Trick Art Exhibition

A week ago, I went to Trick Art Japan Exhibition at Grand Indonesia. This event is held by Trimitra Events. According to their website, Trick Art is a form of art interpretation using optical illusion. With the perfect color blending, perspective, and lightning techniques, amazing 3D effects are emerged from a flat painting that bring the painting to life.

I went to the exhibition with two friends of mine, Alida and Firyal, plus Alida's sister named Dinda.  I know I'm kinda late. It has already been opened since last December and will be closed on February 3rd, but well, late is better than never right? Haha. I'm not gonna talk much because the photos we took there will probably talk better than I do :p So... here it goes.

Can you see the optical illusion? Well we surely can hahaha. Just to remind all of you who want to go here, don't forget to bring a high quality camera. Unfortunately, we didn't bring one, silly us. We also didn't stay there for a long time because we still had something else to do and it made us only took a few pictures while actually there are still a lot of other artworks we could explore. Yet still, we didn't regret going since we had such a good time there :)

For more information about this exhibition, go to their website here.

Blessings

There is a memory in my heart today

That passing years cannot take away

An empty space no one can fill

I love you still and always will

The tears in my eyes, I can wipe away

But the ache in my heart still always stay

- Achmad Bakrie -

I was supposed to bring a biography book of a famous Indonesian person last Wednesday. But then I forgot to bring one. Silly me. Thank God there are some biography books in my school's library so I borrowed one. The book that I borrowed is about Achmad Bakrie. I haven't heard about him before. Turns out, he is the father of that famous Afrizal Bakrie. What surprised me is the fact that Achmad Bakrie loved to write some poems, and I think his poems are beautiful.

So anyway, this week has been one gloomy-no spirit-feels like crying week. But even in the most difficult times of your life, you can still find some good things. Here are some positive things from my week so far :
1. I've been trying to forgive myself better than before. I think you wont be able to live happily if you still think about yourself as a girl-who-has-too-many-faults.
2. It shows me that us, students in 8 shs, are a real family. We support each other, we console each other, we try to make each other smile, because we are one. Together, better, stronger!
3. I have the best of best friends anyone can ever ask for. On Tuesday, since it was a holiday, I went to PIM with two of them, which are Nadea and Nisa. We talked and they made me feel better and happier. After that, Nadea and I went to watch No Strings Attached and Nisa watched another movie with her bf. Wanna know my opinion about the movie? Here it is : Ashton Kutcher is so handsome and hot and cute and Natalie Portman makes me jealous. Hahaha
4. I've been trying to ignore some negative thoughts that people said. I think my life is complicated enough to even care about those things. I want to bring some positive energy to everyone.
5. I feel blessed because I am still alive and surrounded by so many lovely people. Including my blog friends :)

What If I Am the Next?

One of my junior just passed away today. When I first heard this, I felt empty. I couldn't feel anything. But then I came back to reality and I was scared. I cried. Even though I dont know him in person, but I do know his face. We met often. Especially these last couple of days. He seemed really fit and healthy. But then suddenly, this day, he got a heart attack. This makes me think, the next time it happens, it might be me.

We all think and hope that we all will have a normal life. Like this

But what if our life turns to be not as normal as that? What if it will stop at the word 'school'? What if we will never know what it feels like to work? What it feels like to earn some money for doing your passion? What if you'll never get married and have a happy family? What if all of the things you do, studying hard so that one day you'll become a very successful person, is useless because your life will end just before you can make your dream comes true?

All my life, or at least these last couple of years, I've been thinking too hard about my future. I've always been so scared that maybe, I wont be able to become a successful and sophisticated woman. I've been wondering, what if my future wont be so bright? Now, I realized. I've been wondering too many questions, but never the most important thing : what if, I will never have a future? Literally, dont have a future.

So this is what I think I should learn from this. Live your life for the present. Live it to the fullest. Have fun! Don't let the smallest problem in this world becomes the one that depresses you the most. Life is too precious to waste on those things. Do not ever forget every little sweet things a person do for you. Maybe one day you won't be able to see that person again and you'll give everything just to get back to that moment.

