Day 30, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:20 AM Had a long meeting combined with long meeting, so that there's not much I can do about my work. Decided to go to a siemens customer center nearby, but canceled it after no one received my call when I contact them. Finished one art that can be found at my STRIVESTUDIO Continued my diet, and somehow I am losing my wild erotic desires that way. I guess those desires are fueled by excess of energies, eh? Should have known that. tags: Journal | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 29, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:36 AM Finished reading Sword of Shannara (a monster of a novel), and finally found out why this one is a legend. It is a great novel with so many plots and climaxes of personal battles and all out colossal war. And yet it teaches us something: for a problem so large, often the solution is a simple and very much overlooked thing. I finally wrote one more philosophical entry, one which I have been looking to write for about 3 months now, but have to go through my own personal ups and downs first before grasping the mood to write it. Look for "Weapon to end all Weapons - Part 1" article. It should be above this post. I am currently reading "The Elfstones of Shannara", the next book in the "Shannara" series. So far it's good, and it takes a somewhat different angles than "Sword". tags: Journal Philosophies Shannara | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 29, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 9:11 AM Had a basic firefighting techniques course. The trainer first presented the slides which informed the ignorants on what is fire, what is a "Triangle of Fire", types of fire, and how to avoid and conquer fire. Afterward, the trainer taught us how to use wet sacks and fire extinguishers to put out a small, controlled fire, and we have to try extinguishing them ourselves. The basic of firefighting is simple: fire is present only if there are 3 elements come into contacts: heat, fuel, and oksigen. remove one, and the fire will cease to be. It is then simply the matter of identifying the source of the heat, the forms of fuel, and the source of oksigens and then seperate them together, right? Nooooooooooo! The matter is more complicated than that. But I won't go far, as you can find more of fire and fire extinguishing on your own. What I can tell you is the fact that I was very excited about the whole firefighting business. It was a new and exotic thing for me, and as for dozen others new and exotic thing, it's an intriguing thing. It is so intriguing that as I was walking home, I decided to take up the role of the office Fire Warden as soon as the position is open. It's not day to day work, but to it sounds exciting now. There are some photos taken by yours truly during the training sessions displayed on STRIVESTUDIO. Check them out to get a grasp on how the heat of the training went :) tags: Journal Firefighting | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 27, 2008

