At Lost, Knowing 2012 Deep Impact

Now I feel embarrassed, but I still think it's funny.

Two weeks ago at Saturday lunch with Kat and Yan, Kat was telling us her thought about the movie 2012. She asked if Yan and I have watched it. I was very sure that I had watched it around 2 months ago!! and in fact I had twittered it too to express my questioning of why MUI -the ulama organisation in Indonesia- wanted to ban the movies 2012. So I said "yes, I watched it two months ago".

Though look confused, Kat continued her opinion regarding 2012 "it's actually a depiction of Noah's ark story you know". That when I went lost, but because I only watched partly that-what-I-believed-2012 when it's just about to end, I told her, I don't remember that part, but I recalled that my brother cited it too. Kat carried on mentioning things like "but the dog is safe", "the ship is made in China", "but it's even in Euro", "tsunami" et cetera, things that I didn't see in 2012 that I watched. I was at lost again, I said "is there a dog? Well, maybe I missed that part", "and I didn't see the ship either" et cetera.
Everything were so awkward, that's when Kat and Yan asked me "are you sure it was 2012??". Confidently I said "yes, it's the one with John Cussack, right? There are two kids, one is a boy and the other is a girl, and John Cussack is separated. They ran away in cars" et cetera. Kat approved that, until she heard me mentioning meteor, that's when she cut my story and drew a conclusion "I think you're talking about Deep Impact", agreed by Yan "yes, I think so, and it's already an ancient one heheh". I disagreed by saying "how come it's also starred by John Cussack?", but Kat said that John Cussack played that kind of movie a lot and "he played in Deep Impact too"!!

Last Saturday I finally went to fulfill my curiosity and watched 2012. Surprising enough, though it's been on since at least two weeks ago, the enthusiasm upon this movie is still big, we could only get the seats on the 2nd row from the screen -my poor neck!
The whole almost 3 hours, my friend and I couldn't stop giggling and mocking the movie. I think it's the first absurd movie that successfully made me sit for almost 3 hours because of its top-notched visual effect.

Finished from the theater, I texted Kat and Yan telling my disappointment. Yan said she read on her Facebook that an elementary student said "how would it be possible to escape from doomsday with a plane, that film director will be scolded by *ustadz" (*uztadz is an Islamic cleric). Funny enough, cause to me this 2012 is not about religious doomsday at all, that probably what MUI missed :-)) In fact there's no need to get offended, because it's just a plain Hollywood fabricated story, nothing religious at all.
Thanks to MUI though, the ban is really a successful promotion for the movie 2012 in Indonesia :-))

So what was the movie that I thought was 2012?
IMDB showed me that Kat and Yan were also wrong, John Cussack doesn't star in Deep Impact. They really had mislead me :-) and the whole thing started when I mistook John Cussack for Nicolas Cage -no clue how that happened -they're amongst my fav stars though-, and I still don't understand how could I assumed it as 2012.

I am so glad that I finally discovered that the movie was Knowing, which in my opinion is much much better than 2012.

Important note to self, next time I should always bother to check out the title of the movie that I'm watching, especially when I don't watch it from the beginning.

Too Religious to Talk

Had a bit fun debate with my dear chat friend, let's call him Elvis (lol). It started with the thing that Elvis told me long ago that he doesn't mind to kiss a transvestite, only if hshe -the transvestite- looks really feminine.
It's not a case even if it's right, he's still my friend, but I was kinda curious last time when we chat again and eventually landed in the same topic. This time I for amusement matter told Elvis that he must be a bi then if he doesn't mind kissing another male passionately :-D.
He must have been stung by that, cause his reaction was a bit bizarre :-D
He didn't admit that he doesn't mind, but he just went on and on saying that if he likes (the hshe) than he will kiss, and I just wanted him to answer yes or no to my conclusion that he's a bi.
He then went on to the idea that kissing a transvestite is something similar to eating pork (for Jewish, Muslim, and the vegetarian), specifically he said this:

28/10/2009 22:02:35 Elvis: i don't understand
28/10/2009 22:02:43 Elvis: if i don't like to eat pork
28/10/2009 22:02:57 Elvis: but someday i'd eat pork without knowing it
28/10/2009 22:03:05 Elvis: and i love it
28/10/2009 22:03:19 Elvis: why i should say "i didn't like it" just because it was pork?
28/10/2009 22:03:51 Me: no its very different
28/10/2009 22:04:03 Me: see, first we're talking about a she male
28/10/2009 22:04:29 Me: that makes you understood well that, the person is partly male :P
28/10/2009 22:04:35 Me: it's not like pork

then, he finally dropped the bomb...

