Feliz Navidad

from the 15 tracks on the Buble Christmas CD , this is very interesting version.

duet with Thalia (was she the one who used to play telenovela back then ??? hhmm, i'm not sure, but sure from the picture looks like her, but i don't know she is singer too)

anyway, this "Feliz Navidad" sounds very sexy - great duet combination from Thalia and Michael Buble .. 

Great ! now, i become more impatiently waiting for this cd showed up in one of the CD stores' rack -- hopefully it's available .

"Michael Buble Christmas" Album 2011

Definitely This is One of my Christmas Lists:

Yes ! Yes ! this looks like a very perfect Christmas gift for me ..

Michael Buble with his Christmas spirit wrapped under the Christmas tree,

soothing and sounds just right in the ear ...

Michael Buble's website

"it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" such a happy tune ...

"Velvet voice" borrowed from mr. David Foster 

well, it's certainly quite a distance from Christmas, it doesn't matter ... Christmas songs always put me in the perfect mood ...

and of course, probably my favorite Christmas song ever : "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

whatever versions there are in this world, love this song forever ...

this song "really tender and kind and filled with sentimentality" ....

couldn't disagree with you  ...  for Christmas, i want to be comfortable -- listen Christmas song that are usually played by our family.

listening to all this sneak preview,


just make me feel like *** HUGS ***

saving n banking

Recently this year, every time i have a banking trip (what i mean is not going to the atm machine but more like going to the bank) , it always urge me to .. rob the bank ... wkwkwk... not just kidding ,,, banking trip always motivates me to save more and more money.  It certainly a very positive impact considering me who likes to spend money all around ... both my parents already stamped me as being very wasteful and consumptive.

Anyway, i feel that every time i came back from the bank , afterward, i always think and find a way  'what can i do so i can have more saving' ...  and it does change my behavior of spending money as well .. when it comes to spend money on some thing that's not in the regular list, i always put more thought to the importance of spending ... if it's not too important, i just rather save and put money in the bank, so i can get more and more benefit from it rather than having a-spur-of -the-moment happiness/satisfaction and end up spending my money for something that not really valuable... 

It started from sometimes getting a call from one of the bank where i save at, first time i usually ignored this kind of call, because for me, getting a call from the bank it sounded almost the same like getting a call from credit card offering either cash money from credit card (kta) or some kind of loan on phone, yeap that kind of phone where i usually just let the telemarketing talk without really listening to what they say and at the end , i usualy say 'maaf, belum ada keperluan untuk uang tunai sekarng, kecuali kalo boleh dapet pinjeman tanpa harus bayar bunga sedikitpun,,, hehehe ... of course, this kind of offer will not existed... "

then i realized, that the calls from the bank is actually offering different kinds of programs, and just say at once i came to the bank and met with the cust service and tried one of the program that they have talked about in the phone ...  

With the competitive edge of banking now a days, now i become more aware of which bank have better and suitable product for me, working with the budget that i have.... One bank always give additional bonus of shopping voucher at the end of the month,,, one bank gives you higher interest rate than the regular saving account's interest rate ... in one bank, i can collects points and points where it can be exchange with gifts or another shopping vouchers ... another gives me quite a valuable gift at the beginning when i put the money in it .... so all and all , each bank have different program with differentiation that i can choose .......  

So, actually when i started to pay more detail attention to this thing, it becomes saving becomes very attractive ...   well oh well, where have i been lately, i put money without thinking or getting any kinds of additional benefit ???? ... what a lost, what a waste !!! .... the key is only tidbits of Attention and Care of what we have !!!  oooo, me,, oooo, me ...

as result of paying little more attention,  this year i started to get benefits from just the regular saving and saving with very low interest ..  one of my favorites is the Shopping Vouchers (either from hypermart, carrefour, giant, sodexo, and some other shopping vouchers) ... once again the key is more paying attention in checking your points with your customer service of the bank regularly .. good to check your points once a month , because other than your regular low interest of 2.5% interest a year (yakkkss ! how low that is) ... then you get another benefit of some rupiahs of shopping voucher or sometimes somekinds of gifts ... not bad , i think, let's say, monthly you get either 100rb rupiah of voucher ..that's definitely bad at all. 

