Paradiso Perduto

You don't want to enter that gate accompanied by a wrong tune I’ve been saving love songs and lullabies… and there’s so much more no one ever had before Something’s telling me it might be you Yes it’s telling me it might be you All of my life (It Might Be You – Stephen Bishop) This post is developed to avoid musical faux pas I often witnessed in wedding parties. Singing “Someone Like You” at the top of your lung at someone’s wedding? Some wedding singer just got no sense of decency. It’s even more suspicious if the one who sang it was not wedding singer, but friends or relatives of the bride or the groom. Hmmm…was there a hidden feeling or love affair we weren’t supposed to know? I wonder. Some  -okay, most- of the listed song can be qualified as “oldies”, since this list is compiled by yours truly over here. Some are so mainstream, and some you might never heard before (especially if you have been living under a rock for the last fifteen years or so). By ...

I'm still on my Okada Masaki weekly movie-watching marathon, and this is the movie of the week! Woot!  Kokuhaku International Movie Poster Confessions (Kokuhaku) Japanese:  告白 Director:   Tetsuya Nakashima Writer:   Kanae Minato  (novel),  Tetsuya Nakashima Release Date:   June 5, 2010 Runtime:  106 min. You can watch it here Belum pernah nonton film ini sebelumnya, walaupun sudah tahu film ini ada dari lama. Padahal kalau dilihat dari award -nya, ini film tidak diragukan lagi kualitasnya. Matsu Takako (pemeran Yoko Moriguchi), Okada Masaki, dan Nakashima Tetsuya  panen nominasi (dan menang beberapa). Film ini juga merupakan official Academy Award submission dari Jepang untuk kategori film asing terbaik. Terus kenapa nggak segera nonton? Well, let's see the brief synopsis (as written in AsianWiki ) : Middle school teacher Yoko Moriguchi's ( Takako Matsu ) life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4 y...

I know, I know. I'm suck at keeping routines, right? Setelah ini insya Allah akan rutin posting tiap Senin, karena sudah banyak hal membahagiakan yang mengantri untuk ditulis... sayang untuk dibiarkan di lembar-lembar memori yang memudar, hehehe. Feel Good Monday hari ini memiliki tema " Indulging in What I Love , " dan itulah yang menjadi kerjaan saya selama beberapa minggu terakhir ini. Pada usia dewasa awal sekarang ini, banyak pertanyaan-pertanyaan muncul semacam 'Apa yang benar-benar saya suka?' 'Apa yang benar-benar saya inginkan untuk diri saya dan dunia' 'Mau jadi apa saya nanti?' Hal-hal berikut saya harapkan bisa sering saya nikmati di masa depan. Kalau pun tidak sering, inginnya hal-hal di bawah ini menjadi tempat retreat sejenak saat rutinitas terasa terlalu menyebalkan. Pardon my random and probably incorrect English/other foreign languages below, I tend to think in a horrendous mishmash of several foreign la...

You looked at me squarely in the eye and you understood what message I wanted to convey. But just in case you didn't, I made it clear for you... "We are NOT going to have a conversation like this EVER again, are we clear?" You were sensitive enough for not forcing me to my limit. You raised your hands and smiled. "Okay, fine. Let's talk about something more cheerful, like, you know...unicorns? Or confettis, bubbles, biscuits...something like that?"  Bless you and your uncanny talent of making me smile. "Biscuits," I sighed. "Let's talk more about biscuits." After half an hour spent with discussing about choco cream and crusty pies, we looked at the clock, and I exclaimed, "Time really flies when we do something we enjoy, right?" You laughed. "You mean, discussing about biscuits." I honestly answered, "I mean, having a discussion with you. No matter what the topic is. We could talk abo...

source Sometimes the wind must pass I shall let myself be carried to where the words are born I shall look for your words... I want to bring them back to you   It is not right that we content ourselves with a story which is always the same with a life spent forgetting (with slight alteration from Le Tue Parole by Andrea Bocelli) Seharian ini, lagu ini terngiang terus di telinga. Bless my cranial jukebox this time, karena biasanya yang sering diputar ulang di otak saya itu melodi semacam: LALALALALA SEGERNYA VITA JELLY! -Iklan Vita Jelly zaman sekitar dua tahun yang lalu NYOS NYOS DIKENYOS! NYOOOS! NYOS NYOS DIKENYOS! NYOOOOS! -iklan susu kenyot ga tau apa, dengan modifikasi oleh teman saya, Dini Fauziah Pratiwi. Yeah, I know. My random brain can be pretty annoying Tapi hari ini...lagu ini yang dialunkan. Sweet. Dan seperti biasa, saya teringat kamu, Ruh. Juga harapan-harapan sederhana saya yang semuanya menyangkut kamu . ...

The shadow of your smile when you are gone Will color all my dreams And light the dawn Look into my eyes, My love, and see All the lovely things You are to me Our wistful little star Was far too high A teardrop kissed your lips And so did I Now, when I remember spring All the joy that love can bring I will be remembering The shadow of your smile  (The Shadow of Your Smile - Astrud Gilberto) Ich vermisse dich, Ruh You and your (sometimes) silly antics, and your waving when I go, and those little creases on the corner of your eye when you showered the world with your warm, comforting smile. That song up there, somehow reminds me of you. Maybe it's Astrud Gilberto, maybe it's the lyric...or maybe just about anything can easily connect my random mind to you. I don't even know what to write, aside from that simple sentence. Ich vermisse dich. That's it.  Hochachtungsvoll, deine Vera Ps. in case you're too tired to play the...

Jerman kalah lawan Italia (lagi). Nangis kejer guling-guling cangkul sawah deh. Nggak deng, bohong. Alhamdulillah (?) saya punya lebih banyak hal yang membuat kekalahan Jerman jadi bagaikan sejumput merica di atas tumpukan kekhawatiran saya yang lain sebagai main dish-nya. Misalnya, metpen saya yang sampai kini belum dikumpulin karena dosen pembimbing saya belum bales apa saya masih boleh ngumpulin atau nggak. Juga hasil UAS semester enam yang saya jalani dengan pintar mode : totally off. Dan lain-lain yang kalau saya ceritakan, well...nobody cares, most of them were the result of my fault anyways, haha. Italian food. Forever yum~ (source : theitaliandishblog.com) Sedih sih. YA IYALAH SEDIH. I love Die Deutscher Nationalmannschaft like I love my own country's national team. Maybe even more (karena Jerman lebih sering tampil di kompetisi mayor, saya jadi lebih sering nonton penampilan mereka daripada nonton timnas Indonesia, dan seperti kata orang Jawa : witing tresno jalar...

If it's true, from the start  that the name of those we love are written in our hearts.  And we search 'til we find in this jungle of confusion  something that remind us how we love each other,  that I think I've found a clue.  'Cause I'm certain I remember you Menatapmu rasanya seperti menerawang ke balik layar putih pentas wayang kulit. Kamu nyata, begitu nyata...namun pada saat yang sama, kamu terasa surreal, bagai permainan bayangan dan sorot lampu yang membawaku ke dunia khayal. Aku terpaku semalam suntuk, menikmati kamu menguntai kehidupanmu. Aku memeluk lutut dan menghela nafas ketika indera dan imajiku menekuri langkahmu, membiarkan waktu menyibak di sekitarku seperti kerumunan pejalan kaki yang tak peduli. Kamu datang. Lalu...kamu tersenyum . Ah...aku selalu menyukai senyummu yang sehangat syal rajut itu. Gerakan bibirmu (datar di tengah, dengan ujung bibir yang menanjak landai) membuat lengkung dagumu semakin kentara. Kamu memiliki kerutan ...