Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Your social media is your self branding!

Siapa yang setuju sama pernyataan di atas? Gw personally, setuju banget!
Sebenarnya gw bukan Tiffatul Sembiring atau Roy Suryo yang "katanya" ahlinya soal beginian. Gw juga bukan orang yang ngerti banget sejak kapan social media memiliki peran yang begitu besar nya bagi pencitraan seseorang. But since my very first social media was Friendster, let's start from there.

Masih inget kan gimana kolom "testimonial" di Friendster benar-benar digunakan dalam fungsi sebenarnya? Masa-masa di mana elo berbalas "testi" dengan teman menggunakan mantra "isi testi gw dong, yang bagus-bagus yah! Ntar gw bales deh!". Well, I did. And I know most of you did. Ya kaaan? *nyari temen se-per ababilan*. Hahah! Testimonial dari teman-teman yang biasanya dimulai dengan "si anu itu orangnya..." dan mostly sudah melalui proses brief dan sortir terlebih dahulu itu pun bagian dari self branding. Dan tentu saja, profile picture menentukan segalanya! Semakin cantik atau ganteng fotonya, semakin banyak orang yang nge-add dan semakin banyak juga seri account nya. "Si Anu 1, 2, 3, 4, ....257". Kalau sudah lebih dari 10, itulah barometer "gaul" nya Friendster. Gw sih cuma sampe 4. Ahem. Hahah!

Bosan dengan Friendster orang-orang pun pelan-pelan mulai berpindah hati ke Facebook. Kalau dulu Friendster fenomenal dengan berbalas "Testi" nya, Facebook pun sempat fenomenal dengan berbalas "badge" nya. Dari mulai Lomo, Sushi, Fashion items, etc. Kalau FS punya "testimonial" FB punya "wall". Gak jauh berbeda sih yah sebenarnya. Mungkin sebagian orang mulai gerah dengan FS yang mulai terjangkit virus alay mengingat pada saat awal kemunculannya, FB masih berkesan eksklusif. Di sini, photo album lah yang memegang peranan penting bagi self branding. Semakin banyak album dengan title "Partayyy", "Blowfish" or "Sundazzee" maka semakin eksis lah seseorang itu dalam pergaulan (no offense asli! :p). Semakin banyak album dengan tittle "Me, Myself, and I" or "Self potrait" maka semakin narsis lah seseorang itu. Semakin banyak album dengan title "NEW ARRIVAL PO NOVEMBER" or "LATEST COLLECTION NIH SIST" maka waspadalah dengan random tag foto barang baru mereka. Dari baju, sepatu, tas, laptop sampai obat pelangsing. Pfft! This one is really annoying! Facebook was really fun until I saw Mangga Dua on my news feed, Sist! Oh, and when Facebook users are no longer using their real name and replaced it with theseee...Wait. Atau emang ini nama asli merekaaah? *kemplang orang tuanya satu-satu :))





AAAAAAK TIDAAAKK! :))))

Then we have Twitter. Twitter is SUPPOSED to be micro blog of 140 characters that turns out being an instant messenger for some or most of it's users. Gw sendiri join twitter sejak menggunakan BlackBerry which is approx 3 years ago. Seperti kebanyakan pemula, gw pun bingung mau post apa. Gak ada photo album nya nih? Apa asiknya sih baca-baca in status orang doang? Pikir gw saat itu. Namun setelah nemu asik nya, update twitter pun menjadi rutinitas wajib yang menyenangkan dengan frekuensi 5 menit sekali. Bahkan perpindahan tangan dari kiri ke kanan pun kalau bisa di update di twitter. Hahah. Sampai beberapa teman pun mulai protes karena timeline isi nya gueh semuaa :)) Nah, kalau social-social media sebelumnya menggunakan foto sebagai alat self branding utama, di twitter tulisan lo lah yang akan menjadi penentu pencitraan diri. Banyak orang yang menyebut nya dengan ungkapan "tweet mu harimau mu".

