new Puteri print ad

clever move! black folks love asians.. agnes will look great with a tan!

Man she is hot.. I'm only beginning to appreciate the beauty of Indonesian women.

Agnes is tanned now? like as in genuine tan or fake? any pics? i think she'll look hot with a tan!

she looks tan in this pic:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/fura...rlyAgnesrev.jpg

she said she was sunbathing.

I wish she's not lying down under the solarium to make her skin a bit dark, it dangerous for your skin, just like sitting under the hot sun for many hours.

Agnes is nominated as Best Actress @ Panasonic Awards 2007. It means she's been in the nomination list since 1999 and has won several times

Agnes Monica won Most Favorite Actress @ Panasonic Awards 2007



The Youth’s Win

Sindo, December 2, 2007

For Agnes Monica, becoming the winner for Most Favourite Actress at Panasonic Awards 2007 that was held last Friday is not just for herself but also for all the Indonesian youths. She mentioned this because she realized she has many young fans support her all the way up till now.

She didn’t expect to win this category because her TV drama ‘Kawin Muda’ has been long time ago aired. She has committed to decrease her appearance on TV due to her in-process first English album.

On January or February 2008 she’ll be back to America again to continue working this album. Her next debut is to play on the big screen. Yup, she’s going to play a movie. The movie and the album are planned to release by the end of 2008.

Agnes Monica will be the guest star for Asian Idol 2007 on 15 December 2007. She's also gonna perform in Bimantara Christmas party on 13 Dec and I'll be there! woo-hoo!

^ yikes, the gold chains...

^ maybe she mingled too much with those Bronx rappers lol.

what's wrong with the neckless?
i'm not a gold fan either but...

dunno.. gold bling?? naff

Its cute it matches with her trophy,take a look at that gold necklace and bracelet.

last year i heard about the hu ha that she is planning to go international by leaving indonesia for US. I think she wants to follow anggun path. SHe also left indonesia for France when she was 20. Is agnes plan to go international "kecapaian"( is fulfilled ) ?

^ not yet I think. last time I heard she's recording.

naaah, she cancel to go international because she going to marry, with me.

i also heard about the gossip that she was close to a conglomerate, but why suddenly she is with dirly idol.

Yes, the conglomerat name's Richard and he's only her big sister/brother's best friend. She asked him to came to a wed party because she's single that time. Oh what a story, the media just not even treasure them closely to know better.

Dirly and Agnez, I have no idea the true story but I think he's for sure.

Agnes is going to perform on Asian Idol result show tonite. I hope she's feeling well cos I heard she's a bit sick and exhausted because of the marathon shows she has for this week.

agnes is half dutch?

No, but she has british blood

Agnes Monica: “Always believe in your self, even when everyone else doesn’t”
(Seventeen magazine, 1st ed. January 2008)

Summary of the article:

Every statement that Agnes makes is always becomes a headline. Type “Agnes Monica” on search engines like google or yahoo. The last time Seventeen tried, over 171,000 links appeared on computer screen! From her “go-international plan” to “I want to win an Oscar”. It’s obvious that Agnes Monica is an extraordinary multi-talented star with huge dreams that people always wait for her next actions.
This is an exclusive interview for Seventeen readers, how Agnes never be afraid to speak out her ambition and why she, you, and all of us should not be afraid of dreaming.

17: How far have you been working on your go-international project? Rumor has it you often go back to America.
Agnes: It works really-really smooth. In fact it’s faster than I’ve ever expected, so I’m really excited!

17: I heard you’re making an album in America
Agnes: Oh, it’s a secret…! Just wait and see. Hehehe…
(Although she didn’t want to tell us, Agnes told us how tired she was in America because she had to stay in a studio till midnight. Err…So you know what that means?)

17: So now you’re in Jakarta, what are you doing now?
Agnes: It’s a…secret! But for sure I’m busy working, exercising, and last month I’ve shot a movie too!

17: Really? Please tell us a little bit…
Agnes: It’s a secret! Hahaha…I’m sorry, but I’m not permitted to tell everything just yet. So please be patient, it’ll be revealed soon.

