Draw Your Own Shirt! :D

I did this in November 12, 2012. More than a month ago, it was. Because of SPA and college stuffs, I just officially have free time now after all final exams for this term have been finished.

I have wanted to draw my own shirt since long time ago but I didn't have any black shirtmarker and plain shirt and don't know where to buy them. About the shirtmarker, the bookstore where I bought one before was demolished and no longer selling. (mine before was shocking pink, I found myself confused why I bought this that time -_-"). Then one day when I was in internship in Architeam in June 2012, my friend and I went to Balubur Town Square to have lunch and have a walk. There was a bookstore which sold shirtmarker in various colors and I bought the black one for about 15000 IDR. About the plain shirt, luckily my mother had some plain white shirts at home (with huge size).

Well, to draw on your shirt, first, prepare all the tools which are needed:

1.  Plain Shirt with any color you like, but I think white is the best.
2. Pencil for sketching. Don't use mechanic pencil with size 0.5 or 0.35, they are too small. Use common wooden pencil or mechanic pencil with big size for sketching.
3. Eraser in case you do a mistake while sketching
4. Shirtmarker with any color you like.

Step by Step:

1. Draw a sketch of what you want to draw on another paper. (this one was drawn on my college notes XP) Just tips, draw something that you really like, it would make you be passionate. For example, I like Changmin from DBSK so much, especially his Catch Me performance with Yunho in Running Man 115, that's why I drew one like this and I was so passionate while making it :D

2. Draw one like the sketch you've made before on the shirt using pencil. I was nervous while sketching on the shirt since I was confused about the size. At first I drew these people too big till there was no place anymore to draw their legs, so I had to erase them and redraw again. Eraser worked but not that clean, so make sure to draw carefully. Don't draw in detail since beginning. For example, if you draw people, first draw simply like photo 1 below. After you feel that the proportion is OK, then continue in detail. The photo 4 was the final pencil sketch on my shirt.

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3. Finish your pencil sketch using shirtmarker. If before I say sketching using pencil on shirt makes me nervous, inking using shirtmarker is even more tense. Tips: don't hesitate while inking, just draw naturally. Look at photo 2. The first one I drew was Changmin's chin and because I was afraid, I drew the line slowly and many times. As the result, the line was too thick. The second fatal failure was Changmin's eyes. Because of the same reason, his eyes looked much bigger than how I intended to be because the ink wore off. I was disappointed but went on inking. I didn't hesitate anymore, I drew naturally with just one-line and the result was better. There was nothing wrong with Yunho's chin and eyes and their clothes and shoes as well. Remember: draw naturally and just do it one-line, don't draw the same line many times because it could wear off. To save Changmin's eyes, I drew it bigger, you can compare the before and after in photo 2 and 5. To balance his super big eyes with Yunho's, I enlarged Yunho's eyes as well, but I came into trouble again since then his eyes also wore off. But it was not as severe as Changmin's before so I let it that way.

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4. Finish your shirt by drawing anything or adding accessories like buttons or wool or ribbon or anything which match your concept on the back or sleeves or anywhere you want :) Because my concept is TVXQ's Catch Me performance in RM 115, ribbon was not a choice though I really wanted to add ribbon to my shirt because I thought it would look cute and I had brown one. Instead, I drew the pattern like the one in shirts which Changmin and Yunho were wearing on right front and sleeves part. I also wrote 'Tong Vfang Xien Qi' in Chinese characters on back.

The one I drew above is my first trial drawing on shirt using black shirtmarker. There may be other colors and tools you can try to draw on your shirt :D

For me, the one I made was not that good, but I was quite satisfied. I was proud and embarrassed at the same time while wearing it out of home. I just wore it once in November 25, 2012 while doing group assignments with friends in campus. A friend who knew my drawing style was conscious that I drew the shirt I was wearing. The bad side was that the fabric was not 100% cotton so it was uncomfortable and hot to wear. I want to draw something like this again but still don't know where to buy white plain shirt which is comfortable to wear.

