Aah…Something Inspiring… (cont’d)

net…crap, i got disconnected by my friend yesterday…so i guess i’ll continue on my blabbering today…or at least that’s what i wanted to do earlier today…

well, the schedule for Comprehensive Test is out today, and apparently i will be doing the test on February 5, 2009 at approximately 09.30 (UTC+7)…WHICH IS WHY I’M SO FRIGGIN PANIC!! (someone in the background: “hey, why are you still blogging while in panic?”)…this is one of the way to relieve my panic and stress…which is now i know, DOESN’T WORK…crap…if any of you are curious how can i get so panicky just because of a test, i’ll kindly tell you that this Comprehensive Test, is, erm, well…it is not “A” test, it is “THE” test…it is like the Jedi Test for Luke Skywalker or Skyhunter Test for Jakesully…we here in Petroleum Engineering ITB are more scared to this test than any other kind of test in our department, even love tests

(that annoying brat in background: “But you still got, like, 3 nights, that should do it!”)…nope, not a chance, we will be asked tons of questions about all stuffs we’ve been studying for 4 years…and when i say “all”, i mean “ALL”, to make it worse, the questions will be random…and when i say “random” (that annoying brat in background: “you mean RANDOM?”)…yes, but you ruined my joke, and it’s not even funny, so i’ll shorten your nick to TABIB…(TABIB: hey, that sounds cool!)…crap, you’re right…aaanyway, fortunately, i only got one more subject to be tested…unfortunately, it is drilling engineering…ah crap, i’ll just back on delving the books…

btw, if you ever curious why i put “Something Inspiring” as title…it’s because i read two blogs of awesomeness yesterday…they’re ChickenStrip (no, not a menu in fast food chain) and ComicTherapist (no, he can’t give your comics any prescription)…thanks for the laughs you brought guys…

now where the heck is my drilling books…

Aah…Something Inspiring…

too many activities in a short period may inhibit the productivity of a man…such as blogging…well, okay, i should’ve done something with my Final Assignment, but hey, beauty productivity is in the eye of the beholder blogger…or at least it’s so last time i know it…

my day today was not actually boring…but i know i really need some inspirations…and i guess i’m getting some from random surfing today…and yes, it’s internet surfing, i haven’t tried wave surfing before as i’m still practicing on my skate boarding (but that also gotta wait for a free board from my brother)…

ah, crap…my friend gotta go…i have to sign out before he unplugged the LAN cable that connect me to the inter

SNSD’s “Oh!” MV Finally Out… (UPDATED! + download links)

yeah…again to fellow SoNEs…REJOICE…after we are made curious about the MV since most of us SoNEs must’ve heard the mp3 of “Oh!”, they finally released the MV for this song…just see it in YouTube…

i haven’t seen it full yet, i just became so excited i decided to put it in my blog first…enjoy the MV guys, and girls…btw, for those who want to listen to the mp3, just check the download section below…

Download SNSD “Oh!” mp3:
–> MediaFire

-EDIT-
now, that i’ve seen it full…i’ll make some review…the concept is IMO a mixture of Gee and Genie, that is mixing cuteness and sexyness…why, because their expressions in the MV are just cute, and the outfit does support the cuteness while in the same time, giving of a sexy aura of a cheerleader…the mistake Jessica made at 1:20-1:22 (which i thought was an unintended when i saw it in the teaser) is actually cute and makes me laugh a bit…being a Sooyoung fan, i always look for her in all scene, hoping for her popping out on screen…and when she does come on screen, i pause the MV and take some time rolling on my bed…she is SUPER CUTE and her wink at 2:54 basically blows me away…i always think that short-haired Sooyoung is cuter, but this MV really blows that mind away…enough for the Sooyoung biased review, sorry…as for Seohyun, she is the exact opposite of Sooyoung in here, not that she is not cute, but as Sooyoung seems more innocent in this MV, Seohyun looks more mature, as in less pure, not that it’s bad tho…another scene that made me laugh is at 2:00, and it’s involving Jessica again, her expression there is such a dork, a cute dork, which you would all want to be her boyfriend…well, err, i would be noting one drawback of this MV, i don’t see any “signature move” in the dance, which is present in all SNSD’s MVs before, but that’s maybe because i haven’t seen the dance shot version (if there’s any)…the good point, sorry, i mean the UBER good point of this MV is in the ending…what’s with it? i would be guessing that this MV will be continued with another MV…an MV with “darker” feeling to it…and hell yeah, i’ll be waiting for it…

