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I was gonna rant on the outrageously bad “Halloween II” but on second thought I don’t think it even deserves my rants. ^^ I’ll just say this, spare yourself (and your wallet). DON’T watch it. Unless you want to know what a BADDDD movie is like. If it weren’t for the association with the Halloween series, it would have been a straight-to-video one. Seriously, it’s THAT bad. Now, even though I said it didn’t deserve my rants I did rant a bit on the movie so I guess I’ll continue this post to rant on my sworn enemy.

I used to hate people who smoke in public places so much I never thought I’d see the day something replaces them in my heart (halahh..). Turns out living in Jakarta has introduced me to the lowly species that is motorbike riders. I HATE them. I REALLY HATE them. I HATE them with all my heart. And if you’re a pedestrian in Jakarta then I’m sure that you will agree to at least some of what I’m saying.

Motorbike riders in Jakarta showed me that THEY, and not smokers, are the most selfish creature in this whole world, my world at least. I’m sure every pedestrian has had a rider honking him from behind when walking on the walkway. I’m sorry, I thought walkways are meant for pedestrians. Are you walking? No, you’re not. SO WHAT’S WITH THE HONKING??!!!!

Riders also NEVER stop even if they’re going to run into something. They don’t stop even if it seems they’re gonna collide with a car so there’s just NO way in hell that they’d stop for a pedestrian. As I mentioned before , I’ve had riders barely avoiding me at the intersection DURING THE RED LIGHT just because they won’t hit the brake. I’ve even had a rider actually running me over EVEN THOUGH I WAS CROSSING AT THE ZEBRA CROSS!!! Fortunately I survived the accident (dengan memar di sana-sini bak korban penganiayaan) with my head and all four limbs intact. Masih inget aku, motor kawasaki ninja (sedikit curhat ^^).

Yang bikin lebih sebel lagi, motor kalo nyelip-nyelip suka-sukanya aja. Tapi kalo dia kesenggol marah. Eh monyong!! Macam jalan neneknya aja dibikinnya.. Jujur, kalo ngeliat kecelakaan (yang 90% korbannya motor tentu saja) aku udah gak ada kasian sama sekali ngeliat pengendara motor yang jadi korban. Bukan apa-apa, kemungkinan besar he brought it upon himself.

I know, I know, not all riders are like that. But due the VERY HIGH frequency of my meeting an ass**** rider, I’ve adopted the principle “guilty until proven otherwise” ato kalo dalam bahasa Indonesia, “praduga bersalah”. Kalo elok laku dia, barulah aku menganggap “Oh, ini orang. Bukan pengendara motor.” kehkehkehh

No offense to riders reading this. Sukur-sukur pengendara motor yang baca ini agak bertobat dikit. Kalo ada orang lagi nyebrang dikasi lewat. Gak suka ngebut dengan motornya yang saking ributnya kayaknya kalo diukur mencapai desibel 100. Ato kalopun kelakuannya gak berubah setidaknya abis nabrak orang ada lah kepikiran dikit..

 

Astaga…

Gilak ya pejabat Indonesia. Belum apa-apa dah mo naikin gaji aja. Hal pertama yang diurus malah begituan. Najongg… Amit-amit. Terus alasannya karena dibandingkan dengan gaji pejabat tinggi di negara-negara lain gaji pejabat Indonesia jauh lebih rendah. Bandinginnya ma mana tuh? Sama Singapura? Jepang? Jerman? Ya iyyalahh lebih rendah. Gaji karyawan Indonesia juga dibandingin ma gaji karyawan Singapura ya jauh lebih rendah. Kalo ngebandingin tuh sama Zimbabwe kek. Monyong. Bikin alasan yang bagusan dikit napa.
Kalo ampe beneran naik gaji kudoakan duitnya gak berkah. Sukur-sukur rumahnya kemalingan ato kebakar ato hal-hal jelek lainnya dahh.
Cihh kalo dah menyangkut pejabat pemerintahan memang selalu bikin cakap kotor.