Since I'm falling in love with Shim Changmin from DBSK, I have drawn some fanart of him. I want to draw him realistically but unfortunately I can't draw realistically, that's why I still use manga style, hehehe. Here are some of them which I posted to my Instagram. :)

 

♥ Shim Changmin ♥

 
This is just my personal story. I'm sorry for bothering if any of you looked for Changmin or DBSK in Google then accidentally and unfortunately came to this post, hehe. There is no new information can be taken here, just my very subjective point of view.

Always be late in liking something... that's me, hahaha. DBSK was quite popular when I was in Senior High School in about 2006-2007. Girls at school were crazy about them. A close friend of mine at that time also liked DBSK very much. I once came to her house while she was watching a video of their concert. I joined her watching for a while but still I wasn't interested. Also that time when she showed me a poster of them, I thought the most handsome among them was Jaejoong and one of my reasons was because he could easily be seen since was always be put in the middle.

Then, in September 22, SMTown World Tour INA 2012 be held and days later the shows was aired on TV. I watched it, and one performance I remembered well was when two guys from SM was singing 'Just The Way You Are' to a very lucky spectator girl. She cried and one of the guys (later I knew it was Changmin) wiped the tears from her eyes and other spectators screamed. While watching it, I imagined myself, wondering how happy she must be. I was not a fan of the two SM guys but I could also understand the feeling of other spectators, the must be filled with jealousy.

My sister was the one who told me that the guy was Changmin, the guy who was a guest star together with Yunho in Running Man eps. 27 we had watched before. My sister then started to like both of them (duo Changmin and Yunho from DBSK) and asked me to download MVs of them (the newest Catch Me, Keep Your Head Down, Before You Go). We watched these three MVs together and I still wasn't interested. My sister asked me to get Running Man eps. 115 from my friend as she knew that the guest stars of the episode were Changmin and Yunho and then I got it from a friend.

Nah, this Running Man eps. 115 was the one really made me fall in love with this guy: Shim Changmin. The opening of the episode was DBSK singing and dancing 'Catch Me' in the morning front of the house where Running Man members and the previous episode guest star Moon Geunyoung were sleeping. The one made me find Changmin attractive was his giggles during the performance. Yunho sang and danced seriously but Changmin didn't, as I wrote above, he giggled a lot, (maybe because he was able to see their own reflection from the big window in front of them). I thought it was very cute and I started to like him...

Then I looked for old DBSK songs and find one which made me fall in love since the first listening: 'Hug'. I played the MV over and over and over and over again, maybe I had listened to this song for more than a hundred times, because, really, I like this song very much. Later I knew this song was their debut single in January 2004... hahaha, what a very old song. I thought I might have heard the song before from my friend but didn't aware.

'Hug' is special, as I wrote above, I have liked it so much since the first listening (and watching the MV) two days ago. Their other songs didn't attract me since the first listening... maybe at first I thought the song was weird and after listening more, my ears started to get used to and I started to enjoy listening the song. But 'Hug' is different, since the first listening, it has amazed me.

My sister told me that there is a rumor that TVXQ Catch Me World Tour might be held in Indonesia and my sister really want to go and watch the concert directly. I really don't think she can but it's not good to break a dream of a young girl, isn't it?

Ah, being a fan of a guy from Korean boyband like this makes me feel like a 13 year old teenage girl. Shim Changmin, I love you, hahaha...

"Whenever you look in my eyes. I do want to show you my love. I make up my mind, make your dreams come true. Nobody can stop me to say I love you." - a part of 'Hug' by DBSK which is sung by Changmin. The pic is a screen capture from the MV 'Hug'

Manga Talk

Yesterday, I was supposed to have 3 classes in 7 AM, 10 AM, and 2 PM. However, the classes in 7 AM and 2 PM was cancelled. So I went to campus just for attending the class in 10 AM. In the mid of the journey, a friend asked me whether the class was cancelled or not. After asking another friend, then I knew that the 10 AM class was also cancelled. No need to go to Unpar anymore. My mother asked me to get some money from ATM, so I had to go to Istana Plaza at least. It was rather clumsy If I just turned back to Istana Plaza, got money then went home. So before going there I decided to go to Acolyte (wasn't sure about this name, they might have changed the name, I didn't know) in Rajiman 23, a place to learn about manga, Japanese language, and also a place to buy manga tools. I intended to buy some manga tools to try at home.