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:25 AM Well..nothing big happens, although I'd love to say that I was fresher than usual days, and my physical exercises have gone uprated and my strict diet has been going well without me have to suffer a lot. He he, actually something big did happened. I am in the process of purchasing something very big, something that has been a dream for about 8 years now. What it is? I can't tell you, because I am a paranoid and worry that you'll steal the idea from me ;) It is very expensive, but It will last for years to come!! Looking forward for a firefighting course session today, every employees who are often deployed for field duties must know how to fight fire. Perhaps there will be nice photos coming out of this course. Stay tune on my STRIVESTUDIO to see if there is a new photo or not on the sidebar gallery. See you later. And oh yeah, if you are interested in online investments, read this trick, it is simple and very much automatic, found by yours truly!! tags: Journal Firefighting Investments | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 26, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:57 AM More rain came to Jakarta, and every media is flooded with news of flooding. It is quite a shame, considering that everyone knows exactly why the flood comes, but no one, especially the government, no anything concret about it. Everyone knows that illegal loggings are running rampants, perhaps the victims of the flood and avalanche themselves are illegal loggers, yet the local authorities seems to turn a blind eye on them. It seems money that floods in from Malaysia and China is enough for them to sacrifice their own peope's lives. It will be like that, if the authorities are the extension of the ruling parties, and the ruling parties themselves are the extensions of greedy businessmen, businessmen who know nothing about empathies and think more about their own wealths. Rules are made to accomodate the capital owners, not the people, who are counted only as another resource and not counted as souls similar to them. For the people, instant, uneducational, and public-relation-stinks "compensations" are made, without thinking about the root of the cause itself: corruptions. That's enough for me, for longer entry on this topic, stay tuned tomorrow. tags: Journal Politics Floods Illegal Loggings China Malaysia | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 25, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:13 AM Huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Bored. The sky has been a leaden dome, with thick clouds and pale sun all over, making my days gloomier. Not only that, it seems that I have been very boooooored with my life here: doing seven to four without clear aims and only the MP3 player to reduce my loneliness. Anyway, now that it seems I have enought sleep, my mind is somewhat clearer and my energy has returned (albeit not as fiery as before, I have found a way to keep it in check), I think it's time for some philosophical/conspiracy thoughts (those who has been following this blog for long know that I am sometimes a downright hermit). I now have several topics, and as it used to be, I'll write them in the weekends. This week, it will be about another conspiracy theory. Stay tuned. tags: Journal Philosophies Conspiracies | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 24, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:30 AM It's been raining in the afternoon for 2 days. Exactly after I reached halfway from office to my home the rain comes and forced me to take shelter. Albeit of being sheltered, I'm still wet because the rain has been accompanied by strong, resilient wind. Already parts of Jakarta are suffering from flood (like always, every year). And man, I have been totally bored lately. Bored and sleepy. Lack of sleep, that's obvious. What I can't stand is lack of variety in life. I wake up at same time spot every day, pray, blog, play Utopia, read newsfeeds, check my Marketiva account, pray, take breakfast, take a bath, dress up, go to office, be in hell, take lunch, do some autosurfings, pray, continue be in hell, pray, come home, play, read, sleep, pray, do some arts, and then sleep. Always the same routine on the weekdays...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGHHHH!!! tags: Journal routines Cellphones | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 23, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:23 AM Back to office, back to striving for a living. A guy went out of town to take a course, a guy is taking days off, and a guy just retired. Those absences made me a very lonely person with only my more than a year old MP3 player and cellphone for company. My cellphone had mysteriously cured from whatever illness that have been plaguing it since last week. I am now able to use it without problems. That's a relief.. I thought I have to replace it with a new cellphone.. My Arts have been receiving good comments lately, showing that I do own some talents that can be considered good by the world. It's up for me now to fully optimize the potency and perhaps monetize from it. I am starting a diet, thinking that my stomach has been growing "forward" and looks "ugly" to me. I eat breakfast and lunch, but I skip dinner and drinking calcium-rich milk instead. Combine that with little push-ups that I have been doing, I think I can have more decent looking and healthier figure in the future. tags: Journal Diet Arts | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 22, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:09 AM Sunday, day of heavier exercises and longer sleeps. With more push-ups, dumbel liftings, and sit-ups, my body yearns for sleeps afterward. I completed the CGUE type D.E.E.P ARMS 1/144 HG model kit I bought on saturday. It turned out to be cool enough, with its 2 shoulder beam cannons and one ship cutter beam sword. I continued reading The Sword of Shannara (It's a monstrous book of nearly 1000 pages). I have a feeling that this perhaps the 2nd best book in Shannara series, right after The First King of Shannara. I continued finishing Caylin Dayna first art, which's sketch can be found on STRIVESTUDIO. Now I have to make myself ready, body and soul, for another rigirous office week !! tags: Journal Gundams Shannara Arts | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 21, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:42 AM Had a spending spree yesterday. Bought 2 more Shannara books: The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara. I also bought 1/144 HG CGUE D.E.E.P ARMS model kit. It was a rather refreshing experiments, walking around in mall, looking at expensive things and beautiful, modern, liberal girls. It surely a way to forget daily routines before monday strikes back. And I finally completed watching Full Metal Alchemist, an EXCELLENT Anime (japanese cartoon) TV Series. It is a perfect blend of humors, philosophies, actions, and tragedies. tags: Journal | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 20, 2005.

