Thursday, December 30, 2010

What they are watching...Episode XVII

Our look at what the teens and tweens of America are watching. We peer into their world through the lens of Youtube. You may have caught some of our earlier episodes, if not, follow this link and [scroll down].

The kids they still love the physical comedy and the slapstick humor. The message is in the action, not some highfalutin reference or irony. Check out the satirization of country singer Kenny Rogers below doing "Jackass", the eighth graders who sent this video our way had no idea who Kenny Rogers was, nor had they ever seen him. They still found this video utterly hilarious.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Tentang Hujan dan Sekeping ingatan yang memudar

Setiap perjalanan memiliki akhirnya sendiri. Bahkan setiap tahun selalu akan berjumpa dengan Desember. Hari ke 25 di bulan ini, bagaimana kabarmu?

Entah kapan kali terakhir saya menuliskan keluh kesah di tempat ini. Bukannya tidak ingin berbagi, tetapi hanya tidak ingin mengakui saja, bahwa ada banyak emosi yang terkuras, ada banyak perasaan yang terpendam. Semuanya berujung pada kelelahan yang teramat sangat. Semuanya terbendung tanpa pernah teralirkan. Bahkan air hujan pun akan mengalir ke berbagai tempat. Kenapa satu perasaan saja begitu sulit untuk tercurahkan?



Saya kemudian mengingat perkataan bodoh itu, yang saya ucapkan dan ditujukan kepada diri sendiri. Bahwa ketika saya mengakui perasaan tersebut, saya akan terlihat lemah. Sudah lama saya berhasil menyembukan setiap lapisan perasaan. Setiap sepi, setiap gundah yang ingin keluar. Semuanya tersimpan rapi. Tapi itu malah mengerogoti saya dari dari dalam. Dengan keadaan yang lebih parah.

Pada hujan di bulan Desember tahun ini. tersimpan banyak cerita. Tersimpan banyak perih yang terhujam dalam keseharian. Kenapa harus mengeluh? Bukankah itu konsekuensi dari setiap pilihan yang dibuat? Begitulah adanya. Tapi saya juga manusia. Yang mempunyai rasa lelah, jenuh dan muak. Sepertinya semua hal terbendung dan menjadi satu titik kulminasi yang melelahkan.

Tentang pekerjaan, saatnya membenarkan hati lagi. Karena inilah pekerjaan yang sudah dipilih. Memang dalam beberapa minggu terakhir, semuanya terasa memuakkan. Kerjaan yang seperti tidak ada habisnya. Malam-malam panjang yang tidak terarah. Istirahat yang tidak pernah cukup, menjadi satu dalam bentuk kebencian dan penyesalan. Mengapa saya mengambil pekerjaan ini? hati-hatilah beruang. Karena sebuah pikiran bisa begitu membahayakan. Begitulah keadaannya. Ini hanya satu salah satu skenario. Bertahanlah sampai keadaan berubah. Berhenti untuk membandingkan dengan orang lain, karena semua orang sudah memiliki jalan takdirnya sendiri. Cukup urusi hati sendiri dan semuanya akan baik-baik saja.

Mengenai hati, mungkin inilah persimpangan terbesar yang pernah terjadi. Ketika saya harus benar memutuskan, kemana akan melangkah. Selama ini, kata menikah tidak pernah sekalipun terlintas. Tapi sekarang? Ini menjadi salah satu hal yang menjadi prioritas. Mengapa? Karena saya membutuhkan orang lain untuk berbagi dan melewati hari. Sudah saatnya mengakhiri semua kisah platonis yang tidak tentu arah. Bukankah hidup akan mencari akhirnya sendiri?

Tentang teman. Semua berubah. Waktu berubah. Tempat berubah. Bukankah itu yang dari dulu selalu diyakini? Semua akan mencari hidupnya sendiri-sendiri. Untuk apa merisaukan hal ini. Teman akan datang dan pergi. Ada waktunya ketika lingkaran hidup akan berdampingan, berisisian, sampai akhirnya melepaskan kembali. Memilih jalan ceritanya masing-masing. Semuanya sisa terangkai dalam memori yang bernama kenangan.
Hujan di bulan Desember. Tidak usah bersedih dengannya. Karena drama itu pasti terjadi. Semua hidup akan berganti, seperti hari yang akan terus terjalani. Berhenti mengeluh, dan lihatlah dengan kacamata yang lebih baik. Karena memendam resah akan membuahkan hari yang gelisah. Selamat datang hujan, usaplah kenangan ini menjadi sebuah kenangan yang akan menjadi pelajaran di keesokan hari.

