I NEED YOUR SUPPORT: Please, Vote Me!

Dear family, friends, bloggers, facebookers, and anyone else,

I have been visiting the Authors Show announcement page and found out my name is on the top list of 113 finalist in alphabetical order (it surprised me because several days ago it was listed alphabetically so my name that starts with letter "F" was located in the middle) and my essay is on the page 59-61. My finalist number is 61. Next, I will be waiting and see who would give me a vote. Public voting will be held on Oct 1-10 (US time) at midnight. It means in Indonesia will end on Oct 11 at 12.00 WIB.

GOOD NEWS FOR BLOGGERS!!!

1. Please, participate to give me a vote. Go to this link, read my essay on the page 59-61, vote me, and let me know by leaving a message in this post. By participating, you will get a prize: 150EC (if you're an Entrecard member), be listed in my supporters page in this blog and your name will appear on the thank and both of them will be linked to your blog (post will be available after the contest done). Two links will be great to increase your blog's SEO. You have 10 days to participate in voting.

2. After you vote me, if you like, you can participate in the second step, if not, then it's fine, too. The second step is easy. You just need to write a short inviting post to vote me using your own words. Your Title can be "Free hundreds EC by participating in Fida's Invitation" or you can make your own title and be creative. You just need enclose 4 links. The first link: write my name Fida Abbott and link it to this post. The second link: please, write "Vote Fida Abbott who is on the Top List of 113 Finalist in Alphabetical Order" and link it to this link (Announcement page). The third link: please, write "Read Fida Abbott's Essay on the page 59-61!" and link it to this essay page, and the fourth link: please, write "Vote Fida Abbott #61" and link it to the voting page. Don't forget to attach the digital seal above in your post so your fellow readers/bloggers/visitors will recognize the kind of the contest seal. By participating to this second step, you will get a prize: 200 EC (if you are an Entrecard member. This chance will not be available on Oct 9 (US time) so please, make sure to write a post before that date and let me know by leaving a message in this post. It means you only have 8 days to write this post (Oct 1-5). Also please, remember that your post should be exist till Oct 12, 2011. After that date, you may keep it posted or delete it.

To every blogger who is able to post on Oct 1-2, I'll give more extra prize: 100 EC. Total, you will get 450 EC. Does it sound good?

But Remember, you must vote me first before writing your post!!! It means you cannot do the second step without doing the first step.

Thank you for reading this post. Every family members, friends, bloggers and facebookers, I will wait for your participation. (*)

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Being Finalist of 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading

What a wonderful news I got! As the one of the authors who has ever been interviewed by The Authors Show, last month I was selected as a candidate to take part in the final selection for their Top 50 featured authors as they are going to publish soon this year the second edition of THE AUTHORS SHOW’s “50 Outstanding Writers You Should Be Reading”. The selection was by invitation only, and there was no cost associated with being a featured author in the printed version of the book. Because of how busy I was, two days before the selection ended, I sent my entry form online, including my essay that I wrote and edited it around an hour and a half (total two hours with submitting the form).

In this second year of their contest, 113 finalists were selected from the pool of guests who have been interviewed in 2011 on The Authors Show, The Business Authors Show, The Children Authors Show, The Christian Authors Show, The Wellness Authors Show and on AuthorsWebTV.com, the TV version of the show, and my essay is one of the finalists. To see the complete list of finalists, please visit The Authors Show 2011 Contest.

Then from October 1 through October 8, the public will have the chance to vote for their favorite authors from 113 finalists. The top 50 authors selected by the public will win a spot in 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading. I hope this news will be as a preparation for all of you who would love to participate and support me. I will update this news when they have opened the public voting next month. You will be able to read my essay and vote me.

This is also a good news for all my fellow Bloggers, especially if they are as the Entrecard's members. I'm going to give hundreds and/or thousands of ECs free to them who vote and republish my post regarding that announcement. Please, stay tuned for upcoming post and thank you for your time to read this exciting news. I hope my future supporters from family, friends, bloggers and non bloggers will be excited in waiting for this event. (*)

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Introducing the 38th and 39th "Enthusiasm" Ambassadors

Dear My Fellow Readers,

I'm proudly introducing you two new "Enthusiasm" Ambassadors. They will be the 38th and 39th.
The 38th is Ruslan Andy Chandra (Founder and Board Chair of Promo Sijori Foundation) from DKI Jakarta, Indonesia.
The 39th is Mona Margaretha T (Private Employee) from Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia.

Anybody who is interested to become an "Enthusiasm" Ambassador, you may send me a message or contact me via Facebook and must follow some rules below:
1. You must be an Indonesian, female or male, no matter where you live;
2. You have an account in Facebook, have been as an active user, and have at least 50 friends in your list;
3. Your age is not less than 18 years old;
4. You will give me permission to post promotion messages of "Enthusiasm" book, either in Indonesian or English version to your wall and tag it to your Facebook account;
5. You should consider that this is a volunteer activity and you don't have to forward those messages to others;
6. As an "Enthusiasm" Ambassador, you will be the first person who has a chance to know the recent news about "Enthusiasm" in Indonesian version;
7. You will have a chance to be three of the most active "Enthusiasm" Ambassadors and will be awarded.

So, don't wait so long! Be the 40th and 41st Enthusiasm" Ambassadors!

Special to all 39 "Enthusiasm" Ambassadors, please accept my great appreciation of your great support! Let's make "Enthusiasm" brighter and brighter and more people will get inspired, then great blessing will come to all of us. Thank you so much!!!

And below, you will see their pictures, names and locations in a slideshow alphabetically.