But the most important thing to do is, remember that God does exist and He can call you any time. Do not ever forget to pray and ask Him to give the best for you.

My deepest condolences go out to Arsya Pratama's family, friends, and everyone who'd known him before he died. You have to know that my prayers (and I'm pretty sure many of other people's prayers too) go out to you today. Arsya, even though I never had a chance to know you in person, I just couldn't hold my tears from falling. I'm sorry I can't come to your funeral. Rest in peace!

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This is a website for all of you 8 folks -including students, teachers, and others- to get insider news and recent activity in our school. You can also share your creativity and celeverness. This doesn't mean other people who doesn't go to 8 Senior High School are not allowed to see it. You can still read the posts and see how creative and clever are 8 shs students, right? haha so come on click it.

Anyway, the new Takitri (8 school magazine) about 8's organizations is coming out on Monday, January 10 2011. So don't forget to bring extra Rp.10.000 on Monday, and grab it fast! Bigger. Thicker. Better. :)

The Fun Part Begins

Hey fellas! So, last Saturday I went to Indah's birthday party. I went to Riri's house first to meet Adila, Anin, Cumi (and of course Riri) and went together to Citywalk Sudirman. The party was located at Tribeca NYC.

Well, I don't need to say much. Even the simplest word can describe it. It was fun with capital letters and an exclamation mark . Let me say it again. It was FUN! Hell yeah the fun part of being an 11th grader has finally begin. Okay. People say a picture is worth a thousand words. So let me show you some of the photos.

Adila, me, Cumi, Riri, and Anin (on the front)

The birthday girl, Indah, is the one who's wearing a gold-ish dress. She looks so pretty doesn't she?

Me with my some of my classmates who came to the party.



Riri, me, Lala, Cumi, and Anin

And say congratulations to this new couple. Anin and Gagas. Hope your relationship will last long. :)

These photos were taken when they were still friends (Yupsie mereka jadiannya justru setelah acara selesai), jadi maklumin aja ya kalau mereka masih malu-malu disini :*

Oke, soo, happy sweet 17 Indaah! Thank you for a great party! Hope you'll be better and better each day and will be able to make your dreams come true! :)

Freewilly

Heeey! The final exams are finally over. I'm not really satisfied with the results, but well, I'm free now! Yeaay! Welcoming the holiday!

Today, after I finished my biology and bahasa remedial tests (yes yes, gue remed bahasa. what a shame -__-) I went to sushi-ya TIS with Riri, Anin, Cumi, Dila, and Tika. We talked and talked and laughed and talked and get scared because of some spooky stories Tika told then talked and laughed again. I had so much fun today. Thank you girls! :)

Hmm but the rest of the day went not quite well. I actually wanted to go to Penvil with my sister today but she came home late. Screw traffic jam! So here I am. Stuck in front of my laptop. Reading some blogs and feeling a little jealous for their great ability to write while I'm suck with this. Soo, I think I will spend this holiday by reading some books and watch a lot of movies so I'll get some writing references.

I think tomorrow I will spend my day at the outside. Maybe in the mall or somewhere. I actually just wanna watch Tangled or maybe Narnia (my friends said Skandar Keynes looks so damn hot in that movie) then have some window shopping with my sister. ooh I also gonna buy a gift for a friend of mine. She's gonna have a birthday party on Saturday. Woohoo. Can't wait! I bet most of my good friends will be there, and we're gonna have fun!

Oke I should probably stop here. Bye!

So so

You don't choose who you fall for. You just fall and you get this person who is all wrong, but yet so right. You know that you like them so much, except sometimes they drive you insane and you just can't explain it.