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

What are they watching... Episode XVI

Our look at what the teens and tweens of America are watching. You may have caught some of our earlier episodes, if not, follow this link and [scroll down].

The kids they love the Auto-tune, Christina Aguilera's opinion not withstanding. Likely, we are witnessing the first Auto-tune generation, people who do not remember before it was possible to bend pitch to the nearest true tone. Of course, those are not the only fun and games that you can play with Auto-tune, see the witness below for evidence.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Mallika Sherawat Biography and Photos

Mallika Sherawat (Hindi: मल्लिका शेरावत, born Reema Lamba) is an Indian actress who appears in mainly Bollywood films and a former model. Known for her bold onscreen attitude, Sherawat has been frequently featured in the media as a sex symbol. She is one of the few Bollywood stars trying to crossover to Hollywood. with films like Hisss and Politics of Love

Early life

Sherawat was born Reema Lamba in Rohtak, Haryana to a Jat family. She adopted the screen name of "Mallika", meaning "empress", to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema. "Sherawat" is her mother's maiden name. She has stated that she uses her mother's maiden name because of the support that her mother has provided her. She went to school at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. She has obtained a degree in philosophy from Miranda House, Delhi University. During initial days of her career, she often claimed that she came from a very conservative small town family, her mother trashed her when she applied lipstick, her father was an authoritarian landlord and in her small town in Rohtak, women were treated like cattles and her mother wore veil. She also claimed that she got married to one Capt. Gill from Delhi on the persistence of her family. However Mallika's family has refuted her story as lies created by her to give her an aura of a small town rustic girl who made it big in big bad Bollywood. When her father, Mukesh Kumar Lamba, questioned her she is said to have replied that "Papa, filmon mein yeh sab kehna padta hai achchi publicity ke liye." (Father, in film industry you have to do these stuff for publicity). Mallika has often stated that she changed her first name to avoid confusion with contemporaries like Raima Sen, Reema Sen and Rimi Sen. Friends say she opted for the uncommon surname Sherawat (a modification of her mother’s maiden name Sehrawat) for its distinctive sound and not, as Mallika later said, because of her strained relationship with her father and his relatives. She got married soon after college to a boy of her choice, Jet Airways pilot Captain Karan Singh Gill and not because her parents pressurised her. Glamour photographers recall that Reema Gill, as she was known then, would avoid any mention of her husband, even deny being married. Her publicity statements also got her father in trouble as he had to spent a lot of time pacifying angry relatives when Mallika has said in interviews, "I come from a place where women are kept in the backyard along with cattle"; that her parents "fled from Rohtak" because relatives disapproved of her career choice; and again, "In my family, no woman has even held a job."

Career

Before entering films, Sherawat appeared in television commercials with Amitabh Bachchan for BPL and Shahrukh Khan for Santro. She also appeared in Nirmal Pandey's Maar Dala and Surjit Bindrakhia's Lak Tunoo music video. She debuted in films with a small role in Jeena Sirf Merre Liye where she was credited as Reema Lamba.

Sherawat attracted notice with her appearance in the 2003 film, Khwahish. In 2004, she starred in Murder, a film inspired by Hollywood's Unfaithful. She received a nomination for Best Actress at the Zee Cine Awards for her performance in Murder. The film went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year.

Since then, Sherawat has been known for expressing her opinions in public, as well for the reaction to some of her statements.

In 2005, Sherawat acted in The Myth, a Chinese film, co-starring with Jackie Chan. She played the role of an Indian princess who falls in love and is rescued by Jackie. The Myth was her first International film. Her appearance at the Cannes Film Festival to promote the film grabbed a lot of attention with Time Magazine's Richard Corliss calling her "the next big thing".

Her performance in the 2006 film Pyaar Ke Side Effects, co-starring Rahul Bose, won her praise from around the industry, and the film also did moderately well at the box office.

Her first release in 2007 was Mani Ratnam's Guru, in which she appeared in a special song, "Mayya Mayya". She also played a guest role in Himesh Reshammiya's Aap Ka Suroor - The Real Love Story and reportedly charged Rs. 15 million for a 10-minute appearance. Her last release of 2007 was Welcome, which also did well at the box office receiving blockbuster status.

Her 2008 releases were Ugly Aur Pagli and Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam. Both films were unsuccessful at the box office.

