Our Earthly Pleasure

With a bit of photoshop here and there, here’s my feast for the night!

Good evening, nerds. Stole the title from one of Grizzly Bear’s songs, the tune of my junior high school days, ah. (remembering the glory days of Madina) Well I got me some free time (free time what free time you got Gamsin finals  you ass) for a random chit-chat on this blog no one reads. You might think there’s some conspiracy going on with in the featured picture above, there isn’t. Wait actually, there is. See I’ve found happiness in my five senses last night, and I crammed it in one picture to tell you here.

A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception

Dope! More stories on it later mkay? (typical Inyan, promising stuffs then get lazy about it)

See the straw hat? That’s for the touch sense. Last Saturday Farah, Sekar, Jona and I went to the Trademark Market VI and I got myself some cool free stuffs including the straw hat. Well it actually has an ad on it (since we got it for free….) but I managed to turn it inside out so it’s GONE, HA! Two days later finals week started and I’ve started a habit by studying with my straw hat on. Weirdest shit. Though it has only been two days for cheezuz crisp (get the pun?! get it?!). I just love the feeling in my head mmkay?! Ain’t nobody got time for being judgmental and all dat!

is doing the internet culture a favour by reviving old memes

Second stuff, is the perfume. Well no shit sherlock that’s for the smelling sense. While we were at PVJ for some shopping, I actually went to grandma’s to deliver something for my Mom before-ward. Helped her out with her new phone so basically she can now use whatsapp and stuffs, (ain’t she a cool lady?) and then the sweetest thing happened, GOT ME SOME CAIYAIYASHSHSH (read: CASH. In case you nerds are confused)

WE MISS YOU LEMON!

The perks of having your grandma around is to have some family quality time near you. (YEAH RIGHT, WAIT it iiiiis 😦 ) Anywaaaaays, back at PVJ we passed the Body Shop store and saw the vineyard peach body mist on sale, (saved me more than IDR 50K, whoop!) I just have to grab it, it smells so damn fine 😦 well that and a grapefruit lip butter I’ve been searching for YEARS. Now I get attached to the scent so much I sprayed to myself when I’m bored and I miss the smell. Holy-FFFF this one is costly.

And for the third sense….. WAIT, OHMYGOD, SERIOUS SHIT HERE IS, INDOMIE RENDANG! Ook I’m sorry I went a little bit overboard there but man I can guarantee you that this is the bestestestest tastiestestest instant noodle in the universe, (since they don’t have one in other planet, OR DO THEY?) Indomie Rendang. No further explanation needed. Just buy the shit in the nearest minimarket and don’t forget to REMOVE THE SWEET SOY SAUCE. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT because ain’t no real rendang in da wurl needs a sweet flavour for heaven’s sake. Just do that and thank me later. So fucking good I cried.

And here comes the highlight of this post, Banda Neira! Their sound just hugs your hearing sense in a raw and honest way. Like a naked dancing tribe in the jungle. Fun facts! Banda Neira or Banda Naira is actually an island in the eastern part of Indonesia, Maluku. I actually know them from Rara’s blog, and I did know that Dinda works with her in Sekolah Kita Rumpin, but Zia is the one who introduced me to them as a duo. They got every aspects of your earbuds in cover but well I’m not gonna speak much about them, let their sound paint itself for you. (oh here’s a personal favourite)

P.S. Oh wait there is the fifth pleasure after all for the night, Gamsin or Mechanical Drawing, a feast for the eyes:

Goodluck for your finals, nerds……. I guess.

For a friend, (though I haven’t read the book)

“Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have courage to complain, that’s their problem.” 

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

Heard this quote from the coolest chique in MTM, Galih Sekarnurani Setyabrata

she’s awesome (and single) (LEGIIIIIIT).

There, there.

Darling, sometimes I think I shouldn’t let you come back. This has all gone on too long. It is so hard to love someone so inconstant, someone who is so often fading before my eyes. But I know I will always welcome your return. The way you crack open the sky to come home to me. It is all I can do to bathe in your brilliance. Beautiful, after all this time you still control my every move. I become such a monster when I miss you. Darling, it is always so dark when you’re gone.

—Clementin Von Radics

Love Letter Series #1 — To the Man In My Morning Elevators

The thought of writing a love letter to people who appeared in your life briefly is dazzling man. What a cool project. Maybe I should write one? Teehee. To show our love and gratitude to the people who left an impression and who may never see us again. It doesn’t really have to be a stranger anyway.

Either way, let’s spread the loooove 😉

Perplexed Proses

Dear Man In My Morning Elevators (or should I call you Man of 19th Floor)?

