A Place in the Sun

Nostalgic

2012-01-12T10:14:00.005+07:00

Cuplikan dari Ruma Maida (Dir: Teddy Soeriaatmadja, Indonesia, 2009)

Jiwa manis
ingin menjaga
tanah air
di pulau tenggara
Sabda terucap (di) sebrang samudra pulau tenggara

Jiwa manis
putri kencana
bermandikan
cahaya surya
Juwita dewi dalam samadi menjelma negri.

Jiwa merdeka
ingin menjaga
tanah air
di pulau tenggara

(Oh) Nestapa panjangkah jalanku?
Pelita selalu kujaga
(Oh) Gerhana galaukan langkahku
Cahaya menanti di sana
Juwita dewi dalam samadi menjelma negri
Jiwa merdeka ingin menjaga tanah air di pulau tenggaraku

Pulau Tenggara - Ayu Utami

Me Caroling!

2011-12-22T23:55:00.006+07:00

you better not here
you better stay home
better protect your pocket
and keeping wallet
malinda dee is coming to town!

she loves young boy
and sleeping around
she prefers young hottie and dashing boy
malinda dee is coming to town!

she knows you when you're lucky
she knows when you're bankrupt
she knows if you're a rich or poor
so be rich for goodness sake!

you better not here
you better stay home
better protect your pocket
and keeping wallet
malinda dee is coming to town!

Begitulah lagu yang kelompok saya buat ketika mengikuti social club di salah satu english course di Jakarta. Kelompok saya terdiri dari seorang wanita berkewarganegaraan Jepang, dan tiga orang Indonesia termasuk saya. Dimana pada sesi itu kami berempat diharuskan menggubah salah satu christmas songs dengan tema yang lebih "Indonesia". Akhirnya terpilihlah lagu "Santa Claus is coming to Town" dengan versi kami sendiri yang amburadul, yaitu
Santa -- digantikan oleh -- Malinda Dee.

ps: I feel sorry for that Japanese woman who did not know, who the f*ck is Malinda Dee :p

*gambar merupakan ilustrasi dari getty images

Re(solusi)?

2011-12-18T23:44:00.005+07:00

Sebentar lagi, kurang dari sebulan, kita akan menyambut Natal 2011 dan Tahun Baru 2012.

Tak terasa sudah 3 tahun lebih saya menulis di blog ini, mulai dari kisah-kisah sepersekolahan SMA --hingga --kini saya sudah gede, berada di tahun kedua dunia perkuliahan, tepatnya di jurusan idaman saya sedari TPB, Planologi atau Urban and Regional Planning, di kampus Ganesha tercinta Institut Teknologi Bandung.

Agak normatif ya? wheuwhe :p

Well balik lagi ke perihal tahun baru tadi, tentunya semua orang memiliki resolusi akhir tahun yang (mungkin saja) sudah mereka pikirkan sedari awal Desember. Resolusi akhir tahun dapat berupa perihal apapun yang ingin mereka lakukan/capai di sepanjang tahun berikutnya, dengan mengevaluasi berbagai kelemahan di tahun sebelumnya. Contoh resolusi akhir tahun pada kaum ibu-ibu seperti mengurangi berat badan, mengurangi belanja yang tak perlu. Pada kaum bapak-bapak seperti mengurangi rokok, memperbanyak olah-raga. Ataupun pada kaum remaja labil seperti mengurangi foya-foye, jalan-jalan ga penting, gossip dan hal-hal labil lainnya.

Ironisnya banyak dari resolusi akhir tahun yang berakhir hanya sebagai wacana saja, sepanjang tahun berikutnya si ibu makin gendut, si bapak rokoknya 10 bungkus perhari, dan si anak labil bokek mulu :p
Walaupun begitu, bagi saya secara personal resolusi akhir tahun merupakan bentuk dari pembelajaran diri mengenai self-planning and management. Terlepas dari resolusi-resolusi tersebut akan terealisasi atau tidak, proses pembuatannya menurut saya merupakan bentuk pembelajaran bagi kita semua:

Sebelum kita me-manage orang lain, alangkah baiknya kita dapat me-manage diri kita sendiri terlebih dahulu.

Sudahkah anda menyusun resolusi akhir tahun? :)

Unexplainable Things

2011-12-08T22:52:00.006+07:00

Honestly, I had a big -- special interest to any kind of "unexplainable" things and stories, just like usual young dude (or young boy?) :p . I always love to do chit-chat about weird supranatural things to many of my schoolmates since I was elementary.
One of my favorite weird kind of -- supranatural site is the Japanese Saya In Underworld.

as the author: Saya said on the welcome note:

This blog is all about Japanese ghost stories, urban legends and other bizarre and scary things. Don't view any of the articles if you are mentally disturbed, very young or easily influenced by negative words and images. Only healthy and responsible adults are welcome here.

Hehe don't take it that serious :p

Well I just want to share four stories from that blog, fyi Saya(that blog's owner) is NOT the author all of the stories. Saya only did translation to all of stories, and the stories came from more than one author elsewhere in Japan. And it said, mostly based on true story.

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The Balcony

*reminder: "I" in this story is not me, Saya!

This is my friend's experience.

When he first entered university and started living on his own he began to experience sleep paralysis frequently. At the same time he began to get many wrong phone calls. For example he received a lot of messages from a strange old woman on his answering machine, and once he even got a message from one stranger saying, 'your father is dead,' and that nearly gave him a heart attack (his father of course was alive).

One day he was dozing on his bed when he saw someone running on his balcony. Without thinking he shouted, 'Hey!You!'
And it seemed this annoyed the person on the balcony and he came into my friend's bedroom.

