another post ga penting

sangat aneh. barusan di channel 68 cable sini (comcast SF)- which is Jade Channel, or tepatnya TVB USA, ADA HOTELIER!!!!!!!!!!!! *SHOCK SETENGAH MAMPUS* this wasn't supposed to be!!!!!!

dah episode yang akhir2 banget sih. betek.

trsu gua penasaran, langsung cari ke jadwal cablenya termasuk jadwal TVB USA sendiri, dan *GA ADA*. no mention of hotelier none whatsoever

dan sekarang gua lagi boker
dan sekarnag gua denger lagu abisnya.
KOK ANEH SIH..................

and again, why should i care about this?
ga tau, really. just another random post ga penting. worrying about hotelier on TV padahal VCD komplitnya gua jgua udah punya *DOH*

the life of an obsessive fangirl. oh well.

been a while since my last post

which means, there must be something intersting enough to prompt me to write-

just saw an accident right in front of the house. well, i didn't actually see it as it happens- just the aftermath, *right* after it happened. was watching seventh heaven rerun on ABC while tidying up my binder when suddenly there's a loud crash from outside the apartment. don't get me wrong, crash sounds are often heard around this neighboorhood, but that was my first time hearing something that loud. so i ran, straight to my bedroom window to see if something's happened. and something did happen.

classic scenario of car crashing with another car in the same lane. stupid car in front makes an unresponsible/unconsiderable u turn, car in the back is rolling fast from behind, so front car hit back car. i decipher this all from a dude (looks like the witness) in a brown shirt's account- with NO audio. kan gua liat dari jendela atas, mana kedengeran si, although jelas bnaget mobilnya berhubung pas depan jendela.

benernya hal pertama yang gua liat tuh, pas mobilnya pertama kali ketabrak, ada african american dude gitu ngedeketin hit-car (car that got hit) sambil ngecek cewe didalem yang nyetir (cuman 1 cewe). gua tadinya kira dia tuh yang nabrak, jadi sambil ngecek what the hell happened gitu. ternyata gua baru sadar dia tuh cuman bystander/onlooker doang yang lagi disamping jalan ama temen2nya hang out trus liat kejadian, cuman baek hati sendiri langsung lari nolongin. dia *sendirian* (temen2nya tetep di trotoar ngeliatin doang) ngedorongin car nya sampe ke shoulder of the road, at one point dia sampe frustrasi banget gitu teriak gara2 ga ada yang bantuin dia (including temen2nya)

ternyata setelah beberapa saat, gua baru sadar kalo ternyata yang ngehit itu salah satu temennya dia, karena dia abis ngedorong ke bahu jalan & ngecek on the girl dia langsung lari balik ke apt dan nyari temennya kali.

cewenya yang ketabrak sih looks fine2 ajah, except for some bleeding either nose/forehead (ga gitu jelas sih dari atas, tapi kayanya bleeding soalnya di lap lap pake tisu gitu)- untung gua ga liat darahnya kalo gak trauma kali.

one thing that i notice adalah, it took 10 minutes for first aid to come to the scene! padahal tuh cuman fire department cuman beda 1 blok doang!!!!! disini yang pertama kali ngerespon kalo ada accident adalah: SFFD (fire dept) bersama medicnya, baru polisi.
BUT it took them 10 FRIKKIN MINUTES TO GET THERE! i couldn't believe it! itu pun cuman 2 orang yang dateng-
it took the medic team anotehr 10 FRIKKIN MINUTES to get there. jadi total pertolongan response pertama adalah 20 menit!!! gila!!! itu kalo accidentnya bener2 parah, orangnya dah mati kali!
sumpah ini disturb gua banget! apalagi disini gitu loh! yang supposedly apa2 cepet- orang kita sebage driver ajah kalo ketemu fire truck/medic/ambulan disuruh berenti & minggir ditengah jalan/buka jalan RIGHT AWAY. dan ini tuh fire dept nya DIDEPAN BLOK, yang kaya cuman ga sampe semenit drive dah sampe.
THIS IS INSANE!
tapi untung cewenya ga kenapa2 sih, akhirnya medic dateng, ngecek2 (MASI BISA SAMBIL BECANDAAN), trus cewenya diangkut ke medic & jalan.
cowo yang baek hati nolongin itu pun tetep bantu2 ngambilin barang di mobil cewenya, bantu ngangkutin barangnya. aduh parah deh

malah yang witness (dude in a brown shirt) - kayanya sih jgua yang involved di accident karena sampe pada detik ini gua nulis (which is about an hour later), masih ada di depan sama temennya cowo yang nolong tadi (primary suspect- yang nabrak). mobilnya yang ketabrak pun masih belon di derek. LAMA KAN MOBIL DEREK DATENGNYA! btw mobil polisi arrived about 45 minutes after the accident.

