the best thing in life is FREE

Please be careful when you sign up for goodtree.com I received an invitation from some friends and accepted the invitation. Upon receiving the invitation i was prompted to sign up. I am not really sure if the website is a scam or phishing. Nevertheless, there certainly suspicious features that we should know and consider:

• Immediately after signing up, It will ask you to give away your Yahoo or/and Hotmail login username and password in order to automotacally invite your contacs- something that i would not do and i did not do it.
• After I accepted an invitation from a friend, I checked if he is already in my friend list…. voalla!! the friend’s list is empty. It is something rather not normal I think. When I accepted friendster, multiply, facebook, and the like invitations, the inviting side automatically listed in my friend’s list …
• Upon receiving a notification from the GoodTree.com that I am registered with them, I click on of what we normally think as email verification link … and it led me to a very strange page… DEAD END (Nope .. not there??? what do you mean?)
• Last but not the least, I could perform so many functions even BEFORE my email was verified… in most real websites, you can not do much until your email is verified.

I will not pass a judgement on the website cause it claims to have a good intention/cause. However it is worthy to remind that good cause must come with a good manner if it is to go really toward a good direction. So please be very careful my friends. I can suggest not to give up your email login details to this website. For the people of goodtree.com, if your website is simply bad please make it better.

I just established a new website about Indonesia’s tourism. There you can find many information that hopefully will attract you to visit my beautiful country. On the other hand, the website also provides tools for people who have the same passion and love for Indonesia… so what are you waiting… let us spread the love.

Suharto - Indonesia`s second president died 2 days ago. The Indonesian people seem to be divided over his legacy. Some regarded him as a hero some as a criminal.

Indeed during the Suharto era, Indonesia grew into a considerable power at least in the region supported by strong economic growth and food self-sufficiency. These are sweet memories that I miss so much.. not to mention the stability, and order within the country. In that sense, Indonesia was much better that time than it is now. Most (i repeat most and not all) people can live relatively easier that time. We did had a reason to be come the next real power… in this sense he is a hero.

At the same time, his so called New Order is also featured with gross human rights violation and repressive press control. I can even remember how I was persuaded to choose for the Golkar party in the election and many media are being shut down for expressing dissenting opinion from that of the government. It can also be noted that the government was corrupted from within as the family and friends of the Cendana (residence of Suharto in Jakarta) are tapping on this absolute power for private and business interest! it is not yet decided by the Court but.. .we can say that he is a criminal or at least a convicted!

so some people ask how we should remember this guy. I say we do not have to! We have the choice not to remember him… it is not a must or not even a "should"! But if one feels compelled or would like to remember… i dare to say that we must not see things black and white…   

let one remember him as a hero as well as a criminal/convicted…

It`s a bird .. no! It’s a plane, yes! it`s a cow… no… they are going into collision

Just now i read this news which literally mean: Boeing 737 rammed into a Cow during Landing!

Boeing 737 rammt Kalb bei Landung

Gefährlicher Ausflug: Ein Kalb hat sich in Indonesien auf die Landebahn eines Flughafens verirrt und wurde von einer Passagiermaschine erfasst. Die 140 Insassen blieben unverletzt.

Jakarta – Als der Pilot die Boeing 737 auf den Flughafen von Merauke in der indonesischen Provinz Papua aufsetzen wollte, tauchte plötzlich ein Hindernis vor ihm auf: Ein Kalb stand mitten auf der Landebahn, die Kollision zwischen dem übermächtigen Vogel und dem kleinen Huftier war nicht mehr zu vermeiden.

Menschliche Opfer gab es bei dem Unfall nicht, wie der Chef des Flughafens laut einem Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Antara mitteilte. Das linke Triebwerk der Boeing 737 der Fluggesellschaft Merpati Nusantara sei beschädigt worden. Zum Schicksal des Kalbs machte Antara keine Angaben. Der Flughafenchef räumte ein, dass der Flughafen nicht vollständig eingezäunt war.

Die Flugsicherheit in Indonesien ist für ihre Mängel bekannt. Sämtliche Fluggesellschaften des Landes stehen auf der europaweit geltenden schwarzen Liste – ihnen ist der Betrieb im EU-Luftraum untersagt. Die meisten indonesischen Flughäfen entsprechen zudem nicht internationalen Standards. Die Behörden der USA und der Europäischen Union raten ihren Bürgern davon ab, indonesische Fluglinien zu nutzen.

