I Finally Found Someone

Duet by Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams

I finally found someone, who knocks me off my feet

I finally found the one, who makes me feel complete

We started over coffee, we started out as friends

It's funny how from simple things, the best things begin

This time it's different (dah dah dah dah)

It's all because of you (dah dah dah dah)

It's better than it's ever been

Cause we can talk it through

My favorite line was "Can I call you sometime?"

It's all you had to say to take my breath away

This is it, oh

I finally found someone

Someone to share my life

I finally found the one

To be with every night

Cause whatever I do

It's just got to be you

My life has just begun

I finally found someone (ooh, someone)

I finally found someone (ooh)

Did I keep you waiting (I didn't mind)

I apologize (baby, that's fine)

I would wait forever just to know you were mine

And I love your hair (sure it looks right?)

I love what you wear (isn't it too tight?)

You're exceptional

I can't wait for the rest of my life

This is it, oh

I finally found someone

Someone to share my life

I finally found the one

To be with every night

Cause whatever I do

It's just got to be you

My life has just begun

I finally found someone (ooh, someone)

I finally found someone (ooh)

Cause whatever I do

It's just got to be you

My life has just begun

I finally found someone

[Three months have passed.

Getting to know more on each other.
Getting to know the habits.
Getting more understanding.
Getting more intimate.

Still thinking about the dreams together.
Still feeling that warmth and serenity.
Still lovingly comfortable.
Still crazy about each other.

Have I finally found someone?
I think I have.]

Yang Paling Perih Dari Sendirian...

Sudah agak lama gue nonton Cinta Silver, tapi tiba-tiba kok teringat ya kata-kata yang diucapkan Wishnu (Christian Sugiono) ke sahabatnya, Levi (Restu Sinaga):

"... yang paling perih dari sendirian itu bukan pas kita lagi sedih, Lev. Justru pas kita lagi ketawa senang tapi ngga ada yang bisa kita ajak untuk ikut ketawa ..."

Sekalipun udah hampir satu dekade gue sendirian, agaknya gue mulai ngerti apa yang dimaksud Wishnu.

(Ini sedikit cuplikan dari Cinta Silver)



(Dan salah satu lagu soundtracknya yang bagus banget, My Everything, dinyanyiin oleh Glenn Fredly)

Across the Universe

[Today is the opening day for the 9th Jakarta International Film Festival and my third time attending JiFFest since 2005. I watched Across the Universe and am writing about it in Bahasa this time as you can read English comments about it in many other places.]

Tadinya gue kirain ini film animasi Jepang, Paprika, soalnya pas gue ngantri beli tiket gue ga bawa daftar film inceran gue. Terus ngga tau kenapa ya tapi Paprika ga ditunjukin di buku sinopsisnya JiFFest, ya ga tau lah gue kalo ternyata film itu bukan Paprika yang gue mau. Berhubung film2 yang gue incer ga maen hari Jumat, ya udah lah gue beli tiket buat Across the Universe, abis udah cape ngantri dan pilihannya cuman itu atau Quickie Express, yang emang diputer di XXI. Temen nonton gue udah nonton Quickie Express jadi practically pilihannya jadi cuman satu.

Ya nonton lah gue Across the Universe bareng temen gue "ditemani" beberapa insan perfilman yang kayanya abis dari undangan film perdana JiFFest, Persepolis. Celakanya buat temen gue, Across the Universe ga ada teksnya, jadi rada2 bingung dia. Anyway, film ini rada unik karena semi-musical serta lagu2nya semuanya dari Beatles. Terusnya lagi, settingnya di tahun 60-an, di mana Beatles emang lagi ngetop2nya. Dengan berlatar belakang era perang Vietnam dan Flower Generation, tersebutlah kisah cinta antara dua insan, Jude dan Lucy, di tengah kemelut situasi masa itu. Banyak karakter pendukung yang juga menambah kekayaan cerita dengan berbagai side-plot beserta lagu2 Beatles yang bisa aja nyambung ama scene yang lagi diceritain. Lumayan lama sih ini film, sekitar 2.5 jam dan soundtrack-nya udah pasti oke punya lah ya.

Buat penggemar Beatles dan film2 ber-setting retro, cocok banget nih film dan pasti puas lah. Orang gue aja yang bukan fans berat Beatles merasa sangat terhibur kok nonton ini, apalagi yang emang fans. Visual-nya juga keren karena ada adegan2 simbolik dan psychedelic, terus kebetulan si Jude itu pelukis jadi banyak gambar/lukisan keren sepanjang film.

Washington DC - Day 94

This morning I attended a workshop seminar where Macromedia showed their latest installment, Studio 8. I received the e-mail invitation earlier this week from my boss, Graham, and decided to register and attend it. The room was packed, there were probably more than 200 people attended the event. Most of them were government and NGO employees, no doubt working with internet technologies and web implementations for their respective institutions.

Studio 8 hasn't been released yet, so the people attending were among the first to see Studio 8's capabilities. It is a powerful software, and even though it doesn't include Freehand (I never use it anyway), it includes Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash Paper among others. During half of the seminar, they demonstrated the new Flash improvements. It didn't really apply to me since I don't use Flash (no animation talent), so it was kinda boring. However, once the seminar resumed after a snack break, things were getting really interesting.

The chief software development showed us new features of Dreamweaver. It was great. The new Dreamweaver would provide more advanced support for CSS such as the ability to turn CSS on-and-off in mid-development, color each CSS box automatically, zoom in-and-out for more precise positioning, collapse codes for more portability, convert to XSLT for better RSS integration, and many more! It would've made my internship a lot easier. They also showed a new product called Flash Paper which would bring web multimedia to the masses. It's capable of converting almost any type of file into Flash SWF so developer can show documents directly on a given web page.

After the seminar, I walked into Borders store on the opposite block waiting for lunch time. Surprisingly, Borders scheduled a tour appearance of Josh Kelly that afternoon for his new album, Almost Honest. It was my first tour sighting so gotta include this in the blog. Honestly, I never heard about the guy, but his songs were very good. They're on the same genre as Mraz, Johnson, Mayer (what do you call that genre? I always refer to it as folk music since Yahoo categorizes them that way, and there're a lot of "J"s singers too like Josh, Jason, Jack, and John, go figure).

Lotus Festival

Lotus Festival is an annual music festival in Bloomington, IN where performing artist from around the world come and perform during the weekend festival. Today is the third day and the festival will conclude tomorrow.

I attended last year's festival but I don't think I would be able to make it to this year's. Ticket price has been increased, even for students. It's difficult to pay $25 for recreational entertainment when you don't have a job yet. I guess I could volunteer and get a free ticket, but I have to do a research for my interview on Monday (first phone-interview!). So wish me luck!

Oh, if you want to learn more about the festival, this is the website http://www.lotusfest.org/