Of Comics and Reading Talent

Thinking of some earcatching titles for this post but end up failing miserably as usual...

Today is the last day of Early Semester Holiday, and I have done nothing special except for Wednesday, when I went to a non-tourism river and rented a boat with my family to cruise along and catch a glimpse of this surprisingly cute primata called "Bekantan" or under scientific name Nasalis larvatus which is, FYI, an endangered species. We traveled at exact noon or 12 p.m, making the hot journey not a very comfortable one, especially because those animals aren't coming out around that time. We did manage to see some, though. :D

Anyway, despite of that occassion, my holiday went disappointingly boring. Luckily a new episode of LPTV aired yesterday and it was a fun one. So besides living on internet, I eat and breathe, I pray and play (music), listening to music as usual, I mostly read books and... comics.

A-ha. We're getting into comics. I want to review some things about two of my most-read comics on these day-offs, which are released just recently.


THIS is the first one: Komik KambingJantan 2
If you're youth and you're Indonesian, you would totally be familiar with this title. Yep, the briliant and famous Raditya Dika is now back with some concept which artwork is done by once again Dio Rudiman.
Like the first one, this comic contains his story as a college student in Australia. Still with his comical actions, it spits jokes through the art, narration, and storyline. A difference with the first edition I noticed is the "Nicole" character was drew nicer in the comic 1. And this new release focuses on the motion actions, but the drawing is kinda rough for such thing, I should say. There are lot more jest and joke, and some subliminal gag in the artworks.

I like 8th chapter the most. It has light drawings, more humorous storyline than others -- though slightly tragic.
And the last chapter is awesome. It represents the author's character the most and clean gags.

The second (un)fortunate comic to review is....

ShonenMAGZ 1 year 2011. A compilation of shonen (male) manga (Japanese comic) I've been subscribing for months. I start collecting it since volume 56 and found it interesting.
However, this first 2011 edition is kind of... disappointing.
This kind of comic contains at least two chapter of each manga series it provides. When a manga is finished on a ShonenMAGZ edition, the next one will have a new manga to fill the finished one.
A new serie, which replaced the old one, is called 'Blazers Drive'.
To me, it's not a really good manga. I mean, the storyline is like has been ever: A gifted protagonist boy in a fantasy world, met some enemy, lost his family and then would win against anything in his way. It has too much too-pushing jokes.
I like the idea of a different situation of skill-power. It puts a thing named Mysticker as an individual's power. The mysticker can give the four basic-elements power they can use to fight. But that's not a reason to love this manga. Among the whole series, this one still stands as my least favorite.
My problem is not only with Blazers Drive, but also with BECK and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.
When I read BECK, my first impression was "this one is cool". It tells about a fictional rock band (I love rock music), their struggle through the world of music business and the dark side of it, an idea hard to find. BUT, the twist in the plots is kind of confusing nowadays. Talking about an unfinished song that fires a conflict is still a big question mark for me. Stiff jokes and artwork too.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle? It's been in ShonenMAGZ from the start so before Blazers Drive released, this one is the least favorite. I don't get the story because I don't follow the serie from the beginning. It has advancing plots and twist. It's actually good and the artwork is amazing, but I just don't know what happens to this and that person. It has too much character I don't know.

So folks, because my holiday and your weekend ends in... *stares at clock* an hour, I wish you and myself luck for a good starter Monday tomorrow! :D Good night.

Worse Weekend Than Being Quarantined

Whassssssssssupppppppp worrlddddd....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nah, that's not a nice intro. I failed once again.

Today's weekend, as even every desperate protozoa knows.... but truth spoken, it's not a good one for me. Weekend is supposed to be the time we students or non-students have fun or at least kicking back and enjoying the days, right? Who disagrees with me please raise your salary (?).

