Sunday, May 28, 2006

shiro, sleepy

shiro, sleepy
shiro, sleepy,
originally uploaded by iqbal aribaskara.
today me, esti, and shiro went for a little picnic (for me and esti, for shiro, replace the 'picnic' part with 'ricocheting around'). this photograph is taken after he run about the place, apparently a bit sleepy

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

rants

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Friday, November 04, 2005

happy eid 1426H

happy eid 1426H
happy eid 1426H,
originally uploaded by iqbal aribaskara.
selamat idul fitri kawan-kawan :)

Thursday, October 27, 2005

GECKOERS: instruksi pasang logo di friendster

instruksi pasang logo di friendster
instruksi pasang logo di friendster,
klik untuk ukuran lebih besar
originally uploaded by iqbal aribaskara.
mohon diperhatiken:
buka account friendsterloe, edit profile, trus klik tab "customize" (lihat gambar), abis itu, copy paste script yg gua kirimin lewat msg di friendster di tempat yang gua kasih kotak merah, trus klik "save" di bagian bawah layar...

Monday, October 17, 2005

dengan menyebut nama Allah

Dengan menyebut nama Allah
Jalani hidupmu
Yakinkan niatmu
Jangan pernah ragu

Dengan menyebut nama Allah
Bulatkan tekad mu
Menempuh nasibmu
Kemana pun menuju
Serahkanlah hidup dan matimu
Serahkan pada Allah semata
Serahkan duka gembiramu
Agar damai senang sentiasa hati mu

lagu ini menurut gua bagus banget, nada2nya catchy, liriknya bagus. dan berhubung ini bulan Ramadhan, gua pingin bagi2 aja. mungkin liriknya ada yang salah, mohon dimaafkan.

semoga ada gunanya :)

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

semangat 17an!!

iya gua tau udah telat 6 hari, tapi cuek aja ya?haahahaha
MERDEKA!!!

INDONESIA RAYA
W.R. Supratman

(I)
Indonesia , tanah airku , tanah tumpah darahku
disanalah aku berdiri , jadi pandu ibuku
Indonesia , kebangsaanku , bangsa dan tanah airku
marilah kita berseru : Indonesia bersatu

hiduplah tanahku, hiduplah negriku
bangsaku, rakyatku, semuanya
bangunlah jiwanya, bangunlah badannya
untuk Indonesia Raya

Indonesia Raya, merdeka merdeka
tanahku, negriku, yang kucinta
Indonesia Raya, merdeka merdeka
hiduplah Indonesia Raya

(II)
Indonesia tanah yang mulia, tanah kita yang kaya
Di sanalah aku berada, untuk s'lama lamanya
Indonesia tanah pusaka, p'saka kita semuanya
Marilah kita mendo'a, Indonesia bahagia

Suburlah tanahnya, suburlah jiwanya
Bangsanya, Rakyatnya semuanya
Sadarlah hatinya, sadarlah budinya
Untuk Indonesia Raya

(III)
Indonesia tanah yang suci, tanah kita yang sakti
Di sanalah aku berdiri, 'njaga ibu sejati
Indonesia tanah berseri, tanah yang aku sayangi
Marilah kita berjanji, Indonesia abadi

S'lamatlah rakyatnya, s'lamatlah putranya
Pulaunya, lautnya semuanya
Majulah negrinya, majulah pandunya
Untuk Indonesia Raya
------------------------------------------------------

RAYUAN PULAU KELAPA
Ismail Marzuki

Tanah airku Indonesia
Negri elok yang amat kucinta
Tanah tumpah darahku yang mulia
Yang kupuja sepanjang masa

Tanah airku aman dan makmur
Pulau kelapa nan amat subur
Pulau Melati pujaan bangsa
Sejak dulu kala

Melambai-lambai nyiur di pantai
Berbisik-bisik Raja klana
Memuja pulau nan indah permai
Tanah airku Indonesia
-------------------------------------

