Lala's First Public Appearance

I don't have much time to write long stories, but i hope the picture can say thousand words.

btw; LALA did not won the contest :P

My Sister In Law

this is my sister in law (updated photos), this is her own request, i'm just doing the favor :)

The Legendary Tofu and Tempe

i am proudly presents, the Legendary Tofu and Tempe is back!

i'd like to write more why it is said as "legendary"... but later yah, in the mean time please enjoy the pics. :)

Sleeping Child

through these picture, hoping I could share my feeling of happiness... :)

Me and The Beast

the swiss delegates invited us to have dinner in Melia Purosani Hotel, as a gratitude to a good welcoming events. suprisingly, there is also a live show of "sendratari ramayana". ever since i lived in yogya, i had never seen this legendary show.

in the end, please enjoy the pictures of me and "the beast". the audience laughed out loud when i took the pose with them. i think a give a good and memorable ending to the delegates.

Certified Project Manager

Alhamdulilah. I finally succeeced in achieving the title "Certified Project Manager". although it is only a certification from Brainbench (and free!), the feeling of success is overwhelming.

I tried to prepare myself very well before the test. I study the official guide on project management published by The Project Management Institute. I probably has quite a number of experience in project management, but I tried have a comprehensive understanding on the official concepts. After comprehensively studying it, I can see "project management" in a much holistic perspective.

During the study, I sacrifice my holiday (and of course skipping the adventures with Lala), but the reward really worth it. Although my score is only 3,69 (max score is 5), but I am the 8th best achiever in Indonesia. Again, alhamdulilah.

Of course, certification only certifies my understanding of its concepts. True knowledge should be proficiently demonstrated in real world cases.

The Next Level of Sports

if you ever think that golf is easy, you are wrong :)
If you don't agree that golf is a sport, then you are wrong also :P

I have been playing this high-class sport for about 6 sessions in Hyatt's Driving Range. 6 sessions equals to 600 balls, and 6 hours of practicing. It is said, "practice makes perfect", now my techniques is getting better and better, and my rate of "good hit" is quite high (8 from 10 hit are good).

Actually, I am not good with sports requiring good techniques, such as basketball, soccer, badminton, etc. My body don't have the required agility.. hahaha. That is why I prefer fitness, jogging or bicycling. Golf, is one kind of sport which requires good technique. It was quite difficult to swing my own body, even I hurt my shoulder. Most It hurts my back, because I have to stand in a stiff position.

When I played golf, I always sweated as much as if I had jogging for 30 minutes or more. It is also surprised me, what has made the sweat even what I do is only standing and swinging. Anyway, I don't use sweat as my indicator. My preliminary analysis concluded that cardiovascular effects (recall the definition here) probably not as good as jogging. Of course, you cannot expect any muscle development by doing golf. But by doing golf, you will maintain (even increase) the muscle and skeleton flexibility.

Enough writing. If you don't believe me, then try it yourself :)

My Brother's Graduation Day

my brother (Bima Kurnianto) is now a master of management in finance, with GPA 3,6. if anyone needs his expertise, just let me know :)

the graduation day was great! you can see in the pictures below, the grand ceremony presents Helena Indonesian Idol! I don't know much about Indonesian Idol superstars, but Bunda Lala does.

of course, besides the superstar show, you can see the other "fun" pictures. enjoy :)

The Cute Lala

here's another cute lala...

Lala and The Ducks...

here's another adventure of Lala. she's very happy being around the ducks.

Summary of Lala's Adventure

too many skipped adventures... here's a summary.

The Adventure of LALA !

gosh, http://lala.edinia.net is down!
from now on, I will regularly upload LALA's newest adventures here. This is LALA at the age of 1,5 years. enjoy the pics!

The Aura

I wanted to write about this since weeks ago. It is about the fact that I am "different" from the metaphysics perspective. This is said by a friend of Bunda Lala, a staff at Bapeda DIY named Yudi. Suprisingly, a friend of my brother in-law also said the same months ago (perhaps last year). Of course my parents were also surprised, and revealed much more interesting related past stories about my father. The two fact spoken by different person encourages me to write about this. Here goes the long full story...

