Ladder 49

Went so watch Ladder 49 at IXX. The movie was so powerful. I almost cried my eye out (almost!!).

Chief Kennedy with his fellow fireman.

"Ladder 49" is an exciting, powerful film that celebrates the ordinary men who put everything on the line every day. The film chronicles Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) as he makes the transition from inexperienced rookie to seasoned veteran. As he struggles to cope with the risky, demanding job that often shortchanges his wife and kids, he relies to the support of his mentor and chief, Mike Kennedy (John Travolta) and his second family - the brotherly bond between the man of the firehouse. But when Jack became trapped in the worst blaze of his career, his life and the things he holds important - family, dignity, courage - come into focus. As his fellow fireman of Ladder 49 do all they can to rescue him, Jack's life hangs in the balance.

~Qi~

Jack in a burning townhouse.

Ladder 49ers

Clear Thursday

It has been quiet sometimes since my last posting. We've been busy with things at the office, my bf has been studying for his APICS exam and I myself, was busy playing around with customizing at ides. Although, alot has been going on around us..like the new president of indonesia and his brand new set of ministry. I'm not going to braged about those people who eventually (finger cross) or if i may say..sadly (?) will help the president to run this country.

Let's talk about what happen yesterday.
At lunch time, we went to a nice vietnamises restaurant called "do an" or was it "do'an", can't remember the exact name..it was located in Artha Gading Mall (another new mall). The food was good, despited it tiny space. We ordered broken rice, which by the way was served with chicken instead of pork (the waitress said, they haven't prepared pork meat yet). My boyfriend agreed that the meal will tasted even better, if they served them as pork rather than chicken. We also ordered some spring roll, o man...(we sure do loves those spring roll aren't we dear?).
Geez...talk about it makes my stomach grumbled hehehe..and its nearly lunch time, sadly.."do an" is too damn far from our office. Yupe...we're back at the office again.

Anyway, lastnite after work we went to my lil bro's friends pool bar, i should've take some picture of the place though...the bar is at the 3rd floor of Sport's Mall Kelapa Gading, 2 stories with a wide kinda wierd bar table, which then we found out why did they design their table bar to be so wide (dancing bunny? hehehe). The bar itself has not yet open for public, so its kind of like a trial opening, given the "ramadhan" situation kinda thing. The soft opening will be on H -2, which means 2 days before Idul Fitri. Surprisingly, compared to last saturday..the bar was dead, and from what i've heard, on monday and tuesday..they only gain 500 rupiahs per nite. Not a good sign huh? Hopefully, as the world of mouth spread, they will get more customer coming during weekdays.

~Qi~

racking at surabaya's warehouse has fall off...quiet a surprised, since it was a brand new set of racking

Euthanasia

Good Life...Good Death

Euthanasia. I've been hearing about this subject alot since a couple of days ago, no...even since a couple a weeks ago from television. It has not been a popular subject amongs people, since our government have law against euthanasia.

The subject about euthanasia has been brought upon as a contraversy since I was living in Australia. I remembered watching 60 minutes about how an old lady wanted to end her life because she was in a great pain, and she cannot go on with the suffering. Therefore, she asked for a doctor mercy to end her life. She was about 60 years old, had a breast cancer and been living in a hospital for nearly 2 years. If I'm not mistaken, Australian government ruled against it, as they see euthanasia is a medical word of "mercy killing". Thus, the old lady eventually died not from euthanasia, but from all the pain she is experienced.

Let us reflect to what is exactly the meaning of Euthanasia.

According to my research from http://www.knowdeep.org/euthanasia/. Euthanasia is mercy killing, or intentionally ending the life of someone who is hopelessly sick or injured in order to save them from suffering. Euthanasia meant an easy death without severe suffering in ancient times. Sometimes decisions to stop a treatment like dialysis or breathing machine are also called euthanasia, but they really are not. There is a real difference between a patient refusing a treatment and a patient requesting to be killed.

Is this true?

Most cases of euthanasia involved elderly person and person's who likely to suffered brain damaged. It is interesting to note how often the right-to-live campaign versus the right-to-die campaign has been dramatized through higher authority such legal ruling from High Court. In some country like Netherland, their Government has ruled the Practice of Euthanasia. Euthanasia in the Netherlands has gone from requiring terminal illness to no physical illness at all, from physical suffering to depression only, from conscious patients to unconscious, from those who can consent to those who cannot, and from being a measure of last resort to one of early intervention. (http://catholiceducation.org/articles/euthanasia/eu0014.html)

However, dispite my own opinion reflecting this subject, shall one obey God and let one die a natural death?

~ki~

between warehouses

you may think that we abandon this blog! No, we are very busy lately.

we had a meeting with a company who has run wms for years (they said it was up in 2001) but the set up the had is, sorry to say, really primitive.

those things that can be automated in the system, are currently done manually. While from the warehouse prospectives there are a lot of stuffs can be improved.
it is kind of challange if they later invite us as their implementation partner for wms.
this company is a manufacturer of consumer products, while they also supply to the end customer.
so i am expecting the goods movements are most likely bulky (typical of a manufacture finished goods warehouse activities) but somewhat also in cases or cartons since they send also their products to end customers.

so we'll see.

