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Logos Rejected

Folks,

You can view the rejected Google's celebration logos here:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-01-05-n11.html

I personally like to starbucks one, especially the reason for rejection... :)

My Search Engine

folks,

Check this one out. I have just build a search engine...of course you can try...
http://www.mesincari.com
tell me if it is as accurate as the other... :)

http://www.isuzu.astra.co.id == http://www.weddingku.com ?

lagi iseng2x cari informasi tentang isuzu panther, eh dapet website lokalnya astra, tapi koq tampilannya weddingku? hhmm...aneh...
laporin ke webmasternya ga yah? :D
tapi webmasternya siapa? weddingku ato isuzu? au ah elapp..

Website AKKI tidak ada yang maintain?

lagi iseng browsing nyari informasi tentang kartu kredit. ternyata ada yang namanya asosiasi kartu kredit indonesia, denger2x anggotanya ya seputar banks dan institusi keuangan lainnya, yang jumlahnya hampir 20.
tapi dari sekian banyak yang terlibat koq ga ada yang peduli untuk maintain websitenya yah?

Mount Fuji…conquered

I could not believe this myself. With 5 of my friends, we conquered Japan’s most admired mountain – Fuji. The journey started with few days of around Tokyo traveling. We rented a car, then started our journey from Karuizawa – a resort area where everybody seems to have dog. And from the look of those dogs, we can tell they are not cheapskate. This is the first place after almost a year I stay in Japan I can find “sambal” close to the ones I used to have back in Jakarta. And amazingly I found it in an Italian restaurant, a pizza and pasta restaurant to be precise.

The journey continued, we went to several other areas such as Hakone, Kawaguchiko, and Fuji-Q Highland where we had two roller coasters recorded in Guinness. The first one – “eejyanaika” , a 4-Dimension with the most number of inversions in the world – eejyanaika. The second one – “Fujiyama”, the highest roller coaster (79m) up to the year of 1997 (if I am not mistaken).

Mount Fuji has 5 ways to climb. And most people start from the fifth-stop. We started from 9pm, and three of us plus Vijay reached the peak around 4.30am. You can climb either in the morning to see sunset or in the evening to see sunrise. Most people choose the latter. I would recommend to bring adequate water and snacks because up there the price and quality are just do not make any sense.

Two things I do not like about Mount Fuji, its management, and its management….
First, all the stops are not properly taken care of. They sell “Ramen” for Y800 and it has only noodle and a little bit of “Nori” inside, and tastes really, really bad. Then the public lavatories. At each stops you can only smell the “perfume” coming out from those lavatories. Last but not least, is the direction, especially for going down, which eventually got me and Laura lost. They could have managed all those things better I think, come on Japan, Fuji is one of your most admired spots. Oops, I more thing, climbing up is really tough, but going down is worst. All the sandy roads, will give you dust for your breakfast. Anyways, I think watching the sunrise pays off all the nitty-gritty.

The whole journey was awesome. Me, Ricky, Eugene, Laura, and the last to join Zadli, really had fun. Of 5 nights we spent, only 1 night we stayed in a hotel. For the rest of the nights, we slept comfortably in the car….to cut cost heh… :D

Perseverance, Focus, Discipline

had a brief chat with a friend from bangladesh just now, and i found out that he is trying to get a phd in japan next year...urayamashii....*jealous...
and while writing this, i am chatting with a friend, my ex-colleague...and he is also trying to get his phd, in australia..
in less than 30 minutes, i am hearing two of my friends, from two different country, pursuing phd, in two different country....amazing...
anyway, in between the men's talk here in study room, my bangla friend told me that whenever he is in despair, he sometimes come to a friend, from srilanka, that always able to inspire him. and the one he has always remember is that in order to be a SUCCESSFUL person, 3 things are mandatory: PERSEVERANCE, FOCUS, and DISCIPLINE.
this srilankan friend, has been starting the third one since a month ago. from simple things like going to sleep at 11, and wake up at 5. and then do some yoga.
i personally believe in those values. and i personally consider myself able to pass the first one, but not the other two. muzukashii...*tough....how about u?

Skype Suffers Major Outage...

No wonder, last nite I have not been able to go online with my skype. I managed to login though, but soon after logged-in, my status goes offline by itself. And until this is written, I still couldnt go online. Need to make some calls… :(, do i also need backup for this?

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Lucas Film

I bet you all have heard the name above - one of the most successful independent production companies in the world. They produced Start Wars, Jurrasic Park, Pirates, Transformers, Indiana Jones, and so many mooooore. Well, here is a short movie by BusinessWeek showing the premise of Lucas Film, sort of googleplex for the movie industry I guess.

The Future of Work

Hey, dont forget to check this: GLEF - The non profit George Lucas Educational Foundation.