Kaget banget pagi-pagi baca BBM teman, kalau Whitney Houston meninggal.
What???
Masa karena narkoba? Khan waktu diwawancara Oprah Winfrey terakhir, Whitney bilang dia sudah bersih.
Menyedihkan kalau memang narkobalah penyebab kepergiannya.
Saya hanya berharap, Whitney sempat memohon ampunan di saat-saat terakhirnya.
Selamat jalan Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012), berharap sungguh kamu berada di jalan yg tepat.


Berikut adalah 10 lagu terbaik Whitney Houston:

1. I Will Always Love You

Whitney merilis lagu ini pada 1992. 'I Will Always Love You' merupakan soundtrack film yang dibintanginya bersama Kevin Costner, 'The Bodyguard'. 

Laku 12 juta kopi, lagu Dolly Parton itu dinobatkan sebagai lagu paling laris sepanjang masa. 'I Will Always Love You' juga sukses mengantarkan Whitney meraih Piala Grammy.

2. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

Lagu ini merupakan single perdana dari album kedua Whitney yang rilis pada 1987. Berkat lagu ini, Whitney meraih penghargaan Best Female Pop Vocal Performance di Grammy Awards ke-30.

3. Greatest Love of All

Siapa yang tak tahu lagu ini? Lagu ini awalnya dinyanyikan oleh George Benson pada 1977. Namun Whitney terbukti sukses mendaur ulang lagu tersebut. 'Greatest Love of All' versi Whintey berhasil menduduki peringkat puncak tangga lagu Billboard selama berminggu-minggu.

4. All The Man That I Need

Lagu 'All The Man That I Need' merupakan single kedua dari album 'I'm Your Baby Tonight' yang dirilis Whitney pada 1990. 

5. I'm Your Baby Tonight

Dalam lagu ini, Whitney bekerjasama dengan L.A. Reid dan Babyface. 'I'm Your Baby Tonight' merupakan single andalan dari album ketiga Whitney yang dirilis pada 1990.

6. Saving All My Love For You

'Saving All My Love For You' dirilis Whitney pada 1985. Lagu ini yang mengantarkannya meraih Best Female Pop Vocal Performance di Grammy Awards dan Favorite R&B/Soul Video di ajang American Music Awards.

7. I Have Nothing

Saat dirilis pada 1993, 'I Have Nothing' hanya mendarat di peringkat empat tangga lagu Billboard. Namun, lagu ini merupakan lagu terbaik dan tersulit yang pernah dinyanyikan Whitney. Bisa dibilang tak ada penyanyi lain yang bisa menyanyikan 'I Have Nothing' sesempurna Whitney.

8. I'm Every Woman

'I'm Every Woman' merupakan salah satu hits milik 'Chaka Khan'. Namun pada 1993, Whitney mendaur ulang lagu tersebut dan sukses membuat 'I'm Every Woman' menjadi hits lagi.

9. Heartbreak Hotel

Whitney menggandeng Faith Evans dan Kelly Price untuk merilis 'Heartbreak Hotel'. Lagu ini merupakan salah satu single di album 'My Love Is Your Love' yang rilis pada 1998.

10. So Emotional

Pada 1987, Whitney merilis album keduanya, 'Whitney'. 'So Emotional' merupakan single ketiga dari album itu.

Tadi Ngurah cerita tentang rekan yg pernah dia lihat di hotel. Katakan saja si A.
Ngurah lihat Si A saat masih DW (daily worker) di kitchen area, tugas malam. Lihat ekspresi dia, tingkah lakunya, terlihat kalau Si A lamban, malas, seperti tanpa gairah hidup. Itu sudah 2 tahun lalu.
Beberapa hari lalu Ngurah ketemu lagi dengan Si A, yg rupanya sudah bekerja di tempat lain. Terlihat bagaimana cepatnya dia bekerja, semangat dia menyelesaikan pekerjaannya, sempat membuat Ngurah terheran-heran. Kalau dibandingkan dengan dua tahun lalu, tak terbayangkan bagaimana Si A bakal bisa bergerak secepat itu.


Well, mungkin kita juga pernah berada di posisi Si A. Menyelesaikan pekerjaan hanya karena kita perlu pekerjaan itu. Karena kita perlu untuk makan. Padahal kita sama sekali tidak enjoy melakukannya. Tapi begitu kita menemukan suatu hal yg sangat kita suka, kita bisa mengerjakan nya dengan penuh sukacita. Kita bisa menyelesaikannya dengan tidak menghitung waktu, tidak memandang pengorbanan kita.


