June 30, 2009

STREET FIGHTER


Saking bingungnya mau nonton film apa lagi ... aku sama temenku yang sama2 hobby nonton ... akhirnya nonton STREET FIGHTER ini ...

The movie opens with Chun Li narrating her experience growing up aspiring to be a concert pianist. As a child, she moves from San Francisco to Hong Kong with her family. There, along with piano, she learns Wushu from her father, Xiang, who is a well connected businessman. One night, her home is attacked by Bison and his henchman. Chun Li's father fights them off until Balrog grabs a hold of a young Chun Li, forcing him to surrender. As Bison and his men are leaving with Xiang, Chun Li's mother tries to stop them. Balrog just punches her.

Years later, Chun Li grows up and becomes a talented concert pianist. At the end of one of her concerts, she receives a scroll written in Ancient Chinese text. On her way home, she sees a mysterious homeless man getting assaulted by street thugs. After the thugs leave, Chun Li tends to him and notices a spiderweb tattoo on his hand. Meanwhile, Xiang is shown working for Bison as a prisoner. In return for his services, he is allowed to view pictures of his daughter all grown up. Back home, Chun Li's mother finally loses her battle to cancer as Chun Li and her servants mourn her loss at a funeral.

Elsewhere, we see Nash and Maya investigating a murder of several heads of criminal syndicate families in Bangkok. Chun Li on the side is meeting with a wise old lady in town who studies the scroll and tells her to either find a man named Gen in Bangkok, revealing to her an image of the same spiderweb she saw tattooed on the homeless man's hand. With a new goal in mind, Chun Li leaves her home and heads to Bangkok. After days of searching for Gen without any luck, she sees a man being assaulted in an alley by thugs. Chun Li comes to his rescue and fights them. After a long battle ended by finishing them with a Bike Rack Drop Ultra move, Chun Li collapses in exhaustion. There, we see Gen pick her up to take her to his home.

Gen tells Chun Li that he knows how to find her father and that Bison has him, but that she also needs anger management. In response, she goes to an internet cafe and logs onto shoryuken.com to find out more about Bison, who is now holding the families of property owners hostage in order to force them to sign their property over to him. Upon leaving, one of the owners is asked to hand over the rights to a docking harbor, allowing the shipment of the "White Rose". Chun Li overhears this. Meanwhile at Interpol, Nash figures out that Bison's headquarters are right across the street from the Police Station.

Later that night, Cantana, one of Bison's secretaries, goes to a nightclub. Chun Li spies on her and notices her eyeing the girls in the club. Chun Li moves in and seductively dances with her before casually walking away into the bathroom. Cantana follows her and locks the bathroom door. Chun Li beats Cantana until Cantana reveals the location of the White Rose. Cantana's bodyguards come back and Chun Li escapes after fighting them off.

We are then told of Bison's origins. He is the son of Irish missionaries. He grew up an orphan having to steal fish from people in Thailand. In order to lose his conscience, he forced his daughter out of the womb of his wife prematurely. This transferred his conscience into her, thus Bison no longer had/has a conscience. Back at Gen's home, Bison's henchmen come after Gen and Chun Li. Gen fights them off until Balrog blows up his house with a RPG. With Gen gone and nowhere to be found, Chun Li runs off. She is then attacked by Vega, who she defeats soundly and hangs upside down over the side of a building.

Chun Li then heads to the harbor and interrogates an employee into telling her the arrival time of the White Rose. Later that night, this turns out to be a trap as several Shadaloo soldiers capture her. Chun Li is then taken back to Shadaloo headquarters and is reunited with her father. Bison tells her that Xiang outlived his usefulness and breaks his neck, killing him. Bison and Balrog leave Chun Li to the henchman to finish off. Chun Li however escapes when they try to swing her around from the ceiling like a pinata. As she runs away, she is shot in the arm by Balrog. Before Balrog could recapture her, the crowd begins throwing durians at him. This scares Balrog as he drives off in his Mercedes-Benz. Chun Li meanwhile, is rescued again by Gen, who narrowly escaped death and survived the explosion in his house.

Chun Li approaches Nash and tells him she needs backup to take down Bison. Nash and Maya oblige as Chun Li approaches the dock employee who set her up last time. The employee tells her that he was forced into deceiving her and tells her the real arrival time. Chun Li doubts him at first, but he points to the white board at the arrival time, proving that it is true. At the dock later that night, Interpol agents engage in a shootout with Shadaloo soldiers. On a ship, Chun Li finds a girl asking where her father is. Meanwhile, Gen fights Balrog and kills him by stabbing him with a pipe spraying nitrogen. We later find out that the girl is Bison's daughter and her name is Rose, making her the White Rose. Bison takes her in and welcomes her warmly.