17: Okay! So tell us about your go-international plan that you said it’s going smoothly.
Agnes: Hahaha, at first it wasn’t that smooth, because I had to start from the scratch. The producers have seen my portfolio but they wanted to see me proving that I’m no less or even more than that portfolio. So that’s a big challenge and I’m satisfied I’ve passed it very well.

17: Are you ready for all the risks?
Agnes: In every decision I make, I’m so ready for everything. Before I go forward, I’ve thought every consequence. So when the result is not as successful as I wish before, I will not go back.

17: So what do we need to get success according to you?
Agnes: Believe in yourself, even when everyone doesn’t believe in you. That’s the first thing I put on my mind. And then focus on what you’re going to grasp. It means: responsibility, dare to take risks, not drop easily when you face obstacles, and keep fetching the knowledge. I so believe that everyone has the same chance to get success. Not only those who’re rich and living in America, but every precious person – we too, can be success! It’s just how you want it and how your effort is. We must keep focusing, and that’s not an easy thing.

17: Is that what you’re having all this time?
Agnes: More less. In my case, I must change the paradigm. People think those who have dreams are arrogant and conceit. In contrary, I think to have a big dream is a must. And if someday I succeed to go international, this victory is not for me, but for every person who believes and dare to make their dreams come true.

17: Then what do you do when you’re down? We know that you’re a strong girl all this time…
Agnes: Yes I have to look “strong”. When I’m “weak”, it’s just enough I, my mom and God to know it. When someone is being evil on me, I won’t spend my time to feel down. It’s more fun to revenge through achievements to the max until they embarrass with themselves. I think that’s the most delicious revenge. Hahaha…I’m such an evil, aren’t I?

17: So when do you feel that you’re grateful?
Agnes: Everyday, every single minute, every single second. I believe that our God is not a “coincidence” God, but God who full of plans. He will never close the path He has started. And as my gratitude, I always do the best I can.

17: You also need a boy friend, don’t you?
Agnes: Hahaha…yeah I need it. Really-really need it! I used to run to my mother when I was down, but now I have someone who can understand and support me without me explaining anything.
(When we were talking about this, Dirly came by to Seventeen’s office to pick up Agnes. And she smiled a lot!)

17: So is that the dating style you want?
Agnes: Hahaha….More-less! It’s really good to know that you’re needed, that you’re understood without explaining every single thing. And because I always tell him that I love him, I do expect my man to do the same thing-including nobody’s perfect, but we try.

17: And to dream high, then make it happen?
Agnes: Definitely! That’s not just for him, but for me and everybody. At least, that’s the best you can do. Do not be afraid to dream, walk that dream and get anything we want!
***

Agnes Monica - Get Up (live from Asian Idol 2007)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ez40ox5tJI

this 'Get Up' version is soooo different that her CD version. I like!

Singapore magazine 2007

yay!...I got the newest interview from the Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post January 21, 2008
Agnes Monica’s Coming of Age




A TV regular since grade school, Agnes Monica navigated the awkward teenage years to become entertainment’s hottest property. Now she is following her dream for the big time, and she believes. Bruce Emond reports.

It’s a muggy late summer day in New York City, and Simon Cowell is doing that little oral fixation thing with his pen, twisting and twirling it inside his notorious orifice of venom.

As Agnes Monica’s final wah-wah-wah-yeah-yeah-yeah fades out from an English-language rendition of her hit Bilang Saja Bila Kau Mau (Just Tell Me If You Want It), Cowell looks up and fixes her with his gaze. It’s clearly not one of his rare soft and soppy looks that he reserves for the chunky belter wearing her heart on her sleeve, or the quirky mop-headed cut-up who tweaks his funny bone.

“No, sunshine, I don’t want it. You are pretty, you can sing and dance a bit, and you may be good for Indochina or wherever you come from, but it just won’t cut it here. Now pack your bags and skedaddle on home.”

Of course, the above is merely a fancifully imagined, purely fictitious what-if encounter. If their paths do cross one day, whose to know if the hard-to-please Englishman would take a shine to Indonesia’s 20-year-old singing-dancing-acting phenom.

