It has been ages ever since I tried writing. It’s just that, I have not been getting enough motivation to write. Nothing seemed interesting in my head at all. I couldn't find anything bizarre or an interesting subject to write about. To be perfectly honest, during my summer, I was a machine that doesn't have a power off button to it.
I just kept on working and working and working, except for the fact that “working” in this sentence is in the "keeping myself busy" term.I'm not sure why but something inside me wants to write. The urge of writing just inspired me to sit in front my laptop and give directions to my fingers onto which letters should I press. Right now, I don't even have a topic in mind but I just want to write, so everyone please, BARE WITH ME lol ♥
Ah! I've just got the best subject to write about. Since I was too busy during the summer, I think it's fair for you guys to know what I did during my whole 5 months holiday. A lot of things went on starting from Bali, an internship at Indovision, Sanggar Yoe and Gunawan, This Is Where It All Begins Album, John Robert Powers ending in Babson College, Massachusetts.
My summer vacation all started when I forced my parents to buy me a ticket to Jakarta because I have bought a ticket from Jakarta to Bali on March. Since I kept on persisting and pushing them, they finally agreed. Therefore I flew over from Seattle to Jakarta a day before my classes were finally over. First destination – BALI, the paradise of summer living.
Spring Break Bali 2009
What can I say about Bali Spring Break? There is
only ONE word to describe it. TREMENDOUS AWESOMENESS, oh shoot that's two words. Sorry, my bad. Thus, there are only TWO words then. I want to say thank you to all my friends who made that just one week an enjoyable week! It was certainly extraordinaire and thrilling! There, new objects were introduced to me. I experienced new things that I've never experienced before and it was all exhilarating! Let me ask you guys this one question. What 
is Bali famous for? You are correct if you've answered THE BEACH in your heart, or maybe whispered it just at the tip of your mouth. Irony Irony and then Irony. I went to Bali but I didn't even step a foot on a beach at all. HAHA. FAIL! My friends and I slept in until the late afternoon and ate dinner after our baths and swimming routine. Night time became the best part of the day. Everyone waited for the sun to set down and the stars to show up. That is basically what we did for most of the days. That trip was...........Priceless :)This Is Where It All Begins
Keeping my time unwasted, I’ve decided to get something for my fellow friends because they are graduating this year. They’ve been generous to me so I figured that its my time to give them something back. After
hours and days of thinking, I finally realized and found the perfect gift that they couldn’t find anywhere else. Even if they’ve looked all over the world for it! I made them a CD of me singing, a cover of a bunch of old songs. It took me a long month to take in the vocals part and to do some mixing and stuff however, it was all worth the time. I was satisfied with myself and the best part is that, my parents were proud of me.FAIL MOMENT: I’ve counted the people that I wanted to give out to and the number went down to a maximum of 250 copies. When i went to the CD copying factory, they told me that the minimum order for copying is a thousand copy.
No other choice was available for me to consider because once they press the copy button, a thousand CD’s would be released out all with the same songs. I couldn’t do much to change their policy and regulations so I agreed. On Sunday afternoon, I heard a knock on my house door. There I saw at least seven huge boxes waiting to be picked up and be put in inside my house. ONE THOUSAND COPIES. What am I supposed to do with all these CD’s? Thank God, peopl
e were very interested in them so I lost 350 copies in no time ♥. It’s all good .After a month of recording and doing audio engineering, my passion for music became more visible. It was obvious that I had a strong interest in this subject, no doubt about it. My dream of becoming a musician had grew more into the business aspect of it. I now want to have a career within the music business, including owning a production house that finds new music talents and manage them, and also a record label of my own. This is a for sure vision that I have right now.
Indovision
Just as I was busy going in and out from the studio, I had an internship working at Indovision. This was not just a regular internship. There were the six of us who received the opportunity to attend this. I know that
we are considered very lucky to have this kind of experience because not everyone has the connections and network into having it. So thank you tano ! hehe. Well back to the internship stories. During the internship, I’ve learned so much things that textbooks wouldn’t even write on. I’ve learned the business hands-on, practically attended every meeting and am allowed to ask as many questions as I want, arranged my own meeting with anyone I want well, it was just perfect. I seriously want to thank tanos family and Ibu Dhini for organizing everything.In addition to the story, the advertising department heard that I am somekind of a musician and that will someday venture out in the Indonesian’s Music Industry.
