BORED AND SOME TIPS

"Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. Bekerja tidak menyenangkan, tidak juga terlampau berat. Semua itu tergantung pada sikap Anda. Saya suka bekerja menyenangkan."
Colleen C. Barrett

Jenuh dan tidak menikmati pekerjaan adalah hal yang lumrah dalam kehidupan manusia. Tetapi kita harus pandai menyiasati agar hal tersebut tidak berlarut-larut dan menghambat produktivitas kita. Ada 7 kiat agar kita dapat menikmati pekerjaan dan mudah mengatasi kejenuhan, untuk mendapatkan hasil pekerjaan yang optimal.

Langkah pertama sebelum memulai bekerja adalah mencintai pekerjaan kita terlebih dahulu. Bermacam faktor dapat memicu kejenuhan, sehingga kita tidak dapat menikmati pekerjaan. Tetapi bila kita mencintai pekerjaan yang sedang kita tekuni, maka kita akan merasa lebih berarti, karena pada dasarnya setiap orang di dunia ini memiliki peran dan sama-sama penting.

Mencintai pekerjaan juga akan mendorong semangat kita untuk bekerja dengan penuh tangung jawab. Mengutip kata-kata seorang guru etos kerja Indonesia, Jansen Sinamo, "Kerja adalah amanah, Anda harus bekerja dengan benar dan penuh tanggung jawab." Bertanggung jawab dalam arti melakukan apa yang terbaik seringkali berdampak nyata terhadap peningkatan kualitas hasil pekerjaan sekaligus semangat kerja kita.

Realitas kehidupan kerja juga tidak lepas dari berbagai macam hambatan, entah dalam bentuk persaingan atau sabotase, kurangnya fasilitas dan modal, tekanan dari atasan dan lain sebagainya. Tak jarang hambatan atau dalam bahasa positif disebut dengan `tantangan' menjadikan kita tidak menikmati pekerjaan. Tetapi jangan pernah sekalipun membiarkan tantangan dalam pekerjaan menghambat kinerja kita.

Langkah yang dapat kita tempuh dalam menghadapi tantangan adalah berpikir positif. Dengan berpikir positif, kita akan melihat
tantangan sebagai jalan untuk meningkatkan kualitas diri kita. Pepatah bijak dari Jepang sebagaimana dikutip dalam The Prentice Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverb menyebutkan, "Adversity is the foundation of virtue – Tantangan adalah dasar dari kebaikan. "
Artinya, kita akan dapat menjaga semangat kerja tetap tinggi dan menikmati pekerjaan dengan selalu berpikir positif.

Selain itu, kenikmatan dalam menjalankan pekerjaan di antaranya dipacu oleh kemampuan yang kita miliki. Bila pekerjaan menuntut tingkat kemampuan tertentu, sementara kemampuan kita sendiri terbatas akan sangat mudah memicu suasana kerja yang menjemukan atau tidak menyenangkan. Alangkah baiknya jika kita selalu meningkatkan kemampuan, mengasah keahlian dan mengisi pikiran dengan informasi atau ilmu pengetahuan terbaru.

Langkah tersebut akan berpengaruh terhadap cara kita menyelesaikan pekerjaan, misalnya cara yang kita lebih bervariasi dan kreatif. Cara kerja yang kreatif lebih memastikan kita senang mengerjakan tugas kita. "...even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding... - …meskipun tanpa kesuksesan, orang yang kreatif sangat menikmati pekerjaan yang dapat ia selesaikan dengan baik… Belajar hanya untuk meningkatkan kreatifitas akan selalu bermanfaat," kata Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Sementara langkah lain yang bisa kita tempuh untuk dapat menikmati pekerjaan adalah memupuk sikap konsisten. Seperti dikatakan sebelumnya bahwa kehidupan di dunia kerja sarat dengan aneka tantangan. Tetapi bila kita selalu bersikap konsisten terhadap tujuan semula, yaitu menghasilkan pekerjaan terbaik, maka keresahan, kekhawatiran, kebosanan dan segala yang kurang menyenangkan dalam pekerjaan akan tergantikan dengan rasa tenang dan senang. Pada akhirnya sikap konsisten tersebut menjadikan kita lebih maju dalam bidang pekerjaan kita.

Langkah selanjutnya adalah menetapkan skala prioritas dalam pekerjaan. Kerjakan tugas yang terpenting, dan menyelesaikannya sesuai dengan batas waktu yang sudah kita tentukan sendiri. Patuhilah target deadline atau batas waktu, dan kita patut malu jika melanggarnya. Dengan demikian, kita akan terpacu untuk segera menyelesaikan pekerjaan tanpa merasa terbebani.

Sementara itu, kita tidak dapat memungkiri bahwa kita selalu membutuhkan dukungan orang lain. John Ruskin menerangkan, "Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. – Setiap orang yang hebat selalu didukung oleh orang lain, karena kebaikan yang ia dapatkan bersumber dari bermacam sebab dan dukungan orang lain." Kecerdasan dalam mengelola hubungan dengan orang-orang dalam lingkungan sangat berpengaruh terhadap suasana psikologis kita saat bekerja, terlebih terhadap hasil pekerjaan.

Maka langkah yang harus kita tempuh adalah menciptakan suasana kerja yang komunikatif. Luangkan waktu setidaknya untuk mendengar dan berusaha memahami harapan dan persoalan yang sedang dihadapi oleh orang-orang dalam lingkup pekerjaan kita. Dengan demikian akan tercipta saling pengertian dan jalinan keakraban, yang pada akhirnya melahirkan suasana menyenangkan dalam bekerja.

Mungkin salah satu sebab kita tidak bersemangat kerja, bosan, malas dan lain sebagainya dikarenakan potensi kita kurang diberdayakan atau kurang dihargai. Kalau saja potensi itu digabungkan dengan semangat kerja, pasti hasilnya sangat mengagumkan. Maka langkah yang bisa kita tempuh adalah mencoba saling memotivasi dan menghargai sesama rekan
kerja, atasan, bawahan maupun kolega kerja.

Motivasi dan penghargaan tidak saja menciptakan keakraban dalam lingkungan kerja, tetapi juga mengobarkan semangat untuk berpacu dalam prestasi. "Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. Motivasi adalah bahan bakar, sangat penting untuk menghela semangat kerja manusia," kata Zig Ziglar. Dengan saling menghargai dan memotivasi, kita akan senantiasa mendapatkan sumber semangat untuk lebih giat bekerja.

