A Road Trip to Remember

No, the road trip was not as dramatic as the poetic title (though it sure was memorable). I just couldn't find any other suitable title for this. And this wouldn't be a detailed blog post about the trip, I just wrote the big part only.

On December 30th 2013, the date where I collected my postponed assignment, my uncle and aunt picked me up from my boarding house to go on road trip with them to Bali and celebrate New Year there! Since becoming a college student I almost never had a proper holiday (going outside the city, traveling, blah blah), I just stayed at home watching movies. And finally, I could forget my other assignments for a while and enjoyed the rare time from being away from the hectic days of college.

While the road trip was not the first time for me, the activities and things we did were indeed new for me. From Malang to Bali -- of course it required us to cross the Bali Strait. Yep, it was my first time crossing the strait with ferry! It was late night, but I could see beautiful lights from the other ships and the port. It was so fun (and ugh, I didn't take a pic of it because I was so tired and only able to enjoy it haha).

After arriving at Gilimanuk Port, I spent my time mostly to sleep. My uncle's fast and F1-like driving didn't stop me from getting a good sleep since I finished my assignment at 2 am the other night. So then we picked up my cousin, Nisa, who was studying in Udayana University to stay with us in the hotel. The next day, the fun began!

The view from the hotel balcony. And yep, that's the sea!

That's me in Balangan Beach. Chubby as always. (Pic taken by Nisa)

Happy New Year! Fireworks from the beach. It was raining that time so we decided to watch the fireworks from hotel balcony.

So, first day of 2014, I thought I would come back to Malang (come back to my assignments, to be exact). Ha! My uncle and aunt had other plans for me and Nisa -- taking us to Jogja!

Bunch of people were waiting to take a pic in front of Malioboro street sign. If you go to Malioboro, you just have to do this. (Pic taken by Nisa)

Finally we got our turn. Nisa, me, Arfa, and Aunt Jella in Maliboro~ (Pic taken by my uncle)

The next day, we went to Affandi Museum. Just so you know, Affandi was a famous Indonesian artist. When I went to the museum and saw that name, I thought I've heard his name before (yep, that was a fail thing for an architecture student). Then, when I saw his paintings, I remembered that I had learned about him in both middle school and high school. You know, I forgot easily about this kind of thing -.-

A glimpse of inside the Affandi Museum. Love the paintings!

This one was like, the biggest painting in the gallery. Love this (and sorry, I forgot the name of the painting...)

Words to remember!

Since I'm an architecture student, this little kind of thing excited me. Maybe it could inspire me to design hehe.

 After that, we went to Warung Raminten for lunch. Its owner is Yogya's famous transsexual (or transgender -- what do you call it?). Ah, too bad I didn't take a picture of what she looked like.

Three women and a man. I thought that man was a real person... kind of creepy. (Pic taken by my uncle)

This was on the tissue box. Creative and funny.

These were chocolates. And these two described me at most hahaha. I should've bought those, ugh.

That was it. There were so many other moments from that road trip that I could not forget, but I don't want to make you bored. Well, I rarely posted about my personal life -- this blog has been full of either fangirling things or my "random" thoughts -- so I just want to finish this post as soon as possible before I myself also get bored. And I still have other tasks to do... and movies and series to watch.

Toodles!

I'm Coming Back Home...

PULANG PULANG PULAAAANGGG!!!

*guling-guling di tempat tidur*

Alhamdulillah, akhirnya perkuliahan semester satu selesai.
Akhirnya bebas dari tugas dan deadline.
Akhirnya UAS selesai.
Akhirnya Pameran Semesta Nusantara selesai (dan sukses berat).
Akhirnya saya berjumpa lagi dengan Bogor!

Sebelum mengungkapkan kebahagiaan ini, saya mau cerita tentang hal lain yang membahagiakan.

PAMERAN SEMESTA NUSANTARA 2012

Di sini kami para mahasiswa Arsitektur Universitas Brawijaya 2012 memamerkan (bukan pamer yang pamer gimana gitu ya) hasil karya dan tugas kami selama semester satu. Lima hari, tapi rasanya sebentar banget. Oh iya, selama 5 hari itu kita dapet 1216 pengunjung loh! Semesta Nusantara sukses sukses sukses!!!

