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Archive for February, 2008

Javier’s Bad Hair Day

I am talking about that Javier, the one who has just won his first Oscar for a best supporting role in No Country for Old Men, Yes, Senor Javier Bardem. Well, he is one of the reason I agreed watching that movie during JIFFEST week, last December. A friend recommended No Country as a must [...]

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One of a Million

  
Well, not literally, I guess. It is because the official statistic said there are “only” 12000 street children in 12 millions Jakarta’s population number. It is far for being a million, eh? But, Honey, the number is increased like the new malls in the capital city, so high, and available on every corner of the [...]

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The Beatles van Java

Meet The Cangcuters!

This new band, by the way “cangcut” means the brief,  from Bandung has a strategically smart approach to steal a show by borrowing The Beatles old fashioned, (or is it very classic?), hairdo. And the funny show keeps going on. The Cangcuters not only adopt Lennon’s famous “half- of-coconut-shell-shaped” hairdo but also clone [...]

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the power of red

The best thing about living in Indonesia, the melting pot of all (mostly Asian) cultures, the “nusa-antara” or  “between islands”, is the various holidays that we have. Last month we celebrate Islamic new Lunar Year and today it is the turn for the Chinese new Lunar Year or the Imlek Day.  Millions of Chinese Indonesians [...]

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Between SBY and Pak Salman

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Yesterday President SBY went to Karawang, West Java, to talk with farmers to gather first hand information on agriculture in the area. The way he conducted the meeting reminds me to his former boss, the late President Soeharto with his trademark “klompencapir” farmer show. On his way home, Pak SBY got trapped in Jakarta seasonal [...]

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I don’t know about you but I think Dhani Ahmad went too far this time. I am not writing about his  divorced saga with Maia (yeah, he went too far big time!) but his new single with band The Rock called Kamu Kamulah Surgaku
where he made a videoclip showing him kissing his sleeping three [...]

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