Bandung~My Lovely Town~
Ha ha, sorry for the cheesy title, but well if that’s what’s been inside my head then so what:p.
Although I still don’t know what I can contribute now and in the future for this town where I live, deep inside my heart I always know that Bandung is the city where I want to settle down in Indonesia. I love its everything;its cool, breezy atmosphere, its delicious culinary legacies, its crowdy, gotong royong metro-lifestyle(a kind of lifestyle which is not purely individualistic buat also not truly gotong royong-I invented the idiom myself:p). Bandung is educated, witty, and jammed- well at least within the scale of Indonesian standard(mind you, Ariana:p). There are many creativities born in this town. As far as I remember, Bandung is one of that place in Indonesia where the industry of music grows productively. Many bands and musician comes from Bandung, I don’t think it’s necessary to mention them one by one here. Besides music, Bandung is also known for its dynamic community movement I love a lot. There are community movements in literary(such as the Tobucil Club), environmental awareness(Iwan Something cs), and care towards street-children and singers(Harry Roesli cs). That’s why, once again, I love this town very much! It is maybe not as big and complete as Jakarta, but exactly it is its mediocrity that makes me fall in love with… so medium, so humble…
Downtown Bandung
Speaking of downtown Bandung, for about six years I’ve spent here, my mind always flies towards Jalan Ir. H. Juanda, or they often call it Dago instead. It is just an ordinary two way, crowded, narrow street(ha ha), but it’s so special. It borders with Jalan Merdeka where you can find the legendary Gramedia bookstore and BIP mall. Going on to the north, and tadaaa you will find the lovely campus of mine, ***!! I kind of think that this campus is the real centre of the town(narsis ria…:p). Since I was in high school, I always come there to have a sightseeing with my friend Santi or Rhea. Miss those old times:). Another must-visit spot in Bandung is Jalan Cihampelas, where you can find the cozy Cihampelas Walk, a mall designed to make people get used to walk. I like its atmosphere; very pink and clean and… they have this one of the best karaokeing spot in Bandung!:D (This is just where I and the SEF people actually love to ngehedon in every single opportunity we have:p)
Tradition of Cuisine(I)
As I said before, Bandung’s cuisine is superb! It has a blend of rich delicacy of both western and eastern recipes; in fact, you can find almost any kind of food you wish to taste here… err, I say, almost. Well, indeed I haven’t found any adequate Indian cuisine restaurant, for example.
Since I’m a pasta lover, I recommend you to try Warung Pasta in Jalan Ganesha 3, hmm yummy! I love their specialties in cooking chicken berry(the blueberry sauce is good!) and Amitabachan package(pastas mixed with chicken nugget)and their Curly Swirly, a kind of lasagna without layered pasta. These are packets you can enjoy starting from Rp9500. Moving on further north, in Jalan Kidangpananjung, still within the spirit of Western taste, you can also give Tizi Restaurant a try. They have good schazlick, European satay marinated in soy bean ketchup-definitely a must try. By the way, this restaurant has been established since 36 years ago, what a business.
-To be continued-
So Now…
Physics is My Life!!!!
Hurrah!!! Long live Feynmann, long live quantum physics, and may I have a wonderful sophomore, junior, and senior years with my physics Prince afterwards:p.
(Laugh as you will, Pandu)
I think I’ve always known that I’ll be placed in this major, ho ho. To be honest, I’ve targeted it since my freshman year in high school.
*flash back the memories 4 years ago*
Demonic voice inside my head: Damn God!! Why does every high-prestigious major in *** requires a high passing grade as well??!!
Angelic voice inside my head: Don’t worry sweety… There’s always been a solution… Look at that **** major… less effort, same prestige, hi hi hi…
(Myself, tertegun. Lost in deep thought towards the **,* passing grade, hua ha ha)
…And thus after that, I’ve never been, ever again in my whole life in high school, afraid that I wouldn’t have a seat in this campus… with such passing grade, with only a little bit effort I would be able to graduate(amiinn) from the campus with full prestige, amiin…
Why Physics??
..For those who have never seen its beauty (from, undeniably, a high-qualified perspective-that’s right- I’m talking about smart brainies’ ones), physics remains to be a threatening subject for most students…
But not me.
:p
I love its complexity, its accuracy in defining nature’s phenomenon which would then be compacted in shape of laser technology, for example.
I would never regret this choice.
Ready to pay for the consequences!!
Bismillahirrahmanirrahiim…
Urlaub im Semarang(1)
…Well, so far I really enjoy my time in this town.
Semarang is a very beautiful one. I like its oldies atmosphere; especially upon the side they call ‘Kota Lama’. Hmm, it has some beautiful old buildings around there, creating such that eerie (hi hi) odour where suddenly you can imagine Holland ladies walking in the surroundings with their colourful umbrellas, blondie hair and victorian styles carrying their puddles… I portrayed myself as one of them, eating ice cream with my hubby while romantically seeing the sun set near Lawang Sewu:p.
