July 30, 2014

Eid Mubarak!



Happy Eid Mubarak! 

Nggak terasa banget bulan Ramadhan sudah berlalu. Untuk siapa pun yang baca, selamat Idul Fitri 1435 Hijriyah. Mohon maaf kalau saya ada salah kata atau mungkin salah kasih informasi di postingan-postingan sebelumnya. Selamat berlebaran dengan keluarga dan sahabat, semuanya! Makan-makannya jangan pake dendam, mentang-mentang habis puasa sebulan. Hehehe


July 18, 2014

What's Up / Sundate

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What's up, blogger? Let's talk about some interesting things that happened.
Germany won the 2014 World Cup and I'm so happy for them. To be honest, I started supporting them at the round of 16 since other favorites of mine didn't make it. I was also sure that Brazil will win and I was anxious when they met at the semifinal. But then... 7-1! I left the TV for awhile and they already scored two more goals. Goal after goal after goal... It was crazy/amazing. Manuel Neuer though... Okay, I'll stop the football talk now.
Anyway, I finally finished The Hobbit. Can't wait for December. I'm sure the battle will be epic! I'm currently reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I should probably read the novels first but whatever, man. Last week I saw The Fault In Our Stars with my Mom. It really lives up to the book, I think. Although thank God, I didn't cry like when I saw the movie, only when I read the book. My Mom cried and she was so into the the story more than I expected. Haha. Hmm I really like Nat Wolff. I heard he'll be playing Q in another movie adaptation from John Green's book, Paper Towns. Totally looking forward to it, even though I'm still kind of upset about the other character in that book...

These photos are from last Sunday. I met up with the girls for Iftar. We just met Ika again because the last two months she was taking exclusive English courses in Pare, Kediri. It was nice catching up with them. I don't know about them but sometimes I miss school.


Ramadhan is soon coming to an end. May these last weeks are filled with joys and blessing. Happy Friday!

July 2, 2014

Fast & Slow

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The holy month of Ramadhan is here and I am so excited about it. We started fasting on Sunday so we just begun. I feel like the time is flying by because it's already mid-year, but I also feel like it's slowing down a bit now that it's Ramadhan. Does that make sense?

Anyway, I've been spending less time on the computer and I haven't pick up my cameras for days. Even if I do, I just left the pictures/clips still in the camera, not in the mood to process them. I'm still hunting for job and still reading The Hobbit. Sometimes I will be such a slow reader. I mean, once I sit down and start reading I could read for hours. So normally I would finish a book in about three day, depends on the book. Other time, like right now, I would read, finished another chapter, put it down, and start reading again like two days later. And it's not because the book sucks. Tolkien's words are magic. I really like it. So yeah, let's finish it before this week ends. Oh, there's this 2014 reading challenge on Goodreads. You would put a number of books you want to read this year. I only put 15 because that sounds realistic to me. And some people actually want to read 200 books, but currently only have 2 books done, do you think maybe they forget to update their Goodreads?? Okay, well... whatever suits their boat, I guess.

Sooo here's a few weeks old photo of me. There was this little 'natural spotlight' in our kitchen that day so I had to take a selfie.

Have a good day, humans.
(Right now I'm a dwarf)

June 21, 2014

B U K U


Suatu hari iseng browsing dan menemukan buku The Fault In Our Stars versi pdf. Tapi perpaduan margin dan spasi yang sempit serta pilihan font nya bikin nggak nyaman untuk dibaca. Akhirnya saya jadi tahu tentang ePub (electronic publication) dan langsung senang begitu tahu kalau dengan format ini, font bisa disesuaikan dengan keinginan kita. Font ini masalah utama buat saya haha. Dan akhirnya nemu app di Play Store bernama Aldiko. Berhubung gampang banget nemu buku berformat ePub di internet, saya udah baca beberapa buku menggunakan app ini. Baca buku versi digital memang ada enak dan ada juga nggak enaknya.