dan sekarang brown shirt dude + cowo yang nabrak masih didepan filling in something for the report- ada ncek2 nosy yang ngeliatin terus dari tadi tanpa bantuin. well, gua juga dari tadi ngeliatin doang sih, tapi kan gua diatas, bukan dibawah.

debris from the crushed bumper are still spread there in the middle of the road. dari tadi gua pratiin mobil2 yang lewat tuh sampe nginjek2 nambah bikin debris lagi- SFFD nya lumayan bego ga nyapu dari pertama, at least dipinggirin kek! kalo ban mobil orang rusak gara2 ngelindes debrisnya gimana!

right now, an hour and 15 minutes later- mobil yang rusak masi didpean jendela (dibawah), blon diangkut, ncek2 nosy masih disana jgua sok ngeliat2 bemper mobilnya, the 2 suspects (brown shirt + cowo item primary suspects) masih filling in report, + another cop masih filling in reports jgua. dan gua dah cape ngeliat. sebodo mo kelanjutannya gimana deh

end words, phei fu abis sama si cowo item onlooker tadi yang ga ada apa2 rela bantuin sendirian. bener2 phei fu. itu yang menurut gua the real first aid response. STUPID SFFD+MEDIC+COPS! ga guna!

oh wait, another police car just pulled over- BUAT APA GITU LOH! kejadian dah lewat LAMA! bikin jalan tambah macet ajah, bawa mobil derek kek buruan! BAKKA! TA PEN TAN! si ncek2 nosy malah ngobrol sama 2 suspects, malah makin ngeliat2 bemper mobilnya sama si black dude, ampun kalo gua jadi black dude itu meskipun gua suspect gua bakal panas kali! orang dah bingung kejadian kaya gini malah ditanya2in sama si ncek2 kepo nosy.

ok dude in brown shirt is leaving, trying to tell the stupid police officers. (brati dia bukan suspect, just some witness filling in reports).
nah brati suspectnya = the black dude who's still there. hah ncek2 nosynya ikutan fill in reports, he may be a potential witness! pantesan kepo abis!
now the police officers are ngongko-ing. wait, there's another dude (white guy) coming over checking on the bumper. who's he? the black dude is getting in to the car & trying out the tires. EMANG BOLEH YA?!?!? bukannya destroying evidence??!?!? what the hell are they doing? oh. i think he's trying to move the car somewhere. ncek2 nosy is STILL NOSY. ah the car actually works. i just hope the dude didn't wreck the car much further. where is he taking the car? dah ga kliatan- dah lah. sekarang dibawah tinggal police officers, they're leaving i suppose, so NO mobil derek came. ncek2 nosy left. so did the cops. wrecked car gone too. all that's left are the debris in the road. STILL in the middle of the road *sweat drop*

ririn signing out.

the most amusing random thing happened to me today.

so. i was walking home from school earlier this afternoon, going through the same daily route, k train, sloat ave., and then along buckingham ave, winston dr. as i was walking along sloat, i saw this guy with some sort of pinata in his hand. well, i'm not actually sure that it was a pinata, i mean, it was purplish, paper-y, shaped somewhat like one of the characters in cartoon network- couldn't remember exactly which one- i think it was probably the purple dino/dragon in flinstones? ANYWAY. it's hard not to notice him really, because the pinata was pretty huge and you obviously don't see a lot of people walking around with those stuff around here. then he turned around the corner and i thought that was the end of it.

but as i reached buckingham ave, there he is again! still walkign a couple of feet in front of me with the big pinata. now here comes the thing. well, buckingham avenue is basically a bunch of stores & buildings- but there's also this army & marine corps stations. often times they would have some officer just hanging around right outside the station trying to get people to enlist, but apparently not today. back to the pinata guy, well, right at the moment he passes by the US Army Corps station, he frikkin flashes his middle finger at them! it was so frikkin hillarious i almost died trying my best not to laugh. i mean, it was a window-shopping kind of station- not like where you just have some door & store glass where you can some stuff- you can actually see straight inside where some officers are actually sitting on their desks. and the guy just nonchalantly passes by with the big pinata in his left hand while flashing F*YOU with his right in broad daylight! this other guy walking towards us even did a double take on the pinata guy- probably thought he was seeing things.

