Title: Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki (Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki)

Language: Japanese

Genre: Slice of Life, Fantasy

Synopsis:

Wolf Children is the heartwarming story about the challenges of being a single mother in an unforgiving modern world.

Hana gives birth to two healthy children—Ame, born during rainfall, and Yuki, born during snowfall—both possessing the ability to turn into wolves, a trait inherited from their father. All too soon, however, the sudden death of her lover devastates Hana's life, leaving her to raise a peculiar family completely on her own. The stress of raising her wild-natured children in a densely populated city, all while keeping their identity a secret, culminates in a decision to move to the countryside, where she hopes Ame and Yuki can live a life free from the judgments of society. 

Review: (5/5 stars)

I used to watch this film when I was like 14/15, but now I re-watching it again.

I didn't have problem about its animation or anything, all is perfect for me.

There's a lot of things we can learn from this movie. The hardship of single mothers, and how all of us grow up in our mother's perspective. From our birth to the present us, it all happens in a blink of eye for her. And you totally feel it by the end of the movie, after all the troubles she went through for 12 years raising Yuki and Ame, and how she reminisced back while smiling on her face.

We can see how different Ame and Yuki when they were young— Yuki being wild and uncontrollable, Ame being fragile and scared of everything. Now that they had grew up, being wise and found their own world, their decision determines what kind of life they wanted to pursue. 

A heartwarming story about childhood, and about our life decisions. A totally must watch.

Hi hello and Assalamualaikum!

Since I have a lot of free time this semester break, this blog will be 'alive' again for awhile. So, I will update plenty of book/movie review that I read/watch before.

When I returned to my home sweet home, the first thing I had in my mind was to read the awful lot of books that I bought but never finished them. I opened my goodreads account, and I admit I left behind a lot. So, this holiday, I am determined to catch up what I had been missing before.

So, this book is not physically a book (as you can see) and I bought it in the form of e-book.


Title: The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

Year: 2014

Genre: Fantasy

Synopsis:
On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake.

Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned with only a sheep man, who makes excellent doughnuts, and a girl, who can talk with her hands, for company. His mother will be worrying about why he hasn't returned in time for dinner and the old man seems to have appetite for eating small boys' brains. How will he escape?

Review: (4/5 stars)

This is the first book I read from Haruki Murakami. Because I was quite left behind, I happened to know him later than anybody else (pretty sad isn't it) so I decided to start off with something 'light' like this book.

Though I consider this book 'light', don't expect you will find anything 'normal' within this story, because from the start till the end all the events seems weird to me. (Maybe not the first second page, it's still pretty normal btw) I thought that maybe the events in this book is metaphor of something.

Another speciality of this book is it has many graphics. And the world knows how I love graphics.

The boy went to the library to search for a book. He was lead to a room in a basement, meeting an old man, who refused to let this boy out once he found the book. The old man gave excuse that the books the boy was holding can only be read at another special room, and lead the boy through a maze (a maze inside library?) until he reach to a jail. That's the special room. At the jail, he met a sheep-costumed man, who served foods (doughnuts mostly) and drinks to him everyday, and a girl who was mute but talks using her hands. He was planning to escape and asked the sheep man to join, but the sheep man refuse to join because he was afraid of the old man.

All I can say is, this story is like some sort of story that you had mostly in your dream. Well, everything can happen in our dream, right? We can fly, talk with animals, large beach in a house, etc. Everything that seems nonsense, but in our dream we tend to accept that nonsense like it's a normal thing. It gave that dreamy vibes. At the same time, it has few thriller elements (what with a man eating human brains like a zombie etc.) It can be dreamy and dark at the same time.

Metaphors that I can think of about this story are how awfully obedient we are, we tend to say 'yes' for both right and wrong things, and the importance of knowledge, which is the most valuable assets for everyone and should be treated with care (someone can go as far as 'eating' them like a zombie), and helpfulness like the sheep man and the mute girl, and another complicated metaphors I still can't think of.

After reading this book till the end, you can't help but feeling disturbed for a few hours. Because the ending is so weird, plus how the author potraying loneliness, it's a little bit confusing too.

So, that's all for my review. Will be coming with another review, In shaa Allah! Goodbye for now!

Assalamualaikum and hi everyonee!

Guess I'm back again since a long hiatus huh. Well, this post should be posted before 2017 ends but yeah, I'm kinda busy by the end of 2017 because of the study week and whatnot. I don't really have a time to spare in front of my laptop opening 'lagha' things because I need to chase my future too you know.

So, hereby I will compile all my memories that I had during my last matriculation days, during the long break before entering college, and my first 3 months of my freshman year in university.

Warning! This is going to be a very long, long post. (you can't hardly predict when it'll end)

Bismillah!