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May 13, 2012 by omingoke

The Avengers: Heroicly Hilarious

Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor’s brother from Asgard was looking for another recognition as king. This time, on Earth. With help of Chitauri army, Loki intended to open the inter dimensional gate with the Tesseract and he did.

Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) basically wanted to answer Loki’s call for war with The Avengers protocol. Gathering all the super heroes. But even a huge flying fortress was not enough for super heroes’ ego. They need a simple, humble, old fashion sacrifice from Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg).

And blood in Coulson’s Captain America trading cards pulled the Avengers together in one solid team. Lead by the Captain America (Chris Evans), the Avengers; Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), fought the Chitaurians in downtown Manhattan.

Nothing new really in this superheroes story aside from the number of the superheroes involved. Usually superhero gets all the attention to him/herself in one movie. Now they have to share it. And ingeniously, the share works heroic-ly hilarious.

Good watch, very entertaining. :)

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May 11, 2012 by omingoke

Pasta Gio, The Warung Pasta

In the middle of suburb and quite neighbourhood of Sleman, Jogjakarta, there is this warung (rather small restaurant) Pasta Gio, specialize in pasta. Gio is the chef and the owner, very young as my sister told me he’s still on college. But nowadays, Gio has few sous chefs to help run the place.

The place is totally warung-like. Wood benches and plastic table cloths. But I like the Java-inspired architectural, pendopo style.

I was there several times, as they specialized in, the pasta was good. Should try the chef’s sauce and the alfredo for the pasta.


But last night, I decided to try other menu, which is Beef Medallion with green pasta, onion rings and salad.

Here it was.

Yummy! It was as good as it looked. The beef was tender and well done, the mushroom sauce was spot on, the salad was lightly savory, the onion rings were fresh and light as well, and surprisingly the green pasta was rich of olive oil and had red rawit chili slices on which kick the flavor even more. Overall, its worth the 59k price!

And for desert, I ordered their new menu, red velvet. (I guess, red velvet is the new black on desert :) )

For only 20k, this red velvet exceed its price value. The strawberry cake layered with light cream truly brighten your palette after a fulfilling entree. :)

This is the one place you need to put on the must-visit-list when you’re in town.

Pasta Gio
Ngelempong Lor Blok 1 No. 4 Sariharjo, Ngaglik, Sleman
Open at 17.00

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May 10, 2012 by omingoke

Negara Dikangkang Preman Berjubah

Ini kali kedua, ‘pertemuan’ saya dengan preman berjubah. Pertama kali disini.
Masih dengan gaya barbar, seperti tidak pernah move on saja.

Tadi malam, dalam diskusi santai dengan Irshad Manji, yang baru merilis buku terbarunya: Allah, Liberty and Love, The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom, yang diadakan di LKIS (Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Sosial) Yogyakarta.

Dimulai tepat jam 19.00. Saya datang 19.05.

Manji duduk santai ditemani penerjemah dan moderator. Sedikit memberikan gambaran tentang dirinya, sebelum menerima pertanyaan dari peserta diskusi.

Inti pertanyaan pertama tepat mengenai subtitle buku barunya, how to reconcile faith and freedom? Dan Manji mengingatkan kita semua untuk tetap rendah hati dengan ayat Al Qur’an 3:7. Sebagaimanapun kita berpikir kita benar, hanya Allah yang memliki kebenaran sejati dan seutuhnya.
Seru kan? :)

Pertanyaan kedua dan ketiga ditanyakan.

Belum terjawab, datanglah gerombolan preman berjubah atas nama Majelis Mujahiddin Indonesia mendobrak pagar besi yang terkunci. Saya tahu pasti terkunci, lha wong saya mau masuk bukan lewat pagar besi itu, melainkan lewat pintu ruang tamu.

Piring-piring isi pisang goreng, kacang rebus, ketela goreng berhamburan pecah ditendang. Pot beterbangan menabrak jendela kaca, beberapa pecah.

Teriakan intimidasi untuk menghancurkan Manji membahana. Manji dipagar betis oleh sejumlah teman-teman perempuan di tengah, agar selamat dari tangan-tangan preman berjubah.

Beberapa teman mencoba komunikasi dengan para preman berhasil memar dan luka lecet karena didorong dan diadu dengan pangkal parang. Beberapa perempuan juga merasakan tamparan. Bahkan jilbab tidak dapat menyelamatkan.

Dari komando seseorang berjubah gelap (yang saya lihat), masa preman kemudian keluar, masih mengepung sampai polisi datang.

Polisi datang kemudian aman? Oh tentu tidak.
Dian Paramita minta perlindungan, eh dipersalahkan karena perijinan bla bla bla. Monas, 1 Juni 2008 terulang kembali.

Gagal. Total. Indonesia tidak aman.
Negara ini sudah dikangkangi oleh preman berjubah.

Sebenarnya, seharusnya saya sudah paham semenjak 1 Juni 2008, negara ini memang sudah gagal sebagai negara demokrasi. Manji was lucky as she’s foreigner. Coba kalau dia lokal, mungkin tidak akan seberuntung itu.

Apapun yang ditulis Manji atau siapapun dalam media apapun, tidak seharusnya menjadi pembenaran bagi pihak yang berseberangan untuk mengintimidasi dan melakukan tindak kekerasan dengan dasar alasan apapun. Tapi tidak di Indonesia, negara yang dikangkang preman berjubah.

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April 15, 2012 by omingoke

Who Do You Call When You Get Into A Trouble?

Mom.
That’s common.

I would be one of the un-common, since I hardly would call my mom when I get into a trouble. But the funny thing is, I always squeal the word ‘ibu’ when I’m in shock or facing a trouble without referring to anybody. I guess, subconsciously, I am common after all :)

Anyhow, mommy’s birthday today (well actually yesterday, since its already past midnight), and sadly I was late to greet her birthday wishes. Crap! :|

But a mother is one of the noblest human can be. Late and having her no present on her birthday, she’s being understanding. :’) Happy birthday, Moom. All wishes in this world would never enough for you.. xoxo

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April 14, 2012 by omingoke

Battleship: A Bummer

After an ultra-powered signal sent into the deep space towards a planet which is predicted having similarity with Earth, few years later, 5 unidentified objects from the outer space are detected about to enter our atmosphere. Having no anticipation at all, those objects hit Earth right around the Hawaiian coast where the military join forces combat training took place.

Fortunately, the ET had damaged their telecommunication device from a collision with a satellite before entering the atmosphere. Buying some times for the humans to defend the planet.

Destroyers, state of the art combat ships, are dealing with the ET army. One ship, which is commanded by Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgard), is destroyed without any survivors by the ET and leaving his brother, Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch), the next in command. With help from the Japanese army, lead by Nagata (Tadanobu Asano), they managed to survive the ET’s attack.

Up in the hill, Samantha (Brooklyn Decker), Alex’s fiance figured out how to stop the ET from invading the Earth. They need to destroy the hill where the satellites are going to be used by the ET to send signal back to their planet. And with help of the scientist, Dr Nogrady (Adam Godley), Sam established a communication with Alex, telling him to blow up the hill.

Since the last destroyer John Paul Jones was crushed, Alex fought the last ship of the ET with the legendary Missouri battleship, which is less sophisticated than a destroyer ship, with help of the veterans to run the battleship. The ET’s last ship was destroyed, back ups were being sent by Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson) and the hill was flatten.

After a high expectation wait, I was disappointed. The story was total fuzz and just did not add up. And the cameo, Rihanna, was just not suppose to be in any scene. She’s best stay on the stage, get a hold on her hat on the stage instead on the water while swimming for the life boat, and just sing!

Right from the opening scene, when the signal sent out into the deep space without any security and/or defense anticipation to the ET depiction, who’s very lame compare to all the weapon technology they’re suppose to have.

The savior of this movie is just the ‘Transformers’ effects, both the robot effect and the sound effect (according to W, at least). Real bummer, really.

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April 13, 2012 by omingoke

Daily Dose: 2 out of 3

2 out of these 3 are my daily dose.

I am now in my late 20s, and still I am slacking on self discipline. Like literally shame on me!
Attempting to do better through daily  evaluation, fingers crossed! :)

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April 12, 2012 by omingoke

Menolak Ribet (Less is More #3)

Banyak lelaki yang sebal karena menunggu perempuannya berdandan. Beruntung lelakiku tidak. Bukan karena dia suka menunggu, tapi karena dandanku hanya sebatas ini..

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Johnson and Johnson Baby Oil
Loose Powder by The Body Shop
Shimmer Waves by The Body Shop
SebaMed Lip Balm
Hi-Shine Lip Treatment by The Body Shop

Hihihiiii ;) )

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