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BAGHDAD — Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip Monday to Baghdad, where he plans to push
Iraqi political leaders toward opening the country’s vast oil fields to
international companies, a senior Bush administration official said… NYTIMES

In Reuter’s report on Cheney’s unannounced trip to Baghdad:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared
the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavor"…..REUTERS

Soeharto has finally passed away. I was listening to the radio when i heard the news. 1.10pm WIB.  He died at age 86. It is an enormous gift to be able to live that long, isn’t it.

No matter what people said about him, a brutal, greedy dictator or compassionate gentleman, one thing for sure is that he has left a mark on the world history. He was one of few people who were able to set the course of history. General, you are one lucky bastard.

PS.. Is there any t-shirt with Soeharto’s potrait in Che’s style? I think it would be cool to have one saying "That was a good battle, General!". If somebody read this and decided to use this idea for commercial purpose, please do so but i will be very happy if you can send one to me. I’m large sized   :-p 

In a peaceful manner that is.

Soeharto, Indonesia’s 2nd president who was also known as The Smiling General is dying and has been hospitalised for more than a week (He is now in his 80s i think). His critical condition is now dominating the news outlets.  Metro TV reports updates of his conditions almost hourly. From what i heard  it seems like The General is losing this battle.
I don’t watch the news too much (well mostly not for the news, but for the news’ hostess). From what i’ve seen it almost like an entertainment news. There are fancy and colourful graphics about what happened to Soeharto’s dying, failing organs. There are information about his blood pressure, his heart and lung conditions. They held a press conference where his doctors gave explanation about the medical treatment he is going through. Then there is this one scene of Soeharto being surrounded by camerapersons and journalists while he is being taken out from a room on a hospital bed.
I think that is disrespectful and disgusting. He is dying, in a coma and on a hospital bed. Can’t they just let him rest?
And all these information about Soeharto’s blood pressure, organs, medical treatment, do the doctors have the privilege to disclose all those information to the public? Don’t Soeharto and family have the right to keep his privacy? Do all those information will make Indonesia as a sovereign nation move forward and soar? Does Soeharto really deserve that much attention?
The craziest thing of this is using his dying condition as a political gain. I heard that someone had heard Soeharto bestowing  a trust of the fate of Indonesian people on Megawati. Well, for me that is another reason not to vote for Megawati in the next election. I don’t think we should ever trust a dying oldman on a hospital bed. There is a big chance he is only delusional or on drug.

For me, Soeharto is an enigma. Was he a great leader or a corrupt dictator? Was he an economic genius or a tool installed by foreign power to suck up Indonesia’s natural resources? Is he a benevolent javanese gentleman or a ruthless, oppressive, greedy bastard?
He was capable of making Indonesia’s economy grow fantastically but also easily crumbled in the time of crisis. He has always been portrayed as an always smiling, polite and kind person but his government was also known for their ruthlessness against those who opposed his policies.

I think he’ll better be gone sooner than later.  It must be very painful to live with all those medical apparatuses. It must be painful for his family to watch his body giving up in front of national television. It will be a huge relief for all the journalists who have spent many nights without proper sleep.

I think Indonesians should just let him rest peacefully and forgive all of his mistakes in the past. But don’t forget. Mr. Soekarno once said to never ever forget history. Because history tends to repeat itself and often times the repeat of history long forgotten (or ignored) devastates the most.

Merdeka!             

Don’t you hate it when you’ve found THE ONE, but you can do nothing about it.
You’ve found this person, with all the good qualities. Beautiful, articulate,  comfort to be around with, you can talk  to her all day and don’t get bored, with some minor oddities that spicen up your life,  her laughing is a breeze of fresh air.
The kind of person you want to spend your life with. You know. THE ONE.
Don’t you just hate it when you know you’ve found that person, and when you look in the mirror you realize that you don’t have anything good inside of you. A rotten bastard, inside out.
You know you are not worthy enough for her. You are the extreme opposite of her. An oddball, socially impaired, boring, inarticulate. A straight-out loser.
Somehow you know that her spending life with you is the worst ever scenario for her life, because you have this unique ability making people around you living miserable life. You are the kind of person that better off exiled in some deserted island, because of your afflicting power is ruining the community around you.

