Memory Dumpster

This album is the latest album from Dewa which -as always- difficult for me to digest. When hearing it for the first time, my reaction was "OMG, what the hell are you messing with Dewa’s music, Dhani???". I felt the songs are too cheapskate, too market oriented. I missed the old Dewa with songs like in "Terbaik-Terbaik" Album. I still considered "Terbaik-Terbaik" as their masterpiece album.

After bored myself with Laskar Cinta for 2 days straight, i started to catch the beauty of this album. I corrected myself for hating Dhani because i noticed that this album has a very religious lyrics. I think Dewa’s music has really matured. This album still talk about love -Dewa’s main theme- but it has shifted the love to the opposite sex into more love into the Creator, God.

These are the summary of the songs:

Pangeran Cinta. This song is about eternal love that will not destroyed even when this universe perish. Some said that this song about the love from Prophet Muhammad to his ummah. I knew that Prophet Muhammad will always give his blessing to all muslims and he will make sure that even the last muslim with the smallest amount of faith will be elevated to Paradise from Hell. I think the Christians can also apply the eternal love thing to Jesus.

Atas Nama Cinta. The song actually can be represented by one sentence "Don’t use Lord’s name in vain".

Satu. This song portrays how close and personal a person to his Creator. This song also highlight that the ultimate love should be love to the Creator. The lyrics mention "Aku ini .. adalah diriMu. Cinta ini … adalah cintaMu. Aku ini .. adalah diriMu. Jiwa ini … adalah jiwaMu". But i think Dewa only trying to say that everything is belong to God, the Almighty.

Indonesia Saja. This song is about the unification of races in Indonesia. We should not say that we’re Javanese, Chinese, Acehnese or other race. We should simply identify ourself as Indonesians. I think this song came too late. It should have appeared before the bloodbath in Kalimantan (between Maduranese and Dayaks) or in Ambon (between Muslims and Christians).

Sweetest Place. This song created by Once, i think he tried to portray the Heaven. Very interesting song and its in the only song with fully English lyrics.

Hidup Ini Indah. This song is about how life is going to be beautiful if we always put ourself beside God. I think the only way to put ourself beside God is to do everything that God permitted us to do and never forget to recite God’s name before we start any activity.

Cinta Gila. This song will sang proudly by the obsessive megalomaniac. Thank God i’m not. Well, i think i’m not

Nonsense. This song might talk about the nonsense religious debate. This song heavily stressed that the ultimate truth is the existence of God.

Hadapi Dengan Senyuman. My favorite song. The Islamic term for this song is Tawakkal. Everything that happen in this life has its own meaning. This song immediately become my favorite because i was a little bit down that time.

Matahari Bintang Bulan. This song is for those lovebirds out there. Newlyweds also can make this song as their life’s soundtrack. The music is slightly unusual since it is slightly Blues with all the trumpets sound.

Aku Tetaplah Aku. I still dont get this song. It might be about we should keep our identity no matter what happen. The music is very grunge indeed.

Shine On. This song is promoting tolerance. I think this song should be played anywhere which has fanatics group with opposite ideas.

That’s all i guess. I think you should buy this album because in its own way, i still considered it as one of Dewa’s masterpieces. Currently i’m listening through mp3 (yes, i shamely copied this album from my friend’s computer). I will definitely buy this album when i return to Indonesia.

Today was the kind of day that happens (a lot !!!) in my life. You know, a day when you dont feel doing thing. Maybe doing somethings, but unnecessary/unuseful/waste of time kind of thing.

So i spent most of today playing Master League of Pro Evolution Soccer 4. I played it until i feel really tired and sleepy. I even manage to sleep between attacks / defends, suddenly awake with replays "almost goal" scenes. I decided thats the end of the day. Switched off PS2 and go to sleep. Wake up then watch Scrubs, Southpark and Thats 70’s Show. None of these are useful -_-’

Not my favorite kind of day. I kinda embarassed to actually have it. But well, i’m hoping to count how many times i did it in a year. And make improvement year by year.

Today (Wed) i have SC 303 - Operating System Lab. I also made appointment with Susan at 1.30pm to do SC 438 - Robotics lab assignment.

Aaannd i missed the lab again. Same problem as yesterday, overslept. I didnt really upset though. As long as i submitted the report and demo the program, no harm should happen to me

I was editing SC303 report at Lee Wee Nam library when  Susan ring my handphone telling that she’s having lunch in the canteen downstairs. I rush my editing and print the report then head to canteen. The first question asked by her was "How was the quiz yesterday?". "Well, let me order my food first. We’ll talk about it while we’re eating". I told her my sorrow in between chewing food in my mouth. Anyway, she told me that Fida will come to join us doing SC438 Lab. After 5-10 minutes,  Fida came and joined us in Canteen A. Fida then tell the problem she had with the photobox machine. In short, it was Fida-Panda-Eyeliner-Jack Sparrow-Susan’s experience with puffy eyes.

