I need a break...

Truly, I do...


A vast and empty spaces
is what you'll find
Nothing but traces
of fleeting thoughts here in my mind

Things that come don't stay anymore
instead they are lined, arranged, and sent trough
No longer it's an imagination gallore
more like a systematic static and....

Hell... I can't even find a right word to rhyme anymore!

Balada Mahasiswa

Senin pagi... (matahari telah tinggi)
hari masih pagi... (sudah hampir jam 10 lagi!)
Kuliah... lapar... (nongkrong dulu ga ya?)
eh dosen sudah masuk.
Hmmm..., absen....
tugas... tugas...?
(Damn, gua lupa!)




written sometime ago back in 2004, based on actuall event.

What now? An English Zombie?

OK, I think I owe the English people an apology...
The English language, the Spitfire, the Beatles, and the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy movie were not their only contibution to our little planet. They have a homosexual knight, spice girl, Aston Martin, hemophilia (which according to some helped in erasing the Romanov and the rise of Sovyet Union), and so on...

Well.... Here's another flick from that great empire worth watching.
Bring in Shaun of the Dead!

It's a..., well shall I say, spin off from George Romero's movie Night of the Living Dead (one of my all time favorite horror movie) and Dawn of the Dead. It is a not suprise that them English make this movie, I mean where else can you find zombies walking around but in Britain? Hell, they even got one acting as the Heir to the Throne!
And you all know that Englishmen are well known for their common senses, so this movie has more of it than Goerge Romero's. Like how the world doesn't just come to an end when the dead come back to life. Or how the British Army managed to save the day, like they did back in WW II.
All in all, this movie is fun to watch. And now I found myself a British movie fan, woe is me....

The Stench of Defeat

Yuck!!! What an awful smell! It’s the kind of smell I have right now in my office. It’s so strong and suffocating.
No surprise though…
My latest creative team was formed barely 2 months ago. The formation is me as the copywriter, Gede (a recent addition) as the AD, Rahman as 2nd AD and part copywriter, Arief as Graphic Designer, and Daniel (another recent addition) as AE. All of them have had previous working experience in advertising so you can’t say they are all green. But all of them except me and Arief are new to Metro Dept. Store (the brand we are working on), and Arief hardly have anything to say about creative concept.
Well the first job we set out to do was creating a Christmas campaign for the client. Supposed to be a fun job right? WRONG!
As it turned out, they didn’t like any of the idea we presented and they’ve got themselves a bunch Santa decoration for the store, so what ever creative idea we have for the print ad must have a Santa in it. The problem was we did the Santa thing for last year! And last year, me and my old team had come with dozens of Santa layout so for me basically it was a spent idea.
But hey, what’s life without its little tortures right? So we tried a bunch of new layouts, which they all promptly rejected, before finally deciding to try one. But that’s not it, there a still a bunch of other materiel to developed including radio commercials. To top it off, we also have to present materiel for later promotion such as year end clearance, big sale and Chinese New Year. And from that moment on, we had to fight up hill against the usual problems and some, like uncertainty of the promotion details, deadlines, schedules, the bureaucrats in the office (both my own and the client’s), the general economics (oil prices rocketing sky high), the client’s declining sale and their busted sale schedule and many more, only to be defeated in every step.
First our other materiel (there were supposed to be 3 different layouts) was turned down, so were my radio script, and the ideas for future promotions. I for one haven’t slept soundly for a month.
The knockout blow was delivered today. After a problematic photo session, the final layout was rejected and the clients ordered us to used last year layout! F$%*!!!!
All of our hard work and the client’s money wasted down the drain. I don’t wanna do it, but I’m sure some finger-pointing will soon follow...
No wonder it stinks around here!

A Black from the Past

There's a certain depressed mood when ever I listen to this song. The feeling you got from an impending and un-escapeable doom that is yours and yours alone. Imagine having that kind of feelling when you are just 10 years old. Not nice isn't it?
Well, I was about that age when I first heard this song and it stuck in my mind, almost word by word. That's why I just have to post the lyric here.

Paint it Black
by the "Rolling Stones"

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby it just happens ev’ry day
I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it has been painted black
Maybe then I’ll fade away and not have to face the facts
It’s not easy facin’ up when your whole world is black

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
If I look hard enough into the settin’ sun
My love will laugh with me before the mornin’ comes

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
Hmm, hmm, hmm,...
I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah!

10 things I love to do in Bali

My recent trip to Bali with my parents, cup-cake, big brother, a pregnant in-law (my brother's wife), and a kid who lifes next door (quite an entourage wasn't it?) was such that I just have to make a list of the things I want to do the next time I went there. To serve as a guideline

So here it is, 10 things I love to do in Bali

1. Surf on the beach
2. Surf on the beach
3. Surf on the beach
4. Surf on the beach
5. Learn to surf better, either with bodyboard or the surfboard
6. Walk down the beach with cup-cake
7. Check out the babes on the beach
8. Get drunk on the beach
9. Sleeping all day in my hotel by the beach
10.See what else beside the beach this lovely island has to offer