Aww.. I never think I'll make such a tutorial like this before as I'm not an expert. And hey I'm not that confident to instruct you guys to do this step-by-step. Duh! /_\ But, this is my friend who asks me to do so. So if it's really unclear, please ask me kindly. It's really my first time.


Application:
I completed the background fully by using Photoscape. It's the only photo editing application I can master lol. The first step is you have to make a transparent layer as the main background for your cbox. Transparent is the best choice because it will fit any colour perfectly. Set it to the size you want. Mine is 500 (width) x 300 (height). You can use GIMP to make the transparent layer but I'm too lazy so, I 'sacrifice' one of my png icons. 


Steps:
  • Open your Photoscape. If you don't own any, you can download it freely.
  • Click Editor and then select any png icon or file you have since png files always have a remaining part in it.
  • Please take a note that Editor has 4 main tabs: Home, Object, Crop and Tools
  • Click the Crop tab and point your cursor to create a rectangular cropping. Just ignore the small size. Then, click 'Crop'.
  • Now you have a small size transparent rectangular layer.
  • Move into Home tab and click Resize button. Before you type the size you want, don't forget to untick the 'preserve aspect ratio' first.

This is your new transparent layer and don't worry about your png icon. Photoscape has its copy.
  • Now move into the Object tab. Draw a box by choosing one of the available box modes. Here you can decide your box has colored background or transparent. Mine is transparent. To make it transparent, click the 'arrow' icon then double click to your new box. There will be a pop up window, tick the 'fill' then you will be able to choose some different border styles. You can also change the colour of your box.



  • Now you can decorate your box. Still in the Object tab, insert your png icons by clicking the Photo icon; icon which has two mountains and a sun on it haha
  • You can resize the icon, add text by clicking the T icon and so on. 
  • Just place the icon as you want :)
It's like a virtual scrapbooking though.

How to apply:
This how-to-apply is not mine okay:
<center><div id="edited" style="width:500px; height:300px; background:url(url background) no-repeat left top; padding-top: 82 px; padding-left:0px; position:relative" align="center">Cbox Code</center></center>
The '82px', you will need to change the numbers. It depends on what size your background has. Based on my background which has 500px in width and 300 px in height, it will be nice if I make my CboX to be:

350 x 105 for the main message form
350 x 90 for the guest's message form

Just put the code at anywhere you want if you use Blogskins, and at HTML/Javascript in Add Widget if you use Template Designer. Hopefully this random post can help you ^_^


Everyday I always have some blogs to be my reading. I read some of them because I need the informations they serve, I read some because they are my friends in real life; they are my college friends, I also read some because I love to do so. It can be their writing style which interests me to bookmark their blogs or their stories are indeed lovable to read. Sometimes I learn a lot by reading their blogs. Some of them are successfully amazed me and make me desire to build my own blog.

Here my five favorite blogs in sequence alphabetically:

Adventurelicious
I super love Ce Vania's blog. It suits her blog title, her blog is about the delicious foods and their recipes and her cute family's adventure to visit various places in this country. She writes in English so well, like a native. She is so smart in arranging the words and make the sentences building a full blogpost chronologically. Her photography skill is like a pro. Every places can be an adventure for their family. Even they can snatch memorable moments from a traditional market, museums, any festivals and train station. She can make no matter what food it is, looks so yummy. A muddy traditional market can be looked an artsy photo by her hand. I follow her blog and enjoy her family's story. Since they got their first daughter, the second son, and now the children are in their pre-teens age. I follow their stories when they moved to stay in India, Malaysia and now they are in Indonesia. I am a fan!

Thirdweek IMG_2834ingredients

 IMG_2366soup
pictures are credited to her blog.

Emotional Flutter
Hey. He is the organizer of the 30 days blogging challenge. He's a Tiong Hoa blogger but so nationalist in my sight. I mean, the race issue is very sensitive case in this country. He is not too biased to any ethnicity. His writing can make me like looking directly what happen in his writing. He makes them in a very detailed way. He is so friendly to reply any comment in his posts and answer the questions not in a to-taste way. He even gave a patient answer when someone left, according to me, something inappropriate questionable. And now I like to follow his journey of studying in China.

Joyce The Fairy
She is a Malaysian blogger. I love to read her adventures of visiting various countries around the world and her writing skill to retail what had happened within her travels are very interesting. She is fashion blogger, too, I think. She has a unique taste in fashion, like her hair.

