Hotel M (The Natgeo Dream eps. 2)

Sunday, 14 October 2012, i finished reading Ayu Utami latest book: Lalita. 

As always, it was a very interesting, exploring spiritualism and at the same time Ayu always gives the readers: mystery, complexity and a hit right after the last word. 

At friday, 12 October 2012, i met my friend K, and we were developing story for out latest documentary. We had meeting with T, who's been appointed as the creative advisor for this project. We interviewed T no. 2, an expert in green building, founder of Green Building Council Indonesia. 

The meeting was held at Hotel M, at Kota. T no. 2 had a workshop there, and we met him there. I came late, at the time when T no.  1 was having interview with him. T no 1 who's been living in Belgium for the last few years is a very punctual person. 

K told me that he was a very high definition person. What's is "high defintion" definition? He said it's a kind of person who is very commit on what he will do once he had deal to do it. And he have a deal with us. Sounds like good signs! ^^

So we interviewed T no. 2 for more than 1 hour in the lobby of Hotel M. He gave us enlightenment of such a very niche topic such as certification, green audit, rating, green building category, etc. 

At this point we discusssed about technical aspect of green building. Next, we are going to elaborate more about the motivation. Those are very important aspect of movie making, because it is human aspect that will make a movie far more interesting, the irony, the power of context and localism, etc.

For my readers ^^, this is second part of my writing The Natgeo Dream. Will our dream come true?

I will keep you posted, in the journey to make our dream come true. 

Have a great life to all of you! 

The Dying Horse

Last week I watched a documentary titled "Buddha's Lost Children" and there was a scene where some child monks helped a dying horse. So I thought, the dying horse would be a very nice title for my writing in this blog after long period of abandonment. 

However, would this writing about the dying horse? I don't think so, because I knew nothing about horses. :)

So, last week I also met my friend K, in Citos. We planned to make a documentary about green building in Indonesia, and K was so motivated to produce and/or broadcast the movie in cooperation with The National Geographic or Discovery Channel. 

I was like, are you kidding me? It's not gonna easy  to do that! But K act like he didn't care, and he encouraged me a lot that we can do this as much as we successfully produced our previous movie. 

He always talked about Natgeo whenever we met. Natgeo this, Natgeo that. When will we could finish this movie? He said at least next year. And I was like Lol! 

This is "A Natgeo Dream". Will we achieve this dream? What should we do to achieve our dream? Was it as simple as believe and make it happens? 


The Meeting - When "shadow of doubts" gradually revealed

I've got contact from someone. She recommended me to contact a person: in this story I will only mention his initial, T.

T is an ex editor in chief of a well known magazine who is now live in Belgium. I got his name and googling it and less than in hour I got my email replied with his phone number. Such a miracle. 
So me and K met him at Citos. But K came late (He is from northern Jakarta, and by the time he reached Pondok Indah, he texted me: I"ll be there in 5 minutes. Me: yeah right)

Luckily, T shared a lot to me. It was one of enlightening moment I love and he could give practical solution of every topic we discussed. 

We discussed about transportation in Jakarta and the unsolved mystery of Jakarta hell of traffic. I liked his logical, and I can't figure why there's nobody think about it before. The solution he offered for Jakarta sounded simple for me. 

After the meeting was over, I told K that our discussion with T is an expensive one. He gave us revelation of the story we were starting to develop. 

He gave us human touch and the power of context which are two important element of documentary. 
Now that the shadow of doubts was gradually revealed. I start to believe that we do have story. :)

Today,  Wednesday 3 October 2012, K and T will meet at the site. I really wish I could join them! 

Will keep you update, readers! *Like I have readers :)

Will I make another milestone with this documentary?