Satu hal yang harus kita pikirkan, waktu akan terus berlari tanpa memandang apakah kita sedang bersemangat kerja, lesu, gembira atau mengantuk. Maka jangan sia-siakan waktu, lakukan pekerjaan sebaik-baiknya. Tujuh kiat di atas akan membantu kita bekerja dengan lebih baik, karena selalu ada jalan untuk melakukan pekerjaan kita dengan lebih baik. "There is a way to do it better...find it. Selalu ada jalan untuk bekerja dengan baik …carilah," kata Thomas Edison.
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Tiap orang pasti pernah mengalami kejenuhan pada suatu waktu dalam hidup ini. Kejenuhan bisa saja terjadi sesaat. Namun, jika tidak segera ditangani, kejenuhan bisa menjadi meresahkan, tidak saja untuk Anda (mengganggu kesehatan dan produktivitas kerja), tetapi juga untuk orang-orang di sekitar Anda (rekan kerja, keluarga dan teman).
Ini karena Anda cenderung menjadi lebih sensitif dan mudah marah. Apa saja gejala kejenuhan? Apa sumber pemicunya? Bagaimana mengatasi kejenuhan tersebut? Simak uraian berikut.

Gejala Kejenuhan
Coba perhatikan daftar pertanyaan berikut.
• Apakah pikiran Anda tiba-tiba menjadi tumpul?
• Apakah Anda menjadi lebih sering marah dan mudah tersinggung di tempat kerja?
• Apakah Anda merasa arus pekerjaan yang harus diselesaikan tidak kunjung habis?
• Apakah akhir-akhir ini Anda merasa lesu untuk menyelesaikan pekerjaan?
• Apakah Anda tidak lagi merasa puas dengan apa yang Anda capai dalam pekerjaan?
• Apakah Anda tidak lagi bersemangat untuk memulai hari baru di tempat kerja?
• Apakah Anda sering menderita sakit kepala ketika harus menyelesaikan pekerjaan?
• Apakah kebiasaan tidur dan makan Anda berubah?

Apakah sebagian besar jawaban Anda “YA” untuk pertanyaan tersebut. Jika demikian, Anda sedang mengalami rasa jenuh.

Pemicu Kejenuhan
Sebelum Anda mencoba mencari strategi untuk mengatasi kejenuhan, Anda perlu mengidentifikasi terlebih dahulu sumber kejenuhan tersebut agar bisa memilih strategi yang tepat untuk mengatasinya. Sebuah artikel mengenai kejenuhan di tempat kerja yang diterbitkan di situs mayclinic.com menyebutkan beberapa sumber kejenuhan. Mungkin salah satunya ada yang tepat untuk kasus Anda atau orang di sekitar Anda.

Kurang kendali. Mungkin Anda tidak mendapat kesempatan untuk mengendalikan keputusan-keputusan penting dalam pekerjaan, misalnya: pemilihan waktu kerja, jumlah jam kerja, pembagian kerja yang dirasakan kurang adil. Karena merasa di posisi yang lemah, Anda mungkin menjadi terbeban tiap kali harus pergi ke tempat kerja atau menyelesaikan pekerjaan. Rasa terbeban yang berkepanjangan membuat Anda menjadi jenuh dan tidak bersemangat untuk datang ke tempat kerja.

Ekspektasi kerja yang kurang jelas. Sumber lain yang mungkin bisa menjadi pemicu kejenuhan adalah ekspektasi kerja yang kurang jelas. Anda tidak mendapat kejelasan tentang apa yang harus Anda kerjakan atau hasil apa yang diharapkan dari apa yang harus dikerjakan.
Kondisi ini membuat Anda menjadi serbasalah dan tidak fokus dalam menyelesaikan pekerjaan. Anda cenderung mengerjakan terlalu banyak pekerjaan atau terlalu sedikit pekerjaan yang tidak sesuai dengan potensi Anda yang sesungguhnya.

Ketidakcocokan nilai pribadi dan nilai di tempat kerja. Sering kali kejenuhan juga terjadi karena adanya ketidakcocokan antara nilai-nilai pribadi Anda dengan nilai-nilai di tempat kerja. Jika Anda menjunjung tinggi kejujuran, kecepatan kerja, dan kualitas kerja, sementara rekan-rekan kerja di sekitar Anda telah terbiasa dengan imbalan ”on-formal” dari klien, dan bekerja hanya memenuhi standar minimum yang diminta atau bahkan tidak peduli jika kualitas pekerjaan berada di bawah standar. Hal ini tentu saja membuat Anda gerah dan lama-kelamaan menjadi tidak bersemangat dan jenuh.

Kurang mendapat apresiasi. Sumber lain yang mungkin saja memicu kejenuhan adalah kurangnya apresiasi terhadap pekerjaan. Anda merasa sudah bekerja keras dan bekerja dengan baik, tetapi tidak ada apresiasi sedikit pun yang Anda dapatkan dari atasan atau dari rekan kerja. Hal ini membuat Anda menjadi serbasalah dan tidak bersemangat, karena Anda tidak tahu apakah hasil kerja Anda sudah sesuai dengan apa yang diinginkan.

Kegiatan yang ekstrem. Yang dimaksud di sini adalah kegiatan yang terlalu monoton (tanpa variasi) sehingga ibaratnya dengan menutup mata saja Anda bisa melakukannya. Di sisi lain, kegiatan ekstrem bisa juga berarti kegiatan yang terlalu bervariasi, sehingga Anda merasa kelelahan untuk tiap kali harus memulai yang baru dalam waktu yang relatif singkat.

Sulit berkata tidak. Mungkin saja sumber kejenuhan bukan pada pekerjaan, tetapi pada Anda sendiri, yang mengiyakan tiap permintaan, sehingga pekerjaan yang harus diselesaikan menjadi terlalu menumpuk, dengan tenggat untuk menyelesaikan pekerjaan yang terlalu dekat, sehingga waktu istirahat Anda terlalu sedikit atau bahkan tidak ada waktu istirahat sejenak untuk mengembalikan energi dan semangat Anda.

