shortstory: "memory kehidupan"

Tlak…kltik…kltek…

Telinga Kei menangkap bunyi-bunyian konstan yang terirama dalam kecepatan memburu. Cukup membuat perhatiannya pada pertarungan seru si Super dan Elang Merah sedikit teralihkan.
Perlahan, ia menurunkan sedikit komik di depan wajahnya, memandangi sosok dihadapannya. Sosok yang terlihat begitu hanyut dan terpaku pada satu objek tanpa mengindahkan apa yang terjadi disekitar.

Kei tersenyum tipis dan memutuskan untuk menutup komik itu pada halaman dimana Super jatuh tersungkur. Sekilas, ia menebar pandangan keluar jendela besar yang membatasi dirinya dengan dunia luar.

Entah sudah berapa lama mereka duduk disini. Saling berhadapan. Tenggelam dalam diam dan dunia soliter yang diciptakan mereka berdua. Ia dalam tumpukan komiknya dan sosok dihadapannya, tenggelam dalam keasyikannya menarikan jemari-jemari nan lentik di atas keyboard notebook putih itu.

“Hmm…”
Gumaman Kei sukses membuat kepala kecil itu menengadah. Namun semata-mata itu juga dikarenakan pemilik kepala tengah menghentikan tarian jemarinya, menunggu ide kembali mengucur ke dalam kepala.

“Nande gozaru ka?”
Kei tersenyum geli mendengar komentar dalam bahasa Jepang yang dilontarkan perempuan itu. Artinya kira-kira kenapa sih?
“Iie,” sahutnya juga dalam bahasa Jepang yang berarti tidak. “Hanya sedikit menikmati moment ini.”
“Ehm?” perempuan itu sedikit memiringkan kepalanya dan mengerutkan kening. Herannya, saat perempuan di usianya sibuk mengurangi kerutan, perempuan yang satu ini malah tak ambil pusing.
“Sadar gak sih Kan? Kalo kita sering melakukan ini berdua?” Kei menatap lekat-lekat perempuan itu. “Elu dengan notebook elu dan gue dengan tumpukan komik gue? Berada di satu pojokan dan hanyut dalam dunia masing-masing?”
“He? Serius lo?!” Kanna pura-pura terkejut dengan kenyataan itu.
“Kanna… serius nih!” gerutu Kei kesal.
Perempuan bernama Kanna itu terkikik geli dan mengulurkan tangan kurusnya meraih mug hitam berisi cairan yang juga berwarna hitam. “Lalu? Itu masalah buat elu?”
Kei mendengus geli dan menggeleng, “bukan gitu. Lucu aja. Kayaknya, sejak gue pindah ke sini, kebiasaan gue banyak yang berubah tanpa gue sadari.”
“Ehm?” Kanna kembali menelengkan kepalanya. “Sou na?!?!” teriaknya yang berarti kira-kira nggak mungkin!
“He?!” Kei terkejut dengan reaksi Kanna.
“Kebiasaan mana yang berubah?! Numpukin baju kotor di keranjang sampe penuh?! Pake jeans yang sama hampir sebulanan tanpa dicuci?! Ngeberantakin koleksi DVD gue terus gak dibalikin ke tempatnya lagi?! Ngabisin isi kulkas gue tanpa ngisi balik? Ato…”
“Iya!! Iya!! Iya!!!!” sergah Kei cepat sebelum daftar itu memanjang dan membuatnya ditendang keluar.
“Huuh, baru satu kebiasaan aja udah berasa seluruh idup lo yang berubah!” Kanna bangkit menuju dapur dan kembali mengisi mug dengan cairan hitam. Setelah itu, kembali duduk di tempatnya tadi.
