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Paradise by Coldplay

Since their 4th album (viva la vida), they have been constantly putting strings section in most of their ‘killer’ singles. As in the beginning of this song, we can feel the strings flowing down our ears gently and mild..

but then 35secs after enjoyable set of strings, Guy Berryman slaps our mind with a bold distorted bass.. and as usual coldplay’s signature, we can hear Chris Martin’s signature voice with his piano melodies.

going through the 2nd chorus, a gap between Jonny Buckland’s rhythm and Guy’s bass is like asking us to jump and scream as loud as we can! really breathtaking..

just close your eyes while listening to this song, it will inspire and boost your guts.

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Bliss by Muse

from wikipedia: “one is standing on a ledge then the song begins as he leaps and begins falling through a shaft in space”.. totally true! this is how I feel for listening ‘Bliss’, ‘Sunburn’, and ‘I Belong to You’..

I mean, they really play our emotion with those tempo, and melody from Bellamy’s piano, also every beat from Dominic’s drum, and same like Coldplay.. tremendous bass play which give us that awe-struck feeling.

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salute for both bands. their songs are really coloring this monochrome world..

how come a flashgun could only last for 1 year, seriously??
Well I know yongnuo’s pricetag is one-tenth of canon’s for the same spec, but one year lifespan of a flashlite? the worst in its class I guess..

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okay maybe I put my expectation to high when I obtained 2 yongnuo YN-460 last year. I was too intimidated by canon EX-480′s pricetag.. so I took the alternative instead, chinese brand yongnuo.

at first five shots of the flash, it did what it say in the white paper of the product.. guide number up to 46, short recycle time, un-noisy recycle phase, slave mode, bla bla bla.. but after 2 months usage, it started to degrading the performance.. totally crap.

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it is time to use another japanese product.. nissin, maybe.

last contribution of my yongnuo

jumping out of an airplane, riding ducati or maserati in empty road, or base-jumping from edge of a cliff to prove terminal velocity theory of human body free-falling in thin air

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mm.. if only rossi and nicky hayden looking for apprentice to fill in the 3rd post, I’d be the first one standing in the queueing line.. ja ja ja

different people, different characters..

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once, i was working in the same project with this Swedish guy, and what i found positive from him: he was accurately punctual, make every statement bold and clear, and always trying to keep personal relationship without mix it with professionalism in working space..

and then i met this South African guy; tough, strong personality (he said one should be persevere enough to make a living in Johannesburg), and beer-all-the-way..

then another project where i met some Australian.. blonde and white people that come from eastern part of the world . looks like they inherit not only British dialect, but also communication manner, sense of humors, but a little bit flexibility in a matter of deadline (maybe it’s because direct neighbouring with Indonesia, geographical-wise)

now i’m working with Thai people, and they are really nice people, and honest as well.

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but when it comes to Indonesian; we need to divide them into 2 big different pools. the first type of Indonesian i know is: strivers, people with perseverance, raised with a complex and compact education curricullum, as nice and smiley as Thai people does, just put an Indonesian wherever in this planet and he/she will survive.. that is the first type.

and the second type? well.. Indonesian politicians and corruptors. completely the opposite of the first one.

of course, that’s why they put unreasonable price tags on that f1.4 (or above) lens. hahah.

but, something all photogs always put in mind is.. composition. composition means the whole meaning of a picture. a good compo means the saturation is perfect, also the bokeh, the lighting, exposure, white balance.. everything!

I have to admit that since I got along with strobist and lighting stuffs, I kinda forget this compo thing. instead of building a perfect composition, i was to much interested on how to setup a perfect lighting and that inverse-square-law theory..

so now, i’m ready to recall the compo theory and memorize what I saw from Deniek Sukarya and Joe McNally’s photostream

Love is real, real is love,
Love is feeling, feeling love,
Love is wanting to be loved.
Love is touch, touch is love,
Love is reaching, reaching love,
Love is asking to be loved.
Love is you,
You and me,
Love is knowing,
We can be.
Love is free, free is love,
Love is living, living love,
Love is needing to be loved.

- john lennon

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oh yeah, before that.. I need to share something about this country’s government-owned airline, MH.. man! the seat distance between each row was so narrow, it was like a low-cost-airlines.. even airA*ia is much better (also for having leather-coated seat). but at least they provide white wine, so I could sleep nicely during the flight and forget about my uncomfortable seat..

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the people.. what should I say about this country’s society, huh? well.. these are the things I found during 2 days wandering around the city:

- strong ethnical mindset, or maybe tendency of racism.. (?). I stay at Kepong district, and it is like a Chinatown. it’s a base for Chinese people and I can hardly found other ethnic.. well, just my 2 cents.