Hollywood

In 2009, Sherawat finished shooting a Hollywood film named Hissss co-starring Irrfan Khan and directed by Jennifer Lynch. The film, based on the legend of Nāga, is a an independent co-production between the United States and India. Endeavour Independent has bought the distribution rights of Hisss. Sherawat promoted the film with live snakes at the Cannes Film Festival 2010.. Hisss is slated to release in all major Indian languages on 22nd October 2010

Sherawat also finished shooting for another Hollywood film. Love, Barack aka "Politics of Love", directed by William Dear. She plays Aretha Gupta, a devoted local Obama volunteer coordinator. The film is a romantic comedy set during Barack Obama's campaign for the US Presidency. First look of Love, Barack was unveiled by Sherawat at Cannes 2010.

Sherawat won the 2008 Renaissance Artist Award at the 16th Annual Diversity Awards held in California. On 14 August 2009, Sherawat received a career recognition Honorary Citizenship of Los Angeles for her career achievements and charitable efforts.


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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Dumas to come to the screen



The works of Alexandre Dumas, particularly the Three Musketeers, have been favorites of the silver screen. Now the renowed French actor, Gerard Depardieu, wants to bring the life of Dumas, himself, to the cinema. Depardieu hopes to develop a joint film project with Azerbaijan. Dumas traveled throughout the Karabakh in the 19th century and stayed with a poet, who was a daughter of the last Khan of Karabakh Natavan.

In the modern era this area has been a flashpoint of tension between Armenians, Azerbaijanis and an imperialistic Russia.

Depardieu will have to work very carefully around the literal and proverbial minefields, if he is to bring Dumas's life to the screen.

Think your office is getting smaller?

It is probably because it is.



The Los Angeles Times reports that in the 1970s, American companies typically believed that they needed 500 to 700 square feet per employee to build an effectively functioning office. Today, the average is barely more than 200 square feet per person, and the space allocated could hit a mere 50 square feet per by the year 2015. The Times cites several long-term trends that are converging to crunch office space. Technologies like laptops over desktop computers, cellphones over landlines and outsourced data back-up over in-house servers are finally beginning to affect the way offices are laid out. Younger employees are more used to working in communal spaces and as part of a team. Part of the reason too is economic, cubicles have shrunk from an average of 64 sq.ft. to 49 sq.ft. in recent years, and companies continue to look for more ways to stretch their real estate dollar.

Imagine what the office will look like when the Facebook generation arrives.

The LA Times predicts a revolution in the commercial real estate market quoting Peter Miscovich, who studies workplace trends as a managing director at brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle, "We're at a very interesting inflection point in real estate history. The next 10 years will be very different than the last 30."

Read the whole article here.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Tentang Rumah dan Cerita yang tidak akan selesai

Saya masih ingat perkataan Nanie, sewaktu pertemuan terakhir di Igo Bakery.

"Kenapa sepertinya kau menghilang? Tidak bisa diajak bercanda seperti dulu. Hidupmu sudah terlalu serius"


Seperti itukah? Sepertinya memang iya. Saya bahkan sudah lupa kapan bisa tertawa dengan lepas. Kapan bisa berbuat ugal-ugalan, dan menjadikan dunia hanya sebuah lelucon besar. Saya lebih memilih menjadikan diam sebagai tembok pengaman yang paling ampuh. Untuk menutupi bahwa memang saya sedang lelah yang teramat sangat.



Sepintas saya mencoba mengingat, karena siapa saya bisa berada diposisi sekarang? Saya bisa dengan tegas mengatakan kalau bukan gara-gara teman di Komunitas Blogger Makassar, mungkin saya masih akan seperti dulu. Introvert dan masih egois dalam memandang hidup. Siapa yang pertama kali menjerumuskanku untuk menjadi MC dan tampil didepan publik? Mereka. Entah atas dasar percaya bahwa saya bisa, atau memang ingin menjerumuskan saya. Tapi lihatlah sekarang. Saya bisa bicara dimanapun, dan kapanpun di depan umum. Karena rasa percaya yang mereka berikan. Karena mereka tahu saya bisa. Sedangkan saya sendiri terkadang dihinggapi ragu yang teramat besar.

Entah sudah berapa malam dan berapa ratus hari yang telah terlalui. Memintal cerita dan menjelajah berbagai macam tempat dan emosi. Bukankah begitu sebuah rumah? Ketika kau tidak hanya merasakan senang, tetapi juga merasa susah, sedih, karena itu sudah menjadi bagian dalam dirimu. Menjadi satu dalam keseharianmu.

