Hump Day Hunk: Rodiney Santiago

Are any of you guys watching "The A-List: New York" on Logo? I resisted watching for a long time but finally tuned in and loved it. I just love his broken english and thick accent. He's pretty damn good to look at too...

Rodiney Santiago

The season ended last night but I am sure Logo will re-run the entire season several times. If you were watching, check out the reunion special this Monday at 10pm est. It is being hosted by Wendy Williams...LOVE HER!

Bob Out

That's So Gay: Harvey Milk

I hate it when people use the phrase "That's so gay" in a negative way. It's usually used to describe something tacky or tasteless. I've decided to take the phrase back and make it positive. This is the sixth in a series of posts I am doing about all things gay.

Harvey Milk

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters until around age 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960s.


Milk moved from New York City to settle in San Francisco in 1972 amid a migration of gay men to the Castro District. He took advantage of the growing political and economic power of the neighborhood to promote his interests, and ran unsuccessfully for political office three times. His theatrical campaigns earned him increasing popularity, and Milk won a seat as a city supervisor in 1977, part of the broader social changes the city was experiencing.

Milk served 11 months in office and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back. Milk's election was made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics. The assassinations and the ensuing events were the result of continuing ideological conflicts in the city.

Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and "a martyr for gay rights", according to University of San Francisco professor Peter Novak. In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States". Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager, wrote of him: "What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us. Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.(Information contained in this blog was taken directly from wikipedia. Read more about Harvey Milk by clicking here).

Bob Out

Daily Thoughts 11/30/2010 (Lynd Ward, Publishers Weekly)

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy resting in the forest. Oil on canvas. 60 × 50 cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. 1891

Daily Thoughts 11/30/2010


This morning, on the train, I started reading First Break All The Rules What The World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.
It is about what makes a great manager.

Today has been relatively quiet, I checked the displays to see that they were in order, read the latest copy of booklist, and handed in the monthly schedule.  It has been one of those days where you do what is necessary because that is what makes you professional.  I am thinking about how to rearrange the ordering schedule and possibly get the Elite Street ordering system for bestsellers from BWI.

I read some more issues of Publishers Weekly.  It is a solid distraction while two more new people are let go.  I also took a few minutes to look at Lynd Ward volume II, Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, and Vertigo.  This is a collection of wordless woodct novels.  They were done in the 1930s.  Art Spiegelman is the editor. These are considered by many to be the precursors to the modern graphic novel.

I am feeling quite tired right now.  For me coming in and doing my everyday work helps me face up to the changes occurring around me.  One of the things that determines professionalism is the ability to work under pressure.

On the way home, I looked through the wordless novels of Lynd Ward, it is a beautiful book, the woodcuts have a very stark Germanic feel to them with strong dark lines. They remind of the art from the Works Project Administration.  I learned that the books were made in a printing cooperative based on democratic principles which was interesting.  Most of the drawings are set in the great depression.  People are living their lives in a very stark time.  There is a sense of the poetic and the biblical in the art.  This is a link to a review from NPR.  It is a very beautiful set of books. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130915507

Daily Thoughts 11/29/2010 (Advocacy, Reduction In Force)

A logo of the United States Library of Congress following with the theme of using the outline of the Thomas Jefferson Building as an identifier.

Daily Thoughts 11/29/2010


I got a request from NYLA -- the New York Library Association to fill out a form letter to support bills that could support libraries.  I often send letters to the local politicians and the politicians around the area where my job is.  Unfortunately, libraries have become an easy target for cuts and legislation.  It is partially due to self preservation and partially due to wanting to keep my profession alive that I am active in contacting local politicians. http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=925http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=925

During voting time, I got eight reminders from door to door canvassers reminding me to vote as well as a dozen phone calls and tons of junk mail.  It was kind of annoying.  I think it is the result of writing about two form letters a month to politicians. Most people do little or nothing.  It does not take a lot of time to write one letter a month or simply fill out a form for a cause and add your information.

Today, I got the notice of demotion as part of a reduction in force.  The two librarian IIIs above me were reduced to Librarian IIs, all of the Librarian IIs were reduced to Librarian 1s.  Two librarians were laid off.  There was also a senior clerk that was reduced to a clerk, and a clerk who was laid off.  That means three people were laid off.  Earlier three people had taken retirement.  I have a letter which describes this as being purely budgetary.  It is supposed to go into effect on December 1st in two days.  Today is November 29, 2010.  This has effected about a third of our building.  The last attempt at layoffs and demotions affected half of our building.  It was on July 11, 2010.   Each library in our county has a separate budget.  If I read the articles about our budget with the differences between the comptroller and the mayor, there could be a several million dollar budget gap in about six months.

