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AMARTA consist of long- and short-term technical assistance, public outreach and advocacy, limited commodity support and training and conferences to address the quality, marketing, institution, and policy advocacy issues.

AvantiFontana.com provides IM-ED™ Coaching for innovators & students in Management & Organization, with special crave to implement innovation and to share the process & results, in Indonesia (part of South-East Asian, Asia-Pacific Region).

The best athletes don't care about whether or not they're the best. What they care about is the game.

The best actors, musicians, doctors, scientists, teachers and businesspeople are not consumed with being the best. They're consumed with a passion for what they're doing.

If your desire is to be the best merely for its own sake, you will strive and struggle against a world that absolutely does not care. If, on the other hand, your most abiding desire is to make a positive difference, you will surely end up being the best at some particular thing or another.

The real substance of accomplishment is never in the trophies or the praise or the recognition it brings. The substance of accomplishment is in the value it delivers.

The best performers in any field are not the ones who hope to be the best or even the ones who already think they are. The best performers are those who never have to even think about where they stand in the rankings.

Commit yourself to delivering value, and you won't be burdened with the need to keep score. Indeed, you will always be on top of the game.

-- Ralph Marston

Saya mau mengucapkan "Selamat NATAL"...
TUHAN YESUS KRISTUS memberkati kita semua.

If all your limitations were suddenly removed, what would you do? If you were able to make absolutely anything happen, what would it be?

If there were no challenges standing in your way, where would you go? With absolutely nothing holding you back, what would your life become?

It's easy to get so caught up in pushing against your limitations that you start seeing yourself solely in terms of those limitations. Yet you are so very much more.

Instead of identifying yourself in relation to the challenges you face, dig deeper and find the real person inside. For the truth is, you exist apart from any challenge or limitation, and it is a powerful exercise to get solidly in touch with who you are.

Yes, there will always be obstacles and limiting factors. And the best way to get beyond them is by knowing that they do not define you.

Imagine a world with no limitations, and discover who you are in such a world. One by one, the challenges will fade in the distance as you express the limitless vision that is yours to live.

-- Ralph Marston

Kemarin saya ke Senayan City untuk lihat LEGO City 2007 (pameran Lego ini sampai 6 Januari 2008)... Katanya terbesar di ASIA... Photo-photo saya postingkan di account flickr saya...

Nah, kalau kamu punya mainan yang mau di sumbangkan bisa juga bawa sekalian dan masukan ke Charity Box di area Lego City...

Yang paling menarik di saya yaitu LEGO Star Wars, Darth Vader saja ada di Lower Ground...

Di photo dengan Apple iPhone :)

Sudah lama gak posting berita seputar Charity Wristband, nah sekarang sudah bisa di peroleh Wristband "... everyone can be an Angel" dari Global Angels (www.globalangels.org).

Global Angels is an international children's foundation responding to the needs of children living in some of the world's most desperate situations. By promoting a powerful and effective global response to the needs of children in every country, we will change the course of history for children of this millennium.

Tempat Beli
* Kalau di Jakarta bisa di dapatkan di Hard Rock Cafe dengan harga IDR 16.000 (kalau online nya harganya 1 POUND). Info nya silahkan check di sini.
* www.globalangels.org

Jenis Wristband : Glow-in-the-dark :) Keren
Warna : Ligh Blue Colour

Deskripsi dari Global Angels website mengenai wristband ini :
"Single Global Angels Glow in the Dark Wristbands --- These bands are a beautiful, luminous light blue colour, and the words on each bands are: 'Everyone can be an Angel' and 'www.globalangels.org' They also have the Hard Rock logo on them, as they were sponsored by Hard Rock Cafe."

Photo nyusul ya... :)

Wish List #1 : Messenger Bag

XSProject.us - Carpall Tunnel Syndrome, Timbuk2, Crumpler, Tagger

Klik aja langsung ke link-link di atas... keren-keren loh...

Kalau XSProject, Timbuk2 dan Tagger saya sudah tahu di Jakarta di jual... kalau Crumpler tahunya dari temen di Aussie... cuman kalau di Jakarta belum lihat...

Timbuk2 di jual di Senayan City...
Tagger Bags ada di EX...
XSProject browsing aja blogspot address mereka... XSProject itu tas nya unik loh... aku da punya 1...

Laptopnya : MBP / MB :) Apple dong...

Update 11/12 Tagger Bag nya sudah di beli :)

There is a miracle in every moment. Look closely, and lovingly, and you will clearly see it.

There is an innate and elegant beauty in even the most ordinary of things. Learn to love that beauty, and to let it be, and your eyes will be opened to wondrous possibilities.

