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Hate That I Love You

By Rihanna & Neyo Lagu buat abangku.. karena aku cinta dengan dia.. Yeaah heyy heyy That's how much I love you (yeah) That's how much I need you (yeah yeah yeah) And I can't stand you Must everything you do make me wanna smile? And then I like you for a while No... But you won't let me You upset me girl and then you kiss my lips All of a sudden I forget that I was upset Can't remember what you did But I hate it You know exactly what to do so that I can't stay mad at you for too long That's wrong but I hate it You know exactly how to touch So that I don't wanna fuss and fight no more Said I despise that I adore you And I hate how much I love you boy (yeah) I can't stand how much I need you (I need you) And I hate how much I love you boy (ohh) But I just can't let you go And I hate that I love you so (ooh) And you completely know the power that you have The only one that makes me laugh Sad and it's not fair How you take advantage of the fac...

Abang

Abang itu.. The only man (if not a person) who understands me. The most patience. Loving. Passionate. For me, abang itu, the best. I love you bang.

26 weeks...

Yesterday, Saturday morning, I went to see the obgyn. My baby is now 26 weeks, everything looks normal, the only thing is he should weigh 900 instead of the 800gr I'm carrying now. I know, I am a little picky about food, nothing seems to be interesting to eat. I like to think that certain foods are delicious to eat, but then once I have them in front of me, the desire to eat flies away.. *sigh* Abang just hates it when I do that, and always double-ask everytime I told him I want something.. :( And this, most of the time, made me lost the appetite. Oh well. Now I have to eat more! Semangaaaaattt...

Fauzi Bowo and Flood.

Last year, amidst the flooding in Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo was interviewed by RCTI about the flooding in Jakarta, and how come the government hasn't done anything about it.. Then, the next thing you know, we saw a tantrum coming from the mouth of the government! The tantrum was because he felt the anchor cornered him! Then early this year, we saw him again, campaigning to become the GOVERNOR of Jakarta. Boy! He promised us everything! One of them was NO MORE FLOOD in Jakarta. People were sceptical, yet they vote for this guy! Stupid move! We've seen him together with his partner, Sutiyoso, for a long time doing absolutely NOTHING on flooding. Well, this afternoon, I saw Fauzi Bowo AGAIN on TV making comments on the recent flooding in Jakarta, and you know what he said this time.. Still with the tantrum, he said that it's the SOCIETY's fault! because we throw our garbages every where. Not only the society, NATURE is also wrong for raining for too long! Damn Rain! (I just...

Can I trust a nanny for my daughter?

Apparently NOT! But the problem is, aside from being so trusty, I have a very limited time for my daughter, so I GOTTA have one. Here's my daily schedule, mon-fri, wake up at 5am, take a shower, leave home at 530am, work work work until 4pm, arrive home at 5pm, and exhausted at 630pm. While my dauhghter's schedule is wake up at 6am, breakfast, shower, and go to school at 7am, arrive home at 4pm. With the schedule differences, it meant I can't bathe her, nor be there for here when she's home for school to clean her. Meaning: I need to have a sitter or a nanny to help my daughter getting ready for school, for studying, to accompany her playing and all other stuffs. Nanny or sitter is not cheap you know. I don't want to use maids, because they can poisoned my daughter's mind with sinetrons, stupid Indonesian love songs like "Jadikan aku yang kedua (Let me be the second one?????)", or even to speak unpolitely. Though I practically grow with maids around...

Belanja Iklan Naik 17% di 2007 (Koran Sindo)

Satu lagi narsisnya.. heheheh.. ini dari Sindo walaupun nama perusahaannya salah... harus Nielsen Media Research mbaaaaaaaaaakkyuuu.. :( Rabu, 23/01/2008 JAKARTA(SINDO) – Belanja iklan dari tiga jenis media selama 2007 mencapai Rp35 triliun, naik 17% dibandingkan pengeluaran 2006 sebesar Rp30 triliun. Lembaga riset AGB Nielsen mencatat pengeluaran iklan terbesar Rp23 triliun (66%) untuk media elektronik televisi, diikuti koran sebesar 30% dan majalah-tabloid 4%. ”Belanja iklan di media televisi masih menjadi favorit,” ujar Business Development Manager AGB Nielsen Indonesia Maika Randini saat memaparkan hasil riset belanja iklan selama 2007 di Jakarta kemarin. Dia menjelaskan tingkat penetrasi masyarakat pada suatu media menjadi pertimbangan utama pengiklan dalam memilih wadah untuk mempromosikan produknya. Maika mencontohkan, dari sembilan kota yang dijadikan sampel,yakni Jakarta,Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi, Bandung, Surabaya, Semarang, dan Denpasar, tingkat penetra...

