Good Day

tried to learn doing typography few days ago. shadowing one of my portrait with this blog's header title,

click for bigger view

..and it ended up no as good as I expected.. so I came up with this gif. I thought typography is interesting to learn. but in this case, it failed me..

"in case I don't see ya, good afternoon,

good evening, good night"

-The Truman Show

S.O.S. Signal

aku tahu

aku bukanlah manusia yang pantas menjadi anakMu

aku berpakaian dosa, berselimut cela, hina

aku tak hiraukan perkataanMu

tinggi aku menilai diriku, superior

terlalu arogan untuk menoleh padaMu dan bersyukur

terlalu lelah untuk menyapaMu di hari-hariku

sepele, aku selalu berpikir

distraksi tidak bisa kuingkari

dunia memiliki semua perhatianku

lalu aku tenggelam 

aku lupa siapa sebenarnya diriku

aku tersesat dalam hiruk pikuk

dalam diam aku tertegun

menyalahkan semua hal

marah, aku merasa ditinggalkan

'dimana Engkau, wahai sang Maha Luar Biasa?

Kau bilang melalui firmanMu Kau akan selalu ada

sekarang aku disini

sendiri

sakit

dimana Engkau, Ayah Surgawi

mengapa Kau biarkan aku menderita

merasakan sakit seperti ini

aku meminta

mencari

mengetuk

tolong

tolong aku

aku tak mampu lagi

tak mampu lagi..

ambil saja aku ini, ambilah segala yang kupunya

mengapa Kau masih membiarkanku hidup dengan semua ini

HABISKAN AKU

ambil..ambil semuanya'

aku terus serukan padaMu

beberapa bulan purnama berlalu, 

aku tidak berhenti menyerukan hal yang sama padaMu

Kau pasti sudah bosan mendengar deru tangisku

seperti air hujan yang tidak berharga

aku pun akhirnya diam

diam aku, nafaspun tak ingin kuhembuskan

aku tahu

aku begitu cela Kau pun tak menghiraukanku 

aku sadar

aku yang meninggalkanMu

aku yang mecampakanMu

aku yang tidak mencariMu pertama

aku berlumur dosa

dan aku melihat sekitarku

berantakan, kapal pecah

Tuhan, betapa kotornya aku, betapa hinanya

lemah, tidak memiliki apa-apa

menyedihkan

masih layakkah aku Tuhan untuk berlutut menghadapMu

meminta

mencari

mengetuk

masih layak kah aku Tuhan untuk sekali lagi berseru padaMu

izinkan aku melakukan ini untuk mereka

untuk anak-anakMu yang begitu layak dicintai

keluarga, kekasih, dan teman-temanku

mereka yang terpaksa mencintaiku

biarkan mereka terlepas dariku

bahagiakan mereka

Tuhan 

Tolong 

Aku

tolong aku, hambaMu yang tidak berarti apa-apa ini

aku yang rusak, yang sakit, yang menyakiti, yang hina, bercela

penuh dosa seluruh hidupku

tolong aku Tuhan, 

tolong aku melewati semua ini, tolong aku bangkit, 

tolong berikan kekuatan padaku

Tuhan, tolong aku.

New Perspective to be Lived With

well, firstly, some people might find this post too arrogant, but I keep my best intention not to offend anyone.

I always love learning certain things that can be seen. real ones, rational ones. hating those lessons that so freaking imaginary, full of nonsense theories, confusing history, and those craps to be memorized. gah, hate 'em. hence, everytime people ask me, "what do you want to be?" I'd simply answer 'an engineer' since I was 12. I think I didn't even really know what engineers do that age. and frankly I have no drive to engineering. both of my parents are not engineers. they both majored in economics. so does my older sister. but it seems to me I can't be distracted anymore. so, engineering it is.

Getting into an institute of technology, I major Industrial Engineering (IE). my first year here was just the resume of what I've learnt in high school. so now that I'm in 2nd year, I just got into the real 'Industrial Engineering'. and bump. surprised. IE is not as true as I've always imagined about how my engineering major is supposed to be since I was a kid. while being absent in the beginning of the new term due to health issue, I was freaked out. questioning whether or not this is the right path for me. I got used to equations, theorems, problems with exact solving.. I thought social science is interesting, but it was not really my thing, I guessed at first..

Nine Strange Subjects

now I just passed mid-term tests, which forced me to learn the subjects all at once. and.. surprisingly -- in spite of lack of preparation for the tests bcs I was running out the time due to my absences -- those 9 subjects I was freaked out about at first turned out to be not really that bad.. getting to know this new world called Industrial Engineering makes me learn that IE is not really all about nonsense theories based on imaginary concept. and thank God I don't hate it as much as I thought before. It's all new for me, theorems, disciplines, systems, methods, skills.  it's still early, I know and there's still a lot more for me to learn. but as these passion grows, I'm willing to learn this new world.

