Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Monday, October 21, 2002

REINSTATED!

resolution 2002
1. efisien & efektif.
2. fokus. jangan kosong.
3. olahraga. fitness.
4. counceling. bantuan profesional.
5. make money. 100 juta/th.
6. ekstrovert. gaul.
7. punya pacar.
8. rencana bisnis . venture capital.
9. kurangi liat yang porno2. lihat no. 2.
10. kurangi nonton tv. lihat no. 2.
has to be reinstated: You Are Not Important To Her. So Why Act Like You Are...?
An errata for [10/18/2002 1:16:08 PM | Farry Aprianto] entry.
Everything You want to know abot sex but were too shy to ask. In U.S. at least...

Saturday, October 19, 2002

Red Hot Chili Peppers Bali Trip Nixed By State Department
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have canceled their appearance in Bali after warnings from the U.S. State Department about safety and travel to the resort destination at this time. The warning was issued in light of the recent terror attack at a Bali nightclub district that killed close to 200 people.

Friday, October 18, 2002

What am I? A fool? Or someone anybody can take for granted?
What am I thinking? I AM NOT IMPORTANT FOR HER.

wake up young men. it's time to wake up. your love affair has got to go.
-wake up, mad season, 1995


You Are Not Important. So Why Act Like You Are...?
Be Somebody Else's Importance.

Well, maybe it's out of my pain of rejection. after all I missed the 4mix appointment. but i'm definitely not that important to fit in her agenda. despite of what's in hearts.

Thursday, October 17, 2002

Video Game keluaran Acclaim "BMX XXX" ditolak oleh retailer2 di Amerika karena mengandung pornografi (ada karakter Pimp, Hooker, dll.)
Di Korea, ada orang meninggal karena main Video Game
BALI CONSPIRACY THEORY

This scenario is pretty scary. This is what Mulder must have felt on The X-Files' finale, that he won't reveal what he knows to Scully because the truth is too scary. In this scenario all is lost.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nia Rahayu Jelantik
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:01 PM
To: Employee Group
Subject: FW: Bali Conspiracy Theory (believe it, or not)



Dijamin nggak basi :-)
[Nia Rahayu Jelantik]

Subject: Bali Conspiracy Theory (believe it, or not)


...Gue dapet dari milis lain..
...tolong sebarluaskan ke seluruh orang Indonesia...

1. Amerika menginginkan Maluku sebagai No Man's Land supaya perjalanan dari pangkalan militer US di Filipina ke pangkalan militer di East Timor tidak perlu melalui perairan Indonesia (Sejak Gus Dur tidak mau pro US, maka amerika menganggap Indonesia ada kemungkinan tidak pro US lagi)

2. Sebagai back up plan, Sulawesi Utara (Poso) dan Papua lebih baik dimerdekakan juga

3. US tidak berani mengirim pasukan militer ke Maluku untuk invasi,karena selain tidak ada alasan yang tepat, Navy Seal Team 6 yang paling jago di Asia pun masih takut dengan Kopassus dan Kopaska.

4. Mercenary disewa CIA untuk melancarkan psyco-war di Maluku supaya ada pertumpahan darah di sana. Amerika belajar dari sejarah Indonesia yang sangat mudah diadu domba pada jaman penjajahan Belanda. Maka diadulah Islam dan Kristen di sana, padahal orang Indonesia paling dikenal dunia sebagai masyarakat yang paling toleransi beragama.

5. TNI ternyata berhasil menangani keadaan di Maluku dan beberapa provokator (orang yang sama yang bisa tampil sebagai pendeta pada hari ini, besok menjadi ustad)

6. Dengan ditangkapnya banyak mercenary (tentara bayaran) yang menjadi provokator di Maluku, maka Operation No Man's Land bisa dikatakan terancam gagal.

7. Strategi berikutnya adalah menuding Indonesia sebagai sarang teroris, versi lainnya adalah Indonesia adalah sarang Al-Qaeda (padahal Al-Qaeda sama sekali bukan teroris. Al-Qaeda adalah pasukan khusus yang dibentuk CIA pada perang dingin untuk menghalau kekuatan Soviet supaya tidak masuk ke Afghanistan. Osama dan Al-Qaeda ditelantarkan pada pasca perang dingin, mengakibatkan mereka melawan Amerika)

8. Hamzah Haz berani mengeluarkan pernyataan bahwa tidak ada teroris di Indonesia, karena memang tidak ada komplotan teroris di Indonesia.

