Hmmnn now thats done, time to get a real job :)
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Soak It All In
Lately I have become more and more comfortable with silence. What use to be an awkward feeling, is now replaced with moments of contemplative surrender. To the small sounds and little movements of whatever is around, coming in with her pleasing rhythm. Am I getting old too fast, or am I just lonely? Or maybe its just this place and the fact that soon it will no longer be here, in front of me.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Who Cares?
Earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption
And still they go on with their corruption
Hot gas and thick ash, the death toll's rising
Those ares and evil deuce, never caring
Refugee center's filled with sorrows to bear.
The nation's grief, they do not care.
The victims are dying on the hospital bed
And in bliss they watched tennis instead
There are those who still care though,
Them underpaid volunteers, doctors and soldiers
Them underpaid volunteers, doctors and soldiers
Who works hard even with a pay so low
Feeding, curing, caring, lifting wounded shoulders
Searching the ash covered village,
Looking for a body to tow
Obama came too , making the front page
With big speech and an even bigger smilo
Aside from those, there were others too who care
Children, students, punks, traceurs and queers
Though we might not be able to do anything there
We can do something here
Donate
Donate
And so with our heart we sing, flip, and beg for money
these money we save, these money to save.
Aside from us, there are others too who care
Perhaps its you.
Pray for Indonesia
On October 31, 2010 groups of youth from every urban subculture join hands under the banner "From Bandung With Love" to express their art and help donate for the tsunami and volcano victim,
$672 and hundreds of prayers was raised from the event.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Rhythm: Dazed
Jakarta 0600hrs, Monday May 31 2010
The alarm buzz, my head felt drowsy, my hand's searching for a button, snoozing it ten times over.
Its been 3 hours since I lay down, and 4 hours since I arrive in my lil' room.
After another hour of lying hopelessly unable to sleep, i got up and went back to the routine a hundred times repeated. Shower, breakfast, catching the bus, office work.
Complaining and little jokes here and there, telling the stories about the 2nd elimination race to some office mate, more work, just another day.
...it was only after lunch when I'm all out of work, and the data for the next report haven't arrive yet.
"WOAH!!! I'M GOING TO THE MIDDLE EAST!!"
I couldn't believe it, the little amount of sleep, the fatigue unrecoverable, the sand dudes on the poster's background, all those things swirling in my head impairing my judgment of what is real. Grab the phone and sent a quick sms to creez to see if I'm not dreaming. Its real, she congratulate me and give some motherly advice.
We'd (Team Ironmen) came in 6th in that race, but since we waited for more than 20 minutes for the rafting boat to arrive, the time was deducted from our overall time, bringing our rank all the way to the 4th place as finalist.
The week followed quickly, with all the registration, preparation shopping, paper work, short interview, international driver license making, plus the pleading for a unpaid-leave vacation from the office.
Thank God this is real, thank God for this opportunity.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Rhythm: Exodus [Continued]
A glance at the map, the next check point is straight ahead, at the tip of this short mountain. A clean route through the mountain would be going by its shoulders, but that would take a long detour.
"Snap this is almost a 90degree climb!"
"Too late to change let's get this over with"
The team before us was not being careful, rocks the size of cows head are rolling down the steep face.
By the time we reached the check point 8 other teams has already pass before us.
"Still in the Top Ten, not Bad!"
We sat trying to catch our breath, water, sugar, laughs.
Little did we know that what we have pass was one of the biggest challenge, Its only later that we learn that this first touch with the wild has dropped 10 teams. A team with awesome build, with huge arms good enough to put you to sleep in one punch, has already dropped unable to go, asthma attack, weak will, not to mention thorns, bugs, height and for the unlucky teams, attack from the wild boar(really, this has got to suck, wild boar chasing after your butt T_T). Anything that the 1st elimination in the city didn't test, is now provided here.
Well honestly, the rest of the trip was pretty monotonous, up and down through mountains, river crossing, missing meals (some of the teams are faster than the officials who's suppose to bring food to a certain checkpoint), getting lost, rain, wet, dry, then wet again, blister everywhere. If its not for the beautiful rolling hills refreshing my eyes, that trip would have been a nightmare.
We spend that night lost. Unable to locate the checkpoint at 11.45 we gave up the search and set camp. It was a full moon a Friday night a beautiful night to seek enlightenment.
Location Unknown 0447hrs, Saturday 29th May 2010
"What? its only 500meters away, from where we camp!"
We had only eaten breakfast and lunch, yesterday's breakfast and lunch, add the lack of sleep, we were all HAPPY and not being sarcastic as in literally HAPPY, for some reason, at some point in misery people WILL laugh at them selves.
What followed is miles of walk, short challenges (carrying a huge banana tree-trunk trough the mud of inclining rice patties), rapid rafting and more walk.
"Welcome to the last checkpoint, all you have to do now is cross the river ahead and follow that road"
The man smiled and continued.
