Bumperless Car
May 22nd, 2008
Due to an unfortunate event, I had to have my car’s bumper claimed and fixed. Right now, my car is bumperless. And no, I’m not switching to any crappy fiberglass custom bumpers. I am not a riceboy.
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May 22nd, 2008
Due to an unfortunate event, I had to have my car’s bumper claimed and fixed. Right now, my car is bumperless. And no, I’m not switching to any crappy fiberglass custom bumpers. I am not a riceboy.
May 17th, 2008
Oh yes, our country is exceptionally known for making high stake dramas, from the Fitna drama, the YouTube blocking drama, Roy Suryo dramas (He’s been making dramas all his life. He could be an actor after all, you know), and the latest… The fuel price drama.
Okay, the issue is that the price for fuel is going up. Why? Because fuel is not a renewable source of energy, and non-renewable energies cannot be reproduced. So the less supply we have, the more expensive it gets. And why does this really matter that people, especially college students, had to go marching for protest and jumped into the bandwagon? In my opinion, it’s because of Indonesia’s lack of knowledge that in the future, FOSSIL FUEL WILL RUN OUT!
Despite the government is also to be blamed because they never give out education on how limited FOSSIL FUEL are to the society, I think I would have to agree with them. If we want to subsidize fuel, until when can we keep subsidizing every single kind of fuel? Until the world ends? We simply can’t afford to subsidize fuel anymore. Look at other countries, it is inevitable that the price for fuel is increasing time after time. Do they accept it? Oh, yes. They have to. Because it’s reality, and you just can’t recycle fossil fuel. Fuel just doesn’t go up to $4 a gallon for no reason. Do you really think that the government has absolute control over this? This is a reality pill that we all just have to swallow.
Now, as a college alumni, one thing came across my mind about these college students that call themselves “college students”, or mahasiswa, as in the highest grade of students, and yet in a stupid act protested the government on how they should not raise the fuel price? You call yourselves intelligent students? Of all kinds of people, college students are supposed to learn and understand things, not going down to the street wearing your colorful jackets and shout “TURUNKAN HARGA BBM!“, while at the same time knowing that reality bites. Get a life, do something useful other than making yourself stupid, and READ THE FACTS THAT FOSSIL FUEL IS NOT RENEWABLE. If you want to make things better, why not switch to a green lifestyle? Ride a bicycle to college, not that idiotic horde of motor kampungs with 2-stroke engines, or wasting fuel for useless car parades on demonstrations, or even hijacking a tanker for that matter. Indonesian college students… I bet half of them are idiots. Just plain idiots. Mahasiswa my ass.
May 14th, 2008
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 JNote : 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.. JJJGrace 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.
May 9th, 2008
For 21 years I’ve collected Tomicas, I’ve never seen one regular Tomica with this kind of quality. This is the best by far, and the details are PERFECT down to the “Jeep Wrangler” emblem and the front fascia! I think it’s about time that Takara Tomy upgrade its regular Tomica lineup to this quality.
May 9th, 2008
It’s been three weeks since Yero came home and brought my iPhone order along with him, so I figured that it might be good to do a simple review of the device. Unlike people who bought this thing only to show that “they have the latest gadgets” or to show that “they’re (so-they-say) cool”, I bought it for the simplicity of use, because it is an Apple device, and that it syncs perfectly with my Mac (unlike some other crappy mobile devices with a stupid mobile OS, a device that some think could beat the iPhone hands down, or the other one that’s used to be smart, until they split the company, merge it, split it, merge it, and split it again, and decided to use that stupid mobile OS in the end. And did they merge it back again? I lost track).
My first experience with PDAs or Smartphones went back several years ago when my Dad bought himself a HP iPag 1910. I think I remember that he complained about how it hangs almost all the time, almost everyday. That is until he migrated to the Palm Treo 650, which I consider as a good smartphone of its time.
My first actual PDA is the Palm Zire 72, which blue paint scraps off by itself, and it’s a good jack-of-all-trades device, provided that you sync with Windows. At that point in my life, I don’t really care about calendar and address book workflow simplicity.
When I moved over to the Mac, the Palm was “technically” dead. It doesn’t sync to Mac’s Address Book and Calendar. And in fact, Mac OS X’s version of Palm Desktop sucked right down to the bone.
