Zac Brown Band

Zac Brown band. Image taken from here. Eva Tarida blog

 Jadi,

dimulai dari saya dan pacar saya, Rama pergi ke karaoke keluarga. Dia memilih salah satu lagu yang dia bilang bagus dan saya pasti suka. Rama bilang kalau lagu ini dulu tahun 2009 sudah pernah dia perdengarkan ke saya tapi saya tak acuh saja waktu itu. Selain itu saya juga punya masalah short-term memory lost. HAHA..

Well, for short, bener-bener saya jatuh cinta pada lagu itu. Judulnya Chicken Fried. Dinyanyikan oleh Zac Brown Band. Penyanyi + gitarisnya wajahnya seperti Seth Rogen mixed with Zach Galifianakis.. LOL!!

Anw, nuansa yang dibawa Zac Brown Band ini adalah country. And since I already declare myself as a Pop-Country woman, this song really have my ears :)

A brief explanation about  Zac Brown Band (from Wikipedia Zac brown Band)

Zac Brown Band is an American country music, southern rock, and folk band based in Atlanta, Georgia. The lineup consists of Zac Brown (vocals, guitar, bass guitar, percussion), Jimmy De Martini (fiddle, vocals), John Driskell Hopkins (bass guitar, guitar, vocals), Coy Bowles (guitar, keyboards), Chris Fryar (drums) and Clay Cook (guitar, keyboards, mandolin, steel guitar, vocals).

The band has toured throughout the United States, including a slot on the 2009 and 2010 Bonnaroo Music Festival. They have also recorded four studio albums, and charted seven Number One singles on the Billboard country charts: "Chicken Fried", "Toes", "Highway 20 Ride", "Free", "As She's Walking Away", "Colder Weather", and "Knee Deep" in addition to the single "Whatever It Is," which peaked at number 2 on the same chart.

Asal tahu saja, Zac Brown Band sudah mendapatkan berbagai nominasi dan awards. Empat nominasi di 2009 CMA Awards: New Artist of The Year, Song of the Year, Singleof the Year, dan Music Video of the Year untuk lagu Chicken Fried ini. :) Di 2009 juga, mereka menyabet tiga nominasi Grammy Awards untuk kategori Best Country Album, Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, dan Best New Artist. Dan di 2010, mereka memenangkan Grammy untuk Best New Artist.

Selain Chicken Fried, telinga saya juga sangat dimanjakan oleh lagu Toes (asyik banget nuansa pantai Hula-hula), Colder Weather (lebih love ballad), dan Whatever It Is (MUCH MORE romantic than Bruno Mars' Just The Way You Are!!)

Well, just decide to listen to them! :D

Save Our Orangutan

Orangutan. Pict taken from: http://www.orangutan.org/ 

I am not the kind of social person or whatsoever. i am more consider myself as creative individualistic person.

However, one time I read my twitter timeline full of @Putranababan RT'ed of #Orangutan matter. 

It attracted me for awhile, but then I moved on. Till I read @deelestari TL asking about @DrBirute twitter account. Well, this made me attracted.

Then I searched along and found out the terrible fact the people in our country has made on Orangutan. I was shocked reading those news.

@Evatarida The biggest threat to orangutans ten years ago was illegal logging. Today, is the palm oil industry. >> orangutan.org/archives/6041

The slaughtered happened in Borneo really scratched my chest! I know how precious human being is, but, hell-o! Orangutans have their own right to live! And believe it or not, Our forest in Borneo and Sumatera are the best for Orangutan!

@Evatarida Orangutans are the only great apes of Asia, found in Southeast Asia on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. >> orangutan.org/orangutan-facts #orangutan

I searched more and found one donation program promoted via facebook. Which we have to doing votes, and the Community - Chase Community Giving - who has USD 3 millions to share will count the voters till the deadline, and give the share for the voted donation.

The vote has ended in Nov 22, 2011, and Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) got USD 25,000 share. :) 

I was following this news since Nov 15th, 2011 and this news excited me so much!!

I keep following and promoting also reminding people from my twitter account, so that people will realize the danger we are in now!

Well, I don't know, but this is the very first time I really interested in social matter like this. I even planned to sign up to Dr. Birute's Borneo tour to learn about Orangutan.

@Evatarida It's not their fault looking foods till your field it's you GUYS who STOLE their FOREST and FOODS to become your own sake field! #Orangutan

Let's make this world a better place. If we cannot doing great things, at least we can be a kind and nice person.

:)

Rasa Syukur

Berhubung hari ini agak santai, jadi saya mampir sebentar ke facebook. Mengintip note-note lama saya.

Ada satu Note yang saya buat hasil mengambil kisah orang lain dari blognya.

Cukup dapat tanggapan positif. Namun saya tetap masukkan sumber cerita tersebut + saya taruh opini saya pribadi.

Silakan dinikmati:

Sebuah kisah nyata yang tak sengaja kubaca hari ini membuatku sadar akan kurangnya rasa syukur selama ini dalam hidupku. Walaupun memang benar ada banyak sekali hal tidak menyenangkan yang terjadi.
 