The centre downtown in Semarang, if I’m not mistaken, lays around Jalan Pemuda, where you can find the famous Tugu Muda, Lawang Sewu, SMA 3(ha ha ha… anywhere in Indonesia, 3 always rocks!), and some governmental buildings or sorts of that thing. It is neat and green enough to be proud of. Lawang Sewu, was once being the shooting location of Ayat-Ayat Cinta, is an ancient building which is said to have 1000 doors inside it. Despite its crooky walls, the building remains classically elegant and I can still feel its majesticity.
Yesterday I went to Kudus and Demak. It was another fun travel in Central Java. We visited the Kudus Tower Mosque, a unique blend of Hindu and Moslem architecture. We also went to the Demak Mosque, where we did sholat Dhuhur. We tasted garang asem(a kind of sour Javanese stew with tomatoes, chillies, and meats) in Sari Rasa Restaurant, it was yummy! If you are that kind of a lot-eater, I suggest you to order the garang asem jeroan… it was a large portion and extremely delicious.
I also plan to visit Yogyakarta next week. I miss my old friends a lot:).
Changes
Time changes. People change.
Our home changes.
I used to hate going home to where my parents are, he he he. Well, because they’re far far away from Bandung, in Sumatra! Although there are malls in Pekanbaru, relatives’ houses to be inspected, and Gramedia right beside our house , the weather was so hot that it made me lazy to do anything. Ha ha, nope, actually because there were exactly TOO MUCH things to do that it made me confused to do which one in the first place…
So now in 2008, hoopla! My dad’s obliged to move to Semarang! It’s way much cooler here than in Pekanbaru! Yeah, literally and implicitly, hi hi hi. I love it here(Semarang)… the town can be smaller than Bandung, but(not to sound snobbish), our house is settled in a very elite district(hui hi hi), reminds me about Lembangish or Dagoish ones in Bandung… there are trees in the edge of the shaddy street, alhamdulillah… finally my dream to have a house in such area is accomplished! Ya Allah, please let me go to Schlumberger next… Amen…:D 
… So let everything passes naturally, face the changes…
PS: My Mom’s now already been able to surf the internet… Good job, Mom!!
The Fall: An Expanded Horizon
Urlaub is in the air!!
Ha ha, still in the spirit of urlaub, today I was watching this movie named ‘The Fall’. It was really an experience for me, since this was my first time ever went to this cinema called ‘Blitz’(which they said to have international-standard studios and all that)…
The Fall: An Expanded Horizon
This film is really funny in a very naive way. So, there was being told a girl named(duhh namanya gue lupa hi hi hi)- well say it, Abigail(lagi seneng sama Abigail Breslin-halah)- who was being hurt in her hand and needed to stay for a while in a hospital, where she met this desperate young man(call him Mr. Schon) who attempted to commit a suicide.
He told Abigail stories with hope that she would get him morphines he would take to end his life. Yang lucunya adalah bayangan(perspektif) Abigail tentang cerita itu. Seperti misalnya saat dia mengasosiasikan keempat tokoh dalam cerita dengan wajah-wajah orang-orang yang dikenalnya di rumah sakit: Pak Tua dengan gigi palsunya sebagai Mystic, Luigi si penjinak bom diperankan oleh gue lupa siapa, another patient as the brilliant Darwin, orang kulit hitam penarik kereta kuda sebagai budak belian perkasa dan etc, etc… it was so, utterly undeniably, anak kecil banget nggak sih. Gue jadi teringat masa kecil gue dulu di mana gue selalu mengasosiasikan cowok tampan sebagai Onky Alexander dan wanita cantik sebagai Marissa Haque(hue he he jadul pisan) hanya gara-gara film-film merekalah yang pertama kali gue lihat, ha ha… I can really feel the naivity of little Abigail when she tries to project the whole bullshit stories within all the imagination she could construct.
