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selasa, 23 desember 2003
this is will be my last posting in 2003.
i'm having
another vacation!!
please
take care of my blog since i'm not gonna touch it at all.
i'll write some
movie review after this *no promise, probably i'll be too lazy *: underworld, frida, italian job, scarface *hi slesta *(meet my little friend), biarkan bintang menari *hi ruri *

  to irene in san ramon, CA, who vote for my blog in asia weblog award 2003 for best indonesian blog category, thank you thank you very much . for those who want to vote for me too, please visit here:
http://www.flyingchair.net/vote.php?categoryID=7
my blog name is
alaya di kuta
 

to the guy who's leaving the island of paradise to join the crowd in jakarta + bandung...
i will
definitely miss you
bali
will never be the same without you

senin, 22 desember 2003


kamis, 18 desember 2003
    2 weeks ago, when a friend visited bali, we went to four seasons resort in sayan, ubud. for your information, there are 2 four seasons in bali, the other one is the bigger one in jimbaran, the one which was the best resort in the world for a couple of years until it was beaten by begawan giri.

after we parked our car, we walked to the building *temen gue sempet komplen, kok jauh? padahal gak jauh, next time let's take the buggy *. the first thing that greeted us *except those permanently smiling staffs* was the bridge. it is made of steel and timber, rises above the ayung river. and when you see the tiny gaps between the timbers you stepped on, you'll see the river and the trees far below, which make you feel scary *buat meo yg takut ketinggian, mendingan gak usah kesini*.  
  at the end of the bridge, there's this big elliptical lotus overflow pond *this is the part you should say wow!! *. from there, you can see the stunning 360 degrees view to the green ricefield, the river, and the valley. then stop there, enjoy yourself with everything around.

the stairs down is in the middle of the pond. it leads to the lobby and the reception area with the same elliptical shape. the resort has 18 suites and 28 luxurious villa, each with its own private plunge pool
and with outdoor shower, open to the sky.

it's just such a
unique, fantastic, lovely and beautiful resort...

kamis, 18 desember 2003
dia3: eh, gue ga bisa2 buka blog elo
gue: ah elo paling
kurang sajen, kurang amal...
dia3: padahal kan gue kangen sama (blog) elo...
gue: kirain lo lagi sombong aja
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dia4: blog elo hari ini ga bisa kebuka neh
gue: pake gaya dong, blog gue setting-annya emang harus dibuka pake gaya.
make sure you're always in style when you visit my blog
dia4: padahal kan inet di kantor gue cepet
gue: itu juga, kalo blog orang gampang dibuka pake inet cepet, blog gue kan beda, bisanya dibuka
pake inet lambat spt di kantor gue
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temen gue1: gue cari2
mentos yg bentuknya kotak keliling kuta ga ketemu. gue minta punya elo ya?
temen gue2: di circle k juga banyak, ambil aja neh, lo
kenapa sih mentos-addicted gitu? buat apaan sih?
temen gue1: buat
digerus, trus dipake sebagai bedak dingin
temen gue2 + gue yg ikut dengerin: *gubraks deh*


selasa, 16 desember 2003
watched arisan! *hi jessica * last night with hero, my partner-in-crime , still in his gothic style with black nail polish but no black eyeliner. lumayan bagus juga filmnya, & orang2 se-bioskop ribut banget *we were di bioskop busuk*. about gay people. one of them is an architect *hint... hint... * tapi kayak gak di jakarta tuh *atau gue aja yg udah lama gak ke jakarta*, soalnya gak ada macet2nya .
 
 
another wong kar wai still with tonny leung, but this time he played with leslie cheung (the one in farewell, my concubine, as the concubine, right?) in it. about a gay couple from hong kong who moved to buenos aires, argentina for a new life. but life was hard there. setting di argentina tuh keren banged (pake d) !!! old, gloomy buildings, the place that has the end of the world, and those guys speaking chinese in the middle of spanish speaking place *ah*.

about a desperate guy , who made list of his ex-es *and other things* after his girlfriend left him. i looove making list. wish list, shopping list, to-do list.... all kind of lists. but unlike this guy, i hate put priority on my list. it's hard to decide something is better than others. i want them all!!! *serakah mode on *

 

senin, 15 desember 2003
  setelah lamaaaa banget, akhirnya gue dapet postcard juga dari ariadi *pri, temen lo neh*. after get out of surabaya, he's somewhere in saudi arabia now.

the picture in his postcard is the
'auto cube', a famous landmark in jeddah.

thanks ariadi , have fun with your dusty winter...

weekend, 13-14 desember 2003
s a t u r d a y
i was
trapped to watch matrix revolutions once more *aaaaargh *.
awalnya gue mau nonton eiffel i'm in love
, tapi kan gak semua org mau diajak nonton di bioskop busuk di denpasar yg konon ada tikus & kunang2nya .

when i had dinner at cafe moka, i saw the staffs and the owners were
decorating the room beautifully. i just realized christmas is coming!!!


