Random investigation (1)

Hm hmm judul di atas adalah untuk kalo aku lagi ingin melaporkan fenomena alam ataupun sosial hasil pengamatanku. huwehehee najong banget bahasanya.

Yah pertama-tama, membahas hasil postinganku sebelumnya, yang mengenai orang pacaran dunia milik berdua. berdasarkan “feedback” dari kawan-kawanku, bisa diambil kesimpulan (kok jadi kayak lagi nulis Bab 5 TA ya.. ) kalo opini terbagi dua, yaitu:
1. Bahwa aku terlalu sensi dan tidak mau mengerti keadaan orang yang punya pacar.
2. Setujuu!! memang bagi orang yang punya pacar tu pacar segalanya dan kawan bukanlah apa-apa.

Naah sekarang berdasarkan demografis (aka status) partisipan survei didapat bahwa, the ones who hold the former opinion are mostly those who have or used to have bf/gf. And those who think the latter (that people in love are a pain in the as*) are mostly those who have always been single ato dengan kata lain emang belum pernah pacaran (ini perkiraan sih, karena ada beberapa yang aku tak tau statusnya). Naah dari sini bisa ditarik kesimpulan.. kah? Bingung yang ada aku.

Does this mean that everyone will turn into selfish jerks when they get themselves a bf/gf?? Na’udzubillah deeehh (knock on wood). Aku tak mau jadi teman di kala senang doang kayak gitu..

 

Buzz off..!!

Huhuuy akhirnya mendapatkan lagu R (dibaca Y)-nya Potret. “Terpaksa” membeli cd-nya karena udah search kesana-kemari gak dapat bajakannya. hehee. I really like both the melody and the lyrics. Well, only a part of the lyrics actually. My favorite part is the chorus:

excerpts (credits to Potret)

Kalau memang bisa ya sudah diam

Jangan menghina orang yang tak bisa

Sangat pas menggambarkan isi hati pas ada yang menghina soal kemampuanku dalam mengucapkan r(rr). Kalau diingat-ingat aku gak pernah merasa rendah diri sih soal hal ini. Aku cuman sebal kalo pas pertama kali kenalan. Hampir selalu ditanya, “Gak bisa bilang r ya?”. Ato kalo gak nanyanya, “Coba bilang ..(insert any word with the letter R)”. Bosannn. Mang kenapa sih kalo I pronounce R a bit different from the usual way? Biasa aja kaleee. Masih baaanyak orang-orang di dunia ini yang gak bisa bilang R. Plih des. Gaul nape!!

Dulu pernah sekali rasanya sangatngatngat sakit hati pas kawan-kawanku menertawakanku sampe hampir mau nangis rasanya. Secara gitu loo mereka menunggu-nunggu “the moment” (where I can’t help but say a word with an R) dan begitu aku ngomong langsung diketawain. Dan itu di depan orang banyak. Hmmph some friends..!! Tapi kalo sekarang orang mo ngejek juga gak peduli. Bagiku, orang yang ngejek is just being a royal pain in the as*. Cuman mo ngajak berantam itu sih. Hajar aja langsung!!

Surprisingly, when I went to Bandung, I had none of these problems. Sepertinya orang Medan lebih jago mengucapkan R ketimbang orang Bandung ato Jakarta (lagi-lagi bikin teori ngasal). Waktu kerja di Jakarta pun gak pernah ada masalah. Jadi aku sudah lupa bahwa di dunia ini ada such people (royal pain in the as* maksudku).

Eitss abis kerja ternyata ketemu lagi orang-orang kayak gitu. Dan ternyata gak sebiji ato dua biji. Heuhh cukup bikin ilfil setiap ketemu mereka. It’s not nice to make fun of someone’s disability gitu lo. Get a life. There’s more to life than mocking people. -_- Orang-orang kayak gini nih yang bikin Indonesia gak maju-maju. Hahaa jadi ngaco. Tapi yahh setiap diejekin cepet-cepet aja aku berdoa, mumpung lagi didzholimi..

NB: Kembali ke lagu Potret tadi, ada bagian yang tak kusuka. Which is the line right after my favorite one, yaitu:

Kusumpahi kau biar jadi gini

Hmm kenapa nyumpahin si pelakunya? Kok kesannya gak bisa bilang R itu some kind of a bane.. Or am I being too sensitive here? ^^

 

naon sii

“What did your folks say about it?”

