Hark! The Light of FSM

Wave a final good bye to this blog

2011-09-30T16:16:00.000-07:00

Let's make His sacrifice evenmore meaningful!

2011-01-19T20:29:00.000-08:00

The Kids Are All Right

2010-11-21T21:30:00.000-08:00

The shocking scene was at the dinner table when a pair of 40-45 years old women were kissing each other in front of two kids, and those kids were totally fine with that. Shocking because i never know any film which had gay parents (gay, legally married, and have kids) in it, second because the title says nothing about it.

The story in a nutshell : Two kids, both born to lesbian parents with a sperm donor were courious of their biological father. They finally met him, and try to build relationship (unusual relationship, what would you call your sperm donor ? ‘Biological Dad’ ?). The coming of this father into the family make some kind of disharmony between kids and parents and between each of parents and so on and so forth, I wouldn’t be too much to the plot.

I enjoy this movie. It’s toying with our uncomfortable feeling like when you have build a strong relationship (with anyone, friends, father or brother) suddenly at one point it shattered by your mistake you don’t realize. And the characterizing of the father is sort of giving us so much hope that the kids will ‘reconcile’ with their biological father.

Manis kali kau Mia, minta dijilat heh?

Anyway that’s not what I’m really interested in

Needless to say those people in west or america in particular have way more tolerance towards LGBT people than us Indonesian. And through this movie the gap is seemingly much wider, it’s like we are two order lower in terms of tolerance. We still in the stage where LGBT people should stay-inside-or-else-get-killed, while they have been in stage where LGBT people are treated indistinguishly from straight. The order that in between is: when LGBT people are began to be accepted, but clearly in distinguish way. They are like a new family on a neighbourhood or like a handicapped that we treat in special way. That we have to consider hundred times of the proper way of questioning : “How did you get crippled ?”. While in higher order of tolerance, they confusedly (yet rhetorically) ask: “So what if she’s a lesbian ?” No big deal.

And my judgment is, by the way, based solely on this movie, not necessarily on reality. Because if lesbianism is really ‘no big deal’ they wouldn’t think the story of ‘gay parenthood can be messed up too just like in straight family’ is interesting enough to be filmed.

Friday Blasphemy #2

2010-10-14T08:57:00.000-07:00

Friday Blasphemy #1

2010-10-08T04:56:00.000-07:00

i think pbfcomics is, by far, the most imaginative and hilarious comicstrip around the internet

Harga Waktu

2010-09-30T07:38:00.000-07:00

Bila Ingin tahu seberapa berharganya waktu satu tahun, cobalah tanyakan hal itu pada anak-anak sekolah yang gagal naik kelas.

Bila Ingin tahu seberapa berharganya waktu satu bulan, cobalah tanyakan hal itu pada ibu yang melahirkan secara prematur.

Bila ingin tahu seberapa berharganya waktu satu minggu, cobalah tanyakan hal itu seorang pada seorang editor koran mingguan.

Bila ingin tahu seberapa berharganya waktu satu hari, cobalah tanyakan hal itu pada buruh harian yang punya anak lima untuk diberi makan.

Bila ingin tahu seberapa berharganya 10 jam cobalah tanyakan seorang pelanggan IM2 yang hanya ingin mendonlot naruto chapter terakhir.

yep,kacamatamu tidak rusak. memang 1.6 kb/s.

My Life Is at Stake

2010-09-30T06:34:00.000-07:00

a potential threat to thesis completion
further, to my engineering degree
my parents throw me away, money cut
i end up being a jobless jerk

what should i do?
off course, i gotta buy a new joystick

damn those konami guys!

New London Fashions

2010-09-30T04:54:00.000-07:00

more list:
- waste away more money to have mac rather than pc
- shirttail inside, sleeves rolled up
- unnecessary teeth braces
- name your band 'bla bla and the bla bla bla'
- etc,etc

The Kookooest Kookoo

2010-09-02T01:43:00.001-07:00

It’s been two weeks since the latest post. It’s not that i was so busy that I cant find a mere 10 minutes to catch up this blog, as a matter of fact, I really have nothing to do except doing my thesis which typically took a couple hours before laziness got me to somewhere else (game, tv, anything).

