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

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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.