Nov.28.2009 New Year in Japan

In Japan, the new year celebrations is welcomed by cleaning and put decorative pine at the door.
On new year`s eve, or are known by the term "omisoka", japanese people have custom to go to the temple to pray by wearing kimono/hakama.
They then will eat "toshi koshi soba" noodles while listening to the new year bell.Unlike at the other countries, new year in Japan is celebrated 3 days in a row.

The first day of new year is called "gantan/ganjitsu". Meanwhile the morning is called "hatsumode."

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Nov.21.2009 Behind the name "Ajinomoto"

Do you know the meaning of "Ajinomoto" One of Indonesian seasoning product?
At first i thought that Ajinomoto doesn`t have any meaning so personally.
I thought it`s only a ordinary name that doesn`t have anything to explain about.
But, i was wrong.

This afternoon, i took my japanese course.
And i learnt about adjective in Japanese.
And my "sensei"/teacher told me about that.

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Nov.20.2009 About cosplay

Have you ever seen cosplay party?
I`m sure you have, since many event was held whether in a mall, university, etc.

Okay, what is Cosplay?
Cosplay is a abbreviations from Costume playing.
usually pronounced by Japanese people, "kosupure"
Cosplay is one of Japanese culture that now spread to all over the world.

Cosplay is an expression of your love to anime, manga, game or even j-artist (Japanese-artist).
Japanese artist generally have an outstanding character, whether for appearance and characteristic.

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Nov.14.2009 What to do when holiday come ...

How to spend your holiday time without spending too much money?

1. Picnic in the garden.
It`s fun and increasing your relationship with the others. You can take out food from your refrigerator.

2. Go to Library
an effective way to spend your time. Read books that is interesting and give you more knowledge. e.g: history book ...

3. Go to the Museum
Many ancient artifacts that is interesting to look at

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Nov.10.2009 Ar tonelico 2 : Reisha`s Lullaby

This is also one of my favorite song! from game ar tonelico 2 : melody of metafalica

That game have so many wonderful songs.
And this one is my favorite song in that game

This song is japanese. But this song is so soothing your heart and make you more relaxed ^^
This song is sang by Reisha, the mother of Luca when she is small to make her sleep well.

Here is the lyric..
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Nov.06.2009 Rhapsody : Our World

This is one of my favorite song from Nintendo Ds game;

Rhapsody : A musical adventure

This song is so romantic! I love this song so much
This song is about Cornet, an ordinary girl from a small village who fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince from a royal family.
Here is the lyric...

---Our World---
Sung by: Cornet & Prince Ferdinand

(English only)

(Cornet)
I can no longer hold it back
My heart is filled with love. The feeling of love for you

(Prince)
I can feel your precious heart
Holding your hand in mine, I feel the special love, we have

(Cornet)
Is it just a fantasy?

(Prince)
It's not a fantasy

(Cornet)
Are we dancing in a dream?

(Prince)
It's not a dream

(Cornet)
I never ever want to wake up from the sweet sweet dream
It's our world Our love is everywhere

(Prince)
To the sky, our hearts will soar above

(Cornet)
Our hearts will soar above
It's our world Our love is everywhere

(Prince)
Our love is everywhere

(Together)
We can fly, together on the wings of love
It's a wonderful feeling being in love with you

(Cornet)
Please never go

(Prince)
I'll always stay

(Together)
I never want to stop dancing with you
This is our world, and I never ever want to let you go

Here is the link to download this song... Click it;
Our World

Okay, hope you`ll enjoy this song ^w^

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Nov.04.2009 Experience In OBAKE Ghost House

Last saturday exactly at October 31st 2009, i went to a cosplay event at la Piazza Mall, Kelapa Gading, Jakarta, which celebrated halloween competition at Kelapa Gading. I went there while cosplaying as beautiful Kairi from Kingdom Hearts II. But, i wasn`t entering the competition. Just cosplaying for taking pictures and FUN! XD

I must go because in that day i wanna celebrated my friend`s birthday party too, who is 17 now, named Febrina. And, one of the purpose for my arrival there is to try to get into the OBAKE, which everyone said really scary. My other Junior high school`s friends wanna come too because they were curious just what was inside this OBAKE.

At first, we were very interested, we can`t wait for the time when will the OBAKE be opened. Even my friend, Desdut said, "Yeah. I`m so interested in coming there. Hey, what about taking photos in there later? We can stopped a bit and take photos for our memorials." I just smile when she said that. I wonder if we can "stopped a bit" there.

The OBAKE opened from 6 pm until 11 pm. Although at 4 PM the place haven`t opened yet, a long queque has been made. I and Desdut was still busy going around and taking pictures with cosplayers which costumes were very impressive and Melisa and her sister, Angel was more interested in watching the cosplay competition. Meanwhile, Shabrina and Lisa were already busy quequing behind the lines. Me and Desdut said that it isn`t necessary. We thought that it`s better if we queque later, when the OBAKE is already opened.

Shabrina, who is the most impatient one for getting in there approach me and said to us. "Hey, i think we should queque from now. Look at that, this is still 4 PM but the queque is already long." Me and Desdut don`t care (ahaha ^w^) and we still continue our photos session. We said to her that we`ll follow them later. And Melisa, who want to watch the cosplay competition was forced by Shabrina to join them quequing. hahaha. Very poor =p

Okay, when it`s already 5 PM, me and Desdut join them queque. We replace them to wait in the line. Because, they were obviously tired and all standing there about one hour or more. At 5:30 PM, the queque were getting more crowd, even it`s a little hard to out of the line because i wanna change clothes. My cosplay costume is not too comfortable in this crowded heat.

