tumblr: another playground

Heyya! Good sun-shiny morning and welcome back to your office desk! (^^)v


Got some good news?

Well I've got mine. I have a crush on my new playground :"> perhaps to some friends and people, tumblr is a place to write their journal of life (means to blog in a long text). But to me, it's the place where I can liberate some of my thoughts on playing with fun stuffs like colors, pictures, music, quoting wise-words and little encouragement [oh yes I love menggombal! hehe] all in minimalist. It's just like online scrapbooking :) my own pictures I made and some short messages. I'm not a professional though, kinda like to post anything I want, any simple things in a simple way. You can click the 'next' sign on the bottom of the page to see 10 posts in one page, or click the dates or the plus sign to see the individual post, click the pictures to enlarge and may save them if you like. My most favorite part is the archive, because you can see cute thumbnails representing each post. Ayyyh love it! Anyway, It's not really necessary to give comments [so I leave it disable], but any advises through emails are truly welcome :) just read at your own risk [to make one], hee hee.


So have a great day working, everyone! ;)


*I think I will have more scheduled post for this blog, since I will spend more time tumblr-ing :p


**update: I've changed my tumblr address, not the journal-slash-diary-type, but the more-fun type :D please do enjoy. hee hee.

spooky

I just watched this horror movie with my siblings few days ago. It was a Hollywood re-make of the original Japanese movie series titled "Ju-On". However, I've seen the original version four years ago on CD, but I couldn't understand the movie plot. Still, I gave thumbs up for their make-up artist. Asian ghosts are the most terrifying movie creature I ever seen on screen :D heheheh. Anyway, though I gave an average rate for this movie, I think this Hollywood version's plot was easier to understand. The ghost appearance has successfully made my heart jumped out :p and the spooky movie setting has made some people screaming out loud.


By the way, have you ever trapped in a spooky place? Well, recently I have. It happened when me and my friends (Linda and Nita) went to Inacraft held in the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) last April. We went there after such long and tiring office hours yet so excited to imagine what we could've bought on that event ;) In order to avoid traffic jams and long queing at the front door, Nita-the gal who had tons of experiences with JCC's events- advised us to parked the car at the Sultan Hotel's parking area. "We can use the Lagoon Tower underground tunnel which connects the hotel to the JCC". Okay so we did park the car @ Sultan's and then walked in to the tunnel. Well, the tunnel's quite loooooooong and it has moving walkway (or you may call it horizontal escalator) on the one side - reminds me of KLIA Malaysia :D It's darker, though. By the time we step on the walkway, Yay! it moved! ^^ so you don't have to be worry about getting your foot tired of walking on high-heels. And then we had to walk down to another loooooong tunnel with another moving walkway. But this time, it didn't move at all *sigh* So we had to walk.

