Batman Begins

I watched the movie on the first day it played, yesterday. It got rave reviews from my friends who already watched the movie during midnight screening. I noticed that Christopher Nolan directed this movie. For those of you who haven't heard of this guy, he directed a masterpiece, mind-bending movie titled Memento, one of my personal fave.

I anticipated a movie that is deep in character development and filled with surprises typical of Mr. Nolan's movies. This movie is definitely have a lot more depth than that of the Joel Schumacher's version (Batman Forever, Batman & Robin) but not as gothic as the Tim Burton's version (Batman and Batman Returns). The movie started out pretty slowly, kind of what I expected to give a chance for Nolan to build up Batman/Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) character. It started with the scene where young Bruce fell down a well that filled with bat and freaked out..it became his greatest fear. Then he's suddenly gone to Himalaya to meet Ducard (Liam Neeson) who then became his mentor and taught him how to conquer his fears and trained him to be a ninja. It turned out that Ducard is a member of "evil" League of Shadows, in which then Bruce refused to join and then he managed to kill everyone there except Ducard who survived at his mercy.

The movie continued with the process how Bruce got his gadgets and how he built the Wayne's Manor. Nolan succeeded in characterizing Bruce Wayne as this vulnerable hero who's living a double life. It won't be until about an hour into the movie that Bruce wore his batsuit. We then introduced to several of his villains, Scarecrow/ Mr. Crane (Cillian Murphy, that guy from "28 days later") was pretty interesting. But the one that sticked up on me the most is Ducard, Ra's Al Ghul and the League of SHadows... it's so interesting to me how they have this vision about the corrupted city (Gotham equivalent to Jkt? :P) but have their own way to resolve the issue (fresh start!, my previous entry ? :P) which is pretty misguided ("We burned London to the ground") even though we knew it works.

The movie kind of tailed off to me in the action part, I was expecting a bit more action, I was probably expecting too much out of Nolan's movie. I also did not get enough surprise or anything grand at the end that I expect out of a 140-minutes movie. Overall, Nolan did a great job lifting the Batman series again, but this one to me did not have enough balance between drama and action so that it might be kind of boring for those of you who's looking for action. The character depth and acting overall is awesome except for Katie Holmes who fell behind the great cast. Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Bale, Caine, Morgan Freeman really gives this movie a great cast who gave this movie an edge in the acting side. I like this one a bit more than Tim Burton's version, but some of you may prefer the Tim Burton ones.

7.5/10

Transformed?

A few days after I went out on the Sunday nite with MT, AY and PPN... MT told me how AY was impressed at how I have changed since the junior high school days. I was like,... I think I'm still the same person with just a little bit more confidence. AY said that I was never talkative the last time he really knew me (junior high that is), I was too inward, introvert, shy and that kind of things...and woman? no sh!t! AY had barely even seen me talking anything substantial to a woman. AY was really surprised how I was talkative in the conversation with PPN, I told him that PPN was in the same high school with me too, so topic of conversation must be endless. AY still insisted that I changed though. MT kind of confirmed what AY thinked of me, he told me that he was really thankful that I helped prevent "the cricket chirping" moment when we saw WD the other day....well yeah he was the one who want to meet her and I was pretty much the only one who did the talking...come on..basa basi dikit lah :P.

After thinking about it by myself, I did change after Junior high...I really wanted to get out of Alpus that time because I am pretty much tired of having the same friends over and over and I felt like it's time for me to spread the wings a bit. I also had this "image" that would stay on me if I stay there...you know the "cupu" image that I think would not help that much in making friends. Moving to another school would be a good idea to get a fresh start and imprint a whole new image. When you get a fresh start, you have the confidence going without a problem because people have zero knowledge about you (elementary, kindergarten memory ? :P). I don't regret my decision one bit. Especially after seeing a few of my Alpus friends that stayed... one of 'em told me that she wanted to go to 70 but her mom didn't want her to, so she stayed and didn't change a whole bit until she went to college..then she transformed because she said she managed to get a fresh start at college...Imagine if I stayed and then moved to US, I would never get that fresh start I wanted to get ...mmmmmmmm...

so did u get transformed ? ;)