—end of news

How can we promote tourism if our flight is so unsafe?! I hope the government of Indonesia would take this matter seriously. Promoting tourism is less about campaigning and advertising… it should be more about preparedness and improvement of living condition! LISTEN and DO!

Have you ever written without purpose? I have and tend to enjoy it so much. Writing is such an enjoyable activities.. especially in blogs. For me, it is really like a break from routinity of work. It is really a way of getting it all out whatever I encountered in life. This all can be changed in an unimaginable way after i learn that I can get paid to blog with Smorty.

Blogging for me is really pleasure in its full meaning although i should say i can enjoy writing for jobs and try to make it fun whenever possible. However it can never match the pleasure of blogging or just random writing! Well, things may never be the same again because of smorty’s service. It completes the pleasure of random writing with random earning … It is really something I never thought about! For this I have to thank my Comrade :

At any rate, it is really nice to be smorty… because really you can pick the jobs you like. this way i can keep being true to myself in whatever i write. I think the freedom and options to choose what you want to write is very important for free-thinkers such as I am. It is also a way to inspire and provoke me to keep on writing. I think it will remind us the bloggers to keep writing, cause really pleasure can really mean business!

I just lost my chance to visit Italy especially Rome cause my boss did not grant my leave due to some business blaaah.. there goes all my dream to see the Vatican City, Venice, and other nice places and cultures in Italy. Most of all, I miss the chance to escape the cold and wet Germany!

At any rate should you have better luck than I do… please check out this website of Cheaperthanhotels for reservation of hotels in Italy. It is very helpful for you to prepare your vacation all around Italy at reasonable price! It is so easy for you through this website to find hotels in Rome, hotels in Venice, hotels in Milan and other beautiful cities in Italy. It has helpful features such as location selector, price sorting (that should be very important ), and it is MULTILINGUAL! You can virtually find any tipe of hotels at any sort of prices which suites your taste or wallet.

It has also extended functionality that acommodates more than just simple vacation. You can find hotels around the world for those aspiring globetrotters. I think I would need the features of group booking that would help me in setting up conferences or seminars… way to go. It event integrates car rental services for mobility in and around the city… really nice nice features. Cheaperthanhotels has them all.

Well I need to find another golden opportunity to escape the winter of Germany… in November, Milan will have the Milan Jazz Festival What is more important I need to see that Giuseppe Meazza home to the great AC Milan!!! Viva Milan. Of course it would be nice just to spend some time exploring the ancient Rome … the once center of the old world!

© Pictures of Rome courtesy of Rome.info

What is the worth of words? In its simplest and basic understanding, One can say is in the meaning it represIents when they are assembled into a well-designed sentences as understood by the communicants. As the old saying, worthy is the word of credible and trusted ones.

At this point of time, the worths of words take anothe form within the concept of Blogvertise. With Blogsvertise, blogging will never be the same again as you and I are able to blog in financially sustainable manner. The concept brought both citizen journalism and webvertising into a strong synergy.

It should however be noted that the worths of words remain in the credibility of the information it conveys not the financial worth. Blogsvertising is only helping bloggers to value their ideas and writings in financial terms… Other than that, the principle remain clear and firm that blogger should remain independent from financial considerations and cherish the value of truth in each and evey words you blog…. s0 why wait? get paid while blog with blogsvertising.

** in deep regret for the many victims of various disasters **
this is why we are a sorry nation:

* there has been too many (natural and man-made) disasters taking place around us.
* everybody is sorry about us but ourselves.. if we have been truly sorry those man-made/man-induced disasters would not happen so frequently and at a rather disturbing scale!
* we are too recipient (if not addicted) to “aid” from others…. we indulge ourselves too much in living from other’s pitty… how about thanks but no! not for the sake of empty and selfish pride but edifying ourselves in self-reliance.
* we dont have to thank for the so-called “aid”.. cause they are mostly another form of debt or at least a way by the haves to gain profit in a subtle and noble-like manner. most of the aid is spent for the benefit of the “donor”
* we, indonesians, take the word “sorry” for granted that we often wasted it unintentionally. why should we be sorry for what we should not… for example to reject cigarettes, invitations and virtually everything. let us use it rather carefully as a statement of our appreciation for the deep and true meaning of the expression “sorry”

Let us stop being a sorry nation… let us be something else… a worry and glory nation … or at least a truly sorry nation… if not maybe there is no point of being one.

