Wage

by Eko Prasetyo @ 1:06 PM Yay, the third payday of my life :D The sudden rush of wealth that appears every payday seems to be uncontrollable. And I have use it so proverbially : Easy Come, Easy Go. Time to reactivate that Money Traffic List again. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

AdSense Out of Senses

by Eko Prasetyo @ 3:49 AM I have overdone it! Now I don't have rights to publish Google Adsense anymore. Blimey! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Dirty

by Eko Prasetyo @ 10:40 AM There are a lot of dirt coming to my office. Well, basically that's because oil producers have many companies attached to them symbiotically, but some companies act toward parasitism more then mutualisme. I haven't touched by them though, mostly because I'm a done-the-rest-of-the-works engineer. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Iran : Oil or A-Bomb?

by Eko Prasetyo @ 1:02 PM I just realized that it is VERY TRUE that the only reason George W. Bush wishes to invade Iran is because the oil. Iran has many oil reserves, and it's trying to switch to nuclear energy to generate power, which means less oil consumed, which means could be bad for oil business. That's why the invasion has several goals : to occupy Iran oil reserves, to stop Iran from using nuclear energy, and to pacify US-influenced neighbours of Iran. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Hellspawn ISP

by Eko Prasetyo @ 9:00 AM Like a deaf and crippled goat, my ISP has never shown enough attention to my problem, other than "thank you for your input. we'll call you later" bah! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Stupid ISP

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:39 AM That wretched spawn of devil ISP is still out-of-sync. Despite my routine call to the customer service, it's still tough as brick to log in. And I got a feeling that my call is their cue to force-sync my connection. FOOLS! FIRE YOUR IT ENGINEERS, YOU DAMN ISP! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : Plaza Semanggi Food Court, Daytime

by Eko Prasetyo @ 9:08 PM Mall in Jakarta has been built by developers as if they are building houses. And in every mall, there is a foodcourt somewhere, mostly on the toppest level. And this is one view of "Plaza Semanggi", the closest and the easiest mall to reach from my office. This picture was taken when I was bored of having lunch on the same cafetaria everyday, and decided to escape the routine and went to the mall, seeking Goiza. Gosh, what a man can do if he gets bored... | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

AdSense : Not Sensing Enough?

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:56 PM For those who haven't been aware of : I display Google AdSense on the sidebar. In the past, it had been displaying some Advertisements for either blogsites, social-relation sites, or public service ads. Now it displays RSS readers providers. Before that was Gundam Models Sellers Ads. I don't want it to display blogsites ads, and I got really annoyed by the fact that it displays them. But the latest GoogleAds displayed are either about RSS related things or Gundam Models. Let me tell you what Google AdSense is about first. If you are reading this blog, there'll be a little chance that you haven't seen the infamous "Google Searchbox". Google is de facto numero uno civil search engine site on the face of the planet. During the years, Google has become more than a search engine site. It's become a data-searching-based business enterprise. Among their products are Google AdWord and Google AdSense. Google offers AdWord for those who wish to using advertisements that display simple sentences and desired links. The costumer pays some amount of money dan google then classify them based on some keywords. These keywords are the one used by Google's AdSense engine to display advertisements on an AdSense box put on a website. When someone clicks a displayed advertisement, the displaying website's owner got paid. The AdWord costumer whose advertisements clicked must pay Google some amounts of money. The difference between what advertiser paid and what google pay for the AdSense displayer are Google's profits. Now, why do the AdSense that I put on my web displayed many blogsites advertisements? AdSense crew said that's because my blog contains a lot of word "BLOG". Even my repeated mentioning about a product on a posted blog didn't mean anything. Now, I believe it was because many blog sites pay a lot sum of money, bigger than other sites that wishes GoogleAd to displays ads related to other things mentioned on my blog. Now, when people have been clicking on the blogger ads, and the sum of money Google collected from the blogger sites had dried up, the ads are replaced with other things related to my blog : Jakarta, Gundam, RSS... Now, people haven't dried up ads on RSS related things, but they apparently have dried up Jakarta and Gundam related ads. I wonder what comes next. My blog has a lot postings on war and politics, you know :D | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

American Lies

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:25 PM This smells so very very america : BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S.-backed interim government is stepping up its propaganda war with insurgents by broadcasting videotaped interviews with suspects who appear to confess to killings, rape and theft on the orders of guerrillas. It seems America wish to slowdown Iraqi Syiah victory by showing that there's a new threat coming for Iraq from Syria. The plan -smells like it- is to drag Syria into war with current Iraq government thus halting the inauguration of Syiah Era Government, enough to give America some time to "buy" the Iraqi Syiah to follow indulge America's whims. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : A Market with Speed

by Eko Prasetyo @ 8:42 PM click to see larger image Have you ever seen a mobile market? I mean, a real market that sells almost everything, from books to beverages, from foods to fertilizers, from toys to toilet papers, loaded inside a speeding train's cars? Meet Jakarta's Inner-City Electric Trains Transport System, where passangers cramped inside old, rusty, cars whichs doors aren't able to be closed. Add that to peddlers that sells almost everything (even drugs, I presume), you can feel the heat and smells that people generate and have to bear everyday. I can't show you how cramped the train is, cause it's very dangerous in Jakarta for someone to take pictures while people are cramped on each other. But this picture shows about 2% of the maximum number of people onboard each car everyday. click to see larger image | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Contention : A Trap

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:57 PM Some people are content with the way they are. Many of them has found that their lives works. Some of them has invested their times to adapt to their lives. Few of them dares to break the everyday circle of their live. Some people said they have opinions. They have found that their opinions are backed up by facts. This makes them content. They seems to make an offense when their opinions are questioned, or when they feel they are obliged to launch one; but what they really do is defending their own and trying to make their lives undisturbed. Some people followed a leader, a proven leader. A leader that makes their lives stable and content. Soeharto was a leader that makes people’s live stable. George W. Bush is a leader who makes his people’s minds content. Few of them are enlightened, that the contention is merely a balanced flow of isothermic and endothermic reactions. It seems nothing have changed. In truth, changes happen, but they have been facing an inert state of content minds that keep reversing the reaction products back to reactant. A boy who said wolves are just animals in a tribe which worship wolves can become a target of inqusition. A man born in a mafia family has slight chance of becoming a long-lived honest policeman. A boy born into a strong religious family may be forever cut-off from religious options. Absence of options usually forces people to adapt to contention. A whore may be content that she has to split thigs and be banged hours by hours. A blue collar worker may be content to his rudimentary works and low payments if he can eat everyday. A man of office may be content that he has to face to face with PC monitor almost all day long. A public bus passanger may be content that he has to be moved to other bus because the first bus wish to turn back and catch “golden time” on reverse route. I am somewhat man of non contention. My offense is true cause I have no content live to defend. My religious options are there for me cause I have said that God wishes me to see them all and use my braincells to pick religions. Something as grand as religion is not something that can be shoved to you. I myself now can be said to be entrapped in a vicious circle of seven to four or longer. I may be able to adapt to the vicious artic-wind-blowing air conditioner, but I chose not to accept that something is slowly eating away my health, so I turn the switches of the air conditioner to off everytime I feel it is too cold. I may be able to accept that I maybe forever cut off from musics everytime I am in the office, but I chose to glue some “puny speakers” in form of modified headphones on each side of my PC monitor and enjoy diminutive -volume music. I may enjoy live as is and get paid, but instead I’m brewing dreams and plans and goals; things that are deviated from the path of my daylife. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Residual

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:16 PM I have counted that I need average of 45000 google adsense clicks per month if I wish to gain significant, weekdays replacement income. Withn the rate I'm having now, it seems impossible. But I gain income, nonetheless. The potency is there. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