There always and everywhere is a quiet yet unyielding peace, upon which rests all that is. The more often you reach in and touch this peace the more fully you experience its power.

Anything that is negative, deceptive or destructive will eventually consume and obliterate itself. What is authentic, peaceful and creative will continue to grow more pervasive.

When you need nothing other than to simply be, you have every beautiful and wonderful and miraculous thing there is. Life's richness is never more than a single thought away.

Breathe in deeply the beauty, the wonder, the miracle that is now. Know the joy that cannot ever fade.

-- Ralph Marston

Download Wallpaper untuk Apple iPhone kamu di sini ya .

Contohnya gambar ini :

Keren kan...

Don't let a relatively small setback ruin an otherwise beautiful day. Choose instead to take it in stride and quickly get back to being positive, productive and effective.

Don't waste your time being outraged or offended by someone else's careless, inconsiderate remark or gesture. Use the opportunity to strengthen your valuable sense of patience, and move on ahead to something that truly matters.

Life's little annoyances can quickly add up to have a big negative and destructive impact if you let them. Fortunately, you don't have to let them.

Instead, you can choose to let them go. You can decide to see the small, relatively meaningless annoyances for what they are, and move quickly beyond them.

Do you really want your attitude to be held hostage by rude, careless, inconsiderate people or random events beyond your control? Of course not, because within you is a positive purpose that is big and beautiful and filled with real meaning.

Each time one of life's little annoyances comes along, let it just keep on going right past you until it fades away into its own insignificance. You have plenty of much more positive and valuable things upon which to focus your attention.

-- Ralph Marston

Saya bergabung di komunitas designcanchange.org.

Berikut beberapa hal :
LEARN
Engage in the topic and seek to understand the issue

- Familiarize yourself with your government’s stance on climate change
- Devote some time to reading and understanding the issues surrounding sustainability
- Engage your suppliers in your efforts by asking how they can help you become more “green”
- Meet with your printer, tour their facilities, and learn about their environmental standards

THINK
Make a sustainable mindset second nature

- Take the environment into account in all aspects of your studio’s decision making
- Consider the complete cycle of the products you produce
- Explore new ways of working that reduce your studio’s negative impact
- Ask questions: Is the project necessary and effective?
Are there other ways to achieve its goals?

ACT
Put your knowledge to use in your daily work

- Market your expertise instead of products (i.e. strategy instead of brochures)
- Use materials that are best for the environment and strive to deliver zero-impact solutions
- Work with local suppliers, minimize transport, recycle and use recycled materials
- Promote your studio as one that is environmentally conscious

INFORM
Share information and build awareness for sustainability

- Ask other designers to think sustainably and encourage them to take the Design Can Change pledge
- Write or blog about your efforts to become sustainable and what you’re learning
- Share your knowledge by presenting at a design school or local business event
- Educate and encourage clients to embrace sustainable practices

UNITE
Spark change through collective strength

- Buy responsibly and encourage suppliers to provide environmentally sensitive options
- Join us in lobbying elected officials to take action on the issue of climate change
- “Green your vote” by supporting politicians who are committed to the environment
- Connect with like-minded people in other industries and find ways to work together

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DOING MORE
The following are little things you might consider as you move along the path to sustainability. The list is incomplete, but should get the ball rolling towards change.

Design and strategy
- Design for re-use
- Maximize the shelf-life of your design
- Scrutinize the efficiency of your selected method
- Compare the impacts of each concept you develop
- Employ targeted efforts instead of mass mailings
- Do your proofing on-screen
- Encourage rich PDFs for annual reports
- Eliminate blank pages in your booklets and brochures
- Use office scrap paper or a tablet for sketching and brainstorming
- Learn about greenwashing, promise never to engage in it, and call out
any product guilty of it

Production
- Use local vendors who are committed to the environment
- Print on PCW stock
- Try running your next project on cotton or kenaf fiber if it's available to you
- Maximize use of the entire press sheet
- Minimize ink coverage
- Learn the words chlorine-free and vegetable-based and insist upon them
- Choose products that are manufactured with renewable energy
- Keep tabs on the latest printing and production technologies
- Avoid transporting printed proofs by using printers with synched
and calibrated monitors for review

Your business
- Make best use of your website and limit your reliance on printed promotions
- Provide preferential pricing to organizations who embrace sustainability
- Treat your commitment as a competitive advantage in marketing efforts
and when bidding on projects
- Become an expert, and counsel your clients on how to become more
sustainable in their practices
- Get connected with local environmental groups and pool resources
- Go paperless: invoice digitally or sign-up for online bill notification

Around the studio
- Use your knowledge of green design in revamping your workspace
- Recycle all of your computer equipment and ink cartridges
- Use rewritable formats and web services instead of disposable media
- Turn off the lights on a sunny day
- Go vegetarian at lunch
- Get a filter and drink water from your tap
- Walk to meetings, ride a bike or take transit
- Limit use of motorized couriers
- Consider buying energy credits
- Embrace a green lifestyle when you leave the studio

A small, simple action is infinitely more effective than a big, complicated excuse. Instead of putting your energy into avoiding effort, put that energy into the effort itself, and you'll get something of value in return for it.