Mengatasi Kejenuhan
Setelah Anda mengetahui sumber kejenuhan yang sedang Anda alami, langkah selanjutnya adalah memilih strategi yang tepat untuk mengatasinya.

Bicarakan. Jika Anda mengalami kejenuhan, karena dinamika kerja, jenis pekerjaan, ekspektasi kerja, atau nilai-nilai di tempat kerja yang tidak cocok dengan yang Anda rasakan, maka akan lebih baik jika Anda membicarakannya dengan atasan, rekan kerja atau mereka yang bekerja dalam tim Anda pada waktu yang tepat.
Anda bisa mencoba berinisiatif untuk mengonfirmasi jenis pekerjaan yang harus menjadi fokus utama Anda, jumlah pekerjaan, prioritas kerja yang harus diselesaikan, serta tenggat yang harus ditepati.

Lakukan perubahan. Jika sumber kejenuhan adalah pekerjaan yang terlalu ekstrem (ekstrem monoton, ataupun ekstrem dalam variasi yang terlalu banyak), Anda bisa mencoba melakukan perubahan. Untuk pekerjaan yang monoton, Anda bisa mencoba cara lain untuk mendapatkan hasil yang sama atau bahkan hasil yang lebih baik. Sedangkan untuk pekerjaan yang terlalu banyak variasi, Anda bisa mengelompokkan beberapa kegiatan menjadi satu kelompok sehingga bisa dilakukan bersamaan.
Anda bisa juga mencoba menciptakan sebuah sistem kerja untuk mengakomodasi berbagai jenis kegiatan yang harus diselesaikan. Jika segala sesuatu sudah dilakukan tetapi kejenuhan tidak kunjung hilang, mungkin yang Anda perlukan adalah mencoba pekerjaan lain, di tempat lain, dengan suasana yang berbeda.

Seleksi Kegiatan. Mungkin masalahnya bukan pada pekerjaan, tetapi pada Anda yang sulit mengatakan TIDAK pada tiap permintaan. Hal ini bisa membuat Anda menjadi seperti tertimbun dalam gunung kegiatan: kegiatan kantor, kegiatan sosial di lingkungan rumah, kegiatan kerohanian, kegiatan organisasi profesi atau politik.
Pekerjaan yang terlalu banyak ini menyebabkan sulit konsentrasi, perencanaan yang tidak matang, kelelahan dan hasil kerja yang kurang memuaskan. Untuk itu Anda harus bisa tegas terhadap diri sendiri untuk mengatakan TIDAK, jika memang Anda sudah terikat dengan beberapa kegiatan yang harus diselesaikan.
Anda harus bisa membuat prioritas dan memilih kegiatan yang benar-benar harus diselesaikan. Sisanya bisa Anda delegasikan, Anda rekomendasikan pada orang lain, atau Anda kerjakan lain kali ketika Anda sudah mempunyai lebih banyak waktu.

Perencanaan. Strategi lain adalah menghindari atau mengatasi kejenuhan dengan perencanaan yang matang. Dalam tiap rencana kerja, masukan juga jeda waktu untuk istirahat, dan evaluasi. Dengan demikian, Anda tidak dikejar-kejar dengan deadline yang terlalu ketat. Jika sebuah pekerjaan dapat Anda selesaikan dalam waktu tiga hari, mungkin dalam perencanaan Anda bisa mengalokasikan dua hari ekstra menjadi lima hari. Karena bisa saja terjadi hal-hal yang di luar dugaan, sehingga memerlukan waktu yang lebih lama untuk diselesaikan.
Jika hal ini terjadi, Anda tidak harus stres, karena Anda memang sudah mengalokasikan waktu untuk hal-hal yang tak terduga. Lagi pula, jika Anda janji akan menyelesaikan dalam lima hari dan ternyata dalam tiga atau empat hari sudah selesai lebih awal, tentunya ini merupakan prestasi di mata orang lain (klien, rekan kerja ataupun atasan).

Berhenti sejenak. Satu strategi lain adalah berhenti sejenak dan mencoba melihat semua yang Anda lakukan secara komprehensif dari sudut pandang yang berbeda. Sering kali hal ini memberikan banyak manfaat. Anda bisa melihat dengan lebih objektif. Anda bisa menemukan solusi yang lebih kreatif. Anda juga bisa mendapat waktu sejenak untuk mengembalikan energi, semangat dan ketajaman pikiran Anda.

Sandra Dewi and Disney Princess

HISTORY

In early 2000, when Andy Mooney was hired by Disney's Consumer Products division to help combat dropping sales, the idea for the Disney Princess franchise was born. Soon after joining Disney, Mooney attended his first Disney on Ice show. While waiting in line, he found himself surrounded by young girls dressed as princesses. “They weren’t even Disney products. They were generic princess products,” he mused. Soon after realizing the demand, the Disney Princess line was formed.

Despite limited advertising and no focus groups, the various Disney Princess items released became a huge success. Sales at Disney Consumer Products rose from $300 million in 2001 to $3 billion in 2006.

In 2009 the anticipated sales is $4 billion.

Today there are over 25,000 products based on the franchise.

The princesses to be featured in the line were chosen from classic Disney films. The characters were not chosen specifically for their royal titles, but rather for how well they fit into what Disney executives deemed “the Princess mythology." Mulan is an example of this concept; she has no familial ties to royalty, but is still included in the character list. Tinker Bell was once included under the same principle before it was decided she was not suited for the "mythology." She now stars in her own Disney franchise, the Disney Fairies.

Talk about Disney Princess,,you know what..Sandra Dewi really like Disney Princess..
if you don't believe it,,check this out..

IMPIAN aktris cantik Sandra Dewi untuk menjadi putri akhirnya terealisasi. Sandra yang sejak kecil berangan-angan menjadi seorang putri, bernapas lega lantaran terpilih menjadi Brand Ambassador "Disney on Ice: Princess Wishes".

“Dari kecil aku suka Disney. Aku selalu bermimpi bagaimana rasanya bisa melihat Disneyland dan menjadi putri Disney. Akhirnya, tahun ini ditawarin menjadi Brand Ambassador, tanpa mikir-mikir aku langsung oke,” kata Sandra saat ditemui dalam konferensi pers ‘Disney on Ice Princes Wishes’ di Istora Senanyan, Jakarta, Selasa (14/4/2009).