Kei mendengus kesal, “tau gak sih kita nih aneh!”
“Hmh??” Kanna menaikkan satu alis menatapnya heran lalu meledaklah tawa renyahnya. Tawa bebas yang menggelegar.
“Sama-sama single, tinggal seatap…”
“Gak punya hubungan darah, gak niat menggabungkan darah,” sambar Kanna menambahkan.
“Kadang-kadang satu kamar,” tambah Kei bersemangat.
“Kadang-kadang satu kasur!” balas Kanna tak mau kalah.
“Tapi gak berhubungan intim,” Kei mengerutkan kening dan mengusap-usap dagunya.
“Dan gak berniat untuk itu!” pekik Kanna geli membayangkan kalo itu sampai terjadi.
“Hem… sedikit sentuhan boleh lah,” Kei menyeringai licik.
“E-hem,” akur Kanna manggut-manggut. “Well, lumayanlah biar keliatan laku.”
Sedetik kemudian, mereka terdiam, saling bertatap dan… DUAAARRR!!!
Gelak tawa kembali membahana. Kali ini, tidak hanya suara melengking tinggi yang terdengar.
“Kita ini menyedihkan ato aneh sih tepatnya?” Kei mencondongkan tubuh mengamati Kanna.
“Dua duanya!” sahut Kanna geli. “Aneh yang menyedihkan!”
Kei terbahak geli mendengar istilah yang dicetuskan Kanna.
“Hm…” Kanna mendadak memiringkan kepalanya dan mengelus-elus dagu, seakan mendapat sebuah pencerahan. “Ide bagus buat bikin pidato hari kematian lo!”
“Uhuk…Uhukk!!!” Kei mendadak terkena serangan batuk yang menyedak. Untung ia belum meneguk kopi hitamnya. Ia menatap Kanna membelalak, sementara yang ditatap hanya membalas dengan tatapan tak bersalah.
“APPPAA?!?!”
Kanna kembali mengerutkan kening, “apanya?!”
Kei mendengus kesal dan meneguk pelan kopinya. Berharap saat itu Kanna tidak kembali membuat tenggorokannya sakit dengan gagasan yang menakutkan.
“Apa salah?” balas Kanna bertanya. “Toh itu lumrah dilakukan bukan?”
“Iya Kan…” desah Kei. “Tapi ntar kali kalo gue udah mati! Kok lu ngerencanainnya sekarang sih?!”
Kanna menatap Kei tak percaya. “Apa?! Kenapa enggak?!”
Kini, giliran Kei yang menatap perempuan dihadapannya tak percaya.
“Diumuminnya memang entar kalo loe udah mati. Tapi what’s the point of it sih?!” Kanna mulai menunjukkan indikasi akan berdebat. Kalau sudah begini, Kei harus bersiap untuk kalah. Somehow, Kanna selalu benar. Atau terdengar benar?
“Pidato kematian itu ditujukan untuk membeberkan seluruh kenangan yang dimiliki atas si Mati itu bukan? Dibacakan kepada seluruh penjuru dunia saat pemakaman si Mati. Semua orang mendengarkan, semua orang menyetujui, tapi si Mati tidak mengetahui itu! Menyedihkan bukaaann?!?!” Nada suara Kanna sudah meninggi, itu artinya percuma untuk menyela. Jadi Kei hanya diam mendengarkan, mengamati dan diam-diam mengagumi kemampuan perempuan dihadapannya untuk bersilat lidah.
Apakah perempuan diciptakan dengan keahlian kungfu seperti ini? Sepertinya bersilat lidah yang dimaksud, tidak hanya secara kiasan, tapi juga harfiah.
Kei tersenyum tipis berusaha untuk tidak menampilkan kenyataan bahwa saat ini, dirinya sedikit hanyut dalam aliran lain.

