tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27446133356403706832012-01-22T19:51:56.698-06:00I'll keep it in a hidden place... We go to that hidden place...Mamoedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049298870956054139noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744613335640370683.post-59591642984664280682009-03-27T22:42:00.005-05:002009-03-29T05:42:56.060-05:00

...unless you happen to be living in my hometown, where the latest movies always have the word "pocong" or "hantu" in them, and the latest Hollywood flick to be watched here are Hellboy II and... Dragonball Evolution. *shivers*Recession bites, and weirdly enough, this is one of the places where I felt it bit the deepest. No new movies. Nada. After I got back from the US in September, the newest

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Staring half-sleepily into my monitor last night, I was basking in the ether of Enya's Isobella while browsing Amazon.com, looking at stuffs that I don't have the money for nor need. The sound quality of this file isn't too good, I thought to myself. Too bad for one of Enya's best. So I looked up Isobella in the "mp3 download" section of Amazon and was surprised that the rare track's actually

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At night. I was alone. My cellphone rang. I picked it up and saw an unknown number on the screen. Could be something important.'Halo?''Halo Bang, ini aku.' said a woman's voice at the other end.'Apa?' I didn't recognize that voice.'Ini aku loh, Bang. Bang aku kasihan lah sama si Enny, dia lagi dalam masalah...' and she proceeds to talk in a very concerned voice about someone named Enny who seemed

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If you’re a fan of Deddy Mizwar, beware. Well, it’s not as if one would stumble upon this blog, but… meh, beware anyway.Kayaknya udah bukan rahasia lagi lah kalo dunia politik negaraku nan tercinta ini udah kayak one big Srimulat show (remember that one?). Orang-orang gila (they’re not literally nuts, but figuratively speaking) yang pengin jadi caleg betebaran banyaknya kayak nyamuk: mereka

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As usual, I was frying my brains out working on my paper tonight when all of a sudden I remember this story from Black Isle's Planescape: Torment RPG I played some time ago. It was a very short tale actually, told by one of your companions in the game during a conversation. But it was very absorbing and deeply mesmerizing, and I absolutely like it, so I thought I would share it here for those who

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This post is originally from last year, but strangely I never got around to posting it. So, since I'm scrounging for unpublished posts in my archive, I decided to have this forgotten little gem posted.Before I write down what I originally meant to write here, I want to tell a rather... gross experience I just had several minutes ago:I was sitting cross-legged on the floor, writing an email to my

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Ain't internet grand? After about 10+ years, I finally found the ending song for that silly '80s anime Time Quest, or originally titled Time Travel Tondekeman. The anime was first aired in Indonesia sometime in mid '90s by Indosiar. I've always loved the song, but have no idea nor the means to know what the title nor who the singer was. Now, with the help of the internet, I finally found that

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A few nights ago I went to the cinema to watch Wall-E. Again. For the third time this week. Truth be told, had I my own car, I would have gone everyday. Seriously. It's that good. Pixar's latest masterpiece is nothing short of an instant classic. I've always loved Pixar movies. Theirs are the kind that always made me giddy and excited like a schoolgirl when I watched them (urgh. Remind me not to

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9:25 PM, at Wal-Mart. I was standing in a long line at the self-checkout machine with a cartload of groceries. A young American man, probably in his late teens, scrutinized the long lines of people waiting to pay their items, “Shit, there's a long line,” he groaned, then he stood behind me. He was only carrying a single liter of Coca-Cola. Moments passed, I was observing the cover of the People's

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I'm going to talk a little bit more about video games here...So there I was, looking for free games to download and play, when I stumbled on Passage. For a very long time, for a very long time, indeed... now I have finally found a new game that can latch itself into my memory, my subconscious, and never let go. Other games have come and go, but the simplicity and elegant execution of Passage just

