PEARL JAM NITE

Start:	Apr 2, '08 8:00p
Location:	PLANET HOLLYWOOD CAFE

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PEARL JAM NITE
PLANET HOLLYWOOD JAKARTA
Wednesday, April 2 2008

p e r f o r m a n c e b y:
CUPUMANIK
f e a t u r i n g
FADLY (PADI) and IPANG (BIP)

Doors Open: 08.00 PM
Drink Charge: Rp. 60.000

MOVIE STAR

BRAD PITT
TOM CRUISE
MEG RYAN
KEANU REEVES
ROBIN WILLIAM
JENNIFER LOPEZ.
SANDRA BULLOCK
DLL

Apa kesamaan di antara nama-nama pemain film di atas? ya, mereka sama-sama terkenal. sama-sama punya banyak fans. sama-sama bermain di banyak film.

Tapi ada lagi kesamaan mereka di mata saya:
Mereka sama-sama tidak bisa beranjak dari peran-peran yang sejenis, alias gagal dalam permainan watak, maupun dalam penampilan.
Bukan berarti mereka tidak bisa berakting. Akting mereka bagus, bahkan beberapa bisa membuat kita terharu-biru.
Tapi maksud saya, model akting mereka dalam satu film ke film lain terasa sama saja.
lihatlah brad pitt dalam film joey black, bandingkan dengan brad pitt dalam seven years in tibet. bandingkan lagi dengan brad pitt dalam troy. hampir seragam, meski settingnya berbeda-beda.

atau tom cruise dalam top gun, bandingkan dengan tom cruise dalam mission impossible, atau tom cruise dalam jerry mc guire, atau dalam the last samurai...bagi saya, sangat membosankan.

Meg Ryan? tidak perlu diperdebatkan lagi, sepertinya bintang yang satu ini memang tidak mau keluar dari patternnya..yaitu film-film komedi romantis.

Keanu Reeves? sama dengan Meg Ryan, dia juga hanya mengincar peran-peran tertentu yang secara keseluruhan tidak jauh berbeda karakteristiknya. Boooriiiinnnggg.....

Bagaimana dengan Robin William? meskipun dia adalah salah satu ikon film komedi di dunia, tetapi rasakanlah kesamaan karakternya di setiap film-film yang ia bintangi. Semuanya tentu membutuhkan kualitas akting yang baik, dan ia memang berhasil memainkan semua peran-peran di filmnya dengan baik, akan tetapi, sekali lagi, hampir semuanya terasa sama.

Jennifer Lopez? no comment. menyandingkan namanya dengan aktor dan aktris dalam list ini saja sepertinya tidak pantas...hehe...maaf ya, fans J-Lo

Lalu Aktor/aktris mana saja yang bagus? Bagus menurut saya, memiliki arti bahwa, sebagai pelaku akting, seorang aktor atau aktris, harus bisa memainkan segala peranan dengan nuansa atau karakter yang berbeda, sehingga, setiap film-filmnya dapat memiliki "taste" tersendiri. Paling tidak, saat menonton salah satu film brad pitt, kita tidak akan mengingat aktingnya di film lain.

Sekali lagi menurut saya, aktor & aktris yang cukup sukses memainkan peranannya sebagai pelaku akting adalah:
SEAN PENN
RUSSEL CROWE
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
JOHNY DEPP
HILLARY SWANK
MERIL STREEP
DLL

untuk mereka, rasanya Academy Award saja tidak perlu menjadi tolok ukur kemampuan akting mereka. Mereka hanya berakting di depan kamera, dan kemudian kita bisa menikmati film-film mereka tanpa harus teringat pada akting mereka di film yang lain.

tapi bagaimanapun juga, ini hanyalah sebuah pendapat.

:-)

just a thought

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Show Biz

I want to talk about the showbiz industry. I think the world right now is about to be ruled by this kind of industry. How many films that been released around the world every year? how many songs ? how many bands that have been established? how many photo sessions taken every year? every month? every day? OMG, there are sooooo countless....

the booming of this industry has make a new civilization to the latest generation. Call it movie stars, music stars, pop singers, rockers, models, you name it. Nowadays we can see there are so many children want to be super stars when they're grow up. I still remember when I was a kid, me and any other kids in my neighborhood (some village in Jakarta) would say that we wanted to be doctor, engineer, nurse, police, army someday. Not much of us that willing to be a super star. I don't want to generalize it, that's why I said, in my neighborhood, a little village in Jakarta.
We thought that superstars like movie star, singer, model, would be inappropriate, unclever, and showed that you don't have enough brain to learn how to reach those academical ideals. Yeah, that was my time, year of 80 - something.

