Okay!

Okay! Sometimes life is like that. Sometimes there really frustrating day. Name it: your friends do not agree with you, you were given a joke by your friend, you feel how it feels in the betrayed, you can not do physics homework (all that ever happened to me in this week!!!), your best friend becomes the most conceited girl in the world, your parents refused to buy a digital camera. Okay, so what?

Besides, there are times when you can read the novel as much without worrying about whether the employer matches your pants you are wearing. You can laugh with friends while sharing stories, your heart is jumping at that cute guy you squint, and most importantly, we will not know what surprises will we experience tomorrow. It could be you know, very nice day tomorrow.

Sixteen Facts About Me.

I've said in writing "This is the first and last time I wrote on my blog in Indonesian language ...".
But now I'm using the Indonesian language again. So, in my writing that I corrected, "I'll be using the Indonesian language if necessary ..."

In order to celebrate the birthday of the sixteen, so I wrote this:
16 Facts About Me

1. Aku lebih senang bermain atau bergaul dengan cewek dibandingkan dengan bergaul dengan cowok (itu karena sifatku lebih mirip cewek. ohya, tidak semua sih temanku cewek, ada juga kok cowoknya. Tapi sedikit dan itu orang-orang yang mengerti aku).
Aku juga tidak tahu mengapa. Tapi mungkin, ada beberapa alasan. Misalnya, cowok lebih jorok, mesum, tidak rapi, dan yang paling penting adalah, bau (memang tidak semua, tapi kebanyakannya?).

2. Aku senang mengoleksi notes-notes. Kalau di pikir-pikir, mana ada sih cowok yang menyukainya? mungkin hanya aku di dunia ini.
Alasannya adalah sampulnya. Beraneka ragam mulai dari bentuk, warna, dan motifnya. aku suka sekali. Tapi ada sisi positif dan negatifnya:

(+) Jika aku kehabisan buku catatan, aku dapat menggunakannya.
(-) Terlalu menghabiskan uang untuk membeli barang yang belum kamu butuhkan (kecuali jika kamu memang kolektor yang memiliki uang lebih untuk membelinya).

3. Aku pefeksionis. Semuanya harus rapih. Harus bersih. Karena memiliki sifat seperti ini kadang-kadang dapat membuatku menjadi stres. Misalnya, semua buku-bukuku tidak boleh ada yang lecet atau rusak atau lecek atau kotor.
Dan ini sangat sulit. Apalagi jika guruku menyuruh kami megumpulkan buku tulis untuk di nilai! Dan jika temanku meminjam salah satu buku novel yang kupunya, aku ingin sekali menolaknya karena khawatir kalu-kalu bukuku rusak atau semacamnya, tapi untuk menolak itu sulit. Sangat sulit.

4. Aku suka sekali membaca. Apapun. novel, komik, buku sastra, ensiklopedia, buku cerita anak-anak, majalah. Apapun.
Ohya, aku lebih senang membeli buku dari pada meminjam. Entah kenapa, dan aku juga suka sekali mengoleksinya. Kadang-kadang, aku membeli buku yang bagus sampulnya tapi aku tidak menyukai ceritanya. Ini membuatku sedikit boros.
Jika temanku ada yang meminjam bukuku, misalnya novel Harry Potter jilid satu, aku akan membelinya lagi. Kenapa?
Aku yakin jika di pinjam bukuku akan rusak, lecek, dan kotor. Oleh karena itu, aku membeli lagi untuk aku koleksi. Dan yang di pinjam bagaimana?
Terserah. Mau rusak atau kotor atau basah. Karena itu untuk di pinjam bukan untuk aku simpan di lemari bukuku.

5. Aku tidak bangga denagn kewarganegaraanku. Indonesia tepatnya Ya, benar. Aku memang tidak bangga dengannya. Karena alasan-alasan yang aku rasa sangat masuk akal mengapa aku membencinya.

6. Aku lebih senang membaca buku terjemahan beserta para pengarangnya.

7. Aku memang senang dengan buku-buku terjemahan. Tetapi, Teenlit, munkin satu-satunya yang aku sukai dari novel-novel Lokal.

