DanzaTrice 07 massive success!

Last friday, I went to my senior highschool Labschool Jakarta to buy a Labsproject 2012 tickets (an annual event in my highschool held by the 11th grade). I bought the ticket from my junior which is the saman dancer as well, I came to her at the usual place for practice (Ruang Kaca). I was surprise that they'll perform not only the saman dance but also Rampai Geleng dance. The dance which is come from Aceh just like Saman but we use the circle things sounds like drum just like the pictures above. And my mind flew away to two years ago, the time that my batch held this big event LabsProject 2010 Future Vision. In that time, me and my saman dance team called DanzaTrice07 also performed Saman and Rampai Geleng dance. This event was the top part of our dance history. We had been prepared for this event approximately 3 months. Why it took so long? Because this is our own event and we want to performed the best of saman dance ever. Our coach gave us an advice to perform Rampai Geleng dance, the mix with saman dance will be very cool and attractive. We're agree with the idea and began to practice three times a week if I wasn't mistaken. It was very hard and need to be patience all the time. The group formation from left to right of our dance was Cassandra, Ajeng, Faya, Indi, Lathifa, Dini, Nane, Iffa (me), Dida, Dhea, Lea, Lulu, Tika, Ayas, Nadya. Me, Dini, Nane, Dida and Dhea were in the middle and it's our job to make some kind of flower by made a circle path and turn around and around, it was sick and insane but I admit it makes the dance looks beautiful with the dance combination by other friends in the right and left. I know it sounds confusing but believe me, there's something more insane when we performed. Finally the day we've been waiting for is come. Me and DanzaTrice07 were stay in the hotel near Senayan (the place we held LP'2010). We've to do final practice on the spot in the morning before the event. So we're going to practice with all the enthusiasm even though I've confession to make that I didn't remember all the song lyrics yet hehe (so does some of the girls :p). But I don't know why what's wrong with us, the final practice wasn't as good as the other practice. There was a dissapoint face from us, the crew and the EO people. Because they were hoped that all of Labs Performance by students was attractive just like the event. I feel sad cause we're going to perform at night and we don't have time to practice all the time it'll make us tired. So we're just praying and hoping all the best for that night. Then, after long preparation at the hotel, we're going to the place in the afternoon to helped the other crew, watch the band performance or staying in the backstages. We did our make up 2-3 hours before the show. After all the waiting and prepared, we're going to performed, I feel numbs, nervous and suddenly forgot all the dance movement. We did our ritual praying by hand in hand and made a circle of us. After praying we stood near the stages waiting the Syekh (Saman dance singer) begin to sing the song. The syekh was yell out 'Assalamualaikum kami ucapkan..." the beginning of our performance, we went to the stages in line, the audiences were.....(speechless)....very very crowded. The 9000 audiences waiting for their favourite band and screaming to us.. But then, miracle happened, the syekh started to sing "Sallatulah..salamullah.." which is everybody knew it, and Gelora Bung Karno sing it loudly until we don't even hear the syekh sing, a little bit scared we miss the beat but we're fine until fiveteen minutes we entertained the crowds, they're clapped their hands loudly everytime we raise the beat of our dance and yes, they love our performance. We went to backstage, yelling, screaming, hugging and laughing to each other. The teachers, parents, friends congratulates us, we're the celebrity in a minutes hehe. Ofcourse we didn't forgot to pray again, thanked God for everything, for the massive success and for our team. We did it!! Long Live DanzaTrice07

And back again to the Labsproject 2012, it's on Saturday, May 12 2012! Buy the ticket now, and Goodluck for the crews and performances.. :D

