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Tapi kenyataan aku bukan siapa-siapa kuingin engkau mencintaiku apa adanya
Ku bukan superstar kaya dan terkenal Ku bukan saudagar yang punya banyak kapal Ku bukan bangsawan, ku bukan priyayi Ku hanyalah orang yang ingin dicintai
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Andai ku Letto wis pasti aku wong jowo Tapi kenyataan aku bukan siapa-siapa kuingin engkau mencintaiku apa adanya
Ku bukan superstar kaya dan terkenal Ku bukan saudagar yang punya banyak kapal Ku bukan bangsawan, ku bukan priyayi Ku hanyalah orang yang ingin dicintai
Kata orang ku mirip Glenn Fredly suara merdu, wanita jatuh hati Namun semua itu hanya mimpi bagimu woohoo~
Jadi… semua itu hanya mimpi? Ya iya laah… masya ya iya dong duren aja dibelah bukan dibedong
Ku bukan superstar kaya dan terkenal Ku bukan saudagar yang punya banyak kapal Ku bukan bangsawan, ku bukan priyayi Ku hanyalah orang yang ingin dicintai
Kamu bukan super, kamu bukan setar Kalo digabungin kamu bukan supersetarr.. Ku bukan bangsawan, ku bukan priyayi Ku hanyalah orang yang ingin dicintai Haa haa haaa… Haa haa haaa…
Studio 'Muggles' postpone new Harry Potter film until 2009
Harry Potter fans clamoring for the next movie installment of the boy wizard's adventures will have to wait until 2009 after a decision to postpone release of the new film, officials said Thursday.
A statement from Warner Bros. Pictures said the original November release date for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the sixth movie adaptation of J.K. Rowling's books, had now been shifted to July 17, 2009.
Warner president Alan Horn said the decision was taken to guarantee the studio a major summer blockbuster in 2009, and was partially explained by the Hollywood writer's strike, which paralyzed the movie industry this year.
"Like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writers' strike, which impacted the readiness of scripts for other films -- changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of," Horn said.
"We agreed the best strategy was to move 'Half-Blood Prince' to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tent pole release for mid-summer."
A "tent pole" movie is usually a big-budget, heavily promoted film relied on by a studio to turn a profit rapidly.
Horn said a summer release date would benefit box office revenues, citing the most recent Harry Potter film, the second-highest grossing film in the franchise after the first instalment.
Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, said the change would not affect production of future Harry Potter films, the two-part "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final installment in the series.
"The good news (for fans) is that the gap will now be shortened between 'Half-Blood Prince' and the first part of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,'" Robinov said.
The five Harry Potter films released so far have grossed more than 4.47 billion dollars worldwide since 2001, making it one of the most lucrative franchises of all time in terms of box-office.
Michael Phelps became the first competitor in the history of the Olympics to win eight gold medals at a single Games as the United States won the men's 4x100m medley relay on Sunday.
With the victory, Phelps overtook compatriot Mark Spitz, who won seven swimming gold medals at Munich in 1972.
Phelps had opened the swimming competition with a victory in the first event, the 400m individual medley, and went on to win the 200m medley, 100m and 200m butterfly, 200m freestyle and both the 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays.
Seven of his golds - including the first six - all came with world records, while his seventh, in the 100m butterfly, was by a margin of just one one-hundredth of a second.
In Athens four years ago, Phelps won six gold medals (100m and 200m butterfly, 200 and 400m individual medley, 4x200m freestyle relay and 4x100m medley relay), and two bronze (200m free and 4x100m free relay).
His 14 career gold medals are the most of any Olympian, with his nearest rivals Spitz, athletes Carl Lewis and Paavo Nurmi and Gymnast Larysa Latynina - who all won nine in their careers.
At the age of 23, Phelps has set a record for the total number of medals won by a male Olympian with 16.
Russian gymnast Nikolai Andrianov with 15 - seven gold, five silver and three bronze in 1972, 1976 and 1980 - had held the mark.
Only Latynina's 18 career medals exceed Phelps's total.
Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan and Indonesia have won the gold medal in men’s doubles badminton beating Chinese pair Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng 2-1 in three sets, 12-21, 21-5, 21-7.