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:02 AM Got a very disturbing inability to focus yesterday. I don't know what caused it, I haven't found out why I tend to lack focus when I am at the office. It feels like I am filled with so many uncertainties. It feels like no matter how I do my work, things will go wrong. Perhaps it was the fact that I am lack training for my profession. Or perhaps it was the fact that I was extremely sleepy. Perhaps it was my bipolarity on the balance, ready to succumb to evil side if I snap. Or perhaps I am simply tired and had enough of works for one week. tags: Journals Bipolars focus | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 19, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:29 AM Hmm..what should I write today? Oh well, a quickie perhaps. My cellphone is dying. I have to bring it to nearest service center tomorrow. Playboy is coming to Indonesia, and every moslem clerics are on the move to oppose it. Good then, as its coming symbolizes the coming of total liberation and more natural disasters. I am thinking about something more and more everyday: "the only solution to the problems of the world today is to detach ourselves to old, decaying, sin weighted principles and started pure" More for it in the future. tags: Journal Solutions Cellphones | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 18, 2005

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:12 AM Missed dinner the previous night, and had lighter and less mind hazy day, perhaps due to the fact that emptier stomach generates less energy. Those erotic imaginations still hover, but not as heavy as usual. Perhaps my very light physical exercises help to channel my energy to other things and less to the erotic imagination. And I ahve Thrown out a rather philosophical question to my YM friends. The question is: "After everything has been said and done, what will tomorrow bring?". Not many answered, but the answers themselves are various. Of course, there's no absolute answer to "what will tomorrow bring?". A rather practical guy answered "Today". He answered after the date was changed. My cousin answered "No one knows. We can only hope for better day with good planning" My friend asnwered "Past is one noone can change, but tomorrow is one that noone can plan to do things with it." A rather prodigal younger friend aswered "Surprises, like any other tomorrow". I liked the last answer. It has this "positivity" aura about it. What about you, what is your answer to "After everything has been said and done, what will tomorrow bring?" tags: Journal Philosophies Hungers | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 1 blogger comments | | |

Day 17, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:39 AM Something has been bothering me. It is the escalating tendency inside of me to have comfort in submitting to rather mischievous state of mind whenever I went uncertain or unfocus. It gives me a certain boost of confidence and clarity, and help me put off things that disturb my mind. Whenever I am tired and waning, I just have to submit to it, let it crawls on my spinal nerves, climb up to my brain, and I have a boost to my willpower and inspirations. If in those conditons I make decision to submit to wise thingking, all I will end up with are more confusions and doubts, resulting in more wasted energy. But If I am fresh and waxing, wise thingking is much more convenient to embrace on. Is that bipolar mental state? Perhaps. Whatever that is, I know how to choose mental states now, based on my conditions. tags: Journal Mischievous Bipolar | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 16, 2005

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:03 AM Had to do without lunch, which tortured all the rest of office hours and must make do with several snacks available (thanks God there's still snack available). Small dose of migrain added itself to the torture, making my day worst. Not to mention the fact that my cellphone, my trusty old Siemens M65 has shown signs of old age and need for retirement. I have been planning to replace it with Siemens SXG75. But since the later is not for release here in Indonesia til around May 2006, I just have to wait forSiemens S75. Sigh, another big spending looms in near future. And a colleague had to take a sick leave, his bladder was upset. He has always had upset stomach when absent. Thanks God the burden of his job didn't fall on me. tags: Journal Migrains Cellphones | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 15, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:53 AM Had tremendous (if not excessive) amount of sleep for the last 2 days. Saturday was like an accumulation of leftover sleep hours, the hours that couldn't be satisfied in workdays. Sunday's sleep hours was like a cure for my strained muscles, after doing a heavy amount of physical exercise (well, heavy is relative, my "heavy" might be others "kid's play"). Not only that, it also cured the annoying headache that came with those strained muscles. Boy, it's such an annoying headache that I was descended into the evil part of me, where evil thoughts reign and mental delusions dominates. But after awoke in this morning, I feel rather refreshed. If I didn't skip dinner, I might be feel fresher. But I think it is enough now that my mind is no longer dominated by evil minds. Well, part of my excercise includes long march in the morning, where I took photos that can be seen on STRIVESTUDIO. They are on sidebar (or bottombar, for sometimes when loaded on I.E it becomes one), the latest landscape photos. Now I have to begin another workdays cycle. Better prepare for those descents into evil part again... tags: Journal Excercises Evils Delusions | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 14, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:33 AM Now I realize that I somehow have the urge to not love my home. Perhaps it's just the accumulation of the boredoms I have for many things. Perhaps it's that urge to have someone been pressing me subliminally. As for now, I am thinking of shedding many desires and keep those who simply important to me. First, I'm forsaking the desire to have a business outside my office besides Forex Trading. It's too much for me, and the burden at my office is getting mountainous since the departure of that resignee. Second, I'm leaving the desire to write a novel for it's too time consuming, and I don't have much spare times left. Three, I'm keeping my desire to make a comic, although it won't be a good one or world-wide popular, but it'll be done and be presented to the world as free comic. I am still perfecting the arts which can be seen on STRIVESTUDIO. Third, I'm keeping my forex trading session, even for the sake learning. Hopefully, when I can get a grasp on it and make a steady stream of profits for one year and Marketiva lasts, I'll offer my skills to the world in a manner of forex pool account. For now, it'll simply be the learning. Fourth, I'm keeping minor physical activities such as push-ups and sit ups. My muscles are very minimal, and my stomach has grown silly. I need to return to my manly muscular state which have been forgotten for 10 year. And fifth, I'll do good to every attractive girls I can find and get connected to, hoping that one of them will be synchronized fairly with me. New year resolutions? Bah, more like a down man's aspirations and desires. tags: Journal Aspirations Desires | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 1 blogger comments | | |