Longgg Recap

Haven't got a chance to fill this thing up as I've been a bit out and about the last few days, hehee...

on Thursday, I went to PS with MT to see his close friend WD and her relatives...nothing really interesting to tell about. As we talked, PPN txt'ed us asking us to come to a "dugem" session....on Thursday. Actually, her brother was going to play there. I haven't "dugem" for a pretty long time, I thought I have already lost passion going to that kind of place. I thought I am already getting old, as I remember the last time I went to a club with my friends..all of us was like, "man, I'm not enjoying this, do u think we're getting too old for this?" then I said "Well, yeah probably, let's get off to Lalan and eat some nasgor...".. We only stayed up there for half an hour that time. Back to present days, just for the good gesture and MT's eagerness to see PPN, I decided to go up there. The place was not filled up at all...well I can say pretty basi..ahhaah...the place is pretty good (designwide and soundwise) though (Fluid) and has some interesting stories. FYI, this is the place where Mr. Adiguna Sutowo allegedly shot a bar guy and sentenced to 7 years in jail. Surprisingly though, I found myself enjoying the music that PPN's bros DJing as we were being asked to get down to the floor just to spice things up. Am I getting young again? is this gonna induce me to go to club again frequently like a few years ago? haha...I hope not

On Friday, there's not that much interesting stuff to talk about... went to Abuba with YN as she had a promise to treat me for her birthday, the sucky thing was that I forgot to order the steak "medium"....oh my, got to eat the well done one... o well, it's still a great meal.

Woke up early on Saturday because of an sms PPN sent me... it's about a wedding reception. Whew, I completely forgot that ADT and ALD's reception was on that day. I went there with my Cipete vicinity friends (BLNK and AD). It was not as packed as the other reception a few months ago (ZAPA WEEK) but I met DD, my lil' bit banci friend ...ahhaha...he's now working for TOTAL up in BPP, wish u all the best man. Then I went to Bogor with V and his friends...apparently it was for V's bday. We went to Gumintan (sp? lupa ni gue :P), a pretty posh restaurant like The Peak or Kampung Daun. They got some pretty good tempe bacem...slurpppp...and the view was good also.. I definitely gonna go back there if I have a chance.

Sunday was the day of Mr. Bapaknya anak2 wedding reception...hehe... I went of to Pd. Gede with BLNK, IP, DN and AK. The reception was held in a house inside DDN complex. DN's friend apparently know where the place is so we kind of depend on his direction. We got into DDN complex, and we saw a tent..we almost got out but BLNK was smart enough to ask someone first...it was the wrong place.. this complex is off Kali Malang, while the DDN complex we're looking for was down in Pd. Gede closer to the Pasar. Me and IP was wondering while driving to the right complex...what if this new directions eventually led us to the same place/tent just coming from the other entrance...wouldn't that be hilarious AJAHAHA..an idea for a sitcom ? :P. We got there still a bit early, we kind of wait for "anak tongkrongan" to come...They came at around 2, there were KLM, BDG, GN, RK, BLNT, WCK, FD (the guy who won millions of rups because he can speak ahasab kilab well ;P), BLK, PT, etc etc..looked like that the long trip to Pd. Gede with all those crazy traffic (it was sunday!) kind of took their toll, we didn't really talked too much and I had to get off to see SR and AM.

After a few weeks, at last my plan to see KNT's sister's (AL) baby was realized on Sunday. She named her son Drake....hmmm reminds of the singer Nick Drake, probably that's where she got the name from. He was pretty much sleeping when we got there, we kind of trying to wake him up but he seemed to be enjoying his sleep.....mmm too bad, coz he seemed to be very cute hohoo.

Went out sipping coffee a bit later with PPN, MT and AY.... kind of funny considering the fact in a span of one week I got to meet PPN 5 times!!...ahhaha... but still there were plenty to talk about and talking with an ex-MC like PPN tends to be endless...

