I went to see The Dark Knight last night !! it was awesome !! better than Batman Begins which was great also! I preferred Katie Holmes to Maggie Gyllenhaal as the love interest though, but the movie was great!! Heath Ledger’s performance was insanely good ! 
but enough about that.. I’m this movie will break some box office records and you should all see it !
I just finished watching another Indonesian movie on youtube :p It’s called LOVE… the title is LOVE, an English title… it was released last Valentine’s day, of course it’s a love story :p .. The style of the movie is similar to Love Actually.. 5 separate love stories.. somehow connected to each other.. I think it’s a decent movie.. pretty good actually for an Indonesian product hehehe The 10 main casts are I think all quite famous actors / actresses.. so it can be considered a star-studded movie 
here’s the trailer.. I like the soundtrack
I think I will watch another Indonesian movie tonight or tomorrow.. probably “Love is Cinta” hmm or maybe “Nagabonar Jadi 2″… also saw a trailer for a new movie called “Lost in Love”, supposedly a sequel to “Eiffel I’m in Love”, a successful 2003 movie, which looks cute. I will definitely watch it if it’s available on youtube later hehe
Anyways.. while watching LOVE I noticed an interesting video in the “Related Videos” bar … it’s a tv trailer for “Xin Xin Xiang Yin” — which is the Chinese title for the Indonesian sinetron Heart… it’s so unusual to watch an Indonesian film, dubbed in Chinese, and not the other way round.. Watch here : link and link
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I found out today that there at least 6 Indonesians here at Adobe There’s me and Pam.. we’re both MBA interns.. Pam is from Kellogg (Northwestern).. she’s the first I know..she found me actually from the intern mailing list :p my last name is a giveaway that I’m Indonesian… had I kept my maiden name hmm we probably wouldn’t find each other that soon. Before b-school Pam went to school and worked in Melbourne, Aussie. So this is still her 1st year in the US.
The other 4 are full timers, and we met one of them, Santo, today who told us about the others … he told us about an Indonesian restaurant very close to where I live hehehe.. He was telling us that he’s from Columbus, Ohio *hihi fellow friend from the Midwest* — and Pam was like, “Ngga ada apa2 kan di sono…?” so I went “Masih mending Columbus Ohio.. gua dulu di Columbus INDIANA!!! bener2 kampuung dah” :p LOL
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My brother Lung2 visited me last weekend, and he has a highschool friend (from Singapore) here. Ivan is going to a local community college here and he has to transfer out to a university very soon… so they’re talking about where he’s going / applying to…
these are real exchanges between my brother and his friend last week at my place… as I remember it
Lung : “Udah transfer ke Indiana aja, IU .. pasti keterima deh..” — translation : “why don’t you just go to IU?”
Ivan : “Aduh tapi tempatnya itu… *muka n suara serius* Tau gak, gua denger ya di sono tuh bener2 ga ada apa2, anak2 kalo hangout itu ke Wal-Mart!!!!” — translation: “Errmm… but the city… there’s nothing there…*serious face* do you know?.. I heard that the guys over there usually hang out at Wal-Mart!!!!”
*me* ROFLMAO huahahuahuahuahahua
Lung : huahahaua iya tuh dulu cici gua senengnya emang ke Wal-Mart — translation: “LOL hahaha yes that’s what my sis used to do back then”
Ivan at this point was surprised.. he didn’t know that I went to school in Indiana hahaha
me : “Yes I lived in Indiana for almost 9 years, went to Purdue and worked in Indiana for 5 years”
Ivan : “Jadi bener ci?” — translation : “So that was true??“
Hhahahaa ya unfortunately it was.. I think Purdue now has more to offer than 8-9 years ago when I was there.. But regardless, I think the fact that the town was such a kampung made our college life more special .. and us who went there definitely had much higher appreciation for things.. even small things like ethnic restaurants (closest dimsum was in Indianapolis, an hour away, and there was only that 1 place in the city), bubble teas (closest was Chicago’s chinatown), .. cus we didn’t have all that. I know it’s pretty sad hehe but ooh it’s quite memorable