 I finished reading Writing That Works on the train to the job.  I had the day off, but went in to get my paperwork. Sometimes, patience is what is needed.

Daily Thoughts 11/28/2010 (Get Glue, Writing Tools)

First page of a miniature of Cicero's De oratore, 1400s, Northern Italy, now at the British Museum.


Daily Thoughts 11/28/2010

I've been reading more of Writing Tools this weekend. There are a lot of ideas about writing that I had not thought about before.  The author describes when to use unusual words as well as how patterns of words on the page effect stories. I learned quite a bit about things like sentence length, length of of words in series, patterns in writing, and other mechanies.  I learned about how important it is to look for unique names and find the names of even the most unimportant characters in your writing.  So far, this is an excellent book that has introduced me to many new concepts about writing.




I am still playing around with Get Glue http://getglue.com/BookCalendar/books.  It is very easy to get drawn into sites like this because they appear that you are doing something important when it is really more for frivolous enjoyment.  However, it does make you more visible if that is what you are seeking.

I went in and added a few more links to my selected links page from the last month. It is slowly growing.  I also pulled out a few more books and topics to add to Get Glue.

The day after

After a long round in the city with my dear friend Sabina last night, I have literally slept away the entire day except for the two hours when I ate breakfast, showered, and went to Gränby Centrum (Uppsala’s biggest mall) for a quick shopping with mami and Vicki.

The initial plan was that we all were supposed to go to this Första Advent’s party at a close family friend’s place, but as I feel really crappy and sleepy, I told mami and Vicki that they’d just have to do without me. So now I’m all alone. Maybe I’ll just sleep some more…

Holding On!

This is another painting taken from one of Shelley Smart's blog, A Year at the Beach.  Thank you Shelley!

As usual I've not been blogging or visiting this past week, for which I (yet again) apologise.  And with Summer and looming holidays and sports fixtures, I keep falling behind.

But to celebrate Summer (although it's very peculiar weather we're having at the moment!), I thought I would post this one.  I loved it when I started it, but was not all that happy with the end result.  Oh well, another learning curve!

And on a final note, and I KNOW it's late, but I hope all my American and Canadian blogging friends had a great Thanksgiving.  Because it's not an event we celebrate, I tend to forget.  Sorry.

Daily Thoughts 11/27/2010 (Get Glue, LinkedIn, Social Media, Budget)

Interior View of the Astor Library, 1854

Daily Thoughts 11/27/2010 

Using Social Networks To Select Material.


I have two books that I placed on hold after reading Linked In; What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelley and Letting Go Of Words, Writing Web Content That Works.  Librarians often talk about the books they like on Linked In.  It is often career oriented material.  While I was on a thread in Linked In on LISCareers, they had a number of career books they were discussing.  The thread is called Best Books For Career Professional/Personal Development http://linkd.in/f0VYYT%20  Two books that caught my attention were First Break All The Rules: What TheWorlds Greatest Managers Do by Marcus Buckingham and Creating A Life Worth Living: A Practical Course In Career Design For Aspiring Writers, Artists, Filmmakers, Musicians, and Others Who Want to Make A Living From Their Creative Work by Carol Lloyd.

I also spent some time on Get Glue looking at different book lists.  I ended up picking out three books Rules For Revolutionaries by Guy Kawasaki who also is on Twitter, Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson, and Paper Cities an Anthology Urban Fantasy, Edited by Ekaterina Sedia.  This is my list on Get Glue of books http://getglue.com/BookCalendar/books

I find looking through lists of books on social networks sometimes very interesting and useful.  There are a lot of people with computer backgrounds who have lists of new computer books which are often not available from standard review sources.  People also recommend a lot of book that are never reviewed in the standard review sources like Library Journal or Publishers Weekly.  I think only 1% of published books are reviewed professionally.  This leaves a vast array of books with little or no coverage.  They are often things like computer books, books on construction, textbooks, and other materials.

Also many social networks have lists where people give what they are currently reading.  These are sometimes curious to look at because they tend to have a wide cross section of books.

