a piece of Tare-chan's life

22 September 2007

Here it comes......

Well... two weeks passed really fast isn't it? It's finally the time for me to go to the countryside. My group will go to Cianjur city, and we have to gather on Monday morning. So we'll go tomorrow alltogehter.

I've packed my belonging, and I'm quite surprised by the fact that my belongings are so many >_< well..... I'm not sure, but I think that's what I'll need for 2 months living away from my home. Honestly I'm a bit nervous here.... because this is the first time I'll live for quite a long time, away from my home and my parents, all by myself. Silly isn't it? I'm already in age where average people in my country already got jobs and married and of course, stay seperated from their parrents. ^_^ I'm a big kid, I know.....

But, of course, there'll be time when I could return home. Like next week, when there will be held a little simposium in my campus. I will return at Friday, and maybe I'll write a story here ^_^ Of course that also mean I could have my One Piece chapter!! The story is just getting more and more exiting!!

So, See ya up until then ^_^

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16 September 2007

The Exhibition

After several months of hard work, finally the exhibition of the comic project is held started today till next 4 weeks (every Sunday only). Ah, I forgot to tell you, the comic project is called The 7 Pain(t)s, story of the Mother of Sorrow. We took this theme since the exhibition is for celebrating my church’s anniversary. My church is named ‘church of Mother Mary, mother of 7 sorrows’, quite long isn’t it? XD For short, we called it ‘Pandu church’ since it’s addressed in Jl. Pandu. ^_^

We also making this theme because not all who came to the church know what this 7 sorrows are. Heck, I also didn’t know it before I helped this project ^_^; Anyway, the 7 sorrows are: Simeon’s fortune, The escape to Egypt, Jesus left in Jerusalem, and the other 4 are around Via Dolorosa.

Being the first time helping in such an exhibition, really make me proud, eventhough, my help isn’t that much. You could see the exhibition situation in the pics bellow:


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Did you see the first sorrow pic?? I were the one who copied the whole sketch from the storyboard paper into that whole board. I’m so proud of this, eventhough, the one who make the detailed finishing was of course not me XD I’m not that skilled, I would have destroyed the pic instead XD


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This is the whole pics. Ah, did you also noticed those ‘black borders’ in each panels?? That were also my doing XD hauhauahuahaa yeah, of course, what else do you expect I could help than making those lines?? XD


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Now this is the exhibition for those who enter the cover for Berita Kita. Quite good I must say, I can’t even draw like that XD

Anyway, the exhibition will be held next Sunday till 3 more weeks, please come and see the exhibition if you have time ^_^

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15 September 2007

One Piece Treasure

Finally after some time, I managed to grab myself a copy of Treasure!! I know it’s late, but better late than never isn’t it? XD I’m so happy to have this book. And this is my first time holding a ‘Japanese comic Magazine’ in my hand. Eventhough it’s thick, it’s very light. Somebody also told me that these kind of comic magazine has ‘not so good’ quality of paper and ink. Well... I agree with the ink, these magazine has ‘pink’ or ‘greeen’ pics (never knew that), but the colour spread is great, they made it in colour ^_^ But the paper are quite thick I guess, eventhough it’s rough, I would say it’s still better then our version of comic book’s paper ^_^. Ah, whatever, this is just for fans collection anyway.

So the book contents of many informations, which I couldn’t understand because I can’t read Japanese ^_^; There’re reviews of Jupms all these 10 years, events, records, interview with Oda and Mayumi Tanaka (Luffy’s VA), interview with Oda in his workplace, cross over comic between OP and Dragon Ball, etc. Arrggh!!! I must learn Japanese to understand these!! >_<

Btw, these are few scans and photos I made ^_^


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The One Piece Treasure book and bonuses


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This is Watsuki’s version of OP, well... my scans is bad, because I don’t want to press the book to hard againts my scanner, but you could see, his version of Robin is cool ^o^


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One of my favourite bonus: postcard!!

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11 September 2007

One Piece Movie 8: Episode Alabasta

Finally, after some time, I could watch this 8th movie of One Piece. Eventhough I know that this movie got so much critics from those fans, I still couldn’t wait to watch it. And I must say……… I agree with most of the fans.

