To Love Tomato

Lately I feel I need these things...
Fresh plain milk, non fat milk, oh is just so undelicious...

Its healthy, off course.


And, tomato! Solanum Lycopersicum.

Seems I have to be nice with this fruit.

The taste is so undescribeable for me, but its so good for skin and health.

I can drink plain milk directly, but eating tomato will take some times.


Nih kutipannya:
Tomat baik untuk kesehatan mata, usus, kencing manis, darah tinggi, kulit, dan sbb:
1. mencegah katarak
2. melewatkan proses penuaan dan sumbatan saluran kencing
3. menurunkan kadar kolesterol
4. mineral kaliumnya mencegah kekejangan otot
5. sebagai antioksidan, meneutralkan radikal bebas
6. Lycopene nya merencatkan sel-sel kanker (rencat=stop).
7. mencerahkan kulit
8. mengurangi masalah jerawat
WOW!

Life oh life,
you gotta learn to love what you dont like.
You gotta learn to deal with it, live with it in harmony.

So, lets just sing a twisted song originally from Michael Bolton:

You dont know what is like..
Baby you dont know what is like..
to love tomato...
to love tomato...
the way i love you...

:)

How to stop the rain?

Pada suatu hari R**na sedang mengadakan riset mengenai hujan buatan,


berhubung dengan adanya isu bahwa puncak hujan besar dan banjir akan

terjadi di JKT pada akhir bulan januari 2013 kemarin.



Ternyata isu itu tidak benar terjadi karena konon dengan teknologi,

hujan bisa dialihkan hingga turunnya di atas laut, dengan cara

menembakkan garam dan semacamnyalah.



Suatu siang di bulan Februari ini, pada saat makan siang, tiba-tiba

hujan deras turun dengan cetar membahana, tapi rupanya hanya sebentar

saja dan lalu berhenti.



Hal ini membuat Risna jadi teringat bahwa waktu dia riset mengenai hujan

buatan tempo hari, dia menemukan ada satu cara 'pawang hujan' yang alami,

alias tahyul deh, yaitu (anak perawan) melemparkan celana dalamnya ke

atas atap rumah.

GUBRAAAAAAK!!!!



Lalu, Depy yang konon nama aslinya disamarkan, dengan spontan

menceritakan bahwa sebelum menikah, dia rupanya mengikuti tahyul

tersebut.



Purnomo yang biasanya sangat well behave saing kagetnya atas pengakuan

Depy itu, sampe spontan menggebuk tangan gue.

"Depiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii???" seru Purnomo dengan takjub tidak percaya. "

Mulai sekarang kita panggil nama Depi menjadi: KANCUT-ER!"



Tapi Depy yang mungkin menyadari kekhilafannya (setelah agak kenyang

habis makan siang), langsung meralat pernyataannya, seperti lagak para

politikus, bahwa dia tidak benar-benar melakukan aksi 'lempar-kancut'

tersebut. Itu hanya sebatas wacana, katanya membela diri, dengan pipi

agak bersemu merah.



Tapi kita semua yang sudah kenyang makan dan H2C agar hujan berhenti,

terlanjur percaya dan penasaran.

Pertanyaan2 yang muncul adalah,

"Warna apa, Dep?"

"Apa iya beneran manjur?"

"Ayo dong plis, siapa yang mau membuat hujan berhenti dengan cara alami

tersebut nih?"



Tapi Depy sudah mengunci rahasianya rapat-rapat seperti gaya para

koruptor handal, hahahaaaaa...



Sebegitu pengennya dapat the most effective way to stop the rain, hahaha...

You're my kryptonite

So,
dont call me act like a young girl, because I like this young boy band. "One Direction"!
Yeah...
This is a nice lyrics of their song, I guess,
so I put it here.

Lets sing... :)


"One Thing"


I've tried playing it cool
But when I'm looking at you
I can’t ever be brave
'Cause you make my heart race

Shot me out of the sky
You're my kryptonite
You keep making me weak
Yeah, frozen and can't breathe


Something’s gotta give now
'Cause I’m dying just to make you see
That I need you here with me now
'Cause you've got that one thing

So get out, get out, get out of my head
And fall into my arms instead
I don't, I don't, don't know what it is
But I need that one thing
And you've got that one thing

Now I'm climbing the walls
But you don't notice at all
That I'm going out of my mind
All day and all night

Something’s gotta give now
'Cause I'm dying just to know your name
And I need you here with me now
'Cause you've got that one thing
....

"Please stop the time..." My 7th book.

Reading a japanese comic, with the title as above, really inspired me.
So many good things in this life make us wanna scream:
Pleaseeeeeee, stop the time, please......
I still wanna enjoy this moment.

Then, it became an inspiration for my next book.

Please,...
stop the time...

My 7th book.
Enjoy.

