Ming’s Mind

They looked so happy =]

“Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently.”

The Winner is always part of the answer.
The Loser is always part of the problem.

The Winner always has a plan;
The Loser always has an excuse.

The Winner says, “Let me do it for you”;
The Loser says, “That is not my job.”

The Winner sees an answer for every problem;
The Loser sees a problem for every answer.

The Winner says, “It may be difficult but it is possible”;
The Loser says, “It may be possible but it is too difficult.”

When a Winner makes a mistake, he says, “I’m sorry, I was wrong, how can I make it better?”;
When a Loser makes a mistake, he says, “It wasn’t my fault.”

A Winner makes commitments;
A Loser makes promises.

Winners have dreams;
Losers have schemes.

Winners say, “I must do something”;
Losers say, “Something must be done.”

Winners are a part of the team;
Losers are apart from the team.

Winners see the gain;
Losers see the pain.

Winners see possibilities;
Losers see problems.

Winners believe in win-win;
Losers believe for them to win someone has to lose.

Winners see the potential;
Losers see the past.

Winners are like a thermostat;
Losers are like thermometers.

Winners choose what they say;
Losers say what they choose.

Winners use hard arguments but soft words;
Losers use soft arguments but hard words.

Winners stand firm on values but compromise on petty things;
Losers stand firm on petty things but compromise on values.

Winners follow the philosophy of empathy: “Do to others what you want them do to you”;
Losers follow the philosophy, “Do it to others before they do it to you.”

Winners make it happen;
Losers let it happen.

Winners plan, prepare, and take action to win;
Losers pray, expect, and wait for everything to work out perfectly.

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Ummm, I’ve never bought even one condom my whole life.
Good thing that there’s an easy way to get one nowadays =]

Julia Perez (28), an Indonesian celebrity is launching her debut dangdut album titled ‘Kamasutra’ (filled with erotic-titled songs) and a condom is included in her every CD package.

She’s practicing a wonderful marketing here and I praise her courage realizing that we’re living in a close-minded country.

“I’m only helping the government fighting the AIDS, if they don’t like it, they can laways throw away the condom,” she replied cheerfully when she asked about her controversial action.

LOL

I like her style!

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I have never loved you
I did not love you since the day we met
I did not love you the moment
I looked into your beautiful eyes.

I have never loved your soft voice
As it whispers my name in adoration
And I have never loved the look in your eyes
When you see me.

I don’t love your hair
Or the way you look in the morning
Half asleep and vulnerable and shy
I do not love you.

I did not love you at the first touch
At the first kiss
I did not love you the first time
Or the second time
Or the last time
Not even then.

Listen to me carefully
I have never loved you
I will never love you
I will not love you until my very last breath
And beyond

I will not love you for all that you are
Nor accept you for all of your innocent flaws.

I cannot love you.

I have never loved you
Since the first time I set my eyes on you.

This is not my work.
The credit goes to Flutterings on Deviantart.com.
I’m simply posting this beacuse I find it breathtakingly beautiful =]

It’s dark here.
…I don’t even remember what light is.

…are you there?
Am I here?

You’re back.

Why can’t I feel a thing?
Where am I?

You’ve disconnected.

What?
From where?

From our dreams.

But..how?
…why?

It’s the rule we made.

What?
I don’t understand a thing. Can’t you be more specific?
Wai.. hhyyg!

…I…my daughter needs me!
She’s in the car!!
Where am I?! What am I doing here?!

Then she must still be connected.
Everything was a dream.

No, it’s not!

You need time get over it and time to remember.
Not that it exists.

What the fuck are you saying?!
Get me outta here! I can’t even feel my body!
Where are you?! Where am I?!

You were in the dream we, us, all created.
All this time.

I, wha…hhyyg!
…I…
…
…I remember.

That’s good.
Welcome back.

Thank you.

How was it?

Humane.

Did you do anything we’ve long forgotten?

Yes, but I’m losing them…

Did it hurt?