IE is a bridge. IE balances the science, engineering, and social. IE includes human to the technology engineering. IE is integrator between engineering and social life in real system. IE is concerned about the design, installment, and improvement of people, materials, equipments, informations, and energy.
Industrial Engineering is my new perspective.

ain't it a good start? :)
*finger crossed*

Enough

last August turned out to be one hell of a month. it's like life is supposed to be ups and downs, but these months it was all about the 'downs'. both literal and metaphorical meanings. joyless. dark. sunshine is too busy to say hello. why? oh everyone knows. perhaps everyone, either friends on twitter or blackberry messenger, can't help but wondering why I'm sick again and again. I've been absent for a while. been hospitalized twice in a month and having bed rest for a month. I missed so many moments, opportunities, plans, holiday plans.. kept everyone bothered and in trouble.

they say 'after falling down, go up even higher', but that aint effin easy. I lose my grip. every values of life I always looked up to, things I used to like, courage I used to have, definition of life, they're all gone. I am not me. I lose my self. and can't be that person anymore. but I didn't lose my sanity, my mind, and my feelings. I'm not crazy so I need a physiologic consult. you don't get to judge me, my sickness, my mind, questioning my sanity. I'm not a freak who can freak out anytime. I'm lost. not confused. I just don't know what to do, what's next, where to go, how, and why. I lose my direction.

but people, people can't stop judging. even your closest people do. what hurts the most is, when they start to treat you based on their own judgments. without ever knowing what is going on. everyone has a problem. I knew that. I'm not stupid. but at some point, a little understanding would be nice. I'm not a robot. and if people want me to be one.. idk.

I had enough.

Random Thoughts

• here, not to mention my fckd-up heath condition recently.
• sometimes I could just sit on couch for hours, while chatting with special person, and letting my brain explore almost everything that come up to my mind.
• I want the world to stop rotating for a moment, so does the other space objects. so for a moment, time would stop.. and universe would let me enjoying brief moments I'd die into for living there.
• everyone, everyone, always tells me to do things. criticizing on my way to live live. it's like I always do the wrong things. I never go right. while everyone else is always right. making mistakes is my talent. well, yeah.. the last one is right, probably.
• I'm the most stubborn person I possibly ever know. sounds arrogant? that's just my subjective judgment.
• but, I'm sick. sick of people telling me to do things. sick of their worries. sick of making them worry. sick of people's unfair judgment. sick of being helpless. sick of this sickness..
• this is what I have to deal with for the rest of my life.
• I just have to find a way to deal with it.
• like real soon.

As If We Didn't Know It All

what we do in life, echoes in eternity. we are so quick to point fingers instead of listening. searching to be offended and wondering why, why everything is going downhill. but have we ever, just for a moment, remain distant from everyone and look everything from a bigger picture? and stop whining, start being thankful.

the silent echoes inside my head has given me a lot to think about all these times. a lot. but now, this is why I need time for myself alone. to think. to read. to write. to feel. the importance of being idle.

I Wanna Run Around The World and Spread My Wings To Touch The Sky

and not having this.

I... simply wanna be healthy.

A Passage

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,  I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not proud,

Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own,is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs.

Rejoices not in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Always protects, always believes, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall be stilled; whether there be knowledge, it shall pass away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

But when that which is perfect is come, that which is imperfect shall disappear.

When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I put childish ways behind me.

 For now we see in a mirror, poor reflection;  then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known

 But now abides faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love."

-1 Corinthians 13

Sparks

"My heart is yours. It's you that I hold on to. That's what I do and I know I was wrong, But I won't let you down"

(Coldplay)

But We Are Just..

H U M A N

we make mistakes. we disappoint others. we get disappointed. we make expectation. we expect. we excuse. we make excuses. we apologize. we regret. we don't forgive. we promise. we break promise. we laugh. we cry. we love. we hate. we hurt others. we get hurt. we want to be understood. we don't understand others. we make theory. we don't do theory on practice. we talk. we feel. we fall. we raise. 