No doubt that Chirstmas is one of the most celebrated holidays globally. people across across the globe somehow benefit from Chistmas .. at the least form is by taking some days off our routines and works some even make profit therefrom.

Well, Christmas was not as fun as it is presented nowadays. It was actually pretty sorrowful (at least from the way it was told in the bible) 

• many mothers lost their babies around that time. the ruler of the land (forgot the name) was said to have ordered execution of male babies out of his fear for one particular baby - who was prophecied to be the King of the Jews.
• the parents of that particular baby had to flee Israel for Egypt… and went back to Israel before the delivery… (such long distance travel was rather of compulsory reasons and could be deadly for the travellers)
• the mother was carrying a baby in her during the travel to Israel from Egypt.
• the couple could not find any decent accomodation.. maybe it was peak season?
• the baby said to be delivered in a meanger (among animals?) not even in a proper bed.

well, even if you dont believe truly in the stroy or you believe in different kidn of story, it is only proper that Christmas should be remembered the way it was told in the Bibel for that is why we have it now : in a sorrowful and mournful manner. the birth of the baby Christ Jesus was told that he is come to save the human being from the eternal death. His coming was a joy of different kind from that we see around us today. It was not a joy out of shining and blinking lights, gifts, or such kind but the joy of realising that God cares about us so much that Christ was sent in such a manner. — that is our truest and ultimate benefit from the birth of Christ Jesus.

May we make the most benefit from it.

i have been regularly visiting this wonderful Berlin International Baptist Church.
i am happy and surprised that among the secular and humanism-oriented people of the west there are actually christian groups that are alive.
I am not talking only in terms of participants (although it is worth mentioning that this church is attended and backed by youths)
However, more important it is to note that the church emphasis on true aspects of christianity that is personal relations with God but also the need or desire to witness it to the people who has not come to know Jesus.
Today’s sermon again reminded me to ask myself the very question whether i have spread the good news to the people in my walk of life. I have wondered about the question and thought that if I live in Christ’s way, i would have been already an open letter about Jesus. I never regarded this preposition as a final answer so today again it was put under question. IS IT ENOUGH?
In the sermon, it was mentioned that people could actually see ‘the Light’ through our life but still have no idea where the light  come from… unless we openly credit it to the Lord Jesus.
well… i wonder if i have been defending my actual reluctance or hesitance to proclaim my faith because my life has not been really a model of christianity maybe i simply have not had the urge to witness because I have not actually had it in abundance.
come to think of it, maybe i dont have to wait for a better me … cause i will never be perfect enough to witness the perfect love of Jesus. now i wonder whether witnessing itself is  a part of process to embetterment… so many questions about life…
i guess the only way to find out is to decide and carry on!….. so help me Lord .. wake me up and lead me to witness!

disclaimer: sekedar ungkapan hati dan doa yang gundah gulana dari suatu makhluk asing

Reformasi … katanya
Perubahan… katanya
Demokrasi… katanya

masih lebih suka bicara atau sudah mau mendengar?
masih lebih suka jadi orang pintar atau orang benar?
masih mau jadi pemerintah atau jadi pelayan?

deformasi… kataku! karena kita menjadi semakin kerdil tapi mengira sebaliknya
pe-’rubah’-an…kataku! karena semakin banyak rubah-rubah yang pintar dan mahir bersembunyi
demon-krasi…kataku! ya pemerintahan oleh demon huahahaha

semoga aku salah semoga semoga… amen.

have you ever wondered where the term ‘Gratist’ comes from?

if not, you need more curiosity

if so, it makes me wonder why you never asked me.

I coined gratist as to refer to a person committing him/herself to the way of Gratism.

