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sometimes i feel so grateful that i could find some fresh air just by listening a new band/musician, reading a new book or watching a new moview (might not so new, since i am not so up-to-date in those things).so i happened to buy this book Black Swan in a buy2-get-3 bargain; the author likes to use his initial NNT and i think he gives me some fundamental things to think over about using

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be careful with your wish.when i was a little bit younger (and more naive), i dreamt about working in the middle of a dynamic business situation where i can have a significant role in it. i preferred a chaotic situation in a small or a not-so stable company, if possible. it'd seem quite heroic for me (after working several years in a very stable company).now, i am exactly in that. we are in a

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in these days, most of the news are talking about the high likelihood most cuntries are entering another recession period*. my country, Indonesia, has been gone through several crises...most i remembered was the 1997-1998 which has not been truly recovered until today.many discussions are on how to survive the tides and advance more as a country after the crises (Japan did in 1950s, South Korea

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just to remind myself, the history of all creatures is the surival of the fittest.it's the fittest that wins; the best adaptation that surives.not necessary the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, the cutest, nor the richest.

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for many companies, the question on prioritization between short term vs. long term in the day-to-day activities is always on?of course the textbook answer is the company has to balance between the two to win the market (and, indeed, i think there are some smart companies that can do). unfortunately, in real life it's very rare companies can do it. at least, in my short experience, to answer the

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i thought the US would not ready yet for a serious candidate from non-white race. not this year, maybe next 10 years.when Barack Obama announced his candidancy, i thought at that time he would be viewed as a fresh choice, but maybe not a serious contender for Senator Clinton (as it might Ralph Nader's appeal for a certain segment two elections ago).but i've seen in the latest development (

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in any human-made device or system, as far as i knew there is no such thing as 100% reliability. it means once in a while the device or system can be failed (or deliberately be shutted down for maintenance). for instance, a power generator could be failed and the electricity for a city could not be delivered. it happens in new york in a hot summer...it happens in indonesia as frequent as people

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i've observed that there is no significant correlation between religion and bad people. robbers or corruptors are all represented by all religions. i don't know whether in prison, we could find a better sampling for more accurate observation. but i dont't think that would be necessary, since more bad people are not in prison. even, the most evil people and the most obvious for us in Indonesia is

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when i was in India last year, i had a chat with my colleague who is born and grew up there. we talked about the greatness of the culture; but i remembered he said "but for years till now this country is mismanaged. of course, politicians aren't the smartest people, everybody knew that...and these people are the ones who rule and lead us. we can't blame them because we chosed them, but look at

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this is my honest opinion, my friend.as long as we can blogrolling from one blog to another one, using internet from internet cafe or from your comfortable chair at home or from your office, you could not say your life is tough.many people are just too hungry to even know something called computer or internet or blog.ps. this is mostly tributed to myself (since I have been complaining too much

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i can understand the outcries of fellow Malaysian and Singaporean about the smoke (or haze) which is “sent” from Indonesia. when i lived in Riau until last two years ago it really sucked everytime the haze came. that’s one big thing which made me moved to Jakarta. what i don’t understand is why this thing is cropping day by day; it’s just like the government does not have any

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the worst thing being an adult is realizing that most of theories in the intellectual world could not be implemented in reality. especially if we are talking about management theories.i grow up reading a lot of management books, biz magazines (including HBR, etc.). years ago i decided to take biz school; which i eventually really did. i know some friends who have the same 'interest' about

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1. nationalism vs. foreign investmente.g. who should operate Cepu oil field? the gigantic exxonmobil or the most-probably-not-ready-national-oil-company, pertamina?2. labor vs. corporationse.g. indonesia is revising current labor law, because the current law does not attract investment from corporations (china & vietnam are more attractive). revising the law makes labors are not happy (strike and

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i don't know many people who confesses she/he is happy with her/his jobengineer, accountant, programmer, creative director, manager that i know does not seem happy about what she/he does for living. most of my friends and family are complaining about their job.but.whenever i saw a music concert, i saw what i perceived as happines while working. if you see musicians on stage, i know they enjoy

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do we really have choice in life?if we do, why people is bitching about their life/job, and says "i have no choice"could we choose to live a life that we want?if we do, why more people choose to not live the life they want?

