Renungan

Kamu tak bisa mengubah masa lalu....
tetapi dapat menghancurkan masa kini dengan mengkhawatirkan masa depan.
Bila Kamu mengisi hati kamu dengan penyesalan untuk masa lalu dan
kekhawatiran untuk masa depan, Kamu tak memiliki hari ini untuk kamu
syukuri.
Jika kamu berpikir tentang hari kemarin tanpa rasa
penyesalan dan hari esok tanpa rasa takut,
berarti kamu sudah berada dijalan yang benar menuju
sukses.

Perkawinan memang memiliki banyak kesusahan,
tetapi kehidupan lajang tidak memiliki kesenangan.
Buka mata kamu lebar-lebar sebelum menikah,
dan biarkan mata kamu setengah terpejam sesudahnya.
Menikahi wanita atau pria karena kecantikannya atau
ketampanannya sama seperti membeli rumah karena lapisan catnya.
Harta milik yang paling berharga bagi seorang pria
di dunia ini adalah .. ?
hati seorang wanita.

Tuhan yang Mahabaik memberi kita ikan,
tetapi kita harus mengail untuk mendapatkannya.
Demikian juga Jika kamu terus menunggu waktu yang
tepat, mungkin kamu tidak akan pernah mulai.
Mulailah sekarang...
mulailah di mana kamu berada sekarang dengan apa
adanya.Jangan pernah pikirkan kenapa kita memilih seseorang
untuk dicintai,tapi sadarilah bahwa cintalah yang memilih kita
untuk mencintainya.

Begitu juga Persahabatan, persahabatan adalah 1 jiwa
dalam 2 raga .Persahabatan sejati layaknya kesehatan,
nilainya baru kita sadari setelah kita
kehilangannya.
Seorang sahabat adalah yang dapat mendengarkan lagu
didalam hatimu
dan akan menyanyikan kembali tatkala kau lupa akan
bait-baitnya. Sahabat adalah tangan Tuhan untuk menjaga Kita.
Rasa hormat tidak selalu membawa kepada
persahabatan, tapi Jangan pernah menyesal untuk bertemu dengan
orang lain... tapi menyesal-lah jika orang itu menyesal bertemu
dengan kamu.

Bertemanlah dengan orang yang suka membela
kebenaran.
Dialah hiasan dikala kamu senang dan perisai diwaktu
kamu susah.
Namun kamu tidak akan pernah memiliki seorang teman,
jika kamu mengharapkan seseorang tanpa kesalahan.

Karena semua manusia itu baik kalau kamu bisa
melihat kebaikannya dan menyenangkan kalau kamu bisa melihat keunikannya
tapi semua manusia itu akan buruk dan membosankan
kalau kamu tidak bisa melihat keduanya.
Begitu juga Kebijakan, Kebijakan itu seperti cairan,
kegunaannya terletak pada penerapan yang benar,
orang pintar bisa gagal karena ia memikirkan terlalu
banyak hal,
sedangkan orang bodoh sering kali berhasil dengan
melakukan tindakan tepat.
Dan Kebijakan sejati tidak datang dari pikiran kita
saja,
tetapi juga berdasarkan pada perasaan dan fakta.
Tak seorang pun sempurna.
Mereka yang mau belajar dari kesalahan adalah bijak.
Menyedihkan melihat orang berkeras bahwa mereka
benar meskipun terbukti salah.

Apa yang berada di belakang kita dan apa yang berada
di depan kita
adalah perkara kecil berbanding dengan apa yang
berada di dalam kita.

Saw VI trailer ..

One thing I genuinely appreciate about the Saw franchise is that it is the rare series where it's easy to go into the next installment knowing next to nothing about what will happen. The sets are pretty top-secret. The trailers reveal no plot. And there are no test screenings, preview screenings, or press screenings that could otherwise allow weak-willed people such as myself from knowing too much going in. This teaser follows suit, revealing only what will likely be the opening scene. The use of the current health insurance scandals is so obviously topical that it's almost funny. But it's the rare Jigsaw trap that actually makes a sort of logical sense (an insurance agent who theoretically chooses who lives and dies must now literally chose who gets to live). And while we can argue whether health insurance bureaucrats deserve to perish in the grisliest of fashions, it's nice that Jigsaw seems to have taken a respite from targeting cops who care too much or believe in the general decency of their fellow humans. For those who have followed this increasingly goofy series up to now, there's no reason to stop now.

The teaser poster for A Nigtmare On Elm Street

Cool! Very stylish, very low key, and very moody. Just cool.

It's a nice, moody poster, but why no John Malkovich?

Shutter Island poster ...

It's obvious that Paramount is trying to sell this as a pure 100% star-driven thriller. Which is funny because that's exactly the kind of thing that Paramount used to specialize in before they caught blockbuster fever. For years, they raked in the bucks with stuff like Double Jeopardy, Rules Of Engagement, Kiss the Girls, and Along Came a Spider. Of course, none of those were directed by Martin Scorsese. The trailer makes it look like B-movie pulp-fiction, and this poster certainly echoes that (alas, I think I've guessed at least one of the twists). Still, Dennis Lehane (Mystic River and Gone, Baby Gone) is batting 2/2 in the film adaptations department. The last Martin Scorsese picture that was sold purely as popcorn entertainment won him an Oscar.

went to the cinema

jum'at kemaren gue zaki dinar fay alit angga dio dan tiga orang lagi lupa gue hehe went to the cinema nonton harry potter. gue pulang sekolah jam 3'an dan langsung jalan kesana, sampe jam 4'an tuh gara gara si dio salah jalan. yauda tuh langsung beli tiket, kan gue yang beli gitu terus bingung banget mau yang jam brapa .. pas gue bilang ke mba mba'nya beli 10 tiket malah langsung ditunjukin studio 4 time 18:00 row L and seat 1 sampe 10 gitu. ckck udah ngga nafsu aja kan gue, yauda gue debat sama si dinar. baru nanya "gmana mau ngga nih di L? apa mencar aja, ngga pape kan?" EHH tuh mba mba langsung "jadi ngga nih beli tiketnya" (dengan tampang jutek logat nyolot dan jidat mengkerut) huehh yauda dengan polos dan pasrah langsung aja gue say YESSS. ehh abis itu gue sama dinar langsung ngedumel ngga jelas yang nyalahin mba mba'nya gitu ampe emosi gue. karna uda capek debat, yauda gue beli d'crapes terus keliling nunggu jam 6, 2 jam men muter muter kaya orang dongo. ditengah perjalanan, asikdah haha pada klaperan tapi duit pas pas'an semua yauda keluar mall nyari makanan yang murah, dapet tuh tukang bakso yauda tenang tentram deh perut ngga bermasalah lagi. uda jam 6 kurang, langsung tuh ke studionya. gue nonton dengan hikmat dan konsentrasi, tapi malah ditanyain mulu sama si alit ini siapa itu siapa knapa begitu knapa begini blablabla baweel banget. ckck film abis setengah 9, om gue nelfon dan ngomel ngomel, semuanya juga pada dicariin sih apalagi dio panik banget, dia harus pulang cepet jadi ngga bisa nganter, yauda pulang by public car haha. tapi pas lagi nyari mobilnya gitu gue dinar alit lari larian biar cepet, eh tapi gue malah tiba tiba brenti karna ngeliat cwo dan cwo sedang berpegangan tangan dempet hampir pelukan gitu sambil ngobrol dengan mimik muka yang getodeeh gila langsung brenti sejenak jantung gue. hahaha yauda tuh lanjut nyari mobil. ontheway gue ditelfonin mulu, jadi panik gitukan yauda gue lari pas uda sampe, abis ojek gak ada. eh pas nyampe om gue uda tidur. zzzeg! woaaah anying lu om gue udah engos ngosan ckck.
wes panjang aja haha

Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Without question, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the best out-and-out sixth chapter of any franchise since Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Granted, the competition isn't very stiff (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, etc), but it's still remarkable how well this long-running series has held up. So when I say that this sixth film is perhaps my least favorite film of the franchise, it is only tepid criticism at best. When a film this good can be considered the weakest of six, that says something about the consistency of quality running through the Harry Potter series.


A token amount of plot - Harry Potter is still recovering from the shocking death of Sirius Black during a battle royale at the Ministry of Magic. But while the press and the wizarding world at large wonder whether he is 'the chosen one', Harry quickly finds himself whisked away by Dumbledore to help recruit Professor Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), a retired potions professor who may have important memories involving the young Tom Riddle (ie - Voldermort). Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy has been recruited by the Dark Lord himself, but the task required is so heinous that Draco's mother turns to Severus Snape (the priceless Alan Rickman) for help and guidance. As the two respective chosen ones go about their opposing tasks, the promise of romance sends hearts at Hogwarts aflutter and hormones raging.


Knowing that the next two films will be plot and action-driven, director David Yates slows things down quite a bit, concentrating less on mysteries and dark plots and more on character interaction. As a result, the young supporting cast who have been somewhat sidelined since Prisoner of Azkaban are again given a chance to shine. While the romantic turmoil provides solid laughs, it is still somewhat disquieting to see our beloved hard ass Hermoine weeping in a stairwell over a boy. Yes, she has finally realized that she loves her past pal Ron, although Ron has been swept away by the pushy and forthright Lavender Brown. Meanwhile, Harry pines for Ginny Weasley, Ron's all grown-up baby sister who has secretly crushed on 'the boy who lived' since he saved her butt in Chamber of Secrets. Unfortunately, Evanna Lynch has turned the otherwise peripheral Luna Lovegood into such a charming, daffy, kind, wise, and lovely human being that it only makes Harry look that much dumber to be chasing the comparatively less interesting Ginny Weasley instead (at least Bonnie Wright does what she can to give Ginny a token more personality than Order of the Phoenix's dreadfully dull Cho Chang).


So while I have plenty of Hogwarts eye candy to keep my attention during the romantic melodrama, my wife got her fill during the more perilous subplot. IE - Alan Rickman's Snape gets more screen time than usual and Tom Felton's Draco Malfoy looks appropriately dapper in his new outfit of evil (sharp black suit with black shirt and black tie). The second major story arc concerns the maturation of Draco Malfoy. This is the first time that Tom Felton has gotten anything to do other than hiss and be grouchy, but wow does he knock it out of the park. Felton all but steals the film with very little dialogue, as his would-be villain painfully discovers that there is a big difference between merely being evil and actually committing acts of evil. While Harry's instincts about Draco are correct, his attempts to interfere continually make a bad situation worse. Draco's encounter with Harry Potter in a Hogwarts lavatory is a stunner, as Harry actually commits a rather shocking act of violence against a justifiably pissed-off Draco (PG-rating be damned, this scene is bloodier than anything in the last two films).


So the romantic subplot works pretty well, and the 'last temptation of Draco' stuff is surprisingly potent, so why doesn't the film work better, or at least as well as the original book? Well, for one thing, it becomes more obvious than usual in this chapter that the rules of magic are rather arbitrary in accordance with plot demands. For example, Dumbledore and Harry can basically teleport at will, but they need a boat to cross a scary moat. And while Dumbledore can wave his wand and restore a tattered and broken house anew, no one thinks to request said magic when a horrifying act of property destruction occurs at the halfway point. Furthermore, this is the first film since Prisoner of Azkabin where you really have to have read the book to truly understand character motivations. The movie barely touches Voldermort's back story, which was the spine of the sixth novel.


Finally, I'm fully aware than I'm being somewhat unfair, judging a film for not measuring up to the book, but the finale is not nearly as dramatically satisfying. Just as the death of Sirius Black was surprisingly muted in Order of the Phoenix, so too is the action climax of Half-Blood Prince. First of all, there really is no action climax. The 'death eaters attack Hogwarts' moments have been completely removed (probably to avoid repetition with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), leaving no real reason for said villains to show up in the first place.