Monday, February 21, 2005

Meutya & Budiyanto Update

Seperti yang udah kita ketahui bersama, 2 reporter MetroTV hilang di Iraq setelah diculik oleh sebuah kelompok bersenjata 15 Februari lalu. Mereka adalah Meutia Hafidz serta kamerawan Budiyanto.

Para penculik melalui rekaman video menuntut Pemerintah Indonesia menjelaskan peran dan alasan kehadiran dua wartawan itu di Irak. Semua pihak mulai dari MetroTV sendiri, tokoh-tokoh muslim Indonesia hingga Presiden RI termasuk juga masyarakat internasional telah berusaha untuk mengupayakan pembebasan kedua reporter tersebut.

Menurut BBC news hari ini, kedua warga Indonesia tersebut telah dibebaskan tanpa syarat apapun.

Alhamdulillah ...

Semoga Meutya dan Budiyanto segera dapat pulang kembali ke Indonesia dan berada kembali ke keluarga masing-masing tanpa kurang suatu apapun.

"Indonesian reporter Meutya Hafid and cameraman Budiyanto were abducted last week on a road from Jordan to Baghdad.

A member of the Committee of Muslim Scholars, Iraq's leading Sunni organisation, also said the pair had been released.

"The two Indonesians have been freed and will be transferred to the headquarters of the committee in Baghdad, where they will have the choice of going to their embassy or leaving Iraq," said the man, who was not named in news reports.

The video broadcast on the journalists' own Indonesian TV channel, Metro TV, showed the captors saying: "We are going to release them without any condition. God is greatest."

An official at the Indonesian embassy in Baghdad said they had been told of the journalists' apparent release and were trying to establish their whereabouts. "
BBC News

A still from the video allegedly showing two missing Indonesian journalists and their captors
Picture taken from BBC News

Glossary:
Meutya Vidya Hafid (lahir di Bandung, 3 Mei 1978) adalah seorang wartawan Metro TV. Di Metro TV, Meutya membawakan berita serta menjadi presenter di beberapa acara seperty e-Lifestyle bergantian dgn Roy Suryo setiap pekannya.

Hi Roy (tm) ^_^

Saturday, February 19, 2005

Fields of Hope ...

Suka nonton anime ? (film kartun jepang)

Nonton anime emang menyenangkan. Yah karena anime dibuat untuk konsumsi segala umur. Ada yang pure buat anak-anak & semua umur, misalnya doraemon, dash! (yonkuro), pokemon dan sejenisnya. Ada juga yang dibuat untuk konsumsi remaja ke atas, seperti kebanyakan anime yang kita tonton. Yah karena di dalamnya selain adegan kekerasan ada adegan echii juga ^_^
Ada juga anime khusus buat dewasa. Yang emang normal ceritanya buat dewasa atau emang karena isinya vulgar (yang dikenal dengan hentai).

Well, we're here not talking about manga genre. Bukan juga tentang ceritanya, mangaka atau para seiiyu (si femmy nyebutnya 'voice talent', dia ndiri cocok ngisi suara anime model excel saga atau azumanga daioh, jadi tokoh yang imut tapi bawel :P)

Salah satu yang bikin aku demen banget nonton (dan juga koleksi) anime adalah soundtracknya.

Why ?

Yah banyak soundtrack anime tersebut yang heboh-heboh. Enak didenger, pokoknya sip deh. Tak jarang soundtracknya justru lebih terkenal dari pada animenya itu sendiri. Sebenernya ga cuman anime sih, game-game Jepang juga banyak yang punya soundtrack keren, sebut saja Final Fantasy. Tapi let's focus on anime. OK ?

Beberapa waktu lalu, nuy sempat terpesona abis waktu nonton Pokemon: Jirachi the Wishmaker (kamu bisa cari postingan nuy ttg itu di sini :D ). Ceritanya sih yah gitu, bisa ditebak karena dah keseringan nonton pokemon jadi tau alur ceritanya. Tapi yg bikin wah adalah soundtracknya.

