#GarudaFightsBack

Sepakbola sungguh mengagumkan. Saya menulis ini bukan sebagai fans sepakbola, namun sebagai warga Indonesia, yang tidak pernah berharap banyak pada persepakbolaan di tanah air karena minimnya prestasi. Tapi tahun ini, timnas Indonesia berhasil menarik hampir seluruh masyarakat Indonesia untuk menonton 90 menit permainan itu, bahkan yang tidak menyukainya sekalipun.

Apa yang menarik dari sepakbola dari segi permainan, mungkin saya tidak akan pernah tahu. Tapi sepakbola sebagai pemersatu, saya saksi hidupnya.

Saya yakin banyak yang tidak menyadari awal berlangsungnya Piala AFF seperti saya. Tapi kemenangan Indonesia pada beberapa pertandingan awal dengan skor cukup luar biasa, langsung mengundang perhatian. Yang kemudian, membuahkan satu trending topic di twitter "Timnas Indonesia". Dari timeline twitter, saya mulai mengenal nama-nama pemain Indonesia, seperti Irfan Bachdim, M. Ridwan, dan Christian Gonzales. Dari timeline twitter juga, saya bisa mengetahui perjalanan tim Indonesia di kompetisi ini sampai final.

Semua sudah mengetahui kekalahan kita di final, tapi saya tidak akan menulis tentang itu. Saya ingin memberitahukan kemenangan kita yang lain.

Kita berhasil mempertahankan beberapa trending topic di twitterland selama piala AFF ini. Timnas Indonesia, #loveindonesia, #garudafightsback, serta beberapa nama pemain Indonesia. Dan sejauh yang saya tahu, trending topic positif semacam ini adalah yang pertama. Sebelumnya, kita tanpa sengaja mempopulerkan Ariel Peterporn dan keong racun, lalu #prayforindonesia ketika bencana alam terjadi berturut-turut tahun ini.

Kini, dunia Lebih mengenal Indonesia. Tidak hanya tentang video porno atau dua ABG kurang kerjaan. Tapi juga garuda sebagai lambang negara Indonesia. I realize it's not big, but simply through twitter, our voices are heard, and people listen.

Jadi bohong kalau ada yang bilang semangat kesatuan dan persatuan sudah hilang sama sekali. Karena walaupun hanya lewat twitter, kita bersatu. Karena malam ini, kita sama-sama berjuang untuk kemenangan Indonesia. Dan sama-sama merasakan kebanggaan terhadap Garuda.

We do care about our nation, we support Indonesia, and when we're united, nothing can stop us.

Terima kasih untuk Timnas Indonesia, yang sudah menyadarkan saya akan hal ini. Let's fight together again at Sea Games 2011.

Merry Merry Chirstmaass...

Actually, I don't celebrate Christmas as I'm not a Christian. But during my school period, I always celebrated it at my school. Kind of miss it all these years. Yesterday, I read my friend's tweets about Christmas cakes she got and I feel a bit envy for the cakes. So I thought about googling some pictures of Christmas cake just to satisfied my craving for sweets. Hehehe...

 

 A cake for Christmas wedding, I'll say. I'm a bit bothered by the Santa doll since it looked so small compared to the reindeer and carriage. Still, it's beautiful.

 I love the light blue color. Feel the winter breeze just by looking at it. 

 

Credit to the photographer for the composition I guess. Simple but looks good and delicious.

 

 Yeay to snowflakes theme!

 The stars are cute. I wonder if the gold stars are edible.

Merry Christmas to all of you. Share me some cakes please? Hehehe...

Almost Christmas... Almost New Year..!

2010 is going to end!

Saya bingung harus merasa senang atau galau. Banyak sekali yang sudah dilalui di tahun 2010 ini. Mulai dari sidang skripsi, kelulusan, wisuda, sampai huru hara kerjaan freelance. Senang karena masih dapat kesempatan memulai dekade baru kehidupan, galau karena merasa pengembangan diri tahun ini terasa kurang.

I feel a bit funny too. Tahun kemarin, sama sekali ngga pusing sama tahun baru atau apa karena sedang sibuk-sibuknya berskripsyong ria. Tidak ada resolusi selain lulus dengan sebaik-baiknya. Tahun-tahun sebelumnya, masih dalam masa-masa kuliah, tidak perlu pusing dengan tujuan hidup ke depan. Dang! ternyata selama ini menjalani hidup kok gitu-gitu aja, tanpa tujuan jelas, hahahaha...

Jadi, sisa beberapa hari sebelum tahun baru ini, saya perlu mempersiapkan tujuan jangka pendek setahun ke depan. Dan bersungguh-sungguh untuk mencapainya. Fighting!