And even if he did not, it’s very doubtful that Agnes would nurse a crushed ego, shave her head in a Britney-esque meltdown and head straight to LaGuardia for the long flight home.

For she has that type of unshakeable, solid, almost prepotent belief in oneself that allows the possessor to take in stride whatever life throws at her. Of course, that brimming confidence, her dabbling in the latest trends from abroad and her success sets her up to be slapped down. She has dealt with the snipes of tabloid scribes about reported arrogance and an “attitude problem” (with them at least), and the put-downs about her singing and fashion sense (she is a prize target of the scathing fashion police at the website http://whodoyouthinkheare.blogspot.com) .

She will need that inner resolve and then some if she carries through this year with a long-held plan to embark on an international career by first testing the waters in the Big Apple.

“I have gone back and forth about it, about whether this is the right thing to do or not, but I think the time is right,” said Agnes, who plans to make the big move in June, for about two months at first.

Her mother, who has always been there from the very beginning of her career, will go to New York with her, but she was not immediately sold on the idea.

“We assume that people live freer lives there, but I told her, ‘If I wanted to do things like drugs and stuff, then I can do it right here, I don’t have to go abroad’.”

There are several big factors working in her favor: She is bright, ranking top of the class during most of her schooling and studying law at university. She speaks varying levels of English, Japanese and Mandarin and admits that she loves the process of knowledge gathering.

She is pretty in that pale, finely chiseled, delicate look of the heroines of popular Japanese comics and fashion magazines.

Apart from the looks and the brains, Agnes also has a big management team, headed by her older brother Steven, to carefully look out for her interests.

And she has strong faith, not only in herself, but from religion. As we talked during a break in shooting of her latest soap, a leather-bound Bible and several Christian motivational books were at her side among a stash of fashion magazines.

During the Indonesian Music Awards (AMI) last December, Agnes, dressed in an unusual frock that appeared to some to be channeling Marie Antoinette after a bad night at the Bastille, thanked Jesus Christ in her acceptance speech for best female pop performer, prompting an apparently mocking “hallelujah” from presenter Ahmad Dhani.

“Thank you, Dhani,” she icily responded.

She had cleaned up at 2006’s round of year-end awards shows, including being named MTV’s best female singer, to cement her place in the local entertainment industry.

“Awards have never been my main goal, that if I don’t get an award I will be sad and depressed. Awards are just a result of hard work. What is more important to me is my hard work, and doing it the right way instead of the wrong way.”

Still, all those trophies on the mantelpiece won’t make the leap to the international stage any easier: Only fellow Indonesian Anggun has succeeded before her, and she is still a bigger name in Europe than she is in the United States. Even Asian-American entertainers are few and far between in the U.S.

“I guess they will look at me as coming from Indonesia, thinking that it’s a third world country and wondering what I have to offer …Anggun did it, but she was at a different stage in her career, when she was younger and perhaps not as involved in as many things as I am.”

It’s a risk, but like everything in her career, it seems a calculated one; nothing fell into her lap. And she loves a challenge.

She started out as a toddler precociously aping TV announcers. Her parents put her into a talent school, where she studied acting and singing and dancing. She made her first album by the age of six.

“I only looked it as a hobby, but as I grew older, and became focused, I realized that this is my thing, I should focus on this.”

It was all about her choices, even back then, she adds.

“My parents were the motivators. My parents are the type who let their kids do their own thing, the important thing is that it’s the right way,” said Agnes, who is nine years younger than her only brother.

“Up to now, that is one of the advantages for me; that my parents support me 100 percent.”

She branched out into hosting children’s TV programs, and was chosen as the best kids’ program presenter in 1999. By then she was 13, at the awkward age when most child stars lose the charm factor as the ravages of puberty take over.

“Before I made that transition, we already realized that it would happen,” Agnes said about how her career was planned. “That was the most important thing. We knew there would be a problem; and at that time, only one person handled me, my mother. And she saw from the experience of others … mother had already thought about what needed to be done for my career; so I stopped doing children’s singing and went into soaps.

