Malang, Jawa Timur #myshortvacation

Mt. Bromo

Pantai Bale Kambang

Sunrise Point Bromo

Pantai Teluk Asmoro

Coban Pelangi

Rasanya, sudah lama tidak melakukan perjalanan yang panjang.  Sudah kehilangan beberapa teman dekat untuk trip, yang kini sudah sibuk dengan kehidupan barunya masing-masing.  Rasanya akhir akhir ini ada perasaan janggal yang menyelinap, damai, tenang, sekaligus excited.  

Entahlah.  Beberapa hal baru dalam hidup kadang mengantarkanku mengingingkan hal-hal yang lain, atau bahkan sanggup untuk melepaskan keterikatan tentang beberapa hal di dunia.  Rasanya, kita datang dengan tidak membawa apa-apa, dan tak harusnya menuntut apa-apa. Menjalani hidup, dengan tidak terlalu banyak harap yang membuat cemas, tidak takut akan ada yang terlewat, hanya berjalan, seperti, yang ditakdirkan akan menemukan jalannya sendiri.

Seperti itulah pengalaman yang aku rasakan pada saat trip kali ini, kadang ada hal hal dimana kita sudah berusaha, tetapi masih gagal, justru membuat kita terdampar pada hal-hal yang lebih baik.  Melewatkan kesempatan-kesempatan yang kita usahakan, rupanya mengantarkan kita pada hal-hal yang baru, jalan yang lebih baik.  

Jadi, untuk apa kita takut pada kegagalan dan ketidakberuntungan?

Semuanya hanyalah bola yang bergulir, kita tidak bisa menghentikannya menggelinding, kita harus merasakan semua untuk jadi utuh. Genap. Dan sedikit memaksa diri untuk menikmati, setiap sisinya. Jika tidak, hanya diri kita sendirilah yang akan merugi dan sulit berbahagia. 

Bandung, September 2018

Movies Week

Seriously, being off from my campus and any worth activity is not something i can handle, not because i can't doing anything but i just broke because my saving is not enough to support my needs (and wants) of course.  How come? I just still cant adapt to a blank schedule. 

Okay. Skip the 'curcol' and next to the movies i watched. Thanks to new store near my house for support this hobbies, and thanks for company me! Super!

#1 Now You See Me

Directed by	Louis Leterrier
Produced by	Bobby Cohen Alex Kurtzman Roberto Orci
Screenplay by	Ed Solomon Boaz Yakin Edward Ricourt
Story by	Boaz Yakin Edward Ricourt
Starring	Jesse Eisenberg Mark Ruffalo Woody Harrelson Mélanie Laurent Isla Fisher Dave Franco Common Michael Caine Morgan Freeman

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I think this is the best movies for this weekend, the plot is so neat and unread. Stunning! Its a perfect combination from strategic thinker and the visual-actions and fights. Plus, the information about the magician history, and more local myths are blended nicely.  I like the concept where people know what they do, passion about it and have a little revenge' things. People who willing to give everything to get anything. I glad that i'm not watching this on the xxi cinema because i would like to rewatch it again! :)

#2 A Good Day To Die Hard

Directed by	John Moore
Produced by	Alex Young Wyck Godfrey
Screenplay by	Skip Woods
Based on	Characters by Roderick Thorp
Starring	Bruce Willis Jai Courtney Sebastian Koch Yuliya Snigir Radivoje Bukvić Cole Hauser

No matter what happen, i will always love Bruce Willis! but i think this movie makes me a little boring, beside the dad-son relationship and sexy russians i think the enemy was made too rush. After all, the damaged set is always amaze me, crushed car everywhere, chaos street, tank, helicopter just a pleasure to my eyes. 

#3 The Mortal Instruments : City Of Bones

 

Directed by	Harald Zwart
Produced by	Don Carmody Robert Kulzer
Screenplay by	Jessica Postigo Paquette
Based on	City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Starring	Lily Collins Jamie Campbell Bower Robert Sheehan Kevin Zegers Lena Headey Kevin Durand Aidan Turner Jemima West Godfrey Gao C. C. H. Pounder Jared Harris Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Of course like what i predict before i watch it alone at XXI in the middle of the night this is another twilight, but a little... darker? same great point to selling the handsome and pretty face plus a personality style but still, chessy romaticsm sometimes just makes me sick! (no offense to romance but its just too... much...) Quite entertaining, and for the next sequel, i'll choose to watch it at home.

#4 Rectoverso

My favourite Indonesian writer : Dewi Lestari. I cant tell how much i love her writing especially at Supernova. I think her writing just have many contribution to my personality now. *halah. The movie is combine five story that have one idea, one conclusion : an unsaid love. Smart, because of course all of us will feel connected with this movie because all of us maybe have an unsaid love.  The dialogue is poetic, fit but theres some line that just feel too much unrational to said if we are in the real world, btw.  Covered by the excitement of this unusual indonesian movie, because of course they dont expose a physical romantic things, just a description with body language or words. And i think if my story would fit in this movie it could be: Hanya Isyarat. 

