Announcement

Announcement! I am leaving this blog behind because this blog is not user friendly, and also hard to load. I'll be seen posting more at my new blog at http://petrusrichie.tumblr.com/ which is pretty much okay for a blog. Haha..

See ya there!

Holiday Season

Okay finally it's time to catch a breath and relieve some stress for my university life, cuz it's a holiday time! Yaay! Even though this holiday period between semesters is quite brief (only like, 12 days including Saturday and Sunday), but I think it's enough to relieve anything that needs relieving. I personally kinda eager to start a new semester, with some many new subjects such as pPhotography, Typography, Visual Communication Design, and old ones such as English, Drawing and Graphic Computer. One thing I hate is just this theory subject called Indonesian's Culture and Art History. I have always been had a hard time every time I try to like something that is related to Indonesia. I know the panoramas are good, the cultures are rich and so and so forth but it's just not ME. I disgusts (okay, a bit too rough of a word but oh well) Indonesian, but for its people, for connection and friend I have never been picky. =)

Now the plan for surviving this holiday. I plan to sleep not more than 11 every night, because ever since I got into this whole design thing, I realized that my life cycle hasn't been normal. I sleep everyday at 2, I woke up at 10 and I spend the rest of the day in front of computer. Sure I have job, but it's not like I'll be doing it every day, I only got 3 days job, and it's only about 2~3 hours per day. Okay then let's stick to the plan, after sleeping ALWAYS before 11 I also want to wake up at about 8 or 9, then do some exercises in the morning, and then working on my skill, to trace, to draw, anything that could possibly get me money. I already accepted 2 offers to design, one is a banner and one is a book cover. It's nice to help someone sometimes and now that I'm still new, I'd like to build a connection first, and then I put the price tag on.

Speaking of the new semester, my class has been shuffled. I am not shuffled, and by that I mean I'm staying together with my friends. They all got the same class as I got except 1 or 2, which they want to call their parents and have them come to the academic centre to transfer their children to other class. It's pointless. I know the advantage of this whole class shuffling is more chance to meet more friends, and by that we can open our eyes even wider to see which one is better, which one is kinda lousy, which one we actually fit right in and potentially become partner, but don't you think it's too much of a work? We have to adapt again and again and again, which is not always very easy for everyone. Some took days, some took weeks, some took months, and some even still don't have any after a semester. Just two days ago when I heard a friend of mine has a very weird and spooky kinda classmate, a girl. And from hearing that story I was a bit disgusted, but also sympathetic. I mean, I know she behaves strangely, oddly or even bizarrely, and her so-called-friends are all fake and only wanted to make fun of her, this is very very sad. But when I came across of her personally (like, right after my friend told me the story) I can't imagine why she would have a real friend. And just yesterday when I was opening my facebook account, I found a message in my inbox from her, saying that she already added me and wants me to approve. Geez, I really don't know what to say. I'm not a girl-hater, but when it comes to a freak, or a dumbo, or a loon, I wouldn't tolerate and be sympathetic. I did this in my past and it ended so badly I don’t even wanna remember. But then again, I don't wanna look so mean or evil but I also don't want her to think that I'm giving her a chance (to become friend, of course) because it just won't happen no matter what except if one day I woke up and went autistic all the way to the zero IQ.

Enough with this girl crap. Now after all those things I have said I really don't feel like continuing this writing. As for sure, I'm gonna be writing a lot more at this holiday, along with designing God-knows-what that I might share here on my blog. =)

Ciao!

Final Exam is Coming!

Final exam is coming! I know some of us have already went through it and some of us haven't. But come to think of it, my campus is known as the latest there is to give it student5's final exam.

Okay for the first day the exam would be for Graphic Computer subject. It is not a test in a class, but more like to collect what we have been assigned since two weeks ago. The exam is about making a 3D character, 80% of it should be base on a shape of cube. So if you guys have been following my activity for the past month you should've realized that this project and the kobico is very much alike.

Secondly, it's History of Western Art, which is a theory subject, not much to say but I only know a few of it.