“That was my stepping-stone, so that people didn’t see me as a child star anymore, but as a soap actor, and then I went back to singing.”

In 2001, she starred in Pernikahan Dini, a TV adaptation of a controversial 1980s novel about teen pregnancy and early marriage. It was a different time, before today’s flood of teen-lit and TV spinoffs, and it was a potentially risky choice.

“Actually, I’ve always liked challenge,” she said. “When I feel that I am up against it, I am going to give it my best. It was even the case when I was small. I was a little nervous, because I was the lead, the story was a bit controversial and the rest of the cast were senior actors, but it [the insecurity] was only for a few days.”

It was a ratings success, leading to a slew of imitators. Then Agnes and team decided to return to music, debuting her first adult album, And the Story Goes … It included the suggestively titled, catchy Bilang Saja Bila Kau Mau, with an equally provocative video clip with an S+M undertone.

Child no more, a leather-clad Agnes taunted a man bound to a chair. A flirtation with the dark side, perhaps?

“I was 17 and I wanted to experiment,” she says of the video, later describing herself as “very religious but open-minded”. “That’s me. Maybe some day I want to be feminine, so I will be like that. But the next day I want to be a tomboy, and I will be like that.

“I don’t want to be that every day.”

In December, 2005, she released her second album, Whaddup A?!, with the hit single Bukan Milikmu (Not Yours), which brought her all the awards last year.

A measure of her popularity is her many commercials, from electronic goods to a motorcycle to body spray.

Agnes, who will be 21 on July 1, is a 15-year industry veteran; she has learned her lessons well, including from hostile run-ins with the powerful infotainment industry when she was a teenager. “I know how to be more diplomatic, how to handle the silly questions now.”

She also knows her detractors are waiting for her to fall on her pretty face – “I see jealousy as a sign of someone’s incapability,” she says – but that is not who she fears the most. Nobody’s perfect after all.

“I am most afraid of myself. I can face the outside threats, like people trying to bring me down. But I am afraid of being static, quiet, of being in my comfort zone. That is when you are vulnerable to ‘enemies’, and open to attack.”

Ultimately, though, it’s all about the big C.

“It comes from my mom, because she said if you don’t believe in yourself, then who will. Because 50 percent of the work is optimism …”

She refuses to categorize herself as a singer over an actress, or vice-versa, but prefers to call herself a “big dreamer”.

“One of the things I don’t like about being Asian is that if we have big dreams, then [others think] we are arrogant. I have a big dream to go international, and I have had it since I was a kid. And I told my mom and she was like, ‘yeah, OK, believe in your dreams’.

“Maybe some people are afraid of telling others of their dreams, because they are scared of being called arrogant, but I don’t care.”

It’s time for Agnes to get back to the set and the interview is done. Throughout the conversation, she has switched back and forth between Indonesian and English, the latter fully formed, fluent sentences, not the celebrity-speak of using the odd hackneyed English phrase.

As I replay the tape the next day, I realize something: Not once has she made a mistake in pronunciation, sentence structure or word choice. Agnes Monica is word perfect.
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www.thejakartapost.com/weekender/3enter.asp

credit to: shaista melora

Here what she has to say :


“One of the things I don’t like about being Asian is that if we have big dreams, then [others think] we are arrogant. I have a big dream to go international, and I have had it since I was a kid. And I told my mom and she was like, ‘yeah, OK, believe in your dreams’.


Agree with that??

most particularly about Indonesian, I agree with that statement. This is what I've been discussed with my friend. I regret that indo teens nowadays love everything instant and skip the process to get the final result when actually the most important thing is the process itself, not the result. I see Agnes does the right track where "process" is the crucial thing. Whether or not the result is the successful in States, the process itself has big impact for life in the future.
In the other hand, we can't generalize all indo youths as afraid to dream. They're very creative in their own ways, yet they're reluctant to show "the world" what they really are.

no; i never generalize like that.
if many other asians say i'm arrogant because i have big dreams, i still wouldn't say that.
cause there's absolutely nothin wrong with "being asian".
i dont associate myself with narrow-minded (asian) people.

