Pesanan mbak Yuli Kurniawati, untuk ulang tahun anaknya, Dian Pradayan. Cerita lengkapnya bisa ditengok di sini yaa.

NB. Pemesanan cupcakes dengan desain seperti di bawah, MINIMAL satu minggu sebelum hari H. Terima kasih atas perhatiannya.

Diposting oleh Dian Purnomo

Hari Sabtu, 17 Oktober 2009 adalah hari yang membuat perut saya semalaman sebelumnya merasa mulas, otot-otot menjadi tegang dan mengalami kesulitan tidur. Ah… itu seperti ciri-ciri orang yang sedang jatuh cinta, tapi tidak. Saya sedang luar biasa tegang menjelang event STAND UP & TAKE ACTION hari Sabtunya. Satu persatu SMS datang. Ada yang membatalkan diri karena sesuatu dan lain hal, ada yang memberi semangat dan mengkonfirmasi kalau baru saja mengirimkan sejumlah uang untuk membantu terlaksananya program. Semuanya membuat perut saya semakin teraduk.

Jam 10 pagi saya sudah beredar. Ke kantor polisi untuk mengantarkan tembusan surat ijin. Ke toko buku untuk membeli spidol yang ternyata masih kurang juga di lapangan. Lalu saya berhenti di kantor dan lagi-lagi SMS datang untuk membatalkan diri di sana-sini. Saya sampai menitik air mata. Belum sampai nangis sih. Dan senangnya punya teman yang memberi semangat. “We’ve come this far, and we ain’t gonna stop, Cur.” Gitu katanya.

Jam 3 sore, akhirnya berkumpulah sekitar 50 orang di kantor FeMale. Senang sekali rasanya. Saya lupa pada kepedihan bahwa banyak yang mengundurkan diri. Saya jadi semangat lagi. Jam 3.30 pm, kami mulai berjalan ke malioboro. Di jalan beberapa teman bergabung karena mereka datang dari luar kota. Rahma dan Rani. Thanks a bunker. Kami mulai menyebarkan informasi pada setiap orang yang bersedia mendengarkan info tentang bagaimana orang bisa terlibat dalam upaya menghentikan kemiskinan.

Kami berhasil mengumpulkan 630 tanda tangan dan komitmen mereka yang bersedia bergerak melawan pemiskinan, dan 150 orang yang bersedia berdiri saat ini juga untuk bersuara dan bertindak. Yang membanggakan adalah, hampir semua anak muda. Ada diantara mereka seorang perempuan cantik bernama Ima, dia adalah Putri Jogja. Thanks Ima for coming. Lalu yang paling tua adalah seorang nenek dari Australia. We don’t even know her before. Dia bergabung karena mendapat info dari fb. Lima atau 6 orang expat lain bergabung bersama kami. Ada yang dari Jerman, dari Australia, dan Amerika.

Jam 5.30 pm akhirnya kita berkumpul lagi semua di depan mal malioboro, membentangkan spanduk STAND UP & TAKE ACTION, bersamaan dengan kertas-kertas koran bekas yang sudah ditandatangani oleh mereka yang berkomitmen menghentikan kemiskinan dan pemiskinan. Lalu berteriaklah kita, STAND UP AND TAKE ACTION. Entah berapa kali kami meneriakkan kata-kata yang sama. Merinding saya rasanya mendengar teriakan yang sama itu. kami mengakhirinya dengan berdoa semoga ini bukan cuma aksi jalan kaki, ngobrol sama setiap orang yang mau mendengarkan dan berkomitmen, dan berteriak-teriak saja. Semoga stand up and take action adalah awal dari sebuah gerakan besar orang muda di Jogja yang akan benar-benar melakukan aksi menghentikan atau setidaknya membantu pemerintah untuk mempercepat terwujudnya kemakmuran rakyat yang sesungguhnya, yang bukan hanya tertuang di Pancasila dan UUD 45. Semoga.

Untuk felix, ayo cuuurrr… ini masih ada dana, kita bikin apa lagi???

Untuk para donatur, matur nuwun sanget. Tuhan melihat dan membalas kebaikan kalian. That’s for sure.

Ulalume

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere -
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year:
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir -
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

Here once, through and alley Titanic,
Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul -
Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
These were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll -
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek
In the ultimate climes of the pole -
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
In the realms of the boreal pole.

