lucky bitch

what is wrong with me and concert quizzes??! sure as hell i got my charm for winning them out. LOLJK! but seriously, i really don't have a fucking clue tho. first concert ticket that i had won is 'The People's Party" concert. beside that, i know people who know people that i know you know. LOL, not exactly, i have friends who will gladly give me a concert/event ticket for fun. so.

i went to all concert in my list, DIMENSION Playground 5th, and Morrissey couple days ago FOR FREE. (LOL, don't hate. i'm one of those people who extremely lucky). and guess what (as i tweeted before) I WON 2 VIP TICKET TO LADY GAGA CONCERT. HAHAHAHAOMG THIS IS THE BEST EARLY BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER!!

i just have to submit my most romantic photo via twitter/facebook and mention it to @plazaindonesia with hashtag #PIFABSNAP. click this so you can join the competition. 4 tickets left waiting for you :D

FYI: its been a week since i submitted my photo. i thought i wouldn't win because there's so many cute photo that join the contest. but blame my luck, i win that freakin contest. HAHAHAHA

the photo is from 2009. it was at Audy's 23 birthday and captured by err..i don't know. atm, i was giving him a surprise (click here if you want to know the whole story) what do you think about my photo? romantic enough? *wink*

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what you need to know about cyber bullying

“i’m going to kill you, you're so dead!! LOL”

“you're so ugly nobody wants you. jk”

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do those sound like playful texts because they put "LOL" or "JK" at the end of sentence? or maybe you once wrote it to people you barely know/friends?

you know what fellas, that's a cyber bullying.

i give you another example, did you still remember our girl from facebook "Ophi A.Bubu". The high school student from Banyuwangi (East Java), who became an internet celebrity at 2009 because her personal postings on her facebook page. ring a bell? no? well click this and you'll know.

her writing attracted a lot of attention, with some people reproducing her writing in forums and blogs. all this was too much love in the eyes of those who despised her writing style and made fun of her. a lot of people mocking her and labeling her as “the Queen of Alay”. she deactivated her facebook account. although some of her supporters defended her by setting up fan clubs in facebook and twitter, Ophi has never been heard from since.

THAT, also a cyber bullying.

cyber bullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. it has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyber stalking. adult cyber-harassment or cyber stalking is NEVER called cyber bullying.

i'm so concern about this issue because people on internet seems don't know the true meaning of "respect". for example; if you meet someone you never know, will you mocking or say something bad about him? face to face? yeah, i don't think so.

it may seem like cyber bullying is a trivial matter. even if you believe that in-person bullying is a problem, it might seem like there is little damage that can be done online. cyber bullying can be even more dangerous than in-person act. emotional violence is more damaging than physical violence.

i'm going to give yall another example. about 12 months ago after Jamey Rodemeyer confessed about being a gay, he received hating comment on his formspring account, his friends started making a joke towards him. 'JAMIE IS STUPID, GAY, FAT ANND UGLY. HE MUST DIE!' read one post. another read: 'I wouldn't care if you died. No one would. So just do it :) It would make everyone WAY more happier!'. so tired of being bullied (internet and real life) he decide to kill himself. tragic.

cyber bullying is usually not a one time communication, unless it involves a death threat or a credible threat of serious bodily harm. but still, when people keep picking up on you, you'll devastated and scare.

how you stop cyber bullying? simple. stop reading the insulting messages, block/report them from your computer or your social media, if the bullying get more scary and annoy the fuck outta you—go tell someone. repeated or excessive harassment or threats of violence via email, forums or chat rooms can be reported to the police. try to save all messages as evidence. so you have the prove to make them go to jail.

if you want to know more about cyber bullying, go to www.stopcyberbullying.org. you'll have all the information. and last, please educate yourself about cyber bullying so you know how to act in internet world.

i'm not saying i never doing that kinda thing, but after i read, learn, search about this matter i do feel bad about it. now its your turn.

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unfinished

love? who doesn't need love. every human being and even a tiny bit living creature need it. love comes in many different forms. like a relationship with your family, friends, spouses, child, and everyone yet everything. being "in love" works on our brains in a very similar way as cocaine does. its a high. people on a high do crazy things. after you fall in love, there's a time when your relationship grows and became more mature. (jfc what a lousy opener) (i'm sorry, at least i tried)

IMO a true relationship will consist of both partners who need to equally contribute. not only what you want or what (s)he want, but you both has to know your position and a lot of understanding about each other. respect the differences between yourself and your partner. often, a relationships fail because someone is unhappy and blames the partner and vice versa.

