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hmm what should I called this? My heart beats a little bit faster when I saw you, walking with your smiling-face:3 aaaaaaaa Im gonna be crazeh to think about it. you're so.... unique, maybe? argh, I dont know what I really feel. but Im sure its true. okay. cant stop thinking;3

Paranorman

In the small New England town of Blithe Hollow, Massachusetts, a boy named Norman Babcock is able to speak with the dead, including his late grandmother and various ghosts in town. Unfortunately, almost no one among the living believes his ability is genuine and he is isolated emotionally from his family while being ridiculed and bullied by most of his peers for his seemingly strange abilities.

However, Norman makes a friend with Neil Downe, an eccentric overweight boy who is bullied himself and finds Norman's earnest admission as a medium an intriguing part of a kindred spirit. During rehearsal of a school play commemorating the town's witch execution of 300 years ago, Norman has a harrowing vision of the town's past and being pursued as a witch by the town's citizenry. Afterward, the boys are confronted by Norman's estranged and seemingly deranged uncle Mr. Prenderghast who tells his nephew that the vision is a sign that he soon must take up his regular ritual to protect the town.

Norman refuses to take him seriously, but soon has another vision during the school play, creating a public spectacle of himself which leads to his embarrassed parents unjustly grounding him. Now completely despondent and isolated, Norman is confronted by the ghost of the recently deceased Prenderghast in the restroom who tells him that the ritual must be performed with a special book before sundown that day, before departing for the afterlife. After some consideration, Norman sets off to Prenderghast's residence to retrieve the book. Believing that Neil would not truly understand his situation, he drives him away. He arrives at the graves of the town's ancestors/founders, including Judge Hopkins, who were supposedly cursed by the witch they condemned, but finds the book is merely a collection of fairy tales.

Before Norman can ponder the situation, Alvin, a bully who overheard Norman's encounter in the restroom, intrudes and interferes with the reading until after sundown. With that, a ghostly storm resembling the witch appears in the air while the cursed dead arise and pursue the boys until they meet Norman's sister, Courtney, Neil and his older brother, Mitch, who have come to retrieve Norman. Together, the kids are relentlessly pursued by the zombies  into town, but Norman manages to contact a classmate named Salma, who tells them to access the Town Hall's archives for the location of the witch's unmarked grave.

As the kids make their way to the Town Hall, the zombies eventually lose them and find themselves confused by modern society and then are beset by the citizenry, who attack them en masse. During the riot, the kids break into the archives but cannot find any information they need. As the mob moves to attack Town Hall, Norman (in frustration) temporarily drives away his companions only for them to be trapped by the mob. However, the Witch storm appears and Norman climbs the Hall's tower to desperately attempt to read the book to stop her, but the witch blasts it with lightning and causes him to fall back down into the archives.

Unconscious, Norman has a dream where he learns that the witch was actually Agatha Prenderghast, an innocent little girl of his age who was also a medium, unjustly condemned by the town's superstitious and frightened elite, who were then cursed to reawaken as the undead by Agatha as she was taken for execution. After awakening, Norman encounters the zombies and realizes that all they wanted was to speak with him to ensure he would take up the ritual to minimize the harm of the terrible mistake they made with Agatha. However, Norman decides that this gesture is not enough and resolves to find Agatha's ghost to arrive at a permanent solution.

Norman attempts to help the zombies slip away to have them guide him to Agatha's grave, but are cornered by the mob. However, Courtney, who has come to realize her brother's true abilities, heroism and task, confronts the crowd and convinces them to back off. As the witch storm rages ever more destructively, Judge Hopkins guides Norman's family to the grave in a forest. Unfortunately, Agatha's magic separates Norman from the others and he must reach the grave on his own to save the town.

Norman finds the grave, and soon confronted by the vengeful spirit of Agatha, interacting with her in the spirit dimension. She tries to drive him away, but Norman resolutely holds his ground, telling her that he understands how she feels as an outcast. As she struggles to drive him away, Norman endures her assault and eventually convinces her that, despite her legitimate grievance, her thirst for vengeance is accomplishing nothing but inflicting more pain and persuades her to stop. Norman tries to convince her that even in the darkest times, there must have been someone who was kind to her. Focusing only on the tragedies and forgetting the good things in her life is what reduced her to a malevolent force devoid of her true identity.