Anyway, let me amuse you about religious koo. Is all religious people a koo? Majority, yes or if koo is not quite the right word, maybe ignorant is. But as far as I can tell, there's a tiny percentage of them who aren’t. In fact they made exceptional contributions in their respective field. Newton, Descartes, Maxwell you name it. But that was before the light of evolution and another ‘consciousness raisers’ (as Dawkins says) both in science or philosophy spread out. Today, most of respectable scientists are (openly or not) rejecting the idea of God.

And among those kookoos, you find a part who are incredibly, extremely, superbly, and exceptionally koo. No, I don’t say it’s FPI or any other fundamentalist horde. I’m talking about people who mixes up religion and things we see as un(or anti-)religion. Including of those who claim themselves as Christian Punk, who had apparently been around quite long ago. And I’ve been surprised to what I recently watched on the tv : the community of Moslem Punk. Holy crap on a monkey’s ass! It’s almost to me the community of Straight Lesbian, or the community of Jewish Neo-Nazi, or if you have a bit sense of humor, the community of Religious Scientists.

The program exposed a homeless-like dressed group who recite Koran verses, say prayers and that sort of things, and I noticed some of them had their hands tattooed. And then they sang a rather Iwan Fals-like song, which is no punk at all, asserting arabic words of how much they need the mercy of God and etc. What a mockery have they made ? That’s a blasphemy of the genuine Punk.

Punk is (supposed to be) free of any form of dogma, except the dogma of punk itself. Punk is (supposed to be) a critique of any form of authority. Punk is (supposed to) against the mainstream (in whatever ways). And this whole dumb Punk manifesto came up from a jerk who drank too much beers and took too much pills. And the dumbest thing anyone could do is mixing up dumb idea with yet another dumb idea.

Just in the late of the show I realized that they mislabeled a group of homeless for a ‘punk community’. What a koo..

Interspecies Rape

2010-08-19T00:32:00.000-07:00

Ahh, poor frog..

Even our cousin can get too maniacal of sex without necessarily watch too much porn.
So, mister Minister please don't waste taxes banning porn.

God works in mysterious ways: Pakistan Flood

2010-08-04T20:20:00.000-07:00

"See the drowning house over there? bunch of jews left inside"
"Ooh.. thank god for spill us flood "

Katanya karna melanggar ijin

2010-08-02T13:03:00.000-07:00

Kejadiaannya baru kemaren.
Lupakan masalah FPI.
Yang jadi interest sebenarnya adalah SKB tiga menteri itu. How on earth gua mau bersekutu sama teman-teman gua untuk berbakti butuh ijin dari walikota/bupati. Saya ngga tahu apa buat teman2 Muslim peraturan ini menggelikan. Mungkin tidak, karena teman2 Muslim tidak merasakan bahwa peraturan ini benar-benar dijalankan untuk mereka. Gua jadi ingat kesaksian seorang WN RRC di gereja yang bilang kalo mereka kebaktian tuh susah. Gua jadi mikir apa negara ini udah sama dengan negara komunis ?
Kecuali emang maslah tanahnya yang bermasalah (kepemilikan dll)

Masalah kristenisasi.
-isasi adalah hal yang natural dari setiap agama. Saya sering liat di sekitar rumah saya ada pamflet "Pengajian oleh Ust. XX, mantan Anggota Kristen bla bla bla".. Ok, bagi gua mah ga pp. Lha sampai di koran Pikiran Rakyat aja ada cerita bagaimana orang Kristen yang convert jadi Muslim. Tapi coba bayangkan yang dipamflet itu hal yang sebaliknya ? Ok ngga ? Jangankan sampai tertulis di koran!
Semua agama melakukan -isasi.

Jadi perlu diakui, ini semua intinya bukan maslaah peraturan tapi masalah suka atau ngga suka, mayoritas dan minoritas. Memang ada orang2 Muslim yang fair. Tetapi banyak juga bagian dari masyarakat kita yang kebetulan punya waktu senggang yang banyak, 'peduli' dengan setiap kegiatan yang orang lain lakukan contohnya ya FPI ini.

"Negara menjamin kebebasan tiap warga negara untuk beridabadah menurut bla bla bla.."

