[Book Review] Rasa Untuk Jiwa oleh @sholahayub

Judul: Rasa Untuk Jiwa (Hard Cover)

Penerbit: Duta Media Tama

Penulis: @sholahayub

Tahun Terbit : cetakan pertama, 2020

Bahasa: Indonesia

ISBN: 978-623-91-3264-4

[Book Review] Merindu Baginda Nabi oleh Habiburrahman El Shirazy

Judul: Merindu Baginda Nabi

Penerbit: Republika Penerbit

Penulis: Habiburrahman El Shirazy

Ukuran: 14 cm x 21 cm

Jumlah Halaman: 176

Bahasa: Indonesia

ISBN: 9786025734199

[Book Review] Perempuan Patah Hati yang Kembali Menemukan Cinta Melalui Mimpi oleh Eka Kurniawan

 

Judul: Perempuan Patah Hati yang Kembali Menemukan Cinta Melalui Mimpi

Penulis: Eka Kurniawan

Penerbit: Bentang Pustaka

Terbit: Cetakan pertama, Maret 2015

Tebal: 170 halaman

ISBN: 6022910722

BLURB:

"Kalian orang-orang tolol yang percaya pada mimpi."

Mimpi itu memberitahunya bahwa ia akan memperoleh seorang kekasih. Dalam mimpinya, si kekasih tinggal di kota bernama Pangandaran. Setiap sore, lelaki yang akan menjadi kekasihnya sering berlari di sepanjang pantai ditemani seekor anjing kampung. Ia bisa melihat dadanya yang telanjang, gelap, dan basah oleh keringat, berkilauan memantulkan cahaya matahari. Setiap kali ia terbangun dari mimpi itu, ia selalu tersenyum. Jelas is sudah jatuh cinta pada lelaki itu.

"Eka Kurniawan: an unconventional writer."

- Weekender, The Jakarta Post

[Book Review] Ailurofil oleh Triani Retno A.

Judul buku: Ailurofil

Penulis: Triani Retno A.

Editor: Irna Permanasari

Desain sampul: Marcel A.W

Penerbit: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama

ISBN: 978-602-03-2547-7

Cetakan pertama, 14 Maret 2016

184 halaman

BLURB:

Ai.lu.ro.fi.li: orang yang sangat tertarik pada kucing

Nasya Aurelia sangat suka kucing. Ia bercita-cita ingin memiliki cat shop, lengkap dengan salon kucing, hotel kucing, klinik kucing, hingga panti asuhan dan kursus kucing. Tapi Nasya bingung, di kampus mana ia harus kuliah agar cita-cita itu terwujud. Tidak ada satu pun kampus yang menyediakan Fakultas Ilmu Kucing. Gimana dong?

Namun, masalah rencana kuliah itu belum seberapa dibanding kegalauannya. Setelah sekian lama naksir diam-diam dan akhirnya jadian, Nasya baru menyadari bahwa Rio—cowok paling keren di sekolah—ternyata benci banget sama kucing. Masa ia harus mutusin cowok demi kucing?

Hingga suatu saat sahabatnya, Alvin, menyodorkan ide brilian yang bikin mata dan pikiran Nasya terbuka….

[Book Review] Pulang oleh Leila S. Chudori

Judul: Pulang

Penulis: Leila S. Chudori

Penerbit : KPG

Cetakan : IV, Desember 2013

Tebal : vii + 461 halaman

ISBN : 978-979-91-0515-8

Blurb:

Paris, Mei 1968.

Ketika revolusi mahasiswa berkecamuk di Paris, Dimas Suryo seorang eksil politik Indonesia bertemu Vivienne Deveraux, seorang mahasiswa Prancis yang ikut demonstrasi melawan pemerintah Prancis. Pada saat yang sama, Dimas menerima kabar dari Jakarta: Hananto Prawiro, sahabatnya, ditangkap tentara dan dinyatakan tewas. Dimas merasa cemas dan gamang. Bersama puluhan wartawan dan seniman lain, dia tak bisa kembali ke Jakarta karena paspornya dicabut oleh pemerintah Indonesia. Sejak itu mereka mengelana tanpa status yang jelas dari Santiago ke Havana, ke Peking dan akhirnya mendarat di tanah Eropa untuk mendapatkan suaka dan menetap di sana.

