Di Tempat Saya Berdiri Sekarang

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//June 26, 2009//

 

Sehabis menonton Debat Capres 2009-2014. Haha, saya hanya warga biasa yang tidak terlalu tahu tentang pemerintahan dan negara. Tetapi saya memuja acara Debat Capres ini karena acara ini terbukti dapat mencerdaskan bangsa. Selain memberikan overview atas kondisi asli negara saat ini, tetapi juga memberikan pandangan kita atas sakralnya pengetahuan tentang si Capres sebelum tanggal 8 Juli 2009. Saya menggarisbawahi kata asli, karena itu pandangan orang ‘atas’ terhadap permasalahan2 negara, dibanding mengkritisi terlalu banyak tanpa tahu dasar masalah, solusi, dan langkah ke depannya, malahan pada akhirnya mengatasnamakan segalanya sebagai ‘salah pemerintahan’.

Dalam debat Capres malam itu, juga dibahas tentang jumlah pengangguran terdidik Indonesia yang mencapai 50.3 % sedangkan jumlah wirausahawan hanya ada di tingkat 2 %. Membuat saya bertanya kepada diri sendiri.
Apa yang bisa saya lakukan?
Haha, klise. Semua orang pasti (atau harusnya) pernah memikirkan kalimat ini. Saya bukan ekstrimist nasionalis yang biasa berteriak-teriak membela rakyat. Saya hanya warga biasa yang suka menonton bulutangkis dan ikut berteriak. Ataupun mengutuk kebiasaan pemukulan wasit dan tawuran massal setelah pertandingan bola. Saya hanya sadar, bahwa KITA adalah bangsa yang besar.

Potensial adalah kata yang harus dijunjung. Dan kaya adalah kata untuk bangsa kita. Cukup butuh kesadaran, untuk tahu bahwa kita harusnya punya BANYAK untuk maju. Cukup butuh kesadaran, untuk yakin bahwa kita harusnya BISA untuk membuat segalanya lebih baik. Jangan menutup diri untuk sekedar mengutuki keadaan tanpa berbuat apa-apa.

Rumput tetangga memang selalu lebih hijau. Tapi BUKAN BERARTI kita tidak mampu.“Go Taufik. Go Indonesia.” Kemenangan Taufik berarti kemenangan Indonesia. Ya, cukup butuh kesadaran untuk merasa yakin bahwa kalau satu dari kita bisa berbuat banyak, kenapa kita tidak?

Saya tidak sok-sok an berkata nasionalis, tapi jangan melulu memikirkan diri sendiri. Yang penting cari kerja, dapat uang, membangun keluarga, memakmurkan saudara, apa itu Indonesia? Hanya sekedar tempat berpijak? Sekali lagi, hanya sebuah renungan untuk saya. Sebuah renungan besar.

Apa yang bisa saya lakukan untuk Indonesia?

Kesadaran. Terbukti tidak bisa datang sendiri. Harus ada niat untuk memulai, tidak selalu bisa datang dengan kata “go with the flow“. Kata-kata omong kosong untuk pemalas yang tidak biasa bangun pagi, yang manja, dan terbiasa menunggu diberitahu tanpa mencari tahu lebih dulu.

The Hilarious & Charmingly Zac Efron slash 17 Again

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//June 20, 2009//

 

Hmm… Okay, highlight of this week. 17 Again. Debat Capres putaran pertama 2009-2014. Djarum Indonesia Open, pertandingan Taufik Hidayat. Di akhir debat Capres, Iwan Fals menyanyi dengan luar biasa. Memperlihatkan setiap urat dan peluh di kening untuk mengantarkan sebuah lagu luar biasa menakjubkan dan menggetarkan jiwa. Sayangnya Trans TV dengan tak berperikemanusian memotong siarannya dengan sangat nggak ens. I hate you for doing that.

And congratulation Mr. Hidayat (terdengar seperti dosen Kalkulus waktu TPB, yeah well..) for making to the semifinal. The 8000 people on the stadium just happen to get their adrenaline rush during the match. The match is to die for, the audience screaming on and on and on again, seems like they’ll get sore throat on their way home. My dad and I just enjoy the match, and jump afterwards when Taufik enjoyed his victory moment. And thanks to you Mr. Hidayat, Indonesia is singing once again. The audience was singing ‘Gebyar Gebyar’, the song burned in my heart till now. Yes, I envy you for becoming a hero.

