Author: nuri

Seorang Arema yang berprestasi, terutama di bidang kemanusiaan telah pergi untuk selamanya. Seorang tokoh muda yang tegar dan bernyali besar melebihi besar tubuhnya sendiri. Seorang yang teguh mempertahankan komitmen dan idealismenya untuk memperjuangkan masyarakat sipil. Selama ini, Munir yang menjadi ikon dari pejuang demokrasi, kerap bersuara kritis terhadap penindasan, kekerasan negara dan ketidakadilan melalui LSM Kontras dan YLBHI (Yayasan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Indonesia).

Derita yang dia hadapi, teror, intimidasi, ancaman pembunuhan dan lain sebagainya adalah bagian hidup dia dan keluarganya sebagai konsekuensi keteguhannya menjadi pejuang hak asasi manusia di negeri yang nyaris hancur ini. Buah perjuangan Munir salah satunya adalah reformasi di negara ini. Yah mungkin kata reformasi itu masih jadi bahan cibiran orang karena emang belum seperti gambaran para mahasiswa waktu menduduki gedung MPR dan melengserkan orang gede saat itu. Tapi kita ga bisa ingkar akan kebebasan bicara dan mulai menipisnya peran militer dalam kekuasaan negara. Paling ngga ia bukan penguasa absolut lagi di negeri ini. Terungkapnya kasus Marsinah di Jawa Timur pada awal 90’an lalu juga salah satu hasil kerja kerasnya.

Orang baik dan menjadi yang terbaik di bidangnya seringkali dipanggil terlebih dahulu oleh Sang Khalik semisal Baharudin Lopa

Selamat jalan, Cak Munir.

“Human rights in the sense of human solidarity has created a new universal and equal language going beyond racial, gender, ethnic or religious boundaries. That is why we consider it a doorway to dialogue for people of all socio-cultural groups and all ideologies.” – Munir, The Livelihood Award 2000

Matsuri is a song composed by Kitaro. Matsuri means festival And i start to listening again to his songs for the last week. This is will be my Kitaro Month. I feel peace and relax when listening to his songs. Never heard about Kitaro? Ok, I’ll try to make a bried introduction about him to you.

Kitaro was born as Masanori Takahashi Feb 4th, 1953 in Japan in a little town called Toyohashi. He started to play electric guitar in a band called “Albatros” at high school. Most of the songs were written by Kitaro, both lyrics and melodies. Later in the -60s he started a band called ” Far East Family Band” where he played keyboard. They made two rock albums.

In 1972 he visited Europe for the first time, and there he met Klaus Schulze, who was a real virtuoso on the synthesizer. He also met “Tangerine Dream”, one of the first bands in the “New Age” style. It was now Kitaro discovered all the fantastic qualities of a great synthesizer! ” With that I can create all kinds of atmospheres! I can create the sea, the wind, everything!” And that’s what he has done on every album he has made!

His first solo effort, Astral Voyage, was released in 1978 and was well recieved by cult followers. Later he produced the Silk Road soundtracks, a Japanese Television Documentary Series. His gentle, lush, and majestic melodies show his ability to embody the human spirit in his music. He created his albums in the privacy of his home studio near Mt. Fuji, Japan. Kitaro prefers to call his music simply ” spiritual” and says ” Feeling is the most important element in my music. ”

By the mid ’80s, he was still cosidered an underground artist in America, until he was picked up by Geffen Records in 1986. The next year, Mickey Hart, of The Greatful Dead, helped Kitaro with the release of, The Light of the Spirit, which was nominated for the Best New-Age Performance Grammy Award, and he made his first North American Live Tour.

Somewhere in the late ’80s or early ’90s, Kitaro’s style had changed, more theatrical and assertive, while still possessing a certain level of innocence and purity. Kitaro has lived in the United States fot the past five years now, on a 180-acre spred outside Boulder, Colorado in his 2500-square-foot home studio, ( “It’s large enough to hold a 70-piece orchestra — big enough for me! ” he chuckles). All though he loves his country of Japan and his origins, he left due to a dislike of the new government and their attitudes of socialism and the distruction of artists’ creativity. He does however, return each year to the foot of Mt. Fuji to perform the ritual drum ceremoney, he started in 1983. In this ritual, from sunrise to sunset, he beats towering Taiko drums so passionately that his hands often bleed.

He was honored with “The Golden Globe Award” for the soundtrack of “Heaven and Earth“, an Oliver Stone movie. He has been nominated for the “Grammy Award” several times, the latest in ’99 for “Gaia/Onbashira“.

