MY OPEN BOOK

Tugas Pertamaku.. :-)

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:54:00 +0000

Sebenernya, udah lama banget pengen posting yang satu ini, tapi secara masih belom pede.. jadi gak jadi2 deh.. :-)

Tapi.. setelah dipikir2.. pede ajaa lagi.. That means.. ngehargain diriku sendiri yang udah mau belajar :-)
Ini adalah tugas pertamaku di kelas non fiksinya Kelas Menulis, actually.. (mdh2an gak malu2in mba Endah sebagai tutorku.. hehehe..)

Waktu itu, rasanya seneeeng deh, waktu mba Endah bilang "Tulisannya saya masukin di galeri yaa.." :-)) Biarpun pendapat orang nantinya pasti beda2.. Justru buat masukan supaya bisa bikin tulisan yang lebih baik lagi..

Enjoy...

Kerja di Rumah = Go Green

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:43:00 +0000

Ternyata kerja di rumah juga termasuk salah satu cara buat Go Green..!

Waktu jalan-jalan di Green Festival bulan lalu nemu yang ini nih :

"Jika 200 ribu warga Jakarta memiliki kendaraan pribadi
memilih untuk kerja di rumah 1 hari dalam seminggu, keuntungannya :
-Biaya yang bisa dihemat sekitar Rp2,6 trilyun/tahun
-Emisi yang bisa dikurangi sekitar 30 juta ton/tahun = menanam 30 juta pohon selama 30 tahun"

Sumber : Green festival Jakarta, 18-20 April 2008

*Ck..ck...ck...* lumayan ya itu 2,6 trilyunnya...

Sayang, waktu itu ga bawa kamera,
Jadi ga bisa bagi2 gambarnya deh..

Tapi nemu link yang lumayan banyak gambarnya niih..
Kali2 aja, ada yg belom liat,
Walaupun beritanya udah ga apdet.. ;-)

Wishful Contract of Friendship

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:54:00 +0000

And here's the contract!

After serious and cautious consideration...your contract of friendship has been renewed for the New Year 2008! It was a very hard decision to make. So try not to screw it up!!!My Wish for You in 2008
May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires! May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words ...May 2008 be the best year of your life!

Wonderful words… and prayers…

Senangnya...
kalo ada yang doain begini...
Meskipun kocak, mudah2an dikabuliin... Amiiin...

Thanks to Dewi...
my dear old-friend yang udah mempersembahkan kontrak ini buat akyu...
Sorry ya, Dew… baru sempet dipajang sekarang, padahal ngasihnya udah dari bulan lalu, ya…? 

Buat temen2ku.. seeemmuaaanya, this contract's for youuu!!!
Temen-temen ex-Smansa, ex-Fikom, ex-Puri, OMD dan ex, dan lain-lain yang nggak kesebut disini, ngga ada satu pun dari kalian yang ngga berjasa buat akyu... :-)

Hiks... hiks.. mudah2an silaturrahmi tetap terjaga.. supaya diluaskan rizki.. dan diberi umur panjang... (hadist nabi ttg menjaga silaturahmi)... Amiiin..

Leopard and Baby Monkey

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:26:00 +0000

Have you ever seen a female leopard taking care of her prey’s baby? It’s the most incredible live scene I’ve watched on NGC...

She was about to dig in her dinner, a dead long tailed grey monkey, when she saw movement next to the body. As a tiny baby monkey appeared from its dead mother’s embrace, stumbling in front of her, she took several inches backwards. For a moment, she only watched it with her ear straightened out, and maybe with some thinking, “Where the hell do this furry thing comes from?” *LOL*…(I myself have no idea how the baby could still hang on to its mother while the big cat was killing and dragging its mother up to a tree).

She had many chances to kill that fragile baby actually, but don’t know why, her parenting instinct raised. She stood over it just like a mother care for her child.

One time, the baby was about to fall off the tree. Amazing how the hungry leopard did serial of heroism. At first, she tried to hold the baby with her front leg. As she couldn’t pull it up, she then moved down to the lower branch, bite the baby’s tail and pulled it. However, the harder she tried, the baby became more frightened and held the branch even tighter, with both feet still off the ground.

