Thursday, November 25, 2004

Waking Up earrrrrllly in the morning

waking up at 3.30 in the morning really perturbed me. I couldn't go back to my slumber:) once I got up. so the only thing I did to make myself kinda 'useful' was to arrange my small library stuff, to clean all rooms, and to change the water of my tiny aquarium...

feeling tired....but not the slightest idea of tugging myself into bed came along

so, I took the motorbike out.
flipped the raincoat over--I was using the other night--and stuffed it into my bike's baggage--and ready to use in case of rain.


at around 7.35 I took meity up town to LIA where she teaches children some basic English.

on the way to my home, I thought I could drop by at a petshop to get some fishes, but none of the shops were open, yet.

so, I rushed to go home in time to get myself ready for 9.30 class.
to top it off, I hadn't taken a bath when I realized that it was already 9.00 :)

so...the only thing I could do was to have a quick shower and dialled one of my students telling her that I might be late for class. and I was.
I was 15 minutes late:) AHA!!!

terrible suray...terrible suray :)
well..anyway...I did compensate for the time lost. I extended my class so as to comply with the alloted time (bestowed upon me:) what a language......
ray ray..ray...sometimes you are using words in their most outrageous ways...or their most improper ways (so to speak).

hey..its' FRIDAY
I got to hv my Friday Prayer.
and I got to stop jotting down words in this Bloggy Blogger:)


Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Kitchen Cabinet....

last night ...I drove around the city with my wife to help her find a kitchen cabinet she's been looking for...
well...we did find one.
it cost only Rp 400,000
but wait...
that is not the original price...we bought it on sale. it was actually...around 600 or so. but we finally got a discounted price on account that we bought another stuff...and we did, for sure.

a garden wooden-bench that I've been setting my eyes on for a couple of weeks is finally ours.
it cost only about Rp 300,000
well not quite different from what I had expected before.

the thing is...
we don't need to stuff our kitchen goods under the table or wrap them up in plastics so as to keep our kitchen clean.
from now on...we have a nice and clean kitchen cabinet to store our kitchen-stuffs up

......before deciding what to buy...and where to buy
some preliminary "road-shows" have been tagged along the way

we visited some places to take a peep of the real prices
we had made our decisions...

now...we did it.
we love it.


The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie that I love

another review from Boston Globe ...

it's good to know that more and more people like this movie...

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

SpongeBob' finally reaches the big screen with a story that kids (and even adults) can soak up

By Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
Published: 11/19/2004

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While the digitally created Incredibles are off defending the universe and Tom Hanks and his computer-generated friends are making creepy work of Christmas, all the blocky two-dimensional fast-food fry cook SpongeBob SquarePants wants is a promotion. Bless him.

Before he can settle into management, ''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie," his first, requires him to perform the occasional act of heroism. But the film, which is as economically made as it is primitively animated, ambles from adventure to adventure, taking nothing seriously, not even itself.

The opening sequence even pays tribute to the picture's own hype, as a gang of live-action pirates open a treasure chest and are thrilled to discover it contains nothing less than tickets to this movie. They sing the theme song and hit the multiplex, confirming that millions of children can't be wrong.

Like the Nickelodeon show that inspired it, ''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" understands that its animated hero is inherently weird, which makes him endearing and sort of chic. But the movie tries to get away with more than the TV show, boldly toying with its PG rating. This may explain why the two hicks SpongeBob and Patrick meet at the county line are almost bumping booties. It's funny, it's really bizarre, and it doesn't hold up the action.

After spending his entire TV life as the fry cook at the Krusty Krab on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, SpongeBob is ready for management at Mr. Krabs's spanking new Krusty Krab 2. But, inexplicably, Mr. Krabs entrusts SpongeBob's nebbishy neighbor and co-worker Squidward with the job.

There is time for SpongeBob to redeem himself. When King Neptune freezes Mr. Krabs for stealing his crown (therefore exposing his balding hair pattern), Bob drags along his best friend, the starfish Patrick, to retrieve it. They cross the border of Bikini Bottom, their undersea town, to Shell City, and then above ground. There all manner of live-action shenanigans await, including the totally flagrant appearance of David Hasselhoff as a life-guardian angel who runs along the beach, ''Baywatch"-style -- shirtless and in slo-mo.

