a Week is More than Enough

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change;

at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.

A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”

~ Paulo Coelho

So They Say

Have you ever been to a situation when your left brain and your right brain doesn't seem to agree on each other, your head is heating up like boiling water? And the more you concentrate, the more you stressed out that you can eat whatever it is your eyes can see?

Well that's exactly how I feel right now.


Oh Well...

Between Me and You...

there's mini DIANA

...

a birthday gift from hubby
a pretty nice necklace that can capture life's precious moments
just perfect!

Wuf u babe :)

Sometimes I feel like
a needle in a haystack.

Small.
Different.
and
Lost.

it's takbiran night.

Let's light the fire and spark the sky, kiddo.
:)

where will life take you?

Call me a bit late, but I just found out about this ad a few days ago in a random google search. I'm sure there's a lot of great advertising out there. But this definitely go into my favorite list.

I give you a very giant thumb, dear copywriter. I envy you! :)

Day One

Yay! Today is our first fasting day on 2009!

This year's fasting month is a little bit different with the previous years, because now I do it with my husband! *big grin*. Well not much is changing actually, because we still live in our parents' house. So there's no cooking for sahur whatsoever... Just having a weird fact that now he's joining sahur with the rest of the family.

Well I wish you all a great fasting month, my dear friends.



May God bless us all.

Nice to Meet You Boys :)

me and my Boy :)

I used to have a bunny named 'Boy' when I was a little kid. I loved him so much that I remember carrying him everywhere in the house. But unfortunately one day, we forgot to put him inside when it was raining hard. So the next thing I know, he was sick and suddenly disappeared. My family never really told me what happened to him. Some said he was just missing nowhere, some said he was taken and eaten by our house guards (way to go to win a kid's heart -_-') and so on. Maybe he was just dead that day. So I always have this unfinished business with bunnies. They have officially stolen my heart.

So by the way,
I went to my sister's house last week and look what I found? Bunnies! My sister decided to buy not one but three bunnies for his son. Two is Australian and one is Angora. Uuuurgkhkh!!! They're just 2 months old and they are super duper stupiddd! Stupidddd... Stupiddd... Furrballssss!!!

PHOENIX LIVE IN JAKARTA!

This news is not only cheering us: the fans, but also giving people the fact that Phoenix is still going to Jakarta, even after the bombing in J.W. Marriot and Ritz Carlton a few weeks ago. OH YES! THEY ARE NOT AFRAID! :D

The concert took place at bengkel night park, which was immediately loaded by teenagers here and there. My favorite local band NAIF was opening the stage stunningly, continued by the performance of the S.I.G.I.T and RNRM. They were all spectacular, though I think the S.I.G.I.T was dominating the stage waaay to long and RNRM’s sound check was a total waste of time. I stand a bit to the right-front of the stage with one tall boy blocking my view. But hey, we’re here to have fun! It’s more productive to struggle for a perfect spot than to grumble in a cheering crowd. Hehe… Just a theory. :)

Phoenix finally showed up at 10-ish pm and breaking the stage with Lisztomania. Everybody’s cheering, singing and dancing. I can’t complain because I’m one of them :). There are many complains coming from my own friends, telling how they were bothered with the audience who were dancing and singing out loud hysterically. Okay, maybe they’re a bit too hysterical. But I don’t see any reasons to complain at them. I mean, c’mon! This is a concert, for God sake, this is the moment you can actually see your idols on stage, performing their stuffs… just for YOU! This is the place where you can sing out loud and dance through the music you like. If you’re expecting a well mannered and stand-like-a-stone crowd, maybe you should just listen to MP3 at home. Don’t get me wrong, I spend money for this night and I don’t want it to be ruined by some nonsense skeptical person. I just want to enjoy what I think I can enjoy there.

Anyways, all songs from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix were played except Fences... But they played my all time favorites like: If I Ever Feel Better, Funky Squaredance, Rally, Too Young and Run, Run, Run. And they’re also playing Playground Love by AIR, which was sung beautifully by Thomas Mars. 1901 was played at the very end of the show with a spectacular climax. Everybody’s cheering; I even felt the ground quaking.

All in all, Phoenix performance in Jakarta was beyond great! They’re a group of humble people who went down the stage in the middle of the show to greet their fans. And Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is one of the greatest albums I’ve ever heard. I’m not really a music maniac, but yet I can easily enjoy their music and sing along quite fluently all through the album.

Salute phoenix!

'til we meet again ;)

...
Acres
Visible illusion
Where it starts it ends
Love like a sunset
...

My dad is sick :(

Well I have to admit, my dad is not the healthiest person in the world. From heart disease, stroke, diabetes to high tension, you name it, he's going all through that stuffs. It's a sad fact, I know. But what can I do :(

So this morning, when I just sat on my office chair and have a little chit chat with my friend; my sister called and said dad fell off at the office. So nothing much to say, I jump up and joined her to the hospital he was taken to. It was like the longest journey I have ever had. Too much thoughts crossed my mind. I cannot bear to continue my own silent words of "what happened...", "what if...". I took a lot of effort to hold my tears up and trying hard to think only the positive ones.

I arrived at the ER of Omni Medical Care in Pulo Mas. The hospital that we thought was named 'OngkoMulyo' are now changing names into the most avoided hospital in Jakarta, due to their bad reputation regarding Ibu Prita's case. So of course we double panicked.

