Freedom Back Pack

Freedom Riders? Freedom Writters? No, Freedom Backpackers !!!

Ini adalah tas gratis yang di kasih oleh papahku saat dia mengikuti workshop atau konferensi untuk cara apa di UII. Ini tas yang cukup lama tak pakai namun sudah beberapa kali rusak dan jebol. Namun tetap ku jahit kembali. Banyak bagian yang sudah rusak dan tetap tak jahit kembali. Namun belum tahu kapan akan rusak total sampai tidak bisa di gunakan lagi. Bagusnya tas ini adalah bahwa ada 7 bagian yang bisa di gunakan untuk menyimpan sesuatu. Oleh karena itu saya suka gendong ini ke mana mana.

The importance of my fashion is that it is free or cheep. Kalo tidak gratis harus murah. Itu adalah prinsip yang yang ku pegang dalam hidup. Namun banyak hal di dunia ini yang "priceless" sesuatu yang sangat berharga sampai tidak bisa di hitung dengan uang. Itu sangat mahal harganya sampai seluruh duit yang ada di dunia ini tidak cukup untuk membelinya. Yaitu itu kebebasan... FREEDOM.

Freedom tidak di beli dengan uang namun sesuatu yang diperjuangkan sampai titik darah penghabisan.

Jahit dan Semir Sepatu Sendiri

"Dont judge a book by its cover"

Ini adalah cerita tentang orang yang mempunyai sepatu tua dan sudah beberapa kali di suruh ganti sepatu dan beli yang baru alias "lem biru" lempar dan beli baru. Namun karena sepatunya masih bisa di pakai maka kenapa tidak di pakai terus. Kalo masih bisa di perbaiki mengapa tidak di perbaiki terus. Kalo urusan sepatunya sudah bulukan, lusuh dan buruk rupa yang penting hidup tidak boros. Merasa prihatin sebagai mana orang miskin prihatin.

Kalo orang miskin susah beli sepatu baru dan selalu tambal sulam sepatu yang mereka miliki maka aku berusaha merasakan apa yang di rasakan mereka. Aku tidak ingin terjebak dan mengikuti trend yang ada dengan membeli sepatu yang paling keren dan lagi fashionabel namun aku pakai yang ada saja.

Pernah dengan cerita orang miskin dengan sepatu bagus? mungkin bertanya sepatunya dari mana, mungkin kalo kita prasangka buruk maka dia pasti curi sepatu yang bagus itu.. kalo kita berprasangka baik maka dia itu mendapatkan sepatu yang bagus karena merupakan hadiah. Namun sayang jangan ada orang yang mau kasih sepatu yang bagus untuk orang miskin biasanya sudah buruk dan jelek baru mau di kasih.

Orang yang miskin dan duitnya pas pas selalu ingin menjadi seperti orang yang kaya atau yang kelihatan kaya. Berusaha mempunyai sepatu yang bagus namun tidak aku. Aku orang yang kaya atau berusaha kaya namun tidak ingin punya sepatu yang baru dan bagus dan yang lagi trend. Malah sebaliknya aku pakai sepatu yang tau umurnya lebih dari 4 tahun, agak jelek dan sangat tidak tren.

Saya berusaha untuk menghilangkan "social gap" antara kaya dan miskin. Kesenjangan sosial inilah yang menjadi sumber permasalahan yang terjadi di masyarakat. Akar semua permasalahan berujung pada duit. Kecemburuan, Iri hati dan ungkapan "Rumput tetangga selalu lebih hijau" adalah sifat buruk manusia yang selalu membanding banding materi dan sangat tidak bersyukur dengan apa yang sudah di miliki.

oleh karena itu bukan hanya ingin menghilangkan "social gap" yang ada namun lebih penting lagi adalah bagaimana kita bisa bersyukur. Sepatu tua ini adalah sepatu yang ku jahit kembali karena ada yang rusak dan tak semir kembali karena sudah kusam karena saya tetap bersyukur mempunyai sepatu.

