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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Quiz to win my novel!

PENGUMUMAN / WORO-WORO
Mbak Illydea akan menyiarkan ulang acaranya Book Review ttg SBdY hari Jum’at tgl 3 November 2006 mulai jam 6.45 pm. Trus setelah acara itu dia akan bikin quiz dengan hadiahnya novel Sakura. Kalo mau denger, bisa di Website RSI
ANNOUNCEMENT
Ms Illydea will rerun her Book Review program on my novel Sakura Bersemi di Yokohama on Friday, 3 Nov 2006 at 6.45pm SGT. Then it will be followed by a quiz to win my Sakura novel. (There would be 5 autographed copies to be won).
If you want to hear the program, please go to RSI's website (Malay)

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Brand New Look!

Hello readers,
Esp those who keep checking this blog... Here you can see that I have changed the display. Hope it is more organized and more pleasant for you to enjoy... Now the side bar contains vital info of my book.
The comments from Helloscan -- since I am unable to paste the code (don't know why, the new beta blogger is not compatible with Heloscan, and I can't be bothered to change it) -- so I decided to put it into the sidebar.
Hazy greetings from Singapore,
Yunisa

Monday, October 16, 2006

"Request of the Day" for Pantene Shine

Up^: The package
Below: Peeking the inside of the container

If you were an MTV watcher in the past, I'm sure you are aware that most of the time, the "Request of the Day" was won by Indonesian. We were supposed to send something to MTV (bahasa Indonya, bikin prakarya). And as Indonesian, we are fairly creative as we are trained to make those things during Primary school...
So I were doing such thing for the Pantene Shine competition. Here are some pictures for you to see...

Comparing the English container (left) vs. the real Indo novel (right)
Photographer: Mayrinna Dewi

Front view of the essay (inserted in the pocket of the container)

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Bedah Buku oleh Mekar Sari

Resensi oleh: Mekar Sari Sutedja (sahabatnya adikku, Mayrinna Dewi, tidak ada hubungannya dengan Dr Dede Selamat Sutedja walau nama keluarganya sama hehehe)
Kayaknya bakal dimuat di harian Kedaulatan Rakyat (koran tertua di Indonesia, yang berada di kota kelahiranku, Yogyakarta). -- to be updated if it is published.
Belajar dari Sebuah Romantika Kehidupan

Judul: Sakura Bersemi di Yokohama
Penulis: Yunisa
Penerbit : Theriza Books, Bandung 2006
Tebal : 436 + xii
Harga : Rp. 39.000

Dalam hidup, ada tiga hal yang tidak bisa ditebak oleh manusia. Pertama, kelahiran. Orang tidak bisa memilih dimana dia akan dilahirkan, dalam keadaan apa, keluarga apa, sebagai pria atau wanita. Kedua, jodoh. Dia tidak akan tahu bagaimana, kapan, siapa dan dimana dia akan bertemu seseorang yang benar-benar menjadi cinta sejatinya. Dan yang ketiga, kematian. Dia tidak akan tahu kapan dan bagaimana dia akan berpulang. Berkutat pada tiga hal itu, tidak sedikit orang yang mencoba mencari jawaban dengan membaca banyak buku, mempelajari ilmu perbintangan, tahun kelahiran atau bahkan peruntungan nasib karena merasa tidak puas dengan jalan kehidupannya.
Lewat buku ini, pembaca diajak merenungi arti sebuah kesempatan, kejujuran, pilihan, dan penyesalan dalam hidup maupun perjalanan sebuah cinta. Buku ini merupakan salah satu Novel yang bersifat fiksi yang mampu mengangkat karya sastra anak Jogjakarta, mengingat penulisnya lahir dan besar di kota Jogja. Walaupun ini debutnya yang pertama, tetapi pengetahuan dan kecakapannya dalam bidang sastra dan banyak bahasa cukup membuktikan bahwa karyanya mampu menggelitik rasa emosional dan ketertarikan bagi si pembaca.
Buku ini merupakan Novel Roman yang alur ceritanya jelas, dan terbagi-bagi dalam beberapa subbab didalamnya. Jalan cerita roman ini sengaja dibuat menyimpang dari jalur yang diharapkan khayalak dan memberi kebebasan berpikir bagi para pembacanya. Berlatar belakang zaman Restorasi Meiji, buku ini menceritakan perjalanan hidup seorang gadis cantik dan cerdas bernama Yuki, bayi yang dibuang ditengah badai salju, yang menemukan cinta pertamanya pada Shinichi Serizawa, seorang pria rupawan dari keluarga terpandang yang pernah merasakan pahitnya cinta. Namun ternyata, Shinichi memutuskan untuk menerima perjodohan dengan Masako Matsuma demi membalas budi atas bantuan keluarga Satsuma yang menyelamatkan perusahaan Zerizawa dari ancaman gulung tikar. Keterlibatan Keiko Hattori, mantan tunangan Shinichi, munculnya playboy kawakan Dr. Toru Toshiyuki, serta seorang kawan lama, Takuya Tosha yang juga jatuh hati pada Yuki, membuat suasana semakin pelik…. Siapakah sebenarnya Yuki dan bagaimanakah akhir kisah ini ??
Dengan susunan kata-kata yang indah dan tepat, buku ini mampu menarik minat pembaca untuk terus menerus membacanya, “Once You Pop, You can't Stop!” Penggunaan kosakata - kosakata baru, penggalan – penggalan percakapan dalam bahasa Inggris, sepatutnya membuat para pembaca merasa lebih dilatih dalam berbahasa. Tersiratnya nasehat-nasehat didalamnya yang bukan sekedar Novel Percintaan belaka, membuat buku ini layak untuk dibaca karena bersifat mendidik.