DESAKU
NN

desaku yang kucinta
pujaan hatiku
tempat ayah dan bunda
dan handai taulanku
tak mudah kulupakan
tak mudah tercerai
selalu kurindukan
desaku yang permai
-------------------------------------

MAJU TAK GENTAR
C. Simanjuntak

Maju tak gentar
Membela yang benar
Maju tak gentar
Hak kita diserang

Maju serentak
Mengusir penyerang
Maju serentak
Tentu kita menang

Bergerak bergerak, Serentak serentak
Menerkam menerjang terjang
Tak gentar tak gentar, Menyerang menyerang
Majulah majulah menang
---------------------------------------------------

Tanah Airku
Ibu Soed

tanah airku tidak kulupakan
kan terkenang selama hidupku
meskipun aku pergi jauh
tidak kau hilang dari kalbu


tanahku yang kucintai
engkau kuhargai



walaupun banyak negeri kujalani
yang mashyur permai dikata orang
tetapi kampung dan rumahku
di sanalah kurasa senang


tanahku tak kulupakan
engkau kubanggakan
-------------------------------------------

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

SilverQueen Bites


beberapa waktu lalu, gua ngeliat suatu bungkus aneh di dalam tong sampah deket rumah gua. bungkus snack, ada tulisannya SilverQueen Bites. those guys over at the SilverQueen factory are at it again!! so i told a fellow SilverQueen maniac about it, and zealously said that i would investigate into that matter as soon as possible.

ternyata snack misterius itu sulit dicari, mungkin waktu itu mereka baru tes pasar atau gimana, tapi gua cari-cari ke supermarket supermarket terkemuka (caelah) gak ketemu-ketemu.

2-3 bulan berlalu, dan kemarin, kebetulan gua harus beli beberapa hal di Hero deket rumah gua. waktu bayar di kasir, mata gua menangkap sebuah benda: SilverQueen Bites!! and just in time for the release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory too! i smell a conspiracy here... hmm..

anyway.. gua beli beberapa bungkus, dan ini hasil investigasi atas snack misterius tersebut.


bentuk isi SilverQueen Bites

seperti yang tertulis pada bungkusnya, snack ini adalah kacang mente berlapis coklat SilverQueen. begitu bungkusnya dibuka, makhluk-makhluk coklat itulah yang akan terlihat. bentuknya seperti kacang merah (sebetulnya seperti kacang mente, but i dont wanna be too obvious). ukurannya lebih besar sedikit dari kacang mente (again, i dont wanna be too obvious).


bagian dalam SilverQueen Bites

i'm a skeptic person, gua gak mau percaya gitu aja sama tulisan di bungkus snack itu, with all the false endorsement around us, i think i have the right to be skeptic. gua pingin liat apa bener snack ini adalah kacang mente berlapis coklat, jadi gua ambil pisau, dan gua potong. dan ternyata.. benar saudara-saudara!! di dalam lapisan coklatnya ada kacang mente. which is my fave kind of nuts.

sekian investigasi saya, ternyata SilverQueen Bites adalah kacang mente berlapis coklat, persis seperti tulisan pada bungkusnya. buat yang penasaran rasanya kayak apa, bayangkan coklat SilverQueen biasa, tapi dengan lebih banyak kacang mente :D . for the SilverQueen maniac out there (yes you, you know who you are) this article is written especially for you, rejoice!! heheheh

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Studio Ghibli


I've watched a fair share of Studio Ghibli's features. I've watched Laputa, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso, The Cat Returns, Only Yesterday, Kiki's Delivery Service, and My Neighbor Totoro, and i have to say, i applaud them for their consistency. bukan cuma konsistensi gaya gambar, kualitas gambar, dan ceritanya yang selalu bagus, tapi juga tone dan feel dari karya karya mereka.