Karya dwimatra dari kelompok saya, 3B. Juara 3 dari voting pengunjung breh!!! :')

Karya trimatra dari kelompok 3B :')

Itu siapa sih? Merusak nilai estetika trimatra 3B aja deh.

Hari terakhir pameran juga merupakan deadline tugas besar Gambar Teknik. Sebelas gambar breh! Memang sih dikasih waktunya 6 minggu, tapi yakaliantahusayakerjaannyamoviemarathonmelulu. Bahkan, minggu-minggu UAS saya nggak belajar sama sekali. Habisnya yang di UAS cuma matkul umum dan open book semua (kecuali matematika, tapi suksesjugadongkarenayagitudeh haha). Malahan saya malah lanjut Ben Affleck movie marathon haha.

Ngomong-ngomong tentang Ben Affleck, pas saya lagi seru-serunya ngerjain GT, saya buka twitter dan menemukan berita bahwa aktor ganteng itu nggak dapet nominasi Academy Awards atau Oscar untuk Best Director.

Reaksi pertama pas liat tweetnya Rotten Tomatoes: cengo.
Ben Affleck tuh dijagoin banget loh karena film ketiga yang disutradarainya, Argo, mendapat positive reviews. Saya emang belum nonton film itu (gubrak prang klontang klontang meooww, belum nonton aja udah kecewa banget loh daddy ku yang satu itu gak masuk nominasi), tapi saya yakin banget filmnya bagussss, bisa dilihat dari dua film Affleck sebelumnya, Gone Baby Gone dan The Town. Mantap! Yang belum nonton dua film itu sok ditonton! Ben Affleck is not just another actor-turned-director!

Karena saking keselnya, GT sempet tertunda beberapa menit, mendadak nggak napsu gitu lihat potongan, perspektif, denah, cuma gara-gara hal sekecil itu doang. Padahal siangnya, saya dapat berita menggembirakan: Robert Downey Jr, Jason Mraz, dan Chris Hemsworth menang People's Choice Awards! Congratulations guuuyysss! Itu artinya, sebagai fans kalian saya nggak gagal! :')

Daddy RDJ and his award. Keren seperti biasa.

 Tapi, kekesalan saya hilang waktu liat berita kalau Ben Affleck akhirnya menang Best Director di Critics' Choice Awards! Bukan hanya Affleck, tapi Argo juga menang Best Picture! Wohooowwww congrats Daddy Ben!!! Yang lebih bikin seneng (ketawa, lebih tepatnya), acceptance speech-nya Affleck pas nerima award Best Director.

"I would like to thank The Academy."

Hahaha walaupun setelah itu dia bilang kidding, tapi saya yakin di dalam lubuk hatinya yang paling dalam, dia beneran nyindir Academy. Habisnya, Ben Affleck jadi salah satu 'the most shocking Oscar snub' sih, ditambah Argo masuk nominasi Best Picture (tapi Affleck nya kagak masuk Best Director) dan bagus banget kan filmnya, ya pantas aja sih menurut saya kalo dia nyindir-nyindir The Academy =))

Brought to you by Roti Maryam (random pic--ceritanya sponsor posting ini)

And finally, I'M COMING BACK HOOOME! Kangen sekali dengan kamar tercintah yang ternyata telah diambil alih oleh adik saya yang paling kecil. Tapi sekarang saya sudah sampai rumah, jadi mau nggak mau ya adik saya harus mau didepak hahaha *evil laugh*

Lha, orang ini muncul lagi. Merusak suasana.

I really, really need vacation. Kalau kata Jason Mraz mah "You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from" (Everything Is Sound) dan itu tidak berlaku untuk saya because I want to escape from college thingy!

Dan saya setuju banget dengan Mbak Taylor Swift: "Tonight's the night when we forget about the deadlines." (22)

Wah, yang tadinya cuma pengen ngomongin first homecoming saya, jadi ngalor ngidul ke Ben Affleck dan roti maryam gini ya haha. Oke deh, cukup sekian dan sampai jumpa lagi! :*

The Final Destination: LIKE THIS!

Waduh. Sepertinya saya telat melulu kalau ngepost sesuatu. Maklum lah bener-bener sibuk.

