My Blog Usernames

In Blogger, my name appears as Aku Menulis and in WordPress, it's lincahceria5. None of those is my real name.

"Aku Menulis" means I write. I have a folder in my laptop named "I Write". It contains my writing, of course. For my username, I chose the Indonesian words.

lincahceria is a merge of two words: "lincah" and "ceria". Lincah means agile, ceria means cheerful. My cousins once named his football team "Lincah Ceria". It sounds cute and not-footbally (is there such word?). I chose it as a name because, as usual, I lacked of idea and it was the first thing came to my mind.

Gething Nyanding

"Gething nyanding" is a Javanese idiom. Gething means hate and nyanding means approach or become close. It can be used as reminder that sometimes the thing or person that we hate may become the one that's close to us. So be careful with your hate.

I Change My Theme (or not)

I join Blogging 101 and today's task is about theme. I tried some themes in my WordPress blog then I decided to use the camera vintage theme again. This time, the camera at the top is different. I changed my Blogger theme to the bird watermark. It is the same theme I used long time ago for my blog when I was in high school.

Conclusion: I don't really change my theme.

P.S. The blog I made in high school doesn't exist anymore.

Four Songs

In university, I have three close friends whom I share my crazy opinion with. Here I won't write about our crazy moment. I'll just make list of four songs that we like. 

4. Mantan Terindah - Kahitna

Mantan terindah means the loveliest ex in Indonesian. This song is nice. We sometimes use it to mock one of us who has terrible ex.

3. That's Why (You Go Away) - Michael Learns To Rock

When I make this post, the video from the link above "is not available in my country". I don't know why. Anyway, one day, one of us sang this song then she saw her crush and sang the song no. 2 in this list: Paint My Love.

2. Paint My Love - Michael Learns To Rock

This song is simply amazing. No wonder that my friend sang this when she saw her ex.

1. From This Moment On - Shania Twain

One of us (the girl in no. 3 and 2) wanted this song to be played in her wedding until one day somebody practiced to sing this song and it was awful. She then said, "He didn't sing well and he had destroyed my imagination."

I guess I will write more about my friends in other posts.

Whom I Want to Interview

I join the journalism club in my faculty. I've interviewed some people and written news. For me, interview is more interesting than news writing.

Since my journalism club belongs to the faculty, I mostly interview people from my faculty. However, if I'm given the chance, I want to interview Marianela Núñez or Polina Semionova. Why them? Because I like watching ballet and they're two of my favourite ballet dancers. If you click the link I put on their names in this post, you will see amazing acts and dances. I've watched many good dance but when I watch them, I not only watch but also feel. 

P.S.

In the description of this video, Carlos Acosta's role is Don Quixote but I thought he was Basilio. Can somebody explain to me? 

Why English?

I'm an Indonesian. My ethnic group is Javanese. Everyday I speak Javanese and Indonesian but I mostly write my blog posts in English. Not because I want to look more "international" but because I'm just comfortable to write in English.

I speak Javanese a lot. Even when I speak Indonesian or English, people can still notice my Javanese accent. However, I rarely write article in Javanese. It's a matter of habit, I know. I'm not used to it so it's difficult.

I speak and write Indonesian. However, I mostly write Indonesian in academic work: practicum report, discussion report, etc. It makes me feel "awkward" when writing an informal Indonesian article. Really, I feel awkward.

I rarely use English in everyday conversation but I write e-mails in English for my penpals. My e-mail writing style is like my blog post writing style. When I write a post, I often imagine that I write e-mail and tell a story to my penpal. The difference is, my posts can be read by many people.

Talking about My Blogs

It may be late to write about this blog but I'll write it anyway.

I have two blogs with same contents in WordPress and Blogger. My Blogger blog is, as you can see, belum-selesai.blogspot.com . "Belum selesai" means not finished yet in Indonesian. My WordPress blog is masihbersambung.wordpress.com . "Masih bersambung" means still continue in Indonesian.  The main reason I chose those words as my blog domain was my lacking of inspiration on what I should name my blogs. Other reason was I often tried to be philosophical (duh) so my blog names implied that we, humans, never feel "finished". We always have story, desire, or anything. We're not finished yet. We still continue.