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Zeventina
Searching the name “Zeventina” in google.com, one can only derive two search results; one is my given first name and the other is a Persian Horse named “Zeventina” in the Netherlands. The obvious difference between me and that Persian horse is that she is much younger than me which will only and surely confirm the fact that I owned that name first. I just don’t really know if the owner of that horse was so inspired by my name and finally decided to name her after me. But honestly, I love Zeventina as my given name for the simple reason that my parents gave it to me as a gift, a gift of love that made me who I am now.
I was delivered a very healthy baby by my soft-hearted mother who originally was raised from Solo, Indonesia and a strong but loving father from the Netherlands. Watching both their propensities as parents since I was a little girl, I saw a very unique and rare kind of bond which I looked up to as an example as I grew up to be a young woman. Looking at them always reminds me of the Merapi and Merbabu mountains, one brilliantly strong and one divinely gentle that even though they seemed to be the exact opposites yet are always seen side by side and lived together in harmony.
Definitely, my creativity came from both my mom and my dad and I always believed that until now. Mommy patiently taught me how to aim for perfection in all aspects of my life. If ever someone would ask me to cite some basic examples, I can always remember exactly her loving but precise instructions. For instance, when I had to fry something and while waiting for it to cook, I had to make use of the time in between like preparing the rest of the needed ingredients for the next cuisine to be cooked. And when the next recipe has been set to cook as well, she instructed me further to start washing my used kitchen utensils as I wait for it to finish cooking. Obviously, she never liked time being wasted and always taught me how to manage it properly. Efficiency is her best friend and later became my best friend too. That’s the reason why I grew up despising wasteful efforts indulging myself with useless endeavors.
I am a web designer, the skills of which I patiently and religiously studied as years went by. It was never really that easy but the training that I gained from home taught me on how to prevail by diligently overcoming any difficulty. As I developed my skill, I just found out later on that my efforts and my growing proficiency in the design field turned out to be my hobby. I pushed myself further to learn the complex details that involved tag-tag HTML, script2, Image editing programs and writing.
There were times when I myself became a little bewildered why I indulgently convinced myself to join the present webdesign trend and its various clear challenges. I had experiences in both Finance and auditing trades previously working at Motorola and Pasadena as Finance Manager and Internal Auditor before I went to live in Germany for five years. But when I started to know and understand webdesigning, it’s was just like I fell totally in love again and considered it a very significant aspect of my present life and an inseparably integral part of my heart.
Apparently, the foundation of design is universal. An excellent design for one could not necessarily be acceptable to another. Even designs created by “Top Webdesigners” around the globe have its own flaws, though logically, the more experienced ones expectedly have a greater chance of creating true masterpieces. Design appreciation greatly depends on the discriminative taste of a certain person. My fervent aim since I started webdesigning is to attain perfection as much as possible just like what my loving mother always taught me time and again. One of my ways in gauging the accomplishments of my designs is to make free themes in as many free webhosting sites as I can and observe if which design features make the most number of downloads by the innumerable number of people using that same site. Unexpectedly and to my surprise, more than 2.000 people have decided to use the different designs I offered for free download. I must admit that, of course, somehow that observation made me confident to continue my newly found trade which I could probably honestly say has now become a profession. It has, in one way or another, become part of my big dream and this on-going progress has made me very happy in such a way that by adding such meaningfully beautiful colors and perceptively appreciable design concepts to this part of the world with my designs, I have contributed to the enhancement of life’s meaning itself. Indeed, a dream come true for me and my only wish is that God will always bless me with His abundant grace. Forever.
I was delivered a very healthy baby by my soft-hearted mother who originally was raised from Solo, Indonesia and a strong but loving father from the Netherlands. Watching both their propensities as parents since I was a little girl, I saw a very unique and rare kind of bond which I looked up to as an example as I grew up to be a young woman. Looking at them always reminds me of the Merapi and Merbabu mountains, one brilliantly strong and one divinely gentle that even though they seemed to be the exact opposites yet are always seen side by side and lived together in harmony.
Definitely, my creativity came from both my mom and my dad and I always believed that until now. Mommy patiently taught me how to aim for perfection in all aspects of my life. If ever someone would ask me to cite some basic examples, I can always remember exactly her loving but precise instructions. For instance, when I had to fry something and while waiting for it to cook, I had to make use of the time in between like preparing the rest of the needed ingredients for the next cuisine to be cooked. And when the next recipe has been set to cook as well, she instructed me further to start washing my used kitchen utensils as I wait for it to finish cooking. Obviously, she never liked time being wasted and always taught me how to manage it properly. Efficiency is her best friend and later became my best friend too. That’s the reason why I grew up despising wasteful efforts indulging myself with useless endeavors.
I am a web designer, the skills of which I patiently and religiously studied as years went by. It was never really that easy but the training that I gained from home taught me on how to prevail by diligently overcoming any difficulty. As I developed my skill, I just found out later on that my efforts and my growing proficiency in the design field turned out to be my hobby. I pushed myself further to learn the complex details that involved tag-tag HTML, script2, Image editing programs and writing.
There were times when I myself became a little bewildered why I indulgently convinced myself to join the present webdesign trend and its various clear challenges. I had experiences in both Finance and auditing trades previously working at Motorola and Pasadena as Finance Manager and Internal Auditor before I went to live in Germany for five years. But when I started to know and understand webdesigning, it’s was just like I fell totally in love again and considered it a very significant aspect of my present life and an inseparably integral part of my heart.
Apparently, the foundation of design is universal. An excellent design for one could not necessarily be acceptable to another. Even designs created by “Top Webdesigners” around the globe have its own flaws, though logically, the more experienced ones expectedly have a greater chance of creating true masterpieces. Design appreciation greatly depends on the discriminative taste of a certain person. My fervent aim since I started webdesigning is to attain perfection as much as possible just like what my loving mother always taught me time and again. One of my ways in gauging the accomplishments of my designs is to make free themes in as many free webhosting sites as I can and observe if which design features make the most number of downloads by the innumerable number of people using that same site. Unexpectedly and to my surprise, more than 2.000 people have decided to use the different designs I offered for free download. I must admit that, of course, somehow that observation made me confident to continue my newly found trade which I could probably honestly say has now become a profession. It has, in one way or another, become part of my big dream and this on-going progress has made me very happy in such a way that by adding such meaningfully beautiful colors and perceptively appreciable design concepts to this part of the world with my designs, I have contributed to the enhancement of life’s meaning itself. Indeed, a dream come true for me and my only wish is that God will always bless me with His abundant grace. Forever.
