Friday, August 17, 2012

dirgahayu dari dirimu

 

Dirgahayu Republik Indonesia!!

Alangkah baiknya jika di hari peringatan kemerdekaan yang ke 67 ini saya menggunakan bahasa Indonesia dengan format Ejaan Yang Disempurnakan untuk menulis posting ini. 

Alah. Ga usah pake EYD deh. Susah. Udah lama ga sekolah.

Buat orang yang ga ngerti bahasa Indonesia yang kebeneran baca posting ini, Google Translate aja yah. Dunia sudah canggih.

Okeee jadi tepat di hari ini Indonesia udah merdeka selama 67 tahun dan tiba tiba seberkas pertanyaan terbersit di dalam pikiran gue ketika gue sedang bengong: Indonesia udah merdeka selama 67 taun, kenapa hati gue ga merdeka merdeka yah?

Yap, kalau menurut definisi yang simpel, merdeka itu bisa berarti bebas dari penjajah. Ga salah, cuman dangkal aja maknanya. Ada makna yang lebih mendalam di balik satu kata ini.

Melihat balik ke pertanyaan gue sebelumnya, ini semua berarti masih ada penjajah di hati gue. Harus diakui, hati gue sudah terjajah selama kurang lebih 5 tahun lamanya. Gue sendiri mendefinisikan hati gue terjajah kalau ada pendatang yang udah menetap lebih dari 2 bulan dan bertindak semena menanya. (definisi masing masing deh yah, males jelasin) Sebenernya si penjajah ini ga 5 tahun bener bener ngejajah soalnya banyak pendatang dan satu penjajah lainnya yang sempet menjajah gue. Mungkin aja si penjajah satu ini sembunyi di celah celah yang ga keliatan dan mulai menjajah lagi setelah melihat si penjajah baru tersebut pergi. Ga bisa aja liat orang merdeka.

Mungkin seperti inilah skenario yang terjadi:

Sebut saja di penjajah 5 taun penjajah M dan penjajah satunya sebagai penjajah N

Setting: Hutan di pegunungan terjal dengan banyak tebing tebing yang curam

prajurit penjajah M 1: komandan, sepertinya prajurit dari penjajah N sudah diusir dan menyerah!
komandan penjajah M : apa kamu yakin?
prajurit penjajah M 1: sangat yakin komandan!
prajurit penjajah M 2: komandan, apa sekarang saatnya kita keluar dari persembunyian kita?
prajurit penjajah M 1: dan kembali menjajah?
komandan penjajah M: hmmm..baiklah para prajurit. sekarang panggil kembali pasukan dan kita beraksi.
prajurit penjajah M 1 &2: siap komandan!!

*tidak lama kemudian batalyon udara, darat, dan lautan datang dan penjajahan dimulai kembali*

Begitulah ceritanya kira kira mengapa hati gue bisa terjajah kembali.

Jadi kenapa ga merdeka merdeka? 

Indonesia merdeka dengan memanfaatkan momen di perang dunia II saat Jepang kocar kacir karena Hiroshima dan Nagasaki luluh lantak kena bom atom. Saat Jepang kocar kacir, para pemuda mendesak Presiden Soekarno dan Wakil Presiden Mohammad Hatta untuk segera mendeklarasikan kemerdekaan Indonesia. Dengan cara mendapatkan kedaulatan utuh dan kemerdekaan yang diakui, Indonesia berhasil mengusir Jepang dari tanah air dan merdeka hingga sekarang yakni tahun ke 67.

Jadi intinya, gue harus menunggu momen yang tepat saat sang penjajah kocar kacir, mendeklarasikan kemerdekaan hati gue dan mendepaknya jauh jauh dari hidup gue. Setuju pemirsa? Yes. kedengerannya gampang. Faktanya, ini paling susah banget buat dilakuin. 

Mengapa?? 

Karena hampir 97.87% dari kita lebih memilih untuk berbicara baik baik dengan sang penjajah dengan harapan bahwa sang penjajah akan terbuka hatinya untuk berpihak pada sang terjajah dan tetap tinggal di sana dengan status bukan sebagai penjajah tetapi sebagai warga negara dengan satu hati. Pilihan ini adalah sesuatu yang sangat sulit untuk dilakukan karena 80% penjajah malah akan balik menyakiti dan menganiaya dengan lebih keji daripada membuka hatinya. Hal inilah yang dapat membuat penjajahan tersebut semakin terlihat kejam.

Terkadang, sebagian dari diri kita juga sebagai pihak terjajah merasa nyaman dijajah, dan tidak ingin sang penjajah pergi, apalagi menjadi warga negara lain. (Hanya ada pada penjajahan hati. Kalau benar benar terjadi pada penjajahan nyata, dunia sudah gila.)

Buat gue sendiri, sepertinya kasus yang terakhir lebih cocok menggambarkan kehidupan gue. Bego sih emang keliatannya, tapi gue tau kalau gue ga sendirian yang lagi atau pernah ngerasa begini. BEGO UNITED!!



Jadi, kapan gue bisa dirgahayu dari dirimu??



Sepertinya gue lebih senang dijajah....

G

Thursday, August 16, 2012

august rush

August. For these five years, it has always been the most anticipated month of my year.

