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Sunday, March 25, 2012

My Biggest Problem:

yep yep yep.
Btw, hi. Physics and Mandarin exams tomorrow, will be following by TOEFL test before I'm going to have a kinda peaceful Monday.
Please just wish me luck. That's the only thing I need for now on.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Transjakarta Busway

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So I went to Senayan City to meet half of my #PartyKids and to buy some books I need to read during this holiday. Then, I went home by using Transjakarta bus. It's been a really long time since the last time I used this transportation system and when I used it today, I realized there are so many improves they made on this system. Nah, since this post is so Indonesian, I'm going to write it in Bahasa Indonesia ~~(actually it's because I would use some words I dunno in English, lol, enjoy!)~~

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Perubahan pertama yang gue liat di sistem bus Transjakarta ini adalah adanya pembagian area antara wanita dan pria. Jadi yang pria harus duduk/berdiri di bagian belakang bis sementara yang wanita (dan anak-anak) duduk/berdiri di bagian depan bis. Nanti di bis nya ada stikernya gini nih:

Tapi sepertinya peraturan ini hanya berlaku di koridor yang mengarah ke Jakarta Pusat dan sekitarnya. Well, tadi sih gue cuma lewat koridor yang dari Senayan-Dutas trus Dutas-Matraman abis itu Matraman-Kp. Melayu. Nah, Senayan sampai Matraman masih berlaku tuh pemisahan antrian. Giliran naik ke arah Kampung Melayu.. Bah! udah ramenya keterlaluan, desek-desekannya lebih parah daripada pas di Dukuh Atas, gaada pemisahan juga. Semua orang, berbeda gender dan usia, kumpul di satu area tanpa ada pemisahan bahkan toleransi untuk yang baru naik.

Lebih parahnya halte Matraman--tepatnya yang di depannya 711 Matraman--ini, orang-orangnya ngga tau harus antri dimana. Well, it might happen in every shelter. Kalo diperhatiin, di setiap halte busway itu ada beberapa pintu yang ditempel stiker ini:

Tadi gue antri di belakang pintu yang ada stiker itu, tapi di belakang gue ada cowok yang asik ngantri sambil sms-an. Kalo di Dukuh Atas sih gue wajar ya, tiga koridor lewat di halte sesempit itu, pasti susah ngatur pembagian laki-laki perempuannya karena jumlahnya pasti gak akan seimbang. Tapi kalo Matraman? Pengen banget gue sindir 'Mas, bisa baca aturannya ngga?'

Perubahan yang kedua, kalo tadi gue perhatiin, sekarang petugas (bisa kita sebut kenek, mungkin?) busnya banyak yang perempuan, ada yang berjilbab juga. Well, bagus lah ya, penyetaraan gender, we could say. Selain 'penyetaraan gender' ini, sekarang petugas Transjakarta juga lebih galak. I swear! Gue ngerasa kayak lagi di MOS jaman baru masuk SMA dulu. Petugasnya itu teriak-teriak ngasih tau harus antri yang rapi lah, ini lah, itu lah, tapi nada teriaknya bener-bener nyuruh ala kakak OSIS lagi nge-MOS.

Tadi di Dukuh Atas ada om petugas yang bilang gini:

'Kalo mau ke Matraman, naik lagi ke atas! Antri dong yang bener! Orang tua aja bisa disuruh antri!'

Wow, dude, wow. Gue sih ga tersinggung ya, soalnya tadi gue emang iseng ke bawah daripada berdiri doang. Cuma kan, ya jangan mentang-mentang Anda udah tua trus jadi seenaknya ngomong gitu ke yang lebih muda dong, Om. Kalo gue jadi orang tua nya sih gue bakal bilang kalo gue antri karena inisiatif gue, bukan karena disuruh orang, apalagi orangnya sambil teriak-teriak ngga santai. Malu dong kalo ngantri aja masih disuruh^^

Terus tadi di Matraman juga mbak-mbak kenek bus nya teriak gini:

`geser ya geser ke dalam! Yang baru masuk langsung geser jangan ngegerombol di depan pintu! Kasih jalan buat yang lain, jangan egois!`

Another wow. Like, WOW. Kalo mau tau, teriakan sama muka mbaknya persis banget sama OSIS angkatan atas sekolah gue. Gue langsung punya pikiran kalo orang yang di-hire untuk kerja di halte bus Transjakarta haruslah orang yang pas jaman sekolah atau kuliah pernah nge-MOS atau nge-OSPEK adek kelasnya. Lebih parahnya, ngediklat capsis (calon pengurus osis) juga. Wow.

Maksud gue.. yaampun om, tante, teriak sih teriak, ngasih tau sih ngasih tau, tapi yang sopan dong. Kita (at least, gue) juga bakal ikutin kata-katanya kalo ngomongnya baik-baik kok. Teriak kan ga berarti jadi kasar gitu. Om tantenya tau kata tolong kan? Tau bedanya ngasih info sama marah-marah kan?

Terakhir nih, tadi pas turun di Halte Kampung Melayu, gelap banget haltenya. Gue kira lagi mati lampu gitu padahal area di sekelilingnya terang benderang. Mungkin karena haltenya sekarang jadi gede ya, lampu yang nyala cuma yang di halte baru.

Iya, halte Kampung Melayu diperbesar karena koridor yang baru, yang lewat kantor walikota Jakarta Timur itu, berhentinya di Kampung Melayu. Kapan-kapan ada yang mau nyobain naik busway koridor baru? Sama gue yuk yuk yuk!

