IMLEK tinggal hitungan hari. Untuk memeriahkan Lunar New Year, Grand Indonesia Shopping Town mengangkat tema Enchanting Blossom. Acara ini akan berlangsung hingga 27 Februari mendatang, dan tersebar mulai dari West Mall, Skybridge, dan East Mall.

"Dalam Enchanting Blossom, selain menyediakan pernak pernik kebutuhan tahun baru China, Grand Indonesia Shopping Town (GIST) juga menyelenggarakan serangkaian acara menarik untuk seluruh pengunjung mal," kata Teges Prita Soraya, Senior Marketing Communication Manager Grand Indonesia Shopping Town dalam siaran persnya.

Setiap harinya akan diadakan beragam acara menarik, seperti games dan kuis, seni melukis dari China, tarian tradisional China, beladiri dari negeri China yaitu Wushu, Oriental broadway oleh Rio Silaen, Dream of Red Chamber Teatrical Show, dan Hip Hop Lion Dance.

Salah satu acara menarik dalam Enchanting Blossom adalah penampilan World Champion Lion Dance Kun Seng Keng dari Malaysia, yang telah berhasil meraih rekor juara dunia 39 kali berturut-turut. Tim inilah yang pertama kali mempergunakan tonggak besi dalam atraksinya.

Yang menarik lainnya dari Kun Seng Keng adalah, lion head atau kepala Barongsay yang mereka gunakan dibuat oleh Wan Seng Hang Lion Factory, pabrik Barongsay terbaik di dunia dengan mimik wajah yang lucu dan warna yang menawan. Penampilan Kun Seng Keng dapat disaksikan pada tanggal 29 dan 30 Januari, di Fountain Atrium.

Tak hanya itu saja, fashion show karya perancang busana Indonesia kenamaan yang dikemas dalam Enchanting Fashion Parade turut memeriahkan perayaan tahun baru China pada 12 dan 19 Februari di Main Atrium.

Dalam Enchanting Fashion Parade menghadirkan karya Rudy Chandra, Widhi Budimulia, Tex Saverio, Benten, Rusly Tjohnardi, Ivan Gunawan, dalam jejeran mannequin di area Skybridge.

GIST juga menyelenggarakan program Romancing Jakarta pada 8–22 Februari bersama bulanmadu.com, rajamice.com, dan BCA.  Di sini, pengunjung dapat menemukan paket perjalanan, paket menginap, dan makan malam romantis dari berbagai jajaran hotel dan restoran.

“Bagi para member G-Card, jangan lupa untuk menukarkan poin GCard Anda karena periode keempat GShopper Rewards berlangsung hingga 25 Februari 2011,” kata Teges.

Periode terakhir GShopper Rewads ini  menyediakan beragam hadiah menarik serta satu unit Mercedes-Benz E Class sebagai grand prize yang akan diundi pada 26 Februari 2011 di Main Atrium. Program GShopper Rewards merupakan kerja sama BCA Kartu Kredit, dan GIST.

Indonesia Tak Diundang Filipina Ikut Turnamen Timnas U-23

Turnamen yang disponsori perusahaan bir itu akan diikuti empat negara.

Oleh Donny Afroni

21 Jan 2011 21:52:00

TEMPO Interaktif,Jakarta:Ketua Umum Pengurus besar persatuan Gulat Indonesia (PB PGSI) Wafid Muharam berencana akan mengirimkan atletnya untuk melakukan pemusatan latihan di Kirgistan dan Rumania sekitar empat bulan, Februari - Mei mendatang. Langkah ini ditempuh untuk mewujudkan target menjadi juara umum SEA Games 2011 di Jakarta dan Palembang, November nanti.

"Semua tergantung anggaran, mudah-mudahan Januari ini turun sehingga Februari bisa berangkat," kata Wafid di kantor Menteri Pemuda dan Olahraga, Senayan, Jumat (21/1). Ia mengaku telah bekoordinasi dengan kedua negara tersebut.

Menurut Wafid, sekitar 36 atlet SEA Games akan dibagi dua regu. Sebagian ke Kirgistan dan sebagian lagi ke Rumania. Dua negara itu, menurutnya, cabang gulatnya cukup kuat. "Dua negara petilan Eropa itu kuat," kata pimpinan cabang gulat yang juga menjabat sebagai sekretaris Menteri Pemuda dan Olahraga ini.

Mereka disiapkan untuk 18 nomor pertandingan, 14 pertandingan nomor putra, dan sisanya nomor putri. Dari nomor yang dipertandingkan, Wafid mentargetkan bisa mencuri 7 atau 8 emas sehingga mendominasi perolehan medali ketimbang sepuluh negara ASEAN lainnya.