Our talk had been serious and sober,
But our thoughts they were palsied and sere -
Our memories were treacherous and sere, -
For we knew not the month was October,
And we marked not the night of the year
(Ah, night of all nights in the year!) -
We noted not the dim lake of Auber
(Though once we had journeyed down here) -
Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber,
Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

And now, as the night was senescent
And star-dials pointed to morn -
As the star-dials hinted of morn -

Catacala Ulalume (Silk Moth)

At the end of our path a liquescent
And nebulous lustre was born,
Out of which a miraculous crescent
Arose with a duplicate horn -
Astarte’s bediamonded crescent
Distinct with its duplicate horn.

And I said: “She is warmer than Dian;
She rolls through an ether of sighs -
She revels in a region of sighs:
She has seen that the tears are not dry on
These cheeks, where the worm never dies,
And has come past the stars of the Lion
To point us the path to the skies -
To the Lethean peace of the skies -
Come up, in despite of the Lion,
To shine on us with her bright eyes -
Come up through the lair of the Lion,
With love in her luminous eyes.”

But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
Said: “Sadly this star I mistrust -
Her pallor I strangely mistrust:
Ah, hasten! -ah, let us not linger!
Ah, fly! -let us fly! -for we must.”
In terror she spoke, letting sink her
Wings until they trailed in the dust -
In agony sobbed, letting sink her
Plumes till they trailed in the dust -
Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust.

I replied: “This is nothing but dreaming:
Let us on by this tremulous light!
Let us bathe in this crystalline light!
Its Sybilic splendour is beaming
With Hope and in Beauty tonight! -
See! -it flickers up the sky through the night!
Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
And be sure it will lead us aright -
We safely may trust to a gleaming,
That cannot but guide us aright,
Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night.”

Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom -
And conquered her scruples and gloom;
And we passed to the end of the vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb -
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said: “What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?”
She replied: “Ulalume -Ulalume -
‘Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!”

Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere -
As the leaves that were withering and sere;
And I cried: “It was surely October
On this very night of last year
That I journeyed -I journeyed down here! -
That I brought a dread burden down here -
On this night of all nights in the year,
Ah, what demon hath tempted me here?
Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber -
This misty mid region of Weir -
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,
This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.”

Edgar Allan Poe

by Dian Yuliasri

Quote “a journalist can save more lives than a doctor” itu saya dapat di ICAAP 9 di Bali kemarin. Waktu itu seorang jurnalis dari IPCASO yang menetap di Kanada menceritakan pada kami tentang perjuangan sebagai jurnalis di negaranya. Sebentar, nama jurnalis itu adalah Callie Long. Seorang perempuan.

Dia cerita, saat ini di Kanada ada kasus dimana seorang imigran yang sudah 20 tahun hidup di Kanada dan menjadi warga negara di sana selama 10 tahun terakhir ini, belakangan ketahuan positif HIV. Dan karena HIV memang nggak keliatan, dia ‘diduga’ menularkan ke beberapa orang lain. Nah, malangnya si bapak yang lahir di Uganda dan dulunya warga negara Uganda ini, dilaporkan sama orang yang merasa ditulari.

Eh, masuk penjara dong si bapak ini. Kacau kan? Yang lebih kacau lagi, di negara yang konon kabarnya sudah sangat demokratis itu, koran-korannya tidak pernah memberitakan si bapak ini dengan sebutan, warga negara Kanada. Instead of writing, this Canadian man, para jurnalisnya selalu menulis dengan, “this Ugandan born man, this Ugandan man.” Gitu…

Pedih kan rasanya? Padahal, ini bapak kan nggak bisa sepenuhnya disalahkan. Dia sendiri bahkan nggak tahu tertular dari mana to? Dan pernyataan yang menyebutkan negara itu bapak atau kewarganegaraannya yang tiba-tiba di-idle-kan itu juga memancing kontroversi kan? Seolah-olah karena dia dianggap bersalah, maka dia jadi nggak diakui kewarganegaraannya. Seolah-olah dia membawa virus itu dari Uganda, dan lain sebagainya.

