stop this train

Something mightly peculiar is going on with me. I just had an American Holiday this Monday, when most of the people in Indonesia did work. It pumped me up a bit, remembering the last four months had been an array of endlessly swampful routines. There are times when all you need is a pause when everybody is not pausing. A difference that you are not moving in the system for a day. I always chirp in my head, I wish I could hop off to Lago and its iceberg, lost in Tokyo, heating up in Timbuktu. Perhaps next time.

i do not love

Falling in love with reality is oh so hard
Let me fall with things
In my imaginations
Of how you should be

vindictively smart

Yesterday, I went to Hard Rock FM to have a debate (yea, borrring.) on “We Should Eliminate the Big and Beautiful Slogan from This Earth”. It was pretty surreal for me, since..well..the topic IS surreal. Is the slogan killing you ? no. so, why should we eliminate that? (wait. They said it should be a FUN debate!). so, I tried to be fun. And, most of you know, it is hard for me to be fun. My definition of having a fun conversation is Vincent and Desta Club Eighties FUN fun. I could not do that, for Moses sake!

So, well, I think the debate went on okay. We had Santi Nuri Dharmawan, my fellow Chinese bestie who doesn’t like Chinese guys, and thinks that calling her “ci” or “enci” is absolutely atrocious! Santi was in the same group with a guy from FHM magazine (this guy has the physical character of Lurino’s and brain like Rulli, sorry Sisie…I have to put your guys’ names here). Both of them were in the affirmative team and they are both rather…skinny…eughhh…what’s the meaning of the meaning, sih?

Meanwhile, while Santi and the Lurino prodigy were doing their casebuilding, my teammate hadn’t come…yet. I made a suspicious guess that he must be rather “chubby” I may say. But, then again, negative thinking is bad. Then, came this new rapper (he’d rather be called as a hip hop musician, familiar with the Timbaland guy, non?). He’s J-Flo, which reminds me of J-Co, or even J-Lo. And of course, I don’t know who he is. But, apparently, Melissa Karim (the host), said that his new single has been there for weeks in Hard Rock FM charts. And, when I heard the song, it’s not bad at all. And I think he has a pretty nice show muscles (my bf said, that show muscles consist of torso, abdomens, as such). However, his overtly bubbly personality turned Santi off.

So, I’m in the team who doesn’t agree to eliminate the slogan “big is beautiful” from the earth, we defended that with absolutely absurd reasons, of course. Like…

- from the point of view of the freedom to choose your own body shape: gee….who could choose their body shapes???!!! (ok, too much exclamation marks)

- from the point of view of health: nobody will stupidly increase their weight the minute they hear the slogan “big is beautiful”

- from the point of view of image: J-Flo (whose real name is actually Joshua) said that image comes from the word “imago”, and if we could see the statues and the pictures from Roman empire or from the ancient Greece, we could see that it’s all about humongous size. So, image is relative, and we could change the image in the society. Kudos for J-Flo, he has some brain apparently.

And the jury said that the argument was weak, because face it! We now live in a mean world, not in the ancient world. Aw…aw…..And we have to suit in that image. (yes! we had a jury, who was the script editor of Pulau Hantu 1 and 2, DO, MBA, and many other great-selling movies recently, so you know where such judgment comes from)

However, overall…my team won. Simply because of this newbee hip hop artiste was freakin smart and witty and outspoken and bubbly. Not because of me..well…who am I anyway…

So, we got three vouchers to buy J-Co Donuts, and the opponent got…also J-Co Donuts vouchers…yaiy! What’s the point of competing then?

What I learned from yesterday were:

- Melissa Karim’s weight is 42!!! Geezzz….. I would love to have that weight, plus several kilos more.

- J-Flo said, in order to make his album sold out, he suited his body into his target market, not the public. So, guys, remember….. there’s a difference between target market and public.

- I feel that the topic was not important, because I feel secure about myself, except about the lower parts of my body, and I’m working on it.

- Entertainment industry is cruelll. I wonder why Jame decides to go there. Then again, it’s Jame’s habitate naturalez.

- I think I met smart people, and at the same time, vindictive people. And, they work in the empire so called M E D I A.