Hello again! Well oke, I know I'm such a bad bad and inconsistent blogger. Gaah sorry for that. Sometimes when I have something to write here - for example when I met Andrew Richards, this super hot ukulele and guitar player from HelloGoodbye :3 - I don't have time for blogging. And when I finally have enough time to write, there's nothing important to talk about and that topic I wanted to write here before had already been so.... basi -__-

So oke, first thing first. I am jealous of my fellow ang Mesis 22. Why? Karena di saat mereka bersenang-senang nyeplokin Oddy selaku ketua Mesis 23, gue malah sakit di rumah. Hhh padahal paginya udah siap dengan seragam dan semangat mau sekolah, eh ga dibolehin Mama karena masih sakit :( Tapi ya sudahlah toh itu untuk kebaikan gue juga. Anyway, congratulations to Oddy!!! :D

And then, last night I watched Step Up 3 in 3D. That movie was crazy and sick. Love the moves, love the characters, love the scripts, but most of all, I love Rick Malambri, the guy who played Luke! hhahaha pemeran utama cowok di Step Up selalu ganteng-ganteng banget ya. Mulai Channing Tatum, Robert Hoffman, dan sekarang si Rick Malambri

Ganteng kan?

Dan ini si ganteng Andrew Richards aka Andy, bareng gue :D

Oke ignore my face. Liat Andy nya ajaaa :3

Oh iya dia ngebales tweet gue looh uwuwu seneng banget :')

I'm Officially a CAMATEK Now! ;)

Today is the day. Doomsday. Or maybe a very great day? Yang jelas hari ini terima rapot.

Nah gue kan ke sekolah pagian gitu sebelum terima rapot soalnya mau jualan Taktri, terus gue tadi udah tegang banget pas mau terima rapot and luckily, I can get into....

Science class. Good bye Geography, Sociology, and Economy! Thank God for that! :)

Not saying that science rules and social doesn't kok, both of them are ruling this whole world! And the thought about 'Science class is better than Social class' is like.. so last century! (oke ini maksa) I just like this picture ;)
Anyway because I get into Science class, I'm officially a CAMATEK now! Wondering what Camatek is? It stands for 'Calon Mahasiswa/i Arsitektur' hahaha sorry for being kinda alay :p Ananta lebih setuju if we call ourself Catek sih, but I think I'll call myself Catek someday pas gue udah jadi Matek ;)

Then, gue semakin sadar, sekarang X-G udah officially ga sekelas lagi :'( Eh tapi Alhamdulillah loh X-G naik kelas semua! :D Sayangnya, gue pasti ga akan bisa sekelas lagi sama seorang perempuan baik hati :'( She's the girl who has it all

The golden voice
The golden heart
The golden face
The golden hair
The golden wisdom
The golden chair-mate for this last year (ga deeeng :p )
and the golden everything

Yep, she's my chair mate, or maybe I should say, she used to be my chair mate at 10th grade (aduh sedih). Her name is eng ing eng, THALIA WHITE. Ga deng. Her real name is... *drum rolls*

AVIA ATHALIAA!!

*ngasih piala oscar* *penonton tepuk tangan*

She's the one who really helps me getting through these whole sh*ts as a 10th grader. She always help me to choose what's right and what's wrong, what's best for me and what's not so good. It's almost impossible to get through 10th grade without a friend like her :')

Padahal gue sering banget nyebelin terus cerita-cerita ga jelas, tapi dia mau dengerin dan ngasih pendapatnya dan nasehatin gue dengan sejujur-jujurnya. Dan menyadarkan gue kalo gue salah. Ngasih gue semangat kalo gue udah putus asa. Makasih banyak ya Vii :')

Nih ya after I got my report card, I went to Carrefour Mt Haryono, terus gue ke bagian Barbie kan, nah terus gue emang lg smsan sama Avia, dan tanpa alasan yang jelas, gue bales smsnya dengan menambahkan gini

Hahaha eh aku lagi di Carrefour trs lg di koridor barbie dong :p huahahaha ga penting maap yee :p

Terus dia bales gini

Haha beliin gue;p haha kagak napeeee yg gininih yg bakal gue kangenin:')

Persis kayak gitu :') Aduh terharu! Thank you ya Vi for being such a lovely chair-mate!

Soo, congratulations for everyone yang udah naik kelas dan masuk jurusan harapan! Yang belum jangan berkecil hati ya, kalian buktiin kalau kalian sebenernya bisa! Amiin! Byee!