Okay, and there was it. The place I called "spooky". Why? because it's darker, and then you will hear a gamelan sound played as backsound in the entire tunnel. Actually I don't mind hearing gamelan in a common traditional Javanese wedding ceremony, but there wasn't any occasion at all in there. It's only me, my two friends, an old couple behind us, in the cold and dark looong tunnel with big pictures and paintings hanging on the both wall sides. So to me, those gamelan sound a bit distracting, I'm telling you. Oh I haven't tell ya about the pictures, eh? Uhmmm.. so on the right side you'll see abstract paintings. I usually love arts, but that time I absolutely NOT. The colors are bloody-red dominant. Red, Green and Yellow mustard for the exact. So dark and mysterious. It reminds me to the abstract paintings of "Nyi Roro Kidul". Hrrrrrrr... And can you guess what were those on the left side? BIG pictures of all-around-the-world country leaders. Yes, the pictures of them when they visited Indonesia (some kinda world conferences). The problem was, they all now have died. Include lots of the picture of our former Mr.President-who-ruled-for-32 years :p [okay somebody please stop me exaggerating! but it's truueeeeee]. It's not comfortable anymore to see BIG pictures of most people who have died. Even they're smiling at you!!! I mean, they're smiling really wide [read: grinning] to the camera *ya iyalah*. And I thought it was scaaaaaaaary! [Oh dear God I beg You a pardon]. Me and my friends could control ourselves not to be frightened [it was 6 pm when we arrived there, right after we had our Maghrib prayers]. Perhaps it was because we still had another people around us that time. But then when we finished our window-shopping [yes we were home empty handed! *sigh* can you just believe that?] when we were on our way back to the car-parking area... Hrrrrrr... there we were, frightened all the way >:D It was 9 pm, only the three of us walking in that damn-dark-and-spooky long tunnel. At first we felt nothing, we were too busy with our minds, thinking of "umm.. should I go back and buy those Batik skirts tomorrow?.. err.. what about that beautiful clutch? Oh I should've bought that." and so on and so forth. Meanwhile, to me the gamelan seemed turned louder. Also the Air Conditioner was turned on and the whole place seemed cool, but my body surroundings went so warm. I didn't know why but suddenly I felt like my other two friends were walking faster and faster. I wore long skirt, so I bet you can imagine how it was for me to catched them up. Then I saw Linda humming prayers silently, her eyes were looking down and she didn't even look at me when I whispered "What's going on? Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" [I remembered, Linda has the 'vision' towards the invisibles. Kyaaaaa! Noooooo!]. I read ayat Kursi, Al Fatihah and so on in silence, but we're still walking faster indeed. Feeling desperate of knowing we still had a looong way to go to reach the end of the tunnel, we decided to discuss some funny stories of that day's general meeting. Somehow we tried to ignore the spooky situation. We laughed in frightened but what else we could do? run? Whooh. Not a chance. By the time we reached the car, we were all screaming together "Huwaaaaaa....!!!!". And Linda told us some scary things in the tunnel on her vision [I won't tell you, it's terribly terrifying!]. So glad that we were just fine and I thanked Allah SWT for guiding us. Perhaps to some of you I was like over-react, but to me that place was really spooky. Dare to try yourself? :D

Moral of the story:

there's no way I'd take a walk through that tunnel again at night, that's for sure :p

flu babu?

Eh?

This new term comes from a friend of mine, considering some of her friends (and my friends also :p) were updating their FB status with "I'm suffering Flu Babu" :D Eww... what kind of new sickness is that? It's the situation where your house maid (or domestic workers, or servant, or housekeeper assistant) left you for having their free-working-days in their hometown. Usually happens on Ied Mubarak, and the big term is "aduh-aku-ditinggal-mbaknya-pulang-kampung!". So you have to do your housekeeping yourself. I think It would not be that hard if you only live by yourself or only with your spouse, cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, ironing, shopping in the traditional market and so on. But what makes them exhausted is when they got a LOT of things to do and LOTs of people in the house to be served, while they usually done by maids [if they had more than one]. It makes some of my friends sick [indeed yes, some of them suffering influenza literally], tired, and get easily emotional with their spouse, children and surroundings. Eww.. Well, that's why I don't use babu. I'm babu-ing myself :D heheheh.

seroja

mari menyusun seroja bunga seroja
hiasan sanggul remaja putri remaja

rupa yang elok dimanja jangan dimanja
pujalah ia oh saja sekedar saja

mengapa kau bermenung oh adik berhati bingung
mengapa kau bermenung oh adik berhati bingung

janganlah engkau percaya dengan asmara
janganlah engkau percaya dengan asmara

sekarang bukan bermenung jangan bermenung
sekarang bukan bermenung jangan bermenung

mari bersama oh adik memetik bunga
mari bersama oh adik memetik bunga

mari menyusun seroja bunga seroja
hiasan sanggul remaja puteri remaja
rupa yang elok dimanja jangan dimanja

pujalah ia oh saja sekedar saja :)

I heart the song and the movie. I love when the kids swing their hands and sing "Aaaa.." really cute. Ummm and I think I also would love to be called 'adek', just like the lyric says :"> He he

Ied Mubarak

A SWEET greeting to my SWEET readers,
for a SWEET reason at a SWEET time, with a SWEET smile :)

I would like to say:

Please forgive all of my faults and bad behaviors,
May your days be filled with SWEET happiness,
And may your heart be filled with peace :)



