Wondering bout One of the Local TV Show

Just now, I watched Extravaganza, one of TV show, comedy sketches. One of the sketches reminds me about another show, Termehek-Mehek. Termehek-Mehek is a like-reality show to me, not a real reality. I said that because every small part in that show is just like a crap, and a not real true situation.

One more thing I just wonder is that why people like those kinda show. It just telling a hyperbolic situation that might not come in reality, and the worst part is that it's just like too over in putting everything.

SEO: Self CEO's Alternative Way

Hi guys, anybody knows about SEO?

Frankly, I have no idea at all when I heard it quite a time ago. I know that you gotta be wondering how that word comes to my mind. Well, it began when couple days ago I was getting quite interested in online marketing, you know, simply said that you earn money by promoting something. For several observations, I found out SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization which is (if I may conclude) methods to make your websites famous through search engines. So for example if you google “Dogs”, your dog-lovers-themed website would apparently be the first one in the page if your website is optimized.

However, for your information, apparently I discovered that somehow SEO had been put into a competition. At first, if you have things common in mind with mine, I just don’t believe it either, but it’s there. This is one of it, this competition called Busby SEO Test. Yeah as you already know, this challenge (term the site used) will seek out who can gain the most top position on Google Data Center. Well it’s already begun on 10/1 this year and gonna ended on 1/31 next year. Well one of the competitors I noticed is Brokencode which seems to be in a team that created a SEO Competition blog.

Well I noticed that Brokencode is an expert in this SEO field. You really better see his site, cos you’ll find some interesting news and information. However, if I may give comments to his site, I think the sites might need some simplifications of the site’s elements a bit and/or some quite colors. That’s because I quite fond to see their team's blog. But overall, the links cool enough, though maybe some old stuff and dead links (download links) might need a disposal. For their competition blog itself, I thought everything’s cool to me.

Essentially I don’t know exactly how they’ll optimize but I’ll just crossing my finger to make a wish that their blog will win the challenge.

Good luck.

Meet Dave: just a bit, but a great it gave

Meet Dave, what a movie!

Well at first, I thought that movie is just another crap, B-movie, or sort of things. But I decided to keep watching, cos the later it got, I found out more attractive jokes and, maybe, like a lessons of life. And of course, Eddy Murphy is the star here, no question.

Meet Dave is a movie about a nation of alien in a quest of searching salt which they located in earth.
I cannot tell the rest for the sake of the not-watchings. And most surprisingly the alien is not as big as we are.

The technology shown is cool enough, though not like other top Box Office movies. Eddy Murphy's jokes is the center and the distinctive part of this movie. Like you know there're a lot of type of jokes, from Jim Carey's to Indonesian local, what people might say as a lame jokes, this movie offers you Eddy's.

Then, the plot is quite obviously unsurprising. You can guess what might come up next. And this movie is quite uncomplicated and not too detail in the story line but it's brilliant. It's brilliance come from the messages, including the implied ones.

I learn that we sometimes have a self inside our body, that might be good or evil. And size doesn't matter at all. Whether you're tiny or giant, nothing can change the fact that you're a being. You can't take it for granted. One quote I think the most catchy one is this:

The most powerful force in the universe often comes
from the smallest star.

After all, this is a recommended movie, in my opinion. It's quite relax and you don't have a to put efforts watching this movie (it's very opposite to Munich).

Enjoy!

nb: click the poster for the trailer

Gas Price Down (again) in 15/12.

Today, I watched TV breaking news and I noticed that the president held a meeting. In my first thought, I just shocked why president would like to held a meeting on a nice Sunday. Later, I found out that he held that meeting to talk about the gas price and particularly about the price set down. The meeting involved several minister, including Coordination Minister of Economics, Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

I thought that was obvious, and he should have done that earlier since the world oil price had down couple days ago. One thing to remember is that I should be thankful that gov't be responsive for the world's condition. But I hope that the gap time to consider the decreasing price was used for research about the causes of the events and the impacts of the regulations set.

But one thing attracts me. The goods price has gone up so high. Will it down? Will the regulations fix the mechanism? I hope the merchants, traders, and everybody will give positive responses to this new rules.

