Farewell...

This post is especially dedicated for appreciation to my friends who I used to hang out with while working here in Bali.

• Care(ne)les(s) the parsimonious -> I never thought that there is a living creature here in earth who has stingy level in the same league as I am :P To illustrate how cheap he is, one day when he bought us some “bright moon” we thought that he was ordered by the leader (*kindly refer to the leader) to do this.
  He is also a tempe addict; this should explain his parsimony level :D. Additionally, because of “the overdose”, his Y chromosome already gives the impression to start mutating; developing another “leg” so it looks like it will turn into X chromosome xixixix
  


• Deky the lucky -> for a person who nearly almost never wins a lottery or draw games like me... I certainly envy to you! :D
  


• Darwee (as pronounced from the OZ guy in the TV)-> not much for this new comer, so this time I would like to remind you that you haven’t gave the ritual offerings to the senior members! :P
  


• Laurensia(l) the leader -> hail to the leader... sometimes we obey your order because you’re right... but often we obey merely because we still want to be in one piece :P But this leader is not that bad when it comes to food. She always shares food, also her experiment on new recipes. It is too often until sometimes we think that she’s doing this kind of experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_North_Korea#Testing_deadly_poisons
  


• Yunianto the g*y -> c’mon it’s time to move on and forget the past even though we all know that you’re having traumatic experience with your previous love and she’s obviously still haunting like North Korean homing missile, but you can’t use it for a reason to be a g*y :D
  


• Nita the brown (take it as a compliment since I'm not saying black) -> pursue those bule-bule what are you waiting for?! One of our friend admitted that you have “the quality” so good luck! :D
  


• Unay the kupret -> you should rename the bank where you’re working to its antonym... to represent your characteristic :P
  


• Albert the boxer (Chris John)-> I would like to apologize that when we’re in the same badminton team, I couldn’t glorify and bring your badminton career as successful as your boxing career :P
  


• Tiar the silent and Devy the Manohara --> silent which also means vibrates in the cell-phone... hope that both of you vibrate all of the time... xixixi... wait, don’t get me wrong... what I mean is the vibration of love in the new family :P
  


• Selly the ukdw-er -> we graduated from the same university, but that doesn’t mean we have the same quality... I mean she’s better than me for sure :P
  


• Edo the broker -> if I have enough money to spend to be invested in the stock market, surely I will contact you :P
  


• Vera the adventurer -> she really passionate on nature, dunno maybe she’s born in wildlife or zoo... :P and she’s really masculine... that the only feminine side that I could see from her was when she cooked us pancakes hehehe... but the pancake she created was surprisingly delicious... :P
  


• Jenal the overpaid -> he always think that he’s overpaid... and I hope that he’s getting promoted to be manager soon so he become more overpaid... hehehe... and I could give you one tip: Be less useful! It will help you to get promoted and make sure that M*R*N club is expanding! Hahaha... kidding :D
  


• Hartoyo the panda -> thank you for the suggestion on the freakology and those mean and evil books that really worth reading :P
  


• EP the hobbit -> just use your OZ PR or maybe some of our colleagues in Bandung can introduce you to “someone” :D
  


• MarKus the -> congratulation and happy working in OZ! Finally you can ripe what you have sow on that “torturing” project... :P
  


• Merisca and Defeng -> hope both of you start a family soon... and happily ever after... and of course without any “violence in the house ladder” a.k.a KDRT hihihi...
  


• ToHa the PhD -> just keep up your uniqueness... and I hope your first child is look more like his/her mother than look like you... kidding :P
  


• Deddy the deviationist -> hope you can go back to the right path... :P
  

Once again thank you for being like a family to me. I will tell you guys how awesome you are to my child and grandchildren... nah... you guys aren’t that good :P

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach

Trip to memory lane of 2010

Since today is the first day of 2011, I would like to say my greetings to all of you: Happy new year!

Well, this time I would like to share a list of some achievement during the year 2010. Mostly were my 2010 resolution that nearly almost everything were achieved. And yes 2010 was really a great year for me :) Although everything didn't run very smooth... but that's life... shit happen hehehe :P

It is not a show-off list, but merely because I want to list all of the blessing that already given to me :) I guess this should be useful to make me thankful, especially when I was down. And hopefully it will help me out to stop complaining about anything... as mentioned by some of my friends :P

1. Passed the IELTS with band score more than I need :)
   


2. Car-driving license. Maybe for other "normal" people it is just a simple thing. For me, however, it is a great achievement because I had to experience horrible car accident which took both of my parents. The "trauma" was haunting me and discourage me for almost 6 years. But the year 2010 I finally can manage the trauma and get the car driving license :)
   


3. Mortgage.
   I can finally have enough saving to start getting a mortgage for a house. Although I have to pay the bill until the next decade :P and it is considered small... isn't located on the urban area... but I hope this should be a good investment :P
   


4. Opportunity to work in abroad :)
   End of this year... I got a new job offer which give me a chance to have a training in abroad. And it was scheduled for 4 months starting January 2011. To be honest I'm quite excited, but also sad, since I have to leave this awesome island, Bali :P But I guess sometimes we have to make sacrifice for something that we pursue :)
   

I guess that's all of list that I think it will craft some memory in my life :)
Once again happy new year 2011! Let it be a prosperous and joyful year to all of us :)

We never know... we can only do our best... and hope for the best...