Bison walks into his office where he is ambushed by Gen. Gen however is no match for him. Sensing his daughter in danger, Bison goes back to his daughters room, where he finds she is gone. Gen shows up again and ambushes Bison, getting beaten up again. Chun Li then comes in and fights Bison. After a long battle, she hits him with a bamboo pole and drops sandbags on him, startling him and making him unaware of what is going on. She then charges up a Kikoken and shoots it at him, knocking him off the scaffolding they were fighting on, then jumping on his head and twisting it all the way around, breaking his neck and killing him.

Back home, Chun Li is settled down as Gen pays her a visit. He shows her an ad for a Street Fighter tournament, telling her about a Japanese fighter named Ryu. Chun Li declines, saying that she's home for now.




June 26, 2009

PAPA ROCK N ROLL - THE DANCE COMPANY


Belakangan ini di TV2 lagi marak acara musik yang tayang setiap hari ... hampir setiap stasiun TV punya acara musik dengan format yang gak jauh beda dengan lainnya ...

Aku sempet nonton salah satu diantaranya walopun gak sampe habis ... ada salah satu bintang tamu di acara tersebut namanya The Dance Company dan langsung mencuri perhatianku ... disamping liriknya yang kocak ternyata personilnya adalah 4 musisi yaitu Aryo Wahab, Pongki Jikustik, Nugie, dan Baim ...

Kenapa sampe bisa mencuri perhatianku??? Karena ada Aryo Wahab disitu ... he he he ... dia jadi vokalisnya ... gak tau kenapa tapi aku suka sama dia dari dulu ...

Liriknya begini nih ...

Papa memang harus begini
Sering bikin sakit hati
Papa ga pulang beibeh
Papa ga bawa uang beibeh

Papa mungkin seminggu di bali
Nyari panggung sana sini
Papa ga pulang beibeh
Papa ga bawa uang beibeh

Bukan alasan ‘tuk lari
Itu tuntutan profesi
Papa ga pulang beibeh
Papa ga bawa uang beibeh

Mama please please don't be angry
Papa sibuk __
Papa ga pulang beibeh
Papa ga bawa uang beibeh

Pengen kayak Bon Jovi (I’ll be there for you)
Rock star yang sayang istri
Mama aku di sini
Memelukmu lagi..

Pengen kayak Bon Jovi (I’ll be there for you)
Rock star yang sayang istri
Mama aku di sini
Memelukmu lagi..

Papa memang harus begini
Sering bikin sakit hati
Papa ga pulang beibeh
Papa ga bawa uang beibeh

Papa mungkin seminggu di bali
Nyari panggung sana sini
Papa ga pulang beibeh
Papa ga bawa uang beibeh

Papa ga pulang beibeh
Papa ga pulang
Papa ga bawa uang beibeh
Ga bawa uang..

Kocak kan?????


June 24, 2009

DRAG ME TO HELL


Rasa penasaranku terpenuhi sudah ... setelah beberapa kali aku tidak berhasil mengajak temenku untuk nonton film DRAG ME TO HELL ini ... akhirnya kemarin dia luluh juga ... he he he ... makasih yah ...

In Pasadena, California in 1969, a young Mexican couple rushes to the home of medium Shaun San Dena (Flor de Maria Chahua). Their son had stolen jewelry from a group of gypsies three days prior, and since then, he has been complaining of seeing and hearing things not of this earth. San Dena tries to help the boy in a seance, but she and the boy's parents are attacked by an unseen force, which then throws the boy from the second floor of San Dena's home to the first. The boy survives the fall, but as his parents rush to his aid, San Dena can only watch in horror as the floor opens up under him and he is pulled into Hell by demonic hands.

Forty years later, Christine Brown (Alison Lohman), a loan officer in Los Angeles, hopes to be promoted to assistant manager over her conniving co-worker, Stu Rubin (Reggie Lee). Christine's boss, Mr. Jacks (David Paymer), advises her that she needs to demonstrate that she can make tough decisions when she needs to. That same day, Mrs. Sylvia Ganush (Lorna Raver), an elderly gypsy woman, asks for a third extension on her mortgage because she is struggling with economic problems due to an illness. To prove herself to Mr. Jacks, Christine, against her better judgment, denies Mrs. Ganush the extension. In desperation, Mrs. Ganush prostrates herself before Christine, begging and kissing the hem of her skirt. As a small crowd gathers, Christine panics and screams for security, shoving Ganush away and shaming her in public. As security guards escort Ganush out, Mr. Jacks compliments Christine on how she handled the situation and implies that if she can close another big loan, the assistant manager position will be hers.

