Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Oscar 78th (pendapat orang biasa)

Ada apa dengan acara academy awards ke 78 tahun ini??? Bisa dibilang hasilnya kurang memuaskan para pecintanya dan para penggemar film dunia termasuk saya yang biasanya menjadi pendengar setia para pemenang Oscar sejak dinobatkannya Shakespeare in Love di tahun 1999.

Brokeback Mountain
yang dijagokan menjadi film terbaik tahun 2005 terkalahkan oleh film tentang perbedaan ras di Los Angels, CRASH. Ironisnya lagi Crash mengalahkan film si koboi homo dengan jumlah perolehan penghaargaan yang sama, 3 oscar untuk Brokeback dan 3 oscar untuk Crash.

Saya masih ingat ketika film Braveheartnya Mel Gibson menjadi film terbaik 1995 para kritikus dunia sudah menyebutnya sebagai nilai rapot merah dalam sejarah Oscar. Adapun penyebabnya karena film tersebut hanya mampu meraih 5 oscar dari 10 nominasi untuk menjadi film terbaik di tahun itu. Kalau begitu bolehkah saya menyebut tahun 2005 kemarin adalah tahun kebobrokan film dunia?

Para pengamat dunia berkomentar bahwa kualitas film-film yang menjadi nominasi Oscar tahun 2006 ini tidak sebagus tahun sebelumnya. Sebut saja film-film tenar di ajang Oscar 2005 seperti Finding Neverland, The Aviatornya Leonardo di Caprio, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, dan tentu saja pemenang film terbaik Million dollar baby .
Ngomong-ngomong soal bagus-bagusan, sebernarnya, Million Dollar Baby yang memenangkan 4 Oscar di tahun 2005 kalah jauh dari film terbaik tahun sebelumnya apa lagi kalau bukan The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King yang memenangkan 9 Oscar termasuk Gollumnya.

Menurut saya pribadi sebetulnya film-film di tahun 2005 tidak sejelek yang dibicarakan koq. Maklum karena saya orang awam jadi cuma menonton film-film yang menurut saya bagus lalu memberikan penilaian setelah menonton. Jadi mohon maaf saja kalau filmnya koboi homo dan Crash terlewatkan dari daftar nonton saya (hahahaha....sepertinya hal ini juga dipengaruhi oleh keterbatasan saya sebagai student yang duitnya pas-pasan jadi ngapain nonton semua film ya ga???). Berikut adalah film-film yang sudah saya tonton dan masuk nominasi Oscar.
  • Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire--> Harrynya udah gedhe, Hermionne nya cakep..tambah seru saja sayang tidak menang apa-apa :p
  • The Chronicle of Narnia:The Witch, The Lion, and The Wardrobe-->film keren karya Walt Disney, biar dibilang cuma versi baru dari produksi sebelumnya atau visual efeknya pas-pasan..tetap saja masih keren nyatanya tidak perlu pakai efek aneh-aneh Narnia meraih penghargaan untuk tata rias terbaik.
  • Memoirs of Geisha-->Nonton di Komputer rumah alias download; gambarnya keren pemandangannya bagus sayang suaranya kurang jelas. Apa ini karena saya menonton film download-an atau karena yang menjadi pemainnya bukan native speakers?
  • King Kong--> King Kong badannya besar tapi sayang kakinya pendek...lalalala..film yang seharusnya sedih dan mengharukan ini menjadi lebih hidup, memiliki unsur komedi yang tidak dibuat-buat, dan menjadi lebih mengharukan di tangan arahan Peter Jackson. Apa lagi dengan sound effect yang menggelegar ketika Kong bertarung dengan Rex. Tak diragukan lagi kalau penghargaain sound editing dan sound mixing jatuh ke tangan film ini (kaya kejatuhan duren kali yak...). Adegan di King Kong lama dan King Kong yang baru adalah ketika si Kong membawa cewek kesayangannya sambil memanjat gedung pencakar langit.
  • Munich--> sebenarnya saya tidak ada rencana menonton film pembantaian atlet Israel di ajang olimpiade di Jerman ini. Saya akui film ini efeknya bagus terutama buat adegan tembak-tembakan dan berdarah-darah. Yang main juga keren aktingnya bagus siapa lagi kalau bukan Eric Banan yang jadi Hulk dan sutradaranya pak Steven Spielberg. Sayang juga film ini tidak menang apa-apa dan reputasi pak Spielbergpun dikalahkan oleh Ang Lee yang tak lain adalah sutradaranya film koboi homo, Brokeback Mountain.
  • Walk The Line-->nonton di komputer juga. Kepingini nonton karena dengar-dengar pemeran utama cowok dan ceweknya memenangkan Globe Awards. Filmnya baguslah..banyak adegan menyanyinya. Sambil nonton sambil bertanya-tanya apakah mas Joaquin dan mbak Reesee benar-benar memiliki suara sebagus itu? Ternyata baru menonton setengah jalan..........saya ketiduran dan kemudian malah menonton Schindler's Listnya Steven Spielberg. Jadi...maaf kalau tidak bisa berkomentar apa-apa meskipun mbak Reesee jadi pemeran wanita terbaik tahun ini. (^o^)v *piss
Sekian dulu dan terima kasih.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Not born to cook but...