Well, okay, akhir dari post ini adalah, saya cuma pengen ngasih tau kalo saya seneng banget sama sistem bus Transjakarta ini, saya pengen bisa naik bus Transjakarta kemana-mana, saya pengen sistemnya tuh jadi teratur, rapi, enak di kita dan di yang punya perusahaan juga. Nah, untuk itu, kita ngga bisa cuma protes dan nyuruh orang Transjakartanya melakukan perbaikan dan perubahan doang kan. Kita juga harus taati peraturan yang mereka berikan, supaya semuanya tertib, bagus, enak dilihat, bisa dibanggain, dan tujuan untuk me-anti-macet-kan Jakarta itu bisa tercapai. Kalau ngga mulai dari kita sendiri, kitanya cuma protes doang, ngga bakal ada perubahan. Jadi nih semuanya, stiker di halte sama di bus dibaca baik-baik trus diikutin ya. Trus antri sendiri jangan nunggu om tante petugasnya teriak-teriak. Masuk busnya pelan-pelan, jangan dorong-dorongan, langsung cari tempat yang kosong dan sesuai pemisahannya. Kalau kita bisa begitu, Transjakarta ngga bakal kalah elite sama sistem transportasi di luar negeri loh! :)

Sekian, terima kasih.

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Bedah Kampus UI 2011

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Hi, long time no see!
It's been busy month last November and I think we'll be more busy this early December since Final Exams will be started next Thursday. Well, anyway, before struggling hard for exams, there's an event held by BEM University of Indonesia named Bedah Kampus Universitas Indonesia 2011 or BKUI2011. As well as there are so many senior students who still can't decide where are they going to study, this event showed all faculties UI has and everyone could ask everything about every faculties so they can finally decide what to study, where to go study.

I bought a ticket for two days (3rd and 4th of December) pass and went to Balairung UI, Depok with my nine friends (although two of them couldn't join us on the second day :/). We did so many things there, like going around UI with Bikun (Bis Kuning, a yellow bus for transportation around campus of UI) and joining an open house at Fasilkom (Fakultas Ilmu Komputer, Faculty of Computer Science)--well that were on day #1. On the second day, which was today, we stayed at Balairung to visit some booths of faculties. Me personally went to booth of Fasilkom, Dutch literature, Javanese literature, Communication, Criminology, Computer engineering, Accounting and Geography. I got my name written in Java script, Bali script and Sunda script at Javanese literature booth and that all are so cute :3

Before going to the booths, we all were going to a battle zone outside Balairung. That's actually a place for us to take do some photo shoots with the mascot, and play some games to win prizes (even just bookmarks and stickers, well, whatever.). But, in the middle of the area, there's a tree with so many papers with wishes glued there. We could write our wishes--mostly about to go to a faculty we want--and put the paper on the branches. Here's mine:

I can't make a good report about this event since I didn't really stay at the venue for all rundowns, so all I could say about this event is just that I'm so happy to go there, to be with my friends, to meet some old friends, to know more about the faculties and universities and more and more and more. This event should be held every year and I hope, you all guys who want to go to UI, can be participated by showing 'Hi, I'm a student of this faculty in University of Indonesia.' Amen! :D

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

D Untuk Delisa

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Hi!

I just finished reading a novel last night. A very-berry good novel I'm sure I should recommend it to all of you (especially those Moslems out there). So now, I'm going to make a review in Bahasa Indonesia (since this book is in Bahasa Indonesia and--uhm--I am not sure I can write a good review in English eheh). Hope you enjoy this post! :)

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Judul Buku: Hafalan Shalat Delisa

Pengarang: Tere Liye

Jumlah Halaman: vi+270 Halaman

Penerbit: Republika Penerbit

Tahun Terbit: Mei 2011 (Cetakan ke-XIV)

Diceritakan seorang gadis kecil berumur enam tahun yang aktif, polos, berhati tulus dan penuh keingintahuan. Namanya Delisa, bungsu dari pasangan Ummi Salamah dan Abi Usman. Anak itu sedang berusaha menghafalkan bacaan-bacaan shalat--selalu diulanginya setiap saat walaupun sulit, lupa lagi, lupa lagi. Namun ketiga kakaknya, Cut Fatimah, Cut Zahra dan Cut Aisyah ikut membantu dan menyemangati sang adik.

Delisa dan keluarganya tinggal di Lhok Nga, Aceh. Ayahnya bekerja di kapal tanker, pulang setiap tiga bulan. Ibunya bekerja di rumah, menjahit atau menyulam pesanan tetangga. Setiap hari, para perempuan itu bangun pagi dan shalat subuh berjamaah. Aisyah membaca bacaan shalat dikeraskan agar Delisa dapat mengikuti. Lalu, mereka tadarus.

Delisa diimingi berbagai hadiah demi kesuksesannya menghafal bacaan shalat. Ia sudah dibelikan kalung oleh ibunya, dengan bandul D--D untuk Delisa. Ayahnya menjanjikan ia sepeda baru saat mereka bicara di telepon. Ustadnya, Ustad Rahman, memang sering memberi hadiah setiap Delisa melakukan sesuatu. Semua hadiah itu akan Delisa dapatkan bila ia lulus hafalan bacaan shalat dengan Ibu Guru Nur.

