Bomb terrors by SMS!

Had anyone of you guys receive the SMS of bomb terrors? I just knew it when I sign in on my Yahoo! Messenger and receive an offline message that tells of bomb terrors by SMS. Suddenly, I was shocked and I tried to found the prove for this message. Actually, the issues were about bomb terrors at big shopping malls, international food restaurant, and international embassy that connected to the execution of Amrozi, the Bali bomber. The police said that we must not panic because of this SMS, it's made by people with no responsibility. And this issues just disturbing the execution process. If you wanted to see the SMS, just click the link below.


Source : http://www.detiknews.com/read/2008/10/29/022107/1027557/10/sms-ancaman-bom-di-mal-merebak-polisi-imbau-warga-tak-panik

Rich Cleric Marries 12 Year Old Girl

While reading the Jakarta post, I read in my opinion a bizarre story where a 43 year old man that is also the head of an Islamic boarding school, named Pujiono Cahyo Widayanto married a girl who was only 12 years old. Puji is a very wealthy man as he is also the owner of PT Sinar Lendoh Terang which exports handicraft. He married 12 year old Lutfiana Ulfa in August with the consent of her parents as well as that of his first wife. The police are now building a criminal case against him as it states in the 1974 marriage law, that a woman must be 16 years of age to legally marry. They are also trying to charge him for breaking child protection law by "forcing, swindling and/or trading" a minor to sleep with him.

All I can say is that this whole thing is ludicrous, why do they even have to debate this? This man is clearly a criminal and in a way, a child abuser. However Puji always uses religious arguments to justify his actions, but in my opinion he is twisting religion to suit his own purpose. The parents of this girl must also take some of the blame. They have admitted that it was due to Pujiono’s wealth that they agreed to the marriage, so they are basically selling their child. If this man is not charged with this crime wouldn’t this mean that Indonesia has made it legal for men to marry children? The craziest thing about all this is that Pujiono has plans to also marry a 7 and 9 year old in the near future.

Sources
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2768/pujiono-cahyo/

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/10/28/police-open-criminal-dossier-childmarrying-cleric.html

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/10/27/cleric-may-face-criminal-charges-commission.html

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/10/25/cleric-defiant-amid-controversy-over-marriage-12yearold-girl.html

My Activities Today, 30th October 2008

This morning, our class had to do presentation which had been prepared from the last two weeks. One group consists of two or three people. I was in one group with Resa. Our presentation's topic was about robotic which is very interesting for us. From definition to some statistics, we included them in our presentation. I am glad that we can do the presentation well without any difficulty. The other groups are doing well too. From the presentations bought by the other groups I learned a lot of things which I didn't know before, such as satellite, iPod, internet security, and the others.
As the Academic English class ended, I planned to have lunch in canteen. Usually I go to canteen together with Resa and Hartanto, but at that time I thought Resa was still busy with his presentaion group for Intro to IT. So I went to canteen with Hartanto. Suddenly, Hartanto declined to eat in the canteen, and then he went to somewhere I don't know. While I was eating my lunch, I met Winston, Michael, Henry, and Steven Winarto. They were having lunch there too.
After lunch, we decided to play until the workshop begin. We had a difficulty to find a spot where we can play together comfortably, until we found an empty table on the third floor. In 1 pm, the workshop started. Today's workshop was really fun. We just have to make vocabularies as much as we can.

Something will happen on 31th October...

Do you guys know what day is 31th October? I guess most of you already know it. For those who doesn't know, 31th October is Halloween Day. What is Halloween? It's supposed to be the day when mystical things such as ghost and fairy become unusually active. Although it sounds scary, people nowadays seems to be forgetting that definitions and having fun on Halloween Day. They make parties on that night, not the common party, but the Halloween Party where people use horror costumes to disguise themselves. The famous things on the Halloween Day are Jack-O-Lantern and Trick or Treat. Jack-O-Lantern is hollowed pumpkin designed as spooky face and candle/light inside of it. This becomes mascot of Halloween Day. Next is Trick or Treat, it is an event where we demanding treat from the other people by tricking them. In England, Halloween recognized as mischief day because of this. But in Indonesia, people are softer and they won't make a big mess on this day, therefore it's not counted as annoying night in here.
Binus organized this event too. Exactly at Friday, 31th October and started at 5.30 p.m. For those of you who want to join the party, you're welcomed. And don't forget to wear your scariest costume!

So what will you do on 31th October night? Will it be trick? Or treat?

Source:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Halloween.html

P2

Last Saturday, I watched a movie in PIM 2. The name of the movie is P2. P2 is a parking lot in basement two, where the main actress put her car. The story was about a woman, named Angela Bridges, who was going to have a Christmas night. She had an overtime work at that day. When she was going to go from her office, suddenly her car couldn’t be turned on. Luckily, a security, named Thomas, offered her for a help but Angela’s car still weren’t working. Then Angela decided to take a taxi. When the taxi came, the office door couldn’t be opened. There were no persons left in the building. She didn’t know that Thomas had set all of these so he would have a Christmas night with Angela. Actually, Thomas was a secret admirer of Angela. He had kept an eye on Angela for a long time. Well, this would be Angela worst nightmare. She had to find a way out from the building and her secret admirer.

 

In my opinion, the movie is boring. They only use two main actors. The most boring part is the movie only use 1 location. It is only a building. The shooting place itself often in the parking lot where you can see there were no lights in there. They also use minim properties in the movie. However, P2 often gave a start. It also made the audiences panic. In conclusion, I’m not recommending you to watch this movie. Don’t spend your money for such a boring movie.

  

Source:

http://21cineplex.com/p2,1957.htm

 

Spooky Cat!!!

Today when I went out for dinner, walking out from my boarding house, I heard something weird. I checked it and I saw 2 cats fought with their sound, haven't started physical fight. 1 cat was meowing at the other cat at high tone. It sounded like, "Myaaaaaawww.....!!!!", like usual. While the other one sounded like, "Huuuaaaaaaauuuwww....!!!!". Of course if you use cat ascent, that sound will more like a cat sound, but the sound is like a 5-year-old boy's sound. Well, I decided to ignore it and went eat because I was hungry already. By the time I got back, they were gone already. Hiyaaa!!! Scary!!! Well, it wasn't very scary, I just felt a little bit spooky and weird because I have never heard a cat sound like that, hehehe.

Smak 1 Cup, RESCUE

i was attending Smak 1 Cup yesterday, the topic of the cup is RESCUE. It stands for Recuperating The North Pole Through The Competitions of Arts, Sports And Languages In SMAK One, if I'm not mistaken.

The entrance ticket cost me 20.000 IDR. In this Cup we can spectate several tournament. These tournament included not only sports but also academical aspect. We can see basketball, futsal, volleyball and modern dance tournament which held in Smak 1 and Sltpk 8 field. Some of the non-sport tournament are English debate, Photography and Band.

I only attend the closing which held on 25 October. However, it was quite fun. i saw basketball, futsal and volleyball final. These match are very tight. Both sides can play equally and their play can entertain spectators. I also watch the modern dance and at around 7 o'clock, Saint Loco (one of the indie band from Indonesia) was giving special performance. Followed by Drive(another band from Indonesia) who started perform at around 9 o'clock. I got home at 9 because i felt so tired, therefore i didn't watch Drive. but i hear from my friend that they were giving their best performance, audience liked them. We also can buy many food and drink if we starving or thirsty.

i think it's fun to attend cup like this one. Nowadays we can find many cup which usually held once a year in several school.