These are my KItaro collection, only got 2 CDs that i bought at 1997 from album Dream and Live in America:p

Last night, i watched this movie. Pokemon Jirachi: The Wishmaker on my laptop. The sixth Pokémon feature may well rank as the most satisfying entry in the series because the filmmakers avoid the overblown threats of the earlier films.

Ash and Brock are joined not by Misty, but by May and her little brother Max, on a trip to a festival. Butler the magician and his assistant Diane introduce them to Jirachi, a wish-granting Pokémon that emerges every thousand years, when the Millennium Comet appears in the sky.

Max and Jirachi quickly bond. Butler tries to exploit the energy Jirachi receives from the comet to regenerate an extinct Pokémon. He accidentally creates a monster that Ash, Max, and Jirachi have to defeat, but it’s not the kind of world-threatening menace that throw the previous Pokémon features out of balance. I always like all series of Pokemon Movie. Hehehehehehehe, there’s so many cute creatures inside. And when you heart pikachu screaming, mumbling, talking to another pokemons … hehehehehe the voice is so cute 😛

This DVD comes with extras, including “Gotta Dance!”, involving Meowth and a magical wand that makes Pokemon dance to “Polka O Dolka” (Japanese name). Can Pikachu and friends save the captured Whismur, and themselves at the same time? It’s funny watching them run after each other and then suddenly stop to dance together and after that they start chasing each other again 😛

Also, the DVD contains a music video of “Make a Wish”, the ending song, which is sung by Asuca Hayashi. She sang “Chiisaki Mono”, which is the ending song for the Japanese version of “Jirachi Wish Maker”. Cool song

   

    

  

This is my new helmet i bought yesterday 🙂
Pretty cool …

I’m watching MetroTV’s Minight Live Talkshow when writing this. The topic is about Indonesian Porn Movies Industry. Wow. Really, it’s new for me. OK, there’s a hot news about the newest “VCD Porno” from Bandung (again) this month. You can find the news almost on every media. internetet, radio, tv etc.

Wow, what can i say? I thought those movies (Indonesian XXX movie) were homemade movies. You know, couples want to documented their “action” but when they want to transfer from analog format (Hi-8, MiniDV) to digital (VCD/DVD) problems came up. The movie that supposed to be personal collection suddenly went to public.

But, this is a commercial movie gitu lho 😛 Indonesian commercial porn movies. Busyettt, i just knew it today. This is the topic that missed from Emka’s Jakarta’s Undercover series 😛 Heuheuheuheuhuheue

So, how’s the bussiness work ?

Based on the talk show, there’s a producer. Who also became a director, story maker, cameramen, editor. He (mostly men :P) plan everything. Budget, place, script (if it’s needed. Is it ?) and “casting” the players.

Then the players. It’s easy to get the male player, finding the female player is more difficult. The girls usually a pro, i mean they’ve worked in the XXX business before. Like call girl, street hooker etc. Of course they should have good looking, nice body and so on. Age 17-25. The guest of the show said that she’s been doing that since 17 years old.

Filming process. Located in hotel or villa. It took 3-4 hours for taking the scenes. 4 hours ? Well, sometime they also need to re-take the scene 😛 Medicines are used to keep the players “stay on track”.

Marketing. After finish editing, the producer sell to distributor. Of course it’s a big player which has strong back up from you know who 😛 The distributor then make the copies and distributed to the market.

Geez …. It’s scary but that’s reality. Now i’m thinking about the future i’m gonna face.Someday when i have family, have kids, how can i protect them from these kind of social-ethic-moral disease ? I have to put them in good neighbourhood, give the proper education about everything etc etc etc. Waaaaaaaaa….

That’s it. I change the channel to Anteve. Barcelona vs Jubilo Iwata is much more interesting for me. Barcelona still leading 3-0 by 2 goals from Henrik Larsson and 1 from Luis Garcia. For me, there are 2 great soccer players with amazing skill. Dribling, shooting, agility, free kick etc. Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldinho.

Last night I watched this movie on my Laptop. Windstruck, a korean movie. A light romantic-comedy movie that I recommend you to watch. If you have watched another korean movie “My Sassy Girl” (2001), you’ll find similarities inside Windstruck. Within a short period of four weeks, Windstruck had garnered a box office of 2,229,000 admissions, and become one of the top four domestic movies of the year. It is no wonder that the show would be a big hit, especially since the director is none other than Kwak Jae-yong, who was responsible for the success of the 2001 hit, My Sassy Girl. Also, the main stars — Jeon Ji-hyun, one of the most popular actresses in Korea and Asia and up-and-coming actor Jang Hyuk — contributed to its success.

