Random Recap

Random Things, from last month:

Fabio won the 21st 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.

Last, having a new respective home http://uncletivo.wordpress.com. Had thought it for some months and had a lot of doubt also. But, I’m doing it anyway. So, it’s actually feels so good. It’s like pressing the F5 button :)

January comes with a smirk

I’ve never celebrated New Year, I just happen to grilled some seafood with my family and drinking orange juice while watching movie marathon galore on local television. But anyway, Happy New Year.

2011, yeah finally I had some plan. Goals, to be exact. You know, sometimes inspiration doesn’t struck you. You have to force it. C’mon, force doesn’t always bad. It is the Jedi good luck charm.

The goals are small, with short term deadline. Although, some details of the goal is still blurred, it is including taking driving license, writing more, rambling less, having my own room and painting rainbow on the walls. Ah, and also some trips. I’ll be saving more and maybe losing some weight :P Those all about the first part of 2011 that I want to achieve. On July, I want to dream big. So let’s make this 6 months worth it.

I’m Officially Moved!

If we track back to 2008 when I started sharing my words to the wired, I’ve been loyal to the name yellowandred and I’ve been using diaryland ever since. Diaryland is enough for me. The website isn’t in the radar and it is simple although the dashboard is rather complicated. It is a blogging platform that suited me the best for its ability to make a custom CSS and HTML of your website from scratch. I get a complete control of everything and that’s just what I wanted. So I’ve been taking pledge with Diaryland. The only thing that was lacking is its ability to archive previous posts and the commenting system. I’ve been using some free comment platform and suddenly changed them to chat board. But it doesn’t bother me for these years.

After almost three years, I need a change. The world is changing, as well as people. Even ground is changing. Truth is, there’s thing that won’t change.

It stays.

2008 is nice, but 2011 is like a fast forward for me. I’ve got my Bachelor degree last year and I’m taking a whole new life. As forward, I will take my vow to WordPress. It is hard to say anymore good bye. But some things are meant to be change.

From now on, yellowandred will be taking a new home. A proud new home called:

http://uncletivo.wordpress.com

For friends who already made links/blogroll for my blog on http://yellowandred.diaryland.com, please kindly change the address to this one. I’ll be still writing as the same person with the same passion with maybe a less of rambling. Will be looking forward to see you guys on my new home, and for later probably with real living room :)

2010

Skimming on 2010, for me I was tremendously devastated. This year was the darkest time on my whole life. The worst even. A black hole that consuming your whole soul. Good byes are hard, tough as steel. It cuts, making bath blood on ground. But people just have to walk on, continue to live afterwards. So, I live.

It is weird when you have to experience the highest and the lowest point of your life in one packed of a year. On the first couple of months of 2010, I was the king. I got children, friends, best friend, everything. I even consider myself as the wealthiest person alive, having all the joy in the world, the only joy that matters.

Then I experienced first good bye, my friends were leaving, graduating. April 2010 was the first time, giving flower to people I do hope to laugh forever in daily basis. Now, I have to accept the fact that they’re making friends with somebody I don’t know, getting busy with paperwork and stuff. They got job, scholarship, living elsewhere. Sometimes when they miss me, they will put some status on their facebook or wrote on my wall or texted me or phoned me. But I know it will be hard to simply hugged them and tell them the jokes I used to make of.

On the same April, I waved another good bye. To all those good years, to my family that I’ve been proud of. Leaving all the laugh, smile, and jokes that still going on. I missed a lot of people there, who I believe still living the best of their (more to come) years ahead. I’ve been enjoying too much of becoming your parents, friends, and stuff. Then it all paid off, I was badly crying, hugging people one by one. Saying good bye becoming a Fungsionaris.

June was even harder. I said good bye to the bestest friend I’ve ever had. The most loving and caring person stepping on earth. We’ve been walking on rainbow for some years, but some things weren’t meant to be. Something that I don’t believe for all those years, it suddenly comes up all true. Things that complicated do exist, and I took a fall.

July is still hard. I failed to graduate on time, so I said good bye to many soul mates. To be honest, I cracked down though I try to write cards and put my biggest smile for them. Still, I handed some flowers and took pictures. Having friends is nice, knowing they’re leaving is sad.

On October, I was saying good bye to the greatest place I’ve ever been. The place that have given me so much lesson to learn on. The place that have nurtured me to grow up. I’ve missed the city, so much that I remember the smell of the ground after rain. How I walk across them and fall in love with the sunshine. The trees, the food, the humble weekdays, and the crowded weekend.

The two remaining months was hardest. Denying, confusing, accusation, depression, everything. It is like you put all the pain in the world, grinding it to become one pill. I swallowed it and trapped under spell. Though like I said, I had to continue to live.

Yet, tomorrow is always another day. I believe every people deserve happiness, even the wickest people alive. I found myself then, the end of 2010, unemployed, devastated, still with no dreams planned of 2011, brainless. The thing is I just want to be happy.

I just wrote several miserable paragraphs, but yeah, 2010 have gotten me some miracles. Some, which I wish will last.