9. Kemerdekaan Maluku kian di ambang kegagalan, Amerika memerlukan alasan tepat untuk menurunkan pasukannya di Indonesia.

10. Karena memang tidak ada teroris di Indonesia, maka CIA membayar mercenary untuk melakukan teror di Indonesia dengan bom, salah satunya yang di Bali kemarin (dengan bom C4)

11. Jika banyak teror bom di Indonesia dan pelakunya tak kunjung ditangkap, maka US akan menuding TNI dan POLRI tidak dapat menyelesaikan tugasnya dan butuh pasukan Amerika untuk membantu menumpas teroris di Indonesia.

12. Dengan mendaratnya pasukan Amerika di Indonesia, maka orang-orang Ibu Pertiwi yang menjaga keutuhan Indonesia akan disingkirkan dengan skenario orang-orang tersebut terlibat dalam terorisme yang terjadi di Indonesia.

13. Pemerintah Indonesia akan di-"bersih"-kan oleh US, orang-orang yang tidak pro US akan dikategorikan sebagai teroris atau terkait dengan Al-Qaeda (yang bukan teroris)

14. Skenario 1: Maluku, Papua, dan Sulawesi Utara akan tetap dimerdekakan.

15. Skenario 2: Pemerintahan Indonesia akan dijadikan negara pro US dengan catatan bukan dalam negara kesatuan Republik Indonesia lagi, tapi terpecah menjadi negara Aceh, negara Riau, negara Sulawesi Utara, negara Maluku, negara Papua, dan negara Republik Indonesia untuk mempersempit teritorial kelautan Indonesia yang kaya raya.

16. Apa pun skenarionya, jika berhasil maka:
a. perusahaan-perusahaan minyak Amerika bebas mengolah sumber minyak bumi di laut Timor dan dengan aman membawanya ke Amerika karena tiga titik strategis: East Timor - Maluku - Filipina mempunyai pangkalan militer US
b. Australia tidak perlu takut jika kelak ada invasi dari Indonesia karena adanya pangkalan militer US di tiga titik tersebut, dan mereka juga akan mengambil bagian dalam pengolahan minyak bumi di Laut Timor.

17. Mohon diwaspadai bahwa Gerakan Islam Radikal itu tidak ada, dan Islam bukanlah teroris seperti yang diceritakan (dengan cara cuci otak) Israel kepada masyarakat dunia. Kebencian Israel kepada negara-negara Islam dan negara-negara dengan mayoritas penduduk beragama Islam adalah persoalan simpati terhadap Palestina (yang ditakutkan akan membuka mata negara-negara lain yang non-muslim untuk melihat kenyataan dan kemudian bersimpati juga kepada gerakan pejuang Palestina dan negara-negara Islam)

18. Israel masih berjuang keras untuk "membereskan" pejuang Palestina dan simpatisannya di seluruh dunia demi penguasaan sumber minyak di Timur Tengah bekerja sama dengan Amerika Serikat (konglomerat-konglomerat terkuat di Amerika adalah keturunan Yahudi yang mempunyai hubungan dengan tanah leluhurnya, bahkan orang kunci/key person di militer, kongres, dan pemerintahan - serta presidennya - adalah keturunan Yahudi)

19. Indonesia sedang dalam keadaan yang sulit, bagi kita yang orang awam dan sipil saja sudah terbayang betapa banyak urusan yang harus diselesaikan berkaitan dengan masalah ini, apalagi presiden kita.

20. Saya pribadi sudah senang mendengar banyak opini orang Indonesia mulai menunjukkan kedewasaannya dalam menanggapi kisah pemboman di Bali. Banyak yang sudah tahu kalau pemboman tersebut bukan dilakukan oleh teroris lokal, melainkan permainan perang intelijen.

21. Tidak ada yang bisa kita lakukan sebagai orang sipil untuk menanggapi perang intelijen ini selain berdoa dan tetap berkepala dingin. Jangan terlalu percaya dengan provokasi apalagi provokasi yang datang dari mulut (sayang sekali) pemuka agama (yang mungkin pemuka agama gadungan)

22. Jangan cepat menuduh kegiatan anarkis atau terorisme dilandaskan oleh agama tertentu. Tidak ada agama di dunia ini yang mengajarkan anarki dan teror. Di negara kita banyak sekali kelompok yang mengatasnamakan agama sebagai tameng, padahal kelompok tersebut tidak beragama dan hanya dibayar oleh pelaku perang intelijen untuk mencemarkan agama tertentu.