Have a SWEET day with your beloved ones, and
Have a great great great long holiday!

with love,

*adopted from a sweet sms by my friend RH. Hey thanks for the idea :P*

Brownies Kukus :)

Eid Mubarak has closely related to special cuisines with Coconut Milk a.k.a Santan as one of their main ingredients. Ketupat/Lontong + Opor Ayam, Sambal Goreng Kentang, Sambal Goreng Ati and Friends are popular main menu in most houses :P heheheh. Well well, 'cause my Mom already cooked those delicious menus for the whole family, so I decided to make something else ;) Yep, on the night of The Glorious Day, I made my own Brownie (steamed brownies or Brownies Kukus for the exact) as dessert :) At the first sight on that picture above, perhaps you would thought it was a choccolate cake :D ahahahaha. Mwell, your guessing was not 100% wrong because I made it choccolatish so I think it's more like Cake, not Brownies :P [Yes, it's my fault.. ewwwh] This was my second trial by the way. I've ever made my very first Orange Brownies (a.k.a steamed brownies with Orange flavour! nyummm) during Kuliah Kerja Nyata (KKN) @ the last semester of college. This time I didn't find that Orange Brownies recipe, so I asked google to find another easy one [I'm not a fan of certain Recipe Pages on the WWW, but I'm a huge fan of Google and always go for it everytime I need cooking recipes for dummies, hee hee]. I found Mrs. Liem's Recipe on Mbak Femmy's Blog. Finding most people succeed on trying this one (seems easy :p) so I thought I should give it a try :) And yeah, right. This really works. Easy, yummy, delicious, and the choccolate will heavenly melt in your mouth. Yummm... So you wanna try?


Ingredients:

6 grains of eggs,
Sugar 225 g
Vanilla (vanille) sufficiently, or 1 small pack
Salt sufficiently
Emulsifier (XP brand, with the Butterfly logo) half teaspoon
Wheat Flour 125 g (Segitiga Biru),
Cocoa Powder 50 g
Margarine/cooking oil 175 ml
Dark Cooking Chocolate (DCC) 100 g, melted
Sweetend condensed milk (SCM), 75ml


Directions:

1. Beat the sugar and eggs with high speed mixer until smooth and fluffy, put in the flour and the cocoa powder mixture. Add vannilla, emulsifier and a little hand swing of salt, stir gently to mix (use slower speed than to stir sugar and eggs).

2. Stir in the melted DCC and cooking oil/margarine mix them together until blended well.

3. Set aside one third of the dough, add in the SCM, mix them well.

4. Steam the first part of the dough without SCM for 10 minutes. Then add the second dough with SCM, steam for 10 minutes. Last, add the last dough without SCM, continue steaming for approximately 20 minutes. Voila! your Steamed Brownies is ready to serve :)


Tips:

- Make sure your pan/pot fit into the steamer :p my first square pan (20x20) didn't fit by the time I poured the first mixture (dough) into it *sigh! dodol banget!* so I decided to use the round one. It looks smaller but it fits! :D

- Before you mix your eggs with the sugar, make sure they're good eggs. How? well, break the egg one by one into a separate bowl before you put them in the same bowl with the sugar. The center/yellow part of good egg will not shatter and remain round like a cow's eye :D heheheh.

- I bought 250 g of DCC (tulip brand), I used half melted for the dough, and the rest for choccotish decoration on the top of the brownies :D ~only for those who love love love chocco!~

...so have a sweet day! :)

La La La La La...

...finally things were done on time :) [yes, only those with the red labels A.S.A.P. And THOSE means MANY :D] pwewwh. The end of working day in Ramadhan month @ my office was so crowded with busy-work-loads and extra activities which carried along with "the-Long-Holiday-is-near-somehow-it's-so-hard-to-be-focused" atmosphere, hehehe :D Ayhhh.. So let's find some other ways to fill up the Big Day countdown, shall we? ;)

1. Having more time to read and conceive The Holy Qoran verses,
2. Hibernating! Yeaaaaaaaaa! ~seems like the opposite of point 1? :D~
3. Asking my lil bro to kindly accompany me to the mall :P ~let's hope He'll say "sure!"~
4. Googling some cooking recipes ;) let's cook more, [hope i'll] Eat more, Gain [weight] soon (^^;;)
5. Erasing half of 856-messages in my Neji's Inbox :( huhuhu [chiayooo!]
6. I'll do that in order to have more space to receive tons of messages on Eid Mubarak :P heheheh. *dipentung*


...most of all, I really, really, really wish I could walk these steps HOME. Home means there or there, but...

