 Senangmya.. Oscar udah selesai bikin Roket Tintin pesanan Rizki. Yaay! Bisa deh liburan..hihihi.. Selama masa pengerjaan, Oscar harus berhasil menterjemahkan gambar Herge ke bentuk 3 dimensi, khususnya bentuk cerutu yang tepat itu bagaimana. Cerutu? Bukannya ngomongin roket? Hehehe..iya, ini mengutip istilah Captain Haddock yang menyebut roket bikinan Prof.Calculus ini sebagai "peti mati berbentuk cerutu". Kesulitan lain, karena di panel komik Petualangan Di Bulan setiap gambar roket itu kan cuma satu sisi doang, (yang kelihatan cuma 33 kotak perbaris horisontal), mau ngga mau harus mengira-ngira jumlah kotak belang merah putih yang ada pada roket. Penasaran melihat hasil akhirnya? Klik aja ke sini ya: Roket Tintin
 Have you noticed, people change? Whether they change how they looks, behaviour, gestures.. I have so many old friends. I found a friend are ignorant to even bother replying e-mails or SMS..but once I visited her home, I knew she was so happy. I remember my friend X, who loved to snap to anybody around her, but she now turns to be the most warm-hearted girl I've ever knew! I hope I can always be a pleasant friend for all of you from time to time! :)
وَلَا تَهِنُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنْتُمُ الْأَعْلَوْنَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ
(139)
So lose not heart, nor fall into despair: For ye must gain mastery if ye are true in Faith. (سورة آل عمران: ١٣٩)
Manusia Bertanya :
Bolehkah aku frustrasi ?
Qur'an Menjawab :
Janganlah kamu bersikap lemah, dan janganlah (pula) kamu bersedih hati, padahal kamulah orang-orang yang paling tinggi
(derajatnya), jika kamu orang-orang yang beriman.
(Ali Imraan : 139)
 Ngga banyak kok, paling cuma berlima. Itupun wanita semua. Hehehe. Almy-Rina- Esta-Zulia dan aku. Sayang sekali Dhianty ngga bisa ikut, Ulfa sedang hamil besar, dan aku kehilangan kontak Emma. Kami dulu sekelas di SD Harapan 2 Medan. Almy melanjutkan S2-nya di Jerman dan kini menetap di Amerika, Esta sekarang di Medan, lalu sisanya kami semua di Jakarta, sibuk ngurus keluarga kecil masing-masing. Di antara teman-teman SD, kayaknya baru aku dan Dhianti yang belum dikasih bayi..jadi kalau mereka udah pada heboh ngobrolin pernik anak-anak mudah2an aku masih bisa nyambung. Heheheh! Kayaknya malam ini reuni pun tidak dihadiri para jagoan, teman-teman sekelas kami seperti suamiku Oscar, Bobby, Dovan, Mediansyah maupun Rusdi. Well, the show must go on. Can't wait for tonight! :)
 Sudah waktunya. Buku-buku dalam lemari di rumahku itu harus kukeluarkan dan kurapikan. Lalu harus aku daftar ulang lagi. Kususun lagi sesuai genre-nya. Aku kan pelupa. Mumpung ingat aku meminjamkan dua buah buku ke Wahyu ( Dragon Keeper dan Ramadhan di Jawa), lalu ada buku yang masih di Poppy ( Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language) Padahal siapa tahu banyak harta karun terpendam di lemari itu (pastinya sih ada). Hmm..nanti kalau udah beberes mungkin bisa pamer. Heheh!
Ini dia...soalnya toko online-ku mau jualan. Hihihi! Ada yang mau datang dan ikutan bermain? Daftar yuk! Diperpanjang kok masa pendaftarannya! 
Caller: Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan ?
Operator: Yes, you can speak to me.
Caller : No, I want to speak to Annie Wan!
Operator: Yes I understand you want to speak to anyone. You can speak to me. Who is this?
Caller : I'm Sam Wan. And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It's urgent.
Operator: I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone ! But what's this urgent matter about?
Caller: Well... just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother Noe Wan was involved in an accident. Noe Wan got injured and now Noe Wan is being sent to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan is on his way to the hospital.