Programming Principles' Assignment is Haunting Me

Last Wednesday, Sir Charles Lim, with his big smile, said that we have to do another assignment for the next two weeks. The assignment consists of six programs: calendar, hexadecimal, power, mathemathic quiz, plane reservation, and maze. Unlike the last assignment, this one is very difficult to make, especially the maze and calendar program. I am sure that Sir Charles Lim is trying to make us partice doing programming so we can be good in it.
I want to finish the assignment as soon as I can, so the next day, I tried to do the programs which is easier to make. I have finished four programs ( mathematic quiz, hexadecimal, plane reservation, and power ). The nightmare started here, when I tried to make the maze program. It is very difficult so that I have been thinking about it too much. Maybe it is hard to believe, but I really get haunted with the feeling that I cannot finish the assigment. In Friday night, at 2 o'clock, I woke up from my sleep because I was really nerveous about the program. At that time, I tried to finish it until 3 o'clock. The result was, the program wasn't finished. It became a strange program which cannot stop its recursion.
The next day I tried to make the calendar program. It really made me mad that I crashed a lot of time. Fortunately, Steven, who is really skillful in programming, has finished it, so I can ask him about the program. Tomorrow I will see the calendar program which made by Steven. I hope I can make it too.

Amazon!!The money Eater!!!

Amazon(not the Amazon that sells a lot of things in the net) is one of the big game center in Indonesia.Their popularity may not as popular as Time Zone but it's really crowded there too.Anyway,I think it's really nice there because I can get a lot of fun.

Today,I try to play a new machine.It is called the bingo machine,the objective is,we must insert a coin and it must enter the hole which written by a number.We need to make a line.But there is one condition,we can't enter the out hole,once we enter the coin to the out hole,the game will be new game again.Every numbers that we have hit become new again.So to play it only based on luck or we can it's a bet.We bet our coin to get more coins.

This machine is very-very crowded,Everybody plays it.Of course we need to buy some coins from the counter first.They sell each coin for Rp.1250,00.If we buy Rp.25.000,00.We will get 1 bonus coin.Today I play as the smallest bet maybe around 40 coins,then I buy and buy again,when I realize it,I have spent a couple of hundreds thousands there.I am so shock,then I go home to prevent myself to buy the coins again.I'm very sure that everybody spend more money then me,most of them are adults.I think next time I must be able to control myself better..><

Competition between internet service providers!

Internet service providers are now competing with each other, as you all know, there is a cheap internet provider with unlimited quotas called Fastnet. But their services are not good, last week I called them and asked them to set it up in my home, but they told that you must have Kabelvision if you want to use Fastnet, well...I've already have Indovision which is better than Kabelvision according to me. So they told me that I could use Fastnet in January, but it's too long...since I needed the internet for my studies. So I decided to used Telkom Speedy, their services are good. But they've limited quotas, if we wanted to have unlimited quotas, we must pay IDR 750.000 which is a lot more expensive than fastnet. Finally, I decided to take Telkom Speedy with 3 GB quotas because they've promotions. First, free one month bill.Second, 60% discount for the bills until Febuary 2009.Third, unlimited quotas for usage starting from 8 PM - 8AM. Which I think was a really good promotion =D

Bimus Gathering

Last Saturday, members of Bimus went to Anyer. Bimus stands for Binus International Musician Club. We had the gathering for two days. There were about 42 people who joined this gathering. The purpose of the gathering is to introduce the new members of Bimus so we could know each other.  

When we arrived there, all of the participants make a circle. Then each participant introduce his/her name. We had to remember all of the name. If we didn't remember one of their name, we would have a punishment. Well, this game make me remember all of the Bimus member. Luckily, no one got the punishment.

After this game finished, we had a workshop. The workshop was given by Rian and Nissa. They are from a popular group band, named Omelette. Rian played the guitar very skillfully. I was very surprised because Rian can play guitar very well. His skill is above other guitar player at the same age. Nissa also played bass very skillfully. Unfortunately, I don't play bass so I wasn't interested.

After Nissa and Rian had finished the workshop, we went to the beach. On the beach, we took some photographs. We also played with a ball. Then, our senior gave the new bimus members instructions. We were divided into 3 groups and we had to perform at least 1 song. Luckily, my group members could play music. We decided into play 'ekspresi' by Titi DJ. There were also performances from other groups and Bimus member.

The next day, while we were waiting for the breakfast, we had another games. The first game was to move a hat from your head without using anything. The next game was to move a ball using your foot, but you can't kick it. After playing the game, we went back to our villa to eat our breakfast. Before we went home, we had another workshop again. The workshop was about digital recording and midi. 

Well, the gathering was very fun. I've got some new friends, experience, and etc. Last but not least, this gathering also give me a lot of new knowledge about music.

Google

        Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in their friend’s garage. When it first made, there were already many web searching engines. The famous search engines at that time are Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos, MSN, Hotbot, AOL, and Altavista. It is a tough nut to crack for Google to stand firm with all these competitors. It was on 1988, That Yahoo! Is the most popular and awarded the number 1 search engine. The time of glory has ended for yahoo, as in early 2004 Google dominate the market of search engines by 84.7%. In 2000 Yahoo! Adopts the Google search engine technology to their website and by 2004, they stop to use Google technology as it has grow bigger than Yahoo! website. It is an amazing step for Google. They started with no one but their friends using Google, but now almost everybody love to use Google as their primary search engine.

       Google was started as an implementation from the PhD thesis of both the founder. They write a thesis about how to search information accurately and quickly. They call this technology as “PageRank”. Their success was contributed from the difference they offer from the same kind of product from their competitors that is accuracy and quickness. They don’t follow the trend of currently popular search engine as Yahoo! but they try to differentiate their own, by making a new innovation to search engine. The main difference is the layout of the page. The layout of Google is so simple that I like it very much, a plain white with the search box directly in the center, no advertisement, no weather forecast, and no other thing that may hinder the person who want to search for information. They can win over their competitors on the sole base of the main attraction of their product that can’t be found as good as theirs in any other competitors, that is their speed and accuracy. I personally use Google when I’m searching for information.

Source:

Chandra, H.(2008). Marketing untuk Orang Awam®. Palembang, Indonesia :Maxicom.

New Macbook from Apple!!

Apple,one of the biggest computer manufacturer and also software manufacturer, has invented another new macbook.Macbook is a special notebook that used by everyone for designing.New Macbook is invented because it's big success in manufacturing the old macbook.

Does it has big differences with the old one?The answer is yes.Now it uses better and high performance graphic cards,and it is made by metal-chassis.It is made by single block aluminum.It is madewith environmentally friendly electronics announced that the new MacBook family also meets Energy Star 4.0, Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Gold and Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) environmental standards, and contains no brominated flame retardants.The LED now uses 30% less energy,so we can save more energy.It also uses Glass Multi-Touch gives the user almost 40% tracking area than the previous macbook.

So, how's that?Is it cool right?I want to see it too!!They say that it will be shown at the Jakarta Hall Convention Center later on 12nd November until 16th November.But it is only a rumor,can't be 100% sure.Let's Check it out later ok!!^^v

Source:
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=apple-presents-new-macbook-linuep-2008-10-14

I Believe in Rhett Butler

I now have another movie to add to my ever growing list of films that blew me away. The movie Gone with the Wind can only be best described with the word epic. I watched this movie in a span of three days as it lasted for 4 hours but if I wasn’t so busy with assignments, I probably would have watched it all at once. There was never a dull moment, in the 4 hour duration I did not once feel bored. Gone with the Wind which was made in 1939, tells the story of a strong willed but manipulative young woman named Scarlett O’Hara and her turbulent love affair with Rhett Butler a charming yet arrogant man set during the civil war and its aftermath. The story is told from the point of view of the white southern people. The film is a perfect combination of the drama, romance and war genres. Imdb.com summarized it as “The epic tale of a woman's life during one of the most tumultuous periods in America's history. From her young, innocent days on a feudalistic plantation to the war-torn streets of Atlanta; from her first love whom she has always desired to three husbands; from the utmost luxury to absolute starvation and poverty; from her innocence to her understanding and comprehension of life”. To this day, this movie is still considered to be one of the greatest and most popular films of all time.

