Wednesday, April 02, 2008

The Color Of My Heart...

Your Heart is Blue and Green

Your heart is open and dynamic.

You are flexible, optimistic, and expressive.

You bring honesty and intimacy to relationships.

You're good at expressing your needs to your partner.

What Are the Colors of Your Heart?

{posted by Chibi on 7:25 PM} +

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Jakarta Yang Membosankan

Beneran deh. Jakarta itu membosankan sekali. Apalagi kalau pas lagi libur empat hari kaya gini (dua hari libur nasional, dan dua hari weekend). Ya ampun.
Nggak heran kalau para penghuni Jakarta memilih untuk "kabur" ke luar kota kalau lagi liburan. Gue juga maunya begitu. Tapi ternyata rencana gue dan bokap agak-agak kacau jadi rencana liburan long weekend gue ke Bogor terancam batal deh.

Beberapa alasan kenapa gue bilang Jakarta itu membosankan :
1. Kemana-mana jauh.
Coba seandainya lu tinggal di daerah Tomang, trus temen lu ngajakin "Jalan yuk! Kita ke bazaar kemang." Reaksi pertama lu begitu mendengar kata "Kemang" pasti adalah "Iiih! Gila jauh amaat!"
Karena Kemang terletak di Kotamadya Jakarta Selatan, yang udah pasti jauh dari Tomang yang Jakarta Barat.
Sama juga reaksi yang bakal diberikan kalau lu tinggal di daerah Bintaro, dan temen lu ngajakin ke La Piazza Kelapa Gading.
Asal tau aja, di Jakarta ini, jarak kemanapun paling cepat rata-rata adalah 30 menit. Dari Taman Anggrek ke Pondok Indah itu 30 menit (kalau lu naik mobil pribadi dan lewat tol / Permata Hijau), dari Pondok Indah ke Bintaro itu 30 menit, dari Sunter ke Tomang itu 30 menit (kata Rbn yang naik motor tiap hari), bahkan dari kantor gue ke mal Taman Anggrek yang jaraknya cuma selemparan kolor doang itu pun butuh waktu 30 menit - karena macet dari depan Hero sampe perempatan Tomang sampe depan TA. Itu jarak tercepat loh. Tolong diperhitungkan dengan area macet dan hal-hal ajaib yang suka terjadi di jalan (perbaikan jalan, pembangunan busway, truk ngguling, tabrakan motor, dll). Rekor paling menyebalkan adalah waktu hari Rabu kemarin, gue dan Olip terjebak macet dari Sunter ke Tomang seharian - kami bergeser dari depan Untar sampe depan TA butuh waktu satu jam! Gimana gak mati bosen di jalan kalau begitu caranya.

2. Asumsi kata "jauh"
Padahal sebenarnya, kalau mau dipikir-pikir lagi, bukan masalah "jauh" yang menjadi pertimbangan ketika seseorang mau pergi. Please lah. Jakarta itu ya kemana-mana jauh, semua orang juga tahu. Makanya jalan tol dibikin dimana-mana. Tapi yang jadi masalah seharusnya adalah kata "lama". Berapa lama ya dari sini ke Bintaro, berapa lama dari TA ke PIM, berapa lama dari Senayan ke Gading, berapa lama ntar dari Dufan pulang ke Bekasi, dll. It's all about time. Karena semakin lama waktu yang dibutuhkan untuk perjalanan, berarti semakin sedikit waktu untuk bersenang-senang di tempat tujuan. Dan semakin butuh perhitungan yang akurat untuk merencanakan pergi ke suatu tempat di dalam kota Jakarta yang maha luas ini. Dan itulah yang bikin orang males pergi dan menggunakan asumsi kata "jauh" untuk maksud sebenarnya yaitu "males ah, lama di jalan". Akhirnya orang menjatuhkan pilihan ke alternatif tergampang, "ke mal deket sini aja yuk."

