Monday, August 21, 2006

Just a test…

It must be almost dawn in Jakarta now. My husband has a temporary insomnia tonight. I promised him to continue our chat at 6 pm CET (Central European Time) or about 11 pm in Jakarta. But I could not keep my promise since I had to cook for diner (I was starving for not having my breakfast and lunch as well). Now it’s already 9.53 CET it was about 30 mintues ago when I started again to chat with my husband. This afternoon he asked my to teach him how to make an excerpt like one he read from Mankiw’s blog. To be frank, this is also my first time to make an excerpt.

This posting is just a test of how to make an excerpt. Let’s see what we can do to create a posting with an excerpt like the one my husband wants. For example, I want to quote a news which I copy from Eramuslim, a short story from Febty Febriani, the title is “Cinta dan Terima Kasih”:

Buku bersampul biru lux itu cukup menarik perhatian saya ketika saya singgah ke suatu gerai buku, sehabis menunaikan shalat Dzuhur, di sebuah daerah di Bandung. Tidak sengaja awalnya. Hari Sabtu adalah hari libur kantor. Dan hari itu, saya diminta oleh seorang sahabat saya untuk menemaninya pada suatu acara di daerah tersebut. Ternyata, acaranya berlanjut hingga selesai waktu Dzuhur. Jadilah, saya menunaikan sholat Dzuhur di masjid yang terdapat di daerah tersebut. Kebetulan, ada sebuah toko buku di dekat masjid tersebut.

Buku dengan cover warna biru yang menentramkan itu saya ambil. Lalu saya buka. Saya baca sekilas. Lembar demi lembar saya buka. Perhatian saya lebih tertuju pada gambar-gambar yang dicetak dengan cetakan kualitas tinggi sehingga membuat mata saya tidak bosan untuk mengamati satu demi satu gambar-gambar tersebut. Mata saya tertegun. Hati saya terdiam. Dua gambar yang ada di hadapan sayalah yang menjadi penyebabnya. Gambar itu begitu indah. Menawan. Konfigurasi gambar kristal putih yang tercetak pada lembaran halaman buku tersebut menyajikan suatu bentuk yang eksotis. Mau tahukah teman, gambar apa itu? Kedua gambar itu adalah gambar kristal air yang dari ucapan CINTA dan TERIMA KASIH. Yah, buku yang ada di hadapan saya adalah buku The True Power of Water, terbitan sebuah penerbit di kota Bandung. Buku itu bercerita tentang hasil penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Dr. Masaru Emoto, seorang peneliti dari negara Jepang, tentang bagaimana bentukan suatu kristal air hasil perlakuan manusia. Dari seluruh gambar yang ada, saya bisa menyimpulkan, gambar kristal air yang ditempel dengan ucapan CINTA dan TERIMA KASIH pada wadahnya adalah gambar paling bagus dari. Sungguh, saya terpana.

Oke, two paragraphs I think enough. If you want you can read the rest of the story here. Now, let’s see what appeareance will be on my blog.

My passompe, please take some sleep now. Luv and miss you always.  

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Monday, July 3, 2006

Hiks…:(

i am in the middle of some deadlines and exam….:(( so many things to read, one more paper to go, and the most highlighted is my research paper design which should be finalised in the way it should be. my draft still lack of focus and clearance about what is exactly i am trying to write, what is my main focus and clear objectives. yet my laziness and perhaps stupidity (in particular way :D) make me inefficiently using times that i have and get the points of my readings. i know it’s wrong to be lazy, i bet none would argue that, but sometimes i find myself after one reading become confused, forget about what i have read, and yet at the end realized that so much more to be read to improve my understanding. indeed, when you thought you knew something, there are lots more that you don’t know yet, so don’t be too proud of what you have known. 

i found something very interesting, a quote from plato which i coincidentally read from my roomie’s book (free translation): “the thing which is embarrasing is not when you don’t know about one thing, but indeed when you don’t have the will to learn it.”

so please to whoever read this, i beg you to please… spare just a little of your previous time to wish me a good luck and a little prayer. it will be very cheerful for me to know that someone else gives sympathy and support in these such moments. i feel terrible as well since at the same time i miss my family, my husband and son a lot. god, please help me to be strong and patient.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Ga pengen….

ga pengen nulis

ga pengen ngomong

ga pengen cerita

ga pengen ke mana-mana

pengen marah

pengen nangis

pengen pulang

pengen peluk ody

marah

kesel

capek

bingung

sedih

kangen

hiks…

huuuuuuu…..:((

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Friday, April 14, 2006

Enak jadi orang cuek?

Kata temenku: “Enak lo Ndah, jadi orang cuek gitu, jadi kalo ada apa2 ga gampang pusing n ngomel2. Ga kayak gw, apa2 dikit kayaknya mau komentar, trus ntar jadi ngomel.”

Kataku: “Masa’ sih?” (padahal dalem hati, “iya sih dalam beberapa hal gw emang cuek, ngapain musing2in hal2 yang ga prinsipil?”)

Ini cuma prolog, satu kutipan obrolan temanku dan aku. 

Masa2 dulu beberapa tahun lalu, berapa tahun yang lalu ya? Duh, masa’ hari gini udah pikun, mmm… kayaknya tahun 2000an deh (please deh Ndah, sekarang juga masih tahun 2000an, tapi pake akhiran 6 di belakangnya, hihihihi….:P). Beberapa temen lagi rame ngomongin tentang buku “Personality Plus”. Nah aku waktu itu telat baca tuh buku, jadi cuma ngasih komen “oo…” dan ”oya?” doank. Trus mereka jadi ketagihan bereksperimen untuk mengamati kepribadian orang dan mencocok2annya dengan 4 macam kepribadian yang diklasifikasikan di buku itu. Kena deh giliran aku diamati sama temenku, dan mereka berkesimpulan bahwa aku masuk kategori “Koleris dan “Melankolis”, hmm… tanpa banyak pikir panjang (gimana mau mikir lha wong baca bukunya aja belum waktu itu :D), aku ”iya… iya…” aja.

Sampe suatu saat aku sempet baca tuh buku, trus coba2 ngisi kuesionernya (emang bisa yah dari cuman ngisi kuesioner bisa kebaca tipe kepribadian kita? Bisa kali ya?), belum selse ngisi (males, karena banyak banget isiannya), aku udah ngintip kesimpulannya, waktu itu disimpulkan aku jenis “Pleghmatis” alias cenderung cuek. Masa’ sih, padahal kata temen2ku aku “Melankolis-Koleris” koq, tapi aku emang merasa aku tuh rada2 cuek. Setelah tinggal di negeri orang sendiri begini apalagi (maksudnya ga sama suami n anak), kayaknya sikap cuekku semakin terlihat deh.

Cuek di sini maksudnya: misalnya aku gapapa or santai aja kalo ada temenku (yang suka minta makanan) tiba2 aja dateng minta makanan karena dia males masak (sementara temen yang lain udah bete’ sama kelakuan anak itu); aku nggak terlalu suka nanggepin diskusi2 yang rame di milist (kebanyakan debat kusir doank); aku bersikap biasa aja ngadepin temen yang (menurut teman2 lain)  sok tahu–kupikir emang udah jadi karakternya, buat apa marah2 or bete’ ngadepinnya; aku ngerasa gapapa dateng ke kelas lewat 10 atau 15 menit dari jadwal (selama dosennya ga complaint); aku gapapa (ato udah kebal ya?) kalo ditinggal chat sama suami–sering lagi chatting ma suami tau2 aja dianya diem lamaaaa bangettt nggak ada respon, tau2 offline ga bilang2; aku cuek aja pas ada temen yang mancing2 tentang pola komunikasi gw n suami yang menurut dia kuantitasnya kurang (temenku yang ini pernah mecahin rekor terlama chat sama pacar yakni 8 jam sehari); aku cuek aja (tepatnya sih ga cuek2 amat tapi berusaha untuk ikhlas, waktu dompetku kecopetan di Barcelona, uangnya ilang tapi alhamdulillah dompetnya masih bisa balik) perjalanan Tour de Spain tetep bisa berjalan dengan menyenangkan selama 7 malam 6 hari. 

Pernah suatu saat temenku di sini yang punya pacar anak psikologi dan gemar menganalisa karakter orang, katanya demi bisa menilai bagaimana harus bertindak ngadepin seseorang (ini sih alasan yang kuat), bilang ke aku bahwa aku tipe kepribadian “Pleghmatis-Koleris”. Yo wes, biarlah orang lain aja yang sibuk menilai gimana aku. Meskipun kuakui aku memang cenderung ga mau atau menghindari hal2 kecil yang menurut istilah aku “kurang/nggak prinsipil”. Tapi segala sesuatu emang ada positif dan negatifnya. Positif dari cueknya aku: kadang aku sama temen2 jadi disuruh untuk ngomong ke teman2 yang “rada bermasalah” supaya memperbaiki sifatnya (karena dianggap udah mengganggu ketertiban dan ketentraman); aku jadi ga terlalu makan hati, aku ga terlalu banyak pikiran.

