2014 Didn't ...

... turned out well so far.
Is it?
Or was it only me?

Udah mau memasuki tengah bulan ketiga, tapi gue masih belum menemukan si 2014 ini mau apa sama gue. Dan apa yang harus gue expect darinya.
Oke, mungkin gue bohong kalo bilang 2014 itu sejauh ini nggak menyenangkan, dan itu akan membuat gue sebagai orang yang melihat dunia dari sisi buruknya aja.

Yes, I did encounter some problems, mulai dari yang masuk akal sampe engga. But they're just being part of my life so far, and those were nothing, compared all the great things happened to me in the past three months or so.
Lagi pula, hidup akan membosankan kalau semuanya berjalan baik-baik saja, kan?
It's the imperfections that make everything ... perfect.

Dan masalah-masalah gue?
Gue memilih untuk tutup mata.
Betul?

Well, nggak selamanya itu betul.

As Robert Smith once said, "I tried to laugh about it, hiding the tears in my eyes."
 
But, for how long?
Kalo numpuk terus itu air mata lama-lama jebol juga kan?

Kadang ada beberapa penghalang yang bisa ditinggal, dan dia ngga akan muncul lagi di hidup kita. Tapi ada juga yang harus dihadapin dan diselesaikan. Seperti kalau kita main game.

Pasti pernah dong, udah ngabisin stok penghuni kebun binatang dan pake segala combo apapun, tapi itu musuh gak mampus-mampus? Sampe akhirnya kita capek, dan memutuskan untuk manyun ngga mau main game itu lagi. Tapi setelah beberapa lama, ketika kita coba lagi, we defeated the enemy in just one go.

Kadang masalahnya ngga bisa diselesaikan begitu aja dengan taro joystick.
Kadang kita perlu mencari jawabannya dari tempat lain. Website walkthrough, mungkin?

Eh, maksud gue ... Mungkin kita perlu 'make over' situasi. Bukan ngga mungkin permasalahan yang kita hadapi berasal dari kita sendiri, dan reaksi kita terhadap apa yang ada sama kita.

Gue mau curcol sedikit deh ...
Ada saatnya gue merasa kalau gue itu sendirian, bahkan ketika berada di tempat yang ramai dan orang-orangnya gue kenal semua. Jujur aja gue sendiri juga nggak tau kenapa bisa sampai merasa kaya gitu, but it just happened.
And surprisingly, in the past few weeks, this ‘phenomenon’ also happened to few people I know.

Padahal jaman kuliah dulu, gue selalu santai aja kemana-mana sendirian. Kalau lagi ngga ada kelas, gue bisa hop on a bus, terus pergi entah ke sudut kota yang mana, jalan-jalan sebentar, trus naik lagi bus yang sama tapi yang mengarah ke kota. As simple as that.
Then again, mungkin kondisi kotanya juga mendukung untuk melakukan itu ya :|

Tapi, mungkin itu yang perlu gue lakukan sekarang.
Have a life make-over.
Change the routine.
Do something out of the box.
Out of ... the familiarity.

Out of ... life as I know it now.

Well, not too extreme, perhaps. I still need some of the life I had now *looks at wallet*

It’s alright to go out of your personal Hobbiton once in a while, go on an adventure, an unexpected journey. Who knows you might meet your dwarfs, wizards, Elven King, dragon, and many more. Then you'll come back a different person, and you can react differently to your surroundings?

So, you’re facing problems that you never expected before?
Congratulations for growing up, and welcome to adulthood.

Notes:

- Husky came from http://www.favewalls.com

- Robert Smith came from http://www.nme.com

- Rex came from http://www.smosh.com

- Bilbo came from ttp://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk

When My Brain Is Doing What It Was Made For. To Think.

The Glaswegian Jakarta is back!

Setelah Imlek lewat, dan udara kembali panas, gue udah pasrah aja bernyanyi mengucapkan "Goodbye!" sama awan kelabu dan hujan, tapi hari ini mereka menyapa gue lagi. Bihik.

Anyway, mumpung udaranya lagi kaya gini, kita membahas topik yang cakung yuk [tahik, bahasa gue!]. Nope, bukan seputar makanan, karena gue hanya mahir makan, nggak mahir bikin review atau bikin blog kuliner whatsoever. 