Day 13, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:23 AM It went drearier each day. The more I try to seek escape from the three haunted habits: procrastinating, erotic fantasizing, and switching focuses, it seems like those things were talking to me, saying that without them I am nothing. Of course, I realize that without them I am not what I am now, perhaps better, perhaps one that no one will recognize. Perhaps I am already comfortable with what I am, fearing that if I change for the better, everyone will take notice and laugh at me, thingking of me as a hypocrite. Fear, and I am a coward man for a start. For now, I think I'll change little things day by day, starting with doing little push-ups daily. tags: Journal Habits Fear | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 12, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:21 AM Keep on having bad mood morning, waking up in terrible mood. Ever since I returned to the office, this mood has been there everytime I wake up. A mood that keeps me from waking up fresh, excited, and ready. It is a mood that is cold, weakening, and attempt to nail me into my bed. And worst, it amplifies my most dreadful hard-to-let-go instinct: erotic fantasies. As you might have seen in STRIVESTUDIO, I have the talent to draw sexy woman, in (and out) of their lingeries. They are born out of my wild fantasies that have been there ever since (even before) I reached puberty. Like so many boys, I have erotic fantasies throughout my life. But I have a strong feeling that the fantasies in me are stronger, given the fact that my fantasy making neurons seem to be far more active than most boys. That erotic instinct is the one that I have been trying to subdue to no avail. It seems to have grown stronger these later days, perhaps for the reason that I have stated on my post yesterday. It's a bothersome thing, but somehow, like so many people that have been doing bad things over and over till it is done automatically, I have no logic in me to let it go, fearing that without it, my life will be emptier. Eventhough it's not drugs or alcohols, it's still a taxing habits: draining my energy to keep it in check and locked inside me. The urge is syphoning my energy and I have a feeling it shall be my undoing. tags: Journal Erotic Fantasy Instinct | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 11, 2005

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:35 AM I need a girlfriend. That's an urge that has been building inside of me. An urge so understandable if one is to look into my age and my long history of being a single guy. Being single means having much liberty. I enjoy my liberty, I do. There are so many things I love to do now that I have my own income. Drawing comics, trying various online investments, even maturing my forex trading techniques. But no matter how much I enjoy my independence and how rebellious I am, I am still surrounded by so many conventional values: people of my age tend to be married, people of my age tend to be pushed here and there to get married and led a settled life, people of my age already married and some even already have children. These tendencies have somehow polluted my soul and planted the seed of family making instinct in me. But in rate that I am now, I don't see that having a girlfriend, leaves alone marrying, is close at hands. I am not a charming man, all I have is my somehow elite job and my skills in written words. My mother is a racial one, hates people from certain two tribes and has done so much to make me unable to get far with girls from those tribes. My father is a man whose wishes are his commands, a man whom I have been trying to be liberated from, and now he wishes that I marry a girl from specific tribe with specific educational background. My own life now is hovering between my working life, my investments seeking, and my comic making. No time to chase girls. The girls I am interested in have all been taken. Add those with the fact that there are my mother sisters, noisy old ladies, who frequents my home almost at daily basis. One of them is in state of subnormal mental state. Now you see why marrying, for me, is still far from my grasp? On my mind now, if I am marrying soon, it won't be from love, it will be from necessity. It will have much "forced" things in it. tags: Journal Life Marriage | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 1 blogger comments | | |

