First Post Of The Year

I know its quite a bit too late to start posting something during this new year.. Well, as they say, better late than never.
Anyway, what do they usually post for the 1st post of the year? Last year's regrets? New year's resolutions? Evaluations? Wishes? Hmm.. too conventional, and can I call it boring perhaps? Yes it is as boring as watching titanic for the 10th times.
So, how to make this NOT boring? Perhaps an interactive comments (about the writer of course) will be nice. Right folks? So feel free to leave a comment or more about good things, bad things, things should change, things should stay the same, things you like, things you hate (plenty I presume) or whatever.
Looking fowards for your comments.

P.S: To make it more fun.. sarcastic, dirty, unclean words are allowed.

Fender Fiesta Red Relic

Wohoooo... finally I get a relic look on my guitar. A fender red fiesta.. It sounds much better than before, with the new pickups, new look, new feel (especially the neck is really nice to play!! Its amazing). The sound gets very natural, since the old finish is sand papered, the warm sound of the wood is starting to come.

Enjoy the new look!

Amsal

Amsal 19:20
Dengarkanlah nasihat dan terimalah didikan, supaya engkau menjadi bijak di masa depan.

Amsal 19:22
Sifat yang diinginkan seseorang ialah kesetiannya; lebih baik orang miskin daripada seorang pembohong

Amsal 19:25
Jikalau si pencemooh kaupukul, barulah orang yang tak berpengalaman menjadi bijak, jikalau orang yang berpengertian di tegur, ia menjadi insyaf.

Amsal 20:5
Rancangan di dalam hati manusia itu seperti air yang dalam, tetapi orang yang pandai tahu menimbanya.

Amsal 20:6
Banyak orang menyebut diri baik hati, tetapi orang yang setia siapakah menemukannya?

Amsal 20:13
Janganlah menyukai tidur, supaya engkau tidak jatuh miskin, bukalah matamu dan engkau akan makan sampai kenyang.

Amsal 20:15
Sekalipun ada emas dan permata banyak, tetapi yang paling berharga ialah bibir yang berpengetahuan.

Amsal 20:18
Rancangan terlaksana oleh pertimbangan, sebab itu berperanglah dengan siasat.

Amsal 20:19
Siapa mengumpat, membuka rahasia, sebab itu janganlah engkau bergaul dengan orang yang mulut bocor.

Amsal 21:5
Rancangan orang rajin semata-mata mendatangkan kelimpahan, tetapi setiap orang yang tergesa-gesa hanya akan mengalami kekurangan.

Amsal 21:14
Pemberian dengan sembunyi-sembunyi memadamkan marah, dan hadiah yang dirahasiakan meredakan kegeraman yang hebat.

Amsal 21:19
Lebih baik tinggal di padang gurun daripada tinggal dengan perempuan yang suka bertengkar dan pemarah.

Amsal 21:26
Keinginan bernafsu sepanjang hari, tetapi orang benar memberi tanpa batas.

Haduhhhhhh.... bangun tidur buka alkitab... Dierrr... langsung kena banyak.
Proses pertobatan tampaknya harus sesegera mungkin di mulai.. bisa-bisa di jewer Tuhan kalo ga mulai... hehehehe. (I'm in repair)

Update of this blog

Perfect day to update my blog, means that I have nothing to do and too much time to waste. End of October is coming, its getting cold, getting dark faster, fall is here. Autumn season, when all the leaves getting red and gold then they'll start falling.

Spring and Fall

MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves, líke the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Good example of how naive is a young child. She grieves over the falling leaves. It may sound silly for now.. But when she gets older, she'll learn more about the world, ("such sights colder / By and by . . . "), she will become less sensitive to external things and more aware of the true loss in human life--the loss of oneself. "It is the blight man was born for, / It is Margaret you mourn for."

Sometimes I wish I didn't grow old. Have a simple mind, looking at the world with an ideal look, trusting people without being afraid of disapointment.

Botak Bermotif

Akhirnya potong rambut... Dateng ke belanda pertama cepak, trus jadi sedengan, trus gondrong, trus gondrong banget kaya rock star, trus jabrik, trus sedengan pake warna blonde dikit2, trus agak gondrong pake warna merah, trus sekarang jadi botak bermotif... huhehehe..
Memang kalo di pikir2 botak itu hemat, gak boros sampo.. hehehe.. Cuman dingin, apalagi sekarang udah fall mau masuk winter. Salah musim sih benernya buat jadi botak. hahahaha. Yang jelas murah meriah lah..
Ok deh, bagi yang suka botak ya syukur.. bagi yang benci botak ya anda kurang beruntung.. Bagi yang suka saya gini ya makasih, bagi ndak suka ya anda kurang beruntung. Bagi yang dulu ndak suka jadi suka ya makasih, bagi yang dulu suka jadi ndak suka ya ga masalah. Bagi yang dulu gak suka dan tetep gak suka ya apa boleh buat wong memang gak suka. :D

English version:

Finally I cut my hair... First time I came to the Netherland had a semi bald hair, then it became regular, then got longer, then got very long like a rock star, then spiky, then regular with a bit blonde here and there, then a bit long with redsih color, and now it is bald with some patern.. huehehe.. Well, i think being bald is very cheap, almost no shampoo wasted.. hehehe. Well maybe its a bit cold in this fall season going to the winter. Wrong season to cut my hair.. hehehe. But its cheap and good anyway.
Ok then, for those who like bald hair I'm thankful for that, for those who hate bald hair, well.. you're not that lucky... too bad you met me. Who like me as I am, thank you.. Who dont like me as I am, you're just unlucky knowing me. Who didnt like me before but like my style now, thank you. Who did like me but dont like me and my bald hair, thats ok. Who didnt like me and still dont like me, nothing to say.. you never like me anyway.. hehehe. :D

Depapepe Cover

Me and Adi trying to play "start".. enjoy!!

Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

I make the most of all the sadness
you'll be a bitch because you can
you try to hit me just hurt me
so you leave me feelin dirty cuz you can't understand

Hahahaha.., what a lyric. Great job John!

The Miniature Earth

cinta bukan konstanta
cinta tidak sama dengan ideal
cinta adalah variable
cinta tidak sama dan sebangun apalagi simetris
cinta kadang terdiferensiasi kadang terintegrasi
limit cinta mendekati infitive
tergantung faktor faktor eksplisit dan implisit
sehingga bisa di simpulkan:
cinta itu..... mbuuuuuh ra weruh

Hendrix Influence

James Marshal Hendrix.
























Simply was the best guitarist on earth. (TJ's Correction)

FENDER JIMI HENDRIX MONTEREY STRAT

One of the guitar I would like to have..

Fender made it in 1996, a custom shop to commemorate Hendrix's perfomance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him

-Voltaire-, its sad but true.

Dolan dolan

Memang hobi yang satu ini menghabiskan banyak materi namun banyak juga menghadirkan kepuasan.. cure for curiosity alias panglipur rasa penasaran. Memang bila di bandingkan dengan teman dan temin seangkatan frekuensi dolan-dolan saya bisa di bilang lumayan lebih. Maka dari itu status keuangan saya pun jarang sekali ada pada posisi plus. Sebenarnya sih uang yang di keluarkan untuk bertamasya keliling eropa tidak seberapa bila dibanding dengan pengalaman liat kanan kiri alias sightseeing atau ndelok kiwo tengen. Untuk mengatasi masalah keuangan saya mulailah saya berbagi ilmu dalam memainkan gitar alias ngelesi gitar, namun semua itu tak cukup mengganti, mulailah saya menjual investasi studio pribadi saya... 3 gitar telah raib terjual, 1 drum machine pun ikut pergi, di ikuti dengan BOSS ME50 yang telah menemaniku selama 1 tahun lebih. Harta terpendam ku tinggal 3 buah gitar listrik, 1 buah gitar akustik, 1 buah ampli gitar, 1 buah synth, 1 buah saxophone. Bila saya amati dari gejolak perekonomian di enschede, apa daya ku.. 2 buah gitar listrik saya akan ikut raib dalam waktu dekat, di ikuti oleh saxophone kesayangan saya. Ku harap dengan modal barang-barang di atas keinginan untuk menapakan kakiku di spanyol, portugal, dan praha akan tercapai.

Nah, biasanya orang yang sering dolan memiliki foto-foto yang banyaknya mungkin setengah dari hard disk mereka. Lain halnya dengan saya yang hanya memiliki 2GB dari 40GB hard disk di laptop saya. Maka dari itu berbahagialah saya bila saya dolan dengan seorang fotografer (bung yosep sugiarto) yang senantiasa mengambil foto-foto tak terduga dengan berbagai pose yang tak pernah terlintas dalam benak ku. Keberadaan bung yosep ini mengisi sebagian besar foto-foto dolan-dolan dalam negeri saya. Namun bung yosep pun harus pulang ke tanah air. Mau ndak mau saya harus mencari pengganti bung yosep dalam menemaniku dolan-dolan.. hehehe.

