Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts

Monday, August 20, 2012

Siklus

Hari ini ada semangat yang dibangkitkan kembali. Semangat yang sempat memudar karena fase hidup yang begitu bergegas di beberapa bulan terakhir ini. Akhir-akhir ini, agaknya banyak kegiatan dan peristiwa yang seakan menyuruh aku untuk mengingat kembali masa-masa itu. Masa dimana aku belum mengenal buruknya lapisan udara di ibu kota beserta segala keindividualistisannya yang ternyata, belum lama ini aku sadari,  menular. Ya, aku berani bertaruh bahwa sifat individualistis itu bentuk lain dari flu, dan celakanya, jika sudah dalam jangka waktu yang cukup lama, ia menyerang alam bawah sadar. 
Hm mungkin bukan pudar kata yang tepat, tapi lama tersimpan dalam gudang yang namanya 'niat'. Bukan berarti tidak niat, kalau boleh berkelit dan mengeluh, ini adalah akibat dari jumlah waktu yang hanya 12 jam sehari, sehingga aku tidak sempat mengeluarkannya dari gudang. Oke, semangat itu adalah semangat berada dalam siklus mencari-menemukan-merefleksi. Siklus yang panjang, letih, membingungkan, namun menghasilkan pemahaman baru. Refleksi sebagai hasil akhirnya, adalah hasil kontemplasi dari proses, ia adalah pemenuhan akal dan perasaan. Rasanya seperti ekstasi, nagih. Oleh karena itu, walaupun sudah ketemu tapi selalu kembali lagi ke awal, yaitu mencari. Mungkin memang butuh sesuatu yang sifatnya destruktif untuk pencapaian diri yang lebih tinggi. Mendestruksi pengetahuan yang sudah ada, demi pengetahuan yang lebih kritis. Mendestruksi zona nyaman perasaan, demi cara berpikir yang lebih lapang.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Just A Few Updates

Hi,

It's been a while since I wrote anything substantial on my blog. Well, I don't think I "have" wrote any substantial thing before either. Honestly, I always think my friends' blog always be really good to read, much better than mine, substantial. And I love spending hours just to blog-walk their pages. That's why I was a little confuse when my boyfriend told me that I have abandoned this personal blog of mine, rotten, for such a long time. He told me to write again, but I don't really remember when is the last time I jot down my mind in a blog post. All I can remember is, I post photos, with a little briefs, and captions. That's all. Haha, how sad.

By the way, I work in Jakarta now, and I've been very, literally, busy with my job lately. This is my first job as a fresh-graduate. Even the rush has started before graduation, and it became crazier the day after my graduation day. I had to search for dorm the night before the first day of my job, which is a day just after the day I graduated. Well I had to do that at night because I have a photo job from Sunday morning to evening, which I couldn't cancel. My parents and I arrived at 9 p.m in Jakarta that night, then we hunted out immediately, because my parents had to go back to Bandung before midnight. Luckily, after a desperate search, we found a dorm, which one of my friend recommend, and it happened that my parents really liked it because of a really 'conservative' reason. It's girls-only, haha.

I work as Nicoline Patricia's assistant now, which is more like a dream job to me. I was very happy just to know that I was given the opportunity to follow the probation, and even happier to be accepted as her assistant, because she's one of my favourite photographer (and Agra's too, hehe). I even didn't expect that I was called for an interview, and I was thankful that Agra's being very helpful to help me get through the process. :)

I learn that working here means there isn't anything sure, mostly about time. The worst part for me, is to adapt with this city I'm actually hate, haha. The traffic jams, the heat, unbelievably impatient people.. but I don't know, perhaps getting to know more about Jakarta will make me love this city, maybe.Anyway, I don't want to worry about too much things about my job, because I know it's all worthwhile. I'm living my own dream anyway.

 Me at NPM studio, posing sexily with the balloons.
Haha no! I'm the one wearing the black shirt in a weird pose. (photo by: Anna Somik)

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

☁ ☁ ☁

The days when the sky looked so damn pretty. They maybe aren't the best days in my life, but I kinda want to keep them colours in a jar, so I can take them out when life's being bitchy.






Thursday, March 29, 2012

S. Sn.

First of all, I MISS blogging real bad!!! Akhirnya bisa mengetik dengan hepi tanpa harus berhati-hati dengan format, ejaan, dan kutipan-kutipan jahanam, yes. Omong-omong, aku sudah sarjana loh. Entah harus senang atau apa, karena tantangan yang sebenarnya justru hadir setelah kelulusan. Tapi yang jelas, harusnya sih sekarang aku was-was karena belum juga jahit kebaya buat wisuda, lalala~! Anyway, these are some photos from the big event that happened to me lately, enjoy.

 Sepertinya satu dari sedikit foto yang diambil saat proses kerja, dan kelupaan banget ada foto ini. Jadilah yang masuk di bab 3 makalah hanya seonggok foto close-up tangan yang sedang mengarsir, mana kukunya lagi jelek banget (?), photo by: saudari Kara Andarini, teman seperjuangan dan satu studio, gambar hippo itu salah satu karyanya loh ;)

Setengah jadi, sempat ditinggal kabur ke Bali seminggu, haha.

 Perkenalkan, ini tukang frame langgananku yang sangat berdedikasi. Namanya Pak Amas. Walaupun sering banget (banget (banget)) ngaret, tapi doi mau-mau aja dateng bantuin display seharian sebelum sidang dan sabar banget ngadepin kebawelan-kebawelanku. :D

by Agra

 Sebelum sidang, tapi setelah dilihat lagi kenapa fotonya kaya padus lagi ngapalin lagu gini ya.

