It’s so called life

Berhubung hari ini adalah hari terakhir sebelum orang-orang mulai berpuasa, maka sejak seminggu ini gue dan Lisa sudah mulai meng-arrange potluck buat hari ini. Kita memang merencanakan potluck dengan makanang yang tidak terlaly messy. jadi dari mula daftar menu sudah kita buat dan kemudian disebarkan. Dalam waktu tidak sampai semenit jawaban sudah bermunculan, praktis hari itu anak-anak sibuk mikirin apa yang mau dibawa.Menu:
macaroni Schootel - Paulina
mie goreng - Ujo
Beef rolade - Niki
nasi goreng - Lisa
bakwan jagung - Ungki
satay ayam - Desi
Kripik kentang – Ayu
Keripik tempe - Tien
Sayuran/salad – Putri

pudding – Raty Ginting
Es Cendol - Siska
Roti unyil & asinan - Inty
Lumpia – Adi
Lidah kucing and wijen choco - Anto
Ice cream woody - Maria
Kue kenari – Monique
Semangka – Dhea

Definetely I have to go for yoga tommorow, first thing in the morning!!!!!!!

Nambah …..nambah & nambah…………

Hmmmm, yum…yum..yummy…….

Actually I was planning to drive straight home last night, yet since there were no “3 in 1 jockey” I had to drive all the way around. Jakarta in that hour is a total disaster. Finally I decided to stop by in Plaza Senayan, well actually I’ve planning for quiet sometime to go there looking for tarot card and last night the traffic led me to my destiny.There were a lot of tarot card varieties in Kinokuniya. In fact I wanted the original one and the one which was closed to my wish was from Julier Sharman-Burke. It came with guidance book. There were house wives, black women and other tarot card; actually they look very interesting for me, but the girl had to choose, right. I got this card in the paranormal section, wow, they have books about witchcraft, spells, the bible of Satan and many spooky things. I could spent hours there, unfortunately most books were covered by plastic; yeah..yeah..you could not get anything free in this country.

Sepertinya yang sudah gue rencanakan, gue naik taxi ke wine class. Yah, gue agak takut juga nantinya mabok soalnya kan udah lama juga gue gak minum; actually quit driking. Meskipun dalam “driving history” I had been driving in any kind of condition; very very sad, happy, very very drunk to almost passed out and even high in the sky. Mengingat gue sudah tidak terbiasa dengan hal-hal memalukan tersebut, gue dengan kesadaran diri penuh memilih taxi juga dengan harapan besar gue gak akan mabok.Wine Class-nya sendiri diadakan di Vin+ Kemang jam 13.00, harusnya sih gue bisa yoga dulu tapi berhubung kedua kegiatan itu tidak match apalagi yoga merupakan one of those 1000 reasons I have quitted my unhealthy lifestyle. Karena ada beberapa yang belum datang, jadinya kelasnya agak telat sekitar setengah jam. Total ada 7 orang yang mengikuti kelas tersebut and most of them berusia dia atas 40 tahun.

Materi yang diberikan general dan cukup memberi gambaran tentang wine. Bagian yang paling serunya adalah wine tasting; barangkali ada sekitar 7 macam wine yang dicoba dan kalau semuanya dituang menjadi satu bisa menghasilkan hampir sebotol wine itu sendiri. Gue personally suka sweet wine considering my self as a sweet tooth.To my surprise, I didn’t feel drunk even tipsy because my eyes were still black and white. Biasanya kalau gue mabuk, mata dan pipi gue mulai merah tapi tadi sama sekali tidak ada symptoms seperti itu. Dan gue masih dengan kesadaran penuh tidak mau involve dalam “national TV’ things. In fact gue yang duluan pulang setelah kelas ditutup sekitar jam 16.00 karena takut diwawancara.