Tanggal 26 Desember 2004 memang bertepatan dengan kejadian Tsunami yang menghancurkan bagian utara Sumatera. Tapi hari itu juga adalah hari Delisa akan membuktikan bahwa ia sudah hafal semua bacaan shalat. Hari Minggu itu, Delisa pergi dengan Ummi ke sekolah seraya Aisyah dan Zahra menempelkan karton-karton biru penuh tulisan untuk Delisa--mungkin untuk penyemangat. Sementara, di benak Delisa terkadang muncul hadiah-hadiah yang ia akan dapatkan nantinya. Ia nervous, namun ia berusaha untuk tidak lupa dan mempresentasikan hasil hafalannya dengan baik.

Baru saja membaca doa iftitah, tiba-tiba bumi berguncang. Gempa besar terjadi. Namun Delisa tetap melanjutkan bacaannya. Ia ingin khusuk, ingin satu pikiran saat shalat, tidak memedulikan hal yang lain di luar shalat, seperti kata Ustad. Ummi sudah berteriak saat gempa, namun Delisa menghiraukannya. Ibu Guru Nur pun tak berpindah tempat melihat Delisa yang tetap diam melanjutkan bacaannya.

Saat sampai membaca Surah Al-Fatihah, tsunami itu datang. Kencang sekali. Menghantam semua yang ada di depannya. Namun Delisa tidak bergeming. Bahkan saat ia hampir tenggelam, yang ada di pikirannya hanyalah bacaan shalat yang belum selesai. Namun Delisa keburu pingsan karena menelan banyak air. Kaki dan tangannya patah dan luka terhantam balok dan apapun itu. Sebelum Ibu Guru Nur pergi, beliau mengikatkan kerudungnya pada Delisa dan sebatang papan dengan harapan Delisa selamat dan tetap dapat melanjutkan bacaan shalatnya.

Delisa terhempas ke semak-semak sejauh enam kilometer dari sekolahnya. Delisa pingsan selama enam hari. Tangannya patah, kakinya luka parah tak bisa diselamatkan. Kerudung dan pakaiannya robek tak berbentuk. Badannya penuh luka dan lebam. Di dekat Delisa, ada mayat Tiur, teman main sepedanya, yang tergeletak begitu saja dengan mata terbuka. Delisa sempat bolak-balik pingsan-siuman beberapa kali. Entah darimana, ada lima apel berjejer di dekatnya, bisa dimakan. Ia minum air hujan yang turun tiap malam. Namun tetap saja, tubuh Delisa yang kecil tidak kuat dengan kondisi panas terik dan hujan yang datang bergantian. Delisa tidak tahu apa-apa lagi hingga akhirnya ia diselamatkan oleh seorang tentara asing. Hingga ia bertemu dengan teman-teman baru. Hingga ia dapat bertemu lagi dengan Abinya, melanjutkan hidup berdua. Hingga ia terus berusaha menikmati hidup dengan ceria walaupun sekarang tubuhnya cacat dan tidak punya siapa-siapa kecuali Abi dan teman-teman barunya. Lalu bagaimana hafalan shalatnya?

(Mohon maklum untuk selanjutnya, bahasanya bakal jadi acak-adut. Mohon pengertiannya, terima kasih.)

Novel karya Tere Liye ~~(yang ternyata laki-laki, oke, gue kira dia cewek, oke, maap om)~~ ini benar-benar menguras air mata. Gue baru baca pas istirahat di SQ sekitar 65 halaman. Lalu ngelanjutin di rumah dari jam setengah 10, hingga buku itu tamat pada pukul 11.30 malam, jujur aja gue gabisa berenti nangis sepanjang membaca 200 halaman, menghabiskan sisa persediaan tissue di kamar. Buku ini adalah sebuah renungan bagi siapa pun yang membacanya. Di kemas dengan bahasa sehari-hari yang ringan sehingga mudah dimengerti oleh siapa saja, bahwa hidup Delisa tidak mudah. Ia menghadapi berbagai tantangan yang sulit. Namun tetap saja ia menjalani hidup seperti tidak ada beban. Bila ada kesalahan, ia cepat memperbaiki dan belajar untuk tidak mengulanginya lagi.

Sebetulnya, yang lebih bikin nangis itu catatan kaki yang di buat pengarang tentang sikap atau kesulitan yang dihadapi oleh Delisa. Misalnya nih, pas Delisa bangun dari pingsan lalu melihat mayat temannya tergeletak begitu saja di depannya. Kalau kita bacanya sungguh-sungguh pasti langsung serem kan kalo dibayangin? Udah serem, trus ada catatan kakinya: "Delisa baru 6 tahun tapi sudah harus melihat yang seperti itu, bagaimana dengan orang-orang berdosa di luar sana yang masih bisa berhura-hura saat banyak saudaranya tertimpa bencana memilukan" (yah kurang lebih seperti itu). Allahuakbar, Vany berasa lagi muhasabah kayak pas tafakur alam! Langsung deh banjir air mata lagi di situ. Oke, mari sudahi cerita air matanya.

Udah kan tuh yang bagus-bagusnya. Bisa untuk renungan, ceritanya mudah di cerna, bahasanya gampang dimengerti, dan oh, Delisa ini benar-benar tipikal anak baru masuk SD. Pas banget untuk anak-anak yang biar rajin shalat, kasih aja buku ini, biar jadi pelajaran juga mengenai keimanan, ketaatan, kasih sayang, kedisiplinan, ketulusan dan sikap toleransi beragama.^^

Tapi jujur, personally, gue ngga terlalu suka cerita yang banyak kalimat di dalam kurungnya. Nah, di novel ini banyak kalimat yang ada di dalam kurung. Kenapa ngga dijelasin aja di kalimat selanjutnya? Biar lebih rapi gitu loh. Hal ini jadi satu minus buat gue. Namun, minusnya ini tertutup banget sama kebagusan novel yang udah disebutin di atas.