This victory as a price of 63th Indonesia's Independence Day
Indonesia's Maria Kristin Yulianti won bronze in the women's singles badminton Saturday, defeating China's Lu Lan.
Indonesia's Maria Kristin Yulianti won bronze in the women's singles badminton Saturday, defeating China's Lu Lan.
Yulianti, ranked just 21 in the world, came charging back from one game down against the Chinese third seed to win 11-21, 21-13, 21-15.
"It was unexpected throughout this tournament (of winning a medal). I was sure I would lose at some stage," she said.
"My strategy was to make her tired, although today she played more aggressively but I stuck to my game plan in the end."
Yulianti's win denied the Olympic hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles, with China's Xie Xingfang taking on team-mate Zhang Ning in the gold medal match later Saturday.
Unseeded in Beijing, Yulianti has been the surprise package of this tournament, downing her higher-ranked rivals on the way to the closing stages.
Yu raced to a one-game lead Saturday, but Yulianti drew on her fighting strength in the second, producing precision shots that clearly frustrated Yu.
In the decider, Yulianti took an 8-4 lead, but Yu mounted a comeback to come within one point at 9-8 down.
The Indonesian held her nerve, winning the next nine straight points before fighting off a last gasp offensive from Yu to clinch the bronze.
Yulianti was beaten by defending champion Zhang in the semi-final.
When we reported last week about how high-tech this year's Olympic broadcasting would be, we didn't imagine that a Chinese newspaper would uncover the fact that some of the fireworks in the opening ceremonies were actually CGI animation. A series of 29 footprint-shaped fireworks really did "march" across Beijing last Friday night (which I wrote about for Popular Mechanics' website), but the television audience only saw a few of them. Instead, they watched 55 seconds of a prerecorded rendering of what the fireworks "would have looked like" if a helicopter had been following them across the sky filming them on a clear night.
NBC commentators indicated that there was something "cinematic" about the fireworks, without coming out and saying that the home audience might has well have been watching Gandalf's fireworks in The Lord of the Rings, since both sequences were probably prepared in similar ways. Millions of people around the world watched the coverage in "real" time, without that commentary.
We love CGI, though not necessarily in a presentation narrated by news anchors. Of course, after the truth about the fireworks footage came out, we learned that one of the cute little singers in the opening ceremonies was lip-syncing the voice of a less attractive little girl. Soon we'll probably discover that the impressive Bird's Nest stadium is three feet high and being filmed on a sound stage in Taiwan. Or will we? Click [Read More] to read why the faked firework footage matters, and more importantly, why it doesn't.
Nationalism's Equivalent of Doping China knew that without CGI footage, the footprint fireworks it was planning wouldn't look nearly as good. The planners could have done a few things: scrap the footprint plan altogether because it would be a logistical nightmare to film, or stage the footprints for the live audience in China without worrying about what they would look like on TV. Instead of taking either of these routes, the planners decided to cheat.
I believe that a similar train of thought goes through athletes' heads when they decide to use drugs ("I could decide not to compete because I'm not really good enough," or "I could try really, really hard knowing that there's a good chance I could lose without doping"). Cheating is the third choice that many take when faced with two unappealing possibilities, and it happens often, whether we're talking about memoirs that are full of lies or the four athletes booted from this year's Tour de France.
China is trying to show its best possible face to the world this summer. Some of what it's done (amazing architecture, cleaning up the city's air) has been fantastic, while in other areas the country has cut corners (besides the fireworks, did anybody really believe that all of the female Chinese gymnasts were over 16?). The problem is that the attempts to mislead international viewers undercut all of the legitimate efforts that the country has made. Just as a few dopers can bring down the reputation of an entire sport, China's use of CGI undermines a legitimately impressive spectacle.
Discouraging Future Fakers Some might argue that the revelation that CGI was inserted seamlessly into TV footage viewed around the world opens doors for conspiracy theorists. Will anyone ever be able to believe television again? If this CGI fakery is possible, why believe in any televised fireworks? Why, for that matter, should we believe that NASA sent men to the moon?