but man! all i can say is more power to the pinata dude deh. SF is surely full of random weird things you can encounter everyday. my guess is the dude was a gay democrat who hates bush and thus the military/army. he'd probably just seen michael moore's fahrenheit/911! haiyah. amusinggggggggggggggggg amusing.

just got back from spidey premiere.

bloody crowded, bloody people standing in line, bloody NOISY college boys, bloody it's 1.40 AM

rencana mo nonton jam 10 malem- pushed back til 10.30 because the ticket was sold out. tadinya ga mo beli online karena extra chargenya rada mahai, but bought it anyway lah. within the span of 5 minutes, tickets both in metreon & daly city for the latest showtimes were sold out- talk about premieres! good thing that i'm actually clever enough to get it anyway MWAHAHHAHAHAHA, padahal tadi tuh dah ngeri + desperate ga bakal dapet good seats. akhirnya we went there around 9. PAGI BANGET GA SI? 1 1/2 hrs before the movie actually starts, and they were already PEOPLE standing in line! padahal yang jam 9.30 & jam 10 punya jgua blon pada masuk!

akhirnya kita stood in line... waited... waited.. still waiting... and then had to move to an actual organized line.. stupid noisy group in front of us who don't fucking understand what personal space means.. still waiting... and akhirnya, 10.15 dikasi masuk.. RUN!!! RUN LIKE CRAZY!!! RUN!!!... dan berhasil merebut 2 tempat duduk yang lumayan di center & were actually pretty good seats.

yang paling kesel cuman having to sit in front of STUPID NOISY COLLEGE BOYS who acts like highschool kids and who think that they're very highly opinionated when they just don't fucking know what the heck they're talking about. HUH. so much for "claiming" to go to SFSU! belon pernah gua ketemu a bunch of boys yang lebih BAWEL dari mereka. ga tahan banget deh. dikit2 komen. dikit2 komen. PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FOCUS ON THE MOVIE YOU DOOFUSES!!!! masa mary jane dikomenin what a bitch, trus pake berdebat catwoman isn't supposed to be black, trus pake komen it's not like in the comic books.. *gubrak*. i mean, it's OKAY gitu loh to have opinions on everyhting, i do too- but WILL YOU PLEASE HAVE THE DECENCY OF NOT SPEAKING YOUR MINDS OUT FUCKING LOUD WHEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO WATCH A MOVIE! *bikin bete*

anyways, the movie itself.. errr... errr... ga tau gimana kasi rating yang tepat deh. divided banget gua. that is, between the first half and second half of the movie. 1st half.. biasa abis. dalem arti ga beda banget dari yang #1- dalem arti juga, if you're a superhero geek like me, lu bakal beranggepan Spidey#1 KEREN BANGET in every sense despite the lack of plotlines & cheesy comic book scenes & cheesy dialogues & very annoying mary jane who knows nothing but screaming. buat gua, sekitar 1 jam 15 menitan (sekitar 1/2 pertama) movienya, kurang lebih sama banget kaya #1, belon lagi ditambah dialogue2 yang kadang2 bordering on BOSAN dan ga perlu banget. action & special efeknya though, STILL FUCKING ROCKS! ada juga sih beberapa scene2 lucu yang include how clumsy peter parker is- which is somewhat dear-ing to the audience imho, at least dearing enough to evoke awwwww's every frikkin time all throughout the movie!

and then sampailah kita pada 1/2 half of the movie. (i know this because i actually checked my watch the second i thought the movie reached its turning point). let me tell you, BERBALIK 180 DERAJAT. ASLI DEH! 1/2 half terakhir itu, buat gua, might finally make this movie qualifies as one of the most memorable comicbook/superhero sequels. there's SO MANY GREAT MOMENTS! not only funny, but also touching, heroic, EVERYTHING thrown into that last half of the movie deh. dimulai dari the exact moment spiderman nyelamatin orang2 di kereta yang ampir jatoh.