FW: CURSE THE ISP !!

by Eko Prasetyo @ 9:13 AM Damn, my ISP has been "out-of-sync" for the past 5 days. Well, it has not been if I couldn't connect at all, but when I do connect, it can only connect for about 15 minutes or less...for an "always on ADSL conncection", this symptom sucks! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

A3 DESKTOP SCANNER !!!

by Eko Prasetyo @ 2:51 PM Well, what do you know...I have access to an A3 sized B&W scanner !!! It's high time to brew some imaginations and strengthens some guts. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Built Your Own SIEMENS MOBILE PHONE'S LED LIGHT!

by Eko Prasetyo @ 8:23 PM Well...this is a rather exciting add-on for that electronic-skilled among us. A Led light for the siemens mobile phones series 65 (and probably 65 too) It is this and this is how the inside look like: and this is the technical drawing: and this is the result ; Just buy a cheap, non-original handsfree, rip it off, and turn it into this rather fun accesories ! well, I won't be making this soon...because I lack the capacity of electronics assembling... ...wonder if the same diagram can be used to build an attachable laser pointer... anyone can help? Thans to Arrowz -who had enlightened me on this- from forumponsel.com , an Indonesian cellphones forums sites | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Instant News Fed To You

by Eko Prasetyo @ 8:20 PM Newsfeeds. That revolutionary part of internet that enables people to almost discard newspapers completely (I said almost, cost I live in Indonesia, and I believe local newspapers don't rely on the virtual medium yet...) has now become an integral and almost overwhelming part of my life... Everytime I boot up my PC, connect to the net and get my Opera browser going, there'll be more then 30 news fed to me. Yes, 30 at the same time! By the end of day, I'll get over 100 of them! Well, It all started because I need to be smart with 500 Mb quota of data trafficks my ISP set me. First, I tried to save on some sites by registering to their newsletters : PCMags, The Register, The Inquirer. Then I realize that Opera has a newsfeeds section on it's e-mail panel. And then I wondered what it was...I search the need, and finally I found the key : RSS. Really Simple Syndications. There are dozens of other possible abbreviations, but this is the one that keeps on sticking on my mind... I believe my first encounter with RSS was with cnet.com. I clicked on the digital camera review and multifunction device RSS links. After receiving some feeds, then I feel the urge to search for other websites I frequently visit, including those who I had register newsletters : Anandtech, PCMags, MobileBurn, BBC, CNN, Reuters, Rage3D, and a few Yahoogroups mailing lists. Now I have over an archive that listed over 5000 news headlines I have accepted...making it somekind of virtual lybraries of headlines. What? Oh, Headlines? Yes! Most RSSs give you a list of headlines only, with a short sentence explaining the main idea of a news and the link to that news. That's why I love RSS newsfeeds. You don't have to actually visit the websites, which - in my opinion- a rather waste of valuable time since I mostly read just the headlines and some excerpts. With newsfeeds, you just have to read the given headlines, and after that read the whole content of the headlined news. By this way, I have been saving a lot of valuable time and data traffic. But the consequence is that I can sometimes feel that the incoming news can be somewhat overwhelming...especially if I have been away from the Internet. Thousands of headlines flooding your newfeeds section is not that easy to swallow... | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Tantra Online Memorable Moments #2

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:37 AM click to see larger image Mythgarrh : COME ON! COME ON, YOU IDIOT SPAWNS OF DEVIL!!! IS THAT YOUR BEST???? HA??? aaah..the joy of being able to do a genocide.... | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