Kutudrama and Kdramatized
They are two blogs actually. Written by Dee for Kutudrama and Fanny for Kdramatized. They are partner in crime to write the full synopsis of Korean dramas. I am sure they are good at English, that's why their writings are very comfortable readable since the online-watching K-dramas give English subtitle.

Vigilant Citizen
I know it is a site but please let me put it in my list. This site will serve you everything you need to know about Illuminati, in deep analysis and include supporting theories. No one is missed from VC's observations: movies, ads, musics and their clips, fashions, social phenomenon, and even any policy by the government of a particular country. My favorite segment is the Symbolic Pic of The Month, where the author (s) collect pictures from any publication papers like magazines or something like that, and give the analysis about those photos.

I still have another good blogs to read but they are my top five. Do enjoy those links I've attached. 
It's a story about a young brave princess who doesn't need any prince charming. Instead of calmly sitting on a chair in front of opened window while embroidering a floral motif, she loves to ride her horse and climb the cliffs with the longbow on her back and drink directly from the waterfall. She is Merida, the firstborn princess of the clan Dunbroch. When it comes the time for the princess to enter a marriage life, her mother, Queen Elinor, and his father, King Fergus, have sent the invitation for their three rival clans to join their firstborn son to compete each other in the Highland Games. For sure the purpose is to find the right prince for Merida. Merida who is not ready yet and will never be, peeved due to her parent's decision to make her life under their control, to fulfill their desires which make her must lost her own dreams.

Merida has a big argument with Queen Elinor and she reaches her highest emotion level. She does something which is strictly forbidden, something ever happened to a kingdom causing its ruin. She damages the tapestry, on where painted their picture as a complete family (before her triplets brothers born). Then she rides her horse, Angus (in Indonesian it means scorched. Lol), to the forest but there are will-o'-the-wisp, the atmospheric ghost lights which distract her attention and lead her to a wood carver who actually is a witch. The funniest witch actually.  She does not want Merida know who the actual she is. But her nervousness precisely makes her shows her magic skill. She makes a sculptured bear in one knock. Lol.


Merida insisted she is a witch and she then shoo Merida with her so many various of knifes in the ready position to stab her. That scene is so funny. Merida offers a bargain of buying the witch's whole sculptures. And the knifes turn their direction to the opposite way facing the witch's face and she asks how Merida will pay them, the knifes back facing Merida's face. By showing her pendant which is worth the price, the whole knifes fall. haha. But Merida does not want only the sculptures. She wants a spell to change her mother's heart so she will forget the engagement planning.

Merida gets the concoction in the form of a cake. Without having suspicious on what the witch has told that there is something wrong with the spell, Merida gives the cake to the Queen. And yes, Elinor changes. But she changes to be something Merida never expect before. The cake has changed the Queen to be a bear, the animal King Fergus hates the most. He has lost his leg for saving her wife and daughter from a bear's attack back when Merida was a kid. By bartering her one year dessert, her triplets brothers are obliging to take their mother out of the castle without getting caught by the King and the Lords. They go to get the repair for the spell but the witch had gone and just leave a message that Merida must remember "mend the bond torn by pride".

Merida finds that she has to "mend the bond torn by pride" before the second sunrise or if  not, the spell will be permanent and her mother will be a bear forever. Little by little they understand what it is meant by "torn by pride". It is the tapestry she ripped under her freedom pride. They must be back to the castle while the troops are quarreling about the cancellation of the arranged marriage. Merida calm them down to distract their attention so Queen Elinor can up the stairs to the ripped tapestry. Merida gives them a very wise explanation if she and the Lords sons have the right to decide their own life includes who will be the the right person to marry with; their true love chosen by their own.

They finish the argument with peace conclusion but the bear nature in Queen Elinor's body has destroyed everything. King does not believe the bear is his wife and ordered the clans to kill it. The worst is, the triplets brothers are also changed to be bears. Luckily they still can help. They distract the clans' attention and direct them to the castle roof, so Merida and her mother can escape. There we will see the vulgar Rapunzel in male version. The Lords bond their pants so they can come down from the castle roof (the boys lock the door from inside). Lol.

