Eudemons Online Cheat

Eudemons Online

Mage: Defeating strong enemies:
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Submitted by: RM

Summon two Eudemons who have spells that shoot. Then use sneak or
invisibility. Hover your pointer over the monster and press the
function keys for whatever spell you have them assigned.
For example, if you have Thunder assigned to F3, continuously press F3.
The game will freeze for a few seconds then about twenty Thunders will
come down on your enemy.


Easy Kills:
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Submitted by: andrew

Warrior: for a warrior use the skills Chain Chop or Flying chop on the enemies
while you have alot of pot atleast 200+ mage: use invisablity on urself then use
thunder with ur euds so u wont be seen when ur magic is low use soul seeker to
heal it.


Hint:
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Submitted by: moamed

There is good cheat enable u to make the screen smaller u can type>>/scale 70<<
then see what happen.


Hint:
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Submitted by: DoesntMatter

Type this in normal chat then click enter /armor 133088 or /setrweapon 410244


Cheat:
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Submitted by: dana

duel swords = first u need to have the box with the char. name ur talking to empty.
then u just type in /setlweapon 420244.


Cheat:
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Submitted by: red.flame

U can get woriar armor and swords armor 132088 and /setrweapon 410144 /setrweapon 410234
/setrweapon 410244 /setrweapon 420244
HAVE FUN in eudemons online


Cheats:
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Update by: daniel
Submitted by: ArdIa

-----Codes-----
/addeffect weapon01
/addeffect weapon02
Write /armor 1144558 to be invisible :P
/armor 001190520
/armor 001190160
/setlweapon 410240
/setlweapon 420230
/setlweapon 410230
/setlweapon 420240
/setlweapon 440230
/setlweapon 440240
/setrweapon 410144
/setrweapon 410234
/setrweapon 410244
/addeffect weapon01
/addeffect weapon02
/armor 1133094
/setlweapon 410344
/armor 1190160
/armor 1190060
/armor 1190560
/armor 2190580 female
/setrweapon 420234
/setrweapon 440244
/armor 1133068
/armor 1133077
/armor 1133089
/armor 1134029
/armor 1133097
/armor 1134048
/armor 1134054
/armor 1134062
/armor 1131100
/armor 1131110
/armor 1190400
/armor 1190380
/armor 1190240
ObsidianMail        - /armor 1190400
Santa Suit Female   - /armor 2190260
Santa Suit Male     - /armor 1190240
Silver Wings        - /armor 1190380
Golden Wings        - /armor 2190360
PinkRomance Female  - /armor 2190540
PinkRomance Male    - /armor 1190520
RoseLoveBird Male   - /armor 1190120
RoseLoveBird Female - /armor 2190140
MiracleLight Male   - /armor 1190160
MiracleLight Female - /armor 2190200
Manderine Male      - /armor 1190320
Manderine Female    - /armor 2190340
JasperTunic         - /armor 2190420
VioletDiamond       - /armor 2190460
SummerHunter Female - /armor 2190500
SummerHunter Male   - /armor 1190480
ShadowMoon          - /armor 1190440


Hint:
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Submitted by: jordan tiu

Up level fast when u re 30lvl, make a team lv90 above player call they 2 dragon
mountain, went your XP is full use it,u can up many level as you one faster then
self training.


How to level up:
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Well first of all go and fight madbulls until lvl 5. Then dont kill green giants
instead kill bullywugs till lvl 8. Now this may sound wierd but when lvl 8 go to
the dragonkins and kill them until lvl 15 so you can get gods blessing!!!. Now
you have 3 ways to choose from Either 1: go through portal at the bottom of the
map and kill eyeballs until lvl 20. 2: use gods blessing offline training (press
red button when logging off). or 3: jst kill dragonkins until lvl 20 (you can get
good stuff by killing dragonkins like eudemon eggs so if u get eud eggs hatch them
and lvl them up to lvl 20 then sell them for good money). This is the end of my
short guide.

Cease-Fire by Pakistan in Attacks on Militants

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Pakistani military, which has been criticized by the Bush administration as not pushing hard enough against Taliban militants in the country’s tribal areas, has used jet fighters and helicopter gunships in the past three weeks to strike at insurgents pouring over the border to attack American forces in Afghanistan.

The air assaults have resulted in more than 400 Taliban casualties in Bajaur, an area of the tribal region where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have forged close ties, and have forced the militants to retreat from villages that they controlled, a military official involved in the operations said.

But on Saturday night, the Pakistani government declared a cease-fire in the area for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins here on Wednesday. The deal was arranged after the electorally important Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, a religious party, and legislators from the tribal areas said they would support Asif Ali Zardari for president in return for an end to the airstrikes.

Mr. Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and head of the Pakistan Peoples Party, is the leading candidate for president in the electoral college vote scheduled for Saturday.

The cease-fire prompted concerns that whatever gains had been made against militants in the region would be squandered. Khalid Aziz, a former chief secretary of the North-West Frontier Province, said the Taliban would use the opportunity to regroup.

“Some communities have risen up against the militants, and the government has to capitalize on this, has to prop them up,” he said. “They haven’t done it.”

