>> HAPPY NEW YEAR, PEEPS!!

i'm off to florida in a couple of hours. i don't think i'd do any postings although i'll bring my laptop along. so, happy new years everyone. i'll be back on my birthday!

***** indonesian *****

sebenernya gue udah males ngebahas ttg recent artikel yang ada di tempo yang judulnya 'curhat' di alam maya. tapi ternyata di comment box postingan gue yang ngebahas ttg artikel ini kemaren ini diisi dengan seseorang yang mengaku sebagai wartawan tempo. basically, dia ini ngasih input ke gue. and i really appreciate that. dan gue seneng juga karena dia naro emailnya di comment itu, so gue langsung nulis email balik ke dia... i tot i'd share what i wrote.. *mudah² gak rada nyolotin ya.. sorri kalo iya, gak bermaksud*


mas xxxxxxx,
terima kasih atas imbauan yang anda sampaikan di comment box blog saya. salam kenal juga. :D
saya setuju dengan observasi anda bahwa media massa juga manusiawi yang tidak luput dari kesalahan. saya sangat mengerti itu. tapi yang sangat saya sayangkan wartawan tempo yang menulis artikel ini tidak mengikuti cara etika yang semestinya. saya bukan wartawan dan saya tidak ada pengalaman sama sekali dalam bidang jurnalistik. dan kritik saya terhadap wartawan tempo ini mungkin hanyalah sebagai kritik orang awam yang merasa dirugikan. yang saya tahu, selama saya bersekolah di sini saya selalu diajarkan betapa pentingnya mengutip nara sumber dalam berbagai macam hal, sekecil apapun kalimat yang dikutipnya. yang mana dalam artikel ini, semua tulisan kami dalam blog dikutip langsung dan diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa indonesia, tanpa ada referensi yang jelas. dan lebih parahnya lagi, informasi nya benar2 salah, terutama informasi ttg saya :D. saya sangat mengerti kalo hal ini adalah masalah kecil tetapi saya sangat berpegang pada prinsip yang telah diajarkan kepada saya sedari dulu.

di satu pihak saya hanya ingin memberikan kritik yang membangun, bukan kritik yang merugikan, jadi saya tidak mungkin akan menfaatkan jalur hukum formal dan sebagainya. yang saya sangat sayangkan, ketika wartawan melakukan 'research' untuk menulis artikel ini, yang jelas2 membahas situs pribadi kami para bloggers, tidak satupun yang dihubungi olehnya. jikalau tidak ada yang memberi tahu kami, tidak ada satupun yang tahu tentang artikel ini, yang menurut logis pikiran saya, tentu saja merugikan kami karena informasi yang diberikan salah.

another thing, anda menyebutkan kalo tempo berkeyakinan bahwa internet merupakan ranah publik. dan sah sah saja mengutip dari internet tersebut sepanjang menyebutkan sumbernya. menurut saya ini tidak benar. karena internet memang portal buat publik, tetapi tidak semua situs yang di internet buat publik. tulisan kami di blog sama saja seperti karya tulis kami yang kami publishkan yang mana semuanya merupakan hak kami. situs blog kami adalah situs pribadi, bukan situs online news seperti majalah tempo. jikalau pun ingin mengutip kata2 kami setidaknya informasi & referensinya disebutkan dengan jelas. dalam hal ini, walaupun saudari bina telah menyebutkan referensi bagi blogger2 yang lain, saya merasa dirugikan karena informasi yang dicantum tidak benar. kalimat saya benar2 dikutip langsung dan diterjemahkan, tetapi tidak ada referensi sama sekali kepada narasumbernya, kecuali menyebutkan nama sLesTa (yang tentu saja, bukan nama asli saya).

dan yang seperti saya cantumkan di posting saya ttg masalah ini, saya sangat mengerti kalau ketidakpahaman ini terjadi karena tidak ada aturan yang resmi dan jelas ttg referensi dan hukum yang melindungi online situs di internet dan hak2 privasi ttg pengutipan dan referensi terhadap isi dari internet tersebut. sebagai pemakai internet, tentu saja saya berharap suatu saat nanti akan ada setidaknya undang2 hukum yang melindungi hak privasi kami tanpa membatasi kebebasan memberikan informasi dan berbuka pikiran.