Most children might think Hasselhoff makes a neat human Jet Ski for SpongeBob and Patrick. But over the years, they'll come to understand. He is to this movie what stars such as Milton Berle and Joan Rivers were to Muppet movies: a kitschy investment that appreciates with age.

''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" features the guest vocal stylings of Jeffrey Tambor as Neptune, Scarlett Johansson as his daughter Mindy, and Alec Baldwin as a churlish foe. They mingle well with series regulars such as Tom Kenny, who does SpongeBob's shrill voice, and Clancy Brown, who talks for Mr. Krabs.

Underneath the fun, the movie is a valentine to the joys and pains of capitalism. After all, SpongeBob has ''deals" with everything from Target to Cheese Nips. It turns out, for instance, that Mr. Krabs's conniving foe Plankton stole Neptune's crown and framed his rival, whose business success has made an envious schemer of little demonic Plankton. But before he's put in a deep freeze, Mr. Krabs exclaims, ''I love money!" (What else is Krusty Krab 2 but an ode to the inevitable ''SpongeBob" sequel?) And when he finds out his boss has been made a Popsicle, all Squidward can ask is, ''Who's going to sign my paychecks?" (This is the same cynic who, in one episode, told SpongeBob, ''I order the food. You cook the food. We do that for 40 years, then we die.")

In any case, this big-screen romp guarantees that SpongeBob will remain an icon of taking it easy for the young and stressed-out. The movie even ends with a speaker-busting, Twisted Sisterly rock-out that some overworked kids might appreciate on a lazy Saturday afternoon. I would not leave saving the world to SpongeBob, but I'd trust him unconditionally to flip my cheeseburgers.

SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

So: This is the very best of what critics have to say about the latest move of SpongeBob....