Just Joke... Interesting Though

Well first, I might warn you, this is just a joke, not something you have to bother and there ain't no intention to hurt or to disrespect some group of people. And I just want to share my point of view that is totally outside the context of the joke.

This is the email that I received in Bahasa:

Kira-kira satu - dua abad yang lalu, Paus memutuskan bahwa seluruh Yahudi
harus meninggalkan Roma, yang tentu saja kemudian menimbulkan keresahan dan
penolakan dari bangsa Yahudi tersebut.

Kemudian Paus menawarkan untuk mengadakan debat religius dengan seorang anggota komunitas Yahudi, yang mana jika orang Yahudi pilihan tersebut menang, maka bangsa Yahudi boleh tetap tinggal di Roma. Sebaliknya, jika Paus yang menang, maka bangsa Yahudi harus segera meninggalkan Roma. Bangsa Yahudi sadar, bahwa mereka tidak punya pilihan lain. Lalu mereka kemudian memilih seorang pemuda yang bernama Moishe sebagai calon dari pihak Yahudi. Moishe kemudian mengajukan syarat, dimana, agar lebih menarik, debat dilakukan tanpa berkata-kata.

Paus kemudian menyetujui persyaratan tersebut, lalu pertandingan pun dimulai.Pada saat debat dimulai, Moishe dan Paus duduk saling berhadapan.Setelah kira-kira berjalan satu menit, Paus kemudian mengangkat tangannya dan menunjukkan tiga jari.Moishe memandang sebentar kepada Paus lalu kemudian menunjukkan satu jarinya.Paus kemudian membentuk lingkaran dengan jarinya di atas kepalanya. Moishe membalas dengan menunjuk ke tanah. Paus lalu mengeluarkan sebuah wafer dan segelas anggur. Dimana kemudian Moishe membalas dengan mengeluarkan sebutir apel. Paus kemudian berdiri dan berkata ,"Saya menyerah kalah. Orang ini terlalu tangguh. Bangsa Yahudi boleh tinggal."

Satu jam kemudian, Kardinal sibuk menanyai Paus atas
apa yang telah terjadi. Paus menjawab, "Pertama, aku mengangkat tiga jari ku
sebagai lambang trinitas. Dia merespon dengan mengangkat satu jarinya untuk
mengingatkanku bahwa tetap hanya ada satu Tuhan untuk kedua agama kami.Kemudian aku membentuk lingkaran disekelilingku yang menunjukkan bahwa Tuhan ada di sekitar kita. Dia membalasnya dengan menunjuk ke tanah dan menunjukkan bahwa Tuhan juga sekarang ada bersama kita. Aku mengeluarkan sebuah wafer dan segelas anggur menunjukkan bahwa Tuhan akan menebus dosa-dosa kita. Dia kemudian mengeluarkan sebutir apel untuk mengingatkanku akan dosa awal umat manusia. Dia memiliki jawaban atas segalanya. Apa yang dapat aku lakukan ?"

Sementara itu, bangsa Yahudi sibuk mengelilingi moishe. "Apa yang terjadi? " tanya
mereka."Well," kata Moishe. "Pertama dia mengatakan padaku bahwa bangsa Yahudi memiliki 3 hari untuk pergi dari sini. Aku katakan padanya bahwa tidak satu
orang pun dari kita yang akan pergi. Kemudian dia mengatakan padaku bahwa
seluruh kota akan dibersihkan dari bangsa Yahudi. Kemudian aku tegaskan kepada
mereka bahwa kita akan tetap tinggal disini." "Ya, ya,.. lalu ? "tanya mereka.
"Aku tidak tahu," kata Moishe. "Dia mengeluarkan bekalnya dan aku pun
mengeluarkan bekalku."

In English it might sound like this:

About one or two centuries ago, the Pope decided that all the Jews had to leave
Rome, which initiated the restlessness and refutation from the Jews. This is the
story:

The Pope propose to hold a religious debate with one of the
Jews, in condition that if that Jew debater wins, the Jews may stay in Rome. On
the other hand, if the Pope wins, the Jews have to leave Rome.