Anything can be faked in photos and on film now. The evidence that realistic trickery is possible is in pretty much every blockbuster movie from the past decade. The evidence that governments try to convince others with faked images is also rampant, with Iran's notorious missile-test Photoshopping being Exhibit A.
But even if you can't be sure that what you're seeing is true in the moment you're watching it, the recent Chinese debacles show that however well faked the presentation, the truth will come out. In the case of the fireworks, the programmer behind them spoke to the press because he was proud of his work. After all, no one noticed! It was great animation that took nearly a year to perfect. And this happened under an authoritarian government — he may even face consequences for speaking out. If that sort of secret can't be kept in China, where almost anything can be classified as a state secret, can you imagine anyone keeping a secret about faked footage in the U.S.?
You Can't Fool Some People All the Time Though the technology for creating fake television footage gets better all the time, the means for detecting it have gotten better as well. If the Beijing Times hadn't broken the footprint firework story, somebody else would have, probably within days of the event. China spent millions of dollars on its Olympic opening ceremony. The people behind it must be disappointed that its presentation is now embroiled in petty controversies, thought they brought it on themselves by trying to deliberately mislead people. If there were any plans to do something similar for the closing ceremonies, you can bet the CGI footage is now on the cutting-room floor.
Some gadgets are so cool they don't need a specific function or grandiose purpose designed to save the world. Such is the case with the DVR Camball. The tiny Death Star-black orb functions as a digital video camera and an mp3 player. Complete with standard headphone jack and data input port the camball is perfect for the amateur spy-in-training, or for indie filmmakers in search of a crazy new camera angle. The package also comes with a special necklace holder that will allow you to simultaneously lifecast your daily travails while preserving psychedelic 60s fashion memes. The power to take your obscure device fetish to the next level is yours for just $185 here.
The opening day of the Olympic Games in Beijing, we thought it was prime time for a look at the high-tech athletics gear that's being used at the games today that wasn't around four years ago in Athens. The much-publicized LZR Racer Speedo is just the tip of the iceberg. One technology that won't be appearing, however, is Oscar Pistorius' running prosthetics, which at least one person thinks is a good thing, lest Olympic athletes eventually start competing with cyborgs. Another big tech on display at the games is unprecedented broadcasting, the highlights of which we've neatly broken down for you by the numbers.
As far as scale models go, I'm not sure you'll ever find out quite as impressive as this absolutely enormous one depicting what Shanghai is supposed to look like in 2020. At over 1,000 square feet, it shows every single building in China's most populated city, or at least every single building planned.
It's on the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, and it is in fact the largest scale model of a city in the world. The attention to detail is absolutely astounding.
Who says a PC has to be rectangular, or even square? Designer Apostol Tnokovski thinks the PC world is round, and conceived this 6-inch orb-shaped number as his proof. Not only is E-Ball oddball shaped, it’s called “the smallest PC ever made.”
Take a look at the pics, and you'll see the pop-out laser mouse, a pico projector inside thatilluminates either the wall or a sheet of paper for a screen, and that laser keyboard that would almost certainly be a clumsy input device. Fix that, and find a motherboard that’ll fit inside this palm-sized baby, and Apostol might be onto something here.
This animated film from George Lucas fills in the events that take place between Episodes II and III in the live-action narrative. Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker are now both full-fledged Jedi, and it's Anakin who has a Padawan apprentice, a young girl named Ahsoka, a teenage female Togruta, which is a race of red-skinned, horned aliens. The movie is a launching pad for a similarly themed animated TV show, which will air on TNT and the Cartoon Network beginning in the fall. Watch trailer Star Wars: The Clone Wars Details>>
Year: 2008 Rated PG Parental Rating: Cautionary; some scenes objectionable Country Of Origin: U.S. Running Time: 0 Format: Color Genre(s): Animated; Science Fiction Production Co(s).: Lucasfilm Animation Released By: Warner Bros.
Essentially an extended trailer for the 2008 Cartoon Network animated series, STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS takes place between the fifth and sixth live-action STAR WARS films and chronicles the adventures of Anakin Skywalker during the early years of the war between the empire and the rebels.