Third day, Nirmana Datar, a class assignment, we are supposed to bring scissors, cutters, mat, origami papers and such. You can think of art class when you back in elementary school, it's pretty much like that.

Fourth, Colour Theory on Corporate Colour subject, we are supposed to think of a restaurant/clothing line and make stuffs from it. I chose restaurant and I have to make (and design) the place mat, paper bag, coaster, and also standing menu along with the colour swatches. And it has to be done using poster paint! Gosh.

Fifth is Drawing, my lecturer said that it's gonna be about environment, human structure and gradation and such. Hope it's not too hard. =(

Sixth is gonna be Character Building, the subject where most of my classmates fail. Me too, by the way. It is hard and my lecturer wants us to answer with theoretical basis along with examples. Gonna look for newspaper these few days.

The last but the least (you heard me), is English. Not much to talk, based on TOEFL.

Okay, that's my post for now. See ya! =)

Happy New Year!

Okay I know this post is soo late, people have come back from their holidays, and I just posted a happy-new-year greeting. Well, I guess it's late than never right? =)

Stepping in the year of 2010, I believe most of us had a very common (if not boring) new year's eve. I felt it too, and I don't know why, the beginning of the year have already felt so not right. I know people have to be optimistic from times to times, but we can't help to felt a wee bit pessimistic every now and then, eh?

Speaking of what language I'm writing this blog, I think I should consider to update my blog with more recent posts. I mean, I feel like my English is getting worse and not used in my campus so I think the better way to "preserve" my skill and to keep my brain sharp is to write this blog more often and with more variety of contents (you know I usually wrote reviews). =D

Okay, back to the topic where we were talking about new year, we all know that tradition teaches us to make a resolution every year. Well, guess what, I don't have any. Haha... Yeah not funny. I just don't know what to hope for, my world is spinning out of control, it can be good at times, but can also turn miserably just in a snap *snap!*. I don't want to hope for something that'll turn me down later, so I guess I'm just hoping that I can join a community where I can get lotta friends. Current obssesion of joining community: dance team, church choir, or get a permanent job. =3

And FYI I am also improving my Chinese again! Yesterday I was browsing around the library and I found this textbook. My skill is beyond that textbook actually, but I think it's good to at least take a peek and read the book again, so if there's anything, any characters, any grammatical rules I forgot, I can remember again.

Hmm... My friends in campus have gotten a wee bit better since last time I complained, we have been more "unitized" than before. Still, I still think some of them aren't very friendly to me.

Love life expectation: zeroo! There's so much thing I want to experience before settle down in a relationship. I'm only a young adult and u want me to settle down? There's just no way! If you've seen things as much as I have, u would know that being in a relationship is comfortable, where u can find love and embraces, but also would be your source of stresses, anger and hatred, sometimes. I try not to have any romantic entanglement this year as I am figuring out what I really want from this world and how to achieve it.

Final words, I am really really glad that I updated this blog. Even though I didn't post any at December that's mainly because the holiday season and also I have a very large amount of homeworks (projects). Like right now, I have been assigned to trace 3 pictures and I did 2, but still rough trace and I haven't touched it up yet. And there are a lot of others that I don't even wanna talk about.

Okay, see ya next time and I'll consider to post my artworks (only the good ones)! =P

Rain

People who live in Jakarta might have realized that in this few days, Jakarta has been very cloudy and it sometimes rains. As much as I love raining, I still do have something that I don't like about rain.

I like rain, because it makes the weather cool and nice, no more hotness, no more sun. It is nice to have rain sometimes, but when it comes often, I can't help but feeling angry because I can't go nowhere, because it made the surroundings all wet and damp.

But to be honest, rain rinses all kinds of dirt. It smooths the ground and makes the grasses grow. It is nice having rain sometimes, but not often. Cloudy? Sure I like. =)

Mid-Term Review

After awhile out of the world of blogging, it's finally time for me to update this nearly abandoned blog. I'm really really sorry I didn't post any posts earlier but I'll explain later.