It was unclear whether the cease-fire would extend beyond Ramadan, politicians from the tribal areas said.

The last three weeks of airstrikes, in addition to a monthlong air and ground offensive in nearby Swat, a scenic area in the North-West Frontier Province, was the most sustained campaign by the Pakistani military after months of intense pressure by the Bush administration to do more against the insurgents.

Whether or not the military’s Bajaur operation was intended specifically to assist the United States, the airstrikes dovetailed with Washington’s interests. The Bush administration has said that the ability of Al Qaeda and Taliban to operate there and in other areas of the tribal belt gives them license to plot attacks against the United States.

The militants, operating with impunity from havens like Bajaur, a 250-square-mile pocket of mountains and narrow valleys on the northern edge of the tribal areas, have struck American and NATO forces in Afghanistan with mounting ferocity.

In that context, the Pakistani army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, was invited to a secret meeting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, on an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea last week.

It was their fifth encounter since General Kayani took over as army chief from Pervez Musharraf in November. The session at sea appears to have been more congenial than a confrontation in Islamabad in July, when Admiral Mullen told the Pakistanis that Washington had evidence of the involvement of their powerful spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, in the bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

As a result of the air campaign, more than 200,000 civilians have fled their homes, according to the World Health Organization and Unicef, which are providing assistance in the area. Many of the refugees, who are now squatting in makeshift camps or bunking with extended family, are angry at the deaths of relatives and the destruction of property. More than 40,000 people from Bajaur are now refugees in Afghanistan, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

Most of the women in the camps arrived clad in burqas and remained inside small tents with up to 11 children squeezed together on the ground without mattresses and with very little water.

The Pakistani military has met fierce resistance from the militants in Bajaur. Col. Shahbaz Rasul of the Frontier Corps, the paramilitary force that is leading the army operations there, said more than 400 Taliban had been killed by airstrikes, though an official with access to Inter-Services Intelligence data said an estimated 200 Taliban had been killed. It was difficult to verify the number of casualties independently.

Colonel Rasul said that the Taliban fighters were better paid than his soldiers and that they were well motivated. He said the Taliban force numbered 2,300 men under four commanders. The largest group, with about 1,200 men, fought under Faqir Mohammad, the second in command of the umbrella group Tehrik-e-Taliban, he said.

There were reports that Mr. Faqir, reputed to run the most disciplined Taliban force in Bajaur, had been killed during the early days of the airstrikes. But Mr. Faqir later gave a radio interview saying he had survived by jumping out of his van before a bomb hit it, killing 11 of his fighters.

The Frontier Corps has remained inside its fort at Khar, the capital of Bajaur, since the airstrikes began, Colonel Rasul said. That is largely because the corps was bloodied during three days of heavy fighting in early August, when soldiers tried to take back a post at Loe Sam from the Taliban. The village is at a strategic junction leading north to Kunar Province in Afghanistan, and about 10 miles from Damadola, where an American airstrike in January 2006 failed to kill Ayman al-Zawahri, the Qaeda deputy.

In the fighting to recapture Loe Sam, 29 soldiers were killed, Colonel Rasul said. After three attempts using 400 men to take the post, the Frontier Corps had to retreat along the 16-mile road from Loe Sam to Khar.

“The miscreants came in full force in numbers of men and sophistication of equipment,” he said of the surprising strength of the Taliban around Loe Sam. The Pakistani Army uses “miscreants” to describe the Taliban.

Maulvi Omar, the spokesman of the Tehrik-e-Taliban, said in a telephone interview on Friday that the Taliban had lost only six people in the fight over Loe Sam. He minimized the losses elsewhere. Mr. Omar often answers reporters’ calls on a cellphone, an indication that he is in an area with phone coverage, raising questions about why the military has not been able to capture him.

In the interview, Mr. Omar criticized Mr. Zardari for doing what he called America’s bidding. “If the Zardari government has promised to kill us for the sake of American aid, then he should better hand the country over to India,” he said.

Meanwhile, many Pakistanis in the North-West Frontier Province and the tribal belt said that they were pleased that the government was taking firm action against the Taliban, who are now threatening the capital of the province, Peshawar, and have taken over some of the towns around it.

But the airstrikes were criticized for being indiscriminate. The assault had not killed any known leaders of the Taliban in Bajaur, said Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, a former interior minister, whose constituency is close to Bajaur. The displaced civilians blamed the government for the hardships in the camps and for the destruction of their homes.

Another legislator, Muneer Orekzai, said: “It’s not justice to kill 5 Taliban and 95 civilians. Everyone knows who the militants are in every village. We want a targeted operation with the army going on search and destroy operations.” In Salarzai, a cluster of villages in the northern part of Bajaur, local people had organized themselves against the Taliban, Jalal Uddin, a tribal leader, said in a telephone interview.

“People are fed up with the Taliban,” Mr. Uddin said.

“People are seeing the government fighting the Taliban, so they are encouraged,” he said, adding that it was disappointing that none of the Taliban leaders had been killed.

As news of the government cease-fire spread over the weekend, there were indications that many of the displaced in the camps would return home. But some said they were worried about the absence of government ground forces.

