About Music and Photography

In many registration forms, under ‘Hobbies and Interests’ I always put down three things: reading, music and photography. The first is alive and well. I spend a lot of time reading, and I have a lot of unread books at home. The latter two are, honestly speaking, not so well.

Thanks to my Nokia 6230, my photo hobby is still alive, though not so much as in my college years when I had a camera with me nearly everyday.

My music is the most languishing of the three. I rarely touched my piano nor my guitar at home. I was too busy with other things (one of which is watching TV) to have time with either of them.

Lately I ressurected my past-time interest. With so much information in the technological miracle-cum-marvel called the Internet, an interest is a lot more easier to grow.

I just spent my entire lunch hour looking at websites such as www.gitaris.com, www.yamaha.co.id, www.roland.com, and reading posts at musicians mailing lists like http://groups.yahoo.com/group/keyboard_organ_style-file. It’s so inspiring to meet real-life people who share your interests.

For a shutterbug like me, the most inspiring is www.fotografer.net. Goodness, what pictures they took. I joined the community and uploaded some photos I took in my honeymoon, learned some tricks and techniques from the masters there, and so on. It’s just so nice.

I must say I feel less like a zombie now that I rediscovered what keeps me interested in life.

Wedding Night Story

One question that people often ask me these days is, “How was your wedding night?”

You’re probably curious about it, too. So while I’m in a generous mood, I will tell you what happened that night.

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We planned to wake up early the next morning, but being too tired after all that, we finally woke up at 8 am, and didn’t leave the room until 10.

There, that’s the whole story.

- The Staldsi

The Elusive Question Answered

My life is certainly different now that I’m married. It’s a lot more organized. Vero makes it a point to keep our room tidy, so there is no clothes lying everywhere like in my room during my bachelor days. No more watching TV until early morning. We usually are sound asleep around 11pm.

No more waking up at 7 am for both of us. I drive Vero to work now. We have to leave the house at 6.30 so I can be at my office before 8 am. That means we have to wake up at 5 am. My house is actually pretty close to my office, and I used to wake up at 7am, and still made it to the office just before 8am.

And then this thing that people keep asking us. For some reasons, people are so interested to know what happens in one’s wedding night. And we are no exception. We get asked about that, too.

I decided to put it in details in my blog, so people won’t have to ask me again. If you’re curious yourself, you can find the answer in my blog.