23. Marilah kita masing-masing kembali menjadi manusia Indonesia yang seperti dulu, saling toleransi beragama, karena kita semua tahu bahwa semua agama adalah baik. Seluruh umat tidak perlu memeluk agama yang sama untuk masuk surga, dan tidak perlu "menyelamatkan" umat lain dengan mengajak berpindah agama untuk masuk surga. Mari kita ingat baik-baik bahwa semua agama yang menyembah Tuhan adalah baik, jalannya saja yang berbeda, tujuan tetap sama.

24. Marilah kita ingat juga hanya karena sebab adu domba, kita menderita selama 3,5 abad pada masa yang lampau. Jangan hanya karena percaya pada provokasi kita dengan secepat itu mengambil peran dalam korban-korban perang intelijen.

Wednesday, October 16, 2002

Bruce Paltrow, bokapnya Gwyneth Paltrow meninggal di Italia karena serangan jantung. My deepest condolence for Gwynie...

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Jus Lemon bisa jadi alat kontrasepsi? Atau penangkal AIDS?
How Scottmanning.com generates traffic Part I
Double entry. Gue pikir entry yang pertama gak masuk...
Rachel Maryam Dirampok, Telepon Genggam RaibWah, 2nd fact that really states that I AM paranoid android. I was egocentric. I am thinking (and feeling) inside the box. Despite of what the title of this blog says. Break free. Get out. 1st thing in the morning call her. Kasihan dia.
Rachel Maryam Dirampok, Telepon Genggam Raib
wah, fakta kedua yang bener2 bikin gue emang bener2 parno. I was only thinking about myself. I am thinking and feeling inside the box, despite of the title of this web log. 1st thing in the morning lah telpon Rachel. Kasihan dia.

Monday, October 14, 2002

Forgot to write about this girl I got to know in Emy's wedding. She's cute: Arletta Danisworo, daughter of Mr. Danisworo (Architecture lecturer from ITB). She's an announcer with Female Radio, MC now-and-then. She's kinda Vivi SR ITB '91 in a way. No wonder, Vivi used to go steady with her brother Didon. Bandung gurrlll.

Sunday, October 13, 2002

From email of Mailing List stingus.net. Read between the lines...

Singer-songwriter Craig David will release his sophomore album, Slicker
Than Your Average, on November 19. The first single from the set is
titled "What's Your Flava?", and Chicago-based rapper Twista is
featured on the remix. David recently shot a Willy Wonka & The
Chocolate Factory-inspired video for the song in Prague with video
director Little X.

One of the highlights of the Slicker Than Your Average is David's
collaboration with Sting, titled "Rise And Fall." David explained to
LAUNCH that he initially only intended to sample the guitar riff from
Sting's 1993 hit, "Shape Of My Heart."

"That guy--he's, like, a true professional, a gentleman at the same
time. And it was crazy the way it came about because I watched the film
Leon, and in the rolling credits its got 'Shape Of My Heart,' the
classic, which plays out. I love the guitar melody anyway, so I took
the guitar riff, put it on my computer, looped it up for however long
now, wrote a new top line about the trials and tribulations of an
artist career: 'As quick as you can have success, it can be taken
away.'"

David explained that when he sent the song to Sting to get the sample
cleared, the former Police frontman loved it so much that David was
able to convince him to sing the chorus. "He came back and said, 'You
know what? I love the song. I like what the essence of it is all
about.' So I went back to him and said, 'You know what? It would be
perfect if you could come in just singing the chorus.' And it worked
out that he's, like, the experienced, more wiser one in the chorus,
saying, 'Superstar, you finally made it, but once your picture becomes
tainted it's what they call the rise and fall.' He's, like, 'I'm a man
who's been there, done it, listen to me Craig.' It was like the perfect
duet. It wasn't contrived in any way. It was kinda like all about the
song, using 'Shape Of My Heart' guitar riff, Sting, it just worked out."

David also shared that Sting was very easy to work with and open- minded.
"It was crazy to have him in the booth and me kinda
saying, 'Sting, can you kinda sing it like this because I got a vision
for it to be like....' I'm thinking, 'This man is in his right to
say, 'You know what, Craig, just sickle yourself for a second--just
chill. Yeah, just let me do my thing.'' He was open-minded, allowed me
to express the way I could hear it being sung, and it ended up being
one of the highlights on the album for me, so it was a nice vibe."

