QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Never forget you were in order to stay strong on who you are and who you want to be in the future. Time will catch up and it would be too late to regret later" - Gary Arnandt

Stay on Strong Rihanna!!

Put on your best dress and sing like it's your last stage. Work it like Rihanna. That is my way of saying my love to the gorgeous Ri-Ri when she performed the latest beautiful live rendition of her new single "Stay" lifted from her seventh album in seven years, "Unapologetic". You have done the amazeballs job singing it so hurtful and touchingly and I just wanna cry listening to this heartfelt mellow track.

It was a simple and classic performance, just a simple piano and drums, and she sang it so painful, raw and full of emotion. She was one of the standouts in the Grammys, for me. I felt this era came across a little bit slow but sure for Rihanna. And the tribute to the Bob Marley on the other hand, Happy to the max!! I am in love with reggae a lot more now.

Now, I really wish that she could put up a new album this year with a new hair and very well prepared like her red album "Loud" because I totally into that album as much as "Good Girl Gone Bad", not really much on "Talk That Talk" and "Unapologetic" continues to grow on me (I love "Mother Mary" now as my currently. All hail Rihanna ship and let's sail to a bigger and better masterpiece!!

Check out the two amazing performances via Youtube below:

and here is the Bob Marley Tribute performance:

Super Bowl BADASS!!! BEYOND BEYONCE

photo courtesy from Google

All right. Screw that haters out there who said she lipsynced the whole anthem on the Inauguration, because she made it up LIVE on the very big stage. I am talking none other than my IDOL of all my life. miss baddie bey herself, Beyonce. Yea baby! BEYOND-CE!!!

Now it all began when the news in 2011 that she would go performing on the Super Bowl made me into a madhouse. That even doubles the craziness when a rumor virus began to spread on a reunion of the Destiny's Child, the group that Beyonce was in as a leader disbanded back in 2005. Boy I kept on searching for every truth on the great Google, only to found out that the members "declined" that for the time being. But I wasn't really buying into it, because i thought they hid something and I was right.

February 3rd marked one of my craziest moments in 2013. They say this year, the year of the water snake, will be full of surprises and unexpected events. And as much as I expect the expected Beyonce performances that she never disappointing  she made me looked straight to TV, not blinking (a little overreacted) and opened my mouth and stood up while dancing in front of my laptop. Only the one, and the power of Bey! Beyonce opened the Super Bowl Half-Time Show with an astounding 14 minute opening show, presented her SIXTEEN YEARS of career in that little time and boy, she made everyone WOW-ed from head to toe!

Let me get my thing first. When I first saw Beyonce on TV was back in 2004, when there was her performing "Naughty Girl" on stage. From that moment, the Britney Spears obsession of mine left and enter the Bey Virus. I knew she would be a big icon, when I told my friends at school and they didn't know who Beyonce was. Noted, I was 14, now 22.

Now, back to her. A sexy confident pose in the beginnig, standing on a stage that looked like it was made for her history making moment, which it was. She perfomed a snippet of "Love on Top", before then strutted in "Crazy in Love" (who would forget those oh-oh bootylicious shake? LOL). She went tribal on the revamped not so new choreography for "End of Time". I've always loved that Tribal feel on that song till today. Dirty Wine on "Baby Boy" to wind yo way and Poof!! Surprise! Destiny's Child formed a "Charlie's Angels" pose and yes we could handle it because we missed those girls performing. She went shouting "where my ring at?" on "Single Ladies" and finished the performance on the rock sounding "Halo", a soaring climax to that historical moment.

Don't just read the review. Watch the full perfomance on Youtube below:

Kiss the rate. 5 LIPSS!!!
Whaddaya think???

Home Sweet Home

Home is where you feel the safest. Maybe you don't feel that when you are in that home ever since you were little, and couldn't wait to go out as soon as possible when you aged older. You had that feeling of wanting to be a grown up and set out on your own, in your own way and decide your own terms.

It was all a good start. You had your first legal ID card when you were seventeen. LEGAL to do anything. You are a "grown" person. As happy as you may felt, you planned everything from the very first month. You planned every single things, even your outfit schedules. All because of the privilege to pursue what you wanted. Everybody in that age deserved to do that. When you first wanted to go fighting for a dream, a nonsense dream a lot would say. You wanted to mock their faces off and couldn't wait to get out there and prove yourself to slam those people who didn't think you could do it. You refused to listen. You kept on going. Only with your own strength, that comes with fears and a lot of turbulence situations that made you a stronger person when you were living your life, alone.