The humour style was superb! Gue kaya merasakan Asian dan Western humour style berbaur dengan cantik gitu dalam jalinan cerita ‘The Fall’ ini, membentuk perpaduan cita rasa yang sedap seperti saat kita menyantap lidah sapi goreng Ibu Ciganea dalam keadaan lapar… nyam! Yah, well, terkadang sadis, berlebihan, dan getir seperti umumnya film-film Barat bawakan(misalnya seperti pada waktu adegan di bagian terakhir film, di mana pemeran Gubernur Oedius tertusuk pedang dengan nggak bangetnya di tepi kolam, terus berkata:’oo… I don’t feel well’, atau kita bisa merasakan selera humor Jepang(dan terkadang dalam beberapa film Indonesia dengan selera humor bermutu-yang jumlahnya sedikit sekali!) yang cenderung nggak nyambung tapi kocak dan segar-seperti saat si Ksatria Bertopeng menemukan bahwa si cantik yang bersembunyi di balik topeng kipas itu berwajah seperti Suster Evelyn… ha ha ha, bikin gue ngakak abis…)
Dari skala 5 bintang, gue beri 4 bintang untuk film ini, hmm mungkin karena gue pikir ada space yang sangat luas bagi setiap orang untuk menginterpretasikan film ini sesuai pikiran dan selera masing-masing, which I think (also) becomes this movie’s power and weakness. Power, because there are no significant limitation of how we should view the movie, weakness because it seems that the director has failed to send his sole purpose of making the film, a failure of having it in one straight path… but I prefer to see it as the intention from the director and the crew behind the movie to let the audience conclude it as they like.
As for me, I see that somehow we do need to view this life from an expanded horizon; like, for example, from the perspective of a child; view it from the perspective of their naiveness(naiveness atau naivity sih?? ah, sudahlah…); find some humour from it to laugh about- and well, when sometimes life does becoming such a shit and disaster, you’ll still be able to survive and go on through it… and perhaps, find its beauty within its complexity. Duhh gue jadi berasa kaya sok2 berfilsafat gini… is it too nice??-LOL-
Kalo kata Pandu mah: hargailah stunt man(…).
Urlaub ist in The Air…
I won’t be bored writing the title over and over again!!
Well so today,,, still as fun as a holiday should have been… I played tennis with Pandu and Farrah and Nogi!! Ho ho ho… it was quite calories-burning, and I really enjoyed it. We had a game but unfortunately my team (me and Nogi) was lost to Pandu’s by 2-4, but all in all it was still fun!
After that we ate chicken porridge near Salman. Then we had a two session debate, which I felt like really unelaborated and still very weak… damn I really need more practice…
Unfortunately I couldn’t participate in the next maybe 2 or 3 debates(halah) since there were many other things to do… I had to send the German Language CD that Gandhi ordered, and fetch my coat from the taylor.
Well, then when I arrived at home I straight write this blog… while replying Ndhi’s sms, hi hi hi… well… a nice thing to do:p…
FMIPA 07 Camp 2008-Miscellaneous!
I mean, it’s miscellaneous feelings that happened!
… So yesterday was my first time ever camping since in college. At first it was exciting but eventually things were quite getting messy(ha ha), but overall it was succesful enough to tell.
Began by our narcisstic picture-taking event in Lapangan Segitiga, I was really grateful enough that nobody was coming late. We went to Lembang at perfectly about 2 pm, me, Nadia, Rima, and Ira had to be really fate-surrendering-to God behaving since we drove inside Pandu’s awfully-driven car… where the music determined the driver’s mood(and he played loud songs like Limp Bizkit’s Rolling, and etc).
So this car arrived at about 3 pm in Bumi Perkemahan Alam Sejuk Lembang. We were straightly erecting the tents, and as the consumption section I was straightly giving the snacks out to everybody who were just lolling around not erecting the tents up.
After the erecting tents things done, the next events were fishing, or the caves-exploring, or card-playing.
(And for your information, this is one of the advantage of participating in such together-camping: you become MUCH MORE aware and knowing of each other’s personality)
Well, so I participated in this caves-exploring… which was a TOTAL hiking, which was horrible(he he)… so Rhorom, I just knew it that he is this weird, as the hiking leader, chose a quite dangerous path to go through… it was slippery, steep, and extremely wet-I hated it!-LOL- … and that time I straightly have come to realize that Rhorom is one of that weirdos in ITB(hua ha ha… sorry Rhom), since he chose the path.
And then there was Sapi the coquettish(ha ha). Krissa the error man. And Nadia… gosh I never knew that you aren’t suitable enough to go abroad, Nad… since Nadia was fainting in the middle of the night(which made the camping committee a little bit panic at the time, made the situation a bit messy, but oddly the tempe bakar party kept on going smoothly… yeahh the show must go on man!), and later out was found out to almost experiencing a hypothermia… poor, my beloved friend!:) But fortunately she’s okay now:).
After shalat Maghrib, we had dinner and the crowds were continuing to party all night long(well actually until about 2.00 pm) and some guys were staying up till morning chatting together and guarding the tent(duhh jelek banget bahasanya).
The next morning, before we headed home, we ngariung together eating fried fish(resulted from previous day’s fishing) while reciting our names in turn. It’s a pity that not everybody from MIPA came!
I enjoyed the camp. Especially… this is my first time that someone ever called me as ’Princess’:p
PS: I know you were just kidding-LOL-