28/10/2009 22:05:01 Elvis: well if someday it will happen
28/10/2009 22:05:19 Elvis: i'll not say "i don't like it" just for some religious prejudices
28/10/2009 22:05:41 Me: no, of course not, we're not talking about religious thing at all
28/10/2009 22:05:47 Elvis: no?
28/10/2009 22:06:02 Elvis: if you aren't talking about religion
28/10/2009 22:06:13 Elvis: there's no discussion about being bi straight and so on
28/10/2009 22:18:05 Me: for me, even if I were agnostic or atheist, gay and bi are still abnormal
28/10/2009 22:18:35 Elvis: luckily just for you :)

The chat didn't stop there, but his opinion is like unshakable mountain, that only the religious people have objection toward homosexuality, and to question such thing means the person must be a religious one and there's no point to discuss it at all. Lol. Checkmate.
He must have mix atheism with homosexuality :-D

Err...sorry but your zipper is open

Photo by azrainman

I recently had appointment with an oculist for my currently trouble eye. Yes, luckily not both of them :).
Went to a doctor recommended by a friend. She said he's a sympathetic doctor. My need of seeing this type of doctor is due to the previous doctor that I met, who gave me a distressing diagnosis with distressing explanation and urged me to undertake some thorough medical checkups. I told a friend and my Dad about that doctor's diagnosis, both of them assured me to see different doctor for the second opinion.

So that's how I met this doctor.
After some preliminary checkups, I went to the nice and modern waiting lounge where the patients wait for the doctors. I and the other patients of this doctor had to wait an hour because he had an urgent operation, so most of them then changed to another available doctor.
That made me number one in queue, and when the doctor finally arrived in his examination room I got called by his nurse. After a bit chit-chat of my case, he asked me go to the examination seat.

Then the drama happened, as I and he stand up, suddenly in reflex he covered his zipper area and murmured in shame "oh...sorry" then continued nervously "I was in a rush from the operation room".
The nurse giggled and said "luckily (she) doesn't see", and she repeated that again.
'Lucky' that I am currently quarterly blind :-P cause some weeks ago before I have this problem both of my eyes were very sharp.

I wonder if the nurse actually had known it, because they were in the room for some minutes before I got called in. Probably she was too embarrassed to tell him?
That makes me think, what if I were in her situation? How would I tell it? :-D

By the way, because of my Mom- thank God she's getting better and better-, I've been to many hospitals, but that was the first time for me to see a nurse with a 'polished' look. I mean she's lean, at least 1.70m height and has long legs that makes her more looks like a stewardess than a nurse.

UPDATE..
eheheh..just found this link about Mens Open Zipper Alarm. Lol.

Lay across my big br****

Photo by cpurl

The complete title should be "Lay across my big breasts babe"
So crude eh?
Yes, that's really part of the lyrics of a song that I 'heard' from the radio when I was in a car. Unfortunately I didn't hear the song completely since it's already almost ended when I got to the radio channel that aired the song. The song sounded light and soothing, and the male singer had a dreamy voice that made me almost forgot to type the lyrics into my mobile. All that stuck to my mind was that bizarre phrase *lol*.

How can it not be bizarre when a man sings "lay across my big breasts babe"?
I was not sure about the "babe" thing though, I couldn't guess it better, since I also heard he previously uttered lay lady lay.

I remembered again that song after browsing my mobile notes just some moments ago, and I became curious again on how strange that piece of lyrics sounds.
I put the whole phrase into Google search engine and it's a magic that the words took me to Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay. As I checked it out on youtube, I found out that it's not exactly the version that I heard, but it's indeed the song that I was looking for. Youtube then showed me the version that I wanted, it's from Magnet & Gemma Hayes.