Chiisaki Mono, dinyanyikan oleh Asuca Hayashi. Aransemennya ala konser (lengkap dengan segala biola sampe bunyi 'bedug' ^_^), liriknya ok, suara Asuca juga keren. Lengkap deh. Dengerin lagunya bisa buat relax, sampe ga sadar menajamin mata, kepala ngikutin irama n tangan dah bergerak seakan jadi conductor :P

Nah, beberapa hari lalu, nuy punya lagu baru yang bisa bikin terlena deh. Lagu tersebut bukan soundtrack utama (maksudnya bukan opening/ending) tapi lebih ke sebuah insert song dari anime Gundam Seed Destiny.

Nuy <--- penggemar Gundam ^_^

Sejak jaman Amuro Ray sampe Shinn Asuka, Nuy dah banyak denger soundtrack-soundtracknya. Kalo versi-versi awal Gundam Series lagunya banyakan slow, bahkan liriknya berbahasa Inggris. Sebut saja Magic (endingnya Gundam:0083 Stardust Memory), In My Dreams nya G Gundam, Human Touch nya Gundam-X (ummm, yg ini ga termasuk seri2 awal sih). Yang beatnya cepat masih bergaya lagu-lagu disko tahun 80an seperti Z - Toki wo koete dari Gundam Z (lumayan bisa bikin kita goyang sambil menjentikkan jari :P).

Menginjak akhir 90an dan masuk tahun 2000, opening maupun ending songnya cenderung berirama cepat. Contohnya Just Communication serta White Refelction-nya Gundam Wing yang dinyanyikan Two Mix, kemudian Anna ni issho datta no ni nya See-Saw di ending Gundam SEED. They're rock!!

Tapi waktu dengerin Fields of Hope nya Gundam SEED Destiny, semua jadi berubah. Lagu yang anggun. Dan penyanyinya adalah salah satu seiiyu dari Gundam SEED & Gundam SEED Destiny sendiri. Tanaka Rie, dia pengisi suara tokoh Lacus Clyne. Lagu ini muncul di episode ke-7 (kalo ga salah inget) serial Gundam SEED Destiny waktu pecahan-pecahan PLANT mengantam bumi. Sutradaranya benar-benar pas memilih lagu ini jadi backsound adegan tersebut. Really touch.

Beberapa hari ini di kantor dengerin lagu ini mulu, setel keras2 kalo sore ^_^. Well it helps me to concentrate ... more :) But they like the song anyway. Cuman mereka ga ngerti liriknya ajah :P Sementara nuy bisa ikutan bersenandung sambil jari sepertinya mengetik lebih cepat diatas laptop. Coding became much easier :)

konna ni tsumetai tobari no fukaku de
anata wa hitori de nemutteru
inori no utagoe sabishii nohara wo
chiisa na hikari ga terashiteta

anata no yume wo miteta
kodomo no you ni waratteta
natsukashiku mada tooku
sore wa mirai no yakusoku

itsuka midori no asa ni
itsuka tadoritsukeru to
fuyugareta kono sora wo
shinjiteiru kara
Fields of hope


umarete kita hi ni dakishimete kureta
yasashii ano te wo sagashiteru
inori no utagoe hitotsu kiete mata hajimaru
tayorinaku setsunaku tsuzuku

itsuka midori no asa e
subete no yoru wo koete
sore wa tada hitori zutsu
mitsukete yuku basho dakara

ima wa tada kono mune de
anata wo atatametai
natsukashiku mada tooi
yasuragi no tame ni
Fields of hope


natsukashiku mada tooi
yakusoku no nohara
Fields of hope
Fields of hope

GLOSSARY ^_^
Fields of Hope download here
PLANT : Productive Location Ally on Nexus Technology. A new type of space settlement, created chiefly by Coordinators.

Tanaka Rie ... kawaii ^_^
Rie-neechan also perform the ending song of Chobits which are Ningyo Hime and Raison D'etre,
theme song in Hanaukyo Maid Tai, Steel Angel Kurumi (that's all i know)

Seiiyu in :
.hack//SIGN as Morgana
Azumanga Daioh as Koyomi Mizuhara
Burn-Up Scramble as Matsuri Tamagawa
Chobits as Chii
D.N.Angel as Towa-chan
Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu as Ren Mikihara
Gravitation as Ayaka Usami
Great Teacher Onizuka as Akane Fujita
Hanaukyo Maid Tai as Mariel
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny as Lacus Clyne; Meer Campbell
Steel Angel Kurumi as Saki
Tenshi no Shippo Chu! as Goldfish Ran
UFO Princess Valkyrie as Sanada-San
Yu-Gi-Oh! as Vivian Wong
and many other animes that i haven't seen yet

Sunday, February 13, 2005

Harap-harap Cemas

Another Sunday night in Jakarta. Rain has just stop. Me and Pii have just finished discussing about what is the best notebook specification that meet his requirement. He prefer to choose Fujitsu Lifebook P1070, i said it cost too much money, the screen is too small (for me). Got no more benefit except .. prestige, maybe. So i gave option on HP nc4010, Sony Vaio v505 series or Asus.

With a bowl of bakso, i start typing ...

Couple hours ago, after finish watching Closer and Bride & Prejudice, i changed my tv channel to sctv. It's a reality show called H2c on screen.

You know, when watching show like this, all i can think is i feel sorry for them. This episode telling about a girl who want to know the truth about rumour about her boyfriend cheating with another girl. (yikes, why that stupid girl has the same name as mine ?*@^(@^$)

ms. N has a boyfriend, mr.D. She heard rumour from her friend that mr. D is having an affair with ms.C. So, ms. C called H2c team to discover whether the news is right or not and put it in their tv show.

1st note. Stupid!

Pii: "Baksone adem ...."
Me: "Iyah, emang ga ada bakso yang seenak bakso di Malang. Pa lagi bakso Cak Man"
Pii: "Ho oh, setuju"


Bla bla bla bla, for you who has ever seen this show or might be addicted bout it, you know how the story goes. The team and "the boss" (ms. N in this case) spending couple days (a week maybe) stalking the target (mr. D) and monitoring almost all of his activities. As far as i could remember, ms. N called mr. D about where he is. mr. D said the he's in his way with his friend, pick up foods his ordered before and bla bla bla bla.

In the end, ms. N cought mr.D and ms.C in the act. They're going together to a restaurant with mr. D's car. ms. C and H2C team also made their move. And what we get ? A fight between ms. N and ms. C, mr. D could'nt do anything much. Coz if you're in the middle of a girld fight you'll be came a cat between 2 elephants :P

2nd note. Silly!

Me: "Kurang baksone ? Di kulkas ada tuh 1 bungkus bakso kuah punya Budi ma bakso Kimbo kemarin aku beli di carrefour. Masak ajah"
Pii: "Iku rotimu nang kulkas ?"
Me: "Ho oh, makan ajah. Mentega ma meses masih banyak kan ? Atau pake madu ajah"


OK, the girls keep shouting each other, exchange those "magic words" (you know what :P) and thank God they're not scratching each other (mr. D will become and ant betwet 2 cats :P). The good part was, mr. D still have his head cool. He try to stop the fight (with funny ways :P) and one of his friend also helping to keep the ladies away for a moment.

The fact is, ms. C and ms. N has know each other for a long long time. I dont know but it seem that those 3 are friends from childhood. ms. C said she knew who ms. N is and her relation with mr. D although she's not close with ms. N. mr. D is just a friend of her, person who she can talk with when she's having problem and so on. Nothing more. mr. D say sorry for not mentioning ms. C name when ms. N called the other day. Coz if he did it, ms. C would be jealous and then went mad. Well, that dude maybe made a mistake, but he's not lying anyway. ms. C is trully his friend. After bla bla bla bla, mr. D finally able to make the situation better. Those ladies sit together and talk (in normal intonation). ms. C and mr. D try to explain everything. She also try to call mr. N last saturday but she never answered. ms. C said sorry 'bout everything (mr. D also) but still, ms. N seemed not able to admit it.

3rd note. Complete idiot!