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What is it with me not fated to watch my favorite artists live in concert? In November last year, bodacious Beyonce (yes, yes, I like her. Ya got a problem with that?!) held a concert in Jakarta. And just a couple of days ago, BJORK herself held a concert in Jakarta too!! Lucky bastards. I'm officially smoldering with envy. Beyonce... sure I could live without, but Bjork? I never thought Bjork

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My poor wee neglected child! Oh, my blog! I've ignored you for 2+ months... because I have nothing profound to say and my internet contract died at the start of December. But have no fear! I'm with you now. And what better way to liven up your barren life of recording my endless gripes and complaints on life than notching up yet another pointless gripe and complain!! My beloved,

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My big bro asked me to talk about the Beowulf movie and what differences it has with the original source material, since I took a course studying the original epic poem of the same title last semester. What a coincidence! I was just about to talk about it too. But, agh, let me say here first that movie was NOT the way I imagined the epic poem would be like if it were adapted into a Hollywood

Mamoedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049298870956054139noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744613335640370683.post-35950984751790879862007-10-20T03:46:00.002-05:002009-03-24T11:36:47.329-05:00

I know I'm supposed to talk about that writer's block thing in the next post, but screw that. And I know people probably won't give a rat's ass of what I'm going to talk about, so screw them. I just found out from my friend that a new Fatal Frame is in development!! I checked the internet, and sure enough, there's the news, staring at me in the face: the next Fatal Frame has been announced!!...

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...officially, it's pretty much safe to say that updating my blog has become one of the many sad excuses I have for putting off my work. Assignments. Papers. Readings. (yawn)Like now, for instance, I have 3 papers (and if my sense of foreboding would prove true in the following week - 4) coming up in the next 3 weeks, and I have done... shall I say, unsatisfactory, attempts to get them done. I'm

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There's no doubt about it, I'm a new fan of Darren Aronofsky's works. For those who don't know, he's the guy who made that 2006 sci-fi movie "The Fountain" (starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz). The movie got good reviews, but didn't seem to do very well commercially. I watched it on DVD anyway and absolutely loved it, mind-bending and bewildering as it is. An hour ago I just finished watching

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A few people have asked me what does Iostars mean. I've been using that name for pretty much all my accounts on the internet: email, Friendster, eBay account, Amazon account, etc. I came up with that word when I made my first email account, like, 12 years ago (gasp!). I don't know, it just clicked, so I kinda stuck to it ever since then. It's really a combination of two words: Io and stars. A lot

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Just got back from watching Transformers today, and uh, well, to put this bluntly: it sucks. Let's get to the pros first: I love watching the stuffs get blown up. True, the child in me jumped in delight whenever there were explosions and buildings obliterated. I love seeing gigantic robots smackdown, blew up, and pretty much went to extreme overkill trying to reduce each other to a pile of scrap.

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Today, while I was YM-ing (Yahoo Messenger) with my sisters in my room, a very unexpected and totally annoying thing happened to me. It must have been around nine in the morning or something, the weather outside was pretty chillin' from last night's big rain, with rather dark clouds and moderate wind. Since I love letting in air into the apartment, I opened up the balcony door and returned to my

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Thursday:God, this is taking forever. If you're bored by the last two posts already, take heart: there's not much going on on the last day.So I woke up at around 7.00 AM and went to the hotel's cafe for breakfast. Mind you, the hotel we're staying at wasn't a 4-5 star one, so I wasn't expecting any terrific feasts for my breakfast. True enough, there's a long table laden with the likes of bread,

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Tuesday:Second day was actually the busiest and most tiresome of the workshop, but seriously, there isn't much to talk about it. Nor anything interesting happened at that day. What happened was first the chief of the workshop selected four Aceh communities that needed rebuilding based on the essays submitted by students. Before we got here, each of us was asked to write a short essay describing

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Like some of you have probably known, the Tsunami Relief Program was intended for students from a certain region of those countries that got hit by the Big T. So, it is only natural that most (if not all) of the Indonesian students that got this scholarship program was from Aceh. It's been nearly a week (doggone it, a week? How fast time travels never cease to amaze me) since I went to Arkansas

