Habis nonton The Namesake, untuk kedua kalinya. Diadaptasi dari buku berjudul sama karya Jhumpa Lahiri, filmnya sendiri bercerita tentang benturan-benturan budaya yang dialami oleh sebuah keluarga asal India tatkala mereka tinggal di New York. Gue sukaaa banget sama film ini… partly because Kal Penn main disini (hahahaa… mukanya ngebodor abis, apalagi kalo inget pas dia main di Harold & Kumar), lainnya karena gue menggemari buku-buku karyanya Jhumpa Lahiri. Dalam setiap.. Read More
Brida
Kenapa gue suka baca buku-bukunya Paulo Coelho ? karena, cerita2 di bukunya memberi “banyak” pencerahan & heart-warming 🙂
Baru saja tadi sore selesai baca Brida (untuk kedua kalinya). Suka banget sama quote dari the English poet William Blake, yang terdapat dalam buku itu :
“What is now proved was once only imagin’d”
Hmmm. Love it 🙂
Growing a “New Person”
By changing the way you do routine things, you allow a new person to grow inside you.
(Paulo Coelho – The Pilgrimage)
Gentayangan…
…beberapa malam terakhir, Baim sedang disibukkan oleh tugas risetnya, yang mana menuntut dia untuk “lembur” di depan layar laptop sepulangnya dari lab. Lokasi “lembur” ini biasanya berlangsung di meja makan… Tapi sejak kipas angin tercinta kami jebol, jadilah Baim ber-lembur-ria di ruang tamu (yang ada ceiling-fan-nya). Lumayan adem-lah di situ.
Gue, sebagai istri yang merasa kehilangan “guling”-nya (baca = Baim) karena “guling”-nya baru bobo di atas jam 2 malam (sementara jam.. Read More
Life, Inside the Opportunities
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“Your life is defined by its opportunities… even the ones you miss.”
(Benjamin – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Serendipity (2001)
Diantara film-film drama komedi-romantis yang pernah gue tonton, cuma sedikiiit aja yang jadi favorit gue… Cuma 5 film-lah*, paling-paling. Serendipity (2001) adalah salah satunya. Yeah,
Trees
“One generation plants the tree, another gets the shade”.
(Chinese proverb)
The Sailing Ship
“The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.”
(Paulo Coelho)
😉
Chungking Express : quote
di imdb nemu quote ini; dari film Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994) :
“If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.”
Doubting God’s Existance
Another good story from Mr.Coelho… Enjoy it
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A man went to trim his hair and beard. As always happens, he and the barber chatted about this and that, until – commenting on a newspaper article about street kids – the barber stated:
“As you can see, this tragedy shows that God doesn’t exist.
“How?” asked the costumer to his barber