Half past dead rolex

i wrote this on the 9 April 2007.....

I have a rolex from singapour. it only cost about one hundred singapurean dollars. it was my dads but now its broken. it was just lying on the table and no one used it. so i used it for my self. it tels the wrong time, you cannot adjust it. i used it any way. it is diffiuclt to tell the time but it can help abit.

The rolex does not need bateries, it is mechanic, and uses kenetic energy that is energy from movements. if you dont move it will not tick. it used to be water proof but since it is broken it is no longer water proof. the watch will malfunction when there it is wet especially from the rain. but when it is dry it will work again.

If you have a watch that is broken wuold you still wear it even if it is half past dead?

If it still can move and show and un accurate time i would but what about you?

My fashion is 70% discount

I am a hunter… I hunt fashion at a discount… my target is 70% discount…

My fashion is comfortable at a reasonable price

My fashion is from the reject bin clothing with defects or some too big super size which needs to be modified with tailors touch

Something that no one buys because it is probably ugly and unusual or it have been touch a million times but not bought

My fashion is something you will see in one place and not others

My fashion is something you will see at one time and next time is no longer there

I choose mossy oak apparel as my fashion…

It is company based in Atlanta, region renown for its hunting

Outsourcing its manufacturing to Indonesia.. country renown for its cheep labor and famous for its labor intensive textile industry one of which is PT Mahesa Niaga Jaya, mossy oaks partner

So what I’m wearing is a reject.. Something below standard.. Failed the export quality test..

Probably not the finest workmanship and not even use the best quality of materials for the production..

It should be sold in US dollars but I buy it with Rupiyah. It should be $42.00 but it was sold in Indonesia for Rp 88.000 and I buy thing on a discount on a 70% so its Rp 26.400 So it turns out its about $ 3.00 … very cheep.

This is probably the reason why friends at works say I am half Javanese, I am half Chinese and finally half Jewish

even if my math is wrong that calculation makes me 1.5 person..

you can conclude that I’m super human or stupid?

so how can price reduce drastically? Easy… it’s going out of business.. Liquidating..

it is all about the timing.. hunting is about timing… it is about waiting.. for that perfect time..

and when that times come you do your action…

I have waited and the time has come… when stock well factory store on Jl Adisucipto 163 Yogyakarta will be closed forever. on the 10 March 2008.. Its on a Monday..

They have been here 5 years.. but they no longer stay.. and that is life.. you may come and you may go..

You may be welcome to enter but at the end you are forced out.

I have an obsession with the out doors.. it is not just a passion but it is part of me..

I picture my self to be in the woods and in the wild me verse nature..

I picture my self to be in the ocean and waves me verse the storm..

I picture my self to be in the sky flying and touching the clouds me verse gravity..

I feel that my life is a competition

Not just a competition between people but a competition with everything else

So I’m practicing all the time.. and I’m training all the time . .

I don’t have a coach but I believe I still can win… I rely on experience as my teacher

I have 5 mossy oak apparel .. from dark green, light green, cream ..

It reflects the color of nature.. the color of the forest… that is were I am right now..

And that is me.. and my fashion 70% discount …

My Jeans from Junior High (2)

I remember Perth, I remember buy it it with my mother, I remember it was on sale, I remember it was blue, I remember it was too large.. I remember it was it was baggy

I remember buying a blue shirt as well.. and I remember buying a jacket a blue jacket for my father and a cream color jacket for me.. I remember it was made in china .

I remember a lot from my past

Now I am not is Perth but I am in Indonesia.. now I don’t buy things with my mother but now with my friends, now I still buy things which is on sale and discount to about 70%

Now, my jean in no longer blue it is white or cream color or very light blue.. it has holes on both sides the left is small and the right is large.. the small hole is caused by a fishing hook stuck in my jeans when fishing in the harbor in Fremantle on a Friday night

At the bottom of the jeans near the angels is all frilly and feeling groovy

Now it is a bit small now it is a bit tight for some times it was used by my brother .. but when it started to fall apart .. my brother stop using it.. so I used it again

I still have the jacket.. but only the blue jacket which was indent to be used by my dad.. but since the jacket was not used then I just used it.. it was dark blue but now the blue as faded because it has been washed 1000 times…

My white jacket is no longer with me.. it is with a good friend right now. I have gave it to him on 26 may 2005 when the earth quake disaster.... but last time I heard from him he had an accident in the on his motor bike and broker his arms or shoulders but I don’t know the details..

