Welcome to civilisation!

Specially dedicated to those morons who thinks that world consist of one color: WHITE!

What era are you living in? moron era or the modern era? Modern Era consist of various of colored people: where the US president is BLACK, the Swedish minister is BLACK, your lunch menu is often THAI, your daughter in law is ASIAN, your boss is CHINESE, etc, etc..Even winter time nowadays is no longer white, but there are plenty of colors created from many sources (such as jacket colors, dogshits and else).

I'm so sick and tired of listening to those people who lives behind the times, how they judge other people from their colors, and which part of the world other people came from. Taking an example when I introduce myself as an Indonesian, a darling blond's first question was: ARE YOU GUYS POOR? IS YOUR FAMILY POOR? HOW DO YOU EAT? DO YOU HAVE MICROWAVE? DO YOU HAVE TV? Oh darling, we have a lot of things that you haven't seen in this world.

Recently, a friend of mine told me how irritated she was, when she returned to her office and her colleague greeted her like this: "ahh.. Welcome to civilisation!!" Dear moron, you live in a country where buldings aren't suppose to be taller than a tree. While in my friend's country, sky scrappers buildings that built of world's famous architects are everywhere.

It is not a guarantee that the reason why an Asian girl together with a western because she is a gold digger, or need a ticket and visa to be able to live in a western country, as a lot of expats in Asia implies. There is something that called LOVE, darlings, have you heard of that word??

Why there are still so many idiots living in this new era, and judging others by their skin colors? Why their mind isn't expanding like their huge ass? Don't you know that colors that makes the rainbow looks so beautiful?

WELCOME TO CIVILISATION, WHERE THERE ARE NO RASIST ARE WELCOME!!

The Question is "So You Want To Be A Writer?"

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.

unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.

if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.

if you're doing it for money or fame,
don't do it.

if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.

if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.

if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.

if you're trying to write like
somebody else,
forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.

the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to sleep over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.

unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.

unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

by Charles Bukowski

Just Chit chAt NothinG elsE

Kebanyakan dari kita mungkin tidak menyadari, bahwa dalam keseharian kita berinteraksi dengan menggunakan lebih dari satu paradigma secara simultan. Ambil contoh saat berkomunikasi menggunakan telpon selular. Kita saling telpon atau berkirim sms menggunakan paradigma decimal (1 sampai 10), setelah itu suara dan teks sms tersebut ditranfer dengan menggunakan paradigma biner (0 dan 1, atau on dan off). Lalu seandainya dalam percakapan tersebut kita membuat janji untuk bertemu pada satu hari tertentu (dengan menggunakan paradigma minggu 1 sampai 7), pada jam tertentu yg kita hitung berdasarkan paradigma lain yang juga berbeda (1 sampai 12), yang juga masih ditambah dengan paradigma biner (am atau pm). Perbedaan paradigma itu terasa wajar saja, malah menfasilitasi, mengakselerasi komunikasi.

Seperti diskusi2 selintas selama ini, berdasarkan ide (dugaan) yang dilontarkan oleh mas johannes bahwa dulunya science, art dan magi itu merupakan suatu kesatuan. Tidak dipermasalahkan dimana science bermula, dimana art berakhir dan dimana magi menghantui.Tidak ada sekat karena sekat-sekat tersebut yang justru membuat kita sekarang gagal memahami teknologi dan pencapaian peradaban di masa silam. Ambil contoh, kosmologi science semata apakah mampu menjelaskan mengenai bagaimana orang dulu bisa membangun sebuah candi yang bernama prambanan, bagaimana sebuah keris dapat memiliki kekuatan atau efek terhadap alam, atau bagaimana sebuah tarian bedoyo ketawang mampu menampilkan kesatuan gerak manusia dan alam.

Kalau saja kita bersedia untuk mengkaji secara langsung artefak-artefak luhur tersebut, tanpa mempermasalahkan sekat-sekat tersebut, mungkin sistem pengetahuan dan teknologi masa lampau tersebut bisa kita jangkau kembali, dan diaplikasikan sesuai konteks sekarang. Mengkaji artefak secara langsung mungkin harus dilakukan melalui dua cara. Satu, melepaskan terlebih dahulu judgemet dan presuposisi yang selama ini sering dilekatkan pada artefak-artefak budaya. misalnya label musrik, porno, chauvinistic, primitif. Kedua, sekat-sekat antara science, art dan magi perlu diangkat terlebih dahulu. Sesuatu disebut magi, sesuatu disebut mistik karena memang kebanyakan orang tidak memiliki pengetahuan mengenainya, ditambah lagi faktor bahwa pengetahuan tersebut memang saat ini sangat terbatas.

Back to the thing itself, pahami budaya sebagaimana adanya.

Kebanyakan orang justru sibuk meributkan mana yang kosmologi science, mana yang kosmologi magi, dan mana yang kosmologi art, dan pada titik ekstrem masing-masing harus menentukan teritorialnya sendiri-sendiri. Padahal justru itu jebakannya. Tokh..seperti ilustrasi tentang telpon seluler di atas, sebenarnya dalam prilaku komunikasi kita ternyata sangat mampu menggunakan sekian macam paradigma sekaligus. Ya kan?

