Month: November 2005

Just noticed that airport in Semarang provides Free Hotspot! 🙂 Yipeee! For the first time, use my laptop for wireless internet connection! Previously, just feel, unfair to pay 50K Rups in Starbucks to try it. I was torn between 2 decisions, either to take out my laptop and try it, or just assuming there wont be such free thing down here. Talking to my mate for a sec, and decide to try.

I watched Young Adams last week, I don’t think it’s a commercial movie that will be available in every screens. Its more into festival film. It’s about a young man, named Joe. He was involved in an accident that killed a girl, his previous girlfriend who is pregnant that time. Police and judges, at the end of the movie, decided that another guy (forgot the name) guilty for the death. Joe was there on the court-room.

He was in a position that will decide the future of that suspect (charged with death penalty). Either he stepped in front and tell all the people, that he knew what happened, and that innocent guy will be released from any charge, or he stayed quite. There’s a moment in the movie that show the situation. At the very end, he chose not to do anything. The guy was charged with maximum penalty, which is death.

Sometimes, we are in Joe’s foot. We are in between 2 decisions. No matter how simple the decision to be made, and how simple the consequences are. No matter how hard the decision to be made, and the harder the situation is, we are often in that position. Be a bad guy or be the good guy. North or South. Sleep or Not.

Last time, I was in car heading to pay the parking ticket. Cost me 17000 Rups. I gave the guy 50000, and he returned 37000. I counted. I stepped on the pedal. I counted again, ups… it’s a mistakes. He over-paid me 4000! Back or not? Let myself get the extra 4000 or go back and stop the guy from losing 4000 at the end of the day?

I hit the pedal again. It was too late, I thought. A lil bit sorry… but, must change the behaviour next time. 😉

Wow… its good to read this kind of stuff. Michael Session, an 18-year old student, elected as Hillsday major. (Read more). By the time I read the article, a friend recommend me an old song “Believe it or not” from Joey Scarbury. Haha, what a coincidence.

Believe it or not, I’m walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer,
Who could it be? Believe it or not, it’s just me.

Sometimes, there are things you say ‘I don’t believe it myself’, but!, but!!, its do happen. In other cases, you just can’t believe that somethings don’t happen. Haha. Like, when we pledged ourself for something new, and we put efforts on it, but it doesn’t work. We started to think, ‘… urgh, things don’t happen…’, but when we look deeper, study thoroughly, actually, I believe we can later understand that we never really PUT the efforts. We’re not trying hard enough.

Happens to me.

Yesterday, had a little chat with my best friend, and she suggested to mind map my ideas. Sounds like a good idea. Picturing the possible very-end of each idea, and later picking the best path. Sounds easy too. But, when I get home, just realised I’ve done nothing. 🙂 Haha. Poor. And I said to my self ‘ah.. things not easy to every one’ . And I stopped to map.

But today, after some thoughts, think I maybe try harder to map. Perhaps, everything on the right track. Let the unbelieveable become fact.
Hopefully..

“Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?”

(Taken from ‘The First Day of My Life’)

Been thinking a lottt lately about ‘taking risk’. Sometimes, I sense that the risk is too high to take, but sometime Pablo’s words awake me about doing things that i’ve already doubt.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Samuel Johnson also has already commented that I shall not think too much about the risks, about the objections, about the obstacles, just put yourself into it, do the best!

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Hmmm… 🙂 It’s not easy, really. Taking risk. Some says ‘no pain no gain’, but too much pain will later kill us, dont you think so. Recently, a man (French) sues casino that let him lose £500,000! See,.. we can learn from that case, that once we decided to go for that WIN, prepare and anticipate the potential LOSS. Hard? You bet!

(Taken from ‘The First Day of My Life’)