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This is it
Watching Michael Jackson This is it movie, this movie just describe me more about what is a superstar.
I grew up with his songs, and of course, dances. That doesn’t make me sing his song, or dance like him, that can be an ultimate embarrassment for me, but if only i got caught in cam 
I asked Joe to buy the movie pass before i changed my time zone again on the next day, well for me was a pay off.
MJ dances in his old age, still a great move from him, remember all different dances/choreography on each song, well he created. He also sound like what he produce on the record, no pitch, prove of his original sound what he have, like no effect was put for his records.
It is amazing that he and his team make an audition on his stage concert, people from age 20’s or 30’s, means half of his age. They all good looking, talented, in dance and musics, for the dancers, most of them inspired by MJ.
He also push them to his “adventure” to reach a certain level of a world class performance, he tell dance moves, music key note, stage lightning in the way to bring them self up, not dictate them.
This movie teach me to learn directly from the King. What an attitude and passion to make him rules.
MOML – the return
Return to Singapore.
I promised to my self, blogging MOML menu from SQ. In my previous post, I was describe the menu as … untasty dinner, but it was not like that on my return flight!
It was delicious, a beef menu with a proper salad and mango desert.
Hope that this improved MOML menu set was not because my offensive post 
MOML
It’s been quite a long time since I’ve not done any international flight, 5 month already, well my SGP – SBY trip is not considered as international flight for me, just like a normal trip, cause it just take 2 hours long. 2 hours just like the time for taking route from kalimalang to kemanggisan, or kalimalang to bintaro, back then when i was living in Jakarta , what a city huh?
I was checking my mails at the office, and i got the subject from my travel agent, my itenerary. I just take a quick look, my departure and arrival date and time than i have it printed, I read it again, and i notice 1 small line, preferred meal: MOML.
MOML adalah kode untuk makanan muslim, jadi untuk teman-teman yang pingin tetap berada di zona aman, ada pilihan kok . For some airlines we can choose our meal before flight, means a day or two days before departure.
When I’m going to Surabaya or Jakarta, I never give a notice for a meal served, it is because usually i pick an Indonesian airlines which in general they will stated that the meal served by them is halal, or I most of the time will pick a very low budget airlines, or in indonesian i will say: a budget-get-get airlines -halaaaah-
Here the stewardess serving the meal, the other passanger get a chicken steak with lime over it to make it a bit sour, and salad dressing with ham. The other menu is a lamb chop, cooked with wine, to make it tender … -jangkrik, ngiler tenan rek- . Than I received mine, there is a “MOML” label on it, gado-gado with unattractive bean sauce, “hmm, let me open the main dish“, ayam opor , aiyoooh.
When I taste it, it is taste the same like my first glance at the gado-gado’s bean sauce. Kurang bumbu, Indonesian expect a food with strong ingredient/taste, it is hard to find when we are abroad. My expectation for this MOML food, eventhough it is a malay menu, was not meet that.
Later on I understand, why the food on the plane taste like that. Because people have a different stomach, and because aeroplane just have 2 toilets for 100 seats
logging my head
what is blogging for me?
People have number of reasons to blogging, but what is it for me?
Is it fame? popular? trend? self expression? make controversy of today issues? publish your idea?
Some of above reasons may true for me when I initially decide to sign-up in blog site.
Looking back when the first time I blog, I have no sincere reasons for blogging, and my laziness ragged me so bad, it is still there for today though.
Time passing, now I’m trying to keep blogging constantly, I’ll increase my target from once a month (soo lazy) to twice a month or once a week.
I found one of my weakness from blogging, it is that I cannot put my head on writings, structurally. Well, indeed chatting via messenger help me to put my words in writings, but it is totally different with log. How do I solve my problem? by keeping posting, reply a thread with cool mind. Anyway, it is free.
I need this, because putting my head on writings is necessary for me to pursue a master degree .
about a social networking
I bet you have at least 1 account in some social networking site. I join one of the popular social networking site as well at that time, I dont remember when is the exact time, i guess it sometime around… when i still in univ. i was not really look into that website cause i more enjoying outdoor activity rather than look much into pc and do school exercise, it was many-friends-join-there-and-asked-me-to-join which motivated me to join. But than i put more attention into this site just right after i had my first job, i had more time on PC, and i was searching contacts of friends, connecting with friends motivated me to put more time in this site. Well, outdoor activities is not reflected with me anymore, i always cursing for that
Right now, there is more than 40 popular social networking sites, and some country identic with particular site, like US with myspace, south-east asia with friendster, india with orkut, japan with mixi, south korea with cyworld, and also include with local social network sites. It is understandable, some country will have their own community which make them stick to one site only.