Eventually, the girl, nicknamed Aggie, calms down at Norman's eloquence, recalling her true personality and happy memories with her mother. She is able to find a measure of peace, knowing that she is not alone and one person in the town understands her, allowing her to let go and move on to the afterlife. At that resolution, the storm dissipates, and she and the zombies all peacefully fade away. As day breaks, the town cleans up and regards Norman as a hero even when the outside media tries to explain the disturbance as merely a powerful storm. Norman, realizing that he, too, should stop focusing on his memories of being ostracized and pushing others away, accepts Neil's companionship. At the end, Norman watches a horror film with the ghost of his Grandmother again, and his family eagerly joins him.

Coraline

    

   Coraline Jones moves with her mother and father from her comfortable life in Pontiac, Michigan to the Pink Palace, a dilapidated three-bedroom apartment building in Ashland, Oregon, which is also occupied by retired actresses Misses Spink and Forcible, and eccentric Russian acrobat Mr. Bobinsky. With her parents perpetually working on a gardening catalog and paying little attention to her, Coraline feels neglected and decides to explore their new home, befriending Wybie Lovat, the grandson of the apartments' landlady. While exploring, Coraline finds a small door sealed off by a brick wall. That night, Coraline is awakened by a mouse and follows it to the small door where she discovers a long, dark corridor in the brick wall's place. Coraline goes through it and finds herself in the Other World, a fantastical parallel version of the Pink Palace inhabited by doppelgangers of her parents called the Other Mother and Other Father, who have black buttons for eyes. These beings prove to be warmer and more attentive than Coraline's real parents, particularly the Other Mother, who does everything she can to impress Coraline. Coraline decides to stay the night at the Other World, but when she wakes the next morning, she finds herself in her old world.

    Despite warnings of danger from her neighbors, Coraline continues to go to the Other World at night to escape from the doldrums of her real life and is entertained by button-eyed "Other" versions of her neighbors, including a mute Other Wybie, who guides her through the Other World. During her third visit, Coraline encounters a black cat from her own world that has the ability to talk in the Other World, and also warns Coraline of danger. She disregards the warnings until the Other Mother invites her to live in the Other World forever if she sews buttons over her eyes. When Coraline demands to return home, the Other Mother angrily reveals her true form as a monstrous witch and traps Coraline in a small room behind a mirror where she meets the ghosts of three children who had lost their eyes and souls to the Other Mother. With the help of the Other Wybie, Coraline escapes to her own world, but finds that her parents have been kidnapped by the Other Mother.

    Armed with a seeing stone provided by the real Spink and Forcible, Coraline returns to the Other World and challenges the Other Mother to a game to find her missing parents and the eyes of the ghost children in the Other World, agreeing to stay in the Other World if she loses. Coraline uses her seeing stone to find the ghosts' eyes and outwits the twisted inhabitants of the Other World guarding them, and later finds her parents trapped in a snow globe. Knowing that the Other Mother will never let her leave even if she wins, Coraline tricks the Other Mother into opening the door to the real world and escapes through it, closing the door on the Other Mother's hand and severing it. Coraline finds her parents safe with no memory of what had happened, and the ghost children at peace. To keep the Other Mother from returning, Coraline intends to drop the key to the door between her world and the Other World down a water well near her house, but the Other Mother's severed hand enters Coraline's world and tries to drag Coraline back to the Other World. Wybie arrives and destroys the hand, and he and Coraline drop its remains and the key down the well. With her parents done with their work and able to spend time with their daughter, Coraline holds a garden party with her family and neighbors, content with her new life.

Roses~

taken on : 22nd of November 2012

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Ilmuwan Perancis Maurice Bucaille Dan Mumi Fir'aun

Prof. Dr. Maurice Bucaille adalah adalah ahli bedah kenamaan Prancis dan pernah mengepalai klinik bedah di Universitas Paris. Ia dilahirkan di Pont-L’Eveque, Prancis, pada 19 Juli 1920. Kisah di balik keputusannya masuk Islam diawali pada tahun 1975.

