It has been two weeks since I first land in this land of democracy. I could not say the journey was all enjoyable. Many high and lows. I might write about that here, I might not. In any case, I am now officially a Carnegie Mellon student with no clear course… :p

And yes… I am currently in Pittsburgh.

To many of your surprise, I am now a social science student since Information System school in CMU is under College of Humanities and Social Science. A rather unbelievable notion.

Oh well… a bit late but here is my gift to Indonesia.

Dirgahayu Indonesia

This song, titled Aspalela, is a recent hit in Malaysia. Though I have taken Malay class back then in Sec 3 and Sec4, I barely able to decypher the lyrics. Some people said the tone is very similar to Indonesia’s children song of ‘Abang Tukang Bakso‘ (‘Meatballs Seller’). I have no nothing to say. You hear it for yourself. Ignore the lyrics.

This is the Aspalela

This is the ‘Meatball’ seller which had been popularized by Melisa few decades ago

Wondering if all the copyright issue has been settled. All songs are hosted at imeem.

— added

Oh my! Sylvia (see comment #1) mentioned that in addition to similar ‘kiddish tone’, the melody of Aspalela also similar to another old  Indonesian song ‘Bintang Kejora” (’Morning Star’). It is very difficult to get the online copy of that song but here is it or you to compare (contain a lot of noise but this is the only copy I could find so far).

People with tuned ears are indeed more sensitive to this kind of thing.