maaf sekali kalau email saya ini sangat panjang dan tidak berkenan. tapi saya sangat menghargai masukan dari anda. saya senang kalau kita bisa mendiskusikan ini dengan cara terbuka tanpa ada kesalah pahaman. yang sangat saya sayangkan, bina bektiati (yang menulis artikel ini) justru tidak berusaha menghubungi kami sebelum atau sesudah artikel ini di muat, apalagi setelah terjadi diskusi kecil ttg artikel yang ditulisnya.

salam,

:: sLêsTä ::


btw, gimana bahasa indonesia gue? cukup sopan gak? hihih...


:: sLesTa

>> posted on 12/27/2002 11:58:00 PM | [ ]

>> MOVIE WEEKEND & MISS FINIA

after a while not going to see any movies, i finally have the time in the world to go to the theater and watch the new and upcoming movies. not just one, mind you.. i actually saw two movies this weekend *bales dendam ceritanya.. hihi....* i was going to see the third one except noone wanted to come wimme. oh well...

so what did i see?

yup i got to watch lord of the rings 2: the two towers. and how was it? it's muthafuckin' awesome. i couldn't even stop talking about it even a day after i watched the movie. i ended up watching the first one on dvd *again, for the third time* the next day too. it's so freakin' good. it's a really must see. full of action. the plot was so fast that you wouldn't even have a time to stop thinking. you miss one scene, you miss the whole movie. it's that good. and the graphics was unbelievable. the first 5 minutes, you'd already served with a top-notch graphics. oohh.. and i love arragorn & legolas so much!!! such a warrior. *psst.. i know i shoulda keep this info but i can't.. so.. a tip for you.. gandalf is back!!* hehehhe...

the second movie i watched the next day... of course.. gangs of new york which just opened on friday. it's a long movie, full of talking and deep dialogue. actually the story is good, but as any other scorsese's movies, the dialogue and the way the story was told is kinda hard to understand. as my bro said.. "it's not user friendly" the story is about a kid who wanted to take revenge to a gang leader, "the butcher", who killed his father on a riot between the two gangs, the so-called natives and irish foreigners called dead rabbits. now the story serves in a very complicated way cuz at the same time there are political riots, army drafts, slavery abolition that wrapped up around the selfish act of revenge. those who are not familiar with america's history and politics may come out with a big question mark of what the hell just happened in there?. but the old new york city settings and the originality of how it sets up was very amazing. and of course, daniel-day lewis delivers superb acting as the butcher!!!

i was gonna watch two weeks notice as my third movie of the weekend, but nobody wanted to see it with me. my bro though it as a "dvd movie!" and i really don't wanna watch it myself. the only person who i know would go is adis but it was too late to call her.

another exciting moment this weekend was that i got to hang out with the infamous miss finia. she called me on saturday morning but i couldn't go along with her touring the city cuz i was too dead tired and lazy to get my ass out of the house. the next morning, i called her and asked is she's up for a dim-sum. she agreed so after an hour i picked her up at her friend's apartment *which happens to be a block away from where i used to live* then off we went to have dim-sum. hihih.. this was actually my first meeting with anybody thru my blogging experience. i was gonna meet up with rita a while ago but due to my heavy schedule at the time of her visit, i couldn't find the time to hangout with her. anyways... it was a short meet-up between me & finia. after dim-sum we went to austin street and just had some desserts at piubello. then off she went back to virginia. so where's the pictures you ask?? hmm... fin.. email-in gue dong!! heheh.. i didn't bring my camera but finia did and we took a couple of shots before we said goodbye. i'll post it after she email it to me.

ciaoo.. guys!! oh another thing...for those who celebrate it, i wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS. have a good one...

UPDATE: here are the pictures..

     




:: sLesTa

>> posted on 12/24/2002 06:18:00 AM | [ ]

>> WHAT'S YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION?

"wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."

as we're getting closer to the end of year 2002, most of us started to reflect back of what we did this year and what we have accomplished *or not!*. following that, we also start to think what we want to accomplish next year as it's peeping just around the corner. all of us *or maybe most* would start making a list of what we need to be done next year, what we would try to improve and whatnot. i used to do that. i remember when i was younger i would make a list that i am going to be more disciplined in doing my 5-times daily prayer or i want to pass my class or i want to graduate the 10th grade, and so on and so forth. unfortunately, most resolutions set in january 1 are history by february 1, sometimes didn't even make it. by a couple of weeks, i'd forget what i have listed and just go with the flow and tried to survive the year and make the best out of it.

then i grew out of it. didn't even wanna make the list anymore cuz i figured the list is not that important anymore. the fact that you're actually doing what you want to accomplish and actually did is much much better than just having it your mind and let it buried among other things. i'd say my new year's resolution now is a long-term one. not something that i want accomplish in a year, but accomplish within a period of time. all i need to do just to take it day by day, week by week, month by month .. and year by year.

in the next couple of weeks, you'll read a lot about new year's resolutions and tips for "how to really do it this year." but tips and ideas alone won't get it done. it's funny how all the time, energy and resources seem to be put into setting goals, while their actual achievement is just expected to take care of itself. without a concrete plan and the right resources, it's too easy to fall back into old habits. real change takes time - and needs help. the key is to surround yourself with reminders that make your goals tough to ignore and impossible to forget. finally, you need to actually do what you promised. you're ultimately accountable to yourself and nobody else for your goals. you will find virtue and character in fulfilling that promise. after all, goal achievement is something you do year-round, not just in january.

sLesTa

>> posted on 12/21/2002 05:25:00 AM | [ ]

>> JOURNALISM & ETHICS

this morning i saw a message on my tag-board from this girl who mentioned that my blog appears in this magazine. although i didn't believe it at first, i finally got the article from enda and read it. although now i got all msgs from my regular visitors congratulating me for being featured in the magazine, i'm not particularly happy about it. though it may sound exaggerating, i feel that somebody has invaded my privacy.

it's true that there is no law binding online information. after all, all of us bloggerians are putting our life stories for people to read. but i strongly believe that whoever's writing the article, either has no understanding whatsoever what "ethics" mean or s/he does not have a good background on how doing a research. i'm not trying to be sarcastic or nasty or what-you-may-say. i would say that the article is a good writing, except that it was not based on accurate information because the writer does not have a fuckin' gut to ask permission from the blog-owner to have his or her blog to be featured in an article. for a top magazine like tempo i was pretty surprised in looking at the poor quality of the writer in referencing his or her sources. i never get contacted & never asked for permission to have my blog featured and i'm pretty sure the same thing with the others whose blogs are mentioned in the article -- and all the while i have a contact information right there on top when it says email me!!

from reading the journal, i think it was written in a rush. why? cuz many of the information are WRONG!!! take detta for example, she was mentioned as currently living in aachen *not!!* or my i-wish-i-still-am age of 18. totally surprised me that this person either does not know how to read , doesn't understand english clearly or just plainly bad in mathematics. cuz i never mentioned my age on my about me page except when i said "i came to united states 7 years ago. i just turned 18..." and then the sentence doesn't make any sense cuz the writer mentioned me as an 18 year old girl who is working in an export-import company in manhattan. hahahahh... my message to the writer: DO YOUR FUCKIN' RESEARCH!! before publishing anything. i would let it go if the article is in a cheesy magazine *like reading a tabloid about your fave artist where all the articles are far from truth * but it's not.

taking enda's reaction.. i've noticed that my blog visitors have doubled. is that good? is that bad? it depends on how the owners like it, i myself don't really care but of course i do welcome them. but it also increases the risk to security of the site. it's a good thing that my blog is hosted by blogger, so i don't have to worry about it as much. but look at dhea whose site now is being defaced. it may not even related, but i would assume it has something to do with the article, especially that her site and name is posted as an opening paragraph for the article. *btw dhea, ada pesen dari adi to contact him if you need help. kalo gak punya no telp nya, email gue ya, dheeaa..*. good luck!!

what i got from all of it now is just to let us all think. as i mentioned so much before, i am really concerned about privacy, especially on the net. the law have not yet passed in protecting our rights to privacy online, after all, we are putting our lives for everyone to see. but the writer of the article has failed to act ethically in his/her journalism experience because he/she has put someone's name in public without having an authorization to do so. the least he/she can do is to contact the blog-owners so at least he/she can have the story straight.

btw.. who says i'm lonely and living alone here? ngaraaannggg ajjaa deh loee!!! can you freakin' translate english correctly?