Biggest highlight. 17 Again. Yey!

No one rated popcorn movies better than I do.

Yep, I love popcorn movie. It is simply because they’re giving a sale on dreams in the movie. I bet my best partner in crime, Mega, would also love this movie as much as I do.

High school bon-bons, Zac Efron, returns again in the super typical movie, 17 Again! Yet, seems Efron doesn’t want to leave his safety zone. Yes, he dances in the movie and throw some basket t-shirtless. The thing is, the movie is unexpectedly hilarious. The acting was much better than I thought and Efron—like a dream—charmed the audience effortlessly. And you should highlight the dinner scene between Ned (Thomas Lennon) and the Head Principal (Melora Hardin). It’s funny and yet genius! The myth is right, only a geek can love a weirdo. Though the story is expectedly—you just know how the story will end before entering the cinema—you just have to enjoy it without prediction. And you’ll end up, leaving the cinema happily entertain enough with the movie. (This is, by the way, the rule of thumb on watching popcorn movie. I happen to use the theory over and over again, and believe me, it works all the time.)

The story is about Mike O’ Donnell (Matthew Perry), who just happen to lose all things in life. A divorce, the kid, the promotion. He then, took a trip to his glory days in high school, when he was 17 and seems to have everything in the world. A popular seat as a basketball player, a scholarship which coming for him, and a beautiful girlfriend. The time stop for him since that day. He left all the glitter in life for the love of his life, Scarlett (Allison Miller). And yet, 20 years later, he seems regretted all the time about that. Second chance came, in the hand of, which we believe a spirit guide, a janitor. He gave Mike a second chance to be 17 again! Same problems, same time, in a different body. And that is how the story rolled.

The big surprise is, the audience I’m watching the movie with, were dominated by middle aged woman around maybe 23-27 years old. And yes, the audience just keeps swearing “Zac Efron ganteng banget!!” all time during the movie. Dan gila aja, di akhir film, seorang tante-tante yang terlihat seperti socialite-Jakarta-yang-abis-belanja-ke-PRJ-dan-mau-ke-Sale-di-Centro berteriak sambil keluar bioskop, “Gila ya, ganteng banget!” Seems Efron deliver the movie so damn good that everybody just happen to forgive all mistakes on the script. Well, by the way, congratulations for graduating the high school, Mr. Efron.

Recommended Consensus: 17 Again was hilariously charmed and a worth to see movie for people who wants to enjoy a weightless movie before seeing the entire summer filled with Tom Hanks, Autobot and a house that fly by thousand of ballons.

The Dance and Rythm That Followed

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//June 18, 2009//

2 years, 10 days ago.

We sat down face to face. Talking about what we called ‘feeling’. Something we weren’t sure, it is or it isn’t.
My arms were thinner, as well as his.
But heart still flying and we decided to take a go.
Deep down inside, we speak in one language.
No one understands better than us, that differences sure really are beautiful.

Time is flying, you and I, walking on rainbow, running under the rain.
Forward. Through weathers we’ve never seen before.
You and I, soul we’ve never touch, mind we’ve never say hello.
But, should we throw all the differences? We’ve never seen the end, or have we?
We just enjoying the road, at least I do. Do you?
People never really know what we feel. Feeling like no other? Or just a pain knowing we will really meet an end?

A long heavy sigh. A really deep breath. A ship of sugar.
Then, another reality.

Someday, when we’re already become memory or making another history. Should we remember the day?
We wouldn’t go back. Like Marty do.
But we like where we’re going. We never do candlelight while eating dinner. We rarely shout sweet words through each other. We feel odd with the romantic kind of stuff. We have never taken any photo of us, a reminiscence of what people called moment. Yet, we have never complained about those things.

Thankful is the feeling. For having you. For deciding to take a go. Regret never really the words, for our little dictionary.

I do. Is the answer to every question you’ll ask.
Or the one you’ll never asked.

Until later dear sweetheart. Let’s have another ice cream :)