Merry Riana is a Millionaire Entrepreneur, Best-Selling Author and Motivational Speaker.In just a short period of 4 years after her graduation, Merry has earned more than S$1,000,000 through her business. This achievement is featured as an article titled ‘She’s made her first million at just age 26’, in The Straits Times on 26th January 2007. In October 2010, Merry was conferred the Great Women of Our Time Award. As an icon in the regional, financial, and educational communities Merry has broken down barriers to become one of the most admired and watched individuals in the media today.
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein
God gave me so many miracles in my life. Anugerah terbersar yang sangat saya syukuri tahun ini adalah lahirnya dua hal yang sangat berarti di hidup saya. Yang pertama adalah kelahiran dari buku Biografi pertama saya: Mimpi SejutaDolar, yang ditulis oleh Alberthiene Endah dan menceritakan tentang kisah nyata perjuangan hidup saya. Dan yang kedua adalah akan lahirnya anak kedua saya, di bulan Desember 2011 (can’t wait to see him and hold him in my arms)
Karena kelahiran anak saya yang kedua baru akan terjadi sekitar 2 minggu lagi, jadi hari ini yang akan saya ceritakan adalah tentang book launch dari buku ‘Mimpi Sejuta Dolar’
Yup, baru bulan (Oktober) lalu saya ke Jakarta untuk mengadakan press conference dan book launch dari Buku Mimpi Sejuta Dolar. I would say that the event went very well and it was really Awesome! Sangat disayangkan bahwa Mba AE tidak hadir.
Launching Buku Mimpi Sejuta Dolar bertempat di Kinokuniya, Plaza Senayan. Undangan pun sangat terbatas, karena tempat yang tersedia hanya memungkinkan untuk kapasitas sekitar 80 kursi. Tetapi berkat semangat dan antusiasme dari teman-teman dan follower dari twitter yang luar biasa, akhirnya tempat pun dibanjiri oleh lebih dari 300 orang.
Hari itu saya sudah siap-siap dari pagi, dan sampai di Kinokuniya jauh lebih awal, sekitar jam 11.30, untuk memastikan bahwa semua props dan sound system berjalan dengan lancar. Tapi siapa yang nyangka kalau ternyata jam 11.30 saja sudah banyak orang yang hadir (padahal acara baru mulai jam 2 siang). Wow! sungguh luar biasa!! apalagi banyak sekali yang bela-belain datang dari luar Jakarta. Ada yang dari Lampung, Bogor, Jogjakarta, Banyuwangi, Tasikmalaya, bahkan ada juga yang terbang dari Surabaya dan Balik Papan. Waaah.. terharu deh
Saya pun meluangkan waktu untuk bisa berbincang-bincang dan berkenalan dengan mereka, dan teman-teman yang datang lebih awalpun akhirnya bisa punya kesempatan untuk tanda tangan dan foto barengan sebelum acara mulai (hehehe.. rewards untuk effort yang sudah mereka tempuh)
Oh iya.. thank you juga utk Oni dan Herfita Mereka ngga cuma udah dateng jauh-jauh dari luar Jakarta, tapi spesial bawa bingkisan utk saya. (so sweet)
Jam 13.00 tempat sudah benar-benar penuh, dan tamu pun masih banyak berdatangan. Untung semuanya berjalan dengan teratur, sehingga walaupun harus berdiri dan berdesak-desakan, tetapi masih dalam suasana yang nyaman dan tertib.
Acara dimulai pukul 14.00 oleh MC, Mas Mayong. Dilanjutkan dengan kata sambutan oleh Pak Tommy dari Gramedia, dan juga penyerahan buku ‘Mimpi Sejuta Dolar’ dari pihak penerbit ke penulis (Mba AE diwakili oleh Mbak Greti dari GPU) dan kemudian dari penulis ke saya sebagai tokoh biografi.
Setelah acara ceremony kelar, sekarang adalah waktu yang sudah saya tunggu-tunggu, akhirnya, saya pun bisa menyapa dan berinteraksi langsung dengan semua tamu yang sudah hadir di situ. Seneeeeng banget karena mereka semua sangat antusias dan sangat berenergi. Saya pun yang saat itu sedang hamil 7,5 bulan jadi tambah semangat lagi untuk bercerita dan membagikan kiat-kiat sukses kepada mereka semua. Ngga kerasa bahwa akhirnya sesi yang awalnya hanya saya plan sebagai sesi sharing, akhirnya berubah menjadi sesi ‘motivasi mini’
Suasana pun jadi semakin seru dan hangat, apalagi ditambah dengan kehadiran teman saya yang menjadi special guest pada hari itu. Siapa lagi kalau bukan Raditya Dika (thank you yah Radit, udah dateng and support book launch Mimpi Sejuta Dolar)
Waktu berjalan sangat cepat, ngga kerasa sudah mau jam 4 sore, terpaksa sesi talkshow dan tanya jawab pun harus segera berakhir, karena setelah itu masih ada sesi lucky draw dan juga book signing.
