Museum Date with Lé Cousin

WoOHoOO! Finally I get to visit the latest local museum; Museum MACAN a.k.a Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara which is located in Kedoya, West Jakarta with my cousin as he's desperately wanted to go while spending his holiday in Jakarta (because he spent most of his childhood days in Jogja, and he even gets to continue his study in UGM and rarely visits Jakarta. That's why!)

when we purchase the ticket, the receptionist will give us these bundles as our manual guide <3

FYI, the museum itself CLOSES every Monday and I highly recommend you guys to visit the museum on weekdays instead of weekend because I can't barely stand a crowded place (but if you don't mind the crowd, visit as you please then). Also, the benefits in making a visit on weekdays is that you don't have to book your ticket online and you can just buy it on the spot (the regular ticket price is 50k, but if you are a student, kindly brings along your student card so you may get the special price). If any of you are wondering, the museum opens at 10 in the morning, so it would be better to come earlier and have a sip at the Starbucks right on the lobby rather than having to queue while purchasing the ticket nor being in the midst of traffic jam while on the way to this museum. Further information can be accessed through Museum MACAN's official website and Instagram!

So, enough with stuffing you guys with the super helpful information, now I am going to recall today's visit which is SUPER FUN, even for me! Trust me, I've been to a lot of museums and exploring pretty much paintings and installations, but it seems that the Earth will never run out of art, eh? 

Bringing the theme "Art Turns, World Turns", Museum MACAN is definitely one of your to-go list! ❤

First of all, this Museum MACAN claims to have collections that focuses on modern and contemporary art from Indonesia, Europe, America, and Asia. It includes over 800 artworks, with approximately 50 percent of it comprised of prominent artworks from Indonesia, and the rest are originating from across Europe, North America, China, and other parts of Asia (drawn from the collection of the museum's founder and on long-term loan to the museum), the collection has been developed over more than 25 years and is actively going. And no, I don't make things up as these things were clearly written on the manual guide given.

Beside the exquisite paintings under the name of both local and international artists (such as Raden Saleh, Dullah, Takashi Pom, etc), the exhibition itself offers beautiful interior that makes our stay becomes incredibly comfortable, alongside the warm lightning that is clear enough for us to see the artworks, but surely not making our eyes sore or sort of.

Here are the beautiful hallways I've been telling you about:

spot me with my goofy smileee!

the painting on the left side of the hallway are the part of "Pergulatan Seputar Bentuk dan Isi" collections, as a representation of how throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Indonesian artists built their own artistic identities through difficult times

Done talking as if I'm an interior designer that understands the depth and the philosophy of hallways and bricks and lightning blah, I will now tell you how MAGNIFICENT the artworks are; both the paintings and the art installations. I may not be able to describe it briefly to you guys, but just so you know, this museum has its own color and is different from the National Gallery in so many ways (in case you are wondering). To put it simple, this museum is like a mixtape with different genres. It will never bore you even a single second! In this exhibition, we will be able to find Indonesian and international modern and contemporary art from the 19th century to present day.

Here are the closer look to some of the artworks:

#ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmm

abstract and geometrical NEVER goes out of style

there are also a lot of artworks related to the Indonesian history that explores how social, economic, and cultural events have influenced art, like the one above; "Aku"

just me awkwardly posing on one of the corner of the museum

Andy Warhol by Wang Guangyi

the artworks behind me are the collections of "Bumi, Kampung Halaman, Manusia" section, originally curated from the middle 19th to 20th century when Indonesia was under the colonial occupation

Penghapusan #1 by FX Harsono, one of the museum highlights

After exploring the paintings, my cousin and I went into the art installations corner; the Floating Garden by Entang Wiharso and Infinity Mirrored Room "Brilliance of The Souls" by Yayoi Kusama and spending quite a lot of time there, enjoying the installation and trying to interpret them ourselves hahaha! Anyway, these artworks show how artists reflect on their life and times, and how they make art as a way to allow people to see the world around them in different and revealing ways.

The Floating Garden is a dedicated area for children within the museum as we can not only see the artworks, but also to have some fun (drawing using the coloring pencils provided, and even bringing them home!). This installation incorporates artworks, murals, and education activities that explore the ideas of "floating garden" of which the concept of land and nature based on the artist's unique perspective and vision.

indeed very pretty and colorful

as I told you earlier, in this installation, we can also do our own 'art' by doing the shading of the mold using colored pencils and bringing them home. so refreshing!

Last but not least, before going back home, my cousin and I went into the famous Infinity Mirrored Room "Brilliance of The Souls" that resembles the ones in Singapore Art and Science Museum. Despite its uniqueness (as the color of the lamps constantly changes and the room that really DOES seem like an infinity room), the story behind the making of this installation is what really gets me. It is being said that the artist had suffered from "rijinsho", a depersonalization disorder, where her vision was filled with veils and hallucinations which are represented in her works through fields and veils of dots.

the best thing about this Infinity Mirrored Room is; that in this room, the difference between form and space, inner self and exterior world, appears to meld into one <3

Rapat Kerja BPHMJ-Akuntansi 2018

Jadi, highlight dari minggu ini adalah: bantuin salah satu temen kuliah buat nge-design bisnis warung kopinya, nyobain ngajar semester pendek Praktikum Lab. SIA (berhubung gw nggak apply buat internship semester ini dikarenakan masih banyak kegiatan seputar asdos dan organisasi) dan Rapat Kerja FEB 2018! Yayyy super excited✨