Anywayy, I'm having a slightly bad mood because of the overloaded homework the teachers gave to my class, and they don't even give a damn that until the next Wednesday the whole school is having final-term exam. I think teachers are just KINDA lazy to give us tasks on the early days before this exam period catches up, and WE have to pay for them. If not, it's a fail for all of us.

The tasks I'm talking about is the real deal. By 'real deal' I mean not that they're important but it's one hell of job for something not really important. They require handy skills and teamwork, which is not the stuff we can do in a rush like this -- studying for exam as well as doing handicrafts. Wanna know what they are???

I don't seriously think any of normal people wants, so I'll just shorten this up. Maybe my wandering classmate found this blog and saw this post and then squeal in their mind "Oh darn! I totally forgot about this homework!"
First homework to be announced was a subject to Cultural Study. We were grouped into six people at each group and what we need to do is performing the Cha-Cha dance on next Saturday. This task is actually pretty considering, because we got a month and two weeks to rehearse the basics and developing dancing styles.... but my lazy group haven't even practiced the basic steps yet. -______-

Next work I haven't done is... Geography articles!!! I need to search for earthquake-prone areas on earth, and it would be a piece of cake because know what? My country could be considered as one of the most earthquake-prone area (if it is spelled right). I supposed to collect it last week but I haven't printed all the articles yet and the necessary device is unfortunately broken. Hell yeah.

Another one to add the list? I'll give ya two: handicraft work and robot-programming task. The handicraft task was given after the teacher came back from a town in Java and bought some ethnical handicrafts, and then we have to make their copy by ourselves. This usually is a team job, but now she wants us to do one for each person... and the deadline is Monday.

About the robot-programming task, it could be the most annoying one ever. The teacher gave us that task last Saturday, and today is the last day we could collect it. Guess what? Nobody had done it yet. I've worked about it with my group (yes, it's group work) but apparently due to lack of time, we only managed to do the programming. The teacher wants us to make a presentation and paperwork and video-recording out of it... so only the program wouldn't work. -____-

That's my annoying sharing for the day. I'm sure it's not a pleasant stuff to be written in a blog or to be seen by people, but I just can't help it. My weekend's a mess!

Despite mine, I want everyone else to have a nice weekend! :) Happy weekend, guys!

Bitter Taste

Alright, so today I wanna babble about friendship. I ain't gonna whine by telling nonsense like 'real friends should...' or 'I need friends like...'. Nobody's perfect, and perfection is boring. It's totally better to go with unexpected things through life.

Anyway, I don't know exactly where to start, but I just feel like writing today. Isn't it better than me posting Deftones' "7 Words" lyrics here? It would be a darned full page of explicit content.

I've always been the kind of jerk who acts immature to my friends and classmates. I would be the last in the class to notice someone's brand new shoes, though he/she is one of my closest friends, and if it's not because of Facebook, I'd totally forget my pal's birthday. Despite so, I still expected them to remember my birthday and pay attention to my new shirt. See? This is my problem.

I'm naive and sincere. Not bragging by implying so, what I meant by sincere is that I can't fake a smile, can't fake a frown, can't fake a cry. I can't pretend to be interested in a chat when I'm actually not. I can't laugh if I don't find a joke funny. That sure seems like something every people would do, but it's not that simple. I figured there are things we need to pretend to make our social life runs smoothly. Perhaps laugh at a new acquaintance's joke so we can be friends...? Even that I'm not laughing, I would smile and tell the person I'm amused. You know, making a sophisticate impression? *can't believe I just wrote that.

Next problem, I'm not a fun person unless I really know you. I'm objective to any kinds of conversation, but there's this mental power that keeps me barried with my own thoughts until I get to know you better. This is caused by my appearance that I look like a total nerd. I'm not. I'm a lazybone. I don't study everyday. I rarely face my studying desk other than opening my laptop to play games or browsing internet. I can listen to Linkin Park or Metallica all day long without feeling dizzy but can't bear a single 500-page novel in the same day. I have dirty mind. I draw, I paint, I play sports, and I do things to my heart's content without considering others. Shortly, I have the characteristics I need to be a typical boy. But I'm on opposite gender. So my problem now is with fate.

