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BALADA PUTUS

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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then "--Katharine Hepburn Seorang teman bercerita kepada saya beberapa hari yang lalu. Biasa, tentang cinta. Kali ini bukan cewek loh yang cerita, tapi cowok. Terus saya sadar, udah beberapa bulan ini justru teman-teman saya yang terkena penyakit galau justru cowok, mayoritasnya. Ya bukan sakit galau juga sih, cuma mereka jadi pihak yang terkena aftershock setelah gempa besar (baca: putus cinta). Apa yang saya denger menggelitik saya buat nulis sesuatu. Setelah jutaan (ok, mungkin ngga sampe jutaan juga) kali mendengar kisah yang setema; hanya berbeda latar, alur, setting dan titik-titik detailnya, dan setelah bercengkrama dengan seorang teman saya yang tergila-gila sama negara India, saya berkesimpulan satu hal: Cowok itu kodratnya memberi, cewek itu menerima; sayang sekali, tanpa instruksi yang jelas, proses pemberian tidak akan pernah seimb

Triple Booking!

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I don't know where to start. So, Saturday night, June 4 2011, will be a night that I (probably) can't forget. I meant to issue two tickets for next month. Ramadan is coming, and there's no way I'm not searching for ticket as soon as I can. Well, you know that 'high season' people say; EVERYTHING is literally way more expensive than any other season. Anyway, I tried to purchase the tickets 3 times! And by the end of the process it said " your transaction failed, please start over" Since its been 3 times already, I decided to delay the purchasing until the next day. 15 minutes later something happened! I all of a sudden received emails from Garuda Indonesia, 3 emails at a time! I succeed while the website telling me the purchasing process failed! Imagine my surprise once I got these confirmations. : Yes, I ordered 6 tickets instead of 2! I paid for 6 instead of 2! I paid over 4 millions IDR instead of 1,5 millions IDR! Did I freak out? You bet. Well I w

I "Ctrl + B"-ing Things That Apply To Me.

(The newest level of boredom. All I gotta do is block and bold them. Apparently they explain a lot about me too. Pretty cool). 01. You’re currently confused about someone’s feelings for you. 02. You have been in a serious relationship before. 03. You own an iPod of some sort. 04. You do not like your sibling’s girlfriend/boyfriend. 05. You drink too much alcohol. 06. You have been to the Olive Garden. 07. You have taken medicine of some sort this week. 08. It is really cold in your house right now. 09. You are extremely dependent on others. 10. You do not like to express your feelings in front of others. 11. You ate a lot of food today. 12. It doesn’t take much for you to cry. 13. People consider you as a happy sort of person. 14. Someone in your family is rich. 15. You have been to Disney World or Disneyland before. 16. You hate when people constantly talk about themselves. 17. You are a good listener, but you hate complainers. 18. Someone has called you for a serious medical emerge