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Crescent Silhouette
A very simple blog about my simple personal life. This blog records my journey since I was in college up to now, in my career world. Kinda addicted to blog, usually I update it everyday, except weekend.

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People's voice is God's voice. Use God's voice with responsibility.
2008-12-24 15:11:00
US Elections would be one of the most memorable events in 2008. Not only US had the excitement sweep upon the entire nation, the whole world seemed indulged in the whole party, including Indonesia.I won't use too many words about Indonesia that went frenzy about US Elections because I have bigger question for next year.Next year. 2009. Indonesia will have Elections. How are we going to face it?It's a little bit ironic here if we Indonesians were so ecstatic about US Elections and we care less about our own nation's elections. And the question is, why?In some parts, I think it's because of the candidates themselves, the programs and the condition. As years and leaders gradually changed, the people are developing the most disastrous behaviours. Apathy and ignorance. "Don't know and don't care." How would you expect something out from people who only merely shrugged their shoulders and said that they care none the less about the issues around?From that kind of behaviours, we have...
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"If you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw"
2008-12-15 20:25:00
Okay. This will be a quite short entry.Commenting an incident of shoes that thrown at President Bush during his visit to Iraq, I must say my opinions.First, I couldn't blame Muntadar al-Zaidi (the journalist) for throwing the shoes. Well, see the fact here. It was during Bush' presidency when USA attacked Iraq and created global protests all over the world. Couldn't blame that guy if he gets really pissed off. Iraqis are having demonstration at the street, demanding Mr. al-Zaidi to be released though.Second, apparently Bush has sense of humor. "It's the way of people to draw attention... It's like going to political rally with all people yelling at you.." He also even commented "If you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw." For me it's like "whoa..." Well, he could take it calmly and Iraqi journalists are being very courteous :) Third, please consider other's feeling before you decide to attack one's country :D Well, first thing: Shoe . Next? I don't think any ...
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Dude. SRSLY? Wait until you got one you bozo...
2008-12-11 23:43:00
Actually this topic was at my point of late-at-nite discussion with my friend but then I'm taking liberty of putting it here. Well, although my friend told me "it's useless to beat a dead horse. Dead stupid horse" but I don't care. Even if this wouldn't change anything, at least please let me saying out loud what's on my mind.It's about an article by this what-so-called medical people who thought themselves being a messiah by saying condoms are having no use and no effect in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. The article is in Bahasa Indonesia anyway.As my friend and I have did it before, lets digest the article one by one, shall we? First, nothing better than forewords.Menurut estimasi Departemen Kesehatan, hingga September 2008, jumlah kasus HIV/AIDS di Indonesia sudah mencapai 21.151 kasus, yang terdiri dari 15.136 kasus AIDS dan 6.015 kasus HIV. Proporsi kelompok umur tertinggi kasus AIDS adalah pada usia 20-29 tahun sebesar 51,1%. According to Health Ministry, up to Sept...
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"No religion exists for those who couldn't respect human rights." Well, not
2008-12-09 18:12:00
If God had a name, what would it beAnd would you call it to his faceIf you were faced with him in all his gloryWhat would you ask if you had just one questionYeah God is greatYeah yeah God is goodYeah yeah yeah yeah yeahWhat if God was one of usJust a slob like one of usJust a stranger on the busTrying to make his way homeIf God had a face what would it look likeAnd would you want to seeIf seeing meant that you would have to believeIn things like heaven and Jesus and theSaints and all the prophetsDecember 10. Happy Human Rights Day. And Happy Anti-Corruption Day the day before.With all the violences and corruptions around us, I should say that we've gone a long way yet we still have a long road ahead.I'm having this question that connected with my previous entry about differences. Why it matters? Because it's visible. Yet I have this burning question: Why politics and religions matter? As a wise man once said it, "nothing separate men but politics and religions" while I always lo...
More About: Religion , Human Rights , Respect

First off, I'm bored.. :D
2008-12-02 17:17:00
What will happened IF Twitter already exist at August 17, 1945? :DBased from my bored mind, THIS what will happened. First off, my deep apologies if any of you feel offended with this. If you feel angry or offended, please let me know so I could take this entry off :) Thanks :)@sutansjahrir: Just heard the news at BBC. Japan surrenders themselves to Alliances. W00t!@wikana: @sutansjahrir - SRSLY?@darwis: @sutansjahrir - Yea. Heard it too @ BBC. Kewl.@sutansjahrir: @wikana - Yep. Tune your radio to BBC.@wikana: Just heard the news at BBC. T3H NEWS. W00T!@darwis: That atomic bomb should be helluva gigantic huge.@chaerulsaleh: @wikana @sutansjahrir - Yep. Just now.@chaerulsaleh: @sutansjahrir @wikana @darwis - Check your DM. Got something to tell ya.@darwis: @chaerulsaleh - Net is suck here. Will check the DM later.@sutansjahrir: @chaerulsaleh - Have read your DM. Anybody following @soekarno here?@wikana: @sutansjahrir - Got @hatta at my friends list. Will do?@darwis: Okay. Back online...