I can’t feel anything now but I’m sure I felt something…good.
There was also pain…but there was something so special too…which I can’t remember…something…was flowing from where I see things.

That’s normal.

We know.

It’s my turn now.

I shall wait for you.

I hope to meet you again.

We’re one.

We are.

I hope you’ll feel the things I felt.

You’ll know.

World economy seems to be getting worse and worse every second.
Our government is going to try out the new unassisted electricity tariff to middle-upper and upper-upper housing types in some areas.

I’m glad to say we don’t have blackout here as often anymore. But this is still happening in some other cities. It can happen everyday or every other days starting from 7 AM to 4 PM. I personally has experienced it myself a few months ago and it was like living in a cave for half a day and back to metropolitan for the rest.

What I’m mad about is that the government don’t seem to be doing anything about it. They’re letting people die of starvation, mothers killing their newly-borns because they don’t want them to live a life of suffering.

And do you know what the government is so-fucking-unbelievably concerned about right now?
The election of the new governor of Bank Indonesia (Indonesia’s national bank).

Many candidates have been offered by our infamous-for-having-a-lot-of-disaster-during-his-reign President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and none of them have been approved by the Parliament. They’re busy doing all of these unnecessary formalities, which is most probably done for their own advantage, instead of struggling to give their people a better life.

Not such a surprise for me to read that the leader of Hanura party, who is a candidate of the 2009 Presidential election, has practiced the Politics of Symbolism by having Nasi Aking meal along with a villager. This dish is made from the old leftover rice which is then cleaned and dried under the sun and then re-cooked, the kind of food consumed by a lot from 39,5 million ’surveyed’ below-poor-condition Indonesians. “I have to sell my homemade cakes (not those modern kinds that you can find in your luxurious cake shops) everyday around the villages so that I can buy Nasi Aking. My husband had passed away,” the villager said.

Living a life of simply living…

…
And to think that I just had yummy Conello Brownies Ice Cream in this hot tropical night, paying US$80/month of internet connection for typing useless blogs and other trivial purposes, buying a lot of expensive unnecessary stuff, and procrastinating my Human Resource Management assignment…

*sigh*

Bonne nuit.

English Version @: http://theuncertainuniverse.blogspot.com/

Tidak pernah satu kali pun di sekolah Indonesia saya mendengar sejarah dijajahnya Tibet oleh bangsa China. Yang ada  dan selalu digembar-gemborkan hanyalah revolusi bambu dan gerilya yang dibangga-banggakan oleh orang Indonesia  (padahal Indonesia pun merdeka karena US membom Jepang sehingga Jepang menyerah tanpa syarat; bukan hanya semata-mata karena bambu—yang sangat mengancam) pada setiap pelajaran sejarah.

Saya tertarik denga perjuangan bangsa Tibet saat membaca berita heboh tentang Bjork yang menggumamkan "Tibet, Tibet" saat menyanyikan lagu Declare Independence-nya di China baru-baru ini yang tentu saja mengundang amarah pemerintah di negeri Panda.

Intinya…selama ini saya sama sekali tidak tahu-menahu tentang penderitaan masyarakat Tibet! Dan saya marah!Mengapa hal sepenting ini yang menyangkut pelanggaran HAM skala negara seakan-akan dianggap tidak penting mengingat jarangnya hal ini ditayangkan oleh media?

Tidak pentingkah orang-orang yang mati di penjara dan kamp-kamp kerja paksa?
Tidak pentingkah wanita-wanita yang diperkosa, disterilisasi (dimandulkan), dan dipaksa aborsi?
Tidak pentingkah anak-anak Tibet yang diasingkan dari budayanya sendiri dan dipukuli oleh guru dan pihak berwenang dengan tongkat, cambuk, ikat pinggang, kursi, kabel listrik dsb.?
Tidak pentingkah biarawan dan biarawati yang disiksa tanpa belas kasihan dengan gigitan anjing, api puntung rorok, dan tongkat listrik yang ditancapkan pada kemaluannya?