A Mixture Hell and Heaven

by Eko Prasetyo @ 8:12 PM Internet. A Mixture of heaven and hell, you ask? Yes, ma'am, it is. When I had my first contact with internet, it is a blessing; an enlightment; a path that looks so clear and very reassuring. Pictures come to me by the command of my fingers. School projects were easier to be completed because the data is there to pick. That lady across the sea was getting closer everyday through e-mails and chats. Games are a lot easier due to the free walkthroughs that the internet provides. Even money can be saved because I don't have to buy newspapers. When you thread the internet to fulfill your basic, informational needs, internet is a heaven. But if you turn greedy or be careless and don't watch your step...internet will suddenly turn into an encroaching hell with devil spawns in form of virus, worms, spams, spywares, ad-wares, hijackings, phishings, and so much more. These days, relying on web browser to navigate the web and antivirus to keep viruses and worms at bay is not enough. You need to have anti-spyware set to block spyware or other malicious codes that is trying to plant themselves into your PC. You also might need firewalls. In the future, there'll be plenty of other new forms of threat from internet, and you need to install new forms of anti-threats. Internet is a mixture of heaven and hell, with the portion of hell becoming more and more significant then heaven's | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Gundam Astray Models !

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:02 AM I encountered Gundam modelling kit when I was at 3rd year on senior highschool. A friend brought his 1/144 scale Gundam....man I forgot....but I think it was from Gundam Wing. I got excited when I saw it! Robots has been a part of my childhood, and somehow the idea of assembling a robot seems very attractive to me. So, during these years, I have bought many 1/144 scale models : Gundam Airmaster, Gundam Leopard, Gundam Virsago Chestbreak, Gundam X Divider, Gundam Epyon, Wing Gundam Zero, Gundam Aesculapius (is it? I forgot the name..and). Then a friend bought me a 1/144 scale RX78GP01 Gundam Zephyrantes. It was a High Grade model, and very poseable if compared to other 1/144 models. All of the 1/144 models are ruined, victims from abuse from small villains called cousins...boy how you have to not let your plastic models away from you for a loooooong time, like leaving them at home while you're taking college on other city. My mother visited me once, and she brought me all of my ruined plastic models...saying that my smaller cousins had touched them, and their cursed touch changed all of them into some beasty looking, deformed plastic models... So I started collecting again. I bought 2 1/100 scale models : GM Quell and Zeta Gundam. Both are now damaged because of my dormitory lifestyles and the fact that my room doesn't have enough place to display them properly...they keep falling down. But they are now stay alive albeit a few missing parts...damn. It's 2005, and I have my own income. I thought, it's high time to start collecting Gundam Plastic Models again. And so I have been doing it. For the past 2 months, I have bought 2 1/144 scale models from Gundam Seed (VERY COOL ANIME) series : Gundam Astray Red Frame and Gundam Astray Blue Frame. And here they are : Gundam Astray Red Frame Gundam Astray Blue Frame Both are now attached to the top of my monitor, giving me double portion of reasons to make my hands busy when I have nothing else to do :D Planning to buy that Strike Rouge I.W.S.P and CGUE D.E.E.P ARMS...they are both overarmed type models, and looks so COOL!! And then that complex Freedom Gundam + M.E.T.EOR, and finally the ultimate : 1/60 STRIKE GUNDAM WEAPON SYSTEMS! But those last two will cost me half of my monthly earning each....so expensive... So why don't you click the Adsense and help me raising fund for myseld so I can buy those things, he he he :D | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

