please, boys will be boys

 

Mood: sweaty

Listening to: Edith Piaff – La Vie en Rose

 

In every man there’s a boy trapped in adult body. Yes, it’s true and no, it’s not a feminist essay. I just realize something about men in my life. Just a days ago my brother said that he saw a complete DVD of “satria baja hitam” and very much regret not bought it. When I heard that I just comment about, how I thought he’s already over that satria baja hitam phase. And then I remember my male friend who looking for gundam dvd and watched it together with all his friends >.<

Oh no….then again my former love interest said something about how he want to have an alien (not the greeny-slimy-creature but the one from Sigourney Weaver movie) as his pet. Ugh..okay…

Another example from my other friend who’s dubbed superman as his lifetime hero, which I don’t really like because well, it’s not natural to see a man with blue underwear hanging on his clothes and flying around.  And here’s another one who’s named his business as one of fighting style in Dragon Ball series.

See? Boys will boys, right? Haha…but it’s cute to know that behind that big macho façade  there are little boys longing to get out.

 

So girls what’s your favourite superhero? Be imaginative and tell me, so just to be fair, my favourite is Batman. Haha.. Really how you can’t love batman, a millionaire, handsome, playboy and superhero on the night. Perfect right? Hahaha… but then again I love the noir aura from Batman series. It’s just not a 2 dimensional good versus evil stories but everyone have a dark side. Even the villain always have reasons to push them to the edge of sanity, there’s humanity inside all those fantastic machine. And of course I have to mention newest series from Christopher Nolan. Which very much have everything I love about that particular superhero.

 

Because we live in materalistic world!

 

Mood: angst

Listening: Kimi’s snoring

Drinking: coffee

Watching: indigo renderer in work

 

Do you know that 21 people died on stampede because of Rp 30.000,00 (that’s barely 3USD)?

I watched it on the news, and really…it’s so sad…It’s sad because is Indonesian people really that poor? And it’s also sad because it looks inhuman, why they have to make all that people trampling each other just to get Rp 30.000,00. If they really want to help all those poor people, why they don’t just come to their house and give the money privately?

 

Separately from that stampede accident, in completely different situation, let’s just say a sale of some kind branded clothes. Usually that kind of sale is a big event, people willing to waiting in the line from early morning just to await the shop open. Even one of my friends makes her mother, her housekeeeping, her father and her bf to wait on the line, that way when the shop open she can run and take all the clothes that she want. It’s also makes me sad to see all those people (or women maybe because man on branded sale usually just a victim of abusing relationship with her gf^^) behaving like in trance fighting each other just to get a jacket or shoes or bags.  I’ve been asked myself is all that stuff really worth? I’ve been in that shophaholic craze persona but now I grown out that phase, I find other thing in life beside material stuff.  If you can’t afford the usual price without sale what’s the point you have that thing anyway?  They are not that good.. I mean there  are a lot of good stuff that you can buy without you have to act lika a mad-crazy-shophaholic-woman. Oh and a branded jackets won’t make you suddenly looks like a Lindsey Lohan clone.

 

There’s different situation right? Very different almost an opposite.

But what I want to say is there’s some kind of similarity between both situation.  I don’t know what it’s called, greedy I think? An overvalue of material stuff.  Although in first case you can argue that they really need the money but still…. I bet all those people who involve in that stampede accident is wait in the line with their brother, sister, wife, husband, children, grandmother, etc…etc… And maybe that’s what made the situation became overcrowded.

 Ok we live in a material world, where material things is in higher value than anything else. Yeah money is necessity, we can’t live without money but when money become the most important thing in your thought, maybe you have to step back and rearrange your priority. What will happened if you have all money in the world but without someone you love or family to love you? It’s cliché but do you think you really can be happy? It’s not a critic or an essay about materialistic world, it’s just a girl’s opinion who’s still young, fool and idealistic, you can sneer or ignore this post  but guess what, it’s my blog so I’m free to write everything I want.

 

Oh no! I’m so common!

crepes with vanilla sauce

 

Mood: feel bloating

Eating: hamcoy kon

Drinking: water

Reading: Indigo rendering tutorial

 

OMG! I catch the housewife syndrome!

