Listen to Your Ear

Just wanna share what I'm currently listening to... of course the K-Pop below counts, but I won't spamming you again with Korean thingy, so here it is...

Gym Class Heroes Ft. Adam Levine –Stereo Hearts

Adam Levine is uplifting this song, can't get enough of his voice!
Make me your radio | Turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you | Just sing along to my stereo...

Hey Monday – Candles

The first time I'm listening to it, is from Glee, which sang by Kurt and Blaine. I think the original version is better :)

Blow the candles out | Looks like a solo tonight

But I think I'll be allright...

Beyonce –Best Thing I Never Had

Beyonce always got the hits! It could be next 'irreplaceable' :)

and I'm gon' always be the best thing I never had
I bet it sucks to be you right now...

Beyonce –Why Don’t You Love Me

yeah, Mrs. B again. I think this is the galauest Beyonce's song ever. check out the song and listen to the lyrics. that's sooo me (ups!)

I got beauty | I got class | I got style and I got ass
And you don't even to care to care...
why don't you love me?

Catch The Wave

Once upon a time, there's friend of mine who often sharing stories about her new favorite kind of music. She likes K-pop. well, you should've known that it stands for Korean Pop.

At first, I was like 'Umm okay, go ahead tell me the stories but don't you wish that I will love K-pop too'. So I just listened to her and respond a bit just to act like I'm interested ;)

She's not the only one, another friends were talking about the same theme, K-pop. How they really fall in love with one of the boyband's member, how they usually watching their music video, and so on. Some of them are very addictive to it. Well, at first I thought that they're sucks or norak, because at the time, I thought that korean boyband is just nothing but a crap. I thought they humiliate themself by wearing random clothes and dancing like a girl. Ups, sorry if that's too rude. I just try to be honest.

But then the Korean Wave slowly hypnotized me! Surprisingly, I become more often googling about one of Korean boyband and girlband, even watching their music video on YouTube. Whooah I was surprised with this new habit, actually. I don't know how I could catch this Korean Fever, and I don't even know why and when did I start to like this kind of music!

Knowing this, I tried to hide it from my friends. I thought if they know that I like Korean music, I will be mocked. Until I tweeted something on my twitter : 'is it a crime if I'm starting to like Korean music?', then there are many replies from my friends who said that it's really not a mistake to like one kind of music, people do have passion and they can follow it with no fear. Yeah, then I realized that, it's people's right to like or dislike a genre of music, we just can't judge or mock them because of the choice that they've made. I thought it's wise enough, right?

So, here I am. I confess that I like K-pop, the boyband, the girlband, the dance and the style. Believe me, they are so hard to resist! Once you listen or watch their music, suddenly you can fall in love with them (well, it happened to me). So, it's not a big deal if I like K-pop, right? you're not gonna unfollow my blog and still want to come back here anytime, right? >_<

For the boyband, I like Super Junior. Well, maybe it's kinda mainstream, but yeah I just like them. I like the way they dance, pose and dress. It's just fascinating to me. Sometimes, I wonder how could they become so expert with dancing? they are all boys and usually boys can't dance flexibly. For the song, I like 'Sorry Sorry', 'Bonamana' and the newest one 'Mr.Simple'. What I like from their music are the beat and the dance. The three songs above have awesome beat! Everytime I listen to it, my body automatically shakes and do a little dance (haha, please don't imagine it). Well, if there's one thing that bother me when I watch Korean boyband music video is the way they dress up. They usually wear random stuff like fishnet top, fur vest, oversized harem pants, patterned legging, shocking colors, etc. Luckily, I thought Super Junior has no problem with their style, I still thought that their style mostly are appropriate and elegant.

Well, pictures above are taken from 'Mr.Simple' MV



and the colorful one... I can't count it as the elegant style, but they rarely dress like that so just skip the pic ;)


Warning! once you watch it, you'll never stop wanting to replay it again and again ;)

oh yah, as I know the member of SuJu is 13 boys, but all I see is just 10 boys here. anyone can explain it to me? sorry, I'm a newbie >_<

For the girlband, I used to like Girl's Generation or SNSD. I love their catchy song titled 'Gee'. Now, I'm starting to like T-ara (maybe it pronounces 'Tiara'?). I really love their songs titled 'Apple is a' and 'Roly Poly'. It's magically addictive and the beat always make me want to dance! I really admire their cute and chic style and also their perfect body! Everytime I watch their MV I was like 'Aaah when will my body can be as skinny as them?' --> skip this desperate part.

This is T-ara. Look how cute they are :)
You should check out their 'Roly Poly' MV below! It's danceable!

Eventhough I love K-Pop but I still love the Top 40 Songs or anything on Billboard.com . I'm not too addictive with K-pop, I just search something different from what I usually listen to. So, I guess I just spread the Korean Fever to you guys! I hope for the K-pop haters, you can think twice before judge the K-pop lovers. Just respect each other :)

Yeah at last I think it's not a guilty pleasure anymore, how about you?

