Privjet Anastasia~

I was merely curious about the Romanov mystery, I did do some research but I thought it would be even more fun if I watched a movie that actually referred to the story itself.

da da da da dam~ #faildrumsounds

Anastasia~

Although it's a bit... inaccurate. But meh.

So I downloaded Anastasia (1997), I did find several inaccurate points in the movie but I can really understand it since, after all, the real event was quiet bloody and brutal. Plus this movie supposedly meant for kids and... brutality does not belong to children movies at all.

I bought a matryoshka doll once from some souvenir shop in the airport (no I haven't been to Russia), then my mama suddenly referred that matryoshka doll to the story of the 'missing' Princess Anastasia. 

My mama suddenly told me stories like: "That matryoshka doll is the only thing that kept Anastasia's memories of the royal family." I have no idea why mum kept telling about this matryoshka doll story  and its connection with Anastasia (I guess she believes with the rumor about Anastasia surviving, I don't really know though) but what I know is that Anastasia along with the rest of her family died about 90 years ago, all of them were shot to death and buried deep in Yekaterinburg. But I heard that the Romanovs' skeletons were later found and they are now buried in St. Petersburg. 

It's a movie that brings back my childhood but at the same time trying its best to keep my love for history, and it's just amazing. How my childhood was mainly filled with movies about the good vs the bad, and I think Anastasia seems to have done a pretty good job in bringing my childhood days back to me again, plus I shivered throughout the whole movie.

I don't know, I guess recalling for the fact that in reality, I must say the story of the bloody murder of the Romanovs is pretty... mysterious in some way. Since after the news about the murder there are rumors spreading too, especially about how their youngest daughter, Anastasia, managed to survive

Somehow with Anastasia, it's no longer about the story of bloody murder of an imperial family anymore. It's already about something else, in a whole new level of storytelling. I felt that the movie is so magical, I even forget about the whole murder thing.

The songs are incredibly amazing too, my most favourites are of course, Once Upon a December and Journey to the Past. 

Then I discovered that some people actually have Anastasia's music box and when you open it, it started to play Once Upon a December. Ugh how I want it oh so badly now.

I also knew Rasputin from this movie, at first I didn't really get who his name was and I even thought the protagonists were calling him "Lenin" since he's the principle figure in the Russian Revolution and all. So I think it's pretty much normal if he's the villain in the movie, but then I did  some browsing in the internet about it and I was wrong ahaha..

 I think his character here in the movie isn't so scary (of course it's because it's a cartoon) as his counterpart... physically (I literally shivered just by seeing the real Rasputin image, somehow) Rasputin was said to be one of the many people that caused the fall of the imperial family, but his relationship with the imperial family in reality was entirely the opposite from his character in this movie. In fact, I heard that he was actually rather close with the children, especially Alexei. When it comes to his death, Rasputin was said to be quiet hard to be killed, and I guess that's why they pictured Rasputin as some living corpse whose anatomies constantly got separated everywhere. Eh.

But I still don't get how Lenin doesn't make any appearance in the movie.

As usual, gifs and pictures belong to their rightful owners.

до свидания (Do Svidaniya) ~

Dadah

-Nibras Sakkir

17 År, and a Swede With an Italian Descent

I've been listening to this particular song by a Swedish singer named "Veronica Maggio."

Det var 17 år
17 år i staden där jag växte upp och så
märker du hur fort det går?
och jag var 17 år ville inte va den
som blev kvar

Now I was thinking, maybe I could share a bit about 'my music' to you, by posting one of my favourite songs and just about what I've been really into lately. 

You see, I'm interested in anything that relates to multiculturalism and... I don't know, being different? Maybe because Swedish songs aren't quiet popular too here in Indonesia. I felt it's just something that's worth to be listened too.

I got affected by Hetalia too (if you don't know what Hetalia is, then go ask Uncle Google #slapped).

*It's sad that blogspot isn't like tumblr at all. So I can't put the song here.

Luckily, there's still youtube. 

The picture and video aren't belong to me, they belong to their rightful owner.

-Dadah

Nibras Sakkir 

The Toughest Place To Be A Binman

It all started when my English teacher had my class to watch this particular documentary film by BBC about a binman from London who visited Jakarta to experience his job in another country and with a 'whole new level' of being a binman (or maybe "trash picker" would be the right term here in Indonesia). As an Indonesian, I know that people are actually aware of the fact that Jakarta has now becoming a trash dumpster. Not only that, about 10 million people are also depending on the capital to be able to fulfill their needs.

Though we are all aware of it, I sense no action is coming from all of us--ahemgovernemntahem. I'm not only referring to the people of Jakarta here since we are all the ones who are going to decide the future by the decisions that we're making. I'm not going to have my country deserve a title as 'one of the top 5 dumpsters in ASEAN.' I mean that's just silly for a country who seems to be the largest among the 10 (you see, we Indonesians are always so proud of our country, geographically).

What caught my attention is a particular scene that involved an 'unknown' trash truck (is it the right term for trash-carrying trucks?) came to this rural place where the British bin man was staying, in a complex where all of the people there are mostly fulfilling their life needs as trash-pickers, thus the place it self is also filled with filthy trashes. What saddens me is that the fact that those trashes came from other places too, big companies who just want to get rid of their trash for instance. 

Then some people said that the truck was sent by the government.

We all assumed that maybe because BBC was doing a documentary about the whole rural place and trashes, the government wanted to have this sort of 'good impression,' and so they sent a truck to kept away the trashes. The local people there were all started to say things like "there has never been a single truck from the government being sent here."

One important thing that these Indonesian trash pickers are lacking of, is equipment. Since they aren't being recognized by the government as official "binmen," they must provide all of the equipment by their own.

Let's compare this one

With this one

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But then again, ranting and yelling at the projector won't solve the problem, and so we decided to list several possible solutions.

I came up with these (the ones that I could still remember):

• Make a community
• Write a letter to the government

Yes...... only two so far.

The first solution was actually one of the questions being asked by the British bin man to the Indonesian bin men. I think their conversation sounded sort of like this:

"How about making a community for trash pickers then?"

"We've tried, but no one listens."

I'm still wondering though, what if they really made a community consisting of binmen? That way I suppose they could at least try to have the government attention being diverted to them. For real.

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Anyway, I suppose this documentary was made when our mayor wasn't the current mayor (Mr. Fauzi Bowo was Jakarta's mayor from 2007 until 2012. If I'm not mistaken, this documentary was made in early 2012). Jakarta now has Mr. Joko Widodo as its new mayor, was once a mayor in a city called Surakarta and he's quiet famous for his achievements and how the city of Surakarta changed rapidly (in a good way of course) under his leadership. I think one of his power is because he's always making communication to the local people as his top priority, because a mayor who makes his people as his top priority is always kool.

Well then, Jakarta is now the biggest water park ever since it's already raining season here in Indonesia and floods are everywhere. So bring your swimsuits if you're going to visit Jakarta and prepare to ride a kayak among the skyscraper buildings.

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Somehow I'm beginning to think that democracy is just a thing that is currently among those trashes in the dumpsters, here in Jakarta--or maybe the whole Indonesia.

The pictures are rightfully belong to their owners by the way.


Dadah

-Nibras Sakkir

One could call this a working desk.

Anak Sopir Angkot ke The Big Apple

Halo Halo Halo, liburan gimana? Author harap semuanya nggak menderita pas liburan. Author sendiri sih liburannya oke oke aja <---- (nggak bisa ngomong apa-apa lagi, habis pergi liburan ke kampung dan jauh dari tangan internet yang maha ajaib)

Jadi author mau rekomendasi buku yang inspiratif buanget dan awalnya juga sempat baca karena tugas sekolah, ya apa lagi kalau bukan Bahasa Indonesia.

Jadi buku ini penulisnya Mas Iwan Setyawan, sudah pernah merambah karier di New York City selama 10 tahun dan posisi terakhirnya disana adalah sebagai Director Internal Client Management, wuidih hebat teuing eta mah...

Kalimat pertama dari sinopsis buku ini yang paling author suka itu adalah "Bapakku, sopir angkot yang tak bisa mengingat tanggal lahirnya" (Author niru baris ini nih untuk cerpen yang author buat untuk tugas Bahasa Indonesia... #heh) secara bapak author juga sebenarnya senasib sama bapaknya Mas Iwan, satu-satunya pengingat tanggal lahir cuma kejadian kehancurannya Darul Islam di Indonesia.

Author suka ceritanya Mas Iwan yang ada sangkutannya dengan perjuangan hidup di negara lain, jadi itu juga yang sebenarnya membuat author tambah penasaran dan penasaran lagi pada saat membaca buku "9 Summers 10 Autumns" ini.

Author pikir buku ini cukup kreatif juga, terutama bagaimana Mas Iwan membuat 'ilusi' merupai seorang anak kecil yang menemani hidupnya selama ia berada di New York dan dari situ juga ia dapat bercerita tentang pengalaman hidupnya dan perjuangannya untuk bisa sampai di New York. Intinya cara penyampaiannya keren juga.

Lalu juga dari sini kita tahu kalau pendidikan itu bisa, dan memang BISA merubah hidup seseorang. Pendidikan itu kan beda dengan harta, kalau harta kita yang menjaga, tapi kalau pendidikan, ya pendidikan yang dapat menjaga kita. Nah, cerita Mas Iwan ini juga mebuktikan kalau pendidikan itu efeknya hebat banget buat kita semua.

Mau kamu anak sopir angkot, anak petani, anak saudagar, cuma pendidikan yang sebenarnya bisa nentuin nasib kita semua di masa depan. Jadi, kalau anak sopir angkot bisa merubah dunianya dengan kekuatan pendidikan, gimana kita yang memang sudah terlahir mampu tapi masih malas-malas sekolah?

Hayo hayo~ Gimana hayo~

Udah lah, pokoknya gitu aja dari author. Habisnya author terkesan banget sama buku "9 Summers 10 Autumns." Pas author lihat di cover belakang bukunya, di situ ada tulisan "SEGERA DIFILMKAN."

Amin, kalo bisa usahain tahun ini ya Mas Sutradara.

-Dadah

Nibras Sakkir