Memoirs of a Geisha

I recently watch Memoirs Of a Geisha for the second time and i feel very much in love with the movie so i decided to post some of my favourite quote from this movie, i hope you like them as much as i do.

"A story like mine should never be told. For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile. Without its mysteries it cannot survive. I certainly wasn't born to the life of a geisha. Like so much in my strange life, I was carried there by the current."

"Geisha needs an elegant wardrobe, just like an artists needs ink. If she is not properly dressed, than she is not a true geisha."

"Geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art."

"She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret."

"At the temple, there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read Loss, only feel it."

"We must not expect happiness. It is not something we deserve. When life goes well, it is a sudden gift; it cannot last forever."

"You cannot say to the sun, "More sun." Or to the rain, "Less rain." To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind."

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them,
you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

-Jack Handey

Untuk Sahabat.

Sahabat, kudengar bahwa engkau sedang diuji-Nya. Apa yang dapat kuperbuat selain hanya mengirimkan bait2 ayat ini. Pastilah sudah sering kau dengar berita tentang ujian yang akan menambah keimanan. Bagaimana dengan kabarmu hari ini? Apakah berita tentang hal itu juga dapat kau rasakan?

“Apakah manusia itu mengira bahwa mereka dibiarkan saja mengatakan; “Kami telah beriman,” sedangkan mereka tidak diuji? Dan sesungguhnya kami telah menguji orang-orang yang sebelum mereka, maka sesungguhnya Allah mengetahui orang-orang yang benar dan sesungguhnya Dia mengetahui orang-orang yang dusta.” -Surat Al-Ankabut ayat 2-3

Manusia mungkin sering bertanya, kenapa harus aku yang menjalani masalah berat ini? Kenapa aku tidak bisa seperti orang lain, yang selalu terlihat bahagia? Ketahuilah, sahabat, bahwa Allah Maha Mengetahui yang terbaik bagi dirimu dan orang lain.

“Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi pula kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu, Allah mengetahui sedang kamu tidak mengetahui.” -Surat Al-Baqarah ayat 216

Manusia memang mudah dirundung keluh kesah, dan itu harus disadari datangnya dari syaithon. Sesungguhnya, bila hati ini penuh keyakinan bahwa Allah akan mengujinya sesuai kadar kemampuannya, maka hatinya akan tenang

Allah tidak membebani seseorang itu melainkan sesuai dengan kesanggupannya.” -Surat Al-Baqarah ayat 286

Percayalah sahabat, kalau kamu beriman, maka kamu memiliki derajat yang paling tinggi, bahkan dibandingkan manusia-manusia yang kamu pikir tidak sedang Allah uji, jika mereka tidak beriman. Untuk itu, kuatkan hatimu dalam menghadapi ujian ini, ya…

“Janganlah kamu bersikap lemah, dan janganlah pula kamu bersedih hati, padahal kamulah orang-orang yang paling tinggi derajatnya, jika kamu orang-orang yang beriman.” - Surat Al-Imran ayat 139

Caranya, agar kau kuat menghadapinya, bersabarlah. Dan bersabar itu tidak hanya cukup sekali, tapi terus menerus, tanpa akhir, hingga Allah akhirnya memenangkanmu atas ujian yang berat ini.

“Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Bersabarlah kamu (menghadapi segala kesukaran dalam mengerjakan perkara-perkara yang berkebajikan) , dan kuatkanlah kesabaran kamu lebih daripada kesabaran musuh, di medan perjuangan), dan bersedialah (dengan kekuatan pertahanan di daerah-daerah sempadan) serta bertaqwalah kamu kepada Allah supaya, kamu berjaya (mencapai kemenangan).” -Surat Al-Imran ayat 200

Sudah banyak kita dengar bahwa sabar dan sholat adalah penolong kita dalam menghadapi berbagai ujian. Jadikanlah momen ujian kali ini pembukti apa yang telah Allah janjikan itu. Khusyuklah dalam shalat, dan rasakanlah nikmatnya ujian ini dengan kekhusyukan yang engkau dapatkan. Bahkan mungkin sulit engkau dapatkan jika engkau tidak diuji seperti ini.

“Dan mintalah pertolongan (kepada Allah) dengan jalan sabar dan mengerjakan sembahyang; dan sesungguhnya sembahyang itu amatlah berat kecuali kepada orang-orang yang khusyuk” -Surat Al-Baqarah ayat 45

Insya Allah… Apa-apa yang kamu lalui dengan sabar tadi, bukanlah hal yang sia-sia. Surga yang indah adalah hadiah tertinggi bagi orang-orang yang sabar dalam ujian.

“Sesungguhnya Allah telah membeli dari orang-orang mu’min, diri, harta mereka dengan memberikan syurga utk mereka… -Surat At-Taubah ayat 111

Untuk itu, Sahabat…. Hanya pada Allah sajalah hendaknya kita berharap.