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World AIDS Day in Indonesia...
2008-11-30 20:31:00
"That's the hardest thing: In Indo[nesia] the supply is inconsistent, sometimes may not be available *sighs* That's why rich kids with HIV go abroad for treatment..."I just hope that with World AIDS Day this year, we could raise our awareness about our friends with HIV/AIDS. Respect them, protect them, love them. Just as same as YOU who want to be RESPECTED, PROTECTED and LOVED.YOU, from all people in the world, YOU. And people with HIV/AIDS have RIGHTS to be RESPECTED, PROTECTED and LOVED.Ministry of Health, please. I know that you guys have tried enough, but we still need you. You guys have the power to change, you guys have the ability to decide. Please use it for good.World AIDS Day website
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"If we respect the rights of the people living with HIV/AIDS, then we must
2008-11-29 15:33:00
Just in case you didn't know the meaning of 'ORLY', I suggest you read this article at Urban Dictionary which also means that we geeks rules t3h world! Okay.I know this is kinda late but I couldn't keep my mind off from this article. After spending several lunatic days at the office, finally I able to sit and type about my opinions. In such a nice coincidence, there is this One Day For Human Rights event and Indonesia's 16-Days Campaign To Stop Violence. The folks at One Day For Human Rights said that they are inspired by Blog Action Day. Hey, such a cool action! See? The Internet is unlimited! Hmm, I don't know whether here in Indonesia we will have such similar action as Blog Action Day or not, but I think it would be cool if in one day we in Indonesia could blog about one topic regarding some social issues, economics, politics or many more.Okay, I'm babbling.Now, the topic for today's entry is about our Papua friends with HIV/AIDS are getting microchips.Oooo. Microchips. ...
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[English] Because it's visible
2008-11-26 13:07:00
Once my friend at online world asked a question "why such thing like race is important and could lead to racism?"At first I answered due to the basis of biological conditions. Several races in this world have some special conditions which could be pretty harmful if being mixed -- although thanks to recent's medical and knowledge innovations, that kind of thing could be avoided.Then just now I knew the answer."Sex and Race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organising human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends."Gloria SteinemBecause it's visible. Because it could be seen from outside. Because we could see that the colors of our skin are different.And some people are afraid of a thing called 'differences'.Dear me, we all being separated just because our eyes see it as 'different'?This poem was nominated by UN as the best poem of 2006, Written by an African KidWhen I born, I b...
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[English] We only need a mirror. Sometimes.
2008-11-23 19:29:00
I should say that this topic could be quite political and there might be some readers here feel offended with this topic. Nevertheless, I'm trying to be as objective as I could although yes, there might be some words here that you could feel offensive to you and your country.Here in Indonesia we're familiar about our rivalry with Malaysia. And maybe folks at Malaysia realized it too. Some cases happened between the two countries and the cases never pretty. Some people assume it started since Soekarno discontinued the diplomacy between two countries at 1960s. The diplomacy resumed again yet some issues raised up recently which makes some things going worse.My sister told me a story about her two colleagues that got their internship at Malaysia several months ago. "I should consider myself lucky," my sis told me, "for Japan never really take a fuss about everything. Their efficiency and discipline made everything is easy for me. Unlike what my friends have encountered at Malaysia be...
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[English] The Most Democratic Of All
2008-11-21 18:26:00
Source: Pravni Fakultet OsijekWere there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.- Jean Jacques RousseauWe're living the era of gods and goddesses. I'm not saying that we're going back to Ancient Greek or Ancient Egypt (although the history about those two civilizations fascinates me a lot,) but looking from Rousseau's words, I should put my opinion that we're living in that kind of world now. Who are the gods and goddesses? We are.Well, okay, I couldn't say that ALL of us in this surface of the Earth being included in this group. I should say us, the Netizens. We who contribute and take something out from the Internet. We the producers and the consumers at the Internet. We who uploading our pictures to Flickr, downloading our songs from iTunes and so on.Different way of communicating, different way of behaving.The Internet is the most democratic media of all time -- and totally going further from McLuhan's 'hot and cold...
