Saturday, April 30, 2011

Ninja


Istoric vorbind, Ninja nu erau nici buni si nici rai...aceste concepte apar odata cu situarea noastra intr-una din tabere sau in cealalta. Filozofia Ninpo conduce pe o cale de mijloc, fara atasamente, dincolo de aparenta dualitatii. Ninja apareau deseori ca opusi samurailor pentru ca ei puneau in practica fapte desconsiderate de rigidul cod Bushido : spionaj, diversiune, etc . Esential insa pentru ei era ca sa nu fie descoperiti, astfel ca rar se ajungea ca ei sa fie implicati in confruntari fizice. Demascam asadar si mitul conform caruia Ninja erau mereu experti in arte martiale, idee intretinuta de filmele comerciale. Artele martiale erau un domeniu conex in Ninjutsu, dar cind Ninja trebuiau sa lupte, trebuiau sa supravietuiasca si ...sa cistige...filozofie extrem de utila si in ziua de azi.
Ideograma NIN se traduce prin secret, rezistenta fizica si mentala, anduranta, perseverenta, ascundere in acelasi timp. Maestrii scolii spuneau chiar ca NIN se mai poate traduce si prin "a stapini mintea si trupul cuiva dar si perceptia sa asupra ideii de bine si rau" - cu referire la manipularea subtila a adversarilor.
Ninja aveau un cod al onoarei foarte profund. El se deosebea de Bushido - codul samurailor (un set tacit de norme, mai ales formale) prin pragmatism, si mai ales prin idealul de detasare, de a actiona neimplicat, dincolo de dualitatea lumii de fiecare zi.
Nu trebuie sa existe surprize pentru Ninja, el trebuie sa fie pregatit pentru orice ...

Revealing the SAVE THE DATE

Here is our SAVE THE DATE! This is a sample of what was sent to our guests. This SAVE THE DATE is a magnet that most people will place on the refrigerator. The magnet will serve as a daily reminder of our future wedding. I hope to share engagement photos very soon.

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)

It may come as a surprise that Terry Gilliam, surrealist animator and maker of various self-contained fantasies, has never touched drugs in his life. It therefore comes as an even bigger surprise that he would put one of the great drug odysseys ever written on the big screen. As a fellow teetotaler, even this writer can plainly see Gilliam's vision owes nothing to drug-induced hallucination.

However, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas succeeds in a far more important task: it successfully presents the sentimental cynicism of a cult hero's last-ditch effort to find the dwindling glimmer of hope of the American Dream. That this effort came so early in Hunter S. Thompson's career says something about the bleakness of the majority of his output. Gilliam succeeds by filming the story in emotional retrospect: his broad interpretations of Thompson's prose and Ralph Steadman's sketches contain less the hints of addled paranoia than the creeping horror of seeing the naked, reptilian face of America.

Gilliam films the Fear and Loathing in shallow focus, framing Johnny Depp's Thompson and Benicio del Toro's Dr. Gonzo in unflattering close-ups. When he pulls back, the deep focus places everything in warped subjectivity but also horrible clarity. Thompson's book detailed a wild, frenzied, hilarious tour of the Nevada desert, but Gilliam presents this journey as terrifying and self-destructive.

But I'm making this sound like a moralizing condescension to Thompson's work. On the contrary, Gilliam retains the journalist's caustic wit and eye for detail that always seemed to bypass facts on the way to truth. He also places his faith in Depp's performance, which seems more than mere imitation the more I return to this film. Depp gets Thompson's quirks and mannerisms down pat, his mumbles and darting glances and penchant for banshee fits of shrieking frenzy, but he also presents the yearning beneath Thompson's self-annihilating binge.