Cukup sekian ngobrol-ngobrol tentang dolan-dolannya, saya tahu memang posting saya yang kali ini tak ada maksud dan intinya, hanya sekedar sebagai pengisi waktu nganggur saya.. Bila bahasa indonesia terlihat atau terdengar garing bagi mata ataupun telinga anda.. ya memang itulah maksud saya menulis posting ini.

More Update

Long vacation has come to its end. 1st quarter of new school year already started yesterday. Got a new project that has nothing to do with my specialisation.. but very interesting for me. Its about stage live recording, something for the media engineering guys.. but who care.. its good topic and I will do it.
Chatted with Vina, and got alot of nice music from her. Depapepe, a group of 2 japanese playing accoustic guitar creating a nice tune, relaxing, but still having some character behind its melody.
Learning 1 song from them, called 'start'.. still in progress, some melody in the middle of the song are quite difficult. Hope I can do it by the end of this week.

Update of this blog

Finally I have some time to update my blog. This summer, went back to Indonesia. Had a family reunion in bandungan, 80 people were there. Some of them I don't know, some I do know. Cousins have grown up, new nephews and nieces popping up. One thing for sure that didn't change at all, the habit.. Eating, eating, and eating. 24 hours nonstop of food flood. Gain some kilos while I was there. Now I'm back to my proportional weight. Next to do: gain proportional height, 5 more cm will be good enough.
Also spent some time in Jogja, bringing back some good old memory. Met some friends, some of them got married while I don't even have a girlfriend. Time sure flows very fast, still remember how I flirted with high school girls then changed my cell phone number when it got too serious. They said, time change people, move forward or get lost in the stream of time. Train of thought flowing through my brain, still admiring how "brave" they are, making a commitment to live with their one wife for their entire life. Still along way to go for me. First thing first: get serious in relation.
21st of July, arrived at schipol. Tjeerd drove me back to Enschede. Thanks dude, save 12 euro for that. Called some friends, got an offer to join paris tour for 3 days. 3rd of august, went to Paris with some friends. Had some fun in Disneyland, a feeling start clicking. 5th of august, went back to Enschede, it clicks even more. Now, even start to clap.
Monday school will start, some project will be there waiting for me. Met some teachers today, saying that I'm back in Enschede for this study year. Slept early, woke up at 2 a.m because of people watched some movies, joined them, and cant sleep until now. Nothing to do, I updated this blog. End of story, hope you enjoy the update.

P.S: check friendster profile for new photos.

Jogja memoir

Sabtu 17 juni 2006, PPIEMC di undang untuk main di kedutaan Indonesia di kerajaan belanda buat acara memoir untuk jogja. Main terakhir kalinya drummer paling berbakat bung Yosep Sugiarto yang telah menggebrak dunia permusikan enschede dengan permainannya yang halus bagaikan sutra tapi bisa juga kasar dan keras seperti wajah bassist PPIEMC... hahaha (guyon van.. guyon). Sebagai lagu pertama langsung den haag di gebrak dengan alunan merdu lagu Jogjakarta yang telah menjadi andalan PPIEMC dalam 3 tahun terakhir ini. Tentunya dengan saya sebagai vokalis tak tergantikan dalam melantunkan irama merdu lagu Jogja.. HAHAHAHA (jangan takabur, Tuhan yang menentukan.. yosep, 2006). Di ikuti oleh kupu-kupu malam, rame-rame, kopi dangdut, permaisuriku, dan beberapa lagu lainnya (lupa apa aja, banyak banget soalnya). Penonton kali ini benar2 antusias dengan penampilan PPIEMC, semua berdiri, bertepuk tangan, dan joget ala inul daratista. Pokoknya puas deh. Ini ada beberapa foto hasil jepretan fotografer den haag.

Nge blog lagi!!

