Waiting

Waiting is the most torturous thing that humans have to do. Why wait? We cannot do a lot of things that we can usually do when doing other stuff...waiting for the doctor's call? you cannot go out....waiting for a phone call? you cannot call anyone else or go out...waiting for a ride to come? you cannot go anywhere other than the rendezvous point.....torturous isnt it?
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Want To Work for Ari Wibowo?

I actually got this one from my high school's mailing list. I think it's been circulating everywhere...

It's becoming a source of polemic between us. The feminist side thinks that this show is very degrading because Ari's trying to make his search of PRT as a commodity to make money... while the cuek side thinks that it shouldnt be a big deal because..well, it should be the same like other "job interview" show (apprentice, entertainer, american idol, etc etc) as long as it's done professionally. Well, y'all should know which side I'm in ;)


Sumber Warta Kota, Rabu 25 Mei 2005

Pembantu Ari Wibowo Digaji Rp 10 Juta/Bulan.

Di usianya yang mendekati 35 tahun, aktor ganteng
Ari Wibowo, bukannya mencari calon istri, malah sibuk
mencari pembantu. Ari yang selama ini tinggal di
apartemen berencana pindah rumah. Kini, rumahnya
hamper siap ditempati, dank arena itu, Ari butuh
orang
yang mengurus rumahnya nanti.
"Karena saya tingal sendiri, saya butuh pembantu.
Tadinya di Apartemen, saya tidak butuh pembantu,
bisa mengerjakan semuanya sendiri, karena apartemen kan
kecil", ungkap Ari saat ditemui Warta Kota seusai
syuting sinetron Dia di kantor MD entertainment
Tanah Abang III, Senin (23/5).

Niatan Ari mencari pembantu inilah yang kemudian
memunculkan gagasan dari pihak MD untuk menggelar
Reality Show Ari Mencari Pembantu "MD nawarin,
gimana kalau mereka yang nyariin sekalian bikin reality
show", kata Ari. Tentu saja Ari menyambut gembira
ide ini. " saya senang sekali, ini kebanggaan buat saya,
memiliki pembantu terbaik dari sembilan kota (tempat
audisi). Dan, ini kebanggaan buat si pembantu juga
dooong", katanya.
Bagaimana si pembantu terbaik itu tidak senang, gaji
yang dijanjikan pihak MD Rp.10 juta/bulan. "Pembantu
ini akan di umah saya dalam waktu setahun dengan
gaji yang besar. Jadi di jamin, dalam setahu, uang
sejumlah Rp. 120 juta sudah di tangan. Asalkan nanti kalau
sudah ngetop, dia jangan bertingkah. Saya juga berhak
memecatnya kalau dia macam-macam," ujar cowok yang
kemana-mana hobi naik motor gede ini. Bisa
dipastikan, pemenang kompetisi ini hanya satu pembantu.

Kira-kira, si pembantu itu bakal ngerjain apa aja ya
di rumah Ari? "Ya, sama seperti kerja pembantu pada
umumnya, mengurus rumah, masak," ucapnya. Apa tidak
repot mengurus rumah Ari sendirian? "Saya kan bukan
artis Holywood yang rumahnya gede seperti istana.
Kita juga manusiawilah., kasih dia waktu istirahat,"
janjinya. Jika acara ini sukses, apa Ari, dia
mungkin bikin reality show lagi. "Mungkin saya bikin Ari
mencari satpam, atau Ari mencari sopir," ujarnya
sambil tertawa. Ari senang karena ini ada misi
mulianya. Kalau dibilang ikut-ikutan? "Reality show
lagi in, memang iya kan? Tapi, selama ini belum ada
yang buat kompetisi untuk pembantu," dalihnya.

Di acara ini, Ari hanya sebagai pemilik rumah, tidak
menjadi juri. "Takut subyektif. Biar juri yang
menilai. Tapi, syarat penilaian tetap saya yang
menetukan, game - game selama karantina juga saya
yang
buat, "ungkapnya. Syaratnya gampang, peserta adalah
warga Negara Indonesia dan berusia diatas 18 tahun.

