6 Gaga's Hottest Hits!

The 2013 Video Music Awards had just passed, but all the moments then stroke the world until today. How Miley's Twerking performance became a HUGE sensation that Oxford finally added the "twerk" into its latest. And, most importantly, the stars were just coming back, set to hit the stage! From Justin Timberlake and N'Sync reunion to the one-and-only lovely Mother Monster Lady Gaga.

Well, here I wanna take a flash recap of the 6 Gaga's hottest hits ever since her 2008 rise & shine until her latest's Applause previously performed in 2013 VMAs. Little Monsters, paws up!

6. Telephone (featuring Beyonce Knowles)

This is the most successful collaboration hit single EVER. This song led Gaga grab Moon-man in 2010, and it's not surprising then, I mean, with her 13 nods in Video Music Awards and the whole world apparently went Gaga! The epic long music video is just SICK!

5. You & I

This song is taken from Born This Way Album (2011). This song is about her love-life with her Nebraska guy.  The song is quite nice, with the Western-twist and the crazy Gaga's collision. iAnd the most striking of all is she appeared in the video as two different characters which (seemed like and it was confirmed) were her"self" and Joe Calderon, her "alter-ego." Just take a look at the pic. Who knows that the smoking macho man is Stefani Germanotta?

4. Just Dance

The song is the starting point Gaga hit the stage of pop culture. It was released in 2008 and became world-wide hit! This song was nominated for Best Dance Recording in 2009 Grammy Awards and all around the world people stated being Little Monsters.

3. Poker Face

This song won Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 2010. The video offers the viewers hunks! Full of hunks! Seriously! With her iconic outfit and poses and choreography and dance and the beat and stuffs! You gotta love the song and the video, like a lot! This song also gave Gaga Moonman as the Best New Artist in 2009 VMA. Overall, this is a GOOD JOB!

2. Born This Way

Born this way is the warming-up hits taken from Born This Way Album. Release on February 2011, this song debut reached #1 in Billboard Hot 100 for the consecutive 6 weeks! This song won 2011 VMAs for Best Music Video With Message and Best Female Video. personally, I love this song so much as it was soooooo me. It was all about me! :)

1. Bad Romance

This song was like a sign of the climax of Gaga's domination. This took 2 Grammys in 2011 and led her to the historic 13 nominations in 2010 Video Music Awards. The music video's just futuristic! And classy! This proved how musicality with genius can result such a massive successful hits and positive influence to express freely without any judgement.

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Elysium: The Future of the Earth

Let's skip the unrecommended sequel of The Percy Jackson. Let's fast forward to the year 2154 and jump high to the sky to Elysium. Yes, this movie is such a must-see one. At first time you see the first scene, you'll think that the movie is another manifestation of revolutionary idea we once found in District 9 the movie. Yup, this is from the director of District 9 and the movie's just like "Good job!". There's something more behind the idea of Elysium, but let's go to the story first.

Los Angeles, 2154 AD

The Earth is over populated and over polluted. The Tinseltown base becomes like a slump-chaotic-overpopulated city where the poor, pollution, radiation and strives collide. The rich people have moved to space where Elysium, a new exclusive environmentally habitat was built miles away above the Earth. Unlike the Earth, the Elysium offers human being ageless, curability-from-any-disease life. Thus, under the Secretary of Homeland Security Delacourt Rhodes (Jodie Foster), the Elysium puts a very exclusive strict immigration law regarding the man flow especially for those from the Earth. In the meantime though, Secretary Delacourt has a principle disputes with President Patel and she plans to knock him down and overtake the seat. She commands Carlyle, a billionaire and agent Kruger to smooth her plan.

Max de Costa (Matt Damon) who had work accident, has to strive and do whatever it takes to keep himself alive. The only way out of this issue is none other than going up, to Elysium, where there's a medicine capsule and he'll get back to life. He then goes to Spider, a cyber crime master who tries his best to hijack the Elysium system. Then, the deal is made up. Max trades with Spider for his ticket to Elysium, as he's only got less than 5 days to live. Spider wants him to "steal" the data from one of the Elysium's billionaire's brain and give it to him. And guess what's on Max mind? His boss, Carlyle. That's when the conflicts start...rolling.