Still feel amused with the fact that I was not the only one who has kinky ears *hehe*, I did further search about the misheard song of Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay, and here is the funniest one:

My husband has a huge chest. After we'd had an argument, I sat in my room playing that song over and over, thinking of that big chest. I was really disappointed when I finally read the lyrics. - Submitted by: Diana

Now, let me present the song and get your ears tested by listening to it. See if you have twisted ears too like mine, Diana and.......the Everly Brothers.

Proceed to check the lyrics here.

Dog Island in an Abandoned Blog

Tonight I remembered my long forgotten oldest blog and visited it.
Pitas, the blog provider, still keeps it online. My last post there is dated Saturday, August 23, 2003, which is almost five years and two months ago. Unfortunatelly, I can't remember my password there and I forgot which email I used for the registration.
Anyway, I'm glad Pitas doesn't delete my blog because this website that I link there is very cute :-D. Have a look.

Wuff..Wuff...

Tue, 03 April 2003
I can't imagine if The Dog Island really exists. I doubt if dog's lovers could live apart from their dogs, I can't. I don't think the dogs prefer to be away from their human friends either. The Dogologist should have considered this too. So what about a Dog's Owner Island as its neighbouring island?

The Dog Island is quite a funny site, it offers free of charge services for every accepted dog. The money is made available by some big hearted rich people and by the special package of Vacation Island that's marketed for the poshy dogs and their rich people. There's a hilarious disclosure concerning the Vacation Island:

We apologize to not offer this to poor people but it takes an enormous amount of money to afford this type of beauty. If you are interested in rates please email SuniCopey@TheDogIsland.com

Photo by SuperFantastic

The Lost Kingdom

On one of my blogwalking from entrecard, I came across this similar mama tiger and piglets photo. To be honest my first reaction was: I wish that tiger skins on the piglets are only fake tiger skins.
As I’m a curious person who loves Google search so much, I always likely to search further to find out more about interesting story that catches my attention. That also happened when I was reading fiveblondes’s The World is Amazing.
Especially because a comment from Jackie brings out an appalling story behind that photo.

What is the real story?
1. That picture is taken from SRIRACHA TIGERZOO in Thailand NOT in California.
2. That tiger doesn’t lose her cubs at all, instead ‘the happy family’ is fabricated for human amusement solely. This is unfavourable grim real story about mama tiger and piglets affair, including mama piggy and cubs, and other stories.
3. This is the article in 2003 about the 100 tigers that Sri Racha Tiger Zoo in Thailand exported to China, including tiger meat issue.
4. This is the favourable Urban Legend

I haven't found the latest news about it though, does it mean no news is good news? I hope so, in the mean time, 'enjoy' this video from Sri Racha Tiger-Piglets Circus.

Top Dog Bloggers

Are they real?
If you ever joined or are joining Bloggerwave then you probably know what I'm writing here.
That's the top earners list on Bloggerwave. That list really brings question to my head. I have joined BW since December (or early January) but I never have seen any opportunity there, yet the bloggers on that list can get that much?

Then sometimes ago, I googled some of the names from that Top Dog bloggers list, guess what?
I found a post by Meredith Neiss, the supposed runner up on the list, she expresses her surprise on how her name can be on the second top when all that she's done only 5 posts of $US 10 each.

Just now I made some further search about those name on the list, I chose 3 names to google and none of the results that I get relate bloggerwave. Strange? Or maybe that can't be taken as a proof of something wrong.
Here's another funny fact about that top dog bloggers list.
Why does it use Dog anyway? Dog is a trusty creature, dog's image shouldn't be used for -I hope I'm wrong- something phoney.
I don't know how to delete my profile there now. Wondering.

Photo by ansik

If a picture tells a story

What would this be? Maybe after seeing the following picture, athletes should start to behave themselves. Try not to stick out tongue, especially in a full-body contact sport. It's so yikess..... :-D


Source Funniest moments in sports

Pork in her bag

After the piano recital the audiences were led to a buffet in a garden. I picked some food from the platters on the table and I saw 'contains pork' sign on a piece of paper stood in front of two serving platters. Pork is kosher for me, so I could it eat but I don't really like it. So it's not a problem at all for me, but it's a problem for my two friends who also attended that recital. I told one of my friends about that sign, and my friend F was aware of that. Then came R with some food on her plate and seemed R was eating something. F and I were aware that R was coming from the direction of the platters that serve food containing pork, so either F or I asked R if R was aware that some of the foods were not kosher.