Pada saat itu, pemerintah Prancis menawari bantuan kepada pemerintah Mesir untuk meneliti, mempelajari, dan menganalisis mumi Firaun. Bucaille lah yang menjadi pemimpin ahli bedah sekaligus penanggung jawab utama dalam penelitian.

Ternyata, hasil akhir yang ia peroleh sangat mengejutkan. Sisa-sisa garam yang melekat pada tubuh sang mumi adalah bukti terbesar bahwa dia telah mati karena tenggelam. Jasadnya segera dikeluarkan dari laut dan kemudian dibalsem untuk segera dijadikan mumi agar awet. Namun penemuan yang dilakukan Bucaille menyisakan pertanyaan: Bagaimana jasad tersebut bisa terjaga dan lebih baik dari jasad-jasad yang lain (tengkorak bala tentara Firaun), padahal telah dikeluarkan dari laut?

Bucaille lantas menyiapkan laporan akhir tentang sesuatu yang diyakininya sebagai penemuan baru, yaitu tentang penyelamatan mayat Firaun dari laut dan pengawetannya. Laporan akhirnya ini dia terbitkan dengan judul ‘Mumi Firaun; Sebuah Penelitian Medis Modern’, dengan judul aslinya, ‘Les Momies des Pharaons et la Midecine’.

Saat menyiapkan laporan akhir, salah seorang rekannya membisikkan sesuatu di telinga Bucaille seraya berkata: “Jangan tergesa-gesa karena sesungguhnya kaum Muslimin telah berbicara tentang tenggelamnya mumi ini”.

Dia mulai berpikir dan bertanya-tanya. Bagaimana mungkin hal itu bisa terjadi? Bahkan, mumi tersebut baru ditemukan sekitar tahun 1898 M, sementara Alquran telah ada ribuan tahun sebelumnya.

Setelah perbaikan terhadap mayat Firaun dan pemumiannya, Prancis mengembalikan mumi tersebut ke Mesir. Namun, ia masih bertanya-tanya tentang kabar bahwa kaum Muslimin telah saling menceritakan tentang penyelamatan mayat tersebut.

Dari sini kemudian terjadilah perbincangan untuk pertama kalinya dengan peneliti dan ilmuwan Muslim. Ia bertanya tentang kehidupan Musa as, perbuatan yang dilakukan Firaun, dan pengejarannya terhadap Musa hingga dia tenggelam dan bagaimana jasad Firaun diselamatkan dari laut.

Maka, berdirilah salah satu di antara ilmuwan Muslim tersebut seraya membuka Alquran dan membacakan untuk Bucaille firman Allah SWT yang artinya: “Maka pada hari ini Kami selamatkan badanmu supaya kamu dapat menjadi pelajaran bagi orang-orang yang datang sesudahmu dan sesungguhnya kebanyakan dari manusia lengah dari tanda-tanda kekuasaan Kami.” (QS Yunus: 92).

Ayat ini sangat menyentuh hati Bucaille. Ia mengatakan bahwa ayat Alquran tersebut masuk akal dan mendorong sains untuk maju. Hatinya bergetar, dan getaran itu membuatnya berdiri di hadapan orang-orang yang hadir seraya menyeru dengan lantang: “Sungguh aku masuk Islam dan aku beriman dengan Alquran ini”.

http://hajimabrur.com/ilmuwan-maurice-bucaille-dan-mumi-firaun

Goodbye Pico:'(

aaaa gasalah baca apa yaa?! pico beneran mau ditutup?! cius? miapah? enelan? *alaaah-_-
yap, seperti yg kalian liat pd gambar diatas, pico alias ameba pico, game virtual facebook bakalan menutup gamenya:3 
huaaa bakalan kangen sama emoov dan park2nya pico yg unyu2 :( aaa padahal duitnya udah lumayan banyak-_- yaaah gatau juga alasan jelasnya apa sampe mau ditutup. tapi kalian bisa baca alasan gakjelasnya di gambar diatas.
at last, goodbye Ameba Pico. thanks for the virtual adventure, thanks for all my new friends from pico world, thanks for all! :D