Friday 29 April 2011

Tweet Seat


Wah, buat kita meng-update twitter kayaknya udah jadi hal wajib (hampir) setiap menit, hehe.. Bisa dibilang, rutinitas nge-tweet dimulai dari bangun pagi sampai mau tidur lagi :D Uniknya, Chris McNicholl punya ide bikin bangku taman lengkap dengan tipografi warna biru khas Twitter, plus burung kecil yang menjadi logo Twitter. This tweeting seat is in San Fransisco and nice location for a tweetup of course, tepatnya di taruh di suatu taman. Ternyata Chris terinspirasi oleh hubungan antara objek fisik dan digital sehingga terciptalah tweet seat ini. Tapi kenapa dibilang memakai sistem interaktif plak yaa? Ternyata bangku ini bukan sekedar bangku biasa. Setiap ada orang yang duduk, Tweet Seat ternyata merekam gambar orang tersebut, dan meng-uploadnya ke Twitter Feed, hehe.. Psst, ada dua kamera tersembunyi yang dipakai untuk merekam, salah satunya ada di “mata” burung Twitter, dan satunya lagi ada di burung yang ada di atas pohon. Kalo mau tau lebih banyak tentang Tweet Seat, coba deh pantengin timeline Twitter-nya di @tweetingseat.


Wednesday 27 April 2011

'Cause You're A Firework


One thing you should know about me: I always judge a song from the meaning. And this time I want to talk about a song with a very impressive meaning. You know, this song is really a great song if you look to the lyrics. Guess, what song is it? Yes, It's Katy Perry's Firework. Well, I'm not talking about the singer. I'm talking about the song.

I think the world really needs many great songs like this, not like many songs that just show your sadness about losing someone you love, losing hope, or facing difficulties of life. Those songs are just songs that make your problems look worse. That's miserable. The more you listen to those songs, the more you think about your problem, the more you feel sad and frustrated.

But this song is different. It is like motivating you to keep your light shine, no matter who you are, no matter what circumstance you have in your life, even when your light is so little.


Watch the video above. I really like the way this video was set up. To illustrate the song, they use some people as models that most people may think they don't deserve to be happy because of what they face in their lives.



On this video, you can see a broken-home family, a little girl with cancer who will not have long time to live, a fat girl who doesn't has great body, or just a couple of gays.

I believe most of you think that these kinds of people are just people who deserve your pity. You think it's very logical for them to feel sad or stressed, because you know they have those reasons to feel 'different'. Maybe some first sentences of the song lyrics really represents about what they feel:

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting throught the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin like a house of cards, one blow from caving in? Do you ever feel already buried deep, six feet under scream but no one seems to hear a thing?"

But you know what the next lyrics is? "Do you know that there's still a chance for you? 'Cause there's a spark in you. You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine."

Yes, I love this part. It's what this song is all about. You must fight all your problems. Just because you have problems you don't want to have in this life, doesn't mean you don't have any hope or chance to live your life. You think your life is not as good as others. Maybe it is. I don't know about your life story.

But believe me, no matter who you are or what problems you must face in your life, your life is worth living, not just surviving.

Let's check the best part of this song: "You're a firework. Come on, show them what you're worth. Make them go "Oh, oh, oh!" as you shoot across the sky."

I don't know how miserable your life is, and I don't what you're going through, but I believe that everyone who is still breathing in this world deserves more than just surviving this life. It's pointless for you to be in this world if all you do is just waiting your sad story ends, then everybody will say "Oh, the story is so sad. You have my pity." You want people to see your story like that? Of course not. Create a great story in your life before the story ends. Maybe you can't change the circumstances of your story, but you can always change the content of story until nobody thinks it's a sad story.

Because you're a firework, friends. All you have to do is to know that you're that firework that still has that spark.

Saturday 23 April 2011

No Strings Attached


Emma (Natalie Portman) and Adam (Ashton Kutcher) are two friends who keep bumping into each other after years apart from each other. Emma and Adam meet again through their mutual friend Patrice, when Emma is a resident in a local hospital and Adam is the assistant on a High School Musical-like TV-show, with aspirations of becoming a script writer. Adam takes down Emma’s phone number, but forgets to call her.

Six months later, Adam becomes distraught, when his eccentric father (Kevin Kline), who used to be the star of a TV show called “Great Scott” is having a relationship with his ex-girlfriend Vanessa. Determined to ‘get back on the wagon’, Adam starts calling every woman in his cell phone. The next day, he wakes up after a drunken night to find out that he text-messaged Emma and came to the home she shares with some other residents, including Patrice. Emma leads Adam to her bedroom to retrieve his pants, when the two of them wind up having sex.