Audiensi di 9 kota akan berlangsung di Palembang (1
Juni 2005), Jakarta(3,8,18 Juni 2005), Yogyakarta
(4Juni 2005), Semarang (7 juni 2005), Surabaya (9
Juni 2005), Bali (12 juni 2005), Makassar (15 Juni 2005),
Bandung (22 Juni 2005), dan mEdan (25 juni 2005).
Acara itu akan disiarkan di SCTV. (yus)

LISTENING TO: Ben Folds - You To Thanks (this album is really growing on me...beautiful music i might say)

Instant Classic

Every year, there's always an important sporting event for MEN...yea real men (sounds machismo? :D), who likes soccer and stuff like that. This year is an odd year, so there's no big event like EURO or WORLD CUP going on....This year the Day is Champions League Final. The culmination of inter-club competition. Fortunately, this year the final brought up a great matchup between an established team with a solid nucleus in every position (AC Milan) and a team who is rich in history and still lives in the past (Liverpool). This is the year when old Liverpool follower who hasn't been following the team that much, came back to support the team again (like me..) just like the old days of Ian Rush, John Barnes, John Aldridge etc.

I haven't been experiencing this kind of day in Indonesia for a long time... In US the annual significant sporting party is the SUPERBOWL, I usually BBQ with lots of my friend while watching the finale of NFL season and its funny commercials on TV. A lot of times the games were snoozers, so there's not much suspense going on while watching the game.. nonetheless is a good fun when everybody came by and nongkrong...

What about this year's Champions League Final? I decided to go and watch the game with MT, VD, AG and AF...all of em are my Alpus friends. We were goin to watch the game at Kemang at first..but we didnt find a cozy place to watch...so we decided to watch it at AG's place. Me, AF, MT and VD rooted for Liverpool to win...VD is a big Liverpool fan, he came with his Milan Baros number 5 jersey. Meanwhile, AG is the only Milan fans between us. He got the first laugh after AC Milan scored 3 goals in the first half. I was so ready to go home at first, If I watched the game all by myself I would probably go to bed already. We decided to stay a bit longer, with a very itchy bit of hope.....that hope rose a bit when John Arne Riise gave a pinpoint cross for Gerrard to head at the top right corner of Dida's goal. Suddenly the stadium started to roar, the Liverpool fans gave their all to inject extra energy for their players who were still behind 1-3. Then, like 2 minutes later, Vladimir Smicer, the barely used Czech midfielder who is playing his final game with Liverpool gave a great farewell present with a long shot that just went in before Dida can reach the ball, 3-2. Me, VD, MT and AF were ecstatic at the possibility of an instant classic...can Liverpool make up the 3 goals deficit? yes, they can. 4 minutes after Smicer scored, Milan Baros somehow found himself in a penalty box through a counter attack and gave a nice backheel to Gerrard who was impended by Gattuso...it's a PENALTY!. We were still cautious, cause Liverpool does not really have a sure penalty taker. Gerrard has missed a few times, Riise tends to overshoot his penalties. Xabi Alonso was the one who took the penalty, Dida made a great save but Alonso was quick on the rebound and scored! 3-3! 3-3! ... a history is made!

Nothing much happened in 2nd half after that....no huge chance...There was a big chance for Milan at extra time though...it was in 116th minute when Shevchenko head the ball to Dudek's right, Dudek managed to block the header.....Shevchenko was ready to pound the rebound.. he shot from a very close range....luckily it hit Dudek at his wrist...the ball went up and didnt go in....what an anxious moment..

The game got to end in penalty kick....Jerzy Dudek (Liverpool GK) was ready with his bag of tricks. I think he has been reviewing the old clips of Liverpool's legendary GK named Grobelaar. He made several funny gestures during 1984 Champions League final against AS Roma to distract the penalty kicker. Dudek did this SKJ movement where he jumped and clapped the hands on the air when he anticipate the first kick....Serginho missed. Dudek then did this movement where he moved his hands right and left along with his shoulders, Pirlo Missed.....He then did several more funky movements and managed to make Shevchenko missed the 5th penalty and brought Liverpool to glory... LIVERPOOL THE CHAMPIONS!

