Last Posting

This is the last posting I submit from my current office. Because next week, I'm not gonna be here anymore.
Oh, good bye all.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.

No regret, no more anger.
Let me walk away from here with a wide smile.

Incubus on The South Pearl

Last weekend, ams and I went to Temanggung, Jogja and Bandung. I am not going to tell every detail of that trip here, I'll just tell the part while we moved on from Jogja to Bandung. We took a train called Mutiara Selatan (The South Pearl), business class :|. It was the end of a long weekend, other -better- train is fully booked :(. The South Pearl is a night train, departed from Jogja at 22.10.

Inside the train, it was like hell, everybody was smoking :((. Not everybody, but so many many MEN were smoking in the train. The root of the problem was a group of teenagers. There were so annoying. They played their 'kind of music' from a cellphone, loudly. You know how a cellphone speaker producing sound? Not good!!! And some of the song are hard-core kind. They also talked loudly, laughed loudly, and of course they smoked too.
That made everybody else on the train couldn't sleep. The women could do nothing but frown, but the men smoked to chase away the annoyance.

I am a woman, I frowned and I talked, almost yelled, to ams, "how can I sleep with all this smoke!!" Ams a man but he didn't dare to smoke, ha ha, not in front of a calm srilas or an angry srilas. He only could give a wry face, a wry smile. I started blaming ams for choosing this train and for having this plan, went to Bandung first before we went back to Cilegon. But that didn't solved the problem. All I could do was calming myself down.

To be honest, some of their music were familiar to me, some were my favorite. Like this song, Incubus' I Miss You. While they were playing that song, I even sang it along.... in my heart, :D. Sang it loudly would only encourage them >:P. Suddenly one of them asked with Sundanese language and thick Sundanese dialect, "lagu naon ieu?" ("what song is it?"). And there came the answer, "incubus... incubus..." Ha ha ha ha, I couldn't stop laughing. They spelled cu in incubus like choo in choose. Ams laughed too, he said, "they think they're the coolest people in the world, turn out they're only some ignorant ones."

Thanks to that laugh, I could sleep after that :).

More About Cat

First time I came to the factory, there was something that tickled my mind: cats inside the factory. Seems that nobody cares seeing cats running around the coils and the machines when I think that they are creepy things I don't want to get near them at all :D. Or maybe some factory staffs have already tried to chase them away but they were getting tired because the cats keep coming back, oh cat... oh cat!
I talked about this cat phenomenon to my friends. I said, "no wonder people say cat has seven souls. I mean, they don't wear safety shoes, helmet, or this thick and heavy clothes, arrrgh....! And what are they looking for here? Foot? Are they gonna eat steel and flux?"

But this morning.... Oh I don't know how am I supposed to feel... but I really want to tell the cat, "I told you!!!" Hwa hwa, okay okay.. I should feel sorry for the cat.... One of its feet is limp. Poor poor cat, it maybe struck by a piece of steel. From what I saw, I'm sure the limp foot has no bones anymore :((. But why is it still running around the coils? How can I tell the cat that it's a very dangerous place? Oh, I wish I knew cat language :|.

The Origins of Genius (Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity)

(Special Name for Dearest One, episode 2)

No no no, it's not about this book although I want to have the (e-)book. What I want to tell you here is about how I call ams and how the calling evolves into some silly ones. Evolve - evolution - Darwin - Darwinian Perspectives - The Origins of Genius, see? I hope it explains the way I think, how I relate one word into another, oh how I love association. In fact I'm ridiculously genius at that kind of thing >:).

ams, that's how I call my husband in our daily conversation. It evolves from the word xxx. The clue is I also like to scramble characters/syllables in a word, sadly I say, ams do this much better than me :((. He invented sophisticated words like senaparan, sorry I forget what else :(.

Back to the evolution of call:
Sometimes I also call him kamu.
ams + kamu became kams.
kams became kam.
Someday, when I was mad at him, I added some characters into kam. It became kamPT (read: kampete), an abbreviation from an ugly word :(. Soon I regretted it, so I turned it into a much funnier word: kamtempe hi95x.
The most recent call for him now is kam kun, came from Sakaki kun of My Boss My Hero.

It's not just him that I call with weird calls. Usually I do this to persons that so close to me, like my sisters, my nephew. Sure, only special persons who deserve such creativity of mine. So if I start calling you with weird or even embarrassing calls, be proud of it, because it's a sign that I put you in a special place of my heart :*.

Lazy Weekend

Saturday is not a weekend for ams. Even Sunday sometimes becomes his workday too. But after working for 24 hours, no break, ams had no spirit left. Although his big big boss, Mr. Fkmr, called him several times, he let his phone rang and rang until it stopped, without any intention to pick it up. So, this weekend ams had a lazy weekend. As for me, it's always a lazy weekend he95x.

We watched our newest dvd collection, My Boss My Hero, My Name is Kim Sam Soon, Curse of The Golden Flower, The Devil Wears Prada, The Prestige, Dead Man Chest. Argh, he made me watch Dead Man Chest for the third time :((.

Let me tell you Fact#1, if he likes a film then he won't mind watch it over and over again. First at a theater, then later when he happens to know that other theater still show the same film, he'll ask me to watch it again with him. Then when I go buy some dvds, he'll ask me to buy the dvd version of that same film. Then if he knows that a TV channel is going to show the film, he'll make sure I'm willing to remind him about the show time, because he's too forgetful :P. He does this until he remembers the scene sequence of that film.
Like one night, he accidentally found out that a tv channel show Rambo X, I don't remember which one :P. Of course he watched it then and of course I complained x(. But he persuaded me to watch it by telling me what happen next to the currently shown scene. Yet, I kept scorning the film... and him :P. Until the time when he acted so confident, I almost believed him.
"This one... this one! It's very interesting after this one!"
"Really? So, what will happen?"
"Just watch... It's really unpredictable you know!"
* current scene was Rambo attacking his enemies after his lover is killed, I was waiting, so curious *
"It's time!!!"
* Rambo, covered with mud-standing quietly-blinking eyes, suddenly attacked one of his enemy who walked pass him. I almost cried in despair, so touched by his camouflage technique, :(( :(( *
Even now, I still want to cry just recalling the scene.

Back to the dvds, My Boss My Hero serial is very funny, soon it became ams' favorite. Fact #2, if he likes a serial then he'll watch its episodes one after the other until its finale episode, of course in the dvd or downloaded version, not the TV show version. His reason is if he doesn't watch it sequentially without a break, he'll forget the story. Hwek, bad reason from a person who remember the scenes of Rambo X >:P.
So different with me, even though I like a serial very much, but I’ll get bored if I watch it without a break. My strategy was… agreed to watch several episodes of the serial, but when the time to change the dvd came, I changed it with other serial or film. If he complained I said, “don’t be greedy, I’ve let you watch 3 episodes of it.” Problem was, he’d mock the film, no matter how good it is. When he was tired doing it, he’d sleep. Worst, he’d go and say, “I’d rather go to my office and work overtime than have to watch it.” :(( :((.

Okay, two facts are enough for this time. Btw, The Prestige is good, you must watch it. Time to open Wikipedia and find out about Mr. Tesla now….

Dementor

What do you call someone who suck out all positive things from you, your happiness, hope, dream in each of his presence... Every time he's around you, you'll feel nothing but numb....
A Dementor?

So, what my patronus will be? Ams said, it must be in a form of wild grass, hooo, ilalang?
I think the best form of my patronus is... myself :|.