It must suck that the rain wet your newspaper today. I know you usually read the front page as you wait for the elevator to come—apparently 5 minutes is more than enough for you to understand what is going on with the world and have something to talk about in your meetings. That “Ding!” sound is a cue for you to lift your head up from the last column and enter the elevator. And for me, too, to follow you and pretend that I am busy with whatever I have in my hands.

Both of us arrive in the lobby no later than 8.00 a.m. every day—too early in any Third World standards, which explains why we always bump into each other while waiting for the elevator. By my 3rd (or 4th) day of internship here, you already…

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A Very Holiday Day

Holiday! Mmmm very shopping, much friends, so beach, very wow. #Doge

If you get this reference then we belong *embrace*

December 2013 was epic man. Finishing the exam, mediocrely escaped the hands of UAS! Hearing from him again (teeheehee), undressing myself from the cloak of “ca” Unit Kesenian Minangkabau ITB 2013 (some way to put it), going to Pelangi island resort, shopping much much shopping (TOO MUCH), meeting Teksound, aaand that pretty much sums up my last days of 2013.

So um chronologically it was dawn on 25th December. After we got accepted at UKM ITB (praise the LORD), Bunda wants me to reach home asap so when I reached my kosan at 11 I had to catch my train at 19:50 on the same night. She was kinda upset when she found out I didn’t take the afternoon train which left at 16:15 oh I mean come on I didn’t get to sleep last night and I barely have any energy to pack my stuff let alone doing it fast x_x

And blablabla fast forward I arrived triumphly at Jakarta the Monas greeted me some more blablabla and BAM! the next morning on 26th December, Ayah suddenly arranged us to go to Kepulauan Seribu. It went pretty much like this:

• 05:45 |  Ayah called some travel company in Ancol
• 07:10  |  We left the house
• 08:00 |  The cruise departed

OH. MY. GLOB. My dad is DA BOMB!

Everything was sooooo spontanious we didn’t even brought our sunscreens (LOL sawo matang probs), and Ayah didn’t arrange no other thing than where do we sleep so it’s obvious WE HAVE NO IDEA about what we should do to kill time in the next idk 28 HOURS. Luckily my dad came across some owner of an adventure agent who offered us to jebe them snorkling and stuffs (SRSLY my dad’s luck was so good that day) for the sake of the good weather well probably he didn’t want to jinx it by not helping people in need. So thank God we went. I met some new friends, they’re the boys from the family we jebe-ed. The oldest one ask me some crazy stuff like JUMP OFF A BOAT FOR THE FUN OF IT. I said yes and we jumped from the top of the boat to the deep blue sea! Wildest thing I’ve done in the entire 2013! Like man it was so deep you can’t tell what’s below you (alien-ish sea monsters, sharks, the kraken). I think I peed myself.

The Indonesia we saw

Then back to Jekarda (WAIT Kepulauan Seribu IS Jakarta) on the following days as the truly Jakartan I am, I embarked on a mission to find flea-market-priced treasures on a Mezzo sale at Kuningan City. For example: I got a pair of sunglasses that only costs me IDR 10K each from the original price of IDR 99K like wtf young man (and just recently realized, I never wear sunglasses). Oh I also got myself a new wallet at Stradi it was on sale OF COURSE, but now I thought it was too flowery but its design is really practical I just had to quit nagging and cope (that was a lie, I actually LIKED IT).

By the end of  the month, Teksound got together at Da Ipan’s. We made a birthday video for Fron (aka hubby, lol joke) who currently studies at Austin, TX, USA. I love them man, my Glory Teksound. Mikha shocked everyone by shaving his head clean for Geo UGM. Dani nags about not having a me time anymore because he’s our batch’s leader of FKUI. It is kinda hard seeing that we’ve alrady parted ways now :(. Well like PDL said, TX has too much wacana (no yeah it’s our thing) that even goodbyes becomes WACANA. Could be true though, we always hang out together since like when 10th grade? It’s a good thing to know then. I’ll be glad if I still see them next year (make it my 2014 wish). Wait, it is next year now.

Damar: the Boy Who Can’t be Tamed

In the first week of 2014, I didn’t control myself. I went to four different malls in a week and like I can go to the same mall two days in a row like wtf?! (the true quality of “Anak Jakarta Turun Gunung”)  Well after that 2014 so gave me hepatitis A. Yep you got that right. I had to spent almost half of my holiday in a fucking hospital. Now I had to take an extra break from college life. Well a good rest doesn’t sound like a bad idea for now.

Thank you, O Mighty. If I had not been sick I’d probably spend more days having lame fun. Now you give me a chance to rest and prepare my body well for the next semester. And that I was shown love and affection from the people around me, one has never felt so blessed.

#Teksound! 2014 resolution: make new friends with girls