Budget and Politics

It is almost the end of the year.  I learned we have enough money to make it until the end of the year without layoffs.  This is a relief in a way.  I am waiting to hear about the finalization of people retiring.  On November 29, 2010 we are having a union meeting to discuss the budget with union representatives from the state. The mayor announced there would be no layoffs in the city.  However, our library is moving away from being part of the city, we are in the process of becoming a school district library at the request of the Board of Regents of the New York State Library.  This would put our budget up to vote in 2011.  It also means that the board of trustees would have to be elected as well.  It is very political.

I now know that there will not be any furloughs, it goes against the CSEA statewide union policy.  It is something I would have liked to consider.  It requires a lot of patience to think about these things.

In the city itself, there is some dissension, the city comptroller has announced that she is against the mayors budget.  This makes things even more complicated.  Right now in Westchester County, they are having budget hearings.  Funding for libraries in Westchester County are being considered.  The Westchester Library System which does some of our services is being cut.  They already have cut the bookmobile.  In our city, it went to the homes for the aged and the local armory.

It gets even more complicated, because the civil service has to work with the library if there are layoffs or a reduction in force.  They already did a reduction in force for our library on July 11, 2010 which was rescinded.  This makes them very careful.

In the surrounding area in the five boroughs of New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has suggested a $16.5 million dollar budget cut.  This would eliminate 404 librarians leaving a lot of librarians out of work with a limited amount of open positions.  Many of the open positions are for technically oriented positions, systems librarians, metadata specialists, digital image specialists, information architects, content specialists, and web technology specialists.

The whole profession is in a shift, much like the publishing industry is shifting to new technologies, libraries are slowly starting to do it as well.  It is a very disruptive time period.

It also is a very important time to learn how to advocate for your library and find advocates in the community.  Choices which are made now, will affect how or whether libraries will exist in the future.  In my personal opinion, reform is necessary, not elimination.

finally♥

Finally, I've got the macaroons♥ thanks to Ko Deddy, my cousin from Bali who has bought me these delicious macaroons ;] . The macaroons are heavenly super delicious! Ko Deddy said that, the macaroons he bought for me is the best macaroon in Bali. HAHA. How lucky am I♥ . I ate 8 macaroons at afternoon. It's delicious! Especially the chocolate flavor one. So YUMMY! I'm so addicted to macaroons♥ I hope there will be a macaroon bakery or something in Bojonegoro! Haha. But I think, it's quiet impossible, yaa you know how's Bojoengoro look-a-like =p . Hard to me modern. That's why I want to go to Senior High School ASAP! :D . I've told you, rite? Which SHS I wanna be? Ok, gotta off rite now. Bye fellas :DD♥

 

Writing That Works How To Communicate Effectively in Business, 3rd Edition by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson

Writing That Works How To Communicate Effectively in Business, 3rd Edition by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson





Writing That Works is an updated book on business writing that includes sections on email, presentation decks (bullet pointed lists often in powerpoint), and a reminder that computers are only as good as what you put into them.



The writers describe when it is appropriate to use paper memos and letters to add a personal touch or appear official. They also talk about how to give presentations to sell your product or idea in person.

The book covers written documents, presentations, and the internet. The chapters are short, clear, and present clear business objectives; getting a job with a resume, getting money for your ideas, saving time by managing email properly, and selling yourself in writing.



Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson open the book with a statement that the point of business writing is to get things done, not just to be clear.



There is a reminder to edit your work, be understandable, and write for a specific objective. Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson do this with ease. They make excellent use of bullet pointed lists, indented italicized text, and bold headings which catch your attention.



Kenneth Roman retired from being CEO of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide and Joel Raphaelson retired from being Creative Executive Director of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide. This makes them very qualified to write about business. This book is well worth reading.

Lucky girl

Right now I am so envious, but still so happy for my sister who this morning found one of the 100 boxes that the newly opened NetOnNet has hidden all over Uppsala. Tomorrow she will go and pick up her new lap top. Talk about being lucky…

Daily Thoughts 11/26/2010 (Get Glue, The Copia

Paul Cesar Helleu, Woman Reading, Circa 1895, Drypoint on Paper

Daily Thoughts 11/26/2010

I have been reading a little more of Writing Tools and trying out Get Glue. It is quite interesting.  I learned it has some qualities that are not so great.  Synching it with twitter will fill your twitter messages full of Get Glue which can appear spammy.  It is very easy to create a very large list of books you have read.