“Jadi menurut gue akan lebih adil kalo si Mati tau apa yang dirasakan si Hidup Yang Ia Tinggal soal peran dia selama dia masih hidup. Bukankah begitu?! Setidaknya, si Mati bisa mati dengan tenang karena ia tau sudah memberi arti dalam hidup orang lain! Itu juga yang selalu jadi masalah hidup bukan?! Pertanyaan apakah kita cukup berarti at least bagi orang terdekat! Karena pada dasarnya, manusia itu ingin punya arti!” Kanna mengatur napasnya yang terengah-engah. Tak pernah peduli dengan persediaan napas di kantong paru-parunya selama isi kepalanya belum tertumpahkan dengan sempurna.
Begitulah Kanna. Akan rela kehabisan napas, rela memutar otak menyusun ribuan kata untuk mendukung pandangannya dan pada akhir yang mengherankan, akan terdengar masuk akal.

“Jadi, gue sedang menyusun itu!” seru Kanna menutup pidatonya dengan berita lain yang mengejutkan.
Kini, Kei benar-benar melongo. Sementara Kanna membalas dengan senyum lebar penuh kemenangan.
“Maksud loe? Elu seharian ini sibuk ngetik pidato kematian gue?!” Kei bergidik ngeri menghadapi keanehan perempuan itu.
Kanna mengangguk penuh semangat. “Gak cuma elo. Sierra dan yang lain juga!”
“Ehm…gini Kan, gw ngerti maksud elo, dan ngehargain niat baek elo, tapi…”
“Kalo soal wajar gak wajar, loe sendiri kan udah menyetujui istilah tepat untuk kita itu!” Kanna bersikeras dengan pendapatnya dengan kembali meluncurkan mekanisasi rasionalisasi kegemarannya. “Kita itu aneh yang menyedihkan!!”
Dan Kei berhenti disitu. Speechless.
“Suatu saat, sebelom loe mati, loe akan membacanya dan gue akan membawakannya dalam pidato di hari upacara pemakaman loe nanti.”
Kei hendak berargumen banyak dalam kalimat itu, hanya ia memutuskan untuk tidak melontarkan apapun. Itu hanya akan menambah masalah dan membuat kepalanya pening mendengar petasan merepetkan ribuan jenis dan bentuk kata.
Ia memilih kembali menekuri komiknya. “Maa, do what you want lah.”
Kanna tersenyum lebar dan kembali menekuri layar notebooknya.
“Oiya…makan siang pesen ke Ahong mau gak?” cetus Kanna sekilas menghentikan ketekunannya dan menatap Kei lekat-lekat.
Kei mendengus. Ia tahu maksudnya apa.
“Iye, gw pesenin deh!” Kei bangkit menuju batang hitam yang tergeletak begitu saja di atas sofa. Ia beralih menghempaskan tubuh di bantalan empuk nan nyaman itu.
“Nasi goreng ikan asin yang pedes banget yaa!!!” teriak Kanna tanpa mengalihkan pandangan dari layar notebook. “ekstra cengek plus ekstra bawang daun!”
Kei mencibir dalam hati saat menekan nomor yang dituju. “Pastikan pidato bagian gue gak mengecewakan!”
Kanna mengacungkan jempol kirinya, tanda menyetujui hal itu dan Kei hanya mampu menggeleng-gelengkan kepala sebelum membalas sapaan customer service di seberang.
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sneak peak of ‘delapan penjuru’
© 2006 written by np

the new and improved ME: the blog

Well, it’s been a while since I was really curious of what people did with their blogs. Tried to do this and that but end up hopeless and miserable, so I stop surfing and ‘adding’ something to my blog. Until one day, a friend of mine came up with this idea: “I’m sick with my blog. I’ll try to break the code and re-design it”
That time, I was just starring at her and sighing… well, what do you expect? If I were in her position [with all the abilities in designing, esp.], I’d been doing it since years before. But hell yea for the sake of ‘hardworking and career’ [howeeekk], we have to follow the leader rite?

Anyway, after so many times searching here and there… here comes the new and improved ME.... VOILA!!

Somehow, I like it better.
3 columns [what more can I ask?!], my favorite blue and green [in soften lights, reflect water perfectly], in fairies touch [well, it’s a fairy tale of my little world anyway] and wider main column. YAY!

Just enjoy it!

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Thank yous parade:

@ flyin’_cat : for re-designing and putting the whole week in it [a box of cheese-brownies will be at your desk by Thursday! It’s a promise]
@ freetemplates : for the free template
@ faeriewood : for the fairy illustration [we modified it thou]
@ fairyphotograph : for the fairy image [we modified it too]

trackin' back the past

Eehay!!


What’s new?!
Just listened to a new single from Hanson, GO. My Gosh!!! They’ve grown up! I remember how I got into this band. It was years ago… I was in my last grade of high school back then and caught by the falsetto voice of this bloody gorgeous kid-O, hahaha! [Yea rite! What do you expect?! I was in my poppy-ages]
Three bunches of kids with good-looking faces singing a ‘catchy’ song [“MMMBop?! What the hell is that?” came in my head that time] and hell yea, I was immediate fell in love with their gorgeous looks [who would deny Taylor’s great look? Correct me pls!] and those easy-listening songs.
But as years passing by, and my sense of music’s sliding to a “what I like rite now”, this band soon became a history placed in a box somewhere in my room [but still have their super big posters on the walls, haha got 3 of them btw]

And lately, this ‘familiar’ voice and sound is loading my ears, my head and I couldn’t get rid off it. Sometimes when I got ‘lost in space’ this song emerged in my head like a pop-up music-box [kinda annoying actually]. So then, I go searching on YouTube to get the video and BAM!! I was shocked. Hell!! What happened to those cute little boys?! Where are those innocent faces?! And… when is exactly Zach start singing [I meant real singing]?

Whatever, I’m kinda enjoying the tracking back the past now like watching their clips and reading their news [Uhmm..What?! wwait a minute...They're all got married already? Even Taylor has 3 kids?! A..and Zach just married?! He’s even way younger than me!! Where the hell have I been?! My Gosh!]
Well...it’s Quiet fun thou'.

