Duel of the Fates

4 hours before the killing..

There will be no mistake today, I am prepared...

The only thing I could do now is to make some last minute preparations, and pray that everything will work out smoothly..

"The righteous stand before the darkness, and the Maker shall guide their hands"
-Leliana-

You're Not In Kansas Anymore, People

Sorry for breaking my promise, I was completely busy from Monday to Wednesday that I can't even think what to write. And writing this took 2 days because of work.... Well, there are other things worth writing, but I keep forgetting what they are since I'm preoccupied by my tasks. At least I'm not alone, 2 of my best buddies, Iman & Richard, are also on the same web, so we decided to do those together.

And finally, after 3 days of madness typing in front of my laptop, a few readings of human anatomy slides, unknown number of chocolates, insufficient sleeps, a few hours with Mary and Max, two seasons of Star Wars: Clone Wars - The animated series, and some of your random wackiness, it was all over on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock.

Surviving those days without anything to look forward to is very difficult. As for us, our goal was this

Avatar,the premiere was last Thursday. And we decided to watch the one at 1430 hours.

I finished my test at around 10 o'clock on Thursday - twice, since I have to do a follow-up quiz as well - and I rushed straight home after that, because I haven't eaten anything and I haven't taken a bath on that time.

At home, after finishing everything I needed to do, I tried so hard to stay awake because I don't want to miss the show, and playing games didn't help much since I fell asleep even in the midst of Torchlight chaos. -_-

Time goes by, and at around 2pm, Iman & his brother, Fandi, picked me up - turned out HE fell asleep, lol - and we rushed ahead to pick up another passenger, Dewe, on the way. Normally we could reach our destination within less than 30 minutes, but the traffic didn't help at all..

It was already 1425 hours, and we haven't reached our destination. Things started to get really tense in the car, Dewe started spouting about the late pickup, Iman feeling guilty, Fandi annoyed by the traffic (he's driving).

I tried to calm the tension by telling them that the movie won't play on time, there will be commercials and trailers for other movies, etc. Iman could only praise my "ridiculous optimism" and keep on grieving.

We arrived at 1440 hours, me & Dewe rushed out to the theater door to wait for the others to give them their tickets. To everyone's relief, the movie haven't started yet. As for me, I already know this will happen, so it was nothing special.

After some ticket giving, popcorn grabbing, and more waiting. Me & Richard was late for around 5 minutes while everyone else has already went inside the theater. And we put on our 3D glasses, sat comfortably, and hoped that our hopes for this movie won't get let down.....

And God help us, Avatar SURPASSED everything I looked forward to.

The story was nice, although you can find those in other great movies. However, the graphics were so great that at some scenes I was unable to move with popcorn in mouth, dumbstruck. At some point, my eyes even became watery because of the outstanding scene.

The floating mountains were awesome, they reminded me to Final Fantasy's floating continents. The forest during nighttime made me speechless, it was really beautiful. The CG animations were so perfect that I can't complain at all.

This is the first movie that made me finished my regular sized popcorn after 2 hours. And I was thankful for it, because I can't even think of doing anything else during the last 30 minutes. I could only sit there and stare at the screen, with mouth open.

We got out of the theater amazed, everyone's excited and kept talking about the movie until we got out of the mall. And to myself, Avatar carved deeply into my brain that I can't watch any other movie for the time being.

I won't spoil anymore stuffs, you should watch it yourself, 3D highly recommended.

Avatar - should God decided to make a movie, this is the one closest to it next to Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings.

First Post, Bad News

Never got into the writing mood lately, although a lot of stuffs happened...
Especially when my net broke down for 5 days or so..

But I guess from now on I'll write more, just to get off my gaming doses..

Anyway, let's start with the most recent news shall we..


No, I'm not going to talk about my legs, it's the shoes..
They were stolen yesterday by some Godforsaken person who-knows-whom..

The shoes that have accompanied me everywhere.. Ah yes, we have our own memories together..

I hope wherever they are now, they will be okay.. And may God lay eternal peril on the person who separated me from them..

Dream InVader

Okay, maybe it's because I haven't posted anything up till this month, but I had a ridiculous dream last night. I was taking a stroll on a plaza with Darth Vader and we talked about various, daily stuffs. And he was quite a friendly guy there, he even tell jokes. Yes, it doesn't make any sense, I know.

Well, putting that aside, today is my sister's (or cousin, like I said before, whatever makes you happy) birthday. Let's wish her a happy birthday everyone!


Happy birthday Ririn, wish you all the best. ^_^

Oh by the way, yesterday I met Mrs. Ferawaty Hartono at Paris van Java, the wife of the greatest Indonesian billionaire that I'm familiar of and one of the richest Indonesian woman, we shook hands and talked quite casually. Honestly, I feel honored. =D

Here's her and the family

I really hope my family life can be like theirs. And I will make it happen, just watch and learn, and please don't get in the way for your own good. =p

EGamesBox Gathering, October 17th, 2009

Hey everybody, sorry for the lack of post, been busy lately. No seriously, I was.

Two days ago I went home to Jakarta to attend the EGamesBox gathering at Taman Anggrek Mall at Saturday afternoon. I thought I'd take my best friend and my junior along, since they're still members, although not the active ones. Hey the more the merrier, right?

The next day, my brother decided to tag along, since he got something to do there. And my junior said that he'll catch up later after he's done with his class. So the three of us - me, my brother, and my buddy - departed together from Kodam.

It was an awkward situation on the way there, my brother is not the kind of person who'd easily talk to strangers, and neither is my buddy. I tried to ease the situation by talking to one of them at a time, it was quite an effort, really. ~_~

Still, everything was cool until we arrived at Taman Anggrek Mall. The bus stopped to drop passengers, in the middle of the road, we started to get off the bus right then. A passenger got out, then my brother, 2 more passengers, then me... and the bus started moving and accelerated at high-speed.

See, my mind was set on getting off the bus, and I fear that the driver won't stop until the next "station", so I did what any crazies with a frantic mind would do: I jumped off.

I landed on my right foot, a VERY bad move. My left leg tried its best to balance my body, but it failed. I tried to avoid a face-first impact on the asphalt, so I turned my body during the fall.. A little to far. I landed ass-first on the asphalt, and was lying on the ground for about a second... Then a motorcycle went past my left side, missing me for a few centimeters...

My brother came back to help me get up from my NDE (Near Death Experience), all the while my legs were shaking and my hands felt so far away. But I didn't experience any fear until the next thing happened; My vision started to darken a bit by bit 'till it was near pitch black, and my ears felt like being covered by sound-dampening earmuffs.

I tried to reach out for my brother and grabbed his backpack, sticking close to him as we cross the road in my blinded, trembling state. I knew we have crossed the road when I no longer see fast movements in the dark and the fact that we no longer walking fast. Sometime after we walked further, my vision started to return bit by bit, I let go of my brother when I could at least see images of people in front of me. I leaned on my buddy while trying to stabilize my legs, after a while my vision returned to normal, although my ears were still feeling muffed.

By the time we entered the Mall, my senses have returned, although the pain were still there. We separated from my brother and went to 4th floor, where the rest of EGamesBox members were waiting.

We arrived at the meeting place, greeting everyone there. And then we just lounge around and talk about various stuffs while waiting for the rest of the members to arrive, mostly about RF Online or Point Blank. Once we waited long enough, the moderators officially opened the event.

First off, we did some kind of test to see how active we are on EGamesBox, and then we were sent off to find the moderators who scattered around the 4th floor. Once all that were done, the official event ended, and then we went outside the food court to take a picture and went to Timezone. Yes, the events during the gathering were only a few, although the gathering lasted for around 5 hours, but it's still fun nevertheless, and the last part before we got home was simply too hilarious to miss.

I learned 2 things that day: The first one is how I have made so many friends up till now, regardless of their backgrounds. This realization is really exciting and interesting at the same time, I used to be the shy guy of the class, now I could walk up to someone I never even met before and talk to them.

The second is my NDE, I realized that God haven't taken my life even after that because I still got a reason to live in this world. I'm not really sure, but I think now I know what His reason is. Let's just hope that my hunch is correct, then everything will turn out fine.

That'll be all for today I think, my body is so beat-up that I can no longer hold the aching and the sleepy feeling... Oh, by the way, if you want to look at the pictures, it's all here.

Good night everyone, oyasuminasai.

Mysterious Strangers?

First post of the month!!

I got nothing to talk about right now. Or rather, forgot what I wanted to write. =="

Although there's something noticable here. You see, I planted that visitor counter below just out of curiosity, because I always thought nobody reads this blog but myself.

Well, whaddaya know, the counter goes up by itself sometimes. No, no, it's not because I opened the blog myself, I left this blog when I went to my hometown, and the visitor count raised up to 20 points. And it's still adding up, though not frequently.

So with this post, I just want to tell you, whoever you people are, that you are always welcome to visit anytime, and please don't be shy to leave any comments or messages in the chat box, especially if we already know each other.

Or you could continue window-shopping like usual, it's alright. But it won't be as much fun don't you think? ^^

I (Almost) Can't See the Stars...

It's so small.. It's hidden and lonely, just like me..