Thalia tagged me here. I retaliated it by tagging my Vox's Neighbors: Ayu, Thomas, Lala, William, Bebeth, Rani, Pujiono, Didats and Godote. So here's the meme (The italic notes are mine, you don't have to write it tho):
Message:
1.) Put your music player on shuffle
2.) Press forward for each question.
3.) Use the song title as the answer to thequestion.
4.) NO CHEATING!!!
The questions and my answers:
1.) How am I feeling today?
Favorite Color - One Less Reason
(Red? Angry? or Joy?)
2.) Where will I get married?
Listen - Collective Soul
(Where is "Listen"?)
3.) What is my best friend’s theme song?
Brat - Green Day
(Oh well...)
4.) What is/was highschool like?
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
(True to the bone)
5.) What is the best thing about me?
Joyride - Roxette
(Ah, so that's it)
6.) How is today going to be?
Never Say Die - Bon Jovi
(Hmmm...)
7.) What is in store for this weekend?
Spybreak (Short Version) - Propellerhead
(So Matrixified)
8.) What song describes my parents?
I Get the Message - Ivy
(After all these years...)
9.) How is my life going?
Changes - Butterfly Boucher
(Never constant?)
10.) What song will they play at my funeral?
Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
(So I have to wait 'till I die?)
11.) How does the world see me?
Bittersweet Motel - Phish
(Wha?!)
12.) What do my friends really think of me?
High Enough - Damn Yankees
(Err... I hope this doesn't have to do with drugs)
13) Do people secretly lust after me?
He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother - Neil Diamond
(Huh? Brotherly lust? That's creepy)
14.) How can I make myself happy?
Give Up the Grudge - Gob
(I know... I know... stop complaining already)
15.) What should I do with my life?
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
(So? What should I do?)
16.) Will I ever have children?
Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
(Wha?!)
17.) What is some good advice?
Take Me As I Am - Tonic
(No comment)
18.) What do I think my current theme song is?
One Year Six Months - Yellowcard
(What happened in 1 year 6 months?)
19.) What does everyone else think my current life?
Betrayal - The Black Maria
(Huh? OK, this is crazy)
20.) What type of men/women do you like?
Sugar, We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy
(Hehehe, never mind...)
21.) Will you get married?
All Downhill from Here - New Found Glory
(Hahahaha - quite true)
22.) What should I do with my love life?
Blurry - Puddle of Mudd
(Also true)
23.) Where will you live?
Blood on Blood - Bon Jovi
(Now this is scary... Living on blood?)
24.) What will your dying words be?
Always - Blink-182
(Always what?!)
There you have it, by the way, if you happened to be in my Vox's Neighbor list and I didn't write your name/link here, consider I tagged you too ;).
I will not complain about Jakarta's busway strategy. It's a patchwork solution, of course, but at least it is a solution. Will it works great in the future, we just have to see.
What I am about to write is the irony about it. At first glance, busway seems like a revolutionary way to solve the traffic's problem in Jakarta. But actually, nothing new about it. Let see what are the things busway "introduced":
- Special Bus Lane
Nothing new about it. Before the busway, the most left lane is always be the public transportation lane. So, yes, the system is already exists. - The bus can not pass another bus
Nothing new. The bus always had the sign "Bus is not allowed to pass another bus". Well, it's just a sign, nobody follow that rule. - The bus can only stop and be stopped at the specific bus stop
Nothing new also. Of course the bus HAS to stop at the bus stop. We were told this all the time. Again, nobody seems to follow that rule.
So, actually nothing new, eh? The irony is those rules had to be forced by using the busway system because nobody seems to follow those obvious rules of conduct.
This is what bothers me a lot. Are Indonesian had to be forced to obey the rules? Are we that primitives that we need the carrots and sticks method just to obey the rules? I guess we are and that fact make me sad.
Note: This idea is the result of a late night discussion with Amal, thank you!
Update: Amal is also writing about the same thing (in Indonesian).
I always have a knack to create something. I strongly believe my parents had great influence on this knack. My first toys, that I could remember, was a set of wooden building block. Then it was Lego time! So since the beginning of my brain activity I was introduced with "building attitude".
That's why I chose Architecture for my undergraduate school, well - it's not 100% true tho, my first choice was Computer Science but hey, it's also "building something", right? Create softwares? So it was not so offshot then.
So it's really bother me to read or hear about people who think "create" is a waste of time. Huh? Well, you've seen those people everyday, mate. The very good example is how Indonesian businessmen are doing their business. If you notice there are not too many Indonesian company invested in "Research and Development" - most of them are just your typical 'seller'. Buy things from somewhere, mark them up with profits and sell them quick - sometimes without support.
Well, there you have it. The way Indonesian are doing business - most of the time. No invention, no idea, just buy, sell and profit. So there is no wonder we have so little innovative start-up.
In my business field, Internet service, software development and stuffs, it was common that so-called 'web developer' and 'software development' are nothing but some bunchs of 'template modifier or beautifier' than innovative, technology aware, future thinking company. Currently I run my own Information Architecture and User Experience Design consultancy and to my amazement there are lots of so-called web development company here in Indonesia which never heard about my kind of consultancy. Imagine that. Web or software development without IA or UX... Can you imagine their product. I rather not because it will make me cringe with pain.
So there you have it, why many Indonesian web or software developer company are not so successful, because they are just follower... or worse, they are just seller and at the end of the day, they are running out of option because they are just can not compete with competitors because what they are offered are not different than their competitors.
Such a shame...
Just subscribed to a broadband wireless internet provider. So right now I have a 24 hours online connection like I used to have when I was in Germany (and Canada). Nice. Er... not really... Why?
Because I have to pay the same amount of money as in Germany and Canada but less - much less - connection speed. $20 for 512 kbps - shared with 10 others - and this is one of the cheapest deal in this country. $20. 512 kbps. Shared. 10 people. Imagine that.
I have a vague idea about why the price of Internet connection is freaking high in this miserable country.The government and it's partner in crime - that corrupted bloated monopolistic telecomunication company aka. PT. Telkom Indonesia - are the guilty party, especially the Ministry of Information and Communication who are too afraid to speak loud to PT. Telkom to lower the connection price - - yes, imagine a government entity feel afraid to a government owned private company, pathetic eh?. But that's what happened here. Instead of doing some action against PT. Telkom, the Minister of Information and Communication was giving promise, promise and promise that he will do something about it... It's been a while, Sir... Where is the good news?
Anyway, I am just curious. Most of the country I'd been visited were selling "Mega bits per second". So which country - other than mine - are still selling connection service speed in "kilo bits per second"? Please, let me know. Thanks!
Well, at least I have a 24 hours affordable connection now. It's not fast but it's decent and it's only $20.
