Doctors

“We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.
And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher
And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' "

~ Barney Livingston, M.D.
(Doctors, 1989)”

 Sadly...more than 20 years after Erich Segal wrote that words, it still close to reality

Hey kamu...
Sudah 2x kucoba, 2x pula tak tembus.
Apa memang kita sudah tak berjodoh lagi?

Mungkin memang jodohku di tempat lain.
Kalo begitu, doakan saja ya.
Kamu yang bertanggung jawab menjadikanku seperti sekarang, maka bertanggung jawablah sampai akhir.
Bye the way, biar gimana, aku tetap sayang kamu :')

Should I Go?

My biggest dream actually not to be the best MD or the richest person in the world. Nope. My biggest dream is simple yet not easy to achieve which is traveling around the world. And by world I literally mean the world, from north pole to south pole.

Once in my life, I met someone who shared the same dream. We used to talk for hours, planning how to accomplish it and when's the best time to start it. We also came up with an itinerary! Europe first, then africa, back to asia and we're gonna take looong time here in asia especially Indonesia. Next one is Australia. Then back to Jakarta for some rest. But after that, America's continent and we're gonna do a road trip. Oohh...I so want it to happen.

We'd even started a bank account for that dream. Well...actually that time, he'd started his saving long before me.

One day, he decided that it's time to go. He said we could save our money as much as we can but maybe it would never be enough cause there's always things like financial depression or inflation or whatever in this world. So what we should do is to save enough money for the start of the travel and a bit saving for an emergency that may come up along the journey. And for rest of the journey, we'll just gonna do any kind of job to cover the costs.

For sure, he asked me to go with him. At that time, my saving was just enough to pay the visa and buy plane's ticket. But he said not to worry. His saving was enough for both of us for minimum of 3 months, could be more if we really control our expenses.

But things that worried me the most actually not money. I worried about my job and more important : my family. At that time, my family really needed me. My mom's health wasn't good. My brothers and sister were still in college, so they can't look after my mom. And any money that I could get could be a help for my family since my mom was hospitalized. I can't be selfish enough to just go and leave my family, can I?

He was willing to wait for me, so that we could travel together. But I can't let him do that. Like what he said : life's short and nobody knows how long one's gonna live. Death could come tomorrow or even the next minute. And I'd regret it if something bad happened to him before he could pursue his dream.

So I turned down his offer and asked him to start his journey. And with that, I also turned down a chance of new love.

Then I went to Tual, the closest thing of journey that I could get at that time while he traveled in europe.

Been almost 3 years now. He's in Africa, I'm back in Jakarta. We still keep in contact, though I always feel a tinge of jealousy whenever I hear his story.

And now,maybe I get a second chance to travel with him. There's this guy who asked me to go with him to meet his family in Kenya.
Nope...there's nothing romantic between us, at least as far as I'm concerned. He just wants me to meet his family and that's all.
Oh he said that he's gonna pay for the ticket. But even if he's not, my saving's actually enough to go there.

I'm tempted to his offer.
No...not to meet his family, but see...that guy-who-shared-the-same-dream is in Africa now. He's not in Kenya at this moment though. But he said he would come to pick me up in Kenya. From there, we could start our round-the-world-trip. And living our dream, finally.

I really really really wanna go.
But the reasons that held me before still become milestone around my neck though the condition now is better than before.
So what should I do now?
I mean, I deserve to have this second chance, rite? I deserve to be selfish and just go, do I?
But then, would I have the heart to do that?

Well...actually I kinda already have the answer. I just can't bring my heart to completely deal with it. At least not yet :)

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How I Met Your Mother

Setelah FRIENDS tamat, saya sempat sulit menemukan serial menarik untuk diikuti. Sempat mengikuti Lost, Heroes, Bones, dll tapi akhirnya bosen di tengah-tengah. Bukannya ceritanya gak menarik (kecuali Heroes yang makin lama makin aneh). Saya berhenti mengikuti serial-serial itu, karena saya mencari serial komedi. Yup...serial komedi yang hilariously funny kayak FRIENDS dengan karakter sinis nan sarkastis kayak Chandler-nya FRIENDS dan dialog secerdas FRIENDS.
(pic source: here)

Saya sempat mengikuti Monk, Everybody Loves Raymond, Cougar Town, dll dan tetap gak menemukan yang saya cari.
Sampai saya nonton How I Met Your Mother secara kebetulan di StarWorld dan sejak itu tertarik.

Sinopsisnya :


(character's name : Lily-Marshall-Ted-Robin-Barney)
source : here

How I Met Your Mother dimulai di tahun 2030 dimana Ted Mosby bercerita kepada kedua anaknya bagaimana dia bertemu dengan kedua ibu mereka. Cerita itu mundur ke New York tahun 2005 dan bercerita tentang Ted dan ke-4 temannya serta gadis-gadis yang pernah berkencan dengan Ted.