What an instant classic! The only recent game in the world of sport than can come close to this was Superbowl in early 2000 when Tennessee Titans was driving to St. Louis Rams end zone... the score was 23-16 and Titans was in Rams 15 yds line and there's only 2 sec left, it means 1 more play... 1 more play to force extra time. Titans QB gave a short pass that was caught on Rams 5 yd line, the receiver tried to turn around and reach for the end zone, but he was stopped less then 1 yard before the end zone, just ONE YARD, GAME OVER....... the Titans came up justtttttt short of forcing the overtime...

Boredom

from Wikipedia.org

Boredom, or ennui (pronounced "on-we," this French word comes from Old French enui, root of the English word 'annoy') is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Those afflicted by temporary boredom may regard the affliction as a waste of time, but usually characterise boredom worse than just that. Alternatively one may have the feeling that having too much spare time causes boredom. Indeed, time often appears to move more slowly to someone suffering from boredom. This results from the way in which the human mind measures the passage of time, by the frequency of notable events, the absence of which may cause the feeling of boredom. Boredom can also occur as a symptom of clinical depression.

Boredom may also lead to impulsive (and sometimes excessive) actions, that serve no purpose and may damage one's self-interest. For example, studies in behavioral finance have shown that stock traders can enter into "overtrading" (buying or selling even without any objective reason to do so) simply because they feel bored when they have nothing worth doing. Usingrecreational drugs provides another example of the possible perils of boredom.

I guess I just felt like going out, but financial constraint kind of prevented me to do so...so I gotta stay at home...coincidentally watching THE show about nothing (Seinfeld season 3 that is) and playing WE8 all by myself or reading Dan Brown's Deception Point in which I got from DY. I was already disappointed by Digital Fortress which was really thin in character and the story depth. At least Deception Point still has the praises from the critiques at the back unlike Digital Fortress which has the praises of Da Vinci Code at the back. It kind of gives a hint about what's inside huh...

LISTENING TO: Mr. Big - Goin Where the Wind Blows (Nostalgic mode)

NEW DOWNLOADS:

Ben Folds - Song for Silverman (full album)

I haven't got a chance to listen to all of the tracks but the first impression is pretty good..not as catchy as when they were Ben Folds Five but still enjoyable listening to their style of piano-based music

The Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia (full album)

After their very successful debut album, it didn't take too long for the Thrills to release a 2nd one (Sept 2004). Their sound kind of changed a little bit compared to the first album, the Irish sound that they used to have is now missing.. The overall sound is now more generic than the previous album, which I think is a setback. There's no more sing-along track like Santa Cruz or Your Love is Like Las Vegas. Only Not All the Love in the World can come close. I like the way they started the album though, with a distorted guitar riff...in most songs people will probably continue with scream and high tempo music, but not The Thrills, they use it as the opening for their midtempo song (Tell Me Something I Don't Know) which sets the tone for the whole album. It's not always easy to follow-up from the smashing debut album... In The Thrills case they did ok.

The Insignificant Friday

Well some of you might wonder what happen to that stuff that RD talked about, well it turned out that it's kind of true everything cannot be fully logical, especially when it's Ghaib related...you can get crazy thinking about why Allah create human being to be abdis, was Allah craving for attention?...well only Allah knows, and I have no business trying to figure out why.....

back to the "what in the world have I been doin today.."

Went to Depok to work some administrative stuff...nothing huge, went jumatan up there, and the khatib got pretty good points but he seemed to be so boring and unassertive, too bad :P. I also met this guy named TN, he used to be in 70 also, he didnt remember my name, no big deal, I actually barely remembered his name hehehehe (Thank god for buku Tahunan!).... that happens all the time, always kind of funny when you met someone you know but you don't really KNOW him after years... usually each party point the index finger trying to figure out the other's name, ha ha..."remember me?".. and then I usually said in my head "Oh shit, I forgot his/her name, I'm so bad at memorizing"..then I usually just babbled some random name, ehuheuheu and in this TN case I luckily got it right and TN got to feel a lil bit guilty for not remembering my name.