Enaknya... selain bisa ubah ke font yang saya mau, bisa menghemat waktu dan pengeluaran, mudah dibawa jadi bisa baca kapan aja dan dimana aja melalui gadget atau bahkan ponsel Android jadul seperti punya saya, bisa baca dalam bahasa aslinya (Inggris), dan bisa baca sambil tiduran tanpa takut bukunya lecek. Nggak enaknya... dikira gila gadget dan nggak bisa lepas banget dari gadget padahal lagi baca buku, kalau ketawa dikira lagi browsing... Hahaha oke, faktor yang nggak enaknya itu mungkin perasaan saya aja. Tapi intinya, saya merasa berkhianat *halah. Liat button di bagian bawah blog saya? I pledge to read the printed words. Emang nggak ada salahnya baca buku versi digital, tapi ada yang nggak bisa terganti dari membaca buku biasa. Nggak bisa iseng menghirup harum kertasnya waktu baru beli bukunya atau waktu mulai baca lagi dan lagi mencari halaman yang terakhir dibaca... Inti dari intinya: saya kangen baca buku fisik tapi kantong lagi agak seret. Ya gitu deh.

Beberapa buku yang udah saya baca, berdasarkan waktunya;

  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Walaupun udah menduga endingnya bakal kayak gitu, tetep aja kesel. Hehe... Ogah banget nonton filmnya di bioskop, takut nangis bombay. Haha
  • The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan. Ini novel romantis tapi formatnya kayak kamus gitu. Satu kata didefinisikan ke dalam kisah antara dua insan ini. Tapi berhubung ada lumayan banyak kata yang saya nggak tau artinya (harus terus tambah vocab nih!), di beberapa bagian, kisahnya nggak bisa terlalu saya resapi. Tapi selebihnya, di bagian-bagian lain saya senyum-senyum sendiri. Mungkin saya harus baca lagi.
  • Looking For Alaska by John Green. Oh, Alaska Young. Antara suka dan nggak suka sama karakter ini. FYI, ini novel debutnya John Green. Keren ya novel debutnya aja begini...
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Wow. Penulis yang satu ini memang magical.
  • Paper Towns by John Green. Endingnya ngeselin. Dan saya merasa karakter Margo ini mirip sama Alaska Young, dan saya nggak tau saya lebih sebel sama yang mana.

Ceritanya sih masih sebel dengan ending di buku terakhir, jadi sekarang lagi baca The Hobbit. Jujur saya belum pernah baca bukunya J.R.R. Tolkien dan sejauh ini saya suka banget. Beda emang kalau yang nulis orang Inggris. Kata-katanya itu bisa terurai dengan begitu indahnya... :)  Dan biasanya setelah selesai baca, saya langsung mikir buku apalagi yang mau saya baca. Selanjutnya, mumpung belum nonton filmnya juga, apa saya harus baca Divergent ya? Hmm...


Happy weekend and happy reading, humans! 


May 25, 2014

An Inspiration

I must say after I watched an episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey from two weeks ago (E9: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth) and yesterday's episode (E11: The Immortals), I feel a little hopeless. We hold responsibility for our planet, for generations to come. We should care. And sometimes it seems too much for some people to care. I just don't understand. I can't put my thoughts into the right words, but like I said, it made me feel a little hopeless.

I was still stunned by 'The Immortals' episode when I started browsing the internet and I found this video someone shared on Tumblr. And I don't want to sound exaggerating but after I watched this I feel that this is our hope! If the the future looks like this maybe we and the next human generations have chance to sustain this planet, the intelligence, and then they all can figure out how to travel through space and find another home among stars before earth and our sun is no more. Do I even make sense right now? Do you know what I mean? Sorry, it's like waaay past two in the morning. The thing is... JUST WATCH THIS VIDEO. Donate! Or at least share!




PS: Are you bored of how much I mentioned Cosmos yet? Well, good for you (but not for me!), there's only two episodes left.
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