Playing Chess

I used to play Chess a lot when I was in elementary. It was even my x-tra curricular activity back then..talkin about a nerd :D. That's not the kind of chess I'm talkin about though. It's my mind who has been playing chess lately. You know that in Islam our biggest jihad is the war between desire (nafsu) and brain (akal).....it's always a constant war that never ends til u die....... well... there's a big chess match goin on between them this time around and it's goin really tight. The thing is, sometimes you're not even sure which part is coming from the brain and which part is coming from desire, it makes things even harder to resolve. In other front, I am experiencing something somewhat analogous to what Jerry Seinfeld had in one of his sitcom episodes...remember this quote?

"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 and George, in "The Nose Job"

let's hope I can get out of this safe and sound ;)

Arisan: Reason to Gather

Every few months, my junior High school friends (Alpus friends that is) always hold an arisan event for us to gather and meet. Arisan might sounds girly and shit for the guys, but if you think about it, it's a great media/reason to meet each other. When you say reunion, it sounds cheesy, why reunion every 3 months ? ehuehue. When you say arisan, oh okay we're just gonna catch up on what we've been doing, nongkrong talking and stuff while doing arisan. And if some of us don't want to join the arisan thingy but only want to come...he/she can go ahead..well I actually joined in and won yesterday ;)

I was going to come together with ADC, MT, DY, FL, STN and FR...but for somewhat not obvious reasons, DY, FL, STN and FR splitted and I kind of lose contact of MT....so I only went with ADC. The event was told to be started at 3. I had stuff to do that day so I end up coming at 4:30....ngaret beibeh! hehe. I came to the previous arisan in Teebox and it was loaded, crowded crazy. There were about 50 people who came and it was a riot and great experience. This time, it's held on Sunday because RZ complained about he's never able to come on Saturday. You know what? he didn't come.....what a freakin' omdo! hahahaha. There wasn't as many people coming, but it wasn't too bad. I don't really see too many guys who came. I saw ADC (the guy who knows everyone's car and their home locations...creepy :D), DP (the guy who once rumoured to be dead ...), JD (now son of a minister HaHa), BD (Bud ..bud...pinjem, bud? ;)), BB (Mr. furry guy), and last but not least BTL (the gokil guy).... I had no idea the whereabouts of ppl like AG, AF, VD, MT, NR, RG dll who I thought going to come...

WHat about the girls ? I saw some people that I havent seen for 10 years like GL, RT (who looked great with the veil..mm), HM (ready to vow..), AS (she looked pretty good now), AST, etc etc. As far as the riot experience it wasnt as great as I expected, but we did hung out for a pretty long time. We decided to continue hanging out in Bonsir (yeap...again..but o well I don't mind ever since Im not gonna see these guys very often) and I went home with PPN and AI who live not far from my place.

Before Sunrise

One night, I was having a little insomnia as it was around midnight when I decided to watch "Before Sunrise". I suddenly found this DVD lying around my bedroom, probably my bro already owned it for some time but I was not aware of it. I have already watched Before Sunset and was really impressed by it. The strong dialogue, the sort of immense feeling that sparked between Jesse and Celine (looked very real, talking about chemistry!). One of very few romantic movies that I'm really fond of.

To caution the impatient, Hollywood-loving type moviegoers. This movie is not for you! But if you are looking for a movie that is genuine with incredible character depth, superb chemistry, simple yet very believable and real this movie is for you guys. The story started when Jesse (Ethan Hawke), an American backpacker met Celine (Julie Delpy), a French gal in a train that goes through Vienna. They instantly connect...they connect in a truest sense. Jesse who's going to catch a flight from Vienna the next morning (after sunrise) manages to pursuade Celine to go with him and spend one night together before Jesse catches a flight back to US. Then this movie just revolves around this 2 people who steadily build their chemistry as the night goes along....that might sound boring for casual moviegoers...but apparently Richard Linklater (writer/director) managed to make the conversation engaging and meaningful (penting!) enough to make me stay in front of my TV. There's a lot of things that they talked about that I can relate to, their observation of people, life and customs. The chemistry they have in the sequel was also alive and well in this movie, I can really see how they slowly build up their feelings of each other as the movie goes along (my favorite scene was the record store scene, classic).

