Date Night: A Date that Jeopardizes Souls

What’s going to happen as the queen of comedy meets her king from the different realm? There you can witness the ridiculous affair they will serve in Date Night. Tina Fey (30Rock TV Series) will play the wife of Steve Carell (The Office TV Series) in this action comedy movie.

It’s told that this couple, Phil Foster (Carell) and Claire Foster (Fey) have a moment in her marriage in which they start to feel saturated by all the routine they have. Work, house, each other, work again, then house, and each other. There, to regenerate their love and to spare the saturation, they decide to visit places where their love used to grow as they began the relationship.

However, the trouble begins as they change their identities to be the other couple Mr. Tripplehorn and Mrs. Tripplehorn, who appear to be criminals. The dangerous and breath-taking yet ridiculous adventure then begins. They, Foster couple, have to deal with the fact that police will be after them for they are now the bad guys. Not to mention that they also have to deal with the big boss of criminals and being chased in the taxi with its nuts driver. Their date time obviously will be the most unforgettable date ever. But, will it spare them the saturation (only if they can get through all the dangerous parts of their date night safely)?

If we see the casts of the movie, there’s no doubt that they will make such entertaining comedy. Tina Fey herself is known as a prominent comedian for her career as a writer for Saturday Night Live (SNL) and the creator and main protagonist in Emmy-winner TV series 30Rock for her role as Liz Lemon (the head of creative team for The Girlie Show (TGS) who is a funny, overbearing and opportunist woman). While Carell is known for his role as Michael Scott, the overbearing, strict, yet clueless and ridiculous boss in The Office TV series. Besides those two protagonists, the movie is also supported by the young promising actress Mila Kunis (That 70’s Show TV Series, The Book of Eli), as Mrs. Tripplehorn. Her experience as a comedian is also unquestionable for her role in That 70’s Show TV series for her role as Jackie Burkhart, a wealth-and-social-status-centered and narcissist cheerleader girl. Not to mention the others prominent actors in Hollywood Mark Wahlberg (The Lovely Bones), James Franco, and the beautiful young actress Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl TV series). 

Based on the premise of the story and the actors and the actresses in it, the movie is interesting. It’s lightly entertaining and might be able to be accepted easily by the wide watchers for its simple plot of the story. You can prove it at April 9th for its release in both US and wide. Can wait to see it!

My Traveling Tale: the Exotic Ujung Genteng

Adventurous, an adjective; I find the meaning in the dictionary as

/fond of adventures/ or

/full of excitement/

And for me it means that you have enough gut to just go outside your house and go out of your comfort zone, wander and find new comfort in new place. You’re familiar with surprises that might happen outside, you’re ready to enjoy anything the world might offer, not to mention its beauty, kindness, and sometimes ugliness.

Well, to be quite honest, I was not really fond of adventure as I was a little. I tended to spend my time reading or just playing my favorite music home (not that I was a nerd). I went out once in a while, for sure, but that didn’t include exploring the neighborhood, or going to the preservation forest. But, quietly, I have passion of an adventurer of doing that. It started as I read books by Gola Gong (an Indonesian author with his iconic character named Roy). Somehow it inspired me to also do traveling, okay maybe dream about traveling. I begin to feel the need to see the world, by my own, you know. I need to figure out what’s out there. I need to know, the world outside mine, so that it will open my new perspective. I need to get out of my shell. Meet a lot of people, learn something new, see new places, know what God has given us, and praise it, okay, this one sounds cliché, but that’s probably true.

My first (I’d say a real) adventure of traveling was as I went to Lampung with my friend about a year ago, I’m sure I have written it in this blog, you can find out in the blog’s archives. See the excitement about going off the island for the first time. But now I want to talk about my trip, couple months ago, to Sukabumi. There were three places that we visited, Pelabuhan Ratu, Ujung Genteng, and Cisolok hot spring.

Let’s see the details.

Ujung Genteng

Practically it takes six hours to get Ujung Genteng from my friend’s house in Sukabumi, we went by motorcycle. The road is so sinuous and narrow that you have to be very careful if you drive your own vehicle. It’s about 16 KMs from Surade, the closest sub-district, since Ujung Genteng is quite rural. We may find the tea plantation, at the mountainous part of the road, and coastal forest near the spot.

Ujung Genteng is really gorgeous. The shore is complete white sand beach. There’s place like a lagoon before the high seas. It’s quiet out there, both the entire place and the lagoon, so you can swim safely. Cottage that we checked in was exactly in front of it, not to mention the gazebo nearby (we baked fish there at night and got fresh coconuts at mid sunny day, over the blue sky and green sea, good Lord!). 

You know the concept of virgin, right? Well then, you might categorize the place into that. Oh yeah, there’s also tortoise preservation in Ujung Genteng. You can come and visit then you can release a baby tortoise to the ocean and feeling that you’ve saved them, saved the earth. Isn’t that a great feeling?! I should say that the exhaustion of the trip will be worth it, seriously. I’ll tell you how to get there.

 If you go there by public vehicle, here is the direction. Supposed you go from Bandung, there you take the bus to Sukabumi taking about four hours trip, then in the bus station in Sukabumi you take another bus to Surade, another around four hours long. You’re almost there as you arrive in Surade. You might want to reload your supplies here, since you might find no big stores in Ujung Genteng, neither restaurant. From Surade you take public minivan (angkot), the red one which will lead you to the exotic heaven on earth.