"Which one?" asked R who obviously didn't read that sign on paper.
"Those ones"
"@#4^&!!...so this one is pork then, ohh....where to throw this?" R was about to leave the remains on the table, but...
"No, you can't leave it there, it's not polite" said F giggling
"Ooh.....what then?? Ok, I put it in my bag then" R decided that hopelessly after R couldn't find a single trash bin around.

It's a bit ridiculous :-D, of course R could leave the remains on the table, and F was just joking, we didn't really expect that R really put that pork meat into her bag.

Photo by oTto kiNDeR

A Pheasant in a Waiting Room

A woman: tell your Mom to eat, she hasn't eaten since before.
A girl : I did ask her but she's lost her appetite.
Another woman : oh well, just show a chunk of money in front of her face, she would eat.

Part of conversation I eavesdropped in an ICU waiting room. There were a bunch of ladies blabbering while accompanying their friend (? or relative) whose husband just got malpractice. The middle-age lady who didn't want to eat is the wife.
The late 50 year old chat-active woman who said about that money thing is one of her mob members, or it seemed so. They were there with their other four or five friends, but that chatty lady was the prominent one and she reminded me of a pheasant. She seemed very excited, like waiting for a lottery drawing.

She asked her friends twice or so, where will be their next eating-out, while the others were talking about the bad luck that's just struck their friend's husband.
That husband of their friend was supposed to get appendectomy, but what happened was the doctor just cut the vermiform appendix a bit, tied it and then folded it up! I couldn't really follow what's going on, but that procedure has caused the husband to be taken into ICU.

Photo by BobMacInnes

Thanks. No.

I guess though we've been living with internet and email for years already still not many people really know how to use email correctly. Not many of them realise that in this age that we live now, email address is like our home address. Well, not literally, but hey email address is something private too. Who want to have their inbox get inundated by junk emails from spammers?

I don’t understand every time I receive a mass email with all email addresses in the "To" line instead of "Bcc," I wonder why the sender never think that s/he actually already exposes those email addresses –including mine- to people who are stranger to each other? Of course I don't mind if the other receivers are also my friends. Even though maybe all the friends of my friends are no spammer but who can assure there's no leak to spammer?

What a coincidence last night on one of my blogwalk stops I found something handy, and just now I receive that kind of email again from a friend.
I guess it's a perfect time to shoot the first missile: Thanks. No.

Those who still don't know the difference between "To, CC, BCC" have to educate themselves with this Email Etiquette.

Buy your Grave and Coffin Beforehand

That's a secret to a longer life according to some belief.
That is also probably the ground of San Diego Hills Memorial Park development that costs US$ 1.000.000.000!! One thousand Million US Dollar!!
Don't get fooled by the name, it's not at all in San Diego, USA, but it's in Indonesia.
In this currently country of disaster, Mochtar Riady, a magnate from Indonesia, apparently sniffs a big opportunity from death.
He said, "death is not something taboo, but it should become our responsibility to plan it spiritually, mentally and physically beforehand. A beautiful cemetery and to respect the dead are the basic needs for anyone."*

Of course he must say anything – even the most absurd things- to sell one grave for $US 3200/ m2!!
This Memorial Park will also have facilities like Italian Restaurant, swimming pool, jogging and bicycle track, shops, multifunction hall, etc, which of course not for the dead. Probably for some Italian tourists? ;-)

Maybe if he built it in some rich developed country, it would not be that controversial at all, but here in Indonesia, where so many people currently have lost their homes or even villages because of some nature disasters and some dirty shrewdness?
No sorry to say, for me it's a courtesy for the dead and discourtesy for the poor living.

Btw that irrational belief is very irrelevant to this country.

