Sore itu, aku berencana mengunjungi suatu tempat. Tempat dimana segala kebahagiaanku dapat tertuang. Tempat dimana semua duka dan sukaku dapat tercurah. Ya, jembatan penyeberangan Arwana. Di tempat itulah aku akan berusaha mengenang semua yang telah terjadi.
Tepat 2 tahun yang lalu, aku mendapat satu surat dari seseorang yang sangat tak kupercayai akan mengenalku lebih jauh, yang tak kupercaya akan menjadi seseorang yang kemudian menjadi teman hidup yang sangat baik. Dio Aleko. Itulah nama kapten tim basket sekolahku yang juga kakak kelasku yang memberikan surat yang menurutku surat itu adalah surat cinta. Aku masih menyimpan surat itu di kotak kenangan masa SMA yang kuberi nama ”a billion memories of SHS”. Inilah isi surat tersebut.
Nadira,
Aku tunggu kamu di jembatan penyeberangan Arwana jam 5 sore. Sesuatu yang takkan pernah kamu lupakan seumur hidupmu akan terjadi malam ini.
Dio Aleko
Dan sore itu pula aku akan membawa serta surat itu ke jembatan Arwana.
Aku merasakan hembusan angin yang lembut membelai rambutku, serasa memanjakanku. Aku terus memandang lalu lintas di bawahku yang tak terlalu padat. Sama seperti waktu itu.
Ketika sore itu aku tiba di jembatan Arwana, Kak Dio telah menantiku. Senyum hangatnya menyambut kedatanganku. Senyum yang tak akan dapat kulupakan. Aku pun mendekatinya dan bertanya, ”Udah lama nunggu ya, Kak?”. Ia pun menjawab dengan suara lembutnya, ”Oh, nggak juga. Baru 10 menit.”. Lalu aku merasa bersalah, ”Maafkan aku, Kak. Aku harus nunggu sepedaku selesai diperbaiki.”. Kak Dio kembali tersenyum dan berkata, ”Sudahlah, nggak perlu diperpanjang.”. Aku terdiam. Demikian juga dengan Kak Dio. Tanpa pikir panjang, aku memecah keheningan dengan bertanya padanya, ”Kak, kalo boleh tahu, sebenarnya apa yang akan kita lakukan disini? Dan kenapa kakak mengundangku untuk datang kemari?”. Kak Dio menatapku dan menjawab, ”Hhh.. Oke, aku nggak mau basa-basi. Aku ingin memberikan satu tanda untukmu.”. Ia mengeluarkan sesuatu dari tasnya. Sebuah kotak berwarna ungu. Ia memberikannya padaku dan menyuruhku untuk membukanya. ”Kamu mungkin heran kenapa aku meberimu kotak yang isinya hanya sebuah benda berbentuk bulan sabit ini, bukan?” katanya. ”Iya, Kak.” jawabku lugu. Tapi aku masih bingung. ”Kamu keberatan nggak kalo kita disini sampai malam nanti?” tanyanya. ”Oh, nggak apa kok, Kak. Kebetulan aku sendirian di rumah.” jawabku.
Malam pun tiba. Kak Dio menyuruhku mebuka kotak itu. Ajaib. Bulan sabit itu bercahaya. Aku tercengang melihatnya. Dan saat itu pula kak Dio mengutarakan isi hatinya padaku. ”Aku ingin menjadi bagian dari hidupmu. Aku ingin temani hidup kamu dengan semua kebahagiaanku. Maukah kamu menerimaku dengan segala kekuranganku?” tanyanya. Aku masih terlarut dalam kebahagiaanku dan aku hanya dapat menganggukkan kepalaku. Dan mulai saat itu, kami menjadi sepasang kekasih yang selalu diselimuti kebahagiaan setiap hari.
