Movie Review : Die Hard 4.0

Akhirnya kesampaian buat reviewnya. Aslinya sih dah sekitar 3 minggu yang lalu aku ngeliat film ini ma temen2 di MATOS. Sayangnya ada sedikit gangguan yang menyebabkan aku telat ngeliat filmnya sekitar 10 menit. Anyway, Aku masih bisa menikmati filmnya secara utuh.

Film yang sepertinya bakal menjadi sekuel terakhir dari seri Die Hard kali ini bermusuhkan seorang Hacker yang ingin melumpuhkan infrastruktur jaringan Amrik dan memanfaatkan kesempatan ini tuk ambisinya. Sayangnya seperti biasa, John McClane masih aja berada di tempat dan waktu yang salah. Jadinya penjahatnya ngga bisa ngejalanin plan secara lancar. Apes pula bagi McClane, musuhnya bukan lagi model konvensional yang mengandalkan otot dan pistol belaka tapi merupakan penjahat yang menggunakan teknologi informatika tuk menghancurkan musuhnya. Untung aja dia punya seorang "kacung" bernama Ferrell yang ahli ngatasi halo ini. Aslinya si Ferrell ini merupakan incaran si penjahat utama yang ingin membunuhnya karena telah mengetahui rahasia plannya, tapi keburu dilindungi ma si McClane. Sepanjang cerita, mereka berdua jadi semacam dynamic duo, yang satu ngurusi otot dan pistol, satunya ngurusi otak dan komputer. Good Match.

Gw buat singkat aja. Ceritanya sendiri sih ngga orisinil banget. Kalo ngga salah alur cerita dan temanya bahkan mirip banget ma film Undersiege II. Bedanya adegan aksi dan visual efeknya lebih tergarap di sini. Paling juga 2 hal ini yang jadi keunggulan utama filmnya. Tuk urusan logika di film...jangan tanya deh.....ketahuan banget banyak hal dari film semacam ini adalah khayal. Contoh utama adalah perusakan terhadap seluruh infrastruktur jaringan AS. Kalo emang di film semudah itu, jamin deehhh......Amrik dah lama banget keserang ma teroris. Walo emang aku bilang secara teori memungkinkan banget, tapi prakteknya pasti ngga segampang itu.JUga adegan F-35 yang bisa melakukan manuver hovering kaya begitu. Walo emang F-35 bisa melakukan VTOL flight, tapi kok rasanya manuver pesawatnya masih khayal banget tuh.

Aktingnya sendiri sih cukupan, ngga kurang ngga lebih. Bruce Wilis kayanya emang dah jadi tokoh yang paling pas tuk memerankan McClane. Cocok dan menghayati. Apalagi dengan kata2 trade marknya yakni Yippe Yee Kay Yi Mother F*****. Yang menarik perhatianku adalah hadirnya si Maggie Q. Sayangnya dia kebagian peran penjahat, ngga sebagai pihak yang baik seperti di film MI:3. Aktor2 lain bagiku dah cukup mendukung jalannya film.

Overall, kalo mo nyari film penuh aksi, kayanya film ini pas. Storyline sendiri sih walo ngga bisa dibilang bagus amat n orisinil tapi paling ngga dah cukup kuat tuk menyangga jalannya film ini. Bagiku, ini merupakan sekuel Die Hard terbaik yang ada sejak film pertamanya pada akhir dekade 80an.

Movie Review : Evan Almighty

Melanjutan rangkaian movie spree-ku, kali ini bisa ngeliat sebuah sekuel komedi yang lumayan lucu. Yup....Evan Almighty.

Temanya sih hampir hampir sama dengan prekuelnya. Tapi kali ini nih ceritanya Tuhan tidak lagi memberi tugasnya pada seorang manusia tetapi menunjuk seorang manusia tuk jadi seorang nabi. Dan manusia yang apes tersebut tidak lain adalah Evan Baxter. Kalo lupa orang ini adalah rival si Bruce Nolan pada film terdahulu.

Ceritanya sih si Bruce kepilih jadi anggota Kongres amrik. Jadinya harus pindah ke ibukota ma keluarganya. Berhubung dia pengen banget ngelakuin sesuatu yang "besar", maka dia berdoa agar dikabulkan. Dan ternyata.....dikabulkan euy...Ngga tanggung-tanggung....dia diminta ma Tuhan tuk membuat sebuah kapal besar layaknya cerita nabi NUh.

Awalnya sih ngga ditanggapi. Tapi tiap hari semakin banyak perubahan yang akhirnya memaksa dia tuk menjalaninya, mulai dari banyaknya hewan2 berpasangan yang mengikutinya kemanapun, banyaknya kayu2 yang ditaruh di sekitar rumahnya sampai adanya perubahan fisik pada dirinya yaitu tumbuhnya jenggot yang lebat sampai tak bisa dipotong bagaimanapun. Walhasil, karena menuruti hal ini, dia diskors sebagai anggota Kongres.

Layaknya seorang Nabi, tentunya dia dicemooh sama masyarakat dan keluarganya. Hanya keluargaya lah yang akhirnya mau rujuk dan kembali membantunya. Tiba saatnya, hewan2 dah pada masuk, hanya orang2 yag menontonya yang ngga mau masuk serta kedalamnya. Ternyata, alasan pembangunannya adalah karena ada gejala keretakan dis ebuah bendungan di dekat lokasi rumah si Evan. Dan lokasi perumahan si Evan sendiri juga bermasalah karena ditengarai sebagai hasil transaksi terlarang oleh seorang anggota KOngres.

Bendungan pun retak dan orang2 pun terpaksa masuk kedalam kapal itu. Air bah yangtiba pun menghancutkna seluruh perumahan itu dan menghanyutkan semua yang ada. Akhirnya kapalnya behenti di depan Capitol Hill dan semua pun terungkap. Yaaa.....Happy ending lah pokoke.

Sebetulnya sih film ini jelas2 banget "ngenyek" agama samawi karena tema yang dipake. Tetapi terlepas kontroversi tersebut, film ini mampu tuk menghadirkna sebuah komedi dengan gaya yang berbeda dengan prekuelnya tetapi sama2 lucu. Memang hal ini banyak dipengaruhi gaya si Steve Carell (pemeran Evan) yang berbeda ma Jim Carey (pemeran Bruce Nolan). Tapi gpp-lah.

Hal lain yang menjadi perhatian di film ini adalah diangkatnya isu lingkungan. Asli...aku ngga bakal nyangka hal ini sebagai tema utama film ini sampai akhir ceritanya. Selain itu, film ini juga mengajarkan betapa pentingnya keluarga dalam menghadapi godaan dan cemohan tetangga dalam menjalankan tugas "suci" dari langit. Intinya jangan lupakan peran keluarga sesukses apapun anda.

Aku ngga tau apa bakal dibuat lanjutannya. Kalopun iya....tebakan gw kalo ngga dari kisah nabi Musa ya Nabi Ibrahim. Aku sih menikmatinya sebagai film aja, ngga perlu terlalu serius memikirkan kontroversi yang ada.

Drama Review : Nobuta wo Produce

Aaa....another drama finished. Like the others, I finally had the chance to watch this drama. It also helped me a lot in variating my boring days lately.

The drama is about the the friendly realtionships between three students, two boys and a girl. It didn't start out that easily though. Things all started when the girl, whos was really timid and shy moved to a school where Shuuji and Akira, the two boys attended. with her timid nature, she sure was easily picked up by others. Because of this, Shuuji decided to remake her into a different person so that she can be more confident and attractive to others. Akira joined in to produce the girl who is named Kotani Nobuko into Nobuta.

Everything started progressing slowly. She was still teased and picked up, but both Shuuji and Akira found ingineous ideas to make it more entertaining. Some of them even managed to make a quick trend in the whole school like painting their school jackets and the Nobuta key chain.

As usuall, there's always the bad side. It seemed that a certain person didn't like Nobuta to be more famous. This person then repeatedly tried to damage and foul some of Shuuji and Akira's effort towards her like ruining the Haunted House, making fake copies of the Nobuta key chain etc. It turned out to be Aoi, the girl whos was all along acting friendsly towards Nobuko.

Despite the trouble in producing her, the three also had their problems between them to deal with. As expected, there was some kind of triangle romance between them. Akira directly said that he wouldn't again get involved in producing Nobuta because he loved her and wanted her by her side always. But, it certainly is that Nobuta has a feeling for Shuuji, proven by her hug to him in the park. Luckily thery managed to clear things up an become normal friends again.

If there's a start for everything, there's also and end. Shuuji had to move outside town because his father had to moved. This somehow causes some worries for Nobuta wether she would be able to survive without him. The time came and they had to bid farewell to each other. In his new town, to his surprise, Shuuji found out that Akira also moved to the same school as him. That meant that Nobuta was all alone again. But Akira assured him that she would be okay without them. And it was true, Nobuta did managed to became a more confident and popular girl school.

The drama is excellant really. The theme about producing is surely something unique. But don't forget there are other important moral things that we can take from this drama, like friendship, envy, jelousy, relationships etc. every episode can really convey a good message to the viewers. About the acting, I thing they all made a good job. Especially for Horikita Maki who played Nobuta, it really fitted her. Overall, I really would recommend this drama. It does have much message for us to digest.

When people loot our backyard....

Ever wondered how it feels people playing cowboy at your garden, or throwing rubbish on to your cultivated soil??Well, Indonesia is soon gonna have a feel when the Defence Corporation Agreement will be efectively implemented.

The hassle on this DCA first started when Indonesia and Singapore agreed singing an agreement to extradise corruptors that are suspected to have taken shelter there. Things turned out good when it was discovered that the agreement was also in tie with a DCA also to Singapore.

Parliament went wild after knowing that various points in the DCA turned out to give much advantage towards Singapore when they conduct a military exercise. As a reminder, the whole DCA is about letting Singaporean Military force to do training on certain Indonesian soil and water. For exchange, Indonesia get to try and train with their military equipment which of course is far advanced than ours. Knowing the details, many people showed their dissagreement against the DCA. One of the main points is that by doing so, we are letting other nation to play around in our backyard. To make things worst, in some conditions, Singapore are allowed to invite another nation to loot Indonesian seas.

Well, the logic is, why let other people loot our backyard just for the sake of grabbing those corruptors or having a try at their advanced military equipment. It sure is an irony having to know that even though Indonesia has a vast area, but we don't have what it needs to defend it. Coz of this, Indonesia has always been played around by other nations in terms of their inability to guard their own teritorry.

So...would we mind another nation doing so. While they fire missiles, torpedoes and live amunition, the risk of poluting the environment is high? Not to mention that fishers cannot go fish while they have their exercise because they get the risk to get killed. But, what matters most is the breach of our sovereignity and our submission towards another country pressure. Is the price of getting back corruptors so low that we are able to sell our pride as a big nation???I'm pretty sure that the majority of the Indonesian people wouldn't do such things unless they are the ones who are able to sell their souls to the devil.

Kecipak-Kecipuk.....

Finally got time to write down this blog. I guess it's been around 2 weeks since the last time. Luckily I did manage to write down some pieces of my mind during the interval. I really didn't have much to write sown since my daily activities are fairly dull these days.

After some years, I finally went swimming a couple of days ago. I think it was in junior high that I last went swimming. I thought my body was able to remind some swimming technique, but then it turned out the opposite with me not able to synchronise my movements correctly. In other words....I was barely able to swim properly.

Why did I all of a sudden went swimming. It's simple. I've been feeling quite lazy to do jogging the last couple of days. Its just that I need a change of pace or things in order to refreshen myself. I thought swimming would be a good start. Indeed, I did feel fresh after days having to jog. It ended up really good despite myself struggling to swim.

I do intend to do some swimming regularly. For the moment, fortnightly would do. The current hindrance is that swimming does cost some money. As for this time, it turned out quite expensive, for 30.000 rupiahs. That's twice the amount in other places. Well, it certainly is a good place and it isn't that crowded (maybe due to the price). Turning away the price, swimming does deliver a different sensation because unlike jogging; in swimming, you almost move all your muscles, so it's somewhat more tiring but fun than jogging.

That should be enough for swimming. Overall, I just feel bored with my jogging. I'm trying in someway to find an equal substitute to jogging but that could also cause some sweat. At least swimming would help. Currently, I'm wondering on changing my course track. The current one sure is full of ups and downs. Other ideas...he..he..currently out of.

Still things are quite boring. Just doing IELTS lessons, now more frequently since it's 4 times a day. Too bad the test for the 25th is fully booked so I plan to take it on the 4th of september. That means I gotta register myself ASAP.

That's for now I'm afraid. Still gotta squeeze some more ideas on finding a substitute to jogging. Hope I succeed in the next couple of days. Till then.....

Anomali....

What anomali??Well, it about my internet connection actually. Ever since I've had it installed, it seems that the download speedy is decreasing. It did start off amazingly with an approximate speed of around 20-30 kb/s with a steady browsing speed. But then, things went bad and it ended up with a speed of barely around 7-8.

The anomali itself started by the beginning of the week. The download rate finally increased, but the browing speed suddenly went down all of a sudden. It's a good thing that I can now again download stuffs quickly, but how I'm gonna start any downloads unless I can start to browse something. Except if I donwload from a ftp site, but I usually start mine through a direct download method.

This weirdness hasn't stopped till now. Luckily till now, I've managed somehow to map what time usually the connection is good to go, or in other words good to download. Usually its on the afternoon or past 9pm. But then, still with the anomali going through. Eventhough, I guess I still should be gratefull that I've now got an Internet connection.Since the raid IC's the few months ago, I heard that IC's are now getting more and more boring lately.

As you know, IC's in Indonesia don't just offer Internet connection, but a whole kind of things, from free mp3, video clips, software masters, anime, software crack...and even XXX stuffs. And all these vanished coz of one raid. I was expecting taht they would put up those stuffs again after a while, but It then didn't turn out that way. Either the IC's are too obidient or afraid I wouldn't know for sure. BUt I do know that going to an IC nowadays ain't a fun any more except you're purely browsing and surfing without additional entertainment.

The previous condition meant that I should make use of my Internet connection from now on. If it's just anime, western music and their PV's, I guess it would be a piece of cake. But for Indonesian mp3??now that's kinda hard. Till now, I have heard of a site that offers free Indonesian mp3 either through direct download or bittorent. But it's the internet, and coz of that I'm sure that I'll find it sooner or later.

Other critics..?Honestly...still lots of. One of them involve the inability of my browser to open a ceratin site or two. I'm sure it's coz of a plug-in that hasn;t been installed, but then which plug-in???For the time being, I guess I'm gonna have to open that site with another browser.

I guess that concludes thing for the moment. Do hope that things turn bake the way it used to be in the beginning. On my daily life?it's just the ordinary stuff while waiting for my graduation ceremony. Anyway...till then...^^

Tipe of movies U like....

If your wondering what are the likes of me when watching movies, here's a hint. Remember that it's not in order.

1. Action

Watching an action movie sure does pumpup your adrenalin. If though you're not in it, it just makes you feel that you're a part of it. Can't just let your eyes of the screen coz you'll suddenly miss some exciting event. But remember, the movie gotta have a good storyline so that the actions don't go in vain.

2. Love Comedy

It's always fun to see a couple having to go all those tiny bits about their relationship. Usually these movies have a perfect mix of romance and comedy which does lighten up the story.

3. Drama

Honestly, I seldom look at drama films. Its not that I hate them, It's just that I've gotta be sure that it at least has a decent storyline and plot. Or else, I might end up sleeping due to the dense stiry that a drama usually has.

4. Historical

It doesn have to be based on pure historical events, but it could have a certain historical background. The enjoyment have atching at this kind of movie is that the historical background makes me eager to learn new things after I finish the film.

CSR....do we really need this???

Ah, here I meet again with this topic. Personally, it isn’t a weird phrase or word to me since I used this theme to work on my thesis. Eventhough it has only been about 2 month since I’ve finally finished my thesis, remebering it sure brings back the memories of me going through al those books, journals and reading materials all about CSR.
Anyway, I’m sure some of you don’t have a clue on what’s CSR. CSR stands for corporate social responsibility. It’s a kind of responsibility that a corporation must carry out as an act of responsibility towards their environment and social surroundings. It may sound like something noble. Well, virtualy it is. But still, for decades, it has been one of the major dispute on wether corporations should incorporate it through its operations.
The major destruction that have been plaging the planet for the last 5 decades, especially for corporations that work in excavating fields like mining, foresting and sorts of have been causing heaving wreckage to the earth environment. Eventhough the destruction is evident, still, little action is done to repair it. Not only the environment that suffers the most, but also the social life including the people around the area of operation suffer directly from them.
Due to those kinds of circumstance, CSR has received many attention and support for its implementation. And it is starting to be the pivotal point in many major corporations to applu good corporate governance, in which CSR is also a part of it. Some countries have also managed to make CSR as an obligation to corporations, with a sanction for not doing so.
Despite the growing support and visible action, there are still some points that still bother me personally in how CSR is conducted. Eventhough it is obliged for corporations to implement it, the fact is that it is still only a voluntary act. In other words, there ain’t any laws or rule that tie them to do CSR. Other facts are that eventhough corporations claimed that CSR has been implemented, many people residing near the corporations main facility claim that they haven’t received any sort of attention what so ever from the compnay despite them exploiting the environment.
That’s the big picture on CSR for the moment. In Indonesia, the news has recently bought up topics abaout CSR in the process of being included in an act which makes compaies obliged to conducted CSR, especially for resource exploiting companies. And as expected, the number of critizism has risen. Most of them reject the act which requires firms to have to implement CSR as an obligation and not as a voluntary act. Well, it seems firms do have one thing in common around the world if it goes to this part.
To me, companies of course need to pay attention to their current surroundings, and imlementing CSR is one part of it. But still, CSR should be done in a proper manner such like carefully planned with other groups and communty. Companies can’t just live and do nothing about their falling surroundings when they gain money day by day from using up their environment. Also, CSR is not to be limited to resource exploting companies, but all firms should conduct CSR as well. The method may differ between different industries, but still, as long as as companies start to give more attention and compassion towards their surrounding, then corporations and the social environment can live in harmony together without any disputes.

School....Mahal La Yau....

Sori...aku lagi agak terenyuh....;maybe...ini bakal jadi sebuah postingan yang serius...sesuatu yang agak lama sudah ngga kulakukan lagi.

Jumat pagi, aku sedang menunggu omd hi. Tiba2 yang datang malah tukang koran. Well...aku sih dah firasat bakal ada penagihan di muka seperti bulan sebelumnya. Hanya saja...kali ini bukan karena ada anggota keluarganya yang sakit...melainkan untuk biaya masuk sekolah anaknya. Kaget juga gw pas denger tuk masuk SD aja harus bayar 1,5 juta...wuiiihhhh...

Belum selesai rasa trenyuh gw eeeehhhh...pas baca koran headlinenya kurang lebih menggambarkan para guru2 demo menuntut anggaran pendidikan 20% dipenuhi pemerintah. Yang murid ngga sanggup bayar eh yang guru pada demo...so....mana letak masalahnya...

Kalo gw bilang sih masalah awalnya adalah dipertanyakannya niat pemerintah untuk mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa ini. Seperti yang tercantum di UUD, gw yakin tiap orang punya hak untuk mendapatkan pendidikan terlepas status sosialnya. But reality really bites hard. Nyatanya hanya orang-orang terpilih dari jutaan orang di republik ini yang sanggup mengenyam pendidikan. Orang terpilih dalam hal ini adalah orang yang sanggup mengeluarkan uang untuk mendapatkan tempat di sekolah yang diinginkan.

Faktanya jelas sekali sekarang ini bahwa bagus tidaknya mutu pendidikan seringkali harus berbanding lurus dengan banyak tidak uang yang dimiliki seseoarng. Aku jadi teringat ketika mendengar SMA menarik uang sebesar 5jt tuk biaya masuknya. Emang sih...sekolah internasional gitu lho. Tapi kok mahal banget rekkkkk!!!

Jadinya, memang negara atawa pemerintah sebagai pengelola bangsa ini, patut dipertanyakan niatannya dalam mencerdaskan rakyatnya. Jangan salah.....gw yakin kenapa kehidupan negara ini senantiasa kacau balau tak pernah terib dan makmur sebagian besar adalah karena tidak terdidiknya rakyatnya. Entah karena mereka ngga mampu bayar ato jangan-jangan emang dasarnya ngga mau belajar.

Berhubung gw ini mahasiswa (yang baru lulus), gw kasih contoh yang deket yakni mulainya beberapa PTN berusaha meraih status BHPN. In other words, dengan status ini, PTN tersebut kurang lebih dilepas oleh pemerintah untuk mencari dana sendiri secara mandiri. Dengan demikian, pemerintah dah ngga ngasi subsidi lagi. As the result is logically, biaya pendidikan tentunya juga jadi naik laaahhh. Dalihnya sih walo naik tapi kenaikan tersebut akan disubsidi silang. IMO...gombal bangeeeettttt.....Dan walopun beberapa belum mendapatkan status itu, tapi seperti mereka dah mulai membuat ancang-ancang. Salah satu buktiny adalah dengan dikuranginya jatah kursi lewat SPMB dan dialihkan ke jalur SPMK/PMDK yang notabene harus bayar lebih mahal daripada SPMB. Terbukti lagi kan kalo yang akhirnya bisa mendapatkan pendidikan adalah yag lagi-lagi yang punya doku banyak. Bisa-bisa kalo gini yang jadi ekstensi adalah yang berasal dari SPMB karena jumlahnya dikit dibandingkan dengan mereka yang dari SPMK....

Ngga cuma para calon siswa ato mahasiswa yang sengsara. To make things worst...para guru pun juga merasakan derita yang kurang lebih sama kalo tidak dikatakan lebih mederita. Ditengah peranmereka tuk menghasilkan tingkat output pendidikan yang memadai dan layak, mereka sendiri didera himpitan ekonomi yang seringkali memaksa mereka tuk mengabaikan peran mereka sebagai guru dan nyambi bekerja di tempat lain demi memenuhi kebutuhan nafkah mereka. Masih untung kalo dosen, coz biasanya kalo dosen kenal deket ma pihak2 lain biasanya dapat proyek ato apalah gitu, tapi kalo guru..??paling2 ngojek ato ngajar les ditempat lain.

Harus diakui, memang harga sebuah ilmu itu mahal. Harus ada pengorbanan baik jiwa dan materi tuk mendapatkan dan menguasainya. Namun, mengingat ilmu adalah hak tiap insan yang hidup, harusnya bisa diusahakan lewat sebuah political will tuk mengusahakannya bagaimaapun agar pendidikan bisa dinikmati berbagai kalangan. Jangan salah, pendidikan tidak hanya perlu tuk membangun sebuah negeri, tapi penting untuk mengasah pola pikir dan intelegensia seseorang dalam memikirkan sesuatu. Ini juga agar rakyat sini tidak mudah di-"plokotho" negara lain yang ingin menjajah negeri ini kembali. Ato jangan2, emang sengaja diatur supaya orag sini mudah di-plokotho biar ngga mikir macam2 dan mudah disuruh sana sini???wallahualam....

PS : Intinya, jika ada kemauan, pasti pendidikan murah ato gratis itu bukan hal yang mustahil. Yang penting ada kesadaran dan langkah nyata untuk mencapai hal ini!!!

PV Review : SEVENTH HEAVEN

Finally I got the chance to make a review of this MV. Well, coincidencely, I've just finished downloading the MV through the internet. eventhough it took quite some time (coz of the bittorent), I guess it was worth it. What made me more glad is because of the high quality that I've just downloaded. I did get this MV before, but it was really in poor quality (.flv).

Anyway, for the fans, it's sure a while after laruku released their last single. After Link (their last single), the fans have been kept wondering when will laruku produce their new material. This was mainly because of the members doing their solo works. And for around a year, laruku didn't make any news as a group.

Back to the PV. Since it's the first single for a while, I do agree that fans were expecting something. Indeed, the song itself has raised curiosity before even it was officially released. It was because the song ahs been aired around 40 days before it's initial release.

since the song has a strong tone of techno, I personally wondered that the PV would look more rockier. But then, it turned out far than my expectations. It didn't turn out poor, but I was left amazed by the merry and colourfull look the PV had in it. Don't forget hyde's body dance through out the song. Certainly, laruku knows how to surprise their fans.

The setting of the PV was taken in a box, something like Killing Me PV. Instead of flying people like in that PV, we get dancers dancing on the floor in front of the band members. And the dancers on both sides of the box. It sure had many dancers. They used the CG to make sure the dancers turned out on time during the PV.

As for the members, nothig notable I guess besides hyde's gesture. I think they got to much shoots on hyde and tetsu. As for tetsu, his hair style was simillar to the style he used at the 15th L'Anniversary concert a few month earlier. About Ken, he's in his usuall black outfit. Don't forget Yukihiro, well, he looks more thin as before. But for his stance during the whole MV, I think it's kinda odd not to see him play the drums while crossing his arms.

Overall, I think the PV still stands out to L'Arc's other ones. Especially for the color it has in it. But still, I'm very sure L'Arc can make PV much better than this one. The one thing that I don't like in the PV is the excessive amount of dancers in thse weird outfits. I hope their next PV would fare more better than this.

Nothing to Do....

Fuuuuuuuhhhhh.....damn....what should I do? After I've finished of my bits of administration at my campus, it seems that there's nothing much I can do besides doing my activities at home.

I've been filling my days just studying Japanese. There's gonnna be a final test nex week, so I better prepare myself. I hope that I get a mark above 7.5. I guess that should be enough. Also, I'm currently trying to study more Kanji. I did make a target that by the end of this month, I'm able to master at least 60 Kanji characters.

About my physical activities, it's been two days since I've started running again. Eventhough I haven't fully recovered from my flu, It seems their hasn't been any problems so far. The sensation of sweating so much after jogging sure makes me fresh. But do remember that I need to do this continuously. After around 3 month, I'm hoping to harvest the results of my exercise.

Japanese and Jogging....what next...?It'd probably be cleaning up the house and watering the plats and grass. For this I have to do it daily in the afternoon or morning. The exception are for the orchids which I only have to water it every 2-3 days only. It may sound easy but I wonder why I feel very lazy to do this kinda stuff?

On top of that...I've just finished my application to enter Monash University. I do hope I get a satisfactory reply. To keep my chances, I did also ended up entering for Curtin too. Nevermind, just consider it as a backup. Where ever I end up, I'ld still be at Australia, not at Indonesia or at Korea (???).

Ahhhh....I do hope I can do something more inspiring in the few days. It sure is killing me slowly If I have nothing to do. May Allah SWT grant my wish. anything would do as long it'll be someting new and or inspiring. AMIIINNNN.....

Bloody Cold...

Brrr.....it's sure damn cold nowadays....

Well, it it is entering July so I shouldn't be surprised about such things, besides, I've already been in Malang for around 6 years, so I should've
preapred myself.

But then, it seems that i got another flu again in the wrong time. And the cold sure does makes things worst for my body coz almost every night my body gets the chills.

And to complet things, due to my cold, I sure need a rest from my daily physical activities. Surely I do miss such things. It's just I've recently felt very great having to sweat myself again after a while not doing so. I even lost 1,5 kilo's!But too bad I have to take care of this illness first.

About other things, luckily I've managed to finish of my administration at my campus after my thesis exams. It sure wasn't a simple thing though. It's just really a bother having to go from desk to desk just to get an approval of something. I'm sure things should be more efficiently done if they somehow slimed down the beaucrasy (birokrasi maksud gw!!).

And bout my net...well...things are getting quite normal. The hype has far lessend compared to last week. But what's bothering me is the limit has been breached!!And it's now exceeding about 17 hours and counting. I hope someone wouldn't get mad for this....

I guess that's for now. Hope to be able to Jogg again soon. I do need some sweat since I feel I've gained another kilo due to my illness

Movie Review : Goal II, Living The Dream

Wah, ngga nyangka sekuel dari film pertamanya dah keluar secepat ini. Tapi jujur aja, aku juga menantikan lanjutan petualangan si santiago Munez menjadi seorang pesepakbola.

Sekuel kali ini bisa dikatakan lebih mengeksplorasi kelanjutan kisah si Munez ketika dia sedang menapaki ketenaran dan kesuksesan dalam hidupnya. Dan ngga seperti film pertama, film kali ini menurutku lebih kelam karena si Munez banyak menghadapi konflik dalam hidupnya baik yang berkaitan dengan karir sepakbolanya maupun kehidupan pribadinya.

Semua hal itu bermula ketika dia ditransfer ke Real Madrid. Wow...dreams come true banget tuh. Sampai sana dia ketemu lagi ma teman dan mentornya sewaktu di Newcastle yakni si Gavin Harris. Dengan demikian, dia bisa lebih mudah beradaptasi dengan kerasnya persaingan dalam tim tersebut.

Masalah bermula juga dari si Harris, coz as you know, dia ngajak si Munez dalam kehidupan ndugem para selebritis. awalnya sih santai aja bagi si Munez. Namun rupanya susah bagi dia tuk menghindarinya. Belum lagi ketika dia harus menjalani hubungan jarak jauh dengan pacarnya yang ngga bisa meninggalkan pekerjaannya di Newcastle sebagai suster.

Puncak dari masalahnya adalah ketika dia di kartu merah pada pertandingan pertamanya sebagai starter dalam tim utama. Dah gitu dia cedera gara2 jatuh kena sepeda. Gara2 ini pula jadinya dia ngga bisa natalan ma pacarnya di England. Semua jadi berabe tuk mereka berdua ketika pacarnya membaca majalah dimana ada adegan Munez sun sun-nan ma seorang reporter. Duh...kasiaaan banget, dah jatuh ketimpa tangga pula....

Namun demikian, ngga semua berjalan jelek bagi si Munez. Di tengah pemulihan cederanya, dia rupanya bertemu dengan seorang bocah yang mengaku sebagai adik tirinya. Hal ini kemudian berujung pada pertemuannya kembali dengan ibunya yang ia anggap telah meninggalkan dia dan ayahnya demi pria lain. Untungnya sih mereka akhirnya bisa damai kembali sebagai anak ibu. Good for him.

Ngga sadar cederanya mulai pulih. Namun demikian...dia tetap harus berusaha berlatih kembali tuk meraih posisi dalam tim. Untungnya dia sempet come back ketika masuk sebagai pemain pengganti pada suatu pertandingan. Namun demikian, hal jadi semakin dilematis tuk si Munez. Seiring meningkatnya performanya, si pelatih pun bingung harus menempatkan siapa sebagai starter pada pertandingan final melawan Arsenal. Bagus bagi si Munez, karena dia akhirnya mengalah dan meminta pada pelatih tuk memasang Harris sebagai starter.

Dan bermainlah madrid di final Liga Champions (dimana seharusnya Barca yang main dan kemudian juara). Mulai dari sini hal-hal yag menurut gw agak fantastis terjadi. Di babak pertama madrid dah ketinggalan 2-0. Si Munez masuk di babak kedua tuk main sebagai striker ketiga. dan akhirnya dia menyumbangkan gol kedua dan memberi assist tuk golnya si Harris. Akhirnya si BEckham memangkan Madrid 2-3 dengan tendangan bebasnya.

Overall....film ini lumayan. Terutama sekali mampu menyampaikan betapa banyak godaan dan cobaan yang harus dialami oleh seorang pesepakbola proffesional. Dan si Munez pun sempet kepleset gara2 hal ini. Selain masalah ini, bisa dikatakan cukup menghibur film ini,terlepas dari berbagai ketidak cocokan dengan fakta yang seharusnya.

Kalopun ada yang mengganggu adalah adegan shooting dan gol dari Munez yang menurutku agak khayal dan keliatan banget kalo adegan tersebut di-shoot sendirian. Alangkah lebih bagus kalo mereka bisa membuat adegan golnya dia lebih menyatu dengan keseluruhan permainan tim sehingga bisa keliatan lebih nyata. Lainnya....hmmm....ngga kayanya deh. Kalo gw ngasih bintang dengan skala 5, kaya film ini dapat 3 dari 5.

Movie Review : Borat

Noww...where should I start??Well, at first when I heard about this movie, I heard that it was hilarious and sickingly funny. But then I also heard that the contents were also a adult for some ages. Nevertheless, I had the chance finally to watch it.

And it really did exceed my expectation. First, it was funny, funny enough to even make me feel not able to eat. It's because I do find some parts of the joke reaaallllly dirty. Well, it does add to the fun but most of the time it was able to make me feel sick of it.

If you do read the subtitle, I guess you'll have a better understanding of why this movie is sickingly sick. Well, the story starts of with a journalist from Kazakhstan that goes to America for a so called officialtrip to learn about their cultures for the benefir of his mother country. And, I don't know if Kazakh people are really that way, but his attitudes and behaviour are sooooooo "NOrak!!!" (Can't find a better word than this, sorry ^^;).

Anyway, I'll skip to Indonesian to makes things convinient for the moment. Dah gitu sampe di amrik, ampuuunnnnnn, udik banget tau ngga. Masa kenalan pake sun sun segala, ya jelas aja orang2 pada ilfil. Perjalanan berlanjut ke Washington dimana dia berpapasan ma karnival orang gay. Lucu aja pas dia kaget setelah mengetahui dia telah "dijebol" oleh orang gay, hi..hi..hi..

Perjalanan pun ke California. Lha kok bisa, habis gara2 mbaca majalah Baywatch jadi mupeng ketemu si Pamela Anderson. And this is where the worst parts starts. Selama perjalanan, ada aja hal gokil yang dilakuin. Mulai dari beli beruang tuk alasan keamanan diri ampe manggil PSK di pertemuan resmi. Tuk hal terakhir, yang bikin gw lumayan jijik adalah ketika dia menadahi "kotorannya" di plastik tuk dibawa kembali ke meja makan. Wuueeekkkk....!@!!^^*(. Dah gitu dia membuat hal semakin parah dengan memangiil seorang PSK. ya terang ajalah dia langsung diusir ma si tuan rumah.

Kegokilan semakin berlanjut ketika si Borat harus berpisah ma teman sperjalanannya. Gara2 kocak sekaligus jijay banget. Habisnya si Borat ngamuk gara2 temannya masturbasi dengan majalah baywatchnya. Dah gitu adegan mereka berantem dan gulat bisa lebih dikatakan mirip adegan ML. AMpppuuuuunnnnn dechhhh....So, jadilah si Borat luntang luntung di tanah amerika sampe dia tau2 nyasar di sebuah pertemuan nasrani. Setelah mendapatkan pengobatan "gaib", jadi deh dia bersemangat lagi.

Ngga taunya dia malah ketemu lagi ma temannya. Akhir kata, ketemu deh si Borat ma si Pamela. Eh....ngga taunya pas ketemu dianya malah diajak merit. Dah ditolak halus2 si Boratnya malah berusaha membawa dia kabur dengan membungkusnya dengan karung goni. Ketangkep dech.

And so akhirnya dia balik ke negara asalnya walo aslinya bisa dikatakan dia ngga mendapatkan apap-apa, baik si Pamela maupun liputannya. Tapi....bukan berarti kegendengan telah berakhir. Ngga taunya PSK yang dulu dia sempet ajak malah dibawa balik ke kampungnya tuk jadi bininya, gileeeee........

Yaa.....kalo tuk lucu-lucuan, bolehlah film ini. Tapi harap diinget kalo jokenya sangaaaattttt dewasa. Aku aja ngeliat kadang2 ngga kuat saking "kopros" dan menjijikkan. Dan satu lagi, yang bikin gw penasaran adalah....apa bener orang Kazakhstan se-udik itu????

4 ever online. . .

Akhirnya bisa ngenet juga....dah lama banget pengen ada sambungan internet langsung dari komputer gw dan alhamdulillah sekarang bisa terpenuhi. entah sejaka kapan aku kepengen punya hal seperti ini. Yang jelas sih hal ini bisa membuat beberapa hal menjadi lebih mudah

Kalo ngga salah sih gw mulai berkenalan ama yang berbau dotkom dotkom pas ngeliat MTV seusai smp. Habisnya tiap iklan ada tulisan mtvasia.com. Jadi penasaran apaan tuh. Baru setelah itu gw tau kalo itu ternyata alamat internet. Sejak itu gw mulai berangan angan kapan ya gw punya sambungan dw. Apalagi berbarengan dengan itu bokap baru bli PC baru. Sayangnya, impian tuk punya internet sepertinya masih jauh coz aku juga baru tau kalo internet jaman itu masih jadi barang waahhhh banget, bisa diibaratkan seperti punya mercedes benz (eh...bener ngga ya??)

Tapi berhubung curiosity gw mulai bermain, aku berpikir, apa ngga ada semacam rental internet ato semacamnya buat nyoba beituan. Akhirnya gw pertama kali nyoba ngenet di spiderweb (almarhum) malang. Rasanya....???wooowww....seperti terhubung ke dunia dengan sekejap. Sejak itu, tiap daerah yang gw singgahi, gw selalu bertanya...ada warnet ngga ya???

Pas waktu itu gw masih di Cibubur, untungnya ada sekitar 2 warnet yang buka, satu di ruko jejernya arundina satu lagi di ruko ramayana. Sejak itu gw secara berkala mulai ngenet. Juga semenjak itu bisa dikatakan gw ngga bisa lepas dari internet.

Time goes by and gw pun pindah ke malang. Kalopun gw ngenet paling di kantor pos ato di spiderweb. selama SMA sih paling2 ya browsing wok. Bolm kenal yang namanya donlot waktu itu. Gw dw baru kenal yang namanya donlot pas dah kuliah. Awalnya sih ngga berat2 dan aneh. Paling2 ngga ampe 10MB. Itu aja dah lumayan ngos-ngosan.

Kira2 pas sekitar semester 5 keatas gw mulai kenal donlot skala gede. Semua juga gara2 gw mulai kenal yang namanya manga scanlation ato kurang lebih manga online. JAdi deh....mulai sering nyanggoni warnet tuk mengikuti manga2 favorit gw. Dan terntara ngga selesai begitu saja coz rupanya juga mulai donlot video klip bermacam-macam, mulai dari BoA ampe laruku.

Baru sekitar awal setahun ini gw berpikir, apa dah waktunya ya tuk masang sambungan internet?lagian belakangan sepertinya SPEEDY-nya telkom sepertinya menjanjikan pula. Sayangnya niat gw sempet kandas gara2 ada gempa di taiwan yang merusak jaringan fiber optik di dasar laut yang menghubungkan wilayah asia dengan luar. Jadi terpaksa bersabar dech....

Dan penantian gw akhirnya terbayarkan.....baru kemaren kepasang. dan sebagaimana yang diperkirakan, langsung gw melakukan "download spree" alias pesta donlot. Lumayan...tuk malam pertama (ah bahasanya...) bisa donlot sekitar 300 MB dan 200 MB tuk tadi pagi. Kalo ngeliat hal ini gw jadi bersyukur banget ngga milih yang ada batasan 1 GB per bulannya melainkan yang time based (thanks to galih atas advicenya).

And so i am here....writing my blog sembari nunggu donlotan gw selesai. Tuk variasi, semalam gw mulai nyoba pake bittorrent tuk donlot anime. Dan barusan dah satu sukses. Ngga gede sih, cuma sekitar 20 Mb, tapi at least i got the job done. Dan sekarang, gw sedang nyoba donlot 4 lainnya. Habisnya kayanya kalo bittorrent cuma donlot 1 kok rasanya nanggung amat. Jadinya gw tambahin aja yang lain biar meriah. Walo ngga selesai semua, moga2 aja ada yang selesai. Namanya juga masih pemula.

Ah udahan aja dulu, mo ngeliat hasil donlotan gw nih, dah ngga sabar rasanya ^_^

Keluh dan Kesah

Ternyata menunggu segala sesuatu selesai itu membosankan ya...??Inilah yang kualami di kampus. Entah aku yang apes ato gimana, ngurus administrasi pasca kompre-ku ternyata ngga kalah membosankan dengan sebelum kompre.

Sebetulnya sih, kalo mo cepat dan ngga da yang salah-salah harusnya minggu lalu bisa selesai. Contoh salah satu kesalahan gw yaitu perihal penulisan gelar. Entah kenapa kok tuk hal ini orang Indonesia kok gila banget ya, penulisan gelar aja kok begitu diperhatikan. Gara2 ini jadinya gw harus uber2an tanda tangan penguji gw ampe kurang lebih 3 kali. Awalnya gw kira cuma kurang rangkap-nya aja eh ngga taunya malah gelarnya yang tercantum malah ikutan salah, ampuuuunnnnnn deeecchhh.....

Belum selesai masalah gelar adalah urusan tetek bengek administrasi pasca kompre. Kirain ganpang eh ngga taunya harus melewati paling ngga lima meja untuk akhirnya dapat mendaftar wisuda. Yang paling bikin gw gregetan adalah masalah kuitansi SPP. Gila aja, masa kita diminta nyertain semua kuitansi kita dari semester 2 ampe sekarang???Nonsense banget jelasnya sih menurutku. Gw pikir, apa pihak FE sedemikian payahnya ampe ngga punya catatan tuk hal sepenting ini???Kalo terbukti iay, ngga bisa bayangin gw, fakultas dengan tempat bernaungnya fakultas manajemen dan akuntansi kok administrasi internalnya sedemikian parah.

Lucky me....rupanya gw berhasil melewati jalur birokrasi semacam ini. Ternyata orang2 dalam sendiri mengakui proses semacam ini terlalu rumit. So akhirnya gw cukup minta klarifikasi aja ditempat dan akhirnya beres. Alhamdulillah. Namun demikian, sepertinya kok cuman gw ...ma rani aja yang lucky. Si denok ternyata malah ketiban apes. Dia malah diminta ngurus ampe ke rektorat segala, kasiaaaaannnn deh lu...hi..hi..hi..

Juga ngga bikin gw ngerasa repot adalah tuk perihal kopma. Perasaan selama gw kuliah kok ngga pernah make jasa kopma dan segala fasilitasnya,kok tiba2 pake harus konfirmasi ngga ada tunggakan segala???Aneh2 aja. Mungkin gw ngerasa kesal tuk hal ini pula adalah karena gw dipaksa bolak balik FE-kopma hanya karena ketidakjelasan perihal formulir yang ternyata gw dah punya...!!

Jadinya...sekarang ini gw sementara terdampar di rumah menunggu proses administrasi selesai. Malas gw bolak-balik kampus kalo tiap kali kesana malah belum ada apa yang selesai. Jadinya sekarang harus gw isi dengan hal2 berguna deh. Btw, mulai beberapa hari terakhir gw dah nyoba lari pagi. Walo capek harus kuakui sedikit banyak ngga membuat badan gampang capek. Lagian rasanya fresh aja kalo abis lari di pagi hari. Namun demikian, kaki gw sempet beberapa hari mengalami kram yang lar biasa sehingga membuat rasa sakit yang amat kalo dipake jalan. Untung setelah dipijat om dhi dah agak mendingan. Sepertinya lain kali harus lebih hati2 nih kalo pengen tetap mengejar matahari.

Hal lain adalah gw harus mulai belajar nihongo lagi secara mandiri. Habisnya seminggu lagi dah mau mulai. Dengan demikian harus menelaah kembali bab-bab dan materi yang telah diajarin selama ini. Namun ada satu hal yang bikin gw pusing adalah ternyata gw baru dapet kabar bahwa les mandarain gw ternyata jadwalnya dipindah jadi berbarengan ama les nihongo gw....matiiii gw...??Mau kubatalkan kok malas gw. Kayanya sementara ini gw mending datang aja 2 pertemuan pertama yang juga berarti harus bolos les nihongo deh. Jadi serba salah deh kalo gini keadaanya. Mau bolos nihongo juga sayang banget coz gw sendiri dah banyak banget bolosnya.

Other things.....not much besides reading manga and watching films, the usuall stuff lah. Even if there were anything new, it wouldn't be that bombastic. What I'm just hoping now is that I wanna really finish of my post test administration matters as soon as possible in the next 10 days especially. It really sucks having to do almost nothing but gaining up fat while at home....

Movie Review : NANA

Orginally, this film was released around 2 years ago, which was around 2005. When first reading about the synopsis, I did think it had a decent story. TYoo bad I didn't have much time to watch this movie. At least I did back Up the original VCD which I rented. Just in case I'll get to watch it in the future.

And it was just recently that I decided to open up my movie collection and try watching it. Honestly, what made me want to watch this movie is that I'm recently hooked up with the soundtracks of the movie, especially the ballads sung by Yuna Ito. Don't forget the catchy songs by Mika Nakashima who plays the main role of the film.

Indeed, after watching the film, it does somehow opens up a new horizon in my experience of wacthing movies. The film itself is based upon a manag titled NANA also. It tells the story of two persons by the same name which is NANA. Their fates cross each other when they meet and the story continues towards their lives.

I haven't read the manga, so I can't give an objective evaluation. But to me, I think the story itself is quite decent. It portrays the struggle of an indie band to become popular and the romance between the characters. For this movie, which is the first of the two, it mainly portrays the story of Nana Osaki, the Black Stone vocalist with her ex boyfriend who now is a famous guitarist who plays for their rival band TRAPNEST.

I think what made this movie boomed in Japan was mainly because of the songs in the movie. I do have to admit, the songs, both by Mika Nakashima and Yuna Ito have a great color in them which makes the songs always enjoyable to hear. Eventhough, I think Mika's part as Nana here also plays a good part. Here role here sure is fit for her, especially the short hair which she cut for the movie. Makes her look a bit masculine there.

And so I guess I've gotta watch the sequal to it. Hope the story does at least match up with the first one because I heard some of the cast from the first move aren't gonna reprise their roles again. Lets See...

Drama Review : Jumong

Where did I first here this drama..???Ah ya....I got to know this drama at my manga rental. At first, I was apprehensive on the story. But then...it turned out to be a marvelous drama.

The story itself is a true story based on an ancient Korean artefact that depicts the story of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. In this drama, it's about Jumong, a prince who then founded Goguryeo Kingdom.

Eventhough it's a true story, due to the lack of resources, many artistical license was done in order to make a story. Nevertheless, I think they made up the rest of the story in a great way. I do have to admit, for it's time background, it flows smoothly without almost any superstitious things that migt happen due to the time background.

What makes me like this drama is the strorytelling is really down to earth. From how they depict the roots of the intrigues till the very end of the story. Not to mention the gorgeus looks of the main cast, especially for Han hye Jin who plays the role So Seo No. Her face is quite a beauty, having both gentleness and firm looks for a women. Even compared to BoA (my favorite korean artist), I think she does surpass BoA's beauty.

About the artistic license done, I think this drama wouldn't have made it without this, But then, I some how feel that the artistic license taken doesn't really depicts what really has been and hasn't been founded at the time. For instance, the sotan and smoke bomb. It really was good to have these kind of things, but have these things been invented at that time?Another thing is the catapult thing. If i'm not mistaken, such things started to exist by the beginning of the second millenium. IF I want to list them, it would be a lot to do.

Anyway, the theme of the drama itself is still very relevant to nowadays topics. Lets take for example on the diplomacy and war between kingdoms and regions. Don't forget how they try to out wit each other during fights and sorts. And how they us hostages a a diplomatic to to threaten each other. Such things can still be observed now. Last but least, if I were to rate it, I think five out of five would do. You could rarely find historical drama's tthis good with a fine mix of romance and war.

Steady As I Go

Fuuuhhhh. . . .maaannn. . .being in a state of nothing to do sure makes me bored. Since knowing that I've passed my exams, I've been wondering what to do and other trivial stuffs. Eventhough I've got a revision, which by now I've finished, the thought of wanting to do something sure is something temptating.

It's been some time since I've been in this state. The last was when I graduated from High School. The period between Graduation and the campus entrance exams sure were tight. But then, the pressure can't be compared to what I've just experienced. For a comparasion, my thesis exams really made my heart beat fast.

Anyway, I've tried to make myself occupied. I've recently made some schedules for myself in order to drive out the boresome environment that I'm now facing.

I started out with some physical activities. Ever since my last sickness due to some typhus symptoms, my physical condition hasn't been good enough. I periodically still face some flu if my condition drops. Not to mention gaining some weight up to 82 kilo's. I feel like a walking pillow here. Overweight and chubby. That's why I planned on some physical excersises. To not strain things, I've made my schedule so that I don't suddenly burden myself with heavy activities beyond my ability. Like the old saying "Steady As She Goes". I thought that I'ld do it slowly but towards a sure pace.

Besides physical exercises, I've been also thinking to dwell in some spiritual rituals. I do have to admit, it's time for me to at least make myself close to Allah SWT. You'll just never know when your time has come. Like my physical exercise, I aranged my schedule so that I wouldn't strain myself suddenly.

What next. . . ??Ah ya. . .I've mentioned before that I'm gonna have to continue my studies abroad. And because of that, I guess my days here in Malang are numbered. Lets say around 7 month. And because of that, I do have to prepare myself to take an English exams, wether it be TOEFLor IELTS. These are to fulfill the requirements of entrance.

speaking of where I'm gonna go, ha.ha..I guess it's gonna be around Australia. But which campus...??Still clueless here. Right now, I'm currently gathering any information regarding campuses in Australia that would suit me. It sure isn't an easy task, but I guess I should be carefull. You don't wanna end up in a campus that doesn't suit your academic and personal criteria.

And speaking of my preparation towards this, I recently atended a seminar on IELTS preparation. The event iself was organized by IDP, UTS, and INSEARCH. The event was informative luckily. Not to mention the gorgeous female presenter that was there. Too bad she didn't get much speaking time. And also the coffee break and the food. For a free event, I do agree that the services were top notch. The only thing that dissapointed me was the book on IELTS preparation that they offered. I did by the book, but after a look I found he contents were not as the title implies. Well, if you wanna prepare IELTS from a grammar point of view, I guess the book works. But I was hoping the book was more like the usuall TOEFL preparation book were they have various kinds of mock up questions to train ourselves.

Don't forget my Mandarin courses. Well, I have registered for the courses but I really have no idea when it's gonna start. It's because they said that the class hasn't reached it's minimum number of students to start. Guess I'm gonna have to wait again. And for my Japanese lessons, It's currently on a hiatus for a moment due to the majority of the class having a final semester tests. He..he..luckily I don't have to go all that pain any more. But still, it's some how feels nostalgic.

Other trivial things besides what I've mentioned is that important. It's just reading books, manga, surfing, watching movies and dramas. Since I've got all the time in the world, I guess I should finish off my movie and manga collection that I haven't laid my hands on. At last, I have time to do this kinda job.

Oh well, for the next 7 month, I do hope interesting things happen. It's to make my life more merrier since that I'm no longer a college student . . . . . just a future postgraduate student. . hi..hi..hi..^^

Anime Review : Digimon Savers

Finally, got myself to watch an amine after around 2 month. It was all due to myself preparing for my thesis exams, which I did pass. And like other ordinary people, I guess doing some relaxation and cooling down would do after the hard work done. One thing that I had in mind was to rent an anime. An i put my choice on the Digimon Series. Why???The last episode that i watch was episode 40, and with 2 month passed, I guess it should be time for the rest of the episodes to be available at the anime rental. And luckily things proved me right. Not only it was avalilable but also no one was renting it. And so I took the liberty to rent it.

Digimon Savers is the fifth digimon season since it started at around 2000. The last series before Savers was Digimon Frontier wich aired at around 2003 or 2004. After this, it took a hiatus for around 3 years before continuing with Savers. I do have to admit, the story of the digimon franchise since Frontier was getting dull, and I think getting a rest for some time was a good job.

And because of this, I do believe that Savers has a more fresh storyline than the previous ones. Even though some main things are still the same, some parts have been changed. For instance is the age of the characters. The previous series had kids around 7 to 13 as the main characters with their digimons. But now, the cast has been aged with an age around 14-20. The other characters here also have a more older age but they still have their partner digimon. It seems that this series doesn't want to get trapped with the designation "The Digi-Destined" as said in the four earlier seasons. An since the cast have older age, I think this saying also doesn't fit either.

The storyline itself is standard for the digimon franchise. The series it self to me is divided into three major arcs. The first third of the series covers around the introduction of the main characters and their partners. The second third revolves around their start of their adventures in the Digital world whereaes the last third tells their story with the final boss of the series. The first arc to me started quite good, managing to explain each others background sufficiently. Eventhough it felt a bit slow paced, I think the directors managed to do a good job here.

The next arc is the starting of the main story and the villains. It is here also that the main characters manage dot go to the Digital World. And through this arc, they also managed to unleash their digi-evolution process till their ultimate levels. As for the last arc, the main and final villain is introduced. I feel that the mix of the arcs are fine, eventhough having the second arc much longer than the others. Personally, I don;t mind about the first and second arcs of the series. What I really want to talk is the last arc. I really was surprised that they had Yggdrasil and his Royal Knights as their opponents. It sure is welcome but I found it quite distrubing that the Royal Knights were placed as the antagonist here.

Another thing that is worth noting is the introduction to the burst mode evolution> Eventhough officially it's not considered another evolution process, it ended up quite good. Too bad but I find it too cliche as this mode was used to many times as a cheap plot device. I was hoping that the directors tried to explore the other digivolution process like DNA evolution or sorts. Ah ya. . . don't forget Agumon here. What's to be noted is that he gets a new evolution line here which is different from the evolution line introduced in the first series. The new line.....I think it's good but for the ultimate level, I think Wargreymon looks cooler than Shinegreymon.

Speaking of evolution lines here, I think either they messed it up or they wanted to introduce some new ones. Besides Agumon, Piyomon here also gets it's evolution line here changed with Birdramon for his adult level to Aquilamon. I think this thing has to do with the introduction of the D-Chronicle manga where they first introduced a digimon with more than one evolution line.

Overall, the story was good. But I think they got the last arc a bit too rushed. They only manage to explore the diiferences within the Royal Knights to just the brawl of Dukemon against Sleipmon. They could have done more with this. Another thing that bothers me is the lack of inconsistency of the quality of animation. The inconsistency increased reaching the last 15 episodes of the series. Sometime they have this light animation but when it goes to an episode with deep stories or theme, the animation suddenly changes to a more darker and detailed animation. I do prefer the latter, but I somehow feel it has this hentai doujin animation quality with it, which is something kids should'nt watch.

Anyway, now that the series has ended, I hope they make another digimon series. I do hope a series without the involvement of humans as they did in the CGI movie Digimon X-Evolution. This movie was cool. Too bad it was only a movie. Also, I do hope they try to explore more about the previous things that haven't been explained in the other series like The Sovereigns, Armor Evolution, X-Antibody and so.

Drama Review : Heroes

Heroes...aaahhhh...who doesn't know this series. Well...of course at first I didn't have a clue of what it was. Only after reading a preview of it on Animosnter then I got hooked up to it.

But to be honest, I do think the main theme of the drama, which is about humans with super abilities, is already a bit obsolete. Let's count, how many super heroes stories are there already in the US, from Superman to Spiderman and so on. And they never get bored on making these kind of stories over and over again. One thing that differs till now is the story telling which I do agree that it is certainly getting more and more interesting these years despite the cliche stories.

My first glance on Heroes was....oh....it certainly does rembles X-Men in a lot of ways. Various peoples with different abilities. The difference is that you don't get a Magneto person here for the antagonist part. Instead, you have Sylar, the serial killer hunting down persons who posesses special abilities. And of course an unknown organization tracking down the gifted for their personal advantage.

But what really makes this series enjoyable. To me, it's abaout how they cope and try to adapt to their weird powers. If it was one, i guess it would've been easy. But for a person like peter who can mimic others powers, It might turn out to be a horrible and painfull experience. Guess he should learn form Sylar, who somehow posess others power by just cutting out their brains from the skull. How he treats the brain is still a mystrey even till the end of the 1st season. Hope he doesn't act as a zombie by eating those brains.

And of course, there is always someone in the series who can cheer others up. And that role goes to Hiro. Ahhh...Hiro....despite his comical face, he does posess a cool ability, which is to time travel and teleport. Continuing to the end of the series, he then eventually gets a more destined role in the story, which is to kill Sylar who is suspected to be the nuclear man that might blow up New York city.

The series luckily isn't just about the gifted persons, but also the ordinary ones, finding the truth behinds the events. One of the these peoples is Suresh. A young Professor who goes to the US to find his father's killer, but later gets involed in the intrigue. An also Mr. Bennet, Claire's foster parent who at first acted all suspicious by testing the people with special abilities, but then turned back on his organization who was then hunting down her daughter for having the ability to do instant regenaration.

Luckily the series hasn't ended. Thanks to the assurance for the second season. I do hope I can se this series in the nea future. Overall, the series is quite intriguing. It also offers a different approach on super human stories that have been told up till now.

Nights of Sorry

How should I start this blog. It's not that i'm sad. It's just I feel kinda guilty. It all started 6 month ago. I started to get close to one of my friend, a girl of course. At first, I only considered her as a friend, just a friend. But due to some circumstances, we started to go out together.

I did start to grow feelings for her in the beginning. But, I did feel some differences that would eventually keep us apart if we did start to go on a serious relationship. But, still, I did regard her as a close friend till now.

We did keep in touch periodically. As time passed, we started to share our stories together. I too did. One of it was about my sorrowfull past between me and a women whom I admired, respected and loved. And it was in the process that I finally knew indirectly that she too regarded me as just a friend. To me back then, that relieved me.

I couldn't remember on what occasion, but she suddenly to tell her stories about her relationship with another guy. As a friend, I didn't have a single thought of jealousy. But, she also stated that there was something important that I had to know. But I only can know what it was about only after I take my thesis tests. I followed her instructions and restarined myself from knowing what it was till the time came.

Time Passed and eventually I finally I managed to past my final tests, eventhough with a revision. I suddenly remembered that I had to know what was in store for me, having to wait till I finised my tests. And suudenly my close friend told me the truth from her that she didn't regard me just as a friend, but as someone she loved, someone special for her and so on. Honestly, I wasn't the least surprised knowing this, It just left me a bit confused and guilty on knowing this.

Why do I feel this way, it's because I feel that I've been playing with someone's heart (something that i really don't wanna do) and I've been insensible towards her feelings towards me, not knowing that she did some point in the past loved me. And know....I still ponder why do I have to know this kind of truth so late.

Despite this sorrowfull truth, I still can't regard her as no one, she is still...one of my friends. But. . .I also can't pretend nothing hasn't happened between us. One thing's for sure, from now onwards, I shall and should be carefull in building a relationship with a women. Carefull enough to not to repeat this kind of mistake.

Now......it's as if I've been rejected. Well, it's not bad, it should add up to my CV of course.....

And The Result is........

Yeah. . . .akhirnya perjuangan selama setengah tahun gw ngerjain skripsi membuahkan hasil.....gw dinyatakan lulus!!!Alhamdulillah!!!!Eiiittssss.....jangan senang dulu. Walopun gw lulus tapi itu juga dengan catatan yakni gw juga kena revisi. In other words....nilai gw belum keluar kalo revisi belum gw selesaikan.

The tests itself, well...what do i have to say???To be honest it was one of my important times in my whole life. But luckily, I did do some special preparations concerning my thesis in order to lessen the pressure and to give me a view on what's really gonna be asked at the tests. One of my thoughts was to make a set of mock up questions or in my words...shadow questions. These questions consisted of questions that I assume will be asked. And of course I did try to answer the questions briefly.

And luckily, what it did eventually helped me a lot on my tests. I really did get bombarded with questions and critics reagrding my thesis. The parts that where most critizied was my research methodology and my analysis. They really did a good job on finding out my weak parts. BUt due to my preparation, I reallt felt less nervous when having to answer the questions and critics.

During the tests, what made me more nervous wasn't the process of with but the outcome. With my current situation, I already knew that I wouldn't pass straightly. At least a revision would be plausible if I even passed this tests. But I guess that much more better than me not passing the test and ending up having to do the revision with two other counselours. In the end, I did receive a revision note which depicts the part where I have to do my revision, But my time hasn't stopped.

I had to wait for another hour outside till my judicium which was the reading of my test results by a lecturer. Between my waiting, I thought I hadn't finished my part coz I didn't even had my comprehension test, just my thesis test. But after some explanations, I guess there wouldn't be any need for such kind of test coz all I need is to lay back and wait for my judicium.

And as you've known, I passed. But with the revision, I really couldn't just relax and do nothing coz my revision still forces me to pay attention to my thesis. Besides, my revision does cover the parts that are critical towards a reserach. Anyway, eventhough i've got to finish of my revision, I do think that I deserve some time off to relax myself, especially the last 10 days prior to my test date was really depressing. And I really did plan what I'am gonna do when I finished my test. First of all comes manga and drama DVD's. One by one of course. And i'm sure other things will come when the days pass to enjoy my time off after an hard time of struggle.

And so....shall we lay back do things one by one and enjoy all if it.

The Hunt for a Future

Stair's to the seventh. . .Running up to Heaven Yeah !!!!


Sorry for the quote there. It's just i was listening to laruku's latest single called SEVENTH HEAVEN when i start writing. As for the title, I took the liberty to copy the title of a certain film which had a similar title to this.

Enough for title's, let's continue to the main course. The clock's ticking faster and faster as the date of my thesis test comes closer. The pressure itself is sure piling up within my nerves. I tried to keep calm and collected while the date comes closer. But it seems that I can't just ignore the real pressure that's coming within me.

The past days have been spent on hunting down approval on my thesis examination. The assurance on my examinees actually was available on monday noon, but i decided to find out the next day. The next day, as I found out who my examinees were, I had to start finding the persons listed. Too bad for that day, I only found 1 of them. For my counslour, he wasn't available till friday. And as for the other one, I had to wait for her on Thrusday morning after she had finished her lecture.

Well, I did eventually get all of the approval's needed. But still, some problems lies in front of me. My counselour suddenly ask wether the examinations could be either put in advance or postponed. It turn out he had to attend (again) a certain matter, causing him to ask us about the schedule. The problem wasn't from us, as for I and Rani initially agreed, but it came from the departement office. They couldn't initially aprrove the schedule being put advance or postponing them because of unknown reasons. They only said to come again on Monday for further information regarding this matter. In the End, I did have a certainty on my examinations, but when?? Guess I'm gonna have to find out later.

That's for my approval hunt. But still there are other things to be hunted down, especially by the cops. Speaking of which, there was a massive internet cafe raid conducted this week. The raid was conducted in order to sweep IC (I'll say this for Internet Cafe) using ilegal software within their computers. The result was that many IC's immediately closed their places in fear of also getting raided. The next day, IC's were really crowded everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised coz the IC' that were raided were popular IC's in Malang like the Raya net group and Surya Group. The area that had the most IC's raided were in the Dieng area (near my house), so the 3 IC's operating there which were RAYA Dieng Net, Surya Net and Pojok Net immediately got shutted down. That's why the IC's that survived were flooded with users the following day.

Concerning this matter, I wouldn't argue wether ilegal software should be wiped out. To me, I don't care wether it's ilegal or legal software. As long the price suites me, I'll go for anything. But the fact is here that legal softwares are sure expensive to get our hands on. I guess that's way people here prefer to use ilegal ones instead. But for IC's using ilegal ones, I do have to admit that's one kind of silly mistake. Why I say a silly mistake, coz as a commercial place, they should have known in the first place that doing such things could cause them to be raided by the police sooner or later. And concerning about the prive to purchase a legal software, I think it's absurd if they say they can't afford it. Let's say, if an hour cost around Rp 3000 and a computer is used around 15 hours a day, we'll get around Rp 45.000 a day. And usually an IC in Malang has around at least 30 computers to start with. With that, you'll get Rp 1.350.000 a day. In a month, a gross omzet of around 40 millions rupiah wouldn't be immposible to aim. With that much money, at leats they should have invested on buying legal softwares one by one. But stiil, they took the risk on using ilegal ones which caused them to be raid. Besides, who says that only popular softwares could only be used. There are loads of freeware out there that have the same functions with usual and popular ones. Which means, not using popular but ilegal softwares wouldn't harm anyone. It's just that for everything new, everone has to learn a bit. I just wonder, why people nowadays are soooooo lazy to learn something new???

I guess that's all. Besides that, I don't there other things to discuss. Even if there are, I'm sure it would be again an neverending complain about how my nerves are getting the best of me before my examination. Next time, I really do hope i have my degree. So, let's hope I write again in a succesfull condition, See ya next week!!!

2 Weeks and Speeding

Here i'am, back in front of my monitor, writing this blog. Well....it may be just an ordinary blog, blog, but as it implies, a blog also sereves as a mean to state ones mind.

2 weeks and counting, my thesis tests is finally decided, which is on the 31st of May. It seems that the only male on the test date would be me and Arif, the others are all female with a total of around 5-6 people joining the exams. And like other exams, i do have to admit that it really makes me nervous. But being just nervous i guess doesn't finish off anything, and so i try to prpare myself studying whats really needed for the tests.

Around last Wednesday, i went to campus. Some things that i had to finish off and meet with. The first one was about my thesis summary cover. This matter nearly made me pissed off. It's all because off that the requirements off the submission didn't clearly say that i had to make such thing, and it seemed this caused some misperception even among the staffs in the depatement office. But, rather thatn argue and ending myself in another potential trouble, I had to obey what the staffs said. It's just annoying that even the staffs have different perception among whats supposed to be clear and rigid.

Nest was to meet Elok. She offerred me this great book about CSR, which is my thesis topic. And aftera quick glance at it, it really was something to belong. I mean, it nearly contained all the things i had to know about CSR. It's quite a pity i knew about this book after i submitted my registration. Nevertheless, I bought it anyway, it might even come in handy since I might get some things that aren't available yet to my database.

LAst stop, to meet wendra. It wasn't an appoinment since he was attending his thesis exams. But i felt that i had to come and encourage him. It's also his second test since he failed his first one after being slaughtered by his examiner. And since it was just 2 weeks prior my exam, I think coming on such events might help me get to know the true feeling on what might i feel or i experience when doing my tests. Eventhough i've been to such occasions before, this one really did give me a close impression on how it feels while doing your thesis exams.

Other things??Not much, except picking up my new ceelphone and meeting up with galih. About my cellphone, I had to swich to another cellphone due to my PDA not able to receive or make a phone call due to it's speaker being broke. Luckily my mom had a spare cellphone. But since it was also broken, i thought I'd try to repair it. Luckily dad gave permission to repair it due to the high cost, in the end, I think it's worth it. Not being able to receive or make calls really does bother you. You just wouldn't know when you might have to make or receive a call in times off emergency. The only set back for me having to use this old-new cellphone is that I now again have to get myself accustomed to use it with just my thumbs. It's been around 3 years since I haven't used a cellphone with only one hand. This was because my prveious cellphones required me to used it on both hands, which was my stolen nokian 3300 and my recently broke PDA. Eventhough in the end I need to do some adaptation, I guess it's a welcome change.

Not to forget galih. It's been a while since we ahd our trip togetehr to selorejo with the others. It seems we had some kind of misundertsanding on when to meet. In the end, i had to give in and let him visit my house due to myself not understanding his message properly. He was there for about an hour or so, but we did really have a nice chat. I also got some usefull information regarding Telkom Speedy, a broadband internet service. He explained to me the ins and outs of it. It sure gave me brighter view on how to view it. Personally, I was thinking of subscribing to this service, but some things have made me to postpone it for the moment. One of those things are beacuse i have to prepare for the exams. The other things are about asking permission and finding out wether subcribing to it is worth it or not.

Well, I hope in the near future i'm able to subscribe to it. I really do need it cause having to go to the internet cafe really bothers me sometimes. It's mainly that you just don't feel at home while browsing. The other things is that since I like to download various stuffs, going to the internet cafe really sucks because you have to match the perfect time and day in order to get a maximum download rate, something which is really hard and painfull often. And so, I asked my brothers on helping out on doing a joint venture to buy a ASDL modem in order for me to subscribe. I'm sure it'ld benefit all of us. Especially Bgaoes and me use the internet often. I aslo don't have to wait in front of the monitor just to make sure i've finished my downloads. Hope I'll be able to subscribe soon after my tests are over.

Movie Review : Mr. Bean's Holiday

Ok.....here's the latest and last installment of the hillarious and funny Mr. Bean series. Since the last movie around 9 years ago, I thought that'll be the only movie. It proved me wrong due to the release of this movie. And as you've guessed, it still does serve and show dozens of hillarious and ridiculous scenes from Mr Bean.

This time, Mr Bean get's to go goon a vacation due to winning a lottery. Even by winning it, the disaster has started. Arriving in Paris....all sorts of things happened. From having to walk all the way to the train station, his lunch in the restaurant and ending up lost with a Russian director's son.

Even after getting separated for some time with this kid, Mr Bean gets to know this women he met on the road, who coincidently, needs to go to Canes to attend the Cannes Film festival. Along down the road, they both met again with the lost kid and both went to Cannes. Unknown to Bean, a country wide search has been issued upon him for being accused of abducting the Russian film director. And so, needing to get to the film festival, they start to do all sorts of trick, starting to cross dress to having to punch a security guard.

I think that' all for the story. don't wanna give much spoilers. Just want to save the enjoyment for last. As for the movie, it still does offer us Bean's latest craziness and stupidity on his vacation. But still there are some things that bug me. The story on Bean itself is quite outdated for me. This film should have been released about 2-3 years after the first movie. If it wasn't for Bean's pure stupidity and craziness in the movie, I think the film itself wouldn't be that of an interest to people.

The other thing is about the interaction between Bean and his surroundings. what I mean is, all of his stupidity and craziness since now has all started to his interaction with other people. And to me, this part wasn't exploited realy deep. In here, he just meet people and all of a sudden, they to end up having to follow Bean's madness. The worst part is, the ending of this movie is really lame, pure lame. As if all of the cast in the movie all become Bean...??!

Anyway, if your looking for laughs and giggles, I guess this film serves it's purpose. But for a decent story, I personaly won't recommend it. The first movie for me is way better than this one. I guess this movie is just a mere nostalgia and an official end the the Mr Bean franchise.

Postponed.....(again)

Arrrgghhhhhh....dammmmnnnnn....juts tell me how long do i have to wait for my fate to be decided. It sure does leave me restless having to wait for the D-Day.


Ah yeah, haven't told you anything, my test...got postponed again. This time it's being moved to the end of this month, which is May. I really don't know how to react on this thing, either be blessed or be devastated. Like i once said....only an extraordinary thing and event can make my tests be postponed for the second time...and it really did happened. Anyway, I do have to give my thanks to Allah SWT who made Mr. Made suddenly have to attend a certain duty in Jakarta for some days. This meant he can't attend my tests as my counselour.

Getting things postponed again sure made my time schedule quite jumbled. This leaves me with another 3 weeks of spare time to really prepare my side. And lucky me, Mr Made gave me some hints on what to prepare. Oh well....just basic stuffs like Accounting basics concerning the financial, cost and managerial parts. Not to forget my thesis of course. I sure have to make sure i study all those thiongs he said. Just in case, let's just add some miscellanous topics, in case they get asked for in my tests.

My life...oooohhhh....not bad or good either. Just the boring thing i always feel each day. It sure different being a college student in your final days. Nothing to do besides your thesis. Luckily beside my thesis, I do have some things to do, like studying japanese and english. As of my english, i'm on my final stages of this lesson. Having to do 2,5 years at EF surely tires and bores me. Especially if one by one your friends quit because they fail or refuse to continue. I did experience my golden times there around level 8-9. Too bad can't experience those times again. If only we could meet again in some sort of reunion.

As a replacement for my English lessons, i'm planning on trying to learn Mandarin. I was offered the chance to learn it long ago when i was in primary school, but i took aside that offer, which i really now kinda regret. Surely mandarin is slowly coming to become one of the major languages in the world, so i would think it's worth studying. But I do have to take in mind that after my exams, i don't have much time left, so better find a course and start it as soon as possible.

As of other things...i guess it's just about my body feeling a bit sick for the past 4 days lately. It all started last Saturday when I went to the Internet cafe early in the morning. And to make things worst, I rode my bike to the Cinema without wearing a coat and ended up home late at night. The same thing happened again while i rode my bike again without a coat the next day to eat at Bounty's. And to wrap up things.....due to insufficient warming up the next morning, my whole body went in pain. To descibe things, you can't fart which made my stomach quite swollen. By the end of the day, things really went much better. Thanks to my grandma who told me to put a bottle ful of hot water to my stomach. It really eased my suffer. But still, I guess i lost about a kilo or some while defacating. To think things went back again really made me careless. The next night, due to having to stay up the whole night made things deteriorate. My whole body worsened and I had to spend the whole night unable to sleep. Also, I had to go to the toilet every 1-2 hours in the night which really made me very tired. In the end, i was able to take a decent sleep by around 5.

And so....I do hope my body get's better. Better not forget to study. Relaxing and self indulging is good but better make sure to enjoy it properly and to it's limits. Make sure you don't get carried away, cause the next 3 weeks will be gone in an instance if I don't use my time properly. I was thinking...should I make myself some sort of time table to make things in order....Dunnoo....but i think i'll give it a try.

Movie Review : Spiderman 3

Another review here guys. There is however something special here bout this review. That is bout that i write this review straight after i finished the moview at the theaters. Theaters???Yup.....it's really been ages since i last been to the cinema's. And it really left me quite awkward just entering the place itself. I didn't what made me wanted to watch this film straight from the big screen, but after it finished, i think it was worth it.

And so bout the title itself. The film itself has been waited for ages by it's fans. And i do agree that this film has it's own taste. As a sequal, this film directly continues the story from the second film. But, it ain't called another sequal if it doesn't offer anything new. What's the new part??Villains of course and the other part is what always makes the previous spiderman movies really hit the box office. That is the personal life about the man behind the mask, Peter Parker.

The film really has a different approach to the secong movie. If the second movie was about spiderman doubting his own power, this time...he is being consumed by his power and ego. And to make things worst.....an alien symbiotic comes and starts to take control of his mind. Not to mention, his relationship with MJ.Since she does know his identity, it should have been more easier for spidey, but.....man can only plan....In other words, it seems things aren't going as they planned.

Add came Gwen Stacy to the scene which made their relationship quite hot. And also Harry, who at the beginning went all crazy witn his father's goblin legacy just to get knocked off and caught an amnesia for half the story. Quite amusing how Harry finaly regained his memory to tease spidey off after getting back his memoeries back just once again to get his face half scared by spidey's dark powers (pooor you.....).

Talking about the other villains which are Sandman and Venom. Sandman...hmmm.....not that of a villain...to m, he's just a wrong man in the wrong place. The epilogue on him with spidey finally explained things. The real menace should have gone to Venom, but he just got some action nearly at the end of the movie. This dude surely did some wreckage and havoc while fighting spidey. And with Eddie's persona, they do make a good match. I do hope Venom reappears again if another sequel is made, to me...he just didn't get much sreen time than he was supposed to.

I do have to admit, this movie sure had to many cast to begin with, making me a bit apprehensive on how they're gonna pull of with a good story. Luckily they did manage to do that, eventhough it could have been much more better. Three villains to begin with...hmmm...way too much.Even if they did insist on continuing this, they should have at least prolonged the movie lenght to about 3 hours. It's just I didn't feel the brawl was enogh, especially Venom with Spidey. In the end, the movie still does a good job on continuing the Spiderman franchise. Let's hope the next one will be more better (if there will be any).

Puisi Picisan (Part 2)

This real emotion wit you, don't ever kiss me goodbye, coz your eyes on me has left a perfect blue in my heart and soul

This secret of my heart,should anyone listen to my hearty? Or shoud it just be a wind of gold for myself

The ray of your face has ignited my soul, making a moment in my mind, leaving a real taste of your vanilla

Share your heart with me, don't ever leave me in a flood of tears, don't let the love bug in me touch the dune's of loneliness.

The tree of life that I am going through, sure...life is like a boat, rowing through the promised land of love, round and round in the field of hopes, glowing like an emerald green.

The eternal wind blows of the black stone in my mind, beside you only I can step aside thecape of storms raging through my veins, sensing that we're be destined to be together....

What is love? Is it a cureless sickness that makes a hole in the the inner core of our lives? I can only breathin the air, the scent of the mellow songs from my endless sorrow's within

This lovesick leaves me dazed and alone, let it go, make a move, surely it'll showone way to the discovery of a dreamless world

Do you expect me to give a gift? Some day one day mygrayish wings shall overflow this world with a vision to my heart, so that nobody but you can see this fine weather day of shines

Puisi Picisan (Part 1)

U'r presence pumps out my adrenalin,as if in a dream,your smile is like a sweet vanilla,your face shines like the full moon.

U'r exsistence makes me addicted to you, longing for you to be by my side,my blurry eyes can only see you in vivid colors

All year around falling in love to you, the colors of my heart wants to know your color's so we can be a key of heart for each other

Sweet dream's all night, can I feel an evergreen horizon that you put in every heart's love

The brilliant years past by, white feathers pour as the snowdrop's rain in my first snow, I sense a miracle from my mega step's towards you

Is this first love just a glacial love? Or is it just the birth of my revelation towards you, I hope what I feel isn't killing me nor a finale

Love and Honesty, is it enough to bond each other's heart's? Can my prayer's reach the heavenly ark in the sky? Or will my name will just be an echo in your simple and clean life.

The shallow sleep's I've been experiencing all night, is it the secret sign's that tells me the reason for loving you? Or is it the result of an everlasting hope for true love?

My trust on my feeling towards you,will it ever be an excistence in your mind? Or do I have to prepare myself to say farewell? Is it a sin to be passionnate on my feelings, or do I have to keep it black towards others?

Can u open my heart's sanctuary till i'm feeling fine?or do I have to lose control to the tangerine dreams?

What is love? Is it to be blame'd? Or is it to be a poker face? Can I fly high towards the ark in the lost heaven's?

I wish I could rewrite the days of happiness, when you would be the one to show me the meaning of peace and love towards each other, how I've always alonged for the link between us be realized in the spirit dreams inside us

Ready steady go my dear, the heaven's drive for us is coming closer, let us feel the brand new beat that’s outgrowing between us.

My dearest thoughts for you in this winterfall, perhaps love can invoke a bravery to show love flies everywhere

My sweetie, the four season's we've spent together, the aazing kisseses we've shared, the snow white loves we've had, is it enough to forget it and just say "time to say goodbye"

The next step's of our lives, will be a time slip to our fate of our lives, a winding road to the journey to a neo universe, get ready to spark in the new world

Loose and Tight Weeks

OMG....it been a while since i posted a blog. Didn't notice that it' been that long and all of a sudden it's now May. Ah well, never mind bout that, let's just skip on things.

Continuing what i've said before, I was prepairing to register myself for the thesis exam. But there seems to be a problem. All of a sudden, the exams itself were postponed till the 16th of May. This also led to the registration being prolonged till the 4th of May. Quite shoking for me since I was really already geared up and on fire to face the exams. with all this, I then thought, oh well, why not take a rest from all things, besides, I was already hyped up the past 10 days for thinking the examz were gonna happen on the 10th.

With sudden things happening, I than started to borrow comics again. Just being left away from comics for 10 days really left me clueless on what to borrow. And it really did coz there were dozens of new comics that i haven't read yet. And so i began to read those drugs (comics). It didn't stop there coz when i paid a visit to lava net, he..he.. guess what i found....???Code Geass complete till the latest episode, Woooowww.......I didn't hope to get this much jackpot in just a couple of days. And as u guessed, I really did spend the weekend just watching Code Geass and reading comics. My thesis..??I didn't even touch it. Speaing about Code Geass, i did read the synopsis before, but I didn't know that it was that awesome. It nealy led me to tears watching the last episode. Kinda of weird coz i rarely shed any tears. What i just hped is that they really make a conclusive season regarding Code Geass. It's really a shame if the makers in the studio's don't.

with all the looseining up happening, i then thought...wow...i guess it's time to get back to work. Besides reading comics and watching anime, i also got a chnace to visit selorejo lake with some of my old pals from high school. The trip itself was really refreshing coz we went through those highlands and passing through villages. Not to also mention the experience of having to stop for around 2 hours due to my car breaking down coz of one of the hoses loosened. we did managed to reapir it ourselves, but it really took time doing all that resulting our trip was reduced to just a couple of hours in the afternoon. But in the end, it really was a fascinating trip for me. Too bad i didn;t get to buy fresh milks there coz one of the areas we passed seemd to be a place were fresh milks are produced.

Back to work. Oh....it really felt a bit odd having to read such journal's and books all over again. And since i only got just fifve days to prepair all of the requirements to register, i think all just have to finish this off. And it really caused me some pain, having to go to campus back and forth every day just because of one thing, my bibliograph hasn't been signed as prove of aproval. And it was just yesterday i knew why when i called my counselour. He said there's a mistake on how i write thesis. The othe thing was that he didn't have any idea on where to sign it. On the last pasrt, i do admit it was my fault. And then i went to all the trouble of reapiring that part and submiting it again to his office. And this is one of the parts hate. With only just tomorrow for submiting my requirements, i do hate why i have to wait till the next day to know wether it has been signed or not. I do hope it has coz if not, then i'll have to wait for the next chance which will be around the 31st, quite long eehh....

with my days numbered, i can only hope the exams won't be that hard. I do know that there are still bugs and errors in my thesis, but if a just think bout that, i think i won't be going anywhere. Oooohhhhh......please Allah...make me pass this exam for the sake of my future.......AMIIIIINNNNNNNNN.



PS : This may be my last blog in a couple of days for the moment due to myself having a thesis exam.