Category — It's Haceem and Friends

I wonder if I should join Facebookolics Anonymous anytime soon..

After reading all the reviews and hearing all the talk about I Love You, Man, I’ve finally decided to get it from Netflix.

The movie started slow and the first few minutes I wasn’t really convinced the movie was gonna live up to its hype; however, next thing I knew I couldn’t take my eyes off of the TV screen and was laughing my ass off every minute. I honestly thought there were some parts of the movie that were kinda close to reality, and there were also some stuff that guys actually say in real life. Check out some of these memorable quotes below:

Sydney Fife: [Nonchalantly] This is where I jerk-off.

Sydney Fife: This is the man cave, there’s no women allowed in here. I got a jerk-off station for God’s sake.

Sydney Fife: Peter, I am a man. I have an ocean of testosterone flowing through my veins.

Peter Klaven: She was very nice looking.
Sydney Fife: Yeah… I fucked her.

Peter Klaven: Do you need a plastic bag, or…
Sydney Fife: Oh no. I don’t clean up after my dog.

Peter Klaven: So what do I do? How do I make friends?
Robbie Klaven: If you see a cool looking guy, strike up a conversation and ask him on a man date.
Peter Klaven: OK.

Peter Klaven: I need to get some fucking friends.

Basically the movie is about the journey of one guy – named Peter Klaven – trying to find a “guy friend/buddy/best friend.” Peter has always been known as the girlfriend-type of guy (which means he’s 24/7 committed to his girlfriend; thus, doesn’t have any guy friends). He is so desperate to find a best friend, he is willing to do whatever it takes to get one – even allowing his mom to set him up with some random guy for a “man date.”

The movie clearly explores marriage, male bonding (a.k.a bromance), and the importance of friends. It is very heart-warming and I definitely recommend it to you all the boys to watch it. By the way, when I said “bromance,” I definitely wasn’t implying anything homosexual. If you don’t know what bromance is, there are a few terms that might help you understand it a little better:

1. A non-sexual, healthy yet complicated love and affection shared by two straight guys
2. A close relationship between two straight guys to the point where they look like a couple
3. The intense love shared between heterosexual males; it’s usually male bonding and invisible to the naked eye (this bond is normally only shared between two males that have a deeper understanding of each other, in a way no woman could ever realize) — Thanks to Urban Dictionary for this description which I think is very accurate
4. Man crush (but with no sex involved)

After understanding this “bromance” concept, I’ve finally come to the realization that there has been a lot of bromance going on amongst my buddies – which I hadn’t really noticed before. In fact, I once have had some bromance moment with one of my best friends as well. So without further ado, I’d like to mention a few people here whom I think are really embracing bromance and are even willing to kick it up a notch:

• Multi Nasution and Rizky Arbali
  They were the epitome of bromance. I think they were the first bromance that I had ever witnessed before. They were roommates in college, they would cook together, go shopping together (even go to the same stores), share closet space, hang out on weekends, dress alike, etc. I mean they both were straight like an arrow, but damn.. They definitely took bromance to the next level.
  Bromance Level: Pretty high.. Higher than the Statue of Liberty

• Ping Aje and Hendra DJ
  They don’t dress alike, they don’t look alike, and they certainly don’t smell alike, but they’re inseparable like the siamese twins. In fact, one time I played poker with them and when Hendra lost his chips, Ping would kindly take half of his own stack and share it with Hendra. I mean whoaa.. That is definitely some serious bromance.
  Bromance Level: Somewhat high.. Can be higher on Poker night

• Ricky Posumah and Joshua (a.k.a. Enno)
  Even though everyone knows there’s some serious bromance tension between them, but both of them wouldn’t admit it. Well I think Joshua would. They both grew up in the same area back home (Surabaya – the capital of East Java), so obviously they speak Javanese pretty fluently. Sometimes when they speak Javanese to each other, none of us would understand all the things that come out of their mouth. It’s like they’re speaking greek. They go clubbing together, hang out every weekend, go culinary trip around Washington, DC together, etc and they always watch each other’s back. There’s definitely some bromance between them whether they want to admit it or not.
  Bromance Level: Sometimes high, sometimes low.. Depending on Ricky’s mood swing

• Myself and Reza Kadir
  Hahaha as I said before, I once experienced some bromance when I went home (to Jakarta) a while ago. I’d like to call it a bond of mutual respect towards each other and a deep understanding of each of our essential manliness. It was bromance with style.
  Bromance Level: High, but not too high, but can be higher after 2-3 drinks

• Melvin Andrew and Remy Hendra
  Ahh these two guys.. They’re like a fork and a knife, a pencil and an eraser, a piece of paper and a paper clip, a deck of card and poker chips, a BlackBerry and the BlackBerry Messenger, Thomson and Thompson, etc.. They always stick together no matter what. Aside from them being real siblings (Melvin is the older one), they really embrace bromance and take the brotherly love to the highest degree.
  Bromance Level: Like an ocean tide.. Low during the day, high at night
  

• Myself, Yala Mahendra, Farid Tirtosudiro, and Agung Adhitama
  Years ago we took a bromance trip to Bandung, stayed at Yala’s humble abode, and ended up watching lots of uhm “the birds and the bees” educational videos (thanks to Vivid Production for making all those epics, we truly learned a lot). It was definitely a bromance trip to remember.. Good times, boys. I’d probably put you guys in my will.
  Bromance Level: Kinda low but still strong.. Like the Incredible Hulk strong

