L'arc en Ciel 20th Anniversary World Tour

May 2nd, 2012 is perhaps one of the day of the year that certainly I will always remember. It's the time when, finally, I watch L'arc en Ciel live!

I know L'arc en Ciel since I was in 2nd grade of middle school. Some of my friend at the time were into this band. And the simple and britpop worshiper me, didn't understand the fascination. It was not until I was in highschool I actually listen to their music, and I love it!

Some people called them freak and weirdo, oh... yes, they're quite a weirdo, but that's what make them uniquely remarkable. L'arc en Ciel is the one that mainstreaming rock music in their homeland, Japan. Bring rock music to a wider audience through anime and movie. And among others, they are the one that introduce japanese rock music scene to the world. I bet on my hat that every non japanese j-rock fans starting with listening to L'arc en Ciel.

"orang sunda itu... pas muda gak mau ngerantau jauh-jauh atau lama-lama, pasti pengen cepet-cepet balik lagi ke tempat lahirnya, pas jadi orang tua hariwangan (gampang khawatir), gak mau anaknya pergi jauh-jauh..."
[papah]

ya pas deh... yang ngerantaunya bertanya-tanya... 'kapankah saya kembali ke bandung?'
di sisi lain, sang orang tua, punya anak ngerantau 120 km lebih ke utara dikit aja bisa di-rewelin-nya setengah mati... :D

Orang bandung itu, dari lahir ampe mati pengennya di bandung...
Sederhana banget ya... :)

Nova Supernova

I got my order of Supernova series by Dee from kutukutubuku.com yesterday. Dee just launched the 4th installment of Supernova series, titled Partikel (in english: particle). It's thicker that the previous books, nearly 500 pages, almost twice Petir. I've opened the book and scan to the connection plot to the previous book, Petir, which is on the last chapter. And it's not so much describing the connection. It means that Dee actually mean it when she said that the connection of all Supernova books will be clear in the last episode: the 6th book - Inteligensi Embun Pagi. To consider that it takes 6 years from Petir to Partikel, I think I have to endure another 10 years until Supernova series completed. Oh God, I hope it won't be that long!

I really prefer buying books online than go to bookstore these days, part because it's cheaper (they gave me 15% discount) and part because I don't like crowded bookstore on the weekend. I'm still reading One Click, an unauthorize biography about Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos, and in the book, Bezos said that those two reasons above is exactly why people like to shop books online. Well, actually it's because we don't have to wear books, so that online book shopping will give you nearly zero unsatisfactory level.

Kembali ke pojok: Love is a four letter word

Aku merasakan suka cita dan bahagia yang dengan perlahan memenuhi ruangan ini. Melihat sepasang manusia yang saling menatap dengan takjub, dengan ekspresi yang kaya akan syukur dan bahagia. Ikrar akad nikah mereka baru selesai diucapkan, dan dengan diucapkannya tiga huruf dalam satu rangkaian kata berbunyi ‘sah’, mereka berdua memasuki kehidupan baru. How simple!

Aku menatap dan tak lama pun ikut tersenyum. Aku pun merasa bahagia, for such an undefined thing, aku bisa merasa bahagia. She’s my best friend, and he’s my colleague at work, and yes, they know each other through me. Siapa sangka? ironis, dan menurutku, aneh. Karena aku tak percaya cinta, maaf - kuralat, aku tak mengerti cinta.

Kedua mempelai lalu berkeliling, menerima salam, kecup dan peluk bahagia dari semua yang datang. Aku masih berdiri di tempatku, tersenyum sambil menatap mereka bahagia. How lucky they are. Mereka lalu mencapai tempatku berdiri, dan bersama-sama keduanya memelukku.

No Extra Part

Someone asks me a question today: "what is the best movie for this year (so far)?"

And the answer instantly popped up in my mind: Hugo.

As we all know, it is Martin Scorsese's, and as you may know that he, as far as I know, never make a crappy movie. Hugo is a piece work of art and creativity, and I don't care that people tell it is not commercially succeed, Hugo still outstanding.

Minion Glee Club

A little entertainment and laugh in the morning is good for your health... :D

The Hunger Games

Image via Wikipedia

It was around 2006 when I watched this Japanese movie titled Battle Royale, the one with all that post-war near apocalyptic world, where the government will be crazy and desperate enough to throw a full game of setting teenager out in secluded island and kill each other until only one remain and declare as winner. Fast forward to the beginning of 2012, with all the commotion about the upcoming movie, The Hunger Games, I force myself to read the novel with a pang of underestimate feeling caused of its similarity to Battle Royale.

Set in the alternate future of what today is North America, is the country of Panem. With its 12 districts that enslaved by the all and mighty Capitol. Each of Panem's districts is said to has specific characteristic that distinct one to another, which is also the characteristic that been assumed by most of the population of the district itself, from the fact that every character's ability  in the books is being defined by which district they comes from. On the other hand, all that districts share the same characteristic : poor, enslaved and dictated by the capitol, and has a life quality that maybe seems similar to what it's been told about the life in North Korea today.

Mission:Impossible - Ghost Protocol

I'm writing again! And it's about a movie my friends, it's been so long since the last time I write about movie. The thing is, I watched Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol yesterday, and WOW... maybe it is the best MI movie ever. Point to point here...