UPDATED!! Download “Oh!” MV :
–> via Soshified (requires 25+ posts in Soshified)
–> via Soshified, basic subbed version (requires 50+ posts in Soshified)
–> via CashewMania

so what do you think about the MV… xD

Finally, Noraebox-ing…

yeah! a few days ago,I finally went to Bandung Indah Plaza to look for the karaoke box that my friend, Ramskid, talked about in his blogpost…I went there with him and another friend, Sre from Environmental Engineering ITB…our appointment to do this was actually very accidental, with me tweeting them in the morning, asking when will we go karaoke…and suddenly we agreed to meet in BIP at five…I was late for 15 minutes, but I don’t think that dropped our mood…

when I arrive at the karaoke place, I was kinda surprised…I’ve seen the pictures from Ramskid’s blog, but it isn’t too clear to describe the place…I then took some pictures that I hope would help to describe the place…

Choosing the songs
Choosing the songs

The outside of the box
The outside of the box

The inside of the box
The inside of the box

The Karaoke Machine
The Karaoke Machine

as we got there, the first we did was choosing the songs we will sing in the box…it costs IDR 2500 per song, as written on one of the box…after we decided the songs, we then paid the cost and the clerk/receptionist in that place sent us to our box…she then inserted coins to the machine and put the codes for our songs…

we sang quite some songs that day, but since the subtitle is hangul (YES! it’s in hangul, too bad for us who can’t read hangul) I only sang to the chorus of some songs…but of course I didn’t come unprepared…since I plan to sing (the reason why I went to karaoke place, not to bowling alley…I like to bowl tho, but that’s different story, heheh), I already printed the romaji lyrics of some songs…so in the end, I sang two songs I wanted to sing the most: 2AM’s Confession of A Friend and Kim Taewoo’s Love Rain, if you want to listen to the songs (not me singing), you can download it in the download section below…and I do think I sang it very well…even my friend said that I’m ready to audition for SM or replace 2PM’s Jay (now don’t go netizen-ish on me guys)…hahahahaha…

lastly, we posed after we were too tired to continue singing and decided to finish our session…here’s the pose…thanks for the clerk/receptionist for taking this pic and a few others that made me so embarrassed I won’t post ‘em here…

Ramsky, me, and Sre doing
Ramsky, me, and Sre doing “the pose”

it was the pose from one of the song we sang…if you are a K-Pop lover just like me, you would’ve known what song we sang so that we posed that way… xD

if you plan to go there after reading my post (or because of any random reason I wouldn’t have known) take some of my advice:
1. Party of Three, if you want to be comfy enough inside…you can have 4 people inside, but that’s pushing it, plus you can’t dance to the song like we did…
2. Prepare The Lyrics, unless you can read hangul fast like two of my friends there, just print the romaji lyrics…or you’ll end up grabbing the mike and only sing when it’s chorus…of course you can memorize the lyrics beforehand, but that’s too much hassle for me…
3. Know The Code, no, not your safebox code, tho I might be interested in it…I mean the songs’ code you gonna be singing, because some of the new songs are there, but they haven’t put it in the song list…

happy noraebox-ing y’all… ^_^

DOWNLOAD!
2AM – A Friend’s Confession : via 4Shared
Kim Taewoo – Love Rain : via 4Shared

SNSD 2nd Album ‘Oh!’ is Teaser OUT!!

