Dedicated for Bush and US Government and it’s damned allies
To Syi’ah and Sunni who successfully pitted against each other by Bush’s Gov.
The Last Touch …

Buat teman-teman yang merayakan Imlek di Indonesia maupun di belahan dunia lainnya.

For my colleagues back in China (Hubo, Lifeng, Likai, Yuan Cheng, and the other ZTE ppl I knew :D) , Taiwan (Husin), Singapore (Isaac), and all of you which is not mentioned here ..

In the year of rat 4076,
I wish you all prosperity, good health, happiness & success  in your life :)

鼠年吉祥！
新年快乐

“Saya minta pemungutan suara ini diulang”
“Gimana sekolah maju dan hebat, kalau ketua OSIS-nya saja penyakitan kaya gini”
“Dasar buta!!!”

Astaghfirullah ….

Kalimat-kalimat di atas adalah kutipan dari iklan s*i*netron yang sedang tayang di salah satu TV nasional yang mengusung topik pendidikan. Dialog yang melecehkan seragam pramuka yang dikenakan artisnya. Inilah yang di expose dan didramatisir oleh sebagian besar tanyangan s*i*netron bin setantron di TV kita. Buat kamu-kamu yang sekarang berperan sebagai orang tua, masih tutup mata kalau putra-putri kalian tercinta dicekokin dengan tayangan semacam ini? Dari jaman Marshanda pake baju putih merah sampe Cecep Reza sukses mempertahankan bentuk badan di Extravaganza, sudah ada adegan anak SD malakain atau ngasarin teman-temannya. Anak SMP kemudian anak SMA. Anak SD dah maen pacar-pacaran. Bujubune ….

TPI dalam situsnya yang berisi ulasan s*i*netron bersangkutan tidak menyebut “Ikitemasu, 15-sai” atau Inoue Miyuki sebagai sumber “Kisah Nyatanya”. Cuman teks “Kisah Nyata” dan judul versi Indonesianya saja yang juga dijadikan judul yaitu “Aku terlahir 500 gram & buta”. Malah saya curiga kisahnya sudah diplintir-plintir sedemikian rupa dan malah ga nyata sama sekali diluar keadaan bahwa Miyuki memang terlahir super prematur dengan berat 500 gr dan mengalami kebutaan.

Nyaris tidak ada lagi sinetron yang benar-benar sinetron. Contohnya yang jadul seperti Losmen, Pondokan, ACI kemudian Si Doel, Bajaj Bajuri, Keluarga Cemara atau yang berlatar belakang glamor tapi bagus kualitas cerita maupun akting pemainnya semacam Angin Tak Dapat Membaca. Sekarang, kebanyakan nurut saya … no more than rubbish. Mulai cerita yang nyontek dorama jepang/korea, nyadur buku tapi seperti di atas, sampe “adaptasi”/”terinspirasi” film hollywood, kualitas akting pemain yang karbitan. Aih …

Mana yang katanya “Televisi Pendidikan”??

Dan tayangan kurang mutu minus ajaran moral itupun kini mulai merambah dan mungkin akan meracuni negeri seberang. Laksana asap hasil illegal logging.

Saya yang tersiksa, pulang kerja pinginnya nyantai lihat tv, disuguhin banyak acara ga mutu. Belum lagi iklannya yang bejibun. Buset dah ….

Ganti-ganti channel semoga ada breaking news/headline news kalau tidak ya nunggu giliran acara sepakbola tayang *sigh* Thanks to cable tv provider, i can enjoy NatGeo, Discovery, Travel & Living and many news channel. Disney, Cartoon Network, Sports channel etc :) Ini baru tontonan berkualitas :)

Sedih juga perjalanan hidup Inoue Miyuki diplintir-plintir demi keutungan kapitalis seperti ini.
Para orang tua, guru … makanya galakkanlah membaca kepada putra-putri maupun anak didiknya. Mengutip kisah Dian Sastro, saya usul galakkan pula acara maen gobak sodor, bentengan, lompat tali, petak umpet, belajar berenang dan diving (2 ini khusus untuk Jakarta dan daerah aliran Bengawa Solo :P) … jangan nonton TV :)

Hmmm, kira-kira abis ini akan ada versi “terinspirasi” oleh kisah Hirotada Ototake atau Toto-chan ga yah?

ps: sempat capture pake digicam iklan s*i*netronnya, nanti diupload di youtube deh :)

It happen that right now i’m reading Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear” while stuck at home by the rain.
Saw on the news that China still struggle with mass transportation problem caused by a worst snow storm in last decade. It’s chaos because millions and millions of Chinese people are now on “mudik” tradition for celebrating chinese new year with the family back home.
Jakarta is submerging, samething happen at Pasuruan and Bengawan Solo line (again). Landslide on Aceh kills at least 8 people.
Switch channel. Naked Science pick a very good topic, Big Freeze. What is it? Ever watch a movie called “The Day After Tomorrow”? It worse and it’s happening. Let say Montreal on 1998 as an example.
What a coincident, it all has the same big picture. Extremes in climate variability seem to be the cause of weather changes dramatically, unstable and less predictable. Global warming, environmental destruction. All end up in anger of mother nature. All because of us. Greed of the human kind, suck the planet resources like vampire suck its victims.
Yes, that day is coming. Sooner than we thought.

An overnight rain has put Jakarta into ‘chaos’ today. Flood everywhere. It reaches 90cm or more in some area.
International airport has been closed down. Flights are either delayed, cancel or rerouted. No trains available.
“Serahkan pada ahlinya”? Yea right.
It’s just a big f bullshit. Jakarta has too many “ahli”, but the only expert they have is just …. Talking :p NATO, no action talk only. Some of them even talking nonsense and sell concepts which are rubbish. And it’s happening for years.
Mr.President, it’s time to move the capital city. Our 1st president has also came up with this idea like decades ago. But if you still like to swim during flood, not feeling humiliated for having underwater capital city, then whatever.

Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer’s out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone
I’m drivin’ by your house
Though I know you’re not at home

I can see you-!!
Your brown skin shinin’ in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream
Now I don’t understand what happened to our love
But baby when I get you back
I’m gonna show you what I’m made of

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin’ in the sun
I see you walkin’ real slow and you’re smilin’ at everyone
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

Out on the road today, I saw a BLACK FLAG sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said, “Don’t look back. You can never look back.”
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go but-

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin’ in the sun
You got that top pulled down and that radio on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin’ in the sun
You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone