Chicago

Pergi ke Chicagonya seh udah summer kemaren tapi baru sekarang nulisnya hehehe...

Akhirnya jadi juga itu pergi setelah gak jadi berapa kali.
Waktu Senly dateng udah mau pergi tapi gak jadi akhirnya dan sebelum itu udah ngomong2 ama Harpin (dia tinggal disitu, jadi nebeng minta ditampung maksudnya hehehhe), tapi ya itu gak jadi.

Akhirnya pergi bareng Martin n Neneng. perginya sih cuma over the weekend. Nginep di Hilton Palmer Hotel yg pas di downtown.
Jadi mo kemana2 gampang, tinggal jalan kaki. Hotelnya sih bagus banget. Cuma karena waktu kita dateng, pas mereka ada church conferences' people, jadinya kita gak kebagian kamar yg punya double beds or king-sized bed.
Kedapetan yg queen-sized bed. Karena kita ber3, jadilah si Martin tidur di lantai heuueheuhueh...
Tapi dia tidur jg kok di ranjangnya siang2... huehuhehheuhe..

Hari pertama sih semangat banget. Jalan keliling, foto2. Ketemu anaknya temen nyokap jg. Yah lunch bentarlah... udah gitu seh gak ketemu lage hehehe...
Jalan ke Millenium Park, Michigan Ave, keluar masuk toko/butik, puas2in liat kesono sini.
Udaranya juga enak banget.. Biarpun summer tapi gak panas banget, gak kayak TX.

Sore2nya ketemu Harpin n makan di Penang, resto indo -- eh Indo ato Malay yah? ya gitu deh.
Biasa aja sih makanannya... Selese dinner, Martin minta dianterin ke daerah2 bar. Gue b2 gak ikut soale udah tepar...hehehhe... capeekkk booo..

Besoknya kita kelilingin lagi itu downtown masih dengan semangat 45. Makan ke chinatown lage. Cobain Chinese resto yg katanya enak. Eh bener loh... enak banget, murah pula. Gak inget namanya, pokoknya di depanna patung2 shio gitu deh.

Kita pesen kodok, ikan, dan sayur apa gitu gak inget.
Yg inget ikannya... 1 porsi ada 2 ekor.... enaaakk bangettt... makannya sampe berebutan kayak anak kampung. wakkaka... akhirnya pesen 1 porsi lage padahal sayur2nya udah pada abis gitu.. jadi tungguin itu ikan... gila yah dibela2in banget.
Seblom pulang ke Dallas, kita makan lg sekali di resto itu. Pesen ikan lagi... tapi kali ini kita pesennya 3 porsi, jadi 1 org 1 porsi...huahuhauhah...
Dateng2 diliatin org2 sekeliling..hihihihihi.... Selese makan gue rada2 eneg ama tuh ikan... ya iyalah yah.. makan gak kira2 huehuehuheuhe..

Eniwei, kebetulan lagi ada art fest, jadi kita liat2 kesana. Kalo datengnya 1 minggu kemudian ada gay olympic... huehuehuheuhe... seru tuh kaenya... sayang....... ^^

Malem itu si Martin sekali lagi pengen ke bar. Jadinya kita pergi deh...
Katanya dia tau jalannya, beuh! Kita nyasar abis2an boooo...
Nyasar sampe ke daerah org item gitu.... mana jarang banget ada taxi dan bus... well suka ada sih bus tapi gak ngerti nyampe mana hahha...
Kita naek kereta tapi pas sampe mana kita berenti karena mulai agak2 gak tenang.....udah berasa kaenya salah.
Ya udah berenti di station apa tuh gitu... tungguin kereta yg balik arah, tapi lamaaaaa banget gak dateng2.
Akhirnya putusin buat keluar dari station dan naek taxi aja deh. Itu udah sekitar jem 11an.

Udah tunggu bentar tapi gak ada taxi yg lewat juga. Tanya org, katanya emang jarang taxi.
Ya udah kita putusin buat jalan liat kali aja di depan ada taxi ato apa gitu.
Bujubuneng deh.. itu bener2 pengalaman yg gak bakal gue lupain!!

