Tu Me Manques

Quand tu prends ma main

Quand on parle de tous et de rien

Quand ton nez touche le mien

Quand tu mal tes mains pour mon oreiller

Quand on est sur bord de la mer

Quand tu m’attends de gravir la montagne

Tu m'as dit t’inquiète pas...
Tu m'as dit je serai toujours là...

Quand j’étais en bateau sur la Seine

Quand j’ai traversé le pont du Rhin

Quand les feuilles virent au rouge

Quand les arbres couverts de neige

de l'automne à l'hiver
du calme d'Etretat à l'éclat de la Tour Eiffel

Tu me manques...

took this pic in a park in front of my campus :')

I’m a (stil rational) Huge Fans of Agnes Monica!

That’s a kind of a bold statement methinks, realizing there are sooooo many haters out  there and even in my inner circle, hehe... And on the other hand, there are also soooo many die-hard-fans which might hate and curse me for several words I jot down here :p And that's why I put the words in the bracket on the title above. A lot of her die-hard fans barely accept any negative comment/ opinion addressed to her, even if it's true! Hahahah...

Yah well, I write this post because I’m just feeling deeply amazed watching her latest performance in one of TV station last night. She sang 3 newest songs from her soon upcoming album consecutively. And it was DOPE! The band, especially. Don't mean to put her at the second part of the awesomeness, no, she’s still the star, haha... But, the band is indeed great and I’m quite sure that it's also because of her strong involvement. And the songs! I already like two of it at my first time listening to it (that last night show was the second time she performed those songs). Aaand, those 3 were written by herself. Cool!!! You can watch it here......

 How wasss itttt? Uber cool wasn’t it?

Anyway, loving her since childhood, I then bought her first (adult) album with no much consideration. To be honest, I was really disappointed. If there’s no “Hanya Cinta Yang Bisa” in it, it would only be stored on the shelf. And her voice...not bad, it’s just not well-formed yet.

But she made very much progress, in terms of both singing and dancing skill, in her second album. You might understand what I meant by listening to “Bilang Saja” and then “Tak Ada Logika”. Not to forget, her taste in fashion is kind of upgraded. Maybe this is just me, but at her first album, I felt that she’s trying too much to be called funky. Well, teenager...

That’s only an honest opinion of mine dear you all the die-hard-fans. Want to kill me now? :p

My college friends and my office colleagues know very well that I adore her and even did some “stupid things” such as imitate her dancing. I have no problem with singing, but danciiiing...LOL! Obviously FAILED!

Actually, one thing that I really admire so much from her is her serious and continous hard work! No doubt about it. People call it (too) ambitious, but try objectively look what she’ve done and what she’s still doing up till now. She is now becoming a really great performer, who’s not just CAN sing or CAN dance but do those things AMAZINGLY. The way she moves her hands, her legs, her body, INCREDIBLE. It’s like, how can she do thatttt! This one is my favorite (1.30-2.10 is the WOW part). And never get bored to watch her stomping dance.

If you’re questioning her voice, try to LISTEN TO one of her live performance this one...just advice, you’d better just listen otherwise you’ll be distracted by her wardrobe :p
Or my most favorite song of her here... Lllllooveee it!

Well, I can’t imagine if she’s able to make her dream of going international comes true like...5 years ago, with her skills 5 years ago, with her experiences 5 years ago, how would it be...  But I’m pretty much sure, she’s now completely ready to achieve that! And she deserves it!

To end this post, I would like to wish her a best luck, keep aiming high but keep the humbleness, and keep up the best work :)

Passing Time Crossing The Border

2012 is over and we're all still alive! :)

I thank you, God, for giving me such amazing experience throughout the year. There were a lots of wonderful things in 2012 that make me really feel more than blessed. Sadness, anxiety, joys, love, hatred, failure, success, and elses so that I could possibly call it "life". God is truly good!

Managed to pass the selection process and then got a scolarship to continue my study in France is obviously one of the major thing I should be forever grateful.

I'm also blessed for being able to see new things, visite new places, taste new cuisine, meet new people, learn another foreign language, share new knowledge, mingle in a new culture, totally new experience! As well as meet "fake" friends which made me be able to see clearly which ones are the real friend ;)

I learned a lot (and I believe I will still keep learning) what it really means of happiness, lonely, sincere, giving, choice, decision, patience, family, regret, to love, to respect, to share, judgment, tolerance, to give up, to believe, striving, dreaming, dedication, and also continue to figure out how to love and to live my life in a good way.

Not all of it is good. But, even the worst thing was giving me an amazing lesson as human being who is in progress to be a better person. Hopefully.

At the end of 2012, I did a short trip crossing the border of France (Strasbourg) - Germany (Kehl) by...walking. Well, actually that was not weird since Kehl, a small town in West Germany, is now becoming the suburbs part of Starsbourg and they are connected in local public transportation network.

But for me, this is quite interesting, remembering how those two countries once were fighting in a war like crazy! We all know from the history of World War I and also World War II, that there is never be a single good thing in war. Tell me, if any.

And nowadays, we can go from one city to another by train, by bus (headway every 30 minutes), by car, or like I and many people right there do, by walking! There's no border and no document needed to move your ass to another country. Strasbourg and  Kehl even have a beautiful spacious collective public park "Jardin Deux Rives" in both sides of Rhine riverbank. 

It takes less than 10 minutes to walk down the river and cross the bridge. There's a non-motorized bridge (or called "passerelle" in French) that can be used also by the cyclist or the parents with baby stroller.

THE CUTEST PART of all of this border thingy is, right in the middle of the bridge, we can stop for a while and sit in the wooden benches. Maybe it's just me being dramatic, but in my opinion, the idea is just simply cool!

Imagine you're sitting right there, calling one of your friend and then telling them, "I'm in between, my right ass is in Germany while the left one is in France!", hahah...

We can also find the love padlock as we seen at the bridge near Paris Notre Dame or maybe at many other bridges (because I just found the same thing at a smaller bridge in Strasbourg).

La passerelle

In that spacious park we can see the elder couples sitting or walking while enjoying the river scenery, the loverbirds holding hands and giggling, the kids playing around happily. We'll hear they talk using French in the German side or vice versa. Wonderful!

Germany's side

France's side (notice the crêperie kiosk that is so "France" :p)

Well, it was just a "border crossing" experience but beyond that it gave me a reflection that in our life, we might have a very bad experience in the past, we might passed a horrible moment, we might done evil, in the France-Germany case: one of the cruelest war ever..., whatever we've done or how bad it was, we can never turn back the time.

But, we have to realize that we will always have a chance to do our best, to give our greatest effort,to make a progress, in order to be better and to have something really good and wonderful in our future. Each of us deserves it!

Welcome 2013, I'm so ready!

:)