the council

whoa,

Last night I stayed at Andres house with the rest of the guys. It's been quite a while since the last time we gathered like that. Spent the night playing PES4 soccer game, and now my left thumb was...let's say...crippled? Heheheh...

Anyway, I'm thinking of going back to Cirebon by the end of this week. There'd be a lot of things to be done before and after. Need to reschedule...

Padi concert

alrighty,

Last night I went to this...Padi band live performance stuff...with my friends, Informatics guys. It was on Sabuga. The play should have started at 19:00 but when we got there at 18:30 there were some announcements saying that the gate would be opened at 19:20. What a bum! I mean, the schedule said "19:00". So I assumed that at that hour the Padi show should be starting or what. Phew, it appeared that designated time in the schedule was the time when they'd actually open the gate.

Anyway, as suspected, the show wasn't even started until around 20:00. It was quite a long time to wait. And while they kept us waiting, they showed us some commercials from a certain cigarettes provider which was, actually, the main sponsor for the show. They kept playing the same commercials again and again. How boring. But once in a while they showed some video clips from the band though.

As the band started the live performance, one of my friend provoked me to come front and watch from the festival section. Well, I thought why not, I mean...we could actually see the show from nearer point of view. So I ended up giving my seat to a friend of mine who just came and didn't get any seat at all.

Going to the festival section was a bad idea after all. Once I was there I realized that it was already full of people so me and my friend had to stand behind. Well, a little movements here and there and I managed to move several steps forward. But it was then when I realized that the festival section wasn't for me at all. With the height of only 165s cm I couldn't see between people's head...and hands which they started to raise them up to the air. I tried to find someplace to climb to so I could get a better view, but most of them were already occupied.

"D'oh, this sucks," so I thought to myself.

So I went back to the higher ground and found myself a place with a better view of the show but it was quite far from the stage plus no seat, so I had to stand all the time, far from the stage. Ah well, at least I still had the chance to enjoy the music.

Personally, overall last night show was around 6 out of 10. Various factors. Hmph...

written!

Well, what do you know...
I finally got the idea last night, at aroud 23:00. Since I was too lazy to do it instaneously, I decided to wait until morning. And there I was, started writing from 09:00 until 12:00. Three hours, three paragraphs. Not bad eh...?

Anyway, the theme was about free trading. Hehehehe...

need to write

ok,

OK guys, here I am, right here, trying to find something to write. Well, not for the blog, that is. For an essay. Yeah, I've been assigned to write an essay. Not very lengthy, actually. Only about 350 words or so. But the problem is, that, I couldn't find the perfect main theme that suits me. So, I spared myself a little time to walk and think about a theme. I was thinking of bringing "Miss Universe" or capitalism, but then again, those are for last resort, I guess.

Well, if you happen to have something good to write about, would you let me know? I'd appreciate that :P anyway, the essay should be submitted tomorrow afternoon at 13:00. Heh, not much of a time isn't it? But who knows!? As I was saying...just let me know if you have a crazy idea or some sort. Thanks! :-)

want to become an instructor?

anyway,

Hari ini ikutan tes tertulis buat jadi instruktur Comlabs.
I came late for the test though :P hehehehe...Harusnya tes mulai jam 09:00 so I should've been there since like...about 08:45. Tapi baru berangkat dari rumah jam 09:00, alhasil baru nyampe tempat test jam 09:15.
Ih, tapi gpp gitu. Tinggal masuk-masuk aja. Tapi keliatannya emang it was just me yang terlambat.
Then again, ternyata tesnya gak susah-susah amat ko. Banyak yang jam 09:45 udah pada selesai. Saya sendiri selesai jam 10:00, lebih dikit.
Heh, tinggal tunggu wawancara. Masih lama sih, ntar Agustus. Liburan dulu deh...

Aksi Prihatin Terhadap Skema Bisnis Anne Ahira

I got this from a friend of mine, and I kinda agree with him, so...

source click here

Walaupun rada telat, but then again:

Kami, warga masyarakat dan komunitas Internet, merasa prihatin terhadap model bisnis yang diterapkan oleh Anne Ahira. Kami keberatan bahwa bisnis ini diasosiasikan dengan melakukan marketing di Internet. Marketing yang dilakukan di Internet sebenarnya adalah sesuatu yang baik dan wajar asalkan dilakukan dalam batas-batas etika dan kewajaran.

Setelah melakukan penyelidikan, kami berkesimpulan bahwa bisnis ini hanyalah sebuah praktik skema piramida yang dibungkus dengan istilah Internet Marketing. Hal ini jelas terlihat dari apa yang harus dilakukan oleh setiap anggota Elite Team, yaitu merekrut empat anggota baru. Skema piramida sejatinya merupakan penghisapan oleh segelintir individu terhadap banyak orang. Menurut kami, Internet tidak perlu dikotori dengan pemasaran dari bisnis tidak jelas seperti itu. Silakan melakukan pemasaran via Internet sejauh masih dalam batas-batas kewajaran dan bisnisnya adalah bisnis yang baik dan jelas.