Kita bertiga itu yg paling terang sendiri kali (baca: warna kulit hahah). Semuanya org item, yah ada org hispanic jg seh. Tapi itu bener2 daerah org item, ghetto pisan dah.
Malam semakin malam, jalanan semakin sepi, semakin nyeremin karena gue gak tau deh itu lampu2 jalan rusak ato emang gak ada. Pokoke sekeliling itu gelap bener.
Lewatin apt2 yg gelap2, gedung2 tua pula gitu. Ada beberapa org yg nongkrong di depan apt.
Semakin jiper aje........ Gue tanya Martin.. Tin lu bisa berantem gak? Bisa tonjok org gak? Buat jaga2 gitu huehuehuheuheue...

Jalan dan jalan terus kita... akhirnya di depan ada highway dan ada polisi? petugas jalan? semacam itulah.
Dia mungkin 1-1nya org bule disitu kali hahahha...
Tanya dia soal taxi dan jalan. Dia bilang wah ini daerah gak aman dan jarang ada taxi. Kalo mau naek kereta aja nih disini... Keretanya sampe downtown kok.
Ya udah buru2 deh masuk station.
Abis lewatin gate, gak bisa langsung turun soale ada abg2 yg lage ngeboyong temennya yg udah gak sadar gara2 mabok. Padahal baru middle school tuh gue liatin. Middle school tuh kelas 6-8, smplah kira2. Weleh..

Tunggu kereta lagi....
Tunggu.....

Tunggu....

dan..

Tunggu.....

Buset ini kereta datengnya luamaaa banget! Mana ati udah gak tenang gara2 dibilang daerah gak aman, kulit beda sendiri, udah jem 12-1 pula.... Bener2 deh.

Akhirnya tuh kereta nongol jg dan sampailah kita ke downtown. Kita balik hotel, Martin keluar lage... masih penasaran dia ama barnya hahha..

Besoknya kita ke gay bar siang2... ketemu 1 cowok bule.
Cerita2 bilang kemaren kita ntn konser di millenium park. Padahal seh kita kelewatan hahaha... Eh ternyata ini bule salah 1 yg maen cello? kaenya sih, lupa gue, di konser itu...
Pas dia bilang apa, kita iya2 aja hahahha...

Btw, gay barnya lebih bagus dari gay bar sini. Disini kok busuk yah.
Tempatnya bagus gitu terus ada pationya, jadi bisa duduk diluar. Di dalem ada tv gedeeee, semua pada ntn, lagi ada acara apa gitu deh.

Eniwei, akhir cerita (gue jg bingung kalo mo ceritain semua, entar kepanjangan pada males baca lage.. gue jg males ngetiknya hahuhahaha) gue demen Chicago... Cuma kalo disuruh tinggal pas winter seh ogah bener!! Emang enak lu Pin?! hahahhaha...

Lusa mo ke Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Entar gue bahas n review kalo gak males. Yah siap2lah tunggu sekitar 6 bulanan baru gue tulis...hahhahaha...

Thrill Me!

Watched a musical play last Thursday with Martin, Neneng, and Michael.
It was called "Thrill Me!".

It was really great. I like it alot.
Was performed by 2 guys accompanied by a piano and it was a small theatre.

Neneng n I were planning to go see jazz at Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). They have jazz nite every thurday (6-8ish PM) all year long and also jazz under the stars in summer (8-10ish PM).
They have different bands every week.

We met Martin n Michael first for happy hour after work hehehe...
Then we parted our ways. They went around the mall first coz it started at 8PM.
We went straight to DMA.

When it was about 7:40ish, Martin called and asked if we wanted to go there and watch the play. It cost $20 something. $25 I believe. And it was quite close to DMA, so we could get there on time.

We decided to go there. After the play, we went out to eat and then hung out with Riko and Chris (his friend who visited from Armsterdam) at Phases, a gay bar til 12ish... hehehhee...
Neneng n I went home, but they still continued til 3AM.
I guess we started our weekend early, eh?!

It was a 85 minutes long play NONSTOP! No intermezzo.
Those guys acted and sang nonstop... awesome! They sang really good too. I like the other one though, the Nathan character. He has an awesome voice.

The play was based on a true storty that really happened in 1924 in Chicago.