I got one word to all SoNEs out there for today: REJOICE!! yes, REJOICE, because our savior from SNSD’s single thirst has come…well, it’s only a teaser, but still, I know we are all waiting for the next big thing from SNSD after their latest mini-album Genie…

if you want to watch the teaser (which I assume you’d answer ‘YES!’ if you were a SoNE, or even ‘I have watched it already of course’ if you were a hardcore SoNE), I embed one teaser from YouTube…here you go…

as you can see their outfit there is similar, if not the same, to the promotional poster of their 1st Asia Tour Concert – Into The New World…and the concept is not far, if not actually equal, from what implied in that poster, which was “cheerleading”…

SNSD 1st Asia Concert Tour Promotional Poster

that image is built even stronger from the teaser since The Nine also wears blue cheerleader outfit…the outfit is, in my opinion, HAWT!! not the kind of hot vibe Sena Ayanami gives off, but a hot aura that makes you giggle like a boy who got his first toy from a pretty girlfriend…what? you’re not giggling in that situation? nah, you giggle deep down inside, ADMIT IT! heheheh…

anyway, that’s that…how do you think of it? the teaser of course, not the giggling over the toy…

My New Collections…

as you may know from a few posts before…I’ve changed my alignment from J-Pop to K-Pop…and just like before, when I get to like something VERY MUCH, I would then start to collect stuffs of them…and since my most favourite in K-Pop is the-nine-and-only SNSD a.k.a Girls’ Generation, I just bought almost all of their CDs available…

the first SNSD item I’ve ever bought is their 2nd Mini Album, titled Genie…

I ordered it circa August 2009, but some problems occurred that I only got the item in mid-October…but hey, I got no complaints at all…you know why? because I got this item only for IDR 95.000, that’s like less than one US dollar…and I’m still waiting for the bonus poster right now…

back when I ordered this item, I’m still not that avid fan of ‘em…I just thought, “Hey, I like the Tell Me Your Wish MV, so why not?”…apparently, after only a few weeks exposing myself to their antics in other MVs and variety shows, the last statement of “why not?” changed into “why not all?”…

and starting from that very statement, I then collected money (yeah, it’s all ’bout the money) to complete my SNSD discography…being in luck, one of my friend, Ardhito, was going to have 2009 Christmas vacation in South Korea…so in the spur of the moment, I gathered all my available money and transferred it to him…and what I got then was a great New Year presents…

yes, I got two additions to my collection…the 1st Mini Album (Gee) and Baby Baby (Repackaged)…of course I still yet to have the 1st Album and the 1st Single…which I should’ve got if not because of rip-off money exchanger that traded KRW 1 for IDR 10.5, at that time Bank Indonesia’s rate was KRW 1 for IDR 8.2…but once again, I got no complaints…OKAY, I lied, I still hold a wee little grudge on the money exchange thingie…but (again with the “but), once again (again with the “once again”), I still feel content, because after all I got the two items above for cheaper price compared to if I ordered it via online shop like YesAsia…

btw, according to this news at Soshified…SNSD will release their new full album titled ‘Oh!’ on the 28th (of January, I presume)…better start making money again… *looks around for things to sell*

AVATAR!! Indonesian version…

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hurray for Indonesian people…the highly creative people from LUNARfilm and TPI proudly present new TV series…titled “Petualangan Bersama Suku Biru”, the new TV series is promised to be a hit since the storyline is so original that it was copied by James Cameron, which then made the epic motion picture Avatar…while everybody says otherwise about this fact, I, for one, believe that what I just wrote above is true…

NOT!

if you haven’t realized it already, I wrote the passage before “NOT!” in cynical way…don’t even ask me why…okay, ask me…(someone curious: “Why?”)…because I am so disappointed in the people in our television industries…they never thought of something new, something that would be a break-through…(someone curious: “Really?”)…well, not really, some of the people behind the scene, are creative…remember the reality show pioneer “Katakan Cinta” ? it was a break-through…no random confession from random people was interesting before that show…and then the show’s rival, “H2C”…no random scandalous stalking was thrilling before the show…and then there’s this Indonesian archipelago expedition shows, which was an eye-opener to the beauty and culture of Indonesia…(someone skeptic: “See? There ARE creative people!)…yes, but apparently we don’t have enough…I should mind you then how reality shows and expedition shows underwent Algal Blooming after the success of the genre’s pioneers…because of one thing, UNCREATIVITY…rather than trying to outdo their rival TV station, almost all copy the concept…(someone uncreative from TV industry: “I don’t think we’ve ever copied Katakan Cinta concept!”)…GET THE BIG PICTURE! you guys working in there, BE CREATIVE…don’t be THAT afraid on making new program which is ORIGINAL, the concept don’t have to be original, but please make the content original…