I blame it to the Rachael Ray talkshow which I watch every morning on my coffee time. I now realize that the target audience for that show is housewives (yeah..no wonder they got thousand of domestic tips like ‘ how to cook meal that your picky eater child want to eat’). So the consequence is everytime I got spare time I always want to cook something or cleaning my house or even decorating it >.<

 

My guilty pleasure used to be playing games. But the last time I played games on my brother ps2 I actually fell asleep. Oow…yes it’s good that I outgrown my gamer-girl phase but to become another wannabe housewife??? Weks! Gods forbid!

Maybe that’s real nature of every women, don’t you think?

Because right now I’m working together with a woman contractor, who is a VERY successful contractor  (currently she working more than a dozen project). The amazing thing is she’s not that workaholic, everytime I called her on dinner or breakfast time, she seem like different personality. She very much like other housewives whose thought occupied by husband and children problem. So when I asked her about the progress of our project on dinner/breakfast time, I’ll get lasagna recipes instead^^ (hahaha…ok this’s a little hiperbolic, but you get the point, right?)

 

Oh but no worry, I still don’t have an urge to trap the first man I met and become his wife. No no still don’t wanna be attached. I still don’t really want to have husband but I do want to have a family. Ok this is confusing right? I know what my friend will say, “you won’t get family unless you have husband!”

Aw..can’t I just adopted a baby girl?

 

*the next is my housewife personality blabbering, don’t read it if you already fed up with me^^*

Hoho…I got French crepes recipe which I tried last week and turn out very well. Because I got the fla sauce leftover, I wanted to make something to eat with the fla. And my mom has been bugging me to make crepes for weeks, but because I don’t think the usual crepes recipe is that delicious. I searched for other crepes recipes and like usual I found it on epicurious. Hoho..it’s delicious, the texture is more fluffy and easier to make. I made about 2 dozens crepes and my mom ate about half of them, errr….

 

Want to live a little longer?

 

Mood: PMS

Listening: Kimi’s purrr…..

Eating: pudding

Quote to remember: Sexiness wears thin after a while, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh everyday, ah, now that’s a real treat. (Joanne Woodward)

 

 

I :heart: Reader’s Digest! It’s a cheap little magazine but with tons of informations, trivia things and hilarious jokes. For me who has a habit to bring a book everytime I enter bathroom, Reader’s Digest is the perfect reading material. And because not everyone reading this magz (which they shoud do^^), I will often share an artikel from Reader’s Digest just because it’s interesting.

 

So here’s from RD’s June 2002

Biologist reckon our bodies could last up to 120 years. We all know about smoking, exercise, diet, etc, but here are some other longevity-boosters (nb: gains aren’t cumulative)

1.Ask lots of question

Add up to 5 years

Research following 1200 pensioners for five years found those who were most curious had a 30% better chance of living beyond this period. Higher curiousity levels may mean better adaption to changes, challenges and stress.

Note from the blogger: who said that curiousity kills the cat? 

2.Don’t make mobile phone calls in the car

Add 1-2 years

Every day people blabbing on mobiles while driving crash. Each one-minute shaves an average of 45 seconds off your life.

3.Think positives

Add 2 years

A study of AIDS patients found those with pessimistic outlooks died on average two years before more positive subjects.

4.Go to church twice a week

Add 7-14 years

An American study reported that white people attending religious services more than once a week lived on average seven years longer than those who didn’t. Among black people the figures are 14 years. Churchgoers have lower rate of smoking and drinking, and strong social ties.

Note from the blogger: Thus conclude that it’s nothing to do with religious fanatism, just a matter of self control and better discipline in your life (which is the base of some religion teaching)

5.Be eccentric

Add 5-10 years

A Scottish neuropsychologist studying 1000 eccentrics (one abseils from building dressed as an pink elephant; one built a lectern on his roof to preach to his sheep) found they live five to ten years longer than normal people. One reason, they are unencumbered by the usual worries the rest of us fret over.

