Gimana ga banjir…

Jakarta is predicted to suffer from the flood in the end of 2011 or early 2012. Yah sebenernya ga perlu seorang ahli geofisika atau insinyur nuklir (apa hubungannya juga) untuk memprediksi tentang banjir di Jakarta.

Wong daerah tertentu selalu terendam banjir dikala hujan, daerah tertentu pasti banjir ketika pasang air laut, dan daerah tertentu terendam air senantiasa.

Berikut quote dari cnn mengenai banjir besar di Bangkok, Thailand (2011):

“Perversely, Bangkok’s new international Suvarnabhumi Airport (opened in 2006) occupies an area called Nong Ngu Hao (meaning Cobra Swamp) which used to be a floodplain. It is protected by a dike and remains open.
The IUCN says natural floodplains are important in storing water during floods and in combination with wetlands and natural river channels can limit the impact of flooding.
“It’s a classic case of urbanization being done blindly,” says Ganesh Pangare, head of IUCN’s water program in Asia.
“The drains have gone, the floodplains have gone, the plants that soak up the water have gone. This is a wake-up call to unplanned growth,” he said.”

Relativity of time

When I started teaching this afternoon, I thought -”I am so tired, Im gonna end the lecture in 30 minutes” (It was supposed to be 2 hour lecture)

Apparantly, what Mr. Einstein said was correct. He said (liberally restated), time will run so slow if you are bored but it will run so fast if you are excited.

For some unknown reasons, I talked and talked, and might get myself excited talking about the boring financial ratios. I didnt realize it was almost two hours. ‘No wonder the students were looking so agitated, wanting to go home’, me thinking.

Moral of the story is that if you enjoy what you doing, you make people feels agitated.. HAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Kuburan masal setelah pertempuran..

*karena bosen marking… saya mo menceritakan kisah seru ini..

The situation happened several weeks (or months) ago.
While I was intensely driving the car (read: ngebut), my girlfriend suddenly yelled.. KECOOOOOOAAAAAA..
(read: a yucky insect with six legs, can fly a.k.a cockroach).
Obviously, it shocked me too. Lucky my reflex was still okay. I didnt panicked and stirred wildly. Calmly, i looked for paper to swat it. SMACKKKK!!! (down)

Several days after, when I was driving, too. That little bug came out again. This time I was alone.. And I was quite used to this now. So, no paper needed anymore.. SMACKKK!!

But it occured several times after. (okay, it is not the same cockroach obviously. It just means that there are several. I just want to make sure you are following.. doh!)

Well, I dont want to be seen as a dirty filthy person, especially by my girlfriend. And of course, I also hate insects. I hate them more because they inhabited my car.. without paying rents.
So I decided to buy an insect repellant spray.

One night, I sprayed the car (inside, of course), and left in for the whole night. The next morning, I forgot all about it. I was hurrying to go to work. Almost late. But then when I opened the car door. I was many dead cockroaches (some still on the process, still wiggling the legs) .

Yeah.. my car became a scene of mass murder. As for the dying cockcroaches, I collected them with tissues. Then I put them on the floor, and THUDDD! Using my leg, I crushed them.

Then, I did that again yesterday. The collection of dead bodies are not as many as the day before.

I plan to do it again tonight.
Soon, I may become a serial killer… and addicted to this..

fyi.. I also hate ants.. they will receive the same fate when they unfortunately meet me.
I apologize to animal lovers..

Low energy, high spirit

Is it even possible to be very exhausted by still maintain a high spirit?

My new time table says I am going to teach 9 period in the day time on every monday. 7 period on every thursday. 8 on Friday.
In addition to it, I would also lecture 2 hours every monday, thursday and friday. (I know it is not as crazy as some work-freak collegues in my workplace)

Those are not including time invested in social (+religous) activities which may amounted to about 8 hours a week. *I am part of a church committee which like to have long meetings.

Keeping up with the schedule maybe a struggle, but manageable. But to maintain a high spirit all the time is almost impossible for me. Believe me, teaching – lecturing is actually a tough job. You have to pour out all your knowledge and skill all the time, taking almost none back. -Oh how I long for college time where I can sit (or sleep) in class..

Suggestion?
1. Remind yourself that you are actually doing this for other people, which brings (hopefully) a greater good for human beings.
2. Make use of your leisure time properly. I suggest reading good inspirational book (for eg. Mitch Albom’s collection, etc). It gives a lift on your spirit. *this may include your holy book (read: bible)
3. Eat properly. Healthy body will support your heavy activities. A mix of chocolate drink, two coffee, fried chicken, instant noodle for breaky, lays potato chips, baskin robbins, and nasi goreng kambing is not a good example of a daily diet intake. (But lovely…)
4. Pray. So that the invisible hands help you.

Those are my suggestions. But you are welcome to enrich this post. I need variations, more ways. Hoho…

Iphone 4G

It is coming to the market sooner than expected. So far, it is still only a rumor, but it has been around in the internet for several months now.

The real question is that would 4G be available in Indonesia? Not the Iphone, but the network and provider.

My opinion: Not in near future.
My suggestion: Please buy my 3G Iphone… I want to sell it… ohooho

New year, what to do?

The new year has come. What is your plan?

I have several things on my plate to be done this year. One of it is to make more writings in this blog… hahaha.. Cliche huh!!

We’ll see ya..

Anyway, beginning this new year, I started with a small conference finding out about my plan and target for the workplace. It was a pleasant meeting for the food are plenty. Hopefully, the conference proof to be fruitful.. Ho!!

After 10 days

So I am back now to the working routines. Not so happy about it, but man what can I do?

To get things more exited (and while giving tests to the students), I came across wordpress app for iphone. So I thought I can start blogging whenever.

We’ll see if that is turning out to be true. Or not.