*LOL, why am writing this?*

easy you freak, i swear i have my point by writing them out.

as we grow and gain more experience and expectation about love, how we fall deep in love and how we know love isn't that sweety-lovely trait anymore. we learn how to accept our partner in new level. in this phase, some people trying to find what they are looking for, and often, they settle for less.

i once feels "young love"; full of promise, full of hope, ignorant of reality (QBY: Valentine's Day 2010). really beautiful and if i could turned back to the time when i'm still young and naïve maybe i could die of happiness. but not that i can't feel it anymore, its just different now. i build my relationship more exciting and responsible. am not thinking about one side here but more doing things beyond a couple could do. as a partner, i stand beside him, through bad times or good times. we grow together and developing our future. (yeah shit like that)

(HAHAHA i lost my concentration and the writings stop here)



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this thing still on

the absence of my writing makes this blog sooooooo freakin lame. its not that i don't wanna write or something, but i just don't have something interesting to write about.

but last week Jakarta got a lot of situations. like hours of gale-force winds and heavy rain, and the latest riot because of rising price of gases and fuel. not much, but last week really scare the living shit outta the whole country.

anyway, i just got a good news. my collage friend offering me a job at Freeport. yep, the largest copper and gold mining company in Indonesia—as MDP (i don't know what MDP is, but she said its the same field as legal officer). my job descriptions will be drafting of legal documents or making some contract.

ohmygod, should i take this opportunity? tbh, i almost forget the things i learned at law school. but it never hurts to try, i mean i may end up pleasantly surprised. but LOL, who am i kidding here for god sake's.

talking about job, i get a bit confused about my career path. i like my current job, but i didn't get much lesson from it. i mean when i'm choosing my position as anything, i wanna be pro at it. not just work my ass off without developing myself.

at first i imagining my career as a fashion editor at website to printing media and then goes to advertising media as a copywriter. however, all my plan goes slightly different and here i am as digital/social media officer. i chose to be a digital/social media officer because social media really stole our (mine to be exactly) attention. yaknow with the rise of social media and its dominance over our entire generation. so why don't i take some "little" part on it.

i'd like picturing myself as a social media strategist. IMO, social media strategist will take a lead on marketing world. they strategize new and unique ways to use the social web/networking and help  understand the need to tie in other avenues of marketing to compliment the social media efforts. its like a bunch of fun for me.

honestly i don't have social media thingy as my educational background but got law degree instead. i try to learn it by autodidact but guess what, i still need someone pro to lead me and give all the secret and making me the greatest pro (i don't know if that even a phraes or word or anything, STFU!). i'm thinking to move into Magnivate or soon be renamed as XM | Gravity — since they're such a great digital advertising office but that will be more awesome IF i get my master degree at social media marketing.

where did i should study social media marketing on Indonesia? or maybe its time for me to find a  scholarships, Singapore? ah, i should doing research by now.

wish me luck fellas!

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KONY2012

do you recognize that?

Kony 2012 is a campaign by Invisible Children, a social activisim organization that seeks to bring peace and stability to uganda. they released a film in 2004 and just recently began this new campaign designed to destroy one of the worst criminals in the world. (sources: wikipedia)

Kony 2012 had got rapid attention on the internet and has exploded into the international consciousness (less than 48hours). directed by Jason Russell and the results are tear jerking. more than 50million people have viewed this film via vimeo or youtube.

the movie highlights was the actions of ugandan guerrilla group leader Joseph Kony, whose group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), kidnaps and forces children to fight to instill a new theocratic government in uganda.

the film has been an almost instant viral success, dominating twitter, tumblr, facebook or any kind of social media in the whole wide world. millions of people now know something about uganda and what is happening to children there.

after seeing the video i was like "dude, we need to help them. act now and do whatever it takes". i know i'm not the only one who moved by this video and take an action. there's a million people out there doing their way of kindness to support the movement. but today, something hit me. you can jump on twitter and facebook and press all of your friends and followers to do something. but don't you think it would be better to first stop, to research, to read, to get the facts? are we educated ourselves enough? are we to quick to take an action without knowing the truth?

its somewhat nice that we're doing something for a good cause. i know we don't need a reason to help people nor an explanation. but all the feed back from all kind social media get me thinking, by watching 30minute video could bring people all together. i mean are you doing this because you really care or because oh-its-so-hype-lets-joint-now? but whatever your excuses are, at least you're doing it for a good cause.

meanwhile, i began my research.

i found interesting fact from Michael Wilkerson. he is a journalist for Ugandan publications The Daily Monitor (2009-2010), he came up with 2 points:

1. Joseph Kony is not in Uganda and hasn’t been for 6 years;
2. The LRA now numbers at most in the hundreds, and while it is still causing immense suffering, it is unclear how millions of well-meaning but misinformed people are going to help deal with the more complicated reality.

after read article by article i have my conclusion: Joseph Kony is another mean and cold-hearted people that need to be found and bring to justice even though he stop doing his crime during the escape. and yes, we need to help those kids—they're just like us, they have a right to live without fear and surrounded by their family. but blindedly taking an action without educated yourself about the whole issue will leads you nowhere. as instance, in 1990s U.S. President Bill Clinton professed that he was "helping" in the Democratic Republic of Congo and his help ended up with over 6 million people losing their lives.(source: huffingtonpost)

i don't say its wrong helping that uganda's children is a bad thing, but we need to open our eyes and know the truth before we brutally (in a good way) takes some action.

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