The movie is so disjointed in its twisted comic vignettes that even now, after at least nine or 10 viewings, I still watch whole chunks of the film as if for the first time. Gilliam makes high comic setpieces out of banal settings, such as the desert bike race that served as the impetus for Thompson's trip to Vegas: the director turns the event into a maelstrom of dust and pent-up aggression from white-trash shit-kickers shooting and driving their demons away in the middle of nowhere. Pathetic staggers through the funhouse world of the Vegas strip and its outlying provinces of even stranger attractions becoming miniature epics of endurance as the two careen and stumble around trying to find a safe zone for their thoughts.

Depp and del Toro hone in on the mad humor of it all: from the start, both are so consumed by suspicion and rum-soaked fits of rage that they justify their paranoia in their violent tendencies toward each other. Flashing blue strobe-lights pulse over numerous interior shots, as if the cops are always watching and pursuing our unlikely heroes. Yet when an officer finally catches up with ol' Raoul Duke, he proves as strange as the gonzo king himself.

Gilliam constantly contrasts the two leads with the regular people around Duke and Gonzo, not only emphasizing the eternal weirdness of button-down normalcy in society but also the horrible spiral of the main characters. One almost has to feel sympathy for the "villains" of the movie -- hotel staff, valets, unsuspecting tourists -- for Duke and Gonzo bring acid-sweating delirium into their tepid, calm lives. Once the initial shock of the regulars' quotidian, dull lifestyle abates, the roles reverse, and we see how two banshees screaming out of the desert wreak havoc on them.

Oscar and Hunter leave hotel rooms in states that would make Motlëy Crüe blanch. Everywhere they seems to be wet and demolished and on fire all at once, room service trays upheaved as the two make barriers against the forces they see outside their door. Whatever color these places once were, we see them in musty pinks, dirty light breaking up harsh red lights: they look like they live under a heat lamp in a fast food restaurant, and they probably feel the same way. Breaking up this damp pink are cakes of Stucco vomit and that ever-encroaching blue light, always pressing down on these fetid war zones.

Has a film ever been so anti-drug? At one point in the film, Gonzo and Duke find themselves in a bizarre convention that seems to mix the DEA with Scientology, where mad officials play a knock-off of Reefer Madness warning about the dangers of marijuana use. But its stern, histrionic proclamations both vastly overstate the evils and telltale signs of drug use and utterly fail to capture the full horror unfolding around these two characters. The despair in some of their actions digs into the heart of Thompson's work. He subtitled his book "A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream" for a reason, and Gilliam aims to extract that truth, not merely recreate the slow descent into hell that makes the book such an entertaining, fresh and perversely inspiring read nearly 40 years later.

Some might fault Gilliam for making a drug movie, having never been on one himself, but the true mark of authenticity in that respect would necessitate him not remembering his drug trips anyway, so even if he had lost a decade to heroin and mescaline he'd basically wind up in the same position. Gilliam pulls out all the stops to put altered states on the screen, using rear projection, canted angles, shifting focal lengths and more to make cinema of a thoroughly literary sojourn.

But the director's greatest moment might be the one in which he removes himself entirely from the film and places all focus on Thompson's great words. During one of the projects previous phases, Alex Cox intended to direct the film, but Thompson barred him from the film in a rage when the director proposed taking the central moment of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the "wave speech," and animating it in cheaply symbolic yet crudely literal fashion in a manner that would have sucked the beauty and power from the moment. Gilliam simply makes a montage of countercultural footage, the sociopolitical home-movie vibe meshing perfectly with Thompson's great elegy of the Love Generation.

In some ways, Terry Gilliam's interpretation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a harsh criticism of Thompson and his work. But I've never really bought the supposed iconoclasm in Hunter's best writing: I always saw a man looking desperately for the truth, even going so far as to invent new paths to it that would get any normal writer sued into oblivion. If I am stating this point for what seems the fifth time in this review, it is because I continue to marvel at how insightful Gilliam proved to be with the emotions and thoughts within one of the great works of culture criticism of the 20th century. This movie is funny, bizarre, unpleasant and haphazard, but it's almost mournful, an interpretation on the bitter hindsight of the '60s made even more dour by further aging.

