"Beautiful Girl"

You wanna walk into the room like that other girl does
The one that’s always making everybody fall in love
You see…girl you’re a lot like me.
She rearranges all the light in the room so you’re always in the shadows,
Well that’s what it feels like to you…
Baby I’ve been there too.
And I know how much it can sometimes hurt,
You feel like the whole world has made you the ugly girl.
Take it from me that you have to see it first.

So before you trade in your summer skin for those high heeled shoes, 
To make him want to be with you.
Let me remind you one more time…
That just maybe, you’re beautiful but you just cant see.
So why don’t you trust me,
They’ll see it too you beautiful girl you

You wanna lay the blame on somebody else, 
All these tiny little minds that leave you up on a shelf.
But okay, I’ve seen it done that way.
Just in case nobody ever comes through, 
Riding in to come to your rescue.
You still have a chance,
You don’t have to be asked to dance.
I know how much you’ve been dying to say,
Look how much everybody loves me.
Guess who gets left when everyone else fades away

So before you trade in your summer skin for those high heeled shoes, 
To make him want to be with you.
Let me remind you one more time…
That just maybe, you’re beautiful but you just can’t see.
So why don’t you trust me
They’ll see it too you beautiful girl you

My Long Lost Twin???

Pasti tahu dong tv series How I Met Your Mother? It's one of my favorite shows. Di salah satu episodenya, ada istilah yang disebut DOPPELGANGERS, kembaran masing-masing karakter HIMYM.

Yeah, memang bukan hal aneh lagi kalau kita ketemu orang yang mirip sama kita padahal bukan saudara sendiri. Gue pribadi sering melihat yang kayak gitu. Salah satu contohnya adalah Gene Kelly dan Jean Dujardin. Oke,you have to admit that when Jean acted in The Artist, his smile and his looks was similiar as Gene Kelly!!! XD

Gue juga pernah melihat doppelgangernya Vleen, yaitu Big Bang's Dae Sung.. hahaha

Vleen (kiri) dan Dae Sung (kanan)... Mirip kan mereka? XD

I've never seen a person who isn't my sister or relative has a slightly similar face like mine.  But  yesterday ,via twitter, @Silphee claimed she found my doppelganger...

the conversation

my doppelganger named Aling..

me... see the resemblance? I know I don't -___-"

Tanpa bermaksud berpendapat siapa yang lebih cantik atau jelek, gue bener-bener enggak merasa mirip lho. Gue malah  menganggap yang Aling ini lebih cantik dan jauh lebih kurus dari gue,  hehehe

Tapi kenapa kakak gue juga setuju bahwa siapapun dia itu sekilas mirip gue ya?? Hmm...

Oh well, how about you? Have you found you doppelganger? :)

Noms Noms Saturday XD (1) : Yamagoya Ramen

Sabtu ini, gue diajak sama K'Reyna ke Plaza UOB. Tenang, bukan untuk minta denah kok, tapi buat makan.. Ini semua gara-gara gue enggak sengaja lihat iklan di FB, terus gue penasaran, terus katanya Kezia bahwa Yamagoya Ramen sangat enak, terus letaknya semcam jauh, terus akhirnya gue menyerah untuk ke sana. Duh, temen-temen gue diajak ke MKG aja suka ribet gara-gara pada sibuk, apalagi ke daerah pusat. 

Eh.... selang beberapa minggu kemudian, K' Reyna ngajak gue nyoba ramen di sana gara-gara dia juga penasaran. Horrreee~~~~~

Pasukan makan-makan kali ini hanya bertiga, K' Reyna, K' Tepen, dan gue. Setelah bersusah-payah mencari tempat parkiran di basement Thamrin Nine, sampailah kami di Yamagoya Ramen.