Sedikit banyak, seperti ini kisahnya ( aku akan cerita ulang, dengan sedikit gaya penuturanku :) )

Pagi hari dengan membawa beberapa lembar uang di tangan dengan banyak pikiran untuk mengalokasikan uang itu di pos-posnya, tak sengaja aku melihat seorang tukang sampah yang lewat dengan gerobaknya.
mengingat hari ini adalah hari pembayaran iuran sampah, suamiku langsung tergesa-gesa keluar dan menyerahkan selembar sepuluhribuan. Tukang sampah tersebut menghampiri suamiku dan menerima uang tersebut dengan senyum bahagia dan ucapan terimakasih. Sangat bahagia, tulus, dan penuh syukur.
Terhenyak dengan kenyataan di tanganku ada berlembar uang dengan nillai ratusan kali lebih banyak dari yang diterima tukang sampah itu tadi. namun aku tidak tersenyum dan bersyukur. 

Sementara, kalu dipikir lagi, berapa sih penghasilan tukang sampah itu? dengan iuran sepuluhribu rupiah per bulan untuk tiap rumah, dan volume sampah sebanyak itu, mungkin ia hanya mampu mengurus 50 rumah saja. Itu berarti hanya sekitar 500ribu rupiah per bulan dengan kerja keras tanpa henti. Masih belum diwarnai dengan bau menyengat sampah-sampah.
Saat suamiku kembali, aku bertanya mengapa tukang sampah itu begitu senang menerima uang sepuluhribuan tadi? Rupanya ada seorang ibu dari warung sebelah yang meminta keringanan untuk membayar iurannya bulan depan. Sehingga, tukang sampah itu sangat senang ada yang membayarnya tepat waktu.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

Membaca kisah itu tadi, aku sendiri cukup tertampar. Seberapa tinggi sih pendidikan tukang sampah itu? Belum tentu ia pernah merasakan seragam putih abu-abu. Sementara kita menyia-nyiakan masa kuliah yang mahal hanya dengan alasan, bosan, malas, jenuh, nggak asyik, dan sebagainya. 

Berapa besar sih pendapatan tukang sampah itu per bulan? Belum lagi ia masih harus mengurus anak-isterinya. Ditambah dengan pekerjaannya yang rentan dengan penyakit. Sementara kita yang tenang saja menerima uang saku rutin selalu mengeluh dengan minimnya uang saku yang kita terima.

Dalam sehari, belum tentu tukang sampah itu bisa makan layak 3x sehari. Dan kita hanya bisa protes karena belum mencicipi makanan di restoran baru dengan harga makanan lebih besar dari pendaptan tukang sampah itu sebulan.
 

Saat kita terus melihat ke atas, akan banyak hal yang kita keluhkan. Tapi coba lihat sekeliling dan ke bawah. maka hidup kita mestinya penuh dengan syukur.

well... it's easy to say.. but hard to do.. apalagi mengingat kita (termasuk aku juga tentu!) yang sudah terbiasa hidup enak..
yahh...

Hiduplah dengan sederhana, maka kau akan melihat lebih banyak untuk disyukuri daripada diratapi. _ #Evaquote

sumber cerita :
blog

Sit Very Still

There are changes in life, which we, like it or not will surely happen.

Everyone knows that the only thing which never change is the change itself.

 There also came the very famous line from Serenity Prayer brought to us by Reinhold Niebuhr saying;

"Lord, grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Well.. This famous line teaches us to understand the changes and how to react.

As in our own life, there also changes happened. Whether it is good or bad. The main thing is on how do we understand it, and how we react on those things. 

I also found one awesome line made by my cousin about how dynamic her life has changed, but no matter what, there are things that shan't forgotten!

At the age of four, I learned to sit very still on the edge of a chair with my two feet firmly planted on the floor. Holding my violin.
Nowadays I hope to live an active life; I will embody Energy that is infectious!
But no matter how quickly I am going, or where or how far I have gone, I will always have the ability to sit very still and keep these feet firmly planted on the floor. - Andrini Inggarwati

 There are things that change, but still remember the main point of ourselves. There will always come a time when we have to sit very still.

:)

Exhale

Whitney Houston in "It's Not Right But It's Okay" Video Clip. Image source.
Eva Tarida Blog. Reeevaaa

All my best friends, or those who get real close to me will barely know that I am a Whitney Houston lover.

She's not beautiful yet not that so fashionable IMO. But the time she starts to sing, none of the crowd will move! I believe the crowd will gaze and amazed!

Even Oprah, in her exclusive interview with Whitney, claimed that She's a woman with the voice of national treasure! This episode means a lot to me! I even cried several times knowing how hard Whitney had to got through on her ruined up marriage.

What was Bobby Meant to Whitney? her Drugs, her world.