I have watched the sequel "Before Sunset" before watching this one...so that pre-existing condition might make my experience kind of different than other people. On Before Sunset the couple has grown old, experienced a lot ups and downs in life and seemed to be a bit dark about their approach in life and the relationship ...while in "Before Sunrise" they are still young, passionate and enthusiastic about living the life the fullest..ohh I can relate to that a lot :D.

After watching this movie...I really long for a moment when I meet someone at the bus/train/plane and connect tremendously and spend some time together...imagine doing that in Jakarta......people would be Parno first before it even get started :P. OK, I probably should go backpacking up to Europe, buy a Eurorail pass and hope I can meet a woman like Celine ahhaha :D

"Before Sunrise" is a must-watch and deserved to be in my main DVD collection and I will be watching this movie again for a couple more times. Great script/writing, great chemistry, simple yet very real premise = classic movie.

9.5/10

Loud and Energetic Bunch

Yesterday, out of the blue, MS txt'ed me to tell me about my high school same-bench (sebangku :D, can anybody come up with a better word?) friend, DS. He apparently is having his vacation out of his graduate study up in Singapore. We were a pretty unique friend, we have a lot physical stuff in common...like our lips..ahhahah....we used to sit at the back right corner of the class so we called ourselves Joknan (Pojok Kanan) or Jokbir (Pojok Bibir), we liked to fool around with SKB (arab), SCR and AP (yeap, soon to be Mr. Pres daughter in law). We decided to meet up at Dim Sum Kemang (yeap, that place again, this time I want to check out the meal).

Other than me, DS and MS ...IP also came along. She has always been the catalyst when there's a get together...her observational skill made her pretty good jayus gal :D. We met up before and still remember when she spewed a few jayus stuff ( remember this? ). When I first got there, I tried to order Avocado juice..I was like..

Me: Mesen Jus Alpokat dong mba?
Mba2: Maaf, kita ga ada jus alpokat mas
Me: Avocado Juicenya mba...
Mba2: ooo avocado juice...ok
Me: * langsung heran ni org ko ga bisa bahasa indonesia ye ? kebanyakan sok inggris si :P*

2 mnt kemudian..

Mba2: Wah avocado juicenya ga ada mas, mo pesen yang lain ga ?
Me: kalo gitu jus alpukat ada dong... *belagak bego*
Mba2: *bingung*
Me: ehhee...ya udah kalo gitu es teh manis lah...eh sori ice tea :P

After waiting for a bit while...IP and MS came... we started chatting and stuff...while looking at the menu IP noticed that they spell squid (cumi2) wrong....they spelt it squit...then my Jayus moment came...

Me: squit? bukannya itu kalo lo dimapras ya disuruh squit jump 10 kali
IP: gileee lo cirrr, gue jg kalah jayus ama elo
Me: Oh itu squat jump ye hohohohoho

after a bit while, MS started talking about how dentists likes to talk with english words...

MS: Iya, contohnya deh...saliva..lo ngerti kan cir saliva itu apa?
Me: oh iya iya...
DS: ohhh iya iya, saliva itu singkong bukan
Me: hmm...ya jadi lo demen ama keripik saliva dong DS *Belagak bego*
Me, MS, IP was LMAO :D :D
DS: loh emang knp? sala ya?
Me: Saliva itu ludah dul!
DS: ohh hehuehue...kalo gitu singkong apa yah...oh iya Cassava ohhoho

There was another jayus moment, when DS wanted to join the jayus conversation...

IP: DS, lo ga demen makan cherry yg di black forest itu ?
DS: wah nggak tuh, benci gue
Me: Gile lo ama cherry aja bencinya udah kayak ama apeeee aje
DS: Well, kalo tom and cherry si gue suka
IP, Me, MS started locking our lips,.....crickets chirping..