Because Emma does not believe in love – she believes that ‘no two people were meant to be together forever' – Emma proposes that they have casual sex with each other, setting some ground rules for each other to prevent their relationship from becoming too serious. At first things go well, but then Adam starts becoming jealous of the possibility of Emma being with another doctor, Sam. Although denying that he is jealous, Adam starts presenting her with gifts, which she rebuffs.

Adam becomes more distraught when his father asks him to dinner with Vanessa on Adam’s birthday, where they announce that they’re planning to have a baby together. Emma, who accompanied Adam to the dinner, berates the couple while defending Adam. Adam eventually convinces her to go out with him on a date on Valentine’s Day. Things come to a head when Emma starts becoming too uncomfortable about being on a date with Adam. Adam tells Emma that he loves her, but she grows angry, telling him he should go out with another woman who ‘isn’t going to hurt you’. Adam drops Emma off at her hospital and drives off.

Six weeks later, a script Adam had written for his show and submitted through Lucy, the production assistant on the show, is being filmed and Adam is set to get a writing job on the show. Emma, meanwhile, has become distraught at not being with Adam, which is compounded by her younger sister's upcoming wedding the next day and her widowed mother arriving with a new boyfriend.

Emma tries calling Adam, but Adam rebuffs her on the phone. Emma realizes she wants to be with him, and drives down to his home. Adam, however, arrives home with Lucy, whom Emma takes to be Adam's new girlfriend. Emma tearfully starts driving back to the wedding.

Before Adam and the production assistant can have sex, Vanessa calls Adam – his father is in the hospital, having overdosed on cough syrup. Arriving at the hospital, Vanessa confesses that she doesn’t want to be with an older man, and dumps her dog off on Adam, who talks to his father and chastises him, but tells him he’ll call tomorrow.

On the way out, Emma calls Adam again. Adam angrily tells Emma that she needs to have the conversation she wants in person – which she does; Emma’s friend and resident Shira noticed Adam's father arriving and called Emma. Adam and Emma eventually reconcile, and after a morning of eating breakfast together they go together to Emma’s sister’s wedding. Emma asks, “So, what happens now?” and Adam silently holds her hand.

In the concluding pictures, it is seen that Lucy - left stranded when Adam and Emma found each other - has taken up with Adam's father, replacing the feckless Vanessa. Eli and Patrice are shown meeting Eli's two gay dads. Vanessa is seen in an elevator with old people, being visibly disconcerted. Shira is seen with Ben telling her that she wants to see hther people. Emma is later seen as the delivery doctor to an expecting mother while her husband tries to sooth her. The last scene concludes with Adam and Emma snuggling together while falling asleep.

Sony-Ericsson Play

Sony Ericsson announced at the MWC 2011 in Barcelona the game changing Xperia Play, the latest mobile phone in its Xperia line-up of Android Smartphones. The Sony-Ericsson Play handset delivers the Smartphone functionality that the most serious power users could need, teamed with the immersive mobile gaming experience that any gamer would want. In portrait mode, the new Android Smartphone from Sony-Ericsson offers all the benefits that users have come to expect from Sony Ericsson’s existing range of Xperia Smartphones with best-in-class entertainment experiences, a 5 megapixel camera, a stunning 4” multi touchscreen and great social networking features.




Sony-Ericsson Play
Slide out the gaming control from your Sony Ericsson Play and enter a new world of immersive mobile gaming. The slide out game pad reveals a digital D pad, two analogue touch pads, two shoulder buttons and the four PlayStation icons: circle, cross, square and triangle. The Sony-Ericsson Xperia Play mobile phone is equipped with a 1Ghz CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and ibedded Adreno GPU graphics processor deliver silky smooth 60fps play-back 3D mobile gaming and internet browsing with minimal power consumption so your Sony Ericsson Play can enjoy long hours of battery life and game time.


Sony-Ericsson Play Android Smartphone
The new Sony-Ericsson Play runs on Gingerbread (version 2.3), the latest version of Google's Android OS platform. The Sony-Ericsson Play will also be the first PlayStation Certified mobile device. This means it will have access to Sony PlayStation game content provided through the PlayStation Suite initiative, currently under development by Sony Computer Entertainment and due to launch later this year.


Sony-Ericcson PlayStation Certified Smartphone
Kazuo Hirai, President of Networked Products and Services Group at Sony said: "I am delighted to see the Sony-Ericsson Play handset as the first PlayStation Certified Smartphone to hit the market. The new Sony-Ericsson Play Smartphone provides a unique consumer offering and is yet another example of great products and services coming to market that leverage Sony's strong assets."


Sony-Ericsson Play game titles
Sony-Ericsson has partnered with key publishers in the gaming industry to deliver rich multimedia content at the launch of the Sony-Ericsson Play with many leading new titles available via the Android Marketplace. Leading franchises coming to the Sony-Ericsson Xperia Play Smartphone includes EA's The Sims 3 and FIFA 10 for mobile. GLU Mobile / Activision will be bringing Guitar Hero while Gameloft's titles include Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell. Sony Ericsson mobile is also partnering with Unity Technologies, using its award-winning development platform, to ensure a continuous flow of high quality 3D game titles.


