The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You

Meanwhile in Work's Time

I’m gonna tell you about my activity in this very right moment. Well, here I’m working in front of the computer. Thanks God, It isn’t all the time.

My team is mapping team. In this division, we provide the maps as customers needs. Then, we layout the maps into well informed maps as customers needs. The last steps, we package the maps to customers.

Sometimes we will get some hard times as the customers feedback that will always change. So there will be some update data and we need to change the whole maps.

It’s fun though. When you have good colleagues and a good manager, the work will be more enjoyable.

Maybe I like being here, maybe I don’t. If you asked me for change, I will take that opportunity. But over all, it’s nice to be here (because of you, eh?). In the end, I’m glad that I’ve ever been in this company in this division.

Studio Ghibli

This time I want to review the Studio Ghibli films. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film makers. It was founded in June 1985 after the success of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), with funding by Tokuma Shoten.

Artificial animation Studio Ghibli films are not only famous in Japan alone. But famous all over the world, especially for all of you who are lovers of animated films.

Eight of Studio Ghibli's films are among the 15 highest-grossing anime films made in Japan, with Spirited Away (2001) being the highest, grossing over US $274 million worldwide. Many of their works have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award, and four have won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. Four of Studio Ghibli's films received Academy Award nominations in the United States. Spirited Away won a Golden Bear in 2002 and an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003 (Wikipedia).

Here are the films made by Studio Ghibli

• Castle in the Sky – August 2, 1986            
• Grave of the Fireflies – April 16, 1988     
• My Neighbor Totoro – April 16, 1988      
• Kiki's Delivery Service – July 29, 1989      
• Only Yesterday – July 20, 1991   
• Porco Rosso – July 28, 1992         
• Pom Poko – July 16, 1994             
• Whisper of the Heart – July 15, 1995       
• Princess Mononoke – July 12, 1997         
• My Neighbors the Yamadas – July 17, 1999          
• Spirited Away – July 27, 2001     
• The Cat Returns – July 19, 2002 
• Howl's Moving Castle – November 20, 2004        
• Tales from Earthsea – July 29, 2006         
• Ponyo – July 19, 2008    
• Arrietty – July 17, 2010 
• From Up on Poppy Hill – July 16, 2011    
• The Wind Rises – July 20, 2013   
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – November 23, 2013
• When Marnie Was There – July 19, 2014

Here are some films of the studio Ghibli which I will discuss:

• Grave of Fireflies

   The story was the siblings, Seita and Setsuko, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of the Second World War. They lost both parents due to the war. Their mother died due to exposure to a bomb blast. They were forced to live with his maternal family. Seita also provided all the supplies that had been buried prior to her aunt as a reward for having them in her house. He gave all but one tin supply, Fruit drops, candy her sister favorite sister.

   Sooner or later, their aunt began to sell their mother clothes and complained how Seita and Setsuko were a burden to their family and assumed they did not do anything to get food which they ate (In fact, the reality was what they ate, rice, side dishes, and else, was the result of their mother’s kimonos sales and supplies were buried by Seita. Even they were not given the same portion as her family because she said that Seita and Setsuko did not work for the country and were just lazing).

   The situation was uncomfortable; Seita decided to go out of her aunt's house and lived in abandoned bomb shelter. In the evening, Seita and Setsuko caught many fireflies as lights in the shelter.

   The next morning, Setsuko surprised to learn all the fireflies that they catch dead. She was buried the fireflies and asked why fireflies should die so soon and why their mother had to die. Hearing Setsuko said their mother died, Seita was crying. Because of all this he hid the fact their mother had died to Setsuko. But unbeknownst to their aunt told Setsuko Seita that their mother had died.

   Supplies of food and money were running low. This made Seita have to steal to nearest farm in order to feed Setsuko. Seita was increasingly desperate when he learned his sister exposed to malnutrition and one way to treat was to provide nutritious food, even though at that time they had not had any more food either money.

   Seita finally withdrew all the money in their mother savings in order to provide nutritious food for Setsuko. At the same time, he heard that his father fought ship has sunk in the sea floor and there was no hope that their father survived the war.