Waaaaa, Jeon Ji-Hyun !!! She’s so cuteeeee 🙂

OK, the movie starts with an acoustic version of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. This movie made in 2004, but that song is not performed by Avril Lavigne, like I thought before 😛 It’s performed by a female korean singer. Ji-Hyun, standing at the top of a building, attempting to commit suicide, with Jang Hyuk as the background narrator. It then moves on to a flashback and switches to a narrative mode to tell the story of the preceding events which eventually lead to the opening scene. Ji-Hyun play as police officer Yeo Kyung-jin, pretends to be a tough policewoman, but she is not very competent at first. One day, while pursuing a mugger, she picks up the wrong guy. It turns out that Go Myung-woo (Jang Hyuk), a newly hired physics teacher at an all-girls’ high school, was actually chasing the mugger. He is soon cleared and released.

Soon Myung-woo returns to the police station as part of a program in which teachers help officers patrol the streets at night. Guess what? He teams up with – surprise, surprise – Kyung-jin, and the two have a chance to get closer. A series of scenes designed for comic relief follow, and a couple of them seem to work. Funny actions begun. Kyung-jin beat up a bunch of kids on the street, blew up undercover cop operation, stuck together in handcuff, etc.

Soon they became lover. Unfortunately, Windstruck has sad ending (some of the scene remind of Demi Moore’s Ghost). That’s the difference between Windstruck and My Sassy Girl. But the thing that disturbing me is the appareance of Cha Tae-hyun in the end of movie. Myung-woo told Kyung-jin that someday she will met the guy who has his soul. And she finally meet him at the train station. But why Tae-hyun ??? It’s so mixed up coz Tae-hyun is the dumb guy at My Sassy Girl 😛 That’s why i think that Windstruck is My Sassy Girl 2 hehehehehehehe.

Nevermind, I love to watch Jeon Ji-Hyun 🙂

 
Jeon Ji-Hyun (see? she’s so cute) and Jang Hyuk

 
stuck in handcuff

 
Kyung-jin visiting Myung-woo when he’s teaching.
Kyung-jin and Myung-woo touring to mountain

 
Kyung-jin save Myung-woo when their jip slide and jump to the river.
Kyung-jin meet Myung-woo, her vision when she’s dying coz of a gun shot

Those are the screen shots and last but not least, these are the pics of Jeon Ji-Hyun

 

 

Tgl 1 September kemarin excute 21 nomor corporate customer PT XXX berbasis di Bogor untuk TopUp pulsa simPATI sebesar Rp. 200 ribu. Semua jalan OK seperti biasanya. Report ada, nomor seri voucher yang dipakai muncul, CDR pun di-generate.

Eh siang tadi pas aku lagi ikut presentasi dari Integration Management Australia, hp vibrate mulu dari nomor si Kampung ama si Odong. Odong nyari karena database space full di mesin 19 (lagian itu bukan mesin gue n ga make db di sana). Si kampung ribut masalah PT XXXX. Yang make salah satu nomor PT XXX complain kalo dia cuman nerima Rp. 150ribu hasil TopUp, bukannya Rp. 200ribu.

What the hell …

Based on report TopUp nomor itu udah completed TopUp Rr. 200 ribu, nomor serinya pun ada. Cross check dengan Pak Jajang di voucher management juga benar. Akhirnya lihat call detail orang itu deh. Nomor simPATI Sulawesi. Di lihat dari call patternya dia makenya lompat-lompat, ga murni daily. Trus mostly SMS.

Pertengahan Agustus balance dia tinggal Rp. 43 ribu, abis itu ga ada record sampe tgl 1 September. Tgl 2 September jam 10 siang dia mulai SMS. Balance saat itu Rp. 243ribu. Rese kan ? Dah jelas-jelas dia dapat tambahan Rp. 200 ribu pake nepu segala dengan bilang cuman Rp. 150ribu.

Kayanya PT XXX harus dikasih warning neh, employee-nya ada yang bermasalah. Report dah di bikin komplit dengan call detailnya. Biar urusan Bos CAM buat nyelesein.

CAM nya payah juga, punya kerjaan tapi ga jelas. Kasian deh lihat si Kampung yang harus pontang panting ngurusin mereka.