NEW YEAR PLAN!

I'm finishing year 11 and I've plans for the upcoming year 12.

1. Expand my pulsa business. Now I've got to increase my omset so that I'll serve the customer satisfyingly.
2. Launch CaC in my RT (Rukun Tetangga).
3. Find a new business. I don't know what.. Yet I have to seek for a new income other than pulsa business.

And of course.. be a much better person!

signing out, life-is-groovy.

Holiday = time to invest

I look holiday as a time to invest. This is our moment to learn, fill ourself, add new skill, discover new knowledge, looking for your passion, everything, anything that will you use for (membekali diri).

This is a little tips for self-investation in public speaking. As I'm trying to improve my public speaking skill, I know some that might useful:

1. Perbanyak nonton film, especially Hollywood's movies. Tapi jangan menonton dari genre yang sama, ganti-ganti genrenya. Kamu bisa belajar menjadi comedian (untuk drama), motivator (tontonlah film-film politik atau apapun yang ada orang yang sedang memotivasi, example: All The King's Men), good debater (tonton film yang bercerita tentang lawyers and laws).
Tips tambahan: Apabila Anda sedang mengikuti lomba inggris yang memerlukan your speaking skill, then you REALLY should watch movies in English. It will get you more fluent dengan atau tanpa Anda sadari.
2. Tontonlah E Channel, Channel V, MTV Asia. Lihatlah para selebriti diwawancara di situ. Kalau beruntung tontonlah acara-acara Awards, dan lihatlah para selebriti menyampaikan speech kemenangan mereka. Anda bisa mempelajari gaya para selebriti itu. They're entertainers and if we want to be succeed in public, we have to be entertainers. So, learn from them!
3. Kalau di channel2 itu sedang kosong, carilah videonya di youtube!
4. Practice in front of the mirror. Lakukan seperti orang-orang the SIMS saat sedang improve charisma atau practice speech.

Catatan dari saya: public speaking pasti akan terpakai. Apabila public speaking Anda bagus, Anda bisa banyak digunakan. Anda bisa menjadi orang yang diandalkan dan digantungkan oleh orang-orang sekitar.

Lalu... bisa invest apalagi contohnya?

Menambah kemampuan berbahasa. Saya adalah orang yang senang mempelajari bahasa asing. Dan untungnya saya tidak kesulitan mempelajari bahasa. Mungkin itu juga yang menyebabkan saya senang belajar bahasa asing, karena saya tidak kesulitan mempelajarinya. Kalau untuk ini, Anda harus latihan intensif. Sisihkan minimal 1 jam setiap hari. Kesempatan belajar bahasa ini belum tentu Anda dapatkan pada hari sekolah, di tengah sibuknya rutinitas dan tugas-tugas sekolah!

Belajar memasak. Ini sangat dianjurkan untuk para perempuan yang menganggur di rumah. Atau mungkin hanya sibuk berjalan-jalan di mall. Sisihkan setidaknya satu hari dalam seminggu untuk belajar memasak. Dan sangat dianjurkan belajar memasak dari oma Anda atau para tetua di keluarga Anda karena mereka biasanya mengetahui resep rahasia dalam memasak.

Improve your character! Selain public speaking, ini sangat-sangat vital. Anda tidak pernah tahu apa yang akan terjadi pada Anda. Bisa saja Anda tiba-tiba tinggal di lingkungan dimana Anda harus eksis atau mempertahankan eksistensi Anda. Anda tinggal di sekitar orang-orang yang selalu mengomentari segala hal, sehingga membuat Anda takut untuk dikomentari, khususnya bila Anda salah-salah adalah orang yang punya selera berbeda dengan para komentator. Supaya Anda tidak terpengaruh inilah yang harus Anda lakukan:
1. Dekatkan diri pada Tuhan.
2. Have self-confident. Belajar dari orang-orang di sekitar Anda yang punya self-confident yang tinggi, yang merasa nyaman dengan diri mereka apapun keadaannya. Yang tidak peduli walaupun dirinya dibilang 2000 and late, dibilang tidak sip, tidak uptodate, tinggal di gua dan hujatan lain.
3. Kuatkan hati. Ok. Seharusnya saya menaruh kuatkan hati di atas self-confident. Anda harus yakin akan pendapat Anda, akan hal-hal yang you stand for. Saatnya menguatkan hati. Jangan goyah hanya karena orang-orang bilang itu tidak keren dan tidak fabulous.
4. Bergaul dengan orang-orang positif. Jangan bergaul banyak dengan para komentator itu! Orang-orang yang benar-benar teman Anda dan berpikiran waras. Tidak mengejar fabulousity dan keeksisan.