White and Yellow Aura

As we get acquinted each other through YahooMessenger, Yudi visited us at home. After a short small talks, he said that I am different from the perspective of metaphysics. Moreover, he said that I have a a thick white-yellow "aura" surrounding me. White color means that the person is quite religious. Black color represents the opposite. Toward white color is Yellow and Red, where Red represents the highest level of aura. Person such as saints (orang suci seperti ulama) and people who has healing capabilities has this Red aura. My fact finding through googling also match with what is said by Yudi, that aura colors are in sequence: black, white, yellow, red.

Yudi was quite suprised "seeing" me for the first time. He thought I have some kind of amulet (jimat), but of course I don't have any. He said that I have an occasional (infrequent) "invinsible companion". The companion just come and go, because I had not realize its presence. Its presence are for good purposes, brings protection for me. According to Yudi, it came from someone (a saint or orang sakti) existed many generations before my father. As told by my father, the companion once with him, but it is with me now. You will find more about what is told by my father later.

Yudi said that at the age of 40, the aura will be thicker and I will experience the need of its presence. Wihh... Spooky... Later on, he also said (via YM) that I should not carelessly use my hand for punching and mencubit. If other normal person's hand weighed 1 Kg, then mine would be 10 Kg (It is what Yudi said. I know I already weighed over 100 Kg, my hand would already heavier that others... hahaha). In my hands, there are enormous energy which could have negative effect on Lala if used carelessly. Cool... its like the Dragon Ball Legends. But thats it, I don't have much detail about it from Yudi.

The Untold Stories

Knowing that there were two identical fact spoken by different person, my mother urges father to reveal the untold stories. There were two stories, both occured when we live in Bali (I was about 5 years old).

This is the first story. When me and mother walked together, there was a Balinese told my mother that there was "something" following me. But mother ignored it because of the irrelevance with our religion.

Second story is about my father. Father accidentally once also had "an accompanion". Said to be accidental because my father practiced regular dzikir taught by someone without any intention but to worship Allah, but later the dzikir was known to attract "companion". Father then no longer continued that dzikir before he went to Mekkah, because friend of him remind him that "if you need any kind of protection, then ask for it directly to Allah, no need for perantara". Father assumed, perhaps his companion was then moved to me...

Third story from father, confirming that there was someone (a saint or orang sakti) from few generations beyond my grandmother (great great great great grandmother, etc).

Morale of The Story

I appreciate what have been told by Yudi, it updates my knowledge about the metaphysics side of myself. But I was never realize it anyway, so I was also never ask anything (protection, rejeki, or else) to this "invinsible companion". Hopefully this will make myself a much humble servant to the Great Al Mighty Allah. Amin.

Home Decorating...

During my last days off my work, I mostly spend hours in decorating my home. As said by Bunda Lala, gardening is included as part of home decorating. It is a very exciting, and it felt almost like doing fitness (pushing myself to the limit until sweating all out).

In the end, I feel happy. I was wondering why I did not have the same excitement on regular weekends (Sunday). I think it is because of my long day off my work. Long holidays made me wanted to do something with my home. On regular Sunday, I was spending the day refreshing myself after a week at the office. At that time, home decorating was not on my plan.

Let me share some of my excitement. My first excitement is the sunflower seed! I got it in Ace Hardware shop at Artha Gading Mall Jakarta. As you know, my quest for sunflower has not been a satisfactory. So, if the sunflower is hard ot find, then I intend to create a farm of sunflowers! Ace Hardware actually has three type of sunflower seed with beauty and uniqueness of each own, but firstly I will try this one (Autumn Beauty).

The second excitement is an indoor sculpture fountain (I don't have the official name). It is a stone curved in such an artistic style with water flowing from top. Most models have stone balls rotating on top of it (over the flowing water). We thought it would be nice to have the sound of rippling water in our home. It would bring the relaxing sound of water. This is also inspired in Ace Hardware shop. What excites me is the hunt for sculpture fountain. In Ace Hardware, the price is quite enormous, one item priced Rp. 900.000. Bunda Lala said that she once knew that Mirota Batik has the same item, but only priced one-third. As we got to Mirota Batik, the item is still expensive, priced Rp. 700.000, not to mention the lack of models. So the hunt continued to Kasongan area. There we found many model of sculpture fountain, and of course with only one-third price from Ace Hardware shop... hehehe...