Compared to the previous experiences I had with PDAs, at the time Apple announced that they’re launching iPhone, I figured that this is it. This is the device I’ve been looking for. And today, I have no regrets for shelling out $400. The iPhone is worth every penny.
Hardware-wise, almost everything is spectacular. The screen is large, bright, and astonishing. The touchscreen response is second to none. And yes, hang with an iPhone for a day or two, and go on try that HTC Touch. It’s like comparing Rolls Royce with Becak, but here, the Becak costs more than a Rolls. Heck, the Touch is not even friggin’ responsive, and I don’t know how they can name it “Touch”. I think it should be named “Smack”.
The QWERTY keyboard, in contrary to what others believed, is highly responsive. Even without tactile feedback, I seldom get typos. I can tell you that being not able to text message while driving is not a drawback. That is called SAFETY.
Mobile Safari is probably the best browser on a mobile device ever created, despite the lack of Adobe Flash in it. It provides you the closest, if not the same, browsing experience to a real deal browser. By real deal, I mean any browser but Internet Explorer, whatever version that is.
For a device this big and powerful, I’d say the battery life is fair. Mine’s probably a bit more of a resource-hog as I need the bluetooth to be on every time, just for the simplicity that I don’t have to turn it on when using a headset while driving. But other than that, provided that you turn off the Wi-Fi when it’s not used, it’s perfectly fine, and on my average use, it can stay for two days without recharging.
Syncing contacts and calendar with my Mac is just brilliant. Enough said. No more of those dark hours trying to sync Address Book to Palm Desktop to PDA. It syncs perfectly, and as snappy as you can get. On a Mac, of course.
Being fair, of course, nothing’s perfect, and the iPhone also suffers from that as well. I’ve compiled a list that I think Apple should’ve include in the iPhone by default:
So, it ain’t that bad for a phone that Steve Ballmer (The Monkey Boy) considered as a joke. I consider him as a joke, actually. It’s not everyday you can get a company to hire a dancing primate as their CEO.
I survived three weeks with iPhone, and I grow on loving it, where I didn’t even survive half an hour with Christo’s HTC Touch. Bottom line, iPhone rocks!
May 9th, 2008
When I went for a stroll at KidzStation yesterday, I stumbled myself upon racks of Speed Racer die-casts from Hot Wheels. And in the spirit of the movie’s hype, I snatched the Mach 5, Mach 6, and Racer X’s Race Car. Finding die-casts like these are not exactly easy in Indonesia, so I can consider myself lucky to be able to get the first batch of the line-up. If I don’t get them now, there may be no second chances.
From the build quality, I can say that specialty Hot Wheels die-casts’ quality is improving over the years, except for Racer X’s Race Car, where the paint and plastic still look rather hollow.
The thing that I hate the most about Indonesia is actually how they mark-up the price of die-casts like these. The Speed Racer line-up sells in the USA for about $3 a piece. Here, it’s Rp. 50,000 each, or the equivalent of $5.41. Pretty steep markup huh? That’s almost twice the original price. Corruption, baby!!
May 1st, 2008
Iron Man is no doubt one of the movies that we’ve been waiting for this year, and guess what? It exceeds all expectations. I went to watch it today with Arleen, Yero, Disti, and Irlanto, and we did enjoy it from the beginning until the end. The movie was a perfectly blended super hero flick, well-played characters, extremely cool special effects with lots of details, and added with a few lines of comic relief.
In particular, I really like the execution of the armors. They are both extremely good and realistic. I see that it’s been remodeled a bit here and there to add the extra “coolness” compared to the ones in the comics or cartoons, but all the parts seem to make sense. And as Rhodey said in the movie, “That is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.”
April 30th, 2008
I just got another one just minutes ago:
Telah keluar kartu GSM AXIS dari penayangan di Televisi dengan tarifnya 60/sms 60/menit 600/mms angka 666=setan axis kebalikannya SIXA=siksa sedangkan AXIS=Anti Kris. Jangan beli kartu tersebut karena itu dikeluarkan dari Anti Kris. Dengan membeli kartu tersebut berarti kita mendukung gerakan Anti Kris. Sebarkan berita ini ke teman2 anda. Jika anda melakukannya berarti anda menyelamatkan jiwa2. Thank’s vie: Saya pengguna kartu axis. tiap mlm jem 12 saya mendapat mc dr seseorg yg tdk dikenal, terdengar jeritan suara ce. begitu pula tmn2 saya yg pake kartu axis. sebelum terlambat, jgn pake axis.. Kesaksian nyata dari robi, pengguna axis 08666426454 fwd ke yg laen ya, jgn putus ditangan kamu!!