As you could already predict, this movie retells Alabasta arc. From the first day I heard about this movie, I already thinked: how can they made such a quite long arc into 2 hours movie?? And the movie itself answer my question. Everything feels rushed. So many important scenes and encounters were skipped, so many characthers weren’t there, so many improvement were made etc. No wonder so many fans feels dissapointed in this movie, including me. I so much prefer their original stories movies (like my favourites: Movie 7, of course I put aside those boing-boing thing -_-)

The story started with Vivi dreaming about her country, then suddenly skipped with Mr. Bon Clay encounter, but this time Sanji were there. They still make those ‘X’ mark thing of course, then suddenly they’re at Yuba. Yup, no Nanohana and they didn’t explain how they met Matsuge. Then suddenly they are already on top of that crab, and when Crocodile first dueled Luffy, Robin was there, watching. Then the crab managed to go to the border of Alubarna, no river and they didn’t meet the Super Duck Squad. And that’s just several example of how much they skipped things. No encounter with Dugong, Ace, Smoker and Tashigi, no Rain Base, etc. WOW…….. And not to mention the music. I mean, come on, this is a MOVIE!! How come there’s no new BGMs?? The movie feels so plain…..

But, there’s still some things that I liked though, like how they made the pics. It’s awesome!! Several screen shots are just great. Especially Zoro’s duels, OMG, it’s soo cool…….. And I must say, I like how they add things, like how Nami took off her Clima tact from Miss Double Finger, how Nami found Zoro and shook him awake, Luffy remembered Robin saved him from the sand tomb and thus rescued her from the ‘desert spada’ inside the tomb, how Robin managed to find Going Merry, etc.

Well….. overall, this movie isn’t that great, not like previous movies, but why not enjoy it just like an animated ‘other’ version of Alabasta?? At least you could still enjoy the animation quality ^_^ and as a One Piece fan, I just have to see this movie. Ah, btw, I heard that movie 9 will be a retell about Drum Kingdom but with Robin, Franky, and Sunny. *sigh* I really hope they made more original stories. But I don’t know the detail yet, cause apparently there’s some big monster involved too. Well…. We should just wait and see, shall we?? ^_^

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It’s here

After 2 months of holiday, finally my PBL subject starts. It started yesterday actually, we gathered at our campus to do some little chit chat with the lecturer. Apparently, there’re several rules I have to obey (like usual) and several things we have to know (like we haven’t known it already ^_^;). The place to go haven’t been decided yet, but the schedule was posponed a week. That means I still could have my One Piece chapter for another week!! YAY!! I’m so happy XD

Other thing is, my vendor finally came back from Japan, and I’ll finally have a copy of One Piece Treasure (a One Piece fanbook thingy). I’ll just have to transfer some money, and the book will be here XD too bad she didn’t managed to grab any doujin, but the most important thing is of course the Treasure. I can’t wait to have it XD

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06 September 2007

How they made colours

I've just got home from colouring the comic project in my church. And there's one thing that make me amazed and embarrased at the same time. It's that, today was the time we coloured the pics using wall paint. The thing that amazed me was the way they made those colours. They just bought one big bucket of white colour, then mixed it with 3 primary colour: Red, Yellow, and Blue. Then we have 5 colours: White, Red, Yellow, Blue, and Black (I think they bought a small can of black colour).

Now, to have all other colours, they just do mixing!! And there, now we have light blue, dark blue, pink, skin colour, etc. I'm amazed!! And also embarrased, since, well...... I couldn't do nothing to help. I don't understand the mixing thing, and just stood there watching.

But of course, I help them in applying those colours to the pics. And I never know that colouring pics could be that fun!! Time really passed very quickly when doing that ^_^ well.... of course we can't finished in one night. I'm really looking forward to do painting again ^o^

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Pop Garden

Today, when I went to rent anime VCDs, I decided to take a pic of Pop Gardens in Bandung. I know, people may frown at me when I take those pics, since it's in the middle of the roads, but I guess they didn't care. XD I have to wait for several minutes in some gardens though, so I could take a pic without cars or motorcycles blocking my pics.