David's debut collection, Born To Do It, came out in 2001 and has sold
more than 1.5 million copies in the United States.

Source:Launch.com

Groetjes, Cheers,
StingUs-team
www.StingUs.net
Weekly newsletter: Sting-Newsletter-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Check out our StingUs-shop with all the latest releases by Sting, The
Police, etc.!
The Kuta Bombing make me want to say that Indonesia is the Most Fucking Country in the world. :(
Pemboman Kuta membuatku ingin mengatakan bahwa Indonesia adalah Negara Terngentot di dunia. :(

Saturday, October 12, 2002

PARANOID ANDROID
Setelah 2 hari-an dibiarkan high-and-dry, yang mana 10/9/2002, gue nelepon Rachel, yang angkat G. Wah parno donk gue! Several phone calls later telponnya nggak ada yang ngangkat, gue parno, gue nyiptain skenario G hire manajer Rachel untuk ngebatasin Rachel, gak boleh terima telp dr. gw! wah pokoke parno abees. Setelah Rachel angkat telpon gue beberapa saat sebelum *transwomaaan* baru gue realize gue parno abes. well, tapi gak bisa dibiarin terus2an gene. gotta tell her how I feel. or else I die with grudges.

Emi & Fred akhirnya nikah (12 Okt 2002; Mercantile Club, WTC 18th Fl.) Resepsinya kayak bule2 kebanyakan: Gala Dinner, speech (father of the bride, bride's maid, groom), toast, potong kue, pindah ke lounge, dessert, Emi's 1st dance, {gue ama Bintang juga slo-dance buat ngebikin gosip Ancika}, dll. Pokoknya bosen lah yang namanya undangan 400an orang. This kind's more intimate. And I should not let my logic talk logically. Just follow your mojo flow. Should've make out w/ Anastasia but was too polite, mmm, nope, too damn by the rule. Pembenaran bahwa "It's not nice take advantage of your friend." HELL it's not taking advantage if BOTH party enjoys it. Next time leave your conscience at the door.

Wednesday, October 09, 2002

jeGEEEEeeeer pade
Pulang dari pergi ke mana-mana (antara lain ke Arteri 9 masalah new office place for Akal), pasti kan lewat di Jeger Pade, lokasi syuting strawberry. Kemarin sih juga lewat situ, tapi kayaknya papasan ma Cheeroke, pas buka kaca, mo greeting but someone chinese is inside. 1st thought was her future hubbie, cabuts!
Back to yesterday. Mampir. Yah, chit-chat ma kru di ruang tengah, baru masuk ke ruang dalam salon. Lagi pada bercandaan. She's pretty in red. I was also in red. coinsidence?
She's cuddling resident dog. Can tell she's salting over my presence. Seem's delighted, can see by the glimpse of her eyes. She didn't dare to stare at me in the eyes directly. Those eyes. The brightest stars will be in shame and dim their lights. Compared to...
Out of her silly jokes, she at one time out of the blu hug Sule, and said straight from her heart, that "cewek itu udah ditakdirkan ama cewek." Gak konteks ama becandaan yg lagi dibahas. And she said (as I remembered) that *somebody* missed someone so he visited her, a strong reference to me.
when they started to discuss the production, I know it's time to leave. I'm planning to visit Mr. Tju @ the hospital w/ Bulit. So I wentr outside. And I SMSed. Not long, she came out. Those eyes.
So then, as always, I bluntly excuse myself. Wish I could stay longer. But the situation was awkward, that Strawberry recently was replaced by Sarmila on SCTV, rumors said that it will be replaced by a hit Amanda.
Today I failed to call her.
Yesterday at night I watched "Crazy/Beautiful". It was beautiful. The plot has the chance to fall into cliche, but it didn't. I then felt blue and epiphany.
Still am.

Thursday, October 03, 2002

Baru aja denger lagu "Run To You" dari biduanita Whitney Houston. Jadi inget jamannya nonton film The Bodyguard sama Josi Rizka. Tiehehehe. Bitter sweet memory. Jadi inget trying to recognize that feeling.

Like now... still keep trying...

