Same Old Questions

"Who's your girlfriend right now?"
"When will you get married?"

In my country, Indonesia, those questions are the most common questions you're going to face in your society.

For me, in my opinion (mostly based on other people's experience) in every relationship there will be a moment when you have to choose whether the love of your life or the life that you love. Apparently, I already have chosen to pursue the life that I love first.. (no.. noo... it's not a denial hahaha :p )

That's the Thing About Failure

Have you ever met a failure in your life? When everything didn't work as you planned and you felt that your efforts were in vain? Well.. I have... And in my opinion, everyone has.

Life is not a wish granting factory, you couldn't just get everything you want. As I recall, there's no successful person who hasn't met any failure within his/her journey, isn't it? What I mean by successful is the best one, kind of person who was not only success in their career, but also change the world! People nowadays usually are being so liberal with "successful" term, they often reduce the level of "successful" in order to make themselves get into that criteria. We could learn from that successful person such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who got dropped out from their university before successfully built their own company whose innovations always be a major breakthrough in techno world, or maybe Soichiro Honda who was rejected by Toyota when he applied for engineer position there before eventually made his own factory which is being the arch rival of Toyota up until now. There are still so many persons that I couldn't write it down here.

The point is... Failure could feel devastating, but you shouldn't let it crush you. In some cases, failure leads to some people's suicide. In my opinion, it was wrong in any level! You couldn't treat every situation as a life-death matter, because you'll die a lot of times! We have to learn from that successful people, their motivation, their strength, etc. Especially for the strength, because the real strength didn't come form lifting weights, but rather from lifting yourself up everytime you got knocked down. Failure is important to remind us that we were not good enough, thus we have to work really hard in order to get what we want and to avoid the failures in the future. There are a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen, failures were only one of that little reasons. Sometimes you have to go through the mud in order to find a precious jewel.

That's the thing about failure, it demands to be felt.

The World Teaches Us To Be More Grateful

Those pictures have been taken when I went to one of Merapi disaster victims's house. Lesson to be learned: be grateful for what you have right now, you'll never know when and how the world turns it out

Life...

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser, be wise..

Crazy-little-cheesy-but-real Thing

Well it's been a long time ago since my last post. My recent activities really took my time, I didn't have much spare time as before. By the way, today is 14 February which means today is valentine's day! Okay for a single like me maybe valentine's day means nothing. But it makes me wanna write about thing that I haven't wrote it there before, well yeah... love.

Talking about love life, my love life maybe isn't the one that every person dreaming for. I've been dating two times during my college time, and none of them ended successfully. As we know every relationship goes through stages which where and how stage develops is ultimately up to each person. While we always hope for the best, we often can't avoid the inevitable. The experiences I've got from it make me more mature and taught me more about what love is.

For you in the future, thanks for always being every reasons for me to be a better person though I haven't know you yet...
Happy valentine's day

Straight Edge and Its Misconceptions

If we look at people's culture nowaday, we can see that straight edge is a non-smoking, non-alcohol, non-drugs abusing, and non-free sex culture among hardcore and punk scene. Seems like if you want to be a straight edge you have to play and love that genre of music.

It's true that straight edge culture was born in hardcore punk scene, but that's not the point. Straight edge firstly introduced by an 80's hardcore punk band, Minor Threat with its vocalist Ian Mackaye who wrote a song named Out Of Step which its lyric contained straight edge things like “don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t fuck, but at least i can fucking thing”.

The “X,” Straight Edge’s universal symbol, emerged in the early 1980s, when music club owners marked the hands of underage concert-goers with X’s to ensure that bartenders would not serve them alcohol. Soon the kids intentionally marked their own hands, both to signal club workers of their intentions not to drink and, more importantly, to make a statement of pride and defiance out of not drinking. The movement appropriated the X, a symbol meant to be negative, transforming its meaning into discipline and commitment to a drug-free lifestyle.

Being a straight edge doesn't mean that you have to listen exclusively to hardcore, to wear a certain kind of clothing, to collect sXe (popular abreviation of straight edge) tattoos, to attend shows twice a week, or to be a pretentious, judgemental jerk. Straight Edge, at its core, is none of these things. Despite its misconceptions, the movement has a long way to go to live up to what I see as its true potential. Yet for all it’s contradictions, sXe has inspired thousands of kids to live intentional lives.

