New Moon Official Poster

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Twilight Exclusive Wallpapers!

Hey guys!

As I promise, i’ll post some new wallpapers of the movie.

And now, …here they are! Hope you guys like it Just let me know if you do.

Enjoy!

Sorry =(

I’m so sorry guys for not being so productive during these 2 months… I’m sort of busy with my schoolworks – AND, a bit too much addicted to Facebook – so I kinda neglected this site.

But DONT WORRY! I’ll be back catching up soon and updating the latest news and pictures I got – some parts of it are about Twilight and other movies and the stars ahaha.

SO, for you guys who are waiting for them, please be patient! I promise I’ll keep this site up so you guys can be keep satisfied

Yours,

Assyifa =)

The Day She Went Away

Aku seharusnya senang mendengar berita barusan. Tapi mengapa hatiku malah terasa sakit?

Bukan karena terluka, tapi… kehilangan.

November 15

Aku berusaha mengontrol emosiku yang akan segera meluap ini. Sambil terus menuruni tangga bandara, aku –dan Mama- memapah ayahku, berusaha terlihat sesibuk mungkin agar tidak perlu melihat ke atas. Isak tangis Mama dan Papa di sebelahku membuat aku harus berusaha ekstra keras mengontrol kerja kelenjar air mataku. Mungkin aku seharusnya melirik sedikit ke arah atas, agar bisa melihat mereka untuk terakhir kalinya –setidaknya untuk 3-4 bulan ke depan. Tapi tidak, aku tidak boleh melakukannya. Aku tidak boleh terlihat lemah di hadapan kakakku dan suaminya, karena itu hanya akan semakin memperparah keadaan.

Setelah –kupikir- mereka tidak bisa melihatku lagi, pertahananku mulai melemah. Mataku berkabut, menghalangi jarak pandangku dari para petugas yang memeriksa boarding pass setiap penumpang. Aku memberikan boarding pass kami, dan berjalan sedikit di belakang kedua orangtuaku, menghapus jejak air mata di wajah.

Indahnya pemandangan pulau dan laut dari atas langit tidak terlalu menggugah seleraku untuk melirik ke arahnya, bahkan walaupun aku duduk di sebelah jendela. Entah kenapa, hanya saja…aku tidak tertarik. Sh*t, novel New Moon yang aku bawa sudah selesai kubaca, jadi sekarang aku tidak punya sesuatu untuk terlihat sibuk, pikirku. Lantas ide klasik namun cukup ampuh pun terlintas di benakku. Tidur. Ya, tidak akan ada apapun –siapapun- yang tega mengganggumu jika kau sedang tidur nyeyak. Setidaknya itulah yang terlintas dalam pikiranku saat itu. Lalu aku mulai memejamkan mata, berusaha mengabaikan mataku yang panas dan dengungan tekanan udara di telingaku.

Desember 7

Aku bergumam mengikuti alunan musik yang terdengar dari komputer di hadapanku. Inilah hal utama yang harus dilakukan saat aku memiliki waktu senggang, mendengarkan musik. Mungkin bisa diistilahkan dengan Altoid versi musikal. Haha. Aku menyukai istilah itu.

Tiba-tiba telepon rumah berbunyi. Samar-samar terdengar suara Mama berbicara.

“Oh, Abang ya? Gimana kabarnya, Bang? …iya, Mama sama Papa lagi nonton video pernikahan kalian nih. …Oh, udah isi ya? Alhamdulillah…”

Walaupun aku langsung mematikan lagu yang sedang diputar, namun percakapan selebihnya tidak bisa kutangkap. Sekarang hanya ada satu hal yang menarik semua fokusku. “Isi”? Apanya yang…. OH! Tiba-tiba aku teringat kakakku. Dia kan sudah menikah [kadang-kadang kenyataan yang satu ini sulit kupercaya], dan jika kata “isi” itu berarti sesuatu, pasti itu artinya kakakku hamil. Hahaha!! Aku tak bisa membayangkan dia menggendong bayi. Apalagi kenyataan bahwa aku –sewaktu-waktu- harus mengasuhnya. OH NO.