It's exist in Indonesia

If you want to coddling your eyes with a real beauty scenery, Bangka Belitung is a nice choice for you. I went to Bangka Belitung island last year, after pass the national examination, my mother who always organized a holiday vacation choose Bangka Belitung as our destination. I was really exited about to leave Jakarta and all examination ahead. My exitement was corroborative! After one hour and fourty five minutes on my way by airplane, finally I entered H.A.S. Hanandjoeddin Airport, Tanjung Pandan, Bangka Belitung Island. I'm about too exited to see the beach, even though it just the three of us, but I'm sure it'll be fun. On the next day, we took a one day package tour in Tanjung Pandan if I wasn't mistaken, cause most of the places are called with Tanjung I guess. The plan was we're going by sailing boat to go around the beach, small islands and snorkeling. When we're in the middle of the sea, I was enchanted by the scenery around, I'm shocked in a second and said to my self  "it's exist in Indonesia"! I oftenly draw attention to other country. There was a lot of big stone in the middle of the sea with a gradation color mostly the blend of grey, white and black with palm trees around them and blue sky background. It's similar with hand painting for sure, but this one was God's painting. So you better extend your imagination or visit it by yourself. Then we're going to small cute island, it was only a sand and stone but we're permitted to take a picture over there and swimming. We're having lunch in other island and in the afternoon, we went to snorkeling! And yes, the miracle happened again, the water was so clear, it feels like we're in the swimming pool but the floor was the coral sea, seaweed and small fish, sooooooo damn beautiful. I wanna swim all day long for real.. Me, mom and dad enjoy the snorkeling until the tidewater comes. On the last day, we visited laskar pelangi place (based on laskar pelangi book&movie) and just take a look and pictures there. It was a short lovely vacation with family, realizing that my family hobby is traveling, I'm so glad of being part of them.

Inside Toraja

Do you know which ethnic use this model for a house? This is called Toraja house, or called Suku Toraja (Ethnic Toraja) particularly in Makassar. Two years ago, me and my friends Dhea and Yuka decided to go traveling. And we choose Makassar as our destination in order to try the Trans Studio amusement park in Makassar city. It was new in Indonesia so we were like very exited to play all the ride and we thought it was just like disneyland (teen girl love dreaming). But reality hit when we know it just way too far from disneyland and yes, media very smart covered a news for Trans Studio. I'm a bit dissapointed cause most of the ride was belong to the kids. We stayed at my aunty's house but on the next day me and myfriends decided to go to Toraja city (one of tourists area in Makassar) it's a long way journey cause it took 8 hours. The tourists object that we curious the most was a unique Toraja house and the cave where the umber of human corpse. Well it becomes more and more exited but creepy at the same time. First we take a look to Toraja house, the shape of the roof is move upward and it must be a philosophy of this house but I don't remember anymore. And they usually keep the human corpse inside the roof if they didn't have money yet to make a death ceremonial cause it will takes hundreds of million rupiah. They have a really big death ceremonial in the purpose to appriciate the deadmen of their life and to share happiness to others, not sadness. They will bought a buffalo, pig, buy the space in the cave and everything and it costly for sure. So it was really unique for me, it's different from my religion which is muslim. Then it was very interesting when we permitted to take a look inside the cave. I admit it was creepy but the guide man was really good even though he's a bit creepy as well. And I saw many skull head in that cave, it's kind of state of stress cause it was scary and I don't know why my friends were fine about that. It was a rarely moment in my life, took a vacation in a different place with different cultural background and lot of superstitions in it. Well it's great for additional information, therefore I love traveling.

The story of Wedding Dress

This is one of the movie which was took my hours and lot of tissues. Every teardrop of mine I considered worthed because this movie taught me a lot about the relationship between mom and daughter. Those of you who already watched this movie would understand my feeling I guess. This sad love story between mom and her daughter clearly defined in this movie. According to the title, wedding dress, this story told us about a single parents women who have a stubborn daughter but she really love her. One day, her mom suffer from a dangerous disease that could make her die in no spesific time. Knowing that she'll not attending her daughter wedding, as a wedding dress designer, she makes a beautiful wedding dress for her little daughter to be used when she got married someday. The sad part in this movie is knowing that the relationship between them was so close, knowing that her daughter have an interpersonal communication among her friends makes her mom really take care of her and be the best mom, dad, friend, bestfriend and everything this little girl wished for. Time goes by, her daughter know that her mom suffer from disease and she felt sorry case she makes her mom cried several times. When her mom become inpatient in the hospital, her daughter show her best to make her mom happy in the end. And the way this girl and her mom act really take my breath away, I can't even imagine a day without mom, it will drag me to misery I guess. The messages from this dramatic movie was obvious, it's motivation for us to love our mom more, don't make them cry over you but makes them sweep out of our achievement that make them proud. I admit it I'm still learning until now, but every time I remember this movie, it's wake me up. The ending was really dramatic, her mom died peacefully and her daughter cried over her but at least, she make her happy in the end of her life by showing her best to changer her stubborn attitude. This movie is highly recomended, just for your information, you;ve to prepare lot of tissues before you make your own flood of tears haha..