I still have the blue shirt it is long sleeves but now it is small and the color is falling a part..

What have you leant from what you wear? What have you learnt from your fashion? What have you learnt form your style?

There is a story behind every thing that you ware… it is a part of you … but it is just the cover...

Don’t judge a book by it cover…

I have learnt to use what is not being used by others and give when other are in need..

my jeans from junior high school

it is my jeans

it is blue

it is from junior high school

My Shoe from Cibaduyut (3)

It is now 2008.. and still if my shoe from Cibaduyut..

After the repair.. the shoe flet too big.. it needed more padding..

it needed more support.. it needed a fatter inner soul...

Why? because my feet can get lost in my shoe.. not a good condition..

uncomfortable to walk around in..

so a added an white lotus garden hotel sandels..

i trim the edges so that it would fit with my shoe..

it felt more comfortable..

the problem is that is was white..

it was too appealing.. it was too contrast..

it would be better if it was black..

So.. I had to cover it.. with black vynil material from the saddle of my honda motorbike..Moji

i had no glue so i stiched it up my self with a gray sow and needles..

cuts here and there

alittle bit of this and a little bit of that..

there it is completed.. a new pair of soul.. a new comfort..

it is mine and i made it with what i have ..

it is mine and i made it with what i can..

for many years to come...

Part two: About my Shoe

Times create changes.. somethings will stay the same and everything else moving, evolving and improving..

So on the october 24, 2007 I posted part 2 and here it is for you..

My Shoe from Cibaduyut (2)

It is a brown leather shoe. It is now two years old. It is falling apart. It no longer shines. The color is fading. It is dusty. It has been repaired over and over again. It has been stiched up again. It has been glue together again. It has been to places as high as the mountains. It has been to places where the ocean meats the land.

The rubber sole has been burnt up the exhaust pipes of a motor bike. The rubber sole has been used as breaks on a down hill mountain bike expidition. An expidition from the peaks of Ketep to the low lands of Yogykarta. If there is a definition of an ugly in the dictionary, a photo of my shoe will be in it.

Why dont i just change my shoe? Why dont I just buy a new pair of shoes? The is simple because I can still can wear it, because I can still use it, because i can still repair it. It is a brown leather shoe and i bought it two years ago.

It is not 100% leather. some parts of the shoe is made from synthetic leather. that part has crumbled away due to the test of time. it had sponges to make the shoe more comfortable. It still have a brown elastic material that makes it more flexible and replaces the shoe laces. it had carbon paper at the hoof of the shoe which acts a the spinal cords of the shoe for support.

Time makes it worn out..Time makes it fall apart..

It is my Brown Leather Shoe.. and so be it..

Before the wheel is a pair of shoes...

I have a shoe.. a story about my shoe.. i have wrote once in a blog..
and here it is for you.. from April 9, 2007

My Shoe From Cibaduyut

It is brown, it is leather, it something that Granpa would wear, or even your father. actually my father choose this shoe for me and he also have a a pair that is similar but the color is darker. Does having old fashion shoes mean that i am old fashion? it shows nothing. the import thing about a shoe is where have they been? and where will they take me? it is not the shoe that is important but is is the feet. does it smell or not? tat is why shoes should have lots of holes so tat there cuold be circulation of air.

This is a short discription about my shoe, it is from Cibaduyut, my father bourght it one year ago. I am still planning to wear it for another year, waiting for my dad to by me another or untill my shoes starts to fall apart.

Oke we se what will happend, what is the story of your shoe?