I can't.

so for those who will go "Pulang Kampong", have a safe trip, ya :)
have a great time with your beloved ones.

Blood-Type Cartoons

These are fun strips comic I found on --> this page. Each comic tells us about different characteristics of people, how people behave on certain circumstances, based on their blood-type :D KEWL! I love cartoons, and I think it's pretty cute, funny and entertaining. Somehow it tickles me to smile really wide upon thinking of how those blood-types cartoons closely portrayed [some of] my [bad] behavior :P Perhaps some of you have seen it, or some of you haven't, so I decided to share some of them here ;)


Let's see how each blood-types reacts to these situations ;)

Different blood-types and time management. When they have an appointment, which blood type tends to be more punctual? [in the real life, like: appointment to have Break-Fasting with Friends during this Ramadhan month, hehe :p]





...and let's see closer to what happened in each of their house:





And, how about gossiping? :P
[shhh, shhh, it's not allowed to gossiping in this Holy Month! :D]





Also, we are taught to control our anger :)
Just take a look at this one:




SO? Did you find any similarities between your Blood Type with The Blood-Type Cartoon Character? :D

Can you guess my blood-type? :P

Hair-Talks

Romantic VS Dis-honesty :P


Girl : *catches her boyfriend's eyes (seem like) looking at a beautiful girl walking in front of them*

Girl : Her hair looks really great, doesn't it? smooth, long and shines-healthy unlike mine :(

Guy : *gently runs his hand through the Girl's curly hair* Yours are great too, my dear :) I love to see everything about you.

Girl : Awwwwww! :"> *blush blush*




***



Whatta Hot Afternoon @ The Beauty Salon

Customer: *opens up her veil, letting the hair-dresser holds her hair to be washed*

Hair-dresser: WOW! you have such a lovely hair, Miss! ;D

Customer: [since no one ever praised her hair before] Thank you :"> *blush blush*

Hair-dresser: [starts to babble]...too bad it seems that you have a problem with dandruff, eh? Even though it looks great outside, but your hair's pretty crumbly. You see you have such a lot of hair-loss. Hummm, by the way, How often do you take cream-bath for your hair? You should see me more often to repair these damages ;D

Customer: Eh??? :O [Bloody Hell! >:D]



***


Jakarta is Getting Hotter These Days!

[in front of the mirror, staring at her hair]

Me: Hemmmm... I think I need to have my hair-cut (^.^)v

stinging sting

I always love Sting [awesome song titles and lyrics :P], and of course this song.
Imagining two people dancing waltz with their hearts,
Always love to see [and feel the emotion of] that slow-motion dance :)

When We Dance ~ Sting

Another Sting's songs I love love love: Fields of Gold, My Funny Friend and Me, Dessert Rose, I Must Have Loved You, and... Why Should I Cry For You? :)

O Captain, My Captain!

by Walt Whitman

O Captain! my Captain!
our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.


O Captain! my Captain!
rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.


My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.


(also being read in the movie: Dead Poet Society ~ carpe diem!)

Broccoli-Beef Teriyaki

Terinspirasi acaranya Mbak Rachel Ray ~ So You Think You Can Cook? Aku jadi pingin nyoba masak tanpa ngintip-ngintip resep :P [yang gampang aja tapinya] Hehe. Bahan dasar yang aku pakai kali ini adalah daging sapi/beef. Ternyata bikinnya cepet dan rasanya.. not bad laaaah ;) Mau coba? Mari...