At first my friend thought the man was alone and he thought he would just kick him out, but the man wasn't the only one on the balcony. There were other people and they kept coming in until there were around five or six people who stood surrounding his bed.

And my friend became paralysed, seemingly from fear. He couldn't do anything with his paralysed body and he just kept saying to them in his mind, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry,' over and over.
That seemed to have worked and the people left his room.

After they were gone my friend fearfully went out on the balcony to look. His house is on the fifth floor and his balcony and his neighbours' balconies on both sides were separated by walls. The walls were special ones that were breakable in case of emergency, but they weren't broken and no one could possibly have passed through the balcony.
My friend thought it all had been a dream.

And then days had passed since and he no longer remembered about the dream. One night he was drinking with his friend in his room and they were talking and enjoying themselves when his friend suddenly shouted, 'hey, you there!' and tried to go out on the balcony.
He asked the friend, 'what's wrong?' The friend told him that just now he saw some men running on the balcony.

It was then that my friend remembered that he had had exactly the same experience before and that he had never told about it to anyone.

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The Children Upstairs

This is a story I heard from my friend at university. A man (let's call him "K") got whiplash in a car accident and decided to convalesce at home for a week. K was married but his wife was also working, so he was all alone during the day. For the first few days he enjoyed the freedom, but when the third day came boredom began to set in. Still he had to stay in because his injury kept him from going anywhere.

Then one day past lunchtime he was watching TV absent-mindedly when he heard heavy stamping noises and children's voices from upstiars. He didn't pay much attention to it, although he wondered if they were on a school holiday. The next day he again heard the same children's voices, around the same time as the previous day. It sounded like they had two children up there. The place where K lived was a large apartment block but inspite of that it tended to be very quiet during the day; the children's voices, therefore, echoed loudly in contrast to the quietness of the surrounding. K however did not feel annoyed, but was rather glad of the distraction and a break it gave him from the eerie silence.

The next day K, feeling bored and not motivated enough to cook lunch, ordered some pizza. The pizza, which arrived within 30 minutes, turned out to be too much for K that he left one whole pizza untouched. Usually he would keep any left-overs for his wife but this time he remebered about the children upstairs and, willing to do something kind, he decided to take the pizza to them.

K had no idea who the occupants of the room upstairs were but rang the doorbell anyway. He heard something stir inside, but there was no answer. He rang the bell again. He felt someone was looking at him through the peephole. "Who is it?" A faint voice called out from behind the door.
K explained he was from the room below and that he had some pizza left from lunch and wondered if they wanted it. The door opened a crack. It looked unusually dark inside the room. From the gap about 5 cm wide a woman appeared, revealing only half of her face. "Thank you very much. But we don't want it," the woman said coldly. It was a little too dark to discern her facial expression. K suddenly felt he was somehow out of place, like he shouldn't be there; however he tried to explain to her that he wanted her to give the pizza to the children.

A lukewarm air breezed out of the door. He smelt an unpleasant odour. In an instant two children's faces lined up below the woman's face. The door was open still just a crack. The dull eyes of the children stared at him. The three faces were forming a line.
"I see.... then... I will accept your kindness." The woman said. When K put the pizza box through the gap a hand reached out right from the side and snatched it away.

The three faces were still staring at K. "Thank you....." He heard the faint voice again. K quickly left the place. He felt spooked. In the corner of his mind he sensed something was seriously wrong. The image of the children's faces had left a burning impression in his mind. Faces..... He felt a chill down his spine. Faces...they were forming a line... His pace quickened. He wanted to get away as fast as he could. He waited for the lift but it would not arrive. Forming a line....vertically....on top of each other..... He pressed the button again and again, but the lift still did not come. He turned to the emergency stairs. His head throbbed with pain. He began to feel nausea.

Just as he opened the heavy door leading to the emergency stairs, he felt eyes on his back. Turning around, he glimpsed, about ten metres from him, the same three faces looking at him from the corner of the corridor. Like before, they were showing only the half of their faces and staring at him with their dull eyes. The cold day light shining through the windows illuminated their faces.

No longer caring about his neck he frantically ran down the stairs. Although the health-conscious K often used stairs instead of lift and could even ran up four floors in one go, he felt as if no matter how fast he ran he would never reach the ground floor. Faces lined up, on top of each other....that's impossible...that means there are...no bodies......and the strange things I saw behind the faces were...hands.....holding up the heads......

He ran into the nearest convenience store and asked the people there to call the police.
The police came, and searched the flat - and found the bodies of the mother and children in the bath tub. These bodies were headless.

According to their findings, it had been three days since the heads had been chopped off the bodies.
And the husband, who turned out to be the murderer, was found hiding in the wardrobe - insane. He insisted his family was still alive. There was a terror in his eyes; the polie did not know the source of his terror.

But K knew.
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The Wardrobe

This happened to me when I was still at primary school.
I was babysitting my little brother while our parents were out. We were bored so we decided to play hide-and-seek.
I became "it" and started looking for my brother. I entered my parent's bedroom and opened a wardrobe which was crammed full of clothes. I then thrust my hand into it when immediately another hand reached out from inside and gripped mine.
I tried to pull him out shouting, " come on! get out!" But he wouldn't come out no matter how hard I pulled. He was hiding behind all the clothes and didn't speak a word either, and I started wondering what was wrong with him.
Just then a voice called out to me from behind: "what are you doing there?" It was my little brother standing in the doorway. I panicked and shook myself free of the grip and we rushed out of the house together.
Needless to say, I couldn't go inside again until my parents came home. What was that hand? Did it belong to a burglar, or......?
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A Voice From Upstairs

*As usual, the "I" in this story is not Saya

This is a story from my childhood.

When I was a child I lived in a rented two-floor house.
Both my parents worked so I was often alone when I came home from school.
One early evening when I came home the house was still dark.
I called out, “Mum?” and heard a voice say “Yeeeeees?” from upstairs.
I called her again, and again got the same “Yeeeeees?” reply.

I felt she was calling me and climbed up the stairs.
When I reached the first floor I called her once more and the voice “Yeeeeees?” came from the furthest room.
I felt both uneasy and a strong urge to see my mother and started to walk towards the room.

But just that moment I heard the front door downstairs open and my mother come in, carrying a lot of shopping bags.
‘Shunsuke (my name), are you home?” My mother called in a cheery voice.
Hearing her voice made me feel instantly better and I turned back to go downstairs at once – but not before I had a quick glance towards the room.

While I watched from the top of the stairs, the door to the room slowly opened a crack.
For a brief moment I saw something strange in there.
It was an unnaturally pale face staring at me.

Di Bawah Sinar Bulan Purnama - Piano oleh Nick Mamahit

2011-12-03T08:52:00.001+07:00

Saya merasa terlahir di zaman yang salah
lol

Happy Birthday Mr. Sasongko!

2011-11-30T00:03:00.009+07:00

If I only had a brain

2011-11-19T03:13:00.000+07:00

I could wile away the hours, Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain, And my head I'd be scratchin',
While my thoughts were busy hatchin', If I only had a brain

I'd unravel any riddle, For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain...
Oh, I would tell you why, The ocean's near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more

I would not be just a nuffin', My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain, I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry, If I only had a brain..
Scarecrow - The Wizard of Oz

Still Autumn, Isn't it?

2011-11-19T03:01:00.000+07:00

Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves) - Yves Montand

We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!

2010-06-22T10:26:00.000+07:00

gambar aktris & legenda Louise Brooks dari silentsandtalkies.blogspot.com

Max Ophüls talks about Arts

2010-04-25T21:24:00.000+07:00

.....

.....

The Awakening of Nationalistic Theme

2009-09-17T05:19:00.000+07:00

Starring: Atikah Hasiholan, Yama Carlos, Franz Tumbuan, Hengky Solaiman, Davina, Nino Fernandez, Imelda Soraya, Wulan Guritno, Verdi Solaiman, David van Noorwijk

Screenplay by: AYU UTAMI

Directed by: Teddy Soeriaatmaja

Plot Outline:: Kisah cinta dan perjuangan anak muda Indonesia yang idealis. Film ini membawa kita ke masa kini dan masa lalu. Lewat tokoh Maida dan sebuah rumah bersejarah, kita bertemu dengan para pendiri bangsa, serta dibawa mengarungi roman maupun tragedi nasib manusia pada titik-titik bersejarah tanah air: di masa Revolusi Kemerdekaan maupun Reformasi 1998.

p.s: Yang di bold memang dari dulu sudah menjadi favorit saya, personally...

The Taxicab Lady

2009-08-20T05:23:00.000+07:00

from "The Equation of Love and Death" (2008, Cao Baoping)

Zhou Xun acts incredibly as a desperate taxicab driver

Li Mi(Zhou Xun), a young taxi driver who has been waiting for her disappeared fiancé Fang Wen(Chao Deng) while receiving his letters randomly, encountered two male drug dealers, the older one named Qiu Huogui(Wang Yanhui) experienced and cruel, the other young man Qiu Shuitian(Wang Baoqiang) innocent and looking for his adorable girl named Xiao Xiang. At the same time, a drug deal called Ma Bing partnered with his girlfriend Ai Feifei(Wang Ning) coming to Kuming for the last deal and anticipating a brand new life, got the suicide poet fall down on their car unexpectedly, while being witnessed by Qiu Huogui and Qiu shuitian. Connected by the death of a poet, Li Mi, Fang Wen ,Ai Feifei and these two criminals were involved in a crime and a confusing case.

The movie itself is a little bit boring with complex plot, as usual HK criminal-suspense . But Zhou Xun performance is the reason to watch this very good little film. She is something almost other worldly in a performance that is, simply put, one of the most amazing things I've ever seen on the screen.

here is the trailer link

my own rating:
7.5 from 10

The Monumental Film-scores

2009-07-26T14:30:00.000+07:00

A few years ago(in 2005) the American Film Institute, or A.F.I revealed their own list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema. With "Star Wars"(1977), "Gone With the Wind"(1939), "Lawrence of the Arabia"(1962), "Psycho"(1960), and "The Godfather"(1972) as the top five respectively.

The 25 list also included my fave cinematic composer Franz Waxman

His works on the 25 list; "Laura"(alongside David Raksin) #7, and "Sunset Boulevard" #16.
One of my favorite from his works is "A Place in the Sun", and - today - I added the cinematic score as my music widget, enjoy it! :)

The Impressive Intermezzo

2009-07-24T22:00:00.000+07:00

From "Asian Film Award" 2009, maybe a little bit late to post it:)

Best Picture - "Tokyo Sonata"

Best Director for "Still Walking"(Japan)

Best Actor for "Okuribito"(Japan)

Best Actress for "The Equation of Love and Death"(China/HK)

A newly award, but impressive

The next award will be held on 22 March 2010

When 'Femme Fatale' Takes a Part

2009-07-20T22:32:00.000+07:00

from "Laura" (1944, Otto Preminger)

Can you imagine; if you're falling in love while investigating someone's death-- her/his images always fullfill your head, then you realized that you're in love with a corpse?

'Laura' she's the talk of the town. She's enterprising, intelligent and beautiful. Men fall over themselves to get close to her, women envy her sophistication. Such are her charms that she will even drive one respectable person to commit murder; her murder; but who would want to kill a Laura Hunt?

Laura, the lead(also the title) is characterized by shadowy, hi-contrast black and white cinematography, and smart and witty dialogue on a quick succession of scenes.

Laura and her older fiancee; Waldo Lydecker

when hard-edged cop Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of the city's most coveted woman, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), he uncovers a bizarre romantic triangle that offers endless motives;

Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), an older columnist, originally offered Laura her big break in business, and had protectively maintained a relationship with her that surpassed love and bordered on obsession. Meanwhile, a wealthy charmer, Shelby Carpenter (Vicent Price), had asked for Laura's hand in marriage, a proposal about which she had been non-commital.

Even in death, Laura's femme fatale charm still alive, and Lt. McPherson soon finds himself infatuated with her lingering spirit.

The famous comeback scene

Then, can you imagine again; if the victim, who you fell in love with; still alive-- then comeback while you're still investigating the victim's death

Then of course, comes the wonderfully-surreal moment when our love-struck detective awakens to watch his murder victim walk into the room, this one is my favorite scene.

The well known music was composed by David Raksin, listed as #7 on American Film Institute 's Top 25 Film Scores list.

here the rotten tomatoes page, and IMDb summary page

My own rating:
8.3 from 10

Intermezzo

2009-07-03T14:29:00.000+07:00

Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;

Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar

Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar

Caminante no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar

Proverbios y cantares XXIX, de Antonio Machado

Thank Heaven

2009-05-08T22:06:00.000+07:00

Thankfully, thanks for everyone that interested and have watched this powerful social commentary movie...

Thanks for (+/-)8 person in Studio 3 XXI Pejaten Village, and (+/-)18 person in Studio 5 XXI T.A for their participation... Really, I was tremendously happy and moved to know that I love it, and - I'm - not - alone....:')

p.s:
Thanx for Satu Merah Panggung and MVP Pictures... Really, that's an unforgettable Indonesian masterpiece.

When Social Commentary Genre Roaring

2009-05-02T16:40:00.000+07:00

Film karya Ratna Sarumpaet yang bertemakan social commentary atas human trafficking ini menampakkan sisi humanis seorang pelacur, bernama Jamila(Atiqah Hasiholan), yang didakwa hukuman mati karena melakukan pembunuhan kepada seorang menteri(yang tidak jelas disebutkan menteri apa), bernama Nurdin(Adjie Pangestu).

Ratna Sarumpaet memaparkan kisah Jamila, sebagai seorang wanita yang memang- sudah-ditakdirkan-menjadi-seorang-pelacur dengan sense kemanusiaan yang dalam, dikemas dalam berbagai ungkapan dan kiasan puitis dalam dialognya yang membuat penonton seakan-akan menyaksikan aksi panggung teater.

Atiqah Hasiholan amat luar biasa dalam menjiwai Jamila. Bahkan dapat disetarakan dengan artis senior Christine Hakim yang turut berperan sebagai kepala sipir penjara. Beberapa aktor&aktris lain turut mendukung film ini, Ria Irawan, Ade Irawan, Dwi Sasono, Surya Saputra, Fauzi Baadillah, serta Melissa Karim.

Satu kata, Luar biasa. Film ini dapat membuat saya melupakan kekesalan saya setelah 2 kali menonton "Knowing" yang penuh effect dan huge gaps in logic, arrrgh

"Saya sudah lama mati, sejak di rahim ibu saya sudah mati. Esok hanya kematian yang resmi, untuk memuaskan orang-orang diluar sana"

"Ikhlaskan saya"
-Jamila binti Yahya

When They Imitate Us (BRT System)

2009-04-23T08:24:00.000+07:00

BRT stations will be integrated with MRT(skytrain) station

a well-developed BRT a.k.a Busway construction in Bangkok, Thailand...

the first one due to be complete on 5 December 2009

hell?? yeahhh
Bangkok already have MRT(elevated and underground).
the city planned those mass rapid transportations perfectly.... unlike JKT:(

Rembrandt's Realism

2009-04-21T20:41:00.000+07:00

Autoportret z roku c. 1628
his early self potrait

Artiest in zijn studio c. 1629

Rembrandt, born as Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn maybe most notable Dutch painter of 17th century, even recognized as one of the early European realist.
Who knows, at the first time he used to be a history painter in University of Leiden. Then his works was discovered by statesman Constantijn Huygens, friend of Prince Frederick Hendrik of Orange(correct me If I'm wrong).

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, c.1633

He works between way of naturalism, realism, and iconography(several of his works)

Minister Johannes Wtenbogaert, c. 1633

He inspired not just Dutch and European painters, but also American realist painters, afterward.

A Tribute to past events of Academy Award

2009-03-28T20:40:00.000+07:00

I made this slide-show when I was in Junior High School. I also added the previous winners since 1927.

I update it every year, based on the result of Academy Award(Oscar) best picture of the year.

The Art of Kangaroo

2009-03-21T14:32:00.000+07:00

Lukisan ini saya buat ketika saya masih menginjak bangku SMP, tepatnya saat ujian kesenian kelas VIII.

Pada awalnya saya sangat bingung apa yang akan saya buat dengan sebuah kanvas, kuas, dan perlengkapan cat minyak dalam waktu +/- 90 menit.

Sempat terpikir ingin membuat self potrait, namun apa daya, mimik wajah sendiri susah diterka...

Untunglah terbersit sebuah ide, "Bagaimana dengan seekor induk dan anak kangguru, di padang rumput"

Syukur bisa selesai pada waktunya walau sedikit belepotan, hehehe

p.s: Happy weekend everyone!!!:D

The Blond and Blue (eyed) Semitic

2009-02-22T07:48:00.000+07:00

My ratings: ***1/2 from *****
Overrated?? maybe, it depends on yourself opinions...

A true story that came from Belorussia(Nowadays known as Belarus), in the era of Jewish-Holocaust by SS of Hitler. A true story that never revealed in 20th century.

The Bielski family were farmers from Belarus, they're Ashkenazi Jewish family. Following the German '' Operation Barbarossa " the invasion of the Soviet Union that began on June 22,1941, the town Nowogrodek where the Bielski family lived became a Jewish Ghetto. The four Bielski brothers, Tuvia , Alexander Zisel "Zus", Aseal, and Aron , managed to flee to the nearby forest after their parents and other family members were killed in the ghetto in December 1941. Together with 13 neighbours from the ghetto, they formed the their partisan combat group.

At the beginning it seems just an usual WWII movies, which full of boringly - scenes - and - effects. But, then I realized that my opinion is totally incorrect.

At the first of 1/2 hour, the story goes in mediocre sense, but after 1 hour, I was surprised that the story just goes on the right track. Not like usual "WWII dramas" which just depends on effects and hot-terrifying-dramas(lol:D)

Nearly Epic... oh no! An EPIC.

A different by it's point-of-view, The Civilians...I mean Ashkenazim Jews Civilians. Great forest scenes, great roles especially for Liev Schreiber. Especially in the scene when he joins left-wing guerrillas in the forest.

But... I 'm very disappoint with Rottentomatoes.com result , they just give it 54% of tomatometer. Just 2% under "Taken"(2009). Oh - my - heaven, Just because of similar holocaust-WWII theme, they just gave badass reviews.

Here's my favorite quote from this movie:

"Nothing is impossible, what we all have done is impossible!"
-Asael Bielski

The (un) Rigidly Cinematic Art

2009-02-07T20:23:00.000+07:00

Betapa sebal perasaan saya ketika mengetahui, "The Searchers"(1956), salah satu film bergenre Western favorit saya, yang didaulat pula sebagai one - of - the greatest - westerns - ever mendadak hilang di list Internet Movie Database(IMDb) top 250.

Rasa sebal makin memuncak ketika menyadari posisi film yang dimainkan oleh legenda Hollywood, John Wayne tersebut digantikan oleh beberapa film yang menurut saya inappropriate dengan kalimat "Cultural Impact" melainkan hanya karena voting semata, macam "Frost/Nixon"(2008) yang menurut saya terlalu cepat untuk masuk top 250, ataupun "Arsenic and Old Lace"(1944) yang menurut saya terlalu konyol untuk dimasukkan. Ditambah lagi masuknya unexpected things macam "Laura"(1944), "The Lost Weekend"(1945) , dan "Shadow of a Doubt"(1943).

IMDb top 250 juga menyajikan list peringkat yang agak aneh menurut saya. Bagaimana mungkin film sekelas "Gone With The Wind"(1939) dan "Jaws"(1975) dapat dikalahkan oleh "Batman Begins"(2005).

Dan "Titanic"(1997) tidak pernah masuk daftar, lol:D

Dari segala keanehan di atas, pantaslah para penggermar film yang memenuhi message board IMDb, sebagian besar sudah tidak mengikuti IMDb top 250 karena alasan yang sama; keanehan sistem voting di IMDb.com , yang mempunyai rumusan sebagai berikut (dijelaskan pada bagian bawah halaman IMDb top 250):

Wow, menarik !!!



mari sekarang kita menghitung rating dari "Breakfast at Tiffany's"(1961)
yang tidak masuk IMDb top 250 (Sorry ms.Audrey,
I choose your glorious movie for the example of
one of silly things happened in IMDb, just RIP;-) ).

Dengan data sebagai berikut:

dan jika link votes diklik akan tampil

benarkah WR = 7.8???

jika diketahui:
V(votes) : 28,850
R(mean) : 8.1
m(konstanta) :1,300
c(konstanta) : 6.7

Masukkan ke rumus:
(WR) = {(V ÷ ( V+M)} × R + {m ÷ (V+m)} × c

7.8 = {(28850 ÷ (28850+1300)} × 8.1 +{1300÷(28850+1300)} × 6.7

7.8 ≠ 8.03963517

wow, kebohongan 0.23963517!!!

Apakah kualitas film dapat turut dipengaruhi oleh para voters??? dengan ratings???
terserah pendapat masing-masing pihak, sejujurnya menurut saya TIDAK!!!!

For me...
Every movies has it's own cinematic style, which considers great or bad one.
Not rigidly characterize as ratings or marks.

Giving stars(not ratings) for movie on every critics just for the readers to know "how worth watching it is".

Personally, I prefer critics than ratings, and - so - I prefer Rotten tomatoes than IMDb

For now, I visit IMDb just to know newest trivial things than ratings... wew

Target 2009!!!!

2009-01-23T16:49:00.000+07:00

Beberapa tema post-blog telah saya rencanakan di 2009 ini. Mulai dari review film-film yang menurut saya superb sampai hal-hal konyol yang sebenarnya tidak etis untuk dipostkan.

Target di kehidupan nyata saya sebagai seorang pelajar SMA tentunya berusaha meningkatkan belajar saya, setelah sebelumnya saya belajar tapi boong yang mengakibatkan saya terjun bebas, pokoknya gak banget deh:(. Saya mencanangkan dalam diri saya supaya meningkatkan waktu belajar efektif di rumah dari sebelumnya hanya 2 jam/minggu menjadi 4-5 jam/minggu

Semangaaaat!!!!

oya!!!

Gong Xi Fa Cai(dibaca yang bener ya!!!) bagi yang merayakan tahun baru Imlek:)....

p.s:
kue keranjang yang masih baru rasanya lengket bgt, motongnya susah pula~.~'

feliz año nuevo

2008-12-31T23:01:00.000+07:00

Tahun sudah berganti...

Senyum mengembang menyambut 2009....

Happy New Year 2009!!!

Maafkan segala kesalahan diri di tahun 2008 yang kini telah bertitel "silam"

Photo of the year:

Ngengat bercorak batik yang saya foto di teras rumah.

sorry tangan saya sedikit bergetar takut disengat.....

Kimchi

2008-12-30T20:38:00.001+07:00

Kimchi yang satu ini sangat berbeda dengan kimchi" yang selama ini pernah saya coba.
Saya menerka mungkin yang satu ini blasteran marga Kim dan Chaniago, wkwkwk:D.

Rasanya sangat cabe padang asli, padahal saya beli di salah satu stand pusat perbelanjaan yang terletak Permata Hijau, yang khusus menjual hidangan dan snack ala Korea...

*Sakit perut menuju pergantian tahun:( , zzz

Googling...

2008-12-21T16:24:00.000+07:00

Ada yang sedikit berbeda pada tampilan halaman google hari ini,

hari ini emangnya hari apa ya???

Bunuh diri...

2008-12-20T18:11:00.000+07:00

Hari ini tiba" saja saya teringat beberapa drama Korea yang berjaya di tahoen-tahoen silam. Seperti biasa kalau sedang kumat saya bakal browsing seharian penuh demi mencari kabar dari para bintang idola saya, yahh Song Hye-Kyo lahh, Moon Geun-Yong lahh, etc

Ketika saya membuka situsHan Cinema, di daftar DVD YesAsia saya melihat drama yang berjudul "Star in my Heart" a.k.a "Wish Upon a Star" produksi MBC-1997, yang ternyata merupakan drama Korea yang pertamakali-sekali(jangan ditiru bahasanya ya!) saya tonton! Saya ingat sekali drama itu ditayangkan di Tv7 pas saya kelas 3 SD(tahoen 2001). Saya menontonnya diam" karena takut dimarahin sama mamah, wkwkwk:D...

Drama itu dibintangi oleh: Ahn Jae Wook, dan Choi Jin-Sil(Choi juga bermain dalam drama "Rosy Life" yang sempat ditayangkan di Indosiar 2 tahun silam)...

nahh pas lagi asik" nostalgia sama tuhh drama, betapa modernnya tahoen 97 di korea, betapa keren aktris dan aktornya, betapa kangennya saya menonton drama ini sambil makan snack anak emas. Tiba" saya terkejut dengan newsfeed yang bertanggal lumayan lama, 2 bulan yang lalu(2008/10/02)

Choi Jin-sil leaves behind tragic legacy

The nation was thrown into an unprecedented shock yesterday upon the news of the death of Choi Jin-sil, Korea's iconic actress and people's sweetheart.

Choi, who took her own life at the age of 40, was one of the most loved actresses to date, having starred in numerous hit TV series and movies. She was praised for her never-aging looks and flawless acting skills.

Wow,wew, wekss, sang aktris pemeran tokoh utama wanita ternyata sudah bunuh diri 2 bulan lalu. Memang sih di Korea Selatan sekarang sedang suicide booming.

Yah bunuh diri gag bunuh diri sih sebenernya saya agak bodo amet, masalahnya Choi Jin-Sil itu di Korea Selatan merupakan artis yang sudah mempunyai fame layaknya Desy Ratnasari di Indonesia, mengingat beliau sudah bermain drama dari medio 90an sampai 2008 terakhir (bagi yang berlangganan Indovision dapat menonton salah satu dramanya yang berjudul "Bad Woman, Good Woman"(MBC-2007) di Vision-2 TeleViva).

Yah, bayangkan saja jika Desy Ratnasari bunuh diri...........
Publik pasti bakal shock berat, mana nanti ada suicide copycat lagi.

Yap.. bunuh diri atau dalam bahasa inggris "suicide" memang marak akhir-akhir ini, baik dalam media pemberitaan nasional maupun internasional. Dari menyayat tangan dengan silet, sampai terjun dari lantai 9... wew

Pernahkah anda mencoba untuk bunuh diri???

Pikir 1997X deh sebelum melakukannya, Tuhan selalu sayang anda;-)

Kisah 1001 Malam, Sepatu Ajaib...

2008-12-17T21:40:00.000+07:00

Kisah menghebohkan terjadi di Baghdad, Irak, kemarin. Sepatu dari dongeng 1001 malam yang konon dapat melayang dan menghajar penyamun dari negeri seberang dipertontonkan dalam acara pidato yang disampaikan oleh George W. Bush, president U.S.A, yang pada akhirnya terpaksa percaya pada mitos sepatu itu...

reka ulang:

Ekspresi harap" cemas, mungkin beliau menyangka yang akan dilempar adalah granat...

Ternyata bukan granat melainkan sepatu ajaib ber-size 10' milik Muntadar al-Zaidi.
Terlihat bagaimana sepatu ajaib #1 melayang, namun dengan gesitnya Bush menghindar.
PM Irak Nouri Al Maliki terlihat hanya "melongo" saja...

Pelemparan sepatu ajaib #1 selesai dengan tidak sukses, posisi Bush kembali tegak dengan muka harap" cemas, mungkin beliau takut yang dilempar berikutnya senjata pemusnah massal lol:D...

Ternyata pelemparan #2 juga sepatu ajaib, Bush sedikit lega sambil mengayunkan kepalanya ke bawah podium, Nouri Al Maliki masih tetap "melongo" memandangi kejadian itu.
Pelemparan #2 tetap tidak sukses....

Rekan" Muntadar al-Zaidi sesama jurnalis kemudian berakting "two faces" dengan mengatakan,
"Itu melanggar kode etik ya habeebee"(dalam hati mereka, "amazing, wow, brave, dll, bahan berita nih":P)

Singkat cerita Bush kemudian tersenyum setelah kejadian menghebohkan itu,

maka kata tuanku Bush daripada sanubari khalayak-nya;
"Demikianlah ceritera sepatu ajaib ini daripada sarang penyamun adalah benar adanya, tetapi Tuhan samiul-alam jualah yang melindungi penyamun dari mara-bahayanya"

Demikian hikayat melayu singkat ini, semoga pelajaran bahasa tidak remed lagi:P...

As time goes by

2008-12-15T04:24:00.000+07:00

Minggu ini saya mengganti widget music saya dari sebelumnya Glenn Miller ~ Moonlight Serenade
menjadi tembang dari film Casablanca(1942); As Time Goes by , yang juga merupakan salah satu top list dari AFI 100 Years...100 Songs, yaitu sebuah acara dari AFI (American Film Institute, bukan Akademi Fantasi Indosiar) pada tahun 2004 yang memaparkan 100 soundtrack film terbaik yang diurutkan berdasarkan peringkat dengan kriteria cultural impact.

Tentu saja yang list #1 adalah Somewhere Over the Rainbow yang dinyanyikan oleh Judy Garland dari film The Wizard of Oz(1939)....

Yup, silakan menikmati hehehe:D

p.s:
Saya agak kecewa sama hasil top 15 Miss World, yang dari asia timur or tenggara koq gak ada ya???:(

Obama...

2008-12-11T07:45:00.000+07:00

Fewhh, It seems late to write about him... a person who changed the history of U.S.A
As the first Afro-American President of U.S.A...

BARRACK OBAMA

Happy??? Yes, of course

Everyone knows since hundreds years ago black and coloured people placed as second "Class" position. With him(Obama) elected as President of the numero uno country of the world will change history significantly.

As a part of asian, I proud of him... yes, I'm so proud

VIVA OBAMA!!!

Music of the Day

2008-12-10T19:29:00.000+07:00

Hari ini saya membawa nuansa 50an ke dalam blog saya,,
Mari nikmati alunan musik yang dimainkan oleh Glenn Miller, pemain klarinet yang terkemuka era 40an(eh kok nuansanya jadi 50an apa 40an nih, pokonya jadul dan romantis, huehehe) lewat widget terbaru saya...

Hanya sekedar trivia saja, pesawat Glenn Miller menghilang dalam penerbangan menuju Paris dari London pada 15 Desember 1944. Jasadnya tidak pernah ditemukan sampai sekarang, sehingga banyak yang menganggap dia masih hidup(klo iya udah tua banget dong).

Ada folklore yang mengatakan disaat lenyapnya pesawat yang ditumpangi Glenn di pedesaan utara Perancis, penduduk desa setempat mendengar suara klarinet, yang diiringi lenyapnya pesawat dari pandangan penduduk... hiiii

Bolos...

2008-12-10T14:12:00.000+07:00

Bolos or Cabut??? whatever - la namanya.

Sedikit sesal(banyak syukur, loh), hehe

Kebijakan sekolah tercinta membuat saya terpaksa membolos di hari kedua masuk sekolah, di hari kedua masuk semester 2(loh..)

Sudah cukup dengan tragisnya Sumatif(ujian semesteran) yang dipercepat menjadi pertengahan november, melainkan masuknya semester 2 yang juga turut dipercepat dengan alasan, BANJIRRR!!!
lol:D

Akhirnya sebagai anak kosan(dan bersyukur mempunyai kosan tercinta dekat sekolah pula ;P) saya memutuskan untuk tetap dikosan, tidur sembari membaca majalah Provoke, Change, dll. Namun itulah hal terburuk yang saya rasakan minggu ini dimana saya merasa kosong, melompong , kesepian, sunyi senyap dan berbagai sinonim lainnya menghampiri saya di kamar yang hanya diterangi lampu belajar temaram(sok lampu belajar nih, kyknya lebih cocok namanya jadi lampu bujangan, huehehe :P).

Saya menyesal membolos... yang malah menjadikan saya masuk angin.

anyway, enaknya cabut yang saya alami ialah saya bisa makan soto madura dekat sekolah yang rasanya, ueeenak tenan, walaupun saya hanya bisa makan di kamar...

Hadoh, ampuun dah, ini pertama kalinya(dalam semester ke-2) saya cabut kok, hueheheh...

1 December...

2008-12-02T12:16:00.000+07:00

We knew, an AIDS person is a victim, not a criminal that should get into jail...

Discrimination to them...., that's the "criminal"

So many innocents discriminated around the world.
They just need our support

I just wanna say, let's support their life...they also humans who can't stand up by themselves...

1 DECEMBER 2008

Whatever your HIV status, there is a role you can play in ending HIV prejudice and stopping the spread of HIV.

Membelah Google Translate

2008-10-18T22:43:00.000+07:00

Google Translate merupakan salah satu fitur dari google, yang bertujuan memudahkan para penggunanya untuk menterjemahkan text dari suatu bahasa ke bahasa lain. Bahasa-bahasa yang didukung oleh Google Translate.
Pengguna berbahasa Indonesia dimudahkan dengan ditambahnya layanan translate ke bahasa Indonesia mulai 25 September 2008.

Sejujurnya saya lebih menyukai fitur ini dibandingkan fitur-fitur lain, semisal Yahoo Babel-text.
Walaupun sebenarnya layanan detecting language-nya ini masih agak amburadul, hehehe...

Ok, kita coba:
translate.google.com/

Wow terlihat sangat simpel dan supel(hehehe)

sekarang saya coba detecting language

Upsss, ternyata bahasa jerman konsonannya agak mesum yah, maklum, barbaric tribes hehehe

Coba lagi ahh...

Wuiss, apakah bahasa sunda dan slovenia serumpun, hihihi. Kayaknya menurut Google Translate iya deh:P

Sekarang mari menulis kalimat Bahasa Indonesia yang benar:

Baru tau gw bahasa Inggrinya Bandung itu California, mahakarya Google abad 21:D

Kecil-kecil Cabe Rawit

2008-10-06T23:40:00.000+07:00

"Kecil-kecil cabe rawit"
peribahasa itu mungkin cocok untuk teman seangkatan saya si |SENSOR| yang nama samaran dunia webnya adalah paw25694.

paw25694 di usianya yang masih 14 tahun, sudah diidamkan oleh segenap member kru skyscraper forum Indonesia(http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=402)

paw25694 ketika SMP aksel, dan memang masuk sekolah kecepatan, jadinya dobel aksel, hehehe.

Namun sekarang ini paw25694 disibukkan dengan berbagai aktivitas sekolah dan subsie, sehingga blog dan membership di beberapa forumnya tidak terurus, melainkan hanya satu hati Facebook dan seperempat hati FS.

Sehingga seisi pengagum dan pemuja di forum Skyscraper mulai bertanya-tanya...

Cttn gmbr:
1. Songko25492 is ME!!
2. Saya dikira bokapnya lho!!! padahal bedanya 25492 & 25694 gak jauh amat khan wakakak

Masa Depan Pertransportasian Jabodetabek(gak hanya Jakarta aja lho!!)

2008-10-02T01:17:00.000+07:00

Santer terdengar dipemberitaan berbagai media sekarang mengenai rencana pembangunan sarana transportasi massal yang murah, aman, dan nyaman(koq saya jadi inget iklan roncar ya???).

Mulai dari pemberitaan pembangunan monorel(kyknya dah gak kedengaran deh) dan subway(monorel masih memble koq PeDe bgt ngomongin subway, hehehe).

Kemaren saya melihat thread mengenai MRT Planning di Indonesia Skyscraper Forum(tentunya udah jadi member lhoo)
Busway yang direncanakan akan dibuat sampai 15 koridor ternyata diperkirakan tidak akan mampu menyelesaikan masalah kemacetan, ya iyalaaah, kota berpenduduk lebih dari 8 Juta jiwa macam jakarta mana bisa mainnya Busway yang kecepatannya paling cuma kurang dari 50 km/jam. Dan faktanya Jakarta adalah kota dengan penduduk lebih dari 8 Juta jiwa yang PALING tertingal dalam sistem pertransportasian se kota-kota Asia lainnya. Nggak percaya??? coba liat Tokyo(ya iyalaaah), Beijing, Shanghai, Hongkong, Seoul, Singapore, Bangkok, bahkan MANILA!!!

yahh seenggaknya kita masih menang dari Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, sama Dili, hihihi:P

Sebenarnya rencana pembangunan MRT macam Subway sudah ada sebelum Soekarno lengser. Pas waktu itu Soekarno mengatakan bahwa kendaraan macam tram(itu loo bus yang kyk kereta) tidak cocok di kota seperti Jakarta, melainkan macam Metro(nama kerennya Subway) yang lebih cocok. Eee... setelah Soekarno lengser koq yang ada versi mininya Metro, ya Metro Mini hehehe...

Mending mana tram yang dulu pernah ada:
klo dimodernin jadi

atau yang ini,

Zzzz...

"The last doesn't mean the least" seenggaknya kita juga harus menghargai Pemerintah DKI Jakarta yang terus berupaya merealisasikan sarana transportasi yang nyaman. Berikut ini gambar2 rencana pembangunan Busway dan MRT; yakni Monorel dan Subway yang direncanakan keseluruhannya sudah beroperasi pada 2014. Just wait dan belajar yang bener, supaya jadi orang yang bener pula, Okzzz!!!

Planning Map:
ttd; buka klo mau lebih jelas.

Subway bawah tanah(klo jadi...)
ttd; buka klo mau lebih jelas.

Stasiun bawah tanah Subway(klo jadi...)

upss ketauan dari negara tetangga tercinta, hehehe

Bayangkan di benak anda...

Monorel @ Rasuna Epicentrum

Monorel @ Ambassador

Monorel @ Senayan
Thanx to Indonesia Skyscrapers Forum.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com

Bayangkan pula...

Anak : "Mama, aku gak bisa pulang. Macetnya panjang banget. Aku masih di PS..."
Mama: "Ya udah sayang, kamu naik Monce aja"(Klo Transjakarta = Tije, Monorel = Monce dong...)
Anak : "Emangnya mama di mana."
Mama: "Mama di Dukuh Atas, tapi bukan di stasiun Moncenya, mama di stasiun Mencenya."

Zzzz...