GO.by.Hanson

For all the love we've made Just one thing stays the same The lamp gets dusty The pipes get rusty But I don't wanna wash my hands clean Well you say you love me too Then why won't you go through With the nightly kisses With the hits and the misses Well if you can make it on your own...Then go if you want to go But stay if you want to know the way Through the mess we've made Or lie in the bed you know or go... I heard your moving van But I did not take a stand You can't leave with 'em You can't live without 'em I never thought I'd want to let you...

[like that eerie voice he made actually, hehehe]

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Yup! I’m senseless for a ‘real-writing’ lately.
Talk and talk ‘bout musics then.
Hm... Incubus then Hanson?! whatta lame combination rite?! HA!!

Incubus in developmental stages theory

Lots of people – critics or fans – say that the newest album of Incubus – Light Grenades - is less appealing or too soft or even shows lack of improvements. Hmm… I’m a bit nodding at it [yes i admit it]. Well, not that I agree with those comments but I too frowned as I [really] listening to the whole album for the first time. One question came up in my head was… “Is this the same Incubus?!”
Well, no doubt it still has the strong flavor of Incubus-ism there, really thick for sure.
But there’s something… different…
Something’s… changed.

Hell yea! Changes do you good anyway rite?

Then I again drowned myself into their oldies from SCIENCE, Make Yourself, Morning View, A Crow Left of The Murder and back to rewind again the Light Grenades [too bad, don’t have the Fungus Amongus and Enjoy Incubus here, thou I found some in radioblog and song2play]
And YUP! Something’s changed.

The music is still reflecting ‘Incubus’ but getting a little bit… softer and… [What should I put here to describe it hmm??] mature? Nea… not…not mature but… maybe… ‘transformed’? Yea… could be.
The critical issues also a little bit changed. And the lyrics… well seems like ‘polite’ and ‘mild’ and ‘metaphoric’ probably best to describe.

First time listening to Light Grenades, my Gosh! I’m a bit worried that they’re turning to ‘consumer-minded’ but fortunately they’re not, thou have to admit they’re more ‘catchy’ here. Usually takes dozens times to get into ‘the Incubuses’, but here… it needs only three or four times to straight ‘click’ to them.
Is it because I don’t really listen to similar sounds recently or is it because I share the same ‘chemistry’ here? Hmm……
Whatever it is, one thing to be sure, their latest album really describes the ‘transforming-incubus’ into a different shape. An ‘age-suited’ shape maybe?? [Hhhehe, can’t invent a better metaphoric to describe it]

But if we take a closer look to the Incubus’ albums, it is easily said that they are none other than a ‘serial live journal’ of the band. Their developmental stages diary, exactly. While some people pour it into books/blogs [just like me ^_^], incubus chooses to interpret it in music.

Their first albums can be analogized to the adolescent stages where finding the ‘self-concept’ is the most critical point. It’s all about rebellious, desperately to be ‘heard’ or ‘seen’ or ‘noticed’, dealing with the changes and adaptation difficulties [that’s why we quarrel a lot with the oldsters] Stage where ‘being different’ and ‘the me, myself and I thought’ are the most important thing in life… rite? The world of “self-centered” that’s what I call.
And this lasts till early 20s.

After that, the ‘quarter-life’ phase. The stage where ‘the suited-I’ is already found and well-built. It’s when we really feel comfortable with ourselves and start concerning about ‘the outter-world’, especially in social and politic. Phase when we really view the ‘real world’, jump into the ‘working world’, aware about reality happens around us, so forth. A rebel with a cause per se. Not focusing [again] in ‘our-world’ but as a result of social-awareness. Well, best describe here probably Morning View and ACLOTM.

Now, they’re in their early 30s, rite? What issue is the most critical point in the world of 30something?! Yup! Indeed. Like it or not, it’s all about…… relationships. As you can see, the latest album talks a lot about relationship, not limited to intimate relationship for sure, but all kind of it. Hey, they’re just human after-all, and 30s is when building a relationship becomes so important, whether it’s family or other kind of serious relationships, because in 30s there’s a sense to settle down. Too tired of doing everything alone, too tired of being independent and exploring the free spirit side of ours. Kind like that.

No… they’re not [again] talking about making your self or driving your own path, like those in the past. No. Because they’ve found their own form. Therefore, even the spoken-issue is changed; we still taste the Incubus-ism there, correct? Even when it gets a bit softer or maybe lame?Politic and social issues? Yes, still. Still important to be discussed in this ages, but not to be delivered with angst. It’s more into attitude, and action rather than shouting out loud in radical-demonstrations or apathy behavior. I think that’s why they named it ‘Light Grenades’ anyway rite?