Sebenarnya tidak ada yang salah dengan anak kecil, hanya saja mereka kurang memiliki rasa humor yang tinggi. Apalagi bayi. Ya TUHAN.. untung mereka imut-imut, kalau tidak, mungkin aku tidak bisa menerima keeksisannya. Karena itulah, aku hanya menerima keberadaan anak-anak berumur 3 tahun ke atas. Mereka lebih mudah diajak berkomunikasi, dan juga lebih menghargai lelucon yang kulontarkan.

Aku seharusnya senang mendengar berita barusan. Tapi mengapa hatiku malah terasa sakit? Bukan karena terluka, tapi… kehilangan. Aku seharusnya ada di samping kakakku saat ia mengalami ‘masa-masa awal menjadi ibu’-nya ini. Entah mengapa, hanya saja ini terasa sangat…salah. Tapi aku tetap memikirkan sisi positifnya – sudahlah, toh jaman sekarang sudah ada internet dan telepon, kalau kangen ya tinggal telepon atau chatting. Terima kasih Tuhan, kau membuat kedua orangtuaku sadar untuk memasang internet di rumah. Hehehe.

Lalu tiba-tiba ringtone This Is The Life milik Amy Macdonald berbunyi nyaring dari handphone-ku. Kulihat layarnya. Ha! Kakak iparku menelepon. Pasti kakakku tidak punya pulsa, jadi dia meminjam handphone suaminya. Dasar, pikirku. Setelah berbicara sesaat dengan kakak iparku, telepon dialihkan ke tangan kakakku. Terdengar suaranya di ujung sana.

“Halo, Bon,”

Haha. Aku tersenyum mendengar panggilan itu.

‘Twilight’ Bites ‘Quantum’ at Box Office

‘Twilight’ Bites ‘Quantum’ at Box Office

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The Phenomena of Twilight

During this last months, people got insanely crazy of the Stephenie Meyers’ master novel series Twilight [or, Twilight saga]. And this is seriously getting bigger and even crazier in this several weeks, because the movie will start to release on November 21.

This is a little bit disturbing – at least for me, and maybe for other people in my country who also get intoxicated by the sweetest vampire guy ever, Edward Cullen, and his nice family, The Cullens – remembering that the movie was starting to release on November 21 in other countries, but unfortunately NOT in MY country, Indonesia. *Sigh*

Just imagine this. How could I be chill if I know that thousands of people can see the movie when I just can sit in front of my PC, seeing the pictures of the movie stills, waiting for the first premiere in my city. How should I feel when people are screaming, “ohmygosh! Robert Pattinson is soo gorgeous! The movie is great! I wanna see it again,” and I just can watch the trailer that literally was just making me getting more insane and crazy in love with Twilight instead of chilling me down. Geez.

And FYI, I’ve promised to my friends – and to myself – that as soon as the movie comes up in my city, I’ll take my friends together with me to see it, for celebrating my birthday. It will be the greatest moment in my life, to watch the movie I’ve been waiting for in this last several months, and to watch it together with my friends who feel the same with me in the time of celebrating my birthday!! OMFG. I’m fuc*ing excited.

I really, really can’t wait for it! Go Robert Pattinson! Go Kristen Stewart! Go The Cullens! GO VAMPIRES…!!!

Obama Victory Sparks Cheers Around The Globe

Taken from Yahoo! News Obama Victory Sparks Cheers Around The Globe

By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer

PARIS – Barack Obama’s election as America’s first black president unleashed a global tide of admiration, hopes for change and even renewed love for the United States on Wednesday.

The president of Kenya declared a public holiday in Obama’s honor, and people across Africa stayed up all night or woke before dawn to watch U.S. election history being made.

In Indonesia, where Obama lived as child, hundreds of students at his former elementary school erupted in cheers when he was declared winner and poured into the courtyard where they hugged each other, danced in the rain and chanted “Obama! Obama!”

“Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place,” South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, said in a letter of congratulations to Obama.

Rama Yade, France’s black junior minister for human rights, told French radio: “On this morning, we all want to be American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our eyes.”

Many expressed amazement and satisfaction that the United States could overcome centuries of racial strife and elect an African-American — and one with Hussein as a middle name — as president.

“What an inspiration. He is the first truly global U.S. president the world has ever had,” said Pracha Kanjananont, a 29-year-old Thai sitting at a Starbuck’s in Bangkok. “He had an Asian childhood, African parentage and has a Middle Eastern name. He is a truly global president.”

In an interconnected world where people in its farthest reaches could monitor the presidential race blow-by-blow, many observers echoed Obama’s own campaign mantra as they struggled to put into words their sense that his election marked an important turning point.

“I really think this is going to change the world,” gushed Akihiko Mukohama, 34, the lead singer of a band that traveled to Obama, Japan, to perform at a promotional event for the president-elect. He wore an “I Love Obama” T-shirt.

The magnitude and emotion of the world reaction illustrated the international character of the U.S. presidency. Many look to Washington as the place where the global issues of war and peace, prosperity or crisis, are decided.

“This is an enormous outcome for all of us,” said John Wood, the former New Zealand ambassador to the U.S. “We have to hope and pray that President Obama can move forward in ways which are constructive and beneficial to all of us.”

The Vatican said Wednesday it hoped Obama will work to promote peace and justice in the world.

Hopes were also high among those critical of President Bush’s policies that an Obama victory would bring in a more inclusive, internationally cooperative U.S. approach. Many cited the Iraq war as the type of blunder Obama was unlikely to repeat.

Indeed, even as they raised expectations, many U.S.-watchers were quick to point out that Obama would have to confront enormous problems once in office: wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, tenacious difficulties in the Middle East and North Korea, a world economy in turmoil.

Europe, where Obama is overwhelmingly popular, is one region that looked eagerly to an Obama administration for a revival in warm relations after the Bush government’s chilly rift with the continent over the Iraq war.

“At a time when we have to confront immense challenges together, your election raises great hopes in France, in Europe and in the rest of the world,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a congratulations letter to Obama.

Some South Koreans said they hoped Obama — who has said he favors direct engagement with North Korea — would press North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on human rights issues and the alleged kidnappings of hundreds of South Koreans.

Skepticism, however, was high in the Muslim world. The Bush administration alienated those in the Middle East by mistreating prisoners at its detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and inmates at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison — human rights violations also condemned worldwide.

Some Iraqis, who have suffered through five years of a war ignited by the United States and its allies, said they would believe positive change when they saw it.

“Obama’s victory will do nothing for the Iraqi issue nor for the Palestinian issue,” said Muneer Jamal, a Baghdad resident. “I think all the promises Obama made during the campaign will remain mere promises.”

In Pakistan, a country vital to the U.S.-led war on the al-Qaida terrorist network and neighbor to Afghanistan, many hoped Obama would bring some respite from rising militant violence that many blame on Bush.

Still, Mohammed Arshad, a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the capital, Islamabad, doubted Obama’s ability to change U.S. foreign policy dramatically.

“It is true that Bush gave America a very bad name. He has become a symbol of hate. But I don’t think the change of face will suddenly make any big difference,” he said.

Still, many around the world found Obama’s international roots — his father was Kenyan, and he lived four years in Indonesia as a child — compelling and attractive.

Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki declared a public holiday on Thursday in honor of Obama’s election victory, and people across Africa stayed up all night or woke before dawn Wednesday to watch the U.S. election results roll in.

“He’s in!” said Rachel Ndimu, 23, a business student who joined hundreds of others at the residence of the U.S. ambassador in Nairobi. “I think this is awesome, and the whole world is backing him.”

