Hantu hantu Bandung

Masih dari Bandung..

My lovely client, memberi pinjaman 1 mobil beserta drivernya untuk bekerja karena harus keliling keliling Bandung. Thanks God, terakhir kali keliling dengan driver Jakarta, ampunnnn deh..nyasar melulu. Pak Sopir Agus (Dari Rental di Hotel Grand Priangher kalo mo pakai), baik sekali orangnya, hapal jalan tikus dan banyak cerita serem tentang Bandung hehehehe

Kaya waktu itu kita lewat di jembatan Talang Air. Dulu katanya ada anak kecil yang sedang main boneka di deket jembatan. Dan anak kecil yang malang itu ketabrak mobil sampai meninggal. Ngga berapa lama kemudian orang sering lihat penampakannya or denger dia nangis nangis cari boneka nya. Percaya ngga percaya, katanya nih, anak itu ngga ngegangguin lagi setelah bonekanya digantung deket jembatan itu. Versi lain, katanya pada tahun 1961, ada anak mahasiswa Unpar angkatan 1961 yang doyan naek moge. Kebayang, pasti anak itu tajir banget, tahun 61 udah punya motor gede. Terus ketabrak dan meninggal di jembatan itu. Udah deh, sejak saat itu, orang suka ngelihat dosq nongkrong di deket jembatan...Mungkin cari motor nya kali yah...Cuman belum terungkap sih, ada yang pernah coba ngegantung motornya di deket jembatan biar ngga ngegangguin lagi :)

Yang gue agak takjub, waktu kita ngelewatin satu rumah di jalan Baureksa 15. Rumahnya jenis rumah lama kaya punya eyang eyang kita. Cuman di depannya, nangkring 1 ambulance bekas. Tadinya, gue ngga ngeh...Gue pikir aksesoris distro, soalnya ada signage distro "nine one one" di pagernya. Malah gue pikir matching banget. Nama distronya 911, terus di depannya dikasih ambulance yang dicat lucu gituh...

Ternyata dulu banget, anak yang punya rumah itu meninggal. Terus jenazahnya plus mami & papinya naik ke ambulance bareng (mungkin mau dimakamkan kali yah..). Eh, ambulance itu kecelakaan dan si Bapak Ibu itu meninggal juga. Orang jadi serem lihat ambulance nya, jadi ditinggalin ajah di depan rumah itu. Sudah gonta ganti pemilik rumah, ambulance itu ngga ada yang berani mindahin. Pernah suatu ketika, ambulance itu hilang ajah, dan ketemunya jauh dari rumah. Padahal udah ngga bisa jalan karena ngga ada mesinnya. Jadi tetep aja, dibalikin ke rumah itu. Yang nyewa juga ganti ganti terus, karena katanya sih digodain terus ama penghuni ambulance itu.

Oya, FYI...ternyata rumah itu pernah dijadiin rumah bordil gelap (tapi orang se Bandung tau semua sih itu rumah bordil hehehehe). Mungkin dipikirnya biar aman kali, kan polisi juga males nge ngrebek nya...

Pengalaman pribadi di Bandung...Sebagai orang yg ngga sensitif terhadap dunia "halus" tetangga kita....hanya Bandung yg bisa gue takut . Waktu itu kita lagi di jalan lah, gue ngantuk bangettt, jadi lagi bengong bengong ngga puguh gituh, Pas Mobil berhenti di lampu merah, di depan mobil ada pohon yang kena lampu mobil. Dan aku melihat ada anak kecil cewek (cantik n lucu sih sebenarnya) pakai baju putih, rambutnya panjang sebahu. GUe tak bisa berkata apa apa dan ngga bisa gerak juga hehehehehehe. Pas udah agak jauh, baru deh bisa ngomong...
ahhhh, takuttt!!!

jakarta - bandung via cipularang

Week end ini pertama kali gue coba ke bandung via tol cipularang. Janjian sama kd & rolland pagi jam 7 di starbuck mt haryono. Pas jam 7.15 masuk gerbang tol. Sabtu itu cuaca nya enak banget. Langit bersih, matahari masih malu malu even agak tersaput mendung. Jalan tol lancar terus ngga ada macet.

Sebenarnya gue agak males waktu berangkat, ngga tahu kenapa. Tumben banget pagi itu ngga telat bangun padahal semalam masih pergi ama anak anak kantor sampai jam 2 pagi. Masih sempet packing juga dini pas abis jalan itu, ngga kaya trip trip sebelumnya yg serba a la minute.

Di mobil, ngerasa bersyukur juga ada tol jkt-bdg. Ngebayang waktu pemilu, ke bandung lewat Puncak ama Visi sampai 4 jam di jalan. Padahal di Bandungnya langsung ke tempat acara. Kasihan lihat Visi bete banget nyetirnya. Maap yah jeng :). Tapi sekarang kan udah ada "supir' yah jeng buat ke Bandung hehehehehe. Dan gue udah ngga perlu diajak nih tampaknya

Makin lama berasa kita melewati lorong yang panjang di cipularang. Pemandangan indah banget setelah melewati Sadang. Ada gunung, pohon, udara sejuk, hangatnya matahari dan view yang menyegarkan. Tol nya masih bersih walau sedikit bumpy di sana sini.

Melihat keluar dari jendela, my minds fly everywhere. Event besok pagi..Shooting lancar apa ngga..Nyokap lagi ngga enak badan..F1 di Turki besok...I miss Ayi...Ngga boleh belanja banyak banyak...Tiki, Shelly and Vali udah berangkat belon..Rencana ke Purwokerto minggu depan...

Remember someone who - once - close to my heart. Yang pernah menemaniku ku jauh ke ujung gunung buat kerja kaya gini juga. And wondering, is he ever thinking about me too...Is he remembering our days with smile or simply try to make it dissapeared ...Cause I looked at my heart, and his shadow almost vanished..I can't find anything there...Why if I said I want to forget it, its really really gone?? Why its so easy??

Tepat jam 8.45, kita keluar dari Tol Pasteur. Bener bener cuman 1 setengah jam dari Jakarta ....

books......

ini bookbaton dari Ibu nurul nih, jadi harus gue laksanakan..takut soalnya ama ibu hamil :)

Total buku yang dimiliki:
Ngga banyak sih, soalnya lebih sering minjem daripada beli hehehehe. Maklum lah dulu menurut gue harga buku lumayan mahal, apalagi yang bukan bahasa Indonesia. Thanks God, dari SMA sampai kuliah, selalu dapet sekolah yang perpus nya lumayan. Waktu di Recis Bogor, perpus nya ngga terlalu besar, tapi isinya boleh lah. Gue bersahabat baik dengan si Mbak yang jaga Perpus, supaya kalo ada buku baru sebelum dipajang gue pinjem dulu hehehehe. Udah gitu, perpus nya bersih dan adem banget, jadi kalo kabur, enakan juga ke perpus. Waktu kuliah di Sastra, perpus nya juga enak dan koleksi nya lumayan lah, biarpun untuk yang bhs Perancis masih kurang juga. Sengsara juga dulu cari buku buku sastra Perancis.

