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Sometimes I’m jealous to see children today.

I see children has internet connected netbooks in their rooms, and they wander around by carrying sophisticated cells.

I wish that if only I was born 10 years later, my childhood wouldn’t end up by stuck in my couch watching Sinha Moca, but I’d prefer spending my time by browsing 100 ways to register Facebook by faking my age.

If only I came home late from school, I wouldn’t need to queue on the coin phone box to ring my mom, but I just needed to pick up my cell to text my mom.

Kids are really lucky with the cells on their hands!

A student hid her cell behind books and text while her teacher is explaining the lesson. I’ve got an idea, what if the teacher teaches via SMS?

So now I laugh to see my hostess get furious.

Nindy, her 12-years-old daughter, now loves internet café so much.

No, she doesn’t enjoy blogging like me, but she’s addicted to on-line games.

She was just imitating her brother, but then via the game she had a new man friend (uh, is it man or just a boy? We don’t really know the age, I think he’s still a kid!) lives in another island, don’t know whether it’s on Jakarta or Jambi.

They used to be just chit-chatting by playing on-line, but then they make a date to meet on the game again.

Mom, I’ll come home late, OK? I’m still watching cheerleader’s meeting at the park..

And so that Nindy always desires to return to the café to play game anymore and meet the so-called man.

Each time coming home from school, she always asked my hostess for money to pay the internet café.

Her mom gets upset coz playing on the café drives Nindy exhausted enough to do her homework.

Now the relationship has developed.

Nindy and the boy has exchanged their cell numbers.

Cool cell, cute kid. Bless the 21st century.

It’s not enough by chatting, now they text each other.

I thought they just text to date when they’ll play together anymore, but now their conversation has been more intensive.

Nindy can’t put her cell, they phone each other instead of texting.

The result is what I’ve been worrying about: since awoke up until get ready to bed, all that Nindy does is just texting.

Delay the meal, delay the shower, even delay the homework.

It seems like she can’t live a second without viewing her cell LCD, to make sure whether there’s a text from the gamer boy.

One school and all of the students have their own cells. It’s common today.

Her mom is furious, and she starts to limit her daughter’s pulse.

For a week Nindy just may buy a certain pulse. But surely Nindy doesn’t obey it.

Soon as she runs of pulse, she always nags to buy another pulse, though her time hasn’t been up.

Can you imagine a family has no other thing to do except being stucked with their own gadgets without talking each other? Well, the family might be yours.

I’m confused. Well, without cell, it’ll be hard if something happens to our kid outside.

But if they’ve already gotten the cell, they just text all the time and forget their other tasks. Do we live for just texting only?

Don’t they really know how to get out from the house or are they’re just addicted to their cells?

Coz the truth is, we should enslave the technology, instead technology enslaves us.

I haven’t had a kid, but I’m afraid if my kid’s depending on cells like Nindy is.

Shall we return to the old times when cell hasn’t been common to kids?

Coz I wasn’t as lucky as today’s children, but I’ve done my life well.. without cells.

Tags: Add new tag, cellphone, children

A lotta people don’t know that someone’s professional career can fall down just due to his behavior at cyber world.

Someone who daily looks like an executive can be look skanky in MySpace.

It’s legal if we put our favorite photos at internet, as long as we like it.

But it matters if a wrong person views the cyber photos, and it can mess up with our career.

A friend of mine who works at Human and Resources Department confessed, if she wanna select the appliers who apply in her company, she just needed to type the applier’s name in the friendship sites.

If the applier was a member of a social site such as Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, or something like that, it was gonna make a point, coz it meant that he’s friendly and smart.

Friendly means broad-connected, while connection is a precious access for the company to find customers.

Fools mean disaster, and company usually doesn’t like staff who can’t googling.

Too bad that a lotta appliers failed to be phoned soon after the HRD view their profiles in friendship sites. Because, in Facebook they put their picture dance striptease and drunk.