and no, I don’t blame all to the TV people…they just make the shows according to the market, which is us, the viewers…well, unfortunately, most of Indonesians still enjoy this wow-that’s-good-in-gaining-viewer-share-let’s-copy-it show…(someone who loves to watch the wow-that’s-good-in-gaining-viewer-share-let’s-copy-it show: “Now you’re blaming me Mister?”)…of course not…if your reason to watch ‘em is to laugh mocking the show…if the reason is to enjoy the show, then my answer is short, YES! why would you watch something that would only stupefy you…

btw, TV people…I got my trust in you since almost all of you is Indonesian…just don’t hurt my trust, and I believe a lot of other Indonesians, in this…sorry if I’m such an ass in this…but for those who understand Indonesian, check the synopsis, as well as some images, in the link below…maybe you got a glimpse of what I’m feeling…

The Synopsis –> Petualangan Bersama Suku Biru

time to move on…

okay…this blog of mine is kinda boring now since there’s no new post…
well, for those who still follow my blog here, prepare for them then…
i’ve found a new hobby…and i got a lot in my mind…
and yes, i think i’ll post in English now…
actually, i’ve been thinking about doing Indonesian and English page…
but since some of you know, i’m just simply LAZY…with capital L…and A…and Z…and Y…
what? you could see it already? well, i’m just trying to make it OBVIOUS…
with capital O…and B…and V…and…okay, sorry for trying to obviously make the “OBVIOUS” obvious…

see y’all next post…

Dreams’ Generation…

sesuai dengan janji gw, sekarang gw akan menceritakan mimpi gw tentang SNSD di blogpost ini…klo gw pikir2, gw termasuk orang yang dapet hoki mantep minggu kemaren…gimana ngga, seminggu kemaren total 3 malem gw mimpiin member2 SNSD…sedangkan temen gw aja yang dah lebih lama demen baru dapet sekali mimpi kaya beginian…hahahaha *tertawa bangga*…oke gw mulai aja, sebelum gw jadi terlalu bangga dan hanyut dalam perasaan sayang gw terhadap si…ahem, maap, lagi galau, jadi agak pengen curhat colongan…

mimpi pertama gw cuma berisi satu member SNSD…jadi ceritanya, gw diajak ama temen gw pergi…dia ada event blind date gitu, dan katanya cewe blind datenya dia ngajak satu cewe lagi…jadi dia ngajak gw double date gitu…gile, nerves (baca: nervous) abis dong gw…sampe di tempat ketemuan (kaya cafe romantis yang menghadap sungai gitu, bukan sungai ciliwung tentunya, ga bakal romantis itu, kebelet boker mungkin jadinya) kita ngobrol2 bentar ama 2 cewe itu…tiba2, temen gw ma pasangan blind datenya langsung nyosor dan cipokan…eits, cipok bukan sembarang cipok, tapi ciuman yang pake lidah segala, apa tuh namanya? ah iya, french fries…eh, french kiss deng…gawat itu klo kebalik (coba simak post NgupingJakarta.com yang ini)…nah kan gw merasa ga nyaman dong, begitu juga dengan temennya si cewe…jadinya, gw ajak itu pasangan double date gw cabut jalan2 ke mana kek…NAH! ternyata pasangan double date gw itu, adalah SeoHyun sodara2, luar biasa…jadinya gw jalan2 ga jelas di kota itu bareng dia…sampe di depan sebuah gedung, tanpa bilang apa2 gw diajak masuk tuh gedung, ternyata kita masuk ke dormnya mereka (my gawd, dorm yang selama ini cuma bisa gw liat di layar doang)…tapi gw cuma duduk aja di sebuah sofa, sementara SeoHyun masuk ke kamarnya…setelah beberapa lama dia keluar kamar dan ngajak keluar lagi…trus, di depan gedung itu, tau2 SeoHyun diem di depan gw…trus balik ngadep gw dengan mode adegan iklan shampoo anti ketombe yang membuat rambut halus serta dapat dipakai setiap hari (halah)…ga ngomong apa2 dia, cuma megang tangan gw, ngangguk ke gw dengan tatapan yuk-lanjut-jalan2-lagi…yaudah deh, gw sambut ajakannya dengan girang gemirang (ada ya fan SNSD ya nolak jalan2 bareng SeoHyun, even tho dia bukan member favoritnya)…trus setelah beberapa lama, semua gelap, dan gw bangun…dengan senyum2 ga jelas tentunya…