“If we go back now, no one is in charge, neither the militants nor the government,” said Maroof Shah, a shopkeeper from Loe Sam who brought an extended family of 23 on the trek out of Bajaur to escape the bombing.

A Cabana Culture Eases Into the Sunset

FOR as many girlhood summers as she can remember, Anne Scordo whiled away weekends at the Malibu Beach Club on the south shore of Long Island, enjoying aimless afternoons painting seashells with her cousins and stringing them on necklaces to sell to neighbors. “My cousins and I are best friends to this day,” Ms. Scordo said, “because we grew up here as a family.”

Today family on most Sundays means Ms. Scordo; her great aunt, Gertrude Rossetti, 88; and a grandmother, Anne Marie Bowler, 85.

Sure, she could drive to the Hamptons. “But things are just different here, it’s not pretentious, it’s home,” said Ms. Scordo, 33, a partner in a law firm in Manhattan. “My auntie and grandma, I know they will always be here.”

Always, she hopes, will be a long time. But she is also acutely aware that when Mrs. Bower dies, her own summer idylls will also vanish. Like other cabana communities along Lido Beach, a 3.1-mile strip of sand sandwiched between the towns of Long Beach and Point Lookout in Nassau County, the Malibu club is on the cusp of change.

One in a string of glitz-free beach clubs along the south shore of Long Island, around an hour’s drive from Manhattan, it is a day-tripper’s Eden. Members pay about $3,500 a year to rent one of 600 brightly painted cinderblock lean-tos, most of them no bigger than a garden shed, their only built-in amenities a shower, a toilet, walls and a roof.

Just yards from the ocean, the Malibu’s simple aqua huts are nevertheless home to a richly textured community that has thrived since the late ’50s.

The members, mostly Irish-, Jewish- and Italian-American families, trade recipes and shards of gossip, play Scrabble or canasta, and gather for improvised dinners of grilled corn and clams.

Most view their enclave as an affordable and welcoming alternative to Martha’s Vineyard or the Hamptons, and one that — as the days grow cooler — they are reluctant to leave.

But this weekend, some will be folding up beach chairs for the last time. Fully 55 percent of the cabanas have been rented by the same families since 1982, but the number diminishes each year because of a rule passed that year by the Town of Hempstead, which owns the Malibu, requiring families to move out once the original member dies.

The cabana then passes to a new tenant, selected from a waiting list of Hempstead residents that goes back as long as 15 years. The newcomer may stay for three seasons.

The rise of turnover renters, as they are known at the Malibu, means that short-timers are starting to outnumber members with generations-deep roots in the community, inexorably changing a way of life.

“This for me is a home away from home,” said Jim Heins, a son of longtime members, who runs an insurance agency in New York City. “But when our parents die, leaving here will be an emotional thing. You can never go back.”

For now, older members and their clans pass the weekends as they always have. On a strip of sand that serves as a community commons, girls twirl Hula Hoops and boys in Crayola-colored swim trunks play Nok Hockey, pushing wooden pucks across a board borrowed from a nearby recreation center.

At the far edge of the commons, where a party was in progress one recent Sunday, boys and girls danced the limbo and families lined up on the sand to toss water balloons, their fingers sticky with cotton candy. In keeping with the tropical-theme festivities, some revelers wore leis and decorated their cabanas with rubber palms and plastic orchids and bougainvillea.

Mr. Heins, 47, likes to brings friends. “I call them the East Village Fresh Air Fund,” he said, describing his posse of “aging rockers with tattoos and belly rings,” a little at sea in a setting where plenty of women still wear one-piece swimsuits with cancan ruffles.

“For my New York friends, this is a time warp from the ’60s,” he said. “It’s a little bit of a shock.” Still, they adjust, joining the commotion in the large pool or barbecuing burgers on Mr. Heins’s sidewalk porch.

Mary Rita and Bill O’Brien, renters for 40 years, prefer quieter weekends, pulling up lawn chairs in front of their cabana, its doors decorated with hand-painted topiary.

DENNIS CONROY, a sinewy-looking retired rigging engineer, likes taking lone dips in the ocean, a weekly rite he continues past Labor Day. “In September there are hurricanes and the water is rough,” he said. “That’s the best time.”

But he is part of a maverick minority. As Mr. Heins observed: “Come here, and you’ve got to be ready for people. You’re not to going to sit in solitude.”

Newcomers — the three-year people in the parlance of long-timers — are quick to adopt the etiquette of their adopted community, passing platters of home-baked chocolate chip cookies down the cabana rows, hoping to ingratiate themselves with neighbors.

Inside the cabanas, the newcomers can be more self-conscious about raising their voices than residents whose family business has been hung out like laundry for decades.

“You have to get along with your neighbors. You are basically living with them,” said Audrey Schenendorf, a retired elementary school teacher who moved to Malibu from the neighboring Sands club. With a furtive glance over her shoulder, she rasped, “Sometimes you can hear them fighting.”

Judy Veneroso, who sat on the beach playing Scrabble with her sister Bonnie Clavin and her mother, Olga Veneroso, 94, recalled: “We used to have more people. We would down and watch everybody’s kids grow up. If we didn’t see them, we worried.”