Sekilas tentang Tere Liye ~~(yang aslinya ternyata cowok)~~, beliau ini adalah penulis novel-novel yang bersifat religius. Gue baru baca ini doang sih, ada satu lagi buku beliau di perpustakaan ~~(ketauan bacanya modal minjem perpus)~~ tapi lagi dipinjam orang. Tadi buka multiply-nya juga, banyak foto-foto yang bagus. Mungkin om Tere Liye ini juga seorang fotografer ya. Yang pasti, novelnya yang ini amat sangat wajar kalau sampai dicetak berkali-kali dan best seller.

Tertarik? Coba cari di perpustakaan sekolah kamu, atau beli sendiri biar bisa disimpen untuk saat-saat yang dibutuhkan ;)

Ps. Delisa bisa bilang ke Ummi dan Abinya kalo dia cinta mereka karena Allah. Walaupun cuma demi coklat, tapi ucapannya tulus sampai orang tuanya nangis. Ada yang bisa begitu juga? Gue.. jujur aja.. ngga.. *malu* :"""
P.P.s. Thank you so much my dear Najla for telling me about this book! Love ya!

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Proud Mom

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Hi.

I only have 30 minutes left to do all the things I should do before going bed at 10 and try to be as fresh as I can to face the weekdays. So, let's get this thing done ;)

So I have this hydroponic project for my PLH class. (PLH means "Pendidikan Lingkungan Hidup" in Bahasa Indonesia so maybe we can say it as "Environment Education" but it sounds weird for me, uhm.)

My group chose to plant tomatoes so we use cocopeat as it's planting medium. We started the hydroponic method Friday last week and last Friday, we already put them to the polybags.

I found out that those baby plants are so cute and beautiful. My teacher said that growing plants is like growing children so we have to be good parents to them. By that, I felt like a proud mom when I saw those babies came out from the plastic they used to be covered with.

Anyway, we had to choose four of eight baby plants we planted last week to be moved to the polybags. I'll show you the picture later, so you'll know that each four of them has a beautiful name: Tobey, Tommy, Timmy and Tiffany. I just can't wait 'til they grow up and produce the fruits :)

Once I'm done with this project, I'll tell you how to plant with hydroponics method, don't worry ;)

Going to the next topic, I went to Meet Me By Sunrise's EP release party yesterday with Nurin, Fia and Kanya. The bad thing was, I came late because of the traffic jam and I was really hungry at the time so I couldn't handle my emotion (I can be an ass if I couldn't find anything to eat when I'm really hungry), I screwed up myself and made my friends worried. But out of that thing, everything was great. Really, I did enjoy the show even just a little.

Oops, 10 pm already, I gotta go now! Sorry for the bad post, I prolly gonna edit some things here tomorrow! :D

Ciao!

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Lovely Chilly Saturday

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Hi.

I got new haircut today. I was so sick of having very long bangs and the weather nowadays (even though today was a chilly one. I love today's weather!) made me want to cut my hair shorter. So that's me with my new hair, how do ya think? Yeah, ~~I'm so ugly though (el-oh-el)~~ but whatever, my hair looks great, eh? ;)

Mid-term exams start on next Monday until Friday then I hope I can go for Meet Me By Sunrise's EP release party at Score! Cilandak Townsquare on Saturday. Let's meet up there, shall we?!

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Hi.

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How are you all, people?
School somehow has screwed me up with all homework and quizzes the teachers gave us. Thank God I only have one quiz left on Monday and a remedial for my first physics quiz on Tuesday. Well, I can't be that relax this weekend since I gotta do some athletic stuffs tomorrow morning then spend my Saturday night studying chemistry for Monday's quiz.

Oh God, help me. I don't know that senior year will be this hard. Urgh.

Anyway,
I was planning to show you Alenda's super cool cracking nail polish from OPI, I used it yesterday and I love it so much when I combined the cracking nail polish with my own sparkling nail polish I have used before.
But, I just don't feel it right to share my nails arts since--dammit--~~I have to admit that I have 10 fat ugly fingers~~. I'm really not going to share a picture of my fingers which I'm sure you guys will mock me about those. So, no, I'm not going to share any pictures today. lol.

Let's go to something more serious.
You all already know that I'm living my senior year life right now. Not only about how I have to change my whole routine--I should be getting used with quizzes and homework and task and courses everyday, but I also have to think about where I will go after graduation. Will I go to university or no? Which university I will go to? Will I go to state university, the private one, or will I even go to study abroad? The more important thing is... what majors I'd like to learn? I still have no idea about those things while almost all my friends are so sure about their future later.

If I was writing this post in bahasa Indonesia, I'd have told you that 'gue lagi galau banget sekarang tentang beginian'. I don't even know how to say that in English ahah. I've asked some friends about studying abroad but.. that's it--Galau Vany is galau..

Any of you guys can help me about how to prepare for my future? I really need a help =.=

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Merdeka!!

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, MY BELOVED INDONESIA!!!!!!!!