Like Raoul Duke himself, Fear and Loathing caters to the whims of the zonked-out freaks out there with its hallucinogenic structure and kaleidoscopic whirlpool of color and sound, but it also holds up a mirror to those freaks to show how ragged and lonely they've become. Few authors can make me as sad while laughing as Thompson, and, after I got over the orgy of stylistic excess this film contains, it came to have the same effect on me.

Fast Five (Justin Lin, 2011)

Having seen neither the third nor fourth entries in the Fast and Furious franchise, I cannot say whether Fast Five is, as so many now say, the finest film in the series. I certainly preferred it to the first two, inasmuch as one can prefer one case of chlamydia over another. Ludicrous the point that even the strongest critics are powerless to stand in its way, Fast Five offers enough entertainment, at least of the unintentional variety, to make for a decently fun, if unnecessary, 130 minutes . Yet the filmmakers' awareness of Fast Five's inanity leads to such a disregard for character, coherence and, frankly, morality, that it proves the first film of this series I've found genuinely troubling.

Fast Five once again locates its core band of crooks and expert drivers as they continue to inexplicably walk away from all sorts of consequences of their actions -- only Michelle Rodriguez has truly suffered among the main recurring cast, suggesting that even the physics-suspending Fast and Furious franchise cannot surmount the immutable curse of the Michelle Rodriguez character. Ex-federal agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and his girlfriend Mia (Jordana Brewster) bust antihero crook (and brother to Mia) Dom (Vin Diesel) out of a bus bound for prison. They leave all other convicts to be picked up by cops. The three escape to Rio de Janeiro, where soon they find themselves targeted by a dictatorial businessman (Joaquim de Almeida) over some ridiculous matter concerning a computer chip containing information about his business transactions and where he keeps his money.

I cannot believe I got a full paragraph out of that. Fast Five technically has a plot, and one that involves more pieces than the ones I named -- for instance, it eventually finds an excuse to bring back the cream (for want of a better term) of the Fast and Furious crop, gathering characters from previous films as a way of thanking fans for sticking by them through thin and thinner. Six cast members reprise their roles, which is handy: that's enough two-dimensional sides to form a cube, so presumably they share a three-dimensional character between them.

Fast Five was directed by Justin Lin, who helmed the last two franchise entries but caught my attention as the director of the paintball episode of Community, that contemporary masterpiece of television making. But the cheeky cleverness of his television work gives way to empty spectacle here, all big explosions and disorienting editing that undercuts the impressive staging of his outlandish stunts.

And yet, a certain TV sensibility is precisely the chief setback of the film. Of Fast Five's 130 minutes, a good 80 of them must consist of close-up shots of the actors, particularly Walker and Diesel, reacting off each other. This winds up being the most engaging aspect of the film, as relying on Walker and Diesel, two of the least expressive actors to ever find themselves attached to a lucrative series. Both actors are so resolutely inexpressive that Fast Five may be the most expensive test of the Kuleshov effect ever mounted: naught but music and the juxtaposition of other images gives the audience a clue what we should feel.

What nags at me, however, is the film's disturbing disregard for everything around the beautiful characters. The wanton apathy for collateral damage is the worst facet of super-budget blockbusters: even this franchise, which admirably uses old-fashioned physical stunts and spare computer animation in lieu of rampant CGI, still benefits from gargantuan setpieces afforded by millions of dollars. The climactic sequence, involving a bank heist that finds a way to utilize cars at the expense of the last shred of disbelief whipping from a vehicle antenna, lost me because of its glorying in the destruction caused by a bank vault being dragged around crowded Brazilian streets at 80 mph. I know it's a movie, I know no one got hurt, but to see a movie perceiving humor and coolness in millions of dollars in careless destruction of property and life repulses me. If that constitutes an unfair, too-literal bias, so be it, but I cannot and will not cheer a film with such a hollow view of the "fun" of carnage, particularly when framed in the aesthetically displeasing style favored by those afraid to pull off such a ridiculous and immoral stunt piece in a manner people might be able to fully process.

