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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Review: Year Two-O-Eleven

It's December 30th, only two days left before year 2012. This year has been so great for me, many things happened, I couldn't just forget them since every little thing happened this year has made me become someone (I wish) better than before.

So, let's review this year, start from January 2011.

Not many special things happened in January, except that my class became the Ceremony Flag officers on the last day of January 2011. I was the protocol and was really glad that my voice wasn't heard like a baby--as my friends said.

February 2011, my Saman dance club had to perform for a school event where no one but school officials coming. I hated that time because it was a big struggle for me to practice for the performance (I almost had to skip this because my left foot got injured two weeks before the day.) but no one seemed that excited to watch us. It hurt so bad, honestly. But whatever, because a week later, I was so proud of my juniors that they showed a very good performance of Saman dance for another school event. That was their very first performance, btw.

Go on March 2011, Earth Hour 2011 was held on March 26th when I spent my dark night talking on the phone with my friends Lois. This blog was also closed for a day as I changed the layout onto a special one, thanks Kak Uchie for making the layout!

April 2011! I was finally 17 years old this month! Ahaha. Too many things happened here. Started from how I tried my best to keep on working for an event held by Rohis Metana. How I crashed a surprise plan for my birthday (I'm so sorry, but you guys don't have to be that mad at me, tho.), and how I finally had a gut to ask for permission to go to ARTTM's concert and, voila, I got it!

Also I won't forget my observation trip to the embassy of The Kingdom of Belgium. That was the best one-day observation trip ever because, well, it's worth it to get the best thing after doing so much struggle. So much stress we got while preparing for this but finally, the score we got was excellent.

I could say that May 2011 was the most memorable month of 2011. My bestie, Amelia, gave a late birthday present for me and it's a The Downtown Fiction meet and greet! She got it from Rexona, the main sponsor for the concert and because she gave her ticket for me, I also got a chance to stay in a hotel for three days and meet some new friends who were also the winner of Rexona's contest.

The meet and greet was UBER GREAT! TDF in persons are really nice and funny. I was so glad that they accepted my presents (and even their bassist used a necklace from me for several months). I actually also gave some presents to A Rocket To The Moon. If you watched their video update about Indonesia, there you'd find my batik fedora, the one that Andrew wore on the bus. Well, the concert itself was a big WOW for me. The bands that were playing were so great, I love them all, and the crowd were really crazy. I could just be dead now if I didn't get out from the crowd, the girls were too crazy if it happened to cool and gorgeous band dudes.

June 2011. Final exams, then Tafakur Alam, then holiday! I went to Bandung for a vacation with my close friends. We visited ITB and some more places. Those four days were a great memory for us that made us getting closer until now.

July 2011 started with a new relationship with someone I met at TDF concert last May. A week later, my senior year begun. I almost got Mayday Parade as my last concert (Jakcloth, July 2011) but too bad my dad came to pick me right when the band almost played. Sad Vany was sad.

August 2011, my first time not joining flag ceremony on August 17th. Haha. August was also Ramadhan month, all Moslems had to fasting. Thanked Allah, my Ramadhan was full of blessings :)

September 2011 was really not my month! Panic! At The Disco came here for the second time but again, I couldn't go to their concert because I already made a commitment with my Dad about no concerts until graduation. My life sucks, I know.

October 2011 was sad. The "demissioner" of OSIS Dhira Tasthiva Balavat Kama happened in this month. Marco Simoncelli was dead after a serious accident during Malaysian Grand Prix. Too much tears fell this month.

November 2011. I broke up. Okay that's not a good thing to share. Eid Al-Adha was held this month and I got my tummy fulled by so many foods--even though there's no difference on my weight. Okay.

December 2011. Well, so many events were held this month. BKUI, then final exams. I need to tell ya that even though I don't celebrate Christmas, I still got the best Christmas present ever this year! My Pioneer album arrived right on Christmas and I got a signed letter from The Maine which is lovely.

That's all. Phew. This post need revision, I know. I'll do it next year, okay?

Happy new year everyone! See you again later!

Labels: A Rocket To The Moon, Blogger, Earth Hour, Entertainment Stuffs, Events, Friends, Hey Monday, Holiday, Panic At The Disco, Review, School Stuffs, The Downtown Fiction, The Maine, Vany Naura

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.