Sometimes in Friendster they put their lazy pictures, such as just already woken up in sour faces then they capture it.

Seducing pictures, such as showing the cleavage or just a six-packed belly are disliked, too.

However company wants a professional staff looks like an expensive executive, instead a staff who works as a part-time gigolo.

Well, the truth is, the social sites aren’t just about searching for friends. It can turn on or even turn off our career.

How about you, have you been longing for job but you still haven’t got it?

You should check your profiles on internet, probably your mocking picture was still on MySpace.

How to look like a professional, instead look like a loser:

1.Put pictures when you wear a tie, a suit, a blazer, or anything which look like a boss.

But don’t put picture where you sit stiffly looking at the camera without smiling at the front of a plain background. Only losers put picture this way.

2.You may put picture which taken while you’re in vacation.

Put a good-looking background, so it impressed that you went to a fancy place.

Cool people go to cool places, it differs you from losers (read: amateur).

3.Put your picture while you’re doing sport.

More preferable if you bring a golf stick, a squash racket, or an archery mask.

Coz executive usually goes golf, play squash, or archery.

Why not skiing or diving?

Simply, how can your face be viewable if the mask covers it?

4.You may put your picture while you’re driving.

It impresses that you have a car though actually you just borrowed it.

But never put your picture stand at the front of a Mercedes Benz.

It seems that you’re just a dreamer for a fancy car.

5.Don’t put your picture with your kid or your spouse.

I don’t know why, a lot of companies prefer a single person coz they’re easier to be placed in any branch offices.

But thing is more annoying, when the HRD chief finds out that your wife is the chief’s ex.

6.Don’t put your picture with minister.

Except if you look more like a minister than the minister itself.

Tags: career, image, work

Finally, Indonesian devils are going French!

Sumpah Pocong

Today, until next two weeks, there are gonna be 19 movies of Indonesia are playing in Cannes Film Festival at France.

I don’t remember the titles exactly, but I’ve got Ayat-ayat Cinta (Sentences of Love), Ketika Cinta Bertasbih (As Love Praises), and Jamila dan Presiden (Jamila and President) in my list. But I think that’s not the main news.

Coz, now Cannes is playing Indonesian authentic scary movies such as Janda Kembang(Newly Widow), Kereta Hantu Manggarai(Manggarai Ghosty Train), Terowongan Rumah Sakit (Hospital Tunnel), Kala (Time), Sumpah Pocong (Oath of Pocong), Kuntilanak Kamar Mayat (Kuntilanak of the Corpse Room), Kuntilanak 3, and even The Real Pocong(is there any fake pocong?)

Kuntilanak Kamar Mayat

I don’t know how, I assume, if only the queen of Indonesian scary movie Suzana was still alive now, I’m sure that she’d smile of proud.

But coz she’s already dead, it looks like she must be satisfied enough of smiling only from inside her grave.

Indonesia deserves to be proud.

I’m not ironic, but scary movies are Indonesian’s authentic character which is really difficult to be imitated by the other nations.

That’s because the devils in Indonesian movies only live in Indonesia and can’t be found in the other countries.

Just think, have you ever found any pocong or even any kuntilanak live abroad?

I can’t even find English translations for pocong and kuntilanak.

I had asked my English fellas, what’s the English word for kuntilanak?

They answered, “Quntylaneg? What’s that?”

I scratched my scalp. “A kuntilanak is..ah, never mind, just look at it yourself!”

The Real Pocong

I don’t even think that those French juries will be scared to see kuntilanak.

I think they’ll get their cameras and get busy of snapshooting them.

What the Indonesian original creatures. They’ll sell postcards a lot.

Coz honestly, watching scary movies made by the other countries, it’s been spooky enough for me, but it’s never been as spooky as Indonesians.

The most spooky movie for me is American’s The Omen and Japan’s The Eye.