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history and statistics have shown us that one characteristic differentiates the successful country/company/athlete/businesswoman and the loser one is punctuality. This is because, in my opinion, punctuality represents an important trait: discipline (and yes, including the discipline to fulfill our commitment).while it looks obvious, in Indonesia (specifically in Jakarta) people seems have given

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the more IT growing, the more confused I am.if my friends are talking about "windows", "mouse", "client" or any other IT terms, sometimes I am not sure which thing they are talking about. My friend said,"I have just bought a mouse", and I asked if he bought the optical one, and he smirked victoriously then said "nope, I bought a real mouse for lab experiment." He bought mouse the animal.I think

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"the kingdom of heaven may be run on righteousness, but the kingdom of earth runs on oil" - Ernest Bevinthe statement may be true for our current era. the increasing oil price is the headlines of almost all newspaper in the world. government of Indonesia plans to increase the gasoline price (again), and it may be starting a new political crises. all countries are waiting the impacts of Rita

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one thing that makes me not too excited when someone talks about financial freedom is because most of the people who talk or write about this term are kind of materialistic people. They tend to simplify the problem in the world by saying that if you earn a lot of money you'll be free financially.Well, that's bullshit, in my opinion.Freedom (including financial freedom) is a state of mind. If you

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i don't know about you, but these are what i learned from history:Lesson#1: human does not like to learn from history (that's why fancy history books are always on bargain sale; that's why we still make the same mistakes like our ancestors).Lesson#2: there will always be war somewhere sometime in the world. there will be no absolute peace as long as we live. could you mention a year in human

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if you don't like pearl jam..please don't blame me...blame USA Today :) * I link the article in USA Today; just click the title above*as a huge fan of PJ, I am surprised because I thought PJ is not in the radar screen anymore.to be honest, I thought there are two greater bands still around: Rolling Stones and U2, but maybe because the criteria is "american" rock band so they didn't count. I like

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do we need success to live?what is definition of success?got a decent job with high salary?+++does money mean success?got a happy family?+++are we successful if we have a good family but have no money?is it true, that we could only choose one of these things; either we pick: success, social life, or sleep? (from blakeross.com)

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be careful.i run through an online assesment on my habit & behavior in using personal computer. the result is the risk level for me is HIGH. This high level is mainly because i work using laptop a lot, i am typing with my wrist "rested" (it should be floating) and also i work excessively on computer (more than 10 hours a day, 7 days a week).i checked on google using keyword "repetitive stress

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we have to face it: oil is no longer easy to get nor cheap.according to Dave O'Reilly, chairman/CEO of ChevronTexaco, the situation in world oil industry is not the same as before. He calls it "the new equation". What he talks is mainly the significant change in supply and demand.the demand is increasing; the growth in the next two decades will be about 40%. Last year, China alone contribute 30%

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i really don't know, why there is only one publisher (Tempo) got a story about Theo Toemion's amok in Jakarta International School (JIS).There are only two other 'international papers" had the story on their online versions: The Jakarta Post (TJP) and International Herald Tribune (IHT). I got the news the first time from Koran Tempo, which I read on airplane; then I searched thru google and got

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i've just finished reading a book titled "the perfect store: inside ebaY" last week.as a former ebay active visitors (and bought some stuffs from it), i quite surprised that the book provides a good exposure on this unique company. i used to see ebay as a dotcom that survived the bubble burst in late 90s because of its good "business model"...most of the information, i got from businessweek or

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while eliminating 50% of the corruption in Indonesia seems an impossible thing to do now, i found a quite optimistic view after reading "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell.the tipping point: that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.my perspective is that if there were a point when younger generations in Indonesia view

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tonite at around 11.30 pm, we're in Duri, Central Sumatera, surprised by an earthquake....it's quite big for us here because almost everybody run out from their rooms/houses. after spending about an hour outside our building, i came back to my room and check Indonesian' geophysics and meterology agency website or the report in Bahasa Indonesia here.from its report, i found that the epicentrum of

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according to Stephen Hawking (quoted from "The Theory of Everything" p.160), there are three possibilities regarding the unified theory of everything:a) there really is a complete unified theory, which we will someday discover if we are smart enough.b) there is no ultimate theory of the universe, just an infinite sequence of theories that describe the universe more and more accurately.c) there is

