Pewarta Dari Jakarta

When I stepped out of the Podung Airport on one foggy Tuesday morning, I had only two things on my mind: A shower and clean sheet to sleep on.

English singer-songwriter Craig David arrived at the Java Jazz Festival’s press conference looking casual in sneakers, jeans and a personalized black t-shirt that read: #EatCleanTrainDirty. 

“I was a very overweight child growing up,” he said, opening up about his painful childhood. 

“But you must have any fear that you’re trying to overcome at some point. And I got to change that mentality.”

Since about three years ago, David dedicated himself to healthy living. He has the #EatCleanTrainDirty hashtag on his Twitter account and started a Facebook group under the same name. 

He wrote on the page: “As a musician music is what drives me everyday, but without the mental & physical health none of it would be possible.” 

“[Training] gives me a clear peace of mind. … When you’re eating bad, you feel lethargic. If you feel that way, how are you going to produce the best results?” he said.

Now that he’s in a better shape than he was previously, David, 31, is ready like he was indeed born to do it. 

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First a mother bathes her child, then the other way around

Let me give you this hypothetical. You are a digital editor at a fine publication. You are in charge of writing some stuff, commissioning some stuff, editing some stuff. Maybe you have an official traffic goal, or (more likely), you want to be awesome, qualitatively and quantitatively. A lot of people in this business are driven from the inside out, and you almost have to be given the daily demands. You have to want to be jacked into the Internet all day long, every day. This is not the life most journalists imagined when they were looking at 1970s magazines. In any case, you want to crush, as I would call it.

What do you do?

Here are some options:

1. Write a lot of original pieces yourself. (Pro: Awesome. Con: Hard, slow.) 
2. Take partner content. (Pro: Content! Con: It’s someone else’s content.) 
3. Find people who are willing to write for a small amount of money. (Pro: Maybe good. Con: Often bad.) 
4. Find people who are willing to write for no money. (Pro: Free. Con: Crapshoot.) 
5. Aggregate like a mug. (Pro: Can put smartest stuff on blog. Con: No one will link to it.) 
6. Rewrite press releases so they look like original content. (Pro: Content. Con: You suck.)

Don’t laugh. These are actual content strategies out there in the wilds of the Internet. I am sure you have encountered them.

He believes in the love of his God of all things, but I find him wrapped up in all manner of sins

Was I good to you, the wife of my youth? Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do.

This can’t be healthy now the way I think about her lips.