"He was my drug. I didn't do anything without him. I wasn't getting high by myself. It was me and him together, and we were partners, and that's what my high was — him. He and I being together, and whatever we did, we did it together. No matter what, we did it together." (source)

Those one time when Whitney said that she even sacrificed her glory of fame (she dim her light) so that her bad-ass ex husband Bobby Brown could light up more and got no jealous of her! SIGH! 

This one sentence I remember when Whitney told the crowd "I'm Mrs. Brown everybody. Don't call me Ms. Houston." Hooow Lovely attitude that got none of a bit appreciate from that ex-Hubby!

Whitney, the woman with all those glory she had, was already gave up all for her beloved ones, Bobby, who never appreciate it at all.


A bit conversation when Bobby slapped Whitney during the probation which made her had to put him in jail:

Whitney: Yeah, you can't slap somebody when you're on probation. You're in violation then. So it went to domestic violence court, and I just could not see me putting him in jail.

Oprah: So were you always appearing and making those court appearances because you felt you had to stand by your man?

Whitney: I had to. Yeah, I'm his wife.  

Oprah: You know what I get now that I didn't get then as just an observer in the world? ... What I now get is that you took those vows seriously. 

Whitney: Very, Oprah. To my heart. (source)

For Whitney, Marriage vow is EVERYTHING. That's why she was doing all the best she could to be Bobby's best wife. Speechless.....


What was very great is that even tho in such darkness time, Whitney still realized she needed to find light from God! So, she never stops to read the bible... No matter how high she was, or how sober she was.. She knew that the God is there, all she needed to do was come back to the light again. Amazingly awesome. 

Then came her Mommy and said  'I'm not losing you to the world. I'm not losing you to Satan. I want my daughter back. I want you back. I want to see that glow in your eyes. That light in your eyes. I want to see the child I raised. And you weren't raised like this. And I'm not having it. So you make a choice, and you make it here today because I have a court injunction that says you have to go." 

That's the 2 points I love.

1. The ability to still realizing God and

2. Support from the very best person!

So, I present you now one of my Whitney's fave song. I know this one is made before her downfall moment - It was recorded on 1995-, but, it's great for us to always remember. The music produced by Babyface and the Music Video directed by Forest Whitaker. Wow, you name it!

Exhale (Shoop Shoop) - Whitney Houston --- Producer: Babyface 

Everyone falls, in love sometimes Sometimes it's wrong, and sometimes it's right For every win, someone must fail But there comes a point when... When we exhale, yeah yeah 

Say, shoop, shoop, shoop... 

All you gotta do is say shoop, shoop, shoop... My Lord now, shoop, shoop... 

(*) Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry Life never tells us, the whens and whys When you've got friends, to wish you well You'll find a point when, you will exhale 
Yeah, yeah 

Say, shoop, shoop, shoop.. Say shoobedoo... 

Oh, hearts are often broken 

When there are words unspoken In your soul there's, answers to your prayers If you're searching for, a place you know A familiar face, somewhere to go You should look inside your soul And you're half way there (repeat *)

I say shoop, shoop... Feels all right, you can say shoop... 

:)

Learn to Love Yourself

There is always hard times on our life. Just as we can recall on famous line "Shit Happens Every Time", it's our job to decide how to react.
When we are facing a big wall, we need to decide, what would we do with that fvcking wall.
Will we, cry all over our tears in front of that wall?
Will we, try to climb up that wall?
Will we, get mad and kick that wall al over its surface?
Will we, throw sworn vows to the wall?
Will we, go and get a hammer or tools to stumble it down?
Will we, go and looking for a help from another party?
Will we, screaming out loud for a help and hoping someone'd hear?

It's our own free will to decide how to react, how to give ourselves a solution. And never regret what our choice will cause us. The thing is, we have to always remember on ourselves. Learining to love ourselves before we decided to choose the dreadful choice.
There's one great song, originally taped by George Benson, man who sings Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You like heaven! And later internationally popularized by my all time fave singer, Whitney Houston.

It came with a great background when Michael Masser and Linda Creed wrote this awesome song. Creed wrote the lyrics in the middle of her struggle with Breast Cancer. The words describe her feelings about the great challenges she had to face, being strong whether you fail or succeed, and passing those strengths to the children for their adult lives later. (source)

The song is called: The Greatest Love of All
Please enjoy this strengthen lyric :)

I believe the children are our  future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

Chorus:
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

Chorus

And if by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love

:)

Revealing After a Bad - Ass Fall

I write this in a condition of revealing after a bad-ass fall.
Everybody will at least once, fall apart. It's our own duty to stand up again and keep walking, or even running.
What do we need after the disaster fall is not much but a fully-support.
A fully support here is a support which contains:
1. Understanding
2. Forgiveness
3. Willing to fix - up
4. Real act to support to get a  better condition
5. Focus all along to the solution instead of the problem.

There 5 above are what we need from other side's. While from our self, we need nothing but a strong will and a real act to be better!
I'm happy that my beloved one are here to do those fully - support act for me :)

Here is for everybody to share.
:)