OOT: Surprised to Be Nominated

Sorry for posting semething out of topic for piringanhitam.wordpress.com. To day when I come to the office in Mayestik Jakarta, my closed friend shakes my hand and congratulates to me — initially for this blog — for being nominated as one of selected blogs in category: entertainment. The competition is held under event Pesta Blogger 2009 which be held in Smesco Building, Jakarta on 24 October 2009. Of course, I am very glad hearing that such appreciation. Thank  to  the comittee of Pesta Blogger 2009 for your appreciation. God bless you. *

Appreciation from Maverick Indonesia

This blog piringanhitam.wordpress.com was nominated by Maverick Indonesia as one of five best blogs managed by journalists on middle July 2008. And the winner as Click of The Year Award is Irawan Santoso. This blog support such effort to enhance quality of blog’ contents managed by Indonesian bloggers.  To know more about that event, I copy part of the news written by Maverick Indonesia (maverickid.com).

Click of The Week has become our new racing game, where Maverick kids compete to spot journalists blogs over the net and have it being reviewed in our blog. Each year, during Maverick’s Media Gathering, we crowned a journalist as the recipient of our Click of The Year Award.

Judged by the Mavericks (cat-fight involved), this award is given to the most outstanding journalist blog from our 2008 Click of The Week list, and convey these following qualities:

1. Attractiveness of the issues covered (read: what’s attractive and sexy enough for Maverick kids)

2. Writing styles

3. Clarity in presenting opinion – this matters because we believe the differentiator of blogs compared to conventional media is the ablity of blog to capture the writer’s personal opinion.

4. Blog design and layout

From 15 journalist blogs featured in our Click of The Week, 5 nominees were selected by Maverick kids. They are:
1. Manda La Mendol who writes about culinary adventure—and we love food!

2. Robert Adhi Kusumaputra who writes about current issues and regularly reviewing others’ blogs

3. Merry Magdalena who writes about feminism issues (no wonder, most of the associates here in Maverick are women; sassy ones)

4. Irawan Santoso who writes about law and high-profile court cases

5. Kelik M. Nugroho who writes about his vintage collections of LP records

Once the nominees were selected, Maverick kids were cat-fighting with each other to ensure that the blog they nominate would win the award. This is done by highlighting and “selling” the quality of the blog they’ve selected to other Mavericks; debating on certain criteria, and raising our hands up high when disagreeing upon something (of course, this is done while munching a bowl of cakue and sipping cups of coffee).

After spending more than 2 hours debating on who should win this year’s Click of The Year Award, the Mavericks decided that the award goes to Irawan Santoso and his blog, RECHSTAAT (interesting, turn out that the Mavericks just love to read about law—or is it about the lawyers?).

Once the nominees were selected, Maverick kids were cat-fighting with each other to ensure that the blog they nominate would win the award. This is done by highlighting and “selling” the quality of the blog they’ve selected to other Mavericks; debating on certain criteria, and raising our hands up high when disagreeing upon something (of course, this is done while munching a bowl of cakue and sipping cups of coffee).

After spending more than 2 hours debating on who should win this year’s Click of The Year Award, the Mavericks decided that the award goes to Irawan Santoso and his blog, RECHSTAAT (interesting, turn out that the Mavericks just love to read about law—or is it about the lawyers?

On Maverick Night Fever last Thursday, we officially crowned Irawan as the winner of 2008 Maverick Click of The Year (last year, Andreas Harsono from Pantau received this award). Irawan is not a new to some of the Mavericks, because he is also the winner of 2006 and 2007’s Anugerah Adiwarta Sampoerna journalism award in law category.

Congratulations! Keep blogging! Blog on!.*

Bang Oman dari Taman Puring

Banyak koleksi kaset dan cd saya berkat tangan-tangan lincah Bang Oman, pemilik salah satu kios kaset jadul di pasar Taman Puring Mayestik Jakarta selatan. Melalui lelaki berdarah Sunda berusia paruh baya ini, saya memperoleh kaset-kaset penting antara lain Album P Ramlee volume 2, Koes Bersaudara album Angin Laut, Titi DJ album 1989, Koes Plus Pop Jawa volume 1, Keenan Naustion album Di Batas Agan-angan, dan Discus album perdana.