Di tengah kesibukan mengelola Restoran Tanah Air di Paris bersama tiga kawannya: Nug, Tjai, dan Risjaf—mereka berempat disebut Empat Pilar Tanah Air—Dimas, terus-menerus dikejar rasa bersalah karena kawan-kawannya di Indonesia satu persatu tumbang, dikejar, ditembak, atau menghilang begitu saja dalam perburuan Peristiwa 30 September. Apalagi dia tak bisa melupakan Surti Anandari—isteri Hananto—yang bersama ketiga anaknya berbulan-bulan diinterogasi tentara.

[Book Review] Generasi 90an oleh Marchella F.P.

Judul: Generasi 90an
Penulis: Marchella FP
Penerbit: POP Publishers , April 2013
Tebal: 144 hlm.
ISBN: 9789799105363

Blurb:

Bahagia itu sederhana, nostalgia salah satunya, dan buku ini menjadi mesin waktunya.

[Book Review] Peek A Boo, Love oleh Sofi Meloni

Penulis: Sofi Meloni

Editor: Irna Permanasari

Desain sampul: Marcel A. W.

Layout: Ayu Lestari

Penerbit: Gramedia

Cetakan: pertama, 2015

Jumlah hal: 248 halaman

ISBN: 978-602-03-2408-1

Blurb:

Hey, Cinta. Apakah kamu di sana? Oh, tidak? Mungkin di sini ? Tidak juga ternyata. Sebenarnya kamu di mana?

Memulai kehidupan profesional tidak semudah yang kubayangkan saat aku memutuskan pindah ke Jakarta. Macet dan polusi di mana-mana, Transjakarta yang sesak, serta kopi pahit yang disodorkan rekan kerjaku setiap pagi. Belum lagi atasanku, Pak Daniel, yang kelewat misterius.

Semuanya semakin rumit saat masalah datang dan mempertemukanku kembali dengan Evan, pria yang mengajakku be rkenalan di halte Transjakarta. Kejutan lainnya adalah Sam, teman chatting-ku, yang ternyata juga berada di kota yang sama denganku dan mengajak ketemuan! Entah berapa banyak lagi kejutan yang menantiku di kota metropolitan ini.

Hey, Cinta. Apa aku akhirnya akan menemukanmu di sini?

-Lulu-

[Book Review] BESTIE: Mereka bercerita tentang SAHABATNYA dari BELAKANG? oleh Maknyes & Kieky

Judul Buku : BESTIE-Mereka bercerita tentang SAHABATNYA dari BELAKANG?

Penulis : Maknyes & Kieky

Penerbit : Grasindo

Tahun Terbit : 2013

Cetakan ke : pertama, 2013

Jumlah Halaman : v + 248 halaman

Ukuran Buku : 13x19 cm

BLURB:

      “Haa? Mereka bercerita tentang SAHABATNYA… dari BELAKANG?”

Ivan dan Lintang telah bersahabat sejak SMA. Ivan adalah pemimpin redaksi sebuah majalah. Lintang adalah mantan model yang pernah berjaya di masanya. Karakter mereka yang berbeda telah membuktikan bahwa persahabatan mereka bisa bertahan lebihdari satu dekade.

      Mereka tak pernah memiliki masalah yang berarti, apalagi masalah cinta. Hubungan mereka baik-baik saja... kelihatannya. Namun ketika ada pria yang sama memasuki kehidupan mereka, apakah persahabatan mereka bisa bertahan? Dan pertanyaan yang sesungguhnya, apakah Ivan dan Lintang benar-benar bersahabat... Atau sekadar teman asal lewat?

Sumber : di sini

English Ed. BCKI!

Between Canada, Korea, and Indonesia!

   Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb.

   Holaaa, good readers! How is your feeling today? I hope you are all always just fine.

  It’s been soooooooooo long since my last post a year ago, December, 31th 2014 hohoho, but I am back now! Miss me?

  So, what I wanna share on this update? What is the meaning of “Between Canada, Korea, and Indonesia”? A lot of questions, and lemme tell you something.

The clue is… Things I love to death!

