Monday, January 10, 2011

Gagal Menghibur Diri, Njing!

Gue pengen melakukan 1 hal yang sederhana: cari hiburan. Bagi gue cara yang pas adalah menikmati musik. Cuma kali ini gue pengen menikmati live music. Pas lagi pengen2nya tau2 di FB ada notification bahwa salah satu band yang lagi gue incer malam ini perform di salah satu kafe di Jakarta Selatan.

Nah, nonton live music kan enaknya rame2 ya. At least berdua lah. Masalahnya anak2 kantor pada ogah. Mereka seneng musiknya, tapi kere semua. Gak mau ngeluarin uang ekstra dikit. Sebenernya gue udah lama mikir kalo mereka itu takut sama tempat gaul. Bukan takut sama pergaulannya, mereka mah anak badung semua. Tapi mereka gak ngerti musti ngapain disana. Hahahaaa... Mereka dulu suka mabok2an, ngobat juga, tapi ngeriung di lingkungan rumah mereka masing. Kelas berat deh. Tapi kalo diajak ke tempat hangout langsung cemen deh.

Sahabat2 gue punya selera musik yang beda sama gue. Gue bisa menikmati musik mereka, tapi range selera mereka gak seluas gue. Jadi sama aja, susah juga kadang2 kalo gue pengen ngumpul sambil dengerin classic rock. Padahal gue pengen banget. Dan Menik kalo gak doyan ya udah, harga mati deh. Gak bakal bisa dibujuk. Sementara Kucil lagi keluar kota. Hiks...

Nasib jadi cewek rokenrol tapi salah lingkungan. Taeee... Makin stres aja gue.

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Losing My Passion

I'm losing my passion. There, I said that.

Pheww... Never thought I'd be in this position.

Selama ini gue selalu berpikir bahwa pekerjaan ini udah pas banget sama gue. Gue banget deh. Dan selama ini gue memang selalu enjoy selama mengerjakannya. Tapi beberapa minggu terakhir kok gue jadi blank dan kayak orang hilang arah. Gue yang biasanya seneng dikasih kerjaan sampe nginep, sekarang mah lempeng aja. Kerja jadi itung2an, apalagi kalo yang ada hubungannya sama bos yang tukang panik. Semua flat aja, gak ada adrenalin lagi. Males berhubungan sama tim sebelah, padahal mustinya gue kerjasama dengan baik. Kesel sama tim gue, cuma gara-gara gue merasa mereka ada di dunia lain. Gue pengen melakukan sesuatu bareng mereka, nongkrong bareng keq pulang kantor bentar aja. Tapi secara pada udah nikah dan punya anak jelas aja pada gak bisa. Cuma ngopi aja di luar kantor alesannya ada aja. Tapi kalo main games komputer, hmmm, kalo perlu pada pulang jam 1 malem saking khusuknya. Bodo amat kalo yang di rumah lagi nungguin. Aneh.

Si Kucil juga sekarang udah punya keluarga yang harus di urus. Udah gak saatnya dia ngikutin gue dan Menik hangout tiap weekend. Hahaa. Sebelum dia punya anak, biasanya kita ngumpul tiap weekend. Cerita2, ngopi n semi wisata kuliner. Sekarang dia harus prioritasin keluarga dong. Dan gue totally mengerti itu. Malah kalo kebanyakan jalan yang ada gue jitak ntar tu anak. :p