3. Tempat rekreasi yang tersedia adalah mal, plaza, dan shopping center.
"Pulang kantor kita mampir ke Mango, yuk." "Weekend ini kita makan di Sushi Tei yuk." "Ntar malem clubbing ke X2 yuk." "Nongkrong di Starbucks, yuk." "Besok nonton di Blitz, yuk."
Silakan dicermati, kalau semua tempat-tempat yang ditawarin tadi pasti berada di sebuah pusat perbelanjaan. Butik Mango terdekat dari kantor gue adalah di Mal Taman Anggrek. Sushi Tei yang biasa ditongkrongin adalah di Senayan City, Plaza Senayan atau (kalo mau jauhan dikit) PIM2. Starbucks tersebar di tiap mal dan pinggiran jalan tol (idih banget kan jauhnya). Blitz Megaplex juga hanya ada di Pacific Place atau Grand Indonesia - atau kalo mau nonton di 21 atau XXI, ya pastilah adanya di mal. Toko buku, tempat makan, bioskop, cafe, tempat dugem, dll. Semua ada di mal, mal, mal, plaza, plaza, plaza.
Kalau mau maenan lain selain prosesi jual-beli ala konsumerisme pusat perbelanjaan? Ada Waterbom Cikarang (yang denger kata 'Cikarang'nya aja udah merinding ngebayangin jauhnya), ada Dufan, ada Taman Mini, yang kesemuanya pasti disambut dengan komentar awal "wah.. jauh yah."

4. Sendirian
Okelah, masih banyak sebenarnya tempat-tempat di Jakarta ini yang menarik untuk dieksplorasi. Jakarta itu gede banget, lho. Empat kotamadya pus sempilan Botabek kalo masih ga puas. Tapi nggak guna juga kalau yang mau menjelajah itu cuma gue sendiri.
Contoh gampang aja deh! Gue yakin banget temen-temen gue ada yang baru sekali ke Monas, atau malah belum pernah sama sekali. Tapi kalau misalnya suatu saat gue ngajakin "Jalan-jalan ke Monas yuk!" pasti gue akan disambut dengan tatapan tercengang mulut ternganga dan ucapan "Ha!?" - yang berarti "idih ngapain, males banget deh." Sama halnya kalau gue ngajakin liat bintang di Planetarium, nyari buku-buku bekas di Kwitang, nonton pertunjukan teater di GKJ, nonton film indies di CCF, liat-liat Museum Gajah, makan roti bakar di Melawai, atau hunting distro di daerah (Jakarta) Selatan.

Rata-rata reaksi orang adalah karena [alasan no. 1] yang sebenernya berdasarkan [alasan no. 2] sehingga mereka lebih nyaman dengan pemikiran [alasan no.3]. Atau alasan-alasan standar seperti 'panas, nggak seru, hmmm nggak banget, udah biasa, kuno', dll. Jadilah gue mendapatkan [alasan no. 4] ini, karena siapapun kalau mau ngapa-ngapain sendirian tanpa teman juga pasti akan terasa membosankan, bukan.
Yah, tapi ini boleh dibilang alasan yang subjektif sih, karena kesukaan orang kan beda-beda. Atau mungkin banyak orang-orang lain yang lebih suka pergi sendiri, atau mungkin gue musti cari temen lain yang beda genre, hahaha.

Mungkin masih ada alasan-alasan lain yang masih bikin gue bilang Jakarta itu membosankan. tapi so far yang kepikir baru itu. Karena setiap kali weekend, yang sering muncul di otak adalah "get the hell out of this city". Apakah itu ke rumah nenek di Bogor - sambil cari makaroni panggang, atau main ke Bandung dan menikmati kwetiaw atau bakso setelah jalan-jalan di daerah Dago, atau main ke villa sepupu di Puncak trus beli jagung bakar buat temen liat bintang tar malem. Tiga tempat itu - Bogor, Bandung , Puncak - adalah sasaran utama para penghuni Jakarta untuk lari dari kota ini saat weekend. Karena apa, karena Jakarta itu sendiri (seperti yang dari tadi gue bilang) sudah membosankan.

Tapi intinya, alasan-alasan gue di atas itu memperkuat argumen gue yang saat ini sendirian, nggak pergi kemana-mana karena bosan, dan yang gue bisa lakuin cuma ngomel di blog.
Yah, Jakarta memang membosankan.

{posted by Chibi on 8:45 PM} +

Jakarta or Bandung ?