talking about jayus at its best ehheheeh

The Failed Pledge

On Tuesday I pledged myself to not go out because I have been out a lot the last few days and my mom didn't seem to be pleased by it. Well, it worked til when I picked my sister up at her school, MS txt'ed me...she told me that she's in Dharmawangsa buying ticket for her Bali trip (ahhh..want to go :P) and she asked me to meet. ha ha...I haven't seen her for some time and catching up on stuff sounded pretty cool...so I threw away my pledge and met her. I actually went to Bali a couple of months ago, but I went with my family. It's kind of not the ideal way to go to Bali. I'm still longing for the chance to go to Bali with my guy friends, playing soccer at the beach, swim and "surf" a bit in Kuta, bungee jumping etc etc...kapan ye ? hohooh

later on the same day, I met MT who has become sort of my hangout friend because both of us kind of bored not knowing what to do huehue. We hung out for a bit in Alpus while eating some Nasi Gila Pedes..mm....crazy spicy good for only 6000 rups. I went to Dim Sum kemang to check out some DVDs and found Seinfeld season 4, without any hesitation i grabbed this one..... my first impression was this one is much better than the previous season with all great extras.

On Wednesday, I try to stay home not spending money, trying to tightened my belt due to my free spending the last few weeks... watching the DVD i bought the other day... I might say, the season 4 is one of the best. There's an episode ("The Contest") where the foursome were doing this bet on who can stay out of masturbation (they called it as doing "you know...") the longest...I haven't laugh out as loud for a pretty long time. That episode was pretty groundbreaking and pushing the envelope considering it was made in 1992...long long before the days of South Park, That 70's show, Sex in the City etc etc who are a little bit more open about that stuff.

I still ended up going out that day, MT really wanted to go to Bonsir (Kebon Sirih) eating the NasGorKam. So me, MT and VD got up there at around midnite...the funny thing was that I found out up there that MT didn't like KAMBING!!! hahahah. Why the heck r u asking me to go to Bonsir? O well...still nobody can beat Bonsir Nasgorkam, still the best... even though it's not that cheap anymore.

LISTENING TO: Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less and Less

Maliq and D'Essentials

This band has been touted as the next big thing in Indonesia music scene. The first time I heard about these guys was in Java Jazz Festival (ohh... my wet dream), I was going to come in and watch them but it was really overcrowded and I only kind of listen their music from the outside, I thought they were playing some BNH tune and it was solid. I didn't stay for very long up there coz you know there's a lot of great foreign acts going on in the other room (it was Jeff Lorber if im not mistaken) and I thought I can check this band out later when they play at some cafe or something.

They actually don't have a fixed place where they play every week now, they used to play in Four Seasons Hotel once a week, but I called the Hotel up and they told me they now have Idang Rasyidi instead, talking about changing the segment big time huh :P. Heard that they were going to play at NYC but I couldnt gather the DAU gang to go up there, so it didnt work out. Heard from MS that they're goin to play in FKG UI's event in Newscafe Kemang. The timing is very good for me too, sunday night. I wouldn't have a problem arranging my schedule and stuff and it should not be too hard to ask people like DY, MT, LL, IN out. Well I forgot to invite DY and AD. I ended up going with my sis and IN. IP and MS was going to come to but decided not too because of fatigue....ahhhhhh MS gimaneee si lu, yg ngasi tau mala ga pegi :P

After getting lost around Buncit finding IN's place because of his freakin' "endeavour". We arrived at the venue at 10:30 PM. There's a lot of other events goin on but we didn't really care too much about those. I don't really know Maliq's tune from their debut album. I've heard of the tracks but some of them are kind of forgettable and sounds identical at times, my personal favorite is "Blow My Mind" due to its nice acid jazz arrangement and the great potential to be played in a live venue.

Maliq themselves get started at around 10:45 PM with an english language tunes with a nice smell of acid jazz going on...whoa...the guitarist got a chance to scat a bit in this tune too, not too bad, he's no Al Jarreau but it's still pretty good indeed. After another good acid jazz tunes, they started to play the tunes from their debut album, the crowd is getting excited, not me the music snob though :D. Angga the vocalist seemed to be pretty good in getting the crowd involved as he brought 2 girls at separate times onstage to dance and sing a bit to the tunes they're playing. It's pretty funny when the girl was asked to sing, she didn't remember the lyrics... ahhaha... gimanaaa se lo ngaku2nya fans Maliq :P. In the midst of a bunch of R&B tunes, they played my fave tune "Blow My Mind", and it's even better than the studio version, they seemed to use different female vocalist, this one's very good. It's always a turn on for me, a girl who has a great voice....dang (reminiscing the days when I was hitting on the "singer" ;)).