Setiap kali abis nonton filmnya Ghibli, ada satu perasaan yang hampir pasti timbul.. that "it's-Sunday-afternoon-tomorrow's-Monday-I've-got-to-go-back-to-school/work
-gimme-my-childhood/youth-back" kinda feeling.

poster "The Cat Returns"

That said, satu nasihat yang bisa gua berikan, jangan nonton film bikinan Studio Ghibli di Minggu sore, apalagi setelah keluarga elo baru pulang setelah datang berkunjung untuk akhir minggu, hehehe..

Monday, July 18, 2005

gadis' birthday

tanggal 12 kemarin ultahnya si gadis. jadi gua dan rere pergi ke jakarta untuk makan2 sama keluarga.. ini ada beberapa foto-fotonya.


the birthday girl with her puny little cake.. courtesy of Cafe Pisa :)
happy birthday sis!

my cousin, Rizky acting up. his expression looks a bit like Calvin's in Calvin and Hobbes strips ,
don't you think?


the mandatory family pic, almost the whole gang.
the ones from my father's side already went home when i took this pic.




on the other side of the story, i had some misfortune. mobil gua ketabrak sama mobil box, well, gak ketabrak sih.. keserempet. *sumpah bukan gua yang salah!! tanya aja ama adek gua* bempernya robek, jadi terpaksa gua tinggal di jakarta karena asuransinya di jakarta. oh well..

(jadi kalo ada yang nanya kenapa gua gak jadi beli lensa... ya ini lah... )

my poor baby... those good people at the shop will fix you good darling

Monday, July 11, 2005

my new lens

my new AF-D Nikkor 80-200mm F4.5

hari sabtu kemaren gua beli lensa :D. range 80-200mm, bukaan F4.5, pinginnya sih bukaan F 2.8 , apa daya duit gak punya :D. lensa ini tajem juga hasilnya

Friday, July 08, 2005

chocolate (esti's birthday)

kemaren (tanggal 6) itu ultahnya esti, jadi gua, esti, angga, tanz, firdy, dan icha makan di cafe du chocolat. we ordered chocolate fountain. and i have to say that it's one crazy meal. imagine a fountain, the kind that scatter all over europe's old intersections, this fountain is about 1/50 smaller, and covered with flowing 1 kg of chocolate. crazy shit eh?

for the dips we had marsmallows, strawberries, and biscuit sticks.

we started dipping, eating, until sometime in the middle, almost everyone of us had chocolate madness. we started hearing things we thought others said, but nobody really did, and we started having strange interpretations of things. now i understand why the mayans ( or was it the incans? i cant really remember) said that chocolate is the food of the gods... if so, the gods are having a heck of a crazy time eating that stuff.

chocolate is hallucinogenic


a freshly dipped marshmallow


oooh.... look at those strawberries :D

*more photos comin up*

Thursday, July 07, 2005

RRRAAAAANNNTTTZZZ!!

i think i should let you know that you're one of the best things that ever happened to me

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

review: woman is the future of man

ok.. kemaren gua nonton film korea dipinjemin sama si angga. judulnya "Woman Is The Future Of Man".
filmnya eksistensialis banget... eksistensialis disini artinya: gak ada plot, gak ada kejutan-kejutan, gak ada klimaks.. the film just exist without serving any kind of purpose and without sending any kind of message. hahaha

anyway.. ceritanya mulai waktu dua orang teman lama ketemu. yang satu baru pulang dari amrik, sutradara. yg satu masih tinggal di korea dan berkeluarga, dosen. kayaknya dua orang ini punya selera cewek yang sama. long story short, mereka mutusin ketemu sama seorang cewek, exnya si sutradara (yang setelah si sutradara pergi ke amrik, jadi exnya si dosen juga).

mereka ketemu si cewek, si cewek udah jadi manager bar (dan kayaknya 'hostess' professional). she bangs 'em both, in turns, si sutradara cemburu. si dosen ditinggalin, ketemu sama mahasiswa/i nya, trus jalan sama mahasiswinya, mahasiswinya gave a blowjob untuk si dosen. ada mahasiswa cemburu ngetok2 kamar motel tempat si mahasiswi dan dosen itu melakukan 'bisnis' nya, and that's it fellas... hehehe

no resolution at all.. which left me dazed and confused by the time the credits starts rolling... oh well..