2 childhood friends, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, were inseparable until college when Richard decided to go away.
They finally met again after some time.

Nathan was so dependent on Richard, always following him around and always doing what Richard told him to.
Richard was a selfish psycho bastard, my personal opinion but true nonetheless...hehehhe...

Both of them were from a rich and powerful family. They were geniuses, went to college at the age of 16 and then went to law schools.

Richard was always doing crazy things to thrill himself.
He burned down a warehouse just for the sake of it, stole things from the neighbors' while the neighbors were inside. He said it was better and more exciting with them inside.
He was also obsessed with Nidgi (I think that's how you spell it, not really sure and couldn't found it anywhere in the program).
Always following Nidgi, according to Nidgi blablabla, Nidgi says blablabla...

And of course, he forced and blackmailed Nathan into helping him.
They even made a blood-signed contract so that they couldn't betrayed each other.

Richard was growing crazier and crazier each day.
Finally, he decided to kill someone coz nothing else could thrill him anymore.
Nathan was totally against it but he was binded by the contract. So, he couldn't do anything else other than following what Richard said.

Richard wanted to kill his brother but then after he thought about it with Nathan's help who tried to stir Richard away from killing his brother, he decided to kill an elementary school kid.
The unfortunate victim was Bobby Franks, their neighbor.

They were going to ask for ransom for $10,000 and never give Bobby back. They killed Bobby right away, before asking for any money even.

Everything was settled and went smoothly..... until.... Nathan realized that he had lost his eyeglasses.
From then on, everything was a mess!

They finally got caught and jailed. They were sentenced for life and plus 99 years.
Richard was killed in prison in the shower in year something... I don't remember, I belive it was sometime in 1930ish.
After 33 years in prison, Nathan had a parole hearing and was freed.

He wrote a book Life Plus 99 Years, married Trudi Feldman Garcia de Queveda, a former social worker from Baltimore and widow of a Puerto Rican physician in 1961 and died in 1971.

Oh and did I mention that they were gay and that this was a gay musical play?? 0_o

Uptown Players Dallas.

Yea, Halloween Baby!!

Udah lewat seh Halloweennya tapi baru sekarang bikin blognya soale males hehehe...
Did a costume party on friday. Di apt Jennifer n Zack.

Sekitar 15 org yg dateng including gue.
Selaen foto2 n ntn film serem, agak2 boring seh acaranya. Yg seru yah foto2nya itu. Karena dia dekor abis2an hahahah...
Tapi kebanyakan pake kamera Ellie, soale kameranya dia keren bisa visual effect gitu. Jadi kamera2 kita diabandon begitu aja...

Gue blom dapet seh foto2nya, tau neh lama bener. Foto2 waktu bbq pas full moon festival n jap fest jg blom dapet nih....

Gue pake apa? Hehehe liat aja sendiri deh.. gak jelas gue jg....
Costume yg mo gue beli tadinya diambil ama si Jennifer gara2 cowoknya gak kasih dia jadi pb bunny. ^^
Diambil deh ama dia..rese.. udah malem gitu gue kudu nyari2 lage...partynya besok. siang gue mesti kerja. mepet bener dah...
Yg diambil ama dia itu costume captain's wench gitu. Kaya baju2 maid jaman dulu tapi pendek gak panjang, warna pink n brown.

Rencana gak mo keluar duit byk2. Paling 50 gitu deh...eehhh... jadinya malah keluar sampe 100!! Ternyata barang2 halloween mahal2 boooo..!!

Terakhir2 tinggal sekitar 9 org gitu. Kita maen drinking game pake kartu.
Random picked kartu taro di jidat. Kasih liat org maksudnya, tapi kita gak bole liat kartu kita sendiri.
Pas giliran elu, elu kudu bilang, yg paling gede kudu minum ato yg plg kecil kudu minum.
Seblom itu, yg kena giliran kudu tentuin mo minum apa yg kalah.
Jadi ini bisa elu sial ato untung. Kalo sial bilang paling gede minum dan taunya elu yg paling gede kartunya yah elu kudu minum lage hahaha..

Awal2 minumnya masih normal. Tequila doank, vodka doank, bir doank. Makin lama makin nasty. Udah campur aduk semua, rasanya gak karuan.

