Podcast

"Podcast biasanya merupakan rekaman asli audio atau video, tetapi bisa juga merupakan rekaman siaran televisi atau program radio, kuliah, pertunjukan, atau acara lain." - Sumber Terpercaya

Saya sendiri baru mengenal podcast lebih jauh pada tahun 2016 kemarin dan menemukan banyak hal menarik. Sangat telat sih mengigat podcast sudah ada sejak tahun 2005 hehe. Kali ini, saya ingin merekomendasikan beberapa podcast yang mungkin bisa menemani perjalanan kamu ke kantor/kampus, atau sekedar menjadi 'teman ngobrol' saat kamu sedang mengerjakan tugas. Bersiaplah karena post kali ini akan dipenuhi dengan embed-html.

Keramik + Decal

Halo blog, di tengah banyaknya tugas yang harus dikumpulkan untuk Ujian Akhir Semester, seperti biasa saya malah mencari kerjaan lain.

Kali ini saya akan berbagi pengalaman saya di semester 5 yang lalu, ketika saya mengikuti kelas Keramik Dekorasi II (sempat saya singgung sedikit di sini). Untuk tugas akhir semester, peserta kelas diwajibkan untuk mendekorasi dua buah keramik dengan teknik decal. Apa itu decal? Seperti wall decal, decal keramik ini juga menggunakan prinsip yang mirip. Ada lembaran decal khusus keramik yang bisa kita potong-potong dengan bentuk sesuai keinginan.

Rekomendasi Rabu: Morfem

Iya saya tau, ini bukan hari Rabu. Tapi gimana dong saya lagi pengen nulis. Terus udah terlanjur bikin segmen Rekomendasi Rabu, kalau judulnya diganti jadi Rekomendasi Jumat, rasanya kurang pas. Jadi gakpapa ya, biarkan saya curang sedikit hari ini.

Rasa suka, sungguh subjektif dan tidak bisa diterka. Ada yang bisa langsung suka saat pertamakali jumpa, ada juga yang harus mengenal lebih jauh dan banyak bertatap muka. Sama halnya ketika mendengarkan musik. Ada lagu-lagu yang secara instan saya suka pada pendengaran pertama, ada juga yang perlu saya dengar beberapa kali, bahkan harus saya lihat dulu penampilan langsungnya. Morfem ini adalah kasus yang ketiga.

Rekomendasi Rabu: Kelompok Penerbang Roket

Halo semua! Kali ini saya kembali dengan sebuah segmen baru bertajuk 'Rekomendasi Rabu'. Jadi idenya sih, setiap hari Rabu saya akan merekomendasikan sesuatu. Entah itu lagu, buku, film, tempat belanja, atau mungkin juga tempat makan.

Pada hari Rabu yang kebetulan lagi libur ini, saya merekomendasikan Kelompok Penerbang Roket (selanjutnya akan saya singkat menjadi KPR) untuk ditambahkan ke daftar putar harian kamu. Mungkin banyak juga ya yang udah tau siapa sih KPR ini. Buat yang belum tau, saya bakal ceritain secara singkat siapa mereka dan apa aja yang udah mereka buat.

Kelompok Penerbang Roket - Tanda Tanya

Sabtu Sore di S14

Sudah lama rasanya tangan saya tidak bermain-main untuk membuat sesuatu. Makanya, ketika teman saya Jipa mengajak saya untuk ikut sebuah workshop di tempat yang saya belum pernah datangi, tanpa banyak pikir panjang saya langsung setuju saja.

Bermain-main dengan Lensa Fix

Hari Senin yang lalu, saya sebenarnya ada kelas tapi cabut soalnya kelasnya ga ngapa-ngapain jadi aja ke Studio 8EH dan menemukan sebuah kamera yang teronggok begitu saja. Hehe nggak sih itu sebenarnya ada yang punya. Kebetulan juga beberapa hari sebelumnya saya abis nanya-nanya sama yang punya kamera ini (namanya Adrian) tentang kamera dan dasar-dasar fotografi. Apa saja yang perlu diketahui untuk mereka yang baru belajar fotografi? Berdasarkan jawabannya adrian, ada tiga hal dasar yaitu ISO, shutter speed, dan aperture.

