Suffocated
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Otista – PKL menempati trotoar, pejalan kaki mengambil ruas jalan sambil berdesak2an, pengendara motor yang kepanasan / kehujanan harus pintar2 mengambil celah yang sempit di tengah kemacetan, pengendara mobil yang sabar hanya bisa mengelus dada, yang tak sabar ikut meramaikan suasana dengan klakson mobilnya masing2 yang kencang2… riuh…. sumpek …. panas….
Satpol PP
- TIdak ada data pasti jumlah PKL -> kalo didata takut disangka bahwa PKL tersebut legal dan diperbolehkan
- Kekurangan tenaga di lapangan untuk penertiban (300-an orang, 120-an orang yang diturunkan ke lapangan)
PKL
- Daya tarik Bandung sebagai magnet wisatawan baik lokal maupun manca
- Cuaca bersahabat dan “lunaknya” penegakan ketertiban terhadap PKL di Bandung dibandingkan Jakarta
- Potensial, seorang PKL penjaja jam tangan sehari bisa menghasilkan pendapatan 300rb – 1jt
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PR 8 Aug 11
Blog Merged
Setelah sekian lama, akhirnya saya putuskan untuk mengintegrasikan blog saya di blogspot dengan blog ini. Dengan berat hati saya lakukan, mengingat blog tersebut sedikit banyak mempunyai nilai historis – ya… saya tidak bercanda! Blog tersebut pertama kali saya buat pada tahun 2007 berawal dari tuntutan yang diminta oleh ketua himpunan saya waktu itu agar setiap ketua divisi himpunan memiliki blog. Himbauan ini bertujuan untuk menggerakan budaya menulis sebagai salah satu program kepengurusan saat itu.
Saya harus akui, awalnya saya buat akun pada blogspot tersebut dengan sedikit keterpaksaan. Mulanya saya malas, tampak kehabisan ide, dan merasa tidak berbakat dalam menulis, terlihat dari jumlah post saya (pertahun) yang sangat mencengangkan – dalam artian tragis, buruk, dan sangat hina. Total jumlah post pada blog tersebut adalah 10 hingga sekarang (itu berarti rata-rata 2 post pertahun ! haha… yes i know… ). Namun mulai dari tahun kemarin, akhirnya saya mulai tertarik untuk menulis, bahkan saya juga membuat blog baru (baca : blog ini) yang saya bedakan dengan blog terdahulu, karena blog ini hanya menyajikan tulisan saya dalam bahasa inggris.
Lalu muncul pertanyaan kenapa harus disatukan? Agar lebih jelas dan singkat, langsung saya uraikan saja dalam poin-poin berikut ini :
1. Lebih mudah me-manage satu blog.
Mulanya, dalam bayangan saya, kedua blog dapat dengan mudah saya manage dan bisa berjalan beriringan. Namun pada kenyataanya saya lebih banyak menghabiskan waktu di blog ini dan hampir bisa dikatakan membiarkan blog yang lain terlantar.
2. Memusatkan kunjungan pada satu blog.
Saat tulisan ini dibuat, total kunjungan pada blog terdahulu adalah 121 views. Sedangkan blog ini berhasil meraup kunjungan sebanyak 203 views. Dengan pendekatan “asumtif-optimistik”, penyatuan blog ini saya harapkan bisa meraup kunjungan dengan formulasi sebagai berikut
Expected Views = (203 * 121) - (galat 2%) = 24.563 – 491 = 24.072, angka yang fantastis bukan ?
Setelah mempertimbangkan alasan-alasan tersebut, dengan demikian, saya resmikan penyatuan blog ini. Sekian. Terima kasih… 
Smile :)
Once i heard this saying from someone quite popular but i can’t recall who he is. He said that smile can cause this similar effect as to what we call as domino effect. The domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence [wik].
Just imagine this. One day, You start your day by smiling over the mirror to yourself. Just by doing that will leave this kind of impression to your conscience that this will be a superb day, and you will seize it no matter how. By then, you’ll start the day in a good mood.
When we are in a good mood, we have tendency to do a right thing or even good willingly do something we rarely do. Like throwing garbage into the trash can instead just leaving it anywhere, or being productive all day, or maybe hold the door for other people when we’re at public places.
Then you start encountering people in your life. Just try to put a smile on your face when you interact with them. Isn’t it relieving to see someone smiling at you? Because by smiling, its like telling people that you do have problem on your own, but you don’t want them to know, so that they wouldn’t have to feel like they should share the burden. It will make them to think that if you’re okay no matter what, why shouldn’t they.
Smiling is a contagious disease, albeit a good one. Your smile will somehow encourage them to do just about the same. They’d have good moods like you do. And then after that, they’d smile to other people they meet that day. Imagine how many people will start smiling because of us by the end of the day. How many people will have a good day? How many people will help others because they’re in a good mood?
I might over-exaggerate it, but smiling is not a hard thing to do. And it wouldn’t hurt too much to do this simple thing. So start smiling from now on. Encourage your acquaintance to do so. Hope you’d have a great day when you started doing it. Cheese…… 
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile. — Jean Baudrillard
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Time of Our Lives
a bit as bit in binary
for a bit is 0.125
derives from shredded memory
epitomizing a fraction of life
too obvious as it is
compelling us to gloat
rendering every pixel of our past
yeah, the ones that are lacking
and for every bits
there-in lies bad sectors
the dark ominous side of us
that we usually find, aggravating
but being non-volatile means hard to forget
even harder to regret
though we’ve tried to delete it
being a constant, it’d change
just in time, as it goes by
we’d forget how corrupt our registries were
healed by a bit of this and that
in such manner, quicker than a hundred of Giga Hertz
so move the platter
take what life has to offer
fill every empty spaces left
from the storage of our lives
in the time of our lives…
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Disappointments in 2010
Here goes my list of major disappointments in 2010
1. Failed to Graduate
Again, i failed to accomplish such simplest and most important ongoing task at my stage. And it wasn’t that because i didn’t have the ability nor was it a hard thing to do. Put simply, just because in my deepest conscience, i didn’t want it enough, yeah i didn’t have the will to graduate. That’s to be said, led to many irresponsible action i had taken the past few months. Laziness, counter-productive attitude, wasting time, immature behaviors, just name it.