Kemarin, lumayan lah, bisa ngalihin kesuntukan. Gue dateng ke Forum AMI di Gedung Dua 8, sama Dana Surya (such a sweet naive innocent grrll) with her father (amazingly wise, a PhD and English Literature / Poetry). He pointed out something very interesting last night:

F (Farry) : (on mind gym) So, the mind gym, besides stimulates creativity out of our brain, it can relaxes brains as well, you know, destressing it? Making the stress go away? *yeah wishful thinking*
S (Mr. Surya) : Why anybody want to be stress? If you are in a garden, is it easier for you to find flowers? green grass? or CHICKEN SHIT? It's harder to find SHIT in the garden. Flowers are easier to find in the garden. But people tend to look for harder things to find, like SHIT.

So, Farry.... don't try to find SHIT in your garden. Find flowers and other pleasant things.

p.s.: starting to lose that feeling on Rachel (pronounced: Rahel like in begel {kawat} gigi, NOT Rakel)

Tuesday, October 01, 2002

I'm stressed out. Rachel turned out to be stressed out too. Her general check-up turned out to be physiologically fine, so there's some issues in her psychological state. That even involves me deepen into a more tangled relationship. or at least the relationship I thought I have.
Back to me. I'm stressed out. Back from a break away to Bandung didn't do me good. Even worse. Bandung had turned into chaotic city. Lots of buildings developed with money as policies. People with money can do whatever they wants. It's crazy. Not to mention jalan layang from Terusan Pasteur to Dago. One of my university buddy, a Bandung residence, said she's gratefull for the development. Well, she's wrong. It's developing with no decent planology and into something chaotic, something irreversible.
Then, today I saw 2 men literally fight, 2 middle aged man. I think their cars collided or something. But they fought. And it was a nasty fight. My taxi pulled over, I opened my window and shouted that they are both elderly and they should be ashamed of themselves.
I'm stressed out.

Monday, September 23, 2002

The truth came out and it may be ugly. Turned out that Rachel is living with her boyfriend. That makes it even more hard case to crack. Darn. It's so sick, recalling that he's a distant cousin of hers, though by adoption. Let alone the age difference!

Thursday, September 19, 2002

I don't know whether it's only me GR or it's superstition. I had lunch at Baltik Restaurant in the Passer Baroe area, after I've dropped the ol' tiger in Sandro's garage. I was ordering Nasi Capcai and Iced Lemon Tea. waiting for my food, I was considering whether to call Rachel or not, well, You know, too close for comfort issues. But this girl in front of me, maybe 5 years old, was wearing a white shirt with strawberry picture & text. Another sign? Instictively I called her. She was in the middle of packing. At 3 she will depart for Semarang. She will attend a discussion regarding "Eliana, Eliana" there.

"All the signposts in nature said You belong to me..."
- I Was Brought To My Senses, Sting

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Kemarin seperti out of the blue tiba2 Mme. Ayu Bossard nelepon. Gue lagi suntuk-suruntuk uring-uringan nggak juntrung-suruntung (weladalah gue jadi kayak Seno Gumira Ajidarma). Muter2 lagi di Cikajang mau pulang juga nanggung, waktu itu jam 5.30 sore-an.Terus Ayu nelpon. Dia lagi disinu, udah 3 mg, mg depan pulang. Gue lgs ke rumahnya. Cerita2. And she had visions, which amplify my wishful thinking. Gue gak akan terlalu beberin di sini karena semua belum pasti. Yang mutlak hanya Allah SWT. Summary is Ayu encourages me to go for it.
Pulang dari Ayu 10.40, gue telpon Rachel, lagi di Pizza Hut PI. Gue nyusul ke situ. Ada Pak Hanson, ceweknya, Key, Radit, (duh gue lupa namanya yg biasa pegang Boom, sorry jack) and offcourse the ever-lovely Rachel Maryam Sayidina. Could see stars in her glimpse of stare. Said that she prefer Pizza Hut over Izzi Pizza because it's more intimate, can have private conversation here. Its not mere vain we all discussed about the movie "Signs". Starting to catch signs here and there.
Lihat Saja Nanti (This Is My Prayer)
Imel


Pertemuan kedua takkan pernah berakhir
Pertemuan berikutnya selalu terjadi

Sunday, September 15, 2002

Talked to Rachel (pronounced Ra-khel as in bola be-kel) for a minute but felt relief somehow.