   Not only that, misfortune befell them back. Not long after Setsuko died. With a sore heart, Seita was cremating his sister. Furthermore, he had no will of life. In the end a few weeks later Seita died due to malnutrition.

My opinion:
This film provides a lesson for us that the war is useless and only misery. The film also shows how the war caused so many victims and most of them are children. Like fireflies, their life did not last long.

The film tells how both siblings have to live with difficulty at the time of war. How his brother must be willing to steal and beaten in order to provide decent food for her sister. I really like this movie. I learn a lot from this movie. Every time I watch this movie, my hearts feel their sadness, their sorrow. I’ll always hold myself not to cry. It’s really a sad movie. I really recommended you to watch this movie.

• Spirited Away

   This film tells about a family, father, mother, and their children Chihiro who entered into the spirit world. Because of eating foods that exist in the world, his mother and father cursed and turned into a pig. Chihiro who had been informed by a man named Haku tried to rescue her parents by asking the job to Kamaji.

Finally, Chihiro got a job and signed a contract agreement with Yubaba and she was renamed into Sen. After that she went back and met Haku who pretended not to know her. But, Haku gave her a warning to keep remember her original name, Chihiro, in order to save her parents and to be able to go out of the world of spirits.

   When she worked, she unintentionally let the spirit of No Face into the bath house. At the same time, Sen proved her hard work by serving a spirit odor that turned out to be a very powerful spirit.

   Things began to chaotic when No Face gave much gold to workers who were greedy. He also requested to be served with plenty of food and he asked Sen to serve him in exchange for gold that much. However, Sen rejected and said that she did not need it.

   Problems occurred when she was helping Haku. She went to the house of Yubaba twin sisters to be able to help Haku. Haku who had been trapped in a spell of Yubaba, had been cured. At that moment Sen knew the real name of Haku was Kohaku which was the guardian of the river Kohaku.

   In the end, Sen / Chihiro could return to her world along with her father and mother.

My opinion:

Actually, I’ve watched this movie today. :D

I like this movie. I really like how the klutzy Chihiro can survive and even help Haku and her parents.

This movie told us not to become greedy to. Greedy will harm you. This movie also told us that magic is not an answer to everything; you can still do something and make it nice without magic.

I don’t know how to say. If only you can just read what inside my mind, you will understand how great this movie is.  

• Howl’s Moving Castle

   The film also tells about the war situation and explains that war is not the answer of peace.

   The story is about how a girl named Sophie who got the curse of the evil witch who maked her become an old hag due to meet with the male wizard named Howl. As a result of the curse, Sophie was determined to be reunited with the witch that had cursed. In the middle of her journey, she met with Howl's Moving Castle. She entered the house. In the house she met with fire demon named Calcifer who will rescue her from the curse in exchange for Sophie also helped him escape from the curse. When Howl appeared, Sophie announces that Calcifer hired her as a cleaning lady terribly dirty after seeing the condition of the house.

   At that time, there were two countries were at war. This was due to the prince of one of the country disappeared and was considered kidnapped by the opponent. Howl was asked to meet with the leaders of each country in order to helping the two countries. One of the royal advisors called Suliman. Howl was asked Sophie to replace him met with Suliman. Suliman realizes Sophie's true relation to Howl and her intense romantic feelings towards him. Howl then arrives to rescue Sophie, disguised as the King. Suliman tries to trap Howl, but with Sophie's help, they manage to escape, taking Heen and the former Witch of the Waste with them.

   In the end, Sophie helped Howl to remove the curse by returning his heart into his body. Howl heart that had been there in Calficer was returned to Howl. So either howl or Calficer freed from the curse, following with Sophie.

   The end of the film is shown that Howl live with Sophie in their moving castle.

My opinion:

Once again, war is not an option for gaining peace. Sometime war started because of misunderstanding from both side. So if we listen to both side clearly, we don’t need violent for answering the problem.

I really like Sophie, because she is not such a cry-baby. She used her strength to release from the cursed. She also helped so many people to release from their curse. She was even kind to the witch that put her in spell.