Hell, Even though many things are so messed up here, I just can't leave a single thought about this country. This is where I was born, meet a great friends and family. This country is where I feel accepted with most lovable people I ever known.
I just hope everything here will get better. Better government, better civilians, better education system, and else. I hope there'll be no more corruptors live peacefully (they never will, though) and so on. Amen for all your wishes to Indonesia!

That captured picture above is from Wes Dimond, guitarist of The Downtown Fiction. So many good musicians were tweeting about Indonesia's Independence day (and that's so lovely, thank you so much!) but his is my favorite. I don't know why. Maybe because I love him too much :3

Anyway,
This blog's layout is finally done. You now can follow this blog (if you haven't yet) by clicking the link under "friends" section. And also, comments and opinions are accepted by clicking the link under blog date. I'm so proud of this lovely layout <3

Now I gotta go study for math quiz. Wish me luck!

Ps. Three years after Panic! At The Disco live concert in Jakarta. They'll be here again next month and again, I won't be there. `That's okay, I feel the same, I'm on my way~`

Labels: Blogger, Events, FYI, Happy Birthday, Panic At The Disco, School Stuffs, The Downtown Fiction, Vany Naura, wishes

One Late Night Post

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Ohaaaii people!!!
I'm just done making new layout for this blog. At first I was planning to make a layout purely by my own but I found it really hard 'til I almost gave up, so I tried to find a layout on blogskins that has same purpose as I wanted my layout to be.

I'm so in love with this layout especially about the background color and the picture of header and footer. Do you like that one too? Or do you even have any plans to visit one of those famous trademarks? Let me know so maybe we can plan a trip together someday ;)

Anyhoo,
How do ya think this blog look like? I know some stuffs are still messed up. I haven't put a link for new comers to follow this blog, and even I haven't put link to input comments. Damn my lame memory, I forgot the HTML code for those things and I'm too tired to find and figure those out tonight :(
So If you have anything to say about this new layout, please give some shoutouts on the chatbox, thank you :)

A little update about my real life lately, I'm currently on daily quizzes week where there's at least one quiz per day and that really sucks. Fortunately tomorrow is a holiday (tomorrow is August 17th, Indonesia Independence Day, Wooo!!) so I at least have some hours to relax before going back to study maths for linear-thingy quiz on Thursday.

I gotta go now, I'm starting to feel ache on my back. Nighty, lovers!

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

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Source: google.com

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

karaokeparty.com

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I am getting addicted to this site. I guess I'll be busy karaoke-ing this holiday. Who wanna join? :)

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Sorry, I Was Really Bored At The Laboratory

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"Bulan sabit di awan
Laksana perahu emas
Belampu bintang
Berlaut langit
Jauh di angkasa luas
Betapa senang hatiku rasanya
Menjadi nahkoda disana"
-Bulan Sabit
~~I forgot the song creator hehe~~

Another fact of me: I still love singing some childhood songs. Kiddos better sing those song than singing ST12 and suchs' songs. True right?

Labels: Bahasa Indonesia, Entertainment Stuffs, FYI, Kiddos, School Stuffs, Vany Naura

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

#100factsaboutme

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It's a trending hashtag on twitter. I supposed to do this there but I I just don't feel it's right since I've had bunch amount of tweets--I feel I have to stop tweeting too much--and this blog is kind of better place to share about myself. Ha.

Well okay, a hundred facts about me. Let's begin!