I met DY and her boyfriend who just got back for good from Boston, MT. I actually cannot wait to see him, why? because I asked him to bring the Old Spice body wash that I really love, so excited I even changed my msn nick to "Old Spice is Comin' To Town" (gapenting.com). At first he asked me to go watched Star Wars:Revenge of the Sith, I was like "No Way Jose!". I have this little hatred to Star Wars prequels, especially after watching the 2nd one (forgot the title). It was full of wooden characters, bad acting and unnecessary special effects...more like a movie to cash in on the Star Wars nerds. We ended up going to Citos and just talk about stuff, his always beautiful sister LL also came with him. It was my first time coming to Citos on weekend. I anticipated ABeGes who are KorMods in bunches and parking space would be rare and hard to find. I was wrong, probably because we came a lil bit early. It wasn't really packed and there's more working class people who just got out of work than kids. An example of that working class that I met was Tora Sudiro...ehkkeh...I actually only saw him with his kid and wife, nothing really interesting to talk about, just adding some more story to make my sister who's a big fan of him envy.

Another Stunner from Dave Chappelle

Yep , he pulled another stunner.. It was reported that he's in South Africa
not because he checked into the mental facility, instead he got there
to consult with his close Moslem friend named Salim ...and yes, he's
a MOSLEM since 1998..considering the kind of jokes he usually
came up with, that's a shocker to me.

On the Beach With Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle shows up to our interview in a red t-shirt, blue jeans
and shiny white sneakers. He lopes around in his usual style, pacing a
lot, but does not seem like a man struggling to speak or to order his
thoughts at all. He's lucid and thoughtful and a couple of times asks
me to give him some time to think about answers. He concedes that he is
dealing with a lot of issues and mentions that he had consulted a
psychiatrist about a week ago for a forty minute session. He is also
quite fastidious about keeping his new sneakers clean and stops at
least twice to wipe smudges off their toes.

The first thing Chappelle wants is to dispel rumors—that he's got a
drug problem, that he's checked into a mental institution in
Durban—that have been flying around the U.S. for the past week. He says
he is staying with a friend, Salim Domar, and not in a mental
institution, as has been widely reported in America. Chappelle says he
is in South Africa to find "a quiet place" for a while. "Let me tell
you the things I can do here which I can't at home: think, eat, sleep,
laugh. I'm an introspective dude. I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
And I've been doing a lot of thinking here."

The picture he paints—and it seems a fairly honest and frank
assessment— is of someone struggling to come to terms with a new
position and power who's still figuring out how to come to grips with
how people around him are reacting to the $50 million deal he signed
last year with Comedy Central. Without naming specific characters, he
seems to blame both some of his inner circle (not his family) and
himself for the stresses created by last year's deal.

"There were things that overwhelmed me," he says. "But not in the way
that people are saying. I haven't spent any of the money. All that
stuff about partying and taking crack is not true. Why do I live on a
farm in Ohio? To support my partying lifestyle?"

The problems, he says, started with his inner circle."If you don't have
the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an
hour you can lose yourself," he says. "Everyone around me says, 'You're
a genius!'; 'You're great!'; 'That's your voice!' But I'm not sure that
they're right." And he stresses that Comedy Central was not part of the
problem and put no more than normal television restrictions on what he
could do.

"You got to be careful of the company you keep," Chappelle says. "It's
hard to know how much to say. One of the things that happens when
people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions
of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

"During my ascent, I've seen other people go through that wall to
become really big. They always said that fame didn't change them but
that it changes the people around them. You always hear that but you
never really understand it. But now that I'm there that makes a lot of
sense and I'm learning what that means. You have to have people around
you that you can trust and aren't just out for a meal ticket."

The breakdown in trust within his inner circle seems to have led him to
question the material they were producing. He seems obsessed with
making sure the material is good and honest and something that he will
be proud. "I want to make sure I'm dancing and not shuffling," he says.
"What ever decisions I make right now I'm going to have live with. Your
soul is priceless." The first two seasons of his show "had a real
spirit to them," he says. "I want to make sure whatever I do has
spirit."

But Chappelle also says that he must share the blame for the stalled
third season. "I'm admittedly a human being," he says. "I'm a difficult
kind of dude." His earlier walkout during shooting "had a little
psychological element to it. I have trust issues, things like that. I
saw some stuff in myself that I just didn't dig. It's like when I
brought a girl home to my mom and it looked as if my mom really didn't
like this girl. And she told me, 'I like her just fine. I just don't
like you around her.' That's how I feel in this situation. There were
some things about myself that I didn't like. People got to take
inventory from time to time. That's what this [coming to South Africa]
is for."

This is Chappelle's second trip to South Africa. He first came to
Durban, and visited Salim, in 2000. Chappelle won't tell me exactly how
he met Salim but describes him as a family friend. A soft-spoken
Muslim, Salim seems also to be something of a sounding board to
Chappelle, who converted to Islam several years ago. While Chappelle is
not doing a formal religious course in Durban, says Salim, who wore a
simple cotton robe and hung back through the interview and photo shoot
and only spoke when I asked him a question, "if he wants to talk
religion then I'm there as someone to talk to." Says Chappelle: "This
is kind of my spot where I can come to fill my spirit back up.
Sometimes you neglect these things if you are running on a corporate
schedule." The crux of his crisis seems to boil down to his almost
obsessive need to "check my intentions." He uses the phrase a few times
during the interview and explains that it means really making sure that
he's doing what he's doing for the right reasons.

His family, he says, has been a huge support over the past eight
months. "They've been phenomenal really, just incredible. What
beautiful people. Everyone loves their family but it's good if you can
like them too."

His religion is also crucial. "I don't normally talk about my religion
publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with
this beautiful thing. And I believe it is a beautiful religion if you
learn it the right way. It's a lifelong effort. Your religion is your
standard. Coming here I don't have the distractions of fame. It quiets
the ego down. I'm interested in the kind of person I've got to become.
I want to be well rounded and the industry is a place of extremes. I
want to be well balanced. I've got to check my intentions, man."

That includes planning for the future. When I ask him if he would ever
buy a place of his own in South Africa, Chappelle replies, "First of
all I've got to make sure I've got a job."

He says that he's only been recognized five or six times in the two
weeks he's been here. "It happens so sporadically that when it does it
freaks me out because I have to remember, 'Oh, yeah, I'm famous.'" At
the end of our interview/photo shoot an American woman does recognize
him. "Number seven," he cries. "Wow, I'm not that big in Africa. I've
got to do an action film here."

During most of the hour and a half that we talk, Chappelle is serious
and introspective. But he still has his sense of humor, which comes out
as we near the end of our conversation: "Is that enough to prove I'm
not smoking crack or hanging out in a mental institution?"  

Cruisin For Bruisin

Saturday always seemed to be the day I went out a lot. I'm not actually a big fan of going anywhere far on that day due to crazy traffic and stuff, but for whatever reason, I still go out anyway. Went to Pasar Baru with AD after lunch to buy some film rolls, well a lot of em. We saved 5000 rups per roll in Ps Baru. I haven't been to that place for ages though. Actually I did not see anything changed so much..probably except the big chinese style gate which I thought look great and fairly new. Went to a photo gallery at Antara, there was a journalism photo exhibition with Aceh as the theme. Found a few powerful pictures up there, the one that I like was this one with a torned up last supper statue and the remainders of the earthquake at the background, I found that one pretty ironic.

I met my cousin and my aunt who came to my place. My cousin (RH) is now 9 years old and weighed about 61 kg! wow! that's a bit heavier than me! ahhaa...he's very cuddly that for sure, and he likes to joke around and likes to read newspaper...talking about a pretty smart kid. Too bad I cannot see him for a bit longer coz he gotta go home to Ciamis with his dad

I also went out with NV and met AN and RD at QB. This time we chit chat a bit more serious stuff. NV told me that RD can sort of explained religion in a purely logic sense... I thought it was merely impossible to do so, there's always be a point where human brain cannot reach. My take is Allah made a lot of limitations in our brains to see if we can accept things that was said in Quran that we cannot actually understands logically. I haven't reached a point where I can asked RD stuff that can reach the illogical part though, we planned to continue our conversation on Sunday.

