Final Overview

Mei 2013, adalah bulan tergak banget sepanjang perjalanan pendidikan gue.

Tugas bertaburan, kelompok beragam jenisnya, deadline dimana-mana.

Tiap hari mulut ngeluh mulu minta cepet-cepet diabisin itu bulan.

Juni dateng, hectic seketika.

Ya, minggu pertama langsung UAS.

Tujuh mata kuliah, satu sit-in, ENAM take home.

LIMA diantaranya dijadiin tugas kelompok dan

EMPAT diantaranya, well... Nerve wrecking.

But somehow, God's on my side. He knows that for the whole semester, I've been busied by enormous number of assignments, back-to-back, big-time-killing deadlines, as well as the presence of some dickhead useless people.

God's on my side.

So for this final exam,

He made it smooth for me...

... Like for the researches

Jadi di semester ini ada dua mata kuliah penelitian. Satu Metode Penelitian Kualitatif, satu lagi Riset Periklanan. Dua duanya, hemmmmmmmmmmmmmm gabisa diungkapin dengan kata kata. Sumpah, time consuming, mind screwing, pokoknya $#%@ banget!

Selasa di minggu pertama, itu deadline buat MPK. Gue dan temen sekelompok gue udah mati-matian ngejer hal-hal yang belum keisi dan swhooshh, ketika deadline menyapa, langsung ajalah dikumpulin. Setelah itu hanya berserah diri pada Allah saja yang kita lakukan dan taraaa, dapetlah nilai B+ :') Bahagia?? BANGET!

Sementara Riset Periklanan, well, entah kenapa gue dan kelompok gue salah milih brand buat diriset. Alhasil satu semester ini ngejalanin semuanya dengan berat hati. Tapi gimanapun juga, apapun harus dihadapi. Jadilah kemarin kita melakukan presentasi dengan hasil seadanya, tapi performa semaksimalnya. Kinda smooth, and the lecturer enjoyed. But I'm not brave enough to talk about scores now. Only God and her that knows.

TELADAN group, from left to right are Cika, me, Pus, Fierda and Kinta
We do the research about IM3 anyway, that could explain the dresscode.

With the lecturer, Mbak Nadia

... Also for the baby task

Talk about a successful assignment my group and I made, I have one. Di mata kuliah Hard Sell, dosennya minta kelompok gue bikin sebuah aktivitas promo buat sebuah online baby shop bernama Bilna.com. Pernah denger? Nggak kan pasti? Nah apalagi gue. Dan temen sekelompok gue, yang semuanya cowok.

But when it came to the presentation day...

"As I expected, when a group is 'crashed' with something they're not relevant to, eventually they'll come up with something brilliant. And I'd say that I might consider using these promos you proposed."

Itu yang dibilang dosen gue seselesainya kelompok gue presentasi. Gila pengen nangis rasanya. Perjuangan gue ke PIM pulang pergi ngebusway, selama dua hari (hampir) berturut-turut, dan keterbatasan data yang kelompok gue dapet karena susah banget minta ke Bilna nya, semua itu... Paid off really, really well...

A long, tiring evening at FatBurger with Yabes (left), Olip (middle) and Ridho (the photographer).

Everybody, with Mbak Anne in the middle

... Especially for the teatime clip

Oke, ini bagian yang paling epic nya.
And it happened today, so I can still feel the glorious moment.

Jadi untuk mata kuliah Eksekusi Pesan Audio Visual, gue dan kelompok gue dapet brief buat bikin PSA Sariwangi yang ngajak targetnya buat ngebiasain minum teh 15 menit sehari. Dan itu harus dieksekusi sampe ke bentuk iklan TV beneran. Cool nggak? Nah hari ini, semua hasil shooting dari anak Reguler sama Paralel ditontonin rame rame.

And at the end of the screening, the lecturer announced the best two clips according to her. Kelompok yang pertama menang adalah rekan sejawat gue, kelompok Paralel. Udah riuh nih ceritanya. At least we secured one spot. In case the other spot is awarded to the opposed teams, yeaa... 50:50 laahh.

Nah. Pas diumumin kelompok yang satunya lagi, itu yang namanya Rifky Ramadhan Amin udah kayak menang kuis dapet tiket gratis nonton konser Pitbull, plus sesi meet and greet dan karoke bareng, trus Pitbull nya kayak sadar akan potensi rapping gue sehingga gue pun dibawa ke Miami buat kolaborasi bareng.