I don't know, call me conservative, but this phenomenon worries me. It freaks me to see the talent shows with sms in almost all of TV station. My God! how much money we've spent for the sms? why don't TV make a more useful show with sms thing, for, let's say, organize a fund for our brothers and sisters who got disasters in their home town? with 2000 rp /sms, I think it's a very easy way to get money to help them.

When I think about that, I feel very sorry about my country again. I feel upset about how my brother & sister in showbiz industry created this condition and ruined our national moral.
Just one example, to describe how this showbiz world rules the latest generation, when I was in high school, about 15 years a go, there were some extra school curriculum like basketball, karate, taekwondo, science, red cross, nature lover, vocal group, flag troop (I don't know how to say it in English), etc that were offered to us. The composition of the students that joined the groups was almost the same in number, but nearly 40% joined the flag troops. It was so classy when you were chosen to be one of the flag troop, the member were so proud and had certain privilege or something. But now, I asked my nephew that goes to the same high school, what is the most popular ext-school recently?

his answer: vocal group has reaches 70% of the popularity, and he is included in that percentage.

URAT MALU

aaahh...today i feel so fresh!

In spite of a terrible woke up this morning because of yesterday journey to Banten, I found that working in office create such a refreshment to me..

It started with an email in one of the mailist that I've joined. Usually I seldom read the posts from this mailist, because the contents are mostly about maotivation..bla...blaa...bla...about becoming an enterpreuner..bla..bla..blaa..yeah, I am just like millions of employee around the world that struggle to be an IBO (Independent Business Owner), always dream to be one of it, but keep dreaming about it, because we're to busy to swim in the sea of deadlines...

skip it,

Anyway, the subject was interesting, something about "urat malu" and other words, I forgot..(sorry :-P) . It's about a story of a person that sells stuffs like blankets etc, well, he actually a person with a high position in his office, selling stuffs like blanket would certainly embarrassed him, but he insisted to keep on doing that, because he, eventhough he possesses a high position in his office (as I have told you before), he still dreams of becoming an IBO.. funny,huh?

skip it again,

He did sell the blankets, he always talked blanket whenever he met other persons, in his trips, in the airplanes, restaurants, even in the break time of a business meeting, he talked about the blankets that he sells. He went door to door to his relatives and friends, brought the sample blanket to offer them, and although he always ashamed whenever he offers the stuff, his mentor's words (the blanket agent), always strengthened his mental.

After some times, he finally did a remarkable selling, the order always comes until oneday he couldn't supply his costumers because of out of stocks.

He still works in his Company, but he feels free now, because there is no more worries of getting some terrible things like "Efficiency". Someday, he said, he will be a total IBO, a full Hands Above (hands above is a term of people who can pay/support another"-taken from Al Quran, "...hands above is much better than hand below") that he's been dreaming of, but the dream is much more real to him now.

so what's the moral of this story?
I bet everybody already aware of it.

Now I know what I want do.

I have decided that I will try to sell blankets too, like he does :-)

I miss my Bach!

By Your Side

Sebastian Bach

So long my dear departed
where did you go
I can't believe you're gone and
the nights go out so slow
I'm missin' you each mornin'
Days gone by
again I feel the longing
to look you in the eye

You know i'll never let you go
You know i'll never hurt so bad
And if It takes a thousand Years
I will be right there By Your Side
You know I'll never let you go
When I lost you I was blind
And everytime I catch my tear
I will be right there by your side

I Feel you when you're watching from afar
To Young to leave me standing
I wonder where you are
The precious time we spent
my fondest memories
I'll hold on to the promise
That You Made To Me

You know i'll never let you go
You know i'll never hurt so bad
And if It takes a thousand Years
I will be right there By Your Side
You know I'll never hurt so much
When I lost you I was blind
And everytime I catch my tear
You are right there by my side

I stare into his eyes and then I see your face
Undying love inside
A love you can't replace
You're looking down with pride
And let me show what I Can tell
So long my dear departed
where did you go
i can't believe your gone
and my life goes on so slow