Sony-Ericsson Play review
A pre-loaded software application will enable users to easily discover and download titles that have been optimised for mobile game play on the Sony Ericsson Play Smartphone, access recently played games and see information about the games they have downloaded. The new Sony Ericsson Play will be available globally in selected markets from March 2011. As soon as we receive a Sony Ericsson Play test sample, we will publish a photo gallery with high resolution pictures, followed by an extensive Sony Ericsson Play review.

Friday 22 April 2011

Teabag Coasters

What do you do with your dead-used teabag? Kantong teh yang tidak terpakai lagi biasanya memang bagus digunakan sebagai masker untuk mata yang lelah. Tapi Yuree S, Lim dan Jieun Yang ternyata punya ide lain. Yuree S, Lim & Jieun Yang menciptakan ide untuk ‘play with your tea to create nice drawings’. Caranya sangatlah simpel, setelah kantong teh dipakai untuk menyeduh teh, kalo biasanya bingung mau taruh dimana, atau langsung dibuang dan ditaro di gelas lainnya (untuk dipake lagi), kantong teh yang masih basah ini kita taruh di atas kertas cantik, yang sudah dibuatkan oleh Yuree & Jieun. Voila! Nggak lama warna coklat dari teh ini pun mulai membentuk guratan cantik diatas kertas. Bisa ditaruh untuk pajangan, bahkan banyak yang memakainya sebagai tatakan gelas. “The problem is there is no proper way to treat wet tea bags. Now, we proudly present Teabag Coaster. Teabag Coaster was designed to make a tasty cup of tea, and color your moment in everyday life beautifully,” ungkap Yuree. So, are you a tea lover?


Thursday 21 April 2011

BlackBerry Style

Sprint & Research In Motion have announced the BlackBerry Style 9670 Smartphone. The BlackBerry Style 9670 is an elegant, new flip Smartphone featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, the new BlackBerry 6 mobile operating system and a wide range of advanced communications and multimedia capabilities. The BlackBerry Style 9670 Smartphone comes with advanced features, including a 5 Megapixel camera with flash and support for movie recording, GPS for location-based apps and geo-tagging, Wi-Fi for faster connectivity and extended data coverage, and an expandable memory slot for up to 32GB of additional memory storage.



BlackBerry Style 9670

The attractive BlackBerry Style 9670 Smartphone includes an optical track pad for fluid navigation and boasts two large LCD displays, an external screen for quickly viewing notifications and messages, and a high-resolution internal display that makes internet browsing or watching videos a pleasure. The BlackBerry Style 9670 Smartphone from Sprint is available in two fashionable colours - Royal Purple and Steel Grey.


BlackBerry Style Smartphone


"The compact flip form factor on the new BlackBerry Style 9670 Smartphone makes it unique within the BlackBerry Smartphone line-up," said Fared Adib, Vice President - Product Development, Sprint. "BlackBerry Style 9670 users will appreciate that the flip form factor is extremely easy to use for phone calls, and with a full QWERTY keyboard, it provides the same attractive features enthusiasts have come to expect from their BlackBerry Smartphone. Also, with the enhancements available through BlackBerry 6, Sprint customers will love the new user interface and the enhanced web browsing experience.


BlackBerry Style 9670 review
As soon as we receive a BlackBerry Style 9670 test sample, we will publish a picture gallery with high resolution photos, followed by an extensive BlackBerry Style 9670 review.

Wednesday 20 April 2011

Lifehouse Bookstore


Mencari spot yang cozy di Plaza Indonesia? Coba deh kunjungi toko buku yang satu ini. Lifehouse Bookstore terletak di lantai dasar persis di sebelah kiri lift. Begitu memasuki toko buku ini, gue langsung merasakan suasana homey dan tenang. Dengan dekorasi warna putih dan warna-warna pastel, café kecil di dalam Lifehouse emang pas banget untuk bersantai sejenak. Kamu bisa memesan cappuccino atau teh bersama cookies. Nah, karena fungsi utamanya adalah sebagai bookstore, sebagian besar dinding Lifehouse tertutup buku-buku, dan kebanyakan buku impor.

Walaupun toko buku ini berbasis religi, Lifehouse juga melengkapi koleksi bukunya dengan tema-temalife improvement, parenting, relationship, business dan juga social. Selain itu ada juga frame, cd lagu-lagu rohani, birthday card dan juga handy craft. Karena konsep toko buku ini didirikan untuk charity, makanya harga buku-buku disini baik impor maupun lokal, harganya sangat terjangkau. Mulai Rp 25.000 hingga Rp 300.000. Ohya, kamu juga bisa loh menggunakan ruangan café di Lifehouse untuk klub buku atau acara lainnya. Tinggal hubungi pihak Lifehouse untuk mengatur jadwal dengan mereka. Asik banget kan?