As a huge movie buff, I have always been interested in looking up older movies, though I never thought to look this far back. However I am very glad I did. This film was really fun to watch, I loved the story line, the olden style dialogue as well as the scenery and the very handsome and charming Clark Gable who portrayed Rhett Butler. Part of the reason I like watching movies is so that I can discover great fictional characters that are unique and interesting to watch, both Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara fall into this category. I also had no idea that famous quotes such as “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” and “Tomorrow is another day” originated from this movie, I was pleasantly surprised. This film is definitely a must see for movie fans.

Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_With_the_Wind_1939
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/

My Eyesight is Getting Worse

Last week I went to Jakarta Eye Center to have my eyes examined. I decided to go there because I wasn’t feeling comfortable with my glasses. I eventually got dizzy if I wear the glasses for a long time. I was going there on Friday right after I finished my class at 9.30 am. I arrived at Jakarta Eye Center approximately at 10.30 am. Fortunately, it was still early that the place wasn’t crowded with patients. So I didn’t have to wait for too long to get my eyes examined.
First I got my glasses checked, then my eyes. How the doctor examined my eyes was so interesting. I had to place my eyes in front of a hole where there was a picture of a boat inside. To test my eyes’ ability to read, I had to read letters in slides. The letters were becoming smaller after I finished reading each slide.
The test result was a surprise to me. My right eye’s cylinder increased from 0.50 to 2.50 dioptries and the left one increased from 0.00 to 1.00. I was really worried when I knew the result. My eyesight is becoming worse and worse. Maybe that is because I have been spending most of my times in front my computer. So, take care of your eyes. Keep your eyes healthy because they are so precious for us.

Popcorn bullshit!

Last Monday, exactly at 17th October, We, class 01PBC were given task to bring interesting video about technology. One of my friend's groups brings the video about making popcorn using cell phones. The corn was placed on the center and surrounded by 4 cell phones on each side, and then the phone is called by the other person. Basically, it's like heating the corn using radiation caused by the phone. Amazingly, in the video the corn suddenly popped and turn into popcorn. Our lecturer was curious about this, so he brought the corn at his next lecture, exactly last Monday, and told us to try it. We tried it and nothing happen. We looked like a bunch of dumb people, trying to cook using cell phone. Unsatisfied with the result, I searched the internet to know more about this. After reading some sources, I realized that it is just a hoax. And it's simply scientifically impossible.

I hope you guys now realized why it didn't work. For those of you who haven't seen the video, you can find it on youtube. Have fun with it, but don't try it since it's useless.

Sources:
http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj6SZgbBuSQ

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00 second season is now available!!!

GUNDAM is the most famous anime series. In this October, the newest series, Gundam 00 released its second season. For the one who doesn’t know, Gundam 00 is a story set in a future earth and centered around “Celestial Being”, a private paramilitary force and their efforts to get rid the war in earth with a series of unique and highly advanced mobile suits (or robots) known as “Gundams”. The person who’s piloting the Gundam is called “Gundam Meister”. For Gundam lovers, you can’t miss this one.

The story for the second season is set four years after the first season, after the final battle between celestial being and UN forces. A new organization formed known as “A-LAWS” misuse the power and inhumane tactics to oppress freedoms, doctrines, and ideologies in the name of 'unity'. Because of that, the main character who survived the battle once again decided to fight with the Gundam.

The main characters of this series are still the same with Soran Ibrahim or his codename Setsuna F. Seiei and his friends, Tieria Erde, Allelujah Haptism and Lyle Dylandy or his codename Lockon Stratos. Lyle picks the same codename as his twin brother, Neil Dylandy who died in the first season. There are also some new characters that will make the story plot more interesting.

In this season each of the Gundam Meisters will use their new Gundams because the old ones were destroyed during the final battle in the first season. Setsuna’s Gundam, Exia is replaced with 00 (double 0) Gundam. Lockon’s Gundam, Dynames is replaced with Cherudim Gundam. Allelujah’s Gundam, Kyrios is replaced with Arios Gundam. And the last one Tieria’s Gundam, Virtue is replaced with Seravee Gundam.

This anime is created by Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino and directed by Seiji Mizushima. The character design will be made by Michinori Chiba and Yun Koga. Lots of people handled the mechanical design because that part is the main attraction of the movie. They are Hitoshi Fukuchi, Kanetake Ebikawa, Kenji Teraoka, Kunio Okawara, Naohiro Washio, Seiichi Nakatani and Takayuki Yanase. A rock band from Japan, UVERworld, will sing their song, “Hakanaku mo Towa no Kanashi” for the opening song in this anime. For the ending song, Chiaki Ishikawa will sing her song called “Prototype”

You can watch this anime streaming from the internet but most of the sites only have the 1^st episode. Just wait for a while, and the rest will be available. This anime is recommended for Gundam lovers and anyone who wants to see a new thrill of war and conflicts.

I haven’t watched the first episode but from what I saw in some anime sites, this anime is great and exciting. If you want to listen to the songs and want to know more, check out the sources that I used:

http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2008/10/05/gundam-00-second-season-01/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_00

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10157

Thank you!

My Cousin's Wedding Party

Today I attended my cousin’s wedding party in Gedung Angkasa Pura. The Party started at 7.00 pm. I left my home at 5.30 pm. After I arrived at the destination, the first thing I did was eating. There was a special room for the bride and bridegroom’s family. Inside I could see everyone was eating together. So I grabbed a plate then picked up the food on the table. Actually I have eaten at 5.00 pm because I was really starving after studying. I have had a plate of rice and a very big fried chicken which made me felt full, even before eating together with my family.
After finished eating, I went upstairs where I found the room where the party would be held. In the entrance I helped my sister welcoming the guests. We had to be responsible for the guests’ book. Our task was to tell the guests to fill the guests’ book and give them coupon for a souvenir which can be retrieved after the party ended. We were very busy welcoming the guests that were so many. At the end of the party I met my elementary school teacher. I felt really nostalgic when I met her. We were having a chat until my mother called me because I was going to have a family photo with the bride and bridegroom. Then I have to serve the guests who wanted to take the souvenirs. Today is a very exhausting day. I arrived at home at 10.00 pm and I am so sleepy. But this is a really precious experience that I involved in helping my cousin’s wedding party.

OOPArts

OOPArts stands for Out - Of - Place - Artifacts, historical, archaeological, or palaentological things those were discovered in very, almost impossible location because of the source of place and time. A term made by Ivan T. Sanderson. Here are some examples.

The Crystal Skulls. Why with "s" because researchers found 13 skulls with almost same and alike pattern. The interesting side is they were found in ruins of Mayan and Aztec civilization. And they were made really perfect, even to the hollow part of a human skull. Researchers found that the skull was carved against the natural axis of a crystal. It means that it was carved with not taking the orientation of crystal's molecular symmetry and it should be shattered. Also they found no scratches indicates that the skull was made with metal instruments.

The hieroglyph patterns on Eygptian temple's wall at Abydos . There are a helicopter-like pattern and an airplane-like pattern. Are Eygptians had ever seen planes and helicopters? Did not the first plane ever made a successful flight was by the Wright Bros.? Where they had seen things like that?

The Baalbek Stone from Lebanon. One of the stone is weigh about 2.4 million pounds. No ordinary crane can move or even lift it. According to some researchers, the only way to move it is by anti-gravity instrument. What the heck they had anti-gravity instruments back there?