Selain itu, Callie juga cerita tentang negara kelahirannya. Dia lahir di Afrika, dan bicara tentang Afrika, dia bilang kalau setiap orang yang dikenalnya di Afrika, selalu memiliki pengalaman berinteraksi dengan HIV. Gini nih kurang lebih pernyataan-pernyataan yang pernah terungkap dari mereka:

• Adik saya meninggal karenaTBC dua tahun lalu. Dia positif HIV
• Tetangga saya sudah hidup dengan HIV selama 10 tahun, tapi dia masih sehat
• Saya rasa saya harus tes darah. Suami saya positif HIV soalnya, dan saya sedang hamil sekarang
• Saya putus sekolah. Ayah saya nggak sanggup bayarin saya sekolah. Dia dipecat dari kantor karena ketahuan HIV positif. Sekarang dia sakit-sakitan, mungkin sudah AIDS
• dsb

Di negara-negara dunia ketiga, stigma tentang HIV/AIDS masih parah banget melekat. Orang dikeluarkan dari pekerjaan karena HIV, dikucilkan oleh sodara dan teman, dikeluarkan dari sekolah, tidak mendapat layanan kesehatan yang proper, dan sebagainya. Tanpa mengecilkan arti dokter, tapi stigma yang terlanjur menancap di masyarakat itu bisa dihilangkan salah satunya dengan edukasi yang terus menerus oleh pemerintah diantaranya melalui media.

Setuju dong, kalau belakangan ini media berperan sangat signifikan dalam penyebaran informasi, baik membesar-besarkannya atau juga mengempeskannya. Siapa yang kenal Prita Mulyasari dulunya? Siapa yang menjadikan kasus kawin-cerainya seseorang menjadi urusan publik, siapa yang membuat kasus korupsi ini terekspose, sementara yang lainnya tidak, termasuk siapa yang bisa membuat orang melek informasi tentang HIV, selain media massa.

Dari sinilah judul di atas terbentuk. Tanpa sadar, belakangan ini banyak sekali jurnalis-jurnalis baru. Yang walaupun tidak menulis di surat kabar konvensional, tapi tulisannya disimak banyak orang di blog, di facebook note, di twitter, di SMS, dan dimanapun. Nah, hati-hati dengan tulisan-tulisan kita itu, karena tidak semua orang yang membaca bisa memaknai dengan positif dan mengambil lessons learn-nya. Tulisan yang menyesatkan, akan membawa lebih banyak orang ke arah yang salah. Sebaliknya, tulisan yang mencerahkan, akan membuat orang lain selangkah lebih pandai karena ilmu yang dibagi di dalamnya.

So, the snow ball is in our hand. Mau menggulirkan informasi dan pengaruh baik, atau mau jadi virus yang membawa semakin banyak orang ke kegelapan pengetahuan?

 A new practical tool to promote human rights education is now available. The new publication, which collects 101 exemplary practices from Central Asia, Europe and North America, is a valuable resource for teachers and education policymakers.

* Human Rights Education in the School Systems of Europe, Central Asia and North America: A Compendium of Good Practice

  

Among the good practices featured in the collection is “Build Bridges, Not Walls”, a Norwegian publication with 97 exercises on human rights, multicultural understanding and peaceful conflict resolution. The exercises, designed for non-formal learning settings such as those involving refugees and immigrants, are already in use in Norway, South-Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe, including conflict areas.

Human rights education is vital for all our societies. “It promotes equality, empowerment and participation as well as conflict prevention and resolution. In brief, it is a means to develop societies where the human rights of all are respected, protected and fulfilled,” said the heads of the four partner organizations in their joint foreword to the collection.

The collection, entitled “Human Rights Education in the School Systems of Europe, Central Asia and North America: A Compendium of Good Practice”, is a joint publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR), the Council of Europe (CoE), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Designed for primary and secondary schools, teacher training institutions and other learning settings, the this tool collects good practices of human rights education, education for democratic citizenship, and education for mutual respect and understanding.

It provides resource materials relevant to key elements for successful human rights education, including 1) laws, guidelines and standards; 2) learning environment; 3) teaching and learning tools; 4) professional development for educators, and 5) evaluation.

The collection demonstrates creative approaches to human rights education and aims to facilitate networking and exchange of experience among education professionals. The practices can be adapted to local conditions anywhere in the world.

Launched on 2 October in Warsaw, Poland, the collection contributes to the national implementation of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, a global initiative of the UN General Assembly.