Well, sometimes love is a very complicated. Isnt it ? Yes, if you think and make it so.
But in the other way, love is also a simple thing. It is, if you want it to.

The points are, if you had such a condition, what ms.N did was completely ba-ka. Why she exposed her self, her boyfriend, her friends (ms. C and the roumourmonger) to TV ? Phewww.

1st ... she let people entire indonesia who whatch the show know what's goin on between them. In context of getting attention, she got the point. But for me, anything personal should be handled by personal first. You can ask help from certain people, not exposing it widely to the public.

2nd ... she let people in entire indonesia know what kind of girl she is. Over jealous, easy to manipulate, super egois etc etc etc. If she's not an empty headed, she will realize that nothing good about her were exposed to public. Furthermore, all story about her boyfriend is completely incorrect. Just gossip.

3rd ... did she think about the feeling of the people she just dragged into her problem ? No (look at point 2). Everyone (except the H2C team) will fill being emabrrassed or might be humiliated because of this. And if she (able to) think further, people on the street will start talking in her backr.

"Look, that the girl on tv who try to prove her boyfriend cheating but end up fighting coz she couldnt prove it"
"Poor guy who's being her boyfriend ...." bla bla bla bla

Me: "Oi!!! Sisain rotinya, jangan diabisin semua"

The last point, H2C got money maybe another credit in the show rating. People who watch will be laughing or just feeling sorry like me. She got nothing but shame..

Being over in many ways is not good.
Being over-possesive, over jealous ... only humiliations we could get or the relation that we've tried to build so hard will end up with nothing.
Being over in loving someone, it will end up at least, like one row above :P
The worse is, if you're using your emotion not in equal portion with your head ...
You fell too much but you think less, or not at all. All you get is you're the right one and the others are wrong.

For me, love is about trust between each other. Can you trust her/him and can you trust your self ?
If you could trust your selft but not her/him ... you'll get jealous with every people he/she talk to and has suspicions with everything he/she did.
If you could trust her/him but bot your self, you'll become a cheater...
coz you never trust that you've found the one,
you'll always try to search for another one
and never care anymore about the current one,
nor the previous one ....

Wait a minute, why it become a rhyme one one one ? :P

Love is also about communication. If both side have good communication, today's h2c episode can be prevented for being on air (or made) from the beginning :P
Good communication will lead to good understanding. And if we have good understanding, both side will also support each other.

Well i used to write codes in languages that machines can understand, now i'm trying to write more in language that human can understand :P
Forgive me if there are so many syntax and semantic error :P
Hmmm, roti bakar ..... *yummy*
Ow, Manchester derby has just started

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Full Moon

Full Moon Sway...
Gentle in the night of one fine day.
I was fool, couldn't let myself to go.
Even for I feel...
The end.
Oh my fair...
Floating like a bird that's in her wings.

Full moon sways...
Gentle in the night of one fine day.
On my way...
Looking for a moment with my dear.
Full moon waves.
Slowly in the surface of the lake.
You are there...
Smilling in my arms for all those years.

What a fool...
I don't know about tomorrow...
What it's like to be.
Ah~

I was sure,
couldn't let myself to go.
Even thoght I feel...
The end.

Oh my fair...
FLoating like a bird that's in her wings.
You are there...
Smiling in my arms for all those years.

What a fool...
I don't know about tomorrow...
What it's like to be.
Ah~

I was sure,
couldn't let myself to go.
Even thoght I feel...
The end.

Full moon sways...
Gentle in the night of one fine day.
you are there.
Smiling in my arms for all thoses years...

taken from anime Beck (i am about to finish download the 17th episode)
sung by Maho-chan & Koyuki
just buy shonen magz and start read the manga :)

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Hujan ....

Hari ini Jakarta hujan lagi. Deras. Kemarin juga bahkan sampe malem (nyari ga bisa pulang .. nasib klasik bikers).
*sigh*
Genangan akan timbul lagi di mana-mana. Mereka yang barusan balik sehabis ngungsi karena banjir pertengahan Januari lalu tampaknya harus bersiap-siap untuk mengungsi kembali.