Archive for October, 2008

Jaychou’s album redesigned

After being leaked in the internet, Jay Chou’s next album suddenly repackaged into totally different theme. No more joker, here come Dragon Warrior. Capricorn now known as Long Zhan Qi Shi.
All the track titles are changed except 1, Dao Xiang (Fragrant Rice).
Quite surprising why they redo these, maybe they afraid the leaked album will have [...]

The Vista Effect

At first I was thrilled to hear that Microsoft about to use Vista for windows successor. Such a nice name but Microsoft sure gave it a very bad name.
When users with high expectation teased by “heavenly” words and advertisings and then got smacked with awful product, that is what I called “The Vista Effect.”
The Microsoft [...]

Creative Ads

Among many ads, Apple’s Get a Mac campaign ads are among my favorites. It’s simple, Mac style clean white background. Lately they just launch new ad titled “Bean Counter”, it told us about how “PC” spend the money for ads and fixing Vista bugs. The ending is hilarious. You got to watch this on Get [...]

XDRTB - Extreme Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

TB or tubercle bacillus or most known as Tuberculosis is not a new disease. It’s an infectious bacterial disease characterized by the growth of nodules (tubercles) in the tissues. Mostly known as pulmonary TB (lung).
TB still causing many death mostly in developing country. I once helped my ex-girlfriend (now known as my wife) to work [...]

Watching Indonesian TV Channel Online

Recently Indoweb.tv launched Streaming TV from Indonesian local TV stations. Their TV channels are pretty complete. Those channels are Indosiar, RCTI, SCTV, TVOne, TransTV, Trans7, DAAI, ANTV, TPI, TVRI, CTV, GlobalTV and MetroTV.
To watch these steaming TV channels at least you must have 384kbps. Unfortunately this service is only available for Indonesian. My friend tried [...]

God and stock market

Today I read one of my friends quote and it gave me a very big smile since Indonesian stock market is crashed and they stop trading since yesterday.
Unfortunately, God does not control the stock market. Or maybe he does and uses it to punish humanity instead of floods and fires like the old days.

Pancake Parlor at Supermal Karawaci

After opened for some months at Supermal Karawaci, few days ago I decided to give “Pancake Parlor” a try. This restaurant is an Australian franchise and quite popular since it’s able to withstand test of time since 1965. The location is just beside of coco walk entrance. Cozy location with some sofas at further [...]