At the end of the day, we are as good as bad as we imaginasilustrasi I reckon
Minggu lalu, saya ndak ingat kapan persisnya, Yasmin Kartikasari datang ke kantor, tujuan utamanya untuk ngeliat portonya Shine Photography (ini adalah divisi baru dari Erpedana yang juga menangani photography, tapi dengan harga yang lebih murah). Biasa lah, dia kan mau nikah Juli nanti tu, jadi dia lagi cari–cari vendor buat dokumentasi pernikahannya.
But apart from wedding business she came here the other day, she brought a free magz that tells us about culinary in Bandung name Koenjit – baca kunyit.
Terus gimana majalahnya? saya ndak mau komentar, karena saya belum selesai membacanya dan ini kan baru edisi pertama mereka.
Menurut saya, untuk sebuah majalah makanan ada beberapa hal yang harus sangat diperhatikan : Pertama, photo–photonya harus bikin orang mouth–watering, nah si photographernya harus jago tu gimana memvisualisasikan makanan. Kedua, tim editorial jangan terlalu banyak nulis tetek bengek tentang makanan itu, storytellingnya harus impressive. Intinya, orang harus nangkep; ini makanan tu enak atau enggak sih? Selebihnya sih sak karepe, yang penting ada manfaatnya untuk orang lain yang membacanya.
On this very first issue of Koenjit, it has cover that actually really catches my eyes and Rano’ eyes. The cover is like this…
See… I don’t lie, it catches man’ eyes. That’s for sure.
What wereon our mind that time; Itu kunyit digigit apa ndak sepet campur asem campur tetek bengekya? Terus, kalo kunyit nempel di kulit kan hilangnya bakalan lama. Terus, ini cewek kok keliahatannya nakal ya… Siapa sih kamu?… She was looked like a younger version of Mulan Jameela… Hahahaha… berlebihan imaginasinya….
Than we do something about it. Kami baca pelan-pelan bagian redaksionalnya untuk mengetahui siapa cewek ini… Yes, we found her – at least a name. Apart from being model for a cover, she is a graphic designer for this magazine as well.
Then we searched on the Internet, put the name on fucking google search bar. And boom… There you are… We found a shit account on a fucking Facebook. Unfortunately, to see a profile of somebody on Facebook, we have to become her friend at the beginning…
I added her as my friend. The effort eventually stopped there, we had to wait until she puts approval on it.
The next two days, she agreed to become my friend. And the waiting was over. We opened the Facebook carefully, slowly but surely we were choosing and clicking a photo to saw it in a bigger size. The photo was opened.
Frankly, she wasn’t looked like our expectation – didn’t mean that she isn’t Pretty – she is a good looking girl actually. Hanya saja dia tidak terlihat senakal yang kita bayangkan sebelumnya. Hahahahaha… Dia terlihat kalem sekali. Just like an ordinary pretty nice in–door girl.
Then I talked to Yasmin Kartikasari through Yahoo Messenger, tanya apakah dia kenal ama si cover–girl ini? She said : Yes. Then I went : Did she have Yahoo Messanger’ ID?. Then Yasmin Went : Yes. Then I asked again : Give me then!!!. Then Yasmin gave me this cover–girl’ ID.
Pada akhirnya, saya tersambung dengan si cewek cover yang bikin kita semua penasaran. I told her about the things that started from a cover of a free culinary magazine named Koenjit.
She said : Hahahahahaha… Cover memang seringkali menipu…
I didn’t give a shit about who is she? What does she do? How old is she? And fucking else etcetera questions connected to her. But for Pramudita Sarastri, I thought we owed you a thank and a sorry at the same time. Trimskaseh untuk bikin kita penasaran dan sorry for the inconvenience – maybe.
At the end of the day, we are as good as bad as we imaginasilustrasi I reckon…
Ps; Nama majalah Koenjit (kunyit dituliskan dalam ejaan lama) tu menurut saya kok kurang pas ya – tapi ini bener-bener pendapat subjektif saya lho – karena beberapa kali saya salah membacanya, sehingga terbaca K*njoet.