Satu tahun berlalu. Pagi itu kami berjanji akan bertemu di tempat dimana kami biasa bertemu untuk merayakan satu tahun hari jadi kami. Jembatan Arwana. Akan tetapi, kami akan bertemu sore hari karena pagi itu Dio hendak berlatih basket bersama timnya.
Jam 4 sore aku telah sampai di tempat itu. Dengan sabar aku menanti kehadiran sang pangeranku. Lima belas menit berlalu. Dio belum tampak batang hidungnya. Tetapi aku masih dengan sabar menunggunya, karena aku tahu aku sungguh mencintainya. Tiga puluh menit sudah terlewat. Tetapi Dio tak juga datang. Beberapa kali aku mencoba menghubunginya, mengirimnya pesan. Kembali nihil. Tak ada jawaban. Hingga empat puluh lima menit tiba, saat itulah Dio menjawab pesanku.
Sayang,
Maafin aku. Aku agak telat soalnya jam latihan ditambah & aku kejebak macet di jalan Asia.
Tunggu aku. Aku segera datang untukmu..
Aku sedikit lega telah menerima jawaban pesan darinya. Akan tetapi sepintas firasat tak begitu baik melintas di benakku. Tetapi aku mencoba segera melupakannya ketika kulihat sesosok lelaki dengan kaos tim basket bertuliskan ”evil colonies of Tunggal Jaya SHS” mengendarai sepeda sportnya sambil melambaikan tangan kanannya ke arah dimana aku berada. Senyum manisnya pun turut menghiasi wajahnya yang terlihat sangat lelah. Ketika ia hendak melintas di suatu persimpangan, ia tak menyadari bahwa lampu merah lah yang tengah menyala. Tiba-tiba,,,...
Aku hanya terdiam. Tak satupun kata terucap dari mulutku ketika melihat apa yang baru saja terjadi di depan pandanganku. Kemudian aku berlari menuruni anak tangga jembatan dan terus berlari ke tempat dimana Dio tergeletak. Aku meraih tubuhnya yang berlumur darah. Memangkunya, dan menangisinya. Aku mencium dahinya. Sejenak ia tersadar dan mengucapkan sepatah kata, ”Aku mencintaimu. Sungguh mencintaimu. Terimakasih, Sayang. Kamu telah memberiku semangat padaku. Membuat hidupku lebih bermakna dan berwarna. Maafkan aku yang tak sempat membahagiakanmu. Suatu saat nanti kita akan bertemu di lain tempat. Jauh dari dunia ini. Kita akan hidup bahagia bersama Sang Kuasa. Jangan menangis, Sayang. Tersenyumlah selalu untukku. Aku hanya akan pergi untuk sementara. Aku pasti akan kembali untukmu.” Aku hanya mengangguk dan air mataku terus mengalir semakin deras. Untuk terakhir kalinya, Dio pun mencium dahiku. Aku pun mengatakan sesuatu padanya, ”Aku mencintaimu lebih dari yang kamu tahu. Aku begitu bahagia bersamamu. Jangan pernah tinggalin aku.” Dan kalimat terakhir yang terucap darinya adalah, ”Aku bersumpah, dan aku akan membuktikan bahwa aku tak akan meninggalkanmu. Aku akan selalu ada disisimu, Nadira Febrilia.”
Kini, Dio mungkin telah bahagia di dunianya. Kemudian di hari ini yang juga seharusnya bertepatan dengan dua tahun hari jadi kami, aku tersadar dan ingat akan kata-kata Dio kala kami sedang merayakan lima bulan hari jadi kami bahwa aku tak boleh terlarut dalam kesedihan terus menerus.
Terimakasih Dio. Berbahagialah kau disana. Semoga kau mendapatkan tempat yang layak untuk kehidupanmu selanjutnya...
-edited from a school magazine i've ever read-
Rabu, 28 April 2010
Minggu, 11 April 2010
David Archuleta
David James Archuleta (born December 28, 1990) is an American pop singer-songwriter. At ten years old he won the children's division of the Utah Talent Competition leading to other television singing appearances.[4] When he was twelve years old, Archuleta became the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2.[4] In 2007, at sixteen years old, he became one of the youngest contestants on the seventh season of American Idol.[5] In May 2008 he finished as the runner-up, receiving 44 percent of over 97 million votes.
