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This morning I was listening to the radio on my way to my work. It was a girl calling to the radio station asked for help for her love life.

She was planned to get her wedding next month. Yesterday, one of her best friend — let’s call her S — asked her to talk. She thought S wanted to have a regular girls chit chat but she was wrong.

S said to her in desperation that S is pregnant — S wasn’t married. S said she was pregnant her-husband-to-be’s child. Let me clear this, S was having sex with her-husband-to-be and S is pregnant now. She said she was shocked and together they went to the her-husband-to-be’s apartment to clear things out.

Things went complicated. S is her best friend, she was devastated that her-husband-to-be having affair with her best friend all these time. He said he clicked just right with S after a year ago she introduced S to him.

She doesn’t want S to undergo an abortion and yet her marriage is just within a month with all preparations and invitations worked out. What would you do if you were in her position?

I’ll share mine first. I’ll let them go and make him marry S. I’ll go on my way. I can’t trust such a man anymore, soon or later he’ll do it again and the baby need a father. Life goes on.

Your thought on this?

Simply true. :))

Here are some selected quotes that’s surely not sided to “god” concept. Some of them are very interesting indeed.

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

Stephen Roberts

“A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism”

Donald Morgan

“I’m a polyatheist - there are many gods I don’t believe in”

Dan Fouts (American Football Player. b.1951)

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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 a lot of impact on the sales. By changing the whole things from cover to track titles, this will force the fans to get the “real” thing.

Here are the tracks:

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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 itself tried to clean Vista name with the series of campaign ads but it seems the air were too foul to clean. Now they drop to use “Vista” name anymore and revert back to Windows for Vista’s successor.

Apple as Microsoft’s rival even mock them on their ad titled “V word”. Watch it here or download it here.

When your massive marketing and advertising are not coupled with good product, “The Vista Effect” may lurking in the shadow behind you. The marketing and advertising may backfire and hit back hard.

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 a Mac ads page or download it.

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 on her final undergraduate assignment about TB.

TB is curable if treated consistently. The main problem is if it’s not treated properly the bacteria would mutate into new strain that resistant to the drugs. They are happening and known as XDRTB, Extreme Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.

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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 to access this service from taiwan with no luck, blocked. I think it’s about the expensive international bandwidth or licenses of the TV shows.

The video quality is average. Their TV channel feed I believe not from digital source but from regular antenna.

Update on Nov 9, 2008: It turns out the connection from other countries are open now. Tested from Taipei.

Update on Dec 20, 2008: This site is closed down after exposed to the TVs management. They said the TV broadcast is copyrighted, re-broadcast it to the web would violate the copyright.

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.

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 end inside. It has outdoor tables too with nice twinkling white LEDs on the trees.

We were greeted by an mid aged Australian male which I assume is the owner and it is pretty rarely the owner would serve the customers directly. It’s a big plus for hospitality. After seated outside, while we browsing the menu, my two kids were greeted with complimentary a scoop of ice cream each by the owner. Amazed us even more.

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