Tuesday, 15 April 2014
The Heirs (2013)
He who wishes to wear the crown,
Endure its weight.
It's about a girl, the heir of poor, who is angry to the world she lives in. Furious with her life condition, upset for being helpless, envy the people who look like having perfect life she used to dream of: new nice clothes and dresses, branded bags and shoes, hi-tech gadgets, hangout with friends every weekend so she can share the moments in her social media account, car is equipped with personal driver. She wished to escape but instead it had brought her to meet one of the people whom she is jealous of. Time by time, she finally understands it is not always something sparkling is beautiful.
The children of conglomerates or at least rich people she used to envy are actually they are not happy as they seem. Burden as the heirs had attached their shoulders since they were born, organized gestures by their parents, ideals which must conform with their parents' wishes, serious quarrels between siblings, and of course marriage which has been determined. Parents succumbing to the children's desire for the happiness of them is not applicable to the children of Chaebol.
An international call from her sister has sent Cha Eun Sang to United States. She wishes that is the first step which will leads her out of the world already sickened her. Without giving her a security in that foreign country, instead her sister steals Eun Sang's money and tells her to be back to Korea. In her despair, she meets Kim Tan who finally helps her by letting Eun Sang stay in his luxurious house.
Tan is the second son of Empire Group, the biggest company which dominates almost the whole economy aspects in Korea. Beside he is a rich boy, he has perfect appearance. Tall and handsome. But he is lonely. His older brother who considering him as the rival as being the main heir, forces him to go to the States. Moreover, his status as the love child can't make him to be son of his real mother. Till he finds Eun Sang, a girl crying alone in the roadside with a mess suitcase.
Love begins to grow between them. But with Tan's status as one of the heirs of Empire Group, it's really not easy for Eun Sang, the daughter of a mute housekeeper, to be together with Tan. Tan is engaged to Rachel and the barrier like being higher as Young Do, the boy ever be Tan's best friend also like Eun Sang. What worst? Eun Sang's mother is working for Empire Family.
Their love journey decorated with Tan's efforts to protect his girl from the cynical gazes and degrading acts by the children of Chaebol in Empire School, his powerful father who orders them to end their relationship, attempts to reconnect the friendship strap has been severed for years yet does not want to give up his love on his best friend. Though Tan knows Young Do also likes Eun Sang. And of course the twists and turns the Chaebols should have done to maintain their conglomeratic dynasty.
It's not all about rivalry and ascendancy. There's a strong friendship among those children. Love which finally grows between them that never be thinkable before. Between a boy who once tried to suicide because of the depression of being forced to follow his parents' desire, something he never put his heart in, with a girl who starts to accept she can not force the boy she really loves reciprocates her heart.
A boy learns to stop blaming the others for what's happened to him and encouraging himself to face the truth and finds the best way to make everything back to its real way. There's also a cute couple who always brights the as-cold-as-ice situation those children should deal with in almost everyday, in their school times.
Finally they will find money can not buy love and the most dangerous person is not he who openly becomes an enemy, but he who stands beside them with a knife hidden in his back, which at any time can stab them.
Monday, 14 April 2014
Asam Kumbang Crocodile Farm
Visited Asam Kumbang last week with Noni. By riding our motorcycle to Jl.Bunga Raya II No. 59 Sunggal , Medan Selayang sub-district, Medan, North Sumatra. Lona suggested us to reach that farm at 4 in the afternoon since that's the schedule for those reptiles to eat. The ticket to enter that farm cost Rp 6k for each.
Wanna join them?
Entering the main gate, we were welcomed by so smell and fishy aroma which was so eww. And really shocked for suddenly face-to-face with the crocodiles if we looked toward to the right because that's the only option. There's only wall in the left side after the entrance. Lol.
I'm not sure what they were doing. I hope that's not something indecent. Lol.
The crocodile farm was started in 1959 by Lo Than Mok, built on a land area of 2 hectares. In 2011, it's recorded there were 2700 live crocodiles that were placed in an artificial lake at the farm. The access to Asam Kumbang is fairly easy and can be passed by all the transport equipments available in Medan such as public transportation, tricycles and motorcycles and cars.
No, those are not floating wood pieces. Throw some duck heads and they will open their jaw widely and show off their canines
I don't know if the meal was failed to satisfy 'him' (all the crocodiles look as male in my sight) or 'he' was indeed had got fully tummy, no matter what that duck carcass in 'his' mouth was so disgusting. It looked like they eat duck almost everyday.
I saw a banner explained we could see a show of the friendship of a crocodile with a monkey by paying Rp 50k. A crazy price. I can remember when I was a kid, I saw monkey sit comfortably in the crocodile's mouth in some zoo and it's free. Oh, maybe we will be entertained something more special with that Rp 50k.
