~ 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.

~spare time + Creativity = Something useful

A few months ago, I read about something called terrariums and see many different kinds of it. The glass terrariums made by litill are very pretty and cute although it costs quite expensive (cost from US$ 125 to US$ 800). I, then, decide to made it myself. The main point is the container which made from glass as to make a beautiful appearance.


I start with a single plant in glass. Using black chaff and little white stones. The glasses are the very cheap ones, just make sure it has a nice shape. It range from IDR 2.ooo to IDR 20.ooo, the huge aquarium-like-glass though cost quite a lot (IDR 25.ooo to IDR 60.ooo). We can find the little stones from the flower-replica-shop (IDR 5.ooo per bag). And with only IDR 10.ooo you can get a sack of black chaff, more than enough to build a house (I'm kidding ;p). Coincidentally theres a Plants-Fair near the office, the cute cacti and some little flower only cost IDR- 5.ooo to 20.ooo.

You can made something just like the picture above with only IDR 12.ooo to IDR 25.ooo

The finally done glass terrariums by combining three kinds of plants to make a little garden. Cost from IDR 65.ooo to IDR 100.ooo

~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 >.<

~dorama reccomendations

So, because I want to post a thread here and I don't think that I watch a lot of movies to be that knowledgeable, and then thinking why not made a thread about something that I actually know? Here it is a list of dorama that I've watched.

1. Mr. Brain
Why should you watch this? It has Takuya Kimura as a main actor. There's a bunch of bishies and bishoujos flaunted in each episode. The plot is quite interesting and still enjoyable although you probably would guess the plot.

2. Galileo
A detective story that reminds me a little of KATOU Motohiro's mangas (probably because the main character is such a weirdo :sweatdrop: ). Really caught my attention from the first episode, but the further I watch the bored I become, I end up not knowing the ending.

3. Dragon Zakura

I'm not saying that this is good, but still I watched it till the end. Although don't blame me if I skip some of the episodes.

4. Buzzer Beat
This is one dorama that I actually watched from the beginning until the end without skipping any of the episodes. It's full of half-naked bishies and water-scene, I mean like beaches and ofuros.

5. Bloody Monday
I stop after 10 minutes into the first ep., I prefer the manga.

6. Attention Please!
Stopped after the third episodes, it's getting boring.

7. Good Luck
Pretty interesting, but still I got bored in the middle of it. Skipped.

8. Lunch Queen
I skipped here and there but I still watched it. It's still ongoing in episode 12 now. A very funny dorama with some recipe and hella weird romance relationship.

9. Mop Girl
I like the main actress, she's so cute. Watched it till episode 6 and still not continuing until now.

10. One Litre of Tears
I think I watched it 3 years ago, and I vaguely remember that I actually didn't skip any of the episodes (probably because I watched with my friends, and they don't appreciate skipping something when they want to hold a weeping-fest).

11. Kurosagi
The very first of dorama that I watched through computer by copying it from my friend. So very interesting and intriguing. Watched till the end and without skipping at all. I even watched The Movie of it or something.

12. Kamen Rider Decade
Till episodes 14 or something, I forgot, would continue it soon.

13. Kamen Rider Double
Till episode 10 and still don't have the drive to continue it.

14. Densha Otoko (thanks to Saurabhalab)
One of the dorama that I love. It has that geek-ish feels that would always make you rolled your eyes. So very brilliant (I've read the manga, but I still prefer to watch the dorama), with a very long list of guest stars list, who would always doing something ridiculous you can't stop laughing at them. Watching this dorama gives me the feeling, that although I'm like a living Nodame, my very own Chiaki would soon appear in front of me, hopefully~~

I don't hate movie, anime or dorama, I just don't like to watch something period. I don't like the notions that the pace is set by other people, that's why I prefer to read manga. I can stop and fast-forwarding it if it gets boring. Watching anime is such a hassle for me if the pace is slow, I just keep skipped through it. Remember that this is not a rec, this is just some list of dorama that I've watched.

~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.