Masukkan hal-hal positif ke dalam diri Anda selama liburan.

Holiday is a time to invest!

MOVIE MARATHON!

Today I had a date with my boyfriend, Hans Yonathan. We went to Puri Mall and watched 2 movies in a row. First, we watched 17 Again. A movie starring by teen heartrob Zac Efron.

17 Again (2009)

Recommended for Teens:
I found this movie pretty boring yet fun and has good messages. It reminds us teenagers that we're only 17 once, that's why we don't waste it and make bad choices. If you have a boyfriend, don't be so naive. He's never your forever. Well, that's a harsh statement I guess. Yet think about this: 1-2 years is not enough to determine whether a guy is your forever or not, let alone months! Don't give away your virginity!

Anyway, the tagline is contradictive with the movie messages.

Now I know why girls adore him!

I hereby admit...
I was one of those cynicals who used to not like Zac Efron. But now, after this movie my perspective changed on him. It's like my cynical eyes now turned wide open and I realize that he's pretty cute (anyway, his acting's good!) and now I know why girls went crazy over him. By the way, he's talented! His acting is so natural! Maybe he's one of Hollywood's next big thing. After all, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson they grew older and older each year, so we need to spot good talent to proceed them.

The second movie is..

Star Trek Again!

Yup! I watched it twice! My bf hadn't watched it so he wanted some companion - that's me - to watch Star Trek. Now that I told you before about my attraction to Commander Spock, it's a pleasure for me to watch it again. The more I watch this movie the more I find how fierce and calm Spock is!

Live long and prosper!

HEROES

Lately I got addicted by this tv series. Thanks to Zachary Quinto who drags me into this eternal addiction to Heroes.

Let me introduce you to these super-HEROES.

Milo Ventimiglia as Peter Petrelli
Ability: absorb power


Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennett
Ability: cell-regeneration


Noah Gray-Cabey as Micah Sanders
Ability: electricity


Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli
Ability: Fly


Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman
Ability: mind-reader


Ali Larter as Niki Sanders
Ability: double-personality


Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohinder Suresh
Ability: professor


Last but not least,

Isaac Mendes who can paint the future.

Note: I just watched Heroes 2 days ago, so up till now I'm still on the first season.

When You Watched Too Many Movies...

I've been a moviegoer for like, 6-7 years, and I wanted to share what I've experienced during those years.

This is what happens when you watched too many movies...:

1. You will find most movies predictable. Realize it or not, but you had automatically memorize the pattern of movies' storyline. I experienced it when I watched 27 Dresses. That made me didn't enjoy the movie and finally found the movie was pretty boring. Because I know what's going to happen next.

Pattern of chick-flick:
-introducing: female main character who's appealing outside but had problems with herself inside. most of the time our main character has a crush on her boss.
-pre-conflict: meet up with a charming guy who's interested in her. usually the charming guy is someone nice whom she just met, or whom she has never laid eyes on before.
-conflict: turned out that the boss or the character's crush has no interest on her. they usually interested in her sister, friend, or whoever has a close relation to the main character or maybe someone cooler. our main character goes outrage and depressed.
-post-conflict: the depression affect the character along with her relation with mr nice guy.
-ending: mr nice guy said something sweet, main character delivered a speech of apologise, and everybody get along and live happily.

Pattern of action movies:
-before the ending, usually the bad guy walk around the captured good guy and boast about his plan of destroying the earth or ruling the earth. That gives time for our good guy to find a way to release himself and stop the bad guy from their evil plan.
-background of the villain: vengeance, hatred, pain, lust of power.

2. You will get bored. Suddenly you found yourself bored and sick of Hollywood movies. You need something fresh and different. So you go to movie festivals and watch indies for a couple of time.


My advice is:
1. To avoid boredom of movies, try to change your way of viewing a movie. See movies from what is the purpose of the producer to make this movie, do not compare movies from different genre.
2. Stop criticizing movies from its quality. Try to judge movie from what you get from this movie, not the quality.

signing out: Priscillia Sidharta.

Today's Obsession: Zachary Quinto!

Yesterday i went out with 6 friends, had a girls' day out to Pacific Place. Our main intention to go there was to have fun in Kidzania. Yet we came out disappointed by their service, they didn't inform us as we called them the day before that they were helding a Congress.

So a change of plan had been made, instead of going to Kidzania, we went to watch Star Trek.