HTML Digesting

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:28 PM As you've seen, my blog is so full of advertisement. Some of its entries have advertisments supplied by amazon.com. I also have a google adsense placed on the sidebar. And the sidebar itself acts like some kind of virtual catalogue, a reference for things sold. I have decided to make good use of internet, and this ad-filled blog is one of them. I also display pictures on some of the entries, whether posted through hello bloggerbot or supplied from villagephotos. To be honest, I first planned this blog to be some kind of diary, as a log of my life, as a place to share my thoughts, and as a display of what I am. I think I'm special (all people on this world must think themselves as special) and the world needs to know about my specialties. It's up to them to judge if I'm special enough or just some ordinary guy from across the net. And then I hit "AdSense"..and the rest is life changing. I hit amazon.com, and then mediaplazza.com, advertising for them freely, hoping that every revenues gain by them through me will make me a little bit richer. And so the advertisements come, attached on my blog site, adding colors to otherwise dull-looking site. And to incorporate them, I need to understand HTML. HTML, Hypertext Markup Language, the basic language of the internet. Like english to the real world, HTML is the language of the cyberworld. You see, this blogsite has a very open, highly editable template. When blogger post a blog entry, he/she merely add an entry to a blogger database. How to display the blog is entirely dependant on how the template is engineered. The template itself consists of many XML and HTML syntaxes. All you need to manipulate them is basic understanding of some HTML tags. And since all of the codes for the ads come in HTML form, all you need to do is put them into your template. At first, I was satisfied by adding the ad codes into my template so they can be shown on the sidebar. Learning how to put the codes on the right place was a very tiring process for someone who was a person who understood a HTML code as "that labyrinthine mix of letters that makes a web page appears." And then I felt that things were not right. The things on my blog looks uncoordinated. My blog was not beautiful. So I do some trial-and-error processes to set my blog right. First I removed the background images that was on the chosen templates. Then I adjust the colorings. Green hues are natural, pleasant. And I choose softer shades of green to make it more pleasantly. Then I relocated the sidebar, from the right-hand side to the left-hand side. Then I align the paragraph on the blog entries to the left. Then I align everything on the sidebar to the center. Then I realized many things need to be fixed. The ads on the bottom of the blog entries are also aligned to the left, where it will be more pleasant looking if it is aligned to the center. The pictures loaded through hello bloggerbot is also aligned to the left, and they were much more elegant if they were put on the middle. And the "click to see larger image" is put after the captions, I desired it to be put below the pictures. And using the bloggerbot allows me to post only one picture at a time, and thus limiting my creativity. Finally, I decided to understand "that labyrinthine mix of letters that makes a web page appears." to make blog looks better and more arranged. I haven't got a large blog, and it's still very repairable because of it. I read the html source of webpages, try to understand their meaning and the intended results of each tags. And when things got too heavy, I bought a cheap book, about US$1, about basic things of HTML. I read it, I implemented the materials to mend my blogs, and I draw inspiration from the book. My blog is now much desirable, much pleasant looking. I am now able to crawl through the jungle of letters that is my blog template without much problems like I used to, and I'm now inspired to do many, many plans to make my blog more pleasant looking. so keep coming to my site to see the changes. Hopefully your next visit here will make you bookmark this blog. And hopefully you'll click that bookmark everyday | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : A Book Sighting

by Eko Prasetyo @ 9:20 AM click to see larger image Middle class people of Jakarta have always crowded bookstores placed on a mall, especially the one like Gramedia or Gunung Agung. People of all ages and all type. But ares that has the highest density of people in those bookstores are the comics areas, especially the new-released comics corner. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : A View by The Hanging

by Eko Prasetyo @ 9:11 AM click to see larger image I've written in this blog that I cling on buses's doorframes. This is the view of what it looks like to see things while hanging from a bus doorframe. The bus I was on was cruising through an elevated road, and I took the chance to take picture of the roads below. See the traffic jam? Those are cars of people who wants to get home after working hours. See the blurry blue thing bottom left? That was a helm from a speeding motorbiker. There is a risk of getting hit one one of those speeder, but years of adaptation makes me and those speeder to develop a way to communicate : the honk and I push myself inside. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Cold Blood

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:12 PM I have been thingking if I'm a coldblooded human. I mean not like George W. Bush, but more like reptiles. I just can't stand cold environment, especially artificial ones (much like the one on my office). Each drop on the temperature level makes me closer and closer to immobility. And sunshines make me alive and ready for the world! But put me back to my freezer blowed office, and that quickening goes vaporized. That's bad. VERY BAD! i'm an office man, I don't suppose to hate my office. Have to ADAPT! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Preachers : Influences

