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I was well into my thirties when I learned “Liberal Arts” as an academic course. So, the general meaning is education to learn about philosophy, literature, sociology, culture, creative art, and history. Lessons that are hard to quantify but essential to shaping your thinking and perspective in life. In other words, academics tend to be more concerned about physics, math, and biology as introductory courses at school. What disappoints me is that we usually have “Religion” as a required course, even in undergraduate study, no matter what class you took. The problem was not it as part of formal education, but when we do not have a liberality to accept it. In my opinion, religion is great if you believe in God, whichever one you want to know and believe. But it shouldn’t be required as a human being? Much as being told to have a religion since you were young because otherwise, you are going to hell. For me, morality, humility, empathy, and kindness are much more important things to have a...

To quote Charles Dickens,  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, (and yes it wasn't originally Taylor Swift's lyric). That sentence is probably what I will tell my grandnieces to describe this crazy-odd era of a second-wave pandemic. It's been a while since the last time I write on this blog so a 'reality is the last thing I wanted to write about. Let's write about pleasant things like a movie review and that scientific proof of music can be a painkiller. Interesting enough? *Disclaimer: spoiler alert I finally watch Kodachrome after this movie file sits long enough in my folder to the point I forgot the excitement I have when I was looking for it. Kodachrome is this one color film by Kodak which discontinued after about seventy years of use in the analog photography market. This movie follows a story of a young man who reluctantly joins his father's trip to Kansas to develop his last Kodachrome roll films before the process is permanently unavai...

Hotell, an Art House movie from Sweden is marked as the first movie that I watched in Kineforum.  But before I talked about the movie, I wanted to tell you shortly about this first-timer-thing. Kineforum is a non-commercial mini-theater located inside Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM), Jakarta. A place where you can watch the classic and contemporary movie, national and international ones. It's like a refreshing air to watch a non-English spoken language movie in the ocean of American blockbuster here and there. But anyway. The list of movies that shows are free or cost you like twenty or thirty thousand rupiahs. You can also donate voluntarily after reserve your ticket. You can just put your money inside a wooden box on the right side of the reception table. Being a latecomer that I am. I arrived ten minutes before the movie started, exhausted from all the walked from the entry gate, I reserved my ticket and also bought a much-needed ion drink. When I realized that I have to donate ...

Have you watched the movie Gravity ? what do you think about it? I have this crush on space and anything related with galaxy and outer universe so, I could say that I love this movie. I was pretty much drunk by the sight of the black area with stars and the round edge of blue-green earth as a background.      it was beautiful. The plot is pretty simple. In fact there are only two living cast for the whole movie, angling the character Ryan Stone with technically her partner, Matt, floating around without gravity trying to survive themselves through the spacewalk incident. Going trough what they called 'blind' to go back to the earth. well, this got me thinking that earth is kinda easy. at least we got o2 enough for thinking.

Although I've already post this here , I want to write more about it. So, this short movie is about a sudden meteor attack that turning this boy's normal life into an odd one. You need to watch it first: this make me thinking about my life. I sometimes can't go on a day without some strange thought in my head. I walk in my campus hallway on a rainy day and suddenly think what if this drop are actually a mirror crystal? I can imagine myself standing under that pouring rain (crystal mirror in this case) and got scratch all over my skin, bleeding everywhere. I usually imagining about an accident while I'm on the train. Like, if the rail brake or something. Copying what happen in Final destination 3, how cool is that to get a chance to experience one? I know how sick it sounded. but I guess I'm just curious about how all this things would work if it didn't work the way it suppose. Like, what if we normally walk backward not forward? wake up at 23:00 PM work and play...

It's Kind of a Funny Story: Drawing Scene it's kind of a funny story- nice one ☻

i love to watch. yesterday mid night when i didn't like to sleep and don't know what to do, finally i remember it myself : i love to watch. turn on my tv. browse the channel. 'knowing to elevate' channel station. i saw a movie about to starting, animation movie. kind of animation that i like. i feel i'll love this then i watch and watch and watch. and i think. think and think now i feel feel and feel. really, i LOVE this movie.   Persepolis | Trailer from Smelly Cat on Vimeo . you know i didn't watch dvd or cable tv. so yeah i've got a commercials too. i hate a commercials between a good movie. but at that time, i like one. it's only take a view minutes i watch it. and i think. a bit quirky, but i think can make you think about something. and i think it will be different opinions. i like this   and thats how the night ended. -----