Star Wars: the Force Awakens

A long long time ago...in a far away galaxy...

Akhirnya nonton juga film yang hype ditonton banyak penikmat film sains fiksi, apalagi senostalgik film Star Wars.

Jika dipikir-pikir, inilah film yg sejak awal premisenya bikin orang penasaran kenapa dulu pas muncul thn 1977 pun langsung episode IV. Hmm...terjawab sdh sih dlm trilogi prekuelnya. 

Kiniiiiii.....saat di mana tak ada yang tak mungkin diciptakan dengan CGI, luasnya angkasa pun semakin mencengkeram.imajinasi.para penonton film.

Hari ini aku pun tersedot dalam layar 3D Imax yang sengaja kupilih untuk menjadi bagian dari sejarah industri film ini.

Tak rugi....

Dengan twist twist yang mengejutkan...

Inilah thriller angkasa yang .....smartly good.

It's not great. It's good.

But...

Greatly Good.

Freya's Alien (pun intended) Arts

Yes..I went home to find this amazing arts Freya made. Didn't know what got into her head, but ..surely it was a remarkable idea, for sure. She just drew some sketches, colored them, cut them out, and put them all together onto an already star-studded black paper that her Mom bought for her. 

She created an alien-related pop-art page..that's what she intended to do. The effort of putting so many details was what caught my attention. The coloring itself was an exceptionally bright idea. Although after thorough inspection..^^ she drew her ideas out of the books and other pictures...still I guess...she had her own way of stylizing them into a story line. 

Earth, planets, an alien, a teddy bear, and a green oink-oink as she told me...were the characters of what she could think of. Hmm..it may have something to do with the alien..that's what I wanted to say in the first place. ^^though not quite sure of what the story was all about.

All in all, these are Freya's works of arts...or alien-related works of arts. 

*Sorry to put all of these onto your Dad's blog, Freya.....later on..please see this an extension of our love for you, Freya.

Cute Aliens Attack!!

Thanks to CBeebies' Mr. Maker...kids always have time to do during summer break. 

The other day they watched how they could make aliens out of stuffs we can buy at Morning Glory store.  ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Some fluffy balls, rolling eyes, magnets, golden ropes, and glues. 

It's a great way to spend an afternoon with the kids. Along with their friends, Freya and Eyra made cute aliens out of these 'ingredients":) And to make it more interesting, they put some magnet underneath the aliens so as to be able to move them around on a thin flat surface.

#love the three-eyed alien. 

The sparkling features and different colors of the aliens portray how colorful the kids' mind and thought are.

Once again...one summer afternoon well spent.

My Rants & Ramblings....

 Let us think of a very simple and yet funny example of 'seeing' things. Now, suppose we have three apples right in front our eyes. 

What can we say about them?
 Well, we might say that they are having differences or/and similarities in color, shape, weight, smell, quality, etc..etc…etc.

Well, of course, saying that they have different gradation of color, shape, and weight is also one part of comparing. Or…we could also say that they share similarities, e.g. the fact that they share quite similar color!

Okay, now let me take another example. Suppose there is an alien spacecraft hovering over our earth and it is so camouflaged that no earthlings are able to spot it. Thus, it gives the aliens to ‘scrutinize’ and to ‘observe’ us from above. 

My first question:

“What would be the aliens’ reactions as they see us?”

Hmmm, it’s a tricky question since we have to put ourselves on their shoes. (that..if they even have ones^^). Anyhow, they could be so aghast and so perplexed as they see us. It is their first time ever to spot and have a closer look at us—human beings.

BUT….

The question is….do you think they alien call us ‘human beings’? or they have decided to come up with their own term to address us?

NOW…

Let us go back to the apples, first. The first thing we got to do when we are asked to compare is that we need to find the similarities. By doing so, we are trying to find the common properties or the shared properties that the apples have.

Can you answer what their common properties are?

NOW…

Let us go back to the aliens, again. The first thing that we need to do as an alien is that we need to tell others about what we see on earth. In this case, supposed we (remember: we are pretending to be aliens) must make a report to our ship commander.

Express yourself in explaining or retelling what you saw on earth!!!

We could say things, like, say:

“THEY have two visual optical balls on their visage” (our eyes:))

“THEY have developed some sorts of branches with ten sub-branches on both sides of their bodies” (our arms and hands:))

“THEY have funny fibers grow on their heads” (our hairs:) )

“THEY walk on their long pipes” (our legs:))

“THEY do not wear any masks and their membranes are of varied colors” (we probably do not wear any astronaut-like helmet to aid us breathe:)  and our skins are of different colors:) 

OK….simply put, those are things that they might say when reporting to their commander in chief.

Interestingly: they started their report by saying “THEY!!!!”

WHY is that?

Anyone could answer that?

THE PROBLEM is….

“Do YOU think the aliens call us ‘humans’ or ‘human beings’?”

Probably NOT. After they gathered some information about us, they might call on a meeting with other fellow aliens to DECIDE what to call us ^-^.

After a while, they ended up calling us DOODOO
Well, it is all up to them what to call us, right?