Lifehouse “Books, Gifts, Café, Music”
Plaza Indonesia 1st Floor #006A, JL. MH. Thamrin Kav. 28 – 30 Jakarta
(021) 299 23 626
Buka: 10.00 – 22.00




Seminar dan Talkshow “Aku Masuk ITB”


ACARA INI GRATIS

DAPAT SERTIFIKAT, SNACK, LUNCH (MAKAN SIANG), PEKO GREEN TEA, JUGA FULL VERSION TALLENT MAPPING

Hari, tanggal: Sabtu, 23 April 2011
Waktu: 08.00 – 16.00
Tempat: Aula Barat ITB


RANGKAIAN KEGIATAN

Acara yang akan dilaksanakan bertajuk seminar interaktif dengan mengambil tema “AYO MASUK ITB”
Rangkaian acara meliputi:
  1. Gambaran profil ITB. Meliputi prestasi, prodi yang dibuka dan rekapitulasi biaya masuk ITB
  2. Tes minat dan bakat. Panitia memfasilitasi peserta untuk mengetahui potensi serta minat dan bakat yang dimilikinya. Dengan tes yang sederhana dan singkat ini diharapkan peserta sadar bahwa setiap individu memiliki potensi yang besar. 
  3. Sosialisasi mekanisme pendaftaran dan pembiayaan ITB. Merupakan sarana penerangan mengenai hal-hal terkait mekanisme pendaftaran dan pembiayaan dari pihak panitia Penjaringan Mahasiswa ITB dan juga Herry Dharmawan (Presiden KM ITB 2010/2011).
  4. Talkshow kehidupan dunia kampus. Sharing santai dengan beberapa sampel mahasiswa ITB berprestasi akademik dan non akademik. Pembicara dalam talkshow ini ialah Mahasiswa Berprestasi (Akademik dan Non-Akademik juga Alumni ITB).
  5. Pengenalan 12 fakultas ITB. Penginformasian fakultas di ITB melalui stand fakultas yang diisi oleh HMJ terkait. Peserta dapat bertanya dengan bebas kepada stand yang diminatinya.
  6. Sosialisasi Beasiswa ITB dan Sharing. Sosialisasi keberadaan beasiswa-beasiswa di ITB oleh Lembaga Kemahasiswaan ITB serta sharing mengenai beberapa beasiswa yang dapat diakses oleh mahasiswa baru oleh penerima beasiswa terkait (Beasiswa ITB Untuk Semua, Bidik Misi, dan BPPT).
  7. Seminar motivasi. Penguatan motivasi dan pemberian kiat-kiat untuk dapat sukses beradaptasi di masa transisi ke perguruan tinggi oleh Ridwansyah Yusuf Achmad (Alumni dan mantan presiden KM ITB).




Dengan Host Paling Fenomenal

  • Ryan Ardan
  • Yusi Sabilla

Further info follow @nobelcourse
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Monday 11 April 2011

