Monday, January 30, 2006

Kebahagiaan

Lanjutan dari item 'Geluk', posted @ 1/28/2006 11:09:00 PM

Kebahagiaan tidak bisa kita kejar.
Kebahagiaan itu bukan benda yang dapat kita genggam.
Kebahagiaan itu bukan sesuatu yang dapat kita simpan.

Kebahagiaan tak akan lari kemana-mana.
Semangkin kita mengejarnya, semangkin pula kebahagiaan itu akan pergi dari kita.
Semangkin kita berusaha meraihnya, semangkin pula kebahagiaan itu akan menjauh.
Tanpa kita sadari kebahagiaan itu sering datang sendiri.

Temukanlah kebahagiaan itu dalam hatimu.

Biarkanlah rasa itu menetap, dan abadi dalam hatimu.
Temukanlah kebahagiaan itu dalam ketulusan hatimu. Temukanlah kebahagiaan itu dalam setiap langkah yang kau lakukan.
Dalam menjalani hidupmu, dalam sedih, gembira, sunyi dan riuh.

Kebahagiaan itu ada dimana-mana dan rasa itu ada disekitar kita.

Mungkin, bahagia itu ada dihati kita, namun kita tak pernah memperdulikannya. Mungkin, bahagia itu ada di sekeliling kita, namun kita terlalu acuh untuk menikmatinya.

Kebahagiaan pada tiap-tiap orangpun berbeda, namun sebenarnya tidak seorangpun tahu apakah arti sejati kebahagiaan itu dan apa yang membuat seseorang itu bahagia...

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Moments In Life

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one, which has been opened for us.

Don’t go for looks, they can deceive.
Don’t go for wealth, even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright and find the one that makes your heart smile.

Dream what you want to dream and go where you want to go. Be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet and enough trials to make you strong. Enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything.
They just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past.
You can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
When live your life so at the end, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

I don’t count the years.
I count the memories, be thankful to the people who mean something to me and to those...
- who have touched my life in one way or another,
- who make me smile when I really need it,
- who make me see the brighter side of things when I'm really down,
- whose friendship I appreciate,
- who are so meaningful in my life...

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Kamu dan Senyummu

Aku tidak mengerti kenapa aku memujamu..
Aku tidak mengerti kenapa aku mengharapkan kasih sayangmu..
Aku tidak mengerti kenapa aku selalu senang ketika mendengar suaramu..
Akupun tidak mengerti kenapa aku selalu berharap kepadamu..

Aku pernah berkata, aku tidak membutuhkanmu..
Aku pernah berkata, kamu tidak berarti buatku..
Aku pernah berkata, tanpamu akupun akan baik-baik saja..


Tapi, aku tidak mampu membohongi diriku sendiri..
Akupun tidak mampu mengusirmu dari hati dan pikiranku..
Akupun sadar meskipun sedikit waktu bersamamu, tanpamu hariku sepi..


Kamu dan senyummu selalu hadir dalam mimpi dan lamunanku....

Geluk

Geluk kan je niet kopen, je kan het eveneens niet maken.
Het overkomt je zomaar ineens.
Het borrelt op, is kristal helder en dat gevoel doet je zweven.

Geluk moet je niet verdienen.
Geluk is heel gewoon.
Geluk zit verscholen in een klein hoekje waaraan je nooit gedacht hebt.

Het zit in de kleine alledaagse dingen, kijk maar eens om je heen.

Een glimlach kan heel bijzonder zijn.
Een spelend kind is een echte wonder.
Alle gewone kleine dingen maken het geluk compleet.

Friday, January 27, 2006

DEEP PURPLE, the first and most famous rock band of the Month!

Thursday, 26 January 2006.
My favorite band, the legendary British hard rock band Deep Purple gave a concert in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam.

The concert was SOLD OUT….

Deep Purple was formed in Hertford, England in 1968, with an inaugural line-up that featured guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, vocalist Rod Evans, bassist Nick Simper, keyboardist Jon Lord, drummer Ian Paice.

Deep Purple counted as well as the instigator of the influential bands of the hard rock music history. They have never been a heavy metal band, though many later heavy metal bands cite their influence. The group has frequently changed styles and line-ups over the years, but always included virtuoso players and placed a high priority Once credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the globe's loudest band, heir revolving-door roster launched the careers of performers including Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale and Ian Gillan.

The great break-through came with the album “
Deep Purple in Rock” whereupon stated the Top 100 Old-time Classic blockbuster “Child in Time”. Also the following albums “Fireball”, with the song “Strange Kind of Woman” and “Machine Head” with the famous song “Smoke On The Water” were succesful. Totally Deep Purple sold more than 100 million albums.

Ups over the years, Deep Purple was left to fill one of the biggest vacancies in rock music. The following members which joined the band are: Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Tommy Bolin, Steve Morse, Joe Satriani, Glenn Hughes, David Coverdale, Joe Lynn Turner, Steve Morsey, Don Airey.

Today, Deep Purple is one of historical most profilic, longest-lived, and hardest touring rock bands. The present band members “MK8” now are: Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and Ian Paice as primal members, added with Steve Morse and Don Airey.