2011 is coming fast, and I’m saying another good bye. To 2010.To the year which thought me all those great bad ass lessons and to find that in the end, I’m still that person—the wicked witch. I want to skip things, fast forwarding times. Truth is, I don’t have that remote control. Never have, never will. For that, I send good bye. May next year becomes a happier year than ever.

Cheers to the new year :)

The Unbeatable

//December 17, 2010//

 

Tahun kemarin di bulan Desember, saya menulis tentang salah satu tokoh fiksi favorit saya yang bernama Endou Kenji. Sekarang, persilahkan saya menulis tentang seorang lagi jagoan saya. Ya, semua orang pasti kenal. Minggu pagi jam 9 di Indosiar. 42 komik tamat ditulis untuk menceritakan pengalaman hidupnya. Bukan saya saja yang terkagum-kagum pada pencipta karakter super ini, di antaranya adalah pengarang super lain bernama Eiichiro Oda yang sudah dikenal dengan komik super lainnya, One Piece. Pencipta komik super ini bernama Akira Toriyama dan bukan rahasia lagi bahwa Oda mengidolakan pengarang ini. Bahkan dalam One Piece – BLUE Data File, ada section khusus dimana Eiichiro Oda diberi kesempatan untuk diwawancarai oleh Akira Toriyama. Yah, tapi kali ini saya ingin bercerita tentang pemeran utama komik luar biasa terkenal berjudul Dragon Ball. Saya tidak kenal Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, atau Dragon Ball dengan embel-embel lainnya. Jadi saya hanya akan bercerita tentang Songgoku.

Songgoku adalah makhluk planet Saiya, itulah mengapa ia luar biasa kuat. Alasan tersebut pulalah yang membuat Songgoku tidak bertambah tua, karena makhluk planet Saiya adalah bangsa petarung yang membuat mereka dianugerahi umur lebih panjang untuk bertarung. Terlahir sebagai makhluk planet Saiya juga membuat Songgoku bertambah kuat setiap kali hampir mati. Tetapi dengan segala macam kelebihan itu, alasan apa yang membuatnya berkali-kali menyelamatkan Bumi? Sebuah planet yang notabene lebih jelek dibanding planet tempatnya berasal. Klise, tempat itulah yang membesarkannya dan di tempat itu pulalah dirinya mempunyai banyak teman. Diceritakan sejak awal bahwa Songgoku adalah anak yang super polos (bahkan ia tidak bisa membedakan yang mana laki-laki atau perempuan dan berjanji mengambil Chi Chi sebagai istri karena menganggap istri itu nama makanan). Dalam kenyataannya, memangnya ada orang yang sama sekali tidak punya niat jahat sedikitpun? Yang bahkan ketika diberi sinar iblis (saat melawan Raja Iblis di tempat Nenek Peramal), tidak ada sedikit niatpun yang bisa membuatnya meledak. Oh, betapa saya ingin sekali menjadi seperti dia.

Selain sifat polosnya yang luar biasa terpuja itu, saya ingin sekali menjadi seperti Songgoku karena ia satu-satunya orang yang tahu kapan harus menempatkan emosi. Dua kali, Kuririn mati terbunuh (satu oleh anak buah Pikorro dan satu lagi karena Freeza) dan dua kali itu pula Songgoku marah. Ia tidak marah ketika dirinya dihina, ia tidak marah ketika barang peninggalan kakeknya dicuri, ia marah hanya karena sahabat terbaiknya harus mati. Harusnya saya belajar untuk mengendalikan diri sebaik itu.

Oh, dan saya menangis ketika Songgoku mati di komik no. 35 ketika ia akhirnya memutuskan untuk mengorbankan dirinya untuk menyelamatkan bumi dari Cell yang mengancam meledakkan diri. Kualitas-kualitas tersebut kemudian dirangkum oleh musuh bebuyutannya, Bezita di komik terakhir. Songgoku adalah satu-satunya orang yang suka bertarung bukan untuk menang, tetapi untuk tidak kalah. Menyebabkan ia menjadi orang terkuat di jagat raya (diceritakan bahwa mereka bahkan lebih kuat dari para dewa penguasa, raja neraka, bahkan Kaio ataupun Kaio Shin).

Pada akhirnya, saya tidak peduli bahwa ia orang terkuat sejagat atau bukan (saya masih menganggap yang paling kuat di sepanjang cerita adalah Songgohan), saya hanya suka karakter Songgoku yang penolong dan baik hati. Membaca 42 buah komiknya lagi belakangan ini membuat saya ingat kenapa saya gemar sekali dengan komik ini. Seseorang dapat dikatakan tokoh jagoan karena dia punya kualitas yang lebih dibanding orang lain bukan? Pada kenyataannya, Songgoku adalah fiksi. Ia diciptakan karena impian akan sesosok jagoan yang tidak pernah ada di dunia. Tidak ada orang yang mampu semulia itu untuk menjelma menjadi nyata. Tetapi tidak ada salahnya untuk berusaha, kan? Saya memang tidak bisa terbang, saya tidak bisa jurus tenaga dalam, dan saya bukan manusia planet lain. Saya hanya manusia biasa yang berusaha untuk rajin berusaha dan bermimpi menyelamatkan dunia.