Onegaishimasu


I remember a quote from Albert Einstein : "Only two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity. And I am not so sure about the former."

In real life, we tend to forget many things. When we are busy at work, we forget about family. When we pour so much attention to our family, we forget about personal fulfillment. And so on. I don't think this has anything to do with human stupidity, though; but if we cannot enjoy anything in everything we do for our life, it sure is stupid.

My blog is all about sharing. I am interested in many subjects, but most of them will fall into 4 categories : related to Work (Design/IT/Management), Fun (Entertainment/Games), Aikido & Read(ing). I hope my posting maybe of your interest as well, or the least to snatch your attention a while off your routine.

Oh, and about human stupidity; it is indeed stupid to think that learning process stops when you obtain a degree, certificate or a piece of paper for that matters. I've met so many academic people who proudly put down so many titles on their name card, yet their English language skills are somewhere between a kindergarten's and a polar bear's. When we live our life, we still learn so many things from everything around us. So that's where my tag-line comes from : Enjoy Life While We Learn :-)

Last but not least, I want to share a quote from my favorite TV series, Scrubs : "Life is like having a cup of coffee. If you don't find someone else, you'll end up drinking alone." Make friends, not war. Have a great day !

Monday, November 1, 2010

Pray for Indonesia : Pray for Idiots


Pray for Indonesia : Pray for Idiots

On 26 Oct’10, Indonesia experienced 3 disasters all at the same time: volcano eruption, earth quake and tsunami. But compared to these 3 miseries, there is another tragedy that surpassed them altogether: the death of humanity of Indonesian officials. Some of parliament members still took off to Greece (or Italy?) for a chance of leisure trip funded by state (= taxpayers’ money) and the speaker of house representatives commented that “people should have not stayed on coastal area if they are afraid of tsunami”. 

Then I saw this tagline on local TV: Pray for Indonesia. The bitterness of the tagline is haunting. Why in the time of natural disasters then we pray? Do we only pray when we are in trouble? Is it much better to pray for better Indonesian leadership every day?

Speaking of praying, my fellow friends at Kaskus prefer praying for Idiots who are in House of Representatives: may volcano, earth quake and tsunami bring doom to the Parliament building – and everyone inside of it! Indonesia would be much much better off without them. I couldn’t agree more.
Below is the recent news related to the writing…:

“Yudhoyono's staff wants House speaker to apologize for insensitive statement

Hans David Tampubolon, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 10/29/2010 7:38 PM | National
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's special staff on social assistance and disaster prevention Andi Arief says that Marzuki Alie, the House of Representatives speaker, must stop defending himself from the public who deem him as insensitive towards the Mentawai tsunami victims.

"Marzuki Alie apologize immediately, so we can all concentrate to save people, not commenting on comments!" Andi said in his twitter account, @AndiAriefNew, on Friday.

Marzuki has been receiving condemnation for his comment saying that Mentawai people had put themselves in the risk of tsunami by living nearby the sea.

Furthermore, Marzuki, who is a House of Representatives speaker, also said that legislators had more
important foreign trips to conduct than to visit disaster victims.”
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