Joan Donovan, whose parents began renting at the Malibu in the ’60s, remembers her childhood summers as “a way of life.”

“We didn’t see each other all winter long,” she said, “but we would just pick up where we left off.”

Today, longtime neighbors up and down the rows congratulate one another on weddings and births. Or they commiserate over family scandals and illnesses. “But that is just with the people we’ve known forever,” Ms. Donovan said. “With the newer people, we don’t get that nosy.”

For some of these members, the prospect of change prompts rueful laughter. “I always tell my dad if he gets sick, we’re going to have to freeze him,” Mr. Heins said. “Then we can rent for one more year.”

Another year? “Well, you never know who will be next door,” Ms. Schenendorf said. As Labor Day approached, she was telling old friends, “I’ll see you next summer — if you’re here.”

“Lately,” she said, “that’s the way all my sentences go.”

In Obama’s Choice, a ‘Very Personal Decision’

WASHINGTON — In the beginning, Senator Barack Obama was not entirely sold on Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. And Mr. Biden told friends that he was pessimistic of his chances of becoming Mr. Obama’s Democratic running mate.

Over the course of two months, as the dynamics of the presidential campaign and world events shifted quickly, Mr. Biden’s stock rose through one of the most rigorous vice-presidential vetting processes that Democrats could recall. It was a process in which Mr. Obama applied intense secrecy, careful pragmatism and political input from a team of internal and external advisers that have guided his campaign from the start. And it ended Thursday with a phone call from Mr. Obama, who reached Mr. Biden as he was at a dentist’s office where he had taken his wife to have a root canal.

On Saturday, as the two men embraced before a crowd in Illinois, the new Democratic partnership made its debut. Yet in a moment that could have showcased Mr. Obama’s decision-making, his top advisers made a concerted effort not to disclose how he made his choice, instead choosing to showcase the life stories of the two men on the ticket and to present Mr. Biden as a forceful new critic of Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.

“It’s a very personal decision,” said David Axelrod, the campaign’s chief strategist, in a brief interview Saturday. “He approached it in a very serious, sober and reasoned way.”

Mr. Obama reached the decision about 10 days ago while on a weeklong vacation to Hawaii. That week, Mr. Biden’s strengths in foreign policy were highlighted by the conflict between Russia and Georgia, giving his prospects a further boost. Associates of the other main possibility on Mr. Obama’s list, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, said Mr. Obama cited the situation in Georgia in breaking the news to Mr. Bayh late last week that he had chosen Mr. Biden.

But people involved in the process said it was not just foreign policy that tilted the balance. They said Mr. Obama’s decision had as much to do with Mr. Biden’s appeal among white working-class voters and compelling personal story, and his conclusion that the Delaware senator was “a worker.”

The plans for the announcement began to take shape in early July. Until the end, aides said, a small team inside the Chicago headquarters planned for four possibilities: Mr. Biden, Mr. Bayh, Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. Speeches were written, media plans were made and private planes were at the ready to take any of the four to Springfield, Ill.

Mr. Biden was hardly considered a likely pick at the start of the process. His reputation for verbosity was Washington legend. While he impressed at the debates by defying expectations with his brevity, his presidential campaign foundered and ended quickly.

“I think in his heart of hearts he thought in the end he wouldn’t get it,” said Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania, a friend. “During the vetting process you mostly hear why you wouldn’t be a good candidate,” he added, naming “the change issue” and “some of the things he said during the campaign.”

But Mr. Biden had some powerful patrons in his corner whose opinions Mr. Obama respected, like Mr. Rendell; Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the chairman of the House Democratic caucus; and Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts — not only a respected Senate lion but also uncle to a senior member of Mr. Obama’s vetting team, Caroline Kennedy.

As the vetting team sorted through Mr. Biden’s financial statements, political statements and medical records, Mr. Obama’s top political aides — Mr. Axelrod chief among them — reached out to friends in Mr. Obama’s orbit to get a sense of what sort of politician Mr. Biden was. The results belied Mr. Biden’s reputation. Reports came back that he was not only potentially more energetic and disciplined than widely known, but also that he had a distinct appeal suited to the areas throughout the industrial Midwest where Mr. Obama had struggled in the primaries.

But Mr. Obama was seeking a running mate with whom he would be comfortable governing for four or eight years, a bit of advice Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts had given him.

“I get the sense that he was quite serious about thinking through about the nature of who his partner will be there and, I think, the role of the vice president as a future partner in government,” said David Wilhelm, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who worked on Mr. Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign and is close to Mr. Obama.

“I think it’s easy to give that sort of thing short shrift,” he added, “so ‘what kind of partner I’m getting’ mattered quite a bit.”

Much of the process unfolded in silence as dozens of lawyers completed their tedious assignments for the vice-presidential vetting team. They conducted lengthy sit-down interviews with at least six Democratic prospects, and they demanded thousands of pages of documents, including copies of speeches delivered more than two decades ago.