Unintentional humor and the occasional moment so patently absurd I couldn't help but love it floated me through Fast Five, but if this is the franchise's high point, I cannot say I'm sorry to have missed half the previous installments. I had a great time at the screening, if only because my friend and I nearly passed out from laughing at Vin Diesel's chimpanzee smile or the constantly oiled muscles of an unfortunately goateed Dwayne Johnson as a DEA agent and walking tank hunting down Dom and Brian. But neither of us could laugh in the frenzy of the final free-for-all, all of it for what is frankly an unimpressive sum of money (who would risk the wrath of a multinational businessman/warlord for a measly $11 million each in modern times?). Perhaps it's such a small sum of money so these idiots will blow that cash in months, thus necessitating yet another sequel a year from now.

I thought I would get back on this franchise and give it a fair shake, but Fast Five manages to tie up a great many of the simpler reasons for mocking the series and introduces issues that nag at me far more than the blank slates of its uncharismatic stars or the flashy offense of its insipid mechanical fetish. Oh, for those halcyon days.

A Wedding in History

Today, was the Royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. It was a magical day filled with tradition, class, and love. I'm sure Princess Diana is smiling from heaven. Did you remember to check out the five things to watch for at the royal wedding? If you missed it... here it is....


1. The Dress
Catherine's dress seemed quite similar to Grace Kelly's gown. Must have been her inspiration.
Great choice! Stunning!
2. The Guests
The Beckhams
3. The Kiss
4. Harry's date, Chelsy Davy
5. The Moment



Some of my favorite items.....
The Queen wore YELLOW!

These hats are insane!

William's bow tie (reception outfit)
Kate's reception dress is BEAUTIFUL!

Today! Ity & Fancy in May Pen for Eat Jamaican!

Slim Without Diet with 9 Ways It

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WANT to achieve success without the hassle live fantastic body diet? Of course everyone wants. If you are interested to do so, follow these instructions.

Agenda diet an option many people to lose weight and realize their desire to achieve such a slim body that they desire. However, a fairly strict diet sessions often make women reluctant to do so. Instead of a diet, which occurred precisely because the body becomes stricken with hunger pain. And the key to the diet is not hungry, but to improve diet and reduce intake of servings usually with fixed attention diasup nutrient content.

Well, if you made scared by the danger of starvation, you should just do it like a step below, as written HealtMeUp.

Consumption of vegetables

Research shows that when the food served at the table, we tend to eat more. Therefore, replacing high-fat dishes on your menu with vegetables is the best step. Eat green vegetables more than twice a day and you will feel satisfied with the results obtained without much effort on a diet.

Eat slowly

Take a break from the schedule should eat and enjoy your meal with a quiet session. Chew food slowly and enjoy every bite of your food. Ate in haste just makes you eat a lot than usual.

Choose whole grains that have not been processed

Choose the source of whole grain foods in the daily intake. Food of wheat will increase your lipids (low bad cholesterol), thus helping you lose weight. In addition, the consumption of all kinds of food grains to be more healthy.

Focus on your target

Do you have a pair of jeans that want to be back? Or a dress that had long you use and not used anymore because we no longer friends with your body. Well, if you want to use it again, hang the ideals of the highest. Instill a desire that all these clothes to fit used again. So whenever you are faced with a tempting food such as fries, burgers, fried chicken and so on, that desire was slowly faded because terbenamkan with desire for your clothes fit again.

Bring your lunch to the office

Always carry a lunch when you work or take it is always a box of fruit when you do a picnic. Then take some bread, low fat yoghurt in your journey. Bring healthy foods will help you reach your dream of having a slim body. So, you can skip the habit of eating in the cafeteria this time and you too can enjoy a dose of food and menus that suit your needs. If cooking in the morning into the activities of a hurry to do, you can try the food memersiapkan previous night making it easier for him in the morning.

Drinking green tea

Although not yet confirmed, several studies conducted showed that green tea can increase the body's ability to burn more calories through phytochemicals called catechins.