Yes, that was my team who won the other spot. Senengnya bukan main. Karena gak kayak beberapa kelompok lain, kelompok gue sama sekali gak pake bantuan outsource mahasiswa broadcasting buat jadi kru. That's one. And two, the main reason why I screamed like a retarded bastard, was because both spot was obtained by my class.

Remember last year, like, really last year, on the same month of June, there was the same head-to-head competition like this, and neither team of my class won the match? Yea, now we call it even. Revenge is sweet. Especially when you know that your class of four groups, swept all spots from those six groups of theirs.

TG+F Group from left to right, Gilang, Utha, me again, Abi, and the girls from the research team

The whole class with the lecturer standing on the very middle, Mbak Tari

Okay I'm a little bit carried away.

No, I'm not bragging about these stuff.

I'm just so proud of myself, for my efforts,

And my teammates selection

50 Ways to Say I Love The Song

I heard the song, for the first time, like months ago.
It was so catchy, with Latino sombrero-ish genre.
Overall, audio wise, I fell in love with the song.

But things changed after I browsed the lyric.
I was no longer in love with the song.
I wanted to marry the song.

Never thought that it's that amusing!
While singing, I'm imagining how the scene could be.
Only powerful songs could ever make me do that.

And the next I knew, I've made these already.

Damn, Train, you guys are geniuses.
Come to me now, and I'll teach you guys
How to lie in 50 ways

Please Be Teased

Good evening.

Since I don't like seeing my blog so empty, I'm gonna put this here.

Please just consider.
We're worth trying

Pee I Tee Why

So umm, for Media Planning and Buying final exam, the lecturer asked us to make a campaign for a retail-clothing line named Tuileries -it's a fake name actually- that's going to be opened in Jakarta. That's kinda cool, eh?

But uh, my friend and I, the Chitose agency, happened to just start focusing on the campaign right ONE DAY before the pitching day because we had too many things to deal with before this. So by the D-day, we didn't win it. Worse to come, the other group from my class didn't make it either. So both winning places were taken by our "rival" class. Sucks.

Okay enough talking about that, now I just want to post what I did.

these items belong to this Galeries Lafayette

Yea yea, "ngibur diri" as you might think.

But who cares. Who knows that there will be a fashion hunter looking for somebody to handle their fashion booklets or spreads, and they happened to peek my work, and they're interested, and they hire me, and then I stop imagining such wild and silly dream haha.

Yea well, anyway, I love that agency I was in. Seriously.

We were actually strong, brilliant and fresh people.

Just one thing: preparation affects presentation.

But overall, I enjoy the task

P.S. : I just made the layouts and combined the components. Image one, two and three ARE NOT mine and yet I forgot the web where I obtained 'em ;)

That Piece of Junk

It's too cliche.
It's too shallow.
It's too mainstream.
It's too dream-selling.
It's too jealous-making.

Most of all, it's too surrealistic.
That's why I don't watch the show.

Man, life's way too hard
to be settled by music :)


P.S. : No offense intended, I'm just cankered. That's all.

Creativity Plus Internet, Equals Existence

Ada satu atau dua orang di sekolah kita, yang dimana pas kita lagi ada di tempat les, kita liat dia. Nongkrong di kafe, liat dia. Pergi ke mall, liat dia. Pindah ke mall lain, liat dia. Sampe udah datengin mall di tempat yang kita yakin gak bakal ada dia pun, kita tetep liat dia. Horor sih kalo dipikir-pikir.

Tapi yang kayak gini nih, bisa disebut sebagai gejala eksis. Menurut pandangan awam, eksis itu artinya 'beredar'. Ya, 'beredar' secara harfiah. Dimana-mana ada.

Di dunia nyata, modal jadi eksis itu banyak jenisnya. Kalo kita punya muka cakep bersinar gemerlapan, kulit lembut tak bersisik, otak encer, mobil harga milyaran atau baju-baju kece, kurang lebih kita udah separo jalan. Tinggal poles dikit dan tara! Gak ada satu orang pun di sekolah atau kampus yang gak kenal sama kita.

Tapi gimana ya, hidup itu gak seindah dongeng. Gak semua yang disebut diatas itu bisa kita milikin.

"So, we're not cool? Not Einstein enough?

Not having expensive cars and fancy clothes?

Not a big deal, people! When we have creativity, we have the whole festivity"

Merasa nasib kurang berpihak di dunia nyata, kenapa gak kita coba aja di dunia maya? Kan ada internet tuh. Dengan kreatifitas, internet bisa jadi senjata ampuh.