Anyways, after not working for so long, your body has adapted this hibernating-cozy-whatdoicare mode that makes me struggle hard to wake at 5 am this morning. Well I specially planned to wake earlier to get my body engine warm up, and plus I need to make a test for the day.

I arrive at the school in a record breaking time of 6.15. I took my time eating bread in the car before finally went to office. Of course, I was the first. Anyway, test was done, delivered.

Marking time now. Oh no!!!

Resep sakit perut

Days ago, I had a problem with my stomach.
Well, it was a bad one.
I didnt do it intentionally. But for those who needs excuses to skip works, you can continue reading.

Tis is the recipe, it works at least for me.
Pertama2, sebelum berangkat kerja, minum segelas susu.
Lalu sampai di kantor, minumlah capuccino (that time I use torabika).
*ingat, jangan makan apa2.
Niscaya, beberapa menit kemudian (ga sampe 2 jam deh), pasti akan mules2, meriang2, merinding2, siap2 buang air.
Untuk lebih manjur, dihimbau untuk sehari sebelumnya makan soto, gudeg, pecel, gado2, dan martabak manis seharian.

Dengan demikian, dijamin anda akan sakit perut.

*Bila sakit tidak berlanjut, coba ulangi resep sekali lagi. Kali ini pakai susu basi.
** Disclaimer: bagi yang mengikuti anjuran diatas, akibatnya ditanggung masing2.

Hibernating = Diet = Savings

Yesterday I was not feeling well. I hope it wasn’t pork flu, chicken flue, or sweet and sour fish flu.
I felt the body temp goes up a bit. I decided to have a rest.

As a teacher, it is my previlege to finish work at 3.15 pm. (well, i start teaching when common people just start stretching on their beds) So I went home, get myself change, and sleep.

The sleep went for 15 hours. Almost undisturbed except for my sister asking if I am alright and told me to have dinner, which ofcourse instinctively I rejected.

I went hibernating, thus I skipped dinner and supper -> sweet martabak, egg martabak, latenite kwetiau, etc.
It was a good diet program, plus there was no cost for the diet.

I think I have found the best diet program in the world.
Anyone care to try?

Lemme go register for the copyright and patent, before people start claiming about this program.

Pencemaran nama baik

Saya melihat adanya keanehan di kasus prita yang saya liat di detik.

Kasus pencemaran nama baik setau saya, yang kurang mengerti ini, berhubungan dengan kasus perdata, bukan pidana. Oleh karena itu, apakah alasan dari prita dipenjara?

Apakah polisi hanya membela corporate, apakah ini indikasi suap, apakah menutupi kinerja rs omni yang kurang kompeten? Apakah ada hal yang salah ditulis oleh Prita? Apakah tidak boleh complain? Apakah Prita menghasut, dan apabila menghasut, apakah berarti salah? Apakah mengingatkan teman2 bahwa restoran itu ga enak, sekolah itu ga bener, rumah sakit itu jelek, mobil merk itu boros, dll berarti menghasut dan mencemarkan nama baik?

*apakah saya akan ditangkap juga?

Well, in my honest opinion, people should have the liberty to express their feelings and comments. Especially when the comments were made to friends. We are no longer living in an era where we only say what government approve to say. Expression of feelings and freedom of speech are actually human rights.

Apa bedanya blogging? curhat di email? wall in facebook? curhat hati ke hati? ngobrol di telp? sms ke temen2?

Apa jadinya negara kita bila polisi, sistem, pengadilan, masih ga berubah2?

Bapak2-ibu2 pejabat negara yang terhormat ini usul saya…:
Mendingan tangkepin tuh orang2 yang masih utang sama KPK bertriliun2 rupiah (kasus korupsi).. Walopun sudah divonis harus bayar oleh pengadilan, tetep belum bayar..
Mendingan urusin tuh ormas2 yang ga bener, kerjaannya merusak dan meresahkan masyarakat. contoh: FPI. *hayo.. mencemarkan nama baik lagi kah?
Mendingan urusin gelandangan yang berkeliaran tanpa nasib yang jelas.
Mendingan urusin korupsi2 yang terjadi karena penggundulan hutan liar, pengerukan mineral yang tak berijin, masalah2 rehabilitasi tempat2 pengerukan dan penggundulan tsb. Masa tanah air kita botak2 dan bolong. Itu harus dikembalikan dong posisi dan bentuknya.. Perusaha2an ini hanya ambil untung, dan tidak bertanggung jawab untuk rehabilitasi..

Cape ah, komen banyak2.. mending saya kembali mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa, biar semoga masa depan bangsa, ga sejelek sekarang…

Culture..(and holiday sooonnn)

I know time flies.. but for once, it didn’t fly fast enough.
Been wanting to have a break. (of course it will not be a total break – Working in 2 places creates this total break constrain). Hopefully, this break starts next week, fingers crossed.

Neways, I have been marking, preparing final results, and what happens.. many got below C.. There are several possibilities: students are lazy, students are ignorant, or students are playing dumb.

Funny, most students where I am teaching, are actually having similar behaviors and attitudes. Is it the current culture of the students every where now?

Of all three possibilities, it could also relate to other possibilities: school’s effort to help, school’s system, and school’s resources. (which i will write about next time..)

Talking about resources.. human resource wise.. I witness a quite contradicting working behavior of my current workplace and my previous (and still current) workplace.

Here, people come early and go home on time. By early means, at 7 am (actually starts at 7.15) teachers are all hear. And people go home on time.. By on time means, they go home at 3.15. They make queues on the fingerprint attendance machine at 3.05.

At the other place, people arrive on time or 5-15 minutes later. And people stay a bit later in the office.

If this can be observe (officially), it will actually good for those students wanting to learn organisation behavior and/or culture.
Since basically, both offices are education centre.