In Jakarta, hundreds of students at his former elementary school gathered around a television set to watch as results came in, erupting in cheers when he was declared winner and then pouring into the courtyard where they hugged each other and danced in the rain.

“We’re so proud!” Alsya Nadin, a spunky 10-year-old in pink-framed glasses, said as her classmates chanted “Obama! Obama!”

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AP correspondents worldwide contributed to this report.

Kristen Stewart VS Me

Astaga. Kenyataan yang satu ini lagi-lagi manghantam sela jiwa gw [apa sih?].

Bayangin aja. Di saat Kristen Stewart yang berumur 18 ini udah punya daftar IMDB list yang super panjang and udah mulai main film bareng Robert Pattinson di film Twilight [juga kabarnya lagi mulai “blossoming relationship” itu], gw di sini masih berkutat dengan es teh manis – tidur siang – Nancy Drew – lagu-lagu download-an – DVD bajakan – and schoolworks.

!!!!!!!

I mean – Geez!

Emang sih, umur dia 2 tahun di atas gw, tapi kan tetep aja. WHAT exactly will I do saat umur gw mencapai umurnya dia?! Yang jelas gak mungkin MAEN FILM bareng Robert Pattinson, kan??!

That’s exactly what I worried about, all the time.

Will I be somebody important? Or maybe well-known? Or even useful for other people surround me?

And one more question, the most important. Will I physically like her when I turn 18? Hahaha. Kidding. Well, no, I’m not. But it sounds so ridiculous so I take it back.

Gosh. I have no idea. Yet an answer. I mean it, I’m really worried about this. =’(

Mexico City’s ‘Water Monster’ Nears Extinction

Posted on Yahoo.com News Mexico City’s ‘Water Monster’ Nears Extinction

By DAVID KOOP, Associated Press Writer David Koop, Associated Press Writer – Sun Nov 2, 1:14 pm ET

MEXICO CITY – Beneath the tourist gondolas in the remains of a great Aztec lake lives a creature that resembles a monster — and a Muppet — with its slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an odd smile.

The axolotl, also known as the “water monster” and the “Mexican walking fish,” was a key part of Aztec legend and diet. Against all odds, it survived until now amid Mexico City’s urban sprawl in the polluted canals of Lake Xochimilco, now a Venice-style destination for revelers poled along by Mexican gondoliers, or trajineros, in brightly painted party boats.

But scientists are racing to save the foot-long salamander from extinction, a victim of the draining of its lake habitat and deteriorating water quality. In what may be the final blow, nonnative fish introduced into the canals are eating its lunch — and its babies.

The long-standing International Union for Conservation of Nature includes the axolotl on its annual Red List of threatened species, while researchers say it could disappear in just five years. Some are pushing for a series of axolotl sanctuaries in canals cleared of invasive species, while others are considering repopulating Xochimilco with axolotls bred in captivity.

“If the axolotl disappears, it would not only be a great loss to biodiversity but to Mexican culture, and would reflect the degeneration of a once-great lake system,” says Luis Zambrano, a biologist at the Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM.

The number of axolotls (pronounced ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) in the wild is not known. But the population has dropped from roughly 1,500 per square mile in 1998 to a mere 25 per square mile this year, according to a survey by Zambrano’s scientists using casting nets.

It has been a steep fall from grace for the salamander with a feathery mane of gills and a visage reminiscent of a 1970s Smiley Face that inspired American poet Ogden Nash to pen the witticism: “I’ve never met an axolotl, But Harvard has one in a bottle.”

Millions once lived in the giant lakes of Xochimilco and Chalco on which Mexico City was built. Using four stubby legs to drag themselves along lake bottoms or their thick tails to swim like mini-alligators, they hunted plentiful aquatic insects, small fish and crustaceans.

Legend has it that Xolotl — the dog-headed Aztec god of death, lightning and monstrosities — feared he was about to be banished or killed by other gods and changed into an axolotl to flee into Lake Xochimilco.