Ingredients:

Daging Sapi has dalam
Brokoli
Bawang bombay
Bawang putih
Paprika merah
Saus teriyaki
Lada hitam bubuk
Gula
Garam
Air secukupnya


Mix them in:

• Daging sapi dipotong memanjang tipis [atau kalau kamu nggak mau repot, di supermaket juga ada kok daging sapi has dalam potongan ;)], lalu rendam dalam saus teriyaki dan lada hitam secukupnya. Untuk hasil akhir daging yang lebih empuk, kamu bisa tambahkan pengempuk daging [Paya] secukupnya. Diamkan selama kira-kira 15 menit agar bumbunya meresap.
  

• Panaskan margarin/minyak goreng, tumis bawang bombay dan bawang putih sampai harum dan berubah warna.
  

• Masukkan daging sapi yang telah di'ungkep' tadi, tumis, tambahkan air secukupnya, masak sampai daging cukup empuk. Masukkan garam, gula, dan tambahkan saus teriyaki dua putaran wajan.

• Terakhir, masukkan brokoli dan paprika. Masak sebentar, jangan sampai layu. Karena brokoli dan paprika [menurutku] lebih enak dimakan setengah crunchy ;) nyaaaaammm, seger banget.
  

• Sajikan (porsi 3 orang)

Nah, mudah sekali bukan? ;) Oiya, kalau kamu nggak sempat atau nggak mau beli saus teriyaki kemasan [biasanya mengandung MSG, red], saus teriyaki bisa juga dibikin dari campuran kecap asin, gula, garam, bawang putih, jahe, air, sedikit kaldu alami, dan tambahkan sedikit maizena untuk mengentalkan saus, masak dan aduk semuanya dalam wajan dengan api kecil sebentar saja. Well, selamat mencoba ;)

Hemmmmm.. jadi, ada ide masak apa lagi untuk makan malam habis berbuka besok? ^_*

Balada Tutup Botol Egois

Kebiasaan pagi ku di kantor, [kalo nggak puasa] begitu sampai kantor adalah segera menunjungi mini-coffeeshop yang ada di Lt.3, Pattiserie Francois. Ngapain? Biasanya sih cuma beli Iced Cappuccino atau Minuman Teh Hijau kemasan biar nggak ngantuk ~ kalo lapar baru angkut temen-temennya a.k.a snack kue basah [yang-umumnya-dipesen-buat-rapat] :D Balik ke minuman, kebetulan si Minuman-Teh-Ijo-Kemasan kesukaanku itu, terutama yang rasa Original, nggak tau kenapa sering sulit dibuka tutupnya. Keras banget. Tangan bisa merah-merah tapi si tutup botol nggak kebuka juga kalo lagi nggak beruntung. Makanya aku selalu minta dibukak-in sama pramusaji di situ. Dan biasanya yang berhasil membukanya adalah pramusaji cowok. Suatu hari, nggak ada satu pramusaji cowok disitu, dan si tutup botol belom berhasil dibukak. Bagemana inih? Terus aku inget trik lama yang diajarkan Bapakku, yaitu: mencari karet gelang. EH? diapain coba karet gelangnya? Pertamanya sih aku diketawain [nggak ada yang percaya gitu], tapi coba nih ya, mari kita liat: lingkarkan karet gelang memutari si Tutup-Botol-Egois, sampai kencang. Kayak begini ini:






Terus?
Ambil lap/kain, pelan-pelan buka si tutup botol. And voila! see what happen next ;) Jadi mulei sekarang, bagi penggemar air minum kemasan botolan, bawalah selalu karet gelang. Siapa tau kamu butuh membuka tutup botol egois di jalan, pas mau buka puasa? :D heheheh. Met puasa ya, buat yang puasa. Semoga selalu lancar dan berkah ^_*

I Just Wanna Dance...

RBG's second performance. You can see the video --> here ;)

Ha, apa? Kamu? Nari?
Iya, mungkin buat sebagian besar temen yang baru mengenalku setelah masa SD lewat, jarang ada yang tau kalau sebenarnya waktu kecil aku dengan suka cita ikut ekskul menari di Sekolah. Sayang, bertahun-tahun setelah itu, aku nggak pernah ikut nari lagi. Selain karena waktu luang yang makin sempit, nggak ada lagi tempat untuk menyalurkan hobi ini. Maka kesan "utie-yang-suka-menari" itu hilang nggak berbekas. *duileeeee*. Kenapa si pada heran-heran banget? Makanya baca dong postingan-ku yang dulu itu, baru tanya-tanya, hehehehe *diamuk massa*


Kenapa sih kamu nari?
Karena aku suka :) aku cinta...