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
BY ROGER EBERT / November 19, 2004
Cast & CreditsWith the voices of:SpongeBob: Tom Kenny Dennis: Alec Baldwin Squidward: Rodger Bumpass Plankton: Mr. Lawrence King Neptune: Jeffrey Tambor Patrick: Bill Fagerbakke Sandy Cheeks: Carolyn Lawrence Mindy the Mermaid: Scarlett JohanssonParamount Pictures presents a film directed by Stephen Hillenburg. Written by Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Kent Osborne, Aaron Springer and Paul Tibbett. Running time: 90 minutes. Rated PG (for some mild crude humor).
Printer-friendly » I've been telling that joke for years, to people who regard me in silence and mystification. If it made you smile even a little, you are a candidate for "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie." This is the "Good Burger" of animation, plopping us down inside a fast-food war being fought by sponges, starfish, crabs, tiny plankton and mighty King Neptune.
SpongeBob (voice by Tom Kenny) has a ready-made legion of fans who follow his adventures every Saturday morning on Nickelodeon. I even know parents who like the show, which is fast-paced and goofy and involves SpongeBob's determination to amount to something in this world. In the movie, he dreams of becoming manager of Krusty Krab II, the new outlet being opened by Eugene H. Krabs (Clancy Brown), the most successful businesscrab in the ocean-floor community of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob may only be a kid, but he's smart and learns fast, and reminded me of Ed, the hero of the live-action Nickelodeon series "Good Burger" ("Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger! Can I take your order PLEASE?").
SpongeBob, like all sponges I suppose, has a thing about cleanliness, and to watch him take a shower is inspiring. First he eats a cake of soap. Then he plunges a hose into the top of his head and fills up with water, exuding soap bubbles from every pore, or would that be orifice, or crevice? Then he pulls on his SquarePants and hurries off for what he expects to be a richly deserved promotion.
Alas, the job goes to Squidward Tentacles (Rodger Bumpass), who has no rapport with the customers but does have seniority. A kid can't handle the responsibility, Eugene Krabs tells SpongeBob. This is a bitter verdict, but meanwhile intrigue is brewing in Bikini Bottom. Plankton, who runs the spectacularly unsuccessful rival food stand named the Chum Bucket, plans to steal Eugene's famous recipe for Krabby Patties. As part of this plot, Plankton (Mr. Lawrence) has King Neptune's crown stolen, and frames Eugene Krabs with the crime, so it's up to SpongeBob and his starfish friend Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke) to venture to the forbidden no-go zone of Shell City (which is no doubt near Shell Beach, and you remember Shell Beach). There they hope to recapture the crown, restore it to King Neptune (Jeffrey Tambor), save Mr. Krabs from execution, and get SpongeBob the promotion.
All of this happens in jolly animation with bright colors and is ever so much more entertaining than you are probably imagining. No doubt right now you're asking yourself why you have read this far in the review, given the near-certainty that you will not be going anywhere near a SpongeBob SquarePants movie, unless you are the parent or adult guardian of a SpongeBob SquarePants fan, in which case your fate is sealed. Assuming that few members of SpongeBob's primary audience are reading this (or can read), all I can tell you is, the movie is likely to be more fun than you expect.
The opening, for example, is inexplicable, unexpected and very funny, as a boatload of pirates crowd into the front of a movie theater to see SpongeBob. These are real flesh-and-blood pirates, not animated ones, and part of the scene's charm comes because it is completely gratuitous. So, for that matter, is the appearance of another flesh-and-blood actor in the movie, David Hasselhoff, who gives SpongeBob and Patrick a high-speed lift back to Bikini Bottom and then propels them to the deeps by placing them between his pectoral muscles and flexing and popping. This is not quite as disgusting as it sounds, but it comes close.
I confess I'm not exactly sure if the residents of Bikini Bottom are cannibals; what, exactly, is in Eugene H. Krabs' Krabby Patties if not ... krabs? Does the Chum Bucket sell chum? No doubt faithful viewers of the show will know. I am reminded of the scene in "Shark Tale" when Lenny, the vegetarian shark, becomes an activist and frees a shrimp cocktail.
One of the stranger scenes in "SBSP" comes when SpongeBob and Patrick get wasted at Goofy Goober's nightclub, where ice cream performs the same function as booze. This leads to the ice cream version of a pie fight, and terrible hangovers the next morning; no wonder, as anyone who has ever used a sponge on ice cream can testify.

Monday, November 22, 2004

hujan. finally.

  • brrrr.....hujan.
  • brrr...dingin bgt.

...got nothing else to do...

the best thing is that....I don't hv to turn on the Air conditioner for as long as 2 hours as I used to do bf...

the next best thing is that...I don't hv to water all of my plants in the garden as I used to do bf

the sky is glistening...

the cloud lurks.....

the stars dim

but the feeling's great

hujan. finally.

  • brrrr.....hujan.
  • brrr...dingin bgt.

...got nothing else to do...

the best thing is that....I don't hv to turn on the Air conditioner for as long as 2 hours as I used to do bf...

the next best thing is that...I don't hv to water all of my plants in the garden as I used to do bf

the sky is glistening...

the cloud lurks.....

the stars dim

but the feeling's great

Eid Mubarak

finally..I got home..or should I say..got back to Jogja?
and the only thing that penetrated my mind was the only thing that i got to do the last thing...
and the only thing that kept me going is the only thing...that I haven't got ....anything to do..yet.

so after a break for about a week or so...
I finally made up my mind that....a tedious job is something that I eagerly wanted .....AHA.

and I could be lying...
I could be just blurting things out...
and I could be just imagining things....
but...no....

hmmm what am I supposed to say now?
the fact is...
I am now back from Eid Mubarak festive....

it's over....and yet....I haven't been to myself lately...
or so I assumed

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

TOSHIBA air conditioner

Toshiba air conditioner.
well...it was not intended to do some commercial breakdown or something.
I just happened to have bought one of the products.
the other night..I decided to buy an air conditioner.
practically speaking..Jogjakarta is terribly hot lately.
I bet it is around 33 Celcius. gosh..what a hot day.
some even said that a few days ago..it was 36!!!
what?????
yes, it WAS.

