rara on posterous

I'm planning to make you the 'just-that-other-boy-who-I-met-once-and-thought-you-were-cute-but-that's-just-it-and-life-goes-on-with-me-forgetting-about-your-existence'...

 

...but that's kinda hard to happen if once in a while your pretty face would pop up in my Facebook news feed through your friend's account.

I don't know why my old acoustic guitar sounds distorted, though.

Well anyway! Pardon my lameness, but here are two covers I recorded this day-off.

The first one is Avril Lavigne's "Tomorrow" and the second one is Michelle Branch's old unreleased "Washing Machine".

And yeah, I did all the vocal and guitar and balancing the record. Kinda kewl huhhh.

1. Prepare your favorite band's live (acoustic) video

 

2. Search for the chords of your favorite song from them

 

3. Grab your guitar

 

4. Play the video and strum along with the song but DON'T SING. Let the band's vocalist do that.

 

RESULT:

Enjoy pretending like you're actually in the band with them, playing rhythm to the lead guitarist.

And feel pathetic.

 

HAVE FUN!

 

Karena sering banget kalo aku lewat, cowo-cowo mendadak nyanyi atau bersenandung.

Tenang, aku nggak ge-er kok.

Soalnya bukan cuma mas-mas ganteng yang suka mendadak nyanyi lagu-lagu top forti abis liat aku, tapi juga abang-abang ojek mendadak nyanyi dangdut.

Eh tapi beneran deh.

Ntar ya, perhatiin.

Photo(shopped) by Daday.

I was so much weirder when I was at school.

I was that stupid underdog in Junior High people didn't bother to bully because they didn't even see me.

It was the time when I wished I'd belonged to those beautiful people's circle hanging out beautifully at beautiful hangout spots around our not-so-beautiful school.

I wished I was surrounded by those pretty people and one of them would be crushing on me and we would play this pretty puppy love game until it became so cheesy I would throw up.

And because life is funny, so 11 years later I really get to be surrounded by that kind of beautiful people and we'll be hanging out beautifully at beautiful hangout spots around our beautiful office, holding beautiful coffee cups in our hands and bragging about our beautiful job.

I can't even believe it, still.

How I can end up there here.

But life is funny indeed, because now that I'm already here in the middle of those beautiful people, I'm not interested to have a romantic relationship.

Ada cewek namanya Siti.

Dari dulu dia pengen banget jadi rockstar.

Pas SMA, dia bikin band.

Mulai manggung-manggung di tempat kecil kayak sekolah-sekolah, bazaar-bazaar, kafe, dan kalaupun dapet line-up di festival dapetnya di welcoming stage deket pager. Yang nonton cuma beberapa geng anak muda.

Sambil manggung-manggung kecil, Siti dan band-nya bikin demo dan ngirim demo-nya ke perusahaan-perusahaan rekaman.

Banyak yang nolak.

Sampe akhirnya ada satu yang nerima.

Dari situ band-nya Siti mulai kedengeran.

Umur 18 Siti mulai ngetop.

Di umurnya yang masih 23 tahun, Siti dan band-nya udah keliling dunia, gelar konser.

Fans-nya udah bejibun, rela ngantri tiket dari sehari sebelomnya.

Nginep di gerbang venue konser dari malam sebelomnya.

Siti dan band-nya menang banyak award.

Ngisi soundtrack film-film Hollywood.

Siti udah cantik, kaya raya, ngetop, sukses, dan pastinya hepi karena mimpinya udah terwujud.

Siti is living her dream!

But then... does it mean she's living her comfort zone, too?

Haruskah Siti yang udah enak dan hepi itu banting setir jadi pebatik? Pematung?

Bankir?

Manager perusahaan makanan?

Demi keluar dari kehidupan enaknya yang sekarang dan cari pengalaman hidup lebih banyak?

I think people should understand the difference between
"living in comfort zone" sama "living one's dream" deh.

Sebelom bisa kasih nasehat ke orang lain untuk
"get out of your comfort zone and succeed."

A VERY HAPPY UPDATE TO THIS POST:

"COLBIE CAILLAT IN JAKARTA: IT WASN'T JUST A CONCERT, IT WAS A MISSION!"

If you aren't a follower of this blog, you may have missed my post about what happened the first time I got informed that one of my favorite singer, Colbie Caillat was going to have a show in Jakarta.

You can read it here, though.

Now the time has passed, I just got home from finally in my lifetime -- watching Colbie Caillat (AND JUSTIN YOUNG!) perform in front of my bare eyes.

I usually write a review or personal opinion about the band whose concert I just watched.

But this time it'd be different.

Because Colbie is different.

Listening to her years ago, have brought me to an angelic voice of her duet-singing/songwriting partner, Jason Reeves. And I've been obsessed with him ever since.

So when Colbie was going to Jakarta, I wrote this on Jason Reeves's Facebook Wall and apparently he replied (but not with something I expected):

Well, I guessed it meant he wasn't going to come.

FINE!

It's not like I wouldn't have Plan B whatsoever.

I told my concert buddy, Amel, that I was going to make Jason Reeves mask and a poster about how much I love him and bring it to the concert. She approved.

Too bad the plan didn't go well enough tonight, I think.