DRWG07, nama geng, diberikan oleh ketua geng Kara Andarini karena karya kami drawing pakai pulpen semua, hazek.  (dari kiri ke kanan: pilot, smile, standard)

 Tampak belakang dosen pembimbing, Bang Ucok




Saturday, February 18, 2012

Even Lazy Jellyfish Do It

Let's Do It - Conal Fowkes (Cole Porter Cover)

When the little bluebird
Who has never said a word
Starts to sing Spring
When the little bluebell
At the bottom of the dell
Starts to ring Ding dong Ding dong
When the little blue clerk
In the middle of his work
Starts a tune to the moon up above
It is nature that is all
Simply telling us to fall in love
 
And that's why birds do it, bees do it 
Even educated fleas do it 
Let's do it, let's fall in love


In Spain, the best upper sets do it 
Lithuanians and Letts do it 
Let's do it, let's fall in love


The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it 
Not to mention the Fins 
Folks in Siam do it - think of Siamese twins


Some Argentines, without means, do it 
People say in Boston even beans do it 
Let's do it, let's fall in love


Romantic sponges, they say, do it 
Oysters down in Oyster Bay do it 
Let's do it, let's fall in love


Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it 
Even lazy jellyfish, do it 
Let's do it, let's fall in love


Electric eels I might add do it
Though it shocks 'em I know
Why ask if shad do it - Waiter bring me shad roe


In shallow shores English soles do it 
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it 
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Even goldfish and beans do it, so why don't we?

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Quote of The Day



"If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don’t watch it, you start showing off. And then you’re not as good any more." - J. D. Salinger (The Catcher in The Rye, chapter 17)
The hardest thing to do when you make a big size drawing, besides keeping your health always in a good shape, is maintaining your mood properly, or your drawing might not have the "mood" you want in the beginning, or you might make some mistakes you just don't wanna know. My final project is planned to be 7 drawings range from the biggest, about 2 x 1.5 m, to the smallest, about 75 x 50 cm. And you can't make a mistake in final project. Well, you may, but it has to be the kind of mistake you can fix. There is this kind of mistake you can't fix you just want to kill yourself, like a disease. Final project allows you to have a flu, headache, some back pain and all, but you just can't have HIV, or lupus, or leukimia. There has to be a "cure". 
Shit happens during final project. One of my friend's work got this disease that is very difficult to be cured, you sort of need to amputate some of it part. I've made a lot of mistakes too, but luckily, I found cures.
You see, a big drawing requires constant hatching and of course, plenty of time. This is when mood comes in the way. A bad mood screws those, then your final project is probably screwed too. Then you are screwed.

-D-

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Hello, 2012!

It feels good to replace a year number in every writings, don't you think? Every time I do that, I always feel renewed and reborn (go ahead, puke), although such feelings will only last a month. Anyhow, I can't wait to see more magic and madness ahead, and I hope, something big. Let's just see what's gonna happen. And though it's a bit late,
HAPPY BLOODY NEW YEAR, FOLKS!
Cheers, :)


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Joyful Ears On Christmas Day

From year to year, Christmas has always been the most enjoyable holiday. Aside from usually combined with the new year holiday, the atmosphere that it brought always create a nice warm feeling. I love Christmas not for certain religious reasons, because I always thought the spirit of it is universal, not merely to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, which is ironic, because the Bible itself doesn't mention the exact date when he was born actually. Well, speaking of all Christmas cakes and ale, I am very fond of Christmas songs. Even if they only just re-arranged or sung by particular singers or bands, I have never get bored with them, and I'm so glad to know a lot of new Christmas songs sprung from year to year.

Christmas this year is actually becoming less excited because there are things which have been taking a lot of my attention. You know, final project and all. I thought the upcoming Christmas would feel a bit more hollow than the previous ones until my friend Ryan here made this awesome Christmas mixtape. I just like all the tracks, and surely it will make my Christmas day a little more pleasant.


Friday, December 9, 2011

Stars And Rabbit

This new promising duo from Yogyakarta is my new crush. When I heard them on soundcloud, the Lykke Li-esque voice of Elda immediately grabbed my ears. It turns out that she also presents on stage performances that spoil the eyes, kinda reminds me of Florence Welsch. Me gusta!


taken at AMN Gigs #4

Monday, December 5, 2011


Christmas is coming real soon. I can already smell it at every corner.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

About Graduation

I documented the day of Kania's graduation at the end of last month (gonna post some of the pics later), and everything about the  "pending" graduation thingy was bothering me again. Not in the sense that it bothered me personally until I worried about when I would graduate (believe me I don't give much damn drama about it), but I'm a little bit tired of questions from the people about "when's your turn?" and so on, or people who are too concerned about when they will graduate.

Graduation is a happy thing. It's a festive celebration that lulls us which sometimes makes us not realize (or do not wanna know, though we actually do) that the actual real life awaits after it. However, what's life if we do not celebrate every moment of it, right? In addition, happiness is only real when shared, I believe. There's never something wrong with big celebration. Of course, the term 'big' is different from one another. Who doesn't like rewards anyway? I personally think people should reward themselves sometimes, and graduation, in its own way, is a reward to our countless hardworking days of studies.

The thing is, I want to graduate with a sense of relief. I'm not a straight-A-student, but at least I want my final project into something satisfying. I am in a rush to the deadline, doing as best and fast as I can, but I think grumbling, and sighing, and mumbling, about graduation is not gonna help either, no? So let's graduate decently!


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who decide where to go.
~ Dr. Seuss

Friday, November 11, 2011