You know i'll never let you go
You know i'll never hurt so bad
And if It takes a thousand Years
I will be right there By Your Side
You know I'll let you go
When I lost you I was blind
And everytime I catch my tear
You are right there by my side
By my side
you are right there by my side

MORE ABOUT

Tual is just a story,

Actually, I am a kind of person who is very sensitive & easily get emotional. When seeing movies that touches my heart, I easily cry a lot. this is the list of some films that successfully made me cry:
1. Gladiator
2. Braveheart
3. Hopefloats
4. Pay it Forward
5. The Last Unicorn
6. Marina
7. I am Sam
8. The Green Mile
9. The Perfect Storm
10. etc (countless!)

this habit doesn't stop on films. Reading a book can make me cry also. this is the list of books that successfully made me cry:

1. Tenggelamnya kapal Van Der Wijk
2. Madam Wu (Pavillion of women)
3. Layla Majnun
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns

I also can be very touch, if I see such scenery or beautiful panorama like green hills, streams, sunsets beyond the horizon, I can feel my heart swollen and couldn't speak a word but God's name.

Even walking in the village & looking at rice field can make me spellbound. Once I walked with a friend in a road surrounded by rice fields side by side in Cianjur, a city in West Java. I was so hysterical to see such beautiful scenery, with rice field over here, and over there was tea plantation, green and fresh. Sometimes we crossed bridges with clear water runs below, another time we met some people carrying wood for their stoves. Village people were so friendly, they always gave smile and would like to do anything to help us.

Every place has its own charm. When I had a chance to visit Borobudur, I got amazed at the temple. Its huge size and beautiful details, accurate measurement, (it was build in 800 AD!). Too bad I couldn't spend more time to adore more of its beauty because of limited time. But I praised the Lord for giving me a chance to visit one of miracle of the world.

I love this country

this is my first writing.

I just want to convince more (to myself, actually) that I really, really love this country. I may not be very proud of being Indonesian, because of the characteristic that we have, but...I really, strongly, love this country.

Why do I have to say that? how does it effects me?
Off course it has effects on me. After having the experience of so-called reformation, I think I had forgotten how to love this country. I used to jeer at the former government and without giving solution, I put aside my enthusiasm of this country.
I in fact, have ever planned to stay at some other country which I think better than Indonesia. what a fool.

Until I had a time to travel some of this country beauty.

First, because of my work, I had to go to Tual, South East of Maluku. It's located underneath west papua island. All of my life, I never heard about this place, and suddenly, I have to go there.
So I did took a 6 hours of flight, and when I got there, I found a humble small city, clean and ready to be explored.

Tual itself actually a harbor town, but the size of its harbor was amazingly small. The people there is close to Papua than Ambonese. and they're friendly. One thing that I captured is they're very in touch with politic development. (=melek politik :P)

Anyway, going to Tual is not complete without visit the Pantai Pasir Panjang. Although it's the most famous beach in the region, but it's still virgin. What made me spellbound was the sand. It was the whitest, smoothest sand I've ever seen!

I had a chance to swim there, the water was amazingly clean & clear. the wave was friendly, and some of my friends just floating on the water. it's beautiful. the coconut tree, the sky, and the length of the beach were wonderful, so peaceful..

when I got to the quay wall, I looked up to the bottom of the wall, and almost histerical to see so many colorful fish in the water...because of the clearwater, I can see them swimming gorgeously . It was a very rare scenery from where I came from.

I have ever heard some people said about the beauty of eastern Indonesia beaches, and I couldn't be more agree with them.

Romance

“Romance” by Richard Clayderman.

(diaransemen kembali oleh J.H.  )

Denting nada-nada piano yang ceria, menggugah kebahagiaan sepasang kekasih yang diperankan oleh sepasang penari balet kontemporer, diatas panggung bernuansa merah. Mereka berputar-putar lembut dalam gerakan yang sempurna, saling berpegang, merengkuh dan membelai penuh perasaan. Keduanya, seiring alunan piano yang indah, saling menatap penuh kasih, menyuarakan cinta…ya …indahnya cinta..

