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“Why?”

That is probably the first question in hand, because in people’s eyes, having a postpaid cellular card could lead to unwanted bills, it’s inability to be limited, and so forth, and so forth. And using a prepaid number is cheaper and easier to the wallet. Well to a certain extent, that’s probably true, but I have good reasons why I chose to stick with a postpaid number.

Reason #1: Convenience
The first and foremost reason for me is convenience. No matter what you do (unless you limit your credits, certain telcos have this feature), you will still have the ability to make a phone call when you need to. Imagine having a low credit on a prepaid phone and you’re stuck in an emergency. Believe me, you don’t want to be caught in that situation. With postpaid numbers, I can also register that to my credit card for auto billing each month. It saves my time and I don’t have to worry that I forgot to pay my bills anymore.

Reason #2: It’s Actually Cheaper
Unless things have changed I didn’t realize, I found using a postpaid number to be a lot cheaper. Back in the days when I was still using a prepaid number, I usually shell out around 200-250k each month for my phone bill. After I switched to postpaid, it’s around 150k. Now, my bill is around 250-275k already with an internet subscription that costs 125k alone. One other thing that I find interesting is how you calculate your rates. Here’s an example of a postpaid rate:

And here’s an example of a prepaid rate:

It’s clear that postpaid numbers have much simpler rate calculations. Personally, I don’t want to waste my time on constantly calculating the best rate for my phone calls. It’s just dreadful, and not to mention unnecessary. Why do we have to have different rates at different times, and at different regions? It’s just simply pointless.

Reason #3: No Fear of Deactivation
While you can also be deactivated by your service provider when using a postpaid number, you don’t have to hassle with different active periods when using different top up vouchers with different nominals. Add that to the rate calculation you already have before, and you’ll have a lifetime’s worth of mathematical problems.

So if your concern is to save money, it’s not the case of whether you should choose prepaid numbers over postpaid numbers. It is a control that you have to achieve for yourself. It’s as simple as making phone calls, texting, or browsing as you need.

Note:
Rates were taken from Indosat. I found other telcos use methods that are more or less the same.

I think Facebook should start thinking of banning these people just for visual pollution, or lack of normality, whichever they think is best.

Remember when I said that Indonesia won’t beat any country anytime soon in creativity? Apparently my statement clarifies itself after I saw what appears to be the Indonesian copy of the hit TV-show “LOST”. Yes, we should’ve seen it coming.

As I said in Twitter earlier this evening, the “creators” of this TV series is a bunch of fags. Worthless fags. What else do you want to copy next, huh? Heroes? 30 Rock? Fringe? 24? What did you say? You guys have no brains? Well of course you don’t.

Why do stupid assholes keep on copying movies and TV shows like this? It’s simple, stupid TV programs lead to stupid audience, stupid audience lead to stupid, crappy and fake movies and TV shows. And the circle repeats itself.

So let’s see, what is the dumbest animal on Earth? Worms? Goldfish? Insects? Lemmings? WRONG! The answer is these dumbfucks who thought that copying people’s ideas is such a wonderful thing. I’m not going to ask them to be ashamed of themselves, because apparently shame is something that they do not have or born with.

Photo credit by Andrayogi.

I stumbled across this image that appears to be a promotional poster of an event held by a church’s youth service. Seeing this, I am truly embarrassed, especially as a Christian. This is an example on why we seem to hold this “double standard” on how we treat stealing as a sin. Didn’t we all agree that the seventh commandment is “You shall not steal”?

When I see this picture, all I can think of is that it’s a direct rip-off of Michael Jackson’s “This is It”. No matter how you see it, how you think that you can get away because you did this for a religious cause whatsoever, it’s still a blatant plagiarism. And no, this is not a parody. At all.

So if you think that this is a parody, then you must’ve got it all wrong, as a parody is created to mock, comment, or poke fun on the original version. If you call this a tribute, what tribute? Does God want you to steal other people’s work? Do you even think that He will have this slightest pride upon you for doing this? Does he give you such little and puny creativity that you must steal an idea? That is preposterous. I believe completely that even if it’s only an ugly text in a photocopied piece of paper, God would appreciate that so much more because you didn’t include stealing as a part of the process.

Hey, creator (or should I say copycat?) of this “He is It” poster, you think you’re more religious than I am? Because I mocked you down for your religious and faithful effort to please God? Please, don’t be such a hypocrite when all you can do is stealing people’s work. You should be ashamed of calling yourself faithful to God. Yes, God inspires the praise, but He certainly did not inspire you to steal. This has got to stop, one way or another.

Although I truly envy my friends who have seen the phenomenon, I am deeply disappointed that I stumbled upon the answer to the mystery of whether we’re alone or not in this universe, just this afternoon. My friends, we are alone in this universe, and here’s the answer to all those recent sightings:

I’m sorry, people, apparently Mulder was wrong after all and the back side of the moon is probably empty.