a hundred facts about me

1. my full name is dedi adityawarman
2. my friends call me dedi but the buddies call me apuy, my nick name since i was a kid
3. my name came from adityawarman: A little king in the history of Minangkabau. Yes, a little king, but he has a big name just because he wrote it in many manuscripts.
4. i was born in a big village called jakarta
5. my primary life now is in my muslim community. And the second is my professional life
6. my fave actors are robert de niro and tom hanks
7. my fave writer is max havelaar and michael crichton
8. the greatest book i’ve read is “1001 nights”
9. i’ve ever love comics like tintin, conan, godam-gundala, the blind from the cave of ghost, gina, and jaka sembung
10. there are some musicians great for me: john lenon, robert plann, billy joel, freddy mercury, stevie wonder, michael jagger, . . .
11. sometimes i lie, and until several years ago, i haven’t ever learned that i don’t have to do that
12. a movie “my best friend’s wedding” taught me something very important about honesty and telling the truth
13. its hard to be a hundred percents honest but i wanna do and i have to do it
14. at the end of my elementary school, a pretty girl flirted me and i don’t know what to do
15. when i was in university, a pretty girl flirted me and i don’t know what to do
16. i always admire to a person who enjoy all over his life and make the syukur of it
17. i have a brother and two sisters
18. i should have two brothers but one of them passed away when he was four months and i was four years old
19. I’m smokin’
20. I think i’m depend on cofee, like others depend on air and water
21. i love nature: mountain and their clean water, fresh air, green panorama, smell of wood and ground. i love sailing and swimming too
22. there’s a green yard besides the house where i’m living now
23. i eat with tofu and potatoes almost everyday, and the waitress of the warteg wonder about it
24. in my age now, i don’t know if there is someone really love me
25. i love driving; i’ve drive more than ten years and still love it
26. i love riding a motorbike, the faster the better
27. i enjoy walkin’ new route, new area, specially in a traditional village
28. i enjoy modification of vehicles
29. my fave modification is simple lookin’, but what’s important is important: it must has the brake, the horn, complete lamps, and spion mirror
30. i’m allergic eat seafood
31. i was an ordinary muslim until 24 years old and actually i start to learn islam not because i wanted it.
32. now i feel many thanks to mr daniel, an old man that made me learned islam
33. a hadits book named duratun nasihin tell us about how important to be in muslim community, then i tried to find a muslim community
34. a year after i read duratun nasihin, i met a muslim community that based on the first islam’s rule :
35. That paradigme teach me that the first rule is the base of the second, the third et, and whatever we do, we do it on the base. so we have to through the step;
36. there are bad and good peoples in the community but i still there until now
37. i’ve learned that a good leader, even a brave, clean, and smart warrior, can make a big mistake just because his affair with a woman – i don’t blame on the woman, i blame on the scandal
38. i’ve learn that an extraordinary man is nothing without honesty
39. i obsess to make sure that there is nobody hungry in our community, exept the shaum people; and every kids get study, exept they dont want to
40. i think i should have the database containing how much poor people here, and how much money we can get from all source from the community
41. i respect M. Yunus and i want to learn how he built Grameen Bank
42. the first good shalat reading i’ve ever heard is when i was the one and only ma’mum with Ka’ban who was the imam of mahgrib pray in cisarua, october 1988
43. i don’t follow pray jumat because i’m sure that the jumat jamaah now is not a real and right jamaah :
44. my opinion is: a muslim is a people who do what he/she said, and much of khatib didn’t do that. they are liar.
45. i’m not a gay although i have so much bad experiences with woman : my mom, my teachers, till my ex girlfriends
46. i noticed that my dad was angry me if i cried, so i learn not to do that anymore
47. though i lost something important when may dad was passing by, i didn’t cry
48. however it made me hurt or sad, i can’t cry, until 2004
49. the first time i can cry again was when i did an i’tikaf
50. i’m the administrator of a muslim foundation since 2005
51. but i haven’t make the best for the foundation. i’m just touching physical infrastructure, but i haven’t touch human aspects
52. i wonder how can somebody speak long and structural
53. i thouht that i have to learn how to make some small talk then how to make the big one
54. i’m a cool speaker when i was in highschool, i don’t know how i lost it
55. i’m obsessed to arrange the right translation of Al Quran. Because the translation of depag contains much mistakes within. The english translation of The Glorious Koran by Picthall is much better, so it is embarrasing!
