Notes Of What I've Seen : The Cove

As you all know, this is the winner for Best Documentary of Academy Award® 2009!!!!
That's the main reason why I watched it, beside I really like documentary because it is REAL and it is more fun to watch documentary than reading newspaper or watching news broadcast. Documentary has important points/events noted and summarized to one well-edited package (you don't have to follow the news daily) and it is both informative and quite entertaining.

This is a very nice to watch documentary. We are like watching a detective story about a group of dolphin lovers trying to find facts about dolphin slaughter and make the world aware of this issue. It feels real, exciting and also heartbreaking.

After watching it, I wonder why many smart people are so neglectful, only mind about their own profit and position. How small countries can be easily driven by other slightly more powerful country. And why there are politics in a non-profit organization?!!!! *hate politics*

Does everybody have to regret what they've done first to finally do the right thing? While there are money/profit/conflict of interest involved, will this (nature and health) issue resolved?! Huff....

This documentary use lots of hi-tech stuff like thermal camera (it's so cool) and underwater camera. They all captured things very well, like when the clear water turns red because of the blood from dolphins being killed, or harmonious swimming between a diver and dolphins.

I remember a scene where those heartless japanese laughed at the diver (I forgot her name) who cried watching a baby dolphin dying. It was so heartbreaking.

I wish this documentary can make a change! Please.....*fingers crossed*

My New Music References

For these past 3 days, I've been googling n downloading songs from few sites/blogs which posted mp3s they're reviewing. I'm gonna share my list:

1. FluxBlog
2. ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog
3. Fuel/Friends Music Blog
4. LivingEars
5. Too Roads
6. B-Sides "R" Us

They are giving those mp3s for samples, so if you like what you hear, just buy the album! (That's what they told us to do :p).

Quoted from Fuel/Friends Music Blog :

"
Mp3s are for sampling purposes, kinda like when they give you the
cheese cube at
Costco, knowing that you'll often go home with having bought
the whole 7 lb.
spiced Brie log. They are left up for a limited time. If you
LIKE the music, go
and support these artists, buy their schwag, go to their
concerts, purchase
their CDs/records and tell all your
friends.
"

I bet there are a lot more out there but for now I'm quite overwhelmed..too many new songs! HAHAHA...

Being Negative : Something That I Should Change...Huff

Who?
Hi, My name is Pratiwi. I love to write my name as Twee.
I prefer to see something from negative sides instead of the positive ones.

Why?
MAYBE because:
- to protect myself from big positive expectations, which might make me ends up in total despair if that expectation does not come true
- I'm just cynical
- or plainly because I don't want anything good to happen to me...*no way!!!*

What? Where? When?
Anything. Anywhere. Anytime.

How?
Hmm..anyway!!!anyhow!!!
example:
- Diss people
- reject compliments from others
- tend to think negatively for anything that happens to me
- etc. *lots of them*


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How to changeeeee??????
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2010: Must remove (or at least reduce) this negativity from inside of me!!

how?
mmm...
ok, I'll think again tomorrow.
Now back to work..:*

Notes of What I've seen: It's Complicated

Okay, actually there are other movies I've seen through January, but this one is the most entertaining!!

Meryl Streep was once married to Alec Baldwin and then divorced after 20 years of marriage because Alec cheated on her. So Alec married his mistress and Meryl lives alone and expands her business as caterer.
One day before their youngest son graduation, they had good conversations , danced and finally......slept together.
I actually shocked when Alec put his hands on Meryl's 'female area' and said finally back home!!!!
So, they officially had an affair while there is another man : Steve Martin who works as her architect also have feelings for her.

This movie is very entertaining, quite funny, and not so complicated for me, though it's complicated for Meryl in the movie. :D

I Heart Meryl !!

tWee's 2010 Resolutions

Tahun lalu resolusi gw berantakan semua…gw yakin karena kurangnya motivasi…kurangnya eagerness to try and to start…
So, this year: 2010, I’m writing all of it down, so I might not lose OR FORGET IT.

1. Belajar mandarin setiap hari
 Gak muluk2 lah…setiap pagi akan kubaca sesuatu dalam perjalanan ke kantor..berarti setiap hari gw ada pake setengah jam buat belajar mandarin… sambil cari tempat les yang lebih oke dari yg kemarin..he2

2. Olahraga minimal 3x seminggu
 Ini harus diniatin….membership gym sampe November, harus dipake dengan maksimal…kalau bisa pun weekend 1 x. Yang boleh membatalkan niat gym cuma kerjaan..Kalau kerjaan selesai jam 7 malam berarti amsih harus ke gym!!! 加油!!

3. Cari kerjaan yang lebih baik
 Benar2 suatu tantangan…gw harus berani keluar dari comfort zone gw sekarang..semoga dapat yg lebih baik..aminnnn………

4. Tabungan minimal 35% penghasilan gw :D
 Ini minimal!!! Maksimal 60%!!! Amiiiinnnnnn……… tahun ini gak boleh boros2..he2

5. Lakuin hobby gw: crafting, baca, denger music, nonton film minimal seminggu sekali….he2
 Setiap gw selesai lakuin hobby gw, akan gw publish (klo sempet n niat) ke blog ini atau yg tweecraftproject.blogspot.com he2

6. [tentative] selesaiin 1 novel/3bulan…soalnya banyak novel numpuk di rumah..hix.
 Kenapa ini tentative, soalnya novel2 yg belum kebaca itu novel2 yang rada berat topiknya…jadi bener2 butuh effort lebih.

Udah, jangan banyak-banyak, entar malah jadi kacau..so, Let Go and Let GOD!! :D


N.B. hari ini udah niat ngegym tapi gagal karena kerjaan!!! hix....besok harus! hahaha....