She wouldn’t give up that fast, so once again she climbed the upper branch, stretched her body reaching the baby’s neck. With one bite, she finally made it, the baby was back on the branch again. (I can’t forget how she licked the baby’s fur afterward, like she was very contented at that time.)The scene was over when it finally sleeps in her embrace ‘til sun rise…

What a touching scene, huh? Still can’t believe she did it to her prey’s baby!! While there are many cases of child abuse out there… Leopard is apparently more human…

Good news

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:43:00 +0000

I've heard one good news today : my old friend will get her marriage reconciled…! Yippie...whatta happy happy thing…! Say goodbye to yesterdays and never look back. Hope the ties between you both will grow into devotion, forever…. :-)

Am I ?

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:55:00 +0000

Ah..ah? This is "the quiz version" of me :-P. Am I?
Not pretty sure bout it, but not bad for a game... :-) Try one!

You're The Giver!

by Lois Lowry

While you grew up with a sheltered childhood, you're pretty sure
everyone around you is even more sheltered. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, you were
tapped on the shoulder and transported to the real world. This made you horrified by
your prior upbringing and now you're tormented by how to reconcile these two lives.
Ultimately, the struggle comes down to that old free will issue. Choose
wisely.

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Even A Cat Do It...

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:06:00 +0000

My husband called her ‘Beti’, taken from ‘Belang Tiga’. She’s a three-colored cat used to hanging around our house. My male cat Garfield used to be her boyfriend, and for once or twice he had shared his meal with her in our backyard, so that finally she has been comfortable live in there until now.

Few months ago, she gave birth to three cute little kittens. Two of them are black-white striped, and the other one is yellow (that lately I haven’t seen, sadly it maybe died). Now the two kittens are strong enough to run and play. If I peek through the kitchen window, I often see them playing and teasing each other, around the open roof outside.

I feed Beti rarely, coz I don’t always have foods to share and I'm worried if she depends on me much, she won’t be able to struggle for her own food. One day, I heard Beti grumbling noisily in front of the kitchen’s door and the moment I opened it, I took pity on her. She looked very thin! Then I found her cold fried fish in my fridge. As I threw it, she grabbed it quickly and put it into her mouth.

I wouldn’t pay more attention if only her shouting didn’t get louder and annoyed me. I almost drove her away but then I saw her below the stairs, look up towards an empty space around the open roof. Wonder what she was doing, I watched and waited what was going to happen. Not so long, the two kittens appeared at the upper of the stairs and welcoming their mother with the same noise.

Seeing her two kids were appearing, she climbed up the stairs. Then I saw Beti was giving all the food to her babies without herself eating the food. Oh.. it’s very touching. She’s a responsible mom-cat indeed!!! I’ll keep this in mind that even a cat would take good care of their children, a lesson to remember when someday I’ve had my own. Bravo, Beti…!

Let the Books still Open...

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:09:00 +0000

Back then I was never brave enough to do anything before being expert about all of the theories. I always did the same thing : collected tons of references and read many books, while planning to sink my teeth into it when all the books are closed. No wonder I had never been moving forward because I never had finished reading all the books. They're too many.

One day I heard Mr. Mario encouraging people to make an early start. Essentially he said, “Start before you ready, don’t wait until you become perfect!” I was surprised. I thought what I’ve done is perfectly right, but in fact it’s not recommended at all? Oh, please.. Come to think of it now, I must've wasted plenty of chances, just because I think I'm not perfect... Poor me! Glad to know this but also regret of knowing this too late.. :-(

I’ve been following Mr. Mario’s advice ever since and unexpectedly I become a ‘brave-man’. Suddenly I am in the middle of doing something and here I am... learning new things everyday while keep working on my projects, with my books still open! Thank you, Mr. Mario...

SO DON'T WHINGE!

