Getting through the Days SANELY

Supposedly I felt this particular feeling my friend told me about, that you know, you feel a very massive relief, like a giant stone has been removed from your chest and you are overly in bliss. Yet I feel nothing, I have no idea where this numbness comes from. The euphoria of the fact that I finished my college study did not strike me that hard. Well, that doesn’t mean that I am not happy though, I am. It’s just that THE feeling is sort of overrated. Or maybe it’s going to be a totally different case when I actually graduated one year ago.  Anyway I’m so grateful for what I get right now  that I could finish what I had started and to my parents, my mother mostly, who had paid for the tuition, I could say that I had done THE responsibility right. And the result is not that bad either. That is what matters. Am I right? 

Anyway, my graduation ceremony is one month ahead and the classes that I have been teaching in are in break so I have so much time for myself, doing nothing mostly though. You know how boring it is not to have lots of things to do right, as if your whole life seems so pointless.  When you see there’s not much going on with your life yet the world around you revolving very fast, seemingly leaving you at the other side, that’s just as depressing as you drunkenly lose your house over a casino gambling. Duh, exaggeration alert! I don’t like being that depressed, no it IS not me. Now I’d just like to think that being happy is a matter of choice, you know. It’s that you would either let yourself rot, loath yourself, and just wait for something to happen or you try to make THAT thing happen. And damn, I choose the last one. So I’d like to share what I have chosen, what I have been doing during this where-the-hell–would-I-take-my-life-to moment. 

Not that surprising, I swim. As you probably can see on my profile that explains “you will occasionally see me swimming”, so yeah I swim, A LOT.   

I know, right? but damn, it's not me!

There are a lot of good things you can get out of swimming you know. Let me begin with my personal opinion about it. Well, I always feel refreshed when my skin touches the water and good about myself afterwards. I feel like I’m in control, in check of my breath, my body movement, my speed while exercising, because honestly I am not really good at other sports.  And I feel healthy and good about my shape. Alright, alright I don’t have that much of a swimmer killer body shape, but yeah you’ve got to see my chest and shoulder. Hahaha. One more thing though, based on the article that I read the other day, I forgot the title and the writer, swimming is found very useful in muscle recovery due to injury. It helps relax your muscle. Swimming is also one of the sports that can maintain body endurance a bit longer with a very least injury risk. It also has minimum risk of conflict, you know, because unlike soccer, you go solo when you swim. So, bottom line in my personal opinion, swimming is damn good. It works for me.  

By the way I swim here, at Gelanggang Kolam Renang Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, my campus, just in case you care to join. 

Besides swimming I also allow myself with some fun, honking playing my guitar. Yep, I just bought myself a guitar. 

And yeah, I like singing alright. I go karaoke now and then with my friends. It’s not that I’m confident with my voice. It’s just one of my ways of releasing stress, channeling the energy, blowing off some steam. It hit me the other day that why not play a guitar and sing along, or more like make noise with it lol. I’m still working on with some of my favorite songs though. Phew… it’s not as easy as it seems, really. 

Well, anyway, let me tell you one little secret, I was actually in a band back then in high school. Not really a band though, it’s just us singing with the 'equipments'. I actually was a vocalist so I held nothing but a microphone. So blame it to that thing if I’m still learning how to play this only one music instrument now.  Either way, I enjoy it, seriously. Now I can play two or three songs and soon another, and another, and another. Yeah it’s fun, man. Really. 

  

Well, well, that has been my life being currently away from college yet still vaguely close to a serious job. I swim, play a guitar, and I read also by the way, and WATCH. Have you read my previous post??? It tells the whole thing about it! Ooh once again though, don’t wait up something to happen to you, you ought to go out there, do everything you have been meaning to do, and choose to be happy!

Life of the Lifeless

This whole mini thesis thing has got me to the forced hiatus of keeping this blog posted. I mean that is the obvious reason why my life has become a little bit out of the order. To keep my sanity I let myself stumble into these good shows. I mean TV is the most therapeutic cure for the stress, I gotta admit though sometimes it provides nothing but bunch of craps. But FYI I don’t get stuck with craps, so I bought myself bags of potato chips, cans of soda, sit my ass down on my black floppy couch and watched. And you’re told that I’m a generous man so here I am sharing what it is that gets me through the lifelessness, lol. 

Well, let me get you to this hilarious show. Anyone who watches Modern Family has to agree with me that the show can make you laugh like crazies. And I did, I didn’t know what other tenant at my lodge thought when they heard me all alone laughing like crazy. Duh, who cares!

So the show goes around the families of Pritchett and Dunphy. So Jay Pritchett, who is re-married to a Columbian widow with one son, Manny Delgado, Gloria Delgado, has two children Claire and Mitchell. Claire is married to Phil Dunphy and has three children, Haley, Alex, and Luke. And Mitchell lives with his boyfriend Cameron Tucker and adopts a daughter from Vietnam, Lily. Each episode of the series goes around the comical events, family problem and trivialities of the daily basis. They do not seem to try to act funny yet the effort shows otherwise. Each of the characters shows their own strength and ridiculousness. 

Here is the reason why you’d like the shows: simply hilarious.

Here’s the reason you might not like it: NONE.

While I watched Modern Family I was also enjoying this action series, Hawaii Five-O. It’s the remake of the 60s Hawaii Five-O except that there is one hot female cast join the tough and go-strike task force named Five-O and maybe the story line. I honestly have limited research on how the 60s version went but I’m quite confident that I could give some good reasons why you’d like to watch this present version of the series. So, it’s about a long shot investigation of Commander Steven McGarrett over his parents’ deaths. 