  On this new update,  I want to tell you guys about my interest in something new for me. It has related with sport, movie, music, hijab and blog! But how?

  Since a couple days ago, I have been thinking about this, I want to post something, but I was wondering around about  what I would like to post right here. I got pretty confused. During March, 10st-18st 2015 those were my holidays session, why? Because on those days, the grade 12 have to follow the school test, ganbatte oniisan, onesan! And for grade 10 and 11, we have to study at home where it means we are on HOLIDAYS, people... yeah! What a fantastic! So, I can really really feel home, stay at home.. for  a week? Okay, baby! Hohoho…

   And I want to start from…

   Canada 

[I took from Google]

   What happens with Canada? Is it the place where Bieber was born? Yes, but no, I don’t want to discuss about Justin Bieber although he is turning 21st now, getting older. He got a lot of tattoos on his body, he changed his hair style and he changed his style, a lot of changes on his life. Everything has changed right? And people do change.. Like Taylor Swift’s song. 

[I took from https://twitter.com/SB_Projects/status/571928256124874753 ]

   Ok, back to the topic!

   Why it has to be Canada?

   Because from couple weeks ago, I think, I’ve loved something from there. Basically, this interest feeling comes from my school year program. My school holds like sport competitions for grade 10 and 11.  The competitions are basket ball, soccer, and volley ball. The competitions have been held for about three months or more. All of classes must participate in each competition. And I, I am participing in basket ball competition.

   My very first respond at the time was like, “WHAT??” Why? Why me? Why now? Oh people, I couldn’t play basket ball. I am bad in dribbling and shooting the ball into the basket ring, oh freak! You kidding me?

   “Why me? I can’t.” I always ask to them. But they just said like, “All of us can’t until we try.” And at the end I said, “Ok, I am in.”

   As the following days, we have had practiced a lot, honestly not every day, only just in some days since we had to divide the time between studying and practicing.

   Some of my friends and I practiced very seriously while having fun. Not long after,  I can do the dribbling and throw the ball into the basket ring. And ever since,  I think, I have been loving basket. That’s new for me, although I have known it since I was in elementary school, but now in Senior High School, I swear, I am really really good at it. How poor I was.

[I took from http://hdw.eweb4.com/out/1292878.html ]

   Basket ball.. um.. it gives me like, life and love! My friends are very kind, they taught me patiently, especially Diah [She is our basket ball coach] Thank you so much for teaching us, telling me if basket ball is such a fun sport! Thanks for knowing me a basket ball. I’ll never know ‘till I try, that’s so damn right!

[I took from http://justinbiebersinger2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/justin-bieber-jugo-un-partido-de.html ]

   Ops! Hohoho…

   Korea

[I took from Google]

   The second is, from one of so many countries in Asia, well-known of fashion and drama, and that would be Korea, and FYI, it’s not going to be North Korea. I will talk about South Korea. This country is also famous with their boy band and girl band who can dance while singing.

   So, what do I like about South Korea? My interest comes from Drama and Music. For me, those are new things. Recently my friend, Shafira, introduced me with Korean Drama, Pinocchio!

 [I took from http://ungkul.com/2014/11/park-shin-hye-dan-lee-jong-suk-saling-tatap-di-poster-pinocchio.html ]

   At first, I was like, “Oh, yeah, what is that?”

   But suddenly one of my friend, Fatin [not Shidqia] showed me the drama. From that time, I’ve really liked that super damn nice drama. And I was like, “Would  you  kindly mind giving  me the drama, please…?”

   And after that I started to watch the drama day and night. The drama comes in series, so I would have some episodes to watch. Pinocchio has 20 episodes. And for the record, from this drama [or film or movie or whatever you wanna call], I’ve finally found my new idol and he is my first Korean idol!

   [I took from http://www.allkpop.com/article/2014/10/lee-jong-suk-to-hold-an-intimate-fan-meeting-in-beijing ]

   The fact is, a lot of my friends have been so long putting their interests in Korean wave, but I’ve just put mine now. How off date I was? Who cares?

