Saturday, November 8, 2008

EE go away, little DEA wants to PLAY!

i hate EE . i hate having to do this stupid paper . it's 4000 words, and i don't know what i am going to get from this, aside from being an expert in chocolate history . salahnya, guw terlalu keburu-buru milih chocolate as my topic . fuhhh .. padahal sekarang kan udh nggak se-antusias dulu . BWAHH!

okay . first of all, tes masuk LONDON SCHOOL stengah mati gampang bgt! interviewnya jga! BWAH! hahahaa . si aryo dri bckstage bilang ma guw, "London School itu kan sekolah bwat artis, yang maunya have fun aja, trus males-malesan. Tentu aja gampang tes-nya. Nggak berbobot gitu." nyahahahaa . that's why i'll choose UPH! hehehe . yep, it's settled . aduh, btw, yg ke hongkong ituu, jadi nggak yaa, ikut? guw takut nge-CLASH sama backstage! jangan sampe dehh . GOD, make a way out nanti yaa ..

trus .. apa lagi yaa? oh! mulai sabtu dpan, kita akan mulai practice gabungan sama d'chorus . ngebayangin nggak , ada 40 orang gituu di dpn kak rio dng keyboardnya? wah wah . kacau! soalnya, nggak tau knpa , jdi pada keenakan jam 2 latyanna, smpe jam 5 . jadi bareng kids jga . so HECTIC! oh, guw udh dpt solo . di winter wonderland dan silent night . dan pas kmaren latyan, sondang kan ga ada, guw malah dsuruh nyanyi bagian dya jga, yg angels we have heard on high . mwahahhaa . kalo ada jes dan gret, pasti deh kta ber3 yg dpt bagian tersebut . anyway, kita smua tp udh di-warning, bhw solo-nya akan diganti2, jdi nggak akan slalu org yg sama yg dpt solo bwat lgu ituu . dituker-tuker . i think they will get most of the parts, though . scara ... but wouldn't it be cool if someone from bckstge can sing a solo with them, in a show? (that doesn't include my party!) wahh .. keren tuhh ..

okay, so so far, my EE is on 1743 words .. still 2257 words to go .. that is, 3257 more words, if you want to follow my supervisor's advise: TO WRITE MORE! ahhh! i just wanna sing and nothing else! done with writing this stupid paper! i just wanna sing!

Monday, November 3, 2008

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

"a picture is worth a thousand words..." _ someone came up with this line.

and i just want to add ..
"well i got a LOT!"

intinya, guw seneng banget dehh, guw tuh finally can relive the moment of my bday. hehehe. ini sihh gara-gara pas minggu ktmu om, guw maksa gituu, ngopy fotonya (beberapa doang sih) ke dalam CD gtuu. ternyata yang pas moment haringsay icmay (hehhee. nggak ngerti kaan?) ada fotonya! KYAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! seneng dehh! mwa mwa mwa! and there are three! yang pas moment tersebut. hhuhuhu! keren banget dehh! hwaaaaaaa! bodo banget! udah guw publish di facebook dan friendster! hahahha! let the world see!

udah dulu.. nih guw maksa dehh ngisi. padahal udh mau berangkat ngajar di kumon.
ciao!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

I WILL FIGHT FOR IT!

hari ini guw latyan backstage lgy. sdihh jga, udh ga ad tmen lgy. biasanya jam 9-an, jes sms guw: "de, ada dmana?".. skrg udh ga ada lgy. pas istirahat, ga ad lgy yg guw gangguin klo lgy makan siang. tmen sperjuangan sopran guw. tapii anyway, i have made a promise to myself:

"i will do everything in my power to stay in backstage international and perform in every event that it will join."_ dea (nov.1st.2008 - 5.12pm)

nggak tahu knpa, tapi guw udh jatuh cinta sama program yg satu ini. btw, bagii greta dan jessica, yg udh ga join lgy, bbrapa point ini silahkan dibaca utk catch up sama apa yg terjadi sama backstage.

1. kta lgy practice buat natal. lagunya ada yg gampang, ada yang good luck banget! bwahhaha.

2. yg di senayan city dan mall-mall yg lain masih tanda tanya.. (that includes nov.28, dec 3 and 8)

3. yg pastii kita akan perform tgl. 21 desember di apa ismail gituu, di kuningan, samping pasar festival yg kapasitasnya 450 orang. katanya sihh yang memang pusat perfilman apa apaaaa gituu. guw nggak mudeng kalo ttg tempat.