So, after about two and a half months I stepped into the world of university, which I may say very very new and diverse compared from the high school life, I found out that I might have not prepared mentally well for this kind of environment. I know we all freshmen adapting while running but I just think this is too much for me. FYI, in the university life, the lecturers don't ask if you're late or why you didn't do you assignments. They just simply don't care with your grades or even you yourself. They don't want to heart any excuses, even if your beloved fish has died or you broke your fingernail.

The fact is, in university life you have to be independent and be responsible, for your every action will affect your very life and therefore, your future.

The diversity I mentioned earlier refers to the wide "selection" of friends you can make. I'm a proud Chinese, even though that doesn't mean I only interact with Chinese only. To be honest, if you accuse me of being racism, I might be a bit. But not extreme. I hate Indonesian people because they're so immature and it just makes me sick. Maybe it all came from my earlier education from my parents that Indonesian equals shit.

Anyway I joined this squad which majority of the members are Indonesian. And I happened to make friend with this Chinese only. They accused me of being racist but hello?

As I entered the university life, I realized that my major is practical and not academic or even theorithical, but the projects given are so time consuming and I go to the campus by bus everyday and it made me very exhausted. I nearly don't sleep every night and it could affect my health someday. I just hope that behind all this I can find something worth fighting for.

Now I have this little spare time to tell about university life, I just hope that all the torture could end and wish me luck for the mid-term exams! Ciao!

Pre-College Life

Ah, after a really few weeks not having time to go to the net to update my blog, it is actually a really fascinating time to be able to update again my dusty blog.

This few weeks, or should I say this past month has been real busy to me. I have no time to play around yet I don't have enough money to spend elsewhere beside for buying for college equipments, which is horribly expensive.

I made some friends over FoPasBIN and TKH, some are better than others. Some are friendlier than others.

I am happy now that I have freedom to do what I want, when I want. But it also a burden that I have to take responsibility of what I've don. I guess that's just the way the world works, right?

Without You, It's Nothing

I was browsing my forum when I found this very very romantic poem. It's originally in chinese but I'll translate it for you!

无解的眼神心像海底针
光是猜测我食欲不振
有点烦人又有点迷人
浪漫没天分反应都迟钝
不够精神花挑错颜色
但很矛盾喜欢你的笨

微笑　再美　再甜　不是你的　都不特别
眼泪　再苦　再咸　有你安慰　又是晴天
靠的　再近　再贴　少了拥抱　就算太远

全世界只对你有感觉

玩的　再疯　再野　你瞪一眼　我就收敛
马路　再宽　再远　只要你牵　就很安全

Translation:
The stare of worry makes a needle oceanbed
To guess only makes me can't eat and drink
A bit annoying yet also a bit interesting
Without the gift of romance it'd make awkward reaction
Without spirit flowers are wrong colours
But very confusing I dumbly like you

Smile, even prettier, even sweeter, if it's not yours, then isn't special
Tears, even bitter, even saltier, with your loving embrace, it all gonna be sunny day
Leaning, even closer, even stickier, without hug, will be too far

In the world, only to you I have feeling

Playing, even crazier, even wilder, if only you stare me, I will stop
Road, even wider, ever further, with you holding my hand, it's all gonna be safe

Well, it's different between chinese and english literature so it might not be as romantic as it really meant when translated. (It might also be a denial of my bad translating skill) =)

After A Long Sleep

Okay, this few weeks have been so crazy I can't really tilt my head to the net. This is my first time blogging again after 3 weeks of mishaps in my life. A lot of things are going on in my mind but I will keep my posts posted as often as possible!

Today actually I was at school inspecting for the paskibra's training, but I took a break. Hahaha~ I brought my little brother over to the library because he wanna go to the net later, but guess what, when I came back unexpectedly, I caught him surf for porn! Of course, he tried to close it off, but since I am myself an expert in this stuff too so he couldn't hide it. Gosh he's a man now! Proud of ya!

Learning French

Okay I know it sounds gay when the word "learning french" was read. I think this is a way for me to know the world even wider though.