s u n d a y
i was
on-the-road again. we played this game : eh belok kiri kemana? gak tau... cobain yuk. trus nyasar. setelah ketemu lagi jalan yg benar, kita nyoba lagi: belok kanan kemana? cobain aja yuk, trus nyasar lagi... from one of those roads, we found a forrest!!!

here are some boring
pictures of the forrest :
     

we also dropped by at the concentration camp to check e-mails, guestbook and did some browsing *i know, i know, it's a sin to touch computer during the weekend *. but my guestbook was kaput & their internet connection even slower than my office .

jumat, 12 desember 2003
bwahahahaa...
lucu banget deh, satpam dari kantor baru di deket kantor gue ngasi
aba2 parkir pake bahasa inggris!!!
left... left... right... right... straight...

tapi itu blom apa2, soalnya gue pernah mau parkir di kuta square & tukang parkirnya ngasi aba2 pake
mata angin!!! whoaaaa...
timur... timur... barat... selatan....
gue sampe buka jendela utk memperjelas arah2 yg dia maksud

*gubraks*
orang2 yg tinggal di pulau ini emang pada gak beres


jumat, 12 desember 2003
my favorite girl is back!
she was
spit back from hell because the people there didn't want her anymore.
now
she is back to the world to be the nightmare of the 7 oceans as a pirate !

Priska balik buat ngelampok, ngebunuh, nyulik, melkoca dan culi kamu olang punya waktu depan kompie hehehehehe.

congrats for your new blog! whatever you do,
do it with style!
yang penting gaya, man!!


kamis, 11 desember 2003
my computer is sacrifice because of a new toy in the office.
why mine??!!!
because it's
the closest one, they can't extend the cable, and they don't allow to extend the cable.
i hate when an
alien thing is attached to my lovely computer *i know, it's actually not mine, it's belonged to the office, but i love it so much *.
now people will
come and go around me, aaaaargh...... my area of privacy is attacked now .

to meo : thanks for your beatgreet of my immortal.
it really
cheered up my day . it wasn't as easy as i thought before...

rabu, 10 desember 2003
i've been looking for chungking express all my life when suddenly last night, when i dropped by at a friend's house, i got it!!! *i also got happy together, samurai 1, 2, 3, and the eye (but i'm not planning to watch the eye )*. sebenernya gue mau nonton chungking express karena gak mau kalah sama anak ini aja . and i like it!! wong kar wai emang keren .

it's a story about
two broken heart polices. and broken heart people always act extraordinary. the first one was cop number 223 played by takeshi kaneshiro.
 

we're unlucky in love sometimes
when i am, i go jogging
the body loses water when you jog
so you have none left for tears


  then when he was in a bar, he promise himself that he’ll fall in love with the next woman that walks in. that woman turned out to be a drug dealer!

if memory could be canned
would they also have expiry dates?
if so, i hope they last for centuries


the second cop was number 663 played by tony leung. he was too busy
being broke up with his girlfriend so didn't realize there was another girl who stole his keys, decorating his appartment little by little.

but one thing for sure (he told me about this), you'll like the song california dreaming after this movie *and i do, it's still
dancing in my head now*
All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
I've been for a walk
On a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.


the funny thing was , when i looked for wong kar wai in yahoo movies, i
couldn't find it. so i thought, he was naughty or something so the yahoo people don't like him. but it was me who mispell his name. hehehe...

rabu, 10 desember 2003
i got this yesterday :

itulah gunanya teman, dimanfaatkan sampai habis, trus dibuang!!!

hahaha...


rabu, 10 desember 2003
can you get out of my mind, please??!!!
  ... i have to work
... i got things-to-do
... i need some sleeps
...
i wanna rest!!!

pleeeeeeease.....


selasa, 9 desember 2003
setelah alesan males ngantri, sibuk *sok sibuk*, dll, akhirnya gue nonton matrix revolutions. lagian anak ini cuman nonton kalo sama gue *sah*. i think he just enjoy being with someone who can't get the story. akhirnya kita nonton bertiga: gue, hero, sama satu lagi temen kantornya dia *hi i forgot your name *. please don't expect me to write anything about the story here. but it's better than the last one and there were a lot of sacrifice here.  

anyway, anyhow, we're having end of year lunch today at made's warung.
i'm not
too excited about this...

senin, 8 desember 2003
last week was a full week.
the office was still empty and boring but
life was good .
doing things i already left behind give me this alive feeling.
sista was in the beginning of the week then someone else at the end of the week.
shopping along seminyak street, ate good food , coffee , beach .


brazillian food
potatoes and cheese salad at tekor by the beach at night
ate too much nasi campur bali for lunch which gave me bad impression
frozen capuccino
beach at nusa dua
trapped in a middle big rain in captain haddock with french food and multi languange visitors
jeepers creepers 2
flood on legian street (super duper happy face of bules but stressing face of taxi driver)
drove to ubud through village roads by guidance of periplus map
award winning fish soup
walking along the main street of ubud
got into the market
spa at monkey forrest *recommended by mas nunuk *
reading the funny multi languages guest comments: if heaven like this, i'll be good forever
lazying in cafe wayan with death by chocolate cake
beli bensin dapet undian tiket berhadiah tv
luxurious resorts
stole towels at four seasons *you're such a fast learner!*
gaya gallery
painting exhibition
the movie with spooky background music
the friendly french girl with beautiful pronounciation of ' r '
good italian coffee upstairs
some narcissist pictures
the reality that my fingers haven't touch piano for ages
another rain
very very late dinner at bebek bengil
it doesn't sound jazz to me
back to kuta with not enough sleep
last time for surfing on the beach
last minute shopping ...