Jadi gini, semalem itu kan malam Jumat dan tadi pagi gue menemukan tiga post bererot yang [menurut gue] sangat sesuai tema malam Jumat yang identik dengan seram. 

Yang pertama, post bertuliskan ‘Commitment is Scary’, ya udah lah ya, gak butuh penjelasan lebih lanjut ini mah.

Yang kedua itu post yang menjabarkan [duh, beneran deh bahasa gue!] perbedaan Suka, Sayang, sama Cinta. Ya, memang sebuah topik yang cukup berat untuk dibahas di malam Jumat. Maupun Jumat siang seperti ini. Jadi silakan dibaca aja post-nya, dan pikirkan sendiri. Saya malas bingung.

Pirsawan Blog: Terus kenapa diungkit di sini sik yang dua itu?! 
eLmo: Dih, terserah gue dong! blog juga blog gue! Guys? Halo? Ke mana kalian? Jangan tinggalkan aku ...

Anyway, post yang ketiga, dan yang paling bikin termenung, adalah berikut ini:

Aaaahhh ... just one week after that so-called day of love, the world is coming back to the way it should be. Real. Not all those mishy-mushy lovey-dovey thingy.

*dikejar segerombolan orang desa yang membawa obor, harpun dan garpu jerami*

So, have you?

It’s obviously not the most pleasant feeling in the world, but you just can’t deny that not all of them come with tears.

There are people that came with great memories, and when you looked to their photos and had all those feelings mentioned above, all you did was smile and reliving the good days you had with them using that small memory projectors in your head.

There are also people whom no matter how wonderful you had your days with them, no matter how sweet the separation was, but once you looked into their photos, you just can’t hold yourself to burst.

Even people who weren’t actually warming up to you, but even if they had a special place in your heart, you just can’t help your heart not breaking when seeing their photos. 
Like when John had to saw Sherlock jumped off the building right before his very eyes. John even pleaded Sherlock to ‘Don't be dead’ on his gravestone.

Yeah, there’s always have to be a fandom in my entries.

Problem?

The moment’s ruined, I know.

All I know, when you have to be apart with someone, you can never be ready. Even when you think you are. And, by God, it sucks even to think about it, yeah? Knowing that someone around you can be gone from your life at anytime, and that *points to the quote ... the Path post one, not the Sherlock one* happens.

And you know the cliche that comes with it?

“Time heals.”

Okay, it’s not a cliche, actually. It really is.

But don’t you just sick hearing people say that?

No?

Just me then :|

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By the way, you’re not hoping for a solution of this matter in my blog, do you?

Cause I’m just as bad in goodbyes. Let alone saying goodbye to a person, I can’t even say goodbye to my stuffs. Well, some of them. Okay, most of them. Otherwise, my room will be a junkyard. An awesome one, that is. Mwahaha.

I still had this elephant doll that my Da bought me when I was still a wee kid. I think my age was about one-digit number, and my Ma told me I was crying like mad asking for that doll at [I think] Jakarta Fair. My Da didn't buy it for me straightaway, though, he bought it with his next [or the one after next] pay check.

Also, I cried like a sissy schoolgirl who just got dumped by her boyfriend when I was leaving Glasgow on my UK trip last year. The city was so beautifully quirky and artsy, I felt like coming home to a home I never knew I ever had.

See?

You can never be ready for separation, whatever it is.

All you can do is simply enjoying the times you are currently having.

You’ll be afraid, yes. But isn’t it good? Once you got afraid, you’ll do whatever it takes to avoid it to happen.

And if it happened eventually ... well, that’s life. Not everything’s in black and white. 
There’s always a rainbow, and pots of gold at the end of it.

Life’s not fair, isn’t it?

But, maybe we can make it fair with our own way. 

Right.

Enough for now.

Hope you have a fantastic Friday night, my Bloglings! ^^ 

Notes: 

- Photo of grey Jakarta is mine.
- Path posts came from my friends at Path.
- Fanart of Sherlock came from scarvesarecool221b.deviantart.com 
- Photo of Glasgow is mine.
- Juliet and Mark came from Photobucket user Rore59.

Wrath of the God?

So today Zeus was upset.
He thrashed Poseidon's lair and threw some, if not most, of it over to Earth.
He bellowed the winds along while doing so.
I wonder why.
What had made him so upset up there?

Notes.

- Bent billboard came from my phone.

- Zeus Neeson came from http://www.tumblr.com