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tuesday.dienstag.mardi_jun29_04
 
  found this interesting building in art center, denpasar, last friday...


 
 
monday.montag.lundi_jun28_04
 
  last friday we only worked for half day , then we used the other half for visiting exhibition in art center, denpasar, where they held pesta kesenian bali. the exhibition was awful , we did much much better exhibiton back in university when we were still student.

  sepulangnya, waktu gue lagi parkir mobil, gue menemukan temen gue lagi duduk di teras. di tengah kesendiriannya, dia ngajak gue nonton mocca! gue suka tuh hal2 yg tiba2 & ga direncanakan. maka, berangkatlah kami menuju hrbc. disana, temen gue ketemu temen2nya yg lain & kita diajakin masuk tanpa bayar!! this is the first time for mocca in bali. tapi kita ternyata kepagian, masih nunggu2 dulu. pas lagi nunggu2, tiba2 ada yg nelfon . senangnya , ada org nun jauh disana yg nemenin ngobrol pas lagi nunggu.

mocca was sweet & cute . bahkan gue ketemu temen gue yg bawa anaknya umur 2 thn kesana. tapi mereka cuman tampil bentaran , paling cuman 8 lagu.    
I share my dreams and all my stories
I don't think I need my diary
If you're teasing me, don't you worry?
I will keep you in my memories


-- me and my boyfriend - mocca

 
 
friday.freitag.vendredi_jun25_04
 
 
bali is starting its high season now, it means:
  kuta is getting crowded
  the extinction of parking space
  beach is not a convinient place to visit anymore
  traffic jam everywhere
  the prices for anything related with tourism go up

someone who used to live here, came to bali last weekend for vacation . after six months of his absence, there were so many stories to share...
had rendrez-vous at
deja vu.
btw,
congrats for the thing
the drainage project in kuta is still not done yet. there are still some holes on the pavement, so be careful when you walk , you can get trapped!
we visited a really really ugly place yesterday.
it's so ugly so we felt like we should
bomb the place
  i'm reading prodigal summer by barbara kingsolver *hi peaceful *, but it's not as good as poisonwood bible *a dissapointment *, but i'm still reading it anyway

watched some movies from festivals: elephant, osama, and all about my mother.

even they were in festivals, it isn't guaranteed that they're good, right?
     

planning for a new vacation?

 
 
wedneday.mittwoch.mercredi_jun23_04
 
  You and your plans. You know what my grandmother used to say? If you want to make God laugh... tell Him your plans.

-- from amores perros

 
 
monday.montag.lundi_jun21_04
 
  view dari jendela kantor gue:

ade rai lagi ngobrol!
hehehe...


 
 
monday.montag.lundi_jun21_04
 
 
telah terbit, SPICE! sebuah tabloid baru, yg kebetulan karena ada temen gue yg kerja disana, gue dikirimin . gue dapet edisi pertamanya udah rada2 telat, jadi kayaknya skrg udah keluar edisi keduanya deh.

tabloidnya
penuh warna , *depannya aja pink banget*, penuh gambar, satu tipe sama cita cinta gitu deh, tapi menurut gue lebih spt cosmo dlm bentuk tabloid. kertasnya baguuus banget. jadi pada beli deh, ga rugi kok, cuma rp. 7000, mumpung masih harga promosi .
 

dapatkan di tempat2 penjualannya terdekat! sampe bali juga udah ada

 
 
wedneday.mittwoch.mercredi_jun16_04
 
  ages ago, when i was still in school, i used to hate writing so much. gave me some math equations or told me to draw, i would do it hundred times happier than writing an essay . now it is so funny that i change so much. i can't even do some simple math equation and it has been a long time since i draw manually.

my blog is
my first writing outside the school assignments. but blog is much fun , because i don't have to care about the content, grammar, spellings, etc and sometimes i just made up my own language . and i also don't have to care if people read it or not, like it or not .

a few weeks ago, a friend come to me, asked me to help him in a project and my task would be
writing some descriptions. i said i couldn't help him since i'm not good in writing at all *this guy has no idea about my blog, how could he chosed me?? *. a few days ago he asked me again for the second time and convinced me that i can do it since the writing has something to do with my background.

since he's a good friend of mine , and i think it won't hurt to give a try , i took the project. so now, here i am, writing some descriptions in english for two resorts in maldives. and yupe! it much much harder than writing a blog. the datai that i posted yesterday was just an exercise. it was much easier since it has a lot of references. but the one that i'm working on now almost has no reference at all, it doesn't even exist!

    talking about maldives, it was a place that i almost never heard about before. but since living in bali, the place become more and more familiar. like bali, it is a tropical paradise with resorts , described as 'the last paradise on
earth with pure white beaches and brilliant turquoise lagoons'. located on indian ocean, south west of india, but unlike bali, it is a group of 1,190 coral islands, so the resorts are built on separate islands.

 
 
tuesday.dienstag.mardi_jun15_04
 
 
the datai, the award winner ghm resort, located in the middle of rain forest on langkawi island in malaysia. the island is on the andaman sea in the north west of malaysia near thai border. it is the biggest island from the archipelago of 104 islands with wonderful white beaches and relatively untouched natural landscape.

the resort complex is perched
on the ridge, with the dining pavillion at the rear end as the most spectacular building, consists of 84 rooms and 40 pavillion suites scattered throughout the forest.

designed by a singapore-based architect, kerry hill, it is inspired by the traditional malay houses.


 
 
monday.montag.lundi_jun14_04
 
 
did midnite for harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban last weekend. it wasn't as crowded as troy's midnite since some of our friends chosed to watch the euro 2004 live on tv rather than harry potter. it suprised me that the little children nowadays watch movie in midnite!!

the movie was
better than i expected. actually this is the first harry potter's movie that i read from the book. and the one that i like so much was this one didn't end up with the fight
 
between harry and voldemort *and harry is always in the winning side, of course*.