#1 My first name is a boyish Italian name, my middle name is Arabic while the last name is Sansekerta
#2 I will be 17 years old this April 25th
#3 I have much more online friends than the real ones
#4 I'm such an account-addict with about 5 blogs, 4 emails and many social networks account
#5 I'm a fangirl
#6 I never ever like a band just because of the members' face. It'll be one of my reason but not the first one.
#7 My first favorite band ever is Panic! At The Disco
#8 I purely love Forever The Sickest Kids because of their music, as when I listened to Becky Stars for the first time
#9 I'm a proud mom of @patdina, @themaineindo and @AFTWindonesia
#10 I run @patdina with Kak Tika and Kak Marina, but they're too busy with college stuffs so I mostly be there
#11 I'm only a co-admin of @TheMaineIndo (main admin is Kak Resty) and @AFTWindonesia (main admin is Kak Utta) ehe
#12 I'm a street team of @Aim4TheWeekend, a brand new band from NOVA, Virginia USA
#13 my favorite numbers are 2, 5, and 8
#14 My favorite color is blue
#15 most of my stuffs are blue and red
#16 I prefer to talk on instant messaging instead of phone texting
#17 I started my first blog when I was a 7 grader
#18 This blog is my 4th blogspot and 6th or something blog
#19 my tumblr is http://vanynotfunny.tumblr.com
#20 I used to have a plurk account I am not going to deactivate for this time
#21 I used 'funnynaura' name on every accounts I have
#22 My first concert in Cobra Starship, last year, march 23
#23 Right last year, March 22 2010, was the best day ever since I met everyone from Cobra Starship
#24 I might be a huge fan of P!ATD but I didn't go for their concert in Indonesia
#25 I watched 3 concerts last year
#26 I did regret my decision to watch All Time Low concert from tribune class
#27 I was THAT girl who disturbed Austin Bello's shopping time before Jakarta Jam '10 started lol
#28 I only met Pat Kirch after JakJam '10 but it was totally not a good memory
#29 I have a half of The Maine's setlist for show in Jakarta. Ila got the half other
#30 I bought my own birthday present
#31 I bought Pretty. Odd album for my 14th birthday
#32 I don't own any of Apple products
#33 I never want to use a blackberry, I prefer iPhone or sidekick or android
#34 I use two GSM phones and none of them are QWERTY phone
#35 I have 2 personal accounts of twitter
#36 I have a private blog which I change the url everytime someone has found out about it
#37 I always be sad for any band split
#38 I was late to know that P!ATD had split. I knew about that a day later and cried all day on the next day
#39 I'm a moody babe
#40 I don't live with my mom. She's rarely home
#41 I have a problem with my last 3 maids
#42 I'm a kind of busy on weekdays
#43 on weekdays, I start my day at 4.30 am and finish it at 11.00 pm
#44 I have courses every monday and wednesday, more courses for helping me study for daily quizzes
#45 I had a big crush on George Ryan Ross III and I used to hate Keltie Coleen
#46 I am mentally married to Dani Pedrosa
#47 I loved Detective Conan
#48 I've been using glasses since grade 3
#49 Nurin and Amelia are one of my best online friends
#50 I am a lurker
#51 I hate protected accounts
#52 I am a passive smoker
#53 I definitely hate smokers. People who drink are still fine for me if they can keep their limit
#54 I barely sleep at night and hardly wake up in the morning
#55 I don't like if someone ain't close to me called me with my childhood name
#56 My family and my childhood friends used to call me Naura or Nar for shorts
#57 Panic! At The Disco was my motivation to study English in LIA
#58 I have so little number of friends when I was in elementary school
#59 I meet up with some of my playgroup, kindergarten, elementary and middle school friends on high school
#60 61 High School Jakarta has been related to me far away before I go to that school
#61 I'm an idiot in he middle of genius people
#62 I knew FOB after I knew P!ATD
#63 I can't live without phones, internet and music
#64 I bring at least 5 kilos weight of my bag everyday
#65 I used to love David James Pavluk so bad. Now I don't even want to listen to his cover songs now
#66 I never ever download a new released song or album before it's finally released. I'm kind of doing piracy but I'm still trying to get it after the stuffs are released
#67 I listen to every songs that tease me so well
#68 My best favorite movie is The Sound of Music. I've watched it about 4 or 5 times
#69 I can't get mad to someone more than a day
#70 I feel like Forever The Sickest Kids is writing songs about me
#71 I never be good on physics
#72 I never be on big 10 ranks in highschool
#73 I'm a grammar badass
#74 chocolate bars turn up my mood
#75 I have some undone stories on my document I don't know I should finish or not
#76 My current wish is to be a spy agent when I grow up
#77 I do like playing with pencil colors, paints and every creativity gears
#78 My record is being in front of pc for 17 hours
#79 My very first online friend is Cemara Chrisalit :D
#80 People said I'm a twin of Patrick John Kirch. I feel honored :3
#81 I never really want to care about people business. We have our own probs tho
#82 I never go to Monas
#83 My first bestfriend on middle school is Maulia Rahma. She's like a mom of mine and I call her Mama
#84 TRADIFOXEE is a part of my sweetest memories :")
#85 I'm a coward
#86 I'm afraid of darkness, ghosts, blood, frogs and cockroaches
#87 I'm a half Minang and Sundanese but I can't speak any of the languages. I understand some of, though
#88 I also have a little chinese gene lol
#89 I'm such a liar to myself and to everyone else. But I'm trying to change that stupid thing :)
#90 I'm a muslim
#91 I dance Saman, a traditional dance from Nangroe Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia
#92 I went to ballet-modern dance-and-drama club but I replaced it with ice skating class but I don't join any of them now
#93 I love to download trial games
#94 I love playing hidden object games even though I hardly find the objects and it makes me frustrated sometimes
#95 I'm a money-spender
#96 I talk a LOT
#97 My voice is like a 10 year-old kiddo
#98 I have best ability to make people hate me
#99 I talk before thinking
#100 I'm not sure yet about the majority and university I will go to after highschool

That's all! Happy knowing-me-better!

Labels: Blogger, Entertainment Stuffs, Fall Out Boy, Friends, FYI, Hello, School Stuffs, The Downtown Fiction, The Maine, Vany Naura

Saturday, February 12, 2011

I Know It's Kind Of Late, But Happy Birthday :)

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Happy birthday to my younger brother Ahmad Rayhan Gaffari! Also happy birthday to Azalia Putri and Hanny Evasari. I love you all guys, have a great birthday and have fun in your rest life! :D

I am really tired now, I'm kind of sleepy but just can't shut my eyes and go to dreamland. I think I'm going to turn into a bat girl or something since I never slept before 11 pm.

Physics quiz on Monday as Bahasa quiz follows at the afternoon. No school on Tuesday but I have to go badminton in the morning. Math clinic about limits on Wed and Thu because I'll have math quiz on Friday. Before that, I have religion test on Friday morning.

You say 'Thank God It's Friday'? That's not for me in anyway. Gotta try to love that day someday later, not now.

Labels: FYI, Happy Birthday, School Stuffs

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Choices To Choose, Never Been As Hard As This.

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Thispost will be written in Bahasa Indonesia. This caused by my lack English right now. Well anyway..

I'm on dilemma.

Gue. Lagi. Dilema.

Jadi gini ceritanya.