8. Aku senang membeli majalah cewek. CosmoGirl!, GoGirl. Hampir setiap bulan aku membelinya. Padahal, teman baikku, Aldrina, dan dia perempuan, sama sekali tidak menyukai hal-hal seperti itu. Memang kalu dipikir-pikir aku dengan dia berbeda sekali. Dia bisa bermain sepak bola (aku membencinya, karena aku tidak bisa), aku tidak. Aku feminin, dia tomboy. Tapi anehnya, kami bisa dekat. Bahkan menjadi sahabat!
Ohya, alasan aku membeli majalah-majalah itu karena:
Cowok tidak memiliki majalah khusus seperti itu (yang membicarakan Hollywood stars, tips-tips). Yang ada hanyalah majalah sepak bola, otomotif, gadget (aku tidak mengerti dimana menariknya).

9. Aku salah seorang penggemar berat Disney! Artis-artisnya, Film-filmnya, Soundtrack-soundtracknya, Apapun. Pokoknya apapun tentang Disney aku suka!

10. Aku senang menulis jurnal. Karena senang menulis jurnal itulah makanya aku membuat Blog ini. Sebenarnya, sebelum aku mengenal yang namanya Blog, aku cukup senang dengan menulisnya saja di Buku Harianku. Tapi, karena menulis itu jauh lebih capek dari pada mengetik aku memilih blog. Dan, Ohya, selain alasan itu, ada beberapa alasan lainnya:

Di dalam Blog kita dapat memasukan foto-foto dari Hape (Jika di buku harian, kita harus mencetaknya dulu).

11. Aku pernah patah hati. Ya, benar. Aku pernah patah hati. Tepatnya sebulan, hm tidak, hampir dua bulan yang lalu. Pada tanggal 03 Desember 2009 (aku aneh ya? patah hati kok sampai-sampai di ingat tanggalnya). Aku syok sekali pada waktu aku melihat di facebooknya, dia sudah tidak 'Single' lagi. Tapi 'In Relationship'...

12. Aku suka sekali, apapun, tentang persahabatan. Makanya, jika aku memiliki sahabat, sebisa mungkin aku akan terus setia kepadanya... Dari mulai kami berkenalan hingga selamanya...

13. Salah satu cita-citaku adalah menjadi Fashion Designer. Kenapa salah satu? Karena memang agak banyak cita-cita yang aku impikan. Comicus, Interior Design, Open Library or Bookstore, and many more...

14. Inggris. United Kingdom. England. Adalah negara favoritku. Dan aku amat sangat berharap dapat bersekolah disana pada saat aku kuliah nanti.

15. Satu-satunya olahraga yang aku kuasai adalah Berenang.

16. Aku seorang remaja laki-laki (diragukan), berusia 16 tahun, anak pertama dari 4 bersaudara, tinggal di Bandung, Indonesia dan sama sekali tidak bangga dengan kewarganegaraannya sendiri.

This is me and sixteenth facts about myself. I hope, and really really hope that this reading is appropriate for me to write on this blog...
And see you Next Year. When I was Seventeen!

The Merlin Entertainments London Eye.

The Merlin Entertainments London Eye, or more simpler known as The London Eye, or known as the "Millennium Wheel", is Europe's LARGEST rainbow! Tallest Ferris wheel and the largest in the world, stands to a height of 443 feet! Each capsule The London Eye can accommodate 25 people, where the people who boarded the capsule is free to walk to London from the top sightseeing capsule. Why can freely walk around the capsule, because the turnover is very slow wheel once! The London Eye is located in Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank, River Thames. So if you were in London, make sure you check out some of London's slightly less fascinating hot spots like the London Eye.

"Circle Game"

My friends ask me if I'm doing ok
But it depends on if you've called today
So that means I'm not doing so good
And I'd forget you baby if I could

My friends ask me how I am tonight
And if I've heard from you I'll be doing a height
And thats the trouble with the situation
We go up and down, in and out of love, because

It's a circle game (it's a circle game)
I don't wanna play (I don't want to play)
I think I'm over it, then I hear you name,
I get lost in the sound and I can't find my way out

It's a circle game (it's a circle game)
Nothing's gonna change (nothing's gonna change)
Better half of me is telling me to lose your name,
And I get lost in the sound and I can't find my way out

Everyday is different but it feels the same
My moods goes up and down with every move you make
If I could I'd get myself off this ride, and we'd be on the same
Page at the same time

It's a circle game (it's a circle game)
I don't wanna play (I don't want to play)
I think I'm over it, then I hear you name,
I get lost in the sound and I can't find my way out

It's a circle game (it's a circle game)
Nothing's gonna change (nothing's gonna change)
Better half of me is telling me to lose your name,
And I get lost in the sound and I can't find my way out

I want off of this merry-go-round
It gets hard to breathe
When your not here with me
And an hour can feel like eternity
So baby
What we keep going round and round and round we go
Where we stop we never know
Round and round and round we go
Where we stop we never know
Round and round and round we go
Where we stop we never know
Round and round and round we go
Where we stop we never know
Round and round and round we go
It's a circle game...

—Kiely Williams, The Cheetah Girls

Apple iPad

Apple introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. Apple iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets users physically interact with applications and content. Apple iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. Apple iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store. Apple iPad will be available in late March starting at the breakthrough price of just $499.

Apple iPad Multi-Touch interface
Apple iPad features 12 next-generation Multi-Touch applications. Every app works in both portrait and landscape, automatically animating between views as the user rotates iPad in any direction. The precise Multi-Touch interface makes surfing the web on Apple iPad an entirely new experience, dramatically more interactive and intimate than on a computer. Reading and sending email is fun and easy on iPad's large screen and almost full-size "soft" keyboard. Import photos from a Mac, PC or digital camera, see them organized as albums, and enjoy and share them using iPad's elegant slideshows. Watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD or flip through pages of an e-book you downloaded from Apple's new iBookstore while listening to your music collection.

Download apps via the iTunes store to the Apple iPad
Apple iPad runs almost all of the over 140,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone or iPod touch. The iTunes Store gives you access to the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 11 million songs, over 50,000 TV episodes and over 8,000 films including over 2,000 in stunning high definition video. Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes Apple's new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile device. The iBookstore will feature books from major and independent publishers. 

Apple i-Pad syncs with iTunes
Apple iPad syncs with iTunes just like the iPhone and iPod touch, using the standard Apple 30-pin to USB cable, so you can sync all of your contacts, photos, music, movies, TV shows, applications and more from your Mac or PC. All the apps and content you download on iPad from the App Store, iTunes Store and iBookstore will be automatically synced to your iTunes library the next time you connect with your computer. Apple iPad's brilliant 9.7-inch, LED-backlit display features IPS technology to deliver crisp, clear images and consistent color with an ultra-wide 178 degree viewing angle. The highly precise, capacitive Multi-Touch display is amazingly accurate and responsive whether scrolling web pages or playing games. The intelligent soft keyboard pioneered on iPhone takes advantage of iPad's larger display to offer an almost full-size soft keyboard. Apple iPad also connects to the new iPad Keyboard Dock with a full-size traditional keyboard. 

New iWork version for Apple iPad
Apple also introduced a new version of iWork for iPad, the first desktop-class productivity suite designed specifically for Multi-Touch. With Pages, Keynote and Numbers you can create beautifully formatted documents, stunning presentations with animations and transitions, and spreadsheets with charts, functions and formulas. The three apps will be available separately through the App Store for $9.99 each.

Apple iPad tablet with Wi-Fi and 3G
Apple iPad is powered by A4, Apple's next-generation system-on-a-chip. Designed by Apple, the new A4 chip provides exceptional processor and graphics performance along with long battery life of up to 10 hours. Apple's advanced chemistry and Adaptive Charging technology deliver up to 1,000 charge cycles without a significant decrease in battery capacity over a typical five year lifespan. Apple iPad comes in two versions-one with Wi-Fi and the other with both Wi-Fi and 3G. iPad includes the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi, and the 3G versions support speeds up to 7.2 Mbps on HSDPA networks. Apple and AT&T announced breakthrough 3G pre-paid data plans for iPad with easy, on-device activation and management.

Apple iPad equipped with LED display
Continuing Apple's dedication to designing and creating environmentally responsible products, each iPad enclosure is made of highly recyclable aluminum and comes standard with energy-efficient LED-backlit displays that are mercury-free and made with arsenic-free glass. Apple iPad contains no brominated flame retardants and is completely PVC-free. Apple releases a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for iPad, so developers can create amazing new applications designed to take advantage of iPad's capabilities. The SDK includes a simulator that lets developers test and debug their iPad apps on a Mac, and also lets developers create Universal Applications that run on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Apple iPad tablet device
"Apple iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Apple iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before."

Apple iPad Price & AvailabilityApple iPad will be available in late March worldwide for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) for the 64GB model. The Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad will be available in April in the US and selected countries for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. As soon as we receive a Apple iPad test sample, we will publish an in-depth Apple iPad review.

 

 

Always the Trouble...

Kenapa sih hidup aku itu nggak pernah lepas dari yang namanya masalah?
Kenapa sih manusia itu harus punya masalah?
Kenapa nggak bebas aja?
Seperti Makhluk-makhluk lainnya?
Seperti gajah yang bisa dengan santainya berjalan di padang rumput.
Seperti burung-burung yang dengan tenangnya berkicau di pagi hari...

Bayangkan saja, mulai dari hari senin minggu lalu, sampai hari ini, nggak pernah ada hari tanpa
masalah.
Satu masalah terselesaikan, satu masalah lain datang. Dua pergi, dua datang lagi.
Kenapa nggak pernah selesai siiihhh?!?!?!
Aku capek kalo begini terus! Aku yakin, masalahku tidak akan pernah ada habisnya hingga aku mati nanti!
Eh? tidak, tidak, tidak. Justru masalah baru akan memulai begitu kamu tiba di liang lahat,
atau seperti yang kita kenal dengan kuburan...

Masalah yang aku hadapi hari ini:
1. Mereka, pergi ke mall tanpa diriku.
Bukannya aku ingin ikut, tapi yang aku inginkan adalah bagaimana mereka masih menganggap ada tidak aku.
Begini, jika mereka mengajak aku pada hari sabtu lalu, itu artinya mereka memang peduli pada kehadiranku dalam acara tersebut. Jika tidak, yah, sudah pasti, mereka tidak mengingat keberadaanku...
2. Karena masalah inilah aku jadi bertengkar dengan sahabatku! Aldrina.
Bukankah seharusnya aku yang marah pada mereka? Atau tepatnya dia karena tidak mengajak aku? Tapi kenapa jadi terbalik?
And I won't apologize!!!
Dan sungguh, aku sangat membenci saat-saat seperti ini. Amat sangat tidak suka!
Kenapa? Yup! Karena aku paling tidak suka jika ada orang yang sedang kesal padaku dan kami tidak dapat berkomunikasi.

***

You had me to get her.
And here, I thought it was me.
I was changin', arrangin' my life to fit your lies.
It's all said and all done.
I gave it all for the long run.
Can she say the same thing?
I guess this is good bye and good luck.
(I can't be what you want me to be.)

I'm sorry for changing.
I'm sorry it had to be this way.
Believe me, it's easier just to pretend.
But, I won't apologize for who I am.

No, no.

Remember the time when you said you were out with your best friend.
But it wasn't the best friend that you know I thought you meant and
I used to assented, I didn't know I could be free.
But I am, and I won't go back 'cause you so don't deserve me.
(I don't even want to be her.)

I'm sorry for changing.
I'm sorry it had to be this way.
Believe me, it's easier just to pretend.
But, I won't apologize for who I am.

I thank you for this hopeless war
Cause through the pain now I'm stronger now than before.
Now I'm more.
I don't need you anymore.
I'm sorry.
(Listen close I won't say this again.)

I'm sorry for changing.
I'm sorry it had to be this way.
Believe me, it's easier just to pretend.
But, I won't apologize for who I am.

I'm sorry for changing.
I'm sorry it isn't like it was.
Believe me, it's easier just to pretend.
But, I won't apologize,
why should I apologize,
no, I won't apologize for who I am...

-Selena Gomez and the Scene

***

3. Aku membatalakan untuk pergi tutorial. Padahal aku sudah membawa yang aku butuhkan.
Tidak seperti minggu lalu, aku tidak membawa buku yang aku butuhkan.
4. Masalah berikutnya berhubungan dengan masalah yang tadi.
Aku membatalkan untuk pergi tutorial karena:

• Suasana hatiku sedang tidak bagus. Itu dikarenakan bertengkarnya aku dengan sahabatku.
• Aku belum mencetak makalah TIK-ku yang harus di kumpulkan besok.
  

Nah, inilah masalahnya. Aku akan mencetak makalahku. Tapi aku tidak membawa flashdisk yang berisi dokumen makalahku. Batal sudah aku mencetaknya.
5. Batal untuk tutorial. Batal mencetak makalah. Berikutnya, ayahku marah padaku.
Lantaran aku tidak dapat mengantarnya pergi ke dokter mata.
Kalau di pikir-pikir, hal ini tidak ada hubungnnya dengan semua masalah tadi (sebenarnya ada).
Dan bukan salah ayahku jika di marah padaku.
Akunya saja yang tidak tahu diri. Ayahku selalu mengantarkan akau kemanapun. Tapi, hanya disuruh
untuk menemaninya pergi ke dokter mata saja aku tidak mau! Sungguh aku anak yang tidak tahu diri.