Alasan kenapa gue lebih suka weekend di Bandung :
1. Nggak perlu bermacet-macetan naik bis selama lebih dari setengah jam. Karena semua tempat di Bandung adalah within reach by angkot. Atau kalau perlu, eksplor jalanan dengan jalan kaki juga asik (misalnya hunting distro di daerah Sultan Agung, nelusurin FO di jalan Riau). Jauh lebih murah daripada segala alat transportasi di Jakarta.
2. Dimanapun gue berhenti pasti ada tukang teh botol atau (sukur-sukur) es duren.
3. Ditunjang dengan setiap pengkolan jalan pasti ada minimarket - entah itu Circle-K, AlfaMart, Indomaret, apapun lah itu. Nggak susah cari cemilan dan minuman.
4. Bisa cari DVD murah di Kota Kembang, atau Vertex, atau tempat-tempat yang terkenal sebagai daerah 'bajakan'.
5. Banyak tempat makan asik yang bisa dijelajahi, dan bukannya di mal atau pusat perbelanjaan. Misalnya kwetiaw Jalan Aceh, bakso di Cipaganti, sate Sulanjana, nasi campur PasKal, es duren Cilaki, dll.
6. Banyak temen-temen lama yang bisa diajak/ngajak jalan-jalan keliling Bandung bahkan tanpa tujuan yang jelas, hahaha.
7. Ada daerah Lembang yang sejuk dan bisa makan sate atau jagung bakar.
8. Kalau agak niat dikit, bisa maen ke daerah pegunungan kaya Kawah Putih Ciwidey, atau Tangkuban Perahu (ini sih gue belum pernah, tapi pengeeenn banget), Observatorium Boscha (ini juga blom pernah), atau sampe pemandian air panas Ciater.
9. Dan biayanya lebih murah daripada kalo maen-maen di Jakarta.
10. Dan kalo ternyata musti terjebak di dalam pusat perbelanjaan pun, masih ada CiWalk atau Paris Van Java yang nggak ngebosenin kaya mal-mal di Jakarta.

Alasan kenapa gue tetep stay di Jakarta :
1. Karena gue kerja di sini.
2. Gue ga punya tempat tinggal lain selain di sini.
3. Kesempatan kerja dan opportunity di Jakarta jelas lebih bagus daripada tempat-tempat lain.
4. Hampir segala hal ada di Jakarta - mulai dari baju bekas gocengan sampai FO, French fine dining sampai gudeg Jogja, bahkan brownies kukus atau bika ambon, butik Mango atau sepatu Manolo Blahnik - kalo mau niat ngoprek setiap sudut Jakarta.
5. Dan kalau gue bosen ama kota ini, gue bisa ngabur ke luar kota (seperti Bandung) pas weekend (atau pas gue lagi punya duit - nggak kaya saat ini. Hiks).

{posted by Chibi on 8:40 PM} +

Friday, March 21, 2008

I Am The Empress

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight.
You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things
beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?

Take the Test to Find Out.

{posted by Chibi on 9:04 PM} +

Friday, February 22, 2008

New Place, New Stories

Wheee... finally ViewPoint has a new office building! It's no longer in Tomang Ancak, but we moved to Bidara. Still in Tomang area (okay, actually it's just a few blocks away from the old place..), so I don't have to find another staying house to get near XD
So last Monday, VP was officially 'pindah kantor'. All the VP-ers were so excited about this new place, arranging the furnitures and stuffs (my goodness, I myself had 3 big boxes contained "Chibi - Marketing's Stuff" *__*) For two whole days we set up all the things - including telephone and internet connection, the tables and chairs - I got a desk at the front corner near the living room - and so far we are pretty satisfied with our new office's look.
It's white and sleek - simply modern out-of-ikea-catalogue kind of office, 2-story building with lots and lots of glass panels/windows, an empty fish pond (Olip's planning to put goldfishes there later) near the stairs, a photo studio at 2nd floor - near Olip's office, designer's room and marketing's room at 1st floor, a vast living room (with extra big fridge - I'll explain to you later :P), and a garage plus security's room (including bathroom). Sweet, huh? ;)
We tried to arrange things as neat as possible, and follow the fengshui as much as possible. Well, I gotta tell ya it's not an easy thing to deal with. Especially when the building is spaciously modern and not necessarily designed with feng shui calculation compatibly :P As for the result, Mon got a little frustrated when we had to place a big new fridge other than under the stairs (because feng shui-wise, it is not okay to put things under the stairs. But interior arrangement-wise, it is the only space that would be perfect to put that big bus). Hmmm. So temporarily, we finally put the fridge in the living room *__* Olip told us to pretend it's invisible until we could find a perfect place for that big buddy. LOL.
Oh well. Lots of things we have to deal with, and will be alot more to come. But I cross my fingers, that with this new office, VP will be much much better than before :) It's like a rebirth of VP, with new layouts and (will be) new employees (I need new staff heeere!!), and other new stuff. I can't wait to try our new studio :P

Move to another issue : Anita is getting maried this year!
Yeap, the Anita my old housemate in Bandung! Whoohooo congrats, dear..! *huggles* I just knew about this when she sent me message to help her find a wedding organiser. Lalala I'm so excited that she will come to Jakarta this weekend to discuss about the wedding plan and I'd be delighted to help her. I already got some information details, and hopefully it could help ^^
One of the Busas-ers is getting married, isn't that super?! Okay, I got too excited XD I might not be as excited as this for my own wedding later, LOL!