"You guys looks miserable, go its only another 5k"
We walked , we walked faster, we smiled, it stated to pour heavy rain, and just like the closing of the first elimination, now its again here, the rain, and so we ran, with our last strength we ran, we sprinted trough the hills. The camera man was ahead of us in a motorbike smiling, the finish balloon, clean water food, bed. We've made it. 33.31hrs.
Sukabumi 0830hrs, Sunday 29th May 2010
My tummy grumbles, it decided that the lamb chops is not going to agree for another second of their argument. The announcement from the auditorium started sounding.
"The top ten team please proceed to the hall for a short briefing"
"Team Anhang, Team east, Macan gunung, . . ."
I was about to put my head under the pillow
"Iron Men"
What? we're 6th, that means...we made it to the reserve team, not bad. There is still possibility.
The meeting announce the coming test for the top 10, swimming and driving. Both went smooth, well Henry my team mate, reached over himself and had a bad leg cramp on the swim, but because of his calmness swimming with his hands to reach the pool side, the judge pass him.
The final meeting came, the the officers apologize for a little miss calculations on the score, they have forgotten to minus the freeze time (amount of time some teams waited for boats to come for the river rafting) scores are changed and God knows best.
What followed was a surreal awarding, cameras, cranes, lights. DAZED
"Snap this is almost a 90degree climb!"
"Too late to change let's get this over with"
The team before us was not being careful, rocks the size of cows head are rolling down the steep face.
By the time we reached the check point 8 other teams has already pass before us.
"Still in the Top Ten, not Bad!"
We sat trying to catch our breath, water, sugar, laughs.
Little did we know that what we have pass was one of the biggest challenge, Its only later that we learn that this first touch with the wild has dropped 10 teams. A team with awesome build, with huge arms good enough to put you to sleep in one punch, has already dropped unable to go, asthma attack, weak will, not to mention thorns, bugs, height and for the unlucky teams, attack from the wild boar(really, this has got to suck, wild boar chasing after your butt T_T). Anything that the 1st elimination in the city didn't test, is now provided here.
Well honestly, the rest of the trip was pretty monotonous, up and down through mountains, river crossing, missing meals (some of the teams are faster than the officials who's suppose to bring food to a certain checkpoint), getting lost, rain, wet, dry, then wet again, blister everywhere. If its not for the beautiful rolling hills refreshing my eyes, that trip would have been a nightmare.
We spend that night lost. Unable to locate the checkpoint at 11.45 we gave up the search and set camp. It was a full moon a Friday night a beautiful night to seek enlightenment.
Location Unknown 0447hrs, Saturday 29th May 2010
"What? its only 500meters away, from where we camp!"
We had only eaten breakfast and lunch, yesterday's breakfast and lunch, add the lack of sleep, we were all HAPPY and not being sarcastic as in literally HAPPY, for some reason, at some point in misery people WILL laugh at them selves.
What followed is miles of walk, short challenges (carrying a huge banana tree-trunk trough the mud of inclining rice patties), rapid rafting and more walk.
"Welcome to the last checkpoint, all you have to do now is cross the river ahead and follow that road"
The man smiled and continued.
"You guys looks miserable, go its only another 5k"
We walked , we walked faster, we smiled, it stated to pour heavy rain, and just like the closing of the first elimination, now its again here, the rain, and so we ran, with our last strength we ran, we sprinted trough the hills. The camera man was ahead of us in a motorbike smiling, the finish balloon, clean water food, bed. We've made it. 33.31hrs.
Sukabumi 0830hrs, Sunday 29th May 2010
My tummy grumbles, it decided that the lamb chops is not going to agree for another second of their argument. The announcement from the auditorium started sounding.
"The top ten team please proceed to the hall for a short briefing"
"Team Anhang, Team east, Macan gunung, . . ."
I was about to put my head under the pillow
"Iron Men"
What? we're 6th, that means...we made it to the reserve team, not bad. There is still possibility.
The meeting announce the coming test for the top 10, swimming and driving. Both went smooth, well Henry my team mate, reached over himself and had a bad leg cramp on the swim, but because of his calmness swimming with his hands to reach the pool side, the judge pass him.
The final meeting came, the the officers apologize for a little miss calculations on the score, they have forgotten to minus the freeze time (amount of time some teams waited for boats to come for the river rafting) scores are changed and God knows best.
What followed was a surreal awarding, cameras, cranes, lights. DAZED
Elimination1 slots for 700 team was opened in each major city of Indonesia, elimination2 top 100 teams was chosen, only 75 responded to the challenge. And only 5 teams will go for the final round.
P.S well yeah thats the end for now. 2nd part of exodus is kinda messy, sorry, its really late gota sleep. Prolly shud have find a better time write this, but the story will pile up if i do that hehehe. come back in 2-3 weeks ^_^
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