Taylor Swift

Who doesn't know this beautiful lady? Lemme break the rules beauty less brain, cause this lady is one of the most popular singer who best known worldwide. In her age which is just 22, Taylor Swift had become a mucisian who wrote her own songs and lyrics. This lady totally inspiring me, I've became her biggest fans from junior highschool until now. Not because she's become mainstream around teenagers, and I don't really care if I love mainstream music, I like her art, her music and the way she expressed it. She played the guitar and put country genre in most of her songs. What I love the most is how she sang the song and somehow it feels connected with me cause I receive the messages really well. She's a good story teller, sometimes I feel like not every singer is a good story teller, they just sing it really well with lot of improvement and makes them sounds damn professional but I dont get the messages from their songs, I just got the technique. That's why we can differenciate who singer sang with the technique only and who's singer who sing it with the heart. And I do prefer with heart instead (that's why I broken heart a lot) HAHA no privacy thing now. Continue my opinion about Taylor Swift, I really appriciate the way she dressed up, thank God she's not one of the women singer who picturing themselves as a slut. I mean, she didn't wear a very sexy dress to sell her music, especially in her video clip and performance. I'm wondering why women singer nowadays wear a very sexy dress and act like shit in her vidclip just to grab the attention. Hello? It's your music and voice! And it makes me more and more adore with Taylor Swift cause she doesn't act like that fortunately. She can be a role model for us, especially young lady. Bac again to her music and lyrics, I played her music over and over again and still falling in love with her song wich are, Long Live, Our Song, Back To December, Never Grow Up and etc. She said that when she wrote a lyrics it feels like her diary but when she sing it she knew that she's not alone. I'm totally agree with this statement cause yes, you right ms. Swift that lyrics is represent our feelings and it'll happened no matter what all over the world maybe. Meanwhile, I want to standing ovation for your lyrics which is some of them dedicated to your someone special, especially Back To December, I knew who's that guy and hopefully you guys will coming back together cause both of your name can be Taylor Lautner haha! One wish from me is, please come to Indonesia cause I'll be in the first row to sing aloud.

My first blog: How a novel can inspired me

Hi, this is the first time I write a blog. Well today is sunday, 29 April 2012. I supposed to go to my campus event but suddenly I got sick and need to bedrest. Considering the fact that I'll be at home all day long, I start my "sunday morning" with writing a blog. I wanna give a summary about some novel that I really appriciate besides Jody Picoult novel (the most loveable author for me). The title of this novel is 5 cm, the author is an indonesian, Donny Dirgantara. He's smart and way too funny, the writing style was great, he put a lot of valuable messages but in a different way to persuade us. What I love the most is he also put a lot of quotes from great people to motivate us, his humorist style can be motivate us as well. This novel told us about the journey of life, complicated lovelife, the diversity makes a sweet friendship, the power of nature, about God, and how to reach our own dream. Maybe it sounds ordinary as a novel, but this guy Donny Dirgantara package the story quite extraordinary, therefore it makes the novel become one of the best seller in Indonesia. It's very proud knowing that penmanship in Indonesia is growing up nowadays.
Even though I'm one of the people who's a bit late of reading this novel, I never regret it cause books never counted an age, year, even decade. The story of 5 people (Genta, Riani, Zafran, Arial and Ian) are amazed me. How those ordinary characters believes their own dream by putting their dreams 5 cm from their forehead so it's forever in their mind but at the same time they can saw it by their own eyes, keep focus and have a faith that everything they want it'll be happened based on the effort. And now it's a little bit helping me to be an optimist person. Cause now, I put my dreams 5 cm from my forehead and I saw it many times from now on, and I'll achieve it someday. This recomended book is a must to be read, read it, absorb it, live it! <3