Cinta?
Iya, cinta dengan dunia tari. Terutama tari tradisional. Rasanya senang bisa mengenal beragam tari dari budaya kita sendiri, gerakan-gerakan yang indah, penuh makna, penuh warna. Juga menghibur diri sendiri dan orang lain dalam artian positif. Kenapa menghibur diri sendiri? Karena buat aku menari mendatangkan banyak energi positif yang selama ini [sepertinya] hilang. Begitu nari, semua rasa capek, pikiran yang kadang nggak tentu, hal-hal yang nggak menyenangkan, ilang aja gitu. Nggak tau kenapa ya. Mungkin karena dengan nari, langsung fokus ke gerakan dan musik ya, berusaha supaya gerakannya benar dan [setidaknya mendekati] bagus :P Selain itu, dengan bergeraknya seluruh tubuh, rasanya jadi seperti olahraga, dengan olahraga tubuh jadi segar, bugar, sehat.


Emangnya pake jilbab bisa nari?
Tentu saja bisa ;) bajunya kan sopan dan pakai kain panjang. Ketika pentas pun tetap pakai jilbab [warna hitam], juga tetap memakai leging & manset panjang yang aman dan nyaman. Asal pede dan gerakannya bagus, tetep bisa nari kan?


Kerjaanmu nggak terganggu?
Alhamdulillah enggak. Malah, dampak positifnya aku jadi semakin bersemangat, nggak gampang ngantuk dan suntuk :P hehehe. Sebagai bonus, aku juga mendapatkan pertemanan dengan rasa kekeluargaan yang amat sangat hangat. Kami ber-11 [baca: temans di Unit Tari kantorku~selanjutnya lebih dikenal dengan istilah RBG atau Rondang Bulan Girls], berasal dari Satuan Kerja yang berbeda-beda, tadinya ada yang sama sekali nggak kenal, karakter nya juga beda-beda. Tapi disini, dengan menari, kami jadi satu. Nggak ada yang memisahkan diri, nggak ada yang merasa paling jago, nggak ada yang merasa "aku-yang-paling-benar", atau "eh-kenapa-kamu-salah-melulu", disini kami saling asah, asih, asuh, hingga kata 'keluarga' lebih tepat untuk mendeskripsikan daripada 'cuma-teman-menari'. And I realized that we're all great entertainers, love to laugh, and laugh out loud more together. Disini bisa ketawa-ketawa di setiap pertemuan, nggak ada beban. Bisa dibilang, ini salah satu hal yang membuat aku selalu merasa bersyukur dan berterimakasih pada Yang Maha Kuasa. Maha Adil, menggantikan sedih dengan bahagia, memberikan berlipat kebaikan, seribu kekuatan. Alhamdulillah ya Allah... :) Dengan semua itu, bagaimana mungkin aku nggak cinta dengan dunia tari? Tapi bukan berarti aku melupakan temans yang lainnya loh ya, buat aku kalian selalu ada. If you can put a little trust on me then you'll be in my heart always and forever :)


Emangnya dapet apa kamu nari kemarin?
Dapet rasa bahagia luar biasa karena bisa menampilkan yang terbaik, senang kalau penonton juga senang. Tepuk tangan dan senyum penonton aja sebenernya udah cukup banget :) plus dukungan sekecil apapun, plus temen-temen yang nyenengin banget. Then if all the good things come in one package, what should I expect for more? :)


