Sudah Tenangkah?

Posted on May 11th, 2006 by john.
Categories: Makassar, personal.

Judul di atas sepertinya rada pesimis, tapi sesungguhnya saya ingin menjadi sangat optimis dengan keadaan Makassar saat ini. Syukur, tidak ada yang buruk terjadi hari ini, dalam waktu yang saya dan keluarga lewati, hanya ada satu kalo konvoi yang cukup mengesalkan yang meneriakkan kata-kata yang tidak nyaman dan bernada mengancam. Apalagi disertai dengan kelakuan peserta konvoi yang membawa pentungan, batu, dan berbagai peralatan tempur lainnya.

Terlaporkan ada beberapa rumah yang kacanya pecah karena menjadi sasaran lemparan oleh peserta konvoi tersebut, walaupun tentu saja tidak bisa saya konfirmasikan sendiri, sebab berita itu hanya selentingan saja dan beredar dari mulut ke mulut.

Yang terakhir, ada informasi dari salah satu aparat yang berbelanja di toko kami malam tadi, kabarnya akan ada pergerakan yang perlu diwaspadai pada hari Jumat (12/5) yang akan datang. Seperti biasa, isu-isu SARA semacam ini juga berasumsi bahwa bagi umat Muslim, tindakan ‘perang’ pada hari Jumat itu justru berpahala lebih besar.. atau semacam itu. Ah, namanya juga isu, semoga tidak ada yang tersinggung dengan posting saya ini, bahkan saya malah ingin minta pendapat dari teman-teman Muslim, bener ‘gak tuh?

Malam ini sih Makassar sudah agak hidup lagi, sudah ramai dengan lalu lintas kendaraan (minimal sampai sekitar jam 9 malam tadi ketika toko kami hampir tutup). Bahkan pembalap-pembalap liar yang biasanya sangat mengganggu Jalan Somba Opu di malam hari, sudah mulai ada. Padahal kemarin, satupun tidak ada. Sepertinya ketegangan di Makassar sudah mulai reda, terima kasih untuk usaha dari berbagai pihak, utamanya para pemimpin kami di daerah ini.

Good night, thank you for reading. Let’s hope for a better tomorrow.

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Riot Update

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

Ah, pakai Bahasa Indonesia ajalah :D

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 :D ). 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… :P

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upgrade

Posted on March 1st, 2006 by john.
Categories: personal, weblog.

tapi cuma ke wp 2, bukan 2.0.1

via fantastico.

busy days, sick days, rainy days, banjir days…

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Human Virus Scanner

Posted on February 10th, 2006 by john.
Categories: fun, personal.

Something funny, but a bit “basbang”:http://wiki.id-gmail.info/Basbang i think, from “Human Virus Scanner”:http://totl.net/VirusScanner/:

Human Virus Scanner

The virus that have infected you will be show here along with thier cures, if known.

Viruses you suffer from:

Linux
Install the latest version of Microsoft Windows. Learn to love it.

Religion
Read “God’s Debris” by Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy)

Windows
Try MacOS X. It’s based on UNIX, it has a smoother UI than Windows and it doesn’t suck. As an extra feature the boxes look nice.

Politics
Stop caring!

Brand Names
Having a well-known name doesn’t make it good.

Environmentalism
Consume more stuff! It’s easier to buy new stuff than to recycle.

Macintosh
Use a mouse with more than one button.

Viruses you might suffer from:

Free BSD (95%)
The GPL isn’t that bad really. Adopt a penguin at the zoo.

Junkfood (85%)
Eat some real food. Something which you can identify the source of every ingredient, not the point of manufacture.

UNIX (65%)
Anything this old must be obselete. Go and install a nice modern operating system. I hear MSDOS has come a long way lately.

X11 (60%)
I hear Mac OS 10 Aqua is nice at this time of year.

Japan (60%)
Big is good. Small is bad. Giant robots would not make a good last line of defence for Earth.

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Animated Exercise Examples

Posted on January 12th, 2006 by john.
Categories: fun, personal.

Here’s a quick link: “Animated Exercise Examples”:http://thetrainingstationinc.com/exercises.html
from TheTrainingStationInc.com

These Examples sure help those who want to build their body in the correct way. Myself, I’ve been planning to get back to my healty days, but never had a chance to go to the gym. My sport activity now? Doing some laundry and swimming once or twice a week :D

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Hello, New Year!

Posted on December 31st, 2005 by john.
Categories: personal, weblog, work.

After more than 2 months of silence, I’m writing again.

I’ve just spent the night in the office, working!@#$!@#. I pratically have been working for almost 30 hours since yesterday morning, 9 AM, with probably just one hour sleep (and not a continuous one hour! >:( ). We were (and still now) rushing to meet the deadline to print student report cards today. We (the schools to be precise) didn’t perfectly made the deadline. One school just print report cards for 1 class only, another made it manually. They both probably will print the actual report cards tomorrow or on Monday. It has been a very exhausting week for all of us here at MCEC(Makassar Cyber Education Center).

Anyway, I’ve been to various places and events in these past two months. I’ve been to Bali, and visited Bedugul and Kuta for about 10 days. I’ve been to Toraja during the Idul Fitri holidays. Many Christmas celebrations, and other events. The “S2IS”:http://john.chendra.net/index.php/2005/10/26/another-waiting-is-over/ perfectly suits every event :) . I’m thinking and looking for a way to share the pictures (which some I’ve already used as wallpapers), probably using “Gallery 2 (Gallery 2)”:http://gallery.menalto.com/ or “Flickr (Flickr)”:http://www.flickr.com/.
For the past 2 weeks, I also have join the “Fedora Ambassadors”:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/. I’m hoping to contribute to linux, maybe not in programming or other geeky stuff, but at least I know I am helping to spread the Freedom :)

I’ve been browsing through the “WordPress Theme Viewer (WP Theme Viewer)”:http://themes.wordpress.net/ again, and found many beautiful themes. And yes, I am also planning on upgrading this blog to WP 2.
Maybe those are my blog’s New Year Resolution. As for myself, I’m really looking forward to do what I have learnt during the Haggai Institute seminars in “Malino”:http://john.chendra.net/index.php/2005/10/26/haggai-institute/ or Bedugul.

Anyway, To close the post, and the year, I just want to say, Have yourself a Happy New Year! … Christmas you ask? We should have it everyday… in our hearts! :)

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