"I cannot cook" that was the sentence that I always told my friends in my first year in Holland. My roommate and not few of my other friends were really good in cooking and the good news they hardly cooked only for themselves. Honestly speaking, I really wasn't able to cook except boiling water, frying egg and other frozen food, and of course instant noodle. Even worse, I was a bad taster because I don't mind if it is too salty or not salty enough. For me, those cookings were simply much better than my cookings.

I didn't bluff about this cooking thing. Once I ever tried to cook a tomato soup with sausage and carrots for myself. It turned to be smelling good and looked delicious even my roommate admitted it because some minutes after she was tempted enough to taste it. Well, I don't think it is necessary to tell you what happened next..since afterwards she really forbade me to cook again and told me that from that time onward she would handle those cooking stuff in our room. Was it a good news (I mean when there was someone who cooked for me) or was that something that I should be shamed on as a woman?

Luckily I didn't have any boyfriend at that time. When finally I have one, I think that was the first time that I really wished to learn how to cook. However, to own such cooking ability in a short time was not as easy as turning the hand's palm. In the end, I ended up by having him cook for me instead I cooked for him and he never gave me a permission to cook anymore. Obviously, because my cooking would mostly turn out to be something weird and the taste was beyond your imagination (you know what I mean).

It is not that my efforts to learn cooking resulted in nothing. For very simple cuisines such as Tuna fried rice or friend noodle, I could make it quite well or at least eatable :p

Then I left for Sweden for a year. I think that was the best time to learn cooking and everybody would not hesitate to taste it because they never got any bad experience of my creations. Furhtermore, due to the fact my roomate and my friends were not there neither were my boyfriend and other people who used to cook for me, I had to make my own food to survive.

Now I can cook....normal foods. Even my friends and my boyfriend can trust what I am cooking now. Thanks GOD...He made everything possible.

This was something that finally made me believe when someone would like to progress in something, it is better to move to a new place or go to several place where you don't know before and none knows about you. Clearly because, people who stay in one place forever and never move out will get less chance to make significant progress or changes than those who always move from one to another place and meet new people. That's why people need experiences if they want to move forward.


END


Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Lead us not into temptation

"...lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one..." --bring us to follow Your way not to go with "my way"

(this writing is a reflection of the preach that I heard about two weeks ago)

Why should we ask Him not to lead us into temptation?

As a mortal human being, we often do not realize that we put ourselves into a problematic problem, which later on results in what it is called "a sin".

don't too fast to accuse Satan for all the sins that we have made. If you think it over, actually he just is sitting down, cheering us, and proudly looks at the sinful things we make everyday with a big big smile.

Yes, you may say he might be the project leader and the one who made the sinful proposal. But don't you think that we are still the boss who have the power to decide to do or turn down the plan, right?

Don't blame The Almighty Creator, if we fell into the temptations. God never tempt people and He cannot be tempted. What He is doing is testing us in order to purify and polish us to be shining like gold. It is true that Satan was asking a permission from God when he wanted to lure Job in order to prove JobĂ‚’s obedience towards God. It does not mean that God cooperates with Satan to tempt humans. In contrast, He has a full power over the good and evil, nothing can happen without his permission.

So, why does God let us fall into temptations?

Human is not created as a robot. God bless everyone with free will. A grace to choose, a gift to say no, even a gift to do everything that we want no matter it is bad or good. Remembering the Bruce Almighty movie, Bruce (Jim Carrey) could not force Grace Jenniferr Aniston) to love him again. That is something, which is totally up to each of us to do whatever with the gift.

