It’s (not) all new
Happy super belated New Year!
Yes, it’s too late to wish you a happy new year… I wish you all had a good start of year 2010. And it’s not too late to say: Happy Chinese New Year & Happy Valentine’s Day !
Apology for a super long silence. It’s just hard to go back to blog writing after stopped for such a long time. I am back now. Have many ideas to write but not sure I’d be able to get them written down soon.
So, new year. What’s new? I got to say that I got many NEW things happening.
Where should I start… ok, here is one from my research. I have a NEW research project to work on. Pretty big one funded by the Ford Foundation. It’s on the convergence and participatory public media in Indonesia. I also just start my appointment as one of the Volkswagen Foundation’s Our Common Future Fellows.
I and my research cluster Alternative Imaginations also got a NEW course going on. It’s called Cultural Perspectives on/in/of/if Sustainability.
Just last month, I got a NEW niece (and a future buddy of mine!), a sweet lovely princess, Aruna, of my best friend Yuseva and her husband Don Bosco (Congrats!). While not genetically related (oh well, we all are related, right?), I bet she got my genes — I am her godmother! (speaking of a new born, Congrats to Colson for your newly born Pelopor junior, Kris).
What else is new? Oh yeah, I got a new landscaper…. a permanent one! He is also my personal life-time entertainer, comedian, and chef… and everything else. The consequence of that is that the ratio of square-feet/occupant of my house is now half of previous number which makes overall temperature of the house goes up! And many things now are now ours instead of mine, especially space and time. So, that’s new.
Other than those, I am pretty much the older me. Still sleeping a lot. Playing with computer, guitar, and my sketchbook a lot. And forget things a lot too. I quote here what my better half said recently,”Oh, after getting married, my love, she is still a professor who is capable of locking herself out, posting a letter without a stamp, and guiding me to a totally wrong direction while staring at the map. Sometimes I even wonder whether she still remembers how to walk straight.” I have no comment about that, of course.
Ok, this is just the preambule of the year. I’ll stop here. Take care and have a great day wherever you are whatever you do.
ciao.
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Some related links:
JustNews Spring 2010 from ASU Justice and Social Inquiry
The new HSD598 course: Cultural Perspectives in/on/of/if Sustainability
Hey, I’m (very) glad you are back. Especially because this is a very modestly written “WOW!!-post”.
First things first: congratulations on succeeding – by sheer mentally transferring genes to a baby girl – to turn a sweet little princess into a niece. Even for a professor it’s quite an achievement!
Secondly it looks like your career is going to hit the moon. Research projects on topics which are just fascinating. How did you manage? Magic? Especially since it is the economically/financially annus horribilis ( I quote Queeen Elisabetgh, ’92) ’10.
Last but not least I have a confession. My wife every now and then tells me she would prefer a cat to a man under the same roof. But then the difference is that I am not funny and a lousy cook ( no cook at all, actually). So that may explain the difference with you…
PS: Any plan to visit Amsterdam and surroundings?
Really glad to have this blog again. I think I’ll start to (re)read and read each posting you have for Aruna so that she’ll know her godmother better (godmother??? oh poor Aruna having me as her mother and you as her godmother, ha ha ha). Write write write mbak. Hugs from us for you both!
Hi Mbak, glad to have you back. was afraid that you will leave this blog unattended and ghostly =) Good luck with your new researches and venture, ya
colson: thanks, on the 1st: yes, it’s quite impressive, isn’t it? :p i really hope she wouldn’t sue me later, for having my genes
, on the 2nd: i guess i’m just one of those lucky persons?, on the 3rd: i think after 50 years or so, your wife has come to the point that she is happily and luckily trapped with you 
p.s. no plan for now, but we’ll see what happens in the summer.
yayie: beware Aruna might bring us to the court for being in a conspiracy to ‘evilize’ her… haha…. hugs and kisses from Tempe.
sisca: yes.. my blog almost turned into cemetery!! thanks for still visiting this blog and good luck for you too…
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