Ngerti banget kan gimana gak bisa dipisahinnya internet dari kehidupan sehari-hari kita jaman sekarang? Ngerti banget kan sekarang udah ada macem-macem pilihan social media di dunia paralel sana, yang udah jadi bagian dari jati diri kita (azzek)? Nah, dengan manfaatin itu semua, eksis bisa dengan gampang jadi nama tengah kita.

Tunggu dulu, bukan cuma satu atau dua socmed doang bos. Bukan cuma nambahin koleksi foto di FB aja, bukan cuma update status galau di Twitter aja, bukan cuma curhat ampe berpost-post di Blogger aja. Itu mah bocah yang ada di tivi yang makan biskuit pake selimut juga udah bisa kale. Baca lagi deh kalimat terakhir di paragraf sebelumnya.

"Dengan manfaatin itu semua"

Semua, kawan, semua.

Kalo kalian perhatiin, masing-masing socmed itu punya 'kaum'nya sendiri. Gak semua yang ada di FB bikin Twitter juga, dan sebaliknya. Nah buat nyikapin yang satu ini kita mesti pinter-pinter manfaatin lebih dari satu media biar eksis. Dan gue punya satu caranya!

Sebut saja dengan "Chaining Post Mechanism"

Dari namanya aja udah ketauan kan. Jadi kita bikin semacem cerita bersambung gitu. Mau dalam bentuk gambar, tulisan, video, lagu, dagelan, ketoprak, apa kek asalkan bisa diupload ke socmed yang ada.

The logo painting, the background and the layout are made by me
But the logo itself, the icons and all the copyrights belong to the related companies

Misalnya nih ya, kita doyan Parkour dan tergiur banget buat bagi-bagi informasi soal olahraga yang satu ini. Nah kita bisa mulai dengan upload video spoiler di Facebook atau Google+ atau dua-duanya sekaligus biar cespleng juga silahkan. Nah video ini kita buat endingnya gantung, trus kasih tau kalo mau liat kelanjutannya, bisa diakses di media lain yang lo punya, misalnya di Tumblr.

Di socmed itu, kita bisa masang quotes-quotes oke yang kurang lebih bisa bikin orang yang baca makin greget dan penasaran soal Parkour. Trus 'suruh' deh mereka akses Instagram atau Twitter supaya kita bisa pamer foto-foto Parkour sampe akhirnya, masyarakat digiring ke Blogger kita buat ngeliat artikel lengkap soal Parkour itu sendiri.

Seru kan? Media apa yang mau dipake duluan, dan konten apa aja yang mau dimasukin ke media itu bisa kita atur sesuai kehendak. Mau pake Twitter duluan cuma buat bikin status misterius abis itu lanjut ke Blogger kek, atau mau mulai dari Instagram buat masang gambar yang bisa mancing rasa penasaran orang trus lompat ke Google+ kek, terserah!

Yang pasti pake cara ini kurang lebih bisa bikin orang-orang jadi aware sama keberadaan kita. Gimana nggak? La wong kita aktif gak cuma di satu, dua, tapi banyak socmed. Orang-orang yang ngeliat hasil karya kita pun bukan yang itu-itu aja karena, inget, 'masyarakat' satu media itu beda sama yang lainnya.

Pokoknya asalkan informasi yang mau kita bagi itu menarik, flow nya pun gabakal berhenti. Pasti ada aja yang mantengin apa yang kita buat. Malah mungkin bisa aja secara gak langsung kita 'maksa' orang-orang yang udah loyal sama socmed tertentu buat bikin account di media lain cuma buat ngikutin kelanjutan postingan kita aja, kan? Bukan cuma eksis lagi itu namanya, tapi kita juga udah jadi trendsetter!

Serius deh, eksis pake bantuan internet itu banyak caranya. Tapi eksis secara nyata juga harus tetep jalan. Nongkrong sana-sini bareng temen atau keluarga itu wajib. Nah sambil ngeceng, kan bisa sekalian nyari inspirasi tuh buat gali cara-cara unik nan mumpuni lainnya biar tetep bisa ngeksis di dunia maya.

Satu yang perlu diinget,

Eksis gak selamanya bisa melekat di diri kita

Internet gak selamanya bisa nyala dan jalan cepet

Tapi kreatifitas, bakal selamanya bisa diakses

Postingan ini diikutsertain buat lomba blog Axis loh!

P.S. : di saat-saat tertentu, kreatifitas bisa memble kalo gak ditunjang sama akses internet yang oke. Mau tau gimana cara dapetinnya? Coba aja cek kesini!