Saturday, September 14, 2002

I was a total jerk. I go to Rachel's show for the second time in hope for meeting her. Like always, she's astounding. Then came aftershow coctail in the lobby. After shaking hands several VIP's hands, eventually I bumped into her. She seems happy, asking my opinion which show I liked best, the 1st night or tonight. My logic took over my feelings and I answered that the frist night she was penjajagan, but tonight she's great. What a correct answer. But too damn naive. I should said both were great. That was my first dumb mistake. The second one being too stiff and not warm. I was statued beside her, asking dumb stupid questions regarding the show. Stupidupidupid. I shoulda ask about her ulcer (maag), more personal matters. After awkwardness for 3 mins and she's cheering up the ITBs in front of her (Motuls & Co.) she excuse myself looking for her man. Damn, she was bete'd. I thought that I was having very little self esteem. That she preferred her now-status over me. But later tonite I've realized that that's because maybe I stiffened her. BUT then again maybe I was geer. But think of it: that long from the show's over until we was convened, why her man hadn't with her already. Fuck, I hate it when I made wrong split-seconds fuck ups.
Warning! Fucking with your hand can do serious damage to your self esteem!

Thursday, September 12, 2002

Got to let it go (?)

Aku dan Kau (Cinta Rahasia)
Imel


Why is it Love that I feel for you?
How could you feel that love for me?
(But) I don't know if it's right or wrong
'Coz you belong to someone I know

Oh semua cerita ini biar hanya jadi cerita
Dan cinta ini tetap ada Jadi cinta rahasia
But let's keep the story alive

[When love is kept and locked
What would it turn to?
A shower of roses or a dose of poison?
It will not be something in between, though
So one's heart will always be clenched by fright
Until it learns to let go]

Wednesday, September 04, 2002

Hello Blog, it is certainly not goBlog. Today I was disoriented as always. Tried to escape from problems at hand which need to be solved. Instead I escapaded to "Strawberry" TV series outdoor set, on Asia Afrika, in one of the plants vendor. Rachel was there. But the BI article broke my heart. Well, that triggers my disorientation, but I quickly recovered and keep my cool. Ikut Rachel & kru yang lain ke launching album Imel "Di Ladang Stroberi" OST "Strawberry". When we arrived Imel and her band already played. Hell yeah, its Wewey on accoustic guitar, Rudy Aru on upright-bass, and Arry Aru on drums. (Reminds me of my jam with them, and with Reza Artamevia!) And I met a lot of people I recollected from different phase of my life. Dewi of RSD, offcourse Rudy-Arry-Wewey, Indra Tattoo, etc.

Commenting on the setlist Imel played with her band, it was damn good! And Imel is trully an entertainer. with her solid lounge to wedding experience, she made me and maybe other audience fall in love with Strawberry! well, maybe that's just me. The set enhanced my inner feelings. Sule, Rachel and others departed back to Senayan, but I stayed. I made a preliminary informal proposal for Strawberry's website development. When I was introduced to the boss of Indigo I had digested more than I can take and I gestured rather impolite. Better work on that next time.

At 6 I took a cab and head for Ratu Plaza. I am having a meeting to team up for Realta Kencana project with Pradi, Bullit & Didiek. It took place at Polaris.

Glad to curhat again!

Thursday, May 23, 2002

Lagi browsing2 ketemu website game2 lama di PC... Old Classics

Tuesday, April 09, 2002

Excite - Horoscopes Today's Aries Horoscope
March 21 - April 19

It took you years to become an expert on one particular topic, but it's in your best interest not to narrow your focus too much, Aries. All types of specialists must learn to think outside the box. Computers teach a lesson that has little to do with educational software. The rules may be inflexible, but you can be extremely creative once you understand them. Save the beginning of a new project for another day.

Tuesday, March 05, 2002

Attending weekend seminar of one of the leading Network Marketing. Boy, talking about gloryfing financial freedom. I just bought the ticket and see what happened inside Istora for 3 days. And what I felt especially in the beginning was very awkward. People singing, dancing and clapping hands to their colleague who was more opportunate and advanced in ranks. But I think that's the only way they value effort, hardwork & realized dreams, at least physically appreciate the values.
My sponsor / upline / whatever constantly instilled the benefits of joining the cult, sometimes excessively and in points where more is too much. But I get his eagerness to enlist me. Well, I'm just a statistic to him for his credits. Darn, I prejudiced again.
Looking forward to buy it's tools / events admissions / anything. Right now I'm just plain broke. Event spent my telephone bill's money to buy for the seminar, let alone being lent 175.

Sunday, February 24, 2002

13thStreet.com -- Games TortureGotchi
Mad At Your Boss? Friend? Lover? Revenge Is Sweet!
Caution! Nervous Breakdown!