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:17:00 +0000

Many reactions come from my relatives after my successful of slimmed down 10-11 kg in only two or three months. Most of them asked me if I had been using drugs to lose it. Of course I hadn’t. I do only healthy diet. Some of them believe, and some don’t. To them who believe, I’ve recommended my nutrition doctor to visit. For sure I will not suggest anybody to diet without guidance.

After some time, I asked them about the progress. I was happy to hear that one of my friends had been showing meaningful progress in 1 month. Contrary to this, I rather upset with the other friend who hadn’t struggled enough to achieve what she wants. Actually she had used many drugs before, but her weight still won’t trimmed down. Moreover, she had suffered illness caused by side effects of the drugs.

Knowing she dared to take the risk of using drugs, I think she must be in a high importance of being thin. She was also rather whinging. But the fact is a far cry from my thought. When I told her to visit my doctor, she do visit but didn’t follow the doctor’s instruction. She followed it only for one or couple days, but the rest she said she couldn’t stand starving. Or.. my guess, she couldn’t stand thinking that she’s going to be suffered.

I always convinced her that the hungry feeling wouldn’t last long. That her body will need only a while to adjust with new eating pattern, just like when we were fasting. On the first day we may frequently hungry, but soon we’ll get used to it. She seemed agree at that time but still… I don’t know, maybe she expects that putting a lot of effort into losing weight will be as pleasant as eating a box of chocolate.

What I did to my friend, motivating her, absolutely can’t compare great motivation she’ll find inside herself if she's focus with what she really wants or how much this mean to her. I was able to motivate myself because I have two reasons : first, is to get healthier, and second, is in order to make easier finding fit clothes. These two wishes maybe looked simple for other people, but since these are really important to me, I have to treat them like “important” things. How do we deal with important thing? It should be on top of our priority list, and we push ourselves hard to make it works, right? I realize that I could be suffer, but every action certainly have its consequences. If I'm not ready to take the consequences, maybe I'm not really mean with what I want. So, DON’T WHINGE!

Just Do It !

noreply@blogger.com (TRI AYU) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:54:00 +0000

I starred at my doctor’s face, repeating to myself the words he'd just said, ”You have to reduce at least 8 kg!” At that time I looked at him as if he had thrown me into a dumpster. I did nothing but smiled, felt so pessimistic that I could lose my weight drastically.

“I recommend dr.S for you to visit, she’s a nutrition doctor,” he gave me piece of paper while mentioned one of his friend whom he believe could help me.

The next week, I started to visit this middle-aged and friendly doctor. She is so informing and quite satisfying to ask to. She started measuring me after observing what kind of food I used to eat and how my eating habit was. She laughed when she found that my belly-round was only 3 cm smaller than my hip ;) I joined to laugh and visualized my husband’s exhausted face while we were searching through every edge of the stores finding a fit trousers for me. Haha…

We were discussing for quite a long minute until she came up with the conclusion that I have to reduce around 12 kg to get my ideal weight! Something impossible I thought, considering my eating habit. I imagined that I have to bear myself starving. Soo depressing!

At first, following the doctor’s rule indeed makes me starving and I broke it on the first day. However, if I didn’t think of my health or how much money I –exactly my husband- already spent for visiting doctors, maybe I would’ve gave it up. So, I was just trying everyday not to think of anything and keep motivating myself with this slogan: "Just Do It".

Surprisingly, after 2 months I found this magical slogan of Nike makes all my sacrifices worth it. I had been successfully reducing 9 kg without using any drugs at all! Can you feel my joy? I was over the moon! I've been putting an effort and in the end it brings me a delightful real result. It was hard at the beginning, but once I got used to, it's getting easier.

Now, I've adjusted to my new portion of meal –half of I used to- and you know what? Actually the whole process I've been through is not suffering at all from the beginning to the end. It was just my thoughts kept telling me I would suffer!

Trust me, if you just do it and don't think of what the situation will be before you start, you can be as successful as me. This is a reminder for me too : the next time I wish for something seems hard to get, I have to get rid all unnecessary thoughts and simply start it, Just Like Nike! ;)