Ngga perlu dijelaskan bahwa di kebanyakan tempat, mendapatkan ijin untuk gereja itu susah. Mungkin aja kepala daerah setempat setuju untuk sebuah gereja untuk didirikan.. tetapi gimana dengan masyarakat sekitar ?
Dan untuk menghindari keributan si kepala daerahnya terpaksa menolak pendirian gereja itu. Akhirnya kutipan di atas jadi ngga berlaku, karena yang menang sebenarnya keinginan masyarakat banyak.

Jadi sebenarnya ujung permasalahan ada di masyarakat kita yang cenderung fanatik, rasis, tidak fair, dan bodoh. Dan pikiran suudzon gua, hal2 tersebutlah yang mendasari SKB 3 menteri itu.

Kalo ternyata masalah ini jatuh pada persoalan teologis (misalnya, Muslim secara langsung atau tidak langsung harus, bagaimanapun caranya, tidak memperbolehkan jumlah jemaatnya berkurang) ya mau gimana lagi..
Berarti kita yang bukan muslim ini apes aja kebetulan lahir di tengah masyarakat yang kebanyakan Muslim.

Solusi
Banyak. Tapi yang menurut gua paling realistis adalah menambah disclaimer disamping kutipan UUD 45 di atas. Atau nambahin superscript asterik di atas kata terakhir pada ayat UUD itu, trus bikin footnote: (*Kalau masyarakat sekitar setuju).
Dengan demikian orang2 nonmuslim ga usah mikir terlalu naif untuk bisa beribadah dengan leluasa.

*mencoba memposisikan diri sebagai kristen, seperti dulu*

I hope no catholics will announce death threat

2010-06-21T23:54:00.000-07:00

And death fatwa by pope too..

Angry Comic Sans

2010-06-18T05:40:00.000-07:00

Here
Yeah, but he seems to breach of this simple algorithm.

Flotilla Incident: IDF's Stupidity played its role

2010-06-12T09:40:00.000-07:00

Okay, this is my last post about the flotilla incident.

Indonesian medias have always been unfair on the Israel-Palestine report. Things get worse when people dont bother to recheck to another newspaper, which are provided on-line (like BBC, NYTime, Guardian or The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz on this particular issue). Yes, those media could as well be unjust. But you might dig more facts by having more sources.

You read indonesian medias, you get the counclusion : IDF raided the ship and shot people around all of a sudden. That gives you the impression: these Israeli troops are animal!. But from all that all-week-long tvnews and pages-fulling newspaper report, you could not find a piece of information of these necessary questions:
1. Have the IDF warned the ship not to break the security blockade?
2. Which was the first : resistance or shooting?
3. Any victims on the IDF side?

Those reports are just babbling how mad israeli troops are.

Now, for my fellow indonesian, try to read another source. And by doing that you might discover these facts :
1. IDF have warned the ship not to break the security blockade, but the ship refused to stop. I doubt its authenticity, but this video shows crew's offensive respond to that warn.

2. There was also victim on IDF side. This soldier was (reportedly) beaten to death

3. The were attacked first then they fired shoots

If they intended tho kill the activists, they could have just done it from the helicopter, why is that so hard? Why did they have to broad troops on the ship?

The only convincing plot was, one of those troops intended to go to the ships captain, put gun on its head and threat him to fall the ship back, while the other back up.

Now this is exactly why i put the title so.
The stupidity is, they didnt consider the possibility of resistance.
They didnt expect the resistance. They should had been equipped with non-lethal weapon to overcome the resistance.
And under that unconsidered situation, troops went panic and fired a shoot.

Here i find a thorough article in bahasa. Also read the comments.

Im pretty sure those facts might turn people's opinion.

On the anti-Israel Spirit : Nothing to do with religion. Really?

2010-06-06T07:35:00.000-07:00

Many of em say so. And of course I know many of ship’s boarder are not muslim. But on the broadest view, Im becoming more convinced this crazy shit is actually religion fueled. First I’m gonna show you a piece of video and photo:

If this really for humanity alone, do they have to chant the religious mantra ? Do the have to wear the religious dress code ? Koran’s excerpt on the poster?

