Life's Never Boring Beibi!: November 2010

New MV!

23:07:00

These last 2 weeks, seem like a season for singers launched their music video. And I like most of them. Rihanna & Bruno Mars absolutely my favorite singer, so it doubled this hype.

Check this out!

Oh but now I don’t hate you
I’m happy to say
That I will be there at the end of the day

(Beyonce, Broken Hearted Girl)

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#3 Bandung: Hujan, Hiu, Host & H.. =)

22:40:00

I arrived in Bandung at 12.35pm, November 24th 2010, via a shuttle travel called Roadtrip --which had a very handsome receptionist! He had owl-y look! And a mega-cool-bass voice. *melt to the max!--


Mas Travel!

Ananta a.k.a Ckung picked me up at Dago street, brought me to his place to put up my luggage. As long as I stayed at Bandung, Kung responsible to my life. Ehehehe. Hyperbolic but it's true. Took a rest a while, and becoming not just a while because of the rain. Hard pouring rain. Blame it to the rain if I couldn't take a walk in Bandung. Blame it to the rain if I didn't have any mood to take a picture. Blame it to the rain if I just wanted to roll and roll and roll at the bed. At this time, blame it to the rain.

At 3pm, we went to Salman, and Kung was heading to his lab, doing some assistance. I met with local movie community, F2PB, met with Destri, the girl that already texting with me and my lovely hostess. =)

I really love the atmosphere at F2PB's base camp. Warm & friendly.

I showed them my Surabaya AnimNATION. Alhamdulillah, they responded it positively.

At the nite, I had a dinner with Kung, Asop & his brother which we just met unintentionally. Aksel timeeee! =D

I ate Hiu or Shark! Hehehe. First impression, hm, it doesn't feel scary. Haha. The taste is mix between Kakap & Pari (I don't know the english for these two fish, sorry). Overall, worth to try.

Then, I slept-over at Destri's place. Doing girl-to-girl story telling. Indie movie activist share stories *caelah*. Thanks a lot Destriiiiiiiii! =*

November 25th, 2010. Woke up early, but still, roll and roll and roll at Destri's bed. Kung picked me up at 11am, went to train-station to buy ticket and back to his place to change my clothes. And...... the rain comes again. *sigh* And it stopped at the same times: 3pm. Luckily, because I need to meet Dheny, Kung's friend which become mine too. *blibet* So we went to Kung's campus. He showed me his lovely-red-whale, simple vehicle which had become the participant at Shell Eco Marathon competition.


Kung's red-whale

Had the linner *lunch-dinner* with Dheny and Kung at 4.30pm. Then beat our time to do some arcade game at Istana Plaza. We could finished Rambo below 50 thousand rupiahs! Woooohooooo! *applause* And still have time to preparing luggage, buying Sabana fried chicken and arrived at station precisely. Yay!

Bandung is written on the lamp. Hihi.

Hmm. Short trip but fun at Bandung. Meet new fellas and old-timee fellas too. I think I've already missed Bandung now.
The city, ambiance or the person?

journey

#2: I Love Brainies, May I Have One? ;;)

07:20:00

Yup, finally had done my 2 days of conference, November 22nd-23rd 2010. Indo ICC or Indonesia International Conference on Communication, held by Communication Department, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Indonesia.

My paper got accepted, so I became a presenter there.

Had several lecturing session with people whom usually "only-read" on the cover of book, such as Prof. Stephen Littlejohn, Prof David T. Craig, Prof David Marshall, Prof Alwi Dahlan, Prof Alois Nugroho, and Dr Ade Armando. Most of them delivering on how important we prepare and getting ready to the changes that happened because of the technology in communication, digitalization, etc.

It's obvious. I'm delivering this message by blog, rite? =)

The professors

Shattered in the table.

Favorite dress for my presentation day. I know it's over-worn, but what-so-ever. =P

At this kind of academician forum, I feel surrounded by brainies. You know, people with brain or brainy, and the plural form is brainies. =P

I always perceived that brainy is always sexy, instead of his/er physical appearance. If s/he could make their appearance fit on 'em, wow, it's HOT. So when I surrounded by the HOT brainies, I felt like having a fever. First, I admire it. Second, may I have one please? ;;)

family

#1: A Lone & Long Journey, But I'm Not Alone. =)

03:42:00

I'm on adventure.

Hehe.

I'm doing a journey from Surabaya - Jakarta - Bandung and might be goes on Jogja - Solo and back to Surabaya. I have only a week, so I had to maximize every potential things. Huhu.

It's my 2nd day at Jakarta, getting late (or dawn) now and tomorrow I have a conference to attend.

So, I'll tell you by pictures. Check this out.


Start at Pasar Turi station.


Thanks for drive me here, Kant!


My loyal & faithful partner, Locky tumbler! =*

Ordinary scenery from train window. This ordinary things made me miss of doing journey.

Arrived & picked by PakLemon, have a rest at his place and he cooked for me. Iyei! Simply delicious. =)

I arrived at Jakarta on Saturday morning, 7.21am. Pak Ardhy a.k.a PakLemon a.k.a PakGuru Komputer when I was hi-school picked me up. It's been a long time not see him. When we met, there always a bunch of stories to tell. And so on, and so on. I asked him to accompany me going to Mampang Prapatan after lunch, going to mbak Lulu Ratna's house, the founder of Boemboe.org. Her husband is Beng Rahadian, a well-known comic artist. And found several things unique there, such as:

The 1st Hai magazine cover on the right side. Click to see it larger.

After doing the short visit at Mampang, we continued to have a walk. PakLemon want to go Sabang to buy CD of Kings of Convenient. But we stopped by at Masjid BI to have Ashr pray. And the masjid was great.

Big mirror on wudhu's place. Iconic.

I love this picture. Great. It's Pak Ardhy's back anyway.

The ceilings. Beautiful. The designer really knows how the lighting fit on this peaceful Masjid.

Ironic, when we were going to Sabang, the CD shop has bankrupt. Haha. So we went to Bakmi GM, recharging the fuel then went to Plaza Semanggi. Only got 1 CD of KoC, but bought another musician too. Back to Pengadegan, Pak Ardhy's place, because my cousin would pick me up to go another destination: Sentul.

My cousin, mas Agung's place was at Sentul City, lovely place. He and his wife had 2 dogs, Shih Tzu type. I really love dogs, but at the first time, I came up with a very sleepy and dizzy head. So I just avoiding them But at Sunday morning, I already had play with them. The cute Willy & Elmo.*already miss them*

Willy & Elmo wait me downstair. Too cute to be true.

Just like a live version of doll. So cuuuuuute!

I just spent my Sunday with mas Agung's fam. Went out for lunch, and successfully spent my 5pm to 10pm by sleeping. Wow. Accumulation of my tiredness might be. At 10.30pm we were heading to Jakarta, to Gatsu, go to Devi's place. So, here I am, at Jekarda, finishing my powerpoint for my Tuesday presentation, and blogging for a while. It's still a long journey.
It won't be boring, I promise.
Because boring is so unbearable.

XOXO,

Vinka Maharani