Day #11-a: Friendship, A Lifetime Investment

What you call a friendship, I call it an investment.

What you call it an introduction, I call it create a network.

Haha. I know what you think. Such a money-oriented scumbag or a two-faced prick.

Basically, yeah. It's true. But not everything can be valued by money. When you start to know someone new, it always is an opportunity, a chance, a gift. Begin with introduction, a friendship opens up a new door for your future. You'll be gifted with many possibilities. And to be honest, not all the possibilities will be positive. But at least, I try to look them in positive ways.

Why I start this theme? Until now, my friends are the one who made a Fadil Pinandita that you know now. And I want to share something about friendship in my point of view.

Never expect anything from the start. But still, start the friendship with a good intention. Treat a friend like you want to be treated. And don't expect you'll be in the receiving end, try to be the one that always offers. Eventually, all those good intentions will be returned to you somehow. So, treat your friends kindly. Don't forget about the old ones while you're making a new ones. Interaction frequencies may reduce after some times, it doesn't mean that the goodness in friendship has to be reduced also.

I believe if we have friends in our life, life will be easier to be lived. Friends will lend their hand when you ask them, or even they already offer theirs before you ask for them. Because in this era, believe it or not, it's not (entirely) about what you can do, but (more) about who you know.

But, having friends doesn't mean that you'll be a co-dependent person. Try what you can do with all your might, friends are the supportive materials. You won't be like it too, when someone always cling at your shoulder all the time, right?

In my opinion, good intentions, respect, understanding and generosity are the main traits in a friendship.

So, hello my friends and soon-to-be my friends. It's nice to have you all in my life. Hope this goodness will last for life. Thanks, all... :)

Day #9: Unfolding Sympathy (revised)

Made a mistake by using an old draft of lyrics, so look at the post in November 2010 archive..

or simply click this.

Thanks.

Day #8: New Music For Today

My friend once said, "Music never cease to amaze me.."

And I totally agree with it. In every city, in every building, in every alley, in every place in this world, music is there. Sounds travel together with the light by the very air we breathe. Music is everywhere.

One of my 2011 resolution is to broad up my horizon in music. I promised myself that I will hear music from 365 new musicians I've never heard before this year. I already listened to something new, but still, have not start "the counting part" just yet. I think I will just sum them up in the edge of this year. Haha. Too lazy to count them as the day passed by.

So, I'm going to talk about a musician that I found today. I found her by coincidence. I was checking up my personal myspace page out of boredom this morning, and found couple friend requests. One of them is from "IamHarlequin". Usually, I just accept all the friend request on my myspace page, but out of nothing, I happened to open up her page.

It was Anne Freier, who created I am Harlequin (you can read it completely from her page). A girl from London that describe her genre as Indie/Melodramatic Popular Song/Pop. And what catch my eyes was her influences. She made her influence with an image box, here it is:

Then I listened to couple of her tracks, they were somehow unique, interesting and fascinating for me. Remind me a bit of Bjork and Imogen Heap, but still, somehow fresh. I love them.

So, I am Harlequin is my new music for today. Find out what's yours! Cheers..

Click the picture to be linked-in to her myspace page. Hope you like it, too.. :)

Day #7: Football Identity

Football Identity (FID) is an online game about football. I've become an addict of this game lately, thanks to Tito Alfani that introduced me to this game (cynical tone.. haha).

You can signed up for free for the first character, if you want to add another character, you must pay for it. Like a drug dealer, first batch is free. LoL. After you signed up, you can choose what character suits you the best. There are three main character you can choose: player, manager or journalist.

If you choose your career as a player, you should name your character, choose the ideal position and pick a body-type that suit best your position. Voila, your character is made! The next step is advertise yourself in the forum, don't forget to write your availability for the match time. Because it is the real time online football game, in a match you can only control your character only. You will play with 10 other player from all across the world.

If you choose a manager, you will be assigned to the team with no manager. But if you want to learn the rope for a bit, you can start being an assistant manager. Manager responsibilities are to choose the tactics and formation of a team, buy or sell players also control their contracts.

And if you choose a journalist, you'll act as a sport-section reporter of a newspaper. You'll write a story, give a review about a team and you can also set up an interview with character you'd like to bring up as you cover story.

