Aku eneg liat sixpack-mu!!!

Sejak adanya channel Arirang TV dan KBS, saya lebih ter-ekspos pada KPop. At first, saya pikir ‘oh, bajunya lucu2 ya? Personel girlband-nya cantik2, boyband-nya juga ganteng2.’ Tapi makin lama, makin saya tau bahwa KPop (khususnya vocal goup) itu fabricated. 

Mereka bukan sekumpulan cowok/cewek yang sudah lama membentuk vocal group yang karena mengirimkan demo ke recording company kemudian dikontrak untuk mengeluarkan album. Ternyata adalah individu2 yang merasa dirinya berbakat dalam singing, dancing and acting, yang kemudian melakukan audisi untuk masuk ke recording company.

Being grateful...

I just had lunch with my family the other day. It’s getting clearer that I am different from my siblings. Their financial taste of things is different from mine. As I listen to their conversation, it made me twitched my eyebrows. To make things short, they’re the Blackberry generation, while I’m the use-any-affordable-phone type. They belong to the i-ride-my-car-everywhere kind of group, while I’m happy enough with riding my motorbike. You know.. I think you get the picture..

My siblings called me stringy just because I didn’t buy them things from my salary. Or maybe they’re talking behind my back about me not giving some money to my parents. Well actually, my reasons are quite reasonable. I mean, why would I spoil them with things that they wanted instead of needed? There’s a thin line between wanted and needed something. I prefer to give some to the need. As for my parents, they still could afford to buy things on their own. Their earnings are bigger than mine. So what’s the need of giving some money? I mean, there are other ways to show our gratitude as a child, sincerely like be there for them even when they don’t need us to. For me, it’s more meaningful than just a few cash or cakes.

What’s wrong with being different?

I just had an interesting short conversation with my mom. It started with a discussion about my younger sister, who seemed to spend a lot of her time out with her boyfriend. I said it’s okay, since she’s planning to marry him, so she needs to socialize with his world a little more. Then it came the magic question from her : “When will you?”.  She even offered to find a guy for me..*crap!*