Following to my last post... my mind was still juggling with something that related to the phrase: what goes around comes around.
Coincidentally, when I was watching a show during my trip to Thailand... the show also uses this karma or ripe and show thing for its theme...

In this opportunity I would like to share some of my thinking... which extend a bit further concerning to the idiom... and probably a bit out-side of the box ... :P
It is mentioned in my previous post that the ripe could be happening directly or in the future... our kids can ripe something what we sow....
Because of this, I believe that our act now is determining our descendant’s faith...
Since we couldn't determine when and where we're born also we never know what kind of family when we're born.
We could be born either in rich or poor family... we could be born in either harmonic or non harmonic family... we can be born in peaceful period or even during wars...

However, one thing for sure is that we have the opportunity to create what kind of family that we are going build... and this means that we take part of our children faith... because we are the one who take part to prepare what kind family where they are born in this world... :)

I also believe that this starts with choosing the right spouse to spend our life with... and let’s hope that we are not choosing and having the right person... since it’s not only for accompanying the rest of our life but also for our descendant...
We never know... we can only do our best... and hope for the best... :)

*what the hell on earth I’m writing such a thing?... maybe lack of sleep made me loosing myself a little bit... :P

What goes around comes around...

--Attention: this article is loosing its grip and drifted outside the blog's unifying theme :P--

I don't know why this idiom always rings in my head lately...
So I decided to write something in regards to this idiom :P

The idiom means something like this... your deeds, good or bad, will repay you in kind...

And apparently, as far as I know religion also teach the similar thing...
Probably the words such as "You reap what you sow" or "Karma" are more familiar in our ears.

There are people who believe this idiom, but not few people who disbelieve this either.
Regardless which one do you believe, please allow me to share a bit of my perspective... but even if you don't allow me I will write this anyway... hahaha...
My opinion concerning this idiom is based on my experiences and some literature that I've read... but for some of them, I haven't got the chance to read it entirely... and some of them I only skimmed it :P

I will start to explain it with the "ripe" and "sow" approach... As we all know, when we sow a seed, it will takes time for it to grow... and it it depends on the type of the plant to fruit... :)

This illustrate that the "sow" can be happening sooner or later... or in other words it can be happening directly...

I believe it easy to understand... it's basically the human nature of behaviour either to repay or to seek revenge to someone depending on whether a good or bad deeds that the person got.

And I believe it's already crystal clear so example for this type would not be necessary :)

Mentioned also that "sow" can also happening in the future... or even to our kids... or our descendant...

Yup... it's not just a blunt assumption... without any prove... both my personal experience and some story about which based on a true story that I skimmed evidences a similar thing...

Ok, for the negative story... you can search around the internet or find some literature on this following people's history...

Oe Hui Lan --> daughter of a very rich sugar trader from Semarang
Tjong A Fie --> very successful businessman and banker from Medan

You may find writings about both of them by Agnes Davonar... famous blogger and writer in Indonesia :)

The reason that I don't want to discuss in this blog is that the topic is too sensitive can lead me to some problem :) so I don't think it is worth it to discuss it here... hehehe... so I'll give the clue which is "unfaithfulness" and let the you read by yourself and conclude what my point is :)

And I hope that this gives a gentle reminder to people who has already thought that something like that is ok although it is wrong just because it's too common...
Which also similar to a branch of knowledge that tickles my mind... it is called Kelirumologi... hehehe... but let discuss it in another session... :P

Ok then, let's get back to the business... the positive sow but not directly the person who sow who obtains the benefit...

I will use my personal experience to describe this... with this opportunity to share a bit my family background...

Hmmm.... My grandmother from my mother is the second wife of my grandfather. Although the reason was because his first wife couldn't give him even a child, this leaded to a conflict.... similar with the story of the two stories that I've mentioned above :)
The problem was even worse when my grandfather passed away... as he was the only person who worked for the family... my mother family became really struggle because there was no earning at all... This forced the my mom's older sister and my mom to quit from school and help my grand mother working... to get earning so that can support her sister and brother... to buy food, buy clothes and for schools... :)
To simplify the story when my mother and father passed away because of terrible car accident... During that time I was at the very last semester of my study in the university. And one of my uncle offered a scholarship to continue my study... He asked me to choose whether I want to study in the reputable university here in Indonesia or even abroad... It was a very tempting offer... However for some particular reasons I refused the offer :)

That's my story... my mother the one who "sowed" the good deeds but I'm as her son "reap" the benefit...