Small Talks No. 77

Wow OMG, there will soon be an NBA without the Black Mamba?

With high anticipation for the new-look Los Angeles Lakers, seems it will probably happen.  I cannot believe that...

Small Talks vol.67

In these days, I have been really into the "HOUSE of CARDS" on the Hulu.

Why I'm so get into this TV series are;

• The Actor and the Producer of this TV series Kevin Speicy Spacey, he is really great and awesome.  In this TV series, there are sometimes a scene like he is talking to the audiences, I get all involved to that his performance.  


• Also the Film Director David Fincher is managing this TV series is one of the reason I love this TV series.  This is really like Cinema, I mean the visuals is the best among the TV series what I ever seen.  

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to see the next stories.

Small Talks vol.66

Even the English subtitle version has not came up, I started to watch the "Breaking Bad" TV series.  This is so interesting and so attracted to this TV series.

As I mentioned previously, the story is crazy so we cannot predict any about the story, yes that is true that this story starts with a scene that a man in middle age, wearing only the white brief, standing with a gun on a deserted landscape.

Also one more point, there is no good-looking guy in the story is the reason why people can enjoy the story itsself I guess.  Of course the "Pink man" is kind of good-looking guy bad he is always a trouble-making person.

I'm still in the middle of series 2, but heard that the story has already been finished.  So I really looking for how the story will be going.

Small Talks vol.62

I saw the movie "TERMINATOR GENESIS" as a team outing of my company the other day.

This is really awesome and sometimes its funny.  Because there are some scene we can recall the previous story, so the person who had watched previous episode 1, 2 and 3 can enjoy more about this movie.  and yes, especially big fun of previous story can enjoy the most.  

And one more point we can enjoy is that, Arnold Schwarzenegger is the strongest among these Terminators.  There are many new types of the terminators throughout the story, but in the end of this latest story, Schwarznegger has beated out all of them, and save the human being.  That's kind of funny.  

Small Talks vol.60

My favorite manga animation is "Akira" which was created by Katsuhiro Otomo, he is a one of most famous Japanese creator.  

This is really awesome and I believe this is an masterpiece.  Akira receives many compliments not only Japanese but also people from all over the world.

The story is about the "Neo-Tokyo" which is Tokyo in the near future, and it is a kind of science fiction which is describing a run-down city.

The reason why this animation receives compliment is because of precise and realistic graphic depiction.  And also the motorcycle which the hero Kaneda rides is super cool, I want that bike too!!

Small Talks vol.57

Apple has announced its music streaming service "Apple Music" at the conference the other day.  At the same timing, AVEX and Cyber Agent announced "AWA" and LINE annouced to launch "LINE Music".  Spotify is also progressing for their lanch nunder surface, Dentsu has announced their investment to the Spotify.

Each music streaming service has charactaristic.  For instance, Apple Music is a global platform service and this has a hybrid service function, they are combining "Connect" function which is the popular artist community and/or Live radio.  And they are emphasizing the curation service which is like the contents which popular radio DJ is curating and selecting the music for the listener audiences.

Small Talks vol.56

I watched a movie this weekend.

I saw this on Hulu which is On-demand Video service, so I have various title optioins.  Ther reason why I choose this title because I love musical movies as I mentioned before and I have never seen this title both movie and musical.

In short, this is a comedy movie and not bad I think.  We can enjoy the funny story and a lot of funny songs. and of course we can enjoy the upbeat rythm of "Dancing Queen" by ABBA.  If I compare with another musical movies, I am much more interested in other titles such as Phantom of the Opera because I really enjoyed its story.

The title which I want to see next time is a Chicago which theme is musical/show business, and it is said this title is a masterpiece.

Small Talks vol.55

I have read some books of Murakami Haruki.

When I had a chat with one colleague from Sigapore, he said he was reading a book of Murakami Haruki in the plaine, the book is "After Dark" which is a story of the world of underground.

The photo above is cover of a magazine which is an illustration of Murakami-san.  He is a runner, and in addition to his various materpice novels, he produces a essay about Running.  The title is "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running", his real story about running, he quit smoking and start running after he became 30 years old.

Also I have read "Norweigian Wood" and "1Q84".  Norwegian Wood is a love story and it is unique among Murakami-san`s titles. People says the description of this title is realistic, it makes us to imagine about Japan of 1960's.

I like the "1Q84" which is kind of suspense, the story was created based on the novel "1984" by Geroge Owell.  Owell wrote the novel as near future, but Murakami-san wrote this novel as a past even he refer to the novel as motif.  1Q84 is serious but sometimes fashionable and romantic.

Small Talks vol.53

It's been 6 month from when I started Jakarta life.

I love my apartment so far because of many reasons like;

1. I can go to office by walk, it takes 15 mins so I do not need to be annoyed from the terrible traffic jam every morning


2. There are some nice restaurants near my apartment. The one is nice Mexican restsurant and the other one is fancy casual Bistro.  


3. Gym and pool are in the apartment


4. I can also walk to bigger Shopping mall so that we can go out for dinner sometimes

Small Talks vol.50

I am really into Golfing in these days.

On this week, I went golfing on Sunday and Tuesday because it was a National Holiday on Tuesday, twice a week... kind of crazy frequecny, but for present myself, it is a natural thing.

As I wrote that my objective is to improve my score to 100-110.  On Sunday I played so bad and my score ended up with 129, but on Tuesday, I could have been improving especially for the Driver and long-distance shot, and then came up with 116.

I think I can achieve my target score untill the end of this year.