Sunday, December 30, 2007

emoji | pukupi

emoji pukupi

this blog answers a bit of my question but does not help me be able to use the emoticons..how ya??

i need help!!

does anyone knows where i can get the above emoticon? (especially the top one!)
i really, really want it. your input will be appreciated.
thanks guys!

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

the "Sunarjo" next generation

"Dylan"
(to be confirmed, Dylan Reizen Raimu - tentative!
the Raimu (dream come true) is from aunty lia :D )

* btw, he's my brothers new born son..22 December 2007, a capricorn and pig year like me!! - it's also our national mothers day!!

something Pi said

"Unless you survive the present, there will be no bright, exciting future ne!"

Saturday, December 22, 2007

definitely food city!



Bandung's traffic sure has gone from bad to worse! It took us an hour to go to CIWALK from the hotel we were staying. It used to take only the most 20 minutes.
But then again, Bandung still has its charm..coffee at Starbucks, CIWALK today was extra special..the nice cool Bandung weather, a hot latte, plus a choir singing Christmas carol really made my day! We had a wonderful cheerful afternoon..everybody were happy :D



Look at that mousse cake..yum...:) that's my sis and mom..and my dad!! btw, sunarjo is his name, not my hubby's!



For dinner we went to a hawker place best known for MIH KOCOK and Kweni Juice. OMG!! it was beyond awesome! yuuummmmy... (insert: my sis Indi)





It was also Raihan's first time ever eating at the road side hawker. "Why are we eating by the road side, ibu?" - cute! He ate his favorite, Nasi Goreng (only IDR 5.000,-!!!!!)



Look at that HUGE steamed sweet corn!! It's sooooo huge and yuuuuummmmy....

e-card this year

this year i've decided to send out a video Christmas card from YouTube.."White Christmas by Ikuta Toma" - definitely something different!

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Daite Senorita - Yamashita Tomohisa

The theme song from KUROSAGI, the movie!

Majo No Jouken OST - Utada Hikaru - First Love (MV)

A classic JDrama called Majo No Jouken, sometimes known as Forbidden Love or An Innocent Witch... a really nice japanese song sung by Utada Hikaru... starring Matsushima Nanako, Takizawa Hideaki
*please watch the drama..v good!

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Kurosagi Movie Trailer

trailer for the movie Kurosagi coming out on the 8th of March 2008, starring Yamashita Tomohisa (must see coz he's yummmmm...)

i'm my clients groupie


it's always nice to see our clients featured in magazines talking about the success of their brands or products. Just like this one..Dyah Kartika Sintosari, Marketing Manager of Sari Husada. KUDOS, mbak!!!

symptoms of workaholic parents

look what i found today... i was shocked and stunned!! both of them (me & Arya) are "forced" kissing our kid to show how "loving" we are as parents..
a device to wash out guilt or is it a way us wanting to tell the world that even though we spent most of our time in the office..we love our kids as much as any parents in this world would, or more! Coz we framed it and placed it on our office desk! - Brilliant!!

Sunday, December 16, 2007

year end with Holcim





I Can't believe it's the end of the year again! Really just realise it when we had our yearly year end meeting with our client Holcim together with IMI. This year's meeting was good, very constructive and I guess the relationship between Holcim, Y&R and IMI has tightened and we're finally one!


Gambatte for 2008! - I have great faith on new team Arya and Ario..

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

snapshot from CIPAR



scent from Japan

from Johan..very nice sweet scent that surprisingly last long from morning till evening. It's Cherry eau de parfum from Masaki..hhmmmm...arigato, Johan-san!!

Sunday, December 2, 2007

the past is to inspire and remind..


Honestly, I never thought that I will ever get out from my "laziness". I thought the time when I can be what I want to be, do what I want to do, was gone forever by age. I thought that I will never feel what I used to feel before. The feeling of "high spirit" and "passion". For awhile I had no dream, no ambition - zilt. Nothing! It was a scary moment in my life. I felt lonely and worthless. It was like "the end" of Lia's life.
But today, I found and then watched "Byakkotai", A re-make of the 1986 hit, which scored 80-percent in the Aizu district of Fukushima prefecture.

