The Mushroomist

New Song!

2010-02-13T18:30:00.002+07:00

Hello guys! Sorry for the long, long, hiatus. Right now I want you all to listen to my new song. Yes, I made it by myself, it's called 'Girl Next Door' and it tells the story about a girl and a guy who are looking for each other. Perfect for you single ladies and lads out there, waiting for a miracle to happen. Thank you for listening!

And here's the lyric, if you want to sing along with it.

There she stands still
Won'drin' why no love has come to her
She's in her senior year
Yet for love she feels like she's a first-grader
She said, "I'm pretty, I'm smart,
I know what all the boys want,
But why can't I seem to find
The perfect one for me?"

Open your eyes, just believe
One day he'll knock at your door
Just stay strong, enjoy your year
Love yourself, be that girl next door
That usual girl next door

There he stands still
Staring at that girl for such a long time
He's so afraid
"Can't talk to her, or else I could die!"
He said, "She's pretty, she's smart,
She's all that I ever want
But why I'm afraid just to say
How big she means to me?"

Open your eyes, get the guts
Dare yourself to knock at her door
She'll love you, yes it's true
Love her too, love that girl next door
That usual girl next door

And at last, there they met
Love sparks are all around her
They know they belong together
So what are you worrying after?

Open your eyes, just believe
One day he'll knock at your door
Just stay strong, enjoy your year
Love yourself, be that girl next door
That usual girl next door

Open your eyes, get the guts
Dare yourself to knock at her door
She'll love you, yes it's true
Love her too, love that girl next door
That usual girl next door

Enjoy!

Surat Untuk Pak Presiden.

2010-01-25T17:56:00.002+07:00

Halo Pak Presiden,

Apa kabar? Saya bisa asumsikan bapak nggak akan jawab 'baik-baik saja nak', karena sebenarnya keadaan bapak memang sedang nggak baik.

Oh, boleh saya ralat, bukan cuma keadaan bapak, tapi keadaan negara kita sedang nggak baik.

Pengangguran, orang miskin, kriminalitas, semuanya ibarat jadi menu makanan kami sehari-hari. Sementara di 'orang gedean' sana, yang jadi menu makanan sehari-hari adalah korupsi, korupsi, korupsi...

Jujur pak, saya udah muak banget denger kata 'korupsi'. Saya merasa, semuanya cuma teori. Teori yang nggak bisa dibuktikan oleh fakta.

Saya memang bukan politikus, saya nggak kuliah di jurusan Ilmu Politik, saya nggak pernah mengikuti politik dan bahkan saya benci politik, tapi saya punya mata, punya telinga, maka itu saya bisa melihat dan mendengar apa saja yang ada di luar sana. Dan percayalah, apapun yang terjadi di luar sana, jauh lebih memprihatinkan daripada krisis politik yang kalian, orang-orang gedean, sedang alami.

Ini lebih dari sekedar politik. Ini tentang kemanusiaan. Tentang perdamaian. Tentang keadilan.

Bapak, lihatlah mereka. Coba tengok setiap butir air mata yang mereka keluarkan. Coba rasakan setiap usaha yang mereka lakukan untuk menyambung hidup mereka. Rasakan Pak, bahwa semua keputusan yang kalian orang-orang gedean putuskan di gedung 'wakil rakyat' itu, sebenarnya nggak semua bisa mereka rasakan. Mungkin nggak mereka rasakan sama sekali, karena hak-hak mereka udah keburu 'dicaplok' sama tikus-tikus di atas mereka.

Saya tahu, Bapak lagi pusing karena bapak dituding ikut andil dalam kasus Bank Century, atau apalah namanya saya nggak peduli. Tapi bisa kan Bapak lihat kami sebentar? Lihat anak-anak jalanan yang tidak bisa sekolah padahal mereka punya hak penuh untuk sekolah, lihat mahasiswa yang selalu berdemo di tempat kediaman Bapak atau di gedung wakil rakyat, lihat penjual sembako di pasar yang sering mengeluh karena kenaikan harga pangan secara tiba-tiba, lihat para petani yang tertunduk lemas karena gagal panen.