I spent some time going through The Copia, http://www.thecopia.com  It is a social network for books. I started out by downloading the seven free books which they are offering on their network.  I first had to get a license from Adobe to do this and create an account with Adobe.  I think they are mainly using the Adobe Epub format.  Once I was logged on, I had the choice of either downloading an application for Mac or PC that would synch with the website.  There was also an Ipad application.  This was fairly easy to do.

Once I had the application downloaded, I decided to do a little free riding which is the nice word for looking for free things.  I searched the catalog for free downloads and downloaded Walden or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau, The Novels of Jane Austen, and An Account of Egypt.   This left me with ten books.  I then looked through the community list of books.  Many were also downloading free items.  Computer books from O'reilly publishing and public domain history texts were also downloaded. I downloaded Vikram and The Vampire by Sir Richard Burton which is another public domain classic.  I now have eleven books to try out and read on the system.  The downloads were fast and easy to do.

I also went through and looked at the groups and joined a few under my name to see how they worked as well as made a few comments to check on how that worked.  It was an interesting experience.

I also updated my profile with a thumbnail for this blog.  There was only one thing which did not work that well.  I tried to search people for librarians, publishers, authors, writers, editors, and other book people.  I was not able to find any in the people search.

There are supposed to be some features which are not available in other social networks for books.  You should be able to annotate books with notes by the book, the page number, and highlighted text.  This all should be shareable.  I am looking forward to trying it out tomorrow.  I like to spread out these kind of things over time.

say NO to copycats/plagiators

Guys! Gue sebagai Korean Lovers bener-bener ga terima waktu ada boyband baru dari Indonesia, SM*SH. Bener-bener plagiat! Di Korea kan ada boyband yang namanya SMASH, lah ini cuma disensor A nya doang -.- hfft. Udah gitu setelah gue liat-liat video klip mereka, satu kata: BIASA BANGET! Yang 'I Heart You', cuma pake background putih polos, terus ada 6 cowo nari-nari + nyanyi-nyanyi ga jelas, sangat-sangat ga kreatif! Ada lagi yang rambutnya putih gitu, mau niru G-Dragon mas? Ckckck. Udah gitu disamain pula sama Super Junior. Katanya SM*SH *susah ngetiknya -.- itu Super Junior-nya Indonesia. WTH? Can you people see with your eyes?! JAUHHHHHH!! Gue cuma bisa bilang : CKCCKCK! Dan satu lagi, copycats or we can say them plagiators will never have their popularity. Die lah!

Up early…

The fact that I am up already is just insane, but I seriously cannot sleep. :/

Usually this feeling is what tends to keep me up to 2 a.m. in the morning almost every night, but somehow it got reversed today, leaving me morning alert. So weird. Well, well, I guess I will just crash into bed at 9 p.m. tonight due to exhaustion. Hehe. ^^

Daily Thoughts 11/25/2010 (Get Glue, Writing Tools, Thanksgiving)

Lithograph, Home To Thanksgiving, published by Currier and Ives., 1867


Daily Thoughts 11/25/2010


Happy Thanksgiving, hope all is well with you.  I am home today which feels very well.  Anyways, today is a day to relax.


I read some more of Writing Tools.  I spent some time going through the New York Post  crossing out words that ended with ing in them.  It was a writing exercise.  There were not a lot of them. The Post, despite its tabloid reputation, has very tight writing with very few errors in structure or grammar.  I may think there may be errors of opinion, but there are few technical errors.

I also registered with Wikipedia as a user.  I am not sure why, but there is a BookCalendar account on both Wikimedia and Wikipedia.  I have never attempted to provide any input into their database, but I have used them quite often.

In addition, I now have an account on Get Glue http://getglue.com/BookCalendar%20

Chagall

Wohoo!

There are no words to describe the happiness I am feeling right now. Test week is over for this year and tomorrow I am off from school, which means extended weekend. Hihi :D

Anyway, after school I went to meet my lovely sister for a date at the trendy Chagall, which I by the way have to recommend. Their baguettes are delicious, their coffee lovely, and the owner super-friendly ;)

Went for the no-bangs look today ^^

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to stop in and wish all of you guys a VERY Happy Thanksgiving! Today I am thankful for all of you. You make blogging fun. Have a great Turkey Day!