 

just drop dead :-x

Usually I’m not bothered by it, tapi entah kenapa kemaren udah sampe ke ubun-ubun. I’m talking about the stupid low-class uneducated men yang kerjanya nyuit-nyuitin setiap cewek yang lewat di depannya. I was walking, minding my own business, when suddenly a stupid ugly (gak tau juga sih jelek apa gak, kulirik pun tidak..) boy (around high-school age I think) ngomong,
“Mau ke mana mbak?”.
Naturally, I didn’t answer, though I had this urge to look for the biggest rock around me. And naturally, of course, he continued his aggravating behavior,
“MBAK!! MBAK!! Mau kemana??!”
“**** off!!” (dalam hati doang)
Melihat gak ada tanggapan, ganti strategi dia,
“Assalamualaikum”
(Siiiinggg…)
“ASSALAMUALAIKUM”
AGGGGHHHH WHY DON’T YOU JUST DROP DEAD!!

 

bloody monday = bloody boring

I take back what I said previously about Bloody Monday. It’s BOOORIINGG because the story’s got no substance whatsoever. The perfect example of a plot-driven manga. I groaned practically at every chapter due to the stupid plot. むかつく!!! Ughh.. Skipped to the last three chapters and I’m thankful that I did. Turned out the mangaka made another outrageous twist. Bah. I don’t think it deserves the previous 7.5. I doubt it even deserves 5 out of 10

 

I loove rants ^^

“What do you mean?”
“I’m saying, I can’t help you this time. I’m up to my neck in my own problems.”
“Wha–? What happened?”
“None of your business.”
“That’s not a very nice thing to say. I’m trying to help you here, you know.”
“And I’m saying, I don’t need your help. You can’t even help yourself, how do you plan to help me? “

….

“How come you never told me anything?”
“Let’s see.. I guess that is because, unlike a certain someone, I don’t go around telling the whole world that I’m the most unfortunate person in the whole universe. Unlike YOU, I take care of my own problems. I don’t burden others..”

 

agghhhh

Hahhh udah bagus-bagus vaizard nongol dan get the excitement back to bleach knapa sepertinya lagi-lagi bakal kembali fokus ke gotei 13 begooo!!!!! I want shinji and kensei and hachi!! I don’t need stupid hisagi..
Ughh I’m thinking of putting bleach back on hold

 

Bajaj gila

Salemba, sebagai daerah mahasiswa, adalah sarang bajaj. You can find bajaj anywhere and anytime (except when you’re looking for one ). My sister and I wanted to indulge ourselves a bit and so we decided to ride one from our kosan to UI campus. One bajaj was coming our way, and we hailed it.
“Kampus UI, Pak.”
“Oke.”
“Berapa?”
“Lima belas ribu.”
“HAHHH?? Tujuh ribu..!”
The driver gave us a disdainful look and drove away haughtily (and noisily, like all bajaj’ do), leaving my sister and me with our mouths hanging open. Paseban ampe FK UI 15 ribu??!! Mending gw naik taksi!! Enak aja..!! Terus marah pula dia waktu ditawar. Dasar bajaj gila!!
Kalau mau ber-husnuz dzhan, mungkin aja si supir rada budek dan salah denger. But still it didn’t justify the way he treated us.

NB: Paseban-FK UI itu kira-kira jaraknya gasibu-ganesha

 

Notes on Jakarta

This is an old one, written when I just moved to Jakarta.

The first thing that I notice of Jakartans is that they don’t have the concept of personal space. They love sticking to people even if it’s not crowded. There have been several instances where I was on an angkot and there was only one other passenger. Of all the places in the empty angkot the passenger chose to sit right next to me, so close that we’re rubbing on each other. And when she fumbled in her bag, looking for the angkot fare, her elbow would invade my personal space. That’s just plain weird (and very uncomfortable). Trying to be husnuz dzhan-ing, maybe they’re so used to being squashed in a crowd that they feel insecure in an empty place.

The second one is people here love to spit. They spit everywhere. At the side of the road, in the market, in the bus and even in an angkot (yes, angkot). Very disgusting. I lived in Bandung for almost 5 years and I rarely (if ever) saw spittle at the side of the road. One time, there was even an old man who spit so zealously that along with the spit he also threw out some phlegm. And this happened on a bus, can you believe it?? Gross.. What if he had some contagious disease? Others on the bus could have been infected.

 

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? ^^

 

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