Lihat kami semua.

Salam hormat,

Salah satu dari 250 juta rakyat Indonesia.

Reply, Not RT!

2010-01-21T19:52:00.005+07:00

Recently I get somehow annoyed by people who used RT instead of replying, because they put so much spam in my private Twitter account. So, are you one of Twitter users who got easily annoyed by people who spam your timeline using RT? If you are, then welcome to the club.

And for those people who doesn't know the difference between RT and Reply, here's the difference:

You use RT to RE-TWEET informations, or quotes you want to share to your followers.

And you use REPLY, well, to reply other people's tweet.

Trust me, I'm not the only one who gets pissed off every time I see people spamming my timeline with unimportant chats with the RT feature. I mean, I don't want to look at what you're talking about, and neither do another people.

Then probably you'll ask, "If I don't RT what I tweeted, then people won't understand what I'm replying to!"

That's a simple question to answer.

If someone named James tweeted this: "Wow, @twiquotations is so awesome!" Then you better answer in this format: "@James What's twiquotations? (RE: Wow, twiquotations is so awesome!"

If you REPLIED like that to James, other people in your timeline who doesn't follow James won't receive your tweet. So PLEASE PLEASE don't reply James like this: "What's twiquotations? RT @James: Wow, twiquotations is so awesome!"

If you replied like that, then other people who follows or doesn't follow James will see your tweet in their timeline.

Much more depressing if you do them simultaneously, like you're chatting. Example: "Wow I have to follow it! RT @James: It's a quoting page on Twitter RT @Judy: What's twiquotations? RT @James: Wow, twiquotations is so awesome!"

See what I mean?

I'm Getting Sicker By This Holiday.

2010-01-20T16:06:00.002+07:00

Ahem.

Sorry for the very long hiatus. As a matter of fact, I still have my holiday and it will end next month. Feels very long for me. I love holidays, but if it gets too long, then it will get on my nerves.

I do nothing for my holiday. Just chilling out in my house, go to the mall to hang out with some of my friends, and the rest is nothing. No studying, no reading textbooks.

Oh, haven't I told you about my first GPA? It was pretty miserable, though. I got 3,08 as my first GPA. Actually I knew that I could do better than that, because I thought my first term subjects were easy subjects and I could nail an A+ easily. But sometimes the truth is not the same as our expectation. Well, I thanked God though, for letting me not to fail on any class. My lowest grade was B, and I could do nothing but be thankful for that.

How's your day been, people? Oh, and I want to say thanks to you all, because these day #TWQ keeps on being on Trending Topics! Such an honor to be in those top 10 topics most of the day.

Sherlock Holmes

2010-01-07T17:48:00.003+07:00

Posting pertama dengan bahasa Indonesia!

Kemaren gue baru nonton film ini sama temen-temen SMA gue. Film ini bikin gue bengong dari awal sampe akhir. Bukan karena nggak ngerti, tapi karena gue bener-bener salut sama cara si Sherlock nyelesaiin semua kasus yang dia tangani. Bahkan ending dari film ini bener-bener nggak bisa ditebak, gue sendiri heran betapa pintarnya si penjahat bikin semua jebakannya kelihatan bener-bener rapi. Mantap deh.

Setting film ini sekitar tahun 1800-an, jadi kalian bakal nemuin banyak gaun-gaun yang nggak biasa dipake di acara non-formal disini, jadi baju sehari-hari. Gue sendiri nggak habis pikir gimana tahannya si Rachel McAdams pake korset yang (pastinya) luar biasa nyekek dia selama berjam-jam selama pengambilan gambar. Duh, mantep banget deh kostumnya.