LISTENING TO: Moonpools & Caterpillars - Trampling Rose

Dave Chappelle's Woe

ugh ogh, Dave Chappelle, what is wrong wit u? I guess the pressure of trying to live up the huge expectation for the third season apparently has taken its toll....I would admit his skits in "Chappelle's Show" were really hilarious. My personal fave was the one about the blind black- white supremacist named Clayton Bigsby. still confused? This guy is a black man who's blind but raised by the whiteys and he kind of felt that he's white and turned into a white supremacist (KKK). The first season was so successful it took Comedy Central no time to put him in for 2nd season. After the second season, Comedy Central got a stiff competition from NBC and AXN but still won the tender, this time with a huge $50 million contract for 2 seasons. Apparently Dave was feeling the pressure to maintain the quality of jokes from the first 2 seasons. I wish him well....take it easy DAVE....and yeah, cocaine is a hell of a drug

Report: Chappelle in mental health facility

NEW YORK - Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday.

The comedian’s whereabouts and condition have been unknown since Comedy Central abruptly announced last week that the planned May 31 launch of the third season of “Chappelle’s Show” had been postponed and production halted.

Chappelle flew from Newark, N.J., to South Africa on April 28 for treatment, said the magazine, quoting a source close to the show it would not identify. Entertainment Weekly said it had corroborating sources for its story.

“We don’t know where he is,” Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said. “We’ve heard about South Africa. We don’t know. We haven’t talked to Dave.”

Chappelle’s spokesman, Matt Labov, would not comment on the magazine’s story.

“It seems like the issues he’s contending with are really quite serious,” said Dade Hayes, a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. “It isn’t a case of him spending a weekend someplace recuperating from exhaustion.”

The magazine’s sources say Chappelle is still in the facility, which was not named, Hayes said. Chappelle’s representatives have denied that the comedian was abusing drugs.

Chappelle reportedly signed a $50 million deal with Comedy Central for two more seasons of his show, a payday made possible because of the explosive sales of the show’s first season DVD.

The magazine said Chappelle had shot four to five episodes’ worth of sketches for the new season, but none of its onstage introductions.

Wedding Galore

Well.. I'm pretty close to 24 years old rite now, it's the time where I always end up in someone's wedding every weekend...yep it's that time. It's pretty analogous to when we're at around 2nd grade in high school when we seemed to be in someone's sweet 17 invitation. I actually have my own streak, coming into someone's wedding every weekend for 4 straight week... well it's probably going to be broken this weekend if nothing's changed..OH MY GOSH!! What in the world am i gonna do? :P.

What I noticed from most of wedding receptions is the lack of intimacy in these receptions. At times it seemed more like a showoff by the parents. Most of these receptions are in huge and expensive places (Balai Sudirman, Bidakara, Hilton, etc). The guests seemed to come to the reception just to give the couple and their parents handshake and eat some free food and then go home (I'm not gonna be munafik, sometimes I'm one of em :P). After the handshake, most of the guests don't care much about the couple, probably most of em just wait for a chance to get a picture and that's it baby! ....so it's more just like a waste of money...

what about trying to find a way for the couple and guests participate? make some little game? what about making a little fun tradition like what the americans have (the bride threw that flowers to the bunch of singles on the back), of course it's not gonna be exactly the same. What about playing some music that is actually dancey (slow dance maybe) with a little live band, that would shake the place up for sure.

I even talked to CC about some creative ideas for wedding places...Ruang Sidang 70! haAHHAHAHhaha, that would be awesome :D. Soccer field? the hot weather is probably going to be a problem. In a big garden field? I actually went to one of these last sunday in a 1 ha field in Pejaten, it was alright. I didn't really like the way it set up, too wishy washy, too many twists and turns on route to the pelaminan, and the food tents seemed to be in a random places.