Barbie: A Fairy Secret



Barbie is at the premiere of her latest movie when her co-star and rival, Raquelle, steps on her dress, ripping it. Her stylists, Carrie and Taylor, take her off camera and Carrie, secretly being a fairy, uses magic to mend it. After Barbie goes back to the red carpet, Crystal, another fairy, greets Carrie and Taylor, having just finished taking some pictures of the carpet. She goes back to Gloss Angeles, taking one final picture of Ken.
Back in Gloss Angeles, Crystal shows Princess Graciella the pictures she took at the premiere. She gives the Princess a purple drink, a love potion, which turns her eyes form blue to purple. Crystal then shows the Princess the picture of Ken she took, and Graciella falls in love with him on the spot.
The next day at Wally’s restaurant, Ken, Barbie, and her stylists are discussing the movie premiere when Raquelle shows up, making fun of Barbie’s torn dress. Barbie follows her outside and confronts her, sticking up for herself. The stylists and Ken follow them to watch. While the two are arguing, Princess Graciella, Crystal, and two assistant fairies show up and kidnap Ken. Carrie and Taylor sprout their wings, attempting to stop the Princess from taking Ken, but they’re too late. The portal to Gloss Angeles closes before they can enter it.
Taylor searches for something on a Fairy Phone while Carrie attempts to dissuade Raquelle and Barbie of the fact that they just saw fairies. Carrie finds what she was looking for on the phone, a clothing store. Meanwhile in Gloss Angeles, Ken and the Princess arrive in the royal palace. Ken meets Zane, Graciella’s boyfriend. Zane is outraged, thinking that Ken is trying to steal his girlfriend, not the other way around. Zane challenges Ken to three duels.
Barbie, Raquelle and the fairies go to a clothing store, where there is a Fairy Flyway. The fairies reveal that every empty, closed stall in clothing stores is occupied by a Flyway, and the fitting room attendant is a fairy. They enter the Flyway, teleporting to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The fairies reveal that Lilianna Roxelle, a fashion critic from the previous movie, is the oldest and wisest fairy living on Earth. They fly through the city, Barbie and Raquelle holding on to Carrie and Taylor’s hands. Back in Gloss Angeles, Ken and Zane continue to prepare for the duel.
Barbie, Raquelle, Carrie, and Taylor arrive at Lilianna’s house, stating their problem. Lilianna reveals that Graciella must be under a love potion, which adds red to the eyes. She gets a vial of antidote for the love potion, gives it to Barbie, and lets them use her portal to Gloss Angeles.
They arrive in the fairy city, an island floating in the sky. The fairies take them to Wings ‘n Things, a store that sells clip-on wings for human use. After some practice with the new wings, the four girls set off to the palace, the highest point in the city. Meanwhile in the palace, the first phase of the duel between Ken and Zane begins. The first phase involves casting their best magic spell. Ken can’t cast any spells, but he cleverly avoids all of Zane’s blasts.
Barbie and her friends continue flying up to the palace, but encounter turbulence and almost fall. They land on some pegaponies, colored, flying horses that fly them the rest of the way. When they near the palace, the group encounters several swirlnadoes, pink and green tornadoes that will make even the best flier lose their balance. Barbie volunteers Raquelle to guide them through the swirlnadoes, saying that she is the best horse-rider of the four. The group makes it through successfully, arriving at the palace. They sneak into the palace disguised as chefs.
Once inside the palace, Barbie hears Ken yell and the four fly up to find up. Ken and Zane are continuing their duel. Barbie flies in front of Ken to stop Zane from blasting him again. Barbie attempts to give Graciella the love potion antidote, but the Princess freezes her, Raquelle, Ken, Carrie and Taylor with a spell. Crystal reveals that Carrie and Taylor are in the palace, and Graciella (who has hated Carrie and Taylor ever since they abandoned her) banishes the two and their human friends to the dungeon by trapping them in Fury Spheres. Graciella makes Ken propose to her with a spell.
The wedding begins, but Barbie and her friends are still stuck in the dungeons. Carrie tries several random items (a pair of novelty teeth, a rope, and a baseball bat) to try to break the cage, but none work. Carrie’s shoes don’t help, either. Barbie and Raquelle sit down and talk, discovering that their hatred towards each other is a complete misunderstanding. They forgive each other and promise to be friends, earning themselves real wings, because forgiveness lets you fly.
The two fly up to the grand hall to rescue Ken with their new wings. Zane objects to the wedding, trying desperately to win Graciella back. Barbie and Raquelle stop the wedding just in time, revealing to the public that the Princess is under the influence of a love potion. Raquelle distracts the assistant fairies while Graciella battles with Barbie. Barbie finally releases the antidote over Graciella’s head, curing her of the love potion. The Princess confronts Carrie and Taylor, who reveal why they seemingly abandoned her and got banished. The three become friends again, and Graciella sentences Crystal to clean the entire palace after the wedding reception, stating that she and Zane were to get married.
Graciella tells Barbie and Raquelle that their wings will disappear when they go back to Earth, and then reappear when they return to Gloss Angeles. Raquelle says that she plans to tell the world about the fairy secret, which is against fairy law. The fairies aren’t happy about this, but she still plans to. The next morning, Barbie wakes up with no recollection of Gloss Angeles or the fairies, thinking it was a dream. However, she and Raquelle are still friends, fairies or not. Carrie and Taylor tell the two that they reconnected with an old friend, meaning Graciella, and are going back to their hometown, meaning Gloss Angeles.

Friday 8 April 2011

Festival IYC 2011



Yeay! Akhirnya Indonesian Youth Conference 2011 akan diselenggarakan kembali di Jakarta pada 16 Juli 2011. Setelah sukses menyelenggarakan Forum dan Festival di tahun 2010, IYC 2011 akan fokus memaksimalkan Festival. Rugi banget deh kalo nggak dateng ke event yang sangat menginspirasi ini. Di Festival IYC 2011 nantinya akan menyajikan 14 topik seminar, diantaranya 9 topik IYC 2010 yang paling diminati pengunjung Festival IYC 2010, yaitu pendidikan, lingkungan, diplomasi, sudut pembaharuan, anti-korupsi, budaya, aktivisme, kewirausahaan, dan politik. Lima topik lainnya merupakan topik baru, yaitu kreativitas, media, teknologi informasi, olahraga, dan surprise session. Pastinya dengan para pembicara yang berbobot dan juga hebat! Wiiih, kebayang nggak sih apa yang bakal kamu ‘dapat’ kalo kamu dateng ke acara ini?! Woohooo.. serunya lagi, selain bisa terlibat langsung di seminarnya, kita juga bisa liat pameran komunitas dan malam hari kita akan seneng-seneng bareng dengan The Trees and The Wild, 100% dan masih banyak artis lainnya. 