Menik lagi super sibuk sama kerjaannya. Dan tebar pesonanya lagi heboh. Bener2 kayak ratu lebah, semua cowok pada nemplok ke dia. Tiap hari ada aja bbm-nya cerita ke gue tentang cowok ini ato cowok itu. Trus nanya gue dia harus gimana, ato kenapa sih ni cowok tau2 marah dll dst dsb. Yah gue kan bingung jawabnya yak. Secara dia super sensitif sama segala ucapan ato intonasi cowok. Traumanya banyak amat kayaknya, padahal gak juga sebenernya. Cuman emang antik aja nih cewek satu. Kalo dia lagi curhat, kadang yang ada gue memihak ke cowoknya karena gue suka bingung apa sih yang dipusingin ato diributin sama Menik. Kok cuma masalah kecil aja reaksinya sampe gimana gitu. Gue pernah cerita gak sih kalo dia itu tipe yang kalo marah sama cowok tu sampe delete contact dari bbm n phonebook. *ngakak guling2* Dia curhat ke gue karena gak ngerti sikap cowok, gue susah jawab karena gue gak ngerti cewek normal mustinya sesensitif apa. Hihii... Maklum, namanya juga wanita jadi2an kalo kata temen2 gue di kantor. Moga2 aja jawaban2 gue bisa dimengerti sama si Menik dan make sense bagi dia. Ehehee...

Keluarga gue sebenernya asik. Dear bro lagi sering dinas keluar, jadi agak jarang di rumah. Kakak ipar gue biarpun jutek tapi sebenernya asik. Asal dia tau gue dimana dan ngapain dia gak bakal ribut biarpun gue gak pulang. Bangbag lagi tengil2nya. Kadang pengen gue uyel2 gemes, kadang pengen gue gaplok pake dispenser. Heuh, sabaaaar ya Bengaaal...

Anyway, tiba-tiba aja muncul di kepala gue bahwa ini bukan sesuatu yang ingin gue lakukan seterusnya. Dan gue kepengen aja lepasin semua dan ngegembel keliling dunia. Become a citizen of the world, experience the cultures, taste the cuisines, knowing new people, et cetera et cetera. Tapi diujungnya pasti yang nongol adalah: lo mau keliling dunia, biarpun ngegembel tetep aja butuh modal, jendral! And there lies my weakness.

Asli, gue jenuh. Mungkin ada pengaruh dari beberapa orang di kantor gue yang gak begitu asik. Orang-orang yang dari orok udah panikan dan kalo gak bikin segalanya ribet mungkin berasa belum kerja. Gue jadi heran, kalo bisa gampang kenapa seneng banget dibikin susah sih? Lalu gue tersadar bahwa begitulah sebagian besar orang-orang di sekitar gue. Well, kalo mau diliat dari sisi yang lain sih mungkin gue aja yang emang aneh. Dan kalo memang begitu, daripada gue yang jadi gangguan, mendingan gue bikin seneng diri gue sendiri aja kan? :D

Kayaknya gue harus bikin target kumpulin duit. Bukan untuk beli rumah, bukan untuk biaya nikah (plis deh), bukan untuk investasi, tapi untuk melihat dunia. Gak ada kata terlambat kan ya? Mau gue mulai nanti pas umur gue 40, ato 50, ato 60, yang penting gue tau apa yang gue mau. Dan gue harus yakin bahwa cepat atau lambat gue akan melakukan ini. Amin...

Baiklah, mari kita mulai semuanya dengan bismilah, dan diakhiri dengan mandi junub. :p

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Posting Kamfredd Keberapa Ya?

Tekad gue hari ini adalah gue harus mulai usaha nulis lagi. Mau nulis di blog aja rasanya males banget. Males mikir, males ngetik, males riset kalo ada hal yg musti diriset, males kalo ada anak kantor yang ngintip kalo gue lagi nge-blog, males semua-muanya deh.

Pas lagi di jalan ato sibuk, tau2 nongol aja tu inspirasi. Ada aja yang pengen ditulis. Begitu ada waktu buat nulis, udah standby di depan macbook, eh lupa semua apa yang mau ditulis. Jadinya malah nyampah gak jelas kayak gini nih. Kamfredd... :(

Thursday, December 16, 2010

An Opportunity Came and Used ;)

The maid resigned. Peeps in my house were pissed off. Come on, it's not like you were underpaid or badly enslaved. Pffftt, maids! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

Ah well, at least with her gone, I got this morning totally alone at home. Dad, mom, and Bangbag were already gone to their respective destinations, and I was still waiting for Crewcut to come and pick me up. Half an hour of solitude. I miss being totally alone at home like this. But 30 minutes would never be enough, and knowing I would have to get my ass to work did not help either. That's when the brain blinked and winked at me. :p

