I remember the day, in High School, when I abandoned my bed-time, went out to had fun with friends, and went back to school in the morning.

Stayed awake for 3 days 2 nights, when I camped out.

Not to forget the how I played MMORPG (Ragnarok Online) for couple days straight without sleep when there were an event to be held.

For all other things, it would be like normal with only 4-5 hours sleep / day. I can’t remember since when I started to worry about my sleeping period.

My old fella, Messach, once told me "If I knew sleeping would be such a bliss like this, I wouldn’t be so sleepless for all this life."

Well, his sleepless record was way greater than mine, so… that was probably his turning point — into the path of righteousness (beuh!).

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YO! ~ it’s been a while since I scratched this blog with words. Where have I gone? Nowhere, I’m here, in front of this PC…  watching J-Dorama, anime, youtube, those casual things, and lately, being an audiophile.

It’s not something I could proud of, since this kind of obsession is basically disposing your income. It began when I bought a new set of stereo speakers (Logitech Z2300), replacing my broken old one (Altec VS-2121). Bought it from eBay, refurbished, for $80. Quite a powerful and decent set of speakers actually, but out of nowhere, my hearing became so picky and sassy…

"It sounds… odd. Is it the treble? Or mid range? Too much bass?"

The self-struggling continued, fooled around with equalizers for days, until a brilliant solution popped up in my mind:

"Ah, it’s not the speakers… it’s the sound card!"

(– yes dude, you’re a genius!)

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Few days ago I went to Boston to attend the fireworks festival. It was 4th of July — US Independence Day. Sounds lame, but that was the first time for me to see the real fireworks. They were spectacular indeed. Fire dancers swinging under the black sky, jumping, overlaping in many colors toward any directions.

Where I was… The event held at Charles River - Boston. If my 6th sense serves me well, I’ll say there were about… 42,579 people around the river. How the hell I came up with that number? I have no idea, just random.

I was not come alone. I had invited by the group (anime-lover) through Facebook, and they were hit the spot since 10 in the morning to claimed a good ground for us to camp on; while the main event started at 10.30pm. That was a frikin 12+ hours wait time.

This event hosted by one of Anime Boston member, hmm… by two actually. Zero-sama and Ethan Fleming. Thank’s for both of them who sacrifised their sweat, battery, energy, sponsored by the super stinks public restroom-box (i have no idea what these boxes called?) and greater possibility of skin cancer.

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Some of you might know PowerBall, some might not. It’s a lottery game in United States, along with bunch of other like Lotto, Cashola and others. You know how it goes right?

The price starts from $1 (uno dallah), and by guessing random numbers, you might hit the jackpot if your prediction is proven correct. I’m not really sure how the game play (since I’m a good boy…), beside that’s not really my main topic.

I’m more interested in the word of Luck. I wonder how many people are actually believe in good luck. For example, in Chinese believing for Feng Shui, your good luck determined from how you locate your windows, bed, dinning table, mirrors, doors and the direction of your house facing into.

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I’m not so sure what day on the calendar states:

“it’s official, we’re entering summer day!”

It’s getting hot and hotter lately. Last couple days were the worse… so far. My Yahoo Weather Widget shows it’s 65-70 Fahrenheit, which I believe it screwed. It feels like almost 100 degree outside.

A lot of my friends asked me “Is it hotter than Surabaya?” — or Semarang, Jakarta, and many other famous Hot Cities among the nation, well… I might say “Yes!” but to be honest, I couldn’t remember.

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