Terus, kamera juga ada beberapa jenis mulai dari SLR (kamera analog), DSLR, sampai kamera mirror-less. Lensa juga ada berbagai macam, ada lensa yang udah sepaket sama badan kameranya namanya lensa kit, ada juga lensa yang gak bisa di atur zoom-nya namanya lensa fix. Ada juga lensa tele untuk mengambil foto jarak jauh. Lensa-lensa tersebut dapat digunakan sesuai kebutuhan objek yang bakalan difoto.

Drama Korea: Guilty Pleasure No. Sekian

Halo semuanya! Wah tumben sekali ya saya kembali lagi secepat ini. Mumpung masih liburan dan ada keinginan untuk menulis sesuatu nih hehe. Oiya sepertinya mulai sekarang saya akan mengganti kata ganti pertama yang biasanya saya pakai di sini dari ‘gue’ menjadi ‘saya’ soalnya kalau pake ‘gue’ kayanya Jakarta banget geto loh padahal da aku mah apa cuma anak pinggiran tepatnya Depok, kutilnya Jakarta. ‘Saya’ juga terdengar lebih umum meskipun agak formal dan baku. Tapi daripada pake ‘aku’… Yah, kalau secara struktur kalimat dan penggunaan bahasa agaknya saya tidak akan menulis dengan bahasa Indonesia yang baik dan benar soalnya nanti jadi terlalu kaku heuheu. Blog ini kan isinya cerita-cerita kurang penting aja ya.

Mainan Baru

Pada suatu hari, gue pergi berjalan-jalan sendirian. Niat awalnya sih pengen beli walkman kaset biar bisa dengerin musik lewat kaset gitu hehehe kan lagi ngetren yha. Meluncur lah gue ke Jl. ABC soalnya katanya di situ ada banyak barang-barang jadoel gitu. Ternyata gue salah hahaha kalau barang-barang jadoel dijualnya itu di Cikapundung lantai 3 (buat yang pengen nyari barang-barang vintage di sana ada banyaaak sekali pilihan loh ternyata iya gue juga baru tau beberapa minggu lalu).

ARTE Indonesia 2013

Hello blog! It's been a while isn't it? Well, well, you know what I've been doing..try-outs and stuffs... So forgive me will you? Now I'm here to tell you that last Sunday (03/31/13) I went to ARTE -a contemporary art festival- and everything was awesome! As far as I remember twas the coolest free-of-charge event I've ever attended. Not only I could see some brilliant visual arts but there were also musical performances from various bands and what wow-ed me the most was the video mapping and sound and lighting. Here are some visual artworks made by brilliant people, (sorry for the poor resolution)...

(from top to bottom): Bujangan Urban, Syaiful Ardianto, Ykha Amelz, Oom Leo, Angga Cipta, Emte, and Yaya sung

There are lots of creative minds in our beloved country don't you agree? I'm looking forward to see another events like this 'round the city.

My Very First Bedroom Design

Perspektif satu titik hilang dan goresan cat air yang masih sangat pemula/

Selamatkanlah kami dari garis yang tidak presisi/

{and I like the unpainted one better}

Tapi semua ini jadi semakin seru/

Tapi kalau mau ini nggak bisa cuma belajar ini aja ya/ 

Harus belajar ini-itu juga/ 

Mau tidak mau/ 

Kalau mau ini ya harus mau/

Mari berteriak saja sebutkan satu kata itu/
Kata yang diucap di mana-mana/
Entah nyata entah hanya wacana/
Semangat, iya, Semangat/

Look What I've Found

Those clothes up there are secondhand clothes I found at Pasar Senen. Actually I bought them a long long time ago and should’ve posted this right after I bought them but unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to post it till now. I forgot how much money I spent to buy those clothes, but believe me they’re as cheap as dirt. Still, each one of them looks like a brand new cloth.

For those of you who haven’t been there (Pasar Senen) yet, you might be wondering, where on earth is that place? No it’s not located in the middle of Pasar Minggu and Pasar Selasa. It’s located in Central Jakarta, near Plaza Atrium and Terminal Senen.