After "Blow My Mind" and another tune , they played their first single "Terdiam", and of course the moderately full crowd was fired up. Angga didn't need to sing, he was too lazy to sing :D :D, so he decided to ask the crowd to sing this one.....no problemo. After playing their second single, they finished up with "September", one of the ultimate cafe song I guess....I wonder if I have done anything essential at the 21st night of September ehheheheh.

Overall, Maliq n D'Essentials is a great cafe band and deserve to have an album. The sound and acoustic in Newscafe unfortunately was not that great. There's seemed to be something wrong with the mic as it was a little sember. The keyboard was also a bit drowned by the sound of bass and guitar...the bassist was pretty good too, and cool just like how a bassist suppose to act...The guitarist has a good voice too, and has a very kental sound of acid jazz. The female vocalist deserve her own kudos too...she can sing by herself if she want it to. I would watch them again in a heartbeat, especially if they play in a jazz event (as they would play more jazzy stuff), and for 35k rups it's well worth the money ($3.50 for a good quality live music!).

LISTENING TO: Maliq and D'Essentials - Blow My Mind

Djarum

it's friday, TGIF? well for people like me not really ehuheuehue... was asked to stay at home during the day because nobody's home and my maids had been coming and going in a very short term...the last one ran away about a few weeks ago, she's from Bali and we already even paid for the flight and stuff and yet...she ran away. There goes my chance to eat free Bebek Bali :D. Anyways, she told me that Bebek bali is not actually a duck (bebek), it's chicken...I was like, whottehek... can anyone enlight me on this ? OK, back to topic, the reason none of my maids stayed for long was (very likely) because of my senile 84-year old grandma. The thing is, she's not just senile, she's also grumpy and liked to spew F-words in Bahasa Minang... She actually helped my minang vocab :D. I still remember a few weeks ago AD came to my place, sat in front of computer checking out my mp3s via winamp, and then suddenly my grandma came into my room and asked like "who's this?", then I told her about this AD guy, and she kind of interrogated him and then asked "What are u doin with that (computer)?" AD said, "I'm checking out Ngacier's music mp3s", she was then like "ouww..you like to sing huh" and then she forced AD to sing, if not she would hit him with that day's Kompas (:D :D :D). AD did end up singing a little bit, but my senile grandma kind of aware of it and then forgot and start hitting him with Kompas khikihkihkihkih. So being asked to Djarum (Djaga Rumah) is not always a great thing heheh, but well just think of it as serving my grandma.

Went out later at night to meet my indie-lover sports-maniac college pal SR and his girlfriend AM, we went out a few times to watch movies before but havent seen each other for almost 2 months. I was going to go with IN but he seemed to be busy with his new "endeavour". We met up at Setiabudi One, the place where kantoran people like to meet. We were going to watch a movie as usual, but there's not really a good one available... I already watched Be Cool and it was disappointing, House of Wax sounded pretty fun to hear a few screams, but probably lousy in quality (georgeous Elisha Cuthbert cannot be missed though). We ended up just having a dinner at this restaurant named Ta Wan. The first time I heard/see that resto name I kind of came of with a joke...

A: Oi Cier where u at man?
B: ouwww...gue diTaWan nehhhhh
A: Gile ko bisa si? ama sape? FPI?
B: diTaWan gue ama SR...hehe
A: ha?? SR? ternyata dia anggota FPI toh...
B: Bukan dul! gue lagi di resto Ta Wan Setiabudi ama SR

Im sorry if it's a bit jayus ;)

I only ended up eating with SR because AM was so busy at her office (a well known teenage-girl mags) she ended up coming at 10:30, I spent a few hours chatting with SR, catching up with his indie-music knowledge, talked about sports and games and of course, the CS people hehe. By the time AM came, only one restaurant left open (Puput), so we kind of tiredly waiting for AM to eat her meal ehhee, too bad we cannot meet when everybody's at full strength.

LISTENING TO: The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez (weird but great stuff!)

Mr. Prawiro is blocking my house....

