Books - Movie -and Music Review

Rujak manis The Taste Of Surabaya People

2008-01-17T01:38:00.000-08:00

Have you ever wondered where you can find certain kinds of traditional dessert food in Surabaya? Or have you ever considered what some of the traditional foods of the Surabaya people are? There is one in particular that is special from the Surabaya area and the name is Rujak Manis. This is a traditional fruit salad that tastes very sweet and delicious. It is made from fruits such as mango, tofu (tahu), watermelon, jackfruit (nangka), jambu and many other kinds of fruits. Not only that, but Rujak also has a different sauce that the street vendors (sellers) have prepared very well. They have blended the sauce from brown sugar mixed with peanuts and cinnamon. If you are interested in trying Rujak Manis, please remember that if you do not want your sauce to be hot (spicy), ask them not to add any spices or ‘sambel’ (tidak mau pedas) in your sauce. You also have the option of choosing which fruits you would like to have in your Rujak Manis by just telling the vendor at the time of purchase. If you are a visitor or have just moved to Surabaya and you want to enjoy Rujak Manis you can buy this along the Dr Soetomo Street. The price of this delicious fruit dessert averages around 5,000rp. The Rujak street vendors will always sell Rujak everyday beginning at 9:00 o’clock in the morning until 17:00 o’clock in the evening. So when you come to Surabaya always remember Rujak Manis the taste of Surabaya people….don’t miss it!

The road of Dr Soetomo Street where you can have Rujak Manis

(contributed by Petrus Titus Reawaruw, Mhum- works now at the Sekolah Ciputra Surabaya, and lembaga kajian budaya Merah –Semarang.)

All About Music

2007-12-20T03:00:00.001-08:00

All About Movie

2007-12-20T02:59:00.000-08:00

The Hitman ( 2007)
The Synopsis and Review:

This film has shown the conspiracy of the worldly espionage. It all started from the story of agent 47 meeting an Interpol inspector named Michael. He told the story of the underground secret organization to the inspector. This organization trained him as one of the best agents with a license to kill. But all of a sudden agent 47 had a problem when he was in Russia. He had to eliminate the Russian president. Unfortunately, the mission in Russia itself was not complete. This was because the president himself hired agent 47 to kill the false president. Over and over, agent 47’s life was in jeopardy. He had to run and find his way out from the uncontrolled situation. Finally he could survive and killed the president with his own hands. This film shows how world espionage worked similar in the society before the cold war. The assassins of the big guns are happening many times and everywhere. It used all of the kinds of strategies to infiltrate, deceive, and even massacre other people. The idea of the film is that we can learn that we all need to be aware of the bad changing situations in our surroundings and through out the world. Yet we need to have the responsibility to avoid the bad things that happen. It is a nice movie that you can enjoy during the holiday

The Alibi.
Produced by Prime Movie Entertainment. Duration 85 minutes. 2006

This movie shows how modern people manage their life in between what needs to be developed in everyday relationships especially with their spouse. This film focuses on Ray Elliot who runs an alibi service for adulterous husbands and then he himself gets into a jam with a new client. While trying to remedy the situation, he must rely on an alluring woman (Romijn- Stamos) who gets his heart racing.
According to this movie, 1 out of 4 men have an affair with another woman. Statistics also show that 1 out of 10 women do exactly as the men. The source behind all of this is people always lie. Lying is the most effective way in making everything smooth in our surroundings. Moreover, this can cause infidelity in relationships. Briefly speaking a simple lie can produce another lie (no matter if it is a white or black lie). When another lie produces another lie, it can also produce the biggest lie than ever. The moral lesson that we can learn is that we need to have an attitude for being honest to our spouses and never give up on our marriages. When we do that, then we can have a happy life. Happy life is just for the happy people only.