Côte D’Ivoire

Country report :  WORLD FACTBOOK

Economy – overview:

Cote d’Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans and a significant producer and exporter of coffee and palm oil. Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international prices for these products, and, to a lesser extent, in climatic conditions. Despite government attempts to diversify the economy, it is still heavily dependent on agriculture and related activities, engaging roughly 68% of the population. Since 2006, oil and gas production have become more important engines of economic activity than cocoa.      According to IMF statistics, earnings from oil and refined products were $1.3 billion in 2006, while cocoa-related revenues were $1 billion during the same period. Cote d’Ivoire’s offshore oil and gas production has resulted in substantial crude oil exports and provides sufficient natural gas to fuel electricity exports to Ghana, Togo, Benin, Mali and Burkina Faso.      Oil exploration by a number of consortiums of private companies continues offshore, and President GBAGBO has expressed hope that daily crude output could reach 200,000 barrels per day (b/d) by the end of the decade. Since the end of the civil war in 2003, political turmoil has continued to damage the economy, resulting in the loss of foreign investment and slow economic growth. GDP grew by nearly 2% in 2007 and 3% in 2008. Per capita income has declined by 15% since 1999.

just wanna give you some updates
soalnya gue agak kaget ngeliat statistik hari ini, menanjak sekali
empat kali lipat dari hari hari sebelomnya ..
gue sangat tersanjung, sekaligus ngerasa bersalah juga udah melupakan jhejhezt for some weeks
*maafkan akuu jhejhezt sayang

dan satu hal lagi yang bikin gue shock waktu ngeliat blogstat gue,
*gatau kenapa gue sering dikejutkan sama blogstat gue kalo gue tinggal lama gini*
there’s someone searching about iconlife here .
itu yang buat gue shock, HAHAHA !

*ehm* yaa, i’m really happy pernah kenal and being so close sama iconcrew even iconlife itself,
jadi kadang kadang suka freak out sendiri kalo ada yang nyinggung iconlife

lanjut sama update selanjutnyaaa
one of my bestfriend, dian, finally pergi ke hainan, china
dia dapet beasiswa buat belajar bahasa disana selama setaon .
yaa, gue sebenernya ngga pengen dia pergi,
but for goodness’ sake, she have to go . no, she must go .
she loves learning language, even though she loves korean more than mandarin, but still, she’s got a brilliant talent at language
and as a very good bestfriend *nahloo* i’m supposed to support her
jadi dengan berat hati gue relakan dia merantau
*kalo kata vera pulang pulang si dian jadi sipit, hihihi*

another update, liburan gue sebentar lagi abis .
that mean another tasky thing nungguin gue berminggu minggu ke depan
huff, feelin exhausted karena semuanya masih handmade, belom computer made.
but it’s a major i believed that i love it, then i have to getting myself ready for everything, include the civics and philosophy thing .

i think it’s enough for the updates .
OIYAA ! gue pengen ngucapin selamat aje buat heheboy,
dia terkenal loh sekarang !! ngaahahahahah
kasian dia .
gue ngebayangin kalo ada temen gue yang nanyain semua karyawan heheb sambil bawa bawa foto gue dan bilang “mas, kenal orang ini ga ?”
berasa anak ilang gue . eheheheh

Once, when I was learning Spanish from a book, I came across the following translation: hace lampara – “it is lightning.” I made a note to myself: Spanish has three existential predicates, to wit a) ser “to be” (essential), b) estar “to be” (transient), c) hacer lampara “to be (lightning).”

But, oh, to be lightning! And yet such a word for such a thing. This word, lightning, is a long word, a word that takes rather longer to say than lightning takes to strike. We could have named it zap! This word, too, has such an intricate arrangement of shapes – that dance of the i’s, g’s, n’s and h and l and t – but none of them are jagged. And it’s such a, well, light word – shortened from lightening, as you may have guessed, and starting off all on the tip of the tongue, with that unavoidable effect of light, for something that might better have been named blam! Oh, the echo of frightening is there, certainly, and one might feel that with it Thor is smite-ening someone for their temerity (say, in going jogging in the thrashing rain). But would not a more perfect word for this thing have been shock?

German has it better: Blitz. And we see what combining power that has: Blitzkrieg. The American equivalent was not lightning war but shock and awe. See? Latin called it fulmen – brought to English as fulminate, which sounds more like smouldering. In French, one may call it éclair – oh, dear, just a little puffy dessert – or foudre, which bears a strong resemblance to an impolite verb suggestive of what lightning will do to you if you don’t get out of the way. The Hebrew word for it – you will like this – is barak. (Hebrew for thunder is not obama, but doesn’t that sound like thunder?) The Mandarin is diàn, which is also used to mean “electric” and the character for which looks a bit like a kite – but the Chinese characterized lightning as coming up from the earth two millennia before Ben Franklin did.