4. nahh, belum tahu apakah akan disanggupi, tapi ada tawaran (yang pake tanda tangan kontrak, jadi kita sbg artist di hire sama client) utk manggung di balai kartini (beda yaa sama balai sarbini?) - kapasitas 1200 orang, dan yg susahnya kita harus perform christmas dari 5 pulau di indonesia. dan ini bakalan on air (se on-air, on-airnya di televisi). tapii karena ribet dan complicated bgt, dan so pasti konsentrasi akan buyar sama yg buat tgl. 21, jadii belum pasti.

5. we are going to perform alongside d'chorus once again. ahahaha. akhirnya!

udh sihh, sjauh ini, baru itu aja. it means, another new time management. karena sekarang aja, kita harus practice 2x sminggu. kamis dan sabtu. bayangin kalo harus nyanggupin yg buat balai kartini!! pasti mesti ... what? 4x sminggu-kah? behh! kbayang dong komitmennya mesti stinggi apa. tapii guw mau join. guw mau buktiin bahwa guw bisa koq, jadi anak IB skaligus jadi anak Backstage yang berkomitmen. bukan berarti guw maksa atau gimana, tapi kalo bisa, knapa nggak?

but today, i survived from anything related to ipanema boy, in the sense that orang-orang nggak menyadari ttg ... yah gituu. hehehe. and btw, tadii kan guw minta comment yg di kertas berwarna warni itu sama elmer dan kak rio. kalo bwat elmer, dya bilang i remind him of his sister. smentara kak rio ngasih quote baguss banget dan guw suka abiis!, which is:

"Life is a song. Love is the music. Music fills your heart, that's a real fine place to start. And as long as we live, there is NEVER enough singing" ...

yep, there will never be enough singing for me.

other than that, guw lagi suka ama friendster dan facebook. banyak kejutan!! a lot of surprises! i love it!

ya sudah. i'm going to concentrate on EE. c ya!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Discovering an Online Treasure ...

bwahahha. kebanyakan nulis EE soal chocolate, jadi ujungujungnya, guw pusing palaa . selalu ngomong treasure, discover, blah blah blah. lucu dehh. kmaren pas ngetik EE juga, guw udah nggak jelas, masa nulis: "chocolate created the new trading relationship, and of course, acting."

tuhh, guw sudah terobsesii sama entertainment world, sampe sampe chocolate bisa acting di dunia bawah sadar guw .

anyway, sekarang lagi di kelas ITGS, and guess what i found??
his picture on the internet... di official site dari ASEAN Golden Melodies 2008!
coba aja buka di:
http://www.gionghatvangasean.com/en/index.php?link=news

hehhe. ada fotonya dia, and his birthday. (finally, i found it out! bwahhaha)
sayang banget aja, bukan nama stage-nya dia yang dipake sebagai informasi di website.
padahal, i can tell you, his stage name is sooo cool! did he come up with that?

trus kmaren, kan guw ke BINUS yang di simpruk, berikut dengan teman-teman di sini. Bah! Seru juga sihh, cekakakcekikik di mobil. ngerjain math & sciencenya bahkan tuh nggak seserius yang guw pikir pada awalnya. bener-bener nyantai. eh, malah masuk final, alhasil, guw mesti balik lagi hari ini nanti jam 11-an gtuu.

nah, pas di mobil, guw sama greta (plus ms.hanna) ngobrol gituu. ttg my party, etc.etc.
ternyata, pas guw nyanyi di depan, yang processing and opening gituu, si greta, hay and kim mengobservasi keadaan sekitar (kyk mau bikin bwat bio report dehh). trus, mereka ngeliatin ms.hanna gituu, tanggapan dya yang pas adegan lagu terakhir dari prosesi tersbut. katanya, ms.hanna menebarkan senyumannya yang totally has a million meanings. hhehehe.

dan yang lebih kacaunya lagi, kita ngomongin soal kak rio. dan guess what we found out?
dya snyumnya yang pas di all i ask of you biasa-biasa aja. senyum entertainer.
pas yang lgu terakhir, dya tuh kyk senyum - senyum ke arah guw and u-knw-who and he seemed to say: "oh,, ternyata ... okay okay .. now i understand."

dan setelah guw mensupplai greta dengan fakta bahwa dia lulusan atmajaya, dan greta bilang dia tuh jurusan psikologi, kita berdua lgsg pusing. uh oh... dengan tendensi orang psikologi untuk mengobserve people dng akurat, berarti bisa disimpulkan bahwa dia udh tau bhw guw ada *feeling* sama u-knw-who! aduhhh... gawat... hari sabtu nanti gmana saat guw ktmu dya? oh, no!!!

dan pas perjalanan pulang dari binus, kta dengerin jason mraz yang i'm yours. ada kata-kata yang ngingetin guw sama u-knw-who...