After thinking about it, it's kind of funny that I was even thinking about these stuff, coz it's going to be ages probably before I actually get married.....go figure!

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"I have never been so repulsed by someone mentally and so attracted to them physically at the same time. It's like my brain is facing my penis in a chess game. And I'm letting him win."

"You're not letting him win. He wins 'til you're forty."

"Then what?"

"He still wins, but it's not a blow-out."

- Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza, in "The Nose Job"

LISTENING TO: Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine

Amazing Race

I would like to congratulate Uchenna and Joyce after winning 1 million US dollars through Amazing Race 7. I think I can honestly say that show is the only reality show I faithfully follow. The episode finale was pretty hectic and eventful. The three couples seems to be constantly exchanging position every single task, even Uchenna and Joyce lost the first hour and had to lose all their money and belongings except passport. They had to beg for money to people on the street and the airport. And yet, they still managed to win the contest altogether. Talking about pure utter determination. Meanwhile, the series of fortunate event seemed to catch on Rob and Amber as they were having trouble finishing the last task. For those of you who didn't watch the series finale, go find some place where you can watch the reruns :).

just feels like putting funny quotes...

"You know the difference between a dentist and a sadist, don't you? Newer magazines."

- Jerry Seinfeld, in "The Yada Yada"-

"I used to play in a Death Metal band. They either loved us or they hated us...or they thought we were "okay". Most Death Metal bands have dark names like "Obituary"..."Mortuary"..."Rigor Mortis". We weren't that intense. We just went with "Injured". And later we changed it to "A Capella" as we were walkin' out of the Pawn Shop."
- Mitch Hedberg in "Strategic Grill Location"-

A Case of Saturdays

I did not have a solid plan to go anywhere that day. Well, I was hoping that the DAU people actually asked me to go watch Maliq at NYC if that's turned out to be true. I didn't hear any news from them...so scratch that from the plan.

AD went to my place, he was apparently bored at work and decided to went off early. We ended up eating Yamin at Pertok and did the usual reading stuff in Gramedia. I found a book written by Harry Roesli (who just passed away last year) titled "Republik Funky". It is a collection of his articles in Kompas, where he wrote everyday in Asal Usul. It's always filled with critical but cheeky and funny stuff. I ended up reading almost half of the book during my stay up in Gramed, talking about cheap entertainment :D. I was going to buy the book, but I decided to save my money for something else for now.

NV called me about our plan to meet that has been cancelled a few times, most of them were because of her busy nature as of late. We then meet at Gelato Bar that day with AD, who only knew NV from far out. So he pretty much did the "introduction ritual" all over again...well kind of the same to what I did during TS' reception. I really find it odd that me, AD, NV came from the same high school same year but we don't actually know each other until last few weeks. Ironically, a lot of my high school friends are now drowned in their own activities and their new jobs that I don't even get to see them at all....

We ended up staying up there for a few hours, four of us that is (NV came with his cousin) and then go home. We got home at 11:30, suddenly there's a call from YL and AL. They wanted to find something to eat, I decided to go with them. I haven't seen AL for some time, so off we go to Wiwit..

I have just "acquired" a PS2 from my bro's friend, he used PS2 as a loan security....so I will return the PS2 when my bro got his money back. That's pretty cool...it means there would be more entertainment in the house...I can train my WE8 level of play back before I went back to Jkt. My play hasn't deteriorated that much, I still lost to my bro though. Even though the last game (he played PSV, i played Deportivo) I got like 65% of the possession and still lost in PK shootout. I'm pretty sure I will beat him next time, my bro seems to be having trouble taking the ball away from me...my finishing was atrocious though.

LISTENING TO: Basia - Copernicus

Janji Joni

I actually watched this movie last Monday, utilizing that nomat thingy in Wijaya with my sister. I have heard pretty good reviews about this one, so off I go. The main idea of Janji Joni was pretty creative, who would have thought there would be a movie about the movie roll delivery guy? Another reason I watched this movie was to see the gorgeous Mariana Renata, she's probably not that good of an actress and Joko Anwar (the director) did well to minimize her appearance to compensate with her acting skill.