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As I'm writing this, I'm sitting on the floor, in a corner of a study area at the library annex, on the 4th floor, at 12.15 AM.Surprisingly, the large room's quite stuffed with students.Must be the end of the semester.Yes, it's going to be the first time of perhaps many countless library sleepover in my life as a grad student here. I got a paper to turn in on Friday, so I'm pulling an all-nighter

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Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi roji'un.Semalam aku dapat SMS dari kawanku, ngasi tau kalo Chrisye baru aja meninggal malam sebelumnya. Waduh, sedih kali aku. Masalahnya dalam dunia entertainment & musik di Indonesia, Chrisye-lah figur yang paling ku-respect and lagu2nya paling kusukai. Tak ada itu Peter Pan, Dewa, Padi, Gigi, Sapi, Tangga, Kotak, Asbak (sebetulnya aku asal bunyi aja ini, tak tau aku

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Today at Aggiecon (a 3-day convention at the campus) I had my name written down in kanji (Japanese characters. Well, actually it's Chinese characters, but you know what I mean). The very nice Japanese lady who held the stand took my first name and broke it into four parts (MA,HA,MU,TO), each with a kanji character and its own distinct meaning. They're beautiful, both the calligraphy and their

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Friday. Past midnight. (Which, I suppose, would make this Saturday)I suppose it's no secret, to people who knew me, that I'm a real sloth when it comes to doing things. Like now, for instance, I should be doing my paper, but instead I'm wasting precious minutes updating my blog! Arr! Tomorrow is the last day of spring break (Sunday not included). Before spring break started, I made a resolution

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Okay, introspection time.I reread my last few posts and then immediately burst out laughing. I was so judgmental!! I can tell whenever I was being judgmental because I sound real pissed. Oh wait. That logic is a little backwards, isn't it? Hmm.Anyways, it feels good to be judgmental for once in a while. Whenever you need to vent, you won't want to put a limit on your rage meter nor care how much

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(continued from previous post)The most frustrating thing is, after all these disasters, most of us still stupidly look at each other and say, "what had we done to deserve these?" Uh, excuse me? How about all those corruptions that have been running rampant in our country since god-knows-when? And oh, don't forget the Indonesian Playboy magazine those pea-for-brains over at Jakarta had licensed

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Not so long ago, I received news that the region of West Sumatera, the native homeland of my ethnic group (suku), Minangkabau, was hit by a massive earthquake. Immediately my heart sank.No, seriously. No pun intended.It's one thing to hear that the earthquake happened in your home country, but it's certainly entirely another (and definitely worse) to hear it happen in a place that has a personal

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I wish Computer Gaming World still exists. PC Gamer just doesn't cut it for me. Granted, the magazine has an okay layout, and usually I get to read exclusive reviews faster than from any other sources, but the language is... grating. Now the magazine throws cusses around and sounds like a 14-year old entering puberty. In other word: gross. Things weren't like this when the previous

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Mentioning Judy Garland in my previous post all of a sudden made me want to hear her singing Over the Rainbow again. It's the most memorable song I've ever heard in my childhood. In my urge I downloaded the mp3 from Limewire (I'm sorry Judy! I promise to buy Wizard of Oz again one day!). And as I listen to the her soft, wistful, singing, I laughed.I smiled and laughed.The very same smile and

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12:12 PM. Alone. Teletubbies on the TV.I was rummaging through the net, looking for that famous quote by Greta Garbo ("I want to be alone.") then stumbled on AFI's -American Film Institute - 50 Greatest Screen Legends list, in which she was no. 5 (my beloved Judy Garland is no. 8). Here's the link just in case anyone want to see it: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/stars.aspxIn a case of

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Just got a very fine copy of Bjork's Vespertine today. Bought it from half.com for 5 bucks. Considering how epic and wondrous this album is, it's a steal!!As I listen to the songs, and looking at my blog, I was suddenly struck by an epiphany about myself and couldn't help thinking, "I am a pretty gloomy guy." Well, I didn't mean it like 'gloomy' as in 'constantly sad and depressed', but my

