not that I'm against people with disabilities

Start from Hirodata Ototake, Nick Vujicic, now Claudio Vieira de Oliveira. Can it happen that in the future, occupation of motivators reserved only for people with disabilities?

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lucy

I stare at good-looking guys; because I often wonder how different my life would be if I were as attractive as they are.
-- I'm straight I swear --

Me too! But at good looking girls, other parts: staring, different life, and straight are the same.
-- me --

This is the most confusing commercial movie I have ever seen. Full of documentary clips about animals giving birth etc, I cannot say that this movie is my favorite. Funny, because I usually like Luc Besson's movies.

Also I noticed Scarlett Johansson's uneven teeth here. Never once noticed it in Marvel's where she's Black Widow.

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windows xp -- part two

For some people automatic updates are very annoying. I will tell you how to turn off automatic updates on Windows XP.

There are four ways, for myself, I like to play safe by doing them all.
1. Go to Control Panel, make sure you are on Category view, then choose Security Center. Manage security settings for Automatic Updates, then turn it off.
2. Start > right click on My Computer > Properties > choose Automatic Updates Tab > turn it off.
3. Run > msconfig > choose Service Tab > make sure the box beside Automatic Update is not ticked.
4. Run > services.msc > double click on Automatic Update > make sure the auto start option is set to Disabled and the service itself is stopped.

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windows xp

Although Windows XP is no longer being updated by Microsoft, some people are still using it. And for those people, today I will show how to enable hibernation on Windows XP. Go to Control Panel, make sure you are on Classic view, then choose Power Options. Go to Hibernate tab, make sure Enable Hibernation is ticked.

And to actually do hibernate your computer: On shut down menu, press and hold Shift button, hibernate option will appear.

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secret meeting acknowledged by rajasa and (former?) political opponent

“We can be different [in political stance] but we don’t [have to] stop saying hello to each other. What’s wrong with me having silaturahim with Jokowi after the [presidential] competition?” Hatta said.
-- Hatta admits 'secret' meeting with Jokowi, denies political negotiations --

Meanwhile, Jokowi was being evasive, saying that Rajasa and himself only met for the sake of sweet tooth. Or more like salty tooth, because they met to eat lemper. Lemper is an Indonesian dish made of glutinous rice filled with chicken. Wikipedia explains it better than I do: The meat filling is rolled inside the rice, in a fashion similar to an egg roll; this is in turn rolled and wrapped inside a banana leaf, oil paper, plastic sheet or tinfoil to make a packet ready for serving. Lemper are most often seen as snacks, but may sometimes be served as appetizers as well.

Little is heard from Prabowo Subianto, Rajasa's teammate in 2014 presidential election.

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must be the most awkward phone call in one's life

No matter how awkward you feel right now, you can't beat the one person who called Pizza Hut because his pizza was taking forever and was told, "I'm sorry, your pizza delivery man died in a traffic accident."

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ebola and... we are living in a world like this

Kent Brantly is the first man to survive ebola virus. He gave thanks to God publicly, and soon after, media was criticizing him. Some went as far as stating that his speech was bizarre. In a mocking tone others responded to Kent's statement "I serve a faithful God who answers prayers" with "I guess God just ignored the prayers of all those thousands of people who died of Ebola, then."

We are now living in a world where praying people are scrutinized. The thing is, it is God's prerogative to decide who lives and who dies. Dr. Kent Brantly was spared from death. The cure for ebola is now found. Instead of wasting time questioning His decisions, why don't distribute said medicine to people who are infected?

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mighty morphin power rangers

Mecha TV series such as Power Rangers give us unrealistic expectations for problems to end in a given, finite time. Did you watch it when you were a kid? Rita Repulsa 'n Crew created a problem, five (or six, in latter episodes it's always six) rangers appeared, battle ensued, battle intensified, things were being supersized, battle was won by the rangers, all in one hour time lapse.

Or did you watch Kamen Rider Black RX? Same thing. It ends in one hour or one hour and half, depending on how many advertisements your TV station got.

But who can honestly, in their right adult mind, pointing to his/her problems and say, this problem will end in a week, that problem will end the day after tomorrow, that problem over there will end next hour?

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maybelline crayon bow

I like its grey variant very much! Brown eyebrow pencils are so unnatural because my hair color is black, while black eyebrow pencils make my face look angry all the time. I bought grey from Maybelline last year, and I'm planning to use it all of my life (dramatic). Please don't discontinue this product ever!

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dead cat

I had some english [sic] language lessons during my studies but I was a bad student. So my level is not good.
-- Learn English --

I had some Javanese language lessons during my studies but I was a bad student. So I'm not good at it.
-- me --

Depressing content alert: proceed at your own risk!

It happened about a year ago. My lover and I was going out of the house to fetch early dinner. The sun hadn't set, so it's not very dark.