Bob Out

"DAUN terbang karena ANGIN bertiup atau karena POHON tidak memintanya untuk tinggal?"

POHON

Orang-orang memanggilku "POHON" karena aku sangat baik dalam menggambar pohon. Aku selalu menggunakan gambar pohon pada sisi kanan sebagai trademark pada semua lukisanku. Aku telah berpacaran sebanyak 5 kali...

Ada satu wanita yang sangat aku cintai..tapi aku tidak punya keberanian untuk mengatakannya...
Dia tidak cantik..tidak memiliki tubuh yang sexy..
Dia sangat peduli dengan orang lain..religius tapi..dia hanya wanita biasa saja. Aku menyukainya..sangat menyukainya.. Gayanya yang innocent dan apa adanya.. kemandiriannya.. kepandaiannya dan kekuatannya...
Alasan aku tidak mengajaknya kencan karena... aku merasa dia sangat biasa dan tidak serasi untukku...aku takut...jika kami bersama semua perasaan yang indah ini akan hilang... aku takut kalau gosip-gosip yang ada akan menyakitinya...

Aku merasa dia adalah "sahabatku"... aku akan memilikinya tiada batasnya... tidak harus memberikan semuanya hanya untuk dia...
Alasan yang terakhir..membuat dia menemaniku dalam berbagai pergumulan selama 3 tahun ini... Dia tau aku mengejar gadis-gadis lain dan aku telah membuatnya menangis selama 3 tahun...

Ketika aku mencium pacarku yang ke-2 terlihat olehnya...
Dia hanya tersenyum dengan berwajah merah..."lanjutkan saja" katanya,
setelah itu pergi meninggalkan kami.
Esoknya, matanya bengkak..dan merah...
Aku sengaja tidak mau memikirkan apa yang menyebabkannya menangis...
tapi aku tertawa...bercanda dengannya seharian di ruang itu...
Di sudut ruang itu dia menangis...dia tidak tau bahwa aku kembali
untuk mengambil sesuatu yang tertinggal... Hampir 1 jam kulihat dia menangis disana....

Pacarku yang ke-4 tidak menyukainya...
Pernah sekali mereka berdua perang dingin, aku tau bukan sifatnya untuk memulai perang dingin... Tapi aku masih tetap bersama pacarku...
Aku berteriak padanya dan matanya penuh dengan air mata sedih dan kaget...
Aku tidak memikirkan perasaannya dan pergi meninggalkannya bersama pacarku...
Esoknya ia masih tertawa dan bercanda denganku seperti tidak ada yang terjadi sebelumnya...
Aku tau dia sangat sedih dan kecewa tapi dia tidak tau bahwa sakit hatiku sama buruknya dengan dia...
Aku juga sedih...

Ketika aku putus dengan pacarku yang ke 5, aku mengajaknya pergi...
Setelah kencan satu hari itu, aku mengatakan bahwa ada sesuatu yang ingin kukatakan padanya... Dia mengatakan bahwa kebetulan sekali bahwa dia juga ingin mengatakan sesuatu padaku...
Aku cerita tentang putusnya aku dengan pacarku...
Dia berkata bahwa dia sedang memulai suatu hubungan dengan seseorang... aku tau pria itu...dia sering mengejarnya selama ini...Pria yang baik, penuh energi dan menarik...

Aku tak bisa memperlihatkan betapa sakit hatiku,
Aku hanya tersenyum
dan mengucapkan selamat padanya...
Ketika sampai di rumah, sakit hatiku bertambah kuat
dan aku tidak dapat menahannya...
Seperti ada batu yang sangat berat di dadaku...
Aku tak bisa bernapas dan ingin berteriak namun apa daya...

Air mataku mengalir tak terasa aku menangis karenanya...
Sudah sering aku melihatnya menangis untuk pria yang mengacuhkan kehadirannya...
Handphoneku bergetar...
ternyata ada SMS masuk...
SMS itu dikirim 10 hari
yang lalu ketika aku sedih dan menangis...

SMS itu berbunyi,
"DAUN terbang karena ANGIN bertiup atau karena POHON tidak memintanya untuk tinggal?"




DAUN

Aku suka mengoleksi daun-daun, kenapa?
Karena aku merasa bahwa DAUN untuk meninggalkan pohon yang selama ini ditinggali membutuhkan banyak kekuatan.