In August 2008 Archuleta released "Crush," the first single from his self-titled debut album.[4][6][7][8] The album, released two months later, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart; it has sold over 750,000 copies in the U.S. and over 900,000 Worldwide.
Early life
Archuleta was born in Miami, Florida, to Jeff Archuleta and Lupe Marie, a salsa singer and dancer. He speaks Spanish.[12] Archuleta's mother is from Honduras, while his father is of Spanish, Danish, Irish, German, Iroquois, and Mexican descent.[citation needed] Archuleta has four siblings.[13] Archuleta's family moved to the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy when Archuleta was six. He currently lives in Murray where he attended Murray High School.[14] Archuleta is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America.[15][16][17]
Archuleta started singing at the age of six, inspired by a Les Misérables video. "That musical is what started all of this", he said.[18] He started performing publicly at age ten when he participated in the Utah Talent Competition, singing "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton; he received a standing ovation and won the Child Division.[19]
Musical influences
Archuleta's mother is from Honduras, and much of the music he listened to as a child was Latin-influenced including watching his mom sing at events with her sisters.[20][21] She also "was big on dancing" according to Archuleta, and would "make" him dance to traditional music with his older sister.[22] He also listened to jazz music, he said, from his father's collection as well as gospel, pop, rock and "soulful music."[18] In a later interview, he revealed that his father was a jazz musician. Archuleta also said he enjoys Broadway musicals.[23]
On his American Idol "Fast Facts" page, Archuleta cited his musical influences as Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Kirk Franklin and Bryan Adams.[19] Like Elliott Yamin and another singer he admires, John Mayer, Archuleta tries to infuse his pop selections with a soulful vibe.[18] In a Seventeen interview he cites Sara Bareilles as a clever singer-songwriter whom he looks up to.[24]
Star Search
In 2003, when he was twelve years old, Archuleta sang on several episodes of the television show Star Search.[25][26][27] He ended up as the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2, Losing the Junior Grand Champion title to Tiffany Evans.[28] On one episode, he sang against then-11-year-old Alexandréa Lushington, who became a "top 20" semi-finalist on American Idol alongside Archuleta.[26] Around the second year of being on Star Search he started focusing on the lyrics, "I didn't even pay attention to the lyrics when I was 12, 13".[20]
Archuleta's competing on Star Search led to appearances on The Jenny Jones Show and CBS' The Early Show, and meeting the finalists from American Idol's first season, for whom he performed a spontaneous a cappella rendition of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls, and received praise from Season 1 winner Kelly Clarkson.[20][29] The year after Star Search he found out he had partial vocal paralysis but declined risky surgery and has said he feels he is almost fully recovered.[18][20] He limited his singing for specific occasions like Stadium of Fire, the Independence Day celebration at Brigham Young University Stadium.[20]
Archuleta made initial attempts at songwriting and arranging music after his Star Search experience and has written at least three songs.[20] His first singles in 2002 included "Dream Sky High" and "Don't Tell Me".[30]
American Idol
Archuleta received his ticket to the Hollywood final auditions at the San Diego tryouts – held at Qualcomm Stadium at the end of July 2007 – with a performance of John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change" with judge Randy Jackson spontaneously joining in to sing the background "waiting" in the song.[19][31] He was sixteen during the Hollywood auditions and attended school while a part of American Idol's seventh season.[5] His parents were there because he was a minor.[5] Archuleta also took advantage of the decision to allow contestants to play musical instruments when he accompanied himself on piano for his performances of "Crazy", "Another Day in Paradise", and "Angels".
