The Days of a Silly and Ordinary Girl! :D: 2014

What You Have Been Missing~

By Lasmarya Hadi Purwanto - December 23, 2014

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Daily Life

Interstellar .

By Lasmarya Hadi Purwanto - November 24, 2014

Hellooo!

Have you watched Interstellar?

If yes, what do you think about it? If no, why not?

I watched it several days ago and truth to be told, at first I wasn't really interested in it. The posters are all showing an astronaut standing on a moon or whatever planet it is. So, an 85% percent NO!

It all started when my brother watched it first and he told me this : "You know, only smart people will be able to watch and understand it, although yeah, the movie was nice, but really, only SMART people will understand." So I simply answered him: "So do you understand?" He answered:"I understand, but it needs a lot of thinking." At that moment, I felt CHALLENGED. If he can understand it, why can't I? *devil* He's not some genius or what, I mean, at least our knowledge is still in the same level. I'm sure I'll be able to understand it, or won't I? I will, right? I started to doubt myself. Haha. These thoughts kept lingering in my mind for the next several days. Until a friend of mine, Daniel, who is a very BIG fan of Christopher Nolan's work (note: VERY BIG! He watched almost all of his movies! And it literally means ALL!) told me that he enjoyed the movie very much. It was ingenious, according to him. It wasn't necessary for me to ask him whether he understands it or not because i know clearly that he does. (He's a smart ass! note: SUPER SMART, he's like a walking encyclopedia!) He said that if I know what a wormhole, a black hole, dimension etc mean, then I will find the movie interesting. So again, I was CHALLENGED!!!

It tells the story of a group of scientists/astronauts on their way to look for a new planet in the other galaxy for humans to live as earth is deteriorating. They went through wormhole, black hole, time relativity,and even headed to 5D dimension. There are tragedy, drama, science, imagination all packed into one. I should say that this is another masterpiece of Christopher Nolan. Until now, I'm still wondering his way of thinking. How could he be so genious??? He could develop a very simple story into a super complicated maze. After Inception, and now this.

This three-hour movie is indeed very heavy, it needs a lot of deep thinking, it felt like I had to keep thinking so that I could keep up with the pace of the plot. When I stepped out from the cinema, my head felt so hot, haha, it had worked so hard. We (My brother, my colleague, Daniel and I) kept discussing about the movie, about why it happened that way, or this way. Through the long discussion, I realized that there's still some small parts that I don't understand completely. Ah, how i wish i was a little smarter. Haha.

If you're ready to think hard, then this will be a very good movie for you. If you're looking for a happy, fresh and light movie, this movie is a big no no!

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Nostalgia~

By Lasmarya Hadi Purwanto - November 13, 2014

Hi, there!

It's has been a nostalgic week for me, and it all started with the recent hype all over the nation's social media -- Ada Apa dengan Cinta (LINE) (2014) mini drama!!!

Have you watched it? If not, then you should go to www.youtube.com and you'll find it right on the very first page! (ooops, this is for Indonesia area only.)

The mini drama threw me back to my childhood-going-to-teenagehood moments. I still remembered when i first watched the original movie produced 12 years ago. I used to get all excited talking about the movie with my friends during those times and in fact, I still now. Haha. I first found out about this mini drama from the actors' instagram account where they posted pictures of the cast reunions in Seoul, South Korea!! And of course, it intrigued me right at that moment!

And have you ever watched the original Ada Apa dengan Cinta (2002)? If yes, then let's recall together. If no, I'm sorry, spoiler alert!!!!!

Well, if yes, then you'll remember how the movie ends with Cinta sending Rangga away to New York. I couldn't say that the movie wasn't good because of the not so happy ending (i'm a total happy ending mania, not so interested with sad ending movies), it was still very good indeed, and i ended up liking it so much. Soooo, this mini drama kinds of giving us the ending that has been long awaited (by me, especially!)

Can't figure out what I mean? Well, you should really watch the video by yourself. I really don't want to be a spoiler for the second time. And, I really hope that you will be smiling ear to ear when it reaches the end of the video. Like me, of course! Dian Sastro and friends look so mature in this movie and made me like it even more. Even Rangga (Nicholas Saputra) looks so neat, an exact reversal of his messy hair back then, yet he's still as serious as before. Although it is obviously made as an advertisement, but I really want to thank LINE for producing the happy ending. :) :)

After watching and putting a big grin on my own face, I felt that it's not complete without watching the original version again. So I ended up watching it, and another old Indonesian movie that I adore in my teenagehood -- Eiffel, I'm in Love!!!!