Don’t be gasped if you found that place really crowded. Hey, it’s a market and you know how the crowd loves Indonesian’s market. But don’t give up and held your heads high ‘cause all the sweat you get from ‘kepanasan’ at this market will be paid when you finally find some really good clothes with a really good price. 

A few weeks ago I went there again, this time I was looking for something to read and voila I found this old books and magazine.

Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and L.J. Smith’s The Vampire Diaries. Guess how much did I pay for those two… 25k rupiahs! The papers inside of them may look so old and brown but it still read-able.

Nylon Indonesia's first issue, Concept 's Fashin Graphics issue, and Livingetc. Each for 10k!

Inspiring Interior: Pirate Ship

Ahoy!

It's been a rilly long time, eh? I know you're missing me, Bloggie. I do miss you too. It's the time and some things and some stuffs that made me neglect you for more than a month. You will forgive me, won't you?

Hum hum hum I hate to say this but life moves pretty fast. Like, in the blink of an eye a year's just passed. I'm no longer a tenth grade student. I'm turning to Seventeen. Soon I'll be going to college. And so on, and so on.

Oh hey, I started to ramble. We'd better move the subject.

Rite now I'm kind of interested on this interior-design-and-architecture-thingy and been thinking about being an interior designer or maybe an architect someday. Cause I think good rooms make a good house, and a good house makes a good life. So I've been browsing for some building and interior design inspiration ever since and one day I found this:

A Pirate Ship in a bedroom. A-w-e-s-o-m-e.

I'd be the luckiest girl in the world if I had a room as amazing as that. I can picture my self being a pirate and some of my friends will sail with me with the ship and they'll shout 'Aye, aye, Captain!'. It's gonna be funnn.

Aha, I'll create a unique bedroom like this for my kids in the future. Yeah I will. For now, am just gonna study hard till I reached the aim to work on something that I love. To catch that dream; be what I wanna be.


[Source: Freshome]

My Dream is to Study Abroad

I’ve always wanted to see the World, the whole part of it. The World’s got so many countries to visit, cool places to see, magnificent cultures to be admired, and unique languages to learn. Isn’t that amazing? I’m just a small, small girl in this big, big Earth. And in my opinion, studying abroad is the most interesting and fun way to say ‘Hi’ to the World. 

Go to a beautiful country. Study there. Meet some new friends from different countries. Tell your friends about your country, and they’ll tell you the story of their countries too. See the cultures of the country. Visit cool palaces and Voila! Studies abroad, yes, just go to a foreign country and you’ll get sooo many new things to visit, see, admire, and learn.

Haha maybe the reality isn’t as simple as that but you’re with me with this one, right?

And one day my teacher told me that there’s this High School Blog Competition held by CESI (Canadian Education Services International). I have to write some posts about Canada. At first I was wondering what could I write, what’s the interesting side of Canadian education and cultures? I jumped to CESI’s site , read, did some research and in the end I thought ‘Wow! Canada will surely be a perfect country to study!’. You know why? No, no, no, the reason is not because Justin Bieber was born there. Canada has the world’s best universities -University of Toronto, McGill University, Seneca College, Sheridan College, and many many more- so how come I don’t want to study there? Plus, Canada has the most beautiful sceneries I’ve ever seen.

These facts I found here  make me more interested.

Canada is selected as the number one country in the world. It’s one of the top 10 places in the world to live. Canada is also earned particularly high marks for its access to education.

Education cost in Canada is very competitive. Learning in Canada is not free, of course, but it’s affordable. This one is important, ‘cause money don’t grow into a tree.

Welcoming environment. Canada is a country of immigrants and has both tradition and policy that encourages cultural diversity. Almost all the world’s ethnic groups are represented in Canada. So we can find many different cultures here and it’s just….perfect.

Beautiful environment. Canadians place a high value on their natural environment. There are 42 national parks, located in every province and territory. Students who come to Canada will see the beauty of nature. This one is more than just perfect.

A safe place to study. Canada is famous for its community; a safe, fair, and peaceful. Canada’s crime rate continues to decline steadily since 1990. If we’re going to study abroad, our parents surely will say that safety comes first. Don’t worry Mums and Dads, Canada is safe and sound.