Kalau dipikir, how come your personality could be defined only by 140 characters? Tapi coba, berapa sering kalian menilai seseorang dari apa yang mereka tweet. Sering kan mendengar pernyataan macam "cantik sih, tapi tweet nya alay ah" or "lucu sih.. tapi masa cowo tweet galau terus sih?" dan sebagainya. Semakin banyak seseorang mention-mentionan sama orang "penting" maka dia pun juga akan dianggap penting. Semakin banyak followers, maka semakin "penting" juga dia. Orang dengan timeline yang penuh dengan RT-an tidak penting dianggap annoying, orang yang timeline nya penuh dengan keluhan dan sumpah serapah dianggap nyebelin dan pemarah, orang yang timeline nya penuh dengan  kegalauan dianggap lemah, orang yang timeline nya penuh dengan check-in 4square di tempat gaul yang ia datangi dianggap norak. Serba salah yah? Twitter pun bisa membuat orang yang tidak kita kenal secara personal mendadak berasa kenal akrab karena follow twitternya. Hal ini berlaku pada public figure atau SelebTweet yang kita follow. Waktu mereka galau, kita tau. Waktu mereka lagi makan siang, kita tau. Waktu mereka mau tidur pun, pamitan dulu sama kita. Akrab kan? :))

Pasti kalian juga pernah dengar beberapa artis yang masuk Infotainment hanya karena tweet yang dia post? Sebut saja Luna Maya yang sempat bermasalah dengan wartawan karena tweet doi yang gak enak or yang masih hangat Anji-dan-calon-istrinya-yang-gak-jadi-kawin-itu *doh, ketauan deh update infotainment nya :p* See? How 140 characters could affect what people think of you. Hebatnya, "self branding" dari Twitter ini pun dimanfaatkan oleh beberapa produk/brand sebagai alat branding mereka. Muncul lah fenomena tweet berbayar yang nyatanya malah di rasa lebih efektif sekarang. Gw pun pernah kena korban iklan lewat tweet berbayar loh! :p

Gw personally pun sering kali tanpa sengaja melakukan pencitraan diri di twitter. That's why sebelum bener-bener posting, gw baca dulu berkali-kali memastikan gak ada yg typo dan mengandung SARA yang sensitif. Gak mau dianggap annoying or nyebelin :p But for me, twitter is no longer fun since perkara follow/unfollow jadi begitu sensitif. Oh, dan setelah wabah "folbek eaaaa kakak" mulai menyebar. Hahah.

Courtesy of Valiant Budi




Sekali lagi gw bukan bermaksud menyinggung, menggurui or sok tau. It's purely my random thoughts. Anyway, folbek eaaaaa kakaaakkk! :))


Loves,


Andaw

Sunday, November 6, 2011

A day full of happiness #2: Juice In Case

Planned to post it right after I posted my #1 edition of "A day full of happiness" but I've been busy accompanied my family from Makassar during their stay here. So it's kinda late actually but better late that never, aight?

So here we go.. As we back from the Zoo, we planned to visit a new tiny coffee shop not far from my casa named "Ladang Coffee". Turns out it had not open yet. Krrr! So why the hell did you put your giant bored already, huh? Oh, and they told us to visit their branch shop at BSD. Ngehh? The main reason we came here was because it's nearby my house NOT because we're dying to taste your Coffee, Sir! Pffth.. Haha! Well since BSD is freakin far away and we didn't really curious to taste the so-called "Ladang Coffee", boyfie planned to look for another coffee shop that we haven't been visited. In the midst of our despair, we suddenly reminded by a tiny juice shop we once passed when we were going to Hero Kemang one day. A-ha! That was another great idea we made that day after the Zoo-date!

"Juice in Case" is located on the roadside of Kemang Timur nearby Hero Kemang. It was kinda hidden between those cafes, coffee shops and resto in Kemang area. Actually it's just like another warung-kaki-lima with plywood and all. But the owner succeed to decorate this tiny shop uniquely. They putted some hanging papers with cute writings about fruit an veggies. It easily attracts attentions of the passers-by. Well the name "Juice in Case" itself is soo unique yet catchy don't you think?









"Juice in Case" sells any kind of beverages such as milkshakes, yoghurt, mix fruits, tea and coffee. For foods they sell french fries, sandwich, instant noodle and udon. Despite it is one of a kind roadside-shops, the menus are all written in english. Anyway, I love the way they named their beverages differently like Milkyway for milkshakes. The price are quite affordable. 18k for milkshake and mix fruits, 19k for yoghurts, 10k for tea and coffee. I ordered mix strawberry and mango yoghurt while boyfie ordered ginger mint coffee. Mine was really tasty and fresssshh. Seriously, it's even better then yoghurt drink I've tasted in another big coffee shop. I didn't taste boyfie's coffee since I don't really like coffee but he said that it's good either..




