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Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Third Week in the House

This is my third week writing as student blogger of the month. How are you, Nuala? I have to admit, apparently this is not as easy as it looked. When I blog in my personal site, I usually write a journal about my weekly activities, wriet reviews and basically everything that comes through my head. Writing for a corporate or community is another thing, I feel it is more formal (like this). I feel that I have to be very careful in mentioning any details. Therefore, I would like to apologize for haven't been able to write as much as I wanted. I will try to write about anything everyday from now on. I also wanted to apologize if I haven't been answering all of your questions. For the last two weeks I have been writing replies on the comment box, and that made it difficult (especially for my teacher) to keep track of them.

So, what do you think about the pet pictures that I shared earlier, Nuala? I hope it had brighten up your day. Anyways, my city is slowly going to its hibernate state this week. The peak will be during the Eid holiday, when almost everybody is going back to his/her hometown. This also shows that Jakarta is actually full of immigrants. I am not not originally from this city myself, but since I do not celebrate Eid, I would prefer to stay in Jakarta this month and save my annual leave for Christmas holiday (which has always been my favorite time of the year, considering my birthday also happen during the festive week). I guess I am just going to spend the full-week holiday by watching tons of DVD and walking around the quiet city with my friends.

Speaking of movies, have I told you that I am kind of a movie freak? How about you? Do you feel the urge to keep updating the movie "library" in your head? Well, some ad people (including myself) often feel that way. Maybe it is because we use a lot of references for our work ya... So, when someone tells you, "Oh, it's going to be somewhat similar like the scene in 'Fight Club'," or "Have you seen '300'? That's how the color is going to be..." Well, we cannot keep saying "no" whenever people ask, right? That's why we keep updating our "knowledge" about movies, music, and commercials; hoping that we will find them useful or insightful one day... And I don't mind, actually, because I love watching different movies from different genres. Some of my favorite movies including "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "Primal Fear", "Pretty Woman" (yes, I am a fan of Mr. Gere), L' Appartement, and "Finding Nemo". Hey, what is your favorite movie?
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PS. Patrick Swayze RIP. He is quite a charming actor, isn't he...

Comments

My favorite movies are ''Gone with the Wind'', ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' and ''You've Got Mail''

Hello Shirley. You’ve mentioned some sort of difficulty to write blog on daily basis. I completely agree with you up to the point. I have been thinking about applying for blogging many times and it’s not an easy task to sustain live and gripping conversation from the beginning to the end. But you are already blogger of the month, so enjoy your opportunity, be yourself! By the way, one of my favorite movies is “Interstate 60”. Have you seen? And what about “Bicentennial man”? Good luck!

Hi Shirley, I like movies very much. The favorite ones are "Beautiful Mind", "Casablanca", "Slumdog Millionare". And thanks for asking:)

Your blog is really good. I'm far away to be able to write a blog like this yet and when I read all the answers and the blogs I realize that I need to learn a lot...I Know you're doing a big effort. Congratulations

Hi Shirley! I discovered this blog this evening.. I've read some of your post: as Raquel I think is not so easy writing a post every day and answer to everybody!My favourite movies are "Train de Vie", "Pulp fiction", "Una giornata particolare" (italian movie of '70).I apologize with everybody for my bad english..I have to learn very much yet! Good night

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