Day 10. 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:05 AM Day by day, I feel that my dreams are leaving me and leaving me defenseless against the reality. My dreams are all I have to sooth me and keeps me company for now. And lessons for so far is that my dreams will stay to be dreams for me and will be a reality for others. If I want to have some nice things, I must not dream about them, or others will have them. It sucks: I do best dreaming, it's half of my life. If I forfeit dreaming, I'll be half empty. I know the empty half can be filled with reality. I have been trying to do it, but so far, reality's face is dominated with ugliness and it's muscles have been strangling me. I know I must be strong, but I fear that by becoming strong I'll release that man I know from the mirrors: evil, spoiled, insane. tags: Journal Rant | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 9, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 8:12 AM Boy, the talk about the departure of a friend continues, mainly discussing about the main reason he departed and the person responsible for it. Many said that my senior was the one responsible, as he had been neglecting him here and there in the past. He defended by saying that the departed was showing lack of confidence on his work and his neglects was a way to make him more confident and independence. Many agreed on his lack of confidence, but they said that my senior gave him too much neglects. Too much neglects. That's a very subjective judgement. As for myself, I decided not to put myself deeper into the judging and focusing on the jobs he left instead. It will be burdened to me, at least for the next 10 days, as another engineer was still in Kurau and one more was still off-duty and taking official leave for a week. Now I can feel what kind of stress he was experiencing before decided to depart. Many said that my boss has the record numbers of people resigned from his division, being a somewhat enigmatic and harsh boss altogether. Hard life of a middle class worker continues to escalate in stress level almost everyday. tags: Journal Departure | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 8, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:50 AM Spend the day travelling from bookshop to bookshop with a girl, looking for new comics and perhaps an interesting book along the way. In the end, I finally found a book store that sells The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, The Scion of Shannara, The Druid of Shannara, The Elf Queen of Shannara, and The High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil put in a shelf in the corner which is labelled as "HORROR". It feels like my treasure hunt has reached its yield. I bought The High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus in another bookstore though, after buying comics in yet antoher bookstore. Another treasure cave that I found was a hobby shop which sold the latest HG models from the Gundam Seed: Destiny. From this store, I ended up buying 1/144 HG Destiny Gundam. It was the cheapest. I planned to buy more Shannara books and more gundams in the future. no news today. Need to rush to office. tags: Journal Shannara Gundam | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 1 blogger comments | | |