During the 1970s themed week Archuleta sang the John Lennon song "Imagine", omitting the earlier verses in favor of the last one. Los Angeles Times columnist Ann Powers speculated that he wanted to avoid singing "no religion too" because of his faith. "As a Mormon, he's unlikely to espouse the song's agnostic ideal," she wrote.[32] However, he did sing the entire song on Good Things Utah when he was thirteen. When asked by judge Randy Jackson why he didn't sing the first verse, Archuleta said the third verse was his favorite because it has "a great message."[33]
After his performance of "We Can Work It Out", which judge Simon Cowell called "a mess", Entertainment Tonight reported that Archuleta was feeling pressure from his father, Jeff Archuleta, who "reportedly yelled at" his son after a recording session the previous night.[34] Jeff Archuleta, in an interview with Us Weekly, denied the claim.[35][36] A May 2008 Associated Press article reported that Jeff Archuleta had his son add a lyric from the Sean Kingston song "Beautiful Girls" into an interpretation of "Stand by Me" (from which "Beautiful Girls" samples its bass line), increasing the costs for licensing, and that this had resulted in Jeff Archuleta being banned from American Idol backstage rehearsals.[37] Archuleta defended his father calling him "a great guy" who keeps him grounded.[38]
During the Top 7 results show, the contestants were split into two groups. In one group was Syesha Mercado, Brooke White, and Kristy Lee Cook. In the other group was David Cook, Carly Smithson, and Jason Castro. Archuleta was the only one not sorted into a group. He was declared safe after the groups were formed, then was asked to choose the group he thought was safe. He refused, and sat down on the floor of the stage, much like Melinda Doolittle had done the previous season.
In the finale he sang "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "In This Moment" and "Imagine". Judge Simon Cowell declared that Archuleta won the evening and even David Cook, who ultimately won, thought Archuleta would win: "I have to concede it, the kid came out all three songs and nailed it", said Cook.[39] In the final tally, Archuleta received 44 percent of the votes.[40][41] During the finale show, identical commercials featuring Archuleta and fellow finalist Cook mimicked the Tom Cruise scene from Risky Business where he dances in his underwear playing an air guitar; they were promoting the game franchise Guitar Hero.
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Archuleta
In August 2008 Archuleta released "Crush," the first single from his self-titled debut album.[4][6][7][8] The album, released two months later, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart; it has sold over 750,000 copies in the U.S. and over 900,000 Worldwide.
Early life
Archuleta was born in Miami, Florida, to Jeff Archuleta and Lupe Marie, a salsa singer and dancer. He speaks Spanish.[12] Archuleta's mother is from Honduras, while his father is of Spanish, Danish, Irish, German, Iroquois, and Mexican descent.[citation needed] Archuleta has four siblings.[13] Archuleta's family moved to the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy when Archuleta was six. He currently lives in Murray where he attended Murray High School.[14] Archuleta is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America.[15][16][17]
Archuleta started singing at the age of six, inspired by a Les Misérables video. "That musical is what started all of this", he said.[18] He started performing publicly at age ten when he participated in the Utah Talent Competition, singing "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton; he received a standing ovation and won the Child Division.[19]
Musical influences
Archuleta's mother is from Honduras, and much of the music he listened to as a child was Latin-influenced including watching his mom sing at events with her sisters.[20][21] She also "was big on dancing" according to Archuleta, and would "make" him dance to traditional music with his older sister.[22] He also listened to jazz music, he said, from his father's collection as well as gospel, pop, rock and "soulful music."[18] In a later interview, he revealed that his father was a jazz musician. Archuleta also said he enjoys Broadway musicals.[23]
On his American Idol "Fast Facts" page, Archuleta cited his musical influences as Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Kirk Franklin and Bryan Adams.[19] Like Elliott Yamin and another singer he admires, John Mayer, Archuleta tries to infuse his pop selections with a soulful vibe.[18] In a Seventeen interview he cites Sara Bareilles as a clever singer-songwriter whom he looks up to.[24]
Star Search