Tokoh-tokoh di serial ini adalah : Ted Mosby, seorang arsitek yang jadi tokoh sentral di serial ini. Dia juga yang berperan sebagai narator di seluruh serial ini (walopun suaranya sih suara Bob Saget). Ted bersahabat sejak kuliah dengan Marshall Eriksen, seorang mahasiswa hukum dan Lily Aldrin, seorang guru TK yang berbakat melukis. Marshall dan Lily sudah berpacaran selama 9 tahun dan di season 1, mereka bahkan berencana menikah 2 bulan lagi.

Cerita berlanjut dengan perkenalan mereka bertiga pada Barney Stinson. Barney seorang pengacara sukses dan playboy sejati. Walau pun secara umum Barney berteman dengan mereka, tapi terkadang Barney bisa jadi teman yang ngesalin. Salah satu hal yang unik dengan Barney adalah, dia selalu menganggap dirinya sahabat utama Ted dan Marshall. Dan walopun Ted atau Marshall selalu menyangkal (Ted's my bestfriend atau Marshall's my bestfriend), Barney cuek aja dan tetap beranggapan dialah yang sahabat.

Orang terakhir di grup mereka adalah Robin Scherbatsky, seorang reporter ambisius di tv lokal New York. Awalnya Robin berkencan dengan Ted, tapi putus gak lama kemudian. Walo pun sudah putus, Robin tetap berteman dan hangout dengan ke-4nya. Di season 1 diceritakan gimana Ted tetap naksir sama Robin walau pun sudah putus, dan membuat saya bertanya-tanya : Is Robin the one? Would their relationship become the on-off relationship like Ross & Rachel had?
Pertanyaan ini langsung terjawab ketika di salah 1 episode, future Ted me-refer Robin sebagai "Aunt Robin" kepada anak-anaknya.

Sejauh ini, HIMYM sudah memasuki season ke-7 dari 8 season yang direncanakan. Dan walau sudah ada hints tentang identitas "The Mother", tapi belum pernah ditunjukkan wajah atau sosoknya.

Bedanya Dengan FRIENDS?


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Beda BUANGET!!!
Yah...at some level, di HIMYM ada tentang persahabatannya juga sih. Tapi jenisnya beda banget dengan di FRIENDS. Di FRIENDS itu benar-benar mengedepankan persahabatan (sesuai judulnya). Di HIMYM, fokusnya ya di cerita Ted dan future wife-nya.

Di FRIENDS juga gak ada cerita tentang sahabat yang tukar pasangan ato saling suka antar sahabat. Memang sempat ada cerita waktu Joey-Rachel jadian, tapi toh gak lama. Karena mereka berdua sadar mereka bersahabat terlalu dekat untuk bisa jadi pacar. Menyangkut hubungan Monica-Chandler, kalau jeli sih bisa dilihat dari season 1 pun Monica-Chandler gak pernah benar-benar sahabat, selalu ada "chemistry" di antara mereka bahkan sejak mereka masih remaja. Ross-Rachel juga sama aja. Ross udah naksir Rachel jauh sebelum persahabatan mereka dimulai.

Sementara di HIMYM...hmm...gak mau spoiler sih, tapi di season-season berikutnya, akan ada tukar pasangan antara mereka. Si A yang tadinya dating sama B, putus, ternyata C naksir A, akhirnya A dan C dating, terus putus. Lalu A dan B dekat lagi and so on and so on. Kinda tiring.
Tapi HIMYM benar-benar bikin penasaran dengan biq question-nya itu : Who's The Mother?

Favourite Character?

Semua characternya saya suka, tapi klo harus pilih 1 maka saya pastikan akan pilih...BARNEY!!!

Seperti yang saya bilang, gaya humor yang saya paling suka di FRIENDS itu ya gaya humornya Chandler. Barney punya gaya humor yang sama sinis dan sarkastisnya dengan Chandler. Tapi beda di karakternya. Chandler itu tipe teman yang setia sementara Barney kadang licik ke temannya sendiri. Belum lagi playboynya Barney yang jelas beda jauh dengan Chandler.
Barney itu gabungan humornya Chandler, playboynya Joey dan sifat Barney sendiri.

Dan bagi saya, karakter Barney dan biq-question-tentang-the-mother membuat HIMYM layak dinobatkan sebagai serial favorit kedua setelah FRIENDS. (^v^)

(Barney's pic : here)

Quote of the series:
"When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead" - Barney Stinson




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Find The Time

(source : here)

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Live Your Life

source : here

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Beautifull Sadness

Aww.. pic ini keren banget deh. Berasa kesepet banget :D

(source : here)

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