I love its interior, beneran berasa di kedai ramen gitu. Gue masuk dengan menyibakkan gorden selamat datang. Terus keseluruhan furniturenya bertekstur kayu. Lightingnya pakai lampu gantung yang berbatasan langsung sama area luar. Yang paling gue suka sih ornamen di dindingnya, gambar semangkuk ramen yang ramennya keluar dan menjalar hingga ke pilar di sampingnya.

                                     

                                     

Terus yang bikin makin berasa kayak di kedai ramen Jepang adalah yang datang ke sini kebanyakan orang Jepang. Di sisi kiri gue ada ibu muda bernama Mizumi dengan dua anak, one of them named Kazusa Duuuh, anak-anaknya kawaii banget,apalagi karena mereka ngomong pake bahasa Jepang dan Indo XD (shotakonnya kambuh). Terus di belakang ada 2 bapak-bapak Jepang. Di sebelah kanan kami juga young Japanese couple (tapi bukan yang ada di foto ya!hahaha) . Mukyaa, komplit dah.   

We ordered the ramen which seems to be their specialty, Mukashi Special Ramen, dan sepiring gyoza. Pas ditanya kuah ramennya mau pakai apa, dengan sepakat dan yakin, kami bertiga langsung menjawab, 'Babi!" hahahaha..

How was it? Oishiii~. Kuah tonkotsunya itu bertekstur ringan di lidah, enggak eneg pas ditelen. Beh,apalagi pas kuahnya ditambah minyak wijen... mantap! Babinya enak, tapi belum bisa menandingi yang di Kyo-dai.  Highlight gue tentang ramen ini adalah kuah tonkotsu dan telur rebusnya. Telurnya itu lho soft banget XD Overall, ramen ini memang benar-benar enak. Cuma satu yang gue bingung..kenapa menma yang dijanjikan di gambar enggak ada di dunia nyata?? T___T

However, gyoza di sini daebak deh. Dagingnya tebel dan asinnya juga pas sehingga berhasil mengalahkan gyoza di Kyo-dai dan Ikkousha. Worth it banget!

Kalau soal harga sih termasuk mahal ya.. Harga ramennya Rp. 53.000,00. Untung aja gue lagi ditraktir,xixixixi (  有り難うございました , Reyna-san~~)

Penasaran sama kedai ramen yang satu ini, kunjungi aja FB page mereka di : 

Yamagoya Ramen Indonesia

In Joan's Shoes (4) : Joan Harris

Hello again,people!

I'm back again with my "In Joan's Shoes" post, featuring people with the same name as I am, Joan.  Whether Joan is a guy, girl, famous, common, fiction, etc, I'll feature them in this brief post ;) 

We already had model and singer before, so why don't we learn a little bit about the fictional character? My choice this week would be, Joan Harris. Yeah, you know whom I talking about. That hot and saucy secretary from the Mad Men series.

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of Mad Men series despite the fact it's taken place in the 60s. I dunno. I just hate how unfaithful all the male charas there. However, I adore Joan Harris,played by Christina Hendricks.

There are so many things I like about her.She's curvy and the fact that she embraces it makes her even more beautiful. She's saucy. She's so fierce and yet funny. She knows what she wants. Or just like the TIMES US correspondent said :

"Joan is a wonderful character: strong, funny, sexually alluring but also - as fans of the show will know - admirable. In Matthew Weiner's world, she was on the one hand the ideal office manager: capable, assertive and sexy, and then was revealed to be just as insecure as the rest of the characters, desperate to get married and acquire some kind of status. She ran the office with a rod of iron, fairly unsupportive of Peggy's proto-feminist determination to rise in the hierarchy. But she was also shown ultimately not to be her new husband's passive victim"

Tim Teeman, The Times US correspondent

Lovely Man

At last another interesting Indonesian movie hits local theater at my place :D.  Reading all the great comments on its posters intrigued me to watch this movie. Bukan, gue enggak lagi bicara tentang poster "Kakek Cangkul" yang di posternya menjelaskan bahwa hantu yang satu itu merupakan suami dari Nenek Gayung. I'm talking about "Lovely Man".

