john’s log

Buku tercepat

Posted on May 9th, 2006 by john.
Categories: General, work.

Bukan, bukan mengenai buku yang bisa lari sendiri..

Kemarin saya berkesempatan untuk jalan-jalan di Gramedia Mal Ratu Indah Makassar. Tak disangka, ketemu satu buku yang sangat menarik:

Ini buku terbaru(?) dari Bapak Perjuangan Internet Indonesia (julukan dari saya sendiri.. mohon maap bila salah ), Onno W. Purbo. Sangat menarik, sebab selain berhubungan dengan kerjaan saya sehari-hari di kantor (apalagi Motorola Canopy diberi jatah satu bab khusus ), buku ini juga memuat sejarah dan visi dari pak Onno untuk internet Indonesia, selain tentunya berbagai pengalaman, tips, trik dan tutorial untuk aplikasi Wireless.

Buku tercepat? Iya, mungkin ini buku yang paling cepat saya ‘habiskan’ sampai sejauh ini. Biasanya, buku seperti ini akan saya cicil baca (jika benar-benar ada waktu atau jika sedang menunggu sesuatu di toilet -maaf beribu maaf). Tapi kali ini, buku ini saya hampir habiskan dalam waktu 2-2,5 jam saja. Ini dimungkinkan karena pas jam 12 malam kemarin, lampu di rumah saya (dan tetangga-tetangga saya) mati selama 2 jam Jadi dengan berbekal lampu emergency sekenanya, jadilah saya mengisi waktu mati lampu sambil mengipasi anak yang gelisah karena kepanasan, sambil membaca buku ini.

Cuma mau bilang itu kok btw blog ini udah lama gak saya update.. sekali update.. eh udah 4 posting aja…
I guess I’m a little bawel today

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Riot Update

Posted on May 9th, 2006 by john.
Categories: personal.

Ah, pakai Bahasa Indonesia ajalah

Suasana horor masih terasa di Makassar, apalagi dikonfirmasi dengan berita di Metro TV bahwa ada kumpulan massa malam ini di Jl. G. Latimojong, dimana kejadian pembunuhan terjadi. Yang ditakutkan adalah seperti pada tahun 1997, dimana kerusuhan terjadi mulai malam hari, hingga pagi hari keesokan harinya dimana banyak rumah di Jl. Sulawesi yang terbakar.

Yang perlu dikritik adalah Metro TV, yang dalam liputannya yang sangat baik, melakukan kesalahan cukup fatal. Di segmen berita yang menginformasikan bahwa toko-toko di Makassar umumnya tutup sejak siang hari, diberitakan bahwa toko-toko yang tutup berada di Jl. G. Latimojong (Jalan TKP). Padahal gambar/video yang diperlihatkan adalah suasana Jl. Somba Opu (sekitar rumah saya ). Sepertinya kru Metro TV ikutan tegang sampai salah memberi informasl.

Berita dari objek penderita (saya sendiri -Red), bukan hanya toko-toko di Jl. G. Latimojong saja yang tutup. Hampir semua toko di Makassar tutup, bahkan toko-toko yang pemiliknya bukan keturunan Cina-pun ikutan tutup (tetangga saya salah satunya). Tadi siang saya sempat berkendara melintasi Jl. Sulawesi dan sekitarnya. Daerah ini, seperti Jl. Somba Opu juga adalah bagian China Town kota Makassar. Semua toko di daerah-daerah ini sudah tutup sejak siang tadi (sekitar pk. 15.00 atau 14.00 WITA). Perkiraan saya, bahkan toko-toko di daerah lain seperti Jl. Veteran dan daerah Jl. Pettarani juga pasti sudah tutup sehubungan dengan cepatnya informasi seperti ini beredar di kalangan pedagang.

So.. hari ini Makassar ‘tidur’ lebih cepat dari biasanya.. Moga-moga tidak ada kejutan di tengah malam.
For you Christians out there, and also for everyone who cares.. please pray for us and this city.

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Makassar … riot?

Posted on May 9th, 2006 by john.
Categories: personal.

Right about now.. The rumors said, there’s a housekeeper (pembantu) (or two?) murdered last night by their employer who is happen to be a Chinese man. This causes a big horror among the Chinese people in Makassar, and surely bring horror to almost everyone in the city, including non-chinese. A friend just called me (non-chinese office friend) and informed that one of our friend at work was stopped in the street because he was suspected a chinese. Don’t know what would happen if He _IS_ a chinese man. Thank God he’s not.

This bring back the fear that has twice put Makassar in a terrible condition. The last one was in 1997, after a child murder by a crazy chinese man. Back in 97, a lot of houses and Buddhist/KongHuCu temples burnt down and many chinese people murdered and raped. My house also got a piece of it, a big stone that went through my house’s glass window…

I don’t care for the politics or racism views (as my “Human Virus” told me, I should stop caring), but I’m imagining the bad economy condition that will once again struck Makassar down if there’s a riot this time. This is just stupid.

To those who’s too stupid to figure things out, and are involved in such stupid activities.. What difference are you than the NAZI‘s?

still learning english and typing it fast…

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Time or Hours?

Posted on May 9th, 2006 by john.
Categories: General, faith.

Well, here goes an update

Just recently about 4 days ago, I stumbled upon an interesting page. The idea is quite phenomenal and offers many advantages and efficiency.

At that moment, while I was reading the article, the idea seems nice and acceptable, I even think that I would talk/share about this to some people I know. But after a day pass by, I realized something strange. If the idea is to cope with the “Did you ever feel like there just weren’t enough hours in the day?” question, and far more about using our hours in more advantageous ways, this scenario came up in my head: “Okay, let’s just say everybody in the world agree with this concept and the world then decided to use this concept. What would it be like? For sure, after about 10 years (maximum), we would have said that 28 hours is not enough.”

For me then, the answer is not how much time there is in a day, but how well do you spend your time in a day. Okay, you don’t feel tired enough after a day’s (plus night) activity.. Well I say, Lucky you, you have more time to spend doing something else while some of us are too tired to even brush our teeth before sleeping at night. Adding hours to a day is just not the answer.

Another reason, and the most important one, is that the 28 hours a day concept is a ‘rebelion’ toward God’s intention when God created everything. Well, at least in the Bible, God created everything (including man & woman) in 6 days, and on the 7th day, God rest. So, that’s why there’s 7 day in a week. About 24 hours, for me, it’s just a method and calculation of time that’s used throughout the ages to simplify and breakdown a day. Just imagine if there’s no ‘hour’, ‘minute’, ‘second’ concept, what a mess it would be. So, don’t be amazed by the ’24′, but rather be amazed of the ‘time’ and use them wisely.

To close my post, just try this scenario: try to substract the amount of time in a second, so that a second is only ‘half of a second’ and call it a second, then you can call it a 48 hour day, not just 28.. won’t you have a lot more time in your hands? Again, it’s not how much time you have, but how well you use your time.

Sorry for my bad english.. just trying to pull something out of my dizzy head…

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