There will be plenty of stories with Nita. As much as with VP. Dum dum dum dum :)

{posted by Chibi on 7:56 PM} +

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

(Almost) Fun

I spent my weekend with my mom. Yeap, she was here in Jakarta last weekend. Came at Friday, when Jakarta's flood striking. Actually I had a plan to attend family gathering (from my Dad's side) in Bogor, but Mom's incognito ruined all my plans. Actually, I hate when someone ruins my plan. But it was Mom, so what can I say :P

Deal lots of things with Mom, from talking about my sister's plan to get married, and (usually) end it with arguments about nonsenses and grumbles in our hearts. I tried to be a nice girl and shut up and listen, but somehow sometimes it just didn't work out between us. It's not that I hate my Mom, it's just we found a lot of differences in our way of thinking and miss-interpretation.
With a help from Wo, I finally managed to deal with this Mom-and-me thingie. I know I should do a lot of things.

Now it's almost Chinese New Year, yay! I hope I could get more happiness and prosperity in this Mouse year, hahaha. I am a cat, anyway :P

Happy sincia, peopleeee.... Gong Xi Fa Cai...!

{posted by Chibi on 5:49 PM} +

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Talking About The Future...

People seems so start talking about their future.
My sister is planning to get married soon. Hmm. Not that I don't like it, though, it's just something that haven't crossed my mind - it doesn't mean it's not in my future plans.

Frankly, I don't know about my future. I'm still in a mess. I can't think straight, I don't now myself, I even sometimes lost my will to live.
I still cannot see myself in a future - in a happy way. All seems blur just like a dirty mirror mirror on the wall.
I've got my prophecies - yes, I am into that kind of thing - and even my shrink gave up on me. LOL.
I dunno.
I don't even know what I want.
Maybe I need more air to breathe. Then maybe, I could picture my future...

{posted by Chibi on 9:28 PM} +

Monday, January 14, 2008

Thankyous

It's January already. New Year is always meaningful to me. it means a new beginning. And this year, I start to do alot of new things... which has changed from the past years.
many things happened in 2007, and some are good, some are depressing. LOL. But one thing for sure, it all taught me how to live.
Anyhow, as a tradition, I would like to thank all of you to share a life journey with me through the whole year.
Here is some of you that mean so much to me.

God. Thank you for keeping me alive, giving me so much and everything. I could say nothing more.

My family - Mom, sisters, brother, Dad, Eyang, Mbak Asih, my aunts, uncles.
No matter how annoying you are,no matter haw I hate you, it still cannot erase the deepest love from my heart. After all, we share the same blood :P You are my earth.

Wo, as always. For love, life, tears, laughs, heart, mind, body, soul, everything. Thank you for being a part of my life.

Mon, thank you for always be my cool best friend! >:D< Olip and VPers - Mike, Ayas, Enjol, Maria, Iwan, Robin, Cindy - I love you!

Insight-ers plus Busas-ers - Dea, Diki, Sonny, Narno, Ady, Olva, Krisna, Amin, Awank, Heye, Kirul, Ricky, Nita, Hakim, Fitrie, Andri, Dedi, dll, dll... you guys are always in my heart :)

My friends - Sassy Tia, Renov, Greta, Novik, Vera, Rinto, Akli, BEz, Tina, Nissa, Lina, Andini, Mr. Bae, Ce-Ce, Mai, dll, dll... thanks for your support and everything :)

And for those who aren't mentioned here, it doesn't mean you're not important to me. You are special to me. From giving good advices, bad advices, bitching behind my back, beautiful praises, listening to my trash, slapping my face, and kiss my heart. Thank you for giving me lessons of life.

Have a great year of 2008... God bless each and every one of you.

{posted by Chibi on 6:39 PM} +

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