I see people laughing and joking all around,
but on my face there is no smile instead there is a frown.
I never laugh anymore instead I cry,
and I never stop to ask myself, "why?"
I heard we live and die by the choices we make,
and there's only so much a person can take.
So just remember to life goes on,
and it hurt's when someone leaves and is gone.
So always remember keep your head up,
because another door is opened everytime one is shut.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Wishlist
Wishlist
• Try out all the top 10 scariest thrill rides on the planet.
• Go to the Seoul Tower with a lock, write my name and whoever's and throw away the key.
• Get lost in a city.
• Get kidnapped and taken around Jakarta for one day, seeing every corner of it.
• Vegas when I'm legal to do anything I want.
• Survive 2012.
• Bungee jumping.
• Go on a hot air balloon.
• Stay at the Poseidon Under Sea Resorts.
• Go inside pyramids.
• Go around the world in 80 days.
• Go to unknown places.
• Ms. Right.
• Try out all the top 10 scariest thrill rides on the planet.
• Go to the Seoul Tower with a lock, write my name and whoever's and throw away the key.
• Get lost in a city.
• Get kidnapped and taken around Jakarta for one day, seeing every corner of it.
• Vegas when I'm legal to do anything I want.
• Survive 2012.
• Bungee jumping.
• Go on a hot air balloon.
• Stay at the Poseidon Under Sea Resorts.
• Go inside pyramids.
• Go around the world in 80 days.
• Go to unknown places.
• Ms. Right.
Jakarta's Socialite: High-society and Fancy Lifestyle
Jakarta’s Socialites
I came accross an interesting blog, it’s at jakartasocial.wordpress.com. It’s filled with news regarding Jakarta’s socialites. I’m not a socialite because for one thing, one cannot proclaim oneself to be a socialite. Okay, to lessen the douchebag feel, I’m gonna put in a definition by Wikipedia on what socialite is:
“A socialite is a person who is noted as a member of fashionable society due to his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained. Socialites are usually in possession of considerable wealth, inherited or self-made, that can sustain their steady attendance at social functions.” (Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialite)
Okay I know the definition is a bit dodgy and all you socialites out there, feel free to comment on this post if you think that the definition is wrong. But we’ll take the Wiki entry as a benchmark for the rest of the post.
And guess what, apparently every rich people out there is considered a socialite by the Indonesians. Oh well...Actually, I think there have been a mistake in labeling people as socialites. If we take a closer look at the definition above, socialites are a person who is noted and by that it means, another person considers that person a socialite. Hence the statement that I can’t call myself a socialite. Now, not all of the people considered as socialites are actually socialites (especially the self-proclaimed ones).
What I am trying to say is this: not all rich people are socialites. But because of one or two Jakartans who call themselves as socialites and starts to act not like how a socialite should be, which is smart and respected, people have lost respect to these poor men and (especially) women. Socialites are considered to only spend millions after millions of rupiahs on vacations and their monthly, if not weekly shopping spree. Well, answering why they do that is a bit tough, because the skeptics and the pessimists will then have a bunch of other reasons to counter that. What I can say is this, again, redefine what a socialite is. Because there’s the socialite who (supposedly) be active in either contributing and or be a part of charity and there’s the rich kid that struts their attitude hanging around the has been(s) and has not(s) calling themselves socialites and doesn’t even lift a finger for the needy.
Some say Bill Gates live a modest life and still gives to charities and why can’t socialites do the same thing. They know this for a fact. Why? Because Bill Gates has a face in the form of Microsoft. Now, who arranges those charities if not the socialites? The NGOs you say? Well guess what, socialites are behind certain NGOs. It’s just the way they play the whole charity thing that sometimes pisses people off. A fashion show + gala dinner may not be the politically correct way to hold a charity, but it works for them and in the end the charity goes through the NGOs to the needy.
But then again, being filthy-rich and have the socialite status thrust upon them does not make them the perfect human being. They are still human, filled with flaws as with the rest of us. Remember, the term “socialite” is only a status. Mistakes are abound.
I came accross an interesting blog, it’s at jakartasocial.wordpress.com. It’s filled with news regarding Jakarta’s socialites. I’m not a socialite because for one thing, one cannot proclaim oneself to be a socialite. Okay, to lessen the douchebag feel, I’m gonna put in a definition by Wikipedia on what socialite is:
“A socialite is a person who is noted as a member of fashionable society due to his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained. Socialites are usually in possession of considerable wealth, inherited or self-made, that can sustain their steady attendance at social functions.” (Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialite)
Okay I know the definition is a bit dodgy and all you socialites out there, feel free to comment on this post if you think that the definition is wrong. But we’ll take the Wiki entry as a benchmark for the rest of the post.
And guess what, apparently every rich people out there is considered a socialite by the Indonesians. Oh well...Actually, I think there have been a mistake in labeling people as socialites. If we take a closer look at the definition above, socialites are a person who is noted and by that it means, another person considers that person a socialite. Hence the statement that I can’t call myself a socialite. Now, not all of the people considered as socialites are actually socialites (especially the self-proclaimed ones).
What I am trying to say is this: not all rich people are socialites. But because of one or two Jakartans who call themselves as socialites and starts to act not like how a socialite should be, which is smart and respected, people have lost respect to these poor men and (especially) women. Socialites are considered to only spend millions after millions of rupiahs on vacations and their monthly, if not weekly shopping spree. Well, answering why they do that is a bit tough, because the skeptics and the pessimists will then have a bunch of other reasons to counter that. What I can say is this, again, redefine what a socialite is. Because there’s the socialite who (supposedly) be active in either contributing and or be a part of charity and there’s the rich kid that struts their attitude hanging around the has been(s) and has not(s) calling themselves socialites and doesn’t even lift a finger for the needy.
Some say Bill Gates live a modest life and still gives to charities and why can’t socialites do the same thing. They know this for a fact. Why? Because Bill Gates has a face in the form of Microsoft. Now, who arranges those charities if not the socialites? The NGOs you say? Well guess what, socialites are behind certain NGOs. It’s just the way they play the whole charity thing that sometimes pisses people off. A fashion show + gala dinner may not be the politically correct way to hold a charity, but it works for them and in the end the charity goes through the NGOs to the needy.
But then again, being filthy-rich and have the socialite status thrust upon them does not make them the perfect human being. They are still human, filled with flaws as with the rest of us. Remember, the term “socialite” is only a status. Mistakes are abound.
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