Unmemorable Long Weekend

Another week, another very long weekend. Thursday was the Ascension day (if im not mistaken). So, along with this weird Indonesian government policy that states that everytime there's a Harpitnas (hari kejepit nasional alias National Stuck Day hahahahaha) everyone will have the break-together (cuti bersama) on Friday, I had another very long weekend.

Actually there is not much to talk about anyway, on Friday I met CC and DN to play some WE for the first time since forever at DN's place and then I spent the night watching American History X on DVD.

Saturday, at last VN fulfilled her promise to treat me some notorious Blok S steak, unfortunately it was disappointing. Firstly, I ordered the tenderloin steak medium cooked (Indonesians tend to cook all the steak well done which I hate), and yet they still cooked it well done. Secondly, the steak was so small, almost the same size as chicken steak, what's up with the cows here, do they feed em properly ho ho ho. Thirdly, It sure needs a BBQ sauce, they don't have BBQ sauce just chili sauce which for me not really suitable for steaks. Maybe I am so spoiled with the American steaks, and really got out disappointed by the steak, but still, thanks VN for the treat.

The nite after, I also got free meals, this time it's TS' b'day, her family owns a catering company, so a nice meal was to be expected. It was pretty good, especially the supa soup (spellin?). Met a few old fren like KM who apparently just got a quick 1 sec appearance in a commercial and seems to know every single commercial in TV and the ppl in it, I actually told him, "hey, my guess is that now you are a member of commercial star association, if that existed...ha ha"

Sunday? AD came to my place while I was watching a classic movie Dr. Zhivago. David Lean is one heck of a director, this movie still pales in comparison to Lawrence in Arabia though. We were bored and suddenly found out that there's a book bazaar where everything is 50 percent off... so off we went to Depdiknas building. The collection was not that bad at all. I ended up buying 2 Pramoedya's books (Perawan Remaja dalam Cengkeraman Militer and Drama Mangir) and Goethe's Faust... for a grand total of Rp. 40.000, talkin bout a bargain ha ha.

Makin Myself Busy

On Tuesday, while I was workin, AM all of a sudden msg me on Yahoo!, been a bit while... and she told me the news about certain someone who has just got surgery done.... it's not a regular surgery.. a plastic surgery. Wow...ahhaha.... he's the first amongst everyone that I know well that have done that. Yea he's a bit eccentric and it's a bit surprising, but if someone's going to do it...It's him.

Me, AM and SR decided to watch MASKOT at Setiabudi. The movie is about a mascot for a soy sauce company (a rooster, ayam jago). The old mascot died and someone's gotta find the new one. The son of the owner who laid down in the hospital due to heart attack got the not so easy task to find the new mascot. Apparently the "dukun" gave a very vague clue...it has to do with t*tt*es and angels..HAHAHA. A very original idea for an Indonesian movie. I was really tired with the ol themes like ABGs, Horrors and city life with luxury and stuff... this movie definitely the opposite of those, very down to earth and original. While there are so many weakness (lighting, editing, main cast, etc) I still root for this pretty funny movie. Anyway there were only about 8-9 people in the studio, very disappointing, considering a very bad movie like "Apa Artinya Cinta" can be watched by hundreds of people in one showing and caused riots too.

Interestingly enough, the day after was AM's bday, nothin much really to talk about except that We went to Pisa Mahakam to eat some weird Volcano Pizza which looks like Roti Maryam plus the crater..LOL... the first time I saw the waiter holding that pizza I asked him...who the heck order that freaky pizza? apparently it was me..HAHAHA.

On Friday I went to GBB TIM to watch Teater Koma's presentation "Festival Topeng". I got in for free from EN who is the EO of this spectacle. I watched Teater Koma once, a long time agoo, maybe when I was in junior high, I remember it was so funny I cried. This time? It was not as good as it was long time ago, maybe because I got older, but the technical part is pretty good. The other thing was that I was already drained from all my activities that week, so anytime the show got into the slow part, I was half asleep ehehhehe.

Limboism

Last weekend... Limboism. That word kind of sum up part of my weekend. Started out on Friday... while "ngaso"-ing at home after comin back from work, AD asked me to go to Aksara as he was lookin to watch a presentation about FengShui... of course I wasnt interested on the presentation, but it's better than stayin at home i figured. So I went to Aksara, who knows I can find some bargain books (Aksara was havin a huge sale last week) or find some nice rare CD. I had a plan to go out with this girl for Saturday, was expecting that to work out... but she cancelled the plan (she gotta go outta town til next weekend...akh!). As I was getting into Aksara,

I suddenly remember the day when I was with this girl (lets call her AM) havin a good time at Aksara, still remember the spot exactly, she was not in my past as of yet but I was tryin to get over her. She was something special I must say that, but there's just way too many obstacles to have it workin out (religion, her boyfriend hohoho, distance).. I actually started to think about the movie Before Sunset/Sunrise. The Jesse character (Ethan Hawke) actually met Celine (his true love i think) 9 years after that memorable meeting after marrying someone else and Jesse still thought he married the wrong person and still regret it up to that day, I definitely don't want to be like him... and I actually thought that far about this person huhuhu

I tried to read some Seno Gumira's (AM apparently loves this author too) book, and you know what? I could not concentrate at all! kept thinkin about that moment...akh wotdehel..Suddenly I felt miserable and went to Nasgor Breakdance and then went straight home. I tried to call MC who knows all about my relationship with AM and know AM well too... I wasnt able to contact her..so I was in limbo all nite, finally fell asleep 3 AM

On Saturday I was still in limbo, I was even uncharacteristically raging over my satay-padang order that came in slowly. Then I decided to call VM, who didn't know about that relationship, but I really gotta talk to someone to putoff all my rage and limbo...but damn it felt great after talkin about it to someone else.

I then went out to Citos (hahahaha 2nd straight wiken to that place I actually despise kekek) with AD and SL (this girl is pretty hot ahhaha but she has a bule boyfriend) and some SL friend that I dont really know. Interestinly, we stayed there for about 3 hrs, a really good therapy from all of my problems... hehe.

Sunday? Nothing huge..just went to Mangga Dua and Glodok to repair my PS2 controller and buy a bunch of DVDs, here's what I've got:
1. Leon the Professional (been lookin for it for sumtime)
2. Friday Night Lights (A great movie for people who once live in Texas and felt the maniac football atmosphere up there)
3. Monty Phyton's Life of Brian (already watched it, and gotta watch it again :D)
4. American Splendor
5. The Producers (been lookin for this one for sumtime)
6. Doctor Zhivago (I love Lawrence of Arabia, hopefully this one will be as good)
7. Spirited Away
8. Eyes Wide Shut (Me buying a Tom Cruise movie? ahahah, well it's Kubrick's anyway)
9. Good Will Hunting
10. Capote
11. American History X
12. Osama