:: sLesTa

>> posted on 12/19/2002 11:36:00 AM | [ ]

>> ROAD TO SUCCESS....

WARNING: THIS IS A LONG-ASS POST!

first of all, thank you for those who wish me luck on my presentation as well as ur "get well" wishes.. *hugs* gue sampe terharu.. hiks.. i'm still sick. my head's still heavy, still have a runny nose, my nasal still congested.. and it goes on and on and on.. and it's not getting any better for some reason... well, maybe because i walked through the rain last night.. *whaaat? i don't know it's gonna be raining and i don't know my class would end at 9.30pm and i have to walk through the rain, cuz i got no choice..!!*

but all and all, i'm happy finally i'm done with all my projects last nite. the presentation again.. was very good. i'm so glad that both groups on my both classes this semester had created a good synergy that allow us to work together yet learning something out of it.. and delivered a top-notch presentation. our professor liked our idea and recommendation. we did the presentation within the time limit given *and the rest of the groups went over it* we may not put all the details on our presentation but we feel we don't need to since we have everything on our proposal binder. well, since i'm never gonna do this again.. i want to capture all these memories in my journal.. so mind you.. this reading will be mad boooorrriiinggg!!!

FRIDAY: "subway nightmare"

although it was the day after lebaran, i still managed to go to work because i have all these meetings planned for the weekend that i can't miss. it was freezing cold cuz the snow are outside covering the city. some streets aren't even cleaned up yet, so when i decided to wear my high heel boots today, i walked extra careful, although i almost slipped when i ran out getting my coffee in the morning. at 5.30 pm i left the office to go to raj's office in TriBeCa. since i've been to that salomon smith barney's office a while ago, i decided to take the F train and tranferred to the E line in west 4 to franklin street, due to the fact that it's freakin' cold outside and that route would be the closest walk to the office. unfortunately, the train service SUCKS!!! that nite. to make the long story short, i didn't get to raj's office until 7pm, and it should be just a 15 minute ride. at one point i actually got out to get a cab to no avail. believe you me.. it's so fuckin' hard to get a cab on a freakin' friday night at a freezing temperature.. so i had no choice but to wait for the train to come ... again.

anyways, ramona and raj had started without me. after discussing for several hours, we decided to stop and worked on our part and went home around 10pm. we decided not to meet again tomorrow, but instead we'll work on our part for the consolidated paper. *oh btw, the paper is a case analysis on BOMBARDIER, LTD. as an MBA students we are expected to have a detailed analysis of the company's problems and we should come up with recommendations that we will present as our final grade in front of the class acting as an executive committee of the company* my part was to do the consolidated financial analysis, raj will do the presentation slides and ramona will work on the consolidated paper.

SATURDAY: "day off"

i'm so happy that none of my groups decided to meet today. we were going to but then decided we should just spend the whole day on sunday instead. this is good news for me, so at least i'd be able to spend a day 'off' and go to may's open house. whoohooo.. never let free food offer to waste.. right??