mimpi kedua gw ga terlalu jelas…yang gw inget cuma gw makan2 di meja panjang kaya di film2 gitu (bukan, film kartun, klo film kartun itu meja panjaaaaaaaaaang)…bareng ama beberapa member SNSD, salah satunya mungkin SooYoung…tapi ga inget juga gw…

mimpi ketiga ini lebih jelas dari yang kedua…settingannya di sebuah ruangan, soalnya gw inget banget gw senderan ke dinding…nah, selagi gw senderan itu, gw ngliatin member2 pada maen2 ga jelas di ruangan itu…di depan gw (dan maksud gw di depan gw banget dengan jarak less than 1 meter), Tiffany lagi maen jungkat-jungkit (tau kan ini maenan kaya apa? ga pernah TK di Indonesia nih klo ga tau)…nah, selagi dia bermain itu di sebelah gw ada si leader SNSD nan lucu, Taeyeon…gw ama doi senyam-senyum aja ngliatin member2 laen maen2 ga jelas (makanya senyam-senyum, klo nonton film horor mah treak2)…tau2 Tiffany kaya mau jatoh dari tu jungkat-jungkit, tapi with all her luck, or should i say MY luck, dia jatohnya ke arah gw…maka dengan sigap bak anggota Densus88 memburu Noordin M Top, gw tembaki rumah di Mojosongo…sori, itu mimpi gw yang lain…aaaanyway, gw dengan cekatan menangkap Tiffany biar ga jatoh, tapi posisinya kan jadi kaya gw meluk dia…trus dia gw dudukin (baca: gw bimbing supaya duduk, bukan gw duduk di atas dia) sembari masi ketawa2 kita semua…tau2 SooYoung nyeletuk, “ah, cari kesempatan nih!”, refleks gw lepas itu “pelukan” gw…gw duduk lagi di sebelah TaeYeon dan tau2, dia senderan ke bahu gw…waaaa…yang gw heran, abis itu kepalanya TaeYeon malah gw angkat, bukan karena gw ga suka disenderin ama leader yang luar biasa manis klo make kacamata ini, tapi biar gw bisa sekalian ngerangkul doi…jadi akhirnya gw ngrangkul TaeYeon dengan doi tetep senderan di gw (WOOOHOOO!!!)…dan yang bikin makin mantep, tangannya TaeYeon mendorong dada gw, dan kita berdua pun berada dalam posisi tidur (masi dalam posisi gw ngrangkul doi senderan)…muantep tenan rek…itu berlangsung beberapa lama, sampe SooYoung lagi2 nyeletuk, “enak nih ya!”…dan kita pun kembali ke posisi duduk dan melepaskan rangkulan-senderan itu…trus betingkah malu2 ndak jelas…dan beberapa saat kemudian gw bangun…gw inget2 mimpinya, trus guling2 sendiri di kamar…hahaha…

demikian mimpi gw…dalam mimpi ini tidak ada hewan yang disakiti…semoga ga ada fans mereka yang kemudian mencoba bertemu gw dalam mimpi untuk mengiris2 tipis gw untuk kemudian ditumis bersama bawang putih dan bawang merah, tunggu sampe harum, kemudian masukkan brokoli…ahem, maap, gw nulis ini sambil ngliat iklan alat masak warna merah yang sering banget di TV itu…anywho, gw harap fans SNSD yang ngbaca ini juga bisa mengalami mimpi mantap seperti bahkan melebihi gw…akhir kata, So Nyeo Shi Dae HWAITING!!!