While sewing on horse riding, Merida and her brothers chase their father and the Lords to save the Queen who in her bear appearance has been tied tightly ready to be killed. King Fergus only believe the bear is his wife when the real killer bear comes. He is Mor'du. Seeing her daughter is almost killed by Mor'du, Queen Elinor summons up her strength to save Merida and finally Mor'du died. That has come the second sunrise but Elinor is still in a bear appearance. Merida cries and says sorry, all the messes are her faults. She says she really loves her mother and tells her she always be there for Merida. And Merida's sincere regret is the truly mending for the bond torn. Queen Elinor is back to be a human again, as well as the three boys.

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I think it is one of the best animated movies. The plot is so simple but has so deep meaning. It's about a braveness. The braveness of a girl to cut her pride and admits her faults by repairing everything back to its normal situation, a braveness of a queen to break the arranged marriage tradition and start to understand what her daughter really wish to do. It really is a fantasy with the ending is accordance with the hope of people about a happy ending. No war, no revenge, the evil is easily eradicated and the story ends beautifully.


I don't know I need to worry about this or not. I still love animated movie so much! I am a kid in my heart. hee hee. Watched this movie last night and the graphic was really fantastic but the plot? Ehmm, not that epic to be honest. I know I shouldn't expect it will be as adventurous as other similar movies. It's a movie for kids but that is such a waste to produce what a great animation but it was not balanced with the good plot.

I love those fantasy forest creatures even the disgusting slimy snails look really cutie. Flower petals are their skirts for the female creatures. The dandelion-haired lady; she is indeed a one, her head is bald when her body is shook. haa haa. And their transportations are birds.

A seventeen years old girl, Mary Katherine, moves in with her scientist father, Professor Bomba, who has a research to find and prove the existence of Leafman the tiny human soldiers in a forest. He has installed many cameras which connect to computer in his house in the edge of the forest which the taxi driver called like a pair of termites, to record any movements by the forest creatures activities if only one of them is by the Leafman.

Can't stand with her father's weird behavior, MK decides to leave but their three-legged and one-eyed dog Ozzy has made trouble by running to enter the forest causing MK runs after him. The same happens to Nod, a young Leafman soldier who decides to quit due to the no-nonsense leader Ronin.

The Leafmen are incumbent to protect their forest calls Moonhaven from the attack of the evil creatures called Boggans led by a malevolent Mandrake who wants to destroy it be forest decay. While there is a Queen Tara who protects the forest to stay green, but she needs to choose her heir by finding the best pod. Mandrake who know about the ceremony plan, with his troops attack the Queen and her Leafmen. 

Ronin kills Mandrake's son with his archery but Queen is also hurt by Mandrake and she falls to the ground. There MK finds her lay dying and Tara gives the pod to MK and tells her to bring it to Nim Galuu, a glowworm that lives in a tree. By holding the pod in her hand, MK has changed to be a tiny-sized girl with the same size as the Leafman and other creatures in Moonhaven.

Their adventure is begun. Nod is back to his Leafman fellows and shoulder to shoulder to protect the pod to make it blossoms under the moonlight or if it blossoms under the darkness, something they hope will save their forest, contrary, will destroy it and Mandrake's dream will come true. At the tight time, MK realizes that her father is true about the tiny people but they suckered him so he never finds Moonhaven and he is the last man whom they can expect to help.
Try this another not-really-free online game called Star Project. Star Project is a simulation game which takes place in current Tokyo. It has Japanese voice but with English subtitle. I named myself Azria Embroidry and my star BumKi. Actually I wanted it be JunKi but someone had owned the name. And I named my company DamaniQueen. Something beyond the limit of fantasy (?) is you can type the contract which will be signed by the star (yourself, I mean). Lol.


There was a time when a girl’s parents run a popular management company. Due to an unfortunate car accident, both her parents passed away and she takes over the company. All the stars and staff of her company went their onways and the only thing left for her is a mountain of debt and an old ragged building that looks like it’s going to collapse any day now.


One day, when she is on her way to some place, some debt collectors come to her and give one deal; she gives her management company building and she will be free from them. In that emergency situation, comes a righteous boy from the country out of nowhere that then helps her. The girl can see star potential in that young man they both teamed up to start the “Star Project”!

The girl is you, the rookie manager managing her amateur star. Beside managing your artist, you have to balance it by managing your heart. As a star manager, you have to manage your star’s schedule like practicing dancing, singing, speeching and also part time jobs like in bakery or library. And as a girl apart of being a star manager, you can manage your dating like going to amusement park, restaurant or fortune teller. 