Aged eighteen, you set out for a year, you had your own place to live. a new life, a new plan to start. You thought home was never a good place for you. You felt a comfortable place for you was the place you were staying then. Never once you've thought of going back home and visit everyone in your hometown once in a while. Never. One day, your mom called you and you said, "I'm so happy here. I won't go back for a while". You heard your mom said, "that's great. Whatever you do, we will always support you from here". As good as it sounded, it felt a little sad on her tone. You never thought it was a big deal. And you kept on going to live a "happy" life.

It will be your 30th birthday. You have lived a tremendous life. A long spanning career. You will start a family. Have kids. Building a "home" for you and your new life. As a dad, as a wife, as a son-in-law, as a daughter-in-law. Will you think about the home you once were born in and grew up? Will you miss all the little things like being woken up by your dad and mom every morning when you went to school? Or when your dad and mom scolded you because you went home late? Or when the home became empty because all the children has gone out, only leaving their parents home... waiting for them to be home... someday... one day... until they die hoping... still hoping...

Never forget who you came from, which way you first walked through because in the end, we will cry over things that left us, but why can't we make time to cherish all the moments, make moments while we can..

Gary Arnandt

Quote of the Day

"IF YOU ALWAYS THINK YOURSELF AS A SHADOW, BEWARE OF BEING OVERSHADOWED BY IT. BECAUSE EVERYTHING STARTS FROM THE MIND"

- Gary Arnandt

NUDEsic Reviews : Gone Not Any Longer - SISTAR19

Transparent bench, leg sway, sexy routine, sad song.
That's what I can tell you on this awesome new music by the sexy SISTAR's sub-unit, SISTAR19. The song was released as the title track for their first mini album that was released a few days ago, and went wild on the daily charts. WOW! all I can say is WOW!!

Let me put it down this way. At first, I was jumping up and down on the "dubstep" feel from the teaser. I felt it was kinda new but not so new, but looking at teaser made me even crazier with the sexy routine that the girls have brought to the table. The expectation got higher and fell a little short when the full MV came out. But after a few listens, it does grow on me and I keep playing that on my playlist now.

The routine was a little similar to SISTAR's "Alone", but that's predicted because the one who produced this somber Hip-Hop track is the same people who crafted "Alone", Brave Brothers. I love Bora, her dance moves never dissapoint me. As for Hyoryn, the Korean Beyonce worked it, with the sexy "single ladies" hand flip like a true diva. Absolutely LOVE it!!

The portion of this duo may seem a bit more Hyoryn featuring Bora, rather than a duet. But I think the label has already thought on how to balance these two ladies parts. Hyoryn on the main vocals, and Bora on the raps and dance moves, which pretty much made up the negatives. No shade, no hate, we enjoy the cake. I personally give the song 3,5 LIPS, because of the recycled "Alone" theme, but I wish it would have Bora's killer rap part just a bit more, because the two danced sooo GOOD! Rahh!!

Song LIP Score: 3,5 LIPS!!
Recommended : It's definitely a burner!!


Teaser:

Music Video:                   

                                     

Live Perfomance: 

                                      

Enjoy and tell me whatcha think!!!

NUDEintro___: Hi Miss February..

HELLO Miss February!!!!!

Welcome to 2013, the second month. Well, it has been an amazing January to me, which makes me even more amped up to see how February will roll this year. First of all, I am so excited with my new RE-Vamped BLOG!! New faces, New Style, New NAME.. Yeap! I'm coming out with a new name for my blog, instead of "branding" my own name, I've decided to do a makeover to this blog. I now officially release NUDE by Arrnandt.

Well, it may sound like Miss R's new fragrance, but the name may be the same, but the contents will not (duh, how can a fragrance content be equal with the virtual blog? *sigh). Anyway, N.U.D.E is the short term for "Name. UR. Desire. Expressively" which to me, is a very special quote for me.

Everyone deserves a chance to express their own thing, by that means their experiences, stories, reviews, issues and even their sense of style. I live myself thinking on how to express myself on so many things that alot of people may roll their eyes and thinking WTF (sorry boo!) but I feel that's bullshh.. and they have to know that we all have our freedom to express, and inspire alot of people with our own uniqueness. I have so much to write on this blog to share with me, and all of my readers that feels the same way. I am not going to be another Oprah or anyone else, because I know I'm no Oprah that I idolize soo much, and I believe that this tiny winy little blog of mine will inspire and give alot to internet citizens all around the world.