“Nothing.”

“Nothing??”

(Looks up) “What’s with the look? It’s no big deal.”

“Yes, it is! This could be the one chance for you and they have nothing to say? Don’t you think that’s a bit cold?”

“Well, you can’t blame them. They know nothing about this. I didn’t tell them.”

“You what?? Why??”

“Because I couldn’t.”

“Why not?”

“I just couldn’t, OK?”

“That’s the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard in my whole life.”

“Because if I tell them they’ll only have even higher expectation of me. And when I fail, they’ll say it’s OK. That it doesn’t matter. But it DOES!! And you can hear it in their voice..!!”

 

Hold a true friend with both your hands

Note: names and places have been changed to preserve privacy (ah masaaa. Cem betull aja )

 

1.

(phone rings)

“Hello?”

“A, Hi! How are you??”

“B? Where have you been? I’ve been trying to contact you for months!!”

“Ehee. I changed my number. That way, I can talk with my boyfriend all the time.”

“??? Oh…”

“So how have you been? What are you doing nowadays?”

“Uh.. Nothing special.”
”What is it? Sounds like there’s something wrong.”

“Not really. Listen, I’m busy right now…”

“Oh? Then, I’ll call you again later, OK?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Bye”

“Uh-huh.”

A put down the phone and then continued reading comics…

 

2.

A opened the closet, and was looking for her T-shirt when the phone rings.

“Hello?”

“A? Is that you? Listen, about our appointment. I don’t think I can come today.”

“Huh? Did something happen?”

“Well, my boyfriend just called. Asked me to go grab a bite or something with him.”

“Oh. Your boyfriend called.”

“Yeah. So I can’t come. D is coming with you, right?”

”No, she’s not. You’re the one who picked this day. And you know she can’t come on Saturday.”

“Oh, that’s right. But you’re gonna be okay by yourself. Besides you usually go out alone, right?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Well, gotta go. Bye. See you later.”

 

3.

Morning:

“A, did you know what he said last night? He…. “(fades away)

 Noon:

“Where is he? Do you see him? I can’t wait to see him..”

 Afternoon:

Beep-beep-beep.

A looked around and saw that C was punching text messages in high speed on her cellphone.

 

I dedicate these to everyone who were “dispensed with” by their friends who got a boyfriend. Who think that there’s only the two of them in this whole wide world. &*$^%* you!! A friend is not something you can dump whenever you want and then come to when you have a fight with your “beloved”.

PS: the title of this post is a Nigerian saying.

 

just another random rant

Hmm Bleach has now been officially put in my “On Hold” list. Yammy’s 10 turning to 0 was the last straw. I’ll wait for 10 chapters before I read it. Unless Byakuya comes out. Ukhukhuu

On a side note, Elex is raising comic price to Rp 15.000 starting on May…!!!! Hahh!!! Sungguh teganya.. teganya.. dirimu.. teganya.. T_T

 

may you all perish in h***!!

hmmmpphh beberapa hari kembali ke Indonesia, the one thing that made me fully realize that I’m back in Indonesia is all the swearwords that instantly jump out from my mouth every time I walk. Pedestrians are of the lowest caste. They have no right whatsoever. They have to look out for buses, cars, bikes, and (my sworn lifelong enemy) motorcycles even when walking on the walkway. EVEN WHEN CROSSING AT THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING!!!! Well scr** you all!!

Several nights ago, when I got off from an angkot, (lagi-lagi) a motorcycle nearly ran into me. I admit that because I didn’t look carefully behind me it’s partly my fault but what set my fuse was the mulut comel yang naik motor. “Hati-hati dong mbak”.. (And the intonation was exactly the same with the one usually used by pria-pria kampungan to pick up girls..) GAAAAHHH!!!! Minta mulutnya ditampol pake swallow tuh orang.. But I digress, this post is a rant on the ill-manners of motorcycle riders in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta (I’ll rant about those kampungan men later). My point is, itu si pengendara motor dared to tell me to be careful?? As if HE is. May I remind you dear sir, that 80% of all traffic accidents involve motorcycles??!! And that is because 99.99999% of the time motorcycles DO NOT follow traffic rules. During the short time span I live in Jakarta, I’ve had motorcycles almost running into me so many times. And I follow the rules, mind you. I cross the street either at the crossing or on the bridge and I only do so when the light is green for the pedestrian.  And still I have to evade motorcycles. I’m thinking of carrying some pebbles with me to throw the motorcycles running through the red light with. (Or perhaps rocks would be a better idea?? )