One day at J-Rock Concert

So,
this is gonna be my first time to watch rocker from Japan on concert in Jakarta.
There are 3 rocker group, but the most liked by me is MUCC. I like their songs (even though i cant understand all the lyrics, hahahaha) especially a song that sounds slow and melancholic, and seems a sad song. I am planning to memorize the lyrics (You'll never imagine how many weeks I spent to search for this song, hehehe).

so, 意外で、I like japanese rock music!

And... this is the lyrics:
暁のやみ
AKATSUKI NO YAMI

Shinitakute me wo tojita
Boku no subete mu ni kaeshi
Kioku kara kietai to nemurezu kangaeteita
Kumorizora ame chiratsuite
Kinou no tenki, uso no you.
"Ikiru kutsuu mo niteru na" to, ame ni utarete mita

Kaze, hitotabi fukeba
Utsurou keshiki dou korobu?
Fukaku zekkai no soko e to shizumi hitori, kara ni komoredo
Urei wa muda to satosu sono egao ni sukuwareru
Fukaku oboromori yami e to susumi kokoro mayu ni tozasedo
Nageki no ito mure wo hodoki
Akatsuki no yami tatazumite kono te ni nokorishi nukumori ni tou
Itsuka seseragi ni sasabune ukabe
Ano basho e kaeremasu ka?

Ame ni, tsubuyaita
"Ashita, tenki ni nare"

*****Translation:*****

"Moonless Dawn"

I wanted to die and close my eyes
Return myself to nothing
I wanted to erase my memories and sleep without thought
Cloudy skies and flickering rain
Like yesterday's weather was a lie
The rain tried to beat it into me:
“Stop reflecting life's misery”
The wind, if it blows for a moment
How will it change the view as I fall?
Even as I'm confined to this shell, I sink to the depths of the distant seas alone
There's no point in pleading with my sorrow
I'll be saved by your smiling face
Even though my heart is locked away in a cocoon, I venture deep into the darkened misty forest
The threads of grief an unraveling tangle
I attempt to withstand the moonless dawn and care for the warmth left in my hands
Someday I'll float a sasabune** down a little stream
Can I ever return to that place?
I murmured to the rain
“Things will be better tomorrow”

-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-

Farewell, Saito san...

This year, we lose three expatriates that return back to Japan. It was Tsukada san, Ichihara san, and the last one is Saito san.

Farewell, Saito san, hope we can meet again in the future. We're gonna miss you in the kitchen, since you were the most frequent visitor of the kitchen for taking the water to drink, hahahahaha....

Concert at Istora Senayan and JCC

So, last June, is the first concert at Jakarta Convention Center for my daughter helena and her singing team,

and the second time concert in istora senayan.

beside fuchsia dress,

they wear betawi dress, and cowboy style.

so happy with her friends...after the show...

with her friends after show,

and with her best friend who came to watch her... with mom

and dad and her bro. we are the biggest fans of our daughter, helena!!!!

in betawi style, my always lovely daughter...

Karaoke with, Ichihara san...

So, this is a night when we go karaoke after working hour. Take a look at this picture below.

that was pak Hendy who seems so spiritedly singing like he wants to bite the microphone :)

and then here is Ichihara san and arif, that was so hot dancing at that night, like a hot couple, hahahaha...

next, this is deasy and Via, like a lady rocker singing: heiiii yang ada di sanaaaaaa,yang ada di siniiiiiiii...

and here is the queen of the night, lady gaga of jetro jakarta! Via chan.

while asta singing, some people just eating and watching...

(deasy) oh so delicious....

and this is 'native' japanese-palembang with his song about his past,love story in japan...with Mela, who is so mela-ncholy in his side...

oh hot couple again!!! :)

risna looks ooohhh so hungry...

and this is the rest, santi and me,the cheerleaders of the show...nice smile, huh.... ooh, sorry, its already late at night and i am sleepy now, tomorrow have to go to work again, see you in the next pictures, with Ichihara san farewel party tomorrow...

The concert of my daughter

My daughter likes singing and dancing. She loves to sing. Even though her voice is not so great, we put her into a course on singing. This course institution always do concert every year, maybe three or four times. Last year, related with Jakarta city anniversary, they held concert in Istora Senayan. Beside that, also in Grand Indonesia, Gandaria City, Cinere Mall etc. This year they'll have concert in Istora again, on June 23, 2012, in opening Jakarta Book Fair, like last year. As a parent, we can only proud to be a fans and audience for our daughter's concert. We are not planning to make her a star or a singer/dancer in the future, but to maximalize her left brain, to have fun, to get many friends and to make her childhood happy. Thats a parent can only do, hope, and pray, right? :)

Mom is playing football :)

What a mother is doing in the weekend? Yeah, what else, accompanying the children. My daughter likes ice skating, and only two places in Jakarta to find itu, Pondok Indah mall and Taman Anggrek. Sometimes I just cant resist if she ask for skating. And for having a son, a father and mother will be also playing football. This is an interesting game for a mom, playing football with your son, so masculine, yet fun (but please forget your high heels, hahaha...). And off course, who doesnt like swimming. This is a perfect zone for a family. That is how we spend the weekend. Isnt it nice, huh? :)