Yang gue suka dari film ini adalah cara penyutradaraan si Guy Ritchie. Pengambilan gambarnya bener-bener dramatis, kadang-kadang slow motion, close up, terus gue suka cara Guy Ritchie yang ngejelasin proses kriminal di film itu, gimana terjadinya. Bikin gue tenggelam ke kasus itu sendiri.

Sepertinya film ini bakal dibuat sekuelnya, soalnya di akhir film, ada nama penjahat yang disebut-sebut Holmes. Well, semoga beneran dibikin sekuelnya ya!

My Favourite Things

2010-01-04T07:48:00.007+07:00

First of all, let me say... HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!!! Hopefully we'll be a better person in this new year and new decade. How's your new year been? Oh, and do you or have you made your new year's resolutions? Me myself, I don't like to write resolutions, because in the end I'll mostly ruin them :) So I decide to let my life flow with no resolutions at all.

So, here I am, and today I want to blog about my favorite things. Hopefully after you read this post, you'll feel you know me more!

1. HISTORY

This is my favorite, top-notch thing above all. I love history, yes in fact I know that can make me look like a geek, but I don't care. Though history-based professions often got underestimated by people, but I'm so sure I can change the world's perception about it. My favorite history timeline is the Renaissance era and World War II era.

2. ARCHAEOLOGY

Yes, another history-based topic that I really love... Most people don't know the difference between history and archaeology. While history is a science that learns about things that have impact on social society, archaeology learns about the non-living things that people used during the historical period. I like archaeology because I've started to read encyclopedias since I was in elementary school, and I put Indiana Jones as my role model...

3. SONGWRITING

Actually this is my new hobby, since I just started writing one song. But I find it's totally addicting. For me, writing a song is much simpler than writing a poem. It's refreshing too, since you also think about what the song will be like, the music arrangement, whether you're gonna play it by guitar or piano, those kinds of stuffs.

4. CRYPTOLOGY
Err, no related pictures in Google, so I can't find a representative image here. Well, for you who don't know cryptology, it's the science of ciphers. Hidden messages, secret codes, etc. I find it's very amusing and interesting, and easy to learn too. I've managed to write some ciphers, and you can learn basic and easy ciphers in Wikipedia.

5. MUSIC

This is one of the things I love! I practically have to listen to music everyday. I enjoy variety kinds of music, my all-time favorite is adult alternative. My favorite musicians also varies, from Muse, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, to Duran Duran. But it seems like I don't enjoy indie music, though people nowadays seem to like that genre a lot.

6. COFFEE

Welcome to my daily dose of caffeine. Yes, I know coffee's kinda bad if you consume it too much, but for a reason, I have to drink it. I found it hard to drink coffee once, but then I found a very interesting coffee: frappucino :) Still, I can't drink black coffee until now. My personal favorite is Starbucks' caramel java chip. How about you?

Well, I guess that's all for now. I hope this post entertains you!

New Decade, 2010.

2009-12-31T19:43:00.002+07:00

This is written at 8.46 PM, December 31st, 2009.

Time flies so fast, right? I really remembered last New Year's Eve (NYE), I spent it in my room, on the phone with someone really special for me.

Me, personally, I don't really like huge festivities on NYE. I prefer long talks with loved ones, and when the clock strikes twelve, we hug each other and say 'Happy New Year'. Then after that, we continue talking while watching TV.

Such a simple celebration, but it will really mean a lot to me. At least I know I've got a friend, someone to accompany me, even if only by phone or by chatroom.

What about you? What's your best NYE, guys?

Hopefully this next year, the new 2010, will give you more inspiration and more luck. Let go of the past, and look forward to the future.

Holiday Post

2009-12-27T17:46:00.003+07:00

Hello guys, Judy is back :)

As you may known, a few hours ago I posted about my nationality on TWQ account. I hereby confirm that I am 100% an Indonesian, and please don't get me wrong if I tweet or write this post in English. I write these in English because there are also foreign TWQ followers, and I want to make them as comfortable as they can, so I decide to write everything in English. If you don't like me being English all the time, I apologize.