Still, because of its object, this word has quite a presence in our language, showing up in well-known phrases such as white lightning, greased lightning, lightning quick, lightning chess, lightning rod, and Tampa Bay Lightning. Of course, flash, strike, and bolt are often seen next to it, all nice, short, shocking words. And yet lightning can cross a kilometre in about 1/300,000 of a second (and thunder can cross one in about 3 seconds), while Bolt still needs more than 9 seconds to go 100 metres.

Berakting bareng anak-anak mungkin memiliki lebih banyak kendala dibanding dengan orang-orang dewasa. Namun tidak demikian berakting bareng Ibrahim Alkatiri atau yang akrab dipanggil Baim. Setidaknya itu menurut Dian Nitami dan Raffi Ahmad.

“Seneng banget bisa ketemu dan main bareng ama Baim. Kalau Raffi sih saya anggap bonus aja, meski dia biasa-biasa aja (sambil senyum ke arah Raffi). Mungkin lebih kelucuan aja sih main ama anak kecil,” terang Dian yang ditemui di Blitz Pacific Place, Kawasan Niaga Sudirman, Jaksel, Kamis (13/08). Baca Selengkapnya

The stone weighs 478 carats.

The stone would dwarf the Koh-i-Noor diamond
in the British Crown Jewels

“Preliminary examination of this remarkable diamond indicates it will yield a record-breaking polished stone of the very best colour and clarity,”

Konečne som sa dokopal ku kúpe domény. Tento blog teda presúvam na nasledujúcu adresu.

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Seberapa jauh anda mengenal cewe cantik yang satu ini.

Kariernya begitu cemerlang di seni acting indonesia ini.
Dian Memulai kariernya di dunia hiburan pada tahun 1996, sebagai juara 1 di ajang GADIS Sampul yang diadakan majalah GADIS. Ia disebut-sebut sebagai ikon kebangkitan film nasional bersama rekannya di film AADC, Nicholas Saputra. Film pertamanya Bintang Jatuh (2000), karya Rudi Sujarwo, diedarkan indie di kampus-kampus dan tidak ditayangkan di bioskop. Di film tersebut Dian beradu akting dengan Marcella Zalianty, Garry Iskak dan Indra Birowo. Film selanjutnya di tahun 2001, Pasir Berbisik menyandingkannya untuk beradu akting dengan Christine Hakim, Slamet Rahardjo dan Didi Petet. Lewat film ini, Dian dianugerahi pemeran wanita terbaik pada Festival Film Internasional Singapura (2002) dan Festival Film Asia di Deauville, Perancis (2002).

Dian juga pernah menjadi pembawa acara kuis Super Miliarder 3 Miliar yang ditayangkan di ANTV. Selain itu ia juga pernah membintangi serial TV yang berjudul Dunia Tanpa Koma di RCTI

Cintanya kepada dunia film Indonesia dibuktikan Dian dengan kontribusinya di film terbarunya, Drupadi. Selain berakting di depan layar, Dian juga bertindak sebagai produser di film ini.

Pembawa obor di ajang Olimpiade 2008 ini kembali disandingkan bersama Nicholas Saputra di sebuah film. Film 3 Doa 3 Cinta merupakan film dengan nuansa religius yang dibesut oleh sutradara Nurman Hakim. Di ajang International Festival of Asian Cinema Vesoul, 3 Doa 3 Cinta berhasil membawa pulang penghargaan Grand Prize of the International Jury.
Data Diri

Dian lahir di Jakarta tanggal 16 Maret 1982 dari pasangan Ariawan Rusdianto Sastrowardoyo dan Dewi Parwati Setyorini. Dikenal sebagai aktris berbakat yang penuh dengan totalitas. Hobinya adalah membaca, nonton dan segala sesuatu yang berkaitan dengan seni. Menganut agama Islam setelah sebelumnya menjadi penganut Katolik. Selain sebagai aktris ia pernah memiliki rubrik sendiri di majalah GADIS yang bernama Kata Dian, di rubrik tersebut ia menyalurkan bakat menulisnya dan berkomunikasi dengan pembaca majalah Gadis. Ia adalah lulusan jurusan filsafat FIB UI yang tak jarang dimintai bantuan sebagai asisten dosen oleh para seniornya.

