Weekends Illustrated

Weekend #98: Trash Talking

rarambol — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:03:12 +0000

My friend Odi loves to call our (no-more-so) regular gathering as “Trash Talking”.

When we met, we discussed about our dreams, our big big dreams, our ambitions, our goals in life, our mission, pretty much anything bullshit.

I hadn’t met her for quite a while until last Saturday we finally met eachother again to do this trash talking. We loved it so much I made one long frikkin’ blogpost about one of the things we talked about.

One day, however, we will realize everything we’ve been trash-talking.

We believe that there will come a day when we finally found our own happiness ever-after

Weekend #97: Hair Dryer

rarambol — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:36:28 +0000

It was another weekend I got lazy drawing. So I did this on Tuesday at the office and post this raw drawing one weekend late than it was supposed to be posted.

Whatever.

Nyahahahaha..

Weekend #96: The Band of Oz

rarambol — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:01:21 +0000

Watched Uwie‘s “The Wizard of Oz” DVD this weekend.

Being a music adorer, the first thing that came out on my mind when I saw Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion got together was “they could form a band”.

LOL!

So here are they in a band. The Band of Oz :p

Starring:

Dorothy Gale — vocalist
Tin Man — guitarist
Scarecrow — bassist
Lion — Drummer

I should’ve drawn Toto but I didn’t know where to put him hahaha..

(It looked better in my head, though)

LOVE the movie, by the way!

Weekend #96: Collecting My Best 5 Weekends of 2011

rarambol — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:36:53 +0000

So!

It’s 2012. It’s gonna be exciting, for both me and the blog. I have a hunch there’s gonna be even more interesting posts I’ll be uploading here.

Until then, why don’t you come reminisce with me about the top 5 weekends you saw I posted here?

Shall we:

THE 5TH POSITION GOES TO – NOVEMBER POST “THE MAKING of CHEESY VIDEO“

I’ve always wanted to play music and sing together with (a) friend(s). The fact that this year I could finally record some cheesy video of me and my friend Amel doing ‘Decode’ by Paramore was kind of exciting.

We in fact did it again on the last day of 2011 — on the 31st of December, that is. We recorded The Script’s “Breakeven” and Coldplay’s “Yellow” in one day but the videos aren’t done yet. Amel’s still working on it. We kinda screwed up yesterday so Amel has to work a bit harder to make us look and sound better than the original hahahaha..

THE 4TH POSITION GOES TO – JUNE POST “I’M IN BALI FTW“

I’d never been to Bali before. So the fact that I could decide to go ALONE to a place where I’d never been to before, is still mesmerizing me till this very day. LOL!

Well I wasn’t actually alone once I got there. Because I got a friend working there. But since he was working and I spent a week there, I could only browse around the island with him on the first day (which was Sunday) and in the evenings of the rest of the week. I basically did a lot of DIY activities in the mornings and afternoons.

It was fucking fun. I WENT TO BALI FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2011!

THE 3RD POSITION GOES TO – NOVEMBER POST “DEADLY TRAIN“

Just moved in to a new office, got a chance to join their free trip to Singapore. Got to ride the most fucked-up roller coaster I’ve ever got “Battlestar Galactica: Cylon”. WHAT A LUCKY BITCH I AM!

It was my second free trip to Singapore in my life. The first one was for business, though. This one, this one was for hell-yeah-we’re-having-holiday-abroad-together with the whole of the office mates!

I’m lovin’ my life.

THE RUNNER UP GOES TO – FEBRUARY POST “I WON THE CONTEST!“

Entered a contest by my favorite-ever artist Jason Reeves.

Won it like a bosssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And got a direct message and direct compliment by Jason himself! SCORE BIG!

AND THE BEST WEEKEND EVERR IN 2011 GOES TO – AUGUST POST “PARAFUCKINGMORE“

Waited a long time for Paramore to come have a show in Jakarta and they finally visited us!

Got fucking lucky with Amel to be on the very first row of the moshpit.

Hell yeah nothing competes this!

Weekends Illustrated Feature: Jason Reeves Pretty Much Helped Me Popularize This Blog

rarambol — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:19:56 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys genuinely prepared a 2011 annual report for my Weekends Illustrated blog like they did last year on my 2010 performance.

This is a pretty kewl thing WordPress do for their users <3

Here’s an excerpt:

Most visitors in 2011 got here by clicking a link they found on Jason Reeves’ official website. NOTHING IS COOLER THAN THISSSS!!

And my most popular post is the one that is Jason Reeves-related, too. LOL!

Click here to see the complete report of my 2011 blog performance.

Click here to see the report of my 2010 blog performance.

Thank you for visiting and subscribing and keep checking on what’s happening here on my blog! You guys rawk!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, BITCHEEESSSSS! FUCK YEAH IT’S 2012!!! \m/

Weekend #95: I Don’t Wanna Draw

rarambol — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:20:21 +0000

The best thing about drawing for yourself and not for work is you can bail out whenever you want.

Ha!

Merry Christmas, though!

Weekend #94: Moving Out!

rarambol — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:16:23 +0000

This Sunday I had my parents and my sister help me moving stuffs from my room at home to my new room at the dormhouse.

Thank you for the help, guys!! <3

Weekend #93: Walking Down The Isle

rarambol — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:37:18 +0000

This Saturday I went to some area near my office with my friend Michelle to find a dorm* for me. It was my 4th attempt to get myself a place near the office. I’ve been really (sick and) tired to have to get through a 2-and-a-half hour journey every friggin day to work. And another 2-and-a-half-hour from work to home.

Because it was already the 4th time, I promised myself to really get one this time no matter what.

Well, after walking down 13 isles full of dormhouses*, Chelle (read her nickname as: Ché -leh :p) and I finally found one place that was quite interesting and value for money. It wasn’t cheap, but with that kind of look and comfort, Chelle said it’d be value for my money.

So I think I’d get that one and be starting to live there next week.

Will update you guys how it go.

Thank you Chelle for willing to keep me company!

*note: I actually don’t know what to call “kos-kosan” in English because I don’t suppose western people have this kind of concept. It’s a house with many rooms we can rent. The price and facilities are varied. We should pay for the rental fee every month.

Weekend #92: Straightening Iron, Please

rarambol — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:06:28 +0000

On Saturday I hunted for an affordable hair straightening iron because I’m beginning to think I need to look neat.

If not pretty.

But I didn’t find one.

Not happy

Weekend #91: The Making of Cheesy Video

rarambol — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:40:48 +0000

My friend Amel and I have wanted to do this so bad for a long time. We just got the chance to really do it now.

I’m so happy we’ve done it.

We decided to play ‘Decode’ by Paramore and Amel will be editing the video then uploading it to YouTube. Will share it after it’s finished. Umm… or not. I don’t know. I’m still too shy and not really ready for you guys to see me singing. LOL! I’d look stupid.