- not so fast economical development of mall and plaza, but the infrastructure establishment, I might say, is spread evenly.. from KLIA going downtown, I could see that the highway was so well-implemented (maybe they use non-corrupted asphalt, not like in Jak-city ).. and also there were 1 or 2 shopping centers, which were spread along the highway..

- if we compare the mall with the one in Jakarta, surely Jakarta’s malls are much more elegant, more high-end, and more choices of the goods.. it makes you want to walk-around the mall, even if you didn’t buy anything. not like in here..

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well wherever it is.. at least I can sip a glass of chocolate and playing around with the lens..

And what I mean GOOD meaning excellent teamwork, consistent defense, awesome through-passes, beautiful long-balls, and fair-playing attitude.. amazing!

Here are some my remarks regarding the play:

1. perfect placement of each players.. Alfred Riedl is truly an architect. He knows exactly about Okto’s speed, Utina and Bustomi’s accurate long-ball, Maman’s defense consistency, Nasuha + Zulkifli’s wing skills, and of course.. Gonzales + Irfan’s killing attitude.  All those strength points were well-combined by Riedl. Bravo to you, mr. Riedl.

2. even the 2nd line-up also incredibly deserve an applause.. Arif Suyono replacing Okto in the 2nd half? wow.. Arif’s dribbling and passing skill really equal to Okto’s acceleration, on breaking the Phillipines’ defense.

3. Markus Horizon also superb while goalkeeping. He was able to block 2 direct-shots from Phil ‘SuamiMuda’, Phillipine’s deadly striker.

4. extra-effort attitude of the players.. I don’t know how Riedl manage to shape the mentality of TimNas, but surely each of TimNas’s member are now stay-humble, never over-reacting.. we can find no more ‘Boaz’ kind of attitude in the team.. I could see how each of the players gave thanks or recognition to his teammate after every crossings.. wow, what a solid team.

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and now about the supporters.. 80 thousands people singing our national anthem all together? well, that’s truly pumping up my heartbeat. anytime you feel like loosing your nationality because of all those fuc*ing Indonesia’s corruptors.. just remember 80 thousands Indonesian singing one of the best national anthem in the world. and you will won back your nationalism

only one thing I felt sorry with, ‘Lupang Hinirang’ was played after ‘Indonesia Raya’.. and it was so embarrassing that the 80 thousands crowd kept blowing the trumpets, or yelling, and didn’t respect the Phillipinos. come on, guys.. it was so embarrassing! what will you feel if Malaysian do the same thing to our Indonesia Raya???

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so.. man of the match would be goes to Nudrin Hadli (kidding, apology my dear Endonesian friends..). I guess Alfred Riedl deserve it. He was the man of that match.

feeling so curious about that song, I tried to remember that vocalist’s tone in my brain, ‘is it travis? nope.. or maybe keane? not also’, and then gave up.. but fortunately, our sony ericsson cell-phones were equipped with an application that so useful for music-lovers like us. it is called ‘TrackID’.. some of you guys might know ‘Shazam’, it is another apps with similar concept.

so I told Tri to grab the phone and run the ‘TrackID’.. it will get some sample of the song, upload it to the server, compare the sample with the database, and got the descriptions of the song.. and it was ‘Gravity’, sung by ‘Embrace’.

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after knowing the song, I kept telling Tri that the song is completely so-coldplay-style until she bored with my statements and making a joke with a serious face.. she said, “oh really? I’m a huge fan of coldplay also, dude!”

I was instantly shocked, looked at her face, and then a little bit giggled.. then I asked her, “oh yeah? mention 5 coldplay’s songs!”

she answered, “umm.. okay.. let see.. um, yellow.. and then, shiver.. umm, that’s two! umm.. just a minute!”. we began to laugh as I counting down, “5.. 4.. your time is up.. 3.. 2..”.

“a coldplay lover, huh?”, I said..

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thinking about that moment makes me laugh also.. because I remember that Tri and I never gone through ‘that phase’, a phase were usually one of a couple faking about their interest just to find any similarities with his/her partner..

“i like this food a lot!”

“oh really? i like it also!” (fake statement.. )

“wow, we are such a soulmate..”

“yeah..”

- crap.. -

just the way she is.. that’s all I need.. period.

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writing this while listening to Embrace – Gravity in an infinite loop..

we were so enthusiastic with the project, and try to take perfect frames of them.. so we prepared every tools that we need, from flashlights to 33″ umbrella (shot-through and reflector), the lightstands, and also wireless trigger.. it was a great try out

dee + ary

well, actually the picture above was taken in sushi-tei, where no flashlights were allowed. so we took it with high ISO, put the 50mm wide open, and leave the sharpness to be handled by CS3 (photosho*)..

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and, what happened next was.. last sunday, Nov 21st they got married! congratz to you both, dee + ary!

I’ll put another picture of their wedding shots later. got to work!