The Jews realize that they have no other options left. In that case, the pick one
man, called Moishe, as the candidate from the Jews. After that, Moishe offers
one term, to be more interesting, the debate should be conducted with no words
at all.

For that term, the Pope agrees. Then, the battle begins.
Moishe and the Pope sit in opposition. One minutes passed, then the Pope raises
his hand and points three fingers. Moishe looks at it awhile, and then he raises
one finger. Pope then cast a circle above his head. Moishe counters it by
pointing the ground. Then the Pope shows bread and a glass of wine. For that,
Moishe counters by showing an apple. Afterward, the Pope stands up and says, “I
give up. This man is tough. The Jews may stay.”

An hour passed, the Cardinal busily asked the Pope for what happened. The Pope says, “First, I raised my three fingers to show the Trinity. He responded by raising on finger to remind me that only one God for both of our religion. I cast a circle to show that God is around us. He responded by pointing the ground and showed that God is now with us. I showed my bread and the glass of wine to show that God will
redeem our sins. He then showed his apple to remind me the very first sin of
humankind. He got answers for everything. What can I do?”

Meanwhile, the Jews busily surround Moishe. “What happened?”
they asked. “Well”, he said. “First, he said that the Jews must leave in three
days. I said to him that not a single one of us were leaving. Then he said to me
that the entire city will be purified (cleansed) from the Jews. Then I affirmed
to them that we are staying.” “Okay, okay.. then?” they asked. “I don’t know,”
Moishe told. “He showed his lunch and so did I.”

Funny story ain't it? Kinda lame but that's that. However, one interesting view I got from this joke is that, when people talked in different terms, definition, or whatever it is, there must be a distortion. So lessons I got are when we speak, understand each other and speak with language which has the same meaning. One action might be translated differently from man to man.

I hope it's not the problem of ours, our country, our world, people...

Mandarin Spice: Nice

Mandarin Spice, name of a family restaurant in Senayan City, a mall in Senayan area in Central Jakarta. It's located across the Plaza Senayan. Mandarin Spice itself is located in the Lower Ground Level, it's in the corner.

The reason I eat here because of the discount for using BCA Credit Card, which the price was cut till almost 50%. Surprisingly and happily of course, the price cut also included the drink, not like other promotion.

Once I got inside, along with my family, I have to wait cos it's Sunday afternoon (you can imagine how crowded the mall is). However, it was only approx. 15 minutes to wait (maybe cos we got there at almost 2 P.M.).

The interior is for sure is Chinese, quite elegant, simple, all-red/maroon-items, and the rest can be imagined like other family restaurants.
Well we ordered Prawns with Mayo, Squids with Pineapple sauce, Broccolis, and the drinks.

• The best of these choices is the Prawns. Its taste is sweet, sour, and prawny of coures. It's crispy, makes it better. However, it's still like other's, maybe you can distinguished this one by its cakwe, it's a fried bread which fried until it get crispy.
• The Squids are hot enough, the taste is exotic. There're chilis, onions, pineapples, and the important ingredient-squids. The rest of the foods is okay.

Nonetheless, the service in term of waiting for the food was quite not good (maybe it because it's Sunday afternoon). We had to wait for the Squids for almost a half hour. But because their waitress and waiter is nice and so responsible for our table and most of others, I thought it was worthed enough.

My words for this restaurant: So Mandarin Spice, So Nice Enough.

007 - Quantum of Solace

• I've just watched this movie. A word for this movie is cool!

First, Daniel Craig leaved the image of Brosnan for being Bond.

Second, there's not too many unbelievable gadget (I love this one, cos I believe an agent should use everything around him not only given or provided.

Third, for you who love thrilling action, this movie gives you what you really want. From beginning, till end most of it is thrilling, though some part you'll find it quite boring.

Last but not least, I thought that this movie and the Casino Royale at least has a more dramatic storyline that I can follow, which I didn't find in most of the 007 before.

However, I thought that I couldn't catch some part of the movie. Maybe it caused by the Brit accents or some quite uncatchable words or maybe I just don't get it like other movies.

Well, 007 played by Craid is much cooler than Brosnan's one. I like the Casino Royale and this one, nice stuffs and I can't wait for the next one.