Sunday, July 03, 2005

reality check

it is i who wouldnt know what to do without you.

Saturday, July 02, 2005

weekend rant once more

have you ever had those moments that your heart skipped a few beats, you dont really know why, yet you know it's not because something is physically wrong with it?

i had it twice, last night, and another one this morning.

Friday, July 01, 2005

things about roaches

gua benci banget sama kecoak sampe2 gua suka cari info2 tentang kecoak.. aneh ya? :|
well anyway, i think i'm gonna share some roach trivias

  1. kecoak punya dua otak. satu di kepala, ini otak yg lebih canggih diantara keduanya, otak ini yg ngatur naluri untuk cari makan, tidur, dsb.. otak yg satunya, yang lebih primitif, ada di dekat kaki belakangnya. otak yg kedua ini ngatur insting untuk lari menghindar.
  2. kalau seekor kecoak kehilangan kepalanya, dia masih bisa hidup sampai sekitar seminggu setelahnya. (karena masih punya satu otak lagi di belakang)
  3. kecoak bisa bereaksi cepet banget untuk menghindar karena otaknya yang kedua. jadi sementara otaknya yang "canggih" (ya secanggih2nya otak kecoak gimana sih) masih mikir untuk makan dan segala macem, begitu dia ngerasa terancam, si otak yg kedua bisa langsung nyuruh si kecoak kabur tanpa nunggu konfirmasi otak pertama.
  4. kecoak yg bisa terbang itu cuma kecoak betina
  5. kecoak jantan punya semacam kait/capit di bagian belakang badannya yg digunakan untuk nempel ke kecoak betina waktu mereka kawin.
  6. telor kecoak ukurannya sekitar 1 - 1.5 cm, keras, warnanya coklat tua hampir hitam, satu telor bisa netasin 12 bayi kecoak.
  7. satu kecoak yang terlihat berarti ada sekitar 100 kecoak yg gak terlihat di daerah tersebut.
  8. cara paling efektif ngebunuh kecoak pake air panas. gak beracun, tinggal dilap setelah kecoaknya mati huehehe
  9. kalo kecoak dibunuh, dia bakal ngeluarin sejenis protein untuk memperingatkan kecoak lainnya. kalau protein ini kena kulit manusia, bakal bikin gatel2, jadi ati2 aja..
  10. belom kepikiran.. nanti ditambahin.. huahaha

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Batman Begins



"It's not what you are underneath but what you do that defines you."

tadi malem baru nonton salah satu film terbagus yg pernah gua tonton.. Batman Begins! :D Keren banget! gua suka cara Christopher Nolan memvisualisasikan Batman dan Gotham.
  • Christian Bale cocok banget jadi Batman/Bruce Wayne, terutama karena sorot matanya yang pas banget, tajam dan agak sedikit prikopat.. hahaha.
  • Michael Caine, well, kayaknya untuk aktor kawakan satu ini gak perlu komentar kan? Karakter Alfred jadi bagian yang sangat penting untuk film ini IMHO.
  • Morgan Freeman,- Lucius Fox, kayaknya jadi kebiasaan dia jadi karakter paling cerdas di film2nya ya? hahaha... tapi bagus, he doesnt take his role too seriously, his character was fun to watch
  • Gary Oldman - Patrolman/Sergeant/Lieutenant Gordon. ini orang tumben2an main jadi karakter protagonis.. hehehehe... tapi keren juga ngeliat aktingnya yang beda dari film-film lainnya
  • Katie Holmes - Rachel Dawes. Karakter ini gak ada di komiknya, but well, i'm not complaining. it's just that her acting hasnt improve much from her Dawson days
All in all, it's a good cast. everybody can act exceptionally.