Congratulations untuk para pemenang lucky draw, terutama untuk yang menang grand prize, tiket pulang pergi Jakarta-Singapore
Last but not least, thank you kepada semua pihak yang sudah berkerja keras dan membantu kesuksesan Book Launch Mimpi Sejuta Dolar, terutama staff dari MRO dan juga staff Gramedia yang penuh dedikasi.
And thank you for all of YOU who came down. You’ve really made my day. This will be the day that I’ll never forget. Berikut adalah liputan video Book Launch Mimpi Sejuta Dolar
Oh yah.. hampir lupa, ada kejutan khusus juga untuk teman-teman yang datang ke book launch ‘Mimpi Sejuta Dolar’ Mereka adalah orang-orang pertama yang melihat book trailer ‘Mimpi Sejuta Dolar’ karena memang baru saya luncurkan pada hari itu.
Penasaran pengen tahu trailernya seperti apa? Sabar yah.. entar akan saya upload di youtube
Sering-sering aja liat tweet saya @MerryRiana karena infonya akan saya kabarin di situ
It is my honor to be the one of the Ambassador for the ‘Live Beautifully’ Campaign by Watson.
(You can click on the picture above to bring you to the Watson’s FanPage and read my post from there, or alternatively, you can read from my post below)
For the past 6 weeks, you all has been inspired by the other top bloggers, on how you can Create beautifully, Feel Beautifully, and also Look Beautifully.
The next 2 weeks, I’m going to share with you how you can share beutifully as well.
But as a start, let me introduce about myself first.
My name is Merry Riana, I’m an Entrepreneur, Author and Speaker.
I consider myself a very blessed person to be where I am right now.
Actually, I have a very humble beginning in life. I didn’t come from a very wealthy family and I was really struggling financially when I first arrived in Singapore.
I still remember vividly even until today, how I survived with just $10 a week.
I’ve been so blessed and fortunate that I’ve managed to overcome many difficulties in my life and achieve success at the young age
I’m currently living the life that I could never imagine to be possible.
To me, true success in life is not measured by how much you make,
but by how much of a difference you make in the life of others.
And that’s why when I celebrated my 30th birthday last year, I’ve made a resolution
For the next 10 year of my life (before I celebrate my 40th birthday), I want to create a positive impact to the lives of at least 1 million people, especially in Asia.
As much as I’ve been inspired by many successful people out there, I too want to be an inspiration for others. As much as I’ve been blessed, I too, do my best to be a blessing for others.
It is my greatest joy to know that my life experiences during my personal success journey has made an impact in the life of others.
And I hope within this 2 weeks, I can share with you more about my philosophy of life so that not only you can live beautifully, but also share beautifully.
Life is too short for monotony. For this reason, I ensure that I take part in at least
one new experience each month, and that includes changing a hairstyle
I decided to do Volume Rebonding. This is very popular among Koreans. Volume Rebonding which not only straightens hair but gives it volume, therefore it wont be like normal rebonding which is flat and thin. Clear example is like what you see with Korean Star.
So today, I went to the famous Korean Hair Salon ‘Jiwon’ which is located at Wheelock Place. My hairstylist is Mira, she did my hair previously and I really love it.
Since many of my friends from facebook and twitter were asking about Volume Rebonding, therefore I decided to share my experience and the whole process in my blog. Hope this information will be useful for you.
Actually at this step, you can see that the result of the rebonding is very different from the normal one, it already has volume
My hairstylist said that volume rebonding has many different types, the picture that you see above was one of it, simple and natural. If you like this type, they will just do the final touch with is adding the natural curl-in, and it is done !
However, since my hair is quite thin, and I LOVE to have more volume for my hair, therefore she created more curl-in for me with digital perm.
And last but not least, after 4 hours of waiting … Voila !
After the first wash, the curl will be more natural.
Simply LOVE it !!
“Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well”
Many people wonder how they can become successful. This quote explains what becoming successful means in the most simple terms. Truly successful people have integrity, a strong work ethic, a desire to succeed, and tenacity to keep working even when it seems that things
aren’t going well. They don’t give up easily, rather they keep moving forward regardless of the number of times they are knocked back.