Pain Proof Heart

can people die because of too much crying? or having too much pain in their chest? because if people can die suffering too much heart damage, then I might have been killed thousands times. people say what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger, but in my case, what doesn't kill you now kills you later another time. bcs I'm not even effing stronger, instead I turn into a weak person whose crybaby ass acts anytime she gets chances.

reality bites, too hard sometimes that we may feel numb. then we become a bunch of insensitive people and the only thing that matters to us is just our life. our problems. our condition. our pain. ignoring other people's pain.. anyway, isn't it funny that the ones who have the ability to hurt you the most are the ones who you love the most? if you get hurt by someone, it means you love them, ironically. and another ugly truth about pain is when we get hurt by someone, we tend to let those who cause the pain get hurt exactly as painful as we are. or even worse. and those are what blind people. at that point, love seems like disappeared. and after a while, the numbness we feel is gone, our eyes open widely and see what mess we've made because of the pain. we're messed up. we're fucked up. we regret. as always, at the end of the day, regret comes the last. and pain doesn't go anywhere. bcs the real truth about pain is, seeing somebody we love in pain gives the worst pain ever.

if only there were a pain-proof heart, I'd love to buy it and replace my weak heart.  bcs with my pain-proof heart, I wont be too sensitive and too easy to get offended. too weak and too afraid of changes. then I will tend to stop hurting anyone, especially the ones I love.
so where to buy?

Lay It Down Slow

if you got dreams in your heart, why don't you share them with me?
and if dreams don't come true, I'll make sure that your nightmares are through
if you got pain in your heart, why don't you share them with me?
and we'll just wait and see, if it's half what it used to be
if you've got love in your heart, why don't you keep it with mine?
I can't promise a miracle, but I'll always be trying


and lay it down slow
lay it down free
lay it down easy
but lay it on me

(-Spiritualized)

Due to Health Issue

been being absence whole week, skipping all the important lessons, even my first mid test this semester. and now with only half health back I should really chase after my friends about the lessons, and facing another mid test just in two days. and another mid test in a week. what lesson? chemistry, my damn weakness. and physics next week. and also all the crap damn homeworks are there sitting nicely wait for me to touch them, which, I don't even plan to see them in near time.

yeah, my first weeks in 19th year went very obviously well.
shoot I'm a total mess. :(

Nineteen

geez, I'm old. But hey guys, thank you.

thanks for the surprises. the waking-up surprise and the before-sleep one. thanks for Louie. thanks for the certificate. thanks for the pictures. thanks for the gifts, wallets and bag. thanks for the scrapbook. thanks for the dinner treat. thank you, just simply thanks for making today so beautiful. thank you,

Emperor ITB 2010

Best Friends

Hybrid X

Dewi-es

well. I know saying thank you is not enough, but really, I feel so loved and grateful have you all guys. 

Love you all, lyk 19 times more than before. bonjour 19!

Growing Older is a Sure Thing but Growing Up is Optional

Turning 19 and leaving the beauty age of 18 in the end of the month. 19. berkali-kali saya camkan usia saya yang menginjak satuan terakhir untuk puluhan satu dan saya masih tetap sulit untuk percaya. bukan, bukan, saya tidak berniat menjadi drama queen yang melebih-lebihkan persoalan kecil, hanya saja ini suatu bentuk pikiran dan refleksi saya terhadap kehidupan saya selama ini. what have I done in this past 19 years?  saya terdiam.

I try to figure out my worthiness to touch down the age of adulthood by looking what I have done. dan yah kosong. I'm not even close to be what people call maturity. tidak jarang saya bertingkah seperti anak remaja, labil dan keras kepala. saya belum melakukan apa-apa, dan terlalu banyak membuang waktu. begitu banyak kesempatan saya sia-siakan. apa achievement saya? sudahkah saya membuat decent contribution? to country? to city? to college? or even just to my own family? belum, saya belum melakukan apa-apa. awalnya hal itu tidak terasa bisa disesalkan, tapi begitu melihat sekitar saya, melihat semuanya secara lebih dekat, wah, wah. terdiam dan menyesal. usia sudah memasuki satuan terakhir di puluhan satu, belum pantas rasanya menginjak usia kepala dua. kalau saja bukan karena saya ingin bersyukur kepada Sang Pencipta atas kehidupan yang sudah diberikan pada saya 19 tahun ini, rasanya tidak ada yang perlu dirayakan dari penambahan usia ini.

but, well................. the ugly truth is, time-wont-wait. so here I am. in less than a week facing the new age, and hopefully following by new better personality, behavior, intelligence, empathy in a complete package as my present. mungkin saya masih belum melakukan hal terbaik yang bisa saya lakukan dalam hidup saya, tapi selama saya masih memiliki keluarga dan teman-teman yang saya cintai, saya tau saya akan tidak akan berhenti melakukan yang terbaik buat mereka, yang mungkin salah satunya adalah kamu yang sedang membaca :-)

semua manusia pasti bertambah tua, tapi bertambah dewasa adalah sebuah cerita lain.
good nite, universe.