I got this over from UPH Alumni’s mailing list:

JAWABAN DARI PIHAK AXIS :

Buat teman2 yg mungkin dpt spamming SMS atau email soal AXIS adalah kartu
setan, ini jawaban saya :

Soal issue setan itu, sy udah baca teman, setiap hari ada beberapa email yg
masuk ke correspondence unit sy dan kita jawab dgn baik, kalau boleh saya
jawab secara personal dan sbg karyawan AXIS, ini pendapat pribadi saya sbb
ya :
* AXIS adalah brand PT NATRINDO Telepon Selular, nama AXIS adalah berasal
usul dari MAXIS (inget share holder asing kami yg pertama adalah MAXIS)
sebelum di beli oleh Saudi Telecom Company
* Offer 666 adalah utk kemudahan mengingat dan mohon di cek offer kami di
Bulan Feb 2007 dng brand NTS adalah Rp 1 / detik which is sama dgn Rp 60/
menit. Meeting ttg tariff ini adalah yg sangat menarik dan saya tahu banget
darimana angka 666 tsb berasal. Kalau kami mau semua 666, tentu tidak akan
membuat batas offer limit data 100 Mb tapi 666 Mb donk ? Selain tariff ini,
ada tariff lain yaitu Rp 1,200 utk SLJJ, khan tidak 666 tukh.
* Nomor awalan kami bukan 0866 tapi 0838 XXX XXXX - skali lagi di ulangi
0838 - pls check my number, kalau di spamming ada nomor telpon dengan awalan
08666 426454 coba saja di call dan cek ke Depkominfo - nomor awalan tsb
punya operator siapa ? Di sini GAMPANG skali mengecek bo’ongnya.
* Natrindo sendiri adalah persh netral - tidak berpihak kepada aliran/agama
apapun, tapi sy sendiri masuk dalam Persekutuan Doa Oikumene Natrindo - kami
berkumpul tiap Jumat beserta teman2 segedung Citra Graha, ke sini dech kalau
mau ikutan doa - daripada gossip mending doain saya.
* Kalau kita melihatnya sih ini lebih ke psy war dan in a way bagus buat
propaganda AXIS krn mereka yg ga tahu jadi tahu loch J

Note : Alkitab punya 66 kitab dan Alqur’an punya 6666 ayat serta bagi
Chinese angka 6 adalah berarti maju.
Saya sendiri suka ketawa sakit perut kalo baca spam SMS atau spam email tsb
soal kartu setan ini, ternyata ada saja org termakan hal ini.
Ya, anggap saja kita celebrity dech jadi di gossipin terus.. JJJ

Grace HM
Customer Service
Mobile : +62 838 8000 618
grace.heny@axisworld.co.id

Some of the so-called “True Believer” Christians would obviously think, “Of course they said that, they’re Satan!”. I say, these Christians should suck their own balls. BIKIN MALU ORANG KRISTEN AJA.

I just finished a personal project which I decided to do in my free time during the holidays. Think of it as my dedication to pro-bono church works. My personal project is the Indonesian version of the Bible. Why? Because I found no Indonesian iPhone/iPod Touch versions of it over the internet, so I decided to make it on my own.

I’ve been using electronic Bibles to reduce my load when going to the church since I used my old Palm Zire 72, and when I moved to the Sony Ericsson K610i afterwards. After I bought the iPod Touch two weeks ago, and got it jailbroken, I figured that with its superb text-rendering capabilities which is far better from my previous gadgets (Thanks to OS X), it can be a good eBook reader with a nice legibility. So why not have a Bible in it?

I’ve set up a dedicated page for it here (which became a reason that I have to spend more time taking care of my personal site) with all of the needed instructions provided. So if you’re an Indonesian, and happened to own an iPhone or an iPod Touch, and needed the bible, feel free to download a copy.

Tamara and Ernest brought a new game for the Komisi Pemuda to play after Sunday services. It’s called Gate Ball. The game is actually remodelled by Eiji Suzuki for younger people from the French game called Croquet.

Today’s players were divided into 2 teams, one with the 5 red balls which have odd numbers, and the other with the 5 white balls, which have even numbers. Andreas, Rina, Maryoko, Eric, and myself got the white team. Irlanto, Dewi, Chris, Prissa, and Ernest got the red team. Yero also joined the game after he’s done with his exams at Farabi.

We didn’t consider this game as sports because we don’t sweat a lot playing this. That is if we didn’t play it under the hot sun, of course. The game was fun, and we had two rounds today and played under the official rules. But because the first round is still introductory so people gets the hang of it, the half-hour time limit was removed.