But the devils out there are just Hollywood fairytales, can’t be compared to Indonesian devils which still believed exist among the people until today. S

Sometimes I’m confused if I’m asked, which spooky between Sadako or Freddy Krueger. I always answer, Jelangkung is more scary.

So, may the Cannes juries can understand the spooky side of Indonesian movies, instead of just assuming those pocongs and kuntilanaks as losers.

It’s hard to imagine the pocong and kuntilanak bend in blue if they’re not sold off. They’re scary enough when they’re happy, what about if they’re sad?

So get out of the way, you vampires, banshees, demons!

It’s time for kuntilanak and pocong to show up! Hiii…hiii…hiii….!

Tags: horror, Indonesia, movie

Do you wanna create a rat nest in your office, but you have no cheese to bait it?

Or you’ve baited by your best blue cheese, but instead of eaten by rats, but it’s just surrounded by ants?

Keep your blue cheese at the refrigerator. You don’t need this to invite rats into your office.

Easy, just forget the cheese thing. I’ve got another shortcut: Pile up a lotta paper!

So yesterday my office’s manager called his staff to print a lotta documents from internet.

The staff was gonna do it, but there’s a little problem with it: where are they gonna keep the printed documents? The office has no enough locker to keep it all.

While the main office above my branch office wants each event is documented physicly.

It’s not that we’ve not been budgeted to buy lockers, but the problem is, the lockers in my office are already full with archives of the office’s events of years before.

This office has been established for almost 30 years,

can you imagine how many archives have been kept?

Later if we must print the new archive, where are the archives gonna be kept?

If we just pile them up on the desk, ouch..it’s not just the dust will be hanging around there, but there’ll be also crickets, rats…

Well, then I remember as I still worked at an hospital last year.

How much I hated about entering the medical record section.

There were lotta ancient patient records since 10 years around, even when I haven’t been taken oath as a doctor.

The papers were yellowish, fragile of aging, some had been spider’s favorite site.

I wondered, why they didn’t burn the papers.

Were they gonna breed spiders or investing for rat nest?

Rats always love dust. And dust belongs on the piles of papers at your office.

“No way, Doc. Archive must be kept until 10 years,” said a staff, helplessly.

It’s hard to determine who’s been longing here, his working, or the dusted document saving.

I raised a patient’s file.

“This report has just been four, Sir. And rats have eaten half of it?”

I said, by showing the corner of the papers which have been torn and smelled ammoniac.

You might’ve got same problem, too.

Too many document papers are made in your office, but there’s no enough place to keep them. I’ve always said, creating document letters are always useless,

coz almost all of those letters are never read and it’s just becoming formality.

A formality which is money-wasting, place-demanding, and inviting to become a rat nest.

It’s just a simple of the real solution. Computerize all of the documents.  the unnecessary document printings. Write all documents in the computer.

If you really need a document, just create the file in the computer.

Save it in a compact disc.

If someone needs them, whether it’s the boss, the colleague, or the client, just access the file in the computers, or send them via e-mail or Bluetooth.

We just involve the printer ink if some parts of the document really must be hand-written, such as drawn by signature or sticked by postages. Instead for 10 years, we don’t even need to buy new lockers about 100 years if it’s just for saving archive.

If it doesn’t need ballpoints or glue’s interventions, then don’t print it.

Paper-saving, locker-saving, money-saving.

But we already know that our culture still prefers reading a paper to reading a monitor screen. Or more exact, rather keeping a paper than reading it.

That’s why each bureaucrate office still always demands for hard copies, instead of soft copies.

Need extra budget for buying this. The main office pays responsible to bear it.

And I’ve got an idea.

I think we should ask for budget to the main office if they still insist us to print the documents for them.

Not just budget for inks or papers, but also budgets for new lockers.

If there’s no budget for locker, then demand the budget for buying mouse traps.

Coz if too many papers are peed by mouse coz there’s no locker, who else must bear it?

Tags: document, office