5? Cukup sedikit bagiku masalah yang aku hadapi hari ini. Tidak seperti hari senin pada minggu lalu.
Nah, apakah ada yang mau bertukar denganku dan mengahadapi semua masalah yang aku hadapi?
Hhh... aku YAKIN tidak ada.

5 Chocolate Museums in the World

Chocolate makes everything better, it gives you energy, it’s a great friend when you’re having a bad day and, most importantly, it tastes amazing. Although it hasn’t been around for as long as most may think, it had such a great impact on our lives that museums have been built in its honor.

Aztecs believed chocolate was sacred and used it as food and currency. Today, their descendants, the Mexicans drink hot chocolate all-year-round, savoring its foam because it contains the spirit of the drink. Cocoa beans first reached Europe when Columbus returned from the New World, but, at that time, people didn’t know how to properly use them. One hundred years later, the famous conquistador Cortes saw Montezuma drinking hot chocolate and prepared a similar drink when he returned to Spain. That’s when the world really discovered chocolate, and now, almost a half-century later, people visit chocolate museums to learn its history.

Though they might not be as exciting as Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, chocolate museums are pretty interesting, and they offer their visitors many chocolaty treats. Here are five of the world’s most popular chocolate museums:

Heindl Chocolate Museum – Vienna, Austria

Austria’s capital is famous for more than its gorgeous architecture and rich culture, Heindl chocolate is a big part of the city’s history. The Heindl business began in 1953, when Walter Heindl and his wife first created their delicious liquor chocolates. Now Heindl is an established brand on the chocolate market and the company even opened a museum at the end of 2001.

As soon as you walk through the gates of the museum, you are greeted with kindness and tasty delights. The guide tells visitors the history of cocoa, from its discovery to the complex processing of today and shows them old chocolate-making machinery and packaging. Chocolate lovers also have the chance to visit the Heindl chocolate factory, one of the most modern in the world. When the tour is over chocolate is offered again, of course.

Hershey’s Chocolate World – Hershey, USA

Hershey's Chocolate World.

Hershey chocolate is such a big brand in the US that it named the town it’s based in. Located in Pennsylvania, Chocolate World is an interactive experience where chocoholics can actually operate the chocolate factory’s machinery and create their own personalized sweets. Imagine creating an original box of those famous chocolate kisses for your significant other or for a close friend.

Cadbury Chocolate Museum – Birmingham, UK

There aren’t many chocolate aficionados that haven’t heard of Cadbury chocolate. It’s probably the most popular brand in the business, so the fact they have a museum dedicated to chocolate doesn’t come as a big surprise.

Old Cadbury Wrapping.

Cadbury World first takes its visitors on a trip back in time, to when the Aztecs first started experimenting with cocoa beans and tells how it was first introduced to the civilized world. After this, John Cadbury himself tells the story of how he founded the company and turned it into one of the most popular brands in the world and visitors enter the interactive part of their experience, where they can write their names in hot chocolate, chase after Cadbury chocolate eggs or seed their very own cocoa plants.

Lindt Chocolate Museum – Cologne, Germany

I can’t think of a more pleasant thing to do than enjoying fine chocolate on the shores of the Rhine. The perfect place to do this is at the Lindt Chocolate Museum in Cologne, Germany.

Lindt Chocolate Museum.

Part of the museum is a working chocolate factory where chocolate lovers can witness how their favorite desert is created. The best part of the tour here is the sampling, naturally. You get to taste whatever the factory is producing on the particular day you’re visiting, plus some unusual chocolaty products like chocolate pasta and mango-chili chocolate bars.

Alprose Schokoland – Lugano-Caslano, Switzerland

A wonderful attraction for children and adults alike, Alprose Shokoland offers chocolate addicts an opportunity to see how Swiss chocolate is prepared, and what makes it so special. Alprose focuses less on the history of cocoa and chocolate, offering just a few write-ups on these subjects, and more on showing people how they make their famous chocolate. Visitors get to watch up close how cocoa is processed and turned into fine chocolate.

Alprose Schokoland.

After the tour chocoholics pass through the factory’s store, where they can sample every kind of chocolate delight ever produced by the famous Swiss brand, and they can buy as many sweets as they like at factory prices.

In quotes from http://blog.hotelclub.com/.