Oh people, come on… “SIXA=siksa” dan “AXIS=Anti Kris”? See my point with “ash” and “ass”? I can’t believe that they validate this as a LOGICAL explanation.
You know what? Let’s do this, I’m gonna buy one, and let’s see if anyone marks me as an Anti-Christ.
April 29th, 2008
Krt AXIS ud kluar. Jgn beli/pake,tw kn tu krt p’dkg gereja setan = “SixA” Ciri: Cver putiH, grs ungu+orange. Postr byk angk60. Sbr k tmN2. 1sms slmtkn 1jwaGBU
Annoying? You bet. But that is an text message Yero forwarded to my cellphone earlier today. I’ve heard about this rumor a few days back and laughed at it, until I received the warning myself. I consider myself as a liberal, yet critical Christian. So my response to this potential chain letter is: BULLSHIT.
During the many years I served as a Christian in church, I’ve heard numerous gossips and rumors about Satanic things that lurked in our everyday life. From the reversed Michael Jackson tapes, Pokemon, Harry Potter, you name it.
I’m not here to argue on whether that AXIS, Michael Jackson, Pokemon, or Harry Potter are satanic or not. They could be, but they can also be not. I have to admit though, that usually, the culprit for such satanic-related chain letters or mails are literal Christians. I call them literal Christians because they often judge and interpret things (Bible, rules, prayers, you name it) exactly like what it is written (You can disagree with me here. Whatever, but I’m not changing my opinion). I’m not going to say which church usually makes biased accusations with no credible base at all (and I can bet, if you are thinking what I’m thinking, I think you know what church I meant), but let me give you an example.
I’ve read several years ago about a certain church-produced paper with Pokemon as its discussion. It’s pretty bold. It stated that Pokemon is satanic. Why? Because Pokemon stands for Pocket Monsters, and monsters are evil, thus satanic. And… (warning, idiotic research lies ahead) Pikachu’s handler is named Ash, which according to them, derived from the word “ass”, which means “butt”, which is not something we could say appropriately. I’m not kidding, I read this with high disbelief, and it makes me sick that a certain church ACTUALLY wrote about something as stupid as this is. And no, “ash” is not a derivative of the word “ass”.
Now, going back to that chain letter Yero forwarded to me, yes, I called it a chain letter, because it looks like one, it has no factual base, I personally think that it is too literally comprehended and the argued reason on why we shouldn’t use it is too vague. In fact, the way I see it, it could be created by four possible kinds of people:
Again, these companies and people could be or could be not satanic. If they are actually satanic, I think it is up to us as faithful Christians to determine the issue by ourselves, instead of blatantly creating stupid chain letters or emails. This is stupid, and I am ashamed of having you calling yourselves Christians. God did not create us to think as idiots with narrow minds.
Oh, one more thing. When you create things like this as text messages, the LEAST you can do is to write them PROPERLY and not like retards with no thumbs on their hands. WRITE IT WITH NORMAL LANGUAGE!
April 17th, 2008
Yes! I finally have my own iPhone which I bought for purely $400 (plus tax), thanks to Yero. He also bought along Andira’s and Pak Iwan’s iPhones, but I haven’t unlocked them both since Andira insisted to have the process documented.
We opted not to buy those locally unlocked ones, so these three iPhones came sealed in box.
As for the activation, unlocking, and jailbreaking process, I used iLiberty+, and who knows, after about 5 minutes, my iPhone’s active and loaded with Telkomsel.
Voila! Here’s the final look of my iPhone, along with its Power Support Anti-Glare film, and the Incase Slider Case.
And here it is compared to my iPod Touch, which I will delegate to Ninay after having it restored.
Supposedly, Andira will be coming in the afternoon to unlock the remaining two iPhones. So, until then, let’s see how I do on my first day with the iPhone.