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:39 PM Every civilizations, every religions must have persons whose role is to preach, to guide in ways of spiritual matters. Their role is sometimes to act as reference, as guidance. But not rarely, they become leaders or controllers of the people under them. Preachers, no matter what level of responsibility they must undergo, must have a certain level of ability to speak the matters they address to people. This ability is the core of their role, the basic by which their listeners or followers decide to agree with him or not. And with this ability, they influence their followers. With higher level of speaking ability, Preachers are able to manipulate those who listens to them. Seeing this ability, it is an obligation to preachers to has a strict way of logic that is very adhered to the teaching they give their followers. In cultures where preachers is regarded highly or referred as leaders, their ability to influence and manipulate their followers has often proven to be dangerous. In Europe, during the Dark Ages, Catholic churches had became dominant forces. Their ability to put many royalties of Europe under their influences had been proven not a good thing. Under the name of trinity and all false logics that follows, and on the basis of unquestionable dogma, the preachers teach that they are the representative of God, and all kingdoms that has accepted the Dogma must listen to them, or be sentenced with perils. In many parts of Dark Ages Europe, monarchy governments are nothing but vessels for a ruthless theocracy. At first, monarch was strong and people followed them. But when preachers had their ways, people followed the church's, thus making the position of monarchy families weak. They have no choice but to ally more with churches to maintain their a good ruling image in people’s eyes. Highly regarded positions had been proven to be poisonous to theocracies. Soon, the attaching monarchs influenced them, making them arrogant and merciless. Under the name of god, and using kings authoritative powers, it had not been rare that forms of culling of “heretic activities” occurred. During this merging of monarch and theocracy, a phrase “God Chosen King” was born. “God Chosen King” is nothing but theocracy’s will to use monarch as tools to maintain their own high position. They gave monarch a “Divine Authorization” to rule, hoping that the monarch think their powers were given by god through the churches, and thus obey the churches. The epitome of this theocracy-monarch symbiosis was the culling of Andalusia. Monarchs allied under the influence of decreases drive the corrupted high-civilization of Islam of Andalusia down. During this era, the ruthless inquisition, the most advanced form of theocracy’s arrogance was born. But right after this era, Renaissance was born, and the power of churches to influence monarchs has been slowly, but surely, diminishing in Europe. Monarchs themselves are one by one going down. That was Europe under the influence of preachers. In many parts of the world, monarch civilizations listened to preachers. And analogous to the European examples. Monarch-theocracy symbiosis formed. The Son of Heaven in China, The Offspring of Venus in Rome, The Mahabharata (a tale, but it’s contains many references to historical things of India under Hindu). Preachers gave the divinely authorities to a family to rule, secured their own positions, and using the monarchs to maintain their teachings, and all privileges that were given to themselves that fit to their teachings. It seems that the influence of preachers are the main reasons of wars that has come before and after modern era. more of it later. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Happy New Year!

by Eko Prasetyo @ 8:46 PM The Age of True Year Worth Commemorated is now 1426 The Age of The True Teaching is approaching the end of 15th centuriy The Year of Proving Is Coming Near. We Must Endure The Pains that Shall Come We Must Resist The Seductions that Shall Besiege Us We Must Keep Ourself Sane We Must End It All With True Honour The We Shall Have One Good Laugh Before It All Ends Happy New Hijriah Year!!! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : Barbershop

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:54 PM A view from a regular barbershop in Jakarta. Well, I guess it's not much different from any barbershops around the world, except for the cheaper seats and less sterile razors. click to see larger image | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 1 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : Jam by Crossers