I love learning languages, currently speaks chinese, english, cantonese and some other which aren't very popular (including indonesian). For me, language is the source of communication, for me to make friends, worldwide.

Actually I will be learning this french at CCF (Centre Culturel Francais) at Salemba but actually my first choice was spanish, but it was kinda far at Trisakti University. Go figure where. But I think, french is cool too. Why not?

So, who want to join? The class starts at 3rd August and the registration would be opened at 21 July, for the level (1a only I guess) would cost you 1.245 million IDR. Quick quick chop chop! Okay I'm sounding like Art. Bleh.

So Much for the Prom Committe

Recently I have been sent an email containg full description of what the Bali journey seemed to be, and the more I read the more I became happy since I didn't go there. So much people said that they have wasted the 2.8 million for nothing, and this came not just from the girls, but also the guys. I have interrogated some guys and they all agree that the committe was simply not professional.

I would like to comment (again, this is just my opinion, I will not receive any call from committe about this) about the prom night. I heard that they hired DJ for dance. for DANCE. And the result was just too astonishing, nobody would want to join the dance floor, only a few of guys that danced. According to what my mate said: "SMAK 2 anak-anaknya cuma bandel kandang". Then the king and queen, decided by who screamed the loudest. I also heard that some committe used their mic and screamed for their choice, is it just me or this is an obvious act where (s)he wanted her choice won?

I really don't get it. But hell, I wouldn't care so much. Haha... Just have fun with the last trip which is I believe is very memorable, but just not in a good way. =3

Class Story

Recently I was trusted to write the class story for my class, for the XIIS2 residents, feel free to comment. =)

Once upon a time in a land far, far away... Ups lupa ini bukan lomba Bahasa Inggris. Huahahaha.. Ceritanya pake Bahasa Indonesia ajah deh.

Di sebuah kerajaan di negeri antah-berantah, dikenallah sepasang raja dan ratu penguasa daerah tersebut yang telah memerintah kerajaan tersebut secara arif dan bijaksana selama lebih dari lima dekade. Mereka memerintah dengan sangat baik, yang menyebabkan rakyatnya hidup damai sejahtera, aman dan sentosa. Rakyatnya semua mencintai raja dan ratu mereka dan begitu juga sebaliknya.

Meskipun begitu, di balik segala kesempurnaan yang telah dicapai raja (Raja Billie) dan ratu (Ratu Marisca), ada satu hal yang sangat menganjal hati mereka. Kejadian ini terjadi kira-kira seminggu yang lalu, ketika Raja Billie dipanggil oleh ibunya, Permaisuri Paskalina. Permaisuri menyatakan kekhawatirannya tentang jodoh putra mahkota kerajaan yang mana sampai saat ini masih belum memiliki tambatan hati. Raja Billie dan Ratu Marisca sekarang sudah tidak muda lagi, sedangkan dari ketiga anak laki-lakinya, hanya sang putra mahkota lah, Hizkia, yang belum menikah. Anak kedua raja dan ratu, Rizal, telah menikah dengan putri kerajaan sebelah, Janice, dan telah dikaruniai tiga orang anak yaitu Ayu, Michelle dan Frenky. Anak bungsu raja dan ratu, Eric, telah menikah dengan saudara jauh sang ratu, Phiebi dan memiliki tiga orang anak pula yaitu Daniel, Tommy dan Yulia.

Setelah berpikir panjang, Raja Billie akhirnya memanggil anak kesayangannya dan bertujuan untuk mendesaknya untuk menikah. Raja mengutus dayang-dayangnya, Christine, Felecia, Eva dan David untuk memanggil sang pangeran karena sang pangeran terkenal moody dan hanya mau berjalan jika diantar oleh wanita-wanita cantik. “Ada apa ayahanda memanggil aku?” tanya Hizkia. Kemudian dengan lembutnya sang raja menepuk pundak pangeran dan berkata “Nak, ayah sudah tidak muda lagi. Sebelum ayah menyerahkan tahta kerajaan kepadamu, ayah inign melihat kamu sudah memiliki pendamping hidup. Sekarang, beritahu ayah, apakah kamu sedang menyukai seorang wanita?”. Hizkia terlihat termenung sebentar “Iya ayah. Aku menyukai Putri Alice dari neeri seberang.” Senyum sang raja pun merekah, dan ia berjanji pada anaknya bahwa ia akan mendukung upaya perebutan hati sang putri tersebut oleh anaknya.