In addition to the four ultimate finalists, Democratic officials said, Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut were also among those who received extensive consideration. Teams of lawyers, at least 10 for some candidates, were assembled to inspect finances, medical histories and political backgrounds of the prospective candidates and their families.

In an interview Saturday, Mr. Richardson said that Mr. Obama called him soon after he claimed the nomination on June 3 to tell him that he wanted to put him on his list of prospects. But, Mr. Richardson said, Mr. Obama warned him that it would be an intensive process, and asked him to consider whether he was up for it. (After checking with his wife, Mr. Richardson said, he called back to say he was.)

Mr. Obama called to check in with him midway through the process, Mr. Richardson said, before his vacation to Hawaii. As always, Mr. Obama dialed Mr. Richardson himself from his cellphone. Mr. Richardson said he told Mr. Obama that he had not seen his name on lists in the news media, and Mr. Obama responded by saying, “No, you’re in this thing.”

Mr. Richardson was alerted weeks later that his vetting process had gone well, he said, but late last week — he would not say exactly when — Mr. Obama called to thank him and tell him, “I’ve made up my mind, and we’re going in another direction.”

In the waning days, several people close to Mr. Bayh said he remained upbeat over the possibility that he would be Mr. Obama’s choice. He had met with Mr. Obama several times, and the amount of information Mr. Obama’s staff had asked for was beyond anything Mr. Bayh — who has been in contention for the vice-presidential position at least twice before — had experienced.

Mr. Biden, meanwhile, was viewed as undercutting himself with his own behavior as reporters staked out his Delaware residence. When Mr. Biden returned home in his white pickup truck from a garbage dump and made an off-color joke to camera crews last week, an e-mail message circulated among Mr. Bayh’s closest associates that read, “Keep talking Joe, please keep talking.”

He did not.

Final DBL

Kagum Lihat Antusiasme Penonton di DBL Arena

SURABAYA - Siapa pernah menyangka pertandingan basket SMA tingkat provinsi bisa menjadi pertandingan bersejarah sekaligus paling happening di Indonesia? Final party Jawa Timur kompetisi basket terbesar Grup Jawa Pos, Honda DetEksi Basketball League (DBL) 2008, merupakan pertandingan resmi pertama di Indonesia yang dihadiri seorang bintang NBA.

Danny Granger, top scorer Indiana Pacers, kemarin datang di DBL Arena Surabaya untuk menyapa penggemar, melakukan tip-off final laga putra, mengalungkan medali dan menyerahkan trofi juara, bahkan sempat bermain 2Ball bersama beberapa bintang SMA di saat jeda pertandingan.

Selain mencatat sejarah, final party itu sudah bikin heboh sebelum pertandingan dimulai. DBL Arena yang berkapasitas 4.400 penonton pada dasarnya sold out sejak sehari sebelumnya (Jumat, 22/8). Panitia hanya menyisakan sejumlah tiket untuk mereka yang datang pada hari H.

Namun, sejak pukul 09.00 kerumunan penonton sudah terbentuk di depan DBL Arena. Padahal, pintu masuk gedung baru dibuka dua jam kemudian, dan tangga naik ke tribun baru dibuka pukul 14.00.

Begitu boleh masuk, para calon penonton pun berlarian ke loket. Mereka ingin menjadi yang pertama antre di depan. Sayang, tidak semua bisa langsung dapat tanda masuk. Sejak pagi itu panitia hanya mengizinkan satu tanda masuk untuk setiap pengantre.

Setelah itu, antrean harus menunggu hingga ada ruang lowong di tribun. Misalnya, setelah laga pertama, antara tim putri SMA Ciputra Surabaya melawan SMAN 8 Malang. Kalau ada rombongan suporter pulang, baru penonton dimasukkan.

"Teman-teman kemarin sudah reservasi tiket final. Tapi, aku belum kebagian. Daripada nggak dapat, aku cepat-cepat datang pagi," kata Jane Natasha, pelajar SMA Petra 4 Sidoarjo, yang datang sekitar pukul 09.00.

Karena banyaknya antrean itu, bukan hanya tribun yang padat dengan penonton. Atrium DBL Arena seluas sekitar 2.000 meter persegi pun dipenuhi orang yang menunggu giliran naik. Total, lebih dari 6.000 orang hadir di DBL Arena kemarin.

Tapi, mereka tidak kehilangan momen di lapangan. Sebab, sejak pagi panitia sudah menyiapkan layar lebar ukuran 3 x 4 meter di atrium. Pengunjung pun nonton bareng di atrium yang ber-AC itu. "Meski tak bisa naik tribun, ini ada sisi positifnya. Enak di sini, dingin. Selain itu, di sini tidak bayar," kata Maria Reni, anak SMA Petra 1 Surabaya, lantas tertawa.

Pertandingan final pertama itu berlangsung sangat ketat. Angka tim putri SMA Ciputra dan SMAN 8 Malang saling menyalip dari kuarter pertama hingga kuarter keempat. Akhirnya, SMA Ciputra berhasil selamat, menang tipis 58-53. Padahal, pada menit-menit akhir, tiga dari empat starter Ciputra sudah fouled out. Mereka beruntung karena mesin poin utama SMAN 8 Malang, Mey Putridiana, juga fouled out.