Dian adalah salah seorang cucu tokoh pergerakan nasional Prof Mr Sunario Sastrowardoyo.

kenapa Tuhan ngasi pelajaran dalam hidup? Agar kita belajar bagaimana cara hidup n bagaimana cara menghargai hidup…

kenapa Tuhan ngasi kita pelajaran tentang kehilangan? Agar kita ga takut menghadapi kematian., menghadapi kehilangan yang sebagian besar manusia takutkan…

kenapa Tuhan mengambil sesuatu yang baik begitu cepat? Karena Ia merasa telah cukup memberi tugas padanya. Atau mungkin Tuhan punya maksud lain. Ia menginginkanmu dewasa tanpa org yang bisa dibuat pegangan…

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Aq inget waktu pertama kali kenal sama dia lewat FS.. udah lama bangett… udah hampir 2 taon… tapi, aq ga pernah ketemu sama dia… chatting, comment, semua lewat dunia maya..
haha… rasane baru kemaren aq terakhir chatting sama dia… chatting singkat… baca tulisan “hahahaha” dari dia…
I never thought that he will be gone forever… nope, till last nite, I read my message, he’s gone.. forever….
For a long time, I didn’t hear any news bout him.. till last nite…
I almost forgot him, when I opened my FS, suddenly, I remember him… wanna send him a comment.. but, I forgot to… till last nite…

There’s nothing to crying for.. he has gone, and he got the best place in heaven… with jesus, in his big house in heaven…

may you rest in peace, my dear friend,…

…In memoriam of Marcel Putra…

Your mother was a jewel.  I first met her when you and Rob were in pre-school and I taught 3, 4, & 5 year old kindergarden Sunday school at St. Marks.  It was not long after that we both joined Stitch and Bitch.  What a ride.  Her friendship was unique.  She was always available, warm, friendly and welcoming.

When I started to display a photo collection, Shery worked with me on the framing.  After a few frames, I just gave her the photos and told her to do what she thought would be best.  I was never disappointed.  She knew her customers and their tastes.   After her accident on Line Ave, I waited until the wave of well-wishers were gone, called her and asked when I could come by and visit.  She said “NOW”!  I grabbed my car keys and fled to the hospital, sat on her bed and we talked for what seemed like hours. It was as though the accident and discovery of cancer never happened.  She could always carry her end of a conversation.

To backtrack, you and Rob were going to school at St. Marks.  I elected to send my three to Stoner Hill Lab School.  It was a risky, but good decision on my part although the rest of the Stitch group was not so sure.  One stitch night your mother asked my opinion regarding the quality of education at SHLS.  I told her what I thought, but  that she should see for herself. Next thing I knew, you and Rob had joined the enrollment.  As I recall, you were not too happy with that decision.  I may be wrong.  However, I was happy to have your mother standing with me as parents of children at SHLS. I remember the wonderful and colorful hats she wore to PTA meetings because she had lost her hair to chemo.

I remember that, to my fear, she always left the back door unlocked.  Anyone could come in the house anytime and we did.  There were numerous morning and afternoon chats around the breakfast table in the kitchen, which is where Stitch would love hanging out on nights Shery was the host.  And, as I recall, we stitched a collage for your mother as a “get well” and “hang in there” momento from us.  I hope that was passed along to you.

Although you may have experienced another side, I never saw your mother without a smile.  She endured, even through the pain and frustration of losing her ability to function.  God has his plan and I am so grateful that he chose to let her stay with us for as long as she did.  Never doubt how proud of you and Rob she was or how much she loved you.  She talked about you both whenever she could.

May this reflection and those from others comfort you and wrap you in the love she shared with all of us.

Almost everytime we go to a shop to buy things like clothes or electrodomestics, at the register they start by asking either mine or my wifes Cedula number (ID). Sometimes we are not paying attention and just give it, which leads to the next questions: what is your name, where do you live, phonenumber, email address etc?

The first time this happened to me I did not think about it too much and gave them my information as it was a famous clothing store here (Arturo Calle) and did not worry too much about them using the information wrongly. The second time they asked me somewhere, I just asked them why they needed it and the reply was a simple: “I have no idea”.

The third time a store asked me for all these details, I actually wanted to see what happened if I would refuse to give it. Amazingly in that particular store, they said they could not sell anything to me if I did not give them any information!! I was probably “lucky” and had the only clerk in Colombia that would not just make up a name and address, but anyway, it happened and I left the store semi-mad. From then on I decide that I was going to have a fake name: Oscar Ortiz and my address, phone number and Cedula are very flexible.