Because:

1. Apparently Colbie's stage and our pit, the spot where the fans would stand sit was seperated by an olympic-sized swimming pool. (I mean it looked cute and all, BUT THIS WASN'T IN THE PLAN). I was sure Colbie was too far to see my poster.
2. The attendants were surprisingly decent and high-end people! NO ALAYS! I'd swore at the beginning of the show that I wasn't going to open the poster because I'd look like a total low-end idiot alay lost in the crowd full of rich and pretty people. (But Amel successfully made me open it anyway, though we only held it up for only, like, 10 seconds. LOL! OH AND THE GIRLS IN FRONT OF US WERE LAUGHING AT MY POSTER, THANKS!)

You were curious about how it happened?

Well, in comic, this was something like it:

All the people from Colbie/Jason's team were there! Justin Young and Billy Hawn were there! IT WAS ONLY JASON WHO DIDN'T JOIN. Ah well, I guess we just haven't been destined to meet in person yet (after all those replies on twitter and facebook and likes on instagram).

Aside from my (kind of) unaccomplished mission, I enjoyed the show.

Colbie's voice was perfect, Justin's voice was perfect, they played my old-time favorite "Oxygen" and of course "Bubbly" (for encore).

I thought Colbie wouldn't play "Favorite Song" because I was wondering who would rap in Common's part. But well, she got Justin so there they went :)

Beside backing for Colbie's vocal, Justin also did a duet with her on couples of songs as well as their cover of Bob Marley's "Turn The Lights Down Low", and The Script's/Tracy Chapman's "Breakeven"/"Fast Car".

I was hoping she would play "Dream Life Life", though. Cos I loooooove that song so much and it kinda represents my heart (gahahaha...). And I just learned to play it on my guitar. And that it's my favorite song on "All Of You" album. Too bad they didn't play it :(

Oh but I'm really, REALLY glad that she played "Shadow". Cos it's my favorite song from the latest album, too.

Colbie and the band were so sweet tonight.

Aside from my dream that she brought Jason Reeves along that didn't come true, the concert was still flawless.

Thank you Amel for willing to hold the stupid poster with me! (Let's just do that alay thing at alay concert like Paramore's -- this one was too neat, hahaha...!)

I had a great Friday the 13th. Now back to trolling the artists on twitter HAHAHAHAHAHH!!

 

P.S. Justin Young was looking so hot with shorts and flip-flops I couldn't breathe. Colbie is a lucky girl.

 

P.P.S. This is one of three videos I took there:

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UPDATE IS IN: "Mission Accomplished?"

 

 

 

Took the colortest quiz just now.

This is my result:

Your Existing Situation

"Craves change and new things, always looking for new adventures and activities. Becomes restless and frustrated when she has to wait to long for things to develop. her impatience leads to irritability and a desire to move on to the next project."

Your Stress Sources

"Unhappy in her current situation or relationship, but is unwilling to change things due to her need for acceptance and belonging. Refuses to be seen as weak and although she is resistant to give too much to the relationship, she stays committed in order to feel the attachment. The situation depresses and irritates him, causing restlessness and impatience. she is seeking some sort of escape from the situation either physically or mentally, which affects her ability to concentrate."

Your Restrained Characteristics

Current events leave her feeling forced into compromise in order to avoid being cut off from affection or future cooperation.

"Seeking to broaden her horizons and believes her hopes and dreams are realistic. Worries she may not be able to do the things she wants and needs to escape to a peaceful, quiet environment in order to restore her confidence."

His arrogance causes her to take offense quickly. Only those closest to her know deep down she is sensitive and sentimental.

Current events leave her feeling forced into compromise in order to avoid being cut off from affection or future cooperation.

Your Desired Objective

"Searching for a life free of problems, stress, and drama. Wishes to find security and peace, so that she may relax."

Your Actual Problem

Feeling anxious and restless frustration toward current situation or unfulfilled emotional requirements are causing stress. Tries to escape into a conflict free environment where she feels a sense of security and can relax and recover.

 

I just followed my heart.

It wasn't the first time, and when I did that I usually break someone else's heart.

Most of the times I let down the ones I love by merely following my heart.

And it sucks.

It always makes me feel like I'm the most selfish person ever lived on this planet.

Like I'm the baddest, most arrogant bitch nobody could compare.

But when you're in the middle of two good choices, it will always be hard to decide.

It's either you please yourself or you please anyone else.

Either you break your own heart or you break other's heart.

But then again, this baddest, selfish most arrogant bitch always chooses to please herself by following her heart and (unintentionally) break other's.

What a bad, selfish arrogant bitch.

Though the bitch has reasons, but still.

I mean, it just appears that it always goes to the right direction when I follow my heart.

The path always seems fine after that hard decision that breaks people's heart.

Even if it doesn't, I always think "at least I followed my heart."

What a bad, selfish arrogant bitch, right?

Especially when it comes to big money.

And fame.

And success.

How dare a person say no to success, fame, and big fucking money.

Everyone needs money, don't we?

The fact that I always choose to follow what my heart feels right over big money and everything other people would kill for, is just out of comprehension.

The fact that I always choose to agree on what my heart says over a big fucking chance to be what other people would kill to, is just out of fucking normality.

What am I thinking?

Right?

Well, just so you know; so many.

I think of so many things before I make that eventually-breaking-other-people's-heart decision. I actually do a lot of comparing, considering, thinking about the risk.

But the mind of a person is really one wide space full of wild and weird things that come and go so fast that if you trying to keep up, you'll end up being lunatic.

So I take shortcut; I follow my stupid, settled heart.

What a bad, selfish arrogant bitch, really.

I'm sorry if I hurt some people by doing that, but I'm not sorry for always following my heart.

Never.

Please forgive me.

*image drawn personally by me and you can find the series here.