Be Ugly '07

I was looking for Jazon Mraz songs and I found a new song: Beauty in Ugly. It turns out the song is for Be Ugly '07 campaign. ABC started this campaign for the new TV series Ugly Betty, a remake of the old series or a continuation.. I'm not really sure.

From USA Today:

Ugly is the new beautiful.

That's the message behind a new public service campaign, "Be Ugly '07", being announced today by ABC off its fall hit comedy Ugly Betty.

The purpose — aside from drumming up new viewers — is to promote a positive message for young women: "Be real, be smart, be passionate, be true to yourself and be ugly."

Main character Betty Suarez (played by America Ferrera) is not movie-star pretty, but she's smart and capable and has a good heart. And more than 13 million viewers a week love her for it.

"The irony is that this girl is perceived this way," says Silvio Horta, Betty's executive producer. "The second you get to know her, she's beautiful."

The campaign is the latest entry in a backlash to the images of rail-thin models that bombard young women daily.

Dove's talked-about Campaign for Real Beauty has become a popular global ad effort based on debunking conventional beauty stereotypes. Alex Kuczynski's best seller Beauty Junkies examines the obsession with plastic surgery. In interviews, she has talked about how "stupid" it was for her to wear acrylic nails and spend money on Botox and painful liposuction.

etc....

Be Real,
Be Smart,
Be Kind,
Be Honest,
Be True To Yourself,

Here the MV of the song:



She’s so big hearted
But not so remarkable
Just an ordinary humble girl
Expecting nothing as we’re made to think
It’s a pretty person’s world

But you are beautiful
And you better go show it
So go look again
You gotta be true to your own
If you really wanna go to the top
Do you really wanna win
Don’t believe in leaving normal
Just to satisfy demand

Well if you wanna get free
And if you wanna do the passionate thing
And if you wanna get smart
For the sake of your heart and all
You should own your name
And stand up tall and get real
And see the beauty in ugly

Well you are fresh

Your face is fabulous
Don’t forget you’re one of a kind
When nobody’s checking the deeds you’ve done
And nobody’s hearing your cries
You make all the fashion statements
Just by dressing up your mind

And if you wanna get free
And if you wanna do the passionate thing
And if you wanna get smart
For the sake of your heart and all
You should own your name
And stand up tall and get real
And see the beauty in ugly
See the beauty in ugly


"bahwa perempuan tidak harus punya payudara, tidak harus bertubuh indah dan berwajah cantik... tapi ia harus memiliki hati untuk bisa berarti" (Quoted from Ratna's blog)

Spring

The last winter rain:
telling stories,
a thick coat and umbrella walk past

Each of the rain drops has a tale to tell
about the sorrows of people
about the hardships living things go through

My body like the fields
Withered by winter,
Can I hope, though I am burnt,
That spring will come again?

It's spring!
when leaves start growing,
filling the bald tree with green
tangling among blossoms

Spring, reborn, newness.

More Update

Current situation:
Weekdays: Enschede.
Weekend: Arnhem partly, Nijmegen mostly.

Since december I got a great job in arnhem which made me keep coming back every weekend. The job is quite simple: bring my guitar, amp, microphone, lyric and then start singing for 4 hours in an Indonesian restaurant. This is the perfect job for me, just play the guitar and sing... BAM!! easy money, improved my guitar playing and my singing skills.. two birds with one stone. I hope it will get even better in the future.

In this topic I would like you to post 1 or more tittle of songs that you think are good, and perhaps I can use them.

Looking foward for your songs.

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.