We live in the age of competition, that’s my impression when going to the Christmas Eve mass in Jakarta Cathedral yesterday.

The door is opened from 1600, but many already line up ready to rush inside in the instance the door is opened. When the door is opened, imagine like when the gate to football stadium is opened. Who care about others, if you ( Read more... )

Suddenly, I stumbled upon an old sad news from 10 years ago. That's really one of the happiest times from my experience, not just because of the radio, but I guess because that's my favourite bedroom.

While not alone, at least it's dozen times better than my current room which my dad decided to take all his wisdom to design without asking. That ( Read more... )

Fasting month is a special month unlike any other. This is true for both Muslims and those who are not.

One of it is the change in pattern of consumption, schedule. Yes, traffic jam too, but that’s for other time other writing.

When dining out, especially in hanging out place like shopping malls, dinner time is always rush hour even in the other ( Read more... )

How often do you see criteria of adulthood that has gone overboard ?

Most often, this is shown in those spam chain e-mails about “boy vs man”, “girl vs woman”, yeah, gender war talk. But also in day to day, it’s not uncommon to hear peoples say to others to act like an adult probably without thinking much about that adulthood itself.

If someone ( Read more... )

Because everybody is out (of the home or still in dream land) this morning, I think I want a simple breakfast at least before lunch.

There’s no rice in the rice cooker this morning. Preparing meat menu from the freezer would take time for defrosting. Pasta… had it yesterday and it does took long enough for my wanting something instant but not ( Read more... )