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22 Project



I just found this iPad application named "0 to 100 Project". It's basically a photography project, capturing the faces of 0 to 100-year-old people. They also inserted numbers of short videos of what they think about being in that age, what's the best and worst things.

Children with their big eyes. Teenagers with naivety. Twenties and all the confusion. To amazingly graceful a hundred years old lady.

Seriously. This application is superbly beautiful. So much special it even brought me back in front of computer and write it on my blog.

I know I cry on many things. Films, books, news, articles and this project. It's just so much emotion radiated from the pictures and videos and even quotes. And you can see that the purpose of life itself is actually to live and make every second counts.

When we were children we were totally in this moment and we think big, think of being a princess. Or a rock star. Or a princess rock star. Then now when I'm in my twenties, I feel like I still have a lot of times. That the moment will eventually come for me to do big things. That it's okay now for me to make a few dozen mistakes more. But it's not.


Sadly, I realize being older means more responsibilities. When you are a kid you still have to go with your parents' rules. Now little by little you take over control of your own life. And more freedom means, well you know, more responsibilities. Gone was the day when you could screw things up and got away with that. Getting older means Mommy and Daddy won't have your back when you spend too much money on a pair of shoes. And people will eventually get bored with your constant flings and anti-relationship state of mind.

And hard work and sacrifices are probably worth it. Because I know when I'm, if ever, in my a hundred years old birthday, I will be very much content to know I've lived a pretty good life. That I did not make too many embarrassing mistakes. That I've lived everyday being simply happy.

I don't want to do things that make me feel free today and wake up tomorrow feeling bad about myself. So my 22-Project this year is to wake up everyday happy because I'm doing the right things rightly.

I'll start with exercising. Promise.


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I've been sick for 3 days now, high fever followed by feels-like-never-ending-stomach-cramps. The genius Aji told me I probably caught 'masuk angin'. But yesterday night the pain was excruciating that my aunt finally took me to an internist.

And she said I caught bronchitis.

I don't really understand the connections between lungs and bilge, but long story short, doctor order, I have to put on total rest for the rest of the week. Meaning: no class, no jalan-jalan, no exam. She said I was under a lot of stress lately, which is weird, I never feel like I was.

Anyway, so today I spent the whole afternoon blog walking. I'm always kind of curious with the blog of Tavi Gevinson. I mean, this 14-year-old fashion blogger had shoots for TeenVogue Magazine last year. And, as reported by NY Magazine, had turned down request to appear on Oprah and The Tonight Show. Man.., this chick gets the guts.

Almost as gutty as Anna Wintour, who ordered Oprah to lose 20 lbs before The Queen of American Talk Show could put her face on the cover of Vogue.



Style Rookie, that's Tavi's blog, may not be entirely different from any other fashion blogs. But the fact that a 14-year-old girl is writing these articles: Whoaaa.. I don't remember what I wrote when I was her age, but I'm pretty sure it's not something I could be proud of.

She wrote about Briney Spears' cover shoot for Japanese magazine, Pop. Adding some fine piece of her mind about lolita fetishes, she mentioned about how Spears was sold under pretense of virginal yet sexy school girl. She also compared the princess with Courtney Love, who (as Tavi said it) popularized the trend Kinderwhore.

I think I'm a fan.


This is Tavi's response to the possibility of people get bored of her after some years, when she enters adulthood, as reported by NY Magazine.

“I guess that’s sort of a worry of mine,” she said. “That I won’t be relevant anymore, and then I just won’t be able to do things like go to Fashion Week.” She went on, “If I lost all my readers tomorrow, I would still blog, just because it’s a place for me to get my thoughts down. As I get older, no one will be able to do the ‘Can you believe it? This kid’s thirteen!’ thing. That’s fine. I’d rather get attention for any credibility I have, and if I don’t get attention at all maybe that will tell me I never had any credibility. In which case I’ll just watch the live streams. The main thing is the clothes."

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