All items I intended to buy cost about 86,000 IDR. Then another man came into the room, told me that in November and December they had a promotion and discount for the price. So if I bought them yesterday, that meant I bought just a day before the discount was valid! I smiled and asked to be able to get the discount that day and he agreed. The funny thing is then he told me again that in January they would have a bigger discount. So I said I would go back there in January to buy those stuffs and he agreed. I don't know whether that was a way to market products or they are just not marketing people... Neither am I, so I don't know.

Things I love every time I went there (I have gone there 4 times) is that I had a chance to try their manga tools and asked the function in detail, and especially, they told me various things about manga world. There were 2 men (teacher and professional I think) and young teenage boy and girl (seemed like both of them were student).

The men told me about the life of professional mangaka and how they started the career. They said, in Japan, manga is a kind of culture, and there is a university which has the faculty of manga. Manga world there is acclaimed, and business about it is run seriously. They suggested me to read Bakuman to know how the real life of a mangaka is. I have downloaded some early chapters of them and read the first chapter but stopped because unfortunately, subjectively I don't really like the style of the artwork. But now, I think I should read it. It's a kind of tutorial and really worth to read I think.

Back about manga. Mangas there are not usually made by one person only, but by a studio, a group of people. The mangaka whose name is written on the cover is the leader, he/she is the one who make the concept of the story, design the characters, penciller, and inker. The others are his/her assistants, like backgrounder and toner. Some mangakas started their career by being an assistant of a mangaka. There he/she can learn the style of the mangaka they are working for.

In Japan, manga competitions for newcomers are often be held. The newcomers make the submissions usually alone, that's why newcomer's manga are usually short, yes, because they make it all by themself. If one can be the winner, the publisher gave him/her an editor. The editor is a person who knows what is liked by market. It's important, because it is a mass product and the market, the buyers of the manga, is the judge of the quality of the manga, whether it is liked or not. At first, a newcomer must obey what the editor said. It might happen when a newcomer mangaka has made pages of manga and when the editor saw it, the editor told him/her that the manga is bad and he/she has to make it over again. Those sleepless works are useless! Newcomer mangaka has to prepare him/herself to have that kind of lifestyle: live poorly, work hard, obey what editor tells him/her to do, have back pain, and have hardly any sleep.

However, if one has become a popular mangaka, the state is turned. The editor is the one who must obey what the mangaka wants. It happens to a famous mangaka like CLAMP. If the editor makes the famous mangaka upset, the mangaka can just leave the publisher and moves to another publisher who is willing to publish his/her manga. If one famous mangaka gets out and moves to another publisher, the former editor can be fired.

As an Architecture student, I see that the life of mangaka is not so different from architect's. We have no money, back pain, hardly any sleep to make a design. And it could be happen, those sleepless works becomes useless if the mentor tells us those works are bad and we have to re-design from the beginning. Happens very often, hehehe. The man in Acolyte told me that it wouldn't be shocking for me if I become a mangaka, because I am used to the lifestyle a mangaka has.

The people in Acolyte told me a lot more but I think it's enough for today. The last words I want to share is the way to learn how to draw a manga.

Personally, I have loved manga since I was little and I often imitated their drawings. Old manga and anime like Sailor Moon, Doraemon, Dragon Ball, Detective Conan, and Cardcaptor Sakura are the firsts I imitated when I was a little child. Not only imitating the artwork, I also made some doujins since I was a little child. Somehow, I thought what I did was a plagiarism, making a manga which is based by another manga which has been published by another mangaka. What am I? A plagiarist? The one who can just copy other people's work? This thoughts ruins me, but I can't stop, because I love it! I also feel that imitating professional's works can improve my own skill and build my own style. I also usually get idea after reading good mangas. Then yesterday, the man in Acolyte told me this:

Imitating is one's very natural way of learning. Remember as a little child we also learn basic knowledge like talking by imitating our parents.

What I did was not a plagiarism. I just made fanarts. He said, as long as our fanarts are not copied and sold to make money, we are allowed to imitate proffesional's works. Precisely, that's a way to learn. Professional mangakas we know today also learned by imitating their mangaka leader while they was working as his/her assistant.

