Choco Melt, a must while you're in Jogja...

CHOCO MELT @ Momento Cafe Jogjakarta
MAK NYUSSS! UENAKKKK! TUOPPPP!!! MMMMHHHH!

That was the reaction from nearly all of the people who has tasted Choco Melt, a menu that is served in Momento Cafe Jogjakarta, me, myself has the opportunity to taste it thanks to my friend Anda and Lingga.

The description was, this is a melted chocolate covered in a soft layer of shouffle-like cake, it is served with a scoop of vanilla ice and two slice of apple ( it is usually strawberry but when i try one, i get to taste the one with apple). The photo above shows when it was cut open and the melted chocolate inside it erupted.

This is how you eat this Choco Melt, cut it open, pick a piece of the chocolate, take a little of the ice cream, a piece of the apple (strawberry if you're lucky), then take it to your mouth, sip it, suck it a little then swallow it, the ultimate pleasure.. an MMMMHHHHHH will follow

Well to sum up, this is a must if you go to Jogjakarta, if you're in Jogjakarta, you should try at least once... Trust me! You won't regret it....

Virtual NES http://virtualnes.com/

As mentioned in the title, this is a website that provides emulated NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) games for free and lets people to play it directly in the browser. It uses Java in order to play...

Come, play and relived the days when you play original Mario Brothers, Legend Of Kage, Contra etc.

It provides 380 English Language Games,100 Japanese Language Games, 10 Prototype Games, 25 Unlicensed Games and 15 Miscellaneous Games (at the time this post is written).

Control is easy, uses directional keys to move, B button is Z and A button is X, while Start is Enter and Select is Control (Ctrl).

Thanks to ma good ol friend Dewa of Isman Fairburn The Architect of Fate for linking me to this fun site.

Did You Know? The length of Jogjakarta Outer Ring Road?

On the left is my trusty Blue Thunder, a 250cc 2005 edition of Suzuki Thunder, one day we took a ride across Jogjakarta, i went to Jogjakarta Outer ringroad, my intention is to warm up and charge the battery of this li'l fella, since it's not been used for 2 weeks or so...

I go on a constant speed of about 80-120 kmh, the track was Jogjakarta outer ringroad as a whole, I check my odometer when I start, it was 110, and once I finished the ride, it was 150, so the Jogjakarta outer ringroad is approximately 40 km in length my friends, from the south outer ringroad, west, north to east outer ringroad, back to square one.

I started my journey from Jalan Imogiri Timur, near my house to the west and ended there also from the east...

Here's a map of Jogjakarta, there you may see the track of my so called journey....

[map courtesy of www.mapsyogyakarta.com]

Hantu Jeruk Purut: Horror movie, or is it?

This is my second movie review, it’s an Indonesian horror movie..


Indonesian movie, from the title u can see clearly that this is a horror movie, or so the producer and director tried to say to us movie goers. I actually don’t have any high hopes from this new movie, but when people don’t have high hopes gets even less than what they have hoped for? That’s too far, way too far, and this is what happened with this movie and I.

I go see this movie coz my friends had asked me to join them, well why not I said, it’s been so long since I saw Indonesian movie in cinema.

The story goes like this, [spoiler alert] ummm, wait, is there any story in this movie? This is my biggest complain to this movie, the story sucks! It only make an impression that this movie even had story, started with an old man try to light his cigarette and then the hantu jeruk purut asked him for a light, creepy eh? Then stop! Next the scene goes into a discotheque three kids who then got killed in the jeruk purut cemetery, then stop again!

Comes Anna, a novel writer, who liked to write about this jeruk purut cemetery phenomenon which an urban legend says that if you circled the cemetery 7 times with a party of odd number, then you get to meet the headless priest, which the last three kids was killed. She started to write the story, do a little research on it, then a lot of happenings comes to her, to stop writing about the false story, ??? Now it’s a false story? Eventually she ended up dead, by the work of the ghost.

