Doutzen Kroes at Christian Dior Fall 2007 Couture

Not such a fashion-goer nor a fan of miss Kroes, but I love her look here!

Learn to Live With Wounds (written by Paulo Coelho)

This was reblogged from Mr. Coelho's blog. I do not own the original story :) 

                                                                                                  

During the Ice Age many animals died because of the cold. Seeing this situation, the porcupines decided to group together, so they wrapped up well and protected one another.

But they hurt one another with their thorns, and so then they decided to stay apart from one another.

They started to freeze to death again. So they had to make a choice: either they vanished from the face of the earth or they accepted their neighbor's thorns.

They wisely decided to stay together again. They learned to live with the small wounds that a very close relationship could cause, because the most important thing was the warmth given by the other.

And in the end they survived.

here we are, at the beginning

"One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. Stop being who you were, and start being who you are!" - Paulo Coelho

Let us rock this 2011. Happy New Year, fellas! :D

saat marah, (selain istigfar) saya mengingat ini

"Seburuk-buruknya orang pasti punya sisi baik juga. Kalo ngga, ngga bakal ada yang mau berteman sama dia"

Kalimat ini diucapkan sama seorang sahabat gue pas SMP. Gue inget persis cara pengucapannya, kapan, dan mengapa dia mengucapkannya. Sampai sekarang gue udah kuliah pun, kalimat sederhana tapi sarat makna ini tetap gue jadikan salah satu pegangan hidup. And it helps, a lot! Thanks, my dear Audrey :)

"Jangan pernah men-judge seseorang cuma berdasarkan satu peristiwa"

Yang ini diucapkan sama temen kuliah gue, Au. Setuju banget. Kadang saking keselnya sama seseorang, kita lupa bahwa si orang ini mungkin sedang dipengaruhi faktor lain (contoh: nilainya jelek, berantem sama keluarga, pacar, atau hal lain yang bikin gampang naik darah). Kadang saking marahnya, kita jadi menutup hati terhadap orang tersebut, dan berpikir apa yang dia lakukan selalu jelek di mata kita. Dengan bersikap cupet, besar kemungkinan kita bakal kehilangan banyak pelajaran berharga yang bisa digali dari orang tersebut. Kesel boleh, tapi jangan lama-lama hehe. Saat kita marah selama 1 menit, maka kita telah melewatkan 60 detik kegembiraan yang tidak bisa didapat kembali (ini kalimat siapa sih pinjem ya haha).

kepincut NBL

Kira-kira dua minggu lalu, pas malam minggunya, gue berlima sama Diyang, Astri, Dilla, dan Au makan di Hanamasa. Keputusan yang cukup mahal (dan bikin nangis kalo liat dompet), tapi berhubung gue udah hampir 2 tahun ga makan disitu (terakhir makan pun ditraktir :p) dan kebetulan gue sama Dilla memang besoknya ada keperluan di Bandung, jadi berangkatlah gue bareng Dilla, Astri, Au dari Jatinangor.

Nah, singkat cerita kita berlima (tambah Diyang yang memang rumahnya di Bandung nyusul) akhirnya ngumpul di Hanamasa Dago sekitar magrib menuju isya. Kira-kira jam setengah 8an ato lebih, masuklah segerombolan pria berperawakan tinggi ke restoran ini. Tadinya gue pikir mereka semacam keluarga besar dengan gen tinggi yang sedang kumpul-kumpul di malam minggu, tapi jumlah mereka banyak banget dan setelah diperhatikan mukanya ga mirip satu sama lain. Dan ternyata, telisik punya telisik, mereka ini pemain NBL (National Basketball League) yang kebetulan seri 2 nya sedang digelar di GOR C-tra Arena, Bandung.

telat, telat, telat

Menengok ke belakang tanpa penyesalan. 

Sounds great. Tapi pelaksanaannya, susahnya minta ampun naudzubillah min dzalik. Pasti ada aja yang salah. Memang ga mungkin ga ada yang salah, tapi kalau kesalahannya itu-itu juga, gondok ga sih? Ngerasa bodoh ga sih?

To make mistakes is to be human. Tapi rasanya kesalahan gue sebagian besar diakibatkan ke-telatmikir-an alias ketelmian diri gue sendiri. Gue takut loh, jujur, sifat telmi ini bakal kebawa sampai tua nanti. Mending kalo cuma berakibat ke diri sendiri. Bayangin dong, kalo gue jadi dokter dalam keadaan gawat darurat dan sifat telmi ini masih nempel? Mau dibayar pake nyawa orang? The future freaks me out, really.

Ini abstrak ya. Gue juga bingung gimana menuliskannya.

Hmm, contoh deh. Gue seneng banget liat orang-orang yang gue sayangi sukses. I do, from the bottom of my heart. Dan mereka akan membuat gue berpikir, kenapa dulu gue ga melakukan hal yang sama? Atau, yang paling sering muncul di benak, "Kenapa baru sekarang gue punya mindset begini? Kenapa dulu cupet?". Perasaan kayak gini ga terjadi sekali doang loh pada gue, it happens all the time. SMP, SMA, kuliah, gue selalu merasakan yang sama pas flashback masa lalu. Lalu muncul pikiran, "ah shit, dulu gue bego banget ga ngambil ini, dulu gue cupu banget ga ngerti itu". 

It's just that, sometimes (many times) I'm too blind or perhaps too stupid to see a good chance. Gue jadi bingung, apa karena gue bergaul dengan orang-orang yang kurang berani atau malas untuk 'think-out-of-the-box'? Rasanya sangat tidak dewasa kalo gue menyalahkan pergaulan. Selama kita punya prinsip kuat, ga ada yang bakal bisa menjerumuskan kita.

Biasanya kalo gue nulis sesuatu itu ada kesimpulan berupa suatu kalimat atau paragraf yang membangun, yang menggambarkan solusi dari uneg-uneg gue. But frankly, right now even the slightest idea just seem all blur to me.

Haqqul yakin, 90% yang baca akan merasa tulisan gue abstrak, sebagian merasa gue galau, sebagian, yah mungkin ada yang merasa senasib?

Makin ga paham sama pikiran sendiri. Mungkin si otak memang harus istirahat biar ga makin telmi. Night all.

55 tahun yang lalu

"Merdeka atau Mati!"

- Bung Tomo, Surabaya, 10 November 1945 -

Selamat Hari Pahlawan Nasional :)

to kill a mockingbird, and to kill my time

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em. But remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their heart out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"

Mockingbird is a kind of bird, which here is a metaphor for innocence. That innocent people are not supposed to pay for what they didn't do. Ever read To Kill A Mockingbird? Well, I highly recommend it. First, I reckon it as a story of a white child whose father's a lawyer who fight for black people rights, as my friend told me. As I began to read it, I got the idea that it is actually about a child whose father's a lawyer who defended an innocent man being accused as rapist. As I got deeper into the story, I realized the story was all about one thing that is, perhaps, so cliche but on the other hand so human: conscience. Anyway, beside the touching story, I find this book filled with great quotes that I decided to collect them while it's still fresh in my memory. And because I need something to kill my time in this long idle holiday. Pity. Wtvr.

"You never really understood a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" - Atticus Finch

the resilient parasite

"What's the most resilient parasite? An Idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Which is why I have to steal it"

- Cobb, Inception -

from geek to point man, still a geek

I do not own the images in this post

I'm sure almost, if not everyone agree that Inception is awesome, brilliant, and has probably one of the most genius storyline ever made in history. You gotta be insane enough to come up with such plot. I'm not gonna go blabbing about the story or behind-the-scene stuff because this movie is so huge that there's too much you can talk about and it won't fit in one post. So I'm gonna talk from my own perspective about one of many things that attracted me in this movie: Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

You don't hear me? Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Arthur. The Point Man. What about him? Well, it all started when I watched (500) Days of Summer for the first time, a couple days before I watched Inception. I loved it, it's a great, realistic love story, but I dislike the male protagonist, Tom Hansen, which is too stupid, spoiled, too skinny and geeky, which is portrayed by JGL. His portrayal was so great that he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for it, so great that when I remember him, I remember Tom Hansen, whom i despise for his stupidity in (500) Days of Summer. So when I read the A-list cast list of Inception, there I saw the name Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and I thought, "Oh, Tom Hansen, the skinny spoiled geek is there".

looks a bit like Heath Ledger, eh?

Then I saw Inception, and there's Arthur the point man. Well, at least he's a portrayal of a better side of Tom Hansen, the one that's pursuing his career as an architect and already moved on from Summer. Still too skinny, though. And he seemed to be bullied all the time by the gorgeous forger, Eames (portrayed by Tom Hardy). The scene flowed, and there it is. The hotel corridor fighting scene in Arthur's dream, the one with the zero gravity. In case you forget, Arthur is the host of the dream so he's in charge to prevent Fischer's subconscious army from interfering the team's job. So he finds himself fighting those subconscious protectors. In a zero gravity corridor. With some spiderman-crawling-jumping scene. Which is fascinating! I watched that fighting sequence in awe and there I fell in love instantly with Arthur. This is the point where Tom Hansen is all gone. You won't believe this is the man in (500) Days of Summer anymore. Still a geek, but the spiderman scene is  just wow! I guess I will have to thank Tom Hansen, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't notice Arthur and his spiderman-jumping scene :p

I find plenty of Tom Hansen's pictures but it's bloody hard to find Arthur's and I'm still working on it. I'll add more pictures soon as I find a good one. And you can find many resemblance of him and Heath Ledger. Reckon he can be the next Batman villain? The Riddler, perhaps? We'll see, with so many proof of being a great actor he sure will find a way.
 

Tom Hansen, the skinny geek

with Zooey Deschanel as Summer