 

masa sihh

teman-teman kosku dulu di arjip tercinta semuanya pencinta oprah. tiap jumat-minggu jam 10 pagi kalo gak ada acara pasti dah ngumpul di kamar Dyah mantengin tipi. bahkan headline newsnya metroTV pun dijabanin. nah suatu hari, mereka cerita ke aku tentang episode yang baru mereka tonton. episode itu (kayaknya) membahas macam-macam sindrom aneh yang tidak umum (mungkin tujuannya biar masyarakat tau kali ya). nah, yang kuingat cuman dua (ato memang cuman ada dua?): sindrom turet dan satu lagi tahapa namanya pokoknya si orangnya terobsesi segalanya harus simetris. the second one really got me interested karena sejujurnya, saya ini waktu kecil terobsesi symmetry (kata bendanya simetris dalam bahasa Indonesia apa sih??). kalo gak percaya, ask my sister. I was totally obsessed with symmetry. when my right hand touched (or even just brushed against) something, I’d instinctively make my left hand to be touched in the same exact way and vice versa. this applies not just for hands, but also my arms, legs even my head. I will not rest until the other side experiences the same way. my sister really loved this obsession of mine. she’d touch one side of my body and happily watch me dengan hebohnya mengembalikan kesimetrisan.

baca punya baca, I found that symmetry obsession termasuk salah satu bagian OCD. wuasyemm. mangnya daku orang gilak apa..

karena aku tak terima, aku membaca lebih jauh lagi dan ternyata, symmetry obsession yang dimaksud dalam OCD ituww: “An overwhelming need to align objects `just so`”. Jadi lebih ke sekitarnya, bukan dirinya. Dan lagi, katanya, orang-orang penderita OCD itu maniak kebersihan. Huahahaa kalo ini sih, semua yang tau aku juga tau kalo aku sama sekali bukan maniak kebersihan.  

Berarti, diputuskan, aku tidak gila. 

NB: jadi penjelasan untuk simetris-maniaku itu apa dunk??  

NB2: mohon postingan ini tidak dianggap serius. karena sekedar untuk mengisi kekosongan saja, mengingat dah lama gak posting.

NB3: sekedar klarifikasi, aku bukan maniak kebersihan bukan berarti aku jorok loh yaaa

 

Alhamdulillah

Just watched this video, and the first thing that came into my mind when I watched it was, the Inuit people must be having a hard life. Es dimana-mana, dingin selalu (yah gak sepanjang tahun sih, tapi almost all year-round).  Brr. Dulu waktu kecil kalo liat buku-buku cerita bergambar tentang orang eskimo, cuman mikir, “wah dingin”. Gitu doang. I had no idea how cold it could get in the Arctic. Sekarang, setelah merasakan winter yang dinginnya senajong-najong, barulah aku bisa sedikit relate gimana dinginnya di Arctic. Tapi tetap aja, di arctic pasti jauhhhhhh lebih dingin daripada winter di korea.

Dan lagi-lagi  (mengulang postinganku dulu), aku merasa orang Indonesia harus bersyukur, bersyukur dan bersyukur atas alam dan cuaca di Indonesia yang sangat nyaman dan bersahabat..

 

horeee!!

berita gembiraaa!!! Oreo sudah kembali!! hip hip huraa!!

 

Puluhan Siswa Gelar Aksi Simpati untuk Obama. What the??

Baca kalimat ini bengong aku. Baca artikelnya makin bengong. Aksi simpati?? Apa pulak urusan kita sama Obama?? Cuman karena Obama pernah sekolah sebentar di Indonesia dia jadi orang Indonesia?? Yang betul ajalah. Lagian ngapain juga kita simpati sama dia. Macam peduli aja dia sama Indonesia. Tah ingat tah tidak pun dia ada negara namanya Indonesia. Boro-boro peduli sama Indonesia, sama Palestina aja kurasa tak ada peduli dia.

Yang lebih bikin heran lagi, para siswa itu masih SMP. Yang kurang kerjaan kalinya. Belajar aja la kelen oi..

Tahhapahapa kurasa..