Keesokan harinya, tak disangka-sangka ternyata datanglah undangan sayembara adri negeri seberang bahwa Raja Richie dan Ratu Helen sedang mencari jodoh untuk putri tunggalnya. Raja Billie melihat kesempatan itu sebagai sebuah pertanda dari dewa, maka ia segera memberitahu anaknya yang menanggapi berita tersebut dengan antusias.

Setelah melewati babak penyisihan yang super ketat, akhirnya terpilihlah tiga finalis yang akan berjuang untuk merebut hati Putri Alice yaitu Philip, pangeran dari Timur Tengah, Aldwin, penguasa daratan Asia dan Hizkia. Hizkia tanpa mebuang-buang waktu segera melancarkan jurus seribu puisi cinta yang disertakan dengan gambar rupa sang putri yang digambarkan oleh pelukis kerajaan terkenal, Yessica. Putri Alice sejenak tampak terpaku dengan hadiah Hizkia, namun segera dialihkan oleh Philip yang memberikan patung Putri Alice yang terbuat dari emas. Hizkia yang tidak mau kalah pun segera melancarkan serangan balasan berupa satu juta butir lipatan bintang yang dibuat oleh ahli kerajinan tangan dan kesenian kerajaan, Cindy. Alwin yang tertinggal selangkah lalu langsung mengejarnya dengan memberikan ginseng berumur ribuan tahun kepada Putri Alice, yang gemar dengan kegiatan botani. Hizkia lalu menyuruh penyihir tersohor dari Gunung Kawi, Kartika untuk membuatkannya ramuan cinta, namun sayang upaya tersebut digagalkan oleh Philip.

Demi menciptakan suasana kompetisi yang sportif, akhirnya Raja Richie dan Ratu Helen mengadakan pertanding gulat dengan juara gulat kerajaan: Felicia. Bagi siapa yang dapat mengalahkannya, maka dialah yang berhak menikahi Putri Alice. Felicia adalah pegulat yang tangguh. Dengan sekali serudukan saja Philip dan Aldwin langsung pingsan, namun tidak dengan Hizkia, yang sudah menggeluti bidang gulat sejak usia dini. Felicia pun akhirnya kalah.

Dengan Hizkia memenangkan pertarungan tersebut, maka yang berhak menikahi Putri Alice adalah Pangeran Hizkia. Acara pernikahan pun berlangsung dengan meriah selama tujuh puluh hari dan tujuh puluh malam, dimeriahkan pula dengan grup penari perut terkenal dari Timur Tengah, Marselina, dan juga performance dari daratan Asia oleh Jean, Carissa, Inez dan Heidi.

Sejak saat itu, kedua kerajaan tersebut pun bersatu, and they lived happily ever after...

So Much for the Prom

Monday, May 18th, my grade went to Bali for the last "together recreation" and also prom, but I don't think that all that went well. I recently read a blog, one of my friend's. She said the committee wasn't very professional and not strict to what happened to be their own-made-regulations.

I see this has been a problem many times since I'm in a committe containing people of my grade. They don't know what to do and they have no idea what should a committe do. Like years ago where we were working for orientation week for freshmen, some of the girls just too lazy to come early to school to have a meeting, and some even didn't show up and some are unforgivably didn't give reason, didn't call and the worst, didn't want to come because they have "family gathering" over some posh places or abroad but they still want to be known as a "COMMITTE" just because they have written some draft about some schedule that's useless, in fact.

What made me really pissed off this time is that after 3 years of together, where we should've known each other's characteristics, I just can't believe that someones like them would be the committe after all. They're lazy, egoistic and yet they just want to be committes because of the advantages it's given: to rearrange schedules all they want, to come back even later than anybody else, and to have privilege to access certain information.