Sebagai manusia saya merasa malu bahwa sampai hari ini ada manusia yang masih tega memperlakukan manusia lain dengan begitu kejam.

Saya malu ternyata dibalik ucapan kosong UUD 45 tentang kemerdekaan adalah hak segala bangsa masih ada rakyat yang tidak merdeka.

Sebagai manusia saya merasa ingin membantu rakyat Tibet memperjuangkan kemerdekaan mereka.

Bukan dengan memboikot barang Made in China karena kita memang membutuhkannya.

Bukan dengan memboikot Olimpiade Beijing karena tidak ada kaitannya dan kita sebagai warga dunia harus turut bertanggungjawab atas kelancaran berlangsungnya Olimpiade—seperti kata Dalai Lama.

Saya akan mendukung dengan memberitahukan hal ini kepada teman dan keluarga saya karena masih banyak yan tidak mengetahui hal ini.

Saya akan membuat petisi di kampus untuk dikirim ke:
International Tibet Independence Movement
PO Box 592 Fishers, Indiana 46038-0592 United States
e-mail: rangzen@aol.com

Orang Tibet membutuhkan dukungan kita!
Mereka akan disiksa apabila melakukan hal ini di Tibet, sedangkan kita dapat dengan mudah melakukannya di negara asal kita.

Dukung Tibet!
Bebaskan mereka!

Independence for Tibet!!!!

Situs-situs yang bisa Anda kunjungi apabila Anda tertarik:
http://rangzen.com
From International Tibet Independence Movement. Features historical background, suggestions for action, and articles and  pictures from previous campaigns.

http://tibet.org
International Tibet Independence Movement

http://freetibet.org
Free Tibet Campaign stands for the Tibetans’ right to determine their own future.

Saat ini kelihatannya persaingan di antara semua operator layanan SIM card untuk handphone sedang berlomba-lomba menawarkan tarif yang paling murah.

Dimulai dari iklan murahan oleh XL Bebas bertajuk bestiality yang diperankan oleh seorang pria gendut jelek yang mengatakan bahwa dia akan mengawini monyet apabila ada operator SIM card yang menawarkan tarif murah tidak hanya ke sesama operator.
…bahkan sampai tajuk polygamy bestiality yang mengawinkan (lagi) si tokoh pria jelek dan gendut dengan seekor kambing.

Namun, selidik punya selidik, ternyata banyak juga aturan-aturan tersembunyi yang sudah ditetapkan terhadap kartu-kartu SIM tersebut.

Kelihatan bahwa mereka memang sengaja bermaksud menjebak orang-orang yang mudah termakan iklan murahan.

Yang ingin lebih saya soroti di sini adalah efek samping dari perlombaan tarif sengit antar operator-operator ini.

1. Apakah mereka dapat memastikan kemampuan mereka untuk memberi pelayanan yang konsisten dengan menetapkan tarif yang murah? Yang diinginkan masyarakat bukanlah tarif paling murah, tapi pelayanan paling memuaskan dengan tarif terjangkau. Saya pribadi sama sekali tidak tertarik dengan tarif murahan yang diumbar-umbar operator tersebut karena saya sudah melihat bagaimana beberapa operator di Indonesia sangat tidak konsisten dalam memberikan layanannya. Better safe than sorry.

2. Bagaimana dengan bahaya radiasi handphone dikaitkan dengan penggunaan lebih lama karena tarif yang murah?
Orang cenderung akan menggunakan handphone lebih lama dan lebih sering (karena tarif murah) yang mungkin efeknya akan menyebabkan kanker pada otak.