Well i hate that so damn much!!
I hate it so much I want to go back in time and slap myself in the face, punch him in the gut, roundhouse kick him a la Chuck Norris , grab him by the neck and say:

"GROW SOME BALLS!! YOU LIFE-AFFLICTING, LIFE-RUINING MISERABLE FUCKTARD!!!!"

"GROW SOME BALLS!!!!"

dammit

Have you join facebook? If you haven’t then don’t. If you don’t know what facebook is then you are lucky.

I joined facebook months ago. You know, just wanted to try another internet buzz. Basically facebook is just another social networking site, like friendster. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, in its early days facebook was popular among US college students. Now some my friends in Indonesia are using it.

Something odd for me when i sign up was my being asked about political views. What does that have to do with anything? Friendster never asks my political stance neither do google, youtube and multiply. Facebook think your political stance is important.

I chose ‘Conservative’ because i think people holding power in the world now are conservatives. So if facebook does have something to do with global conspiracy then my conservative stance will spare me some attention and make those conspirators regard me as just another sheeple of the world.

I got myself a couple friends and that’s it. I never log on to facebook anymore. Until three days ago.

I logged on to facebook, and there were notifications. Lots of them, such as friend requests, super wall  request, vampires requests, zombies requests and other things of little importance such as quizzes.

I thought. Wow.. what a fun site this is.  I can  waste my wasteful times playing quizzes, poking friends, biting them, throwing pillows at them, describing my friends in five words, comparing my movie taste, share music i’m listening to.

Then the same question strikes me in the head. What does political view has to do with all of these? With your movie taste, with friend-pokings, pillow-throwings and vampires.

Besides, i felt like i was giving too many information about myself on facebook. My movie taste, quizzes i took. My networks, who i hang out with, what kind of people connected to me. You know, it’s like exposing yourself to giant, humongous market space for data-mining. I hate to think that someone out there are referring me to other people as statistical number.

Okay, internet is just a ridiculously huge advertising space.. I know that. But, it looks like facebook is trying to connect all of them in one place. When everything concentrated in one place, it will be easier to control and monitor everything. A perfect place for data-mining.

Yesterday i found an article about the connection between facebook and CIA. Something or someone that has CIA pulling string on their back must  be evil, right? I’m not good at explaining things so you can go there yourself and think about it. There is a flash animation if you’re not in the mood to read.

I found another article on how to quit facebook. Apparently facebook doesn’t let us erase our account, meaning all your data will be on their database forever.

Oh man.. i’m starting to sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist! I think i should stop using friendster right now.

NOT!!

ps: Hello, CIA!

Greenpeace is holding an internet poll to name great whales for its The Great Whale Trail Expedition.
Currently Mr. Splashy Pants is winning by great margin (73% as i’m writing this), other names that also being proposed are ’serious’ names like Aiko, Amal, Bumi, Nurani, Anahi and Paikea.
Obviously, holding an internet poll is just about raising awareness, creating hype. You can’t expect some meaningful, thoughtful results from online voting. Because most people on the internet have great sense of humor and anti-establishment .
That’s what happen to Spice Girls when they held internet poll for their reunited concert, they almost ended up performing in Baghdad. Also when Stephen Colbert actually won the poll in hungarian bridge-naming contest. Later the result was disqualified because Hungarian law states that someone needed to be fluent in hungarian and deceased to have a bridge named after his.
Well, if there is any poll for Indonesia presidential candidate, i’ll propose Bondan Winarno to be included. He would make a great contender. Because if he becomes president we Indonesians can "stay healthy stay spirited so we can travel and eat out".
These are essentially what indonesians need now. We need to be healthy and spirited so we can be productive, and that means more income. Travelling is essential in building Indonesian economy because we have so many tourism potentials (beautiful places, cultures, babes :-p ) that can have huge impact on our economical recovery. And of course eating out should become a national movement because, food industries can absorb many work forces meaning creating new job opportunities, creating new enterpreneurs and it will moves Indonesia out of fossil fuel and raw natural resources based economy.
By the end of Bondan’s term, Indonesia will become a prominent economic giant in southeast asia and give him another term, then Indonesia will become the greatest country in the world.