Being straight edge is not because you want to be cool, that’s why there's a slogan “straight edge isn’t cool anymore”. You don’t join straight edge, you take on the straight edge. You just get involved in the scene and start thinking for yourself.

It's not about the music you listen to, it's what’s the inside that counts.

A Brief History of One of The Best Football Club in The World, Inter Milan

Do you have your own favourite football club? For me, it's FC Internazionale Milano. I don't really remember when the first time I like this team, but actually it was long time ago. Furthermore, I wanna share a brief history of the team that I supported since I was kid.

Inter were formed in 1908 as a breakaway from AC Milan, because of a row over the lack of foreign players. They won their first scudetto in 1910, and for a time it seemed they would only win the league when the year ended in 0. There were titles in 1920 and 1930, but the pattern was broken when they added another in 1938. Inevitably, Inter also won the scudetto in 1940. This team - inspired by the their record scorer Giuseppe Meazza, the extraordinary inside forward after whom the club's ground is named - also claimed their first Italian Cup in 1939.

Consecutive titles in 1953 and 1954 were followed by almost a decade without a trophy, but then came the era of La Grande Inter. Under the Argentine coach Helleno Herrera, the high priest of catenaccio, Inter won three titles in four seasons from 1963 to 1966, as well as their first European Cups. In 1964 they beat Real Madrid 3-1 in the final, while Benfica were conquered 1-0 a year later. They also won the Intercontinental Cup on both occasions, becoming the first team to regain the trophy. This remarkable Inter generation, which included the likes of Giacinto Fachetti, Sandro Mazzola and Luis Suarez, missed out on another European Cup when they lost 2-1 to Celtic in the final in 1967.

Inter never came close to extending that dominance, despite winning titles in 1971 and 1980 and Italian Cups in 1978 and 1982. Their next title was won mightily, in 1989, when they won 26 of their 34 games and, in the age of two points for a win, finished 11 points clear. The side included the future German World Cup-winning pair of Lothar Matthaus and Andreas Brehme, with Jurgen Klinsmann completing the holiest of trinities in the summer of 1989. They were captained by the unyielding stopper Giuseppe Bergomi, whose 758 appearances are an Inter record, albeit one under threat from the evergreen Javier Zanetti. That quartet helped the club win the UEFA Cup for the first time in 1991 but, despite two further UEFA Cup wins in 1994 and 1998, the Nineties was generally a forgettable time. It remains the only decade in which Inter have failed to win Serie A, and in 1993-94 they finished only a point above the relegation zone.

Inter's long wait for another scudetto ended in unusual circumstances, when they were given the 2005-06 title by default because of Juventus and Milan's role in the Calciopoli scandal. Inter had finished third that season but, with a three-horse race turned briefly into a one-horse race, they romped to four more titles in a row.

In 2006-07, under Roberto Mancini, Inter smashed a couple of long-standing records by amassing 97 points and 30 wins, including 17 in a row. By the time Juventus and Milan were back to full strength, Inter were just too powerful - particularly when they were taken over by Jose Mourinho in 2008.

He made good on his promise to end a period of dismal underachievement in Europe. In 2010, as well as moving ahead of Milan's total of 17 titles, Inter won the European Cup for the first time in 45 years, defeating the holders Barcelona in an epic semi-final before beating Bayern Munich 2-0 in the final.

The Coppa Italia completed the first Treble by an Italian side - although Mourinho left for Madrid, his work done, and Rafael Benitez oversaw a six month spell of failure, despite bringing home the Club World Cup. Ex-Milan boss Leonardo took charge, but could not lead them to more than a Coppa Italia win and also chose to leave with the title heading to the other side of the city.

The rollercoaster of managerial departures continued with Cludio Ranieri's failure to get Inter up the table and, in March 2012, youth coach Andrea Stramaccioni was handed the reigns with a tough test on his hands. Andrea Stramaccioni was the Inter Primavera coach that led the Inter youth players to win the NextGen series in 2011. Such was the quality of his work, he was drafted in to take over the first-team duties when a poor run of form caused Claudio Ranieri sacked in March.


FORZA INTER!!