When i got back to the line with my normal cloth, i was so surprised that the line has already become more and more crowded. It`s hard to get back to the line where my friend was waiting on. I feel relieved that we were quequing in the quite front line, only a few metres from the entrance. I looked behind and see that the queque were already very long. And i think that we can getting into the ghost house quickly.

At 6:30 PM, a few people give up from quequing and getting out of the line. Shabrina said, "don`t give up. A little more we`ll arrived at that ghost house." We all nod agreely and said, "they`re so misfortune." hahaha.

But my guess was wrong =_=
What i assume as an entrance, actually is not an entrance yet. Now i understand why a few people in front of me give up quequing and getting out of the line. The entrance to the ghost house is more further into and it`s not visible to see from that crowd of people where i stand before.

Okay! SO! We quequed at a total time of 3 hours!!! We wait in the line since 5 PM and successede to get into the OBAKE at about 8 PM.

SO-SO tired standing without sitting about 3 hours in the crowd!!!! The queque is very-very CROWD! Urgh! Even there`s a group of crazy boys who make us even annoyed. They keep pushing from behind, wanna move forward! They can`t think that their action make people disturbed.

It`s so-so crowded that even i have difficulty just to take some items from my bag. It`s SO-SO hot because there are so many people gathered there. And, we don`t have any beverage. So thirsty...... >,< _=" Really-really">,<>I'd better do something more useful (e.g : study, although i`m lazy) rather than quequing wasting time like that! urgh!
And why was the line not given a border or so? If there was a border maybe the line will be more well-ordered.

Okay, well, inside the OBAKE. Apparently it was not as good as being imagined. But it was scary, though.
Turns out what makes the queque is so long is that to get inside the OBAKE in each turn, only 3 or 4 people can go. And the others must wait till that group "finish" explore the OBAKE and find a way exit.

We were six people. And so, we were separated into 2 groups, consisted of three people. Me, Desdut and Shabrina. Lisa, Melisa and Angel. My group are going first.

In front of us there were two girls that go back and forth, getting in and getting out to the entrance again, they seems scared and screamed. The officer said, "Hey, you wanna getting in or not? People like you that made the queque is so long."

The two girls said to us, "There. There was..... " (itu.. itu.. di depan ada ....)
They pointed the curtain in front of us but they didn`t finish their sentence.
Then, the three of us feel goosebumps too. And finally, we agreed to getting in together with them.

No one brave enough to walk as a leader, getting on first. Finally, Shabrina said, "Okay, okay. I will be the front. Only things like this won`t make me scared."
My position is on the back. I close my eyes and hold on Desdut`s and one of the girl`s clothes.
And we walked in together.

One of the two girls screamed, "there. there was child ghost!!"
I opened my eyes and i saw it sitting in the corner of the hall. I screamed.
Shabrina, the most brave one in our group said, "Hey, she is remain silent and unmoved. What do you scare of?"

Then we started to walk again, i still hold on Desdut`s cloth. The place is narrow and because i closed my eyes, i hit the wall besides that filled with straw. I don`t care and keep walking.
They screamed again suddenly, because something had been following us from behind.

I looked back and i saw "kuntilanak" behind me was smiling to me.
OMG! I screamed, "hurry! hurry!"

In front of us there`s a curtain and it`s the exit! We feel relieved and so tired. We directly bought mineral water from place not too far from there.

Desdut feel fortunate because she didn`t see anything. ? She said that while we were inside the OBAKE, she kept her eye closed because she didn`t want to see anything. ? hahaha.

We were all feel disappointed about getting in the OBAKE. -.-"
We were waiting in the line for 3 hours and getting in only about 5-10 minutes? totally not worth the time!

But, honestly, i didn`t regret getting in OBAKE. I will just consider it as an experience how it was felt like. And if we hadn`t tried getting in the OBAKE, we would have felt curious up to this time. Besides, the ticket`s price is not too expensive, just Rp 10.000,-! Cheap!

What i regret is the queque!! SO WASTING TIME!
hahaha.

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Oct.30.2009 DORAEMON ending story

As you know, Doraemon is a story with no ending, but this small story is about the "last episode" of the famous cartoon. Someone made this story and uploaded it to his homepage, and it`s now widely spread all around Japan through internet.
Here it goes...

One day, a very normal day, Nobita came back from school and went upstairs of his house. Doraemon was there sleeping, just like the other normal day.

"Hey Doraemon. Please wake up. Let`s play!"
But Doraemon does not wake up. Nobita thought that Doraemon is tired, so he went out to play with Shizuka-chan and the other folks. After few hours, he returned home, but Doraemon was still sleeping. Nobita felt something strange, and tried to wake him up. But there was no reply. He became to feel afraid, and tried again to wake him up. But whatever he does, Doraemon did not wake up.

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Oct.23.2009 Sony Playstation 3 vs Nintendo Wii

About Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii..
The two next-gen consoles..

I wanna buy the two of them ^^,
At first, i only want Nintendo Wii because the game is funny and the gameplay is unique.
and besides, i can`t afford the price of PS3.
But now, because there`s a rumor that game cross edge and ar tonelico 3 will be released in PS3, i want to buy the two of them!!
(And so, i`m saving money right now ^w^)

This passage is for u, gamer who`re still confused about what will you buy between ps3 and wii!I will explain the difference between the two consoles.

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My Maid is going back home!

My best maid, named Umi who have worked in my home for 3 years is back to her village today and will never work in my home anymore!!
Huwaaa >,< style="font-style: italic;">mbak Umi will go back tomorrow that means today to her village because she want get married "again".

Why i said again? Because.. >,< her first husband is already passed away many years ago and she become a single parent to take care of her only child, who is in the fourth grade of elementary school now.
From what i heard, her husband lost in the sea and the body hasn`t been found till now because he`s carried away by "Nyi Roro Kidul", someone that is believed to be the ruler of the sea.

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