The axolotl’s decline began when Spanish conquerors started draining the lakes, which were further emptied over time to slake the thirst of one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing cities. In the 1970s, Lake Chalco was completely drained to prevent flooding. In the 1980s, Mexico City began pumping its wastewater into the few canals and lagoons that remained of Xochimilco.

About 20 years ago, African tilapia were introduced into Xochimilco in a misguided effort to create fisheries. They joined with Asian carp to dominate the ecosystem and eat the axolotl’s eggs and compete with it for food. The axolotl is also threatened by agrochemical runoff from nearby farms and treated wastewater from a Mexico City sewage plant, researchers say.

Local fisherman Roberto Altamira, 32, recalls when he was a boy, and the axolotl was still part of the local diet.

“I used to love axolotl tamales,” he says, rubbing his stomach and laughing.

But he says people no longer eat axolotls, mainly because fishermen almost never find them.

“The last one I caught was about six months ago,” says Altamira, a wiry gondolier with rope-like muscles from years of poling through Xochimilco’s narrow waterways.

Meanwhile, the axolotl population is burgeoning in laboratories, where scientists study its amazing traits, including the ability to completely re-grow lost limbs. Axolotls have played key roles in research on regeneration, embryology, fertilization and evolution.

The salamander has the rare trait of retaining its larval features throughout its adult life, a phenomenon called neoteny. It lives all its life in the water but can breathe both under water with gills or by taking gulps of air from the surface.

On a 9-foot-wide canal covered by a green carpet of “lentejilla” — an aquatic plant that resembles green lentils — Zambrano’s researchers test water quality and search for axolotls. The air smells of sulfur and sewage.

A team member suddenly points to the trademark water ripple of an axolotl, and the crew hurls its net. But they only come up with two tilapia in a sopping-wet mass of lentejilla.

So far, scientists disagree on how to save the creature. But a pilot sanctuary is expected to open in the next three to six months in the waters around Island of the Dolls, so-called because the owner hangs dolls he finds in the canals to ward off evil spirits.

Zambrano proposes up to 15 axolotl sanctuaries in Xochimilco’s canals, where scientists would insert some kind of barrier and clear the area of nonnative species.

Without carp, the water would clear, and plants the axolotl needs to breed could flourish again, said Bob Johnson, the curator of amphibians and reptiles at the Toronto Zoo.

“If you take the insults away, the lake has an amazing latent potential to heal itself,” he said.

Veterinarian Erika Servin, who runs the Mexico City government’s axolotl program at Chapultepec Zoo, is studying the possibility of introducing axolotls from the lab into the canals. But more study is needed to make sure the process doesn’t lead to diseases and genetic problems from inbreeding.

Xochimilco residents could be another source of resistance.

Hundreds of people make a living pulling tilapia from canals or growing flowers, lettuce and vegetables on nearby land. Efforts to remove the fish or shut down polluting farms could face stiff opposition.

But while the debate goes on, time is running out.

Given its role in research alone, Johnson says, “We owe it to the axolotl to help it survive.”

Paramore + Twilight = !!!!

I mean – WOW ! What an ABSOLUTELY GREAT idea.

Look at these pics surely. Take a deep look.

This post is between THIS band

and THIS movie

Okay.  I’ll describe it more.

PARAMORE + TWILIGHT = A-MAZING + AH-MAZING + OH-MY-AH-MAZING !!!

I can’t wait to see Robert Pattinson as the gorrrrrgeous vampire Edward Cullen. I can’t wait to see Kristen Stewart as the cute Ed’s human-girlfriend Isabella  Swan. I can’t wait to see The Cullens, Alice, Emmett, Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie and Jasper. I can’t wait to hear Paramore’s song “Decode” played as the official theme song. I just can’t wait to see TWILIGHT THE MOVIE!!! FYI, Hayley Williams [the vocalist of Paramore] wrote that song based on the love story between Edward and Bella! How Sweet!!

Ah. November 21 SHOULD come round soon. Or not, I will be desperately histerical screaming in my room everyday.