Laskar Pelangi

Laskar Pelangi.. “Rainbow Club” or whatever it’ll be in English, I don’t know.. yeah, I’ve just watched it thi afternoon. To be honest, I think this is Indonesia’s best movie so far. It’s not commercial, unlike others movie that showed a lot of sponsor’s products. The actors are great, like really great. The filming overall looks expensive, serious and it have lots of beautiful Belitung’s island sceneries. And it shows how peaceful the life between Tiong Hua’s and the Belitung’s people even with the kid that has mental problem. Another thing that make this movie great is that the children who play the children of Laskar Pelangi itself come from Belitung’s island too. They have no experience in acting before, but they do it naturally.
The movie is very inspiring, because we can see the spirit of those kids, who’s willing to learn and the teachers who’s willing to teach them with low payment. This movie told us about dreams, will, and hearts. It said that they don’t need numbers to divide their brightness, it’s all come from the heart. And we must never stop dreaming, chasing our own rainbow. Doesn’t matter where we came from, it’s what we willing to do in order to achieve our dream.
Most importantly, this movie shows us the value we’ll get from school, from learning, from experiencing. And it’s not just in material way, but we can learn from the nature, let the trees, animals, winds tell us what they know… It’s all come from the heart.

We're All Can Be A Superman

“Strength doesn’t open big iron doors, but a small key

We all have the key inside us to open the door to a new future.”

That’s the quote I got form a movie that I’ve just watched, A Man Once a Superman. It’s about a woman reporter, which specialized in human interest, so she film about any kind of weird or interesting human actions. One day, someone stole her bag then when she tries to cross over, she nearly got hit, but someone help her. He is a middle age man, who keeps saying that he is a superman. He doesn’t have any superpower because a bald guy put a kryptonite inside his head. But he keep helping people, such as help carrying elderly stuff, carry a man who is injured, helping elders that cross the road, etc. And he love to do story telling to the kids.

But.. the truth is, he is just a normal man, his father died when he was a little, but before his father leave he left him a message. Telling the boy to be good and help others like superman, so that one day he’ll be able to fly. And that night the boy goes outside and accidentally got a bullet trough his head, but he’s survived. Several years later, he’s driving with his wife and daughter, but they got into an accident. But no one help him, when he’s trying to help his daughter that stuck on the car, until the car exploded. Since than he’s claiming that he is a superman.

Then the doctors try to help him, by giving him pills to shut down his emotion and nerve system so he wont be able to feel angry, so he’s just like a robot. Until.. There’s a gas explosion and there’s a man stuck under a car, and he is trying to help him with his superpower. The car is moved, but not by his own power but.. There’re people helping him too.. until he get into the burning building to save his little friend, but they stuck on the 3^rd floor. So, he hold that girl and jump..

What I got from this movie, is not just about helping others. It got messages about global warming, what’s gonna happened. Such as Jaws attack, then no home for the polar bear and many more. Just like the quote above. We can help, we can change the future, the future is in our own hands. Maybe we have something to regret on the past, and we can’t change the past. But remember, WE CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE. It doesn’t have to be a big movement, we can start on a small step.. And one more thing, never lose your imagination. Never stop dreaming, have faith on it. Because believing and have faith on it, it’s like we’ve done half way to our goals. And that'll makes us, a Superman.

Honoring Dae Jo Yeung

I’ve been crying a lot for the past 2 days.. why? Because I’ve been watching Dae Jo Yong, Korean colossal drama, 136 episodes.. I know, wow.. it’s a very long journey.. Yeah, it’s a very very long story, I can’t even summarize it. Maybe you can get the story on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dae_Jo_Yeong_(TV_series).

I got to give a two thumps up! To Choi Soo Jong who played Dae Jo Yeung. His voice is changing from the one when he was teenage ‘till he became a king. It’s incredible!! And it feels like the charisma of the general Dae Jo Young itself growing within time.. Let’s do some review now, shall we?!

There’s a lot of part of the series which I love, and makes me crying out loud!!

First, is the moment where the teenage Dae Jo Yeung met his mother (they were separated, in order to save Jo Yeung), but they were captured so they were tortured, ‘till his mom died. Then, there’s part where he was betrayed by Shila which make him loosed all of his men and got him near to death, which got him paralyze and loose hope. But the king sent him a message written by the king’s blood which makes Jo Yeung inspired and get back!!

Then, the part where he’s captured by Tang’s armies and he have to walk on the Tang’s street and everyone throw rock upon him, but his 2 sworn brothers Hae Suk Dol and GulsaBiwu protect him.. Then the part Heuksudol and Gyepilsamun stay behind to delay the army.. Gyepilsamun is killed by Li Kaigu's arrows, and Heuksudol stays to avenge him, got captured then they executed him..

And the where Geum Lan and Biwu were trapped and Geum Lan asked Biwu to carry him on his back to get them move faster (Geum Lan’s legs is broke), but her true intention is to protect Biwu’s back.. so she is killed by arrows because he’s protecting Biwu..HOoo.. actually this is the part where I cry the most, damn hate it!! And the last one is where Dae Jung Sang, JoYeung’s father is captured but when he is about to be on a hostage exchange time, he fought back the Tang’s to fuels the morale of the Goguryeo-Mohe’s armies.. he said there’re 3 things that’ll describe him. First he’s a goguryeon, Second, he is a warrior, and the last he is a father… SHUuuTTT!!!

Okay. You might think that I’m just being over react but the sacrifice that they willing to do without any hesitation just touching me. Their loyalty, their spirit and will to sacrifice themselves in order to protect something that values for them is just indefinable.

They asked nothing in return, all they asked is just “stay alive”.