Dara kelahiran Bangka Belitung, 18 Agustus 1983, itu sejak kecil selalu berkhayal menjadi seorang putri cantik yang disunting pangeran tampan.

“Sejak kecil, aku ingin menjadi wanita cantik. Sampai hari ini, aku masih bermimpi bertemu dengan pangeran tampan,” lanjutnya.

Mmmmmmm kira-kira siapa yaaa yang akan menjadi "Pangeran Tampan" yang datang dengan kuda putihnya (yang bisa meluluhkan hati Sang Princess) dan kemudian Sang Pangeran Tampan itu mempersunting Princess Sandra Dewi????


Oh iyaaa hampir lupa,,hayoooooo siapa yang tahu Disney Princess yang Sandra Dewi paling sukai???
mau tahu....jawabannya adalah PRINCESS AURORA

Character list

Princess	Voice Actor(s)	Film(s)
Snow White	Adriana Caselotti	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Cinderella	Ilene Woods	Cinderella (1950)
	Jennifer Hale	Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007)
Princess Aurora	Mary Costa	Sleeping Beauty (1959)
	Erin Torpey (speaking) Cassidy Ladden (singing)	Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007)
Ariel	Jodi Benson	The Little Mermaid (1989) The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000) The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)
Belle	Paige O'Hara	Beauty and the Beast (1991) Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) Belle's Magical World (1998)
Jasmine	Linda Larkin Lea Salonga (singing voice, Aladdin and Enchanted Tales) Liz Callaway (singing voice, Return of Jafar and King of Thieves)	Aladdin (1992) The Return of Jafar (1994) Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007)
Pocahontas	Irene Bedard Judy Kuhn (singing voice)	Pocahontas (1995) Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
Mulan	Ming-Na Lea Salonga (singing voice)	Mulan (1998) Mulan II (2004)
Tiana	Anika Noni Rose	The Princess and the Frog (2009)

BIOGRAPHY OF WALT DISNEY

Real name: Walter Elias Disney

Date of Birth (location): 5 December 1901, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Date of Death : 15 December 1966

During a 43-year Hollywood career, which spanned the development of the motion picture medium as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney, a modern Aesop, established himself and his product as a genuine part of Americana. David Low, the late British political cartoonist, called Disney "the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo DaVinci." A pioneer and innovator, and the possessor of one of the most fertile imaginations the world has ever known, Walt Disney, along with members of his staff, received more than 950 honors and citations from every nation in the world, including 48 Academy Awards and 7 Emmys in his lifetime. Walt Disney's personal awards included honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, the University of Southern California and UCLA; the Presidential Medal of Freedom; France's Legion of Honor and Officer d'Academie decorations; Thailand's Order of the Crown; Brazil's Order of the Southern Cross; Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle; and the Showman of the World Award from the National Association of Theatre Owners.

The creator of Mickey Mouse and founder of Disneyland and Walt Disney World was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901. His father, Elias Disney, was an Irish-Canadian. His mother, Flora Call Disney, was of German-American descent. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl.

Raised on a farm near Marceline, Missouri, Walt became interested in drawing at an early age, selling his first sketches to neighbors when he was only seven years old. At McKinley High School in Chicago, Disney divided his attention between drawing and photography, contributing both to the school paper. At night he attended the Academy of Fine Arts.

During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to enlist for military service. Rejected because he was only 16 years of age, Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and chauffeuring Red Cross officials. His ambulance was covered from stem to stem, not with stock camouflage, but with drawings and cartoons.

After the war, Walt returned to Kansas City, where he began his career as an advertising cartoonist. Here, in 1920, he created and marketed his first original animated cartoons, and later perfected a new method for combining live-action and animation.

In August of 1923, Walt Disney left Kansas City for Hollywood with nothing but a few drawing materials, $40 in his pocket and a completed animated and live-action film. Walt's brother, Roy 0. Disney, was already in California, with an immense amount of sympathy and encouragement, and $250. Pooling their resources, they borrowed an additional $500, and constructed a camera stand in their uncle's garage. Soon, they received an order from New York for the first "Alice Comedy" featurette, and the brothers began their production operation in the rear of a Hollywood real estate office two blocks away.

On July 13, 1925, Walt married one of his first employees, Lillian Bounds, in Lewiston, Idaho. They were blessed with two daughters: Diane, married to Ron Miller, former president and chief executive officer of Walt Disney Productions; and Sharon Disney Lund, who served as a member of Disney's Board of Directors and passed away in 1993. The Millers have seven children and Mrs. Lund had three.

Mickey Mouse was created in 1928, and his talents were first used in a silent cartoon entitled "Plane Crazy." However, before the cartoon could be released, sound burst upon the motion picture screen. Thus Mickey made his screen debut in "Steamboat Willie," the world's first fully-synchronized sound cartoon, which premiered at the Colony Theatre in New York on November 18, 1928.

Walt's drive to perfect the art of animation was endless. Technicolor was introduced to animation during the production of his "Silly Symphonies." In 1932, the film entitled "Flowers and Trees" won Walt the first of his 32 personal Academy Awards. In 1937, he released "The Old Mill," the first short subject to utilize the multiplane camera technique.

On December 21 of that same year, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the first full-length animated musical feature, premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. Produced at the unheard cost of $1,499,000 during the depths of the Depression, the film is still accounted as one of the great feats and imperishable monuments of the motion picture industry. During the next five years, Walt completed such other full-length animated classics as "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," "Dumbo," and "Bambi."

In 1940, construction was completed on Disney's Burbank studio. The staff swelled to more than 1,000 artists, animators, story men and technicians. During World War II, 94 percent of the Disney facilities were engaged in special government work, including the production of training and propaganda films for the armed services, as well as health films which are still shown throughout the world by the U.S. State Department. The remainder of his efforts were devoted to the production of comedy short subjects, deemed highly essential to civilian and military morale.

Disney's 1945 feature, the musical "The Three Caballeros," combined live action with the cartoon medium, a process he used successfully in such other features as "Song of the South" and the highly acclaimed "Mary Poppins." In all, 81 features were released by the studio during his lifetime.