anyway...Now I got my new AC.
I got this confusion as to what kind of AC to buy. the only thing I had on my mind was an ionizer kind of stuff. I heard 'tis good. but to my surprise..the price is TOOOOO goood, too (so DARN expensive). Panasonic Organix series (or so I say......Dian Sastro Wardoyo's series..as seen onTV ? ) hehaha...IS also expensive.

so It took me almost an hour to decide whether I had to buy Toshiba or Panasonic.
and finally I ended up buying Toshiba for its antibacterial and fungal stuff...or so I read.
and it also this features like: self cleaning. bio stuff bla bla bla..

last night..
my wife and I were so busy covering all the air-inlets in our house. we did it for three consecutive hours without rest.
it was indeed tiring to cover all part of the house with plastic:) no no no..not all part of the house but only the "angin-angin" ..gosh what is angin2 in English? anway...???

hahaah

hmmm.....it is a good way to start a day by soaking yourself in an air-conditioned room

p.s.
we even bought an air-freshener ...and we had it hung on the AC small inlet...
cool....................



3 more days to Lebaran

3 more days to LEbaran. Idul Fitri. Eid Mubarak
well..well.well..
it's just goonnnnaaa be great. I hope so.

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Remix of Ren Tobing's hit single

The remix of Ren Tobing's newest hit single...'Cinta Terlarang' is not that cool.
it lacks the intensity of its original.
but still...it offers me a kind of new 'genre' or should I call it ' viewpoint' of how to perceive and enjoy the original soundtrack OST of Arisan
well..
it is good.

masih ngantuk

trying..and trying..and keep trying.
the only thing I got is just to keep trying.

at around 6.30...denny showed up right in front of the gate..asking me to open it.
dangling...still..
rambut acak acakan.
masih ngantuk.
and I got no other choice but to let him in.

and what I did was ....
throwing the key to him...and instead of opening it for him...I had him open it by himself...^^


Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Cinta Terlarang and Jika Surga dan Neraka Tidak Pernah Ada

finally.
I got it.
well..'tis not what I actually had in mind...
but at least it soothed my aching raving for.....this OST.:)
I bought Ren Tobing's latest hit ' forbidden love'
after such a long time waiting to have it distributed, I got a chance to own it on my own:0
the forbidden love' song as I heard it for the first time in Arisan indeed captured my imagination for Nia DiNata really made it work for the movie.

Cinta Terlarang
so it is called in Indonesian.
this particular soundtrack of Arisan finally out for sale in store across the country.
the latest video clip featuring some clips of the movie also make this song a hit in recent weeks.
the airing of Arisan OST on MTV also makes it famous.
well...at least to my opinion, so to speak.

---
so, this afternoon I rushed into Galleria Mall just to find this OST.
the first thing I had on my mind was to find the original soundtrack of Arisan...but to my dismay..I found none.
It turned out that there is yet to anything as OST of Arisan....apart from this Ren Tobing's song entitled 'CInta Terlarang' album.

well...I got no other choice but to buy it.
the tape is really kinda simple. nothing interesting..except for hit song 'cinta terlarang' and 'Kau dan Aku' or so..If I'm not mistaken.
even..the album provides access to download some ringtones of some songs featured in the album. kinda cool, eh?

I think I may give it a try some time.

and the second album I bought today is ...Chrisye's newest album entitled SENYAWA.
well..it is called SENYAWA for all of the songs featured in the album are the result of his collaboration with other famous Indonesian singers, like So7, Naif, Peterpan and ....:)

the song that made me intrigued to buy the tape is...Jika Surga dan Neraka Tak Pernah Ada...
If only Heaven and Hell didn't exist....

the video klip is so good that I wanted to buy it instantly as I watched in on MTV the other day.


good.
deal.
suray.

finally finished

yesterday I finally got my things done. especially the research that I've been doing for about 5 months.
the most relieving thing was that I managed to make some copies enough to submit to the board of examiners.
4 copies.
5 months.
more than 300 pages long.
red colored.
cramming. cramming. cramming for the last 2 days just to prepare this stuff.

gosh..what a relief.