Tanggal 30 September kemarin (pas memperingati G 30 S/PKI, jadi benderanya dikibarin setengah tiang---ya begitulah), saya sama BFFs nonton bareng di Ekalokasari 21. Film yang kita tonton juga nggak tanggung-tanggung (kalau ditonton di hari G 30 S/PKI), THE FINAL DESTINATION.

Well, perjuangan saya untuk mendapat izin dari Mamz biar bisa ikut nonton juga nggak nanggung-nanggung. Tapi saya nggak mau cerita ah, nanti malah ngomongin itu, bukannya The Final Destination itu sendiri haha.

Sebagai penggemar berat film horor alias horror mania (sebutan ini nggak berlaku saat saya pertama main Hotel 626), ya saya excited banget lah nonton film ini. Saya emang sukaaaaa berat---nyampe bisa nyaingin berat badan saya---sama franchise Final Destination. Iiiih mantep abis dah ni film!
Saya nggak mau ngebahas ringkasan cerita The Final Destination ini, saya cuma mau ngebahas tentang tanggapan dan perasaaan saya terhadap film ini. Kalau penasaran, baca review The Final Destination yang saya post di blog film saya.

Sebelum itu, saya mau ngenalin BFFs saya yang ikut nonton waktu itu:

Diba

Fio

Ophie

Avie

*cape deh pake acara perkenalan segala!*

Rest In Pieces

Yeah. Itu tagline nya The Final Destination. Agak-agak gimanaaaa gitu yaaaa?!
Saya belum pernah liat trailernya (sama sekali nggak punya gambaran tentang filmnya), biar maksudnya surprise gitu pas nontonnya. Tapi penasaran juga. Si Fio bilang, katanya ni film jijay bajay gitu, banyak darahnya trus banyak organ2 tubuh manusia yang diliatin. Sekilas saya berfikir: Ini film horor atau film tentang Biologi ya?

Film pun dimulai.

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Film pun selesai.

Saya ngeliat Ophie geleng-geleng kepala. Makna gelengan kepalanya: Kapok gw nonton film ini!
Avie ngacungin jempol. Makna acungan jempolnya: Not bad. Cukup keren.
Fio tanpa ekspresi. Maknanya: Biasa aja. Karena nonton ama BFFs jadi luar biasa.
Sedangkan saya ama Diba tatap-tatapan. Makna tatapan kita: KEREN, MANTEP, AJIB BANGET FILM INI...!!!

Ya! Saya nggak rugi nonton The Final Destination. Biarpun kata orang serem, jijay, menggelikan, garing atau apalah, yang penting saya menikmatinya! Yeah, memang beberapa adegan itu sadis banget dan menjijikan, tapi saya cukup merem sebentar (atau malah nggak merem), nggak sampai teriak-teriak nggak jelas kayak cewek-cewek SMP yang duduk di sampingnya Fio.
Not bad lah untuk ukuran film horor/thriller.

Eits. Bukan berarti saya nggak teriak juga pas nonton film ini.
Satu scene yang bikin saya teriak sampai mukulin Diba.
Yaitu scene yang ada ULARNYA!!
Ya ya ya saya tahu itu nggak ada hubungannya ama film ini. Tapi di salah satu scene, Nick (si pemeran utama The Final Destination yang cute banget---jadi naksir saya haha) mendapat suatu penglihatan yang ada hubungannya ama ular! Eh taunya itu cuma sebuah lambang yang emang ada gambar ularnya disitu. Iya, CUMA GAMBAR. Tapi di penglihatannya Nick, ular itu ular asli, yang muncul nggak sampai 10 detik, dan cukup membuat saya kaget dan ketakutan!!!

Saya memang suka film ini. Tapi kalau nonton dua kali, hmm... saya harus mikir-mikir dulu. Rugi soalnya. Mendingan cari film lain. Hehehe.

Oke dah segini dulu postingan saya, karena saya mau belajar buat Mid Test (tumben banget ya saya belajar). Oh ya, mungkin saya akan vakum beberapa hari soalnya ada Mid Test itu. Yeah, sesuatu yang tak ditunggu-tunggu pasti akan datang menghampiri.

See you in the next posting,
The Geek In The Green