hope it could be..

I’ve just adventuring on my documents in my mobile PC haha.. i opened some folder to see what is inside excatly. Yea, you shouldn’t believe it that i rarely monitoring what is inside which made me hard to find where i took some files when i need it. Ok then i got some folder named HOS which is stands for House of Sampoerna. I opened it and found some photo from one of greatest time in m life. Those were photos of my first time visiting HOS. My friends Dila took me there.

Oh gosh we look so young there!

It was around March 2008, almost one year before now. Even i still wear my old glasses.

Dile became my friends since we talk each other in Manarul Ilmi’s ground, after we did Ashar pray, in Orientasi Mahasiswa Baru ocassion. She talk to me first, ask about small things and i fall for her since that time. She kinda sweet and humble girl that time, and still, until now.

We spent a lot of time and stay through the rain together haha.. we’ve got some problems one time but we can make it together and keep staying. She lost her mom in first year she became universiy student and i was there to see her heart has broken. That became my biggest sorry then, i hate when she sad cause missing her mom :( she such a tough girl afterall.

We have same excitement in music, both of us like indie music even i prefer to unique sound and she prefer the techno one. We change our mp3 collection some times and we attend music gigs many times together. Ohh she love JaneDonna, indie band from Surabaya, and became their loyal fans since high school haha! Even Mbak karin, the vocalist of the band made a song for her. The titled is Dila, tells about a girl with brown eyes who always think life such a beautiful thing.. if i didn’t wrong get what the song mean :p

Oh the JaneDonna’s sing that song when we attend their concert in CoffeeCorner! Such a lovely moment seeing Dila looked so.. what? blushing, happy heard the song :)

Based on the tagline in the primary photo above, everlasting, i just hope we can make this friendship stay alive dila.. everlasting should be :)

*the prim photo is one of my favourite. i took the shadow of us in old mirror in HOS

Art Injection 2: Musim Panen

Oh oh i hope i’m not too late writin about this. Last 3th February till 7th my generation, the 2007’s guys held our college task exhibition! At first it was DKV work and we planned to held it in MagnetZone but then our Head of Major Studies (haha is it the true call?) tell us to let the Interior and Produk guys join into, so we have to move to bigger one. And it goes to Taman Budaya Jawa Timur, or we call it just by Gedung Kesenian Cak Durasim.

Ohh lot of fun there! It was our second exhibition outside campus. The first one was Art Injection: Nationalism Issue which held last year on Tomodachi Resto and Gallery. And we planned to make it as tradition so we called this exhibition as Art Injection 2: musim Panen. Why Musim Panen? Haha it was the most asking question. Ok first we took ‘satu semester menanam kini saatnya menuai hasil’ as the tagline. The philoshophy is we relate all we have did in the last semester as like the farmers when they planting their paddys. All the hard work to make the paddys grow up. And now is the harvest time for the farmers! All they have did before pay off after seeing the paddys harvested nicely! So like us! After spending one crazy semester, gettin stress much of time, hate ourselves.. finally we passed it all with nice score ahaha.. yea all the artwork we took in the exhibition was the best of the best score off all. Still we’ve problem in space so it the artwork need to be curated :)

The DKV’s sent their children books, cover book illustration and the stillation poster. And some cut paper and diagram illustration. The Interior’s sent their cottage mockup and the Product’s show their best on mask craft, airplane and car modelling. those all were our task in the last 3rd semester.

awesome airplane modelling by the Product's

haha..it is the nice one picture taken by Dipo.
Yudhis is peeping from Prita's cottage mockup
(the one who get the highest score, A!)

stillation poster by DKV's

the Product's work again

I get some of my artwork took there too! Kinda narcism haha..please dont blame myself :p

left to right, up to down:
cover book illustration, stillation poster, stillation, children book

and kinda narcism again! haha thanks for Risma, making this kinda funny-satire poster :p

i've got something in my head..

In the closing night we’ve film turning by Si Ikin. Yea such a honorable for us to get a chance being the second premiere place (haha) of his newest animation movie, Grammar3. Unfortunately i didn’t get some pictures of the riot cause that time was my turn to keep in the information desk :p

Many people come, even people who we ever think will never come to such an exhibition! Ooh Si Ikin really works. We also have some indie movie in cooperation with Sinematografi Unair. After that we have some bands parade by my mates’ band, Smeelstreet, and also Hi Mom! One of my Surabaya’s favourite indie band. and then all i can say is yeaa.. we come in the end of the show!

But still haven’t finished yet for the commitee :P

clean up those trashes guys :p

Thanks for Despro ITS, Taman Budaya Jawa Timur, all the media who put our work in their article, radio and TV show, the 2007’s, all the band, si Ikin, APS and Sinematografi Unair, all visitor- yea i can’t enjoy all the moment cause busy of you but thankssss for coming and support us!

Some photos taken by me, the other were Dipo’s property

differences

just like he's the legacy and i'm the new wave

olala tahuwa

Sejak ngekos di perumdos ITS sini banyak banget hal-hal yang saya rindukan dari Ampel. Lantunan ayat Quran yang nyaris tak pernah henti berkumandang dari speaker masjid, nasi pecel Yu Sri di dekat pintu masjid, paras rupawan pemuda pemudi keturunan Arab yang berseliweran sampai masakan serba kambing buatan Datuk yang lezatnya tiada kepalang. Bukannya sok sibuk atau apa tapi memang demi efektivitas waktu dan menjaga kondisi badan yang ringkih ini saya ndak bisa ke sana sesering yang saya inginkan. Untungnya hal-hal yang saya rindukan di atas dengan mudah saya dapatkan ketika saya di Ampel barang semalam saja. Selepas subuhan di Masjid Ampel misalnya, saya dan Datuk Puan (begitulah saya memanggil nenek dari pihak ibu) biasa mampir untuk membeli pecel Yu Sri yang walaupun dijual tanpa lauk, hanya nasi, sayur mayur dan tentu bumbu pecelnya, tak pernah sepi dari pembeli. Sejak generasi ibu Yu Sri pecel yang dilengkapi peyek yang keras ini memang telah digandrungi karena bumbunya yang pedas tapi aduhai rasanya itu. Soal yang lain misalnya lantunan ayat suci yang nyaris tak pernah henti, tentu lebih gampang ditemui sejak menginjakkan kaki di kawasan Ampel.

Namun ada beberapa hal yang sangat jarang bisa dipuaskan bahkan kalau saya sudah di Ampel sekalipun barang beberapa hari. Salah satunya adalah tahuwa.

Tahuwa ini adalah sejenis kudapan yang terbuat dari sari tahu, karena itu dinamakan tahuwa. Teksturnya halus, lebih halus dari tahu, berwarna putih gading mulus. Disendok sedikit ia sudah terbelah. Kalau di mulut rasanya meluncur sehingga rasanya tak perlu digigit. Lembaran sari tahu ini disajikan bersama wedang jahe sehingga rasanya menghangatkan hingga rongga dada. Rasa sari tahunya sendiri tawar, tetapi ditemani wedang jahe yang hangat pantaslah kiranya dijadikan teman di kala musim penghujan seperti ini.

Musim penghujanlah yang mengingatkan lagi saya pada tahuwa. Batin saya, enak betul hujan-hujan di sore hari sambil menyeruput tahuwa. Saya ingat2 lagi kapan terakhir makan tahuwa. Astaga mungkin waktu SMA, saat liburan panjang di Ampel. Saya ingat-ingat lagi memang saya tak pernah menunggu-nunggu kedatangannya. Sama seperti penjual semanggi atau dawet yang tak pernah dinanti tetapi selalu dipanggil mampir saban kali lewat. Saat itu baru saya sadar saya memang sudah lama tak bersua dengan sari tahu ini. kerinduan pun memuncak.

Nampaknya ekonomi tidak berputar pada keadaan yang bagus pada penjual tahuwa. Di Ampel yang surga makanan, tempat satu-satunya saya menemukan tahuwa, ternyata mencari penjualnya pun perlu usaha ekstra. Yang dulunya datang tak dinanti, kini ditunggu sehari dua hari nggak lewat-lewat juga. Dan sayangnya kali ini waktu nginap saya di Ampel tak pernah bisa lebih dari sekian hari di atas. Maka menyantap tahuwa di teras sambil memandangi gerimis masih jadi harapan. Tahuwa yang semangkoknya seribu lima ratus rupiah, bahkan saya kadang tak bisa habis saking banyaknya, nampaknya tergerus oleh roda zaman di mana masyarakatnya jadi lebih suka jajanan serba Barat di kedai-kedai mall.

Sampai suatu ketika saya di daerah keputih, di tengah sore yang mendung eh ya kok nemu penjual tahuwa. Kuaget ndilalah ada penjual tahuwa nyasar di sini. Ngomong-ngomong sama penjualnya sebentar saya jadi tahu memang hidup jadi susah buat mereka. Bahkan pak penjual tahuwa bilang kalau di daerah keputih sekarang tinggal dia yang jual tahuwa, teman satunya pindah ke Ampel, tentu dengan pengharapan nasib yang lebih baik. Batin saya, bahkan di Ampel pun jajanan seperti ini makin berkurang tempatnya. Tak berlama-lama saya pun lantas minta dibungkuskan seporsi tahuwa yang kini harganya dua ribu lima ratus rupiah. Harga yang masih tergolong murah untuk zaman sekarang.

Rasa tahuwa itu benar-benar memuaskan dahaga saya! Rasanya wedangnya, sari tahu yang lembut di lidah benar-benar bikin saya bersyukur lahir di Indonesia yang memiliki sejuta ragam sajian. Harapannya semoga jajanan-jajanan seperti ini masih bisa terus eksis.. dan tentu saja siapa lagi kalau bukan kita yang bisa membuatnya terus begitu :)