Operator : Look, if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital, then the accident isn't an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don't have time for this!
Caller: You are so rude! Who are you?
Operator: I'm Saw Ree.
Caller: Yes! You should be sorry . Now give me your name!!
Operator: That's what I said. I'm Saw Ree .
Caller: Oh .......God!!!!
 You know sometimes bad online habits can become very addictive :) I'd like to know whether I am quite normal or not. Hehhe! 
 by Raj Dash Whether you freelance or not, if you’re like many working adults, you probably find yourself wishing there was more time in the week. If you work at home, time has an unusual way of slipping by. (I’m probably less productive now than when I worked in an office somewhere, though there are several other factors at play.) At the end of the week, you might be wondering why you didn’t get more work done, as might your clients! Recognizing Your Work Demons With all the web technologies out there, it’s tough for web workers in particular to keep up, and sometimes bad online habits can become very addictive. These could be some of the things that are holding you back from freelance success. Here are some of my work-demons, often the result of poor work habits: - IM. Satisfying friends’ “need it now” social voting requests via AIM.
- Twitter. Getting distracted by incoming Twitter tweets (via the Twhirl client) and an even more addictive Twitter-like service, Plurk. (My addiction used to be Google’s MyMaps, or any kind of mapping mashup.)
- Email. Being signed into GMail all day (tsk tsk), and obsessively checking for new messages, only to waste time mostly filtering spam.
- Comments. Visiting sites where I write, to see if I need to respond to any comments. (I don’t always get an email alert, despite “subscribing” to the comments of a post.)
- TV. Turning on the TV capture card on my computer, and telling myself I “need” to watch something in particular, to get ideas for blog posts.
- Being indecisive. Fooling myself into believing I can start several projects for one client and not deciding which to finish for the week. This is anti-productivity (but is not the same as multi-tasking). It doesn’t work, and nothing done means no dinero.
- Over-booking work. Taking on too much work because I don’t like to tell people “no.” As my online brand grew, the number of offers grew — though not being selective results in damaging to my reputation.
- Attempting too much. Trying to cover way too much in a project. For example, trying to do a “31 and a half reasons” list instead of five, seven or maybe eleven good, well-thought out reasons that you can elaborate on. This over-reaching comes from an abject need to give that cliched “110%” on a project. The net result is performance anxiety and incomplete projects.
- Working at home. This environment has its benefits, though there are many home-related distractions.
Ways to Fool the Anti-Muse For years, when I was not writing creatively for a living, I had a writing muse, even a coding muse. However, sometime before I started freelance blogging full-time, that muse started going AWOL, showing up less and less often, occasionally replaced with an anti-muse. Here are some of the strategies I have to employ to fool that anti-muse: - Use two computers/ laptops.
Run email and chat clients on one computer, A, and do work on the other, B. If you have a few people that need to communicate with you daily, set up a secret IM username and make sure they don’t give it out. This has worked very well for me. (I still do social voting for other online friends who either ask via email or use a social site’s “shout” feature.) You can still turn on IM accounts on computer A less frequently in the day. It’s easier to adhere to an “I’m only available on IM at such and such times of the day” rule. (Using two computers is not an option for everyone, but if you freelance at a home, and web-work is how you earn your living, you should think about having a backup computer anyway.) - Tune out.
If computer A is getting too distracting with all the incoming message/tweet sounds, turn off the audio. The Twitter client Twhirl, for example, is configurable so that only incoming direct messages will cause a “beep”. That’s far less distracting than beeps on every tweet, and will alert you to when you might need to respond. In extreme cases, turn things off. - Turn off.
If tuning out doesn’t help, turn off computer A’s screen and only check back once every few hours, or when you complete an important task. If you’re only working on one computer, just shut down all communications applications for a few hours. I have successfully tried answering emails only at lunch and supper times. It’s not easy for the perpetually distracted, but it’s possible. Just ask yourself, will any truly urgent message ever come in via email, IM, or Twitter? Probably not. So turn them off for now. - Seek virtual company.