That night, Christine is attacked in her car by Ganush. After a violent struggle, Ganush removes a button from Christine's jacket and uses it to place a curse on her. Mrs. Ganush disappears, leaving the cursed button with Christine. Later, Christine's boyfriend, college professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long), takes her to a coffee shop to comfort her. On the way home, they pass a fortune teller's store, and Christine insists they go in. There, they meet the fortune teller Rham Jas (Dileep Rao), who tells Christine that she has a dark spirit upon her.

Alone at home, Christine is attacked by the aforementioned dark spirit, which appears as the silhouette of a goat's head. The spirit breaks some windows, cuts the power, and throws Christine across the room, causing minor injuries. Clay assumes that Mrs. Ganush followed them and attacked Christine again. However, when she insists that no one attacked her, they contact a psychologist. The psychologist says that victims of assault often relive past trauma, which seems to settle Christine. That night, Christine dreams that Ganush attacks her in bed, and at work the next day, she has a violent nosebleed, which becomes projectile and soaks Mr. Jacks. Fleeing work, she tries to track down Ganush at the home of her granddaughter, Ilenka. There, Christine learns that Ganush died the previous night, and Ilenka is in the process of holding a wake for her. Christine makes a scene by accidentally knocking over Ganush's body, and Ilenka tells her that she deserves what is coming for her.

Christine consults Rham Jas again, who tells her that the spirit haunting her is actually a powerful demon called the Lamia, and that she is to be tormented by it for three days before being dragged to Hell to burn for eternity. Horrified by this revelation, Christine sacrifices her pet kitten in hopes that it will satisfy the Lamia. When the Lamia torments her during dinner with Clay's parents, and she is attacked by a ghostly figure of Mrs. Ganush in her workshed, Christine and Clay decide to pay $10,000 to enlist the help of the now elderly Shaun San Dena (Adriana Barraza). San Dena prepares a seance, the goal of which is to trap the Lamia in a live goat and kill it, which will destroy it. This plan backfires, however, and the Lamia assaults and possesses everyone in the room, claiming that it will not rest until it takes Christine's soul to Hell. San Dena manages to banish the Lamia from the seance, but dies in the process.

Rham Jas tells Christine that the Lamia will still return for her in just one more day unless she can find a way to stop it for good. He then tells her the only way to get rid of the curse is to give the cursed item to somebody else as a gift, thereby cursing the recipient. Christine seals the button from her jacket in an envelope, but nearly loses it when the bag containing the envelope falls over, spilling it and the other contents out. After searching for a recipient at a diner, Christine considers giving it to Stu, since his actions cheated them both out of the promotion, but she cannot bring herself to condemn another living person else to Hell. She then decides to give the button to Mrs. Ganush. Rham Jas confirms the plan will work, damning the Gypsy woman's soul to Hell. Christine drives to the graveyard where Ganush is buried and digs up her grave. In a torrential downpour, Christine jams the envelope in the old woman's mouth, formally giving it as a gift, and leaves, believing she has beaten the curse.

The next day, Christine goes to Los Angeles Union Station to meet Clay, who is preparing to propose to her; they have plans to spend a relaxing weekend in Santa Barbara. Christine also learns she got the promotion at the bank after Stu's deceit was unveiled. Clay gives her the envelope with the button in it. She had dropped it in his car the night before, when her bag fell over, and accidentally picked a similar one up, which contained a coin she had given to Clay at the start of the film. Horrified, Christine falls onto the tracks as a train barrels into the station. Just before she is struck, demonic arms reach up from under her and pull her into a fiery hole that appears beneath. Clay can't help her, as the train passes over her and forces him back. Christine's face becomes burned and distorted as she is dragged to Hell. All Clay can do is watch as his girlfriend is pulled to her doom, then he looks at the button in his hand as the film ends.

June 09, 2009

AIR MATA - DEWA


Belakangan ini aku lagi suka dengerin lagu yang udah lumayan lama dari Dewa ... judulnya Air Mata ... liriknya cukup mewakili suasana hatiku saat ini ...

air mata telah jatuh membasahi bumi
takkan sanggup menghapus gelisah
penyesalan yang kini ada
jadi tak berarti
karna waktu yang bengis terus pergi

menangislah bila harus menangis
karena kita semua manusia

manusia bisa terluka manusia pasti menangis
dan manusia pun bisa mengambil hikmah

dibalik segala duka tersimpan hikmah
yang bisa kita petik pelajaran
dibalik segala suka tersimpan hikmah
yang kan mungkin bisa jadi cobaan



June 05, 2009

DULU KAMU ...

Dulu kamu sangat sayang aku ...

Dulu kamu sangat manjain aku ...

Dulu kamu sangat ngemong aku ...

Dulu kamu sabar ...

Dulu kamu gak pernah marah ...

Dulu kamu selalu mengalah ...

Dulu kamu penuh kelembutan ...



Dan sekarang ...

Aku kehilangan kamu yang dulu ...




June 01, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIR ...


Salah satu temen deketku, Mira, ultah hari ini ... semoga semuanya jadi lebih baik yah, Mir ...

Mira ini salah satu tempat curhatku dalam segala hal ... apalagi kalo menyangkut W*** ... dia yang paling tau in detail ...

Yang paling aku suka dari Mira ... dia tidak pernah menilai sesuatu dari sisi negatifnya ... apapun itu ... baik yang menyangkut dirinya ataupun tidak ...
Contoh soal ... saat aku dekat dengan seseorang, temen2ku ada yang menilai negatif ... tapi tidak dengan Mira ... dia pasti balikin lagi ke aku ... "Loe yang jalanin hubungan, Wi ... loe happy loe yang ngerasain .. loe sakit loe juga yang ngerasain ... jalanin aja sesuai kata hati loe ... jangan dengerin orang lain ... mereka tau apa?" ....

Dia juga tidak pernah nge-judge seseorang dengan pilihan hidupnya .. apakah itu baik atau buruk ... karena menurut pengalamannya ... dulu dia pernah nge-judge seseorang dengan pilihan hidupnya ... eh gak taunya beberapa lama kemudian kejadian di Mira ... kalo kata Mira, di mata kita, buruk ... belum tentu buruk di mata dia ... pasti semua orang punya alasan kenapa memutuskan ini bukan itu ...

Mira juga type orang yang konservatif ... dia hanya mengenal warna hitam dan abu2 ... kalo kita pas shopping sama2 ... dia gak pernah beli sesuatu selain 2 warna itu ... tidak seperti aku ... walopun aku suka warna hitam, abu2, dan coklat ... tapi aku masih mau pake warna lain asalkan bagus dan pantes di aku ...

Yah itulah sedikit cerita tentang Mira ...

Pas di hari ultahnya ini Mira dapet kado dari kantornya ... Mira menduduki jabatan baru alias naik pangkat ... Gw ikut bersuka cita atas ini ... semoga ini tidak merubah kepribadian loe yah, Mir ...
Loe tetep Mira yang selama ini gw kenal ...

BIRU - AFGAN

To someone, thanks for the nice week-end we had spent together ... it's unforgettable ...

Tiada Pernah Aku Bahagia
Sebahagia Hari Ini Kasih
Sepertinya Kubermimpi
Dan Hampir Tak Percaya
Hadapi Kenyataan Ini


Belai Manja Serta Kecup Sayang
Kau Curahkan Penuh Kepastian
Hingga Mampu Menghapuskan Luka Goresan Cinta
Yang Sekian Lama Sudah Menyakitkan


Kau Terangkan Gelap Mataku
Kau Hilangkan Resah Hatiku
Kau Hidupkan Lagi Cintaku
Yang Tlah Beku Dan Membiru.....


Kini Tetes Air Mata Haru
Menghiasi Janji Yang Terpadu
Tuhan Jangan Kau Pisahkan
Apapun Yang Terjadi
Kuingin Slalu Dekat Kekasihku


Kau Terangkan Gelap Mataku
Kau Hilangkan Resah Hatiku
Kau Hidupkan Lagi Cintaku
Yang Tlah Beku Dan Membiru.....


Kini Tetes Air Mata Haru
Menghiasi Janji Yang Terpadu
Tuhan Jangan Kau Pisahkan
Apapun Yang Terjadi

Kuingin Slalu Dekat Kekasihku

Kuingin Slalu Dekat Kekasihku