Saat ini saya merasa ada di posisi Si A. Saya kerja karena saya perlu uang untuk rumah, pendidikan anak-anak, untuk makan.
Saya sama sekali tidak enjoy mengerjakan pekerjaan saya saat ini. Saya bertahan hanya karena hanya ini yg bisa saya kerjakan. Saya tak punya keahlian apa-apa. Sudah syukur ada yg mau mempekerjakan saya... :-P


Tapi saat saya mengerjakan bisnis online saya, wah bergadang sampai pagi pun saya jalani. Bicara sampai berbusa-busa pun saya bisa. Menghabiskan dana berapa pun saya usahakan. Hehehehe...
Ya, saya menemukan kehidupan saya disini. Really love my biz...

Barusan buka-buka lagi email lama di milis, terbaca tips memilih bisnis online.
Salah satunya adalah dengan mencari tahu siapa pemilik/pendiri bisnis itu. Caranya?
ya manfaatkan om google pastinya. :-)

Iseng ketik nama sendiri, eh lumayan banyak muncul hasil pencariannya...


Jadi ingat beberapa waktu lalu, tiba-tiba terima telpon dari teman yg sudah putus kontak lebih dari 10 tahun lalu. Dia bilang, bisa tahu no telpon saya ya karena hasil googling...

wah... bisa dimanfaatkan sebagai pembuktian nih, bahwa bisnis yg saya jalankan saat ini, bukan main-main... :-)

telah hilang diantara fajar & senja
waktu satu jam emas, lengkap dengan enampuluh detik intan berlian
tak tersedia hadiah, sebab waktu yang hilang tak bisa kembali lagi


(Tennyson)
The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Belakangan saya jadi penasaran, dimana sebenarnya saya pertama kali tahu nama Raditya Dika. Kok sepertinya dia sudah ngetop banget, jauh sebelum Marmut Merah Jambu.

 In 1970, the world was a different place.
There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo.
In 1970, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Love Story. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.
Remember, that was before there were DVDs. Heck, even before there was VHS. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects.
Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Patton. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. The top actor was George C. Scott for his role as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in Patton. The top actress was Glenda Jackson for her role as Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love. The best director? Franklin J. Schaffner for Patton.
In the year 1970, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time was Love Story by Erich Segal. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover!
In 1970... The first episode of All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network. Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport. Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis. The complete New English Bible is published. The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan. Citroën introduces the SM at the Geneva Auto Salon. Teenagers in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater. Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens. The 1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated in Mexico. An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis. The U.S. Foreign Office announces that renewal of arms sales to Pakistan. Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia. Paul McCartney sues in Great Britain to dissolve the Beatles' legal partnership.
That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it.
The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Nobel Peace prize went to Norman E. Borlaug. The Nobel prize for physics went to Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén from Sweden for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it?
The 1970s were indeed a special decade. Women's liberation continued. The hippie culture faded. There was an opposition to the Vietnam war, and nuclear weapons. The environmentalist movement began. Tom Wolfe coined the decade the "Me decade" due to a new self-awareness. Mao Zedong died and the market began to liberate in China. There was an oil crisis. After the first oil shock, gasoline was rationed in many countries. In Eastern Europe, Soviet-style command economies begin showing signs of stagnation. The Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, witness the kidnapping and murder of Israeli athletes by Palestinian Arab terrorists. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The Who, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Bee Gees, Abba and others play their music. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all die at the age of 27. The space mission Apollo 13 nearly ends in disaster. Egypt signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. There was a revolution in Iran. The world sees its first general microprocessor. The C programming language makes its debut. Consumer video games show up on the scene. Microwave ovens become commercially available. Margaret Thatcher was victorious in the UK elections.
Do you know what was on the cover of Life that year?
Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15? Rocky IV. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember?
In 1970, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song I'll Be There by The Jackson 5 topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along.
You and I must make a pact, we must bring salvation back
Where there is love, I'll be there
I'll reach out my hand to you, I'll have faith in all you do
Just call my name and I'll be there
...
There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid.
When you were 9, the movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh was playing. When you were 8, there was The Cat from Outer Space. When you were 7, there was a Disney movie out called The Rescuers. Does this ring a bell?
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1970. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Josie and the Pussycats. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's The Partridge Family on now. That's the world you were born in.
Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1970. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Pocket Calculator. The Relational Database Management System. Cup Noodles.
It's 2003 and where do you wanna be? In '42 or 1970?
And maybe we should take a good lock around
I don't get why the planet is so upset
And don't do something you might regret
I'm telling you it's starting to get in the way
...
That's from the song Fun by Smash Mouth.
In 1970, a new character entered the world of comic books: Aquarius. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1970, Beck was born. And Matt Damon. Uma Thurman, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life.
It's 2010.
The world is a different place.
What path have you taken?

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