Note from the blogger: Well, being different is always fun and now it’s proofed can longer your life span hoho…

 

 

update from MaO:

OK I’m impulsive! But never thought I will become this impulsive ’till actually kidnapped a stray kitten. I forget how relentless a kitten is, he’s continuously miauuuwww and mioww-ing all day >.<  *sigh* after get used to Kimi who hasn’t an attention deficit syndrome, this new situation is quite annoying. And apparently Kimi is annoyed too, because he looks angry everytime MaO start meowwing.

 

BROKEN HOME?

 

Mood:  want to pee…..

Listening: somewhere beyond the sea

Playing: sketchup ( I hate working on interior…so boring!)

 

I never realized that divorce is such a big situation. I was raised up by a single mom and I actually thought that the situation is pretty cool.  It’s because I saw that my friends mom was always had that worn out housewives look. They always fat, messy or looks miserable. And I was pretty proud with my mom who is always beautiful and stylish. So in my childish mind  I have equation, husband + kids = desperate housewives.

 I was still thought that nothing was wrong about my family situation until oneday, one of my friends parent asked me about my family. And then I answer that my mom and dad are divorced. And I saw that petty look followed by the words of consolation. That’s the first time somebody actually petty me because my parents was divorced (and so now when somebody asked me about my family, I always say that my dad is died long ago, they have more horror looks actually hahaha, but at least they stop asking why). I was of course baffled. What’s wrong with it? I was a happy child and although I ocassionally missed my dad but I got used to situation. So everything is really okay!

 

And then in highschool, I had a some kind of seminar in Gambung about family and all that stuff. Because I was a crybaby (and still is), I cried over insignificant sad story. Apparently   other people were not as crybaby as me. So when I was still crying, others were busy asked what’s wrong with me. And then they pointed out that I was sad over my family situation.  One of my friend actually gave me the lecture about how my parents still love me although they was separated. And the other friend  gave her family secret how she was adopted when baby and pointed out that her situation is more sad than I was (I feel guilty actually because I wasn’t that sad but just trapped by situation!!!) Oh crap, I already know all that stuff, I get over my parents divorced long long ago (When I’m thinking about that now, I think I was on my PMS period because I always such a crybaby on my PMS).

 

Anyway I told about this because I have a family gossip. One of my relative is just a girl barely out of highschool. But she already has piercings and tattoos everywhere. And she declares that she actually craving to being hurt. Oh my…. What a scandal right? One of my relatives actually has tendency to bondage! She began hurting herself when her parents is divorce not so long ago.  And in my opinion that is sooo stupid reasons, in these days how many people has divorced? Lots of them! She also has other family who really care about her, and her dad is not suddenly dissapear (like mine btw..). Her dad still come and go everytime. I don’t know if it’s because she’s not strong enough? Or she just reasoning her odd behaviour over  something? I almost down to that self-destructive road though, and I still don’t know what made me choose not to. Let’s just accept my vanity conclusion that I strong enough to pull myself out that destructive force^^. Whatever it was, it was a small miracle and I still grateful for it. I can turn out okay and without scratch from my adolescene period, hmmm….maybe I have to think a spare time career as a child counselor^^

 

vista….

mood: confuse
drinking: soy milk (mocca flavour)
eating: sandwich
listening: nothing (my playlist is boring!)

I was playing a popcap game when suddenly my screen went blank…dark…nada…
And that was my worst experience using vista, ugh! I hate vista!
Vista is like Paris Hilton, beautiful but a little stupid.
And then after cursed vista and Bill Gates for about an hour, I went panic!
This is one of the moment when I have to restrain myself from the urge to run to him.
Yeah, the hardest thing about my breakup is not the heartbroken experience but an urge to run to him
everytime my PC got some trouble >.<
So I went to Toshiba technician and PAY just to format my laptop and be tortured by vista again.
Apparently those technician doesn’t live in the same realm as the other Indonesian people, they pretend
not to notice that people actually using piracy software (blah!).
Btw I’m still grateful that all my data is still intact but now I have to install all my software again, and re-setting my speedy connection (thanks to speedy technician btw, they have the best service!)

ps: why I can’t change my font color???? something error…..