Most Wanted

Below is the most wanted people and the man is still single... (What’s the connection, anyway?? He..he..)

Well..well..well..
Hey where are you guys??
Don’t run away from me!!
Just keep your smile and give me your words! Ha..ha..ha.

Beijing Olympic Closing Ceremony

Finally, the Olympic is over and the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony was held on August 24, 2008 at the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in the Olympic Green in northern Beijing. The ceremony was amazing, with more than 90,000 audiences packing the stadium counting down from the number of "29", indicating the 29th Olympic Games.

Source : www.xinhuanet.com

Gisele's Giveaway Contest

I love when my blogging friends give free giveaway. And this time Gisele will give a giveaway for a lucky blogger. The give is a very cute mug from her collection. My favorite is this one:

Cute, isn't?

You can join this contest too, just visit Gisele's site and choose your favorite mug to win!

Vote For Your Favorite Recipe

The prestigious annual culinary event in America called GASCO or Great American Seafood Cook-Off was held in New Orleans on Aug 2 and 3. This year was its fifth event and they were 50 top level chefs from across the country competed to cook off. They prepared seafood dishes using fresh domestic seafood and showcased the best culinary products from their state.

The cook off competition is over but there is another contest called “People’s Choice Recipe Contest” at its site. Now it’s our turn to vote our favorite recipe from GASCO chef finalists. Just click one from the five finalist’s recipes that you think is the most interesting, easy and exciting for you to cook at your home. By entering a vote you can win a "Trip to New Orleans" prize. This package is including two Southwest Airline roundtrip tickets, hotel accommodations, dining experiences and more. The best thing is there is no purchase necessary to enter your vote, and the deadline for online entries is on October 31, 2008, so that you still have time to try to cook off the recipes and feel the taste of top chef’s dishes at your home.

My favorite recipe from this contest is “Mississippi Redfish Courtboullion with Seafood Dirty Rice” by Chef John Currence from Mississippi. The most interesting is the way it served; the chef used clay pot instead of plate. Rice is my family main food and we love sea food a lot, so it’s good to know that the dish is served over the rice. So what is your favorite recipe? Don’t forget to visit GreatAmericanSeafoodCookOff.com and enter your vote to win the prize.

Beijing Olympics Medal Standing as per August 22, 2008

How are you, Olympics? It’s been more than a week I didn’t hear the news. Now how are the medal standings? Hmm, as per today, Aug 22, China is still at the top with 46 gold medals followed with USA with 30 gold medals. And where is Indonesia? Hmm… let me see.. Indonesia is at the number 38 with 1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals. Below is the screen shoot of top 20, but you can see the latest and complete medals standing here.

Alzheimer’s Memory Walk 2008

I know Alzheimer’s disease is one of the serious illnesses in the world although I don’t have any family member who affected with this. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain, which causes thinking and memory to become seriously impaired. Two proven risk factors for Alzheimer's disease are age and family history. According to the research, ten percent of people over 65 years of age and half of those over 85 years of age have Alzheimer's disease. And according to the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer's is the 6th leading cause of death in the U.S and at every 71 seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Can you imagine that?

The largest event called Alzheimer's Memory Walk will be held to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research. More than 600 communities will held this Memory Walk and over 200,000 people will participate this year. It is a 2-3 miles walk held on a weekend morning in the fall. So if you want to participate in this event, please visit the site and see if there is a walk near your place.

Awesome Garden

I want to share you some photos about awesome park and garden in Chinese. I never thought that garden can be looked like that. Amazing!! If my garden looked like that, I would always spend the rest day there. You can see more photos about it here.

Fright of Barbie Dolls: Normal or Nuts?

My sister always screams out loud and runs like crazy every time she sees Barbie doll, I don’t know why, because she never want to tell me. When I was little, my brothers and I often made fun of it just to see her screaming and we were laughing so loud. Now she has two daughters and never bought them Barbie doll. Can you imagine, girls without Barbie dolls? Finally, their Grandma bought them the dolls, but in one condition, they should play it only in their room and before they want to play it, they must tell her mother first, so that she won’t enter the room. We often ask her: Are You Normal or Nuts?

Well, have other people asked you the same question? or maybe you often ask it to yourself about your quirks. If the answer is “Yes”, you should post your quirky question on Reader's Digest's new “Advice & Know-How” article titled “Are You Normal or Nuts?" And get to know the answer from the psychological experts.
Here you can read other’s quirky questions and find out the answer. I found one that interesting. It’s about a person who always uses things until they wear out before getting new ones. Actually, I do the same. Some friends suggest me to spoil myself, but I think it is good not to waste our money to buy things that we don’t need. What about you?

SnapBomb Payment

I’ve received the payment from SnapBomb today. I was surprised because I almost forget about it. It’s been a long time, but thanks anyway!
$$ sure make my day brighter..

Funny Character From SouthPark

For all who is not confident enough to put your picture on your site, or can’t find the avatar that similar with you (maybe your face is too unique … )
you can try to create your funny character at SouthPark.