Trivia:
try to find ‘gratist’ in google search engine and it will think ‘do you mean greatest?’ ‘gratist’ is not ‘greatest. gratist is the greatest

disclaimer: tips ini ditujukan untuk wartawan yang beroperasi di wilayah negara kesatuan repubilk Indonesia. penggunaan di luar wilayah indonesia dapat mengakibatkan dampak yang sebaliknya.

beberapa waktu lalu wapres kita yang terhormat bapak Yusuf Kalla dikutip:

QUTOE:
“The marketing needs a better campaign based on the visitor’s appetite
and segment,” he said at a seminar on tourism promotion to the Middle
East.
“If there are a lot of Middle East tourists traveling to Puncak to seek
janda, I think that it’s OK,” he added, referring to the West Java
mountain resort and using the Indonesian term denoting either widows or
divorcees.
He said the tourists would bring numerous benefits to the women and
their offspring, as well as the country’s entertainment community.
“If the janda get modest homes even if the tourists later leave them, then
it’s OK. The children resulting from these relationships will have good
genes. There will be more television actors and actresses from these
pretty boys and girls,” he said.
Kalla was referring to a common practice in some areas of West Java
and Batam island, where local women engage in short-term relationships
with foreigners, many of them businesspeople from the Middle East,
after taking informal religious vows.
:END of QUOTE
(more…)

Pertama kali gw terbitkan di sini Dalam situasi Indonesia saat ini, pekerjaan merupakan sesuatu yang sangat sulit dicari. Tingkat pengangguran yang tinggi merupakan suatu masalah yang akut yang dihadapi bangsa dan negara Indonesia. Tidak heran, jika pada saat ini Pemerintah menyatakan komitmennya untuk mendorong Usaha Kecil Menengah atau segala bentuk usaha wiraswasta yang diharapkan dapat membuka lowongan kerja baru. Hal ini merupakan suatu hal yang perlu didukung oleh segenap golongan masyarakat termasuk mereka yang mengaku beragama Kristen. Apakah Yesus dapat menjawab tantangan ini? ataukah Yesus hanya sekedar Tuhan yang terpisah dari dunia nyata yaitu bahwa manusia perlu mempunyai sumber pemasukan untuk kelangsungan hidupnya? (more…)

we now know there are no weapon of mass destruction over there but corella knew
there are weapon of misdirection right here!

kemaren tepatnya tanggal 5 Pebruari 2006 sekitar pukul 22an waktu Berlin, gw balik ke rumah sendirian karena istri dan anak masih di rumah sakit… ada sesuatu yang menyeramkan terjadi!!!
seperti biasa selesai ganti baju, gw makan dikit lah buat ganjel perut, nyalain tipi nonton berita dan langsung buka laptop gw.
komputer mulai booting… dan menampilkan logo yang gw sebel banget yes… itu yang gambar jendela karet!
trus gw mulai login… dan seperti biasa komputer gw mulai berproses …. tiba-tiba…. ketika yahoo messenger gw nongol……
!!!!!!KOSONG!!!!! tidak ada orang sama sekali di daftar buddies gw :O suatu kejadian yang pertama kali terjadi setelah pertama kali gw sign-in di yahoo messenger! . pada kemana yak??

tanggal 4 nopember 2006 akhirnya anak yang kami tunggu-tunggu lahirlah
puji Yesus semua berjalan normal … sekarang ia telah lahir di muka bumi ini… hasiana naomi gräfin situmorang … selamat datang

daripada gw lupa mendingan gw tuangkan dulu ide ‘kasar’ gw mengenai bagaimana memecahkan masalah di Indonesia… pada titik ini gw pikir masalah-masalah itu ngga gw uraikan karena terlalu banyak tapi kalo gw simpulkan dalam 1 kata singkat: KACAU!

Kekacauan bukan saja pada pemerentah tapi juga masyarakatnya. Nah menurut gw, sudah saatnya Indonesia mengambil suatu kebijakan yang sangat krusial: KONTROL PENDUDUK! Terserah mau dibilang berbau fasis atau suharto/orba tapi masyarakat memang perlu dikontrol demi kebaikan bersama… apalagi masyarakat yang super kacau seperti di Indonesia. Dengan kontrol, pemerintah dapat lebih mengenal masyarakatnya secara jelas dan memberikan solusi sesuai kesulitan nyata masyarakat dan bukan sekedar angan-angan! (more…)

gw baru ketemu nih suatu webblog yang judulnya: membangun manusia dan masyarakat.
Sekilas agak jayus juga sih judul webblog kyk gitu.. tapi isinya memang kelihatannya ditujukan untuk masalah pembangunan, so gw pikir ngga sama sekali jayus tapi agak serius aja. masak posting diakhiri dengan ’salam pembangunan!’ huahaha
Webblog ini juga masih baru deh jadi masih bisa berkembang banyak… yah semoga aja si pengasuh website bisa dapet ide-ide baru untuk meningkatkan daya tarik webblog itu supaya bisa bener-bener jadi yang diharapkan sebagai ‘warung kopi’ untuk tukar pendapat dan informasi yg bermanfaat untuk pembangunan…
Huhm … ya udah silahkan liat sendiri deh webblog itu yah: http://indonesia.blogsome.com
salam gratist!