While enjoying our yoghurt and coffee, there was abang-tukang-bakso passed by. Huaaaa I've been craving for Bakso since we were in the Zoo and suddenly this heavenly food showed up in front of us. Another universe-conspires, no? Then I asked the waiter if we can order any food outside, and he allowed us. Yippie yeayyy!



Alhamdulillaah we're full and happyyy! It's a recommended place! Will definitely go back here.. Oh, well if you interested to go here, you better be soon. Cause I had a little chit-chat with the friendly waiter and He said that it might be closed soon for some reason. Maybe it's because of the lack visitors considered that it's kinda hidden area.. Huuu.. Too bad :(

Anyway, my happiness of the day was completed by news from Mom and Dad saying that they're doing just fine there. Alhamdulillahh.. Dear God, thankyou for this full-of-happiness day :)


Loves,



Andaw



Friday, November 4, 2011

A day full of happiness #1: Zoo

It was a cloudy afternoon while Me and my Boyfie decided to visit our big family at the Ragunan Zoo. Hahah. It was truly spontaneous idea. I supposed to go to ruangrupa for a meeting, turns out it was cancelled. And instead of eating-sleeping-doing-nothing-increasing-belly-fat at home I asked my Boyfie to catch up today. Since none of us are having a steady job yet and considered that we've spent soo much time together lately, so we've reach the pathetic phase of life, BOKEK. Hahah. It was kinda hard to decide where-to-go with this limited budget we had. Then I came up with an idea "Why don't we go to the Zoo?" and boyfie liked the idea. Yippie yeay! So, Ragunan.. here we coomeee! :D

Fyi, my house is in Jagakarsa which is really nearby Ragunan. It just took about 5 mins to go there by car or motorcycle. But believe it or not, I haven't visited the zoo NOT even once since I lived here for approx 3 years. Hahah. I usually came to Ragunan just to take Transjakarta to go to my-used-to-be campus. Planned to get in there many times but it was never happened. And on this one random day, I'm finally here..


We arrived at the Zoo at 4ish. Yeah, I know it was a bit too late knowing that it will closed by 6. But since it was a totally spontaneous idea, so I thought 2 hours is enough.. Before we came to the locket, we saw the price list board and you know whatt? It's just cost 4.500 idr for one person? This is no joke, aite? Then I looked at my boyfie in the eyes and said "We made a good decision!". A-ha! The most surprisingly thing was when we came to the locket and we found no one there. Not even one.. All locket was closed but the gate was widely open. So we don't need to pay anything? Huaaaaaa.. It's even better! Woohoooo! You know the feeling when you're totally broke and suddenly the universe conspires? Hihih. Alhamdulillah :D

Affordable, isn't it?

Could you found something weird in this pic? Please welcome new animal in the zoo, Blok M! :))

As we entered the zoo I planned to take some pics with Zebra and Deer for the fashion purpose. Silly eh? But I really love to see Zebra printed clothes and Deer shaped rings. Then Boyfie asked me, "so don't you want to see Leopard either?" Hahah. You know me so well dehh! Luckily I found a cute little deer but sadly I couldn't found the Zebra. So, I took some picts with it's statue instead :p


Cute Little Deer
Imply Mama as Ilama! #TheSimsSocial
The Oh-so-famous-Komodo
My pervert boyfie

Shit happened in the middle of our journey. My shoe soles was broken. FUUUUU. My Sister has remain me that it's kinda fragile. I was supposed to listen to her :(

 The broken shoes :(
Kiddos Zone
We also planned to see Leopard and White Tiger.. but unfortunately on our way there, we met the Zookeeper who said that most of the wild animals had been putted in the cage for the safety sake. Huhu too bad :( So, we decided to leave the Zoo since we've seen all the not-so-wild animals that left. But we planned to go back there a bit earlier at another time. Hopefully, soon!


Although we just spent a little time there but we had soo much fun. We proved that we don't always need to spend much for dating. Bored with movie date or dinner date at the Mall? This could be an alternative date for you and your boo! Till we meet again, animals! We'll catch you back soon (hopefully)!



Loves,



Andaw

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Dreamy Dr. Marten

So, here we go. Few days ago I wrote a post about things I currently crave. Click here if you wanna read the post. I put Cannon G12, Fuji Instax Wide and Docmart 3 holes on my top 3 list. The most reasonable thing that I could buy sooner is Docmart since I can't afford the rest yet. Frankly, I craved it since like yearsss agoo. Was looking for it on kaskus, tokobagus.com, facebook, and everywhere but seems like I was never luck. Once I found my size, it was sold out. And please don't tell me to buy it on the official store cause I tell you, I can't afford that. Really! Hahah. Then luckily, I found this online shop named Kiss This Stuff who sells any kind of second stuffs. From bags, glasses to shoes. Anddd I found the exact shoes I was looking for these whole time. Unfortunately, it was just sold (AGAIN?). Arggghhh! Why oh whyyy? Though the owner promised to inform me when they got another similar shoes but I just didn't want to hope too much. A bit pessimist actually..

