nov 20
some random things before i leave...

thanks to quiksilver, now we got a much much better parking lot *yeah! after those weeks of misery!! *
is there any nice person, living in jakarta, want to buy & send me adhit's book?
blog-nya aan ditutup itu sedih banget , tapi penutupan di blognya bagus banget...
we'll having jimbaran fasting break again tonite *again... again...*
i'll meet one of my blog reader after jimbaran
no.. no.. after jimbaran i have to pick up sista at the airport, then meet draco in captain haddock *nis , i'm meeting the owner of captain haddock!* tight schedulu... tight schedule...
advice for this guy : don't wash your car during rain season, let's the weather do that
everyone in jakarta complains about traffic jam & rain
everyone in bali complains about
the heat *but we got rain too now*
for anyone who got question mark in their head, where i'm going? i'm going to budapest.
naaah, i just
lied
ta ta from now, see ya next month...

nov 19
baru nyadar kalo di bulan ini, setiap kali gue posting tentang film, selaluuu hari rabu...

 
this is the third story about tom ripley from the book of patricia highsmith *the first one was the talented mr. ripley*. but this time matt damon is out and john malkovich replaced him as tom ripley. about the story, just read here *lagi males nulis*. still set in italy (& also berlin now) according to nonot, the original title for this story is "The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender
Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley"


waktu mau dipinjemin film ini, gue udah dikasi tau kalo film-nya bakal
berat . tapi gue tonton juga . a swedish movie from ingmar bergman. it's about three sisters who was living together but one of them is dying because of cancer. before she died ,
 
she kept whispering with strange noise . actually i don't really get the story either .

 
gue suka film ini . film mexico yg masuk cannes film festival. ceritanya dimulai dari kecelakan mobil, terus beberapa org di kecelakan itu punya cerita masing2 sebelum & sesudah kecelakaan. tapi gue benci adegan anjing yg diadu buat taruhan itu. kasian banget . apalagi pas bagian anjingnya ditembak.

gue suka foto2 yg ada di film ini. but robin william looked scary with blond hair like that. about sy (robin williams) who worked in photo-printing department. he was obsessed to one of his customer family. until one day, when he found out the husband in the family had an affair, dia gak terima & mencoba menghukum .
 

nov 18
  it has been a long time since i wanted to write something about budapest. most people ask me: where's budapest? it's the capital of hungary, a country somewhere in the middle of europe, with no border to the ocean. and not many people know this, but budapest is actually consist of two cities: buda and pest. buda has some hills with
steep roads in the west and pest is the flat downtown in the east with the beautiful danube river as the line between them.

i used to live in buda, somewhere in 11th district. what i felt about the city was old and gloomy, not many things to shops, and me, like other international students, always change our money in blackmarket where they have better rate than the legal places. but like in indonesia, it had so many american fast foods which was not common in the pride western european countries.  
places to visit? it has dozens of old historical buildings, some of them are along the danube. or you can visit hero's square, the place in one of michael jackson's video clip. but my favorite one was margit island, an island in the middle of danube river where stella and i used to do biking after the exams.

i studied here, and never seen other indonesians at that time. before they've done processing my student visa, i had to
get out of the country once a month, i usually took budapest-paris train, get off in vienna and spent my weekend there. if you guys have seen the movie before sunrise *with julie delphy and ethan hawkes in it*, that's exactly the same train i usually took.

i can talk and talk and talk and talk without stopping when telling story about budapest.
it's not my kinda city, but i left my heart there...

nov 14
gue: thr mau dipake apaan?
dia: buat nonton matrix revolutions
gue: kan sisanya masih banyak tuh
dia: sisanya buat bayar orang nerangin gue jalan ceritanya


you rocked, man!!!

nov 14
last night was grrrrrrreeeeat!!!
i repeat:
last night was grrrrrrreeeeat!!!

to
you...
i like my term of:
touch the untouched part and yours: everyone is unique . and you're right! what stay in mind lasted longer . and you know what?? i really experience what you kept calling communication .

to
you...
you really have to make the tattoo of
visit http://alayasetya.tripod.com. hahahaa . i'm seriuos . i really mean it.
and
cheap bastard backpackers ruled!!!

to
sista...
who's
sick , laying on a bed somewhere in a hospital in jakarta. get well soon!!!
we planned to have
trip next week , right? and i got your ticket ready.

to
klub males...
gue gak nyangka peminatnya banyak banget . padahal kan dulu bikinnya
atas dasar kemalesan . sayangnya gara2 males gue gak punya data siapa aja anggotanya .

nov 13
The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look! - it is too beautiful to eat.

Then the woman and the swan sailed across the ocean an ocean many thousands of
li wide, stretching their neck toward America. On her journey she cooed to the swan: "In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband's belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English. And over there she will always too full to swallow any sorrow! She will know my meaning, because I will give her this swan-a creature that became more than what was hoped for."

But when she arrived in the new country, the immigration officials pulled her swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory. And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Now the woman was old. And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, " This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions." And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English.

--
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

nov 12
pilem lagiii... pilem lagiii...

 
just because it's one of zhang yimou's movie, i watched happy times. and it was good . about a blind girl, littile wu, who was unwanted by her step mother. there's this guy who was in love to the stepmother, so she used him to find a job for little wu. the guy was poor and kept lying to get the love of the stepmother. then he gave little wu a 'job' . just because she was blind he just made up a job for her, he even made some fake money for her. eventhough she was
blind, she knew it . then she left but said it was happy times for her, because there's someone want to make so much thing for her .

how come there are many iranian movies these days? film yg ini terdiri dari 3 cerita pendek. yg pertama ceritanya tentang hawa, anak yg waktu ulang tahunnya ke-9 , dia dianggap udah dewasa & gak boleh maen sama anak cowok lagi. tapi karena dia lahirnya pas jam 12 siang, dia masih punya waktu sejam buat nyempetin maen dulu. cerita yg kedua tentang cewek yg ikutan lomba sepeda padahal dia dilarang sama suami, paman, adek, dll. tapi dia tetep ikutan. cerita yg ketiga tentang nenek2 yg belanja barang2 yg selama ini dia gak punya
 
sekaligus banyak. karena dia udah tua, dia bayar anak2 kecil buat ngedorong kursi rodanya , sama ngedorong troli2 dia yg banyak banget. dia belanja dari kulkas, baju, tempat tidur, teko, kompor, dll. lucunya untuk nginget barang apa aja yg dia beli, dia ngiket jari2nya pake pita. satu pita ngingetin satu barang. jadi jari2nya penuh pita warna warni . terus seluruh hasil belanjaannya ditaro di pantai.

 
yes, this is an old movie *i'm still so yesterday* about a teacher in a deaf school. disana dia ngajarin anak2 spy instead of pake bahasa isyarat, mendingan belajar ngomong & ngebaca bahasa bibir. disana dia juga ketemu sama sarah, yg bener2 ga mau belajar ngomong & malahan sejak kelas 5 tinggal di sekolah itu spy bisa hidup di lingkungan yg safe bagi dia & gak perlu belajar ngomong. then he fell in love with her. menurut gue film ini biasa aja. kenapa yah di-sebut2 sbg a
key film from the 1980s .

yg ini ceritanya tentang anak senator yg diculik sama orang yg udah 2 tahun nyamar jadi gurunya. padahal anak ini udah dijagain sama secret agent. penculiknya sebenernya gak pengen uang, tapi bikin teka teki gitu. malahan si secret agent ini yg akhirnya manfaatin penculikan ini buat dapetin uang banyak .
 

nov 11
  gue nemu buku judulnya area x, hymne angkasa raya. pertamanya gue ragu2 belinya sih , tapi pas gue liat di sampul belakangnya banyak yg muji2, ya gue cobain aja beli. it wasn't bad . written by eliza v. handayani, a young writer (born in 1982). ceritanya tentang di masa depan, waktu indonesia udah bikin penelitian tentang zero gravity buat gantiin bahan bakar energi yg makin menipis. jadi pesawat luar angkasa yg jatoh di hadeslan (kota satelit di deket jakarta) dipake sbg penelitian secara rahasia. elly,
mahasiswa s2 jurusan astrofisika, curious banget sama area x yg misterius itu. dia anaknya percaya banget sama ufo & kehidupan lain di luar sana . mulailah dia cari tau dgn segala cara tentang apa yg sebenernya terjadi.

nov 10
some places are really depressing
last weekend, i went to this place i usually hang out with my friends.
but now, they've already
scattered around the world and i was still there, starring at the waves on the dark quite beach.
then we decided to go to galeria to see the movie
for midnight. but no good movies was played . i wasn't in the bad mood anymore . books and movies calm me *hi iman *.
next: went to warnet, i got this important e-mail i needed to check. but their internet was down *aaargh*.
then we bought some
experimental drinks , you know, the drink from rare brand at the 24 hours mini market. back to my place, tried all of them, then made some surgery on that famous tetra pak boxes, tried to figure it out how did they put the liquid in to the boxes and how the genius made the design.

another
boring weekend just passed...

nov 08
nuke was here...
so like usual we went out together.
first we shopped in pepito, then we had fasting break at le bake .
the portion of nasi goreng that i ate was
so big, i think it could fed 10 people...
anyway, thanks nuke . it was great .


nov 07
i saw the banner today!
i
saw the banner today!
i
saw the banner today!

and it's sooo
ugly!

i don't think
it'll be a good friday

but
cheer up of the day : thanks to those people who called and sms-ed me in the morning. you really brighten up my day ... and jealous mode to someone who's travelling today.

nov 06
since i never can see the banner you guys talking about, this guy sent me the picture of it. and yes! it's really annoying my beautiful lay out .

but actually i don't really care , as long as i can't see it myself *selfish mode*

nov 05
being nostalgic is so cool
kemaren gue ketemu orang dari
sekte yg sama
hahaha... i got this je ne sais pas quoi, speechless feeling to meet someone who has
similar childhood as mine.
sampe sering banget keluar kata2: "samaaaa, gue juga..."

dia: eh gw ngebayangin apa coba? kita bedua masih kecil asik baca buku masing2 gak peduli trus sekarang.....
dia: ketemu lagi after all those years dan ketawa2....
gue: lucu juga tuh
gue: bisa dibikin film
dia: ...yuk bikin filmnya!

nov 05
sebagai anggota klub males yg baik & benar, gue skrg suka males nulis ttg film2. so these are just some of them i can remember . most of them are old or really old movies...

i always like a movie with latin background, but this movie has too much spilling blood in it. hehehe... visit here to see the review. but at least they have many good looking people in it like antonio banderas, johnny depp and even enrique iglesias .

   
most of the setting is in a restaurant . about a wife who has a gangster, repugnant and boorish husband *the words reminded me of SAT exam *. then she has an affair with another guest in that restaurant.

     
jakarta project
got it from this guy. udah lama sih filmnya tapi gue baru nonton. yg maen rada2 kaku gitu. tentang intan trisakti yg tdk diketahui keberadaannya. gak taunya disimpen di monas. eh gue suka gambar cover-nya.
film lama bgt, tapi kayaknya bagus soalnya gue baru nonton setengah. hihihi . dapet nominasi academy award banyak. tentang gangster di chicago gitu.

recommended by this guy. cerita drama tentang penulis yg sekali nulis bagus ga berani buat nulis lagi, trus dia sahabatan sama anak smu yg talented.

hi akasa . i realized that i still have a lot of your movies i haven't seen. one of them is this one. and this is a good and long movie. about the miserable life celie (whoopi goldberg). she born 2 babies from her father that both of them was sold. then she get married to a really mean man who later separated her from her sister. but after years and years passed, she got her happiness , she met her sister and children again.
 

****mau ngucapin
makasih buat monsieur medecin yg sampe sekarang masih selalu supply gue dgn film2 .

nov 04
kemaren, waktu lay out baru gue ini baru di-launching, banyak yg ngasi tau kalo ada banner iklan tripod yg nutupin postingan gue yg atas. gue coba buka blog ini beberapa kali tapi kok ada yah . mungkin dia random munculnya, atau dia males aja kalo sampe keliatan sama gue. heuheuheu... akhirnya seperti yg diusulin sama salah satu orang, sementara blm ada yg nolongin gue gimana cara ngilanginnya, gue turunin aja ke bawah dikit postingan gue biar bisa kebaca *tapi skrg gue jadi kesel soalnya lay out baru gue yg udah jelek jadi makin jelek*@#$&%^*%^(^&*)%^&$$#$@%()*(_&$%$%#^

ada pembaca blog gue yg
kaget waktu tau kalo gue puasa. hihihi, kesannya gue pendosa banget . jadi keinget waktu gue ke toko buku sama temen gue. waktu itu gue lagi berdiri deket buku2 agama. trus temen gue bilang:"eh lo gak ngerasa panas, berdiri deket situ?" *evil mode on*

buat yg semalem nelfon gue
dari bandung, dengan maksud bikin gue iri, sori yah. soalnya walaupun setengah hidup gue dihabiskan di bandung, gue emang rada2 kuper . jadi waktu lo sebutin tempat yg lagi lo kunjungin, gue ga taulah. lagian gue udah lama juga ga apdet.

sebenernya gue lagi
banyak kerjaan . bos gue bisa mati gaya ngeliat gue jobless spt kemaren2 , akhirnya gue dikasi kerjaan banyak . tapi spt kata meo: jangan sampe kerjaan mengganggu kegiatan perblogan & ym *hidup meo! meo cahaya asia!*

nov 03
so this is the first day without you...
thanks to tell the guys
to take care of me *which i'm sure they'll never do*
and tell them
to keep me awake in the office *i never fell asleep in the office , but daydreaming often *
i promise i'll remember you
everytime i turn on the light *which i never did and i think i will never do* you know, vampire like working in the dark better.

hey you there...
thanks for the
package , i didn't expect to get it this early .
and i really
enjoy reading it!

nov 01
a new super simple lay out...
if you still remember , those
pictures on the left are taken from my last march's lay out, but exactly i got it from this magazine *to brigitte, danke danke schön*

this simple lay out has
nothing to do with many people complained that it took them light years long to download a page of my blog. i know you guys are tough ! only tough people read my blog.