Plus :

Convoys of Russian troops

Tibetan Monk

Do they ever care about Tibetans under China oppression ? Do they ever care about Georgia striked off by Russians? DO THEY EVER EVEN CARE ABOUT PAPUANS?

Now tell me this has nothing to do with religion !

Well I sort of relieved. Looks like im not the only one who lose humanity.

The Flotilla Incident Just Don’t Make Me Feel Bad

2010-06-06T07:32:00.000-07:00

I do feel bad sometimes. Not because those people who got shot and the incident, but for not getting the feel ‘bad’ for those who got shot and the people of Gaza in general. I mean, i look people around it looks like theyre so distressed; marching on the street, burning flags, or at the least putting palestinian flag on their facebook profpic.

I look at my self. I just don’t get the feel BAD. Have I gone inhuman? I might have.

Everybody Draws ‘You Know Who’ Day

2010-06-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

They celebrate the Everybody Draws Muhammad Day. You guys don’t? Well you probably shouldn’t.

I watched tv news making a fuss on this last night. Really, i said what the fuck all the time while watched it. I don’t know whether the anchor and the Islamist guy (maybe from FPI, couldnt recall) being interviewed don’t care about the reason behind this celebration or, as most likely it is, these guys are too stupid to grasp the SATIRE.

They are not wanting to ‘lit up fire’ against muslims. They are asking the question why we took grant a sacred place for particular religion (i.e. Islam) in our society ? You’d see many as crazy as Jesus eats crap both on the internet or printed media. Or Budha snuffing (like in south park). But no christian or buddhist announces death threat like this.

Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Hindus, Scientologist, Morons upps sorry Mormons, they don’t care. The thing is no types of deity is free of critique, mockery and ridicule. *Except my god, The Flying Spaghetti Moster ;P.

Anyway here is my drawing :

What do you say?
Im not gonna post it on the page though.

Was Jesus A Communist ?

2010-05-22T04:08:00.000-07:00

I was sitting in the back row at church. During the sermon I discussed with a friend, an older friend. I forget what were our talks about, some that I can recall was that he was a member of GMNI (Gerakan Mahasiswa Nasional Indonesia) back at his college years. In case you never heard of this group, this group is noted for its leftish perspective of economics ideal. And by that talks I drew the conclusion that his stance had not been changed at the moment. I asked, “Isnt communism already dead? You know Russian perestroika and stuff? “.

He did make some argumen to back up his stance. And one of those, lies on Acts 4 verse 32 :

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

He read that verse softly, since it was sermon, and by the end he told me convincingly, “Mari Pak, kita bergabung bersama masyarakat komunal !”.

I laughed a bit loud realizing that someone had just convinced me communism with bible verse. What an irony!

The problem is anyone with any types of idealism could easily pick particular verse to back up his conviction. Cherry-picking bible verse, you might justify inquisition by catholics in the dark ages, marxism, merchantilism, capitalism, anything! Even white supremacist acts.

Besides, religious scriptures need interpretation. And that intepretation is influenced by pre-existed conviction within the interpreter.

Copeland farewell tour

2010-05-21T06:44:00.000-07:00

Ah shit i missed their last farewell tour in bandung, and eventually their last performance as a band called Copeland.

Last minutes footage:

Le Petit Nicolas

2010-05-16T23:43:00.000-07:00

This is a french movie ( Im sure you already guessed) released in 2009, directed by mhhm well I don’t know, you find it over google. It tells me nothing anyway, since I don’t know much about french movies.

I scarcely watch other than hollywood movies. Its just they cant give the quality that hollywood does. But this one is an exception.

The theme, however, is not unordinary. Kids who misuderstand adult things . These kids were frightened to have a new little brother. They learn that when a family just have their new baby, the older child have to be thrown away from home. Just like they find about Joachim (who is actually out of school for illness). Nicolas then find out a sign of his parents behavior that they are going to have a new baby. By that time, he and his schoolfriend make a plot to have his soon-to-come little brother kidnapped. Then the adventures begin.

Telling you guys, this film is cool. They really know how to make film. I found many hilarious yet fresh and genuine scenes. Just made made couldn’t stop laughing. In short, this is worth to watch!

Anyway, its always interesting to me to see these kids during the film. Somehow remind me of my infant.