*SPOILER ALERT*
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pokoke yang buat gua terharu tuh scene yang pas dia kaya di mosh-pit sama orang2 di keretanya.. like di support by them.. *SUCH* a GORGEOUS, deep, moment. kayanya ikut terharu ajah lu liat orang2 (at least orang2 di kereta) bisa liat spiderman sebenernya siapa (ada yang ngomong- he's just a kid, not older than my son), trus actually appreciates and stand behind him, supports him the very moment spidey needs the most. pas di mosh pit itu bener2 deh... AAAAAAAAAAAAA *menggila*. oh, perlu diingat though, that scrunching face tobey is not a pretty sight. UEK. even though he's SUPER hot in his torn spidey costume- SUPER SUPER *SUPER MEGA DUPER* HOT!!!!!!!!
and then that's not even all!
what makes the 2nd half of this movie so great is that FINALLY spiderman bisa kasi liat Harry & Mary Jane who he really is!!! which is peter parker!!!! (perlu diingat jgua, i kinda hate how peter always refers to mary jane as MJ. bikin ilfil ajah gara2 michael jackson)
and then juga musuhnya! si doc oct- actually an enemy yang punya hati baek. gila beda banget dari green goblin deh, which was annoying. rasanya lu ikut seneng ajah villainnya bisa sadar sendiri atas kesalahan dia (although it strays from the actual story in the comic book, which FUCKINGNOISYBOYS "kindly" point out)
there's like TOO MANY good scenes lah crammed into the last half of the movie, romantic scene with spider web where MJ & spidey senderan lah-- adooh!! PRETTY!!!!!!
trus segala spidey flying around special effects.. tetep KERENNN
tobey in torn spidey costume.. again, SUPER SUPER MEGA FRIKKIN HOT
and then of course, happy ending. lengkap juga sama story line yang more/less bakal jamin ada spidey 3.
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so. critics review weren't wrong at all. (if you disregard the first half of the movie, that is). me myself, i'd probably give it a decent 4 (gabungan 3.5 first half & 4.5 second half)
definitely BETTER than the 1st one (although not that very much better like some people claim it to be), better just because of the actual substance of the movie lah.
and now it's blimey 2.17 AM.
besok gua sekolah.
belon baca material.
dan gua mo boker sekarnag.
haiya.

fahrenheit 9/11 ? holy shit, batman!

as usual, my weekend movie fix includes an unquestionably controversial movie that opens this week- Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11. as i've said before in my previous posts on Bowling for Columbine and Michael Moore- per se- i never really liked the guy that much, specially for taking advantage of award shows as big as the Oscars to state your political beliefs.

but do i think he's brilliant? hell yeah! am i the only one? hell no!

untuk mencegah sold out, kita tadi pesen tiket online, dan DAPET!!! pelemnya sendiri mulai jam 2, dan gua sengaja nonton di teater yang kecil, kalo di Metreon mah udah pasti ga dapet lah.. like.. DOH! anyway, beli tiket jam 1/2 1, dan masih dapet! lumayan kaget sih, which makes us automatically berpikiran ga bakal ngantri dong? wrong.
ANTRIANNYA buat seatsnya FUCKING PANJANG! dateng kesana padahal about half an hour sebelon pelemnya mule (well, biasa kalo untuk pelem2 yang gua yakin rame sih gua dateng 1 jam sebelonnya, tapi ini kan udah beli tiket online!). in fact, panjang orang ngantrinya itu like about... 10-15 stores up to where i stand, dan di blakang gua masih PUANJAAAAAAAANGGGGGG (anggep ajah 1/2 kalinya yang antrian depannya deh). i mean, anggep ajah 1 store front itu about 3-5 meters lah. 10 toko aja udah 30 meters dong! AT the LEAST! itu tuh baru antrian yang *DILUAR* bioskop. didalem gua yakin udah beruler2 lagi. mana teaternya cuman 1 lagi.. lomayan gede sih. baru kali ini gua ngantri segini panjang sejak yang dulu pas nonton ROTK (mati lampu). begitu dikasi masuk, langsung LARIIIIIi cari tempat duduk, dan sialnya dapet di 3 dari depan. adoh nonton sampe lehernya cram, dongak all the way. untung ajah bangkunya tuh yang kaya bisa recline/elastis gitu- jadi kaya 45 degree lah. parah sih tetep ajah.