Walt's inquisitive mind and keen sense for education through entertainment resulted in the award-winning "True-Life Adventure" series. Through such films as "The Living Desert," "The Vanishing Prairie," "The African Lion," and "White Wilderness," Disney brought fascinating insights into the world of wild animals and taught the importance of conserving our nation's outdoor heritage.

Disneyland, launched in 1955 as a fabulous $17 million Magic Kingdom, soon increased its investment tenfold. By its third decade, more than 250 million people were entertained, including presidents, kings and queens, and royalty from all over the globe.

A pioneer in the field of television programming, Disney began production in 1954, and was among the first to present full-color programming with his "Wonderful World of Color" in 1961. "The Mickey Mouse Club" and "Zorro" were popular favorites in the 1950s.

But that was only the beginning. In 1965, Walt Disney turned his attention toward the problem of improving the quality of urban life in America. He personally directed the design on an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT, planned as a living showcase for the creativity of American industry.

Said Disney, "I don't believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world that is more important to people everywhere than finding the solution to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin? Well, we're convinced we must start with the public need. And the need is not just for curing the old ills of old cities. We think the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a community that will become a prototype for the future."

Thus, Disney directed the purchase of 43 square miles of virgin land -- twice the size of Manhattan Island -- in the center of the state of Florida. Here, he master planned a whole new Disney world of entertainment to include a new amusement theme park, motel-hotel resort vacation center and his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. After more than seven years of master planning and preparation, including 52 months of actual construction, Walt Disney World opened to the public as scheduled on October 1, 1971. Epcot Center opened on October 1, 1982.

Prior to his death on December 15, 1966, Walt Disney took a deep interest in the establishment of California Institute of the Arts, a college level, professional school of all the creative and performing arts. Of Cal Arts, Walt once said, "It's the principal thing I hope to leave when I move on to greener pastures. If I can help provide a place to develop the talent of the future, I think I will have accomplished something."

California Institute of the Arts was founded in 1961 with the amalgamation of two schools, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Chouinard Art Institute. The campus is located in the city of Valencia, 32 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Walt Disney conceived the new school as a place where all the performing and creative arts would be taught under one roof in a "community of the arts" as a completely new approach to professional arts training.

Try to imagine a world without Walt Disney. A world without his magic, whimsy, and optimism. Walt Disney transformed the entertainment industry, into what we know today. He pioneered the fields of animation, and found new ways to teach, and educate.

Walt's optimism came from his unique ability to see the entire picture. His views and visions, came from the fond memory of yesteryear, and persistence for the future. Walt loved history. As a result of this, he didn't give technology to us piece by piece, he connected it to his ongoing mission of making life more enjoyable, and fun. Walt was our bridge from the past to the future.

During his 43-year Hollywood career, which spanned the development of the motion picture industry as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney established himself and his innovations as a genuine part of Americana.

A pioneer and innovator, and the possessor of one of the most fertile and unique imaginations the world has ever known. Walt Disney could take the dreams of America, and make them come true. He was a creator, a imaginative, and aesthetic person. Even thirty years after his death, we still continue to grasp his ideas, and his creations, remembering him for everything he's done for us.

Walt Disney in his office © Disney

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl.

Later, after Walt's birth, the Disney family moved to Marceline, Missouri. Walt lived out most of his childhood here. Walt had a very early interest in drawing, and art. When he was seven years old, he sold small sketches, and drawings to nearby neighbors. Instead of doing his school work Walt doodled pictures of animals, and nature. His knack for creating enduring art forms took shape when he talked his sister, Ruth, into helping him paint the side of the family's house with tar.

Close to the Disney family farm, there were Santa Fe Railroad tracks that crossed the countryside. Often Walt would put his ear against the tracks, to listen for approaching trains. Walt's uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa, and Marceline. Walt later worked a summer job with the railroad, selling newspapers, popcorn, and sodas to travelers.

During his life Walt would often try to recapture the freedom he felt when aboard those trains, by building his own miniature train set. Then building a 1/8-scale backyard railroad, the Carolwood Pacific or Lilly Bell.

Besides his other interests, Walt attended McKinley High School in Chicago. There, Disney divided his attention between drawing and photography, and contributing to the school paper. At night he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, to better his drawing abilities.

Walt discovered his first movie house on Marceline's Main Street. There he saw a dramatic black-and-white recreation of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.

During these "carefree years" of country living young Walt began to love, and appreciate nature and wildlife, and family and community, which were a large part of agrarian living. Though his father could be quite stern, and often there was little money, Walt was encouraged by his mother, and older brother, Roy.

Even after the Disney family moved to Kansas City, Walt continued to develop and flourish in his talent for artistic drawing. Besides drawing, Walt had picked up a knack for acting and performing. At school he began to entertain his friends by imitating his silent screen hero, Charlie Chaplin. At his teachers invitation, Walt would tell his classmates stories, while illustrating on the chalk board. Later on, against his fathers permission, Walt would sneak out of the house at night to perform comical skits at local theaters.

During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to enlist for military service. Rejected because he was under age, only sixteen years old at the time. Instead, Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and chauffeuring Red Cross officials. His ambulance was covered from stem to stern, not with stock camouflage, but with Disney cartoons.

Once he returned from France, he wanted to pursue a career in commercial art, which soon lead to his experiments in animation. He began producing short animated films for local businesses, in Kansas City. By the time Walt had started to create The Alice Comedies, which was about a real girl and her adventures in an animated world, Walt ran out of money, and his company Laugh-O-Grams went bankrupted. Instead of giving up, Walt packed his suitcase and with his unfinished print of The Alice Comedies in hand, headed for Hollywood to start a new business. He was not yet twenty-two.

The early flop of The Alice Comedies inoculated Walt against fear of failure; he had risked it all three or four times in his life. Walt's brother, Roy O. Disney, was already in California, with an immense amount of sympathy and encouragement, and $250. Pooling their resources, they borrowed an additional $500, and set up shop in their uncle's garage. Soon, they received an order from New York for the first Alice in Cartoonland(The Alice Comedies) featurette, and the brothers expanded their production operation to the rear of a Hollywood real estate office. It was Walt's enthusiasm and faith in himself, and others, that took him straight to the top of Hollywood society.

