HypocriticalFatBastard

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.