Eh, gue berubah pikiran. Review buku-buku n film-film yang sedianya mo gue tulis di sini gue tunda. Gue bakal tulis juga siy, janji. Tapi nggak sekarang ya. Abis, lagi banyak kerjaan n mesti bergadang dua hari dua malem. Mana sempat lah awak menulis serius. Tapi gue usahakan deh secepatnya.
Sekarang gue cuma mo ngasih omelan umum (berhubung gak sanggup ngasih kuliah umum :P). Ih sedih, inget masa lalu. Yah, omelannya gak jauh-jauh amat lah ma janji gue kemarin. Soal buku juga. Ya, buku-buku yang gue baca itu. Itung-itung pemanasan, ngelemesin jari yang kaku-kaku kebanyakan bedrest.
Anyway, as I said yesterday, gue kan lagi rajin baca-baca chick-lit Indonesia. Abis gue lihat chick-lit lokal lagi menjamur amat. Hah? jamuran? Maksud gue, banyak banget gitu, tolol! Gue sebenarnya udah lama meramalkan tren ini. Sejak saat gue jadi pengangguran in-between yang suka nebeng baca di toko buku. Gue mikir, kalo Bridget Jones, seri Shopaholic, n other chicklit or ladlit diterjemah ke Indonesia pasti bakal laku banget. Eh, bener!
It went even better. Penerbit mikir juga untuk nerbitin "chick lit" lokal. Ya udah, gue coba baca. Berdasarkan rekomen yang gue baca, gue belilah itu Cintapuccino karya Nisha Rahmanti. Di sampul bukunya distempel "Best Seller" pula! Tentu aja gue berharap banyak dari itu buku. Ternyata, gue kecewa (untuk detailnya, baca aja postingan nanti). Menurut gue, Cintapuccino nggak chick-lit.
Gue tuh penggemar chick lit. Gue juga gampang ketawa (klo gak percaya, lihat aja testi di friendster gue). Intinya, gue itu easy to please. Biasanya, kalo gue baca chicklit --ya itu, Bridget Jones, Shopaholic, Can You Keep a Secret, dll.-- gue bisa ketawa guling-gulingan. Tapi, baca Cintapuccino kok nggak ya. Ada sih bagian yang lucu. Tapi nggak banyak dan gak lucu-lucu amat. Malah, kadang cenderung maksa.
Terus, masalahnya cinta thok. Padahal, di pengantarnya Nisha sendiri menjanjikan tidak hanya bercerita soal cinta tapi juga keberanian, dll. Itu gak gue lihat, kok? Gak ada kisah soal "berdamai dengan diri" seperti Candice Saphiro di Good in Bed atau Rebbeca Blomwood di Shopaholic. Terus, ya nggak lucu-lucu amat.
Nah, belakangan ada teman yang rekomen Jomblo-nya Adhitya Mulya. Kata dia, mungkin gue akan cocok dengan kelucuan ala Adhitya ini. Trus, dia pinjamin deh. Eh, kecewa lagi gue. Aduh, lucunya maksa. Terus, salah satu tokohnya, Agus (yang kayaknya rada identifikasi diri si penulis deh), yang selingkuh, malah akhirnya dibikin kayak jadi pahlawan. Bahwa keputusan Agus memilih pacarnya adalah keputusan heroik demi jadi dewasa.
Gak ada komedinya banget nih novel! Gak ada komedi dalam arti lucu --well, oke ada sih... tapi sedikit-- atau komedi yang Alighierian gitu. Jadi maunya apa? Gue sempet buka blog penulisnya. Di situ dia "berapologi" dengan menulis bahwa tidak fair membandingkan dunia menulis di Indonesia dengan Inggris. Sebab, sejarah tulisan di Inggris sudah mencapai puncak pada abad 17-an. Gak setuju banget.
Iyalah Inggris punya sejarah menulis yang lama banget. Tapi Indonesia bukannya gak bisa mengejar. Kita punya Budi Darma, Danarto, Umar Kayam, Emha, bahkan Gus Dur. Mereka ini sering nulis lucu-lucu lho. Dan mereka juga mulai nulis dari muda, kan? Pikiran mereka sering iseng, dan ditulis. Bedanya, pada zaman mereka kayaknya emang ada standar.
Tapi okelah, gak mau dibandingkan sama penulis luar ya? Dan penulis lokal yang gue tulis di atas terlalu berat? Gimana dengan Hilman Hariwijaya dengan Lupus-nya? Gue penggemar berat Lupus lho. Gue akuin, tu buku lucu banget. Terus, dulu ada Bubin Lantang, itu lucu juga. Komedinya cukup "Alighierian" gitu. Jomblo ini, mmm... too bad, not even close. Jadi judulnya, yah kecewaaaaaaaaaa...........
