welcome home, lady...
with a new spirit and marvellous dreams.
a passion driving me crazy.
a dew soothing me inward.
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Saturday, August 28, 2004
a Dream Comes True
I saw that girl. She was sitting near the mosque entrance, combing her hair after finishing her afternoon praying, as we had our appointment before. I was asking her if she had a little time after school so I could ask her anything about AFS Intercultural Program in which I got involved the selection process as a participant. As one among 4 students from our high school who was going to stay abroad as an exchange student, she agreed to spare her time to answer my questions.
The chat was short but nice; I was satisfied with her answers. At the end of her depicting the know-how of the program as well as how it would like living abroad for student exchange, I was urged to tell her something.
"Anne, you know what? I dreamed last night that you were sitting beside me in the class." I said, "Funny, uh?"
"Uh-Huh?" She replied, smiling. I smiled to her too, thinking that it was merely a night dream.
She was at 3rd year. I was 2nd.
[One Year Later...]
I was talking with a girl sitting by my side, about her experience living and studying in a small city called Neenah, Wisconsin, USA, as an exchange student. We were laughing together at her story about Halloween Party she was throwing with her friends, and also about her dreams of what she was going to do when she had to return to Indonesia as the program ended. I was listening intently.
A silence for a while in the middle of the conversation, then she broke the ice, remembering something.
"Ow, Adi, talking about dream. It was you who told me about the dream, right?"
"Eh?" I dumbfounded, "Which dream? what?"
"That dream. The one you said that we would sit together on the same desk in the same class?" She said enthusiastically.
"Ow, did I? I didn't remember" I said, still recalling my damn memory.
"Yeah, it's you! I remember. What a dream comes true! After roughly a year!!" She said happily.
"Ummm, I still don't remember," I said, now recalling that, but trying to make it a-matter-of-fact.
"What a short memory!" she said. But I just smiling inward. Good God! I thought, a dream come true? Ckckckck....
She was at 3rd year. I was too. In the same 3 IPA 9 class. On the same desk.
NOTE: this is a trackback of a posting by GeekGirl, written based on my own experience.
The chat was short but nice; I was satisfied with her answers. At the end of her depicting the know-how of the program as well as how it would like living abroad for student exchange, I was urged to tell her something.
"Anne, you know what? I dreamed last night that you were sitting beside me in the class." I said, "Funny, uh?"
"Uh-Huh?" She replied, smiling. I smiled to her too, thinking that it was merely a night dream.
She was at 3rd year. I was 2nd.
[One Year Later...]
I was talking with a girl sitting by my side, about her experience living and studying in a small city called Neenah, Wisconsin, USA, as an exchange student. We were laughing together at her story about Halloween Party she was throwing with her friends, and also about her dreams of what she was going to do when she had to return to Indonesia as the program ended. I was listening intently.
A silence for a while in the middle of the conversation, then she broke the ice, remembering something.
"Ow, Adi, talking about dream. It was you who told me about the dream, right?"
"Eh?" I dumbfounded, "Which dream? what?"
"That dream. The one you said that we would sit together on the same desk in the same class?" She said enthusiastically.
"Ow, did I? I didn't remember" I said, still recalling my damn memory.
"Yeah, it's you! I remember. What a dream comes true! After roughly a year!!" She said happily.
"Ummm, I still don't remember," I said, now recalling that, but trying to make it a-matter-of-fact.
"What a short memory!" she said. But I just smiling inward. Good God! I thought, a dream come true? Ckckckck....
She was at 3rd year. I was too. In the same 3 IPA 9 class. On the same desk.
NOTE: this is a trackback of a posting by GeekGirl, written based on my own experience.
Friday, August 27, 2004
a Controversial Polygamy
For centuries, there is always a pros and cons about polygamy. If everybody else always makes an excuse for supporting and reason for rejecting based on religious texts (al-Quran and al-Hadist), I'd rather elaborate my opinion in a simple way.
For the Pros:
Polygamy has extremely heavy multiple consequences for the actors as well as their surroundings. Consider, reconsider, and re-reconsider for hundredth of times even before you're thinking to do that. Don't just think of it in sexual perspective. You'll regret it. *serious mimic ON*
For the Cons:
Polygamy is merely one solution (among plenty of others) to anticipate bad things that could happen in a marriage and humanity in general. Look at your sorrounding, you may easily find examples of bad things that I refer to. It might not satisfy
some people involved, though, but it would fail to protect most of their interest otherwise.