Kemenangan itu menjadi lebih istimewa karena Ir Ciputra ikut hadir di DBL Arena untuk menonton. Begitu timnya menang, dia menyalami semua pemain. Yang lebih istimewa, kemenangan itu merupakan hadiah ulang tahun bagi Ir Ciputra. Hari ini (24/8) dia berusia 77 tahun.

"Memang hari ini (kemarin, Red) Pak Ciputra sengaja datang, melihat tim Sekolah Ciputra bertanding. Setelah tahu pertandingan seru, Bapak tidak mau pulang. Padahal, dia harus ke Jakarta dengan pesawat pukul 17.00. Akhirnya dia berangkat dengan pesawat pukul 20.00," kata Harun Hajadi, managing director Grup Ciputra.

Kehebohan memuncak sebelum dimulainya final putra antara SMA Petra 4 Sidoarjo melawan SMAN 2 Jember. Pertama, penonton merasa terharu dengan acara lamaran kejutan di tengah lapangan. Awalnya, DBL memberi penghargaan kepada tim profesional Surabaya, CLS Knights, atas bantuannya dalam Honda DBL 2008.

Tapi itu hanya pancingan. Ketika diberi mic, Christopher Tanuwidjaja, 28, general manager memanggil nama sang kekasih, Sherly Humardani, 27, yang duduk di ruang kamera. Tiba-tiba Christopher bilang, "Will you marry me?" Para pemain CLS Knights melepas baju pemanasan mereka. Di dalamnya ada kaus yang kalau dirangkai bersebelahan bertuliskan "Pls marry me".

Sherly yang terkejut lantas diberi selembar kertas besar oleh panitia. Dia diminta menulis jawabannya di kertas tersebut. Jawabannya, "Yes." Penonton pun bersorak.

Acara itu memang sudah lama disiapkan Christopher dan kru DBL. Tapi, Sherly tak boleh tahu. "Saya pilih cara ini karena kami berdua hidup di basket. Saya di CLS Knights, Sherly dulu pemain nasional," ungkap Christopher.

Penonton kembali bersemangat ketika Commissioner DBL Azrul Ananda mengumumkan bahwa tahun depan kompetisi ini akan mengunjungi lebih banyak lagi kota dan provinsi. "Tahun ini 11 kota dan sepuluh provinsi, tahun depan 16 kota di 15 provinsi," kata Azrul, yang belum mau menyebutkan kota-kota tambahannya.

Azrul lantas mengumumkan bahwa Honda masih akan menjadi partner utama DBL untuk 2009. Sebelum prosesi Indonesia Raya menjelang pertandingan terakhir, Azrul mengundang Sigit Kumala, pimpinan marketing and product development division PT Astra Honda Motor, dan Suwito, direktur MPM Motor, ke tengah lapangan bersama para pemain finalis untuk prosesi yang sudah menjadi tradisi DBL sejak 2004 itu.

Tepat sebelum Indonesia Raya, puncak kehebohan tiba. Azrul mengundang tamu paling istimewa. Dia menunjuk layar LED di atas tribun, yang kemudian menampilkan highlight permainan Danny Granger di NBA. Layar LED lain lantas bergeser di pintu keluar pemain, dan keluarlah sang bintang NBA. Penonton berteriak, "Danny! Danny! Danny!"

Granger tampak gagah dengan kaus tanpa lengan dan celana basket. Semakin menunjukkan "badan NBA"-nya yang 206 cm dan berotot. Dia ikut berdiri di tengah lapangan, mendengarkan Indonesia Raya.

Kemudian, pemain 25 tahun itu melakukan tip-off, lantas menyaksikan pertandingan dari VVIP Suite di tribun atas DBL Arena. Saat dimintai komentar tentang final party ini, Granger hanya geleng-geleng kepala. Dia hanya punya jawaban pendek-pendek. "This is cool. This is so cool. This is crazy," katanya. "Saya tak pernah membayangkan pertandingan di Indonesia bisa seperti ini," tambahnya.

Saat half-time, Granger kembali turun ke lapangan. Dia bermain NBA 2Ball (permainan dua orang shooting) bergantian bersama tiga pemain Honda DBL 2008: Nabil Zakariah (SMA Ta'miriyah Surabaya), Elliana Kusumaningrum (SMA Petra 3 Surabaya), dan Arwan Wirareka Wahana (SMAN 9 Surabaya).

Granger hampir selalu memilih menembak dari luar garis tiga angka. Di Pacers dia memang paling akurat dari jarak jauh. Dalam sejarah tim, hanya Reggie Miller yang mampu menyaingi. Namun, tembakan-tembakan awalnya banyak tidak masuk. Dia lantas mundur selangkah dua langkah di belakang garis, barulah tembakannya masuk berurutan. Penonton terkagum-kagum.

Granger mengaku sempat lupa bahwa garis tiga angka yang dipakai di DBL Arena mengikuti aturan FIBA. Di NBA sedikit lebih jauh. Makanya, ketika dia mundur, tembakan justru lebih mulus.