More and more social network sites has grown wild 
and force a body to make it standardize, it is not only for the money (advertising), but also for it’s trend, hip, and fame . So you can imagine if we found friends who ask us “hey, go join this A site” “find me on B site” .. and so on, just crazy, it is not worth a time for me to maintain a lot of account (i guess for others too). I decided not to add another nor change.
Some undergraduates from stanford univ. smell this as a good business, they create web apps. which can connect all of these social network sites, and we can search person across them, nice idea.
And new site come to town, and i did join and maintain it, of course there’s reasons behind:
1. Most of my friends have account on this site.
2. Nice User Interface (compare to the old one, which has unbalance advertising banner .. yuck)
3. easy to use (i have complaint that initially it was not easy, it was complicated, too much features and addons scattered on main page, but they fix it recently, neat, organize page is shown now)
The important one, it is the group and RSVP application which make me encourage others to use this site. I had experience helping marko and vieda organize their Buka Puasa BBQ, make an Event, preparing lists of invitation, send it to them, and there is menu for invitee to respond, with their respond we can populate the data and decide how much food we have to prepare, budget, whether the place is enough for this number of people or not, or the place is too big, or whatever. Useful.
Later on, I want to make an event in Jember, high-school mates, class of 99, we only have mailing list to maintain communication among us, and messenger for “non-official” communication line. I sent the invitation to the mailing list, got responses, and had problem to populate it, and present it as a data. I was wondering about an application for class of 99, the member should login to this application, and it easy for me too maintain.
Should I make this application? or should i grouping people on the social network site, and make invitation accordingly? which one is better? re-invite the wheel? or optimize the other?
It is not that easy to abandon the other account, but I just hate maintain lots of account, especially when it’s better and free application
They should pay me for this blog.
I’m getting married
Romadhon is over.. but it left me a good memories. I proposed Njeh, and i got the expected reaction , it is quite a good experience eh? consider that it was my first experience proposed someone, and I’m not doing that frequently for sure hehehe.
Question:
when is the big day? “hmm im not planning to have a “big” day, just a simple one, let us see whether that’ll go big or simple. It is will not fall in this year, most probably in next year, 2009. I will update later for the exact month and date. I wish all your blessing friends.”
do you exchange rings? “it was quite sudden, and i have no plan to over do. it just simply act and execute hehe”
why? how do you feel? “no why and no how, I will not discuss it but I will only discuss it with you after you proposed “
sok vegetarian
Pernah tidak si kita terpikir buat jadi vegetarian ? Kalo sempat terpikir, biasanya sih artinya kita sudah melek sama kesehatan dan kebugaran tubuh kita. Tapi yg harus diingat adalah dengan menjadi vegetarian bukan berarti kita berdiet ketat, vegetarian != diet.
Kalo gw sendiri sih sebenernya udah ada hasrat, tapi kayanya ngga mungkin, soalnya mereka -daging2 ituh- memang soo yummy, pernah gitu gw coba sekali2 full ga makan daging, tapi tetep cari2 makanan sayur yg rasanya daging.. halah, tapi ada juga yg jual lo ternyata, misalnya kaya brokoli rasa daging, kayanya memang berguna untuk orang2 yang mau berpindah jadi vegetarian ya, setahap demi setahap pindah ke lain hati perut.
Untuk temen2 orang india, mereka pada umumnya vegetarian, gak makan daging, gak makan telor, gak makan ikan, tapi tetep aja banyak yg gendut2 , nah kl ini sih lifestyle mereka. Kadang2 mereka harus sangat2 picky terhadap makanan, karena untuk sebagian dari mereka, ada yang tidak makan bawang2an, kentang, kunyit, gingseng/akar2an, segala sesuatu yg tumbuhnya dibawah tanah, filosofinya adalah, sewaktu mereka mencabut dari tanah, akan ada makhluk hidup yg mati/dirugikan. Jadi urusan tolak-menolak makanan adalah salah satu hal yang seru kalo duduk di restoran semeja sama mereka.
Ada temen orang india, vegetarian, dinas di ChengDu, China, dan dalam perjalanan dari kantor client – hotel ada banyak cewe2 yang tarik2 dia, biasa lah . Dan dia protes kan, susah bener katanya nolaknya, udah ditolak2 teteeep aja gigih. Trus gw bilang, lo bilang aja gini: I’m sorry, i’m vegetarian, i don’t take meat .
vinegar
Mulai kemarin gw udah consume Vinegar, tapi yg apple cider, kenapa?