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First of all, I just want to say that this eblogger site can be a real pain in the ass. Sometimes I can access my blog straightaway, other times not. And when I can't, I have to re-login, MANY times unsuccessfully. I've banged my keyboard several times because of times. For F sakes, I'm lazy enough as it is to update this blog, and all this problem are NOT helping at all!!rants aside,... no,

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Hehee... my sister-in-law just gave birth to a girl not so long ago. I'm an uncle! Hmmm... karena aku orang Minang, trus dalam keluarga aku anak laki2 yg paling kecil, jadi aku nanti bakal dipanggil Mak Uncu sama ponakanku. "Mak Uncu Amud"... heheh, that sounds weird. anyway, congrats to B.Tau n K.Mimi atas kelahiran bayinya. Insya Allah kelahiran anak tsb membawa berkah n karunia n kebahagiaan

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It turns out, I neglected my blog for 4 weeks! 4 weeks! That's a month! oh, man, I gotta be more serious about doing this.okay, let's see...1. The new semester already starts, I have one night class for 3 hours, but that's okay cos' there's a 20-minute break. And just as I thought, this semester looks going to be a busy one. Granted, there are no exams in any of the class I'm taking (cheers to

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argh! I've been neglecting my blog for more than 2 weeks now. a lot of things have happened within that time. Let me try to recall them one by one...1. It's holiday time, so I went to my brother's house on December 15th. It's time to relax! Finally I can eat a different diet than oily fried nuggets and french fries for my everyday meals (shudders). I got to eat alot of great Indonesian foods

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I looked back at my last two posts, and couldn't help but say: "Oh my. Did I really write THAT much?" But hey, what's the point of having a personal blog if you have to limit your words, right?anyway, back to the topic. Try to ask someone, anyone, maybe even yourself: "Have you seen any good movies lately?" and they'll probably scratch their head and went "ummm..." or "uhhh..." before answering.

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since I got nothing better to do after the exam, I resumed playing The Longest Journey. undoubtedly the BEST adventure game I've ever had in my entire life (Sierra's classic 'Quest' games notwithstanding). Hell, I think it's the best adventure game EVER MADE! I really can't tell you guys how... ('cool'? nah, that's a juvenile word) fantastic this game is. The artworks are gorgeous, the characters

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di acara TV sini ada acara yg lumayan menarik ditonton: acara TV yg nunjukin courtroom trials di amrik. well, it's the small cases only, mainly kasus2 perdata, small sue claims, divorce, etc. ada banyak pula tuh, acaranya. di channel Fox aja ada... 5 acara dgn hakim yg bebeda. ada hakim yg nanganin divorce, ada yg nanganin tuntutan2 kecil, ada yg nanganin masalah DNA test. nah, yang terakhir ini

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Alhamdulillah, my Old English final exam went smoothly. The only part that I couldn't do very well was parsing those singular words... is godcundrum (divine) an adjective? is læg (lay) a verb? yes and yes. but that's only so far what I knew about 'em. The professor probably expected something like þone: 3rd person demonstrative, dative/genitive, etc. Overall, the exam went smoothly. And I was

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where are the updates? well, the strangest thing occurred to me, ladies and gentlemen. something that usually only happen to 90 year old seniors or a 20 year old with an alzheimer case:I FORGOT MY FREAKING BLOG ADDRESS!!go ahead, I give you 15 seconds to laugh.well, it's not really my fault. I mean, Blogger didn't send any confirmation whatsoever to my email, so I had no record to remind me of my

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well, here I am. finally put up my long-awaited blog/diary/whatever.God, it's nearly 4 months since I first step foot on the soils of the Land of Dreams (some people refer to it as "America"), and about a month before that, I promised myself that I would make me a personal blog containing all my would-be experiences, highs and lows of my new life as a grad student in Texas A&M Univ, USA. but then

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