This post was written on May 3, 2011 as a draft, never see the light of day until now, the last day of 2011. It’s about a project about something that has became a passion of mine for quite some time now. It’s about happiness.
Here I am, sitting here in this posh café on a long comfy sofa. Just closed a web design project deal but my client @imbipulungan has long gone for a yoga session. My MacBookPro is still displaying web browser with website I am working on. A twitter client also present on the side of the screen, displaying my timeline, scrolling down endlessly. Nothing there caught my eye though. Even the work on screen. My mind was wondering somewhere else. Exact same venue, but was on the old location though. When nothing happened. Continue reading »
Hi all. This is maybe my first blog post in years. So bear with me if my way of writing a little bit rusty.
I am an ordinary man. I live by myself. I come from a middle class family of 5 children. Actually my blood sibling is only 2. The rest is a step sister, and 1 comes from same father. My mom passed away when I was 8 from a breast cancer. My father remarried 2 years later (I think.)
Artikel ini aslinya ditulis oleh teman saya Sofie di Facebook Note-nya. Saya mendapatkan afirmasi instan dari posting ini, jadi saya kutip ulang di blog saya. Thanks Sofie.
Oleh: Soufiarina Sofie
Ketika mendengar berita buruk, jantung kita langsung berdebar, nafas menjadi pendek, wajah kita berkerut.
Ketika mendengar berita gembira, hati kita melonjak, wajah kita tersenyum.
Dari kedua contoh di atas, tercermin bahwa pikiran kita selalu bereaksi/ bergejolak terhadap situasi dan kondisi yang terjadi dalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari sehingga kita kehilangan –“center“ (kondisi bathin yang balance).
Ini menggambarkan kebiasaan reaksi (mind)kita bekerja secara automatis, terkondisi dan tak menentu, sudah terprogram.
Di sinilah kita perlu melatih kondisi mind kita agar selalu berada dalam kondisi Equanimity. (Bagi saya pribadi inilah meditasi yang sebenarnya). Continue reading »
Ingat film “Singles” (Cameron Crowe; 1992), film pionir genre Gen-X movie (yang kemudian diikuti oleh “Reality Bites”, “Threesome”) yang turut melambungkan nama Pearl Jam ke dalam mainstream (kabarnya saat shooting film itu, nama mereka masih “Mookie Blaylock”). Cameron Crowe bahkan mengklaim bahwa film ini turut menginspirasikan lahirnya serial “Friends”.
Berikut ada artikel di TwoFeetThick tentang cast “Singles”, ke mana mereka sekarang? Tentu saja dalam cast tersebut termasuk band fiktif “Citizen Dick” (beranggotakan member Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (drummer), Jeff Ament (bassist) & Stone Gossard (guitarist) di samping Matt Dillon sebagai vokalis).
Bagi gw personally, film “Singles” adalah film yg turut mewarnai usia 20-something gw juga, membuka wawasan gw tentang grunge, dan Pearl Jam tentunya.
Baca seterusnya di sini: Thick Picks: Cast of “Singles” -Where Are They Now?
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=136968844465
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Set List
Black Code
1. Light Year
2. Immortality
3. Sad
4. Smile (Feat: Hasley Perfect Ten)
Perfect Ten
Intro : Indifference
1. State of Love and Trust
2. Better Man
3. Wishlist
4. I Got Id
5. Present Tense
6. Garden
7. Even Flow
8. Leaving Here
9. Porch
Alien Sick
5. River of Deceit
6. In Hiding
7. Given To Fly
8. Yellow Ledbetter
9. W.M.A
Reza CS
1. Footsteps
2. Angel
Sonic Wood
1. Release
2. Severed Hand
3. Corduroy
4. Red Mosquito
5. Soon Forget
6. Guaranteed
7. Alive (Che)
8. Oceans (Che)
9. RVM (Ryo + Jimmo)
10. Animal (Ryo + Jimmo)
11. Comatose (Ryo + Reza)
12. Come Back (Reza)
13. Nothingman (Reza)
14. Got Some
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For more info :
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4941612301
tenclub_indonesia@yahoogroups.com
http://pearljamindonesia.blogspot.com
(From Vancouver Sun [www_vancouversun_com] )
Pearl Jam’s Ten was a slow starter, floundering on the U.S. sales charts before it finally exploded one day shy of its first birthday. The steady pace eventually paid off for Pearl Jam, whose debut permanently altered rock ‘n’ roll. On Tuesday, (March 24), Ten is being re-released, 18 years after it’s debut. It’s sold a remarkable 12 million copies, making it not only one of the most successful debuts in history, but also one of the biggest alternative rock albums.
There are many stories surrounding the album, including Victoria at the outset of the band’s career.
Read further to discover 10 stories behind Ten.
Suatu hari saya dapat SMS dari Shanty, teman sekelas 3C di SMP 13. Bunyinya bahwa Pak Pieter, guru Orkes (Olah Raga & Kesehatan) waktu kami SMP dulu dalam keadaan koma karena gagal ginjal. Perlahan mulai terbayang sosok Pak Pieter, guru Orkes yang dulu kerap menciprati kami dengan keringat muka beliau, caranya berjalan, caranya berbicara, anatomi tubuhnya yang gendut, perut buncit tapi lincah. Tapi masih samar2. Continue reading »
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A FEW miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the district of Georgetown is a huge converted warehouse in an anonymous industrial neighbourhood.
It looks an unlikely location for a world-famous band, but for any Pearl Jam fan walking inside, it’s like entering Aladdin’s cave.
It’s the band’s HQ, rehearsal space and merchandise hub and impressively has all the stage sets, band memorabilia and instruments used throughout their 19-year history.
And the full guided tour offers more treats. The late Johnny Ramone’s baseball card and photo collection — he and singer Eddie Vedder were close friends — is on show near a skateboard ramp and an enormous baseball cage plus pitching machine.
Polaroid photos on display show Kings Of Leon in full baseball gear, ready to take a hit as a ball is spat out at 50mph.
Upstairs in the warehouse apartment — a place to crash if rehearsals extend into the night — Eddie is celebrating.
We meet on the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration and for Eddie, who was so central to the Vote For Change campaign, which urged people to choose John Kerry over George Bush in the 2004 presidential election campaign, it’s an extra special day.
“Let’s not even have his face anywhere on show,” he says with a beaming smile, as he turns over a copy of Rolling Stone magazine which features Bush glaring out from the cover.
“I’ve just watched him fly off to Texas on television. Finally we have got rid of him. I don’t ever want to see him again.”