The only problem with the game is the field. The Mardiko field (The one next to my church) is an absolute uneven ground, so the balls could really be unpredictable, and you can also cheat by having the ball stopped from getting out by a bunch of grass. Next week, we have to find a better spot to play the game if we’re going to play it better.

In order to raise more funds for the upcoming live-in event in a village somewhere in Salatiga, the church’s Komisi Remaja made a car wash event. Some of the guys from Komisi Pemuda helped them out. That includes myself. Actually the experience is pretty cool, we were divided into teams of 3, plus a sales promotion girl each, and each team had to find at least 5 cars or 10 motorcycles to wash. Basically, a motorcycle is half a car. Unfortunately, my team lacked one person at the beginning, Adit was late. There were only Jeffrey, me, and Kara. Kara finds the job orders, we do the washing.

Actually, we did a quite impressive job. Jeffrey and I finished 4 cars and a bike in almost an hour. Well, Kara helped out a bit on the fourth car. The next two cars were helped out by anybody who is doing nothing by that time. Actually, we kinda cheated on the target. The last two cars were mine and Kara’s. But hey, anything for charity, right?

By the end of the event, we raised more than 800.000 for the charity. That is cool! Charity and exercise sometimes go together very well.

I have to admit that today’s Easter meeting at church was boring as hell (I don’t even know if using the term “hell” for a church-related thing is legal). But it is true, Pak Iwan, Widi, and me seem to be trapped in the middle of a rather formal and constant conversation. So it’s either everyone except us is very formal and serious, or we’re just too used to a quite non-formal meeting conducts. And I found it quite hard to think creative in meetings like these, and that’s bad, because I’m in the publication section on the Easter team. Just think of it like having a meeting with the country’s representatives… Yikes…

After the performance last month, we started the ensemble practice again today. And we are not getting the complete line-up. Most of the members are sick, either from flu or chicken pox. So there were only 12 members doing the practice. But… We do have a new member, his name is Abe, and he is also a Remaja Junior member at church (the category of age of 8th and 9th grade students). He’s been asking Kara when will the practice start again. And apparently he came today. People said that he has a good skill on the guitar. If it’s true, then he’s a valuable addition indeed to the line-up.

I attended the Pemuda bowling event today. The event was actually replacing the fellowship we regularly have on Fridays, and this time we get to bowl for free. Actually, we only have to pay 5.000 for the shoes, and the rest of the fee was paid by our fellowship available budget.

And, you know… Really, I suck at bowling. I never get the ball to slide straight, or even curved the way Relix bowled. Probably because today was the first time I bowled, but probably, I just sucked at bowling, hahahaha. I still prefer billiard to bowling though…

Yay! We finally done it! We’ve done the performance today, and two months of intensive rehearsals really paid off. For the first time, we really played good! And Oom Anto and Rian really did a great job on the sound setting for the stage.

And as for me… Phew… Back to normal life!

Yipee!! I already got most of the things under control. Event booklets, check. Standing banner, check. Poster, check. Warta Jemaat inserts, check. CD duplication, check. CD covers, check. CD labels, check. Flash presentation, check. Invitation cards, check. Music books, not yet. Well, you can’t get everything in an instant, but that is only one left from ten. So I really do hope I can finish everything up by next Wednesday. Big thanks to Yona who already helped me with the photographs.

Today was a very very tiring day… My day started by waking up late, at 11 AM, so I continued with lunch right after that, hehehe. I then went to Andira’s to print out a standing banner for the upcoming Great is the Lord performance, and also a set of stickers to be put on every single one’s music book for the performance. After that I went straight to Subur to print out 50 invitation cards, also for the performance. And because of the bridge repairs on Abdul Madjid, people seem to be taking detours all over Kemang and created a massive traffic jam on each ends of the region.

Anyway, the print out process at Subur didn’t take too long, and Pak Iwan called me when I was on my way back to Hi Res, telling me that several of the printed materials are done. And because I’m still at the Dharmawangsa region, I decided to stop by at Tulodong as well for a moment. And eventually, while I was there, we talked about pretty much everything, PCs, Macs, cameras, and even consoles. I never knew Pak Iwan is a console gamer too, and I also found out that he’s a relative to Tante Grace, one of my neighbors. This is indeed a small small world.

Anyway, after picking up the event booklets and CD stickers at Silver, I went back to Hi Res to pick up the standing banner and stickers. And yes, because of the bridge repairs, I still have to make detours just to get home, like everyone else. Thank God the toll road was quite empty, otherwise I might’ve gone nuts.