I texted Crewcut to tell him to go straight into the house when he arrived on the pretext of using the toilet should anyone asked. Anyone such as the security guys and the neighbours. Not long after I texted him, he arrived and went straight in. I guess he knew instantly what my intention was. He already got his cues from the non-existent car in the garage that no one but me were at home. He knocked at my door and I opened it, wearing my robe. Err, okay, I guess I shouldn't bore you with details, yeah? After all, you'd know what happened after I opened that door. You should... :p

All crankiness gone! So yeah, it was an opportunity that came and used. ;)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Incompatible BB-Blogspot

Entah kenapa, udah beberapa hari terakhir ini gue mengalami kesulitan ngeblog dari BlackBerry gue. Padahal lagi mood nulis, eh alatnya gak mendukung. Kan gue gak selalu berada dekat laptop ato PC. Pas lagi di taxi ato lagi duduk di Starbucks, trus pengen nulis, eh gagal maning. Bete. Dan begitu udah nangkring di depan monitor laptop, langsung mati ide lagi. Moodnya ilang, idenya ilang, dan kalaupun jadi nulis ya hasilnya nyampah kayak gini.

Damn...

What is it with you, Blogspot?

Monday, December 06, 2010

Question and Elaboration

Q: What do you write when you want to write but you don't know what to write?

A: Errr, none?

-______-'

Friday, December 03, 2010

My Own Good Friday

Thank You, Providence, for this overall good day. When everyone else were dissin n cussin traffic jams, rain, and everything else, I thankfully had fun.

For starter, I had a delightfully luscious moist carrot cake for breakfast. I'd say it's on par with the ones in New York bakeries or cakeries. Way to jump start my day, eh? :D And then, Crewcut picked me up for work, in the rain and all. There were jams, but we found a new alternative cutting road. No other motorbikes and cars alongside us. What usually takes 30 minutes, we made it in 10 minutes. Hahahaaa... Once again, thank God.

When we arrived at the office, I made coffee and we had our morning rituals of chatting and joking in the pantry. Before we knew it, it was already 11 am. Unproductive but fun morning. :p We ordered lunch of nasi warteg. Joe, our office boy chose the menu for me. It was oseng taoge, telur ceplok, and balado terong. Anjrit, enak gila!! After lunch, we chatted again. And again, time flew away. When I went back to my desk, it was already 3 pm. What an unproductive but fun afternoon. ;)

I harvested my crops in Farmville, hunting my friends profiles for extra stuffs in FV, etc etc, which took me almost 2 hours. I had an appointment of early dinner at 5 with one of our vendor. But since it was raining cats and dogs, we had to postpone until the rain subsided. It's only for 1,5 hours though. After the rain stopped, we went to this all you can eat resto in the south. It's a treat, and we had so much fun. We chatted, the four of us, about everything. About our past project together, work, even broadcast world and stuffs. Between me and them, we probably all had 11 rounds. That's how hungry they were. Well, not me. Trying to watch my intake and all. :p

When it's all done, I took a ride with Dan and he dropped me off at PIM. The mall was about to close for the night, but not until I bought my new Starbucks tumbler and satisfy my caffeine craving. Seeing how awful the queue was at the taxi stand, I decided to walk out the mall and catch a taxi there, to no avail. Meanwhile, I took a peek and saw the queue was getting even worse. So, I decided to cross the sky bridge and try to get a taxi home from the mall across the street. Almost equally awful queue, but there's a premium taxi waiting for new passengers. Only one taxi, and the other people seemed oblivious. I thought, what the heck, and decided to take that taxi. Costed me more than twice, but it was all worthed it. Luxurious car, sipping my Starbucks peppermint moccha from the new tumbler, listening to jazzy music from my BB playlist. I almost wished for traffic jams so I could enjoy my ride home. Hahahaaa... I'm just that whacko sometimes. :p

Well, then. I'm off to bed now. Have a nice weekend, peeps.