Letters to Fatimah Syawie

Yesterday, I went to Penvil and watched Letters to Juliet my my Mom. Do you want me to give you some clue about the story?

Oke, so, there's this girl named Sophie who's a fact checker. But actually, her passion is to be a writer. She has a fiance named Victor who is a very food chef and he's about to open a restaurant. Victor's going to meet some of his restaurant-business-men friends at Venora and they decided to go together and they called it Pra-Honeymoon or something. Then, when they finally be there, all Victor cared about was just about his restaurant and it made Sophie tired, so they decided, Victor can go and take care of his business while Sophie will go around the city. Then Sophie met the Secretary of Juliet - some people who reply the letters that other girls write for Juliet-and she became on of them. She found this letter from 1957, and when she replied it,.......... I should stop there, because all I wrote there were a total shit. I mean, it even confuses me when I read it again -____-

So anyway, go watch the movie yourself. It wasn't the Harry Potter or Iron Man kind of movie that make you want to tell everyone 'THAT MOVIE IS AMAZING! YOU SHOULD WATCH IT!', but it was good enough I think. At least for a girl like me. Who absolutely loves that cheezy kind of movie. This kind of movie is my guilty pleasure hehe ;) But it was good, really.

Anyway, why is this post titled 'Letters to Fatimah Syawie' not 'Letters to Juliet'? Because well the first time you see me, you'll capture the image of Juliet in me. Because we both are pretty, smart, the daughter of the rich man. I-Was-Just-Kidding :p haha.

The truth is, it's because, today I found these letters from my elementary school friends. There were a lot. Most of them are the 'Happy birthday' or 'Have fun at your new school! Don't you ever forget me, okay?' kind of letter. And honestly, I miss all of those times now. The time when we gave our childhood pictures to each other so that we will never forget each other. The time when we went to my Grandparents' house and we watched World Cup together. I never really like World Cup, you know, but I did enjoy that time :) I even miss the time when people call me 'Fatimah' not 'Ima'. But it's okay, I prefer it when people call me Ima anyway hehe. So, I'm just really really glad that I still have them by my side now. We haven't been to the same school for 4 years, but we still are good friends, aren't we?

found it here

Love you all people
XOXO
Ima :)

PS : Sorry for the bad grammar and everything -_____-

Movie Story 3

This is gonna my my 3rd post about a movie! ;)

Yesterday, I went to FX with a few of Ang Mesis 22. There were 11 of us. Me, Midia, Adila, Vanny, Bilgis, Ghani, Oddy, Bacil, Qulloh, Tasya, and Amira.

And we watched....

TOY STORY 3!!!!

That was a great movie with a perfect ending. At the beginning, there were these two creatures playing an inaudible movie named Day & Night. That was a little weird, but pretty funny and inspiring tho. Then the real story began.

Andy has already turned into an 18 years old boy. He's about to go to college. In 3 days to be exact. The old toys thought Andy doesn't love them anymore. For some reason, they were trapped in a daycare named Sunnyside. They cannot escape and back to Andy's house because it turns out, some other toys at Sunnyside, are just not as nice as the gang thought before. Those toys' leader, named Lotso, who at first acted so nice and welcome, was actually a very very bad bad bear.

This movie is about a journey about how Woody and his friends can get back to Andy, their owner, who actually loves them all, even until now. This story mixes action, comedy and drama. And you won't be disappointed with the ending scene, because it definitely is the best part of the movie.

This is a very funny, inspiring, deep and touching movie. It is definitely a masterpiece. Even if you're 5 or 90, you should watch this movie!! Trust me! ;)

Rewind

found it here

I had a sleepover last Saturday night at Nadea's house with Fira and Nisa. And I had so much fun! :D


First, at about 4 pm, we went to PIM. We wanted to watch The A Team at first, but since we couldn't get the tickets, we decided to watched SATC 2 (itupun duduknya pisah-pisah saking penuhnya PIM). Then while we were waiting for the movie to starts, we killed time by eating at fish & Co. Oh my God I totally lost so much money there -____- but anyway we talked about so many things especially about our high school life or rewinding about our junior high school moments.