I think 30s is when you turn into a wiser-45$H0l3 [hahaha!]

See…
I’m not good at music so I’m not [or can not?] babbling about riff, beat, jam or whatever music-jargon is. What I’m trying to say here is just the feeling I get as I listen [I mean really listen] to every songs of Incubus. Many of fansites or any music-review sites talks about Light Grenades and feel disappointed and upset about it. They expect the latest from Incubus can at least similar to the oldies such as SCIENCE or MAKE YOURSELF or even FUNGUS AMONGUS…

Well, because we can’t go back to our previous development stage, right? We step forwards not backwards, that’s the point.
So, it is pretty damn sure that every forth coming album of Incubus, differ from each and every one of them. Still with the ingredient of Incubusism of course, but the feelin’ and the spoken issues will be differed.

Wonder if they’ll talk about death and bereavement or probably anxiety of ending up in a torturing loneliness next. Anything is possible, correct?

That’s life and I think incubus interprets life in a good kind of interpretation.

Isn’t it fun? Having an album or two original soundtracks in each development stages we are in, hehehe.

For those of you who are curious about Incubus, here are the links…

official site
myspace
official fan-site
wimpy

or just click the ‘ON’ button on my music player right on the sound of music’s section at the sidebar.
Enjoy Incubus!
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not trying to interpret incubus or review their albums…
just trying to picture them from different views and angles

favies in LG: Pendulous Threads, Rogues, Diamonds and Coal

@kinda living my boring day here and yes… I’m surfing here and there to spoil my incubusholics-complex@

days in anxiety-complex

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The due date is Friday, March 30th 2007 at 5:00 PM [Singapore time, of course]

The items to be sent are:
...1... Completed application forms (including signed releases), one per person in the team, submitted together,
...2... Proof of a valid passport (i.e., photocopy of the pages indicating personal details and expiry date) for citizens or permanent residents or a valid work permit (i.e., photocopy of work permit with personal details and expiry date),
...3... A passport-size photo of each applicant and one recent photo of both team members together.
...4... One three-minute videotape of your team labelled clearly with your names, relationship, and phone number.

Those are meant to be wrapped in one big envelope, sealed and send to the noted address.

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Hmm… wondering what I’m talking about here? Exactly!
The Amazing Race Asia 2nd Season’ Application thingy…

You know what? I haven’t had this kinda anxiousness before. It’s choking, drenching you to the bones and racing your heart to it’s toppest [what??] speed. Even it’s sucking your breath ‘till your lungs are empty.

Kinda funny really, being obsessed with one thing and let it chews you to the bones.

Okay, here’s the story…
I and flyin’_cat are crazy about traveling. Well, we just traveled together once, but we both kinda have this ‘click’ towards one another and have this plan to travel again one day to the otherside.

Since flyin’_cat own a cable tv and able to pin herself to a reality show called “Amazing Race” [in local it was aired too ‘till the 3rd season or so. A year delayed of course], she became ‘block-head’ of it. Then “the amazing race asia” came on its first season and made her forbidden to any distractors while watching it [even her boyf]. I on the otherside enjoyed every ‘episode-recap’ of it the next morning since I don’t cable my TV.

The funny thing is we daydream a lot of becoming one of the teams in the race. How we’re going to solve the puzzles with its strategics and tricks; what we’re going to do with the money if we won it, etcetera etcetera [read “daydreaming” for more info].

And suddenly, we were stroke by the sign: “the amazing race asia 2nd season' open recruitment”. Darn! The gate is opened already and YES we signed up for the RACE [yea rite!! Don’t give me that look!! We have all the credits for the RACE, c’mon!!]

Days of preparing the application thingy were “damn bloody chaotic nightmares”. We both tried our best for this and really in a big hope of having it come true.

We had no serious problems in application form, really. Hey, what is so difficult in filling the blanks right? Just scratch here and there, put a lil bit of this and a lil bit of that. Then… VOILA!!

What hurts us the most was the additional application tape. Yes! We must record a 3-MINUTE-MAXIMUM OF LENGTH video contains the teammates, the why we would be perfect for this race, and the personalities we want to show-off. Personality counts! That’s what written there.

We were completely confused, stressed and hopeless in this one.
Okay, let me tell you something… none of us is a creative director [thou flyin’_cat is an architect and art master], none of us experience enuff in dealing with shooting-thingy [except being shot, hehehe], none of us is great in drama [thou we’re both masters in daydreaming], none of us is experience enuff in writing script [hell-ow, I’m good at writing story but in script, I need more lesson!]

