A Piece of Story of Mine to You…

When I was a tiny baby, grew to be little girl and nurtured as a small teenager, it was quite difficult to describe myself in the perfect picture. In my age now, 19 years old, I started to begin the journey finding the perfect picture of mine. Someday and somehow, I heard a simple song with simple instrument which could represent who I am, even it does not perfectly symbolize all my characters but it helps me a lot. These of the lyrics;

You've got the best of both worlds
You're the kind of girl who can take down a man,
And lift him back up again
You are strong but you're needy,
Humble but you're greedy
Based on your body language,
your shouted cursive I've been reading
You're style is quite selective,
though your mind is rather reckless --Jazon Mraz—“Beautiful Mess”

Who I am in life

My name is Elza Ardiati Tedjosaputro. I am the youngest children in my family and exactly the latest grandchild in every family tree. I have one brother and one sister. Both of them are already working. My brother works at my dad’s office specializing in chemical building and my smart yet stylish sister works in Singapore as an architect.
Since I was a little cute girl, my parents have taught and educated me in Catholic ways. My mother is a senior, devoted activist in my lovely church, St. Aloysius Gonzaga and dedicates her life serving God by teaching Sunday school. Three of her children have different interests and the one who inherits my mom’s teaching specialty is me. I love to be surrounded by children. Listening how they laugh gives me powers to face and smile every day. Looking how silly deeds they do proves me that world is not too bad to be lived by human.
I graduated from St. Louis 1 Senior high school. In three years there, I liked joining many competitions especially in Economics and Accounting field. The most successful competition was Economic Science Olympiad 2007 because I won the second prize against all reputable senior high schools in Surabaya. The most memorable competition, yet the hardest to beat, was Petra business competition 2007. Working as a team with my two best friends, Elle and Felicia, and became semifinalists playing its second round in a stock market exchanged. That very first occurrence gave me new insight about market doing. Not only learning but also having fun time there, I ran, jumped (we call it’ lompat bintang’), shouted out loud, believed in my friends’ gambling decisions, and developed my self-entity and self-esteem .I did not win. Though, I did not regret the joining as I learnt a lot of how being either a humble winner or hopeful loser.

What life means to me

A baby enters the world by crying
A little girl enjoying her funny day without any problems by laughing
A teenager gets through her hard day of heart breaking and weeping over abundant homework
A-19- year- old girl still waiting for other stories and motions of life…

I have been precisely nineteen years and five months here and about thirteen years I have been coloring my days by making good relationships with others. Having friendly, funny and cheer up personality affect me to easily have close relations. I build relation not only around my study times (elementary, junior high school, senior high school and university) but also in my religious circumstances. In my gorgeous church, I really do strong relationships with many young, creative and unbelievable crazy people who let me experience the beauty of love, hard working atmosphere, and the art of teamwork. I never forget the story of our silly-togetherness. One day, on Saturday night, I got toothache. I was really-really confused at that time because my current dentist was gone and not available. I already called many dentists but none was open. Having no idea of finding dentist, I sent short message to my church best friends. After few moments, my friends (Kris, Vincent, Bonie, Pau-pau, Anekke) came and they discussed where they should take me as they concerned about my conditions. Then, they brought me to a pretty old dentist who had only small waiting room. Upon our arrival, the waiting room looked full with patients. We just smiled to each other and sometimes made some noisy deeds. Just imagine the reaction of the nurse when she knew that only one of us wanted to meet the doctor. One person who got toothache but five persons came with. Will you call our friendship silly?
For me life is all about dreaming. I never stop dreaming as I believe without dreams there would be no success. Without dreaming I’m sure there will be no clued path to be footed. Continuing master program in Dutch is my big dream. Do not ask me why I choose Dutch as my big dreams-destination as I even do not know how myself really sure of that country. I am not well informed about this future country. I just believe what my heart says, that’s it.
To support my belief in dreaming, I like to read inspiring books. These kinds of books take roles as nonliving things that always remind me to keep on fire and never be tired to struggle in achieving, either short-term or long-term goals. For instance, Laskar Pelangi written by Andrea Hirata that based on his own personal life, shaped my mind about how his persistent dream and his toughness in pursuing education led him to accomplish successful life. Moreover, I also enjoy reading literature, especially poem. I like being confused with the peculiar words noted down in the poem. The more extraordinary the poem is, the more I like it. Honestly, I’m a kind of person who does not only take pleasure in talking and screaming but also in writing, mainly in creating modern-free poem. Thus, do not be surprise whether some lectures give paper assessments, I can make it into pages and sometimes adding with poetic words. Badly, because of moody character, I am not able to constantly make either compositions or poems.
I’m kind an ambitious girl. I would like to work hard, make all things completely perfect, and I may be stubborn in some cases. After attaining what I want, I can give it up easily as I cannot really keep what I have before. For example, I can play piano, keyboard and also guitar. I have learnt piano since I was in kindergarten and took the course until I was in senior high school and recently, I took piano course again in pop and jazz concentration but it did not last long. After about six months, I dismissed as I felt bored and when this boredom came, no one could change my mood, even I know the risk and later, regret of committing it. My friendship relationship often ended like that. As I mention before, I might easily have friends but I might also easily lose them.

Future plans

If I die in at the age around ninety years old, I’ll still be having around seventy years to do fantastic endeavors in my whole life. Famous quotation made by Confusius advised me to bear my whole heart whenever I go and whatever I do so I make the best effort of anything.

If I press my piano key with heart, I probably attract someone to sing happily with me
If I console a sad friend with heart, I might prevent him from being addicted to drugs
If I study with heart, I might share with those who unfortunately lack of education
If I life with heart, I might cheer someone to laugh freely and keep my friendships
If I pray with heart, I might help people to feel the magnificence of peace
Thus, I am to look after and cherish my dreams with all my heart to achieve everything best in days to come.




“Dream and keep on dreaming, as God will hold close your dreams”
-Laskar Pelangi, Edensor-
(“Bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpimu )









Elza Ardiati Tedjosaputro-
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