Let Us Know, Let Us Help

Choices.

Whoever you are, you own them.

Especially people your age. Teenagers. Somehow unstable, curious and a bit silly. You guys can't stop to taste new things and along the way, choices appear. But no matter good or bad, big or small, easy or complicated... You have rights to choose and rights to obtain respects from others.

But how, if what you choose, is something sensitive? Something that most societies around you are against about. Something big, and different, that if anybody else ever know about that, feels like world collapses. Something... wrong...

Well then came another choice; choice to conceal what you chose. You hide everything. From your parents, your best buddies, your teachers, everybody. Literally everybody. You think that you better keep your mouth shut instead of being stranded by others.

So there you go. Living the fake life. You smile a lot, whereas inside, you can't run from anxiety. You act like everything's just fine, but inside, you're so not good. You feel stressed, and fed up, but... there is no way you're going to mention a single thing about who you are.

Everything are just lies and pretense. Full of drama. Like when you turn on your television, and you found out some corny TV series aired every night. Yes, that drama. Difficult, and seem to have never-ending troubles, but lame.

Why lame? Why should hiding things be lame?

Because you're all alone. You have nobody to share, nobody to run to when you're down. Even your most trustworthy person.

You're just too young. Too scared to face the incoming responses right after you tell people the truth. About how they are going to react. How they are going to treat you. How their respects and feelings toward you are going to change, significantly.

No. You won't live such miserable life, will you?

Then confess. Well it sounds harder that just saying that, but... give it a shot, pals. You have no idea of which life yours would be, better or worse, until you try coming out and let people around you know who you are.

The beginning will never be as easy as blinking eyes. Every nightmare you've been worrying about could probably happen. But keep in mind, friend, that they love you. Your friends love you, your family loves you, your parents love you. They might be hard to you at first, but sooner or later they'll get any soften. They'll approach you. They'll help.

The thing is, you start first. How can you expect people around you got your back, when they have no idea about how you doing? Don't bother thinking about who will going to leave you. Try to think about who will be staying by your side after you come out.

At least you can discover which friends are friends, and which friends are just 'friends'. Your real comrades will be there for you, lighten your burden by the vast access to share. You will be no longer on your own.

Also consider about your health. This is somewhat vital. If you just keep it yourself, then face this, you'll feel the suffer all yourself too. No matter how well you know about the virus and how slick you are to hide your pain, you still need professional touches of healthcare and social services. Think about it well.

After all, you need support. You're just too green to experience this. Too early, too fast. You might know nothing about how to deal with this. But maybe your parents know. Maybe your friends are experts in this. Or maybe your little brother are much more knowledgeable than you. Everybody could possibly help you. You just don't know.

I know it's difficult. Believe me, I know exactly how you feel. I know how hard it is, struggling and surviving for your own good. I know how worrying it is, when people come and touch even the outermost layer of your secret. I know how shattering it is, when people make fun of the thing they have no idea that you are actually belong to. I know. I'm quiet familiar with that.

I made this by myself, what do you think?

What I don't know is, which way you will take. It's now back to you, everything. Whether you want to tell the world, or some people, or just keep silent maybe? Your choice.

Just remember a thing.

You have a future, a bright future.

You have more things to be considered about.

So save your teenage dream, save yourself.

P.S. : so this writing was made to be contested. i lost, but somehow i love the post and therefore... i just let it stay here ;)

My Very First Money Making

... And I Made It!!

Ahem! not only 'I', but 'We'.

So many people included.

Other three Comboys member Bimo, Epen and Bags.

With our lovely manager Kiki and our MD Abi.

All our 2008 seniors that helped us making this as our first job.

And also Commel who supported us that well.

Okay it was yesterday, January 23rd which I thought would be a sucking day since we were asked to perform an 'acting' on a birthday bash, but there were only 4 of us out of all 12. Sounds shattering, right?

But I was wrong. The performance, which actually been trained only in 2 days, was a total success! The audience enjoyed, the kids laughed, the one that had the birthday thanked (well, that's what I overheard), and guess what? As we walked out of the stage, Kiki told us that Kompas Muda offers us to perform on their show!

Phew, that's not all! Epen and I, and also all seniors, hijacked all the leftover cakes and drinks as the after-party time. that was so exciting especially when a brother of @ajizambon came and ruined everything, LOL.

Whoa that was an undeniable experience.

Once again thanks everybody, esp 08.

Count us in again once you get more jobs, please?

P.S. : I got a fan! Yaay :'D