So they’ve arranged a meeting for me with a record label. At first I didn’t know about it until a friend of mine told me. I was so thrilled about it, even though I didn’t know which label they’re taking me to, but I didn’t really care as long as it’s still a label I can still learn something from them. After a long 3 hours meeting and just hanging out with the people there, I’ve come up with a goal for my production house later on. This is still planned and I’m still hoping everythings would work well. My plan: search for the new artists that sounds different from all the rest. I will be looking for quality, pure quality. I look for musicians who know their materials and the music itself. People who is ready to take the indonesian’s ears up to the 
next level and to represent indonesia’s music industry within other countries. And I will be the one next to them, guiding, encouraging and managing them. That is still just hope... I’m sure with God guiding me by my side, i will achieve this.John Robert Powers and SYNG
Don’t laugh now, i did it. I took this intensive course for two weeks because I thought I would be bored during the month and at the time i had nothing else better to do. But I was wrong, at the same time I had to practice vocally for 3 hours daily. I had a teacher that came to my house to teach my cousins and I daily. No, we are not crazy now, no. We had this intensive practice because we were chasing a show that we had to perform. At the same time now, I was giving ideas for the new project that I was working on.
Well now more into the JRP session itself. It was a two weeks intensive course and it was certainly exhausting. I learned the proper way to sit, eat, walk, stand, drink basically everything. Hairstyling, make up, and body control was also a part of it. They’ve taught me all the vital skills to becoming the next miss indonesia type of thing. I seriously did not regret taking those classes. The most important thing to remember is that (girls listen to this). Perfect girls are made out of
30% Looks/physical features
30% Money/ class/ hierarchy of the public and social scales
40% Attitude
Thats what I learned there. I learned more things about myself and it was all a great experience for me. I made lots of awesome new friends from there! so its all good.
SYNG – Sanggar Yoe and Gunawan
SYNG is a join venture between my family and the Gunawan family. It bothers me to see the Indonesian’s music industry lacks on the skills of music itself. Currently
, the music bands that sells in Indonesia has no notation nor music quality. They outnumbered the amount of qualified, true musicianship. That, seriously bothers me. It got me thinking of what kind of music sells and why is that. Then, I asked my aunty to help me organize something that might have influenced the industry a bit. Since I didn’t have a lot of time in Jakarta left, I had to do everything in an instant. It was a load of exhaustion. We had stage promotion performances every single week. It was chaotic.Just one afternoon, a phone rang. My mother picked it up and quickly changed her facial expression. She was overjoyed to receive a news saying that I was invited to sing in a luxurious openi
ng event by Summarecon in Kelapa Gading. Without further hesitations, I responded to the idea and agreed to sing for them without any payment. Since I had placed my mind onto promoting SYNG, I came up with the idea that I should involve more people. I asked the teacher if I could’ve just sing in a duet instead of a solo. Stella Tanesha became my partner in the song “When You Believe”. It was awesome everything went well. Some Idol contestants and some Indonesian Artist participated during the event as well. Come to think of it, just being there on stage, performing for the audience is a tremendous honor for me because I know deep inside my heart that I didn’t deserve the opportunity. I st
ill am not good enough. Since God is generous, he gives me chances per chances everytime for me to improve.Still, there were more offers to sing at various types of events. There were even producers who kept on insisting to make a new album and this time actually is for public and to be sold around the CD stores in Indonesia. However, I turned all the offer down though because I prioritize my studies first just up until I have received my bachelors.
This is me singing Can't Take My Eyes Of You Live from MKG 3 ENjoy!
USC OR BABSON?
This question kept me to wander in my own world for weeks. I got accepted to all the universities I’
ve applied to except for the one and only uni that my heart belonged to. I got rejected from Berklee College of Music due to my lack of music theory knowledge. HAHA but... whatever. HAHA I understand their reason and completely accepted it with a sad heart. From little, I’ve never learned music theory from the basic therefore I couldn’t read music as fast 
as others could. That was my mistake though, I shouldve known better before I even applied. But, both USC and Babson accepted me and it took me a very long while to finalize my decision. I’ve decided to move to Babson, and i’ve made the right choice.OH BTW, please enjoy this video :)