Bottom line is: we’re completely bunch of amateurs with no pennies of budget. Period

Anyway the way, we MUST sign up to grab our dreams, rite?? So yes! We did the shooting thingy in a really dreadfull equipments and budgets and skills.

Let’s sum up the “shooting-chaos” here…
Equipment: Sony digital camera
Location: my house… @ the porch to be exact
Wardrobes: our collection
Setting: do the girl-talk at the porch [what do you expect?!]
Camera persons: US
We took 2 days of shooting. 4 hours of each. Over 30 times re-take. HA!!! [damn motorcylcle and our stupid blanky heads, hehehe]

But yes, I do like the final cut. I must admit it. I like it.
Wish it was more than just a 3minutes length. Hmm…

Well, finally at 27th of March, we officially SENT the application.
Phew…
But this fastrace-heartbeat is not settled down yet, though it’s slowing the beat down when we traced the package at DHLsite and it is said…

"Status: 1447594573
Signed for by: MS LIM Shipment delivered March 28, 2007 10:45"

IT’S A WRAP EVERYBODY!! Yay!!
But yes indeed, we’re still in this ‘anxiety-complex’ syndrome.
Waiting in desperate and crossing fingers.
DAMN!!! I CAN NOT SETTLE IN PEACE!


Anyway, here’s the DVD’ case

And…here’s our video

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…hoping…waiting…expecting…desperated…

earth to bella part 1

yup. I’m talking about an INCUBUS’ song here from their latest album, ‘light grenades’

there’s a line from the song titled “earth to bella part 1” that can be classified to the 'punch line' for me, if it’s translated literally…
it sings like this…

“…and before you swim you gotta be ok to sink…”



okay, now you got the point and already laughing out loud, am correct?
Well… enjoy it then.

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…yes, I admit!! I can’t swim because I’m too scared of getting sunk okay?!?!…

the cutt-offs

Beginilah nasib kalo aktris gadungan berakting di depan kamera. Obsesi terpendam menjadi ‘pemaen pelm holywood’ terbitan steven spielberg, tapi apa daya??? Bahkan berakting untuk durasi 3menitan saja butuh 4jam waktu shooting dengan re-take gambar belasan kali [maklumlah yang nge-shoot pun hanya kami berdua. Bolak balik neken stop tiap udah selese take]. HALAAAAHHH!!!!

Masih mending kalo shooting video clip dengan storyboard dan setting yang emang butuh waktu sampe 3 harian. Ini???

Lokasi : cuma di teras depan rumah gw [diramaikan dengan deru motor, teriakan anak2 kecil plus tukang baso]
Pemaen : 2 orang (gw ama kucing_terbang)
Figuran : “meng-meng” Si Kucing Kos [yang pasrah digimanain juga demi memperjuangkan spot tidur siangnya]
Adegan : duduk di teras en ngobrol doang [saking udah keabisan ide]

Lines : [beberapa cuplikan dari ‘cut-offs’ yang cukup kocak]





Set 1 :
(seharusnya) “we are different but we do have something in common. That is… GUTS. Remember when we travelled to Kuta Lombok? Man, it was scary. Why? Because no tourists…blablabla”
[but I stated it wrong to “travelling…”???]






Set 2 :
(seharusnya) “okay, here’s the thing…blablabla”
[and I kept saying “okay, what do you know?” uughh!!]


beginilah pengorbanan kami demi menembus AXN-Amazing Race Asia Season 2 untuk mewujudkan obsesi terpendam menjadi ‘internationally-famous’ dalam diri ini [dan ditonton Brandon Boyd!!!! T_T].

Modal utama dan yang hanya dimiliki oleh kami hanya 2:
keNEKATan dan kePERCAYA-DIRIan yang TINGGI banget

Wakakakakaks!!!

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Wish us luck please!
At least nyampe bagian interview aja gw udah syeneeengggg buuanget!!

You might check kucing_terbang also to get another “cut-offs”
Enjoy them!!!

...daydreaming...

Saat itu…pagi-pagi, di dalam APV yang tiap hari membawa gw berkomuter Bogor-Jakarta. Just like another ordinary day sih sebenernya, sampe seorang “kucing_terbang” mencetuskan sebuah berita yang masuk dalam kategori “thrill-exciting”.

Begini ceritanya…

“POET! AXN udah buka!!” seru kucing_terbang dengan begitu antusiasnya.
Telinga gw yang masih mendengung-dengung akibat volume maksimal headphones peneman ngangkot sebelomnya, sedikit lama mencerna berita itu. “AXN…”
“AMAZING ASIA!!!” serobot kucing_terbang kesal dengan sambutan gw yang plain dan ‘lama’.
Barulah, saat itu gw terbelalak lebar dan speechless. “IYA?! Kapan?! Gimana?!”