It has to stop come the year of 2011. Determination, Being Passionate, And Consistency are the keys
2. Went to Gym
Not that its wrong thing to do, no not at all. Instead, I should have done it years ago when things were easier. Now that i have difficulties with time and space, i suddenly found the passion to go to the gym. So i found myself regretting that wasteful years. Nonetheless, I keep going to the gym till now though.
3. Couldn’t Get Myself A GF
Its not a compulsory nor is it a priority. Its just that, after all this delay, at least i should have got something at this point of my life. And a girlfriend is just one of the thing that came up to my mind. I’ve missed a lot of opportunities to get hooked up merely just because i lacked the guts to do it.
I once had this opportunity when i was on vacation (in June or July I’m not sure). I noticed her when i was busy playing jump-off-the-bridge (bungee-jumping-alike on top of a bridge not far from the sea shore in Tidung Island) with the lads. She came with a group of four, and they possessed this similar attribute, they’re hot!! She was sort of asking my help because she felt that she was not much of a swimmer. So there i was, helping her without saying much, let alone asking her name. The next few days, i couldn’t help myself to think that maybe I’m a gay. LOL
Love is about either bravery or sacrifice. If you had the chance and you took it, that’s a bravery. But if you let it slipped, just consider and be convinced that she’ll be much happier with somebody else than she is with you. That’s a sacrifice
- Inspiring Love Story of Ali and Fatima
4. Lost My Laptop
Losing a laptop or one of your things is not that something unusual. But if you lost it while you were sitting next to it, that is just genuinely stupid. Yeah i did that in February 2010. I couldn’t get a hold of myself after a rough day and was put to asleep as soon as i touched the bed. I put my laptop just to the side of the bed. The next i awoke, it just wasn’t there anymore. Moreover i didn’t hear anything, so there was nothing i could have done to stop the event from happening. It is hard to swallow if you lose something after the best years together. (I had been with my former laptop for more than 3 years). I have to be more cautious, not just in preserving my things but in a lot of things, come the next year.
I guess that’s all for now. I’ll have it added later when i can remember the other things aside from those above…
Happy New Year, Peeps !!
Happy Mother’s Day
I just texted my mother
“Happy Mother’s Day. I love you mom”
and not long after she replied
“I love you too son. Are you happy?”
Somehow I started crying after that. Sorry mom, I’ve disappointed you in too many occasions. And that made me the worst son in the world, nonetheless you keep being the best mom in the world. Thank you
Dear Pajamas
Dear Pajamas,
I thought that …
1. I could manage to sleep peacefully without you
2. I could sleep half-naked, and still didn’t catch a cold
3. I wouldn’t have never used you in any occasion
4. Wearing pajamas was one of the lamest thing i could have ever done
so i had to dump you out of my closet.
But then i realized how stupid i was, because :
1. I sleep mostly with my denim pants on… oh it kills me….
2. Its getting colder anywhere in this country… A blanket just isn’t enough to keep me warm…
3. I once had this group photo session using bedtime as the theme… You wouldn’t want to know what i wore that time…
4. Well yeah… Its still pretty much lame wearing you… Sorry 
Sincere,
Your Former Owner
That Man
Its somewhat of unfinished junk. I wrote this a long time ago, and I’ve wanted to finish it like forever. But lately, Ive been impatient with things. So… uhm… yeah… whatever…
Look at his hand
Mind what that dirty dusted flesh brings
Nothing but anger i guess
While that, his mouth can’t stop mumbling
Those gibberish word he was saying
Sometimes he yells
While the other times he seems lost
Yet against all signs he stands
He who whispers and moves a little
Weird enough saying
He has witnessed too many
Little bit of this and that
While still holding onto these silent mutiny
But then they lied and ran
Away and deep down in the sand
Because life has once told him they said
Again they lied
This is not a folklore
Where things have been staged
Toward an endless boredom
As such will go on and on
And when the lights went down…
He just forfeited
Pick them out of blame
Pull back a little
But still too many to waste
To what end?
Same old same old
When people got old
Tell that story for generations
How to burn, how to cook
As long as obedience stood
You should be fine
You can sleep and dine
No trick nor dime
What Goes Up Will Go Down
Anton has been through some serious if not down at the hell situation lately. Poor Anton, he sinks deeper each passing day blaming everything that shouldn’t be blamed.
He stared at that bedside table with those absent-minded look. Then he started to close his eyes a bit, reminiscing every moments that just somehow flashed up through his mind. He knows that it was for the best, but losing something precious after the best years together might be too much for him, at least for now.
A little glance should be enough to say everything – that he is furious and confused. Its not fair how life doesn’t go in his favor, especially when everything seemed so nice recently.
Maybe later he will be able to accept this as a fact. Sooner or later, he has to realize he’s riding a rollercoaster – sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down before you know it.
And life will keep going no matter what. Its pretty obvious that time will tell. And then by the end of it, he wouldn’t have even remembered how pathetic he was.
So be it, move on is a word of bravery that one should take. Brace yourself Anton and enjoy the little thing meanwhile. The next up is just down at the corner.
