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I hate Megawati , nothing personal, i just hate her. I’m talking about THE MEGAWATI, the former president of Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia. Not long ago she declared that she is willing to go compete for presidency in 2009 election, with PDI-P (Partai Demokrasi Indonesa-Perjuangan. I don’t know how to say it in english.. because Indonesia Democratic Party-Struggle sounds weird) as her vehicle.PDIP is one of the largest party here, in Indonesia.
I think, it is a stupid decision by the party, to pick him as the candidate. Because, i don’t recall something extraordinary happened when she was in charge. Well, i wasn’t into political thingy back then, when she was the president (nor am now). But i don’t recall something extraordinary or breakthrough happened when she was in charge. Except for calming down the political climate, because she became president after Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) got impeached by the parliament.
Gus Dur was considered too controversial and  had a very-very bad relationship with the parliament. Once of his statement that angered the parliament was he saying that the parliament was like a bunch of kindergarteners. It was controversial back then, but appeared to be true in later years. They really are like  a bunch of kindergarteners. Some of his supporter saying that Gus Dur is some kind of clairvoyant, some kind of far seer. I don’t buy it.. i think he is just one wise old man with a problem to keep his mouth shut.
So when this old man got impeached, Megawati became president, because she was the vice president. After she become president, nothing extraordinary happened. Nothing controversial..  because she was, unlike his predecessor, always keeping her mouth shut. Silent, very untalkative to the press. So she was also known as the silent president.
But, oddly, when the audience are her supporters (PDIP), she spoke very out loud. So i got this impression that she wasn’t a president for Indonesia, but a president for PDIP. I got this impression, that she didn’t care about any group outside her party. I know that PDIP had the largest supporters, but for she was a president for Indonesia.. not for her own party! That behaviour seems to continue until this day. I don’t recall her talking in an event outside her party and i don’t recall her attending our Independece Day ceremony where the former president usually invited (i could be wrong).
She is like …holding a grudge all this year, because she feel betrayed by her former subordinate, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) -who is now our president. So it is pretty scary to imagine that the main reason she goes after the presidency is only for settling a score against SBY. So childish, and i don’t want my next president to be such a person.
So, fellow Indonesians who happen to read this. Please don’t vote Megawati for president. It just stupid.
She had her chance, and she didn’t do well. That’s why we elected SBY, right? I’m not saying that SBY term is great, but what a fool we are if we reelected Megawati. We are not going anywhere! Same old same old!
We need something new, someone new. Not a former president with grudge who speaks only for his/her supporters.
No i’m not against female president, but Megawati is not the kind of female president that i will be proud of.

Well, but we have a couple of years until the election. Let’s hope and pray there will be much-much more great, fresh candidates. Not just old politicians. It is proven.. they all suck!!

Goodbye, goodnight. Don’t let those hypocritical grudge-holding bed bugs bite

PS:
I had had this cookie called BUKACIPUT(?), my brother bought it in Bandung. This BUKACIPUT thing is very very addictive i think it should be banned! You know, this kind of cookie can ups your blood sugar level to the roof!!.. .

It’s 14th february. All hells break loose. Lovers spend money to show their loved ones how much they love them. Buy them roses, chocolates and candies or some luxury stuffs. I’ve even read on some article that in february condom sales are skyrocketed.
I don’t believe in valentine’s day. I hate valentine’s day. I even hate february ! This is the month  when everybody suddenly become ultra-romantic. Roses are everywhere, heart-shaped chocolates, candies, jewelleries are everywhere. And those reddish pinkish heart-shaped blablablas decorations.  Those are creepy. I mean, we don’t have to wait until 14th february to be a romantic person, do we?
Some said that all these buzzes on valentine’s day celebrations are just a way to increase sales. This article said Americans spend $13 billion on valentine’s day. That huge amount of money goes to teddy bear makers, florists, and other romantic gifts vendors. 
Surprisingly, in Indonesia it turned out differently. Kompas reported that the sales of flowers in Indonesia are decreasing every year because lack of demand and bad weather. Although some seasonal valentine’s day gifts vendors (?) usually mushroomed in this time of year.
Oh and you should know that valentine’s day does have its impact on our planet.

