Archive for August, 2008

Marhaban Yaa Ramadhan

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

dah lama gak ngepost gaara2 alasan malas bin lazy.. :D

gak kerasa yaa…skarang udah bulan suci ramadhan..sahur lagi, puasa lagi, buka lagi, tarawih lagi….

Alhamdulillah banget bcoz kita dah dikasi ksempatan sama Allah untuk bertemu lagi dengan bulan penuh berkah ini…kalo diibaratin ama orang, Ramadhan adalah orang yang soangat kaya dan soangat dermawan yang ngebagi2in harta (baca: pahala) ke kita. Di bulan ini, ibadah sunnah pahalanya dinilai wajib, dan ibadah wajib pahalanya dilipatgandakan. Di bulan ini juga dosa2 kita di"bakar" (ramadhan dalam bahasa Arab artinya ngebakar). Ga salah kalo Ramadhan disebut sebagai bulan penuh rahmat dan ampunan.

Nah…itu aja sih…after all, happy fastin bwad yg ngjalanin..tpi jangan sampe puasa dijadiin alesan buat males2an donk. Sabda Rasulullah SAW: "Tidur di bulan puasa itu ibadah". Tidur aja udah dinilai ibadah sama Allah, apalagi kalo lita ngerjain aktivitas2 bermanpaat yg lain ;) So, ttep semangat, semuanyaaaah!

Right-Hand Written Love Letter

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

hm..pas klas Rendra tadi, kita ber3 : gw, Farizi, and Karim, mencoba untuk nulis dengan tangan yang jarang dipake (Farizi n Karim pke tangan kiri, gw pke tangan kanan since I’m lefty). Pertama, kita coba nulis nama sendiri, and ancur banget. Trus, si Farizi bilang, "Coba ada orang yg bisa nulis essay pke tangan kiri". Entah dapat ilham dary mana, gw pun nulis sebuah surat pke tangan kanan. Bukan surat biasa, tapi sebuah surat cinta untuk seseorang yang sudah lama tidak bertemu dengan segala kata2 gombal… here’s the letter:

Dear (chipmunk)

I dunno, but my heart throbs since I 1st saw you. You’re a maiden fair, and I can’t take my eyes off you. I wish we could share our love covalently, like the bonding that Rendra is telling. But no, we could never do it because there’s a wall so high between us. Now we’re far away, and you may have 4gotten me. But trust me, I will never perish you. I will always waiting to meet you once more, to say I LOVE YOU.

-farhan-

yep. mungkin aku tidaklah sempurna, tetapi hatiku memilikimu sepanjang umurku. mungkin aku tak bisa memiliki dirimu seumur hidupku

Gara-Gara Nekat….

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

okay, when I opened the group "Anti Kangen Band" in my profile, gw ngeliat suatu topik berjudul "Lebih Parah Dari Kangen Band"…dan it was a link to a profile page about this band called "Garnet Band"…(http://profiles.friendster.com/63836738) And ini adalah poto2 personil band ini….

Vomit_aid Ini Iful, sang vokalis,sekaligus pentolan band ini, yang kata mba gw mirip dengan Cutty Flam (ada yg setuju??-bagi fans OP,bayangin adegan Pants From Frankyhouse, tapi posisi Franky yg lari2 keliling kota diganti sama Iful!!) Menurut kabar yang banyak beredar di dunia maya, pria ini berusia 40 tahunan (and I thought he wuz 50) dan punya dua bini (Sihir apa yang dia ucap? Mantera apa yang dia punya??)

Dont_deserve_to_exist Kalo yang ini adalah anggota2 lain Garnet Band, di mana info tentang mereka belum ada di Internet.

terus terang, gw salut dengan band ini karena pas gw denger lagu mereka "Cinta Sepenuh Hati", ternyata kualitas suara si Iful itu lumayan..pokoknya lebih baguslah dari debut pertama kumpulan bencong2: Andhika, Dody, Tama, Bebe, Iim, dan Izzy. Uniknya, menurut informasi yang beredar di Kakus, they used to be fishermen! Iya, mereka adalah nelayan-nelayan asal Sukabumi yang mempunyai bakat musik. Karena harga solar terus naik, mereka memutuskan untuk banting setir menjadi penyanyi dari panggung satu hajatan ke hajatan lainnya. Mereka memberi nama Band mereka Garnet Band yang artinya Gara Gara Nekat (wow..mantap..awalnya gw kirain asalnya dari Kevin Garnett).

Mulianya, mereka memberikan pelayanan 3 in 1 dalam setiap show mereka, bahkan mereka rela dibayar murah asal mendapatkan makan gratis. 3 in 1 dalam pelayanan mereka berupa: menjadi penyanyi panggung, mencuci piring, dan membenarkan tenda dengan tenaga mereka sendiri. Mereka rela melakukan itu semua karena konon Mas Ipul mempunyai 2 istri yang tua dan muda. Istri mudanya selalu ikut mereka dalam setiap show, sedangkan istri tua hanya menuntut jatah malam dan jatah uang memasak setiap bulannya. Belum lagi pegawai yang mereka sewa yang  terdiri dari anggota waria. Ckckckck..they’re more than just a band..they’re maids..I mean, they’re NOBLEMEN! Coba, mana ada band yang mau kaya mereka? Insya Allah dpet pahala dobel deh..selain menghibur orang, mau bantu-bantu di setiap acara, pula !