 What made me so curious about this movie was the fact that this movie got wonderful reviews at various film festival and American newspaper. In fact, Donny Damara got "Best Actor" at Asian Film Awards for his role in this movie.

from merdeka.com "Donny Damara won award for his role in  Lovely Man"

The Plot

Saiful (Donny Damara) left his wife and daughter, Cahaya (Raihaanun Soeriaatmadja), when Cahaya was just 4 years old. Now, at 19 years old, just graduated from pesantren ( dormitory school which focusing on religious education for Moslems) and now facing trouble she didn't know how to handle it, Cahaya comes to Jakarta. She hopes when she meets Saiful, she can get to know him better and her father can give an answer to he problem. 

All her life, Cahaya's been picturing Saiful as an ideal father, masculine and doing a normal job in Jakarta. So  imagined how surprised,confused and disappointed she is when she finds out that her father is a transgender called Ipuy.  If that's not surprising enough Ipuy's job is a street hooker. 

Ipuy is as surprised and mad as her daughter. He got enough problem on his plate, like the man whom he stole 30 million rupiahs for his Genital Correction Surgery from is angry and been chasing him. Now, he has to answer all the question from his own daughter about the reason he left his family and living the life he's living.

Ipuy finally decided to acompanny Cahaya in one condition : he only accompanies Cahaya for one day and after that Cahaya can never contact or reconnect  with him anymore.

My Thoughts

I love this movie. 

Okay, let's talk about the story first. This movie is like answering my curiosity from Sanubari Jakarta. You know, that comment about how I want to watch a story about a transgender in Jakarta who became transgender because he wants to be and really feel he's in a wrong body. Not only that, this movie can display how the relationship between Ipuy and Cahaya progressing slowly and neatly. It happens in one night, but there's no rush to change their relationship condition. It's one of the reason of whhat makes this film beautiful as it is.

Donny deserves that award. He looks so pretty as a transgender! Also how fierce he acted quite pictured the way transgenders whom I've seen in Jakarta streets. The character is also lovable,at least for me. Ipuy is not ashamed for who he is and what he does. Ipuys even said to Cahaya, his job is also a real job and the money he received from doing it also real money, not monopoly money (haha :D). He does it not because he has to, but because he wants to. He enjoys what he does and who he is. Woohoo, go, Ipuy! XD

Oh, and don't forget about Cahaya. There's a scene at Nasi Padang Restaurant where Cahaya took off her jilbab to make the situation less awkward between her and Ipuy. I mean, wearing a jilbab  is a commitment to cover your body from the outside world. Women can remove it  only when she's with her husband, family, or gal pals in private place. Removing your own jilbab in front of the public is a serious thing and sometimes it can be considered as an inappropriate thing a woman can do. So what Cahaya did was really sweet. It's as if she's willing to do anything so she can get to know her father better.  And as time goes by, she's no longer mad and ashamed about Ipuy anymore, but proudly can say, "Kenapa harus malu? Dia 'kan bapak aku." ("Why should I be ashamed? He's my father.")

As for the film technique, well, I'm not an expert about it. One thing for sure,  Soeriaatmadja  succeed to picture the contradictory things I used to see in Jakarta.There is more to Jakarta than modern city lit by lamps and bright towers. 

Conclusion

Alurnya memang agak lambat. However, kalau udah pada terbiasa dengan film Jepang atau Korea yang bertema serius, you'll enjoy this movie as I am.
This is a unique story about father and daughter relationship. It's heartwarming story and succeed to make me laugh and  almost cry, especially at the end of the story (bener deh, akhir filmnya tuh mengharukan buat gue!!! ;) ). There's a message that I love from what Ipuy said in this movie : It's not always about living your life in right or wrong things. We can's just run from the problem because we scared to get hurt by it. Just like a child who likes playing under the pouring rain. Pouring rain doesn't mean we have to stand under the shelter to avoid rain. Instead, we can enjoy the pouring rain as a blessing.