Looking at the clock, it was 3 something pm. I said to them that i’ll join them at Control and Instrumentation Lab after i meet SC303 lecturer (Ast/Prof Ng Geok See) to arrange the demo. I went to General Office (GO) and searching his name in the staff’s board. Accidentally, i also spot Benjamin’s (my SC450 lecturer). NGS’ office is in block B, unit 60 and Benjamin’s is unit 62. "Sweet, we can 2 fish at one go".

I decided to for NGS first. I knocked his door three times. "Hmmpfh.. no response." I looked at his teaching schedule. "What ? he doesn’t have any class at the moment. Where is he then ?". I was on my first step to Benjamin’s office when suddenly i heard "Yes???" from NGS’s office. "Ohh.. he was there. Why did he ignore my knocks just now??". I tried to open the door. "Eh? its locked." Inside, I explain that i need to make the demo and then he asked me who’s my name is and which group i belong to. He asked me to wait at Computing Lab 2 for another 30 minutes. Oh well, i can use that to polish my report.

After putting the report inside the pigeon hole. I wait for NGS and tested my program. While testing the program, i notice the program ( OK, i admit it. I got the copy from FeiFei :P) produce errors. I tried to modified it. My wandering eyes suddenly caught NGS talking to other staff. Damn, not like this. I was panic. I couldn’t produce any single line of code. That’s it. Finger crossed, hopefully he wont notify the error.

Slowly NGS crept towards me (in slow motion. Like those in movies :P). I open the Bash terminal, compile the program and executed it in front NGS. He only ask three questions. "What is this, what is that, and that?". I answer them all with a sentence. He said OK then left. "Oh great, did he notice that i get this program from someone else ? Oh heck.. its not an issue ATM"

I head to CI Lab and found Susan and Fida busy with two screens. Susan’s laptop and Desktop’s monitor. I didn’t do much, these girls already solve the problem. Susan then sent the copy of the lab solution to our emails.

Whoah.. write so many already. After that, Computer Room-Network Down-Cancel Econs discussion-head to Canteen-chit chat with Bimo-Susan the Psychology Master-Fida the confused with what i said-Bimo looking at Bacol the Nicotine supplier-Take 179 bus with Susan to Boon Lay-172 bus caught in traffic jam around the funeral-I didnt bring doorkey, tried to knock and call home. Nobody was there (Cicak apparently sleeping inside, but the phone ring didn’t bother his sleep)-I went to EC to cut my hair-then went to "LifeStyle" to bought some cheap stuffs. And finally Pro Evolution Soccer 4 matches against Yasrop and Arif.

That’s all folks!

I make a disastrous mistake today. I missed the SC 450 - Mobile and Personal Communications quiz. This is so bad, i was overslept because i stayed up all night to study for this quiz.

After waking up Susbye at 430 am, i was feeling a bit tired. So i decided to reading the remaining lecture notes in my bed. Zap and thats it. I opened my eyes … (Oh Fuck! .. its 1.30 pm) My quiz was like 9.30 am. I immediately send email to Benjamin (the lecturer) and explain my situation. I requested to retake the quiz since i was overslept. An hour later, he replied and said "It wouldn’t fair to the other students". (Oh Fuck! … i should have lied. I should have said that my Javanese Flu has comeback to haunt me. Oh well.. sucks to be me)

So my friends, i’ve lost 30% of my final mark. I should work hard to get as perfect as possible in my final exam.

After knowing that i lost that F*ckin’ 30%, i get carried away. I lost my passion to study. I need to watch something. i immediately mstsc-ing to Arif’s comp. Thank God some movies are downloaded completely.

The first movie was "Meet the Fockers". I found this movie is too ordinary. I wasn’t laugh at all while watching this movie. I wonder whether i’m too sad, or this movie just sucks ? Oh well.. maybe i’m too sad and the jokes in the movie is not working.

The second movie was "Million Dollar Baby". Anyway, this movie left nothing to me. I didn’t really know how to react to this movie. I mean, i just sit here, watching the LCD screen of my laptop without feeling anything. When "Maggie Fitzgerald" punched by that WBA defending champion (yes, she is cheating. Punching her when the referee stopped the game) and she fell to that chair, my reaction was like "whoops, that’s sucks".

The conclusion is, i shouldn’t watch movie when i’m sad. Its just deminishing the enjoyment of the movie. Hmmpfh… maybe next time i’ll just go bowling when i’m sad.