 
 
monday.montag.lundi_jun14_04
 
  minggu lalu, tiba2 gue ditelfon dari tempat gue biasa sewa film. katanya, mereka baru mengadakan undian & gue memenangkan hadiah berupa sebuah dvd player!! gue bukannya seneng, malahan bingung , sedih , resah , gundah gulana , dll *seneng dikit juga sih * soalnya selama ini gue selalu nyewa film pake kartu atas nama temen gue & temen gue itu udah setahunan pindah ke jakarta *liat aja deh postingan gue tgl 18 oktober 2003*. gue blom pernah menang undian apapun dlm hidup gue, sekalinya menang, atas nama org lain *aaaaargh *.

karena sayang hadiahnya gak diambil , akhirnya gue bikinin aja surat kuasa , & gue menjanjikan temen gue itu hadiahnya bakal dibagi 2. setelah gue dapet dvd player-nya, giliran gue yg bingung gimana bagi 2-nya. gue tawar2in ke temen2 gue yg lain, tapi mereka semua nawar2 dgn
harga kejam . akhirnya gue tawarin aja ke temen gue itu apa dia mau uang atau gue kirimin aja dvd player gue yg lama. ternyata karena dia emang blom punya dvd player, dia lebih suka dikirimin dvd player gue yg lama, soalnya kalo uang suka gak jelas abisnya.

so i get a new dvd player , problem solved , and everyone is happy .

ps: temen kantor gue bilang walaupun dvd player gue skrg keren , tetep aja kalo misalnya gue nonton troy,
gak bikin filmnya jadi menang oscar. hehe...

 
 
friday.freitag.vendredi_jun11_04
 
 
  somehow this lay out reminds me of my september 2003 lay out.

are they
similar??
 
 
thursday.donnerstag.jeudi_jun10_04
 
 
My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In newspaper photos of missing girl from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair. This was before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail. It was still back when people believe things like that didn't happen.
 
……………………

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world."


-- the lovely bones - alice sebold

 
 
tuesday.dienstag.mardi_jun08_04
 
  a friend: you lived in vienna, right? you should watched before sunset
me: i've seen it
9 years ago
a friend: ok, so probably the one that i saw was the remake of it
me: wait... did you say 'before sunrise' or 'before sunset'?
a friend: before sunset
me: can't be true, it will be release
next month
a friend:
live in jakarta. you can get anything you want.

isn't it so cool , you can get a movie
before it is released??
pantesan aja, bule2 itu kalap kalo beli2 film disini
yupe! i'm back to
the movie world . lagi ada orang baek yg supply gue dgn pilem2 neh . these are two of them:

 
i like this one , a brazilian movie about someone whose job writing letter for illiterate people. but don't think that she was a wonderful person, she was very very mean , and she wouldn't send the letter for the people she didn't like. until one day she met a little boy whose mother just passed away in front of her after writing a letter to the father of her son. so with only half-heartedly, she helped the little boy finding his father by taking journey across
the country.
the
train station in rio reminded me to the ones in indonesia, where they were so crowded and people get in the train through the windows!!

i thought this one is one of those typical hollywood living in concentration camp during nazi era . but it's not bad and pretty original. about the life of dr. gisela perl, a jewish gynecologist, living in auschwitz *the biggest and the most famous concentration camp in poland*. she was from sighet, hungary. i think what they mean was szeged. because i never heard any city in hungary called sighet , but i can be wrong of course. btw, she helped about 1000 women in the
 
concentration camp to have abortion because if they were caught being pregnant, they were the first ones to be killed .

 
 
monday.montag.lundi_jun07_04
 
 
  setelah sekitar 3 mingguan, akhirnya postcard vancouver dari monique sampe juga hari jumat kemaren *makasih banyak yah *.

karena akhir2 ini bali lagi sering ujan , postcard-nya rada2
kehujanan gitu
pas gue terima *kasian banget *. tapi gue seneng banget deh udah dapet postcard dari jauh gini.

and i also got this one from kwetiauw . a good one, right? soalnya gue ga bisa bikin yg kayak gituan .  
 
 
friday.freitag.vendredi_jun04_04
 
  hal pertama yg gue lakukan begitu sampe kantor adalah naro tas gue diatas meja. my bag is so big so everyone always makes fun of it and very very curious with what it inside.

"your bag is so big, what is inside?"
"
a monster."

i'm
the only girl in this big room, so the others usually have those typical boring, black, rectangular bag, or black backpack.

my bag is
so big so sometimes i think i can fit my whole life there.

 
 
wedneday.mittwoch.mercredi_jun02_04
 
 
life of pi is such unusual book. it's about a 16-years-old boy named pi (from piscine, the french word for swimming pool ), lived in pondicherry, india and his father owned a zoo there. one day when he was on his way from india to canada with his family (including the animals in their zoo) on a cargoship, the ship got accident and he found himself on a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger named richard parker. later, most of them were killed and  
he only left wondering on the pacific ocean with richard parker the tiger. after 200 and something days, he landed in somewhere in mexico.

i got bored in the part of story of his adventour on the ocean. it was too long and too detail. but the end part, when he had
interview with the japaneses was funny . the story has many things to do with the animals. sometimes i couldn't imagine the shapes of some of them such as sloth, meerkat, mongoose, and hyena *this one was the villain in the lion king*. so i had to cry for help often to google image.

  someone borrowed me l'appartement. a french movie with monica bellucci in it. it's weird but kinda good. about the fate of the present the result of someone's lie 2 years ago.
 
 
tuesday.dienstag.mardi_jun01_04
 
  The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possesive love that grabs at what it can.

-- Life of Pi - Yann Martel