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[English] 10 must-followed tweeters at Twitter
2008-11-16 14:19:00
Just when I logged in to the Net after enjoying Sunday as my No Net Day and waved some greetings to my fellow tweeters (Twitter users) at Twitter, @aulia told me that he tagged me about tweeters that we should consider as 'must-follow'.Okay, that is not easy.Me myself following 288 people. And once I tweeted, "The advantage of following cool designers at Twitter: Many access to cool resources for graphic and web designs :D"Okay, in this list I'm trying to be fair for everyone :D By I mean 'fair' is talking about top-notch, high quality guys and gals with experiences that they feel unashame to share. If you ask me personally, I would put JTUG (Jakarta Twitter Usergroup) peeps as numero uno. However, lets just say that it's for internal record XD We are so close. And super chatty. I must say that somehow we apologize firsthand when a new tweeter joined JTUG because when you're joining JTUG (or in Twitter, the ID is @jtug) it means that you're signing your very own Twitter ID D...
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[English] It's the matter of the media
2008-11-15 17:16:00
Obama has declared he?ll be using YouTube to provide weekly addresses to the nation and the world, I want to start taking snapshots of the analytics in order to understand the changes that are happening to our world.SnapShot: YouTube?s Top 5 Channels vs Obama, ranked 34I might not following the entire process of US Elections since the very beginning, but one thing for sure is, Barack Obama -- hey you guys at United States, good job :) -- understands clearly about the power of the media.As Sherlock Holmes once put it nicely, "The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it." [The Adventures of Six Napoleons]As Snap Shot | Web Strategist wrote it:Let?s stop and think about mediums used by past Presidents. Franklin D Roosevelt understood the power of the radio (during an economic crises), and was able to reach millions of Americans in ear shot, John F Kennedy harnessed TV, used makeup to keep his cool over his sweaty opponent and beat out and reached m...
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[English] Copernicus said, "I'm sitting in the shoulder of giants [Galileo]
2008-11-12 04:21:00
It's never really easy to type when you got slight fever, sneezing a lot with hiccups combo. It's either you're pitiful or simply a laughing stock (my sis laughed at me when she saw me hiccupping while the fact that my temperature was 39 Celcius degrees)Anyway, I really have to type this down. Not only because this topic is closely connected to my thesis but also the fact that I'm purely interested with the concept in the beginning.Questioning the concept. Questioning Chris Anderson's The Long Tail.First time I got this interesting topic was from NavinoT's entry [Bahasa Indonesia] which referring to an article from The Register - Chopping The Long Tail Down To Size.What is The Long Tail?I couldn't tell you the exact definition about it since the concept itself is quite innovative and big to be explained, but lemme me tell you this. Remember your old times when you still watch the TV (well, we STILL watch the TV up to now) or read magazines (ditto) just to know the Top 40 Bill...
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[English] Sorry, and fix it.
2008-11-11 10:49:00
My best friend once commented that Marketing is similar with dating games. The main reason why Marketing is similar with dating services is because both ideas are about connecting to people. It's about how you get your target's interest, praise them or put them in fear of losing (or stuffs like that) and then explain to them about your value. Why you should get me. Why you should spend 5-minutes in your precious life to listen to my words about me (or my product/service/whatever.)However, as we all know, not all the stories ended happily ever after. When the customer finally sign the agreement to use your product/service, that's when the nightmares lurking around.In the middle of the road, you might face obstacles. You might found bumpy road ahead. Maybe your Customer Services didn't do good enough. Maybe your customers are not easy as you thought. Maybe your products need to be improved. Maybe your suppliers act stupidly. Maybe somewhere in the road you think that you're not g...
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[English] One shall forgive, but we shall not forget
2008-11-09 20:25:00
Bung Tomo (Source: Wikipedia)Despite the controversies that saying 'History is being written by the winners', we should not forget the past. Not only to reminds us how hard the situation back then (if we have such shitty experiences back then) but also to save our times from doing the same mistakes in the future.November 1945, two months after Soekarno and Hatta proclaimed Indonesia's independence at East Pegangsaan St. Number 56, the Allies troops came to Indonesia in order to pull back the Japanese troops after Japan's defeat when Nagasaki and Hiroshima finally being burnt to ashes.However, the arrival of the Allies troops was hijacked with NICA troops from Netherland's government to conquer Indonesia once again albeit the fact that Indonesia had proclaimed its independence.The situation heated when General Mallaby got killed at Surabaya. It was October 30, 1945 then the Allies troops with NICA under the order of General Major Mansbergh gave order to Indonesians to surrender ...
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