Labels: Bahasa Indonesia, Blogger, FYI, Holiday, Indonesia, Jakarta, Review, Trip, Vany Naura

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

Labels: Arts, Events, Friends, FYI, IT, resolutions, Review, School Stuffs, Trip, Vany Naura, wishes

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!

Labels: Bahasa Indonesia, Blogger, Books, Entertainment Stuffs, FYI, Kiddos, Review, Vany Naura

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!

Labels: Entertainment Stuffs, Environment, Events, Friends, FYI, Music, Review, School Stuffs, Vany Naura

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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!

Labels: Arts, Blogger, Entertainment Stuffs, Events, FYI, Hello, Review, Vany Naura

Friday, June 24, 2011

A Wonderful Trip To Monumen Nasional

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Like I told you guys yesterday, I'm gonna share my first trip ever to Monumen Nasional a.k.a Monas last Tuesday, June 21st 2011. It was really amazing that my friends were agreed to help me reaching this dream to go to Monas. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I've never been to Monas before. Kinda ashamed but, that's me. Living in Jakarta for 17 years but never been to that iconic place of Jakarta.

Back to the story, I went to Monas with Icha, Aviriga Septa and Faqih. At first we planned, we supposed to go to Monas first, have fun there then go to Ragusa and eat everything there. But since we met up late, so we went there late. We changed the plan as we went to Istiqlal Mosque so the guys could pray first, then go to Ragusa because we all were pretty hungry then go to Monas in the end.

That's me, Septa and Icha in front of Ragusa! We ate Asinan, chicken satay and some scoops of ice cream. I ate Chocolate Sundae which tastes like heaven.

That's not really far to walk from Ragusa to Monas. We did about 15 minutes or more walk to Monas. Once I went inside the Monas area, I was like 'Oh my God, this is my first time!' as my friends all were just laughing at me.

Unlucky me, we were late to come to Monas because it's already 4 pm so it's closed already. That's almost okay for me, because all I wanted was to go to Monas, see it closer, and meet the cutie deer.

Yup, I pouted to Icha that I really want to see those deer in Monas but Icha said there are no deer in Monas. I was really sad as I finally saw this cutie baby:

Yes pipol, I met this cutie deer! The deer in Monas were actually placed inside fences, the visitors shouldn't feed them but some people still buy some fried bananas for them. I actually feel it's okay since the deer live in rocky land and they looked hungry at all.

4.30 pm and my guys hadn't prayed Ashar yet so I needed to say goodbye to Deer and went outside Monas area.

I tell ya, we went by busway for this trip and went home using Taxi. Thanks to Faqih's daddy who're really kind to give his silly son some money for us to get home^^

It was really a wonderful trip, I was beyond happy last Tuesday and I couldn't thank everyone enough for keeping me company on this trip. I can't wait for another holiday to go to some place I've never been to before and explore more good things in Jakarta ~~(ps. I've never been to Jakarta Fair too~~ lol laugh at me, peeps). See you on another trip!

P.S

P.P.S All picts are taken by Faqih, thank you!

Labels: Events, Friends, Hello, Holiday, Kiddos, Review, Trip, Vany Naura

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Mushrooms!

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Holiday has started from last Monday even though I just got my report card today. We won't talk about my report because I didn't go to school today due to my nice dream I couldn't just leave.

Anyway.
I tried to have a quality holiday since this could be my last holiday before being in Senior Year next month. So I spend my days lately by registering my bimbel on Monday, going to MONAS on Tuesday (blog post later after this ;)), and, until this Thursday, I'm painting. Yup.
I got an empty canvas from Ridwan, we supposed to use it for the observation to Embassy last April but it's finally being on my own. So I tried to draw something and paint the canvas. Just take a look, peeps:

So, how ya think about my painting? Kinda messed up like a beginner but I'm happy enough with my own art :D

Labels: Arts, Entertainment Stuffs, Events, Friends, Holiday, Kiddos, Review, Vany Naura

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? :)