"Byakkotai" seems to be a story by which the content of the drama visits Byakkotai Memorial Hall by a modern young person who is the descendant of a Byakkotai samurai, and traces the history of the tragedy of the Byakkotai in the force organized by about 340 boys of 16 years old and 17 years old at Boshin War (Aizu war). Yamashita Tomohisa performs two roles (a Byakkotai samurai in the old days and the descendant's Shintaro Sakai).


HISTORY - BYAKKOTAI

The Byakkotai (白虎隊, Byakkotai? lit. "White Tiger Corps") was a group of more than 300 young, teenage, samurai of the Aizu domain, who fought in the Boshin War.

Byakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battle of Toba-Fushimi.[1] The other three units were Genbutai, Seiryūtai, and Shujakutai.[2] Each of the four was named after the protecting gods of compass directions. Byakkotai was meant to be a reserve unit, as it was composed of the young, 16 to 17 year old sons of Aizu samurai.[3] It was subdivided further, along the lines of rank within the domain's samurai population: two squads were from the upper (shichū) rank, two from the middle rank (yoriai), and two from the lowest (ashigaru).[4] Twenty of the members of the 2nd shichū squad, cut off from the rest of their unit in the wake of the Battle of Tonoguchihara[5], retreated to Iimori Hill, which overlooked the castle town. From there, they saw what they thought was the castle on fire, and committed seppuku (with one failed attempt) in desperation, believing their lord and families dead.[6] However these 20 Byakkotai members were mistaken in their assessment of defeat, as the castle defenses had not actually been breached; the castle town surrounding the inner citadel was aflame. As the majority of the town was between Iimori Hill and the castle, the boys saw the rising smoke and assumed that the castle itself had fallen.[7]

The sole survivor, Iinuma Sadakichi, attempted suicide but was unsuccessful. He was saved by a local peasant. After the war, he moved to the nearby city of Sendai, and lived there until his death. He also served as an officer in the army (retiring with the rank of captain) and as an official of the local post office in Sendai.[10]

After the war, their bodies remained exposed to the elements until permission was finally granted by the imperial government to bury them. A memorial was later erected at Iimori Hill, and all 20 of the Byakkotai members named above are buried there.[11] A stone bearing a poem by Matsudaira Katamori also stands at the site:


幾人の 涙は石にそそぐとも その名は世々に 朽じとぞ思う
Ikutari no namida wa ishi ni sosogu tomo sono na wa yoyo ni kuji to zo omou
"No matter how many people wash the stones with their tears, these names will never vanish from the world."
[12]

The rest of the Byakkotai continued to fight over the course of the Battle of Aizu, with many of the members contributing to the defense of the castle.[13] Two unit members who survived the war and went on to prominent roles during the Meiji Era were the physicist and historian Dr. Yamakawa Kenjirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy admiral Dewa Shigetō.

What fascinated and inspired me was the objective the japs made the film. It was to remind the young generation of how hard it was to live in the past, and how hard our ancestors had to fight so we can live in comfort and peace today. I guess, it's not only here or Japan..but we (not only the teens) take things for granted now. We think everything will be forever. We allow a day pass by without any accomplishment or progress. We dream and waste it by not making it come true. We even take people around us for granted. We forget to respect and be thankful. The true epidemic is not global warming, AIDS, nor drugs...it's actually the "taking things for granted" epidemic. Moral.

The world should advocate and campaign the change of attitude. Just think of how powerful this change of attitude is. If the world is able to change its peoples moral, all other epidemics of the world will disappear. Just think!

Well, talking about the world seems sooo far away...if Japan can do it, Indonesia can too! Like Gandhi once said,"Be the change you want to see in the world." So, why wait for other people "more capable" to do it, just do it! Take the first step of the initiative...coz the first is always the hardest. But if I can be part of the change of moral in Indonesia, I'll be the happiest person in the whole world.

*Note: it's presenting history relevant to today's teens..Japan uses its number 1 idols to star in the movie and promote it through their J-WEB (Japs mobile phone based blogs from various idols of Johnny's Entertainment)
Insert: Yamashita Tomohisa (22) - lead actor Byakkotai. Japan's no.1 idol, a member of boy band NEWS and award winning actor


I'm energized once more. I am alive. I am back and I am happy. I have reunite myself with "high spirit" and "passion"...and this is all because of a movie, a Yamashita Tomohisa, and history. Today onwards, I will make my dream come true!

GAMBATTE!!

Saturday, December 1, 2007