Living in Charismatic Christian Community
Just recently I returned to church I used to come during my high schools. Seven years ago, this blogger was a blind teenager with some crisis here and here and eventually joined a charismatic christian church. Back then I was pretty stressed because the community looks like consist of holy people because all the time, they are talking about living as children of god, to bless and be blessed and everything you could imagine about charismatic movement.
Anyway, that thing was in the past, because of some circumstances which I can’t say favorable, I have no choice but started joining the church again (I won’t disclose the reason in this post, my friends know, and they do pity me). This post would like to inform what it looks to live in charismatic christian community, which features Glossolalia. Continue Reading >>
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The Quest for Family Tree (part 1)
It’s always nice to conduct genealogy research of our own family, especially when there is no family tree to look at. I’m one of these people who are curious to know the history of their own family. Maybe we could find something interesting.
My nuclear family unfortunately, doesn’t keep family tree. My maternal grandmother come from dutch family de Wilde, while her husband came from Manado, with family surname Yap.
In other side, my paternal grandfather is a hokkien chinese came from fujian province, with surname Sie.
My paternal family is bigger than my maternal counterpart. It’s BIG enough to give me headache remembering who is who during marriage party.
I’m currently listing all my family members into one big family tree since my paternal family lost its lost original tree (which was written in mandarin kanji). My paternal grandfather passed away in 2005,and I wasn’t really close to him since he was living in Makassar.
I enjoy with this diversity though, my family consists of mixed heritages, Chinese, Dutch, Taiwanese, Makassarese, Javanese, and just recently my cousin married a Japanese. Makassarese people speaks really loud btw, I think they are rivalling Batak people, or maybe louder. :D
This post is just a miscellaneous story of my life, trying to fill unanswered questions of my family history.
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Wordpress 2.7: Ready to Upgrade?
So I guess everyone probably aware already, Wordpress 2.7 has released, have any of you upgraded your blog engine? I upgraded my blog a week ago, and I was very disappointed, the dashboard loads significantly slower
It’s probably because I’m using a freewebhost that limits memory usage beyond 16 MB, there are a lot of error messages because some php script couldn’t run well. I also have problem of memory exhaustion after replying a comment in my dashboard, or deleting a post!
In the end, I decided to scrap WP 2.7 and downgraded it to WP 2.6.5, now it’s faster than before.
Anyway, I’m still not sure whether I will upgrade my WP engine in future before I could find a free webhost that allow memory usage beyond 16 mb (well I cant complain much since it’s basically free service)
Also, I just recently learned how to create Wordpress theme, I have plan to create my own theme like Andika or Jubel do, you guys make jealous! Wish I’m not that defective in visual art and CSS. :D
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[Book] And the Winner is…
Quick post, just returned from Taman Ismail Marzuki, guess what? Only one winner chosen in this year, also, it’s officially named Jakarta Arts Council Literary Fair Writing Competition 2008.
Among 244 novels, Anindita Siswanto Thayf is chosen as this year’s winner with her novel Tanah Tabu, and for unapparent reason, the committee didn’t pick any winner for 2rd and 3rd place. Financial problem? There is absence of banquet in this year’s event, I remembered a year ago we were served with very delicious buffet. Ah, I also met with Ratih there.
Miss Ayu Utami delivered the first prize by herself to the winner and a beautiful red dress
So uh, I’m trying not too sound disappointed, I think it’s okay not to win to win because we compete with 244 or more works. What matters is, we shouldnt give up, at time like this I always remember J.K. Rowling who was rejected 12 times before her 1st Harry Potter published ;).
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In Memoriam: Ali Alatas
Former Indonesian FM Ali Alatas passes away
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Chairman of Presidential Advisory Board and former Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Alatas passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore at 7:30 local time on Thursday morning.
Contacted by ANTARA here on Thursday, Chief of Data and Information Bureau of Presidential Advisory Board Kamarullhah Halim confirmed that Alatas did pass away.
“I have just contacted our embassy in Singapore and received an information that Alatas passed away at 7:30 a.m. local time and thus everything is being made ready,” Kamarullah said.
But he added that he did not know the kind of disease the former Indonesian foreign minister suffered from.