*source taken from Suara Pembaharuan

Uncommon Courtesy

I was lounging alone in a steam room of a club.
It's nice to have it empty cos sometimes there're many people at the same time. The amenity broke up as a girl came in and sat across me.
"Hello," nodding her head to me and smiled widely.
I smiled and helloed-back.

Hmm..what a nice and friendly person, I thought.
Not only that, she also passed the good-looking criteria.
Then another girl came in, silently as most of people here will do.
She sat and covered her head and face with towel.

According to Reader's Digest World of Courtesy Survey, Jakarta people have the low rank of politeness, but still topping the people of Taipei, Moscow, Singapore, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Bucharest and Mumbai.
I also read in that magazine, that people in Jakarta are likely unwilling to greet or smile to fellow passengers on elevator.

I remembered that survey, this girl had to be an exception.
But, then suddenly that nice, good-looking, and polite girl became a history when she bow down and....

"howekkk.....chuuuhh...." - an onomatopoeia of spitting phlegm.

And that's what she did, spitting on the floor of the humid steam room!
Disbelieving and speechless, I checked the other girl, but she seemed to be too isolated by her towel and remained motionless.

Not me, I decided to leave straight off.

When Beauty jokes

These are some humours made by our very beautiful Miss Indonesia, Nadine Chandra Winata in her Miss Universe interview sessions in America:

Who is your Idol?
My ADMIRER is Mother Theresa because she is so HUMBLE FOR ME.

What do you want the rest of the world to know about your country?
Indonesia is beautiful CITY. So come to Indonesia and feel it, ....WE OPEN OUR ARM TO COME TO INDONESIA.

What makes you unique and different from the other contestants?
Perhaps I look like a Westerner, while I have Indonesian blood and by law I am Indonesian.

Yes, she really has that big sense of humour. It's not because she couldn't speak English well nor really claiming that Mother Theresa knew her and admired her!

Cos she did have impressive answer that made her won the ticket to represent Indonesia in Miss Universe when the jury asked:
Do you agree with the notion that states that true friend is like your own shadow, always close to you?

I like her answer very much at that time, and I knew she would win the contest. She said true friend cannot be like our own shadow, shadow never exists in the deep darkness.

That's when she could mantain to be serious, unlike this time...

I hope the juries of Miss Universe have the same sense of humour as her.

Miss Universe official site generously presents Nadine's complete joke video.

Wise Words Mister

Maybe I'm just being paranoid about this following excerpt from Suara Pembaruan, 14 Nov 2005:

(translation)
Not in Indonesia
According to AR (he's our former chief of People's Consultative Council) terrorism attack is more appropriate if they were done in Palestine, Chechnya and Moro, South Philippines. In those countries, Islam and Muslims have been in oppression. Hence, it makes sense to fight with violence.

Isn't it like he's humiliating his own religion?

I don't think anyone remember this saying from one of Presidential candidates debate shows last year.
One of the panel was issuing the terrorism attacks that happened in Indonesia.
Let me paraphrase what was the response of one of the contestants:

Seperti rumput yang sudah kering, masih di-injak-injak lagi.

He wanted to point it out that hays that are already dried are easy to get burnt.
Hays were his metaphor for oppressed people.
It's like to say it's ok for oppressed people to do terrorism.
Even though maybe what he wanted to address was the crazy wide gap between rich and poor that happens in Indonesia. Still it was and is wrong.
I thank God when he lost.

I just hope our leaders can be wise enough with what they're going to say.
Stupid people like those suicide bombers can't understand metaphor, analogy or assumption and they never use sense of right and wrong.

Dare to spell these:

Do not do terrorisms
Cos it's wrong, against any civil law and religion law
Only satanic religion allows killing another human

Or should brainwash everyone with this Mahatma Gandhi's saying:

"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for"

(Sometime ago during my high school times in the donkey years, I read about him and wikipedia helps me clear my muddling memory)

Pious Gmail

It says...
Server Error
Gmail is inaccessible at the moment. Pray and go back to.....God ??

It seems Gmail is not for an atheist or agnostic :-D

We don't pay you to sleep

Sleep is the basic need of every human being.
However there are differences about one's slumber.
Take a look the following picture.
Here's Tukang Becak (Becak man), almost similar to Rickshaw, but Becak is a tricycle
with a passenger cart attached in front.