Thursday, February 21, 2002

E-Hack - a free E-mail hacking service HACKING HOTMAIL - Makanya jangan Microsoft dong Hotmail... don't sellout!

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

Image of Madonna with color ASCII characters cool or what?
iamnyer: kal gue liat unsur architecture elo tuh ada di design yg loe buat
farry_apr: yup architecture built me.

(Yahoo! Messenger chat transcript with Dira, NY, USA)

Tuesday, February 19, 2002

b . u . k . r . i . e
Even somebody else's thinking more in details!

Wednesday, 20 February 2002
STOP PRESS!!!
Historic Moment in Time Will Happen Tonight!
Believe it or not but 8.02PM on February 20 this year will be a historic moment in time.
At that precise time, on that specific date, something will happen which has not occurred for 1,001 years and will never happen again. As the clock ticks over from 08.01PM on Wednesday, February 20, time will read in perfect symmetry 2002-2002-2002, or to be more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002 for sixty seconds only!
It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock - at 10.01AM on January 10, 1001. And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again. There won't be time such as 30:03, 30/02, 3003.
Hey, today's weird. If You write down the date in Indonesian format, it'll be 20.02.2002...
Maybe I should amend my business' tagline from "Thinking Out of the Box" to "Feeling Out of the Box". Glitches...

Friday, February 15, 2002

TemptationIslandSucks.com @ RealityTVWorld.com Temptation Island sucks alright. Konsep shownya mengada-ada. But I watch it anyway... :D

Monday, February 11, 2002

Sunday, February 10, 2002

Makan malam dengan temen masa kecil gue sekaligus temen SMA gue. Dia mengatakan hal yang menarik:
"pacaran itu seperti screensaver: kelihatannya indah tapi kalau digoyang dikit kelihatan aslinya.
kawin itu seperti program komputer: tiba-tiba suka ngehang."
Yesterday I was having a business appointment but the other person had a thing to settle with his girlfriend. Then the supposedly-one-considered-date with a girl was made uncertain about the time, and then was cancelled in the end, and the worst part was, I met her with a bunch of male friend in the cineplex. How much worse can it get?
Yes, Allah Almighty, I've learned Your lessons.

Wednesday, February 06, 2002

Reconnect with an ol' gebet. Sad thing is she forgets.
Banner produk kertas di www.detik.com memilih tagline stupid: "today's paper for tomorrow's technology." Kalau teknologi makin maju, orang makin tidak memakai kertas!

Tuesday, February 05, 2002

Digital Web Magazine - Tutorial: Flash Usability it's unlikely to have justification for treating Flash as a platform rather than as a tool.
Digital Web Magazine - Tutorial: Flash Usability Flash Usability : Something Every Web Designer Will Need, Not Just Only Hey-I-Can-Do-This Attitude.
Google Check this out! A Javanese languange Google. What more cooler (and more colonial) can it be?

Monday, February 04, 2002

Saturday, February 02, 2002

The most depressing saturday night ever. Kebalen Banjir. Mati lampu. Telepon masih isolir. Mobil mogok. Appointment survei tanah batal. Well, at least I've gotten my feet massaged @ Qorums courtesy of Okki's Gathering no. 14...
Well, not too depressing. Called someone who has just graduated in Bandung. Second gear...
p.s. to Bliss girl f.u.

Thursday, January 31, 2002

I am feeling burned out. This is becoming too numbing for me.

Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Maximize Your Media - Welcome to Real.com. The source for all your Internet media needs. Yeah PC Magazine right on... "...a masterpiece of intuitive design."
Entering Day 6 : The Jakarta Great Flood. Gita adik gue ulang tahun. Nothing much cuman KFC & Le Gourmet. Tadi baru informal project delivery ke client.

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

Lama-lama bosen juga liat font Trebuchet. Gila, sejak jadi font standard PC jadi dipake di mana-mana! Even my own 's typography!
Allahu Akbar. Ujan melulu. Sekarang memasuki day-5 of non stop rain. Sampe ngerendem pompa air gue lagi... Tapi ada hikmahnya sih jadi kenal ama tetangga Amel.
Mulai il-fil (as you want : ilang-filing atau ill-feel) neeh...