Ketika mereka sedang latihan di sebuah studio ada seorang netter yang merasa lagu mereka layak untuk dipublikasikan. Kemudian netter itu meminta demo musik mereka dan menyebarkannya lewat internet dan forum-forum sehingga akhirnya semakin populerlah mereka.

Dalam suatu kesempatan mas Ipul mengucapkan banyak terima kasih kepada orang-orang yang telah menghargai musik mereka, walau mereka tidak mendapatkan apa-apa karena bajakan yang beredar.  Namun mereka cukup senang karena setidaknya kini mereka terkenal dan berharap kelak bisa masuk TV supaya orang-orang kampung menjadi bangga karena mereka.

Hhe..thanks buat mba Agnes Davonar(http://.lieagneshendra.blogs.friendster.com )atas artikelnya di wikimu :) Another zero-to-hero-band yang menyusul Kangen Band, sukses dengan diiringi berbagai macam kontroversi dari orang-orang yang mencibir iri. Apakah industri musik Indonesia akan semakin berkibar karena kedatangan Garnet Band, nelayan2 yang mempunyai suara dan hati emas (meskipun tampangnya mirip kaleng penyok) ini? Kita lihat saja siapa produsen musik yang berminat terhadap mereka.

Sukses selalu buat Garnet Band !!!

Life is Funfair..What 2 Do?

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

ini gw dpet artikel bagus banget dari Oprrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrahhhhh Winfffffffffffffffffffffffffffrey tentang bagaimana kalo hidup kita "unfair" alias "ga adil". @ 1st, I feel as if life were funfair (the SpongeBob’s way to say ‘unfair’). A friend that can easily get along with chicks-tmenan, bkan pacaran-while I’m not, cuz he gets the face, while I only have head; a sister that I think is more suitable to become my onee-san, and gw ngerasa that Lord delayed her arrival to be later than me; the proof of Mendel’s theory in my house: she inherited my mum’s gene; a grudge between my neighbors, and so on. I randomly browsed Googy with keyword ‘life unfair’ and found this article. Ga usah baaaaacot, here it goes…

What to Do When Life Seems Unfair

What do you do when nothing is going your way? Do you ask, "Why me?" or do you look for what your life is trying to tell you? How you choose to respond to the difficult things that happen to you can mean the difference between a life of anger…or joy.

Spiritual counselor Gary Zukav says that everything happens for a reason, and that reason is your spiritual growth. Find out what you can do when life takes a turn that just doesn’t seem fair.

Get to the Heart of the Problem
Take responsibility for yourself and your life.

What Did You Do to Deserve This?
Feeling that you’re a victim may be imprisoning you in your pain.

Shift the Way You See the World
Having a different outlook could take away the pain and change the course of your life.

Get to the Heart of the Problem

Take Responsibility
According to Gary Zukav, how you choose to respond to difficult life circumstances is at the core of what life on Earth is about. You must take genuine responsibility for:

  • Who you are
  • What you do
  • What you contribute while you are here

Are You a Victim?
If you believe that life is unjust, you are declaring yourself to be a victim. A victim resists her life, rather than looking at it realistically and moving on from that point. Consider the possibility that everything that happens to you is an opportunity to expand into a fuller potential, and a more powerful and meaningful life.

Change Your Perception
Thinking of life as unfair is only one perception, and it is not necessarily the way your life is. Realize that while you cannot control the things that happen to you, you can control how you react to them.

Don’t Be the Victim
Many of us tend to ask, "Why me?" when we are experiencing some pain in life and allow ourselves to become a prisoner of that pain.
  • Trust that there may be something meaningful, powerful and purposeful happening.
  • Declaring yourself as a victim may only perpetuate the experience and your pain.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Gary says, "The world around you does not deceive you. It does not lie to you. What you experience reflects a creative or created impulse within you.

"The question is not ‘Why do bad things happen to good people?’ There are not bad things and good things. There are consequences of choices made. There are effects of causes in which you participated.

"So if you look at your life and say, ‘But I’m a positive person, why is it that these things are now happening to me?’ Well, there’s several ways to look at this. Number one is, if you were to wake up in your life today, you would still experience what you have created in the past. This is karma. Energy is energy, and you cannot escape it — and there’s a good reason for that."

  • If you feel that the Universe is unfair, it will be unfair. No matter what happens to you, nothing is unfair. The Universe doesn’t judge you, so why should you judge it?
  • When you blame others and view yourself as a victim, you create negative karma.
  • What you see in others is what you need to see in yourself. If you are surrounded by angry people, you are probably an angry person, too.
Shift the Way You See the World

If you consider that there may be meaning in the disappointments of life and that the universe is compassionate and wise, you will be able to open yourself to authentic power—the real power within yourself.

  • Learn to control your negativity. Your life does not have to be unfair.
  • You need to put yourself in a place of surrender. Be open to the possibilities that can change your life—they may bring you a greater sense of joy and fulfillment.

Consider the "bad" event in your life as a wake-up call to truly appreciate your life as it was. Ask yourself, "What am I supposed to learn from this?" Once you surrender to your anger, you will find room for other things in your life.

Dealing with Pain

  • You should be gentle with yourself and realize that the pain may be part of your spiritual growth.
  • You should not judge another’s pain.
  • Your perception of what is happening will determine your outlook on life.