The question is not about why God lets us into temptations but why we choose to tempt ourselves.

Say about the 3G cause; Girl, Gold, Glory or frankly, sex, money, and power. What is bigger and more tempting than these three sources that can bring us to the world most desirable pleasure.

If we know already those three are sources of temptations, why do we still bring ourselves into a temptation island (especially for students like us)?

  • By watching temptation island on tv
  • Visiting various porn websites
  • Reading adults kind stories
  • Forcing girlfriend or boyfriend to stay a night
  • By asking dad to send more money by saying a lie the living cost is too high or the school's fee is increasing, and so on.....
  • Or in contrast, working too hard, skipping many classes, and postpone to graduate just to stay longer in a country and earn money.....becoming money oriented.
  • By using the image of rich parents to get more respect, even worse to intimidate others
I don't say that I am clean from all of above. However, even God will never take our freedom of using the free will gift, He mentioned clearly the result of sins is dead and punishment in the eternity fire where people cannot die even they want to die. On the other hand, we cannot ask God not to tempt us because He simply never does BUT we can ask Him to forgive us, show the way, and drift us away from things that make us repeat the same mistake. I think that's why in His prayer He said to Father to lead us not into temptation because we are easily dragged to that wide and shinny road (where any kinds of temptations are waiting) than the narrow and difficult one.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Kosong

Sedang tidak ada ide. Semua yang terpikirkan tahu-tahu hilang begitu saja. Saya tidak tahu mau menulis apa sekarang. Mengapa saya menulis sekarang juga tidak jelas alasannya. Apakah ini sesuatu yang menyedihkan atau sesuatu yang perlu disyukuri karena segala macam pikiran hilang begitu saja termasuk hal-hal yang membuat hati gundah dan stress.

Kosong............apakah ini akibat overload atau memang sedang ingin nge-blank saja? Kalau memang sedang kepingin ngeblank saja, sebentar juga pikiran-pikiran baru akan masuk dan mungkin masalah-masalah lama mulai dapat diselesaikan satu per satu. Apa ini sama dengan refreshing??

Namun kalau sedang overload, mungkin semuanya akan terlupakan begitu saja seperti baru saja di-reset. Back to zero..........asal belum sampai gila atau kehilangan diri saja sepertinya tidak mengapa kalau harus kehilangan beberapa ingatan :p

Ah sudahlah..lama-lama kalau hal ini terus dipikirkan bisa-bisa makin sering overload.

Banyak belajar banyak yang lupa
Belajar sedikit sedikit pula yan lupa
Tidak belajar tidak ada yang terlupa...alias tidak tahu apa2..

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

A valentine's chronicle

I never knew before what the importance of Valentine's day. Even people often said valentine does not always mean you should spend with your boyfriend or girlfriend, but still they associate this red-pink-day with a couple's things.
Some days or a week ahead before 14 February, many TV commercials, newspaper advertisements offer a price for two or a special package for two.

I remembered those days, when I accompanied my girl-friends shopping various chocolates with a cute decoration such as a forever friend holding the chocolate or one red rose with a heart-shape "I love you" chocolate.

Also at school, sometime, those who had already got a lover, they exchanged gift one to another in front of their classmates that made the whole class shouted those yell "whohooooo....!!!" and the couple's cheeks turned red.

My friend who was sitting beside me told me excitingly that he was going to ask his girlfriend out for dinner at a restaurant and then give her a pleasant surprise, a silver ring that he seek my advice before finally he decided to buy it. I thought how a sweet boyfriend he was (of course sweet for his girlfriend). Wished to have a boyfriend like him but not him and he was not my type :p

When I came back to my dorm, I saw overwhelming faces on my girl-friends who got some packs of chocolate and valentine cards. Then they started counting, comparing, and chatting about the boys who gave them those sweet gifts. I joined the conversation and answered them that I had got a bear-shape handmade chocolate from my bestfriend.

Honestly, there was a moment when I was jealous of my friends because I have no close boy-friend who would give me chocolate on V's day. "No boy-friends no chocolate" but it is not true actually. I still could proudly say that I got the best gift on my valentine as my bestfriend was there for me. Well a friend does last forever right?