Now I don’t want to scare anyone, but most know that in its history Colombia has had a big problem with kidnapping, which luckily has changed a lot in recent years. Besides this there are cases known where people try to find out as much information as they can and they get you involved in their scam. Actually everywhere in the world, people are getting more aware of things like identity and bank fraud, but here it seems nobody is really worried when it comes to this particular situation. In other situations (like over the phone, or when meeting new people) many people are actually extremely cousious here with giving information.

I am not particularly worried of being kidnapped, as I own no more than the couch I am sitting on and the bed I sleep in (which both are very comfortable by the way), but I find it amazing that people are so easy in giving all their information to what basically is a stranger. It even goes so far that on the receipt that you have to sign when you pay something with a debit or credit card, you have to add your ID number and leave your phone number! So now they have your credit card number, a magnetic copy of your card, your signature, your ID number, your name and everything else they would need to clone you or your cards (accept for a picture, but that should not be too hard to fake)

It says on the receipts that the DIAN (government) is obliging everyone to fill in the details correctly and that they might check these receipts to see if you have. Well if they ever want to visit Oscar Ortiz, they can give me a call and I will happily pass and explain to them my objections to this way of dealing with peoples privacy.

Ah no wait!! they don’t have my number!!!hehehe

selasa 10 maret 2009, huh,,,,,,

dah ngerasa capek mesti ngadepen mood kmu yang naek turun,

dah ngerasa capek mesti ngikutin ego kmu,

dah ngerasa capek mesti sikap kmu yang arogan,

tp yang nama nya hidup berpasangan, kita mesti bisa saling mengisi kekurangan masing2.

jd dian mesti kuat hadepin mood kmu,

dian mesti kuat ngikutin ego kamu

dian mesti kuat ngikutin sifat kmu yang kekanak-kanakan

tp dian bkan malaikat yang selalu sabar.

tau yah, baru ditinggal satu malem untuk ga ngusap2 rambut kmu sampai kmu tidur.

kmu dah marah banget, kmu bilang bahwa dian cuek sama kamu. Kmu bilang dian ga bisa temenin kmu lg.

klo toh emang dian cuek, mungkin dian ga akan jemput kamu disekre, mungkin dian langsung balik aja ke kosan, karena badan dah capek , dah seharian dian kerja. klo ga inget kmu lg kerja kelompok dan kmu bwa laptop yang berat dan

takut kmu belum makan. mungkin dian dah tidur dikosan. makannya dian jemput ke sekre sampe bela2 in nunggu, klo ga da gumi yg temenin mungkin dah ngerasa

capet banget mesti nunggu kamu. kmu mesti tau aja yah td siang tuh di kantor capek banget. kmu inget kan dian ga bales YM kmu karena saking sibuknya sampe ga bisa bales ym. alhasil balik dari kmar kmu dian langsung tepar. memang ada kangredi ma gugum. tp mereka langsung pergi ketika dian dateng ke kosan karena mereka besok pagi mesti kerja.

Apalagi klo tiap malem ga ngusap rambut kamu. jujur dian ngerasa senang bisa ngusap2 rambut kamu buat mastiin kmu tertidur nyenyak. tp satu sisi dian ngerasa risi dan cape.

cape nya karna badan dah lemes karna dah kerja seharian, dah ngerasa ngantuk karna dah malem mesti nunggu kamu tidur duluan.

risi nya klo pas pagi2, klo dah bukain pintu kosan kamu kadang ada orang yang liat klo dian baru keluar kamar kmu pagi2 buta. mungkin klo orang yang tau sih gpp. tp klo orang yang pikiran nya sempit, disangka nya dian abis tidur dari kamar kamu semaleman karna liat dian keluar dari kamar kmu dengan muka yang kusut(ga jarang klo bapa kost liat dian pagi2 keluar kamar kmu, mungkin disangka dia dian abis tidur di kamar kamu, padahal dain cuma buka kunci pintu kamar kamu yang dian kunci malem2 karna kmu dah tidur duluan, karna kmu minta di usapin rambut kamu sampe kmu tidur tiap malem)

Ga tau yah, untuk akhir2 dian ngerasa ruang ringkup dian sempit banget. bener2 sempit!!!!!!!!!!

bangun tidur mesti kerja, pulang kerja kelas kuliah menunggu, klo ga da kuliah balik ke kosan. di kosan klo ga ke kamar kmu. pasti kmu marah. di bilang nya dian super sibuk ga ada waktu buat kmu. padahal klo di itung-itung tiap malem klo dikosan kita makan malem. dan dian tidur mesti nunggu kmu tidur duluan

awal dian ngerasa terkekang banget ketika dian main futsal lawan temen kantor indosat jakarta, kmu bilang kmu ga bakalan tidur klo dian belum pulang. Jadinya waktu dah beres maen futsal dian cepet pulang supaya kmu bobo juga dan ga tidur gara2 nunggun dian balik futsal. Padahal yah waktu itu anak jakarta minta temenin dian (karna dian orang bandung) buat cari in tempat makan.