realize it now, you don't need to have lots of money to get more benefit, just pay more attention and choose from soo many banks available in here, which bank suitable for your regular operational account, which bank suitable for your short term saving or medium term saving, or if you have more money , 

like Lidwina Harnanto said  "to be able to invest doesn't need to wait until you have lots of money, in any income, you can start your investment.. investment start as low as rp 100rb a month, simply by saving your monthly starbuck budget and put it in the investment." -- sounds simple, ain't it  ~ but needs lots of effort and willingness to be able to discipline yourself into doing it.

Happy Saving , friends

if Tomorrow never Comes

After about a week be able to ease my mind,

be able to sleep and close my eyes without thought or glanced of him first

this very morning on my way to office,

i heard this song was played on the radio, was it bravaradio or kissfm?

while listening, didn't realize that one or two tears dropped from my eyes,

some years ago i remember posting in this blog about memory song,

and i remember putting down this song

'If tomorrow Never Comes by Ronan Keating' as one of my memory song with this friend

now, i remember that every time i ride in his car, 

that was the song that was played over and over again in his tape player..

he made me like country song for a change,

there was this album by Alan Jackson (country singer)

that was also favorite album of him ... my fave song from that album is 'Living on Love'

  how i still hope you just go to other part of this earth temporarily 

and would come back again someday ...

lots of "i still hope"  about him Lingering in my mind ... 

but he definitely won't return ...
I know and understand this is not good to do, but still doing it ...

we promised to meet sometimes after the lebaran season is over,

but haven't find the time yet (i seriously feel like singing  If I can Turn Back Time now) ...

how unfortunate his favorite song back then, become real now .. 

Tomorrow Never Comes for him again ...

"Sometimes late at night -- I lie awake and watch her sleeping - --- - - -"

Some Insanity

Any interest to see what you were in the previous life

or

just want to know how is your brain structured

or

curious of your life graph

....

then may try this from the facebook applications: 

http://apps.facebook.com/urpreviouslife/

and voila,  my result of this whole absurdity:

i never would guess that my previous life is Spaghetti

have pretty much good Intelligence and Wealth 

(which what i need now too ~ hungry for wealth ~ wkwkwk)

quite amazed me - have almost down to zero Honor, very little Love

(and i thought by being spaghetti, we have more part of love because it is loved by many)

and almost to the full lines of craziness

(not too weird, since i am doing this kind of apps, must be crazy, hohoho)

let's examine my Brain Structure for Today:

 another weirdo apps where the whole brain structure only composed of:

Hungry, Relationship, and Boring..
Hungry is all over the place

thank goodness, there is still Friendship in my mind

well...

the Boring part maybe right

(i figure since i am doing it so it makes sense that Boring is dominant)

...

so i supposed to be somewhat an workaholic ...

but none of it stated in the brain,

...

wonder if i do it in the daytime would the structure be different  ???

curious..
i saw my friends result and there supposed to be lots more component like:
Facebook,
Study,
Sleeping,
etc, etc.

Uang Parkir

tukang parkir di ruko tadi malem cukup membuat kaget,

pertama waktu aku julurin tangan ngasih duit,

dia seolah ga siap untuk nerima,

dan waktu aku kasih dia uang Rp 2000 dikembaliin pula Rp 1000 sama dia,

setelah uang dua ribu perak itu aku kasih ke dia,

karena dia manggil 'bu,,bu,, tunggu bentar,,'

kirain ntah bayar kurang ato kenapa..

ternyata dia nyariin kembalian seribu rupiah .. 

and very politely dia blg terimakasih and hati2.

while i am amazed and touched, startled and ga sempet bilang apa2 selain trimakasih jg

i could have said keep the change, but i just startled ...

termasuk sering parkir di ruko itu,

tp seringkali kalo memang aku kasih Rp 2000 karena simply ga ada receh seribu, ga pernah juga yang namanya ada kembalian.  When that happens, ikhlas2 aja ga dikembaliin, lagi pula di tempat2 lain parkiran seribu jg sudah rada jarang .,, the two thousands rupiah for me may not mean a whole lot, but for them i figure it has more value...

a great attitude may belong to anyone without looking at one's title, position, wealth, etc.

some with great title, great position, great wealth, great education may not have a great attitude either .. 