Kamis, 12 Mei 2005
Rabu, 11 Mei 2005

Oke deeeh
Gue kasih tau satu hal yaaa.... Rak buku gue itu isinya gak cuma buku. Gue nyimpen sejumlah VCD, DVD, dan kaset juga di situ. Jadi, mulai besok gue juga bakal nulis tentang pelem-pelem gitu loh. Mau kan bacanya? Kalo nggak mau, ya, baca blog orang aja sana! Sana, sana! :P
Jadi........ ada beberapa film yang belakangan ini baru gue tonton. Eh, ada beberapa novel juga deng. Maklum, abis sakit n harus bed rest hampir sepuluh hari, bow! he he he... Walhasil, tuh sakit enggan enyah dari gue. Soale virusnya mo nebeng nonton n mbaca juga. Hu, gak modal.
Nih, buat teaser, gue beberin beberapa pelem n buku yang bakal gue bahas di sini.
Film:
1. Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
2. First Daughter
3. Japanese Stories
4. Sideways
Books:
1. Good in Bed
2. P.S.
3. Cintapuccino
4. Uncommon Ground
Worth to read, kan? Makanya, tunggu terus berita dari saya!
Senin, 02 Mei 2005
In Sickness and Health
Hi dear,
I've been lyin in my bed since last Saturday. When I got home from work, after workin for a whole night, I felt dizzy and couldn't breathe. It was like as if I was drowning in water or what. I tried hard to sleep, to get rid of the dizziness. But, it didn't work very well.
Saturday night, my illness got worse, I got fever and my nose was blocked. It's just got worse and worse, the next day I woke up. My nose, and the area around, got swollen. And, runny too. I really really couldn't breathe through my nose. Had to do it with my mouth. I had no choice, I had to go to doctor --at last. So I went to Perhati, in Jalan Proklamasi. It's a special clinic for ear, nose, and throat.
The doctor there --his name was Abdi Bumi (servant of the earth), great eh?-- said that I have rhinitis. It's a kind of inflammation in polyp area of so. In short, I had to take bed rest for a day or two. Imagine, two days full in my bed. He gave me a prescription of three medicines. Ciprofloxacin 500, rhinofed 300, and vectrine. I bought it and drank it right away.
Monday morning I felt better. Still hard to breathe, though. Until it was time to have lunch. I ate my soup and porridge slowly. Amazingly, I could eat through and through unlike two days before. During my illness, I'd always gasped for breath while I was eating coz I'd had to do two tasks (eat and breathe) with only one organ (mouth). But at that very lunch, I ate normally. It seemed that my nose wasn't runny and blocked anymore.
Then I realized how I'd had been treating my health. When I'm in good condition, I never cared much about my body. I take it for granted that I can eat, breathe, walk, laugh properly. I never consider those things as a wonderful gift from "above", until the gift is taken.
I've been lyin in my bed since last Saturday. When I got home from work, after workin for a whole night, I felt dizzy and couldn't breathe. It was like as if I was drowning in water or what. I tried hard to sleep, to get rid of the dizziness. But, it didn't work very well.
Saturday night, my illness got worse, I got fever and my nose was blocked. It's just got worse and worse, the next day I woke up. My nose, and the area around, got swollen. And, runny too. I really really couldn't breathe through my nose. Had to do it with my mouth. I had no choice, I had to go to doctor --at last. So I went to Perhati, in Jalan Proklamasi. It's a special clinic for ear, nose, and throat.
The doctor there --his name was Abdi Bumi (servant of the earth), great eh?-- said that I have rhinitis. It's a kind of inflammation in polyp area of so. In short, I had to take bed rest for a day or two. Imagine, two days full in my bed. He gave me a prescription of three medicines. Ciprofloxacin 500, rhinofed 300, and vectrine. I bought it and drank it right away.
Monday morning I felt better. Still hard to breathe, though. Until it was time to have lunch. I ate my soup and porridge slowly. Amazingly, I could eat through and through unlike two days before. During my illness, I'd always gasped for breath while I was eating coz I'd had to do two tasks (eat and breathe) with only one organ (mouth). But at that very lunch, I ate normally. It seemed that my nose wasn't runny and blocked anymore.
Then I realized how I'd had been treating my health. When I'm in good condition, I never cared much about my body. I take it for granted that I can eat, breathe, walk, laugh properly. I never consider those things as a wonderful gift from "above", until the gift is taken.
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