I will have several posts that will be released throughout the week on many topics, and I hope the content will be great. As far as I'm still a blogger newbie, comments will be my motivation to work even harder. As for haters and spammers, please be smart in putting out your comments so that I won't label yours on my block and spamming list.

I am so happy to express my style on my very own blog, so keep updating

Smoochies,

Gary Arnandt - Blog's Writer

image courtesy from Google

A RE-VAMP! Coming Soon......

Hello guys...
It has been a year and 15 days since my blog's birthday on January 1, 2012..
Sadly but true, I have posted a little... a very little amount of articles considering my busy time outside of the virtual world... but thanks a lot for the views! It means a lot more for me..
I'm currently busy with my final thesis and my projects outside campus. that explains why I have never post anything in the blog. However, that's going to change because I'm going for something major... I can't tell you when, but it will happen this year, and this includes the BLOG change!

a quick wink, a quick smooch...
-Gary-

Half Apple Chapter II

Chapter 2: The Bicycle-Man **

Aku meracau tak karuan sesampainya disalon, mengungkapkan amarahku tentang betapa “suai” nya aku bertemu dengan cowok yang tak sedikitpun gentle dan bahkan, tidak menolong seorang wanita saat terjatuh. Heran sekali, ada juga cowok yang seperti dia… ingin sekali aku berubah menjadi seorang “boxer-lady” yang langsung menonjok muka cowok itu sampai babak belur, dan mendengar dia meminta maaf karena tidak bertindak layaknya seorang laki-laki sejati. “Ouch!!!, Sakit sekali, perih….” Saat Ibu mengusapkan obat  pada kaki kiriku. “Makanya, tadikan Ibu suruh kamu bareng sama Ibu saja. Sekarang lihat kan, jadi begini… kamu kan sudah lama tidak bersepatu roda, ya wajar kalau jatuh begini”. “Masalahnya bu, aku jatuh ditabrak sepeda. Bukan jatuh sendiri. Dasar cowok tidak gentle!!!. Baru selesai aku mengutuk cowok tidak jelas itu, tiba-tiba ada suara orang menabrak pagar salon kami. Bibi Nancy langsung kaget dan melatah. Aku pun tertawa geli saat beliau mengeluarkan latahan panjang ‘trademark’ nya itu. Bibi dan Ibu langsung bergegas melihat kedepan, sementara aku mengeluh kesakitan karena luka kakiku. >.<

Didepan salon, amat riuh, karena tampaknya penabrak ini, bukan hanya menabrak pagar salon kami saja, melainkan beberapa tetangga juga mungkin ditabrak. “Freddy… kamu ga’ apa-apa kan nak?”, aku mendengar ibu berteriak. Hmm… freddy? Fredddy, yang dulu pindah ke Scotlandia itu. Teman kecilku?... aku langsung bergegas keluar, perlahan-lahan mengingat kakiku yang masih nyut-nyutan ini. Aku melihat keluar dan rupanya, cowok yang tadi menabrak aku itu Freddy…? Aku jelas shock… karena Freddy sudah lama menghilang dari kehidupan kecilku. Semenjak dia pergi tanpa ada alasan jelas, aku merasa sangat sedih, saking sedihnya aku ingat aku hampir 2 hari menangis, mengadu pada ibu mengapa dia pergi begitu saja. Bahkan, bisa dibilang dia yang bisa membuat aku tertawa, karena dia amat clumsy. Dialah alasan kenapa aku membuat blog, mencurahkan kesedihan yang selama ini aku rasakan. Dia begitu misterius, aku hampir tidak tahu tentang dia, tapi yang jelas dulu aku begitu nyaman berada didekatnya. Aku tidak canggung harus menyatakan isi hatiku pada dirinya. Entah kenapa… mendengar namanya, seakan muncul kembali rasa itu… Ah… itu kan dulu, lagipun dia mana mungkin mengingat hal itu, hal-hal yang sepatutnya hanya diingat dimasa kecil. Dia membuka kacamatanya, dan aku tercengang sekali lagi… Dia…!!!