Catet: Festival IYC 2011 akan diadakan di Upper Room, Wisma Nusantara, Jakarta. 

Dan tiket Early-bird akan dijual secara online pada tanggal 1 April hingga 31 Mei 2011 melalui situshttp://indonesianyouthconference.org/. Your day won't be the same belajar bareng for our Indonesia, better Indonesia :) Masa Depan Dimulai Dari Sekarang! Suarakan dirimu sebagai pemuda Indonesia yang mampu berdampak hebat!!
Get your tickets now at: http://indonesianyouthconference.org/ticket/procedure/.
Twitter: @IndonesianYouth 

Mean Girls


The 16-year-old home-schooled daughter of zoologist parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn) living in Africa, Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), is unprepared for her first day of public high school at North Shore High School in Evanston, Illinois. With the help of social outcasts Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese), Cady learns about the various cliques. She is warned to avoid the school's most exclusive clique, the Plastics, the reigning trio of girls led by the acid-tongued queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams). Regina was once Janis's best friend but they have grown to despise each other since Regina started a rumor about Janis's sexuality in 8th grade. However, the Plastics take a shine to Cady and invite her to sit with them at lunch and go shopping with them after school. Upon realizing that Cady has been accepted into the Plastics, Janis hatches a plan to get revenge on Regina for what she did to her, using Cady as a pawn in order to infiltrate the Plastics.

Having ingratiated herself with the Plastics per Janis's plan, Cady learns about the "Burn Book," a top secret notebook of Regina's filled with slandering rumors, secrets, and gossip about all the other girls (and teachers) in their class. Cady soon falls in love with Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), whom Regina successfully steals back from Cady in a fit of jealousy during a Halloween party. Cady, who now hates Regina, goes ahead with Janis' plan which involves cutting off Regina's "resources", which include separating her from her boyfriend Aaron, destroying her beauty, and turning Regina's fellow Plastics against her: insecure rich girl Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert) and sweet but dimwitted Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). Cady then starts pretending failure at math to get Aaron's attention and soon choreographs Aaron's breakup with Regina by confessing Regina's infidelity with another boy. Cady also convinces Regina to eat high-calorie nutrition bars (called Kalteen) by claiming that they actually help one lose weight. She also turns Gretchen against Regina by making her think Regina thinks of Cady as a better friend instead of her.

In her efforts to get revenge on Regina, Cady gradually loses her individual personality and remakes herself in the image of Regina. Her act soon becomes reality, and she becomes as spiteful as Regina, abandoning Janis and Damien in the process and focusing more on her image. Regina, now slightly overweight due to Cady's diet sabotage, is excluded from the Plastics and Cady becomes the new Queen Bee. In celebration of her newfound status, Cady throws a party with the Plastics and does not invite Janis or Damien. Janis and Damien then renounce Cady as a friend. During the party, she also alienates Aaron with her unsavory new personality.

Regina discovers the truth about the bars she has been eating and strikes back by spreading the entire contents of her Burn Book around the school, inciting a riot; to avoid suspicion, Regina also inserts fake slander of herself in the book, in order to focus blame on Cady, Gretchen, and Karen. The riot is eventually quelled by Principal Duvall (Tim Meadows). Math teacher Ms. Norbury (Tina Fey)—who also appeared in the Burn Book, where Cady slandered her by saying that she sold drugs—makes the girls realize that all of them are guilty of hurting their peers. She has each girl confess and apologize to the rest of the girls. Janis confesses her plan to destroy Regina with Cady's help, and openly mocks Regina with the support of the entire school. Regina storms out, pursued by an apologetic Cady, and gets hit by a school bus in her haste; rumors circulate that Cady intentionally pushed Regina in front of the bus.

Now without friends, shunned by Aaron, and distrusted by everyone at school, Cady decides to make amends by taking full blame for the Burn Book. Though severely punished by her confession, her guilt dissolves and she returns to her old personality. As punishment for her part, Ms. Norbury has Cady join the Mathletes—which Damien and Regina both described earlier as "social suicide"—in their competition. There, Cady has an epiphany competing against a very unattractive girl, realizing that even if she made fun of the girl's appearance, it would not stop the girl from beating her. Cady wins the tournament and returns to school for the Spring Fling.

