alright, i've been a bit crazy last weekend. excuse me, but it's been a long time since i felt like to please myself. bought some books in Kinokuniya and QB (again!!!):

- Jane Austen's complete novels in one package
- Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre"
- Dan Brown "Deception Point"
- Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe"
- The Journey of Ewan McGregor and Charlie...(forgot his complete name...:D)

was curious to get a grip on Bronte's book, but turned out i still prefer Austen. probably need to read it once more.

while in QB, i was thinking...hey these all are, u know, tough books to read...maybe i'd better get one or two from Chick Lits, just to make up for a balance. found a seemingly nice one but when i checked the price...OMG, it's 150 thousands rups for a Chick Lit!!!! no way i'm gonna pay that much for crispy-light-books! i'll just borrow some from my cousin (she's a collector)... save my money for better ones...

it's not that i don't appreciate Chick Lits. i actually like lots of them... (since i'm a bit romantic person). but to spend that much... hem...need to think twice. there's still plenty of terrific books i wanna buy.

just realized i didn't read much as i used to for the last 2 years.... hem i think not even a single book. no wonder it feels so good now ^_^

posted by retno@13:47

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Dipikir2.... gue udah pernah keliling Europe tp blom pernah keliling negara sendiri.... jadi merasa aneh...i barely know my own country.

bayangin aja, Indonesia segitu gedenya. klo diukur di map sama panjangnya dari Belanda smp Ceko. sama panjangnya dr ujung barat ke ujung timur AS. ada berapa ribu pulau tuh (gak tau pasti, ada yg bilang 13 ribu, ada yg bilang 17 ribu). ada brp banyak kebudayaan, keindahan alam yang bisa dilihat, dinikmati dan didekati.... paling barat gue baru sampai Palembang, paling timur gue baru sampai Lombok n Sulawesi.

kyknya seru banget keliling Indo pakai kapal (eh tp gue mabok laut euy) ato pake mobil (syarat spy gak mabok: gak pake ac) dr ujung sumatra smp papua. berapa lama tuh ya....

mungkin gue kudu nyari job yang kerjaannya emang travelling gitu kali ya....klo gak...jangan2 gak akan pernah kesampean.... jd suka sirik ngeliat acara tv yg adventurir (kayak "Jejak Petualangan"). bisa travelling, have fun, dibayar lagi! the kind of job i'm always dreaming of....will love to meet new people every day ^_^

i'm keeping this as one of my obsessions.
next to: watching F1 live (which is on top of the list...)

posted by retno@13:51

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ehm...baru baca stori jalan-jalannya Im di Bali n Soraya di Bandung...
huhuhu....jadi pengen jalan-jalan juga...tp kemana yaaa....
ke thailand kayaknya seru...belom pernah pula....

jadi kangen bali n bandung...

tadinya mau tahun baru-an di Bali alias pulang kampung sebentar...
biasanya taun baru gini rame-rame ngumpul di rumah ortu (semenjak udah punya rumah sendiri di Denpasar, jadi gampang ngumpulin sodara2...hehehe). ada makan besar plus rujak (slurrrppp....rujak bali...sedap...pedas...asin....) plus duren...abis itu nonton acara tv rame2 di satu kamar...ujung2nya ketiduran semua numplek di satu karpet hahahaha.... tp rencana gatot alias gagal total. tiket gak dapet, klopun ada mahal banget. mama sakit jd gak bisa pulang. so no one will go. anyway, since i actually have no extra dayoff jd emang gak mungkin lah pulang ke Bali...hiks...

tahun lalu ngerayain di Bunyu aka pulau terpencil di kalimantan. tahun sebelomnya di Bali tapi waktu itu masih ada kakekku tersayang...(huhuhu..jd inget...hiks)

pengen ke bandung lagi euy...
kemarin cuma sempet urusan kantor...jalan-jalannya bentar banget...just realized most of my old friends have moved out from Bandung...hiks...
pengen jalan kaki lagi dr Dago Pakar sampe Maribaya trus naik ke Tangkuban....bikin fresh! dunno last time i did it...maybe 'bout 4 or 5 years ago.... waktu nemenin Wouter ke Bandung, gak sempet ngajak doi ke Dago Pakar....next time he's coming, i'll definitely take him to there!

posted by retno@10:42

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i sent message to a friend yesterday.
i wrote: "wish life is like computer programme, just click del and you'll get start all over again v easily"

me sound very pathetic. oh my god....

posted by retno@13:36

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why do i like Jane Austen's books so much?
not many of my friends read them...they may have watched the movies but the books...dun think so.

it's all b'cos she has this great principle: a person character is everything you have to judge him/her from. period.

her stories backgrounds may exist no more in this modern life. but misjudgement, prejudice, injured-characters and so on.... i think they still live well among today's modern society, wherever it is..... i have no single doubt 'bout this. that's why her stories, her characters, are still very interesting, very captive even until now. i love it. it's classic yet so modern.

love the movies too...esp Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. good storylines. perfect acting. great actors and actreeses.

last night i watched Bollywood interpretation called "Bride & Prejudice" (closing movie, Jiffest 2004). funny and witty. but no match for the original one (of course!!!). Aishwarya Rai is quite good actually playing as Indian version of Elizabet Benneth but the one plays Mr Darcy is quite awful i think. couldn't get the aura of mr Darcy from him. too bad. though the movie itself is entertaining enough, somehow i felt like the director sometimes, here and there, tries to make fun of traditional Indian style of singing and dancing and exaggeration of drama..hahahaha....don't know why...

posted by retno@16:07

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Jiffest 2004, 1st movie to watch.

Title: Le Chiavi di Casa (House's Keys)
Director : Gianni Amelio
Cast : Kim Rossi Stuart, Andrea Rossi, Charlotte Rampling
Genre : Drama
Country : Italy 2004
Language : Italian with English subtitle
Duration : 105 minutes

Storyline (from www.imdb.com):
Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) has never seen his son Paolo, who is disabled. But Fate makes them meet, Gianni accompanies him to Germany (Berlin)where the child can follow a new therapy... It is also a trip where the young father tries to catch up with the relationship with his son. In hospital Gianni meets a woman, Nicole (Charlotte Rampling) who has a also a disabled daughter, a woman which teaches him very much about accepting differences.

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hem, to me this movie is so much simplier in telling the whole story than average holywood movies. no exaggeration in tears, humor, tragedy n so on.
it presents life and fact as it is. when you have a disabled child (epilepsy), this is the fact you need to go through. difficult relationship (but hey, even with normal children, you'll still have difficulty right?), suffering, patient, limitation, and embarassment.

i'd say, the strongest message would be what strength and dignity these children carry on their wrecked bodies!
Paolo and Nadine prefer to go through their suffering by themselves. there's a scene where a nurse/doctor(?) places lots of sensors on Paolo's head to monitor his conditions. Paolo insists Gianni to go away and leave him alone. at first Gianni understand not why he has to go, the nurse/doctor doesn't say anything to him. then Paolo says something like "you see what he's doing to me. i don't want you to be here. go away. go. get out.". wow...i was like...wow...this child...his body is sick but for sure his mind is not. how many normal adults would have the same strength and dignity??????

along the journey, Paolo keeps sharing his strength to Gianni, who in turn learns how to accept his son and to appreciate him as he deserves.

my other fav lines: at the end of the movie, Gianni cries n Paolo stands next to him and hugs him so close while saying..."don't cry. i'm with you, why you're still crying?"

posted by retno@08:24

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just spent the last four days in Bandung.

flew there with small plane on thursday morning. joint the workshop for 2 full days. ended up with dissapointed results ( arrggg....can we ever change the bureaucratic mentality of our government people???? guess it won't work even for million years....esp when lots of people are still eager to keep licking and serving "the powerful guys" like they are gods)

got cold on saturday which lasted till this morning. plus headache. plus bad news for the project i've been working on very hard. ooh...life is turning low now...

plus just realized Bandung is no longer a comfortable place to stay esp during weekend when almost all corners are packed with B cars a.k.a rich people from Jakarta who like to do windowshopping and occasionaly sometimes spend their money in factory outlets. causing traffic jam everywhere. good day for some, bad day for others.

kinda miss the old Bandung....hiks....

it is very lovely though that i could meet some old friends and spent wonderful saturday night with them. had dinner in new resto called Platinum in Cihampelas Walk (a.k.a Ciwalk). good meals with acceptable price. that's one great thing 'bout Bandung, you can find great foods almost everywhere and they're relatively cheap!!!

to my dear Penia...thanks for the chocolate...:D stroopwafels nya aku kasih ke ibu kost abis doi pengen banget...hehehehe....Asterixnya udah aku baca ternyata i still can understand written dutch a little bit....^_^

posted by retno@14:09

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