Two languages nation. Canada is a bilingual country with two official languages, English and French. Most French-speaking Canadians are living in the province of Quebec, located in eastern Canada. Woohoo I’ve always wanted to learn French since forever. Maybe I’ll study in Canada, learn French and then go to France with perfect French!

Sound interesting, eh? I can picture myself standing on that Maple Country. I’ll study, meet some lovely friends, and I’ll get some unforgettable experiences that I can tell to my grandchildren.

My dream is to study abroad. Raise your hand if you have the same dream like mine!

Yay! I believe that dreams will really become true.

We dream and we set the aim. We give a try and we pray. We stumble and struggle. We fall but we don’t like the word ‘Give up’, at all. And after all the pain, we’ll finally say ‘Hooray!’, we’ll sing in the rain.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

See you soon, Canada! ;-D

p.s. Need more informaton? Go visit CESI's site http://www.studyandworkincanada.org

image source: Google, Getty Images

Series to Watch

Hi-Ho! Great to see you again :-D

Oh I wanted to post this since a long time ago. You know we had holiday a few months ago, and on that lovely no-school-so-say-hooray day I spent most of the time watching movies and TV series/shows/dramas/whatever it is that screened on TV.  I watched many different kind of movies, from Hollywood to Bollywood. I borrowed my friend’s DVDs and did a marathon. And this habit continues, tho the holiday’s over I tried to steal some of my free time to watch something (kinda bad actually, I could’ve used those time to study or sleep  :p).

Movies are great but what have been sticking in my mind lately are TV Series. The beauty of a series, it keeps you watching it over and over again and you’re not gonna stop until you see what happens in the end. The characters will stick in your mind, they will haunt you forever. Ho ho ho.

Here are some series I’ve been seeing. They’re highly recommended---by me.

GLEE

Well who doesn’t love Glee? Full of great musics and teaches you how to live your Life.  I shudder every time the casts sing a song. So lovable. I’m sure I don’t have to write many words cause all you got to do is just start to watch this! ;-)

VAMPIRE DIARIES

At first I wasn’t interested to see this. At all. I thought this series was just like a vampire fever due to the succes of Twilight Saga. Then a friend of mine lent me the DVDs of the first season (which was first aired in 2009, and I watched it in the end of 2010. Pretty late, I know). 

Watched the first episode and I was like…Eeeew Stefan and Elena is like a copy of Edward and Bella. But I decided to keep going…Yeah let’s see what this series is gonna bring us to. And it got me. Cheez I’m hardcore fan of fiction. In my dictionary, Imagination means a key to success. All those wizards, vampires, witches, werewolves, magicians, talking-animals, all those mystical-thingies are my favorite. And my, oh my, Damon Salvatore is another reason why I do keep watching Vampire Diaries.

MODERN FAMILY

I know this series from one of my fellas. she says that this series is a really good one and keeps telling everyone to watch it.  Haha credit to @curbsidegirl. So I began to watch this and started to fall in love after some episodes.

Modern Family tells a story about a one big happy family with different kind of people, cultures, and idealisms. It shows you all the struggles and battles and wars, and funny and happy things that could possibly happen in a family. There are so many jokes you can laugh at and so many life lessons you can get. Well, families are the closest people around us so how come you don’t want to watch this?

DREAM HIGH

Have seen some great Korean Dramas and this… You MUST see this one. This drama tells a story about the Cutest Couple, everrr. It’s about loving someone no matter what he/she is. I did smile when the couple do some funny things. I did cry when I was watching the last episode. The story is sweet and sour, like a strawberry.

I dream high…. I can fly high….. This is the first Musical Korean Drama I’ve ever watched and I just love it! The story line is kinda surprising. There are six different people with different personalities trying to chase their dreams in this drama. And you won’t stop until you’ve seen the sixteen episodes of Dream High. Another great drama with Ultra Cute Korean boys! Yayness :-3

It will take hours or maybe days to tell you the greatness of those series up there. And it’s gonna be a really, really long post. So if you wanna know more just turn the screen on and enter the marvelous world of TV series…. Bon apetite!