Pembicaraan dilanjutkan dengan detil pendaftaran dijelaskan oleh kucing_terbang. Gw yang masih over-thrilled dengan berita itu berusaha mencerna tiap kalimat yang diucapkan dengan wajah dan mata gw tertuju pada dirinya, namun sia-sia karena gw sudah terbang dalam “negeri dongeng”.
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Ssssrrrttt…… [bunyi scratching yg mengindikasikan waktu berheti dan scene beralih pada dunia kecil dalam kepala gw]

WOW… saingan pasti ribuan nih. Harus bikin yang unik pastinya. Karakter, essay?? Oke, I can handle them. Harus apa lagi ya?? Berenang? Nyetir? Naek motor? Well… belajar instant deh. Soal fearless, gw cukup fearless dah. Paling-paling belajar fokus keseimbangan lagi. Khususnya di tempat tinggi. Tentunya, biar fit, fitness deh. Tiap hari fitness gak masalah. Toh di gedung sebelah iuran per bulan hanya 200rebu bisa tiap hari kan???

Oke, what if we actually made into the TEAMS?!?! That would be having these advantages:

1. Going around asia and australia?? [komen: well, bolehlah. Keliling asia-aussie gratis?!?! My DREAM-WANNA-DO!]
2. Klo menang dpt US$ 100,000 [komen: $$$$$ ???? 1 milyar?? Bagi 2, 500jt each? Okelaah]
3. Laki-laki??? [hmm… komen yg tepat: LAKIHHH-LAKIIIIIHH!!!!!! *Beringas* mode: ON. Sluurp.]

Tapi above all adalah… keuntungan yang satu ini:

The show will be internationally wide broadcasted… I repeat the important part… INTERNATIONALLY. Beken??? So PASTI laahh!! Tapi gw gak peduli itu [ato peduli yaa??]. Yang pasti dengan menjadi ‘internationally broadcasted’ itu artinya ada lah kemungkinan sekian persen seorang BRANDON BOYD nonton gw [yang lagi lari-lari ngejar gajah di Thai mungkin, lalu dia tertawa terbahak-bahak. I got his attention. SHOT!!] disela-sela break jadwal tur-nya. Hopefully, dia jadi suka nonton dan fans banget sama kita berdua!!! And he’ll vote for US!!! [AMEN!]

Lalu…
We RACE and we FINALLY WIN!! [huuraaayyy!!!]

SSsrrttttsss…. [bunyi scratching lagi yang mengindikasikan scene beralih setelah TIM kita berdua ‘MENANG’]

One thing straightly DONE adalah… RESIGN [in HUGE capitals I meant]

Then what I got???

1. Pengakuan klo “adventurously fearless” [komen: muncul di majalah Cosmo/funfearlessfemale, jd icon produk yang girlie-adventure?]
2. Money [komen: 500JT bow!! Gak banyak mungkin buat sebagian orang, tapi bwt gw… IT’S SUMTHNG!]
3. Fame [komen: “heyloow! Can I take a picture with you?”]
4. MEN [komen: “hmmm… OTOMATIS doongg?? gonna be a MENEATER”]

Oke… what would I do with the money??
Let’s see…
400jt masuk tabungan dalam berbagai bentuk [deposito, emas batangan, tahapan] gw serahkan semua pada nyokap untuk diatur, secara gw bukan tukang atur duit yang handal.

100jt sisanya, buat gw pribadi hura-hura dong. Untuk traktir anak-anak [temen-temen deket doang], ngunjungin sobat gw di Bali [msh dgn gaya backpacker biar irit], dan sedikit charity biar tetep beken [jadi volunteer di UNICEF juga mungkin].

Eh, ternyata dari 100jt yg gw pake hura-hura itu, masih ada sisa bow!! Jelaslah, secara kan udah jadi ‘ICON’ juga bukan?? beside, gw anak yang iriiiit buanget kok. Pasti masih nyisa.
Lumayan lah, sekian puluh juta lagi.