• Fajar Simamora and Peter Pangaribuan
  Back in grad school, they had love and hate relationship. They would constantly tease each other and sometimes they could be very mean towards each other, too. However, I believed they did that out of love and respect. I sensed their bromance level was getting higher and higher every time they met. Although they never showed it in public, but behind closed doors, I’d imagine Fajar pat Pete’s back and said “Come on brotha.. You can do it. You can definitely tackle this exam tomorrow. I believe in you.”
  Bromance Level: All time high only when behind closed doors

• Adyatama and Melvin Andrew
  Melvin had his own key to Ady’s apartment. Enough said.
  Bromance Level: It was reaaaaallll high.. But got lowered after Ady moved back to Indo and got married

Haceem’s Movie Rating: 5 out of 5

I just wanted to give a shout out these following people who just graduated from college/grad schools last weekend:

• Jeremiah Hendra
  Graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology
  Comment: It’s about goddamn time man!  Thought I would never see you in cape and gown. After $40K of tuition, endless power naps in class, hundreds of dollars spent on vending machine snacks in school, hours and hours spent creating cheat sheets, you have finally graduated! Very proud of you son. Congratulations on having completed enough hours being bored in school to begin being bored at work!
• Nuy Mahadewi
  Graduated from GWU Law School
  Comment: It is true when I said I’d recommend grad school as a way to avoid a real world for 2 to 5 additional years. Glad to know that it was your one and only reason to attend the law school hahaha.. So what’s next? A master’s degree in fashion merchandise perhaps?
• Qiki Piasasty
  Graduated from GWU Law School
  Comment: Congratssss Qiki! Please don’t leave DC without calling me first; You know my number. You know what, I think 4 of us have to do dinner first before you leave DC and go back to the never never land. You, me, Wibi and little Wibi. Yes, Chucky Cheese is optional.
• Chris Huynh
  Graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor’s degree in Health Science, Health Administration & Policy
  Comment: Congratulations, Chris! I don’t know much about health science or health administration but since you’re the only person that I know graduated with that degree, so I guess I’d say whoa that’s awesome!
• Rabin Hattari
  Graduated from George Mason University with a doctoral degree in Economics
  Comment: When you have become a minister of finance in Indonesia or a deputy minister for Bank Indonesia, don’t forget to hook me up! Facebook wall/message is only a login away, so please keep in touch! Hahhahaaa…

Remember when I gave myself a haircut a few months ago and I completely messed it up? Well it wasn’t the last time I messed up. I just don’t think the hair clipper and I ever going to get along well, ya’ know….Ever…

It happened over a week ago when we had our last soccer game. It was a playoff game – in fact, it was our first and only playoff game. So I figured I wanted to go out with a BANG. I was thinking of trimming my hair and giving myself a fawhawk. Not just a regular fawhawk – it would be the famous Beckham’s fawhawk.

So the night before the game (it was midnight, to be exact), I was in my room, standing in front of a wall mirror, holding a clipper, and praying to God hoping that I would not mess up again like last time. I put on clip #1 and then started trimming both sides of my head – including the back side and leaving the middle side intact.

30 minutes later, I had successfully formed a fawhawk. I gave a pat on the back to myself while admiring it and said stupid things like “Good job, Sat. You definitely look like Beckham.” “Good God, you look fabulous with that fawhawk. Hell, even that fawhawk look more fabulous than you!”

Yes, I know, I know..I can be so vain sometimes…Hahhaha.. Hell I even applied some gel to my fawhawk before I went to sleep just to see what I would look like with the hair gel on. I looked so damn perfect with the fawhawk. I felt like Indonesian’s David Beckham.

The next morning, I woke up and stood in front of a mirror again for a few minutes only to find my so-called Beckham’s fawhawk was not aligned right. Yes, the damn fawhawk went sideways. I didn’t even realize it last night because I did it in a hurry since it was already midnight when I started.

After cursing like a sailor for a few seconds, I went to get my clipper, put on the clip #1, plugged the damn clipper to the outlet, and started fixing my fawhawk. The whole process only took a couple of minutes. Afterwards, I unplugged the clipper, cleaned it, and put it back in its case.

So I started checking my hair again just to see if I had missed a spot, or if there’s something wrong with the fawhawk again. Then I thought well maybe I should trim the left side a little bit. Yeah just a little bit. So I grabbed the clipper, plugged it, and started trimming the left side.

2 seconds into it, I began to realize there was so much hair coming off my head. Hmm that’s weird..I mean, my hair was already super short and there wasn’t really a lot of hair on my head to begin it with this morning. Then it hits me.

I forgot to put the f$#&@#* clip on.

So what happened next?

Well after (yes, again) cursing like a drunk-angry-sailor-who-just-found-out somebody-stole-his-bottle-of-whiskey, I was forced to shave my entire head, including my 6 hour-old Beckham’s fawhawk.

I ended up looking like David Carradine in Kung Fu (He plays as a shaolin monk – in case you haven’t seen it).

Heh…So much for a fawhawk huh?