Just when will this happen in Indonesia

2010-04-30T06:32:00.000-07:00

These guys dont have to be worry about their head being decapitated.

They also have this kind of cleric

They let me down on this one

2010-04-25T05:24:00.000-07:00

I've had an encounter some times ago with a theist over the case of Homosexuality. The discussion could be found in ITB's internal forum (which only accessible within campus).

As a liberal secularist, i immediately challenge the idea that Homosexual acts is morally wrong, even by letting aside religion.

His reason was: any part of our body used out of its functionality (like anus used to do anal sex) is wrong.
AS a rebuttal, i argued that 'functionality' is mean-dependent. Mouth is not for oral sex for sure. But anyone has problem with oral sex? As well as hand with 'handjob'. Nobody got a problem with that.

The debate went on and pretty much equal until the question: What about incest? appeared.
Yes, we all know that is plain wrong, we dont waste time arguing over it. But it seems i couldnt find logical reason behind it.

Then i send an email to PZ Myers about that question. But no reply.
For the record, people in relatively secular like USA, dont have problem with gay.
But if we could not provide a logic reason to ban incest, why do we need one to ban homosexuality?

Later that i know, that PZ Myers actually propose the possibility that science can not answer moral questions, contrary to Sam Harris 'its matter of time science will answer'.
To say it so, its been hundred years since the development of modern science scientist could not find the answer, they let me down.

It now seems reasonable to me that homosexual is wrong. Without any further reasoning.

Ada yang Aneh dengan Perumpamaan Ini

2010-04-13T01:30:00.000-07:00

“Bayangkan suatu kali anda sedang berada di sebuah pertunjukkan akrobat, dimana seorang akrobat paling hebat di dunia berjalan di atas tali yang dibentangkan di antara sungai. Ia mengajak anaknya untuk digendong sambail mengayuh sepedanya di atas tali. Aksi tersebut berhasil. Ia dan anaknya sampai di seberang dengan selamat. Penonton tepuk tangan.

Kemudian, untuk pertunjukkan selanjutnya sang akrobatis menunjuk anda sebagai volunteer untuk diboncengi naik sepeda di atas tali melewati jurang. Mau kah anda menjadi volunteernya?

Terkadang kita merasa takut karena bla bla bla walaupun Tuhan yang bla bla bla telah bla bla bla... seperti dalam ayatnya dalam kitab bla bla bla dia selalu bla bla bla kepada umatnya dst dst….”

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Hampir bisa gw pastiin kamu udah pernah dengar perumpamaan seperti diatas. Entah di saat teduh atau pas PA atau pas kotbah. Hampir gw pastiin juga, kamu pasti nganggukkin kepala sambil mikir “mhhm iya ya betul juga.. ”
Kesan yang ingin diberikan adalah bahwa tuhan seolah-olah sebenarnya memberikan kepastian, seperti halnya, bahkan lebih dari si akrobatis.. tetapi kita saja yang kadang kurang percaya.

Tapi menurut gw pengambilan kesimpulan seperti ini aneh.

Ketika sesuatu yang buruk terjadi pada kehidupan kamu, orang akan bilang, ‘yah itu rencana tuhan’ atau ‘ada maksud tuhan dibalik semua ini’ dan tanggapan2 ignorant lainnya. Berbeda dengan tuhan, yang selalu mencari excuse dibalik ‘tindakannya’, kamu bisa meminta tanggung jawab kepada sang akrobatis kalo, misalnya pas waktu digendong ternyata kamu jatuh ke dalam sungai. Kamu bisa menyalahkan sang akrobatis karena menjatuhkan kamu.

Tetapi tentu saja tidak dengan tuhan. Hidup dengan kepercayaan terhadap tuhan tidak membuat hidup kamu lebih pasti. Kamu mungkin bisa MERASA lebih pasti. Ya, kadang merasa lebih pasti itu juga bagus, itu memberi ketenangan. Tetapi kenyataannya tingkat kepastian hidup kamu tidaklah lebih dari orang yang tidak percaya.

You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?

2010-04-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

None, because the only thing I have to wear is an orange wooly jumper.

dude, that joke is like million years ago. it's not funny anymore. not at all.