But.. you know what i realize on this dusk of valentine’s day? It’s that the Indonesian board of censorship has a great humor.  I watched this film called 200 Cigarettes (the only casts i recognized were Janeane Garofalo and Courtney Love.. oh and Ben Affleck too) , on Global TV. I wasn’t all too interested in the movie, but it got my attention when i realized that the indonesian subtitle mentioned the v***** and p**** (hint:genitalia), but the mentioning of ‘F’ words in the movie were beeped out! That is one crazy censorship, isn’t it?.
If someone is mature enough to read v***** and p**** in the subtitle, i’m pretty sure it’s ok for him/her to hear some ‘F’ words. Why didn’t they beeped out v***** and p**** in the first place? Or, they can at least change the v***** and p**** in subtitle into something more decent, like ‘pee-pee part’ (or wee-wee part?). Haha.. that would be hilarious!

Yes we Indonesians, do have a great sense of humor. That’s why some of us still laughing in a condition people from other countries might think not worth laughing. Even Amrozi, one of the first bali-bombing terrorists, has one of the greatest smile on earth. That’s why he is sentenced to death.. for good.

Well, I guess that’s it for now. I’m done my rambling. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against people celebrating valentine’s day. I’m not against people being romantic and spend extra love on february. I just think that it’s better if we increase our loving and romantic nature for the whole year. Our civilization (human being) needs a lot of love to be shared right now, more than ever.

Oh.. and i do like chocolates, it would be nice if you send me some.

Goodbye, Goodnight … don’t let those hypocritical (valentine’s day-celebrating) bed bugs bite!

If you live in Indonesia, and watch the news. You must’ve known that recently, The Minister of People’s Welfare -Aburizal Bakrie- has spurred some controversy regarding his comment on flood disaster in Jakarta.
On one interview he said :

I think we do need to handle the problem (victims of flood disaster .ed). But it doesn’t need to be blown up. If we see.. the victims are still laughing and all. So don’t put it like the world is going to end like your station (SCTV) said..

Well i’m not a good translator, here is the original quote in Bahasa Indonesia:

Saya kira masalahnya perlu kita tangani, tetapi tidak perlu dibesar-besarkan. Kalau kita lihat, para korban itu masih ketawa dan sebagainya.Jadi jangan sampai dikondisikan seolah-olah dunia mau kiamat seperti yang televisi anda katakan

First time i heard it on television, I was shocked!.. How on earth he dared saying such thing?
The victims are still laughing ?
So the government will act accordingly if the victims can’t laugh anymore? So the victims, who’s had hard time watching their home flooded, don’t have any right to laugh? So they suppose to cry and whine all the time?
That’s just nut!
As far as i know, this year flood is the worst that ever happen in Jakarta. No wonder the news on the event seems overexposed. Because it needs to be overexposed!.
Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, and somehow there’s always big flood every five years. There is some saying, it goes like this "Di Jakarta, banjir tidak pernah ingkar janji", which literally means "In Jakarta, flood never breaks it promise". So when it said the flood will come in 5 years.. it wil definitely come in 5 years.
And what strikes me is, the officials, especially the high-ranked ones. Always seems to blame the nature on every disaster.
Maybe it’s our nature as mere mortals, that we never take the blame lightly.
And maybe that’s why  Aburizal Bakrie  said such awful thing. He was just being honest.. and telling what’s on his mind. Aburizal Bakrie was just being himself. He is not a politician capable of bull-shiitaking his way out of trouble. He is just an outright honest man, with a twisted sense of social awareness.
Somehow, in a bizarre way, i feel happy about that.. because honesty is always good isn’t it?.  Especially in hypocrite-infested country like Indonesia.

goodbye, goodnight.. don’t let those hypocritical bed bugs bite .

