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It’s about 4:18 here in Jakarta when I first put in the picture. The fan in my room suddenly and unpleasantly died of no particular cause so there’s really no reason to go back to bed and because now I’m super hungry too. Anyway, what’s with the poster? well, Provoke! Magazine (free magazine distributed to Senior High students) has given to be a chance and a huge one, to come totally free to this great convention sponsored by Panasonic, IDEAFEST. I’ve heard about it several years ago but never fully understand what is it all about. Yesterday, I arrived at 11 past something, and got in a little late. I’m looking forward for the 3rd part which is a talk show presented by Andy F. Noya, such a revolutionary man with tons of idea beneath his curlycious hair; also appearance by Peter F. Gontha the founder of JavaJazz Festival. He is cited to be the Donald Trump of Indonesia. It was an eye-opening experience and overall, I love the talk show. Sandiaga Uno told us a lot about Indonesia’s growing economy sectors and I was stunned to know that creative business such as movies, music, fashion and crafts play a big role in the economic growth and that funding is absolutely needed but not supported as a whole. The idea is that, people would not give up on their creative ideas for venture therefore they should keep trying to find funding and sponsorship. Personal approach is also necessary said Mr. Gontha. He also said that if you’re ready to succeed, you have to be ready to fail. For failure is a part of developing a business itself. But most of all, it was Stefan Sagmeister of Segmeister Inc. that moved me and utterly inspires me…

His appearance with an odd English accent first came to confuse me, ‘what is this man doing? what is he trying to tell us?’ when actually it was his question that made me think, ‘how are you today? any body feels like a 10 today?’ and he gave a scale from 0 til 10 about how happy you are. I was superbly happy back then so I raised my hand up high. Stefan told us about his experience finding happiness in Bali (almost like Eat, Pray, Love don’t you think?) he likes his office view and do meditation twice a day. One of my many reason to love this guy is that he has the same perspective as me towards happiness. One day in Bali, he went out with his scooter, put a headset on with a song that you don’t really know but expect them to be as good and just drive around with no helmet on and just let the wind do its job. His scooter was rather scary and wherever he goes, children are scared so it helps; he said. His movie called ‘The Happy Film’ party made in Bali too, was a simple, creative, edgy and fresh movie about how to define your own happiness and guess what? I’m having the same problem. I often hesitate to tell someone that he/she looks great. Where to buy that cool kicks of your’s? and simply to communicate with strangers. This hesitation leads to…. nowhere. My body reacts on its own regarding to a particular fear that isn’t virtually there. That is actually the main reason why I almost never find ultimate happiness. Something that if I look back, I would only remember partially. So, in his short film, he says that ‘having guts works out for me’ if you ever see the standard charter commercial that has the motto ‘here for the long run, here for good, here for people etc’ then he uses the same idea (cause he designs both of them). The climax was when it all ends, he went off the stage and the slide shows something that is totally me and I will never forget, “MONEY DOES NOT MAKE ME HAPPY”