so i went to may's house with han, ari, and my bro. met a bunch of my friends. basa basi.. salaman sana sini.. shake hands, minal aidin-an and then go straight to the food. yummeehhh..!! it's nice to see all my friends again after all these times i've been busy with my own thang... a bunch of them wants to go out somewhere and hang out.. but unfortunately and sadly, i'd have to say no. although this is kinda a day 'off' for me, i do have some work to be done. so my bro dropped me off at my apartment and off they go i-don't-know-where. i didn't go straight to work on my stuff. instead i watched some shows on tv and ended up falling asleep on the couch. by 10pm, i woke up refreshed and ready to do my work. at first i did the financial analysis. after a couple of hours, i'm done. of course because we did the financial ratios and analysis a couple of weeks earlier, all i have to do is to put them in writing to be included in the consolidated paper. after thoroughly reading it and satisfied, i put it aside and started to work on my other project. my other project is very interesting and 'fun' *at least my part was*. i think i've mentioned it on my previous entries about this project. this is for my system analysis & design class. the project is for us to come up with a recommendation to our client (our professor acts as our client from time to time in the class so we can get a feel of a real workshops experience) who has an internal problem in managing projects. through the workshops we were able to find out what is the current process, what is wrong with it, what are the requirements that they want, and eventually we should come up with a solution that would meet those requirements. our recommendation is to create a project management system and will present it in front of the board (again, the class will act as the board of the company) and to convince them in choosing our company from others (the other groups in the class). we also have to do a cost analysis on this part as if we're pitching in our idea *we're consultants* and show our potential client how much will this cost them. sounds cool, eh? and my part was to build this application. since it's not supposed to be a real thing *although if we want, we can..* we chose to just build the prototype using html, with our solution being that it would be availble on the net as their intranet application. to make the story short, i was working on all the screens of the scenarios of this application that we will present on wednesday night. worked on it till 6 am. since it's a fun work, i didn't even realize that it was already 6 am when i'm done with all of the screens. then i just went to bed.

SUNDAY: "the hard work"

after just fallen asleep by 6 in the morning, i woke up around 11.30 cuz my first group meeting is at 1pm on campus. by 12 i was on my way to school. ac dropped me off and saw chris, olga, chihwei, vinny, rob and toyia. efe couldn't make it to the meeting. showed my group the screens i did. they pretty impressed with it and we're all set. by 3pm we were on our way out. so is that mean i'm going home? NO WAY, JOSE!! my next group meeting is at 3pm at starbucks around school. met up with raj and ramona then we decided to walk down to the pizza place to get lunch. after lunch, we decided to stay at the place and worked on our project there. and that was the beginning of our long process to finish the project. at one point we got kicked out of that pizza place cuz we stayed there for too long and also due to the fact that they found out we're using the electricity to power the laptop we're using. what a cheap ass!! so we left and moved to the cafetaria on the main building. stayed there.. till 10pm. the last couple of hours before we got up and left, i felt like my brain is being squeezed to think. have you ever experienced that?? at the end you just don't care of what you wanna put on your paper anymore. but all of us tried to work our best. so by 10pm i went home feeling so dead tired. and i have to wake up early to work tomorrow morning. i can feel that my body is getting really used up and down to its last resource. started to feeling dizzy, sick.. especially that i haven't been eating good through all these times i'm busy with my projects.

MONDAY: "the torture begins"

worked restlessly, didn't even get lunch. by 4.30pm i left the office cuz i promised raj and ramona that i will come early for a dry run. the class starts at 5.35, so before 5pm i was already there and prepared everything. the presentation started on time. professor oglesbee made this presentation as if we are in a real executive committee meeting. as a business consultants we have to present our recommendation as professionally as we could. and we started. raj started with the introduction and a little overview of the problems within the company. as he talked, the prof. keeps cutting him. when raj mentioned a business term, the prof. asked him to explain it further. it goes on also till ramona's & my turn. the presentation is for 20 minutes. but by the time my turn started *i was last to speak* i don't have that many time left because of those interruptions that the prof. made. it was freakin' INTENSE!!! we can see how everybody was shocked during the Q&A. i'm sure they shocked because they wouldn't imagine how it will be when they're in our position. fortunately, through our shockness, our group managed to go through the whole ordeal in a professional way. we might have a mistake here and there but hey.. we were the FIRST victim... it was good for us that we were able to throw all what we need to say on the presentation before the time ran out. the other two groups who were presenting that night had to rush to the end cuz they were running out of time. one group had 33 slides for the presentation and they can only go through the first 2 slides!!! i feel so bad for them.

but all and all.. it was a great learning experience. it was though, but i'm glad the professor made us through that. he is actually a very good professor and he wanted us to learn as how it is in the real world so when we go out there as an MBA, we wouldn't be so surprised. the way he said it.. "i'm producing a high quality products.. not just someone with a degree behind their names..!" so now you know why i've been working my ass so hard all the time this semester. all i know by the end of the night.. i'm so fuckin' glad that my group went up first.