Agustinus Rohayadi (Entrepreneur), Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Ambar Purwaningrum (Private Employee), Surabaya, Indonesia
Ani Pratamawati (Government Employee), Lombok, Indonesia
Christine Wuryanano (Business Woman), Surabaya, Indonesia
Devita (Assistant Lecture), Surabaya, Indonesia
Edy Zaqeus (Indonesian best selling author, writing coach, trainer and editor), Tangerang, Indonesia
Elfia Venesia (Housewife), Jakarta, Indonesia
Endang Dwi Astuti (Housewife), Jakarta, Indonesia
Esther Yosephine Sanggelorang (Private Employee), Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Evy Ariani Laurens (Housewife), Surabaya, Indonesia
Heni Kurniawati (Writer, Private Employee), Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Hermien Harsono (Entrepreneur), Surabaya, Indonesia
Ida Tri Wulandari (Government Employee), Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Ika Andriani Karim (Mc Donald Manager), Surabaya, Indonesia
Judita Andarise (Housewife), Surabaya, Indonesia
Katharina Rika A (Private Employee), Surabaya, Indonesia
Lilik Maskuroh Witono (Entrepreneur), Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Lily Sikome (Math Teacher, Postgraduate Student), Malang, Indonesia
Meivy Lembong (Private Employee), Menado-Sulsel, Indonesia
Mien Setiawan (Entrepreneur), Semarang, Indonesia
Mona Margaretha T (Private Employee), Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Mutiara Anna Rarome Kambey (Private Employee), Surabaya, Indonesia
Nana Mathias F (Housewife, entrepreneur), Tulungagung, Indonesia
Niken Amartani (Entrepreneur), Bandung, Indonesia
Nila Ratnawati (Housewife), Surabaya, Indonesia
Nur Aini (Housewife), Malang, Indonesia
Ririn Ayuandari (Housewife), Makassar, Indonesia
Rizki Amelia Rahmadhani (Accountant Employee), Surabaya, Indonesia
Ruslan Andy Chandra (Founder and Board Chair of Promo Sijori Foundation), Jakarta, Indonesia
Ruth Dian Purnamasari (Business woman), Jakarta, Indonesia
Sahala Napitupulu (Editor of Tabloid Genie, Mom & Kiddie; and Just For Kids Magazine), Jakarta, Indonesia
Stephanie Setiyadi (College Student), Surabaya, Indonesia
Sukma Rini (Housewife), Surabaya, Indonesia
Susana Rinasari (Housewife), Bandung, Indonesia
Tutik Partiningsih (Private Employee), Surabaya, Indonesia
Velixa Huwae (Housewife), Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Vieske Eingeline Matius Kathiandago (Private Employee), Kamal-Madura, Indonesia
Viviana Andrew (Entrepreneur), Ipoh, Malaysia
Yunita Phillips (Writer), Ohio, USA

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Saturday News

It has been a long busy week at work. I worked six hours in Labor Day (on Monday morning) and from Tuesday to Friday I came two hours earlier from regular schedules, so I would love to have rest this weekend although I still have to work around 4-5 hours at the other part time job. Anyway, I still do enjoy doing my work and I'm lucky my work place takes around five-seven minutes away from my house, so it helps me in everything.

Many friends asked me how I could manage my works without messing up my main activities. Well, it could be hard for them but I used to be a busy and very active person in my whole life. As long as my little daughter has someone to watch her after school, it doesn't worry me. She still has a lot of time with me in the morning before school and weekend and I still do monitoring all her school homework. I just need to find the right time to write. That's all. As long as I have steady schedules in the future I would find it soon and would love to finish my second novel soon. I can't wait. I feel my mind wants to blow up, ha ha ha!!! Sorry, just kidding.

Anyway, this Saturday I don't have any special news but I do love to share a little bit about something that has been cheered me up. Around two weeks ago I got several pictures sent by an editor (volunteer) of KabarIndonesia--pictures of his wife wearing a stylist apron. The apron was a wedding gift I sent to this couple several months ago when they got married. I was so happy when he wrote an email telling his wife loved cooking and was so happy receive my special gift. It wasn't a ready made apron so she had to cut the pattern and sew it. Look, how happy she is. She has a big smile on her face and that cheered me up. A simple gift from thousands miles away always makes special for someone. I love this picture. (*)

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Blossom-end Rot

Do you like gardening? If you like it, I'm sure you ever plant tomato. This kind of fruit is the most of the people in US will plant during summer.

I like gardening. The huge lawn I have in my home drove me wild to plant many variety of plants, including flowers, fruits and vegetables. Last two years I started to plant tomato for the first time since we moved to our new house. It grew well and only one tomato showed something different: it had a small tan patch on the blossom end when it was still green. This patch turns leathery and brown or black as the fruit matures. This was the sign that tomato was having blossom-end rot.

I let it be like that and kept watching it meanwhile other tomatoes grew normally and I harvested and started using them as the ingredient in my cooking.

I didn't need to do anything, even to spray it to get rid of it because blossom-end rot is caused by calcium deficiency. Moisture fluctuation and excessive fertilization can reduce a plant's uptake of calcium.

To prevent that condition, I kept soil moisture even and didn't cultivate deeply near the plant roots. I should use the fertilizers high in super-phosphate and low nitrogen or a tomato fertilizer that contains calcium but I didn't know where to buy it near my area so I just used regular balance fertilizer (N-P-K) and adding more organic fertilizer--it contains small amount of calcium in it. I just enjoyed watching everything grow and I could still eat the part that wasn't affected.

Writing this post reminds me for the one of several other blogs I prepared for my hobby activities and my knowledge I ever got in my college. Probably one day when I'm ready I would launch it as my dedication of my own agriculture degree. ***

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