I’ll stop playing this game. So boring. There’s no game can beat hidden object games. In hidden object games, all in one!! Haaa.
Finally I can continue the 30 days blogging challenge by Emotional Flutter. One week stayed in my granny's home, I had completely lost contact with my blog. I brought my modem so I could make some posts with Noni's notebook but I didn't know how to do the setting as the signal was found but the operator was not. 

The topic for this day-15 is what super power I wish to have and how I will use it. Ouch, what an imaginative person Ko Keven is. Lol. I love being a 'normal' human being like bleeding when got cut with knife and wait several days to heal and need some transportations to reach some places. Lol.



But to be honest back when I was a kid, I ever dreamt to have a magic pencil like what Sanju owned in Shaka Laka Boom Boom. I wished I could make the delicious beef balls and noodle soup just by drawing them on a piece of paper and taa-daa they would be real.

And now, if only I could ask to have some super powers, I will not ask to be given flying ability since there are already too many cameras nowadays. People can snap me flying at any time and I don't want to be the center of attention and make people assume I was one of those extraterrestrials what people called alien. I am also not very interested in the ability of disappear in one wink. That's too implausible and really not human being. Lol. 

Sometimes I felt someone acted too polite or told too sweet words to me. Those exaggerated actions kinda made me gave them negative thinking. Was I that good? What they really wanted to convey? What they want to get from me? Was that because their relationship with my parents? and something like that. And it's also not rare I found people with sharp as knife tongue who actually had so sweet hearts. That's why I think it will be a wonderful gift if I could be a mind reader. haha. You can't lie to me! I can read your mind. 

That will be really great, right? I can know what the backstabbers want to do to me so I will be able to reverse the situation. Those too sweet words, I can find what the true purpose is the speaker utter them. Besides that, there is no special sign which will make people know I have a super power as long as I don't make it as a gossip subject. Lol. But living this life just the way it is, without adding some forced things, is the best way a human can do. According to me...
My father always nags me for not being able to drive motorbike till now, while there have been thousands elementary school kids out there can do that. Lol. So Noni suggested me to have a one week getaway in Kampung so she could teach me how to ride that two-wheelers. She added, it would be really hard for me in the future work-time if I could not drive a motorbike. I agreed and calmly sit in the back seat while she picked me up all the way from Gelugur Kuta. hehe. 

We started in a lonely road near the corn field not far from my granny's home. Because it's a matic motorcycle and I of course could ride a bicycle (kill myself if I couldn't ride bicycle, I went to school in elementary time by it) I just need to control my hand power while pulled the gas and balanced the handlebar so I could make it straightly run.

The first mie aceh I bought by driving on my own.

Oh, It's quiet easy and I felt like playing a simulation game. The big boss would be the police who I would show my new ability so he will be willing to give my driver's license. Lol. But, I was mistaken. When I saw a truck came from the opposite way, I was so worry and hardly thought what I should do with my motorbike. Noni just calmed me down and said I just need to stay in my own route or stop could be the other best option.

Noni is the best teacher. She was very quiet in training me but kept being watchful since I could do any worst thing with me as the driver. She just laughed when I was too rigid driving the motorbike. Especially when I sounded the horn to chase the chickens away from the road. I was really bad in practicing the turning part. But practice makes perfect, right?

In the second day, I started to be able to control my worriess when I must share the road with other users. And in the third day, I felt it was really easy to drive the motorbike and I could prolong the training length to buy food which was pretty far from my granny's home. I was the driver for the round-trip, but to be honest, in the intersection of four where there were so many transportations came from all directions met in one point, Noni took over the handlebar. Lol.

Lestari Indah, the first beach I visited by driving on my own.

Last Saturday I went home and Noni joined me because it took 2 hours driving from Kampung to my home, so it would make her so tired if she went home in the same day. Moreover, my sister had promised to treat us Es Teler 77 if I could go to Indomaret by myself. I argued her that I could take Noni to the beach. If the distance from our home to beach was measured, I had repeatedly went there. Lol. In the next day we went to PMF to ask my sister make her promise to be real. Haha. And Noni was back to Kampung and we were back to Perbaungan.

I should have been Es Teler 77 ambassador since I was like do not know where to eat except there and like there is no option except Baso Super Special Jumbo and Es Teler. Lol.
Blog designing
Blog layout is one of the most important elements in this virtual journal. People said that blogger must comfort her blog readers by arranging her blog elements. Customize the font, its color and the widget position so they will fell ease reading the posts.  

