Someone Like You

Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead…

-Someone Like You by Adele-

Adele – Someone Like You

What is it with this song? I asked when my friends were head-over-heels listening to this song everyday. Later, I think I know why. As I listen through the lyrics…wow…. It’s like a tragic love story. And it’s so touching.

(Ouch, you must have guessed it by now that I carelessly get my heart broken. Um..well..not exactly. Make it as a no.)

OK, let’s move on. The song told us about a girl who just found out about her ex. He found someone new and got married, leaving the poor girl hearing the news from an old friend. But somehow, the girl tries to stand tall and said that “never mind, I’ll find someone like you.” BUT… she apparently is not over him yet. She wanted to find someone LIKE HIM. She wanted to crash to his wedding and said that to right to his face.

It’s so sad if something like this really happen to someone. Yelling to her ex, “don’t forget me, I beg, I remember you said” while he’s walking towards happily ever after with another girl.

Can’t help but wonder though… How can relationship be a complicated thing? Shouldn’t it be as simple as ‘I like you, you like me, let’s be together forever’? Who actually put the complication in relationships that inspired Facebook, Friendster and other social media to put ‘it’s complicated’ in their users’ relationship status? Maybe there are too many things going on in a relationship that seems to make couples put one problem on top of another and create this gigantic mess labeled ‘complicated’. Could be, not an expert on this stuff.

On second thoughts…maybe it’s all our doing? You see, when you like someone the first time, you never really act 100% like yourself in front of them. You so want them to like you that you polished yourself in such a way and make you somewhat presentable. Even when you are married, I don’t think you can ever be 100% you (just personal opinion here). You might call it tolerance, but I think it’s pretty much the same.

Seeing all of this, all I can do is pray. I pray that I don’t have to polished myself for someone to care about me (care is a tad higher than like, agree?). I pray that if I do find someone, someday, he won’t be feeling as if cover up and sugar coating is a necessary thing in order for me to like him.

At the end, whoever it is that wrote the song (is it Adele? I should look it up on the net) got it right in making a conclusion of love. “Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead”.

Dear Haters… *football edition

Yes, another post about football. Hope I don’t make you bored 😀 Gotta warn you, though, that I write this not to mock, underrate or humiliate certain football team. Just a thought.

Last night was UEFA Champions League’s last match day of the group phase. Some interesting final results happened. Indeed, I’m talking about last year’s finalist who fails to even enter the knockout stage this year, Manchester United.

Ok, at this point you’d probably think that “ow, it’s that Arsenal fan who celebrates the fall of ManUtd.” No, I’ve told you at the beginning of this post, No. Just read all the way to the end.

As we know, Manchester United is one of the world’s best teams. They got 19 Premier League titles already and have once achieved a treble victory. They have top quality players, no doubt. They also have this HUGE fanbase all over the world.

However…. all those achievements seem to make the SOME (keep in mind, I do not say ALL) of the supporters look down on other teams. I’ve seen feuds on Facebook, Twitter, News comments between them and other teams’ fans. Some of it are brutal, if I may say so. No, not gonna blame their love towards the team. But definitely gonna blame their attitude towards other team. People make different choices and they cannot look down at others just because others support teams whose trophy cabinets are not as crowded as ManUtd.

I understand that sometimes they meant to just joke around. But too many jokes is not cool, my friend. I totally respect your loyalty towards your favorite club, but that’s that.

Well, it is a competition. Sometimes your team is at the top of their game and sometimes they’re not. It’s just law of the universe. It’s painful to see your prized team lost their game, believe me I know. Been there, done that. But let’s be a smart and decent supporter and stop creating supporters war.

Call me exaggerating, but this is the truth.

Good luck on your next match, people. In whatever league that would be.

And remember, love your team but don’t hate the rest.

-Noted!-

HORROR!

“The horror! The horror!”

                    – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad-

Horror, as in ghosts and mysterious phenomenon, is increasingly popular these past few years. From horror movies and TV programs to horror live show, all in competition to attract people to see them.

If you ask me, I enjoy horror movies, certain horror movies that is. Vampires, Werewolves, Poltergeists…are those horror movies? Yes, they are, at least in my opinion. For me, horror movies are about things that is not human nor alien. Movies that give their audience goosebumps and fear. I am not a brave person, though. I often believe in superstitious stuff and am d**n scared of ghost. However, I tend to get curious of horror movies. I put my hands in front of my eyes and peek.

People do all sorts of things to satisfy their curiosity of ghosts or mysterious phenomenon. They watch horror movies or they even participate in ghost hunting. There is a TV show, I would say it’s quite well-known, that aims to seek for ghostly phenomenon in scary or abandoned places.

