So What If I’m Obsessed with Wedding?

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    So what if I’m obsessed with wedding?
    How is it different from being obsessed with traveling, cooking, crafting, et cetera?
    So what if I love talking about my dream wedding on Twitter?
    It’s not as if I’m going to get married right at the moment, no?
    So what if I already have a wedding plan on my mind?
    How is it different from having a plan for cooking dinner?

    And why do you have to be bothered by what I’m saying about how I want my wedding to be?
    Don’t you have anything else to deal with in your life instead of bitching about mine?

    Get a fucking life, losers. And yes, it is not a competition because I never said it was.

    29 June 2013

    A Few Thoughts on Man of Steel

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    Last week was the very first time that I watched a 3D movie, can you believe it? It was so unconvenient, given the fact that I’m a full time eyeglasses wearer now, so I had to wear two pairs of them at the same time. My poor nose had quite a hard time.

    Man of Steel was… kinda boring. After being invaded by Marvel superheroes these past years, I found Man of Steel lacking of fresh humour. Did I even let out a single laughter? I don’t remember. The Batman trilogy still had some jokes that could crack me up, though not as many as those in Marvel superheroes movies. I don’t know if you guys agree, but this lack of jokes made me feel disappointed.

    The 3D effects at the first half an hour of the movie were pretty good. But in the middle of the movie, it seemed like they forgot to add the effects. Again, it made me feel disappointed. Luckily, the ticket price for the 3D version was the same as the regular one, so I didn’t complain too much. Haha…

    Aside of those flaws, I still think that the storyline is good. I like this one better than Superman Returns (though I like the humour in Superman Returns better). It also makes more sense; Lois Lane knows that Clark Kent is Superman. I’d always thought that among all the damsels in distress in other superhero stories, Lois Lane was the dumbest one for not realizing that Clark Kent was Superman. Spiderman wears a mask, so it is understandable that Mary-Jane doesn’t know that he’s actually Peter Parker. But Superman is just a non-eyeglasses version of Clark Kent and Lois Lane didn’t know that. What?

    I’ll definitely watch the next installment of this new Superman franchise. I heard that Man of Steel is the first movie to introduce the DC Universe and that there is going to be a Justice League movie, but without Christian Bale. We’ll see if it’s going to be any good, just like The Avengers.

    27 June 2013

    5 Jahre Leben

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    Hello there, dear Daradise readers! I’ve abandoned this blog for more than 10 days. I really hope you don’t mind me being so moody in blogging lately. I’m not busy or anything, but I’m just not in the mood to sit down in front of my laptop to write. So sorry…

    Anyway, A and I got the chance to attend this year’s German Cinema Film Festival in Blitzmegaplex Paris van Java on Saturday. We got two tickets for a film entitled 5 Jahre Leben (or 5 Years). It’s a movie about an innocent man who is mistakenly jailed for terrorism. He is abused for five years in Guantanamo Bay and forced to confess to a crime that he never did. He’s finally released due to the lack of evidence.

    It was all fun and I enjoyed the movie, until a scene in which the prisoner is forced to kill a lizard that has been his (kind of) pet in his cell. I cried like a baby and A had to comfort me. It’s one of my weaknesses: I always cry whenever animals are killed in movies (guess what happened when I watched Life of Pi?).

    5 Jahre Leben was the second movie that we watched this week. Last Thursday, we went to see Man of Steel 3D in Ciwalk together with the people from A’s work. But I will talk about the new Superman later because I have to be a timekeeper and scorer in the Scrabble competition in AECS. See you!

    25 June 2013

    How to Make a Meme with Your Own Picture Using Your Android Phone

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    As odd as it sounds, I really like making memes from my own pictures. (You can see examples in my Instagram account.) I usually use desktop programs like Photoscape or GIMP to create them, but it’s quite troublesome since the idea for a meme usually pops up when I’m in the middle of something where I can’t just grab my laptop and edit pictures. For that reason, I need a handy app for it. This early morning, when I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep, I found a way to create memes using an app in my Xperia Miro. It’s a simple photo editor app with the option to add text using user installed fonts. I don’t know if there’s actually a simple app to generate memes from your own picture, but for me this app is quite easy to use. Read along to find out how to use it 🙂

    Dexterous Dame Dara

    1. Install the Photo Editor app from Play Store.

    2. Internet memes usually use the Impact font. It can be easily found in any Windows computer. Copy the .ttf file to “mnt/sdcard/PhotoEditor/fonts”. (The location may be different in your device. Just locate where the app created its folder and then copy the .ttf file to the “fonts” subfolder.)

    3. Open the app and then open the image that you want to use for your meme. You can use the one available in your gallery, or take a new one.

    4. Internet memes usually have 4:3 ratio, so you might want to crop your picture in the same ratio. Tap on the “Crop” menu and choose “4:3”. You can zoom in by pinching the picture. If you have finished cropping, tap on the check icon on the top right corner.

    5. To add text to your picture, tap on the “Text/Image” menu.

    6. Tap on the “+” menu and choose “Add text”.

    7. When a window (?) pop up, make sure the “Top color” and the “Bottom color” are white (or #FFFFFFFF) and the “Outline top color” and “Outline bottom color” are black (or #FF000000). You can change them by tapping on the boxes.

    8. Write the caption for your meme in ALL CAPS.

    9. Go to the “Properties” tab. Change the “Outline width” to 25% or more and the “Align” to Center. Don’t forget to also change the font to Impact.

    10. Go to the “Etc” tab and then change the “Initial Potition” to Center – Top (or Center – Bottom for the bottom caption). Thick on the “Keep Aspect Ratio” and then tap on “Apply”.

    11. You’ve just created the top caption. Now you can repeat steps 6 through 10 to create the bottom caption. You can rearrange the position of the captions by dragging them around. If you’ve finished, tap on the green check symbol on the top right corner.

    12. Tap on the save button and then select “Gallery” to save it on your gallery.

    13. Wait for a second and it’s done 🙂

    Second World Hijabis Problem

    Have fun making your face (or your friends’) a meme! 😉

    14 June 2013

    Midnight

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    Midnight coffee has become a routine for me for these past two weeks. All the haze and craze about final paper and student teaching report paper have taken their toll on me. I should’ve finished writing them, like, last week, but you know me. I’m the number one procrastinator of the year and the best deadline-runner. There’s something about the adrenaline-rushing, heart-pumping procrastination that I just can’t live without. It’s in my blood, ya know.

    But perhaps, there’s another reason why it takes me so long to finish my papers although I’ve spent nights staying up late. It’s the fact that when the clock strikes two, I always find myself reminiscing last year. There’s a lot of thing happened last year. And even though I’m okay now, I can always find something to be sad about from last year’s memories at 2 in the morning in every single day.

    Every now and then, I need to remind myself of something someone told me a few months ago:

    What can’t be fixed can only be forgiven.

    And let go, if I might add.

    And here’s a song that I dubbed as “Soundtrack of June 2012”:

    10 June 2013