In the way from Rajiman to Istana Plaza, there is a place which sells pets like cats and dogs. I saw many of them and they are all cute! Oh my, I can't stand their cuteness o(>_<,,)o Here is one of them, a puppy which was peacefully sleeping. I give it title: 'Sleep in Peace - The Puppy Sleeps Today' and posted it to my Instagram. (just to mention, I intend to make a parody of a Lion King's song: The Lion Sleeps Tonight) For now we can't take care for dogs, but someday I hope I can take care of cute dogs in my own home!

This Last Mid-Term Test...

Yesterday was my last mid-term test. It was APVP (Arsitektur Perumahan Vertical Kota) or City Vertical Housing Architecture in English maybe, hahaha... I didn't study well honestly, since we had known it would be an open-book test, and the lecturer also had told us two of the three questions.

It took three hours full for almost of us doing this. And after we finished, I asked another student about the answer of the first question, a question with the longest answer I had wrote down. Then his answer made me find out that my answer was totally wrong. I've got one of three questions false. I had just wrote three pages long answer for nothing.

It ruined my mood that evening. I felt like have just lost a probability of getting A for this subject. Well, since my last year in Senior High School I decided myself to bravely set a high target, a target which is beyond my ability. And for college time, I always want A for every subject I take. It's not because I am smart, I just want to push myself to do the best. Our fathers have paid so much to let us study in college, we also spent hours on the way and in classes. I think those sacrifices should be paid with best triumph in the end. Even if I fail to get A, at least I know myself that I have done my best and nothing to regret.

So, answering one of three questions wrongly was a very fatal mistake... more over it was one of two questions which the lecturer had told us before.

18 types...

18 types...

18 types of what?

Damn...

The lecturer told us one of the three questions would be about 18 types of vertical building. What kind of types? It was my own stupid mistake which didn't ask others in detail. I was pretty sure it was about many kinds of vertical building which she taught in the first meeting. But the fact, it was another thing which my own teammate presented at the fourth meeting.

Such a bad thing, isn't it? Personally I have determined that I will never have something bad written in this blog. I want this blog filled with positive things. However, I think it's a rare experience which is worth to write, and I try to find something to learn from this mistake, and I find one:

Believing something is true doesn't always mean it's true.

I build my own confidence about what the 18 types is about, I was unfortunately pretty sure about it. And what I believed to be true... was totally wrong...

Next time, I should make sure myself by asking other friends in detail. In fact, I had asked two friends about the questions before the test but I didn't get on asking 'what kind of types?' and it was totally my own mistake. And now after this occurs it's useless even to blame myself, right?

Stop regretting continuously, I still have some good things to be grateful of:

• A friend also did badly in mid-term test for another subject. It's not that I am happy when somebody else is sad. I just feel like I've got a friend :')

•  I'll go to Istana Plaza with mother sister tomorrow. A bit refreshing! All of us have been too bored staying at home all days!

• I am reading a good book: Agatha Christie's Lord Edgware Dies. Reading this makes me feel like a stupid person who starts to be aware of the truth just if Hercule Poirot has mentioned it, or worse I still don't understand even after reading all explanations (just like when I read Detective Conan or Detective Kindaichi). It's such a pleasure for me to get 40% discount in Gramedia Istana Plaza to buy these books. That means I still have two more books awaiting, yay!

• Since days ago I had got a complete idea to make into manga. It's not a new story, I just continue the concept I made when I was in my last year in Senior High School. I was inspired by Full Metal Panic so the story was about robot. I was also inspired by sweet love stories in Salad Days, too. Both of these inspirations led me to make another story about a girl, robot, and love story between the girl and her former friend at school. In fact, robot thingy is not my stuff. But since I love my own story concept, I'd do a research and learn about robot before making it into manga with B4 manga paper and ink. I am 21 now, I guess it's time to stop dreaming but start to do an action in order to pursue my own lifetime dream. Now I'm drawing a scene about this story and I will particularly post about this as soon as possible :)

My fanart of Kawamura Futaba (was made in February 16, 2010), my favorite girl character in Salad Days and her line which was taken from Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra about youth: "my salad days... when I was green in judgement..."