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i've just created another blog at my friendster account.its blog tools & template is really easy and looks/feels good; i don't really know html, scripting, layout,etc... so, for me, friendster's blog is much better than this blogger's blog (which is google's).as a person who admires google so much and not very impressed with friendster's weird performance, it's really really a big BIG surprise

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If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organizations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time. - Noam Chomsky-

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this is the first time something strange happened to me regarding internet security.I checked my yahoo account, and I found some emails have been read by someone/something; Is it just a random system error or someone really wants to read my emails? If that is the case, I don't know what he/she/it expects from reading my emails...:)I am not a celebrity nor someone important....beside, most of my

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this is my favourite poem...by Thomas Moore.I read it from a book about all the funny poems. If I'm not mistaken this poem is taken from "A Joke Versified"..I don't know if it's a title of a book by Moore or it's the title of the poem. Anyway, here it is:"Come, come" said Tom's father, "at your time of life,There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake—It is time you should think, boy, of

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I've just understood recently how to explain the differences between Knowing That and Knowing How...:)Thanks to this book titled "Batas Nalar" a translation of a book by Donald Calne titled Within Reason. While from Google I could not find an information about the success of this book both comercially and academically, but in Indonesia, its publisher had made this book quite popular by conducting

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while listening Bob Marley on this easy sunday morning...I chatted via messenger with my friend Goli (a cool Kellog student + the future leader of Indonesia, ya ngga?) and read some news I got from quicklinks at Enda Nasution's blog.Suddenly I realized that Enda's blog has become a critically important source of information for me!Many aspects of his blog provide me better NEW information compare

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well, it's a little bit cloudy...But, as I mentioned before, I will put pictures when the smoke disappears from my place...yesterday was raining pretty hard..that's why the smoke is gone today. I hope it would stay like today for the rest of the year.....(cross my finger)

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I put two pictures which look like taken from "Sleepy Hollow" scene set or pictures from Mars... No, they are not. The pictures are taken from my place, a small town named Duri; it's in Riau, Central Sumatera, Indonesia. As I posted before, we are now living in a very unhealthy environment because of forests' fire (the air now is far worse than Jakarta's air...do you believe that?) . The fire is

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I love Bandung.This is the place that I consider as my second home after spending six good years in the city. A few weeks ago I visited this city for one day (!) after a long absence since 2000. The reason of I wrote the bad sides longer than the good sides is because I'm so sad knowing some incidents because lack of smart thinking from the regulators of Bandung City or West Java.Good Sides:1. It

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finally I finished my first book...it's a free e-book about six sigma in a nutshell. The book is in Bahasa Indonesia which titled Mengenal Six Sigma Secara Sederhana, and mainly targeted to students to make them not so allergic with statistical/analytical tools.maybe many of us are quite skeptical about six sigma...I think the main reason is because the buzz and hype surrounding the concept. Or

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I decided to put ads by google on my personal website, beranda.net....even though I am not too sure if it really works for me from economical perspective, but I think it's worth too "experiment" how the online ads works. Besides, no need for me to prepare anything but copy & paste the scripts.One of the downsides is that sometimes ads and pop-ups are disturbing. With my limited skill in HTML and

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I have to confess that I am a control freak; and I knew that is bad. And it (usually) ruins my personal relationship.On the contrary, the feeling to always take control on everything that related to me, fortunately, give me the energy to perform well in my work. The fear to be in out-of-control situation makes me always prepare carefully on every project or work. So far, it works. But I've been

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No, these two men are not related each other nor my relatives.The link with me is because of my last week end.I watched Detroit Pistons beat LA Lakers last Thursday on Star Sport. It's kind of strange to me that Pistons won that easy. I admire how Larry Brown handles his boys; I remembered that I became a fan of Larry Brown when he was with Sixers....I used to a big fan of Iverson, but then I

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recently it's quite hard for me to write and update my website....I started to get busy for my work..so I just read some interesting stuff on internet. Some blogs are pretty cool: - Bram Cohen's blog (that Bit Torrent dude) - Ross Blake (that Firefox dude) - Gizmodo and its kind (by Gawker) so, I just saved them in my bookmarks...interestingly, Bram Cohen's blog got a lot of attentions by other

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so, now you found me.....that's interesting :)

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new template for this blog, that is

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uuuhhhh I'm easy...I am easy like sunday morning

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