But just before she meets her demise, she made a final phone call, to a girl named Airin (played by Angie of Virgin Movie), a good fans of her writings to finished what she had started (my god, such message will haunt you for life!).
Airin then started to write what Anna had started, and you know what? All of these happenings come again, now to Airin and her friends, and also her deranged mother. Huuuuu, creepy, d’oh!

Strange things happened, and what makes me sick is that it all comes in a form of “it’s only a dream extravaganza”, not just once, way too many! Okay, back to the somewhat called story, a cheap love story also comes in hand, Airin had a friend Nadine (played by Sheila Marcia) and Valen (played by Samuel C Heckenbucker) who was dating, but actually this Valen guy had a big crush on Airin, and loves nothing of Nadine. After a series of bizarre happenings, Valen was hospitalized for electric shock. The three friends (add one character) go to hospital, when Nadine finds out about Airin and Valen’s relationship. In short, Valen died, Nadine died, Airin finished the story. He? How come? Well she finally decided to write a true version of the story, d’oh! Then no one would have to die if this is the decision…

Okay, enough said, overall I will give this a 1.5 star rating (*½) just for their effort, and a cast of fresh youngsters, especially Sheila Marcia, no more no less, well maybe a bit of Angie Virgin heheh.

People out there, don’t watch this movie if what you’re seeking is a movie, but if it’s just to quench your thirsts of curiosity, you maybe excused to see it. But you’ll have the same idea, this movie sucks! Big time!

Casino Royale, James Bond's 21st Movie

As I’ve said before in the initial post, I will be writing also about movies, and the latest movie that I think needed to be reviewed is this new Bond movie, I actually go to the cinema twice to see this movie, never happened before in history, well without further ado, this is my review...

The name’s Bond, James Bond…
This sentence is usually said by Agent 007 in the first (or maybe early) scenes of the previous James Bond Movies, but in his new movie, he said it in the very last scene.

Why? I will say that coz this new bond movie was intently made as the first in the Bond series extravaganza, in fact Casino Royale was the first book written by Ian Fleming in the series.

Well I wouldn’t go as far as comparing the book with the movie, as I was only watched the movie and actually haven’t read any of Fleming’s work.

Part 1: pre launch
The first impression when I heard a new Bond movie is in production is “will it be good?” since Sony (well the studio) said that they will dispose off Pierce Brosnan, which some has said that he is the most appropriate Bond after the Sean Connery era.

Who will be the next Bond? It turns out to be Daniel Craig, the world was eager to find out who he is, and you know what? He’s got blond hair, no Bond before Craig has that characteristic before, and also about his look, he is said to be “less dandy” compared to his predecessors, but only when the movie launched then judgments can be made.

Part 2: post launch
I didn’t go directly to the cinema to see the new Bond in action; Casino Royale was launched in Indonesia at November 15th, Thursday if I may remember, I went to the cinema for Casino Royale at November 17th or is it 18th? Whatever, it’s not that material… the impression was, great!

I love the movie, the new Bond rocks! Despite his blond hair and the less dandy look, it all comes into places when Bond comes into action; the definition from critics for Casino Royale was James Bond meet Jason Bourne (of Bourne series), so expect for action, more than before, what? The last Bond by Brosnan was quite filled with action u said? Nope, not that cheap action, this is pure adrenaline rush action, highly recommended!

Part 3: The Story [spoiler alert]
To put it simple the storyline was this, an organization is acting as a bank to terrorist, as for this bank will guarantee that withdrawal of their money can be done in all location in the world. The sum of the money was 100 million dollars (if I’m not mistaken).

By Le Chiffre, the money was laundered by putting them in secondary market and the story goes, Bond stopped Le Chiffre’s act to manipulate stock market, and he lost the terrorist market.

