Inspiration is Everywhere and For Everyone!

Inspired by Presentation Zen's latest post on inspiration, I decide to post something similar. Call me a follower (ikut2an), not a copycat. Here's my version of the categories posted in the above mentioned site.

Who: My Mum & Dad (for being the coolest parents), Amien Rais for bringing us the new meaning of Reform, Round pegs in square holes (like Steve Jobs and Chloe Sevigny - for her brave fashion sense)


What: Picture of shimmering fields, Children Books, Movies about successful revenge, a perfect cup of coffee, a perfecly moist chocolate cake (made by me!)


Where: Tuscany (even though I've never been there, I just picture the place in my mind), Jakarta @ its worst (making me angry and anger is good for creativity)




When: Anytime, abruptly.

Why: I like to get inspired (inspiration boost your creativity) and loooove to be an inspiration to someone ;)

How: Open all my senses

Here I add a category,
Inspirational quote: Get busy living or get busy dying (from one of the most inspiring movie: The Shawshank Redemption).

What's your list?

Do YOU Watch Sinetron?

I do sometimes...to bond with my mum.

Here's my excuse: Being a working woman, by the time I got home, it usually around 7 or 8 pm and during that time my mum would be in front of the TV, watching her favorite sinetron.

Sure, I have a complete set of entertainment center and American TV Series (told ya...I'm half Americanized, but let's not get into that) in my room, but we often sit by her...yes....watching sinetron. For someone who dislike sinetron, I have a tolerable knowledge of it, being an obliged daughter that I want to be :p


What bothers us (me and my dad) is not the sinetron part, it is the content that makes us constant complainer every night. My mum used to comment: "aren't you both ever got tired of complaining?"

No, we don't.

If the programs are worth watching, we wouldn't care. Have you seen what our sinetron are all about recently?

The programs are all about wealth exploitation, looks, evil, torture, puppy-love, and consumerism. I've noticed that they usually have simple storylines....at the beginning. But.... when its gaining commercials (the success parameter, sadly), what would've been a good program is now no better than just a mere object of eye candy, with its eye soothing cast. But that's just about it. Now...it's just a crappy program that plays with viewers mind with its neverending conflict and crisis.

My dad used to say, the script writer, director and producer must have been lunatics to come up with an impossible storyline. And for what? Just to fulfill their obsession with money that runs through the incoming commercials....that's why they prolonged the plot into an impossible to believe storyline.


Through out the neverending episodes the main character suffers badly (if not tortured, both mentally and physically), and she or he doesn't get to be happy until one last episode. The main character usually is very weak and very giving, never think of herself, a do gooder, a saint, an angel. Arrrrgghhhh!!!!

Now...I have to pray that our Culture and Tourism Minister (do we still have one?) will see for himself and consider to warn TV station to stop harrassing their viewers with bad, bad programs. Is sinetron considered as culture? I think so, keeping in mind that all TV stations are going with the same programs at the same time. If not mistaken this is called "pop culture", so Pak Menteri...please...please revised these crappy programs.


Bring back program like Si Doel Anak Sekolahan, where the only antagonist was Zaenab's mom (but would not consider her as evil, just a human being...a saint if compared with current sinetron antagonists). Please produce more quality programs like Rumah Masa Depan, Losmen (hey...I'm reminiscing here) and Jendela Rumah Kita...even ACI.

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