Attitude is a Choice

Kim Jong Kook & Mikey One Man + Reminiscence + Goodbye Yesterday + Twist...

find this from the automatic turn on 'kim jong kook's video' that i set up in my blogspot. and this one is the one i've never seen before ...

kim jong kook and his very typical 'high-pitched' voice, most of them are really nice songs... kinda wish that i am able to see jong kook singing live somewhere ... listen, watch his performance not too mention starring at his very soothing smile ... funny looking dance of him

testing 123

test test
doing it from my mobile
wonder if it turns out ok

My Memory ~ First time ~

Most people call me by 'Reb', 'Beck', 'Becca', 'Becky', or even full words 'Rebecca' ... this friend call me just "Ka" so differently than the others.

Ka, ayo lah beli handphone , yang second aja , yang penting supaya gampang gw hubungin loe kalau ada yg penting2, gw anter ya beli handphone >>> 

there you go a Memory with him ~ my first Mobile Phone  and also the same number i use until now from already more than 10 years already.

Ka, loe mesti fitness ya supaya sehat, ayok lah sekalian temenin gw fitness, males fitness kalo sendirian, yg deket2 sini aja   >>>  

so there you go another Memory with him ~ My First Fitness experience together ~ it last  for one or two years or so (i forget) @ Atlantic, not bad that i can hold doing exercise for that long  ~ even though i already move to different place, we still meet in the fitness, then we all got busy with our lives, we quit the fitness  .... 

Ka, pernah karaoke gak, si a, b dan c ngajakin karaoke, ikutan khan. 

I remember we went to Sheraton Media Hotel at the time. I hesitated , then again as usual i just tag along  >>>Memory,  he introduced me to have fun doing karaoke. ~ Another first time 




A year or two years after i moved job to that company, he also moved job at the same company, but he got placed at one store, and i was in different location, before he got accepted to other chain of retail and moved there until the his last moment.

'he sometimes still brag about you in the weekly morning briefing'  
some friends said -- after i moved from there.

Last long contact with him is when i have a difficult problem almost a year ago, it was so happened that out of the blue i received a text message from him, so then i burst my problem to him. Come to think of it , he was the First Person  i told about that problem to people outside family.

he is the kind of person who still like to keep in touch, either just monthly sms or call.

Some Memory i had with him,

i never realize i have lots of 'first time moment' until i decided to write it down,
> me with gazing wet eyes <

Just a thought : it means that in the future time,

i won't get an update of him.

And Today i truly miss this friend. 

So Long, Good Bye
Please make sure You Are Happy Up There in the Sky !!!

Resting Forever

from earth to earth ~ from ash to ash ~ from dust to dust 

The Lord God bless them and keep them, 

the Lord make their face to shine upon them

 and be gracious unto them and give them peace. 

Amen.

just in the 2 weeks time, 3 persons have died .... 2 of them are my friends, 1 is my daughter's friend's sister ....

Rest in Peace for these 3 persons ... all of them have died because of cancer ... that disease is a killer, indeed ... 1 of my aunt also died of cancer ... hopefully in their last moment of their time, they don't have to suffer of their sickness too much ...