Katanya gurunya cowok ya? nggak takut dipegang-pegang?
Hmmm.. begini. Aku percaya, guruku adalah orang-orang yang profesional di bidangnya dan juga sejauh yang kukenal, mereka orang yang sangat taat beragama, dan aku percaya mereka nggak pernah melanggar norma-norma asusila. Apalagi 8 dari 11 orang tim kami mengenakan hijab, jadi mereka sangat menghormati dan menghargai kami. Disiplin banget sih iya. Lagian nih ya, buat siapapun yang hanya mengira-ngira, jangan asal nuduh aja dong, silakan ikut datang latian baru komentar, ya? ;) FYI, guru cowok itu dikontrak untuk mengajarkan tari Batak Rondang Bulan. Dan sebagai info lagi, untuk guru tari masing-masing dikontrak untuk satu jenis tarian. Nah, saat ini belum ada guru tari baru lagi nih, tapi saking semangatnya, meskipun tak ada guru, kami tetap latihan dengan saling mengajar tarian yang kami dapatkan untuk lomba antar bidang Pekan Olah Raga dan Seni di kantor 17 Agustus lalu. ^^;;) senang!


Lomba antar bidang itu apa sih?
Jadi dalam rangka menyambut HUT RI ke 64, kantorku mengadakan perlombaan olah raga dan seni [disingkat Porsebi]. Karena kantorku terdiri dari banyak satuan kerja, maka seluruh satker perangkat kantor itu dikelompokkan menjadi bidang-bidang [bidang 1, 2, 3, and so on] untuk berlomba. Tiap bidang bisa berisi 3 sampai 4 satuan kerja. Nah, salah satu yang dilombakan adalah lomba Tari Tradisional (^.^)/" Tahun sebelumnya, aku nggak ikut karena nggak tau [dan belom dapet 'soul'nya nari di kantor, hehehe]. Tahun ini aku memutuskan ikut. Dalam lomba ini, anggota Unit Tari juga terbagi-bagi ikut bidangnya masing-masing. Aku bersama dua orang temanku dari Unit Tari tergabung dalam satu bidang yang sama ditambah teman-teman baru yang satu bidang. Seru juga sih, karena selain nambah temen, latian rutin 12 hari lumayan bikin tepar juga, heheheh. Biar tepar tapi seneng, dan tentunya selalu semangat. Apalagi tarian bidang-ku adalah Tari Ronggeng Blantek dari Betawi, tarian yang dulu pernah aku bawakan di masa kecil, hwaaaaa [you can see the rehearsal video --> here]. Anyway, rasanya lucu bertanding melawan 'saudara-saudara' Unit Tari sendiri, apalagi meskipun bersaing tapi kami tetap saling mendukung satu sama lain.

Defile Ronggeng Blantek - Bidang IV

Jadi? kamu juara nggak?
Ahirnya bidangku nggak masuk 3 besar siy, hanya sebagai Harapan I, tapi meskipun begitu aku senang, teman unit tari-ku dengan timnya di bidang lain ada yang berhasil meraih juara I dan juara II, dan semua sepakat kemenangan adalah milik kami semua. Aiiihhh ="> ~btw pada bingung nggak bacanya? maafkan ya kalau sedikit bingung, lagi susah cari kata-kata nih~ *alesan*


Any closing remarks?
Menari itu bisa dijadikan olahraga yang menyenangkan dan menyehatkan (^.^)v, sekedar info buat temans yang sudah menikah lama dan sedang program untuk hamil, coba deh ikut nari, mudah-mudahan sedikit membantu karena dengan gerakan-gerakan dinamis bisa melancarkan peredaran darah dan menguatkan otot rahim. Mohon maaf kalau informasi ini salah ya, tapi beberapa orang anggota Tim Tari angkatan sebelumnya sudah membuktikannya ;) kalo males latian bareng unit tari, latian sendiri di rumah juga boleh kok, nanti kalau mau aku kasih lagu & videonya ~ itung-itung olahraga bukan? ;) ~ heheheheh. Tapi konsultasi dokter juga ya, siapatau temans selain butuh olahraga, juga butuh kondisi mendukung yang lain (^^)/" ini mah sekedar saran ya, tanyakanlah pada ahlinya *tiba-tiba kuatir ditimpukin*.