All About Books

2007-12-20T02:57:00.000-08:00

Children Books
History of the World. Title: Revolution and Conflict. Publisher: BRIMAX. Year 2001. It contains 48 pages

If you want to have peace you need to have a war said Anarchist. This particular saying still exists until nowadays. This proclamation of war and peace is portrait naturally in this book. Thus it contains also with a lot of pictures and information that scatter about war in the past. This is the nice book for your children to know how wars began, developed, and were solved in the past. Yet, it is also full of some brief explanations that children can grasp about new information in many kinds of ways. Children can notify the situation of what is good or bad in their surrounding and try to have them think and link on how they can solve it in the harmonious ways. This is the right book for every level of your children especially to grade 3 until 6 in the Elementary school

World History
The ancient world 40.000-500 B.C. Publisher: Kingfisher. Year 1997. It contains 76 pages

History comes from the Greek word historeo meaning to know or I have seen. Now a day, people are so curious to know more about the old things in the past. That is why they keep on searching and digging out a lot of information about the activities in the past. This book world 40.000-500 BC brilliantly pictures the developing of cultures from people around the world. It describes and explains how human beings developed their characters in such a tremendous way in the old days. Meaning that it concentrated on how mankind developed their ways of life, feelings, and behavior in establishing their existences in a very simple way. This book contains 76 pages full of color and is fun to read. This is a nice book for Grade six in the elementary school

The autobiography

Barack Husein OBama
Kandidat Presiden Amerika yang punya Muslim conection. Publisher Mizania. Writer: Anwar Holid. Pages: 192. Year: 2007

America is very well-known for its saying as a democratic country. With a lot of population, people practice and communicate their rights every four years by choosing their president candidates. Nowadays, one of the strong candidates is Mr. Barack Obama. He is the simple and genuine guy for the people of America. He is also called as the heal maker for America. This is because he did not attempt to make any aggression to the East Country but he tried to bridge the East and West Countries. Furthermore, he likes to make friends to all of the people. Evidently, he has also made a connection in the heart of the Indonesian people. Anwar Holid (the writer) portrays him as friendly, easy going, and has a spirit of leadership since he was in his childhood. His talents and attitudes cause him to have respect from his neighborhood and fellow friends. Not only that but he also is one of the guys that likes to practice his religious life together with the Indonesian friends. Although, his family life was upside down, they never gave up on holding a bright hope and future. Eloquently speaking, he never gave up in answering all of the rumors and bad things that happened to him and his family in all situations, especially when he was facing his opponents in rally campaigns. But nevertheless, He believes that he can crack the American’s problem and say in his speech with his humanistic ways:
Pada akhirnya itulah hadiah terbesar Tuhan buat kita, prinsip dasar bangsa ini; keayakinan bahwa masih ada hari esok yang lebih baik di masa depan. Saya percaya kita bisa memberi gairah hidup kepada kelas menengah kita dan menyediakan kesempatan bagi keluarga pekerja. Saya yakin kita bisa menyediakan lapangan perkerjaan pada kelompok pengganguran; mengentaaskan para pemuda di kota-kota besar sepanjang Amerika dari kekerasan dan putus asa.Saya percaya bahwa kita berdiri pada persimpangan sejarah, kita bisa buat pilihan yang benar dan menjemput tantangan yang menghadapi, Amerika.( transcript of Barack Obama Speech in Democratic national Convention, DNC, Tuesday 27 july 2004, translated in Bahasa Indonesia)

This book contains with a lot of pictures and thoughts from celebrities and professional people from all over the world that support him to be the first man for president of the United States of America.

Oprah Winfrey.Rahasia sukses menaklukan panggung talk show
Publisher Gagas Media. Year 2006. Writer: Amelita Lusia. Pages: 204

If you know Oprah Winfrey, you will say that she is the lady who can do everything on the stage in the TV. From her talk show we can learn something about life and our surroundings. But more than that, this book describes about one of the lives of an American lady by the name Oprah. She came from the poor family. Thus she had so many disturbances from the childhood. But, it always gave her spirit to change her life. She never gave up on doing what was right and making it become something beautiful. In her process of success she also dealt with many bad or interesting things in her life. Yet, because of her struggles, right now she is someone that is very well-known and rich in the society in America as well as around the world. People learn so many things when they see her TV show. The moral issues in America can be dug deeper and deeper with her eloquent talking as a great presenter of the world with the common people, celebrities even to some of the big guns across the nations. Values that are so real in her show are egaliter (equality) openness, frankness, but still impersonal (Lusia Amerlita 2006:XiV). Find more about Oprah in this book and you will get fresh new ideas from Oprah Winfrey.