The Silliest Person I Have to See

20 October, 2006

Borat, a character played by Baron Cohen, is a TV reporter from Kazakhstan who embarks on a journey across America to make a documentary for his audience back home. Only watching this preview has made me laugh out loud. Despite the fact that Kazakhs people are unhappy about the movie, I can't wait to see the whole movie which will be released in the first week of November. Click the picture to see the video clip (taken from yahoo.com).


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in America


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How To Become Famous

19 October, 2006

I miss Celebrity Duets tv show. Hope it will be on again sometime next year. Anyhow, I've just found another ridiculous Celebrity Duets. Yeah, let's say they are worldwide famous, more popular than any celebrity in real Celebrity Duets I would say. However, their show is not entertaining at all but tremendously dangerous instead. Here they are...



source: TIME magazine
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East Meets West

10 October, 2006

Why not? Well, it's not about our personal distinction I am talking about. But you can say frankly that we are an east-meets-west couple. When it comes to food, we have something common not to mention the authentic meals we grew up with. Of course it doesn't mean my hubby would eat all kind of foods I like to eat, for example: a spicy-salty-dried fish (ikan teri) which he calls a stinky fish, any hot pepper spicy cooking, any kind of asian noodle, etc. Sometimes it's hard for me to figure out what I was going to cook when I wanted to eat my Indonesian dishes so badly, meanwhile my husband couldn't eat it and I didn't feel like to cooking two different dishes at the same time. One day, I came up with the idea to cook something that I could combine or adjust the ingredients therefore we both can share the same dishes together without ruining the whole original taste. At that day I was dying to eat Indonesian noodle (bakmi goreng) but my hubby doesn't like any kind of noodle. So, what I did is I replaced noodle with thin spaghetti and asian meatball (bakso) with bratwurst sausages. I cooked this pasta just like the way I use to cook my authentic noodle cooking. It turned out really good and we both liked it.



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Mingled With His Fans

06 October, 2006

Off to DC, we took metro going to Neil Gaiman event last weekend. We stopped by Borders to looking for his new book Fragile Things, unfortunately we found nothing. Hubby bought Anansi Boys in case we couldn't get one in a book store nearby the event. Yeah just getting his sign on his books was the only thing we needed from him that evening, though I never like doing such thing for some reasons. Are we his big fans? The answer is no! But we do read his books. One of them I've ever read is Coraline. The book is okay and easily understood.

Well, our purpose why we'd like to get his sign on his new book because we are going to give this signed book as a Christmas present for Tim. He is my hubby's best buddy since childhood. He is a real big fan of this author and collects many stuff of NG such as comics, books, etc.

Once we got there, I was surprised by the style most audiences were wearing. They looked hippie and unfashionable, sort of like Tim I would say. Another surprise was the event was held in Wesley United Methodist Church, while the writer himself (and most of his fans, I guess) seems like having no religion as we have observed so far from his writings and his answer to one question about religion. After minutes I was sitting on a little empty space of the carpeted floor (the room was packed and there was no empty seat) , I found it was such a boring event. Can you believe it took almost 2 hours just listening to what he read? He shouldn't have done this way, reading the whole chapter one. To me, it's just wasting time since the audiences who most got his new book on the spot can read that part at home, anyway. A good thing is the line was not that too long when we were getting his sign. On our way back home, Hubby said he feels not welcomed in such community ..oh well what can I say? Anyhow, I just enjoyed myself looking at some eccentric crowd and the author as well, even though he is not as cool as I thought like his picture I saw in one of his books.



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In My Ears / Eyes

05 October, 2006

There are four talk show hosts I could identify the worst so far. They are Rachel Ray (RR new talk show, 30 minutes meal, 40 dollars a day), Kelly Ripa (Live with Regis and Kelly), Elisabeth and Joy (The View). I can not stand the way they talk. They sound yelling and shrieking, and they never shut up. Their voice are so disturbing in my ears. Do they represent a kind of typical American women? If it is so, no wonder why my hubby has never had an intention to find one among them to be his wife, though he has ever dated a few of them (hihihi *gotcha*)

To me, they are annoying for many reasons but here are a few: RR talks with her hands way too much and she giggles incessantly; Kelly sometimes says stupid jokes which are not funny at all but the audiences are pushed to laughs at; Elisabeth and Joy talk like interrupting each other constantly (sometimes I can't understand what they are saying about.. because of a bunch women lips might be??) and both get emotional easily, Elisabeth in particular (does she have a bad temper?). However, the strange thing is I keep watching them. Weirdo me? You say so, I don't care.


Elisabeth, Joy, Kelly Ripa


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