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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Niji by Yuzu


A song that is quite inspiring by Yuzu
It was used by Matsujun and children with hearing and talking disabilities for their tap dancing collaboration.
It has a strong message indeed

I do not own rights of this song at all

Monday, August 26, 2013

Cooler temperature

I am thankful to the Lord for today's weather! Love today's weather! Cool all day, a little bit hard to wake up in the morning though. Other than that, the day was great. Feel laid back finding out sensei was out for bussiness so he had to go earlier. I did not go home earlier today, there's one result I had to analyze before compiling all of the data tomorrow :)

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Review : World War Z

I know this movie has been distributed earlier, and thanks to this country's policy and regulation, plus my hectic experiments; I just got a chance to watch it now.It should be watched with a good surround sound system to maximize the impact.

 I think it's a great movie, I can't help myself posting some of the highlights of the movie. 

Here they are:

1. Love the opening scene of how they potray how life goes in every aspect in nature and human world

2. I just can't help to protest of the scientist stereotype in most of action movies who are tend to be killed in first half movie. 

2. I like the "humour" scene when gerry's wife tried to call and indirectly attracted the zombies on airplane tank filling scene. When it was still not connected, the wife just put it off and go back to sleep.

3. "Andrew Fassbach: Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one's better, or more creative. Like all serial killers, she can't help but have the urge to get caught or what good would all those brilliant crimes do if no one takes the credit? So she leaves crumbs. Now the hard part, is seeing the crumbs, the clues there. Sometimes it's in your thoughts where the most brutal part of a virus is. Turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loves disguising her weaknesses as strengths. She's a bitch." 
Enough said! 

4. Epic scene when gerry faced his fear righ in front of his eyes continued with a scene he calmly walked straight into the the zombie crowd. It was like a zen moment! Brad Pitt succesfully potrayed the acceptance that he's dying but by the same time a faith that he knows he will come out alive. Fear beautifully wrapped with Confidence! If you accepted who you are, know that you are weak, have nothing to loose, accompanied with a knowldge of you have faith, you can face your fear and all of the hectic things in front of you. 

5. My moral of the story: as a scientist,  i will learn how to grab a gun safely :)
and would probably wear a non slipped shoes. 

6. A high praise to the trailer editor! When  I first watched the trailer a couple of months ago, I did not even realize it was actually a zombie movie. Until I actually came and saw the movie! Absolutley no clues! I first thought it was a movie of peaceful america finally got attacked by some countries and how these civilians trying to survive the war. 

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Osaka

Already arrived at osaka; I am thankful for that :)

Thursday, August 1, 2013

How someone`s death can change your life

So, I listened to Atlanta radio, and one of the announcer was talking about how one person`s death could change your life either for good or bad.
For me, there were three deaths, well, at least, the third death- I realized, influenced how I look my life and its priorities. They were actually to the ones that lead me into my biggest regret until now.
They were my quite close family`s death; my godfather, my grandma`s younger sister, and my godmother. They were all sick when I was in Jakarta; They were all gone when I was not there.

The first one, my godfather`s, happened when I was still in Jogjakarta. I could not go home to pay my last honor to him. The worst thing, I can`t be there at his critical moment.
The second and third one, happened when I was still in Japan. Also, I can`t be there in person.
My grandma`s sis was deaf and mute. In consequence, I could not say anything to her or hear anything from her. I could not attend her funeral either.
The only good thing was when my godmother passed away, I can only heard her machine`s sound and then the blurry doctor`s voice telling she has passed away. It stays within my memory. I can still recall that hurtful event. All I can do was holding the phone and crying.  I am her goddaughter. I should have been there when she was having her roughest time. Worst is, sometimes I felt like I was lucky I was here I do not have to see her suffer, unlike the rest part of the family. I can still be absent and no one can blame me.
In the end, I blame myself.

Actually, I do not know if I can forgive myself.
How can I do this? Chasing my dreams while one of my important family member suffered?
And what was the price?
Is it even worthy?
My sister consoled me that my godmother was proud of me and not even once got disappointed of me being absent. And I have to finish this so my godmother`s dream could also be fulfilled, achieving highest education level, a chance she hadn`t be able to have.

Then, it occurred to me that this might happen again. After all, we will never know whose life will end when.
I pray that I do not have to experience this again. At least, not during  my stay in Japan.
Most of my entire life, I have dreamed getting a higher degree even work outside the country. The further the better. It will be a perfect proof that I have been a pretty much perfect grown-up. I can do things by myself.
Suddenly, it did not matter anything to me anymore. Well, it still does matter. But, not as urgent as I used to think.
In the end, it`s the family you want to go home to.
It`s the family that will be your strength and motivation.
No matter what happened, they are the ones you can count or lean on.
Others do not THAT matter anymore compared to a bunch of loved ones God given to you.

I decided to end my dream chasing journey outside the country.
I still have my dream as a researcher. I did not give it up entirely.
I want to focus doing my research in my country.
So I can look out for my loved ones.
People might see me to be lack of ambition or even motivation.
It is fine with me. People judge. No matter what you do.
I realized there will be a time I have to settle down, maybe  not because of me getting married (which I really can not even think about it now), rather, because it is my responsibility to support them also.
When that time comes, I want to make sure I will not have any second biggest regret in the rest of my life.