it's a power issue

carrie bradshaw once said that when she first moved to NYC, she rather starved on the expense of purchasing VOGUE just because it is more satisfying than dinner. Well, that statement is proven to be very true indeed. Anyhow, first night at my new house i spent 3 hours indulging in the 630 pages thick of the latest US VOGUE. (btw, so sad.. kangenn rumah lama.. gak ada "mamih angkat" yang sms-in gw kalo belon pulang.. no late nite chit chat over coffee in the kitchen bar.. no grocerries shopping di carrefour every wiken wif the whole family.. )

But i'm lovin my new studio room as well.. i purchased too many loft design and Elle decor to get an inspiration on how i wud like to design my room. i've walked around kemang the other evening, i dragged the office architect and designer to come along with me. I need their professional eyes, and bargaining skills to help me picking out bits and pieces that i wud love to put in my room. Flower choice would definetely be peonies, tulips and lilies.

Anyway, back to Vogue: The cover of this issue proclaims that it's a power issue. Therefore it contains many many interview with women whom they considered to be powerful in their fields. I love love love reading biographies and profile stories from a fashion magazines. You know, business journals only tell you someone's stats and achievements. but Vogue is telling you whether the ladies are wearing calvin kelin or Dolce and Gabanna to the office, plus they are doing excellent photograph as well. Some of the ladies are Nancy Pelosi, the Golden Globe winning actress, the lovely miss Hudson, and the super stunning ivanka Trump.

See, i think Paris Hilton shud learn from her on how to use that body part that she might never know that it exists: the brain. Ivanka is as gorgeous as Paris in appearance, she's a successful model and currently is a VP at Trump organisation as well. But she does not send daddy for heart attack surgery for embarrassing headlines just like paris does. The lady is a Trump, not a Trash.

and Silda Walls Spitzer, the wife of NYC governor, is just truly an inspiration. What's not to love about a lady who went to Harvard Law School and worked for Chase manhattan bank, but choose to leave them all to become a fulltime wife and mum. When asked whether she might consider to pursue politics later like the Clintons, she said, it's enough to have one politician at home. Then again the interviewer asked tricky question, why it has to be the woman who makes the sacrifice? She shoots the interviewer back by saying "you tell me"

Lately, i've just discovered that Power is not something that is justified by the college that we went to, the corporation that we work for, not by who we know and how many power lunch do we attend, not by the headlines that we make, but it is found in your happiness and contentment.

So, what constitutes your happiness and contentment?

jennifer hudson said that she grows up with a value that her grandmother had planted in her which says "If you dont have a family, a home and a church, that you have nothing"