About Being Creative – Roti101

I always envy those people who are working in creative industries, like advertising, radio announcer and the team behind it, though I never admire those people who are thinking that they are creative and produced shitty TV shows in Indonesia. Currently, I admire greatly Ronald and Tike (follow their twitter here), currently radio announcer in JakFM, former actor and actress in comedy TV show, Extravaganza, and I guess before they started in TV, they were also formerly a radio announcer in Bandung I guess.

Every morning, when I go to the office, I always tune in to JakFM, to listen to their show. Their topic and discussion to me is just so so, if I want to listen to something serious, I will switched to another station not their show. One thing that amaze me, is how they can re-arrange songs, or else, and give comedy to the song, they called this Rap Selebriti. It’s standard parody thing, but they have special style, which make their parody different from the others. Just like this morning, they make parody of Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez’s – No Me Ames to be like Es Teh Manis Dua Gelas. Sounds fun and ear catching, I like that. It’s not just song parody, sometimes for an adlip (or adlib? CMIIW), they also have different variation everyday, not just standard conversation and then they advert their client’s product. Like this morning, their adlip was about war scene, and yesterday about something else.

How did they come up with the idea?

I believe, there must be a creative team behind them, or even they can come up with their own idea. But the bottom line is, it is great to be creative. It’s just like you have different color everyday, and your brain is fascinated to prepare for tomorrow’s color, while your brain is smiling for today’s color.

I myself, is not a good and smart technical person. What I believe and I apply as my personal strategy is, try to be different, see problem from the other side of the glasses. I can not compete those people who are smarter and more genius than me. But I believe, I must have different opinion and different kind of style to approach a problem.

Dare to be different needs creativity. And I guess, I have to push myself to always be creative.

Su su su su sugar town

As I promised before, or it’s should be as I planned before, that I need to write more often this year. I suppose to do it twice a week or more than that, but let’s just start with once a week. A short story of this blog, inversi*, this is actually my second blog, my first blog is seismogenic.blogsome.com, I deleted it due to some reasons. In early days of this blog, I could actively write once a week, normally in the very dawn of Sunday morning, after spent a whole night without sleeping in seismic laboratory, ITB. I was working for a commercial project in my campus shortly after graduation, and every weekend we had a review with senior geophysicist from Jakarta, that normally done non-stop from Saturday till Sunday. Before the dawn, I opened my laboratory window, the sky still dark, but my head full of words to be wrote .

Well, anyway, title of this post has no correlation with I’m going to write. It was a title or a phrase actually from a song entitled Sugar Town, popularized by Nancy Sinatra . I didn’t know it, until I watched a nice and splendid movie 500 Days of Summer. A beautiful lady, Zooey Deschanel sang this song, you can hear the recording here.

So, nothing fancy to write for now on. Though I have something on my mind to write, but let’s just keep it for later. At least, I tried to write more often. I’ll see you again, in the next post.

Review of My 2009

Uhm well, I just feel that I need to write something about my 2009, though I never do this before. This 2009, and the previous 2 years, has been an unproductive in writing. Not just those so-called-stylish-writing like poem, or just light writing about my daily life. Well, this could be the effect of blog is no longer be a trend lately , This might be a long and boring note if you want to read.

My Geophysics Learning Path

Curiosity, that what makes me feel alive. These chart maybe just a fancy looking chart, with a fancy jargon. I’m not understand nor I’m know all about it. As I mention, curiosity.

I will learn all of this. These are things that make me feel alive.

In The End, This is What You Called Life

A moment, that you would sacrifice your life, your passion, your time, just to make them happy. You let yourself destructed, you put aside your ego. Embracing the concept of love. A full and thorough love. Filling your mind with tension on how to make them happy, without thinking how are you going to be happy. You keep your true feeling, you hide it. You don’t want to force them to do what you want, you don’t want them to sacrifice their life. Let just you who feeling sad, let just you who will carry the burden.

You fail to communicate. You fail to lead them. You fail to teach them on how to respect on what you have done.

In the end, this is what you called life. Where when you give them, then you have something to ask from them. Be you not angel. You just human. Be there is no blind love, there is love with something to take back. There is love with two eyes, and a million cells of greed.

You fail on becoming angel. You just human. Where sometimes, nobody wants to blindly loving you, just the way you in a stupidly manner loving them.