2 years after my last valentine in High School, I met my someone who, later, officially became my first valentine. Our first valentine as a couple was spent alone because he was living in other city and that day he had to work part time in a restaurant. In contrast, I was enjoying my quiet moment at home while receiving some valentine text messages from my friends which most of them with a little quote "share this day with someone you love..." Well next year I guessed. Anyway, I did not feel lonely as there was someone who cared and told me how he wished to be with me at this moment.

A year after, 2005, I was in other country when it was close to Valentine day. My housemate and I shared the same feeling of having someone in other part of this continent. We shopped together and bought a valentine card to be sent later.

My someone did not prepare any gift for me, and he really did. Instead, he was flying to meet me on Valentine day. I think it was the best gift that he gave me *smile*

This year valentine is not less surprise. He called me that night to say happy valentine and he told me to open one of shelf in my wardrobe. A lovely scarf was wrapped nicely with a card on the top of it and kept safely in a little black bag. He had put it there when I was not aware. I'm so excited back then. Does a girl really love surprise? Well I don't know exactly but I like the way he treated me. The best thing that I got this year's valentine is not only the scarf but it is also a gift of having someone who care about me and I care about him.
A lover might not be last forever, but when you are with him/her, that could be the best thing that ever happened in your life.

At last valentine is not the matter of always giving and receiving chocolate or other presents. To acknowledge that there is/are someone/people that love you and care about you so much, after all I think it is the most beautiful thing of all.

Happy Valentine...:)

Monday, February 13, 2006

Notpron continued level 26-30 (hardest ones)

Tadaima!!! Quite surprising me that many people are playing this game all over the world and not few of them are looking for the answers or the walkthrough by using the quick use of "search engine" and "keywords." However it is not obvious enough to know how many people who really try to get into next level or how many of them are only looking for the answers. Well, actually it is not one of my business since some of the levels I did cheat too :p

Ok, here we go with notpron level 26 until 30.
Level 26 (Number twenty six)
http://deathball.net/notpron/screen26/
Open the page source and you should find the source code for the picture in this level--> "screen26.jpg" and copy it to the url. The second thing can be found at the source page is a sentence that says "The top left corner number NEVER lies, keep that in mind" this hint is useful to get through from level 26 to level 30.
Back to the picture page: the picture displayed in screen26.jpg is a zipper, means that if you change the url from screen26.jpg to screen26.zip, you will get a hidden zip file.

Level 27
it is in the file. yes, its 27 in here. i hope it helps you to get from 26 to 28
Level 27 said 26 needs more t***s, b**bs. Then please go back to the level 26 page. Do you remember when I told you that notpron is the connotation of not-porn??? then if you want to see t***s change the url from notpron into pron. I hope this helps you to get into level 28.

Level 28 (#28)
http://deathball.net/pron/screen26/
the top left corner NEVER lies (it's in the source page dude). What do you need to access level 29 is changing the url number from screen26 into screen29. Tadaa...welcome to level 29!!

Level 29 (#29)
http://deathball.net/pron/screen29/
we are still wrong in some way.....what's wrong??? I tried to change the link into screen30 but it does not work that way. Yeah you're right we are playing notpron and want to go to level 30. Change pron into notpron and screen29 into screen30. Enter the username and password that are available on this webpage.

Level30 (Right in the creators' face)
http://deathball.net/notpron/screen30/
whose picture is that? what is the name of the creators? I mean the group leader. This time go to the deathball website and check out the team's link. Hey it's David's picture..but David who??? Click on his picture and ctrl+a or sellect all to read his message. He's not David B..but David M (M is the initial of his last name anyway for those who don't know). Yeah, more like it...the answer is on the right bottom of David M.
Level 31's link: http://deathball.net/notpron/screen30/davidandhism.htm


Veel plezier jongens!!! morgen is valentijn dag...!!! maar ja, moet ik nog werken




Saturday, February 11, 2006

Lagu cinta jaman doloe...

Bagi saudara-saudara yang sekarang sudah berusia sekitar 20 ke atas pasti tahu lirik lagu berikut yang di populerkan oleh Gombloh...sori tahunnya saya lupa :p

GOMBLOH - Kugadaikan Cinta
Laaa.......lalala........lala...