Selain menggelar pelatihan di luar negeri, Wafid juga mengagendakan akan mendatangkan pelatih dari luar negeri untuk mendampingi latihan bersama sampai laga dimulai. "Kami sudah melirik pelatih dari Rusia," katanya.

Usai pemusatan latihan, selanjutnya mereka akan di kirim unguk uji coba ke beberapa negara untuk mengasah kemampuannya. Negara yang kemungkinan menjadi sasaran uji coba tanding adalah India dan Iran.

RINA WIDIASTUTI
 

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Well, not entirely in Indonesia, since I don’t know what stores outside of Jakarta does. But in here, and especially in my area, the game stores sucks balls. And here’s why:

I’m just gonna take an example out of the 3 stores that are in my local mall. MULTI, Games Workshop, and Gamespot. Not to be confused with gamestop, or the website www.gamespot.com… They all suck, in my opinion, they lack a lot of things that are supposed to be in a video game store.

Multi is a decent store, and they also sell model kits, figurines, and other hobby stuff. But in the game section, they are PS3-biased, and you probably can’t find anything else there other than PS3 accesories and games. They have a lot of things in their store, usually things that aren’t even useful to the average gamer. They only sell cheap third party equipment, and never any official licensed products. Other things that they have are probably ISOs for PSP and NDS. Yes, they actually charge you for something you can get in the internet for free. They also have pirated PS2/Wii/xbox360 games, and also sell the modded consoles. I asked them if they’ll have the kinect in the store or not sometime last week, they told me that “they don’t really sell xbox 360 items.” …
Conclusion: Store has a lot of useless stuff, PS3 biased, and they sell pirated game copies.
Awesome thing about the store: Fair prices for Indonesian people, I’ve seen every other store sells GT5 for 800K Rupiah, this store has it for 650K, and a lot of other games are cheaper. A lot of other games and accesories are cheap too.

Games Workshop, I went to this store since I was a kid lol, a great store. Had a lot of games and accesories back then. But they pretty much went down since the PSP/NDS got mainstream. They mostly sell ISOs for PSP and NDS as well, and also offers custom firmware upgrades for the PSP, not free of course. They lack actual games though, only a handful of PS3 games, some pirated xbox 360 games, and a lot of pirated Wii/PS2 games. They sometime sell official licensed products and things like that, they even had the kinect in stock. But the main problem is this: They overprice everything. They had a GH:5 guitar bundle, and they were selling it for 3 million rupiah, which is close to $300 and nowhere near the original price for the thing. They’re selling the kinect right now for 2.2 million, still nowhere near the original kinect price of $150, or even the Japanese price for $180.
Conclusion: [used to be] Great store, sells a small number of games, really overpriced, sells pirated game copies.
Awesome thing about the store: They are now selling retro game consoles like the NES, N64, sega genesis, and all that other things. No games for it though, lol.

Gamespot, I don’t know if they actually have the  license to use the name and logo or not, but that’s not important lol. This is the most popular/mainstream store, they have wide variety of games, consoles, and accesories. A fair amount of official products, you can rent games here (First store in Indonesia to have a game rental, though they’re mostly outdated games and no new games.) And they’re not really biased to any consoles. Sounds good at first, but here’s the downside to the store. They overprice consoles with “console packs.” And they force you to buy the console as that pack. Usually other stores offer the same, but they let you buy just the console with no addons or anything, but gamespot forces you to buy everything as a pack, which they overprice. Like a PS3, they have a pack where you get 2 controllers, an HDMI cable, 5 games, a silicon sleeve for your gamepads and a protective screen for your console. Now why the fuck would you need a protective screen for your PS3? Or a silicon sleeve for that matter, it’s not like we’re gonna rage and then throw the facking thing somewhere. That bundle was sold at 6 million rupiah, really overpriced. Oh, and this is the store where I bought the kinect, for 1.9 million, just a little over the official Japanese price.
Conclusion: Really nice store, has game rental, not biased to any consoles. But they overprice actual consoles with a useless bundle.
Awesome thing about the store: They usually have tournaments held with cash prizes, they’re really friendly with the customers, and the store clerks actually know things about games.

That’s pretty much what each store looks like. And on top of that, here’s a few other downsides that all the stores share. They all sell pirated games for xbox/Wii/PS2, they all sell ISOs for PSP/NDS, you can’t pre-order games, or even just order games that are out already, they usually get games really late, like a month after it’s Asian/Japanese release, and they lack games that aren’t mainstream/popular. Like, you can’t even buy/order IIDX games, or other bemani series, not even the US version of it.

Now, and actual store that I love, but it’s not on my local mall, it’s in Mall Taman Anggrek, pretty far from my house. I forgot the name of the store, but they have everything you’d ever need. Official products, original games, all consoles modded or not, arcade sticks, figurines, model kits, limited edition products, AND you can pre-order games. Too bad it’s really far from my house, and going there is a hassle due to the 1 way road.