..magic is the bastard sister of science (frazer)..
by diah

lelah

Kata itu yg sering hinggap di kepala ku akhir2 ini. Aku lelah melihat tingkah polah mereka. Aku lelah melihat kebohongan2 mereka.Aku lelah mereka2 topeng apa yg mereka pakai hari ini. Semua itu membuatku lelah dengan semua sandiwara yg mereka mainkan. Sandiwara yg penuh dengan kepura2an dan kemunafikan.

Tidak adakah lagi kejujuran, ketulusan dan benaran yg hakiki. Begitu mahalkah harganya sehingga mereka lebih memilih kepura2an dan memakai berbagai macam topeng untuk mengelabui lawannya.
Tidak adakah lagi kesejatian diri yg ditampilkan apa adanya,begitu menakutkankah kesejatian itu.

Entahlah,setiap orang pasti punya jawaban dan alasan untuk membenarkan semua tindakannya walaupun mereka sebenarnya tahu dan hati kecil mereka berontak dan mengatakan bahwa salah untuk melakukan itu semua.

Sampai kapan aku kuat mempertahankan diriku yg sejati dan tidak terimbas dengan semua ini. Semoga arusnya tidak terlalu kuat sehingga aku mampu bertahan dengan semua daya upayaku yg tersisa dan tidak berubah menjadi bagian dari mereka.

Someone say that I should stay the same and never change, just the way I am.

by Ke2

LOVe

Today is the day to celebrate LOVE. And I want to write something about LOVE

When we LOVE somebody,everything seem so perfect...so beautiful...nothing less.

That remind me the song :

Kau begitu sempurna dimataku kau begitu indah...or

Coz there is something in the way you look at me...or

I'm everything that I'm because you love me...or

Cause you're amazing Just the way you are


Sometime the way that we look at someone that we love is different than the way we look at someone else.
and this is affect the person we love,they feel special, very special and precious. for us that someone is perfect so adorable, I don't know to describe it but I can take a long exhale to vision the one that I adore.

sometime the true love that we had for someone can make us do almost anything, we can be stronger that the rock.

but....

when all that LOVE fade away or the one that we love most betrayed our love...what we'll happen.

we will find a lot of minus on the person we love...we can't tolerate a small mistake that they have done which is nothing before. we often compare our love one with someone else.
sometime we forget that no bodies perfect anyway...even our self and than why we ask for a perfect spouse if we are not perfect either, that's not fair isn't it?"

being a couple is to complete each other, to cover the imperfection and than become the perfect one and fulfill our live with all the laughter and true happiness.
anyone agree with me ?

bye Ke2

GO THE DISTANCE

I have often dreamed, of a far off place
Where a hero’s welcome, would be waiting for me
Where the crowds will cheer, when they see my face
And a voice keeps saying, this is where I’m meant to be
I’ll be there someday, I can go the distance
I will find my way, if I can be strong
I know ev’ry mile, will be worth my while
When I go the distance, I’ll be right where I belong
Down an unknown road, to embrace my fate
Though that road may wander, it will lead me to you
And a thousand years, would be worth the wait
It might take a lifetime, but somehow I’ll see it through
And I won’t look back, I can go the distance
And I’ll stay on track, no, I won’t accept defeat
It’s an uphill slope, but I won’t lose hope
Till I go the distance, and my journey is complete
But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part
For a hero’s strength is measured by his heart
Like a shooting star, I can go the distance
I will search this world, and now will face its’ harms
I don’t care how far,coz I can go the distance
Till I find my hero’s welcome, waiting in your arms
I will search this world,and I will face it’s harms
Until I find my hero’s welcome, waiting in your arms

by Michael Bolton

Should I go the distance to find where I'm belong and meant to be? have you ever felt this way? Stuck to the place that your not belong to and you meant something big to this world but you can do anything at all? Me? Always,until this minute.

I keep searching to unknown road to embrace my fate...I'm still waiting for the journey to be complete.

Inspite off this cruel world that full of insincerity and hypocrite, I'm still trying to find the genuineness of kind heart that full of pure love and affection without expecting any reward of their action.

So should I go the distance to find my self, where I'm belong to and meant to be? Will I find the the place where I suppose to be?

By Ke2

First Time Project Managers Need Failures

If you are a first time project manager, be prepared for some problems along the way. Relax and enjoy the ride. No one will lose respect for you.

If you are the manager of a first timer, give them permission to make mistakes. When they do, make sure that they learn from them and don’t make the same ones again. Coach them about the sources of problems and the meaning of their failures. It’s normal for them to have difficulties, but make sure that you view them as training investments and not as screw-ups. Your job is to ensure that you get the maximum return on investment for the training that mistakes offer.

Becoming a project manager is hard work, but a little failure will help make the transition from individual producer to manager more successful.

@from article by Paul Glen