grammar mistakes (but I won't count on it) XD.

~recognizing yourself by analyzing your psyche

I was bored yesterday and decided why not do some browsing?

That's where this post comes in. I got a mail from my friend about this Jungian-type personality test. While I'm not a stranger to Jungian, I haven't found a decent test of it. The test turns out it to be quite entertaining. If you want to try it, just click here.

The last time I take Jungian-test, I was The Analytical Thinking-type or INTP, now it seems that I became The Individualistic Doer-type or the ISTP. So, I used to be this reserved-unsociable-arrogant self who's clumsy in love. And now, apparently, I'm an optimistic-venturesome-confident person who only love herself. I won't know if it's an accomplishment or not ;p

And for amusement-sake here are second opinion on your general traits and some funny crack about the Junggy.


~fin
Total time consumption: 30 minutes!!! But I actually need at least two weeks to finally decide on what to write, talk about massive blog's block >.<

~longed

angin membawa kata

bait-bait puisi cinta tak berbalas
larik-larik indah tak bersambut
jejaka-jejaka muda bersenandung
apa yang ingin mereka sampaikan
apakah sepi. sedih. atau harapan.


nada-nada elok pembuai tidur
tak dapat lagi terdengar
dari tempatku di sisi langit
rindu padanya, pada mereka
yang hanya bernyanyi tanpa berbalas


disini sunyi.sepi.senyap
sayang ikan-ikan tak dapat bersuara
akan kudapatkan sebuah resital pribadi
rengguk mereka yang terlanjur tertancap dalam-dalam
tak dapat hilang dan lupa lagi
kutukannya telah sempurna
jadilah aku aurora tak tertidur, pemakai sepatu merah yang terus menari


nyanyian. puisi. suara merdu
aku rindu..
mereka. gitar. dan buaian pengantar tidurku
ingin kutangkap. kumasukkan sangkar. kujadikan beburungan berkicau milikku.
hanya milikku...

~fin

Stumble into my old writing.

Decide to post it here. It's in my native language, so sorry that I can't translate it.

The poem is about some youngsters who always sings way into the night below my window, making their songs as the last thing I heard before resting. After I move to another place, I find that I can't seem to sleep peacefully. It seems that I missed them. This verse just come out of nowhere when I'm frustrated of the lack of sleep.

~remember, fun can be done alone!!!

A few weeks ago (it's been a long time since I post something in here) my friends invited me to a karaoke, and because I can't sing worth shit, I just sat at the corner trying to be invisible. But in the end, I just stuck up like a sore thumb, because I'm the only one who are not enjoying themselves.

This time recs are some books actually:

The Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer.
The main character is a genius twelve-year-old kid named Artemis who wants to be the biggest and richest criminal ever!! :lol: A very cute and manipulative kid with a quite huge interested in LEP-community, some kind of a fairy colony. The books are thin but still guarantee to give you a nice and interesting adventure.

It's already published in our native language until the third book. I downloaded the e-book (don't ask if it's free or not) and haven't read it yet till now, sadly.

~emotional, wait until it cools down

Another random post starts~~

My day started with a notice from Gmail~

I mean, what the??!! Is it some kind of error or what? The access type is Unknown and that's what made me curious. I decide to change my password right away, but I'll just ignore this issue for now.


Next, I read some interesting bits on internet-social norm and conduct. From the best practice on e-mail by Dave Johnson, these are a few that are really worth mentioning.

Neglecting the readers by forgetting common courtesies. Say thank you in public; give criticism in private.

I rarely do that. That's why many called me insensitive blob ~.~

Always using e-mail when other forms of communication might be better. You do still have a phone, right?

And to answer the question, it's a no from me, I guess. Another reminder on why many people neglects me. It's all because I much prefer email than the phone, it gives me space and privacy.

~keeping track, how much is too much?

I've decided not to post this manga recommendation of the week separately, although it contains a much more manga than the normal recs. Because I want to show my way of thinking on getting all these things in this post.
My mind just revolves around manga all day this week.
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This week starts by reading Hayabusa and contemplating on searching and eventually buying all Aya Roppongi's mangas in the bookstore. This manga in particular is one out of five from the book-set called Romance Series III. It can be bought in the bookstore for roughly $3.00, cheap huh?




I got a new hang-out place, it's a site called OtakuWorks. The site provides Online Manga Reader and of course a very fun forum. It's quite small but very friendly and the people are nice too. And that's why I come to the now one of my treasures... Someone give a suggestion on making my own manga recs, but by doing that I'll have to mention the mangaka too. Because some of the books I read are by the same creator (I always believe the same brain would produce the same standard of creation), so there. I then try to find out the master behind those great pieces a.k.a my favorite stories. Here are some of them:

~browsing, knowing something is knowing nothing

I've been doing nothing but browse these days, I found out something and ends up more curious about another things. Randomness ensued. Check it out.

You learn something new every day!

• Two days ago, I read something interesting it's about neurochemical. It is that chemical that gives you that kick in the beginning of the relationship. When we were in the early stages of courtship, we experienced the euphoria of infatuation because the brain was flooded with a powerful chemical cocktail or an overdose of neurochemical that let us feel boundless energy, optimistic, hyper-aroused, etc.
• So there really is a reason the infatuation called chemistry. Because it does involve chemical.

There was this big fire near my workplace yesterday. Click here for detail. And because Senen is a bus terminal, this incident caused quite a stir. Traffic jam started early in the morning and coupled with heavy rains, the lines literally stuck. It was finally eased up at night after the terminal reopened in the afternoon. Because this unpredictable and unknown (this haven't made public in the morning news) occurrence there's quite many poor unsuspecting victims whose arrived late for work. Fortunately, I'm not one of them ^^.

If been thinking:

If I recalled from my childhood days, there's no memories when I actually feels really happy or content. Every piece of reminiscence has a dull undertone in it. I always try to recall other things in them to make it cheerier. And I can't seem to do that flawlessly. Is it because deep down I want my childhood looks poor to make myself feels better? That is somehow other faults that I turn to be this way? It is denial in the making and I'm confusing myself.

~fin

Yay, for another complete post. Total time consumption: approx. two and a half hours. I think I'll get used to this continual thing. As always, happy reading everybody...

~EMO, thinking and doing nothing and everything

Doing nothing and everything is my daily routine. I always set up my GTalk status as "Busy" and if someone actually have the time to ask me, I will always answer with "I'm busy doing nothing".

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Yesterday, I saw the coolest Google Doodles ever!!

 

It's for the 332nd birthday of Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian composer. It's so very pretty, it makes me swoon ~.~

Next topic, today, I'm just sitting in front of the computer doing nothing (like it's actually new!) and everything (yeah, right!). I've been terrorizing my some-kind-of-a-new-forum, it's EMO, hehehe it's got a nice ring to it.

Doing nothing but commenting and really nothing! It's so liberating, I feel relax at the end of the journey.

Okay, the next topic is actually something that I think about two days ago. I wrote it in a note and though to post it, here it is:


~Someone says, "If you think of something hard enough, they eventually come true." but it is really true? I think it is so right and wrong at the same time. Just look at the denial thing, no matter how hard you deny something didn't exist or something didn't happen, it's already there and done, no way to undo it.