Di radio aku dengar lagu kesayanganmu

Kutelepon di rumah mu sedang apa sayangku

Kuharap engkau mendengar

Dan kukatakan rindu




Malam minggu pukul tujuh aku apel di rumah mu

Kubersiul dan bernyanyi membayangkan dirimu

Bercanda dan bercumbu duduk berdua denganmu




Tetapi mimpi apa aku semalam

Kulihat engkau duduk berdua

Bercanda mesra dengan seorang pria

Kau cubit kau peluk kau cium




Di radio aku dengar lagu kesayangan mu

Kututupi telingaku dengan dua tanganku

Biarlah cepat berlalu dan kugadaikan cintaku

Kugantungkan cintaku yeee..

Kugadaikan cintaku ....

Laaaa..lalala....lala..

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Nostalgiaku di tahun '80an

Bukan, kita2 bukan kumpulan manula usia 80-an. Belum setua itu lah... cing. Walopun emang masa jaya kita2, saat2 bisa nglakuin apa aja nggak pake mikir panjang, udah lewat...

Blog ini didedikasikan untuk mengenang taon2 yang indah itu. Dekade 80-an!!

Biar aja orang pada bilang norak, jadul, najong, memble... yang penting kita2 tetep merasa kece dan juga hepi bisa bernostalgia

Oke Coy!! (http://lapanpuluhan.blogspot.com/)




Begitulah kutipan dari sebuah blog berbahasa Indonesia yang mengulas pernak-pernik di tahun 80an. Setelah membaca beberapa postnya, saya merasa menjadi bagian dalam era tahun 80an itu meskipun pada akhir tahun 80an, 1989-1990, saya masih berusia 5 tahun. Sebut saja hal-hal di bawah ini yang cukup mewarnai masa kecil saya juga.
- Game watch (Super Mario Bros dan Green House) ( yang super mario tidak ketemu gambarnya, yang green house ini permainannya mematikan serangga yang mau makan tanaman)


- Kaset video sewaan (ada yang warna hijau untuk semua umur, yang biru untuk 13 tahun ke atas termasuk di antaranya film-film Warkop DKI, dan yang berwarna merah untuk usia 17 tahun ke atas)

- Panggung boneka si Unyil (masih ingat kan ma Unyil, Cuplis, Pak Ogah, bu Bariah, dan siapa yang ga kenal ma pak Raden yang pelit galak?? gara-gara nonton cerita unyil yang ada adegan nasi-nasi yang menangis, sejak saat itu saya tidak pernah membuang-buang makanan lagi)

- Drama Oshin jam 18.30 WIB sebelum sholat mahgrib (drama Jepang yang mempopulerkan kebudayaan Jepang di televisi Indonesia termasuk salah satunya menyebut anak yang punya kulit putih bermata sipit dibilang mirip Oshin)


-Sinetron Losmen di hari Rabu malem yang bercerita tentang keseharian keluarga pak Broto

-Jaya-jayanya berbagai film Indo mulai dari yang komedi Dono Kasino Indro, Ateng dan Ishkak, yang romantis seperti Catatan si Boy filmnya Ira Maya Shopa, terus film laganya Barry Prima ma Eva Arnaz, sampai yang horor kaya Tuyul dan Sundel Bolong ( serius saya sudah pernah menonton semuanya meskipun hanya siaran ulang di layar kaca ). Tercatat terakhir kali FFI (Festival Film Indonesia) diadakan adalah tahun 1992 setelah itu dunia perfilman Indonesia mati sampai sekitar tahun 2004. Syukurlah sekarang film-film layar lebar mulai bermunculan kembali di tanah air kita.



-Jajanan ama snack: sebut saja nama-nama berikut seperti kreep-kreep, anak mas, pindy, wafer superman, chiki, choki-choki, ama nyam-nyam, jagoan neon. Yang saya tahu beberapa di antara produk ini masih ada dalam kemasan yang baru, meskipun demikian rasanya sudah agak berubah kaya si anakmas yang kini hanya tersedia dalam rasa ayam dan bumbunya makin dikit, mienya sama saja tetap sedikit huuuuuuuuuuuuuu.............

Demikianlah sekilas dari pengetahuan saya di tahun 80an. Cukup menarik juga untuk menyadari bahwa 21 tahun kehidupan saya di bumi ini telah memiliki sebuah nostalgia di tahun 80an. Mungkin tidak selama dan sebanyak nostalgia jaman mama-papa kita atau emak dan engkong kita, tetapi dengan menengok kembali ke masa 16 tahun yang lalu, saya sudah dapat melihat betapa banyaknya hal yang sudah berubah di Indonesia sejak tahun itu.


Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Diary

I hardly wrote something about myself anymore. If you read this blog, you may find almost no post talking about my daily life. Maybe some of you might have known that I used to write on a diary. A real diary not an online journal one. All my happiness, sad moments, or even my angers were poured on every page of a book. The book is called diary because it recorded the daily life of mine. When it is empty it is no difference with a normal notebook with "diary" title in front of some of the books' cover.

Everyday, everything I was in the mood, I took my pen and wrote a story about what has happened to me. Then, I kept the book in the place that I considered none knew. However, there was always someone who was curious about what I had written. When I was away, that person sneaked in my room and tried to find my diary. It was true that I wrote something not good of that person because I was angry. The story was recorded because I just didn't want to release my anger to her.... Anyway in the end the person found my diary and read it through every story I wrote especially that divulged her name. The day after she stopped talking to me in sudden, looked at me with suspicious look and I knew nothing but her hatred. Until one day her mother told my mom that she had read my diary and that explained anything that happened between that person and me.

So much sore just because some pieces of stories on the pages. Even worse, the stories were something that had already been in the past. Since that day...I stop writing on my diary again.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Hal mengucap syukur

Kapan kita harus mengucap syukur?
Pada saat cobaan datang pada saat ujian gagal, saat kehilangan orang yang disayangi, bahkan pada saat nyawa kita hampir melayang masihkah kita dapat mengucap syukur? Saya percaya masing-masing pribadi memiliki jawabannya sendiri tentang pertanyaan ini.

Orang berterima kasih ketika mendapatkan sesuatu yang baik. Kadang tak jarang juga karena sesuatu itu too good to be true orang menjadi lupa untuk berterima kasih karena tenggelam dalam suatu perasaan bahagia yang berlebihan.
Demikian pula sebaliknya ketika seseorang tertimpa sesuatu yang menyedihkan. Karena teralu menyedihkan dan menyengsarakan dirinya, jarang orang berusaha mencari apa arti dan pelajaran yang bisa diambil sehingga kelak dia dapat bersyukur atas terjadinya hal itu.

Pernahkah anda mendengar when you lost something you will gain something from it? Dalam bahasa Indonesianya mungkin kita sering mendengar sengsara membawa nikmat yang artinya dari setiap hal buruk yang pernah terjadi pada diri seseorang ada sesuatu nilai yang bisa diambil atau lebih jelasnya ada sesuatu yang bisa disyukuri. Kalau hal ini benar adanya, apakah ini menjawab pertanyaan mengapa kapan saja kita bisa mengucap syukur? Baik ketika bahagia ataupun berduka?

Dalam babak final pemilihan Miss Universe 2001, setiap finalis secara terpisah mendapatkan sebuah pertanyaan yang sama tentang jika ada, apakah yang ingin mereka rubah di masa lampaunya. Dalam konotasi lain, pertanyaan ini menanyakan apakah mereka ingin merubah hal buruk yang pernah terjadi dalam hidupnya. Dari keempat finalis miss universe 2001, hanya miss India yang menjawab kalau diberi kesempatan kedua dia ingin mendapatkan kembali masa yang hilang ketika dia sakit di tempat tidur selama setahun lamanya. Bukan berarti ketiga kontestan lain tidak memiliki masa lalu yang suram. Salah satu dari antaranya adalah Miss Puerto Rico yang berasal dari broken home dan ibundanya dinyatakan positif menderita kanker payudara. Melalui berbagai dilemma dan penderitaannya, dia mengungkapkan betapa masa lalunya yang membuatnya kini dapat menjadi orang yang lebih kuat dan bahkan dapat membawanya sebagai finalis di kontes kecantikan ratu sejagad ini. Sebagai hasilnya, mahkota miss universe 2001 dianugerahkan kepadanya.

Buat saya sendiri, kadang mengucap syukur itu sulit untuk dilakukan. Apalagi ketika mood sedang jelek dan rasanya semua serba salah, rasanya tidak ada yang bisa disyukuri. Namun kalau pada akhirnya kita bisa menerima keadaan dan mencoba mengatakan "terima kasih Tuhan" minimal separo dari beban kita rasanya sudah hilang. Mungkin lewat tulisan ini saya tidak bisa menerangkan secara jelas apa arti bersyukur, walaupun begitu saya bersyukur karena bisa membagikan sedikit dari pikiran saya di blog ini.