Cara menghindari bahaya radiasi:

• Use hands-free to decrease the radiation to the head. (gunakan hands-free; tapi menurut  British Consumers’ Association, penggunaan hands-free malah dapat meningkatkan radiasi hingga tiga kali lipat tergantung penempatan handphone)
• Keep the mobile phone away from the body. (jauhkan handphone dari badan saat digunakan)
• Do not telephone in a car without an external antenna. (jangan menelepon dalam mobil tanpa antena eksternal)

3. Menurunnya kualitas hidup masyarakat yang mengincar jam-jam tarif termurah.
Para kekasih akan begadang larut malam demi menelepon dengan tarif murah. Terutama golongan ABG yang belum dewasa dan golongan dewasa yang gagal mendewasa.

Hasilnya?

Generasi berotak kosong yang sudah dicemari oleh radiasi handphone.

Wake up, people!
Jangan  mau-maunya dijajah oleh taktik bisnis murahan dan tidak ramah lingkungan kayak gini!

Ladyluck must hate me a lot or maybe it’s just simply
because it’s the 13^th today, I’m not sure. I’m actually a very good
and careful driver but why do people keep hitting on my car?

It was such a nice day and I was planning for a
happy-chit-chat day with my old school best friend (a girl; and if you’re
reading this, please don’t feel guilty at all since this has nothing to do with
you, really) after sending a package in the post office.

My car got hit on the back side (which is a valid proof that
I’m the victim here) on the crossroad by an old fart who’s taking his dusty
twat along and they fell. I stopped for a moment and observed their condition.
They seem to be okay and I continue onwards. I continued. Yes, you read that
correctly. I am the victim here and I’m very aware of the fucked up law (if you
can even call it that) that we have to obey here. I’ve been hit so many times and they ran away all the time. ALL THE  FCUKING TIME!

No matter you’re right or wrong if you’re driving a car and
happen to hit or got hit by a motorcycle, you-the car owner-is the one who has
to pay for the damage.

Anyway, someone chased me and told me that they’re reporting
to the police if I don’t go back to the scene. I went back and I raged at them.
I’m very scary when I’m mad and I told them to go to the police station to
solve this problem since they’re asking me to pay for the medication and repair
fee. These turd-brained, I’m shy and disagree to call them this, humans.

The police took our licenses and wrote down some details. He
said that he’s not in favor of anyone, yet he’s telling me to apologize to this
blind old fart.

My sister got there and she told me to just pay them so that
they won’t suspend my car for one month and sending us to the court after my
car got rusty during the suspension. We’re driving these turd brains to the
doctor. We paid their consultation fee. We paid the medicine. We paid the
repairing fee. With our hard-earned money.

I’m feeling terrible.

I know it that I’m right.

I’m a victim.

He hit my car.

We have to pay for everything.

What k

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of logic is this?

I’m so angry.

I’m so very angry.

I’m so angry that I can’t feel any emotions at all anymore.

Someone please save me out of this country, if you can even
call it one? Please?

Munajat Cinta [Love's Prayer]
Click here to listen to the video on youtube.com.

Malam ini, ku sendiri,
Tonight, I’m all alone,
tak ada yang, menemani,
No one accompanies,
seperti malam-malam,
Just like the nights,
yang sudah, sudah
That have passed, passed.

Hati ini, selalu sepi,
This heart, is always lonely,
tak ada yang menghiasi,
Adorned by nothing,
seperti cinta ini,
Just like this love,
yang s’lalu, pupus
That always disappear.

[Chorus]
Tuhan kirimkanlah aku,
God (please) send me,
kekasih yang, baik hati,
A kind-hearted lover,
yang mencintai aku,
Who loves me,
apa adanya
For who I am.

[second verse]
Mawar ini, semakin layu,
This rose is withering,
tak ada yang, memiliki,
Owned by no one,
seperti, aku ini,
Just like me,
semakin, pupus
Disappearing further.

[Chorus]
  Tuhan kirimkanlah aku,
God (please) send me,
kekasih yang, baik hati,
A kind-hearted lover,
yang mencintai aku,
Who loves me,
apa adanya
For who I am.

…what a great love song.
The best Indonesian love song I’ve heard so far.