At the Spring Fling dance, Cady is elected Spring Fling Queen and gives a speech to her class that her victory is meaningless; they are all wonderful in their own way and thus the victory belongs to everyone. As a symbolic gesture, she breaks her tiara and distributes the pieces to her fellow classmates. Cady makes up with Janis and Damien, reconciles with Aaron, and reaches a truce with the Plastics.

The film ends with the Plastics disbanding by the start of the new school year: Regina joins the lacrosse team as a way to channel her anger positively, Karen becomes the school weather girl (claiming that her breasts can always tell when it's raining), Gretchen joins the "Cool Asians" clique and is their biggest follower, and Cady dates Aaron as well as hanging out with Janis and Damien. Now reasonably well-liked, Cady reflects that the "Girl World" she lives in is at peace.

Wednesday 6 April 2011

Mean Girls 2

Johanna “Jo” Mitchell is a 17-year-old tomboy who lives with her father, a race car driver for NASCAR. On her first day at North Shore High School, she encounters the school’s most popular and snobbish clique, “The Plastics”, which consists of Amanda “Mandi” Weatherly, a girly girl from a wealthy family, Chastity Meyer, a seemingly slow-witted blond with a raging libido who is known for casual relationships with guys, and Hope Plotkin, a germophobe.
Jo also meets Abigail “Abby” Hanover, a tortured artist who lives across the street from Mandi. Mandi sees Abby as a rival, due to the greater wealth of Abby’s family. Jo also develops an attraction to Tyler Adams, a boy in her woodshop class, despite his somewhat sexist attitudes which spur her to excel in the class. Despite Jo’s attempts to avoid the Plastics, conflict develops between them and Abby, which includes personal confrontations and vandalism to Abby’s car.
When Jo meets Abby’s father, Sidney, a successful infomercial entrepreneur, he offers to pay Jo’s college tuition in gratitude for extending her friendship to his lonely daughter. After Jo accepts, she and Abby become closer. She also becomes closer to Tyler, but while on a date with him, a voice recorder placed in the car records her while she divulges some intimate personal details (such as the fact that she is a virgin) and the recording is later publicized. Despite Jo’s anger when she discovers this, a group of less popular girls tell Jo that they wish they had waited for sex as she had, making Jo feel better. Jo also learns from Abby that Tyler is Mandi’s stepbrother. Mandi also escalates her war of pranks by ruining Jo’s class project, thus ruining her acceptance into Carnegie Mellon University, and filling Jo’s father’s race car with coffee and sweetener.
To get revenge on Mandi, Jo plans a party at Abby’s house on the same night of Mandi’s birthday party, which harms the level of attendance at the latter. The Plastics retaliate by placing ipecac on the pizza delivered to Abby’s house, planning to make all the guests vomit after they consume a slice. Jo discovers that Hope had paid the delievery man to add the syrup, and decided to dispose of the tainted pizza. She and Abbey decide to serve a piece to serve a piece to Mandi’s boyfriend, who throws up on her pink dress whilst making up with her.
A week later, Jo, Abby and another outcast girl named Quinn (who is a nerd) start a new clique called the “Anti-Plastics” in order wage wars against the Plastics, but as they enact a series of pranks against Chastity and Hope, Jo develops a personality almost as shallow as Mandi, and their campaign threatens Tyler and Jo’s relationship. When Jo tries to give back the money Sidney Hanover gave her for her friendship with Abby, Mandi overhears the encounter, and reveals their transaction to the entire school, which leads to Jo’s estrangement from both Abby and Tyler. Quinn is also revealed to be a double agent for the Plastics who, along with Nick, frames Jo for theft by placing stolen charity money in Jo’s backyard shed.
Tyler and the other Anti-Plastics try to help Jo prove her innocence with the help of Elliott, a computer hacker who infiltrates the computer of Jo’s grouchy neighbor, who installed cameras to monitor what happens across the street. After beating the Plastics in a game of powderpuff football, Mandi and Nick are arrested after images of them planting the money in Jo’s shed are revealed (the images are found by Elliott, who hacks into Jo’s paranoid neighbor’s video cameras). At the school’s homecoming dance, Abby and Elliott are elected as king and queen, due to Jo rigging the voting.
The film’s epilogue indicates that Mandi and Nick were sentenced to community service, and that Mandi was allowed to graduate only because her mother donated a library to the school. Quinn became the new leader of the Plastics and agreed to end their war with the Anti-Plastics, who disbanded. Hope finally overcame her fear of germs and drank from a public water fountain. As a boy sneezes on her giving her the swine flu. Chastity ended up joining an abstinence club after learning the meaning of her name. Abby and Elliot begin a relationship as she goes off to college to major in art, while Jo, who remains close friends with Abby, rekindles her relationship with Tyler, who attends Penn State University to remain near her.