^y.k^

a view from the top

a view from the top

guys...this picture was taken around 10.00 am, so everybody hopefully already in their desk doing their works or ... internetting (like what i do now).

dont expect that you will get the same view if you pass suriman around 04.00 - 07.00 pm, coz it will be like vehicles parade. but still it is a nice view though from our office, but it is a bad one if you are there in the traffic.

cheers
^y.k^

Obelix

This is obelix..my little brother's pug. He bought this cute creature, 1 month after I told him, I finaly get myself a pug back home. Mine's diego, i'll post his pic later on, when i get a chance to travelled back to medan.

Since the return of my brother from perth, obelix is living with my brother's girlfriend (shasta)..and fro what i've heard, his attitude change, because shasta like to spoiled him. Poor thing missed his daddy..hehehehe.

~ki~

with the face like this..how can you resist not to hug him!!

filmstrip..

great fellow

Jerry


this nice fellow is jerry, named after jeremy thomas (an indonesian actor). we bought this puppy from taman lawang for 70k .. the seller said that he is a beagle puppy, ofcourse we didn't believe him coz beagle usually comes with a tricolor combination.

anyway, he is such a funny puppy likes any other puppy does. unfortunatelly we had only the change to keep him for a short time, he died coz he got parvo, one of the worst puppy disease.

but we got a lesson to learn, never ever named yr puppy after a famous actor coz their names bring bad luck to your pets!!.

^Y.K^

fishing

fisherman


this picture was taken somewhere in 1998 in a small island in front of makassar coast.
i think it was my second visit to that island, the first visit was 4 or 5 months earlier.
i remebered in my first visit the coral was really pretty, you can see the fishes swimming around between the corals.

The second time i was there, those beautiful corals were gone.
the corals were being moved, bombed and sold as aquarium decoration.
the impact was immediatelly, the fishes left that area and the fishermen have to sail further more, away from their home.

anyway from that picture, the fish i had in my hand ... it was not my catch, ok the fishing rod is mine and i still have it. but i bought that fish (and some more) for our lunch from a real fisherman.
the fishes are really fresh, i cannt remember what kind of fishes we had. but one thing for sure it was damn delicious.

well, i dont think i want to visit that island again. it's too hot ... no shade to hide yourself and you cannt do fishing too.

hope there are still islands to visit, where i can enjoy the corals and also do fishing.


^y.k^

I love Monday

Woke up around 5 am this morning, had some tea..and rushing off to the gym. Driving around Gatot Subroto and Sudirman early in the morning feels like heaven. However, note to self, never..ever..open your window down, eventhough you think it is such a beautiful day..coz you may ended up walking around with a black face on your face.

Gee...it is indeed a bad idea, opening a window expecting a fresh air coming in, when all you got are smoke from broken bus's radiator. I finished gym around 8 and straight to the office, lucky for me, my office is about 5 minutes distance from the gym.

I've decided to changed my gym scheduled cause I'm begining to hate going to the gym after work, the place will be so packed, some ppl are really working out, but some people pretend they are working out. Yeah...i know, gym is one of the perfect place where you can meet new friends. Though, in my gym some guys are too slizzy and some are too gay...hahaha.. go figured!


~ki~

Male Radio - 97.10Mhz

Male Radio - definitely not one of the most popular radio stations in town especially for young people and women, but i am one of their loyal listeners since 1995.

frankly speaking, i am not listening to their music, coz it plays only old rock music (some of the songs maybe were famous during years 60 till mid 70). Sometimes they have rock music from 80's-90's too, but it is really seldom.
The only reason i listen to this station is coz they have this crazy guy as their presenter for the morning sessions.
He always make funny and unexpected comments on everything, he can even make jokes on his boss, father in law, his wife ... well i am not sure whether they are really true .. but those joke will cheer you up even when you are stuck in traffic.

he used to have monologue conversation, although lately he mentions other name (but it is a question mark whether this person is really exist, well his friend sometimes whispers too and he is also as crazy as the main presenter).

the SMS technology completes his morning speech, coz everybody can send their comments.
this "one and half way" conversation, he with his microphone and the audience with their SMS, can make you smille (it is not a good view when you re driving alone ... people may think you are crazy though).

other remarkable thing is the way he laugh .. it is kinda annoying. my sister hates it very much, but it makes this guy is so unique.
we even try to describe how this guy looks like and we came up with an imagination that he must be fat, bold and have a mustache, well till now wi never find out how he look like.

so, if you want to try, tune your radio to 97.10 Mhz between 06.00 - 10.00 AM weekdays but make sure IFEB is the presenter and no one else.
you will have different morning experience.

one night stand

one'-night stand' Pronunciation: (wun'nIt"),

1. a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.

2. a place where such a performance is given.

3. Informal.

• a. a single, unrepeated sexual encounter, as one lasting for just one night.
• b. a participant in such an encounter.

after hearing what's discussed on the radio, i was surprised on how many people was given their opinion regarding how acceptable is a "one night stand" for the modern society.

we, indonesian people, usually proud as being an 'old fashion' when it comes to sex and everything around it. however, the new generation of indonesian will talk about it freely during lunch with a couple of friends, or even discussing it with their parents. parents used to said it is "taboo" to talk about it, especially if you're not yet married.

obviously, indonesian's preception regarding sex is not the same as it used to.

is it because we are more open to what's going on around us?

or is it simply because we become to "westernized"?