Christmas Not So Frequently Asked Question

Q: Why do we have holiday on December 25??? we all know it is called christmas in english. but do we know what christmas refers to?
A: some two thousands years ago, a baby -believed to be the perfect incarnation of the Almighty- was born in Betlehem (Israel). the baby was named Jesus.

Q: what is so important about this baby Jesus that the holiday was established in the commemoration of his birth?
A: it is worth the commemoration because he has a mission for the good of whole humankind

Q: what is his mission?
A: his mission is to save humankind from the slavery of sins and to restore the nature of human which was created according to the image of God

Q: Why did God incarnate into a human being for this mission?
A: Well this is God’s covert operations to inflitrate as a human being to accomplish his mission

Q: so how is this Jesus going to accomplish his mission?
A: He sacrificed himself on calvary as a perfect sacrifice and absolute restitution

Q: why did he, being an incarnation of God, have to sacrifice?
A: 1) Love… unconditional love; 2) Truth … that true & complete salvation is only possible with the perfect sacrifice

Kalo gw jadi presiden yang berkuasa penuh dan mutlak, gw akan ganti nama negara indonesia yang merupakan nama warisan miskonsepsi penjajah: indo(india)+nesos(kepulauan)=india kepulauan. sekarang sudah abad 21, dan semua orang sudah tahu bahwa Indonesia itu bukan India Kepulauan… yet still we are sticking to this tradition??
Sebagai alternatif gw akan pilih nusantara.. simple yet accurate… nusa=kepulauan dan antara sudah cukup jelas artinya. So ‘nusantara’ sangat menjelaskan negara ini yang terdiri atas berbagai kepulauan yang dipisahkan oleh perairan. model seperti ini dipakai oleh jepang yang menyebut negara mereka nippon (asal matahari) atau cina chungkuo (kerajaan pusat).
menurut gw nama nusantara ini cukup keren utk dikembangkan dalam penggunaan sehari-hari for example:
satelit nasional >> nusatelit
istana negara >> nusagraha
kompetisi sepak bola>>nusaliga
kedutaan besar >> nusaduta

untuk penggunaan dalam bahasa inggris ‘nusantara’ juga cukup flexible dan unique
sebagai prefix menjadi nuso atau disingkat jadi nusa
1. hubungan rusia-nusantara in english: nuso-russia atau russo-nusa relations. (fyi. prefix indo itu berarti india)
2. semboyan pariwisata let us go nusa!

tentunya banyak hal lain yang perlu dilakukan selain mengganti nama… namun ngga ada salahnya gw mulai dari sini dulu sebagai apetizer

Yang agak gw sayangkan dari penggantian itu cuman kehilangan domain internet indonesia yg cukup keren: *id*.

Lama juga rumah gratisan ini gw tinggalkan begitu saja tidak terurus….
banyak hal yg telah gw lalui during my absence here.. i am busy writing the story of my life… wel where should I start???
pengennya sih nulis sejak awal gw absen sayangnya gw dah agak2 lupa jadi mendingan gw mulai dari perjalanan gw barusan ini ke Afrika

Gw diutus oleh kantor gw untuk menghadiri suatu pertemuanCOP-7 UNCCD di Nairobi, Kenya. Kaget, senang bercampur sedih.. senang karena ini merupakan suatu tantangan baru, pengalaman yang unik bagi gw, kesempatan untuk menjejakkan kaki pertama kali di benua Afrika… sedih karena harus meninggalkan istri gw yang lagi mengandung untuk semingguan… tetapi a man has to do what a man has to do… inilah resiko pekerjaan gw.
Ini merupakan perjalanan yang gw nantikan maklum blon pernah ke afrika. Begitu mendarat di Afrika, gw masuk ke bandara Jomo Kenyatta International Airport dengan nuansa afrika yg sangat kental dengan nuansa afrika (tentunya selain orang-orangnya) di sana sini terpajang figur binatang-binatang liar khas Afrika. Walaupun baru di sana, gw sudah merasakan bahwa gw berada di suatu tempat yang berbeda dari yang pernah gw kunjungi… seperti memasuki suatu dunia yang lain atau waktu yang berbeda.
Ternyata kesan pertama itu ada benarnya tapi banyak juga salahnya. Benar karena memang di sini banyak hal-hal yang tidak biasa di tempat-tempat lain di dunia, karena kadang kota ini mengingatkanku akan Jakarta tempoe doeloe, benar karena walopun bahasa Inggris merupakan bahasa yang banyak dipakai namun seringkali gw ngga ngerti apa yang mereka omongin. (more…)