It was a fun ride i had back then. I love meeting a whole new eccentric characters: James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), Commander Spock (Zachary Quinto), Montgomery Scott (Simon Pegg), Pavel Checkov (Anton Yelchin), Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Karl Urban) even Nyoto Uhura (Zoe Saldana).

Yet this is the character that gets my full during the movie:

Zachary Quinto as Commander Spock

Why do I like guys with pointed ears? Note that I also liked Legolas the elf from Lord of the Rings. :D

As soon as I walked out the theatre, I thought nothing but Commander Spock. I really wanted to go home and google him ASAP. I found that his name is Zachary Quinto and that he plays in Heroes as the villain Sylar.

Fierce isn't he?

DRAG ME TO HELL!: Raimi's Alarm to Wake Up Hollywood's Horror

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Hari ini saya nonton film ini bersama beberapa orang teman. Saya bukan penggila horror, namun saya juga penikmat horror. Karena menurut saya film-film horror mempunyai cerita yang unik. Meskipun terkadang settingnya sama, yaitu di rumah berhantu, tetapi selalu ada latar belakang dan kisah menarik di balik penghantuan arwah-arwah penasaran di rumah itu.

Apa yang membuat saya SANGAT tertarik menonton Drag Me to Hell?
1. Trailernya yang sangat mengerikan. Coba lihat sendiri! Menonton trailernya saja sudah menghantui saya di tengah malam!
2. Film ini adalah arahan Sam Raimi. Yup, Sam Raimi sutradara Spiderman. Sam Raimi sebenarnya adalah sutradara film horror. Terkenal gara-gara The Evil Dead.

Bagaimana film Drag Me to Hell?

Untuk keseraman, secara objektif saya memberi rating 4. Karena saya yakin bahwa tipe-tipe horror dan seram seperti ini bisa menakut-nakuti masyarakat Amerika sana. Namun secara subjektif, saya memberi rating 2. Saya yakin bagi para penonton Asia, film ini pasti tidak seram.

Untuk filmnya secara keseluruhan, saya memberi rating 4. Empat untuk storyline, akting, penyutradaraan, dan gambar. Entah kenapa saya suka dengan animasinya - yang diprotes habis teman-teman saya setelah menonton film ini, karena menurut saya animasinya sangat klasik. Semua yang ada di film ini klasik. Mulai dari moving object dan adegan seram yang menjijikan seperti muntah.

Apa yang saya dapatkan dari film ini?

Saya tidak expect akan mendapatkan pesan moral, inspirasi, dan semacamnya. Haha. Karena tujuan saya menonton film ini adalah... hmm... untuk ditakut-takuti. Haha. Yah, benar. Sudah lama saya tidak menonton horror dan saya kangen rasa ketakutan saat menonton film horror. LOL.

The Reader: One of the Year's Romantic Picture

The Reader (2008)

Setelah menghabiskan 8 jam sia-sia di sekolah, saya dan adik saya pergi untuk menonton The Reader, film arahan Stephen Daldry dan ditulis oleh David Hare. Dan... Apa yang saya dapatkan?

Wow. For me this is one of the year's romantic picture! Romantis? Mungkin orang-orang yang bukan moviegoers akan mengernyitkan kening mendengar label yang saya berikan: romantis. Ada dua alasan mengapa saya bilang film ini romantis.

Keromantisan film ini tidak kasat mata oleh para penonton awam. Penonton awam mungkin mengharapkan suatu keromantisan seperti film Love Actually, The Notebook. Namun film ini menghadirkan sesuatu yang berbeda. Di mana sepasang kekasih menorehkan kisah cinta mereka melalui sebuah hubungan long distance. Mereka tidak bertemu, mereka tidak berusaha untuk bersatu, mereka tidak berusaha untuk menciptakan hidup bahagia berdua. Tetapi mereka melanjutkan cinta mereka dengan menunjukkan keberadaan masing-masing.

Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) terus membacakan buku-buku kepada Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet). Ia melakukannya dengan merekam suaranya di tape recorder lalu dikirimkan kepada Hanna yang berada dibalik jeruji alias dipenjara. Pembacaan itu adalah sebagai pengantar tidur Hanna. Dan pembacaan ini mengubah hidup Hanna.

Alasan kedua adalah, kisah cintanya memang ditakdirkan untuk tertoreh dan berlangsung. Seakan-akan alam memelihara cinta mereka. Walau mereka terpisah karena Hanna pergi tanpa kabar, beberapa tahun kemudian Michael melihat Hanna.

Untuk moral lesson, saya mengaku tidak mendapat apa-apa dari film ini. Selain penggambaran tentang kota Jerman. Namun tontonlah film ini sebagai sebuah kisah romantis.