After some Miki…now it’s SNSD’s turn…

beberapa minggu belakangan gw terserang virus baru di dunia per-idol-an…as written in the title, gw kena jerat SNSD (So Nyeo Shi Dae a.k.a. Girls’ Generation)…dan semuanya berlangsung sama cepatnya kaya gw dulu terjerumus ke dunia Hello! Project…cuma dalam beberapa minggu itu, gw dah merasakan kerugian suka sama grup-cewe-imut-yang-rame ini…space harddisk gw langsung drop, sebelum gw demen SNSD, total space harddisk gw masi 16GB…dan ga nunggu lama, totalnya tinggal kurang dari 500MB…dan gw langsung berpikir untuk gadai baju buat beli harddisk external 1 TB…tapi jangan baju gw, ada yang mo minjemin baju buat digadai ga…

semua berawal dari kesukaan gw ama koreografi modern yang sharp dan mantap…lho koq gitu? iye, jadi beberapa bulan yang lalu, gw mendatangi sebuah event di Cihampelas Walk…dan di situ ada grup dance yang ngbawain dancenya Sorry Sorry dari Super Junior…ngliat gerakan2nya, gw mayan cengo…koq seru kayanya…trus gw dapet MV (baca: Music Video) Sorry Sorry dari temen gw…dan ternyata emang asik banget gerakannya, mana keroyokan lagi…hahaha…

[MV] Sorry Sorry – Super Junior (Dance Shot ver.)

lalu, hubungannya dengan SNSD apa? nah, kebetulan yang sangat betul karena SNSD ada performance ngbawain Sorry Sorry ini…dan terus terang, gw lebih cengo ngliat SNSDnya daripada Super Junior…JELAS DONG! 9 cewe manis-cakep-imut-seksi (silahkan lingkari jawaban anda, klo gw sih, nglingkarin semua, halah) pasti lebih enak gw pandang dari pada 13 cowo yang kata cewe sih, ganteng dan keren itu…di performance itu, terus terang, buat gw yang paling mencolok adalah Sooyoung…dan abis itu gw langsung liat MV Genie di laptop gw…nah, gw emang dah punya nih MV sejak direlease, tapi ya buat tontonan iseng doang…begitu gw tonton lagi MV Genie, gw pun langsung menandatangani kontrak LNG dengan negara tetangga…tapi itu klo gw duduk di kursi presiden…berhubung gw ngga duduk, tapi tiduran, itupun di ranjang kamar gw (baca: bukan ranjang presiden)…maka gw pun cuma menyatakan Sooyoung sebagai favorit gw di SNSD…

SNSD performing Sorry Sorry in MusicCore

seiring dengan waktu dan beberapa TV shows yang gw tonton…favorit gw mengembang, dan akhirnya muncul lah 4 nama yang menjadi top four SNSD gw…dan mereka adalah, *drum rolls* (ini klo member SNSD ngebaca mereka deg2an ga ya?)…
1. Sooyoung, the jack-of-all trade cute-cool-funny girl…
2. Yuri, the wavy-prankster dancer girl…
3. Yoona, the cutest-funny angel girl…
4. Hyoyeon, the powerful-sexy-silly girl…
dan bahkan SNSD ini mempengaruhi alam bawah sadar gw lebih cepet dari Hello! Project…1 minggu ini aja, gw dah 3 kali mimpiin SNSD…sayangnya, mimpi kedua gw lupa kaya gimana…dan uniknya, dalam mimpi gw itu, yang jadi bintang tamu malah bukan top four gw…cadas bukan? bahwa dalam alam bawah sadar gw pun, mereka tetep berusaha masuk ke dalam list top four gw…hahaha…

next time, bakal gw ceritain tuh mimpi…kekekeke…