Walk 20 minutes every day

A study revealed that walking for 20 minutes a day (about one mile) can help you burn as many as 100 calories more. So, come down from the bus you are riding in before purpose and use the remaining distance on foot. Use the stairs instead of elevator or park the car some distance away from the entrance to the mall while you shop.

Eat in small plates

If you choose a dish 10 inches, not 12 inches, your mind will only focus on that measure. Though the plate will affect the dose of your meal. So do not satisfy the instinct to eat a lot, but adjust it as needed. To anticipate, use a plate that is not too large so that the food intake in it is not too much.

Smart when choosing the menu at the restaurant

Eating in restaurants may be able to destroy the balanced diet you've lived before. Before they threaten you, share your appetizer menu with your friends while eating in restaurants. Then ask for half portions for booking the main menu.
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Philippa Middleton Not Lose Belle with Kate

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NOT want to lose with the masters of intent, the younger brother of the bride, Philippa Middleton was wearing a dress design Sarah Burton.

As if did not want to lose competitiveness, the sister of Kate Middleton also entrust clothing worn on the day his brother was happy to Sarah Burton, who designed the wedding dress designer Kate.

Phillipa Middleton dress it looks very heavy with ornaments that inherent in them. Phillipa gown using basic materials ivory-colored satin with a fitted head cover with lace accents like the wedding dress.

Meanwhile, the bridesmaids, amounting to four people wearing the design collection of Nicki Macfarlane. Fourth dress the bridesmaids were made by handmade by Macfarlane Macfarlane and her daughter Charlotte at their home in Wiltshire & Kent area.

The bridesmaids dresses are created by using the same fabric with a wedding dress. Ballerina length dress is shaped with a pleated bottom of the box-shaped and colored ivory. The dress is made on top of white satin gazar made to look beautiful fashion colors. Not only that, they also provide subtle accents of lace at the bottom of the skirt as much as four layers. Parts made puffy sleeves and neckline are accented like the bottom of the skirt. The back of the dress was using the same details.

Even though only as accompaniment, the beauty of the dress on the tiny boy no less beautiful with the bride and other important guests. In the clothing they wear, the waist is given embedded silk pale gold color and ornament the front tucked like an arrow shape. Uniquely, to make the memories of those moments bridesmade names and wedding date on the embroidery on their clothes.

As for the cape that was created by Nicki Macfarlene Yorkshire wool ivory color with a touch of delicate lace and ties at the front where the use satin gazar.

For shoes, the bridesmaids to use designs created by Devon from Rainbow Club. Shoes a classic style of Mary Jane is made of satin material in which the process of finishing sprinkled with swarovski crystal. Devon itself known to have been designing and making handmade shoes since the mid-1980s.


Similar to his bride, attendants also carried a bouquet of flowers designed by Shane Connolly. Flowers ivy and lilies into the bridesmaids hair ornaments that these young ages. This custom has been going on since his mother married in 1981. The accompanist is holding a flower which is a replica of the flowers brought by the bride in which combines lily, sweet William and hyacinth in it
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Finally, the Prince and Princess Kissing!

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Boisterous shouts of millions of Britons outside Buckingham Palace to see Prince William kissed Kate Middleton. Twice a kiss that lasts a short time.

It seemed the entire royal family stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. They waved a hand toward the people who gathered outside the royal palace.

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Bride looked embarrassed while doing this kiss. Traditionally this is done on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. A similar procession carried Prince Charles and Princess Diana when they married in 1981 ago.

During the balcony, Prince William and his wife, along with the royal family, was also treated to a parade of British fighter planes. Approximately 15 minutes they kept waving his hand toward the people who were waiting.

After that, the royal family led by Queen Elizabeth went back to the palace. Meanwhile, Prince William and Kate Middleton who now holds the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the most recent entry into Buckingham Palace.
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Looking at the monument of The Akmani Hotels

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FATIGUE shopped around Jakarta, delicious taste if it rested with the atmosphere of the beauty of the city center overlooking the Monas. In Jakarta, The Akmani Hotel is a four-star hotel that offers charm them.