Day 7, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:58 AM Boy, I think I have a severe case of "Neurotic Chemical Imbalances". Why? That's because I enjoy thinking evil thoughts when I am tired and depressed. Thanks God those evil thoughts are back dormant again when I wake up in the morning, somehow refreshed. But with the burden of daily commuting and working that I have, waking up refreshed is for saturday and monday morning only. The other days are for autolocomotion: don't know half of what I'm doing. Is this the first sign of working class depressions? Guess so. Well, if millions survive with their own working class depressions, guess I can do that do. Now, for some random philosophical thoughts: - Beggars are not to be fed by us. They are just some lazy beings who are able to rack up more incomes than the average low-income persons. Some are just blatantly shameless: in good health, wearing rings with nice stones embedded, and dress rather nicely. All they have to do is sit down and put their hands on begging position, and endure some 10 hours of blazing heat of the sun. Some beggars bring children with them and not all of them are theirs. The children is used as added "charity magnet". And years from now, the children will grow into the next generation of beggars, raised to be beggars or street/public tranport musicians (they play musics on buses and get paid by willing passangers). Many have tried to educate and institute these children of the street, but all have failed. The main problem is the fact that they are parts of "beggars mafia family", a group of people who are not able to let themself, physically and mentally, off their begging routines. It is severely embedded on their psychological roots that begging on the street is their life and they are nothing without it. They have no skills, and looking for more honorable jobs will be time consuming and less rewarding. Begging, in essence, is a way humans being forced by nature to gain the very unevenly distributed wealth here in Indonesia. - Have you ever seen men pissed in front of public? Yeah, gross, right? But many men have done it. They piss, with their back facing the street, and their golden shower is visible by others. It's just not so right and downright shameful. It's a sign that the level of permissiveness here in Indonesia has gone lower and lower each and every day. And growing permissiveness is a sign of weakening of good cultural values and the loosening of moral restrictions. More, it's a sign that general public have become less care of what happens around them because they have to survive on their own. An evil permitted will grow and infect many. - Jakarta is a city full of traffic jams and ineffecient people. Many have to endure 4 hours of commuting doing nothing but getting home. It will be nice if instead of building huge, low occupation rated, expensive apartments, the goverment build a huge, moderately rated, and will be crowded apartments. Apartments that can be purchased or rented by the average people who works around Jakarta's business centers. Apartments that are built in the business centers themselves, and therefore will be reducing the amount of people commuting, and in the end will be reducing the amount of inefficiency caused by the commuting. It will save fuels, therefore reducing the amount of pollution spewed into the atmosphere each day. Those are my philosophical thoughts of the week. Now for some interesting news: Scientists have discovered a protein that seems to be pivotal in lifting depression. here. Good. Worried residents in the Turkish town hit by three bird flu deaths head to a local hospital seeking treatment. here. Smells like pharmaceutical conspiracy. Web giant Google is to start selling video online, its co-founder Larry Page announces. here A farmer explodes a bomb in a court in northwest China, killing himself and four others, including two senior officials. here. Boy, chineses copy everything, even the latest "terror trend". A rare astrological event has proved Pluto's moon - Charon - has no atmosphere.here Kenya says it will buy up all the country's maize stocks to feed the hungry in the drought-stricken north-east. here Singer Michael Jackson faces legal action for allegedly failing to pay veterinary bills. here Israeli PM Ariel Sharon was widely expected to win Israel's election on 28 March, but his anticipated departure from the political scene has turned attention to other key figures. here. A US sailor in Japan suspected of involvement in a local woman's death is handed over to Japanese police. here The head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti is found shot dead in a hotel room. here Iranian officials say they are happy with a first day of talks with Russian diplomats on Tehran's nuclear programme. here Embattled US Republican Tom DeLay gives up his bid to stay in his leadership post in the House of Representatives. here Charles Kennedy, leader of the UK's third largest political party, resigns after admitting battling an alcohol problem. here Some 200,000 New Yorkers own vehicles that can run on corn-based ethanol instead of gasoline, but many don't know it. here Here's a glimpse of alternative fuels: Microsoft recommends ATi hardware for Windows Vista. here CES Pop quiz, hotshot! You're a billionaire who struggles with public speaking. What do you do? What do you do?… here tags: Journal Philosophies Philosophies Jakarta News | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 6,2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 10:16 AM The departure of a colleague has made an occurence of somewhat awkward situation in my office. Everyone's keep on asking to me why did he leave, where will he go next, and what the effects are for our division. Why he left: accumulated frustations. His compulsive nature, combined by his meek nature has made him easily frustated. Where he will go next: only God knows. Perhaps he will join many of his friends and work at a locally famous engineering firm. What the effects: Less manpower, and much discussions, talkings, advice givings, and regrets. In summary, it feels like a stone has just been thrown into the tranquil pond of our daily routines, and everyone is affected by its ripples. And I thought I'll be the first one to leave my position... tags: Journal Departure | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 5,2005