Selama 3 tahun aku dekat dengan seorang pria, bukan sebagai pacar tapi "Sahabat" .
Tapi ketika dia mempunyai pacar untuk yang pertama kalinya, aku mempelajari sebuah perasaan yang belum pernah aku pelajari sebelumnya - CEMBURU...
Perasaan di hati ini tidak bisa digambarkan dengan menggunakan Lemon.
Hal itu seperti 100 butir lemon busuk. Mereka hanya bersama selama 2 bulan... Ketika mereka putus, aku menyembunyikan perasaan yang luar biasa gembiranya. Tapi sebulan kemudian dia bersama seorang gadis lagi...

Aku menyukainya
dan aku tau bahwa dia juga menyukaiku,
tapi mengapa dia tidak mau mengatakannya?
Jika dia mencintaiku,
mengapa dia tidak memulainya dahulu untuk melangkah?
Ketika dia punya pacar baru lagi, hatiku sedih...
Waktu berjalan dan berjalan, hatiku sedih dan kecewa...

Aku mulai mengira bahwa ini adalah cinta yang bertepuk sebelah tangan...
Tapi..mengapa dia memperlakukanku lebih dari sekedar seorang teman?

Menyukai seseorang sangat menyusahkan hati...
Aku tahu kesukaannya...kebiasaannya...
Tapi perasaannya kepadaku tidak pernah bisa diketahui...
Kau tidak mengharapkan aku seorang wanita untuk mengatakannya bukan ?

Di luar itu, aku mau tetap disampingnya...
memberinya perhatian... menemani...dan mencintainya...
Berharap suatu hari nanti dia akan datang dan mencintaiku...
Hal itu seperti menunggu telephonenya tiap malam...
mengharapkan mengirimku SMS...
Aku tau sesibuk apapun dia, pasti meluangkan waktunya untukku...
Karena itu, aku menunggunya...
3 tahun cukup berat untuk kulalui
dan aku mau menyerah...
Kadang aku berpikir untuk tetap menunggu...
Dilema yang menemaniku selama 3 tahun ini...

Akhir tahun ke-3,
seorang pria mengejarku...
setiap hari dia mengejarku tanpa lelah...
Segala daya upaya telah dilakukan walau seringkali ada penolakan dariku...
Aku berpikir...apakah aku ingin memberikan ruang kecil di hatiku untuknya ..?!?

Dia seperti angin yang hangat dan lembut, mencoba meniup daun untuk terbang dari pohon...
Akhirnya, aku sadar bahwa aku tidak ingin memberikan Angin ini ruang yang kecil di hatiku...

Aku tau Angin akan membawa pergi Daun yang lusuh jauh dan ketempat yang lebih baik...
Akhirnya aku meninggalkan Pohon... tapi Pohon hanya tersenyum dan tidak memintaku untuk tinggal...
Aku sangat sedih memandangnya tersenyum ke arahku...

"DAUN terbang karena ANGIN bertiup atau karena POHON tidak memintanya untuk tinggal?"



ANGIN

Aku menyukai seorang gadis bernama Daun...
karena dia sangat bergantung pada Pohon..
jadi aku harus menjadi ANGIN yang kuat...

Angin akan meniup Daun terbang jauh...
Pertama kalinya..
Aku melihat seseorang memperhatikan kami...
Ketika itu, dia selalu duduk di sana sendirian
atau dengan teman-temannya memperhatikan Pohon...
Ketika Pohon berbicara dengan gadis-gadis, ada cemburu di matanya...
Ketika Pohon melihat ke arah Daun, ada senyum di matanya...
Memperhatikannya menjadi kebiasaanku...
seperti Daun yang suka melihat Pohon.
Satu hari saja tak kulihat dia...
Aku merasa sangat kehilangan...

Di sudut ruang itu,
Kulihat pohon sedang memperhatikan daun...
Air mengalir di mata daun ketika Pohon pergi...
Esoknya...Ku lihat Daun di tempatnya yang biasa, sedang memperhatikan Pohon...
Aku melangkah dan tersenyum padanya...
Kuambil secarik kertas..
kutulis dan kuberikan padanya...
Dia sangat kaget...

Dia melihat ke arahku,
tersenyum dan menerima kertas dariku...
Esoknya... dia datang...
menghampiriku dan memberikan kembali kertas itu...