Although, Walt wasn't the typical Hollywood mogul. Instead of socializing with the "who's who" of the Hollywood entertainment industry, he would stay home and have dinner with his wife, Lillian, and his daughters, Diane and Sharon. In fact, socializing was a bit boring to Walt Disney. Usually he would dominate a conversation, and hold listeners spellbound as he described his latest dreams or ventures. The people that where close to Walt were those who lived with him, and his ideas, or both.

On July 13, 1925, Walt married one of his first employees, Lillian Bounds, in Lewiston, Idaho. Later on they would be blessed with two daughters, Diane and Sharon . Three years after Walt and Lilly wed, Walt created a new animated character, Mickey Mouse.

His talents were first used in a silent cartoon entitled Plane Crazy. However, before the cartoon could be released, sound was introduced upon the motion picture industry. Thus, Mickey Mouse made his screen debut in Steamboat Willie, the world's first synchronized sound cartoon, which premiered at the Colony Theater in New York on November 18, 1928.

Walt with many plush Mickey Mouse Dolls © Disney

Walt's drive to perfect the art of animation was endless. Technicolor was introduced to animation during the production of his Silly Symphonies Cartoon Features. Walt Disney held the patent for Technicolor for two years, allowing him to make the only color cartoons. In 1932, the production entitled Flowers and Trees won Walt the first of his studio's Academy Awards. In 1937, he released The Old Mill, the first short subject to utilize the multi-plane camera technique.

On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated musical feature, premiered at the Carthay Theater in Los Angeles. The film produced at the unheard cost of $1,499,000 during the depths of the Depression, the film is still considered one of the great feats and imperishable monuments of the motion picture industry. During the next five years, Walt Disney Studios completed other full-length animated classics such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi.

Walt rarely showed emotion, though he did have a temper that would blow over as it blew up. At home, he was affectionate and understanding. He gave love by being interested, involved, and always there for his family and friends. Walt's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, once said:

Daddy never missed a father's function no matter how I discounted it. I'd say,"Oh, Daddy, you don't need to come. It's just some stupid thing." But he'd always be there, on time.

Probably the most painful time of Walt's private life, was the accidental death of his mother in 1938. After the great success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt and Roy bought their parents, Elias and Flora Disney, a home close to the studios. Less than a month later Flora died of asphyxiation caused by a faulty furnace in the new home. The terrible guilt of this haunted Walt for the rest of his life.

In 1940, construction was completed on the Burbank Studio, and Disney's staff swelled to more than 1,000 artists, animators, story men, and technicians. Although, because of World War II 94 percent of the Disney facilities were engaged in special government work, including the production of training and propaganda films for the armed services, as well as health films which are still shown through-out the world by the U.S. State Department. The remainder of his efforts were devoted to the production of comedy short subjects, deemed highly essential to civilian and military morale.

Disney's 1945 feature, the musical The Three Caballeros, combined live action with the cartoon animation, a process he used successfully in such other features as Song of the South and the highly acclaimed Mary Poppins. In all, more than 100 features were produced by his studio.

Walt's inquisitive mind and keen sense for education through entertainment resulted in the award-winning True-Life Adventure series. Through such films as The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie, The African Lion, and White Wilderness, Disney brought fascinating insights into the world of wild animals and taught the importance of conserving our nation's outdoor heritage.

Walt Disney's dream of a clean, and organized amusement park, came true, as Disneyland Park opened in 1955. As a fabulous $17-million magic kingdom, soon had increased its investment tenfold, and by the beginning of its second quarter-century, had entertained more than 200 million people, including presidents, kings and queens, and royalty from all over the globe.

Walt Disney on his trips through Disneyland © Disney

A pioneer in the field of television programming, Disney began television production in 1954, and was among the first to present full-color programming with his Wonderful World of Color in 1961. The Mickey Mouse Club was a popular favorite in the 1950s.
But that was only the beginning. In 1965, Walt Disney turned his attention toward the problem of improving the quality of urban life in America. He personally directed the design of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT). It was planned as a living showcase for the creativity of American industry. Disney said this about EPCOT:

I don't believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world that is more important to people everywhere than finding the solutions to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin? Well, we're convinced we must start with the public need. And the need is not just for curing the old ills of old cities. We think the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a community that will become a prototype for the future.

Thus, Disney directed the purchase of 43 square miles of virgin land--twice the size of Manhattan Island--in the center of the state of Florida. Here, he master planned a whole new "Disney world" of entertainment to include a new amusement theme park, motel-hotel resort vacation center, and his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. After more than seven years of master planning and preparation, including 52 months of actual construction, the Walt Disney World Resort, including the Magic Kingdom Park, opened to the public as scheduled on October 1, 1971. EPCOT Center opened October 1, 1982, and on May 1, 1989, the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park opened.

A few years prior to his death on December 15, 1966, Walt Disney took a deep interest in the establishment of California Institute of the Arts, a college-level professional school of all the creative and performing arts. CalArts, Walt once said, "It's the principal thing I hope to leave when I move on to greener pastures. If I can help provide a place to develop the talent of the future, I think I will have accomplished something."

The California Institute of the Arts was founded in 1961 with the combination of two schools, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute. The campus is located in the city of Valencia, 32 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Walt Disney conceived the new school as a place where all the performing and creative arts would be taught under one roof in a "community of the arts" as a completely new approach to professional arts training.

Walt Disney is a legend; a folk hero of the 20th century. His worldwide popularity was based upon the ideals which his name represents: imagination, optimism, creation, and self-made success in the American tradition. Walt Disney did more to touch the hearts, minds, and emotions of millions of Americans than any other person in the past century. Through his work he brought joy, happiness, and a universal means of communication to the people of every nation. He brought us closer to the future, while telling us of the past, it is certain, that there will never be such as great a man, as Walt Disney.

WHAT IS FASHION

Fashion is a term commonly used to describe a style of clothing worn by most of people of a country. A fashion usually remains popular for about 1-3 years and then is replaced by yet another fashion. Even though there are a lot of changes in fashion, most people do not easily except the changes.

A clothing style may be introduced as a fashion, but its use becomes a custom after being handed down from generation to generation. A fashion that comes and goes is called a Fad.

During the mid-1800's, a mass production of clothing was made fashionable and available to more people for lower prices. This encouraged more people to wear more stylish clothes which is why we are wearing what we are today.