TV is a terrible distraction, and even if I’m “researching” ideas for pop culture articles, the TV eventually needs to be turned off. This is difficult for a TV addict, and if you’re at home and feeling lonely, it’s even worse. Listening to music sometimes helps, though everyone has their own idea of what type of music is productive or not - I prefer Baroque music, some types of opera, and occasionally rock - unless I feel compelled to sing along to Pavarotti or Rage Against the Machine. Spoken-word podcasts, on the other hand, nearly always work for me. On the other hand, I find that the spoken voice is at least soothing and rarely counter-productive. (This does not work for TV by leaving on audio and turning off the video simply because there’s too much content transition.) Another option is to simply set aside a bit of TV watching time, or take a short break at the local cafe - though I haven’t the discipline to pull the latter off. (I think this is something that varies a lot between different people. For example, I can’t listen to music with lyrics or have the TV on when I’m writing because I can’t tune it out. — Ed.) - Choose your battles.
If too many projects for one client inhabit my mind and I can’t decide which to work on, I’ll try to suss out which requires the least time to complete and pick that one. If that’s no help, maybe it’s time to work on another client’s project. Still not productive? Maybe it’s time for a break. - Consider outsourcing.
If you’re taking on too much work, there are only a few possible outcomes: - Say “yes” and lose more of your personal time to get the work done, possibly having to outsource some of your personal tasks. Downside: more work, less play time.
- Say “yes” and don’t finish the work. Downside: damage your reputation (even if your intentions were good).
- Say “no”. Downside: losing a potential client.
- Say “yes” and delegate some of the work to a colleague or other freelancer. Downside: you’re on the hook for the quality of the work.
- Respect yourself.
For those of us who had to be competitive in our early years, and lived with that stupid “put in 110% effort” motto, it’s time for some self-respect. You’re more valuable to your clients when you complete 100% of a project on time rather than trying to offer 110+% and not getting anything done. Striving for perfection is fine if you don’t get obsessed — especially on flat-rate projects. Respect yourself and your clients, and streamline your “100%” effort so that 110% isn’t necessary. - Resolve your distractions.
Every home-based freelancer will have different distractions, but do what you must to resolve them. Where I work, there are birds, cats, dogs and occasionally young men driving by in their loud cars. I have a very small window for my podcast recording work each week, and I try to schedule everything around this, if I have the luxury.
Final Thoughts If the anti-muse has been visiting you far too often, some of the above might help. A few might seem anti-social, though when you’re a freelancer, it’s hard to justify being social if you’re not putting food on the table. What distracts you when you’re working, whether at home, in a cafe, library or office? How do you cope with your work demons? Read also: http://www.studymatrixart.com/blog/smx-spotlight/keys-to-time-management
Welcome to P I C T U R E P E R F E C T This is week 7 of our Competition and you have three days to submit a picture, after which the Top Ten Pictures will be selected by our panel of admins and posted up in a poll on Saturday morning (PST). The poll will run for 24hours (as requested by the public!) and the winner will be announced on Sunday morning! ~ Each week a theme will be posted up on Wednesday, and you are invited to put up your best picture with that theme in mind, it should be only ONE picture please and it should be YOURS not off the internet, not a friends picture but your very own No slide shows please, and no automatic music on the page Then come back and post a comment on this page
so that everyone can link to your blog and see your pic.
By all means mention your camera and lens used, and if the picture has been altered or enhanced in anyway! Out of the box thinking is encouraged!! Please open your page for viewing for all for that day...and then visit as many others as you can! Try and post a decent size pic on your blog page, so much is lost if the pic is too small or too big. Good Luck, and have fun out there!! ..ooOoo..
~*~Freedom~*~ 
Change is freedom, change is life.
The frangipani trees reflects the festive of life.
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power,
and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free."