“Preparation to fly Alatas` body to Jakarta is being discussed by the embassy and Alatas` family,” Kamarrullah said, adding that further information could be obtained in the next few hours.
Ali Alatas was born on November 4, 1932 in Jakarta, and graduated from the Academy for the Indonesian Foreign Service in 1954, and from the Faculty of Law at the University of Indonesia in 1956.
He worked for the Indonesian Foreign Service in the Department of Foreign Affairs between 1954 and 1988.
During that time he held various positions at the Ministry and was stationed as diplomat in various Embassies of Indonesia, including in Bangkok and Washington D.C., as well as serving as Indonesian Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva (1975-1978) and New York (1982-1988).
Between 1988 and 1999, Alatas served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Indonesia.
Alatas was appointed an envoy of the United Nations Secretary General in 2005 for promoting a comprehensive agenda put forward in the report “In larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All.”
He served as a member of the United Nations High Level Group on Alliance of Civilizations 2005-2006, and was a member of the Eminent Persons Group on the ASEAN Charter between 2005 and 2007.
He had been an adviser and a special envoy of the President of the Republic of Indonesia since 2003.
He had participated in and chaired numerous international seminars and symposia on strategic, political and economic issues. In addition, he has written many articles on these issues in national as well as international publications. (*)
This is sad day for international relations community in Indonesia. May he found peace and let God bless his soul and these who were left.
May heis life, his outstanding achivement also inspires the future diplomats in Indonesia.
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[Guide] Asian User: Using Proxy to Download from Divshare
I’m pretty sure many Asian users were pissed off when Divshare announced it won’t allow free download for people living in Asian because they don’t generate high revenue for the site. Divshare is never my favorite, really, but I’m sure there are several rare occassion when someone upload file to this site, and you don’t have much choice.
Well actually, it’s pretty easy to download from Divshare, just use proxy of countries that are not blocked by divshare. Simply, we use proxy to fool divshare, thinking we are downloading from US or somewhere else when in reality we just change our ip address. Clever huh?
First, download this powerful SwitchProxy Tool extension for Firefox. This baby is awesome, it will add toolbar where you could manipulate your proxy quickly during browsing. Basically, we want to fool divshare, made the server identify us downloading from region outside Asia.
Second, search a proxy list, just use google. I use the US proxy 208.62.125.146, it kinda slow, but I couldn’t find other proxy that works faster. You should save a lot of proxies, it’s necessary to find which proxy will serve the fastest download.
After you do of these, find a divshare download link, download it, but when you are given choice to download, don’t use firefox built-in download manager. Instead, use flashgot, and let your favorite external download manager download the rest. I could actually download full speed in 90 kb/s, nice huh?
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[Info] Malam Anugerah Sayembara Menulis Novel DKJ 2008
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Malam Anugerah Sayembara Menulis Novel DKJ 2008
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[Drama] UNPAR: Love Me, Hate Me
(Lazy Indonesians could read the Indonesian version below the english one)
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Mutilation News for Your Lunch
If you are living in Indonesia and regularly watching Indonesian news broadcasting show, you probably notice already, there have been many reported cases of mutilation these days.
Mutilation case first surfaced into public’s space during Ryan’s bloody murder. This gay (?) guy apparently mutilated his victim and looted his possessions, he was arrested and jailed, but the aftereffect is kinda disturbing.
Why? Well, apparently, Ryan has become new famous “celebrity”, his news was broadcasted intensively during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you didn’t turn off your tv, you probably being distrubed listening news of beheaded people during your leisure.
I actually rare to watch tv since there is nothing interesting to look at, but the my father does, when he watching tv, I could hear the news broadcasted. I’m surprised with increasing number of mutilation case in Indonesia. It is broadcasted hourly, daily, as if it’s not really surprising anymore.
I once read an interesting opinion in Kompas, apparently public’s mental health has detoriated because the intensive news broadcasting have generalized our perception toward criminality.
Imagine the child soldier in Africa. Maybe they were shocked when they were demanded to kill a living person at first time, but they see everyone take this as daily norm, and apparently killing is not problem anymore. Maybe our public have apparently deteriorated this much?
Has intensive news of brutal murder made public accept “mutilation” as something “normal”? I hope I’m wrong.
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