Clothing is made out of all types of matieral such as cotton, rayon, spandex, and polyester,and they are just a few used. Some clothing may even be made of 2 or more different types, this is known as " Blending."

Clothing can be decorated or designed with all types of images and colors. The designs can either be embroidered onto the fabric, woven on to the fabric, silk screened, or ironed onto the fabric to create a desired look. Some images that have been used to enhance an article of clothing range from a simple design on front of a T shirt to a famous printing that has been woven into fabric creating a colorful piece of art that one can wear.

1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
3. The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.

To some, fashion is an art form. To others, it is almost a religion.

But for most people it is a method of utilizing clothing, accessories and hair to show or hide something about yourself.

You can use fashion to express yourself, to serve as an extension of your personality: goth, skater, soccer mom, professional.

Or you can use fashion to disguise your true self:a conservative in vamp clothing, a vamp in conservative clothing.

Fashion statements can be made with clothes, accessories, shoes, hair, makeup, even your cellphone.

Who decides what's in?

Designers can greatly influence what direction fashion will go in.

Miuccia Prada of Prada and Miu Miu, Marc Jacobs of Marc by Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton are considered directional designers (Prada for remixing classics, Jacobs for vintage-inspired styles).

Working five or six months ahead of the season, the press attends fashion shows presenting designer collections; the media will then give editorial coverage to trends they think their readership is interested in.

Store buyers work many months in advance of the season to place orders with manufacturers for styles they think their customers will want to buy.

Celebrities and other opinion leaders (socialites and other glitterati) are usually the first to sport new looks, spurring the buying public into accepting emerging trends.

So everyone from big-name designers to celebrities may be behind influencing the direction fashion will go in.

But ultimately, it is you, the consumer, who will decide what is "in" when you choose whether or not to buy into a trend.

Where are the world's fashion centers?

New York, Paris and Milan are considered the major hubs for designers and manufacturers of fashion apparel and accessories.

London, Los Angeles, Toronto, Hong Kong, Sydney and Sao Paolo, in addition to hundreds of other smaller market areas are host to excellent designers and manufacturers.

Most people pay attention to fashion in small doses which is a very healthy way to approach it. They make sure wardrobes are in step with the times and even indulge in a trend or two each season.

A few reasons why fashion is still relevant:

• It shows your thinking is modern and flexible (e.g. willing to accept and process new ideas).
• Fashion has escapist qualities to help you deal with the pressures of the world (For example: your country may be at war, but you've "escaped" by dressing in the season's fluffy ruffles that make you look like you don't have a care in the world).
• Everything you put on sends a message.

Why are most designer clothes so outrageous?

Fashion has almost nothing to do with good taste: it is a force that is beyond such practical considerations.

The clothes that are presented at the fashion shows are often exaggerations of a theme. Some designers such as John Galliano (Christian Dior) go to great lengths to present extravagant looks that no one in their right mind would wear on the street.

These collections are part marketing (to grab media and consumer interest in a designer line) and part artistic expression.

By the time they reach the stores, most looks are edited by buyers to be saleable (hemlines dropped an inch or two, elements of the original look are put onto more understandable pieces, etc.).

It's not that easy to answer the question, "what is fashion?" because it means different things to different people. Fashion is an art. It's a religion. It's a job. It's a peek into a personality. It's playfulness. It's an escape or a disguise. It is a feast for the eyes. But ultimately, fashion is an individual statement of expression for each of us.

French fashion designer Coco Chanel once said, "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

It's true. Fashion isn't defined solely by our clothing choices, but is also conveyed through the way we carry ourselves, our personalities and our views of the world.

At its most fundamental (and straight from the dictionary), fashion is simply the prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior.

So what's your FASHION STYLE...
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RENUNGKANLAH

Ceritanya ada seorang anak perempuan bernama Hung-hung. Ketika masih berumur delapan tahun, dia sudah belajar memasak, mencuci dan melakukan pekerjaan rumah lainnya. Rumah selalu dibersihkan tanpa perintah dari orang tuanya.

Jadi dia adalah seorang anak perempuan yang bisa diandalkan didalam rumah tangga dan menjadi kesayangan kedua orang tuanya.

Namun entah kenapa dan sejak kapan, Hung-hung tiba-tiba berubah menjadi seorang yang pemarah. Sedikit hal saja sudah memancingnya emosi dan marah.

Pagi-pagi ketika akan berangkat sekolah, kaus kakinya terselip entah dimana, serta merta dia menangis dan berteriak-teriak kepada ibunya sehingga ibunya langsung mencarikan kaus kaki tersebut untuknya.

Kemudian setelah itu Hung-hung berteriak-teriak, "Mengapa bajunya masih basah?"

Memang keadaan mereka sedikit kurang mampu sehingga tidak memiliki mesin pengering pakaian dan pakaian agak lama keringnya.

Melihat kegelisahan anaknya, maka sang ibu segera berusaha sehingga timbullah satu cara yaitu dengan memanggang baju diatas tutup panci. Melihat itu dengan terburu-buru dan tidak sabar Hung-hung segera memakai baju yang masih kurang kering itu, sambil menggerutu.

Kemudian menyambar tas sekolahnya dan dengan tergesa-gesa berangkat.

Di tengah jalan, mendadak dia ingat bahwa bekal makanannya lupa terbawa, lalu bagaimana? Begitu menoleh kebelakang, ia melihat ibunya berlari-lari mengejarnya sambil membawakan bekal makan untuknya.

Begitu sampai dihadapannya dan belum sempat lagi ibunya mengambil nafas, Hung-hung segera menghardik, "Mengapa bekalnya tidak disiapkan dan ditaruh dalam tas?"

Setelah memasuki sekolah menengah (SMU), Hung-hung menjadi semakin parah. Setiap turun dari bis di terminal, bila tidak terlihat ibunya menjemput pastilah dia akan menunggu dengan sangat jengkel dan marah.

Bila kemudian ibunya tiba dan menjemputnya maka ia akan pulang dengan kesal dan marah-marah.

Selama tiga tahun di SMU, Hung-hung seolah-olah hanya memiliki kawan-kawan sekolah tetapi tidak punya ibu. Sangat berhati-hati menjalin persahabatan dengan teman-teman sekolah tetapi tidak memperhatikan perasaan dan cinta kasih diantara ibu dan anak. Apabila ibunya berkata lebih sepatah dua kata terhadapnya, Hung-hung sudah merasa ibunya banyak bicara, cerewet, banyak nasehat, dan memusingkan.