"our name is our virtue."

wahhh. virtue itu kan, mnurut greta, ssuatu yang berharga bgt, pride gituu dehh. jadii....


udah ah. mau break dulu. ciao!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Janji Suci - Revised

Dengarkanlah, pangeran pujaanku
Malam ini akan kusampaikan
Hasrat suci, kepadaku cintaku
Dengarkanlah kesungguhan ini
Aku ingin memilikimu
'Tuk yang pertama dan terakhir
Dengarkanlah, pangeran impianku
Malam ini akan kusampaikan
Janji suci, satu untuk selamanya
Dengarkanlah kesungguhan ini
Aku ingin memilikimu
'Tuk yang pertama dan terakhir
Jangan kau tolak dan buatku hancur
Ku tak akan mengulang 'tuk meminta
Satu keyakinan hatiku ini
Akulah yang terbaik untukmu
Akulah yang terbaik untukmu
lagu ini untuk ipanemaboynadea. dea sbenernya berharap bisa nyanyiin lagu ini bwat dya. atau sebaliknya.

After The Party ...

sleepovernya keren jga... wahhh ... i couldn't help tothink about the party all night. we ate lemper, pizza, took pictures... bahh, i loveyouguyss!!! hope we all could stay like that! nonton macem macem pula... maen truth or dare.

jam 4 pagii, guw sneaked out ke tempat pesta. guw tibatiba sedih banget... ngeliat panggung udah nggak ada. lampion udah ilang. no audience. no tables... guw sedih, bahwa itu tuh bener bener udah terjadi . and it's nothing more than a memory. but i kept reminding myself, bahwa guw nggakseharusnya berpikiran kyk gituu. guw harus bersyukur bahwa semua itu terjadi . bahwa guw bisa mendapatkan memory itu. dan bahwa semalem nggak hujan... *aduh jadi pengen nangis lagii. yaa gituudehh...

tapi, pas guw balik pulang ke rumahlagii, opa guw masabilang gini.
opa: "yang pas kamu nyanyi sama siapa tuh namanya? yang dari vietnam?"
me: "edo?"
opa: "iyaa.. pas nyanyi lagu itu bagus banget dehh. cocok dan manis banget pas nyanyi berdua di panggung. jangan-jangan dya lagi nanti yang jadi suaminya, pasangannya dea."

ya ampunnnn!!! guw harap sihh gitu... am i that obvious? or is it written on my face?

*masih nggak mood makan sampe sekarangg...


dea.

Such a Magical Night ... (THESHOW !!)

okay .. seharusnya sih, pestanya mulai like half an hour ago, tapi kan blom rame gitu orangnya ... and i'm stuck in the back, in a small room for spa and massage service in the hotel .. but i'm glad that i'm stuck there with iBoy. we talked about so many things that we almost didn't stop talking . i asked so many things, coz i wanna learn being like him. i asked howdid d'chorus start? how did it all begin? trus gmana koq bisa sampe ikut dan mewakili indonesia ke vietnam itu? trus, we also talked about his background. dya tanya guw anak kebrapa, guw bilang tunggal. guw tanya balik ke dia, dya bilang anak ke 3 dari 3 bersaudara. anak bungsu tohh. trus guw tanya yang laennya nggakbergelut di bidang musik jga? dya bilang nggak. trus he's part of 3 groups. yg satu d'chorus (he used to be rio silaen's backup singer), trus y2k dan something harmony (sebuah grup yg sering dipanggil sama istana, ato menteri-menteri dan pejabat. speaking of which, gmana yaa, dya hari ini? kan dya mau nampil depan SBY .. yep,thepresident of indonesia). dya bilang guw mestinya ikut y2k. guw nanya, emang bisa sembarangan orang ikut y2k? trus dya bilang, yang ngurus grupnya, namanya mas yoyo. dya bilang kalo ada rekomendasi dari salah seorang member of thegroup, mungkinbisa. he's offering me to actually join the group he's in!!!! ohmy gosh! and my mom came. i introduced him to her. she seemed to approve! anyway, kita akhirnya dikasih mic.