Narsis...

Ceritanya kemaren hari Selasa di Nielsen Media Research ada press conference.. secara Ibu Ika Jatmikasari, Head-nya NMR sedang cuti melahirkan, gue sebagai next in line-nya akhirnya menggantikan beliau untuk berbicara dihadapan teman-teman pers.. :/ Tegang juga sih.. tapi untungnya bukan yang pertama kali jadi udah tauk kira2 bakal ditanyain apaan.. Karena itulah kalo sekarang agak2 narsis dengan narok berita2 yang dimuat yang juga berisi namakyu.. yah maklum dong boowww.. :D Semoga tidak kelihatan bodohnya.. hehehhe :P

Kampanye Dongrak Iklan 2008 (Koran Tempo)

Selasa, 22 Januari 2008 | 15:53 WIB TEMPO Interaktif , Jakarta : Kampanye politik untuk Pemilihan Umum (Pemilu) 2009 bakal mendongkrak bisnis periklanan 2008. Meski belum signifikan Nielsen Media Research Indonesia memperkirakan iklan kampanye di media massa dimulai tahun ini. Business Development Nielsen Maika Randini mengatakan, bisnis periklanan tahun ini tak jauh berbeda dengan lima tahun silam. Ketika itu kampanye partai menjelang Pemilu 2004 mendorong kenaikan belanja iklan pada 2003. “Puncaknya akan sangat terasa pada akhir tahun ini hingga pertengahan 2009,” katanya dalam keterangan pers di kantornya kemarin. “Tren iklan politik akan berulang tahun ini dan tahun depan.” Ageong Wijaya

Television, other media to profit from more ads (The Jakarta Post)

January 23, 2008 Agustina Wayansari , The Jakarta Post, Jakarta While local television stations are set to operate longer hour and newspaper pages are likely to get thicker, the public is set for an immense storm of ads as corporate sector is gearing up to raise their commercial spending this year. Wrapping up last year with growth of 17 percent, the country's ad spending is set to swell even further this year on the back of major sporting events and aggressive marketing campaigns by corporations, a report said. Nielsen Media Research Indonesia business manager Maika Randini said Tuesday that ad spending this year would grow an estimated 20 percent from last year's Rp 35 trillion (US$3.72 billion). "Tighter business competition among business players and additional spending allocated for several international events, such as the Olympic Games and the Euro Cup, will fuel this year's growth," she said. "The telecommunication sector will top the list of b...

Pemilu, Sumber Fulus Media (Kompas.com)

Selasa, 22 Januari 2008 | 13:56 WIB JAKARTA, SELASA - Gelaran pemilihan umum (pemilu) baik daerah maupun nasional bisa menjadi sumber perolehan belanja iklan bagi media. Tahun 2007, pemerintah, parpol sampai ke para calon pemimpin menggelontorkan duit hingga Rp1,3 triliun untuk belanja iklan. Media massa boleh bersiap-siap mengambil ancang-ancang mulai tahun ini. Soalnya, bertolak dari hasil riset Nielsen Media Research Indonesia yang disampaikan kepada pers, Selasa (22/1), belanja iklan untuk pemilu mengalami pertumbuhan signifikan. Data pada riset itu menunjukkan, pada 2006, belanja iklan pemilu berada di angka Rp751 miliar. Lalu, setahun sesudahnya atau pada 2007, duit "cuap-cuap kampanye" menjadi tambun hingga Rp1,3 triliun. "Kenaikannya mencapai 74 persen," kata Manager Business Development AC Nielsen Indonesia Maika Randini. Jakarta, terang Maika, ternyata menyetor duit belanja iklan 10 persen. Itu artinya, pada pemilihan kepala daerah (pilkada) DKI Jakar...

About Wanting

I have been waiting for today, Friday, end of the week so that I can write in my blog or this place since I haven't been here a long time. Plus Abang just got a new IM2 modem where we can connect just about every where.. Pretty psyched up about that, so my mind has planned to do this for weeks. Has been wanting.. But you know what, now at exactly 5:47pm after work, I sit in front of my computer and have no idea what I want to write. Darn! Then, I remember what Carrie Bradshaw said in one of the episodes of Sex & The City, she said, there's this thing about wanting, once you have it, you longer want it! Boy, don't that happen to me a lot. :D So, people, be careful of what you wish for, you might not like it! Now, I want to just lay down next to Abang (in his arms to be exact!), let's see if I still want it once I am there.. (Well, I always like this, but it will take me only 15 minutes tops to curl up in his arms.. Some ideas to do somethings just come up when ...

this-7-weeks..

unlike 30% of women on earth, i don't have an easy pregnancy. the constant nausea makes you feel like you're on a bad trip in a car with a terrible smell that makes you wanna puke all the time. you're just ready to get out of the car when another smell hits you, and make puke again. food.. well, i always have problems with food, i only like those junk foods, i don't eat rice, seafood, fish, meat, vegetables, well, sometimes i also wonder where i got my heavy weight :(. but i am picky when it comes all those things i put inside my mouth. and this pregnancy doesn't make it better of course, just the tought of food makes me wanna throw up. from the simple burger, or my favorite home-made-fried-chicken, or simply toast, can't do it! while i know i have to eat for this little person growing inside me, but man, never thought that eating will be tough. shoulder pains. again, i always have a sore shoulder, and i wonder why it becomes worse due to this pregnancy. and ...

finally.. positive!

Let's begin with: I am the mother type. I mothered every one. First it was my sisters (i practically raised these 4 kids since my parents trusted them on me), then it was (still is) my friends, even those who are older than me, and even those who resist on having me done this all the time, and of course, my husband and daughter. I mothered every one. I might be a control freak, but I don't like the word 'freak', so it's mothering then. From telling people what they should do to avoid those problems and troubles, to actually doing it from them. Anyway, I think I made my point: I mothered every one. Yet, when it comes to having a child of my own, hhm, I hesitated a bit. For whatever reasons I can find. Yes, I have Pia, and I love her, and the good thing about her is that I don't have to go through the grueling period of pregnancy. I said I am gonna have another one probably when Pia reaches 10 years old, because then, she will be big enough to understand and e...

Sempurna

Suatu pagi, dalam sebuah kantuk yang amat sangatnya, lagu ini diputar diradio.. dan Abangku bilang: "Lagu ini laguku.. buat kamu.." Aiiihhh.. Aiiih.. Kau begitu sempurna Dimataku kau begitu indah kau membuat diriku akan slalu memujimu Disetiap langkahku Kukan slalu memikirkan dirimu Tak bisa kubayangkan hidupku tanpa cintamu * Janganlah kau tinggalkan diriku Takkan mampu menghadapi semua Hanya bersamamu ku akan bisa Reff: Kau adalah darahku Kau adalah jantungku Kau adalah hidupku Lengkapi diriku Oh sayangku, kau begitu Sempurna.. Sempurna .. Kau genggam tanganku Saat diriku lemah dan terjatuh Kau bisikkan kata dan hapus semua sesalku Back to *

I am in Love..

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This is for the millionth time. I am in Love. Yes, L O V E. To the man I call Abang, or Papa, or Sayang. To my dearest husband. Yes, we used to have this constant irritation towards each other's daily habit. Him of my constant nagging, and me of his constant yelling. But that was when he was in the States. But, even when we have that constant irritation among each other.. I can't help but falling for him. For what he believes. For what he wants for himself with me and Pia. And the funny thing is sometimes, it happened after we had one of our stupid arguments. Now, he's back here. I was afraid to tell you the truth. But then, deep down in my heart I believe that things are gonna get better. And I am right. Things are better. There aren't any moments that I am not in love with him. Yes, in love. Not just the feeling of love you have towards your husband. But like, I am feeling it for the first time. He does things that made me feel this way about him. Without p...

