Suwandi

Author: Suwandi

  • Flight Attendant

    “According to civil aviation regulation, bla bla bla bla…., enjoy your flight!”

    We hear that everytime we’re flying with commercial airline, i never pay any attention to the stewardess, it’s kinda boring and they’re not really trying to do something for you, they’re not teaching or educate you about how to use the emergency equipments, the only reason they do the point this point that is only requirements.

    Do they ever ask us, “so,..do you understand?”, or “do you want us to repeat this?”. No! They talk, show, but assume all the ‘audience’ understand.

    And, on my last month flight from Jakarta to Surabaya, after the plane had landed smoothly, the flight attendants said “Para penumpang yang terhormat, kita telah mendarat di Bandara Internasional Juanda, dimohon untuk tetap duduk, sekali lagi dimohon untuk tetap duduk, hingga pesawat benar-benar berhenti dengan sempurna dan lampu bla bla…”.

    Normal? Later, they continued with English version “Ladies and gentlements, we’ve just landed in Juanda International Airport, please remain seated until the plane bla bla..”

    See? Why they have to repeat the ‘remain-seated’ part in Bahasa Indonesia, but none in English. Is that Indonesian so stupid that can not understand that they need to remain seated? I asked my self. They must not do the discrimination, indonesian will also understand to remain seated without the words being emphasized!

    I was wrong, and the flight attendants was right. Even, they have asked twice, all the passengers still unbuckle their seatbelt and reach their luggage, whilethe plane’s still moving… Sad but true, most of us not ‘clever’ enough.

  • Pimple

    Got a pimple near my nose, i think that’s because i’ve been in some sort of minor insomnia. Rarely pass 6 hours of sleep per day. It reminds me of our youth, do you still remember when got we pimple and our friends just “waaaa!! who’s the girl (or boy)?? u’re in love right? you have pimple!“. Remember?

    And i just realised altho it was some sort of myth, but it’s kinda true! When we’re in junior or high school, the only event that made us couldn’t sleep was we’re thinking of someone else, we do not NOT sleep because there’re other things in our mind. We do not NOT sleep thinking about why f=m*a or vertebrates, or why nagasaki, or linear-regression.

    Life was so simple back then!

    Now, urgh… we’re overwhelmed by so many things! Life, works, clients, career, future, present, many many things and makes us harder and harder to sleep. Thats why there’s a theory that adult over 45 years old only need 5 hours of sleep.They use ‘need’ instead of ‘can’. Why is that?

    Don’t know where I am, don’t know where I’ve been
    But I know where I want to go

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

  • Mistakes


    Were having a conversation with a mate, we’re talking about something else, but suddenly he talked about his socks. So funny, that i decided to paste the conversation here 😀
    I found it very hilarious.

    See, we tend to correct a mistake we’ve made. That’s one of human’s beauty, i think, the ability to do correction.
    Many mistakes i made in my life (and of course, you too), so far. Some are correctable, and some of them are not. Some takes time, some takes life.

    Depends on the scale, in some part, you’ll think that you are so screwed (you’re blaming everybody, hating yourself), especially when the mistakes keep coming and you have no idea how to stop them (or even to slow them down).

    But don’t worry, at the end, you won’t even mind how many damn mistakes you can’t fix, because you’re worrying about whether they’re still coming after you’re gone.

    Don’t know where I am, don’t know where I’ve been
    But I know where I want to go

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

  • Chocolate

    Am big fans of chocolate. I just ate my wheat bread with chocolate spread. I think it has started like forever that i like chocolate. Every brand is okay to me, i’ve tried many different brand, local to import, white to dark, and as long as it is chocolate, it’s gooood.

    I challenged my self, and i THINK that i can even eat spaghetti bolognese with chocolate, chocolate tom yam, 😀 also, chicken curry with chocolate paste, sushi topped with chocolate sauce, and also probably sardines with chocolate. 😀 i think i can eat every chocolate thing.

    Remembered one big humiliation regarding chocolate, happened in 2003, i was working in a japanese company, where i did some analysis and reported to management. My analysis’ involving color, and in one occasion i found that the color combination of this particular packaging is “coklat”, and also some other colors.

    SO, i wrote down my analysis: colors: chocolate, red, yellow, green. I signed and about to submit to my boss, until a collegue came to me. (He’s a high school graduate with tons of experience in doing what i’m doing that time). He asked me, are you sure with this?

    And, i replied confidently, of course, i know what i’m doing and i’m sure about the color the competitor used. And i also re-checked my chemical analysis.

    He said : i thought it’s brown, instead of chocolate, for “coklat”.

    And, blurrrrrrppp… blurrrppp… i could not believe i forgot that in english “coklat” is BROWN!

    Don’t know where I am, don’t know where I’ve been
    But I know where I want to go

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

  • World Energy

    “We’re not only part of the solution but also part of the problem,” he confesses. What he means is that computers are egregious energy hogs. Data centers alone, Sun calculates, account for 2-3 percent of total world energy use, with all IT making up more like 4-5 percent. At big companies, 20 percent of total energy costs can typically be accounted for by information technology.”

    Wow! Can you imagine that? Our laptops contribute to that 4-5 percent of world energy use! Hmmm… we can help the world by stop using laptop! 😀 Dont play too much games, dont listen to mp3s from laptop, dont read too many online papers. Hehe.

    Source: Fortune.com