In the pilot episode it’s told that Steve‘s father is amid the home invasion and threatened to be killed by some violent gang in exchange with the freedom of some perpetrator Steve holds into custody. He cannot make it, his father dies and the perpetrator finds his way out. Later he learns that the affair has something to do with his father’s investigation about his mother’s car accident that goes way beyond a mere accident. The all lead he has is a tool box full of postcards and photographs and the documents of investigation his father leaves in his garage of their house in Hawaii. With the help, as in the resources and full immunity, of the Governor he starts the investigation to hunt down the man who kills his parents as well as to fight for the justice in his childhood homeland, Hawaii. Later join the force, Detective Danny Williams, ex-cop Chin Ho Kelly and his cousin, the hot female character I talked earlier, Kono. 

     

Here is the reason why you’d like the series: it’s all about action and explosion. Car chase, martial arts, gun fire and all are the must-requirements in every episode (the fights and murders would be an understatement). Besides, it’s set in Hawaii, man! Exotic beaches with girls in bikinis running around, DUH!? And Kono is a surfer. Occasionally she poses the role as a surfer, riding those big waves of Hawaii on a surfing board. Man, she’s hot. And for girls, I think (since I’m secured enough to spill it out that I can appreciate other men’s attraction) Steve and Danny are another attraction to the show, they look nice. Oh yeah BRAH, I’m that shallow!

The next series is White Collar. Just like any other US action drama series, it’s a crime-themed series. It follows the story of the white collar crime detective of the FBI, agent Peter Burke and a flamboyant ex-con artist-soon-be-FBI consultant, Neal Caffrey.  

The pilot episode sets the scenes in which Neal is a prisoner with four months to go for his freedom after being booked in by Peter who’s been chasing him for years. But something goes out of the schedule when Neal gets a visit from his girlfriend Kate. The rendezvous gets Neal broken hearted and yet he senses something wrong with the breakup. Afterwards, with his skills as a con artist he escapes from the prison and tries to find Kate to get the answers to her disappearance, which he can’t, and the entire attempt only leads him to another question. 

For the second time, Peter manages to catch Neal, only this time they arrange a deal. The deal is to let Neal free under Peter’s custody with the tracking bracelet put on Neal’s ankle to keep him in guard and track down his every whereabouts. In returns Neal becomes a consultant for the FBI to hunt down the white collar criminals and at the same time he continues to find Kate and seeks the answers to what is really happening behind his girlfriend’s disappearance that seems far beyond a breakup. Join the team inside the FBI agent Diana Berrigan and Clinton Jones, as for Peter himself he is helped big time by his amazingly supportive wife Elizabeth. Neal on the other hand is propped by his eccentric fellow con artist Mozzie. In one or two episodes the teams from these two corners work together to fight crimes! The show is classically fabulous. Yeah that’s strange that sentence just struck me! Anyway, it’s worth awhile.   

Alright, in the process of writing this posting by the way, I run into the fifth season of 30Rock. Oh I just realized how I’ve missed the ‘lemons’. The show sure, still has it. And really want to talk about the show. But wait, yeah I think I already do that. Then let’s just talk about Castle. Yep crime is still the most popular theme for US TV series. This show is one of a bunch that is considered good. It tells the story of a beautiful NYPD detective, Kate Beckette and a popular mystery writer, Richard Castle.  

I would start with the pilot when I talk about a series because I think it’s the point through which you’d know where the show is going, is it going to be somewhere or just another “pfft, it’s not gonna make it!” kind, you know? So yeah let’s talk about the pilot episode of Castle. Well, I think you may a bit wonder why a popular narcissus mystery writer would wind up catching bad guys with a rigorous and devoted detective of NYPD. Yep, the novel the writer writes is the connection. Well, it seems that one of Castle’s readers really wants to make something real out of the novels. He, the fan, imitates the killing procedure or ritual I might say as what Castle has written in the novel. Kate realizes soon enough that she needs the expertise of the mastermind of such killing procedure, or wait, the one who inspires the mastermind. And just like that they end up working together to catch the perpetrator. 

Having the idea that the two of them have the sparks glimmering around them, Castle assures the irritated Kate to let him join in the team in her several cases to observe how she works, telling Kate that she’s his new muse. Of course with the help of his popularity Castle can make his way in. Together they catch killers and start having up-and-down feeling for each other. With his witty, imaginative and fun attitude, Castle brings life and usefulness to Kate’s team in every case they work on, making them so fun to solve. Join with the team Detective Javier Esposito, Detective Kevin Ryan and their boss Captain Montgomery and a lab tech Lanie Parish. At home Castle is supported by his lovely teenage daughter Alexis and his mother Martha Rogers. Each episode tells about lots of different murders and motives and means and yet the story has also a long shot plot in which Kate is actually investigating her mother’s murder back then when she is a teenager. And it’s the reason why she becomes a cop in the first place. And I gotta say the show is also the one you don’t want to miss out whenever you have time to get cozy on your couch. 

Well, as fun as it is for me, I think I really need to stop writing. phew.. I can see it on your face. But ooh, before I go, gonna be quick. Here are some other shows that I also want you to watch but I can't review. 

Weeds

United States of Tara

and Cougar Town

well, my final remark: watch them all!!!