Jim Morrison
 | Yaay! | Jul 1, '08 1:50 AM
for everyone |
 Akhirnya datang juga! Setelah hiatus selama sebulan, aku menemukan tempat buat beli bola styrofoam murmer, tapi harus beli banyak. Daripada musti beli di mayestik dengan harga mahal, ternyata bisa dapat banyak dengan harga murah lewat internet dari distributor di Semarang. Aku pesan 20 mm Moulded polystyrene ball. ( Aprox 3/4 inches ) Baiklah! Minidolls-ku kembali diproduksi! :) Mohon maaf ya buat yang udah pesan lama tapi belum sempat dirampungkan gara-gara bola ini.. :)
I feel numb. Monotone. Cold. Old. Empty. I need a refreshing. a getaway to rejuvenate regenerate. I blame to my workspace. It should be warm, welcoming....inspirational. It has to reflect a positive culture, foster imagination, thinking, creativity. I should add some positive energy: Flower? Bright color? A good lighting? Any idea?
| RSVP | Jun 27, '08 4:00 AM
for everyone |
 " Répondez s'il vous plaît", a French phrase that translates to "reply, if you please". It is with this meaning that invitation cards and similar documents are often marked with "R.S.V.P." It is standard practice to reply to an RSVP request whether confirming attendance or declining. Do you answer RSVP for any invitation? This is a noble way to honor the host/ess. But sometimes we (and I) are to ignorant to pay attention. This posting is as a friendly reminder to me (and hope imply to you)..
Welcome to P I C T U R E P E R F E C T This is week 6 of our Competition and you have three days to submit a picture, after which the Top Ten Pictures will be selected by our panel of admins and posted up in a poll on Saturday morning (PST). The poll will run for 24hours (as requested by the public!) and the winner will be announced on Sunday morning! ~ Each week a theme will be posted up on Wednesday, and you are invited to put up your best picture with that theme in mind, it should be only ONE picture please and it should be YOURS not off the internet, not a friends picture but your very own No slide shows please, and no automatic music on the page Then come back and post a comment on this page
so that everyone can link to your blog and see your pic.
By all means mention your camera and lens used, and if the picture has been altered or enhanced in anyway! Out of the box thinking is encouraged!! Please open your page for viewing for all for that day...and then visit as many others as you can! Try and post a decent size pic on your blog page, so much is lost if the pic is too small or too big. Good Luck, and have fun out there!! ..ooOoo.. T W I S T E D
Life is like a twist.
Sometimes you must struggle to achieve your goal,
sometimes you must let it flow..
I ordered this beautiful necklace from a nice friend.
Look at the perfect twists of silver-plated wire she made
to keep the blue stone safe in its place.
 Setelah memukai di film Sweeney Todd, aku menunggunya di film berikut: Ternyata sejak 21 Jump Street aku ngga salah pilih gebetan. hihihi!
 Yaay! I finally found th reason why I pick my online name. It was buried in my old post on Livejournal, on March 7, 2002. That time I was looking for a name for my homepage. So I tried an online name generator in Barrowdowns, a site for Lord of The Rings Community. That site is now no longer provide the name generator, but you may try other generator here.
Image above is a Tengwar for Aranolein.
Aranólë Find your elf name! My Elf name is: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The root name suitable for feminine and masculine is: Aranólë Another masculine version is: Aranólëion More feminine versions are: Aranólëiel Aranólëien Aranólëwen * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
 ARE YOU REASON, A SEASON, OR A LIFETIME? Pay attention to what you read. After you read this, you will know the reason it was sent to you! People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. When someone is in your life for a REASON. . . It is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on. Then people come into your life for a SEASON. Because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season. LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons: things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant. Thank you for being a part of my life. -- I found this posting from my old blog :) It's nice to dig some old treasures ;)
Internet people love acronyms because they make communication much more efficient, as we can see from the following typical conversation:
Person A: What's up?
Person B: Not much.
Person A: LOL. HEFY?
Person B: ROTFL.
Person C: PMFJ, but IMHO,
OJIOGBUOLSWMR
TJVAIFWNTMITSI
HDHGCOAC.
source: Dave Barry, Dave Barry In Cyberspace
Tapi perhatikan deh, bahkan belakangan ini semua orang semakin malas menulis kata dan kalimat dengan lengkap. Kalau bisa disingkat lebih baik.
Tapi kan bete bener kalau terus-terusan di sms ama orang kayak gini:
"Hi, q udh psn brg yg kmrn. Trz gmn sc gbna?"
 Anne, you are Yellow!
Your aura is yellow. You are fun-loving free-spirited, energetic, and childlike. You have a great sense of humor and love to laugh and make others laugh. You want to enjoy life and therefore work is not as important to you. What's your Aura?Find out here!
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