Jedi warrior Anakin the bland Matt Lanter) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) are in the thick of battle with rebel forces when they receive word that Rotta (David Acord), the much-loved son of Jabba the Hutt (Kevin Michael Richardson) has been kidnapped. The Jedi council hopes that an alliance with Hutt clan will aid their cause and dispatch Obi-Wan, Anakin and Anakin's insolent new padawan, Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein), to rescue the malodorous Hutlett. But it soon becomes apparent that the creature's abduction is part of a larger plan by villainous Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) and his elegant assassin, Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman), to undermine the fragile truce between the Hutts -- who control a number of strategically-important shipping lanes at the outer reaches of the empire -- and the Jedi.
The highly stylized look of CLONE WARS is explicitly modeled on the Sylvia and Gerry Adams sci-fi marionette series Thunderbirds, a fact that will no doubt be lost on the ten year olds who are the film's target audience: Their parents weren't born when Thunderbirds first aired. Bu the film's real drawback for adult STAR WARS fans is its relentless dullness coupled with the fact that Ahsoka, hailed as a new generation of can-do Lucasian heroine, spends the bulk of the film schlepping a baby and trading toothless double entendres with Anakin. Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia is Gloria Steinem by comparison. --Maitland McDonagh
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That it's too late to apologize, it's too late I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I'd take another chance, take a fall, take a shot for you And I need you like a heart needs a beat (But that's nothing new) Yeah yeah
I loved you with a fire red, now it's turning blue And you say Sorry like the angel heaven let me think was you But I'm afraid
It's too late to apologize, it's too late I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late Woahooo woah
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I'm holding on your rope Got me ten feet off the ground
BEIJING - Beijing opens the doors this week to its latest Olympic creation - a massive glass-and-steel airport terminal with a gently sloping roof that will welcome visitors to the Summer Games.
Fronted by pillars of deep imperial red, Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International Airport boasts polished floors and a high ceiling dotted with triangular skylights.
The huge, airy interior will have 64 Western and Chinese restaurants, 90 retail shops, and a state-of-the-art-baggage handling system. A high-speed commuter train will whisk passengers into the city, while the runway is capable of handling Airbus' huge A380 superjumbo.
The terminal is a project designed to relieve the overloaded airport's other two terminals and accommodate expected rapid growth in the number of visitors to Beijing.
The terminal is "a safe and efficient non-competition venue for the much anticipated Beijing Olympics Games," said Dong Zhiyi, deputy general manager of the Capital Airport Holding Co.
Six international and domestic airlines will begin operating in the terminal Friday, while others will switch over from the other two terminals in March. The Olympics start August 8.
On Tuesday, the sound of hammering and the buzz of electric saws could be heard as workers rushed to put finishing touches on shops and other facilities. Glass windows and doors were polished, shelves were stocked and plastic covers were torn off chairs behind check-in counters. Electricians worked on last-minute wiring as signs with airline logos lay on the sidewalk.
Designed by British architect Norman Foster, the building attempts to combine traditional architectural elements with up-to-date technology. Its red columns and matte gold roof are meant to evoke Beijing's imperial palaces and temples.
The floor space of the terminal and ground transportation center covers 1.3 million square meters (14 million square feet).
China's capital needed a new terminal even without the Olympics, with double-digit economic growth rapidly outpacing infrastructure expansion plans. Dong said he expects the whole airport to receive 64 million visitors this year. That is up from 50 million last year and 20 million in 2000.
The time of day shouts at you from the edges of this Giant Digital Clock/CD holder. It’s a designer’s nod to the ‘80s when things like digital clocks and CDs were so fresh and new. If this not-really-giant 29x14-inch model is somehow too big for you, you can also get a 9-inch-wide mini-version to hold your mini-CDs.
The time-telling shelves have no price tag attached yet, but if they’re not too spendy, we’d like to fill a wall with these things. It might be just the right setting for that CD collection to gather dust as we complete our transition to all-digital everything.
Pramugari dan Kakek Tua
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"Kisah Nyata Pramugari Dan Kakek Tua" Saya adalah seorang pramugari biasa
dari china Airline. Karena bergabung dengan perusahaan penerbangan hanya
beb...