Friday, January 25, 2002

"Down in a hole Losin' my soul
Down in a hole Feelin' So Small
Down in a hole Losin' my soul
Down in a hole Out of control

I'd like to fly but my
wings have been so denied"

-Down in a Hole
Alice in Chains

Friday, January 18, 2002

Kablaam! Tiba-tiba out of the blue the 'R' gal called me. After several futile attempt I made last year, well, 3-4 month ago. Feel the connection. Asal jangan ge-er aja.
Live365 - Radio Revolution
Lagi seneng-senengnya nyalain internet radio biar Cable Internet gue nggak mubazir... Maybe if I have more time I will set a playlist.

Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Failco.com: dody suria wijaya's website - nge-expose kegagalan dotcom indonesia Failbox:
Kolom-kolomnya dody tentang kegagalan dotcom indonesia. Just found this cool Indonesian site from one of my mailing list. Cool and cutting edge contents instead of good web design.

Tuesday, January 15, 2002

You say You wanna resolution, well You know, we all wan't to change the world. (From the Beatles' tune "Revolution", slightly changed).
Paid a visit to Okki's office in JSX this morning. Boy, I wanna be like him.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh!

Sunday, January 13, 2002

Pagi ini gue denger di Prambors tentang cowok yang gigih meyakinkan orangtua ceweknya, sampai kawin lari. Pikiran impromptu gue, "Prambors nih ngebahas masalah pacaran mulu..." dan my second impromptu, "Wah, gawat! My paradigm has shifted! Cara pandang gue udah berubah! Gue musti settle secepatnya nih (dalam hal berpasangan - Red.)! Sebelum segalanya terlambat..."

Saturday, January 12, 2002

Baru nyadarin kalo cewek tetangga gue lucu juga. Gue lagi masang peneng plat nomer mobil di Tiger, dan dia lagi bukain gerbang untuk kakaknya mau pergi pake combi. Kayaknya dia tebar pesona juga dech *duh corny*
What is a booger made of?
That and other facts that don't make You any brighter can be found in a self-explanatory website www.uselessknowledge.com. The only benefit you can gain from visiting the site is it keeps You feeling amused even if You're unproductive.

Thursday, January 10, 2002

I thought I would've blown up my head earlier today... for a lot of things that was good for me all happening at the same time, so much they exceeds my capacity to absorb and get the hold of all. But now I'm in a calm manner.
Guess I should take good things one at a time.
But I'm grateful all happened the way I wanted them to be... the expectations I had for them to come true.

Now let's see if I could balanced them all.

Wednesday, January 09, 2002

Saat ini adalah saat yang istimewa karena sekarang tanggal 10 Januari 2002 jam 10.01 (perhatikan: 10.01.2002 10:01). Strange huh? I'll keep us updated about such moments throughout the year...

Tuesday, January 08, 2002

TIME.com - Apple's New Core
"So damn the recession! Build it, and they will come."
- Time's article on the new i-Mac
Apple - The new iMac Four years ago we introduced the first iMac. It changed the way people use computers. It changed the way people look at technology. Some people even said it changed the world. Now, six million iMacs later, we’re doing it again.

Friday, January 04, 2002

Font Aid II: September Eleven The September Eleven font was assembled in the days following the horrible events of September 11, 2001. Type designers were asked to submit a glyph (specifically a question mark) to express their feelings of the tragedy. The final compiled font that you now have is the result of this call. All proceeds from the sale of this font are being donated to the Red Cross and victim relief efforts.

It's astonishing that some people care about something enough to make them do what they can in their capacity to help one another.

Unlike here in my country. People don't care unfortunate things happened to others, until it happens to themselves.

Tuesday, January 01, 2002

New Year's Day 2002 is my wake up call.
Just listened to Bad Religion's The Process of Belief. The new album. Mr. Brett joins back into the band, but Brian Baker stays (consists of 6 members?) Bobby Schayer is replaced by Brooks Wackerman behind the drum kit (medical reason). The power's back on - in contrary of their previous album (New America) which emphasized on melody - but without sacrificing the well-knowned-bad-religion-harmony. Though I've got full album's MP3 I still intend to buy the CD. Good stuff.
Released old year 2001 and welcomed new year 2002 in Sentul, Bogor, last night. My former office SimComm organized an event there, supposedly to be a cultural event, an attempt to mix between east and west culture. Kendangs and saronengs merges with turntables and G3 powerbooks. DKSB and Andi Ayunir with famous DJs Anton, Romy, Naro, Denny, Morten and Steven. Jaipong dancers with clubhoppers. The noble cultural cause unfortunately IMHO just floats on the surface. Nice work though, my salutes goes to Anto and the gank, also to Demajors.