A Piri Reis's map from 1513. Piri Reis is a commander of Turki's sea army. He collected maps from around the world and made this map. The map shows the west side of Africa, east side of South America, and north side of Antarctic. Well, Antarctic is not found until 1820 by Russian expecition, Mikhail Lazarev and Fabian Gottlieb. That is about 300 years before Antarctic was found. And the map shows the soil of Antarctic, not covered with ice. Today we can see the real shape of Antarctic with sonar and satellite technology. The map showing the Antarctic exactly like Antarctic showing with sonar. And according to some experts, Antarctic last defrost was in year 4000 BC. I think the Antarctic part was from the maps he collected, not drew by himself, but how suppose the poeple before him created maps? Even they knew how to draw, how can they see Antarctic? Using ships? The first ship ever found is from 10,000 years ago. And they are made of wood until 19th century. How can you venture into Antarctic territory with wooden ships while Titanic, which made from metal even sunk because hitting an iceberg?

Temple of Hathor in Eygpt. Hathor is the goddess of fertility and cows. There is hieroglyph that looks like a model of lamp. Here is the mystery. In Greek and Rome, they use torch (not torch with battery but fire) to lighten their temples and buildings so there are black patches of burn on the wall. But in Eygptian pyramid there are no black patches on the wall. Even if they carry the torch, the ceiling will had the black patches. Just for addition, there are some experts made the same model and it works! Did they really have lamps back there?

Source :
http://www.ooparts.nl/
http://dhammacitta.org/forum/index.php?topic=4980.0
http://www.s8int.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Maury Show - 15 Years Old Has Had Sex Over 300 Times!!

When I was watching some videos on www.Youtube.com, I found an interesting named Maury Show, which is a syndicated American television show hosted by Maury Povich, created along the same lines as The Jerry Springer Show. Episodes usually deal with issues of sexual infidelity, paternity test result, unusual illnesses or makeovers, or parenting. This episode title was about a 15 years old girl who has had sex over 300 times.

Her name is Victoria. She wanted to have a baby so she has had sex over 300 times with over 15 men. Moreover, she has done it in public place over 100 times and also 3 times in her mother’s room. No one could stop her until she’s got a baby. Her mother, named Vicki, was worried her daughter would end up dead if Victoria continued having unprotected sex. Even though some audiences mocked Victoria, she still didn’t change her mind to have a baby.

Unfortunately, the video is too short so I can’t see the ending. Then I browse Youtube video again to watch the continuation of Victoria’s story. I found in the video that Victoria was being rehabilitated. Finally, Victoria decided to change her mind. She said that, “Having a baby wasn’t the best thing for me.”

 

Source :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdJ49ItMnc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lZ26FLGwKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa80DRpKQPg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytF3Eqy2_Dg&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Show

Monkey Study

While listening to This American Life which is a very interesting radio program which you can listen to online, I came across a very interesting subject. It was about an experiment on monkeys which could prove that love from parents was important to an infant’s growth. Could you even believe that they ever doubted this fact? There was indeed a time when the psychological establishment, pediatricians and the government believed that loving your own child was dangerous. The reason for this was that at the time they didn’t know how bacteria spread and observed that children who were picked up/carried by someone often acquired more infections. Another reason was that scientist could not measure love and therefore did not believe it existed. Psychologists also argued that a child who was given less affection would become a better human being.

The public also believed this theory, until Harry Harlow came along and decided to prove them wrong. Between 1953 and 1958, Dr. Harlow conducted an experiment where he took a baby monkey away from its birth mother replacing it with 2 fake mother monkeys one made out of soft cloth and the other made from wires. A bottle was fitted into the wire monkey to feed the baby. However the young monkeys preferred to cling to the cloth mothers especially when they were scared and would only stay with the wire models long enough to get their food. When the babies were around the cloth mother it would explore more and was more confident. This proved that they needed more than just food from their mothers; they required contact and comfort in order to develop important characteristics.

Harlow convinced people that what bonds a parent and a child is more than the need for food and that a parent’s love for a child was essential for the child’s key development.

Sources:
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1204
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhharl.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_F._Harlow

My Grandfather’s Funeral

Just a few days ago, my grandfather passed away because of his sickness. He was buried in Solo. Before the burial there was some kind of funeral ceremony. My grandfather used to work in the Air force so the funeral was also done using the military way. Even if my family do feel sad because of it at beginning, we all then were able to manage. We all believe that my grandfather will have a better life with God in heaven. So, instead of feeling sad, I was able to learn something from his funeral ceremony.

Firstly, I learn about how military funeral ceremony was done. There were a speech done by a commander and some marching. It was attended by some members of the army and also some veteran. But one thing that caught my attention was the gunshot. Some members of the army were also shooting their guns to some kind of escorting my grandfather to his last resting place. The sounds of the gunshots were unexpectedly so loud. I never have expected it to be that loud so that I didn’t plug my ears. At the time I realize that I need to plug y ear the gunshots have over. It was too late.

The other thing that drew my attention at that time was someone that suddenly asked this question to one of my grandfather’s neighbours, “Why didn’t they buried a holy bible along with the body?”. To answer this question that neighbour said that holy bible is for living people to read not for dead people. Hearing that I suddenly thought that I actually never thought about something like that. I never pay attention to such a thing. I also thought about whether or not that neighbour’s answer was true. And I came to a conclusion that it is true. A bible is for us to read so that it can became some kind of guidance to our lives and also increases our knowledge about God. Since a dead person can no longer read anything so why should they need a bible? After all, after we die, we can meet with God directly so we can ask him if we have any question. Don’t you think so??

 

2008 THIESS BALI 10’s RUGBY TOURNAMENT

The Thiess Bali 10's Rugby Tournament are a tournament that gathers 16 club from indonesia and abroad to compete for the cup. The competition includes the indonesian cup, that compete the teams from indonesia for the cup. Rugby in Indonesia are getting improve every year. This year there are 6 teams that are compete for the indonesian cup. Those teams are tha Jakarta Banteng, the Karakas, the Kotekas, the Sengata Hornbils, Bali stiff chili and the sumbawa nagas. The indonesian cup were won by the kotekas. I was really upset, because i played in the game against them, and they really play dirty. They are tend to punch the enemy in a ruck, which make me very pissed off. In the game between the Bentengs and the kotekas, a fight almost set off. One of my team mates were really angry of the way they play and try to start a fight, but the referee stop it so no harm done.
Other than the Indonesian cup, we were also competing for the cup, plate, bowl, shield and jug. It sort of the divition of the competition, the cup is the main divition, the plate is second divition and so on. My team the Jakarta Bantengs were the runner up for the bowl competition. But it was ok to lose in the final. We were beaten by a team from Australia, the Liendfield Barbarians. But we were playing really well against them, we hold them in the first half but run out of gas in the second. But stil, we can still be happy with the way we play against them. They were having problem getting trough the defence despite the significant diffrence in size.
The whole competition were really fun, we play in this amazing sport club called the canggu club that have wonderful sporting facilities. And i felt very greatful to be able to take part in this competition. There were some celebrities that also playing. Like Mike Lewis, if you go to senayan city, he is the only male model for senayan city. Andrew White also took part in the competition, he is my team mate in jakarta banteng. And Tamara Blezinsky also spotted in the spectator area.
The competition were really tiring. We play 6 games in 2 days, it really exaust us a lot. But i come home with pride of being the runner-up of the bowl competition. I really looking forward for the next tournament in bali next year. Hopefully next year, the bantengs could win the indonesian cup.

Traffic Jam !!!

I really hates the traffic jam in Jakarta! especially when it's more than 5 PM in the afternoon, the traffic is horrible. Unfortunately, We have a schedule in monday which we are dismissed at 5 PM. At that time, when I leave the campus and wanted to enter the highway since my house is located in Kelapa Gading, the road is already crowded by many cars which makes my car stuck in the highway and will last for at least 1 hour 30 minutes until I reach my house. I know that at that time it's the time when people go back from their work. But I was wondering what are the polices doing there, they should have reduce the traffic by controlling it. But it's no use. Because of this, when I have a schedule in the campus until 4 PM, I must leave quickly in order to avoid the traffic jam!