Kangen

Sejak dua minggu yang lalu, aku dan Abang sudah mulai beraktifitas bersama. Abang dengan kegiatan barunya sebagai ABG beruban di bilangan BEJ membuat kita tiap pagi bangun dan mulai beraktifitas sama-sama... dari jam 5 pagi man!! Entah kenapa rasanya enak banget.. siap-siap bareng, naik mobil berdua doang (fyi friends, Camat officially nyetirin mama doang jadinya..), ngobrol di mobil mengenai macem-macem dari yang penting ampe yang cuma ngetawain gaya anehnya Abang yang sok hip hop itu.. pokoknya damai tentram sejahtera deh.. Walaupun terkadang suka sebel dan bete kalo tiba-tiba dia ngotot gak jelas di jalan, atau kalau dia salah ngomong, yang bikin manyun 5 centi, tapi tetep aja semuanya selesai di jalanan.. dan di rumah udah beres. Dari awal nikah emang ngerasa udah nyaman banget dengan keadaan ini, dimana bisa jalan-jalan ampe malem tanpa harus berpisah at the end of the day trus pulang sendiri-sendiri, enak aja.. namanya juga udah halal kali yah.. tapi menurutku keadaan sekarang...

Serba Salah..

Akhir-akhir ini saya suka merasa serba salah.. atau memang sayanya yang sangat sensi kali yah dalam menginterpretasikan kata-kata yang diucapkan orang lain kepada saya. Saya sih maunya menyenangkan semua orang, terlebih lagi orang yang tersayang di dunia yang paling berjasa bagi saya di dunia, tapi kok akhirnya malah menyebabkan orang tersebut sedih dan merana.. :( Mungkin emang saya bukan anak yang baik, karena saya gak sabaran mendengarkan keluh kesah beliau, atau selalu berkomentar seadanya ketika beliau menceritakan seadanya, atau tidak bisa membantu beberapa kesulitan beliau seperti yang lainnya. Tapi itu kan tidak berarti saya tidak menyayangi beliau, tidak berarti bahwa yang lain lebih berbakti, lebih mencintai, kan tidak berarti seperti itu, saya hanya menunjukkan hal tersebut melalui tindakan yang mampu saya lakukan. Saya mungkin tidak bisa berlama-lama menemani beliau bercerita di kamar, tidak membantu beliau memasak atau membuat kue ketika pesanan lagi banyak-banyaknya, ...

Kita Bertanya, Al Qur'an Menjawab

I stumbled upon this email when cleaning my inbox. Good to read, I thought I put it here so my friends can read them as well. KITA BERTANYA: KENAPA AKU DIUJI? QURAN MENJAWAB: "Apakah manusia itu mengira bahwa mereka dibiarkan saja mengatakan: "Kami telah beriman," sedangkan mereka tidak diuji? Dan sesungguhnya Kami telah menguji org2 yg sebelum mereka, maka sesungguhnya Allah mengetahui org2 yg benar dan, sesungguhnya Dia mengetahui org2 yg dusta." -Surah Al-Ankabut ayat 2-3 KITA BERTANYA: KENAPA AKU TAK DAPAT APA YG AKU IDAM-IDAMKAN? QURAN MENJAWAB: "Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi pula kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu, Allah mengetahui sedang kamu tidak mengetahui." - Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 216 KITA BERTANYA: KENAPA UJIAN SEBERAT INI? QURAN MENJAWAB: "Allah tidak membebani seseorang itu melainkan sesuai dengan kesanggupannya. " - Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 286 KITA BERTANYA: KENAPA RASA ...

true love

what's with TRUE LOVE concept? Don't you think it sucks? You made yourselves believe that you got to love only ONCE in your GODDAMN life? I just don't buy that crap! It's hollywood stuff to make us go to movies! Stupid concept! You know, if you don't make it last with one person, it only means that it's not meant to be. Nothing else. It's ok to be sad after a while. It's ok to feel the hangover. But please people, no need to say that you're not gonna be able to love like that again! It's just stupid! Give yourself time to breathe and release the pain, but get on with your life already, find that someone that will make that heart beats a little bit faster than usual again, find that person that make the butterflies on your stomach fly again, chase that smile that will your knees weak. And when you do find that person, love him or her just as they should without hanging on to what you call TRUE LOVE. True love meant you are there holding...

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sometimes, i forget that people can be evil. and can turn the words around as they'd like. this gives me chill.