The oldest crocodile, 40 years old. It's the biggest as well.
If we want to feed the crocodiles with a living duck, we can buy it cost Rp 30k. If you really want to serve that reptile fresh meat, maybe you are kind of a lover, please don't make it as an entertainment. Seriously I'm not a victim of Babe or other animal movies which show how animals are like us, humans, have feeling and family they want to be with, like at least as long as they can.
The visitors, included Noni who was ready with her phone camera -,-", surrounded the cage where one of them threw a living duck to feed one crocodile occupies that cage. They waited impatiently to see the crocodile pounce that sad duck. That duck could only stand in the corner while the ugly predator slowly but I guess it's a sure movement, approaching its prey. I know the vegetarians considered us, meat eaters, are not really different with those crocodiles. But we eat the ducks decently. We slaughter them in the right way and.. Okay. Everything has each portion.
What's happened with your tail, Crocs?
I know that smell and fishy are not something which can be overcome that easily. It's not a goldfish farm where the management and the team can move the fish to other place while they drain and clean the artificial pond. But there is no crocodile in the dry ground. They should repair the broken swings and others. And those snakes, I'm sure it's a really bad decision to put that big boa (if I'm not mistaken) in a narrow and dark cage.
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Django Unchained -- (2012)
What a great movie!! Let me rate it 5 of 5 stars. I love it so much!! This is the first film can give me the perfect mixed feelings of sorry, sad, angered, hatred, hopes and amused at once.
What The Blacks have on their mind when they watch this? I curious at that stuff so much. I'm a person who strongly opposed any act of slavery. When I watched Django, "How could they do that cruel things? Is that really ever happened to the Blacks?" popped up in my mind and then my logic came back from nowhere. Those scenes had been selected from the real more sadistic happenings ever happened. That's true! No offense to any race, though.
The black comedy, wise words chosen, the characters' epic expressions and tones, how the director could create the perfect combination? Seriously, I felt my heart cut by the grief moments and suddenly there was a laughter from their jokes.
***
The title itself explained what's the main thing from this movie. It's about freedom. Django walking chained with other men who were the sold off slaves, stopped by a Germany man wanted to buy one of the slaves. He was Schultz, a dentist and bounty hunter. The masters were too arrogant made Schultz shoot them and freed Django as he knew the three wanted men he hunted. Since that, his name changed to be Django Freeman.
Django was the first man Schultz ever freed. That's why he felt responsible to help Django: help him to find his wife, Broomhilda. They started their duo bounty hunter partnership by killing one by one the wanted men Schultz hunted. Their hunting led them to the information who owned Broomhilda. He was Calvin Candie, the charming but brutal owner of plantation called Candyland. In Candyland, the slaves were forced to fight to the death to entertain their master, Candie. The fight called Mandingo.
It's not as easy as they thought to have a deal with Candie. His pride was above everything. Knowing the duo bounty hunters lied him just to free Broomhilda, made him wrath which finally sent him to the grave as well as Schultz.
***
Ugh! The Mandingo fight was the hardest scene to see. What other? When one slave named D'artagnan tried to escape from the plantation since he couldn't stand the Mandingo fight, caused Candie fed him to some wild dogs alive. I couldn't stand those scenes, Mr. Director Quentin Tarantino.
I was slightly bothered and shocked by the braveness of those some frontal lines, when Candie showed the cranium of his Black slave who took care his father and grandfather, and told that there were three points in the cranium showed the tissue of compliance nature, which there's no any other race in the world who had it bigger than the Blacks'.
Schultz's ridiculous behaviour even though constantly vigilant reminded me to Jack Sparrow so much. His funny mimics and conversations made me love him. TeeHee. And I felt so sad when saw he died. I love that uncle!
They even made jokes on Ku Klux Klan's white mask. Lol.
When Schultz shoot Candie to die and he then shoot by Candie's man, I felt the movie became spiritless. "Is it over?", "That's all?" "Disappointing, ugh!" But, I guessed Mr. Tarantino wanna make Django as the only rising star with his lady for justice. TeeHee. He back to the mansion when Candie's sister sent him to be a mine slave and killed everyone excluded two black women. I love that scene. It was like, "Now get what you've done!" Lol.
Candie was the cruelest but I hate Steven the most! Hey, people like Steven! How was it like to eat meat of your own brothers?
I forget to mention something. This movie was too gory. The spurted blood created new color to the plain wall.
I'm really bad in expressing my thought. There are still long, long lines I have in my mind but I'm a word indigent. There will never be anyone ever satisfied with my review and as well as I.