Sunday 3 April 2011

Shiloh Fernandez & Max Irons: Red Riding Hood's Wild Things

Suit Up Shiloh (on left) wears a Marc Jacobs jacket and pants. Cheap Monday shirt, $70. Band of Outsiders tie, $135. Max wears a Calvin Klein Collection Suit. Inis Meain shirt. Jil Sander tie.
Photographed by Mark Segal.



Shiloh Fernandez and Max Irons vie for the affections of Amanda Seyfried in the supernatural thriller Red Riding Hood.

Shiloh Fernandez

Shiloh, 26, who started out on TV's Jericho and United States of Tara, stars in this month's gothic thriller Red Riding Hood as an orphaned woodcutter named Peter trying to win the love of Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) as their village is being terrorized by a werewolf. Working with director Catherine Hardwicke was a long time coming for Shiloh, who lost out to Robert Pattinson for the role of Edward in a little movie she helmed called Twilight. This time around, after an intense series of auditions, many of which took place in Hardwicke's garage, Shiloh landed the part—for which he had to gain fifteen pounds and take tree-chopping lessons. But to fully embody his role as town outcast, Shiloh tried to isolate himself from the other actors. "When we started filming in Vancouver, we all lived in the same apartment," he says, "but I decided to rent my own place on the outside of town. I got to know everyone really well in the end, but in the beginning I wanted to create that feeling of being an outsider."

Max Irons

Though he's the son of acclaimed actors Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack, it was not a given that Max, 25, would enter the family trade. Through elementary school he struggled with dyslexia, which made it difficult for him to read and memorize lines, and his father discouraged him from pursuing an acting career. "He told me, 'It's a ruthless business, and you're potentially destined for a life of unhappiness, financial instability, jealousy, and paranoia.' But then he realized I was serious, and said, 'OK, go for it.'" So go for it he did, attending London's prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama before being cast in Red Riding Hood as Henry, a guy "from the right side of the tracks," he says, engaged to Valerie through an arranged marriage. Max and Shiloh play bitter rivals, but offscreen they're anything but. "Having someone else who was new to a movie of this size to laugh with every once in a while," Max says, "took the pressure off."—ALEXIS SWERDLOFF


From TeenVogue.com

The Best Toy Stores

Setiap negara pasti punya spot keren untuk dikunjungin. Nah, kalo mau tau negara mana yang menjadi ‘surganya’ tempat untuk bermain dan berisi mainan-mainan seru dan menggemaskan? Siap-siap, kalian bakal gue ajak ke toko mainan terbaik di dunia…

1. FAO Schwartz, New York City
Kalo kamu beranggapan nggak bisa bersenang-senang ditempat ini, berarti kamu harus liat detailnya lebih jauh. Fyi, this 5th Avenue megastore was made famous in the movie Big. Ada scene dimana Tom Hanks dan Robert Loggia menari di lantai yang dibuat seperti piano raksasa. Disini juga banyak yang bisa kamu temuin loh, seperti candy shop dan tempat bermain yang isinya penuh sama boneka. Waah, seru banget!

2. Hamleys, London
Ada banyak toy store Hamleys di beberapa kota didunia tapi di Regent Street kota London bisa dibilang terbaik. Pemandangan kanan-kiri kamu semuanya dipenuhi dengan berbagai jenis mainan. Tujuh lantai yang ada dalam toko ini berisi mobil-mobilan, boneka, lego, berbagai kostum karakter di film kartun dan masih banyak lagi pastinya. Hamleys is the world's most famous toy shop. Well, kalo mau ke London dilibur panjang nanti, gue saranin, kalian wajib ke tempat ini.

3. Lego Stores, Berlin 
Ide dari 50 perusahaan besar yang berasal dari Amerika, Inggris, dan Jerman semuanya bergabung di sini. Dan hasilnya, mereka membuat sebuah toko mainan yang super keren! Yap, di Lego store bakal memberikan daya imajinasi yang luas, karena banyak banget project yang bisa dibuat dari kumpulan lego. Uniknya, store yang terletak di Berlin, Jerman ini ternyata juga membuka kelas untuk anak yang usianya 6 sampai 9 tahun. Wah, ini sih bukan cuma untuk main, tapi juga bisa sambil belajar!

4. Barbie Store, Shanghai
Nggak kalah keren toy store di New York, Jerman, dan London, ternyata Shanghai juga membangun toko mainan yang nggak kalah menakjubkan! Yup, the Barbie store is full of pink and cool-looking. Bangunan 6 lantai ini dihubungkan dengan escalator. Dan kalo kamu ngerasa capek dan butuh santai, bisa main ke lantai 4. There’s some cocktail lounge. Semua minuman dilantai tersebut bener-bener disajikan sama gelas berwarna pink, dengan variasi rasa buah. Wah, beneran serasa lagi di rumah Barbie.