Now to the storyline. This is by far, the best superhero movie i've seen. really. REALLY. the character development is superb. the relationships between the character is also great! especially the one between Bruce and Alfred. Bale and Caine plays the dynamics between these two characters perfectly.
I really like the way Bale makes it obvious that Bruce Wayne persona is merely a facade for Batman.

If there's anything i would complain from this movie, it would be the fighting sequences. it's too jittery and blurry to comprehend. and after a while, it gets a bit repetitive.

should there be a number two and three? you betcha! it would be such a waste of material kalau nggak.

anyway, that's it for now. i'll append something later if anything came to my mind :)

posted by iqbalbaskara

Saturday, June 18, 2005

weekend rant

Ask any guy what makes him fell for a particular girl, and you can almost guarantee
that the answer is "she has a good personality" or, "she has
the most beautiful eyes i've ever seen" or "she's got the hottest
body in the world" or something like that.

Let me tell you something. For me, it's more personal --more "detailed"
if you will-- than that.


I dont think that we could understand other people's personality that quickly.
We could spend an entire lifetime without knowing who we really are, let alone
who others are.


Beauty and good looks can capture the eyes, but not the heart.


For me, it's the little things that matter. It may be how she answered certain
questions, the way she tells a story. How she handle certain situations, or
the way she lay her eyes on me. But the thing that grabbed my heart usually,
is how she make me feel when she's around, or even when we talk over the telephone, or chat over the internet to be more contemporary :D. And yes, I know how selfish it sounds. :)


It's how she makes me feel to have a purpose waking up each day. How she makes
me feel I can do certain things I didnt know I could do (or things I didnt even
care doing before), without her even have to ask.


Anyway, just a weekend rant.. heheh.. have a good weekend everyone.


batman begins tonight! yay!

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Vindicated

Dashboard Confessional

Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of which has caught my eye
And roped me in
So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing I am captivated

(Chorus)
I am Vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
I swear I knew it all along
And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself

So clear
Like the diamond in your ring
Cut to mirror your intentions
Oversized and overwhelmed
The shine of which has caught my eye
And rendered me so isoloated, so motivated

I am certain now that

(Chorus)

So turn
Up the corners of your lips
Part them and feel my finger tips
Trace the moment, fall forever
Defense is paper thin
Just one touch and I'd be in
Too deep now to ever swim against the current
So let me slip away [3x]
So let me slip against the current and let me slip away

(Chorus)

Slight hope It dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption...

Thursday, May 26, 2005

mimpi kehilangan sayapnya

di sebuah sore yang tak begitu istimewa, kudengar sesuatu menabrak jendela
di kaki jendela itu, di tepian kolam terlihat sesosok tubuh mungil
"kenapa kau?" tanyaku
"aku kehilangan sayapku" jawabnya
"siapa namamu?" tanyaku lagi
"aku Mimpi"
kenapa wajahnya begitu sendu, pikirku waktu itu.
lalu entah bagaimana, kami mulai bicara panjang lebar.
tentang aku, tentang dia, tentang dunia.

"kenapa sayapmu bisa hilang?" akhirnya meluncur dari mulutku
"karena kau" jawabnya, matanya yang bening itu menusuk jiwaku
"aku?"
"ya, kau"
lalu dia memalingkan muka kearah kolam , memperhatikan lebah yang hinggap sejenak diatas teratai.
"kau berhenti percaya padaku," katanya lagi.
"aku tak berhenti percaya padamu, aku hanya lupa bagaimana wajahmu," kataku
"sekarang kau ingat?"
"ya," kataku sambil mencoba membaca wajahnya
"lalu kenapa aku masih kehilangan sayapku?" tanyanya

kami berdua terdiam.

"mungkin karena aku takut membiarkanmu terbang lagi" jawabku

ia menolehkan kepalanya, menusukku sekali lagi dengan tatapannya, lalu tertunduk dan berkata, "atau mungkin... karena aku tak tahu harus terbang kemana."