Disitu dian ngerasa terkekang karna mesti balik cepet2 dan ga bisa ngobrol banyaj sama temen kantor jakarta yang lain. Jujur dian kesel banget klo dah liat muka kamu manyun waktu dian mo rencana futsal tiap rabu malem padahal itu baru rencana lho.

Yang paling kesel ketika dian temenin husen ke tukang urut. eMang husen tiba2 minta anter, dia minta jemput ke kantor. Dian sendiri ga tau kenapa tiba2 dia minta temenin buat ke tukang urut. DAN TIBA2 MUKA KMU CEMBERUT denger berita itu.

Langsung mood kamu drastis berubah.kamu tiba2 langsung jutek banget Seperti dian dah ngelakuin kesalahan besar(apalagi klo dian selingkuh).

Dan ternyata husen minta temenin ke tukang urut, dia minta temenin karna saking sakitnya  dia ga bisa bawa motor. mo minta temenin temen kosan nya ga bisa karna temen kosan nya pada ga ada dikosan.

Waktu buat temenin sobat aja ga ada.

pulang dari tukang urut kamu masih marah dan marah nya pun banget2 marah, kaya dian dah bunuh seratus orang temen kamu.

Huh, jujur yah ga tau ke depan nya gimana. Bulan depan dian dah mulai ngerjain TA dian. Belum ngerjain TA aja kmu bilang dian dah cuek ama kamu. Apalagi dah ngerjain TA,

“DIAN MESTI MEMUTAR OTAK DIAN UNTUK BERBAGI WAKTU SUPAYA KMU ANGGAP DIAN GA CUEK SAMA KMU……………………………………………………”

Oh iya mohon jangan bandingin dian sama irfan-tata dan emil-udit. Karna jelas dian beda dian ga da waktu banyak buat bisa kaya irfan dan udit.

Ini hanya kekesalan dian yang diungkapin ke sebuah tulisan yang mungkin kmu anggap dian cuap2 ga penting

Mission

The mission of the William J. Clinton Foundation is to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. To advance this mission, the Clinton Foundation has developed programs and partnerships in the following areas:

• Health Security
• Economic Empowerment
• Leadership Development and Citizen Service
• Racial, Ethnic and Religious Reconciliation

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Bill Clinton

“WHY I GIVE”

CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE -Meeting in New York -Annual Conference 2006 and 2007

The William J. Clinton Foundation is a foundation established by former President of the United States Bill Clinton with the stated mission to “strengthen the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.”

The Foundation focuses on four critical areas: health security; economic empowerment; leadership development and citizen service; and racial, ethnic and religious reconciliation. The Foundation works principally through partnerships with like-minded individuals, organizations, corporations, and governments, often serving as an incubator for new policies and programs. They have offices located in Harlem, New York City; Boston, Massachusetts; and Little Rock, Arkansas.

Since 2001, the programs at the Foundation have accomplished some great things. Here are just four: 1.4 million people are benefiting from medicines purchased under the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative agreements, representing nearly half of all people living with HIV and on treatment in developing countries. Through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, the Healthy Schools Program provides nearly 4,000 schools with onsite or online support in all 50 states to help create school environments that promote physical activity and healthy eating. Through the Clinton Climate Initiative, 40 of the world’s largest cities are working with us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of large scale projects, including building retrofits, public transit improvements, and advanced waste management systems. Since its launch in 2005, Clinton Global Initiative members have made over 1,300 commitments valued at $46 billion, which have already impacted more than 200 million lives in more than 150 countries. Commitments made at the 2008 Annual Meeting are expected to impact almost 160 million people. While we’re proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish, we know that there is more to do. With your support, we can build on this momentum. We hope you’ll take time to explore our initiatives, and we look forward to sharing more updates and good news with you in the future.