Labels: Blogger, Entertainment Stuffs, FYI, Hello, IT, Music, Review

Sunday, April 24, 2011

One Week Holiday Recap

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#1 Monday: Cleaned my room. It stayed clean until 2 days ago. Record.
#2 Tuesday: I finally decided to not join the dance group for seniors' event (I dunno whats that in English)
#3 Wednesday: Baking oreo crunch cookies. Nyum :9
#4 Thursday: Busy busy busy. Did the registration for Saman competition at 53 Highschool and found out that the competition date is as same as Tafakur Alam schedule. Damn that, yes. But I was happy that my juniors practiced really well for they performance this Saturday.
#5 Friday: PARTYYYY! Nurin was in the town so we held a little party at her hotel. We're swimming (well, only Kak Uta, Nurin and Fira) and having so much fun. I really can't wait until Nurin moves here and goes to the same school as mine
#6 Saturday: Another party with my girls: Revi, Alvina, Maya, Dita and Illa. Alvina was the birthday girl so we kinda celebrate her birthday at Pancious, Senayan City.
#7 Sunday: FBI eksternal loketa. I'm such a bad crew so I did things that actually not really important. My bad that I went out early because we're gonna celebrate my Grandpa's birthday (which happened on April 4th) and my early birthday. I brought my math homework and let my cousin Sekar to do it. I really wish her for a great good luck for her national final exams because she's really a good kid, ahem.

Sorry for quick post, I should sleep now. First day of school tomorrow. My birthday tomorrow! More update later! :D

Labels: Entertainment Stuffs, Events, Friends, Happy Birthday, Hello, Kiddos, Review, Vany Naura

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Maybe It Is My Weekend

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I was on a hard week, actually hard weekend again. This week had a good start with no school on Monday and so I could join a super-crowded FTSK live-status-comments-chat on facebook and listening to an interview Cameron Leahy did on a radio.

Tuesday and wednesday were good enough but I was kind of tired since I did study a lot for my math quiz on Friday.

Speaking of math quiz.. Err.. I don't know. I've studied so hard but I was really sure I'd fail t even before I knew the question. Oh math, why don't you solve your own problem? :O

Anyway, today was great so far. I played old FOE game called Where In The World I s Cobra Starship. I lost my old username so I started it over again. Then I found two other games, one is Mystery At Decaydance High (featuring The Ready Set and all Decaydance artists :D) and the other one it The Ocarina of Glamour Kills Tour Game.

This is the best game on FOE, seriously. On that game, you're playing as Jordan of The Ready Set. You have to save all GK tour's line up who are kidnapped by sexy vampire (edward cullen is really the most disgusting one), kiddos from hogwarts and snooki of Jersey Shore. And if you live in the US, you can get a chance to win some prizes they have for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd ranks.I really wish I lived in The States now.

Anyway, another cool thing today was a live streaming chat I did with JC Charles of Aim For The Weekend (you should follow them on twitter, like their facebook page and add their myspace!)

I showed him my AFTW bracelet and he said it's awesome. Kak Ayutta should've shipped some of the bracelets to VA so we can wear the same bracelet :D

JC looks really happy, yes? :p

Two things that still bothering my mind are about TDF-ARTTM-HM concert tix that will be sold next week and my ATL notebook that hasn't arrived yet. I'm really worried about these even I already forgot about my math quiz... Alright.

Gotta get my dinner, ta-dah!

Labels: A Rocket To The Moon, Entertainment Stuffs, Friends, Hey Monday, Review, School Stuffs, The Downtown Fiction

Sunday, February 20, 2011

"Everything Happens For A Reason"

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When a hard week comes to you, you'll realize many things to be learned. I was on a hard week for this time and this made me learned that:

Physics and I will never be together. We really do hate each other. Blame those formulas, numbers, and my teacher to make it worse.
A broken-hearted girl is a wild one. I honestly became so wild like a PMS babe when I found something about a man I really love, and it really hurt me until... well yea I won't tell you anything.
Money is everything for life now. Moneys are hard to get. Saving moneys for your own good is harder to do.
I have a weak body. I only went to my course under the rain for 5 minutes but now I got influenza.
When you're down, you have to know that your problem is nothing. There are many people who have worse problem than yours. You have to stop blaming yourself and everything and start to feel blessed for what God has given to you.

And for the last..

At first I really don't know why I use Justin Bieber's quote at this time. But I think that quote's just right. That quote that, everything happens for a reason, is right. I just need to wait and find for miracles. Awh.

Labels: Bad, Love(?), Review, School Stuffs, Vany Naura, wishes

Sunday, January 2, 2011

#2011wishes #2011resolutions

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Happy New Year!!!

This is my first post in 2011, my first post after that ICT task last semester, my first post talking as Vany Naura and--damn--my last post before school starts tomorrow.
Yes. School starts tomorrow. Sucks? I know.