Learn from Life Romance


Reviewer: Mekar Sari Sutedja (my sister Mayrinna Dewi's bestfriend. Despite having the same surname as Dr Dede, both of them do not know each other hehehe)
Title: Sakura Blossoms in Yokohama
Writer: Yunisa
Publisher: Theriza Books, Bandung 2006
Pages: 436 + xii
Price: Rp 39,000
In life, there are three things unpredictable by man. First, birth. One could not choose where he/she will be born, in what kind of situation, to which family, as what sex/gender. Second, life partner. He/she will not know how, when, who and where he/she will meet someone who really becomes "the one". And the thir is the death. He/she will not know when and how he/she will die. In regards to those three, there are a number of people tried to look for the answer by reading many books, studied astrology, the birth year or even fortune reading because of feeling dissatisfied with his / her life path.

Through this book, the reader is asked to ponder the meaning an opportunity, honesty, the choice, and the regret in life and a journey of love.
This book was one of the novels shaped like a fiction, that could lift fellow literary work of Jogjakarta, as in fact, the writer was born and raised in Jogja city.
Although this is her first debut, but her knowledge and skillin literature and languages really proves that her work could intrigue the emotional curiosity and attract the interest of the reader.

This book is one of the novel with clear plot, and it's divided into parts in several sub-chapters inside.
This novel plot deliberately was made deviated from the expected storyline , hence it gives the readers a freedom to think.

With a background of Meiji Restoration time, this book told the life journey of a pretty and smart girl named Yuki, the baby that was exiled in the middle of the snowstorm, who found herfirst love for Shinichi Serizawa, a handsome man from the family, who had felt the bitterness of love.
However, Shinichi decided to accept the matchmaking with Masako Matsuma in order to repay the help from Satsuma family that rescued the Serizawa company from closing down.

The involvement of Keiko Hattori, ex fiance of Shinichi, the appearance of a veteran playboy, Dr. Toru Toshiyuki, as well as an old friend, Takuya Tosha who also fell in love to Yuki, made the situation increasingly complicated... Who is Yuki actually? and how will the end of this story be??

With the beautiful and exact wording, this book could attract the interest of the reader to continuously read it, as “Once you Pop, you can stop!" The vocabulary usage - the new vocabulary, the pieces of conversation in English, would make the readers feel getting trained in using languages.
The many advices implied inside make this book is not just a love novel, as this book is appropriate to read because it is also educational.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Sakura in English (my dream)

Of course I have a dream for my writings, including this novel. I would like some day, to see it filmed. Before it happens, I would want to see it published in English. My colleagues (and ex colleagues) would love to read that!


I am going to enter a "Shine" competition sponsored by Pantene. If I get the $10,000, I would publish an English version of the long-awaited Sakura Bersemi di Yokohama, English version $_$


Well, yes, I have my own money, but my parents would definitely kill me if I spend my hard-earned full-time job money for this... Even getting this novel published by a real publisher was a teary-bloody-sweaty struggle I went through back in 2005. However, God opened a way, and I believe He will always open a way!

PS: I just realize that people who love reading -- and eventually lead to "so called" higher understanding level (it is biased opinion of me), they really like my novel despite they have different expectation for the ending (haha, I am just so cruel to twist it). But those who are not trained in reading, they would think that Sakura Bersemi di Yokohama is heavy. Actually, if you are into soap operas, telenovela, sinetron -- this novel is not complicated at all, you just need to follow faithfully page by page.

Well, it also confirms that my writing's segmentation should be of certain sophistication standard. Yea, baby, way to go!

Monday, October 02, 2006

Another online bookstore for Sakura

Halo, halo
Been a long time never update this blog. Mr Harry is right, I've been busy at work and writing new novels (kalau terbit, ntar aku bikin blog khusus buat cerita soal each novel), baru tadi pagi dikurir ke penerbit... (plus masih batuk2 terus -- coughing all the way, mungkin perlu ketemu my usual mighty doctor rather than going the second time for the same cough to the office GP / dokter umum).

Anyway, hari ini iseng googling around and find this Tandaku Toko Bagus, lihat bagian buku terbaru (latest book)


(Jadi ini alternatif toko buku online selain Surga Buku yang jual novelku di bagian best-seller).

PS: And we are still in progress for RSI quiz buat Sakura Bersemi di Yokohama. Stay in tune!