The Zoolander

Have a long holiday? but have no money to hang out?
don't be sad or galau, because there's an alternative place where you can have fun with your friends, taking great pictures and enrich your knowledge, without spend much money.
It's called Ragunan Zoo. I bet you guys know about this place, right? but not many who's willing to go to this place. Some said that Ragunan is a place where 'alay' go for recreation. wow, that's absolutely rude and not true! Ragunan is a beautiful zoo and it's worth to visit for holiday :)

me and my beloved girls, JDGJD, went to Ragunan 2 weeks ago (see? I'm the real procrastinator writer). we decided to go there because we're boring with our routine meet up which only took place at mall or anggi's house, and actually we're on a low budget haha, so yeah, just start the story!

we got there by TransJakarta bus, it's easiest and cheapest way to go there. You only have to pay Rp.4.500 or Rp.5.000 (sorry, I can't remember it clearly), to enter the zoo. Wow, it's very cheap! No wonder if during the weekend this place is always crowded. Fortunately, we went there at weekdays, so the zoo is all ours :D

let the pictures tell our story...

the very simple entrance gate


I forget the name of this bird, it's like Pelican, but it's not :/


well, the girafee is just a statue. actually there are the real one, but too bad it's on a cage so we won't be able to take a pic this close.

this statue catch my eye ;)

with the... poor poor elephant, I'm sorry, I know that it looks inappropriate to took a smile pose in front of this poor elephant :(

why I called the elephant poor? because at the time we visited the cage, it looks hungry. there were visitors who tried to throw nuts to the elephant, but the distance between the cage and their position was too far, so it can't reach the nuts :(

Look! as an elephant, I think the size is too skinny :(
additionally, at the time we took a pic here, the eye of this elephant looks wet, it's like the elephant was crying :'(
well, then I start wondering : how could the zoo keeper can feed the animal well, while the entrance price is very cheap? they have a loooot of animal collection, can they take care of it nicely? Hope that the animals are allright :/

okay, we moved on. by the way, I love the trees here :)

we kept on walking, met zebra, giraffe, deer, and so on. there's one thing that maybe I would like to give advice to Ragunan, please, put more directions about the animal's area, so the visitors can easily find the animals they want to see.

the area of Ragunan is very very large, we're exhausted but still excited to continue the journey.
there's one space here which especially belongs to primates, it called 'Pusat Primata Schmutzer'. It's still at Ragunan area, but we have to pay the ticket again if we want to visit it. I forget how much but it's still cheap :)

the gigantic gate! with Kiki :)

I can say that this place is very leafy and clean! and the directions are better than the Ragunan zoo itself.

Here is the gate to the cave of primates, at first I was afraid to get in because it's dark and the atmosphere is just spooky and cold, but okay, I have my friends here and I don't need to be worry :)

After passing the dark alley, we found the bright side! so, actually the cave was designed like a real cave, with so many decoration of leaves that makes us feel like we're on a real cave. Here we can see many primates through the big glasses. creative, I like the concept :)

the primates. maybe they are one of your relations? haha

"Gorilla loves to laugh and doesn't like get angry"... hmm me and my friends love to laugh too, so are we also a group of Gorillas? lol ;)

Some tips for you if you want to go to Ragunan :
1) You better bring your own meal. Actually there are many stalls that sell foods and drinks, but I doubt the hygienic, and for the drinks, the sellers can doubled the price, so prepare your own ammunition :)
2) Visit Ragunan at the weekdays! Why? because usually it gets crowded during the weekend, and all you can see is not the animals, but people :P

okay, at last, the journey was end. I'm so happy and excited of this so-called adventure. I have my quality time with my besties and also have experience with the animals. Such a unusual yet fun way to have fun. You should try it yourself ;)

Thanks Myka, Santi, Kiki, Dhya, Mira, Anggita, Dhira for the wonderful day!

Welcome Ramadhan

this is my yesterday's tweet, go follow me @augustputt :)

Yeaaaaaay! Can't believe that it's August already!
I always love August, especially this August.
Why? because August is my birth's month, I was born on August 27 :)
and insyaallah, this year I'm going to be a 20-years-old-woman. yeah, woman, I think I'm mature enough, am I? ;)

And my happiness is multiplied because this year, Ramadhan is also on August!
Ramadhan is the month full of glory and blessing, we have to fasting for 30 days.
What's difficult from doing fasting is not how to beat the hunger or thirst, but to beat the emotion, anger even lust.

Hope that this Ramadhan would be the best Ramadhan ever to all of us! Amiiin :)
Happy fasting and don't forget to do Tarawih!

May Allah bless us all :)

Bright Green

Long time no see my JDGJD! it's like my peer group when I was in high school...

this is us! wearing our high school's batik uniform!
look how innocent we were >_<

as the time goes by, we still keep our friendship and have a gathering every 4-6 months. Yes, it was a long range, because there's some of us who studied at Semarang and Bandung, so if we want to meet up with the full-team, we have to wait for the holiday -__-

2 weeks ago, finally we met up! aaaa I miss them sooo much more than anything! Too bad, Dhira can't join us because she took SP :(

Like usual, we went to Anggita's house. We have a joyful chit-chat, share about the cruelty of college, stupid thought and many more. Shortly, we laughed, laughed and laughed :D
oh yah, Anggita has just came back from US, and kindly she brought each of us a sweet necklace! I got the black cat pendant. Thanks nggi ;)

Okay, here's the documentation :

I always love Anggita's room, because she painted it with bright green colour. it's very fresh and cool for photo background ;)


there's always something to talk about


we played card. the game is called '24'. have you heard about it?

me, trying to look capable playing guitar. the result? epic failed -_-

then had a crazy photoshoot from Anggita's webcam, well it's just me and Myka actually ;p



this is the funniest part! I told them to type 'Astuti' on youtube.com and I showed them this video! hahahah it's very funny, a man named Pasha Agung sang a song titled 'Astuti'. OMG, you should watch it because the video is freaking ridiculous and amusing! LOL!

and we also record a video of us. it contains our hopes for the future :')

I always miss our moment together !
Take care ;)