It's snowing !? Nope, It's ASH-ing (Merapi's Chronicles)

A phone call from my parents awoke me this morning. They asked me to look outside, and you now what i got? ALL COVERED IN WHITE !! (ummm, it's white-gray)

The next things i hope was neighbor's kids would run and yell "It's snowing!!" like the scene in many movies.

...
But, what's in movie will stay in movie. It's not snowing here, it's RAINING ASH ..

This is the second time i got my day with this white-grayish things. The first one was really a long time ago. It's all because the Mount Merapi that became very active since last week. And last midnight it had erupted again, seemed it was the bigger than the previous eruptions.

And that was giving a dramatic effect to my dorm, it's suddenly crowded with parents that came from different towns who's worried with their children. My own parents? My dad kept calling me from two o'clock in the morning (and i had just answered around six, sorry dad :( ). I told them i will be fine, it's unnecessary to come here, and oh, it's just ashes! You should coming here if it's raining money ^o^ ...

I took some pictures how's the scenery outside my room...

This is the comparative :

before the raining ashes

and after

Taken by my beloved Nokia N73 camera.

See? In a glance it's surely like snowing.
Now, i and all the people and Yogyakarta, only hope for one thing : RAIN !!

Indonesia version of Super Junior...

okayy.., i made this just for fun in the boring-ness on my holiday...
so,
no offense
:D

Ok..,This is kind of RUDE...

The Best Way in Serving (little) Red Onion

1. peel the outer layer
2. wash it
3.cut into thin slices
4. put in the fridge
5. wait until cool
6. EAT !!

*another addiction to raw food

Dan Spanyol pun menjadi juara (lagi)...

Dan akhirnya piala itu bergulir dari satu tangan ke tangan lain para pemain spanyol. Tiga tahun terakhir memang jadi sejarah yang indah bagi kesebelasan La Furia Roja itu, setelah menjuarai Euro 2008 kemarin, spanyol pun kembali berjaya pada Piala Dunia 2010.

Spanyol menarik perhatianku semenjak Euro kemarin, walaupun sampai final sebagian besar orang (di Indonesia) lebih mendukung Jerman. Ternyata kharisma Spanyol tidak hilang sepanjang Piala Dunia 2010, meskipun kalah pada pertandingan pertamanya. Hal ini yang membuatku merasa bahwa mereka akan jadi juara lagi, meskipun di atas kertas Belanda lebih unggul.

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Dewi Fortuna sepertinya sependapat denganku. Keberuntungan Spanyol secara tersirat tampat pada hasil petandingannya sepanjang babak knockout, melawan Portugal, Paraguay, dan Jerman. Hal ini pula yang paling kusuka dari Spanyol, mereka tetap mempertahankan cara bermainnya sampai akhir...

1-0, sudah cukup.

Dan walaupun David Villa masih menjadi pencetak gol andalan Spanyol, yang membuat gol penyelamat pada babak - babak terakhir justru bukan dia. Mereka benar - benar harus berterima kasih pada Puyol yang menyelamatkan Spanyol dari Jerman, dan Iniesta yang akhirnya membawa mereka ke puncak. Dan tentu saja yang tak kalah penting, kapten, pahlawan, pelindung gawang, peraih sarung tangan emas, siapa lagi kalau bukan Casillas.

Yep, selamat buat Spanyol. Piala Dunia 2010 milik kalian.

Semoga Indonesia cepat menyusul...

Shaman King Review ( i made this before the publishing of KangZengBang )

* i wrote this before i found and read the KangZengBang series, it's about four till five years ago... i want to share about the KangZengBang, but i suggest you to read this one first... :)  (some part i just copied from Wikipedia and other sources i had forgot.. :-/ )*

Title                             : Shaman King

Author                         : Hiroyuki Takei

Original Publisher         : Shueisha

Year of publishing        : 1998

English Publisher          : Viz Media

Volumes                      : 32

Related series              : Funbari No Uta ( sequel )

          

Shaman King is the second masterpiece of Hiroyuki Takei. It first published in 1998, and reached the outer Japan about early 2000. Shaman King is a manga ( Japanese for “comic” ) series that separated in 32 volumes. Shaman King also ever serialized in magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. Like all the Japanese popular manga there had been the anime creation of this manga that started in year 2001. But, the story, especially the ending between the manga and the anime is a little different, so I suggest you to read the original story from the manga.

The story is about a lazy slacking boy named Asakura Yoh who is a shaman ( the one who links this world and the other world ). He can use the ability of the spirit by makes himself posessed. With the help of his fiancée, Anna, Yoh is in training for the ultimate shaman sports event: the "Shaman Fight" the once-every-500-years tournament to see who can shape humanity's future and become the Shaman King. But unfortunately for Yoh, every shaman in the world is competing for the same prize. In passing all challenge he is accompanied with his best friend Manta, an ordinary high school boy, whose life was changing since his meeting with Yoh. Firstly, Yoh just had to fight against his enemy. But, line after, he also had to fight against his friends that have the same dream as him, because the Shaman King is one person only. The culminating-point is when Yoh had to face his twin-brother who has a very powerful spirit.

Though, Yoh is the main character, the story is being told by Manta’s side. That is one of many unique points of this comic. Hiroyuki Takei made it in a simple plot of draw, so the readers can easily understand this full of imaginations story. Actually, this manga has variety genre, action, adventure, comedy, romance, supernatural, and many else. It’s because of the unpredictable story.  In one book you can read it with laughter, in other you can be touched and cried. That’s why people couldn’t stop reading one series, but always want to continue the next.

The language that the author uses in this manga is quiet simple. Although, it uses many pure Japanese Words, it’s still easy to understand. There are also many meaningful quotes saying by the characters that make the conversation in the story very meaty.

Another point is you can find all of human character gathered here, from the kind, lazy, struggle, fighter, hopeless, until the crazy characters. You can learn how the problem is being faced by different ways and finally, different solutions. Mr. Takei give the story with there is not any evil shaman. So, no people doing wrong! It’s difficult to conclude who’re the good characters and the bad one. But, that’s make the story more interesting!

What I really disappointed is about the ending. They were still in the midst of a gauntlet fighting against the guardians of Shaman Fight winner, Yoh and his friends are forced to stop what they were doing and instead "take a break", allowing them to sleep in the middle of battle then, it’s ended! Totally hanged! Or many people called it a “controversial ending”. I have no idea why the author chose that un-understand-able ending. Manga usually leave you with a well thought of ending, but shaman king were like losing interest towards the end.

Shaman King ( After reading The KangZengBang )

If you read my post before this, you will know i wrote about fan's dissapointment about the ending. Seems like Mr. Takei had realized it too from the first time he made it. Therefore, he made another sequel titled "Shaman King KangZengBang"

I have no idea why they were published in different sequel and even given different title, but the story was exactly continue-ing from the last hanging-ending chapter 32 of Shaman King Series.

But, that's doesn't matter... =3

because the ending was going so much much better now..

i don't say it's really over here, but it's enough (at least for me) to closing this sequel with a memorable chapter.

so, since it was about the ending, i won't write more,

but i will show you some amazing part of this very last chapter..

another part of hao... haven't seen his face like this before.. :D

 

future tao ren..,how cool!! >.< (for me, he is the coolest among the other, even yoh)
the little one he's holding is his son, Tao Men..,can you guess who's the mother?? 

i think, this is the best page i've read... *i'm happy too hearing that call "nii-chan" ... :)) 

Asakura brothers rules..!!!

 

and yet... our best couple here...

 

the last.., where it's started, where it should end...

Funbari Hill cemetery...(it's coloured!!)

  

Great job Mr. Takei..!! 

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