Final putra itu sendiri berlangsung agak timpang. SMA Petra 4 Sidoarjo mampu mempertahankan gelar, menang relatif mudah, 60-36. Untuk kali pertama dalam sejarah SMA putra DBL, ada tim yang meraih juara dua kali. Sebelumnya, tidak pernah ada sekolah yang menang dua kali di kategori SMA putra.

Setelah pertandingan, para pemain SMA Ciputra dan SMA Petra 4 bergantian menerima kalungan medali dari Granger. Kemudian mereka menerima trofi dan berfoto bersama. "Puas sekali. Nanti malam bisa-bisa saya tidak bisa tidur saking senangnya," kata Oei Abraham Yoel, kapten Petra 4.

Yoel dan para finalis Jawa Timur ini memang harus tidur nyenyak. Hari ini, bersama tim-tim juara Honda DBL 2008 lain (total 11 kota), mereka akan kembali bertemu Danny Granger, dalam NBA Basketball Clinic, even resmi pertama NBA di Indonesia.

Pagi ini para champion (total sekitar 240 pemain) mengikuti pra-klinik dulu bersama CLS Knights. Dari situ akan dipilih 50 pemain (25 putra dan 25 putri). Lima puluh pemain itu yang akan latihan langsung bersama Granger. "Saya ingin masuk 50 besar itu, lalu belajar nge-dunk dari Danny," harap Yoel.

Mereka yang tidak masuk 50 besar tidak perlu khawatir. Sebab, mereka tetap punya kesempatan untuk berlama-lama bersama sang bintang. Mendengar pesan-pesan dan pelajaran bagaimana menjadi pemain basket yang sukses. Dan, mereka semua akan berfoto bareng dengan Granger, meninggalkan pengalaman tak terlupakan.

NBA Basketball Clinic di DBL Arena ini terbuka untuk publik. Kemarin, setelah final, masih banyak penonton antre reservasi. Banyak di antaranya penggemar yang tidak kebagian tempat nonton final party. "Wah, ini pasti nggak bisa masuk. Harusnya gedungnya dibikin lebih besar. Tapi, saya datang memang pengin nonton Granger. Besok (hari ini, Red) masih ada kan? Kalau begitu, pesan untuk NBA Basketball Clinic saja," kata Alwin, 25, karyawan swasta. (rum/hil/aul)

Miss Universe

SURABAYA- Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza akhirnya tiba di Surabaya kemarin. Senyum manis seolah tak lepas sedetik pun dari wajah cantiknya meski setumpuk agenda harus dilakukan.

Mendoza mendarat di bandara Juanda tepat pukul 09.30. Kemunculan perempuan asal Venezuela itu menyita banyak perhatian orang di sekitarnya. Tak berlama-lama, Mendoza langsung diajak menuju kendaraan yang akan menjadi tumpangannya selama di metropolis.

Ada dua mobil yang disediakan. Sebuah sedan Mercy seri S 320 untuk Mendoza. Dan satu BMW seri 5 untuk Zivanna Letisha Siregar (Zizi), Putri Indonesia 2008 yang menemani Mendoza selama melakoni berbagai kunjungan di Indonesia. Namun ternyata Mendoza menolak. Pemilik bola mata berwarna hijau itu lebih memilih Toyota Alphard, mobil yang dipersiapkan untuk bodyguard pengawalnya. "Kita sudah menunjukkan mobil yang disediakan untuknya. Tapi, dia menggeleng dan menunjuk Alphard," ujar Rensi Dewi Bulan, ketua acara.

Setelah itu secara beriringan, rombongan yang terbang dari Jakarta tersebut dibawa menuju Gedung Graha Pena. Begitu tiba di pelataran depan, Mendoza langsung diberi kejutan atraksi reog Ponorogo.

"Good morning, everyone," ujarnya ramah menyapa ratusan orang yang sudah berkumpul menyambutnya. Oleh penari reog, kelahiran Caracas 1 Juni 1986 itu lalu diminta naik ke dadak merak untuk diarak selama beberapa menit. "Oh my God," seru Mendoza.

Selesai, Mendoza lalu digiring menuju ruang redaksi Jawa Pos di lantai empat. Di sana, dia disambut Direktur Jawa Pos Nany Wijaya, Wakil Direktur Eddy Nugroho, dan Pemimpin Redaksi, Rohman Budijanto. Salah seorang finalis Elite Model Look International 2001 itu diajak berkeliling ruang redaksi sekaligus mendapat penjelasan singkat seputar pembuatan koran. Begitu dipameri koran Jawa Pos yang memuat fotonya, Mendoza langsung berucap, "It's so beautiful."

Puas, Mendoza lalu menuju ke ruang redaksi Tabloid Nyata yang ada satu lantai di bawah. Di tengah perjalanan, dia dihentikan oleh seorang kakek yang ingin mengambil gambarnya. Mendoza pun berhenti dan dengan ramah meladeni permintaan pria bernama Panda tersebut. Sebelum melanjutkan perjalanan ke tempat kedua, pemilik tinggi 176 cm itu diajak melihat-lihat produk textile, textile one yang ada di lobi.