   I’ve fallen in love, I mean I like the main character from Pinocchio, that’s Choi Dal Po or Ki Ha Myung or Lee Jong Suk [the real name]. OMG, he is so fabulous, he is cute! And guess what? He was my first Korean actor whom I follow on instagram! Hohoho

[I took from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2oDkQi8WPQ]

   According to the my references, his high is 186 cm tall, what a tall man?! I can just say, “WHAT?!” Now, I feel like that destiny has brought me to  him, I know hohoho [don’t be jealous].

   You can find more about Lee Jong Suk on Wikipedia or another credible website.

   And the second thing I like about Korea is their musics [not at all,]. Recently my friend, Shafira, randomly sent me a song. After that I played it and I like that song! Then, I asked her what was the name of the song and who was the singer, and then she advised me to download the album. I admitted it. And this incredibly lovely singer would be Akdong Musician aka Akmu.

[I took from http://ditaheel1496.blogspot.com/2014/04/profil-fakta-akdong-musician.html ]

   Akdong Musician (Korean: 악동뮤지션, also known as AKMU) is a South Korean music duo under YG Entertainment, consisting of siblings Lee Chanhyuk and Lee Suhyun. They won the second installment of the K-pop Star series. Songs from the group's 2014 debut album Play have more than 6,1 million total downloads. [From Wikipedia of course]

   This is the track:

1. "Give Love"   2:56

2. "200%"   3:13

3. "Melted" (얼음들; Eoreumdeul) 3:55

4. "On the Subway" (지하철에서; Jihacheoreseo) 3:41

5. "Hair Part" (가르마; Gareuma) 3:46

6. "Artificial Grass" (인공잔디; In-gongjandi) 3:45

7. "Don't Hate Me" (안녕; Annyeong) 3:47

8. "Little Star" (작은별; Jageunbyeol) 3:47

9. "Anyway" (길이나; Girina) 3:09

10. "Idea" (소재; Sojae) 3:19

11. "Galaxy"   2:59

PS: all off the songs were written and composed by Lee Chanhyuk.

    I always rewind the songs.

   Why do I like AKMU’s song? Because I think that their songs have “something” that can make me happy every time I listen to it. And most of the songs are in acoustic version, I love it!

   Indonesia

[I took from Google]

   And the last is… my lovely country, Indonesia! What do I love from Indonesia? You all know that there are many problems come to this country right now. Corruption, ISIS, “Begal” and more. I am tired of those shit things! But, can we just stop discussing those and take a look how lucky we are, can live in this precious country.

   We have a lot of things that we can show to the world wide, we can be the next powerful country if we want! Just take a breath and realize it, please.

   Million young generations we have, with various abilities, that is the point! And recently, they easily took a place in my heart, hohoho…

   One day I opened my lovely black laptop and started to explore random thing, anything, and finally I found  something. That was Fashion blog.

   I am a girl who does not really care about something called “fashion” but from that time I decided to stalk everything about fashion. Sounds ridiculous, huh?

   But when I was on grade 8, my bestie, Elok [What’s up, mate!] had introduced me to Evita Nuh, one of Indonesian fashion blogger. I mean, one of Indonesian famous fashion blogger. She has inspired Elok and now, she attract me too.

   You can check it here! http://jellyjellybeans.blogspot.com/

[All pics of Evita I took from her fan pages https://www.facebook.com/evitanuhpage ]

   And I found another fashion blogger, hijab fashion blogger. Her name is Shirin Al-Athrus. She is young hijaber and her fashions are inspiring me a lot! I knew her for the first time from instagram. She is beautiful talented young girl.

   And here is her blog, but right now she never posts something on her blog, I don’t know why, maybe she is busy… http://shireeenz.blogspot.com/

[I took from http://aprilya.com/inspirasi-fashion-muslimah-dengan-gaya-cute-ala-shirin-al-athrus#.VQgST9KUf2E ]

[I took from http://shireeenz.blogspot.com/ ]

   Honestly, there are so many fashion blogger from Indonesia, so you can choose your own favorite!

   Soooo, that’s all what I want to share with you, my lovely good readers!

  How do you feel? Maybe it’s just something not important for you but not for me. But I hope you guys can learn something from this new post, aamiin.

   Thank youuuuuu so much for your kind heart to read this, love ya!

   Wassalam!

#Big Thanks to Shafira Hany Maris, who wants to help me checking the grammar :)

                                                                               Probolinggo, March on 17th 2015