Lalu piano mulai berdenting lebih cepat, dan keduanya mengikuti irama dengan lompatan-lompatan penuh gairah dan gerakan melingkar yang ditopang oleh kuatnya lengan dan kaki yang terlatih dengan baik. Sepasang kekasih itupun saling merangkul, merenggut, mengusap, membelai dengan gerakan yang dramatis, seiring dentingan piano yang semakin berkejaran…,

Kedua tangan mereka keatas, membuat gerakan-gerakan seolah meraba yang eksotis dari pinggul sampai ke ujung jari tangan, dengan tubuh saling menumpu dalam gerakan semi berputar, keduanya seakan memvisualisasikan dentuman yang berasal dari kegairahan pada keindahan penciptaan Tuhan yang bernama tubuh.…kedua pasang mata mereka saling menatap, lekat, seakan ingin melahap saripati madu yang bernama asmara

Lalu piano berdenting semakin cepat, makin cepat dan suaranya makin keras, sang penari lelaki mengangkat, setengah melempar, mengayun sang penari perempuan, dan sambil berputar, mereka melakukan gerakan lompatan bersama yang serentak…

piano berdenting keras..,

lalu seumpama gerakan ekstase yang sempurna, keduanya terjatuh bergulingan, untuk kembali saling merangkak, pelan, pelan sekali, seakan kehabisan tenaga, keduanya saling mendekati dan sambil  berpegangan, pelan-pelan bangkit, saling merengkuh tubuh, menatap dramatis lalu berputar pelan, dua, tiga, empat kali…

Lalu alunan piano kembali ke nada-nada ringan yang ceria, mereka berdansa memenuhi lantai panggung, Kedua tangan berpegang, melepas, menarik, melompat seirama, sampai musik berangsur-angsur berhenti,

Lalu keduanya meninggalkan panggung tari dalam gerakan memutar yang indah dan harmonis..

-di suatu sudut panggung tari di jantung ibukota-

Mama Sayang

Apakah yang lebih menyakitkan daripada melihat orang yang kita kasihi menderita?
Setiap hari, setiap saya melihat wajah ibunda yang tersiksa penyakit yang tak kenal kompromi itu, hati ini terasa sakit berdarah-darah teriris dukanya. Setiap keluhan yang mama lontarkan, meski bukan maksudnya untuk merepotkan, adalah pisau yang menembus jantung keibaan saya. Terkadang saya  merasa kalah, dan memilih untuk tidak menemuinya di kamarnya...namun  bukankah itu malah menambah deritanya?

Mama saya adalah wanita yang sepanjang hidupnya dipenuhi dengan semangat hidup, dedikasi dan disiplin. Masa kecilnya cukup menyedihkan, karena beliau diambil paksa dari ayah ibu kandungnya di tanah manado oleh uwaknya sendiri untuk dibawa ke Jawa. Tidak pernah diketahui apa alasan uwaknya "menculik" dirinya, dan kalaupun ada alasan, apakah alasan "gemas" dan kadung jatuh cinta dapat membenarkan seseorang untuk memisahkan ikatan darah seorang anak terhadap orang tua kandungnya? Saya tak begitu mengenal uwak mama saya ini, yang kemudian biasa kami panggil dengan sebutan nenek. Jadi saya tak pernah habis pikir sampai sekarang.

Konon saat usia mama menginjak 7 tahun, sang ayah pernah datang ke Jakarta. Beliau, atau kakek saya itu, adalah seorang Komisaris Polisi bernama akhir Parengkuan di Manado sana. Beliau juga aktif di yayasan Vincentius, namun hanya itu informasi yang saya dapat. Saat itu, secara paksa mama saya ingin diambil kembali ke tanah Manado, namun, uwak saya itu, yang notabene seorang eks pejuang selentingan Wolter Monginsidi malah menghunus dengan sebilah badik sambil mengancam akan membunuh mama saya bila kakekku itu berani membawa mama ke Manado. Akhirnya kakek saya itu menyerah, dan demi menyelamatkan nyawa anak yang disayanginya, maka beliau kembali ke Manado tanpa membawa serta anak perempuannya itu.
Terus terang saya menyesali perbuatan uwak saya yang memisahkan hubungan anak dengan orang tuanya itu. Tapi saya juga tak habis pikir kenapa kakek saya itu, sang Komisaris Polisi,  tidak pernah lagi mencoba datang ke Jakarta untuk mencari anaknya?
Apakah tidak tersisa lagi rasa cinta dan keirnduan di hatinya terhadap anaknya yang terpisah, tidak adakah daya upaya untuk kembali bersama anaknya itu?

Saya adalah seorang ibu, makanya saya benar-benar heran ada orang tua yang bisa merelakan anaknya diambil orang lain, meskipun masih saudara.

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