...Ohiya, aku memang mendapatkan banyak sekali kritikan, masukan, dukungan dan ada pula yang memberi pujian. Untuk semua itu aku mengucapkan terimakasih banyak *sambil membungkuk dalam-dalam*. Aku juga mengerti, mungkin ada sebagian orang suka dengan yang kulakukan, ada pula yang nggak suka bahkan mungkin benci. Tapi aku rasa itu wajar. Masing-masing orang tentu punya preferensi bukan? Seorang teman pernah bilang, "teruslah menari Tie, teruslah bersemangat dan jadilah salah satu garda depan pelestari budaya kita" :"> Whaaaw. Very touchy. Maka aku juga cuma bisa berharap, semoga yang aku lakukan ini bermanfaat. Amin :)

I wanna dance with somebody,
I wanna feel the heat with somebody... [Whitney Houston]

**foto diambil semena-mena dari koleksi Vidya Hapsari (^^)v hihi. Luv ya!

after-that-long-pause

...another random thoughts and happenings on my long-pause-of-writing, so here it goes:

• Thanking Allah the Almighty, my first dancing performance at the Office run smooth, though it wasn’t 100% perfect afterall. I’m glad to know that the audience gave such great responses, relieved all the weight off my shoulder and overwhelmed me with tons of self confidence. I did another two performances since then, and I still crave for more [to learn traditional-dances as much as I can] :p hmmwell, I’ll write more about my dancing activities in a seperate post.
  

• [though I know it’s a little too late] Finally, I have my own Youtube account with my videos to share (^^;;) yay! For those who insterested in traditional dancing may come and see me and my friends' here. Let's preserve our national culture and be proud of it, shall we? :)
  

• Thanking Allah the Almighty, my first and second week of Ramadhan went well and I felt like heavenly-blessed (^^)/" Don’t have to mention what I’ve done or what I’ve got, do I? If I should choose one theme for this Ramadhan, then it would be: Sabar, Syukur, Ikhlas ;) [eh, that’s three ya? :p]
  

• Thanking Allah the Almighty, for keeping me save from that scary earthquake on September 2nd. It reminds me to the same disaster happend around Yogyakarta, three years ago. Three days ago in the afternoon, this huge-and-seems-strong office-building suddenly went unsteady. It’s like you can see the opposite building moved right to left. Some of my friends cried, some of them yelled “Allahuakbar!”, some other were rushed frantically down-through-emergency-stairs, I wonder, [in contrary] some still be able to update their FB status, of how shocked and exhausted they were, running down the stairs from the [....] floor, while my friend in 8-months-pregnancy just calmly down from the 21st floor [salute!] and she had no complaint at all. I felt so small and surrender my body and soul, my pray: “Allah, kuserahkan hidup dan matiku hanya padaMu ya Rabb. Mohon ampunanMu atas segala dosa dan khilafku dan orang-orang tercinta-ku Ya Rabb. Cukuplah Engkau sebagai penolongku... Cukuplah Engkau sebagai penolongku”. Yes it was. It was only a little reminder. And such an irony of how some of us only could remember the Almighty when death comes near. Naudzubillahimindzalik. My deepest condolence for the victim of this national disaster. May Allah SWT grants them the best place in THE HOUSE, amen.
  

• Thanking Allah the Almighty, realized that I’m one of those lucky ones who still able to bought things I need want. These last two months, I decided to do some kinda ‘shoes-and-outfits’ buy-fasting due to some long-term-plans. Means, I only go for very-very-urgent-necessities (^^;;) it works, but unfortunately not for other desire, hee hee :D Now I can’t help myself from buying entertaining Audio-CDs [let’s blame my friends who keep giving me that round thing as a gift, heheheh]. I used to stick with my MP3 player with mini speaker in my room, but now... a portable CD player has become my truly beloved roomates :P [it’s such a gadget degradation, wasn’t it? hakakakak]. and again.. I’ll write more about this on seperate post. Yes, that’s-oh-a-promise :)
  

• Thanking Allah the Almighty, my younger brother accepted to continue his study in his favourite City [@ the same college as me also]. As a friend ever said: “There will be thousands of reasons for you to come back here, sweetie.” And I guess he was right. Izinkanlah aku untuk slalu pulang lagi,... [~KLa]
  

• Thanking Allah the Almighty, I [finally] finished this full-length notice to you guys. Heheh. Have a bright-blessed day, everyone ^_*