**DIARY OF S.Y.S.**

blog of S Y S, the webmistress of mini-sys.com : version 3.0

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Monday, October 15, 2007

my strange lebaran holiday dream

it went like this .....

i remember i was still living in my grandma's old house. and i was living in one of the rooms on the second floor facing the narrow street. the weather was nice and bright that time but suddenly it got so dark all of a sudden. thanks to the high floor above, i was able to look out the window to see what is going on. in the distance, in front one of the tall buildings, i saw a huge sideway tornado (dont ask me why it was sideway -_-) sucking everything that was on its path. the weird thing was i was not panicking but felt a bit anxious .... but not until this alien spaceship passed by our house in front of my window. before i hid myself under my bed .... in a glance, i remember i saw a bright tongue-like flexible moving sensor thing that looked like a thin ribbon floating in the air. i wonder what it was for .... but later on the floor below me, i heard a sorta spaceship-like sound that (i think) was pulling a screaming someone into the ship. i felt the floor becoming warmer than usual. wonder if it was due to the heat from the ship's sensor. i heard the ship passing our house and moving on to our neighbor's house. i was really afraid until i curled up really tight under my bed. think about 10 minutes has passed. i was a bit relieved to think that ship would not come back to this neighborhood again.

WRONG!!

the moment i stood out of my bed ..... i saw that ship right in front of my room. i was so shocked and i had no time to scream when the ship out of nowhere decided to pull me into it with its warm sensor. i was standing still while being sucked in i remember. i dont even remember the interior of the ship due to my fear. i dont know how but we ended up in the bad crummy side of jakarta. the ship was flying pretty low so i could see what was going on outside. i saw lots of farm animals like cows, goats, chickens etc and then i saw a few humans with super long vertical heads walking around as if nothing happened. i freaked out and thought that maybe the aliens would preform some weird brain exchange experiments on me. perhaps exchanging my brain with some of the cows' or goats at the same time O___O??!!! i was freaking out. i remember seeing a lot of abducted victims who got dropped off from the ship to be experimented on. the weird thing was i was not dropped off. think the alien flew off and somehow he returned me to my room.

and how did this whole thing end??

...............

dont think i remember -_____-;;
u can just draw your own conclusion. i was really tired that day thus i dreamed.


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Saturday, October 13, 2007

OLD SCHOOL GREATNESS!

nothing can beat that really!

anyway ..... i dont think everyone else in the entire world out there would know that now .... everyone in the land of jakarta, indonesia is stuck amidst a two-week long holiday. while my bro was supposed to be busy packing the day away for his bali road trip yesterday, instead .... with our dear cousin Agung, decided to download midi files of our old old ooold favorite video games. as in *sega genesis/mega drive* old!! he downloaded tracks from the "sonic" series, "streets of rage", "golden axe", etc. AND THEN ..... they got carried away and started downloading our great ol' favorite sega genesis games along with its appropriate emulator. so they started the video game frenzy with "streets of rage 1"

OOOO what fun and nostalgic that was i was almost brought to tears (tears of happiness u moron :P!), but not until our cousin accidentally closed the application .... when we were only a few minutes away from the final boss on stage 8. my bro (and me, the audience) was pretty crushed!

then .... ON with "golden axe" .....

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Saturday, August 04, 2007

My Birthday Gift from the Japanese Government

The first part of it was the news I got a few weeks ago from Japan Foundation, that my maqita/manga that's been published in SPLASH Maqita Magazine (http://www.sevenartland.com), Sang Sayur, actually got into the nominees list for Japan's recent International Manga Contest, run by Mr. Aso Tarou, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Here are the related links:

(English) The link on the winners of International Manga Award 2007 ---> only foreigners were allowed to participate in this

(Japanese & English) The work info of the 1st winner

(Japanese & English) The work info of the 1st Runner Up

(Japanese & English) The work info of the 2nd Runner Up

(Japanese & English) The work info of the 3rd Runner Up

The list of the final 19 nominees worldwide .... sorry the list is only available in Japanese

Last week, I got a phone call from the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta and they requested me to visit them so they could explain to me the format of the ceremony they were going to throw for me on August 1 @ 3 pm. I was completely shocked to hear this, since I am not exactly the 1st prize winner or one of the runner ups. I was honored to meet the Director/Counselor of Cultural & Educational Affairs, Kato san, his assistant, Kaji san, along with the great Embassy staff. We had a wonderful yet brief meeting. So after that, my entire week was filled with non-stop phone calls from the Embassy, them wanting me to write a speech and resume (for the journalists/reporters) etc etc. Because of that, I couldn't find enough time to rest so I could recover from my bad cold. Bad as in super stuffy nose and throat full of muccus (gross huh :P?) haha. Talk about a bad time for being sick >_<. But I figure it was all for a good cause, so I gladly overlooked my sickness.

So here comes D day! August 1, 2007 @ 3 pm. At the Japanese Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia.