Priscil kena 2 ato 3 kali. Kaenya 3 kali deh. yg 2 kali minum berurutan, soale dia pick kartu yg ternyata dia yg kena hahahha...
Gue untungnya gak kena2, jadi gue doank sendirian yg gak dapet minum! hahahhaha....

Gue minta pulang karena besoknya kudu ke wedding si Mimi. Entar gak bisa bangun lage. Soale rmhnya jauuuuhhh bener....
Gak dikasih pulang sampe gue kalah....hahaha.. tapi akhirnya gue jalan aja pulang...wakkaka...



Besokannya gue kepengen ntn drag queen sebenernya. Biasa byk gay2 yg dress up keren2 abis.^___^
Hmm... wonder what Scot was this year..... He was a scifi woman last year, 2 years ago he was a diva. Keren abis.. Bikin sendiri costumenya, abis sekitar $1000!!!
Tapi karena gue gak tau tempatnya dan Martin kagak bisa diajak pergi soale nyokap n kakaknya dateng, yah gak jadi pergi dah gue.
Temen gue yg laen gak tau jg tempatnya.

Diajakin halloween party di downtown seh sabtu itu. Tapi anak indo itu rese!
Ternyata di cancel, tapi kasih taunya hari minggu!!!!!
Pas kasih tau, bilang aduh sori Jess, gue gak tau mesti bilang apa ama elu. Tadinya gak jadi eh trus gue diajakin halloween party di downtown. Aduh suara gue sampe abis tereak2.

Pas denger msgnya...g dalem ati gue.. loh kok?! Dasar indo! sutralah... hahahha...

Caapeeeekkk dah!

Anjiiiiirrrrrrr...!!

1. Bener2 deh housemate gue pelitnya setengah mampus!
Masa kemaren gue nyalain heater, eh dia pulang kantor bilang jangan nyalain heater yah!
What the hell?! Kaya dia seorang diri aja yg bayar electricity!!!!
Housemate gue yg 1 lage lsg bilang pas gue ngomong ke dia, elu sih udah gue bilangin masih bandel pasang heater jg. Udah mendingan beli heater aja kaya gue biar boros sekalian hahaha... Dia pake heater n selimut listrik, soale emang gak kuat dingin. Parah abis booo!!!!

Trus tadi pagi jem 8 lewat ini org pelit miss called gue 3 kali.
Yg pertama emang gue gak denger, ke 2 gue baru sampe kantor, ke 3 gue reject!
Tinggalin 2 msg, 1 kosong isinya. 1 lagi isinya bilang supaya gue tulis cek buat rent, taro di meja deket pintu........
aduuuhh!!! Gue itu kerjanya PERGI DULUAN DARI DIA gitu loh!!!! Telat amat atuh telpnya... persistent pula sampe 3 kale!
Lagian semalem kan dia udah sms, masih di telp lage paginya...masya allah!!
Udah gitu tadi pas gue plg, dia reminded that damn rent again! Malah kali ini ditambah ama bill listrik!!! Mending gitu aja, barusan nih gue dapet sms yg isinya kasih tau bill listrik..... What the fu*k gitu loh! @___@!

2. Selama 7 bulan kerja gue udah gonta ganti bos 2 kali. Hari ini gue tepatnya gue baru ganti bos untuk yg ke2 kalinya, jadi hari ini gue dapet bos gue yg ke 3..... ckckckkc...
Tadi pagi dikasih tau kalo bos yg gue report to udah gak kerja lage. Gak jelas kenapa, apakah dilaid off ato dipecat ato berhenti...... tau2 gone!
Trus 1 co ini B yg baru diangkat jadi staff acct bbrp bulan yg lalu naek jadi asst. controller gantiin T, T ini gantiin bos gue, jadi gue report ke si T ini sekarang.
Nah ada si M yg pissed off waktu tau B naek jabatan. Soale si M ini yg lebih lama jadi staff acct.
Trus coworker gue yg 1 R tadi pulang cepet, alesannya seh bilang mo jemput anaknya. Tapi katanya coworker gue yg 1, dia pissed off gara2 bos gue gak ada dan kita kudu kerja directly di bawah si T. R ini gak demen ama si T.
I'm telling you guys, it was not fun in there today!!! Everybody is soooo quite. You could drop a pin on that carpet and everybody can hear it... hahhahahah extreme, I know.