Anyway, I was going to post some 2010 memories I had with everyone, but, hey, it's 2011 already! I'm now going to start a new life, I better one, I hope. And with the expectation of better life, I did make some resolutions and wishes. Let's see the wishes and resolutions and see if I can make them this year :)

#2011wishes:

Naik kelas >> Lol I dunno what's this in english. But seeing my score last semester, I didn't say I won't pass this grade. To be clearer, I want to pass this grade with a good score. At least no 75 or C scores at my report. Amen.
A better relationship >> ~~I want a boyfriend.~~ LOL NO. The relationship here is about my family, my friends, my besties, with other fans, with the musicians, well yeah okay it's also about boyfriend or what's that you call. I just don't want myself to ruin everything ever again. I have to control my mood, my emotions, my feelings and everything so I won't get into any problem.
Meet TDF, ARTTM and HeyMonday >> Alright. I did tell you that I'm not in the mood anymore to meet them. But what if I could get a chance to meet them? I'm really really looking forward to get that chance, only if God loves me that much..
iTouch >> Enough said, I want the new generation of iTouch. My life is complete after then.
A router >> This is something my dad always told he would do, but he never done that until I'm writing this post. He said he wanna set a rooter at our house but he even hasn't bought the rooter yet. How much I love you, Daddy -__-

#2011resolutions:

Pray in early time, read Quran everyday, wear jilbab nicely.
Read more books, less internet connection
Saving money for rainy days (which is for iTouch, concert tix, merchandises and albums, and for backpacking stuffs)
Do my best for street team stuffs
Be tidier, be cleaner, be more diligent.

What do you think? Do we have same wishes or resolutions? :)

Labels: A Rocket To The Moon, Entertainment Stuffs, Events, Friends, Hey Monday, resolutions, Review, The Downtown Fiction, Vany Naura, wishes

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

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Face The Book And See What Yourself Has Done.

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Good day, peeps!

I know everyone is now excited about Harry Potter 7 part 1. I used to want to watch that movie too, but seeing all cinemas are full with people trying their luck to get the ticket, I better stay here in front of PC and wait until I could get the ticket easily, teehee.

Anyway, before the great HP 7 happening now, there was a movie that everyone was also digging to watch it. Starring Justin Timberlake, who wouldn't want to watch it? :P
The movie is about one of social networking that happened to be popular in the earth, the story about the site's founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Now you know what site is we are talking about, right? ;)

Let's watch the trailer first!

To make a clarification here, I honestly haven't watch the movie yet because of too many things have to be done and more important then just going to cinema watching movie alone (yes, I sometimes watch movie alone). So that's why I can't tell you how many rate I should give to this movie, sorry.

Now, the main point is, what is facebook? What is it used for? What are the advantages and what are to bad sides of this social network?

Facebook is one of the most popular social network today. Firstly launched by the name 'Facemash' when Mark was on Sophomore year at Harvard university. At first, the site was only being used by friends and students at the school until the site expanded to other colleges in Boston area and finally are opened to everyone, everywhere, every ages.

On this site, users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school, or college, or other characteristics. People also use facebook to make photo albums of events, and even to sell their products.
Everyone, should be including you, has their own facebook profile, don't you? Now, do you really get the advantages of using facebook?

Facebook should be the best way to meet people (friends, family, relatives, or else), the new or the old ones, on the net. You can find someone you have not seen for years or some new guys on facebook. There, you can easily communicate with your friends and share everything you have such as photos, videos, or more.
Facebook also great to promote something new you have on your life. You have a band? You have new job? You have new products to sell? Tell people on facebook and you may find people looking at things you shared.

Facebook are good to be updated daily. But what if you're getting addicted to this?

Some facts I found that people are getting too much into facebook. Times ago, facebook made some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Pakistan, Syria, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Iran, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service. Facebook's privacy has also been an issue, and the safety of their user accounts has been compromised several times. Facebook has settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.
In Indonesia, some criminal cases about abducting and deception were happened in facebook. That's caused by insecure people getting too much into facebook.
These facts could tell you that somehow facebook has bad effects to the users.

What I am going to tell here is, facebook is well-used for us to get more friends and to share your life on the net. But you also have to keep your own privacy and be safe and secure at what you do there. Facebook is fun, if you really take the advantages well and still have time to do more important things on the real world.

Think twice to do something on social networks and internet, people you might know here good wouldn't be as good as you've known on the real world. That's a fact ;)

Now I gotta go to my course, see ya later peeps!

source: imdb.com ; youtube.com ; wikipedia.com

Labels: FYI, IT, Movies, Review

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