[lyric] Hikari no Naka de (光の中で) -- 175r

Title: Hikari no Naka de (光の中で)

Artist: 175r

Album: JAPON

Romaji

Kanji

Lyric：shogo.k     Music：shogo.k Ikutsu mo no kisetsu ga sugite Ano hi ga omoide ni kawaru Doko ka ni oite kita mama no Jibun ga boku wo iramitsukeru Tokei no hari wa susumu kara Soredemo ashita wa kuru kara Nigete gokari jya irarenai Tachi domattetemo irarenai Tobidashita machi wo senishite Hanayaida machi no akari ni Nomikomare sou de kowai kedo Hareta sora no mukou ni Kimi wo omoi de shiteta Kitto ima no boku ga utaeru no wa Ano hi kimi ni aeta kara Muchuu de oikaketa yume wa Tooku ni ukabu kumo no youni Tsukanda yubi no sukima kara Kobore ochite kiechau sou de Afuredasu namida no wake mo Kagayaita ano isshun mo Doko ni mo uso nadonai kedo Aketa sora no mukou ni Kimi wo omoi de shiteta Kitto ima no boku mo utsuru keshiki mo Doko ka sabishi de ni miete... Hareta sora no mukou ni Kimi wo omoi de shiteta Kitto ima no boku ga utaeru no wa Ano hi kimi ni aeta kara nanda yo Moshimo dokoka de kimi ga ashita ni obierunara Boku ga michi wo shimesu hikari ni narou Sonna uta todoke ni ikou Aosugiru sora wo koete

作詞：shogo.k     作曲：shogo.k いくつもの季節が過ぎて あの日が思い出に変わる どこかに置いてきたままの 自分が僕を睨みつける 時計の針は進むから それでも明日は来るから 逃げてばかりじゃいられない 立ち止まっててもいられない 飛び出した町を背にして 華やいだ街の明かりに 飲み込まれそうで恐いけど 晴れた空の向こうに 君を思い出してた きっと今の僕が歌えるのは あの日君に逢えたから 夢中で追いかけた夢は 遠くに浮かぶ雲のように 掴んだ指の隙間から こぼれ落ちて消えちゃいそうで 溢れだす涙の訳も 輝いたあの一瞬も どこにも嘘などないけど 明けた空の向こうに 君を思い出してた きっと今の僕も映る景色も どこか寂しげに見えて… 晴れた空の向こうに 君を思い出してた きっと今の僕が歌えるのは あの日君に逢えたからなんだよ もしもどこかで君が明日に怯えるなら 僕が道を示す光になろう そんな歌届けにいこう 青すぎる空を越えて

Credit: Me, also thanks to my friend sakis for edit-ing this~~

Reason for this post: I want to sing along while listening to the song but I can't find their Romaji lyric anywhere >.<

Another thanks to: rikai-chan Firefox add-ons and J-Lyric for the Kanji lyric 

[lyric] Liar Liar -- 175r

Title: Liar Liar

Artist: 175r

Album: JAPON

Romaji

Kanji

Lyric：shogo.k     Music：shogo.k Dou shiyou mo nai gurai Yamerarenai no sa DORIIMAA Dou shiyou mo nai gurai Yamerarenai no sa BIRII BAA Kekkyoku wa docchi mo kamihitoe OMOTE mo URA mo Saigo ni waratten no wa dare nano ka Risou to genjitsu no hazama de sakende iru no wa honto no doko honto no koto? Dou demo iiyou na jidai Dou demo iiyou na wadai Dou demo iiyou na sakebida Dokka no dareka ga waratte Dokka no dareka ga naiteru Mou ikka maa ikka sonna n ja sumasarenai Liar Liar... Liar Liar... Liar Liar...

作詞：shogo.k     作曲：shogo.k どーしようもないぐらい やめられないのさ ドリーマー どーしようもないぐらい やめられないのさ ビリーバー 結局はどっちも紙一重 オモテもウラも 最後に笑ってんのは誰なのか 理想と現実の狭間で叫んでいるのは ほんとのとこ ほんとのこと? どーでもいいような時代 どーでもいいような話題 どーでもいいような叫びだ どっかの誰かが笑って どっかの誰かが泣いてる もういっか まぁいっか そんなんじゃ済まされない Liar Liar... Liar Liar... Liar Liar...