Patience

The story I want to share happened last Friday (September 28). It was our first offset day at studio. Because it was Friday, the studio time ended at 4 pm. At that time I was quite tired as I also spent the night before drafting.  As usual, I use angkot as the transportation to home. Also as usual, I was trapped in traffic jam. It was not weird at all as it was about weekend, a time when it seemed like all Jakarta people suddenly moved to Bandung. It was my second angkot (I use three angkots to go to or from campus) and it was quite full of passengers. I sat at the front because it was more comfortable. Overcoming both tiredness and traffic problem, I slept in there :p

The sky had been dark when I woke up and realized the car didn't move from the place where I started to sleep. It was terrific, I felt like I had slept for quite a time but I was still surrounded by other vehicles, no way to go ahead or even back.

Then, well, I was angry, my head was full of anger. I really hated this situation, stuck in traffic jam. I was tired, I had slept but couldn't sleep anymore though I had tried. I wanted to arrive at home as soon as possible, having a bath, having dinner, watching TV with mother and sister for a while then going to sleep. I cursed this situation loudly in my heart. Harsh words like 'F', 'FYJP', 'S', 'A', and their friends from the zoo could be heard inside my heart. They didn't come out from my mouth of course, but my face expression explained what was in my heart better than what my mouth didn't say.

And the inspiring things related with the title was what I heard from the driver next to me. He said this to the passengers at back: "We are stuck in traffic jam. All you'd better sleep now. I'll wake you up when we've arrived." with intonation of patience and sincere.

I couldn't drive but I knew exactly, driving in traffic jam was much tiring than just sitting as passenger like me. I thought it should be him, the driver, who got angry. Instead of being angry, he said those good things to passengers. His patience dealing with traffic jam successfully made me feel ashamed of being angry and so impatient.

After we were free from the traffic jam (finally!!), the passenger next to me got off first. After that passenger got off, the driver said to me, "Tired, eh?" with kind intonation and  I just smiled and laughed a little as an answer.

Patience, like the driver showed to the passengers including me, is such a good virtue. Here I put the definition of the word patience which I take from thefreedictionary.com:

These nouns denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint. Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay.

How being patient can simply give positive energy to people around you, like this driver did. I was about to explode, but his sincere words could relieve the harsh feeling in my heart.

From this driver I find out that I quite easily get angry and grumble. I also find out that being patient is good, both for you and people around you. That's why I should learn to be more patient, facing all bad situation without complaining. Because it really doesn't make anything better.

Drafting, Weather

I am designing for SPA 6 with AutoCad now and the weather outside is so damn hot!

However, instead of being clear and sunny, the sky is so gloomy and greyish.

This makes me sweating.

After minutes

Now it's raining! :D

Whaaa... humidity!!

I am feeling fresh a bit because of the rain.

 I should go to campus at 11am to make a group assignment today.

But fortunately, it's cancelled, yay!

The journey to and from Unpar now are shit because of the road refinement.

How it's a pleasure for me not to go.

Whoever you my teammate who cancel the meeting, thank you very much!

While writing this, the rain stops.

Well, what a weird weather.

Yea, at least now it's not as hot as minutes ago.

It's my first time drafting with Cad.

I used to always draw manually.

I used to use Cad when all designs have been fixed.

Now it's starting to rain again, hahaha...

By seeing how dark the sky is now .

I bet it would be a hard windy and icy rain.

I have made the basement though it's a bit uncomfortable.

I am dizzy about the ground floor now.

The drop off, the lobby, loading area...

Architecture is like playing puzzle.

But not fabricated puzzle which are all the same.

Everybody has their own pieces.

That's one point makes it interesting, each of us is unique.

Though we all make the same project, nobody designs the same.

What a labile sky, the rain stops again.

The sky looks so desperate.

Like a person who is sad and has many problems

But tries to hide the tears from falling.

The tears don't fall but the face of the sky can't lie.