---> hint: "if all the options are bad, take the least bad one"
To sum up:
Polygamy is an emergency exit that has extremely heavy consequences and therefore it is prohibited unless the necessary and sufficient conditions are met.
Well, the point is that things're NOT what they look like. So? use your fresh brain AND holy heart when dealing with this sensitive stuff.
For the Pros:
Polygamy has extremely heavy multiple consequences for the actors as well as their surroundings. Consider, reconsider, and re-reconsider for hundredth of times even before you're thinking to do that. Don't just think of it in sexual perspective. You'll regret it. *serious mimic ON*
For the Cons:
Polygamy is merely one solution (among plenty of others) to anticipate bad things that could happen in a marriage and humanity in general. Look at your sorrounding, you may easily find examples of bad things that I refer to. It might not satisfy
some people involved, though, but it would fail to protect most of their interest otherwise.
---> hint: "if all the options are bad, take the least bad one"
To sum up:
Polygamy is an emergency exit that has extremely heavy consequences and therefore it is prohibited unless the necessary and sufficient conditions are met.
Well, the point is that things're NOT what they look like. So? use your fresh brain AND holy heart when dealing with this sensitive stuff.
Friday, August 20, 2004
Multiply.Com (II)
Like I said before, I consider what Multiply offers is impractical.
It is crystal clear that the concept behind Multiply is somewhere between weblog and networked-based community site (ie: friendster and its cloning temanster). People can have friends, see each others' profiles, journal, reviews, etc and do the same with their friends' friend as long as they have the permission. The combination between these concepts is motivated by the tight-coupled between those community: bloggers are most likely friendster users.
However, the merger has not been going as smooth as once could expected. The journal, recipe, and review section it provides to resemble the top three categories bloggers would probably write have neglected fruitful template design, an important feature blggers like (since weblog design, along with the contents, closely speak up anything bloggers want to say) and thus blogtools provide. Multiply only offers plain and monotonic layout for all its sections. This is, of course, might be on further development plan, but I believe it will go much more complex, if ever possible.
The positive thing Multiply users get is that they can limit others user visiting their homepages in a concept similar to friendster. This is useful for those who happen to experience unpleasant abuse in bloggerland. Ow, and another thing: most users may find the image resampling quality it offers better than friendster could provide.
It is crystal clear that the concept behind Multiply is somewhere between weblog and networked-based community site (ie: friendster and its cloning temanster). People can have friends, see each others' profiles, journal, reviews, etc and do the same with their friends' friend as long as they have the permission. The combination between these concepts is motivated by the tight-coupled between those community: bloggers are most likely friendster users.
However, the merger has not been going as smooth as once could expected. The journal, recipe, and review section it provides to resemble the top three categories bloggers would probably write have neglected fruitful template design, an important feature blggers like (since weblog design, along with the contents, closely speak up anything bloggers want to say) and thus blogtools provide. Multiply only offers plain and monotonic layout for all its sections. This is, of course, might be on further development plan, but I believe it will go much more complex, if ever possible.
The positive thing Multiply users get is that they can limit others user visiting their homepages in a concept similar to friendster. This is useful for those who happen to experience unpleasant abuse in bloggerland. Ow, and another thing: most users may find the image resampling quality it offers better than friendster could provide.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
Multiply.com
With all due respect, I consider Multiply impractical. I will elaborate more details later.
Not really sure? Go find out and give it a try. You may want to return to this page afterward.
Disagree? Then what's there in your mind?
Feel offended? HA!! I'm out of the play.
*2 hands up, eyebrows raised*
Not really sure? Go find out and give it a try. You may want to return to this page afterward.
Disagree? Then what's there in your mind?
Feel offended? HA!! I'm out of the play.
*2 hands up, eyebrows raised*
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
How Business is Done
Jack, a smart businessman, talks to his son.
Jack: I want you to marry a girl of my choice
Son : "I will choose my own bride!"
Jack: "But the girl is Bill Gates's daughter."
Son : "Well, in that case..."
Next Jack approaches Bill Gates.
Jack: "I have a husband for your daughter."
Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!"
Jack: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."
Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case..."
Finally Jack goes to see the president of the World Bank.
Jack: "I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president."
President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!" Jack:
"But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law."
President: "Ah, in that case..."
This is how business is done!!
*)taken from Aria R Baskara's posting in Alste@yahoogroups.com mailing-list
Jack: I want you to marry a girl of my choice
Son : "I will choose my own bride!"
Jack: "But the girl is Bill Gates's daughter."