Credit: Me, also thanks to my friend sakis for edit-ing this~~

Reason for this post: I want to sing along while listening to the song but I can't find their Romaji lyric anywhere >.<

Another thanks to: rikai-chan Firefox add-ons and J-Lyric for the Kanji lyric

[lyric] Aijou METABO (愛情メタボ) -- 175r

Title: Aijou METABO (愛情メタボ)

Artist: 175r

Album: JAPON

Romaji

Kanji

Lyrics：shogo.k     Music：shogo.k Aijou Metabolic syndrome Diet shiteru baai janai n datte NANI wo dou yatte DOKO wo dou futte Tatoe doonattemo Rebound KIBANNU Miwatase domo hoka no dare mo menyairi ranu(?) Mankai ni shoukasu yo futari no mirai wo Aijou to kimi dake shinjiru Tenbin kaketeru baai janai n datte Mazu wa dou yatte doko no doitsu datte Kikarerya kotaeru kyanai (BANDO MEN...) Taishita DEETO SUPOOTO mo BGM mochiran kedo Akasaka SAKASU yo iza tsurete koka Kono uta ga boku kara no bukiyou na PUROPOOZU sa Kimi no namida wa muda niwa shinai sou chikau yo Aijou Metabolic syndrome Diet shiteru baai janai NANI wo dou yatte DOKO wo dou futte Tatoe doonattemo (kekkyoku xxx shichatten jan!) Kyuu kyoku no FURUKOOSU enryo suruna yo tabehoudai Saa misebirakasu yo futari no mirai wo Kono uta ga boku kara no bukiyou na PUROPOOZU sa Kimi no namida wa muda niwa shinai sou chikau yo Kono uta ga boku kara no bukiyou na PUROPOOZU sa Kimi ni namida wa niawanai kara Sou itsuka futari no mirai ni kono uta ga nokoreba Kitto METABO na boku no KARADA mo waraeru yarou

作詞：shogo.k     作曲：shogo.k 愛情Metabolic syndrome Dietしてる場合じゃないんだって ナニをどーやって　ドコをどーふって 例えどーなってもReboundキボンヌ 見渡せども他の誰も目にゃ入らぬ 満開に(かすよ　二人の未来を 愛情と君だけ信じよう 天秤かけてる場合じゃないんだって まずはどーやって　どこのどいつだって 聞かれりゃ答えるっきゃない「バンドメン…。」 たいしたデートスポットもBGMも知らんけど 赤坂サカスよ　いざ連れてこか この歌が僕からの不器用なプロポーズさ 君の涙は無駄にはしない　そう誓うよ 愛情Metabolic syndrome Dietしてる場合じゃない ナニをどーやって　ドコをどーふって 例えどーなっても「結局×××しちゃってんじゃん!」 究極のフルコース　遠慮するなよ食べ放題 さぁ見せびらかすよ　二人の未来を この歌が僕からの不器用なプロポーズさ 君の涙は無駄にはしない　そう誓うよ この歌が僕からの不器用なプロポーズさ 君に涙は似合わないから そういつか二人の未来にこの歌が残れば きっとメタボな僕のカラダも笑えるやろ

Credit: Me, also thanks to my friend sakis for edit-ing this~~

Reason for this post: I want to sing along while listening to the song but I can't find their Romaji lyric anywhere >.<
Another thanks to: rikai-chan Firefox add-ons and Music Goo for the Kanji lyric

~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.

~album recommendations

10:31
spent days in listening new kind of music, and I actually found out the kind of music that I love.
and that would be instrumental, hip-hop, punk, ska, R&B, jazz, j-pop, and mixed rock, hahaha and to think that I'll just listening to any kind of music now, I have a preference! HA!!

Some music I'm listening right now:

175r -- Omae wa Sugee yo! (April 9, 2008)
Totally my favorite album

Utada Hikaru -- Ultra Blue (June 14, 2006)

Chemistry -- Regeneration (February 24, 2010)

~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.
---

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".

---

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.

~intro~

hey, I'm new in this blog thingy, so I won't know what to say :sweatdrop:
Just be nice and I'll do the same ;p