Agama Sebagai By-Product Survival Value ? Rangkuman dari God Delusion.

2010-04-08T16:47:00.000-07:00

Pertama-tama gw akan sajikan sebuah fenomena pada dunia hewan. Kamu mungkin belum mengenal moth. Moth adalah binatang semacam kupu-kupu, yang sering kita lihat terbang menuju lilin dan terbakar. Hal ini sepertinya bukanlah kecelakaan, karena ini sering kita lihat. Pertanyaan kita adalah mengapa mereka bunuh diri ? Sangatlah aneh, mengetahui bahwa seleksi alam adalah pencipta, berbeda dengan pencipta kita dari teistik, yang membenci pengorbanan diri, ia lebih suka memberkati spesies yang punya kemampuan untuk bertahan yang tinggi ;).

Penjelasannya adalah seperti ini. Cahaya buatan, seperti lilin, adalah hal yang ‘baru’ di bumi ini. ‘Baru’ tentunya dalam konteks umur bumi yang sudah miliaran tahun. Sumber cahaya yang ada sebelum adanya cahaya buatan pada malam hari adalah dari bulan, planet, atau bintang yang lain. Jarak sumber cahaya ini secara optik dapat dikatakan tak hingga, sehingga berkas cahaya datang secara paralel. Moth, sama halnya dengan serangga-serngga lain, menggunakan cahaya tersebut sebagai referensi dalam navigasi mereka. Mereka dapat terbang dengan lurus dengan bantuan cahaya. Sistem saraf mereka mengatur agar sudut datangnya cahaya selalu tetap sekian derajat. Ambil misalnya 30⁰.

Lintasan terbang moth bisa lurus hanya jika jarak sumber cahanya tak hingga. Jika tidak, dengan mempertahankan nilai sudut datang, lintasan terbang moth akan berbentuk spiral mendekati sumber cahaya seperti yang digambarkan dibawah. Perhatikan bahwa sudut pada lintasan di C dan D adalah sama.

Walaupun pada kasus ini menghasilkan kematian, secara umum aturan sistem saraf adalah baik, karena moth lebih banyak menggunakan bulan dibandingkan lilin. Kita tidak sadari diluar sana ratusan moth secara efektif menggunakan bulan sebagai alat navigasinya. Jelas bahwa moth tidaklah bermaksud untuk bunuh diri.

Sekarang kita bandingkan perilaku ‘bunuh diri’ ini dengan perilaku keagamaan. Orang-orang beragama benar-benar mencurahkan waktu, materi bahkan uang dalam aktifitas keagamaannya. Mereka bahkan rela mati (atau ‘rela’ membunuh) untuk agamanya. Bagaimana agama dapat bertahan walaupun sudah jelas bertentangan dengan ilmu pengetahuan ?

Pangkal dari hipotesis ini adalah anak-anak. Dibandingkan dengan spesies lainnya, kita manusia dapat bertahan melalui warisan berupa pengalaman-penglaman generasi diatas kita. Orang tua kita sering memperingatkan : jangan dekat-dekat dengan api atau sungai yang dalam. Jangan makan makanan yang sudah jatuh atau yang sudah basi. Jangan berlarian di tempat licin. Ikuti saja perinngatan ini jangan bertanya! Hal ini tentunya sangat berharga untuk anak-anak dalam rangka untuk bertahan hidup.

Seleksi alam membentuk otak anak-anak dengan tendensi untuk mempercayai apa saja yang orang tuanya katakan, termasuk masalah agama. Kepercayaan ini sangat bernilai, sama seperti moth dengan cahaya bulan, untuk dapat bertahan hidup. Tetapi hal yang fatal dari kepercayaan tanpa bertanya adalah sifat kemudahan untuk ditipu.
Pemimpin-pemimpin agama menyadari kondisi ini. Sebuah pernyataan dari kalangan Jesuit “Berikan aku anak pada 7 tahun pertamanya, akan aku berikan hasilnya..”. Juga jangan lupakan ayat Amsal, “Didiklah orang pada masa mudanya bla bla bla…” seperti yang dikuptip oleh pendeta-pendeta.