#5 Cinta Brontosaurus

Sutradara	Fajar Nugros
Produser	Chand Parwez Servia dan Fiaz Servia
Pemeran	Raditya Dika Eriska Reinisa Soleh Solihun Pamela Bowie Tyas Mirasih Meriam Bellina Ronny P. Tjandra
Studio	Starvision Plus
Tanggal rilis	8 Mei 2013

I think Raditya Dika is good, because he can make people laugh, without him laughing. And i think beside the jokes, its romantic movie, just with predictable ending. The naration just somehow exact, that people will come and go, and he may sure that love have expire date, but its okay, and the most important thing is what you feel now. 

I'm a movie freak, but i choose my movie, i usually dont watch horror movie (last movie i watched : orphan, awakening, insidious, the conjuring). My favourite is action movie and any movie that can makes me thinks more, deep, with good plot and set. I usually avoid too much romanticsm because somehow it makes me feel victim, cause its sounds useless (If it too much).  But of course as an open minded person if i read a good recommendation i will watch it too! Have a great day!

Movie's series : Touch

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The film start from the idea of indigo child, that usually indicated to autism.  In this movie, the child is also can read the 'red thread' that was the myth.  The myth said that somewhere the red thread is exist, control us, then sometimes it could be loose or tight, but never breaks.  Its amazing how this idea that developed in this story goes, how small things could make other many versions of probability could happen.  How little things in your life could effect so many more after.  I could shed tears while i watching, not because of romantic plot , but really touch.  How things could be beautiful because of little things at fate's play.  It inspire me to make another though of why i exist in this world, what kind of purpose, what i suppose to be or to do? Does what happen to me now, is my choice? or is it the better for me or i can have another chance to get all things right?
For now, i think i still have a big hole in my heart, sometimes i think i losing something, something unfinish, sometimes i just need a closure at what i desire.  But this is life, the process you are going through.  At the end its not the end of our life, we know all of us will facing death, its the process, its the journey you will going through.  New people, new idea, new perception, new situation that may happening to you when you are not ready yet to release your past.  I feel it.  How i still adhere to my past and how it left the hole in my heart.  Is this the best chance to happen to me or is this the purpose why i life for now? To fill the empty hole with so many things, peoples, dreams and many more? I still dont know yet.  But i really want to believe it could turn to great things.  Or may i need some luck to keep my insanity to through this life.  Anyway, i really loveee this series, make me keep open mind and think to believe in fate because it may bring us to the right place even now we feel the different.  Can't wait to see next episodes !!! :)

-ko

New Book : The Hunger Game by Suzanne Collins

its very rare for me to read a book and really have a big passion to finish it as soon as possible because interested as movie.  When i read this book, its really makes me feel i involved and be her.  Read the book give me a feeling like watching a real movie or event, makes me keep noisy when i read it :)

Tittle : The Hunger Game

Author : Suzanne Collins

Pages : 374

Publisher : Scholastic (United States)

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I'm in love with 'The Hunger Game' at first when i see the 'coming soon' trailer on xxi before i watch Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol on last January.  Then i'm in love with Jennifer Lawrence, even i still dont read the book and dont know anything about the hunger game book.  Then i update a twitter status on my twitter account, @ok3astra and my father's friend @rianariyudha tell me he have that book.  I just say i may interested reading it but i dont really have a think that the book is really fun, i thought it could be boring book because most element of the story is fiction with a fighting action so it just can represent by watching the movie.  After a month and weeks, finally he borrowed me the book, The Hunger Game and the second book, Catching Fire.  After back to my dormitory i feel lazy to read it because mid term would held in two weeks but i read the first page and then really passionate to finish it until i sleep late at dawn :) I really love this book.

The hunger game, tell you a story about a smart and tough girl, Katniss Everdeen that always support her family.  She really love her daughter, Primrose and really take an act as a parent because her mother cant survive any longer after her father’s dead.  She lived in Panem, which called as District 12, mostly worker there is the miner.  She illegally hunt at the restricted forest with her childhood friend, Gale.  At their life, people at Panem and other 12 district, have to join a game that held by the powerful city there, Capitol, who dominated all the distribution of the district’s work.  At their game, live on television, they must gambling to be chosen, all the district’s people must involved there, start 14 years old until 18 years old.  

This is the first year of Primrose, the daughter of Katniss involve at this gambling, unfortunately, Primrose’s name has been choosen as the representative of district 12.  Katniss really upset and give herself to join this battle-to-death game.  With autodidact skills that she have from her father, the survival skills she have because her responsibility to protect her family. She have a good opportunity to raise her talent and survival skill in this game and get a right and smart mentor, Effie and Haymitch even Haymitch always sarcastic and get drunk at first, she also supported by the talented fashion-mentor, Cinna that could make a fantastic fashion and gown for her appearance in television.  The brutally things that she must face at the hunger game with all the setting, and her friendship with her challenger, Rue and her challenger from same district, Peeta makes the game at there be more dramatic because she finally have a choice : Kill or Killed.