Well, berhubung jiwa traveling gw masih mendidih bergejolak, jadilah… I’m heading… DA STATES hunny!!!! a.k.a USA.
Sendiri? Gak masalah!! [pastinya, flyin_cat sdh memanfaatkan waktu ketenaran untuk ‘menikah’ jg tooh?? Hehehe]

Ssssrrrrtttttttsssss…… [scene pindah ke gw yang udah sampe di Amerika dan baru mw mulai treveling]

Sampailah gw di USA. Yang pertama gw tuju… Los Angeles. The City of Angels. Rencananya, mau kelilingin Amerika start dari L.A. dan balik finish di L.A. lagi. Berhubung baru muncul di L.A., nyantai dulu dong semingguan, sekalian ngebiasain diri sama cuaca dan kebiasaan di Amrik.

Iseng-iseng, suatu sore nyusurin pantai di daerah Santa Monica. Liat ada record-store di antara jejeran café di pinggir pantai. Masuklah gw ke situ. Simply karena gw butuh referensi musik oke buat diinjek ke I-Phone gw.
Lagi liat-liat jejeran CD tiba-tiba ada yang neriakin gw dengan sedikit histerikal tone.
“Omigosh!! You were in the Amazing Race Asia rite? The winner?!”
Saat gw melihat yang menegur, sontak tubuh gw membeku. WHAT?!?!
“ehmm… Poetry, am correct?!” dia kembali mendesak. “Gosh! I VOTED for you!!!”
Laki-laki itu mendekat dan mengulurkan tangan, “hi, I’m Brandon. Sorry if I scared you or… you know, I just can’t help myself. I’m overthrilled meeting you here.”
[komen: ini Brandon siapa ya?? POLITE banget?!?!?!]

Bottom line is:
hari bersantai gw di L.A. diperpanjang menjadi sekian lama dan gw pindah motel ke rumah pribadi seorang Brandon by his own request. He insists me to be on the road with the band all the time, while they’re doing tour, at least it’s a free traveling around the world. So…he’s doing the tour-things while I’m exploring the country/city.

Intinya:
We’re long-time DATING. I’m doing my things, he’s doing his at the same time and come home to each-other [how sweet!], ready to spill out each-experience and end up the nite by making *…* [needs a censsor here??]

Brandon siapakah yang gw maksud?? Jelas, BRANDON BOYD of ‘incubus’ laaahhh!!!

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Special thanks is dedicated to AXN-ASIA: Amazing Race Asia II
[it’s an amazing daydream ever. Thanks for the media!]

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membalas daydreaming yang sudah dimuntahkan miss flyin_cat di blognya.
Mo bales pake komen, kepanjangan, jadi bales pake blog deh…

the MAN : teman khayalan

Disela-sela kebuntuan jalan menuju ‘pencerahan’ [hehehe], terkadang gw suka mencuri waktu untuk ‘sedikit’ daydreaming. Berhubung daydreaming, males kali yaa klo sendirian, pastinya butuh temen dan harus yang MANTAB. Satu keharusan yang dimiliki Sang Teman adalah… BERKELAMIN ‘JANTAN’ [hehehe, kucing kali jantan!!]

Salah satunya adalah laki-laki ini…

BRANDON BOYD

“The GOD” itu julukan yang gw kasih buat dia. Dari sejak gw kenal ‘Incubus’ sekian taon lalu tepatnya lewat single andalan ‘drive’, gw udah termehe-mehe sama vokalis yang satu ini.

Man!!! He’s so gorgeous!!
Bagi gw, ini sosok yang physically ‘PERFECT’. Dari ujung rambut ampe ujung kaki.

Euugh… that body…ckckckck. Gak terlalu 6-kotak yang berotot bak atlet binaragawan sih, masih dalam level ‘kurus’ malah, tapi PAS, gak kurus banget tapi gak ‘metekel’ banget, walau belakangan kyknya dia mkn mengurus, [pengaruh ‘da herb’ mgkn?? hehee]. Tapi tetep gak mengurangi keMANTAB-annya kok. Buat gw, tipe yang macam ini yang ‘PAS’.

Tiap kali liat potonya, khayalan gw bisa berkelana ke daerah-daerah jauh dalam segala macam ‘suasana’ dengan seorang ‘BRAND’. Hehehe… gak papa deh mandi besar terus… HAHAHA!!! [busyeet daaaahhh]. Repot juga ya klo di kantor, secara wallpaper kompi gw gambar dia aja gitu… ^_^

Buat Brandon Boyd, nilainya SEMPURNA BESAR deh [bikin lagu syaik, suara oke, badan oke, tampang okeeeh banget, plusss tatoo2 yg KWELL, intinya… ‘PERFEKKK’]
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“Meet me in outer space

I will hold you close

If you're afraid of heights

I need you to see this place

It might be the only way

That I can show you how

It feels to be inside of you” [stellar by incubus]

…hmmm, I need you to be inside of ME, Brand…