The start was pretty promising with Joni (Nicholas Saputra) explaining about what he does and how it "affects" the movie industry. His own rendition of 10 types of cinema audiences was pretty good too. Joni then met this gorgeous actress Angelique (Mariana for sure) who was watching a movie with her detail-freak then-boyfriend Otto (Surya Saputra). Angelique promised Joni to give out her name if Joni would able to deliver the movie roll on-time which shouldn't be tough at all. However, Everything seemed to be working against Joni as he faced a lot of adversity in delivering these movie rolls. His motorcycle got stolen when he was guiding a blind man crossing the street; then he ran across a boring cab driver whose wife was giving birth; then he was forced to do a cameo in a little movie directed by Ria Irawan; then his bag was stolen by Vonny (Rachel Maryam) who then sold it to an eccentric artist Adam Subandi (Sujiwo Tedjo). Did Joni able to deliver the movie roll on time? Did he manage to at least get to know Angelique?

When I watched Janji Joni, the first thing I noticed was that there were lots of solid cameo appearance by big name celebrity supported with solid scenario. Aming light up the screen in his 30 sec appearance. Noella Birowo was so hilarious as the telmi-audience with her husband Indra Birowo. Ria Irawan was a great fit as an eccentric director (SEX! ). Tantowi Yahya was pretty good too as the ginekolog, even though it's a bit predictable. Even Nia Dinata the producer appeared briefly as the "sok-tahu kritikus".

Overall Janji Joni was a very entertaining movie with a very good storyline. The plotting reminds me a bit of "Run, Lola Run" the cult classic. The formula of "the whole world against the main cast" reminds me of "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" and many other movies. There was a little stuff that bugged me though, there seems to be something wrong with the timeframe (I'm not sure that Joni can come up with that many incident in such a short timeframe). As long as you watch the movie to be entertained it wouldn't be that much of a problem, it entertains. 8/10

DVD Report

I went to Mal Ambassador today to accompany my mom. I was a bit bored, so I went to 3rd floor and did some DVD hunting. Here's what I've got..

1. Seinfeld season 1-3 (been looking for this for ages! cannot wait to watch every single episodes)
2. Be Cool (to see Andre 3000's debut ;))
3. Clockwork Orange (Collector's item, already watched the movie, but it was so good that I decided to buy one)
4. Hotel Rwanda (interesting topic and great reviews)
5. The Pacifier (just for a few laughs)
6. Jazz Bistro 2 (music CD, just to put a bit more stuff to my Ipod)

LISTENING TO: St. Germain - Sure Thing (Live)

Jayus Galore

I met a few of DAU gang last weekend in Dharmawangsa. They were pretty loud and energetic bunch. I actually like 'em a lot, of course I've known em for about 7 years or so. One of them, IP loved to spew lots of jokes. A lot of those were actually funny. Some of those were not so funny, or Jayush... We love to kind of poke fun of her Jayus jokes... well these are a few of em...

IP: Sapa pahlawan Indonesia yg suka dugem ?
Us: sapa ye? ga tau...
IP: Pangeran DISCOnegoro...hehhehe
Us: Huuuu jayus banget seh :P

IP: Sapa artis yg tau segalanya ?
Us: wah sapa tu? bukannya artis geblek2 ?
IP: Pamela UNDERSTAND ...hehee
Us: Huuu makin jayus aje lo

I also spewed my own jayus joke hehehe

Me: Sapa banci yang pemberani?
Others: Banci Rambo (ngasal.com- red.)...
Me: asal abis lo!..yg bener BANCI JUMPING....
Others: yeee........

Well it's all entertaining, regardless whether it's funny or not.. If it's funny, we'll laugh our ass off...If it's jayus, we also laughed our ass off poking fun at the one who spewed the joke :P...

Physics of Hell

*The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term. The answer was so "profound" that the Professor shared it with colleagues, and the sharing obviously hasn't ceased...

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote Proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following: "First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let us look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities: 1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose. 2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa Banyan during my Freshman year, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you.", and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze." This student received the only A.