Tech Journal : The New Ipod Nano-Chromatic

Well this is something that i will dying to get my hands on for this month, the new Ipod nano-chromatic (actually half of me already died when my parents give me the green light to get one). The "Pod" that came out recently is a 9 cm in height, almost 4 cm in width, and only 6 mm in depth digital jukebox (with a 8 or 16 gig worth of music ) that can indulge you in a 24 hours journey to your own private music paradise (but if you sync your Pod with 2000 songs worth of recorded lecture that is another story). This Jukebox can play 2000 song, 7000 picture, 8 hours worth of movies for the 8 gigabyte or just double it for the 16 gigabyte big brother. The new thing about this new generation of IPod is it is motion sensitive if you shake it it will shuffle the music ( well talking about shaking to the groove ), and you can also change the screen orientation by turning the IPod to the side. It also have games (wohoo. great job Steve, Bringing the game to the Pod), the games is a special IPod games that also motion sensitive. The down part is IT ISN'T HERE YET(really frustrating) the guys (and gals) at Ibox say it will arrived soon(but they don't say how soon).

Source:

http://www.apple.com

Genuine vs Cracked

Do you always use genuine or original softwares? Or do you use cracked/mod softwares more often? Here I'll tell you the good and bad things of each side.
Genuine softwares are supporting updates and guaranteed, but unfortunately its relatively expensive. Cracked softwares are cheap or even free and it works as good as the original version, but it's not supporting updates and dangerous. Every time you connected to the Internet, usually the softwares will check for the updates and you can enjoy it you're using the original version but this is not apply to cracked version. If you do update the cracked software, it won't work anymore since it's fixed in the updates, moreover it can cause the system to crash. I ever used the cracked windows xp on my desktop pc and when I install the updates then reboot the system, the only things that I can see is black/blank. Later on, I know why it was crashed, it's because the cracked version is not compatible with the updates. In windows vista, this problem is often known as "Blue Screen". If you have problems with your genuine software, you can just call the customer service or e-mail them the problems and they'll help you, no charges, except the telephone bill I guess. In cracked things, you should be careful. You can't contact the customer services, except the one who cracked it and I doubt they'll help you. Sometimes, there are bad crackers too. They include the malicious programs such as virus, worm, and trojan in the software.
I have many bad experiences using cracked softwares. So, I recommend you guys to use the genuine one if you can afford it.

--J4mBi--^^

Do you know Jambi? Have you heard about Jambi? Maybe some people don't know much about Jambi. Jambi is my beloved hometown. I like Jambi better than Jakarta, although Jakarta is a big city. In Jambi, there is no traffic jam. Jambi didn't has so much malls and recreation places, but now Jambi is in the development province. Many malls and recreation places are built now in Jambi. Beside that, Jambi has so much delicious foods that are not too expensive. I have many best friends in Jambi, too. Actually, there are so many beautiful things that can describe about Jambi, but I can't describe it all now. If you interested, you can go to Jambi. I believed that you who want to visit Jambi will not lose in Jambi, even though you never go to Jambi before. Visit Jambi soon...^^v

Kidzu Bento.....Dissapointing !

Yesterday in the afternoon, Fahmi, Hartanto, and I decided to have lunch in Hoka-Hoka Bento at Senayan City. Actually I wanted to have lunch in canteen, but I remembered that canteen opens at 11.20 am, and it was still 11.00 am at that time. So I decided to go to Hoka-Hoka Bento with Hartanto and Fahmi.
About 11.05 am we arrived at Hoka-Hoka Bento and coincidentally met Bayu, who wanted to eat there too. Fahmi and Hartanto ordered their favorite hoka hemat. I forgot what Bayu ordered at that time. I surprised when I saw that kidzu bento, which wasn't there before, was available. I was really interested to try kidzu bento so I ordered kidzu bento 4. Unfortunately, they only had kidzu bento 1 and 2 which made me choose kidzu bento 2 with the price of 20.000 IDR. Kidzu bento 2 consist of rice, scrambled egg, a small chunk of chiken katsu, and two eggrolls. It has some "kacang polong" too. I really dissapointed when the cashier said that the Doraemon toy wasn't available. I only got a set of cutlery for kids. After that I sat beside Fahmi and began eating. The eggroll and chicken katsu tasted delicious as usual, but the "kacang polong" tasted awful, so I left it. I admit that the rice quantity was satisfying, but then I was dissapointed again. The scrambled egg was cold and tasteless. Actually scrambled egg was the one which made me interested to try kidzu bento because I really love scrambled egg. The kidzu bento's scrambled egg couldn't fulfill my expectations.
In my opinion kidzu bento is a bad choice to eat. I am sure that people buy kidzu bento because whether they are curious or they only want the Dorameon toy.

Twilight Series

Twilight is a series of four vampire-based fantasy/romance novels by author Stephenie Meyer. It follows the adventures of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenager who moves to Forks, Washington and finds her life turned upside-down when she falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen.

The four series are Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. These series is one of the most popular novels for young adults. 50 million copies have sold around the world. The series have been translated into over 20 different languages.

I recommended these four series for those who like novels. If some of you are so lazy to read and you still want to know the story you can get the Audiobooks of these series.

You can search for the free eBooks and Audibooks on the internet and forums.

Source :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(series)

Heroes Season 3

Good news for who love Heroes TV series from NBC. After almost one year waiting for the next season. Finally NBC have released new season of Heroes in their channel. This season got more intriguing and thrilling stories. Many new powers and new characters come up in this season. Heroes and villains also come out in more interesting and unpredictable way. For who doesn’t has NBC channel in their house. You can download it for free at http://www.indowebster.web.id/f44/heroes-season-3-a-6300/. Please don’t report me to the authorized because I can be jailed by giving you free copyrighted film.

Planetshakers

Planetshakers is one of the most leading Christian youth movement that began as an annual conference and grew into an international ministry in Australia. Some example of what they have done are conferences, city church, college, music, Planetshakers TV and many more.
Their works have already made many changes in Christian youth life, but I think for us who lived far away from Australia, we can only enjoyed their work in their music.Their music is very cool for youth and teenager. By listening to these kind of music we are not only just worship our God but also we can have some fun.
Planetshakers has been making music for about 8 years. They have already produced approximately 19 official albums. They also have several underground albums (which mixed by their fans and not produced officially). Most of their official albums recorded live at conference or concert. One of the greatest singer in Australia, Guy Sebastian (winner of 2003 Australian Idol), was also a part of Planetshakers band for several years, taking both lead and backup vocal parts on 2002 and 2003 albums and conferences.
Good news for those who doesn’t like to spend money in buying original music. You can also download some of their tracks for free at MySpace. Honestly, I also get their music for free. I search it in many forums and download it for free. I know that piracy is a crime. But who cares.

Sources :
http://www.myspace.com/planetshakersband
http://www.planetshakers.com/
http://www.planetshakers.com/music/discography.php

From "Rain Bringer" to "Black-out Bringer"

Hi, guys!!! Where did you all go last holiday!? I went home to rest and play with my sister. By the way, here is another weird experience from me when I was in Pontianak.

I went home by plane at 25 of September in the afternoon and of course I am beat from all that travel and went straight home to rest. The next day, I went to my cousin house with my sister to play with them. When I arrived, I went inside their house and talked a little bit and suddenly the electricity went off for about 2 hours or so. So I only could play with them for just some time and went home. We played game of course so we need electricity. I did not feel satisfied so the next day, I went there again. With my sister. Well, the first 1 hour no black-out, but after that it went off again until we went home. I was really furious at that time. It was on and on for about a week or so with different schedule and different length of time. I was almost bursting with anger and fury. Whew, it is not easy to maintain the anger, you know. After that for 2 days, no black-out. I was already happy but... the next day it was off again!!! Argh!!! Well, I still bring rain when I came to their house. So last holiday, I got another title as "Black-out Bringer".

