Saturday was nice. Instead of going teaching some kids at the Unesco commisioner center, I went to the park wityh bunch of friends. it's been a long time since we havent spend our time together. we went to seoul land, the vast park with a variety of flowers, mountains and lake. The day went blast, an amusing fun~ me, nasran, maswanee, and aphied. we missed our good old days and the friendship. everyone seems busy with their own lives. it has been 2 years since our last visit to the park. it reminscing the good old days. me and nasran cancelled our part time job just to company each other to the park. it's been five straight weeks i havent spend my saturday with my friends due to my volunteer work. em that day was a space for me to get leisure, get in the sun and having fun!!
we had our dinner at myeongdong. the my fave sizzling squid! and of coz ice cream at ice berry. despite of having one, we had 2 bowls of three servings ice cream. end of the day was something awesome, as chelsea won 4-0.
Sunday was as sweet as ice cream sunday.
as usual woke up late after the morning prayer, having breakfast in the bed, listening to mtv and then slurp of hot milo in the fresh morning-beforenoon.
Myr spend the whole afternoon with water color painting. im not good at it, but painting ease my tense, let me to design everything that was in my mind, expressing my own feelings and thought. my color expressing was weak, not as strong as it was. guess i am getting this few sentimental soul, and bunga bunga cinta....* misha omar's song
color of paradise.!!
em internet love? nah.....the fact!

Cyberlove breaks down romantic codes of conduct
TEL AVIV - Imagine - an endless ``black book'' of potential dates, one where the undesirables, the stalkers or possible psychopaths can be dismissed into the void with the click of a mouse.

For the lovelorn, the Internet offers a virtual world of romance and fantasy, an anonymous venue for trysts in the privacy of your bedroom or study.

All it takes is registering for an online chat, picking an icon that shows you're looking for love and you'll find it instantly and in myriad ways.

The accessibility of cyberlove, where anonymity offers a cloak of safety and the possibility to play several roles at once, is likely to whittle away at the concept of monogamy, said Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, the Israeli author of ``Love Online''.

``You may have an online relationship at the same time as an offline relationship,'' said Ben-Ze'ev, a Haifa University philosopher. ``Then, because it is so easy to form an online relationship, it is very tempting to form more.''

As the generation born into the Internet age grows older, exclusivity in romantic relationships will fall by the wayside, or at least change in definition, he believes.

Partners may lay down rules for one another's virtual encounters, or even enjoy them together.

In May 2002, the BBC reported that a woman slashed her husband's thyroid artery as he slept because he was planning to bring a woman he had met on the Internet to England.

The rules of the game are different in cyberspace. Popularity marks go not to the handsome or beautiful but the virtuoso typists and masters of the written word. Intimacy comes through sharing deep secrets and buried fantasies.

Ben-Ze'ev, an expert on emotions who read blogs (Internet diaries) about other experiences with cyberlove to write his book, noted that ``human beings have never before had access to such an ambivalent type of romantic relationship''.

The danger of predators in cyberspace, he says, is small. The risk comes only when virtual love moves off the Internet and into the real world - as it did in the death of a 16-year-old Israeli youth at the start of the Palestinian uprising in 2000.

The teenager met a Palestinian woman posing as a tourist on the Internet. The woman lured him to Jerusalem with promises of a tete-a-tete, but instead of romance, the teenager found death at the hands of Palestinian gunmen.

Israeli journalist Daphna Lewy first entered the arena of virtual love on assignment, creating more than 30 unique personalities ranging from a teenage boy to elderly grandmother.

``Everyone I know is doing it,'' said 40-year-old Lewy. ``At the end I wrote the article and was left with one of these identities I related to most. I really got to know lots of people, it wasn't just romantic experiences.''

In Israel, where most surfers choose to communicate in Hebrew, long-term cyberlove is rare, primarily because of the proximity of virtual lovers in a small country.

``What characterises Israelis on the Internet is that they use the chats and dating services usually only to make the first acquaintance, to find the person, not to build a long-term relationship,'' said Ben Ze'ev.

Lewy, who speaks fluent English, met many new friends by surfing the Net and turned a two-year cyberfriendship with a British man into an offline love story.

She said the Internet's advantage to real-life dating is its initial anonymity that allows for the baring of one's soul - while also offering a quick getaway.

``If I go too far, expose myself too much, feel uncomfortable or the reaction I get is not really to my liking, then I can click and that is it, the relationship is over,'' she said.

Still, Ben-Ze'ev notes that online relationships can leave cyberlovers just as deeply hurt and disappointed as in real life.

At the same time, satisfaction is just a click away and the dating pond is infinite. Surfers looking for love get bites on their cyber bait within minutes, although not all the fish seek idyllic love.

``People testify that they had the most intense love of their life or most wild sex of their life on line,'' said Ben-Ze'ev.

It is that intensity, said Ben-Ze'ev, along with the low cost and low risk of online love, that poses the real danger of love in cyberspace: addiction to living out fantasies and the blurring of reality.

The online dating sector more than doubled in size worldwide from 2002 to 2003, making it the fasting growing content-sales category on the Internet, said Sheizaf Rafaeli, director of Haifa University's Centre for the Study of the Information Society. ``Something big is happening,'' said Rafaeli.

As more and more people turn to cyberlove, society will face the challenge of juggling virtual romance alongside offline relationships, said Ben-Ze'ev.

``We will have to change our social and moral norms to accommodate this phenomena.'' - Reuters

myr - online love and offline love?? we are becoming to the edge of information tech love affairs. yes, internet connect us with everyone in the globe, creating a boardless continent, a small world but full of strangers. internet helps to create the affectionate, the splendour and the enchanting lurve... but 5 second of touch is so meaningful than five minutes of talk. lima saat sentuhan lebih bermakna dari lima minit kata kata. * ads from johnson&johnson.

hit me if i am day dreamer. tata daisy!