Suatu hari disekolah Hung-hung menerima telepon dan kemudian menangis menjadi-jadi.

Ia berteriak-teriak, "Ibu, jangan tinggalkan aku ... ..! Aku membutuhkan Mu !!!!......"

Tetapi semua sudah terlambat, ibunya yang tercinta telah meninggal dunia karena serangan jantung. Dalam batin barulah dia sadar betapa penting dan berarti kedudukan ibunya.

Walaupun ada seribu penyesalan dan kasih rindupun sudah tidak ada gunanya lagi.

Mengapa dirinya tidak menyayangi ibunya saat masih hidup berdampingan?

Mengapa tidak mengabdi?

Mengapa tidak bisa menyenangkan orang tua?

Mengapa ..... mengapa ......?

Yang ada hanyalah penyesalan yang tidak ada akhirnya.
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Ce : Yang paling kamu cintai di dunia ini siapa ?

Co : Kamu dong !!!

Ce : Menurut kamu, aku ini siapa ?

Co : (berpikir sejenak lalu menatap Ce dengan pasti) Kamu tulang rusukku!!! Karena Tuhan melihat bahwa Adam kesepian.Saat Adam tidur,Tuhan mengambil rusuk dari Adam dan menciptakan Hawa.Semua Pria mencari tulang rusuknya yang hilang dan saat menemukan wanita untuknya,tidak lagi merasakan sakit di hati …

"Setelah menikah, pasangan itu mengalami masa yang indah dan manis untuk sesaat.Setelah itu, pasangan muda ini mulai tenggelam dalam kesibukan masing-masing dan kepenatan hidup yang ada. Hidup mereka menjadi membosankan.

Kenyataan hidup yang kejam membuat mereka mulai menyisihkan impian dan cinta satu sama lain. Mereka mulai bertengkar dan pertengkaran itu mulai menjadi semakin panas. Pada suatu hari pada akhir sebuah pertengkaran Ce lari keluar rumah. Saat tiba di seberang jalan, dia berteriak "Kamu nggak cinta lagi sama aku!". Co sangat membenci ketidak dewasaan Ce dan secara spontan balik berteriak "Aku menyesal kita menikah!Kamu ternyata bukan tulang rusukku !!!"

Tiba - tiba Ce menjadi terdiam dan berdiri terpaku untuk beberapa saat.Co menyesal akan apa yang sudah dia ucapkan, tetapi seperti air yang telah tertumpah tidak mungkin untuk diambil kembali. Dengan berlinang air mata,Ce kembali ke rumah dan mengambil barang - barangnya, bertekad untuk berpisah. "Kalau aku bukan tulang rusukmu, biarkan aku pergi. Biarkan kita berpisah dan mencari pasangan sejatimasing -masing.

Lima tahun berlalu. Co tidak menikah lagi, tetapi berusaha mencari tahu akan kehidupan Ce. Ce pernah ke luar negeri tetapi sudah kembali.Dia pernah menikah dengan seorang asing dan bercerai. Co agak kecewa bahwa Ce tidak menunggunya kembali. Dan di tengah malam yang sunyi dia meminum kopinya dan merasakan sakit di hatinya. Tetapi dia tidak sanggup mengakui bahwa dia merindukan Ce.

Suatu hari, mereka akhirnya kembali bertemu.Di airport, di tempat di mana banyak terjadi pertemuan dan perpisahan, mereka dipisahkan hanya oleh sebuah dinding pembatas.

Co : Apa kabar ?

Ce : Baik … apakah kamu sudah menemukan rusukmu yang hilang ?

Co : Belum.

Ce : Aku terbang ke New York dengan penerbangan berikut.Aku akan kembali 2 minggu lagi. Telpon aku kalau kamu sempat. Kamu tahu nomor telepon kita, tidak ada yang berubah.Ce tersenyum manis,lalu berlalu.

"Good bye"

…." Satu minggu kemudian ternyata Ce adalah satu korban Menara WTC.

Malam itu, sekali lagi, Co mereguk kopinya dan kembali merasakan Sakit dihatinya. Akhirnya dia sadar bahwa sakit itu adalah karena Ce,Tulang rusuknya sendiri yang telah dengan bodohnya dia patahkan.

"Kita melampiaskan 99% kemarahan justru kepada orang yang paling kita cintai. Dan akibatnya adalah fatal. Seringkali penyesalan itu datang belakangan akibatnya setelah kita menyadari kesalahan kita, semua sudah terlambat….

Karena itu jagalah dan sayangilah orang yang kau cintai dengan segenap hatimu…,Sebelum kau mengucapkan sesuatu berpikirlah dulu,apakah kata - kata yang kau ucapkan akan menyakiti orang yang kau cintai?? Kalo iya sebaiknya jangan kau ucapkan. Karena akan semakin besar resiko kau kehilangan orang yang kau cintai. Jadi berpikirlah dahulu, apakah kata -kata yang akan kau ucapkan sebanding dengan akibat yang akan kau terima??"

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Ketika aku masih muda dan bebas berkhayal,
Aku bermimpi ingin merubah dunia.
Seiring dengan bertambahnya usia dan kearifanku,
kudapati bahwa dunia tidak kunjung berubah.

Maka cita-cita itu pun agak kupersempit,
lalu kuputuskan untuk hanya mengubah negeriku.
Namun nampaknya, hasrat itu pun tiada hasilnya.

Ketika usiaku makin senja dengan semangatku yang masih tersisa,
Kuputuskan untuk merubah keluargaku, orang-orang yang paling dekat denganku.
Tapi celakanya, merekapun tidak mau diubah..!!

Dan kini,
Sementara aku berbaring saat ajal menjelang tiba-tiba kusadari:
"Andaikan yang pertama-tama kuubah adalah diriku."

Maka dengan menjadikan diriku sebagai panutan,
mungkin aku bisa mengubah keluargaku.
Lalu berkat inspirasi dan dorongan mereka, bisa jadi aku pun mampu memperbaiki negeriku.
Kemudian siapa tahu, aku bahkan bisa mengubah dunia.