Gue ngerti yang namanya hidup itu harus pake pilihan. Pilihan itu kadang-kadang cuma 'Ya' atau 'Tidak'. Nah, buat gue, pilihan itu ada banyak. Bisa aja awalnya cuma 'mau' atau 'nggak'. Tapi lama-lama dari satu pilihan 'ya' atau 'tidak' itu bisa berkembang lagi ke pilihan-pilihan lainnya. Itulah otak gue yang sok bisa mikir banyak-banyak. Tiba-tiba langsung aja dateng banyak pilihan ke gue. Ujung-ujungnya gue jadi pusing sendiri.

Sekarang ke permasalahannya.

Pernah waktu itu bokap gue lagi berbaik hati ngebolehin gue backpacking ke Eropa pas lulus SMA. Beh, seneng dong? Gue bisa liburan dulu, bisa cari pengalaman dulu baru masuk kuliah belajar lagi. Lagipula, hal yang lo pelajarin waktu travelling bakal lebih banyak, lebih mudah dimengerti dan lebih berarti daripada lo duduk belajar di kelas. Otomatis gue iya-in lah.

Tapi terus bokap bilang `kalo gitu cari uang dari sekarang, cari link buat 'numpang', kalo mau cari temen berangkat bareng atau berangkat aja sendiri.` Duh?

Gue rasa ini nggak mungkin.

Sekolah gue adalah model sekolah yang seneng 'nyimpen' anak muridnya lama-lama di sekolah. Belom termasuk tugas seabrek, ulangan, dan kewajiban bimbel untuk anak dengan otak pas-pasan macem gue. Waktu gue selama seminggu habis untuk sekolah. Begitupun duit jajan gue yang--ahem, ngga tralu banyak. Dan di Indonesia--tepatnya di daerah rumah gue, dimana ada part-time job untuk anak SMA?

Kalo nyari link sih ya gampang, udah banyak kok forum-forum backpacker. Tinggal betulin cara komunikasi, ngomong baik-baik, insya Allah bisa diterima. Tapi duitnya ituloooh. Masa iya gue yang pergi sendiri bokap gue yang ngebayarin segala macem? Ga lucu kan?

Selain itu, gue punya firasat kalo masuk kuliah pas jaman gue dan seterusnya bakal lebih sulit dari sekarang. Kalo misalnya gue jalan-jalan dulu, dan tetep pengen masuk PTN, agaknya itu sulit. Kecuali ya gue pengen kuliah di luar dimana itu juga ngga gampang. Yah, pokoknya ada more and less nya deh.

Nah, gimana gue ga dilema?

Ujungnya sih, setelah mikir-mikir, gue udah bikin 3 pilihan pasti yang harus cepet gue putusin. Walaupun yah, sampe sekarang gue masih bingung. Dua pilihan itu adalah:

1. Backpacking abis lulus dengan pinjam duit papa tersayang. Stay disana cari kuliah atau pulang ke Indonesia belajar lagi super keras buat masuk PTN. (Begini ceritanya, gue harus bawa buku juga sambil backpacking. Gimana nyari kuliah kalo udah lupa pelajaran sekolah?)

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2. Kuliah dulu di Indonesia, sambil kuliah sambil kerja sambilan. Waktu libur semester pergi backpacking tapi ngga langsung satu benua. (Berarti gue harus pinter bagi waktu antara kuliah, belajar dan kerja. Dan gue bakal jarang pulang ke rumah pas lagi libur. Berarti gue bakal jarang ketemu kamar--tepatnya kasur--asli gue.)

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3. Gue kuliah di luar, pas libur ngga balik ke Indonesia tapi jalan-jalan ke negara sekitarnya (eh wait, emang gue mau kuliah dimana?)

Udah ada 3 pilihan, tapi masih banyak dilemanya. Menurut lo, enakan gimana ya? :|

Oh anyway, ada lomba blog dari Canada Education Services International. Ikutan ga ya? Ada yang ikut kah?

~~Ps. Satu dilema lagi. Gue maksa nonton TDF atau ngga ya?~~

Labels: Bahasa Indonesia, Blogger, FYI, The Downtown Fiction, Vany Naura

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Ina-TEWS, The Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System

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Since there were some disasters happened in Indonesia, I'm sure everyone is now more concern about everything around them and about their beloved country, Indonesia. Instead of doing something after the disaster happened, we definitely prefer to get warned before it happened. That's why I was searching for some disaster warning system and got some information about Ina-TEWS a.k.a Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System.

Taken from Pasifik Satelit Nusantara's website, they designed Ina-TEWS which is an advanced, comprehensive public outdoor warning management system suitable for a broad range of applications. It is highly flexible and capable to manage from small community warning system up to a large scale, integrated regional or national warning system. Ina-TEWS provides all necessary functions to maintain a secure, responsive and reliable public warning system capable to disseminate high priority warnings rapidly.

Physically, Indonesia started to built this technology on 2006 and planned to have 160 broadband seismometers and 500 seismometers, 40 GPS, 80 tide gauges and 23 dart-buoy. Until October 2008, there have been 116 units of seismometers, 45 units of tide gauges and 3 units of buoy which are operating now. This technology also completed by Indonesia Database of Pre-calculated Tsunami Model which taken from places guessed as tsunami potential. There is also a Decision Support System that collected all information from the monitoring system, tsunami simulation and crustal deformation from the earth after an earthquake happened. From the monitoring system, the DSS offers the type of news or an early warning to be taken by the operator at the specified time through Graphic User Interface (GUI). The spread of early warning information through email, SMS, fax, website and alarms so people can get information about tsunami prediction right five minutes after an earthquake happened.