Aku seakan tak percaya… apakah aku salah orang? Tapi, tidak mungkin!!! Tidak mungkin seorang Freddy yang dulu gemuk itu sekarang adalah Freddy yang ganteng dan atletis. Lantas, buat apa dia kembali lagi ke Indonesia, setelah sekian lama seakan hilang ditelan bumi. “Woi… Kamu kok ngelamun di depan salon? Bantuin cepat, ayo bawa dia kedalam”, kejut Bibi nancy. Aku langsung kembali ke realita, dan melihat dia dengan amat sinis. Aku lalu berbalik, lalu pelan-pelan masuk kedalam salon, tanpa menghiraukan Freddy, atau siapapunlah dia…  Didalam, Ibu mempersilahkan dia duduk didepanku, dan Bibi Nancy menyuguhkan air putih pada dia. Aku tak bisa pura-pura tidak melihat dia, karena dia begitu berubah. “kalian benar-benar tidak kenal satu sama lain? April, dia kan Freddy. Teman kecil kamu..”, Bibi Nancy memperkenalkan ulang padaku. “Teman kecil?? Aku tidak ingat punya teman kecil…”, aku langsung marah dan bergegas keluar dari salon. Freddy mengejarku, mengejarku ke taman. Lalu, memegang tanganku. Aku menepis. Lalu, meenamparnya. “Kamu bukan siapa-siapa aku. Buat apa kamu kesini? Buat apa kamu memgang tangan aku?”. Aku mencoba menahan airmataku. Entah kenapa aku ingin menangis melihat dia disini, atau harus gembira karena paling tidak dia sudah kembali. “I’m sorry… I’m sorry… karena sudah pergi tanpa kabar. Tanpa surat untuk kamu…”. Aku hanya bisa diam, tak tahu mau berbicara apa. “I’m sorry for all this. Making you fall, and make you bleed”… Cara dia meminta maaf terdengar sungguh sincere. Tapi, aku bukan cewek yang cepat terharu. Aku langsung menepis tangannya dan langsung pergi, pergi meninggalkan dia ditaman. God, kenapa aku bisa begitu emosi? Padahal, kejadian ini sudah lama sekali. Ini lebih berat daripada menonton film dan drama-drama yang aku miliki. Huh, T.T… aku tidak percaya, that I would care for him, after all this long time?? Kenapa bisa begini… “a big piece of emptiness that I’ve always had is back. However, why…? Why it is so hard to accept the fact that he’s back??... *Apple*

photo courtesy: itsabobstory.blogspot.com

Aku terbangun. Jam menunjukkan pukul 02.00 pagi. Aku tertidur, saat mem-post comment ku di blog, dan kulihat ada 1 comment. Kulihat dan ternyata berinisial A.M. aneh, tapi hampir tiap comment yang aku post selalu dia balas. Kali ini, dia membalas, “If the emptiness can fill you up, why rake up the past?”, A.M. termenung sejenak. Aku memikirkan kembali semua yang aku telah perbuat. Mengapa aku bisa begitu marah?? Padahal, dia bukan siapa-siapaku sampai aku harus begitu kesal padanya. Lagipun, waktu itu kami masih kecil, dan kepergiannya itu bukanlah keputusan yang dia tentukan sendiri. Huh… okay, baiklah. Kalau aku bertemu dengannya besok, aku akan langsung meminta maaf. Yap!! Dan saat aku mengklik sebuah advertisement di internet, aku langsung berfokus. Oh my gosh… Vicky Chandrasentana akan audisi pemain pengganti aktris utama. Hmm, ini kesempatan bagus. Aku bisa audisi didepan Vicky, walau dengan berbekal modal akting yang pas-pasan, ditambah dengan adegan-adegan drama seri yang sering aku perankan sendiri, baiklah, aku akan mencobanya.

HELLO February!!

                January’s over, now we’re heading to the second month of the fantabulous year, the year of LOVE: February. Well, I’m soo overwhelmed by the slow but sure views on my new blog, based on 6 posts that I’ve been publishing on the past month only. Thanks for the appreciation!! Well, I’m sorry for the late posts due to exams, projects, vacations  and also some big surprises that I’m going to post this month. Sorry to keep y’all waiting! I’m gonna make sure it won’t be disappointing..

                

February is the month of celebrating LOVE. And it means ALL kind of Love. So, Unnie will give a nice “outfit change” for this blog. Also, I’m gonna post some Love inspired posts. Not to mention, the next chapter of my “blogovel” – Half Apple. Not to worry guys, Love is not just for the couples, but also for the singles, families.. everyone! I’m gonna say it as a global share of Love to all my readers!!

                So.. Is EVERYONE ready to spread some LoVe this February.. I’m sure you do…!!

Kiss & Wink,

Unnie,