This blog is so lame. When i decided to blog here, i was planning to abuse it.  By abuse, i mean to write anything hypocritical. I am a genuine hypocrite so i thought writing hypocritical writing is not a chore, it should be natural, heck.. it should be a bliss!.
You know, hypocrites tend to talk too much. Well, I do. and hypocrites tend to talk only, never act.  Well,  I do that too. Chatterboxes make good writers.. (mm OK.. maybe not, let’s pretend they do). So, I -a hypocritus chatterboxus- must a be darn good writer! and good writer, WRITES regularly. It turns out to be a big No-No. I was pretty sure i could write here at least once a month. But my hypocritical nature takes control of my mouthful thought and decided to not write here.
If i can make excuse.. i think it’s because the fact that this blog is hosted at friendster, and lately i’ve lost my interest in friendstering. Friendster -for me- is one of those internet’s yesteryears, just like tabled government websites. 
I’m done with friendster.

Hey! that’s hypocriticulously hypocritical!

Want to know something far more hypocritical than that?
People’s Representatives getting paid from disaster reserve-fund criticizing the people-elected President.
Priceless…

Goodbye, goodnight, don’t let those hypocritical bed bugs bite!

Two billion rupiahs is about two hundred thousands dollars. What can one do with two hundreds thousands dollars?
Well, if i have the chance owning two billion rupiahs. The first thing i want to do is upgrade my computer. I will build nice gaming rig with dual graphic cards in SLI configuration that has 1 gig of memory . how much such gaming rig cost? $2000? $3000? well let’s make it $4000 ! So there’s $196.000 left on my bank account..
The next thing i want todo is starting a startup. Starting a startup is one of my wildest dreams.What kind of startup can i make with $100.000+?Well, I do have some thought that someday i will startup a web 2.0 kind of services . I have no idea what kind of services, though. It looks like all the great ideas have been taken. Search engine? check!  Blog Hosting? check! Bookmark Services? check!  Dating Services? check! Social Networking Services? check!. Although, i’m pretty sure there are still  huge markets out there for a new kind of web 2.0 service.
My country, Indonesia, is known for its difficulties for startups especially internet startups. A long list of obstacles including corrupt goverment officials, lack of good internet infrastructures and  high operational-cost-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-operational-purposes (figure that out yourself!), greet us in unfriendly manner first time we build startup (at least that what people told me). Besides, Internet penetration in my country is low. The projected growth in 2007 for internet penetration is only 20%. That means there will be 50 million internet users in 2007. Well actually, that is a huge amount of potential customer isn’t it? But i don’t recall an internet business in Indonesia that made it to IPO. We Indonesian people prefer foreign based internet services, like friendster, or blogspot. I think  it is just natural, considering most of our internet services suck. Two kind of internet services that are still have relatively loyal customers nowadays are news services (like detik) and massively multiplayer online gaming (the games are mostly imported not home-brewed in Indonesia).
Maybe i should widen my target customers. Maybe it will not just for Indonesians. I think that’s what internet is all about, reaching people out of physical or even ideological boundaries. Maybe i should start somewhere else, like Singapore .. or Thailand, where internet infrastructures are better and cheaper(?).
Hmm, maybe when i do own two billion rupiahs… Indonesia will be a far better place for internet startups.
So, goodbye, good night, and remember.. don’t let those hypocritical bed bugs bite..

Here is my new blog on friendster. Can’t promise it’ll be regularly updated,though. But i can promise you it will be regularly outdated…. he he.. (funny? no?).
Why hypocritical fat bastard? I don’t know. That’s the first that crossed my mind. Well, actually there were many, such as An Awesome Blog Made by a Red Cheeked Hippopotamus, or A Blog by the most Deceptive Gorgeous Looking Man Ever Lived or simply A Blog. But i prefer Hypocritical Fat Bastard because It sounds so cooool you can name a band after it. And the best thing about the name is, i can be as hypocritical as i want to. At least i sincerely admit that i am hypocritical.. You see, i’m sooo hypocritical that i sincerely admit that i’m hypocritical. Isn’t that the ultimate hypocrisy? It equals Deep Thought’s 42

Goodbye, Good night, Don’t let the hypocritical bed bugs bite..