January 2009
50 posts
Being at the present moment is ignoring phone calls during meeting.
2TB 3.5” hard drive by Western Digital: http://tinyurl.com/bxr387
年年有雨！(Read: First day of the ox year in Jakarta is blessed with a morning-ful of rain.)
OMG! My brother is spring cleaning the apartment.
Man, the all new Merc E-Class looks good. http://tinyurl.com/adnzvp
Going to Bandung for a meeting in Universitas Padjajaran.
And the big announcement in Apple Indonesia website: http://www.apple.com/id/
Sign up for Indonesia iPhone 3G here: http://tinyurl.com/blt9jv
It’s about time: iPhone 3G is finally available in Indonesia: http://www.apple.com/iphone/countries/
Received Wired 17.02 issue today. Inside the GPS Revolution.
Unconditional love is when an American Christian & Indonesian Muslim decided to live in Bali, switching to Hindu & is adapting Balinese baby
The new whitehouse.gov is simply amazing.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/178817 “Indonesia is one of just three major emerging economies forecast to grow faster than 4 percent in 2009.”
Went for refuel @ the nearest Pertamina gas station; average queue per pump was 4 cars, usually there’s no queue at all on Sunday night.
The new Garuda Indonesia website design is great (compared to the old version), but it can be better. http://www.garuda-indonesia.com/
Red Cliff II concludes John Woo’s excellent take on the Three Kingdom epic.
Look how much weight Steve Jobs lost in 8 years: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28663448/displaymode/1176/rstry/28661226/
Overloaded. Two meetings to go, one Keynote presentation to produce, 44 mails unread. God please help me.
Photos of Apple Store Sanlitun and Beijing Capital Airport T3: http://flickr.com/shanghaidaddy
Government just announced yet another gasoline price cut; damn, I just refueled my car earlier.
Bono’s column in NYT, on Sinatra’s “My Way” recording: http://tinyurl.com/7g56vf
Santa rides a bike in a shark tank at the Jakarta Sea World http://tinyurl.com/7rcq26
Looking forward to U2’s coming album, No Line on the Horizon; and Bono’s new column in New York Times, Sunday, Jan 11 2009 edition.
Just saw a petite, pale young lady with unproportionally large (excuse me) b**bs wearing unusually high high-heel shoes.
TGIF! Was just reading Palm Pré’s review by Engadget. It’s impressive.
Palm pré might just be the perfect smart phone - for CDMA network, that is.
Garin Nugroho’s latest film, Under The Tree premiered earlier tonight; it’s the first Nugroho movie I’ve seen.
Ricoh GR DIGITAL II firmware just updated to version 2.20. AF target shift function can now be used in modes other than the macro mode.
Making a choice is not easy. Reality bites. C’est la vie.
冯小刚 Feng Xiaogang’s latest flick 非诚勿扰 Fei Cheng Wu Rao proves (again) that he is China’s only original raconteur.
UNESCO to name batik as an Indonesian cultural heritage this May. will Malaysia protest?
非诚勿扰 has grossed more than CNY 302 million (USD 44.3 million) in China in just 19 days, which rivals John Woo’s Red Cliff.
iPhoto ‘09 supports Flickr (and Facebook) sharing natively; this alone is worth the upgrade, not to mention Faces, Places and slideshow.
Picasa for Mac is launched, where the hell is Chrome for Mac?
Post holiday to-do: skim then peruse latest issues of National Geographic, New Yorker and Wired
I choose XLD http://tinyurl.com/2cajgh over Max, xACT, iTunes-Lame and Audacity for MP3 encoding.
iTunes 256 kbps AAC encoding is excellent but is not compatible with most CD players, have to switch back to Lame MP3 VBR Extreme preset.
Mom was giggling because her excess baggage (75kg total, 20kg allowed) were checked-in with no extra charge. Thanks to GFF.
Boarding flight GA897 back to Jakarta, enjoying Jura machine-made coffee in PVG executive Lounge.
MacBook hard disk upgrade completed, I have 362.38 GB of free space now.