Ini pengalaman yang menyenangkan bagi gue, walaupun gue gak tahu apakah ini bisa menjadikan wine lover. I don’t think so, but at least I could appreciate it.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
– The Buddha–

I have met a lot of great people with the passion working with social issues. Unfortunately, some of them were considered fakes; a volunteer in anti drug NGO, yeah..he is still smoking pot; a woman with great passion to help Tsunami victims, well she couldn’t even treat her coworker in the decent way.I don’t expect them to be a holy person, yet I believe they should have a basic knowledge of being kind to people around her. After all, I thing they are just after the publicity or simply can label themselves as people with high sense of awareness.

I know this woman who I ever worked with. She makes herself busy with a lot of activities that involve many foundations whose visions and missions include the word “to help”. Yet, in her daily life, she could treat people like they are her slaves, she could just shout and yell to people whenever she wants. She hardly does her personal things by herself; even her driver carries he bag. What an earth can she or other people see her as an angel. Not to mention the way she talks to people; very much judging and heartless.

This is not only about her, many people do the same things; they speak about great things, make you feel like you are the sinner of all time. This people can make you think that you have not achieve anything since you have done so many great things for the poor like they do.So, back to me as an individual; I don’t involve in any social activity nor have social consciousness, yet I’m learning to be better person for people around me. Not necessarily being loveable person, but not to have people see me as person walking with label “pain in the ass” on my forehead is more than enough. Beside I have my own way to involve in social things and I dobelieve you do too.

Gue sebenarnya gak suka sama wine. Well bukan wine sebagai minuman tapi “attitude” orang yang bisanya menyebut dirinya “wine lover”. Yeah…most of them have this gesture saying “Hey, I’m totally a sophisticated”.So, karena gue sendiri lately tidak minum alcohol sama sekali, it is a little weird that I actually will participate in this class. Bukan karena gue mau masuk jaringan “wine lover”, tetapi dari dulu gue emang pengen tahu sih ilmu wine cuman gengsi aja kalau harus me-label diri gue sebagai “wine lover”.

Nah, milis jalansutra akan menyelenggarakan kelas ilmu dasar tentang wine, setelah menjalani pemikiran yang panjang dan dengan segala pertimbangan dana yang harus gue keluarkan ; Rp. 350.000,–(hello… I can take 3 bikram yoga classes with that amount) akhirnya gue menyerah dan mendaftarkan diri. Juga yang menjadi pertimbangan gue juga life style gue saat ini, sekarang ini I don’t smoke and drink, gue bahkan gak peduli di tengah2 orang yang minum, gue dengan santainya pesan orange juice, ice lemon tea or even water.

Tadi, gue dapat email announcement terakhir dari sang instruktur yang bikin mata ague terbelalak. Gini isi emailnya:

“Ada beberapa hal-hal penting yg berkaitan dengan acara winexperience besok.

1. A gentle reminder. Acara besok berubah tempatnya ke Vin+, Jl. Kemang Raya45B (di belakang Caswell coffee Kemang Raya)

2. Be on time. Acara mulai jam 13:00 teng. 3. Eat first. Dalam acara ini tidak disediakan makan siang. Jadi tolongjangan lupa makan dulu sebelum mulai minum.

4. Don’t drive. Jangan nyetir setelah minum. Lebih baik naik taksi atauminta dijemput.

5. Be gorgeous. You’ll be on national TV. So, be gorgeous! Hehehehehe

6. Emergency number. Kalau ada apa-apa, saya bisa dikontak di 0812-1100-926.

7. Bring a pen. Saya akan menyediakan hand out tapi tidak menyediakan alat tulis. Tolong bawa sendiri, ya.

Sampai ketemu besok, ya.

Terima kasih utk partisipasinya.”

Got it???? Nggak ya??
Ok, lihat point nomor 5. Huh??? Masih gak mudeng, gue tuh paling sebel kalau ada kegiatan yang include national TV. Help………
Gue bukan camera friendly person. I wonder if I can tell the camera man tomorrow not to shoot me at all. Seriously, if I have known this will happen, it would be my first serious consideration rather than those reasons I mentioned before.Anyway, nasi sudah menjadi bubur en gue harus maju pantang mundur. Sukur-sukur besok gue bisa invisible. Hell, I have to be able to handle my fear in front of the camera.