The guests included a few members of my family, SPLASH members, Machiko sensei, a number of friends (Felix actually gotta speed all the way from the airport to the Embassy due to his delayed flight from Bali @_@), Jakarta-based Japan Foundation's Director and Assistant Director, plus journalists/reporters alike. The SPLASH members were one of the first ones to appear in the ceremony hall. They got me a nice self-arranged flower along with a super cute and inspiring greeting card they all wrote for me. It was a nice surprise indeed. If you all were imagining this was some kind of 100+ attendant ceremony, you were wrong hehe. The ceremony was small, but I was told that there were more and more journalists/reporters popping into the room as the ceremony went on.

Before it started, I was asked to seat myself next to the Japanese Ambassador, Ebihara Shin. Here is the brief rundown of the ceremony:

- Opening speech by the Embassy's MC
- The introduction speech by the Japanese Ambassador, Ebihara Shin
- The nomination certificate reading by Ebihara san
- The certificate hand-over by Ebihara san. We were swarmed by journalists, reporters, family members and friends alike.
- My speech. Beforehand, they asked me to say a few things in Japanese, and so I did. Then I proceeded with the rest of the speech in Indonesian.
- Drawing demo. They asked me to draw a few of my characters before the audience. A big white board was provided. On the left hand side they clipped a 60x90 cm paper for me to draw on, while on the right hand side they displayed my xeroxed Sang Sayur pages and my colored illustrated Sang Sayur postcard. Again, swarmed by journalists, reporters, family members and friends.
- Extra announcement (my announcement regarding my birthday the day after, August 2). Ebihara san actually started asking me questions regarding myself and my work in English. His English was pretty good.
- Interview time by the media. I was told there would be media present at the ceremony, but I'd NEVER EVER thought there would be THAT many mainstream media surrounding this sick girl and bombarding her with questions @_@. I am just bad when it comes to being interviewed haha >_<

Afterwards, after more photo taking sessions and etc, I did not even have any time to have lunch after the ceremony. Sooo~~~ hungry, I just grabbed myself a cheese pastry and a few glasses of water. Then we all exited the Embassy.

The next day, August 2, apparently my article appeared in KOMPAS, one of the widely read Indonesian newspaper.

Click here for the scanned article

On the same day, another one appeared in the local Japanese newspaper, THE DAILY JAKARTA SHIMBUN.

Click here for the scanned article

So all and all, this is gotta be the most awesome birthday present I have ever gotten! Thank you Japan for making my life more colorful! If there are more pics or articles related to this event, shall post them up here. I also would like to congratulate all the winners of this awesome contest! May we all one day be united in great spirit!


Roger and Over!
S Y S
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blog 2 : mini-sys.livejournal.com

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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

june 8-18: away to singapore

It all began with a stupid doctor visit last month. I'd been bloated the week before and no matter what medicine and what I did, the bloat just wouldn't go away. Anyway, went to the doctor. He did a USG check on my stomach, and indeed my stomach was filled with air (maybe the aircon -__-;;), but that is not it. He checked my lower stomach also and he found a 6 cm long cyst attached to one of my ovaries. He said it has been growing there for years and years, thus the humongous cyst. He suggested that I have it removed as soon as possible. If not, I will run the high risk of losing one of my ovaries. I was shocked to hear the news. Remember this doctor was NOT a gynecologist.

So the day after we went to a real gynecologist, ran another check on my ovaries, and he pretty much said the same thing. Later on the cyst may turn into something called endometriosis and he said it also needed to be taken out soon. I don't think you know this but a lot of doctors in Jakarta are known to be the commercialized types, the ones who is MORE eager to cut their patients open for the money >.< Suspecting he might one of *those* doctors, we might need to fly to Singapore to have a double check.

When I am flying there? June 8-18 (let's hope the doctor doesn't require me to extend my stay) ... we have made an appointment with an American doctor based there, BUT her line is FULL until freakin' October O_O. So wish us luck on our journey. Let's hope this thing doesn't pop out on me before our Singapore trip.

Btw, it is very normal for Jakarta people to have doctor's visits all the way in Singapore, it is only 1,5 hour away by airplane.

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Saturday, June 02, 2007

SO SHOCKED!!

my female hamster can actually have period O___O!!! no wonder she was bleeding all over the place T__T ... poor smirky, i hope
she hasn't been in any pain T___T

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Sunday, May 06, 2007

a brief k break

Yesterday me and 4 other SPLASH members were invited to hold a manga characterization workshop in Universitas Indonesia (aka UI) all the way in Depok, close to Bogor, the very south part of Jakarta. While waiting for the live singing before us to end, they offered the audience to jump onstage and sing Do As Infinity's "Fukai Fukai Mori."

SO I jumped in! Boy was it fun, I miss karaoke a lot >__<

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Saturday, May 05, 2007

SPLASH NEW BANNERS!

Hey u peeps, below are the banners of SPLASH Maqita Magazine, where my maqita/manga/comic SANG SAYUR is published in. They come in two versions so feel free to download whichever you want for your own sites. Be sure to link them to this URL : http://sevenartland.com/

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