“Cukuplah Allah bagiku, tidak ada Tuhan selain dariNya. Hanya kepadaNya aku bertawakkal.” -Surat At-Taubah ayat 129

Dan jangan pernah berputus asa dalam memohon rahmat-Nya.

“… ..dan janganlah kamu berputus asa dari rahmat Allah. Sesungguhnya tiada berputus asa dari rahmat Allah melainkan kaum yg kafir.” -Surat Yusuf ayat 12

Teriring sayang dan cinta untukumu, sahabat… Semoga Allah memuliakanmu dengan ujian ini. Amin…

Quote of The Day

You asked me if there's something i hide from you..

I wanted to tell him I was afraid he could never love me the way I wanted to be loved. I was afraid that maybe he didn't have the capacity to love anyone but himself. I was afraid that, given the chance, he'd break my heart again. But I cheated and just said 'I guess I was afraid.'
-Carrie Bradshaw

Happiness.

Happiness : We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, pay in coins of dripping blood for this one transcendent good.

- Amy Lowell

I Miss You.

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.

Maybe he''s doing the same thing as me,
maybe he wants so bad to call me,
but just won't because i haven't called him.

Then again,
maybe i shouldn't fill myself with false hope
that he might just be missing me like i'm missing him.

Late at night when all the world is sleeping,
I stay up and think of you.
and i wish on a star that somewhere,
you're thinking of me, too.

I miss the talks we used to have,
I miss the voice i used to hear,
I miss hearing your funny stories,
I miss your laugh and the way we laugh together.
And above all these,
I just missing you..

I often catch myself constantly wondering how you are,
sitting alone in my mind set so far,
reminiscing about your smile, voice and touch.

I am missing you, too much!

I know you've been busy,

I had things to do, too.
We haven't talked for sometime,
I wonder if everything's fine.
I had other stuff in my mind,
but i had just tell you this..

I miss you..

I've just sent an mms of the first picture to him. Without a tex, or even subject. I have no guts to do that :(
And he just replied back with 'Miss u too' message.
But i still have no courage to call and talk to him, eventhough i really miss his voice.

"The truth about the the truth: it hurts, so we lie".

"Lying is bad. or so we are told constantly from birth. honesty is the best policy. the truth shall set you free, I chopped down the cherry tree, whatever. the fact is, lying is a necessity. we lie to ourselves cause the truth, the truth freakin' hurts, no matter how hard we try to ignore or deny it. eventually the lies fall away, whether we like it or not. but here's the truth about the truth, it hurts. so we lie" - Grey's Anatomy.

The above, taken from Grey's Anatomy, is probably the truest form of lying. It's so true. We always have been taught that we are to tell the truth because its:

A) moral,

B) honest, and

C) the truth is always the best.

And as much as I do believe telling the truth is always the best way to go, why is lying easier?

People lie everyday. It may be a small fib to a enormous lie. Why do we deny when confronted about it. Are we not happy with ourselves to just tell the truth? Maybe it's because we are ashamed. I'm not sure.

I like to tell the truth. Basically because it keeps me out of any kind of trouble. But I fail. I lie. It may be small things like "Oh yeah, I do like your shoes" or sometimes bigger things.

We all claim that we lie to "protect" someone else. What a crock. We lie to protect ourselves. How sad? Not necessarily.

Life presents too many obstacles and too many difficulties to not lie. Lying can sometimes be helpful. Lying may buy you more time. Lying may be the only solution.
If you were to avoid all liars, you would be alone. You would have no one to talk to. Everyone lies. It's something we need to accept. Although, do not judge anyone on their lying. They can't help it. They are only human. I'm also, only human.

Another Side and Some Pictures of Me.

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
-Roald Dahl


I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand.
-Lauren Bush

Priska Paramita

Dari Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas

Priska Paramita atau yang lebih dikenal dengan nama Priska Idol (lahir 22 Mei 1989; umur 20 tahun) adalah finalis Indonesian Idol musik ke-4 2007. Ia berhasil masuk ke babak Spectakuler Show dengan memperoleh tiket wildcard. Ia tersisih pada malam Spectakuler Show yang kelima dan menempati urutan Top 8 dengan menyanyikan lagu Jatuh Cinta karya dari Titiek Puspa yang di-remake oleh Project Pop.

Biografi

Kesibukannya kini adalah menjadi mahasiswi fakultas kedokteran di Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar. Keinginan Priska untuk menjadi dokter karena terinspirasi dengan profesi ayah dan ibunya yang juga dokter. Yaitu dr. Caroline, MARS (yang ternyata pernah menjadi penyanyi bintang radio di Makassar),dan Laksma TNI. dr. Tito Sulaksito, Sp.B Sp.OT, dokter spesialis bedah tulang.

