GREAT GREAT DAY

hari Jumat kemarin have been a really great-great day :-)
nyaris bangun kesiangan tapi berhasil 'masuk' Jakarta sebelum jam 7 pagi.
sempat nerusin tidur dalam mobil di parkiran Plaza Bapindo.
sarapan roti Delicious yang yummy.
ke Tebet sama Sinta dan Intan. looking for a new maid even though we can't find a person with the criteria of what we looking for.
ngobrol sama Sinta soal krim anti aging.
meluncur ke Mall Taman Anggrek nyaris tanpa hambatan.
dapat parkir favorit di Taman Anggrek dan ketemu Eka tanpa harus menunggu lama.
menemani Eka belanja untuk her make over.
berhasil me-make over dandanan Eka dengan biaya minimalis.
beliin suami celana panjang merk favoritnya.
makan siang di food court.
tidak ada kemarahan satu titik pun setelah secara tidak sengaja menumpahkan sebotol air mineral dan membasahi celana jeans favorit.
dapat sandal cantik buat Eka.
melihat Eka tersenyum dan pipinya berseri-seri.
ternyata parkir di MTA lebih murah ketimbang parkir di Pasaraya!!!
lewat Jl. Panjang dan tidak macet!
menuju kantor suami dan find out that he still have works to do. and I decided to spent the time at Club Store and picked up my birthday present from them. thanks so much!
sambil nunggu suami selesai kerja, menghabiskan buku 'Dadaisme'-nya Dewi Sartika yang menang lomba Novel 2003.
jemput suami yang kelaparan pulang kerja.
enggak sempat jadi jenguk Linda yang sedang sakit karena sudah kemalaman.
makan di Soto Kudus Blok M, Santa, sambil nonton Indonesian Idol 'Coba Lagi Award'.
pulang ke Cinere. say hello to Jatisix people. it's 2 months away not to see you guys!!!
ngobrol ngalor ngidul sampai ngantuk.
pulang jam 11 malam dari Cinere.
sampai di Bekasi jam 23.30.
mandi dan beberes, naik ke tempat tidur jam 01.15.
whoa! thanks God for this lovely day!

June 11, 2004

Washington: A clever border collie that can fetch at least 200 objects by name may be living proof that dogs truly understand human language, German scientists reported yesterday.

Rico can figure out which object his master wants even if he has never heard the word before, the researchers say.

The findings, reported in the journal Science, may not surprise many dog owners.

But they are certain to re-ignite a debate over what language is and whether it is unique to humans.

Rico's abilities seem to follow a process called fast mapping, seen when young children start to learn to speak and understand language, the scientists report.

"(Rico) lives as a pet with his owners and was reported by them to know the labels of more than 200 items, mostly children's toys and balls, which he correctly retrieved on request," Julia Fischer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig wrote.

His owners say "Rico, wo ist der (where is the) Banane (banana)" or "BigMac" or "Panda", and the dog searches, out of sight of the owner, until he finds the object.

"Rico's 'vocabulary size' is comparable to that of language-trained apes, dolphins, sea lions and parrots," Fischer wrote, while his retrieval rate is comparable to the performance of three-year-old toddlers.

Obviously, the scientists said, children have a deeper and broader understanding of words.

But it could be that some of the mechanisms underlying language evolved "before early humans were ready to talk". - Reuters

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=272&fArticleId=2108987

Sepinya jalanan....


Ini jalan apa sungai! hiks...
Yang pasti sih.. mobil gak bisa masuk/keluar!

Masih tentang banjir =)





Anak-anak memang masih polos. Belum tau kesusahan orang banjir...

Banjir lagi bok!



Ini foto di lorong belakang....

Kemaren ketemu kucing aneh bin serem!







Whaddayathink?

GARBAGE BAGS
By Julien Devereux
The Metropolis Observed
April 2003

Annie Schlechter

An estimated 450,000 scavengers pick over the trash heaps in Jakarta, Indonesia, collecting anything they think they can resell. When American artist Ann Wizer moved there in 2000, she saw an opportunity to help the scavengers and take her art in a new direction. "Last year I had an exhibition called Empty Legacy: Works Made from Trash," she says. "I made shoulder bags from garbage, employing the scavengers I had watched for months. The bags sold so well, I thought it would be silly not to continue." Wizer pays the scavengers for trash--specifically plastic-coated packaging for things like fabric softener or Capri Sun juice--and then employs some of them to wash, sort, and sew the salvaged items into patterns she designs.

Wizer will launch a line of bags and furniture in Singapore this May. Ultimately she hopes to hand the whole operation off to the Indonesian scavengers who inspired her. "I never intended to be a bag designer," she says. "I got it started, and now I want to give it to those who need it."

http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0403/ob/ob07_0403.html

Want some "American breakfast"? ;)

STOP PRESS!!

DAIRY QUEEN is back in town!!! Kmaren gw ke Blok M Plaza n gw MENEMUKAN ada counter Dairy Queen didepan toko Executive 99 githu!! actually, pas mo masuk udah keliatan spanduk2nya siy... cuma masih blom percaya githu itu DQ yang dulu... jadi inget jaman es de (taon 89-an) saat masih ada DQ di Jl. Melawai n Ratu Plaza... yummy!!! Blizzard n Banana Splitnya nyum2 dah!!! Honestly, pertama kali gw ngerasain yang namanya banana split yah di DQ ini... jadi tiap ke Ratu Plaza adalah suatu agenda wajib nge-geret bokap gw ke DQ n Famous Amous (skr masih ada di PS)... hehehheeh
I miss that situation... will it comes back?

dari blognya si gretan

Margarine vs Butter

DO YOU KNOW... The difference between margarine and butter? Both have the same amount of calories. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added! Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

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And now, for Margarine...
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Very high in trans-fatty acids... Triple risk of coronary heart disease... Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) .... Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold... Lowers quality of breast milk ... Decreases immune response... Decreases insulin response. And here is the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

YOU can try this yourself: purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something) ... it does not rot or smell differently..because it has no nutritional value, nothing will grow on it...even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends.....(Butter them up.)

See? You learn something new everyday!

(from a forwarded email)

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