TUESDAY: "my body wears out"

woke up with my stuffy nose. i feel it. all these times, i tried so hard not to get sick cuz i can't afford to.. i guess my body just give in after i've put it through. had a light day at work cuz shawn took me to alain mikli's sample sale during lunch time *we took two hours. haha..*. got two frames *shawn bought me one.. thanks, dude!* for 80 bux. that was an awesome deal considering their regular price is about 150-200bux. i got one for ac as a christmas gift. he needs a new frame desperately. all the time all day i coughed and have a runny nose. but i tried to put that aside thinking if my mind don't accept this sickness then my body won't too. WRONG!!! by the time i got home, it was getting worse. but still i tried to denied it. cleaned up my house, every detail of it, cuz i have been abandoning it for the past three weeks. got tons of dishes to wash, carpet to vacuum and papers all over my study table. not to mention all the garbages. it was just horrible. i was done by 10pm, cooked my dinner and then took vick's and off to bed. all i want is to wake up feeling refreshed.

WEDNESDAY: "the end of the stumpy road"

i woke up with the worst headache and sinusitis pressure. i feel so terrible. couldn't get enough sleep last night because i keep waking up for not be able to breathe through my nose. but i have to drag myself out of bed. i have my last presentation tonight and i might as well go to work instead of staying at home. the whole day at work, i felt like i was dying. left the office by 4.30pm and ready to have the presentation on that application we built. my group was so ready that when professor phidd asked team one to present *that's us!* all of us just go right ahead to our position. this class is a 'fun' one. you can tell by the way our professor conducted the presentation. although the set up is pretty similar with the other class *presenting in front of the executive committee* he asked us to bring food to class. so in between each group presenting, we'd have a 3 minute break and we'd use that for networking and getting to know with other classmates while getting our food, isn't that fun?

anyways, so we started the presentation. olga started first on the introduction speech, then chihwei took the stand on our brief understanding about the client's issues, then rob took over on the client's requirements. vinny continued with test cases. by this time we're already showing our application and vinny is showing how QA is implied by having error messages working on the application... bla..bla..bla.. then efe took over to explain one of the requirements and finished up by me who explained the rest of the features on the application. toyia worked the class on cost-benefit analysis then came up olga again *as the team leader* to finish up with conclusion and recommendations. all of that was done in 15 minutes on the dot. it was kinda hard because there are 8 of us and so little time and this is on a subject that is very huge to do. but we managed. the professor was pretty impressed. so we took a 3 minute break, got our food and back to our seat to see the next group presenting. i'll tell you, none of them can make it within that time limit. there are 4 groups presenting after us and we had to stay the whole time. efe kept taking pictures with his new digicam, while chris keeps pushing him off. hahah.. all the time i was coughing and blowing my nose. i have tissues all over my desk. there was a funny moment during presentation. i started my speech by saying.. "first of all, i apologized if you cannot hear me perfectly because i haven't felt good all day, so please bear with me.." while it was the truth, i purposely did that to break the 'ice' so everyone would not be so nervous. but at the end of the class, a guy came up and said.. "hey, that was a good one... making an excuse about you being sick.. " and i answered.. "but i AM sick!" hahahah.. he thought i was just making that up as a scenario for my speech cuz i was nervous. to tell you the truth, i wasn't nervous at all. compared to my presentation on monday, this was a piece of a cake.. that's why i can just go through it smoothly.

we didn't get out of the class until 9.30pm. the prof. gave the review at the end. we got a good one. and on our way out, all of us just try to talk to each other... knowing that this is our last class together. it was a great learning experience and i'm glad to have spent the last three months with my group and class mates. we had a good groups.. and to you all *if you read this* chris, olga, vinny, chihwei, rob, efe, and toyia i'm glad to have worked wit you... please do keep in touch and good luck on your future endeavors!! efe, if you sent out those pics you took, i'll put it up on my gallery for everyone to see... !!