Wednesday, midweek, the midst of not knowing what to do...is it rite? well not sure about that...one thing for sure, I noticed there's a lot of tents and police cars around my house. It's because one of the ex-minister named Radius Prawiro passed away last Thursday. The interesting thing was that the tents has been there since that Thursday, and it's still there til this Wednesday..it means that it's been there for 6 days! I'm aware that he passed away in Munich, Germany and he's a Christian. They dont have the obligation to bury the corpse as early as possible... but still 6 days is a really long timee.. 1 more thing that really bothered me was that the police closed almost all of the passages to my house and only left 1 possible way to go to my place and don't even get started about the traffic around Dharmawangsa, Prapanca and Brawijaya...annoying! I'm not aware that he was that important for our country. I'm aware that he used to be in some vital minister position during Babe's era...yeah our economy did great at that time, supported by a huge pile of debt! nice!...o well yeah I just figured out he was the director of world bank in 70s..ok I'll take that. O well, I don't want to talk bad things about somebody who just passed away, so may he rest in peace....and please don't close my home street :P

I went out with MT today ...to Warung Pecel PL..yeap, just felt like eating pecel ayam..slurrpp.. when I got there, IN was up there, talking about a surprise! While MT is my old elementary skul friend, IN is my college friend, well coincidently these guys knew each other....and yeah South Jakarta is a very small world. Then we went to MT's place, played some WE as usual and reminiscing the old days as usual. At around 6-7 I met AD who I haven't seen for awhile, we only went out to eat at a Bebek Goreng place in Petogogan, it was pretty good. Too bad that I ordered the breast instead of the tights. I wasnt aware that duck's breast is smaller than the tights? is that a fact? or was I just stucked with a very skinny duck's breast?

I also had an appointment to go to IR's place, she's having a syukuran for her graduation and ZK came to my place to nitip some cookies as his family's present. I haven't talked to ZK my laid back, poet lover college senior for abit while, so we chit chat a bit before going to IR's place with IN. We got there pretty late, well we have a titipan to give it to IR, so we must go...talked to IR who just got back to JKT for about a week, she didn't seem to have a problem settling back here. I also got to drive IN's Honda Jazz...ahh what a smooth and nice car to drive, unlike my Maestro with that scrappy shock breaker :P. Even NV complained about my acak adul driving, even though I think my car contributed to the "acak adul" condition she complained about...o well my driving kind of disappoint me at times.

Please, Humour Me?

I didn't do much today, because I got a bit sick...well it's actually not THAT bad...but enough to hinder my activity...cancelled a few plans. I think I got the flu from MT and DY when I went to his place to play WE (Winning Eleven 9) the other day. Anyway I lost 20k rups that day, coz I lost the bet on the game hohoohho. demmm yu MT, I'll fare much better next time ;). Overall, I wasn't in the best of mood today due to what's currently goin on in my life (officially yesterday I guess), I really need some entertainment while staying home... other than sleeping, watching a few more episodes of Seinfeld never disappoints....I managed to find a few amusing quotes to help u experience the hilarity of these guys..

"I don't want hope. Hope is killing me. My dream is to become hopeless. When you're hopeless you don't care. And when you don't care, that indifference makes you attractive."

"So, hopelessness is the key?"

"It's my only hope."

- George and Jerry, in "The Fix-Up"
when George explained about trying to find a girlfriend

"I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world."

"I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges."

"His struggle is man's struggle. He lifts my spirit."

"He is a loathesome, offensive brute. Yet I can't look away."

"He transcends time and space."

"He sickens me."

"I love it."

"Me too."

- An elderly art loving couple, admiring the painting of Kramer, in "The Letter"...great lines!

"I like the button fly. That is one place on my wardrobe I do not need sharp interlocking metal teeth. It's a mink (fur [red]) trap down there."

- Jerry, in "The Letter"

"The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."

- George, in "The Marine Biologist"

"All bald people look good in hats."

"You should have lived in the twenties and thirties, you know men wore hats all the time then."

"What a bald paradise that must have been. Nobody knew."

- George and Elaine, in "The Parking Spot"..(George is bald -red)

LISTENING TO: Sigur Ros - Ny Batteri (I should've watched them live that day!)