The reasons why:

  • Singapore's national day. No study at school and free holiday. (currently it does not matter any more)
  • Indonesia's independence day. During my time in Singapore, it was a free day off as long as you bring the excuse letter from embassy for attending the flag ceremony (I hope no teacher reading this). This is  also the very time when the nationalism is increased by 314.15278% so suddenly besides that 90 minutes when Indonesia's national team is facing Malaysia's national team in any soccer fixtures.
  • Grandma's and grandpa's birthday. They always hold a big feast for this.
  • Usually the end of any prelims exam before another prelims exam starts. CMIIW.
  • The crucial time in soccer transfer market. There will always be an interesting transfers during August. Yes, the latest big transfer is interesting yet heartbreaking. (FYI I'm an Arsenal fanboy as well) :'(
  • The launch of the new PES is usually at the end of August (if not in early September)
  • New season of soccer starts in August.
  • Perseid meteor shower (I do not even know what it is lol)
You can fill in your own reason why you like August as I like it.

Besides those reasons above, I also like August because a lot of my friends are having their birthday on August, ideally equals to more treats to come. :D There will always be a time, at least eight to ten times on average in which I have to spare my time to wish happy birthday weekly. (Except for this year, I do not know what demotivate me to wish my friends a very happy birthday -..- Sorry guys, won't happen anymore next year)

Yes, the number of my friends having birthday on August is too damn high. Some parents were having a good time on November then. If you know what I mean. #ignorethis

And the latest bash..

15/8/2012

Soooo yesterday was Michelle's birthday. I will not explain who she is. Too much to explain you will get bored. In case your curiosity is that high, maybe you can talk to me in private. Contact me. Follow @gdleesatria #eh.

I see this bash as a hasty plan. How hasty? We just came up with this idea 13 hours before the execution. Thanks God it turned out good (I almost ruined the whole plan because I was late -___- sounds cliché?) Seems that these fellas are very good at this, I could just sit anywhere and watched it like a reality show.

Looks like kidnapping? Yes it is.
Kidnappers and kidnapee were never this happy before
Basically, the plan was only: Kidnap and bring her to Paris van Java in her pyjamas and embarrass her on the spot. Initially, I had no idea how to do it. But, I should say it again. These girls (and two guys) are very good at embarrassing people (this is a compliment) thanks God they do not know me so well.

Pictures speak thousand words. Here they are...
She was really noisy inside the car, so we have to do this.
She looks prettier like this, doesn't she? :p
The birthday cake. Looks familiar?
This damned parking lot was noisier than usual mornings.
"fake" candle blowing lol
On the parking ground of Paris Van Java, we sang her happy birthday, brought up the cake, she made wishes, blew the candle, and do the other normal things people do on their birthday. The birthday girl's appearance was the only abnormal thing here.

After the common rituals were done. We walked around Paris van Java showing off our birthday girl to the world and looking for people to do the questionnaires that the girls made lol. We ended up at Calais after walking 5.42 km (not that long but I'm quite sure that was close) around Paris van Java. Grand finale was held here. We launched the confetti. We made mess. We said goodbye to each other. It was a bit rushy since the birthday girl had her own plan with her family. Anyway it was fun. Wasn't it, Michelle?? ;)

Growing old is painful but at least put a smile on your face can? :)
and what are you doing right there missus?

Wishing happy birthday so many times won't make someone ages more quickly right?

So, happy birthday again Michelle. You did have a blast. :DD



paixetamour,

G

Glücklich Chandrautama

I am not familiar with German, blame the internet if the title is inappropriate.

Sooo... this is the continuation of the last post about this guy called Lucky who were having his birthday.

Yes, this guy.
In this part 2, I will not write too much, so there will be more pictures available. Yea, a picture speaks a thousand words rite?

The main lead is stripping :3
;
Holy baptism
pleading guilty won't help you dude
Finally. Happily ever after ending.
Too much words sometimes will lead you to misinterpretation, so I better write something here.
After that ciwalk part, there was still birthday bash part 2. We planned to baptise the birthday boy with our-self-homemade love potion. Yes. Love potion.

Our amazing, well defined, fantastic, bombastic, mega super ever made by human being plan:
  1. Gideon, Pauline, Bije pretend to go home. Heizel, Sunson will take Lucky home.
  2. In fact, G,P,B go straight to L's house to prepare everything as fast as possible.
  3. H, S buying time and hold L as long as they could.
  4. When L reaches home, the bash will start immediately he won't have time to even realise that he is breathing.
  5. Bash ends.
  6. Blow candles.
  7. Camwhoring.
  8. Go home.
  9. Write this post.
Sounds like a good plan? I know it.

Reality speaks:
  1. Go-to-L's house is not as simple as it seems. The exact location is unknown since none of us has ever gone there before. It took a lot more time than it should be.
  2. Buying time plan went well. However, due to G, P, B's difficulty in finding L's house, the time bought was not enough. (H knew how to reach L's house)
  3. There was an unexpected small accident when H parked his car which delayed H and S. L arrived at his house alone aaaanddd we had to wait until the members were complete to start the bash. Worse came to worst, he realised that there will be another bash going on.
  4. So, we decided to make him strip his tee first (the tee that he wore was the gift that we made) so our love potion will not stain his tee.
  5. And, L's house is on the higher ground which obviously has lower temperature than the central area. The central area of Bandung is already cold at night. L stood topless outside his door waiting for the bash to start. Unfortunately, there was a lot of cold wind that night.
  6. Don't expect for more. This second round was quite screwed up already. Thanks God the rest of the plan went well. :)
A lot of gratitude for Lucky's parents who gave us permission to do the bash and supported us until the end.

Epilogue: The Truth.

Lucky if you were wondering why that brand new tee smelled like dog..
Lucky, if you are reading this post..
Lucky, you will know why in 3..2..1..

This was before you wore the tee :)
Anyway, I know you are happy with this.
We happy, you happy. We all happy.

It is almost two months, but I think it is not too late to say..

happybirthdayagainbro,

this last picture is dedicated for you, and us.

Happy Birthday Lucky!! :)
G