In order to gain 100 million dollars back into his pocket and eventually saves his neck, Le Chiffre join a gambling arena in the Casino Royale in Montenegro, which plays for 10 million each player and 5 million for buy in, with the maximum player of 10 persons, if, if that is, Le Chiffre won it all, he will gain 150 million dollars and will settle his problem with his client.

Bond, as the best card player in MI6, it is his job to stop Le Chiffre’s act by defeating him. In short, he won, and claimed 150 million from the game in Casino Royale. End? No…Next it was Vesper Lynd (2nd Bond Girl in Casino Royale), she was the accountant who is taking care of Bond’s money in the game (10 million is a lot!), Bond is in love with this girl, and is giving nothing but all for her, she was captured and taken hostage by Le Chiffre’s organization and the organization then managed to capture Bond as well, by using Lynd as bait.

When Lynd and Bond got free from captivity, the couple went on vacation, even makes Bond to think about leaving MI6. Venice was the next place this story taken, in Venice, when Lynd go and left Bond alone in Hotel Room, Bond got called in from M, whether the winning money will go to the Treasury Secretary account, Bond was stunned as he knows that Lynd is lying to him about it (the money was recently transferred to some account that Lynd knows, that turn out to be not the Treasury Secretary account).

Another action scene was taken, which resulted in Lynd’s death. This ended Bond’s love story in Casino Royale, but while the trace gone cold for the case, it turns out that Lynd has managed to send message to Bond about the organization that threatened to kill her boyfriend if she doesn’t gave them the money Bond has won in Casino Royale. As I mentioned earlier in this post, Bond managed to trace the big boss and say, “The name’s Bond, James Bond…”

Part 4: Interesting facts
Shaken not stirred: this is the first time Bond “invented” the famous shaken not stirred martini, as might as well the irony part when Bond doesn’t give a damn about how he wanted his martini is done

Aston Martin: the car that is used by Bond, Aston Martin DBS, was not a mass production car, but after this movie, Aston Martin is considering to put it in a mass production.

Q and Moneypenny: no Q and Moneypenny in this movie, as for these characters are quite a signature characters in the series.

Sony: All of the gadgets that is used by Bond and every character involved in Casino Royale is using Sony, from Sony Ericsson M600, Sony Ericsson K800i cell phones , Sony DSC-T10 to Sony VAIO notebooks.

Part 5: Judgment
This is by far the most fun Bond movie I’ve ever seen in years, the story, Daniel Craig, the director was a perfect match for a come back in a long awaited series which will have a huge comparison to their predecessors.

I give this movie a rating of five stars (*****), a perfect rate, for those who haven’t seen this movie then you must see it, if you’re not a Bond fans then this is a good start to become one.

[pictures and datas are taken from many sources]

Back to the Keyboard...

This is my several attempt to publish a blog, though it's just in friendster and in Yahoo 360, and guess what? i have never put anything in it, simply nothing but this kinda speech of welcome to my blog etc.
I have never take this matter seriously, but i think it's time to take this thing seriously, as for this will make me back to the keyboard again and keep me aware of things that are around me...

The very reason why i wanted to make this blog in blogger.com is simply because, by comparing several blog hosting service, this one really look cool, where does it look cool u said? even that i can not answer, something about this is cool...
And another reason is that, i just found the most appropriate url for my blog, i wanted adhitya.blogspot.com but it was taken (of course! having such common name is sometimes a torture), then i tried this name, adhituniverse.blogspot.com and it's available, then voila, i come in to blogger.com and claim that url.

adhituniverse.blogspot.com will consist of many things, daily life that is interesting to be posted, idle chit chat between friends and i, new things that interests me, my thesis (maybe), newly stumbled website(s), movie review(s), music review(s), game review(s), anything!
This Blog will be brought to you in several languages, English, Indonesian, Javanese and even languages that you have never heard of before (just wait for that!).

In this initial post, i use english intentionally in order to capture a wider market in the blog walker community (is there any? this kinda community? well maybe just people).
I hope this idle chit chat is enough for my initial post...

feel free to post comments...