Saya mengenal Bang Oman sekitar tahun 2004, setelah saya diperbantukan di sebuah kantor di kawasan Mayestik Jakarta selatan dari kantor di jalan Proklamasi. Semoga kepindahan itu mengandung hikmah terselubung, yaitu pertemuan saya dengan pasar Taman Puring sebagai kawasan kios kaset jadul. Kedekatan Taman Puring dengan kantor saya memungkinkan saya berangkat kerja, sembari menyongsong kaset-kaset jadul yang mampir di pasar Taman Puring.

Pertama kali bertemu, Bang Oman masih menempati salah satu kios semi permanen lantai dua Taman Puring yang berkamar-kamar. Sekitar tahun 2005 kalau tidak salah, lantai dua Taman Puring terbakar. Bang Oman salah satu korbannya. Akibat kebakaran itu, sebagian besar barang langka miliknya terbakar. Bang Oman pun harus memulai usaha dari nol. Sembari menunggu renovasi pasar, dia membuka kios dengan satu almari kecil berisi seratus kaset di teras luar Taman Puring. Tak beberapa lama kemudian dia pindah ke ruang dalam pasar, tapi masih numpang di kios orang lain. Setelah renovasi tuntas, Bang Oman kembali menempati salah satu petak di lantai dua pasar taman Puring. Bentuk kiosnya sekarang terbuka, los-losan, tanpa kamar tertutup. Sekarang ini kiosnya memiliki koleksi sebanyak dulu, bahkan tampak lebih banyak.

Bang Oman adalah pedagang musik rekaman jadul yang mempunyai nilai plus. Dia memperlakukan konsumen sebagai manusia budaya (bukan manusia ekonomi saja). Harga yang dipasang relatif moderat, dan kadang pertimbangannya lebih untuk merawat warisan budaya. “Saya bukan sekadar jualan kaset. Saya memang mempunyai hobi di bidang musik, jadi ada rasa enjoy dalam menjalani usaha ini,” kata Bang Oman yang juga aktif di kepengurusan Komunitas Pecinta Musik Indonesia. Dia ikut mendirikan KPMI, komunitas kolektor musik rekaman, bersama tokoh-tokoh seperti Riza Sihbudi, Denny Sakrie, Gatot Triono, dan lain-lain. *

Piringanhitam Goes Transtv

Pengelola blog piringanhitam.blogspot.com Kelik M. Nugroho diundang ke acara talkshow berita Good Morning Transtv pada Kamis, 22 November 2007, jam 08.30. Pihak Good Morning ingin menampilkan profil kolektor piringan hitam dan kaset jadul. Kepada reporternya mbak Putri, saya mencoba bertanya, mengapa mereka memilih saya, padahal banyak kolektor lain yang memiliki koleksi yang lebih banyak. Mbak Putri menjawab bahwa dia menemukan nama saya dari blog ini, dan satu-satunya blog kolektor yang memasang telepon hp yang bisa dihubungi hanyalah saya.

Atas undangan itu dan atas kepercayaan produser Good Morning Transtv, saya mengucapkan terima kasih. Saya merasakan ada aura dan semangat positif dari tim Good Morning ini. Bagi saya, undangan itu merupakan bentuk dari apresiasi mereka kepada upaya penghargaan atas karya-karya kreatif — yang dulu dilupakan — yang kini dirawat sebagian para kolektor.

Kepada mbak Rieke Diah Pitaloka dan mas Ferdi Hasan, presenter yang rileks dan hangat, saya juga merasakan aura penghargaan yang sama atas karya-karya seniman lama yang terekam dalam kaset jadul dan piringan hitam. Secara spontan, mas Ferdi menyetel satu lagu dari kaset P. Ramlee dan album Dasa Tembang Tercantik Prambors pertama pada 1977 yang antara lain berisi lagu Lilin-lilin Kecil. Mendengar musik itu untuk pengantar dan ilustrasi acara — yang dilakukan sendiri mas Ferdi Hasan, merupakan kejadian yang tak kan
terlupakan.

Selamat dan terima kasih kepada tim Good Morning. Maju terus.

Kelik M. Nugroho
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