This Pop Gardens started to grow since.... I'm not quite sure, perhaps weeks or months ago, but the reason I called them 'Pop Garden' is because they suddenly 'Pop out of nowhere, like Daisies!!' (quoted from Mushu in Mulan). Seriously, one day, I passed the exact same road I usually pass everyday, and there.... suddenly POP.... there's a garden in the middle of the crossroad.

Well... as we already know, Bandung nowadays, have quite many one way roads, that's why there's also many crossroads around, and all this time, in the middle of the crossroads there's just Road marks (you know, the white stripes that form a rectangular or triangle shape). So I think this Pop Garden is a nice idea. It makes my city looks more beautiful, and a bit more apropriate with it's title 'City of Flowers'. It's too bad that the previous gardens that already been there for years don't have a proper management. Another thing that disapointed me is that these Pop Gardens are only built in North area of Bandung, while the South area still hot and deserted.

Anyway, this is several example of this Pop Garden:

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This is the Pop Garden near Taman Lalu Lintas. The road isn't that crowded, so I could easily took this pic ^_^ Actually there're 2 Pop Garden here, but, the one in the other corner of Taman Lalu Lintas don't have a perfect place to stop. I was riding a motorcycle btw, thus I have to stop in a proper place don't I??

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This is the Pop Garden near The Bank Indonesia building. I guess this is the first Pop Garden they made.

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This is the Pop Garden near Jl. Aceh which lead to BMC restaurant. The road is quite busy, so I have to take several pics here. Lucky at several second, there's no vehicle blocking my view.

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Now this Pop Garden is just recently built. I spotted them when they were making this. This one is placed in front of Hotel Cemerlang in Jalan Kebon Kawung. I would say, the shape is quite odd... but it's beautiful nevertheless.

I just hope they give a proper maintenance for these gardens, as well as the previously planted garden. And if it's possible, also plant gardens in South area of Bandung.

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05 September 2007

Visit Neo Venezia in ARIA

Well well well…… it’s been a while since my last anime review isn’t it? Okay then, this time I’ll review an anime titled ARIA (both ARIA the animation and ARIA the natural). The genre would be piece-of-life drama I guess.

The story took place in a planet called Aqua, a man-made planet outside earth (which they called Man-home). As you could already guessed by the name, this planet is covered with water, thus the city is called Neo Venezia. Since it’s not earth, the wheather and the gravity are also need to be maintained by people who in charged of that. Among all of them there will be 2 people got involved in the story: Akatsuki the Salamander (who control the wheather), and Albert or Al (who control the gravity).

The main story of ARIA is about daily life of Akari Mizunashi, a young gondola rower (which is called Undine) who will also act as a tour guide. She is Alicia Florence’s apprentice, who works in Aria Company. Alicia is well known as one of the famous Three Legendary Undine Fairy. It’s been Aria company’s policy to only have 2 Undine at one time. So that mean, only Alicia (as the senior Undine) and Akari (as the junior Undine) there, plus their president. There’s a believe in Neo Venezia, that a cat with blue eyes will protect a gondola from harm. Thus every gondola company will have one cat as their president. In Neo Venezia, there’re 3 famous gondola company: Aria, Himeya, and Orange Planet. While Aria will only have 2 Undine, Himeya and Orange Planet are a big company with lots of Undine. In each company, there’s one person who is also include in Three Legendary Undine Fairy.

So basically, all episodes in Aria will tell stories around Akari and her friends: Aika S Granzchesta from Himeya, and Alice Carrol from Orange Planet. All of them are Undine apprentice, thus the story usually tells around how they practice and how they spent their holiday or just their daily activities and interaction with other people. Btw, the other Fairies are both Aika and Alice’s senior: Akira E Ferrari, and Athena Glory. These three people are apparently childhood friends, just like Akari, Aika and Alice.

Overall Aria is a nice anime, but with that kind of story, it make me bored, because there’s not much characters problem or something like that, that will thickens the plot. It’s just peacefull daily life. Eventhough of course I always pray for peacefull life for all people in this world of ours, that’s not what I want to watch in a movie/anime. But this series got their own fans, and I can’t blame them. The pictures are awesome!! And this story really made you want to visit Aqua, and enjoy the beautiful Neo Venezia, with an Undine as your guide. The anime also has great songs, that bring you peacefullness.