New Project! Meet deDezain... ^^

So I decided to combine my passion for writing and design, and made this blog. Mostly it was a result for too much spare time, but after put more thoughts, I really would like to make it happen.

For now it only had three posts, one introduction and two translation articles. I'll try to write an article on my own, perhaps more about local designers and products. We have lots of them, but sometimes most of them are out of the radar. I really need to work on its design too. Looks like a lot of homeworks. =P

Anyway, please visit and leave comments if you like. ^^

http://dedezain.blogspot.com/

Katy Perry - Firework

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind
Wanting to start again

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in

Do you ever feel already buried deep
Six feet under scream
But no one seems to hear a thing

Do you know that there's still a chance for you
Cause there's a spark in you

You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July

Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own

You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow

Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed
So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow
And when it's time, you'll know

You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July

Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through

Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em going "Oh, oh, oh!"

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon

Something I read...

"It’s sort of like the difference between hearing “you’re fucking ugly” your whole life and then suddenly having someone tell you, “you’re fucking beautiful.” They’re just words, but somehow they have the power to tilt your axis, shift your worldview just a little, jar you out of your funk and make you see a slightly different angle."

~javabeans on dramabeans.com

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1

I fell in love with the first movie, and I started to devour the books.

The second confused me, but it’s okay.

The third disappointed me, the fourth brought back my trust.

It shattered by the fifth.

I didn’t care enough to watch the sixth.

And seventh, lucky number it is, made me fall in love all over again.

I always predicted the movie will started with action on the go. Seven Harry(es?) flew to the sky with their escorts, attacked by Death Eaters. Magic wand shots everywhere. People shouted. Action.

I glad I was wrong, because I liked the beginning even better. Instead of jump into action, we saw emotional suspense. Harry, Ron, Hermione, in their time before everything started again. Mostly I love how Emma Watson portrayed Hermione. Sadness, confused, but determined. She planned it all. Even to the safety of her muggle parents.

The scene when she used Obliviate charm to her parents was not in the book. We knew it happened. But instead of put it into dialog, they chose to show it. And I know from the emotion I felt then, this movie was going to be great.

One of my favorite part in the book, where Harry woke up in Black’s residence and he saw Ron and Hermione’s hands like they hold each other till they fell asleep. I had wanted to dance around because I was so happy they inserted that small moments.

Of course, not all the details were the same. I read the book about a year ago so I don’t remember it all. But, that’s what makes this movie much much better than the previous ones. Even without those details, it didn’t felt choppy. They warped such long scenes at Godric Hollows into just few minutes, but it’s still good to watch. And thank God, they decided to make it to two parts. Although we have to wait another year for part two, at least we get double awesomeness.

I believe, Harry Potter will become a legend, a tale itself. Harry Potter has become an icon. I never knew a world full of wizards can be so exciting before him. And I’m sure in another ten or twenty years, I’ll sit back and read all those seven books again, reminded by my own memories about this time when I’m still young. And maybe I’ll tell those stories to my children, and grandchildren, start with “Once upon a time, there’s a boy named Harry… “

meet you in flesh...

Just meet a bestfriend today and spend all day long with her. She got a job almost a month ago and since then our usual meeting on workdays stopped. We keep chatting everyday, with BBM, and lately with SMS or other messengers since her Blackberry was broken. Sometimes we just say hii... or I reported that I just woke up at 10 a.m., or she told me something stupid like her boss fart in front of her, silly and small things like that. Sometimes we shared about our job, she is an interior designer too, and projects we got.

But all those chats we did everyday can't beat the excitement when I meet her in person. We spent almost two hours after our lunch at the restaurant just to talk. Then a trip to another mall for movie and coffee, walk around to bought birthday cake and card for his cousin. It's a simple day out with a friend. And I had so much fun. ^^

Today's event remind me about a chapter in Mikko's latest edition. It's a japanese comic book about Mikko, a fifth grader. Her friend got a new handphone, and learn to send text to other. At first she thought it's cool because she can chat with her friends. But somehow she felt lonely. And Mikko, with her innocence, said that it's more fun to talk in person than through text on the phone.

It's really complicated in our world now. With facebook, twitter, bbm, ym, msn, etc. we can connect to the world, and the world to us. But despite the benefits they brought, we miss a lot of things too. Maybe a smile, a slight change of the voice tone, the way their eyes twinkling when excited, body language that say I don't like you right now, pat on your shoulder, a hug. Things that can't truly be transferred by keypad or keyboard.

We're all busy people, with a thing or two that always around, needed to be done as soon as possible. Let's just take a break sometimes. Spend just few hours, just to meet the people you care, in flesh.

This is fenny, signing out ~ ~