Rock atau rok ?

 

Adalah acara yang relatif baru di KompasTV bernama "Kelakar" dengan host Insan Nur Akbar dan co host Wisben. Kedua-duanya adalah comic finalis kompetisi Standup Comedy. Jadi sesuai dengan hostnya yang komedian, maka acaranya juga banyak mengundang tawa.

Pada suatu episode, temanya adalah "Rock". Bintang tamunya  Candil, Krisyanto dan Lenny Agustin. Bintang tamu yang pertama muncul adalah Candil. Vokalis grup Seurieus.  Suaranya melengking tinggi seperti  suara falseto.  Sehingga dengan mudah dia sendiri memlesetkan suaranya jadi suara banci sambil bergaya banci. Tahukah anda nama aslinya ? Dian Dipa Candra. Nama yang terdiri dari 3 kata dan semuanya menurut Candil sendiri adalah nama-nama wanita. Dian, Dipa dan Candra.

Berbeda dengan Krisyanto yang suaranya berat khas trash metal. Atau dengan bintang tamu ketiga yaitu Lenny Agustin yang ternyata adalah disainer rok, bukan rocker. Ternyata bintang tamu yang ketiga plesetan, walaupun Lenny Agustin sendiri mengakui juga suka musik rock. Lenny sempat ditanyai bagaimana pendapatnya dengan musik rock yang durasinya panjang sampai 10 menit. Tapi jawabannya nggak nyambung, Lenny menjawab kalau dia senang dengan rok yang panjangnya antara 35 cm sampai 70 cm.

Namanya juga comedian, maka wawancara dan perbincangannya juga penuh humor. Hostnya juga sempat bilang  "Lak-laki yang suka rock adalah laki-laki yang sejati, beda dengan laki-laki yang suka pakai rok". :)

Adikku sudah bisa berdiri

Ini adalah kisah tentang aku dan adikku. Usia kami tidak jauh berbeda. Tapi herannya ketika aku sudah lama bersekolah, adikku baru bisa mulai berdiri. Berdirinya juga mendadak, tau-tau bisa berdiri tegak dan kokoh.

Semenjak itu dia  sering tegang tanpa sebab. Kalau sudah tegang, dia susah dilunakkan. Mungkin keras kepala.

Herannya lagi, peristiwa adikku bisa berdiri tegak  ini membuat kedua orang tuaku jadi bingung. Sampai ayah membawa adikku ke dokter, gara-gara bisa mendadak berdiri tegak  tanpa sebab yang jelas. Adikku si buyung memang spesial.

Sesudah konsultasi ke dokter, adikku juga tidak diberi obat apa-apa. Hanya ditanya kenapa bisa mendadak jadi tegang. Apakah memikirkan sesuatu. Adikku pun menjawab dengan malu-malu kalau ia tidak memikirkan apa-apa. Dan keadaan ini terus berlangsung sampai beberapa lama. Kedua orang tua kami kelihatannya jadi kuatir. Bahkan mencoba memberi ramuan tradisional berupa terong sebagai lauk makan. Hasilnya keadaan tetap tidak berubah.

Tapi seiring dengan waktu keadaan yang aneh inipun berlalu.  Kedua orang tami kami jadi lega. Adikku kelihatannya  sudah jadi normal.

Since I was a kid, I was a shy boy until became a teenager. Maybe until now I am still a shy girl and I am a closed person.

When I was in elementary school, there was a custom where the teachers arranged the seats of their pupils. And when it done, it applied in a year. Thus the pupils can not sit wherever they like. And one thing that is funny, a male pupil always gets a female pupil as his sit mate at the same table. I don't know the reason why the teachers applied this custom. Maybe by this way a male pupil can not make or reduces the possibility to make a fuss and noise during  the class because his sit mate is a female pupil.

I still remember when in certain years  I was seated with a beautiful female pupil. It happened to me at least twice or two year. By that time I already could judge whether if a girl is beautiful or not. But it  can be said that I always or almost silent, never talk to my sit mate or begin to open a conversation. My female sit mate was always the one who started talking to me.

There was an event that made me shy. My female teacher made a joke of me by matching me with a beautiful female pupil who was my sit mate. She said it in front of my late parents and my older sister at my home when she visited us.

Not only in school I was shy, but at home as well. When the relatives of my mother came to visit my family at home, I usually hid in my bedroom and pretended to sleep. Sometimes the relatives of my mother entered my bed room and teased me. Sometimes they teased me until I cried. And when they went, sometimes my late mother said to me "Shy boy !". But however she was a wise mother to me, she never called me sissy. But the other way around, she always encouraged me so I didn't do this again when my relatives came to my home.

When I became a teenager, my school friends at junior high school began to know love. Maybe puppy love. A male pupil began to make a close relation with a female pupil. And they were ridiculed by the other. And I never have a courage to approach a female friend, but only ridiculed by the other by matching me with a female school friend. By that time I still felt embarrassed, but I also felt happy if they matched me incidentally with a girl who I like. That time, a female friend of my older sister even teased me though she was joking, but I couldn't give her a respond.

It continued until I was in senior high school. My female teacher also made a joke of me by matching me with a beautiful female pupil. Even my male teacher tried to match me with a beautiful female pupil as well. Maybe they knew that I was too shy.

At last when I was in college, I tried to make a close relationship with my female college friend. But when I was trying hard to work it out, she dropped out from the college. Pity me.