2 minggu yg lalu gw kerasa bengkak di sendi jari tengah tangan kiri gw, sama di kaki kiri, ga terlalu mengganggu si, cuma kan kerasa aja kalo itu serasa bengkak, secara di kantor gw juga angkat2 tv. Jadilah gw iseng2 cari tau dan tanya2 ke si pacar dan orang2 juga, ternyata kalo asam urat itu ternyata kejadiannya juga mirip2 beginian nih. Begitu dapet clue asam urat, yg langsung kebayang di kepala gw adalah Mario .
Mario ini salah satu orang yg ahli banget dalam obat2an dan pantangan2 asam urat, pengalaman dia di dunia perasamuratan itu udah malang melintang banget… tanya kenapa, hehehe. Dimulailah interview dengan doi, pertama adalah, makanan, dan mulai deh dia nyebutin makanan2 apa aja yg ngga boleh, yg gw inget cuma NO SEAFOOD, dan kacang2an, kaya pete -yg untungnya gw ngga doyan- dan melinjo, emping gitu deu, dan masi ada list2 yg lain, dan gw mabok, ini listnya panjang bener yak, akhirnya gw stop aja nih listnya, gw ganti pertanyaannya, gimana si terapinya atau pencegahannya, itung2 bergaya hidup sehat -halah-.
Sarannya adalah semangka, sirsak .. wah, gw susah tu dapet yg begituan disini, plg gampang adalah anggur, tapi ngga ada hubungannya sama asam urat, hadooh. Trus, cuka apel dicampur madu dan air, apaan nih cuka apel, skip juga. The best one adalah Daun Salam, rebus 9-12 lembar jadi 2 gelas..diminum pagi dan sebelum tidur. The best one ini yg lebih halaaahh dan another hadooooh bagi gw, secara gw males kl udah ribet2 hihi, jadilah gw cari2 tau apa si ini si cuka apel, yg plg gampang kayanya sih ini.
Ternyata cuka apel ini adalah vinegar, hehe cupu bgt gw yak, dimulailah pencarian gw di fair price toa payoh, secara gw tiap hari lewat sini, gw nemu nih vinegar! apple cider pula hehe, mantep ga tuh, merk heinz sih, ini mah bener2 buat masak bukan buat asam urat, berdasarkan hasil browsing, di indo kl ngga salah namanya tahesta untuk vinegar bagi asam urat, tapi berhubung ini gw juga blom tentu kena asam urat dan coba2 dan bergaya hidup sehat, gw embat aja . Satu lagi adalah madu, kalo di indo kan gampang tuh ya cari madu, ada yg botolan merk sari … apaa gituh .. eniwei, gw ngga nemu, dan balik lagi setelah bbrp hari kemudian ke fair price juga, gw inget kalo breakfast di hotel2 gitu kan di rotinya ada madu di salah satu topping option nya selain selai.
Vinegar 2 sendok makan + madu 2 sendok makan + air segelas, diaduk, sedeplah, dan kerasa sehat -halah-, tapi khasiatnya katanya juga buat kolesterol, mengurangi lemak, mengurangi nafsu makan, setelah browsing, ternyata khasiatnya si vinegar ini banyak juga, termasuk ngilangin kerak di besi bowk!, ga heran bisa ngurangi lemak dan kolesterol juga , coba baca2 listnya apa-apa aja sih khasiat vinegar .
Satu lagi, kata salah satu hadist, Nabi juga suka makan roti dicampur cuka, diperkirakan ini adalah vinegar juga -meskipun pastinya merk yg digunakan bukan heinz ato tahesta- .
ribet
Gw sekarang berasa amat2 ribet sama urusan kantor, bukan berasa sih sebenernya, emang ribet. Mo resign, tapi masi aja ada halangan, ditekan kanan kiri, satu nyuruh gw cepet2 resign, dan cepet join di tempat baru, satu lagi nahan2 degan segala macem alesan.
Akibatnya, sekarang udah januari akhir2, udah mau deket sama lunar new year, dan dengan kondisi serba ngga pasti gini susah juga mo bikin acara ikutan liburan ke Indo, padahal dah mupeng banget ngelihat temen pada ngobrolin tiket inilah tiket itulah.
Mau gw banyak dan kalo bisa terlaksana, tapi ya apa daya, masih jadi barang komoditas