I'm quite annoyed that in my high school days I'm treated like a nerd. Not that I'm bullied or ignored. Everyone is nice, but they don't see me as a friend. They see me as an information agent. Sure, I'm above average regarding academic stuffs, but that doesn't mean you can walk away after I finished answering your physics questions! *cries* I don't have a friend I can share stories with, or someone who could accompany me to school cafeteria... Well, that kinda sucks. I can survive that and make friends out of ALL of you!! Muhaahahahh.
I never have whined about it, though. When people leave me alone, there I am, alone enjoying the banging music on my earphone. When they come for me (ha pun intended), I'll be there for them. I'm okay being used, as long as you still humanize me.

I'm insensitive. That's because my life runs smoothly :) I don't have sad or agony stories to tell to my friends, so I couldn't feel anything when they talk to me about their problems. Mostly about their teen love life. Eh? That is so not my topic. I'll try to understand it and give logical solutions anyway. Yeah, logical. So don't blame me if my advice doesn't work. Problems involving compassions and romance are not logical =P

Turns Older

Today my class is having a blast for our homeroom teacher is having his birthday and we all celebrated it at school. We made him a huge greeting card and by huge, I mean it's sized as big as a wall magazine in average is. It consisted of collection of small greeting cards from each of us classmates. We made it a surprise. One of us called him to our class and then we yelled 'Happy Birthday' out loud as we offered him the gift and a chocolate cake we bought. I seriously don't think he would ever be amazed or anything because other classes had beaten us to give him surprise. I've heard twice of Happy Birthday song sang outside before us. Despite so, he still seemed to like the card we created and told us to eat the cake instead of him. After the not-so-great surprise party, he went home. We munched the chocolate treat afterward, then the kids started cream and glazing war, where everyone got to be touched by the chocolate whip cream and glazing of the cake. As the ridiculous stunt ended, I ran home. Well, not literally.... but that's when the story finished.

A thing or two from the event? I begin to think of what a forty-six year old man like him has in mind when it comes to his birthday... Is he happy to grow older? Has he achieved things he wanted throughout his life? If not, does he still have the spirit to chase his dreams? Or does he realize that there are things that prevent him on doing so?

Truth spoken, I don't even know. That's why I want to know. I, being a teenager, have a nature to act to my heart's content and sometimes, without even considering the compassion of elderly generation. Pattern of opinion between young and old are different. That's clearly obvious. Elderly might know some things better than the youngsters because they have been experiencing life longer than the young, but not anything. And what young generations know more than the elder is not much. In fact, young and elder should corroborate.
For example, if youngsters know how to use blogger, which is what elders can't do, the older generation knows how to fill the blog with more useful things.

Perhaps, in a teen's mind, breaking the law is not a big deal. It's even considered 'cool'. That's a shame, because the elders have made such system to prevent anything dangerous. I think the best solution might be discussing the 'law' or 'rules' between young and old generations. I believe both parties have reason for what they're doing.

Elder has more logical control, while the youngsters still need emotion management. It's what differs both the most. Stuffs young people learn at school may be forgotten by the elderly, but logic never escapes them. In return, the young can learn logic from elderly, but the elders, who might experience decreasing of memory, cannot learn how to memorize from young. Simply, that what makes elder a teacher of the young. And the experience as the best teacher, because old people also study from experience.

Okay, that was confusing. I'm just a teenager. Just as other typical types, I act as if I'm already mature, denying things I really am, doing rude things without considering compassion, and writing a blog I don't even want to read. Basically I seem like a hypocrite. Maybe I am, but I don't wanna be one.

The best thing about youngsters is that they have the true potential to change the world. I do believe in that.

When Things Get Better and Much Worse

I walked through the newly-recognized school alley with one of my pals leading my steps, as I waved and greeted my best friends from middle high and continue strolling. She stopped in front of an unknown classroom with tag 'X-6' in front of it. I knew what it meant, but I had no idea what it would lead me to. She rushed into the room through an already opened old, broken wooden door cheerfully, looked already making friends on her past couple of months ago. She introduced me to a group of girls who had been chatting along near the large whiteboard. I didn't pay much attention to the society. I just watched my surroundings, observing by myself what possibly could make my day and what I should probably stay away from, just because. I wearily smiled and tried to get along with the situation, but I'm not the best of a social animal.

I felt nothing. I went into the room again, sat in a cornered wooden chair by myself to try to adapt myself with this. The dirty classroom was obviously not taken care of the ignorant kids who studied there daily. The atmosphere was insanely stuffy. Only two platform fans were helping to make some air to breathe, they weren't even half helpful. Two girls in front of me were teasing and kidding each other like sisters, and they reminded me of my primary school buddies. I noticed there was a kind of boundary between them that would make them belong in the same league or society group. My chairmate was someone I was certain not sharing the same hobby as I did, but she apparently liked Linkin Park. While the girl who first led me here had been sitting with someone I didn't acknowledge.

I walked into the room again. This time, I picked a seat on an end of the room, the closest row from the front door but the farthest from the teacher's view. Beside me sat a plain, young girl who left her hometown to study here. She was actually nice, but much of a simpleton and didn't intend to make another new friend. That was pity because if I want to have a best friend in the class, it would be her. She was friendly, humble, and not a jerk.

My backpack weighted lighter that day. I walked into the classroom, greeting a few friends I saw had been coming early as they usually did. I took a seat on the second row, second column to the door. Some months being here had changed my entire school life. This period was the moment I got to know the boys more. Thus, at this point I'm ready to state my observation of the class' solidarity.

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In my senior year of middle high, my classmates knew and treated each other like siblings. There was never any dull moments. Though some girls grouped up into some particular people, as commonly differed as league or society group or stereotypes, we could actually get along with ANY of the classmates, and the boys never grouped.
Perhaps the habit of being together in a class makes me require every single one to be solid.

Now there are huge things to be fixed up before my current class become an ideal one, and I just freaking know it's gonna be hard. Just effing because.

First, the kids are perfectly grouped based on lifestyle and habits, which is, in my opinion, totally ridiculous. It's because their pattern of thinking is really subjective. There's this one group of girl who talk about boyfriends and girly stuffs. Cliche, I know, but I think this group would be all okay if they don't whine or mock people who aren't in their league every time. This impression brings every each of their own becoming some sort of stupid cornhead girls.

There's one group of girls who are religious. Nothing is wrong with them, except they just make other kids feel reluctant to interact with them because of their too-humble personality. The kids are apparently tolerate enough to avoid their bad habit affecting these almost-saint-like-girls. These girls also leave me impressions like they are always letting out a 'Don't disturb us with your troublesome manners!' aura, or to be short, their not-too-open behaviour gives me impression they're kinda... conceited. I know it's obviously wrong, but that's just the impression they put on me.

As for boys, they apparently grouped too. The difference is located in a dominant personality that lead the social group. Yes, lead. Unlike the girls', the boy groups have at least one dominant person who control the rest of the group members, Average Joes. Wow. The world really has been turned upside down.

Overall, the Average Joes are all the same, but the leader characters differ. There are Ambitious type, Jock type, Geek type, Gamer type, Nerd type, and... the names say. Though there is a few people who don't want to be in group, that includes myself, they're not as class-ruling as the ones in group are.

Last, but not least, I just wanna say: This sucks. I mean, we could at least break the barrier that differs us and parts us from each other. Where's the harm in that? I'm all concerned because some of the boys are attacking each other with provocative words, which I know they're not joking, and I thought boys have more logic than emotions working. I'm a newbie in the class, but don't think I can change how the wheel turns.

A Thousand Stories About A Thousand Suns

In case you're not a Linkin Park fan, and you haven't found out about their latest album A Thousand Suns, you seriously need to check it out. It hit stores on September 14th, a month ago, and its first single was 'The Catalyst', released at September 8th, peaked at many music charts for the last 30 days.

So why do I write this so late? I have one confession to write about A Thousand Suns: I just bought the album yesterday. I didn't really pre-order or anything. I haven't worked yet, so I thought it would be a burden to my parents since they don't really approve expenses through internet. I then think of buying the album via iTunes, because my mom has bought me some iPod apps and I thought she wouldn't mind... but another problem concerned. iTunes Music Store still hasn't available at my country. I tried to be patient until it hits the local music store, but I couldn't handle it. Three days after ATS' international release, I dared to download it for free on a certain site that I believe had been shutted down. I was frigging guilty, you know. I couldn't bear seeing my oversea LP friends keep posting and discussing about ATS, so my curiosity won. Even though I've got the song, I couldn't really get satisfied. I spent the next 7 days getting patient for the album to come out of the store, but then I got desperate. I didn't know an album can drive you crazy until I experienced it myself. I visit music stores twice every week, but they always said it hasn't arrived yet. The desperation is paid now!!! I've bought ATS and nobody could ever upset me for a long time of period!! HAHAHAHA!!
But I hope no friends of mine will get mad because I've been pretending to get the album and discussing that stuff with them as if I've bought it legally :\ I'm so SORRY, Linkin Park, for not being a real supporting fan :(

OK, enough babbling. I want to review A Thousand Suns my version, so I can figure out it's gonna be one hell of a crap, I've tried anyway:

A Thousand Suns is totally epic and genre-busting, and it drives me speechless when it comes to 'describing' or 'reviewing' this album. My first reaction to the single The Catalyst still remains the same: stunned. The difference is now that I can sing along with it without fainting first :P ... my brother too. He totally fell in love with that song as much as I do :)

I sometimes feel upset for ATS because it only has 9 full songs out of 15. I can't call the other 6 as a song. Some of them are quotations with BGM, though sound matching. My most favorite track is, believe me it's hard to pick, Wretches and Kings. I don't know why, though in that song Mike raps and Chester barely screams, it gives me lots of energy. It's like everyone in the band had significant role of playing music throughout the track, even when it's obviously highly scratched by THE Mr. Hahn. It also has Martin Luther King Jr. quote opening the song. Chester sings the teeth-gritting chorus, and it's epic. I've heard Wretches and Kings live and it sounded great!

My next favorite song is Waiting For The End. It's the second single of ATS, and its MV has came out. The video was terrific, completing the already-great song. Mike opens the song with rapping, and Chester sings the slow, deep toned chorus. The song kinda represents regret and a hope to move on your life to me. It doesn't sound like highly-reproduced through music technology. Sounds less 'mainstreams' to public than other tracks.

The 3rd track, Burning In The Skies, doesn't have Mike rapping. Mike sings the verses with some backings. Chester sings again the chorus, sounded rather slow and backed with Mike. Well what can I say, I love the combination :) this song has cheerful atmosphere, mixed with deep dark tones. Imagine how it sounds, or listen to it :P

'When They Come For Me', one track ahead from BITS, has an intro that seems like declaring a war to you, but it's not. The next thing appears after the intro is Mike's rap. Slightly curses, but as usual, nothing addressed to you. The chorus only sounds like 'aaahh' from 6 of the band. Chester sings the bridge, backed by Mike :)

After that is 'Robot Boy'. A slow tempo song starts with a solo piano by Mike, and 'ooooh' by the whole LP. The piano then continued throughout the song, with touch of violin. Chester sings the whole song backed by Mike again :) No certain chorus, but the bridge may be indicated (sorry heavy words) with Chester's background scream.

In the song 'Blackout', Chester RAPS and screams in the chorus himself. Isn't that epic? I'm amazed by how advanced he is in managing his breath :) There's keyboard sound and Joe's scratching sound can be easily heard in it and uniquely, Mike sings this song's bridge, and it reached the outro with a fading atmosphere.

'Iridescent' is rather sad. With the intro of solo piano and Mike singing in deep voice and low tone, it's followed by Chester's backed singing. Then the instruments got louder, accompanying the lonely-seemed piano's initial play, and Chester backs Mike's second bridge. After the sound of solo guitar, the whole band sings together. This is the part where I mostly weep :') The drum then starts playing, and Chester sings by himself with now loud instruments. The song's sound represent the situation of someone getting hope. It's first deep and lone, and then slowly getting loud and cheerful.

'The Messenger'... It only has guitar solo as instrument and Chester sings by himself. It's talking about loving and supporting someone. Slow tempo, lasts so fast. :| I'm sure I've heard that song before, or similar song, but what and where? :s

OK, that's it. I ain't reviewing The Catalyst because I'm totally stunned and speechless. The whole ATS itself could sound like ONE long song, because one track's outro is like the next song's intro. I couldn't stop listening to it since I first bought it. I'm so proud of Linkin Park!!! :DD Thanks for making a terrific project!

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Class Echoes For You

Setelah selama kurang lebih sebulan menetap di kelas X-6 SMAN 1 Balikpapan, akhirnya aku kenal juga teman-teman sekelasku.
Mau kuceritain satu-satu? Nah. No way. Garis besarnya saja deh :)

Kelasku terdiri dari 36 murid, termasuk aku sendiri. Sewaktu pertama kali masuk, aku baru kenal Anggun dan Dhira, salah dua teman SMPku. Yang heboh ya Anggun ini. Dia mengenalkan aku ke teman-teman baruku, walau tidak digubris secara implisit -__- sabar ya gun. Kesan pertamaku terhadap kelas ini adalah... *jeng jeng jeng*

SO OLD-FASHIONED!!

Padahal sama-sama kelas RSBI. Bertolak belakang dengan kelas SMP-ku yang ber-AC, meja dan kursi desain IT, satu stopkontak untuk tiap meja, dan loker untuk tiap anak... kelasku yang baru ini meja dan bangkunya masih dari kayu yang aku berani bilang sudah sangat lama, melihat dari coretan-coretan tip-ex yang bervariasi... dan mejanya setiap hari terkena gempa *baca: goyang-goyang*. Bahkan teman sebangkuku menemukan buku tulis yang bertuliskan milik seorang anak kelas X-6... yang bukan angkatan kini. Ampun dah. Meja guru juga gak dibedain dengan meja murid: kayu, tidak bertaplak, dan tercoret dengan indahnya oleh siswa-siswa terdahulu.
Nah, boro-boro mau ada loker. Stopkontak saja hanya ada empat socket di muka kelas, sedangkan muridnya lebih banyak dibanding murid di kelas RSBI SMP-ku. AC? jangan tanya. AC-nya alami, bung! Hanya ada dua kipas angin tergantung di langit-langit. Yang mengindikasikan kelasnya RSBI cuma LCD Projector yang ada di tengah kelas, dan tugas yang seabrek yang perlu dikerjakan dengan komputer. Bwahhahaha. Tapi cukup mengeluhkan fasilitasnya. Sebab di SMP kami membayar, sementara sekarang digratiskan. Wajar dong.

So, move on to next topic.

Pelajarannya biasa saja. Konvensional. They explain, we listen. Ya gak gitu-gitu amat sih, tentu kami dapat kesempatan bertanya. Paling teknologikal ya kami ditugaskan membuat presentasi.. atau mendengarkan penjelasan presentasi guru. Malah sekarang dicetuskan ulangan online dengan ID resmi yang disahkan administrasi sekolah *ciee*. Tapi pengurusan ID-nya bikin ribet. Bener deh. Dengan anak-anak cowoknya yang barbar waktu mengerubungi pengurus ID, aku belum dapat kesempatan ngecek ID-ku. WTF is wrong with those guys? -__- give me a chance, morons! Selebihnya? sok IT haha. Gosip dari anak-anak kelas lain menyatakan bahwa hasil ulangan PKn mereka jelek-jelek dan untuk mendapat kesempatan perbaikan nilai, gurunya menyuruh mereka mengirim permintaan lewat e-mail. apa-apa lewat e-mail. WTF lagi? ingin rasanya aku katakan pada sang guru PKn yang kebetulan wali kelasku bahwa IT diciptakan untuk membantu kerjaan sehari-hari kita. Bukan tiap ada apa-apa pakai e-mail. Terlalu bergantung pada teknologi akan menjadi bumerang, tokh?
Dan guru PKn ini nyentrik. He doesn't talk about laws or civic. He comments laws on his heart's content. Bahkan beliau pernah bertanya siapa di antara kami yang mengendarai motor ke sekolah, untuk meminta tolong membelikan bebatuan kolam (i know it's weird -_-') tanpa memberi kesan hendak 'menjebak' murid-muridnya yang belum cukup umur mengaku mengemudikan kendaraan bermotor.. dan melawan hukum secara tidak langsung.
Untuk apa bebatuan kolam itu? Saudara-saudara, ternyata wali kelas original ini hendak menciptakan TAMAN di dalam kelas!!! *jeng jeng jeng* dengan tanaman pot dan AIR MANCUR! Yes, you've heard me!! Kayaknya ide ini tercetuskan di kepala sang wali kelas setelah mengetahui uang kas kelas kami ternyata BANYAK. duh.. pak, kalau lain kali punya ide 'brilian' lagi tolonglah beritahu dulu yang menumpuk uang kas ini!! walau kami setuju karena 'keren' dan orisinil, tapi kan dongkol juga kalau kita gak tahu untuk apa uang kita. pertama bebatuan itu, lalu air mancurnya. ntar lama-lama bikin kolam renang gak ngasih tahu -___-'

Udah, cukup menghinanya. Sekarang ke topik: THUH CLASSMATES! Yee-aw!

Teman-temanku baik semua, kok. Walau aku gak (hopefully belum) punya sahabat di sini :( tapi Insyaallah mereka dapat menerimaku dengan baik :)
Ternyata eh ternyata, teman-teman sekelasku banyak juga yang LINKIN PARK FANS! DUDE! IS THIS A DREAM? Memang mereka jarang discuss tentang LP bareng-bareng, tapi toh suatu kemajuan ketemu senasib seperjuangan hehe. Iya, dong... Coba tengok kelas X-4. Nyetelnya 'Keong Racun' bwahahah. Kami doong... "What I've Done"!!!
Selain yang LPfans juga baik kok. Boys-nya tetap pada usil dan bikin ngakak-ngikik, walaupun kadang practical joke-nya agak brutal. Seperti kebanyakan, pada hobi bermain Counter Strike gak kenal waktu. Sementara cewek-ceweknya terbagi-bagi ke dalam semacam 'geng' begitu. Walau tidak officially grouping, one hangs with particular girls, and another with the others. A shame. Ngerti? Aku juga gak :P
Aku sendiri gak ada geng di kelas, tetapi tiap ada istirahat atau lagi gak belajar, aku bakal hang out dengan teman-teman SMP-ku yang ada di kelas-kelas lain. Mereka juga sering ngumpul bareng. Dan ternyata pisah kelas dengan buddy itu seru juga! Kami punya lebih banyak hal untuk dibicarakan! Kemarin saja kami mengadakan kunjungan kejutan ke sobat yang ulang tahun sambil membawa blackforest dan kado! What a surprise! :)

Inti: even if it's not the best, high school is fun!