Hey guys, do you get any black-outs during the holiday?

JA Titan

JA Titan is a web based game of business simulation. This game is one of the best business simulations that are widely used on the world. Classes used the game to enhance the student with a simulation regarding business. The game basically simulates you as a CEO of a holo-generator company if I’m not mistaken, that you must compete with others to reach the best position. There are many aspects in the game that are being counted as the performance index, it is the profit, market share, retained earning, E.T.C. This performance index is used for ranking the entire player that play with you. It is basically playing but we are also learning how to make a business decisions. We have to deal with the amount of production, sales, order, and matching demand with supply, even to research a new breakthrough to the industry. It is a fun game, but frustrating for the first time.

 

Binus University International held this JA Titan business competition called simbiz to high schools students last year, and they are going to hold it again on the same place next year in January. I’ve tried to play it for 5 times and I always lose the competition. I always ranked 8^th out of 8 players, which the other player are computers with an easy difficulty level. What a shame to me. Then I tried to contact my friend that won last year simbiz competition, I dug up all the strategies I can get from him and then I played for the last time for that day. I amazingly got rank 3 out of 8 players after having such a great straight losses. It is an interesting game, I recommend it to everyone as it is not only a game, but it is also about your decision in approaching business problem. It is a business simulation, better messed up in business simulation than messing up in the future using a real money.

Source :

titan.ja.org/

Counter Strike

Counter Strike is a first-person shooting player game. This game is originated from a Half Life modification. There are many versions of this game, for example Counter Strike: Condition Zero, Counter Strike: Source, Counter Strike version 1.6, etc. At first, Counter Strike can only be played by using LAN game, which means you have to go to a game center and play only with the people inside the game center. Nowadays, even though you are at home, you can play Counter Strike with other people using internet.

The Gameplay

First, the players have to choose which team they are going to be. In counter Strike, the players are divided into two teams, terrorist and counter-terrorist. Their main objective is to eliminate the opposing team. Each team also have secondary objective also. Their secondary objective depends on the map. For instance, if the map starts with letter cs, that means the counter-terrorist have to save the hostage. Another example is if the map starts with letter de, the terrorist have to plant the bomb in the bomb site.

Before the round begins, each team is given a few second to buy their weapon and equipment. Each weapon also has different price and ability. You have to choose the weapon that fit with your skill. Different weapon, different also how to use them.

Overall, Counter Strike is one of the most interesting games I've ever played. You'll never get bored play this game because you'll meet different people with different skill every time you play. So, you can practice your skill to be the greatest player. Well, if you've never played this game, you should try it!

source :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_strike

World becomes more dangerous place nowadays don't you think?

As you can see on the news, the world is facing a lot of problems. If we see from financial side, now we are facing monetary crisis. And now US is also hit by that issue. We Indonesian can see the impact from it. Now 1 USD worth above 10.000 rupiahs. That will affect the price of course, especially import product.

If we see from health side, the last surprising news are the milk from china that colored using melamine. Of course you'll be poisoned if you drink or eat something that contain it. And not just that, there are a lot more food poisoning cases. Even dried fish also become risky. The merchant often use garment coloring for the fish to make it look fresh. Formalin issue is also hasn't 100% clear yet. So you should be really careful choosing your foods.

From environmental view, as we do know, we are facing the global warming. It's really hard to be maintained. Many electronic products using freon which can destroy the ozone. In this case, the most problems in Indonesia is air conditioner. It's like we can't live without it, especially if we live in Jakarta. You know how hot it is not using air conditioner. Let's try our best to conserve the use of air conditioner to maintain the environment.

Actually there's more problem in the world such as increasing crime rate etc, but I think this three issue is the most things we need to consider...

Sources:

http://www.idx.co.id/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7628622.stm

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

PSP Games!!Where Are You??

Playstation Portable or PSP for short.Anybody play PSP?Yes some of you must be play it,although not everybody.PSP is one of the handheld games that made by Sony.But have you ever wondered about PSP's games?It's development is very low,it's not like a Nintendo's handheld which is a Nintendo DS or Nintendo Dual Screen.Nintendo DS can launch up to 20 games a week,but how about PSP,it only launch 4-5 games per month,maybe less than that.The worse news is,because there is no games for PSP,PSP is trying to input all of the Playstation 1 game into a PSP,which means we can play Playstation 1 Games in PSP.Maybe some of you think it's good and cool,we can paly Playstation 1 games using portable handheld.But I think it's so disgusting,because PSP should provide more games,so people will be interested to but it,otherwise I think PSP's rating will be low.How about you guys?Do you think that PSP should provide new games?I think yes,so the rating will be higher right?^^

Programming Principles !!

Yes,all of the students in my class must have known about this subject that we learn together in this Computer Science class.Of course this is one of the most difficult subject in Computer Science.In this subject,we will learn how to make programs that will make life easier and useful for everybody.We got Charles Lim for the lecturer and I admit it,he is very genius and got an outstanding brain especially for programming.

No need to think so far,I've been so confused especially for the homework that had been given for this holiday.I'm always be the one that left behind by the others.I think I'm the most stupid one for this lesson especially.Everybody think that the homework assignment is so easy(especially Steven Debater and Oky,maybe Yuli,Monica,Jason,Virgin,Leon also(OMG these guys really programming freak))I only can do the easiest part and that's all,but when i ask them,they say the assignment is so easy(I can't believe myself here!!).I feel I'm the most stupid student in this class.This is only the first semester,I remember some of the mentors like Bhavna,Alvin,and HK said that the first semster is really the easiest one but the third and fourth semester are far more difficult,and I really feel terrible in the first semester.I am thinking again,how about the rest semester?

I never hope to be the best at programming principles subject,let's just hope I can pass it.I think it's really a bless for me.Especially because I'm the only Social Science Student here.Not only in Programming Principles,but in Computer Science Class also.Will I be able to survive here?Are there someone can help me to teach me so i can pass the Programming Principles class?I hope there are.Let's just pray for me then.Thank You.

Spore, the most sophisticated simulation game

Have you ever played a simulation game called The Sims? Or maybe some of you are fans of this game? Basically, we play as "sims" which represent humans and act like we people do such as eating, go to work, designing our home, socializing, dating, married and so on until the "sims" die. This game is developed by Maxis, which known as the best simulation game developer. Now Maxis has released a new game for PC called Spore. The official release date is on 5th September 2008 and 2 days later for US. I don't know when the official release date for Indonesia. Anyway if you want the game, you can order it from ebay.com or other online shops. It costs around 50 USD for the full version. But I suppose you can find this game on Mangga Dua Mall, much cheaper but not guaranteed...

You start this game by choosing a planet on a galaxy and create your own "creature". Don't worry about it though, it's not that hard designing the creature since you'll be using drag and drop features. And if you are too lazy for this part, you can just download or using default design. But this is the interesting part, you shouldn't skip this one. Trust me, its fun. First, you'll create a unicellular creature that live on the water and control them to find foods. Every time you eat, you'll get DNA point which can be used to add more parts to your creature, simply evolve your creature. Also your creature will get bigger every time you eat. After you reach certain point, you can evolve your creature to more advanced creature and live on the land. Later on, your creature will developed again into tribal stage, civilization stage and finally space stage.

On the tribal stage, you can outfit your creature, primitive style of course. Then on the civilization stage you can outfit them with more modern style. On the Civilization stage also, so must design your own city and vehicles. Interesting! No physic skill needed and you can create your own vehicles. Ever though using ramjet (airship engine) for your land vehicle? In Spore, it's possible. You can pour all your creativity and crazy imagination here. In Space stage, of course you will create your own spaceship. Really cool! I spend many hours designing these things. And another wonderful feature is, your creation can be shared online and of course you can browse the others as well. Just imagine if your creation become top download list. Amazing!