At the end of the path lied a cat, not moving. Another cat was sitting nearby, watching idly. I remember asking my lover, why those cats are behaving strangely. But before I finished my sentence, he said that the cat that laid down was dead.

As we rode past it, I saw a small, dark pool near the dead cat's head. It was until sometime later it occurred to me that it was blood. The cat had been hit by a passing vehicle.

Unfortunately that image burnt into my memory. Image of that evening with weak sun-rays. The stillness of the dead cat. The stillness of its friend, perhaps seeing one of the many ways death dealt with its species.

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step up: all in

I'm getting more and more in love with the character portrayed by Adam Sevani, Moose. The first time I saw him was in Step Up 2, I think. He was wearing clothes that made us think his body must be skinny. But my, look at him somewhere between the middle and the end of that movie! He flashed us, although only through a mirror, his chiseled chest and belly.

And having a dance video in a high-voltage factory? Man, only a guy with a mad scientist kind of brain could write such impossible coreography! Wait, but that's what he was. What he portrayed, anyway. In the dance video. Yes, it was half-dance-half-theatrical act. Or maybe third-quarter-dance-a-quarter-theatrical act. But the dance was awesome. Kinda made me remember Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Alexandra Brava reminds me of Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games.

The dance in the boxer ring reminds me of The Godfather. Or Pulp Fiction. Which I have never seen either. But I'm sure I've ever read about that Italian mafia-style 'head in the bucket' thing somewhere.

And they all reminds me of how much, much, much I have loved dance. Maybe I still do.

God help me!

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arc

At this very moment, I am holding a brochure with a bare-tummied man on pagefront. It was an advertising for men. Rich men. Middle-aged rich men, seeing from what it had to offer: botox, mesotheraphy, testosterone and vitamin shots.

Strangely enough, it also offers hormone shots. What type of hormone? Human growth hormone.

In essence, this is war against aging and any bodily imperfections. With money as your ammunition. Hey, all is fair in love and war, right? ;)

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r-driver iii

This amazing device changes any hard disk, be it 2.5" IDE, 3.5" IDE, 5.25" IDE or SATA into portable hard disk you can access using USB 2.0 interface. The same goes for disk drive, from normal CD-Rom or DVD-Rom into portable!

Okay now I sound like a computer store salesperson. =_=

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rawon majapahit

Sidoarjo's most popoular rawon maker has a unique policy: whatever dish you're having apart from rice and rawon soup, you pay all the same. Empal (Indonesian beef cuisine) is of the same price with perkedel, omelette, etc. Normally empal costs a lot more than mere perkedel.

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men who dress well

Of course gays dress well...They didn't spend all that time in the closet for nothing :)
-- KaylaBayla --

I know a man who dressed well, and he wasn't gay. There are two possibilites then, he maybe a closeted bisexual (not gay, since he's having wife and children and still actively chasing girls out of wedlock), or he's taking advices from a gay friend.

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dawn of the planet of the apes

... holds second position in the list of movies I've watched with least human words. What movie holds first position? Wall-E, of course!

About DotPotA, there's something in this movie that doesn't sit right with me. After a coup against their leader (also an ape), apes attacked a human colony and made them prisoners. Some humans were able to ask for help from another place by radio, though.

In the meantime, the couped leader succeeded in returning to throne after having a duel with his couper. His guards freed human prisoners. Then a human told that peace-loving ape leader that a human troop was coming to help people there and that apes should run.

That ape king's answer astonished me. He implied that they couldn't return to their old home for fear that they would be hunted down. He said, "Humans will not forgive."

This movie is a tongue in cheek toward humanity. I think he was right. Even though it wasn't his fault, humans wouldn't care. For us humans, it's better safe than sorry, so he would be eliminated without second thought should we ever capture him. We humans would not listen to a small number of us who're trying to explain the truth. We would bully that small amount, call them crazy and incinerate them if needed. Most of all we would not forgive.

Or would we?

Note to self: find out how many apes are needed to change a light bulb. Your light bulb.

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you know what?

You know what I want to do right now? Curling on a king-sized spring bed, turning on an air conditioner, re-read Harry Potter series.

Let the world pass me by with its craziness...

No more work demands, no more pretend-courtesies with people like this one who said: "Another person told me I must have scored extremely low on IQ tests, so I will act accordingly from now on." Tell me people, what a civilized person supposed to say as a reply under such circumstances? It was not the first time she said something like that. The first time ("Someone accused me of being imbecile! Therefore I will deliberately be one!") I thought that the person who'd told her such thing must be a horrible person, but after two more incidents, I started to think that person must have his/her reasons saying so.

You know what? Forget it. I eventually grew tired of her sh*t and said "Whatever."

So now back to just bed. AC. Me. And JK Rowling's masterpiece.

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