It is amazing to find out, that nowadays, internet is changing the way everything works out. The web is amazing place to explore and contains so much potential on its own. To be honest, I have never consumed internet connection like these last two months. But still, there’s always something new each and every day. The internet has never failed to amaze me.

Nowadays, you can find almost EVERYTHING on the web. Websites like Fimela.com and Tanagok.com are only a few examples of online magazine that carry the will of paperless era.

Forums and mailing list like (my favorite)—Kaskus and Indowebster have gained loyal followers. They believe, the existence of these websites have made their life easier. Whether it is to provide them with knowledge about daily news or simply give you download links of your favorite serials.

It gives me perspective about many possibilities that one can make on the internet. Odesk.com is one of the websites that connected people to get freelance jobs. Sometimes, it made me think about how exciting life can be working on certain websites, taking a little part of this digital era.

I just ordered a business card from kartunama.net. Great website. The coolest thing is, you just need to send your business card design via e-mail or upload it on their website and voila you got your business card delivered to home. Life certainly is easier every day.

Lately, I’ve been making some account on Triond and Bukisa. The two sites are basically sites to promote your articles online. From what I read on Kaskus, some people even earn money from the sites (eventhough I don’t understand how). The website however enabled Google search trackback, that allowed us to know what keyword that makes people come to read our articles. It’s so weird to find that someone basically found my articles after Googled “what prisanti putri is doing right now?” Oh, maybe he/she is looking another person then. Some good friends also wrote hello on my inbox and walls. That’s a nice thing to find someone that actually simply asking “how’s life?”

So here’s my life now.

* I’ve been staying at home all those time. Cooking and watching entertainment shows with my mom. Playing Baking Life and City of Wonder on Facebook, please mind me if you find me playing another game online. It’s been hard to resist the temptation :P

* I’ve been taking my driving license (woo-hooo), the photos however is so ‘suram’ that I barely want to scream after the officer handed my license.

* I’ve been volunteering online with Youth Leader Magazine. Organization that I found from Onlinevolunteering.org. The organization however is already receiving their 4^th time UNESCO status with UN Decade for ESD 2005-2014, their Indian team also just got an award from UN as the Best Online Volunteering Project for the year 2010. They’re going to launch Our Priorities websites soon, their newest addition focused on online campaign and petition for youth. The main goal is basically to spread campaign from other organization like Kiva and Avaaz, making them short so people can print them out to be placed on school board and etc. The captain of this whole project is a German named Eric, he’s been nice and also very visionary. I never imagined that people like this could really exist. He has been asked me to help him being Coordinator trough the making of this project.

At first, I feel inferior because this is my first time doing an online volunteering. In addition, when I go through my team member resume, uh woow, you’ll find many amazing people. Half of them are already taking their Master degree, some just taken their /second/ Master degree. Many of them have volunteered in famous organizations and travelled country to country, just because they care. But then, I’ll try.

It is hard coordinating people just from e-mail and chats. People come and go easily, because there’s no commitment involved. This whole online volunteering helped me fill up 2-3 hours of my early morning and early evening. Since it doesn’t take much time to do all the stuff, it suits me the best at this time.

* I will soon have another project with my friend who is also a pengangguran :P I guess we’re just the same desperate graduate in need of extra saving. And some other projects with also some other friends.

* Random Things: I’ve been googling a lot. How I can’t wait to get on a train again. Learn softwares that I hope will be useful someday. And yeah doing stuff (still at home), some this and that.

So, that’s basically my life right now. The same boring life, yeah sometimes I feel like I’m the most useless worthless people on earth. For a person who has run all her life, this kind of a life feels like torture. But yeah, I guess it’s not about what routine you have to do, but how you can make the most of it. Then I’m fine :)

If I have to mention one thing that I miss about Bandung right now, I’d say it out loud. It is toko DVD Bajakan (pirate DVD shops, ugh). Bandung has been a place to many great boutiques, fashion outlets, and cafes, but you won’t find any satisfaction better than visiting pirate DVD shops (what a lame translation -__-‘). Here at Bandung, we got tons of pirated copy from your favorite movies of all time. The best thing about this shops is they make shopping DVD a fun thing to do. Shop like Chelsea DVD and Movie Room is so cozy, it makes you don’t want to leave. If you are after a rare treasure-like-DVD, just take angkot (public transportation) Cisitu – Tegalega or Sadang Serang – Caringin and visit Kota Kembang and you’ll be shock to the death to find what DVD collections they have there. I know it is pirated, and the tickets price to watch cinema in Bandung is cheaper than the ones in Jakarta. But I don’t care. I’m not here to judge, I’m one of their loyal customer.

People will suggest me to just download it on Rileks. At ITB, we got tons of more of the same movie collections in a form of data (with one of the best forum and servers). But I don’t own any extra hard disk, so owning a piece of disc with a nice cover and my handpick movie would be suited me better. I remember clearly that I would shop DVD like crazy, every month. With a 2 weeks interval and 30-45 minutes duration per visit, resulted an average 5 DVDs per visit, I consider myself a good investor. Here at Jakarta, you won’t find one stop entertainment (like Movie Room) that let you try the quality or the subtitle of their DVDs on a real TV set before actually buying it. Or the place you can return your corrupt DVD and ask for a new copy. It is rare also to find a seller who sets their price at Rp 5000 to Rp 6000 per disc. They usually sell their DVD ranging to Rp 10.000 – Rp 15.000 (wooooot…).

Oh, I do miss watching great movies. The last time I checked, I just entered a cinema empty headed watching Little Fockers (for as I remember that I don’t watch all the damned previous movies), and later disappointed enough about what I just watched.

Maybe we’re just dimmed star. We crash and burn to each other. We seek attention and someone that can answer. You’re talking to that wall and throwing things. Sometimes it bounces back. Sometimes it cracks and makes a loud bang. What you seek is just an apologize, or another attention. While others were making silent protest and plays an act of the lonely child who won’t come home. We’re just the same hopeless romantic. We’re not trying to be one. We won’t be one.

The way universe moves is an act of destiny and sometimes, we don’t want to believe it. Yet, we’re dimmed. We lost track to the road of fate, losing light and a way to follow. We’re out of the orbit and run out of gas. We’re tired of anger and trying to accept failure. Then we still crash and burn, finding each other in the lowest glow.

Yet, we’re thankful to crash and burn.

PS: The image above is taken by my talented friend, Sella Agustin Sunarko. She took pictures while having some nice trip with her significant other :P Some of her beautiful works with vintage color could be found here (http://allesella.tumblr.com).

Random Things, from last month:

Fabio won the 21^st season of Survivor, Nicaragua. He got the title sole Survivor along with the obvious 1 million dollar prize, being the youngest person to win the show at the age of 21. But it is predictable. C’mon, the two other competitors—Chace and Sash—are a big liar.

Finally watching Victoria Secret Show 2010. The 2010 line-up includes Channel Iman, Rosie Hart, and Victoria Secret veteran—Adriana Lima. Katy Perry fitted enough to the show, wearing some purple short dress, singing Firework. This is my favorite wing through the show, wore by Behati Prinsloo for PINK collection.

Found this amazing photo of Katy Perry. Falls in love with the simplicity.

Blog Crush! Katie Sokoler from Color Me Katie has changed my world for some reason. I fall in love immediately with her and her works. Actually, I adore people who can tell the story by picture and short lines, and she does. I really do want to write about her blog some other time.