Despite numerous line-up upheavals during their career, Deep Purple remains alive and well in the 21st century….


Deep Purple members history:

1968-1969:
Rod Evans – vocalist, Ritchie Blackmore – guitarist, Jon Lord – keyboardist, Nick Simper – basist, Ian Paice – drummer

1969-1973:
Ian Gillan – vocalist, Ritchie Blackmore – guitarist, Jon Lord – keyboardist, Roger Glover – basist, Ian Paice – drummer

1973-1975:
David Coverdale – vocalist, Ritchie Blackmore – guitarist, Jon Lord – keyboardist, Glenn Hughes – basist/vocalist, Ian Paice – drummer

1975-1976:
David Coverdale – vocalist, Tommy Bolin – guitarist, Jon Lord – keyboardist, Glenn Hughes – basist/vocalist, Ian Paice – drummer

1976-1984:
The band split.

1984-1989:
Ian Gillan – vocalist, Ritchie Blackmore – guitarist, Jon Lord – keyboardist, Roger Glover – basist, Ian Paice – drummer

1989-1991:
Joe Lynn Turner – vocalist, Ritchie Blackmore – guitarist, Jon Lord – keyboardist, Roger Glover – basist, Ian Paice – drummer

1992-1994:
Ian Gillan – vocalist, Ritchie Blackmore – guitarist, Jon Lord – keyboardist, Roger Glover – basist, Ian Paice – drummer

1994-2002:
Ian Gillan – vocalist, Steve Morse – guitarist, Jon Lord – keyboardist, Roger Glover – basist, Ian Paice – drummer

2002-present:
Ian Gillan – vocalist, Steve Morse – guitarist, Don Airey – keyboardist, Roger Glover – basist, Ian Paice – drummer

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Perpisahan

Ada pertemuan, ada pula perpisahan, itu kenyataan yang terjadi sehari-hari. When there is a hye, there is a bye...

Apabila suatu perpisahan terjadi, siapakah yang akan lebih merasa sedih?
Yang ditinggalkan atau yang telah pergi meninggalkan?
Memang tidak ada satu pun yang abadi, masihkah diperlukan kesedihan?

Apabila seseorang pergi untuk mengejar angan-angan, masihkah diperlukan air mata? Bukankah kepergian itu untuk kebahagiaan? Kadang air mata mampu menghapus kekesalan dan kesedihan, menyegarkan kenangan yang indah, berdoa dan berasa untuk bahagia.

Dia yang kini telah pergi ke dunia barat untuk membangun harapan.
Dia yang kini telah pergi ke dunia barat untuk membangun masa depan.

Untuk mereka yang pergi: semoga bahagia...

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Aquae Sulis (Waters of Healing)


Dedicated to Sulis, the Celtic Goddess of the hot springs at Bath, England (the only hot springs in Britain). Sulis's name come from a root meaning 'eye' or 'gap', referring both to the spring from where half a million gallons of hot water still well up every day, as well as to Her powers as seeress.

Her hot spring has been renowned for its healing powers since ancient times, and when the Romans arrived in Britain they built a bath complex around the spring, and named the place Aquae Sulis (the Waters of Sulis). Pilgrims came from mainland Europe to bathe in the therapeutic waters, and references to Sulis are known from as far away as Germany.

The Romans equated Sulis with their Minerva, and so She was known to them as Sulis Minerva, which is somewhat unusual, since the Romans generally used the native Celtic deity name after the Roman name. This is taken as an indication of Her importance and fame.
Though famous for healing, Sulis could curse as well as cure, and in Bath many 'curse tablets' have been found, asking Her to punish people suspected of wrongdoing.

Minerva was the Roman Goddess of War, Wisdom and the Crafts.
In Britain at the turn of the 1st millennium CE, Minerva was depicted throughout Celtic Britain in both purely Roman fashion and in the more abstract Celtic style. But in Bath, at the temple of Aquae Sulis she becomes “fully equated with a Celtic Goddess, Sulis”.

So as you see as with our earthly Mother according to the aspect we are calling on, we call on the name that matches that aspect of the Great Mother Of The Great Goddess. So call her name when you need protection from the warrior mother or wise counsel. Call her by yet another name when you need healing. You can call on her when you need inspiration and a muse to create. She is the Great Mother the Female side of God.


References:
1. The Gods of Roman Britain, Miranda Jane Green, Shire Archeology, 1993
2. Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, Miranda J. Green, Thames & Hudson, 1992

3. Celts in the Hellenic World, Peter B. Ellis, Constable, 1997

Monday, January 23, 2006

Reputasi Kepercayaan

Memang hidup dalam lingkungan di mana reputasi bisa mengalahkan segalanya, bahkan pembuktian secara resmi, belakangan ini saya menyadari betapa pentingnya meletakkan kepercayaan sebagai reputasi.

Apalagi dalam lingkungan di mana budaya 'pegang-kata' lebih dihargai daripada bukti tertulis atau sebuah tanda tangan. Sekali kepercayaan hilang, habislah semuanya.