She enjoys writing ~ she is smart, i am not sure her exact age, but she still pretty young, maybe 40 something ~ actually because of our hobby in writing we work together for Delon's magazine back then, some 5 years ago maybe ~ i remember when we had meeting after office hours for several times, especially whenever it's almost the dateline for the magazine to be printed ~ she is the person who is firm in principal ~ i love to read her writing ~ Some Good Memory with her ~ unfortunately I couldn't make it to her last visit , since it was in Bogor, where she lives ~ night time and I drive alone to Bogor so I was kinda afraid if there is something happen on the way I go there and back home, so I decided not to go ~ Rest in Peace, dear friend

Another friend is a friend and also was my manager from my previous work, more than ten years ago  ~ he is still quite young either, only 43 , two years apart from my age ~ when i heard and know how he died of lung cancer ~ was very much shocking news ~ in my knowledge, he never smoke, has healthy live, eat healthy food, do fitness regularly ~ friend said that he moan that he can't breath, and short-breath (sesak nafas) so his family bring him to the hospital ~ he is already in lung cancer stadium 4 ~ OMG , isn't that scary, cancer stadium 4 without a signal previously ~ then he was in hospital for almost 2 weeks and that is it ~ Rest in Peace, my dear & beloved friend

My daughter's friend sister also dies very young of cancer . My daughter was truly shock for some days when she got the news, i think that's a first time she has some one she know dies ..  Rest in Peace, dear friend.

Rest in Peace my dear friends ~ I am sure you are in happier place now, place without sickness and pain ~ as I never go there, but people define HEAVEN as a place where there is Never Ending Happiness ~ sounds like Great Place to Be ~ and I hope all of them are there.

God, will You hold me in Your Arms again

• Brian Kim tweet this yesterday, i read it in the morning in the office, (his tweets below)
  made me stop my work for a while, seriously touched reading it -- almost goosebump ,,, this guy once again amazed me through his words, his songs.  Brian Kim, one of a kind! 
  if i were not in the office, my eyes would probably be gazing already ... at his statement 
  
  
  "I became addicted to His Love ... And He placed dreams into my heart. I began to dream for the first time in my life.........  God, will You hold me in Your Arms again tonite?"
  
  
  Brian Kim has just finished his Malaysia tour for maybe one or two full weeks around Malaysia, seem from his fb and tweeter  he was enjoying his worship malaysian tour ...
  
  
  Just a thought, if he would ever showed up here, i would definitely go there at once ... hopefully there will be a chance, or if a church invite him and the other Korean gospel team .. it sounds nice ..
  
  this is the link for  : Brian Kim's tweeter
  
  
  
  

  When I first fell in love with Jesus, I could feel His love for me. It was the first time I experienced such a thing. I clearly & warmly felt His embrace. 'Oh! Even though I rejected and avoided God... He's hugging me now!! - I was amazed. It didn't make sense.
  
  Although the world around me judges me and does not love me 100%, God is different... He loves 100%.
  
  I began to learn of His love. And so I wept and wept for three continuous days. All my scars and pains... All the stress and pressures that burdened me due to college preparations and applications.
  
  All the worries and weaknesses due to failing people and their expectations.... Years and years of never receiving unconditional love ... me... me... I knelt before God weeping with all burdens, struggles, failures, sins wiped away... at peace.
  
  God, You embrace me and cover me with love. My Father. My Savior. My Friend. My God. Jesus...
  
  At that moment, I started to love Jesus for the first time. I became addicted to His love. There was nothing better...
  
  Because I realized such a love, I began to change day by day...
  And He placed dreams into my heart. I began to dream for the first time in my life.
  
  My facial expression, my life, the path I would walk.. Everything changed. Whenever I read the Bible, pray, praise... I remember His warm embrace.
  
  Tears fall down... Because I'm blessed...because I am a son who's loved...
  Because my God is living.
  
  God... Will you hold me in Your arms again today?

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'i hate slow'

yup, that's the slogan that makes me want to switch and buy smartfren now...
lately, the connection has been very very slow,
like yesterday when i have the time to blog,
then the connection didn't support,
not along playing games, it certainly take ages to do the game loading...unbelievable!!!

slow connection really waste your time,

takes more than 5 min to open one link completely,

don't have the patience to wait

today is little better than previous days
at least i can open my blog and listen to the Dream High song without buffering too long

but .... if i buy anotherone, is another waste ..
my wellcomm already used with the telkomsel flash.

wonder if their tagline advertisement really true
not just for now, but later later on in the near future