Do Something, Not Just Shout!

Demonstration is the most common activities in Indonesia. If you have time to watch Indonesian TV channel (I suggest to not doing this, it waste your time and make you dumber than an idiot), you’ll see a lot of people go down to the streets and yelling something, one of them should bring a speaker. He probably walks backward and supposes to be their leader. But I think he’s like a moderator of disorder party, or such an unclassified mayorette of a disoriented drum band.

Do they speak in the name of people? The messages are clear, but the mind behind it is questionable. The fact is, people in this country turn out worse economically, socially or even mentally. It doesn't educate us at all and for me, it's like a folly.

Corruption, distrust, accumulated with lack of empowerment, and possibly spiced with provocateur made this suicidal collective action brought us to circumstances that are not getting better. They might forget about hard work. I was thinking do they have a real job instead expose themselves to the sun? Do something man, not just march in those indeterminate groups!

This country needs hard workers, and wouldn't change even you rally your entire resources. Something that should be changed is us, ourselves. How do we think, how do we act, and how do we set up ourselves to go through this blurred period.

I hope things will be better...for Indonesia.

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Bad Day Waffles

I woke up at 2 am, did my unfinished work so I can email it just right at 6 am. Today I'm going to Kupang, the capital of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, Indonesia, while it have been left for about 2 months. First, it's surprising. Second, it may be just not good for my daily plan. Ok, I just have to change this and that, or whatever it's gonna be, but sure..I can't change the world (sorry Clapton..)

When I landed at Yahoo, wow..what a headline here. 'Bad Day' named one-hit wonder of the decade? Seriously? Actually I do love that song. Specially when you got your heart broke, something proceed were not like you planned, or might just stared up in the window and watched the cloud out there. Yea, every songs have their own moment, haven't they?

Back to 'Bad Day', who is the singer? Oya, Daniel Powter. He's Canadian and this single is just his first album?! Damn. How many artist we heard that can reach that achievement? In his first impression he can charming every single heart in this planet. He conquers US and Ireland on his first year. Furthermore, in the US, it was a massive smash hit, and became a most successful single of 2006 as Ranked by Billboard Magazine.

Let's see a part of its lyric...

Where is the moment we needed the most
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
They tell me your blue skies fade to gray
They tell me your passion's gone away
And I don't need no carryin' on

The first and second are my favorite. Where's the moment I needed most? Tricky question. I'm a loner, and I guess the moment I needed most is when I'm completely alone. Being alone is not too bad, just need a little reconciliation between your brain and your heart. If it's not working, don't push too hard, get a cigarette and burn it down. Well, that's my style. I don't know how's yours.

I kick up the leaves and the magic is lost. I believe, the word magic here is refers to luck. How many times you lose your luck, when it right there in your bare hand and ready to be used? For me, it's a thousand times. Sometimes luck is easy to get, and easy go too, it depend on my own perspective. Of course, if I presume today is my lucky day, everything's going to be okay. All I must do is keep that idea in mind, do the best thing, and don't forget to pray (we do it everyday, don't we?)

Oks, my mail has sent, it means I must finish this post right now. Thanks for coming by, and good luck with your work, people!

When Quite is Better Than Crowded

I really enjoyed while bustling with friends and make ambience lively. Sometimes being together is so much fun. Many things would come out, such are new gossips, news (good and mostly bad..), ideas or just cracking jokes and jested each other. In fact, I think it's good for our health, in cases where somebody get hurt and lonely, it will increasing the production of dangerous hormones that have a direct impact to mental condition. If ever someone told us about the badness of being crowded, we'll think the same thought: that's not a leg to stand on.

But it's true due to my own argument, or anybody else who made a similar opinion, but sometime it's not usually, relative to up and down motion of our life. Stresses and pressure have not been so intense nowadays. Life's such not enough to be plotted on 24 hours. There's no distinct boundaries among countries. And so many miracles on these years than hundred years on ancient time. This wrought out massive confusion, and if we were lucky, might we living at desolate spot in the noisiness of the world.

It's undeniable if we as a human needs comfortable matters. That's why we strongly must have a religion. Umm, I don't wanna write about it, I just want to share this isue: why mostly religion require quite and solitude atmosphere on its activity? It should have a fervent reason, shouldn't it? For me, it's simple. It's about the way to communicate to The Almighty Creator, to hear my own underconsciousness-voice, to pray my hopes, and to simmered down my will.

What's the point? I think we need more quiteness for our spiritual live, so we can learn for 'what should do and what shouldn't do' in our life.

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My Fave Software

I've been working at Experimental Station for River for almost 3 years, and I think there is no reason to not use one of most powerful hydraulic software like HEC RAS. My first experience was when I tried to simulate water profile level at Pulubala river system. As a first case, I consider to not to be afraid to the result, or focusing too much on perfection. While the program running and not meet any errors, I'll shout hooray! Till now I have performed several projects on various type of river to simulate.