Son : "Well, in that case..."
Next Jack approaches Bill Gates.
Jack: "I have a husband for your daughter."
Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!"
Jack: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."
Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case..."
Finally Jack goes to see the president of the World Bank.
Jack: "I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president."
President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!" Jack:
"But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law."
President: "Ah, in that case..."
This is how business is done!!
*)taken from Aria R Baskara's posting in Alste@yahoogroups.com mailing-list
Sunday, August 01, 2004
Noble House: A Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong (II - End)
Hi all... this is the remaining of the novel I had promised to tell you:
After the disastrous landslide that ripped off most parts of main highway at one important districs of Hong Kong, including important towers and buildings alongside, the situation had dramatically changed. The authority had signaled Priority One situation; Police and Army and people worked hands in hands under the order of one emergency command base to help minimize the impacts, search and rescue for missing people and prevent further damages for only-God-knows-when.
Casey, Dunross, Gornt, and Orlanda were among the lucky ones. Unfortunately, Bartlett--the key player on current Dunross-Gornt rivalry--was not. He was trapped somewhere in the debris of Orlanda's apartment where he was sleeping the night before, after they made love ("ups! sorry!" said the landslide ^_^). Like anyone else, Gornt and Dunross tried to search Bartlett whatever the risk and cost. Bartlett himself was quite fine down there, trying to grasp and collect himself, despite his hard time fighting his nausea and supressing his claustrophobic symptomps.
After hours of persistent hardwork, the rescue team was finally able to locate Bartlett's position. But to put him out was another trouble. He was burried about 15 feet down, only his voice indicating he was relatively well and unhurt. Visibility null. The flash light could not even reach him a tip of a hair. As quick as possible, the team then dig to the nearest place just to find out that they were dealing with a block of the broken wall that perfectly protected Bartlett from death yet stumbled him from his rescuer. But they were lucky enough that time.
Until another tremor suddenly shocked the earth and another stream of mud sliding down to the site they were working on. The hole was quickly covered with mud, making Bartlett a history without anyone could do anything for him. (what a tragic end for as financially powerful man as him--Red.).
With Bartlett's death, Gornt was alone then and Dunross could easily take over his All Asia Airways. Not only that, the stock market board of commisioners had decided to close the market and announced the "normal" opening price for Struans to stabilize Hong Kong's economy. And Casey, with her new power as tai-pan of Par Con Industries, had decided to sign the proposed deal with Struans.
Finally, for the first time since Struans went public, Dunross had proved to his ancestors that his decision was right.
After the disastrous landslide that ripped off most parts of main highway at one important districs of Hong Kong, including important towers and buildings alongside, the situation had dramatically changed. The authority had signaled Priority One situation; Police and Army and people worked hands in hands under the order of one emergency command base to help minimize the impacts, search and rescue for missing people and prevent further damages for only-God-knows-when.
Casey, Dunross, Gornt, and Orlanda were among the lucky ones. Unfortunately, Bartlett--the key player on current Dunross-Gornt rivalry--was not. He was trapped somewhere in the debris of Orlanda's apartment where he was sleeping the night before, after they made love ("ups! sorry!" said the landslide ^_^). Like anyone else, Gornt and Dunross tried to search Bartlett whatever the risk and cost. Bartlett himself was quite fine down there, trying to grasp and collect himself, despite his hard time fighting his nausea and supressing his claustrophobic symptomps.
After hours of persistent hardwork, the rescue team was finally able to locate Bartlett's position. But to put him out was another trouble. He was burried about 15 feet down, only his voice indicating he was relatively well and unhurt. Visibility null. The flash light could not even reach him a tip of a hair. As quick as possible, the team then dig to the nearest place just to find out that they were dealing with a block of the broken wall that perfectly protected Bartlett from death yet stumbled him from his rescuer. But they were lucky enough that time.
Until another tremor suddenly shocked the earth and another stream of mud sliding down to the site they were working on. The hole was quickly covered with mud, making Bartlett a history without anyone could do anything for him. (what a tragic end for as financially powerful man as him--Red.).
With Bartlett's death, Gornt was alone then and Dunross could easily take over his All Asia Airways. Not only that, the stock market board of commisioners had decided to close the market and announced the "normal" opening price for Struans to stabilize Hong Kong's economy. And Casey, with her new power as tai-pan of Par Con Industries, had decided to sign the proposed deal with Struans.
Finally, for the first time since Struans went public, Dunross had proved to his ancestors that his decision was right.
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