The Mandrake [Published Private Life]

Remember my prior posting about the new song? Well, I have managed to upload it to the website I usually upload my songs. Visit http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/mandrake_music.htm to view list of songs I have uploaded. As for now, you might be interested in listening to Betapa Cantiknya. Click here to download the free mp3: http://www.soundclick.com/util/downloadSong.cfm?ID=2693590

If you decide to downlad the songs, don’t forget to drop me a line here. Tell me what you think. More songs to come. Anticipate them!

I have recently written another song. For those who don’t know, I like to write songs. I’ve been writing songs since I was in high school. As you might’ve guessed it, I simply wrote love songs.

The latest song I’m talking about here is the song about a man’s admiration for a very beautiful girl. Then, I realised how this world works. Girls have always been inspiration for songs. There are even many song titles that contain girls’ name. Let me try name them: ‘Julia Says’ - WetWetWet, ‘Layla’ - Oasis, ‘Bella’ (I forgot who sang this, some time in 90’s), and many others I forgot. Not to mention songs contain physical descriptions of a beautiful girls.

Ain’t the world is so kind for girls? I mean, I rarely (as oppose to never) heard songs that contain men’s name or men’s physical description. It must be because girls are beautiful creature, and the most delicate one.

I wish I can dedicate this song to someone. Welp, actually I was inspired by this stranger girl. She was like.. wow! Then this song was written.

Let me tell you the story about this song. The title is Betapa Cantiknya, How beatiful. Yeah, pretty cliche. Hold on, there’s more.

Here’s the first verse of the song (in Bahasa Indonesia).

Hujan rintik gemericik
angin berbisik
Hatiku gundah gulana
dan merana terlena

Mataku kini terpaku
pada dirimu
Bidadari turun dari pelangi
kaki langit

Here’s English translation:

Pouring rain
breezy wind

I’m restless
bewitched

My eyes are fixed
open you
Angel comes down from rainbow
to the horison

Wow.. okay. So, I’m planning on uploading the song in MP3 format somewhere over the Internet and I’ll let you listen to this song.

As for now, just so you now, girls have always been inspirations for song writers, especially us guys.

If you think I’m going to discuss about the famous TV series ‘Friends’, you’re wrong. I want to share my thoughts on friends here. I’m also putting high stakes here as they might read this, too. But, I don’t care, really. So, if you’re coincidentally one of my friends, well, .. just so you know.

So, where do I start? Mm.. let’s defin the word ‘friends’. I copied and pasted here, the definition of friend from Oxford Dictionary. It says:

friend
· n.
1 a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations. Ø used in polite address to an acquaintance or stranger.

Thereby, friends don’t recognize sex. You can make friends with women as well as men, your own gender. I also believe that friends, close friends, to be exact, should tell everything. Well, not everything if your eyes grow wild upon hearing it. I mean, what are friends for if you cannot tell how you feel, how you’ve been, what made you upset and so on?

Let’s say you have a friend at the office. Let’s say you and your friend agreed to have lunch on the next day. And when the day comes, at lunch time, your friend is already left you at the office. And you’re still waiting words from your friend. Then, your friend phones you to your mobile phone asks you to go out for lunch with your friend. Your friend adds that there are several people with your friend already. I’d say this friend already loses 1 point from me. I mean, you have an appointment, but he/she just drops it like that.

Hold on, there’s more. Not enough calling you asking you to go out with this friend and knowing that there are several people to go with this friend already, and knowing that taxi won’t be able to accommodate all of us, this friend asks you to bring your car so that all of us can go. Do you understand the situation here? It’s like you are being used because you have a car. Your friend remembers you on the way to lunch because your friend has difficulties in finding taxi. I’m hurt actually, when I this happened to me. What did I do wrong? Haven’t I been caring for this friend?

I don’t know. May be I’m too much on this. This friend is actually still good to me. This friend doesn’t understand what this friend has done wrong to me. And, I’m not willing to talk about my emotion to anyone. You see, there are only 2 persons I can trust to talk about this thing: the first person is me and the other is nobody.

So, now that you have read this, and you feel that you have done the above mentioned thing. Don’t sweat about it. You’re still my friend. Though, I may not be the same friend you used to know. I am sorry. I am not such a good friend, after all.

Remember the last time I told you about me winning the quiz? Well, today I went to the radio station office to collect the price.

It turned out that I have won vouchers worth Rp.300,000. Woohoo… woohoo… woohoo.. pardon my excitement. But, it’s not everyday for me to win a game, you know.

So, now that I have won this BC Bar Voucher worth Rp.200,200 and a Rp.100,000 voucher, what will I do next, I wonder. Oh well, the main important thing is.. I won! Hahaha.. hey World, see me. I just won!

Two post in a day?! I hope you can bear with me I just would like to share of what happened this morning. I was tuning in to my favorite morning radio show on 87.6 Hardrock FM hosted by Stanley and Panji, when they threw this poll. It’s like this. Suppose there’s a guy, say, in his 30’s. Single and no dates. Everyone around him has been asking him when would he get married.

Pause. Okay, suppose this guy had two options, dating his best girl friend (not girlfriend) or dating anyone he knows (acquintance, hang-out friends, friends, or alike). Now, the poll has it that if you were in his shoes which one would you choose?

I was in a traffic jam when I heard this outrageuos but fun poll. So, I decided to SMS the radio, choosing the first option. It’s either because I frequently SMS the radio, or I was just lucky, but, in a matter of minutes, there was an incoming call in my cellphone. It was the programme manager of the radio! She asked me a few questions, then asked if I would like to be on-air with the two host. I said okay.

And then, there I was, this morning, live on my favorite radio show with the two funny hosts. Welp, here’s my gratitude to you all, folks! Thanks HardRock FM Jakarta. Thanks, Sekar. Thanks Stanley Panji. Woohoo! You guys are the greatest! Don’t give up on calling me in the near future, okay?

You know, having spent most of my time in Jakarta, you’ll be likely spend most of your life on the road. And most of the time by large, you’ll see funny things. And so this blog was created: based on my observation. This time, funny scene just made me realize: smoking.

What’s so special about smoking? Nothing. Except that you do it when you’re riding a motorbike. That’s not odd, you said. Well, I’d say it is. Considering there’s a heavy smoke lingering on every road/ street in Jakarta. As if the Jakarta’s smog is not enough to eat their lungs, these (supposedly cool?) bikers think they can have a good time by burning a piece of cigarette, sticking it into their mouth, sucking the nicotine, and burst the smoke into the polluted air.

See, I told you before, Jarkatans are ‘jorok‘ (sorry for the funny word, but I cannot find equivalent word in Englsih) people. As if littering not enough, they need to pollute the already-polluted air with smoke.

I wish I can open my window and say, “Smoke till you die, a*****e!”.

Yesterday, the government has this brilliant idea of saving energy for this country. It is told that many tv stations are to end their broadcasting at 1 at night. Well, woohoo, I said. That’ll do much to this country.

We will save a lot of money. It will feed the poor. It will treat the poor who have bad health. You know, not so long ago, we were told to save fuel, and now electricity, and for the sake of who? I still see famine in the other region of this country. I still see poor people with bad health here and there. Where has all the money the government earned gone? I wonder why.

Oh Lord, why don’t you just put those who run the government to sleep. For good. I just don’t see the benefit of having government. I’d say we’d better off without having any.

I mean, we are to use bike to work, we must turn off the light during the night. We might as well go back to the Flinstone era. Better yet, we ARE today’s Flinstone.