Rhomedal

Familiar with the name on the title?

Rhomedal Aquino is a fast-hand magician in Indonesia. He appeared in "The Master" reality show which displayed Deddy Corbuzier's students good magicians in the country competing with one another.

Me, myself, admires fast-hand magicians for their skill and the fascinating set they build. Like when you were at home, bored, then you clapped your hand and suddenly a dove appeared from your hands! Cute ^^ Rather than seeing the "fakhir" type where they tried to insert nails into your tongue, or passed a thread from your left ear to your right ear from inside.. yucks.

And the plus point of Rhomedal is... that... beside he is very much talented, he is also good-looking. Hehe ^^

You can see his performance on manipulation routine here. Yes, yes, he is the one with the handsome, painted face there! <3 It's in Bahasa Indonesia btw.

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This afternoon I turned on my TV, and changed the channels. One of the show was a gossip show (Starlight.. or whatever), and I stopped there bcos I saw the Changi General Hospital layout. Another Indonesian in Singapore hospitals beside Mount E? Quite interesting.

Then the host appeared... And I saw the familiar face with the paintings on it...

IT'S HIM!!!

Darn. it.

How come a talented magician as he is then "only" becomes a gossip TV host?!!!
I think he could be a better performer instead. Pak Tarno (yeee, that old folk, if you know) appeared everyday on a "sahur" show performing magic, and surely he gets a lot of money alongside with performing his talent. Then Rhomedal... is only displaying his face at the show without doing something related to his skill in magic? Or he had parted his way with magic?

Oh oh Indonesia. How big your talent is, you will only be what market wants you to be. For artists (well, I believe that magic is an art! they uses tricks, not witchcrafts *except the recent news regarding Limbad*) if you are good looking enough, most probably you will end up being a soap opera actor/actress or gossip TV show. They are the main shows in Indonesian TV, beside football (Oezil to Real Madrid, I don't know whether I should be happy or sad with him) and comedy shows (OB's Saschya aka Winda is now seen to be the singer at Opera Van Java after OB ended, well, I guess she returned to her old singing now) and talent shows (btw Indonesia Mencari Bakat aka Indonesia Got Talent is quite nice!! They got an 8-year-old good dancer, a double-faced singer and a 13-year-old soprano!!!).

Glad I am doing my study in Singapore instead. At least scientists may get better chance there.

Taking his quote at the beginning of that video about a kid who did not know about his future and lacked of motivation and as predicted, turned out to be him
"I will take this small challenge, whatever the obstacles are, I will face them to achieve my dream"
So what's your challenge, Rhom? Being popular, or being a magician?