Tukang Becak is sleeping, probably because he's got so tired riding a long way under the blistering sun accompanying by the city polluted gust.

While these other following pictures show all the honorable members of the Indonesian House of Representative.
As shown here, these honorable people from DPR (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat) and MPR (Majelis Permusyawarahan Rakyat or The People’s Consultative Assembly) are also sleeping.


Sleeping is our basic need, so it's normal.
It's just that the Tukang becak will hardly get Rp. 300.000 (US$ 30)/ month, even though they only steal a little time to sleep amidst their hard work.
Whereas the members of the House of Representatives each gets Rp. 25.000.000 (US$ 2500)/ month, though they sleep in the middle of their meetings. Now, with the raise of US$ 1000/ month for their allowances, their sleep will surely get better than before. And what about the Jakarta councilors who will now get US$5000/month? Heaven amidst the poverty.

And while they're not sleeping, they sometimes like to do:


Whereas these students, will likely got half-naked and arrested by doing the same thing.



From time to time we pay our legislatives just to catch some sights of their sleeping at the meetings. We've paid a lot. Some even have to pay them with bloods.
From time to time this country has fed so many mouths, just to have some fled forever when they get enough possessions overseas, and left behind their debts to this country.

Doom Dance

I planned to stay for a short time -at least not until the couple session- when I joined the dance class that day.
The female outnumber the male participants, it's not ok at all, and beside I had an appointment to catch.

Right when the couple session was about to begin that's when I prepared to leave.
But the instructors stopped me, said something like "there's one man left here don't be shy."
Yes it's true, there's one left, and seemed none –of the females- wanted to partner with him. Everyone else had a partner -though mostly female and female- except him and me, cos I never planned to stay. I didn't rush when the instructor told all the dancers to go on partner.

I felt it was bad if I refused and chose to leave straightaway. That would be too embarrassing for that left alone guy.

"Don't be afraid, he's a healthy baby" that's the instructor throwing a lousy joke over the paunchy guy.
It sounded rather stupid to me.

I accepted the healthy baby as my dance partner anyway.
When I was standing face to face with the healthy baby, I just realised that big gold chain necklace on his neck!
OMG!! A pimp!
Sorry...for guys with the same necklace, but really that's what I learnt from American flicks. Guy with a big gold chain necklace is usually a pimp.

Hand in hand, the music was playing, all were trying to rehearse all steps we had previously in solo. 1..2...3...4...5....6....
I was trying to concentrate by watching the instructor on my left so I didn't have to look at the healthy baby with pimp necklace, but the "healthy baby", my poor partner was bugging me with his trying to be friendly mode and instructing me what to do as if he were a trainer.

Saying things like "relax yourself" with shaking my hands lightly accordingly, then "the counting is like this: 1..2...3..."... "turn around at the count of five" ... "wait for my sign when I raise my hand"....etc...etc...

Hellooo....
Like I were not around before? Did he think he's the instructor? I was really pissed.
I wanted to say "stop shaking my hand and telling me to relax you pimp!"

Instead I told him, no, I shouted at him "OK!! like this, 1..2..3, ALRIGHT!"
He's stunned.

Thanks God, break time, so I evacuated myself from the doom!
Beside it's already 10 min to my appointment.
That's my first -hopefully my last- doom dance!

Not a joke

trustme_thisemailisreal@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com

That's my newest email :-D
I don't recommend the service, it has heavy pop-up ads!
But the email address is incredibly longgggggggggggg!
Can't resist to have one.

Weirdos

Met that weird couple, X and Y.
Don't care what their 'orientation' (just my hunch) as long as they don't cheat others.
I spoke to Y not to break the line -I despise anyone who breaks into a queue- but the couple hushed me saying that they're inseparable. Geezz....
I spoke to X something that I knew X didn't know, then Y laughed and said to X jokingly as if trying to look cute "she's weird...she's weird," -pointing me of course.
So I replied "X, I become weird cos I'm now talking to weird people."
What I meant of course them.
But they responded with a little hysterical giggles.
I guess they're happy to be weird.