3. Gue sebel ama manager2nya perusahaan gue!!! Pemalas banget seh! Dasar bule2 bego dan males!
Bagian gue tuh deal ama contract2 yg udah di approve by itu manager2. Kalo mereka gak approve gue gak bisa process. Jadilah gue nganggur2 kaya org bego... Sumpe gak enak banget nganggur pas kerja!

Mereka gak approve2 soale pada gak ada yg show up buat tanda tangan itu contracts.
Nah sekalinya nongol tuh, bertumpuk2 itu contracts yg gue kudu process!!!!!
Kagak bisa apa yg namanya dikit2 kasih ke gue, jangan ditumpukin!! Rese setengah mampus!
Udah gitu sekalinya dah gue dapet kerjaan, bener2 dilimpahin semua ke gue.
Karena akhir bulan, contract2 yg udah closed gue kudu cek n file. Jadilah itu cubicle gue full dengan contract2!!!
Ada 2 1/2 box closed contract. 1 1/2 box new contract yg baru diapprove, 1/2 box supercedes (dokumen2 yg baru di revised). Anjrit banget gak seh?!!!! Taulah pusing gue ngeliatin itu box tiap beberapa jem nambah contractnya. Karena mereka keep on bringing those damn contracts!

Mana gue diburu2 ama org mortgage n title buat yg closing hari ini ato yg udah mepet. Mereka kudu punya contract yg udah diapprove.
Yg suka bikin btnya yah, gue tuh tiap hari kirim contract2 yg udah gue copy ke mortgage n title. Jadi harusnya mereka punya copynya dan gak usah minta lage ke acctg. Tapi gak tau itu copies pada dikemanain, mintaaaaa mulu... Gak ngerti jg mereka itu udah nyari apa blom. Feeling gue seh mereka langsung aja minta, gak mo nyari lage.... Haiyaaaaahhhhh bule2 males keparat!

4. Wiken kemaren gue ke wedding 2 temen gue yg back to back. 28 n 29. Gila aja, gue bokek!!
2 org lage deh temen gue merid....haiyaahhh... semakin byk yg merid dan punya anak.
Kalo mo liat pictures udah gue upload tuh, liat aja ke photo album....hehe

5. Di wedding itu gue found out kalo 2 temen gue taon depan bakal balik indo for good, 2 (suami istri seh) bakal pindah ke UK -- emang wn UK, 1 bakal pindah ke Nebraska deh kayanya (pokoke pindah state dah).

6. Org2 di Dallas pada gak bisa nyetir!!!!!!!
Bener2 bikin keki gue, bikin darah gue naek!
Udah dari kemaren ini macetnya lebih parah dari biasanya. Masa gue bisa pulang rmh 1 1/2 jem! Yg boneng aja!

Udah gitu ini org2 gak tau deh belajar nyetir dimana. Gue bener2 gak ngerti dan gak abis pikir kenapa mereka pada demen jalan lambat2 padahal kalo kita sampe ke depan2nya itu lancar banget buat ukuran macet! Kenapa jg mesti lambat2 di bagian itu...bener2 deh!

Udah gitu kalo ada accident juga jadi lambat banget! Dan yg hebatnya lagi nih, bisa bikin lambat jalan padahal accidentnya ada di bagiah yg balik arah yg dibatasin ama penghalang jalan, yg seharusnya kagak bisa bikin macet, karena bagian kita gak ada apa2.

Blom lagi kalo hujan. Beuh! Gue bingung abis dah. Gerimis dikit doank aja bisa bikin ini org2 nyetir kaya keong!!!! Amit2 dah!

7. Kenapa seh org2 (tau sendirilah sapa haha) demen banget narik2 org buat masuk agamanya?!?!?!
Kalo mo percaya, percaya aja sendiri...ngapain seh bawa2 org. Gak pede gitu?
Lagian kalo emang itu org percaya yah otomatis dia join sendirilah gak usah disuruh, ditarik2, diajak2....haiiizz....Ya gak Sen??

8. Gue udah capek ngomel2 n ngeluh2... hahaha...