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:51 PM You can see that in Jakarta, people crosses roads on places they shouldn't. Yes, there are zebra crosses and crossing bridges. But it's the unmended crossing habit of people that makes this possible to happen. click to see larger image | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : A Highway Crash

by Eko Prasetyo @ 3:57 PM There was a rather terrible accident happened on a highway just across my office. Below are the pictures related to the accident taken from the height of my office. This is the view of the aftermath of the crash. Look at the circled part carefully. There are trailer blocking the highway, a truck got banged out of track, and crates got trashed on the highway. And this is the view of the traffic caused by the accident. It goes for miles and miles and miles and miles! Making a city full of traffic jam, jammed! And this is the traffic taken from closer look, 2 hours later! Boy, it sure was an experience you'd never want to have. The traffic goes for hours. Fortunately, I was only 20 minutes late from the average time when I got home. The traffic only hits the main, golden routes. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

BACK ON LINE!

by Eko Prasetyo @ 12:19 PM BLESS YOU BE, GOD! I'M BACK ONLINE AFTER 4 DAYS! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Under Contract

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:59 AM An under-contract, a young permanent, and me had a rather interesting talk this evening. She had became unsettled about how employees are...well, employed at my office. She herself has been under contract since December 2003, that means a year. She apparently had asked a new employee, positioned at legal departement, whether her contract is Temporary Contract or Under Outsourcing. The legal girl said Temporary Contract. That's how she became unsettled. You see, Under Outsourcing means you're not working under the company, but rather the Cooperation of the company's employees. It can be said that you're a rented item to the company where your duties are done. She had been working on her office for more than a year, and still yet her boss doesn't see her fit to be recruited into the company. She felt like she shall be a rented item forever, and she got upset about it. She works in a support departement, which's workers are put under order from the head of the division where any worker is put into. Mine is a sowehow "businees's core" division, and she works under management of the division, but not part of the division. We're both not, officially, part of the company. I am, myself, if seen from this blog perspective, is a rented item. We're both under contract of the Employee's Cooperations which supply rented workers to divisions. The discussions begin with : why a worker of a core business division be put under "rented status" ? The young permanent said that every division manager has their own policies. My division manager apparently has no intention to make me, a fresh graduate, a part of the company yet, because I still need time to mature, and the division still needs to polish me here and there. I can accept that logic. As far as I can understand, I'm now being paid to learn things, which makes me a happy man. I got new knowledge, I got money of my own, and I got to see some hot, smart dressed chicks of the building every office day...you got the point, right? Now, the undercontract has been, well, undercontract since december 2003. The division manager has no intention to make her a permanent employee, plus, according to her story, the manager has no intention to understand the scope of her job, which is beyond the manager's expertise of area. She intends not to extent her contract. The division of her origin is slowly turning into an outsourcing company, different from the company she works now. That makes thing more complicated for her, and she had enough of things, so she said she'll quit when her contract ends. Just few days ago, a senior employee is put his contract to end. The fact that his desk has not been cleaned up and cleared of his insignia made me think : If my contract reaches its end, will my cubicle be cleaned up and made as if I haven't been there before? This contract things put things on my seems growing-day-by-day brain capacity. I'm young, I'm smart, I'm tough, and I need to learn the world. I need to be ready. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta In Pictures : Growing Metropolis

by Eko Prasetyo @ 8:04 PM click to see larger image This is a view from a building construction seen from my office's floor. As you can see, there are plenty of regular houses, and even a wide open space between the built building in front left and that on-construction building on the middle. Some of those regulars houses are rented home or dormitory for employees working in the building on the front. Years from now, those houses might have been bulldozed and replaced by an apartement. And that wide, green open space migh turn into a public sport area, or worse, another office scyscrappers. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Back To Exercise