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:43 AM One big fact has been revealed: my friend resigned from his post. Everyone said it must be some kind of accumulation of frustations that have been built up since the beginning of the company's acceleration programs. One thing for sure, parts of whatever the causes of the frustations will be given to me. Expect to have frustated bloggers in the near future. Anyway, I'm currently too tired to make a long blog, so this will be it. And oh yeah, I'm fed up with the way the government of my country handles problems: reactionary lip problems. Current government has been using excessive smokes and mirrors created by its spinsters. I hate it, it's a sign that the government is not able to perform well, it's a sign that the government has no idea what to do to solve the problems, and it's a sign that they have more "priorities" than solving the problems of the common folks. I'm fed up with governments. tags: Journal Governments Spinsters | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 1 blogger comments | | |

Day 4, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:26 AM Boy, ain't influenza the most annoying illness of all? Sneezing,weezing, throat swelling, and the running of your nose. My return to office means my return to air conditioner regulated environment, where the cool breeze is quite excessive and the air is full of nasty particles. Another annoying thing was the inacitivity of my ADSL connection from 8 p.m last night up to 5 a.m this morning. That put many of my daily routines to halt, including posting a daily journal on this blog. That's why this post won't have any news or reviews: I am writing this at my office, whereas my sources of news and reviews is right there inside the harddisk of my home PC. Anyways, I guess that's it for now. tag: Journal | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 3, 2006.

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:33 AM Back to work, and back to a somewhat perceived as "the real world' by general members of civilization. Back into becoming a participant than watcher. Back into becoming a part of the capitalists assets. Back into a becoming a routine. At least I'm nicely paid (if the contract is practiced right). Now, there's something: there has been a revelation that one children shelter is actually a children trafficker. Whose babies? Babies who are left there by their mother who doens't want them? Blame free, pre-marital sex then. There is bigger chance of a girl having pre-marital sex to be forced into a life of regrets. Regrets of having their children separated from her, by will or by force. Regrets of having their children being aborted. Regrets of having to marry someone because of something so shameful. Or worse: accumulation of hidden negative emotions inside that corrodes the very core of the soul. Now, let's see what has become of the world: France says it will lift a state of emergency introduced in November after weeks of civil unrest. here. Racial problem over? Nah! I believe there will be more subjugation after this. Young people who experience alcohol advertisements are likely to drink more alcohol, a study says. here The EU calls on Russia and Ukraine to resolve a row over gas prices, which has disrupted supplies. here. I smell conspiracy here. More here and here. The global trade in caviar and other products made from the wild, endangered sturgeon fish has been banned. here. Good, I guess. A claim that immigration officials granted visas in exchange for sex is being investigated by the Home Office. here. Sex, the oldest tradeable commodity in the world. Pakistan is in talks to buy six to eight nuclear reactors from China, the Financial Times newspaper reports. here. Thanks to dubya's puppet sitting on the throne, this one will not be fussed by uncle satan's army. Rescuers in Indonesia search for survivors after flash floods triggered by heavy rains kill at least 57 people. here. Do you know the cause of this? Wood consumptions of China being supplied by Malaysia with lumbers stolen from Indonesia. Fourteen members of one family are killed in a US air strike in northern Iraq, Iraqi officials say. here. Uncle Satan's Army. A new year, a new Google rumor. This one involves a story in the Los Angeles Times, which is reporting the company will show a PC product by them here New underwater listening device reveals surprising and inexplicable sounds. here tags: Journal News trafficking | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Day 2, 2006