THURSDAY: "the after effect"

i'm still sick today. it's even worse cuz i got myself wet from the rain last night. wasn't gonna go to work, called in but then i realized that they might need me for an EDI transmission. my co-worker who's handling this is on vacation and i'm the next person who knows how to do it. so i have to drag myself out of bed and get to work by 2pm. lucky me!! all i can say.. i'm so glad that my school work has finished. i'm gonna have a full rest this weekend, so i can enjoy my free time. i know i'll miss it soon, but hey.. i still have another semester to be busy.

oh, another thing.. i called the graduate advisement on doing an audit on my credits. it's confirmed i only have two more classes left for next semester and then i'm done, folks!! she mentioned also that due to my current cumulative GPA, i might be eligible to graduate with honors. woohoo.. all my hardworks and no social life for the past 2.5 years will finally pay off... *cross my finger*

UPDATE: the pictures are up on my album!!!

:: sLesTa

>> posted on 12/13/2002 05:43:00 AM | [ ]

>> FINALLY....

it finally hits me. my body can't handle it no more. i'm SICK!!! what a perfect fuckin' time cuz i have all my presentations this week. i'm done with one class on monday, it was horribly intense. the professor pretty much grilled us to death. although i'm pretty sure i got a good grade on it, it was a shock knowing that the way he pursued the presentation was really harsh. my group went up first and we did pretty okay through everyone's shockness of the intense Q&A. i can say that my group set a good standard on how others should perform. i'm just so glad that i'm done with it.

i have another one tonight, but it should be an easy one except my head is hurting, my nose is stuffy, my nasal is congested.. what a perfect fuckin' time!!


:: sLesTa

>> posted on 12/11/2002 08:01:00 PM | [ ]

>> WHITE MUBARAK

NY islamic center celebrates eid mubarak today. it was a suprised announcement last nite cuz i really expected it to be on friday. made some calls, made some changes on my plan, went home and cooked beef rendang and opor ayam. too bad i didn't have the time to make ketupat, but it was all good. today supposed to be a day of celebration, after a whole month fighting to control our hunger, emotions, thirsts. too bad i couldn't make it for shalat eid. even my brother who left early in the morning couldn't make it to the mosque due to heavy snow falls that created the traffic jam.

you've heard the term of "white christmas", i believe? it's when the snow falls on the day of christmas and white-covered everything on earth. this year, we have a "white mubarak" instead. it was snowing like crazy. we expected to have 8"-10" of snow today. started since this morning, it's still snowing as i'm writing and it's not expected to stop until midnight. it's nice to finally see snow again in nyc after the past two years we barely see any. but i managed to come to work through all the snow falls.

this mubarak may not be the best i've had. in fact, it's probably the worst yet. don't feel like i'm getting the feel of how ramadhan is, heck.. i didn't even go to the mosque once this year. but anyhow, i'm glad i still can celebrate it this year with people i love. i get to celebrate it with my brother and friends although i didn't have a chance to meet many people like i always do after shalat eid at the mosque. not this year... but.. i hope all my 'ibadah' will be accepted by Allah SWT. amiienn...

minal aidin, wal faidzin everyone...

:: sLesTa

>> posted on 12/06/2002 07:50:00 AM | [ ]

>> BAAAACCKKK.....

i'm back, kickin' and alive.. but still too busy to write.. goddamit!!
having two days off, it sure did clear up my mind... only to gain more work when i come back. just in case i wouldn't be able to post for the next few days...

EID MUBARAK 1423 H

MINAL AIDIN WAL FAIDZIN

MOHON MAAF LAHIR & BATHIN

i may not have a good 'lebaran' this year. why you asked?? cuz i have to work on friday, and i'm gonna work the whole weekend on my projects, cuz for some reason, i'm so fuckin' lucky to have a first turn in presenting my project on monday.. and we haven't done sh*t {excuse my french, i'm just so pissed off right now! untung gue lagi gak puasa.. } so go figure how my days are gonna be like for the next two weeks. but i do hope you guys have a better celebration than mine!!

peace, yo!

:: sLesTa

>> posted on 12/04/2002 01:17:00 AM | [ ]