They carry out the mission. They hijack Carlyle's capsule on his way up to Elysium, they steal the data, and they kill him. What a dangerous thing they've done. Knowing the Carlyle's death, Delacourt commands agent Kruger to hunt the killers. The fight between Max and Kruger is inevitable. The agent wants the data to reboot the system of in Elysium and smooth Delacourt's mission to take over the presidential seat. Max wants the data as it's the only way to get the ticket to Elysium. Spider wants the data as he wants to hijack the system so that everybody can go to Elysium. In the end of the story, I bet you'll get MOVED by as Max is doing something way beyond he EVEN EVER can imagines.

The issue behind the story:

Neill Blomkamp, who previously directed District 9, has done a good job for this movie. The social and political issue is rightly blended with the imaginary futuristic dream world. The exclusiveness of Elysium reminds us on the immigrant issue in the United States, particularly, and the West developed nations in a wider scope. We can see it in the character of Delacourt which is firm and strict in dealing with the immigrant issue for the shake of the state, and in the end, for the shake of the people. Migrant workers and other kinds of immigrants have become s serious problem in the developed countries as they have to maintain social stability (in avoiding any possible clash between immigrant and local citizens), meanwhile, the migrant workers offers the cheap labors for employers. That's what happens in the US nowadays, especially in the border states like California. It can be seen on how Neill depicts the 2154 Los Angeles which is fulled of Spanish-speaking (Hispanic) people. As we all know, most migrants coming to the US are from the neighboring countries, mostly Mexico. Elysium also represents how health care are so costly that some people cannot just afford their medical treatment. As, basically, people, regardless whoever they are, have the same right for health care. After all, this movie outstandingly delivers a quite story line and it's just off the hook!

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Explore Batam: Tanjung Piayu's Kampung Tua's Seafood-Heaven-In-Disguised!

Forget about Nagoya with its night clubs, shopping malls or whatsoever there is.

First thing first you have to seize (the moment) when you're in Batam is enjoying Barelang Bridge (so sad that I haven't even been there yet!), the icon of the island. But, you know what, there is another perfect getaway destination for your gastronomical desire. It's about 20 minutes southward from Kepri Mall and do not worry as it is money worth it. Okay, let's start the journey from Kepri Mall. Instead of going straight ahead if we go to Nagoya from Batu Besar, we turn left in Kepri Mall intersection. After about 3 miles away we'll find another junction and we turn left and down the road until the edge of the island (Kampung Tua Tanjung Piayu, Batam). The road condition is a little bit worse in 500 meters away from the place. Along the way there you will see the iconic Barelang Bridge on the other side of the island on the right and sea on the left. So, we're down the way southern-ward to the peninsula. I recommend you to go there in the daytime or afternoon just before the sunset as there will be WAY more beautiful view you can see. 

I don't know the name of the seafood restaurant as it is like, you know, traditional right-above-the-sea restaurant and I went there in the evening. We were like 20 persons and the total cost we had to pay was ONLY IDR1,000,000.00 (USD100 for 20 PERSONS! 5 BUCKS EACH!) and you know what, LOTS OF THINGS! Crabs (a buch of crabs!!!), shrimps, sauteed kale, gong-gong (a kind of seafood snail cooked with its shell and it tasted simple, natural and delicious!), buckets of rice, Lebam fish (with spicy dressing), coconut (a whole coconut and a straw attached just like summer time), sambal,  even though sadly the fried-crispy-cuttle fish were sold out, but still, delicious!

While you're waiting the dish to come, you can enjoy the islands view just outside the restaurant. You can chill out in a--let say--mini dock and see the islands spread out there. It took a little bit long time until the dish were served. I asked the local guy whether I can go around the tiny island (it's uninhabited!) but sadly it's evening. By the time the dish were served, all you're crave was like...paid off! Those things mentioned above just rushed on to the table and waited for your appetite!

One more thing to know is that there were many fish, I mean, Lebam fish below us. I saw a kid fishing, using a bait attached in a string and you know what, he got 2 fish in less than 5 minutes and I was like "Oh my God, how could he do it?"

Overall, it was a very memorable moment and you gotta try! Just take a look at pictures and you'll see. I mean, it's not a lux place. Instead, it's more like local people's housing that's set to be a restaurant but the seafood rocks like the hipsters in the downtown. Lol

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