Well, i have been wanting to share with you why I name this blog gratist. this name was actually inspired by the nickname my friends in the Caraka Muda 5 Batch gave for me: Marxis Gratisan or malxis glatisan for some persons .
It is quite not clear how this bunch of rather uncommon people start associating me with marxism. i do like marxism as a opposition ideology to the existing world, but certainly i am not a marxist… i think marx idea was not as original as people think it was or as the capitalist production of his books presents it (would Marx think like that??!). well i write about this at a later time.
Well still related to that, this group of friends associated marxism with freebies. they know i am a zealous fan of freebies but who is not?! i think they are just too shy to confess it if not being hypocrite hehehe.. i mean: come on if you can get something good at no price why would you pay .
along the way, my thought on freebies-ism has evolved as i remember a line from a song by the beatles “the best thing in life is free … but you can tell me ’bout the birds and bees.”; i could say there could be some truth in that song that we, the human race, have chosen to reject the one best free thing and dolores of the Cranberries knows this: SALVATION.
well for me, from my point of faith, my goodness, dolores you are completely right… yeah salvation is free only because it was paid for a priceless cost.
so that is why i have chosen this name gratist defined as a person who value freebies and gratis stuffs not by how it was freely distributed but by the sacrifices made for that to be possible.

Macet!!! itu sudah menjadi suatu keseharian lagi apalagi untuk penduduk di Jakarta… salah satu sebabnya adalah semakin banyaknya mobil di Jakarta. nah sambil macet-macet gitu coba deh perhatikan… saya yakin yang akan terlihat adalah bahwa pada hampir setiap mobil terpasang suatu stiker (sticker dalam bahasa inggrisnya).
Stiker sekarang telah menjadi semacam kebutuhan bahkan keharusan bagi pemilik mobil bahkan pemilik mobil-mobilan sekalipun! (more…)

Beberapa waktu lalu gw nyebarin mengenai pembukaan lowongan kerja di Deplu. well untuk menanggapi pertanyaan peminat mengenai kerjaan di deplu ini gw sajikan sedikit pendapat dan pandangan pribadi gw mengenai kerja di deplu… (more…)

Sejak gw mulai tugas gw, beberapa rekan di kantor sudah ngajak gw main golf. well gw bilang “tidak! i dont play golf.” rupanya, rekan-rekan gw insist supaya gw main sampe menawarkan satu set club golf dengan harga cukup murah (second tapi masih bagus loh)… inti jawaban gw sama. banyak yang bilang dalam pekerjaan gw yang banyak berhubungan dengan relasi, aktifitas ini sudah bagaikan sebuah ritus penting dari agama diplomasi. jadi mereka penasaran kenapa… kenapa? (more…)

seperti judulnya yang mencampur-campur unsur barat “blog” (kalau kata ini belum resmi diserap dalam bahasa Indonesia tercinta) dan unsur timur gado-gado yang artinya juga campur-campur. yah inilah resikonya kalau posting di dini hari, segala macam ide keluar masuk aja tanpa mengajukan permohonan visa dulu atau minta exit permit! tadinya gw mau merespon pelangi yang dengan semangat mengoper book baton ke gw. dan sekarang dia sedang santai2 nih nonton gw lari-lari. (more…)

if you think Indonesia is a total loser in this free global market era… read this!..
if you are fascinated by series like E.R thinking how cool their doctors are…. then read this
Just last week i went to a doctor -a specialist and not jsut some general practicioner- to check some health. The clinique is good and well situated in one of important parts of this city. so the clinic needed my blood sample for examination.
Guess what??? (more…)