Then, the movie. It was a good movie. Well of course it has some 'dirty' scenes, but it's not really like what I thought before. I actually like that movie. I imagine if we (me, Nisa, Nadea, and Fira) watched it on the same row (ga mencar-mencar) pasti banyak banget scene yang kami komentari terus heboh sendiri hahaha

After that, we went back to Nadea's house. We turned the TV on to watch World Cup but it turns out, we didn't watch it at all. We were so busy playing truth or dare. I got a dare to tweet 'kok @xoxoag makin ganteng ya? :)' and called Eja and said 'Ja, lo lagi apa? Nonton bola ya? Lo dukung siapa? Dukung gue aja!' haha sorry guys it was just a dare, please don't be ilfeel! :p

After that, kami saling membajak twitter masing-masing. Handphone atau iPod (pokoknya yg lg online account twitter kami) kami oper secara bergilir terus kami tweet yang aneh-aneh gitu hahaha. You may think it's unimportant and childish, but we don't really care of what people think about us. Because well, that's what we do since we were in junior high : acting as if the world is our own :)

Then we went to sleep. The next day, we had some truth or dare again, but since we couldn't find the embarrassing dare that we can do from home anymore, it turned to be 'truth or truth'. We had some other games, told the untold stories (or even the told one :p), and we had so much fun. I really really glad I went to that sleepover. Thank you Nadea, Fira, and Nisa! :)

Then....

Today, at school, I talked with some ex-biling smabel girls such as Inta, Ubit, Inas, Sikil, Petra, Riri, Hani, Dila, and so on. Aaah it really felt like a rewind, a rewind about what we used to do back then in junior high. I miss them so much! Ubit and I even had this random thought about how will it be if at second grade, all of us, ex-biling smabel, go to the same class again hahahhaa.

Anyway that's all I want to share, thank you for reading this unimportant post, good bye and have a nice day! ;)

The Super TerSudut Class

Seorang murid di SMAN 8 Jakarta tanpa alasan yang jelas naik ke lantai 3 di lorong kelas internasional. Lalu, ketika ia melewati suatu kelas, lebih tepatnya kelas pertama yang ia lewati di sebelah kirinya, ia mendengar seorang murid di kelas tersebut berteriak ‘Yang di.. SUDUUT' dan teman-temannya langsung menanggapi 'CIe CIe CIEE’ dengan intonasi yang aneh dan dilebih-lebihkan. Ia hanya mengangkat alisnya sebelah dan terus berjalan. Terus dan terus dia berjalan, tetapi suara di heboh dari kelas yang tadi ia lewati tidak juga mereda, malah semakin menjadi-jadi, akhirnya ia penasaran dan memutuskan untuk kembali melewati kelas tersebut.

Saat ia melewati kelas tersebut lagi, ia mendengar ada anak mengatakan "Ca^cad' dan seseorang menjawab ‘Konyol dah lu’ lalu ruangan itu dipenuhi dengan berbagai jenis tawa yang aneh. Ia semakin penasaran lalu mengintip ke dalam kelas tersebut. Ia kaget saat melihat betapa banyaknya murid yang ada di kelas itu, padahal kelas itu terletak di lorong kelas internasional. Ia melihat nama kelas itu. Pantas saja, kelas itu bukanlah kelas internasional, tetapi kelas tersebut terpisah dari kelas-kelas lain dan tersudutkan di lantai 3 dekat kelas internasional. Murid tersebut berpikir, untung saja dia bukan merupakan murid kelas tersebut.

Sementara itu di dalam kelas, murid-murid bersyukur mereka diletakkan di kelas tersebut dan terharu membayangkan bagaimana jadinya kalau mereka pisah kelas nanti.