Lebih jauh lagi, kami melihat bahwa Elite Team menawarkan janji yang menyesatkan, yaitu menyatakan bahwa tujuan Elite Team adalah agar semua anggota Elite Team memperoleh penghasilan $6.688 per bulan, dan bahwa ini adalah tujuan yang realistis. Tetapi realitanya adalah: seandainya semua anggota Elite Team bekerja keras dan teguh pada regimen Elite Team, hanya 1 dari 341 orang, atau 0,29%(!) yang memperoleh $6.688 per bulan. Sangatlah jauh dari apa yang diakui sebagai tujuan realistis Elite Team.

Produk yang ditawarkan Anne Ahira/EliteTeam adalah keanggotaan representative (rep.) di Financial Freedom Society, Inc. (FFSI), di mana setiap rep. harus membayar $54,95 per bulan kepada FFSI. Setiap rep. memperoleh komisi dari menjual keanggotaan FFSI ke orang lain sehingga menjadi rep. baru. Orang yang direkrut ini disebut sebagai affiliate, atau di MLM lain dikenal dengan nama downline, dan setiap rep. juga memperoleh komisi dari penjualan yang dilakukan oleh downline-nya sampai empat tingkat downline.

Selain dari keanggotaan FFSI, boleh dibilang tidak ada produk atau jasa yang dijual oleh Anne Ahira dan Elite Team. Dalam sistem Elite Team, besar penghasilan bulanan seorang anggota tergantung dari jumlah downline FFSI-nya dan bagaimana struktur downline tersebut karena tidak ada atau hampir tidak ada penghasilan seorang anggota Elite Team selain dari komisi FFSI.

Dengan perhitungan satu anggota mendapatkan 4 anggota baru, seperti yang dipraktikkan oleh Elite Team, maka hanya dalam 17 tingkat piramida jumlah anggota keseluruhan menjadi sebanyak 5.73 miliar. Sedangkan jumlah populasi manusia keseluruhan di dunia hanyalah 6.4 miliar. Jika seluruh 5.7 miliar manusia tersebut mengikuti program ini, maka hanya 89 juta orang yang akan berpenghasilan $6.688 per bulan. Sementara 5.3 miliar lainnya merugi!

Dengan demikian kami menghimbau masyarakat Internet untuk tidak mudah terjebak oleh iming-iming kekayaan yang dijanjikan oleh Anne Ahira, Elite Team maupun pihak-pihak lainnya. Kami berharap masyarakat Internet bisa menyadari adanya model bisnis semacam itu sehingga dapat lebih waspada. Kepada redaktur media massa juga kami berharap untuk selalu melakukan investigasi terlebih dahulu ketika membahas bisnis-bisnis yang tidak memiliki kejelasan seperti itu agar nantinya tidak dimanfaatkan oleh pihak-pihak tertentu sebagai promosi terselubung.

Internet, 22 Juni 2005

Tertanda,
Oskar Syahbana

ps. Bagi rekan-rekan penulis blog yang ingin menyebarkan pernyataan sikap ini dapat menyalin seluruh isi tulisan ini pada blog masing-masing. Tetapi tidak menutup kemungkinan rekan-rekan yang bukan penulis blog untuk mengikuti aksi ini.

sunday

hello :)

Hari Minggu nih, libur. Tapi kok, kayak bukan hari Minggu ya? Biasa aja tuh. Tetep, abis bangun...tidur lagi. Harusnya hari ini maen basket sih, ama anak-anak so-called-iServasia. Tadinya malah mau jogging dulu for a bit trus baru maen basket. Tapiii, yaaa, itu tadi. Bangun sih bangun, but...i couldn't help it! Males bangettt! Plus, sebenernya emang gak niat juga sih. I mean, I'm not that good at basketball. Gak tau tuh anak-anak yang laen jadi apa kagak maennya, yang terakhir kemaren-kemaren sih katanya gak jadi. Sigh...

Anyway, kenapa ya kok hari Minggu rasanya kayak gini? Biasanya klo hari Sabtu sore ato Minggu pagi perasaan seneng banget. I mean, it felt like...just...whoa! Tapi sekarang...
Barangkali gara-gara lagi liburan nih. Jadi hari Minggu pun terasa bagaikan hari-hari biasa hahahaha :)) Bahkan, sempet juga tadi lost-track-of-days. Sempet ngira hari ini tuh hari Senin. What the?! Hehehehe...

Ya gitu deh, jadi gak jelas gitu. Seharian terkurung (or was it mengurung diri?) di dalam kamar bermain bersama Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, winamp, The Simpsons, 5cm, dkk. So that you know, I don't have any television connections. Yang tadinya biasanya nebeng nonton ama kamar tetangga, sekarang jadi gak bisa. Why? Semuanya pada gak ada. Ya iya lah! Hari Minggu gitu. Pada jalan-jalan lah, ada yang udah mudik ke kampung lah. Punya sih saluran TV sendiri. Tapi lagi rusak (since more than a month ago) dan saya belum sempet aja ngebenerinnya (bilang aja males! hehehe)Well, I'd rather stay and read some books. Kenapa saya gak mudik? There are reasons. But enough for now. We shall talk again about it later (as Kreia would say).

nar shaddaa

the dying moon,

I didn't waste much time here on Nar Shaddaa. As my character arrived, he went straight to the point on his intention coming to this place: to find Master Zez-Kai Ell, and kill him. Most of the quest were the same, except this time I played the exile to slain people. He slain the Serrocco gangs without questions, intimidated most of the refugees there, and of course used his mind tricks for fun hehehheh...