Here's a video to watch about Ina-TEWS:

Labels: FYI, IT, Review

Friday, November 26, 2010

Spoiler Tutorial

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Disclaimer: This post wouldn't be posted by me if there were no Cemara Chrisalit and Benazio Rizki who told me about this. Fist of all, thank you guys, I owe you some kudos :)

So, have you read my post here? Most of them are had spoilers inside. Spoiler is a kind of way to make your post shorter because it hides some of things you share on one post.

This is an example of a spoiler:

Now,to put a spoiler on your post, it's just as easy as to draw a circle. The only thing you have to do is just open the 'edit HTML' tab on your 'new post' page, and type the HTML codes there. Here I give you the code:

<div style="border: 0px inset gray; padding: 0px;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<button class="button" onclick="this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[1].style.display = ''; this.parentNode.style.display = 'none';" title="Click to show the spoiler." type="button"><span style="color: black;">SPOILER-TITLE</span></button></div>
<div id="spoiler" style="display: none;">
SPOILER-CONTENT</div>

Change the word i high-lighted with your own title and content. You can also change the border, the button's color, and the text-align. But this is the common HTML codes I use for this blog.

Hope this can help you to improve your posts. Again, this post is credited to Cemara Chrisalit and Benazio Rizki. Thank you guys!

-Ciao!

Labels: Blogger, Friends, FYI, IT

Introducing: Tumblr

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Come up with a late night post today! I'm going to make it quick and readable.

This is about a new way to blogging, to share your interest with people and to find your true friends on the net. This is called Tumblr.

Found on 2007 by a ~~handsome-and-attractive~~ man named David Karp, Tumblr is your new way to blog. It's easy and let you to post everything without any problem. You can post picture, words, quotes, links, songs/sounds, videos and conversation. You even can reblog your friends' posts and there's no limit of posts you want to post each time you logging in.

What's fun about tumblr?

Dude, tumblr is your life. Tumblr is everything you need. Tumblr understands you and you love tumblr so much. Okay, I was talking about myself. So, from my own experience, these are the things that make me in love with tumblr.

#1 Tumblr is easy to post.

Those are the categories to choose when you're starting to make a new post. Text for you who want to post a story (you can add pictures too there), photo for you who want to upload your photos (they accept JPEG, GIF and BMP. You can take the picture first using webcam and even upload some pitctures and make a slide show), quote for you to post your favorite words from your idols, link to post an URL when you're going to share a cool site, chat to share conversations you just did or heard, audio to post your voices--songs or just yells are acceptable depends on your followers, and the last but not least, video to post a video from youtube or vimeo or other sites, or if you want to upload your own video you just recorded.

If you don't know what to post, you can see what people has posted and reblog it. Remember, it's reblog, not repost because tumblr has it own rules, dudes.

#2 Tumblr is where you can show your interests freely.

Are you interested in photography? Musics? Life Problems? Literatures? Movies? Fashions? Or any other things? Tumblr has everything for you! You can share your interests with people, and you'll find them as your followers. Then, you'll see that you're not alone because, actually, somewhere in this world, there is someone that love what you love. Find your truly community here on tumblr, they'll love you back, don't worry.

#3 You can reblog people's posts.

"The same way YouTube embeds make it easy for a video to become a viral hit, the "reblog" button on all Tumblr posts allows a meme to spread rapidly across thousands of blogs with just a click."

That's what the developers said. That's all.

#4 The goodies.

You can easily share things on tumblr from everywhere because there are some tumblr application for devices. You can install a bookmark on your browser. And you can download tumblr application for blackberry, iPhone, iPad, andfroid and/or the third-party-apps. More way to post, you can do posting from email, you can record an audio by calling 1-866-584-6757 and post through AOL messenger system.

Anyway, tumblr has some merchandise which are uber cool, such as t-shirts and stickers. And you can promote your page by embed your blog, share on twitter or facebook.

#5 The words and the rules.

Where you can find 'jksdfhsdjkhfsdjk', 'hnnnngggg', 'forever alone', 'Y U NO' and more words anywhere but tumblr? Tumblr users has their own rules on saying and posting something which none of outsiders could understand.This is why tumblr is cool by it's own way.

Need more proofs to see about tumblr's coolness? Why don't you try to sign up there? But, please beware, once you get in, you will never get out ;)

Anyway, you should know this, peeps:

Goodnight!!

ps. my tumblr ehe ehe

Labels: FYI, Hello, Vany Naura

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Gadgets For The Eco-Warriors

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Morning peeps! How ya doing this Sunday morning?

Mine is great by a livechat Aim For The Weekend did this morning. Me watched it with my friends and we did have fun singing some songs including Justin Bieber's Baby and dancing together (Chris Altice was dancing well, FYI).

Anyway, I was searching for eco-friendly gadgets at google and I found this website. This website show you cool gadgets for you who cared about environmental issues happening nowadays.
Some are my favorite and here I will tell you about the gadgets!

The cool thing is that you can learn about astronomy and construct the kit by yourself, even they give you opaque acrylic paints and paintbrush to paint each or the planet! Isn't that cool? And anyway, this kit also can teach the kids about solar energy, that's why it's an eco-friendly gadget.

First, I love the color. Second, this is the most eco-friendly gadget so far (read inside spoiler). Kudos kudos!!

All stuffs are being sold at the website. Check them and more stuffs on the web. I'm going to search about iPhone 4 and HCT android. Yep, that'll be the next post about :)

Ttyl, peeps!

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