Dunia Lain (or it’s now known as [masih] Dunia Lain). The show travels from one scary place to another, scan the place for ghosts, and challenge people to spend four hours at chosen spots, alone, with nothing but a candle for a lighting. You may call it a waste of time or a stupid challenge, but people keep on coming to participate, and even more people tuned in to watch every week. My Dad is one of them. He just love to watch the show every week. He would then give a brief report to us the next morning about what strange stuff that happened during the challenge. Sometimes there are voices of a woman’s laughing or an animal growling. Sometimes things fall from their places. God knows whether those are real or not.

And then, there’s this new way of enjoying horror. Not really new, because it has been around for many years, but now it comes in new face. People call it the “live horror show”. This show requires us to come in a building or specially built tent that mostly resembles an old abandoned house or hospital. In the tent, several ghostly scenes and backgrounds are set up, with some people dressed up as ghosts. Cheesy? Not really, because people are attracted to it. Yesterday, I went to a nearby mall and found out that they are helding the “Pocong Rumah Kosong”, a horror live show, until next month. I saw ghost images everywhere! As I go near the tent, spooky sounds came out of the huge loudspeaker. Sounds of people screaming, woman laughing, baby crying plus some darn scary music background.

The most interesting thing happened as me and my friend were checking out the merchandise near the entrance. Suddenly, girls are screaming and running, and so did my friend. I was confused, but then I saw them pointing fingers towards the entrance behind me. As I turn around, I saw a ghost, a person dressing up as one, with long messy wig, white dress with blood stain everywhere, the most ugliest make up I’ve ever seen, walking out of the entrance door while carrying a scary looking doll. Oh, so that’s what’s freaking them out so bad, I thought. I walk away from the ghost towards my friend and a bunch of other screaming girls a couple of meters away. They didn’t really run away, just keeping distance from the ghost figure Indonesians call “Kuntilanak” or “Sundel Bolong”. However….curious me kicked in. I walk back towards the ghost and try to take a closer look. The costume is pretty scary, but…euw…not the makeup. The face actually reminds me of a street magician called “Pak Tarno”. I took a picture of him though (I’m pretty sure it’s a man behind the costume), although later in the night I deleted it from my cell. Not cool to keep such picture!

Well, horror turns out to be such a business opportunity after all. Yes, it’s scary, but it doesn’t stop it from gaining even more popularity than before.

We Love You Arsenal, We Do!!!

This post is nothing but personal to me.

As many of my bestfriends know, I am a football fan. Yes, I’m a girl (don’t like to call myself a woman, yet) but I fell in love with football, madly in love. I’m a gooner, die hard gooner. Here’s how it all started.

It goes back to fifteen years ago. I was at the first year of junior high school. I hated football! I hated it so much that I got a little p.o. (not such a polite word to use, sorry) everytime my Dad and my brother spend Saturday nights with the TV remote control in their possession, watching football match. I wanted to watch movies or other interesting weekend TV programs, but I had to give it up for some 22 stupid guys playing ONE stupid ball. Back then we only had one TV, so…you know, I got no choice but to find some other things to do.

To cut the story short, I asked my Dad to buy me my on TV. Surprise, surprise, no too long after that, he took me for some TV shopping. I finally a TV in my own room, with full control of what to watch. I was super excited, spend most of my nights having peaceful TV-watching session.

One night, I was surfing the channels as I got to one tv station that was broadcasting a football match. I was going to change the channel when I suddenly spotted something. It was a football player, doing that salto kick. “Wow, that guy was pretty good!” I said. I was utterly interested in seeing the guy play, when half time whistle came it struck me that I somehow enjoy watching it. I ended up watching the entire match and got to the decision that football is not bad.

It was Dennis Bergkamp and Arsenal that changed me. The ‘non-flying Dutchman’ really got me fixated on him and the game. There’s something about him that makes football worth to watch. And there’s something about Arsenal that made want to see more and more of them.

Suddenly, I found myself joining my Dad and brother every Saturday or Sunday night for a football night. The more I see Bergkamp and Arsenal, the more I fall in love with them. Seaman, Dickson, Overmars, Petit, Parlour, Adams, Viera, Keown, Anelka and all of the Arsenal players has put some kind of spell to me and to football, that once you watch them play, you’ll never get enough. I watched some other clubs playing, but Arsenal has become my top priority.

Now, fifteen years later, my interest has gone into full admiration and love. Arsenal isn’t always the winner. In fact, it’s been six long years since their last trophy. But that does not make them less fantastic for me. I did not choose a club to cheer on just because they are a winner, a champion, but I choose a club that has successfully turn my heart around from hating to loving. Yes, we have had a pretty rough start this season, even an embarrassing lost, but I believe that Arsenal can move forward from it and be the best. With Captain Van Persie, Walcott, Gervinho, Ramsey, Schezzny and all the talented players Arsenal have, we will shine and conquer the world.

We love you Arsenal, We do!!!