In 2003, when he was twelve years old, Archuleta sang on several episodes of the television show Star Search.[25][26][27] He ended up as the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2, Losing the Junior Grand Champion title to Tiffany Evans.[28] On one episode, he sang against then-11-year-old Alexandréa Lushington, who became a "top 20" semi-finalist on American Idol alongside Archuleta.[26] Around the second year of being on Star Search he started focusing on the lyrics, "I didn't even pay attention to the lyrics when I was 12, 13".[20]
Archuleta's competing on Star Search led to appearances on The Jenny Jones Show and CBS' The Early Show, and meeting the finalists from American Idol's first season, for whom he performed a spontaneous a cappella rendition of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls, and received praise from Season 1 winner Kelly Clarkson.[20][29] The year after Star Search he found out he had partial vocal paralysis but declined risky surgery and has said he feels he is almost fully recovered.[18][20] He limited his singing for specific occasions like Stadium of Fire, the Independence Day celebration at Brigham Young University Stadium.[20]
Archuleta made initial attempts at songwriting and arranging music after his Star Search experience and has written at least three songs.[20] His first singles in 2002 included "Dream Sky High" and "Don't Tell Me".[30]
American Idol
Archuleta received his ticket to the Hollywood final auditions at the San Diego tryouts – held at Qualcomm Stadium at the end of July 2007 – with a performance of John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change" with judge Randy Jackson spontaneously joining in to sing the background "waiting" in the song.[19][31] He was sixteen during the Hollywood auditions and attended school while a part of American Idol's seventh season.[5] His parents were there because he was a minor.[5] Archuleta also took advantage of the decision to allow contestants to play musical instruments when he accompanied himself on piano for his performances of "Crazy", "Another Day in Paradise", and "Angels".
During the 1970s themed week Archuleta sang the John Lennon song "Imagine", omitting the earlier verses in favor of the last one. Los Angeles Times columnist Ann Powers speculated that he wanted to avoid singing "no religion too" because of his faith. "As a Mormon, he's unlikely to espouse the song's agnostic ideal," she wrote.[32] However, he did sing the entire song on Good Things Utah when he was thirteen. When asked by judge Randy Jackson why he didn't sing the first verse, Archuleta said the third verse was his favorite because it has "a great message."[33]
After his performance of "We Can Work It Out", which judge Simon Cowell called "a mess", Entertainment Tonight reported that Archuleta was feeling pressure from his father, Jeff Archuleta, who "reportedly yelled at" his son after a recording session the previous night.[34] Jeff Archuleta, in an interview with Us Weekly, denied the claim.[35][36] A May 2008 Associated Press article reported that Jeff Archuleta had his son add a lyric from the Sean Kingston song "Beautiful Girls" into an interpretation of "Stand by Me" (from which "Beautiful Girls" samples its bass line), increasing the costs for licensing, and that this had resulted in Jeff Archuleta being banned from American Idol backstage rehearsals.[37] Archuleta defended his father calling him "a great guy" who keeps him grounded.[38]
During the Top 7 results show, the contestants were split into two groups. In one group was Syesha Mercado, Brooke White, and Kristy Lee Cook. In the other group was David Cook, Carly Smithson, and Jason Castro. Archuleta was the only one not sorted into a group. He was declared safe after the groups were formed, then was asked to choose the group he thought was safe. He refused, and sat down on the floor of the stage, much like Melinda Doolittle had done the previous season.
In the finale he sang "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "In This Moment" and "Imagine". Judge Simon Cowell declared that Archuleta won the evening and even David Cook, who ultimately won, thought Archuleta would win: "I have to concede it, the kid came out all three songs and nailed it", said Cook.[39] In the final tally, Archuleta received 44 percent of the votes.[40][41] During the finale show, identical commercials featuring Archuleta and fellow finalist Cook mimicked the Tom Cruise scene from Risky Business where he dances in his underwear playing an air guitar; they were promoting the game franchise Guitar Hero.
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Archuleta
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