Bagaimanapun hoptesis ini hanya satu dari banyak hipotesis yang lain. Kalian boleh baca “Why God Persist” oleh Robert Hindie, “Religion Explained”oleh Pascal Boyer atau “In God We Trust” oleh Scott Atran.

The Handbook of Shopping in Cimol

2010-04-08T16:29:00.000-07:00

In case kamu gak tau dimana itu cimol, itu pasar yang isinya jualan baju2 bekas dari luar di Gede Bage, Bandung. Ada yang kualitas sudah buruk ada juga yang kualitasnya sudah sangat buruk. Maksudnya, kalo kamu tipenya kek 347, Ouval dll atau paling ngga FO, ini bukan tempatnya. Ini lebih ke orang2 yang tipenya sederhana atau suka yang belel-belel gitu.
Ok. Langsung ke poinnya.

1. Kalo bisa datang pas hari2 kerja. Kenapa ? Nawarnya bisa lebih enak. Ngga enaklah kamu nawar sadis tapi ada orang yang denger. Kan si tukang jualannya juga males atuh. Ntar jadi semuanya ikut nawar sadis2an. Lagian pas pembelian lagi sepi si tukangnya cenderung kaya “yah udahlah gpp yg penting laku”.

Btw, sebenarnya frase ‘nawar sadis’ juga kurang tepat. Yang bener adalah dia ngasih initial price-nya kaya orang kurang waras! Jadi bisa dibilang initial pricenya yang sadis.

2. Selanjutnya, cobalah untuk tertawa ketika si tukangnya ngasih harga awal seolah-olah itu adalah lelucon. Atau paling ngga “Huh ?” sambil senyum kecut ke si tukangnya. Impresi awal kek gini penting ! Karna menyangkut tingkat kejatuhan harga penawaran selanjutnya. Kalo kamu ngangguk2 aja trus nawar setengahnya aja udah susah.

3. Setelah dia ngasih harga awal dan kamu ngasih ‘impresi awal’ seperti di poin 2 tawarlah dengan harga 1/4 sampai setengahnya, tergantung dari harga awal dan kualitas barangnya. Jangan kaget dengan angka ¼ dan setengah. Biasa ini mah!
Kemungkinan besar harga jadinya lebih besar dari harga penawaran. Jadi, pastikan penawaran ada di bawah ekspektasi duit yang bakal kamu keluarin. Ingat, harga jadi ngga mungkin turun lagi dari penawaran !

4.Perhatikan dengan teliti barang yang kamu beli! Ingat ini barang2 bekas. Perhatikan tiap inci barangnya sapa tau ada kotoran atau ee kucing nempel. Kalo bisa hindari toko2 yang berada di tempat kegelapan dimana susahh untuk memeriksa ke-masih layak pakai-an barang tersebut, kecuali kamu bawa senter buat meriksa.
Soalnya gw pernah punya pengalaman. Pas sudah nyampe rumah. Anjis ! apa2an ini ada kuning2 di lengannya kek kotoran kuping. Mana itu ngga bisa hilang walau udah dicuci tangan pula!

Demikian beberapa tipsnya. Ntar lah dibikin jilid 2 nya pas experience nya sudah cukup buat naik level. Haha! udah kek maen RPG

Sepertinya definisi toleransi telah berubah

2009-12-29T23:40:00.000-08:00

Baru saja mendengarkan kotbah salah satu ustad terkenal di televisi.
Salah satu yang awak ingat "Contoh toleransi adalah dengan MEMBIARKAN umat lain menjalankan ibadahnya"

Dude! sejak kapan standar toleransi turun seperti itu ?
Anda belum dikatakan toleran bila hanya membiarkan masuk kelas, murid yang datang sebelum jam 7. Ketika kita telat 10-15 menit, tapi pak dosen masih membolehkan kita masuk, baru kita bilang "Oh bapak itu toleran ya"

No wonder kenapa sering terjadi hal-hal seperti ini
Kalo memang toleran, apa mereka butuh IMB agar bisa beribadah?

Kalo emang orang gila tidak sadar dirinya gila, bagaimana saya yakin saya tidak gila ?

2009-06-16T19:47:00.000-07:00

Ngga tau. Cuman asumsi kasar saja.