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

Raindrops keep falling on my head
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
Nothing seems to fit
Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling

So I just did me some talking to the sun
And I said I didn't like the way he got things done
Sleeping on the job
Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling

But there's one thing I know
The blues they send to meet me won't defeat me
It won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me

Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me

Introduction

This is the lyrics of a song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" which is sung by B.J. Thomas. The song is written by Hal David and Burt Bacharacha and is an OST of a 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Well, I didn't watch the film so I can't say anything about the relationship between the film and this song. This song has been covered many times by many singers. I listened to Andy Williams's and Barry Mannilow's versions and I didn't find much differences between the original and covered version I listened to.

Lessons From The Song

Talking about this song, I find that the lyrics is quite meaningful. It tells that problems may always come and indeed it's not comfortable to have one, but that does not mean it can not be defeated. The wrong thing is if we stop fighting before the problem is solved, otherwise, giving up. Because, the time must come when the problem is gone and we are liberated from it. Just if we stand facing it.

My Conclusion

The lyrics of the song tells us neither to be defeated by the problems nor to blame other people. Because, blaming others (people or situation) can never solve the problem.

One Single Little Mistake Can Ruin Everything

Reputations, you know—  a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy. - Captain Shakespeare (Stardust, 2007)

There are two hot issues which are associated with the title above. 

The first is the news about Kristen Stewart's cheating scandal with Rupert Sanders, director of the film 'Snow White and The Huntsman' in which Stewart is the main actress. I knew this news in about the end of July, and when reading articles about this case, —I don't know what to say I'm not a big fan of her, though not a hater too—it's just that I felt this was something that is extremely a pity. Being discussed in an article, the movie 'Snow White and The Huntsman' is Sanders's debut as a film director. Previously, he just directed ads or video clips. It is also very likely to made a sequel of  the film. However, news about this scandal which was admitted by both of them ruins everything. Sanders's wife is the actress of the mother of Snow White, which is played by Stewart, and of course it would be difficult to unite the three in a movie after all this happens. With this scandal, Sanders has destroyed his own family relations, as well as his career in the film industry. From Stewart's side, this scandal also has sacrificed many things. His boyfriend Robert Pattinson was disappointed, and fled from the house in which not long ago they had just started to be living together. Breaking Dawn part 2 also has not been released and Summit is also confused about how to promote this film later, after the case occurred. Of course it would be so awkward if at the premiere and promotion, the main actor and actress don't get along, though in this final movie they are described as a married couple. One mistake, infidelity, can destroy so many things.

The second issue is about the disqualification of four women's doubles pairs from China (1), South Korea (2), and Indonesia (1)  from the 2012 London Olympics because they played not seriously and intentionally succumbed to the opposing pairs. As an Indonesian girl (which is although not really in Indonesia's badminton but proud when red and white flag was unfurled and the Indonesia Raya echoed just like in Beijing Olympics four years ago, especially when Markis Kido/ Hendra Setiawan got gold medal after defeated Cai Yun/ Fu Hai Feng for men's doubles) I'm certainly saddened by this. Moreover, it turns out that in this Olympics, Indonesia does not get a medal. Oh, out of topic.

Actually I did not really see the issue as a violation, but as a strategy. From an article I read, this was written that China's team also did a similar strategy in 2008 Beijing Olympics, but only that time, BWF did not give any sanction. In the 2012 London Olympics as well, the first to do so was the world's number one team for women's doubles Wang/ Yu from China who intentionally succumbed to their opponent in order not to contend with other Chinese pairs in the semifinals (though Yu said what they did was preserving energy ahead of the knockout rounds). Avoid contending with China's number one pairs, both Indonesia's and Korea's pairs who are facing each other intended to succumb and played not seriously, they often did basic errors. As a result, could be imagined, the game definitely did not look interesting but boring. Based on clips which were played on TV, I heard the audience watching this game yelled 'booo booo booo'. And finally they all were given black cards by the referee and then disqualified.

I'm a little confused to describe the incident as a mistake, because I think this was a strategy. Although, I've read also in an article, there are rules which are prohibiting athletes to 'not using one's best efforts to win' and to 'conduct oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport'. Okay, because there are rules, just consider it was a mistake. Because of a mistake, the teams who did it were disqualified and could not continue their struggles in this Olympics. Well, their struggles to be able to compete in the Olympics were not easy, I took from Liliyana Natsir's words, "not just drip sweat but also tears", and all the struggles they had done and the hope they bring all have gone, because of this mistake.