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:32 AM Something is up inside of me: Anxiety. I think it has to do with the fact that I am about to re-enter the working world again, after almost 3 full weeks of becoming a free man. Becoming a free man makes me a man full of inspirations, resulting in many arts being born and displayed in StriveStudio. I like it when I am full of inspirations, I feel liberated. Alas, being liberated doesn't mean I'll be living in a live full of income. I still need to have a 7 to 4 job for that. Now: There's something about the anxiety: It somehow dulls my inspirations. Evident in the insynchronization of my brains, my hands, and my feelings. I think parts of me, the one who is pro about the working world and the one who is art liberation pro is struggling to gain domination of me. I had to choose the working world partisant for the reason as simple as MONEY. I think my coming making live will be climaxed as an amateur artis only. Enough about my anxiety and such, and lets discuss the world. So many conflicts still around, making the taste of new year somewhat duller than before. President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan vows to toughen his island's stance against China in his New Year speech. here. I thought these Chinas are coming toward peace, but I guess the commies china is too greedy to let the silicon china free. Wartime UK leader Winston Churchill favoured letting Gandhi die if he went on hunger strike while in custody. here. Something about being at the receiving end of german artillery and have to kick someone? Veteran Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi complains Sudan is full of foreign forces despite 50 years of independence. here. What can you do? Islamic nation is still under the capital colonization of the uncle satan's army (my country included). Dozens of stranded whales are shot dead as New Zealand officials decide it is too risky to try to save them. here. Wonder where the meat will go? Perhaps as a "scientific" lab object, just like Japan does to their whales. But the only tests performed will be taste testing, in local dignitary restaurants. Rations for more than 80,000 refugees in camps in Zambia are being halved because of a lack of international aid. here. And they spent millions of USD everyday dominating Iraq. Syria's ruling Baath party expels former vice-president Abdul Halim Khaddam after an outspoken TV interview. here. Politics, your friends are the ones who wears the same face. The party will fall soon. Five Italians are kidnapped in Yemen despite the government pledging more efforts to end abductions. here. Read more here. Iraqi security forces open fire during a protest against fuel shortages in Kirkuk, killing at least two people. here. Lives are cheap in Iraq. President Bush has strongly defended his domestic spying programme, calling it vital and necessary to protect the US.here. Well, you know what dubya's US is. Us, Us, Us (as us means his and his colleagues business, spionage industries being one of them). Iran dismisses a proposal that it enrich uranium in Russia to ease a dispute over its nuclear programme.here. Why one can't have its own nuclear things? Cause one is an Islamic and very independent country. 2005 was arguably the year citizens shaped the news, media and the world with their digital technology. here. Can't argue more, just look at me and you, and the born of hundreds of thousands of new bloggers each and everyday !! Scientists are working on a method to enable doctors to identify disease even before symptoms appear. here. More reason to do monthly visits? Russia's decision to cut gas imports to Ukraine is causing dismay across Europe, where supplies are being disrupted. here. It's just a combination of carbon and hydrogen, but yet it's the cause of so many disputes. Wonder what happens if combination of H and an O is also a rare commodity? More here. And here too. A senior official says China's economy grew an estimated 9.8% in 2005, much faster than previously forecast. here. China is growing bigger, fast, reminding me of those science fictions mutations: bigger, faster, wilder. Pakistan tells India to mind its own business after Delhi voices concern at unrest in Balochistan province. here Iran orders the closure of a newspaper for the first time since hardline President Ahmadinejad took office.here. Ahemadinejad is indeed a hardline president. tags: Journal World News | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Bomb, Again !!

by Eko Prasetyo @ 12:13 PM This has been happening over and over in Indonesia, in the same city, in THE SAME AREA !! CURSE THOSE WEENIE POLICE!! CURSE THOSE CONSPIRATORS !! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Welcome 2006 AD

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:09 AM As the sun of 2006 AD rises, it is time to summarize what 2005 AD is for me: A year of many adventures, a year of many new things, and a year of many failed loves. Loves, for which I have stand to keep. Loves, which in the end gave me nothing but regret and wasted times. Loves, which in truth a countless nothingness. So, as for 2006, my resolution will be like this song by Alter Bridge Metalingus I’ve been defeated and brought down Dropped to my knees when hope ran out The time has come to change my ways On this day I see clearly Everything has come to life A bitter place and a broken dream And we’ll leave it all Leave it all behind I’ll never long for what might have been Regret won’t waste my life again I won’t look back I’ll fight to remain On this day I see clearly Everything has come to life A bitter place and a broken dream And we’ll leave it all behind On this day It’s so real to me Everything has come to life Another chance to chase a dream Another chance to feel Chance to feel alive Fear will kill me All I could be Lift these sorrows Let me breathe Could you set me free Could you set me free On this day I see clearly Everything has come to life A bitter place and a broken dream We’ll leave it all behind On this day It’s so real to me Everything has come to life Another chance to chase a dream Another chance to feel Chance to feel alive 2006 will be the year I release all the plugs !! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 1 blogger comments | | |