I mean, this is the last, there won't be a next time after this, and even though some of us didn't go as well, I can see why they didn't. I have foreseen that stuff like this would happen, given the committe are like that, but hell, it's over and there's nothing I can do to change it, right? So just introspect yourself.

3 Years of Together

As I said earlier in my post, today is the first officially for us seniors in SMAK 2 to be released from "duty" as in studying, waking up early, dressing neatly...

It is kinda sad to know that my friends that have been there with me will go away, will separate and walk their own way. In university life that is obviously more individualistic and cold and dangerous (exaggerating), will I find friends that will be just like the way I wanted, that we can have fun with each other and care for each other.

Will there be?

The special moments that I will never remember as the weekly gathering of Soyamilk, even one of us was casted away to some abal school, but still we are one. Even though Helen is going to Malaysia, and Kentvin to Singapore and the rest of the gank are separated in their own colleges, I believe we will always remember each other.

And when I was at my sophomore year, I used to bully Arlene, which is one of my best friends. I will always remember her even we will be far away from each other. Thank you for Jean that always has the most complete notes of all subjects, Carissa for supporting me in every competition and a good Mandarin partner, Dodo that always teach me Math, Frenky for Accounting, Maru for gaming and paskib, all my fellow mates in paskibra SMAK 2 that have been through a lot together during training, Melvi for good accompany in the freshmen year, April for good support via internet and everybody else that I can't describe them one by one. Thank you all. Good luck to you all!

Comment Support

Yeah I was kinda confused earlier regarding how hard I tried to make my blog comment-able but finally is can be coomented! So again, keep reading and commenting!

The Newest Template!

Yeah setelah sekian lama, after a long long day, I finally edited my blog to support comment, even though there's still no background images, but I'm working on it.

Keep reading and commenting!

New Template!

Enjoy my new template! Bagian bawah na bisa di klik, tapi sayang ga bisa drop komen. Ntar mau cari lagi yang lebih oke deh. XD

Menunggu Waktu

Duh hari ini adalah hari yang penuh dengan penungguan, dimana aku menunggu kedatangan coach dance aku yangsangat amat ngaret. Nanti jam 10 juga mau pergi lagi. Siang baru kembali ke sekolah...

Tadi baru aja main game Word Challenge, Who's Got The Biggest Brain sama Geo Challenge. Susa deh buad dapetin jadi yang apling top rank. Dan schock na, volume otak aku tadi 2000an, dan world high score na 6000+! OMG apa mereka jenius?

Konser Sekolah

Hari ini sekolah buad anak kelas XII libur, jadi aku punya banyak waktu buat santai dan merenung. Hahaha... Ga deh sebenernya santai aja ga merenung.

Hari ini ada konser kecil di sekolah gitu, mulai acara jam 6 sore, dan diperkirakan akan berlangsung selama 1 jam. Yah bete n ga dapet apa" sih tapi lumayan lah isi acara itung" amal. Hehehe...

Yang agak mencengangkan, ternyata boka n nyokap mau ikutan nonton, which is very surprising. Dan aku ga akan pulang deh ampe malem. Ini aja lagi di sekolah. Huahahaha~

Yah however, semoga acara na success deh, klo ga success pun, semoga dance na sukses! Yeah!

Hari-Hari Terakhir Sekolah

Huaa... Di hari" terakhir sekolah, dimana UN udah berhasil dilewati dan begitu juga dengan ujian praktek, semua udah drop semangat belajar na. Jujur aku juga udah luntur semangat belajar na karena yah udah tinggal few days away from US.

Seperti pada contoh na hari ini banyak banget yang ga masuk, mpe ditelponin gitu. Hahaha... Jujur yah sebener na cape juga sekolah kayak gini, tapi di sisi laen aku tau ini tuh saat" terakhir di SMA. Harus dinikmati!

Kalo soal belajar yang makin drop, ntar kuliah gimana bisa maintain semangat di kelas yah? Apalagi kuliah di depan komputer gitu. XD

Anyway, just wanna speak out for awhile. See ya'll!