There is something right now that needs to be done. Imagine how great it will feel to have it finished, see what a heavy weight will be lifted from you, then get busy and get it done.

In this moment, in this place, you have a valuable opportunity. You can make something happen, and you can make a difference.

Forget about judging whether one task is difficult and another task is easy. Don't be concerned about figuring out what is pleasant and what is unpleasant.

Just take a deep breath, sit up or stand up straight, and with a steady and confident sense of determination, get busy. Soon you'll find yourself moving rapidly toward real and fulfilling accomplishment.

You can worry and complain about how nothing ever gets done, or you can take it upon yourself to make a real and positive difference. The moment for action is now, so get busy and convert this fleeting bit of time into an accomplishment that will bring you value for a long, long time.

-- Ralph Marston

The good things in life do not create happiness. The good things in life arise from happiness.

If you wish to be happy, then be happy. It really is as simple as that.

There's no need to wait until you acquire this or achieve that. If you constantly place conditions on happiness, you'll prevent yourself from experiencing it.

Go ahead and be happy now, today, this very moment. Be happy for no reason at all, and you'll find that you're more effective, more productive, more creative and more fulfilled.

Indeed, happiness is a powerful state of mind that is available to you when you allow it to be. The best reason to be happy is because you can.

Being genuinely happy is a powerful way to express your confidence and your expectation that positive things will happen. And when you confidently expect the best, that's precisely what you get.

-- Ralph Marston

Percaya gak percaya kalau pakai Apple iPhone kita bisa akses Wi-Fi gratis di CBN Hotspot... Coba aja...

Questions can have a powerful effect on your thinking, and here's a question that can profoundly improve your perspective. What's good about this?

When you see a news story, or hear about something that's happened to a friend, or come across a challenge in your own life, ask yourself. What's good about this?

Get in the habit of asking the question and you'll be training your mind to always look for the answer. After a while, without even asking, you'll immediately see the positive aspect of every situation you encounter.

And that is indeed a powerful place to be. For when you can zero in on the positive possibilities, you have the opportunity to create enormous value.

People who attain magnificent levels of achievement live in exactly the same world as those who never seem to go anywhere. One big difference is that high achievers have learned to see real value where others see nothing but dead ends and despair.

Choose to be the person who sees the positive possibilities by remembering to ask this question, whatever the situation may be. What's good about this?

-- Ralph Marston

PDA saya yang Atom O2, address book dan calendar nya di sync ke Microsoft Outlook... Nah ketika mengunakan iTunes 7 yang baru, sync ke iPhone nya *ada* masalah... Gak pindah deh inti nya... (da seharian baca beberapa FAQ orang yang bilang : gak bisa di transfer outlook nya...)

Solusinya bagi penguna iPhone...

01 - coba pakai www.funambol.com --- install applikasinya via installer... tapi sebelumnya create account dulu di my.funambol.com... trus download applikasi plugins outlook nya funambol... setelah itu lakukan sync nya... kemudian setelah finish... lakukan sync di Apple iPhone nya...

02 - langsung aja dari PDA (Windows Mobile 5) sudah ada aplikasinya yang sync ke server funambol.com dan sync ke apple iphone :)

Informasi asli dari sini ya...

Tada... Berhasil pindah...

BTW.
* Setelah berhasil nyelesaiin game SWAT Target Liberty di PSP, sekarang lagi mainin Syphon Filter : Logan Shadow... sudah di Episode 5... Seru banget...
* Game Wii : EA Playground kayaknya keren... nanti malam mo ku coba...

A website dedicated to the peacekeepers, the ones whose currently serving at United Nations' Peacekeeping Missions, those who concluded the mission assignments, and those others whose line of work are in support of establishing peace wherever they are. This is our stories about our life.

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The Green Room is a consultancy specialising in research, communications and fundraising, on a range of environmental, development and sustainability issues

Taman Harapan Seventh-day Adventist Church, Jakarta