Saya tahu potongan lagu di video itu milik siapa. Saya tahu, potongan foto-foto di video itu milik siapa. Milik mereka yang selama 4 tahun ini telah menjadi teman, sahabat, yang bisa diajak berbagi apa saja. Berbagi kegilaan dan berbagai kemustahilan yang terkadang tidak masuk di akal. Teman-teman yang telah membuat saya menjadi orang yang nyaman menjadi diri sendiri. Tanpa perlu ditutupi, tanpa perlu menjadi orang lain.

Lantas mengapa saya berubah? Tidak ada yang berubah sebenarnya. Saya bukan Power Rangers. Saya hanya lelah dengan semua rutinitas yang menyita. Mereka pun mengerti itu, tetapi tidak ingin membahasakannya. Walaupun ada sejuta rindu untuk berkumpul dan berbagi kegilaan dengan mereka. Saya terlalu berdrama? Mereka pasti akan mengerti sisi diriku yang ini.

Seperti sebuah rumah dengan ceritanya yang tidak akan selesai, mungkin saya melewatkan episode Ulang Tahun ke 4 ini. Melewatkan satu momen yang pasti tidak akan berulang. Tapi saya tidak perlu sedih, karena saya tahu didalam rumah ini penuh dengan orang hebat. Penuh dengan orang-orang yang memiliki cerita dan perannya masing-masing sehingga masih banyak cerita dan masih banyak hari yang akan terlalui bersama mereka.

Selamat Ulang Tahun, Komunitas Blogger Makassar, AngingMammiri yang tercinta. Saya bangga menjadi bagian dari keluarga ini. Peluk hangatku untuk kalian semua.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Camille Grammer Biography and Photos

Camille Grammer sexy bikiniCamille Grammer is an American fashion model, actress and dance performer born on September 2nd, 1968 at the beautiful country of Newport Beach, California.

Career:

Her birth name is Camille Donatacci. She married Kelsey Grammer in the year of 1997; Kesley is an American actor and comedian famous for his two decade portrayal as a psychiatrist in NBC sitcom “Cheers” and has presently filed for separation and divorce.

Camille’s career began when she was twenty years old, 1988 as a dancer in Club MTV. She did dancing for a living for 4.5 years. She however appeared in a rock video in 1990 by Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom known as “The Party Starts Now”. In 1991 she starred in a second rock video “Give it All you Got” by Rights of the Accused. She also made an appearance in HDTV video sequence in the faous Broadway show known as “Dreamtime” which took place at Ed Sullivan Theatre in 1992. In 1993, she was a part of prestigious trio dancers who appeared at the “Tavern on The Green” in New York. Till 1993 she was featured in Playboy magazine 15 times!

Then in 1993 she joined and studied English literature at Montclair State College in New Jersey. And in 1996 she studied at UCLA Film School. While continuing her studies she also did films like “Marilyn Chamber’s Bedtime Stories” in 1993 and “The Naked Detectives” in 1996 followed by “Private Parts” and “Destructing Harry” in 1997. In 2000 she turned a writer and producer for TV sitcom “Neurotic Tendencies” for the channel NBC.

Camille met her would be husband on a blind date in MTV hosted party in 1996 and they married a year later in August 1997 at Malibu. Camille made a guest appearance on the TV sitcom “Frasier” with hubby Kelsey Grammer. The couple has a daughter by the name of Mason born in 2001 and a son known as Jude born in 2004. Both children were born to a surrogate mother. Their marriage lasted 13 years when Camille decided to get divorced on July 1st, 2010. She is currently fighting for custody of her two children and spousal support in court.

In 1996, Camille was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and currently works to create awareness against this disease.

Why do we like Camille Grammer?


Camille Grammer bikini sexyWe like Camille Grammer for her social service in creating public awareness against Irritable Bowel Syndrome and also for her acting in various TV sitcoms.

Why is Camille Grammer famous?

Camille has received much popularity because she is a part of An American Reality Series for Bravo Cable Network “The Real Housewife’s of Beverly Hills” which premiers on October 14th, 2010.

General appearance:

- 5' 6" (168 cm) height, - Dark brown eyes and blonde hair.

Being born on Sep 02, Camille is a Virgo.

Camille Grammer attended the Montclair State University New York University.

Camille dated Kelsey Grammer.



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Alison Waite Biography and Photos

Alison Waite (born November 10, 1981) is an American model. She was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for May 2006, appearing on the cover of the issue.

Waite was one of the four finalists for 2007 Playmate of the Year, along with Miss September 2006 Janine Habeck and Miss March 2006 Monica Leigh. The three lost to Miss July 2006 Sara Jean Underwood as featured on the E! reality TV series The Girls Next Door.


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