Negatifnya: dimarahin temen, pernah ada temenku yang marah (ato ngambek sama aku?) waktu kita trip ke Paris, dia hampir nangis karena aku aku jalan duluan ma temen yang lain dan meninggalkan dia untuk jalan bersama dengan temanku yang lainnya (ini sih aku yang terlalu cuek ato temenku yang terlalu sensitif sih?), aku kadang jadi nggak ngeh sama situasi gitu deh. Begitulah aku dan salah satu sifatku, ada enak dan ga enaknya, positif dan negatifnya. Sebenernya aku ga cuek2 amat juga koq, aku pengamat juga, pengamat dalam diam…:D Nggak biasa ngambil kesimpulan terlalu cepat. Dan satu lagi kayaknya multiple personality deh hihihi…. Orang pertama yang mengamati hal ini kayaknya Adekku (Ratri) deh dan kemudian…, siapa coba tebak? Suamiku… Kasian ya dia… hihihi…. Yang jelas aku ga melankolis! Melankolisnya cuma pas ditinggal sama suami balik ke Indo doank…:P

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Thursday, March 9, 2006

Not Bugiman? I defense…

My husband gave me a comment on my posting titled “The Bugis” as below:

“It is not bugiman, but boogeymen as it shown in wikipedia”.

Well, it’s not that I want to argue you or once again being a stubborn. I prefer to use “Bugiman” instead of “Boogeyman”, in this case I don’t care about what’s being shown or told on Wikipedia (I’m sorry Wikipedia…). I have had an image about the term ”Boogeyman”, in my opinion it is like something that is coming from somewhere in Caribia, people who likes to dance along the music up untill very late at night and get drunk. I don’t know, whether it is right or no, but I can’t change my perception immediately. 

Just see the good side of using the term “Bugiman” instead of “Boogeyman”, it has more similarity (both in pronounciation and writing) with the word Bugis–the word’s root–itself right? 

In the end, at least if, indeed I already made a mistake with this term, would you please just let me doing it this time, not because I want you to allow me to be wrong, but just because it is a special name I give to you. 

For:

“Who else?”

“Of course, My Bugiman.” 

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

The Bugis

For my Bugiman…

Honey, just in case you haven’t found the book by Christian Pelras titled “The Bugis”. You can click on my sidebar “Happy Readings”. But, the book is masoli ladde puang….

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Sunday, March 5, 2006

Real innocent, 2

After some considerations, I think… eventhough I might be a real innocent like my husband said, I should not be on the position which could jeopardize my self nor anyone else. Yes, it’s true a real innocent should also play smart and save and should not put herself or even anybody else in a danger position.

I should learn my lesson. Thanks to my husband for reminding me and for mentioning me as a real innocent, a phrase that I would not have think about nor  realize it could have been in me.

 

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Friday, March 3, 2006

Real innocent

My husband once said to me that I am a real innocent according to his opinion.

I asked him the reason, “Why?”

He replied me with some explanations which I could not explain here.

I think it’s ok to be a real innocent sometimes….

I don’t feel like I jeopardize myself or other if I were really become one.

He thinks to some extent, I am the same real innocent as his mom.

I don’t know how should I response to this statement. At least I hope if I were really a real innocent, let it be only myself which is being jeopardize by this attitude not anybody else.

Again: To my Bugiman

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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Lost my words

Assalamu’alaikum wr. wb.

Dear Odisseus, my dear soleh boy. I haven’t write for you for more than a week. Your daddy keeps asking me almost everyday, “Why there is no blog updated?”. I know that your daddy has already being addicted reading my blog, just to keep him in touch with everything I do here. I told him in my sms that I it is not because I lose my will to keep writing in–especially–English, I am tired to tell both of you about everything, or I am bored telling all activities I have here. But the main reason is that I feel I’m running out of idea to write, it’s mostly because I begin to find out that live is too boring here. There are only class and class everyday.

In my mind actually I have a lot of moments that I think would be interesting to be shared with both you, like my promise to your dad Ody, that I will continue writing after finding some interesting moments precious enough to be shared, but now I already forget what exactly what I’am going share and write here.    

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Monday, November 7, 2005

Trouble on blog.com

Dear my lovely boy and his daddy,

It seems that my blog provider encouters some problems. Perhaps this happens due to some features and performance improvement of blog.com. Because I see some new items are being included in blog.com, and they also making a new display fro their web site. And there are some difficulty also in accessing my web page. Hopefully this can make my blog works more fun and users friendly.

I can’t wait any longer to tell both of you the details of my weekend vacation. Oke, it’s better to tell it on my next posting then.

Luv,

Mom

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