I read the novel first before it was made into movie, and I loved it even more when they produced the movie! These two movies really took part in making me realize that guys who are Darcy-like are super attractive, and in getting me to understand what romance means, and in making me start to have all the imagination of meeting the love of my life, the one who cares about me, for no matter who I am, simply like Rangga and Adit. :)

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Movies

The Wedding Date (2005)

By Lasmarya Hadi Purwanto - October 26, 2014

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Movies

The Time-Traveler's Wife

By Lasmarya Hadi Purwanto - October 26, 2014

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Malaysia

Weekend in the Dreamy Little French Village (Colmar Tropicale) Day II

By Lasmarya Hadi Purwanto - October 25, 2014

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Weekend in The DREAMY LITTLE FRENCH VILLAGE (COLMAR TROPICALE)! :D Part III

By Lasmarya Hadi Purwanto - October 19, 2014

Sssttt..

Remember in the last post, I mentioned that we're taking lots of pictures at night because we're trying to stall the time?

Well, we're preparing for something.

During the night, most of us were actually tired, because the night before we only slept for around 4 hours to catch the early flight. So, basically our energy was depleted. But we couldn't go to sleep. Not yet. We had to wait till 12 a.m. Start to guess what i'll probably say next?

No, we're not waiting for any fireworks. Yes, (if you guess this right), we're preparing a birthday surprise for the one and only Juniar Lim! We went there on 11th October and her birthday was on 12th October. Before the day came, the rest of us had been thinking again and again of how to set the surprise for her, since we're not in our hometown, and the resort is far from anywhere. So even if we planned to buy a cake or birthday present for her in Berjaya Times Square, she would find out! We're actually freaking out at first when we thought we might not be able to prepare anything for her birthday surprise, but the only guy in our group gave us a very good idea right a day before we went there, which is on 10th October.

He said he had called the management of the Colmar Tropicale resort, and asked them to help us decor a room for the surprise, and fortunately the management agreed to do that. Thank God! He said they're expert in decorating a room for the newly weds and birthday surprises, so we can really trust them. And they promised that they would finish the decoration precisely at 12 a.m.

So, what should we do to stay awake till 12 a.m? Taking pictures of course. No one would like to stay in a beautiful hotel just to watch TV or sleep in the room, right? We took pictures to the maximum limit so that we could kill time too.

When it reached 12 a.m, we felt relieved, thinking that it must have finished, but when Vincent called the manager to confirm, they said they needed more time. Ouch! We're tired, but we kept forcing ourselves to take pictures, walking around the resort complex for I don't know how many times. It's getting late, and they even had turned off most of the street lights, there were only some security guards walking around, and most of the tourists had gone to their own rooms. But we could do nothing. Fog came by and went away,and we're still waiting and waiting.

Until it's almost 1 a.m., the call came and told us that the room was ready. We may proceed. Then, the plan started. The room was in another building, and we had to take her there. The problem was we didn't know how. It seems like if we simply said that we're going to walk around the other buildings, see the inside part and bla bla bla, she would find out! So they made a plan, Christin and Vincent would play rock, paper, scissors game and the loser should knock on some of the hotel rooms' door. They would knock on some other rooms first, and at the end, they would knock on the surprise room and get inside.

Everything went as the plan. Besides them, the rest of us pretended that the game they were playing was non-sense. We kept saying "You guys are crazy! It's midnight and you guys can't just knock on anybody's room! It's so rude!" and so on. And the birthday girl seemed so shock looking at them doing that. The room was on the second floor of the basement, and there were only two rooms down there, and none of them were occupied. They did knock on the other room first, but of course nobody came out, since it's empty, and when they tried to knock on THE ROOM, we all pretended to run away as though we're really afraid that someone might open the door. But again, nothing happened. So the two crazy friends went on, and opened the door (Vincent had the key from the manager). The birthday girl was even more shocked when she saw the door opened. So Desy lied to her, and said that the door was not locked. We went inside and got into the living room + kitchen. The room was bigger than ours. It has a big kitchen + living room, a bathroom and a bedroom. Some of us pretended to be afraid, and said that we had to get out as soon as possible, at this moment the birthday girl's expression was super pale, but the crazy two wouldn't stop exploring the room and they daringly opened the bedroom door.

We could hardly see what's inside the bedroom from the outside as the room's lighting was quite dim. We all looked inside to check, and so that the birthday girl would do the same too. When she saw what's waiting for her inside, she turned back and hid her face with her two hands. We laughed and sang the birthday song for her.

The decoration was so great! It did worth the time we stalled. The management did it well. Her name was decorated on the bed with origami roses, the cake (it was Baskin Robin's ice cream cake and it was super duper delicious!) with the wont-died-out candles, the balloons, and the hanging changing colors and heart-shaped LED lights on the wall! We're so glad that it turned out this well.