How the name of a river represents the people around it

Have you ever been to northern parts of India or Nepal?

The picture above is showing major rivers that came from the Himalayan glaciers.
Even though I'm now one of the TCP presenters, I am not going to talk about the climate change and how these glaciers are diminishing from the face of the ol' earth.
What I've been wondering, ever since I saw a map like this in Al Gore's presentation, was...:

The Yellow River runs thru China.. and so the Chinese people are mostly Yellow! Maybe not in real colour, but that's what the whites always told us. And these Chinese people definitely represents the yellow circle in the Olympics logo.

Anyways, moving on... And then you'll find the Mekong River runs thru Thailand, Laos and these type of countries, and I guess this explains why there are so many Sekongs in the whole Thai Land !!

Now I wonder if the people in north India can be categorised as Gengges ?!! They do smell.. Well the majority of them do.. and that's definitely one criteria of Gengges...

Oh and by the way, do you know that the meaning of 'Liwung' is bingung or kusut? Just like the people of Jakarta from their behaviour to their mentality ! ;)

Mencari Pasangan Seperti Memilih Baju dalam Lemari

Mencari pasangan itu seperti memilih baju dari lemari pakaian.
Semakin banyak pilihan yang anda miliki, sebenarnya malah membuat anda semakin bingung baju mana yang sebaiknya anda pakai hari ini.

Kita semua pasti pernah kan membuka lemari dan merasa bosan karena baju yang dipilih itu-itu aja. Dari situ lah kita semua lalu mulai membeli baju/sepatu/apapun yang baru. Tanpa sadar, yang tadinya anda dihadapkan kepada pilihan 3 model baju untuk pergi ke mall, sekarang tahu-tahu anda sudah punya 10 kombinasi model baju yang dapat anda gunakan untuk style berpakaian ke mall.
Yang tadinya anda cuma punya 2 sepatu kets berwarna putih, tanpa sadar sekarang anda sudah memiliki 5 sepatu kets warna putih dengan berbagai merek dan style. Yang tadinya sebuah baju akan menikmati 'rotasi pemakaian' selama 3 tahun lamanya, setelah persaingan semakin banyak akhirnya sekarang baju baru hanya menikmati rotasi selama paling-paling 6 bulan.

Hal yang sama sebenarnya dirasakan manusia modern seperti kita semua ini juga, terutama menyangkut musik.

Pada jaman dahulu disaat kita harus membeli album untuk menikmati sebuah karya musik, kita menjadi lebih menghargai satu album sebagai sebuah karya keseluruhan dan dapat merasakan experience satu album tersebut sehingga kita merasa connected dengan musisi dalam album tersebut, dan merasa memahami apa yang ada dalam pikirannya saat menyusun album itu. Karena kita actually mengeluarkan uang untuk membeli album tersebut, kita menjadi lebih sayang dan menyatu dengan album tersebut sehingga CD/Kasetnya ada di mobil/kamar kita dalam jangka waktu yang lebih lama, dari mulai 6 bulan hingga 3 tahun.

Sekarang dengan era digital, dimana mp3 tinggal di-click maka sudah berpindah lokasi ke dalam hard drive anda, secara tidak sadar kita semua taking for granted karya-karya musik. Mp3 didownload lagu-lagu hits nya saja sehingga kita tahu ada lagu Teenage Dream dan ada lagu Fireworks tapi kita tidak faham album Teenage Dream secara keseluruhan. Kurang lebih seperti itu. Revolusi dalam experience dalam mengapresiasi musik sudah sangat berubah. Kita adalah generasi instan ketika kita sudah tahu bahwa kita memiliki kemudahan dalam 'memilih' musik yang ingin kita dengar. Semakin mudah kita mendownload dan share musik-musik hits terkini maka semakin kita lupa menikmati karya album sebuah musisi sebagai satu kesatuan karya seni yang utuh. Dengan berkembang pesatnya musik dan kemudahan bagi kita untuk mendapatkan musik-musik terbaru, jangka waktu sebuah karya musik yang kita nikmati juga menurun. Sebuah lagu hits terbaru dari Taio Cruz, misalnya paling-paling akan anda nikmati selama 3 bulan saja, selepasnya suddenly lagu tersebut jadi agak norak kalo masih didengerin. That's the bad thing about Pop music, and that's why music like John Mayer, Corinne B Rae, Dave Matthews Band, etc stay a lot lot longer in your iPod. But that's for another story ;)

Jadi sebenarnya saya ngomongin apa sih? Pasangan? Baju? atau Lagu?... Hehehehe

I Never Asked for This

I never asked for a life like this. Well, maybe I did. But hey, that was years ago, 4 to 6 years ago. After I resigned from work in 2008, and tried to focus only for my happiness. I knew that I have made a step to 'slow down' in life.

Sake after sashimi at ikebukuro, Tokyo

Some people they ask for a life in the fast lane. They never understand that those who do live in fast lane often dream about having  a much slower life... There is a reason for the term 'settling down', you see. It's settling down, no one has ever called it settling up.

I'm tired. I'm exhausted. I pleaded over and over to be a normal person with a slower but much happier life. God want it differently and I can't say no to this. To have a life like this is still considered a blessing!.... somehow...

Total Goddess

2 Kilos in 2 days of hardcore eating.

Mie Acim and the Dena drink

well.....
She's a total goddess... and there's no regret whatsoever.

The one I've been escaping from / The one who saved my life at the end of the night

I'm gonna write this story before I forgot all that had happened.

This is a story about how someone I tried hard to escape from, run away from, and forget all about for months, turned out to be the one who saved my life at the end of the night.

This story was simply a pure plain stupidity. After failing to fly to Medan, I finally decided to go to Playground. Arrange to meet friends, and planned to get high on LSD... Okay that's the start of the chaotic night.

One thing I forgot to remember was, that how in hell can I drive if I'm high on LSD?

Cutting things real short. I went there with Denise n friends. The muddiest event I've ever been in as it rained in the afternoon before the event. There I spent my time with my PL friends, all were high.. until I met Kandhita and then I spent more of the time with her and her friends.

But out of all those people, how is it possible that I bumped into the one I've been hiding away from? The one I never wanted to know about anymore, for the past few months?

At the end, people went back home. One by one. I was left finally without anyone I know. So I decided to return to my car and go back home. Only to find that I was too fucked up to do anything. It was even hard to get the keys into the damn keyhole. Hahahahaa.. so I was there inside my car, behind the driving wheel, not knowing what to do. I can't move my car and i was scared shitless! My heart was pounding and my hands are all shaking throughout the night. I've never had the experiences of driving in this situation before. I had often done drunk-driving and was fine, thank God. But never in this state. Shiiitttt!!!

The only one I can think about at that time was her. Maybe not because I thought she's the most important person in my life,  but because she was the last person I remember seeing, and somehow I knew would care enough to help me out.

So she was there in her car on Arteri PI, with 3 cans of bear brand milk for me. Very nice of her. Waited for me for a while as I was in such a wasted state.

God bless her... But too bad I don't think I can be with her anymore. She had her chances. Not one not two. Much more than that. But it's okay. That's life. It's strange, it's weird, and I don't know the end of this tunnel. Hell, I dont even have the clue for the riddle.