Oh yeah I was, and I am, talking about X-G. Satu-satunya kelas regular yang ada di lorong kelas internasional. Satu-satunya kelas yang memanggil anggotanya dengan sebutan ‘Alay 01-Alay 40’. Kelas yang saking solidnya sampe ga ada yang masuk aksel, ga ada yang ikut waktu ada acara ke US. Kelas yang baru mempersiapkan segala sesuatunya buat FBI H-1. Kelas yang awalnya ga kompak dan bikin murid-murid di dalam kelas tersebut ga betah, tapi akhirnya malah membuat semuanya ga mau pisah, nangis di hari terakhir.

Banyak banget kenangan di X-G. Di bawah ini mengutip dari blognya Ajet.

SERU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rasanya gue blm siap gak bakal denger Togar ngomong "konyol dah lu" atau Robby "CIe, CIe, Cie" atau "suduuuuuttttt" atau afiq ngomong "CAcat" atau Aryo "Shearing" atau suara merdu avia atau permainan gitar/bass randy, bakoy, marsha, permainan piano riri dan irfan rafi, atau teriakan rifa, mitha, diva, atau muka childish ginta, atau ave si tukang gerak, atau lea yg tiba2 suka push-up sendiri, atau gak liat kekreatifan riri dan ima, atau roby si tukang kompor tapirajin, gak bakal di ajarin afiq, neska, dan irfan rafi. gak ada yg dibully kayak fahrur dan icha, gak ada yg bandeng kyk iqbal, pokoknya gak bisa disebutin satu2, dan gak ada lg gue jam setengan 7 kurang jalan ke lantai tiga mengarah ke kelas inter. huhuhuhuhu sedih..............................................................

Petra dan Anin yang kecantikannya ga kalah sama kealayannya. SI CruLEA De Vil yang suka ngebully dan ekspresinya suka datar dan suka ngerjain gue. Rifa yang suka manggil gue Koala. Neska yang sering bilang ‘LUCUU’ tanpa alasan yang jelas (haha). Omegle-an bareng-bareng lagi, bahkan sekelas pernah kompakan omegle-an atas nama Icha (pelopornya otomatis Lea hahha). Nyanyi ‘Cara cara cara’ lagi buat drama musical dan ganti-ganti jadi ‘chandra Chandra chandra’. Makan banyak di studionya Aryo. Nyari bahan-bahan FBI bareng Ajet, Irfan Rafi dan Jacko terus Irfan ngelawak tentang ‘tukang bambu tadi kayak kenek bus’. Bikin hashtag #XG dan #kenanganXG di twitter.

Ganti kelas otomatis ga akan duduk di sekitar orang-orang yanng sama. Ga bisa lagi duduk sebangku bareng si suara merdu Avia, di belakangnya si alay Anin dan si heboh Mitha, di depannya si alay Petra dan si kreatif Riri, di samping strong Lea dan si hati lembut Adila serta si solid Togar dan si Dion yang diam-diam menghanyutkan.

Pas kelompok gue syuting Oprah Radia terus sampe ke kampung-kampung dan foto-foto dengan tampang melas

Ini foto pertama kita yang bareng-bareng

Itu pertama kalinya kita berusaha untuk solid, atau at least terlihat solid. Kelas-kelas lain udah pada solid dan akrab semua terus ngeupload foto-fotonya di facebook, tapi kita ga. Akhirnya Mitha ngajakin kita foto sekelas pas lagi nunggu buat foto kartu pelajar.



Kalo ini foto kita di minggu terakhir masuk. Pas hari Senin. Disini kita beneran udah kompak, udah ga rela kalo mau dipisah, udah sedih ngebayangin ga akan denger kata-kata aneh yang awalnya justru kita ga suka.

X-G itu kelas tanpa kubu. Dipenuhi dengan berbagai jenis tawa yang aneh, unik, dan lebay. Dipenuhi dengan berbagai macam bahasa aneh. Dipenuhi dengan berbagai macam kealayan. Hahaha :'D

My X-Gold, X-Greatest, X-Galau, X-Gays, X-Gundah Gulana, X-Ghost, X-Gossip, I am X-Gonna-miss-you-all.

Keep alay and keep ciee!