One thing different here of course. I got Hanharr instead of Mira. That's too bad though. Mira was hot! But Hanharr was totally strong and his frenzy ability could shrug off damages to zero point!

Anyway, here and there, this and that, finally I met with Master Zez-Kai Ell. Well, after a short talk, I decided to fight him. Since my character was strong enough already, so that time I didn't have to run away again like I did when facing Master Vrook (well, not actually running away though, more of...pending hehehhe).

After I defeated Zez-Kai Ell, I went to Kreia and talk to choose the path my character shall take. And I chose to be a Lord. Cool, with a Lord character I could change alignment or something. But I haven't tried it. Anyway, right after I got my higher prestige class, I went back to Dantooine to challenge Vrook. This time it was quite easy, unlike before. The damage he inflicted wasn't as big as before and Urias' power has grown, so I defeated him. One new thing: as Urias' nearly defeated Vrook, he learned a new form which I've never seen before. I forgotten the name but it added up to Force damage to ++ while consuming your own Force. I don't know, hadn't try it though.

Next thing: Master Kavar on Onderon!

escaping telos

a progress,

My darkside character, Urias Shin (a male Guardian) has finally escaped Telos' Citadel Station and were now able to explore most of the Outer Rim. Well, since I wanted to make this guy as a darksided person, so I visited Korriban for the first time.

Not much of a new thing though. But somehow, I was finally able to reveal the secret behind the holocron in the locked chamber. Just after the guys blew it up with a thorium detonator, went in and activated the holocron. It appeared that the holocron was a recording of Bastila's comment on Revan. I don't know why, but in the previous game when I use a light-sided character, the holocron wasn't activated no matter how much I tried. You see, that's just why I needed to play this again and again and again. So that there might be some other thing that I haven't found out. Exploration.

It turned out that going to Korriban didn't actually gave me lots of darkside that I needed :( all I got there were lots of nasty tukata, shyrack, and hssiss to be slain. Plus, some dead person (Master Vash). So, there weren't that much of an adventure back then in Korriban. Even when I tried to fight Sion, Kreia told everyone to run away, and they did. Since after running away from Sion, the academy's door was locked, I tried and explored the shyrack's cave to enter the corrupted tomb. But as Urias wanted to enter, he was stopped by the darkside energy field protecting the entrance. Kreia said that he wasn't powerful enough to enter the tomb and should be back again later.

Urias' second destination was Dantooine. I haven't decided though, whether this time I should be sided with the Khoonda people or the mercenaries. Before this, I've always been in cooperation with Khoonda and got most of lightside. This time I think I will kill Master Vrook but still trying to defend Khoonda. If I couldn't then the Khoonda people would just have to die.

playing games

phew,

I don't know. I just don't know. I've been spending the last one week playing game. Well, I couldn't see any other perfect time to waste instead of in this holiday. So I ended up sitting in front of the computer all day long which successfully led to arse-suffering that I got.

Anyway, I was playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Sith Lords. I think I played it for the third or fourth times or so. It's just...enjoyable, you know. The fact that you could actually explore with different types of characters and different types of alignments made me wanted to play again and again and replay it again and again and again...and again. I've tried several characters: male-female, light, guardians-sentinels, weaponmasters-watchmen. Yeah, the only think that I haven't tried were those of Consulars and Masters. I also haven't tried to aligned myself to the darkside. I just couldn't. Everytime those dialogues appeared and left me with choices that should be made, I always chose the ones that brought me to the path of the light. Maybe I should go and try to embrace the darkside once in a while. You know, like, just kill someone without hesitation and without any reasonable cause (I used to save people, instead of killing them).

I don't know. Maybe it's just me. Maybe that tiny little thing inside me always told me to stay on the path of the light no matter what. I mean, it was just a game, come on. But then again...I think to myself, "Hey, it's a game but somehow it reflected me...in some ways, any way."

At this very moment, I'm trying to replay the game for the I-couldn't-remember-how-many times. I hope I shall revealed the secrets of the darkside this time. I'm using a Guardian and probably would choose Marauder or a Lord in time.

At this point, I've cleared Peragus and still trying to get out of Telos. I've played it several times so I guess I would be able to do this quickly. After this I wanted to play again with a light alignment and become a Master. I don't know. Knowing the fact that the last time I played was a darkside, I just couldn't accept it. I needed to bring it back to the light. Pointless? Maybe. But then again, maybe it's just me.

a start

OK, I must admit it. I haven't been very consistent in my past writings. But I guess this time it shall be conserved. Suddenly I just had this sensation inside of me which indulged. When I saw the others, it gave me another piece of spirit I lost. The upcoming times may not be ever consistent as it was, but I shall try to bring what I have in mind, in here.

So, as of this day onward, 15th of June 2005, the journey begins.