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:51 PM I was a man better in term of muscular straining exercises when I was a high school student. I did long walk every day. I clinked on a speeding bus door frame everyday. I clinked on two fingers and a toe on an unclosed hydraulic door frame of a overloaded speeding mass rapid transport everyday. I did soccer game, although not regularly. The train thing was the hardest strain on my muscles I got adapted to during those days. Back In the college years, the only regular exercise I got is walking to and from and around campus. I had played soccer, but not as much as I did on high school years. I also do Kent, but that was for only about 4 months or so. As you can see, I was very not a sportsman. Things got worse, as I've said in previous posts, that after my college graduation I got less and less exercise. I mostly stay at home in front of computers or TV or dinner table. I was getting more and more lazier. My bodily frugality hit me hard when I became a man of the office. I couldn't barely keep my head up after 2 paw, the Air Cooler was a killer, and the long commuting to and from was adding insult to injury. A month after working, asthma caught in, creeping mercilessly from day to day, It finally broke out and chained me to bed. A month later, now, I feel much I've much more adapted. I think that's because I have been having my old muscles straining activities back. I hang on bus door frames again, I walk long, aimlessly, everyday during restores, I shuttle back and forth fro m my colleague's corner, and I've been weightlifting again. poor dumbbells, your dust is so thick.... Now the air conditioner feels tamed (other than the fact that I've made a little "adjustment" to the office air conditioning system), I can survive officer's, and I can sleep for less duration in weekdays. I swear that I'll increase my exercise portions, gradually. Now this whole affair put other question on my mind : how on earth can a man of the office stay fit, able to exercise regularly, and still able to perform his day-to-day job? The answer I need to search for myself, for the benefit of it is for me to feel. anyway, I adjust the air conditioning system by switching off the blowers for a secretary's area, and sealed off my above-head blower with a sealing band. I think I'll switch off my boss area's blowers, If my guts have become stronger. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Boredom Walk Off

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:54 PM I'm a walking type of man, that's how I gain my regular exercise. I walk for about a 3 quarters a hour a day during my highschool years. And then I walk for about 2 hours a day during my college years. When I'm out of colleges, I walk around inside and outside my home and doing some staircase sprint for about 1 hour a day. The walking is gradually decreasing when I'm put in office. If I can walk for 20 minutes a day during these office days, I'll call it special. My job is engineering. I work with data collecting and manipulating, some words processing, some spreadsheet processing, drafting, drawing charts, calculating, and all kind of stuff done in front of computer. And we all know that working in front of computer means relatively static position, sitting. And everyone around me has this funny joke about my belly, saying "how many months?", "who's the father?", "Wow, you're getting prominent, lower-partly...". This whole static sitting things has somehow disrupt my nervous system that keeps on waiting for me to move my walking muscles. There's time when I got bored with my desk, and I walk off it into my colleague's. But that's not enough. Till I finally decided to do "What the heck, I'll walk out!". So I walk out of office, hit the elevator caller "down, please!" button, and got a 30 levels decrease. By the way, I think my ear interior will have some suffering soon because of the wild falling acceleration of the elevator. And then I walked out of the chill-filled-blood-freezing building, into the open air, basking in the sun, walking. I simply went into the next building, about 10 minutes of walking down the pedestrian, and entered the building, walk to the atm, about another 2 minutes of walking, do the-atm-things, and then walk out. I walked out of the building from it's rear entry, which if I use it, there'll be 10 minutes of walking before I arrive into my office's building. I enjoyed the warm sun, the warm pedestrian atmosfer, and the hot, smart dressed, beautiful babes that I got chance to walk pass by. And when I finally arrive to my building, I got a feeling of some kind refreshed body and soul. I have found myself one antidote for my own's office boredom. A pretty lass told me to go to the men's room and stare at the mirror. I got narcistic when doing that, so I decided to do other things instead. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta In Pictures : Street Market

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:17 PM click to see larger image Normal busy morning view for me. It's on a crossroads area of a very-very busy market. click to see larger image | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : The Vista of Scyscrappers

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:03 AM click to see larger image A view of Jakarta taken from a 31st floor of a building. By the way, the building I was on don't have floor #4, 14, 24, 34, 44, 54. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Jakarta in Pictures : A Cramped Underground Mall

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:00 AM click to see larger image Above is the cramped people in an underground mall on a bright sunny day. The mall itself is under a huge bus station. Can you guess where it is? click to see larger image | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |