NEW YEAR
HAPPY NEW YEAR
DO YOU SPEAK AUSTRALIAN?
Apa yang terjadi jika presiden Bush mengunjungi Australia seharian penuh? Ada istilahnya untuk ini, walau bukan Bush sang presiden melainkan Bush sebagai semak-semak. Bahkan sebagai penutur bahasa Inggris dari Amerika Serikat ada banyak istilah bahasa Inggris Australia yang unik dan sulit untuk dipahami. Bahasa inggris Australia dipenuhi banyak ungkapan yang kadang membuat pendengar seolah seperti “drongo”, belum lagi aksennya. Berikut ini beberapa isltilah Australia yang unik, tentunya ini bukan daftar yang lengkap :
Aussie –an : Australian
Bail (somebody) up : menyudutkan seseorang
Bathers : pakaian renang
Bush week : waktu semiggu penuh dimana orang desa datang de kota dan banyak kejadian bodoh terjadi
Cobber : teman
Dag : orang yang lucu
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock : tidak pintar
Roo : kangguru
XXXX (four X) : sejenis bir yang dibuat di Queensland
Lalu, apa artinya “drongo” ?
Seseorang yang bodoh, kikuk dan memalukan! XP
From : Cinemags (113th edition , December 2008)
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AUSTRALIA
Australia. I’m not talking about a country here, but a movie! I watched this movie yesterday, with my family. Honestly, I thought this kind of movie will be make me bored. BUT, now I know that it’s a huge mistake. The movie is really fantastic. Supported by the starring : Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and David Wenham. If you want to watch this movie, you have to be prepared. Why? Because it shows around two hours and forty five minutes more or less. That was a really long story.. I didn’t know how I could stand it. Maybe, because Hugh Jackman is really sexy and also cool? So I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. Wkwkwk.. =P
The story is about a lady named Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) , a duchess from England who
own a farm named Faraway Downs in Australia, helped by a local cowboy by name Drover (Hugh Jackman). Of course there’s a deep in love relationship between them, because in the beginning of the story, Sarah thought that his husband was cheating on her. So she came to Australia. But unluckily, she found that her husband had already dead and he got the farm as a heritage from him.
When the war was broken, Sarah had to move the cattle through the land of Australia which is really beautiful but also dangerous. And there’s someone named Neil Fletcher (David Wenham), a manager of the station who want to take over Sarah’s farm. Here we goes, all the characters had to do anything to fulfill their ambition and also love.
Really, there’s no regret to watch this movie. Actually, from the story and all of that I should say that this is a best movie I’ve ever watched. Not being hyperbolic, you know. But, It’s really rational and also really cool.
said that this movie do have a common with Gone With the Wind and also Cold Mountain because of the background story in this movie is the American War and also a lonely woman. And here is a interesting gossip : Nicole was really want to be the part of this movie and also being so patient that she had a baby during the shoot. Because the shot which was firstly predicted only for 5 months, because of all of the thing became 9 months. Haha,, that’s bad.. However, it is also cool, because the movie meet the successful ending, in the reality and also in the movie.
If you want to watch the trailer, click here. For further information, click here. And you know, what is the important music in this movie? A music which is played all the time during the movie? The clue is Wizard of Oz.. can you guess what? Hehe. Of course you do. I know you do.
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Restaurant
FASHIONABLE
MY ONLY WISH
I always remember
About my only one wish
To keep you always beside me
Meet you everyday in the rain
Until now
Is there me in your heart?
Which is already lost the memory of the past
Lost everything
And leave nothing behind
I’m a Pandora
By name a memory which is sleeping
On the closed book
Which is always keep an eye of you
And hide the breath
To make sure you always smile to the day
I always crying
When the flowers are falling down
Because I feel like I’m watching me
Who slowly trying to forget you
I’m part of you
Just want to come back
To your heart
My eyes are gone from you
Like a broken crystal
But, it’s enough
To keep waiting for you
Who live a life full of light
I always waiting for you in this rain
And keep searching the losing you
I just want to meet you
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If You're Not The One
I really like this song.. the sound of the singer also.. so nice to be heard. This song is performed by Daniel Bedingfield. btw, if you want to listen to the song, you can listen it on my playlist. Here are the lyrics :
You ... In My Life
Wish I were here with you
Walk together now
I really sure about what I’m thinking
And I need nothing except you
A tomorrow has passed
Time keep walking
Ignore anything around it
Spring seems to be shorter than previous
You have changed
And me,
Change like an idiot
When I opened my photo album
There’s you
Keep smiling at me
I want to be always look at your eyes
Your face when you were crying
Everything
There’s nothing I can and want to say
Just wanna grab your hand
Standing together in the rain
I want to keep my eyes at that time
To be so cold
And so closed.
There’s something I want to give you
Just let my shoulder be closed to yours
I’m so afraid
When the thinking come to me
When I think I couldn’t stand beside you
When I think there’s no you in my future
I always want to grab your hand
To keep away this uncomfortable feeling
I want to look at the time
Which is never to end
To make sure
That you will be beside me
In the end of my life
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CHRISTMAS
BOOKS
COMPLICATED
Hal yang ingin kusampaikan sangat berat
Seperti aku akan hancur
Dalam keadaan yang kuciptakan ini
Terlalu banyak perasaan
yang tidak dapat diungkapkan dengan kata-kata
Jarak yang dekat
Namun jauh membuatnya tidak dapat tersampaikan
Meski menatap langit biru yang sama
Namun cara kita memandangnya
Membuat itu menjadi sangat berbeda
Hal yang ingin kusampaikan padamu terlalu banyak
Seperti akan menjadi sebuah lagu
Meski ada hal yang bisa kuyakini saat ini
Bahwa kau ada disampingku
Namun ada hal yang membuat kita menjadi jauh
Semua menjadi terasa tidak lancar
Terus menemui rintangan yang ak kunjung berakhir
Tak ada salahnya memandang langit yang tak berujung
Asal jangan memandang selamanya
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CATS
HOROSCOPE
Hey, I found in Deviantart.. A cute picture of horoscope! Take a look at this! wekekeke ^^
PRIDE
From the reality where we stand for life
From that place also
Sadness come and gone in the same time
Let’s go
Wake up and go to the way which is end in a good future
Use your wings with the flow of the air
It’s your nature power
There’s nothing compared to that
An uncomfortable feeling and pride
Will fly in this heart
I smiled sadly to the fate
All in one in the same time
In this memory
I feel a confidence in me
And also a hope
Stronger and stronger
A scar which is can’t be erased
Make me feel sad and uncomfortable
Let me away from my identity
Then to make sure
I have to search the light
Which is can get me in the right way
Our heart is leading by a pride
So,
Keep me away from the body
Which is tired from crying
Because It was just a past
There is a hope of future waiting for me
A journey will not meeting an ending
Till we are at the right place
Full of pride
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LITTLE BUT USEFULL
Sepanjang sejarah manusia menemukan banyak sekali hal-hal penting dan brilian untuk memudahkan hidup mereka. No, we are not talking about spacehip or supercomputer, or microchip. Kita membicarakan tentang penemuan sederhana yang terjangkau dalam hidup sehari-hari. Tanpa perlu buku manual segede bantal dan gelombang elektromagnetik yang merusak otak.. wkwkwkw ^^
1. Resleting : Ditemukan oleh Withcomb Judson dan Gideon Sunback pada tahun 1851. Ini bener-bener berguna terutama kalau kita lagi kebelet pipis! =P Coba aja bayangin lu mesti buka kancing satu-satu atau lu perlu buka simpul ala pramuka yang ribet banget..
2. BAND AID : karena melihat jari isterinya selalu terluka saat memasak, Earle Dickson menyatukan plester + kapas + antiseptik untuk membalut luka kecil jari isterinya agar tidak menyebabkan infeksi jika dibiarkan terbuka terlalu lama..
3. SEDOTAN : manusia tuh emang kebangetan malesnya, minum tinggal tenggak aja mesti pake alat bantu.,, aneh2 aja, Thx for Marvin Stone yang iseng melinting kertas manila dan paraffin untuk pengganti sedotan kuno yang menggunakan batang gandum..
4. LEM : menyatukan berbagai hal akan membuat hidup lebih praktis dan efisien. Lem adalah salah satu penemuan palign kuno yang membuktikan manusia ingin serba praktis dan simple alias males.. wkwk
5. TUSUK GIGI : membuat lu tersenyum lebih lebar dari biasanya kepada hidup. Coba bayangin klo lu senyum tapi ada cabe ato bayem yang nyangkut di gigi lu.. WEkss,, jangan bayangin aja deh.,..
6. KARET GELANG : Ini bias jadi gadi penghapus dengan cara diikat di ujung pensil, mengikat kaos kaki lu biar gak kendor XP . menguncir rambut jki kagi kepepet, n bisa jadi senjata (sekaligus alat untuk orang usil) klo dijepretkan ke organ vital lawan lu,, >.<
7. DUIT : Sangat brilian dan tentu sangat memudahkan hidup. Ok.. ok … jangan nyambit dulu karena merasa keberadaan duit mambuat hidup jadi semakin susah,Tapiiii… lihat sisi postifnya deh,, Coba klo kita masih pake system barter, repot banget tuh,, Lu mesti bawa sapi ato kelapa kemana-mana cuma dituker sama garam misalnya.. capet hati aja.. Hoho.. =P
Wew,, emang gak nyangka.. hal yang kita kira sepele tuh ternyata memudahkan hidup kita banget.. haha.. kakayknya kita mesti mikir simple aja deh dalam menemukan sesuatu.. thx!!
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Transporter 3
I watched this movie two days ago (if I’m not mistaken) . With Maria, Yan, and Brian. Poor Maria’s boyfriend couldn’t join us because he had to go to his math class or something.. Really, I enjoyed watching this movie. Because there are a lot of amazing cars!! Poorly there aren’t my favorite kind of car. But, no too bad. Audi and Mercedes. I suppose. They’re using a good skill of driving too, made the scene is really fun to watch. I can take my eyes out of the scene. I laughed a lot too. But, Indonesia is suck (or I should say to the “lembaga pengeditan film ato pengesahan film)! They skipped the “romantic” scene!! Arghhh,,, that’s really bad.. But, mostly, I really think that this is good to watch. Get 3 ½ from 5, which is mean GOOD.
This is the movie review :
Want to watch the trailer? Click here. Btw, Have I said that the man is really sexy? XP
Hahaha… ^^
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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
It's all about Keanu Reeves of course,, that's the only reason I watched this movie,. But, it's really a pity that I didn't watch him smile!! WEkss.. that's so bad.. But, I enjoy the movie with one of my friend, Anne and also nje and vivi (but they sat in the different row -_-a) Watch this!!
Yipee!!
The old “Day,” made early in the atomic age, has long inspired this kind of laughter. It has also, in part because of its expressive, shadowy black-and-white cinematography, retained a measure of haunting, unsettling weirdness.
Any hope that the new “Day,” directed by Scott Derrickson from a script by David Scarpa, might also someday rise above its pulpy, corny, somber silliness rests mainly on the shoulders of Keanu Reeves. Those shoulders are perfect for filling out a dark, narrow suit, just as Mr. Reeves’s deadpan basso and permanently perplexed features make him an ideal Klaatu, as the space visitor is called. Klaatu’s job is to assist, calmly and methodically, in the extermination of the human race, a task he tries, with evident fatigue, to explain to his hysterical, violent would-be victims.
Only one will listen: Dr. Helen Benson, played with a bit too much ennui by Jennifer Connelly. Helen, an expert in astrobiology, is part of a team of scientists taken into government custody by force when a giant orb seems about to crash into the Earth. Instead it lands in Central Park, disgorging that giant metal Cyclops robot (a near replica of the one from the earlier movie) and poor Klaatu.
The secretary of defense (Kathy Bates, with Hillary Clinton’s demeanor and Sarah Palin’s hair) responds with military force, which only speeds the process of humanity’s annihilation and demonstrates that our executioners may have a point. We’re such a brutal, dumb, incorrigible life form that the only way the planet can survive is if we’re no longer on it. (In 1951 the case against us was mainly pacifist. Now the anti-militarism has a more urgent and explicit ecological dimension.) A metastasizing swarm of metal bugs — the best special effects in a movie that often looks cheap and bedraggled — is dispatched to eat us and everything we’ve made, or at least everything on the New Jersey Turnpike.
But wait, Helen pleads. We can change! To provide evidence of this transformative potential she takes Klaatu to see her mentor, Professor Barnhardt (John Cleese), a scientist who listens to Bach and was awarded a Nobel Prize for “altruistic biology.” Apparently this is the Swedish Academy’s euphemism for pimping: the good doctor’s advice to Helen about how to approach Klaatu is to “persuade him not with your reason, but with yourself.”
Click HERE for the trailer.
NIGHTS IN RODANTHE
I've watched this movie recently with some of my friends. And I don't know why but I do like this movie. Actually,, romance and drama is not my type of my movie which I want to watch, but I just watched it. I did this in Blitz Megaplex. I did beacuse this movie was the only one which is make me interesting, better than the other and It suit me (the time, i meant). Here is the review of the movie :
Adapted by Ann Peacock and John Romano from the Nicholas Sparks novel and directed by George C. Wolfe (the former producer of the Public Theater, who fared better with his HBO movie “Lackawanna Blues”), “Nights in Rodanthe” revolves around the unhappily married Adrienne (Ms. Lane), who leaves her two nauseating children with her husband to baby-sit a North Carolina coastal inn owned by a friend (Ms. Davis), who has gone off for weekend sex with a muscled bit player. A hurricane is a-coming and so is Paul (Mr. Gere), one of those lonely Jaguar-driving geniuses of the operating room. The hurricane hits, and the shutters bang open and shut, which would be funnier if this film didn’t insist that the only road to a woman’s happiness runs up her legs.
You know the rest: trembling lips, delicate lovemaking, pop-song montage. Ms. Lane and Mr. Gere smile bravely and fumble like teenagers but are defeated by the scripted clichés and lack of focused direction. Mr. Wolfe seems as uncomfortable with the material as his leads are, though it’s impossible to know if he’s uninterested in this romance or whether his disjointed storytelling is a result of post-production triage.
Btw, I've also read the book. the story is ssoooo kind of romantic. It also a little vulgar btw,, hehehe.. Btw, click here for the trailer.
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MOVIE...
I don't know why,, but, recently, I watched movies with child actors.. I found it that they're so cute,, beside, the movie are really good. The stories and also the movies itself.. wkwkwk..
Am I being a lolicon? hihi .. XP
btw, I watched the movies at home of course,, the dvd movies.. I watched a lot since I have no activity for school and I reached home earlier this week..
Here are the movies I watched :
THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
“The Spiderwick Chronicles,” adapted from books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, represents the latest such effort.It conjures a world of fanciful creatures — some benign, others hostile — and introduces into it a group of squabbling human siblings (played by Sarah Bolger and Freddie Highmore) who have moved into a spooky old house in the middle of nowhere, along with their newly divorced mother, Helen (Mary-Louise Parker).
A previous resident of the house was one Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn), a scholar of the invisible world of sprites and goblins and the author of an encyclopedic reference book on their ways. That book, locked away in a secret room, is coveted by Mulgarath, commander of a bloodthirsty monster crew, who wants to use Spiderwick’s lore to wipe out all the cute little elves and fairies, and the children as well.
Why? Well, just because. Mulgarath takes many different forms, the most frightening of which is surely the person of Nick Nolte. But his malevolence is less scary than routine, as is the anxious twittering of Thimbletack, a honey-eating house spirit (voiced by Martin Short), and the jokey gregariousness of Hogsqueal, a porcine fellow with the voice of a suddenly overexposed Seth Rogen. Joan Plowright also shows up briefly as a wise and witchy old lady who clears up a few mysteries and leaves a few more in her wake."
That's all I can say,, btw, If you want to watch the trailer,, click HERE
If you haven't watched it,, and you really like fantasy things.. you have to watch it.. really,, the stories is interesting and the graphic at the movie also good. you're not going to regret it.. Btw, if you paid attention carefully, you'd found that Freddie Highmore played Simon and Jared.. because in the story they're twins,, so he had to play two diffrent role all in one. ^^
and This is the onther one :
THE SEEKER : THE DARK IS RISING
Btw, click HERE if you want to watched the trailer,. and then you have to look at how cute the boy's smile!! wkwkwk =P
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ART
Because of the art festival which is being held by my school,, each class have to make at least 3 things (anything but about art ). And in my class, Maria and I have to make one.. And you all have to know that i'm so lazy.. So I told Maria that we can use my oil painting which has just done by me recently. Hehe.. ^^V So I don't have to make another one.. All we have to do is just make it better or just do nothing.. wkwkwk
Btw.. This is the picture.. They don't say that the picture must be good.. So I don't have to worry about it.. =P
It's not too bad, isn't it? I meant.. Not too bad being shown in public? wkwkwk ^^
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PHOTOS
Here are the photos which I took at school,, they're not so bad, though,, I think.. hehe..
I took the photos with my lovely camera : Sony Cybershot!! hehe,, I love it (the camera i mean..) hehe =P
Of course there are some pictures which I've edited.. But because of my lack of skill to edit it.. I don't know whether it's good or not,, hehe ^^V
There is nothing special here,, just the sky
Just guess it,, what is it?? hehe ^^
This is the picture of the path way in the biara!! Not so bad,,, ^^ V
VAMPIRE KNIGHT
"Yuki Cross's earliest memory is of a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by one vampire and was saved by another, Kaname Kuran.Yuki is the adopted daughter of the Headmaster of Cross Academy, Cross Kaien and has grown up and became a prefect for the school with one main purpose: to protect the Human Day Class Students and the Vampire Night Class Students from each other. Her fellow guardian, Zero Kiryu, a childhood companion whose parents were killed by a pureblood vampire, is now determined to kill them all and refuses to trust them. Through a cruel twist of fate, Zero becomes a vampire himself, having been bitten by a pure-blood vampire four years before, Shizuka Hio. Kaname leads the group of Night class as their President, with the help of Takuma Ichijo, the Vice-president. "
You should watch it.. You can also read the manga. For the manga, if you want to read it, Click Here. hehehe.. That's good.!!
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LIVE IN or OUTBOND?
Here are the activities :
The first day. There was not much thing to do. But the most fun activities that day were went to the lake to examined it and the activity at night,, When we went to the lake, we had to search animals so that we could examined whether the lake is clean or not, and the activity at night, we had to went to the rice field with our group.. I was really dark there,, I slipped there once. It was not my fault but one of my friends, Brian (or I call him "alay"). Actually, he was the one who slipped there, but because we have to "arm in arm" with each other in one group I have to hold his hand, so finally I slipped to (because I could not hold his body)... But, luckily, Steve in front of me, pull my hand so I don't have to fall and being dirty with the mud.. ^^ Btw, after all that activities that day we slept, But I couldn't sleep well.. I slept around 2 a.m and I didn't know why but I woke up at 4 a.m and couln't sleep again.. it made me so tired and sleepy.. -_-a
And the second day... That was the worst and also the best day.. It was worst because we have to planting rice (not really true) in the rice field.. I don't really care being dirty,, but the smell it made me feel horrible. Wuekksss.. And the weather was not really advocated too.. It was rainy, But, I do enjoy it,, even thought I really hate the smell of "pup" (u know it..XP).. And The most fun activity,, was playing in the lake!! Wew,, it was really fun!! we all played in the water (in one go to clean out dirty body). My best friends and me were gahtered together, and also play together,, It was really good. Thank godness that the water is clean and also cool.. It made me fresh!! After that,, we could also drank a hot ginger,, It made the body warm, But the bad thing was that somone (not one actually, two..) pushed me inadveretent and made me spill my drink out and it hit my foot,, Wew, It was really hot! That was bad.. (If I were cruel,, I reallt wanted to splash it back to whoever it was.. But thank god once more that I didn't do that) . Then after that there were activities.. But I don't remembered it so well.. But at night.. It was really funny.. Rosi and Pauline came to my room.. They said that their room was full of "animals" so they couldn't sleep there,, and they move on to my room.. Actually, my room was so small. It just could filled by three people (me, anne and nje) and with two more people,,, you know it was really thight.. but I didn't mind it.. That night I slept around 1 a.m (we all spent our time with the "stories" heheh ^^) and woke up at 2.30 and then slept again and woke up again.. Arghhh,, it was bad.. But i'm being used to that..
The last day (Finally!!) when I heard that the activities that day just about outbond,, It made me happy,, because I thinked that we don't have to being dirty,, But I was wrong. but not as bad as the second day.. We played "monkey bridge" ,"v-bridge", "flying fox" and "magic carpet". The game of monkey bridge was not so bad.. but made my hand so sick.. (till now,, I couldn't use my hand for something hard -_-a) and the flying fox was the most enjoyable game.. hehe.. And after all that activities, we were packed to go home.. the day was over,, I think that time was so fast, haha.. ^^
On the way home.. in the bus,, I nauseated.. i felt horrible.. So I just slept. The schedule said that we would reach school around 6 p.m. but you know what? At 6 p.m we were still in Bogor. stucked because of the traffic jam.. And it was good that I felt better.. So I could make fun with my friends and also could annoyed the couple who sat beside me ( Maria n Tope, of course.. hehe ^^V).
That's all.. That was my experience.. Hope you could enjoy it the same way like I did!! Hahaha.. Maybe my friends and I should make a plan about doing something together.. hehe,,
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