56. i planned to write it myself with quran translation per-word then i’ll ask one or two experts to correct the paper i wrote before i print and publicate it
57. i don’t have a mother’s language, im just speaking indonesian
58. i dont watch football competition and i wonder why guys love to
59. for me, saxophone is the most beautiful sound in the group, i can’t enjoy if it alone
60. i still fall in love with jazz improvisations vocal, and
61. i think that michael franks is one of the best in improve his vocal
62. i found that the richest improvisations of adzan is in pesantren
63. i have good peoples around me since several years ago
64. until several years ago, many bad peoples live around me
65. when i was a taxi driver, a biker broke my cab and i was the man who have to pay for it. then i stop being a taxi driver
66. when i was a minibus driver, some passangers want the minibus to stop whereever they want. but policeman blame on the driver
67. i don’t do anything in a week and do everything in a day under pressure
68. i have a commitment to do the best in this ramadhan, and i missed it
69. i dont understand why muslims can’t have a dog. I’ve ever have a dog called Zero. Dogs are very loyal, the most loyal thing in the world. They love their boss more than themselves, that’s why i can’t leave him.
70. I’ve ever let my dog joined us to practized mount climbing, went to Salak Mount, and hike to Pelabuhan Ratu beach.
71. i was very loosing and sad when my dog stolen and perhaps been killed
72. i felt about 50 feets when we were practiced rapeling near bojonggede river. it hurted but i didn’t worry to do it again
73. i’ve ever separated from the group when we climbed Mount Gede just with my brother, and we were safe
74. i love and enjoy practiced boyscout since i was in elementary school till university
75. i was a top leader in our taskforce, and i got the highest level in penggalang and penegak in every single step
76. i was expert in morse, semaphore, rope, and tracking
77. i respected and admired our senior coach, Prasetyo
78. i learned dignity and attitude from him
79. my dad tought me, “do not to start something i won’t fisnish”
80. when i was in high school, i love to listening rock band like led zeppelin and rolling stone.
81. then i knew a girl who love jazz so i learned and ejoyed that kind of music
82. my first love is when i was in kindergarten, i felt in love to a japanese girl named sandra
83. a beautiful memory with dad was when we both burned petasan a night before iedul fitri
84. when i was teen, i watched kungfu movie two times a week and now i wonder how could i did it
85. i eat seven times a day when i was in junior highschool
86. the most delicious drink i’ve ever knew is dry gin mixed with lemon, and because i can’t get it now in the world, i wish i can get it in heaven
87. the first time i knew something was when i about two years old
88. the first happened i remember in my memories was a little girl neighbour hurted my eye
89. in the first month i entered my elementary school, i still don’t know what my religion is
90. until ten, i often play in hotels, saw traffic from higher place or just watching people play bowling
91. i was the one and only kid in that elementary school who didn’t use a car
92. i went far enough alone to my elementary school everyday by bus.
93. i was the one and only kid in that elementary school who didn’t use a car
i read newspaper when i was in level one of elementary school but my teacher did’t believe it
94. i drew a tank and my teacher looked so angry because she wanted us to draw what she wanted to
95. i looked at some chicken eggs beside the school yard and my teacher thought that i wanted to steal those eggs
96. my teacher checked just my desk, not the other student, before the class do the examination
97. i have my first jeans when i was four and i love it
98. i often cried until the end of my elementary school but it wasn’t because of fight with friend or because i got hurt. i cried if i angry or sad
99. i was one of the best student in school but it means nothing in the real life
100. Once I help a friend in college wrote his paper. He graduate, i didn’t
101. i was the one and only kid in that elementary school who didn’t use a car