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Sebuah pengingat
Foto ini diambil kemarin, Minggu 01 November 2009, di Trade Expo Indonesia 2009, JIExpo Kemayoran, Jakarta.
Ngga ada yang istimewa sebenarnya dari foto di atas. Gambar agak blur, komposisi cahaya kurang bagus, juga objek yang ngga 'sadar kamera' XD.
Jadi? Hanya sebagai pengingat saja. Bahwa foto ini diambil oleh seseorang di sela kebersamaan yang entah kapan akan ada lagi :)
finally! someone agrees the airport is a shit-hole
why is it that Soekarno-Hatta’s Terminal I is such a mess?
New Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi has bemoaned the state of the airport. Unfortunately, like his predecessors, he seems to think that the main problem is the toilets. The toilets? That's the least of the problems:
- Why does one of the most important public buildings in the country look like a toilet block from the 1960s, when the powers that be are clearly capable of building magnificent shopping malls like Grand Indonesia and Pacific Place?
- Why are there so many options for paying your fiscal? There should be one counter for fiscal and fiskal bebas.
- Why do all Customs officers look like prison guards?
- For that matter, why can't check-in staff collect fiscal or give you the fiskal bebas sticker? They collect airport tax, so they are clearly trustworthy (and probably more so than your average airport customs official).
- Why are there more banks in the terminal than check-in counters?
- Why do you need a special desk for inspecting your fiskal receipt? It's just stupid and a complete waste of resources.
- Why are the duty free counters in arrivals always closed? Is it because they only sell alcohol? Why can't you buy other duty free goods on arrival?
- Why have INDONESIAN and FOREIGNER on the immigration counters? It makes no difference -- you can use either.
- If you're going to have INDONESIAN and FOREIGNER signs at immigration, why don't you put them where people can actually see them. Having them on all counters would be a good idea too.
- If you insist on having a thermal scanner, then f---ing use it! The first impression tourists get is this unused scanner sitting there. And we're supposed to believe that the Indonesian government takes swine flu seriously?!
- Why is Jakarta the only airport in the world where you have to guess which carousel your luggage will turn up on?!
- Why are there so many toothless smelly men hawking taxi and car services inside the arrival hall? I get asked 4-5 times if I want a driver/taxi every time I arrive at the airport. Half the time they look like ex-convicts.
- Why are there never any Bluebird taxis at the airport? Just about every tourist site you read says "DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING BUT A BLUEBIRD", yet I have only seen a Bluebird at the airport once in my four years here.
- Why does the carpark feel like a night market? Where do all these people come from? The carpark should be a secure area not a high risk area for single women!
In short, why, why, why, why...?!! It is a shit-hole and I dread using it. Most airports I don't mind. Some I actually enjoy. But Cengkareng? Yuck!
environmental protection agency: blind or sarcastic?
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson praised the Jakarta administration Wednesday for its environmental protection and green transportation programs. Jackson said she was impressed by the way the city... dealt with economic growth without having to sacrifice environmental issues.
Things must be really bad where Ms Jackson comes from if she thinks that Jakarta's miserable attempts to tackle environmental degradation are impressive. You see, failing to build the roads we need in Jakarta is NOT a strategy or part of any green transportation program. It's called corruption.
Sungai
Eh atau lebih patut disebut kali? Gambaran saya sedari kecil sungai adalah tempat air jernih mengalir dengan kehidupan di dalamnya, tempat mandi orang dan hewan gembala.
Saluran air ini seingat saya 8 tahun yang lalu belum meninggi, ketika itu saya masih SD. Sekarang ketika saya SMA permukaan air semakin menggila, entah apa kabar rumah yang berada di bawahnya ketika hujan melanda. Saya lihat di sampingnya banyak lumpur dan sampah mengendap, mungkin sudah tiba waktunya untuk dikeruk, semoga segera. Sent from my Windows Mobile® device.Powered by Sinyal Kuat Indosat.
Achievement tripper
From what I gathered online and what I heard, my friends are mostly doing very, very well, and I'm very happy for them. Conversely, this put me in a dug-ish (as in the dog from UP) position (well, somewhat) in feeling that I, on the other hand, am still trying to find my mojo. I know the saying that we're not defeated until we give up (though there's also a saying of knowing when to quit and when to pursue new stuff.)
So, it's not a case of the grass is greener on the other side, just a feeling that I want to make it for myself too. Just sent an application yesterday (agency in my hometown).It's a double-edged sword (whether they pick me up or not). But that aside, I met Alexander Wang the other day; talk about the serendipity of meeting friends @ Selfridges and then being told that Mr Wang is upstairs. One of my friends, who lives near Selfridges, thought that it's not the designer but the other Alexander (Wang Lee Hom - turns out that it's his English name...something I've only come to know due to my friend, who's a huge fan).
Didn't bring anything for him to sign on, so I just asked for his signature on a draft template of the new CV I'm drawing up (see photo - he jotted two dots on the eyes part, coincidentally). Seeing people like him, made me all the more: I get it, I get it that everything needs hard work. It's not that I'm not trying. I feel though that there needs to be more than this. A case of greediness (for really, I've all I need now)? Or what they call the prospect theory (a.k.a. looking at differences, not absolutes --> which is apparently how human heuristics work), since everyone else is faring well (again, I only singled out the 'good examples' --> another manifestation of human heuristic, or what's called survivorship bias). Pardon all the theorising here, been reading FBR by Nassim Taleb.
In any case, I want to make my mark, and it's small victories and losses from now on to the big conquest(s). I hope. Off to kicking my ass!