These are the simple steps:

1. Open the Southpark site. Choose the language.
2. Start to create your character, such as: skin color, clothes, hat, etc.
3. Printscreen the picture
4. Open the Photo Editing Software, such as : Photoshop, Coreldraw, Paint
5. Create “New” and Paste the Picture.
6. Cut out/crop the picture. Save.
7. Image ready to use

Here is the sample that I made just now. The character is just like me after blogging all day long..ha.ha..

Happy August 17th

Today we, Indonesian are celebrating the 63rd of our independence day..

Milk

This funny cartoon is one of my ways to celebrate "The World Breastfeeding Week". In fact, it was held on last week, 1-7 August. But I forgot to post it. Anyway, enjoy it! BTW, I forget (again) where I got this, so I don't include the source link.. sorry..

Jember Fashion Carnival

Jember Fashion Carnival 7th was held in Jember, East Java on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008. This year theme is “World Evolution” and there were 550 participants dressed according to different sub themes, paraded along a 3.6 kilometer catwalk road. Although most of participants don’t have fashion education they were very creative in designing their own costumes.
In Brazil, you have the fashion festival in Rio de Janeiro so in Indonesia we have the Jember Fashion Carnival.

Photos taken from JFC Official Website

Stylish Frames

Hey Guys, Zenni Optical was on FOX news! Have you watched it?

At Zennioptical, you can choose any selections of Incredible Stylish New Frames From Zenni.
Don’t worry about the price, it won’t make your eyes pop open, because all collections are sold at low prices. Even they offer Zenni Optical $ 8 Rx Eyeglasses. So if you want to try some stylish frames, Zennioptical.com is a great and inexpensive option.

Indonesian Idol 2008 Winner

Congratulation to ARIS… Indonesian Idol 2008 winner...Horayy!!!…
two thumbs up.

Although I didn’t follow the show every week, but I’m a fan of Aris since the first time I watched him singing and made Titi cried…
There is something different with him, he’s got character.
He had never learned to sing before, he sharpen his sing ability from train by train. Well, after through all of this, now a street musician transform to a new idol.


Welcome to the entertainment world! After you famous, I hope you won’t be arrogant and always remember to God, as your mother told you last night.

Invest Your Future

There are so many ways than can be through by everyone in life and anything in this world has risk that we should bear. We don’t know whether the way that we choose is the right one or no, because we can’t predict what will happen in the future. Moreover, earthquake, hurricane and flood occurred lately in some countries, including my country. That’s why we should protect our self from risks that often occurs in life by having insurance.

Find the best deal of insurance policies sometimes is wasting time, because we must visit site after site for their quotes. But it won’t be happen anymore, because there is a site called InsuranceRate.com that serves as a one-stop-shopping destination for anyone looking for insurance quotes on-line with a simple, efficient, and inexpensive way. They offer free quotes of insurance rates on a variety of policies, including life, health, home, condo, renters and auto insurance. Here you can compare up to five policies side-by-side from insurance companies that provided, this great comparison makes you easier to choose a quality insurance policy that fit with your needs and condition. And of course they will help you to get the best deal possible on your policy.
By having insurance policy, you not only can decrease the loss in the future but also invest your future.

100 posts

Finally, I have wrote 100 posts in this blog.. horayy.. maybe for some people it is nothing, but for me it means something. I still remember when the first time I made this blog, I was so confused on what should I write. I'm not used to write and at that time writing is not my hobby. But after blogging for few months, I started to feel the excitement and browsing other's blog give me more information and knowledge about everything, and sometimes about something that beyond my imagination. But of course, we shouldn't 100% believe about it.

Through blogging, I have more friends from around the world and it seems no gap and no limitation among us. I feel that we are one nation, the nation of "Bloggers"

Use Your Credit Card Wisely

Lately credit cards have already been a part of modern life style. And it seems cannot be separated from our daily life. Credit card is the most practice way of payment. We mustn’t bring lot of cash everywhere, because almost every store accepts payment with credit card.
There are many companies that offer many kinds of credit cards with various benefits, such as point rewards, discount, prizes and many more. Applying credit card is very easy and you can do it on-line these days, but don’t be too persuaded with their all “sweet promises”, you should choose which is the most suitable with your needs and the most important is that best fit with your financial condition.

Credit cards can be your enemy if you didn’t use it wisely. Sometimes people are spending more than he/she can afford, especially if he/she has more than one card. Please remember that using credit card means that you have to pay all the money you have spent PLUS the monthly interest.
Using credit card reminds me of Rebecca Bloomwood in the Sophie Kinsella’s books, titled “Confessions of a Shopaholic”. She is a financial journalist who has exceeded all of her credit card bills because of her addiction to shop and she really can’t afford to pay all of it.
Well, if you don’t want to be like Becky, please use your credit cards wisely.

CheeseCake

When I was dreaming of delicious cheesecake, suddenly in the next day my sister came after her trip to out town and brought me cheesecake. I poured blueberry sauce on it, and blueberry cheesecakes are ready to eat... yummy..!!!
Thanks God for to be so generous to us.