Oya, walaupun gue beli, kayanya filling gue ngga bagus deh, soalnya banyak banget yang ilang entah kemana. Ngaku deh, emang dasarnya gue ngga terlalu rajin menyimpan pada masa itu. Kaya koleksi buku kanak kanak gue pada ke mana yah itu. Waktu kecil, bokap rajin ngebeliin buku macem macem dari komik wayang (RA Kosasih) sampai serial Nina, Trio Detektif sampai buku Mira W gue baca waktu SD hehehehe. Sok gede banget ngga siehhhh

But now, harga buku yang bahasa Inggris misalnya udah lumayan murah. Toko buku di Jakarta juga udah lumayan lengkap koleksinya. Kaya Kinokuniya di Plaza Senayan. Gue cinta bangettttt :). Gue juga cinta Gramedia, soalnya buku terjemahan nya sekarang banyak banget sama gue boleh baca komik di sana ;p. Gue juga berubah jadi rajin dalam menyimpan walaupun sekarang pelit kalo minjemin buku. Takut gue lupa nagih hehehehehe. Koleksi gue beragam dari buku soal iklan, chicklit, komik (tapi ngga ada yang sampe tamat hehehehe). Pokoknya gue kaya trash bin deh, buku apa aja juga okeh

Ada satu toko, namanya PaperBack di pojokan Jl Adhityawarman (sebelahan WW Sandwich). Di sini banyak used book yang bagus bagus kalau rajin ke sana. Kaya gue..lucky banget, dapet The Alchemist dengan kondisi yang bagus banget cuman 45 ribu..

Buku yang terakhir dibeli:
"Dress Your Family in Curdoroy & Jeans" by David Sedaris. Gue beli karena di review yang gue baca di Free magazine bilang bagus. Berhubung budget gue membeli buku ngga gede, jadi gue suka browsing dulu buat tahu bagus or ngga nya. Penyakit gue, kalau udah baca kudu selese, bagus or ngga. Jadi suka bete, jelek tapi ngga bisa berhenti.

Lima buku yang berkesan:
Sebenarnya banyak, but at the moment yang gue ingat adalah:
1. Trio Detektive --> buku favorit masa kecil gue terus agak agak serem gituh jadi makin asyik bacanya
2. L'Amant by Marguerite Duras. Ini buku bahasa Perancis yang indah banget. Masih ditebak tebak sampai sekarang apakah mademoiselle Duras mengarang buku ini as semi otobiography atau bukan. Kalau ngga bisa bahasa perancis, nonton aja The Lover (Julie Something & Tony Leung) soalnya film itu dibuat berdasar buku ini.
3. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Di luar semua kontroversi tentang buku ini, tapi buku ini bikin gue craving tentang history and juga religion topics. Dan bikin gue ngga tidur dan ngga konsen kerja selam 3 hari :)
4. Sophie's World by Josten Gaarder. All about history of philosphy in a very very fun way. Buku yang akan gue bacakan sebagai pengantar tidur anak gue nantinya :p
5. Why men don't listen and women can't read maps by Allan and Barbara Pease. Help me to understand men dengan penjelasan yang rasional..hehehehehehehe

Orang yang saya akan estafet kan bookbaton ini:

visi ---> jeng, diisi yah kan lagi seneng baca chicklit nih..:)
nadiah ---> temen kuliah gue yang suka menulis ini :)

Japanese Moods

Week end dengan sukses gue sakit berat, jadi udah kaya cewek dipingit di rumah melulu, apalagi Jumat ngga masuk kerja juga. Pas lihat tumpukan DVd, busyettt, ternyata banyak banget yang gue belon tonton..emang enakan belinya hehehehehe
Biar seru, gue memutuskan temanya adalah Japanese Moods...soalnya yang di tumpukan bawah film Jepang semua :) Ternyata ngga nyesel..okeh semua film nya. Dan gue baru nyadar, ternyata banyak juga film Jepang yang baru dan bagus di Jakarta (bajakan nya maksudnya hehehehehe) soalnya dari dulu gue pikir film paling susah dicari itu film Jepang..

"IMA, AI NI YUKIMASU " (Be With You)

THE STORY:
Mio's death leaves husband Takumi and 6 year old son Yuji fending for themselves. Taku occasionally suffers fainting spells, is disorganized, and fears that his health hindered Mio's happiness. Yuji overheard relatives speculate that his delivery compromised her health, and he blames himself for her death. Mio left him a picture book in which she departs for "The Archive Star" but re-appears during the rainy season the following year, and he eagerly awaits her return. Taking a walk in the forest outside their house, Taku and Yuji find a woman sheltering from the rain and immediately accept her as Mio. She has no memory or sense of identity, but comes home to live with them anyway. She asks Taku how they met and fell in love, and he recounts a tale of years of missed chances starting in high school until she encouraged their marriage years later. As the rainy season nears its end, Yuji finds the "time capsule" he hid with his mother before her death. Mio's diary is inside, and its version of the romance holds the answers to the mystery (From IMDB.COm)

THE STARS:
Starring: Yuko Takeuchi, Shido Nakamura, Yuta Hiraoka
Director: Hiroyasu DoiGenre: RomanceCertification: 12Runtime: 118minsProduction: Lotte CinemaDistribution: Dong-A ExportsLanguage: JapaneseCountry: Japan

Film ini bener bener cocok dengan week end gue. Lama banget setelah film nya Shunji Iwai "Love Letter", akhirnya ada film Jepang yang sama puitisnya. Film ini ini indah banget baik visual dan storynya. Dari rumah keluarga ini yang ada di tengah tengah hutan, si ibu yang muncul di derai hujan, cinta yang terucap di ladang bunga matahari, ibu guru anaknya yang nyentrik, icon icon cinta yang dipakai. Film Jepang memang paling bisa. Edannya actor utama nya ngga cakep, tapi pas banget. Apalagi yang jadi anaknya, bagus banget aktingnya (gue mau punya anak kaya gituh hehehehehe). Dan chemistry bapak-ibu-anak bener bener nyambung. Walaupun setengah film kita bertanya tanya gimana sang Director bakal mengakhiri kisah ini, soalnya kalau sampai gagal, wah turn off dan sayang banget. Ternyata mulus juga sampai akhir ceritanya. Ngga bisa bocorin, tonton ajah sendiri.

Denger denger, film ini akan dibuat remake nya oleh Hollywood. Yang jadi Mio - Si Ibu adalah Jennifer Garner. Ngga bisa ngebanyangin, soalnya yang kebayang ALIAS, sementara Mio itu cewek yang "cewek' bangettt...Jadinya agak pesimis, bakalan sebagus aslinya. somehow, Hollywood ngga akan pernah bisa dapet "soul" dari film film Jepang yang diremake oleh mereka, mau horror mau drama.
Mendingan film aslinya diputar aja deh...:)

"SWING GIRLS"


THE STORY:
Girls meet Jazz...

Get ready to swing! From the makers of Shall We Dance? and Waterboys comes Swing Girls, an inspirational zero-to-hero tale about a group of girls who find their rhythm - and then some! Tomoko (Ueno Juri) leads a group of bored girls stuck in remedial summer math class, who decide to ditch their boring teacher (Takenaka Naoto) to deliver lunches to the school brass band.
But the girls' extreme laziness causes the lunches to spoil, and soon nearly the entire brass band gets sick. The remaining member is Takuo (Hiraoka Yuto), who recruits Tomoko's classmate Sekiguchi (Motokariya Yuika) into the band, even though Sekiguchi's musical talents are entirely in question. But Tomoko and the other girls soon follow, partly to get out of math class, and partly because it's their fault that the entire band got sick in the first place! But there's a catch: nobody knows how to play a wind or brass instrument, much to the dismay of Takuo, who proposes that the girls play swing band jazz - and take their act all the way to a battle-of-the-bands finale! Will the girls find a way to swing like tested jazz musicians, or will they discover that maybe math isn't so bad?
Directed by Yaguchi Shinobu (Waterboys), Swing Girls struck a chord with audiences thanks to its feel-good emotions and energetic cast of young girls, and ranked eighth at the Japanese box office for 2004. Like the characters they play, many of the actors were strangers to their instruments when filming began, and learned to play as filming went on! Full of humor, heart, and more than a little satisfying irreverence, Swing Girls is a toe-tapping, crowd-pleasing good time at the movies! (www.yesasia.com)