On the space stage, you can do many things. You can choose to your liking. You can be a conqueror, millionaire, planet artist, ecosystem stabilizer, traveler, etc. The main goal on this stage is you must reach the center of the galaxy. I haven’t reached there though. The galaxy is so big. Maybe it’s consist more than 1 million star systems and 4 million planets. See it and you’ll know it. It’s very hard to the center. And there is a guardian civilization that resides near the center. They’ll attack anyone that tries to reach the center.

Overall, this is another nice game that should be on your collection. Despite of many unsatified people because of security system which only allows you to install this game 3 times only.

You can get more information here:

www.spore.com

Sources:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/data/926714.html

http://catalog.ebay.com/Spore_014633153521_W0QQ_dmptZVideoQ5fGamesQ5fGamesQQ_fclsZ1QQ_pidZ53562833QQ_tabZ2QQ_trksidZp4295

Room Escape Games

In this last days of holiday, I have been playing room escape games a lot. They are so interesting to play, suitable for people who love challenges. The game is usually made by using macromedia flash, which requires you to install the flash player in order to play. In this kind of game, you play as a person who locked in a room. Your task is simply just to get out of the room. But it is not easy to get out of the room.
In the locked room there are a lot of items scattered all over there which you can find. Often some items are hidden and you have to check the room more carefully. Those items can be used to help you to get out from the room. The items, sometimes seem useless so that we don't pay attention of it. This was happened to me when I was playing a room escape game. It was really unimaginable that colored blocks, found in a trash can, can be used to input morse codes.
There are a lot of factors which can make us stuck in playing the game, such as, the room is not checked throughly, and we don't know how and where to use the items. But you don't have to worry about it since there are people who make hints or walkthrough for the game. If you think it is not fun to have hints from other people, just try to solve the puzzle by yourself.
This type of game is really challenging. Sometimes we have to "think outside of the box" to escape from the room. I am sure that you, who read this blog entry, are interested to play this kind of game. Don't worry because I will let you know where to find those games. You can try those two websites I mentioned below.

Room escape games webs worth to visit:
http://www.escapegames24.com/
http://www.fasco-csc.com/index_e.php

Mythbusters

In a comment about the contact lens story I mentioned Mythbusters. If you haven't seen it it's definitely worth a look. It's on Discovery Channel. They combine a bit of science with sometimes very funny attempts to prove or disprove common myths. Now, after 6 seasons, they've done hundreds of great experiments that sometimes involve blowing things apart. The two hosts, Jamie and Adam, are special effects creators. They're curious about whether certain rumors or "urban legends" are true or not. They don't always guess correctly, but they do many tests to try and answer questions from viewers. I submitted the question about contact lenses at a barbecue. I'm not sure if they will test it because it's a very popular show. Many people around the word submit ideas of things to try. We'll see... Here's the website if you'd like to learn more: http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/web/mythbusters/ or tune in!

Have you guys expirience "Ditindih Hantu" ?

Have any of you guys ever wake up from sleep and unable to move or to scream ? Indonesian refer this phenomena to called as "ditindih hantu". But, there is a completely logical and scientific explanation for this. They call it 'Sleep Paralysis'.
Why do suddenly write about this ? Because it happened to me last night. In the last 2 or 3 years i've been having this sleep paralysis about 2 or 3 times in a year. Sometimes it lasted only a couple of seconds but i remember there is this one time where it happen about a minute long. One minute is a long time when you can't move at all and your body fells like "kesemutan" everywhere. In the past, when this episode of sleep paralysis happen to me, i used to ask my friend about this and they say it is called "ditindih hantu". I dont really believe that, so i look it up in the internet and i found this explanation that answer my problem.
Sleep paralysis basically is a condtion in which an individual is strugling to do voluntary muscle movement despite being awake and aware. During this episode of sleep paralysis, an individual will strugle to move, it's like someone or something is holding you down. And during this episode of sleep paralysis an individual often suffer hallucination, in which they felt like there is a presence of an entity in the same room. Sleep paralysis often happens during process of 'falling asleep' or during proses of 'waking up'.
What causes sleep paralysis ? Well, there are still very little knowledge abou SP. But, one of the possible answer is the hormone. When an individual is asleep, the body release hormones that relaxes your muscle to prevent you from acting out your dream.If the hormone got release to fast, than the body will get paralyze before we went to sleep. And if the hormone are taking to slow to wear off, the body will still got paralyze although we already wake up.
Is sleep paralysis harmful ? No. In most cases, sleep paralysis are not harmful. The after effects may include a period of fright, followed by a period of restlessness. Occasionally, you may fear going back to sleep by worrying that it may occur again, but this can pass quickly. But, sometimes Sleep paralysis is sometimes associated with narcolepsy. This is a neurological condition in which a sufferer sleeps uncontrollably. There are also many people who experience Sleep Paralysis without having signs of narcolepsy. In severe cases where sleep paralysis happen at lease once a week for six month, medication maybe needed. Or you can just try to get enough sleep and exercise more, it should helo your sleeping paralysis. That is all from me about sleep paralysis. Thaks !

Heart of the Matter

Heart is an organ which consists of arteries to pass in and out the blood. Discipline and hard work are needed to keep your heart fit; especially avoiding many tasty substances and laziness are the ways of a heart-healthy lifestyle. We should not eat so much meat; only 10 percent of our diet is supposed to be made. A heart-healthy lifestyle should start from young because the increase fatty deposits in the heart’s arteries can start from childhood.

Fatty streaks can be found in the arteries of children as young as two years old. These fatty streaks are early signs of atherosclerosis (when fatty substances collect on the inner walls.). Such a build-up leads to coronary artery disease. The number of streaks increases with the number of risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure and obesity.

Those aged 35 and above are advised to go for a general health screening to check their cholesterol, blood pressure and sugar levels. Truncal obesity (belly fat) is deadly for the heart. Men’s waist should not measure more than 90 cm while women’s waist should not be more than 80 cm.

The trick to keep a heart-healthy lifestyle is to keep your weight down by having regular exercise and eat a healthy balanced diet.

Source:
The Jakarta Post Friday, October 3 2008 p.15;
http://www.healthywomen.org/healthtopics/atherosclerosis

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!

Do not use contact lenses when you and your family are in a BBQ party or other parties that is related with fire. There is a real story about it. A young 21 year-old man was wearing contact lenses during a BBQ party. When he was roasting, he stared at the fire very long. After some couple of minutes, he started to scream out loud and jumped like a crazy man. People around him did not know why he suddenly acts strangely. When he was sent to a hospital nearby, the doctor said that he could not see anymore as his contact lenses from plastic were burnt. So if care, please inform to your friend and other people…..

Siamese Twins

Two joined Nile Talapia fish called “Siamese Twins”, was found in Bangkok. The fish which share parts of their skin and stomach are eight months old. The bigger fish tends to protect the smaller one from harm while the smaller one looks for food at the bottom of the big fish.

Source:
The Jakarta Post Saturday, October 4 2008 p.12

I HATE BANDUNG!!

Where have you been in these holidays?Do any of you went out of Jakarta?Do any of you went to Bandung last week?If some of you don't know what happen in Bandung let this blog tells you what had happened in Bandung a week ago.

I used to love Bandung.Bandung was a good and peaceful city,where there was fresh air,cheap Shopping Center, cheap food,cheap inn and everything else,that is what I think usually,but a week ago,I realized that Bandung is completely different from what I think.It has a very thick pollution,so it's so difficult to breath when we are in a big road.Why it has a very thick pollution?Because there are a lot of vehicles there.So it's very crowded!!I couldn't go to Lembang that day,It's not moving at all for 3 hours,so I decided to turn back and stay at the Hotel,Then if you see it clearly,most of them are the vehicles from Jakarta,I can see it from their license number,because the first letter starts with B.OMG!Now I know why Bandung is very hot and has a thick pollution too..It's obviously because most of the citizens from Jakarta go to Bandung during this holiday.Not only the city,but the hotel cost are higher now,much higher,they raise it around 60%,so the hotel cost really expensive.