Lucunya... agar dipercaya, orang harus terlebih dulu mempercayai.
Sebuah paradoks timbal-balik. Dan kadang yang jadi pertanyaan adalah, bisakah saya mempercayainya untuk percaya bahwa dia percaya pada saya?
Orang bilang kepercayaan datangnya dari kejujuran.
Walau kenyataannya tidak selalu demikian, mungkin lebih tepat bila dibilang kepercayaan berawal dari sebuah konsistensi.

Ya, konsisten dalam bersikap.

Terserah mau jujur atau... kalau tidak ya konsisten bohong.

Tapi tentu tak ada orang yang bisa menjaga dengan baik sebuah alur kebohongan... apalagi konsistensinya. Jadi mau tak mau konsisten jujur jadi jalan satu-satunya.

My New Cellphone

Last week I had problems with my cellphone connections. One of the triple frequency 1800 MHz didn't worked more so last Saturday I was obliged to buy a new one.
My new gadget is a simple one, functional and one of Sony Ericsson with essential specifications that I needed such as triple band, GPRS connection, USB, Bluetooth, Infrared, Organizer and no preference for a built-in digital camera.

In summary, I'm very pleased to have my new cellphone. Small enough to slip in my shirt pocket and sophisticated enough for my internet application needs.

Kinderverjaardagen

Wanneer je kinderen hebt die op dezelfde dag geboren zijn, leverde het voor de ouders vaak problemen op en met de jaren heen heb je genoeg ervaring en tactisch vernuft om beide kinderen te verblijden en beiden geen teleurstellingsgevoel te geven.

Wanneer ze naar de middelbare school gaan en hun eigen vrienden hebben, hebben ze meer begrip voorelkaar en plannen de viering van de verjaardagen in onderling overleg. Nu ze volwassen zijn en hun eigen gezin hebben gaan ze hun eigen gang.

Als ouders waren het leuke tijden en nu nog steeds...

I Don't Like Mondays

The weather's bit off-ish this week, cold and it feels like -12° C.
I’m sitting at my desk, trying to focus on work but my mind is actually elsewhere. I’m on a virtual wander cruise, thinking where to go on my next vacation. I’m considering Kuta-Bali, but Kuta-Lombok, Gili Trawangan and Jakarta also sits high on my list. On second thought, Yogja, Solo, Malang and Surabaya looks really nice, too.

See, this is what happens when you have so much work to do but don’t actually have the willpower to do it. It happens almost every Monday to me and remember me to the song "I Don't Like Mondays" that was sung by Boomtown Rats (Bob Geldof).



I Don’t Like Mondays

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s gonna make them stay at home
And Daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

[Chorus:]
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world
And Mother feels so shocked
Father’s world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain’t that peachy keen
No, it ain’t so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

[Chorus:]
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

All the playings stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school’s out early and soon we’ll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain crackles
With the problems and the how’s and why’s
And he can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

[Chorus:]
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down




Sunday, January 22, 2006

Now I Know

There come a time, that love will change like stormy weather
A sunny day will suddenly turn cold
Time will teach you all you need to learn
But there’ll always be a first time you get burned

I don’t regret a single day, joy and pain along the way
A broken heart’s the price we pay
As sad as it may seem
Baby can’t you see, it’s the way it’s gotta be

Now I know that love ain’t meant to be a play thing
Now I know it’s not an ordinary everyday thing
Now I know that when this ride is so amazing
When it’s wrong you gotta let it go

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

When you love someone....

When you love someone....
You'll do anything, all the crazy things that you can't explain.

You'll deny the truth and believe a lie.
There'll be times that you'll believe you can really fly.
You'll feel it deep inside and nothing else can ever change your mind.
You'll sacrifice.
You'd give it everything you got and you won't think twice.
You'd risk it all, no matter what may come.

When you love someone....
If you love them with your heart, it never disappears when you're apart.

If you've done all you can do, you set them free.
And if that love was true, it will all come back to you.

My Emotions

I know… don’t know how, but I’ve got the feeling there that we wouldn’t meet at the end. After all we’ve talked about, after all what we’ve planned together, after I know her better even we haven’t meet.
But I just got a glinch that we will end up like this.
Just as a friend or a stranger not more than that...

She told me that she became confuse, not focus after her ex called her.

Crying and trying to get back with him, but he just still love her even after she cheating also on him. I really don't understand that.
Just wanted the best for her...

I wanted she to be happy, that will make me happy too even at the end she is not with me.
But that will be the best, because I don't wanted to see her missreable. And that will be make me very very sad...

Yes I care for her. I like her more than just a lover!

I only wanted she to be happy. Seeing her smiling is enough for me.
No other things...

But I will let her found what is she wanted. What she think about happiness.
That's what everyone search right?
All that alive are searching what the happiness for them. Because I already found what is happiness for me, I just don't know when can I get it again.
Maybe in a next life when I meet her again...

Thats why I never wishing... or hoping... more...

Why loving someone can make someone freak out?
I don’t understand...


Nothing in this world are Immortals! Only Love....