Another bad thing caused by this incident is a possibility of the deletion of badminton as a sport which is competed in Olympics. Without any case, badminton has been not popular, moreover after the case occurred. I really hope this does not happen, of course, but this incident has occurred and been discussed all over the world, and tarnished the name of badminton itself. However, I also read that the system they use which allows the athletes to do so should be reviewed and amended.

From both issues I write above, indeed, one single little mistake can ruin everything. Personally, I, my family exactly, have experienced similar thing. A small mistake that a person did, destroyed the lives of everyone in the family, since the error was made up till now.

Lessons from things like this are: be careful in every action and decision which you made. Consider the consequences of an action before deciding to do so.

That goes for the future, but what about the things that have already occurred as in the two issues above ?

Things which have happened have happened. It sounds cliche, but that's a fact. We do not have a time machine, we can not turn back time to change the past, but we still be able to design the future.

Remember that even though you can not go back and make a brand new start, you can always start now and make a brand new ending - Bard Carl

Especially for Meliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii who were disqualified, as well as the whole Indonesian badminton team which this time failed to present a medal, too. I, and I think the whole Indonesian people, are proud to have you. Okay this is dark history, breaking the gold medal tradition since Barcelona Olympics in 1992, but this is not the last Olympics, is it? There would be 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and other tournaments awaiting. There are still so many chances ahead to fix this.

My conclusion theoretically :
1. One single little mistake can ruin everything, therefore:
2. Thinking carefully before acting
3. If an error has occurred and its effects must be borne, it's okay. Keep fighting and never give up.

When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. - Dory (Finding Nemo)

Honorable Heart

Yesterday I've just watched an episode of On The Spot, a TV program in Trans7. One of the theme they reviewed is 'The Seven People with Honorable Heart' (I'd like to put the link to the video here but my internet connection is deadly slow which I can't watch the video myself so I decide to cancel this plan). Those people's stories are so affectionate. All the seven stories are great. I almost cried while watching them (well, I am a bit maudlin I think). One of the stories they reviewed is about a poor pedicab driver who gave his money to foundation which help other people who need. This is so touching, because he gave in lack. He who was poor still thought of other people's need and did a real action by sharing what he had, even that might be inconsiderable, but he had given almost all that he had.

Well, I have a story about an honorable man I know, too. It was a simple thing but I always remember this till now, and I'd like to share this simple story.

One day, my sister and I went to an internet cafe which was about 300 meters away from my house by walking. Then in the mid of the journey, my sister's sandal was broken. It made her difficult to walk, so I changed my sandal with her broken one. I was walking awkwardly because of the broken sandal while a shopkeeper of a little shop saw me then he called me.

"Hey, your sandal is broken."

I answered, "I know. It's not a problem because I've almost reached my destination. Thank you, Sir!"

"Come here! Let me fix your sandal."

"No need to, really. My house is near to here."

But he still forced to fix my sandal. I finally agreed and came to his little shop to let my broken sandal be repaired by him. As a a sign of gratitude, I bought a beverage in his little shop. Then I could walk well because my broken sandal has been repaired.

A super simple story, isn't it? But a point I'd like to mention is his concern to me. If I were him who saw a person walking with difficulty because his/her sandal was broken, I wouldn't take the initiative to offer a help. I must apathetically walk away. But this shopkeeper, who didn't know me, offered me a help.

This shopkeeper and me are also from different ethnic and religion (I belong to the minority in my country). But still, he helped me. He helped a stranger with different ethnic and religion.

From this shopkeeper whose name I don't even know, I get a life lesson to have a honorable heart. To have a heart which want to take an initiative to offer a help to others who need. To help other people, even strangers, even they are from different ethnic and religion.

Ethnic and religion are not an excuse for not helping others.

I've Got A New Idea!

