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Writer for Indonesian Newspaper, Manado Post since 2001. Living and working in El Cajon, California.

Interests:
Roxette, Harry Potter, Alfred Hitchcock, Classic Movies (or new movies that born to be classic), photography, drawing, writing, blogging, reading, traveling, hiking, graphic designing, Thai and Indo food, road trip, etc

Favorite Music
Roxette, Marie Fredriksson, Nancy Sinatra, Per Gessle, Johnny Cash, movie scores.

Favorite TV Shows
Roseanne, Dead Like Me, I Love Lucy, Six Feet Under, Friends, Twin Peaks, Medium, old episodes of Law and Order : SVU, old episodes of Law and Order : Criminal Intent, Desperate Housewives, Oprah, America’s Next Top Model.

Favorite Movies
Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, The Birds, Rope, To Kill a Mockingbird, L’appartement, Persona, The Vanishing (the original), Wendy and Lucy, Up, WALL-E, The Orphanage, Atonement, Eastern Promises, Mulholland Dr, Forrest Gump, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, all Harry Potter movies, Life Is Beautiful, Cast Away, Three Women, Normal, Brokedown Palace, White Oleanders, Juno, Rosemary’s Baby, Girl Interrupted, Sleepless in Seattle, Marvin’s Room, Mystic River, The Others, The Ring, Little Women, Reality Bites, Old Boy, Howl’s Moving Castle, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, The Exorcist

Favorite Actors
James Stewart, Tom Hanks, Viggo Mortensen, Michelle Williams, Meryl Streep.

Favorite Books To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban and all the rest, Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, The Diary of Anne Frank, Famous Five, Pippi Longstocking, Marley and Me, Sputnik Sweetheart, biography, memoir, photography portfolios, self-helping books, etc

Favorite Quotations
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
(Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird)

Either I’m dead right, or I’m crazy! (Jefferson Smith, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington)

“My ass is twitching, you people make my ass twitch” (Kate, French Kiss)

” When a film critic uses a cell phone, he should be handcuffed, dragged from the theater, shackled to a post in the lobby and pummeled with popcorn until he is greasy all over (Roger Ebert)”

“Life sucks, and then you die. And then it still sucks” (George Lass, Dead Like Me)