Pelabuhan Ratu

There’s not much to tell from Pelabuhan (maybe because my hometown is, at some part, the same, though mine is cleaner and more beautiful hehehe). I do not really reckon the place, for maybe I came in the wrong time, sometimes it happens as you visit beach you know. It is dirty there, trash at the coast line, inconvenient waves, and so on. I did not even bother to swim there. So, I did not really enjoy the place.

Cisolok

It’s a hot spring. Here is the thing, hot water spurting from the rocky small river (there the hot spring, I guess), but oddly, the water around the river is not hot, really. There is nothing more I can tell from the place though; meaning that I don’t reckon this place either. You probably will want to spend your holiday in Sari Ater, Subang instead.

So that’s my traveling tale to Sukabumi. So eager to tell you another traveling trip that I ‘m going to do.

“Traveling—It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

-Ibn Battuta-

Ten Things Singlehood Has Done to Deserve Hatred

Being single certainly does not always bring such happiness, if you know what I mean. Some people may sing a song about being happy as a single, but SERIOUSLY? Here, I give you some actual and vivid descriptions why singlehood does suck. And these might make you aware of disaster you are dealing with. So, let’s begin:

1. Enduring an unbearably disgusted feeling as you end up with your DVDs or Play Station at Saturday night as your best friend is hanging out with their dates

2. Suffering from self-quality degrading, since no body seemingly wants to be with you

3. Being accused as a gay for you’ve never been with any boy or girl since like forever

4. Suffering from heavy stress due to the crappy feeling of loneliness or yearning for your ex. God, this one does suck!

5. No one checking on you as you get fever or fall from the stairs and broke your leg or maybe you fall from your stupid little bike

6. No one to spend time with while skipping the tedious lectures

7. No one to hold hands with when you walk to the movie as you see some lunatic little high school students embracing their hands to each other

8. No one to call or to text to for a just trivially sweet talk till very late though you’ll be broke since then

9. No one to support you when your GPA keeps declining and be the reason you survive college

10. The last may be nasty, but no one to kiss as you feel like cherishing love, LOL…



Well, after all, d’ you still think that being single is very happy? You tell me!

Okay-okay! For the sake of balancing I’ll give ten awesome things of singlehood in the next posting, so keep on reading!


X.O.X.O.

Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief

it's the movie i watched couple weeks ago. i kind of think the movie was really childish but thanks to Alexandra Daddario who keeps the movie more interesting.

Being Critical: What’s That Supposed to Mean?

Being critical. That’s the thing that I’m confused about up to the second I write this. There’s actually thing in which I do not really understand about being critical. In what side I should be on, what dose of being it I have to swallow, so that I’m becoming neither overwhelmed nor lacked of it. When I joined a debating club, I 102% agreed that being critical was what the most required to be a debater, considering the things that I knew about it were merely about finding the loophole(s) of my opponents’ argument, about you question everything, about how could you make theirs so hideous that yours will remain the most convincing and making sense of all, for debating is not the place where you find the truth or the right things. But now, I somehow doubt it.


There’s sometimes moment as I begin to ask a lot of questions that I have no answers for, I begin to be like okay, as you stop asking questions then you stop facing confusion then live happily ever after (or silently ever after). But then, oh c’mon you, no questions asked then no, nothing! You will probably live in denial, stupidity at the worst.


Well, I’m not really sure that I share such dilemma with my fellows in debate or any of my friends. They seem fine, all of them; the ones that, I consider, are highly critical and the other that are less critical or even do not care of anything at all “Hell, take it easy, just live a life” they probably will say.


Here are the things about being critical I’m basically confused of. You begin to despise people, disrespectful. Somehow you always see or try to see (by the habit) something lacked of one’s performance, their talks, you think, do not make any sense, (through your shoes) they are not supposed to be like what they are. You know, there’s a certain point in which you put high expectation then you just get nothing or far below what you have anticipated before (as the result of you being critical, you think you know exactly something that’s supposed to be, you think you know the standard), and then at that moment you become unappreciative and disappointed all at once for the things in front of you, even sometimes for yourself. You also become skeptical of anything, you are not naïve (it’s a good thing), but you’re exceedingly realistic.


Becoming cynical is another result of being critical, it’s a sign of cleverness I was once told. But then again, if that means that you fail to see any single good thing in anything or anyone, I don’t think so. Life is too short to be used to judge, criticize, and despise people or yourself. It’s also too short to be seen cynically or skeptically just because you are smart enough to do so.


I don’t want to end up that way. But I don’t want to be so naïve that becomes an absolute believer, either; one who swallows any given thing without asking. The thing is I want to spare all the overwhelming side effect of being a superfluous inquisitor. Just want to be critical without despising people or ungrateful, to be realistic yet not to be skeptical, and to get wits instead of excessive cynicism. I know that sounds impossible, too perfect to be true, “nobody’s perfect” an old saying screams, but everybody can try to be perfect, don’t they? Well then, I guessed the point’s been made here.


“There couldn’t be a good guy if there wasn’t a bad guy who set the standard”
Jodi Picoult The Tenth Circle