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  • Love – Power – Justice

    “What is needed is a realization    that power without love is reckless and abusive,    and love without power is sentimental and anemic.   Power at its best is    love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is    power correcting everything that stands against love… I know that love is…


  • Great Idea for Car

    Wow… I can’t believe they put this machine on their car! Great idea! Espresso machine in a car, well well well… As the young male actor – almost as highly polished as the car itself – gives his introduction to Audi’s latest product of the future, he is interrupted by his co-presenting colleague, an attractive…


  • Life on 20000 Feet

    I was on my way back to Jakarta, from Belitung Island. I’ve just conducted gap analysis in a mining industry. It was Batavia Air (Again! The same flight that I had problem with). In the middle of the flight, around 15 minutes after take-off, there was a quite terrible thing happened. I don’t know why…


  • Ugly – Beautiful

    Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful… the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.   Love that, not man apart from that, or else you will share man’s pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.   Robinson Jeffers


  • Lunch Under The Sea Level

    Today, I’m visiting another barge, this time, it’s called Crane Barge Indo Prestasi I. Sounds like a very good vessel, and yes, it is huuuge, it is robust, and it is pretty. (you know.., people mostly refer a boat/ship/vessel to a girl, a feminine object). Sounds true, imagining Indo Prestasi as a sexy but big…

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