Honesty, Commitment, Integrity/Kejujuran, Komitmen, Integritas

Because today is Friday when for moslem like me I just ‘pretend to remember God’, I try to share my story. Yeah, just a kind of moral story. Yesterday, I went to Glodok, but I park my car at Gadjah Mada Plaza because it will be hard to find free space at Glodok at day [...]

Manusia dan Egonya

Menurut Thomas Hobbes, seluruh umat manusia pada dasarnya bersifat egois. Tapi implikasi dari hal ini tidak sederhana. Bila semua orang egois, maka sebenarnya akan terjadi perjuangan hidup yang luar biasa. Setiap individu melawan individu lain. Setiap orang berupaya mendapatkan apa pun yang diinginkannya dengan cara apa pun. Homo homini lupus menemui arti dalam konteks seharfiah-harfiahnya. [...]

Schedule/Jadwal

Actually I don’t want to bind my self, but this action I planned to discipline my self. In a week, I put three thematic days for this blog writing, they are:

Tuesday: Business, entrepreneurship, marketing, motivation from great people and other similar themes will boost your spirit.
Thursday: Serious theme which make you thinking deeper. I [...]

Shopping Free Day/Hari Tanpa Belanja

 

Whenever at Jakarta several days ago declared as Car Free Day, today had marked as Shopping Free Day throughout United States. Although this habit is not familiar yet in Indonesia, I found some community trying to following that every latest Saturday on November.
Actually, what the meaning for this kind of day? For me it is [...]

Miss Teen USA

I watched re-run of Miss Teen USA final night at Indonesian TV -Indosiar- last night. This occassion originally aired on August 24, 2007 at NBC. It’s take a long time for Indonesian TV to get a license to broadcast it. I just wondering, there is no protest like Miss Universe last year. That’s Indonesian, many [...]

Jak Jazz

For music lovers –especially jazz- the 9th JakJazz would never missed. For Indonesia, this event gave proud to the country. In b etween bad image of our country abroad, moreover there were travel warning to go to Indonesia from several countries, but jazz musician didn’t worry to came. In the name of love and music, [...]

Car Free Day / Hari Bebas Kendaraan

Today is Car Free Day at Jakarta. After October 14, 2007 when Government of Greater Jakarta Capital Special Province close the main street of Jakarta named Sudirman street until Thamrin street. Today the area which closed from car traffic  lies on Old Town. Government planned to held this event monthly. For me, this kind of [...]

Record / Rekor

From I was a child I like to see TV program alike “Weird But True” or “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” at TVRI (TeleVision of the Republic of Indonesia). Do you –Indonesian- remember? Several days ago I just read at Seputar Indonesia daily newspaper (22/11 p.12) there was one 17 years old teenager from New [...]

High Trust & Low Trust Society

Both of those term are sociologic-anthropologic picture for society and opposing each other. I will explain for you:

High Trust Society: Society which its system is already running well and properly, law applied well which make trust between society’s members. Because of one assumption every rights and obligations of society will well-protected by the state with [...]

Damn Chinese! / Dasar Cina!

Indonesian people commonly used that term to describe any Chinese race. Of course that term goes with negative connotative. A little ambiguous actually, because this is hatred term and love term at the same time. It can be hate because with that term we look at Chinese as a bad guy. Dishonest, clumsy, rude, hate [...]