Peggy lacks leisure time

Peggy lacks leisure time

JAKARTA (JP): If settling into white sand on a virgin beach is
your particular slice of heaven, you'd be in good company with
actress and singing sensation Peggy Melati Sukma. That's what the
svelte actress and chanteuse would be doing at this moment, were
it not for the trials of her current multimedia tour, which
already has taken in hip megalopolis' Singapore and Beijing.

The publicity flight pushing Peggy's book My Self, album My
Wish and My Home (her website) is proving demanding for the
Indonesian.

But then the 24-year-old Cirebon-born star is not shy when it
comes to hard work. At the age of 9, she kicked off a career in
the public eye with endless radio commercials. Since then, she
has gone on to star in countless television dramas and record
numerous albums.

"My days are always busy and my schedule really tight," she
told The Jakarta Post last week. "Sometimes I get bored and want
to run from it."

As a result of that schedule, Peggy says she has to make time
for a massage, to relieve tension and stress. "I always have to
have a masseur nearby."

Western celebrities have long known the advantages of having
their own websites. Peggy too, is aware of the edge, having newly
launched My House at www.peggymelatisukma.com. The promotional
blurb goes: "C me naked @ (this site)". No need to slap on a Net
nanny just yet, however, the nearest she gets to baring her bosom
are photos of her posing, mermaid-style, sea-side. Proof that the
promo is working: over 20,000 hits on the site (in Bahasa
Indonesia and English) as of late last week. And to further peak
the interest of fans, she keeps an online diary, tapping out
minuets of her glamorous life.

Peggy said she was currently saving to buy a beach house
because of her love of the sea.

If that happens, then perhaps one day she really can get a
piece of utopia. (William Furney)