sabtu, 6 desember 2003


jumat, 5 desember 2003
  cuman mau ngasi tau, kalo cosmo yg edisi bulan ini ada bonus cosmo's short stories-nya.
gue juga baru dikasi tau semalem & langsung beli *walaupun ada yg bilang kalo cosmo itu bacaannya cewek2 yg desperate * soalnya penulis2nya rada2 menjanjikan :
fira basuki, reda gaudiamo, nurul arifin, djenar maesa ayu, dll.
barusan gue selesai baca bukunya di kantor *tipis sih, lebih tipis dari jomblo & ada ilustrasi2 berwarnanya *. seluruh ceritanya temanya sama: tentang
cewek, kerja, umur sekitaran akhir 20an sampe awal 30an. tapi
ceritanya lumayan bagus & ringan kok...

can't wait for another vacation!!!

kamis, 4 desember 2003
hari ini akhirnya gue dapet kiriman buku jomblo-nya adhit *thx iman *.
sialnya gue
lagi banyak kerjaan di kantor *grrrrr *
but i
couldn't help not to read it!
bukunya lucu banget , setelah
ketawa2 terus menerus selama baca, selesai juga akhirnya.
ceritanya
familiar banget, soalnya dulu gue juga kuliah di tempat itu, jadi kebayang bangetlah.
kalo mau liat
review lengkapnya, liat aja disini...

... udah ah, gue mau balik kerja lagi
 

kamis, 4 desember 2003
the highlight of the vacation was when we found the old family video from 10 years ago!!!
me with i-hate-you face
sista was sweet and chubby
and
bro..... nobody could believe that he was a cute kid . he should stay that way....

the
lesson from da posting :
family video is a
treasure
we had this
good ol days
people change
i-hate-you face was awful

selasa, 2 desember 2003


senin, 1 desember 2003
To: "alaya" (alaya_setya@yahoo.com)
Subject: Budapest?
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:29:35 +0700


You lived in Budapest once? That's all too cool! I take my words back when I said that your stories in the blog are getting more garing than usual (hey, actually I never said that, did I?), it's stories like these that made your site worthy of repeat visitation. A personal and unbiased view of the exotic locales that one can only dream of visiting someday. When I said that Hungary is one of the european countries that I'd like to go to, it's partly influenced by the fact that I once hold the position of Liaison Officer for Hungarian Students visiting Indonesia as part of the Kirab Remaja Nasional Event (yes, I admit..I'm being a Tutut's whore for accepting the job). I forgot what year it was, but I'm sure it's between my second to third year in University. It's my first paid job ever! I didn't make much though, only a few lousy hundred thousand rupiahs which I wasted on comic books, but the experience that I gained during the 2 weeks chaperoning two dozen weird looking (some of them are actually quite cute) bules with unpronounciable names was quite wild! I learned some cultural background of their country; the fact that they're descended from one big tribesmen called the Magyar, that later on reaped a bad rap as Gypsies. But actually they're quite friendly. Eager to learn about our own culture (hey! If I don't know anything about Indonesia I'd probably be interested too, but regreting it later perhaps, hehe), well some people are more friendly than the other of course, it's basic human characteristic I guess, just like Irex, you're all exposed to it, but result may vary. Basically all their stories and brochures that they brought with them for show and tell session made me even more eager to learn about their country.

To make the story short (I bet you have some packing to do), we exchanged gifts with them. Me and my L.O. Partner E, we bought wayang golek pencils by the dozens for souvenirs (I still can't believe how cheap we are back then...hey, blame that Tutut hag for being so cheap on us, and spend heavily on allowance money for the foreign participants). In return, they gave us plenty of knick-knacks and trinkets to keep us happy for a couple seconds or two (before realizing, that those are actually pretty cheap also!). But one souvenir from them was actually very cool, it's a 2-cd set of Hungary's Musical Anthology. In them you can find classical music, traditional folk songs, jazz music and even pop songs written and sung by Hungary's finests. Most of them are classical music actually. So if you feel a little bit yearning for that tiny little country in the old continent where you left a good chunk of your heart, then perhaps listening to these songs would help...that is if you like me to copy them for you (I think they haven't invented copy-control Cd back then). Have a nice vacation, and Selamat lebaran!

ps. Did you also know that Budapest is the capital for the world porn industry? hey I bet you've seen some pornstars walking in the street without even knowing it.


senin, 1 desember 2003
  SELAMAT LEBARAN buat semuanya!!



mohon maaf lahir & batin
to iman : makasih buat kartu lebarannya. it's the only card i got through snail mail this year...