I am not an expert in this HTML code but at least I could move the first widget to the last and the last one to be the second in the list. Lol. But for me, I love to design my blog to please myself, not the readers. I like to visit Blogskin to see so many cute templates for blogger. 

But the templates there are too cute for me. The skin contributors often put too many icons or images and sometimes there are too many navigations. So I just download a skin I like and use it as a base code. I'm sorry for the credit removal but I had combined this skin with so many skin tutorials. So, it's not still 'yours'. 

You need to revert your blog from the template designer to the classic one. I love the classic template as there are only several features which are actually not really important for me to be added like in the template designer. In classic template, you just need once loading page to all clicks. I mean, if in template designer you need to load once a page (widget under your header like about, affiliates and awards, or something like that), in classic template you just need load the page once and everything is ready to click without needing new loading. It means more save for the modem prepaid card. Lol.

Short Exercises
I'm not a sport person. I never do any regular basic exercise though I know it's really important for my body. As I start knowing its good advantage I will achieve by doing the regular exercise, every morning after the dawn prayer, I move my body randomly as long as I felt my muscles worked and slightly sweaty. Lol.

I started by moving my hands, feet and head like heating we usually did before the physical education class. Then I made some stronger movements. randomly. I moved my hands like a swimming position. Lol. I used a small cloth and hold it with my two hands by raising them for several minutes. I watched Eun Jung in Dream High session 1 did that and I followed what she did. Curious what I would feel. Haha. Surprisingly I felt my arms so weary.

I was guessing how long (in minutes, I mean. Lol) I had went through that position, so I played a song to make it easier. When the song was almost close to its ending, I'll talk to myself 'soon! soon! soon!' Lol. Then I lied to sit up and moved my feet like riding a bicycle, still lying. To distract my mind not to focus on the pain, I helped myself by playing a video clip from my favorite singers. And when my mommy called me to help her, I stopped that activity without cooling. Lol.

Morning Sunbathing
There are so many advantages we can pick from morning sunbathing and the best one is it will not cause our skin darker. 7 to 9 a.m in the morning is the best period to sunbathe. I'll sit in my side yard, the place in my house area which gets the best morning sunshine and play some java games to wait the 30 minutes sunbathing done. It's a really easy healthy routine. But I must stop it for awhile since it's December! Rain, rain and rain.

Some benefits we can get from sunbathing:
  • Vitamin D works to increase calcium absorption in the gut and calcium transfer across the cell membrane, so that it can strengthen our bones.
  • High enough serotonin level results a more positive mood and calm the way of thinking with focus mental.
  • Sunlight can reduce symptoms of depression by releasing endorphins.
  • Sunlight can improve blood circulation by dilating blood vessels under the skin.
  • Sunbathing safely had been shown to improve chronic skin conditions, such as acne, eczema, and psoriasis. Exposure to sunlight can also decrease the manifestation of stretch marks, scars, and other skin imperfections.
  • Synthesis of vitamin D, which is caused by sunlight, can reduce the risk of various forms of cancer such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, and ovarian cancer.
  • The sunlight can strengthen the immune system, because when exposed to sunlight, the body produces more white blood cells that help ward off infection and diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses. -- Kompas Health
Hmmmm.. I don't know how to convey my thought about the topic for this Day-14 of 30 days blogging challenge by Emotional Flutter. I'm not a successor of Nostradamus since I never believe in any prophecy. I always avoid praying in any social media, no matter what its occasion. So, let me use this post as another words assembling exercise. haha.

Proper Job
  • I will have a settled job with so good salary,
  • With 'not dictator' boss, willing to listen to his/her employee's opinions,
  • Cooperate with responsible and patient people since I am someone with learning difficulty, in a very healthy work environment,
  • With no restrictions on religious activities,
  • No prohibition of dating among the co-workers,
  • Free outing once every six months. Lol
Good Living
  • Live in a healthy and lovely environment,
  • Meet so many kind hearted with good attitude people,
  • Nice home with large yard where there are a beautiful garden and a private swimming pool,
  • Facilitated with hi-tech household appliances, so I can say goodbye to broom and mop.
  • Friends with very friendly girls,
  • Meet a man with higher level of faith, having almost perfect subsistence, loving and patient, and of course young and single. haha.

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