Hati Daun sangat kuat dan Angin tidak bisa meniupnya pergi,
hal itu karena Daun tidak mau meninggalkan Pohon.
Aku melihat kearahnya...
kuhampiri dengan kata-kata itu... Sangat pelan...
dia mulai membuka dirinya dan menerima kehadiranku dan telponku...

Aku tau orang yang dia cintai bukan aku...
tapi aku akan berusaha agar suatu hari dia menyukaiku...
Selama 4 bulan, aku telah mengucapkan kata Cinta tidak kurang dari 20x kepadanya...
Hampir tiap kali dia mengalihkan pembicaraan...
tapi aku tidak menyerah...
Keputusanku bulat....
Aku ingin memilikinya...
dan berharap dia akan setuju menjadi pacarku....

Aku bertanya, "apa yang kau lakukan?
Kenapa kau tidak pernah membalas?
Mengapa kau selalu membisu?"
Dia berkata, "Aku menengadahkan kepalaku"...

"Ah?" Aku tidak percaya dengan apa yang kudengar...
"Aku menengadahkan kepalaku" dia berteriak...

Kuletakkan telepon......
melompat....
berlari seribu langkah ke rumahnya...
Dia membuka pintu bagiku...
Ku peluk erat-erat tubuhnya...

"DAUN terbang karena tiupan ANGIN atau karena POHON tidak memintanya untuk tinggal?"

Daily Thoughts 11/24/2010 (Writing That Works, Writing Tools, Layoffs)

Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving if you are in the United States.

Daily Thoughts 11/24/2010

I had the day off today. I relaxed mainly. I finished reading Writing That Works How To Communicate Effectively In Business by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson, Third Edition.  Both authors were executives at Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide.  The book is very concise and useful for business writing.  It gave me a better understanding of how to write to ask for money as well as to write a resume.

Reading , Writing Tools 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark.  Roy Peter Clak makes  words interesting.  I liked the statement it is as important to talk about books as it is to write and read. In one of the exercises he asks me to read the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln and "I Have A Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr.  It is the first time that I have read "I Have A Dream."  Roy Peter Clark also recommends the esssy, "Politics of the English Language" by George Orwell which is excellent http://www.george-orwell.org/Politics_and_the_English_Language/0.html

Web Bits

New York City library systems suffer $16.5 million 'adjustment' http://bit.ly/eWN4Zr Bloomberg makes a mid-year trim.  I don't particularly like this because it helps justify trims in other library systems.  There is a kind of follow me effect.  Our budget has not been announced yet to the public.

Everything will change from tonight!!!

If I were to ask you, which one will you choose to protect you?? An angel with furry, white wings or a fairy with a magic wand?? *I don't have any more better example* Do you feel hard to choose because both of them are quite the same?? Hmm...that's what I'm facing now for a long, long time. So it's time to make decision now. No more escaping, no more hesitation. Well, I looked at myself in the mirror. Turning my head left and right to have a clearly look of myself. Yea...this face!! This person!! With a pair of confident eyes, I told myself: Tonight is the day, the day to transform, the day to change over a new life. And so, I went out of the room and looked at the clock. "10.10pm"...That's a good sign. I need to learn from Voldemort. There's nothing to stop him from achieving what he wants. *curtain falls* n' LET THE FIGHT BEGINS~~~

Hump Day Hunk: Colin Farrell(NSFW)

Who doesn't love this hunk. My panties drop just looking at him but when he speaks, I melt. At this time of the year it's time to give thanks. I can truly say I am thankful for...

Colin Farrell

I had to include this next set of pics which are stills from the movie, "Alexander"...YUMMY!~

And he even spoke out against gay bullying...

LOVE HIM!

Bob Out

my boredom

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Hari-hari gue selama sakit + ga masuk sekolah cuma dipenuhin dengan tiduran di kasur, duduk depan komputer [online], bolak-balik ke WC *karena di suruh banyak minum air putih, baca novelnya Raditya Dika [Cinta Brontosaurus], n maen-maen sama HP gue. Bener-bener ngebosenin banget! I'm so damn bored! Tapi mau gimana lagi, sakit gue ini nular n kalo gue masuk bisa bahaya. Kata dokter si, penularannya cepet banget. Gue pasti bakal ngerasa bersalah banget kalo nularin orang-orang n temen sekelas gue :( . Bener-bener ga enak rasanya sakit kek gini. Semuanya serba susah! Susah makan, susah jalan, pegang ini itu aja udah perih. Gue juga baru ngalamin sekali ini penyakit kek gini. Repot pokoknya. Kalo dijelasin cuma dari tulisan gini pun juga ga sedikit yang ga ngerti. Malahan bisa-bisa salah tangkep. It's so complicated. 