I like her interviewed.
She's very different yet I'm proud of her.

Go Agnes, be what ever you want that good for you and your families, forget about those people who always let you down and I know that there's plenty of them out there.

When I was little, I saw people get better in their life (richer, popular, happy, etc...). I always said to myself 'Good for them and I wish I could be like them". I have never in my mind to think about them in negative way.

Asia: oh yeah, tipical Asian people (not all of them), specially those who we Manadonese called 'Carlota', nothing to do than just gossip about other people.

Example: My brother just finished his first ever movie & there's people said "Oh my ..../Really?", and so on.
I told him, be yourself, if Dirly can do it, you can too. Forget about those who always jelous.

There's nothing wrong with "being asian"??? touche!

I think we can also meet many non-asians who would be 'narrow-minded' like that as well, instead of rooting for your success, they want to slag you off for being too arrogant or ambitious.

But I do think that Singaporeans tend to be afraid of unusual things about people. For instance, when i tell them I juz come back from Africa, they are like are u a freak or sometin'????

A freak! Yeah... I like that word.

yanno, sista, I told my auntie about you to defend her daughter's choice to work in Singapore (becoz she was so paranoid about the safety of her only daughter). I said I have a girlfriend and she's working in Kenya and she's fine, and my aunt was like 'what was her mother thinking???'

guess what? my mom refuses to let me go back now...

actually, my parents wouldn't have let me go if it weren't for the fact that it was a great opportunity with the UN, so if ur fren is going to get a job that gives her a great exposure, her parents should let her fly!

bwahahaha...


it's a big opportunity for my cousin because she's gonna work with big architecture company in SG. She has refused the first offer last year because of her mom. Usually a good opportunity ain't come twice but she passed another interview again for SG company again... That's why I told her not to let this go away!

damn. if i was her, i just would've gone with the wind :b
i would NEVER let my parents make decisions for my future...

so u reckon i shd ignore my mom and return back to kenya? -

I agree but actually it's not that her parents make decisions for her future like that, it's just how her mother really concerns on her safety. her mom is kinda protective becoz she's the youngest child. I think I can understand her in certain extent. I'm the youngest child too and my mom sometimes wanna be involved whenever I want to make a big decision....which lead me to a question: is this a common Indonesian parenting type?

Agnes Monica "Trully Indonesia"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vxEM5Yqu8mg

I like that add so much. It was good. Do they really understand or ignore Indonesians?

What''s the advertisement about? Is it advertising for some 'jamu'???

i dunno... i think Singapore is definitely 'safer' than anywhere in the world.. think abt this, if your cousin came here to work, u can come visit her and shop till u drop!!! hehehe...

when i went to kenya, i had to show my parents how that would benefit me in the long run... not juz career wise, but mental and financial wise. They juz wanna be sure that I don't get influenced to become ashtray, i think that's the fundamental fear they have, that they lose their daughter somehow.

ofcourse not nerdo.
well, maybe unless you really love that little piece of heaven on earth.
i spoke for myself



well i can relate to that cause you already knew my mom's overprotective cause i'm her only child.
i just meant if i REALLY wanna go for somethin i wouldnt let anyone stop me.

yes, it's for Jamu


one of the reasons I support her


I guess so. because my mom happened to say she didn't care wherever my brother must go for his job, even to Iraq!

you're luckier than us because you're a man Indonesian moms are gender-biased somehow.

heheh yea it's an asian thing

Agnes is a talented girl, don't know whether u could win award with money, but in indonesia u can get out of penalty from police with money bribe. and Nusantara, what's with chinese moron remarks towards li_fung? don't be rude and racist.

not many people use that anymore, most just laying on the beach, and fake tan products. but she got white skin so it's easy and tan will be visible and don't look so dark but hot like giselle.

welcome to indochat, Lisa! we have the same name
and don't worry, li_fung and Nusantara have long gone

i think with dirly just for media boost,like with bams. her type seems to be like vj daniel.

I don't think she have indonesian/malay but she's chinese who just happens to live in indonesia but not have indonesian race.