eniwei, pelemnya sendiri. unquestionably, BIAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSS abis. in fact it's _SO_ damn bias you can't even see straight. sampe kasian gua sama Bushnya. tapi mo kasian jgua ga bisa sih, soalnya evidence2 yang di present di pelem ini sendiri bener2 relevan abis sih. emagn perlu diakuin, mungkin si michael moore sendiri manipulate to his own advantage, tapi dari info yang gua research2, sebagian besar claim/accusationsnya tuh ga salah. apalagi kalo yang include footage2 dari iraq, beda yah kalo lu nonton Saving Private Ryan ato Band of Brothers liat usus/kaki ilang dimana berceceran darah.. soalnya ini actual footage sih, and they're actual soldiers as well. you can't help but be moved deh. literally moved. gua sendiri ampir nangis (repeat- AMPIR nangis) pas yang ada emak2 lagi bacain letter dari anaknya yang mati di Iraq. sedih banget ampun2. tapi elemen lucunya jgua banyak sih, tentu sajah sarcastic lucu. pas abis, SERENTAK cheer ma tepok tangan sebioskop, which is JARANG. let me repeat, JARANG. ini sampe pada standing ovation segala. biasa kan kalo orang (like HP or ROTK) biarpun 2 2nya jgua ditepok tanganin dan cheeer, mereka kan mengandalkan cinematography yang bener2 bagus & story line yang bener2 efektif as an actual movie. kalo fahrenheit 911 kan documentary!! salut deh. biasa juga beberapa orang tepok duluan, baru diikutin yang laen2 tepok (like the case with HP). tapi yang ini, ga perlu di encourage deh.. let me tell you, SERENTAK tepok tangannya + cheer. LAMA lagi! masi mending kalo cuman sebentar, ini LAMAAAAAAaa- trus as expected, di luar bioskop jadi kaya sarang ngongko gitu (dikit banget sih teenagers, or well, people like myself)- banyakan semua orang2 yang kayanya educated & bule asli & peoople yang ngevote gitu yang punya strong political affiliations pada debat sini debat sana pokoke ngomongin tu felem ga abis2 deh. oh tapi perlu di notice juga, SF (dan CA) sendiri itu kan demokrat abis. jadi yah jelas ajah sih cheer orang2 pada gila banget.

kalo gua sendiri, sebagai well, orang yang relatively have nothing to do with US Presidential Election- wong jelas2 bukan citizen, have mixed feelings sih. tapi mostly salute on Michael Moore's work. but that's of course not to say that i don't have any interest on american politic/election. in fact, sejak gua ngambil kelas political science, interest gua multiply 10 times! and yang sampe sekarang gua pelajari sih, mostly betapa rumit & interesting american politics is, and segala manipulation, having power, keren abis- salah satu yang gua tangkep itu, jadi presiden amrik ga gampang. dan guru gua sendiri meskipun ga secara langsung praise ato diss president bush, ato state whether he's republican/democrat, dia akuin sih bush sampe sekarang have been doing a pretty good job in balancing both domestic/foreign matters (which is essential for a good president). nah.. sekarnag setelah di present dengan pelem ini.. *GUBRAK*. all i can say is i'm glad that i don't have to vote in November. HAUHUAHUAHAUHA pusinggggggggggggggggg.

in the end, i'd say that this movie is DEFINITELY worth watching. meskipun unquestionably bias and not for everybody, i admire michael moore's bravery in challenging the goverment in this movie. considering it as a documentary, cinematographically & plot-line-ly sih ga ada yang spesial sama sekali. yang paling appealing adalah topik yang dibahas, which is exactly: holy shit, batman!

i had. a bad. day.

AHCK.

They're playing The Others on TV, and i'm blocking it right now with my laptop writing this entry. Unfortunately, Nicole Kidman is shouting so loud that my attempt is apparently rendered futile. Whyyyy God, WHYYYY?!?!

That has nothing to do with my bad day, of course. So apparently, me and my driving instructor probably got frustrated with each other today. I know I don't drive well, but that's not because I don't know how to drive. As a matter of fact, I DO know how to drive, and I pretty much know how to follow rules. what i don't know is that there are like a BILLION rules in the 30 minute drive and you're only allowed to make 15 mistakes during the test. don't even try to get me started on the automatic fails. failure to look over shoulder while changing lanes apparently result in that. one- instead of three strikes- and you're out. just like that. 2 hours of waiting and $60 went down the drain. WELL FUCK THAT.

when making a left turn in a two way lane, check 3 things: incoming, pedestrians, and signal. when looking over your shoulder, do it quickly! don't brake when you're changing lanes. don't forget to LOOK OVER YOUR FUCKING SHOULDER when you're changing lanes. when making a right turn, do the same frikkin thing to avoid hitting a bicycle. (well duh?) always look far ahead, "the big picture"- yeah, right. don't drive too slow, but don't go over the upper limit as well, yadda yadda yadda. see? i do know the rules. easy to recall, not so easy when you have a frustrated instructor, sitting right next to you, "haiya2"-ing at even your smallest mistake all the frikkin way. NERVOUS TAU GA SI! after all, i've only driven like 5 frikkin hours here. give me a frikkin break, will you?

shit, they're showing the bits on "Are you mad?! I am your daughter". asdfhaksjdskj!!

ririn! out!

this, dudes, totally made my day.

puss in boots? you rock, you mofo!!!!