Saturday, February 19, 2005

An Evening Out

Hari ini aku nonton Meet the Fockers.
Aku menemukan bayi yang mengatakan kata pertamanya: "a**hole," adegan terlucu. Suatu kata yang begitu impulsif dengan arti harfiah yang menimbulkan satu bayangan mutlak.
Tidak lucu. Setidaknya itulah yang terlintas saat kita melihatnya dari sisi lain. Dimana banyak orang-termasuk aku- tidak.

Today I watched Meet the Fockers (help yourself with the link above, please).
I found that the baby who spoke his first word: "a**hole," was the funniest scene. A word that is so impulsive with a literal meaning conjuring one specific image.
Not funny. At least that's what we would think if we saw it from a different view. Which many people-including myself- don't.

Cuaca tidak begitu indah, namun cukup mendukung untuk menjalani sore dengan seorang teman agar mengenalnya lebih baik. Faktanya, kita masuk bioskop terlambat. Terlambat karena kita telah menuju tempat lain yang- ternyata, menayangkan versi bahasa Perancis.
Akhirnya kita nonton di Gaumont Champs Elysees.

Studio sangat ramai, dan kita telat.

Setelah mencari-cari tempat duduk untuk berdua yang berdampingan, kami menikmati film komedi tersebut tanpa masalah lebih lanjut. :-)

The weather wasn't beautiful, but encouraging enough to spend an evening with a friend in order to get to know her better. The fact is, we came into the cinema late.
Late because we were heading at a place where- to our ignorace, was showing the French version.
Finally we headed to Gaumont Champs Elysees.

The studio was crowded, and we were late.

After having to find two seats next to each other, we enjoyed the comedy movie without further problems. :-)

Walked along the 'world's most famous avenue' and checked out Virgin- talking along, obviously. It was 8pm when we decided to head to Montparnasse since there is a good pub there with a great ambiance. Both of us don't drink, so all is good. However much to our surprise it was full and then we thought of going to Starbucks, but since we both had enough of that, we went to the nearest Brasserie and had coke! We talked for what seemed to me around 2 hours (who's counting?) and talked about anything and everything. It was the excellent way to end the day.

Jalan sepanjang 'jalan yang paling terkenal di dunia' dan mengelilingi Virgin- sambil berbincang-bincang, tentunya. Jam menunjukkan pukul 8 malam saat kami memutuskan untuk pergi ke Montparnasse, karena disana ada tempat minum dengan suasana yang menyenangkan. Kita berdua tidak minum alkohol, jadi semua baik-baik saja. Kami cukup terganggu dengan keramaian disana dan berpikir untuk pergi ke Starbucks, namun karena kami sudah cukup sering kesana, kami masuk ke tempat paling dekat dan minum coca! Kita berbincang selama kurang-lebih 2 jam (siapa yang menghitung?) dan berbicara tentang semua dan apa saja. Cara yang sempurna untuk mengakhiri hari ini.

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