Sekitar pukul 10.30 Mendoza dan rombongan meluncur menuju Pakuwon Imperial Ballroom untuk bersantap siang dengan 1.000 konsumen Yamaha. Lagi-lagi, dara bernama lengkap Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada disambut reog Singo Mangkujoyo. Pada salah satu atraksi, dia diminta menyuapkan lampu bohlam ke mulut Hendro Utomo, salah seorang penari yang menyuguhkan aksi makan beling. Saat melakukannya, wajah Mendoza terlihat tegang. Ketika giliran diminta memasukkan silet ke mulut Hendro, Mendoza menolak karena ngeri. "No, no," ujarnya sambil mengeryitkan dahi.

Pada acara itu Mendoza ditemani Direktur Utama PT. Surya Timur Sakti Jatim, Robert Tansil, Jely Sunjoto (istri), dan Ellen Tansil (anak). Dalam kunjungan tak sampai dua jam itu Mendoza sempat berbagi cerita tentang perjalanannya di Indonesia. "Ini negara terbaik yang pernah saya kunjungi, orang-orangnya sangat ramah," ucapnya.

Sebelum mengakhiri acara, Mendoza sempat mencoba motor matic, Yamaha Mio. Menurutnya di negara asal, dia tak yakin apakah ada motor sejenis itu. "Sepertinya saya perlu membawanya satu dan mengajak keluarga saya untuk menaikinya," kata perempuan yang menyebut pempek Palembang sebagai makanan favoritnya selama di Indonesia itu lantas tertawa.

Di tempat itu, Mendoza melakukan makan siang. Dia sempat bertemu dengan Martin Conlon, mantan pemain NBA, yang datang ke Surabaya bersama rombongan Danny Granger. Mendoza berkata sangat senang bertemu dengan mereka. "Ini pertama kalinya saya berbicara sambil mendongak ke atas," katanya lantas tertawa.

Usai makan siang, Mendoza lantas dibawa ke Jayanata Beauty Plaza yang ada di Jalan Mawar. Begitu tiba, dia mendapat buket bunga cantik dari Yenita Jayanata dan Han Jayanata (putra -putri Mina Jayanata dan Bing Jayanata, owner Jayanata Beauty Plaza).

Di salah satu gerai yang ada di pusat klinik kecantikan itu, Mendoza sempat menjalani tes Numeric hair Analyzer. Hasilnya rambut Mendoza tergolong sehat, teksturnya halus dan berakar kuat.''Wow really? Thank you,'' katanya sumringah. Mendoza langsung menyarankan Zizi untuk mencoba tes tersebut. ''Just try, it's fun,'' katanya kepada Zizi.

Di ajang yang diberi tajuk Meet and Greet with Miss Universe dan dipandu Nadia Mulya itu, Mendoza banyak mendapatkan pertanyaan seputar kecantikan. "Kita semua pingin tahu, apa resep dietmu untuk mendapatkan tubuh sebagus ini?" kata Nadia Mulya. Mendoza menjawab, tak ada resep diet tertentu yang diterapkannya. Setiap hari dia mengonsumsi makanan seperti biasa. Hanya memang dia membatasi asupan. "Saya juga berusaha mengonsumsi makanan sehat," jelasnya.

Ketika ditanya mengenai bagian tubuh yang dianggap tidak sempurna, Mendoza sempat terdiam selama beberapa saat. Perempuan cantik itu hanya tersenyum tanpa memberikan jawaban. "Aduh, ini pertanyaan yang sulit," katanya.

Mendoza mengatakan dia mensyukuri semua pemberian Tuhan bahwa dia diberi anggota tubuh lengkap sudah menjadi anugerah tak terhingga untuk dirinya. "Apa yang perlu saya keluhkan? Saya sudah mendapatkan semuanya," tutur pemilik rambut cokelat itu.

Usai melakukan sejumlah sesi foto, Mendoza lantas dibawa ke Ciputra World untuk menghadiri launching apartemen The Vue Tower. Dia dan rombongan berada sekitar 20 menit di tempat tersebut. Begitu turun dari sisi kanan mobil, dia langsung disambut

Harun Hajadi, managing director Ciputra World. Melihat-lihat sejenak, Mendoza setengah berlalri lalu menuju ke area bermain anak-anak yang disediakan di tempat itu. Tanpa canggung dia duduk di kolam bola. "Seru. Mari bermain," kata Mendoza kepada Zizi dan Putri Indonesia Jawa Timur 2008 Yustin Karina yang turut menemani.

Setelah menyelesaikan kunjungan ke empat tempat, Mendoza memilih istirahat sejenak di kamar Presidential Suite Hotel JW Marriott. Kamar yang ada di lantai 25 itu memiliki tarif USD 2.000 (sekitar Rp 18 juta) per malam.

Merilekskan tubuh sekitar dua jam, pukul 19.00 Mendoza sudah harus siap lagi menjalani aktivitas. Kali ini dia diminta menghadiri makan malam di XO Suki. Mendoza terlihat begitu menawan dalam balutan gaun terusan hijau dan kuning. Dalam acara bertajuk Sparkling Evening with Miss Universe tersebut dia disambut dengan tarian Bali.