I can also feel the emptiness in Howl. But I’m glad that Sophie can fill his emptiness. Sometimes what we need is the right person to feel the emptiness. But, in the way to gain it, we might fall or we might do some mistakes.

That’s all from me for this time. Hope you enjoy my quick review and have a nice watching…

Faded

Crashed on the floor when I moved in

This little bungalow with some strange new friends

Stay up too late, and I'm too thin

We promise each other it's 'til the end

Now we're spinning empty bottles

It's the five of us

With pretty eyed boys girls die to trust

I can't resist the day

No, I can't resist the day

Jenny screams out and it's no pose

'Cause when she dances she goes and goes

Beer through the nose on an inside joke

And I'm so excited, I haven't spoken

And she's so pretty, and she's so sure

Maybe I'm more clever than a girl like her

Summer's all in bloom

Summer is ending soon

It's alright and it's nice not to be so alone

But I hold on to your secrets in white houses

Maybe I'm a little bit over my head

I come undone at the things he said

And he's so funny in his bright red shirt

We were all in love and we all got hurt

I sneak into his car's cracked leather seat

The smell of gasoline in the summer heat

Boy, we're going way too fast

It's all too sweet to last

It's alright

And I put myself in his hands

But I hold on to your secrets in white houses

Love, or something ignites in my veins

And I pray it never fades in white houses

My first time, hard to explain

Rush of blood, oh, and a little bit of pain

On a cloudy day, it's more common than you think

He's my first mistake

Maybe you were all faster than me

We gave each other up so easily

These silly little wounds will never mend

I feel so far from where I've been

So I go, and I will not be back here again

I'm gone as the day is fading on white houses

I lied, wrote my injuries all in the dust

In my heart is the five of us

In white houses

And you, maybe you'll remember me

What I gave is yours to keep

In white houses

In white houses

In white houses

White Houses - Vanessa Carlton

I never thought I will say this once again, "I feel so far from where I've been, so I go and I will not be back here again. I'm gone as the day is fading on white houses"

Have you ever thought that maybe you can fit in one place and you can say "Wow that was an unforgettable memories"? But, suddenly something destroys your imagination. All you want to do now is disappear?

Some people say, don't make some mistake or you will regret.

But we will never know it was a mistake until we do that mistake right? So I think that's a mistake if you don't do that mistake.  There is a quote says,

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart 

- Basil Rathbone

So now, I made some mistakes. Everyone made some mistakes. No body is perfect. Everyone has felt disappointed and let down. So, do I. But the question is, can we overcome it? Or we let our anger, disappointed dominates us? 

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret 

- Laurence J. Peter

Now, my regret is I really wish I would never do or say something like that to you. However, I already did it. Yeah for now on, I'll go and I will not be back here again. I'm gone as the day is fading..

x

Time #1

This was my first Haiku. I don't know why, it just happens to cross my mind. Hope you like it. Hope someday it will reach you. :p

KATSU's 7th Annual Gathering

~As we go on, we remember all the times we had together and as our lives change come whatever, we will still be FRIENDS FOREVER~
Vitamin C - Graduation

Last Saturday, July 25th 2015, my classmate (freshman in senior high school) hold the 7th Annual Gathering. It was another unforgettable memories. Although there are still not coming to the gathering.
At first, all of us felt the awkward moment. We were just talked about some topics then we kept quiet until there was someone broke the silence. But suddenly, we just blend into one and we just couldn't stop talking. About our graduation, our last term even if in different university, and also about our future such as who will get married first after our friend Dissy.
The marriage topic was so sensitive because some of us even didn't have the candidate yet (including me). It was so fun and really it was unforgettable memories.
The people in the pictures are Kevin, Mitha, Agung, Icut, Yugo, Andy, Soffie, Ghina, Kurnianti, Ufa, Fayer, Mela, Wawa, Tyas, Winni, Meili / Mamaks, Debboy, Guntur. *sorry for the shabby face,  we had already been there since 2 p.m. And we took the photo at 9 p.m. :D*
Then, I have nothing to write. What happened yesterday was unwritten. I will always cherish every moment we've been together, KATSU.
The time pass quickly. Suddenly it have been seven years we know each other. Although, now we parted, we'll still be friends forever.