Gue bener-bener ngerasa ga betah kaya gini terus! Ga bisa ngapa-ngapain. Ga enak banget. Mungkin aja penyakit ini emang lagi musim, soalnya kemaren guru les B.Inggirs gue bilang kalo muridnya yang masih SD ada yang kena penyakit kaya gue. Langsung deh mama gue telfon mamanya anak SD itu. Tanya-tanya sembuhnya kaya gimana, dibawa ke dokter siapa, obatnya apa dll. Dan ternyata gue udah mulai sembuh! Yeaay! Katanya si, bentol-bentolnya kalo udah warna coklat tandanya mau sembuh, gue udah beberapa yang kaya gitu! HAHA :D . So happy when I heard about it. Semoga gue cepet sembuh aja deh :)

Oh ya, gue mau cerita soal novelnya Raditya Dika yang lagi gue baca, Cinta Brontosaurus. Gila, kocak banget! *emang gue telat bacanya, udah ga musim lagi. Gue sampe ngakak-ngakak bacanya. Meskipun mulut gue ini kaya penuh sama sariawan, gue tahan hahaha. Abis lucu banget! Must read dh♥ . Caranya si Radit cerita itu gimanaaa gitu. Pilihan kata-katanya juga gampang banget ngertinya, n yang pasti kocak n dia nya keliatan polos gitu waktu cerita. Gue belom slese si bacanya, cuma gue udah ngerasa bakal bagus! Soalnya gue udah perna baca yang MMJ [Marmut Merah Jambu] *urutannya kebalik -,- . 
Hmm, ok I think that's all I wanna share today. See ya later :*

Natalee Holloway

As most of you have heard, on Nov. 12th a jawbone with one intact molar was found on a beach outside a hotel in Aruba. The jawbone was later confirmed to be that of a young woman. A few days later , dental records for Natalee Holloway were sent to Aruba authorities. Today those authorities have confirmed that the jawbone did NOT belong to Natalee. For her family, the not knowing must be excruciating. In any death, the pain never goes away but I can't imagine not knowing what happened to my child. There is no semblance of closure and the opportunity to grieve properly and move on.

Natalee Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005, during a high school graduation trip to Aruba. She was scheduled to fly home later on May 30, but did not show up for her flight home. She was last seen by her classmates outside a nightclub in a car with Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. When questioned, the three men said they dropped her off at her hotel and denied knowing what happened to her after that.

There have been several arrest through the years and subsequent releases due to lack of evidence. Most notably, Joran van der Sloot. He is such a DOUCHE BAG! I mean he is such a major case for me believing in capital punishment. On November 24, 2008, On the Record aired an interview with Van der Sloot in which he alleged that he sold Holloway into sexual slavery. He said he received money when Holloway was taken, and later on to keep quiet. Van der Sloot also alleged he paid the Kalpoe brothers for their assistance, and that his father paid off two police officers who had learned that Holloway was taken to Venezuela. He later retracted the statements made in the interview.

This year he tried to extort money from Natalee's mom, Beth. She informed the FBI and they set up a sting. Joran was paid $10,000 cash and wired $15,000 to an account in the Netherlands, where he lived. They were to pay the remainder of the $ 250,000 after he gave told them where they could find Natalee's remains. He gave false information and was later charged with extortion and wire fraud. He later admitted the extortion saying "I wanted to get back at Natalee's family — her parents have been making my life tough for five years".

On May 30, 2010, Stephany Ramirez was reported missing in Lima, Peru. That is five years to the day that Natalee Holloway was reported missing. Her body was found three days later in a hotel room registered to Joran van der Sloot. He was since charged with her murder and currently sits in a prison in Peru. He originally confessed to this murder but has since retracted the confession. I hope he rots there in that prison. I actually hope he is severely tortured during his time there. He deserves it!

                                                                        

Bob Out

Soon ;)

My language exams in English and Swedish are over and it feels like I can finally chill a bit. Ok, I have maths, ESS and history left, but what the heck! Tomorrow I have a family dinner on the schedule and then it's almost weekend! Party party party! :D

Now when there is snow outside I had to switch my Converse into real winter boots ^^