Me is I am

         Well, now I want to share about history of my name. Firstly my name is Eka Budi Utama. My parents hoped that their baby is a boy. 

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They have prepared that name the days before my birthday. On 19th November 1992, I was born and I am a girl in fact. My mother and my grandmother kept keeping that name to me. So, at that time my name was Eka Budi Utama. Then my father did not allow them to give me name like that. He changed it into Eka Siti Utami. It sounds weird, my mother thought. My mother did want to have a grandchild whose name is Eka. It was hard at the time, until my mother decided to change E become I. That is why my name is Ika Siti Utami. 
 

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            Every name has its own meaning. So that my name has meaning. Ika, that is a word that attached in Indonesia`s motto “ Bhineka Tunggal Ika”. It means unity. Siti is a name that indicate a girl’s name. Utami means first. Ika Siti Utami means, the first girl in my family who will be the best in everything and become unity maker. That is history of  my name and the meaning of my name. There was discussion and debate to make it. So that I must be happy to have this name as mine. That is why I never want to change my name.

My boy friends and I

            Based on the story of my name, I realize something. I am boyish girl. I prefer play with boys to girls since I was in elementary school. I assume that this is caused my parents expectation to have a baby boy. I used to play soccer, basketball, kite, car and top with my cousins. Now, I am still boyish. Maybe I can not change it from myself. 
My friend, Kris always call me as a boy with veil. I never take it as grant.I know that is a joke. When I was in junior high school I used to call as Diel Piero because of my short hair at that time.

            Based on my name, my mother always hope that I can be the best person. Since I was in elementary school my mother always force me to have the first at class, at least the third best. Honestly, it was hard. Until I realized that my mother expectation is the best for me and I also hope to be the best in everything.

            In some occasion, people think that I am bataknese for the first time meet me. It is because I live in Medan. In another case, some people do not believe that I am from Medan because my face is Javanese like. They think that everyone lives in Medan is bataknese. They are totally wrong. Medan has many tribes inside. There are Javanese, Chinese, Bataknese and many others. I suggest to everyone who never visit Medan to come to Medan and see what kind of people inside.

               Once, when I asked to make a logo that represent my, here it is my logo.

  The color of the cubes is blue, it means soft. I choose cubes that has 6 sides, means everyone may see me from 6 different side. It is all up to them. I can be good, bad, kind, cruel, silent and strict whenever it needed. I put my signature, it shows that I am proud to be myself.Star in the letter "I" means that I must be a star and be the number one, at least for my parents.

 Everything has its own meaning and meaningful

           

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