Introducing the 40th "Enthusiasm" Ambassador

Dear My Fellow Readers,

I'm proudly introducing you a new "Enthusiasm" Ambassador, Erni Nuraeni Azizah. She lives in Cimahi, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia and becomes the 40th "Enthusiasm" Ambassador.  Now she still studies in Arabic literary faculty, University of Padjajaran, Bandung.  One of her dreams, she really wants to meet someone who is the author of "Enthusiasm" and lives in PA.   She is her big fans.  I wish one day her dream will come true.

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 41st and 42nd Enthusiasm" Ambassadors!

Special to all 40 "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. (Important note: Because Slide.com will be shutting down on March 6, 2012, every new ambassador picture isn't able to be downloaded in this slideshow but it will be attached in the post. I apologize for this inconvenience. Thank you)

Agustinus Rohayadi (Entrepreneur), Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Ambar Purwaningrum (Private Employee), Surabaya, Indonesia
Ani Pratamawati (Government Employee), Lombok, Indonesia
Christine Wuryanano (Business Woman), 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
Erni Nuraeni Azizah (College Student), Bandung, 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
Ika Devita Susanti (Admission), 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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A MONTH AFTER WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear All,

Thanksgiving is coming soon. I'll cook Turkey for the first time in Thanksgiving and all my children will come. It will be the last Thanksgiving in our house before we move to the new house. I still do sorting and sorting when have a chance. Surely, we will move completely in December and celebrate Christmas in the new home.

As we know the plan of moving to a new house just begins in early November, around two weeks after the winner announcement of "50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading". The last news I got several days ago mentioned the book will be published soon in the end of this month. I wonder how it will look like--outside (front and back covers) and inside (its content). Meanwhile I haven't heard any news from Indonesia publisher but I have seen my book has been listed in their new book catalog with the note: "Coming Soon" and "Cover book is not finished yet". I'm excited in waiting their news; will it be my gift for Christmas, New Year or Birthday??? I even don't want to predict it.  It will be my next surprise for upcoming new year.

Btw, I have several exciting news after winner announcement besides moving to the new house. I try to list them below so I'll be easy to tell them one by one:

- My books sales increased. Each cookbook ("Fabulous Leftover Turkey" and "Tumpeng, An Authentic Indonesian Food") and novel "Enthusiasm" have been sold. Now I have two copies of "Enthusiasm" left in home. If you're interested to buy it from me, please, let me know;

- One of the readers said after reading my book, "Enthusiasm", she was inspired to buy a notebook when retired next 2 years to entertain her because she loved reading so much and also would take computer course;

- "Enthusiasm" had been sent to Afghanistan and arrived last month to entertain many US soldiers there. I will write this special news when I have a chance next week/next month;

- "Enthusiasm" has been asked by other Indonesian publisher and I responded that they were late because other Indonesian publisher has bought my book right already and will be published soon. This big surprise came from a big and famous Indonesia Publisher and the person who asked was the first person who ever introduced me about blogging and asked me to blog too. It is sad when I published "Enthusiasm", he had been left behind so far because I never heard his news in many years after that. But the good thing, I've started to communicate again with him. I haven't asked yet about his position in there--probably he has been a manager now;

- A new fans of "The Enthusiasm Saga" confessed that she was my big fans in the writing world. Hohoho!!! Big fans? That was the biggest compliment I ever got in the writing world. She is a student  in the first year in the faculty of Arabic Literary, University of Padjajaran, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.  I see her so enthusiastic to keep writing and writing and also participate in the writing contest;

- I just knew several weeks ago, my friend, BD, has special invitation post of the last contest I participated. You can read his post here. Then from his post comment, I found my friend, Mariuca, had participated in voting. Next, Badiyo, one of KabarIndonesia's editor (volunteer) also participated in voting so I have added their names in my supporters list/thank you note. Thank you for all of you. If anybody has participated and has not confirmed yet, please don't be hesitate to let me know. Thank you for your support.

What's next? Hmm, I think I will be very busy after Christmas. I will prepare the new class for Online Writing Course. It will be held next year soon and there are several persons has asked about it already.

Well, my time is very tight but I really enjoy my life day by day with many challenging things I face. Life seems easy if you read and follow my news here but not actually. Everything is up and down, up and down. That is good so I'll always remember my CREATOR above and depend on HIM.

I hope you all will have a very nice Thanksgiving celebration. GBU! (*)

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Komodo has been chosen as the new Seven Natural Wonders of the World

This morning I read the news mentioned KOMODO has been chosen as a winner of the new Seven Wonders of the World. YAY!!! Thank you for all thousands and thousands of people around the world who have been involved in voting in this initiative launched by the New7Wonders Foundation by on-line, phone and text messages.