Made in Thailand

"Made in Thailand", our land,
we've kept it since the ancient times, there's been many good things.
Since the eras of Sukhothai, to Lopburi, Ayuthaya, Thonburi,
through to modern day Bangkok.
The city where people fall down the open drains (don't blame them for it).

"Made in Thailand", made in our own land,
the land of the meaningful songs and dances.
Foreigners secretly are admirers of Thai products, but Thais don't see their worth.
Scared of being looked down upon, that liking Thai products isn't fashionable.
If it's "Made in Thailand", who's going to give the guarantee for them?
(I think someone should accept responsibilty for this.)

"Made in Thailand", and all it's admirers understand.
That these are products produced by Thais, made by Thais.
the shirts, trousers, and jeans,
are sent abroad on planes, and then imported back.
It's the Thais who gain face (but it's the foreigners who get the money.)

"Made in Thailand", and when put up in the shops.
They put the "Made in Japan" labels upon them.
Then they sell well, sell for high prices
and the wearers then brag they've got imported clothes,
the latest fashions, from the magazines.
It wasn't the foreginers who cheated us.
But it was us who cheated ourselves...oh....

It cannot be denied that Thailand is a beautiful and exotic country in Asia. A country that called as land of white elephants and often visited by many tourists. Their tourism can be said very successful. Popular with their floating markets and  some superior commodities. Bangkok guava, Thai papaya, Thai durians, Bangkok chicken, Thai silk. Talk about the dish, who doesn't know about tom yam ? Not only food,  animals and the others, but human too. Who doesn't know about ladyboy ?

About this ladyboy, there's even an old saying says if you see a beautiful Thai lady, she is surely a ladyboy. Is it a  kidding ? Once I ever left a comment on a posting about Thai ladyboy and asked if that saying was just a kidding. Then I got a reply that said it was not kidding. I don't know who's kidding who. But if I see the Thai ladyboys on the internet, I don't doubt that they are beautiful as women. Maybe they who were  exposed are they who are beautiful.

When I was still active in a forum, many of my friends said that they want to do sex surgery in Thailand. Off course, many of them don't mean it seriously. But I can see that it was so popular among us. Beside that, Thailand is almost like paradise to ladyboy, tranvestite and transgender. Many of my crossdresser friends often said they wanna live there, because the situation is more condusive than in their country for people like them.

Maybe I should plan to move and live in there too. Beginning a new chapter of my new life as ladyboy. Retire from my normal life. and close my straight life.

Just kidding, don't take it too seriously ! :)

7 female to male transgender

7 successful female to male transgender according to On The Spot Trans7 :
1. Loren Cameron : photographer & writer, USA

2. Lucas Silveira : musician, Canada

3. Ryan Sallans : advocate, USA

4. Balian Bushcaum : athlete, Germany

5. Katasthrope : musician, USA

6. Buck Angel : advocate, USA

7. Andreas Krieger : athlete, Germany

Batik

Batik adalah salah satu dari warisan leluhur kita. Bukan hanya di pulau Jawa saja ada batik, tapi ada juga batik yang berasal dari luar Jawa. Batik telah mendapat pengakuan Badan PBB yang mengurusi soal pendidikan dan kebudayaan (UNESCO) sebagai  warisan budaya Indonesia, sehingga bisa membantah klaim Malaysia atas batik.

Pada mulanya dahulu, batik hanya digunakan sebatas lingkungan keraton. Dan digunakan terutama sebagai kain panjang atau kemben. Tapi kemudian berkembang dan digunakan juga oleh rakyat kebanyakan.

Pada jaman pemerintahan mendiang presiden Soeharto dahulu, mendiang ibu Tien terkenal sebagai salah satu tokoh yang selalu berusaha mempopulerkan dan memasyarakatkan kain batik dengan memakai busana kain kebaya baik pada acara formal maupun informal.

Pemakaian batik akhir-akhir ini juga semakin digalakkan di kantor-kantor swasta dan instansi pemerintah dengan mewajibkan karyawan-karyawannya untuk memakai batik pada hari tertentu. Bahkan di Lingkungan Balaikota Pemkot Surakarta, rencananya PNS diwajibkan memakai busana tradisional berupa beskap atau kebaya dengan kain batik sebagai bawahannya mulai tanggal 23 Februari tahun ini.

Batik pada masa sekarang ini sudah diaplikasikan tidak hanya untuk bawahan berupa kain wiron saja sebagai pasangan dari kebaya. Tapi sudah meluas pemakaiannya menjadi rok, baju, celana panjang, taplak meja, sarung bantal, sprei dan lain sebagainya.

Di pulau Jawa sendiri terdapat beberapa jenis batik yang menunjukkan asalnya. Dilihat dari warna dan motifnya jika kita memang sudah familiar dengan batik, maka kita akan mengetahui berasal dari mana batik tersebut.
1. Batik Solo : berwarna dasar sogan atau kecoklatan, disebut juga batik pedalaman.
2. Batik Yogya : berwarna dasar putih, disebut juga batik pedalaman.
3. Batik Pekalongan : berwarna mencolok seperti merah, hijau, biru. Disebut juga batik pesisiran.
4. Batik Laeem : berciri khas warna merah yang berbeda dari batik lainnya. Disebut juga batik pesisiran.

Selain itu masih ada juga batik-batik yang lain seperti batik Cirebon, Banyumas dan Madura serta masih banyak lagi untuk disebutkan satu persatu.

Sesuai dengan kemajuan jaman, penggunaan komputer pada batik sekarang ini melahirkan apa yang dinamakan sebagai batik fraktal komputer.

Paddock girl 6