do you know that wedding ring is among the most often-to-lose articles? in some cases, one can lose one’s wedding ring more than once! really, losing wedding ring seems could really be topic of the day for some fora. no wonder, some try to make business out of it: lost-wedding-ring replacement! Some are even so desperate to find their rings that they resort to hypnotism geez trading your consciousness for the ring huh?
In contemporary world, there is one more factor that increasingly add up to the loss of the ring: the loss of the wedding it self. well in this case, the wedding ring may still be accessible but it has lost the meaning it refered to … sad.
I never thought this would happen to me or us in that case! (more…)

akhirnya setelah survive dari belasan serangan stroke, my dear uncle passed away this early morning (Jakarta’s time). Now he is on his way home.
My cousins…. tetaplah tabah. You have been through alot since he had that strokes which forced him to remain in bed afterwards. Gw tau loe bisa melalui semua ini… Jesus is with you.
maap gw ngga bisa hadir untuk menemani kalian secara fisik dalam masa awal kehilangan ini… i wish i could be there.. but i know someone is there for you: the King.

sms from one of my cousins: “thanks bro, trm kasih untuk doa2nya. Amangtua (- om -) sdh tenang sekarang. Gbu”
— good to hear that, bro.

Estafette/the relay race was born in the United States, around 1880, in emulation of the charity races organised by New York firemen who handed on a red pennant every 300 yards. The baton was a wooden cylinder (later metallic) one foot (30.48 cm) long.
The relay made its first appearance in the 1908 Olympic Games where it was divided into legs of 200m, 200m, 400m and 800m. It was won by the United States team, with John Taylor becoming the first black athlete ever to win a gold medal. well i want to talk about something else similar but not the same (more…)

Diskon (Potongan harga) merupakan salah satu cara yang paling ampuh dan banyak digunakan dalam memasarkan atau menjual barang. bermacam-macam istilah digunakan mulai cuci gudang, banting harga, jual rugi (yang bener aja! ini istilah yang paling menggelikan), balik modal, dan sebagainya.
Para calon pembeli segela menyerbu toko-toko yang menawarkan diskon atas barang-barang konsumsi seperti buku, elektronik, baju dan sebagainya.
rupanya strategi ini juga dipakai untuk memasarkan injil yah injil/kabar keselamatan itu sekarang sedang ramai di diskon…. ngga percaya???! (more…)

17 agustus adalah hari ‘kemerdekaan’ indonesia. di sini sejak sebulan yang lalu sudah sibuk diadakan berbagai pertandingan dalam rangka menyambut hari kemerdekaan tersebut.
huhm, gw ditunjuk jadi panitia lomba karaoke … napa yah?? apa supaya gw ngga bisa ikutan lomba karaoke …. well it is indeed the right decision for the good of all … (more…)

Well, sekarang gw mau share sedikit tips-tips menangkal hipnotisme yang sekarang ‘katanya’ lagi merebak di Indonesia dan di mana-mana. Bukannya apa-apa gw juga dulu pernah jadi korban kejahatan yang sangat mungkin menggunakan teknik hipnotisme…. yang mengakibatkan motor gw dibawa lari orang. it was one of the most embarassing episode in my life.
Gw pernah denger bahwa hipnotisme itu gak melulu untuk kejahatan, bisa juga untuk hiburan seperti yang dilakukan oleh para hipnotainer dan terapi. It sounds nice but hey guys wake up on my count of three and smell the coffee do you really want to give the control of your body and mind to other?
Semoga tips-tips ini berguna ketika lu lagi di jalan: (more…)

this will be my first time i make a writing on this topic.. well i am kind of acquainted to this thing but just havent had any urge to really think about it until recently i am involved with this dude.
this is the definition by oxford:
({sm}h{shti}pn{schwa}t{shti}z({schwa})m) The process of hypnotizing, or artificially producing a state in which the subject appears to be in a deep sleep, without any power of changing his mental or physical condition, except under the influence of some external suggestion or direction, to which he is involuntarily and unconsciously obedient. On recovering from this condition, the person has usually no remembrance of what he has said or done during the hypnotic state. The term is also applied to the branch of science which deals with the production of this state, and its causes and phenomena. (more…)

(N)eighbour and I met while I was moving my stuffs from my old place

N: hey there!
I: hi! nice meeting you .

N: are you new here
I: well yes and no, i am just moving to this flat from the previous flat in this complex

N:aaah …okay … so how long were you in the previous flat?
I: well around for two months. (more…)