20070216

valentine

Two days ago is Valentine’s Day, the day of love. Well most people believe it. And some other people, especially idealis Muslim, believe that it is the western strategy to destroy Islam. It’s a tough world huh? The history itself begins in 3rd century in Rome. At that time, the Rome Empire forbids people to get married. This rule was made because after they get married, they won’t go for war. They didn’t want to leave their wifes or childerns. But this greedy empire needs soldiers to extend its teritory. So the rule are made, and only one person who dare to fight it, he is father Velentino from Rome’s curch.
Secretly and hiding from the government, Valentino marry couples from entire Rome. Unfortunately, one day he gets cought. The the government punish him by cut his head. That bloody day was 14th February. After some decade, the curch give Valentino a saint title, and people celebrate 14th February as Valentine’s Day. Well maybe because the history is closely related with curch, some Muslim won’t celebrate it.
Well I’m a Muslim, but I don’t care with it. To me, Valentine’s Day is just another celebration. Not that special, but I also can’t ignore it, since I have a girlfriend and she’s really excited to have Valentine with me. So yesterday, I made the day so special, just for her. I surprise her with a hand-made crafted love sign from soap. I made it by myself from Nuvo red soap and craft it with knife. Then I took her for lunch at Mamamia, where I propose her, and I repeat my proposal again to her. When we back home, we planted some flowers I front of her house. It wasn’t so hard to plant it but we had to cut some small trees and buses. She called it Valencini Flower, since we don’t know the name of the flower. This morning, she called me and said that the flowers are blooming. She was so excited, and I was delighted to hear her like that. I love you my bunbun…..


(me and fitri)

posted by bimananta @ 15:42:00 4 comments

20070215

bjork

If there’s anyone told you that the most confusing music of all is jazz, believe me, they are wrong. Despite the fact that I love jazz, I also realize that for some people jazz is hard to understand. They maybe familiar with Incognito or Jamie Cullum but they won’t listening to Casiopea, Fourplay, or maybe Michael Frank.

But if you ask me what music that I hard to understand, then the answer is (I believe this time you’ll be agree with me) bjork’s. Personally, I usually love kind of music that people accept it as strange music. For example, I love Enigma and David Bowie, or even The Blue Man Group. But bjork is, for me, beyond that. It’s really hard to understand her music, since she is a really eccentric person. She uses strange sounds. From only clapping hand, laughing sound, until sound that made from electric device. This morning I saw her new video clip that called the triumph of the heart (if I not mistake) and then I realize that I’ve already heard 3-4 bjork’s song from different album and still I just can’t undertand that. It doesn’t match with my ears.

I wonder, if bjork join the audition for American Idol, will Simon Cowell humiliate her?

posted by bimananta @ 14:33:00