dan guw suddenly asked:

me: kak, kira-kira, mic itu bisa dishare buat 2 orang nggak?
iBoy: bisa aja. knapa emang?
me: nggak sih. aku tadi mikir yg a whole new world bagian terakhir, kita share mic aja.
iBoy: oh, boleh. yang bagian apa? (gleg! nggak ada hesitation sama sekali! benerbener entertainer nih orang)
me: yang terakhirnya..
iBoy: yang line terakhir gitu (*sambil nyanyi) "a whole newworld with you ..."
me: dari yang pas sahutsahutan ajaa. yang (*sambil nyanyi) "a whole newworld, a whole newworld, that's where we'll be..."
iBoy: oh okay okay. gmana ya enaknya?

we tried different positions of microphones gituu. and settled on me putting my mic down and him holding it between us. kita smpet liatke kaca, dan kita tuhdeket banget jaraknya. oh my gosh! parah bet dahh! akhirnya, we're on.. guw denger
kak rio: (nyanyi) "can..."
kak rio and d'chorus: "anybody find me ... somebody to ... love ..."

trus guw jalan n nyanyi. everything went according to plan. everyone was looking at me. i came fromthe audience and i smiled, while singing and waved to some. it felt like i was a true artist at that moment. i think i'm addicted to performing, singing in front of people gituu dehh! anyway, ...

trus all i ask of you... just likeplanned. willem, meluk guwdari belakang .. sooo cute!

and a whole new world... guw ngeliat dya jalan dari antara audience, sooo cute. sooo handsome! setelah nyampe, guw nyanyi samadya,sambil ngeliatin dya. trus dya ngegenggam tangan guw dan ngebawa guw kesisi kanan panggung. genggamannya tuh nggak biasa aja, nggak soft gituu. but rather firm and reassuring,it seems like he wants to make sure that he's there singing with me at that moment . andfor a moment i'm sure that i could see everything else faded away. only his grip on my hand, his eyes,staring into mine... and hissmile... trus pas yang terakhirnya, kita udah di tengahtengah panggung lagi, he really did it. guw turunin mic, trus dya ngedeketin guw. our lips were just like 3 cm apart. from afar, we would look like we were kissing! kitanyanyi,i couldn't help but look at his lips, then to the audience and at the end, i looked into his eyes. it was so magical. if it wasn't for the mic, and his hand on my back, i'm sure i'll fly... thank you so much, my dear prince! you are heaven sent, and my answered prayer!

setelah itu, ada lagi pas guw mesti manggil 5people. first is my mom, representing the family. jes, representing my female classmates and friends. gret, representing the angelz, my best friends. lalu harry, representing the boys. and finally, i got the guts to say: "dan yang terakhir,untuk ngewakilin sekelompok orang yang dea sangat kagumin... *pause* kak edo." i looked back, and everyone was like smiling to him... he came in front and stand beside me." mc-nya pertama nanyain greta tentang guw. setelah itu dya bukannya interview harry, malah iBoy!! behh!!! dya bilangg ... "dea, adikku ..." and started to say things about me ... you know what? i was blushingg so hard! and then later on, i get to feed those people some cake. dya pertama bilang "wow, pasti enak dehh kuenya." before i fed him. ahh...

and after that was dinner, i went to people,they seemed like they enjoyed it. my four teachers were like commenting on my performance. they say it was awesome and cool. guw suka banget the way mereka ngebawain lagu terima kasih cinta, terus sempurna, beautiful girls, can't take my eyes off you, inikah cinta dan pandangan pertama. sooo romantic.

i sang with belinda. then gret and jess sang, then ms.may.. "when you tell me that you love him..." beh! nancep tuhh. benerbener ngenaa gituu. i hope someone actually says that to me! and in the end, we took pictures again, and i asked for each one of d'chorus members. wew... keren.

so sad that it was finally over ... so glad that it actually happened ... thank you for those who were the audience. and thanks to d'chorus and kak rio and belinda. i love you all. dan untuk ipanema boy ... thanks for making all my dreams came true...


dea... in another world right now...