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like. - Steven Squyres

Well... it's just yesterday I sat on my chair in my bedroom with a pencil and A4 sketchbook on the table in front of me. I was trying to make an artwork, it has been so long time I didn't make any. I was rather frustrated of making an artwork... then I wanted to make a story, a new story, a new story about adventure. After thinking and sketching for a while then now I've got the idea! :D

 

I'm so passionate! I want to make a manga about this! A finished one, in B4 paper and drawn by ink. I can't wait to make this, but I have to finalize the concept of the story first. I also have to study designing and drawing dragon. The title, their names, the look of their farm and the whole village, their clothing. Those all haven't been known yet so I have to think of that.

I think this story is simpler and shorter than one in my mind, although this won't be one-shot story but I think I could finish this series. Yeah, I have to!

It's not that I am a pro,  I never made an inked manga in B4 paper before. I just try. I got a quote from a novel I read days ago:

Life is like a narrow bridge. The most important thing is, don't be afraid - Khalim (The Desert Prince's Mistress by Sandra Kendrick)

Sometimes, I am afraid to try something and shown by phrases like 'I cannot', 'It's impossible for me', 'Useless', and other pessimistic thoughts like that. Now, I decide myself, it's worth to try.

Internship

After the last assembly, here the holidays come! Even the final term exam weeks felt like holiday for us, Architecture students, hahaha!

After this term over, I have a two and a half months holiday before the next term begin. I have nothing to do so I want to join an internship program somewhere, just to have something to do. Then my friend invite me to join an internship program in an Architecture company she knows and here I am now!

Our first day is was in June 1 and I felt so nervous. Employees here are all quite old men (no woman!) but things went well after all... firstly we had to design some interior of rooms in an building with Google Sketch up, then made detail engineering design of toilets, adding ceiling to some plans with Autocad. I felt like we were actually jobless and they just assign us some tasks because they felt sorry for us as they saw us just sitting around doing nothing... hahaha.

My friend was taught about Kerkythea, a program for rendering image from Sketch up from her Interior Design faculty friend and she then taught me. We used it to render what we design in Sketch up. I think it is not as good as V-ray but not that bad though. Kerkythea makes them look cool! I  thank my friend so much for teaching me rendering with this program!! Here some images of them:

 

On June 4, an employee gave my friend and I a pack of fruit soup. He said, that day was an employee's birthday so he gave that for everyone in the office. Cool! We got a pack of delicious fruit soup for free! Hehe.. then we went to his desk and said 'Happy birthday!' to him. Then on June 11, we got a lunch box and a cup of a yogurt. That day was the boss's birthday! Both the lunch box and the yogurt was delicious. It was so hard for us to say 'Happy birthday!' to him, as in fact, he was walking around us several times but we didn't say it. After finish eating all the stuff, we finally got the courage to say it to him, hahaha... So now I know that in an office, it is common to celebrate birthday by giving others some food in the office. I had a photo of the lunch box but unfortunately I didn't have any photo of neither the fruit soup nor the yogurt.

While all people in the office were eating lunch from this lunch box from the boss, a cat walked into the office to ask for some food! Hahaha... what a good smell, puss! He was male and cute like my old cats which had lost, Chiro and Cempreng. Unfortunately, all the food are boneless and there was no leftovers that could be given to this puss. He also didn't let himself to be touched. But the next day he came again and I had some bones so I gave it to this puss. Then I could touch him! His fur is so soft, even softer than my cats at home. He was also so pampered... I heard his voice 'purrr purrr purrr' and it made me so happy.

On Friday, June 15, I saw an unusual phenomenon in the pool in the backyard of the office... here is the image:

I had seen things like this once before, but just between two frogs. However, this was three frogs! And there were two other frogs around the pool which wanted to join (?) them. The frog under the female was apart but then he struggled to join again. My friend and I were so silly watching this from the pool's side... ahaha...

Now, the final matches of Indonesia Open Super Series are airing on TV... Men's Double Match is won by Korea (Jung Jaesung and Lee Yongdae). Men's Single Match is won by Simon Santoso from Indonesia, yay!! And now the final match of Mix Double is ongoing. I want to watch it after finish writing this. I hope Indonesia (Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir) will win, yeah! :D