What's a Better Way to Spend Money?

There's a funny story about how stupidity could lead you to something great.

That night (Sunday night, if I'm not mistaken) I was sitting in the Trans BSD bus, getting back to BSD from Jakarta. I was tired and sleepy so I fell asleep like most of the passengers. Suddenly, when I woke up, we were already in BSD.

I moved to the front seat, getting ready to step off when it's near my house. I saw two men already asked the driver to stop at where I'm supposed to step off too. But in a half-slept mind I was so confused that I just freezed and the bus kept going.

I was panic and I didn't know what to do. So I just asked the drive to drop me at the next stop, Teras Kota mall.

Teras Kota is quiet close to my home. I could just take a taxi, ojek, or angkot. But I didn't. My feet brought me inside the Teras Kota, to the escalator, up to the 2nd floor to Blitz Megaplex.

People who know me well, would know that I often go to cinema alone. Well, I'm a full-time movie lover and I always get used to be alone, so when I really want to watch a movie, I feel that I don't need to wait for a companionship. I would just go and watch by myself.

That night, I wanted to watch something that other people may not really interested in. So, I choose Midnight in Paris. Simple reasons:

1. Woody Allen (although You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger is his only movie I ever watched)

2. I love Marion Cotillard in Inception

3. It's nominated for Oscar's Best Picture

Put this as my laptop's wallpaper for quite a while

Even though it was weekend night, there were only like 6 people in the auditorium: Oscar-type.

The movie was beautiful. I kept smiling during the screening. I like the unique plot, I like the actors (Cotillard with her original beautym sexy voice). Mostly, I love that Midnight in Paris is a movie about writers, written by a true writer. No doubt that Allen won again for Best Original Screenplay.

Stupidity could lead to something great. See? If I weren't stupid enough to let the bus pass through my home, I would never probably watch Midnight in Paris. This is not overstating, because this movie is definitely, straightly becoming one of my favorite movie.

And by the way, this month I really broke. On February I spent lots of my money to watch movies. But hey, again, like the title of this post, What's a Better Way to Spend Money ?

Holiday's (finally) over

Everybody loves holiday. Yeaaaayy! So do I, and my campus gave a very long holiday this semester.

The holiday started around mid-January after we finished our final exams. And the new semester will begin tomorrow.

I had so much fun this holiday, although I didn't really have any organized vacation but I did many meaningful things, I guess. Hehehe. Let's tell the stories with pictures.

Joined the Winter Immersion Program to South Korea. Many K-Popers envied me ;)

Had a one-day-adventure around Jakarta by train, Transjakarta bus, and on foot

Bought friendship bracelets at Kota Tua for 3 friends and me

With some colleagues joining The 2012 Asian English Olympics at Binus University. I made it into semifinal round of newscasting competition yeaaayyy!

Did some fundraising, selling fresh Ice Tea at Bunderan HI's Car Free Day!

Each of us got shopping voucher from League, as our team worked as intern to run their projects to several high schools

Another News Anchor competition, this time at Pekan Komunikasi UI. Didn't make it to the next round though :p

Attending Pop Up Market at Grand Indonesia, a local brands bazaar organized by my campus

Fun holiday, wasn't it? Hehehe.

This holiday I also hang out a lot, watched many movies at cinema, and shopped many cute things! I would probably tell that in my later posts.

Tomorrow's a new college start. Wish me luck! ;)

Hello March!

It's March already. 2012 moves so fast and I haven't even updated any recent happenings this year. Well, let's just keep this one short.

I want to answer a simple question : What makes me blog? (<-- I guess this sentence is not wrong in structure, because "blog" is considered a verb now)

The answer is... I just want to keep track of my life. Someday I'll just open the link and reread my old times' writings. I want this blog to take me back to those memories, to make me remember what I felt at some moments.

Reading your own blog, for me, is like coming home. It is a reminder of who I was and who I am supposed to be. The posts imply my hopes and dreams, tell (indirectly) about what kind of person I really am.

By the way, some songs accompany me while writing this post. I just learned that many writers need "soundtracks" to enhance their writing mood. I'm listening to Taking Back Sunday's songs, my favorite rock band back in Junior High School.

Above is the video of one of their songs, "New American Classics". Good and relaxing acoustic song.

When all that we need is just a reaction, 
Its too much to ask for when there's no attraction anymore, 
Chasing our dreams is just a distraction 
I want to remember what I know
That I can't go back,

I believe that everyone should write. Write anything: diary, short stories, even lyrics like musicians do. Those lyrics, like the one I quote above, are probably meaningless to most people because we never know what the songwriter had experienced or felt. But someone out there might listen to the song and suddenly be connected, knowing that there is at least one person feeling the same matter.

Same thing applies to any kind of writings. Maybe you write for your own self just like I do, but you could always inspire people. Your blog posts could always influence someone's life or contribute to one's decision-making.

Closing this post, more lyrics from Taking Back Sunday song: This Photograph is Proof.

So, we're talking forever 
And you almost feel better 
But, betters no excuse for tonight 
You see, it's never been enough 
Just to leave all you gave up 
But, its never good enough to feel right