Walaupun orang tua tinggal di Jakarta, tetapi Priska memutuskan kuliah di Makassar dan tinggal bersama tantenya karena jurusan kedokteran di kota tersebut bertaraf internasional dan cakupan prakteknya lebih luas.

Banyak prestasi yang telah ditorehkannya. Seperti pada tahun 2005, Priska sempat menjadi duta pariwisata Kepulauan Seribu dan sempat tinggal di sana selama beberapa waktu. Karena itu, Priska sangat peduli dengan masalah pendidikan dan kesehatan penduduk di sana.

Prestasi Priska lainnya adalah pernah menjadi juara lomba pidato dalam bahasa Inggris tingkat SMU se-Jabotabek.

Indonesian Idol

Langkah Priska menuju babak Spectakuler cukup berliku. Ia tersish di babak Workshop yang ketiga. Namun ia, Dimas, Andien, dan Benny diberi kesempatan melalui babak Wildcard. Dan ia bersama Dimas akhirnya menjadi finalis yang terpilih.

Persembahan Priska di Indonesian Idol

• Spectakuler I (Hits No 1) - Mimpi (Anggun)
• Spectakuler II (Rock n Roll) - Luka Lama (Cokelat)
• Spectakuler III (Ungkapan Hati) - Pupus (Dewa)
• Spectakuler IV (Untuk Terkasih) - Stand Up For Love ( Destiny's Child )
• Spectakuler V (Musik 4 Dekade) - Jatuh Cinta (Titiek Puspa / Project Pop)

Album

• Album kompilasi Indonesian Idol, Masterpiece dalam lagu Negeri di Awan yang dipopulerkan oleh Katon Bagaskara.

My Letter, a Year Ago.

I wrote this letter with tears and hurt a year ago. It's very emotional for me to publish it. But i think i've successfully going through that phase.
The phase of growing up and be a better person through releasing someone that i loved the most.
And Alhamdulillah, the love that I've released has finally comeback to me :)


In life, you don't need a lot to make you happy.
In love, you don't need to possess in order to feel joy.

I was really afraid to be so possessive of you until my love suffocates you; to love you so much until it becomes a burden to you, something you wish you could get rid of. If my love brings you pain and guilt, i'd rather not love you (perhaps i have to pretend not to).


We meeting up, messaging each other every other day, talking on the phone late into the night and the occasional fights even..
They've made me the happiest girl and I really couldn't ask for more.

Being able to care for you, to remind you to take your meals, to tell you the food you should avoid when you're having tummy ache.. These are ways in which I could love you without hurting you.

You once asked me, how can I be happy when the person i like actually loves someone else, how is it possible for me to like you and yet not want to be with you?
at that point, I didn't know how to answer you. But now, i do.

I can be happy; I can love you and yet not want to be with you simply because the person i love, is you.
And because loving you has taught me that love doesn't mean possessing. So when you need to be loved, I'm here.
But when you want to love, you're free to go, free to love anyone else you wish to love. believe me when i say it doesn't hurt me. Believe me when i tell you, you've made me the happiest girl.

So this is my hope, will you ever be happy? I'd keep praying for that. I wanna see you smile again, I wanna see you being blissfully in love, even if it isn't with me. It doesn't matter so long as I can see you smile.

If you wanna know why am I writing this? So that one day, when I really have to leave you, there would still be a memory of sorts..
Of a dream of a love that has yet to come true. So that one day, when I'm selfish enough to tell you just how much I love you and you wanna know just how much it took me to say it.. it's all here. Right here.


P.S : Oh My God. I Started to cry just now. This Letter has successfully open up the page of my heart. The page i remain silently closed. The page about my love story and also the hardest year of my life.
Anyway, Pii.. ILUSM. always have, and always will.

It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone.
You get mad at yourself for not saying
the things you could have said a million times.
You take for granted the days you spent doing nothing
when you could have been with them.
Anyone can be taken, at any point in our lives,
but we always wait until they're gone to say the things
we never had the courage to say.

Lesson Learned

Why was Snow White given an apple with poison?
To show that some people just pretend to be kind to you for a hidden agenda. Looks can be deceiving.

Why did Cinderella run away when the clock turned 12?
To remind us that everything has its limitation, even dreams.

Why did Ariel decide to exchange her tail for feet?
To show that anyone will try to lose anything just to be happy.

There's Gotta Be Someone For Everyone.

We are all searching for someone, that special person who will provide us what's missing in our lives. Someone who can offer companionship, or assistance, or security. And sometimes if we search very hard we can find someone who provides us with all three. Yes, we're all searching for someone. And if we can't find them, we can only pray that they find us.