Feeling Glad And Contented

I don't even know what to talk to you about, but I feel like I want to talk about something so I'll just talk about things happened to me past few days. It was quite interesting days, actually, and I was contented because of it. In fact, I still am.

[1] My friend who just came back from Singapore on her holiday bought me Mew's The Glass Handed Kites.

It's Mew's* latest CD, which hasn't been released in Indonesia yet. And I am one of their fans. I was thrilled when I was listening to the CD for the first time. Yet, my thoughts proved themselves right: they, the band, now give their music a lot of distortion and an up-beat tempo. It's different from their album before, Frengers**, which I like most. But the new album still nice anyway.

[2] And she, the friend that bought me the CD, brought me A Clockwork Orange*** by Anthony Burgess.

It was one of the books that I was searching for on my book hunt in Jakarta. It was quite expensive, although it was already cheaper; Singapore bookstores deal a better price for the books if you compared it to Indonesia, especially on the imported books. She didn't really bring me that book, I had to change it with my own my money. So I'm near broke now, because I had already spent much on drinking at the New Year's Eve. I know I shouldn't drinking, but it was such a guilty pleasure for me.

[3] On the second day of this year, I met a girl whom I never met before. We know each other from our blog. Funny it is, I think, to realize how a virtual friend can actually be a real friend. But she was a really nice girl anyway, and we talked a lot of interesting stuff at Potluck. And she will publish a novel too, I don't know exactly when, but I think it's on this upcoming February. Oh, how I would love to make my own book, it's one of my dreams. But I never finished the stories I wrote, they just stopped because I didn't continue writing it.

[4] It's already a holiday for me on the third day of January: I didn't have anymore exams. I enjoyed my time lately by reading books and playing computer games. There's nothing more exciting than knowing that you have a lot of free time and thinking about ways to spend it nicely, isn't it? I wonder what I will do, but I think I'll just spent it on reading since I realize I have a lot of book that I haven't read. I usually bought it a lot when there's a book sale. And I mean, A LOT. So I have nothing to worry about don't have something better to do. Besides, the same thing occur with my DVD movie; there's also many I haven't watched yet. My brother usually buys the DVDs, and I don't know he has bought A LOT...

[5] And I am invited to come as a keynote speaker on a seminar at the Unisba**** on the forthcoming days. As an indie filmmaker, they want me to talk about indie movies. But I am a little bit confused with them: the seminar more-less is about increasing reading influence. And I'm not quite sure: What on the bloody hell is the relationship between reading and filmmaking? But I'll ask about it to them later...

I still have many more interesting things actually, but I don't want to talk about it here. Later, perhaps. But perhaps not either; I'm not gonna tell you about my whole goddam autobiography or anything*****.

Last but not least, there's nothing more enjoyable to me than this next vacation, although I still have some work to do.
Have a nice vacation (again), everyone.
I'll catch up with you later...














* A band, my favorite one, from Denmark
** Frengers (2003) literally means (refers to them) Not Quite Friends, Not Quite Strangers
*** Later, the book visualized into a film by Stanley Kubrick on 1971 with the same title. He also directed 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
**** Universitas Islam Bandung.
***** Quote is taken from Catcher In The Rye (1945) by J.D. Salinger published by Penguin Books