Universal Studios

Firza Riany's

I promised I would write something about Universal Studios. I want to let you guys know a bit of its history so that you're not only know how to spend the fun time there but also know how precious it is. Universal Studios is a film production house in United States which was built in 1912 by Laemmle. Hm actually I rarely watch movies that made by this production house, but it's kind of fun spending time in Universal Studios he he hehehehehe. In fact, this company is located in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, AS and has been produced some box office movies.  Whew it's obvious actually, if the movies are not in box office rate then how can they made such a big theme park in many countries:3 speaking of the movies, here are some Universal all time box office~~~~ (source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=universal.htm)
1. Despicable Me 2 (2013)
2. E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) [wow quite old]
3. Jurassic Park (1993) [This movie is one of all time movies that stuck into my mind, I watched it when I was a 5 year child, and this movie still airing in Indonesia's tv station. The animation might be the best around these year]
4.  Meet The Fockers (2004)
5. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
6. Jaws (1975) [Wow this one is old, no wonder the animation is...... quite bad. but anything's evolving riteeeee]
7. Despicable Me (2010) [Ow ow ow the birth of minions!!!!!]
8. Bruce Almighty (2003)
9. Fast&Furious 6 (2013) [Wow this one is incredible! I'm not lying, it's no joke!!!]
10. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
I'm just giving you the top 10 according that site, it's actually more than a hundred..... but you don't expect me to write them all riiiiiiiteeeee??????
oke back to the topic... the history of Universal Studiossssss. Some of the movies in Universal Studios are directed by Steven Spielberg, you're familiar with this name right? his name is almost in every movies I watch, such a big man hmmmm. Aaaaan asisted by Melinda Gates. In March 1909 Universal Studios was built with name Independent Moving Pictures Company and in 8th June 1912, its name changed into Universal Film Manufacturing Company
15th March 1915, the discovery of Universal City (what is it? I don't know:[ sorry)
in 1925, the name changed into Universal Picture Company, Inc in Hollywood.
in 1926, built Deutsche Universal-Film AG in Germany
in 1927, began to distributes Disney's movies
in 1928, Laemmle Jr. became a president of Universal Pictures
in 1942, the trial of movie with color
in 1945, joined International Pictures as Universal-International
in 1950, Lew Wasserman from MCA made an agreement with James Stewart
in 1957, MCA bought studios as much as 11$ and changed their names into Revue Studios
in 1964, MCA and Universal was allied
in 1966, Revue Productions became Universal Television
in 1970, Universal Studios made corporation with Paramount Pictures, this one is quite famous isn't it...
in 1981, also cooperate with MGM, the one with lion's roar in the opening hahaha
in 1990, MCA opened MCA music video business or Universal Home Video Inc.
in 1991, Universal along with MCA is sold for Matsushita Electric and Universal Pictures Entertainment became Universal Studios Inc
in 1995, Matsushita sold an 80% of MCA and Universal to alcoholic beverages company, Seagram
in 1996, Universal officially announced that they will stop and clear the name of MCA; MCA company was officially become Universal Studios, Inc and MCA Music Entertainment Group becam Universal Music Group
in 1998, PolyGram was obtained from Philips and joined Universal Music Group and in the December at the same year, Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chairman of Seagram sold Universal Studios and all cable network USA to Barry Diller
in June 2000, Seagram was sold to Pernod Ricard and entertainment division of Seagram was sold to Vivendi and became Vivendi Universal
in 2001, Universal bought the distribution movies from StudioCanal
in 2002, cooperated with StudioCanal to produced Love Actually movie
in 2004, Vivendi Universal Entertainment (including Universal) sale of Vivendi Universal to General Electric, owner of NBC famous, as much as 80% so that combine to form NBC Universal. Universal Studios became a subsidiary
in 2005, DreamWorks was acquired from Universal by Paramount
in 2006, the cartoons of Oswald were returned to Disney

so many years........... so many names........ it confuses me but well you've got some knowledge here right:) what I want to tell you is  

The past is what make us now

A TRIP!

Yesterday I got my feet stepped on Singapore! This is my second time in Singapore, and this town has grown so much. Is the time just fly here........... I don't know. I spent my first night walked down the Orchard Road to find some sneakers. BECAUSE before I got here, I lost my sneakers! That was the new one! I even haven't wearing it since the first time I bought it. What a shame... I just got so sad because the color was just right, I really need to enter all sport stores in Jakarta to find the same color. huhuhuhuhuhuhu I'm not bragging up right now, but I swear that was the best color, I love it.... That was donker blue and shocking pink and I love it...... 

So I was walking down the Orchard Road... Talking about Orchard Road I have some good story about it. The history of Orchard Road, not a brief history, just a little bit. Orchard rd. got its name from orchard plantations, because that road was formerly led to plantations area. It was made at 1830s, although it's not placed in 1836 Singapore maps that was created by George Coleman. In that period of time, Orchard rd was just plantations for some fruits. Until 1846, only a few of people who started build houses near Orchard rd. At thath time, the gardens of Dr. Jun was the origin of Orchard rd's naming. This guy has some gardens and plantations at the corner of Orchard rd which is known now as Scotts rd and Orchard rd. At the year of 1840s, Orchard rd was used as graveyards by some Tionghoas, the Sumatrans, and the Jews (hey, the Sumatrans are from my country, Indonesia). And after 1860, Orchard rd has many buldings that built on its land. Some luxurious building are built here, and that's what made Orchard rd so amazing today. What I want to say about this is, No one is good at the first place, you need to go a long way to be beautiful and that way won't be as easy as you thought. What's hard is what makes you beautiful.

And after chillin at the Orchard, I moved my feet to....... Scotts rd, yea not too far. I'm amazed how people can walk for a very long way here, I can't even stand walking from my house to the college.. And yap the same thing happens in Scotts, I didn't find what I want.. Then I moved to Bugis, and having a window shopping there cause I didn't need anything other than sneakers, even if my dad flirts me with some good watches with good colors and rare models.... I just want my sneakers baaaack. what my dad says when I'm on my annoying mode about this is "What's gone is gone, you can't do anything about it unless you have a thing like time machine" then I just walked to hotel and BAM having a really good sleep because my feet cannot stand on the ground anymore. I'm amazed people who always walking to their places or using public transportation or don't complaining when queue, you're amazing guys, you're amazing.

This morning I was really looking forward for my trip in Universal Studios, I was so excited and so trying to remember how I can get there by train and everything. But I woke up late...... and I lost my one hour just to making my way to Sentosa and taking photos in Sentosa. AND when I got in, Universal Studios is no kidding! It's cooooool, super cool. It's like the place where all the guys from movies having their rest time here and then everyone knows where to find these guys when they're not on movies and they can't do anything but making some shows to make these everyone happy, and they're like "nah, how can I get the rest with these people" so they make fun rides in their place and making everyone's lining up to get the rides and these guys from the movies can own their schedule to make some shows while these everyone's lining up for rides..... yeaaaaaa it's probably happen. In some corner of my head where the fantasy lives. At first, I want to write some histories about this Universal Studios, but I get tired and all, I need some sleep because my eyes can't stand the light of my laptop, so I will make it tomorrow.. or the day after tomorrow. And the photo above is taken by me at Universal Studios when Cookies Monster finishes his work in dancing and singing and telling everyone why he likes cookies.....