We don’t need nukes, WMDs, chem bombs, railguns or tasers. We’ll conquer the world with our billons of culinary megabombs!
We’ll invade Malaysia easily.. just throw them  megatons of  rendang sauce and  fortified-rengginangs. By the end of the day they will be craving for more.
"Okay.. we’ll give you more of these fortified-rengginangs if you surrender to us!!"
Beautiful.
So.. i’m calling for all patriotic Indonesians! VOTE BONDAN WINARNO FOR PRESIDENT!!
SCREW POLITICS LET’S EAT OUT!!

Last week, there’s a high tide happened in Jakarta and flooded some areas, most notably in North Jakarta. It jammed the traffic in Sediyatmo Toll Road, which is the main road to Soekarno-Hatta Airport for Jakartans. I was there.

Lucky for me i managed to turn back before got stuck in flooded area, go around the other way and arrived at the airport at 8 PM. Way too late for my flight but then i got rerouted for the first flight in the next morning. So, it ended well. For me.
Was it caused by the global warming? Rising of the coastal line?
Maybe.
I think 2007 will be remembered as the year of Global Warming. This is the year when Al Gore won the Oscar and Nobel Peace prize for his job preaching about global warming. Suddenly, fighting global warming and climate change become hip and sexy.
I’m starting to grow tired of all things about global warming.
I think we have more pressing matters. Like poverty, famine and world peace. Those issues come a long way before global warming happen. It even comes way long before Al Gore’s  mother got pregnant. Heck.. it comes way way long before Al Gore’s mother’s mother got pregnant.
Just imagine if military budget of all countries in the world cut down to half and be used to fund  researches on enviromentally friendy technologies. I bet my white hairs, that in ten or twenty years, global warming  is just a thing of the past. Plastics, fossil fuel consuming technologies and Inconvenient Truth are just relics of human stupidity.

How about me?
Well, i do have my own way fighting global warming. A hypocrite i might be, but i can be hip and sexy too.
So what do i do?
I don’t use toilet papers.

The problem with time is it moves too damn fast and changes everything. Most people realized this and tried to freeze it. Some started writing journals, some write songs, some paint, so they could capture one moment in time and relive it in memories or learn from it later in another time .
Most of us in some point have tried to freeze time one way or another. That is how our civilization works. Every advancement whether it physical or philosopical has remnants of other people’s effort to capture one moment in their lifetime. Sometime we called it history.
Of course some people are just plain stupid. Some tiny part of them are mentally retarded and ended up as the leaders of the world. They start war over natural resources, incite fear in the name of freedom (Nazi anyone?) and let Uwe Boll produces movies based on video games. 
History doesn’t repeat itself, it is the ignoramuses that keep doing the same mistake their predecessors did.

And on occasions, a certain hypocrite keeps writing useless ramblings.

g’bye g’nite don’t let those time-travelling hypocritical bed bugs bite

If love is just some sort of chemical reactions  in our brain for the sake of human reproduction then Romeo and Juliet must have had some severe brain damages.

I’ve stumbled upon this link about the cost of US war in iraq that will reach $611.5 billion ($611,500,000,000). Surely that is a huge sums of money.
Teh US must be very rich to burn that amount of money on war. I wonder where did they get it? They must have some kind of gigantic ATM machine that can produce money out of nothing, or a horde of money-producing leprechauns that enslaved in Guantanamo.
Combine $611.5 billions with the cost of war in Afghanistan, and maintaining over 700 military bases in about 130 countries around the world.. maybe we can have a fund to eradicate poverty around the world.
Human must be very stupid to choose destruction over eliminating poverty, right?
That’s why all the dolphins are leaving us..

goodbye goodnight.. don’t let those filthy rich bed bugs bite!