But you know whatt? Last week, I found a message on my Fb's inbox from the shop. Andddd yesss... THEY GOT ANOTHER SHOES FOR ME!! EXACTLY THE SAME SHOES! Teeheee! Finally! Then of course without any hesitate I bought it right away.. The owner said that it will took about 3 days to deliver it to my house. Oh, why can't I have it just nooow? *sabar kalee nda! Well it's worth to wait anyway.. But I was just can't waitt for it. I can't help myself but looking for it's pict every night. I know that's kinda creepy. Hahah! And finallyy the day is cooome..

Pak Hamid (my house keeper) told me that there's a package with my name on it. Ahhh from a sec I know that it must be my shoess. You know one thing I love from shopping online? It's the feeling when we finally recieved the package that I love the most. It's likeeee.... I don't know. It's just undiscribable! Hahah. Who's with me? :p


I opened up the package rushingly and passionately *lebay* and thoes shoes are in my hand baby! I was extremely happy untill I tried it on...... ANG GUESS WHATT? OMG IT DOESN'T EVEN FIT ON MY FEET :((( *it's rhyming anyway* I hoped it was just because they tied the shoelace too tight. So I tried to untied it. But still, it doesn't fit for God sake! It's impossible! I'm really sure that it is my size! Then a friend of mine told me that Docmart shoes are one size below any other shoes. Fark! Huhuhuh :(

No other choice. With a big regret I must say:

FOR SALE DOCMART 3 HOLES 
ORIGINAL MADE IN ENGLAND
SIZE: 4.5
CONDITION: 85 %
300 K ONLY










So, anyone? Feel free to contact me or simply comment on this post. Thankyouuuss!


Loves,


Andaw

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The Perfect House

"The Perfect House udah mau keluar di bioskop. Wohooooo!" Begitulah sekiranya ekspresi gw waktu menemukan link trailer film ini di wall facebook yang di post oleh Laddy Arianne sang Assistant Director yang kebetulan adalah junior gw di kampus.

Entah kenapa gw emang selalu excited sama film Indonesia dari dulu. Sampai gw punya predikat sendiri dari temen-temen dan saudara gw. Gyanda si-cuma-mau-nonton-bioskop-kalo-filmnya-film-Indonesia. Hahah. But it was damn true! Dulu gw suka males kalau diajakin temen atau saudara nonton film box office Hollywood di bioskop. Dari Harry Potter, Lord Of The Ring, Transformer, Narnia, Spiderman, Iron Man dan segala teman-teman seperjuangannya itu gak ada yg bikin gw tertarik. Ah, film kaya gitu mah mending nonton di DVD aja, pikir gw waktu itu. Tapi kalau ada yg ngajak gw nonton film Indonesia, gw pasti langsung excited kaya anak kecil di kasih iPad *anak2 jaman sekarang di kasih permen udah gak girang bok*. Hahah. Dulu partner nonton film Indonesia setia gw adalah Kara. Selesai nonton kita biasanya makan or nongkrong CUMA untuk ngebahas film yg abis kita nonton bak kritikus film profesional. Bahkan kalau kita pas lagi gak nonton bareng, kita tetep loh ngebahas film yg abis kita tonton kalau lagi ketemuan. Kalo dipikir-pikir sekarang NIAT jugaaa kita yaah Ra. Bhahaha. Tapi setelah kita disibukkan sm urusan kampus dan percintaan masing-masing udah gak pernah lagi deh. Hiks.. Kangen jugaa :( *jadi curhaaaaat :p

Oke, back to The Perfect House..

Sebenernya gw udah lama denger tentang film ini dari Laddy. Bahkan gw pernah ditunjukkin lokasi si "perfect house" itu di daerah puncak. Waktu itu Laddy dan pacar lagi shooting video clip juga di daerah situ. Dan rumahnya memang benar adanyaa.. serem bok! Gw jadi semakin penasaran sm film nya. Dan setelah gw nonton trailer nya dan baca review nya di timeline twitter, I know that it's gonna be gooood! Akhirnya setelah beberapa kali gagal, tadi guehh nonton jugakk di XXI PIM 1 bareng pacar. Kyaaaaaa! *dancing* Well, I'm going to give you a little review but no worries, It's not going to be spoiler :p


Sinopsis: Julie (Cathy Sharon) adalah seorang guru privat untuk anak-anak dengan kebutuhan khusus. Setelah mengajar Angie, muridnya yang autis ringan, Julie ingin istirahat sejenak untuk menjernihkan pikiran dan mengatasi trauma atas kecelakaan yang terjadi pada orang tuanya. Namun, Nyonya Rita (Bella Esperanse), meminta Julie untuk memberikan pelajaran les privat kepada cucunya, Januar (Endy Arfian). Guru sebelumnya telah hilang. Ketika Julie mengetahui bahwa orang tua Januar juga tewas dalam kecelakaan, ia merasa empati dan setuju untuk menjadi guru Januar selama sebulan dan menahan ia dari rencana perginya. Namun, apa yang Julie alami di rumah tersebut menjadi jauh dari yang ia bayangkan. Sebuah rahasia yang sangat gelap tersembunyi di dalam rumah itu. Kehidupan Julie pun terancam selamanya. (Courtesy of www.filmindonesia.or.id)




Walaupun tadi telat 10 menit karena traffic Jakarta yang sangat tidak bersahabat hari ini *klise* gw tetep bisa ngerti jalan ceritanya. Mungkin kebantu sama trailer nya juga yah.. Dari awal gw udah jatuh hati sama tone nya yang classic yang juga didukung sm wardrobe dan settingan yang pas juga acting Bella Esperance yang oke bangats. Ada yg udah pernah nonton Rumah Dara? Nah, kurang lebih karakter Madam Rita (Bella Esperance) di sini sama kayak Ibu Dara (Shariffa Danish) di Rumah Dara. Dingin, misterius dan classy. Tapi menurut gw, acting Bella lebih juaraa! Gak terlalu dibuat-buat macam Danish. Dan si dedek Endy (Januar) kecil kecil acting nya ciamik juga. Dapet banget karakter "kaku" dan "dingin" nya. Cathy Sharon juga kayaknya gak mau kalah sama acting adik nya, Julie Estelle di Rumah Dara. Walaupun menurut gw acting Julie tetep lebih megang yah.. Anyway, doi cantik benerr di sini. Lumayan bikin pacar gw betah nonton terutama scene Cathy mandi. Plak! Haha. While, si Mike Lucock porsinya emang gak terlalu gede di sini. Dari awal sampai akhir film doi cuma mondar-mandir bawa cangkul sama karung tanpa ekspresi dan tanpa dialogue samsek. Enak yeeh kerjanya doih. Gak usah repot-repot afalin dialogue :p But as it's seen on the picture below, ekpresi nya dapet banget yah? Kalo kata pacar "tablo banget!" :)))


Dari awal film otak gw udah kerja nerka-nerka twist film ini. Maklum, film dengan twist itu favorite gueeh bgt. Gw suka bgt sm film-film yang bikin gw nebak-nebak ending nya bakal kaya apa. Sebenrnya sih ini bukan kebiasaan yg bagus yaaah. Pengennya tuh yaudah nonton aja deh nda, gak usah mikirin ending dulu. Dan bener aja.. gw udah bisa nebak twist nya bahkan sebelum masuk pertengahan film. Huhu. I fucking hate spoiler. And now me, myself being a spoiler for my own. Ergh! Rasanya sebel bangett. Entah karena gw yg terlalu banyak nonton film dengan twist-twist yg super unpredictable atau emang sang sutradara terlalu explisit ngasih clue-clue dan bocoran nya? Tapi perkiraan gw dan pacar pun sama. But really, kalau gw gak menebak "misteri" nya dari awal, film ini seruuu banget. Gw suka sama alur ceritanya. Walaupun ada beberapa masalah-masalah kecil yg lumayan bikin "Ck!". But I love the whole story. Not one of those so-kind-of-Indonesian-movie. Ibarat mini market ini kelas nya CK or 7/11 bukan Alfamart or Indomart. Casts, setting, wardrobe, make up all blend in one complete package. Sangat disayangkan twist nya kurang gigit dan bikin penasaran. Well at least for me and my boyfie :p But overall, it's a worth-to-watch movie. My suggestion, just enjoy the movie! Don't try to guess the twist nor the ending! Then you'll find it as one very interesting movie. Selamat nonton!


Loves,



Andaw