Well, back to business! I finally can post something here. Well, I'm not much a road trip person, but I try to enjoy this holiday as fun as I can.

The trip started at 8 P.M. last night, my aunt and uncle picked me up from my apartment, then I went with them to our meeting point, Starbucks Coffee on Cikampek highway. I screamed for coffee, I am a big fan of it! I ordered one tall Caramel Java Chips. After we met each other (my family, my uncle's family and my uncle's brother's family), we straightly continued our journey.

Oh, and thanks to Caramel Java Chips, I couldn't sleep all night. Yes, I slept, but I couldn't get straight to sleep. And that made me fell asleep the whole morning.

Here I am right now, in Surabaya. A very hot city :p I just finished swimming with my cousins, and right now I made time for myself to post something here.

Well, I should wrap this up, because the laptop's battery isn't sufficient anymore. I'll be back with more stories later. Sneak peek: I'm going to Mount Bromo this dawn, and continue my road trip to Bali! I think I can reach Bali at tomorrow afternoon. Yes, I'm so excited!

Thank you for reading my story. God bless!

I'm Packed Up!

2009-12-26T09:21:00.003+07:00

How tiring. I just finished packing for my holiday. Me and my big family are going to have a road trip from Jakarta to Bali, and my daddy promised us to visit Mount Bromo (I don't like that idea, really), and he promised me to buy us tickets to Waterbom Bali. Now that's what I called fun!

Looks like we're going on holiday for 2 weeks, because we will go to Bali by car (yeah, it's not a road trip if you go somewhere by plane). We're gonna have 3 cars, with 3 families inside them. I really can't wait! Though I'm the oldest child in my family (the second oldest is 4 years younger than me), but I'm really excited for this trip. And though I have 2 little, noisy, naughty step sisters, I just don't care, because this is holiday, man!

I really can't wait to visit Bali again. The last time I visited it was about 2 years ago, back then I went there with my friends in high school. I miss the view of Dreamland and Kuta beach, and you know what I'm really looking for on this year's trip? Waterbom Bali! Aaaaahhh me wants to go there T_T

And there's a good news also. My dad will bring his laptop and his external modem, so I can borrow his modem at times to just drop by to write a blog post, or probably spend some hours to tweet you quotes on Twitter! That sounds awesome, right? I just can't stay away from internet for such a long time. Ha.

Well, I'm leaving you here. Once more, happy holidays! May this year's season festive brings cheers, peace and love in your heart...

Hello!

2009-12-25T16:09:00.003+07:00

Thank God.

Finally I make a blog for you, dear TWQ followers.

I used to make two blogs, but I deleted both of them because of some private reasons. And now, here I am, trying to type some words to share to you :)

So, what's up? I'm writing this post on Christmas Day. Hell yeah, the day the Christians' have been waiting for. Well, I'm a devout Christian, so that makes me one of those people who wait for Christmas. But I don't feel the Christmas spirit inside of me this year. I don't know why, but last year was my greatest Christmas. Even though I didn't spend it at Rockefeller Center, ice-skating with my family or kissed under the biggest Christmas tree with someone special, but I really enjoyed last year's Christmas.

This year? Major emptiness.

The presents were all great, I knew they were. My parents bought me a few T-shirts for my daily college life, and my grandma bought me these uber cool 501 Levi's short jeans and Levi's t-shirt. My sister bought me this ironic ashtray for my father, the ashtray itself was carved like a pair of lungs. So it's like warning my dad to stop smoking in a nice and ironic way. Haha.

Well hey, at least Christmas is going to be over soon, because tomorrow I'm going to have a roadtrip with my family, and I'm so excited for this! But... I haven't packed yet. I'm excited for the roadtrip, but I'm too lazy to pack my things, hehehe... That means I'll be on hiatus for like what, 2 weeks from now? But don't worry, I'll post more quotes and blog posts when I get an internet connection.

Happy holidays, guys!