And at recent times I often ask to myself 'how to make my model run perfectly?'. Thus, I studied the user guide, hydraulic references and also practicing the examples. Within months I make any types of model and run it in different input. And then I think, well..this is a great tools! When I want to know how high the water profile is in a channel, I just run it. Excel is not necessary anymore :)

I use HEC version 3.1.3 right now. I know there is beta version (4.0), but when I like one tool, I prefer to enjoy it first and stick with it.

D'you have your own fave software?

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About Me and My Talent

Once I thought that wouldn't it be great if I had a 'magic boss' standing on my shoulder telling me straight what I am good at and what I shouldn't waste my time with.. Well, now I realize it's ridiculous as I know there's no magic boss around (actually I hate it *lol*).

It goes without saying though that-and seems everyone would too-I am more likely to enjoy my work and get the kind of success I want, more easily, if I just putting my natural talents to work. My problem then was that, like most spirited employee, I could actually do almost anything I turned my hand to. The problem was not in having few choices, it lay in having too many; what I lacked was a clear focus on expressing my own core talents. The moral of the intermezzo is clear but it does throw back the question: How do I find out what my talents are?

There are certain things that you can do or that you can learn to do that can make you extraordinarily valuable to yourself and to others. Your job is to identify your special area of uniqueness and then commit yourself to becoming very, very good in those areas. (Brian Tracy)

What a great quote! Write on your notes if you like, hurry! :D

And now I stunned when I remember a straight simple question, but I make this most important: What do you do easily and well that is difficult for other people? It's amazing to know that I could write a list in just a minutes! Because it's easy. This is some examples of my list:
- I can draw easily
- I love to read, can read very fast and take in information quickly that way
- I can play various of music instrument (guitar, bass and drums)
- I'm exiting while playing with children
- I have great visual sense of style and creativity
- I often addicted to make mistakes, cause it can open other possibilities
- I can write blog in English!

The interesting thing is that I don't regard any of those as special talents. I thought those are simple for everyone in this modern age. But then I've noticed that when I'm working in a team with people who can't draw, slow readers, creepy with children, not know how to play guitar, and wonder 'how could you write in English? How much did you pay a translator?', amazingly they become real talents.

Otherwise, when I meet people who can express themselves verbally, speak easily as they want to and act naturally in any condition, I am in awe because I have to work really hard at it.

Well, God does not play dice with the universe (Einstein). He took a special ability for each of us to complete each others, so we can make harmonize this world to a better world. I hope so.

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Google's Impact Opinion

I assume that you have already know 'bout internet, so I'm not going to roll out those incomprehension stuffs which probably could stir up your leisure time. No, of course, I'm just kidding you. Because what I want to discuss now is something that always help me out, care to support what I'm doing and gives numerous selfless assists for my on-line days. In other word, it is impossible to live normally (as a net geeks) without its attendance. Yes, you right, this one is the most popular search engine in internet, it's google.

Once I had a problem to solve, just type a keyword on its plain search box and whuups, google sort it up. Although yes there are always some grieves in the beginning, but in the next three seconds, I found it easily to figure out and be able to make one conclusion about the problem I had before. For an experienced surfer, it's more easy to not get lost in the sea of ads. But for newbies (truly me..) it's nothing to lose to get some excursions before I get my eurekas :).

The success story of Google identical to century kids miracle. Young, idealist, open-minded and long-term business oriented. By the fact, eleven years ago, Google didn't exist. Eight years ago, it didn't have a business model. Now, it has a $10 billion revenue run-rate, $10 billion in cash, $4 billion of operating cash flow, 8,000 employees, dominant global market share of the fastest-growing and most profitable advertising business in history, and $120 billion of well-deserved market capitalization. Are those just useless fiddlesticks or kind of celebrity's malodorous rumors?

I have no lamentation during sticking around with google, instead I get more and more gratification. And I extremely amazed when I found people hate this tool, so busy to curse out and try hard to ignore its positive effect. I'm not trying to be partiality, just curious if anybody has any perspective other than the very good experiences most of us have had with Google.

Google IS the internet. Could it have much more of an impact than that?

Last Night's Experience

I have to write something here..

May be I would start with my experience last night when the earth hour was implemented. Formerly I thought PLN ( Indonesian Electricity Coop) would shutdown entire electricity network in whole town, but when the time came, nothing happened. I saw in my neighborhood and others were wondering too. Well, I think all depends on the awareness of how far we are concerned about the condition of our earth. And as has been previously able to guess, most of Indonesian citizen does not seem to care.

It makes me wonder whether we have not receive sufficient disasters yet? Or we have to wait until a greater disaster comes?