Honoring

Remembering Denny Duquette

Denny Duquette, one of my fav character on TV of all time, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan . From one of the best TV series ever, Grey's Anatomy. Yeah, he's a patient with heart problem, where he needs to get a heart transplant and he fell in love with the intern there, Izzie. They started as a friend, 'till she really really fell for him that makes her do all the crazy things to save his ass. But still.. when we tough it was going to be just fine.. he couldn't survive. He die.
But his character was very very generous, kind, loving, caring, and superb great guy. He's an optimist, he's carefree, and a very hopefull towards everything. Well off there's time when he fell down, when he feeling like give up.. Just being human, an ordinary one.
Here're some quotes from his character, as my way to thanks his character for being one of my inspiration :

"Sometimes you have to make big mistakes, to find out how to make things right"
"Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are."
"Moments. That's all you get with the people you love."
"the things that I remember best – those are the things I wasn't supposed to do and I did them anyway. "
"The thing is : life is too damn short to be following these rules."
"Here's the good part, so you listen close, what I choose, is you. You're who I want to wake up with and go to bed with and do everything in between with. I get a choice now. I get to choose. I choose you."

It Aint A Sin

We love watching all the romantic movies, especially when it have a happy ending, then the guys are good looking and so do the girls. We love those romantic quotes, romantic scene, all about Love..
But when it comes to a movie, where the guys is actually having the happy ending with the other guy it’s all.. just.. not the same. Yes, we’ll called it gay movies.. or anything, whatever. People will be like “eww..” or keep swearing. Yes, in my country homosexuality is still RARE. Because of the religiously affect in my country, they kind of bands the same gender relationship. The most recent news is they’re trying to make rules to not let transgenders actors come out. They say it is a sin.
Screw them all, I am straight and I know that this rules about banding transgenders has nothing to do with me. But what happened with our will to express our self freely, without any boundaries and without judgments. Being gay or lesbian is not a sin for me. We’re just having a different type of interest. Being gay doesn’t mean we’re being a killer, or a corrupter rite?! And being straight doesn't make us a saint rite?!
We’re not better than them, we’re all the same, we’re a human being. With our freedom to express our self. And after watching several movies or series which include some gay issue inside it, I found that they’re just like us, they fight, they fell in love, they want marriage, they want family, they’re just human.

“I’m completely, completely in love with you. I even love the things about you that I hate, because you make me feel like I don’t have to be anyone other than who I am, and to me, that feels like family and that’s what I want us to be.”
-Kevin to Scotty –

That’s the line from brothers and Sisters. Not bad right?!^^
I know for some people, from some culture found this thing confusing.. but it's not cruel, it's not even a crime, and it's not making them all go straight to hell.. I believe that GOD doesn't matter with your sexual orientations, it's what you do that'll counts!!

Thank You

Mother..Father..Brothers..Sisters..Uncles..Aunts..GrandMa..

I am so damn lucky, to have it all.. and it’s not just saying I have them, but there’re bonding among us all. My family is a big young family, we’re the new faces of the new era. Yeah, my family is all about modernizations and we’re just like.. making our own creation of traditions. We call each others randomly unlike the traditional Chinese people with their own rules, which was just really really confusing.

More about my famz, we’re always gathering together. Almost everyday, and mostly at my grandma’s. There’ll a lot of great foods everyday, which make my diet plan completely destroyed.. not just foods there’ll be lots of gossips. Yeah, you know one news in my famz can travel through all the members by minutes. Everybody just keeps trying to inform everybody.

Haha, actualy this topics came out of my mind just as I watched Brothers and Sisters.. it's a series about a the Walker family, Nora and William Walker and their 5 children with their own drama. But, the thing is, no matter what problem or drama going on the family will get involve.. they're just care to each others, they know each others.. they're just like my famz.. I found out that my famz is like their reflection, without all the drama off course.

But you know, things I learned from this series is that family is something that will keep u, holding u, like really really stand up for u no matter what may happened.. They’ll stay, they’ll be there for u.. That’s a REAL FAMILY are..

in the end, i just want to be thankful for this amazingly unperfect annoying lousy famz..

Thank u mami.. thank u ko.. thank u kukulie, meme, russell, kelly, maggie, long, kwang, mama , papa, kukubing, katryn, kevin, kenny, albert, tata, tante rini, om yong, handoyo, halim, hardi, kumafong.. thank u ABO..

THANK U..

Stand Up Now.. Not Later

And someday if they tell you about it
If the darkness knocks on your door
Remember her, remember me
We will be running as we have before
Running for answers, running for more

I run for hope, I run to feel
I run for the truth, for all that is real
I run for your mother, your sister, your wife
I run for you and me my friend

-I run for life by Melissa Etheridge –

I’ve just watched standup2cancer show, and I cried. It’s just get me, specially when the songs imagine was played and the actors became the narrator for those survivors. The message is just simple such as “I’m 2 years old and I’m a hero. I’ve done 2 surgeries and 8 cemo….” No freaky pictures added, there’re just they’re smiling faces.
And I couldn’t help myself but wonder, what can I do to change it.. to help it?? I feel ashamed of myself that can do nothing but writing this entry. I feel like I need to do something to make a different. Not just to all the cancer battlers but also to those who needs help.

So, anyone who read this entry.. Please keep this in mind.. You don’t need give a huge amount of donations. A single dime could help millions..
We don’t need to be big to start it. It can start by little actions..

Trust me, giving is much more fun than shopping.. well, I’m not saying I’ll stop shopping.. No, I’ll reduce it, and I’ll give more.
Because what we’ll do today, it’ll count, for a better tomorrow. Believe me on this!
I am not a religious person, but I believe that it’s what you do that counts!!

And you can do it now.. not later.. not next time..