Karena permintaan dari para pemirsa setia blog ini pada protes semua, "kok ndak pernah update", akhirnya ku update lah blog yang telah lama terbengkalai, tak terurus ini.
Benernya gak tahu sih mau nulis apa, wong akhir-akhir ini kerjaanku cuman nonton drama jepang. Yang ada di otak ya cuman ilusi fatamorgana cewe-cewe jepang yang kawaaiii... hahaha. Jadi ya marilah kita selusuri kecantikan 1 dari sekian banyak artis yang ku tonton selama ini.
Namanya Ryoko Hirosue, kelahiran 1980, dengan tampang innocent, rambut pendek yang lurus, dan gigi yang agak gingsul dikit, suara yang serak-serak basah namun belum becek.. pokoknya super cute deh.. hahaha. Wajah doi yang 1 ini bener-bener membuat hatiku jadi berbunga-bunga. Apalagi kalo pas senyum... walah.. langsung klepek-klepek. Yang bikin kepikiran kok ada makhluk kaya gitu di dunia ini... trus kok adanya di jepang, kok ndak di Enschede sih.. hahaha. Enschede kota para jejaka-jejaka ganteng yang sayang gantengnya tak bisa digunakan berhubung ndak ada sarana yang memadai (kota kuda jingkrak khusus cowo). OK deh, segitu dulu masalah cewe cakepnya.. kapan-kapan lanjut lagi.
Kembali ke dunia nyata... 1 minggu lagi ku akan terbang ke langit yang tinggi melintasi samudera menuju indonesia rumahku tercinta. Tiga tahun sudah ku tak pulang ke indonesia, udah kangen yang pecel lele, rujak buah, lotek, bakso, mpek-mpek, pokoknya semua yang enak deh. Kangen jalan-jalan naik motor keliling kota jogja, berpetualang naik motor dari jogja ke madiun, ngecengin cewe di mal, naik becak keliling malioboro, ngamen di jalan raya, jaga warnet dari jam 12 malem sampe subuh, ke online gaming sampe subuh, ke kantin kampus beli ayam goreng + es teh cuman 1500 rupiah, ke mbok gudeg jam 3 pagi buat menikmati late night snack, wes pokoke kangen yang ndak-ndak deh. Tak sabar rasanya ku ingin pulang menjejakan kakiku di indonesia.
Ok deh, sampe jumpa di episode berikutnya.

Bonus: foto-foto ryoko.

Arnhem-Nijmegen PPIEMC tour

Satu tahun yang lalu pas pada tanggal 14 mei 2005, PPIEMC di udang untuk meramaikan acara cultural day di Nijmegen. Mengikuti sukses tahun lalu, tahun ini juga pada tanggal yang sama kita kembali manggung di Nijmegen. Berikut ini hasil jeprat jepret paparazi joe.. (sayang foto yang bareng2 belum di kasih ama joe), jadi berikut ini hanyalah foto ku dan gitarku saja. Foto barengnya menyusul.

Van Halen

Edward Van Halen is one of guitar players that influence my guitar playing style. The first song that I learnt to play in my electric guitar is Ain't Talkin bout Love. Classic hit from their first album. I always want one of Eddie signature guitar... But it just so crazily expensive (around 3000$). Two days ago I was browsing the net, and I found mean street guitar, a luthier from USA that build custom guitar out of Eddie signature series.. I browsed their web, check hows the guitar.. All I can say is WOW.. He really does a great job. The painting is flawless, really look real.. Each detail is there. The most amazing thing is the PRICE!!! Custom made guitar for 600 euro, made in USA, with seymour duncan element. What a deal!!! I'll buy one of those guitar soon (still thinking which one to get, the charvel model or kramer).

One more thing about Van Halen... We all know that Van Halen is a dutch name. Yes Eddie was born in Nijmegen. BUT.. maybe some people dont know... He has INDONESIAN mother!!! hahaha. Maybe thats where the rhythm came from.

Here is some of the picture of the guitar that I want to buy:

The Beauty and The Nerd

The Beauty and The Nerd is a TV show that is showing recently in RTL5, its about beautiful women that are amazingly ehhmm ehhmm stupid, guys that are totaly nerd. And they have to make a couple and teach each other things. The beauty will learn about science, politic, social issues, etc from the nerd. While the nerd will learn about the pop culture, celebrity life, partying, etc from the beauty. Every week 1 couple has to go home, while the other have to continue to win 250.000$ jack pot.
I saw it yesterday for the very 1st time. It is so funny, I cant stop laughing the whole night. They ask to the beauty about the address of white house, whos pic in 10$ bill, whos the last president from the democratic party, and they all got it wrong... I was like, what the heck, how can they dont know that? They are all american. Then I talked to myself.. man those guys are really nerd, I'm not that bad.. maybe if I'm in the show I can answer some pop culture question since I know alot about music..
I was quite excited when it was the nerd turn.. Then they start asking, who was the grammy winner in 2005 for the best R&B? what is the name of celine dion boutique? Name 2 out of 3 members of destiny child?... And I was like.. Man.. I AM that NERD. I cant answer even 1. What the heck.. And some of the nerd even answer it correctly. I'm worst than them.. hahahaha.
I cant wait to see the continuation of the show, how the beauty will get smart and the nerd will be funky, and hip.. hehe.