Friday, 11 April 2014
New Phone
But with Android.. It's really tempting to own. To be honest, I didn't have money to buy one. I wanna buy the good one if comes the time I have enough money. Enough means I don't need to know how the feeling of bankrupt is. What to say, my daddy is not a director of any big company so, I must set aside my money little by little.
I bought this Sony Xperia L. For you it's a cheap phone but, I love because now I own it. It has 8 MP main camera and it has curve body. I'm a big fan of Sony if you need to know. And seriously I will take care my old phone because it is one remainder of Sony and Ericsson ever stood side by side. Loolllsss...
Life is so easy when Apple and Blackberry was only a fruit..
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
'RAHMAT' International Wildlife Gallery
Today I'm going to continue writing about what I saw while visiting the gallery yesterday. I asked two drivers of public transport and the first answered that he did not pass through the gallery and the second asked me the address. So I told where the address and he then suggested to drop me off at the intersection of the road to the gallery. Of course I do not want to. I even asked a high school student who happened was also waiting for public transport to go to school and she did not know too. I finally asked the third driver (of the same type of public transportation like the first two) and he said 'yes'. Yuhhuuuu ..
there is a national monument of justice in front of the gallery entrance
The gallery is located on Jl. Supratman no. 309, Medan and we had to pay Rp 25,000 to enter the gallery and Rp 32.000 if you want to join the night safari. The gallery was so comfortable. I only bought the first one because I was alone. Because my friend said that the night safari is actually not different from what we see outside. it's just that we are entering a very dark room with beasts sound effects and wild animals that appear suddenly because of a little light (perhaps to give a real impression of being in the wilderness).
Wise notification for visitors to think about
Entering the main gallery we'll see some beautiful natural stones (if I'm not mistaken). Turn left, we will start to see the adventure thrill animals that have been preserved. Ranging from the cute animals to the wild, the smallest to the largest which came from across the world. Really awesome. But we were not allowed to touch the gallery collections. The first I saw an article about Rahmat Shah, founder and hunters from almost of all animals in the gallery (which seem to number in the thousands). Rahmat Shah is an international hunters joined in the international hunting organization (International Safari Club) where they are hunting with a legal hunt.
The first room I saw was Kids Corner Room. It's the place for young animals.
Cute, right? Can you notice the cute yellow chicks? Even the young bears and lions look like cute doll to play. But if they get bigger and bigger maybe I will be the doll for they to play >,<
Based on an article interview with Rahmat Shah, he explained "I usually hunt overseas when there is a notice from International Safari Club. Thus not be able to hunt at all times. And must be adapted to the hunting season in certain areas where some species are being over-population. Existing criteria again, can not hunt at night, do not shoot at will, if against the procedure should be punished by jail or expelled from Indonesia Safari Club members". Even any protected species when it is over population, must be controlled by being hunted.
African Big Five
Which contains 5 of the most difficult animals to hunt, and its existence was almost extinct in Africa, the lion (leo Phantera), African elephants (Loxodonta africana), bull (Syncerus caffer), Leopard (Phantera pardus), and White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum ).
Until now, the museum has a collection of more than 1000 species of animals and the amount of approximately 3000 animals preserved from different countries. The collections were the majority obtained by Rahmat Shah of legal hunting with the concept of "Conservation by Utilization" had been done for many years in various parts of the world. In addition, the collections at the museum were also derived from gifts and donations from various circles, dead animals in a zoo or wildlife park, and some purchased legally.
Birds of Paradise Varieties
Cats of The World
Pheasant of The World
The eggs were in the different room, okay. I just think they had some relations. LOL. Silly me forget capture the note of what kind of animals which had them
Bear Room
Sorry for the blur pictures. Really really dark you know and flash was forbidden. Dunno why. Maybe the light can damage the collections.
Insect Collection
No no.. That's not insect! I just think they are beautiful. hehe
Dry Aquarium
Really hard to get this picture because the school students look loving it so much. They stand so long in front of it so I should queue. LOL
This crocodile is really big in real life.
The Mountain Sheep
I could capture until the top but the result was so bad so I took the top when I stepped to the second Floor
Dall Sheep and Grey Wolf
Indonesia Nature Room
Sumatran tigers are almost extinct
On the second floor, preferably as a library and storage space hundreds of trophies, awards, and plaques result from the owner of the museum achievements over the years. There was a notice that the content was "Want to know how to hunt without destroying nature? Read books contained in our library." But the bookshelf was actually locked -,-". In addition, there was also a collection of original jersey world soccer players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane. There was also a collection of pieces of 35mm film cell from famous Hollywood films such as Harry Potter, Twilight, and Shrek.
They also had some conjoined twin animals.
Boring? Okay, it will be the last. hehe
Can you teach me how to edit picture to get natural result?
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