And for favourite character, I really like Alice Carrol with her unique personality. She is typicall smart/talented girl with difficulties to make social contact. She also sometime make her life more difficult with her own rules or something XD Other than that, her interaction with her clumsy senior Athena, is also what I always longed to see. Their interactions is by far the most amusing for me. How Athena tried her best to teach and understand her junior, and how Alice act around her seniors (who usually looked a bit harsh) but actually she really loved her senior. It’s just too cute…… <3

Anyway, overall Aria is a good anime to fill your free time ^_^

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More and more….

Hohohoho…. Look at this, I managed to put a clock and mood emoticon ^_^ oohh….. I really feel creative today. ^_^ It seems that little by little I could read the HTML code thingy now, though of course I won’t master it. I mean, come on……. I never had a decent computer learning since last I have it in high school, how am I supposed to know such a thing?? XD ah well…… there’s still several things I want to try in this 2 weeks, before I can’t access the internet for around 2 months. >_< yes… at 17th September I’ll start my PBL thing in countryside. So yeah….. I must say goodbye for my internet for a while T_T Ah, whatever, I still have some time here ^_^ I must used it and enjoy it while I can.

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04 September 2007

My Shoutbox!!

Ooh... look at this!! I managed to add a shoutbox in my blog!! now I could interact with you guys ^_^ Finally....

Did you know?? I need 2 days to understand these codes thingy. I tried to apply what the writter said in the book, but it always failed. Apparently the Ratatouille skin use a new code called XML, while the book told me all about HTML code. Gosh....... how could I understand that?? now I changed my skin using HTML code skin. But it's harder to change the look acording to my taste. ARGGH!! I need to learn more >_<

Ah, btw, feel free to use the shout box ^_^

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02 September 2007

What do you think?

Okay, I've tried to practice one tip from the book I bought. Now my blog skin is changed ^_^ What do you think?? btw, how do you like Rattatoulie?? It's a cute movie, as you can see here. Remy is the blue rat standing below my blog ^_^ I have a preview from the movie too. It's just takes ages to download it, so those who use 'dial up connection' (like myself) don't bother to wait it XD

Now, I'll still have to chage several things so this template really suited my taste, but I'll do it some other time, I'm tired right now -_-

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01 September 2007

Random things

Well, I have no spesific idea of what to write, then I’ll just write something randomly. ^_^ on Wednesday, my cousin came and stay for 2 days, thus we went around Bandung to do this and that. And of course, as other people’s reason in visitting Bandung, we also do a little ‘food trip’ ^_^ but because of that, I gain 2 kgs in 2 days!! >_< arrgh…… the places we visited were Sari Sunda restaurant in Setiabudhi, Lisung café in Dago pakar area, Pak Chi Met restaurant in Sukajadi, and Paris van Java mall.

On Thursday, he also asked me to join him to watch somekind like Choir tournament in Unpar. This is my first time I watch such a thing. And I must say, it was awesome. Of course, the category I watched was the lightest one: Popular songs. Too bad my almamater Maranatha didn’t join this category ^_^

Several days ago, I also bought two books. The first is to learn more about colouring in Photoshop, and the other one is about how to make my blog more beautiful. ^_^ I’ll try to practice the things written there. I’ll show you when it’s done ^_^ ah, for the blog thing, I think I’ll have to do it in someplace with free Wifi. Cause I believe it will took a long time to design my blog using internet connection.

And for the comic project in my chucrh. Wow, this is also my first time in a team cosisted of artists. I’m quite surprised to know that they actually could do the work all night!! =S and I’m also surprised to know that to draw something in a big scale board isn’t that easy, and quite tiring. -_- okay, most of it is because I lack of exercise, but aw…come on…. How come I got tired in only drawing panel outlines?? -_- that’s pathetic….

btw, I just remembered one other thing. My holiday will be finished in one week!! gaah...... only one week left!! >_<

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