Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Google Translate

As you may already notice, I added google translate tools in this humble blog.
One of the reason is that some friends told me to use bahasa instead. Maybe they don't understand what I wrote...
But please don't get me wrong... I'm not trying to blame them... what in my mind is that maybe they're trying to tell me that my English is too poor to be understanable for them... so they told me to use Bahasa instead. :P

So I added this awesome tools from google... so everyone who speak the supported langunge -which around 50 languages if I'm not mistaken- can read my blog... including the one who speak bahasa... :)

And for your information that the translation is not 100% as what I wanted, but at least it can deliver the main idea :)

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Instinct...

Recently I listened to another audio book about economic... however the topic is being introduced in different way... very different way... :)

In that book there are some phrases that tickle my mind. One of them is
"the male instinct to impress the female is apparently strong even when..."*

Hmmm... in this kind of sentence you can put almost anything without abusing the sentence so it will have different point...

For example, you can put even the most absurd reason such as... the woman is not from planet earth... the point of the sentence is the same... hehehe...

Ok, now let's get down to the business... Of course the instinct is part of the human as we are a living creature...
However as a human we are given ability to think that define us with the other creature...

And it is our call to determine whether we let the sense of thinking win... or the instinct win because of the temptation...

Don't get me wrong... and I am not trying to say that the instinct is always wrong, and the sense of thinking is always right. After all the instinct sometimes tends to be more honest then our mind.

Some people will say it depends on the situation...
For instance, in situation when one of the person is already going to married and still the male is trying to impress her... simply to get her heart... most of the people will say it is something that really wrong to do...

And this kind of situation usually is being risen as the topic of a movie... And recently I watched an Indian comedy (3Idiots)... yes I watched an Indian movie! (let's discuss this another time hihihi...)
This topic was also existed on the plot of the movie...
Even in the movie, there was an idiom that says "Everything is fair in love and war"... and personally I don't know exactly where is it come from...

There's no one know, which one is the right thing to do... to follow our instinct or to follow the sense of thinking...

However this also reminds me to a controversial Chinese espionage thriller film which is titled "Lust, Caution" or 色戒 (Se, jie)

--- WARNING! Spoiler alert! ---

The movie is telling about a attractive woman who has a mission to lure and then assassinate a corrupt leader. But she failed although she's able to lure the corrupt leader and only just one step to complete the mission. And it is because she is overcome by emotion bound and then breaks down and urges him to flee. Hence the mission is failed; after all of her tremendous effort... you can see the movie by yourself if you want to say why I choose the word tremendous... :P

Maybe that's the differentiate between love and lust... love should give you power to help you getting what you aim for... or make you move forward... not giving obstacle or even worse... dragging you back into your darkest past...

But I don't know... Since as you all may already notice, I'm just a geek... for me these kind of things are more complicated than quantum physic... :)

However I do understand one thing... even if the male has tried to seduce but there is no reaction from the female... the result would be nothing... just like third Newton's law of action reaction... hehehe... or in less geeky way there's saying "It takes two for tango"...
So the "tango" won't be happening until there are two people doing it :)

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Reputation

It's been a long while since my last post on this blog :)
The reason is just simply I got lazy and had no topic to write...

Recently, I enjoyed to have sunset jogging. While having jogging I usually listen to musics... Then some idea pop up in my mind... the idea is to listen to an audio-book while jogging so I can learn something and practice my English listening skills :)

Few days ago a friend of mine suggested me to read a quite interesting book... and then I searched for the audio-book version of it. And fortunately I got it...

Some chapter of the book inspired me to start rolling this blog again :)

One of the book chapter mentioned: "So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard it with your Life"
It explained by using the story of a strategist in china history, named Zhuge Liang who beat his sworn enemy Sima Yi "only" by using his reputation. It was the legendary Empy Castle/Fort. The tactic can only be successful if the user has absolute reputation. However, I won't give the detail of the strategy here... since I don't want to kill my reader... :P but the detail can be found easily by doing simple googling... if you're interested even further...

The story is describing the idea on how important reputation is. Another silly simple example is if someone has been labeled as a fart master... when there's rotten smell... it is common that person will be accused :)

A bit serious example is if you has been labeled as a liar, although you are telling the truth... no one will believe in you... In the other hand, if you're an honest person and you telling a bit lie... and everybody will believe in you... :)

The practice is also being applied in the real world situation. In my country, when we want to apply for a credit or mortgage... a bank officer will check whether the applicant is trustworthy or not... the first thing that bank officer do is looking for a at the black list which is released by Bank Indonesia. If the person is listed on that list, it means that the person has a bad credit history. In the other words it is difficult or almost impossible that the mortgage is granted....

This reputation thing will applied even though when someone has repent and forswear. Religious people said it is the wages of the sin. However it doesn't mean that I don't believe in repentance... I still believe people can change... :) However, I think repentance without any forswear means nothing...

Due to the fact, many people tried to change their life, maybe changing his/her identity or by going to remote place which no one know... just because he/she had committed something that killed his/her reputation.

Reputation is a lifetime tag... or even more than just a lifetime... another example is when Zhuge Liang already dead but still could beat Sima Yi by only using a wooden statue... yet again it's all because of the reputation...

And the history will label you as a person with a good or bad depends on how your reputation right now... :)