Dad was lying there with eyes closed. I thought he was unconscious, but thank God, turned out he was just closing his eyes. His colleagues was there, they said he almost fell of from his chair (a friend caught him) and his blood tension was at 70/40 the moment he was taken to the ER. Horror. I don't even have the heart to imagine such things. But again, thanks to his good friends who act relatively fast, my dad is at least saved from the bigger horror that might happened that day. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank God.

So now my father is relatively stable. His blood tension is still below the rate. But supposedly an 'intensive care unit' would do him good. We're planning to move him to RSPI as soon as he transportable tomorrow. No offense, but this hospital is just way too far from our houses and offices. And all of my dad's record are kept in RSPI, so we thought it would be our best decision to do so.

And for now...
I only hope for my dad's total recovery.

Love me love them.

ffffound

You get all
But why can't you give more?
Like come knocking on their door
Trying to torture me more?

Big love they carry
Never complain and envy
Just trying to love you most dearly
Hoping to be loved equally

Make a good point
But please don't disappoint

Just love me, love them.

the sisterhood of deserted hearts

*

Blood leads us here
Same genes but not exactly
Hugs and kisses, only seen on TV
Somewhat family, but why like this?

All kinds of weather
Do we stick together?
Or do we even bother?
Even the neighbors can do it better

The blood stays in body, not in soul
Why can’t we be whole?
All fall will stroll
Might be fun like rock n’ roll

But none above is in my control

Take Me Back to You

There's always something when I take a look at you
Like the way I smile when I see your morning sun
Or when your wind breezes to my hello

There you keep a place of friendship and laughter for me
a place to dream high under the big deep trees
where all the creativity nests and you set me free

Take me back to your deepest core
Take me back and I'll love you even more

a little souvenir for Angga & Diah

The news came early, that our dearest friend Diah & Angga are about to be signed at Romania as their first assignment on foreign affair department of Indonesia. Whew... this is something big. We sure are going to miss them dearly...

So I made this little souvenir for them... a postponed project that should have been done years ago as their wedding gift. But hey, nothing is ever too late when it comes to good deeds. So... :)

a tribute to dzeek

A blessing may come in the most unexpected ways. I’ve said this before and now I said it again. I don’t care, but I do feel blessed. :)

As my previous post, I was invited to one of my good friend’s band performance: dzeek at alun-alun Grand Indonesia. So there I went with my husband and one of my best friends.

Anyway, I did have a little sneak preview of the band on youtube. Well the music is making friends with my ears quite easily and it took me just a while to decide that I’m a proud fan of dzeek ;). But still, watching live performance is another thing for me. So yeah, I was really enjoying the show. Imam greeted us between the songs. Some of his words that I captured was “this album is dedicated to both of you, the whole billion copies of it”. I was like “Yaaay Imam… Yaaay dzeek…” I didn’t even understand what the billion copies stand for. I’m pretty happy already, knowing that he personally invited us to the launching and that he will give us the album himself as a wedding gift for us.

So after the performance was over, he brought the CD and opened the cover for us. He took us to the page where his name is printed on it and pointed his finger to the words below it. There goes my name and my husband’s name, printed well between his wedding wishes for us.

All I could say was “WOOOOW”… “THANK YOOOOU”…. WOOOOW”… “THANK YOOOOU”… over and over again. I was really out of words, I didn’t even know what to say to him. This was really beyond my expectation. I feel really blessed. Thank you God for sending me good and loving friends into my life. I hope I can make them smile in the future, just the way they made a smile on my face today. I am truly blessed.

Thank you Imam. Thank you dzeek.

May you live happily ever after too ;) .

by the way,

i really like the last song that I suspect, titled as ‘final call’. But I just can’t help but wonder, why they put a pretty long pause from the previous song? I’ve almost thought that the song is not even there.

Hehe, just curious though ;)

the sweetest gift ever

I love gifts.

But sometimes, when you got the most unexpected gifts from the most surprising friend, you will have to leave your jaws opened for a moment. This afternoon, I received a message from a good old friend of mine. He said that he’s going to launch his band’s second album: dzeek, at alun-alun – Grand Indonesia, this June 21th.

For reasons I have failed to understand, he’s inviting me and my husband to the launching because he wants to give us the album himself, as a wedding gift for us. I’m so happy and honored; I have almost shed a tear while reading it. I mean, my wedding is like months ago, I didn’t even expect any presents anymore. And because we do like their music and we know that this launching is important to him, this will become the sweetest gift we’ve ever received.

Thank you dearest Imam,

This gift will be remembered forever :)

the long lost life

I’m a copywriter. But yet I’ve never really succeeded in expressing my own feelings into words. It is a shameful fact, I know. But I did try to fight… and I’m still trying…

These, on the other hand, are a few expressions that I eventually managed to write down. I don’t say that these are good writings. But they are giving me vivid memories of a few crossroads I’ve been facing back then. And of course, that crossroads lead me here.

Later I found out that these writing were about to be vanished from its blog. I must do something.

So here we are :)

I’m still having the same old problem, though. But I hope I can manage some time to let myself free for once in a while.

This should be a good sign to start over again.

Wish me luck!