So, whatever you choose, it is for a football die-hard fans only. I don't recommend this game for those who love football half-heartedly. :p

PS: You can watch the tutorial video of being a player in a match via youtube here

Day #6: When It's Gone

Human, or me, can be a very ungrateful bitch. Satisfied is a word I rarely used. Somehow I want more, without take care what I already had. But when my something of mine is being taken away, I realized that I really need that.

Today, one of my precious possession is gone for a while. It is my health.

I rarely pay attention to my health, rest is something I tend to forget during my days (and night). I rarely slept, sometimes I missed a meal, and lately I didn't do any sports at all.

After today, I promise that I have to watch my own condition. Thanks God, you made me realized I was being ungrateful-self. And thanks Mom, you've been taking care of me when I was down.

Be Grateful, I just added one more thing to my 2011 resolutions.

Day #5: Beer Goceng, It's Not (Just) About Getting Drunk

Lately, every Tuesday (and sometimes on Monday), I went to Cerveza Bar at Barcode, Jakarta. Because they have a very interesting promo from 7-10pm every Monday and Tuesday, a glass of beer just for IDR 5000. (I swear I'm not Barcode's marketing team.. Hehe)

Why I love to come for this promo? Cheap beers! Well, it's an obvious reason. But some other reasons make me want to go there every week.

I came to try this "Beer Goceng" for the first time on my birthday night, last November. It was an impulse thing to celebrate early, although I planned to celebrate it also two days after that. I was there with some of my friends. And thanks to some of them, I almost blacked-out. About 80 glasses of beer for 5 or 6 persons, and I'm not counting the Tequila shooters.

That day, the first time I noticed Drum N Bass and Dubstep music. While I was drunk, listening to those music is HEAVEN! I'm not lying. After I sobered up the next day, I start to search these kind of music through the web (with a friend's help for references). Then I came to love them. I want to play DnB and Dubstep while DJ-ing sometimes later. :p

Alcohol and music aside, there's one more reason why I keep coming to Barcode. That is GREAT COMPANIONS!! In whatever I do, companions are the one that matter the most. Whenever I come to Barcode, alone or with (random) friends, there will be some familiar faces there. Love that place.

So, what can I say? Bottom's up!!!

(4th/last round of beers in Nov 22, 2010)

Day #4: Maradilla Syachridar

This post on Day #4 in my #30harimenulis mission is a tribute to Maradilla Syachridar.

I don't know her well. To be honest. I just met her once, in the backstage of Urbanfest 2010 in Pasar Seni, Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, Jakarta.

Who is Maradilla Syachridar?

Firstly, I knew her as a publicist and a backing vocal of one my favorite Indonesian band, Homogenic. Thanks to Trax FM Jakarta, I was introduced to the members of Homogenic (Dina Dellyana, Grahadea Kusuf and Amandia Syachridar) in "Terusik Traxkustik" that held at Plaza Semanggi a couple months back, but Maradilla wasn't there at the time. And a while after that, I came to Urbanfest just to see Homogenic's performance again. That was when I met Maradilla for the first time.

After been introduced, I started to follow her twitter's account. The "somewhat" fascinating language that she used in her tweets came to my interest. After a while (again), I knew that she's also an announcer in Sky FM Bandung and also a writer. Then, I started to follow her blog page also. (In this point, I was asking myself, "Am I stalking her?" Then I answered it myself, "Errr... I guess so..")

Why I tribute this post to her?

Her tweets made me remember how I love literature so much. Then I started to read a book again, the last book I bought and read was the one she often mention in her tweets. The book called Oksimoron by Isman HS. And guess what? I love it. After I read some posts on her blog, I was interested to start writing again. This idea of #30harimenulis is also inspired by the posts on her blog.

And a couple weeks back, she post another blog post. A mixtape that she created, and without wasting any times, I downloaded it. And guess what again? I love the songs that she picked in her mixtape that called "Guffaw Mi Head". In that mixtape, I've introduced to an artist that called Cyndi Suei. And guess what (again and again)? I love this Cyndi Suei's music after I looked around on his myspace page.

So, this is my way of to thank Maradilla Syachridar. For inspirations that she gives to me (unintentionally). The literatures and the musics, she's truly my new role model.

I am now one of your biggest fan. And I'm looking forward for your next inspirations you'll share. Thank you.