Komodo, Indonesia
Almost everyone has heard of the Komodo dragon, but not everyone knows it comes from this small volcanic island in Indonesia. In fact the Komodo National Park includes three larger islands of the Pacific Ring of Fire – Komodo, Rinca and Padar – as well as numerous smaller ones, making up a total land area of 603 square kilometres. The full area is three times that and many of the protected animals are marine species.

Chosen from a short list of twenty-eight, the provisional winners include two sites in South America – the Amazon and Iguazu Falls – and five other natural spectacles in Asia and Africa: Halong Bay (Vietnam), Komodo (Indonesia), Jeju Island (South Korea), Table Mountain ( South Africa) and the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River (Philippines).

Below I attached a video of Bernard Weber, Founder-President of New7Wonders, announcing the names of the provisional New7Wonders of Nature at New7Wonders headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland and other two videos of Official Declaration of the New7Wonders of the World part 1 and 2.









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11-11-11

Hi everyone,

I was planning to post something here on that date but because I was so busy and tired after came back from work so I decided to postpone it.

Actually today I have no much time to go online but I decided to give little bit time to write this post so many family and friends won't be worried about what's going on with me with no news in weeks.

We (my husband, my little daughter and me) are fine. I still do packing and packing, sorting and sorting every time I have a chance. I also don't go online frequently so please, excuse me for not replying your email or message soon.

Anyway, along with this post, I would like to invite you to support Stop Bullying through Peace, Love & Hope Art Project by giving your votes through this link. Peace, Love & Hope, is a unique anti-bullying project that spreads a global message by getting children aged 5 to 15 involved in exchange through art. Founded in 2007 by a Montreal-based artist and art educator, my friend, Avy Loftus. Now Peace Love and Hope has so far reached more than 1,000 children. Peace, Love & Hope promotes anti-bullying through art workshops, public presentations, personal story exchange, outreach and exhibitions. Children are invited to participate in batik workshops, where they are taught the techniques and have the opportunity to create individual pieces on the theme of peace, love and hope. The pieces are then assembled into large-scale quilts which Avy tours and exhibits at museums, cultural centers, schools and international children’s festivals, raising awareness and visibility for the anti-bullying cause. For details, you can visit this link.

I hope I'll write another post next week with many interesting news. And before I end this post, I would love to share 2 pictures (above and below) here taken by Cory O'Deens last month at the side yard of the church when we were celebrating The Children Fall Festival. She is a young photographer and just turns 20 years old. Her talented art photography can be seen at her own website: corysphotography.

So, give a visit to her own website and consider her to make your special memories grow fonder.

I always adore with all talented young artists who know the ways how to make their dreams come true.

Thanks Cory for the pictures. (*)

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God Has Answered My Prayers

It has been long weeks I was in the stress condition to look for a very nice place to move. After having some meetings with several home owners, finally yesterday I (we) have signed the leasing of a right and nice house that met my requirements:
- not far from my work and my daughter's school;
- renovated/rehabbed house throughout;
- has big and nice kitchen because I love cooking;
- has at least 2 bedrooms (3 bedrooms would be great);
- has nice front porch (I always want it);
- has nice back yard so I can do small gardening, having small picnic and barbeque and it gives more free space for my children to play together, either to make snow angle, snowman, or just for kicking the ball (hahaha . . .);
- has dry and full basement;
- located in a nice neighborhood;
- and this is a must requirement: SUITABLE WITH OUR BUDGET.

Looking at those, it seemed impossible for me to get it. Most houses have higher price to meet my requirements so that was why if it just met several or some of them would be fine, especially number 1, 4, 8 and 9. But after going through the long process and I felt giving up, I believed God would not give me the bad place to live. So I just learned to be patient (this is the hardest part for me to learn than many other things but I could go through because of the help from Him) and let Him work in His ways.  Finally the 4th house I saw (3rd house for my husband) met all my requirements, even it has attic.  See . . . if I didn't go at that time and just went home after seeing the 3rd house (2nd for my husband), I would not get this house because there was not only me and my husband wanted it, but other several couples too. 

My neighbor, Shirley Hallock and my friend, Yunita Phillips have brought this case (looking for a nice home) in their prayer list everyday and I thank them for great support they have shown. The power of the prayers are very real so I believe everything may happen in our life because of the faith we have.

I'm so excited. This Friday I will get the key. Then my husband and I would plan to move our belongings step by step before winter comes. I cannot wait to decorate the house soon and bring our children to have Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner together this year. (*)

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