Assistant PR Manager of The Akmani Hotel, Vika Anjarrini, said the advantages they have is the hotel adjacent to shopping areas such as Sarina and Tanah Abang and culinary tours in Jalan Sabang.

Located a very strategic which is in Jl. Wahid Hasyim 91 Jakarta, near the intersection Sabang exactly adjacent to the Embassy of Spain. The hotel location is very strategic for business or leisure needs because the travel is only 50 minutes from International Airport Soekarno-Hatta Airport, located right near the shopping centers such as Sarina and Tanah Abang and culinary tours in Jalan Sabang.

The Akmani Hotel has 116 rooms of various types that can be selected in accordance with the needs of guests. These rooms have international standard facilities, among others; mini bar, tea and coffee making facilities, safety box, toiletries, Internet access, TV, air conditioning, telephone, and so forth.

"In addition to our room also has business facilities offered to guests, among others, have a fruit ballrom included with 7 meeting rooms. Owned meeting rooms have capacities of different participants to 300 participants, meeting facilities supported by adequate audiovisual equipment, business center equip meeting needs, as well as free internet access service in almost all areas of hotel, "said the lady met this beautiful moment in Legal, Wednesday (04/27/2011).

In terms of leisure, guests can enjoy spa facilities with massage and reflexology services throughout the body.

"De Fame Fitness & Spa, located on the 1st floor. Not only that De Fame also provides spa facilities with various package options. Get special prices already include aroma Therapy massage for 90 minutes, "he explained.

In addition, The Akmani Hotel also offers other facilities such as swimming pool, and fitness center.

The Akmani Hotel also provides 3 (three) restaurant to complement the needs of the guests will be food and beverages. Bel Piatto Restaurant is a restaurant that will pamper guests tongue theme is "Western and Asian Cuisine Ala Carte Specialist" This restaurant provides a menu - menu a la carte options such as Traditional Javanese Fried Rice, Rendang Oxtail, Tongseng and a wide selection of Spaghetti. . Another restaurant that is Cake Shop is a restaurant serving a variety of bakery, bread, pastry, cookies until fresh cake. While Scarlatti Lounge is designed to provide a sense of relaxed and comfortable, the perfect place to meet and chat with friends and business associates.

"We hope our guests will enjoy all the deals on offer with the people they love, because the Akmani Hotel is always the best place to celebrate those precious moments," he concluded
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Solo City 24 Hour degree Dancing, Come Dancing Mayor

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Commemorate International Dance Day which falls on today, Solo City held a ceremony titled 'Solo 24 Hours of Dancing.

This action in the form of dance for 24 hours without stopping at some point in the city of Solo as Lodji Gandrung, Sriwedari, Pendapa Sriwedari, Ngarsa front Pura Solo Grand Mall, Solo Square, SMK 8, Prang Wedanan, and ISI Surakarta.

Solo Dancing begins on the campus of Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Surakarta at 06.00 pm. Solo dancing is followed by at least 3000 participants who took part that continues to enliven the 11 dancers perform dance movement for 24 hours. Action This dance will end at 06.00 pm, Saturday, April 30 tomorrow.

Solo Mayor Joko Widodo, also involved in this scene. Jokowi, her nickname, dancing in front of Jalan Slamet Riyadi Lodji Gandrung or in front of the house of the mayor's office accompanied by a thousand dancers from a number of junior high school and dance studio in the city of Solo.

According to Solo Mayor Joko Widodo, Solo Dance events will maintain cultures give spirit to the residents of Solo to continue to maintain the nation's art.

While one of the participants dance Alfiana of SMP 3 Solo admitted happy to follow and brighten Day Dance. In taruan that was delivered in front Lodji entitled 'Dance offerings' tells the opener for the ceremony populist dance used to welcome guests of honor.
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