THE STARS
Artist Name:Yaguchi Fumiyasu Ueno Juri Hiraoka Yuta
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi

Ceritanya sih standart, tentang a bunch of student yang sebenarnya lagi kena hukum tapi akhirnya jatuh cinta dengan jazz dan bikin satu grup jazz di sekolahnya. Cuman, jago aja directornya bikin cerita yang simple jadi sweet, fun tapi ngga over exagerated. Sweet ngelihat perjuangan mereka ngumpulin duit buat beli peralatan, latihan, gagal, ketemu guru music yang antik. Ngga ketinggalan karakter karakter aneh yang suka nongol di film film jepang, kaya 2 cewek rock n roll yang ngga peduli band nya apa, yang penting bisa main musik, guru music mereka yang ternyata even ngga bisa main music..let's swing !!!!


" SHIMOTSUMA MONOGATARI" (kAMIKAZE gIRLS)


THE STORY:
Portrays Momoko (Fukuda), a young romantic girl that is crazy about extravagant fashion. Living in a quiet country town called Shimotsuma, the girl's only pleasure lies in week-end trips to Tokyo during which she buys all the stylish clothes she likes. In order to finance her rising travel and shopping expenditures she later decides to make some extra money by selling the fake clothes from her father's closed down boutique. As luck would have it wild punk girl Ichigo (Tsuchiya Anna) one day spots the clothes she offers – this unusual encounter develops into one of the most funny friendship tales ever shown on the big screen … (from www.yesasia.com)




THE STARS:
Director: tetsuya Nakashima
Stars: Kyoko Fukada (Momoko), Anna Tsuchiya
From comic book by: Nobara Takemoto

Film ini bener bener kocak dan absurd banget deh. Cocok kalau ditonton cewek cewek rame rame, girl power banget deh !!! 2 cewek di film ini kaya persilangan Legally Blonde dan Kill Bill 2. Yang satu tuh girlie banget, dengan gaya Lolita yah yang PD dan cuek banget, yang satu lagi cewek preman anak motor tapi hatinya Rinto. Belum lagi gaya film ini yang comical - dari gaya dandan Momoko,babenya Momoko (yang jualan Versace palsu hehehehe), sampai neneknya -- anggap aja nonton anime, tapi yang main orang beneran, kocak and yah..absurd banget. gue penasaran, film ini kayanya ada versi komik nya, lebih ancur lagi ngga yahhh..:)
Biarpun ceritanya light and "akrab banget", tapi bener bener enjoyable.

For Della...

....as your requested girl !

In Buenos Aires, The Zahir is a common 20-centavo coin, in Gujarat, at the end of the eighteenth century, the Zahir was a tiger, in Java , it was a blind man from Surakarta mosque who was stoned by the faithful; in Persia, an astrolabe that Nadir Shah ordered to be thrown into the sea...

A year later, I wake thinking about the story by Jorge Luis Borges, about something which once touched or seen, can never be forgotten and which gradually so fills our thoughs that we are driven to madness. My Zahir is not a romantic metaphor - a blind man, a compass, a tiger, or a coin. It has a name and her name is Esther.


THE STORY
Stunned by his wife's inexplicable disappearance from their Paris home and immediately suspected of foul play by the authorities and the press, the unnamed protagonist, a best-selling writer, is forced to reexamine both his marital relationship and his own life. What he eventually discovers with the help of a -mysterious stranger named Mikhail--a man he suspects is somehow involved in Esther's disappearance--is that he must first "find himself" before he can ever hope to find his wife. Although Esther is physically and emotionally lost to him, he rediscovers her as he retraces both her footsteps and the disintegration of their visceral connection. Finally able to release the past and his anger, he can accept the uncertainty of the present by traveling to Kazakhstan with Mikhail in search of Esther and the remote possibility of resurrecting a dormant love
(from www.amazon.com)

Reading Paulo Coelho's is like having ice cream in hot sunny day :). It's a story about a man who always though that everything is okey with his marriage then suddenly lost her wife only to find that she is really the center of his universe (kalau lagu jadinya "sometimes Love just ain't enough" + "you don't know what you have until its gone" )

Walau sebenarnya talk about love and possesion, tapi buku ini state clearly, you can't love someone until you love and accept yourself. Kalau pernah baca Celestine Prophecy, buku ini hampir sama konsepnya, bahwa ada satu energi di dunia yang harus kita sadarin dan kita olah to make ourself become a better person. Gue belum baca bukunya Coelho yang Warrior of The Light, karena kayanya ada hubungannya sih bahwa ada suatu energi besar yang akan menuntun kita ke jalan yang benar once we accepted and realised it.

Kalau kita tidak menyadari dan menerima energi tersebut, maka selamanya kita tidak akan pernah bisa mengerti tentang cinta sebenarnya karena kita tidak akan pernah bisa membaca tanda tanda yang ada di sekitar kita. " all men and all women are connected by an energy which many people call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. It cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forwards, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustated, disillusioned because the energy is free and wild. We could spent the rest of our life saying that we love such a person, when the truth we are suffering, because instead accepting love's strength, we are trying to disminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live"

Yang ada hanyalah kita berusaha hidup mengikuti norma norma yang berlaku di masyarakat, menjadi warga yang baik, menjadi orang yang baik yang sebenarnya membuat kita malah tidak menghargai "cinta". Whe two people get married, they must stay frozen like that for the rest of their lives..the rules don't allow for love to change because its too dangerous. And so, after the enthusiasm of the first few years, they maintain the same distance, the same solidity...your children will only be happy if you stay just as you were...think of your neighbours...smile on the photos .....

My fav quote from the book:
"You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person??"
"I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into........a ZAHIR"

DELLA, others Coelho's books yang kudu dibaca:

THE ALCHEMIST
Buku nya tipis, ngga terlalu tebel, ceritanya juga simple about following your dream. Sekilas kaya buku anak kecil - mirip sama buku pengarang Perancis - Antoine saint Exupery yang judulnya Little Prince. Tapi sebenarnya isinya dalemmmm buangettt dan sangat philosophis. Ini buku Coelho yang (mungkin) paling ngetop sedunia. Salah satu quote dalam buku ini dan ehemmm, gue percaya banget lho kalau bener hehehehe "when you really want something, the whole universe will conspire to help you to find it".
masih banyak insight yang bagus di buku ini, sayangnya lagi dipinjem temen gue, jadi gue ngga bisa ngebahas banyak nih



Satu lagi judulnya "By River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept". Yang ini asli novel percintaan hehehehe. Subjective banget sih, soalnya gue suka banget translation nya (kerennn), setting nya, ceritanya, sedihnya..Indah banget :p
Ini ceritanya ada satu cewek , Pillar, yang suka banget sama temen kecilnya yang ternyata seorang pendeta. Bahasa nya beautiful bangettttt.....Pokoknya kudu dinikmatin dari hati :p

real woman have real curves

"Beauty is inside."
— Catherine Ledner, Photographer

Beberapa waktu yang lalu, gue sempet ngebahas dengan client gue soal beberapa reality show yang mengedepankan - mostly - cewek cewek yang di make over through plastic surgery alias bedah plastik. Damn, bener bener nakutin sekali show semacam itu. menurut gue, program program kaya gini cuma akan bikin jumlah cewek yang terkena anorexia, bulimia nambah banyak, ditambah cewek cewek yang work hard to collect big money cuman buat bedah plastik. Cerille, cewek Philipina temen gue, pernah ngobrol dengan cewek Brazil and si cewek Brazil ini cerita how big the pressure to be beautiful in her country (soalnya cewek brazil memang terkenal cantik dan bodynya bagus banget), sampe sampe, cewek cewek sana ngotot banget cari uang di usia muda hanya untuk make sure she has perfect body and perfect face.

Misalnya "The Swan", yang tayang di TV 7 ini. Di sini diceritakan 2 "ugly duckings" akan disulap jadi princess yang cantik jelita. Proses perombakannya akan memakan waktu 3 bulan dan selama itu mereka ngga boleh lihat cermin sama sekali. At the end of the show, mereka akan berkompetisi untuk meraih gelar Ratu Swan. Cuman make over nya ngga kira kira deh, you name it lah -- dari hidung, bibir, pipi, perut, paha pokoknya terserah lah mana yang mau diubah. Menurut gue, yang kaya gini nih bisa bikin banyak cewek makin frustasi, bahwa "beauty" itu ditentukan dari kesempurnaan fisik, kalau ngga sempurna, shortcut nya ada kok, bisa bedah plastik...masih ngga puas, yah bedah plastik aja terusssss...gampang kan !!! Kalau udah gini, ngga mungkin ada lagu kaya lagunya Billy Joel "i love you just the way you are..." dehhhh.

Satu lagi reality show yang ngga penting banget adalah, MTV - I Want a Famous Face. Di sini kalau nge fans banget ama celebrity, muka atau badan kita bisa dipermak supaya mirip. Namanya juga acara MTV, jadi peserta nya kira kira umur 18-24 tahun, malah banyak yang ditemenin ama bonyok nya waktu operasi. Gue ngga habis pikir, ternyata banyak banget orang yang rela mukanya diobrak abrik supaya mirip ama idolanya. Gue sampai stress ngelihatnya, soalnya pas udah operasi, banyak juga yang ngga mirip sama sekali ama yang dicontek :), ironis banget kan. Gue bertanya tanya, 5 years from now, do they regret what they did to theirself?? Do they feel stupid???

So, thanks God banget, campaign DOVE yang temanya "the real beauty" akhirnya di apply juga ke Indonesia. It's such a relief, after we exposed so much on artificial beauty and endless story of women who struggle to find their own beauty.

Kalau ngga salah, campaign Dove ini mulai nya dari Inggris tahun 2004, di mana Dove memilih 6 cewek biasa - bukan model - dari ukuran S sampai XL lah untuk jadi modelnya. Alasan nya simple; women are beautiful just the way they are. 6 cewek ini dipilih random di jalan, dan terpilih karena mereka confident and feel good about their body. Harus lah, cewek mana coba yang ngga keder, foto cuman pake bra and panties gituh lho dan bakalan dipajang di mana mana lagi. Plus hasil fotonya tanpa retouch sama sekali di komputer. Pokoknya asli dehhh

But, selain positive points, banyak juga cewek Inggris yang bilang kalau iklan ini ngga realistic. Karena, cewek ternyata perlu lihat yang indah indah di iklan, karena aspirasional buat mereka. Ada juga yang bilang, kalau iklan ini bikin mereka turn off, karena geli ngelihat badan mereka yang sama sekali ngga attraktif. Dengan adanya pro kontra kaya gini sudah pasti bisa dibilang iklan ini berhasil banget untuk increase awareness nya Dove.

Dove juga bikin survey untuk tahu opini cewek cewek tentang Real Beauty, banyak deh yang menarik :

• Cuman 2 persen cewek di dunia yang berani bilang, kalau dia itu cantik. Di Indonesia cuman 1% yang bialng dirinya cantik
• 42% cewek di dunia, ngga comfortable untuk nge discribe kalau dirinya cantik
• 47% cewek di dunia merasa kegemukan
• Hampir 40% wanita di indonesia ngga puas dengan kecantikan mereka
• Cuman cewek di Indonesia (compare ama negara asia lain) yang menempatkan spiritual dan agama sebagai hal yang bisa membuat mereka cantik :)
• 45% wanita di dunia percaya kalau cewek cantik akan banyak mendapat kesempatan bagus di dalam hidupnya
• 59% wanita di dunia merasa kalau cowok lebih menghargai wanita yang cantik dibanding yang lain

Lengkapnya di : http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com atau di http://www.forrealbeauty-id.com

must see on tv

sebenarnya sih gue ngga rajin rajin banget nonton tv, tapi ada beberapa serial yang gue cinta banget and i wish i can see it regularly, cuman gimana bisa.. orang jam tayangnya aja ngga pernah hapal hapal :)
so, here are my tv agenda this month:


CSI
Ada 3 versi dari CSI; LAs Vegas, Miami and NY. Gara gara film ini gue tebak profesi ahli forensik dkk pasti jadi naik daun. Cuman ini kan cuman film, ngga ada lah kasus yang selesai cepet banget dan alat alat nya canggih banget buat ngedeteksi crime scene nya, cuman it's so fun to watch :)
Tapi gue paling suka yang Miami. Soalnya gue suka banget ama komandannya, Horatio Caine (David Carusso). Cool, ngga pernah ketahuan lagi bete apa happy and gayanya boss banget hehehehe. Bukan karena gue penggemar David Carusso (aka Detektif John Kelly dari NYPD Blue - serial TV yang ngetop banget beberapa tahun yang lalu) lho. Dan, berhubung lokasinya Miami, ceritanya kadang kadang emosional banget kaya soal pelarian dari Kuba dan penyelundupan ini itu.

The team of Miami-Dade Crime Scene Investigators work in the tropical heat and cultural crossroads of Miami, South Florida. Scouring crime scenes to collect and analyse the evidence, the CSI team is often the only one who can defend the memory of those who cannot speak for themselves - the victims.

Led by former bomb squad detective, Horatio Caine, the Miami-Dade CSI team includes DNA specialist Megan Donner, the former head of the unit who ultimately finds herself in conflict with Caine, whose gut instincts clash with her logical scientific approach. Also on the team are the Southern-belle ballistics expert Calleigh Duquesne, Tim Speedle, the street-smart investigator well versed in trace and impressions evidence, Eric Delko, an underwater recovery expert, and the smart and serious coroner, Alexx Woods.

Kalau yang CSI NY (paling baru), boss nya aktor terkenal Gary Sinise (yang di forrest Gump, Apollo 13 dll) yang cakep banget, bapak bapak ganteng gitulah. Ceritanya juga lumayan asyik, soalnya crime scene nya suka aneh aneh, kaya di sirkus dll. Untuk NY, produser nya Jerry Brucheimer, jadi kebayang dong serunya.

In the gritty city of New York, Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) leads a team of dedicated CSI agents who view the city in a different light - that of under the microscope. Including his workaholic partner, Detective Stella Bonasera, Mac’s team includes Danny Messe, a Brooklyn-born investigator with a colorful family history, Dr. Sheldon Hawkes, a reclusive coroner, and Aiden Burn, a smart and sexy investigator whose chameleon-like behavior allows her to adapt to any situation at any time.

With the trademark elaborate crime-scene reconstructions, famed micro-photography sequences and compelling storylines brought to you by award-winning blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer, CSI:NY delivers a winning formula with its cutting-edge forensics wrapped in mystery and technological sophistication, magnified for the first time in the city that never sleeps.

CSI Las Vegas
Ini malahan cikal bakalan 2 CSI di atas. Cuman gue malah ngga terlalu demen banget, mungkin karena conflict nya selain kerjaan juga banyak emotional antar personnel nya. Kaya soal berantem ama atasan, diskors dll. lebih asyik kalau kasus nya diperbanyak kali yahhh

Gil Grissom (William Petersen) is the 20-year veteran who leads the investigators working the graveyard shift for the Criminalistics Bureau in Las Vegas. His crime lab team includes Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), a street-smart forensics expert who balances her love for the job with her devotion as a single parent to her young daughter; Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan), a sharp analyst with a passion for his job, yet with an attraction to gambling he knows he has to beat; Nick Stokes (George Eads), who's got the charm and the chops, and craves the number-one spot on the board for clearing cases; and Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), Grissom's trusted former co-worker who sometimes plays fast and loose with the rules to get the job done right.

The CSI team works closely with Captain Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), their former chief, now assigned to the homicide division, as well as the eccentric DNA whiz Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda) and medical examiner Dr. Robbins (Robert David Hall).

** sebagian diambil dari http://www.axn-asia.com/buzzsites/csi/synopsis.asp

Gue denger tentang serial ini udah lama lah di majalah majalah. Berhubung yang main cantik cantik, jadi banyak banget beritanya di mana mana, apalagi serial ini mulai pas banget Sex and The City abis masa tayangnya.
Tapi berhubung cerita yang gue baca kebanyakan tentang steamy scene Eva Longoria, and thriller nya lebih banyak ngegambarin the gardener sans kemeja, teri hatcher pakai handuk dll, so gue pikir ini another Melrose Place dong. Apalagi judulnya pakai kata desperate gituh

So, surprise surprise...pas nonton edisi perdananya, ternyata keren banget ceritanya. Complete banget, ada murder, mysteri, love, sex, beautiful woman, and of course beautiful man. Makanya pas banget ditonton cowok (ngelihat yang cantik cantik) dan cewek (problem nya cewekkk bangettt, terutama yang udah married and udah divorce and punya selingkuhan kali yahh hehehehe). Berhubung baru nonton 3 episode, belum bisa cerita banyak. Ntar kalau udah selesai 1 season dibahas lagi deh.

websitenya juga keren; http://abc.go.com/primetime/desperate/
ada quiz "which housewives are you", downloads section and lumayan kalau penasaran ama ceritanya

top reasons why ladies today are single

1. The nice men are ugly.

2. The handsome men are not nice.

3. The handsome and nice men are gay.

4. The handsome, nice and heterosexual men are married.

5. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men, have no money.

6. The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men with money think we are only after their money.

7. The handsome men without money are after our money.

8. The handsome men, who are not so nice and somewhat heterosexual, don't think we are beautiful enough.

9. The men who think we are beautiful, that are heterosexual, somewhat nice and have money, are cowards.

10. The men who are somewhat handsome,somewhat nice and have some money and thank God are heterosexual, are shy and NEVER MAKE THE FIRST MOVE!!!!

11. The men who never make the first move, automatically lose interest in us when we take the initiative.

>NOW, WHO THE HELL UNDERSTANDS MEN?


"Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with."

PUTUS CINTA

Malam ini gue di kantor, banyak kerjaan soalnya, pusing dehhh...then suddenly, muncul teman lama yang tidak terduga dan menemani ku sampai jam segini...sambil curhat curhatan tentunya.
tepatnya gue menghibur dia sih, soalnya baru gue tahu dia baru putus cinta after 4 years relationship..Gue ngga sempet kenal sih ama ceweknya, cuman gue suka numpang sampai kantor ceweknya buat motret .. ngga penting nih infonya..Si mas ini tampaknya cukup sedih dan terpukul dengan broken heartnya inih..Dasar gue pengen tahu ajah, terjadilah wawancara yang cukup panjang tentang sebab musabab kenpa mereka putus..and you know what, menurut temen gue dia juga ngga tahu kenapa mereka putus..
" ngga tahu yah Keu, gue udah mau ngelamar segala kok bulan desember ntar...cuman ya akhirnya kita merasa is she the one for me and vice versa. Then we can't answer the question until now..So life goes on, shit happened everyday.."
As simple as that --- ralat, kata si mas ngga gituh, gue dimarahin nih. Karena ini pertama kalinya beliau terlibat hubungan serius dan jarak dekat pula (???)
So my question will be setelah 4 tahun bersama, suka dan duka (kayaknya sih) then you suddenly can not love this person anymore?? still debating about 'the one' ?? Is "the one" is so important than all your suka dan duka and commitment and precious moment that you share together???
Btw, he is sitting next to me and can not answer my question???
Only said ..."damn"
Then I keep think about "the one"...how do we know we already find "the one", how to define "the one", is "the one" will guarantee the happiness of love that I have..
Is finding "The One" is as important as like finding Neo in Matrix trilogy, when your entire world will collide without "the one" ???

R, please answer these....so I can sleep well tonight.

RAZIA

Seumur umur baru gue alamin yang namanya RAZIA POLISI semalem. Kocak banget deh :). Ini akibat kalau bandel sih, udah niat mau balik ke rumah malah belak belok. Jadi ceritanya semalam gue ama anak anak waw makan di dimsum kemang. Terus kita lihat banyak banget mobil polisi lewat, pada bercanda deh kayanya bakal ada razia malem ini. Jam 11 gituh, berhubung masih pengen ngobrol akhirnya kita pergi lah ke pindah lah ke tempat lain, masih di kemang juga.

Lagi ngobrol seru serunya, kira kira jam 1 an lah, tiba tiba music berhenti, lampu nyala. Gue langsung kaget kirain FPI bow, kan rada jiper juga. Ujug ujug, terdengarlah suara dengan logat Jawa yang kental. "Kepada para pengunjung, kami dari Kepolisian RI sedang mengadakan pemeriksaan rutin. Tetap di tempat anda sambil mengangkat tangan".

Suer, pas denger pengumuman itu kita semua langsung pandang pandangan sambil ketawa ngakak. Langsung kebayang Buser, sergap or whatever program sejenis itu. Gue agak deg degan tapinya, gue males banget urusan sama Polisi. Suka ngeselin soalnya. Ternyata yang merazia polisi polisi berpakaian preman, dan kayanya ngga terlalu tua tua banget. Satu hal, mereka ngga reseh. Mungkin karena di Kemang kali yah, kalu di Kota kali lebih beringas. Sopan banget pas meriksa, malah rada rada bercanda. Ngga belagu dan ngga ngajak berantem. Kalau nanya juga ngga nyolot. Sekilas kaya kita lagi main razia razian. Cuman 15 minutes, then back to normal lagi. Biarpun ngga masalah, ogah ketemu razia kaya gini lagi . Amin..amin......

Ada satu lagi pengalaman berkesan gue ama Razia, kali ini razia KTP. Kira kira tahun 2002 an lah, dompet beserta KTP gue dicopet, so gue KTP-less lah buat beberapa bulan, males ngurus nya sama RT. Pergilah gue Bandung sama Visi, Santi, adek gue ama Debby ditemani seorang cowok ganteng yaitu Mas Dui. Sial bener bener sial, ada razia di daerah Padalarang, mobil kita disuruh menepi ikut jalan dan bermuara di..guess what ???? kompleks Polisi. Mampus banget ngga....:p
Terpaksalah gue ber improvisasi ala Charlie Angels, gue turun dan sok akrab dengan si petugas (masih muda jo..tapi ngga ganteng hehehehe), ngobrol ngalor ngidul, tanya tanya sampai lupa nanya KTP
Trus si Pak Pol juga ngeladenin dengan asyiknya sementara temen gue diperiksa KTP nya dan temen gue yang cowok disangka germo (sialan, gue tahunya pas udah jalan...emang kita cewek apaannnnn :p)
Sukses deh sampai Bandung dengan diiringi doa dari Pak Polisi yang baik hati....:)

Food Stylist

Hari ini gue ada shooting iklan baru buat product yang gue pegang. Berhubung gue pegang food brand, shootingnya pasti ngga jauh jauh dari makanan. Selama 2 tahun gue berkecimpung di dunia permakanan, ternyata shoot makanan tuh susahhhh bangettt, ngga segampang gue kira. Salah satu faktor yang penting itu ternyata adalah food stylist - yaitu orang yang bertanggung jawab membuat dan style the food supaya looks appetizing in the camera. Dulu gue pikir food stylist itu cuman masak, nyiapin garnish and pernak pernik nya then shoot and finish deh. Ternyata ngga se simple itu. Dan ternyata ngga banyak yang bisa gue categorikan sebagai the real food stylist di Indonesia ini. Sadly, but its true. Dari sekian banyak foodstylish local yang pernah kerja bareng sama gue, belum ada yang bisa gue categorikan bagus dan bisa gue handalkan kalau present dengan client. Atau mungkin ada cuman gue ngga tahu kali yah. Untuk major project, gue harus selalu pakai foodstylist dari luar, creative gue aja ngga percaya, apalagi harus ngeyakinin client. Ada satu foodstylist dari Singapore yang selalu kita pakai, dan dia ini muahaaaaalll banget. Mahalnya bisa saingan ama honor DOP nya deh :). Dia ini adalah mantan AE, yang kebetulan client nya kebanyakan food brand. Karena keseringan shooting dan know exactly the big opportunity for being foodstylist, akhirnya dia banting setir dan jadi one of the best food stylist in Asia.

Di Indonesia, ngga banyak yang tahu betapa menjajikannya jadi Food Stylist itu. profesi ini benar benar dihargai ama uang dan juga kesempatan buat travelling and shooting atau foto banyak iklan dengan directors dan photographers dari mana mana.

Sekarang yang gue lihat, para foodstylist Indonesia merasa this is just a job. First, yang banyak banyak gue temukan adalah food stylist bukan chef, bukan hanya harus bisa masak dan ngehias makanannya. Mereka harus tahu trick trick camera, harus tahu lay out/storyboard and harus catch up the latest trend di food industry. Means emang kudu invest untuk nambah ilmu dan juga perabotannya. Second, kendala bahasa deh kayanya, suka ngga suka bahasa Inggris emang kudu jago, supaya komunikasi lebih gampang karena kan crew dan client kan bisa dari negeri mana aja. Third, cepat puas. Four, kebanyakan ngejar setoran, kapan waktunya buat nambah ilmu ??

Gue sangat suka dengan Artli, salah satu photographer terbaik untuk food di Jakarta. Karena dia selalu membagi ilmunya buat para foodstylist yang kerja bareng dengan dia, ngga pelit and membuat orang juga maju.

Hope in few years, there will be a real foodstylist in Jakarta. Kalau ngga ada juga, kali gue banting setir aja yah jadi foodstylist hehehehehe

Second Floor

Second Floor
Jl. Raya Kemang 24
(Next to TC)

I love this place. Kecil banget, jadi berasa hang out di lantai dua nya rumah orang, or ngerasa kaya di sitcom Cheers few years ago :). Berhubung kecil, makanya kerasa penuh melulu mau senin apa jumat, ngga banyak bedanya. Mungkin ini the main reason gue seneng banget ke sini, karena kecil jadinya kalau pergi rame rame serasa lebih akrab dan hangat :p. And it's cheap, tepatnya very cheap buat tempat yang lokasinya di Kemang and no cover charge. Cuman, kalau pesen minum sekalian aja yang banyak, soalnya it takes a millions years to have your drinks. Ngga ngerti salahnya di mana, pokoknya ngga pernah cepet aja datengnya. Kecuali kalau kita duduk di bar top jadi langsung order ama bartendernya. Music nya ok, walaupun kalau yang jadi Dj itu si owner yang umurnya udah kepala 5 (kali yah)itu , tiba tiba lagunya jadi theme song nya "Love Boat" atau lagunya ME yang "Inikah namanya cinta...". But, semuanya tolerable, if you have your friends, drinks and a lot of laughs .....Perfect place to end your night!!

Mahadaya Cinta

Sabtu kemarin, ada pementasan darama musikal dari Guruh Sukarno Putra, judulnya Mahadaya Cinta.
Pemeran utamanya: Tora Sudiro, Widi (AB Three), Aming, Desi Ratnasari, Harvey, Sania, Dewi Gita, Nina Warna dan didukung oleh anak anak AFI (yes, from Indosiar -- cuman ngga tahu AFI 1, 2 or 3 or gabungan yah???)
Sutradara: didi Petet

Ceritanya sangat biasa sajah. Tora pacaran dengan Widi, ketua himpunan mahasiswa di kampusnya. Tapi waktu harvey, bokapnya Tora tersandung kasus korupsi, putus lah mereka karena ngga mungkin gituh ketua mahasiswa anti korupsi pacaran dengan anak koruptor. Then bla bla bla...akhirnya jadi lagi lah mereka. Happy ending ajah akhirnya. Cuman, kalau boleh usul, next time scriptnya di improve dong..pleaseeee bangetttttt. Hari gini gituh, masih ada adegan kira kira gini lah "aku bukan tidak mencintaimu, tapi aku lebih memilih gerakan ini daripadamu. Aku lebih memilih rakyat dari cinta..." tolongggggg !!!!!

Tora -- yang lagi larisss manisss -- sayangnya kurang dikasih kebebasan buat jadi dirinya sendiri, kecuali di ending nya yang sangat "tora" or sangat "extravaganza" kali yeeee. Dan terlalu dipaksain banget buat nyanyi, sorry Tora, kayanya jangan nyanyi lagi dehhhh :), soalnya lawannya Harvey bow, berat banget kalau nyanyi nya maksa.
Widi so so ajah. Desy quiet good, terus kayanya vokalnya improve banget dibanding waktu nyanyi Tenda Biru.
Harvey, ya jelas lah nyanyinya pasti bagus banget, bekas juara di amna mana gituh lho..
And anak anak AFI juga bagus untuk musical performance, walaupun kaya di narinya ngga bisa lah dibanding dengan penari profesional, masih ada yang kaku dan ngga sinkron, cuman kalau dipupuk terus mungkin bisa ke arah sana.
Cuman somehow, gue merindukan ke "glamourannya" mas Guruh dan juga ke kolosal an beliau kalau bikin drama musikan dulu, plus lagu lagunya yang putis...
Best song: waktu Harvey duet dengan Desy nyanyiin "derai derai air matamu..membuat ku lebih..sayang padamu". Lupa deh judulnya, pokoknya dulu yang nyanyi Chrisye, lagu itu jadi enak banget yahhh
Best voice: Nina Warna, aduh si mbak yang satu ini ...suaranya dashyat abissssss
Best unexpected voice: Marcelino, bapak yang di Bidadari...ternyata bisa nyanyi juga dan bener bener nyanyi.....
Best stealing scene: Of course, tiada yang lain selain...oh my god...AMINGGGGGGG....busyet deh, lucu abis, jadi pengen gue bawa balik hehehehehe, jadi apa ajah gue tetep cinta Amingggg !!! :p
Ngga penting tapi buat gue penting: di adegan "arisan", aduh kebayanya bagus bagus amat sih...damn, jadi pengen bikin kebaya :)
Best moment for sponsor: adegan "jalan jalan sore" di mana ceritanya nih para kawula muda menikmati jjs nya. Setting nya tuh tembok, dikasih poster sponsor pertunjukkan segede gede bagong...sebagai org advertising, idenya okeh banget tuh hehehehe....jarang gituh, ada show, terus bisa nitip sponsor di tengah adegan, gede pula....:)

Just wondering, di Jakarta ini jarang banget ada show seperti ini. Paling juga EKI yang teratur tiap tahun bikin pertunjukkan. Walaupun banyak konser musik asing, cuman untuk drama musikal ngga pernah ada yang mampir di Jakarta. Yah, walaupun ngga buanyak bangettt, cuman gue yakin sebenarnya pasar pasti ada lah..apalagi based on my experience, kalau dibikin jadi hip, apa sih yang ngga bisa dijual di jakarta .....
Kapan yah nonton Mama Mia, The sound Of Music or Miss saigon di Jakarta ....hmmmmmm.......

surabaya oh surabaya oh surabaya

the best part of my job is the luxury to travel in many cities in Indonesia, one package with good flight, good hotel and definitely good foods :). Last month I went to Surabaya. Flew here few times, not really enjoy the city sih soalnya panas buangett and macetnya saingan ama Jakarta. But last visit was very memorable. I got an opportunity to experience the real Surabaya food with the expert. Pokoknya asyik banget. Here is my my oleh oleh buat yang mau ke Surabaya and mau makan enak. Don't miss this ...

RAWON SETAN (Devils's rawon hehehehe)
In front of Marriot Hotel, Jl. Embong Malang. open from 11- finish (mostly around 2am).
Ini warung kecil tapi penuh melulu tiap malam. Porsinya ngga basa basi dan emang enak sih. Cuman gue kurang suka kalau makan berkuah terus nasinya "kelelep" , pengennya sih dipisah cuman ngga ada yang makannya nasi dipisah ama rawon nya plus ngga tahu yah, buat gue sih kelewat berat buat makan rawon jam 11 malam :). Rawon ini cuman buka malam hari. Makanya fans beratnya nyebut rawon ini "rawon Setan" soalnya yang keluar malam cuman setan setan plus si manis jembatan merah hehehehehehe
Jadi bukan makan rawon daging setan or makan rawon sama setan...duh garing bener gue...

KEPITING KENARI
In front of Hero, sebelah bakwan malang yang terkenal banget di Surabaya (hehehehe). Perasaan sih tempatnya rada jauh dari pusat kota, soalnya berasa ngga nyampe nyampe :)
Sumpah, buat penggenar kepiting jangan dilewatkan deh..Ini kepitingnya gendut gendut plus enakkkkk banget. Gue sukanya Kepiting Lada Hitam ama saus Tiram. Sayangnya tempat ini ngga punya Saus Padang ajah, kalau ada, komplet dehhhhh. Udang Goreng Tepung nya juga endang, cah kangkung nya juga hehehehe pokoknya semua enak. Harganya murah banget (kalau dibanding di jakarta lah). Berempat kira kira abis 270 an ribu tapi udah makan semuaaanya.

NASI UDANG BU RUDI
Di Jl. Dharmahusada 140 dan Jl Raya Kupang Indah 7.
Ini nasi putih, pakai udang tepung digoreng garing banget (udangnya mini mini), terus dikasih serundeng (kelapa yang diparut terus dibumbui) terus dikasih sambal. Kuncinya di sambalnya - aduh dashyat bangetttttt pedesnya. Enaknya, bisa dibawa jadi oleh oleh, 1 set itu 20 ribu (udang + sambalnya) dan bisa tahan sebulanan lah. Ibu Rudy nya baek banget plus ramah. Coba juga Tahu Petis nya. Tahunya kaya tahu sumedang tapi lebih enak, biarpun digoreng ngga pakai bumbu apa apa. Sebagai tahu die harder fans, ini the best tahu yang pernah gue makan hehehehehe. Definetely will come back again.

BEBEK GORENG PAPIN
Jl. Kalianyar / Pecindilan I no 35
Pas di surabaya ini baru tahu, banyak sekali yang jual begor (aka bebek goreng). Cuman gue baca di Jalan Sutra ini yang paling enak and emang enak. Sebagai bukan penggemar bebek (goreng/bakar/masak or diapain ajah) harus diakui bebeknya top abis, empuk, ngga amis dan bumbunya kerasa banget sampai ke dalem, sambalnya juga enak plus after taste nya juga ngga ada.
FYI, ternyata PApin itu singkatan lho, bukannya gara gara yang punya namanya Papin. Ternyata Papin = Pasar Pecindilan, lokasi warungnya berada.

AYAM PEMUDA
Jl. Pemuda (depan Balai Pemuda)
Makan di sini berasa kaya makan di mana gituh, tempatnya bekas bangunan kuno terus kalau kekenyangan abis makan jalan terus bisa sampai Tunjungan Plaza. Terus ngopi ngopi deh di sana hehehehe
Hampir sama kaya Bebek Papin, ayamnya juga empuk, enak, sambalnya juga top. Cuman bingung ajah, sambalnya ditaruh di lepek (piring kecil), sambalnya dikit di ujung, kecapnya di sebelahnya sampai lepek penuh. Mungkin di Surabaya kaya di Semarang, makan tuh kudu manissssssss

TAHU TEK PAK ALI
Alamatnya nyusul yah, ketinggalan di rumah bow
Ini warungnya kecil banget di deket lampu merah lagi. Jadi tahu tek ini kayanya juga disebut Tahu Gunting, soalnya motong motong bahan bahannya pake gunting. JAdi tahu, kentang digunting terus disiram kuah petis yang sudah dibumbui dan dicampur kecap dan dikasih kerupuk putih. Bisa juga extra telor dadar atasnya. Porsinya super gede, dan siraman petisnya banyak banget. Kalau suka petis, ini juga enak banget.

NASI KRAWU Mbok Su
Jl. Cokroaminoto 32G
Nasi Krawu ini originally dari gresik, cuman sebenarnya lagi yang jualan hanya ibu ibu Madura. Nasi Krawu ini, nasinya agak keras terus dikasih lauk yang namanya ulam alit (daging dan jeroan yang dimasak kecap), serundeng (2 macam; abon - warna coklat dan krawu -warna orange), mangut - parutan kelapa bumbu kluwek dan sambal terasi.Porsinya nggak terlalu besar dan rasanya dominan manis. Kalau di Jakarta - kaya di food court, biasanya dijual sama Nasi Liwet Keprabon.

what am i doing here??? Almost 11 at night, sit alone in front of my computer, in my lovely office, waiting for that damn vhs in friday night ...gilaaaaa, apaaa nih?? dedication of my work, carmuk ama boss (which is ngga mungkin, soalnya dia juga kaga tahu deh gue di sini), love my client very much or just i am turning into some psycho workaholic monster..damn, ngga jelas banget gue
okeh, actually i have 2 choice; go home about 3 hour ago, call some of my lovely friends who don't mind to have a cup of starbuck in this lovely friday night, then have our fav dimsum and buy dvd bajakan for tomorrow and ngga bisa tidur semalaman waiting of what my client will said after see the program on saturday morning or harap harap cemas siapa tahu my client ketiduran and ngga ngelihat TV hehehehe, but thanks to my high spirit and energy, my love to the brand and client, i just sit and waiting and waiting ..damn ngapain sih lama buangettt yah, but darpipada gue bisa gila plus ngga bisa tidur dan males dicomplain (kalau ngga complain yah ngga pa pa sih)...i guess i take my job so serious more than i realize...or i am just stupid mau maunya gituh lho bela belain kerjaannnn...auh ah gelapppp
deng deng deng...ferrry datang bawa vhs.......marah lagi because he wait for 2 hour lebih di tebet..maaap yahhhh :)
ok, back to work again :)

for santi and tono ....



Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"
And he answered saying:
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

sebagai yang mak comblang yang sukses abis sampai akhirnya lo berdua bisa married, gue doain lo berdua rukun selalu sampai tua, be a good and responsibles parents for your kids (and your next ones hehehehe) and awas aja lo san, kalo berani berani nya ngilang, ngga bisa di ajak jalan or ke salon bareng...yang jelas kita ngga bisa ngeceng bareng lagi sih, bisa bisa gue di back list ntar ama Tono :)God bless you two always .......

SOMEONE SPECIAL
(Aneun Yeoja)



Starring:
· Jeong Ja-Yeong - Dong Chi-seong
· Lee Na-Young - Han Yi-yeon

Directed by Jang Jin

THE STORY:

Lee Na-young slips back into her ordinary look girl role, while Jeong Jae-young takes on his latest challenge as actor portraying the baseball player who falls in love with her. Telling his down to earth romance with some good drops of humor to balance parts that at times are endangered to shift into sentimental over-drive, director Jang Jin (Guns & Talks) offers the viewers a seldom seen cinematic surprise.
courtesy of www.yesasia.com

FROM ME:
I didn't except too much from this movie at the first time. I thought it just another cheezy romantic comedy from Korea. But when I saw it - surprise surprise - it's very enjoyable, simple and sweet movie about ordinary people who tried to find the meaning of love. The male lead actor is not a typical cute or geourges as others korean movies. But I think it's very suitable & perfect for his role with his modest expression And the director played naughty with his "movie scene" which I though very clever :)
ln it simplicity, this movie bring the best of a good visuals, sweet and refreshing story and the chemistry of the main characters.
If Hollywood chick movies didn't satisfied you anymore, try this one !!!

Note: original translate from the title, it's supposed to be "A Girl I Know"

LES CHORISTES
(THE CHORUS)



THE STORY:
Is an uplifting tale of a masterful teacher who put his heart into his work and changed the lives of his students forever. Set in 1940s rural France, at a school of poor boys who are delinquent or orphaned, the story feels timeless in the way that it captures a crucial moments in the lives of the boys involved. From their brutally unfair and abusive headmaster, Rachin and in general, because they feel neglected by theirs families or don't have one at all. Only after their teacher, Clement Mathieau shows them that he will guide them through his music.

MY NOTES:
This movie was nominated for The best Foreign Movie at the Oscar 2005. Even thought it didn't win, it one of the best movie i ever saw. The story is classic, but touchy, sentimentil but not exaggerated. And of course, these boys sang like an angels. I feel their paint and sorrow through their song, how they seemed moved to the neverland when they did the chorus. And the casts are superbeb! What else can I say, c'est tres maqnifique !! It's classic, and you will watch it over and over again from time to time

The curious incident of the dog in the night time

By Mark Haddon

Because time is not like space. And when you put something done here somewhere, like a proctator or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is a representation of things that actually exist so you can find the proctator or the biscuits again. And the timetable is a map of time, except that if you don't have a timetable time is not there like the landing and the garden and the route to school. Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth going round the sun and atoms vibrating and clocks ticking and a day and night and waking up and going to sleep, and it is like west or nor-nor east, which won't existings and falls into the sun because it is only a relationship between the North Pole and the South Pole and everywhere else.
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And this means that time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. And so, if you gest lost in time it is like being lost in the dessert, except that you can't see the dessert because it is not a thing.

And this is why i like timetable, because they make sure you don't get lost in time.

Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
courtesy : amazon.com

Why I like this book so much :
1. It makes me laughed and sad at the same time
2. I love mystery books too
3. And I love solved a mystery too
4. I don't like brown color
5. Even only a little, you start to more understanding these special people

BANDUNGGGGG

Went to bandung for work this week - from sunday afternoon til thursday. This times, definitely I took train instead of flight :)

This is the first time I took Argo Gede to go to bandung. Surprised, it quite fun - the train was on time, clean but too bad, the two toilets can not be used hehehe
If not, it will be perfect !!
Last time, I took train was a year a go to Cirebon, and that was very awful and traumatic experience and I swear that I will find any way to avoid train...:)
And i love Bandung train station, it's far far better than Jakarta. It's old building and definitely more friendly.

One thing that i can't stand at Bandung - that's way I avoid to go there often - THE FOOOOOD !!!!
Oh my God, oh my dear God, rusak semua diet programs :(
bisa gila makan melulu di sana ..banyak variasi plus murah murah bow

On first night, we - me, retna and my client, Fonita - had dinner at Sapu Lidi, Cihampelas. The place was quite good, cozy and peaceful. The foods were not "wow" but still okeh - or apa kita emang laper yah hehehe
Fonita ordered nasi timbel complete - looks good, Retna ordered soto mie - not so appetizing, while i had bakwan malang - very generous portion.

Monday, Asti and Novi joined w/ us. For lunch, we had Ampera, Sundanesse food. Even the sayur asam (sour soup) color was so weird - merah merah aneh gitu - but quite good, and tempe gorengnya enak banget. Then we had batagor Kingsley for 3 o'clock snacking time. Enakk, I decided to bring some to mas Hima on thursday. Dinner, we went to Atmosphere. The place was very cozy, both indoor or outdoor - perfect space for dating or dinner with friends - and the waitress was friendly and thank you ... quite fast on serving, something that rare here. Cause I still full, I only ordered goulash soup - not so hot and not so good - but ended up we shared our order together hehehe, means I had a few slices of chez omelette - 2 bites of lamb chop - taste lumayan and 4 french fries hehehe
Back to Holiday Inn, i took a long bath in hot water to prepared a long and painful day tomorrow, gosh!

Tuesday, bombardir with sms and calls from office and my lovely media partners :) Little bit screw up while did the research - maap yah Asti !!
Had too many coffee so my maag was kambuh. Lunch, tried soto bandung - clear soto with beansprout, beef, fried soya bean, and soy sauce - it's was good! Dinner at Toko You, always luv the food there, had kodok goreng saus mentega, hmmm yummy banget. Checked email back at hotel and get frustated by the connection - lambreta lamborghini - watched American Idol and thought maybe need to stop by at the office on thursday night or friday. But friday is holiday, not sure that its open, even OB need day off kan

Wednesday, tried segala daya upaya to concentrated - kon-sen-tra-si....God knows I tried.. lunch with the Kupat Tahu. We had dinner @ SIERRA, Jl. Bukit Pakar Timur 33, Telp:(022)251-2240.
It's on the way to The Valley dkk. The place is quite good even the view is not as beautiful as I imagined. The waitress is helpful and seemed had a good knowledge of the menu. The menu is vary, from western, japanesse, and bit of Indonesian. A lot of fresh juices choices, love it !
The food presentation is lovely and appetizing. And the prices, very very very fair, i was speechless !! :p

I was tired, but can not sleep, benci bangetttt kalo gini :(

Finished worked on thursday -- finally, it's so depressing listened to all the respondents life and problems :)
and I miss my Jakarta already

thanks for Fonita to provide us with amazing dinners there and Mbak Susy who make it happened hehehehe