Thinking from these condition,Bandung is not as big as Jakarta,but a lot of Jakarta's citizens went to Bandung so Bandung is fully crowded.So I think it's Jakarta's citizens fault too.So it's not completely Bandung's fault.So don't hate bandung OK!!^^v

Waterboom... so crowded during holiday!

Saturday 4 October, I went to Waterboom at PIK. It was so crowded there, many people came starting from childs to adults. The ticket price for one person was 160.000 IDR but there was a special promotion from HSBC which we will got 2 tickets by paying 1 only. Inside the water park it was so crowded, we had to queue in order to play the ride. During the fasting period, I also went there. It's more clean and only less of people visit it. They also offer us cheaper price, by using HSBC we only paid 80.000 IDR and got 3 entrance tickets !! But during the Lebaran holiday.. it's more crowded and dirty. We have a lots of fun there !! and finally we went home when the park was closed ^^

Warriors Orochi = Dynasty Warriors + Samurai Warriors

Warriors Orochi is one of the action games created by Koei, where the heroes from Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors are brought together in one game. Maybe most of you have already known those two games. They were so famous that most of the gamers have played them. The gameplay of Warriors Orochi is still the same, where you control an ancient hero from China or Japan to wipe out all of the enemies. I don't know why, but this kind of gameplay is getting popular since Koei released Dynasty Warriors 3. About the story, I think it is far distorted from the original one, as this is a crossover game. The story is about the Serpent King Orochi who wants to conquer the entire land where the heroes are met by time and space distortion. So the heroes must work together in order to get to their original world by defeating Orochi.
It is a bit funny to find the heroes from two different countries argue in English. There are some awkward moments when two heroes whose face are alike meet and make fun of each other. In a stage near the end of the game, leaders of the three kingdoms: Wu, Wei, and Shu work together to fight the Serpent King Orochi. Some people might think,"Cool!"; While the others think,"What the heck is this?" Most of game reviewers think that this game's purpose is just for fan service.
In my opinion this game is worth to be bought. It has a lot of new features which we haven't experienced in the previous Warriors series games. Although the story is a bit strange and the heroes are out of character, the gameplay can cover it up.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_Orochi

Computer Journal : Nice Month for Programs

Wew. I like October. So many programs i've been waiting coming out like Photoshop CS4, Red Alert 3, Far Cry 2, Saint Row2, and Fallout 3. So many program so little budget. I like to try the new Photoshop i've been wondering what Adobe have in store for me, i hope more toys and gadgets for me to use. I think this will be a month full of games for me. I hope I won't forget i'm a student at Binus (much work and homework). So do you have your game you've been waiting this month?

Check http://www.gamespot.com/

Public Blackout

A couple of days ago, my family and i decided to try a new chinese restaurant called Golden Leaf which had just opened at Kelapa Gading. The restaurant was quite full, about 90 percent of the tables were occupied. Half way through our dinner the lights suddenly went out, at first we though it was just a normal blackout and that it affected the whole area, but when i looked outside i could see that we were the only ones experiencing it. When I put my attention back to the restaurant I realised that people had started panicking and were pushing and shoving their way out the main entrance. My family and I were not quite sure of what was happening and didn't know what to do, we didn't want to leave as we had not yet paid for our food, then I heard somebody say there was a fire, so we decided to stand outside just to be safe. I saw that many people had already rushed to their cars and taken off, without paying for their dinners. We, along with a number of other families waited outside for a short while, the lights then came back on and after the staff had assured us that their was nothing wrong and that everything was fixed we went back inside to finish our food. Whact actually happened was that the fuse had blown and perhaps some people had seen some sparks blow out.

While finishing off our dinner, my family discussed what they thougt had happenned. My sister thought there had perhaps been a hostage situation. After seeing a man out side running away, my brother thought a crime of some sort had been commited. I was the least inventive as I only thought that there had been fire. I over heard the next table's conversation and they thought that there could have been a bomb attack. I looked around and saw that alot of people came back, but also that their were a lot of empty tables which still had food which meant that quite a number of people left without paying. I wonder how much loss the restaurant suffered. This goes to show how much past events such as the bomb attacks have affected the way we think and how paranoid some of us have become.

What is "Anime"??

ever heard some titles like "Naruto"," Bleach", "Gundam" or "Samurai X" or anything like that..??? yap that's what you call "anime". Just as the title said, Now I will explain about anime.

What is "anime"?
Anime is animation in Japan and considered Japanese animation in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917. Anime is widely viewed in Japan and is now widely viewed throughout the world. Anime itself is considered a form of limited animation. Anime can be broadcasted either through television or released directly to video, which are often called OVAs or OAV (Original Animation Video).

Anime often covers more serious topics than the typical cartoon. In Japan, people of all ages watch anime. Most shows and movies are centered for kids, adolescents, or young adults, but there are also many anime that are made for the older crowd, even businessmen. There are many genres in anime with basic categories like comedy, romance, action, drama. There are also anime with content meant specifically for boys, girls, and bussinessman. Anime can be hand drawn or computer-assisted. It is used in television series, films, video, video games, commercials, and internet-based releases, and represents all genres of fiction.


The art of Anime
Probably the most readily apparent differences between Japanese animation and other places is the artwork. Huge eyes, brightly colored hair, well-endowed female characters, and exaggerated emotional expressions and gestures are typical of anime style. Early anime artists were largely influenced by early Disney characters like the Seven Dwarves from Snow White, Mickey Mouse, and the non-Disney Betty Boop. All of these characters had large eyes, and Betty Boop was certainly well-endowed


Word Usage
In Japan, the term does not specify an animation's nation of origin or style; instead, it is used as a blanked term to refer to all forms of animation from around the world. In English, dictionary sources define anime as "a Japanese style of motion-picture animation" or "a style of animation developed in Japan".Non-Japanese works that borrow stylization from anime is commonly referred to as "anime-influenced animation" but it is not unusual for a viewer who does not know the country of origin of such material to refer to it as simply "anime". Some works are co-productions with non-Japanese companies, such as the Cartoon Network and Production I.G series IGPX or Ōban Star-Racers, which may or may not be considered anime by different viewers.
In English, anime can be used as a common noun ("Do you watch anime?") or as a suppletive adjective ("The anime Guyver is different from the movie Guyver"). It may also be used as a mass noun, as in "How much anime have you collected?" and therefore is not pluralized as animes.

Watching anime outside Japan
Anime is widely available outside of Japan although only select stories are available; usually only the most commercially successful ones can be found at the local video rental store. There are other channels to satisfy your anime appetite, however. People trade fansubs and there are also anime viewing societies. There are many anime societies on the world wide web today, you might be able to find one near you.


Culture in Anime
Understanding the culture of origin is important in truly understanding what is going on in a just about any art from a particular people be it Japanese anime or manga, or American sitcoms (situation comedies). If you have watched any amount of anime you, along with most people living outside of Japan, probably noticed that the characters behave differently and things in general (houses, transportation, eating, sleeping, greeting, and much, much more) are a bit different from what you are used to. Some of the differences are because of strange artistic visions, but most of the differences are a direct result of culture. Anime is an art form, and as art, it expresses many things about Japan and its people.




too bad most of the people (including my mom) thinks that anime is only for children. Anime is for everyone. Sometimes anime can teach us about the way of life. If you have spare time, why don't you try to watch one..??

for more complete information, check out the sources that I use:
http://www.umich.edu/~anime/intro.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime
http://www.animecorner.com/opinions_whatisanime.htm

thanks... ^^