-2009.01.04-

Notes of What I've seen: Sherlock Holmes

Haven't read any sherlock holmes' story, watched this movie because it is a box office movie and many of my friends said that the movie is good :p

The story is about two men : Holmes -a famous detective- (Robert Downey Jr.) and Watson -a doctor- (Jude Law) who are friends and also partners to solve crimes.

This episode of Sherlock Holmes (I say 'episode' because I think they'll make the sequel ;p) is about people in England who are afraid of black magic practitioner : Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong), so they’re really happy that he was caught and will be hanged to death. He was hanged and Watson called the time of his death before finally he was buried.
Meanwhile, Holmes ex-girlfriend Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) came to Holmes apartment asking him to find a man. After she left, Holmes followed her and found out that Irene was hired by a man whom she was really scared to.
Not long after that, someone saw Blackwood rose from grave and after they opened Blackwood’s coffin, there was the person Irene had been looking for inside it. The story after that was about Holmes and Watson look for clues to find Blackwood and logically solve all the “black magic” happened.

I feel the story pace was fast and the explanation of all the solving was explained quite fast so you really must pay attention to what Holmes said and to screen that showed what really happened/what Holmes thought was happened. The movie is very successful in showing Holmes as a very logical, well calculated and smart person..though at many times his luck played the biggest part :)
I don’t know what Holmes is in the novels, but many people said that he should be just plain logical person, he should not be at all comical like in one scene where he paid a lady in the street to pretend to be a palm-reader and told bad premonitions so Watson will cancel his plan to proposal to his girlfriend Mary.

Overall, this movie is just quite entertaining, don’t feel anything through the movie, not at all excited seeing the explosions , fights, nor getting “wow” effect from seeing how smart Holmes is in the movie. I think the best in this move is Rachel McAdams’ act and the city view…:D *when will I go there…mmm…*

-2009.01.04-

Notes of What I've seen: Three Monkeys (Üç maymun)

It started with a man,Servet, ran over and killed someone with his car, and all he did to protect his political career was asked his chauffeur, Eyüp, to replace him going to prison. While Eyüp is in prison, his paycheck will be paid in cash and he’ll get big amount of money after he’s out of prison. Eyüp’s son, İsmail, who didn’t manage to get into college asked to buy a car and his mother ,Hacer, asked Servet to give her an advance on money to buy the car, and somehow they finally got into affair. İsmail knew about the affair but didn’t say anything to his dad when he visit.

After Eyüp got out of prison, he went to the office to see Servet for the big amount of money that Servet promised him, Eyüp told him to subtract the amount that İsmail took to buy the car, but Servet said that he won’t subtract the amount. Eyüp also suspicious to his wife who had a call from a male (Servet…you know where this is going..he2). Servet wanted to break up his affair with Hacer. And when Servet was killed , police called Eyüp and Hacer for interrogation and there’s where Eyüp found out about Hacer’s affair. Finally Eyüp knew that İsmail is the one who killed Servet, and he did the same thing : find a replacement for his son.

I had a headache after watch this movie, it’s like an old telenovela where they kill each other and protect each other…The difference is it is Turkish movie…he2.
They all play like 3 monkeys – play deaf, blind, numb – knowing things but pretend not knowing them to protect each other, to keep their family from tearing apart.

This is not a bad movie, the set was beautiful…and there’s one scene I remember well: when Servet wanted to break up with Hacer , (the scene was really beautiful) they met beside a lake, first it was just windy, and then along with the arguments and fights they had, the weather was slowly worsen, with thunder and all.. The weather supported the scene very well.

-2010.01.01-

Notes of What I've seen: Mary And Max

Screened with two color tone: one is black&white , and the other one is colorful-but more brown colors involved-. The one with color belongs to the story about Mary Daisy Dinkle, a young girl in Australia, who has no friend, neglected by her parents, have many ideas in her mind, and curious about things. Her curiousity about "where do children come from" gave her an idea to write a letter to someone from another continent to ask about this specific question. She picked Max Jerry Horowitz in New York from a phone book she read in post office to be her pen pal.

Both have no friend (though Max has an imaginary friend, but he always wanted a real friend as one of his 3 goals in life, beside having enough chocolate for whole life and collection of Noblets figurines), love Noblets cartoon, like eating chocolate, bullied and alienated by other people around them. They become good friends as he likes to answer Mary’s questions in her letters such as 'if a taxi goes backwards, does the driver owe you money'..:) And Max also shared about his obesity and mental illness problem, his jobs, and other things about his life.

Because of this friendship, Mary changed herself, succeed in university learning about mental illness, wishing someday she’ll be able to cure her friend Max. She even published a book about the illness using Max as her study case which makes Max furious, sent a full of hate letter that made Mary devastated.

This is not a fun, kiddy cartoon.. It even had a narrator in some parts of the movie, beside the letter writing and reading in most part of it. I like this movie although it is too dark for me. I like how little Mary suggests things and asking things to Max in a very simple way (even put them in drawings). Max even laminated her letters..so cute… Max even tell little Mary about essential, logical things like ‘why people cut trees down while we still need oxygen’ , or how to survive being bullied by making up lies and at the same time he told her that lying is not good, and tell her that he’s an atheist (a very heavy material for a kid like Mary)…

Have I told you about the color difference between Mary’s and Max’s frame? One time Max imagined that their path would somehow cross and they can meet each other, it is still pictures half B/W –Max’s side- and half colorful –Mary’s side- with a very blurry blend in the middle. And when they finally meet in the end of the movie (it was supposed to be a secret, he2) , colorful Mary went to Max’s B/W world…I wonder why they make the color like that..???

A story about friendship (ups and downs of it), life (most of it are awful side of life), and loving yourself…

Likes it…my first movie in 2010…^^

-2010.01.01-