about this website

    This is my website but it doesn't mean that the website is all about me. Well, honestly, yes, mostly is and will almost always be about me, what I do, what I think, . Sorry, it is not about you, hehe. Just kidding. Sometimes it could also be about you or your friends or your country or your strange behaviors! Beware! :D
    I do post some serious stuff but mostly I don't really think before I post. Just post. So, bear with me if my postings don't make sense!

    Oh yeah, about the sunflower pic I put on the entry page, do you like it? I scanned it from a sketch I did on the airplane. I have a little story about it here.

 

    about me

    Some people call me a researcher or a scholar, or recently a professor. But still, I sleep more than 8 hours/day. I watch some shallow programs on TV. Impossible to be a scholar with such life, huh? I am also an architect (by training) but no longer do any professional architectural work. I make sketches and do some design works for some very special clients, those who volunteer to be tortured by my big ego.
    I am an uhm... wannabe artist (oh no... I don't claim I am the one)...as I am into art and music, and like some artists I am, too, selfish, temperamental and can be eccentric, if I must :D
    I don't call myself a singer, but I am crazy about singing. Used to be in choirs, vocal groups and bands. For years I sang in a serious *not fun* format, now I just do it playfully, selfishly, (un)professionally.
    I am not a musician but I like making noises with guitar, piano, harmonica.... and violin too (no, I don't play violin, just bow and bang it!!).
    So, I am hyphenate.

    My personality?
    Well, I don't really know much about myself, I confuse myself all the time.

    current

    Currently I am all that I mentioned above.

    past

    Just a while ago, I was a grad student. Now I have a post-student life but still carry my ISIC card and still miss that golden age of being a student.
    In the very very past, I was a little girl with red ribbons who dreamed of being an architect or an archeologist (like Indiana Jones) or a scientist who does a laboratory research (but now I end up being an ex-architect, an archaeological artifact hehehe...., and a kind of scientist, a non-laboratory social scientist).
    When I was a kid, my parents had already called me a crazy artist because I often laid down the floor, got my face, hands and clothes dirty, making some sketches/paintings. Later, when I got a bit older, they also called me an absent-minded professor because I forgot all small things. Guess now I have become a true absent-minded professor and still a crazy (wannabe) artist!
    That little me also always dreamed of flying so high and seeing the earth from above. And now, I still dream the same dreams.

    future

    I will be a famous pop singer or a movie star, and a Nobel prize winner. Hoahoehoeoioe (diabolic laugh) What a combo! Dream on, mer! But I am one step closer, now I am close to Holywood. Too close, literally. Oh no, that's an old reality. Now I live in Tempe, work at ASU (=dog, in Javanese), and not far from Gila (=crazy, in Indonesian) river! Anyway, someday I believe someday my dream(s) will come true. Just kidding. Oh no, I am actually serious, seriously insane.