Nah, jadi kegiatan yang menguras otak dan pikiran pada minggu adalah Raker alias Rapat Kerja (yang adalah pengalaman pertama gw), yaitu mempresentasikan program kerja / proker / acara yang rencananya akan gw bikin tahun ini; Visit Company and Audit Simulation 2018 di bawah naungan Bidang Pengkajian Ilmiah, karena gw dipercaya untuk jadi ketua pelaksananya. *crying in rainbow*

Rangkaian rapat kerjanya itu dimulai dari Rapat Kerja Internal, jadi gw mempresentasikan dulu nih di depan Himpunan; di depan angkatan 2015 dan angkatan 2016, dan auidence-nya bebas boleh mempertanyakan apa aja terkait sama proker gw termasuk tema, konsep, dan hal-hal lainnya. Beberapa hari kemudian barulah diadakan Pra-raker, giliran gw presentasi di depan Ketua Jurusan Akuntansi, Pak Nano, dan di depan parlemen yang fungsinya mengoreksi kalo ada kesalahan di proposal gw (entah itu struktur, standarisasi harga / format, dll) dan yang menentukan kira-kira pembagian DKM atau Dana Kegiatan Mahasiswa untuk setiap proker itu berapa proporsinya. Setelah itu, baru berakhir di Rapat Kerja FEB Universitas Trisakti yang diadakan di kampus F, Cempaka Putih. Kali ini gw harus presentasi di depan para Asisten Wakil Dekan a.k.a Aswadek beserta jurusan-jurusan lain. Dibanding jurusan2 lain yang masih ada di rumpun FEB, Akuntansi bisa dibilang adalah jurusan yang paling punya banyak program kerja selama periode jabatan; yaitu ada sekitar 11 proker. #proud

Oh iya, foto-fotonya emang blurry gakngerti kenapa HEHE

di candid sama Boim yang tugasnya nge-publish kegiatan2 BPHMJ Akuntansi, dan ini kayaknya gw lagi nanya sesuatu mengenai proker yang lagi dipresentasiin tp kenapa ekspresinya semangat bgt ya?

<3

nah, kalo ini kesannya gw lagi berapi2 bgt ngejelasinnya padahal aslinya santai kok :(

Jujur walaupun udah terbiasa ngajar, tapi rasanya tetep deg-degan bangeeet! Suasananya beda banget karena ini rapat kerja yang sifatnya formal, dan disaksikan oleh orang-orang yang cakupan dan wawasannya luas, jadi setiap ngomong harus hati-hati daripada bikin blunder. Tapi, segala deg-degan, grogi, dan nervous-nya kebayar banget setelah Pak Nano memuji rencana proker yang gw presentasikan dan dia setuju dengan tema yang gw bawa—yang pada intinya, kenapa gw memilih untuk melakukan visit company ke salah satu KAP Big4 di Indonesia yang disertai dengan simulasi audit, adalah untuk mengeksplor dan mengimplementasikannya dengan cara terjun langsung ke dunia auditor. Untuk kepastian acaranya, nanti kalo udah terlaksana pasti akan gw tulis di sini.

sesi foto-foto bareng Pak Nano, ketua jurusan Akuntansi yang super humble dan FYI, iya ini fotonya gw crop HAHAHA aku memang egois <3

Doain ya mudah-mudahan lancar dan berjalan dengan sukses! Hihi

Her Perspective About Becoming Strangers (Again)

I think in life, we can never go back to become strangers with people that have seen our soul. Why? Because we learned the hard way that to let someone else see the real us, to unfold each and every part of us that is long hidden and kept behind the closed door, is not easy.

To me, opening up to someone is the most challenging thing to do. I don't trust people easily, 'though I can say that I'm an extrovert person. To start the conversations with someone new is never an issue to me, but to open up about everything that I've been trying so hard to hide—that is the trickiest part. Sometimes I just want people to see the bright side of me; the me who always smiles and laughs at everything even the lamest joke, and tend to hide the so-called 'dark' side; the me who stays up late at night, contemplating and wondering about life and the meaning of it. Why? Because just like every human beings, I'm also afraid of rejection. I'm afraid once people see me and not the one that I try to show the world, they will distance themselves because they'd think that the complexity of my thoughts is unbearable. Or they'd simply can't stand me.

That's why, once I let my guards off to a particular person, I don't think I can ever see them as strangers, not even close. In my case, this could happen with long-lost best friend, who is nowhere near at the moment. Maybe because they went study overseas so it's hard to communicate, maybe because they were busy with their current life, or maybe simply because we had a big fight and neither of us brave enough to apologize. This could also happen with particular old lover, whose face I barely remember since it's quite a long time since the last time we bumped into each other. But just like Chbosky wrote in his The Perks of Being a Wallflower (and you're listening to that song and that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear, we are infinite); no matter what happens next in the future, at that one brief moment, you and I both knew that we loved each other and that 'love' is not just wasteful words, and that for once in a long time, we finally trust another living being to see our soul; to see our broken dreams and hopes, to hear about stories we want to forget the most, to understand the depth of our soul.

So, can we really call these people strangers? Can we stare into their eyes long enough and not see the reflection of ourselves there, even just a glimpse? Can we talk to them casually as if they had never hear our loudest scream, never seen our most sorrowful tears? Can we ask them how they have been doing without the desire to ask whether or not they are happy with their lives now, or whether they have made peace with things they used to struggle the most?

I'll take no as the answer. No, I don't think we have the capacity to completely become strangers with people who have seen our soul. I think the only thing that we could do is pretending as if they have became one.